skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the audience is programmers or generally tech people, not translating from English might indeed be the best option. The lingua franca of technology is English.

E.g. looking at the quality of Microsoft's German translations (which seem to be done by a poorly trained bot), the translation is actually counterproductive, because it's full of special terms translated into German that either would not be translated from English in a "native" German text, or where a different translation is commonly used.

My favourite is the Visual Studio translation for Link-Time Code-Generation. Which is translated as "Link-Zeitcode Generierung" which in English means "Link Timecode Generation".
I got this instead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveys_of_scientists%27_views...

Which points to a 2016 study [0] refuting Tol's claim that the majority of climate scientists have not reached a consensus.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/04...
Plenty of countries already do, but at least judging from reading about America on HN its much more difficult to do anything like that in America because of distrust in government. You even vote without ID which is extremely weird for the rest of the world.
A bunch of gps coordinates associated with an identifier is personally identifying information:

https://www.livingmap.com/technology/location-matters-geospa...
That review article was posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794850. We'll put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page. Thanks!
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Ask HN: How can I speak better and stop judging myself so harshly when I don't
One of the biggest problems I currently experience is an inability to correctly articulate ideas under pressure. The problem plays out as follows:

* Someone will ask my opinion on problem / topic X, a problem / topic in a domain I am knowledgeable in but one for which I haven't formulated an explicit response for previously.

* Instead of taking the time to sit down for a few seconds and think through the issue, I rattle off the first thing in my head which is probably 50% correct.

* After the fact, I quickly arrive at the correct answer and realize my initial statement was wrong, but now it's too late to correct it.

* I then rip myself a new asshole about it and remind myself that this is why no one will hire me / why people think I'm an idiot / why I'm unsuccessful / why I suck at interviews / [insert self loathing here]; which is way out of proportion given the context.

My questions are how can I get better at thinking on my feet, and how can I stop being so self critical about not giving the ideal responses in every context.
I wish there were 7 chords too!
Microsoft and Google both offer a feature where the audience can follow along on their device. I've only used the Microsoft version personally... you can watch the slides on your screen, get a translation into the language of your choice, and go backwards in the presentation if you missed something (but not ahead of where the speaker is). If you go backwards and want to get back to where the speaker is, there's a button for that.
Seems like the author just needs to RTFM.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786049
There have also been interviews where they've talked about how they won't do something unless they can add something new to it. For example, they haven't created a new F-Zero game because no one has really come up with anything to add to F-Zero to make a compelling game, rather than just "It's another F-Zero game".

In I think the same interview, it was discussed that they won't make a game unless it's fun if it's just geometric shapes or basic sprites. The idea there being that a Mario game isn't fun just because it has Mario in it, but if the gameplay is solid then it will be fun despite not having Mario in it. Presumably this also lets them crank out prototypes without having to worry about spinning up art assets to give testers context.
GP was incorrect in taking a position that global warming was not a threat. The actual threat of COVID is going to be much lower than global warming, COVID is either going to be temporary or in the long term settle to look a lot like all the other diseases we put up with. Climate change could be a legitimate crisis at some point.

However, directionally speaking, they have an excellent point that people who predict the future are very common in the climate lobby; and within that group people who correctly predict the future are going to be rare. It is not a lobby made up of scientists because there aren't that many.
> The repeat is expected to come in October or November, meaning Boeing won’t meet its goal of a flight with crews this year

This is much worse than expected and it means their first crew flight will be nearly an year after SpaceX.
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New York City Sees More Burglaries of Businesses Under Emergency Measures
This was the only somewhat-popular alternative to Yelp and Google Reviews. Sucks that their City Mapper service will probably go away.
I thought pandas called into C libraries, does it not run close to native speeds?
No, it is the scientists that have predicted the disaster, with an overwhelming consensus, hence the downvotes.
I interviewed there a few years back- I actually really liked the team there and came close to taking a less lucrative offer to work there. To the best of my knowledge, this is not in any way secret information, its just not widely known.

Foursquare is essentially a service for other apps at this point- They are a library embedded into many apps. Foursquare is likely on your phone somewhere. The app owner gets a whole lot of location data "for free", and Foursquare gets is own copy. They give you analytics on the data fed to them- the details were not laid out to me, but its not hard to fill in the blanks here- how many people walked into your store that day- how many people walked into your store after you covered that zipcode in an ad campaign, etc, what is the shape of your traffic in terms of people coming in from 9-10am, vs 10am-11am (helping them refine their staffing) etc... None of this couldn't be built themselves, but its already built and refined, and more refined.

On the flip side, there are some very lucrative uses for this data in aggregate. I am a hedge fund, and I want to know how many people are walking into a Macy's, or Chipotle after its dust-up, or even an entire mall (to get some edge on the owner's health). Right now it would probably be very interesting to look at someone like Home Depot's foot traffic- they are "essential"- but is anyone going? Combine this with some data like Yodlee (for e-commerce- they sell gift card data) and you can get a quite accurate model for where their revenue is going to land. Hedge funds are willing to pay a lot of money for this type of data.

This was the state of affairs 3 years ago, things may have evolved since then.
There have been plenty of ways to inject textures into games to replace the ones that are built into it. In online games, like this one, all it takes is a host file that redirects the texture addresses with something else.
> Being able to put it on the TV and detaching the controllers is secondary, it's mostly about having great games!

If anyone doubts this, the Switch Lite sold 1.95 million units in its first ten days, and you can neither put it on the TV nor detach the controllers.
If I am doing that most of the time the first few hundred results are pages which just list all numbers there are – like in a consecutive manner.

Never understood why there are so many of this pages and why you would build one...
> When finally Trump won the White House and the GOP controlled all 3 branches of gov't, they ultimately balked at voting to repeal.

Well, it is basically a Republican national healthcare program, which preserved the hugely profitable health insurance industry. Modeled on RomneyCare.
Honest question here. I am not an American but watching the scene.

Fox News also pointed out several things that the left media wrong.

1. Washingtonpost telling in early Feb that public should be wary of government asking for a shutdown. The video showed that Bill Maher wanted the pandemic so that Trump gets ousted.

2. Fox News also pointed inaccuracies in npr’s article.

Looks like each side is blaming the other.

How do you tell which side aid correct. The left too wants to destroy Trump’s reputation. Left is a hateful group which wants to bury the right.
I love the joke. But, it is a serious problem.

One key part is that naming is important. This is always a fight I am willing to take. Acronyms, fantasy names, names of teams or legacy names that does not represent the functionality of the micro-service plague many companies.

If you will not name a method "Jimmy" or a local variable "Galactus", why developers are naming their micro-services in such a bad way?

I do not know what I find more frustrating, the bad naming per se. Or the fact that the same developers would lose their shit if they saw this:

class Galactus {
boolean Jimmy;

void turnOn() {
Jimmy = true;
}

void turnOff() {
Jimmy = false;
}
}

Sometimes it feels that software development is more a religion that an engineering discipline. That there is rights and wrongs based in tradition instead of sound practices. That is why worse than the naming is the lack of self-introspection that let us here.
How do you even create a Google account without a phone number?
This is something you should discuss with your lawyer. We almost certainly don't have the full picture of the situation or grasp of any of the nuances.

With that being said, this seems like a fairly straightforward cost-benefit analysis relative to your personal finances and life plans in the next 2 years (getting married? moving? etc). Can you afford the time/cost? Do you have the emotional energy to do it over the span of 24 months?

If I had the time/energy to do it, I think I'd definitely give it a shot. I'd want revenge and to ensure they don't do it to anyone else ever again.
Sorry, but no. There have been thousands if not tens of thousands of such testable events over the last couple of years and in not even a single case has this led to repercussions against those that lied. Nobody's measure has been taken in a way that they cared about.

We can record this one and likely it won't make any difference either. It's just whose team you are on now, not about whether there is anything truthful being said.
Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?
I'll second Rock Auto. A dated looking website that Just Works (TM).

Parts-tree another great one, focused on yard maintenance equipment.

Ace hardware is kind of neat. I ordered some stuff as Christmas presents and the local store called me on the phone to ask if I was going to be home and where would I like them to put the items. I asked if they could stick them in the garage and maybe in some generic looking boxes to preserve the surprise (of being presents) and the boxes all showed up neatly hand wrapped in brown paper! Only one data point but definitely made me feel like ordering again.
I know most are assuming Cozier leaked the document, but there is literally no proof of that. Someone else leaked it. Maybe even Modly or Espers or at their direction.
Video Has {n} Views – Transition from open to closed web and APIs
Vectorization and parallelization in Python with numpy and pandas
SIEM vs. Soar, What’s the Difference?
Read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art.
Experts disagree on whether Coronavirus could have leaked from a research lab
By his definition, isn't a "talk" skeuomorphic as well?
It is a mistake to think “wear a mask” advocacy is actually “wear a mask and do nothing else” advocacy.

It’s one of several things one should be doing.
Ask HN: What math course should I take?
I would like to learn more foundational mathematics. I am a business professional who also knows some software development. My goal is ultimately to have a more nuanced understanding of statistics, economic theory, and principles that will help me better understand the sciences.
The last math class I took was in high school (13 years ago) and was probably geometry.

I'd like to determine where to start and, if possible, what list of online (preferably free) courses I should look into taking.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.
I think the distinction between Kayfabe and propaganda is that the audience knows and chooses to suspend disbelief of Kayfabe because it's engaging to them.

I like this article because I think Kayfabe is a much better explanation of certain societal tribes' mock battles, than a lack of intellect. I think propaganda is a poor theory for widespread misinformation, because if it were simply a lack of information, then giving correct information to the uninformed (e.g. wikipedia) would immediately rectify the problem.
> https://twofactorauth.org/#banking

Looking at that link, pretty much none of the major US banks (Bank of America, US Bank, Wells Fargo, PNC, Chase, etc.) seem to support software 2FA token solutions (e.g., Google Authenticator, Authy, etc.). Not gonna lie, this is abysmal.
Free System Programming Textbook (Illinois CS241)
That's one of the issues with hyperpartisanship. Everyone thinks that people need to be held accountable - as long as it's people they already decided were terrible. The truth is the response to this pandemic has been poor across the board. Go back and read what people were saying in February to see how unprepared everyone was.

Bill Gates, for example, is held up as someone who saw this coming. However, if you read what he wrote at the end of February about what needs to be done to stop the Coronavirus, you'll he didn't raise any issues about the way it was being handled within the United States, and viewed the main problem being the difficulties that poor countries would have handling it. Even a few days ago there were almost no leaders calling for mass use of face coverings. And there still seem to be very few (if any) calling for an implementation of measures like those that are successfully combating the virus in South Korea.
Yes ... And it seems this issue is a global one. We seem to have the ability to put half the world in lockdowns but we don't have ability to crosscheck a bunch of different patient databases that could already contain the answer to this whole HCQ debate.
The writer was a guest on Rogan this weekend, and he was very engaging, he did wander a bit. He has a particular kind of breadth-first associative intelligence that can cause listeners to become almost hypnotized by all the open cognitive loops his conversation creates, not unlike the kayfabe concept he's touting.

Similar things come up in the theory of musical composition where you create and resolve "tension," and you can drive the listeners perceptions by loading them up with mental anchors to notes and then resolving them all at once. If you learn to play any Bach, you can begin to see and articulate how he discovered it. Eric Weinsteins example of pro wrestling is identifying where it appears in narrative, but there are analogous concepts in areas like so-called, "neuro linguistic programming," where ideas are "stacked," and then collapsed into a conclusion. I only know about that part of it because I have some very diverse and interesting friends.

As a writer, I use a similar technique all the time, but in smaller more digestible loops, and only rarely with enough to take the reader into that kind of "hall of mirrors," effect great fiction writers use, where each new sentence introduces plot elements that cascade back through the story and closes loops on ideas you have already set up. Mystery novels are a the most simple example of it, where at the end _it all falls into place_.

Great auteur films like 13 Conversations About One Thing, and any Cohen Brother's pic uses a similar device.

Anyway it's fun and addictive, and while I'm sure smarter people than me have a more coherent theory of it, I can see why this fellow thinks it's important.

When you think about it, how our mind works is fundamentally the only actual problem. Everything else is just an artifact of it.
You seem to struggle with basic reading comprehension. This letter didn't come out of the blue. He had been asking to off-board Covid-stricken sailors for some time due to the impossibility of maintaining a distancing regime on-board.
Airbnb didn't invent the vacation rental. People have rented their place to vacationers since forever. There were and are multiple companies and websites that did that long before Airbnb existed.

Airbnb just made it easier and thus more popular to rent your home or room to travellers.

Airbnb didn't innovate anything in the space as far as I am aware of, except for a great user experience.

The only people to blame in regards to vacation rentals raising housing prices are the governments that set and enforce the rules. As long as regulating authorities allow private residences to be occupied by renters on a short term basis, then investors are going to buy property and rent it that way.

Airbnb's intended usage from the beginning was to rent out the unused value of your home. Which would actually lower housing prices since it allows you to use the housing more efficiently. But now bigger players are buying property for the sole purpose of short term rentals which decreases housing supply.
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Of course, agree to disagree. But in particular, having to constantly perform glory kills and chainsaw attacks to get more than 5 bullets or having to snipe coordinates XY on enemy Z with alternate firing mode N to weaken him and only then succeed in taking them down is, in my opinion, not that "Doomy". But I get what you're saying, they can't just make the same game again of course. Also, these days expectations from new games are way bigger than they were back then. Still all great games.
A possible solution to Covid-19
New Jersey needs volunteers who know COBOL
There are companies that will sell you the ability to look up this information and/or determine if you should trust this number.
Four transistors? I can do it with only 2, it's called bi-stable circuit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics)
Sure, but it can be used with vending machines that require "credit cards," which is somewhat the point.
Then you had a much much better experience than I did, across Symbian (UIQ3), Windows Mobile and Android.
2FA should never be SMS based. I've deprecated SMS for all communications and block all SMS messages to my phone.

I use a virtual number for all such services that demand an idiotic SMS verification code. I won't state which one I use here, but there are several services you can choose from that provide virtual numbers.
Those 20 people weren't random yahoos. They were credentialed navy / DOD brass with the appropriate level of clearance.
How can you say that localization is a difficult problem that no one has solved yet. i18n is the case for as long as I’ve been writing software, and probably longer. So minimum 20 years.

I do agree that it’s not a walk in the park because it takes loads of resources to provide actual translations and one has to make i18n a feature in the code. But... come on. phpMyAdmin was doing this in 2004.
There's a possibly equal danger of exaggerating the severity of the virus, which we may be experiencing right now.

Bias towards either direction is still bias. Educated discussion and critical thought are all we can rely on.

If that leads us to the conclusion (as it has led me) that the severity of this disease has been inflated, I think that's a worthy topic of debate and evaluation. Not a taboo subject to be avoided "because someone somewhere might not take it seriously enough and then do something stupid".
Unions have suffered from a bad reputation in the United States over the past few decades.

Some of it is deserved BTW; some big unions were/are corrupted and some were connected with organized crime. Even more innocently, unions have been quite conservative; as jobs and technology changed some were very resistant and fought modernization (requiring people who were not needed to be around). But a lot of it also stems from corporate resistance to unionization and the high regard in which ordinary people hold the opinions of corporate managers in the USA.

All that being said, unions have been very good for labor, and when I've worked in union shops (not in a unionized role) they've been really great in terms of qualified people and high quality work. I built my house using union labor and I'm glad I did.

Europe is not immune to these diseases by the way. Certain French unions certainly negotiate against the greater interests of society. And in Germany my non-unionized brother in law (a mechanical engineer) was not allowed to work late at VW -- he was trying to finish a project one evening and a union guy came by and cut his PC's power cable while he was designing a part.
Modular software is a great idea, always was; and fundamentalism doesn't make software better, never did.
Good ideas are compromises.

The latest system I designed professionally was an ordering system that's divided into two parts; a local application with a database and an HTML document and a PHP script on a server.

The application itself doesn't need internet access to work.

The data needed for the online customer order module is uploaded to the server via FTP as needed. Online orders are stored on the server and polled via FTP on request from the local application.

The result is modular, very easy to maintain, and performance is good enough to be considered a feature.

But the reasons for the choices I made are all about the problem being solved, not organizing developers and keeping them from stepping on each others toes.
You can't outsource chores right now (or shouldn't be able to) unless you have a live-in maid with you.
Lean's maths library development is essentially completely focussed on classical mathematics, which is why it has been so successful in drawing "working mathematicians" in. Such people do not care at all about the issues involving quotients, indeed quotients in Lean work just fine for them, and they don't care about constructibility either, because this is the prevailing culture in maths departments (although it is not, I am well aware, the prevailing culture in computer science departments). If you are interested in constructivism I would not recommend Lean. Many of the developments in mathlib are classical. That's why it's moving so quickly -- classical mathematics is much easier.
HN client that can filter out MSN?
I'm sure I saw one listed in Show HN once, I'd like to find and use it if it's any good! WSJ is the pits.
economic crises is also coming...
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I made the account while ago and it let me, I guess they don't let you anymore though
If you give someone a complicated truth and a simple emotionally appealing lie, why would they immediately recognize and prefer the truth?

Wikipedia happened, and then Conservapedia happened as a reaction.
if there's anyone following this thread, I was laid off work due to covid-19, so, I'm available to work on fun projects. My email is on my profile. God bless us all on this trying times.