skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What to do instead: Use Nushell.

I finally started really using my shell after switching to it. I casually write multiple scripts and small functions per day to automate my stuff. I'm writing scripts I'd otherwise write in python in nu. All because the data needs no parsing. I'm not even annotating my data with types even though Nushell supports it because it turns out structured data with inferred types is more than you need day-to-day. I'm not even talking about all the other nice features other shells simply don't have. See this custom command definiton:

# A greeting command that can greet the caller
def greet [
name: string # The name of the person to greet
--age (-a): int # The age of the person
] {
[$name $age]
}

Here's the auto-generated output when you run `help greet`:

A greeting command that can greet the caller

Usage:
> greet <name> {flags}

Parameters:
<name> The name of the person to greet

Flags:
-h, --help: Display this help message
-a, --age <integer>: The age of the person

It's one of the software that only empowers you, immediately, without a single downside. Except the time spent learning it, but that was about a week for me. Bash or fish is there if I ever need it to paste some shell commands.
Sun Ra and the Arkestra are the hackers of jazz.
The british financial industry has been one of the harder hit by brexit: London has effectively lost its status as the biggest financial hub in Europe. So if that was their plan it was a bad one.
Sounds like you don't really need Android? Why not just get any used touchscreen solid state laptop, wipe and put Linux on it, and treat it as a huge oversized Pi?
Me too.. I decided to use Chat GPT to summarise the article!
When we say "don't do X" we mean "the obvious way is wrong". If you have enough knowledge to ignore the advice, you likely are already aware of the problems with the obvious solution.

I'm pretty sure you can come up with scenarios where parsing the output of "ls" is indeed the simplest solution, but that kind of article is supposed to discourage people who don't know better from going "oh, I know, I'll just parse the output of ls". As a general advice, people should indeed be pointed towards "man find" or "man opendir 3".
I set up 3 new Mac laptops in the last month.

All of them had an option to skip iCloud login during setup.

Of course, you have to log in to iCloud to use the app store to get OS updates. Since I'm not an Apple user, I don't know if there are offline options available.
Can everyone truly relate to this?
> has nothing to do with the communism which as was defined had never materialized anywhere

What are the conditions required for it to materialise?
Not familiar with Porter, but being an expert doesn't necessarily make you ethically untouchable. Warren Buffett for example is well known for investing in companies with aggressively anti-competitive behaviours.
The text of every article is easily worth archiving. If we take average article size to be 500-800 words, then 2KB each is plenty. You want to hang on to 10 billion articles? That will cost you 1 (ONE) hard drive. Remember to make backups.

If we allocate 200KB per article for pretty strongly compressed images, then it's still 100 million on a single hard drive. Why not archive the whole lot and let God or future historians sort it out?

You only need to start getting picky when video is involved, but on the other hand when the alternative is total obliteration you can crush video down to 1MB per minute and have a tolerable VHS-like experience. And even 8MB Shrek gets the point across.
When news is announced like this the focus is always on biodegradable. They already make biodegradable plastic from corn. But it has two problems: it is more expensive and has a rough finish which isn't as desirable as a smooth shiny surface.

Here in Michigan we have been trying to find a use for sugar beet waste for over forty years. Nothing has ever really caught on. Very little barley is grown however in the state but I guess there could be if this proves to be competitive with regular plastic. In fact Northern Michigan which has too short a growing season for corn would be an ideal candidate.

No one ever talks about paper bags. Growing up that's all we ever used and it was easily biodegradable. But stores went with the cheaper solution.
You don't pay more. And when people own businesses, those businesses also pay taxes. And their employees all pay taxes. And when you buy something, you pay taxes. If you get a dividend, you pay taxes. It's all taxes, all the way down. You don't pay more taxes.
> I can't easily leave to do what I want

> For example, in meetings or while waiting for transportation

So why did you end up in that meeting or transportation? Because there is some end goal that you want to achieve, but your mind is not focused enough to see this. If you become aware of being bored just remind yourself what is your end goal and consciously see that the situation you are in is the best way known to you (at least right now) to achieve it.
Do you recommend it? I feel like I'd get RSI from pressing shift when using it. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
of course you can. you just need logged off google play services and services framework middleware
> So it basically does nothing at all?

The effects on employment were much more pronounced than housing. The $1000/mo group went from 15% employment to 37%, and the $50/mo group had no change in employment at all.

It makes some sense: employment is probably more elastic to changes in financial status than housing. Just being able to afford transportation or a bit of occasional child care can immediately alter one's employment prospects.
Yes, I said I think it was a wrong war and that the "ambulance" wasn't marked as one because it was just some civilian trying to help people.

But otherwise there are some rules for engagement in partisan warfare. For example they must be marked as combatants by uniform or some other clear sign.

Exactly for this reason, to be able to divide between combatants and civilians. The more the partisans ignore that, the more civilians will die. Which is why it is also frequently used as a dirty tactic to raise more civilian uproar and more joining the partisans.
Ask HN: Do you migrate a big old project (4 years) or redo it?
Python has had an API-stable module for listing directories for decades, you know.
Immoral, but was it also illegal?
AI Needs Better Than Quartz
Beer bottles to make rounded corners? Brilliant!
There is such a thing as war crime. US may be exempt at this moment, but things will change. They always do.
> neither society or government can agree on.. anything really.

I believe what you describe is called democracy. The counterpart of which, where everyone "agreees" is totalitarian.
You're thinking of ear training software. Lots of those out there.

Your ear (the ability to recognize intervals, scales, chords, chord progressions, rhythms etc) is one of (if not the) your biggest asset as a musician. And it's the only way to get the music out of your head, so cultivate it. Practice practice practice! Don't have to do more than a couple of minutes per day to see some results.

Ear training is something all creative musicians have to do. Many who are self-taught simply do it through picking up other people's tunes by ear (= transcribing), working it out on their instrument, starting with easy stuff and over time learning to "decipher" more difficult pieces. Dedicated ear training can really boost this process.
Local First, Forever
I used to spend a lot of time writing these by hand with reference pages and such. But these days ChatGpt is so good at coming up with them (and/or debugging them) I just use that instead. It's basically just another language it can easily translate to and from.
What makes you think he values human life? He sent his buddy with the cables to my home country to share with KGB prior to the public release.

I hope the rest of his life is equally miserable now that he is a free person.
Apple did what they thought was best. The EU said no and the next step is the court system. When that result is known Apple can decide what markets to operate in.

When Apple Kerberos all their services they essentially made it possible to granularly manage service availability by user, device, and region.

The EU fining schedule is so out of proportion that it creates a real business risk to Apple that may be greater than the EU market size.

I don’t think the EU efforts are as detailed or grounded in reality as the EU considers them.

As a spectator I can’t wait to follow the ups and downs of this.
The Australian Ambassador to the United Kingdom is apparently flying with him today, so that should give some indication.

(It is probable that if those politicians had been particularly in touch with the views of Australians, they wouldn't have ended up in exile!)
React native. the code of the app is in javascript, and so updates can be downloaded dynamically by the app itself, without the need to submit another version to the app store
It's a lot less bad than the worst stuff, so it's easy to miss. Sweden lost a case in the ECHR due to this one, and we didn't really participate and instead had obtained guarantees that weren't held to.
When you don't want to waste your time and sanity and happiness being in doubt and then throwing away all you've done and switching to a new language in mid stream, just don't even start using a terribly crippled shell scripting language in the first place, also and especially including awk.

The tired old "stick to bash because it's already installed everywhere" argument is just as weak and misleading and pernicious as the "stick to Internet Explorer because it's already installed everywhere" argument.

It's not like it isn't trivial to install Python on any system you'll encounter, unless you're programming an Analytical Engine or Jacquard Loom with punched cards.
there are many more examples of slower/shorter term strategies than merely fundamental, there always have been...especially in the institutional space where the race to zero is functionally over.
>30% was never an issue to begin with.

It has always been an issue. It's just better than the status quo before the iPhone.

> People just feel today that everyone should get access to a marketplace with billion users for free, often forgetting what it took to build this market in the first place.

1. It's not for free. Users (and developers) pay for it when they buy the iPhone. iPhone revenue is 3x Apple's R&D expenses. That is, iPhone sales alone cover the R&D on every single of Apple's products: from iPhone and iOS to Macs and MacOS, AppleTV, HomePods, Vision Pro, all of Apple's software running on those devices etc.

2. This market was built in no small part by the actual developers you now so snidely dismiss. iPhone is nothing without the app ecosystem.
> Everything needs to be dragged away from them, one painful law at a time.

But the anarcho-capitalists told me that market will fix it all on its own if only we let corporations do whatever they want and not burden them with regulations!

It's honestly shocking to me how many anarcho-capitalists there are, especially here on HN. I get the aversion to taxation on a primal level, but surely nobody with any work and life experience can believe in that, right?
The EU sould also strive for more independence from US corporations, yes, especially the silicon valley ones. Having entire governments depend on Microsoft is a problem.
Here in France, as an individual, you can provide proof in a justice case, regardless of how you got them (that is, they are valid even if acquired through illegals means).

I believe illegal acquisition of proof shall be punished only if the underlying case is denied.
The bionic chips from Apple would like to have a word.
Where did you get the 43% number is that specific enough?
> Translated from the original German.

I suspect the hyphens got lost in translation.
Wikileaks turned down leaks on russian government to focus on Hillary Clinton. To me it seems more than just having the same goals for a period of time.
> What is the “realistic” alternative to most of their 365 platform? I say “realistic” because it’ll need to be used by people who can’t tell you if they are using iOS or Android when they need support.

Google's Workspace or whatever they call it this week. It's not really better than Microsoft in any aspect, but covers enough features and is familiar enough (most people probably had a Gmail at some point) to everyone.
All you're saying is that your imagination and appetite for experiences should not exceed the means already available to you. Sounds unimaginative and boring to me.

What if I said the interesting person is the one that will tolerate being bored doing something boring, in order to be able to do the thing that satisfies their imagination and appetite for interesting experiences? Like you were forced to at school? Unfortunately many people are trapped being bored doing boring things as a means to an end for much longer than just childhood: That doesn't make them boring.
Going through life spending energy on hating others sounds like a misearable time to me. But if you enjoy it have fun.
You posted this 2 days ago, also with zero karma user responses. It's not a good look.
The AliExpress search term for similar devices is "trigger board" or "decoy board."

I'm seeing them as low as ~10/$.
Clinton has had a knack for knowing the real truth of a situation and either not wanting to share that with the public, or doing it in a haughty way where she's simply not believed. Knowing what I know about her in that way, such a quote is worrying.

It implies that she's being characteristically tonedeaf and screwing up the communication of some pretty serious concerns about Assange, but I think that's no mystery by now. You can always get Clinton to make it all about her and spin it in a way that can let you get away with damn near anything, but that's just exploiting personal failings on her part, where if you dig into what she knows it's unsettling how sharp she is.

You can't go by whether Clinton's screwed up the optics.
I would not sanitize them indeed, but I would not just tell my kids (or anyone too young to grasp historical context) the raw versions either. Just like the bedtime books I grew up with, fairy tales (apart from extreme violence) can contain racism and very often contain sexism (very strong gender roles for example). I don't want my kids to see such stories as examples. When I read my old childhood books I often need to catch myself, or explain a context to my children I'm pretty sure they are unable to grasp. We've started buying more modern books.

I.e., in one example in the Dutch Children book "Pinkeltje" he meets an African tribe and the language to describe them is using terms like devilish, undeveloped and black almost as synonyms.
No. Obviously you regard Afghan culture as something valuable and good, since you're from there, but I see culture as tree, and if it has bad outcomes, I regard the branch that produced the poisoned tree as a poison tree. Then it's a matter of how far one wants to backtrack, and I suppose that's how much one cares about other aspects of the fruit.

I think much of the problem is Islam + Central Asia/Mongols/steppe conquests, and I think either is bad enough on its own.
In the animal farm, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
I used to run this modded distro of Windows2003 called "tiny2003". It was my favorite Windows experience.
>I made the account years ago so obviously I don't have the number or even know what that number is!

Why is it "obvious" that you don't have/know the number? My Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Yahoo accounts are all much older than that, and long ago I made sure to add multiple access and recovery options.

I hope you regain access. But consider this a learning moment, as opposed to wringing your hands over something you claim is out of your control.
I'm doubtful outsourcing + shipping will be more expensive than raising wages + shipping - because tooling and automotive/aerospace parts are used further away than the machine shop door, shipping is a cost regardless. Sure, shipping is further from Uzbekistan than Connecticut, but seafreight is cheap as hell, and most factory lines are relatively stable.

Unless America is going to push business "leaders" to bring jobs home through tax and finance structures, I wouldn't count on pay going up. You cannot count on Mac or similar to bring jobs home to virtue signal - American capitalism generally means if you aren't cheaper or noticably better, you'll be fed to the wolves.
> I'll give my unpopular opinion here: eliminate all extracurricular sports in American schools. There is too much money, time, and resources spent on materials, facilities, staff, and programming that only benefit a minority of the student population.

> In other parts of the world there are sports clubs to accommodate those kids (and, eventually and more importantly, post-school adults) eager or talented enough to push their limits, and they can do it after school or on weekends.

But that is what the author of this article is writing about, expensive travel teams.

> The article above fails to mention the connection why a lot of parents subject their kids to year-round training. They're looking for the golden ticket to get their kid a college scholarship or, even less likely, fame and fortune in the NCAA and beyond. That system needs to be dismantled.

In my experience, which is not the same as analyzing data, it is almost never the parents pushing their kids to compete at the highest level. It's expensive, it's time consuming, and parents are usually happy when their kid gives it up. It's more like the kid sees what other kids are doing and wants to do the same thing. That puts the parents in a tough position.
How to deal with leaked applicants data?
I found my CV in a website's directory which is exposed to a public access by simply googling my name. Just like `https://veryinterestingcompany.com/wp-content/`. Next to my file there is about 900(!) other applicants CV with their names/phones/emails. I don't think it is right.
I sent an email to them with quite clear explanations, but got a generic first line support copy-paste reply. Checked their job-application page, but there is no any information what their suppose to do with uploaded documents. Not sure who is a dummy here, probably is myself since it's just a form somewhere in internet, even though they have a page with promising active actions in case of data breach.
What do you recommend to do?
well the first thing is that having to earn an income is not something that was optional really. Sure you can decide to not do it, but then you have tradeoffs in how comfortable your life situation is. its kind of a free time XOR money situation when you're not born wealthy. free time without money sucks differently than money without free time.

and with making money, some amounts of duties are attached, depending on how you do it. more like a "pick your poison" situation instead of being optional entirely.

also I have sold too many visions to too many people by myself professionally to actually believe the "change the world" bullshit anymore, ever. organizations first and foremost exist to make money, even charities at some point either prioritize it to some extend or they cease to function, and charities also tend to not pay well compared to real industry jobs, so again trade-offs.

you can say "well thats the system" or "thats how capitalism works!" - and then you have it, "the system" forced these duties onto myself.

I personally would prefer an environment not focussed on money, being able to live comfortably and being able to do things that are interesting or truly helpful for others instead. But hey, most people can imagine the literal end of the world easier than the end of capitalism, even though the concept itself isn't that old or "god given" to begin with.

people discussing the "future of work" in the face of rising AI and robotics really should have a look at Marx again how this will play out.
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There were hardly any wrong things uncovered in the cables though. The most shocking part of them is American civil servants are pretty good at prose.
> What would the actual consequence be? Almost certainly nothing.

One of the key things blocking extradition from the UK to the US is that UK law doesn't let them extradite if the person will be tortured, executed, or won't receive a fair trial in the destination country. This isn't something that politicians can bypass, except by changing the law; judges are not political appointees in the UK.

This means the extradition process from the UK to the US relies on the UK receiving assurances, and the courts accepting them, because the US has always followed its agreements in the past. To me it seems unlikely the US would want to jeopardise this.

And what would the benefit be? They've already shown they have the power to ruin people's lives at will, effectively imprisoning them in an embassy for a decade. That seems like a deterrent that will scare off most journalists.
It's one of my favourite tools, the entire Picolisp system is like 1,5 MB or so, so it's really easy to move to some constrained or remote environment, as long as it's POSIX.

When terminal incantations grow unwieldy I usually abstract by put them in a Picolisp function and start doing things in the REPL. It takes like ten minutes to write a wrapper around a MySQL CLI client that takes a query string and outputs a list of lists, and then you can wrap that in fork/bye and mapcar it on cuts from a list to run queries or imports in parallel. Similarly you can trivially hack up an 'Ansible at home' by running commands over SSH in parallel. If I'm worried about data races I let Linux handle it by writing lines to a file and then slurp that back in when every process is done.

Surprisingly many things are heavier or slower than launching and disbanding a POSIX process, so it's often quite viable to just hand over to forks. Once I scraped out data about many thousands of people in tens of organisations by wrapping w3m and forking on URL:s I'd gathered in a similar way. Can probably be done with Beautiful Soup too, but I already knew how to use a browser to grab a copy of a web page and low level string parsing was probably faster and easier to implement than some abstracted XML representation or XPath. The value of that data set was easily a couple of orders of magnitude larger than what I got payed to assemble it.

I mean, you can do these things in bash or Python or Clojure or something, but the Picolisp REPL has really good ergonomics and gets out of the way. Performance isn't great, but I find it good enough and have handled files with hundreds of thousands of lines without getting annoyed. Sometimes I reach for Elixir instead but it feels a bit clumsy in comparison.