skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia has looked a bit like hell recently hasn't it. Artic ice is at record lows. Not sure about California droughts (I'm not American) but I'm under the impression that they've been quite out of the ordinary.

Climate change deniers would just attribute that to randomness.

How much "actual" proof would be needed to convince the public that we're there already?

All of these things have set snowball effects into motion already.
> Bash was the first scripting language I ever got "good" with.

Same here. However, it wasn't until I used other languages to manage systems, or glue utilities together, that I really started appreciating Bash.

Bash can be ugly and pretty gross at times, but there are some problems that can be solved quite elegantly with it.

> It also left me a bit weird when thinking about concurrency

Funny, one of the things that I like the most about Bash is how simple it makes concurrency, especially when you pair it with GNU parallel.
That is akin to effectively eliminating a market player overnight. It's like saying "Sure, you can still sell bikes, but you can't include Wheels. Oh and using after market wheels is not recommended."

This somehow feels very sad and unfortunate, especially given the amazing handsets that Huawei puts out (P30 Pro).

It's a shame really. Also goes to show what happens when monopoly over anything is established. Especially in this case, where your phone is almost unusable as most publishers won't opt to publish on 17 different platforms.
Well the fugitive who receives the coins can immediately move it to somewhere in their control. And the non fugitive knows that the fugitive won't touch the coins because he can be outed by the non fugitive. I dunno. It's hare brained since I haven't thought through it, but a good setup can be made if physical meeting was a possibility. About the only way to anonymously exchange coins.
This is actually what Sweetwater does too when it comes to music gear.

I've gotten a few duds from Amazon in the past, but smaller, focused online stores like Sweetwater will inspect your gear for you before shipping it out to you, will give you a direct line to a sales+support person. In fact they'll even give you the email of the entire executive team of the company if you want to contact them directly.

As much as I like free Prime shipping, for higher end gear I'd much rather have access to a real person with expertise in the gear I'm purchasing, and a brand name and reputation to protect. I was not a believer at first, staunchly sticking to Amazon, but everything I've gotten from them has been top notch and without any defects, so I became a convert.
I lived in Alberta for 2 years, I've got many friends living there still. I have never heard of what you're talking about, and certainly never experienced it.

I can't help thinking you over exaggerating the issue to avoid single-payer heathcare in the US at all costs.

Also, I lived in Australia for 23 years. It works great there.
Nuclear plant operators show the steaming cooling towers on their own web sites:

https://www.exeloncorp.com/locations/power-plants/limerick-g...

The same imagery shows up on the covers of nuclear textbooks:

https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Engineering-Handbook-Mechanic...

If anything, laypeople think that radiation is scary because it's invisible, tasteless, and odorless.
Also, taxes. If we were able to fully expense capital plants and equipment, there wouldn't a single company paying taxes, they would continually purchase more to offset profit, eliminate taxation, and accelerate growth.
I'm with you completely, but from talking to others I think we're in a small minority. Most people want a long weekend.
> saying it's probably his fault with no evidence

The seller denied the return (against Amazon's policies). The buyer should return the item, but the seller slipped up and the buyer was entitled to open an A-Z Guarantee claim.
While I have the utmost respect for the profession of law (except for the fact that it produces politicians whom I abhor), I don't think they've had quite enough time to think through every eventuality in tech yet. I'm not even sure if crypto currency ownership through key control is encoded in modern laws (as it should be for all digital assets).

If you have interesting precedents though, please enlighten me. Accounting forensics are always interesting for finance people like me, and the blockchain ledger just makes it easier and yet more complicated.
I have had a number of successful exits but the bottom line is that you're (probably) not getting nearly enough options to offset the risk.

Pasted from a comment I made in an earlier thread:

80% of startups fail and 20% succeed in some fashion. Which means if you normally make $50,000 and take a $5,000 paycut (no rsu) to work there you will lose $20,000 over the 4 year vesting period.
80% of the time when the startup goes bust you make 0 on equity and still lost money due to the paycut. For a total of 8x20 or $160,000 loss.

The two times you are successful you make 2xEquity.

This means your equity has to be at least worth $80,000 each time you succeed.... just to break even.

Factoring in the risk of your equity being 0 you should be getting a LOT more equity.

It's very similar to calculating expected value in poker.
In economics, you can examine the information people to use to make decisions: signalling. A classic example is a species of antelope that leaps into the air to (possibly) signal its health to predators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting

An important problem in human societies, which become complex enough to examine 'memes' as elements of culture (in the original, Dawkins sense, not just the 'familiar pictures with text' sense), is that people learn 'signals' without verifying their accuracy.

Making business more honest is about getting society to use more accurate signals, which comes from, basically, work, but also awareness of the necessity of doing that work.

Defining where, exactly, the boundary between honest and dishonest is can be difficult. Is it dishonest to sell a pair of shoes that costs $2 to make for $200?

The way that more accurate signalling can fix this is that people would not assume that the $200 pair of shoes is better. Or they would not assume that someone who owns the $200 pair of shoes has some beneficial quality that they would currently associate with it.

Will not get into how to improve signal accuracy, as there's no chance my explanation would lead to the solution being used.
I have switched quite a few casual users to Signal by now, and in my experience, none of them have paid any attention to those regardless. They don't even bother asking the person through some other channel - just confirm the new number.
Data scientist, data vacuum and data janitor of the 21st century
Actually, someone compiled it, added ads, and put it on the App Store. Not sure if it is still there, but it got through approval.
Batch as much as possible. For companies that absolutely must have actual ML the temptation to make everything real-time/on-demand is high but sometimes (often) unnecessary. Take a serious, hard look at where that line is. It’s like companies that need simple rules or analytics reaching for ML: an unnecessary expense in terms of development time and hard cash.
How on earth do you think they should be covering him?
Answering a valid usability question with unsolicited suggestions on how someone should structure their social life isn't very helpful.
"Hey if you join me in this scheme to make more profit by squeezing other people out of what they have today, I'll give you a cut of that profit. What do you say? I promise you'll keep getting a cut until it makes sense to squeeze you out as well."

Less obvious, and more eloquent, of course.

Better choices, better opportunities, and real innovative solutions to solve real problems. Those are the rising tides that will raise our boats instead of sinking them.

I concede though that it's easier when we're talking about 10 people and a startup, rather than 330 million human beings across 3.8 million square miles.

I want to see more leaders focus on the real crux of the problem, taking into account human nature while we're at it. I'm not holding my breath.
Coming from the IoT industry where we usually are pretty up to date with the latest trends. You are right it is though for people with outdated skills to get up to speed. So much they have to forget, and sometimes ego gets on their way.

What I can say to you is that it is worth for those who accomplish it. I can only say that it takes patience, hard work and a lot of time to study. Impostor syndrome is your ally, and past accomplishments your enemies.

I can relate to what you are feeling. I'm jumping from consultant to entrepreneur. I want to improve job searching that is a process skewed towards companies' interests, not talent. I am still learning about the industry, this is my first iteration: http://yobs.ml/

I wish you good luck on your search. And do keep me updated on your journey and progress.
There were a lot fewer of them. Life expectancy and standards of living were way lower. Stone age tech meant they couldn't kill each other as efficiently in war over declining resources.
Essential AI YouTube Channels to stay updated with the coolest ML advancements
Check scams are on the rise, the FTC says, and many victims are in their 20s
This website has been my go-to reference when hacking together Bash scripts. I can never remember the exact syntax of parameter substitution, and how do I do arithmetic substitution again? What's all the 'set -o' options?

I've since switched to Zsh, and while its documentation is extensive, it's basically one fat book and is far from being as accessible or navigable at this excellent wiki.
> because it makes less radiologically hazardous material

Why is there any radioactive material produced by a fusion reactor ?
Reading Research Papers – Andrew Ng
Laypeople think radiation is scary because they don't understand it and the nuclear industry lies reflexively.
harryh, before writing this you should have disclosed that you're "CTO at Attentive", as your HN profile states.

It goes without saying that you won't like this advice, because it's absolutely, unequivocally 100% the right advice for senior prospective employees such as myself (and you, as well, but you already knew that).

I don't see how it's even up for debate that a lawyer should review any agreements when substantial equity is involved - they're full of abusive clauses by default, and people are absolutely clueless about the finer points of all this. This is something a cursory skimming of a single article is not going to fix.

Don't like the redlines? They're pretty easy to avoid: just don't put this bullshit in your equity agreements.
That’s all fine and well but would you care more about political circus in Washington or NATO troops 100km from your second largest city if you were Russian government? NATO extension to the East went on regardless of who was in power in the US. If anything the chaos makes it harder to negotiate. Remember what Obama said to Medvedev?
...this didn't answer anything for me. Can or can't you sideload Google services?
I guess if your marketing team has invested in invidious consumption as your strategy then you can expect low cost copies, I mean just look at LVMH and it's owner, that french guy who was for a few hours the world's richest man. They marketed to Instagram and black culture but did not seem to understand that low income low paid workers also live in the ghetto and will seek the bargain item over the unattainable Peng ting.
I've even got friends who are scared of that - apparently it's a real thing that when you show up to sell something (camera, lens, phone) multiple people will be there to distract you, snatch it and run. Even in broad daylight in a crowded area.
This is wonderful to read, and brings back so many memories. I made my living off of dBASEIII+ for several years, starting around the time of this article. I was just thinking about it this past week so it's a great coincidence to see this come up.

@ 3,3 say "Enter choice: " get ch picture "!"
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I wrote some very involved data entry screens and report generating software with it. My company's billing and payroll ran off of it for many years. I had inherited the initial versions of it, produced by a third party consultant at great expense, too much so to have them continue to maintain it. I eventually would rewrite nearly all of it, and attempted rewriting it in dBASE 5 several times but it was too much work for one person. I was the only "computer guy" in the company at the time. So we continued with the db3 version for several years, eventually adding parts in Topaz for Turbo Pascal, output to PCL for fancy laser printed payroll sheets (to be sent to the main office to be reentered by hand because they didn't trust data transfer yet!), and many other crutches.

You could write extensions in Assembler to provide whatever unique capabilities you might want, such as coloring or scrolling a block of characters on the screen, or hiding and showing the text cursor. And I remember the feeling of amazement the first time I was able to run a command window and a separate dBase window in Windows 3.11, as well as The Semware Editor and LIST, all at the same time! I no longer had to exit dBase and get back into the editor and vice versa!

I still have a working copy of it on an external drive. Time to go give it a spin!
Quickly Spin Up PostgreSQL with Docker Compose
An interesting lifehack I hypothesized earlier this week and confirmed today is to work from home for the first hour or so of the day and then head into work after the morning rush has substantially subsided.

Until today, I've typically gotten on the subway between 9:45am and 10am for my 30 minute commute to work (that's bed to desk travel time). The train usually wasn't packed, but I was certainly squeezed up against people. Perfectly tolerable, but certainly not comfortable.

Today I did an hour's worth of work from 9:30am to 10:30am and then I commuted to my office arriving just before my 11am standup. The 10:30am train was wonderfully empty in comparison to the 9:45am train. I got a seat for the first time in months! Furthermore, that hour of work was wonderfully productive since my apt is dead silent and no one was around to disturb me. I got most of my "heads-down, high-concentration" work done for the day in that hour.
Not sure if this would make you feel any better, but there's a similar extension called ClearURLs[1] (I'm not affiliated with it, but I do have it installed) for Firefox which is one of their "Recommended Extentions"[2] which have passed their reviews for security.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...
I can't fully agree with your first point:

> can't open it to access h/w, change battery, etc...

We're necessarily moving closer and closer to monolithic ASICs that cover all functions of a phone, most likely encased in epoxy for complete waterproofing. Some guy with a screwdriver and multimeter will never be able to keep up with advancements in manufacturing/technology.
Many people optimize for life quality, they are not competing with you
A lot of people agree that the problems that net neutrality regulations try to solve are caused by local, unimpeachable telecom monopolies. The economics of having a bunch of competing infrastructure make no sense. As much as I generally dislike regulation, I welcomed Title II classification because regulations are an effective answer answer to an abusive monopoly.

However, I think another overall approach would be just as effective at achieving pro-consumer ISP behavior. The approach is simply this: via regulation, force local loop unbundling, and take no other action. Suddenly, anyone would be allowed to start an ISP and rent the existing infrastructure. This would reintroduce the free market and allow it to solve the underlying behavior problems. I think that when it came time to vote with their wallet, most people would select a pro-neutrality ISP, regardless of their political alignment. Competition generally works fine in places it's actually present.

Incumbent ISPs would complain and scream, possibly louder than they have against Title II. I don't know what the legal approach would be for forcing unbundling, but I seem to recall it wasn't completely infeasible.
I can't find it complicated at all. I control my OCaml builds mostly from simple, hand-written Makefiles. Reading up on the pertaining compiler and linker options is something you'd have to do for any compiled language. Building with dune isn't that much harder, either.
In Linkedin there is a way to submit several locations.

It is on your profile when you declare availability for new jobs. Some questions will be shared with those that use Linkedin recruiter, among them you can choose up to five locations of interest.
> considering a brand new, never used item, which has had the box opened[...], I would definitely consider that "new

I'm not sure how that is ambiguous when used specifically calls out "Open Box".

(and FWIW, the article doesn't actually say whether it was used or not - it says "mint-in-box", which doesn't necessarily mean completely unused)
This is actually not true. Prolog is Turing complete, SQL is not. WITH RECURSIVE is limited to cases where you could basically use a simple foreach loop. The postgres manual has this to say:

> Note: Strictly speaking, this process is iteration not recursion, but RECURSIVE is the terminology chosen by the SQL standards committee.

That said, the feature was to some degree inspired by datalog.

EDIT: I should probably clarify, many dbmses probably have extensions that do make SQL turing complete, and the current standard is if you count stored procedures I guess. But CTEs themselves are more limited than what Prolog does.
Our current thinking is to not provide branching mechanisms (loops, conditionals) by design. Both to keep the language simple, but more importantly, to force script writers to create one test per each scenario. If you need an if statement, that's probably an indicate you need two tests.

For your use case, you'll need to write a macro and then call it the number of times you need.

how to check for $something in search results for $thing
...
end

check for "foo" in "bar"
check for "foo2" in "bar"
check for "foo3" in "bar"

That works?
Even better, you have multiple ISPs on the same shared infrastructure. That’s how Utopia in Utah works—Utopia builds out and runs the fiber network and ISPs provide bandwidth and other services on top of the fiber. IIRC, they use VLANs to separate the ISP networks.
Compilers don't really hesitate to use AL and friends, and they do issue INC and DEC.

A lot of the information there is a decade out of date.
https://archive.is/U2BTg
Curious: Why do sites like HN and Reddit, those most vulnerable to abuse by multiple accounts, don’t require mandatory email or even phone verification?

Let people have multiple accounts for privacy if they want, but disallow multiple posts/comments/votes from the same person.
Call Cmd to Mobile from PC
is it possible to make call from pc (programatically if possible) via mobile phone connected via bluetooth? (not voip its cellular call)
What’s a typical equity compensation for a mid level contributor in a post series A company ? Val ~ 30mm
Europe leads in legal frameworks for privacy/trust but they lag far behind USA and China.

From what I have read, there are good incubator organizations in Europe but going from idea, to implementation, manufacturing, customer support, are really difficult. I make this comment because I see cool project coming out of Europe but they are behind in deployed systems.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

What people have to understand is that these programs are self-defeating and incredibly destructive in the long term. They establish a base-level cost structure that is inescapable --short of some kind of a revolutionary movement.

Faced with that, businesses and capital get the hell out as soon as they can. They do this because it is FAR easier to move your operations to another State or outsource all you can to China than to fight for decades against an ideology that has effectively pitted the unthinking public (while convincing them they actually think) against the very foundations of how it is we can live as we do: Entrepreneurship, risk taking, commerce and, yes, capitalism, even if imperfect.

Just look at what China has been able to accomplish in just 50 years. They did not do that through central planning and UBI. They are far from perfect, but they got the capitalism part mostly right, and it shows.
That seems like a lot of work for an extension that just makes URLs prettier.
I like bash, but I sort of have a rule...

If I am thinking of using advanced features of bash, or I'm over-using grep/sed/awk within the script.... switch to python (formerly perl)

Mostly it's a win with respect to quoting, path manipulation and proper data structures.
If it's true astroturfing then it is by definition a professional operation. Astroturfing has to be directed by an institutional authority, otherwise it actually is grassroots.
To continue what you're saying, why not put these plants in deserts and other uninhabited regions?

Russia is huge, China is 80% empty, America is sparse, Australia is 95% percent empty and India has a desert too. Power supply would be an issue but can be solved. (Numbers likely hyperbolic).

Instant solution of middle East problem. Perhaps that's why? Maybe Mideast is what stops nuclear plants, just like saudis, via Citibank, decided Obama cabinet?
If your RSUs dropped that much in value before you could sell them, isn't that some sort of loss you can note on your taxes?
In all the distrust and misinformation out there around this subject, it's refreshing whenever I see finance people talk in these terms. They are pragmatic to a fault, and wouldn't make statements like these lightly.
We are on the same ship. I'm building the front part out of it. I already got some interesting insight into the industry and data: yobs.ml
Personally, I prefer the classic textbook approach, so I recommend Principles of Biochemistry (Lehninger), Biological Sequence Analysis (Durbin, Eddy, Krogh, Mitchison) which is sadly pretty dated now, a general Biology (Campbell), and finally if you really want to dive down the rabbit hole of a complex biological problem with huge health applications, Biology of Cancer (Weinberg).

I've had this argument with folks before and some people seem fine learning in other ways, but I really prefer the textbook approach, especially textbooks which are basically just summaries of the current understanding of the field, with direct links to the detailed review articles.
Unfortunately it doesn't clean up things like AliExpress URLs fully, and PRs aren't moving.
Trying to surpass Arthur Schopenhauer with advice on writing is a bit too arrogant, but not for pg.

I also like obligatory mentioning of rtm as a role model. Even since the days of arc.arc rtm is the driving force.

As for writing - some selected Upanishads and Buddha's sutras still have no equal. It is a written communication in the highest form. And yes, it is that simple.
They attach a low value and do tend to think in terms of their percentage of the cap table, which is irrational. Ultimately, I agree: developers should be paid cash.
Demonstrating Perl with Tic-Tac-Toe, Part 1
That doesn't mean anything. You have not consented to anything by clicking accept without reading it. Sure, everyone will act like they have it.

It can still be spyware, even with "consent". The original statement still stands, "silently logging, tracking every action performed". They could just add some text that will be shown when something is recorded.