skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that we are animals. Something tells me that not acknowledging this might be related to your hatred of people ?
I've never tried to learn Dutch, but I found German _much_ easier to learn than English. The German grammar and spelling are so regular, consistent and simple compared to English.
The crux of the matter is that "reason" is not absolute. People rarely do things that they (at the moment of committing the act) believe to be unreasonable - generally, every action taken seems quite reasonable "at the moment". It is only retrospectively that they realize that their past actions/thoughts were unreasonable.

There is a very nice discussion on the relativity of rationality in the book "Instincts of the herd in peace and war" by Trotter. I copy a relevant paragraph below:

The religious man accuses the atheist
of being shallow and irrational, and is met by a
similar reply ; to the Conservative, the amazing thing
about the Liberal is his incapacity to see reason and
accept the only possible solution of public problems.
Examination reveals the fact that the differences are
not due to the commission of the mere mechanical
fallacies of logic, since these are easily avoided, even
by the politician, and since there is no reason to
suppose that one party in such controversies is less
logical than the other. The difference is due rather
to the fundamental assumptions of the antagonists
being hostile, and these assumptions are derived
from herd suggestion ; to the Liberal, certain basal
conceptions have acquired the quality of instinctive
truth, have become " a priori syntheses," because
of the accumulated suggestions to which he has
been exposed, and a similar explanation applies to
the atheist, the Christian, and the Conservative.
Each, it is important to remember, finds in consequence
the rationality of his position flawless, and
is quite incapable of detecting in it the fallacies
which are obvious to his opponent, to whom that
particular series of assumptions has not been
rendered acceptable by herd suggestion.
Right now, the cheapest "new" video card sold directly by Newegg is a $35 NVidia 210 which was new in 2010. Interestingly, reviews from that time period suggest that it sold for $30 after rebate. It has HDMI, DVI and VGA ports.

In the $50 range you can get an R7 350, which promises 4K support (although I suspect that will be at 30Hz) and would certainly be enough to light a monitor with enough oomph to put shadows and transparency effects on your windows.
A Full Life: A science-fiction story about America in the age of climate change.
Total comp can be very very different.

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Police
uh oh, is this the one article that will make people go "A-HA, told you so?" #confirmation-bias

and, I never saw so much interpretation of what something should be as with Agile.

not everyone is entitled to say or mean something, that includes myself and this post.
Possibly this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...
There are many reasons why Mandarin will not become the next lingua franca, most importantly the writing system which unifies China but is even hard for Chinese to learn. As it looks now, it seems more likely that more and more Chinese will become fluent in English and that some English - possibly including a lot of Chinese loannwords - will be the most widespread language in the 100 years from now.

But I think you were downvoted for the wrong reasons, since otherwise the argument is fairly sound. Chinese influence is continually increasing world-wide. It's mainly the writing system that prevents a wider spreading of Mandarin, and the Chinese cannot give it up because it unifies their nation. Another possible scenario is that other languages of China die out even more quickly than they already do now, thus paving the way to full mutual comprehensibility via Mandarin, which would then allow a drastic reform of the writing system. However, this seems unlikely to occur within the next 100 years.
English is mandatory in Chinese education, from primary school to college.

Chinese is not mandatory anywhere in Europe.
But is hearing Frenchpeople speak German really much of an improvement? At least everyone's English is about equally broken.
> Even here on HN which is so user friendly.

Except on mobile. The UI elements are tiny, try closing ten comments without clicking the timestamp by mistake at least once.
A behind the scenes look at the Wikimedia Foundation’s emergency response system
The source being microwave ovens being stopped by opening the door letting a short burst of radio signal escape
What software which requires a lot of processing power currently doesn't take advantage of multiple threads? Games are increasingly parallel, browsers do most non-JS things in parallel (and obviously run each tab in parallel), compiling code and video rendering eats CPU cores like crazy.
English is an official language of Ireland and Malta.
I guess something requiring discipline and effort makes you defensive. You can't really think all programmers are equal. How do you think the good ones got better?
Quaternion Algebras
2019 Google I/O presenters talked about it: much much better latency, no need to send the audio to the server for speech recognition.
“I never email anyone without believing 100% that my message can help solve a problem I already know they are struggling with”

How do you know 100% they have that problem if you have never talked to them before? How do you know they have not already solved it?
Yes? That's the design intent of 5G: geographically smaller, denser cells. However I don't think these are intended to be deployed unconditionally everywhere, just in areas of high population density or foot traffic. Not on hilltop towers kilometers away.
Are you doing this from a non-Mac environment? The App Store site has it. It seems I’m missing something...
I just want to point out to people who are new to Firebase that you can query your Firestore collections.
Also, Firestore Queries are cached by default, so if you try and fetch data that hasn’t changed, you shouldn’t have to pay for that read.

db.collection(‘Payments’).where(‘id’, ‘==’, ‘payment 1’).onSnapshot(console.log) // 1 read, then cached

Whereas specifying a document and then manually get it always counts as a read. Example;

db.collection(‘Payments’).doc(‘payment 1’).get() // always counted as a read

It's funny.

I've had multiple discussions with people who build apps using Firebase and then not being able to scale to 1000 concurrent people without the BE falling apart. I want to tell them that they've done something wrong, but since none of my apps haven't reached those kind of usage levels, I really don't know.

I think Firebase comes with a lot of power, and as long as so plan to scale, design your database model, have proper security rules and cache as much as you can, you can probably host a 1M concurrent users without getting scaling problems. Cost though, ooh yeez. :)
I also don't perceive removals in diff view as "bad" because they are red but as "look here, could be important".

That's really the problem with using red for deletes in a diff. Red implies that the deleted lines are more important than the added lines, and that's wrong. You shouldn't (and can't really) focus exclusively on the deleted code. Breaking the 'red = important' connection and using a color scheme that gives equal weight to the removed and added lines may well work better once you get past how weird it is.
In my university there were so many books that part of the comp sci section was in basically crawl space (I was too tall to enter and had to crawl.) It was such a vivid experience, I can't imagine not browsing books as a student.
I wrote a minimalist Textmate theme based on the same thinking, namely that comments should stand out from the surrounding code. Check it out: https://github.com/KaptajnKold/Minimal
Using a database lets you make much better decisions on this space

Tbh purpose-built queues are taken way too eagerly by programmers who later end up needing the flexibility offered by a more general data store.
I'm not GP, but the UK has negotiated four opt-outs (you could also include Cameron's pre-referendum requests). This is more than any other EU country.

The economic and monetary union (the euro), Schengen, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and "the area of freedom, security and justice".
If you really need a mountain of CPU power, then your stance toward the GPU should be that you're glad the several Watts it requires aren't being emitted under the same heatsink as the CPU you're relying on, and that it isn't wasting memory bandwidth you could put to better use.
Only Amazon is adamant at refusing this, Microsoft already made it possible some years ago, and I believe Google too.
On Android, the language can be set to English (accented). Alas, that's just for testing Unicode support.
Because having multiple official languages adds more layers of bureaucracy to everything and amounts to a colossal waste of time and money.

We have this in Canada, and outside of Quebec, nobody cares about the French language. In fact, many manufacturers specifically avoid Canada in some cases due to the requirement to put both English and French on the packaging. All government communication has to be written twice. Government employees must have fluency in both languages.

All that waste, and for what? A language that nobody else uses.
> Therein lies the problem. The video was slowed down and the audio slightly distorted.

It isn't unusual to misrepresent a politician's message. It certainly isn't unusual for partisans to refuse to fairly represent their opponent's central point - either through a sense of mischief, because they just don't understand it or a genuine belief that there are more important issues at stake.

This video is clearly a low blow, and deceptive, but it isn't at all obvious that it is different from lying about something that Nancy Pelosi said. 'Solving' that in any way will likely cause some spectacular partisan fireworks when a difficult case comes by. Whoever gets control of the body that gets to choose what is fact and what is fiction is going to have disproportionate power.
Each dependency increases the cognitive load for maintenance (something goes wrong/is slow/doesn't compile in that platform or requires steps incompatible with the rest of the project/other issue, is it me or the 20839423 libraries i depend on? How does that library that has the issue work? How do i fix it? These are things C programmers tend to care about) as well as reliance on 3rd parties to stay in line with your needs (e.g. you may want to stick with C89 but a library you depend on - or a library a library you depend on depends on - decided to raise minimum requirements to C99 "because everyone has that now" or one of your dependencies stops development for whatever reason - in either case you are left with the choice of dropping the dependency - and anything that depends on it - or taking over maintenance for something you decided to use in the first place to avoid that sort of work).
I'm not disagreeing with the main points. There are things about our countries that we can't stomach.

My point is that to be meaningful politically, that stuff is likely to be narrative.. which is not the same as fact. "Cesar ended the republic" is a narrative sort of a statement not a factual one. Cesar crossed the Rubicon, named himself distator for life, marched on Rome... those are facts.

By narrative, I don't mean that it's false.

The Republic itself is/was a story, and the story changed and evolved constantly. Just like democracy, capitalism or whanot it's not a legible concept. It's more like "X is the better man for the job" than "X weighs more than Y." Whether the Republic ended or not only has meaning within the context of the story. There's no external test that declares a republic dead, outside of the narrative.

I recently read a Chinese history timeline. The jist was "China was an empire for thousands of years, until mao." Whether or not something is or isn't "The Chinese empire" is a narrative claim, not a factual one.

The first step towards a truthier world is recognizing the difference between facts and stories. Truth means something totally different depending on what you're dealing with. Apart from climate change, I can't think of major political questions where factual truths and falsehoods play a roles anything like role naratives play.
It's an existing thing? Interesting, I never heard of it. Thanks for linking.

The Wikipedia article isn't very clear on what the language officially is. I don't see where I can find a reference of the changes it makes, aside from a few examples of ways to make English mainly more like French. It honestly looks as though it is just an excuse for people to use words incorrectly just because they have words in their own language that sound similar but mean something else.
Hitchcock, almost the entirety of pre-hiphop popular music, a very big chunk of the "cultural pressure" behind the success of the English language did not come from America but from a small island nation that lost WW2 in all but name. American cultural influence is wildly overrated.
>> Commented-out code should not exist, granted .... I'll remove it later, I promise.

> In my opinion, you should never commit commented out code.

But the editor works on uncommitted code, too. GP doesn't want to be distracted by that.
TL;DR: Some way of generating an manual alongside the normal docs of exposed functions (API bindings).

Depends on the project and what is needed, generally a README.md for the big picture and an /docs for the generated API docs, hosted on github pages & friends or an webserver hooked up to the CI.

Which is often enough for coders but we also have a lua-jit running on top of the C++ where we have a plugin/module system where people can create extra functionality but some of those are rather new to code. I've written the API docs in LDoc (the only functional lua doc generator that works with the same version as lua-jit's lua version) but there currently isn't a nice way to implement a more of an manual which would solve a lot of redundant questions.
Just get a cofounder and attribute all the IP to them. What can they do, steal the IP from them?
As a universal 2nd langauge Esperanto is indeed a much better choice. Esperanto is so easy to learn that you can even learn it for free. If you teach children Esperanto than English for the same total time as children who just learn English, the 1st group will be better at English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperant...
What I'm saying is it's better that "some" people don't know English. I don't know what number constitutes or what % of people but by having some people -- for lack of a better word -- "corrupted" by English will have new perspectives. We need lots of languages and lots of combinations of these languages for a healthy world.

I say this as a monoglot English speaker. I have some French and Irish but both are very poor.
Was the choice of OSM a bad one?
All my local university libraries (including a few excellent ones) allow anyone to use the stacks for free. If you want to check something out or you want access to the computer databases you may have to pay to join the "Friends of the Library" or Alumni Association. Access to the databases is often restricted to students / staff though.
> Tech debt should manifest in reduced velocity which should be noticed, taken as a signal of a process defect, and addressed in the Scrub Team’s various inspection and process adjustment points.

This process adjustment usually means "sorry about your vacation" and/or "you aren't doing enough overtime".
Ask HN: Is programming ability inversely correlated to sociability?
Apologies in advance if the question is offensive to some.

Anecdotally, I have often noticed that the better programmers that I know are, while congenial and very well-mannered, also tend to be somewhat self-absorbed and not very open to chit chat.

Personally, although I consider myself only a decent programmer, on days that I am productive, I tend to be averse to social interactions, and instead want to focus on the program I'm building. I find that the more I socialize, the more of the code/structure gets out of my head and needs to be "reloaded". Conversely I have many days I spend almost entirely socializing (aka meetings) and on those days I get almost zero coding work done.

1. What do the more experienced folks here think of this?
2. Is there any serious/casual study done on the topic?
Jeff Bezos: Big Things Start Small
The Antonine Wall was the real final frontier of the Roman Empire
I recreated an SQS style service on AWS for sole purpose of avoiding being locked into Amazon. It used their autoscale system and was about the dumbest simplest api you can imagine, just depositing messages into a geographically replicated db table for later processing. We also used it as sort of a backup system, where the messages were never truly deleted and everything could be reprocessed as needed since the front end db that held processed records was an absolute amateur disaster just waiting for some malicious sql injection wipes. It was solid as a rock and extremely low maintenance. I think things have become relatively standardized since then (aka lots of duplicate SQS compatible api/services), so unless there was a serious requirement to stay off SQS I'm not sure I'd do it again.
A few years ago I was in a group of people using English to talk. I was the only native speaker,and honestly had more trouble communicating as a result. I have a strong west country accent and people are not used to it. And there are lots of colloquialisms that you use without thinking about it.
Show HN: Whitepaper Stars Network – Metdata for the Next Generation of the Web
imho a problem with the implementation of SCRUM, but not necessarily restricted to SCRUM.

In a perfect SCRUM world you could not be forced to implement this in a time not of your own estimate. A feature that is so big that it takes more than a few days to implement has to be split...but well we all know how this plays our in reality most of the times...
Plan 9 isn’t UNIX hating. It’s a successor to UNIX. Many of the things we take for granted in UNIX and UNIX-like systems are actually kludge written to address a short coming of UNIX. Plan 9 was invented to take lessons learned from that and build on UNIX from a ground up reimagining. Thus it is going to differ in some ways while feeling very similar in others.

I think it’s fair to say that Plan 9 is a bit less exciting these days because some of the really great ideas from Plan 9 has seeped its way into Linux and UNIX. But there is also some degree of “momentum lock-in” going on too where UNIX is what people are familiar with so it’s what people expect. Though it’s probably more accurate to say “GNU” these days rather than UNIX (if the conversations about people loading GNU coreutils on Macs via homebrew are anything to be believed)
> So a good syntax highlighter should differentiate between these different kinds of comments. Grey out the javadoc stuff, but emphasize the informative and warning comments.

But those who write Javadoc well, will put important stuff in there. And those who write non-Javadoc comments badly, will put useless stuff there.

Looks like an AI-complete problem to distinguish important from unimportant comments...
Wage slave is a real thing.
how about this form?

if animal and (not Sapiens)
bond
else
you don't really need it dude

> Something tells me that not acknowledging this might be related to your hatred of people ?

You're just assuming, instinctively.

That's what lesser animals do.
I have wondered for awhile if it is possible to have a world language - not that the world couldn't all agree (or be forced) to choose a common language, but that any single language spoken by 7.5 billion people would immediately start to fragment or the pace of change would be so fast you couldn't talk to your grandparents.
Off topic but this seems to be the best place to ask.

Is nautilus worth subscribing to? Are their articles accurate and scientifically sound?
Bitcoin Jumps Toward $9k in Best-Performing Month Since 2017
Spain? What makes you say that?
> tooth and nail as well. And Germany too.

Maybe. Definitely not to the extent France will.
Farhad Manjoo asked that on Twitter. The response was "Hate speech comes down." which was remarkably unhelpful.
That's why I don't use cloud offerings. Their pricing models are designed to trap someone with a exorbitant bill and you don't have control over it. For example let's say you put an image on a CDN and someone who doesn't like you runs AB for a couple of days making billions of requests to bankrupt you or someone finds a page that runs costly queries and sets up curl against it. No thanks.
What about this measurement: how many TV presenters speaking "broken english" have you seen in the UK? or broken spanish in Spain or broken dutch in Holland? I believe the number is close to zero.
You're mixing up two orthogonal things. Your dichotomy is false, a straw man.

Code overspecifies. As long as there are programmers, the clearest code in the world should still have comments indicating intent. And comments won't save unclear code.
Vectorized conversion from UTF-8 using stdx:SIMD
Vision-based Page Rank Estimation of Websites using Deep Graph Networks
For every example of scrum operating badly there are examples of scrum working well. The common denominator in all of those situations - good and bad - is the project and middle/upper management.
If I had a choice between being better at English and being better at my native language, I'd chose the latter. Realistically though it would be much easier to become less bad at a second language (lot's of low hanging fruit left) than to go from regular to exceptional in you mother tongue.
David Chaum – Godfather of Crypto, Working on Digital Currency Since the 80s
Desperate, is what they are.
> But replace human with a skin color, surely that seems racist.

It also would be illogical: empathy for people of different skill colours is completely rational, because in modern world cooperation with different people is a winning strategy. It doesn't apply to all possible animals the same way.
Indeed, that's why, as Swift insists, we have to "Speak Now" !
Amazon provides Billing Alarms for monitoring charges, which is very useful for anticipating unplanned cost surges:

- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
There is no good way to explain it to them. You do it at the moment the story is told, you're seen as a killjoy and a smartass. You wait until after the meeting to correct the person who told it, and (unless you're really good friends with them) you'll likely offend them ("why would you correct me on something so trivial?!"). You could try and wait a couple of days, and then stage a sudden discovery ("oh, I'll be damned, I just read that $story is not actually true!"), but the objection of would-be offended person is still technically valid - why are you expending so much effort on something so trivial?

So in the end, this stuff gets largely uncorrected.
Even in the US red isn't "bad". Examples being the red sports car, the traditional colour of barns, Protestant church doors, power-on lights on devices, red roses, and Valentine's day hearts.

I think the author is just conflating the commonality of traffic symbols as some deep-rooted, cross cultural phenomena.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange has now been charged with espionage
> I don't agree that empathizing with other species is letting one's empathy run amok.

What's the rational reason to do it? Aside from the fact that it feels good (for a normal, non-sociopathic person). Eating a lot of sugary foods feels good, too.

> I think there is a severe deficit of empathy in Western culture.

I think that there's a mindless overabundance of it.