skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arbitrary word order doesn't make a natural language more 'powerful'. German has more flexible word order than English, but anything you can say in one, you can say in the other.

It's just a trade off between marking the roles of your words in a sentence either with position or by decorating your words. Very similar to positional vs keyword arguments in programming languages.

(Interestingly, just like Python allows you to mix and match keyword arguments and positional arguments subject to certain rules, Turkish usually goes for the decoration-approach via suffixes but allows you to drop some of the grammatical markings if it's clear from context. Eg if you provide an explicit number, you don't have to mark your plurals.)

While on the topic: grammatical gender is often seen as arbitrary, especially in language like German were potatoes are female and girls are neutral. The programming perspective on the use of grammatical gender is that they are essentially 'registers' that allow you to quickly refer to terms you just used. Having more than one register is useful, and a somewhat random hashing of terms to registers is fine for that purpose.

(Btw, Turkish has only one gender.)

I do agree that flexible word order is useful for poetry. But then: poetry like all artistic endeavors thrives on limitations. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
How does your argument allow for a clean room developed code library to be infringing on what it re-implements based on the SSO copyright of the API names?
In depth investigations like this are released by ESPN once, sometimes twice a month. Sorta rare, but they do still do some good journalism on occasion.
Moodle 3.8 Released
>You're assuming the winning probability p does not decrease as the odds Y goes up. This is a silly assumption.

No, the only assumption required is that the probability decreases much slower than the odds goes up. Which is self-evidently true; the complexity of the claim doesn't go up nearly as fast as the odds being offered.

If the probability is 1/googol (in reality it's much higher than that, 1/googol epistemic probabilities never show up) but the odds being offered is 3^^^3, then you should take the bet, whether you're trying to maximize wealth or log wealth.
I have little comprehension of what you've just said, but for any other philistines like me, who like their poetry like they like their coffee - regular, and in black and white - your first stop with Auden should be aboard this: https://youtu.be/zmciuKsBOi0
I suspect people will live where they want (which may be where they already are) - I think it will have a bigger impact on tech company turnover than on housing markets. (Very few markets are SF - there are very large cities like Dallas and Houston that really aren't tech hubs)
I have something similar - I haven't had many problems with the not being accepted online. The few times I've had issues are with old point-of-sales or appointment booking systems.
Proper calendar reform would return New Years Day (Spring Equinox, currently 21st March) to 1st March. That would also have the extra advantage of relocating months seven (September), eight (October), nine (November) and ten (December) back into their original place in the calendar year.
Great to see more work in this space. Diversity of font parsing and shaping engines is important to make sure the ecosystem doesn't become reliant on bug-for-bug compatibility with the existing engines. (It's dangerously close already, due to the quirks of DirectWrite, GDI, and FreeType.)
As a big fan of their Nexus line of mobile phones, I concur. They weren't perfect, but they were solid, stock Android devices at a reasonable cost.

Then they ditched them all of a sudden, and now we have premium-priced Pixels that fall well short of the competition.
> I was including stdlib.h just to get the definition for size_t.

size_t is also defined in stddef.h, and including that likely won't cause the same issues.
"You watch any good movies, read any good books, or play any good games lately?"

"No, child, I was honing my mind as one does a blade."

Someone might smugly say that indeed.
Context: secret US aerospace programs in the late 1950's and early 60's
I think the better remembered and quotable poem by W.H.Auden is https://poets.org/poem/i-walked-out-one-evening.

> You shall love your crooked neighbour / With your crooked heart.

Not that this sentiment is original with Auden.

The "basin" verse gave me chills the first time I heard/read it.
> [...] and don’t mind sounding Shakespearean.

Yes, exactly. When Shakespeare was around, English still had more of these features, and is gradually losing them over time. Shakespearean English always reminds me of German grammar.

The benefit in communication is that the remaining basic form is unambiguous even without proper pausing.
yes, this. I love this.
As much as I want to see him punished, I’m not sure I agree there’s a case here. Which part of his self-dealing was illegal? Obviously the investigation may reveal things, but based on what we know now I can’t think of any “certainly illegal” self-dealing.
> Streaming services have the potential to improve that situation

That was also the case with video streaming.
Unfortunately once the publishers/broadcasters got the faintest whiff they could force customers into paying them a subscription fee for their content (and after that some services have the audacity to still put ads in/on/around the content) it was every publisher for themselves pulling their content from competing services' catalogs (like IIRC Disney pulling all their stuff from Netflix).

I can already see this coming once the competing publishers have all set up their own GaaS solutions.
Exactly. Houston is far larger than SF or Austin, and is definitely not a tech hub, but you can buy a 4 bedroom single-family home here cheaper than a 1 bedroom condo in SF.
Two of the largest social networks is not "a life without social media".
This is some truly galaxy brain logic even by the contrarian standards of hacker news. Your thinking is that you can't be breaking the law if people know about it?
I spent a year in florida. I'll agree to some extend. the food is fantastic, the weather is nice and the snorkeling and parks are wonderful. All that said, I spent way too much time trying refuting the idea that steven miller's kids in cages plan is good for america and among other very persistent conservative talking points. Also that I don't believe in jesus seems to be an open invite for people trying to "save" me. It is what it is and SF is a dumpster right now so I can't disagree.
That confuses me because it sounds a lot like Zeno's Paradox. If nothing ever falls inside how are we observing the effects of black holes which have mass? The mass must have fallen in at some point so it can't have taken forever.

I know this stuff is confusing but an explanation would be great :)
Is self dealing illegal for private companies? What security markets were involved? I never heard of any prosecution of gross mismanagement of VC funds even with companies like Clinkle.
When I started at the Lawrence Journal-World (the company who Open Sourced Django) I was forced to watch a really old cheesy video about Lock-Out Tag-Out which at the seemed stupid for a web developer. Then I was walked to the office past some of the biggest machines I’d ever been near to that point in my life. Then I got it.

It definitely saved a few peoples limbs at that company alone.
Spoiler alert on Beria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjT2FhubAf0
What about data privacy? do your customers knows that random Turks look at their data?
He was extradited from the UK, not from Sweden.
I dislike the Trump admin a lot. But I like this a lot. The federal government ought to make this step 1 in a strategic effort to make a consumer report campaign for patients. 100pct consumer driven all about where the money goes, why, by whom, how prices are assessed, how they differ geographically, and outcomes to money spent. Put the consumer in charge of their money
Nah, it's an increasingly common nihilistic attitude we see in society - people reveling in eroding of all moral principles, because it's far easier than actually getting recognition for doing something enriching with their lives. Angry Incels being the ultimate epitome of this.

Not saying your brother is an incel, but "trolling for lolz" is definitely on the spectrum.
Side note: The most secure locks that Master makes (in regards to being pick resistant) are their LOTO padlocks, and they are usually about $10. Most of their other consumer locks are pretty easy to bypass with basic picks, but get marketed as being the "best" in security and cost a lot more.
The equilibrium cost of sharing the hardware vs owning will probably be similar... the main difference here is that you're also playing with noticeable latency for fast action games which, even if you play infrequently, will impact the game play of certain games.
An archaic word that was only chosen because it includes the word “butt”?
"My supervisor observed that I was anxious to learn new things. He assigned me to the Discoverer project to develop system schematics, interconnection diagrams, and wire harness definition. I was working for the Electrical Systems engineer. His was a very responsible and highly visible position. And like most engineers working in this new field, he was in his early 20’s, just three years older than me. There were senior engineers in management positions, but there were no senior spacecraft engineers. Everyone was learning on the job."

Parallels to Silicon Valley are easy to find. It's a valid career path: if you want to progress fast, find a hot young area where there are no senior experts and work hard to keep up.
I tried accessing newsgroups for the first time in 20 years but was unable to find a way in without paying. Is there a free way into Usenet?
> In a real sense, Chinese is the direction that all languages are heading.

In recent history, it seems. We don't know whether the trend will continue, do we? Do we even know why languages used to be less analytic?

The argument you suggested "The reason is that it is easy for a language to lose grammatical rules, but very hard to gain them." would not explain why a lot of languages used to have inflections in the first place?
Tell me more about your interview process? I'm trying to get out of the midwest as well. All my friends from school are out in the coastal cities.
I got into gamedev and discovered really good .io games only recently, and now I really want to try to make something like that myself.

I was very surprised to learn what's possible with html5 games now, a few days ago I've learned about https://krunker.io/ - absolutely incredible that it's possible to create something like this, especially for a solo developer.

----

What I'm really curious about is the stack that would be optimal for such games. Here's what I learned so far:

- For 2D people seem to use pixi.js(very fast webgl rendering framework), or phaser(2D game framework).

- For 3D the leading frameworks are three.js(some say it's more focused on creating pretty demos, and is suboptimal for games), babylon.js(html5 3D game engine from microsoft), playcanvas(proprietary web-first game engine). Krunker was made in three.js.

- For networking people seem to use socket.io, I'm not sure what else.

- Engines like Godot and Unity can build games for bowser. People call Unity builds "bloated" and keep mentioning something called TinyUnity as a solution to this. Godot is supposed to implement WebRTC soon, which apparently should be great for multiplayer (https://godotengine.org/article/godot-webrtc-report3).

Can anybody add something to this? I'm just starting to figure things out, and any tips/advice on picking the optimal stack, or links to good learning resources would be very useful!
A confusing stance.
> trolling to see how many downvotes to get banned

And here I was thinking video games were a waste of time! Heyooo
You can also hear Auden himself recite "As I Walked Out One Evening"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q__Z185H8I&t=2s
> As for static linking being a competitive advantage of musl: I don't know where you got that idea.

That's how I've been told to build fully statically linked rust binaries, I can't say I've dug into why glibc isn't used for those.
I find a group chat on Whatsapp much better than Facebook for keeping up with my immediate family.
Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation
This is a planned date - full schedule for the final 3.9 release is almost a year away.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0596/
https://docs.python.org/3.9/whatsnew/3.9.html
I use postmark to do my delivery. They support outbound smtp that my internal postfix relays to and you pay per email even tho they gave me so many free credits I havent paid anything.
I agree with your overall point but not so sure on this specific piece:

>If you're talking about something that runs over WiFi you're fighting against the laws of physics and no back-end infrastructure is going to save you.

Signal propagation speed (velocity factor) over air is only a bit slower than cat7 copper, and on-par with fiber optic. From memory:

In a vacuum: VF = 1 (equal to speed of light)

Over copper: VF = .75 (one quarter speed of light)

Over air or fiber: VF = .66 (one third speed of light)

Wi-Fi is measurably slower than wired copper cable for a few reasons but I don't understand physics to be one of them. With the distances relevant to last-mile connectivity like we're discussing here, that difference in VF appears to be immaterial.

Then again, you could argue that the air being a contended medium is by it's very nature a physics problem, and that does seem to be the root of most of the drawbacks of running low-latency workloads over wireless. Not necessarily an insurmountable physics limit though, with spectrum allocation, code division, and beam forming already doing a lot to mitigate the issue, there's the potential for further developments that might bring things to parity.

Still, you're not going to get past the VF limit I described above but again, if we're only talking about in-home WiFi rather than across the entire service-to-consumer run, it doesn't play a large part.
Most gamers with a desktop PCs also sit in comfy chairs, albeit not with a Macbook.
Congress is about to reauthorize the Patriot Act
Yes, if you want the textual discussions groups, then at least:

Eternal September (https://www.eternal-september.org/)

or

AIOE: (https://www.aioe.org/)

are free possibilities.
I probably wouldn’t use it anyway because the way the name is defended online makes it likely that I wouldn’t enjoy the company of the service’s user base.
> If you mean the metropolitan metro area, than SF is a nightmare without a car.

Really depends where in the bay you are -- there are definitely areas outside of San Francisco you can do without a car. I lived in Berkeley and later Oakland without a car (probably four years total), and honestly it was pretty damn nice not having to deal with one. Menlo Park on the other hand? You'll probably need a car.
> you assume there was a head start, when, in fact, the world's first commercial computer was German

Did the Z4 do a lot of German language text generation, or German language input parsing? But anyway German is also not agglutinative, but it does have complexities like gendered declension of articles and adjectives.

> And until recently, natural languages had a near-zero effect on computing.

Seems like we're talking past each other and I packed multiple things in the comment. I meant user-facing messages there. I've done some software internationalization (translation) work some years ago and in many cases the format was just templates. You were often expected to translate templates with pluggable strings. Whereas what you would actually need is to write a function that looks at the word that you want to plug in, extracts the vowels, categorizes them with some branching logic, looks at the last consonant, decides if you need a linking vowel, decides on the vowel harmony based on the vowels, look up if it's an exception and then apply the suffix.

In English you can generate the message "Added %s to the %s." These are usually translated to Hungarian as if it was "%s has been added to the following: %s". Or instead of "with %s" they must write "with the following: %s", because applying "with" to a word or personal name requires non-trivial logic. Whenever the translators resort to "... the following: %s", you can know they weren't able to fit it into the sentence with proper grammar due to the use of too primitive string interpolation-based internationalization.

Until recently, Facebook was not able to apply declension to people's names, as it is quite complicated. Normally "$person_name likes this post." would require putting $person_name into dative case, requiring determination of vowel harmony. To avoid it, they picked a rarer verb form which doesn't need the dative case but doesn't sound as natural. They've only transitioned to the dative case in the last year or so.

A lot of this stuff is just not even on the mind of English speaking devs, because template-based string interpolation is a good enough solution in English for the vast majority of cases. The only exception that would need a little bit of branching logic is applying "a" or "an" before a word or pluralization, but these don't come up too often.

Again, my point was dynamically generating user-facing messages, UI elements is so easy in English, while properly doing it in other languages.

> Would have? NLP has only started to matter recently, at a time when it has to work in all languages from the get-go. The current evolution includes contributions of people from many languages and cultures.

Most of the research outside of explicit machine translation research is still based on English. How many papers are out there, e.g., on visual question answering (VQA) systems in Polish or Finnish? In many cases I feel less impressed by such systems because I feel like English is too easy. The order is very predictable, the words are easily separable, the whole thing is much more machine processable. Maybe it isn't so, it would be interesting to see empirical results.
They are targeting a sophisticated userbase. They aren’t fooling their target market into giving emails without trying it out first.

Too many companies use emails as a metric over sales. Selling someone after the fact is much harder and no VC is caring about email only signup numbers.
Moreover, the big advantage of AI is consistency. I.e. it does not get tired, bored, lose motivation, etc.

Hence it might better to get 70% correct answer all of the time, than 90% (human) some of the time.
As time -> infinity, information destruction -> infinity.
Yes, this was definitely part of the motivation for embarking on this project.
It's weird, I never cared for the sets the bricks came in, I just wanted bricks. I might build the set once, and then tear it up and never again. I usually ended up tossing or segregating the really special pieces somewhere else so they wouldn't pollute my buckets of normal pieces. I never really understood that other people actually really were into the sets and as I grew up, and as Lego got more and more into the ultra specialized sets, the magic went away and I stopped enjoying them as much.
More like abstract method or protocol or prototype one has to implement for any life base class.

But probably You have an virus object just have a subset of the base class.

Of course if you have a class system that allow multiple inheritance that it will be one of the crucial base classes.

Under lisp ...

Let us stop.
A while back, I watched and enjoyed a documentary about the Corona program mentioned in the article.

I believe this is it: https://www.c-span.org/video/?321255-1/discussion-cias-coron...
Clang isn't the root cause, but as a (relatively) new tool in an existing ecosystem it needs to work with the existing ecosystem and not some imaginary idealistic world.
Reading through GP's posts I'm getting a vibe of some sort of personality disorder and/or extreme loneliness. I've seen people develop exactly that sort of holier-than-though techno-puritanism in such circumstances. I can even recognise that mechanism in myself, although I've been lucky enough to leave most of it behind after my teenage years.

Anyway, I wouldn't necessarily equate such statements with actual hate speech. It's just hyperbole and Haskell/Python/Ruby users are probably save.

The comments are still bad because they just don't add anything.
If some subsection of the workers owned the app, they would want to collect rents just as Uber, Lyft, etc. do.

The concept of all the workers owning the app is amorphous. How does that work when Uber's churn rate on drivers is quite high? It's a constantly shifting pool of gig economy workers.

I don't disagree with the premise that there are problems in the gig economy: there are. But the gig workers owning the app just doesn't make sense.
The meatless movement can finally put an end to Marsha cooking fish in the microwave.
I'm building exactly this! It's a very early product, but please try out Thread - https://get.thread-app.com
I would say Microsoft's dev tools have always been best in the business, but only in their ecosystem and only for their ecosystem. A big part of the reason I still go out of my way to use MS SQL is how good SQL Studio is.

The revolution with VSCode is the openness, not the quality.
Flat-earthers are ridiculous. I mean, if the world really was flat, cats would have pushed everything off by now.
> but is it fraud?

I'm Korean and the law system is very different from America, but I think he will be likely accused of embezzlement rather than fraud if he were Korean
Jew here (oh boy that sounds funny). While I can, sort of, voluntarily "factor out" the possibility that if I live far away from the centroids of the Jewish community, I might be spat at or beaten up in the street for being Jewish - that happens in Brooklyn or LA anyway these days - the thing is, I grew up in dense, highly urbanized/suburbanized parts of the country. I'm miserable when I live "five miles from everywhere", even in relatively "accessible" inner-ring suburbs.

(An actually rural area along the lines of my old college town is another matter. Driving half an hour on freeways to get "anywhere" is intolerable in a way that bicycling through Nature for half an hour is not.)

So yeah, between one thing and another, there would need to be a pretty strong incentive for me to ever move to "the burbs" or "the middle". Give me a city, give me a village or kibbutz, but don't give me that rubbish people put in the middle!
Man I absolutely love this theme he is using. Took a while to find the post but here is the info on the current design. https://aelkus.github.io/site/2019/09/10/design-sources

Honestly the design is so nice it makes me want to get around to finishing setting up a blog
I hadn't heard of that, but having daydreamed about "just a huge array of LEDs on a single die", I hope it turns out.
Well their yearly savings is a bit off to be sure. Unless you live in a dumpster which isn’t compatible with a spouse. But the general idea is right.

Pre-tax savings and having more to set aside after tax as well as faster appreciating real estate equity is the winning path in today’s economy.
I steal a watch, it gets returned, I go to jail. That's more or less been the story since written law. This guy steals 13 million dollars, it gets returned, and you say he shouldn't go to jail?