skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a pressing problem, though?

Google William Randolph Hearst. Or look up the antics in some of the US elections in the early 19th century.

Also, Trump DID NOT SPREAD THE DOCTORED VIDEO. The video he retweeted was undoctored, merely a collection of clips from C-Span. The reason there were no repercussions is because he did absolutely nothing wrong.
just because that was the stable state doesn't mean it is the only stable state
You are reading too much into the article.

The EU will never officially name this "EU English". They will just name it "English", and at most they might point to a "guide" of what some commonly used phrases which differ from British English mean.
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> Perhaps it’s not as pretty, but it’s more usable. [Edit: quite a few people disagree. I suggest it would take some time to retrain your eye.]

Yikes. That's probably not the best way to approach improving usability - hectoring users that their interpretation is wrong.
It's a different video. The one Trump retweeted is undoctored footage of Pelosi stumbling over words, because she actually does that.
What confuses me most is the why chose American English? Considering that British English is already a working language of the EU, why go for a new one? That's just going to mean more work. If you are going to promote efficiency, a continuation of what we already have (that works) should be the goal, not open a whole other can of worms.
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Wondering if the author is aware of how this looks on some browsers:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/MoreStupidLightGreyOnGrey_...

Light grey on lighter grey is really hard to read.
In case we move away from English, the only thing that makes sense IMHO is Spanish, because it is very easy to pick up for most other latin-derived language speakers, and has an amazing amount of speakers worldwide. Moreover is not very hard. If EU goes for English, I totally agree US english is the best. It's phonetically simpler and more understandable, and is much more in the artworks we consume: TV series, music, movies, ...
In that specific case, potentially - bare in mind it's imaginary code you're refactoring. There will be occasions when "ugly" code is required. The point of my post, which I suspect you missed, is that comments will generally be more useful if they describe the purpose of that code (which is harder to deduce) rather than what that code does (which often can be easily deduced just be reading the code).
People speaking different languages may think different, but most of their thoughts are lost because they can't be easily translated to English.
Countries like Germany and France used to have global cultural impact, but today they are almost irrelevant because their work is not easily translatable into English. When was the last time a German or French book, or movie, or song was globally relevant? How many globally relevant works did the comparatively-sized UK publish in the same time?
Jou känn pry mei näytiff djörmänn from mai cold däd häntz!
Yawollja!

Echt jetzt?
Oh, really?

Why no fucking Esperanto, or Marain, Klingon, Elfish?
I don't get it. How is a word like "civilization" less elitist / more pragmatic than "civilisation"? How is that a revolution? Is there any evidence that these minor spelling difference had an effect on the success of American English?
How about code that dumps internal state to logs or standard out and really helps when debugging a unit test?

Don't want it running in production because it's a whole bunch of database queries that just tax the DB, and production volumes are bigger than test cases.

Dead code, but useful dead code.

(Whether excluded by switch or comment makes little odds; it has no value in being turned on dynamically, so it's statically verifiably dead.)
Open stacks also meant that a lot of material got "lost" simply due to being misplaced (i.e. stacked somewhere it wasn't supposed to be). You could replicate the "proximity" simply by adding a topic classification to the library record, and making sure that users can search for "other books on this topic".
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I'm curious about Spanish objection to English language. Sure, they do have the issue with Gibraltar and British "tourists" perenially, but is there any effect for the language itself?

At least Spanish is spoken by an order of magnitude more people than German, though (Latin America, and nowadays a third of USA as well)
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Why exactly is this? Are there really that many non Germans speakers that you need to use English? And would you use English to have a chat at the water cooler, or down the pub (or locally relevant alternative).
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Absolutely agree with your second point. If only marketing had gotten the memo ...

Regarding your question, self driving cars have to interact with their environment. Receiving a message that indicates there is a vehicule of x,y coordinates may be better than trying to figure it out on your own using sensors. Getting the message in a timely fashion is essential, otherwise it is practically useless. 5G could be the communication channel for the message to transit, given that 5G aims to achieve lower latencies that 4G.
It should be possible if all 7.5 billion are connected to a world-spanning Network and produce and consume similar media.

Hollywood movies and pop music already proved this after all. And for the youngsters, video games and memes.
Interesting, I saved roughly 2M USD / year for customers moving them to the cloud. Your example is silly, all of the CDN I set up has very strict limit on how much a single IP can use and have multiple alerts if you are passing 100, 200, 500, etc. USD limits. On the top of that if that is not enough you can add more limitations to avoid that exact scenario that a public resource can be abused to cause you financial troubles. It won't "bankrupt" you if you do it right. Just like pretty much every other technology, you need to know it.

The other problem with your comment is that you try to make it sound like it was a single dimension decision to use the cloud. It is never a single dimension questions though.
> If you wanted to design a system to break empathy, you could scarcely do better than the society we’ve created.

What society is that?

I wish the author thought about the causes.

I bet that society is modern welfare state, where empathy is outsourced to the government and hence unnecessary to practice.

Furthermore, thanks to the shitty feedback mechanism, system is open to abuse by those who benefit from it, creating a negative feedback loop.

I imagine this VR stuff will “work” if and when it becomes mandatory to watch in state-owned schools... Welfare State’s Clockwork Orange (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film))
There's just too much nuance lost. French has very particular words for concepts of state philosophy, politics, and law, and so has German (eg. yesterday's result saw the Green party's uprising, with their somewhat gender-mainstreamed and weaseled, but in any case special language), and other European languages as well I guess. English could be easily seen as the language of eg. finance-dominated Eurocracy, so using plain language also helps in not portraying EU institutions as "slaves to an international capitalist elite" or something, and give arguments to radical parties.
Which one do you have? I have iPad 2 and it still works great. Is it worth upgrading?
Agreed, utilizing multiple processes helps a lot, although a larger number of cores across the entire network helps a lot with compiling the mass of translation units. Most workplaces I’ve done C++ at have had extra IncrediBuild agents with Intel Xeons to help with that
As an EU citizen, language is more than just translation. Free interpreters like Google Translate are very useful but will never be a substitute for learning a foreign language.

Because you're not only learning the language you study, but also the culture, norms, and values of the people speaking the language.
One might be able to translate "Gezellig" (Dutch, cozy) of "Fika" (Swedish, afternoon tea) into English, but context and understanding will be lost in the process unless the English listener knows these distinctive words and their meaning within the cultural context.

Dutch and Swedish are still closely related to English by language as well as culture, imagine languages with no relation to English whatsoever; this "lost-in-translation" effect will be more pronounced.

A future universal translator might be incredibly good at translating, but will never be a substitute for human cultural understanding without having to explain every caveat and cultural intricacies to the user.

By all learning English, we can have a shared language, we're all able to understand each other in real-time, without technology, with less cultural ambiguity when interpreting.

And why wouldn't we learn English? Learning a second language is very achievable when you're taught in school as a child, and Engish seems like a good compromise between Romance languages and Germanic languages since English has a shared vocabulary with both.

Finally, I'm of course biased towards learning English, coming from a country where English is a mandatory subject in school. That being said; I assure you that no matter how good the translator; Seinfeld sucks in German.
I guess you had not setup any budget alarms.
I remember sitting in a meeting with the team discussing how we regularly failed to meet the our estimates and how this was bad.

I made exactly this suggestion and was laughed out of the room.

Granted this was for large and small estimates, but I still don't think it's the worst idea.
I used to be a heavy ledger-cli user and wrote about my setup here http://nibrahim.net.in/2015/11/07/ledger_and_personal_financ...
That standard would also not be met by traditional outlets. Cutting videos to underline the message of a text is pretty common. This is not a new problem.
AFAIK Switzerland has 4 official languages
Also, when you don't want to lose a message, the Redis persistence story requires careful thought. It requires setting up RDB + AOF + appendfsync=always + backups.
That seems like a good approach for those cases, yeah :)

I guess the difference then boils down to whether you're OK with having a bunch of deprecates stuff in your schema (you can also remove those fields once they are not used anymore) and some "V2", "V3", etc in your field names, or your prefer having a more pristine schema but paying some price of discoverability and tooling support for those deprecated features.
Do you have an example of such a queue somewhere?

I think I have a rough idea about how it works because I implemented something similar about four years ago in PostgreSQL but kept getting locking issues I couldn't get out of:

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33467813/concurrent-craw...

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29807033/postgresql-conc...

Also, what kind of queue size / concurrency on the polling side are you able to sustain for your current hardware?
Note: this isn't about accuracy, but you may want to read this first: https://nwu.org/an-open-letter-from-freelancers-at-nautilus-...

And a top comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14227337
Fidelity, the largest fund manager with $6T AUM, is taking a different direction. HN won't want to hear this but here it goes: (get your pitchforks ready)

"Fidelity Investments’ new cryptocurrency company will offer trading for institutional customers in a few weeks, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Betting that the cryptocurrency bear market will turn around, Fidelity created its cryptocurrency platform Fidelity Digital Assets in October. The new company began a custody service to securely store bitcoin for its customers in March, CNBC reported. Now, it will be letting customers buy and sell the cryptocurrency in the upcoming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.

Fidelity, a roughly 72-year-old family controlled firm, is primarily known for managing retirement plans and mutual funds. But it also spends $2.5 billion per year on technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain.

Forty-seven percent of institutional investors think digital assets are worth investing in, according to a survey released by Fidelity on May 2.

Further, of the 450 institutions interviewed by Fidelity for research for its new company, everyone from wealthy families to hedge funds to pensions, 22% of respondents already owned a cryptocurrency.

Since the bitcoin boom in 2017, the world’s largest cryptocurrency has dropped more than 60% since its high of almost $20,000 at the end of 2017 and was trading near $5,703 on Monday.

Fidelity is only offering the crypto trade to institutional customers. Rivals like Robinhood and E-Trade Financial are taking on retail investors."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/fidelity-is-reportedly-about...
>The cultural, scientific, and commercial works that have been created in English in the past 100 years dwarf anything created in French or Latin by a gigantic order of magnitude.

I beg to differ. Compared to the Latin and French corpus, the body cultural works created in English is paltry and subpar. And that's the British ones, American ones, even less so. I can give you scientific and commercial if you feel any better.

>Why would we possibly switch to anything else, and lose 'access' to all that? All of the greatest movies and TV shows, the millions of scientific articles, the music, the computer code...

Yeah, pop music, movies, and TV shows. We'd lose Happy Days, I love Lucy, Breaking Bad, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and Kanye West. OK, and Melvin and Henry James and Hemingway. Not much loss.

We would still have Racine, Rousseau, Rabelais, Rimbaud (and that's just part of the R).

Plus, all the huge variety and masterpieces of the peoples of the earth, before American commercial monoculture and its marketing power ate everything else.
"What country are you from where it is normal that a company is logging and spying on its employers? "

This is everywhere.

"I have a company laptop but there is no logging whatsoever."

I suggest they very well could be logging your web requests. This is very common.

It's not like your manager is necessarily even going to have access to this. They're not interested in what you are doing, generally.

But if there is a serious security problem, or a legal problem ... this will then be used.
Due to not having an alphabet and being tonal I highly doubt Mandarin is ever going to be the lingua Franca. It's just too hard for non native speakers to learn.
A few years ago yes. (I subscribed in 2015) but then it came out that the publishers weren’t paying the authors and it turned into a big thing.

https://undark.org/article/freelance-writers-nautilus-paymen...
> the only alternative to further European integration is another war

False dichotomy. Surely the same level of integration, or even a slightly lower level of integration, will not necessarily lead to war. EU members were already quite peaceful before the adoption of the Lisbon treaty, for instance.

And you should also at least entertain the possibility that integrating populations further than they're willing to go increases the odds of conflict.
With 4-5 concurrent processes reading from my (FIFO?) SQS queue, I have a hard time seeing the contents of the queue from the console. SQS really doesn't handle the concurrent readers well in my experience.
Upvoted for American English

The English tend to speak English better and have better grammar than Americans in my experience, but I do prefer American spelling (disclaimer: I'm American)
Yes, the algorithm makes all the difference. I've missed out on two friends who were expecting children now, even though they posted it on Facebook, yet I see all kinds of conspiracy crap from my closest relatives. If this was done through mass SMS this would be different.

You dobn't have to remove the content either, lower the priority of that content dramatically compared to content about family updates. If Facebook is supposed to be about connecting people, stop the radical from using it as a cheap publishing outlet. If Facebook is a news publishing platform Mark Zuckergberg is the editor in charge. He has to pick a side because it's clear this is not sustainable.
I disagree profoundly. Free speech only "works" if it isn't free? Would need additional arguments for that...
I dint see this one coming
Languages drift apart, split and evolve. Even if by magic wand the whole world would start speaking perfect English now, in 100-200 years we will most likely have numerous versions of English. Each version would evolve depending on different enclaves of people around the world.
I am a freelance programmer and I use hledger in combination with beancount for a couple of years.
why did you change and to what?
You'd still expect manufacterers to put your language on packaging and for the government to communicate with you in it, I presume?
Not taking sides here, but I think that the cloud is complicated enough (especially for a person that does not specialize in it), to miss one of the edge cases that can lead to the huge bill.

In a few minutes, I can set simple PHP script with curl, that will launch 100 requests each second, using a pool of hundreds of thousands of IP's thank to the rotating VPN.

This is an edge case of course, but it can happen.

I use cloud myself, but only cloud servers, which allows me to control budget better and provides me with an "escape plan", where I can just switch to dedicated quickly.
Quickly enough for what?

If opening the door shuts down the emitter, then there'll necessarily be a brief period of microwave emission. Even if the emitter's power goes to zero instantly (it doesn't) then the microwaves that have been emitted and are still bouncing around can escape, that'll be quite a few nanoseconds.
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Typescript is the best flexible typed object oriented programming language ever existed. There's not comparison with any language in that field where flexibility and typed OOP play well together.
Same here. Already tried terminal based tools (Midnight Commander etc.), but i just got different problems with these tools (like not updating listings).

I finally turned off "Preview Icons" in the normal Finder that gave a relativ performance gain displaying larger file lists and made the finder kind of useable again.

Just a few days ago I saw the finder on a hdd based installation (not ssd) and it took "ages" (like some seconds) to display the relatively empty applications folder.

I wonder if all new software is just approved via state of the art hardware and older Macs are left behind ...
This is an extremely interesting turn of events that leads to a few questions.

Do the index funds participate in all of the elections for all of the companies they hold?

If yes how do the funds vote? For the interests of the individuals companies or do they push cross company agendas?

If no then does this mean that index funds are concentrating voting power in the hands of non fund holders?
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You see this is too complicated and "If you do it right" imply you can get it wrong and go bankrupt. I prefer to use dedicated server with dedicated bandwidth and Kubernetes on top of that. This makes me sleep comfortably at night. I tried the cloud and this was just too much anxiety for me to handle.
Using SKIP LOCKED - do you commit the change to the dequeued item (ack it) at the point where you exit the DB call. If so what happens if the instance that dequeued the messages crashes?
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Thanks! Also, just checked, Ubuntu's United Kingdom locale uses Metric system actually, no idea why was I thinking it'd be Imperial before.
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After reading some comments in this thread im concerned about how many misconceptions people have about AWS services. Most of the stuff from "correcting comments" is plain available for anyone.
is SNS + SQS a reasonable solution for realtime irc style topic chatrooms?
Abstraction !

You need to build strong tooling with abstraction to reduce, minimize boring, repetitive tasks.

Only then, you can maximize your company hours to do your own stuffs.
unless you work 24/7 your own time should still be yours. however, anything generally developed / worked on on company resources is theirs. at least that how it works for my contract. That means u can on your own machines and own time make something for yourself. but if you ever once accidentally even load it onto work computer, it belongs to them.

if they don't even let you do that, then i would firstly seek a job which does let you work for yourself on your own time, and then start really pushing for your own company.
Learning how to do so is free for you to pursue, as long as you don't 'make' anything on the companies' system / resources it should be out of their sight and safe to do.
Exploring the Swift standard library source code
Yes! I taught myself programming by browsing the 000 section as a kid, something that would be impossible today.
When I first heard this idea, my feeling was that the set of people willing to share their car is small. I know that my car has my stuff in it, and I'd need to take that out and return it every time I used the car, and that'd suck.

But as evidence that the set might be a little larger than I initially thought, I offer an apparently successful business operating today which relies upon people sharing their vehicles.

AirBnB might be a useful data point here though. I don't know what the percentage of dedicated vs shared accommodation is there, but it seems likely to be similar for cars?
2200G and 2400G from current gen ryzen have integrated graphics though.
It depends, but you can safely assume neither service is intended for real-time use cases. They'll be fast, but there won't be any speed / delivery guarantees.
> - The vocabulary is a big part of the language learning and it is hard to even begin with when the target vocabulary resembles nothing in your original tongues.

While this is true for Esperanto, it is also true for any other language, natural or constructed. And the idea of Esperanto is to reduce the effort learning vocabulary not through familiarity, but by deriving its vocabulary from a minimal set of roots and a system of suffixes. In Esperanto, if you know the word for "big", you automatically know how to say "small", "huge" and "tiny". This is not the case in most natural languages.

Of course Esperanto will be much easier to learn for someone who already speaks some Germanic or Romance language than to anybody else on the planet. But even to a monolingual Chinese (or whatever) speaker, I believe building a working vocabulary in Esperanto is going to take less effort than in English, Spanish or German.

> It can be probably argued that ESL learners can learn Esperanto more quickly, but it still represents only about 1/4 of the total human population.

But far more than 1/4 of the total population of _Europe_, which is the only thing that matters in the context of this discussion.
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Git + Open Timestamps maybe?
Ask HN: AWS IRC style realtime topic chatrooms?
Is SNS+SQS the best way to do an irc style real time chatroom backend? ~2000 topics, max 5000 listeners per topic.

If not, what could work scalably / low maintenance on AWS?

Or should I just use Firestore/Firebase