skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, saag. The marvellous old world Punjabi food without the use of tomato, potato etc. My grandma used to have proper procedure for saag. Let mustard grow on an untilled land, pluck the stalks and shed off the mature leaves. Take handful of stalks, make a bundle, chop them into 5 mm pieces. Put them in an earthen clay pot, just submerge the chopped stalks in water and give it a slow open flame. Season with salt. After half an hour, put common roadside ‘weeds’ baathoo, chilayi, spinach. Let it boil for another half an hour. Take the pot off, put handful of maize flour and blend the mixture halfway. Use more maize flour as required, saag should acquire a non-liquid appearance. Serve it in a bowl, with churned raw milk butter. Maize flour roti or ‘tortilla’. And lassi, which is just the by-product of milk churning process.

The only old world, pre-wheat Punjabi main course meal that is seriously tasty. It is nutritionally rich as it originated as a farmer’s meal while being easy to make.

Good luck serving saag to the world.
That looks like a great resource; much appreciated!
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> the only difference between a government and a corporation is scale

Far from it and I'm surprised anyone would see it this way. In a democracy the government is the people's representative looking out for all of their interests from a unique position of power. A corporation is one of the many private entities that provide a product or service. I have a say in who is leading my country but once the decision is made I have no choice but to live under it. I have no say in who is leading your company but I can always choose the services of another.

> Youtube should not be allowed

You're suggesting that size should be the difference between getting to enjoy the benefits of freedom and democracy or not. Should wealth be treated the same way? Or general influence of social media influencers with millions of people hanging on their every word? You're negotiating when and to whom should freedom and democracy apply.

Then again maybe there is a way to regulate this in a fair way. Then again even if hate speech laws exist they are more or less only enforced by platforms who don't want their image associated with that. If private entities weren't tasked with enforcing laws maybe the pressure would be relieved.
If you're going to reach for automation, why not just use a binary format like protocol buffers, flat buffers, capn proto, etc? You get the tooling and a ton of performance for free.

JSON is great because you don't need tooling. XML is great because it's expressive. You don't need expressiveness for a data format, but it works great as a markup language.
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I believe the strategy comparison here is based on how to best allocate $X in the stock market.

Choosing not to allocate it is kind of irrelevant, just like "play tic-tac-toe instead" is not a chess strategy.
I went from being indifferent to emacs to becoming a hater (just because of the fan club which can get a bit annoying) to actually using emacs and loving it so much that I almost became a part of the same annoying fan club.

There's a certain elegance to emacs that takes a while to get used to but when you do, it just transforms the way you do most things on your computer. Just goes on to show RMS's genius.
There's abundant data. some 2 years worth of daily power generation from road installed PV panels. A ~$5mm experiment, that also resulted in a 1km road.

Your local physics department spends x10 that budget yearly, and you can't move your car on the arxiv papers it produces (if any).

P.S - Colas is not a startup https://www.colas.com/
Oh it was a joke but it was certainly true (I’m his son). He joined in the days of Charles K. Johnson, who liked to tell the press that “my wife is from Australia and she says they don’t all walk around upside down over there.” He assumed the society was a joke until they rejected him for being a scientist, but he applied again without listing profession and they let him in. Here’s photos of his membership certificate, the rejection letter, and his “Flat Earth Map of the World.”

https://imgur.com/gallery/sqpAng8
The only thing I want is a distro that lets me download a package from the web and install it locally without connecting to any central repo.

I recently learned that Slackware does that, so as soon as I have a little free time, I'll switch to it.
Presumably, the collapse of the government would coincide with a period of hyperinflation. Since US bonds are payable in US dollars (I think), that would effectively wipe out the debt.

In the Russian example, the bond holders claimed they were owed about 100x the actual payout.
Fraud involves deception, what is wework lying to people about?
Let’s discuss economics.

Does anybody have any data or anecdotes about the relative market value of C++, Java, and Go?

C++ work seems to have an odd bimodal split. All the kernel and low level hardware work seems to pay a fraction of what FAANG pays.

But at the same time, the majority of significant systems at Google are in C++.

Thoughts?
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I'm not considering the UK a part of EU anymore.
The thing is though that currently most roads are made from asphalt, yet even that is not durable enough and needs to be periodically reapplied, how a glass can compete with that?
Once you're parsed the first minefield, another crop emerges: interpreting the result. Even the range of values seen in the wild for a supposedly simple boolean attribute is just mind-boggling. Setting aside all the noise from jokers trying it on with fuzzing engines, we'll see all of these presented to various APIs:

true
false
null
0 | 1
"true" | "false" (with assorted variation by
"yes" | "no" case and initial character)
"" | "0" | "1"
"\u2713" (hi DHH)
-1 (with complements)
"[object Object]"
{ "value": true } (and friends)
(attribute not present)
"敵牴"

That last looks like a doozy, but old lags will guess what's going on right away. It's the octets of the 8-bit string "true", misinterpreted as UCS-2 (16-bit wide character) code points and then spat out as UTF8. Google translates it, quite appropriately, as "Enemy".

Oddly though, according to my records, never seen a "NULL".
tar is easy. Just pretend you’re Arnold Schwarzenegger “eXtract Ze File” for tar -xzf. And to create, “Compress Ze File” tar -czf
You mean like awk?
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Why do you want those? Attributes and namespaces just make in memory representation complicated. They're quite useful for markup, but I don't really know why you'd want them in a data format.

Use JSON or a binary protocol for data, XML for markup.
I think the logic here is flawed.

Take a really simple portfolio... I buy (or go long on) 1 share of GOOG and 1 share of MSFT. Over a decade I make an average of a 7% return per annum, while the random strategy makes, 8%.

What exactly would the inverse of my strategy be? To go short on GOOG and MSFT? That would do even worse and in that case I'd actually lose money.
This has been known for what, 40 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
Slightly OT - but https://99percentinvisible.org/ is a really great podcast series.

I believe the notional theme is 'design' (and good design being 99% invisible) - but it's a wonderful mish-mash of stuff that's always interesting, all covered by the exceptional dulcet tones of "Roman Mars"
I’d prefer a physical knob too, but with adjusting temp controls, I don’t find myself fiddling with it while underway.
I'm saying free press can also be free propaganda, it's not a matter of which is superior because fundamentally they all have an agenda to serve.

Also I'm not sure what you are referring to when you are talking about state propaganda. Do you mean BBC or abc or what?
Tax breaks are just borrowing using the good credit of the US on behalf of the private sector. Because the Treasury can borrow so cheaply is it bad that it is the one borrowing?
I think that argument made sense years ago when people thought completion systems were slow or bloated, but on modern computers anybody who still thinks that way is antiquated or weird. The defaults shells are shipped with are a problem of course, but that could/should be addressed by distro packagers IMHO.

Consider the long identifiers used in various modern lisp dialects for instance, particularly scheme dialects. It doesn't bother people because Emacs and vim both have completion systems.

A bigger issue with renaming all these utilities is it would negatively impact people who've already learned them. Alienating your existing userbase to appeal to newbies might be in-vogue these days, but I think it's crap.
> beautiful even without all the billboards and ads.

Rarely do I hear the absence of ads framed as a challenge to beauty. So rarely, it only happened twice - your post, and the post you replied to.
No, it is not. After Flamanville, France will NEVER build another nuclear plant again.

(Hit it bankrupted EDF more than tripled in costs and in more than 15 years late)

Solar / Wind Capital costs circa USD 1 /watt and Nuclear circa USD 11.
Does anyone but me have the suspicion that the animosity towards solar roads was something to do with a 'nerve being touched', some kind of 'triggering'? Sure, they might not work out, but lots of stupid-sounding ideas ('a horseless carriage? Whatever next?') have turned out to work, just as much as lots of somewhat futuristic but nonetheless sensible sounding ideas have turned out not to be here yet ('flying cars are just around the corner'). Who knows, at some point in the future, with different technologies and materials, different efficiencies and performance, we might indeed find solar energy being collected from roads. Just as we are laughing right now at the current, ludicrously oversold and patently unsuccessful efforts, future generations may be laughing at our arrogant dismissal of an idea that might ultimately have just turned out to have been ahead of its time. Let's applaud the audacity of the solar roadways hubris in the spirit of uninhibited innovative endeavour, just as much as we pat ourselves on the back for having successfully spotted its obvious shortcomings and predicted its seemingly inevitable struggle for survival.
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> Not if they made more money ripping people off than it cost them in the courts.

This is why class actions can assess punitive damages.
I’m Danny’s son, and I can tell you he would have got a great kick out of being in the august company of TEST1 TEST2.
Time to see "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" again.
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Pretty much every distro ever already does this. At the same time, practically every repository is already a web page with packages.

Take Ubuntu and Debian for example; if you download a .deb file you can install it from the GUI and CLI as-is.

An example with pictures from a random Google result: https://itsfoss.com/install-deb-files-ubuntu/
It’s a shame that this tool is so incredibly useful but simultaneously so unergonomic to use that it requires a 12 page manual.

Every time I reach for it the magical incantations that finally get it working properly are so completely unmemorable that it’s begging to have a modern replacement (like httpie is to curl).

If someone wrote a version with a better interface it would be instantly adopted in preference to this. Might be a good weekend project.
Or, option three, put something there that looks nice.
I live in São Paulo. This initiative was and still is terrible, as propaganda not only works as... propaganda, but also as sources of light during nights.

Several streets became way too dark, and violence increased. Also, our Paulista Avenue used to look a bit like Times Square, but now it's just a dead street as the others.

All of this just because a politician got mad after seeing a outdoor featuring a couple in underwear (it was a panties ad).
> There's abundant data. some 2 years worth of daily power generation from road installed PC panels

I'm not sure how is this relevant. How this data can help engineer proper solar roadways? Where is the data on all the problems they had to solve and problems they couldn't solve?
Sorry, should be Bajra. Pearl Millet.
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Are the employees drinking the koolaid? What do you think will happen to We?
> Shortwave (really, AM)

Just bought some am/fm/sw radio yesterday.

I was hopping to hear some SW radios, just like I did 30 years ago, when it was a good way to learn a bit more of other languages.

I'm having trouble finding any... Does anyone still do it? Any recommendations?
The change made our lives worse, as due to lack of proper light, several streets became too dark and violence increased. And no, nothing change about the way we eat.
I agree with the sentiment, but please, Rust, not Go. In fact, I remember seeing such a project, let me search...

Ah, here it is: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/parallel
Same here. High interest on savings and free ATM usage on checking.
Please God no. There are so many useful and usable scripting languages, why infect our shells with JavaScript too?
I was pretty surprised, until I realized that regular radar works essentially the same way. Usually you use two antenna spaced some known distance apart so you can use Doppler to distinguish moving from stationary objects. The surprising thing is that it works so well.

I guess I'll need to build a Faraday cage around my house now...
Maybe not any better syntax, but xargs is usually installed by default in most distros, and I've never found parallel to be advantageous over it. I don't think this particular wheel needs to be invented again.
Nope the netherlands solar cycling road is not doing fine it had to be cemented over because it couldn't be repaired. https://mobile.twitter.com/davidhembrow/status/1122496304008...

The chinese solar road died as well.
https://interestingengineering.com/solar-roadways-engineerin... (no they weren't stolen a later article reported that entire panel sections came off through traffic)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2131241/chin...

So did the german. https://www.ksta.de/region/rhein-erft/erftstadt/feuerwehr-mu...

And I don't want to start with solar freaking roadways where normal pavement failed within a month.
Time to hack some more fonts into your phone.
If its not caching to disk, doesn't that mean that ram usage will skyrocket? As it is chrome is a memory hog, imagine now with all of those videos in ram....
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With Pashi, you get to choose the macronutrient ratio, which is not something restaurants expose or that frozen variants allow to customize.
Perhaps, but specific problems of the bay area or some insurance networks being insufficient are beside my point. The providers that exist are generally in-network with the insurance plans I'm aware of in my area, it's just that they seem to be overtaxed and mostly not taking new patients.

I'm saying, in an area where $50K a year is a decent living, and people take for granted that an actual MD is not available in most cases, why is $70+/hr not translating into supply?

It reminds me of my former employer, which was not healthcare, but they were billing clients something like five times what they paid staff, and yet their response was never to try to increase the hours billed and hire more people, but only to squeeze and squeeze costs and shrink through attrition as though they were losing money.

As a matter of fact, I really should ask someone I know who works for NAMI.
Wonder if that would also help reduce light pollution if the panel was wide enough compared to the lens over the light.
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> All meaningful decisions and choices are made by the developers themselves, with little to no account for architect's mumblings.

You're describing a problem caused by developers, who for some reason ignore the architecture that they are supposed to adhere to.
given that the article explicitly mentions science fiction I was really surprised to not see a reference to the great artwork of the Brazlian edition of Neuromancer:

https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/790675203294580736
Patent post suggested drought of renters due to a recession. Recession can be hedged against by purchasing e.g. 12 months options that are far enough out of the money to be cheap yet close enough to cover a major recession event.

I don’t know if the math adds up, but I think it deserves studying.

I’m not looking to hedge against all kinds of customer flight with an instrument, that’s clearly foolish as you noted. But particular events can be hedged.
This is a red herring. It's about consumption now vs consumption later. The whole point of investment is for more future consumption. If growth is below capacity, consumption now is rather less virtuous than investment for the future.
If you have any curiosity about how computers work and you haven't written anything that low level, I'd recommend it. A lot of the modern interpreted and garbage collected languages hide a lot of features of programming from you and I personally think it's important and valuable to learn.
It's not clear that protests were actually the driving force in causing those changes, particularly in the case of the Vietnam protests. The Berlin wall was doomed to fail from the beginning. It was only a matter of time combined with the lucky mistake of a government official.

At the end of the day a modern protest accomplishes nothing. Let's not pretend that government officials don't know what the populace wants. They chose to ignore it for their own benefit and a protest won't change that. The only thing a protest does is give confidence to other powerful people who want to overthrow the current leaders, again for their own benefit. All the big "revolutions" have simply exchanged one abuser for another. The french revolution exchanged the monarchy for Napoleon's dictatorship. Russia went from a monarchy to a communist dictatorship and then to an authoritarian capitalist state. And in the case of east Germany it was the western capitalists who swooped in and bought out the entire country for western-dictated dumping prices, leaving the eastern populace disenfranchised and economically barely better off than before (and sometimes worse, now giving rise to a new nationalist party).

If you actually want to change anything you need to hit the powers that be where it hurts. They couldn't give a shit how many people are unhappy and protesting but what they do care about is money. The strike is the most effective and only effective tool the populace has, short of extreme violence which will just lead to another despot taking power.
I love saag and I love the idea. Is $12-$14 per portion not too high of a price-point for SF? Given a 500 kcal portion, I would guess that is a higher per-cal cost than a takeaway saag dish in my area. I assume most San Franciscans and I are like-minded: if we can get the same thing delivered for less than your service, we will.

I have never seen seitan saag offered at any restaurants near me, but I love seitan. I even prefer seitan to meat, despite being a meat eater. I try to eat mostly plants, and I cannot digest lactose, so I usually order vegan chana saag.
There are definitely offices as good or better than WeWorks in the downtown core. Most of the companies will give you a free day or something so you can actually work there and see what it's like.

We ended up at iQ offices, much quieter than WeWork. Workplace One's new location also seemed pretty compelling, just not in as good a location for those of us commuting on the go train. If internet speeds are important, make sure to ask about that, because most of the offices we talked to had pretty shit speeds.
I'm not sure there's fraud here. It's more akin to voting for Trump to "Make America Great". It's purely a pr / sales-pitch and if people decide to invest they may lose their money or they may not. If I believe the S-1 it pretty clearly lays out the shadiness and ridiculousness of the company without being fraudulent.
Thank you for your thoughtful answer.
I’m not sure I favor this. Clean buildings can look nice, but they also look a bit sterile.

I’m for removing the T bar signs. Imagine Tokyo without the signs and neon.

There has to be a workable medium where there is some signage without it becoming obtrusive and garish.
> Usually within 2-3 years one has to throw away most of the code as it was written in an obscure, low adoption language, or it is just so difficult to maintain that new features can't be added.

Just because you've been working on shit show projects that doesn't mean all projects are mismanaged like that.
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For interactive use I don't want to rely on autocomplete to enter 20 character commands instead of 5 characters.
This + quasi-scam. There's a lot of money to be made in the "going green" space and if lying about your product gets you the contract, only the government (citizens) lose and you laugh all the way to the bank. I wish more government contracts had forced warranty / refund clauses (whatever those are called).
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bull hypothesis: the office space industry is very large but fragmented. wework becomes the central hub in a worldwide network of tenants and landlords.

bear hypothesis: wework is an overhyped-regus with a frail capital structure, no scale or network effects, and dangerous liabilities. it will likely collapse during a recession.

questions for investors:

1. how much flexibility/escapability does wework have regarding leases and liabilities? in particular, how much control do they have over cash flows to avoid disaster during a recession?

2. how much does it cost and how long does it take for enterprises like cisco and ibm to open new offices: (1) with wework; (2) with regus or another wework competitor; and (3) without any outside assistance? how about for companies with 100-1000 employees?

3. what is the current breakdown, lifetime value, and retention rate for wework members among solos, startups (2-99 employees), mid-sized companies (100-1000 employees), and enterprises (1000+ employees)?

4. cashing out $700mm seems like a red flag if you believe the company is worth much more. what percentage of equity does this represent for the founder? is cashing this much out normal for large IPOs? by comparison, how much did zuckerberg, hastings, and bezos cash out at IPO?

question for others: what are the first questions you would research on wework?
Jim Simons is certainly an outlier and the chance that the implemented strategies are not winning strategies is astronomical low.
xargs is great but doesn’t run the commands in parallel or chunk input does it?
Yeah I don't know why the article is so negative. Any engineer would look at this and say, "cool, a few more problems to solve" not "well golly, I guess there's nothing we can do about a few leaves".
There is a huge amount of stored wealth locked up in homes that will be sold in the next 10-15 years from boomers dying or downsizing.
The Linux Desktop has nothing to do with the command line.

And most of the desktop environments are significantly less of a mess than Windows 10's mishmash of five separate GUI styles. Even if I don't like Unity either.
I'd say the counter example to this is Powershell - if you've ever used it, it's quite verbose and can be less than pleasant to write. I think having both options is the best, when you're getting started it's nice to have verbose, highly self explanatory commands. As you get more familiar with the environment, it's nice to move to something more concise.

Import-Csv -Path $src | foreach {
$file = $_.column8
Write-Verbose "Writing to $file"
Export-Csv -Path (Join-Path -Path $dstDir -ChildPath "$($file).csv") -InputObject $_ -Append -Encoding ASCII -NoTypeInformation