skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think chubot presents a pretty good reasoning in his documentation for oil¹. Basically I think it comes down to there being a lot of problems with bash scripts, but the currently alternatives to bash just introduce a different set of problems. With luck maybe one of the new ones will find the sweet spot, but we won't find out without people trying.

Still, if bash works for you keep using bash ;)

¹ https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html
You're welcome. Corporate governance is a surprisingly controversial area for how boring it seems at first glance.

Here's a more in depth apologetic for the interested: https://theliptonarchive.org/1980s/
Again interesting but open source is never going to be a commercial product for the vast majority of people. Period. Linux is the ultimate proof of that.

You think a solution is people should run their own servers and host their own cloud services for their $20 outlet?

I'm at awe everyday by the amazing stuff people do here but the people here are not the consumer market in any sense and comments like yours just aren't helpful.
u guys do very cool work at Zipline. Interviewed for an internship and had a really fun unique OA, which I never thought I’d say.
Why exactly? I honestly do not understand HN fascination with Firefox. Firefox isn't even in the top 3 browsers anymore and has about the same Marketshare as Samsung internet. It is irrelevant at this point. Blink is the standard for rendering now just as Linux is the standard for web servers.
> Great so if you have the same name as a national leader don't pretend to be that national leader.

By "missing some of the nuance", I meant of the example presented earlier (https://twitter.com/willsmith), which is not someone impersonating Will Smith the actor, is someone somewhat famous in their own right (even if much less so than the actor), and has the name because they were on Twitter first. They go out of their way to state who they are and to disambiguate themselves from the actor Will Smith, but are also verified as Will Smith. Guess what? They got a lot of hate tweets recently from people that didn't bother to actually look whether @willsmith was the actor or not and just blindly assumed so.

Perhaps you missed some of the nuance in that as well?
I’ll definitely give this a try, it arrived exactly when I was exploring other visualization middleware.

Also it’s a small thing but it was refreshing to see, in the use-cases section, the developer refer to Godot as a better fit for someone who needs a WYSIWYG editor for games.
Would be more interesting to see colleges teach how submariners teach instead of teaching things like Myer-Briggs.
I've seen teams that got very little done for a long time because their manager didn't hold them to finishing tasks. So the team was perpetually in a state of polishing just a few more edges and never finally shipping things.

I don't know what sort of company would respond by firing the whole team, though. If a manager fails, the manager should be out, and a new manager should try to turn the team around.
It's not a matter of "he must do X every time" but the obvious juxtaposition between two countries that are economic powerhouses with questionable records on free speech: Saudia Arabia gets criticism for for its dubious free speech record and China, seemingly more restrictive on personal liberties overall, gets none.

If he has offered any criticisms of the CCP's relationship with free speech, I apologize for missing it. Otherwise, it's hard not to be cynical about people like him that claim to care deeply about freedom of expression while playing up business interests in countries that do not share such a value.
Everyone is biased, they just happen to be a little bit more upfront about it.

Frankly, I like that not everyone is conforming to the exact same hiring metrics. As somebody who's built dozens of personal projects (a few of which I've been able to monetize), this would have been precisely the kind of hiring manager that a younger version of me would have liked to see.
As a counter point, and a more accurate apples comparison, it’s not illegal to wear a swastika in the US. Nor promote support for what Russia is currently doing. You’ve pointed out that Germany can make something illegal to control speech, which is not the same as promoting riots or planning the demise of the gov.
First off — how do you have stats regarding the volumes of content adjudication much less broken down by political leanings? Is this something with a methodology and data we could actually all review?

Second: let’s say it’s true. How would we know whether it’s because 90% of problem content is generated from participants with one political leaning vs a policy designed to discriminate politically?
That is a very very short deadline.
All-nerds, Responsibility, and Systems

Many tales of woe (see https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/02/09/nice/ for a good sysadm one, or the syndicated loan problem in the original DDD book) could have been avoided by people striving to learn all they can. I guess though that this is tech's Eternal September: we have too many problems, so people want to minimize the amount of work required to understand a system.

Maybe things will be better in the future?
> Certainly production of cement for concrete, and of fertilizer, will need to be ratcheted down.

Is there a reason these can't be done with wind or solar power? 40% of the emissions in concrete are from burning fuel [1]. For fertilizer production, the main inputs deriving from fossil fuels are energy, and hydrogen [2]. Wind and solar can produce plenty of both.

> metal smelting

Again, why can't you use wind or solar energy for this? Iceland is a major aluminum exporter because geothermal power is so cheap there.

> Put up with less or no AC, don’t look for Amazon to deliver tiny packages, eat seasonal food or go without

These don't sound like terrible changes for much of the Western world. Large parts of Europe already don't have AC. Seasonal food was the norm even in the US until at least the 1960s. We've had barely 10 years of Amazon's 2-day shipping.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concre...

2. https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Industrial-a...
Silver is one of my favorite colors.
If you live in NSW, you can join the City of Sydney Library. And they do inter-library loans, so you could request a copy and they'll dig one up for you.

https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/library-information-serv...
I had to do a double take over 2 days to understand what you mean.

I've flown El Al...but I forgot the brand. In the initial read, I thought you were referring to a fighter plane make (kfir, mirage, sukoi, mig etc) so your story didnt make sense. Your story is more enticing with that context
Was about to study and implement a random graph data generator that comes with some community structure(at least more than the pure random/flat structure).

Then I found this :D.

My first time read and run julia code, too, it's elegant seeing wᵢ and ξ as variables :-P
I mostly ignore LinkedIn emails, but I feel like I've noticed this oddity as well. Some emails say both InMail and connection request.
Other news sources cannot be relied upon for the correct perspective.
I'll just make the charitable assumption that you didn't understand what I was saying and the context that I was saying it in, then.
yeah but those PHP websites are mostly legacy stuff that would completely break if automatically updated to the latest version of any package

whereas node.js is clearly dominant for new websites, and we all use hundreds/thousands of new packages every month without even giving it a second thought
Didn't work for me on mobile. Just a misformatted version of the queen I clicked on showed up in google docs
Yishan says,

>I'm now going to reveal the institutional bias of every large social network (i.e. FB, Twitter, Reddit):

>Are you ready?

>Here it is...

>They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid little fights.

>That's all.

Yeah, as if 'users squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama' did not result in higher engagement rates and these platforms did not exploit that for their own gains.
Counterpoint: I work at the REPL of scripting languages roughly as much as I do the shell prompt.
that is pretty darn cool, not sure how to convert that torr to ppm though, in they video they mentioned it's partial pressure? so sounds like one is able to work out percentages therefore ppm by the reading?
You use twitter in a different way than the vast majority of users.

Twitter users follow people and see their posts. Their feeds are mostly their followers posts.

You ever look at the youtube home page when you're logged out? It's absolute garbage. It's also not the way most people use youtube.
The art museum visitor would be unambiguously correct in the case of De Morgan's laws. Rolle's Theorem depends on some fairly tricky setup work.

But for an even more obvious theorem that was actually difficult to prove (Rolle's theorem isn't), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_curve_theorem

("Any path which begins in the interior of a closed curve, and ends in the exterior of the same curve, must cross the curve at some point.")
There's nothing to poison. The board wants this.
For conntrack, one possibility might be to bypass conntrack on incoming connections using `iptables -j NOTRACK`, effectively making the firewall stateless.
Point me to a metric that you think is fair and it would probably take me 10 minutes to systematically demolish it as equally stupid gatekeeping.

Furthermore, he didn't say it was his only metric, he said it was a possible metric.

What if I use having a bachelors degree in computer science as a strong metric? I could just as easily turn the tables on that requirement: some of the best programmers I've ever known didn't even have university degrees at all and were completely self starters.

And there are plenty of diploma mills that hand out degrees in IT like they're candy.
I want to point out that scare quotes connote doubt or disdain or sarcasm, so it seems like a mischaracterization to say they "literally wrote that", as if you two are in agreement.

You're sort of subtly evolving your argument here, but earlier you reduced Asian discrimination to the Harvard problem, as you say, so for this reason I assumed higher education was the focus.
I honestly think that people in the future are going to view gender reassignment surgeries in the same way that we view FGM today. There doesn’t seem to be any possible evidential basis for gender reassignment surgery on non-intersex individuals, compared to the alternative of non-surgical intervention, and it seems that it should be considered unethical for surgeons to offer it.
> Why is lithium such a bogeyman when iron ore production is 1000s of times larger?

Because the people making the argument aren't being genuine. They don't care. They want a "gotcha" and to feel like they "owned" the "libtard" driving the "eco-warrior-mobile."

When the Toyota Prius came out two decades ago, people boo-hooed about the environmental impact of the battery - either the carbon impact or the environmental impacts of the mining.

You could show them the numbers, tell them that the packs are highly recyclable and thus we're only pulling the ore out of the earth once and then get to re-use it numerous times...versus fossil fuels where they're useful once. Point to the huge gas and emissions reduction over the life of the vehicle. They don't care. Your facts get dismissed as Fake News.

Same with solar panels. Doomsayers were predicting landfills full of panels and boo-hooing about the environmental cost. Part of the problem there is that people think "lifetime of 20 years" means "20 years and then phbbbtttt, dead" but reality is "20 years and now only 80% capacity." As solar gets more common, there will be more infrastructure

It's also fascinating that "set up an entirely new distribution infrastructure around hydrogen" or "create nuclear-waste-recycling reactors" isn't a problem, but apparently "a used market for solar panels will crop up all on its own" is inconceivable.

The same people would likely be stunned, stunned I tell you, that there are many shops out there rebuilding Prius battery packs and all manner of EV battery packs are valuable on the used market.
I think it's just that politicians always knew that any real push would be expensive and raise energy prices. Everyone wants to go green, but if that involves doubling energy costs, then how many people are still going to say yes? That would not be popular with their constitutes, so bye bye political career.

Nobody could make the hard choice and they hoped that technology would solve the issue eventually - which to be fair, it did look like that was going to happen.

On the other hand, we have this situation. In my country natural gas prices have risen 40% in the last month and some items in supermarkets are close to double what they were a year ago.
The work that David has been doing with DPrint has been outstanding. They architected a whole plugin system is based on WebAssembly and Wasmer. Super impresive
I've changed my mind about this sort of thing recently. I disagree with the widespread belief that one should part with shell scripts as soon as possible.

Yeah, there are definitely eventually scripts where one should rewrite the work in another language, but we now just have too many people who have no idea what getopts is, too many people who think bash is available everywhere, too many people who think it's a good and safe idea to put all of your program arguments in environment variables, too many people who have no idea where POSIX specifications are and why they're useful, too many people who don't know how to simply reach for manual pages and do all their learning exclusively off Stack Overflow and Medium, etc.

You don't need advanced knowledge of all of this stuff, but when you're outright afraid of it, there's a professional problem involved. I'm not asking for people to have a comprehensive knowledge of awk, but if you've avoided every opportunity to simply understand what 'set -e' 'if' and 'test'/[]' are, you're intentionally atrophying your professional development.
Agreed. He did a great job documenting and explaining to his audience. The crew did a great job entertaining his presence.
I'm not making your original point, your point is that nobody but the left knows what "woke" really means so everybody else is wrong when they discuss it. My point is that you have no sole claim to the meaning of woke, the people who use the word do, and it means different things to different people.

As for following my own advice, I gave you two very explicit disclaimers that it is solely my own definition of the term, as I understand its use by a significant part of the population. It is not a claim of ownership, but it is a useful definition, widely in use, if you wish to discuss wokeness with people who disagree with you.

Language is fuzzy and evolves on its own, the place of the author V.S the users is a discussion that's been had here a million times about many other terms far removed from politics. The term has shifted precisely because the people who exhibit these exclusive and unkind behaviours call themselves woke, in that sense it is related to wokeness. Both definitions exist concurrently, neither of us can change that, but if you wish to discuss wokeness you'll have to accept that it does have a cohesive meaning, different from your own, to a lot of other people, and not just deny the existence of this meaning.

(On a side note I'm a leftist and so are many of my friends who have issues with "wokeness", as we understand it.)
alternatively, they could add calling functions with keyword arguments as in python, where you'd call key_exists(needle="needle", haystack="haystack")
Strange rumbling noises in California house turns out to be 5 bears hibernating
Twitter accepts Elon Musk's buyout deal
We are on the same timeline.
Solved problem, but not a scalable problem. Unless we can fork dang reliably N times.
Advanced Math for Kids: Straws and Topology
If you life in

> beautiful lofts that sell for many $10s of millions,

then you are part of the problem and deserve nothing.
This is very true, particularly if your script is just an imperative list of commands to run.

Python scripts win when you actually need to handle errors, or non trivial output parsing, or when the concept of “list of things” doesn’t fit neatly into the “lines of text / pipe symbol” paradigm.

I try to think of it like Donkey Kong. Every time you do something like this:

var=$(command | awk -vID=$ID ‘$6 ~ /foo/ and $7 == ID {print $1 “ “ $2} | head -3)

…you get hit by a barrel. Three hits and you turn it into a Python module with a __main__.py or an if __name__ == “__main__” at the bottom.

If it’s a truism that most shell scripts are better off written in Python, it’s just as true that all Python scripts are better off as reusable modules (that may also be standalone scripts.)
Funny how it is not good at heels. Who knew those would be hard?
Shellcheck helps a lot with this, I won't write shell without it anymore: https://www.shellcheck.net/
I fully stand by the statement that it's basically only fake environmentalists who care. Yes, some real environmentalists do too, but seriously: the wholesale destruction of the entire biosphere due to the rampant use of fossil fuels, the destruction of entire ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest, and some people only focus on how we shouldn't build wind farms because of the birds. Colour me cynical about most people who bring up wind farms and birds.

Again, I know of projects where that entire angle was just a political one used to cancel wind projects in favour of staying reliant on coal. I liked that parrot too; it's probably doomed anyway due to the fact that destruction of native forests is rampant. How will the raptors do in global warming?
France does this.
I have thought about that, but I am seeking long term tenants. The overhead of constant turnover and upkeep would be much higher, so I am offering no less than a one year lease.

Regardless, I do not approve of AirBnB from an ethical standpoint. Their business model is predicated on skirting established laws that cover lodging establishments, and I do not support such shenanigans.
You think the war in Ukraine is stopping people in America from going in to office? I believe it has no impact whatsoever.
Agreed! Always-on autocomplete feels like the editor equivalent of someone asking "are we there yet?" every few seconds during a road trip.
I think it's grouping 1 & 2 into "things every Marine goes through" and 3 as the second phase of specialization into your particular job role.
Did the censorship of only right leaning or republican posts on the site sit well with you?
They forgot to mention blogs and friend-of-a-friend and pingbacks and RSS and web rings!
No single answer? Sure there is.

It's called Linux Libertine.

There you go.
That is to be expected since SpaceX is where all the NASA funding went along with most of the talent previously working on VTVL technology.

It is not hard to imagine an alternative world where Elon Musk had nothing to do with the SpaceX company and the same achievements would have been reach. Or even an alternative world where the NASA funding would have gone to a completely different company, or—yet even—a world where NASA would have developed this technology them selfs (hiring the same experts off course).

All is to say that Elon Musk is not some essential figure in the development of VTVL rockets. Rocket engineers would have developed it regardless in any world where the Space Shuttle is sunset.
> Firefox isn't even in the top 3 browsers anymore and has about the same Marketshare as Samsung internet

This is precisely the issue. The fact that Google has such a mass control over Internet rendering means that they are free to write their own standards with absolutely no pushback. It is essentially an Internet explorer situation, whereas if Google wants something to work a certain way, you have no choice but to adapt it least certain websites won’t work.

I don’t think a single commercial entity — let alone one with such a disastrous privacy record whose primary source of income is advertising — should be able to strongarm the Internet like it currently can.
The time it takes to round-trip postcards to Pole really depends on when you send it. If you send a postcard after mid January or so, it likely won't arrive on station until after winter, in October/November. The station opening flights tend to be light aircraft e.g. the BT-67 Baslers from various other places and they sometimes carry a mail bag. Otherwise you're waiting for an LC-130.

If you send something in July/August, there's a reasonable chance that it will get to Pole in only a few months. There's some randomness in the black box that is McMurdo's sorting office, as well as the CDC in Christchurch. That said, I got a postcard just before Winter that was mailed in January. 9 months later, I got another postcard that was mailed in December of the previous year. You just can't predict this stuff. Oh and then it has to go back... so you've got to wait for an outbound cargo flight, then a connecting flight from McMurdo and then for it to get out via the APO at the CDC and so on. In theory if you get your ducks in a row it could be in the US within a week. If you're sending elsewhere (from experience) it can easily take months.

Running the post office is a secondary role for someone on station, but it does require specific training in order to comply with USPS regulations (e.g. only the post person can open the mail bag). Most people can run the store, for example, but only trained people can handle mail.

There are instructions at Pole on how to handle these sorts of requests e.g. if someone sends a postcard and asks for it to be sent back. We also had a special box for mail from kids, who sometimes ask for us to write to them. It's not uncommon for people to mail specific departments, like one of the telescopes. Generally as long as you send something prepaid, we'll send it back - it's zero effort to drop it in the mail slot and it'll get cancelled as usual. Special requests are less likely to be granted, mostly because we suffer from winter brain and we forget.
This looks neat. The command blocks are an interesting solution to the question of how to impose more structure on things without imposing a lot of additional syntax where it isn't wanted.
Except it's been demonstrated you can detect a pipe to shell server-side.
The thing is though that the price stayed the same. Elon didn't raise his price so their plan backfired? Unless you mean some additional benefits that they get?
I don't think he could resist. One of his things seems to be high impact, low prep/effort things like tweets, rallies, etc. It'd be global news for minimal exertion.
"Truth" is a pretty nebulous concept at the best of times anyway. Humans don't generally know the "truth", they just have a best-guess hypothesis based on their experience so far.

Philosophy is interesting and all but ultimately it's all just linear (or not-so-linear) algebra.
What is the timeline between these papers and an app that can take me from a photo to doing an animated dance flip to impress my kids as in their output example?
Then statistically speaking, you aren't in a position of power.

I doubt that you even are. The "we" you used earlier was certainly a mischaracterization of your supposed "power".
What problems did you face that made you decide to create a browser fork of Chromium instead of a web browsing extension or a separate application that could utilize any other web browser as a client for using these protocols?
You would be surprised. My Ram 2500 has coil spring suspension, and rides better than most sedans. And gets better mileage than my early 2000’s midsize truck. But yeah, the Subaru is much cheaper per mile to drive.