skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes non-English speakers, when someone tries to learn their language past a basic degree, can be a bit rude even unintentionally.

I have had a good native Korean friend quite innocently (although randomly) point out that although I rarely make syntax errors I don't speak idiomatically at all and make weird constructs sometimes. Which makes sense, given my almost 2 years of study, but I would never think of saying something that to any ESL learner.

The same friend said something along the lines of "I talk to you a lot, so sometimes I speak like you [non idiomatically/weirdly] with my [native] Korean friends haha".

??!? was my initial reaction, but then I remembered that it's quite rare for a foreigner to actually learn Korean at all, let alone to intermediate+ levels. Internally I got reminded that I will practically always be a foreigner, though.

We're so used to people learning English and using broken English in all manners of dialects that it's not even a blip on our mental radars.
If you have the domain through Google Domains and set up email through GSuite, they can set up DMARC automatically.
Sharing Reusable Vue.js Components with Lerna, Storybook, and NPM
>This is probably not the case here.

Why do we think that? Hasn't these companies and/or industry been caught and fined for illegally coordinating their efforts before?
I agree, you should follow the procedures outlined in your employee handbook. Give them exactly the notice they ask for, otherwise you have no legal protection in a case like this.
They were certainly within their rights to fire him (legally), but I disagree about the unemployement insurance. Giving longer then standard notice is just not a smart move in today's climate.
It depends; I believe it works really well for e.g. consumer electronics because of the value per volume, but as another commenter mentioned, not so much for cars. Car parts on the other hand are much more efficiently packaged, so for example Tesla has an assembly plant in Tilburg, NL.
> All human beings are complex and you can't just sort them into good people and bad people.

Some would make the argument that if everyone worked with only their wallet in mind, we'd be better off. I wouldn't.

> Elon seems to be more idealist than most

Elon is not an idealistic engineer, he is a businessman. He actively misleads about products he must have been told will not meet the timelines he promotes.

> about the fate of humanity

Not sure where you get this idea. The way he talks about AGI taking over the world is creepy. He thinks it's inevitable, nevermind that we have no idea how to design anything close to AGI.
I'm not sure the question is useful, but yeah if everyone were to shift to electric propulsion tomorrow, most electric grids wouldn't be able to cope. You'd have to throw any mean of production that is still working, coal plants being one of the probably still available but under-used means of productions.

But it's not happening tomorrow, it's happening in the next decade and any respectable grid operator is already planning the changes such that it isn't a problem.
> I may have simply run into rude people.

Why did you think those people were rude, instead of, say, trying to be helpful?

French is difficult to understand when spoken badly, even for natives (maybe esp. for natives). We don't understand what people are trying to say -- really. We don't try to be condescending: we truly do. not. understand. I get that foreigners / tourists may not believe it, but it is true.
Nothing to do with conspiracies, just human nature filtered through the "never enough time or money to do it well" conditions.

There are some awesome educators out there who can inspire their students to think and explore the world.

There are far too many more who assemble a syllabus of their own viewpoint and expect their students to just absorb it.
In the UK I get robocallers phoning me about car accidents or triple glazing grants.

I always say "yes", then you get a real person who picks up.

Then I will do the old bait and switch. Start talking about how my car got written off after the great M25 exodus of 2018. That I lost my foot from a low flying scooter delivery driver.
The story then becomes more and more ridiculous and eventually they will hang up.

Since opting for this tactic my phone call count has gone down considerably.
Aren't watches mostly fashion type products anyway and their value sort of fungible anyhow?

I don't doubt there are plenty of really cool watches out there that are "worth" $500.... but generally they seem to be fashion products where even the price seems pretty disconnected with the actual product / utility.
It also depends on social circles. If you hang around with a bunch of eton/oxbridge old boys, even as a non native english speaker closing in on my 15th year in London, I struggle to understand many of the expressions. But I don’t when watching the BBC. Also as the article mentions there are many terms that are very infrequent, and even as a native French speaker, I had to look up a few cathedral terms in the dictionary.

But I kind of disagree with your “God have mercy on my soul” statement. French people are extremely proud (and being a French native, rightly so!). There is nothing they appreciate more than the world looking at them. When the international press makes their cover on France, it usually gets reported with screenshots in French media, something I have not seen in any other large country. For the same reason, most French people tend to feel flattered when someone makes an effort to speak their language. Though there are enough ancient and illogical grammatical rules to ensure a non native always gets spotted after only a few sentences.
> the unidentified company — whose workers, it appears, clean residences

It shouldn't take long to figure out who that is...

> industry officials estimate that requiring them to classify their workers as employees would raise their labor costs by 20 to 30 percent.

It's nice to put a number on how much they underpay their employees.

> and are permitted to schedule future jobs with the same customer without using the platform.

You can do this with any of these "platform" companies that take a cut for regular jobs like cleaning or tutoring, though some may try to stop you. Do it immediately, and split whatever cut the "platform" took 50/50.
The androgynous wrestler who inspired glam rock
Not in the US. In the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google#Goog...
I've seen '⎵' commonly used as an unambiguous space. Maybe that could work?
I read a lot of data analysis, prototyping, configuration, monitoring and deployment, for which Python is very, very well suited. So I don't follow how you got there.
http://www.sapphytimes.com/movement/ephoto_show.asp?PhotoID=...

This is just "normal" price. For a large production you can get an even larger discount. It's still a cheap movement.
I had one of the original Withings watches (before Nokia bought them out) and it lasted about a year until it stopped reliably keeping time. It got to the point where I was doing hard resets and changing the battery every few weeks and I gave up in the end. I was really disappointed, it looks beautiful and worked so well for a year and then became totally useless. I spent a good £200 on it as well if I recall correctly.

Withings were empathetic but took a long time to respond to my tickets and eventually I just gave up. I've still got it because I can't bring myself to get rid of it. I loved that it looked like an analogue watch, got lots of compliments on it and everyone was surprised when they found out it counted steps (etc) as well.

Are the recent ones better? I'd consider getting the new one that looks like the old Withings Activite if it holds up to the claims on the box.
> I did a maths exam once where the top score possible was 120% (ironic!). The idea was you could ordinarily complete only enough to get 100%, but if you did complete more you got the marks for it.

Was your test developed by Spın̈al Tap? What is the purpose for doing a test this way?
Summer Bummer: A Young Camper's $142,938 Snakebite
I work in pre-clinical pharma research, so I would love more pharma R&D spend more than most people, but I don't see a problem with promoting approved drugs for their approved indications. The industry has to get the word about new approvals to physicians as quickly as possible, because the patent term is limited. It would be foolish to trickle a new drug into the market post-approval, and it might even be unethical, as patients who could benefit would be less likely to have access. How to structure that marketing spend is another discussion (and could use a good deal of overhaul in my opinion), but the need to market new products is not that unusual.

I'm not super familiar with costs in tech startups, but do most companies spend less on marketing than product development?
If it's insightful/interesting - why not?

It's incredibly hard to search HN comments via search engines too, but I've definitely come across comments that just made me stop and think.
As an American, I certainly do count an American job as more valuable than a Chinese job.
If you take a car trip anywhere outside the major city centres of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, etc (and from what I hear, Texas) you'll inevitably see many, many head of cattle milling about in fields. I would put forth that no farmers really want to mistreat their animals, and will go at great lengths to keep them as safe as they can - this year's cyclone blizzard in Nebraska was especially indicative of this[0]. Farmers generally don't have a complete supply chain anyway - they sell their animals at the stockyard to whichever packing plant is buying them.

[0] https://www.omaha.com/news/plus/heavy-snow-freezing-temps-ha...
Interesting to see a touch of Flask used for some internal APIs.
Hi, I'm the creator of this library. I created it because at our business we are developing more React applications and it made sense to use GraphQL to speed up development time (less REST endpoints we have to create, less atomic code in the UI). I came upon a wonderful library called GraphQL-dotnet[0] that enables creation of a GraphQL schema in C# .NET Core. The problem is that upon using this library, I noticed there was way too much boilerplate. Far too much to implement it in our seemingly endless APIs with our hundreds of models. So, I decided to create a wrapper over it to make it easier to use models we already have defined, and make it so we can pull it out and put it in any of our services with minimal hassle. The result is GraphQL-Core (the name is in no way meant as a jab to GraphQL-dotnet team or the project, it is a fantastic solution to an ever-growing problem)

This wrapper does not do Mutations, as we tend to use atomic REST endpoints for those, but I hope I can add support to it in the future, and that this sparks other C#-based teams to adopt GraphQL in their projects.

If you find this project useful for you, thanks, and if you'd like to thank me, it would be very helpful if you could contribute some of your own ideas/code/design to the project, to make it easy for everyone to use!

[0]: https://github.com/graphql-dotnet/graphql-dotnet/
I only took a few years of French in Canadian high school but we were also taught this as three syllables.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/electric-vehicles-to...

Depends - shock load with fast charging, at least according to the Ars article, can cause the coal plants to fire up.
> Bouloche has been corrected.

Indeed it has. But silently, which is surprising.
Ask HN: Software Tools for Engineers and Scientists?
"The Coming Software Apocalypse" [0] is the article that most affected my view of what I want to work on. This quote sums it up:

"In a recent essay, Victor implored professional software developers to stop pouring their talent into tools for building apps like Snapchat and Uber. 'The inconveniences of daily life are not the significant problems,' he wrote. Instead, they should focus on scientists and engineers - as he put it to me, 'these people that are doing work that actually matters, and critically matters, and using really, really bad tools.' Exciting work of this sort, in particular a class of tools for 'model-based design,' was already underway, he wrote, and had been for years, but most programmers knew nothing about it."

So engineers, scientists, analysts, and researchers of Hacker News, which software tools do you wish existed?

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
How about:
Beauty and the yeast
The walking bread
This is good distro for developers by developers. I wouldn't suggest it for everyday users though. There are too many beta quality bugs since it uses really bleeding edge releases.
If you learn a language through memorization of words you're being very, very inefficient. Very.

Learning a language requires next to no effort (compared to 30 words per day) and can be done at any age within six months. The strange thing is that nearly everyone does language learning wrong. I think it's because schools set everyone up for failure by teaching how to learn a language in a way, that's just so very inefficient.

If you care for the easier way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
Weren't these things already public knowledge? Did the pharma folks just dislike that you made it easily accessible?

How do you make money off of DrugBank now?
I didn't downvote the parent, but I think that doing so is justified because the comment doesn't add much to the conversation, whether you agree with it or not. To be a substantive comment, it should explain _why_ typed languages would be a better choice for these particular use cases.
Downvoted grantparent because it's a non-argument comment, that offers nothing to the discussion, and based on nothing.
In the cases I've seen it happen the person walked out was given their final two weeks pay. They just were not allowed back in the office.
Elon Musk recently said LIDAR system was just too expensive and unnecessary as he's betting on using Tesla's video cameras for their own automated driving. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
This keeps getting brought up but the power stored in your car battery is usually there so you can, ya know, drive. If grid uncertainty can deplete your car battery to smooth the grid out, then you have to accept that you could very likely not have your car on demand which is pretty unacceptable for most people. I mean can you imagine that on a particularly hot day, the car you took to the office and expected to charge at the charging station instead has a lower battery at the end of the day than when you arrived and now you can't drive home?
I purchased an Amazfit Stratos around 6 months ago. This thing is better than any other smart watch I have owned (Pebble, Moto360, Apple Watch). Always on screen. Multiple days worth of battery. Best workout tracking I have had on a watch. And it does all the notification and smart watch type things I expect. I am not certain why Apple, Samsung, et al haven't figured these things out yet, but other companies have and it is great. Oh let's not forget this only cost me $150.
There is much wrong with the pharmaceutical industry including pay-to-delay generic

I disagree on this one.

Pay-to-delay is just the branded drug manufacturer and the generic company splitting the difference through negotiation. What you end up with something in-between the two potential outcomes.

Situation: branded drug has 2 more years of patent life, but generic company wants to challenge it; neither party is sure they will prevail.

Outcome 1: patent holds and branded manufacturer gets entire market for two years/generic company loses money on legal fees

Outcome 2: patent holder loses patent and money on legal fees/generic company gets entire market for two years (yes, typically this doesn't happen, trying to simplify)

Instead of each party going to court and paying a ton in legal fees with an uncertain outcome, the pay-for-delay is splitting the difference. The branded manufacturer pays the generic company $X to delay entry until year 1. Everybody gets something from the deal.

They call it "pay-to-delay", but that ignores outcome #1, where the generic is delayed for an even longer period.
10000 hours to proficiency divided by 6 is just 1666 weeks or 32 years. That's ignoring that just listening to the news is not the deliberate practice that is supposed to be accumulated for the proverbial 10000 hours.
Why Rust? Strongly typed languages had this capability for a long time.
I have been learning French from the very beginning of my life, because my parents and everyone else considered that success in our country can only be achieved if you are fluent in it. Now I can hold a descent French conversion and I even did my engineering education in that language, but I never managed to be fully fluent in it. French is an interesting language, and I really enjoyed the countless Fantasy and sci-fi books I read, But I think I should have invested my time in learning English instead.
Yubikey 5 supports NFC for mobile, might work for your use case (smartphone challenges).
> I'm not at all clear what a break up means. How do you break up a monolithic single platform like Facebook? Maybe spin off the messaging stuff but who cares about that?

Facebook's platform is already pretty well broken up: you have IG, WhatsApp, the core News Feed, Messenger.

Warren's argument isn't so much that breaking the big tech companies up would benefit consumers in itself, but that breaking them up would enable competing services to emerge (in the same way, she argues, that breaking up Microsoft enabled Facebook and Google to emerge).

It's easy to forget now but in 1998 Windows was pushing Active Desktop pretty hard and MSFT were making a big play to make the Internet something which you consumed via the Windows desktop and via Microsoft owned products.

It's not clear that competition neccesarily _would_ emerge from more constraints on large tech companies, but it's probably true that Facebook making a "WeChat" type play would not be a good thing for the Open Web or competition in any way.
Devils advocate. A VPN provider competent enough could make it appear they aren't logging during the time of an audit and then go "back to normal" afterwards.
I'm going to start a drinking game every time someone says that.
Doesn't Google's current version of reCaptcha work mostly invisible? I am confident that they use a similar system atm to detect bots. I know the "checkmark" version used e.g. mouse movement to detect humans.
Paul Graham's Wish
Wouldn't someone still be able to send mail from jon@jrơck.us and even have it pass DMARC and DKIM checks if they bought that domain? (last o being a ơ [&#417;])

I wrote that fake address, I know where the defect is, and I can't spot the difference on my screen right now. It just looks like the other 50 specks of dirt on my laptop screen.
It's pronounced in three syllables (de re-an) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de_rien
I'm going to have to throw myself in the camp of those who don't have much interest in publishing a page or blog. I suspect that it would either be ignored or result in protestors setting up outside of my house.

If a strong urge to write presented itself, I rather like the idea of self-publishing either a novel or a non-fiction book on something I know a reasonable amount about. It not only would force a certain discipline to writing and study for the author, but would serve as my tiny push towards encourage long-form reading again as opposed to the modern urge to read things that fit on a computer screen (like I'm doing here of course).
Historical period dramas and suchlike often focus on the nobility who made up the richest 0.1% of the population.

Perhaps we have as many Oxford-educated Old Etonians who inherited a baronetcy today as we ever did, just we're not viewing the present through the camera that focuses on them in particular?
Citation please? I was under the impression that UK employers always need to give a (valid) reason. The only change at two years of which I'm aware is that this is the point at which redundancy payments (US: severence pay) starts to become due in case of redundancy.
The Australian company that banned work on Wednesday’s
Yes there are laws. No they could not do that.
You've described the majority of SWEs in the US as well. The HN bubble can distort things quite a bit.
Anatomy of an ELF executable
Two thirds of the city can have cars parked off street and double parked right across from each other and still have enough space for people to drive by. That is too wide in my mind, it encourages speeding at a subconscious level.

I've noticed this tendency for vehicles to be stopped in very inconvenient, like right at an intersection instead of a few meters back to allow for people to drive around and properly stop at a stop sign or attempt to cross an intersection at rush hour when it is obvious that there won't be enough space and will block cross traffic, but these are things that we can slowly improve by actually enforcing the laws already on the books or designing streets in a way that nudge against that behavior.

Widening highways doesn't improve throughput.
What release version was that? I started experiencing issues in 29, but has been rock solid otherwise.
I'm confident Google doesn't have any rules against this practice; after all, if they serve legitimate ads on legitimate sites and don't do any fraud, Google still earns money themselves off of the ads.

edit: another commenter pointed out they got a letter and a disabled account due to click fraud already.
Ask HN: Are 9 months for building MVP too much?
Hello,
I am sole founder / developer / enthusiast, that did leave very well remunerated job spending now 7 months of my time and resources to build lovable product.
Occasionally I have verbal checks (less than 5 times so far) with potential customers on where I am at but due to the nature of their work I cannot rely on enough involved on their side. There are no iterations, no pivoting in any form. I rely heavily on my experience, market research and faith if the product is done properly - there will be paying customers. I am not doing this because beliving I have the greatest product fit idea but because of the nature of the product and market that requires the full product flow built up and seems going to require 9 months.
I have tried some seeding at couple of places in past few months and did fail. Am I fool continuing?

Keeping in mind that the above is not recommended, I was hoping to see in the comments some related experience showing negative or positive outcome, as well some advices.
> "Python is the industry standard for all of the major applications we use to create Animated and VFX content, so it goes without saying that we are using it very heavily..."

Interesting... very curious to see Netflix using tools in the VFX industry, Shotgun & Nuke to name a few, I wish they can expand more on this.
Companies don't spend $X on promotion unless they gets $X+ back. Otherwise why bother? So overall, promotion is a net positive to revenues.
> In my years of experience, the most likely outcome of speaking imperfect French is just that the French person switches to speaking perfect English

If they're from Canada, maybe [1]. If they're from France, a decent chunk of Wallonie (French-speaking Belgium) or Romandie (French-speaking Switzerland), I doubt it. France has one of the lowest rates of English proficiency among the other developed countries in Western Europe and I know that first hand.

[1] And the average French person wouldn't consider what the Quebecois speak as French :p
>The question is why? It's a $20 movement in a poorly finished case. The most important part of the watch isn't made in the USA. It's a $50 product being sold for $500.

Because they saw Shinola doing the same thing, which proved that 'Made in the USA' on a watch is all it takes for suckers to pay premium for a mediocre product.
Probably by ignoring the license.
Eye-rolling and interrupting are always rude.