skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English has also spread due to the enormous influence of English-speaking TV, film, radio and popular music. The internet has only accelerated this. But it's not all in one direction. People also have much more exposure to non-English media too.

I think many native English speakers probably don't realise just how smaller the internet feels when you're browsing in a language with a much smaller number of speakers than English.
Wasn't he supposed to eat a shoe?
There are Google products which are inferior compared to their competitors, and usage rates show that as well: YouTube Gaming/YT livestreaming are basically platforms that only host people banned from Twitch.
Well I have been to some interesting theaters where it is pretty common to sneak in outside food. It is usually not a not a good experience. Some of foods can be very pungent or have strong smell.

I rather prefer bland food of American theaters when people are sitting in close proximity.
> In the near future, atmospheric CO2 will be recycled to create organic fuel.

If you have unlimited free energy in this near future, then maybe you can do what yoj say (or maybe electrolysis to produce hydrogen is better/more profitable).

Otherwise no, this won't happen.
The article itself is political advertising.
Rebracketing also happened a lot when incorporating words from other languages, from a misunderstanding of the other languages (often the misunderstanding occurred first in another language before being borrowed by English).

"Alligator" is from Spanish "el lagarto" ("the lizard").

Tons of terms from Arabic include "al," the Arabic word for "the":

Alchemy, algorithm, algebra, alfalfa, alkaline, alcohol, alcove.

Rebracketing also leads to some interesting affix/root usage:

The root of "cybernetics" is "cybern," but "cyber" is frequently used to form related words.

"Helicopter" comes from "helix" ("spiral") and "pteron" ("wing"), but it is generally split into "heli"/"helo" and "copter" for the formation of related words.
Cut it out.

I think it could be better. A lot of oversees development has not been documented well and "studied" on an ad-hoc basis.

The incorrect division of Italian "(n)arancia" is debatable, as the similarity to e.g. Lt. aur(um), French or - gold might be completely intentional.
"you have a whole country that can speak a language"

Yeah, not really (for both parts)

But there are small parts that are (natively) Irish speaking, called Gaeltacht
It's good to hear :) I hope my suggestions are helpful
> I don't see the comparison you're drawing here.

I think the similarity is as follows:

- there is a desire to fix something that feels like a gap (in this case limited support of constant-time math in standard library)

- there is a change proposal coming from the community

- there are arguments why it should be included and some discussion if it belongs in a separate library or not

- very little or no input from core team

- the whole process is stalled waiting for core team to participate

Now we just need someone on the core team decide they need to research via implementation instead of actively engaging community, end up liking their own solution more and we'll have dep all over again.
I'm not 1000% up on how they tried to do it, but I remember seeing (on HN, I think) that they would see a non-chain theater be popular, and so they would threaten to not list their theater in the app unless they gave them a cut. The commenter said they saw it with 2 theaters, both initially told MoviePass to go pound sand, so they were delisted. One barely noticed, but the other saw a significant decline in patronage, so they had to go back to MoviePass, hat in hand.
> I'm surprised by how much of it is
> done by very few people [...] How do
> we make it the Wikipedia of digital maps?

The exact same contribution curve applies to Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. Something like 5% of the users to 90% of the work.
It's not as absurd as it may seem. Eminem discussed the topic at one point, although I don't think any of them would fit the bill as a replacement for "redhead": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPcR5RVXHMg
the tech. to recycle those future billion batteries doesn't really exist.

You're still missing the whole point, which is why you are being downvoted. The technology to recycle the future billion batteries exists today, and will improve in future. The issue here is that at a current price point it is simply not competitive compared to extracting raw lithium from ground. As the most accessible and profitable fields run out of the material, and as the demand for lithium grows, the price will go up, which might make the battery recycling economically viable.

Compare it to our current wood usage: the wood we use for furniture production is usually recyclable. You could take a wardrobe, disassemble it, and after some recutting and sanding you might use the wood for some other project. However, doing this in the end costs much more than using new materials, because collecting used furniture for recycling purposes, and labor needed to disassemble it and prepare wood for reuse is simply too much for it to be worth it, especially as it cannot be manufactured in a process as automated as making plywood, MDF, 2x4s or hardwood flooring is these days. Same with getting lithium from batteries: we could do it, but you'd have to pay extra for it.
Amazon's losses to shipping can actually be lowered by improving logistics, alternative delivery systems, and negotiating better contracts because of the massive volume.

Plus I won't believe the "every purchase is a loss" narrative unless I see evidence. Especially recently.
It becomes another quiver in the arguments of small-government zealots. Why do we need social services when good Christians donate to charity? Why do we need public transit when Lyft and Uber are here to save the day?

A more pertinent link: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/01/02/question-li...

> But Hale and Schmidt point to at least one place where Little Free Libraries are seen as a substitute for true public library services. When budget cuts caused the El Paso (Tex.) Public Library to implement a $50 annual fee for nonresidents to use the library system, the tiny town of nearby Vinton came up with a plan: five Little Free Libraries spread around the community. The town would build them, and keeping them stocked with books would be up to the people of Vinton themselves.

> When Detroit Public Library (DPL) closed its Gabriel Richard branch in 2011, 4th graders at a local elementary school installed a colorful painted bookcase and a sign reading “Outdoor Library” in front of the shuttered building. It was one of four libraries to close that year—two have since reopened, though only two to three days a week.
Two other problems: 1) it's eclectic (i.e. its vocabulary is assembled using words belonging to other European languages), and 2) unlike English, it uses diacritics.
Generally, collateral - often including stuff owned not by the company, but pledged extra by the owners.

Also e.g. "Proceeds from a planned stock sale must also be used to repay the debt." - so they're betting that the company won't fold until a stock sale and it will manage to sell at least a $5+ million of stock; a reasonable "greater fool" bet can be made here when you earn a tidy profit if someone else pays for the company and lose the money if it turns out that you're the last one in the line and there's no greater fool than you.
There's just no way Android's acquisition would or could have been stopped.

Google bought it in July 05, one year after IPO. The smartest phones available were the Blackberry 7750, Motorola Q, and Palm Treo. Google had $3B in revenue in 04 and was on its way to $6B in revenue in 05 when it spent $50MM on Android.

There was no way this acquisition would have been blocked without clairvoyance. Even then "stop this $3B company from buying a startup because it's going to destroy a $35B company in 9 years" is not exactly a compelling argument.

The argument is even more nonsensical than that against Facebook's Instagram acquisition, which is saying something. People argue that DOJ or FTC should have stopped a company that hadn't yet IPOd from buying a company that had raised $7MM (and would raise $50MM a few days before the facebook acquisition).

Sure they're obviously huge in retrospect but they really weren't at the time. Interesting and hot companies die all the time: YikYak and Secret looked like they were going to take over the world at one point.
They haven't gotten over the whole "lingua Franca" thing.
See what exactly? GDPR has no prosecution precedent yet and it remains to be seen just what jurisdiction and reach it will really, if ever, provide.

It's well intentioned but international enforcement just isn't that simple.
If you use something like Google Firebase, they have a service specifically for this kind of thing. https://firebase.google.com/products/remote-config/
... meanwhile the State killed the red light cameras, and the City explicitly pushes cops to stop 'overpolicing'. It's increasingly an annoying place to live.
Actually, the only rare thing is the amount of media coverage non VC backed companies get. Because most profitable companies are bootstrapped smaller ones.
> Out of curiosity, what prevents you from using Firefox? It allows you to specify a default search engine -- which you can set directly to DDG.

Chrome allows you as well.
I think they are about even with me.

Would be behind, but their card wouldn't work last time I went. oh well.
You know you can change where the browser bar searches; In chrome, in Safari, and in Firefox, and Edge.
Oof, that feels shockingly prescient. Our smart appliances may not be singing to us, but otherwise...
Citrine and any parliamentary based system (even the local allotment society ) plus the fact that every listed UK company AGM follows the same 2/3 /3/4 rule for major votes
You talk about it as if it's the same 'They' -- NY state blocked taxing midtown travel during the Bloomberg administration.

NYC also has no power over the state defunding the subway system (which it did far more than NYC).

NYC is dealing with problems with powers it has.
>If libraries didn't already exist, I can't imagine the copyright lobby allowing them to be invented.

Libraries legally own the material they lend out, and have the legal right to lend it. They exist because of copyright law, not in spite of it.

And if the "copyright lobby" (whatever that is) was so powerful, there are any number of things they could have stopped, like VCRs or photocopiers or even the internet itself.
Imagine your Github repos gone because Microsoft thought you violated TOS.

Well now that's just an eventually.
Doesn’t matter. That’s why it’s called “Common” Lisp. Any code will run on any conformant CL.
I've seen 1, maybe 2, movies with moviepass that I otherwise wouldn't have gone to the theatre for.
Wow, that's almost another article on itself. Great inputs!
I also heavily use the cli ddg search. Might try that out for anyone else who lives in the terminal.
Gigaoctet isn't exactly a severe linguistic contortion though.
While Hollywood definitely takes into consideration foreign markets when making films, the idea that their agenda is to propagandize the rest of the world is laughable. They make what sells, because all they care about is making money.
They actively avoid loan words from English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_française#Anglicisms
There is a difference between harassment and a statement you disagree with, regardless of communication method.
Theaters make their money on drinks and food, no?

What bothered me in the US is that I can't buy a beer in the cinema. I always had to bring my own :-)
A single accuracy rate is not that useful when looking at ML problems. There is always a tradeoff between false positives and false negatives depending on the threshold selected. Amazon is guilty of this in this article, saying 0% false positive rate when you set the threshold to 99%. However, it doesn't say how many faces it successfully matched, it's easy to have a 0% false positive rate if you just say "no match" for every photo.

The best practice is to show a ROC curve, which shows the tradeoffs of selecting a given threshold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...
Here in Ohio I've had the opposite experience, with the exception of the cost going up. I was one of the ones who would make my annual call to Time Warner to "threaten to cancel" in exchange for another year of discounted service (usually $40 or $45/mo for 30mbit). Spectrum doesn't play that game, so I'm paying $65/mo, but I'm also receiving 100mbit service (where I normally see ~120mbit). I haven't had a single outage since the switch over, but that could also be attributed to the replacement of the old cable modem for a shiny new DOCSIS 3.0 model to support the higher speeds.

As far as robocalls, I had them before, and I still have them now. At least once a month they call me and try to sell me on some other service of theirs. Luckily they use the same phone number on caller ID, so I can avoid the calls.
It's bike shedding when you have no actual idea about the problems and solution, but decide on something anyway. The implementor in the meantime figured it out by himself and just did it.
This trend of people putting things on hacker news that weren't targeted at hacker news, and then hacker news readers complaining that they aren't written appropriately to target hacker news is weird to me.

If you're already following tildes' blog, the title alone is enough to know what they're announcing.

But, tl;dr: it's a reddit-alike
Gym memberships don't cost the gym more everytime people use them.
Vulvodynia: the excruciating health condition that only affects women
Your language is super cool. This is a very noble cause.
Agreed, Library Genesis and IPFS simply haven't advanced that far.

I'd love to see digital archives of all the books ever written, but we're not there yet.

Nevermind the fact that reading a physical book avoids much of the issues with blue light that screens produce
>> Jeremy Stoppelman: They will make you disappear. They will bury you.

I love hearing rich people whine about the monopolies held by even richer people. So much hypocrisy. Without the Silicon Valley tech oligopoly, Jeremy Stoppelman would probably never have been able to raise so much money for Yelp in the first place.
Facebook’s “downvote” system begins rolling out wider in US
The title is akin to saying "We bought <gun maker>'s hunting rifle, pointed it at Congress, pulled the trigger, and it shot 22 members of Congress". It's a tool, you're responsible for how it is used, not the manufacturer.

I would imagine the confidence level would be tweaked by Law Enforcement or anyone else based on the results. If you're monitoring cameras for missing persons or shooting suspects and getting 0 hits, you might lower it because it's better to dismiss false positives than the alternative. Conversely you might increase it if you're overwhelmed by the number of false positives.
I think it would be splitting hairs to start calling reusable rocket munitions anything other than unmanned aerial drone bombers.

Figure you stow such a "rocket" in its launch tube, then, you see a target, lase it (paint/illuminate it with laser guidance target selection) and fire.

The rocket launches, zips over to the target with a first stage, zeros directly over head and ejects the explosive payload onto the target, then the second stage fires, launching it skyward, and it returns to a landing pad with a combination of parachute decent, finished off by a balanced retro-rocket vertical landing on tripod legs.

Hmmm, are the avionics of guided munitions worth such a level of design complexity?
Hollywood, baby.
Subways not running between 1am and 5am seems like a good thing to me if it means they can use that time to maintain the tracks and stations.

The trains and subways in Tokyo are amazing, clean, on time but they stop at 1am and start up around 5am. That sucks for you if you don't want to cab it home after around 12am. As a night owl I love it though as it means there are tons of night venues that are open until at least 5am and I just add the cab fare into my "entertainment budget" if I don't intend to stay out all night.
In which country and for which roles certainly in the developed world professional workers don't often bring a packed lunch.

I maybe do it one or two days a month and I am in the minority here.
> English's place in the world really seems to be the result of a snowball effect of socio-economic factors, rather than anything linguistic.

Exactly. Not to mention that ease of learning is an extremely relative thing, and often comes down to what a person's native language is. Mandarin speakers would likely find Cantonese easier than English, for instance. And of course interest and necessity play a part in it as well; I actually met someone from Japan once who I could only communicate with through __Irish__. He found it much easier to learn because he was genuinely interested in it, so he could stick with it and focus on it.
A lot of startups has not sound business ideas. Rather they have been fueled by cheap below real market central bank interest rates seeking higher return than zero.

Some startup founders are hustlers.

The children story by hc Andersen about the emperor without clothes. trying to convince he has clothes comes to mind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

There will be a shake down of real pegususes versus so called unicorns. One magical creature has wings the other does not.

Of course people will be attracted to services selling services below market rate but it is not long term economically sustainable.
Children's disputes and the kinds of injuries for which neighbors can offer first aid are also not dangerous. We could imagine a scenario in which a dispute among children could lead to a death, but that scenario would be vanishingly rare as an actual event. The children are probably safer with the neighborhood bully than they would be hopping in the car every time an errand needs to be run.
Not OP, but from the web page:

> If Citrine respects all languages, why is this website in English?

> As a developer, entrepeneur or scientist, you need to be able to read English texts. Citrine does not try to change that. However writing complex programs in a foreign language is a different story. The Citrine project aims to reduce the number of mistakes in software by allowing everyone the language they know best. The manuals will still be mainly in English although translations in other languages may appear in the future or maybe summaries. The Citrine project also encourages ambassadors to host language specific implementations of Citrine along with translated manuals.
I go to the gym and I interact with 1, sometimes 2 staff members. The people at the front who check my card and sometimes the guy who works in the locker room if I can't get mine open.

They are on staff anyways. It costs them nothing extra.

What is true is that they can understaff (and have less equipment) than if they had 100% regular participation.
Gary Kildall
I'm bummed that at multiple occasions it says that tildes does not support free speech.

What would stop someone from forking tildes and creating free speech version?
Before their privacy apocalypse, Strava made their traces available for use in OSM. Mapbox actually had a project where they added information that Strava reported as missing:

https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/113

Mapbox also uses other data to find things to improve.
And from experience its removal of minor perks that really piss off employees - much more so than not getting a COLA increase
There is such a thing called transatlantic pronunciation.
There's forums of people claiming there site/product/business was removed off of Google because it competed in some way with no redemption.

They are too small for anyone to give a mess about.
Tremendous pessimism on this thread. It's time for an intelligent investor to buy.
>"I do not think that course of action would be unwise."

That's a funny example, as it can be read both literally ("I like it."), and passive-aggressively ("I don't dislike it."). So while double negatives might not be grammatically incorrect, they are often ambiguous.
> There's no clear evidence that English was ever pidginised in England

Actually, there's a plenty.

"Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none. Chalk up one of English’s weirdnesses. What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system: hence the lonely third‑person singular –s, hanging on like a dead bug on a windshield. Here and in other ways, they smoothed out the hard stuff." [0]

As this article shows in more detail (and as I can confirm, being nearly bilingual), English is, grammatically, significantly simpler than most of the other (not only Indo-European) languages. (On the other hand, it has unnecessarily complex spelling, which hasn't changed along with the language itself, leading to many inconsistencies. The proverbial example is "ough"; also, in some cases spelling was forcibly changed for political reasons, like "queen".)

[0] https://aeon.co/amp/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-differe...
I still use Ghost, its been maintained and updated over the years and supports at least Windows 7. I haven't deployed any Windows 10 machines yet, so I don't know if it supports that.

Its nice because with NTFS it saves files and all of their attributes and not empty space.
English is a very easy language to learn the basics and be understood (say unlike German), but a difficult one to master. It could do with some major spelling reform and simplification of some of the archaic grammar, but overall it is not a bad common language for the world.
Did they have VC?

They are a part of a publicly traded company.
> “Linux Kernel Networking Subsystem”

How do they say this in Japanese?
In Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese)?
Chronon Java Time Travelling Debugger