skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of those changes might be seen as akin to going in to your Haskell interpreter and changing definitions in the standard library or something. (Environment variable changes are weird because they are so local and ephemeral, but you still have to do them deliberately.)

Clearly not all command lines you can type in the shell are stateless (reading the disk, network, stdin, clock, or system RNG, among other things, isn't, and none of those things are rare or hard to do) and the shell doesn't specifically encourage you to write stateless code and it doesn't have a formal way to verify whether or not a particular command like is stateless or not. All of these properties are pretty similar to most popular FP language interpreters except for the last two. I guess it is a relevant distinction that your FP interpreter would typically know (as a matter of static inference) whether an expression is stateless, while your shell would typically not know.
Purge-nvda: Optimize external graphics for Macs with discrete Nvidia GPUs
You might get cancelled for discussing things with the wrong people, despite what you say. Especially if you get on a podcast to discuss things with a conservative figure.
No. It’s a real thing, only current quantum computers are too small to do anything serious.
Part of the issue is that some people consider any speech they disagree with as a threat of violence or "endangering my safety".
If you’re in a group with people you don’t know very well and some of them say or do something utterly stupid, you are not automatically one of them. Eg, some people were looting during the protests but it would be ridiculous to say the entire protest is just a bunch of thugs
Sometimes it is not just only about money. Or just business tracking.
It may be ignorance for most of the politicians that support the bill, but it's not ignorance for those creating and co-sponsoring the bill, but pure maliciousness. They want to give the government the power to read every single thing you say online, any consequences (or constitutionality) be damned.

Feinstein, Burr, and others like them haven't been champions of mass surveillance powers extensions for the past 20 years out of "ignorance". They know exactly what they're doing.

I still remember a video from the Senate floor showing how ruthlessly and in bad faith Feinstein argued FOR FISA 702 extension back in 2012 using lazy fearmongering about terrorists - the same kind of bad faith fearmongering used to allow the Iraq war, etc.

It boggles my mind that Feinstein has remained a senator for so long in California, but I suspect it may have something to do with the electronic voting machines there. I mean, you could say she has more than enough friends that could help her out with that, especially if she continues doing what she's been doing in the Senate.
Octave harmony in instruments and singing are established physical phenomenon. Higher harmonics of two voices line up and resulting frequency spectrum is more clustered and concentrated. I think the study disproves that all brains consider this to be preferable, and instead ascribes it to cultural/learned phenomenon. I agree it's not compelling theory, but hard to argue against if they can get more proof.
Rent is cheap even in Tokyo compared to virtually any American city. I'm living in a city of 800,000 and early 30s families have no trouble buying a new house if they want to. It was this way even before the population started to decline. People tell me all the time that rent is so expensive in Tokyo, because it's... about $100 more a month. Prices are fairly uniform here.

The reason prices aren't high is that nobody wants to live in an old house. "Old" being 15 years old or more. Even with renting apartments, if it's older than 7-8 years old, agents will almost warn you that the property isn't exactly fresh and sparkling, but it's still not bad. If it's a pre-90s house, it's considered basically unwanted and they'll all but try to give it away. Meanwhile, 90s homes in the US are still marketed as pretty new, and demand seems to be higher for older homes than newer ones. America also has loads of empty houses. It also has loads of property owners who refuse to lower prices because their ego is worth more than their property. Apparently about 1/8 American homes are currently vacant, and the population isn't declining. Price and desirability are the problems.
Going after systems that have over a million users would leave a pretty big loophole for niche vendors and open source. But with such a big precedent, those could easily be targeted later.
Ironically, if the police had used and followed the face depixelizer then we may not have had the false arrest of a black man - not because of accuracy but because it doesn't produce many black faces
Elm shouldn't take more than a week to be productive if you know other existing language. I ran a study group where people spent few hours a week, the group took 7 meetings to finishing the book and discussing a variety of possible problems to solve with Elm. It's a much simpler language than PureScript.
We could remove downvotes. They had three purposes:

1) Crowdsourced moderation. Well, everyone is using manual moderation anyway.

2) Silencing others. This is a misfeature.

3) Finding the best content. Upvotes are enough for that.

That said, I'm not sure this will reduce groupthink. Twitter has no downvotes and plenty of groupthink.
If you're in a large group, and many members of that group are by any definition racist, you're going to be called part of a racist group.
Very important point but it seems like "diversity" is a taboo word on HN. For a community of intellectually curious people, that seems odd.

Diversity isn't just a code word for a political ideology. Its about the ability to encounter other perspectives, ideas and ways of seeing the world. There are so many problem spaces that we've not even begun to explore in much detail because we don't encounter them in meaningful ways.

At some point the balance will have to shift (maybe we've already reached that point). Tech entrepreneurs will have explored all of the obvious and lucrative avenues and the opportunities in the unexplored problems will seem more attractive. Maybe at this point, we'll have a bigger emphasis on discovering problems outside of our own experiences.

Or maybe I'm being overly optimistic in seeing a limit to potential for solving lucrative problems in deeply explored problem spaces. We'll perhaps always be able to create new tech products that solve the same kinds of problems for the same consumers.

Maybe, a shift in focus towards less explored problem spaces would need to be intentional. If that's the case, being open to discussing diversity well as a community surely is a sign of how seriously we're taking problems that are not our own.
I think it's a case of a bit of both.
Toyota is right down. Not sure why?
While experienced python devs will say, yeah that'd how you should do it. The problem is that python by default isn't using virtualenvs. Consider rust or is where you need to specify global installs.
> There's just no comparison

Exactly.

One supports just a few devices, the other supports hundreds.

One is free, the other is not.

Guess which is which.

if Nexus 6P is not supported is Google's fault

Nexus 6P was a bad phone, with sever problems, it was discontinued after a year and you could obtain a compensation if you had one that was faulty.

Still the community tried to support it

They decided wasn't worth anymore

The community is people, Apple is not people.
It's funny enough that the REP family of instructions has existed at least since the original 8086/8088. It's very much a relic of the CISC heritage of the x86 ISA, and it was probably meant to make writing assembly code easier and to save space - rather to improve performance.

I remember it was actually quite common in early PC programs, but I don't remember well enough whether it was also generated by compilers, or just existed in hand-optimized assembly (which was of course extremely common back then).
it all depends on how do you maintain relations.

Living abroad, having a few friends and contact locally but a lot of connections non easily reachable physically makes the shutdown of FB, WA or IG hard, especially when most of your contacts uses ONLY the aforementioned platforms and nothing else.

That means killing your connections and cut bridges with people.
> user-triggered event

“Click Reject All Cookies to exercise your GDPR rights!”
Laziness Is Next to Godliness
I don't know anything about it, but my first impression is that it's as robust as a cockroach, able to take a lot of damage.
Even if artificial lighting and natural lighting were equally efficient you would still have to cover the same number of acres in either solar panels or plants. In other words, the denser your vertical farm the more land it consumes. Clearly vertical farming is meant for some really exotic situations in which you might have access to electricity but are in an environment in which you can't grow the plants you want. That situation would probably be a mars colony or a fallout shelter.
that's, why I ultimately decided to not delete it (as well as Instagram) - they'll keep their shadow profile anyway. Good idea about unfollowing most people though (some other post herr) - makes visiting it stupid unless to check if someone contacted you/contact someone.
Your mind wants it to be simple. I heard of some country guitarists that de-tune their strings on purpose to get more chord richness. "Better" is in the ear of the auditor.
Just like the symbol of fasces was only used in ancient Rome and has no other meaning? Or the swastika, used in India as a symbol meaning wellbeing?

Do you genuinely think symbolism and the meaning of words isn't plastic and contingent on context?
The Art of Unpacking (2007) [pdf]
This is identical to my partners experience. She got EBV (asymptomatically, only discovered in blood records years after) and has suffered from CFS and Delayed Sleep Phase disorder for almost a decade now. She's recently been prescribed Dexamethasone, which has helped manage her symptoms somewhat.
I don't have any that I can share publicly, but I've had to debug some fairly horrendous sheets.

Spreadsheets are a great tool that allows people to leverage computers without knowing how to code, but they can easily get awful to debug. Even excluding stuff like VBA; which is code, but gets included via google-driven copy/paste development.

For example, excel formulas from other sheets can modify cells in the existing sheet. This modification can be logically driven from changes in a 3rd sheet. So cell 1 in sheet A gets modified for some reason when something changes in sheet C. Formulas in sheet B are changing these values, but good luck figuring out that. Breakpoints aren't really an excel thing, debugging complicated sheets is very hard. Unfortunately, most of these sorts of files aren't available online, as they are viewed as the 'secret sauce' for the businesses using them.

Your landing page is too few on details, so maybe you have solved this problem, but from your comment it seems that you haven't had to approach it from this angle. Trust me, businesses run critical decisions on excel sheets with creation dates in the early 2000's, and the amount of tweaking can turn them into behemoths. That is why the low/no-code solutions scare me- easy to start doesn't mean that you won't have an unsolvable hairball in 5 years.
That was a very long time ago. You never said things that would be "problematic" if publicly known?
There are ways to use error-correcting codes to turn probabilistic samples into deterministic ones and mix them with a key. These are constructed so that you gain no information if you only know the key, or only know the biometric. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_extractor.
U.S. Initial Quality Study (IQs)
Again, I empathize with the feelings of people who may feel emotionally threatened by a derogatory comment, but some speech deals with people whose lives are in imminent mortal danger (e.g. those about to be sold on Black Market) and if we can't quickly discuss their cases and potential responses to rescue them, then they will be doomed to a life of untold misery. In such situations, there is no time to filter every comment and every email for potential sources of offense - we need to convey info as fast as possible.
Clojure's static analysis tools can warn you of incompatible types

I.e. this will warn (inc "hello") in clj-kondo
The Personal Digital Transformation happening inside each one of us
Sounds like we have a similar career track.

My joke is that the only place a stakeholder should hold a stake I'd through the heart (on the bad days).

Some stakeholders are brilliant they explain what they want in sufficient detail and get out the way.

The worst are the ones who try to tell you how the software works internally.

You don't hire a builder and then interfere with every brick course laid down, at least if you want the wall finishing on time.
If you'd asked my 5 years ago I would have said the web would dominate. Now I'm not so sure (although I'm also currently working in mobile). It feels like by the time we get to something like webapps that feel native they may not really be webapps anymore, maybe something like what google is doing with Flutter or something WASM based that can run on anything.
OzCode a new way to debug your code
Given the amount of environmental damage that energy production causes, expending huge amounts of energy to keep a large volume of space at a precise temperature rather than being a little flexible in how you dress seems pretty selfish to me. (If there was an appropriate Pigovian tax in place then I'd say fair enough, it's your money).
It's the biggest ecommerce platform in some social circles.
Engagement with NY-Times after SlateStarCodex fallout hasn't tapered
An observation as I'm just logging in/browsing for first time after the slatestarcodex shutdown post a couple of days ago and was intrigued to see NYtimes still enjoys very good engagement on HackerNews and other websites.

I see some ~31 posts in the last 24 hours with 599 cumulative pts. Two articles north of 100pts - and another on the front page at time of writing. Honestly I was expecting something of a backlash from the online community based on the initial reactions in that thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416) and so it's interesting to see that this hasn't been the case.

to be perfectly clear - I'm not suggesting in anyway that people should or should not engage with NY Times.
There's also a concept of unnecessary complexity.
Especially business processes are vulnerable to this, and may hint of policy or design issues.
It should block sensitive data, but obviously not full service. If they start blocking services who said yours won't be next? It's like google and blocking websites when they want. You just can't do that because it's wrong in so many ways.

You can't make a great product without analytics (in vast majority of cases). It just should collect only required data for improving product, not marketing purposes.

If you start blocking all analytics then expect that you will have to use garbage products.
First half of your comment has zero to do with free speech and even less with freedom in general.

> it was the 'local ladies groups' that usually catered weddings -> for free (!) back in the day

And in between, women ability to earn money and social status by working went way up. We are less economically dependent on knowing everyone on the street, less dependent on hoping people will reciprocate the effort. We also socialize at work more, so we are not so lonely unless we form these organizations. Stay at home women who don't go out of their way to meet others are incredibly isolated and lonely, with all negative consequences, but todays women are dealing with this problem much less.

This has less to do with consumerism and more to do with pragmatical choices. All the socializing and networking that is necessary for all this was looked down at anyway. Despite completely necessary for sanity.

Men were not making sandwitches, because they were the ones who went to work.

> people just have so many choices, young people can literally do anything

Young people do things, they did not ceased to exist. They are even, all in all not that badly behaved - they are less violent, they take less drugs, teenage pregnancies are down.

> The clubs my parents belong to are having a hard time attracting the kids as members which they have done for generations.

Why would club membership was seen as good or bad or had anything to do with freedom or consumerism? It is either leisure activity or business networking activity, both of which moved elsewhere.
I’m really on board with this. A few weeks back I was given a 1st gen iPad Pro and quite frankly it stank and the pencil was deceased but I saw the potential and the integration opportunities. So after futzing with one and working out the edge cases, face mask clad in the local Apple store, I bought a 2020 iPad Pro a couple of weeks back and have migrated everything other than programming to it. It really does perform ridiculously well on non trivial stuff and I can see where the desktop can go with this sort of hardware. And that’s 1-2 revisions behind the state of the art Apple silicon now. My laptop has been handed over to my eldest now for school work. Don’t need it any more.

The thing that got me was everything useful is almost all there ready to go on this architecture and it works and it’s extremely fast. I suspect it’s going to be a short two years. The only thing that worries me is higher end compute and I suspect there’s going to be a hard division somewhere and it’s going to have a large price disparity.

But really I am pleasantly surprised which is unusual as I’m usually a miserable pessimist.
I'm curious what a (consumer-level) house seeker can do with PostGIS that existing services can't provide. Do you merge and use datasets, etc. I was thinking of doing this in my own house search, and I would be happy to hear some pointers...
I only use facebook these days by systemically unfollowing all my friends. And I mean all, I don't follow anyone. The experience is much better this way, I can sometimes check what my friends have posted, and I am not forced to see all the crap.

I unfollow most pages also. Can recommend testing this method out.
Tesla lags auto industry in quality, finds new J.D. Power study
This is the problem. The upvoting-downvoting is a good idea in principle but it does not (and cannot) take human subjectivity into account, which is what makes it fundamentally flawed. By the way this is an extension of the same problem as with silencing opinions or comments online or in real life.
Reading these comments, it feels a bit strange that I have never gotten a counterfeit product from Amazon, and I bought a dozen items from Amazon within last two months: RAM, electric kettle, wall clock, books, phone case, humidifier, ramen and fresh groceries (like fruits and cheese). The only problem I had was a few books were dented in corner of spines a bit. Is this phenomenon country specific? Or is it because I order only amazon prime items? Perhaps my luck will run out one day :)
Setting up a WordPress development environment fast
Perhaps we, as technologists, are going about this the wrong way. Maybe, instead of trying to reduce the false alarm rate to an arbitrarily low number, we instead develop CFAR (Constant false alarm rate) systems, so that users of the system know that they will get some false alarms, and develop procedures for responding appropriately. In that way, we could get the benefit of the technology, whilst also ensuring that the system as a whole (man and machine together) are designed to be robust and have appropriate checks and balances.
Yeah I wonder legally what is in place precisely to stop someone from just telling the secret court to go fuck themselves or pleading the 13th? The secrecy they claim as a pretense would be ruined if cryptographers go missing. Whoops operation compromised from the start.

Revealing what was obvious from the start that it is a fucking fascist tool of abuse by minds incapable of comprehending irony. These are same the dumb fucks who would fire people for being gay out of fear that they would be blackmailed disregarding that their policy is the source of blackmailability.
>Being addicted to discovering new information and sharing with others sounds pretty healthy to me.

That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that you're passively consuming content for no real benefit. Sure, a lot of content on HN is interesting[#1], but it's ultimately useless[#2]. As usual, the truth is probably somewhere between these two extremes, but I think being addicted to anything is not healthy.

I think a better way to satisfy your curiousity is to learn a practical skill. Play guitar, build a birdhouse, learn to swim. I mean as a supplement, not a replacement.

I suppose this is a very roundabout way of saying turn off your computer and get out more.

[#1]and a lot of it is SV circlejerk and JS frameworks
[#2]to you, not generally
Not that old but I started in the late 90s without a degree.

Hasn't hurt my career so far, the people my level are a mix of degree/no degree.

Had to go back and fill in the theory I missed over time as I've needed it occasionally.

I still hold that programming for the real world should be taught as an apprenticeship, throwing people from CS into a software developer role is just unfair.
The media and many others decided it was more important to focus on the fact that the president is choosing not to wear a mask rather than on the health benefits of wearing a mask.

It was a stupid thing to do on both sides, but now it's political and there's no going back.
Crazy thing is that I would open TikTok on my phone and occasionally see a loading dialog that said "Pasting Clipboard" (from MacBook Pro). I finally freaked back in March and Googled it and found this...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/12/simple-ap...
I read your response as “I don’t care if any abuses or how much better things could have been as long as they are good enough”. Did I get it right?
Discussion from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23571741
Crown jewel diamonds may have formed at a depth exceeding 660km
I don't remember reCAPTCHA needing more care than enabling everything minus cookies for gstatic.com.
I found reddit a bit refreshing in comparison to Facebook and Twitter, easy to get rid of content I don’t want and easy to start conversations with like minded people. Twitter is really not a place to have conversations, if you’re not somehow famous no one would talk to you unless you jump in a bandwagon of sensationalist content, Facebook on the other hand is limited to your family and old friends, not new people, unless you join groups but then Facebook would go tell your family behind your back about your activity, this “gossip” feature that you can’t control put me off from Facebook groups. Reddit work for me, no followers/friends just topics, no gossip feature, sure there are some heated discussions but you can always chose to silence them.
I thought BASIC had $ at the end, not at the start? It has been a long time since those days, though.
Yeah, ReasonML and ReasonReact are great because you're still writing JSX and not some over-engineered voodoo rewrite of React and/or JS but you get the power of strong types and ADTs and a super fast compiler.
Size is important and that is something Apple should have deal with from day one. It miss the big phone time and now it miss the small phone time. Really want to have a small one.