skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dream-like" is a good adjective for Haskell programming. Sometimes when writing Haskell I just zone out and let my subconscious do whatever it wants, and the type system provides enough structure that this usually gets you working code. It's a very fun creative exercise.
Being socially isolated might end then but it doesn’t have to be by going into an office.

Perhaps now people will start to socialize with their friends more often during normal working hours. Now you can drive whenever you want to see people meaning that rush hour traffic won’t kill off meeting people that are 15 miles away as it will take forever to get there. Just go at 11am for lunch.
> This kind of process is onerous even for regular people in non-dire situations, let alone for children who have just been a victim of sexual abuse. By asking from action coming from the child, you are advocating something that is effectively forcing them to re-live the abuse.

Nonsense. Copyright is designed as a profit-generating system. All they'd have to do is deploy a third party to enforce it. There are many organizations that would love do to this work, and on top of that get paid for it out of the judgments against pedophiles. The victims wouldn't even have to be involved in the cases.

And it has the extremely useful property of creating a market incentive to bankrupt pedophiles.

> On top of that, it doesn't even make sense from a copyright perspective.

Hollywood would presumably by very interested to hear of this possibility of holding the copyright to the work of an "actor" without their consent.

> Not to mention how problematic copyright is in itself, and how nonsensical your suggestion is, since copyright can and is used as a much more powerful weapon for censorship, when used against criticism for example.

This is why fair use exists. Copyright doesn't always get that right, but now you're leveling a criticism of copyright implementation at a use case where it doesn't even apply. Pedophiles aren't distributing child pornography for the purposes of criticism.
I think you are vastly underestimating the difficulty in automating this. This has been proposed for decades and there is published academic research about the extraordinary difficulty of ensuring the integrity of the voters and the tallies. You can look at literature on the challenges with REAL ID implementation or Healthcare.gov for similar and smaller projects.
What's the syntax in Haskell for thread-first (-> in Clojure) which inserts the result of the previous operation as the first argument, versus thread-last (->>) which inserts it at the end, so is more amenable to composed curried functions?
This would never have happened, if only they used a proper Operating System from a respectable software company.
This is not exactly a fair take. the "new crewed mission" project has never been actually canceled. It's been delayed, and not due to lack of funding but poor execution. Constellation was better funded than commercial cargo and commercial crew and Orion has still been under development basically the whole time (although it changed names). Artemis continues, too.

People want to make out SpaceX as if SpaceX is ideologically opposed to NASA or government funding and thus are hypocrites, when that has never been true. People like working at SpaceX because SpaceX gets stuff done and is developing truly transformative technology beyond the expendable paradigm of Apollo. Technology that will expand the availability of space to several orders of magnitude more people instead of just a handful of heroes. And NASA loves it.
Samsung 870 QVO SATA 2.5“ SSD 8TB
>How do we determine what is single-purpose and what isn't?

how about, "throwing all other computing devices away, can you get by with only using the one left?". If yes, it's propably a general purpose device.

Smartphones have become/are rapidly becoming the primary, often only computer people use to interact with the world, in the developing world in particular. It's a travesty that an entire generation will grow up without even the chance to have an open computation platform.

Just as an anecdote about how much damage this does in my opinion. When I was teaching first semester CS students a few years ago, an overwhelming majority already did not know how to boot from a USB stick or install an operating system on a machine.
Telegram Web (https://web.telegram.org/) has existed for ages. There's no technical reason that it couldn't support secret chats; it's just been neglected by the Telegram developers.
uPlot really is amazing. My dream is that one day all the CSS Houdini[1] tech will be finished and widely supported and someone will create a version of it on top of the layout/painting/font-metrics APIs that is equally performant while fully responsive w.r.t. to container size and dynamic data.

[1] https://ishoudinireadyyet.com/
What type of signs do you have in mind? Maybe some examples of your own experience will help me understand missed clues.
That might be true in the abstract but anyone who had more than the slightest awareness knows that what was directed at Obama was based racism. The same people made racist comments about Africa in general, said he was inarticulate in ways straight out of minstrel shows a century ago, refused to accept his Christianity insisting that he was secretly following their favorite Other religion, and used various threats and rhetoric from the Jim Crow-era south against someone born in Hawaii.

You don’t lynch someone in effigy because you’re trying to say that you don’t think they aren’t 35.
Methanol is a byproduct in the production ethyl alcohol and has to be removed. The stories of people going blind drinking moonshine is do the methanol.
They weren't in those seats for 19 hours. Shortly after undocking they were able to take off their suits for the night. Didn't have to put them on again until the re-entry prep started. Most of that 19 hours they were free to move around the cabin.
I find the Lens operators in Haskell just the most hilarious API in all of computing, even knowing that there is some sense to it.
It is also ~20 lines in CL http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2013/01/real-list-comprehe...

But list comprehensions suffer from the same problem the author is taking about, they don't compose. Its even worse than CL remove-if variant, where one can reify the filter into a function that can then compose.
The consoles are purpose-built devices. They come with game controllers rather than keyboards. They're designed to be attached to a television with an interface designed to be used from across the room.

You might very well end up in a market where you could build your own console by plugging a game controller into a PC and installing SteamOS on it in addition to companies selling them pre-built like that, but what's so bad about that?
In before someone suggests storing encrypted messages in a public blockchain. This is a really good overview of the challenges with these messaging systems. Store and forward has been our MO since email and Usenet were invented because always on always connected devices that aren’t restricted by some network obstacle are not really feasible or even desirable most of the time. I do wonder what alternatives we have to something like a trusted online service to store and forward messages or a public blockchain. Some kind of crypto based system where nobody but the owner of a private key can even locate the message? A decentralized system where multiple copies of multiple fragments of your message are stored so nobody can piece together your (encrypted) message without controlling the majority of the nodes?
Doesn't this legitimize what China does? I personally don't want the government telling me what I can and can't view or use, that sounds like China.
I believe they are differentiated by not doing a lot of random iterations in comparison to the competition.

Blue Origin for example managed to completely redo pretty much everything about their design few times over, while SpaceX had something resembling Falcon 1, and Falcon 9 on their drawing boards pretty much since the beginning.

Too much pivots, too much iterations, and close to no straight advancements.
True, though Crew Dragon also has a "washroom". (likely acts more like a vacuum than anything though)
> Did you find out who the Arab countries participating in the Arab league chose to represent Palestinians in the 1st summit?

You're proving my point that some rulers are disconnected from the population when it comes to this issue. There is a strong unity among the Arab and Muslim populations for this issue.
Yep, sorry.

This is a matter of feeling, completely irrational, but just my experience.

When I program in lisp I get the same feeling when I'm solving an ODE by hand, or a Diophantine equation, or designing a numerical method to approximate the solution of a PDE, or finding the Euler-Lagrange equations of a physical problem. The thing is real and it gets shit done really fast; it is just exhilarating. Moreover, lisp macros are so dirty and fun that using them feels like kinky sex.

Haskell is like category theory. Sure, it is pure and general, and you can create set theory and the rest of math from it. But it is certainly the most boring thing that I can think about.

But hey, whatever floats your boat.
And I'm baffled by the people who are upset they can't sell their own popcorn and funnel cakes in Disneyworld.
I already said that its not black and white? I dont know why youre trying to argue as if Im saying all regulation is perfect?

But acting as if all regulation is terrible and we should let the massive corporations simply walk over us is also not realistic.
Do you have an opinion on Skype like centralised coordinator that then sets up P2P connections?
>Repeat until retired.

You nailed it. Aka, the sorry life of a worker drone.
> BTW, WHAT DO YOU call it when Arab leaders like AL-ASAD and AL-SISI, to name a few, kill and torture thousands of their own people, and people like you still find the energy to only reach their keyboard to criticize Israel?

And who said we support Assad or Sisi? We're well aware that their regimes are murderous as well. It's not mutually exclusive to speak out against the Israeli occupation.
I agree that in general Postel's law is bad practice but I think that it also makes sense under certain contexts. For example, if you have an email input field, it's better to trim spaces from the user input before sending it to the server instead of showing an error that there's spaces needing to be trimmed. In this example the input field is liberal in what it accepts and conservative in what it sends to the server.
Their "gaming platform" was on the same level as early Facebook Games, except a decade too late -- little dinky HTML5 games you could play in group chats. It was never going to be a major source of profit even if Apple hadn't blocked it.
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The only rule of [subject] is that there are no rules
> People want to make out SpaceX as if SpaceX is ideologically opposed to NASA or government funding and thus are hypocrites, when that has never been true

I am not saying that
Cannot take this article seriously. The best UX for this content is clearly a single page of text with 20 sections.
Is IPv6 likely to be a practical solution to the router/NAT issue? Are routers assigning globally-routable IPs to their clients, is that already a thing?
Yes, we write 49€. It's how you spell it, fourty nine euro.
Actually, it depends where, but most of the country put the sign at the end, like most notations.
> The first screen is a long scroll of 20 elegant looking blocks and titles none of which mean anything on their own. I have to click on each and sit through some superfluous animation before I can even get access to the explanation.

Bad user! You're not following the first law of UX:

> Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.

> Aesthetically pleasing design can make users more tolerant of minor usability issues.

> Aesthetically pleasing design creates a positive response in people’s brains and leads them to believe the design actually works better.

> Aesthetically pleasing design can mask usability problems and prevent issues from being discovered during usability testing.

You're supposed to go "oh, pretty!" and forget how crappy it really is! /s

Seriously now: the first law of UX should be that aesthetics are secondary to usability. If your focus is on making something "eye catching" or "beautiful" then you're doing bad UX. If designers followed that, we wouldn't have so many UX trainwreaks.
I disagree. With composition we have general building blocks which can be combined in an infinity of ways, and remain available to combine with newly added functions. The monolith way provides a fixed, non upgradable set of possibilities, so if your need does not fall into what already exists you need to add yet another monolith (see remove-if vs remove-if-not).
Traditional investing focused on dividends for a good reason: you can live on dividends without paying long term capital gains (taxes on dividends are usually lower). At a time when most investors were common folks trying to make a long term investment decision, this was a good thing. Moreover, companies that pay dividends are by definition more mature, which can be a good sign for some investors that want more predictability in their portfolios. The reality is that dividend-based investment has its advantages, which were forgotten by the current generation of investors.
How do Clojure transducers compare to Haskell's stream fusion in 2020?
Oh, I didn't know that. Thank you!
That guy is currently repeating predictions that teen angst over losing TikTok will lead to a Pol Pot style uprising and comparing the protests in Portland to Nazis. I wouldn’t trust him on anything without a credible source.
It isn't really about currencies, it's about languages: pretty much every language other than English uses "49 €" form. So I guess, writing all currency signs before the number is pretty commonplace now, but that's probably because americans are notoriously, well, american-centric.
NY camera shop combines 18th-cty Jewish traditions and the hottest digital tech
Name that tune!
No need for the dollar sign in the second example :)

A nice thing about Haskell list comprehensions is they're based on a trivial transformation to monad syntax, which makes it easier to factor out complex list transformations into multiple little bites. I've run into this problem in Python. Also, Python list comprehensions can often behave very unexpectedly due to mutability.

Here's an example of the monad syntax:

[(x,y) | x <- [1..10], y <- [1..x], odd (x + y)]

equiv

do
x <- [1..10]
y <- [1..x]
guard $ odd (x + y)
return (x,y)

Lots of combinatorics problems can be elegantly solved using the list monad like that.
A lot of the other stuff subsidizes first class mail whose volume has dropped enormously. The USPS also still has to maintain post offices that have very low volumes.
I guess the benefit is that it's easier to change employer than government.
I don't know about OP but I laugh at your words. They mean nothing.
It looks like AI will be simple and not prohibitively expensive to develop. So it doesn't matter who "wins the race"---once it exists, it will be available to all.
Rokid Glass 2 detects temperatures of 200 people within 1 minute from 3 meters
> Can you stop with the 1984 eurasia stuff[?]

Yes, I just choose not to, to emphasise the danger of putting politics ahead of epistemic integrity.

> So plainly put, what is "narrative [[about masks and covid]] the overwhelming majority of people [you've] encountered"?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24031462:

> > the sudden switch from "masks don't work unless they're N95, you need an MD to put one on correctly, and if you buy them you're an egotistical asshole who's putting our medical workers in danger" to "even plain cloth masks are useful, everyone must wear one at all times, and if you didn't buy one you're an egotistical asshole who's putting everyone in danger" earlier this year. Took less than a week.

I assumed that was obvious from context, since your comment was responding to claims about those narratives.
Impurity plays poorly with function composition. cf "value restriction".
The sidebar discussion point is interesting: this is an area where technology could help out a lot by only sharing those 2 (or 3 etc) audio streams with one another.

That has the potential of being a lot less disruptive than people in a real physical room chatting.

Course this will be hard to implement, just like in chat rooms where it easy to get overwhelmed by more than one conversation. Maybe have voice clues like “ask Jimmy about project Thunderdome” creating a TODO list that then are matched up with people and prompted to engage when they are free.
Report: USA vs. China Cold War, The Escalation, all you need to know
Recovering from burnout & quit smoking and caffeine.

4/7 days I swim 1 hour at 2pm and seem to stick with it.

Everything else is random, time for wake up, sleep, and 1 hr walks during the day or night can happen whenever.

I can barely read 1 page straight so most of my time is spent browsing and chatting.
What is the evidence that US foreign policy decreased in integrity after the Cold War? There was plenty of dirty stuff during the Cold War too.
As the price goes up we tend to get larger organisations as customers. Unfortunately, they are also more likely to ask for custom legals, T&Cs, and security audits. In all cases, I say no. That may change in the future.

this was a particularly interesting bit. I've got a feeling that the organizations that care about custom legal and security audits can be charged way more than $50 a month. If people are caring about that you're probably beyond a developer with the corporate card in terms of who is buying.
The way you have defined the word monopoly does not make legal or practical sense. Consider this, if Apple only ever made 100 smartphones and sold them to 100 people and had 0.00001% share of the smartphone market, no one in their right mind would consider them a monopoly or ever consider bringing an anti-trust case against them for the restrictions they impose on their own App Store.

But everything you said would still hold true:

"They have a monopoly on iOS app stores."
"This is a different market than Android app stores because the set of customers is completely different."

So clearly this definition cannot be the correct way to define what is and isn't a monopoly.
Pidgin is exactly what we need.. and each messenger needs to be a pluggable module. Then we dont need to hound friends and family to switch messenger apps they just use pidgin.
Cortana worked pretty well--better than Siri, though not as good as Alexa.
> why aren't most messaging apps peer to peer [...] it's literally the point of messages: sending from one person to another.

Messaging apps are more like postal services — "please deliver this message to $person" — you're describing driving across town to drop something in a mailbox directly. A peer-to-peer messaging system wouldn't have many benefits over an E2E-encrypted one (in a centralized E2E-encrypted service you already enjoy technical guarantees that the courier can't peek inside the metaphorical envelope), but would have several usability drawbacks that would drive away casual users, which the sibling comments mention.

Driving away casual users has its own problems: you might drive them away to insecure services ("ah fuck it, this thing doesn't work, I'll just DM them on Twitter"), and the lack of casual users will make your remaining users stand out in traffic analysis (e.g. state agency says "hmm, askxnakjsn is using SuperEncryptoP2PMessenger, better go make sure they aren't a dissident").
Do you trust the government to know the difference?

The US House just had a dog and pony show with the tech CEOs where one representative asked Zuckerburg about Twitter’s content policy.
I liked Ocaml last time I had a go, but after getting to the point I could fumble my way around (can write a toy ray-tracer level proficiency) I couldn't really work out what I was supposed to do with it.

The reason why a lot of people write C++, for instance, is not because they like it or think it's a particularly good language, but it's because an amazing amount of (for instance) graphics and maths libraries are written with the C++ developer in mind.

It seems to me that the pain of working with a language you don't particularly like is way less than the pain of working with no libraries, or doing awkward FFI everywhere.
That at some point Facebook has to isolate Brazil on a separate website to stop it from censoring people that has nothing to do with Brazil and their government realizes that policing by themselves a global communication channel is not the best idea?
maybe update android webview?
Sure they are. In TX where all good patent trolls go to sue.
The situation with Reason is (arguably needlessly) confusing. Reason is just an alternative syntax for OCaml, despite being often advertised in combination with BuckleScript (the more recent OCaml to JS compiler). You can use either Reason or OCaml syntax with either BuckleScript, js_of_ocaml or natively (very confusingly there's also a new slightly different version of Reason for BuckleScript only which you can ignore). The advantages of Reason syntax over OCaml are pretty much limited to a nice JSX syntax.

For frontend development BuckleScript is probably better than js_of_ocaml in terms of integration with JS, bundle size and number of users. For backend development I personally think native OCaml (or Reason if you prefer it) is definitely usable. But you could also try BuckleScript bindings to node stuff if you really like node.
Threema is closed source which is something I don't really like when it comes to security as there are no independent audits.

Edit: Generally, Threema seems interesting feature-wise, but I think the price (4€) will prevent my contacts from using it...
This may be an attempt to pander to US corn ethanol interests ahead of the election, in particular the swing state of Iowa which is a major corn ethanol producer and holds the first primary election. Note that it's not just a recommendation - the named products are now forbidden from import.

Circumstantial evidence:

* The very day before the import bans, Trump retweeted "President @realDonaldTrump is working to ensure that AMERICA produces the critical goods necessary to combat COVID-19 here" - along with a small speech about "restoring American manufacturing".

* The head of the FDA appears to be politically captured by the Trump administration, for example by ordering FEMA to distribute hydroxychloroquine to pharmacies nationwide.

* This administration has already attempted to pander to the Iowa ethanol demographic in the form of lobbying Brazil to lower ethanol import tariffs. Mexican ethanol is both cheaper and geographically nearer to Brazil, so discrediting its purity would make sense.

* Tiny methanol impurities, the cited reason for most of these recalls, pose virtually no contact risk in hand sanitizer. Even if you rubbed pure methanol on both your hands for a whole minute, you'd only absorb about 30 mg. That's about the same as you'd get from metabolizing a pint of diet soda (aspartame turns into 10% methanol by weight). Real hand sanitizer will contain tiny amounts of methanol, and will be in liquid form on the hands for considerably less than a minute. So I find the health justification for this rather suspect.
Oh my god, this is exactly how I feel about most modern software UI. It seems like it's optimised to look pretty on screenshots, rather than to actually be usable!