skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the larger issue is that shell scripts are intrinsically bad for writing readable code.

Consider the "cut" line in the shell script vs the "map" line in the JS script. The map line is easy to understand because it uses a chain of simple functions (map, split, array access, and lastly trim). The "cut" line has to cram all of this functionality into a few command line arguments instead of composing basic building blocks together.

I mean look at this: What does "only delimited" mean, what does "fields" mean, I might just be an illiterate boor but I don't remember what delimiter means off the top of my head (something like seperator, I assume).

cut --only-delimited --fields 2 --delimiter '|'

The JavaScript version is easier to read because it uses fundamental building blocks in the language that are

1. Super intuitive. (Split seems pretty easy to understand, especially when you know the input is a string, similarly everyone knows [1] means array access).

2. Widespread. You have probably encountered all of those JS functions before, I'd say the chance of encountering the "cut" utility is a bit less.

Summary: Shell just fundamentally sucks because it outsources a lot of functionality to various executables, each which have their own command line arguments. The ideal method is to use a programming language with consistent, composable, building blocks.
Would it be long every stock except GOOG and MSFT?
I conjure an image of Chinatown / Japantown sections of a large city, where the signage is a huge part of what sets the area apart, and a very significant cultural display.
Did the article ask and then mostly dodge the question, How do you fit a horse in front of your seat?

It didn't dodge the question at all. There's a photo, and the article talks about the photo extensively.

"Airlines that have engaged with miniature horses before typically put Ms. Ramouni and Cali in the bulkhead row, which has more legroom and no seats in front. Throughout the flight Cali stands at Ms. Ramouni’s feet."
Yeah it sure would be awful if that happened to anyone. Imagine joining a company that claims to help the world and instead you design unbelievable tracking and surveillance systems. Ha ha. Ha. sobs
Does it? I was under the impression that all the installed RAM got refreshed all the time whether it holds useful data or not.
Flying with a declared flare gun in your checked baggage photography gear cases was a trick I heard some professional photographers use.

Reportedly, that activates some chain of custody-like procedures, including that it's unlikely to be lost, and that the case isn't opened at potentially arbitrary points of time by unknown workers in between (damage, theft).
Sure, if they don't want to be indexed by search engines. And if they do, suddenly browsers are going to have user agents that look a lot like search engines. And failing that, anyone who tries this had best pray they're the ONLY source of that content, because otherwise their traffic will dry up like a piece of chewed up gum in the Mojave (and even if they ARE the only source, if it's worth anything at all, it'll be quoted whole and reposted all over so it can be read by people unwilling to put up with any of that).
What I said is accurate. See the rest of the thread for arguments that they're a fraud and what is meant by the term in this case.
Yeah um, that's basically how Google works now. If you want to get into search results you have to buy ads.

I'm sure the Universities will cover the liability costs of their professors.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
TMMM was, broadly speaking, composed of two kinds of things:
1) specific recommendations on procedures (this part looked pretty dated when I read it in 2004)
2) bad news for management, of the sort they don't want to hear
- you need to make one to throw away
- you can't throw 9 women at a pregnancy and get it done in a month
- there are no silver bullets

By and large, the second kind of thing is useful to know, so that you can recognize that particular kind of management mistake when you see it. It won't help you avoid it, unless you're in management, and even then it may not because your hand may be forced from above. But it is less stressful somehow if you can see the pattern in what's happening. "Aha, they are throwing people at a late project, to make it later. Yes, I recognize that."

So, while parts of it are quite valuable and applicable both within and outside the software industry, the actual impact on management behavior is quite small.
So that chart seems to imply it is unknown whether the Sun will end up with "electron capture collapse" or as a neutron star. That's news to me, because when I was younger, I had the impression that the accepted theory was it would become a white dwarf.
Not loss of light. Just extra violence due to economic/social upheaval I'd say.
As someone over 6ft, all I would like to know is what airline has enough legroom for a horse to go in front of you.
Honesty I cannot follow the argument in this article at all. Something about the sharing economy creating a post capitalist world? Then the author goes on to talk about Marx for some reason. The whole thing is totally incomprehensible. Can anyone explain to me what the central premise of the argument is? Truly a terrible article.
I remember this article as my first intro to canvas. It's been a decade wow
What if the social pressure to "not give a platform to <x>" means that it becomes practically impossible for certain groups to have their voice heard?

The point I'm getting at, is when you chip away at free speech like that, no matter how laudable the goals, the inevitable result is less free speech for all.
SpaceX isn’t a public stock though?
It's used in the water cleaning process to make it drinkable.
Several comments from people who live there, all strongly condemning the measure for various unintended side-effects, all downvoted to oblivion.

Whether it’s encouraging graffiti, removing important light sources which the city did not pay to replace, destroying culturally significant displays, or promoting sterilized monotony in the surroundings, it seems there are several good reasons why outright banning of advertisements might not be the utopian vision some claim it to be.

Being surprised to learn about viewpoints which contradict the popular narrative is the best you can hope for from a comment section, if the critique is offered in good faith.
Unlike in dropbox case, this is something people with engineering degrees that often include physics and material sciences can actually calculate.
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Why do you think the US has a free press? The number of US media conglomerates just went from 6 to 5 this week and they all have the same advertisers. I don't see anyone having an iota of care about that.
A package-specific /ro prefix is annoying and will not persuade many.

void linux uses standard paths, and still has a blazingly package manager, without the need for images being mounted ro.
https://wiki.voidlinux.org/XBPS

pacman is also pretty fast. apt, nix and rpm/yum are by far the slowest package managers. suse's has the fastest undo, via btrfs snapshots.
Well, that is certainly some grade-A baloney. One struggles to imagine how or if a clear-minded person put this arrangement of words to paper.
It's faintly ridiculous to have all the over the top expressions of amazement about something a couple hundred times the size of the Sun. If you're the layperson this is aimed at, who doesn't have a clue about stellar physics, then why not imagine a star 1,000 or 1,000,000 times the mass?
I do wonder if the concept could work on a sidewalk, given that they aren't being perpetually driven over by 3,000+ pound vehicles.
The original study can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-019-01233-7

Abstract:

> Representations of wildlife in television and films have long been hypothesized to shape human-wildlife interactions. A recent example is Pixar’s film Finding Dory, which featured a blue tang fish (Paracanthurus hepatus) as the main character and was widely reported in the popular press to have increased the number of such fish in the pet trade. We use Bayesian posterior predictive counterfactual models to evaluate the movie’s effect on three metrics of societal behaviour. Although there was an increase in global online searches for the blue tang 2–3 weeks after the movie, we find no substantial evidence for an increase in imports of blue tang fish into the US, or in number of visitors to US aquaria compared to counterfactual expectations. It is vital that an evidence-based discourse is used when communicating potential impacts of popular culture on human-wildlife relationships to avoid loss of credibility and misdirection of conservation resources.
I'm pretty sure they closed this loophole, and banned them altogether:

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

Also, with regular firearms, they have to be in case specially designed for the firearm. You can't just lock it in your regular suitcase.
No need of faith, there are so many products that proved that you can trust rechargeable batteries. I'm considering buying a Volt right now and seems like that even the 2012 models are still keeping their ranges. I wish I could say that about many of my LEDS lightbulbs that are rated for tens of thousands of hours.

I have much less faith in any lightbulbs ;).
Yes, variance is reduced by averaging over many uncorrelated variables. This sums up about 75% of investing articles.
The very first Google hit on this says it is a poor idea.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/34042190
Surely not as bad as disk.
This company is completely unlike the early days of Amazon or others who lost money, WeWork seems to have zero plan to ever make money or be profitable. It's just a ponzi scheme that is trying to push scam up and out to the IPO market.

It's a despicable fraud and would be completely illegal if we had a functional SEC. They are just amping up the Uber-style con game to the next level.

There will be dozens more scam companies like this until someone finally cracks the whip, so get used to it.
That would indeed be awesome. Every email server a chat server. But they are not done with JMAP yet, still working on contacts and calendar. Maybe chat could be next.
In near future, the antennas will be too expensive to use for dissidents.
Then, China and Russia already demonstrated they have means to destroy satellites. The satellites will be required either to disable service over their geographical regions, or comply to local regulations.
ARM got a Javascript oriented instruction: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....

At least two different tasks, audio and graphics, have special application specific processors. Networking and crypto are also often offloaded.
Puerto Rican call themselves Puerto Ricans because (1) they're not yet a state, and (2) the term defines both a region and an ethnicity.

There's little similarity between their relation to the U.S. and HK or Taiwan's relation to China, especially since the U.S. and its territories are all democracies.
There's a thing we do as a society which I think is unfortunate. We decide the someone ought to get help, that part is totally reasonable. But then instead of providing that help out of our collective resources we instead pass a law requiring random third parties to provide it.

So in this case we decide that disabled people ought to be able to take their assistance animals on planes. Fine. But then we the people should be paying the airlines to carry the disabled person and their service animal without depriving other passengers of the flight experience that they bought and paid for. We've collectively decided to help and we should collectively bear the cost.
I'm not clear why it matters. Everything natural isn't necessarily good.
I've traveled with a sword and tried to get a security screen but TSA wouldn't do it for me. I'm curious if a rifle bolt would be enough to get the added security.
It's possible they did that, but in this case I think it's probably not a good idea.

When you want to launch a new technology it's better to have it do better than expected than to have it run into 'unexpected' problems.
It's a skill that will get you out of trouble, allow you to do things others can't and because of that it might get you promoted which will get you hired.
Instead of all that complexity, why not just expand the small deposit to other items as well? If people are willing to gather bottles for the deposit, let them gather other plastic waste as well. In fact, it could be as simple as charging/redeeming based on weight.
The endgame is requiring a non-extensible browser with TPM and remote attestation so that the ads can't be removed client side with a bonus layer of DRM preventing scraping the screen (at least on the same endpoint) and hiding the ads that way. But a critical mass of "content" would have to require this before it could be universally enforced. Would probably be happening with online banking already had it not been for the rise of mobile.

Bottom line, though: it only takes one person to copy the "content" and repost it to make all that for naught.
Yet in the past, Rascal the Racoon led to a big raccoon problem in Japan. It can clearly happen, even if it does not always.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/childrens-book-beh...
PowerShell is not case sensitive, so it could look like

install-module -name dockermsftprovider -force

if you wanted. Community style guides would complain and autocomplete would 'fix' the caps for you, but the caps don't do anything meaningful.
Flying with 2 dogs in the same row in a few weeks for the first time and I know I am going to get some stern looks from others on the plane. They have their ESA documentation and everything is set to go, we're in first class at the bulkhead (yay points), and they are extremely well behaved.

I cannot even fathom trying to get a horse onto a plane since I am already playing mental gymnastics with my two dogs.
> If you dismiss them out of hand (and I find that these dismissals typically have an emotional and sanctimonious undertones), then I'm going to have to conclude that you don't want to solve the problem you profess to care about.

Do you see any irony in you dismissing out of hand anyone who disagrees with you, by saying the above?

There are very good reasons to oppose the expansion of nuclear power based on reasonable and well-founded understanding of the technologies, economics, and impacts.

To dismiss those who disagree is just zealotry of another kind.
Waiting for a completion system breaks the flow of thought, no matter how fast it is. After a certain point, they tend to start getting in the way.
What are T bar signs? A Google Images search yields equivocal results.
The problem is not about using simple words (which I totally support, BTW), but the speed and complexity of grasping new concepts. Having to decompose, simplify and slowly explain each element of a concept, vs. just saying the thing once and the other person building on it. One is tedious and makes you think everyone is an idiot, the other is an actual conversation.
Also see "The Fourth Profession" by Larry Niven. Aliens didn't annihilate everyone out of fear, but they would cause a nova when there was profit in doing so.
Engineering Change Request. Generally features or big changes
I think it is worth mentioning that in São Paulo people tend to use the word "grafite" for artful murals and drawings and "pixação" for the stuff that is seen as vandalism. (there are some grey areas but that is the jist of it)
Yes. I use parallel if I need coherent output; otherwise I use xargs (which is significantly faster).
What’s annoying about the prefix?

Thanks for mentioning void linux. I gave it a shot in Docker just now, but it seems rather traditional in that it does dependency resolution, does not allow for co-installability, uses transactions, unpacks archives, and runs hooks/triggers.
Would be cool to see community-run non-profit ISPs.
>numerical (binary) formats are strictly superior, especially as they're used increasingly often. It's better to have good tools that will provide a human-readable representation, rather than pretend a single, inefficient representation for both man and machine is somehow the best option.

I'm working on a chiptune music composing program (FamiTracker), which saves projects in a binary format designed by my predecessor. I once repaired a corrupted file for someone else. It's borderline impossible to repair binary formats by hand, since inspecting the data on-disk provides no clues about the structure, which I don't know since I didn't write the program. I ended up merging the corrupted file and an older backup in Audacity (an audio editor) by sliding the two files back and forth relative to each other, because hex editors are awful at visualizing and aligning binary files (whereas diff tools are good at visualizing and aligning text files).

Additionally, the on-disk layout changes between versions, and the reader code is a mess of branching between different on-disk layouts based on the version number.

Additionally, it's impossible to check in your music project (binary blob) into Git, then get a meaningful diff between different versions, let alone being able to merge changes made in 2 branches. (Yes, I use Git for music. It's actually useful.)

Needless to say, I'm using a text format if I ever write a replacement. A text format may have trouble encoding binary blobs, but I don't like the idea of "transcoding .wav into binary files, and throwing away the parameters used". I'm more inclined to just use pointers to on-disk .wav, and store all metadata needed to reproduce the binary blobs, and possibly cache the binary blobs in base64 for speed and convenience.
I had always dreamed about a city without advertising, and couldn't wait to visit São Paulo. And when I did, I was completely shocked to discover... I hated it.

Until you experience a lack of advertising, it's hard to imagine quite how gray and boring and non-vibrant a city looks without it. Turns out billboards and panels full of dramatic movies and TV shows, beautiful smiling faces selling makeup and phones... actually add a lot of character to a city and make it feel like things are happening and going on.

Imagine if books no longer had graphic covers anymore, just all solid gray and beige and black covers, and you walked into a bookstore. It feels kind of like that.

If you're going to get rid of advertising, at a minimum you've got to replace it with something -- like a lot of murals, like murals everywhere. (The Bushwick neighborhood of NYC has some areas full of street art, which works pretty well.)
A solar panel is probably a better option. That's how some illuminated signs and environmental sensors are powered around here.
> I'm pretty sure the author would have favored much more expressive commands.

The very first compiled computer language was designed to be very expressive and able to be read almost as English, and be simple to read and understand. Would this be what you wanted? Would you change your mind when I tell you its name is COBOL?
Our main differentiator is specifying the macronutrients and allowing you to pick between different macronutrient profiles. You're not likely to get that at your local Indian place.
Well I hope this guy doesn't write a post for every little pull request a Microsoft employee sends to Chromium
As far as voice goes about all I can here is radio free America (US propaganda) and the religious stations. But I can hear all kinds of digital stuff. I think once I was able to decode part of a RTTY transmission from Germany. Another time I got half of an amerature Morse conversation, I think the station I heard said they from Ontario.

If you listen carefully with the right space wether there’s all kinds of stuff. I think most amerature voice uses SSB which is harder to tune than AM (but I’m not totally sure) and that’s why you hear it less. Plus a lot of shortwave users like digital since a lot of it is about minimalism and there’s a limit to how small you can make a voice transmition.
From the website it looks like you are using spinach for this. In which case, Palak as a Service is actually the less misleading term. People associate Saag with either mustard leaves or at least a mix of green leaves. If it's only Palak, calling it saag might not be technically wrong but it's still not what people associate with that name.
But if that's not available? (Typically? What happens atypically?) The paragraphs after that question seemed to be mostly about making sure the horse didn't pee on anybody, not how it physically fit. Also, it looked like the horse is longer than a single seat wide. Does she always travel with a companion?

Unfortunately the times seems to have decided I'm only allowed to read this article once and now it won't load.
> the inverse of the non-random strategy is better than the random strategy

There is not one single non-random strategy. There are millions active at any moment. Which specific non-random strategy should we pick to assure success?
> The symbol parsing part of the human brain is what parses letters and numbers, as well as other abstract symbols.

I really don't think that's true when you talk about about someone using the latin alphabet, words in that alphabet compared to some other alphabet (e.g. {}():!) and "words" (or meanings) in those. Just as a crude example parsing "c = a - b", where equals and minus are one symbol each and have been taught for a while, is different from parsing "c := a << b" where ":=" and "<<" basically act as a separate meaning someone has to learn to understand. Similar to the difference of latin alphabet and say simplified Chinese.

> also, if this was the phenomenon in play, popularity would be TOML > YAML > JSON but in reality it's closer to the reverse.

There could be somewhat of an sigmoid response to the effect, decreased reaction if you go into either extreme compared to deviating from the average.

I'm not a linguist so it is my speculation, so don't take it too seriously :D
Next they'll offer 100 year student loan enforceable on your children and grandchildren. :-)
Super agree.

What would it take to make that a reality, though -- without, like secure's sibling comment says, blowing up the text matrix?

Which things would you make standardized (or conventional) to make switching easier?

What things would you strip out of consideration to make switching easier?

One of the things I like about Distri is that by questioning whether a bunch of inter-package interactions are necessary (and finding out that, often, the answer is "no"), it gets closer to a model of packaging where things are less prone to create either conflicts or sprawling dependency trees. That feels like a step in a good direction, at least, to me.