skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A build system for single file programs.
China Covid: Area around biggest iPhone plant locked down
It’s part of the same session-management feature that had unexpected (and undesirable) effects.
I personally use mailbox.org for years now. Granted, I don't have remotely the usage mentioned in the linked issue and I know users that aren't very satisfied with features like the integrated office webapp, but it does everything I need (emails & calendar sync) and I haven't found a reason not to trust them.

Originally my reason to choose them instead of Protonmail was that Protonmail only works with their official client, which is a far too limiting dependency in my eyes.
Building a dynamic crawler with Puppeteer and Headless Chrome
I find it funny that when I go through my network I often end up taking projects where I have to pivot to new niche and build something innovative which becomes a core of the business. Many come back to me years after our ways part and ask to join them again. And yet, each time I go and take interview through recruiters I almost never find successful path through the grinds. Recently, when I'm contacted by recruiters, I ask for details of recruitment process and if it consists of too many stages I don't continue with it. I'm probably one of hundreds anyways so it does not feel worth the hassle.
A note regarding your binary tree example:

I'd argue that FP is actually great for working with tree-like data structures. For example, the common implementations for sets and maps are based on balanced trees. IME it's graph-like or array-based stuff where the paradigm struggles.
> For anyone but professionals the reasons to buy a DSLR or mirrorless are virtually gone.

I'd say aesthetically, it's very difficult to get decent background seperation on a phone. The practical reasons for using a camera body (I kind of consider phones to be real cameras) is to deliver quality images and aesthetics that are not achievable trivially on the phone. There's a point where trying to use a phone the same way as a camera body actually becomes really awkward from both a user interface perspective and very difficult based on capabilities.

It's actually a bit infuriating how camera bodies have not been modernizing very much. You won't find many camera bodies having a built in GPS directly, no camera security options (anti-theft, preventing photo access, automatic cloud backup), I haven't found a single camera manufacturer phone app (tethers with camera) that actually works decently with RAW workflows. There is a demand for post-processing in cameras too, not for every photographer, but, fuji users in particular tend to use that camera because of its post-processing capabilities.

GPS is actually a pain for professionals that work in teams too even when you aren't using GPS for positioning. If you're covering an event and don't have GPS, your camera bodies won't usually have decently synchronised clocks and if you're trying to get photos from multiple photographers and trying to make a second by second story, the metadata in the photos will lead to a very jumbled mess quickly. Meanwhile, most phones are accurately keeping the time so perfectly, that if you import images from them, they're typically very well ordered.
Yes, there really should be some regulation around this. Apps sending traffic down quiet residential roads because the main road is overcrowded is a terrible practice.

If it's a farm road, there's always the option my neighbour used to do: he took his sweet time when he let the cattle cross the road. It's always fun when impatient idiots have to wait a few minutes because 50 cows are walking to their meadows across the road :)
That is flattening the curve, not imprisoning people in their own home for the well being of a wealthy dictator.
Could it also be the vaccines that were administered in China being less effective? If I recall people were hesitant to get the ones they developed and they at some point admitted that the initial ones had too low of an efficacy. So it'd make sense (for the gov) to fall back to lockdowns, maybe?
If I google "why is it bad for google to track you", I can find a hundred articles breathlessly telling you all the ways google is tracking you, and a hundred more on how to stop it - but none answering the question.

Can someone explain to me why it's a problem? (I make the assumption that even if google doesn't do it, your carrier does, so it doesn't add anything additional to "government's ability to repress/harass".)
> 1. Do I lock myself down for 2 years, and fight preventing long Covid and 2% deaths population wide?

It was never as high as 2% in the first place. The numbers were inflated because we didn't have enough tests to go around, so only the people who we were already pretty sure were infected were tested.
That quote is absurd because the vast majority of applications on the planet are not written in Erlang and work just fine. Working and fault tolerance are in no way related. Being generous the majority of applications with very high uptime are also not written in Erlang.
I'm the first to admit my bad track record when it comes to predicting future technology.

But... Real world applications, that justify the costs of quantum computing would need hundreds of qubits, more likely thousands. All entangled and maintaining entanglement to execute a meaningful world scale applications.

I dunno, I don't see it. Please tell me wrong, and cure my innovator dilemma
It's impressive how quickly those bot accounts can jump ship. Now Mastodon use them to juice their growth figures.

p.s. They gained accounts. That's not the same as actual users using the platform.
I think every issue group will have a small subset of those who are merely exploiting the cause as a medium to vent their own issues. They may naturally tend to be the loudest and get the most publicity. They should just be ignored.

I studied “geography and environmental management” in undergrad and a recurring quip among one of my labs was, “what are they raising awareness of? That environmentalists are babies? Thanks, guys.”

I think the one thing I would share with those who perform “awareness-raising stunts” is that I know it all seems too big for you to do anything about, so spectacles seem effective, but you’ve got to be the change you want to see, even if your contributions feel tiny. This doesn’t mean no activism or awareness, but those things cannot be the point.

P.S. I’m not trying to speak as an authority on the subject. I think it’s completely possible that I’m 100% wrong and these stunts are worth trying. This is just my perspective.
> We fix those things, I guarantee the army will have much better recruits.

Great! How?
I personally think Rust should be included in this group. It isn't technically a functional language, but it has a "functional flair" with many of the same benefits as functional programming provides, and with some of the features (pattern matching, sum types, etc.). It takes a different approach to mutability, but the net benefit I think is about the same.
> Demanding that two stroke engines be banned, and focusing on absolutely minuscule contributions to emissions,

Not just two strokes...

> Legislating insane policies against ICE vehicles, while desperately trying to get people to stop charging their vehicles at peak consumption hours because the current grid can't sustain it.

I don't know if the EU can pull it but it certainly looks, let's say, ambitious to ban the sale of any new non-EV vehicle in the EU by 2035. Even if the european car manufacturers somehow can adapt and source all the material they'll need to produce EV-only vehicles, how is the grid going to be ready?

In doubt I'll certainly be trying to fetch a plug-in hybrid in a few years, while they're still sold, so I'll have at least options.
It should be illegal (if not already) to use other people's work to train AI models. In the future, all artworks will have a license attached to it, some fair usage clause.
70k is a grain of sand relatively.
That was the early messaging when only low quality masks were available and we didn’t know it was an aerosol virus.
The D programming language is a good example which defines pure functions, not as strictly operating on immutable data, but simply as functions without side effects. So pure functions can still have local mutable variables, but cannot mutate any shared or global state. It goes further with "weakly pure" functions which can have mutable parameters/arguments, but still cannot mutate any global variables.
I'm really happy with Meson, as a lot of Wayland (the new display protocol for Linux, the "successor" of X11) apps seem to be built in C, so using meson is super simple and I don't have to worry about tooling (I don't deal much with C/C++, so let me make my change and run away please).

Rust is the same, you can even define a nightly version if you want, so even the correct version is ran with rustup. It's fantastic, and I can contribute much easier to projects without worrying about tooling.
Downvoted and flagged for making unfounded claims, without any supporting arguments, and attempting to silence voices you personally disagree with instead of engaging intellectually with the argument or ignoring it.
The title should really be Pantone wants $15/month for the privilege of using its colors in Creative Cloud or Photoshop Subscription.

>To hear Pantone tell it, Adobe had not been updating the Pantone color libraries in its apps for more than a decade, which prompted the end of the previous licensing deal and the wholesale removal of the old libraries from Adobe's apps in favor of the Pantone Connect Extension.

It sounds like Adobe doesn't want to pay X amount of money for it. And we now end up with the drama. But considering the cost of other Pantone tools, I am not surprised at the $15 mark.
The biggest casualty of covid is the trust in health authorities. Unnecessary lockdowns (assuming those even work which is really not clear given the absence of inflection point in cases when they were introduced in europe) will just lead to even more distrust.

Also high IFR viruses usually have high symptoms. Much easier to contain a disease when you can tell people are sick. People feeling sick will also travel and spread less. What made covid so widespread is that it was so mild to so many people. So there is a kind of bell curve of deadliness vs infectiousness. So not really convinced by those argument of what if covid was so much deadlier. You would need a virus with zero symptom while you are infectious, and then that kills you, like an airborne HIV. Anything is possible but with ifs...
There's an abundance of advocates for every flavor of fascism on this planet, which will not end up well for the humankind.
The point that people are making here is that all the time we are made to believe that the masks, lockdowns etc are necessary to keep the exponential propagation spiraling out of control

The default talking point and narrative is that even if masks were only 0.1% effective that tiny effect exponentially compounds and over time and leads to <insert massive number here> lives saved.

Then you have Pakistan where no measures are taken yet the there is no exponential spiraling out of control
Not sure what you’re on about, but every provider is going to offer new customers a porting service to encourage you to switch. And with a few exceptions (moving from wired to wired in a new geographic area, or moving certain small rural providers), your old carrier must let the new carrier port the number.
When does the adult realize the systems that have lived far longer than he has lived, intuitively understand human psychology and have completely and utterly coopted any conventional agency or power to effect change through reasoned reasonable action he might think he has? The moral adult approaches morality as a matter of thinking but there is no place his thinking can bring him that isn't within reach of the system that owns him.

I might be going paranoid.
Personally I think it was two things reinforcing each other:

On one side, a natural decline in people using the phone (replaced by texting/apps)

On the other side: the cell companies no longer “encumbered” by laws around landline reliability, cramming ever more phone calls in to the same amount of bandwidth

The cell companies could have the clearest call quality by a wide margin, if they chose to. TBH, (and I know I’m an outlier) even though I talk to people for maybe 5 hours a month, I would still switch providers to one that offered call a quality equivalent to being in person
I purchased a Fazioli a few months ago and I really like it.
I’m surprised at the slightly mendacious position taken by the author, a lawyer. (I write that without sarcasm but take it as you will.)

Here he characterizes the pro-argument as being in favor of diverse aesthetics instead diverse experience, when, if pressed, I would assume he’d admit that the objective of affirmative action is in fact to admit a student body with more diverse backgrounds.

He also acknowledges that the narrow point of the anti- argument focuses on race _qua race_ as a criterion for admission, but then ascribes the characterization of an acquaintance’s grade school admissions consultant of a Manhattan grade school admissions program’s inclination towards ‘visual diversity’ as being, without evidence, the same one at work at the universities in question. I don’t think you can make that leap with solely the hearsay opinion of one third party from another context.

I think he drives by the real argument he should make here, which is that the objectives of affirmative action are laudable but the technique currently used to further its goals is deeply flawed to the point of being useless.
It’s not just the rgb value. Using a specific Pantone color ensures that when you get it printed or manufactured it’s the color that you expect.
Sorry, but I don't see how you could construe my original comment as "dismissive", let alone "hateful".
Google Cloud uptime checks can cost you more than running what they are checking
tl;dr; With new pricing and default settings a single uptime check target will cost you $77.76 a month. The minimum is $38.88 if you want to check every 60s.

Starting October 1st Google started charging $0.30 per 1000 uptime checks - it was free before.

Some quick math:

- 60 checks per hour * 24 hours * 30 days = 43200 billable checks per month, or $12.96, but

- you are required to run those checks from at least 3 locations, so 12.96 * 3 = $33.88 minimum, but

- the default is "global" or 6 locations. That setting is hidden in UI in collapsed section "more target options". To make things worse a single location checkbox "United States" actually enables 3 locations - 3 data centers in US

That's a $38.88 minimum and $77.76 default. Running a 2 vCPU + 8GB RAM + 10GB storage VM in Google Cloud for a month costs $50.34.

By comparison Pingdom will charge at most $1 per uptime target with it's smallest plan of 10 targets and will throw in advanced checks and SMS downtime alerts in that price. With larger plans you can get closer to $0.60.

If you run a lot of small VMs and have an uptime check for something running on each of them you will end up paying more for the uptime checks than VMs. Don't ask how I know.
I was not saying you were being hostile, on the contrary, your previous answer is friendly, informative, and perfect for someone who is trying to get started and knows nothing about Mastodon. It's what I try to explain to other people myself, and I have to say all I get is blank stares. No one needs to go to a specific Twitter for Javascript discussions, or a specific Twitter for weather bots for their city, or worry if this person or that person are on the same server and how that affects them, they just get a Twitter account, period, then use it for whatever it is they want to use it.

( I don't use Twitter myself. Personally I'd make an account as I have in the past at mstdn.jp -- I don't have one now, and this is also another reason behind my question, what are people doing and where in Mastodon these days, in case I should look at trying other servers. )

By hostile I meant the first friction point anybody coming to Mastodon faces : What are you looking for ? What are your interests, let's see what server fits you better, etc. That's why I compare that way to look at it to IRC; if I want to discuss film photography in English there's a specific channel for that. Or gardening in suburban Paris in French. Or whatever. Reddit comes to mind as well. That's what group chats or public forums are. Should I be thinking Mastodon is that kind of service / tool ?

Because I see Mastodon, and maybe I am wrong, as a content publishing and communication platform, not as a topic-driven group chat / forum. Or pushing it, I would even liken it to e-mail. One shouldn't have to decide if mails will be sent to an Irish programmer for work, or they will be for discussing in Japanese with grandma, when creating an e-mail account, or what servers the mails come from.

Yes, you can use a Mastodon account as you wish, provided it does not break the rules of the server, or what you want to see is not blocked, or roll your own if you can be bothered to set up and maintain your own server, or, or, etc.

And right from the start people are faced with these questions, and server rules, and whatnot, about Mastodon, when getting started should be frictionless, they shouldn't even have to worry about whether this server or that server does this or that -- "but you can transfer your data, it's yours", eh, that's not helping.

This is what I was talking about when saying I find it hostile.
It used to be impossible to do anything remotely like FP in Go before generics, but now I believe it's indeed quite possible.
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See: Basically everyone who was suggesting the Wuhan virology lab was a plausible source for a virus originating in Wuhan.
Why not more direct action? The CEOs, executives, politicians and media personalities that profit from destroying the environment are known. If you're willing to go to jail to make your point, make it worth it. Trashing some painting in the hopes that someone else will become inspired to stand up and do it for you isn't going to work.
This is a very patronising article.

Do I approve of throwing tomato soup at Sunflowers? Nope.

Was Sunflowers damaged? Nope - the frame was glazed.

I don't know if all these protests have been similar, but I think I'd have heard if any of them had damaged important cultural heritage.

I don't see why the author thinks that "Just Stop Oil" protests in particular are tantrums. The same analysis would make any protest, about anything, a tantrum. So he thinks protesters should instead come up with constructive solutions, instead of just whining that they're not happy? Cool, give them some civil servants, so they can build a policy-development team.

[Edit] My reaction is that this article is itself an enraged tantrum.
But everything you can do with generics you can do manually by copying and pasting code?
wrong week.
It's difficult to see the value in spending time on Mastodon, compared to other services.

For example, just checking joinmastodon.org gives the following top 10 recommended options:

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Which pretty much sound like a list of Discord or IRC servers except the non-english ones are not filtered out.

So it's a bit weird why it's advertised as a Twitter replacement at all. Clearly competition will balkanize everything into thousands of mostly invite-only niche servers.

Maybe it makes more sense as an IRC or Discord replacement?
Particularly given the it is now endemic in so many countries.
Yes PMF means Product Market Fit and TAM stands for - Total Addressable Market. Here's a quick link to read more:

https://www.lightercapital.com/blog/what-is-total-addressabl...
Even if you tweak your hashing algorithm to take 1 second on a fast CPU, you get 31 years of CPU time to search the entire space. That's simply not enough! And going beyond 1 second is probably also not practical.
Well, color me surprised!
Well, there will be no business sense for Facebook in deploying a free service like that if it doesn't bring along some business value.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Care to elaborate?
That is the same thing. Practically the original provider has to offer a service where they forward your number to a new carrier. But that doesn’t mean the customer has some kind of ownership like claim to the number.
From what I recall, its about phyiscal to virtual color matching, so pantone offers samples of say plastic with the exact matching color as the virtual ones, so you can pick a color, tell the manufacturer you want the plastic molded that color and be pretty sure you'll get the right color of product (or if not you can go back to them and tell them to do it according to spec).

You'd also want to calibrate your monitor accordingly of course
My understanding is that the entire suite of colors is calibrated by material, among other things. #aabbcc on the screen does not look like #aabbcc when painted onto wood, or from plastic injection moulding. But Pantone Color #32 will be absolutely identical everywhere.
It's strange to me that this article focusses so much on nullability, which seems like a tangental issue. There's nothing stopping an imperative language from enforcing nullability checks. Indeed, with full strictness enabled TypeScript will do just that, including requiring you check every indexed access to an array.
Bull. Blame some fringe group for everything while at the same time blowing off the billions spent on global warming denialism since the 1980s.
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Surgical masks are enough to help prevent the spread of COVID, it's not about 100% safety which is impossible, but saying that they're not good enough does not seem to be true.