skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>On Monday, Councilwoman KaShamba Miller-Anderson, the chairwoman of the board, asked Justin Williams, the interim information technology manager, for something seemingly simple. Could the elected officials’ new email addresses be posted online for the public to get in touch with them?

>Underscoring the enormity of the city’s troubles, Mr. Williams explained that the webmaster hoped to get to that soon.

>“He’s been working very feverishly to get that done,” Mr. Williams said.

...the webmaster is working feverishly to post a static piece of text to a website? I guess it really is hard to fire government workers.
Depends if the vacuum tubes are shielded. ;)
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For my purposes, voice chat is not a useful feature. I want our team's communications to be in text form so that we can communicate asynchronously, people don't have to be online at the same time and it's easy to read back through what has been said previously. I'm communicating with people all around the world, a very different use case to a team all working in the same office or time zone.
I wonder if this test is trying to detect something else than what it pretends to be. Dislexya, mispellings... It didn't feel like a vocabulary test.
Check out forge.laravel.com, it's a tool for spinning up droplets, you could connect it to digital ocean or vultr.

For a basic project you could go with a $5 Digital Ocean Droplet.

You can sign up for forge with a 14 day trial, create your droplet and then cancel forge if this is a one time thing. You would still have access to your droplet through ssh, sftp and connecting to the database. But it's nice to have forge for creating servers when you need them and deployments.

Forge saves you the time of configuring your droplet, installing ubuntu, etc.

Performance and security on digital ocean is going to be better than a shared host.
I think China underestimated the readiness of Western companies to move out. The notion has been that these big companies are locked into these big Chinese factories and can't leave.

But the reality is that these factories, often as the insistence of the Chinese government, are merely contract manufacturers. If another factory can be located somewhere else at a competitive price, moving production isn't as big a deal as if the company actually owned the factory.
I think it's just clockwise vs counterclockwise.
Trump was dealt a very strong hand given the global macroeconomic state, and he had no compunction about playing it to achieve nationalistic goals.

It’s wading into ideological territory not best treaded on HN, but IMO tariffs are an important tool in the arsenal, and they are being used to good effect here. The upcoming G-20 summit will be an important data point on whether we are going to see a beneficial resolution soon.

I think China is doing the math on whether a Democrat President will be less likely to wield the cudgel of tariffs so strongly, and if they can afford to wait it out, it would be much more effective if the tariffs were a bipartisan effort. Obviously that was never going to happen.
Considering IT hubs like Bangalore[1] and Chennai[2] are running out of water, most prefer emigration.

[1]https://www.news18.com/news/india/on-verge-of-acute-water-cr...
[2]https://www.livemint.com/industry/infotech/work-from-home-re...
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84% - 0%: Non native speaker. Have to brag :) And I beat my native speaker partner who had 86% - 13% = 73%. :)
88% with 1 false positive, but it was 'wargish' which I think should be accepted as a real word.

To be fair, I did also hit yes for words that I could work out the greek/latin roots for.

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I know the intent of this test, but English has a special problem in that there is no real definition of what is and is not an English word. For example, there are a large number of words on this test that come directly from another language and are used as a term of art in a specific field.

See: mora, furuncle, cercal

Then you get transliterations like dacoit.

Are units of currency automatically English: piastre

Another genre is words that may be technically English, but would never be used - see delegable (delegatable would be used)

Then you have several alternate spellings from British English/American English/alternative transliterations.
Is your objection primarily to FB controlling the cryptocurrency, or to the idea of (any) cryptocurrency threatening the USD?
I'm not a lawyer, but I would consider revisiting your icon[0]. It looks identical to Patreon's[1] with a period/full-stop. On a technical note, this looks pretty cool and may have helped me hold off on ditching my mac products if I knew about it sooner!

[0] https://pock.dev/assets/img/brand/pock_logo_w.png

[1] https://c5.patreon.com/external/logo/guidelines/icon_color_v...
Damn, that's... phrases like "searing injustice" don't adequately convey the gravity of it.

I can't imagine living in such a situation. One day, you're a fine and valued member of society. And then your (often much older) husband dies, and it is all gone. You have nothing, and you are worth nothing to the rest of society, because you aren't even allowed to earn anything.
This was an earlier comment that disappeared. Frankly I ask myself consistently "what net value does Facebook add to the world?" other than being a 100% optional vice.
I wouldn't mind having a low mileage used F-16. F-4 is too old though and and is a gas guzzler.
This is stupid... I love it.
Have you ever been to a modern Chinese factory? They are ridiculously well automated already.
It's genuinely less hassle. Where do I park my bike? How do I prevent it from being stolen? It got a flat tire, what do I do? These seem like simple questions but bike sharing provides such a simple solution to them, plus more: you caught a ride to the park but don't want to pay for a taxi back? Missed the bus? Need to get to a meeting a few blocks away but don't want to arrive sweaty from a run? The answer is there's a share bike already within sight of you that you can rent for (literally) pennies in seconds.

(They're also pretty heavy for anything but short distances and not always in great condition. And at least in Berlin where I lived you can get your own bike for $50 or so, which I had. But I still like the idea.)
84% but penalized 3% for saying "steepy" is a word.
No one else has workers that work for a pittance

Africa. Bangladesh. Haiti. India(?) Look for where the clothing manufacturers have moved.

Most people who can be trained to run a stitching machine can be trained to work on an electronics assembly line.
Accessibility is much more of a design (to design accessible experiences) and legal challenge (to defend your experiences as compliant in the face of malicious litigation and vague laws) than it is an engineering one. Yes, we can solve the technical problem fairly easy, but that won’t reduce compliance costs very much, if at all.
This is quite a silly threat as it would reduce brain drain. Cool, go ahead, keep smart Indians in India while also not spying on Indian citizens because their data is also kept in India. Win-win for India.
Netflix ‘would lose 57% of their subscribers if they added commercials’
I haven’t voted either way, but do you have a reference for this claim?
I can't help think Tesla instigated all this kind of stuff.
maybe state governments should preempt this and make it illegal for municipalities or state agencies to pay ransoms, so they are less attractive targets
How would requiring information be stored in the country prevent corruption?

Countries can already demand any business records of their citizens from a business as a condition of doing business in that country or citizens.

The US requires that any fin business that does business with US Citizens report to the United States government or be cut off from the US financial system. A lot of international banks responded by closing the accounts of Americans rather than deal with the costs of compliance.
Do they have one or they let you kinda-sorta simulate using one like IBM?
I am not sure exchanging one walled garden for an even higher walled garden is good practice.
Dear Apple, as a Vim user, the only thing that will get me to buy your touchbar macbook is a stamp that says "Made in the USA". I will learn Emacs to buy that laptop.
It's my understanding that the combined capabilities in China's major manufacturing cities is unique in the world, and no other place can so readily spin up a new factory.
I've read probably around 500 books in my life (and I'm 30), and I only got 70% with zero false positives.

I think it depends on the type of books one reads, not quantity.
It would be a good thing in the long term. Too many programming jobs are taken up by things like this, especially jobs for fresh college grads. I wouldn't mind harsh limitations on all software offshoring/worker importing in general.
When you have to ship in 100 parts to make the phone that shipping efficiency disappears.

The auto manufacturers make it work. Japanese, German, and Korean car makers all have factories in the U.S.
Not specific to Slack (we use MS teams) but the concept of a channel/group/team is great for white noise comms, these types of comms are going to happen (e.g happy birthday) and if it reduces email load (which means the email channel can then be kept for higher priority comms and record keeping especially for later searching), it’s a good thing IMO.
"This site has been suspended for copyright violations."

I assume this happened in the last 8 hours or so..
I agree and in a more enlightened future I hope we can assess companies like this on their net benefit to society and apply penalties when they act in a way that negatively affects society.
You mean Core Impact? =).
You won't be facing these kinds of delays in China.

On day one, China has this advantage.

But on day 300? It's not like there is no company in the United States That can ever make the matching screw.
Command clicking a link will also open it in a new tab.
87% and no false positives. Native speaker. Fun!
> This is the first time (TMK) that a cloud provider is bringing RT cores into the market.

Your knowledge is incomplete. T4 has been available in google cloud for many months.
Games testing isn't a technical role. Anyone can do it. It's a minimum wage job with no real qualifications.
They are not going to run out of water. I was born and raised in Bangalore, Have been in places around Bangalore all life. And water struggles have been forever.

Bangalore has water infrastructure problems, not water shortages. We will fix them in time, like we always have.
I mean remove the value judgement.

>nothing is worth anything

Very zen, worth rethinking the value of this statement too.

Take away the shallow value judgements like 'just' and you better get to the real quality differences.

Take away the shallow value judgements like 'just' and you start conversations about the depth of a thing instead of emotional discussions defending your positions.
As the saying goes, I'll believe their processor is doing quantum computing when someone like Scott Aaronson says so.
I'm Australian, and I would never recommend that someone learn English by listening to one of my countrymen. We are lazy, nasal, slurred speakers. Standard English or American are much more preferable.
I felt smart having only missed 9 real words. Then I went to look them up. The definition for affricate made me feel real stupid again when I didn't understand almost every third word in the Google provided definition:

>a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation
Let's say i want to predict an output `C` by multiplying two distributions `A``B` = `C`.

Assuming I am just guessing at the distribution of `A` and `B` (Uniform? Bernoulli? Geometric? Log-Normal?), would I get a better estimate by just multiplying `mean(A)` `mean(B)` ?

Point values suck. However, predicting the mean is often possible/realistic. And I feel like I am taking wild guess when describing a distribution of a data set to be honest.

TLDR:
What results in better prediction/guestimate? multiplying incorrect probability distributions? Or multiplying more-correct means/point values?
If that were true then why are they all in East Asia, all with people around 100 IQ?
More like one time elimination of bad blood, imposters and job tourists. A temporary struggle, then a gradual climb back to serious work, with serious people. It might not be at the same scale as it is now. But people will still write code.
Russian, 66% counting the 7% penalty for non-words.
Even though I have a 2017 MBP 13" with the Escape key, I still use Ctrl-[ to change modes in Vim. I'm not a fan of the Touch Bar, but it probably wouldn't interfere with my Vim workflow.
Holy Crap! Thank you, I never use capslock and now I never will! Still vote to add a physical key in the top left.... please....
It's my understanding that the combined capabilities in China's major manufacturing cities is unique in the world

Unique today. But what about tomorrow? It's not like another country can't do the same thing. There's nothing inherently Chinese about opening a factory quickly. Another country or two will learn how to do it, just as the Chinese did.
Good books on this are 'Digital Minimalism' and 'How to break up with your phone'. I get worried that at some point toddlers growing up with tablets from day one will be unable to function as in normal society and most interactions will be completely made up of people staring at a screens.
Yeah, I don't see how this is bad thing for the Indian government. They can prevent brain drain. However, it's a very bad thing for Indians in the US and US employers.
Name got me the other day. I was writing typescript and not even targeting the browser but I guess I had browser globals in the .d.ts

I had a string like "Hello ${name}" and it would compile but crash at runtime.

Wasted a whole day, learned a lot about why even with great tools the JS ecosystem still has some fundamental crap at the bottom.
I said should. He's branded himself as a critic of quantum computing... this take of his gave me whiplash. Is he... gushing?
Thank you! I'm serious, I bought several books and inquired of VMS experts (on usenet, that long ago) looking for anything about VMS executable format. This is the first hint I've gotten.
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There were words like "bate" and "earliness" that I figured could have worked and would be legal but considered they could have been made up. Still happy with 79% - 0% as native English ( well Aussie)
Thanks for this. I never use the touchbar on my macbook. It's been years and I only use it for esc and sometimes the volume.
What kind of price differential would you pay?
I know companies selling into China are at a disadvantage. Tesla is moving to build batteries/cars inside China because of China's huge tariffs.
Furthermore, people were not climbing a fence to get into concentration camps.
Listen again. The British one pronounces "ai" differently, and the American ones put emphasis on different syllables.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
I know they are well automated, hence question 1.
Simple supply and demand. If the demand for women exceeded the supply of women, then the naturally result is a bidding war for the available women that would drive up their salary. The fact that women in this industry don't make more than men disproves the idea that companies are currently prioritizing the hiring of women to an extent that the talent pool of available women cannot meet.
I remapped that way, and had to go back.

I work on a lot of different computers in a week, and some of them aren't mine, so it's more useful for me to stick to the default map instead of getting things wrong on half of the machines.
I wouldn't feel bad...those (phoneme, plosive, fricative, spirant, and affricate) are specialized vocabulary words from a specific domain (linguistics). I only know them because I have an interest in the topic. Other than phoneme, they describe how words are pronounced and/or formed in the mouth.
Movable MRIs exist, but they're trailer-sized: you not only need to move the magnet (probably a superconductor, which then needs usually needs cryogens to keep it superconducting too), but all the shielding too.
Master Card and Visa are failing, because we have something better in place.

BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) developed by National Payments Corporation of India.

- Transferring money from one personal account to any new account (adding a beneficiary account) would take more than 4 hours.

- One needs to login each and every time to transfer money.

- There is a chance of forgetting password and account being locked on multiple tries.

- Extra charges for transferring money.

All this problems were solved by BHIM new UPI (Unified Payments Interface).

- Linking bank account with app (takes less than 1 minute)

- Transferring money doesn't have any extra charges

- No password, but 4 to 6 digit pin for transaction.

- Safe, transaction can be done only from mobile which is linked with bank.

Additional benefits,

There is no need to give personal information, one can provide UPI address or Virtual UPI address.

In Google Pay app,

If my Gmail account is xyz@gmail.com

Then my UPI would be, xyz@ok{bankname}

If my bank is SBI,Then my UPI is xyz@oksbi

Mentioning this address, anybody can make a payment or request one.

Edit: Formatting
Ahhh I have handoff disabled (I cant stand getting phone calls on my laptop)
Notifications are easy, do many companies really use more advanced bots?
Our outsourced front end team has 6 people in India and one person in the US to provide management/coordination. As we are getting more offshore folks we will also be getting another onshore person from India.
The cost of learning Emacs.
I think you misunderstood the parent comment. Putting caps on H1B visas isn’t a good way for India to stimulate it’s own startup ecosystem, because the claim is that many Founders are returning to India after a stint with H1B.

Capping H1B is classic Trump and threatening to cap it based on complaisance with a particular pro-US policy goal, doubly so.

Fundamentally, Trump believes America has tremendous amounts of value that it “gives away” too freely to competing countries in terms of access to our education, employment, and markets (visas and trade). He’s willing to leverage the value of cheap visas and cheap trade to obtain foreign policy goals.
Right, because college grads in STEM fields are just really struggling to get good high paying jobs right now.
Look, virtually nowhere in the public sector is security taken seriously. And nowhere in local government is security taken seriously. City governments might as well be pinatas... the way their budgets work, they'd never be able to replace large systems that were compromised. Without legislation banning them from paying, paying the ransom is likely really appealing to them. Security should be bumped up, but let's face it... that's not going to happen given how nobody who knows anything about tech would be caught dead working for local government. So many things have to change.
There’s a difference when most all the parts are manufactured within 2km of the production facility
They're a credible political news source that never normally covers anything like this, which makes it that much more interesting.
China’s average IQ is 105 to 107. Even if you think their factory workers are below average they are probably higher than 100.
Bangladesh. Nixon sent an aircraft carrier group to prevent India from helping them gain independence from Pakistan. During the crisis, the Pakistani military, whose high command was mostly Punjabi, engaged in what was arguably state-sanctioned mass murder and rape against Bengalis.
That's easy to say, but if the deployment server is down you might not be able to do it easily, and if you try to do it manually you need credentials which were stored on in a text file on another server that's down... etc.
I'm guessing 1971, the Bangladesh/Pakistan split and war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide
Why do you expect the demand for women to be different from the demand for similarly qualified men?
Pretty sure that’s illegal.
Because without community, what value do job markets have? Life is more than working until you die. Only the rich have the luxury of something more the way cities are headed. This is worth fighting for. If you don’t start with values, you have nothing.

Anyway it’s somewhat of a moot point because you can preserve communities and still build—just not with market-driven rents and landlord-owned cities. And not everyone can have what they want and live where they want. It’s worth it.
I didn't see how to estimate the size of your vocabulary, I just saw a percentage. Did I miss something? Like I want to know something like, based on your answers were estimate you know 8311 words.

Edit: oops replied to wrong parent
What's the differential between an Apple laptop purchase and no Apple laptop purchase?
Yeah, just look at Tesla.
A. Check out archive.org and look for old basic computer game books. Your kids can tackle all the games in JS, Ruby or whatever. Plenty of code to "look" at and it gets them thinking on how xyz work in language A and B.

B. Leveling up will happen naturally when they see a problem and want a solution for it.
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Nice explanation of the end goal of all "Spiritual" practices i.e. "freedom from ALL mental conditioning". The "Tantriks" come at this from the "negative" side of our psyche rather than through the socially acceptable practices. In a way, these practices are more powerful since "taboos" are psychologically deep-seated and hard to overcome.

A simple experiment that i often use to show people the power of mental conditioning is to lay down a picture of their favourite/personal god/deity and ask them to deliberately step on it with their foot (extra points if they do it with shoes on!). Almost everybody recoils and will not do it and the ones who attempt it (out of a sense of "need to win the argument in the heat of the moment", a classic example of ego temporarily overcoming conditioning) still feel bad about it for days afterwards until they do a "good deed" to balance away "the sin". It is illuminating when you think about it and brings home the point that "everything is in your head".
It may be a little exaggerated (or not, depending on who you ask), but I think they're referring to the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. The US was largely complicit on this due to their favorable foreign policy towards Pakistan at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide
Exactly, Thailand and Vietnam are already on the ramp up phase and they've gotten sophisticated enough for companies like Intel to establish a manufacturing facility in Vietnam. Evidently, training the labor and building infrastructure is possible, albeit not as competitive as China, and it is only a matter of time for others to follow.
Great, now they have encouragement to do it again.
I hack on the Android operating system. Without shared libraries, the system would fall over and die pretty much instantly, and Zygote helps only a little. Static linking the world is a luxury one can only afford in cornucopian backend environments where one can just throw money at resource limitations. On mobile, we have to work with the hardware we have. Economy is still important --- that's why I love it. Constraints breed creativity.

* Speaking in my own capacity
It is saying what percent of ALL words you know. So just take the total count of English words and multiply by your percentage.
96%. The two I missed were misclicks (e.g., I accidentally hit ‘no’ on ‘parboil.’)

A number of those were intuition, though.