skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Monads seem to have this strange aura around them that attracts certain kinds of personalities

Historical accident.

There was a time, not very long ago, when we didn't know applicative functors were a useful separate subset of monads. We thought full monads were needed for all the neat things that applicatives are sufficient for.

During this time, lots of ink was spilled over monads. Had we invented applicative functors a little earlier, they would probably have gotten more of the spotlight they deserve.

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I also think people underappreciate the humble semigroup/monoid. But this is not historical accident, it is just that it seems to simple to be useful. But it is useful to be able to write functions generic over concatenation!
Not everyone can create new things, or create new things all the time. The rest of the time they can make better use of existing things
Understood. But what you have described is an attitude. Another possible attitude is being happy to lose money, hand over fist. Somewhere in between, there used to be a multi-billion company that made a piffling 10% margin on revenue.

You need some diversity in a system to remain able to change. Very homogenous populations are more likely to be wiped out in a crisis. Maximal efficiency is not maximal meta-efficiency.
Or that they are just sane people.
A nice visual for linear mixed effects modelling
If you give police the right to invade and arrest any group that is "sheltering criminals", and you define "crime" broadly enough to include "suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance" i.e. encouraging protest, then you have given up on living in a free society.
Russia violated Article 1 of the Charter, by twice invading Ukraine.

The unwinding of international law is already in-progress.

The USSR was expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland. The UN can't, or at least hasn't.

https://academic.oup.com/jcsl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jc...

The U.S. invading any nation's territory surely leaves the Charter in tatters.
> With sfeed you can merge feeds with literally 'cat' into a single file.

And how many people use that?
How many who are not geeks?
PE is just a fancy name for non-public investment. The charitable interpretation is that if your typical teachers and government worker pension can invest in PE to maximize return, why cant your corporate 401k do the same?

Why would someone have trouble sleeping at night?
An introvert engaging in a conversation is not the same level of harm as someone’s life being destroyed because they are outed to a government.

> Maybe the severity of risks are specific to those who undertake them?

No. Your feelings getting hurt because someone said something mean about something you said that isn’t even attributable to your real identity is extremely low risk.
Looks like it's been taken down, so here's an archive link: https://archive.is/J2oZn
That's quite an admission. Would you say your feelings are objective?
It’s not simply diffusion complexity. A lot of cellular transport is dependent on directed transport via the cytoskeleton and myosin. For example a 1m long neutron would need years to move proteins from one end to the other if it just relied on diffusion.
I found myself thinking about something similar recently. It had to do with the Optifye.ai fiasco, and the difference between solving problems / creating things for the 'common man' vs. for the 'ruling class'. I think I much prefer the former.
Why does it matter if they are theists or not? Would you afford more leniency to a catholic church?
I'm surprised that you lean on the constitution's plain wording in your last 2 paragraphs (thank you, I, too, read it that way), but you support Trump. Virtually every one of his actions so far requires mental gymnastics to allow them as constitutional, or are plainly unconstitutional, leaving aside violating norms that have worked very well in the past.
Thanks for the feedback!

Adding sample pictures for easy access is a great idea—I’ll definitely consider that to improve usability.

Noted on the info icon! I’ll see if I can make it more noticeable.

Glad you found it clean and easy to use! Appreciate the suggestions :)
To me the core lesson here is the incredible value of stable political and economic institutions.

(even after adjusting for the incredible injustice of all the external actors, and nature itself).

If you are lucky enough to get such a stable system, it's a high priority to defend it. Don't weaken it for marginal improvements for your cause.
> Android’s security design has fundamentally been based on a multi-party authorization model: an action should only happen if all involved parties authorize it.

> these are user, platform, and developer (implicitly representing stakeholders such as content producers and service providers). Any one party can veto the action.

How is this not anti-user? It explicitly states that the app developer should be able to veto my decisions...
Consider two pet mice instead. They're more portable. Kess could carry them in her pocket when going out to the playground and the mice are happy to stay in there. Get two girls because girl mice smell better and don't fight. My boy had three pet mice from age 6-9 and absolutely adored them. Took them everywhere out to play. To the beach, to friends' houses, to the playground, etc. And they're such a magnet for conversation. Everyone wants to come see and hold a pet mouse. They're so cute. Our mice lived to the old age of 3, and were very adored.

Rats have more personality than mice but are less portable, so better to have in the house instead of out in the playground. Kind of like guinea pigs. (A common pet where I grew up.) And their little claws can unintentionally scratch and hurt. Clipping their nails would help but that's hard. If you get rats, get two boys, and have them castrated ASAP. I have two boy rats now and love them.

To answer my biggest concern when I got them: they never ever bite. (Neither rats nor mice.)
He's gotten away with literally everything (except Jean Carroll), because he is willing to spend unlimited amounts of money on lawyers for unlimited amounts of time. For this, that won't be good enough. Unlimited amounts of lawyers aren't going to change the constitution; they aren't going to make the Supreme Court ignore the constitution; they aren't going to prevent a literal shooting civil war if he ignores the constitution. He's gotten into deep enough water that his normal method isn't going to bail him out.
Everyone has the odd flop. The laptops are good.
In this case it was code to generate an "oauth2 code_challenge" and the correctly URLEncode it. Instead of using replaceAll the example used replace. So only the first character in the string was getting converted.

When pressed the developer said they thought their code was "too fast for the oauth server" and that's why it failed about 25% of the time.

The level of disappointment I had when I found the problem was enough to be memorable, but to find the post he flat out copied on stack overflow, along with a comment below it highlighting the bug AND the fix, nearly brought be to apoplexy.
The Little Series, famous for The Little Schemer book, published The Little MLer in 1998.

It's probably their lesser known volume, but IMHO it makes a terrific job at teaching the ML family and its features.
22 Miles on Foot, 10 Minutes on a Tram: An 'Extraordinary' Day Hike
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/travel/cactus-to-clouds-h...
Memory map is wrong, VRAM is its own 96KB, and does not incoroporate the palettes or OAM.
Yes. Hardened criminals being sheltered.

> A Met spokesman said six women had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance, amid fears of a sit-down protest in the capital. None have been charged.
One notable exception to this was Jeremiah Dixon, of the Mason-Dixon line. From Wikipedia:

> "Jeremiah Dixon, happening upon a slave driver mercilessly beating a poor black woman. 'Thou must not do that!' he shouted. 'You be damned! Mind your own business,' came the reply. 'If thou doesn't desist, I'll thrash thee!'

> Tall and powerful, Jeremiah seized the slave-driver's whip and gave him a soun thrashing. When he returned to Cockfield, the whip came too, and was one of the Quaker family's treasured possessions."
This time it is justified, because web apps have been working in Chrome since 2015.
Is there a scorecard I can look at somewhere of promises-made, promises-kept, new-policies-never-promised?
The whole point of writing a "self-contained" script is that it should run anywhere. uv bundles its own cpython runtime(s) for this purpose, but relying on script execution prior to invocation of uv breaks this.

The trick in the featured article would allow me to drop a script written in modern python syntax on my outdated ubuntu LTS box and have it "just work", while GP's suggestion would not.
Right, I was just trying to clarify because the OP was asking for a way to compute the function. It may not be the best way, and that's the interesting open question.
I Got a (Model) M, Not a (Model) F
I'm suggesting that the organisation is not the one that existed 100 years ago, even by a very large stretch of the imagination. The title is emotive largely because of the reputation of the organisation.

If the headline was "police raid house to arrest criminal activists", it wouldn't have made a blip.
I remembered liking them when I was a kid, but I just tried reading A Wizard of Earthsea again and it was just "Ged went here" "Ged learned that" "These people didn't like Ged" etc. Does it get better later?

This right after mixing up Anne McCaffrey and Ursula K Le Guin and finding out that the Pern series was just fetish dragon smut.
> Have you even seen the new Win11 taskbar and the shitty Start Menu - they ruined something which they perfected in Win7.

Yes, one of the biggest visible downgrade of a core feature with W11! It's is awful and buggy, but then Windhawk mods and menu alternatives and app launchers exist, so it can tweaked to be good again (though they didn't perfect anything in any W7 or any other version, there is not a single perfect UI component)

> The overall UX has taken a deep dive - like with the unwanted removal of classic Control Panel applets like "Window Color and Appearance" (which doesn't have a replacement)

Again, bad stuff, though the classic control panel was also bad, the only consolation is that at the steady state you don't use those often

> CLOCK app requires you to sign-in (why?) [1]. There are even ads in MS PAINT [2]! Tell me if this is acceptable?

It isn't , but then why would you ever use these bad stock apps even if they had no ads??? Much better options exist!

But all of those mostly fixable annoyances pale in comparison with the inability to have a great file manager like Directory Opus or being able to find any file anywhere instantly with Everything or having a bunch of other apps (and then you'd have plenty of other issues tweaking OS UI or have sleep or hardware compatibility issues people keep complaining about)
i can agree with the theory behind what you’re saying, but also sense that the practical application of individual freedoms has become increasingly prevalent and acute
The parent post is making the point that a transaction fee is literally a tax. The financial sector is nothing but transaction fees. Their whole revenue model is interspersing themselves into the mechanics of moving money between a buyer and a seller, and charging a cut for it. A world where everyone pays cash for everything, or even has a centralized ledger where balances are credited and debited by the government, or a decentralized ledger on a blockchain where the same happens, has no transaction fees and no financial sector.

They do perform a service for the transaction fees they charge, but then, so does the government.
We built an anonymous event and RSVP Web app in 4 hours
Hey guys! Me and my uni friends decided to do a one night build and deploy web app for fun. We ended up using typescript with react router, the firebase web sdk, and vercel to deploy. Essentially you make an event and send a link to friends who can vote either with their name or anonymously if they are going or not. There’s also public events

We do have plans to implement more features like location filtering, optional user accounts, calendar functionality, a mobile app version, and possibly migrate to a REST api for all important functionality

We’ve been getting feed back from r/react on specific bugs or aspects and would love to hear from you guys as well!

Can see it at https://www.whos-in.com
The equivalent would be if I'm forced to have a government funded road with cars just past my front yard.
> Textbooks can equally well be paid for with college loans, they aren't restricted to tuition-only.

Making the financial problem with study costs in the USA even worse, more cash to buy textbooks from credit means higher prices that can be extracted for the books, just like any other good which is mostly paid through easily achievable loans.
Because you cannot arrest US citizen just because they are at some gathering. You cant do that to someone on VISA.

What you can do is take someones VISA on basis of small gathering that you call protest.
Except Nixon. http://www.oldchathamquakers.org/blog/was-nixon-really-a-qua...
qvwm was another window manager that sought to emulate the look and feel of Windows:

https://qvwm.sourceforge.net/index_en.html
> The next step is to isolate the Windows applications: you could use different WINEPREFIX,

In case you're not aware, wine prefixes each use their own settings, but are not isolated from one another.

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/FAQ#how-good-is-...

> but I think the better way is to do it like android: one "user" per application.

This would help somewhat, assuming you don't run them all in one user's X session. On Linux, some desktop environments have a "switch user" action to start a separate desktop session running as another user on another virtual console. You can switch between them with Control+Alt+F2, etc.
It's worse on desktop. On mobile it just leads to accidental selection when you were trying to do something else.
SAP did it - they store the code in the database
https://www.reddit.com/r/SAP/comments/jsgb1c/where_and_how_i...
"The women, aged between 18 and 38, were sitting in a circle eating hummus and bread sticks on Thursday evening as part of a ­“welcome meeting” for Youth Demand, which calls itself a non-violent protest group."

Eating hummus and bread sticks.
Obviously. In looking up the LD50/lethal dose for vitamin A, I ended up here. [1] You might notice the big red symbol "Health Hazard" at the top. And the LD50 for vitamin A ranges from 1500-3700mg/kg, contrasted against fluoride's 26-94! But really one of the biggest issues here is that unless you're actively trying to kill yourself with vitamins, an overdose generally has no major effects beyond some gastrointestinal issues. I've experienced it myself by supplementing with vitamins while body building and consuming an already extremely high nutrient diet.

But with fluoride we're talking about extremely low doses, well below the lethal level, being able to potentially permanently damage the mind's of children. Such an extreme risk justifies an abundance of caution, especially when the reason we're doing it is for some relatively modest dental gains, which are likely increasingly obsolete with fluoride being in tooth paste and many other sources besides water. In fact, as per the study I linked to up above, this is precisely the problem!

"Since 1945, the use of fluoride has been a successful public health initiative for reducing dental cavities and improving general oral health of adults and children. There is a concern, however, that some pregnant women and children may be getting more fluoride than they need because they now get fluoride from many sources including treated public water, water-added foods and beverages, teas, toothpaste, floss, and mouthwash, and the combined total intake of fluoride may exceed safe amounts."

[1] - https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Retinol
I think you should read it. It literally says fluoride in higher concentrations is linked to lower IQ. It says there is insufficient evidence to draw any conclusions in lower concentrations. NOT that fluoride in lower concentrations is definitely without a doubt safe. It leaves open the question. And, it studied fluoride in urine, which means even if the drinking water levels in the US are in the “insufficient data” range, the cumulative effect of multiple sources of fluoride is still a factor.

Also note that in reality 0.7 mg/L is the “low” value and 1.5 mg/L is the high water mark from the study. That’s not a huge window by any means…
This would be more interesting if you elaborated on a couple of promises and what you see as delivering.
Europeans like to look down on the rise of fascism in the US but even a superficial analysis shows that the US is simply Europe in 5-10 years.

For the UK in particular, people may point to how Labor swept the elections last year but they'd be wrong to say that there was left-wing momentum in the UK or even that it was another example of people voting against incumbent governments. Neither is true.

All that happened in the UK is the right-wing vote got split between the Conservatives and the even more right-wing Reform party. That's it. Come next election, that won't be the case. At the current rate, Conservative/Reform will merge or ally and sweep in a landslide. Starmer actually got fewer votes than Corbyn did in his previous two elections by a substantial margin.

The UK Labor party is playing the same role as the US Democratic Party. That is, they make occasional meek noises about institutional norms but they really don't oppose fascism at all. In fact, both parties are way more concerned with the rise of leftism than they are with fascism.

We've seen this exact same scenario play out in France. You have grooming victim [1] Macron who has tried to occupy some mythical "center" with Le Pen's National Front, the brainchild of leaders of Vichy France, playing the role of fascist party. But in France there's actually some leftist opposition. And what does Macron do? Routinely side with the fascists to keep the leftists out of power.

In the US, the role of Gestapo is being played by ICE. They take their marching orders from the Canary Mission to black-bag people who simply opposed Israel's genocide. This is quite literally picking up political dissidents and putting them into concentration camps.

The UK, France and Germany are well on their way to the same fate.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/06/politics/emmanuel-macron-wife...
I took the parent question more generally as applying to everyone everywhere and not parochially through the lens of U.S. partisan politics, which is important but only a facet of what is an extremely worrisome global-scale phenomenon.
I feel like Haskell is easier to use than it is to explain, and in my experience a lot of these kind of tutorial / explanations actually make things seem harder and more complicated than just working with the concepts and observing what they do. (This one included.)
Just because it's reserved doesn't mean anything can happen. On x86_64, you get a clearly defined error when you use reserved bits and the like. I don't know if RISC-V is the same, but if it isn't it's because they chose to be vague, not because that's what it means to be reserved.
A good article. Certain gut bacteria are associated with inflammation and leaky gut membranes, which leads to stuff in the bloodstream that shouldn't be there, which makes the immune system attack neurons. There's a fix that replaces the bad bacteria.
That too, but my disagreement is more fundamental: even if you can create good new things, there are probably[0] better things to do with your resources than creating them.

[0] This is a small escape hatch for "what if one can only create new things" or "actual cure for cancer".
Ha, same here! It really helped my imposter syndrome, as I overheard a couple of guys talking about the ARM assembly they were doing on their Archimedes on the first day…and I hadn't written anything fancier than QuickBASIC at the time…
One thing that is weird is that you’re expected to look around the menu bar holding the option key as the menu contents change when that is pressed (also applies to tray icon menus, e.g. WiFi icon shows a lot of stuff when option-clicked.) IIRC some of what you say can be toggled with option menu items.
Ursula was one book wonder, methinks.

And so was Gardner Dozois, whose "Strangers" was eerily similar to "Left Hand of Darkness".
Gift link: Hugues Oyarzabal, Surfing Star Who Rode With a Camera, Dies at 39 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/sports/hugues-oyarzabal-s...
To add to this: I think pg does drill down, but what he does more than most is make the effort to bring those insights back up.
Sorry it wasnt clear but that was my attempt at pure sarcasm.

I thought the situation is absolutely nonsensical. Being able to disagree with anyone is part of our social fabric. Once you ban that then wild stuff starts to happen.
That would be “wildly beyond expectations”. If some project achieves 100% of the goals, that is complete success by definition. They did it.
Procrastination Is Evolutionary
Have you used Windows 11? When right clicking, there's now a context menu within the right click context menu. To see what you could see in Win10, you have to right click, then select "See more options" or something. Which just opens up the "old" Win10 context menu with a totally different visual appearance than the Win11 one. Talk about jank and bloat.
> "In Windows, you do not make system calls directly. Instead, you dynamically link to libraries that make the system calls for you. This allows Microsoft to do all sorts of shenanigans at the kernal level while providing a stable API to userspace."

Or, in other words, "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."
For modern Windows operating system, i.e. >= Windows 10, getting rid of ads, weather, auto-update and search bar can improve UI usability significantly.

Windows 95 was not stable enough back then. I believe Windows 2000 was the first OS that was easy to use and relatively stable. XP and 7 are both solid options too.

I have used both MacOS X and modern MacOS (15) and the UI of X is definitely way better than the UI of 15. It is more clean cut.
Moderation is one of the huge Achilles’ heels of Reddit. I’m confused why Reddit thinks a monarchy with no term limits will work on a website when it has never worked in human history. There is no voting whatsoever where users can give feedback on how they think the moderation or the subreddit is going. You get entrenched subreddits like /r/movies and their obsession with movie posters instead of movie discussion or /r/running, which is incredibly unused because the mods insist on removing almost any discussion of running outside the weekly threads except for idiotic race reports in obscure places that no one reads or cares about.
Three modern desktop environments that I use:

- Windows 10/11. Especially in 11, it's easiest just to type the start of an app's name into the search box. As opposed to the two clicks it takes to get to the "traditional" menu where you still have to scroll to find it.

- Gnome (only on fresh Linux installs, usually replaced with Mate pretty soon). Has a smartphone-style app grid, but here, too, its quickest just to type the start of the app's name.

- Mate: Modern, but still has the Windows 95 paradigm (easy enough to collapse the two toolbars into just one bottom one). Still my favourite desktop environment.

Not all fancy graphic stuff is good. And don't even get me started on how hard it is to drag an app window to another screen these days - on Windows. You really have to find the 2% or so of the top bar that's still draggable and not cluttered up by other stuff.
I cannot tell if you're joking or not, but a rocket crashing into water vs on land is easily the difference between "no big deal" and "property damage + loss of life."