By Lane Wagner
Pure functions are often hyped up in the Javascript world, probably because of the abundance of state in front end applications. While pure functions have their downsides (i.e. inconvenience, potentially large argument lists), I believe they should be used as much as reasonably possible, and I want to focus on pure functions in Go.Read the full story By roman.yampolskiy
The young field of AI Safety is still in the process of identifying its challenges and limitations. In this paper, we formally describe one such impossibility result, namely Unpredictability of AI. We prove that it is impossible to precisely and consistently predict what specific actions a smarter-than-human intelligent system will take to achieve its objectives, even if we know terminal goals of the system. In conclusion, impact of Unpredictability on AI Safety is discussed.Read the full story By Julia Wu
On June 26, 2020, the value locked into the Compound protocol reached a staggering $1 billion, making it the "most valuable" decentralized finance protocol. In the past year, DeFi became the hottest topic in the crypto. Let's take a close look at one of its most popular projects.Read the full story By Linh Dao Smooke
Everyday for the past few months, I wake up at around 5.30 am to prepare for my long glorious walk around this valley, as the sun rises and my brain, too, slowly wakes up. Most of my podcast consumption is concentrated in this 2-hour window. So today, I would like to share my top 10 favorite podcasts with you, ranging from contemporary culture to comedy to politics. Read the full story |
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Hey there, Hackers 👋
I'm writing to you from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where—as of today—we've had 50,273 confirmed cases of Covid-19, and 6,113 deaths. The curve here appears to have been successfully flattened:
In India, where Hacker Noon's VP of Business Development & Blockchain Editor, Utsav Jaiswal is based, they're on 585,000 confirmed cases, 17,400 deaths, and their curve looks like this:
In Ukraine, where Software Development Editor Arthur Tkachenko lives, they are—according to Google—on 44,334 cases, and 1,159 deaths, on a steady upward curve:
In the United States, where Linh and David Smooke share a home and a daughter, where Dane and Austin hack away all day, and where 84% of Hacker Noon's readers are located—again: according to Google, anyway—you have 2,860 million confirmed cases, and 129,000 deaths. This is the curve:
I remember the sweet, innocent optimism of our first proper All-Hands on Deck meeting this year.
It was a Thursday, in February.
I was traveling in Rio, Brazil (!) for Carnival at the time; David made a stupid joke on the slide deck cover; everybody laughed like the world wasn't about to catch fire.
Within a month, everything changed.
Fortunately for us, a global pandemic makes for an interesting time to wake up and roll out of bed for work: Hacker Noon's community of 12k+ contributing writers took to their laptops in unprecedented numbers—we're still working to clear the story submission backlog created in the first month of lockdown.
If there's one thing most of us appeared to agree on in the first half of this insane year, it's that things will probably never be "the same" again.
Whether that's a good, bad, or nuanced thing, is for you to read up on and decide.
Here are 35 top stories featured on the homepage of hackernoon.com over the past few months.
Link me to your favourites in the comments?
By Bernard
There are already two cliches when it comes to op-eds on the post-Covid future. One is obvious: the claim that the pandemic has “changed everything.” Analysts in many fields, from Fintech to branding to politics, have all seen the current crisis as a millennial moment. Some have even claimed that it will finally usher in the era of post-humanism that techno-utopians have been predicting for decades.
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By Owen Auch
If you told me two months ago that today would be the first day of quarantine that I would digitally get pen to paper, two-months-ago-me would have been outraged at quarantine-me. With no competition for my attention, I assumed that every creative pursuit that I’d put off for lack of time would come bursting out of me in a personal Renaissance like Bob Dylan producing The Basement Tapes. If Shakespeare wrote King Lear during plague quarantine, surely I could do something during my quarantine.
Read the full story By Ras Vasilisin
Truth doesn’t care about your feelings.
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By Andrey Sergeenkov
Believe it or not, the investment world is restructuring to cope with the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though some experts have predicted narratives that will hold sway over this sector, there is, however, no definite projections regarding the magnitude of these changes and how much it will affect Founders and investors. Due to these uncertainties, Venture Capitals, Angel Investors, and Founders might tweak existing fundraising mechanisms to withstand new challenges.
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By Rita C Waite
Incumbent Banks and financial technology startups (Fintechs) face very different challenges as they navigate the COVID-19 crisis. Despite sharing customers and offering similar products, their business models, how they operate, their balance sheets and culture vary tremendously. Each one of these differences impacts how they will perform during and after the crisis.
Read the full story By MoA.Finance
The outbreak of the coronavirus has disrupted our daily lives. Places that we enjoy our everyday life have become deserted, and we have had restrictions imposed on our day-to-day existence.
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By Andrej Kovacevic
For months, financial experts around the world had been predicting an end to what has been the longest economic expansion in American history. That expansion propelled US startup activity to new heights, with near-record levels of new business creation for successive years, and cemented the US's place as the premier startup ecosystem in the world. Many believed the economists' warnings to be alarmist, at best.
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By Linh
I remember it was during the last week of January when my American family & friends were all at a dinner table discussing what was then a foreign, "China-contained" new disease called Coronavirus. The virus had infected about ~1000 people worldwide, 500 alone in Wuhan, China, and 1-2 cases in the US. I told the group that just days ago, the Vietnamese government ordered all schools to be closed for the foreseeable future, as would be many "non-essential" public gatherings and businesses. People were on high alert. Masks and hand sanitizers were severely out of stock.
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By James N
Using the new Tableau version 2020.1 onwards.
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"While Q2 2020 is expected to recover slowly, I’m personally expecting the major recovery to take place from Q3 mainly for domestic travel with a full recovery, including international travel, towards Q4."
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By Frederik Bussler
In less than five months, the world’s attention will be drawn to the outcome of the US Presidential election.
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