skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late tsarist Russia had simply imported the "progressive" Western European policy of suppressing minority languages and scripts. 19th and early 20th century Britain, France, Germany, Italy, etc. were all engaged in similar practices to erase the distinct languages and identities of their ethnic minorities in the name of "national unity".

Here are just a few examples:

> In the later 19th century, virtually all teaching in the schools of Wales was in English, even in areas where the pupils barely understood English. Some schools used the Welsh Not, a piece of wood, often bearing the letters "WN", which was hung around the neck of any pupil caught speaking Welsh. The pupil could pass it on to any schoolmate heard speaking Welsh, with the pupil wearing it at the end of the day being given a beating. [1]

> Francization is also a designation applied to a number of ethnic assimilation policies implemented by French authorities from the French Revolution to present. These policies aimed to impose or to maintain the dominance of French language (which at this time was still a minority language in the numerical sense, despite being the prestige language of France and an increasingly important vernacular for writing, with the decline of Latin) and culture by encouraging or compelling people of other ethnic groups to adopt them, and thereby developing a French identity, at the expense of their existing identity. Coupled with this policy was the deliberate suppression of minority languages. Quickly after the end of the Ancien Régime, the new revolutionary government adopted a policy of promotion of French as a unifying and modernizing language, simultaneously denigrating the status of minority languages as bulwarks of feudalism, Church control of the state, and backwardness in general. In less than a year after coming to power (1792), the Committee for Public Instruction mandated that the newly expanded public education would be buttressed by the sending of French-speaking teachers to areas that spoke other languages. The 19th century saw this programme, and similar initiatives and wider cultural prorogatives, achieve many of its intended aims: the French language became much more expansive among the population, and by the 1860s, nearly 80 percent of the national population were able to speak French. [2]

> The programme of Italianization was particularly forcefully applied in schools, aiming at the destruction of the German school system. As of 1928, Italian had become the only language of instruction in 760 South Tyrolean classes, affecting over 360 schools and 30,000 pupils. Likewise, German Kindergarten were required to use Italian, while substitutes were forced to shut down. German teachers were systematically dismissed on the grounds of "insufficient didactics", or transferred to the south, from where Italian teachers were recruited instead. Degrees from Austrian or German universities became valid only through an additional stay of one year at an Italian university. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francization
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italianization_of_South_Tyrol
How would multiple cursors be affected by this? I use a proportional typeface and multiple cursors for all sorts of things, I can't really see how these concepts are even related.

As you say, use automatic formatting and you don't need to worry about line-length. (Otoh, having a mandatory max line length makes about as much sense as having a max identifier length or a max lines per file.)
For what purpose? If you convert these brownstone houses in San Fransisco that hosts only 3-4 families to small condominiums that have 10-12 levels, you almost solved the problem.*

* The condominiums should have 2 underground floor of parking and preferably there should be 1 or 2 metro lines to handle the new population.
Frankly this is how I think we need to combat Amazon deforestation.
Ah, to clear confusion, here's some bits on Upon:

Kingston upon Thames
Newcastle upon Tyne
Stratford upon Avon
Berwick upon Tweed

These are all rivers.

Here's a cheat sheet to decipher British names:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_forms_in_pla...

Usually translates to something mundane. Weston literally means "West Town".

EDIT: Got confused by parent wording - upon is used for the river but the above comment is correct: Weston super mare means "Weston upon sea", not that upon is reserved for seas
I do the opposite, I work on my side project right after I wake up and make my coffee. Then I go to the gym and workout, then head into work. The workout is the perfect reset and I have not really had any issues with my side project taking over my thoughts while doing my full time job.
Yes, but farm workers only work part of the year, and only work on each farm for a few weeks.. then move onto another farm.

So having 1 farm paying $25/hr, does not change much for the worker.. after they finish at that farm, they'll need to go to another that's paying near minimum wage (the average for a farm worker).. and the result is that they are still in poverty (the average farm worker lives below the poverty line).

The result is that no one is going to move from even a minimum wage job to farm work unless the pay is even higher and/or other farms get onboard with the higher wages.
How would they distinguish the applicants that applied without this counterfactual from the ones who would do so in droves when they realized there was guaranteed money to be had?
Personal attacks will get you banned here. We warned you about this before, so please don't do it again.

If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.
https://xkcd.com/1425/

It reall, really depends on the job. And in a job, maybe some subtasks can be automated.

Perhaps the picking cannot be automated, but the transportation can. Or instead of computer vision, have a person click the fruit on a screen so the robot know where to pick.
Other cities just arrest / export those people, in SF they do not.
This method works very well. I have one large text file containing all my credentials, stored in a an encrypted VeraCrypt file.

I have all this stored in my Linux box. I backup to my server side encrypted AWS S3 bucket protected with 2FA. No need for me to sync anything, but if I need access to my VeraCrypt file, I can download it when required.

I've used this method for two decades now, first using OSX .dmg files, then TrueCrypt, now VeraCrypt. Simple, and works well.
NIMBYism is merely one of the theories why the buildings in Emeryville to which you refer were set ablaze. Another begins with the phrase "follow the money..."
Maybe the robots cost the equivalent of paying a human $11/hr

They will only try paying a person $12 an hour if the robots don't work.
I grew up on a dairy farm. We had a small creek running through some of the fields and I seem to remember my dad getting a check from the gov't for maintaining a buffer area (not planting crops) around the waterway - I'm guessing it was the "Farmable Wetlands Program" listed here: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-...
on the contrary, I always found thrift lack good documentation.
I really wonder why, because alignment is one of the core things in lisp code style. Take this trivial snippet:

(let ((foo 1)
(bar 2))
(print foo)
(print bar))

The (print ...) statements should just be indented two spaces, so you don't need a monospaced font for that, but the bindings should be aligned... "(let (" in a proportional font generally won't have the same width as 6 spaces.

How do you deal with this?
I honestly can't tell if that list is in ascending or descending order.
> The parks weren't just being "used", people were littering, staying after hours, trampling on flowerbeds and stuff. Or did you miss that part of the article?

These are problems that any park that has high traffic has to deal with. The judge offered reasonable solutions that didn't involve dissuading people from using the park.

> But my no means was it in response to "normally sedentary people getting exercise."

From the article: "Requiring Candy Lab to secure insurance, portable restrooms, security, clean-up, and provide a timeline for an 'event'"

That is very directly a response to normally sedentary people getting exercise - the city wants them out of the park.
Farm labor in other states earn $15-20 an hour [1], and will enjoy much higher purchasing power, and (almost certainly) a political climate they'll find less actively hostile than the one they'll find in California. Why would farm laborers want to come here?

1. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes452099.htm
So is Arash Ferdowsi no longer the CTO?

What is his position now?
According to Wikipedia [0], the most efficient radix is Euler's Number.

But what would it even mean to construct a numeral-system with a non-integral radix?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
> Einstein ... formulated a precise, compact framework that expressed a variety of results that had arrived already in his time

Einstein had an especially productive 1905, publishing three groundbreaking papers among others [1].

His paper on Special Relativity certainly consolidated the work of Poincaré, Lorentz, Minkowski and others, much as you say.

His paper on the photoelectric effect, while building on Planck's work, outright contradicted the earlier work of Maxwell and was a crucial contribution to quantum mechanics.

His paper on Brownian motion, on the other hand, built on very little earlier work and provided the first work offering a method to count molecules; moreover, the paper was the foundation for Perrin's demonstration of the physicality of Dalton's atomic theory.

Each of these three papers had enormous immediate impact, and we still use much of the mathematical forms he introduced in each.

Einstein did not stop with these 1905 papers.

> be summarized in a much more difficult and confusing fashion

Einstein certainly proposed a number of write-downs that were neither easy nor unconfusing. General Relativity (GR) is perhaps a good example of one of those in a theory that has proven to be highly successful. Solving the field equations of GR requires solving a system of ten nonlinear partial differential equations (which in itself would exceptionally difficult even before confronting the explosion into the thousands of elliptical, hyperbolic and undefined terms in the PDEs' couplings in general coordinates). Indeed, we're still confused about how one can decide whether a given solution to the field equations is unphysical and derivative questions like whether a physically plausible solution to the field equations can always be studied using the initial value formulation or something similar.

The mathematical structure of GR is complete and self-consistent, and the notation Einstein developed was extremely concise, but it would be wrong to think that the tersest notation (omitting indices and constant factors) G = T makes GR only as complex as tersest notation (omitting constant factors and in coordinates in which momentum vanishes[2]) E = m of Special Relativity.

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[1] In 1905 he published more than twenty other papers too, several of which are only "lesser" in that they do not figure in the minds of non-specialists.

[2] People tend to underestimate the complexity of Special Relativity; with suitable choices of coordinates one can use it extremely liberally in flat spacetime, including where acceleration is non-negligible (i.e., where there is obviously non-uniform motion in the systems under study). It's only the presence of real gravity that wrecks the globality of Special Relativity; but even where there is real gravity -- which is never exactly uniform or linear -- Special Relativity is still valid locally).
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Hi! I'm new here so I'm a bit lost. I'll try to find my way as much as I can but to speed up the process could someone point me into the right directly and let me know what the site is all about? Thank you!
Far more cost-effective would have been to skip the battery and just put a cheap chinese pure-sine-wave grid-tie inverter to bridge between the wall outlet and the panel.

It's simple- it has a 110V line cord and plugs into the outlet, sending current the opposite way of normal. Do a search on your favorite e-commerce site for "grid tie inverter" and you'll see what I mean.

These cheap inverters have most of the same safeties as the UL 1703 certified variety, and as long as you don't exceed current ratings (not likely with a little 200W panel) you're able to apply the power to your electric bill, without futzing with a lead-acid battery.
This is a problem which will eventually leave shortsighted developers holding the bag if they're not forced to deal with it.

Think of it like overfishing: you could just as easily say overfishing is a public problem that private fishermen shouldn't be "forced" to solve through quotas. Some fishermen used to believe that, too, right up until the day there weren't any more fish for them to catch because they'd destroyed the population they relied on for their livelihoods.

If housing costs in and around SF don't get under control soon, we're going to have a lot of very rich people who can't do much because there won't be any Uber drivers, baristas, waiters, garbage collectors or really any lower-paid service-sector people to keep the area functioning. And that will pop the housing bubble in a way that's devastating to developers, but they currently don't believe they have any incentive to head it off -- let somebody else build the cheap housing, I'm going to build as expensive as I can!
Which goes back to a question of individual human rights versus the collective will of society. The former is far more tangible than the latter.
"The victims are the teachers, firefighters, artists, nurses, secretaries, and everyone else who isn't a programmer."

OK...but that's also an argument for creating public policy that discourages tech companies from locating in the city. We could start by eliminating the mid-Market tax incentives.

The "yimby" movement is at least as much about tech companies who have invaded and now want to change their environment, as it is "everyone else who isn't a programmer." I wish we could be honest about that fact.
No that's right. Parent meant "Weston super mare" literally means "Weston upon sea", not that Upon is reserved for seas.
You're really proving him wrong by calling that a "slur"...

Seems very odd to me that a mod would find it worth his time to tsk tsk at someone making a commonly held observation about the Bay Area but is seemingly fine with the elitist opinions that are all over HN about other parts of the country
Like the other user said, the pattern of what people end up doing isn't necessarily the pattern of what people want to do.

More specifically, though, the majority of Americans have stuck close to their families - they may not live in the same exact town they grew up in, but most live within a certain radius of where their family/community/network is. Americans have shown that they are willing to move to follow economic fortunes, but remain tethered to the general area their families and loved ones are in.

And this - at least anecdotally - is a common preference. I've lost count of the number of conversations I've had with colleagues and friends about where they can live where they can still be in range of [parents|grandparents|cousins|organizations|institutions].

And this is where I think the rhetoric goes off the rails - some forcible relocation may be inevitable - after all, we can't ensure there are enough jobs for all people in all places at all times.

But there's a line between acknowledging that forced migration is necessary/inevitable, and regarding those who resist it with derision. God help us if we ever fault someone for wanting to stay near their family and their community.
I find the title kind of click baity, "$200 solar self sufficiency for my bedroom" would be more accurate
That might be enough to prevent you from getting any well-formed wrong answers.

It's not enough of the story, though - consider:

VI + V = VIV
V + IV = VIV
The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
> Given differences in monitor pixel densities, OS zoom levels, and distance from eyes to monitor, comparing any point/em/etc measure is practically worthless.

That’s... false.

With correct DPI settings – determined by measuring – the same font size equals exactly the same physical size.
How China Floated to the Top in Solar
How is this any different than exploiting a web application via something like SQL injection? After all, their implementation legally allows you to supply inputs containing those characters and their system responds by doing whatever with the database. Is that fundamentally different than supplying "expected" input and getting expected outputs?

"Your program just computes a different function than you expected and I supplied legal inputs" can be used as a defense of literally all software exploitation.
Some more English place names.

Nasty: https://binged.it/2tnXxmm

Ugley: https://binged.it/2eCIKSF

Matching Tye: https://binged.it/2gQYodA

Barton in the Beans: https://binged.it/2todjh8

Benny Hill: https://binged.it/2tnXmaT

Crackpot: https://binged.it/2gQUCRu

Blubberhouses: https://binged.it/2gReunu
very insightful...
It's a good strategy, if you can afford not to withdraw from the fund on the year (and for several years after) you 97% bet turns sour - there was an article somewhere, which showed that options on S&P singe the great depression almost a hundred years ago, would have only slightly outperformed the index, due to losing in the bear market.
I didn't say there weren't good tech jobs all across America.
You get a few Welsh sounding place names in Scotland that are actually from the Old Brythonic/Ancient British that was the forerunner of Welsh - Penicuik (Pen Y Cog) outside Edinburgh being one.

I don't see anything on the list that looks Gaelic, Norse or the old weird Pictish names...
This is the kind of thing that we are trying to fix at drchrono. I think legacy EMR interfaces that are heavily reliant on keyboard/mouse interfaces are too distracting.

Mobility (iPad's for drchrono) are just starting to make a bigger impact on the market and I think over the next 5 years 80% of providers in the US will be using a mobile interface (probably an iPad) and not touching a keyboard/mouse while a patient is in the room.
Looks similar to terminal velocity: https://www.seanh.cc/terminal_velocity/
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A common method supported by the right (especially the libertarian right) is to sell off the (non-defense, non-law-enforcement) infrastructure, so that it is no longer a public thing that government needs to maintain.
Wow that's really great input. I'm going to check this out and write a follow-up! This would allow me to credit the power directly to my fridge bill, as opposed to just using it for lighting and devices!
I'm currently a Lastpass user. I know, trusting them to store my passwords is probably not a great idea but it works on Windows, macOS and Linux and my iPhone with no problems at all.

Would I like to move to something that isn't stored online? Yes, of course but I haven't found a decent solution that works everywhere.

Any recommendations?
You failed to connect the logic... selling a 'fake' or knock-off brand != selling poison. I wasn't secretly weighting the pros and cons of buying the no-name Tylenol last time I needed to cure a headache.

"Hmm, do I potentially poison myself for a savings of a couple of bucks? I might die... but it _is_ three bucks..."
Dallas is also a rather small sleepy village in Moray.

I believe there may be another one somewhere.
Humidity has a massive multiplication effect on both cold and hot temperatures.

I would take 110F dry over 80F humid any day. I would also take 10F dry over 30F humid.
Anti-histamines are not poisonous.
Hey. You're completely right :) My original title was was "Solar Self-Sufficiency for Renters", but my mates in marketing told me to clickbait it the f up. Would you have clicked on the former, though?
No I'm not. I'm literally comparing air conditioning to heating. Read my comment again.