skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your warning :-)

My problems come from the other end: My Bash scripts tend to become larger. A few weeks ago I wrote a 'cache' utility function (very useful to cache curl requests for example). A few days ago I wanted to use it in a second script was just about to write a package manager for bash modules... I think that is the kind of situation you are getting into when the line count of a bash script increases and you are trying to do proper software development ;-)

So I am not going to build every script in Go from today on, but I would like to learn a bit more on when Go is a viable alternative to Bash.
Not in the top 50, but curiously in the top 51

And of course, it's a combination of multiple factors (cultural, climate, and people dying by other means before being affected by cancer)
We just hired someone for around that amount and same level of experience last week and we're a small team of 3 so I assume companies bigger than us will pay more
Those are first order effects connected directly to the immediate aim of allowing transport over an obstacle. A civil engineer does not consider "who" will cross or what their aims will be. For example a bridge may allow an enemy army to move their tanks faster during wartime.

Similarly tech shouldn't have to consider whether someone with unrelated goals will use their tech for unwanted aims.
It's not just Bezos or other billionaires, but the companies themselves. Most of the "Big Tech" players have been allowed to grow so much because there hasn't been any anti-trust enforcement, and if there was, it was ineffective and too late.

Plus, when new regulations do arrive, the big monopolists are allowed to keep all of the money they've made through the monopoly abuse, but shutting everyone else off from the same thing that made the big monopolists big in the first place.

So for instance GDPR - it's a good and needed law. The problem is Google and Facebook get to keep all of the money they've made from their privacy abuse so far, but nobody else can get as big as them doing the same thing. And now Google and Facebook and deploy that money to take out the smaller competitors. This is a failure of government and anti-trust policy, too.
Famed Skeptic Lawrence Krauss Faces Sexual Misconduct
Fasting also seems to be protective to your health cells from being damaged.

https://news.usc.edu/118758/fasting-during-chemotherapy-may-...
What!? Professional engineers do consider the greater good of society in their code of ethics. Introductory courses in ethics are a mandatory part of the curriculum where I’m from.
> I find this new trend of trying to predict how technology will be used - and presuming its users will either be evil or too stupid to use it responsibly incredibly patronizing.

People who create something, who research something, should by definition have a better grasp on their topic than everyone else. To expect that they are more knowledgeable, and therefore better equipped to see what it means, and therefore also have a civic duty to explain this to less well-informed, not not patronizing. It's acknowledging their expertise.

> Engineers are not philosophers and should not be placed in this role.

This is an interview in Nature. Academics with the ambition to publish in academic journals, be they prestigious like Nature or Science, or smaller and more niche like <insert your favourite journal here>, are taking on a role of a philosopher.

And sure, engineers may "just" apply technology by comparison, but honestly I find that a very dismissive attitude as well. They are the "praxis" to academia's "theory", meaning that what they do actually has consequences in our lives. So if anything, their works comes with even more of a moral obligation to "Do The Right Thing" than that of academics.
Tried this in London for bicycle routes and it's completely broken: https://imgur.com/a/mF4CU43.
I get sick of all the downplaying that PowerShell gets. I find interacting with the console a breeze, and just as usable as Bash. I can easily perform an ad-hoc API call into an Object, explorer it and export it into a well formatted .csv file for a report in minutes.

We use it in tooling for tons of things that would otherwise be done in Python and have no issues. Especially once you get it set up on Server Core and run the jobs in Cron.

I just don't get all the negativity towards it. There's a reason so many vendors are providing great PS modules for their products: VMWare, AWS, etc.
Really? Is there a way of equating people with MBAs to conquering invaders that doesn’t sound ridiculous?
Is anyone else getting simply wrong information?

I put in my work address and a time of one hour. It shows two of my previous home address as being over an hour away. It takes me about 40 - 50 minutes to get to work now from my current address. It took my about an hour from the other address.

Also, there needs to be a way to clear the map. Right now, I'm just overlaying times. I don't know if I'm just missing it on the UI but there needs to be a way to distinguish between adding more areas and replacing an area.
I had that once, the bit where management wanted to see the burndowns and velocity, then fixated over same. The only way to move past it was to stop producing them. I did, as the Lead/SM/Dev Manager, have the clout to say no, so that was lucky. I explained it's the working software you need but I don't think they were happy.
I tend to agree with "your side" and it wouldn't suprise me a bit if this gets abused but there are people who will just turn it up a notch if you ignore them.
Yesterday China fell back to having the #3 largest stock exchange. With US success other countries might start piling on soon, hopefully China will take action before that happens though, it could get really ugly really quick for them
> Honestly I could talk about Braid for hours.

Please do. I wouldn't mind more elaboration on any of your points!
Parallax component in Framer X
Redesigning Siri and adding multitasking features to iOS
It seems like every day somebody has figured out how to beat type 2 diabetes. I just read Proteinaholic by Dr. Garth Davis who advocates a vegan lifestyle (while telling you that carbs are not the enemy) to cure diabetes.
With “Your Feed” The New York Times lets iOS users follow topics and journalists
On a mostly-remote team, it may be the only opportunity in a day for everyone to hear everyone else's voices. Social interaction is important.
From the article: “Imagine taking all the numbers that you could reach by counting,” I said. “Then add one more, after all of them. That is infinity.”

How is 'adding one more' not the same thing as counting?
Keep a Changelog is a great resource! I actually built a service inspired by it. https://onset.io, check it out. :)
A nation state (whose population’s ethnicity is mostly one and the same) undertakes a massive and state sponsored campaign of corporate and military espionage, predominantly via the theft of secrets. They get caught numerous times red handed, and in most cases the thefts are perpetrated by people of the ethnicity of that state actor.

You decide that you don’t want to be a victim of such an attack - using the ethnicity of that sate actor as heuristic for likelihood to commit that theft is pretty rational - despite the fact that the actual odds of being a vicitim might be quite low (unless you make aircraft engines, Aircraft carriers, or any thing else high on their “shopping list”).

The point being if the likelihood that the average employee is a spy is 10^-7 and one of the of state actor’s ethnicity is 10^-6, on an individual basis it is essentially useless in making decisions about individuals but I know where I would spend my time if I was head of corporate security...
Hybrid Mobile Application Development
NIC card
That's a good point. Security through obscurity doesn't prevent attacks, but may raise the bar of entry and delay a motivated attacker.

I imagine if all 3D printers were distributed with warning stickers saying that they can be used to print guns and knives that more people would try it than if it was less publicized.

Making it just a bit harder to discover the knowledge to weaponize something could give defensive researchers the time to build effective countermeasures.
profit made in the UK should be taxed by the UK. I don't care what the US does.

And this amazon, a seller/reseller of goods. If they disappear then people would just shop in another place. It's not like they are researching and building unique and non-replaceble products like apple or google.
Isn't the internet only (somewhat) open/free/decentralized because of the politics of the people that built it?
I doubt removing amp actually helped your search results. If there’s evidence of this out there I’d like to see it. Like you said, it’s probably the fact that you’ve written more (and maybe better) articles in the past year.
> Do I need to explain risks using foreign local networks in HN ?

Do I really need to explain how not everyone knows everything?

HN is made up of many people with many different skill sets. While you might put emphasis and assign an ideal to the "Hacker" in Hacker News, you are ignoring the large audience of people here that come here from different backgrounds and offer different view points. You also ignore what knowledge people may or may not have. Not everyone understands network security where such things are obvious.

> I see it quite unfair to get a downvote for this.

Do I need to explain why complaining about unfairness of downvotes will get you downvotes?

Rather than whine about how smarter people than you might not know something you do, you could take the time to share knowledge rather than come off as a member of "r/iamverysmart".
But there are many absurdly wealthy Muslim countries.
Many millennials are economically useless, so it's natural to think that an ego-protecting being would externalize that and ask (beg? steal?) resources from others. Socialism is better the smaller the the group is. At the state level? Always a disaster. Intergroup trade is the only way to function between. Look at the "socialist" (not really) countries like China, where they do capitalism and "trade between" better than almost anyone. Share among small groups, trade between big ones, don't overspend, fund social programs with earnings on capital (Norway) rather than cash flow from productive people (most other places).
Heard somewhere that at least 40% of cancers in the western world is due to the diet, this figure supposedly being Officially recognized: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6639e1.htm

Our modern diet and lifestyle leads to a massive hormonal imbalance. E.g. many have started to blame insulin resistance for many cancers, which is also the leading cause for type 2 diabetes and obesity.

I suspect that countries with low cancer rates or low rates of type 2 diabetes simply haven't adopted the western diet.
While this is mostly true for ICE cars it's much less true for electric cars because of their much lower total cost of ownership.
I'd say it's more like they're closing a loophole in an existing regulation. Existing pole owners were already required to allow competitors to add their cables. What this does is prevent them from creating indefinite delays to prevent said competitors from actually doing so.
Without patents, pharmaceutical companies would cease to do research. Its not feasible in some sectors to do research if someone else can copy it with none of the cost
And that's how it should be. Technology that is obviously beneficial is rapidly adopted by the populace regardless of market forces. Technology that plays with human notions of decency and morality is often just as rapidly shunned. The ultimate filter of what is good or bad is general acceptance.
I think what saves them is lack of alcohol.
Germany's 'China City': How Duisburg Became Xi Jinping's Gateway to Europe
That's not corporate tax though.
But you don't explain why? I'm outraged at all sorts of things but it behooves me to offer an explanation of my reasoning should I wish to convince others.
Carbohydrates come in many forms, simple ones like sugar make your blood sugar spike and this is widely considered bad (and what leads to diabetes type 2). Complex ones take very long to digest, some can even only be digested by your microbiome, deep in your gut, those carbohydrates make for a consistent, stable, small flow of sugar to the blood. Which is considered a good thing.

Try eating oats (no sugar, just yogurt and fruit for sweetening, don't get tricked into thinking honey or brown sugar is healthy sugar ;) I personally like strawberry or pomegranate but the latter is pretty expensive even in-season). Or try heavy whole wheat bread (with something like peanut-only peanut butter) and see how much longer it takes before you get hungry again, compare it to breakfast cereals or white bread. I really notice the difference. If you like sweet, try backing a cake from oats and banana (and some flour, pancakes of oat and banana are also very nice by the way), perhaps add some nuts as well. Works great for me (results of delayed hunger in the day are immediate, which is motivating). Oats are cheap, bananas generally as well.
When powershell 1.0 came out I LOVED the concept of piping objects like so much streams. In my experience there were two camps of powershellers, the scripters and the programmers.

The scripters, probably the more experienced folks would use abbreviations, shorthand and all-lowercase. The programmers like myself would predominantly use powershell on less-frequent occasions to glue our apps together and PascalCase and verbosity has already been burnt into our brains.

Powershell, like perl, took that philosophy that welcomed both parties to write code as they pleased.

But then powershells 2 and 3 and 4 came out, and all that stuff I learned in v1 became deprecated. And I wanted a powershell script that would just reliably run on any, say, windows machine 2003 or beyond. But when I google for something like 'how do I invoke an osql.exe query command? how to escape the quotes?', or, 'how to load a dll and having an adjacent config file and run a method?' I get so many different answers ranging from woefully misguided to version-specific to syntax so wildly different to the untrained eye they look completely different yet being effectively equivalent. I inevitably spend hours crawling google and cobbling together the bits that work cross-platform, document heavily and sit in amazement at how much work it took to do something one would think was simple.

It's a shame but my experiences with powershell as an occasional user have shifted from enthusiasm to seeing it as an arcance even punishing experience when I'm used to bash or python.

I hope this doesnt sound mean in any way, its just that when youre talking with a computer, words like grep/sed/awk and regular expressions bear a learning curve but once you get past that barrier it is much easier to communicate succinctly with the computer with what you really want to do.
Where's geohotz when you need him??
There are a lot of ways to look at that, but I think what all these "cures" have in common is that they drastically reduce the amount of sugar in your diet and allow the body to essentially rest and reset its insulin response. I don't think it really matters how you do it as long as you do that.
> If Amazon pays its employees income, and those employees pay income tax, how is that different to Amazon paying tax? The government gets its money from Amazon either way.

You mean, from consumers, who pay Amazon.

Or, maybe from those consumer’s employers, who pay them wages. Or...

Once you start posting
posting that game, it never ends.
That's great! But it's unlikely that today's MacBook Pro will last anywhere near 15 years.
Yes, a common pattern in Clojure is to name your lookup functions like

(defn user-id->foo [user-id] ...)

Which allows for quite readable code when using it.
It looks like the bike functionality is only supported in France.
Yes but there could be a universe with weird physics that could permit an ice-cube to be in the center of the sun, and not just briefly, but for a substantial amount of time.
More accessible quantum games: Quantum Minigolf http://quantumminigolf.sourceforge.net/ and Quantum Tic-tac-toe http://cel.edu/Quantum/Tic-Tac-Toe/ (which seems to require Java - anyone know of a better version?)

Edit: looks like there's an Android version https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmail.sman... and iPhone https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quantum-tic-tac-toe-lite/id3...
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell for "every" system (values of any include linux and OSX).

This isn't a walled garden any more than zsh is! It's an alternative shell. If you wanted bash on windows, you could have and still can get it from various vendors. Microsoft simply distributes a linux compatibility layer as a whole.
How to Manage Your Open Source Dependencies Wisely
Is fasting supposed to work just due to going into a caloric hole, or is there also a time component to it? In other words: does a 6 hour run/hike on an empty stomach where I burn 4000 Calories have the same effect as fasting for 36 hours?
A few years ago I opened my breezeway door, accidentally scared a rabbit and it ran right in front of a car :( Now, if I see an animal and what I'm about to do is going to startle it, I try to position myself, or wait until they're in a position that it will likely run away from any dangerous things. At the very least, I wait for traffic to clear.
Tracking what you eat is important, counting calories not necessarily. The calories-in/calories-out model misses a number of important factors like the effect of insulin on weight and lowering of BMR on non-fasted caloric restriction.

IOW, 100 calories of fat are very different from 100 calories of sugar, and that's completely erased when everything is standardized as a simple "calorie".
But is the whole country absurdly wealthy? A rich ruling class might not be large enough to offset the numbers.
Maybe look at how followup.cc and followupthen.com do reminders with magic words via email?
High Res Wifi Signal Mapping [video]
Looks like a slightly broken bat signal.
A month long TOTAL fast happens only in Islam, correct me if i'm wrong
Because the tax system isn’t designed to be based solely around income tax. In order to make up the missing funds where corporation tax ought to be, personal taxation would have to be considerably higher, which would also mean that employee wages would have to be higher to compensate. The overall perctange of revenue paid into the tax system by the corporation would be the same via higher employee wages.

However, we do not live in a personal taxation only system. Corporations are therefore able to radically reduce their tax spend by avoiding corporation tax and not increasing spend on wages. The total amount of tax paid by the corporation goes down. This is obviously true, otherwise there would exist no motive for companies to pursue strategies of paying such low corporation tax.
Perhaps a more useful analysis of this would be to look at cancer rates among Muslim communities and other communities that fast within a diverse country, since the populations would be more comparable in that case (or at least less incomparable, because there are probably still a ton of factors to consider).
Catholics "fast" during Lent, but that typically just means two days where they don't eat between meals. For a typical Muslim, what is involved with fasting?
> Changing your lifestyle forever cannot actually include counting calories. You are not going to do that for the rest of your life.<

My personal experience:
1) Using MyFitnessPal I can enter what i ate in less than 2-3’ (split during the day)
2) Being self-aware of how much I eat is extremely harder and amazingly less accurate than counting calories on Mfp
3) Whenever I stopped counting calories my weight loss either or even turned it weight gain.

Not everyone is the same. Different things will work for different people.
Seems you are a good test case. Could you share your map with the "share this map" button ? So I can figure it out
Apple hits $1 trillion market cap
I don't really get the intent. The last paragraph makes an attempts to justify, but I think it doesn't make a very good case.

Think about some of the most famous and influential papers and try to come up with negative consequences. When Codd wrote A relational model for large shared data banks, should he have tried to think of ways big databases could be abused? When Ritchie and Thompson published the paper that introduced Unix, what could they predict? Or Knuth's many papers on compiler design?

Do other disciplines do anything similar? Computer science papers are often so close to mathematics, I suppose mathematics papers should include similar disclosures, right?

This feels a little like putting cancer warnings on everything in California. At least there I understand what they thought the outcome might be but maybe they didn't foresee how quickly people tune it out and you end up making it harder to communicate danger when it's actually there.
Ask HN: Help, why my girlfriend can't find any job
Hi all,

I come to this community when I really don't know what else should I try.

My girlfriend is a very skilled statistician, given any amount of data, small or big, she can really extract information from it.

She can talk with whoever requires the analysis and figure out better options to actually reach the answers they are looking for.

She is also quite good with technology, her language of choice is R and is quite skilled with it, up to the point to make a simple website and host it on github: https://emanuelaf.github.io/

She is also quite capable with SQL, at least for simple/intermediate queries (I would say up to "GROUP BY" and "JOIN" queries).

She is lacking in python which is used as well in the field.

I would say that she is a senior one.

She go a Phd in statistic and now she is doing a post-doc.

However, we don't see a future in academia and she decides to switch in the industry, we are focusing in Europe, ideally, Geneva (where I currently work) or Zurich (where I have some opportunities to explore) but even Berlin or any other European city would work. The US would work as well.

The point is that from 20 curricula she send exactly zero offered here an interview.

At first, I thought that the HRs where a little scared of her having worked mostly in academia, so I encourage her to create the website to show that she is quite capable and put more prominently her work as a consultant in the space.

But again, only rejections.

Which is quite concerning, and I am starting to think that she is been rejecting just because she is a woman in her 30.

Now we don't really know what to do next, keep sending CV seems quite useless, but on the other side I don't see any alternative.

I am wondering if you guys can suggest any strategy or if you can see what we are doing wrong.

I also share her CV just in case we are missing something: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uyvo5k-iMGNomE4Q2TzDHK4OByWGcX34/view?usp=sharing
Just curious, what kind of diet is considered "Western"? I would assume you are talking about diets high in sugar and carbs, but I'm sure other Eastern cultures eat plenty of high carbohydrate diets too right?
So all the benefits are going to employees salaries ?

Of course they don’t, and that’s why there are corporate taxes.

And as stated before, if you don’t like the rules don’t play the game.

(And ok, Amazon follows actual rules. That’s the main point : changing the rules to avoid tax escape)
If you've got the shotgun in hand, some #2 game loads will smarten up coyotes a lot more effectively. At least the survivors anyway.
I don't know how a Personal Loans website is responsible for old building illustrations, but it worked, you made me look.
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