skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like shells or editors. Many `older` beards are mindful of the aspect that not all tools are equal in that most systems had some tools shipped as default and others you had to go and install yourself. Thus they became wise though experience of sticking to using tools that did the job and would be more commonly available. Hence they all grew up with the likes of vi,sh and awk. They did the job and worked well. Yes alternatives became more acesable and now most systems ship with all the flavour of shell and editor as they class the likes of bash,ksh,csh... and emac/perl to be part of those essential common installs. This and space/storage less of a factor as it was decades ago.

Really gets down to personal taste now more than it did in the past, but if a tool works, does the job and the alternatives don't offer any gains, then they stick with that. Not saying the alternatives are bad or worse in any way, or indeed better, they are just different and in some cases, maybe better. At least the core reason of them always being there instead of having to add another dependency and risk factor to a system have become moot these days.

TL;DR some older tools more guaranteed to be upon all systems as a lowest common denominator in the older days than now and legacy always outlives the machine, hence we still run COBOL today as it works, maybe better solutions but rebuilding rome overnight still avoided.
I really want to use ReasonML in one of my next projects but I always come back to two main questions.

How much is it easy to use JS components like the Calendar of Airbnb for instance? And is it really easy to use BuckleScript? The "[%bs.raw ..." and others look hard to read/use. Is it the case or just a feeling?

Is there someone who already tried it enough to know the answers?
"This seems like the most important question in the universe, and one not nearly studied enough."

If anything, I think the opposite is true. We study it far more than we actually should in some sense, relative to the tools we have.

Bear with me, this is going to seem a strange diversion: One of the biggest problems in particle physics is that the smallest possible tools we can use to examine the universe, like quarks, electrons, photons, etc. are all radically larger than what seems to be the smallest size of the universe itself. Compared to the Planck length, all of those things are enormous. I liken it to trying to determine whether a planet has life on it, when your only tool is the ability to smash other planets into it, and examine the resulting blobs six months later, from a distance so great they're just dots in your telescope. It's really hard to determine how the universe works at such small scales when your smallest tools are orders of magnitude too big.

We have the opposite problem with consciousness research. We have tools that can measure a neuron somewhat. Honestly, we're not even all that great at that. (We can measure voltages fairly well, but our visibility into the deep biochemistry is very weak. Honestly even a single neuron is beyond us in some non-trivial ways.) We have some tools that can take extremely broad averages across massive chunks of neurons. Meanwhile, we have every reason to believe that whatever consciousness is, it lies a good ten+ orders of magnitude above that (we can see this from the fact that it seems to require a human brain to be human conscious, and even the animals that appear to possess a lot of it like dolphins and birds still have brains far, far beyond anything we can treat quantitatively). We're ants trying to determine the nature of the entire planet we're sitting on, and the tools we've got to investigate it are that we can move these grains from here to there.

Occasionally ants get up on their tiny little soap boxes and declare "Damn it, it just shouldn't be that hard to understand our planet with these tools!" Sometimes they declare "It's obviously just all topsoil!" or other equally silly things. It doesn't particularly help; it just shows the smallness of the ant in question.
George R.R. Martin's behavior just made a lot more sense to me now.
> > You spend as little time outside as possible for several months.

> That’s a big fuckin’ problem for me.

Dunno about the GP, but I live in Cleveland and I spend plenty of time outside in the winter. Even here, skiing (downhill and XC), sledding, hiking, camping, and ice fishing are all doable in the winter.
I have noticed a distinct improvement and selection in recent years if not just the past six months. I too am surprised at how stores haven't made the leap. There seems to be resistance to combine the items and instead they want customers to visit each department separately. This can work if the store develops a kiosk or such which gives customers suggestions and quick path to the selections.

Good signage could path customers quickly through the store without the appearance of too much diversion. Perhaps Kroger realized that to break the dominance of each department within the storm that a 3rd party was needed
Fewer hops: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-xeon-process...
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If we had a universal income, and people would be free to sell or not sell their labor, we could talk about a meaningful equilibrium based on individuals preferences and choice.

In that situation I doubt we would see many people taking on these jobs (including the parentheticals you mention) with these conditions.
If it's one thing cloud services does not do, it is "just work". Companies lacking IT staff is a bonanza for devops consultants.

The difference is minimal these days, but usually my experience is that people spend more on devops for AWS. If you want to spin up a dedicated host at e.g. Hetzner or OVH or Softlayer or wherever, it generally take no more or less effort or technical skills than spinning up an instance at AWS. Many of the hosting providers have API's, just like AWS, only they expose their bare metal instead of hypervisor interfaces.

You don't typically need to know any more about the hardware on those systems than you need to know about the virtualized hardware on AWS.
There's a live video feed from a residence about a half a mile from fissures 20 and 17:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtihmXFWqGo
Or you could use UUCP.
It would be great if there was a (safe, efficient) way to store electricity in ethanol - but it seems that the process is not very efficient and requires carbon monoxide as input, which is not very safe at offgrid-home scale.

That is, unless electricity is used to light corn crops. Still not very efficient.
Agreed, it was a great service.
I hope this article helps inform those that ask the question, "really, what are you?" Through colonialism, commerce, and migration the Caribbean is incredibly diverse. Until now I did not realize these organizations existed.
I thought this too, but read the rest of the article.

Spoiler alert: State of the art is 30x better
I assume you'd still need electricity for things like lighting, right? (I can't think of a way to directly generate light from air pressure without converting it to electricity first.)
>Perl's unpopularity

Is a myth actually.

> Tom Radcliffe, recently presented a talk at YAPC North America titled “The Perl Paradox.” This concept refers to the fact that Perl has become virtually invisible in recent years while remaining one of the most important and critical modern programming languages. Little, if any, media attention has been paid to it, despite being ubiquitous in the backrooms of the enterprise.

> Yet at ActiveState, we have seen our Perl business continue to grow and thrive. Increasingly, our customers tell us that not only are they using more Perl but they’re doing more sophisticated things with it. Perl itself recently made it back into the Top 10 of the Tiobe rankings, and it remains one of the highest paying technologies. Therein lies the paradox.

https://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/07/perl-paradox
The internet is not limited to TCP/IP many phones browsers used a different protocol to connect to a proxy server which downgraded images to save bandwidth.

A similar approach means a website might take a 4+ minutes to start downloading but would finish in under a second and allow for video streaming etc.

Sure not all websites would work, but you could easily use Reddit, YouTube, and email.
> What's the point of a decentralized exchange if the frontend code can be shutdown at will?

You can have decentralization with respect to some components of the exchange and not others. In the case of Paradex it seems the point of decentralization is that you don't have to trust the exchange for custody. That's quite good by itself, even if they can shut down the frontend at will.
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How Is AI Influencing the Digital Content and Its Censorship in China?
I'm in the same pickle. I get burnout symptoms at the 6 month mark no matter what I do and paid leave doesn't help, only honest to goodness NEET life. I plan to find a way to cope with it by finding something that's lucrative and done in short stints. Which is going to be hard for a neophyte like me with only a passing interest in tech.

Had a conversation about that with a friend on IRC last night and got some interesting insights. His main point was that enjoying the process is the most important thing about a job being enjoyable. Because the process is after all, the thing you do day in, day out.

The most interesting people I've ever met who travelled Europe for most of the year, funded their trips by picking strawberries in Denmark in the summer. However, they were masters at frugality. Couchsurfing, hitchhiking, eating at the cheapest places, thrift shopping, the works.

In theory, couple of months of inflated tech salary should be perfect for such a lifestyle, but strangely enough I don't know any techies living like that. I personally blame the lifestyle creep. Most of my tech worker friends and since recently, myself have quite expensive hobbies.

Quite a rambling post, but I hope it can give someone ideas. Off-hand comments by random anons on HN and other places have often inspired me.
What a load of nonsense. Somehow in a 4 minute read the author (Social_Justice_Tech)has managed to fit in every form of information bias known alongside unattributed graphs and a picture of THAT guy from Google.
I have a great deal of antipathy towards npm and lock files.

I don't understand how rerunning shrinkwrap can change the roster. And I don't care enough to spend any more effort trying to figure it out. (Meaning, fresh out of goodwill.)

Maybe yarn is better. I kicked its tires; seemed okay. Alas, we have too many (more than zero) nodejs projects to do a clean switch, and I'm tired of pushing rope.

But even if yarn is better... I just can't grasp how we got to this point, or how any one involved thought any of this was acceptable, on any level.
I already live in Europe; but point well taken. People needs more and more money... I wonder if there is a marginal utility: at what point you would stop thinking about money?

I think that around 40k perhaps 50k per year, I would completely stop thinking about money.
## Features

- Lightweight, clean interface, custom colors
- Text editor integration
- Fetch, edit page title; add tags and notes
- Powerful search modes (regex, substring...)
- Continuous search with on the fly mode switch
- Open bookmarks and search results in browser
- Manual encryption support
- Auto-import from Firefox, Google Chrome and Chromium
- Import/export bookmarks from/to HTML, Markdown or Orgfile
- Shorten and expand URLs
- Smart tag management using redirection (>>, >, <<)
- Portable, merge-able database to sync between systems
- Multithreaded full DB refresh
- Shell completion scripts, man page with handy examples
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For me it is. I have ADD and my phone is a God send for not forgetting things.
I’ve seen occasional store-branded ones at supermarkets in upstate NY, so it looks like the tide is at least starting to shift. I agree with you that it’s surprising it didn’t happen sooner, Blue Apron has been around for years now.
I hope like hell that snips succeeds. This IoT stuff really needs to be open source. I don't want to fill my home with sensors that I don't control, and I'm technical enough to deploy some home brew stuff, but there's just not a whole lot out there as far as open source smart devices

edit: Can anyone name some other privacy respecting, non-cloud, open source platforms and devices to work with?
I agree. Auto manufacturing excellence is not something money or talents can buy but it takes a tremendous amount of time on top of money and talents to distill.
Thank you! That's exactly my point
Oh, don't be silly. Exactly the same point you're making about rust can be made about both C++ and perl by expert practitioners. Syntactic complexity is linear with expressive power, that's why it's complex to begin with. You just "like" rust, so you view it as a good tradeoff there and not in other languages that you "dislike".

My point above was that this decision is basically one of fashion and not technology. And the proof is how the general consensus about awk has evolved over 20 years as perl has declined.
Or you could liquify the air. That would make the storage much more energy-dense but introduces all sorts of practical/heat issues. People have played around with running cars on liquified nitrogen. The air conditioners probably worked well.
Triopoly: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3758/triopoly

The description says "three-dimensional" but I would argue that it's two-dimensional and regular Monopoly is one-dimensional (linear). I think with a lot of time on your hands, you could make Monopoly truely three-dimensional with layers, and then even four-dimensional with cards/rules that rewind/fastfoward/fork time.
so next democrat president I can write a harassment, err I mean opinion, bot to post useless opinions to everything they say blocking people with real discussion from having their floor time? OK, noted.
Here's the video if anyone is interested – https://youtu.be/RPu05MqbG8A?t=16m14s
It is clearly marked as being opinion, rather than news reporting.
Electron does not magically make your app work like shit - if you treat it like any other framework and actually invest resources into architecture and optimization it (surprise!) results in a good software, eg: vs code. Problem is it also allows to disregard all that and quickly prototype a solution that works good enough for some, and forget about all the optimization. That's real problem, but it's not tied in any way to electron. Same people would go and make a shitty app in qt if there was no electron, or just wouldn't make anything.
Remote possibility, salary range, the future manager/team_leader name (or better: a link to online identity), recruiter contact information, responsibilities, expected work time per week.
Would you prefer it if it gp had instead said "My computer makes me a functional member of society"?

For many people, the only computer they have is the smart phone, it's how they look for (and apply for jobs), do some banking, check emails and keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues.
The University of Cambridge has a Phillips machine that works, if you're lucky it's even possible to get a demonstration. Here's a video of a demo given in 2010:

https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1094078

One interesting thing is that by attaching markers to the floats, and turning spools of paper on motors, it's possible for the machine to draw graphs as it operates.
Try to be less assuming. I have ADD. Calendars with reminders are an enormous value to me, or I would frequently miss meetings and deadlines.
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Home Chef is by far my favorite of the meal kits I’ve tried (and I’ve tried a lot) in terms of both variety and quality. Fingers crossed this is one of those “keep doing what you’re doing but now with the funds for greater scale and distribution” acquisitions and not one of those “steady degradation of service while the new owner plunders you for parts” acquisitions.
He should probably talk about Rocket Man, directions he intends to take, and new agendas via @POTUS then.

But the thing is, though, he never will beyond boiler plate stuff that most likely someone else is posting for him. Reason being is that he doesn't own @POTUS, but does @realDonaldTrump (okay, maybe "own" is incorrect, but barring something crazy like Twitter assuming control of his account, he isn't going to turn over his personal account upon someone else being elected president). So to him, boosting the brand of @POTUS doesn't make sense because it isn't his. So I'll agree with him here: for someone deeply concerned with brand and building it, he's playing it correctly. Unfortunately for him, that also means he limits himself to mute until out of office.
On a different reading and assessment:

Many jobs, no, most jobs are combinations of small individual parts of a whole action. And this shows that piecemeal work by dozens of different people not only works, but bypasses the whole level of employee/employer level controls.

Take a lawyer's job for example.. The research can be farmed off crowdsourced style. Nobody has to know what the case is about, only the search parameters given. All the gruntwork can be contracted can be cheaply contracted with little knowledge about the actual case. Then, a paralegal, again contracted out, can sign the appropriate NDA and do the paperwork for the filing. And finally, the actual lawyer just signs their name after a quick review. This is doable right now.

We also see this in medical establishments, where interns (aka: unlicensed people) can actually do surgery under a doctor's license. I could see mega-health orgs using maybe 4-5 doctors, and hire hyperspecialized interns to do the gruntwork. The doctors would primarily overview routine stuff and take over in catastrophes.

The only people who're safe right now are us automators. My labor = 1000 or 10000 physical laborers, as my tools (computers) give me leverage of a massive multiplier. A journeyman's tools maybe provide *5 labor speedup. And these contract delivery people are literally 1x. (It's shitty to compare, but that's what capitalism already does with $$$/yr)
Do you think it’s better or worse than the initial mining?
With pen. I usually bring a printout of both their resume and a list of questions that I've prepared based on a careful read-through of their resume. Then I mark these up with notes during the interview.
1) Photos of the office, I mean the actual office, not the cafeteria or the hall at the entrance :)

We have something like that in France, that's called "Welcome to the jungle" (Guns N' Roses reference maybe), but again, you mainly see photos of the coffee machine.

2) a commentary on the position by someone at the same or equivalent role at the company
It's not really efficient, but you can create short chain hydrocarbons to store fuel for your fuel cell. Methanol for example is a lot easier to handle than hydrogen and there are fuel cells that consume it.
I'm surprised no one is talking about how scary it is that you are basically making a high powered bomb at your house any time you have one of these. Anyone that has watched Mystbusters understands the incredible destructive power stored in compressed air. I'll stick with batteries, thanks.
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Actually it is sometimes faster to fetch data over a network loading from SSD than it is to read from a local spinning disk. Source: current work.
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How much my colleagues are getting salary on same post?
This seems to be a legal copy of it?

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/Exhalation%20-%20Te...
Most of this could be me.

When I was younger I'd fast or eat very little for up to 4-5 days and it gave me a productivity boost.

I stopped after I took it too far(ended up shaking and nauseus after a bad combo of not completely keto + lifting weights) but have gradually stopped eating breakfasts at all and try to eat a very minimal lunch (a handful of peanuts or a slice of bread) multiple times a week.

Just skipping breakfast means I'm less tired than I used to be. If I can get around to skipping lunch (I like the break and it is social) I guess it would improve my workday even more.
Except it happened the other way around: E=mc^2 was 1905, people only had the means to test for that mass difference after the discovery of the neutron in 1932.

They hypothesised earlier than that, of course, but the experiments followed updated laws nearly 30 years after the new laws had become necessary because of lots of previous experiments showing Newtonian physics was wrong.

And sure, GR will be replaced with something else (it predicts but cannot fully describe black hole interiors), but…

…but expecting that upgrade, whatever it might be, to have the ability to defy known conservation laws in a measurable way in a device made of quarks and electrons, is akin to thinking one possible refinement to the shape of the Earth (curved, sphere, oblate spheroid, …) is the existence of a 29 mile long tunnel connecting Hawaii to Moscow.

Any new physics will almost certainly involve things we can only just build at this point, not stuff like the EM drive which we could’ve built by accident from WW2 onwards.
Humans got by for thousands of years by simply gathering around the fire and telling stories. I think people could adapt to not having something(the internet) that humans didn't have at all until the last few decades.

It's fairly disturbing that some people can't even imagine surviving without modern conveniences.
NT shipped in 1993, but MS took on the NT project in 1988, and Cutler had the idea much earlier. NeXTSTEP 0.8 was 1988 as well, along with 4.3BSD Tahoe which the base was a part of, but of course 4.3BSD owes everything to Unix 32/v and everything before hand.....
Why not Android without the Google services, e.g. LineageOS or CopperheadOS? IMO, for the category it targets -- devices for users that have neither the skill nor desire to be their own sysadmin -- Android is technically superior to the usual GNU/Linux stack. GNU/Linux is moving in the right direction with sandboxed Flatpak apps, but Android is already there. Also, Android is a thoroughly mainstream platform. So if you don't want to be a free-software purist, you can run individual proprietary apps, as long as they're available outside the Play Store and don't require Google services. With a GNU/Linux system, unless it can run Android inside a container, you're basically limited to web applications for anything mainstream.
I find it fascinating that we have not witnessed self reproduction and evolution in a simulated world as of now. Unless we manually put it in of course.

Any guesses when this will happen? Life springing up in a 2D-Automata or something like that? What size will it be? How many cells does the smallest self reproducing 2D-Automata need?
Link to bio of hiring manager, example project brief
What the team dynamic is like and how they collaborate. Not the tools they use, but how they communicate with each other.

I can work with terrible people if they can communicate. And I can learn to hate the softest soul if we can't get on the same page.