jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In the case of Italy, I would also doubt (as you do) that a hypothetical “North Italy” would choose anything other than Italian as its official language, because the use of Italian goes back a lot further than the unification of Italy, and it’s the obvious and easy choice as a national language. The government simply doesn’t care about the regional languages dying out, and there’s no reason to think that a new North Italian government would have a different viewpoint. The main motivation, in the case of Italy, was just to have everyone speaking the same language.

However, it’s certainly possible for a country and a population to completely change language in a generation. The Italian generation of people that is now about 60 years old are effectiviely bilingual—they were taught in Italian at school, but (generally) spoke their regional language at home. The generation after that spoke only Italian, and the generation before that spoke only the regional language. (Obviously this is a bit of a generalisation.) So it’s quite straightforward for a country to change it’s language over the course of 20 years or so.

I have a colleague in the Netherlands who believes that the Netherlands will at some point adopt English as its official language. I personally doubt it, but it is nevertheless definitely possible. All it would take is for the government to decree that all schoolchildren be taught in English at school. Dutch people (and particularly Dutch school-teachers, which is the important thing) would easily be able to carry that policy out. The first generation of schoolchildren to pass through to adulthoold would probably choose to speak in English as their primary language, as has happened in Italy.

Also Brussels has changed from a Flemish speaking city to a French speaking one in a short space of time.
That would also get rid of most foreign countries from operating in the states, since they couldn't get visas for management, trainers, or whatever. Maybe you just meant Indian companies?
It makes me really happy to see projects like this for common lisp. I still relatively new to the lisp world but I have fallen in love with the language and development process.
I don't think that word, capitalism, means what you think it means.
> If Bitcoin is the same as gold, then we don't really need Bitcoin

This argument doesn't make much sense. It's like saying if rubies are the same as emeralds, then we don't need rubies. Also, there can be multiple types of assets! Nobody wants to put all of their eggs in one basket. Bitcoin can coexist with gold.

Bitcoin is also arguably superior to gold in that it's MUCH easier to pay for bread with a little bit of bitcoin, and MUCH harder to do the same with gold (who's going to chop up the gold bar?). In fact, if I were to use the same zero-sum argument as above, one could even say: "if Bitcoin is the same as gold, then we don't really need gold" (again that's also a bad argument, both can coexist and gold is sometimes better)

> But its point is being different. So you can't handwave away concerns based on it being exactly the same.

You're right that gold and Bitcoin are different, but things can be different while still being "the same" at a fundamental/conceptual level. Cars and bicycles are different, but they still serve the same underlying need: transportation.

> My point is that Bitcoin has not demonstrated any significant value certainly not in excess of its costs and harms, and it's had plenty of time. Bitcoin and Android are basically the same age. Android is coming up on 3 billion users worldwide, providing clear daily value.

I think this is a really strong argument that Android is more valuable than Bitcoin (in some subjective sense), I agree with you that Android is extremely valuable and "good". That said, this is not a particularly strong argument that Bitcoin is absolutely valueless. The value of Bitcoin is in the eyes of the "behodler", and some people seem to value it a lot. People are using it as a safe haven from their country's poor monetary policies (happening in Nigeria and Argentina right now, has happened in Venezuela and Zimbabwe before). That's clearly non-zero value.

And if your argument is that value is strictly a function of its utility, well then I'd like to introduce you to the economic concept of the Diamond-water paradox (https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/032615/how-can-marg...) which is the fundamental underpinning for the Subjective Theory of Value.

> Bitcoin is still at best a niche, probably a shrinking one.

We agree that Bitcoin is currently a niche, but I'm not sure that I agree that it's a shrinking niche. As of the last month, major institutional investors like BNY Mellon and BlackRock have started to include it in their asset mixtures. Major companies like Square and Tesla have started to hold some of their cash reserves in Bitcoin. Canada just approved North America's first Bitcoin ETF, trading on the TSX. I'm not sure how we can conclude that Bitcoin is shrinking with all of this institutional activity.
I think they are referring to part of the Chromium OS project, which seems to be open source firmware for basic device functions including "power sequencing, keyboard control, thermal control, battery charging, and verified boot" [0]

[0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/m...
> the future of some web software

Don't get me wrong - we use Blazor server-side for several critical webapps now, but I would be the last person to suggest you use it (or anything like it) for all web applications. For instance, a Netflix-scale operation + Blazor server-side would almost certainly be a really bad mix.

For use cases where the maximum number of possible users is bounded by ~10-100k and within a 100ms latency domain, I think a very strong argument can be made for such technologies. The productivity uplift is pretty incredible when you can directly use your existing domain services to drive UI.

We also like the security implications of these sorts of technologies. The incremental disclosure of the client app is an excellent selling point for many of our customers.
Putin is a parasite, a die-hard capitalist, and an oligarch. He isn't anything like Elbakyan ideologically, at all.

I'm afraid you're ideologically illiterate.
I am not convinced that is is bad for consumers. Occasionally I see people talking about their porn addiction. But it can also boost people's mood. I don't know why some people seem to get addicted, but it clearly doesn't happen to everybody.

Whether it is bad for willing actors also needs citations. I don't know why people do it. I can think of some cases where it seems to have solved a psychological need, and they went on to lead successful lives afterwards (like Sasha Grey, or Sibel Kekilli).

Edit: googled article about Sasha Grey, with her quote about women in porn: "the reality is that there are a huge amount of women who are very happy with their careers and where they have gone in their lives"

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/exclusive-sasha-grey-d...
The US' current ID and info collection requirements for sexual content exist on very thin and shaky constitutional grounds right now.

They've never had a criminal indictment, had very limited enforcement solely due to the predictable constitutional challenge, which occurred anyway.

Simply put, dragnets against all producers to create a criminal neither solves the problem, deters the problem, nor catches the actual criminal.

All you have now is an awkward duty to give anybody with a camera your drivers license or passport. Or did we ever actually think about the people that appear in the videos. And in this thread's suggestion: having them upload it to random websites. Fantastic.
Yes. It is unethical. Your duty is to your client, not to your public policy position, even if your political position is just and even if it would benefit other hypothetical clients in the future.
Much of the Eastern Seaboard in the US still has areas that are limited to single-stack container trains. Wikipedia has a list of some of the big remaining ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-stack_rail_transport#No...

Electrification is an aspect also, though I don't know if EU mixes passenger and freight as much as the US does (and also, more of the EU is relatively easy accessed by ocean going ships).
But it was 95% effective! How could it be? /s
Mob rule by proxy
I'm not a lawyer but as far as I know it's the duty of the courts to provide for a speedy trial. And all the chief defender need do is state that in their opinion, plea deals are not fair and that they would not be taking any. If the courts couldn't keep up, then that's their problem.

If the government wants to bring in more judges and prosecutors, that's its perogative.
There already are professionally produced things with amateurs seeking to maintain anonymity. And yet, documents are signed, checks are written. The paperwork is just kept offline.

Yes, it may make it harder for an amateur seeking to upload something they filmed themselves, and who are not looking to build a brand or collect a payment for it. Not sure how many of those there are. But as soon as you're looking to do one of those things, there are existing allegories you can look to to figure out how it might be enabled.
I think it demonstrates that if you follow style advice to the point of folly, you can successfully embarrass yourself by sounding like third-rate Hemingway and make your writing hard to read.
I want to switch to plex for my TV media center software, I really do but the thing that keeps making me move back to xbmc/kodi is the seek lag (trying to skip to the middle of a movie) and sometimes it just freezes while fast forwarding.

to be fair, I haven't use the plex media center app, my experience is based on chromecast/android app and the android tv app. (my plex server is running a quadcore haswell i5 with 8gb of ram so it should be fairly responsive)

I bought an android TV purely for plex but so far it has been a bit disappointing.
Reminds me of Steven Pinker's recently-published book on how to write well, "The Sense of Style" [1]

Pinker uses software terms to describe good writing: convert a _web_ of ideas into a _tree_ of syntax into a _string_ of words.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0670025852
Eh, it was obsolete by sometime in the 60s, e.g. when the SS-9 got accurate enough to take it out. In the '50s and '60s we had a real Civil Defense program, I still have my mother's Civil Defense Block Mother sign from the end of that, when I was in 2nd grade. It was only later that CD -> FEMA and "crisis relocation" replaced sheltering, since it was cheaper. During the same decade we gave up on missile defenses....
>This is what elections are for.

Voting once every two or four years and ceding policy to the politicians in the meantime is a recipe for the kind of bipartisan nonsense that pervades the US government. If you want things to get better, you need to get involved between elections.
Awesome, more people need to stand up for their rights like this.
This is a good thing as it will make more people aware of what Facebook is becoming. The value Facebook provides is no longer higher than the cost (in privacy, liberty to express yourself, and of possibility of targeted disruption of service) of using the platform. I hope something better takes them out. Soon.
alot of the huge open source archives that once existed were attacked and shut down for copyright violations.. so..
The article said Private Voyeur removed the post. It's not in an easily accessible cache--a quick Google and archive.org search doesn't turn up anything--so naming the site, albeit unnecessary, probably didn't jeopardize anonymity.
The main point I took away from this post after some thought marination is that if you have limited time, focus hard on a predetermined plan, and don't let anything derail you from telling your story. Having experienced short timeline conversations myself where you need to get in and out really fast, it's advice that I think is important but admittedly hard to follow without extensive practice.
F# can run in a few different places: .Net, node, browsers, .Net core, Mono and AOT compiled. Some targets have JIT, some do not.
There's some overlap there too. Some of the Bitcoin is being mined in some of those datacenters.
As far as I can tell, Element does _not_ actually support E2EE group video, or any kind of group video at all? At most, you can install a Jitsi plugin? Also, even though Matrix is technically superior, Element the defacto client is so buggy and full of UX issues that it's nowhere near as user-friendly as Signal, especially to e.g. my mother.
I hope it isn't controversial that Bitcoin still has the occasional issue with risk and fraud.

Anyway, let's resolve this in 5 or 10 years when hindsight lets one of us point and laugh, instead of arguing opinions in circles.
For long-term investing? No.

Yes, maybe I lose a few basis points to HFT at each buy and sale, and maybe somebody is getting rich off those pennies in aggregate. But that's largely irrelevant to me as a buy-and-hold investor.

And yes, it probably means that individuals "trading" on Robinhood lose on average. By definition, not everyone in the market can beat the market, and my empathy here is limited: Not everybody has to be a daytrader.
How?

It's basically Discord/TeamSpeak.
It's less controversial than the r-word

I'm not sure that's true.

About a decade ago some prominent politician or other official was publicly excoriated for using "niggardly" correctly. I don't think anyone's lost their job for using "retarded" in its academic form.
Yes. There is good stuff out there. I often go for live radio as a medium of discovery but within some well defined boundaries. I might listen to classical music or a jazz station and discover new artists or new interpretations within a genre that I already like. I might listen to a some talkshows in the hope that I might discover something interesting that was outside of my radar.
>> Loneliness is a real huge problem among the youth -- without the internet it'd be unbearable.

How much of that loneliness problem is caused by the internet we think is helping it? Take it away and people have to start interacting again. Without the endless streams of entertainment we have to sit in rooms together chatting or we'd go mad.
It's not, though Thiels vision might be worse.

https://www.salon.com/2019/04/13/why-some-in-silicon-valley-...
Have a look at https://sr.ht/~arsen/alsa_rnnoise/. It does noise cancellation as an Alsa plugin and in my tests effectively filtered out background noises. I have it running permanently since then and observed no drawback.
It will be as bad as 1974.
Like this a lot. Anything that has helped you learn how to learn?
That is not what I have said anywhere in this thread.
If you are right, then I forsee that some countries are going to have significant changes of government in the coming months and years.
fair enough, thanks for explaining
Just one of the many reasons I've always hated adsense. Being told that you aren't allowed to tell your readers to click on links is bullshit.

Seems so much more appropriate to pick a few books off amazon, or find something offers from commission junction. Encouraging your readers to buy from sponsors should not be off limits.
Kinda wanna know what this app actually does.
A screenshot would be helpful.
I think "energy independence" is often used loosely as a euphemism for "less oil dependence." At the end of the day, relying on other countries for corn ethanol, solar, wind, or hydro electricity is fine because any country can openly compete for our business. Oil production has become a natural monopoly, which makes it a huge security concern.

One way to approach this is to reduce our oil-specific energy needs (for example, gas cars) and migrate those to energy agnostic needs, so that your car can be fueled by a hydro plant in Washington State, a solar farm outside Vegas, some Brazilian Ethanol, some Virginian Cole, and some Saudi crude -- depending on each resources' availability to the grid.
I didn't mean specifically this deal, horrible explanation on my part. I meant people who see success like this and then instantly try and apply the idea to themselves when it's very unlikely to work. For example a small indie developer will never make much off a deal like this. Like people who try to replicate the million dollar homepage, things like that.

Apologies for the poor explanation.
I was up in Manaus so I can see how the internet would be more expensive up there. The internet really is a great equalizer -- seems like a special economic zones for internet companies could have an amazing effect.
Means are still spectacularly unstable to small numbers of outliers. They're more stable with higher numbers of samples, but so is any given measure of centrality.

So, a few Linux users donating $500 could sway an identical distribution to the Mac or Windows users.
Also, the Windows guys have no money left from paying a fortune for their OS :p
That's a good point; we've thought about it. As a knee-jerk reaction, the idea doesn't sit well with us because it's a less-than-ideal experience. Users don't want to sit through or be saturated with ads, but I guess it does come with the "web-based game" territory.
"It seems extraordinarily stupid to entrust such an obvious potential competitor with the keys to your infrastructure, particularly in a single-vendor solution."

If this (http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NFLX) is any indication, I am sure they are secretly building their farm somewhere as we speak.

On a side note, I wonder why all these companies brag about AWS so much (yeah, yeah, AWS is awesome, I use it myself too) - are they getting endorsement incentives or something?
Sorry, but I refuse to vote up yet another article declaring the internet, marketing, credit, the world, the universe, human communication or anything else 'dead'.

Try some original thought, people.
UV is cheaper than Get Satisfaction and is nicer than Ideaffect.

EDIT: Just checked GetSatisfaction again... that's not necessarily true.
They might be lighter, but I consider not having a cord in between the heavy transformer and the wall plug to be a design flaw. Unless you have receptacles with vicegrip like prongs, like they are when they brand new, the transformers tend to unplug themselves over time due to their weight and gravity.

Edit: Oh, and whatever they put in that white rubber seems to really attract cats. Not sure what it is, but it's the only cables in my house that the cats like to chew on. Friends/family have experienced the same.
What Europa would be confused for the moon Europa?
Ugliness aside, I wonder if the onboard electrical outlets will allow it to be used as emergency power for a fridge / sump pump in case of a power outage.
Try out the "Mopria print service" (mobile printing alliance), most big manufacturers are part of it. They provide a generic driver app for Android that works for mobile printing with models from multiple manufacturers.
This.

Here's the story - I'm a dev, I discovered GitLab ~4 years ago, been using it since, we paid for Enterprise plan immediately and are self-hosting it (for internal use).

I work with code. I can't context switch between an app for code, app for CI, app for CD, app for orchestration, app for issues, JIRA, mail, Slack (you get the idea) AND be productive. There's just too much white noise. I want to use a few tools, minimize context switching and do my work.

I'd like to use GitLab alone, focus on business logic I've to code and keep an agile board that my team and I can use.

And here comes GitLab - with a price of $99 per user. It'd cost us $25 000 a month. Just to get an agile board.

So what we did was - we said "screw that, they completely missed the point", I started playing with Gogs: https://gogs.io/ and I decided we can develop a tiny agile board within a few days to suit our needs, integrate it with gogs and ditch GitLab.

I understand there's business around GitLab, I know there are bills to pay and appetites to satisfy but seriously guys - when a dev's bullshit meter goes off (and mine did), you can tell someone made a bad call.

As much as I got used to GitLab's quirks and everything, I'm really now looking forward to replace it - simply due to the fact I felt like they want to rip me off for a meager feature.

It would have been AMAZING if I could get an agile board and have GitLab help me with 60% of the extra-tooling besides my IDE, but nope - someone was too greedy.

I saw many people complaining about this RIDICULOUS pricing, and even more people defend it - that made me give up arguing. From my POV, pricing is ridiculous, GitLab's been marked as yet another company that started off good and started turning evil (hi Google), I'm looking into alternatives - just like I found GitLab when I looked for GitHub alternative.
I think Stadia is different as they sell actual hardware (controller + Chromecast Ultra) and not only a service. Same with Pixel phones ... sort of.
The whole stainless steel thing is fascinating to me. The other really famous car made of stainless is of course the Delorean DMC-12.
I feel same about my (purchased used from 1st owner) 1982 SAAB 900 turbo, which was versatile as could be, and a great car to drive.
> So it only makes sense to spend energy on sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, once you've already de-carbonised everything which you possibly can.

The actual point is much narrower than that. It doesn't make sense to spend energy on sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, unless:

1) You use an energy source that produces less carbon than the amount you're taking out; and

2) You're not displacing demand that must then be satisfied by an energy source that produces more CO2 than you're taking out.

In other words, it doesn't make sense to burn coal to capture CO2, but it doesn't also make sense to use nuclear power to capture CO2 if that means that some other demand will have to be satisfied with coal instead of nuclear power.

But it goes too far to say that the above criteria only hold "once you've already de-carbonised everything which you possibly can."

For example, if you build a surplus of renewable power (which we have in some cases, where instantaneous generation exceeds what the grid can use at that moment), it makes sense to use that to suck out CO2, even if, for example, you haven't replaced ICE vehicles with electric vehicles.

As a practical matter, we need carbon capture much earlier than 2050 or 2100 to keep below 1.5C or 2C. For example, China plans to ban EVs by 2040: https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2018/05/30/chi.... Even if they stick to that plan, they will put out hundreds of millions of ICE vehicles on the road until that time. Even by 2025, official goals will leave 60% of new Chinese vehicles as ICE.

If you look at the mitigation pathways for 1.5C, they require the whole world hitting net zero emissions by 2050 and often going net negative soon after that: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SR15...

That will not happen. Indians and Chinese aren't going to stop building high-speed rail (which puts out a huge amount of carbon due to the concrete used), skyscrapers, etc. Nigeria's population is going to balloon to 400 million. We're going to need to build a large number of nukes and offshore wind to capture all that new CO2.
Does it record signal strength from the towers, which would allow triangulation?
As noted by another post, the guy who received the NSL ran an ISP and the NSL was a request to turn over electronic records regarding the ISP. If that is of no concern to hackers, I don't know what is.
I'm using grep/awk/sed all day long, I need never more than 10 seconds to build a command group...