skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specific to the "jargons" the author talked about. I find recent introduction level Haskell books actually do a surprisingly good job covering all the concepts the author mentioned. And they don't suffer from the online learning material problems.

The two books I read and can recommend are Programming Haskell by Graham Hutton & Get programming with Haskell by Will Kurt.

Another source that helped me a lot is the video series Category Theory by Bartosz Milewski [0]. It requires basically no background on category theory and defines all the concepts along the way. Bartosz also uses Haskell code as examples. You only need to know the syntax up to type class to understand.

As for the awful experience people get from learning Haskell, I think it depends a lot on people's expectations.

Most people only learn one language from school or early career, and then migrate their experience from one language to another. You don't learn the concept of "stack" twice, you only "learn" how to express them with a different syntax. So people can "learn" new languages with significantly lower effort than they learned the first language.

And when they find Haskell or other ML-family functional programming languages, they can't find the corresponding concepts in their known language. This time people actually need to learn new concepts as they learned their first language.

The experience is very similar to learning algorithms or OOP design patterns. And I don't think it's harder to learn Haskell up to the level mentioned by the author than e.g. reading the gang-of-four book.

[0]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI7FMa...
So basically the exact thing that happened with Daesh in Iraq.

I don't even know what to say. My country helped by sending support troops, some of them died there.
For others who want to know more about MacKenzie Scott (from Wikipedia [0]):

"""
MacKenzie Scott (... formerly Bezos; April 7, 1970) is an American billionaire businesswoman, novelist, and philanthropist. As of May 29, 2021, she has a net worth of US$57.0 billion, owing to a 4% stake in Amazon, after her divorce from Amazon founder and former Chief Executive Jeff Bezos. As such, Scott is the third-wealthiest woman in the United States, and the 21st-wealthiest individual in the world. She is known for her involvement in the founding and development of Amazon, as well as her now dissolved marriage to Bezos.
"""

"""
In 2020, she made US$5.8 billion in charitable gifts, one of the largest annual distributions by a private individual to working charities. Scott donated a further $2.7 billion in 2021.
"""

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Scott
It's unclear at this point how effective is her style of giving. But it seems like she is aware of the potential of corruption, and by moving nimbly and only giving one-time donations, it might help reduce the patron-charity dynamic.

As for other billionaires failing their ambitious goals, I think that is normal, because their goals are more ambitious than their massive fortune. To put things in perspective, US government spends trillions of dollars a year, and the country still has many problems.
World governments spend over $35 trillion annually. Much much more than her total lifetime accumulated net worth.

I don't see why letting them spend $35.05 trillion for one year will make the world a better place. I just don't see the logic there.
The problem would easily solved if they do what a typical conqueror would do: wiping fighting forces and re-education. USA successfully did that with Japan and to some extend Korea. But boy, absolutely shitted themselves with Vietnam, Iraq, Syria and Agfhan. Look at China and Rome past history how they subjugated their enemy. Look at Carthage, Xinjiang and Warring States. When USA invaded, they should have start depopulation, segragating the sheep and Talibans. Then proceed to hunt them like dogs and genocide them. Next, massive re-education to something like Jedi or Buddhism. When my friends asked USA is strongest and able to take on Russian and China easily, I reminded them, USA can win battles. USA won every battles in Vietnam. But when it comes to war, especially the #1 weakness of unable to sustain long term war, Russian and China handily will wipe USA 100% in every wars. Yup, the goat f*ckers just prove it by bringing USA to his knees.
I expect this scheme to raise costs for two main categories: trucks and big city commuters.

Regular rural car drivers should pay considerably less than they do now, at least if the total amount stay the same.
What about the death squads we trained and funded? The ones that went around killing children? Was that good intentions too?

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/18/afghanistan-cia-militia-...
> I’d like to explain a conjecture about Wigner crystals, which we came up with in a discussion on Google+.

There is a link to the Google+ discussion. No, you can't read what has been discussed there, another abandoned and folded Google service.
This was at least forty years in the making, starting with at least the Soviet-Afghan war. Afghanistan was used for conducting a proxy war between the Soviet Union and the USA, similarly to another Vietnam. This proxy war militarized the region and sowed the seeds for radicalism.
Oh, this is great news. I thought everyone involved with js (and coffescript) in rails were completely insane. Glad to see they were just doing the best they could in a crazy world (the early js world).
In doing so, you're betting that _you_ can grow your money faster than organizations you give it to can make impact on their communities.

Helping people who need it _now_ rather than in ten years helps _them_ start contributing more effectively to their communities, or blunts negative effects of them _not_ having that help for the next ten years.

Sure, it's a bet you can make that you'll grow your money faster than it would have impact being put into the world --- but it's one that takes a certain amount of hubris.
Fluvoxamine could be best Covid treatment, Canadaian led trial finds
Nice if you are the only user. If you distribute documents to others, or receive them from others, it's less practical.

Also, Markdown won't nearly represent all the formatting possibilities of a PDF.

Also, I'm not sure HTML is much easier to compare than PDF. Both are markup languages, essentially.

But following along your idea, it would be nice if the document itself contained separate content and presentation layers, so that we could manipulate and analyze (and compare) the content.
The pylons for aft-mounted engines are anything but simple also.
But then he would have broken the law by passing a knowingly bad check.
The price tag sounds impressive at first but note that most of it never leaves american hands. Instead it is paid to contractors in key congressional districts.
Looks like a direct competitor to the Remarkable[0] which I own, and is a great device. The Remarkable is also "mostly" open. The main binary running the UI of the system is proprietary, but the Linux system underneath is ssh-able, and the hacking community of the device is pretty active and large [1].

Looking at the announcement page of the PineNote I'm very excited! I'm hoping the open software running on the PineNote will be comparable to the Remarkable, and if it is I'm definitely going to be making the switch.

As a side note, I'm hoping maybe this encourages the Remarkable team to open source their proprietary binary. Their advantage here is definitely the hardware not the software.

[0] https://remarkable.com/

[1] https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
Making money is not about deserving the money, it's about being good at getting money.
Thank you!

These days I am doing my best to know what users want, but it gets harder and harder. Previously I could talk to 1-2 users and already get a lot of insight. Nowadays there are often conflicting requests or just too many of them. I think this is the price of growth. Still didn't figure out how to scale this well. The stats are public, by the way, https://firedating.me/open/ :)
by being directly involved in other areas and seeing the problems that non-developers wouldn't know how to fix

the problem with most software engineers is they only know tech. Most of these "niche" businesses are created at the intersection of tech and marketing/design/business
only one data point though, but...
https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/08/05/top-20-june-2021/
I kinda get that honestly. It’s why I’ll spend $20 without even thinking for take out but not spend $2 for an app. It’s because the cost off the software is way way more than the money. It’s a commitment to actually use it and integrate it, deal with their sales team, talk to purchasing, handle licensing, and introducing friction to replacing it or using tools that don’t integrate well because “well we already pay for it.” Licensing also complicates deployments substantially when you’re doing lots of autoscaling.

And on top of that Nginx Plus is also expensive as hell.
Now it is very clear that the US military spent 20 years wasting tax payer money for nothing! No plan, no exit strategy, only a ruse to fritter money away and kill innocents. A complete tragedy.
Asking the right questions!
Hello, as CEO of MeiliSearch, I'm really sorry from the whole team if we did not satisfy you when solving one of your bugs. I don't know which bug exactly you are referring to, but in any case, we try to answer our users and contributors with the maximum of transparency and love.

Moreover, we are certainly, on some features, maybe a little bit late. Delay that we will more than compensate before the end of the year. Our priority until now has been to offer a robust search engine accessible to all. For us, the developer experience is really important, whether it is in the use of the API or in the communication with the community.

We will continue to try to do our best for the community. If you want to help us to improve, I would be happy to take your feedback.
you now containers are just processes, right?

This is what they did, but because they didn't need to schedule other jobs on the same machine, kubernetes or even docker would be overkill.

In this case, simple VM orchestration seems like a fine solution.
That's really the key. A successful one-person SaaS company is effectively leveraging gig economy and contracting out many business functions.
I don't think it makes sense to speculate about a hidden calculus here, because the US military leadership and national security establishment were uniformly opposed to withdrawing from Afghanistan. The pressure to withdraw came from the general public.
> The 10.1 inch, 3:4 panel has a resolution of 1404×1872 (227 DPI), can display 16 levels of grayscale and is capable of a 60hz refresh rate

60 hz!? This + some paired keyboard + wifi-tethering + SSH (or even a remote session with VS Code!?) would probably be an awesome code-while-in-the-sun-setup.

Really excited to see where this ends up.
They were being beaten back for at least the last three years that I was following it. They didn't just leave voluntarily, they were defeated and left early to save face. Check a timelapse map of the Taliban's territorial gains and consider that recapture of the entire country took them only two weeks.
What sort of tech stack do you need for these types of businesses?
> To me it's not good enough to make billions and then do good. Do good every moment of every day. Make doing good your work. Or get out of the way.

Why such an absolutist stance. If I were to follow your advice in the past, I would have had less money to do good with, and my impact would be limited. But because I delayed that, I am able to give more today than before.

> I love how MacKenzie Scott is just jumping in, giving away the money, make smart choices, pull the bandaid off and get to work.

You don't know that these are smart choices. Giving money away in large sums, with little accountability, to organizations that aren't setup to spend it well, can backfire. Look at some of our government's largest spending efforts or at how cities like SF squander hundreds of millions to see what could happen. Startups are given very limited amounts of funding in investment rounds to maintain that sense of hunger and accountability through incremental investments. It is possible that McKenzie Scott's spending is that, since it is spread across such a large number of grants. But since this is the largest gift many of the recipient organizations have ever received, it remains to be seen how this will play out from an impact perspective.
I believe you're being downvoted because of the "heirs" mistake. MacKenzie Scott earned her half.

Commenting on the "have something first". If you're 20 years old you have 60 years you can give. Gates is a poor man comparatively.
Table crops require ample irrigation and mild temperatures.

The parts of the US which have the most rain also tend to see more severe winters. The parts of the US which have more sunshine and warmth ... tend to be dry.

It's possible that table-crop cultivation --- lettuce, fruits, vegetables, etc., could move to the southeastern US. That's closer to larger population centres as well, which might reduce shipping times and costs, and improve produce quality in Eastern and Central grocery stores.
Traditionally, the South is known for cotton, peanuts, stone fruits (peaches), oranges (Florida), and tobacco.

The magic California offered was hot, dry, sunny summers, with the only thing required to make the fields bountiful being a reliable supply of water. The state's mountain dams fed a slowly-released pulse of meltwater from snowpacks delivered this.

There is the added bonus that although the Central Valley is famously hot, it has low humidity, making farm-labour conditions far more tenable, helps as well. Mississippi in August is not a dry heat.

That's now severely imperiled.
But US asking other countries to take in these Afgans instead of taking them to US territories isn't a good look for the US.
Not long ago, the news of China meeting with Taliban sparked criticism, though China has also met with the then government of Afghan. The United States did not issue any diplomatic protest.

Now we see why, China knew this will happen, and so did the United States, and likely also a lot of people who follow closely with the currents of that region.

It's not surprising. It's the expected result from the US' retraction. What surprised me is the reaction from the media, somehow the Taliban became a bigger enemy in the public discourse than the governments has declared it to be.
Not that odd, for every Makenzie scott there 100, 1000?, billionaires that aren’t nearly as generous, who hold onto their wealth that the passes to heirs who may have been insulated from society their entire lives - Eg the climate denying Koch brothers. Taxing them is systematically putting the allocation of some of that capital back into hands of society and out of the random draw of good and bad.
Same in Germany. I wonder how one can be naive enough, read government and armed forces, to

a) say you gonna retreat by date X

b) say local helpers will get the opportunity to get to your home country

c) organise your troop withdrawal, without any thoughts on how fast the Taliban will take over

d) pull your troops, sans local support staff and their families, out. Be surprised that your locals are now stuck

e) expect that next time your army goes somewhere you'll still find reliable local help

How difficult would it have been to evacuate your supporting locals along your troops before the country is taken over by your opponent. But then the German Army is unable to tell how many soldiers the deployed there since the war started... Mark me surprised, I am way beyond being shocked by stuff like that so.
Yet YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Robinhood, DoorDash, and Lyft backend were originally primarily written in Python. What’s funny is that nobody can really deny Python is slow yet somehow the biggest websites in the world were written in it. More proof that Worse Is Better?
Judging the market by number of listings might be deceptive; yes, there are not a lot of Elixir jobs out there, but there are also not a lot of Elixir devs out there.

I don’t have hard numbers, but a hiring manager with whom I interviewed recently told me companies are looking everywhere for Elixir talent and having a very hard time finding it.

Elixir jobs also seem to pay better than those using more widespread languages (e.g. Java, JS, and non-AI-related Python), and are more likely to be fully-remote or at least somewhat flexible about WFH. So answering “how good is the market” also has a qualitative dimension.

If you have a decent amount of experience in other languages, learning Elixir to the point where you can demonstrate passion and potential should not take more than a weekend or two. I recently watched about half of the Pragmatic Studio course on Elixir: https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/elixir

I did it in preparation for a coding challenge, wrote some decent Elixir code, received good feedback about my work during the follow-up interview, and am hoping to start a new Elixir job next month.

I did some Ruby/Rails courses and tutorials back in 2012-2014 (Code School/Michael Hartl) before plunging into Python and later Java. I have no real-world experience in Ruby/Rails, but I do feel that my familiarity with that ecosystem and mindset helped me learn Elixir fairly quickly and have an intelligent conversation with my prospective colleagues.

I hope I’m not giving you false hopes, but really, you could do a lot worse than spend some time becoming at least acquainted with Elixir. If you fall in love with it, like I have, you might not even care how “good” the job market is.
Ok I'll try to be serious how exactly monopoly over GIFs would endanger users of social networks and industry in general? Except Facebook gathering your GIFs usage data. Facebook would know what GIFs you use that's a big problem isn't it?!

Why did they allow acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp then? Makes zero sense to me.

And if Facebook is not allowed to buy other social networks then Chinese will buy them. And then again we will be in the same situation just like we are with TikTok and Huawei. Data going to CCP and not to Corporate America. I prefer Corporate America over CCP to be honest.
It’s just what you’re rendering is getting nowhere near pushing the limits of what can be done with the gpu.
Congratulations for doing what you love!

I decided to close my startup after I woke up from a surgery which had 50% chance of survival because until couple of hours before the surgery I was typing the product strategy to my shareholders in case I die. Then I spent the next whole year winding up my startup in midst of recovery and the whole process still gives me PTSD.

So I decided to go solo, to build what I want and possibly what others need. I've been doing it for past 2 years and I'm happy.
A while back I was listening to one of those "group analysts" on a mainstream "news" channel where they were talking about how they had perfect plans to transform the middle east for "western democracy" with regime change and installing western friendly governments. Not a single one of the "analysts" they had brought on had any experience or talked to Arabs, Persians or Afghanis. These "analysts" think all countries want the same thing which is simply not the case.

I know Afghanistan isn't exactly middle east but the regime change wars were all identical. Libya is another example.
Something that hasn't been mentioned is that a lot of people tend to obsess over some characters, independently of their gameplay value. That's usually how gacha games make a lot of their money.
I felt something akin to the overview effect when I used psychedelics.

It was the realization that my internal conflicts, like the conflicts of the world, were arbitrary and that reality offers so much more.

Hard to explain. But perhaps this could also help those who can't travel to space.
Yep, it's not convenient to manage though.
there is a russian blogger in Kabul, you can use google translate to read his articles, in short there're plenty of heroin addicts in plain sight

https://varlamov.ru/tjm1DhGAHsj

https://varlamov.ru/gLxlGFc6GCc?cda=

https://varlamov.ru/VndQif0KCJw?cda=

a lot of very interesting photos

https://varlamov.ru/p_aaaYHw724
Lightening my site - having Fun with WEBP, AVIF and JXL
Yes all of those would be way better options than Python and probably PHP. Well maybe not C++. You'd have to be pretty crazy to have web developers writing security sensitive code in C++.

The "blame our co-founder for the choice" bit is exactly what that graph about the cost of defects vs how early they are fixed is talking about.

If they had just picked Go or Java right at the start they wouldn't have had to expend all this engineering effort to get to a still-not-very-good solution.
So, uh, I could use a patron. Would be totally fine with $120k a year CAD, no strings attached. Will work on personal software agents, AGI, bio lab automation, and try for breakthrough anti-aging or regenerative medicine.
Not all UIs should be described in a tree structure, but a tree is an isomorphism to a scene graph, and a scene graph is a very solid, traditional way to structure a 3D scene for rendering.
That one lists the top 5 as:

Javascript
Python
Java
PHP
C#

But is it about web?
Absolutely, that's a calculated decision that companies make. It is fully expected that a certain market segment is not interested in being a customer at a given price point. Market segmentation is often done by OS version or device hardware profile.
What power does Facebook have?
The 60Hz must be a mistake. That type of rate plain isn’t possible with e-ink.
When I was in college, a local pizza place had an online contest for “free pizza” for a year and said you could enter as many times as you like. I wrote a quick python script to fill out the form with my info that would submit it every 30 second. I got a call from the pizza place a few days later asking me to stop. They said that I was 90% of the entries and that I wasn’t acting in good faith. They offered me $100 gift card and I was happy with that.
What's the performance of this?
Would be interesting to model this out, time value of money, time, etc.

What does it look like for someone fresh out of college to dive into making an impact vs waiting till they're 50, a billionaire? Use climate as an example, assume the problem is getting worse at 10% a year. With climate especially there are tipping points too, i.e. maybe there's a cliff at year 49 where it gets 200% worse.

What kind of challenges lend themselves to "get rich then give"? What kind of challenges lend themselves to "dive right in"?
What would running qemu in bubblewrap achieve?
With what, good looks? There is no low hanging fruit in solving the climate situation. Whether the barriers are technological, economical or sociological, they will require massive resources and rabid tenacity to turn in the right direction. Resources that are much simpler to marshall with the agency that billions of dollars provide.
Kabul embassy job listings have been removed.[1]

[1] https://af.usembassy.gov/embassy/jobs/
The latest Pine board is the Quartz64, which is basically the same platform as the PineNote. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64
It heavily depends on how you made that money though, doesn't it? Sure, she can spend billions to e.g. solve the problem that Amazon workers have to pee into bottles to not get fired. But without Amazon, those workers wouldn't have that problem in the first place and wouldn't need saving from the conditions she put them in.
Keeping in mind it is an afghan defeat even more than a US defeat. I kind of agree with Biden when he says "One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country"