skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not. Republican leadership is convinced they are but consider this quote from https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/510040-gop-fears-trump... :

> The R Street Institute, a think tank dedicated to free markets and limited government, recently released a study titled “Why conservatives should embrace sensible measures to expand absentee balloting.”

> The study cast doubt on claims that Democrats benefit from expanded mail-in voting, pointing to three states Trump carried in 2016 — Utah, Arizona and Montana — where about 70 percent of voters cast ballots through the mail.

GOP leadership is just totally unhinged.
I was really hoping that article was going to start talking about effect systems. They're so cool! They make it possible to have many different function colors without it being a huge chore. They can be thought of as a more-ergonomic generalization of monads.
The native Americans were proof-by- example that they were habitable by humans.
> [T]he first law of UX should be that aesthetics are secondary to usability.

I would argue that instead it should be aesthetics and functionality need to be balanced.

Your usability will suffer if lack of aesthetics obscure the usability of a tool. Conversely, your aesthetics need to be reigned in, so that they do not obscure the usability of your tool.
Wait, there's animation?
Civil war will be something to see.
You might also consider Big Blue passing their need for an O.S. for the first P.C. to Microsoft!
Show HN: Take a picture of handwritten code and run it
In practice protection for majority shareholders does not extend to a preference of dividends over investments in any jurisdiction. All investments carry risks, dividends don’t so the only legal justification required is to select a low risk threshold. Such protections are designed to avoid selling off assets at below market rates to majority shareholders and other such clearly suboptimal choices.
Seems to me like there should be a DHT way to solve this. When you boot up, you take your place in the table and query your neighbors for messages. If someone's unreachable when a message is sent, you hand the message to their neighbors to hold it until they appear.
> Similarly, I am sure that if PASemi is spun off Apple, it may be the hottest CPU company in the world.

Who would buy their processor? Nobody.

Those people could leave now and build that startup. The valley is not known for its loyalty. Instead, ever more VLSI designers are parking themselves in the established companies.

There is a reason there have been almost no VLSI startups for 15+ years (what was the last "successful" one--Atheros?). It's a brutal business and takes multiple chunks of $100 million to succeed.
The main difference is that in lispy languages you wouldn't use the language itself to solve the problem. You'd extend it. I'd write a function that is (drop3-take5 test list) which does exactly what it says.

This might seem like huge overkill, but when the specs change and I need to set the start and stop from a config file I can easily refactor drop3-take5 into (drop-n-take-m n m test list), with a let around it to read the config.

drop3-take5 would look something like:

(define drop3-take5-list
(lambda (ls filter)
(define internal
(lambda (ls matches)
(cond
((null? ls) '())
(else
(if (filter (car ls))
(cond
((< matches 3) (internal (cdr ls) (1+ matches)))
((<= matches 5) (cons (car ls) (internal (cdr ls) (1+ matches))))
(else '()))
(internal (cdr ls) matches))))))
(internal ls 0)))
CNN's Larry King Got Duped into Starring in Chinese Propaganda
This is correct. Pretty banal, just a short trip from Singapore to Thailand to have some fun. Not a drug kingpin. Left some very shocked friends.
Thought of the same article.
Looks like the original story is here: https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/28643-bacteria-in-the-gut-h...
Stu Maschwitz is a legend, I have an old copy of his book "The DV Rebel's Guide: An all-digital approach to making killer action movies on the cheap". A little dated now, but it's a great read and a lot of the information and techniques in there still holds up today.
It can't happen soon enough. I installed Signal a few years ago, and the first thing it did was notify a bunch of people I had in my contacts, that I was now using Signal...

...Including the unstable frenemy-guy who was only in my contacts so I'd recognize the number if he called and I'd know not to answer...

....who immediately PM'd me on Signal to push his latest delusion and make sure I didn't disagree.

Great, just great. For a privacy-focused product, that's a pretty colossal fuckup.
I believe you mean subset, yes? In that some subset of hypergolic materials have a component of air as their oxidizer and are therefore pyrophoric.
The article acknowledges what the title does not:

"First of all, Autopilot is more commonly used on longer freeway trips than in city driving, and accidents are much more common in urban driving than on the freeway, especially per mile. Additionally, in general, Autopilot would be engaged in safer driving situations in which an accident is less likely in the first place.

Lastly, the figure for the US average is based on annual data, and accidents are more common in winter. (Naturally, Tesla’s Q2 data doesn’t cover the winter. Although, its record-breaking result in Q1 does.)"
He is more likely to spend 12-18 months in prison than to occupy the white house. He was supposed to run for the open seat in Kansas as a stepping stone to a later presidential bid but the scandals were piling up too fast, so he opted to stay where he was to do some damage control and get a few IG slapped back for investigating he and his wife. His tenure in the role has been one clusterfuck after another, so I am not exactly sure what results we should be impressed with.
There's no need to play dress up with a fake name from your culture in order to sell food from your culture. (Also, Trader Joe's "imports" aren't food from your culture, they are cheap knockoffs.)
A Biblical Mystery at Oxford
> Can we cancel the NASA Space Launch System now?

IMO, NASA/Congress will hang on to SLS for as long as it is remotely defensible.

The US will need 2 heavy lift, large diameter rockets before SLS gets the axe. Once Starship and New Glenn are flying it'll be significantly more difficult to justify the $2 billion / year spent just on the SLS program (not counting the actual rockets, which are another $1 billion a pop).
As a new security engineer, thank you! I also believe security engineering is not just abiutbweb apps but applies to everything. So far the things I've learned have opened my eyes to a lot of things, such as seeing someone share a Google doc with history enabled (could possibly leak information from a previous revision) to sharing the least amount of information as necessary in my interactions.

All I need is to get a yubi key now!
Any commentary on the relative price ranges of each category? Do you think there’s further segmentation based on the size of the company, or the employee level within the company (i.e. engineer vs c-suite)?
AI-Generated (GPT-3) Text Is the Scariest Deepfake of All
Me too! But he is a racer and was ready to do a quick tack just in case.
> I bought one for my space in Seattle and it's a game changer.

It's funny how when you search the Internet, everyone says "It's useless in Seattle because it rains so much and is never dry."

And yet...

I'm not sure I agree with all your pros, though. I think good brand new ones are quite pricey, and you can easily find used window A/Cs for much cheaper. In my experience, window A/C units work better at cooling, and handle more square footage, but perhaps you simply got a bigger/more powerful evaporative cooler than I have. No way would mine handle 1600 sqft. I assume yours is not portable...?

I grew up on window A/Cs[1] and I think they're the best, to be frank. They cool a room down much better than a central A/C. If you have a decent size house, a central A/C is probably more economical from an utility bill standpoint if you want to cool the whole house. But if I want it as cool as I'd like it, and only want to do 1-2 rooms, nothing beats a window A/C.

But if you want a portable unit, I think an evaporative cooler is much better than a portable A/C. The latter are crap.

[1] They were "window" A/Cs, but were installed in the walls. Unfortunately, few houses are designed with this in mind, and US society has a weird aversion to window A/C's (many HOAs ban them)
First place modules and higher order modules are a hack to get around the limited polymorphism that OCaml provides. Like, just compare OCaml code to Haskell code. Haskell is way more concise, way more powerful, and less messy.

Like we can't have real monads in OCaml, because no HKT. And the module system isn't a solution. We have to be careful to import the right stuff, because >> and >>= exist for each separate monad. So now we have to write code that's not general, not polymorphic, and just ugly.

Haskell is a more powerful language than OCaml, full stop. OCaml programmers always talk about the module system, but it's honestly not very impressive. Typeclasses are a much more elegant solution.

I want to just be able to fmap things, and bind things, I don't want to have to think about the concrete types I'm working with. Also the lack of function polymorphism is super shitty.

And I think most agree that using different functions for arithmetic on floating points is stupid, inelegant, and a waste of time.

Modular implicit could solve this problem, and allow typeclasses like programming in OCaml.
From what I understand there was a massive, coordinated, and sustained cyberattack on Google's services that pretty clearly originated from the Chinese government that was interpreted as a pretty clear signal to get out of the Chinese market, along with what you outlined.
Their server backend code is closed source and they're running custom crypto. Also groups and desktop clients don't support end-to-end encryption.
I bet you and everyone who know are somewhere on the W curve
Was Michael Brown killed by a master?
I believe your account, but I still wonder whether the opposition to FB is more about it having the power to upset the status quo and how that is a threat to these mega brands.
> Yeah, swamp coolers are great in theory

For me, they're great in practice. And I don't live in a dry climate.

I'll do anything to avoid living in a humid place, though. I can take very hot temperatures, but not hot and humid. At least when it's hot and dry I can still enjoy the outdoors.
Let me rephrase:

They are not easily selectable.

I mean who expects the whole card to act as a link and as such need special handling wrt. selecting text? Especially if there is an explicit "link button" to navigate to the "more details view" just besides the card.

The funny thing is that while for some users the whole card acting as a single hyperlink is intuitive (even through there is no indication that it does) for others it isn't intuitive at all and at most they would expect it to behave like a normal tile (it looks like a title) .

The logo on the card being clickable and being a hyperlink on the other hand is probably expected by much more people.
Yes, the article admits as much, noting that Autopilot is much more likely to be used on the highway where the accident rate per mile is much lower.
I don't think you get the essence of the defense.

Take New York Times. Last I checked, you can sign up online, but to cancel your subscription, you have to call and subject yourself to a slick sales pitch and all sorts of questions. It's inconvenient and borderline immoral.

One solution is, heh, the free hand / competition, but we clearly see that doesn't work all that well. A much simpler solution is to identify such behaviours and straight up outlaw that stuff. Which hasn't happened yet and probably won't for the foreseeable future.

Here's the thing: __The app store is in some ways like a government, and brings laws__. As long as that subscription were to run via the app store, you _CANNOT_ hide cancellation behind a phone number. Apple won't let you ship an app that works that way; in fact, apple does the billing.

I'm pretty sure that benefit pales in comparison to the problems that apple's sole ownership and onerous Judge Dredd-ian (judge, jury, _and_ executioner!) control over the fate of your apps on the apple app store bring.

But you paint the argument as zero cost to allowing alternate app stores, and __that is not true__.

Once alternate app stores or other enforced reduction in apple's abilities to enforce and police app store policy are in place, a bunch of apps WILL go sleazy on you where they wouldn't have otherwise.

NB: Of course, in practice, netflix etc. just do signups online, you get the same total lack of protection against sleazy stuff, and now the apps you download from the app store don't even tell you what you're supposed to do because apple won't let you explain that you need to sign up online and not in the app. Apple's solution / the current status quo sucks; probably sucks more than having alternate app stores available. All I'm saying is that having alternate app stores, whilst it brings a lot of upside, does bring downside, and that is (presumably) what the defenders of apple are trying to warn you about: Those downsides.
> "Harmful business model" is a reductive, meaningless argument.

It has a very specific meaning here. It means a market where the company is not subject to significant competitive pressure.

> I don't buy many games and have 2 latest gen consoles. I would be harmed by your suggestion.

You are engaged in arbitrage. The company sold you a subsidized game console on the theory that you would buy games for it, and you didn't. If everyone did what you did the business model would fail anyway (or the company would devise a way to prevent you from doing that), so you're hardly in a position to argue against something else that attacks the same business model that you're attacking yourself. You would also have no recourse if the company implemented some method of preventing your arbitrage.

> How do you choose which group's harm is more important?

The one being deprived of the benefits of competition.

> And who do you trust to make that analysis?

You can make it yourself. Obviously you have to hire someone to actually do the enforcement, but if they come to the same conclusion as you then you know they're doing it right.
Yes, computable numbers (0)
0:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
People justify their purchases after, not before.
Created an issue about a ToC, as it would be helpful when looking for things in that list.

But looks really good, thanks for creating and sharing it.

I like reading post mortem posts about security incidents too. There's a repo in GitHub that I follow: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems

A great source for what to do, what to avoid, etc. Not only for security.
Monarchy is the same thing as theocracy. Authority is granted by divine right.
>The way you have defined the word monopoly does not make legal or practical sense

Maybe not to you but it is how the anti-monopoly law work in lots of countries. Funny that you can just say "Doesn't work, NEXT!" as if you know better than Telegram's lawyers. Apple will be fined or settle.
Class Action Philanthropy
Counterpoint: almost all paid work is assisting someone with building their thing.
One of the reasons I like HN for is the lack of ANY animation. It just does what you want it to do.

Also: At work I make internal software for managing basically everything. We do not use any animations, besides one for dropdowns. And those are only .1 second long.

So, I kinda tend to think that animations/trying to be clever in interactions are actively harmful.

Speaking of being clever, the new reddit layout seems to try to be a single page application. I hate those quite a bit, due to making it much harder to browse.
Do you really think replacing the hat with a snowflake was coincidence?
Previously discussed in 2018:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185118
Fair enough, and I live in Seattle so chances of finding Japanese teachers are high.

> $50/month to use a website for learning Japanese especially when you are English speaker sounds like a ripoff.

In hindsight I'm inclined to agree. Someone here suggested to drop it down to $20/month or less.

Even then, once the lessons are fleshed out and the interactive features are complete, charging a subscription will be seen as rent-seeking. Better to charge a lifetime membership at, say, $150 and do mass advertising with a free trial.
Chaos Surfing – Finding stability in the modern world of complexity
And keep existing customers who may not need the product for a while, but want to keep the low price in case they need it again later.
Is it the type system?
IPv6 solves one of the reasons to use NAT. One more intractable reason is that many players (cellphone network operators, corporate networks) consider it a positive thing that individual devices are not globally accessible.
You're shifting goalposts from official recommendations to those being trusted or followed.
But why do you have to think about this "as soon as you have your first user"? Not every project is a business and not every project needs an "exit plan". Not everyone doing a project needs to think in entrepreneur terms.
> To me, they give a feeling that they have some very experienced, and conservative type managing their engineering who does everything by the book.

I think this is pretty clearly not true.

"The book" says that once you have an operational configuration you freeze it. I remember hearing that the shuttle program was having to scrounge for old CPUs from warehouses because someone of the processors it used were no longer manufactured, and they didn't want to make changes to the hardware.

In contrast to this, SpaceX is famous for continuously modifying their rockets - so much so that one of the NASA requirements for certification was that they freeze the design of their F9.
Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy
I mean the -if vs -if-not is really more for typing convenience, the current CL standard actually recommends against -if-not functions because you can do composition `(remove-if (complement #’predicate) sequence)`
Which requires you to trust your neighbours. To which you might say: aha! Just use end to end encryption! And sure, you can. But at that point, what benefits are you getting over using E2E with a centralised system? Very few. And you’re getting a bunch of drawbacks in terms of reliability too.
Hum... pretty sure that the Europeans are the exception in those. Majority of American and Asian countries use the currency symbol before the amount, Africans are split.
> whether the consumer has reasonable access to alternatives

No, because in this case the alternative is not another phone but another app store.
This isn't really a problem on Android, which already allows you to install apps outside the app store.
Wow, they look awesome, thank you! (Learning spanish here)
It’s progress because the spacecraft and the vast majority of the launch vehicle are reusable and affordable. But I agree it’s still only incremental. And nothing close to the scale and ambition of Apollo. Hopefully Starship will change that.
They weren't in their seats the whole time, but even if they were, that'd be a walk in the park compared to some other missions.

Gemini 7 might just be the least pleasant space mission. Two astronauts spent 14 days in their cramped capsule. One of them had to wait six days before being allowed to take the spacesuit off, but the capsule was uncomfortably hot anyway. There was no toilet, and the urine collector was leaky. Reading about that mission has been eye-opening to how unglamorous spaceflight gets, and left me even more amazed at how well-trained and professional the astronauts are, being able to complete such an unpleasant mission without incident.
Still every right to downvote a "f*ck you", thank you.
Change the Haskell example to read 3 and 5 as n and m from an external file. All of a sudden your beautiful code is now a huge mess and you need to refactor the one liner into at least three separate functions to try and keep the Maybe types from taking everything over.

Meanwhile in lisp I would have written a special drop3-take5 function in the first place. Then refactoring it would just take replacing 3 with n and 5 with m, adding n and m as arguments and writing a function to read whatever the config file is.
> But everything you said would still hold true

That's because it would still be true, because the market for apps for a particular type of phone that has its own type of apps is a separate market no matter what percentage of the market for phones that type of phone represents.

In practice if the market was that small then nobody would care. It takes a certain market size before it's worth the effort of bringing a case against the monopolist. But that's a different question than whether there is one or not.

Your argument is essentially that if a small town with a population of 100 has only a single retail store within two hours drive, that store doesn't have a local monopoly because not enough people live there. But they still do. Even if they're too small for anybody to do anything about it in practice.

Apple, of course, is not that small.
I should have been more specific (no pun intended). You should take a closer read of my comment. You've made the same misinterpretation a second time.

Suppose a non-diversified investor, A, owns an asset which has both systemic risk and specific risk, and a diversified investor, B, has the same knowledge as A. In this case, B would be willing to pay a higher price for the asset than A would. A then sells the asset to B and the market becomes efficient. No assets would exist not on the efficient frontier.
This false equivalence falls apart as soon as you assess how widespread such beliefs are and whether they’re based in verifiable facts. There are leftie conspiracy theorists but there’s nowhere near the spread, especially at the senior levels of the party.

For example, Birtherism was easily disproven but persisted for years among a high percentage of Republicans and even among members of Congress, the current President, and many of his appointees. There’s nothing remotely equivalent on the Democratic side - you could probably find someone saying just about anything you imagine but they’re at the fringe rather than making official government actions based on those beliefs (remember Benghazi?)
The scary thing is that anyone who takes the scientific approach and to wait and see if the drug has serious side-effects will be accused of being anti-vaxx and socially ostracized.
The comments here might as well be on reddit or facebook. The amount of people that think they know better then telegram's lawyers if mindbaffeling.
For multiple reasons but first of all because it would require both devices to be connected and online.
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> the "deadly gas" was released during that time

MMH is not vented on landing. When it’s released, it’s because of a mistake. That’s why the approaching crew take the precautions they do, and don a gas mask when toying with the craft.

Nothing bad happened to these boaters. But they were downwind from a substance which, had it leaked, would have put every one of them in the hospital and taken decades off their lives.
This is a great point. For the purposes of queuing theory analysis, some separate out latency from response time in which case response time is just service time + queue time, and latency is transit time before arriving at the queue.