skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good games are pretty good at discoverability like this. I remember playing GTA IV or V and if I hadn't been using some skill, it surfaces tips. Apple has to be slightly more careful because it can't just spam you with "Double-tap to Apple Pay," but recognizing that you just used Apple Pay, but you unlocked you phone and did it from Wallet might mean there's a new skill they can show you.
Pure functions are functions where the return value only depends on the function arguments. If the function arguments are not known at compile time, obviously you can't evaluate it at compile time. It would only be possible to do that when all the arguments are also known at compile time (constants).
"GitHub does not preclude you from using git for what it’s intended to be", yet.
Never trust MS, FB, Amazon, etc.
Sooner or later they lock you in or kill the service you rely on.
yes but this is isnt actually about disaster response, it's about politics and governing, which unfortunately means its emotional and not logical.
If GitHub goes down, you can still use a different remote; however, you lose issues,
PRs, and code review.

If your remote goes down but you have an email based workflow, you can continue as if
nothing happened. One could argue that your mail server might go down, but it’s
better than having your centralized GitHub-like forge go down for two reasons:

1. If not all contributors use the same mail server, it’s much less of an issue
since not everyone goes offline at the same time. Additionally, your maildir
doesn’t care whether or not you’re online; both the git repo and all mailing
lists have offline copies distributed to all collaborators out-of-the-box by
default.

2. GitHub’s reliability is significantly poorer than the vast majority of email
providers. The great thing about decentralization is that getting good uptime on
a small mail server for under 1000 users is much easier than getting good uptime
on a centralized forge re-implementing email’s features for millions of users.
TSLA should buy it. /s
> How does the old saying go? "Those who are willing to trade a little bit of their freedom for security -- deserve neither" ?

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~Benjamin Franklin

Interestingly, he was addressing the Pennsylvania legislature regarding a proposal from the Penn family: they were willing to hire mercenaries to protect the colonial frontier in exchange for a binding agreement that the legislature recognized their immunity to taxation. Franklin was arguing that was a foolish deal to take; on the Penn side, they could rescind it at any time, while if the colony just taxed the Penns, they could hire their own mercenaries.

The "liberty" he is referring to is the colonial governnent's freedom to exercise its power to levy tax and deal with existential threats to its people as it saw fit, as per its constitutional authority. In modern times, we could translate this saying to, for example, a government using tax money to pay people to stay home so they can avoid spreading a deadly disease.
Better than an interstellar microwave weapon
Apple's floating, spherical store in Singapore
actual guesses:

W Bush, Also W Bush, Obama, and...Clinton?

Pretty close on the last one. It was the end of HW Bush's term in '92.
> One demographic I would expect traditional mouse usage from would be gamers.

Why would you expect that? What concrete advantage does a mouse have over a trackpad for gaming that doesn't translate to regular use?
I'm not saying the people with the trick question are accurate, I'm just saying that's the way I've ever heard it.
You misunderstand the concern. The US government is concerned about national security interests, not personal privacy interests. You may also note [0] that Facebook (and Twitter, and YouTube) has been the subject of similar concerns by the US government.

[0]: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/congress-targets-so...

> They think china is in every corner trying to steal their data

Because they factually are. But as some people misunderstand, they're not interested in your grandma's recipes or your mom's credit card number -- they're amassing data that is a gold mine for targeted military intelligence operations.

https://www.wired.com/story/china-equifax-anthem-marriott-op...
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Rust has no notion of purity. This would require something like an effect system.

const functions can't directly do any IO or even allocation - at the moment.

But this can be easily circumvented, eg by using a proc macro that does IO.

Sidenote: even in Haskell the function signature doesn't guarantee purity, due to unsafePerformIO.
They have a warrant canary.
Sorry, $100/year just feels too high. It's about the same price as a Photoshop subscription.

Correction: Previously I got some numbers mixed up, and I said it's almost twice the price.
This echoes my experience with learning Rust over the past few weeks (coming from Elixir).

There is a lot to like, understand lifetimes conceptually, but it's hard.
I don't know about that. Katrina was in the news for a long time, as a bunch of people were in the Superdome. Then there was news coverage of people trying to recover and rebuild. Katrina is still in the public consciousness, even today. (I mean, so is 9/11. My point is, I think the claim "one is carried on a news cycle for a longer period of time" is wrong.)
There was an MMO game called "Kingdom of Loathing" I played back in 2006.

The right way to get more money in the game is to improve your skills/equipment and gain access to the higher level areas that have bigger monsters/better loot. (hard work)

What we did instead was manually create hundreds of new accounts, complete the tutorial level and then send the tutorial prize to the main account for selling on the open market (long work).

Eventually I figured out how to create an "autoit" script that automated the process of creating a new account, completing the tutorial, and then sending the goods over to the main account. The main account was getting very wealthy, but I should have known I needed to launder the ill-gotten gains somehow because an admin (Multi Czar) eventually caught on and all the accounts (including the main one) got banned.
> No normal adult with a job, maybe a family, maybe a pet, and a million other things to do has time for this. They are either children, or bitter social and emotional pariahs.

This might be a comforting thought for you, but it is just not true.
FedEx contracts out a lot of last mile delivery for non-guaranteed packages to USPS. It's possible the rep was referring to that on the phone. I too have noticed USPS delivery notifications to be completely worthless for the same reasons.
Sigh! --another company which makes a thing of being European, but then uses US English throughout their interface and website.

I'll pass.
What's wrong with Material Design? By default, I think it shows scrollbars…
>the borrow checker, I do conceptually understand lifetimes, but actually using them is tricky.

I've been using Rust for a little over year, almost daily at work, and for several projects. I have a pretty good intuition about how the borrow checker works and what needs to be done to appease it. That said, I don't think I'm any closer to understanding lifetimes. I know conceptually how they are supposed to work (I need the reference to X to last as long as Y), but anytime I think I have a situation that could be made better with lifetimes, I can't seem to get the compiler to understand what I'm trying to do. On top of that very little of my code, and the code I read actually uses lifetimes.
From TheWrap:

>But the proposed deal is being complicated by a split between ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming and General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, two U.S.-based ByteDance investors with long ties to the Trump administration and Republican causes who both would like to see the sale happen. They approached Ellison to buy TikTok and have reached out to the White House to close the deal, according to two individuals with knowledge of the matter.

>However, Zhang is resisting any sale, the two individuals said, and did not inform his investors before suing the White House on Monday to block any sale. The insiders said Zhang is being advised by Silicon Valley billionaire Yuri Milner, another early investor in Zhang’s company.

Apparently Zhang thinks he can still save his company. Maybe the $45 billion will help change his mind.

https://www.thewrap.com/oracle-nears-20-billion-tiktok-deal-...
"What is the price of Ginger Beer?"

It couldn't translate that into SQL.

"What is the price in dollars of Ginger Beer?"

> SELECT Catalog_Contents.price_in_dollars FROM Catalog_Contents WHERE Catalog_Contents.price_in_dollars = "Ginger Beer"

Nope.

"What is the price in dollars of catalog entry name Ginger Beer?"

> SELECT Catalog_Contents.price_in_dollars FROM Catalog_Contents WHERE Catalog_Contents.catalog_entry_name = "Ginger Beer"

Cool! You have to be more specific than I was hoping, but this is still pretty neat.
Hi - Argo Tunnel creates AAAA records, but will still return IPv4 addresses. Tunnels with those records will still work on IPv4-only networks.

Can you test by running
`dig +short foo.app.com`

and confirm that you get IPv4 records? It is potentially another issue with the site or Cloudflare's Happy Eyeballs feature at play; happy to help debug that as well.
> Email archives are even harder to transfer

Mailing lists are trivial to distribute. Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list just as they have a full copy of the repository.
`const fn` improvements are amazing!

I can't wait for when we'll be able to `const fn` all the things. Regex, expensive constants that feel as though they should be literals, etc.
IMAP allows you to have multiple synchronized copies of the entire mailbox. And you can depend on multiple email servers (and IDs) if the mail server is unreliable. Email has fewer single point failures. Git may help you backup code against failure of Github/lab. But it doesn't prevent you from losing ability of issue PRs or accessing issue trackers.
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I feel like choosing a name so close to "hell no" was a slight marketing failure.
IANAL. Not sure about that. IDFA is essentially a tracking cookie.

First of all under GDPR, tracking can be for a legitimate interest, and thus it might not require opt-in. For example security, or even first-party analytics, with the purpose of optimizing the content, can be legitimate interests. However this cookie is meant for advertising, and user profiling for marketing purposes doesn't pass the test for legitimate interest.

The other problem, for Apple, might be the revised E-Privacy Directive. You can't set such tracking cookies without informing users. Such cookies must be opt-in, whether you use them or not.

AFAIK Apple is simply complying with the law, whereas Facebook is effectively arguing for unlawful tracking, because that's just who they are.
> if there's another hearing.

Oh, no, another hearing. I am sure he is very afraid of another strongly worded letter after that one.

We constantly see executives and officials lie at those hearings, yet they face no repercussions whatsoever.
yes, all of the embarrassing/horrendous things the current admin is doing/has done...certainly embarrass them to a majority of the population. They really should be ashamed, but of course they aren't.
Hope we'll become an established/trusted brand over time!

I actually see the price as being the other way around from what you're describing: perhaps compare to the Tesla Roadster.

Start with a premium product to fund your fledgling business, people who really believe in the mission (and have the cash for it) can support it. Then over time, you get economies of scale and can lower the price to reach a wider audience.

We're incredibly thankful to our early customers for helping us fund this business without needing to rely on big VC funding. They're backing us because they believe in better software.
Right, so then he's proposing that this streaming service is enabling derivative services by not only managing the API for the streaming service but also by running their own public cloud which issues micro-charges for compute cycles. That seems even more pie-in-the-sky.
You could plug it into a USB cable with a built in switch which disconnects power/data.
Does USPS publish transit metrics directly? If not, they should.
> As a European I find this whole story very confusing. A president that can just force a specific company on very short notice to shut down operation, is very concerning.

What country do you live where this is not true?
The UIs of the OSes designed in the 640x480 era used 8pt system fonts, and were very careful about "spending" vertical space. The UIs of the OSes of today are not optimized for the same scenarios.

Here's what Windows XP (not even really from the 640x480 era!) looks like on a modern display: https://ibb.co/W5mVgHT

You could fit a lot of Windows XP, and XP-era apps, on a 1366x768 display. You can't fit much of a modern OS+apps on one.

(That's honestly for the best; text and icons in modern OSes are both a lot more legible due to the increased fidelity and breathing room they have. But display resolutions have to keep up; and, at least for low-end PCs, they aren't.)
While neat, this seems like an even more protracted version of the Scunthorpe problem just waiting to happen. We already know mass-automation of morals is problematic (see YouTube, Twitter, Facebook et al's attempts).

This stuff is deplorable, but for now it requires human eyeballs and judgement. Perhaps allow for more granularity on repo visibility and interactivity beyond public/private.
I would love a device like this that I could load with my own software. Any suggestions? Other than building one myself? P:
Amazon ?
"What is the price in dollars of catalog entry name Ginger Beer?"

OK - but that's not "natural language".
> Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list.

No, that only covers emails that you personally received. You need another mechanism for older emails.
there are two other salient differences between hard work and long work - hard work when the person is skillful enough to do it is energizing, long work is always draining.
I have this complaint about iOS all the time that often the "clean look" in iOS leads to grids that exactly match the available viewport and without scrollbars you have no idea if there is more to scroll without idly swiping things around.

I notice that becomes something of a tic of iOS users, if you watch others, in that just about every new screen or panel there's often at least a squiggle of pushing the screen or panel around just to figure out the boundaries.

One of the things I thought was brilliant about early Windows 8-era "metro" design: it was the only era Windows briefly experimented with going scrollbar free (it went back to scrollbar "light" soon after) and when they did so they absolutely made sure that the application grids never lined up with viewport. If there was something to scroll, it would stick out a bit, always that little hint that there was something more further down or right.

It got some flak, especially from macOS design fans, for not being "clean enough", but you'd have apps with no visible scrollbar and you knew whether or not there was anything to scroll just looking at them. You didn't have to squiggle your finger around (or fiddle with the scroll wheel) to check.
> Tone: The globally accepted definition of health includes not just physical but also social and emotional well-being. The innovative Tone feature uses machine learning to analyze energy and positivity in a customer’s voice so they can better understand how they may sound to others, helping improve their communication and relationships. For example, Tone results may reveal that a difficult work call leads to less positivity in communication with a customer’s family, an indication of the impact of stress on emotional well-being.

Reminds me of Radiohead's "fitter, happier, more productive self".

~Mindset tracking is pretty sensitive data, and to pay for the privilege to give something so personal away feels less than optimal. I would feel better about it I guess if there were a guarantee that no one would ever receive my data, ever, after Amazon, but even then...
`overflow: scroll` shows the scrollbars always, and should just about never be used. >99.99% of the time, you want `overflow: auto` instead, which only shows scrollbars if they will do anything.
> merely because the tools are primitive and unpolished

Sorry, but I believe this is the evidence that it's the abstractions behind these tools being primitive and these tools can't be polished, putting more efforts on an impossible task does not help.

OT but I guess after Black Lives Matter we should have Noob Lives Matter.
Is it generally illegal to send unsolicited ads over physical mail?

I mean, “hacking a printer” is surely illegal, so what if you sent a “Free Weekly Security Newsletter“ with some news headlines and the footer saying “To unsubscribe, secure your printer” for couple weeks?
I don't think paying more for hardware significantly changes the problem that was brought up.
How big companies in Africa have used growth hacking to benefit customers
Same thing happened to me. It was a pretty expensive laptop too. Went from a day we were set to be home, to the next day when nobody was home but we couldn't change how it was being delivered because "it was already delivered" despite it not showing up and them admitting the same thing as above.
It’s not subscription fatigue, it’s poor value.

I mean it costs the same as a Netflix subscription, or alternatively 2 triple-A games. I get that you have set the price you think you need to sustain a team, but I really don’t get the value proposition to the customer and not sure this is thought through.
Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M
I believe that coldcode is pushing back on Retric's statement that hurricanes rarely kill people in the US. But, OK, coldcode found a counterexample. That doesn't make "rarely" untrue, no matter how much we all remember the counterexample.
We see you're feeling down citizen, here's some targeted advertising so you can spend your money with us citizen. It's for your good, citizen.

The question is, how much is Amazon paying me for my data? Oh, nothing? Yeah, nope.
Microsoft wants the Azure business and was willing to purchase a percentage of TikTok to get it. My understanding is they are less interested in owning all of TikTok so partnering with Walmart who has been trying to increase their ad business over the last year makes sense.
You're able to judge the fairness of the price without having tried the product?

We have quite a few paying customers, and I think they'd say it's worth it because it helps them think and be creative in a way that no other tool does.

But obviously that's a decision that's up to each person, and we offer a free tier so you can find out for yourself.

Happily we're a small team, so we only need a few thousand customers at this price to make it sustainable.
DeJoy did recently concede that the USPS will give ballots absolute priority over other mail, so in theory, it will be everything else that gets delayed.

Previously DeJoy had threatened that states which don't pay for first class postage would be delivered slower.
Interesting that this device requires a monthly subscription fee. I'm very curious to see what level of success this achieves. Being able to track body fat percentage more accurately than smart scales seems like an amazing feature. Does any other wearable do this? My guess is the monthly subscription will be a massive barrier for most people, but kudos to Amazon for trying something different.
Any reason why should i buy it instead of iPad Pro 2020 or recently announced Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 plus ?
An interesting history note: Rust used to have an effects system which included actually being able to annotate a function as pure.
Great project. What kind of machine are you printing these on? I assume an SLA. Is there a specific type of sla that melts out easily for casting?
Okay, I like the direction they went with their device. As in, health tracking devices that feed another device to me are far more interesting that devices with screens and other functionality that always seems to eat battery.

Privacy of course is a concern but they seem to have addressed this but the test will be of course how it really plays out over time.
Desktop Linux and the anti-DRM movement have always been that way and the intersection of both is even worse.
I think they might be in the clear since they sent a "how to fix your printer" guide
Yeah, Disney sued my Dad, a small jewelry store owner, for having a charm, which he purchased from a supplier, that looked too much like Bambi. It was just a little silver deer charm he bought from a wholesale supplier. They sent someone to his store, and sued him over one charm.
It's more that programming with math is hard.

When communicating in mathematics you often assume the reader can understand precisely which mathematical object you're talking by extrapolating from ellipses "...". For example "the naturals are 1,2,3,4,..." or "the evens are 2,4,6,8,..."

Or I might tell you a shift matrix is something that looks like:

[0 1 0 0 0]
[0 0 1 0 0]
[0 0 0 1 0]
[0 0 0 0 1]
[0 0 0 0 0]

And that single example with the suggestive naming should be enough for most people to understand what a shift matrix is for arbitrary size.

But if you want to explain what a shift matrix is to a computer, you must use a formal definition (and to do it idiomatically you need to know esoteric details like that numpy.diagonal takes in an offset parameter so you can do something like https://stackoverflow.com/a/30230801).

It would be nice if we can talk math with a computer in the same intuitive language we use with humans, just give it a few examples and it will generate the the rest and let you double check the formula is correct.

So I see stuff like tf-coder as a great step, not for synthesizing programs we don't know how to solve, but for language translation: between math notation and programming notation.
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Thanks for responding and making your position clear. It seems that your belief that intellectual property should not exist is central to your position. I tend to disagree, but I am sure you have heard the objections.

If you don't believe that intellectual property is legitimate, why isnt it OK to deprive someone of potential income from it in the cases where it is monetized? Does the attempt to monetize it grant some sort of exclusivity?
As usual for things like this one: on one side there will be great benefits from tracking people's health using several metrics, something not possible even just a few years ago.

On the other side, how these giant companies will handle our data, and how this data will be used by, for example, health insurance companies, is the sinister aspect of any innovation in this direction.

It's a good example of "free market" trending to dystopian societies with huge disparities, whereas a good, simple, targeted government intervention (in terms of regulation, etc) could go a long way.
I would like a comparison between this device and a DEXA scan regarding body fat measurement. EX: What is the approximate error margin?
There are all sorts of tools on here: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

None of them using OneNote, I'm afraid, but at least there are APIs and on-device tools that are very usable.