skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Spanish person, I can confirm that average English proficiency in Spain is poor in absolute terms. It has often been reported to be the country that speaks English worst in the EU, and it may very well be (although the French also deserve a honorable mention). But I find the claim that it has been declining since 2014 very difficult to believe, to say the least.

English is studied in primary school, which wasn't the case 20 years ago, let alone 50, so young people all have at least a minimal level whereas most people that are now passing away don't speak any English at all. This alone should be an important factor pushing average proficiency up. The coming of Netflix, HBO and their ilk in the last few years have made viewing TV series in English much more common (regular TV typically only offers dubbed versions). I teach at a university in English, ten years ago we didn't even offer that possibility and now demand is steadily increasing.

OK, I don't have actual data, they do... but given the limitations of their data (acknowledged in the piece itself), I'm taking it with a huge grain of salt.
I think that is changing though:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/incarcerated-pennsyl...

I cannot fathom working on a product like this, to extract as much as possible from people who already have almost nothing. It makes my blood boil.
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Team can be distributed or not, every time someone is on outside they are missing non-verbal communications. What I read in the article are a bunch of crutches and to seriously fix this make everyone remote, even if in the same office. Or make meetings onsite. Everything else will seriously undermine good fabric of the meeting, so sit back at your machines and be remote. Granted, sometimes people are sick and can't attend of whatever reason meatspace meets - same holds, they will be excluded from some communication.
my 2c.
Interesting introduction to suspense, didn't know about it. A word of caution might be that it is still an experimental feature [0], so you should probably not be throwing it into production just yet. But when it gets released as stable, it could really improve a lot of sites!

[0] https://reactjs.org/docs/concurrent-mode-suspense.html
For someone based outside the US it feels so odd that the delivery services just leave the packages outside the house. Why not address that particular issue head-on instead of deploying a surveillance network to handle the consequences?

Locked boxes at the house or going to the postal service to receive your package would get rid of most of the issues regarding package stealing, right?
> Sorry but how are you not understanding? He couldn’t write about her because it was too hard because of her death.

That's not what I'm talking about...

Okay, let me start completely over:

I understand what the title is talking about.

I think the article is fine.

But I don't think this title fits with this article.

Is that a clear explanation?
Well the OCR were humans :) Before Google produced the Waymo (or Maps?) datasets with recaptcha, it was book digitalization. I remember always being frustrated when I had to enter the long as as f to make the captcha go away...
Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21701488

Raise your hand if you are executing code in your project that was written OUTSIDE your organization, and has never been reviewed by people within your organization.

This is the ham sandwich problem.

If a stranger walked up to you on the street and handed you a ham sandwich would you eat it? I would venture to guess that most of you would NOT. However many of us are all too happy to grab some random chunk of code off the internet and shove it into production without a second thought.

Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21606415

Is this another ham sandwich from a stranger that has been eaten? How often is the "bug" implicit trust and poor design or default behavior?

What about Specter? A hardware level exploit was bound to come up again, we have had hardware bugs before (1994 pentium math bug) but exploitable ones are "fairly rare".

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The old mantra "security through obscurity" is true, but it has some serious validity issues when there aren't enough eyeballs on the software we are already running, and were generating more at a rate where people can NOT keep up! (This doesn't address the fact that we are now building opaque boxes with ML that NO ONE understands accurately).
English still hasn't eaten up Irish, Scottish and Welsh. What languages are threatened, aside from those already rendered weak by settler invasions (e.g. in the US and Australia) which are surely not part of your concern mentioned here. (I think they must be excluded since it's not relevant to the topic of the article and because you refer to "mass communication bring[ing] the world closer".)
Have you worked on any that make use of a framework that uses lots of reflection such as Spring?
A specific, extremely popular style that literally has "east coast" in the name.
The example of "Paradise loft" written as "Paradife loft" reminds me of the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten's logo looks like Aftenpoften

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftenposten
It is a pretty specific thing and I was very surprised to see it as the top comment.

Are you seriously defending the money-people? Just give us this one moment where noone chimes in to teach us how greed supposedly helped turn savages into society
Peter Norton books were my first foray into 8086 Assembly, after I got into PC, lovely.

"Peter Norton's Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC, XT, and AT"
There was a bug in a php app where someone had typed `flase` which evaluated to `"flase"` which is truthy so the authentication check passed.
What exactly is fun about that read? The guy is just shitting on Apple for basically allowing their users to use Google and Facebook and proposes mad solutions like banning Google and FB from the app store, or enforcing some privacy standard on all apps submitted to the App Store. As if enforcing that was even remotely feasible! And at the same time he complains that dev accounts cost $100 a year.

What an amazingly shallow and dumb article. The author clearly didn't even come close to thinking his ideas through. Is that the best one you could find?
LINQ in C# reduces how much SQL people write in C#, which reduces the number of sql injection attack surfaces.
Air quality restrictions on new industries are too strict to have a meaningful impact on this wide of a scale. Forrest fires or just increased driving due to lower fuel prices would have a much larger impact.
2 remarks:

- of course Europe's largest economies are going to be the least incentivized to adopt English due to their larger internal market both in terms of culture as well as economics.

- The International Englishes (plural) are different from both UK and US English. The scientific community has its own 'dialect', and the EU political/administration/diplomatic English is different still. Standard tests based on US/UK spelling/grammar/vocabulary might not capture these nuances.
What is "Graviton2" in this context?

There's no Wikipedia page for it, and the regular google search results all loop back to this AWS announcement.
I say this as someone who has been paid ridiculous amounts of money just to help configure and improve build systems: please just use CRA for all your React projects. Or, if you need server-side rendering, use Next.js. There are, like, five people in the world who have any business manually configuring Webpack+Babel+SASS+TypeScript+$WHATEVER, and all of those people are already working on CRA.

Modern frontend build tooling is complex, and getting it right in a way that it's (a) correct, (b) maintainable, (c) extensible, and (d) upgradeable is ridiculously hard.

You'll make mistakes that will cause your bundles to balloon in size, or produce assets you never asked for, or fail to produce assets you really needed. You'll be asked to add features to the system that will require full refactors of everything because you didn't think of extensibility upfront. You'll accidentally use libraries that end up being abandoned, or those that break compatibility. You'll want to upgrade to new versions of a single tool, but you'll be stuck in dependency hell where upgrading TypeScript will require a new version of Babel, which will require a new version of Webpack, which will require new versions of seventeen random libraries, and now you're spending your entire week fixing the build instead of writing features.

I know CRA has more features than a lot of people need. But deal with the white noise (and a few extra megabytes of node_modules) and just use it without ejecting. A huge team of smart people is already doing all the dirty work of making sure builds work as expected so you can concentrate on features. Please just use their work.
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This would seem to be consistent with the presented data; the bulk of the increase is in the West and Midwest (which I believe picked up a fair amount of the smoke from the fires). The Northeast and South are mostly the same.

The article suggests increases in driving as a contributing factor; but does not explain why that would be concentrated in the West and Midwest, and not the South or Northeast. Likewise with EPA regulation changes: why would they dominate in the West and Midwest? There may be reasons, it's unfortunate the article doesn't explore them.
How do you explain presidential campaigns costing billions of dollars[0] in the first place? (And that's just one slice of the pie, when we take into account not only all the other election campaigns, but other sources of propaganda, lobbying, and so on.)
If that's what it costs to buy 'a platform to try and change someone's mind', then almost nobody can afford to to so without big money backing.

As for the donors' motivations, maybe you'll argue that they are merely supporting the candidates with favourable policies, rather than buying influence with them. But even if that were true, the donations would still be a means of converting $ into desired political outcomes.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_Unit...
These days you usually become familiar with that letter through looking at title pages for old books on Wikipedia.
It's patently ridiculous to overload the term "community" within the context of a console game, ultimately controlled by an entity like Disney.

Console games are not made available to the public with an idealistic belief in "community" and Disney is notorious for the hostile reputation they've earned, crushing fan-oriented cottage industries.

If you buy Disney, if you buy console games, and you think you'll be able to form lasting relationships with anyone other than a company with business goals that result in money leaving your pockets to fill up corporate bank accounts, disappointment will become a constant companion.
Apple's HomeKit Camera claims to provide just that.
Malcolm Little essentially reinvented himself as Malcolm X while in prison, largely through reading hundreds of books.

I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors—usually Ella and Reginald—and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.

http://accounts.smccd.edu/bellr/readerlearningtoread.htm
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Also smaller languages usually don't have a lively community around niche topics (specific games, cartoons, startups, programming, etc) so you end up in discussing things in English. Personally I learned English from fantasy books and WOW.
This is indeed amazing.

I'm interested if it can be self hosted for using in a commercial environment.
This would be a killer feature for increasing Latex adoption at corporations stuck with MS Word.
Exorbitantly so when it's obviously nonsense. Imagine I have an apple, and there are two apples out of my reach so I say I'll give you my apple if you climb on my shoulders and get the two apples to give to me.

Imagine the same situation, except you say "Climb on my shoulders and get the two apples and you can keep one".

In both situations, we start with you having 0 apples and me having 1 and we end with you having 1 apple and me having 2. In the first, I employed you and in the second, you employed me.

So which one of us was paid less than the true value?
Wow check out how bad Sydney is, likely worsened by the terrible fires burning in NSW
> Is it possible to learn about an unfamiliar java project from source code in this day and age?

Yes it is, but it helps a lot if you're familiar with the framework and the original developer used sensible conventions. I guess that's the same with any language though.
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That doesn’t pass the smell test. It’s not like judges/juries pay out of their own pockets.
Hey guys, I wanted to share this weekend project with you.

Showparcels allows dropshippers/eCommerce stores to create a branded and customized shipment tracking page for their customers.

It also allows to display related products on the order tracking page for up/cross-sell customers when they visit it to check their delivery status. Since many people check the tracking pages very often, you get quite a lot of free traffic you can use to try to convert them again. You are also able to implement your Facbook pixel or any other retargeting pixel on the page.

I've integrated multiple tracking APIs to get shipments data, so it basically works with all the major 600 carriers worldwide.

Please reply to the post if you have any questions or feedback for me!
> English still hasn't eaten up Irish, Scottish and Welsh.

Yes, it definitely has. Ireland has (optimistically) ~1-2% native Irish speakers.

Welsh is spoken by maybe 20-30% of people living in Wales. I couldn't find a number for native/fluent speakers, but it is certainly much less than that figure - probably similar to the Irish one.

Scottish isn't even a language. There are languages called 'Scots' and 'Gaelic'. Again, both a spoken by a small minority.
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It's not that straightforward. Finnish is wildly different from English, yet basically everybody there speaks English. And as late as the 1990s English proficiency in Germany was abysmal, particularly on the eastern side.
Yes, I'm aware, that's in large part why it worries me. And I think you undersell the importance of online learning. NNs are far from "plug in and forget."
This wouldn't be true if the payout were less than the ongoing cost of incarceration.
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It’s interesting that the countries which score lowest are where the Romance languages are spoken. I wonder what the reasons for that are. FYI I’m an English speaker who speaks 2 other Germanic languages and Spanish. The Spanish I find by far the hardest and that could also be reversed. Just an hypothesis.
What about on your phone/laptop/etc? And why did you not use a password manager within your browser before if that’s the only place you use it?
But it's the typechecker's job to make sure you don't give an SqlCodeString to a function which takes a HtmlCodeString. Surely then a person writing such software isn't validating anything. So what should be validated?
It would be a way to get all the techy academics onto some platform such as Office365. Once they are there they might start using other (paid) things on there.
> Refusing to speak spanish is a myth. It's much more likely that you will not ever be able to learn catalan becasue poeple will always switch to spanish the moment they see you are a foreigner. Whether you want to learn spanish or catalan, both or none is up to you. You can live a normal live speaking english only in both places. Have plenty of friends that never got to learn the language beyond some basic pick-up lines and food-related sentences.

Not in my experience. Some people feel less inclined to speak Spanish and even can feel attacked for asking them to speak Spanish.
There is no inconsistency there. The first part is about how an individual that knows that they are innocent should not expect that to count for anything in the eyes of others.

The second part is to ensure that he doesn't waste his time on people that are really guilty because in the end that will go nowhere. Just like the innocence project has pre-screening to ensure they are not wasting their time.
You are assuming China cares.

Boeing themselves values the Chinese commercial aircraft market at $3T and 8,000 aircraft over over 20 years.

Of that 6,000 are single-aisle (737, A320, C919).

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/17/boeing-says-china-needs-to-s...

Once its certified, they will instruct their companies to buy the C919 in the thousands.
The N64 isn't somehow broken because "nobody uses RCA anymore". That's like saying your outfit is broken because nobody wears bell-bottom jeans anymore. If you want to play N64, RCA monitors are still readily available, as are converters. Nothing stops you from using them other than plain disinterest.

As for disc rot, I truly believe that if you sell discs with copy protection so that the consumers can't reasonably back them up, they should be eligible for replacements when the discs eventually break after normal use.

This, on the other hand, is first of all not a bug; it's the copy protection working as designed. Whoever decided to use a subscription based copy protection system must have known that they'd either have to pay for it for a very long time or eventually fuck legitimate buyers over. It's deliberate and calculated. That it's related to anti-piracy doesn't factor into it. It's not pirates who are suffering from this, which is what critics have been saying about SecuROM for the last decade.

Now, can you argue for the idea that using SecuROM is comparable to adopting an industry standard for video transmission that has proven to be so popular that it's still widely in use now, some 50 years after its invention, without the foresight to instead adopt standards that didn't yet exist?
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I think that this is because the source form is visual as well and an author in the process of writing has completely different formatting needs than a reader.
Sometimes I think this happens because they wanted the individual serving the time to disappear off the streets.

Other times I think it's the government covering up a crime perpetrated by their own, or someone bribing them, and they know exactly who did it.
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Yip, and Western sales targets are getting heavily dependent on Chinese purchases.
Kind of unrelated to the topic, but does anyone know what the big spot of bad air quality near Houston is?
The sad thing to me is that there are hundreds upon hundreds of such cases, with apparently a racial component to it as well [1].

As the author and jacquesm in this thread touched on [2]:

> I don't think my case was directly race related. I do believe that failed public defender systems across the country has a race related component. Most people who need a public defender are either black or poor or both.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/us/wrongful-convictions-r...

2. https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e63xwa/i_spent_22_yea...
Which, honestly, would have been quite sufficient in this case.

I can't remember ever having seen anything like this in Debian, for instance.
I guess this lets anyone overcome the "COCOM Limits"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinating_Committee_for_Mul...
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> Never ever ever ever talk to the cops. Retain your right for silence. It's the greatest gift you have. The cops don't want to sort anything out, they aren't on your side. They want to nail you. That's all they care about. They have a job to do. That job is to find someone to blame for this problem. So they're gonna do that. Don't help them do that. Save your ammunition for trial. My jury ended up laughing at the prosecutor and the investigating officer in the trial.

Beware this advice can vary from country to country. In England and Wales for example if you don't say something to the police that you later rely on for your defense that can be used against you e.g. they ask 'why was your boot full of weapons and where were you heading?' you stay silent then later state in court 'it was my brother's car, he asked me to drive it to a friend's house and pick him up, I didn't think to check in the boot' they could perhaps infer you'd taken some time to concoct a false story which is why you didn't answer the question initially however the rules are complex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_an.... You do have the right for a duty solicitor to attend an interview who can advise you on prudent things to say and where you should stay silent.

EDIT: Initially said this applied to the whole UK, actually only England and Wales (from the linked Wikipedia page) uncertain about Scotland & Northern Ireland.
Why is this reply downvoted? Is there some lie within it?
The pronunciation may be deterministic for any given speaker, but different speakers can pronounce the same words differently. Not only differences in the national standards of North and South Korea, but also non-standard speech in different regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dialects

Orthography becomes irrelevant as soon as you use Hangul to write a language entirely different from Korean, which wouldn't have the same inflected forms.
> Standard tests based on US/UK spelling/grammar/vocabulary might not capture these nuances.

Standardized tests don't do well at assessing language fluency in general. For one example, my sister was born in the US, grew up in the US, was educated in English, spoke English (exclusively) at home, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She failed the State Department's test of fluency in English.
I have a similar background and the wealth of the content that's not in English is incredible and often missed.

From an outsider perspective, the time it took for British media and the political class to take note of the European sentiment on the issue of brexit was around 1 year. It was as if they just found out there was an non-English web out there..
Someone that is dedicated enough to potentially start speedrunning some 10 year old game, shouldn't really be stopped by having to install some extra "patch".
Nationalism, which leads to dubbing or subbing every piece of English content that's on TV... this is one of the issues.
My pet theory is that English proficiency is much better in countries where movies are subtitled, not dubbed.

Incidentally it also explains why native english speakers tend to have no idea about other languages.

The rise of youtube talking heads should also help... i'm pretty sure my daughter got most of her english from there.
There're serious security issues that need to be addressed in Xinjiang. Don't assume it's related to racism.
Also, when you use the word `camp` it automatically reminds people of Nazi camps during WWII. They are not the same, on multiple levels.
Looks like India has the worst as far as I saw. Some areas above 400(!). For reference, Sydney is mid to upper 100’s which is still not good and likely as you mentioned fire related.