skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
`($x)` could equivalently have been written `\f -> f x`, which would have been a bit clearer.

In general in Haskell if you have an infix operator `OP` then `(OP x)` means the same thing as `\y -> y OP x`. (Additionally in this case you need to know that `$` is defined by `f $ x = f x`.)
Sure. But if the bar to entry is "scientifically proven immunity", then both natural immunity and the one induced by vaccinations are reasonable bars to entry.

You may say "ok, we don't have yet the beurocratic apparatus to accept natural immunity in our protocols and for the time being we're going to focus on vaccinated people, sorry".

You may not say "we want to force you to vaccinate, that's the whole point, duh"

That's a dangerous attitude. It feeds vaccine skeptics or denialists, who use this attitude as a proof that there is as much dogma in the "official scientific community" who are in big pharma's pockets. They are a bunch of nuts, but they are infecting otherwise reasonable people I know all around me.

Let's avoid setting up official policies and discourse tones which effective feed the trolls.
I mean internet has changed very significantly in the last 30 years, or even in the last 5 years.

Personally, I will say it's mature enough when Bitcoin is the world reserve currency (crazy, I know!) and defi fulfills majority if not all of my financial transactions/operations, etc.

I look at ransomware as a positive, finally a forcing function for companies to take security seriously. Energy, it's pushing us towards greener energy sources and there are less energy intensive alternatives being developed.
Hello all, i'm the author of this piece.
I wanted to share some of the mental models i've learned through the years on how to capture and adapt other people's ideas, habits and even personalities in a way that helped me identify my own ways of doing things.
I think the HN community will enjoy this.
- Adrian R
I have a question about calibration, have you tried measuring the CO2 sensor and PM sensor against a known calibrated sensor?

They will always give a useful 'relative change' indication but how does the SenseAir and the Plantower sensors compare with more expensive measurement equipment?
Are these paper millions or is the money in his bank account? How easy is it to cash out crypto?
Figma is crushing Adobe XD, not Adobe. But we will never know the exact reason for the increase in R&D spend - but without the increase in revenue they would not have been able to afford this investment in R&D (R&D is approx 60% of their revenue).

Again it's impossible to define cause and effect, but OP's claim that they are investing less in product after introducing subscriptions is spurious - R&D has dramatically increased almost exactly in line with revenue.
I wager once people have to start going back to work and all the free government money dries up, there will be a run on crypto to realize their gains en-masse, and this will trigger a massive wipe out for many latecomers.

Frankly, cryptocurrency being invented and created was a huge mistake for society at large. I hope the comeuppance isn't super destructive outside of cryptocurrency circles.
It is also important to be extremely arrogant and not know your limitations in the sense of Donald Knuth: Had he known his limitations and the time it will take he would never have started Tex or TAOCP, in his own words.

Non knowing my limitations was essential for me as well. When I was a kid I saw a world full of possibilities and I could do much better than anybody else.

It was not that easy, it was painful and I needed help for getting things done. But if I had not been the arrogant bastard I was I would have never started the things that later finished for pride. I would also had not improved my skills in the way that I did because I had to give what I promised.
If Instant Messaging were a Thing, I'd be happy to use it. But it's not.

IM is twelve things. And they're a different 12 things at different times. And you need to have clients for all of them installed and check all 12 of those clients regularly for messages.

Email, on the other hand, really is a Thing. I can check my mail and be done.

Fix that for IM and I'm there. Or rather, fix that again for IM and convince all the major players not to drop support for the common protocol again and you'll get me back.
Depends on the language/plugin. They seem to prefer their own plugins instead of using LSP and tools given by the language ecosystem and they often end up with vastly incorrect error highlighting and autocomplete. At least this is what I saw in the Scala and Rust plugins (Scala finally got damn good but it took many years).
This is only the case for pump&dump schemes.

In case of a sustained growth of a company (think Apple over the past 20 years) what the shareholders gain comes from the earnings of the company. Apple shareholders have gained trillions in the past years - no one has lost an equivalent amount.
Your freedom ends where mine begins. Walking around with covid effects my freedom to walk around.
As exemplified by the UK, enough people will want to get vaccinated to reach herd immunity. Then you don’t need to care about / oppress those who don’t want to / can’t get vaccinated.
Yes, but in the real world people are makong jsut as much if not more money on comaoniea that they think other people will later invest it, rather than companies that they think are good companies. That makes it little better than crypto.
React list virtualisation in 46 lines using IntersectionObserver
> At least in my country, so far recommendations for vaccinations had been "conservative" to only vaccinate against things that seem especially risky.

Well then good news, COVID-19 is "especially risky".
Elon Musk laisse entendre que Tesla acceptera les paiements en dogecoin
Elon Musk fait allusion à l'acceptation du dogecoin par Tesla
So like all forms of capitalism for 95%+ of under 40s
The ship or the woman?
How the Data Annotation Service Empowers Robot in 2021? –Part1
They just created a new currency. Seems like a pretty standard solution when the previous one becomes hopelessly inflated to the point of uselessness. My parents remember at least 3 different currencies being used throughout their lives.
Yes, this is still tradition among some German students. My 30y old brother has several scars („Schmiss“) from it.
Be of irreplaceable (or hard to replace) value, have leverage.
I’m not sure what your point is. Are you talking about a small fraction of stocks that pay dividends? Because otherwise the stock market is completely based on this: money changing hands.
Absolutely this. I'm nowhere near 16 anymore but if my first encounter with Arduino involved setting up PlatformIO or even CLI tools I would've moved on very quickly to something else. The whole point of Arduino is to be as beginner (and lazy people) friendly as possible.
Telegram is not end to end encrypted, and thus is not really "secure" in the sense that we mean when we say "secure messenger".
> This is all there is to it.

Then you very obviously never actually learned about the topic.

To the people downvoting this:

* smart contracts

* decentralized exchanges

* decentralized finance (lending, investing, etc)

* instant borderless value transfer

All of it trustless, permissionless, uncensorable, resilient, not controlled by a centralized entity, mathematically provable.

But keep telling yourself it has no value because you failed to invest.
I was thinking, that this is my limited world view. Thanks for sharing your. Albeit I earned money with crypto designing mining hardware (but not using it for myself).
There's also a version trained on Mapillary Vistas, which has images from all around the world. Results from that are at the bottom of the page and at the end of the video ( https://youtu.be/P1IcaBn3ej0?t=462 )
But isn't there value being created in actual legitimate blockchain projects like Filecoin and Storj (dropbox replacements)? For these slower growing coins, isn't the value coming from the utility of the product?
Title needs updating to add ‘in the US’ on the end.
In 10 years another bunch of 20-30 year olds will join some new attractive 'get rich quick' scheme before they lose anything they got in the following crash if pyramid. Recycle and repaeat.
Good points. But dare you doubt human's destruction ability?..

Note also, that destroying just the thin tender habitable layer of Earth would suffice.
> The primary argument for insect farming is environmental: promoters argue that insects have a smaller resource and carbon footprint than other animals raised for meat.

Insects aren't made of meat, they're mostly chitin and lymph. They don't have muscles or blood vessels, turning them into "meat" is not really possible.
I've been using this technique in production on my app NightCafe Creator[1] for 9+ months with great success, so I decided to turn it into a package.

It's far easier to integrate than the current go-to virtualization options, which often require you to re-architect a lot of how your list works.

1. https://creator.nightcafe.studio
>>I look at ransomware as a positive, finally a forcing function for companies to take security seriously. Energy, it's pushing us towards greener energy sources and there are less energy intensive alternatives being developed.

I keep hearing this "green energy" being pushed harder by proponents of cryptocurrency and I find this rather disingenuous. We are already pushing towards this goal, crypto or not, but unlike a world blissfully free of this long con, green energy will not be appropriately allocated to areas of greater need, like infrastructure, housing, schools, hospitals, etc.

Plus, a true capitalist that wants the maximum value will go for the cheapest and easiest source of electricity. Coal fired and gas via fracking will still be easier to pursue for increased bang for buck. I think you assume the cryptocurrency community has the best interests of everyone else and the planet at heart.

Let's not forget that cryptocurrency miners and stakeholders are not shy from leeching off other countries that may offer subsidized electricity, sometimes even causing blackouts for those that need the electricity the most. Seems very parasitic.

Just my two cents.
This is different, dogecoin is openly a joke, no one is pretending that there’s some fundamental value there.
> Crypto could easily be the largest pyramid scheme in history, I have zero interest in participating even if returns were guaranteed - that's not how I want to make money, I see no value being created in these "investments".

Yes! Exactly!

I have a friend who's doing well from crypto. He bought an NFT for $800 and it's not worth $8,000. Where is the (social) value in that? Except for the social experimentation this is all providing, it's not solving a problem AT ALL!

This is how I feel in a nutshell: if I make $1m today, I want it to be because I solved a hard problem for a lot of people, not because of some meaningless, intangible wishy thinking currency.
> Yep, the rapists got 1 and 2 years for the rape, and the hacker got 2 years for that hack. Clearly shows what the society's priorities are.

That's one way to read it. The other way to read it is "The rapists, being minors, were convicted and sentenced under laws that apply to Juveniles. The vigilante, being an adult, is being tried under laws for adults."

I'm not sure how you would convince society to do away with separate rules for minors. It's very rare for a justice system to decide that a 16 year old should be tried as a 21 year old.
What an extremely typically HN comment.
That's like a mason or an engineer complaining that the bricks are too boring and predictable :)

There's a place for "artistic licence languages" like Ruby or Clojure and I like them for experimenting, but when you want to build a house you want the bricks to be boring.
> the best companies

you mean, those which generate the most ROI ?
Seems like any currency conversion or speculation of any kind is a zero sum game then. But ostensibly if it's spent like any currency it's not zero sum
Thank you for that. I was only vaguely aware of (1) and in retrospect have had an intuition about (2).

I am delighted to be one of today's lucky 10000: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Because in most of the cases you are transiting and no one cares. If you would have said to any of those border guards that you are coming to stay in any of those countries, they would have cared and asked for more things. Saying this as I travelled recently from Germany through 4 countries. In the destination country they asked for test, proof of sickness or vaccine proof.
You get refrigerated trucks, which are already common for food distribution, and essentially a fridge that can store a thousand doses and be re-used as new stock comes in.

It's not a negligible cost but it's far from highly specialized.
I have to agree with the previous poster, quite often citation needed is being used as a passive aggressive form of "countering" an argument (I have to admit to having used it myself). And if, like in this case, the study (which was what the poster claimed existed) comes up as one of the first results in a google search, I find "citation needed" either to be disingenuous or lazy. Just as a test I searched for "SARS-COV-1 immunity" and got quite a few relevant references as first results as well (even though not the exact study mentioned above).

This is HN, so I think we can expect people know how to search google.
We went from office based to 100% remote since March last year. Some people were very against it but changed their minds since. Some people do want to return but the reasons are more related to management and proper target setting than the actual need of being in the office. We even did an employee survey with 20 or so questions about remote vs onsite work and majority don't want to return to office. Still, there was some push to return for some when things improve. Some said they'll simply quit their jobs if asked to return,while I simply said that I don't see a reason to spend 3h on commuting just to sit in the office and email/call my colleagues. My department was left alone. Eventually I agreed to work remotely from a different country for a prolonged period.
A lot of that money also flows to crypto, real estate, etc.
Google changed position because enough employees threatened to quit if they were forced to go back to work. I assure you that Google is not the only company in this position.

By the way, I’ve started asking recruiters on Linkedin if the role they are reaching out to me for is remote. I’m not looking for a job but I bet if enough people start doing that there’ll be a shift :)
I hate pay walls...
The main point about the cookie notice (under GDPR) that is ignored by smaller sites is that you need to first ask for permission, and only then store cookies. In practice, that means you have to get consent to enable Google Analytics (and similar trackers).

That's why any bigger website will have a huge popup that will require you to consent before doing anything else - they need you to consent and then they enable trackers.

Smaller websites just don't care and put a small cookie notice banner stick to the bottom, and enable GA anyway. Most users probably won't even bother to click it, as it's not disruptive. It's therefore not GDPR compliant.
I don't think social security has worked out to be regressive the way he proposes in the robinhood section.

The real returns chart here shows it is progressive between low middle and high earners considering four different scenarios:

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/fact-or-fiction-social-security-r...
It also made a lot of people richer.

> President freezes prices and/or bank accounts

People who saw this coming and withdrew their cash from the bank immediately became richer when it happened.
If there are 5 wells and an owner of 1 well poisons 4 of them, they are able to charge more for the remaining clean water, and possibly acquire money for a commodity which was previously available for free, by increasing scarcity. In a private government concerned only with maximization of income of its owners or investors such pathological outcomes are possible. In the U.S. idea of a republic it is usually thought there should be a public government concerned with the maximization of happiness of residents, something which many libertarians or anarcho-capitalists do not agree with.
The leader of the U.K. is having financial difficulties despite his multi million wealth, 6 figure salary and practically free accommodation.

Apparently that’s not enough when you have expensive tastes.
The Poet Must Starve Alone
The resting places of giants (2014)
Use a router certified with "Respects Your Freedom": https://fsf.org/ryf
I was quoting other, smarter, people.

https://proxy.c2.com/cgi/wiki?SoftwareAsLiability

What the code does is an asset. The code itself is a liability.

We have "tech debt" that isn't actually owed to anybody yet must be paid.
The consensus one year ago was that immunity doesn’t last longer than 6 months (hint: it does). I’ve learned to mostly disregard “expert opinion”, especially when they’re talking straight out of their asses as in this case (we haven’t had the vaccine long enough yet to have any kind of experimentally informed view on this topic).
REYES renderers had a pretty nifty solution for shape antialiasing with their slicing and dicing of geometry into sub-pixel sized primitives. That was in the 80s, just for reference. Unfortunately, this method has a pretty complex implementation and just doesn't play all that well with hardware rasterization or path tracing and has since fallen out of favor.
Austrians like sound money. Backing your currency by a strong global currency that you can't print goes very much in that direction. It's akin to the US going back to the gold standard. I'm not sure what's "leftist" in that.

> they try to push a pro-huge-corporation view in the article, only to say the opposite two paragraphs later,

I didn't see any "pro-huge-corporation view" in the article. From your username I assume you read the original, not a translation. I might be wrong, and you can prove it by quoting the article if you want to have the last word - I'm not interested in continuing this particular thread.
Any scam could be defended this way. What does differentiate a scam from a legit investment ?

Most cryptocurrencies are cartoon characters particularly tailored for gambling machines. I haven't seen a single use case other than enabling masses enter a massive pyramid scheme constantly manipulated in social media.
> I don't know how you can justifiably call Africa a has-been

Please read comments you reply to.
I've disliked GANs since the Nvidia man with his head melting back into the bedroom made me feel like I was having a stroke.

GANs blindspots have the potential to generate some confusing optical illusions.
Brave browser vulnerability allows sites to steal your cookies
There's a bubble now in speculative stocks, and it's not good because it means billions in funding are going towards failing companies. That's why I said "in an ideal world".

I do believe this bubble will pop eventually and the stock market will return to its appropriate primary function (which it still is doing ex-retail hype stocks) of allocating capital to the most productive companies.

Note also that I was responding to the statement that no wealth was created or destroyed by speculation in the stock market. My point is that this statement is false because it makes a real world difference whether it's GME versus MRNA that gets to raise money.
> What is the motive [...] What’s in it for them?

There's a huge monetary incentive, since things like social security payments (the largest item in the federal budget) are inflation indexed. The Boskin Report [1], which argued that inflation was overstated by 1.1%, estimated that their proposed "corrections" would reduce the deficit by $202 billion by 2008.

The whole thing was rather suspicious in my opinion. The report was based on some questionable interpretations of inflation, and it seemed like the Senate appointed particular members in order to get the outcome they wanted, as Thomas Palley argued [2]:

> The commission is itself a delicious example of such bias: All its members were on record prior to the establishment of the commission as believing the CPI to be overstated. At the same time, the commission took no evidence from such well-known economists as Janet Norwood, a former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Dean Baker, of the Economic Policy Institute, who believe that the CPI provides a reasonable reading of inflation. In effect, the commission took account of all the evidence of overstatement of inflation by the CPI and downplayed the evidence of potential understatement.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/boskinrpt.html

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/04/how-to-...
Vaccines aren't 100% bullet proof. The few people effected are still people. If you were one of them, wouldn't you be fairly distraught by your point of view?
> At a meta-level, using unethical as a qualifier seems like an attempt to bolster an argument without having to provide a logical argument.

I seemed like more of a disclaimer to avoid such ideological battles and deliver a nuanced view. "I agree the practice is shady, but..."
Yes but there is no existing way to poison illegitimately gained bitcoins as not eligible for use with legitimate purchases even though it's totally possible to trace each and every bitcoin used to pay a ransom.

In addition there is no 3rd party verification of the wallet owners so in practice there is plenty of ways to whitewash dirty bitcoin into clean currency, especially in economies with an large black/gray sector.

Add to that that any international investigation into cyber crime becomes an instant political hot potato due to the prevalent political rhetoric around state sponsored actors and you have an environment where the treat of actual capture/punishment is extremely low.
Oh, I'd be ecstatic if that's how it worked. Instead, I have to go through 2FA every time I want to update with some providers. Others say "Apologies, we're working with the provider to restore support" and have stopped working for years. Others I can transfer money but can no longer see the balance.

On rare occasion I see banks that have a revocable token. I can't remember the exact linking process, but presumably they don't get my credentials, I can specify read-only access and specify specific accounts, it need periodic renewal, and from the bank end I can see who I gave permission to and revoke access from there. This doesn't seem common and I'm not sure if all the clients support those banks (or if it's a limited "in-group").

None of this is especially novel. It's just the incentives and efforts aren't there.
> Java is disliked on HN because it represent "enterprise" - big long-lived organizations which maintain a codebase for decades and therefore conservative.

Exactly. But what I found is that refactoring java-monoliths can be a very interesting and intellectually stimulating task.
Any rational person sees the market is irrational.

Putting $10 on dodge back in January, or on spiffcoin today, is no different to putting $10 on a horse at the 3.15, except the excitement probably lasts longer.

The bookie wins on aggregate, but you are buying the hope and excitement and that has value.
I faced this choice recently and opted for React Native, without Expo or anything higher level.

In retrospect, it was a perfect choice. Knowing React, there was literally no learning curve, the apps feel very snappy (most mobile apps suck in this respect, and I suspect the use of higher-level frameworks is the reason), and React in general is unexpectedly pleasurable to work with.

I always use PHP/Laravel for the back-end - since I know it well - it provides the login/CRUD stuff out of the box, but honestly, for a typical CRUD app is matters very little which back-end you use, as long as you keep it nice and clean (and write it yourself rather than use something like Firebase which, again, sucks).