skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a CLI wants to be when it grows up.

Check the REPL experience from Lisp Machines and Xerox PARC Lisp/Mesa/Smalltalk workstations.

Think of Swift Playgrounds or Jupiter notebooks, done in late 70's hardware.
What a coincidence. Picked up an Austin Chronicle for the first time in a year because I needed to kill time at a restaurant while a kid ate their way through a giant rice krispie treat.

This was the front page story: https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-08-16/causing-trou...

It may appear to be the same story, but it is a completely separate article on the same topic written by the same author and published the same day.
Markets are not infallible tools. They are a pattern of human interaction that has certain pros and cons. It is a very powerful pattern, one that we should continue to use. But not blindly.

One of the common modes failure for markets is situations with negative externalities. There is a negative outcome, a cost, that is not borne by the participants in a transaction. Thus, they have no economic incentive to do anything about it. The participants keep doing business, and the negative outcome keeps happening.

Environmental damage is a very common example of negative externalities. E.g. groundwater poisoning, air pollution (which causes millions of deaths per year [1]), ecosystem destruction, climate change, and so on.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/air_pollution.htm
Great point! We could do a population radius for 1 hour driving.

r= 1 hour driving range @ 60 miles per hour (no red lights!)
area = 3.14* r^2 = 11,304 sq mile
US density = 92 people per sq mile
area * population density => 11,304 m2 * 92/m2 = 1,039,968 people

This is still less than the population of NYC which is 8,398,748. With this calculation, remote dating would give an improvement of 3146%.

Density source:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-200-years-of-u-...
"(2) if you are able, express to your current manager that you'd be interested in learning additional skills and possibly making a - deliberate, smooth - career transition."

Based on my experience, that is unlikely to work. If you are not in an entry-level job, then your employer/supervisor, if reasonably intelligent and competent, will recognize that you're far more valuable doing what you've always done. So they may be nice to you, but they will resist. It's the flip side of the Peter Principle.

I think it's a better approach to get an entry-level job in the field/organization you want to transition to and then expand your job with the stuff you want to be doing.
+1 for the Pi.

I'm in the middle of tweaking BackupPC [1] on Slackware in one of these so it will regularly pull updated files from the handful of Windows machines, and ransomware won't be able to know it exists. The only thing on each Win box is a cygwin-powered rsync daemon; it doesn't need write access to any outside filesystems or services.

In the back of my mind, I think it could be used to set up a sort of tripwire for the presence of ransomware-- lots of files would be changed in a short time (unless said RW also decrypts them all silently and transparently on access, until the time comes to drop the ax on you-- that would only defeat the tripwire and most if not all of the files would be still saved in old backup sets anyway). Since it only stores identical files once, the change in space required for a single full backup will suddenly jump, and all you'd need is one automated email alert like the others.

Sorry that the thing doesn't actually do its job yet and I haven't likewise written anything up :(

[1] https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc
I consider all these articles about plastic pollution to be a kind of "fake news" because they are completely misleading people as to the nature of the problem.

The plastic waste that is entering the oceans is because people in developing countries that lack waste management systems, dump their trash in rivers and it floats out to sea.

The root cause is poverty and corrupt, ineffective governments. It's not a problem that can be resolved by western consumer action or even western legislation.
Glad it worked out for him but for me she'd be packing a ton of red flags. Changing his fashion? Changing his diet? Watching the Hallmark Channel?

>After a year of dating, Ilse began pushing for marriage
>She said it’s difficult for an entrepreneurial woman in her 30s to find love with someone who has a good job
>We had a back and forth, like playing chess.
So she's actively trying to convince him to do something she knows he doesn't want to do.

>One evening, Ilse said if I wasn’t going to be with her, I had to let her go so she could find someone else.

"Giving ultimatums" appears on every single list of "signs of abusive relationships" you could care to find.

If I had been this guy's friend I'd have been telling him to break up with her, and saying so regularly.
And compete with the vast network of superchargers Tesla's already established for themselves...
This is good.

But the question is how to get smart enough to solve medium-hard level problems without hours and hours of practice?
I find it surprising that your format doesn’t distinguish strings and numbers, or other types of scalar values in general. For example, in your demo “eno's javascript benchmark suite data” on https://eno-lang.org/eno/demos/, both of these lines:

iterations: 100000
evaluated: Fri Jul 06 2018 09:46:48 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)

are tagged below as just a “Field”. Do client programs that read an Eno file need to run `int()`/`float()` or `.to_i`/`.to_f` on the field values they know should be numbers? That seems unergonomic.
I had to re-read your comment. At first I thought you were saying you had one hour of homework per night. One hour per class per day is insane.

I regularly avoided doing homework throughout my school life. The only thing I think that suffered was my understanding of physics & chemistry. I doubt I would have better understanding now in any other subject area if I had done more homework, including maths and the foreign language I studied. Maths because we were given enough time in classes to do exercises in which to learn the concepts; foreign language study because it just wasn't taught terribly well and the homework was in the same vein.
saw this recently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9kokeyxGU

seems like they're aiming for Model S level pticing, too.
Indeed.

Exceptions apply (like having investors with enough clout to get Google's attention), but yes, that's exactly what a lot of us are saying.

Don't build apps (or at least don't make them central to your strategy).
Sorry - the son of Singapore's Prime Minister is a Scala Hacker ...

I keep on saying that Software Literacy is a real thing. And that this current generation of leaders are like Charlemagne - he was the first Holy Roman Emperor and the last who was illiterate.

Interesting to see it in practise
This reminds me (in kind, not degree) of how the Yellow Vests were treated by the French state and corporate media. They were literally labeled "breakers" (as in vandals) across the board, the word "violence" was incessantly repeated in as many contexts as possible surrounding protest days, video of blatant human rights violations would often be ignored in coverage while vandalism or looting replayed nearly non-stop, etc.
4-ANPP+NPP is basically the Betty Crocker Baking Mix synthesis of fentanyl. Most anyone importing it at >=50 gallon drums has the expertise to make it via another route. Who knows, maybe the economics of bulk chemicals are such that a different synthetic route is a better value.
Yes everyone should be rich enough to buy a 1000 dollar Apple phone. Also, you get to decide if I want more than one camera app or not ?

Stop imposing your world view on others. Android made smartphones accessible to many people across the globe. You won't mention that would you ? Won't fit your narrative.
> It is one of those states that meet resistance with blood. Always have.

Isn't that pretty much "any country on earth that is strong enough to do that"? Civil society may protest all it wants, Iraq was still invaded. Another round of protests, but Libya was still bombed back into the dark ages.
Which still don't compare the whole story because they focus on FOSS implementations, and they are not necessarily the best ones available.
Is this not an issue with a parser rather than with YAML?
Apparently, Peter Naur (the N in BNF) wrote this up nicely back in 1985 in "Programming as Theory Building": http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
I agree. It seems that his overall position could be stronger if he just started with the requisite of having some taste. Which everybody has.

It'd still all ring true, and be more general, in the sense that one's taste is linked to who one is (your unique background and life experience). So in general this condition of relative uniqueness, saying nothing of it's subjective quality or goodness, could still be enough to make one's creative efforts worth something, inasmuch they'll probably be relatively unique.
The bit about his mentees and the 'NPR sound' helps a lot and does create that important context.

First time I saw his interview, I did some light googling and as far as I could tell, he was some kind of host/writer. I'd gander most non-Americans haven't even heard of NPR and thus cannot really understand the impact it had/has. Much less his mentees and their various offshoots.
According to the article, they have less range than a Tesla Model 3 and cost substantially more. That seems like a hard thing to sell.
weird, I've heard it said frequently for decades in various forms,

"value your knowledge workers"

"your employees are your most valuable asset"

Some companies don't treat employees well, and some employees at good companies feel they are not treated well enough

If the above quotes do not strike a chord with you, you might just be a software engineer who thinks you're more important than non-SEs.
I think this is one of the reasons why Minecraft was so successful, especially with kids. It fulfilled a need they're not able to get in real life: exploring freely with their friends.
"Here's the question: a bunch of young people in Hong Kong are standing up to their government, at terrific personal risk, to fight for basic human rights. Will a bunch of Twitter employees, at far less risk, stand up to their CEO and refuse to be used as a weapon against them?"

If anyone here works at Twitter, please, stand up for what's right.
That is fascinating, especially how the people responsible managed to keep it hushed up for so long.

> The D-Day rehearsal, codenamed Exercise Tiger, was a disaster on a grand scale with the loss of life greater than the actual invasion of Normandy just months later

I am not sure how they did the maths on this. According to the WWII and DDay Foundation [0] 12,000 men died in the air operations in preparation for the landing, and 2,500 Allies troops died during the landing.

I can only thing they mean the proportion of death was higher (death/participants).

[0] https://www.wwiifoundation.org/students/wwii-facts-figures/
Click and argparse end up with a lot of boilerplate. `defopt` (https://defopt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) reduces it to almost nothing (granted only in Python 3), is only a single file and even turns your function docstring into command help text.

With every other tool I’ve tried, I end up writing a python API and a CLI and documenting it twice.

Defopt eliminates that almost completely (but with *args still allows for elegant interfaces)
Private academic classes helps education standards in India
Isn't it more likely that volcanic activity on the moon was caused by meteor impacts? Maybe there used to be a lot of asteroids in Earth's orbit. The moon took a lot of the hits until the big one slipped by killing the dinosaurs.
"During a meal at a restaurant" is the time parents are most likely to get them out. Don't assume that generalizes to when they're at home and have lots of options of what to do while waiting for dinner. Keeping kids quiet and happy while they're hungry and waiting is the hardest part of going out to eat with young kids. We use crayons and paper, but I don't think that's so intrinsically better than an iPad.
Terrible article:

1) It's only about the US.

2) Tesla's big seller is the Model 3 which isn't a competitor for the Audi e-tron and I-Pace. And given the size difference probably isn't a competitor for the Model X either.

3) No one is claiming to be a Tesla killer since no one really has direct 3, X, S, Y competitors. The existing car companies are all off doing their own thing e.g. VW ID.3 (hatchback), Hyundai Kona (mini-SUV), Renault Zoe / Chevy Bolt / Nissan Leaf / BMW i3 (small-car) etc.
It's also available on Audible in audiobook format too.

https://www.audible.com/pd/B07CTTXLL6
Maybe. Compare the Mercedes EQC to the Tesla Model X. The EQC is quieter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13mNkRtdK84

The EQC has more sophisticated headlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZMNkMadYTQ

And the EQC has voice control (although they really need a better triggering phrase than "Mercedes"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JTew1D5Tk8

I think Tesla's main problem now is that the major car companies will be releasing multiple EVs across multiple brands year after year. It's going to be difficult for Tesla to keep up.
IFTTT has a thing that does that.
Review: Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There's a list of options maintained here:
https://github.com/hongkonggong/beyond-lennon-walls/blob/mas...

(I came across this following @pinboard's tweets - not sure if it was linked directly though.)
I am a native Polish speaker as well, and I can understand the texts very well, but I think they might be more difficult for younger readers, who did not learn any Russian. It seems to me that Polish has drifted away from most other Slavic languages.

As an example, without learning any Russian you have no chance to understand "govorju" which is like the Russian verb "govorit'", which is "mówić" in Polish.

One thing I found interesting is that the cyrillic versions are actually easier to read, as many Slavic sounds can more easily be represented (like "ч" or "щ").
I get the article, but it's impossible to ruin childhood (bar sever abuse cases)
Western governments absolutely can and do apply geopolitical pressure via measures like sanctions, tariffs and trade agreements.

Now whether they have the will to do it over plastic waste (or carbon emissions or democratic governance or human rights) is another matter, because they have only a few tools and there are thousands of priorities competing for those tools.

It also doesn't help with leverage when there is a powerful economic actor which doesn't require any of these terms as conditions of doing business: China.
I liked fire a lot, gets kinda goofy sometimes (and it looks abnormal in exceptions). If you can use python 3 - defopt is simpler and less visually noisy on errors https://defopt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Nature has cruelly given women who want children the ultimate ultimatum. If she is such a woman, giving men an ultimatum isn't abusive.
Had Pascal/Modula-2/Ada won over C and we wouldn't be even discussing this.
They are aimed at the same crowd who buy models X&S, and they didn't have much a dent yet here in Norway as well.
We use it to keep semen and embryos cold.
Anecdotally, I see a lot of kids biking by themselves on the streets in the Netherlands.
I can understand the necessity in drafting for these records, but being towed up to the speed and then released?

Doesn't seem like the rider did that much effort.
Basecamp's cofounder explains why it ditched Google Cloud for Amazon this summer
http://www.6502.org/commercial lists some of these.
"You’re in private mode."

"Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode."

I guess Chrome incognito is still detectable. Hard pass.
They aren't competitors for the Model 3 but rather a Model Y.

And not sure why people are so obsessed with range. It's the megapixels/megahertz spec nonsense again. People don't buy ICE cars based purely on MPG but also for exterior/interior design, quality, comfort, brand, support, seating capacity etc and most importantly what the car says about you as a person.
Don't get me wrong. I completely understand your frustration (or I think I do anyway). It's a very cultural thing. Many of the Brazilians in my area hate the Japanese school system too. The Japanese school system is great at indoctrinating people into the Japanese culture. It instills certain societal values -- many of which are just not shared by people who didn't grow up here. However, it does quite a good job at that -- to the point where if I was raising kids in Japan and I thought my kids would likely remain in Japan as adults, I think it would be a very great injustice to deprive them of Japanese schools.

I can read your message and understand how you feel. Japan is a hard place to live in as a foreigner. The culture is not like a buffet. You can't take the bits you like and leave the other bits aside. This is especially challenging if you are raising kids, since the school system is going to instill Japanese values in your kids whether you like it or not. A few people have asked me if they should raise kids here and I think it's totally great, but only if you are ready to buy into the Japanese culture completely. If not, it's going to be -- as you put it: appalling.
A side effect of C winning over the alternatives, which either were 1 based, or had the option to specify it
Which Companies in India Implement ERP?
Disable javascript and then you can read the article is what I do.
Just ate first portion and it was delicious! Had the tofu version but will try seitan next time.
oh, missed this. This is comforting and helpful, thanks! Especially you can accomplish only limited amount of work each day part :)

Well, being the lead of a small company I have to figure out on my own, can't rely on others' opinion on my team. What I was looking for is some kind of objective way to be comfortable I'm doing my best.
Surfacing GitHub Usage for Packages on Nuget.org
“It was designed for that” doesn’t justify a claim. Common Lisp is a general purpose language with excellent support for fast numerical code. In SBCL in particular you can even write assembly if you want to do crazy AVX stuff.
Electrify America is rolling out their own supercharger equivalent.

And in fact will soon have more 350kw chargers than Tesla.
> The root cause is poverty and corrupt, ineffective governments.

The root cause is human nature coupled with literally covering everything in plastic. Effective governments can help put a curb on this by restricting plastic usage.

Western governments should stop outsourcing pollution, whether literally (exporting plastic) or figuratively (allowing trade with environmentally unfriendly governments).
I think the link is between men owning cats, not women owning cats.
That's fine, when it never becomes the all-purpose go-to pacifier.

I remember being at an NHL game where a kid was immersed in his device the entire night, despite being in a $148 seat to (IMHO) the most attention-maintaining of all sports. Having never been taken to a major league sporting event for my entire childhood, seeing this saddened me.
We know a great deal about dynamics,kinematics, thermodynamics and generally the physics that governs car components, yet we are a long way from an algorithm that applied to a car will produce a better car. My guess is that doing that for software is as
hard, if not harder.

Also the sentence 'algorithms that applied to algorithms produce a better model' has a strong smell of halting problem, at least to this nose.
People have been saying this for 5 years now and Tesla didn’t even invent the electric car.

Also... who complains about how loud a Tesla is?
I wish consumers would take a liking to station wagons again.

SUV's are terrible.
And Tesla is definitely still beating them.

But it's more than a little disingenuous to compare cars from different segments.
I feel like a significant fault in the model you propose is that you're exposed to the value of the public market, not the economy.

Market cap lost to non-public companies will disappear from your portfolio.
> Owning a cat however isn't the same, and could have a negative effect.

Is this about the American attitude that dogs are always boys and cats are always girls, i.e. having a cat is "less manly"?

The only two things I can think of are that dogs naturally lend themselves to meeting people because they need to be walked, act as a conversation starter and may even approach strangers themselves; and that dogs are (apparently especially in the US) more socially accepted than cats, so the chances of someone being a dog person (or familiar with dogs) being higher than for cats.
As someone still rocking an iPhone 6s, I’ve had the battery replaced last year but still usually have to plug it in and charge at some point in the afternoon/evening. Will be almost dead by lunch some days.

Depends what I use my phone for each day.
Fair enough. I didn't really explain that. I'd start with deemphasizing Dr. Racket. Sure it's great and all, but most people aren't gonna use special IDE for your language. They want to use VSCode or whatever. Besides I can't think of a single good experience I've had with a language that encourages using its own custom IDE.

Next, start building good interops. If you can figure out a way to get Racket to interop with JS, then boom, you suddenly have access to all of the JS ecosystem. Does this potentially create issues in your type system? Yeah, probably. Does the JS ecosystem kinda suck? Yeah, but people use it. Right now Racket doesn't have a great package ecosystem, so stealing packages from other languages is probably the next best thing.

Ruby is popular because DHH was having enough fun in Ruby to build a web framework and get shit done with it. Do you think DHH could have done that in Racket? I'm not so sure.

Making a language worse just means killing your darlings. Language designers tend to be very smart and into very interesting, very powerful, but very hard to understand features. Which can be great in small doses. But if your language's idiomatic style relies on said interesting, very powerful but hard to understand features, you're a little screwed when you try to teach people cough monads. Making a language worse means moving off these really amazing features and onto slightly worse, but easier to understand features.
> In other words, the argument is "competing priorities in a large-scale project make it more likely to fail, because stakeholders can't figure out which ones to do first."

This is a misinterpretation of the article's claim. The article very explicitly begins by saying that the best recipee to increase a project's chances to success is to:

> 1. Start as simple as possible;

> 2. Seek out problems and iterate;

The priority part reads to me as a way to determine which features are critical (and hence part of the as simple as possible set) and which ones are not (and hence you should not build "yet"). The underlying vibe being that these other features should probably never get implemented because once the critical ones get built and the software is put to use you will actually find other critical fearures that solve actual problems found through usage.

That is, only when you find that one of the initially non-critical features has become a hindrance for users actually using your software you should seek to implement it.

I really think this would be a better way to build software, just as much as I think that you will have a very very hard time getting any management on board with it...
Hey React Dev forks!
In those days, We have New Context API and Hooks such as useState(), useContext().
How do you Management Data today?
In this batch, Juno College of Technology and Microverse both teach coding using income sharing agreements. Of course, from previous batches, Lambda School and Modern Labor are coding schools that charge via income sharing.