skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, hear documents -- had the arrows pointing the other way. The problem is that you still have to worry about escaping some special characters, such as the dollar sign.

Whereas by using the "declare" syntax, or the attached script in the gist, you can send a number of inter-dependent functions without escaping anything in them (treat them as if they are local), along with the additional complexity you can encapsulate into regular structured programming syntax.
I have to say, your comments are always some of the most insightful ones I've ever read on this site. Thanks for writing them.
Privacy Badger from EFF
Not fair, OpenVPN doesn't take that much more than a "minute or two" to set up and configure. ;) Last time I launched it[1], I could launch and connect to a new OpenVPN instance in less than six minutes, from my iPhone. Desktop is even faster.

[1]: https://github.com/jenh/sevenminutevpn
I have actually done what they have done in the paper. The primary difficulty that I had is that when attempting to fool people they would basically believe nearly anything that the system would say.

Its relatively easy to reproduce see http://trumptwitterarchive.com/archive and then you just follow the directions on https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
Gita the Shopping Robot Follows and Helps You Carry Stuff
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1589512
In Word (especially when save-in-place disabled), old file disappears only when the new file is complete. And since file writing naturally walks over all the structures, any exceptions usually happen during save and display time.
If the file ended up on disk, it is usually OK.

And even if you are unlucky, you can still restore it from your backup (time machine, dropbox folder, restore point, etc..)

If you have explicit "save" action, all of those things happen automatically -- there is no need for programmer to do any sort of action here, other than to make sure saves are atomic.

Only persistent environments have this problem, because once your persistent-word crashes, you cannot do anything to roll back the change -- other than revert entire OS to previous snapshot, but this will roll back all other apps, too.

(Practically, I've had MS Word crash on me hundreds of times. I've only got corrupted save file once or twice. So at least from my anecdotal evidence switching to "persistent world" would make data loss much more frequent.)
Is anyone going to review their other bridge designs? Wonder what else they missed.
> The most pressing problem for humanity is global climate disruption.

Our climate and ecology are certainly at risk, but I think the biggest threat in the world right now is the rapid rise of fascist China. They're challenging the notion that free speech and democracy are required for capitalism and economic gain.

China has grown so emboldened under President Xi that they're no longer content to just alter or buy out our media companies. They're flat out dictating marching orders to Western organizations and asking for employees that oppose their mandates to be fired. They're kidnapping foreign nationals and holding them hostage on trumped up charges. They've grown beyond stealing our ideas - now they're trying to supplant them.

That doesn't even begin to capture the things they're doing within their own borders. Surveillance state, social credit, travel limitations, Uyghur detention camps, supposed organ harvesting, Hong Kong / Tibet / Taiwan, ... In China it's actually 1984, and they're teaching the world that it works. If they win this battle, I worry we might wind up facing similar prospects in our future.

> Without massive progress in the next decade, civilization will probably collapse by 2035.

That's a little bit overblown. Want to make a bet on longbets.org? I'll happily donate to a green cause.
> The hard part is the publishing platform to integrate with the subscriptions and the billing - that's the part nobody else is doing - and we were getting pretty good at building a flexible, modern publishing platform.

Doesn't Medium sort of do this? I get that you can't run your own instance or bill specifically for just your content, but otherwise it seems very similar.
i liked the soft pastels, 'cozy' home decor, and simple garb of the 90s.. People are trying to make their houses look like the inside of a friggin iphone box today ~ 'architectural minimalism'.
It's great, but has no Android support atm. Gotta stick with Wireguard for now.
I was including the price of the ultrasound imaging machine. And I’m not talking about Tylenol either, which is a harmful and oversubscribed drug anyway. Example: I’ve been given a choice: surgery that includes removal of hip cartilage, or nothing. But there are many natural growth factors that have shown excellent cartilage regeneration. PRP wouldn’t be among my first choices, but as an example, it’s better than nothing, better than surgery, and the FDA can’t make my own blood illegal. The two surgeries I did get elsewhere were terrible and didn’t really solve the problem. There are other cheap options for regenerative injections, and they are extremely common among elite and professional athletes. They are also used extensively by large animal vets, and it turns out that there’s nothing I need that a race horse doesn’t, but it’s legal for him and not for me. Diagnostics also, a huge area for free market expansion. The cost of an MRI is dropping below the cost of a copay. And most of all, it’s a question of value added by doctors, which is mostly informational, and as with all information commodities, rapidly dropping to zero. In my vision of the future, I decide what I want, and I pay for it. Simple.
Hi! Thanks for following up.

I can't find anything specifically called "hasura actions". Found this[1], but that has nothing to do with language integration.

[1] https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/guides/auditing-ta...
You were awarded them 1-4 years ago though. That's when the value mattered.

To add to that, it's not like when you join a low-performing company you can just leave because you think you can get better value somewhere else. The cost of switching as an employee is very high.

Obviously it's a bit less of a gamble than the lotto, but it's not like decisions that were made 30 days ago are being played now, it's much longer term than that.
The language is the language. I won't offer any opinions on what I would like to see

The problem is the ecosystem, tooling. Lack of frameworks/crms/cmses make it a poor choice

Bootcamps try to scale the learning process. In a bootcamp someone can go from nothing to productive/professional in a few weeks. This is not possible with haskell.
If I'm reading the report correctly, the bridge was barely sufficient to support its own weight, which is extremely surprising since I remember reading a very long time ago that bridges and other structures are designed to be 10x stronger than they normally need to be; a vague reference in the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_of_safety supports that. It seems like this bridge was designed for minimal cost...
This sounds like Strauss-Howe generational theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theo...
As an aside-- My own opinions on this subject changed after experiencing a really dark sky myself. I though I had before, e.g. being on a boat a few miles off Florida at night, but I hadn't-- not only is it not that dark at that distance but the humid air on the ocean reduces visibility.

For the 2017 solar eclipse I drove out to Hereford, Oregon for the best chance of being in the middle of the path with zero cloud cover-- which was a total success. My drive had me going up 395 towards wagontire at something like 3am and I took a break with the lights of the car off long enough to dark-adapt my eyes and see the night sky in some of the darkest skies in the continental US.

I do not exaggerate to say that although the eclipse was really neat, I found the moonless clear night sky considerably more impressive than the eclipse and considerably less well captured by pictures.

In talking about it to others I found that many people didn't know that the milkyway is perfectly visible to the eye, and not in some squinting barely visible sense, but in an awe inspiring "holy crap what is that?" sense... Many seemed to think that it was just some long exposure / multi-spectral trick like you often see in astronomy photos.

I grew up in South Florida where the gulf stream isn't far offshore and where even in the winter the seas are pleasant and perfectly swimable at all times outside of heavy storms. There the ocean remains usually calm and at essentially plausible bathtub temperatures (https://www.surf-forecast.com/sstgraphs/Fort-Lauderdale-14th...), even in the middle of the night every month of the year. When I first traveled to California and encountered the pacific with freezing cold waters and giant crashing waves against cliffs ... suddenly the ocean as it existed in art and literature made much more sense to me.

Experiencing an actually dark sky made the wonder at the night sky in older literature make so much more sense to me in a similar way. ... and an actually dark sky is a lot more accessible than a total eclipse too: You might have to travel a considerable distance to see either, but a clear dark sky is available on many more nights.

https://darksitefinder.com/map/
It's certainly possible. It's a complicated topic. There's a lot to consider and much of it relates to your personal risk appetite and financial position.

There can be very serious tax consequences if the spread between your strike price and the FMV is large enough. The IRS doesn't care that you can't sell shares to pay the taxes. They're still due that year.

That said, you can probably do the math to stay outside AMT by limiting the number of shares you exercise. It's so hard to know whether or not to do that. I imagine a lot of employees felt pretty good about their WeWork options at the beginning of this year. I imagine. I don't know anyone there.
There is a hell of a lot of money that doesn’t have a safe home. If you’re wealthy in 2019, it may cost you money just to stash it somewhere low risk. Now extend that to sovereign funds, etc., and you can start to see why these obvious shenanigans are tolerated. A zero percent “return” is a net gain over holding in savings or bonds in a lot of places.
> these things are better received if you are a part of the group you are making fun of

Or at least know something about their experiences and come from a place of those experiences being real. I think a major reason that e.g. anti-LGBT jokes don't land the way they used to is simply that too many people know anything at all about LGBT experiences. Comedians can't get away with just making stuff up or leaning on cartoonish stereotypes, because it just rings hollow to so many people now. Likewise, "white guy does X like this / black guy does X like this" jokes are so dead that even jokes about the ineffectiveness of those jokes are trite.

> Every time I see a comedian complaining about that, his netflix special is just a few clicks away.

Also, even when comedians are ostensibly telling actual jokes about "political correctness" or "safe spaces", it often comes off as somewhere between inept trolling and outright whining. Somebody could probably make a "Stand-up comedy bit about political correctness or Rush Limbaugh rant?" quiz.
If only people would pay me to write comments on HN, then my life would suddenly work.

Sadly, that's not a viable career.
Tule helps farmers make irrigation decisions. We install a proprietary research-based sensor in farmers' fields. The sensor measures the water use and water stress of the plants in an entire field. Tule uses the field-scale plant data, as well as cutting-edge artificial intelligence models, to provide farmers with irrigation recommendations. Our customers span from the winemakers who farm California's most prized vineyards to the growers at the largest scale almond operations in the Central Valley. Tule is a profitable company whose mission is to help generations of farmers maximize production and more efficiently manage natural resources.

www.tuletechnologies.com
Given that softbank is a public company, surprised there is not more shareholder outcry over the strategy of visionfund. In a way it is public money which is bailing out WeWork. Not to mention some of the questionable investments in Indian market (OYO, PayTM, Snapdeal) that seems to follow hyper valuation growth without seeing hyper value of growth of any of these companies.
This is great. Makes me want to do a similar post for chess. Whenever I try to explain to people what chess thinking involves I compare it geometry. Finding visual patterns on the board. But there’s also calculation and tactics which is very similar to algebraic thinking in terms of how you can derive a solution by following rules.
Postponing the problem now gives more time to find ways to postpone more later, like fixing the societal issues that drive people to delay starting families well past when they do in other prosperous countries.
The opinions expressed in the article aren't new to me, but I thought the fact that I saw them on the front page of HN implied that they were becoming increasingly popular or there was some new development (eg. confirmation of certain VPN providers being honeypots). If I had realised this was just a link to a discussion that happened a few years ago and had no real impact on the general consensus among IT experts, I wouldn't have clicked on it.
Not sure where you live, but where I do mannequins only come in one shape: The perfect shape. Judging by the people I see there it doesn't discourage anyone. Why would it? It's just a sample. Neither I think anyone needed an ad to tell them that they can actually shop and find something there. However if you get influenced by the shape of a mannequin that much, the problem is probably a different one within yourself.

From personal experience I know a women-only domain does not keep men from joining it. I've seen it the other way around with friends as well, unless you project something into that and start to think it would be a "problem" or discourage someone or something else. Would you join an office where everyone is a redhead but you aren't? Sure you would. I mean, why not? What would discourage you? So how is it different for a man to join an office for example with only women? Or just replace the attributes which whatever you think fits. If you care about other people's gender, race, hair color, height or number or functioning body parts (read as: "handicapped") much ... well, then there will always be an underrepresentation of some sort.

If the distribution of gender discourages you from joining a community or domain maybe you should stop putting people and yourself into categories of body attributes. To me it's the same pair of shoes as saying "too many/few black people". Ok, so they are "different" from other people in a way that would discourage someone? Interesting thought in 2019 for a pre 20th century concept.
He was probably drawing from the Strauss-Howe generational theory[1], which is more than 20 years old now. He (or you) should have credited the original thinkers for these ideas. Their 1997 book "The Fourth Turning" is considered pseudoscience but nonetheless great food for thought, imho.

Note that the cycle may sometimes be shorter (3 gens) or longer (5). It's not really a theory, more like empirical observation. Unfortunately, it has no predictive power whatsoever, so it's just that, food for thought.

Edit: Interestingly, it came out almost at about the same time as Huttington's "Clash of the Civilizations"[2], and a number of interesting scenarios from Shell[3][4] and the CIA (link?), which notably informed Clinton's push for global democracy — all these studies concurred, at the time, that positive disruption was a plausible scenario.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations

[3]: https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/the-energy-futur...

[4]: https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/the-energy-futur...
If you want dark skies, move to the country. There's tons of trade-offs to living in an urban areas and light pollution is but one of them.
This is totally hearsay, but I've heard from multiple older engineers that as computer models have been improved over time the safety factor has been reduced as we have more accurate simulations. If the safety factors from the '50s had been used it's possible this bridge would never have been designed the way it was.
Wearing a blazer with a T-Shirt is a fashion risk. Not easy to pull off.
That's about the most viciously brutal thing I've real all year.
> Our climate and ecology are certainly at risk, but I think the biggest threat in the world right now is the rapid rise of fascist China. They're challenging the notion that free speech and democracy are required for capitalism and economic gain.

That is exactly my main concern in the modern age also. Other countries are already interested in China's technology:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-23/sixth-world-internet-...

'Countries looking to crackdown on dissent and the spread of information — like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Thailand, Laos, Serbia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — have already signed up to China's "digital silk road".'
Maybe 'trustification'? A novelish term for novel concepts around creating trust where it wouldn't otherwise be.
Maybe? I mean, for the baristas and whatnot, sure, I feel bad for them. But for educated professionals? Especially the kinds of people who can extract significant compensation in equity? I struggle to feel particularly bad.

Everybody involved knew (or should have known) that the recent round of money-losing IPOs were high-risk ventures. And I would hope anybody thinking about taking options instead of cash would learn enough about pricing options to be pretty clear on the risks involved.

Also, if the con had gone on long enough for the "rank and file" to cash out after the lockup expired, how many of them would be giving money back to investors after WeWork's problems were revealed? I'm guessing zero. Let alone the salary they got for building what turned out to be worth way less than what was invested.
Well in America, we have National Security Letters, which are a legal cluster fuck on their own.
It's scary that there are people that are this stupid who have accumulated enough money to be able to be thinking about investing.
Ask HN: What, do you think, Operating Systems will look like in 10 years?
My home is persistent, and this means I have to clean it up and repair it. I would like to have a magic "reboot" button, which restores my home to blueprints and discards everything not stored in cabinets, drawers and containers.

Ants infestation? "reboot". Walls need painting? "reboot" Don't want to wash the dishes? "reboot"

Isn't this cool? And the best part, we have this for PC already -- and we use it a lot. I can see why one would want to have a small part of the system persistent, but the the entire system? This does not seem useful.
Sorry, most. The point stands. And Spanish legitimately does not have a v in its word for government. French does, and only adds the u to signal difference, equally as absurd as leaving the z in your abbreviation of organization to indicate which variant of English you’re using.
> Lemme know if you guys are ever looking for a remote automation engineer w/tons of cloud experience ;)

Maybe - but how would one go about contacting you? (I have my email in my profile, should you wish to contact me).
I've seen the focus on the thread, fascinating.

The major focus is: To produce more.

I haven't seen one to Waste less. Inverse the balance sheet.
I worked for The Climate Corporation when it was acquired by Monsanto (now Bayer) for $1B.

There is certainly plenty of potential for innovative tech in agriculture, but it’s a really tough space. Machine learning and big data are not magic bullets. The level of noise in experimental measurements is very high, which makes it difficult to prove the effectiveness of almost any intervention.

Climate Corp did (and still does) sell a SAS product advising growing decisions based on machine learning. But the price of that product has fallen dramatically over time, and now it’s nearly free. The premium product now has a list price of $1/acre vs. expected grower revenue of ~$700/acre (for corn in the US). What does that say about the value the software provides?
How does this work for walled-garden mobile devices (ie, iOS)?

There's a reason VPN providers have exploded in popularity: mobile internet devices have been mainstream for 5-10 years and they are system-locked but you can install apps.
This is probably just meant to be a joke, but I have been in that situation before and I don't think offering to gamble away your job would be an effective way to convince others to accept your advice on risk management. I still don't know how to effectively convince others to take on new risks in order to avoid bigger risks presented by the status quo. Given the additional risk that my risk assessment is deficient, doing nothing is usually the easier decision.
The two caveats/differences you mentioned are the biggest complaints against Medium. Medium is a fantastic platform for finding an audience when you don’t have one already. It’s an awesome way to just write and get your work out there.

As the post mentions, Ghost 3.0 is targeted at people like Ben Thompson (in the extreme case) who have an audience passionate/supportive/large enough to pay them directly and who want to own the entire relationship with no middleman.
Dead comment reply by 'FakeComments' that I am not sure deserves to be dead (what happened there?): "I’d say the better part of engineering is knowing how to design in the face of small errors creeping into the project."
Senate Republicans’ attitudes on impeachment sure have changed a lot
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"The government—or rather, the party—controlled everything: the news media, arms, police, the armed forces, the judiciary system, communications, travel, all levels of education from kindergarten to universities, all cultural and religious institutions. Political indoctrination started at a very early age, and continued by means of the Hitler Youth with the ultimate goal of complete mind control. Children were exhorted in school to denounce even their own parents for derogatory remarks about Hitler or Nazi ideology.
— George J. Wittenstein, M.D., "Memories of the White Rose", 1979[6]"

Hmmm... that does remind me of something going on right now.
> Without massive progress in the next decade, civilization will probably collapse by 2035.

This is a joke not backed by any scientific consensus or evidence. Maybe some more instability in some countries, but nothing close to the collapse of civilization.
It's exciting because having viable diversity in computer architectures is valuable.

Programming* for different architectures forces one to carefully consider their design choices, and provides an incredibly powerful incentive to write high quality portable code.

*This assumes that you can take the performance hit of not using platform-specific hardware / inline assembly.

As a related example, every few months I cycle between Windows, MacOS, Linux, and a handful of BSDs for my personal computing needs. Doing so has forced me to consider carefully what software I use, how I have my systems / environments set up, and which libraries are a good idea to use in development and which are not. I am a better linux developer for having an appreciation of freebsd's jails and macos's attention to design, a better openbsd user for having dealt with securing linux and windows boxes, etc.