skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this list fascinating, because it seems counterintuitive. I expected to find generally lower illiteracy in countries with simpler/fewer languages, but Romance languages (Italian, Spanish) top the list, while countries with multiple official languages (Switzerland, Canada) are in the middle, and at the bottom are countries with multiple languages and which are generally thought to be difficult to learn (Danish, Finnish). That seems almost backwards.

What I get from this is that when it comes to success in language learning, technical difficulty is mere rounding error compared to other factors.
We tried this with Pokemon on twitch and it didn't go so well.
Not part of the school but thought this was cool and made sense, and would have wanted this when I was younger.

I barely remember any high school maths & english, etc. even though I excelled in class and most subjects.
It certainly breaks the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you have been working hard for 20 years to achieve some goals (like proficiency level, career, wealth, or something like that), and now being mostly content with your current achievements you are questioning goals themselves, then you a here. Probably.

If the cause of questions is a lack of achievements, than it may be not the existential crisis, but something else.

Existential crisis is the good one, it means that you grown above your goals and now you can find new ones. But it feels bad, like any other crisis.
Private slacks, private google groups, private and close knit email lists will always make for better sharing and discussion. I suppose by their nature they're much smaller too.

The one thing social media could do very well that these cannot, but still consistently fails at, for some reason, is discovery. How do I find the other literati nearby? How do I know who the next great addition to the secret slack might be?
Leaving “gifts” behind on dedicated server hosts
I watched this talk ages ago and throughly enjoyed it. Thank you for reminding me about it.
> "compiler as a conversation"

could you elaborate on this concept?
A simple rule for this is that if the claims are incredible, the proof needs to be incredible too.
Each airline would have to build their own system, which would be highly inefficient. If a third party builds it, all of the airlines can share the benefit.

Also, I would imagine that a third party system would help by discovering arbitrage opportunities across carriers - when you have to bump passengers, you could offload them to another carrier with more availability.
If you've been driving on a very long, very straight, exceedingly boring stretch of road with zero traffic then your reaction times will go down. It's very difficult to stay alert in those situations and there's a frighteningly high level of single vehicle collisions on those sorts of roads caused by a sudden change in conditions or even the angle of the road.

Auto-pilot will make driving a lot more like flying is for pilots: 99% extremely dull, 1% terrifying.
I marvel at your “just” in relation to a motion to dismiss. Having practiced as a lawyer for 24 years, I’ve never found that opposing or filing an MTD to be trivial or routine.
> Wow, looking at the downvotes, the SVN fans are coming out in force.

Please (re-)read and follow the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please follow the site guidelines when commenting here.

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Erlang, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Things Fail (2014) [video]
Can you can link me to the Play store apps you've developed?
Some drones deliver burritos, this one delivers blood
No wonder the test costs money. If you can pay for uninteresting material that won't benefit you in the real world, you're prepared for college.
As alternative to Fb, there's MeWe and Vero. Both of them will not display ads and mine user info.
For those interested, this particular kind of design is known as retrofuturism around the Internet. Reddit has a good subreddit on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/

I personally have once had these Sputnik razor blades: https://www.ebay.com/p/Sputnik-100-Double-Edge-Razor-Blades-...

In addition to being dirt cheap, I also found the branding funny. Somehow I felt like I am buying something not very good in terms of quality, but which does work (somehow) anyway. There were also pack called Lada's in there. I definitely felt like the Sputnik ones were better than the Lada's though.
When you have dumb rules then rational decision lead to bad effects. That's why you should have good systems of rules. Instiutional economics 101.
Great video, thanks! Interesting how people are ok with copying others but hate to be copied (in part 4 of the video series). I never really thought about this issue the way that author presented it.
> if we know that he stole cookies before, he must axiomatically be considered less trustworthy around cookies than someone who has no history of treat theft

You are confused about what the word "axiomatically" means. If this is an axiom, your system is easily proved inconsistent with reality. Person A is known to have stolen a cookie from the cookie jar when she was three. Person B, who has never stolen a cookie, brandishes a weapon and says "I intend to steal your cookies, so choose: your cookies or your life." Under your axioms, every person must trust person B more than person A with respect to whether they will steal your cookies.

Your argument is probabilistic, not axiomatic. There's a huge difference.
If you’re the sole employee, you’re almost certainly going to be sued personally if the LLC gets into trouble. So all of your assets are going to be at risk.
Atari Reinforcement Learning Leaderboard
How NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Telescope Will Find Habitable Worlds
Yes, sorry it is the same person, I apologize for the confusion. I was eating dinner and was using my phone and then came home and switched to my computer. In retrospect I can see how that might seem offputting.
Avoiding Budget Airline Fees: Wear All of Your Clothes
No. Oracle is all about delivering minimal viable product to institutional customers.
Viewers there had more to gain by messing things up than by running them properly, though. Democracy works in the real world, just not very well. It mostly doesn't work on Twitch.
That actually doesn't seem to be what he's saying. "Share grocery lists." That's what a couple would share with each other, not to their other friends.

> my partner likes a Chanel purse on FB or Pinterest the partner app let's me know

And seriously, it sounds awful. This is how you expect technology to benefit humanity?
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments.

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European budget carriers have figured out how to lower the bar to a level unknown in the US. One carry-on, zero checked luggage allowance, pay to pre-assign a seat, pay for water on-board, pay 30 Eur if you don’t pre-print your own boarding pass at home, scan, tag and check your own luggage. Almost all tickets are 100% non-refundable - miss the flight, you’re going to pay for another ticket. Prices are low enough that people are willing to suffer through the experience, and keep the planes completely full. It’s more like a Greyhound bus in the air.
http://sit-it.org/
That is not true. I speak from personal experience of less than a year ago, with a gigantic international bank.
Race-war flamebait is off-topic here and we ban accounts that post like this. Please keep it elsewhere from now on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
http://sit-it.org/

> Of course it is debatable how "serious" these attempts ever have been.

I doubt things like this will really gain traction.

I mean, you could always host your own GitLab instance for free if you are worried about GitHub ever going down.

The ergonomics are terrible. For me to submit a bug, are you really telling me that I need to fork a repository, commit my issue and then submit a pull-request? Ughh, pass...
Hence the followup - I will link to it in the original article.
Some versions of DOS had a QBasic interpreter included as a utility. I stumbled upon it by accident when I was about 10 years old.
Given that my comment blew up and has high visibility I feel I probably shouldn't share anything specific. It was a pretty much throw away comment that I didn't expect to get as much attention as it did. The best I can say is that after working for the company I think that the general news.ycombinator.com beliefs on the performance of Oracle are entirely justified. I thought going in that it may have been overblown, like you say some sort of "startups are cool, big corps are evil boo" kind of thing, but it is not. I love the people I work with in my section! Just, not the overall firm.
Being acquired or acqui-hired(soft landing) means the company (and probably the culture) is gone. I worked at BBN Technologies back in the mid 2000's. This is the company that co-founded the internet, they have the second domain name ever registered (bbn.com)[1], their engineers co-invented foundational technologies that make the internet work today. In 2009, they were acquired by Raytheon[2]. As a stand alone company, BBN was not able to generate sustainable value, but Raytheon as the prime contractor is able to.

Also, being private longer but losing money is not sustainable. If companies are private and profitable, then that's a different story. AirBnB is still raising money[3] and their valuation is almost too big for them to get acquired. Their only successful exit is an IPO or becoming so profitable that they can buy out their investors. Coinbase is making a killing so they might be sustainable especially with the growth of the cryptocurrency market over the past 2-3 years (And the fees they keep charging me). SalesForce & Condé Nast have generated more value out of Heorku and Reddit than YC.

Don't get me wrong — I love YC products. I stayed at an AirBnB in March in Vancouver, I bought some Ethereum today on Coinbase, I updated a site I maintain[4] which has been running on a free Heroku Dyno for 5 years+ and my Reddit birthday is January 19, 2010.

YC companies have the same challenges that everyone else has even with their power and influence. There needs to be more of a track record of YC companies succeeding disproportionally to other companies before I could classify them as kingmakers.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_r...

[2] - https://www.raytheon.com/ourcompany/bbn/

[3] - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airbnb/funding_round...

[4] - https://gitignore.io
You crossed into personal attack in this subthread. We ban accounts that do that, so could you please not do that?

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Also a big fan of Quiver. Anything I have to google twice goes into quiver as a code snippet. Trying to get in the habit of doing bullet points about what I worked on each day.
Of course it was corrupt, as I pointed out. All nations had the same basic policy outlook on this.

But only in the US you could have SpaceX. In Europe, Russia, China, India there simply couldn't be such company at the moment.
Can Big Automakers Be Trusted with Big Data?
Heartless and out of touch with the needs of the general public. Guess that happens when you forget what it means to struggle to pay both rent and health insurance.

When you see a poor person struggling, remember that your public arguments contributed to their plight. If that even resonates with you.
40 Sea Gulls Wrecked His Hotel Room. 17 Years Later, a Pepperoni Pardon
Wow, that was amazing. I'm off to go build a living model
Rich Hickey - "simple made easy" https://youtu.be/rI8tNMsozo0

Rob Pike - "concurrency is not parallelism" https://youtu.be/cN_DpYBzKso

Uncle Bob Martin - "future of programming" https://youtu.be/ecIWPzGEbFc

Martin Kleppmann - "transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" https://youtu.be/5ZjhNTM8XU8

Simon Brown - "software architecture vs code" https://youtu.be/GAFZcYlO5S0
Come now, that's not nice. It's fine to talk about one's experiences on HN. That's what people do in conversation.
> the country was built by slaves

Only the agrarian south. The industry was in the North.
Because you released it.
He talked ham radio in this interview with QSO Today. I thought it was pretty impressive that he was logging QSOs with California from Okinawa using bamboo poles wrapped in tinfoil.

https://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/w6obb

There's some fascinating info about his home antennas here:

http://overunity.com/11449/free-energy-from-antenna/#.WtKViZ...
I've tried a bit of C, and recently I started playing around with Rust, so yes definitely want to do something like real time audio processing with that.
Also the speed of light is dictated by how often the simulation "ticks".
I want to thank everyone for a great response to my first post here. This is a really interesting community for sure!
the problem with this model that sometimes the meme poster posts something that's not a meme and that's super relevant to you that you might not see.
It's Ladas (a Greek athlete). Surprisingly Wikipedia has no entry for him but only for a village named after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladas,_Messenia
Other than occasional key issues, I've found the latest MBP to be the best overall and I've owned most generations. It's the only one to not set fire to my lap, not be noisy, not demand I use Apple's power adapters, works with portable powerbanks, has the best internal speakers by far, and which conveniently charges whichever side suits the location best. But.. this is why there are lots of models of computer, everyone's experience differs.
If mental illnesses are underdiagnosed, then it might be that the majority of the population could have some kind of disorder of varying scales on any spectrum.

With how many different things can go wrong with our complex neurologies combined with tens of milennia of racial inbreeding it'd be surprising for anyone to have completely spotless mental health, just as few men and women are blessed with perfect bodily health free of rashes and allergies and proportional assymetries.

Personally, I have a variety of brain related disorders which I must contend with on a daily basis but also make me good at spotting others with my experience across anbroad range of symtpoms. So when someone says to me "everyone has a mental health disorder" I just assume that they have a mental disorder and agree with them.
Is there any reason those people can't leave their system python to the system, and otherwise bring their own?
Some stations could boost; others had to cut power. This was IIRC an industry solution to the problem of there being only so much band available, and under such great propagation conditions in the evening you'd have multiple stations sitting on each 10 kHz step and interfering with one another.
Yes, it does. More or less every class of antibiotic was invented between 1940 and 1960. Discoveries since that period have been mostly incremental.
Show HN: Gradual Generics
It doesn’t make sense for quantum effects to represent errors as much as it would for them to be “shortcuts” to save on power. This would be especially true if spacetime itself turns out to be quantized rather than continuous. Either way though, the probabilistic nature of QM on its own could represent a “fudge” factor I guess?

Truthfully simulation theory is uncompelling as a real theory, but very entertaining to contemplate.
This happened where I live in Brooklyn to make way for the Barclays Center. New condos, without so much as the paint dry, as well as townhouses and commercial buildings, were labeled as blight to rationalize the crooked eminent domain process. Check out the movie "Battle For Brooklyn" for more on the story.
I wonder if there will be a management witch hunt against the Solutions Engineering team on Monday provoked by your post.
Those are made in a Gillette factory that happens to be in Russia. Entirely unrelated to anything Soviet.
I’d listen to him Friday and Saturday nights, lights out, with a 6-pack. Also biking into work at 4 AM on a quiet road.

I think the best episode was the one with Bob Lazar talking about Area 51, reversing engineering UFOs, and element 151.

What ever happened to Art’s Parts? He supposedly had materials of extraterrestrial origin.
There is no "correct" front end development. You need to say no or stop to all the noise coming from everywhere.
There is something so fascinating about this stuff. Phaidon seem to be a publisher that traffic in this kind of 'other tourism'. I got their North Korean products book

http://au.phaidon.com/store/design/made-in-north-korea-97807...
They sure can call themselves software architects legally if they want. Its not related to the building architects.
Amazon's AWS team probably contacts me once a month with job offers. I suspect you could reach out to them and get yourself a much better job. My friend who works for them loves it.
To be fair, the only compelling reason I got from that article is that they use Fossil and not git because the creator of SQLite is also the creator of Fossil.
Oh Microsoft has also been involved with tooling, you know how they sold that SOAP crap. They made it complex by purpose, so you had to buy tools to work with SOAP.

Ref Book: The New Kingmakers

"It’s hard to feel too sorry for SOAP’s creators, however — particularly if what one Microsoft developer told Tim O’Reilly is true: “It was actually a Microsoft objective to make [SOAP] sufficiently complex that only the tools would read and write this stuff,” he explained, “and not humans.”"
I’ve heard a theory that says the era of small molecules targeting single complexes is probably on the sharply downward slope of an asymptote. If we’re lucky that will just mean new therapies which target complex systems rather than single-drug-targets is in sight. If we’re unlucky there will be a harsh gap between the two eras.
Maybe they should look at Google cloud then. Oh, they already are. Disclosure: I DON'T work for Google cloud, it's just a better product.
Has been a long time since I watched either of these

Rusty Russell - Advanced C Coding For Fun! - A series of crazy tricks that is quite enlightening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQ3sRakIs0

Tridge - Linux powered coffee roaster. Tridge (of Samba and rsync fame) walks through the process he used to reverse engineer a USB thermometer live during the talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQr4At5Z5Q
- Several slow disjointed UI consoles that will log you out when switching. The services dashboard has permanent warning that it might not show everything and you should just "retry the operation". The nav menu doesn't fit the names of the menu choices so you dont know what to click on. Same things are named differently depending on which console you're in. There is no categorization or organization of what is where. Would be 1000x improved if they just remembered your current tenant name in a damn cookie.

- Support is so hard to reach that you need support to get support. Requires creating a separate user account just to file a ticket and I've since been unable to log back in because the Oracle SSO was somehow not connected to our tenant's identity instance (which I cant find in our console), but I cant get them to reset since I must file tickets from that account. There seem to be 3 different documentation sites and they link to PDF books.

- There are only 4 regions globally, 2 in the US. No concept of availability zones. Starting an instance may take minutes or hours, and they have outdated images for anything not Oracle Linux. In past 2 weeks, there were 3 emergency maintenance events. Maintenance is not automatic and there is no concept of "live migration" or any attempt to not reboot your VM. Networking is nowhere near listed capacity in use.

- Managed services are completely separated from IaaS resources. They can take hours to deploy. Less control (as expected) but still require maintenance packs to be applied manually. Maintenance can also take hours. Event hubs service doesn't even show you how much disk is available. Seems like they are nothing more than templates to trigger some instances in a hidden cloud account.

- There is no pricing within the console so you must reference documentation. This doesn't cover any hidden pricing for operations. There is no billing dashboard anywhere, so you don't know costs at all until the bill comes.

- Too tired to list anything else. There is no advantage compared to any other cloud or even 2nd tier colo. The prices are also more expensive. It is a nightmare we are forced to use for the integration cloud since Oracle has no modern concept of "apps" for any of its products.
Thank you for this comment. It's enlightening.
English is different. It’s everywhere.
This is accurate regarding the worst case. I’ve also had full psychotic manic episodes I would not trade for the world, although they were challenging.
Well now we need an algorithm that will make sure a relevant and engaging post gets sent to the top of your feed.
I like that the pasta box indicates net weight at 13% humidity level. One can only wonder what led to this.

https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/54191/image.j...

Does anyone happen to know the meaning of "пояс" (belt) in the pricing scheme on the same box?
Weird how you never see HN so pro- or anti- a company as when Oracle is mentioned.
Wow, cryptoli.st looks really good Tim. It's really fun playing around with the filtering options. When did you launch?
I think it's a terrible idea for the DoD (of all departments) to move all their infrastructure to any commercial cloud, Amazon or Oracle. So much critical infrastructure in the hands of a single company. What could possibly go wrong? They get hacked, experience significant outages, or worse, go out of business, and poof there goes all of the DoD's infrastructure... Whoever wins the bid will definitely become "too big to fail".
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There's a certain scale where it is definitely possible to do it cheaper, but the government isn't really able to do that. Even if the program didn't crash and burn (fairly likely- there's plenty of examples of billion dollar government software programs that turned into vaporware), it'd be taking on a ton of risk just to set up the same thing without the AWS profit margin (maybe 10-20%?)
Indeed, ours is 9 and has been read to every single night - rarely reads books. Constantly is on his laptop doing things I think are far better than just reading, so I'm largely ok with it. Too much youtube "crap" sometimes, but he usually balances himself out ok - a skill people heavily need that isn't often taught.
Awesome site. The design is super clean and very fast on mobile too.
The thing that has most impressed me about Ember is the way the teams on a project at giant corp will not do things correctly (honestly, some days it feels like they are doing weird crap on purpose to try to get it to fail) and Ember still works.

For a tiny glimpse of context- we have globally distributed teams who all work on different (isolated) parts of the project using ember-engines. All of these parts can either be stood up as a standalone app or become part of one host app. And every single one of these is consuming a single UI Addon that has components, minimal services, and themes.

Think about all of the moving pieces there, all of the parts where teams can disagree or do weird stuff, and yet somehow when it all comes together, we have so many things that could colossally fail, yet nothing does. We have a few bugs that are hard to reproduce but that's because we do weird stuff, not because Ember does. It's really epic when I sit back and think through all of it.

If you haven't tried Ember in ages, or ever- this is definitely the time to try...and I mean really try. Some of it will be a paradigm shift, but a worthy one.