skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically, use functions but limit your use of closures? As in define your functions to be dependent only on parameters and not surrounding scope (even if the surrounding scope is immutable/pure)? If that’s the lesson, I’m all for it, with the exception of fully local closures that are used more for expressiveness than standalone functionality.
I interned at Sony in Tokyo one summer. I was hugely surprised that nobody had heard of all the animes and cultural icons that I thought were household names — Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, etc etc.

There’s a huge bias in the US towards taking niche cultural phenomena in Japan and putting them on a pedestal.
Chicago, San Francisco. Even la has a decent bus system.
Covid relief bill to make illegal streaming a felony up to 10 yr prison sentence
True. But the only problem is when moderators hold too much power, like in the case of most subs in Reddit.
“JSON supports strings, therefore JSON supports comments”
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If you were on that tour, what you were probably seeing was the spinning mirror furnaces where they get their glass (in jagged chunks by the way!) directly from a Schott or Asahi, and I don't believe Nikon for example would have any middleman role there.
I love the idea.

Can you write up a contributing guide so we can contribute word packs? It would also be useful to categorise such word packs by language (there's no reason this can't be used for Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, etc.).

EDIT: languages like Chinese and Japanese might be tricky because we don't use spaces to denote word boundaries. The word boundaries are implicit. So the word selection/highlighting might be a bit funky.
The electro is not that simple, but yeah the result is awesome
Thanks! At work, I'm preparing to develop an internal product. Reading your response helps me think about how I can pitch it and maximize adoption.
Any justification for that?

IME, the point free style is aesthetic.
4th this recommendation -- I highly recommend April Dunford's "Obviously Awesome".
Canonical Folders: Organize files with a prefixed single digit
> Not only is the premise of the tenuous analogy likely completely wrong (the preponderance of evidence suggests eating “mostly plants” is, in fact, anywhere from bad to terrible for you...

Where did you get that information, foster farms? Or are you defining "mostly plants" to be a diet that consists solely of green skittles?
Taskbar Groups – Create and pin groups to the Windows taskbar and desktop
Natural deletions in the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein drive antibody escape
> I've seen people take time to go through your profile and dig out one comment and then label you, just one. That feels like a disgrace.

Eh, depends on the comment. I recently saw a particularly erroneous comment about COVID-19, so I checked the poster's comment history to see whether it was worth trying to engage them in good faith, or just post a dry correction for others to see. I then saw this comment posted earlier that day:

> I don’t know if it’s blacks in general that are just retarded or if it’s balcks coupled with the history of slavery that makes them so useless and violent, either way I think this country would be VASTLY better off without them.

...I think it's pretty fair to label them based off of that one comment. For content that abhorrent, any number of occurrences above zero is enough to tell what kind of person a user is.
> Functional programming originates in mathematics, which is also very human... but as complexity grows, it's not as human as you'd like it to be. A lot of humans struggle with complicated functional programming code, which is why it is not as popular.

I agree, but I wouldn't say people struggle with "functional programming code", they rather struggle with the concept in general. In that sense, functional programming is like higher mathematics: it's a great tool to solve many problems in a very efficient way, but it's also difficult to learn and everyone of us reaches a level where they can't advance anymore at some point. Some sooner and some later.
Its not that free speech platforms are destined to fail, its anonymity. You're not responsible for your words. That's why these fail.

Notice I use my real name here on this website. Not a pseudonym. Whatever I say here, I would say to you in front of your face. Same as I do on Facebook and Twitter and Reddit and the other areas I post. I've always used my real name. I'll always use my real name.

We don't require anyone to take responsibility for what they say, so they say anything they want. Combine with this an entire zeitgeist of people who feel disconnected and alone, and its a recipe for attention-seeking behavior.

And on the converse, sometimes its taken too far, with people losing their jobs for things that clearly meant in jest (Justine Sacco) or for clumsily worded communication. Call-out culture needs to die. SJW culture needs to die. One-up culture needs to die. We have to start giving people the benefit of the doubt.
One of the new, quick-build factories making the Moderna vaccine
So if you hire a plumber to fix your sink, you have to pay them with all of your life savings? Else, you'd have profits left over, right?
Voat definitely has moderation, CP and other illegal content is kept off of the platform; but both 4chan and voat can be largely hateful places with threats of violence thrown around. 4chan somehow has funding (it has ads and a paid subscription option but iirc there's also angel investors funding it) so it's going to stay up for the foreseeable future. Unless voat can start a patreon or something of the sorts (maybe chargebee), it's going to be turned off.
I am a junior developer too. Questions like this are better suited to your manager. Mine gives me constructive feedback at regular intervals, and I also reflect on my own work and look at other people's work.
tl;dr:

One of the mutations in the highly virulent B117 strain is the 21765-21770 deletion (ΔHV 69-70) in the virus spike. Such deletions allow SARS-CoV2 to escape detection by neutralizing antibodies.

Full abstract:

Zoonotic pandemics follow the spillover of animal viruses into highly susceptible human populations. Often, pandemics wane, becoming endemic pathogens. Sustained circulation requires evasion of protective immunity elicited by previous infections. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has initiated a global pandemic. Since coronaviruses have a lower substitution rate than other RNA viruses this gave hope that spike glycoprotein is an antigenically stable vaccine target. However, we describe an evolutionary pattern of recurrent deletions at four antigenic sites in the spike glycoprotein. Deletions abolish binding of a reported neutralizing antibody. Circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants are continually
exploring genetic and antigenic space via deletion in individual patients and at global scales. In viruses where substitutions are relatively infrequent, deletions represent a mechanism to drive rapid evolution, potentially promoting antigenic drift.
How niche was Rurouni Kenshin I wonder (pre the artist’s arrest of course)
This sounds good until you realize that we're dealing with literal-not-figurative fascists here. The world has figured out how to deal with a Nazi. I've linked this elsewhere in the thread, but it is worth understanding the lessons of this story deeply: https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/128089153745134387...

Say you're something anodyne, like /r/RomanHistory or something (I don't know if that's real). For obvious reasons, that is a topic that Western fascists really like; they're gonna come by, even if their "fascist hat" isn't on right that second. But that train's never late, that fascist hat goes on eventually. And the first fascist might be polite. So might his friends. And maybe you see a few off-color jokes that maybe you, as a slightly-but-not-heavily-invested mod, slap down--but those jokes are the way that they start to find each other. And meanwhile, as things grow? What often happens is that one of their more buttoned-up types ends up on your moderation team, because hey, they're Respected By The Community (and this happens in person, too, when it comes to groups and political entities; this is a very common foot-in-the-door tactic). And then it just grows from there. Maybe you've got the spine to "ruin everything" by kicking them out at this point, by cutting out the rot, but that's going to hurt and hmm, maybe it's best to just go along and get along, especially because any time you try to act against it, you've got those folks who pipe up about how Nazis should have freedom of speech too, even if you don't like their ideas...

...and now you have a fascist community.

"Strong moderation"--the bartender in that story telling the first fascist to get the hell out--is not something that can be even remotely taken for granted. You must insulate your systems against fascism because it is a hack of the system. The instinctual emotional attack it employs on a liberal order requires so much more work to stop than it does to continue that anywhere it can take root, it can strangle everything else. This is real, and this is what those coded "free speech ideals" are being weaponized to protect while it grows.
Did he really?
Well recent high end rice cooker design has trended towards black square designs like this $500 Hitachi https://www.amazon.co.jp/日立-圧力スチームIHジャー炊飯器（5-5合炊き）-フロストブラックH... but in general there are lots of ugly plastic objects in Japan. I think the design elements we appreciate in the West is a subset filtered through tastemakers who brought it over.
Given the amount of money that can flow to people who find even fleeting fame via GoFundMe and similar sites, I'm no so sure that segment of society is wrong.
This is one of those thread we could come back in 2024 or 2025 when Apple wont be releasing a self driving Car.
>Voat is proof that we are not yet deserving of free speech

It's not the we the people are not deserving of free speech, it's the idea the right to 'free speech' supersedes other rights and should go unchecked at the expense of others that undermines the concept for so many. Besides, it wasn't free speech or lack thereof that's causing Voat to fold. Apparently no one wanted to pay to hear what they had to say. Everyone has a right to free speech but everyone else has an equal right not to listen to it if they don't want to.
Probably MOND is a "good enough first approximation" to the whole story, which might come out later, and include more terms. I think it's interesting some people are doing the complex (to me, anyway) maths from a theory point of view to find ways to get it to spit out MOND. I have almost zero understanding of all this, but none of the theories I read seem physically insightful. They say MOND a_0 constant is close to cH_0, but not exact. I wonder if some of the difference (if that is significant) could be c altering.
I can't even view comments without downloading the app.

All NSFW posts are behind a app wall ("use anonymous mode in app to view porn"). They know it will get people to download the app.

All subreddits are behind an app wall.

All live streams too, but since I don't care about them, I ain't complaining.
Ask HN: How well did we archive the internet for future generations?
When I watch human history docs covering the past millennium I often find myself wishing some people had documented general daily life (as opposed to the "big" events) in more detail. Those seemingly mundane details are just more interesting to me. A lot of things are said about the permanence of things we post to the internet. However, I wonder if we actually forget to remember the early decades of the true internet? I'm not talking about a few random web pages, I'm talking about recording say 10% swaths of each of the 10%-sequentially least-to-most visited websites by year (or something similar). It'd be a shame if we did not save anything for future signal archaeologists to analyze.
My take is that bad programmers represent information as data as an afterthought.
Why is this setup better than using React Native? I believe RN spits out not just Android/iOS but also desktop Windows/Mac app code.
As a general rule, people are people the world over, and differences between cultures are often overstated.
And did that happen after or before the media outcry?
I really wish Tulane had enforced that on the two starting assistant profs I tried to work for before they took their NSF CAREER awards and ran as far away from New Orleans as their legs could take them. You were in biomedical research or math?
This was why jg bought DeepMind. Presumably they hoped lightning would strike twice.
Teddy helped me get modest.com back from paypal after our acquisition for about 10% of their original asking price.
Inventing a Language with First Principles
Yes by eliminating state you eliminate the possibility for a function to depend on state. When a function does not depend on state or anything it can be moved, reused and reorganized anywhere thus eliminating technical debt that comes from organizational issues. In other words, all functions in the point free style must be combinators because the point free style eliminates state as much as possible.

It's a forcing function to make your logic all combinators and not dependent on free variables.

Though I do agree with one replier. It does harm readability so now I'm thinking it may not be the best recommendation. Using combinators without the point free style is enough to actually fix the technical debt I'm talking about.
The M1 has a completely proprietary GPU. For an intents and purposes the M1 is proprietary.
Latest release - https://github.com/tjackenpacken/taskbar-groups/releases/dow...
I’m not greatly enthused by Reacts new focus on server side components.

I’ve never built server side and never intend to. I really like it that a react app is a static app.
Neither is cleaning up graffiti or opening coffee shops.
Gentrification is a second-order effect of 'cleaning up' a community.
Great! I wish these old devices are dead after three years.
Interviewing at a FAANG in the Midst of Covid
JFC that entire comment section is about blaming the Jews and using some pretty fucking horrific slurs to do it.

Let that trash pile burn. Fuck those guys and anyone who would give pieces of shit like that a platform to spread their hatred into the world.
No. Not at all. I don't exactly live somewhere good and I don't know anyone who's been held up.

Like a lot of things on HN, it might be a SV thing that I'm simply unaware of.
see: archive.org
This article is from a personal blog on a website with a URL $someguysname.ninja.

Maybe you should be the one to write the article you seek! Believe in yourself. If you find yourself with steadfast values that you find tedious to repeatedly communicate, but that you thinks others ought to know about, why not write them down? Who knows - if it's good and resonates with others, is sounds advice, etc. one day it may end up on HN too.

Not everything worth doing has already been done before!
Ask HN: Where might Google be now if it didn't IPO?
I have no data to back this up besides trends I've happened to notice personally, but it seems that private companies with an established market and solid plan still aim for an IPO. Why is that? It seems to only abstract away the initial mission of the company to a board of directors who may not share the same goals, and lead the company towards a slow death as investors have their turn at trying to make what they can from it in the short term. Would a company like Google actually be better off now if it hadn't IPO'd and was still following it's mission?
I agree with the sentiment. A pure function with one or two parameters is going to attract a lot less scrutiny than a whole module with multiple classes.
Peloton to acquire fitness equipment maker Precor for $420M
Joke's on them, I was only acting dumb!

Seriously, you putting a bullet point with no explanation, and got an equally terse rebuttal. You didn't "win" that.
Variation Threat in Advanced Nodes, Packages Grows
Moderators on Reddit hold very little power. Unlike almost every other messageboard in existence, they can do absolutely nothing to stop you from creating a competing community on the exact same website, leveraging the existing userbase.

The only tools are standard moderator ones: content deletion, stickying, and a banhammer. There's not many sites where moderators have less power.
More likely that more trips means more lighting. Municipalities don't tend to spend the bucks lighting places with low traffic.
I was able to see small subreddits without the app. I was thinking whether they are blocking only the bigger subreddits.
Did you read any of the article? Trump isn't mentioned at all, nearly the entire article is about Obama and his administration's misuse of the Act.
> There are costs to calculated Utilitarianism. The damage to public confidence in vaccines springs to mind. If a vaccine is provably killing 1% of those receiving it, yet saving the lives of 2% (and more once herd immunity is reached) it may raise some alarmist criticism (to say the least) over the safety and advisability of getting vaccinated. Making it harder to convince the public to get vaccinated at all.

If that can already be calculated, calculated utilitarianism could take it into account.
> assuming that my use of a website would have no consequences like doxxing that could get back to the rest of my life

This is a brave assumption.
Depending on where you are and what type, bamboo is a very aggressive invasive plant. Finding a use for it is certainly good to help get rid of it.

It grows quickly and is very hardy, which is why, for example, in Hong Kong it is used for scaffolding in place of steel. It's light (which speeds up putting together and taking down scaffolding), sustainable and recyclable.

https://www.goldthread2.com/culture/bamboo-scaffolding-why-d...
You're mixing up your concepts here: orphaned drugs are those that would not be profitable to produce without a subsidy. The drugs Shkreli acquired were profitable and still produced, but out of patent (so they were cheap) and without an approved generic version (so there was no existing competition).

Legally, it was above board, and financially, it was sensible regulatory arbitrage. Morally, though, it was reprehensible.
Keep it simple, use boring technology, everything is a tradeoff, right tool for the job.

Great, now get set for 30 years of arguing whose choice is "simple", whose preferred technology is the boring one, which is the correct balance to strike in a given tradeoff, etc etc etc.
I don't think much of the old internet is archived on the Internet Archive. But many pages on the modern web have a snapshot in the Wayback Machine.

If the Internet Archive shuts down, we'll lost the best thing on the internet.

If you can, please donate. They have a have a 2-to-1 Matching Gift Campaign going on.

https://archive.org/donate
Same. It was so on-the-nose I wasn't entirely convinced that everything I was reading was authentic. Obviously that type of person exists but some of the conversations seemed performative.
Assuming you meant pharmaceuticals instead of philanthropy, this comment is right on point. Skreli has got to be one of the most effective activists against bullshit drug policy, in terms of raising awareness (while admittedly causing some relatively minor problems in the meantime). People seem to be misguided by their jealousy in that he was able to do this while making a lot of money, but they fail to consider that this is exactly why he was so persuasive.
Philippines poised to lift age of consent for sex from 12 to 16
There's plenty of people here in the US who don't know about those either. While Anime is much more widely popular now in the US than it was even 10 years ago it's still a niche for sure and within that I still have to tell people what FLCL is, not so much the others though.

My point being is it is still a subculture idolizing another subculture. I don't think you can say that is a US wide issue.
There is a pretty detailed wiki if you want to work deeper with openstreetmap. It often has examples of how to tag different features. The entry for Lit [1] does not quite say it but it references the street_lamp [2] entry. There it mentions street_lamp should be on a point of the location of the light source and to tag Lit on the surface that is iluminated. So I have been doing Lit on all roads that is lit up by the street lights.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lit

[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dstreet_lam...
AI Technology Will Be Able to Snitch on Bad Scooter Riding
It depends on where and how you want to use the language.
I find it interesting that React ignores this advice about pure functions.

From the react docs

import React, { useState } from 'react';

function Example() {
// Declare a new state variable, which we'll call "count"
const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

return (
<div>
<p>You clicked {count} times</p>
<button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>
Click me
</button>
</div>
);
}

It's clear "Example" will be called every time it's rendered yet "useState" is NOT "pure". Some magic state is being kept because the first time it's called "count" will be initialized to 0 but after that it won't. Same arguments, different results = not "pure"
Innolitics Open On-Boarding Lessons
Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill
They block based on the country you are from. If I use a UK/US VPN, I don't get the download app banner. But when I browse without a VPN (Indian IP), I get so many popups asking me to download the app.
In Facebook Ad Manager it is similarly hard to perform any task without having your day ruined.
> Chasing a #1 keyword ranking puts food on people’s tables

Totally agree with you about this.

> There will need to be a bigger driving force to get amp out of popularity

Oddly enough the bigger driving force will almost certainly be the internal politics of Google causing it be shoved on the pile of "things we used to think were important" out the back of the Googleplex.
It's amazing how quickly the internet has indeed become srs bsns, and grown men and women are angrily typing at teenagers and each other completely unaware of the farceness of it all.
Old.reddit.com still exists, and is a lot more usable.

Ed: to be clear, I use it logged in. I don't know how dark-patterny it is when logged out.
hah! i was wondering why their site had been down all the time it was on the frontpage.
Only visited Tokyo briefly, but I found everything remotely odd the result of (1) history, or (2) having to find a way to live harmoniously around that many other people (and they with you).

In general, it felt pretty normal.
Toyota shipped more than 500k Camrys by middle of Feb this year. 500k is a joke to the real auto manufacturers.
Perhaps...

I've also read it cyclic, with the pendulum swinging from very conservative to very liberal every couple of generations ?
Yes, I read the article. Clearly, you've missed the title that obviously seems to imply that the "fascist" Trump regime is behind the push to target Poitras.

Thanks for being condescending, it really added to the substantive productive discourse I come to HN for ;)
From what I understand, keeping a useful amount of qubits in coherence isnt guaranteed. Would love someone who knows more to chime in
"Oh my god, how can a woman fall in love with a guy I hate?" - this whole article basically.
The one caveat is that I want to easily be able to find out what fuel() is doing. Preferably nothing like car.getService('engine').run('fueling'). Code navigation is very important, preferably doable via ctrl+f since that makes review easier. Most people just use the browser tools for reviewing code and don't actually pull the branch into their IDE.