skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best Business and Finance Books in 2019
Then there's Trump, who would be in one of the newer right-wing populist parties, and the religious fundamentalists who wouldn't fit into any party in most European countries.
PowerShell has been focused on cross platform since 2016 (3 years now)
Not at all, handwaving, technological breakthroughs, handwaving, renewables, handwaving, mars colonies, and we'll be alright...
None of the things you mention seem to support the original claim.

The original claim was that landowners are basically just freeloaders, making easy money.

Land presumably can't cost ridiculous amounts, only what people think it will be worth - how much money they can make with it.

That it takes years to maybe appreciate, maybe not - wouldn't that indicate that perhaps it is not so easy to make money with it after all?
Lots. The Rust Belt is heavily populated. We're talking about tens of millions of people in a region stretching from upstate NY to Illinois.
Would have thought recruiters/employers could have made for a lot of revenue.
I recommend multiple layers. Why? Because some devices/apps will circumvent one of these layers one way or another.

I use Pi-Hole plus WireGuard to route all my devices through my home broadband connection (so even on a hotel/train WiFi, when on LTE, etc). I forward it to Unbound which uses DNSSEC and DNSCrypt. I'm using an EdgeRouter Lite for that purpose. It does add a little bit of latency, but I don't mind, as it also increases my privacy on the insecure link. It also works on say a smart TV or an official Android device (I use a rooted Android device with microG which doesn't implement GAds). My partner sees barely any ads at home due to this setup (I did not bother to setup WireGuard on her smartphone as of yet).

On each individual client device I also use a layer 7 firewall ("personal firewall"). On macOS I use Little Snitch and LuLu. On Linux I use OpenSnitch. I don't use Windows, but if I would I'd at least remove all the tracking stuff (for example with O&O ShutUp). On Android, I don't use a layer 7 firewall which is my bad.

For browser, on every OS I use a configured Firefox (which I did NOT document; my bad!) with a bunch of addons. uBlock Origin (mainly to manually block "you are blocking ads" notices). I use uMatrix, Cookie AutoDelete, Smart Referer, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, HTTPS Everywhere, containers for Amazon/Facebook/Google (would like to add Microsoft), CanvasBlocker, Tracking Token Stripper, Forget Me Not, Terms of Service; Didn’t Read, and Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans.

uMatrix will break the web. However it is more user-friendly than NoScript ever was. You are going to have to configure such. For websites you regularly use, you can save the temporary changes, or just not use such bloated websites. Also, I recommend the addon Dark Reader and the feature Reader Mode.

To test your setup on your browser, try ipleak.net. One of the things I configured in Firefox, is to disable WebRTC. I don't use an addon for that.
PowerShell has this with out-gridview, check out: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/out-gridview-retur...

My favourite feature is that you can select objects in the GUI to pass on to the next pipeline step
I don't think patreon is a good metric since there a low number of people pay for content early or exlusives, meaning the cost is distributed among less people. A video on youtube will cost less and has less value since it's available to more people.
One could look at Canadian ones to see if they fared any better, especially those diametrically opposite Albertans and Quebeckers that have an 18 drinking age.
You don't have to be large scale to earn rent.

And why not buy something today that can be worth millions for your grandchildren?

Because it is not so easy, after all.

So you think it is unfair that somebodies grandfather bought land, and it appreciated? Do you think ownership in general is unfair, or what exactly is the unfair part?
> Be prepared for the recaptcha time sink.

You can marginally reduce the recaptcha "problem" by using the Privacy Pass extension, though I can't speak to whether there's a net loss of privacy by using it.
Those APIs also have a much stronger security model behind them today. Browsers require things like TLS and user confirmation before sharing geo information. Other actions like the clipboard API require user interaction (eg. button clicks).

JS of the past was the wild west. You want to add a bookmark? Go for it! You want to trigger a print dialogue? Why not!
This is amazing. It's amazing how the histeria has spreaded like a virulent disease but people never cared to learn about this. First, there's a "fire season", then the averages and then, the current situation. But it's amazing how easy they blamed capitalism and bolsonaro in the socialmedia. The worst of this situations: some progressive PM did it too falling into the perseption fallacy. How sad this world has became with Social media.
>Earth has always been uninhabitable for the most part.

Which is neither here nor there. We care for the part where its habitable and we're on it, not for the part when it was molten lava...

>It’s only technology that allows us to live where we are (unless you live in the great Rift Valley)

Not really, we've lived in most of the places we live now and had civilizations 2000 and 5000 and 10000 years ago. And animals more or less like us lived there far more.

Technology like fire, stone and iron tools helped made things more palatable, but it's not "only technology" that allows us to live in Africa (heck, tons of tribes lived there even 50-100 years ago with little/no technology), Asia, Europe, etc, and in no way it's only modern technology.

>Edit: downvoted for technology optimism on this site?? Please explain.

Perhaps people care more for scientific claims and concrete technologies, and less for magic thinking and faith, which "technological optimism" is, as if we have some certain contract with the universe to find just the right technologies, in the right time, to save us...
The reason why browsers have so many CVEs is that they routinely run untrusted code; hence browser developers invest a lot of resources into sandboxing the untrusted code and finding and fixing security holes in the sandbox and all of the native code that is callable from within the sandbox.

For an Electron app, most of these CVEs are probably irrelevant, because the code isn't untrusted in this case as it is bundled with the app already so sandbox escape isn't an issue. (Similar arguments apply to Java with browser plugins vs. "real" applications)

Native toolkits are never used directly from untrusted code; obviously this means they won't have a CVE for sandbox escaping because there isn't a sandbox.

But it also means they have a much smaller incentive to look for security holes in their code. CVEs are security bugs that were found and fixed, and number-of-CVEs is not an indication of how many unfixed security bugs remain. While the attack surface is smaller if you don't run untrusted code, it typically isn't zero, depending on what untrusted inputs a particular application reads. I'd bet that some security relevant UB in a Qt image decoder would take a lot longer to find than a similar bug in a browser's image decoder, simply because of the incentives.

Example, try googling "browser security bounty", then try again with "qt security bounty".
No. This year Russia lost 3 times more forest and nobody cares :) All the noise is just about politics.
The Synthetics pricing does seem unreasonably high.

We were using Synthetics during beta alongside Pingdom - doing pretty much the same on both. Beta period ended and sales rep said our Synthetics bill would be something crazy, like 10x our Pingdom bill, and it’d start next month (they later said that was a mistake and it would actually start in 2 months, when I pushed back).

We immediately suspended all our Synthetics tests. It’s nice having them with the rest of our Datadog stuff, but it’s not 10x better than Pingdom.

Datadog is still a great tool overall, but experiences like that make me wary of putting all our eggs in the DD basket and getting locked in.
Cheap burgers are cheap for reasons
> Japan has been effectively printing money for ages, but it hasn't really led to inflation because demand is so weak

So where does this extra money go?
UBI was on the ballot not so long ago and it didn't make it. But it was probably just too early.
Police Department, City of New York: Compstat Crime Reporting [pdf]
Sure there are more important things to solve for so many families, but In the modern world, we can skip on gradually solving basic needs. We can and should leapfrog.
Furthermore, we believe that internet access and access to information can play a catalyst role in solving those problems.
Today we take the internet for granted, but it's luxury for so many people. It is a commodity like water and electricity.

One thing is, what we think people need and another is what they really need. It will be more relevant to use so-called LSM's - Lifestyle measures while evaluating the importance of the internet. That said how do we explain the resident of the village with no clean drinking water, buying a cell phone or kitchen appliance? or a mother paying for her son's education tutoring, even when she goes hungry? A farmer investing in cattle before improving his house? These are all facts and I am sure many of us have heard these stories. One thing is what we perceive and another is what people really need.

Btw by working with the local communities, providing resources, training and constant assistance, we also seem to encourage them to see the relevance of an Internet connection. We hope to prove that most of our beneficiaries will be willing to continue paying for their Internet fees long after we have stopped paying for them. According to preliminary studies most of the families are ready to reprioritize their costs and maintain an internet connection. Because of the high price barrier, they couldn't afford the internet and now since they understand its role in their lives and its relevance, their priorities have changed.
This title is very misleading. Shopify has surpassed eBay in market cap, but is in a very different business. Same wrt amazon. Conflating market cap with market ownership is just confusing.

However, I really hope Shopify can figure out a way to make it easy to find quality sellers and replace Amazon’s dumpster fire of a third party marketplace. Trying to buy electronics or household products on amazon is a complete crapshoot these days.
It is, if you include a JS interpreter in your wasm bundle.

But it isn't a good idea. JS is a language that needs a runtime, the browser _has_ a JS engine, and not using that would just be counterproductive and wasteful.
Yeah, I prefer PowerShell's

gc foo.json | cf-json
Get-Content foo.json | ConvertFrom-Json

I regularly use that to quickly visualize JSON data in tables
Steps for running a productive and successful startup
docjure https://github.com/mjul/docjure
> Verified app stores, for example, are about providing security to the end user, not about disrespecting the end user.

Everything a company does is for the bottom line.

App stores are there for lock-in, and for taking a percent of the sale.

The security features are a (fortunate) side effect: the company uses it as selling point.
Protestant work ethic.

Giving the average working person money without making them "earn" it is seen as far more offensive to the order of society than, say, burning down the Amazon.
While I fully agree with you, being Turing complete has nothing to do with it. I think the article is slightly wrong too on this point.

Turing completeness is a property about the computational "power" of a language. It has nothing to do with the environment in which the program runs. For example, it can exist a language that is Turing complete and has no way at all to access the network: it can do no harm, doesn't matter if it has the same computational power as Javascript.
His direct oponent was guilty of several corruption cases. It went on an extensive judiciary process i believe you have followed or you understand. It wasnt jailed summarily. The supreme court even denied by votation so, it is not something we can relate to the amazonian fire season.
I feel the same. There's nothing that makes you feel your life is pointless as much as doing chores. Recurring, unending, and unpleasant, all they amount to is treading water.

I can't imagine a state of mind where one could find meaning of life in this. It feels a bit similar to finding meaning in death, which I personally consider a large-scale case of Stockholm syndrome.
> I had a boss once who would ask the team, 'how would the most shadiest character you personally know, use this proposed feature?'.

I mean society is based on trust and faith, with that kind of reasoning you'll only come up with the most paranoical and authoritarian design schemes.
You know Bill Gates wanted Windows Vista to use a relational DB for all applications instead of a file system. It was one of the reasons Vista got delayed, because they realised it is just not practical and a security nightmare
Quality black Aquiles level :)
Document reveals how Facebook downplayed early Cambridge Analytica concerns
JavaScript and TypeScript used to implement interactive diagrams
Singapore and Zurich freeports allow their works to be exhibited in city museums without paying tax. Not sure about Geneva.
Finally William Shockley moved to Mountain View to be closer to his ailing mother and founded Shockley semiconductor.

No, Shockley preceded Fairchild Semi. The latter was founded by the "traitorous eight" who fled Shockley.
Because that is the responsibility of the parliament. The problem with that is that the parliament will become addicted to the infinite monry spigot since the parliament isn't bound by the inflation target. If the central banks were authorized to hand out a pseudo UBI but only to hit inflation goals then helicoper money might work. It's basically some stupid political game.
Sphero Acquires Littlebits
>Whereas Java and C users may still have debates about where, exactly, open source projects should publish their releases, that issue is settled in the JavaScript community

I thought Maven Central was pretty much the canonical answer in Java land. Nobody cares what tool you actually use to pull these down (SBT, Gradle, Maven..).

>What this means, however, is that to do JavaScript development “The Modern Way”, while adopting its new features, you simply must use a local transpiler toolchain

Surely this depends on the browsers your application is targeting? And presumably, the sort of feature you're using (can it be polyfilled or is it a syntax feature?).

>In 2018-2019, several things have changed about the JavaScript community. Development tools are no longer fledgling, but are, instead, mature. There are built-in development tools in all of Safari, Firefox, and Chrome browsers

I agree they're decent, but there are still cases where they struggle - particularly after code has been transpiled. I still run into issues these days where the browser is trying to show a source-mapped JS file instead of the actual bundle code which masks a real issue.

>And, for web frontends, it’s your only choice

https://caniuse.com/#search=webassembly

If you don't care about IE11 (or you polyfill), it's hardly your only choice. wasm is still far from perfect but there's no question you can start writing some logic in languages other than JavaScript, and interoperate.

>If you’re the kind of programmer who thinks, “I code in Python/Java/Ruby/C/whatever, and thus I have no use for JavaScript and don’t need to know anything about it”, you’re wrong, and I’ll describe why. Incidentally, you were right in 1998, you could get by without it in 2008, and you are dead wrong in 2018.

>To be a serious programmer, you’ll have to know JavaScript’s Modern and Good Parts — as well as some other server-side language, like Python, Ruby, Go, Elixir, Clojure, Java, and so on

This reads to me as downright patronising to e.g. embedded software engineers who might be writing hardware drivers in C/C++ day to day.

Perhaps this should read "to be a serious web developer with front-end responsibilities" (JavaScript is sufficient, not necessary on the back-end and - of course, subjectively - there are much better choices to use).
Bose debuts new Bluetooth smart speaker
Credible effort. You should add a section abt latencies, too.

There are free alternatives. So, you might need to provide extra value-add for the $1 (I understand no-logs is a value-add).

If I may ask, how does the tech stack look like? And what's the software run for DoT and DoH
Equivalence 101: A blog post about object equality
>The explanations in the doomsday articles here assume no technological progress.

If part of your house is on fire, it will burn completely in, say, 5 hours, and you don't have the technology to stop the fire, assuming that "all will be OK" because you'll invent something in the meantime is idiotic.

It's also not science (science is actively working on a problem). Optimism of this kind is just wishful thinking that happens to concern scientific breakthroughs.

Soberly speaking:

- We might not find the necessary breakthroughs in time, same way we still don't have AI, human-like robot servants, flying cars, cold fusion, miracle drugs, and all kinds of other stuff we'd "surely have" or that's always "20 years in the future".

- If we find some breakthrough, it might need too much time, energy, resources to put into action. There's no guarantee from the universe that any technology we find is also immediately (or timely) applicable.

- A solution might have downsides (e.g social, economic, etc) for which there might be no consensus, political will, easy way to sell to masses or easy way to convince elites...

- A solution might require coordination across nations, which might be the inverse of what we will get (every country for itself, wars over diminishing resources, and so on). In fact already we see rifts into global coordination (from the China trade war, to Brexit and so on).

All of those are real concerns, it's not just "technology will save us", as if it owes us...

>there’s been some good ideas, such as planting 130 trees per person [1], olovine rocks on beaches [2], and basalt dusting of farmland [3].

LOL.
afaik PowerShell has no limit on the amount of arguments
> at the peak of Javascript fatigue

Are you very sure the peak was 3 years ago? Based on what? IMAO the mess only gets worse.

You just mentioned webpack is going to be replaced?? That's unfortunately very typical for the JS eco system. 7 years ago we had Grunt, then about two years later Gulp, then about a year later Webpack, now apparently Bazel? Interesting, never heard of it, but I still feel fatigue. I spent quite some time to master Webpack, and again I'll have to start all over for the 4th time now learning the next bundler..

I just started with React Hooks some months ago. First we had mixins(about 5 years ago), that was replaced with Higher Order Components, then we had to start writing React in the brand new ES6 classes, then we saw the Render Props, the Pure Functions, etc.. and now ES6 classes and all the rest are deprecated, because Dan Abramov had another idea for again a new design principle that's just less than a year old: Hooks.. Oh, and we don't do that in JS, that is not sane anymore, every job I get nowadays is Typescript.

I mean, think twice before you say the Javascript fatigue is past it's peak.
I like how powerful Powershell is, but I absolutely loathe it's verbose syntax and Pascal-Kebab-Case naming (at least for idiomatic Powershell).

This seems to have a lot of the power of Powershell, but with a terse, familiar syntax - I really like the look of this!

Being cross-platfotm is a huge seller for me too - I mainly work on Windows, but also on Linux and MacOS.
Do you have any oficial policy document that support that claim?
I find PowerShell autocompletion amazing. It has Ctrl+Space autocompletion similar to an IDE where you can select options with up and down arrow. Also ctrl+r for history search like fish (not always active like fish unfortunately)
> I don’t like this dog whistle and the rest of your comment was perfectly fine without it.

It’s not like he called anyone out specifically. If it’s a true observation, what’s wrong with telling us about it? That it’s culture dependant is an interesting note.
I don’t think that is accurate. Most of the oxygen produced by the Amazon remains local and is consumed by local fauna. The rest of the world is almost entirely dependent upon local systems and oceanic diatoms for oxygen.

There are many other serious environmental concerns at stake, but not oxygen loss.
Andorra has a population of 70,000, you can't use it as an example of what Switzerland could do.
Experienced contractors are often more expensive than employees. Of course, they are typically more productive as well. Managers tend to be fixated upon the far greater costs instead of looking at the value for money.
I am at the stage that I am more than happy to rewrite whatever it takes to get better experience. This includes the OS. I think we have sacrificed too much on the altar of backward compatibility. I guess I am just tired of breakage because a file has a space in its name.
> how a person can monitor so much surface

Brazil used to have an autonomous satellite monitoring system (Prodes and Deter) which Bolsonaro is actively working to dismantle, along with the environmental protection agency Ibama. There are many valid reasons to blame Bolsonaro for what is happening.
Recession Is Coming - How it'll affect tech companies and jobs
The Fight Against Robocalls Gets Powerful New Allies
I am not sure how long "ls" will take with 1 million entries in directory, given this paradigm. This has been a problem so I use "ls -1" to list files in bash shell, otherwise it takes forever.

Probably it might benefit some. Good to see competition in this area with sh, bash, zsh, fish, conch and many others.
It’s nice to see democracies fighting back against housing as a store of wealth. Vancouver charges 1% per year to keep a property empty. Since enacting the change, vacancies have very gradually started to increase as the wealthy sell off or rent out their properties. In some areas of town - particularly wealthier suburbs - you can rent an incredible house for very little relative to the property value.

Example:

For CAD $7,500 per month [1], you could rent a waterfront home worth CAD $5.5M [2].

[1] https://vancouver.craigslist.org/nvn/apa/d/west-vancouver-or...

[2] https://www.rew.ca/properties/R2397894/6277-taylor-drive-wes...
Because skepticism turns out to sometimes be unwarranted we should be skeptical of skepticism?

You can't have it both ways.
For a few weeks there was almost zero news coverage. But the fires gained a lot of traction on the 20th of August [1]. The number of fires has increased year over year by 84% [2]. Given that the amazon produces 20% of Earth's oxygen that's quite a concern. I think the global outcry is warranted (any less may not have achieved a result). It's a good first step that Bolsonaro has deployed the Army for a month to fight the fires, time will tell if this is an authentic effort or one simply to quell the angry Internet mob. If we don't take a stand where profit > environment on a global scale are we not complicit in the destruction?

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

[2] https://www.woodtv.com/news/international/sharp-increase-in-...
Is science apolitical?

It's the same question, only opposite spin.

I don't think that science could be apolitical. Not as long at it uncovers facts, and facts have political consequences.
Are you implying that being white and speaking English means that no one asks you to prove your credentials? Cuz that's bullshit