skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Except it doesn't work like that. Languages change because native speakers change them, not because some grammatical body adopts things and tries to force it on everyone.

I'm not suggesting an institution should do this. I'm suggesting individuals do this.

>Yes, it is fiction, and no, languages do not shape how you think

I have anecdotal experience in thinking differently in different experiences, which doesn't say much for anyone else but makes me personally skeptical of your assertion. I don't think I would count this as "_thouroughly_ debunked", more like "extensively debated". I also don't put much faith in unpublished studies. Regardless, my main point stands even without invoking linguistic relativity.
I think having to memorize a (fairly) arbitrary masculine/feminine prefix/postfix for nouns makes quite a few romance languages harder than they "need" to be.

Would be nice to have some slightly more rigorous spelling and tenses in English, though almost all euro languages have some quite irregular verbs.
I used to have Time Warner with a 3mb plan for $15. After the Spectrum takeover I can keep my plan but the next level is $70. There is nothing cheaper. I would like to get something a little faster but I have no need for 100mb at $70 which is the only option I have. Its really annoying that there is zero competition. Spectrum knows exactly that a lot of people will get a connection that's way too fast for them and more expensive but they have no choice.

And every month I get several cheerful letters about "deals" that aren't deals. I really hate Spectrum.
Cool!

And that reminds me. I had forgotten MetaCrawler. As I recall, that was my favorite between AltaVista and Google.
Nothing stops it, that's part of the point. People should feel free to fork it and start their own site with different ideals, features, etc., they just have to open-source all their changes/updates to the code as AGPLv3 requires.
Throwing away dep means also throwing away the nontechnical groundwork that dep was built on - for instance, user research. Seems pretty careless to me, especially when the alternative is the product of one person's thinking on the subject done in a vacuum without the input of an entire committee of smart, reasonable people who have literally spent years diving into this specific domain.
Verizon also failed to deliver albeit at the city level in, in NYC. The city sued by there has been no such attempt to revoke their charter as far as I have heard:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-sues-verizon-...
What do you mean by C++ interoperability (re Rust)? As far as I was able to determine a couple of months ago, there isn't really a good way of doing interop except by going through a C shim.

The case I was analysing was Qt C++ UI plus Rust library. There's a Rust text editor (xi?) which is using JSON to communicate between the UI and the core. In that case I believe it was designed like that to allow for different UIs, but it looks more appealing than the C interface.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

- Richard Feynman
> This is the same reason given for totalitarian rule generally. The problem is that the dictator has enough power to make a big mistake, committing the entire communitiy's resources. In this position, if you can avoid making a decision, you should. Toyota doesn't simply make such decisions by fiat. Instead, they have a competition.

You're comparing very different things. Programming languages and empires/nations/companies aren't the same thing. Rails has stayed on the course DHH wants it and hasn't become a mess mainly because DHH remains the BDFL. Go could benefit from similar structure. We're now about to see how Python will do post-Guido.
> “It’s not about safety,” Dr. Sarnecka told me. “It’s about enforcing a social norm.”

That sums it up pretty well. We aren't in an age of fear so much as an age of self-righteousness. Everyone is constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to preen their moral superiority, and to condemn the failings of others, particularly in any situation involving children.
Octet is actually a more precise word as it implies there are 8 bits (or people, or things...)

Byte only represents a group of bits.
I'm talking about personal e-mail. Still businesses can easily enforce retention policies with PGP by using a master key.
For sure, it will need curation. But even if it were just information about where buildings probably existed it would be hugely useful. An example use case is improving building coverage in a rural area.
> 100mb at $70

I pay $90 for 400/20 in Manhattan. $70 for 100 Mbps is insane.
The Golden Record
Functionality wise Hipchat has not really changed since 2014 in any way that I can think of (been using it the whole time). Much more stable though.
Is there a cheaper option for you? They can offer 10000/10009 but I don't need it. I want something cheaper.
I've recently moved to the US from the UK, and I've had several Americans mention that they would like to visit Europe but are worried about the danger of terrorism. I tried to explain that any increased risk of terrorism is massively outweighed by the large decrease in risk of dying in a car accident, but that wasn't terribly successful.
>The safer our society gets the more afraid we become and the less tolerant we seem to become of risk.

I completely disagree. Even with our crime rates being much lower than decades ago, the US is still nowhere near as safe as Japan, yet in Japan they're not remotely as risk-averse as we are (particularly in regards to kids being outside without their parents). It's very much part of their culture to have kids walk themselves to school at an early age.

I'm pretty sure it's similar in western European and Scandinavian countries: they're very safe too (particularly the Scandinavian ones), and don't treat kids and parents this way.

This is something unique to the US.

And this really touches on something I think Americans are really, really horrible at: thinking about the rest of the world. Instead of looking at our brains and trying to use psychology to figure this out, why not just look at what other humans in other countries are doing? Americans are not biologically unique. This is a cultural problem.
This article is thought-provoking, but the value of our data is far beyond training AI. Tech giants have been utilizing our data for ads targeting for such a long time. We, as data contributors, deserve to get our share of profits from the huge amount of money they made from using and selling our data.

I happen to find out this blockchain project, Measurable Data Token, which aims to create a decentralized data exchange ecosystem to reward users for sharing their data. Here is the link to their website (https://www.mdt.co/) if you guys want to check it out.
Yes, but the rate at which languages convey information is roughly the same [1]. So Spanish speakers just speak faster.

[1] http://ohll.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/fulltext/pellegrino/Pellegrino_...

The PDF linked is a draft of the paper, freely available; it's been removed from Academia, so here's the JSTOR link of the final release:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23011654
control + page up / control + page down

Doesn't need an extension.
Vgo has certainly been a disaster from a communication and community point of view. From an outsider perspective, it looks like a case of maintainer arrogance, and it is hard to believe that Go really has needs that are significantly different from those of e.g. Rust or Java.

However, I am also in the unusual position that I had to design and implement a package manager for my own little language recently. My original hunch was to just create a Cargo clone, but after reading Russ Cox's writings, I ended up cloning vgo (with a few simplifications). The implementation was wonderfully simple - everything just fit together. The algorithms are trivial. Operationally, it is easy to understand what the package manager is doing (even more so than for vgo, as vgo has do deal with various Go idiosyncracies and backwards compatibility).

This is in stark contrast to my experience with other package managers, which are temperamental beasts at the best of times. When they work, everything's groovy, but their error modes are easily incomprehensible. I think vgo's approach of restricting expressivity and streamlining processes is the right one. But since nobody has used such a package manager before, it remains to be seen whether it works in practice.

For my own experiment, I do have one data point: I showed people the (rather brief) documentation for my vgo-inspired package manager, and they all felt it was very simple to follow and easy understand what it did, and how.
> dep is, and always was, meant as an experiment to learn from.

My impression is that the dep folks understand that too. The problem is that there is no consensus on what was learned from it.

The dep folks seem to have come away convinced that a SAT-solver approach is the better approach. rsc is clearly convinced of the opposite.

Everyone knows it is ultimately rsc's call, so I don't think talking about the power dynamics is very interesting. What I am more interested in is whether or not it's the right call. A good faith interpretation is that the dep folks aren't sad that their solution lost, it's that what they believe is a better solution lost.
Bindgen has grown support for enough C++ to be able to bind to Spidermonkey, but it's far from full support.
With men, the sexism is on the same class as "look at how good these black students are doing!"
True, unfortunately depending on country it can be quite involved to buy a sim card. Here in Germany a year ago they changed it so it's required the seller validates your identity. Since this is a somewhat involved process pretty much all discount brands chose not to do this in the store but require postal or video ident, the latter being the only viable option if you only stay a week or two, but you need to find some place to make that video call in the first place, have all the documents at hand, hope the call center worker speaks some English which is less likely the cheaper the provider... I observed the same in China. 8 years ago I could walk into some tiny store in an alley, point at a sim card without knowing what I'm doing and after some back and forth with mostly gestures and writing down numbers I was all set. Last year they required my passport and proof that I stay at a hotel that registered me with the local police station. I couldn't possibly manage that without the help from a local.

Since this drifted somewhat away from the original topic let me add that I'm quite curious about KaiOS devices as it seems it might offer a suiting compromise for my needs. It got most popular messenger apps so I could take advantage of improved connectivity with people but the experience is still limited enough to prevent information overload and playing around with it too much. The selection of devices is just too limited at the moment.
"a non-profit community site driven by its users' interests"

Right in the header of the page it links to. Not sure what's confusing about that.

If you're asking "is it going to look more like reddit or more like Imzy", well... it's too early for that, isn't it? Ain't wrote yet.
Twitter has offices in UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Belgium. They are very much under the reach of European legislation, such as GDPR. (Also responding to the GP.)
It's funny. I go through great lengths to encrypt and back up most things of mine but the one thing I just realized I was overlooking? Fastmail. It exists on their server and on my phone in their mobile app but I never thought to just setup Thunderbird/IMAP and keep a local copy updated every so often. It's easy to overlook something.
>"Time Warner Cable has been awful since Spectrum got a hold of it"

I think there are many who would argue they were awful long before the Spectrum rebranding. I had the misfortune of using their service some years ago. Not that I had any choice as there is no other choice in most areas there.
One Billion Billion China's Exascale Supercomputer Prototype Passes Tests
Or you're Milo and you sick your fans on Leslie Jones because of Ghostbusters.
I think it is also worth calling out that at least 2 of those acquisitions, android and google, were made before they became as dominant as they are today. Android was purchased by google 2 years before it even launched, and while youtube was explosively popular at the time of purchase, many at the time thought the 1B purchase price for a revenue-less company was a stupid decision, and nobody was concerned about a monopoly. In other words, the businesses, and their dominance in those business, were made well after the acquisition such that I don't think if they had been investigated rigorously by the FTC they would have been stopped.

I'm not sure if the same was also true for doubleclick (I don't know enough about ad tech).
Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe in free choice? Do you think that individuals in a city/state/country should be able to talk to others in a different city/state/country?

Is the Great Firewall of China a good thing or deeply evil?

Anyone is free (outside China and a few other places) can install their favorite version of Linux, use Opera/Firefox/whatever, use protonmail, search on duckduckgo.

Why should the government FORCE people to use a different source of information than the one that they prefer?

Advertisers are leaving local monopolists/oligopolists (local TV stations, newspapers, cable, yellow pages) and choosing a different, cheaper, more effective, and more flexible option to reach customers. Producers and consumers were very badly served by these old incumbents, why should the government step in to protect those old and malevolent businesses?

It's the same thing as Uber vs Taxis. Taxis are racist, expensive, government enforced oligopolies that exploit the drivers, have bad service, don't want to take credit cards (don't even mention Apple/Google/Samsung/AliPay), and aren't available when you really need one. Do you prefer app enabled car service or the old style Taxi, like the ones using terrorism in Barcelona to protect their monopoly?

We have an information commons with infinite choice and network effects. Same as with language. If you're comfortable using criminal law to require individuals to speak a certain language in private, then sure government should control what companies and products people can choose to engage with. The New York Times, Cox, Bertelsmann, and Reed-Elsevier would love that, along with Xi Jinping. Just realize that you are consciously strengthening old corrupt oligopolies and annihilating free speech and freedom of choice.
In what sense are we sure that natural language actually contains these long-term dependencies (i.e. k > 25) in such abundance that they would show up in datasets of current size? When I was younger, I took Latin, and while some of the sentences definitely demanded a fairly large attention window, I'm not sure such long dependencies would show up often.

Even then, I wonder how many humans alive would correctly pick up on an incorrectly translated word in a text by Livius or Caesar even - maybe this is different for modern languages but I feel they tend to use shorter sentences. Dependencies that transcend a single sentence are less common, maybe even so uncommon that a model will not pick them up during training.

Can someome with experience in the field comment?
I once got a 1 star for asking the rider to finish his cigarette before getting into my car.
Why restaurants became so loud
> Also, the US exports so many quality tv shows and movies that it's easy to find good English-native material for learning.

This is the most underrated factor when it comes to language learning in my opinion. It really does make a difference how much native material is available, and how interesting it is to the person learning the language.

Not because it makes the learning itself easier, but because it makes exposure once you hit the intermediate level that much easier, which means you can pass the intermediate plateau and reach a fairly advanced level without having to struggle through things you don't find interesting.
>- Don't ending sentences in prepositions

>- Don't split infinitives

>- Don't use double negative

These seem to really be some rules that ain't nobody got time for!
But parent said that laws from non-home countries are irrelevant, which is factually wrong and not the same as some expected enforcement difficulties.
An inside look at the current state of open voice platforms in China
I have exactly the opposite experience, time after time after time.

The one area where Google search provides me with a notably better experience is in image search.
> > [Google] denied it was a monopoly in search or search advertising, citing many competitors including Amazon and Facebook.

> That's a joke, right?

I don't think they're joking. There are a lot of people, whole countries of them, for whom Facebook is literally the whole of the Internet.
> Is there a cheaper option for you?

The cheapest I am offered is $14.99 for 3/1 (as well as something called 30/4 Spectrum Assist).

I suggest you check out your rate card [1]. These are the services and rates you were legally offered, and is required to be disclosed to you under New York law.

[1] https://www.spectrum.com/browse/content/ratecard.html
> If that decision really turns out to be so bad then it will be forked and a wiser leader(s) will have their shot at decision making.

No, that doesn't work in practice. The network effects are so insanely dominant in open source projects that forks are nowhere near an efficient market.
Well, what would probably happen is that Facebook interactivity would be some kind of plugin, which instance runners would have to enable (and possibly configure). Convincing them to do so may not be easy.
Would they take PRs for adding that bit of plugability?
The thing that doesn't work with that argument is that our crime rates really were substantially higher back when we let our kids roam free. We aren't as safe as some countries but we're a lot safer than we were in, say, 1980 or 1990.

The urban crime wave of the 1970s - 1990s really was pretty awful.
>Community consensus is not always possible. If we don’t get there, then the core Go team decides. Technically I am the final decider but what actually happens is that a bunch of long-time Go team members talk through the decision to get to a consensus among ourselves.

Was anything major ever decided based on a "community consensus" in Go?

What I've read about, and this case is no exception, is that it's always "a bunch of long-time Go team members". Aside from making libs, and conferences, and such, the community might as well not exist.

Certainly nothing like PEP process, or something like Swift (which despite Apple's thing, goes out of its way to engage the community in feature roadmap) or Rust.

>We did all of this because we wanted to be an exemplar of how the community could step up and solve a problem that was being ignored by the core team. I can’t think of anything else we could have done to be better than we were. But the end result of this effort was no different than if we had done none of it at all: the core team ultimately didn’t engage with us meaningfully on the body of work we’d contributed, and instead insisted on doing the work themselves, as an essentially greenfield project.

Well, have they had any other impression about the prospects of such external effort? The author adds an even more bitter remark later on, and then retracts it saying: "Upon reflection, I think this may be too strongly stated. There are good examples of large contributions that originated outside of the core team, including support for different architectures, like WASM".

But adding a different architecture is not a decision that changes the languages syntax, standard libs, tooling, direction or semantics. It can even be dropped at any time, and none other architecture would even care. It's like proving how an OS is "open" to third parties by pointing out that anybody is welcome to contribute a hardware driver for it.
There's some crazy stuff floating around...think db like functionality written into node apps....
Well, they recently banned me for being under 13 when I opened my account in 2010, so I guess serves them right :P
I only get weekly calls from them begging me to add cable to my internet package. Conveniently they do it during work hours and use a different number each time.
The hidden costs in a “no-cost” tablet contract
> The data they are gathering cannot be more valuable than the cost of a movie ticket.

Yeah, but they think they can get the loss low enough that it becomes feasible to overcome that with data. And it goes beyond just knowing what movies someone is watching.

For example, they know the exact location and time of where people are going to be (the app requires location to work). So MoviePass can use that info to upsell their customers to restaurants/etc around the theater and even transportation there and back. Create packages around this.
I had TWC/Spectrum and it was cheaper and faster then the Comcast I get now after moving. What does the state plan on doing for all the millions of people who only had TWC/Spectrum? Maybe they should invite more competitors in rather than kicking them out.
> Rails has stayed on the course DHH wants it and hasn't become a mess mainly because DHH remains the BDFL.

\* and DHH happens to make good decisions frequently enough.

For every successful BDFL example, history is littered with a hundred dead languages and frameworks designed by a single visionary leader who made the wrong decisions.
> nobody cares for your search for authenticity, you're expected to show up and work

Sounds like you're saying you can't be authentic and work hard at the same time.
> then it becomes a very liberal echo chamber which drastically biases all the conversations that go on in it.

While I do agree they go too far, if banning hate speech/harassment/racism/etc... causes a "very liberal echo chamber" then maybe the non-liberals need to look at cleaning up their house.

> Reddit is somewhat successful

Reddit is a cesspool of white supremacists, incels, etc...
This seems promising, although I must admit that Magic Leap mostly interests me due to the continued involvement of Neal Stephenson.
Well that perception is still around in some part of the world. In my native language - Ewe West African language- when mental case has a crisis, People often say " The full moon has appeared for him/her"
Yeah it's hard to see how Peter can reconcile:

> Russ failed to convince the committee that it was necessary, and we therefore didn’t outright agree to modiying dep to leverage/enforce it.

and

> The community of contributors to dep were ready, willing, able, and eager to evolve it to satisfy whatever was necessary for go command integration.

If you're willing to say: "Sorry BDFL, you didn't convince us this was necessary so we're not doing it." Then you're not willing to do whatever is necessary, BDFL objections are necessities. Peter and Sam just found out what happens when an unstoppable force meets a quite movable object.

I agree with the sentiment that Russ's only mistake here was leading them on for too long. I see this as an argument in favor of Linus' style of BDFLing, in this case he would have cussed them out over their design's flaws and told them in no uncertain terms that it was never getting merged and probably that they were stupid. It would have hurt more at the time, but also probably would have saved them a ton of time and, in the long run, might have even hurt less.
100% same I wanted to love ddg but it's just not as good
I don't agree with either, but only one is expressing hatred. Only one deserves banning.

> you consistently censor one and not the other, then you are a biased censor.

Why are we pretending being biased against racism is a bad thing?