skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grammar Nazi: One who uses refined vocabulary, correct grammar, constantly finds themselves correcting grammar and spelling (in forums, chatrooms, tumblr, YouTube, etc.)

Language change denier: As above, sans "Nazi" reference.
Yes, and I appreciate you refererencing the specific cases, because my main point, is that that is what matters. It is the jurisprudence that defines what limitations are allowed. Vendors will constantly claim "licenses" and "limitations" that are not supported by jurisprudence and would not likely hold up in court.
Income inequality is weakly correlated with everything. It seems to be a necessary consequence of both the most and least prosperous societies.

Honestly, income inequality is a red herring of left politics and public schooling. If the most prosperous societies have high income inequality, then the question must be asked: does it matter?

Unless you want to design a utopia. That goes swimmingly every time, I promise.

Edit: If income inequality is a consequence of freedom, it's a very, very tiny price to pay. Don't optimize for the economy. Optimize for freedom. Empirically, that's how you create prosperity.
And yet the largest D codebases (which are also the ones that make companies money) are the proprietary ones which give companies a competitive edge. It's hard to imagine there's no innovation going on there.

https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html
You might be overestimating your skill level. Let's see what you think after your first serious crash.
And how do you know what to buy?
Jesus... This is a very representative example of what happens when technology is not used in a democratic way, and when it is. It can be abused as much as it could be used for the public benefit
I haven't researched it yet, but I've been guessing/wondering that relying on logfile stats like these removes GDPR cookie notification requirements for your site. I should probably finalize my understanding of that one way or the other. :)
I have seen two similar “company-specific” languages in my relatively short career:

The first is MUMPS, primarily used in the healthcare industry. The second was the Mason templating language used at Amazon, which allowed inline integration with Perl, similar to PHP, ASP, JSP, ERB, etc. Both were wildly frustrating to work with because the real knowledge was all tribal, they didn’t integrate easily with anything, and they seemed like a waste to learn since I knew the knowledge was not transferable.

The commonality to any language used primarily in a single industry is that it is dead on arrival. As soon as the original maintainer is gone the language freezes. Things the maintainer may have considered bugs become specs, things to-be-done never are, and no one can be truly at the helm when the language needs to respond to change over time.

A company/industry is not in a good position to maintain a language, they simply use languages as-is to solve their problems. Think of it as the industry considering expenditures on improving the language as capex, and a company doesn’t spend capex unless it has clear bottom-line justification. “The devs are unhappy” is not such a justification, certainly one not understood by accounting.

I know this isn’t always the case though, are there such languages that seem to be thriving?
bitcoin fixes this
thread on email @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20800439
Yep, also be sure to read to the end of the article to get other caveats and criticisms.
Rupert Murdoch runs the US, UK, and Aus.

we have as much corruption as you, its just our politicians have learnt how to hide it.
Turboramjet
Copenhagen is bike friendly. Amsterdam is bike friendly. NYC and especially hilly SF are neither bike friendly. At best they are bike tolerant :)
>made it feel like an outside consultancy slapped some “Material” design on a pre-built app and called it a day.

Google's replacement motto for "Don't be evil" is "Launch and forget."
Mmm it’s not that far in France a TPE is below 10, a PME between 10 and 250, ETI between 250 and 5000 and a GE above 5000.

500 is almost PME which stands for Petites et Moyennes Entreprises, literally small and medium sized business.
Here are a few examples: https://jasoncollins.blog/2016/06/29/re-reading-kahnemans-th...

I would just avoid factoids from psychology altogether for the next few years while the researchers in that field sort everything out. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psycholo...

Worse, some of the famous studies aren't merely underpowered or based on nonrepresentative samples (like college kids) or sloppily executed — some famous studies are outright fraudulent. https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...
The dividend payment isn't unexpected - we all knew it would happen on that day. But since it's in the past now instead of the future, the stock is going to be paying out ($X - $d) instead of $X in what remains of the company's life.
not sure why you are getting downvoted, the EU guideline recommends to define SMBs as <= 250 people and the German equivalent KMU is defined as <= 500 people
What is humorous to me is that Google is hurting users who typically have the most influence over SaaS integrations at their company (managers) by taking away a tool that helped them deal with the part of their job most of them hate the most (hiring/recruiting).

If it hasn't been obvious yet to managers watching this, Google's software is not a safe investment for you to make for your company. It is only a matter of time until you will suddenly have to divert your time to figuring out how to migrate away from a Good Tool to a Less Good Tool because Google built it well then took it away. Swapping a tool like this is an abysmal resource sink for you and your company.

This is not the first, second, third, fourth or even fifth time this has happened, but this one should hit close to home.

Google's software is not a safe investment for you to make for your company.
We had it implemented for quite sometime, but later on moved to a different platform as it had issues in correctly parsing historical logs. We did try to hack it and wrote some scripts to zcat, output/ merge but in vain.

Overall, it is fast, intuitive and customizable.
On the second point, whether ¹³C can be used as a signal to differentiate fracked vs. non-fracked gas, the paper [1] does discuss this a bit. This seems to be the key paragraph:

Several studies have suggested that the δ¹³C signal of methane from shale gas can often be lighter (more depleted in ¹³C) than that from conventional natural gas (Golding et al., 2013; Hao and Zou, 2013; Turner et al., 2017; Botner et al., 2018). This should not be surprising. In the case of conventional gas, the methane has migrated over geological time frames from the shale and other source rocks through permeable strata until trapped below a seal (Fig. 2a). During this migration, some of the methane can be oxidized both by bacteria, perhaps using iron (III) or sulfate as the source of the oxidizing power, and by thermochemical sulfate reduction (Whelan et al., 1986; Burruss and Laughrey, 2010; Rooze et al., 2016). This partial oxidation fractionates the methane by preferentially consuming the lighter ¹²C isotope and gradually enriching the remaining methane in ¹³C (Hao and Zou, 2013; Baldassare et al., 2014), resulting in a δ¹³C signal that is less negative. The methane in shales, on the other hand, is tightly held in the highly reducing rock formation and therefore very unlikely to have been subject to oxidation and the resulting fractionation. The expectation, therefore, is that methane in conventional natural gas should be heavier and less depleted in ¹³C than the methane in shale gas.

[1] https://www.biogeosciences.net/16/3033/2019/
I have read reports online of people succeeding with this method using paper flashcards.

However, like you, I wonder:

- are these reports true?

- even if they are true, has the child just memorised a small section of each particular grouping?

Of course, this trick wouldn't work if a parent is using my online tool, as the patterns of dots are pseudo-random, so the same number is unlikely to have the same representation on subsequent views.
the EU guidelines says <= 250 employees, Germany's KMU is defined as <= 500 employees
Interesting essay.

Related to time anxiety, Oliver Burkeman pointed out the paradox of "making good use of time". Taken too far, it turns time into an instrumental goal. You never really enjoy it; you're always just investing time in a future that never comes. And you suffer time anxiety.
The main difference between web push notifications and RSS is that as the name implies, notifications are pushed to you on the publisher's schedule, whereas you pull down RSS on your own schedule.

Push has several advantages - one is background power consumption (less work for the device to just sit around and wait, vs constantly firing up the network and polling a server). Another is that you get your notifications in real-time.

However, I think push is way overused. Think about all the notifications you receive (way too many, probably). How many of these did you really need to see immediately? An impending food delivery or Uber arrival, sure (but we could also just use phone calls and SMS for these geoimmediate use cases). Online chats, maybe some of them. CNN publishing "breaking news" that's probably wrong anyway because the event is 5 minutes old? Loan offer #257 from the PayPal app? No thanks.

I'd much rather have the latter class of "notifications" batched up and pulled down once every hour or three, with no sound, vibration or visual interruption.

RSS is actually a great solution for that and I think the mobile operating systems should have built it in from day one, with "harass me via beeping and shaking and pushing" as an escalated level of permission that apps need to request specifically.

They didn't because no one is trying to develop user friendly experiences, not Google, not particularly Apple, least of all the people who have been building the browsers. There is a long history of large companies trying to cram push notifications down our throat, starting with Active Desktop and Active Channels in Internet Explorer 4.0. Publishers have wanted this since the dawn of personal computing, because their ultimate dream is to push advertising into your eyeballs without your explicit grant of permission.

Apple, Google, and the people developing the modern Web platform have all failed utterly at preventing them. (Truth be told it has never been a priority, they have always focused on "empowering developers," which really means empowering the publishers that those developers work for.) With phones and garbage like the ads in the Windows 10 Start menu, they finally achieved their dream and we're living in their dystopia today.
Hey - not my cup of tea, either, as I said - but I am saying lumping Satanists and human sacrifice together is like lumping Muslims and terrorism together.

Sure, it might happen, in only the most extreme cases, but it's certainly not the norm, and it makes people who try to take their faith seriously - even if, yes, LaVeyan Satanism is simply libertarian humanism combined with, quite honestly, a fairly weak system of Ceremonial Magick, if it makes them happy, let them do it.

I don't agree with Catholicism, either, but I'm not running around saying all priests rape little boys, even though there is far more evidence of that, than actual human sacrifice in Satanism.
Wow cool to find you like this.

We built a resume software which focuses exactly on working with ats (https://rezi.io/)

We plan to make resume formats specific to certain types of ATS, Lever being amongst the first we hope to work with.

Any way this message can spark that conversation? Our users & hiring partners love the idea.
For starters, there are constitutional barriers, one being the excessive fines clause.

And there are multiple jurisdictions. Imagine Arizona giving a California resident a $50000 speeding ticket. Or L.A. (city) levying income based parking tickets on Beverly Hills and Orange County residents (neighboring communities with ultra wealthy people).
There's a nice conversation between between Mead and Bateson that's been discussed here before, but goes over the Macy Conference a bit, and more

"For God’s Sake, Margaret"

> This following article is of a conversation between Stewart Brand, Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead and was originally published in the CoEvolutionary Quarterly, June 1976, Issue no. 10, pp. 32-44. With very many thanks to Stewart Brand for his permission to reproduce it in this web page.

http://www.oikos.org/forgod.htm
It's a completely semantical argument. I said the phrase was ridiculous.

I didn't once say anything about the technology or whether it was better to store things yourself. All I said was those other things have their own names and calling them cloud is either misleading or lazy.

And yes, that's exactly what I want you to say, that your home server, despite being remotely accessible, isn't covered under the definition of cloud computing.
I'm a WeWork member, I do security, and I'm 100% OK with the existing WiFi setup.

What exact alternative do you suggest? Having user-assigned password authentication through 802.1x, so that the company can track exactly how much WiFi each member uses, and at which hours? Thanks, but no thanks.

OTOH, installing their proprietary software for presentation/display access is an entirely different matter, and that one is, indeed, a complete dealbreaker for me, security-wise; I don't understand why anyone would want to do that; just as I don't understand why you'd rather them secure the WiFi for you, instead of doing your own VPN as you see fit.
Ok, but most of the news sources out there including those posted to HN are center or far left?
I am happy to see another study that indicates good results.

I have stopped fasting, even though I believe in the benefits.

Now, I just make sure that every day I have at least a 12 hour contiguous period of not eating. This is really easy to do, for example, finishing dinner by 6:30pm and not eating until 7:30am the next day gives me a 13 hour period for resting my digestive system and giving my cells some time to repair rather than absorb nutrients. Easy, and with a mostly vegan diet except with lean meat about two times a week, I feel great.

For me, it is best to stay on an easy program, something that I can do long term.
I'm guessing that's the one industry feature that LinkedIn won't be copying.
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> Temer is thought to have only survived by upping budgets to individual lawmakers and making concessions to Brazil’s powerful agribusiness lobby.

It’s amazing how much power these agricultural companies have in government. It’s a big problem here in Canada with dairy production and the US with corn, both of which happen to be tied to key political battlegrounds.

You rarely hear about them like you do big banks and recently big tech, probably because they have bipartisan support in the high upper tiers.

It’s a very dangerous thing politically to stand up against, even if it’s heavily counter to representative interests outside of a few farming communities living off the fat of government protectionism. Which they claim they couldn’t exist without and we benefit because something something “local Canadian jobs” despite heavy automation, massive consolidation to a few mega companies, higher consumer prices, or worse far higher bad ingredients in food because it’s artificially cheap (see corn syrup in everything). I see plenty of regular people in comment sections and Twitter buying into this idea probably with some paid shills from their industry organizations.
> Apple is refusing to enable it in software because...

Ambiguous, are you saying that they're not enabling the already-present hardware decoding on their devices in their software, or that they're not adding software decoding to their devices that don't support hardware decoding?

I read it as the latter at first, which had be very confused, so now I assume you meant the former?
The Powell Memorandum, the declaration of war by the Republican Party against the continued existence of a Middle Class. The war is going swimmingly (for them), and they have persuaded their victims to vote for it all. Look up "managed population".

It has nothing to do with fiat currency, and everything to do with deliberate policy to concentrate wealth in fewer hands.
Is This Space’s ‘Billy Mitchell Moment’? Let’s Hope Not
A PhD researching what?
It's not just about this, but given all that is happening in the space of facial recognition, I think it would be really valuable for researchers to start looking at it like they would weapons research. Almost entirely nefarious applications.

After WW2 the University of Tokyo banned weapons research from happening in its research labs. I think we can be drawing more lines on research like this and take a stand against a lot of this.
They did eventually show some “code”, namely signal.h and a couple of other similar files.

However, thanks to iBCS, it is actually possible to run SCO Unix binaries on Linux, and has been since last millennium. That's why interfaces like signal.h shouldn't be copyrightable: the goal of copyright Law is not to give SCO control over code their customers write.
How is that corruption exactly? Didn’t they already openly run the Brazilian government and he was accepted in the role by the local power players?
Trying to get my LGBT proposal video to go Viral so Taylor Swift sees it Share
I wrote a library that parses a subset of LaTeX and renders it as HTML. See https://demo.minilatex.app/ or more at https://minilatex.io I was astonished by what is possible to do with Elm. This is a continuing project. It is easy to go back to the code even after leaving it untouched for several months. I've engaged in "extreme refactoring" many times. No fears!

I've also written a bunch of small mathy apps, e.g. https://jxxcarlson.io/apps/

Elm has been a joy to work with.
What decade are you calling the early days? Early 90s, mid 2000s?
He usually has. He could borrow the epitaph H.G. Wells wrote for himself: 'I told you so. You damned fools.'
Facial recognition itself isn't the problem. Arresting good people based on bad laws is the problem.
Why the negative points?

Exactly in both definitions, the French and the German, the M means MEDIUM. 500 is NOT a SMALL business. It's at least a medium one.
Sure. But that’s an absurd response to the assertion that it’s “enough for any reasonable person for several lifetimes”. Sure, you could potentially burn $60 million on private jet service and an army of personal waitstaff. For that matter you could also literally burn $60 million cash in a fire. But most probably wouldn’t consider these “reasonable” behaviors.
The word you have looked for is ever, not every.
Half a billion dollars is a lot to pay for any one thing like customer data and talent. There has to be a strong business interest at that level.
Where there is a way and profit, someone will have the will.
1) https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...

2) the diarrheal diseases generally don't need much money at all. 16oz water, fist of salt, three finger pinch of sugar. Unfortunately, the adults in charge of those children tend to remain ignorant even after the Western doctors tell them about the cure. So money won't do anything for that. You can't force a Madagascan to stop dancing with family corpses, ya know.
I think your rsync-dropbox analogy is a good one, but I also found your statement about how it's a gender thing to be somewhat sexist, (it almost sounds as if you're implying that rsync is for men and dropbox is for women because in general men are more inclined to do difficult things than women).
Also, people who change jobs every two years can get unpaid six-month vacations every two years. The idea that the benefit of working at a company for a long time is that you can not work is terribly amusing to me.
India is shooting itself on the foot
What you say makes no sense — why would they advocate for you to use a VPN such that a third-party could eavesdrop on your communication, when they already provide a business-quality connection through a business carrier?

I am not aware of any issues using a VPN at WeWork; it works great; I'm sure lots of businesses use it, too. It especially works great because there are no stupid captive or landing pages like you get at so many other places, and the password just works, too.
Nissan develops golf ball that automatically finds the hole every time
> China has the largest monitoring system in the world. There are some 170 million CCTV cameras across the country

I wonder how this compares to the UK per capita considering how massive China is.
Google is shutting down Google Hire
You know what they call advertising where the user decides when they receive it? QVC and junk mail. We have a century of advertising practice that is based on interruptions, and giving people control over the (commercial) information they receive is anathema to the entire industry.
Well to that extent, most other SaaS products which are affordable for SMBs are not a safe investment either, it's not that non-google companies/startup never shut down. Actually most SaaS startups fail.
His father fled Napoleon, Pedro I was a child when his family fled to Brazil.
He declared independence pressured by the nobles in Brazil who were opposed to restrictions coming from Portugal that limited their commerce to Portugal only and no other countries.
> the ReasonML code I looked at relied on impure functions. I like pure functions so that scares me off a bit from the OCaml as a whole.

ReasonML (OCaml) allows impure functions but the best practice is to stay pure whenever possible. It's a very pragmatic language so despite providing all the functional and immutable programming features, it allows you to cut through the bureaucracy if you need to.
This is a stupid idea, the bad guys will still research and will just become stronger, an arm race always kept the balance, wars don't start because a weapon created or not but it definitely gives incentive to try one when you know your enemy is not keeping up with the latest technology
Yeah, sorry it's a bit old, but I came across it in some of my reading today regarding the San Francisco attempt to ban facial recognition software with an ordinance passed back in in May and didn't see it had ever been shared. Thought it was worth passing along. Cheers, just food for thought.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-san-francis...
It integrate into G-Suite but Hire is a separate application with its own subscription. I think it's clear that the G-Suite core services (email, calendar, productivity) are not going to be shutdown.
Isn't this exactly the point of view that the article is arguing against?
Seems like these non billion user products could be sold off rather than killed. The cost to ready the software to live outside google would be worth it for the goodwill alone.
I've never fully agreed that when you're in public all data collection on you is fair game.

These are governments that we are setting up to benefit ourselves, this seems far more in the interest of gov interests than citizens.

If they were strictly limited to criminal investigations and required a warrant to scan the images that might be a different story.
Agreed. I wasn't saying investors are bad. I was saying that being an investor is no more a profession than being a brother-in-law or a Yankees fan.