skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, its not the first time we had massive deforrestation in human habitats- china has been there- several times. The solution is- for nature to adapt to human nature- aka Bamboo.. bamboo sprouts everyhwere you allow it - side of the road, just cleared ditch in the forrest- it grows fast and prevents savannah formation.

Finally- if you want to stop this, prevent further deforrestation, you need something like a solarpanel with a cheap nitrogen from air harvesting process- creating fertilizer for near low to nothing onsite, making those fields last. These are the only strategys i can see working longterm- not depending on politics and ilusionary wishes for cultural change.

I wrote a porn script for angels once- still waiting for the right cast to show up, but then oh, wow.
Hey, thanks for your insight. The challenge we have at the moment is that we are not as technical as needed for this. And this might be a totally different direction for us, which is out of our expertise field. But I've heard you and will keep that in mind. Here is my Linkedin account (https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-jibladze-23923b17/)

I would be glad connecting with you and if you allow applying with some questions if we have any.
Yes, technically correct statement, but in practice, not gonna happen
From the Guardian article, the amount of ash and particulates in some Brazilian states has hit the highest levels since 2010. There are 27 states in Brazil (though I'm not sure all of them are downwind from rainforest or agricultural areas). Basically, in some areas it's the worst it's been since 2010, but overall it's about average.
The forest does recover, unless the burnt area is cleared and planted with soy or corn of-course.
Yes, though they have a very close relationship, so they're "out but close enough"
> The drivers are still doing it, so they clearly prefer giving you a ride to not.

I'm not sure they've thought it through all the way. They're not sick today, so they don't need health insurance. Their car is new and doesn't need any major work, so the finances of eventually having to replace their car don't matter. Basically, I fear that we're getting the low prices we get by mortgaging the future. One day, your driver is going to need surgery and 3 months off to recover. One day, your driver's car is going to need a new engine. He goes into debt and suffers, all so that we can pay $3 less for a ride across town after a night of drinking. That does not sit well with me. We need to understand the true cost of someone's time and materials and make sure we pay that for the ride.

I'm not saying it's ever been good. Where Uber gets you now, it was people loaning you money to buy a medallion. Medallions are now worthless and guess who is left holding the bag? Not the regulators. Not the bank that made the loan. Just someone who wanted to work for himself now financially ruined; no way to send the kids to college, no way to afford medical care, no way to buy food or shelter in retirement.

I think I'll walk.
Coreutils has been reimplemented N times: BSD, GNU, BusyBox, the Rust one, countless others I'm forgetting. It's doable.
> Well, parent already said "most people", not all.

What I meant is, while I can't read minds, "most people" disagrees with the ad-hoc statistical sample of "people I know". What I perceive is people differing in the amount of resistance they have towards doing unwanted things that still need to be done, but I maybe once saw it being considered a status issue.

> It's merely enough that it's considered as stopping one from doing the things they think would raise their status (what they "should be doing" that's not beneath them).

Do people really think this way? "This task is beneath me", "that other task is not beneath me"?

I consider chores to be stopping me from doing things "I should be doing", but it has nothing to do with status; it's just about having better things to do with the time. I hate chores as much now as I hated them in the days I had trouble making ends meet; the only difference is that nowadays I can afford reducing some of them (e.g. I have a dishwasher now, and I can afford a little bit extra to buy something that's easier to clean than the cheapest option). Rich people are able to outsource more.

Maybe the picture is backwards? Outsourcing chores is a status signal in the sense that your ability to reduce maintenance burden is correlated to your wealth. That doesn't mean people hate maintenance because of status - what makes this a good status signal in the first place is that chores are a waste of life.
> Everything is data

We use a similar approach in our data prep tool [1] for non-technical users. Lists of files, lists of emails, contents of text files, spreadsheets or database tables - piping it all together allows mixing ETL and process automation in a similar fashion.

[1] https://easymorph.com

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
In other words, don’t transport calls coming from “bad neighbourhoods”.

Just like blocking .ru IPs or non-ARIN IPs on your local theatre blog.
In large part, overseas. Japan has long been known for what's called "the carry trade". This is where you borrow money at whatever ridiculously low rate is available in your jurisdiction (e.g. Japan) and then "carry" it to somewhere that has a higher interest rate and invest it there. You then pocket the difference (or spread). I hasten to add that this is due to low interest rates rather than inflation, but guess how we wound up with low rates. The deflation Japan has been suffering from directly arises from the expectation that prices will be lower tomorrow compared to today. So why spend? Invest it somewhere instead.

This carry trade stuff has really screwed with a number of exchange rates relative to the Yen and has been going on for a long time.
Seemingly the Airliner 10 is now starting production (but as always happens with this type of stuff better wait until they have actually manufactured a few, 2020 is near enough):

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_HAV_304/Ai...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-4681015...

[3]https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/
"That's just patently false."
Why? Projects have constraints including time and skillset of partcipants.
NASA is doing that too. But how you can control everything to the point to avoid the Fire Season. You can't. The Amazonias (I visited in 1998) is not a place you can move teams and quickly shutdown any fires. It's a very complicated terrain and also, the fires spread at a pace you cannot really imagine.
I did see quite a few that double up, like 2 versions of url and a few others.

Just had a quick play ... on arch linux `yay nushell-git` already works!!!

One area where I got a bit stuck was around help. `man where` gave me nothing, `help where` also. I tries stuff like `ls | where type = File` and got a type error. I think it would be amazing if this thing onboarded people a bit nicer, "where needs a condition, to learn about where type "help where" ... stuff like that

Overall really enjoying the ideas here and I am absolutely going to be following this!
"What would Hitler do?" is the version of the test that I use.
By developed country standards Swiss taxation and government spending is quite low.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
>>"Given that even the proponents of MMT don't agree on what it is [..]"

I'm not an economist but I have read a lot of the MMT literature, including the available textbook (1) and it's a totally coherent framework.

Can you point me to some of those contradictions that you have observed?

(1) - https://www.amazon.com/Macroeconomics-William-Mitchell/dp/11...
Has GOOG ever not been hiring?
There is not a single thing you can't interpret as political. The question is more about intent, both from the emitter, and the receiver.
Human's always game every system we ever develop. It is reasonable to recognize this when you design systems.

I have a f2p game and it is unbelievable how clever some of the free players are at figuring out ways to get everything for free.
Be a Stoic.
Creating things and publicaly sharing what I create is the single greatest way to reduce my anxiety. There is literally a step function decrease in anxiety every time I do it.
"Goto is all you need, no ifs or loops or dynamic dispatch, just jumps. I have no problem with this, I enjoy it like this, we don't need an improvement. There I said it, any downvotes will be worth it, because I get to voice my opinion. In the end I will still be happily using my assembler and enjoy my life."

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself. Your comment reminds me of an anecdote I heard from the early times of structured programming. When structured programming was just gaining its feet, there was a certain class of programmers who just could not understand why people would want to write structured code. You can do everything in assembly they said, you have much more control over performance, etc. They looked down on structured programming as not "real programming".

There's a lot of benefits to adding some structure to text. I don't think that Nushell's approach is the best one, but to say that there are no problems and we shouldn't look to improve things is just backwards. We should always look to improve our tools and our craft, otherwise we would still be stuck writing assembly.
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I’m waiting for the hair duct cleaners to call back. The ducts aren’t putting out as much hair as they used to :(
Currently Hongkong has extradition treaties with many countries, but none with 'China' (Macao, Taiwan, mainland), which is a historical legacy but is now an oddity.

Extradition treaties in general do not reduce autonomy and democracy. Extraditions under this bill would follow (I believe) similar procedures to extradition to other countries.

The key worries, I believe, are that charges brought on the mainland might be fabricated and political because of the nature of the system there (absence of independent judiciary) and that pressure could also be applied on Hongkong authorities not to deny these requests, or simply that the procedure is such that Hongkong courts don't have much scope to refuse requests.
This misses an extremely important point many don’t know: you can’t buy benefits under COBRA from a company that no longer exists.
+1 for Wavefront. I've been a user since their pre-launch beta and have nothing but good things to say about the product and the team.

Their billing is based on rate not count, which is a better model IMHO.
The manual...

An old engineering manager (mechanical not software) I used to work with always used to say "a consultant is someone 4 pages ahead in the manual".
> - convenience ...

Just run something like a Radius server, which any website could query, and which could log usage.

> access: ...

Provide a wide variety of payment options. As many VPN services and VPS hosts do.

> - affordability: ...

I don't know specifics, but I can't imagine how users in places so poor generate the same ad income as users in wealthier places. So just adjust cost/view to generate the same income that the current system does.
Right. The usage by millions without issue would speak to the likelihood of either a bad batch or a sensitive individual?
I think his point is that if someone recommends something to others, the more money they earn for recommending it is proportional to how much that person would be willing to mislead potential buyers / not be totally honest / be biased.
Of course science is political. What isn't?

I have a feeling that non-scientists see science as an invisible ethereal, platonic construct that's slowly being unveiled by hardy explorers, uh I mean scientists, until at last the whole of the Truth and nothing but the Truth fully shines in its enlightening splendor.

Except that's not how it works. In practice, science works by scientific consensus. What is true is what the community decides is true. The community can be convinced otherwise by contradicting evidence (or not) but the process of convincing is then subject to all the biases affecting our feeble human minds: it can be contradictory with other evidence, misinterpreted, misunderstood, deemed insufficient, coming from the wrong person, etc. It takes a lot of time for the consensus to evolve, and it's a rather a messy and political affair. There's often a running joke that a theory's acceptance depends on the old guard dying out and being replaced by the younger, more open-minded generation (relevant smbc: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/how-math-works)

Btw, just in case you're wondering, math is absolutely not immune from this either. Cathy O'Neil wrote an excellent post detailing how mathematical proofs work in real life (and not in some platonic imaginary world invented by laymen):
https://mathbabe.org/2012/08/06/what-is-a-proof/ also with a relatively recent example: https://mathbabe.org/2012/11/14/the-abc-conjecture-has-not-b...
Thats when you switch to a real programming language. Relying on output from other programs will always be brittle - as error messages etc will change every new dist release.
“This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”

Doug McIlroy (2003). The Art of Unix Programming: Basics of the Unix Philosophy

That said, I’m looking forward to testing our nushell!
There are capabilities to use the existing DNS system (or an EthDNS system in the works) for human readable names with IPFS, but you can also use other channels like pubsub to resolve mutable content like IPNS names quickly - so IPFS doesn't actually require DNS at all.
Multiwriter IPNS records are also a work in progress, though I disagree with your characterization that somehow only allowing one key to edit a particular signed record somehow makes the network itself centralized...
I've read like 10 articles about this so far, and they did not answer the following questions:

- How large, proportionally, is the burned region? How long would it theoretically take for the whole thing to burn down at this rate?

- How large, proportionally is the burned region in Siberia? How long has the Siberian fire been burning, how long would it take for everything to burn down, etc.

- I've seen the 20% of the worlds oxygen stat a bunch. But how significant is this fire in affecting that? Wouldn't we expect the Siberian fire to have a larger effect because it covers a thousand times more area?

- Can anyone explain the tipping-point business? How can a series of local fires cause a global collapse? Especially considering that this is neither the first nor the biggest fire?

- Do these fires burn themselves out? How do they end?
Gov is more likely to be schemed than VC because those who make investment decision don’t get as much reward/punishment. However, for the same reason, gov can also invest in projects with long term benefits. So gov is not intrinsically good or bad; it’s really about good governance.
"In the general election of November 1912, the amendment failed to get the requisite two-thirds majority vote"

This makes no sense. It doesn't take a 2/3 majority for an Initiative Constitutional Amendment -- just 50% + 1.
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How can you be arguing that Bolsonaro is doing the best he can to reduce deforestation and fires when he has repeatedly shown that he has no interest in doing so?

You certainly can't do much against the fires once they have broken out at such a vast scale. But with something as recurring and hence predictable as the Amazon wildfires, you can at least try to reduce spread and contain the damage. Also, I'm sure a lot of the fires are intentionally started as a quick way of deforesting and clearing land for farmland and cattle.

You seem to argue that the fires are purely an act of God and there is nothing humanity can do, which just seems a little ridiculous given that Bolsonaro is dismantling established environmental protection policies to make way for more farming etc.

There is a lot of evidence that human activity is significantly contributing to the wildfires [1].

[1]: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/fires-amazon-rainforest-...
I've now read a lot more of the comments, people are really excited about this, it has taken me a bit by surprise. There are a lot of comments in the vein of "bash sucks but it's everywhere". My dream shell is pdksh, which already exists, I would only favour bash because it has more advanced completion logic. Aside from interactive use I write everything in POSIX shell. I think popularity is being conflated with portability and that's a property that isn't valued enough. I have no problem at all using Bourne-compatible shells, I can't quite formulate it in my mind but I think they are probably misunderstood. To me, who hasn't been doing this too long, I don't think that bash sucks, I don't find bash/POSIX shell to be a bad language. In fact in terms of different things I write (not LOC) I think I write more things in POSIX shell than anything else, writing wrappers in shell is not to account for a deficiency, it's utilising that power to change your shell experience and workflow into what you want, into what fits your brain. This is my experience, I don't understand (it would be good to hear from others) why people have such a bad opinion of the current state of shells.

EDIT: wording.
> - Can anyone explain the tipping-point business? How can a series of local fires cause a global collapse? Especially considering that this is neither the first nor the biggest fire?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_savannas_of_Nort... seems to suggest that specifically burned areas of rainforest turn into savannah. But a lack of fire will cause a reversion to rainforest.
TypeScript was and still is a very necessary addition over plain JS, but everything else you said is spot on. This ecosystem is very much a Red Queen's race, you have to learn all sorts of tooling that will be deprecated and forgotten in two years or less.
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Oh, I’m sure American telcos get paid to terminate calls, it’s just a tiny amount (less than 1 cent/minute). It’s still worth it for the scammers, and the telcos like the extra revenue, especially as POTS declines.

My VOIP provider charges a lot more for EU call termination, which probably makes scattershot robocalls unprofitable.
Thanks for the details.

I'd like to understand the potential for recovering lost works of any kind. What sort of organizations exist for this?

Burned scrolls, is one source.

In India, there are thousands of manuscripts rotting in temple treasuries.

Palimsets have yet to be discovered in archives.

And even archives themselves may contain lost treasures through misclassification.

Are there other potential sources for finding lost manuscripts?
(Stevens was used - with several others - as an unwitting Guinea pig for experiments on the effect of radiation on the human body. The "justification" was he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer - the diagnosis was wrong.)

Appalling arrogance by the perpetrators - who were apparently neither prosecuted or even condemned.

Further context:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plutonium_Files
I get it, but to clarify, and maybe it's to do with the work I do, I have no problem with current shells, I think they are great. As I learn more about them and use different features I like them more. This is my experience.
None of the tools you mentioned are unsupported as of now, though. I recently updated a browserify based project from years ago to 16.3 in an afternoon and it just worked.

I remember the days I was afraid to do npm update the dependencies, I was copy pasting build script configurations for new projects, I used to use code mods every other month to make huge refactors (and badly), packages disappearing, every project inventing how to manage state (not just react)... All of this is past for me. Yeah of course it's just a data point but there's the fact that you can start a complex web app project with one command these days and not care about core dependencies. I expect it'll go only better. Maybe it's me getting experienced but I certainly wasn't a beginner few years ago, not even close. I'd love to hear what kind of difficulties you are having with your projects though, it's very possible that I'm missing something.
> somehow it did not seem to have the same addictive effect on me as smoking had

Nicotine by itself isn't much addictive until mixed with stuff called MAOIs. Here's an earlier post of mine that gives a bit more detail https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536162
Is addiction a problem, separate from cancer?

Coffee addiction is preventable, for instance.
Australia avoided recession in 2008-09 by doing almost precisely this. Everyone got A$900 or thereabouts (a month's rent or more for some). Worked fantastically.

Think of it as applying a defibrilator to all parts of the body at once because there's no central point you can target. Infrastructure projects aren't as good as this because they take time and only really effect one particular geographic region with some spillover if you're lucky.
I have had it installed for the past half year, and in that time only one pass has been used.
Last I read was, that die back is at around 20 to 25percent. We are at 20 percent. I would say, yeah it is bad :)
Not a single example of leftist/liberal misinformation in the piece. Either the left are as pure and innocent as a newborn kitten, or this article is itself misinformation.
This isn'T about the IPFS Application Layer but the Link layer.

Bootstrapping a P2P system efficiently requires known P2P nodes and those will require DNS unless you want to shell out for a static IP permanently (and hope nobody poisons ARP!)
If it was about a couple going to a doctor and the doctor replacing the man's sperm with his own, I'd understand this, but if a woman goes to a doctor and asks for a sample from an anonymous donor with no further stipulations then I don't see why the donor shouldn't be the doctor. Of course, they should have been open about it, but still.
Not “technology will save us” - human creativity can save us. It has in the past and survival will require our creativity infinitely into the future.

You may laugh but let’s tslk again in 30 years. When avg temps rise more than the 1 degree they have so far, political attitudes will change.

Overpopulation prophesy from 50 years ago. At the time 1 in 4 people globally were in famine and author prophecized it would only get worse. Instead global population has doubled while worldwide hunger reduced to 1 in 10, due to creativity and technology.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-world...
Why is DNA testing not a mandatory part of the process? I thought embryonic genetic testing for show-stopping diseases was one of the major selling points of IVF. Would that not immediately set off alarm bells for paternity/maternity mismatch?
Also goto being considered bad is already a very old idea. Yet it is still used, sparingly in the right places. Shell underpins a lot of stuff, it is tried and tested. Text is already structured, or can be, IFS, new lines, etc.
> I know the long cased commands like Foo-Bar can be alienating to Unix folks at first, but have you tried just using aliases and not caring about casing.

You'd have to alias every command and every option to make it enjoyable for interactive use.

And of course those aliases would need to be part of the standards powershell.
Anonymous yes, random no, at least not that I have ever heard of. You get a catalogue of various physical and socioeconomic traits from anonymous donors and pick the one that you want. Replacing that with any other is certainly fraud.
> With the salaries of contractors being far lower

This is incorrect.

> with fewer stock and other grants

With lockin, its more of a benefit to the company. Stocks hardly mean anything much for the employee themselves.