skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First: You're not stupid. FP advocates sometimes take the stance that you're stupid if you don't use FP, but that's a "them" problem, not a "you" problem. You're not stupid. If they can't explain it to you, either they're lousy at explaining, or FP is as clearly superior as they claim it is.

I think that FP matches how some people think - and doesn't match how some other people think. When people that it fits learn FP, they have this "aha!" experience. They think if you don't get it, you just haven't learned enough to have the same experience. But in doing so, they are assuming that everyone else's mind works the same as theirs does. I think that's a false assumption. And I think it plays into the "we're obviously right, and anyone who can't see it is unenlightened/stupid" smugness that FP advocates sometimes have.

Here's what I have gleaned from various HN discussions in the past:

If you can think of your program (or a part of it) as a pipe, then FP is likely a good fit. If data comes in, gets modified, and goes out, that's a decent match for FP. And if it is, that has some real benefits. Pure functions (ones that are only a function of their inputs) are easier to write, debug, and use than non-pure functions are.

But, as someone said here, "real programs have state". Your program often is not just a pipe; there's some state somewhere. In some cases, the state predominates. (This is often the case for OSes and embedded systems.) What are you going to do with the state? In procedural programming, you put it in a global somewhere. In OO, you put it in a class somewhere. In FP, you still have to put it somewhere. FP sometimes does some jumping through hoops to make it not look like you're dealing with persistent state - but you still are, even if you wrap it up in something.

If you add multithreading, this gets far worse. FP is absolutely right that shared mutable state is evil, but if it's necessary for the program you're trying to write, I'm not sure that FP has a good answer. In OO, you put it in a class and protect access with semaphores. In FP, I'm not sure how you handle getting the newly updated state to the multiple threads that need to see it.

So FP isn't "better". It's a better fit for some problems (and some programmers), and a worse fit for others.

All that said, in an interview, if they're a place that uses FP, and you're not an FP person, then it may be valid for them to dock you lightly for that.
Similar bilingual parent here.

"C'est pas socier" and "Numberblocks" are excellent.
it could be argued but then again you could argue that I'm actually the King of England. there is no question a private space would be better, and cameras or bystanders won't do jack for you until after the attack has started.
But cookie banner seriously hurt the big tech sector in delivering better persobalized adds! It prevebts innovation! /s
A CONTRIBUTORS file is easy to change by anyone hosting the repository - it's useless for the purpose of verification, unless you have a toolchain to verify each change to said file. "Sign-offs by maintainers" it not useful either unless you already know who the maintainers are, and you are kept up to date (by a trusted source) when the maintainers change. This is what Radicle does, for free, when you clone a repo.
Well, freedom of speech for racists got better, while freedom of speech for critics of authoritarian governments has been reduced. Since the number of people affected by censoring has been reduced, some people call that a win for freedom of speech (as Twitter contains more racists than government critics from countries like India and Turkey).

Not surprisingly, the self-proclaimed "free-speech-absolutionist" has no problem with censoring critics of himself, too, and only token resistance to offer towards demands of censorship by authoritarian governments.
Yes, look at ollama. You'll be able to run CodeLlama 70B at Q6_K with lots of memory to spare. It won't be very fast though.
The goal of Energiewende was to crush the price of renewable generation, and it looks like that’s happened. It just turns out that the fastest way to accomplish this was for manufacturing to occur in China, where it’s consistently cheaper year after year. If you set up an optimization problem on one metric, you can’t be surprised when it doesn’t optimize for a different one.
The overlap if you work 9 to 5 hours in that timezone has proven a bit of a drag for us.
too many roommates, though.
That may be a valid point, but notice that the GP wasn't about the EU government, it's about governments in general.

And notice it isn't exactly about how people do think they are good, but it's about how people are open to the idea that it can do good here or there.

Or, in other words, it's a much more nuanced point than the one you are replying to.
if this is executed by the backend, that means something more nefarious could be executed too
Which towns? Which programmes?
Grep Britain: visualise cities, towns, villages and hamlets
> According to the cybersecurity company, it replied by saying it wouldn't agree to swift disclosure, and pointed JetBrains to its policy against silently patching vulnerabilities, which stipulates that if companies violate that policy, Rapid7 will itself release the full details of the vulnerability, including enough information to allow people to develop exploits, within 24 hours.

Did JetBrains engage Rapid7 to conduct an audit? If not, I think describing this as a “violation” is a step too far: if two companies have no pre-existing relationship then there’s no reason for one of them to start complying with arbitrary policies set by the other.

If on the other hand JetBrains engaged Rapid7 to audit TeamCity and then tried to wriggle out of their contract when a vulnerability was found, then this isn’t a great look.
Read the comment again

> with the low occupancy of the train, this is not a problem whatsoever
sure. once you take off, you're not getting more people on until you land.

by that logic, you have until the next stop, and then any claim you have to a seat is forfeit.
Unfortunately the unsatisfying alternative is correct. Counterfactuals are fun but have little value in serious study of history.
The valuable lesson you should all take away.

If the company is not public ask for a "cap table", if the answer isn't "it's in your inbox"... Then your response is: If you don not have a cap table then the shares are more or less toilet paper. You are going to take them but they are worth nothing in this deal, say "more cash please", and as salary.
Fantastic record. It’s nice to see any kind of spotlight shined on jazz but don’t let nostalgia for the past stop you from discovering the elite music being created today. So many jazz message boards and higher ed curriculums focus exclusively on the jazz of the 40s and 50s. Miles for one would have disapproved.
One good example for a good website without tracking:

news.ycombinator.com
If you run an AI chatbot, your more immediate concern should probably be the chatbot lying to your customers, since you are liable for whatever answers it produces.
I hit back instantly when I see the Admiral logo. That network IIRC claims >1,500 partners. And last time I bothered looking even though there is a few “no to all” checkboxes you still needed to individually object to “legitimate interest”¹ for most of the companies.

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[1] which I read as “we see you and your privacy preferences, but fuck you and your preferences we want to stalk you anyway”
That's the essence of co-routines vs. sub-routines. If you've ever used a Unix pipe you've used a limited form of coroutines. "ps | grep foo" tells process A, the shell, to fire up processes B (ps) and C (grep), and tells B to send results to C, not its caller A. B runs a bit and yields, returning some data via stdout. C runs a bit, reading the result via stdin, then yields to B and waits for B to return more data. Pipes are actually bidirectional, so its possible for C to send results to B when it yields, but off the top of my head I can't think of a real such example.
I cancelled my sub to Gemini.

It is aggressive against the user.

The “insert an ethnic minority into every group photo” was the straw that broke the camels back as it was clearly biased.( for anyone who cares I am an ethnic minority).

But I do remember, and I mean this, my first ever query asking it to draw a picture by a Japanese artist resulted in a “call this number for mental health problems”

I was like wtf. The prompt was benign “water color sunbathing beach sunset” by some random normal Japanese artist. Sure potentially nsfw but the reply was completely hamfisted, insulting and really crazy.

I probably wouldn’t have cared but it was literally my first prompt.

Before anyone says “well it could have been degenerate” you have heard of the Michelangelo David right? The greatest ever sculpture? I haven’t tried but I’m pretty sure there isn’t a hope in hell the llm would reproduce anything like it.

Really went off it since day one.
> That still needed EU approval

Half the EU (basically the whole Eastern Europe) protested. Germany did it anyway.
If you use government websites within EU countries, most of them have cookie warnings. And a large part of them also use dark patterns to "forget" that you selected "only necessary" cookies each time you visit.
Ask that question even within Italy or Finland and you're probably going to get different answers.

However, ask an Italian or a Finn about an attitude towards consumers rights, and you're likely to end up with a similar answer.
I'm not a crazy free market maximalist or antitrust hater.. its very important in many markets.

I just don't think its really necessary or high priority for iPhones. Android is one OS like Linux is one OS, there are 5-6 big time manufacturers with their own OSes, 100s of phones at all price points. I was replying to someone complaining about the price point but there are so many great phones at lower price points. Not to mention discounted rates on plans or second hand phones.

This particular case was about Apple not allowing third party payment options. The payment market is cornered by Visa/MasterCard that charges 1% on every single transaction. They charge a huge percent rate on a constant amount of work. There are countries that operate their own payment systems that have 0 or close to 0 fees on transactions. But no one is going to go after Visa/MC in a 2-player market just like phones that hasn't reduced prices in decades? So now Spotify can stop paying fees to one monopolist and pay them to the next one down the line? These don't look like rational, considered decisions by antitrust agencies to focus on the markets that have the worst behaviour, more just piling on the current thing.
and to be clear, the european attitude to this regulation would be, "try again, better this time"

not ah yes, let's go back to having no regulation of corps tracking people.

People would be quite enthusiastic to more regulation which required no cookie banners where users had, eg., expressed a preference for no tracking at the browser level. And likewise, to require the provision of such "no-tracking signals".

I suspect something like this is on the horizon, and in part, something google was trying to head-off with its 3rd party cookies stuff.

"more, better!"
*parent with the assumption that you child will become a statistic if you don't

Thanks for the judgement though
> Two things surprised me while reading the literature on this. First, we’re still not sure how exactly SO2 injection would impact rains. Second, what we do know is that we will be able to dial where we change the rain, because rain patterns are very sensitive to where we inject the SO2. We could increase rain where we need it and reduce it where flood risk is too high.

His enthusiams seems to have carried him right past this obvious contradiction. We don't know how this intervention will impact rains, but we'll be able to fine tune the impacts to be whatever we want them to be?
Communism is fun while you can afford it but it usually ends. Google has cash cow so it attracts these political types that produce no value.
The practical implication of this is also that it is a huge market. You can ignore that at your own peril. And another thing is that the EU is inspiring other countries to also change their regulations. In the end what companies need to decide is if they can afford losing and alienating major markets across the globe.

E.g. Apple sells lots of iphones and other hardware in the EU. That should be more valuable than giving themselves preferential treatment in their own store, banning competitors from using their browser on IOS, and other anti competitive things that they are doing. And that's just Apple. Arguably, Google, Amazon, Meta, etc. each have their own issues with regulations in the EU.
So after your basic premise was demonstrated false, you instead just deflect to a nothing statement that couldn't be more false? "Apple is good" "no, they aren't" "for every bad app Apple let's on the platform that makes them extremely rich that they will never ban, and all the spam apps they seem un able to ban, there are definitely way more malware on the play store because Google lets people do whatever"

Which is just not true. It has permissions, app review, and the same broken financial incentives as Apple.

I don't understand how anyone defends Apple's walled thornbush garden. Sure it's in neat rows with paths and it says it's a garden. But it's designed to maximize the amount it gets out of you for Apple's benefit just like Google, to make sure you can't leave, and to make you feel like the thornbush garden of Google is worse because they use gravel for their paths instead of paved stones.
...do you use the steam screenshot sharing function as an image host?
> I'd need to be convinced that's true. More regulation was a huge part of the successful campaign to get the UK out of the EU.

I think the main reason was that populist politicians where allowed to lie unopposed.
£350M per week for the NHS anyone? (End: constants strikes in the NHS about small pay rises to mitigate inflation).
Singapore on Thames? Easiest trade agreement in the world? Trade agreement with the US? Free ports everywhere? UK world beating (of course world beating, they can't just be good, or even better than others, they have to aggressive beat them down) in everything ? I haven't heard that for a long time.

As a populist you can say whatever you want as you usually don't have to stand up for it. Same here. Three Prime Ministers in the same legislation period since Brexit was done. The liars are mostly gone but Brexit is still there.

The reason for Brexit was in no small amount that pugilistic lies where allowed unopposed.
Malta uses type G plugs also. If you're reasonably familiar with electricity, you can use a europlug with a type G socket even without an adapter. (unless you count a pin/screwdriver to bypass the child gates) In fact, I have both an adapted schuko plug and an unadapted europlug wall wart under my desk right now. I should really get an adapter for the latter one though, so it can be individually fused and make better contact.
> It isn’t as though we were doing anything ethically or legally wrong.

Legally? Well, they probably have a "if we think you do something we don't like we can kick you off" clause. Ethically? Eh .. Crypto. Ethical. Opinions differ.
> continuous code

> continuous logic

This is terminology I'm used to. Generally this is called "combinational logic" in my experience. Is this a language or regional difference?
In the UK the word “Europe” is commonly understood in certain connected to mean continental Europe or the EU, in contrast to the UK.
Also Radicle, evidently
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> It's suprising that the US still holds itself as the champion of the free market where it's more a corporate Oligarchy.

The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal (both American), have been publishing the Index of Economic Freedom since 1995 and don't put the USA in 25th position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom#Rank...

In some areas the US is clearly the leader in championing the free market, such as the US Freedom of Navitation Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_navigation#United_S...
Funny that you chose Amsterdam to give an example: this is one of the places in Europe where there actually are IT startups - some "home-grown", some moved from elsewhere. "Nobody" is plainly not true.
Perfect encapsulation of this lack of sovereignty - not only is OP not sovereign, for all the reasons they mentioned, but OP is being imperially instructed that they are not even allowed to mention that they are not sovereign any more.
I doubt they are gaining time.

Any judge will just look and say "hey, that's clearly what the legislators meant from the beginning".
> but this begs the follow up question - is the strategy working? Because for all their standards and harmonisation, the manufacturing is happening in China and the decisions are being made in North America.

But at least some of the decisions that happen in North America are happening because of EU regulation. For example the push to get all phone manufacturers to standardise on USB chargers
Sure, but I think you can make the same comment about the motivation behind and effectiveness of almost any security measure in the enterprise space. WAFs aren’t particularly bad or particularly ineffective… They just aren’t good.
From: https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...

> So, why weren't we told to wear masks in the beginning?

> "Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply. And we wanted to make sure that the people namely, the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected."

I also have this one bookmarked: https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/noble-lies-covid-fauci-...

Edit: that link 404s now (curiuous). Still on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20210802065432/https://slate.com...
There are plenty of use-cases that are covered by implicit consent where the website uses cookies for basic functionality (like login sessions or shopping carts) where no banner is required.
May be they make millions and spend give away in philanthropy. Why villanize them? If it is a good business, it is a good business.
Hi. While not actively looking for replacement to proprietary services s.a. Github or GitLab, from time to time I'm asked about an alternative.

I'm all for a distributed self-hosting solution, so Radicle is definitely hitting the mark here, however:

> Linux or Unix based operating system.

For the kind of project I have to assist with, this would be a deal-breaker. Since the code seems to be in Rust: do you intend to make it available to MS Windows? (I took it for granted that Mac OS is included in the Unix family, right?)

If not straight-up support for MS Windows, then maybe an MSYS2 port?

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To give some background: I'm not in charge of decisions like service vendor selection, and we are talking about a quasi-government organization with substantial open-source code base that is currently hosted on Github. I.e. sometimes I might have a chance to pitch a particular idea, but it's not up to me if the idea is accepted. They are quite motivated to make their work as resilient to private vendor policies as possible as well as try to "do good" in other ways (i.e. sustainability, breadth of the outreach etc. -- a typical European gov. org :) So, Github is... obviously in conflict with such policies.

While there are other gov. agencies tasked with archiving or networking support, they seem to be woefully incompetent and / or outdated, as well as often falling for the vendor-laid traps (eg. the archiving service went all-in after DataBricks not even realizing it's a commercial closed-source product). So, I wouldn't have high hopes for the org. to be able to leverage a self-hosted solution. That's why a distributed solution looks great.

However, they wouldn't be able to use a tool that doesn't work on major popular PC systems.
He would have to spend his time studying instead of working though, or else get kicked out
He paid once for an unlimited journey ticket. He gets either a seat for a day ride or a couch for a night journey.
> You know what disproves this, again right wing US BS to oppose universal healthcare?

Originally, universal health care was proposed by the Nixon administration, and was a right wing issue. The issue was viewed as an industrial competitiveness issue, and the solution advocated was a single payer system that would move the cost of health off of the balance sheet. I sometimes wonder what would have happened had this idea taken root.
When you fork an abandoned repo, you are essentially giving it a new repository identity, which is a new root of trust, with a new maintainer set. You'll then have to communicate the new repository identifier and explain that this is a fork of the old repo.
Personally I wouldn't be happy with a high current europlug in a type-g socket, and given that type-g electrical installations assume a fused plug it's probably not a great idea. If you had a fault you could be drawing 25A up a 3A cable without tripping a breaker.
What an idiotic, assumption-laden response to a fairly detailed explanation of another's reasoning. There are many demonstrable instances of Google having de-ranked and blocked content that doesn't fit certain political narratives, and not always in reasonable ways. During the pandemic in particular they abounded, yet your best response is to assume the most idiotic possible reasoning about a very specific public figure and let that symbolize the rest.