skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can write scripts in the semantics-preserving common subset of POSIX sh and bash, which is not quite, but close to exactly POSIX sh.

It's a widely-touted meme that scripting is more easily done in a general-purpose language than in a shell, but this is mostly true of the (common!) category of tasks which use the shell to launch sed &c. to perform string processing which is built-in in general-purpose languages. It's comparatively hard (i.e. verbose and error-prone) to replace a shell language with a general-purpose language in its core competence, viz. launching processes, muxing I/O, and coordinating parallel processing.
It is harder and harder to be a blue to gray collar worker in the USA than ever before.

66 jobs have bigger licensure requirements than EMT's.

Cosmetologists spend ~400 days training, EMT's - 33.

https://www.adamtownsend.me/regulating-licensing-gig-workers...
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"So Friedman's argument is actually the opposite, "let's reduce welfare so we can afford to have more immigrants here!""

No, this is YOUR interpretation of this statement.
First, the statement is neutral. Knowing Friedmans background it is clear that he was not a big fan of a welfare state (yet the idea of basic income is from him).

"..we can afford to have more immigrants here!"
No, the immigrants I was talking about would just not come anymore.
As I understand it, ball lightning is typical small; this bubble would have been in the order of 100m; also it was blue not white like ball lightning is typically.
When I was in high school (20 odd years ago), the type of student who would want extra credit work was also likely to advocate for themselves quite capably.

I guess it's not impossible that a parent would intercede on behalf of their child, with the child's knowledge and permission, it just seems unlikely to me. Any student who is actually contemplating Princeton is almost by definition extremely self-motivated and independent.
US student debt levels set a new record in 2018
You might not mean to do it, but the tone in this message seems to be quite condescending.

I believe you are making a generalization that is quite unnecessary. Surely not all Americans are like that, and I am sure plenty of Europeans share that mindset. (I am one of them, I like being the best in something as I am competitive. In sports, games or programming).

In my neck of the woods, the stereotype for this kind of behaviour would be Japanese more than American btw.

Either way, I do agree that this post is a bit useless. No one is expected to know absolutely everything there is to known. Why know the web when you program embedded devices for the car industry, for example :)
> Another way of thinking about this is a spreadsheet with some imperative code within the cells where needed.

Uhm, how are cell functions in spreadsheets an example of imperative programming?
If the best interest of the union is not the same as the best interest of the union members (teachers in this case, presumably), there's something seriously wrong.
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35kWh on a boxy vehicle?

24kWh has been pushing Nissan Leafs around for eight years.

and a smaller battery than some Zero motorcycles.

Well, you made me look, at least. Because if they can fit a 35kWh battery on a bike, I’m buying one tomorrow. They don’t, of course. The biggest thing Zero makes is a tenth that size.
Uh, welcome to life?

> A noisy but pointless rearrangement of positions on the socio-economic ladder.

Not pointless to the people on that ladder.
I wouldn't call Germany's Energiewende a success story since Germany has the highest electricity prices in EU:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

You may call it "the lobby power" but there seems to be no choice for the heavy industry than to use coal, thanks to nuclear phase-out.
Absolutely, there's no full correlation between how hard you work and how successful you are, there are situations where the contrast is totally out of wack. We're (unfortunately) used to execs taking home insane pays for dubious reasons, but right now we're seeing something similar with every day people.
Holding in my brain and using all these "modern" features increases the time I need to think about code, data, and algorithms, and that's usually where most coding spends my time -- thinking.

And "modern" compile times... increasing the time between results and further thinking and writing. Don't forget that; the article doesn't.

And "modern" debugging... well, good luck.
Dan Abramov is a Russian living in the UK.
Compared with C++, Scala projects are not slow to compile when you use Gradle multi-project builds (with granular sub-projects) and Gradle build caching.
Of course, but that doesn't mean that they aren't more than capable of performing an stellar job. Talking from experience I'd rather have professionals worried about what works and what doesn't than naive twenty-somethings who earnestly believe in this year's trending pedagogical BS (and no, not everything is BS, but it takes a lot of ability to tell).

BTW, who's not paying their bills with some fallback plan? Everyone dreams of being a star but there's only so much sky really. Using your relatives' money and/or influence is also a fallback plan, the one that keeps the wheels turning everywhere actually. I can't hear anyone complaining about that.
Mine crashes stably on launch right now on two different machines. Therefore not so good :-D
But that's how most of society works. Only one elected official is selected. Only one co-worker is promoted. Etc.

I don't think society cares who fills the position but said individuals care.
It's pretty much impossible for Amazon to tell whether an item is a licensed use of a copyrighted creative work or not. It's perfectly legal to resell work that was legally bought with no additional permission from the creator, for instance. (It is pretty clear from a human analysis here that the seller is infringing copyrights by making prints of digital images found online, but it would be pretty much impossible to create some sort of filter that would block these products from being offered on the platform).

From the thread, it looked like the support representatives engaged with the person complaining on Facebook, reported some items had been removed in the past based on takedown requests. That's pretty responsive, all in all. Maybe the artist could enlist some additional help discovering and helping him and other affected artists report for takedown the items that this seller is offering so they'd eventually . Or they could gather some funds and sue Amazon.
Thanks, so it was more of a "oh, look at what we have here" type of thing it sounds like.
Non-American here: what happens if the teacher just flatly says no/doesn't answer the emails/calls etc? Are lawsuits against teachers over grades an actual thing in the US now? (In Europe or Australia you'd be laughed out of court for even trying.)
I love it, I played a ton of AoE in HS but we played a lot of StarCraft as well. The matches in SC (for us at least) went a lot faster so we would play that instead. They had some kind of child protection software on all the computers (They used macs) so you could only launch a handful of programs logged in as a student. I managed to find a workaround.

You couldn't open System Preferences but Safari (much like Internet Explorer) was deeply integrated into the OS. You could open the settings in Safari and change the default browser to... say... terminal. Then you could open up Word (or any app as you'll soon see), type "http://google.com", hit the space bar, then click on the link Word automatically created. The system would then launch that URL in the default browser which you had changed to Terminal. This instance of Terminal had elevated privileges. You didn't have root but you could now run "open /Volumes/StarCraft/StarCraft.app" (You could launch Terminal directly as a student but it wouldn't let you open things). We played a ton of SC that year in "study hall".

Our study hall teacher questioned us about it but didn't know much about computers, was a bit of a pushover, and accepted the answer of "Well the computers let us run the game so it's not dangerous/disallowed". Good times.
That's assuming car buyers are rational actors, and assuming the courts are fair. I think both are poor assumptions. What if the car itself isn't faulty if operated according to the fine print, but the marketing material for the car suggests to drivers the car has capabilities that exceed reality? Could Tesla theoretically be sued into compliance? Sure, maybe. But would it actually happen? Would Tesla defend their reputation by correcting their marketing material, or would Tesla defend their reputation for blaming the drivers?

And of course as you mention there is the possibility that Ellison is irrational.
She told me of an email she received that said "X is trying to get into Princeton - an A- isn't going to get her in. What extra credit can she do to make this an A?"

That's a horrible thing to say ... except I could even say from bitter experience that Princeton vs whatever-public-college is indeed a jump in *perceived( quality of education (there has been discussion of 150K vs 80K programming here and while they shouldn't revolve around Princeton or not, often they do. Appearances matter, sadly).

And that's the thing right, when everyone is pushing to get to those small number of nice jobs, nice houses for rent or buy, nice etc., sure the nastiness is terrible but it's part of the fabric of it all. Hate the fabric, not the player, so to speak.
I believe it was really true when Amazon was a small company that needed growth by word of mouth, just like Google by not being evil. When the companies get huge, word of mouth is not the best growth tactic anymore.
Most of those pedestrian tunnels are pretty unpleasant; everyone I know regards them as a necessary evil at best. Tunnels are inherently not human-friendly spaces (limited natural light) so I don't think you'll find any real success stories for pedestrian tunnels; better to put the cars in tunnels if you must go that route.
I like to remind people that we already live on a radioactive planet. We can build nuclear reactors because radioactive stuff naturally is everywhere. There probably wouldn't be life here without it.

So to me the "let's get it off the planet" idea is an overreaction. Radioactive material just need to be handled with common sense.
Not sure why it's not possible, though I could've had a defective unit. Specifically, I had a Fiio D3 ($20) which had bad background noise, even when not playing. I always assumed it was a power supply or shielding issue. The audio output from it actually sounded decent, just I could always hear the background noise. Don't think it was a grounding issue either, because it was the only DAC I ever had that consistently did that, no matter what system I plugged it into.

I've played around with the DAC built-in to the Raspberry Pi 3 as well, and that one was more of a distorted output problem, similar to what you describe with the $2 DAC.

Other DAC's I've tried (from around $75 and up) I've never heard noise / shielding issues, so again rapidly diminishing returns once you get past the super budget options, in my experience.
Even worse is the whole 'no child left behind' structure where schools lose funding if they don't meet certain numbers. The administrators live in fear so the kids spend half the semester taking practice tests so the school district doesn't lose funding. It is such a shame and there seems to be no appetite to expend political capital on these issues.
I’m not an expert in the matter, but I can imagine it could attract individuals that desire high wages or high-status work. Regardless of how genuinely invested or enthusiastic they are about the impact of being a teacher.

Not that we shouldn’t compensate teachers well (as they deserve it) but I can imagine that a high compensation with strict requirements could introduce a “measure becoming a target and no longer a measure” situation.
Portugal != Lisbon. You can get reasonable prices everywhere else.
Can we do that today? Well, there’s your difference.
In some countries, teaching is seen as a 'staple, respectable profession'. Like Nurse, or Mayor, a little bit like Doctor (without quite as much education), Policeman, Fireman etc. etc...

Most of the teachers I know in Canada chose the profession, they are pretty good.

We are far less competitive, and according to PISA (standardized testing), we totally outclass American students by quite a lot. That said - 'the best' American students (along with 'the best' from UK) etc. are quite amazing. But the average here in Canada is quite high.

You don't need to pay teachers a fortune, or have some complicated organization theory, or have 'competition' or whatever.

Simply having society respect teaching as a profession, pay them well enough, protect them from BS, and get kids into a room who are not abused at home, with parents that care just a little bit ... and you're good to go.

It's not rocket science and I truly believe there are very few huge educational breakthroughs to come. The basics have been in place for quite a while.

(FYI It starts with the communitarian understanding that not everyone does everything just for the money ...)
My anecdote...
My mother recently retired after teaching ESOL (English for non-native speakers) at the elementary/primary school level for decades. She was getting burned out and was at retirement age, so no real need to keep working. Now, she happily goes back to volunteer several days/week. She still enjoys teaching; it was the administrative tasks that wore her out.
Britain is tentatively reintroducing beavers after wiping out the last ones in the 16 century. They might be handy for controlling rain run off - trials are on going. I'm sure it wont be long before someone decides to lick an arse by accident or something ...
So true, a friend and I had a holiday party at my house and we talked about having a DJ but instead we went online and got a piano player instead for less money and honestly way classier and BTW, it was fun and nice, sort of a cool thing really.
Thanks! Feel free to shoot me an email (address in profile) if you have any questions. In terms of retirement, I have been able to fund my wife's and my retirement accounts each year. I think the biggest challenge of being solo is that you really have to stick with it for a good 2 years to understand the ebb and flow of the business. Sometimes it looks like you make a lot less money but when you factor in all of the benefits of being a business, it all pans out.

I will also add that I am mostly a PHP dev and I do not work with WordPress at all. There is a LOT of work out there, though.
> Presumably the backpresure of requests does not go away

If a teacher's work email is anything like my email inbox at work, ~90% of emails just go away if ignored. The other ~10% email again if it's actually important.

Once your contacts are "trained" not to expect instant feedback to every email they send you, you can often get some actual work done.
If it were done universally, then you'd have the exact same zero-sum parent game: parents would continue to pester the $1m/yr rockstar teacher about why their kid got an A- instead of an A.
Some years back they rebalanced the game, making creatures much more powerful, but making spells weaker. I used to play red, so Lightning Bolt was the quintessential magic card for me, but now it’s too powerful to reprint.

Creatures on the other hand, way more powerful.

But I don’t think they have a power creep problem, although admittedly I only read up on the game periodically, not play. I think they did one main rebalancing, and that’s it. It’s not like cards from a few years ago are unplayable.
If it turns out the hardware is not good enough I would expect them to replace it with something that is once hardware requirements are known.
TL;DR: A long, insightful, and at least partially correct critique of the "state" of Ethereum as of today.

My humble 0.02 is that what's current is immature and unstable, but there's a decent chance that Ethereum, or Bitcoin, or both, will at some point in the future provide some interesting technical solutions/services.

The fact that Ethereum is not there yet is not a good enough argument for me.
> Nuclear is far from "carbon neutral." The process of extracting uranium from the earth uses tremendous amounts of heavy equipment

Numbers. Show numbers. Without numbers you have said NOTHING.
Add Time Walk to the list of cards that are wildly overrated on the P9. A considerable portion of the time it is just a zero mana cycler. Sol Ring is infinitely more powerful.
Try this: https://imgur.com/a/L1gFAqy
No such lawsuits are not a thing. I’m sure people threaten it. But it doesn’t happen.

That said, the teachers do have a responsibility to respond to parents. But they should never give in to helicopter parent special requests for extra credit.
Audio amplifiers already contain transformers, large capacitors, and rectifiers.
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The 82-year-old lawyer already had a $60,000 American-made amplifier, 1960s German loudspeakers that once belonged to a theater, Japanese audio cables threaded with gold and silver, and other pricey equipment.

Meanwhile, my wife plays her Dean Martin records through her own personal 15-watt AM radio station in the closet, picked up on vintage tube radios scattered around the house so the music sounds like it was intended by the audio engineers of the day.

There are all kinds of audiophiles. I don't understand any of them.
Yay, seralised bluetooth! ;)
German coal usage has been on the decline since 2013.

It's actually become something of a political issue (because of the lost jobs).

In 2010-2013 renewables apparently couldn't keep up. Since 2014 they appear capable of replacing all other end of lifed power plants.
It’s obnoxious and unfair that squeaky wheels with pushy parents get do overs and normal kids get screwed. My dad travelled for work and mom was a nurse. There was no time for them to go in and harass teachers over my grades.

If little Jimmy wants to get into Princeton, he should study.
to an extent, it's often part of the ~value of new devices too. your new computer seems so much better when most people have zero idea if it is or where it is.
> Like they just took a place designed for cars

NYC was developed in its current form, with high-rises and all, well before cars were commonplace[1].

So no, they didn't take a place designed for cars, and yes, that's why it actually works when you take the cars out of the equation again.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_N...
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In switzerland (which is outside of amazon's prime and shipping area) amazon is nothing else than a super expensive version of AliExpress where everybody tries to hide that they are in fact from China.
Jet engines were developed independently twice by private investment, and the government was not interested until presented with flying aircraft.

The US government even ordered Lockheed to cease work on their jet engine and concentrate on piston engines:

"Lockheed had tried to produce a turbojet in 1940. Research
engineer Nathan Price designed the startlingly advanced
L-1000 with two-spool axial compressors aimed at a p.r. of 17 plus an afterburner, but when President Robert E. Gross took the brochures for the L-1000 and the L-133 canard
fighter to be powered by it to Wright Field in 1942 he was told 'Forget it, keep building P-38s'."

"The Development of Jet and Turbine Aero Engines", Gunston, pg. 143

The DC-3, privately developed, was foundational for Army Air transport in WW2. The 707 was also entirely privately developed, and was foundational for all jet transport since. The Supermarine Spitfire of WW2 came from technology developed for Schneider Trophy races in the 1930's.
He’s criticizing Eth for being a “ science experiment”? The entire crypto ecosystem is just an experiment, including bitcoin. It’s all immature and unstable.
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> Locals are only there because of the transit access.

Spoiler: that's one of the major reasons why city centers work. Transportation hubs are also commercial hubs.
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No, but I'll say that it is the single coolest feature of Arch, and I think it should be default. I have been able to install every single package with a `yay` command except for one.

My instructions I have for installing yay are:

Go to https://github.com/Jguer/yay/releases
Download the yay release and extract it, a clone won't have the build files, download the release.
cd to the extracted copy
./yay yay (install the AUR copy of yay using your local copy of yay)

Then `yay -S <package-name>` and done, it grabs the repo if it has to and runs the build steps to build from source. It is the most frictionless package management experience I have every experienced on Linux.

And I have used `apt-get` on Ubuntu for many (10?) years (go find the PPA yourself dammit) and also `yum` RHEL7 for the past year. Fedora and Debian need something like this too.
maybe they'll obsess about musician's health or instrument care
Weirdly that almost sounds like some switch getting infected by a worm. eg then attempting to infect any other gear it can (thus the broadcast traffic). :(
As someone who typically works on front-end projects, this was a very interesting read. I particularly loved the discussion of “graceful degradation.” That’s the kind of collaboration across the stack that makes a service like Messenger very pleasant to use.
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Almost as funny as Don't be evil. Once the company becomes beholden to shareholders, all of the mottos/ethos/etc that they may have started with become null & void. Whether that's from an out right declaration, or just no longer recognizable from the slippery slope of decisions while chasing the stock price.
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This is a good video. Im the target market as someone not up on programming language hype, lately. I tried Elixir in 2015ish and enjoyed using it. Now, 4 years later I am definitely motivated to build something in 2019 in Elixir.
I think you have a point. But in my experience with two polar opposite schools in Massachusetts, the ones that have a lot of "helicopter parents" don't have any issue with passing rates on the mandatory state tests. They're at over 98% passing.

The tests the parents in such wealthy schools get upset about are the teacher assigned ones.

But again, I only have deep knowledge of two schools, so am happy to be corrected if I'm on off this.
Aim higher. That's cheap compared to the $90,000 DAC you need to buy https://darko.audio/2015/11/the-select-dac-ii-msb-technology...
> When traffic expands to fill all available roads, this solution is an expensive way to not fix anything.

It always surprises me to see people actually believe this utter illogical nonsense. There's a finite amount of people and cars, so new roads satisfy existing demands but do not magically increase traffic until everybody drives 24/7 and beyond.

There are plenty of roads with very little traffic. Hasn't anyone of those anti-car-activists noticed?