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> English is effectively the language of American imperialism

I know this is often said, but why? English did not originate in America, but in England and even there it originated as a mix of various other European languages (Latin, French, Nordic languages and a few more). If anything, it represents the colonial past of the United States.

I think in the EU the main problem is that every country is supposed to have an equal part in the community and choosing the language of one country in the union would contradict that. Simply said: If England leaves the EU, then nobody can say that one of the countries has a language advantage, as everyone has to learn English as a second language. Ireland does not count because they have Irish as the first official language.

Furthermore, adding to my first point, since many places around the word start to speak English for professional communication, it represents the US less as time goes by.
Most entrepreneurs do focus on lifestyle businesses. (Although they wouldn't call them that.) VC driven businesses just happen to be the focus of this site. For some people, it makes more sense to focus on VC style hypergrowth businesses. Succeeding with a lifestyle business is no less difficult, so might as well swing for the fences, especially if someone else will foot the bill.
I mean... if you scrape someone's website and they block you, it's totally legit. This article is fairly biased in the way it portrays the situation.

Conduent isn't blocking Propel from "fighting poverty", they're just keeping them from scraping their sites and launching a competing product.
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Its definitely an important quality to be able to sweet talk and create pleasant relationships with the other colleagues.

But for myself it becomes really hard to do so with people, with whom my relationship might have downgraded, which in a working environment can have a serious impact in your progression, your evaluations and how much respect other people actually give you.

On the tech side, I have also felt that most people don't want to talk about anything related to tech, or when they do it's rather vague and blank, without properly backing up there convictions.

It would be nice to be able to share experiences with other employees regarding their favorite programming languages, opinions on the new X/Y/Z language, what could be done to improve our project, and so on. But most conversations don't evolve to any of that, it's mostly making fun of each other (on a nice way), flirt, sports and gibberish.

I am currently trying to gain knowledge after work on different topics such as: Docker, Kubernetes, services exposed by Cloud Providers (Azure on my case) and how to manage/deploy them, but I don't think anyone from my team would ever be interested in talking about it, which simply makes me feel like I am on a place where I don't belong.
What's wrong with Taiwan? Beautiful country, lovely people.
Tough to do this within the constraints of academic freedom; if an institution wants to offer a new course and they need to get certification by an authority and find externals to mark it... well could stall things by years?
> I've tried multiple languages (C#, Java, javascript) and I have to say PHP is my favourite so far

All programming languages have short comings. The once you mention here even more so I believe :)

Picking a favorite out of a very small subset is mainly personal choice. If you are happy with the toolset and the programs you create, I think you made the right call.

> "brogramming", where if you don't use the newest and coolest tech you're treated as an outcast, bullied and made fun of

I see this too, but I believe it's more specific to web development. A lot of people program C and they are generally not bullied for that.
I had a job lined up in a different country just before the vote

I'm glad I'm out (of the UK), but it's more for political reasons than economic

Voting with my feet (even if I was leaving anyway)

I'm sure middle to high income earners will be ok. It's people on low incomes that will have a tough time, especially if the government starts scrapping workers rights
Spiked online is not a reputable news source, it's a professional troll organisation. They're currently libertarian but are the successor paper to "Living Marxism".
Is there a reason you need to be sponsored by a company?

Australia has a skilled independent points-based visa which gives you the permanent right to live and work. I've actually just been granted mine about a week ago.

I take it that New Zealand doesn't have an equivalent?

I've written up a little log of what I had to do, which you might find helpful: https://recklessclicking.com/notes/australian-immigration.ht...
I think we're talking jail time here.
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I grew up with Esperanto as one of my birth languages - yet I'm writing this reply in English. So yes, I agree - English is the more practical contemporary language as you can communicate with more people with.
The issue isn't and never was with grading. No one is giving higher grades than they should in those UK universities that I worked with - the issue is specifically with lecturers being instructed to write exams in such a way that most people pass, because doing otherwise is bad for the department and for publicity. Which results in exams which are stupidly easy for anything that doesn't have "engineering" in the name.
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It should be the shape of x (actually, the zero'th element of the shape), but this is also a tad odd because this would assume that x is a numpy array, which isn't introduced until after this 'naive pure python' code block (i.e., before numpy is even introduced in the text).
> I have lost confidence in the western university system. Too much high exorbitant fees, with no future prospects but debt

That's not the west, that's America. Europe is mostly safe, beside the UK, where they decided to go the American way...

I always got money by going at the university, never the contrary.
Because Flash, Applets, .NET, Silverlight, ActiveX, NaCL,....

Difference being that WASM is kind of blessed format.
So you're completely discounting that you'll ever have suicide ideation just because you've never had it before?

And many people have spouse and kids.
Another point is that immigration of qualified worker is the one that is not only accepted, but seen as desirable.

Universities are selling something for 45,000 GBP that is available for free or much cheaper in other countries and readily accessible to employers. At some point Universities need to give students their money worth in some form or another.
But there should be a balance surely. I keep hearing this argument - but if you take it to face value you should maximize the present value. Why show up at work at all. Why pay insurance, pension at all then?

There is a balance and the FIRE people are leaning more towards postponing benefits. I am sure not are on the extreme side (as the article seems to point out).
In my college in US there was a "Free Speech" group that would bring in different radical speakers to "expand the minds" of the student body. Well that was it's stated goal anyway, in reality every single speaker was a hard right-winger and the groups was entirely funded by a conservative PAC. When nobody actually showed up the group shut down after only a year.

Also this article isn't really even about free speech in the context of personal or political expression.
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Have you looked at luakit? It's also based on webkit2gtk but it's extensible with Lua; I love the simplicity of suckless tools but when a functionality that seems good must be patched in it rarely ends well.

Also regarding Vi keybindings check out vimb maybe?
I'm using PhraseExpress (free) too. I have a few macros set up for commonly used phrases, but thanks to its prefix matching and popup of multiple results, I also use it as a quick lookup tool for various strings so that I don't have to remember them.
This should probably be seen in the context of the ongoing industrial action in response to a sneaky attempt to convert pensions from defined-benefit to defined-contribution, thereby halving their value. This was based on an extremely questionable financial scenario ("what if all UK universities went bankrupt?")
It's not just advertisers that are the issue, but third-party developers. Cambridge Analytica (and many others like it) got all of that data as a third-party developer, not as an advertiser.
Not going to change for a bit. There’s still the fallout from Dieselgate. All of those cars are ending up for peanuts in Eastern Europe. My friend from Ukraine was quoting me insanely low prices for premium cars in Ukraine. And that’s with their super high tax rate.

Also, Eastern Europeans like to show off. Car is a major status symbol. Driving a Chinese car is a hair above driving a Soviet car. So anyone who can afford anything better will not buy it.
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Hmmm... but unless I'm misunderstanding something here, Conduent "clients" are not voluntary "clients", and Conduent "product" is literally taxpayers' money, so there's a case for the data to be public and access regulated and open.
That particular xkcd gets linked a lot in this debate. I really wonder what happened between when the author drew that comic and when he drew this one: https://www.xkcd.com/137/
If Apple has not team working on macOS, then who developed stuff like APFS (Apple File System) or Metal2 that were introduced in High Sierra?...
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Well it would be great if there weren't hundred of FOSS desktop variants....
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Ironically UK university education is something of an export industry: there are a lot of people from non-Western countries who come here and pay full fees for the degrees because of their prestige. The government's gradual tightening of immigration policy is making this less viable.
Ugh, that's dystopian. There's bullshit on both sides of the university (stem and humanities). They're symbiotic and they need each other and the world desperately needs more people skilled in both.

Stephen Hawking doesn't become Stephen Hawking without an awareness and understanding of the humanities.
Define "sexual", define "harassment".
This is looking at humour in a very one dimensional and puritanical manner. Comedy, like art we can't just point at the subject matter and shake our heads that it's distasteful and dismiss the whole work.

Some of the most highly regarded comedy ever made has used subject matter that is tragic or horrifying, any comedy around Nazis for which there are countless examples and the work of Chris Morris (Brasseye, Jam, Four Lions) come to mind.
I suppose we disagree on your last point, and that colours a lot of the rest. I don't think it all comes down to money.
Some of it does.

I certainly don't see a straight line from FB being an excellent way to sell ads and facebook being the most popular platform. FB won because FB was where people posted and read posts. No one even knew that facebook would be such a great ad platform at that point. I don't think users cared much. This is what I mean by incidental. Not coincidental and not without consequence, just not having a determining cause and effect relationship.

...incidentally (yep, again), twitter and youtube are not great ad platforms, by comparison. That's in large part why podcasts are comparatively better, economically, in some cases, for content makers. Youtube sets a low bar.

Control for content quality, length, viewer loyalty or whatever you think is relevant and you'll still rarely find direct youtube ad revenue good relative to television, radio or most comparable mediums. low bar.

Anyway, my larger point is that the same rules apply for open, decentralised, democratized or other characteristic you/me/we would like our FB-killer to have. It must win the platform game. The platform game is determined by users, chickens, eggs, internal economics, external economics, UX paradigms, early adopters, people, stuff.... That will determine the success of rss-based ideas just like it determined FBs success.

I don't think this is reducible to "it's all about the money," or at least not reducible to a way that preserves much meaning..
I'm developping a web app with fairly complex forms (imagine form sections, form templating...). The immediate use case of Context that comes to mind would be to pass down the `readonly` prop from the top-level Form component all the way down to the Field component, without having to drill through `FormSection`, `Template`, `TemplateSection` or any other component between the Form and the Field.
Youtube used to have an rss feed for a search term, it was very useful.

Now we have to web scrape the results page because their api requires authentication and who wants to use that for results that are public anyways. I sure don't.

Rss worked great and they removed it. Boo.
Ignorance is bliss.
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EU residents can also study in Scotland for free. It is only England, Wales and NI who have to pay the full fees.
Indeed. It's very much the Amazon model: lose money as long as necessary, even if that's 'forever', in order to be the one key player in the sector and be recognized as such.

The stock market absolutely does not think some schmoe with a Raspberry Pi constitutes 'competition' to YouTube, and I think they're right in that assessment. Sometimes power isn't just 'getting paid money': everybody knows you shop Amazon to buy stuff over the internet, everybody knows you put up videos on YouTube, search with Google, etc.

I think the difference between this and something like MySpace is, the heavy hitters today have figured out they can't risk the slightest betrayal of that 'category killer' instinct. YouTube will function as a monopoly at all costs, no matter how much money they lost, and part of this behavior is so they can retain a lock on the big advertisers even if that's not keeping them in the black: it would be much worse if the big advertisers decided some other platform was relevant, and Youtube was MySpace or Geocities.

Hence, this situation. Right now, it's safer for them to whack a bunch of content creators (and manipulate the climate for what goes on their platform) than it is to alienate advertisers. Not because they're doing that great off the advertisers (it's a failing model), but because they must continue to appear to advertisers like they're the only platform in the world.
Account created 7 months ago.... Sigh.
what is a preferable way to handle what you call "violent radicalism"? If the rule is only targeted at those who are drawn into beliefs that would see those individuals commit violent acts, what makes reporting them bigoted compared to reporting other violent groups?
The fact is that as a owner of the hardware, Apple is not giving me any access to swap out the eSIM to whatever I want. They control access to the eSIM.

If they had implemented the watch with a physical SIM (using, say, pair SIMs which have existed since the 90's), I could crack it open and put in whatever SIM card I wanted.

I envision an eSIM iPhone having a beautiful carrier selection portal with gorgeous, high-resolution carrier logos... and only Apple partner carriers, with specific iPhone-tailored plans. Goodbye my discount MVNO.
Ignoring fake news from rightwing idealogues is even more bliss.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOM5_V5jLAs (this talk also mentions linotype).
I have the same experience (worked for small companies, startups and FAANG).

At small companies you are working your ass off, and sometimes you'll get something in return - but mostly you'll just get a thankyou from some C-level or founder dude.

At FAANG I was getting a decent salary raise year after year (and a bigger bump through a promotion).
Even cars. If there's a risk that someone could conduct a crime through through a firmware hack then that presents an ethical dilemma.

If it was a remote exploit, I'd certainly agree about the ethical dilemma, but everything I've read suggests that this requires physical access.

As for being used in cars... don't get me started on what manufacturers are doing these days to stop repairs and modifications... just search "John Deere tractor hacking" to get a taste of what I mean (some articles and good discussion here on HN too.)

Calling someone a traitor because they decided to responsibly disclose a vulnerability is just childish.

It shows they cannot be trusted, and that they support the actions of companies who want to lock out users from the devices they own.
> This was not about my career as contractor.

My point is you have self selected into a group that doesn't expect career progression at work in the typical sense.

Surely that influences what you consider a "better" workplace?

> It's what I saw how employees were treated.

A big company can be "nice" and yet incredibly soul crushing.

I've had years of productive work thrown away over politics.

That's far more damaging, personally, than having to work some overtime or being under a bit more day to day stress.
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I don't see it on my personal laptop on Firefox (Linux Mint), or on my workstation at work also using Firefox (Ubuntu 14 - no plugins).

Edit:

WOW I can't believe this, I opened it up in Chrome and it works / shows the comment folding option. It astounds me how much Chrome is becoming the new IE in regards to functioning websites where I wont be surprised to see (or not see) more cross-browser issues when using Firefox instead of Chrome.

Can I have the web where everyone wanted to be backward compatible with all browsers back?

Edit 2:

Also wondering how this got published by Reddit and nobody noticed some basic site functionality missing?
Heh heh. Back in the day when VRAMs cost a fortune I hacked low-level display software for a new frame buffer product in development.

The unshielded hardware lab prototypes emitted noise that stepped on the signal of the hardware team's favorite FM rock station. So they tweaked the clocks to be a little slower.

Then they forgot they did that.

Then benchmark time came around. And the new product wasn't up to spec. And tweaking it back up made it unreliable.

Ferrite cores and shielding boxes are your friends, and your investors' friends.
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Stuttgart is not a world-class city and Munich is filled with Bavarians (I.e. conservative, burgeois). Cologne is too small, Hamburg has no tech scene. Germany only really has Berlin for the kind of tech and city that I imagine the HN audience is interested in.

>Munich, doesn't get much more major city than that

San Francisco, Shenzhen, Paris, London, Berlin? Because the competition is international. Regional/National thinking is part of the problem.
Yeah, exactly. Sorry, the description was a bit rough.

Essentially; lie down on your back. Raise your arm from the elbow as if you were about to point to the ceiling, while keeping the elbow resting on the bed. When you are about to fall asleep, the arm falls down, waking you up (hopefully).

The point is to give you the opportunity to sort of traverse back and forth over the line separating waking and sleeping consciousness quickly.

The goal is first of all to be able to "spot" the state of mind. Since it's usually just something we pass by on the way to sleep, we don't normally have a very clear sense of what the state is like. Therefore it's hard to hold for any amount of time. Familiarizing yourself with the characteristics of the state of mind helps when trying to hold on to it.

Which is the eventual goal: to remain in the state for a longer time before waking up or falling asleep.

The arm thing is rigged to wake you up rather than letting you fall asleep. This is to increase chances that you're able to bring something useful back to full waking consciousness. If you have a very successful session in the liminal state, but then you fall asleep, chances are you won't remember the details later on.

A friend of mine achieves the same effect by putting his arms behind his head, tucked under his pillow. He finds it very uncomfortable to sleep like this, so eventually he gets tired enough to slip into hypnagogia, but he never quite falls asleep.

It doesn't work for me, I find that position very comfortable.

But basically, you can be creative in this regard. Anything that helps you hover back and forth between waking and sleeping mind helps you chase down the elusive middle bit.

Another friend swears by taking a double espresso and laying down in the afternoon. Apparently this is enough to keep her from going deeper into sleep than desired. I haven't had much success with this particular method either.
similarly, there's this place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwK8KSAJrGs
Stealth aircraft haven't been stealth for a while. The Serbians managed to destroy one F117a (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown) and damage another.

This was because the Radar battery were using a different frequency.

You don't need a direct hit with a missile, just be close enough when you explode it.

Also, all the "shared battle information" is done via radio, which with passive radar will give wonderfully accurate positioning with cheap off the shelf hardware.
This might change. Not necessarily - but I've known a LOT of people who kept saying that in their twenties...
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Have you switched to Monzo as your full-time bank? I use it for everyday spending but I not sure I want to put my wages into it yet.
It is a stock thing. All of those companies have well performing stocks.
Even with 6500 vertices, you have a total max of 6500^2 edges (after filtering for minimum distance per edge, which is very fast). Using a performant language such as C++ and a priority queue there is no way that you would reach even 10s for a single djikstras.
As I said there are downsides. I will say though that the courses on offer to my children when they went to university looked very similar. I'm not sure this would be a huge problem.
> I don't see how removing a SIM card makes it easier to move network.

The idea with eSIM is that instead of having to wait 5 days for the new physical SIM to arrive in the mail (or instead of having to drive to a retail shop to buy one), you can simply buy online and have the eSIM instantly delivered to your phone, right in the moment.

The effect is that it would, if implemented as intended, further lower the barrier to switching carriers (no delay for mail or no drive to retail store).
He just sold 150+ copies in the last day, I think he's doing okay
I envisaged creating exams would come under the remit of an examination board just as it does for A levels and GCSEs.
Unless you live in the EU - it's free then (after 2020... well...). For UK students you need to be domiciled in Scotland to qualify, which is lucky, as providing free university to a country with a population of 60 million from the Scottish (population 5 million) budget would be unsustainable.
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Why didn't they roll back the update as soon as that was discovered? Would've caused another downtime of a few hours but better than the current chaos.