skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The two languages are about as similar as Spanish and Portuguese, or Norwegian and Danish.

Well I'm in a fairly interesting position to judge this. I speak Danish, and I lived with a Norwegian guy for a long time. And my in-laws are lowland Scots.

There are indeed some old words like kerk that are Germanic. But I think it's unusual for people to be speaking something that you'd call its own language. At least the inlaws don't use it full-time. It's more that they have a number of phrases that they sometimes pull out, and then there's a load of Robbie Burns (Auld Lang Syne). They seem to be able to decipher his stuff in a way that I as a mainstream English speaker cannot. They'd know what the gas station sign meant, where I would have a reasonable guess but be unsure.

This is probably quite similar to a Dane picking up a Norwegian (or Swedish, which is maybe a step more difficult) newspaper. You'd get most of it, but there would be the odd word you don't get, or there would be an odd spelling, or a noun would fall in the wrong gender. But you'd get the gist of most everything. The problem is without some instruction you won't know what some crucial small words are. (I found when learning German after just a few lessons a whole lot of things fell into place and it went from unintelligible to newspaper standard. Same seems to be happening wrt Mandarin and Cantonese.)

One thing to keep in mind is my inlaws insist the resurgence of Gaelic and Scots are artificial; they didn't have any instruction in either. It's like the languages have been reborn from the ashes, rather than having had a continuous existence (which I guess they actually did). But the big rebirth happened after they grew up in the 60s and 70s. Something similar is happening in Wales. Welsh speakers I've met have tended to be young.
> Be suspicious of people who you don't know that well, but all of the sudden they pop up in a moment of crisis.

This is a bit weird, because it seems to imply that if person x is casual friends with person y, then person x should keep their distance when person y encounters hardship. That seems counterproductive, especially in cases where person y may feel closer to person x than person x realizes.

I would think it's more common that person y's hardship makes people less likely to seek them out -- maybe not. But I think I have heard more stories along the lines of "during/after my hardship, I found out who my real friends were, and there weren't many of them".
And here we loop back to a stupid, trollish claim that at least can be refuted: "steal from publishers" is false, users have rights to ad-block, by law and by design of the Web.

We pay publishers far more than the sub-40% they get on a good day from programmatic advertising.

If this is your limit on arguing to justify slurs, find a new hobby. It's boring and it makes you look silly or envious.

The idea I'd dump BAT we reserved for users is also silly or vicious: I'd be destroying the project and my company. And the price would drop very quickly. To work the order book in the face of falling liquidity would require some buyers who do not see the project risk. And I'd be out of job, and I am not independently wealthy and wouldn't be on good odds after trying such a stunt.

Enough for onlookers. Now go do something better! Note how I did not call you a fool yet. There's still hope, if you stop the foolish, self-defeating and easily falsified comments.
> The error from "file" != b"file" is particularly bad. It makes sense if you realise that a == b means a,b have the same type and their values are equal. But there is no way a even a reasonably careful programmer could spot this without super careful testing (and who’s to say they would remember to test b"file" and not "file").

I'm of the opposite opinion. I appreciate that b'a' != 'a'.
Show HN: Tool for creating interactive plots from custom logs
I was unable to submit online, just sent an email with my resume.
> The residents should have higher priority than folks from the suburbs who choose to drive rather than taking public transit

This is straight-up regressive: the dense areas are most premium, with transit-connected suburbs a close second, and car-oriented suburbs the only places affordable to the masses.
The replacement API that GMail offers (which reflects their different approach) is open and free to use, so it's not really an issue, as third-party apps can support it. And many, in fact, do.

That's not the case for YouTube, though, which is exactly why it's a problem when GMail isn't.
I wonder if Windows File History (provided it was enabled before the update) could have helped with this problem. These days, it's one of the first things I install on Windows machines.

I had been very dependent on Time Machine before I switched back to Windows a few years ago, and I'm kinda surprised that MS doesn't push File History the same way Apple did with Time Machine. I don't see it mentioned very often when it comes to backing up data on Windows.
>we need to set up a way to manage AWS IAM credentials to Kubernetes pods... In a production system, this should be done using a tool such as kube2iam or kiam...

I am curious if AWS has any plans to build an IAM integration for K8s that provides IAM credentials/roles directly to pods. An integration through EKS or K8s directly would make interacting with AWS resources very easy.

Being able to authenticate to the K8s cluster using https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator is nice, but it doesn't help give pods IAM roles.
Grammar articles ("a" and "the") often times function as a type of glue for your words so that sentences can keep a certain pace, they also provide a lot of meaningful information on how sure you are about the thing that you are talking about.
The article is clearly aimed at people who mean well but haven't thought through what to do or say in these situations.
I can't help but think that a Microsoft-branded "Google-free" phone that is compatible with all Android apps out there would do a lot better than Windows Phone ever did.
But, if you want to demote cars to second-class instead of first-class road users (and promote something else), it's definitely going to be tough to accomplish that. There's a simplicity to a ban.
Creating Minecraft is a lot of work, but creating something that generates psuedorandom worlds and lets you walk around them is a feasible couple-of-months-of-spare-time sort of project, assuming general programming competence but not assuming any particular skills in computer graphics. Odds are good you can find someone blog posting about it in your favorite language if you look. I've seen a number of them. If you cheat and use the Minecraft textures it looks a lot like early Minecraft too.
I didn't know that (Gentoo user). I suppose it has more in common with Sabayon as a binary jobbie. The full Gentoo experience is not for the faint of heart but when you have spend hours watching compiler etc output and fixing breakage that would bring most users of an OS to their knees, you lose the dread inherent in OS updates.

You are nearly (and generally) correct about programs just stay running even when overwritten but of course programs generally consist of more than one file and might run more than once and if you update part of this and something reloads or whatever, you can end up in a world of hurt. That said, it is behaviour that I have relied on more often than I can count and so have you with your Firefox anecdote. I've done some remote Gentoo updates with systems in quite the broken state - it keeps IT interesting! I once had to get Puppet to install telnetd on some systems so I could repair sshd.
Most of Starbuck's cost doesn't come from paying baristas. It comes from coffee, real estate, utilities, and corporate.

Here's some real world evidence:

https://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/18/early-analysis-of...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615576/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Empirical_studies
Wow, that was very moving. Who could not have a tear at the idea, what that kind of opportunity autonomous vehicles will present to people when they arrive.
Human or mammal?
Google intentionally prevents YouTube from working well everywhere but in their walled garden.

I sincerely hope they get slapped hard over this. You're not supposed to be able to abuse a monopoly like that. Your sentiment shows exactly why it's detrimental - because it's a major barrier to competition.
I have a little Windows VM with a very small disk. It’s so small that Windows Update can’t run :)
This is a completely disingenuous analogy. While both cases do involve a tragedy of the commons, in the autonomous vehicle example there is an additional immediate and severe risk of bodily injury or death to a human.

The only justifiable reason for updates to be forced in the example with the vehicle is the physical danger that could otherwise result, and that simply doesn't exist in the example with the home computer. To my mind, the line of thinking you are engaging in here is a perfect example of the rampant authoritarianism that seems to be so rife in the computer security community these days.
Your sarcasm isn't nearly as clever as you think it is.
I tried my best to get the tracking protection patch shipped after you left. There were no realistic technical concerns with it. The entire engineering team wanted to enable it. The patch was ready for prime time. I was overruled for non-technical reasons. I left not too long after.
Once upon a time computers came with a full schematic diagram and enthusiasts could actually verify what they received. My point isn't so much the diagram as it is the culture of [showing/]knowing what's inside your black box.
I don't need to awkwardly reach across my body to remember to check for traffic before exiting my car after parallel parking.

Here's what I do. I pop my door open an inch, just crack the seam, to give people behind me a signal that I'm exiting. Once the door is ajar, I do my check to see if the way is clear. As much as you should be worried about dooring a cyclist, you should be worried about getting cracked in the skull by your own door should a bus clip it.
I disagree. "Common decency" isn't innate, it relies on growing up in an environment that encourages it, and even then the rules are not obvious to everyone. Witness the examples in this article. Probably, those examples of misbehavior come from decent people who didn't think carefully enough about what they were saying. Such people would probably read this article and say some variant of "oh crap, I made a faux pas".

The article's advice and reasoning look useful to me.
We can try to make more efficient computers by using cryptocurrency mining algorithms that help incentivize the development of these energy efficient reversible computers instead of algorithms like SHA-256 which happen to be quite buggy (Some bugs include ASIC-boost and approximate mining) when we use it as a mining problem instead of just a regular hash function (I have developed one of these reversibility friendly mining algorithms myself). Maybe it is better to actually give some thought into the cryptocurrency mining algorithm that you are using before the government bans you for foolishly wasting energy.

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.
It does support turn-by-turn navigation.

The quality of the maps is another matter. It's hard to compete with Google on this, just because of the headstart that they have (Apple has the same problem). But it's certainly possible.
> "steal from publishers" is false, users have rights to ad-block, by law and by design of the Web.

I never claimed otherwise. Ad blocking is completely legal.

> We pay publishers far more than the sub-40% they get on a good day from programmatic advertising.

Sub-40% of what? People care about the actual money they're being paid, not revenue shares of different-sized pies.

That's all beside the point though. You hold the publishers over the barrel, so they have no choice but to accept your terms, whatever they may be. You're exactly like a piracy service that offers content to users for free and then offers to pay the content owners in a token owned by the piracy service.

> The idea I'd dump BAT we reserved for users is also silly or vicious: I'd be destroying the project and my company. And the price would drop very quickly

You're obviously going to sell what you have, slowly at first for income, and faster when your scam fails.
I think the key to safety for bikers in the Netherlands is simply the sheer number of them. When you visit the Netherlands. Within 15 minutes you have gotten used to scanning for bikers everywhere. There are so many of them and they come so frequently that you cannot not get into the habit of looking for them.

The importance of numbers is something often overlooked. I read an article discussing the different approaches to biking the Netherlands and my native Norway has. Here in Norway we are obsessed with bike helmets. The dutch never use helmets. Yet we have more head injuries in Norway for bikers.

So the number of bikers in the Netherlands seem to create a better protection for bikers than the usage of helmets. And here is the kicker: If you don't demand that people use helmets when biking, the number of bikers will rise to a level, where the number of injuries will be lower than if everybody used helmet.

That is what the research suggested anyway. I will probably still use a helmet in Norway due to the terrain, but it is still food for thought I think.
If you have to go into the settings to get a good behavior, it's useless for 95%+ of users.

On the projects I've worked on, most people never open the preferences or settings menu.
AWS always launches services half-baked - I actually kinda love them for it. It's not always polished, but it's usually good enough to help me get stuff done.

I'm sure we'll see much tighter integration over time.
I'm just super glad they highlighted the fact that it's much easier to make a gun with normal off the shelf/modified metal than to 3D print one. Every other article that involves 3D printing guns is all "the world is over, people can make guns all by themselves!".. the only real difference is the reduced amount of metal in regards to detection
Even deferring updates is not really good about being in your face enough about having a pending update ready, so eventually it's going to update by itself anyway.

Regarding switching to Mac, it never ceases to amaze me all of my colleagues who opted for a company Mac when all the productivity tools they need run natively on Windows, and sometimes not on Mac at all. So they set up a Windows partition which is never big enough and they always have problems with. Their choice was purely out of fan-boyism, and they all regret it.
Ask HN: Try new tech, framework V/s. fix what you got
We've got this interesting situation. I see two distinct camps at work. One that wants to experiment with new frameworks/technologies to address a wide range of problems (from code quality and defect rate to security and performance issues), and another camp that wants to stop wasting time on new untested tech/frameworks and fix them with minimal changes to what we've already built.

Each camp is a mix of of smart/clueless engineers and managers.

Camp 'change' argues that its easier to leverage advancements in new tech to fix our bigger problems and fix the small ones in parallel. It accuses the other camp of being too lazy.

Camp 'dont change' argues there is no good way to estimate and limit what issues the new tech/framework will introduce. It feels its better to fix the problems with what we have by tweaking processes and educating engineers/operators. It accuses the other camp of being led off path with 'shiny' new things and that they'll jump ship at the fist sign of trouble.

A few of us engineers observing this circus began evaluating some frameworks/libraries individually. It got us to a point where we now have diverging views amongst ourselves. E.g. using existing SQL db Vs. adding Cassandra for timeseries, existing AngularJS,Polymer1.0 UI app vs new UI in React, split into 'micro' services V/s. consolidate services etc. You get where this is going.

I feel we're not the first ones to go through this but I don't know enough people to talk to about this. Its part political and part technical, I'm interested in the tech aspect, though getting an insight into the political side would be interesting. Reaching out to the wise and experienced folks on HN on whether this is a solvable problem or my time is better spent on fixable things.
BTW I'm aware of mixnets, talking to Harry Halpin and others, but also cautious about new tech. Will look at your refs, thx.
I suppose you could even use some basic ML (or hell, just geo-location and expected arrival) get an idea of when to prompt the restaurant to "start making XYZ order" when it appears the customer is driving in the direction of the restaurant. Though this does potentially doesn't make since if your gym is right next to the burrito shop, and you end up with a cold burrito!
Never heard of it. /D
Maybe some kind of ultra-low-power accelerometer assembly to only power up the radio for X hours after movement?
The phrase "Assume positive intent" is frequently used to describe an approach to the business world, but trust me -- it has a much larger impact when used in your personal life.
Thanks for your perspective. I think I just wanted to 'release' and get it into many hands quickly without as much consideration for operating the business. The cheap accounts were either to help spread the word or if it didn't offer enough value for the $100+ plan.

I thought of doing the blog/tweet thing after launch, but your suggestion sharing the journey first makes for good marketing. [Co-incidentally my day-job makes a live podcast-like platform getdialog.am which can promote each other.]
Just one note, once you pause, you apparently cannot pause again until all deferred updates have been installed. So yes it helps, but only for so long. The other deferment options seem like a more reasonable way to just purposely lag behind major changes.
In the meantime, there are already solutions to running X in WSL that are almost single-click:

https://token2shell.com/x410/

https://whitewaterfoundry.com/WLinux/
It takes a special sort of villainy to steal a time capsule, hoarding for yourself alone what was intended to be a gift from one generation to another.
logplot is designed with embedded devices in mind. The main motivation for building a tool like this is to visualise errors and trends of state machine states in order to easily identify anomalies in the behaviour of the target device.

However, as the required configuration is quite generic, there might be also a number of other potential use cases.
I may do that at one point out of frustration, but don’t underestimate the enormous amount of stuff that one has to relearn for a reasonably advanced windows user. Not the least if you live in visual studio. And my job doesn’t involve managing linux servers. All I know about linux, I learned it toying with my synology...
Why do articles like this even exist? Wish I could get the 2 minutes I spent reading it and typing this out, back.
I'm not sure if Samsung as the manufacturer was legally obliged to replace a device that I bought from a different supplier. I feel it would be well in their rights to tell me to just go to Telstra.

However as a combined service center / sales outlet they had a policy to replace DOA units as long as it was a genuine Australian, non grey import.

To be honest they just appear genuinely interested in looking after their customers and were just as excited as myself about the new release.

I had a USB port issue with the S6 Edge phone prior to my S8+ and the was also resolved quickly by a repair, ended up being on the day with a free loaner.

Service like that has pretty much guaranteed I'll stay with Samsung products for the foreseeable future (I upgrade every two years).
"Lose the battle, win the war."
Yes, I heard that the Great Fire Wall in China treats network traffic differently when one is on T-mobile data roaming...A friend of mine could use her T-mobile phone to access google, gmail and instagram in china directly, without using a VPN...But you can only access 2G or 3G network (not 4G) in most of the areas there...
I have seen one of my favorite beers (Alpine) take a bit of a nose dive in quality around the time they sold to Green Flash. Pity. Their pre-GF beer was good.
Traffic is irrelevant for trains. It has some effect on buses, which can be mitigated with HOV lanes. (Usually the problem there is frequency and a lack of express service). At the distances most people need to travel to reach their workplaces from affordable housing, walking and cycling are never going to be pleasant.

Banning cars from a city is a straight-up transfer of quality of life from the suburban masses to the richest in the center.

Drastically increasing high-rise housing supply in the center is a much more meaningful step.
> What bothers me is that everyone follows their bad example.

This is probably what they're talking about.
I was real interested in this article since my ancestors were about 80% scots or welsh. Welsh is undeniably a language, but Scots makes you wonder about the difference between a language and a dialect. I found this article by a famous linguist:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/di...

It made an interesting point about English:

"English tempts one with a tidy dialect-language distinction based on “intelligibility”...But because of quirks of its history, English happens to lack very close relatives, and the intelligibility standard doesn’t apply consistently beyond it. Worldwide, some mutually understandable ways of speaking, which one might think of as “dialects” of one language, are actually treated as separate languages. At the same time, some mutually incomprehensible tongues an outsider might view as separate “languages” are thought of locally as dialects."

This is spot on. The first thing I did after reading the article was go to Scots Wikipedia. I could read the articles pretty well after a minute, since there seems to be a nearly one-to-one mapping between the Scots words and English words, and so I thought "this isn't a language." The grammar was different than standard english, but similar to the way some southerners talk. But had I grown up speaking another language maybe I'd have a different instinct about whether that intelligibility made it a language. Moreover, says something I chose written language for deciding whether it's a language or not: all english speakers are used to not being able to understand spoken english from other places and classes.

In the end, I suppose the whole difference is socially constructed and involves politics mixed with what people regard as common sense.

Random sample ("featured article") from the scots wikipedia:
"The testicle (frae Laitin testiculus, diminutive o testis, meanin "witness" o virility, plural testes) is the male gonad in ainimals. Lik the ovaries tae which they are homologous, testes are components o baith the reproductive seestem an the endocrine seestem."
Not FAT32, exFAT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
I wish this question was asked specifically for patents.
Problem is you accumulate status and groupthink within an organization. Rejuvenating brain doesn't help against that, unless you plan to wipe it altogether.
English grammar is too simple. I often can't tell if a word is a noun or a verb. In particular, headlines can be really hard for me to parse when they seem like nothing more than a handful of nouns.
This was based entirely on my experience with other people's projects that I knew nothing about.
Like many people already mentioned in this thread, it's silly to attribute bike safety in the Netherlands to just this. To get a better view on why bike safety is so much better here, i think this video really explains it very well in five minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2THe_10dYs. The other videos are very much worth the watch as well.