skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who do you think is making these decisions at various tribes? There is corruption throughout in all systems.
Medium is a content farm. So is Substack.
I'm on my third Key2, having previously churned through two Priv (first true Android smartphone). The Priv had a superior hardware UX while it lasted; compute and software maintenance eventually caught up to it though.

Before that, several Curve variants. Still before that, Palm Treo 755p and 650. Despite the habit of always dropping them (out of lap and onto concrete/asphalt while egressing car), none ever actually broke...a bad (and expensive) habit to retain with smartphones, especially since having a protective case is a non-starter for me.
Testing is hard. You need someone to understand the system. The problem with SW testing is that is mainly used to verify requirements, not to find defects. Also layers over layers of libraries does not help either (look how cool i am: instead of using libjpeg, libxpm and libpng i use imlib which links to those and introduces also its own bugs).
they took urrr juurbbs
States could kill two birds with one stone...

The laws preventing manufacturers from going straight to consumer are there because of lobbying, there is no indication most states would desire killing one bird much less two.
Ever since crypto became mainstream, nobody has cared about things like decentralization and 'the tech'. Binance realized this when they released their centralized alternative to ethereum and the gamblers switched over instantaneously for the lower fees.
Yep. As Simon Sinek puts it, leadership doesn’t have to start from the top. Leadership starts when you take care of the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.
I don't know about "the west", but I can give my own (Swedish) perspective on authenticity and age: The church in my village is quite new, about 150 years old. But it's built on the site of a much older church. The new church has a large bowl of carved limestone that where preserved from the old church. It's about 900 years old and is used for babtisms. Touching that old bowl gives me a tremendous sense of perspective, a feeling of belonging to a continium of people that has loved this place. The item itself is the important thing. I don't care that they have performed babtisms here for 900 years. The ritual is not important to me and I don't belive in that stuff anyway. I suppose it comes down to a cultural sense of whats real. To me, rituals and traditions are flimsy constructs. The new church is just like any other new building. But the material thing, the limestone bowl, thats real.
“You responded by saying Monero improves privacy.”

I did not mention Monero at all!

I pointed out that “rule of law & democracy” did OK before the recent modern era of massive, preemptive, general-warrant-like financial surveillance. And that level of surveillance may in fact endanger “rule of law & democracy”.

“Why not try passing strong consumer protection laws that ban companies from collecting and selling data on financial transactions as well as tighter restrictions on the access that law enforcement has on this data?”

You are welcome to try that. Why don’t you start in China, Venezuela, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Nicaragua? Or even Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Brazil, or India? Protecting financial privacy in those places would help show if your “pass a strong consumer protection law” plan might work.

Even in a country where such a law might have a chance, it’s a fragile protection, & ineffective against most abuses by the state itself. Much better is: built-in, inherent, classic privacy.
Swiftkey like keyboards (like … Swiftkey or the iOS one) are keyboards where you write your words by swiping your finger across the letters of the keyboard, releasing your finger between each word.

Like this : https://youtu.be/D2XyP7iUErI at 00:17
I suppose the original title:

> Tesla opens a showroom on Native American land in New Mexico, getting around the state's ban on automakers selling vehicles straight to consumers

Was too long, but could I suggest somehow including the link between 'on Native American land' and 'selling directly'? Perhaps it's clear for those in the US, but my reading was more like the act of building on NA land was illegal, and the direct selling was an unrelated detail.
Are you saying you need a package manager to use something other than the standard library?
Well, they "tried" is more like it. YT is going to do whatever makes them more money.
You can check the Norwegian service Yr.no.

https://www.yr.no/en/details/table/2-1263968/India/Tamil%20N...
https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/360001940793-Free-weat...
It only supports binding to an ip address and not to an interface like wlan0 or eth0 or wg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTkzNHF6rMs

Of course this approach requires an impure functional language (so you can have side-effect calls).
But people can sue YouTube for misapplication of copyright law. It would be extremely expensive and time consuming but they could in theory
I primarily care about photos and videos. My solution is simple and has worked well for the last 7 years.

/--Dropbox
Synology NAS -> normalize file names
\--Google Photos

I wrote this tool to normalize folder and file names <https://github.com/jmathai/elodie>.

I wrote about the rest of the system in the following posts.

1. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut...

3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...

4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...
Lets not be so journalistic. They have to pay also salaries and equipment.
statnews is a decent quality website for biotech news and information. Not blogspam. This is an opinion piece and is bad tho
Batteries of the future set to be cheaper and better – just by adding sugar
My experience is that fp is notoriously bad at dealing with errors. Errors are quite common in everyday business cases, although usually ignored, (like in c#), which makes it hard to “fit” into whatever you are working with. Any language that doesn’t treat errors as a first class citizen in it's syntax is a bad one, which I feel like that languages like Haskell isn’t doing well. Also errors are contextual so it’s not always so that an error is one in some context and may be so in others. So the language must be flexible enough to handle both in a nice way.
I think Java is kind of a good example of this where it had checked exceptions to signal errors, but when introducing fp syntax they completely botched how errors work. This left you with a mess and programs keeps crashing because people didn’t know that code could throw errors.
People can disagree with your assessment, but it’s pretty sad that you write the only comment in this thread that actually engaged with the content of the linked article, and it’s downvoted.
I'm at a very similar place to you at this point. It make sense for FP to be good at "describing relationships of actions" since the base unit of reasoning is a function, or an action.

The beauty of modern programming is that we don't have to stick to a pure example of either paradigm. We can use FP techniques where it makes sense and turn to imperative otherwise.

In you example, we could have a nice, purely functional model of an LED that enforces the invariants that make sense. We could then "dispatch" the updated led entity to an imperative shell that actually took the action. All without using the M-word!

I'm probably - unfairly - treating your example more seriously than you intended it, but I think I'm leading to the same conclusion as you at a slightly different place. I want to have a purely functional domain that I wrap in an imperative shell. Trying to model side-effects in a purely functional manner using something like applicative functors just doesn't give the productivity boost that I want.

> I use a purely functional language every day: it's called SQL

This is my favourite way to annoy FP advocates (despite probably being one myself). Every one is a closet mathematician in FP-land but no one wants to admit how beautiful relational algebras are.
Right, 'The pandemic is not deadly enough' argument quickly degenerates into a 'how much is a human life worth in dollars?' one. This then leads us down the slippery slope to us losing our humanity.

It seems to me that much of human misery down through the ages can be put down to a small percentage of humanity who thinks this way and we'd all be better off if they had bigger more highly tuned amygdalas to boost their empathy for other human beings.

(This question has always intrigued me, it would be very informative to see sets of normal distributions for given dollar amounts for the population.

Also, given that we're living in COVID times, distribution figures for a virus's infection/replication rate vs death rate per capita, etc. would be informative. Knowing when fear gripped everyone to such an extent that say 95+% of the population would be clambering for vaccinations would be useful if for no other reason than to put vaccination resources to best use. For example, if the death rate for COVID or any virus were one in three as it was for the Plague/Black Death in the Middle Ages, would we then reach a figure of 95+% vaccination rate? Surely such figures would be of great interest to medical professionals and behavioral psychologists.)
That's cool :) I like this idea.

Yes, please use the WMO weather code for that. I will also add precipitation probability in the next weeks. At >50% precipitation probability the umbrella hook light could also switch on.
Any new thoughts since this post

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11188570
> I guess most learning starts with and happens through mimicry. I guess we're just learning to make better and better AIs.

For all the actual "intelligence" these mimics are displaying so far, the question is what exactly they're mimicking. If, as seems palusible to me, they aren't on the path of, say, a human baby -- i.e. beginning to form a mental model of physical facts, logical connections, and causal relations -- but just regurgitating input, then maybe what "we" are just to make is better and better earthworms, not primates.
The home networking space has really been broken for quite a while now. We've forced home users into separate-but-unequal internet using NAT's and forced private addressing. Part of it is there are no more IPv4 addresses to go around anymore. Part of it is that IPv6 has been delayed by 20 years, and now IPv6 isn't what we need at all, frankly.

It seems like lately it's like regular expressions, obscure to many but when you really need it, you really need to know it.
Check for Swiftkey Keyboard app ;-)
Yes. You mentioned that you were South Korean, so I mentioned it. That's all. So I don't quite understand what warrants a WTF.

I backed up why I disagree that a single spark determines whether it's not BS. I assumed, being in Korea for so long, it'd be a given first thing to bring up when someone asks if hype is actually genuine. So I brought it up. Every fad with even the slightest traction will be overvalued more in Korea, and it will also fall out of favour much faster too. The cycle is very much filled with BS that hasn't started to stink yet.

You should see the investment funded startup scene in Korea. It's very close to throwing anything at the wall and waiting for the one that sticks. Which is a shame given how technologically empowered Koreans are.

I'm still unsure why it made anyone upset. But then again, this is the internet.

p.s: Post is rate limited now, so there was a delay in this reply.
Because dealership model is stupid. Why would consumers want to haggle with a car salesman at a dealership and pay a premium for an unnecessary middleman when they can buy directly from manufacturer for cheaper?
Counting a Stationary Crowd Using Off-the-Shelf WiFi
Restoration using traditional and well-documented techniques are perfectly "authentic". A modern replica pyramid built with steel and concrete, not so much.

An actual replica pyramid built using traditional methods? Not sure, but I would love to see it. :D
https://support.google.com/gboard/answer/2811346?hl=en-GB&co...

Glide / Flow typing where you merely draw an approximate path of the shape that your typing would have followed.

It allows for very quick typing on a screen keyboard without the hammering of specific letters.
I used to be the PM for BlackBerry at a telco, and I remember using the early GPRS models.

To this day I miss having a lightweight, pocket (well, belt-strapped) email and IM client that I only had to charge once a week.

The ergonomics and UX were great (the side scroll and select wheel was 90% of it really, not the keyboard itself).

I used every single model until the Storm. That was their first touchscreen model, which was so bad, buggy and unusable I persuaded our CMO to only buy 200 (which was a great decision, since in the UK there was something like a 25% return rate in the first week).

By then I had seen enough. I swapped my Bold for an iPhone and never looked back.
How is this relevant when the topic was that Oracle literally spent $500 million marketing Java? The community of anything popular is marketing itself, yes, but that is a very different thing from having an actual marketing budget to push it to popularity.
this is also a good talk in a similar vein, although aimed at haskell programmers, is really about any technology looking to grow into the mainstream

Gabriel Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer - https://youtu.be/fNpsgTIpODA
Because they learned nothing from Gestapo and STASI.
HTTPS://mautic.org
Dude it was gasoline out of a truck, I was 10, not 1. Obviously gas is regulated here as to what goes in it with a little bit of variation. That said I'm not a chemist. The USA is backwards compared to Europe but not that backwards.
> Even though the book is pioneering and inventive, so were early computers that filled rooms; yet, outside of their novelty and significance, they would bore anyone with a smartphone.

I'm not sure you were aware when you wrote that that smartphones are a consumer good which are mindlessly held by people who don't think too much of it, whereas nowadays the only people interested in those computers that filled rooms are those who develop and nurture a deep understanding for the art, understand the technical limitations and challenges, and value them for the technical tour de force their are.

In the past there were people who also valued and devoured penny dreadfuls like crazy. I'm sure penny dreadfuls were the smartphones of their time.
Swiftkey seems nice until you're not an english native speaker, which means you automatically write in 2 languages (native and at least some english). Now good luck having the keyboard guess which dictionary to use for every single word, which can even lead to mistakes if both suggest the same thing (capitalization).
I care about not having a wrong word in the middle of every other sentence.

And even that doesn't change the simple fact that typing on it is cumbersome. Swiftkey is a little better on average, but still not even close to an actual keyboard.
This is why Monero will never work. Anonymity is defeated because i have to buy it when i want to use it, and sell as soon as i receive it. I can't just hold it in my offline wallet because I'd be speculating on the price.
> it doesn't solve the problem of the frontend also having to know all of the entity relationships

isn't this the point of graphql? You can write your front-end with easily generated typed responses.
There is a very simple litmus test to decide if someone is an entrepreneur or not: do they own the customer relationship? If they do they are an entrepreneur otherwise they aren't. This is the core of the dispute with the app stores and various companies as well: they don't want to end up at the mercy of a third party for their customer relationships.
I think what's dangerous frankly is when crypto "experts" try to claim something is when it ain't -- in a public forum.

You just can't make a claim and then say later, "But I'm not an expert."
extreme nausea and I suspect dehydration caused the headache because there was nothing left in me I threw for what seemed like a half hour. However it was a long time ago. I was actually fine the next day.
> It doesn't help that these operations have very generic names

As if "for" and "while" aren't generic names. They're so interchangeable that ziglang has basically replaced C's "for" with "while".

And with imperative loops, you have to reconstruct in your mind the state of what you're looping over and remember all possible variables closed over the loop and how they could be in flight during the loop. Map is basically declarative: "this thing is going to happen to each thing in your list"; Reduce is like a for loop, except you explicitly declare what you have to keep track over through the loop.

The advantages should be clear.
This is the world we're living in: kill a man, you're a murdered, kill 100 you're a hero.
This is my recipe as well and I've launched a number of products [1][2] this way and have had no complaints from customers.

[1] https://fiers.co/

[2] https://getelodie.com/
I didn’t find any of the “these maps looked similar” (lots of maps look similar) or “wow these two time trends are correlated” (all time series with trends are correlated) tbh
>You can't actually get any meaningful quantity of it without having a SAR or CTR filed on you (or the person obtaining it). It's big and bulky, it's uniquely numbered and traceable. You can't deposit any meaningful quantity without having a SAR or CTR filed.

I could pressure wash houses for $200 a house everyday and get 100k in less than 2 years. Or bartend, work as a waitress for a few years, whatever. There's plenty of ways people end up with large sums of cash without a SAR or CTR. Some individuals conceivably may pull 2-3k a month out of an ATM for a few years, why would that flag a SAR on you? See this guy, who [1] despite having a bank account had 87k seized by thieves in blue on the side of the road, who meticulously kept ATM statements for most all of it.

> your transactions are private until the court authorizes the police obtain them on the basis of probable cause

What is the court that signs an order, based on probable cause of a crime, for each cash transaction over 10,000? What is the court that orders, based on probable cause, a bank file a SAR when they are suspicious of your transactions. What is the court that signs an order, based on probable cause of a crime, that you declare foreign bank accounts with a combined value above $10k? Can you point me towards the warrants that have been issued for each of these transactions that show the probable cause?

What is the court order, on probable cause, that requires foreign banks to comply with FATCA for Americans abroad?

What is the court order, on probable cause, that requires money transmitters to collect KYC on customers regardless of there being any probable cause whatsoever of a crime?

The idea your transaction are private until ordered by a court is absolute hogwash.

[1] https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/nevada-troopers-t...
Mautic.org
What you wrote is imperative despite the fact that it’s written in Haskell.
>...Let's not even get into the fact that Capital gains tax is at its lowest ever,

No it is not. The lowest capital gains rates were 12.5% and even 10 years ago it was 15%.

>...and at one point capital gains for top earners was 40%

When was it ever 40%? 50 years ago, it was 35%, but that was the highest.

https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/whole-ball-...

>....and income tax was even higher.

Talking about marginal rates without discussing effective rates (due to deductions that were available, etc.) is quite misleading. That high 70% rate in the 70's brought in a tiny amount of tax revenue:

>...Of the $517 billion the Treasury collected in 1980, only $3 billion to $5 billion came from the 70 percent bracket — less than 1 percent of total tax revenue.

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2019/02/05/democrats-7...

(One reason that democrats suggested lowering the top rate in 1981.)

Those high marginal rates encouraged all kinds of unproductive investments to take advantage of loopholes built into the law. Where people couldn't get around the rates, there were deadweight losses from economic activity that didn't occur. Even if someone thinks it is morally ok to take that much of someone's income, those kinds of high rates simply hurt the economy.
"Tesla evades direct sales ban in New Mexico," maybe. It's a simple description of the company's behavior with the location for context.
It actually kept a push notification channel open. It was just more optimized for low bandwidth networks.
The startup CTO growth cycle
People need to be familiar with both approaches.
And there's sillyness on both sides. I've seen influential imperative OOP programmers on stackoverflow model a bank account using a single mutable variable, even when they surely know accountants use immutable ledgers.

Most imperative languages since Fortran contain declarative elements, otherwise we'd be adding numbers with side-effects. Similarly most FP languages offer imperative programming. But the real power from FP comes from it's restrictions and yes, query languages are one such (excellent) application. Config languages and contract languages are others.
Whatever Bjarne thinks, it is only one vote per paper.

In fact, he has failed to avoid certain C++ features even though he heavily argued against them.
Funny how you say 'we old timers' when you remind me exactly of the same sniveling types who whined about everything "Micro$uck" etc... on Slashdot back in the day... It's tiresome and doesn't contribute one bit when you defeat any points you may legitimately have with all that griping. What's the point in tossing out the age card here? Being smug is a sign of immaturity, not wisdom. So you may call yourself an old timer here but it seems you haven't grown up, either.

A company putting an ad on their own website for their own product isn't an abuse of market position. That's the falsehood I'm referring to.

Everything else that you keep tossing back in as "do you mean..." is an attempt to evade that point that I made and to put words in my mouth.

Don't trust Google? Don't like Chrome? Don't use it. It's not like we've only got one bundled browser to work with these days. Even if it's crypotrash mining and referral link hijacking software like Brave. That's better, right? Or Apple's stagnant Safari. Or... Perhaps you'd be more comfortable in Lynx or Mosaic. They work as well now as they used to then.

So. Yeah. Chrome has market share because it continues to remain better than the alternatives. Not really that difficult of a concept, methinks.

The difference between then (IE/Windows Bundling) and now (Chrome/Google Advertising Might) is that we still get everything Google releases as open source. Use de-Googled Chromium and move then fuck on with your life.

Get off my lawn, punk.
Reflect on why the First Nations might not be interested in engaging in that kind of business in the first place.
Taubes has been a big diet proponent for a long time. I’m not sold on his methods (yeah a high fat diet will lose you weight but a high sugar diet <TDEE will too, and 3 kcal raw sugar is unpalatable as is of raw fat)