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- SML is old

- OCaML has OO cruft and OCaML folks themselves keep telling you "Oh, you don't have to use the OO parts of OCaML"

Well then effin give me an ML that's more modern than SML, and has no OO cruft!

don't tell me "take this stuff that we think is good, and just ignore parts of it that are bad"

(and I'm not interested in Haskell).

edit: Matt Might lists only two other languages [0], Scala and Scheme. Both are not ML (though I think some folks think Scala is an ML?)

[0] http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/
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Here's another project in Australia that promises to produce scandium. I doubt any of them will actually be built into a producing mine, though.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/222183/...
Based strictly on estimated unemployment/suicide causal relationship. Actual numbers are probably higher than I've estimated due to depression caused by non-unemployment factors like social isolation. As I understand, this comports with the recent rise in e.g. opiate deaths.
I'd really appreciate a few links to this. I am on a youtube binge lately watching quantum dynamics lectures for lay people. The constant talk about "watching" and "observers" drives me crazy. I refuse to believe anything has anything to do with whether or not anybody is "watching" anything. Bouncing photons off of it? Sure I can see how that would affect all sorts of things. But if the bouncing photons alter what's going on (and it seems they cause as much quantum decoherence as anything else might) then that's not the same thing as just "watching". That word implies to me "there are ambient photons or some other field or background that does not alter the experiment, and I am merely observing that background to get an idea what's going on within the experiment". If the experiment cannot be conducted without interference within an ambient background of photons flying around, or within some other medium we passively non-destructively-to-the-experiment observe, then we cannot currently be said to be "observing" anything at all with respect to that experiment. Let's just say that, can't we? If we can't not alter the relevant circumstances of what's going on, then let's just admit that, without using faulty and improper language to "describe" what's happening. Can somebody help me out with this?
Barring concrete evidence that is the case, it's a very dangerous assertion to make. It would also mean that the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 is much higher than we originally thought, amongst those without "natural immunity".

Even if it were the case that half the population was naturally immune, we would want to understand why. The leading explanation at the moment is T-cells and previous exposure to other coronaviruses. Problem is, there's a good chance that previous exposures would be less likely in certain populations, like children, which could be especially problematic as we're debating sending kids back to school.

At the very least, we need more data on T-cell prevalence/reactance to SARS-CoV-2 before we can jump to the conclusion that people are already immune.

But right now, it's far more likely that we've seen drops because of the drastic measures that have been taken and the changes in daily behavior across the population.
There were two related issues on the Gitea project page about this:

- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4175

- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1516

In the latter, someone mentioned that a few of these projects were grandfathered in/have written permission from the Software Freedom Conservancy and so may use a portmanteau as the name.
That's because you won't be locally faster than light. You may cover 4 light years in one, but only because those light years will be much smaller from your point of view. You'll never "feel" faster than light.
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same here, illuminating a-ha moment!
Free market economics does not and should not apply to labor. These are people, not barrels of oil.
Well... I open my browser, type news. and by the wonder of auto-completion, I enter the site as soon as strike the enter key. I skim through the top stories, open a few in their own tabs. Sometimes I go directly to the comments field since it can actually be more interesting to read than the link itself. After a few minutes of this I might click on /threads/ or /new/. I mostly consume on HN and I probably only reply a few times a week.
>The bailouts in crises are not one off because there’s always going to be another crisis.

Please list the historical unemployment insurance bailouts that covered contractors.
I wish the article detailed the performance issues with the old implementation, and why those issues necessitated a rewrite (other than "strong primitives" and "difficult to retrofit").
The performance related bits:

- Handcrafted SQL.

- Reduce memory usage, e.g. use mutable map.

- Aggressive caching with layers of caches, DB result cache, app level object cache, and HTTP cache. Some DB queries are partitioned and each partitioned result is cached in key-value store.
I don't think it directly implies that, but I think many of the policies in place chip away at things that should be a part of an IC's experience. Imposing penalties from declining rides means that their power to set rates is reduced.
Yes. It feels like we're never going to escape, if there's no beginning.

Like you're about to touch something that could cause everything to blink out of existence.

It actually causes physical discomfort and an increased heartrate and rapid breathing, like you need to turn back, NOW.
In a bug bounty program, you agree to the terms before participating and in particular those terms include not exfiltrating data.

These hackers were not participants in the bugbounty program, and extorted money from Uber. They were not in anyway "consultants", even retroactively.

But that's not the issue at hand here, the issue at hand is the cover-up while Uber was being investigated about a similar breach.

It is also curious that HackerOne was the middleman here. I do wonder how much they knew of what was going on.
If words matter, I'm not sure we should be calling this sort of academia "science" at all.

Policy advocacy would be a better word.
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JS13K Is an annual gamejam (hackerthon) held on the 13th of August and participants are given 30 days to created a game using JavaScript less than 13KB in size minified (optional) and zipped including assets

On the 13th of August a 'secret' theme is announced and everybody must create a game inline with it.
look at the time-lines of the universe and some of the entries, especially the last few, are mind blowing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future )

e.g.

"Due to the gradual slowing down of Earth's rotation, a day on Earth will be one hour longer than it is today"

"From its present position, the Solar System completes one full orbit of the Galactic Center"

"All the continents on Earth may fuse into a supercontinent (Pangaea Ultima, Novopangaea, or Amasia)"

"Tidal acceleration moves the Moon far enough from Earth that total solar eclipses are no longer possible."

"the Andromeda Galaxy will have collided with the Milky Way, which will thereafter merge to form a galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda" ... There is also a small chance of the Solar System being ejected. The planets of the Solar System will almost certainly not be disturbed by these events"

"time until stellar close encounters detach all planets in star systems (including the Solar System) from their orbits"

"time until those stars not ejected from galaxies (1–10%) fall into their galaxies' central supermassive black holes. By this point, with binary stars having fallen into each other, and planets into their stars"

"estimated time for rigid objects, from free-floating rocks in space to planets, to rearrange their atoms and molecules via quantum tunneling. On this timescale, any discrete body of matter "behaves like a liquid" and becomes a smooth sphere due to diffusion and gravity"

"... they [Positrons] find a distant electron to pair with and the two enter into a highly excited state of positronium, with a radius larger than the current universe. Over the next 10^141 years they will gradually spiral inwards until they finally annihilate"

"time until a supermassive black hole with a mass of 20 trillion solar masses decays by Hawking radiation ... marks the end of the Black Hole Era. Beyond this time, if protons do decay, the Universe enters the Dark Era, in which all physical objects have decayed to subatomic particles"

"... time for all nucleons in the observable universe to decay ..."

"... estimated time until all baryonic matter in stellar-mass objects has either fused together [into iron-56] ... or decayed from a higher mass element into iron-56 to form an iron star"

"Estimated time for a Boltzmann brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease"

"estimate for the time until all iron stars collapse into black holes ... which then (on these timescales) instantaneously evaporate into subatomic particles ... Beyond this point, it is almost certain that Universe will contain no more baryonic matter and will be an almost pure vacuum until it reaches its final energy state ..."

"Because the total number of ways in which all the subatomic particles in the observable universe can be combined is <big number> a number which, when multiplied by <big number>, disappears into the rounding error, this is also the time required for a quantum-tunnelled and quantum fluctuation-generated Big Bang to produce a new universe identical to our own ..."
Let's say running an ebook service, that cost cost you some money, a portion of your profit will go into building this shop, that will also be used by another party, because you have millions of users and a good trusted brand. in order to sell on that market you sell a some subcription based like a web hosting.

Party B, after using your premuim service, decide he will use your service just as a frontstore, sending your customer to his own website to complete purchase.

in your opinion that is a fair situation?
Do you think people are really walking around thinking "I don't want health insurance because I prefer being destitute in the event of an injury"?
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Because Microsoft leveraged a monopoly (Windows) to gain another monopoly (browser), which is illegal. App stores didn't exist prior to Apple's. Also, Apple's store didn't work on competing phones (not that there were any at the time), nor did it work on either macOS or Windows, it only worked on Apple's iPhones. It's like Amazon controlling what Kindle books exist, or Disney controlling what you can see at Disneyworld or buy at Disney+.
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Oops, yes, I meant steady-state! :)
This is relevant to the current situation at my workplace. The "not taking on too much" thing is hard to avoid in normal circumstances, now with less staff due to COVID it's more challenging
Violence is regulated (in essentially all of the world) - that's very different from unacceptable.

The state, perhaps through the police or military, can exercise violence often without consequence. You can legally be violent in self-defence, to varying extents.
Custom and fantasy so far. Fantasy was recommended even.
How do you test the historic returns of this strategy?
We could have said "Google Meet for developers", but Zoom is shorter. :)

But yeah, the point is that you can video chat and we are adding other integrations for developers. Pair programming is one, terminal and server sharing is coming.
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Sci-fi-grade engines are always fun. If you want to jump straight into a stable orbit, just add the right velocity component to your exit point. Or select a synchronous orbit.

Any sci-fi-grade navigation computer can do that.
If the economy cannot support enough reasonable paying jobs with adequate health insurance, then the answer is to re-think how the economy works, not create more garbage jobs that earn miserable livelihoods.

If we did things like abandon employer-subsidized healthcare for a modern single payer system, then maybe it wouldn't be so disadvantageous for drivers to be classified as contractors.
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I think you're coming to the opposite conclusion I implied. Because corporate insiders' wealth is tied up in company stock, they are incentivized to optimize for the value of the stock, which may be counter to the long-term health of the company.
Does he have a carefully curated public image? I’m not very well connected, but people in my personal life don’t think very highly of him.
What GP is describing is not quite existential anxiety..

Not the dread of an insignificant existence, rather, the dread of an unending existence.
>The best books are bolded, the great ones are underlined, and my absolute favorites are in red.

What does that even mean? What's the cutoff for best and great and favorite?

Does anyone else find the language over the top? Like we've watered down our superlatives.

Maybe I'm being super picky, but why make a numbered list of the best things across a spectrum of their greatness and not use the numbers?
Some of the listed optimizations were:

> We carefully vet what we eager-load depending on the type of request and we optimize towards reducing instances of N+1 queries.

> Reducing Memory Allocations

> Implementing Efficient Caching Layers

All of those steps seem pretty standard ways of optimizing a Rails application. I wished the article made it clearer why they decided to pursue such a complex route (the whole custom Lua/nginx routing and two applications instead of a monolith).

Shopify surely has tons of Rails experts and I assume they pondered a lot before going for this unusual rewrite, so of course they have their reasons, but I really didn't understand (from the article) what they accomplished here that they couldn't have done in the Rails monolith.

You don't need to ditch Rails if you just don't want to use ActiveRecord.
For what it's worth, I once wrote a game that had a configuration file parser written in bison/flex (I actually finished that game).
I tend to write longer e-mails - but I agree with you, long-form and short-form e-mails are both optimal for different situations.

The problem seems to be that it's a judgement call - and I'm not exactly sure of all factors/variables that are involved in that judgement call. The subject at hand, the audience, the depth of the e-mail thread to which you're replying, time-sensitivity of the subject, etc. - they all play a role. But my default position tends to be that I'll save time explaining in future e-mails by providing all relevant details at hand now.
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"None of my videos have ever gotten a large number of views, and none are monetized, so I might as well copy them to a PeerTube instance I control."

As we know, there is a growing history of unexpected changes or even phase-outs of services/features that were once considered fixtures provided by Google.

There is nothing I am aware of that says a user could/should not simultaneously 1. keeps backups of her work on physcial media in her possession (as well "in the cloud"), 2. host her work on YouTube or some similarly commercial service, and 3. self-host her work on PeerTube. The decision to diversify should not matter whether the videos have significant views or not.

If both services are free, do you have to "move" from service X to service Y, or can you can just "copy" (mirror).
Ruby is more than fast enough for the web
Inflation expectations. Inflation hits different companies differently. Companies with a strong brand and a strong moat, ones that basically define their categories, can raise prices as much as they want. Companies that produce an undifferentiated commodity product get undercut by competitors when they try to raise prices.

People buy a Tesla because they want a Tesla. Any old car will not do - the typical Tesla buyer is not considering a Toyota or a Subaru or even a Leaf. (They also tend to be fairly high-earning, and in a profession where they can capture much of the increased prices from inflation.) When more money goes into the economy, Tesla's buyers capture a good fraction of it, and then Tesla can raise their prices to match.

Nobody shops at Walmart because it's Walmart. They shop at Walmart because Walmart has the lowest prices. Now, Walmart is being undercut by Amazon (whose stock is rising as they steal business away from Walmart). If there's inflation, will Walmart be able to raise prices? Probably not by very much, because if they do, Amazon holds their current prices and Walmart loses even more business to them.

It's the same story for Apple, which has roughly doubled in the last 4 months. Did the value of Apple double in the last 4 month?. Certainly not in real terms. But in nominal terms - probably. I could easily see a future where prices in general are double today in 5-10 years, and the price of an iPhone is likely to rise to keep pace. During the 1970s, prices rose by roughly 10x on average, though the impact was widely disparate on different professions. (At the beginning of the decade, my mom - a teacher - was make maybe 20-30% less than her engineer/lawyer/academic friends. At the end of it, they were making about 3x what she was.) If anything, the market may be understating the effect of inflation on certain company's earnings, perhaps because a lot of people don't believe we're going to get inflation.
It's actually a little easier to notice and cut off power to a large conspicuous party than it is to notice drug deals are going down to do busts. It's not like all the dealers are screaming YEAH WE LIKE METH and dancing under a stream of cocaine with 20 other people clapping their hands while Billy does a kegstand.

And the action taken to shut down someone's power is to call the power company and tell them to do some clicky clacks on a keyboard.

So definitely an apples and oranges comparison. That said, it probably would be a pissing match ultimately as that person said.
But not necessarily 2^40 unique ancestors. That is, the same person may be your ancestor by more than one route through the subsequent generations.
The very first paragraph lists one of the features as "direct integration to the IDE so software developers can talk and collaborate in real-time". It doesn't sound to me as if it's aiming to support "100+ concurrent users". If it can help two programmers working remotely be as productive as they would be if they were sitting side by side, then I think it's a very useful product.
> Some people might be at no risk, some higher.

All rideshare drivers are (by definition) participating in the most dangerous activity (western) humans do on a daily basis. Every non-utilized minute they spend on the road adds risk to them as well as to other members of society.
Depends on how the comparisons are ordered. Some of the orderings I've seen in here do respect NaN by virtue of `x > upper_bound` comparing false if either x or upper_bound are NaN.
If Android can hold its own then there is no monopoly. If they don’t want to use the App Store, don’t get an iPhone. It’s that simple. A monopoly is when customers have no choice, but in smartphones with the ability to run apps, they clearly do. I like my choice and so do a lot of other people, why can’t you just leave us alone?
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Ok, but how do you know that a change (possibly a bugfix) in your code will break something (maybe a weird, broken thing) that I depend on?

The language Unison has an elegant solution: hashing the ast as the version.
> It seems to me that Kalanick was often “aware” of things but conveniently avoids scrutiny. How is this?

Because the VC's funded Uber precisely because they knew that Kalanick was an asshole?

The people who gave him money did so with the expectation that he would pull out all the stops to become a mega-monopoly.

To top it off, Kalanick had been screwed by VC's before, so he made a particular point to structure stock ownership in such a way that he kept control. It's still not clear what deals were made to actually get him to go away.

Finally, I expect that Kalanick probably knows where all the bodies are buried. So, he probably knows even more shady things that were going on than have been exposed. So, he has leverage.
It is not always a manager's motivation to get you promoted. Sometimes their motivation is to keep you where you are.
Good, science needs more of this. A negative result is a result, and if you don't publish it, then you end up skewing the distribution of results. Which can lead to people (and meta studies) drawing incorrect conclusions.
You might reconsider when the pandemic is actually over and more people start carrying this mindset that will increase traffic.

But that is besides the point, what you personally feel doesn’t really matter. Your previous comment is still incredibly dishonest. Functioning frequent and convenient mass transit system is enabling for far more people then personal transports. Even during a pandemic there are ways to mitigate the risk of spreading the virus. And even if not, a pandemic is a temporary situation, and after it is over the infrastructure is still there to enable much more people to transport them self, in varying physical conditions, without sacrificing the working conditions and benefits of the transportation workers.
On some level I agree ... but I can't in all honesty get behind this statement 100%.

I assume the GP was just abbreviating a more complex phrase that it's easy to guess, isn't it?
I tend to agree with this, I've always thought ridesharing was rather beautiful in terms of economic efficiency: pair those with extra money but who don't want to drive at that moment with those with extra time who want money. As long as there is adequate education about the all-in costs of car ownership I am all on board. And at scale it reduces traffic (or at least amount of cars in an area).
This feels like the inverse to me. Every traditional industry has gotten an exception carved out for itself in the law, this is basically just discriminate targeting of Uber and Lyft.
>While you think you're giving full-time employment and benefits to all of these people what you're really doing is taking certain kinds of opportunities away.

This is some of the most phenomenal bullshit I've ever read.

There's nothing stopping Uber and Lyft from allowing people to work their own hours and also giving them benefits if they meet hourly qualifications.

You're talking about people making <$30k a year while shouldering most of the risk and using their own cars as if they're shopping around for the best FAANG salary.
Yeah, except that when you pick a company to invest in you are not just picking randomly. Just because most companies perform poorly, says nothing about the ability to single out high performing companies. This advise is completely flawed. Of course if you don't want to spend time on picking the right companies to invest in, an index will likely be a better and safer choice. But with an index, your gains will always be excessively capped. It's trading gains for effort spend. Not even risk. If there is a crash, indices will go down as well. By picking your companies wisely, you can run circles around any index.
> Always connected to the cloud via 3G network

> High frequency data logging for enhanced

> support and fleet learning

When will manufacturers finally learn that these are NOT pros, they are very serious cons‽‽‽

I do not want my data sold, and unless you plan to pay me a rate I set, my data is not an asset you can use in developing your business.