skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interslavic vocabulary, vocabulary, interslavic

Don't you tell me to usměhati
You stick around, I'll make it zasluženy
maybe have a chat app that only works when the phone is being charged up... Live with me
We can conclude that if we're optimists.
In the scale world, HOCON is very nice. It’s a format designed explicitly for config files, and has a lot of niceties (like you can append files together and they merge correctly, so you don’t have to end up with giant config files)
I think what Moore's law is depends on who you ask. Density makes sense and seems to be holding true, but so does cost/transistor, which hasn't.
Great article on Continuous Integration:
http://www.aosabook.org/en/integration.html
This here is the exact problem. Imagine the world as an IT project, is this how anyone here would run it? Is this how ideas should be communicated? It's so obviously theatre, how so few people can see it boggles the mind.
Is that a constraint? Most of my “actual” contact lists are actually 2-3 max. Foreveralone.jpg
I think an un-focused resume is more a result of the trend we have in most large companies to constantly be accepting resumes even when they aren't really hiring.

And then of course never contacting or following up with those candidates.

So there is obviously little effort put into the review process, so it makes sense that candidates don't make effort to customize their application for each potential company.
Very early Infocom history, maybe even a genesis of the company, can be traced to Robert Supnik (DEC engineering/research, SIMH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMH) porting "Dungeon" to fortran/PDP-11 (LSI-11, pretty much a desktop PC with 2 floppies) in ~1978 to lighten the load of big iron PDP-10 time sharing system : Oral History of Robert Supnik https://youtu.be/lk7ygEZxV9Q?t=2h32m28s
The classic "Foundations of CS" was referred to in my youth as simply "Aho and Ullmann". As I recall, it contained a particularly comprehensive explanation of the construction of parsers, compilers, interpreters and translators.
Nothing much will change (unfortunately) until the fish population crashes, the fishing industry is decimated, and thus there is no-one left to complain when sustainable fishing laws are passed. I really wish it were otherwise.
> So I'd expect that insurance would have gotten the bill in case emergency aid would have become necessary.

In Poland, if you don't pay, then in theory the hospital bill comes to you (as otherwise, there would be no penalty for not paying). In reality, 99.9% is insured one way or another and it's really hard to find someone who actually did not pay the insurance and needed serious/expensive medical help to see what actually happened in his/her case - I've never heard of anyone like that. Also, our consitution says that "the authorities provide equal access to publicly funded medical care, regardless of one's financial situation". Which IMO makes the whole system unconstitutional, but no one bothered to challenge it yet.
Snapchat started like that...
The problem with endtime's argument is that it's a non-sequitur. It comes down to:

> There is a country where government-run healthcare is bad. Therefore a proposed government-run healthcare system is probably also bad.

This simply doesn't follow. I could make the same argument backwards by pointing to a country where government-run healthcare works well, and concluding that therefore universal healthcare in the US is going to be awesome.

endtime is demonstrating his/her sentiment, but does nothing to advance the discussion.
There's a great wiki called The Cutting Room Floor that collects odds and ends found inside video games: remnants of cut content, differences between regions and revisions, and about a thousand examples of this sort of hidden message.

https://tcrf.net/Category:Games_with_hidden_developer_messag...
(original author here) I got inspired to write this post after helping contribute a few chapters to The Holloway Guide to Technical Interviewing and Recruiting, which is in early access and has a more material that might be interesting+relevant to you: https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about (It goes beyond just interviewing, as well, to cover the whole hiring process end-to-end)
Theyre all horrible problems that we should be confronting just because companies use tackling plastic as a scapegoat doesn't mean its still not something we should take on. As long as we remember its not the only problem and theres much more to fix.
Or... They check the charge history and require you haven't used a charger in the past 12 hours...
Don't quit your job until you have found market fit. You can not know that until you have a MVP. So first get a job. Then try to get funding. Then hire people. Preferably You should not risk your own time or money.
This would make a good YouTube channel. Maybe some people would wake up and see what's happening right in front of their eyes.
Visiting Chernobyl Made Me Think Strange Thoughts [video]
That sounds cool but there sure are a lot of apps lately that want you to upload a photo of your face. I can't help wondering which of them are feeding the data into a face recognition system somewhere.
- editable in Emacs easily, there’s a mode for it

- dump it to SQL and version control that, if you must use Git
I'm not signed in to Google, I'm using desktop Firefox, and I see reviews. Maybe this is something they are testing? Or just a bug?
I've used Fire[0] for a few projects and have been meaning to give Click a try, but I'm not sure I like the syntax after reading through the article (holy moly decorators). Seems unwieldy to me, but does anyone have experience with both?

[0] https://github.com/google/python-fire
I am waiting for the app (or the browser plugin) that let me post only if I am sober enough. "Don't and post".
I would actually pay for an app that will broadcast my “low-battery death” automatically to the few chats i use all the time.
This article is 25 pages and calls itself the NICE VERSION. The author also has a 48 page version and so I'll assume that it isn't so nice.

http://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_of...

Reading it, the un-nice version is more Hollywood centric. The 25 page version distills what the author has to say better for people outside of Hollywood.
This isn't really a criticism of the core idea to just say "what if somebody built it stupidly low", traffic lights have been fine my entire life and maybe some highways will have to be skipped or doubled for NASA/ military purposes.
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Not sure that’s true in northern Minnesota (USA). All the original pine forests were cut down by roughly 100 years ago, so all lumber now is second (or more!) generation. I don’t think this is a mystery to anyone there. But I’m curious - it sounds like you’re referring to people with whom you’ve had first-hand contact. Where is that?
Upload an image, then supply email to see results. What is this doing on Hackernews?
Twitter's 140 character constraint wasn't artificial in the beginning. Twitter was meant to be used through SMS and that was the maximum message size.
Of course. If you define a term differently than the majority, you'll find to wonder why everyone uses that term incorrectly (from your PoV). "Western" with a capital W is different from "western" with a lower-case W. Insisting that people only use the latter definition is just pedantry.
Quantum Computing with Semiconductor Spins
There's also another language designed to be understandable by most Slavic speakers [0]. For some reason, the authors of both seem to hate each other. [1]

[0] http://www.slovio.com/

[1] http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/introduction.html#disclaime...
You could sail a barge through the holes in their privacy policy.
You may enjoy https://www.blackboxpuzzles.com/ :)
The fact that you put "metadata" in quotes illustrates the problem.
I agree with HOCON being nice based on personal usage but I haven't seen an in depth analysis of it. This is the canonical parser for JVM based languages — https://github.com/lightbend/config, are there many other implementations that are widely used?
Pixelbooks can run most Debian packages, so I've heard, and container work seems to be in the code base. I'm planning to try one out to see if it makes sense for the non devs at my company. Not allowing windows machines because security.
This seems to be a review of Julia as a general-purpose programming language. For example the reviewer points out early that the review is not targeted at people who like Matlab's syntax.

So this reads a little bit like yet another review of a math DSL, written by and for people who don't need or like math DSLs.

Not surprisingly, it comes out negative.
Hiring based only on merit is a good way to get a company full of assholes.
> Nothing that other compilers cannot get if there is willingness and enough money to throw at improving them.

Could you consider switching to another quote? I've read that one at least half a dozen times. I promise I will not annoy people here by picking one from the millions of quotes out there that report that C (or similar) is a good abstraction level to develop efficient and maintainable software.

To put that quote in perspective anyway, the way I'm reading it isn't even that other (managed) languages can meaningfully rival C in its core strengths. It seems to be more about how interest in improving those managed languages faded (at that time) and the state of the art of compiling those languages regressed..

And regarding "endless money spent in C compiler optimization", neither is UB extremely interesting for optimization nor is optimization extremely interesting for already well-written programs. (I have only my own humble experience so can't really back this up. But question, when was the last time you got a 10x difference between -O0 and -O2?).

(I've disagreed with quite a few of your comments recently. Just wanted to let you know that the last thing I did was upvote some of your comments ;-])
So your argument is that because the whole field is junk credibility doesn't matter anyway?

Economics may be far from a science but that doesn't mean all ideas are equal within it.

Marxist economics happen to be one of the few ideas that is so obviously ridiculous that it fails to meet basic tests for applicability to the real world that other theories meet even if they are all unprovable and subjective.

As an aside everytime it has been tried at scale millions have died awful deaths.
Jira may not be the best example. It's absolute slow, crufty garbage of a web product. It's possibly the slowest, crustiest website I visit each day.
Terminal patient chat app?

(Actually sounds like a good way to connect people with others going through something they're going through.)
Not sure what algorithm you use for encryption, but 21 doesn't look like a prime. Maybe run a Miller Rabin test on it? ;)
would it be good that YouTube and Facebook recommend the other side of story to you when you read your news?
I've wondered about this a while ago: Is it possible to do real work on an android or chromebook device.

I'm on trains, busses, ... a lot, in general without internet. And I just take a laptop. Dont care about mac win or linux. I do some bookkeeping in a spreadsheet, or some programming, I write some text.

I hate to do anything productive on this (cheap) smartphone. No keyboard or mouse, basic software is missing,... It's great for consuming content, for a quick search or checking a map. But as soon as I want to do something, it all falls apart experience-wise. So I waste time in a game or HN when im on a bus, instead of doing something I like or have to.

So how do you people do it?
I think it's horses for courses. JSON I guess is the best for interchange i.e machine to machine, but I never want to edit it by hand; XML is relatively easy to read but can be quite painful to edit raw, but it can be quite easy to develop a structures editor. I’d favour it for document persistence. YAML is fine for configuration files but I would be careful about how I apply it and would always provide it as a heavily documented templated config file. YAML when used correctly is by far the easiest to edit in the clear, with a plain text editor. With that said, I would try to get away with basic namespaces properties files first before I’d go that far ...
I guess this is one app that won't get away with running a crypto miner in the background.
they are genuine. most of my friends hold same view.
You wont know that, you will provide the tools and also new accounts will have assurance and regenerate confidence in the system

So we have moved from concluding that bitcoin use is an irreparably flawed concept to a method of maintaining viability of the concept
Turning the Tide on Climate Change with Green Sand Beaches [pdf]
> Zork was updated about a dozen separate times between 1980 and 1984, to add polish and/or to fix bugs.

It's funny how my first passing thought was "pushed-to-clients", but no, they had to batch bug fixes, QA, regression test (probably manual play?), see if it all fit back on floppies, create a master image, mail to factory, update printed literature and box design with version numbers, have retail boxed product delivered to Babbages (or whatever), possibly with instructions for removal of old inventory.

Hard to fathom just how much easier it is to iterate in this age.
Why is this being posted? It was written 3 years ago, has been discussed before on this site, and the language has changed enormously in those 3 years.
Ask HN: Why cant I simply buy a book in Audible‘s app?
i mean if we can go to the moon...surely we can achieve this?
This sounds pretty viable, and very cost effective. Any climate scientists want to chime in?
Bought it today :)
Ask HN: What jobs have a fair amount of programming, but aren't “career” jobs?
I like to program for a living, but I'd like to do it without facing the pressures of moving up the ranks to management, or to lead this project, or mentor people, or initiate an important business move.

What kind of programming jobs should I look for, that are not anchored to a career mindset of growth?

I'm fine just programming in the trenches to solve technical challenges, and am into learning new tools and languages over time. I go from job to job, at smallish companies, feel out the company (which doesn't take long once I find similarities with past jobs), stay for about 1.5 to 2 years and then move on to the next job.

I just have this other requirement: I want to keep working for companies/institutions, and have a boss. I am NOT interested in going freelance.
I've helped many rural locations get online. If you want to email me your address, I can see if there are more reasonable options available to you than $500k.

Email in profile.
The colors for "really old" and "unknown" shouldn't be so similar.
Maybe you should pay for a power bar instead ;)
Intriguing.
hahahaha yes :)
How about an unindexable anonymous drunkweb that runs separately from the regular web?

Maybe we can reserve part of IPv6 for this?
Atari email archive – Collection of messages sent at Atari from 1983 to 1992
Based on the examples in the article, explicitly writing a line for each CLI option seems like excessive boilerplate and verbosity that Fire manages to sidestep completely. To me, this is the principal point of using a Python library to create CLIs. Am I missing something?
Numerics heavy computation. Replacement of numpy, matlab,r,tensorflow and to some extent mathematica.
Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains in 15 Years – The Security Ledger
Interesting! I have been thinking about a similar "average Germanic" language, but I don't really have enough linguistics background to pull that off yet.

Also, I have very roughly compared the Slavic languages to see which one I could learn to be able to communicate with people of most Slavic languages[0] and decided that Slovak was the most "average" language so I am planning to learn that. Too bad there's no Slovak Duolingo yet.

[0] Not "most people of Slavic languages", which would obviously mean Russian.
The point where this becomes annoying is, when you're building a third party app or experience that is designed to be embedded in an iframe. Not a hidden iframe to track users, or for advertizing, but as a first-class experience, which can be embedded and displayed on a page on a different domain, and interacted with by users.

I wish the latest round of privacy restrictions (which I think are overall a decent idea) would take these use cases into account, or at least allow a mechanism to request the user's permission to use third party cookies for sites they trust.

Native apps have pretty robust permissioning systems. Why shouldn't websites?

(For context, these are some of the things we use at PayPal to build embeddable cross-domain components: https://medium.com/@bluepnume/introducing-paypals-open-sourc...)
Russophone here, I can understand most texts, although some words require me to take a few seconds to “parse”.
base on personal experience, Chinese can be surprised to learn Americans would criticized the president, but won't be surprised to learn Americans can criticize the president with no repercussions. Otherwise, Hollywood is doing a very bad job.
> I think it's disappointing that Julia is not meant for CLI scripting. IMO it has failed to live up to its manifesto (https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia) of being a general-purpose language that can "have it all".

I think it’s still early in the languages development to say that. There isn’t any fundamental reasons Julia couldn’t be tuned to be better at CLI scripting. Currently it’s what, 400ms to startup, which isn’t too terrible but could be made faster. I could see using the Julia debugger as an interpreter for CLI scripts. Or if you run a script a lot it’s possible to have Julia compile an executable. Personally I use it in mainly via notebooks or a repl.
> it means that Swift and Clojure are just as useless as Julia for numerous use cases where start-up times matter

Or that different languages require different approaches, and you can't translate 1:1 between technologies. My Mac starts up 27x slower than my C=64, but that doesn't make it useless for any task that requires turning it on.

> We're not talking about web frameworks, these are _general purpose_ programming languages

Are we? I've never written a line of Julia in my life but the impression that I get is that this isn't intended to be a general-purpose language:

> Of course, one might argue that Julia is not intended to be a general-purpose programming language, but a language for numerical computing.

> As has been pointed out elsewhere “Base APIs outside of the niche Julia targets often don’t make sense” and the general-purpose APIs are somewhat limited.

The Julia webpage has 6 tabs listing features, and 5 of them are about numerics. The 6th says "General Purpose", but it's mostly about FFI.
If you want help with getting the costs down for fiber builds, hit me up. Email in profile.
Go 0-60 in 3s to activate.
Why would they use a unique id unless they intending to track or deliver unique JS payloads to each user?

Edit: Especially frightening given allegations of FSB ties that other users pointed out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations...
It works in Desktop. Try the mobile app.
This series of photos from a Key West fishing tour company really drives it home: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...
I’ve only ever found click to be a waste of time compared to just using argparse. The extra concision you get from decorator syntax just doesn’t matter and you introduce another dependency and need to go into the relatively poor click documentation (especially if you end up with a longterm dependency on old versions of click). Just not worth it.
Standuply: Making $80K a Month with a Slack App
It's near-100% intelligible for a Russian speaker:
http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/selo.html

> кде мы знајемо всих и јесмо знајеми од всих

Funny enough, this reads like "old Slavic" to me, rather than "new Slavic" :)
As a Czech, can confirm it’s fairly understandable.
While I like your article a lot, as I said in another comment, I disagree about some conclusions.

In my opinion, big groups are the cancer of life sciences academia. It's not just me who thinks that. If you look into all the organizational research that HHMI did prior to setting up Janelia Labs, they essentially concluded that CSHL, LMB and Bell Labs were so successful in the past because groups were small and all funding was internal (which implies you no longer need PIs, you can go back to classical professors).

The vast majority of the big PIs I have worked or interacted with (and that includes Cambridge, Oxford, EMBL, Karolinska, MIT and other places) are pure rent seekers, literally. They bet on some postdocs or PhDs and simply stamp their name as last authors if there is a publication. However, they rarely have any insights on what is being done. Sometimes they don't even understand it at all. So no value added, just profit. Unless you count as value chairing conference calls, calling editors to negotiate publication terms or discussing funding with agencies (most grants are actually written by senior postdocs, despite what author lists indicate).

That's when things go well. When personal issues pop up, they can screw up their subordinates big time. I have witnessed this many times. After all, grads and postdocs are just pawns in their chessboard.

Such an organization is at odds with classical academia, where your professor (not PI) was your mentor and you would engage into endless discussions about science with him. Other fields retain some of this approach, but in life sciences it is lost.
There are people with more than 5 friends?!
Perhaps your arguments would be more persuasive if you didn't immediately label anyone who disagrees with you a "fanboi".
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Here you get perch on a Friday fish fry and there aren't really bones to worry about. The issue really is that the fillets are small.

(I'm talking about Lake Michigan Perch)
Facebook switched from PHP to Python? That's new to me.
missing SQLite
Which one of those mystical charms do you suppose made the volcano explode?
This book is such a gem. I really liked the one about async by Guido
> The above hello world example in Julia uses 18x more memory than Python and 92x more memory than the C version.

Again, I'm left wondering if this is proportional, or simply an X megabyte overhead of the runtime. Maybe it's even shared among all running programs, as some runtimes are. Or it looks like maybe stdio could be just particularly bad in Julia, and in practice I've never written a program for any environment where that was my performance bottleneck.

Performance is not easy to measure, and not easy to report. A single number makes a good headline but it's really not enough information.
Than you should consider learning this interslavic language. You would be able to communicate in all Slavic countries and you would sound equally funny in all of them.