skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PowerShell is more like interactive Python with very smart tab completion than "bash with objects." Basic conveniences like "grep" require some memorized scripting gymnastics because the commands got generalized a little too much.

For regular shell usage it's a bit painful because the abstractions are a bit too far removed from the file system you're operating on. But for scripting, such as managing and configuring systems, it's remarkably fluid.

The "nothing is as it appears" problem never bothered me much because it's still just data. You just specify the output when you're done crunching it. IMO being able to operate with typed data is really nice because you don't have to worry (nearly as much) about serialization between commands.
I wonder if dog ownership also correlates with lower reproduction rates.
I have PolicyControl installed in Chrome and by default I block most 3rd party content.

When things don’t work I either disable it for the site or click away. Sometimes I fiddle with it out of curiosity to see what the site relies on.

As a side effect it gives me a sense of what sites are professionally built and which are not.
"Freedom is a verb", "citizenship", whichever of the many versions of the objection to that idea are all available.

We elected officials to administrate it only, these ideals are done by everyone.
Not only that, but the oceans are already at capacity with CO2 absorption and now with the plankton collapse the oxygenation of the ocean is also being reduced. The entire ocean ecosystem is going to suffocate, species after species.
I bought a very nice pair of headphones (studio grade) for a few hundred dollars. One listen and it was obvious they were fake. A call to the company confirmed (via serial numbers and various questions about the item.)
I think that there are also endocrinal responses you get from interacting with dogs that might make you more relaxed.
If it’s a way to get people to step out of their comfort zone and enjoy the outdoors, then it’s all good. No need for gate keeping.
Even the basic billing concepts are too confusing. You pay for some Host count. You open the billing and usage console, and you see about 6 graphs for Hosts under two tabs. What's an APM Host, an Infra Host, and Agent Host? Which are double-counted, and which are not? Answers can be found, of course, but it could be a lot more clear.

Also, as others have noted, they turn on new features that could incur more cost, but they don't really provide RBAC, so anyone on your (maybe huge) team can start using those features.
Yeah, not the big animals, but the little ones -- like plankton for example.

... Oh wait.
What if Shopify created a centralized e-commerce platform for every merchant to make their inventory available through?
Serious question - would you consider exercise consumption or creation?
> being called too alarmist

I've never heard of any of his material, but is it really possibly to be too alarmist in our current state? I mean honestly, most of the world doesn't understands the magnitude and gravity of the events taking place and the runaway train that we're on.
Why Gitlab Is Using a Single Codebase for OSS and Enterprise Editions(Update)
The unproductive version is a big problem, precisely because people don't have the social skills to navigate it because it is so often taboo. So the options are to make it taboo or to adapt.

"don't speak about these important things, we don't have the EQ to handle this conversation" is a strong pro-status quo political stance to take and couching it in apolitical terms is dishonest.
You could say the same thing about PC manufacturers. Computers are very complicated! But at that scale, I'd wonder if, as with PCs in their heyday, a relatively small number of companies are doing most of the complex work, while the nominal manufacturers were focused more on integration, branding, and tailoring for specific markets.

For what it's worth, the site the link to for that doesn't seem to match their numbers: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

I think they just linked to the wrong page, but a quick bit of rummaging didn't turn up anything either, so I'm not sure what we're actually talking about here.
I'm an engineer; I wrote the piece in the OP. I'm running for DCCC and am a political activist. We exist! Support my campaign :) https://buss2020.org/donate
There are also other places than California. Just sayin.
Offtopic, but assuming the poster is the author of the article:

1. I love the font you chose for your blog and the fancy styling of the first letter of each section. For the first 1 minute I was just staring at the L at the beginning appreciating it. I'm a huge fan of serif fonts in general and regret that sans-serif is used so much more widely. Generally a very clean, good-looking theme.

2. You might want to link to your rss feed in a <link> tag in the html head. I discovered it by knowing where Hugo usually puts it, but others may not have as much luck.
Land was vastly cheaper on the Penninsula & south bay generally, yes. Most especially than San Francisco. It was both denser and had more opportunities for expansion at the same time than Marin. Why the South Bay won out over the East Bay (Mare Island Naval Base, Concord Naval Weapons Station, Alameda Air Base), I'm not entirely sure, though Stanford and Terman and electronics and that whole history (see Steve Bank's "Secret History of Silicon Valley" https://steveblank.com/secret-history/) likely had something to do with that.

Then Shockley, and Intel, and we're off to the races.

The move to SF is definitely more recent. South Park, Reddit, and Twitter led much of that.
Nah. I'll be configuring my useragent to show me what I want to see.
He used to , recently got back to bangalore India for starting his own startup in robotics.
Within the boundaries of the demo, it feels like all my time reading man pages is a landline network, and this is cellular.
Ah, I didn't dig deep enough. There is the bit about $153 million in Subscription Services revenue which they say is due to mainly the monthly recurring revenue. Their Merchant Solutions seems to be related to the payment fees which is $208 million. My guess is a majority of the stores do not sell a significant amount of merchandise (so the monthly fee is a majority of the Shopify merchant cost) and merchants who do sell significant amounts of goods are able to negotiate a special lower payment fee rate (which most merchant platforms do).

From the growth numbers listed in the report, the gross merchant volume (and therefore the Merchant Solutions revenue) is increasing so maybe more merchants are being successful or the existing successful merchants are selling more. The Merchant Solutions revenue is growing about 18% faster than Subscription Services.

Shopify seems to be trying to make more merchants successful (more merchants selling more goods) versus just making it easy to open (and close) unsuccessful stores.

Hopefully Shopify is able to capitalize on increase in merchandise volume if they haven't been able to negotiate a good deal on the payment processing fees themselves. While they might make profits (and not just revenue) from their monthly fees and their App Store, I just can't imagine a merchant platform which does not capitalize on gross merchant volume since that's where the significant profit comes from (like eBay, for better or worse).
You are right the churn is very high because one thing shopify can't do is get traffic for those online stores. So non tech savvy goes to Shopify open a store, because it's easier than running $5 VM to manage many similar e-commerce platform. But then that person needs to work himself for traffic acquisition on his own site which is expensive and after a while stops it. Launching a store is easiest thing to do with plethora of other platforms besides Shopify. On Amazon the story is different, store owner focus on to bring real traffic where buyer has a intention to buy. So from day one store owners focus is on getting sales. On Shopify first problem is getting traffic then convert to sales then to manage sales and delivery, store owner does all these which can be done on plethora of other tools including closed source or open source, with similar ease of use.

Whether it's Amazon or eBay they are spending a lot on getting traffic to those vendors who sale through them. Shopify has been a loss making entity for last three years without significant money on traffic acquisition for it's vendors, they do spend to get more store owner traffic not on buyer traffic. [1]

So I am not sure if Shopify can even be compared with eBay or Amazon. Reason eBay is affected is due to Amazon nothing to do with Shopify which is just a tool to launch an online shop.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SHOP/financials?p=SHOP
Why do they have time to talk at all?
My service contract expired with them this Friday. Opted not to renew because of price change in synthetics product 100x initial release. The product is reliable, but billing is troubling.
It looks like it was founded in New York, but in general the process is just making a new American corporation and transferring the French corporation (or its assets) to the American one, and dissolving the French one. Also, getting work visas for your employees and hoping that the bureaucracies don't affect you/deny you/remove your work visas after being accepted.
The mechanical knitting machine will take all of our jobs and we'll be unemployed. Lets break the machines in protest and go back to handlooms!
I have goals. They pay me six figures, but I'm not on track to own a home within biking distance of the office, and as an individual, I can't move the office.

I don't get to control who owns my tech company, which means I don't get to decide what our superordinate goals are. I don't get to decide who our customers are. I don't get to decide the extent to which we participate in the Military-Industrial Complex, or the Prison-Industrial Complex, each of which threatened to destroy people like me.

Due to the constraints of office hours, my social development and creative passions are extruded through a meager four hours before sleep—most of which must be spent on trains, due to housing and transit limitations.

If you don't think tech workers are alienated, you're fooling yourself. It's industry-standars to "burn out" every 3 years, and flee toxic, stagnant positions for a fresh workplace. This tells me that firms are unaccommodating, and foist the risk of personal development on us as individuals. That refusal to accommodate us is precisely the inhumane factor fomenting alienation.

What you've "come to accept" is your own vitality's truncation.

Edit: people are downvoting me for saying "I can't afford to live near my work or my friends"? Or because they're in denial of Tech's complicity in Military- and Prison-Industrial atrocities?
Adding games to online dating sounds great, but would be technically difficult. Maybe a Yahoo! Games of dating.
It's generally accepted history. But believe as you wish.
1 gallon garden sprayers are cheap and durable; custom nozzles are where the fun lies.
Historically speaking, the puritanical have never really been all that hindered by a lack of Puritanism.
This article seems light on numbers and high on assumptions.

Plus what if the consolidation is expected? I mean during the formative days of ICE cars there were way more manufacturers than today...
Worked at Google for a short time (2013-2014), during the height of Trayvon Martin and other murders of black folks around then. The internal discussion could really be hard to read for me (I'm black). Still, I don't think it should really be stopped. I was glad to be able to express my actual opinions at work.

I think they'll have a really hard time totally stopping it though. Internally it's really like a college atmosphere, at least in terms of exchanging ideas via their intranet. I was amazed that it was so open in that way, and I hope they find a way to keep that culture alive.

On the other hand, it was hard to work with people that help views that I considered racist or nearly so. No easy solution here.
They mean healthy people are more likely to afford a dog?
But you can’t. I can only get my wife’s cold brew coffee and high protein bread at giant or target. I have to go to Costco to get their house brand items. I have to go to Trader Joe’s to get their house brand frozen foods. Over a month I probably go to four different grocery stores to shop for the whole family.
It seems clear alt-right is being deliberately made to look bigger than it is. Same various “extreme leftists”.

I fear you’re making a grave mistake by thinking the volume level is correlated with actual humans.
SF had a working port, but because of rail access, Oakland was the preferred hub.

Until the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge was built, railcars were ferried across the Bay (though yes, the Peninsula SP lines also existed, and have some interesting corporate legal landmark case history and shenanigans). Then, after the tracks were torn up for the lower-deck reverse auto flow, Oakland and Richmond served as the principle railyards on the East Bay, for the Santa Fe.

I don't know what port tonnage compared across the years in SF and Oakland, but I'd be surprised if Oakland hadn't surpassed SF at least during WWII, if not before.
Paper: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/93231/

I've been waiting for this paper to be published for over two years. It's a fascinating collection of work.
That could be the case if the distribution of views were evenly stratified, but they are not. Even the application of very simple mechanics can subtly amplify the views of the majority.

Search is one example, as is jury selection.
Ask HN: ReCAPTCHA Alternatives?
A few months back, I had a contact form (on a Drupal site) with a spam problem. It wasn't something I was interested in spending a ton of time on it, so I set up ReCAPTCHA. Problem solved, but I didn't feel great about the privacy implications. So, my question: What should I have done? Specifically, I'm looking for an alternative to ReCAPTCHA that is:

* simple to set up—not much more complicated than ReCAPTCHA

* free or quite cheap

* reasonably effective, at least against generic spiders

I'm not sure if such a thing exists, but I think it needs to if we are to have any chance of moving people off ReCAPTCHA.
If you were only able to build SFH on that land it would be worth a small fraction of what it would be otherwise worth when you can develop it.
A big factor in their churn rate is the fact that a significant chunk of their growth has come from make money online gurus. Search YouTube for “Shopify dropshipping” or similar and you’ll see what I mean. It became viral among the scam artists, who all came up with different systems to sell, with one thing in common among them: Step 1 is to go open a Shopify account.

When the systems that most of these gurus sell fail to work, their students simply abandon their Shopify stores. I would never buy shares of Shopify for this reason. For now, they continue to grow because there are still thousands of gurus pushing Shopify, but we are reaching the end of that cycle. As soon as a new fad takes hold among the gurus, Shopify will be a ghost town.
There’s the multiple population bottlenecks in our DNA history [1]. The close calls in world wars and cold wars. Etc.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842629/
Counterpoint: All the people around me that have dogs that bark from their patio / roof / balcony all day and never get to leave the house shows how easy it is to neglect the beast.

It's not the dog making you walk it, it's because you have to be a decent human in the first place which sometimes feels like a scarce resource.
Who is this "crowd". Seattle politics has been absolutely dominated by people who support all these things.

Last week I saw 2 people shooting up on the brand new deck of pike place market, essentially the biggest tourist attraction in Seattle.

Are you honestly claiming that if only they had a safe injection site and some housing that allowed drug use that that wouldn't happen?

Drug addicts don't care about any of that stuff, they want to get it in their veins asap, and now that its effectively legal they can do this 24/7.
Liquid is awesome and documentation first rate.

I was pretty much able to dive straight into Shopify templating and leverage the docs as I went without even having a background in Rails or Ruby.
I was editor of my daily college newspaper, which had $1m annual budget in 2006 funded entirely by student-sold advertising to local businesses. The paper today is a shell of its former self, basically a weekly pamphlet. Its demise happened on a delay vs professional newspapers due to a captive audience in classrooms, but I think ubiquitous smartphones finally did it in in the early 2010s.
When I upgraded to fiber I was paying $80 per month for unlimited data that averages around 920mb up and down to my house. The website says its now only $70 and it still performs the same. My ISP upgrade the entire neighborhood to fiber at no cost. Before fiber I was paying around $50 per month for 10mbps down and 3mbps up.

I know people like to hate on ISPs for pricing or availability, but I consider my case to be a fair deal. I live in a house in the US.
> How do we choose the right tool?

A good rule of thumb is that your code should be as close as possible to a plain-English description of what you want the code to do.

So if you're trying to write a program like "When you click the button, it turns grey, and then sends the message, and then turns blue when the message is done being sent", imperative programming is probably your best bet. If you're writing "find all the posts that contain the word 'donut'", something like SQL or functional programming is probably a good fit. You can usually tell when you made the wrong choice when you end up needing to think really hard about how to fit the behavior you want into your paradigm, or when you have to write a big long comment saying, "This isn't very clear from the code, but here's what it's trying to do..."

And as GP says, there isn't any one paradigm that's good for everything, so well-written programs will often use a mix of them. If someone tries to tell you that one size fits all (all programs should be imperative C! all programs should be object-oriented Enterprise Java Beans! all programs should be functional TypeScript!), that's usually because they aren't a very good programmer.
Note many of these are just forced by policies to "make" EV if they want to continue making traditional vehicles, others are just making money off of policies and subsidies, buyers are mostly forced to buy it due to license plate quotas.

EVs' reputation in China is going downhill ever faster, it's been called "electric daddy".

Urban area is extremely dense so it's lucky to find a place to charge where it hasn't been ocupied, many place refuse to turn on their chargers.

Hope western media can stop praising China's EV industry mindlessly, it's there coz of artificial markets. Just like farmers are banned to use coal, but they are never gonna be able to afford the natural gas heaters required to install.
Having spent the last few months away from technology to take care of my head, I find myself pacing around the living room waiting for a spark to return. This does not bother me in the least bit. I am someone who craves alone time. That means no music, no podcasts, no computer, no noise, no people. I am quite happy with a book and a writing pad. I want to be left alone to have a certain kind of inward experience.

As a side note, I have always felt that the point of reading is not to remember everything you have read, it is more to shape the way you think. And we might remember more of what we read if we would stop reading about other people's reading and productivity habits, and just keep to ourselves. But I digress.

Sometimes people ask what it is I am working on, or what it is I do by myself all of the time. The answer, of course, is not a whole lot. Ours is a society that celebrates participation and creativity, yet I feel no pressure to create for the sake of creating, or to share for the sake of sharing. And I do not feel guilty or lazy for not "producing" anything of note. If there is a hell, it is full of groups of people doing group activities, and I am required to participate and create and talk about whatever it is we are doing for eternity. What a nightmare.

To be sure, I have written plenty. But what I am driving at is that a lot of the writing or "creative work" I do is for my eyes only. Sometimes I think about sharing an essay, but I have to pause to ask myself if I want to share because I have something to say, or if I want to share because I am seeking validation. Most of the time, the desire to create comes not from some quiet space inside of me, but from the side of me that wants to be seen and heard. I find that the quality of my writing, or any creative work, is far better when it comes from the right mental state, rather than from an abstract sense of urgency that I should be creating something, anything.

On another note, having thought about this for awhile now, the deep need for solitude is part of who I am, but also a compensatory reaction to being connected all of the time. Whether we realize it or not, we spend the better half of our days in a sympathetic state. This has consequences, I think, that are different for everyone. Eventually, you have to deal with the residue of living and working at a pace that is often not of your own making. Sometimes you have to get your bearings before the creative spark comes back. That can take longer than expected.

In closing, it is worth paying attention to the kind of creativity that comes from helping a friend or lover make something better. Even though the project is not of your own making, being able to add a touch of your creative insight is intellectually rewarding in a unique way.
Good. More hobos can move to Seattle
“Contrary to the common assumption that eyewitness identification is strong evidence, it’s long been known, and overwhelmingly empirically proven, that eyewitness identifications make for very strong testimony but very unreliable evidence,”

Yet it's the lynchpin of the legal system.
If your assertion were true, all people who ever voiced a minority opinion would be fired and that’s clearly not true.
>The internal discussion could really be hard to read for me (I'm black)

Was it a minority of people who had views that were hard to read or the majority? I was under the impression that most people at Google were not supportive of his acquittal.
Is break-away different from gtk tear-off menus? Because that's ~1999 - 2001.

Process sep per tab was a Chrome feature. Unless you count Lynx and separate instances per browser page ;-)
It might be on archive.org. Example:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990903001822/http://www.geocit...
Grand Staircase-Escalante – Plan clears way for mining and drilling on land
Market Street circa 6th to 3rd, thanks for asking.
What kind of a dysfunctional municipal administration allows this and for what reason?
Dead end career "architects" going OO crazy with inheritance, factories, unessicary interfaces, ... instead of helping write more performance code or deleting code.
...how? I only recently started getting more than 1 match a week and that was probably an ELO reset.
Still outside with mosquitoes.
Working class Americans talk about politics a lot. It's the professional and aristocratic types who care about decorum.
The way I've heard this legend was that the king of Qin enticed the king of Shu to take the statues by making it appear they could defecate gold. At night, he would have servants drop gold around their hinds, and in the morning he would coincidentally take Shu ambassadors on a walk near the statues. That's how the news got to the Shu king about these miraculous gold-pooping cows.