skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are tradeoffs to writing functional code in langauges designed primarily for imperatively. Another comment mentioned efficiency.

Another is that in a pure language, you can look at a function and know for a fact that nothing you're seeing can ever be mutated. This eliminates a massive source of cognitive load when trying to read and understand code, as well as eliminating all sorts of bugs related to the program being in the wrong state. If you're trying to write functional code in a language not designed for it, you're missing out on those benefits.

Now, it's absolutely the case that the tradeoff may be worth making depending on the person and circumstance. But it does exist.
This shows JavaScript as being popular since at least 2004 (beginning of the dataset) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=javascri... and this is closer to my recollection.
Ep 106 – Daniel Vassallo – Info Products, Amazon and Taking Risks
No idea. Low-level JS performance is very sensitive to small changes and I haven't tried to look at why. For example I've seen a situation where a simple well-predictable conditional deoptimized the entire method but I couldn't see exactly why (I've rewritten that bit of code anyway). It was one of the reasons that Roadroller now uses a WebAssembly implementation by default.
The profitable App Store model, as implemented by Apple, is a danger to our society as it crushes our privacy rights, consumer rights and right to repair:

1. It essentially takes away the rights of ownership from us as Apple gets to dictates what app we can own. A user can only install an app if it is available in the App Store. And they cannot roll back to a specific app version they want, nor have any guarantee of the app availability in the future if Apple deems it so.

2. It's a huge violation of our privacy rights as Apple gets valuable personal information on you based on the apps you choose to install. (E.g. Installed Grindr? Datapoint indicating you are Gay. Installed a religious app? A datapoint to your religious beliefs. Installed a political app? A datapoint to your political leanings.). These data allows Apple to better exploit you to make more money.

3. Forcing developers to pay a huge commission (30% - 60%) for what is essentially the use of a Payment gateway is a gross abuse as most online payment processors don't charge more than 5% for most transaction.

4. Worse still is that this exorbitant commission is passed on to the user without their knowledge - Apple knowingly and deliberately exploits all its users, who remain ignorant about how much money Apple undeservedly pockets from every transaction on the App Store.

5. To ensure this business model is not upended, Apple does not allow the installation of any other OS or software on its devices. This violates our right to repair to fix any issues and / or to extend the life of our device.

Consumers thus need to demand the following minimum guarantees from their government:

1. Allow installation of apps from outside the App Store.

2. Consumers should clearly know who their money is going, and any commission or charges by Apple / BigTech should be listed and highlighted to the user on each transaction.
True enough, when you're writing imperative Haskell, you're not hitting the claimed magic of FP.

But:

1. Haskell lets your write the majority of your code in pure style. And it helps you separate the imperative parts (like pure core, imperative shell).

2. The compiler tries hard to generate the same machine code as C. The difference is that it gives the programmer more options: because the imperative parts are values (actions), it's strightforward to calculate them, which you can't do in C (you'd need the preprocessor or maybe LISP macros).
I see a Black Mirror episode where millions of AI generated girls influence an army of 14 year old real girls to take over the world and transfer power to the AI makers afterwards. It will be like "the Wave" [0] but fully a-b test optimized and on a world scale.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(1981_film)
Chinese citizen living in US, posting anonymously for obvious reason.

Huarong and evergrande are just the tip of the iceberg. If you wish to know what all the things fester below for CCP, here's a very timely summary video from laowhy86, one of the YouTube expert on China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpwtZLzDM_o

Unfortunately you will not find many outspoken Chinese native citizen on YouTube, for they all fear CCP retribution, even living abroad.

恒大暴雷 市值两万亿的中国第一房企 居然对付不出400亿 如同一个万元户 被400块给逼死了 房企都要塌了 房价还没跌 建筑商的商票拖欠 银行的债务拖欠 私人借贷也拖欠 房子卖出去还收的是全款 不知道这些钱都到哪去了 魔幻的时代 魔幻的故事啊
If you rely on import for renewable, you better hope that you neighbors are not too much into the same kind of renewable… For instance, there are not that many independent wind cells in Europe so entire regions are deprived from wind at the same time. In a 100% wind scenario, you'd need to transport electricity from say Portugal, Spain and France to supply Germany, Denmark and Sweden. And we're talking about >100GW here, 5GW is tiny.

Making such electricity transfer possible would require a huge overhaul of the European links.
I live in Berlin, which was flattened at the end of WW2 by the Soviet army (and some allied bombers).

Today you'd barely know that happened. My favourite example is Gendarmenmarkt [0] - a square with three church buildings on it.

When I first took a walking tour around Berlin, the guide flatly said "these were built in the 17th century" with no mention of being almost completely rebuilt after the war. That lead to an interesting discussion along the same lines as this (Theseus' ship and all).

I think the difference is the history. Preserving the memory of that destruction as part of the restoration is important. There should be visible scars. By all means restore the building to be functional, a useful part of the city again. But leave some scars. I love that there are still bullet holes in some of the old walls around the city centre.

One of my favourite descriptions of Berlin is actually by Iain M Banks in The State of The Art [1], and it talks about this - that the history is what makes the place so special. Restoring everything so that the history is removed would also remove something unique and special about the city.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmenmarkt

[1] This is just an extract, there are several references to Berlin in the story, which obviously is well worth reading - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/794671-there-is-something-a...
By mozilla's own metrics only 30% of their users use any addon at all.
I'm very much of the opinion that you're not going to find a single answer to "how people think". It's unobservable and not really subject to social pressure, so there's going to be a huge variance in mental models.

That's why you get these unproductive discussions about which is best. It's like having some red-green-colorblind people and some blue-yellow-colorblind people try to agree on wallpaper for you.
could you name me a few companies whose take home is more than many in the US? I'd love to return :)
It's hard to have a light Monero client, because it has to have some data indexed about all past transactions, whereas a Bitcoin client only needs to maintain the MUCH smaller UTXO set, i.e. the unspent transaction outputs.
This is one of the ways in which Monero scales poorly.

Another problem is that Monero's PoW is expensive to verify where a good PoW should be instantly verifiable. In fact, it's considered so expensive that by default, the Monero client uses a checkpoint block without verifying all the PoW that led to the block.
I've heard a rather interesting take on the issue:

> Your choices usually are to either change the company, or to change company.

(edited for clarity)

So essentially if the people around you fail to see your point, there's probably little that you can do to educate or convince them, short of looking for a new company to become a part of yourself.

I guess people "jumping ship" is just a sign of the times and the environment that we work in - in most western cultures it's a bit more fluid than in, say, Japan.
I think it's pretty apparent that they are using a "body model" for the body as well which is kind of interesting in itself...
It used to be that we'd use CG characters to replace the body of actors, now it's the other way around...
You're right, I misunderstood your comment. I interpreted what you said as in, you can get this feature via either Matrix or uBlock. I see now you meant one of those has the feature and you weren't sure which one had it. Sorry about that. In my defense I think it can be read both ways.

I'd add there is a large gap in usage between uBlock and Matrix. uBlock has over 10 million users whereas Matrix is somewhere over 100,000.
I wonder how ob/ob mutant mice behave. Do they move less and sleep more? Is their body set temperature lower? It doesn't make thermodynamic sense that they would get obese on half the diet unless their physical activity and body temperature were either or both impaired.
It targeted the front-end, which lots of programmers don't give a shit about.
I like SPJs' explanation why Haskell is useless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmkqocn0oQ

Disclaimer: tongue in cheek
> This talk announces the most ambitious software project I've ever undertaken

But then he doesn't link to, or even name the project. You have to watch the video to find out, I guess? Pass.
Correct, for most naive tech personality types, they think there is easy tech solution to everything if only one thought hard enough. Precaution is not too high on their list.
Might be a business model for a Kernel engineer:

* Go work for Apple

* Learn vulnerabilities

* Resign

* Sell vulnerabilities for cash on the dark market

Edit: formatting
Not taking a side just a flashback how far away 1995 is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A&ab_channel=TODAY
Craft in painting is very different from how supposedly well a painter reproduces reality. Whatever I said also applies to non-figurative painting as well, say Mondrian or Kandinsky. In fact, it applies to any form of art that has nothing to do with reproducing reality.

The underlying philosophy beneath "art is the craft" is that, if you follow the craft, you are seeing the world through the lens of da Vinci.

I do agree with much of your final statement, by the way. What the Monna Lisa has done for art an humanity through all those centuries is irreplaceable. That would not go away if the painting were to burn today, so it's not a point in favor of considering the artifact as more important than the craft.

In fact, the best way to preserve its potential future influence would be to store the technique to reproduce it perfectly, rather than the object itself or a photograph of it. Because people undergoing the process of recreating the painting as da Vinci did it would get knowledge and inspiration in the process.
Does anyone have an idea of what the retail price might be?
High performance persistent queue using db-scheduler
When I test my minimal focus distance it's around 10cm (4").
What's the tech behind it, to display anything that can be sharp in such a small distance?
> I would not believe anything Apple is saying

Rather than spending all your time moaning about them, just dont use their devices. Nobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to use an iphone.
Timinig issues aside. Typically you cannot short something like this directly. But you can do it indirectly by going after ie. suppliers. For example short the Aussie dollar.
There was also a comment on the video that mentioned that the fix probably wouldn't last. The battery packs are a unit and they don't like it when pieces are older / newer than the rest of the unit. Tesla might know that while replacing a single cell would fix the immediate problem it would eventually cause the whole battery to shut down.

Maybe this is similar to when you have something really bad happen to an ICE motor (ie. broken valve), but you drain and flush the engine oil, which "fixes" the problem. And then 6 months later the engine grenades requiring a full replacement.
The route from my office chair to the sofa.
George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer
RE your second point, I think there will be scandals. They'll just be 100% scripted[0]. If there's one thing we've learned about the Internet over the past 30 years, it's that people crave drama. Owning a few talking heads on YouTube is good, but having them get into fight is even better - you have an excuse for a nearly infinite stream of reaction videos, reaction-to-reaction videos, apology videos, apology-questioning videos, meta-analysis videos, etc. Viewers binge this, and influencers (and their owners) swim in money.

--

[0] - Though I think it's safe to assume the big ones today are also scripted. For example, every now and then my wife stumbles on some video from the cosmetics space on YouTube, and holy shit, the makeup-peddling influencers there have been running an ongoing personal drama for some good 3 years now. It will probably last another 3 - viewers seem glued to their seats, and producers just enjoy the viewership and opportunity to peddle some more name-brand makeup.
I agree with this interpretation. The craft can be copied and learn, but da Vinci (as any human being) was unique and unrepeatable. Perhaps the root of all this issue is how East and West treat individualism vs collectivism.
Neither side is really arguing in good faith - they both just want more votes for their party.

I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with voter ID laws. Many democracies in Europe have them. In America they might be unnecessary overkill, but if they increase faith in the electoral process, that's awesome.

The actual issue is that we don't have federal ID cards, and there are a ton of citizens without any form of government-issued photo ID at all. If you're very poor, the idea of paying for a driver's license might seem ridiculous because you have neither a car nor a bank account.

Any good-faith proposal to enforce voter IDs would have to pair it with making IDs simple and free to get for every registered voter, otherwise it can be justly criticized as antidemocratic.
Does this run with Steam?
CI also varies dramatically for the same food for different people. Because we don't burn food in a flame to release energy, we break it down using complex chemical processes which vary dramatically depending on the exact contents of our stomachs, our microbiomes, etc.

See https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119133230.h... for one example of this.
So, start a video streaming site and show that non-automated moderation scales to whatever scale you would consider to be a successful streaming site.

I suspect (but cannot prove) that the bandwidth and server costs will be small in comparison to the wages for the moderation staff.
Anybody know why there was such a delay here?

> In March 2021, we examined the phone of a Saudi activist who has chosen to remain anonymous, and determined that they had been hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. During the course of the analysis we obtained an iTunes backup of the device.

...

> Citizen Lab forwarded the artifacts to Apple on Tuesday, September 7. On Monday, September 13, Apple confirmed that the files included a zero-day exploit against iOS and MacOS.
It's actually about 30% that have any kind of addon :

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior
to a human.
A lot of talk about geo here.

Offtopic. But I'm looking for datasets that tested for
blue-green algae in still water/rivers.

Required info:

- Date of test

- Location of the test ( or some info so that i can link it together)

- Status ( measurements that detect blue-green algae)

This is usually measured by a lab and as a outdoor swimmer, i've encountered a lot of issues when there are blue algues.

I'm hoping to create a ML-app that predicts the results ( free ).

Contact me at nico-algues [at] sapico.me

(I've already got test results back from Belgium, not much response from the Netherlands and the UK)
I miss the small size of those legacy phones. I had a Samsung d500 for a couple of years and it was insanely small compared to the iPhone I have now. The Motorola Wings and Nokia 8850 were miniscule too.
There's a quote I'm trying to find the source of, maybe someone can help me out.

"The problem with the Chinese is not that they make cheaper stuff, it's that they make better stuff", or something similar.

Thanks
Sneaky behaviour but at this point who cares. I use Edge on all of my devices. It is superior to Firefox and no one in their right mind installs google spy software
> What is the court that signs an order, based on probable cause of a crime, for each cash transaction over 10,000?

It's really not interesting re-hashing how the judicial system works.
The building that stood there before the fire wasn't "authentic" either by that measure. The building that recently burnt down had been completely renovated and rebuilt several times and looked nothing like the building they first put up. The building that will stand there after this latest round of renovation will be a new building, but it won't be any less 'authentic' than any of the other renovations that came before.
He did at least seek out and apologize to the kids he'd hurt later.
Possible. But there really is a category of go-getters who are quite delusional. I would bet on the latter. Convictions, even if delusional go a long way in convincing the audience.
I’m not particularly interested in solving Facebook’s self-created problems. Fifteen years ago, I was interested in helping them from a tech growth side, but I can’t imagine working there now, especially in light of the company culture. My priorities would clash with those of the existing upper management all the way up to the CEO (who is completely unchecked by the Board, BTW).

As for this particular issue, I consider celebrities and politicians who stir up trouble largely as fat to be cut. Anyone who builds that much gravity and controversy tends to cause more problems than add value, and detracts from democratizing the platform.
Setting Up HashiCorp Vault on FreeBSD – Beerdy.io
It depends on the domain. In performance critical code, I agree that it usually makes sense to use an imperative language. However, not all code is performance critical. Also note none of this is to say that fp is inherently incapable of high performance code - properly tuned Haskell can be competitive with C. Libraries like Streamly[1] are designed with extremely high performance in mind. But I agree reasoning about performance is much more difficult and requires more expertise.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/streamly
Xiaomi spy glasses
Glad you find it interesting. Some of the schematics he has in the thesis can be created very cheaply with garbage switches or components, or spending a small sum (under 20 USD) on switches and a breadboard.
Just backblaze. Then I consider “got it onto my pc” == “backed up” for other devices.
I'll be honest, I wanted to make a bff joke, but kept running in to too many double entendres.

Best. Pattern. Ever.

Edit: spelling
The thing is that "Calories In" varies dramatically from person to person for the same food:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119133230.h...
I like it :)
As "precise" and "analytical" we like to think we are (well I least). I can fully agree with the FAQ section;

Why yet another document language?:
"Because nothing out there felt quite right."

Sometimes looking at code (my code) or platforms, frameworks etc, this "does it feels right" plays big part in my decision to use/like it.
I promise you, a "proper" C programmer will do the same thing, faster. And I say this as an FP fan!

A bad C programmer will write horrible spaghetti code, but it will probably be enough to do the job. A bad Haskell programmer will get absolutely nowhere.

If you think pure FP is great for this stuff, I think you need to explain why imperative languages are regularly used to win the ICFP programming contest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICFP_Programming_Contest#Prize...).
What Can We Learn from Today's Artificial Surge in Litecoin Prices?
Ah. I didn't mean that SARS-CoV-2 is literally an inert virus. Clearly it's not at all, it's a virus that has caused quite a bit of death, and indeed, the mortality graphs are the best evidence of that.

The claim about an inert virus was an extreme example to make the point clearer. Imagine such a virus did exist (which it doesn't). Then by the methodology used to compute COVID deaths, there would still be a large number of deaths attributed to the virus even as excess deaths didn't move at all, even though that should be a statistical impossibility.

The question is therefore not "is SARS-CoV-2 entirely inert", obviously that would be ridiculous. The question is "to what extent are the reported numbers confounded by age and co-morbidity effects". The Economist is arguing that excess death figures show the confounding doesn't exist or must be so small it hardly matters. I'm arguing that by their own data (which seems to be continuously updated even long after the article is published?) there are countries where either the numbers are over-counted in this way, or the mortality models are seriously wrong, because COVID deaths > excess deaths.
I don't think the parent implied it isn't but shared the common culture and sentiment in the west.
> a peak brightness of 2 million nits.

This seems crazy to me. 1000 nits is about the brightest most HDR monitors will go (basically the light of a thousand candles on a square meter) would’t a nits measurement in the millions be dangerous levels of light?
I'd love that a visit to a studio to see how these images are made be part of the mandatory school curriculum.
It makes me wonder how people like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos use for their phone security.

For sure they are much more interesting targets than I am, therefore burning a few 0-days might be worth the effort.
For me the problem is that "functional programming" embodies a lot of questionnable ideas:

- the idea that readability is not the first thing to pursue

- the idea that macros are great

- the idea that leaving performance off the table is OK

- the idea that objects and subtyping are useless

- the idea that mutability is hard to reason about

- the idea that recursion is super important

- the idea that somehow closures are more readable than objects

- the idea that tuple are somehow better than structs with named fields

It is a style that thrive _in opposition_ to the style of useful programs out there: readables, no macros, fast, with an UI, with mutability, with objects, with names.
basically the Stig but with a fake face.
> I always wonder what it takes to find this kind of exploit.

A lot of knowledge about the target system's internals (comes with experience) and probably a lot of investment in fuzzing infrastructure or A LOT of time reverse engineering and reviewing manually. Finding bugs in closed source software by hand is incredibly slow and painful.
There are shrines in japan that have been rebuilt every 20 years for over 1000 years - and they are still considered the same shrine. This definitely seems to coincide with this idea.
Waaaay down at the bottom you see something like this:

> Personal Speculation

> Disclosure: I own a small amount of Monero, Bitcoin and Nano.

How small? $1M might be small to a billionaire. To others $50k is a large amount.

Otherwise it seems like yet another blog post shilling crypto.
Particularly frustrating when trying to install Red Alert 2 on Linux via Wine, because the installer itself had copy protection.
Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and the quest for immortality
You witnessed the hiring process of the NSO Group, which begins at 4 years old in kindergarten? For a company which has existed for 11 years?

I can't agree more with what the above commenter said. This is not infosec hiring, it's Spy Kids.
I think it is so that it can be seen in bright daylight. The amount of the light that would make it to the eye would be a lot less than that.
in other news, skilled performancer without a pretty face get more jobs.