skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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VSCode is the only Electron based app that I freely install.

Just hope that with the jabs from React Native for Windows team does to Electron based apps, that eventually VSCode gets rewritten in React Native instead.
> Shakespearean English always reminds me of German grammar.

One of the strongest phenomena that produces this resemblance is that in Early Modern English, there was no restriction¹ on forming questions by putting the verb before the subject noun phrase (optionally with a question word before both). In modern German, there's still no restriction on forming questions this way.

Essen Sie Fleisch?
eat you meat?

Sprechen Sie Französich?
speak you French?

Kommt Ihr aus Russland?
come you from Russia?

Glaubt er an Gott?
believes he in God?

Wohin geht sie?
whither goes she?

Wie macht er das?
how does he that?

Wir sind hier - wann kommt Ihr? [a travel ad slogan]
we are here - when come you?

In modern English, there is a new restriction that the verb that gets moved to the front can only be a form of "do"², "be", or an auxiliary verb (e.g. "can", "may", "should", "must", "might", "will", or "have"³, among others). When the main verb is not one of these, the sentence must be turned into a paraphrase (almost always using "do") before forming the question, like "I do speak Portuguese" → "Do you speak Portuguese?" or "I did have a pet lizard" → "Did you have a pet lizard?".

I have a German colleague who doesn't seem to have learned this restriction and continues producing German-style, or Shakespearean-style, questions in writing like "What contains that file?", "What message produced that command?" or "Updated you the configuration recently?".

In one of my college linguistics classes, I tried to deny that this change was real because I could still easily understand the Shakespearean questions. The trouble is that they nonetheless sounded archaic to me and I wouldn't actually have produced them myself in speech. So really, I should have admitted that there was a practical difference between comprehensibility and acceptability (and that difference with regard to a historic form is exactly what "sounding archaic" refers to).

¹ I'm not totally sure that there was no restriction at all; it may have begun to appear already but just not been complete.

² Though not as a main verb! Shakespeare has "wherefore did you so?" in Macbeth and "wherefore didst thou so?" in King John, which in modern English would have to be "why did you do so?" or "why did you do that?" rather than "why did you so?" or "why did you that?".

³ In some varieties of English "have" can be used this way in both the possessive and auxiliary senses ("have you any wool?" / "have you eaten?"), but in other varieties only in the auxiliary sense (in which case the paraphrase with "do you have..." is required when asking about possession). I'm not sure whether this still works in the past tense, or only in the present tense.
How to frame your photos, as in where to point the camera at. Most family members could skip a level or five of they had the patience to internalise a 15 minutes YouTube video.
Just venting, but holy hell are cars the stupidest “hobby” I can imagine.
I'd like to tag on Hangul (Korean script). It might not take an hour, but you can definitely learn in less than a day.

The script was created to be simple. As the inventor, King Sejong said: "A wise man can acquaint himself with them (the letters of Hangul) before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days."
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I disagree with the reasons that this article put forward.

>I think the answer's obvious. Because they designed the product backward. They didn't think "what do people want?", or even go Apple and think "what COULD people want, if we showed them why they wanted it?". Sun started with: "What can we build?"

Both the case study with Solaris and Stadia failure has nothing to do with wants or needs. I actually want Solaris features of Thin Client, and the magic it describe where its state lives on Big Computer. Along with Stadia's idea of streaming games. Both of them are perfect in concept, I want them!

The problem is the experience. Apple didn't start if it could or not, they ask if the User Experience will be great. And I cant think of a product or services where latency is not part of the User Experience. Both Solaris and Stadia's experience so far is simply not good enough, and for me it might never be good enough. Solaris might have nailed the Thin Client Desktop technology, but its UI along with no quality apps, no one wants it. These apps and ecosystem are all part of the experience.

Stadia are also good in concept, in practice the latency and graphics quality just put people off. And the trend is in Mobile Gaming, when was the last time you heard Mobile Network Operators said they have abundant of bandwidth?

And it is the same with VR Gaming. If VR Gaming failed now it is not because the build or want problem. We WANT VR Gaming, the problem is the technology we have right now doesn't bring the experience we want just yet. It is like Pre iPhone era Smartphone.

If the experience were good, people will buy it, if it is not, they wont. It will all sort itself out.
Sorry I don't think you should be downvoted. But I think the main criticism of your post, is that yes, we do have an impassable communication barrier in the sense of locality and the speed of light. A black hole's singularity, after all, can be equally described as "light slowing down" or "space stretching". So while there's no hard "information barrier", there is still no possible means of communication.
When I select software these are among the list of things I am looking for generally:

- file formats that won’t lock you in or are even openly hackable (allows you to automate things)

- no clouds that will break the software once it is gone

- local storage with custom syncing or backup options

- strictly no weird data collection or “We own the rights to your data”-Type of terms

So if I get the slightest feeling of a lock in or unnecessary data collection you are scaring me away, because mentally I would then already look at the time after you decide to scrap your cloud or abandon your file formats. The data collection bit shows me your users aren’t front and center but something else is which makes your product even less of a good choice.

If your product runs on the web, allowing for self-hosted solutions is also a big plus.
> ${object.nominative()} loves ${subject.accusative()}

You mixed it up, it should be "${object.accusative()} loves ${subject.nominative()}".

Or, I guess, how you define "object" and "subject" for "loves" :P But grammatically, for transitive verbs, "subject" is the doer of an action, "object" is the target of an action.
It's weird that they forbid any user from Europe because of data privacy law.
AWK.

The hour I spent learning AWK way back when must have saved me a few days, cumulatively, on mundane data munging tasks over the years.
What you write is a strong condemnation of the sorry state of journalism in America.

The New York Times withheld the story about Bush' illegal wiretapping program for a year, helping Bush secure reelection in 2004. They did so on flimsy "national security" grounds. The only grudgingly published the story when the journalist who had uncovered it threatened to publish it on his own. Some American news media is far too cozy with government. If they support the persecution of one of the most important journalists of our time, they're a truly rotten bunch.
Nice project, thanks for sharing. Checked it out on some articles and was quite good!

Out of curiosity - what's the underlying stack?
Resilio sync is a perfect example of such app.

It's basically a P2P based Dropbox with no accounts, full end-to-end encryption and no folder size limits.

It's not open source, but it can work without a central server if you need it to. It's also amazingly simple to set up, much simpler than sync thing.
Re 4: there is this thing called Fuchsia, which is also BSD-licensed.
Yes. And the first two I use, treating them mostly as dumb pieces of infrastructure. Arguably, the functionality they provide have a crucial ops component that I'm all for paying for someone else to handle it for me. But neither Github nor Dropbox locks me into anything.

Google - yes, web e-mail obviously is similar to the above; as for their office suite, I recently found a good excuse to justify shelling out for a proper Microsoft Office subscription (though I don't like that it's a subscription), and I stick to using the faster, locally-available, file-using, much more powerful (if still proprietary) software.
Transformation by substitution is part of most dialects of regex, in the form of capturing groups.
>since I started to smoke weed.

There are some similarities in the effect, yes. But the problems with weed is it's effect is temporary and it messes up your awareness. Also you can not do in in many public places. Should I mention that certain types of meditation make you even more intoxicated? :)
You can also AOT compile, so that would be another option.
Thanks for your reply and thoughts :- )
What you wrote can be helpful advice to me now soon.
If you define "a good position" as "a comfortable position" then my typing position is fine for the work I do. I've tried various options, from the curvy Microsoft Natural keyboards to laptop keyboards to mini keyboards and I always come back to a standard mechanical 101-key keyboard with a G502 mouse. I think a split keyboard with the mouse in between the halves would do my head in.
Cool!
Is there such thing for Flask? For Node?
Thing is you don't want to sell to a nontechnical owner. I've sold apps in the past where it all just died, because the purchaser did not put in any effort.

You want to sell to a party who will run it as if it was their own product (or who will hire a capable team to expand it further). That is possible for a $400k ARR product, but much harder for a website doing say $50k through one-off sales.
Nutrition. An essential life skill.
Indeed, I'd argue that a selfhosted learning spamfilter will be far more attuned to your personal mail-regime than one that has to do 'well enough' for millions of users.

The latter will catch new spam tricks easier. But the former will be trained by you. For you. For your niche, using your lingo and so on.

To take an extreme example: let's imagine you are the ITperson for a doctors' practice aimed at people with sexual disfunctionality. One thing is for certain: using Google or Outlook for your mail is a disaster waiting to happen.
"will you be able to find a good proxy for a Wiimote?"

I'm betting I could print it and hack something together from some hobby electronics kit if I really wanted to.

But you are absolutely correct. There is a category of games for which the complete experience is unseparably attached to the original substrate.

On the other hand, keyboard and mouse driven games are fairly maintainable accross platform generations.
Nouns/names/numbers have declensions. Verbs have conjugations.
The major problem is that you have zero control over canvas and webgl being hardware accelerated, and this destroys the whole experience.
"Cooking for Geeks" is another newcomer-friendly resource in the same vein.
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That is thanks to Latin having declension, which many other languages have too. I don't speak it, but I've read that Finnish has 15 cases (compared to 5 in Latin). Nice thing with Latin is that it manages to be both powerful and very clean, with fairly simple rules that always apply, phonetic alphabet, etc. Latin is probably the language with the best balance between power and simplicity. For instance my native tongue Serbian/Croatian has phonetic alphabet and distinguishes cases, number and gender, so it gives you a lot of power to play with words, to make very long sentences that are still easy to understand and to be able to understand the meaning even when some letters or words are missing...but it's much more complicated to learn than Latin because of a lot of additional rules in play.
Latin is "dead" and that's its advantage.

English is well "alive", and living implies mutation. In 500 years, our children would be reading our English as we read Shakespeare (that is, with difficulty); and in 1000 years, our English would become what Beowulf looks like today (that is, you can't recognize a word).

Latin doesn't change. Caesar's Latin is Vulgate's Latin, which is Newton's Latin, which is the Pope's Latin, which is the Latin used in Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis and Winnie ille Pu.

What is dead may never die. The "English" as we know it will die. Latin will not.
Are they though?

The more I’ve read about human psychology - particularly about “flow” - the more valuable manually driven cars seem.

Similarly to how many people are actually happiest / have the highest sense of self-worth while at work (even though they’d scream otherwise), a lot of people are able to relax and think freely while driving. And in general, humans seem to enjoy having control over G-force (whether jumping off of cliffs, flying planes, riding roller coasters, driving...)

Flow: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

Interesting take on automotive tech and psychology from Nicholas Carr’s “Glass Cage”, reviewed by NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/the-glass-ca...
I am curious how this compares to https://github.com/cuviper/rust-libprobe
Interesting concept but I use a keyboard for it to be efficient, not trendy
That's the point! Thinking about money should not be a cause of stress in your life. If money is stressful then budget/expense tracking is what you _need_.

Since we got married me and my wife have been tracking every expense down to the penny. The net result has been no fights about money, everything was known and obvious from the records. Every so often we come together, look at the numbers, and decide things. You might decide an expense is worth it, or you might decide an expense is not worth it. Without measurements you cannot make that decision, with measurements you are in control.

Once you are in control money should become a tool, and a source of freedom to spend on what you value.
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I moved to Durham last year, which outsiders consider to be part of Raleigh-Durham (despite them being separated by almost 2hrs of traffic at peaks).

I hate the Triangle and am already leaving. A particularly nasty type of sprawl here, out of control real-estate market, serious crime problems, no proper "downtown" where you can live and walk to everything you need, hours away from mountains or beaches.

The crime is what really angers me, maybe Raleigh is better off, but both Durham and Charlotte manage to be less safe than the worst parts of most cities, which is incredible to me considering just how many people seem to be selling the area as great for families and "settling down".

I actually considered Charlotte for having more of a "downtown", but decided to leave the South.

The weather is marginally better than where I came the Northeast, the heat is worse and I feel more oppressive.

And sure my tax burden is reduced... but so is my salary.

There's tons of traffic in both places, but in CT a lot of my daily traffic was to one of the most incredible cities in the world, and here it's traffic between multiple clusters of suburban sprawl caused by underinvestment in infrastructure.

The culture outside the triangle is lukewarm at best, I'm black and enjoy visiting the mountains, but the number of confederate flags seems to have a very strong correlation to the elevation I'm at...

I don't know, maybe I'm just salty I fell for the hype, but I really see no redeeming value for coming to this part of the country.
One of the most interesting things I have read for a while. It puts the finger on a lot of perhaps unconscious thoughts about experiences I have had on line. Why even partake in online communities, is a good question. It seems to lead to pain and self-loathing.
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it's easier to recomment things you probably like than things they want you to like/may like
You can learn the basics of DJ-ing on digital decks in an hour. However, it can take years of practicing to reach a level of a mediocre DJ who can lead a party with a lot of people you don't know. DJ-ing is a surprisingly difficult underappreciated skill, which can also be very rewarding when you learn it. The decks become your musical instrument on which you can modify the original music as much as you want and glue together pieces in a myriad of possible ways to build one long running non-stop musical track.
Using the term "ghetto" for predominantly-black neighborhoods is... one of those things black people can do that white people can't. This is less of a problem in other anglospheric countries, which don't have the history of oppression of and discrimination against black people, including segregation into specific neighborhoods and "white flight", that the United States has -- so words like "ghetto blaster" have less bite abroad than they do here.
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> It has an object model unlike any other language (CLOS).

object models differ widely. Compare Smalltalk, Java and C++.

CLOS had influence on a bunch not so mainstream languages: Perl5 (Moose), Perl6, Julia, R, Scheme (TinyCLOS and similar) ... and a bunch of extensions to C, Java and other languages.

There are some difficulties to make CLOS fast on top of, say, the JVM. One can't map the full CLOS directly on top of Java objects, since they lack some features like multiple inheritance, direct class updates, etc. So there is a layer of mapping necessary - which is possible -> ABCL. But it's not as fast as a direct implementation.

> A lot of the complexity comes from needing to be both interpreted and compiled at the same time

Not sure what you mean by 'interpreted', but there is no requirement to support both. SBCL for example and no Lisp interpreter for many years. It now has one, but it's not used much. Clozure CL also has no interpreter.

Btw., EVAL is no interface to an interpreter. SBCL would compile the code at runtime.

> A lot of completely arbitrary things like the infamous LOOP macro are in the standard library.

It's not arbitrary. It's a standardized iteration facility. LOOP actually does not make implementations difficult, since there are ready-made LOOP implementations which can be just loaded into Common Lisp.
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While I like the look of some of these 40%/60% keyboards, the tall keys are a big no-no for me. My wrists hurt just by looking at it.
Sounds like a service mesh. How is this any difference to Istio/linkerd? This library may be useful, but the stated problem it seeks to solve is hardly a unique one.
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"Lost the Bison". Losing something is unlucky or perhaps careless. The bison were not "lost", they were systematically exterminated.
That's nothing, you should see what the mathematicians get up to when they try to figure out if two knots are different.
Regex grouping expressions along with find & replace enable transformations.
It depends on the country, I can compare when I was in SF 4 years ago and LTE/3G coverage in city was pretty poor in comparison with my 1+ thousand people village in Eastern Europe.

In the same village I have a 1Gbit up / 300 Mbit down fiber, I'm not sure if that is popular in homes in Bay Area.
Take 10 minutes and think deeply about the fact that you’re probably wrong about most things. If your immediate instinct is to tell me that I’m wrong, take 20 minutes instead.
If you use a computer in any way in the course of your job or daily life, touch typing is the single biggest improvement in productivity and quality of life that you can make. It is SO much faster and easier than hunt and peck.
I'm torn on this one, because for years I took your position... but there were numerable times I saw directors/seniors fail to convey that information in an understandable way when the C's might have been open to it when presented differently. There are certain cases were the C's don't listen at all, and theres not much that can be done, but there are also cases where the C's just haven't been presented the information properly.

This is why I am increasingly putting importance on the skills of the Director or CTO/CIO position, because they need to be the kind of person who can handle the board/meeting room but still understand the tech enough to a) not be fooled or lied to and b) understand the real business risks and weigh them properly while overseeing the implementation of solutions.

So I understand and am sympathetic to your point, but I think there is a lot more nuance there. Yes, ultimately the buck stops at the C's, but as the sysadmin who has failed to talk to them well, I still feel like we could do a much better job on our end. This is why I think a lot of more senior devs/ops types of people could do extremely well in the C positions if they got their MBA and had a C-level mentor. Trying to do the opposite, where you try to tech-ize a traditional MBA C-type fails much more often in my opinion, but, that's who dominates those positions. I see market opportunity!
I think there's two kinds of situation this occurs in. There's the "not yet learnt" kind where people don't know what they can deliver, over-promise, and end up in an awkward situation.

There's also a trickier, structural situation that I think is more common. If managers don't have real ownership of their client relationships, they learn they become effectively unable to say "no". If they try, someone else will say "yes" instead.
Dedicated tools exist for that...
Here's a guide to reading Cyrillic with some fun mnemonics and tips: http://i.imgur.com/bCiPTU5.jpg
Probably meditation, pranayama, basic stretching, basic posture, basic self awareness.
No, but you might be unhappy with your phone, return it and buy a new one.
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If you are on linux you can reproduce it with midori browser.
Maybe he changed his mind.
I agree that learning how to read a financial statement is valuable, but you might want to look further than just "is this company making an acccounting profit." Uber's core business is highly profitable, that's why it's valued at $45 billion.

When you're reading a financial statement, look at each business unit's profitability separately, especially if those units are in fact separate businesses. Ubereats is not Uber's bread and butter. Look at cash flow and compare it with investment in growth via R&D and marketing. Look at how much cash the business requires in the form of working capital and on-going maintenance capex vs growth capex.

I would suggest googling Warren Buffett's primer on look through earnings. Greenblatt's "Little Book that Beats the Market" can also be read quickly.