skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The video is just an exaggeration, a caricature, of an existing feature. There is a grain of truth behind it, particularly 'High German', but the video definitely exaggerates it. If anything, as an outsider, Bavarian and Low German sound much softer.

I lived in Germany for about 5 years (still go back at least once a year) but mostly always spoke English for the job, though obviously I was surrounded by the language. Germanic languages (English included) do contain quite a lot more 'sharp' sounds and generally are spoken in a deeper register than romantic languages.

Mongrel languages like English contain characteristics of both, though I'd say English sounds way more like Low German to me.

Going from memory - in 'High German' sharper sounds like 'echt', 'icht', gutteral 'um', 'zee', ' tzim', gutteral 'uct', 'acht', gutteral 'tur', gutteral 'ch' and 'schmeh' are just a few common examples that are often spoken with emphasised or strong pronunciation even in northern Germany (where I worked but actually now spend more time in Bavaria) and can easily given an impression of a 'harsher' tone to the language to us outsiders. I certainly remember them standing out enough to recall them now.

I guess this comes from the strong pronunciation of each syllable in German, which certainly seems to be more common than something like French or Italian where sounds can be rolled together.

I do agree with you though that emphasis can change the characteristic of the language. To use an example from English, a Glaswegian accent sounds very aggressive. Yet, listen to someone from Aberdeenshire or parts of Wales and English becomes quite mellifluous. Talk to someone from Northern Ireland and you might become concerned they're suicidal such is the cadence and tone of the language.
One can spend large amounts of money on a wedding without having a priest present to conduct the ceremony. That, too, is a cultural phenomenon, not purely a religious one.
Coming from someone who played Vanilla WoW (and also WoW in general) for the first time last year on a popular private server: Everyone always expects you to know everything, so one has to mention it quite often, especially when it comes to dungeons where the party decides to go for route X to farm possible loot item Y and you have no idea what they are going to do/break.
I still had a lot of fun getting my character to level 60 though (and raising some others). Open world PvP is particularly great.
This is a million dollar question, but it was answered long time ago: there is no substitute for a programmer who knows what he is doing.

This is something most companies can't do. Small co., can pull it out that for some times, but as companies grow, the temptation to "simply make money" overwhelms even most principled person.
Your brain uses a whole lot of calories.
We've updated the link from https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=5430901150051020... to the abstract so readers don't get the PDF with the annoying disposition.
> What does NaCL have to do with this, it's a cryptography library?

The other NaCl https://developer.chrome.com/native-client
In Japan it's mixed; people call it "soccer", official organisms call it "football". I have definitely heard both of them used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Japan#Name
The lithium is also in the anode and cathode, the electricity is generated by lithium traveling from one to another through the electrolyte. The electrolyte is heavier and bulkier but is picked for the ability to let lithium get through without letting electrons get through. I guess you could call it a lithium solution since lithium passes through it to get between the anode and cathode.

The anode and cathode need to be electrically insulated from one another requiring a substantial gap, or else the battery will short out internally or self-discharge if the electrical resistance is too low. That's why it's so big. Of course, reducing that gap is a big area of research. Solid electrolytes in principle might be easier to do this with since they stay put, but stuff cracks when lithium concentrations go up and down. The materials literally swell with lithium at the nanometer scale and then break apart. It's pretty hard, you can't unfortunately just vapor deposit a thin film of a solid electrolyte on the cathode since the materials are a bit too fragile to maintain the electrical resistance required for it to work.
I worked loading and unloading at a FedEx ground sorting facility for a couple weeks 15 years ago; some of the trailers had rollers down the middle to speed loading and unloading. For the others we had rollers to put into the truck. But you wouldn't want the whole bed to be a conveyor, the sorting really needs one package at a time in the line, otherwise it's hard to scan and direct packages, and packages will get jammed at the turns.
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I mean the article blatantly says this was the dust storm, in the second heading. Followed by a photo of the storm, with a caption saying it's a dust storm.
Buy a dumb terminal. A very cheap, lightweight laptop that can handle a web browser, ssh, and ideally drive an external monitor or two. Then rent time on a cloud service of your choice.

Deep learning is very power hungry. Pretending you can do it on a battery is a fool’s game.
I'm waiting for EEGs to get vim keybindings
This looks like a great transitional framework for people who need to support existing PHP code or infrastructure and aren’t ready to make the jump to React just yet.
We're using a summarization tool (see below) in our software. User feedback is mixed. I'm not sure whether that's because legally binding texts produced by political bodies are complex and generally making themselves hard to be understood or whether the algorithms themselves have shortcomings or if human brains are silly enough so they'd make up shortcomings that really aren't there.

We really looked through a couple of them and found them to be exceptionally good.

https://github.com/summanlp/textrank
I think that's what I enjoy so much about Classic - there's a finite amount of content there. I can hit endgame on my own schedule without worrying about the goalposts being moved by the next expansion.
Matering unix terminal
Or to point out that the researchers’ beef is with Google and Yubico and not the nonprofit? To correct an injustice of two corporations who are collaborating to shaft an independent researcher? There’s a lot of reasons if you give even a shred of benefit of the doubt to the author of the piece.
FiveThirtyEight is an American operation with, I imagine, overwhelmingly American readership. To Americans, the sport is called "soccer". Why be purposefully confusing, given that to just about the entire country, "football" means American football?
People are comparing my comment as if the modern day of celeb worship has no problems, yes we don't have girls in churches but instead girls with massive image and body issues, or depression caused by use of social media etc. Yeh sure we have less doctrines and more rights but are we actually happier?
Show HN: A SIMD-accelerated noise library in Rust
> . I remember playing BC and had a blast trying to complete quest. You had to really pay attention and read the quest for specifics and clues to figure out what was needed or where to go.

I remember that experience of discovery. It only lasted as long as it was all ... undiscovered. I don’t think it’ll work for a repeat performance.
I agree that it can be subjective.

But do you think that that fighting all criticism is healthy?

How do you define who is an asshole? What is "hyper"critical? I would naturally argue that you are a hypocrite.
The Math of Card Shuffling
The computer at home setup, depends. For you on the road, no.

You could script everything and have the computer at home every X amount of time pull down from AWS/Dropbox, run and upload.

For office/rented server, they will probably be online all the time.

For you, just to remote in or upload files. Then it’s run remotely and you don’t need to be connected. Then you connect to pull down results
I would argue that you should care what other people think about you if you're inclined towards selfish behavior or treating others poorly. Caring what others think would stop you from engaging in behavior that would result in you alienating yourself. Of course meditation should help you become more prosocial as well, but I don't think removing the need for confirmation/approval of others is going to help everyone.
Neat, TIL. Thanks.
> Web assembly trashes that idea of transparency

Only if you believe minified JS is significantly easier to audit, which seems rather unlikely.

In both cases, the thing which works is securing the capability rather than the code. Having generic USB support is risky but e.g. having mediated access to cameras and microphones has been fine.
Do you think there will ever be an effort to expand the USDS outside of DC or even allow remote? It sounds like a great place to work.

Semi-related: have you seen the work the USDS does significantly affected by political shifts?
The proper name is "Association football", from which "soccer" was formed.
Australians, an ex-English colony who stills technically is under the English monarchy, also calls it soccer. No one is confused. That said, American football is a misnomer and incredibly boring sport.

In most languages, it is not called football, and is also neither a combination of foot and ball.
This makes sense. I've always been an advocate of teaching the majority of things backwards.
Akka includes a facility for distributed data based on CRDTs, but I can't recall what it uses for consensus.
Love it! The SMS is my favorite system, but I am much better with JavaScript than C. I'll definitely be checking this out on github.
Related - LeBron James moves slower than 99% of all rotation players, and has thereby been able to play more minutes in more games than ever without a dropoff in production. http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23384071/lebron-james-pla...
Ask HN: How do you manage to stay social?
Recently, I have noticed that I cannot remain social even though I want to. Most of my friends spend their time watching TV series, or in some other solitary activity. Thinking about it, it is like the present day world promotes if not help people stay solitary. Some articles suggested alarming consequences :https://www.marketwatch.com/story/america-has-a-big-loneliness-problem-2018-05-02 . But nobody even wants to talk about it.
There's also the P52s which is lighter (4.39lbs instead of the P50's 5.6lbs). You give up the nice screen, gpu, and Xeon but you do save some weight.
> meat, once a week or so, two or three stakes.

You say people should eat two or three steaks on one day or even in one meal??

> six giant salads a day

Seems a lot?

> drop the deuce five times a day

Five times a day???

> age in reverse for a while

Please back all this up with science, because it sounds like snake oil to me.
Master System games are very inaccessible.
Ads don't mean something is no longer objective. If they were putting forward information about the companies advertising in the material, then sure, but that isn't the case here
Experience a traffic jam in Delhi first-hand and your analogy to US cities might acquire some nuance. It's really not even close.
In the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter at all if a country calls it soccer or football. Personally, I like the word soccer more when speaking English. I just never understood why American Football is actually called football...its is more like "handball".
Astronaut Chris Hadfield thinks our current rockets won't take us to Mars
The 2014 world cup reached 3.2 billion people. I don't really care if you have a small regional sport with less than 5% of that viewership that just happens to have a name clash, it would be nice to call football by its proper name.

Again, it's petty, but I'm English and it's a pet peeve of mine.
Meaningful jobs are hard to find.

You're better of working a less meaningful job that pays well, invest that extra money, and getting out of the industry (or FIREing) as fast as possible.
Then you can work on your own stuff.
And sometimes you're just wrong. You seem to have a profound misunderstanding of the mechanisms by which capitalism lifts people out of poverty. It has nothing to do with what capital "wants".
If I may suggest a life tip, stop actively looking for meaningful work at once. Or give your career a pass and work for a non-profit you truly believe in. Some jobs are meaningful; some are less; some aren't at all.

The more important part actually is to have people who appreciate who you are and what you do around them. Your boss and colleagues; but also end-users. If you ever get to meet end-users telling you how you much you've been improving their lives, that is certifiably fulfilling and meaningful. (If you don't take it from me, take it from Randy Paush.)

Also, consider building a family at some point. YMMV, but if you're looking for something meaningful to do in your life, I cannot find words to state how much more fulfilling making a spouse happy and educating a child is compared to work.
> Think of running a large mail service, dropbox, evernote, etc. They all require server side storage for user data, but the vast majority of queries is within a specific user.

I have this exact use case for a new project I’m working on so I’m fine with the 1-db-per-user approach. ActorDB definitely sounds very interesting, but are there any alternatives to compare it with?
I agree. I’ve also had both, and hands down I’d take the less than “meaningful” job where I’m treated like a human being.

I’m extremely fortunate as the job I hold right now is a decent balance. It’s not totally meaningless and I think we are helping people in a lot of ways but I don’t think we’re saving the world. However I do work with a great team and everyone treats each other with respect and the company leadership genuinely cares about retaining their employees and treating them well.
In Spanish, they call it fútbol, rather than football, and in Chinese, I think it is pronounced something like Zúqiú. Most Southeastern Asian countries don't call it football or a variation thereof. Australians and parts of the British isles call it soccer I believe as well.

Things are named and pronounced differently in different languages.

The fact is, "football" was already taken in the American vocabulary by the time soccer rose to popularity in the US.
Some Words on Programming the Atari Jaguar (2006)
Can you elaborate more on that? To my knowledge, it was the Intel, TI, Tyco, STM quadriga who was responsible for the nearly complete standard of USB Type-C, with software/consumer industry being given "eat or die" choice, with Apple's engineers apparently actually trying to stall the standard release.
In my experience, meaning comes from within: finding interesting problems that matter to you. If you know what that is then getting there is much easier.

If you think you really do like LevelDB try writing your own version of it from scratch. This will test your understanding of the fundamental principles. It will also test your motivation. Then try to explain to someone else how to do what you did.

Once you truly understand LevelDB then pick a thorny problem they are working on, propose a solution, gather feedback, and solve it. Wash, rinse, repeat. A couple years from now you could be the LevelDB expert you've always wanted to be.

Then a few years down the road maybe you'll find some key insight that everyone was missing and write your own database that solves that particular issue and you'll be the one that someone else is looking up to.
We already have a more popular sport called football. If those billions of people ever imported it, I'm sure they'd give it the wrong name as well.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-foo...
There are a ton of sensors in the battery, and the lack of the warning that usually appears is one reason why folks think it was the air conditioner that caught fire.
Humans grow linearly, companies grow exponentially – interview with Khalid Halim
American football is an evolution of rugby, which is properly "rugby football." Rugby football started the "picking up and carrying the ball" thing.

The more interesting question is why rugby football is called football. But I guess, in modern parlance, it often isn't.
I'm also a late-career dev like the OP and agree with everything said.

I'm going to add that if you want meaningful work, work on a side project. Even if it doesn't pan out, it's a great learning experience and could open doors and ignite conversations with people leading to much better and fascinating opportunities.
ferd did a great write-up on how Erlang approaches reliability:

https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

It's more about assuming things will fail by default with good ways of handling it built-in at the language level. A lot of people also find its inventor's thesis enlightening. Here it is:

http://ftp.nsysu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/erlang/armst...

And for those concerned, there's also at least one project to write the native functions in a safer language to reduce their bugs a bit:

https://github.com/hansihe/Rustler
A lot of people don't have the income level necessary to afford being able to spend a few bucks here and there on some investment.
- Association Football

- American Football

- Canadian Football

- Gaelic Football

- Aussie Rules Football

- Rugby Union

- Rugby League

There are a lot of (related) sports called football. The English shortened Association to Soccer and the name stuck in The States, Canada and other places. It's just as proper as football.
I said "get by", not "do equally well". My point is that if you can't handle the risk of a new hire going on mat leave two months into employment, then the reason you're discriminating is likely because you're in no financial shape to hire in the first place, not because the candidate wants to have a family, or has cancer surgery scheduled, or a family sickness or any of N number of reason someone might need to miss work.

Risk analysis is not the same thing as "hire based on pregnancy status". The former is accounting and math. The latter is discrimination and illegal.

In this thread, there seems to be this perverse line of thinking that the ends justify the means ("can't afford to hire a pregnant person but a man will surely help me grow my business!"). If you're one of the people already doing this and trying to make excuses, fine, keep making excuses and doing illegal things, but realize you're part of the problem.
I think this is true for most sports. I find most sports absolutely boring when I watch em alone, but they become incredibly engaging when you have someone to explain all the intricacies and details to you.

I remember going to a Superbowl party with some coworkers, and one of em absolutely blew me away with their game knowledge. I've never enjoyed a Superbowl party as much as that one. He was making tons of calls and explaining everything in a really friendly and approachable way. It was impossible to not be at the edge of your seat as you watched each play being made.

I'm pretty sure this also extends to eSports, like StarCraft 2. Since I was pretty hooked on the game I watched tons of games and I understood the game pretty well for a few years. A lot of my sports-loving friends were pretty skeptical of the whole "eSports" thing, but they became true believers when I invited em over and gave me play by play explanations of what was going on.
Essentially yes (unless you are nearby an tactician or a journal referee). I just copied the number from the article, I guess there is some rounding.

Also, the 6.2 or 6.1 is "unofficial" because it's difficult to mix results from different experiments.
I think this goes along with the (perhaps perceived) increase in self-centeredness in society.
How would we distinguish between the two then? One is almost universally popular here and the other is pretty much ignored entirely. In what universe would what you propose make even the slightest bit of sense?
Don't see how the gain from that would be worth the risk.
It can be more efficient this way.
I used a broad term to encompass laws of various jurisdictions, but my statement is correct. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Thus, personal data by its definition includes PII. But not all personal data is PII. Personal data also includes other data such as pseudonymized data (such as hashed IDs). In any event, the company needs to revisit its privacy policy.
> I do certain charitable things

You’d likely get some encouragement from your manager to do that under the auspices of volunteer time off. If you wanted to give money to a bonafide non-profit, Salesforce would match.

From my vantage point of being related to / friends with Salesforce employees, I’m continually impressed by how Salesforce comports itself—even if I don’t care much one way or the other about its actual product.
Sure it's slow, but there will be big savings in 8 years time when London-Crewe opens up.

The UK doesn't really have a great market for long distance trains in the same way that Europe does. If we weren't so insular and joined Schengen, then sure - high speed trains to Paris/Brussels/Cologne/Amsterdam from Birmingham/Manchester/Leeds/Bristol would work, but there's very few trips more than about 200 miles.

HS2 isn't really worthwhile as a speed improvement, the main benefit is the increased capacity -- effectively six-tracking the WCML south of Crewe (and 4 tracking the Crewe-Manchester link).
As with just about everything, moving fast is only useful if you're going in the correct direction.

A lot of effort in sports and business is wasted by correcting from incorrect predictions.
What Messi is good at is predicting where and when to be to maximize the probability of a successful outcome.

Watching him play is a curiosity as well, unlike a lot of other players who make their decision to pass or continue after their first move, Messi almost always continues to the second move when he has the ball.

He probably turns it over at a higher rate than most, but his touches typically occur in those previously mentioned high probability positions on the field, meaning that when he's not turning it over, he's putting shots on goal.

Since the cost of a turnover really isn't that high given the rate of change of possession in the game, he seems to be acting optimally.

Edit and addendum:

The guy who's always out fundraising might look like he's doing a lot of work, but it's very likely that the guy who only does the roadshow when the P_success is high will outperform the jackrabbit.
One theory is that it was a word for sports played on foot as opposed to horseback.
If you meant to reply to my comment, Google is perhaps the largest deployer of Yubico products, and that is where their collaboration holds the most weight.

If there is a security issue with YubiKeys, it puts Google's corporate systems at risk.
Not just music. This applies to all of history.
I got a perfect score. I don't know if my color differentiating ability is particularly great. I think a good algorithm is: put them in roughly the right order and then (2) do bubble sort.
I thoroughly wish I had invested the 10,000+ hours I've spent on games like WOW in my social life and general well being. It wouldn't have been a 1:1 translation, some time would have been wasted regardless... but I feel like I'd be happier and an all around better person.
This, for me, only gives me about 10 results.
I often argue the same for computer science education: either teach backwards, or start at the abacus.
Or just a general idea of mooching off of someone for free for very little in return. Apparently, it’s a bit of a con with most influencers, but for a select few who actually do move the dial.