skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany had a spelling reform in the 90s that changed words to be spelled more phonetically rather than how they would have been spelled in their origin languages. For example "Delphin" (dolphin) became "Delfin" because German isn't Greek.
Back in 2007 I was the chair of the Washington, DC chapter of the ACM. The chapter had been dormant for a while so I thought hosting a lecture by a big name in computing would be a good kickstart. I emailed Brian Kernighan asking if he'd be available and willing to give a talk on Unix. He said he'd be absolutely delighted.

He was a wonderful speaker and just a great guy to talk to. He patiently signed copies of K&R C that folks had brought, told interesting anecdotes, and was a kind and pleasant person to everyone who spoke with him. Very approachable.

One thing I remember is him telling me that he only gets stage nerves if he knows he's being filmed. Massive crowd? No problem. Photographs? Go for it. Video cameras? If you do, you have my permission but don't tell me, and make sure I don't notice them.

After that I kept reaching out to other Big Names, and many of them said yes. I figured there was no harm in asking, all they could do is say no. And not a single person I asked said no because they didn't want to, it was always because the scheduling or travel just wouldn't line up properly.
Wow... I wrote my own WebSub receiver and put it on an always-on server to get around the fact that I assumed YouTube doesn't have RSS from the fact that I couldn't find this information anywhere.
Memory in JavaScript – Beyond Leaks (2019)
theres an app for that
The best part of economic freedom is that one is free to start a manufacturer delivering a cheaper whatever one is complaining is too expensive!
> Besides, since we all make the same mistakes when speaking English, we understand each other without asking "sorry, what do you mean?"

That’s likely because the languages you speak all share recent ancestry (if they’re not all Romance languages, they’re at least all descended from Proto-Indo-European.)

Meanwhile, I’ve seen e.g. Mexican and Chinese ESL speakers have very bad mutual intelligibility, because they make very different mistakes.
We've tried both Chelsio T6 and Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx in prototypes like this.
This T60 is 64 bit. Core 2 T5600. My cutoff for referbishing a computer for someone is that it must be 64 bit and it must have at least two cores. Seems like anything Core 2 duo and later is good enough for almost anything most people do (except games).
FWIW I’m a native English speaker and the same happened to me when I learned Spanish. I suspect that with any language, native speakers have a much wider vocabulary and use more colloquialisms, not to mention speaking much faster and more cultural references etc.
Fluokitten: Category Theory Concepts in Clojure
That makes Canada even more attractive to tech companies because they can save money. Canadian salaries and living standards are still better than many other countries'.
> Try to understand a lot of people “abusing” the system have not other legal recourse to keep their lives going.

That is probably because other countries make it even harder for people to immigrate.
Blazor (client-side) is definitely interesting technology if it ever gets uptake.

I can just imagine the performance of a desktop app on the browser (via WASM) without having to fiddle around with JS, front-end frameworks, event models etc. and just write software as if they were targeted towards the desktop.

Software development would get easier again and it would be possible for more people to write desktop-class software for the browser. I'm thinking a lot of engineering/technical software that were previously not feasible on a browser could be rewritten for the browser.
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I suspect this is true for most non-native speakers of a language. They will find speaking with other non-native speakers because they will use less culturally encoded language, probably speak slower and are accustomed to speaking with others that have non-native pronunciation.
This is one reason I have reservations about async/await syntax in JavaScript. Promises are parallel by default; you have to go out of your way to make them "synchronous". The synchronous way of doing things may be clunky, but I'm not so sure that isn't a feature. In my experience it's uncommon that synchronicity is what you want. But with async/await, you're doing things sequentially by default. This means it's really easy to accidentally make things take longer than they need to.
What we forget is actually an individual - relocation is a basic human right. There should be no lottery of birth.
New York City in 1993 in HD
this time will be different
You say that Apple is demanding you change your business model but actually you're demanding that Apple accomodate yours.

If someone buys your app and doesn't like it then how do they know about the money back guarantee ? Because depending on how visibly you communicate that to the user at best you could make it hard for users to know about it and at worst you could be flat out being deceptive.

Either way Apple takes on the significant chargeback risk for your app which is far more concerning for them than whatever revenue they get.
As pointed out in other threads, H1B data is public. There's precisely 1 H1B in Plano, TX:
https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=&city=PLANO.TX&year=A...
Read John Allspaw’s doc (the first reference in the article).

It’s absolutely critical to create a culture that when Kirin makes an error, they have no fear and total incentive to explain what they did, when they did it, why they thought it was the right course of action, what happened when they did it, etc.
> They're just different ways of having the same experiences. If you like, you can eat garlic bread for one meal, a Greek salad for the next, and charcuterie for a third—and you'll have "eaten a pizza" of whatever toppings you like.

I'd argue that the simultaneity is a new experience though. Just as playing first the low notes and then the high notes of a musical score sounds radically different than playing both scores at the same time, the taste of pizza is exactly the interaction between cheese flavour, bread and topping.

The theory about satiation sounds plausible and I can easily imagine that you will eat less by consuming only monotonous meals, but I'd disagree stating this would be the same experience are being similarly enjoyable.
Meta: entrepreneurship seems to be discussed much less on HN now, and I feel that there are far fewer founders commenting. Is this a trend?

I think that this article is bang on. The other problem with failures is that there seems to be an endless list of failure modes. I am sure it helps to understand some of them, but no founder should have the “engineers“ mentality of looking for all the reasons why a product or business won’t work... What matters is why it will work.
No.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/ios-iphone-crowdfunding-on-bou...

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102
The economic recovery phase post Covid-19
What if they moved to Japan because of an opportunity provided by a Japanese organisation that needed their skills, and then they spent enough time there that they had buy in to the community and were a recognised member in it and were valued by that community?

I don't think this is too hard to imagine applying to a person living long term in Japan and definitely not hard to imagine in the US, where there are no true "Americans" in the first place, apart from maybe the indigenous peoples.
That question is probably a bit over my head. My outlook is pretty grim and skeptical because of my experience with American capitalism so far. But the fact that people like Leo Strine and Marty Lipton are apparently meaningfully moving these ideas beyond the bounds of academia is definitely a good sign. (Slightly) more tangibly, 93% of investor respondents to a recent survey about corporate purpose indicated that it's important for a corporation to have a purpose, and 38% agreed that defining/managing stakeholder impact is an important reason to have a corporate purpose.[1] (This study was published on the HLS Blog after I wrote a more cynical reply to you yesterday and forgot to send it. Neat I guess.)

I read the Harvard Law corporate governance blog pretty regularly, and a staggering percentage of recent scholarship on there has been about corporate purpose, stakeholder capitalism, and ESG. ESG and stakeholder theory aren't exactly the same thing, but here's a good overview of how ESG might impact M&A and governance moving forward [2].

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/06/19/making-corporate-...
[2] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/02/20/the-coming-impact...
It was really cool actually, makes use of the nim godot bindings to create a sandbox game with the nim compiler running as a service and run NimScript (a subset of Nim, basically the ffi missing) inside a live 3D environment!

Hope to see it expand further!
There is an issue with 'diversity in tech' and, among other things, under-representation of African-Americans in STEM.

So why are the big tech corporations that are constantly virtue signalling about Black Lives Matter and social justice not simply training American engineers (not specifically black, but people coming from poor socioeconomic backgrounds, which would definitely include many African-Americans). Why do they bring Indian or Chinese engineers?

America does not lack people, it has good universities. It could certainly train a local workforce. Providing good jobs to those communities would do wonders to reduce criminality, drug abuse and various issues.
Given that we’re talking about longevity extension here, that “perfect diet” would have to be perfect indeed, to make you immortal.
Does anyone actually like using Figma? Honest question. I’ve use it for collaboration a few times but found it painful. I’d much rather have used Photoshop and screen sharing if given the choice. I understand that this solution doesn’t scale though.
My understanding is that there is an actual definition and research of mindfulness that can be used to evaluate and I guess even benchmark whether a given program actually is using the methods as intended?
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Actually that site is interesting, if you add up the Bay Area it would be the #1 region. https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2019-H1B-Visa-Category.as...
Just an addendum to people who aren't familiar with medical research. This is way outside of mainstream medical practice, and 95% of researchers in the field believe cholesterol matters, statins have saved more lives than any other drug, and they improve cognition in most cases.
"design online" is the key but not so much that the software runs in the browser, more that it allows for a different workflow.

Multiple people can be working on the same thing at the same time and anyone can view the in progress work. This changes the traditional file based workflow where designers pass a file back and forth if they want to keep the work together - often working in a separate file then "merging" the work into a master file one at a time.

Because all the files are online it's possible to see who is working on what including at the very moment. Its really easy for me to get a sense of what other designers are working on and whats been updated recently.

A huge bonus beyond designer collaboration is the way Figma breaks the previous separation of working file and final export. Non-designers can check in on an in-progress file at any time without needing a designer to export some static version of it. This allows designers to work on related things in the same file but each "thing" can be in at various stages of completion without having a negative impact on delivering final work. This is also great for transparency.
quantum.country is actually a study in the effectiveness of spaced repetition. Andy and Michael have documented the results from Quantum Country here — https://numinous.productions/ttft/
We've already seen how these algorithms encourage conflict on Twitter and Facebook. The idea of those paradigms moving to my living community, and by proxy to my real, physical life, is scary.
Portuguese has frequent spelling reforms, with over 10 reforms since 1911. The most recent one started in 2009 and had a transition period that ended in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Portuguese_orthogra...
Maybe it's based on emphasis? 'Ott.a.wa vs on'ta.ri.o
Both are problems.

People who abuse that situation and useless laws on the books.
Your daily lesson in economics and its utter lack of morality!

But wait! It's not just the basic lesson of despair, here we have a bonus lesson: it's an equation where the actual values are impossible to determine, just like virtually every economic equation.
Keto diets have most definitely not been around long enough for anyone's bodies to evolve to follow them. That takes many thousands of years.
Most of exUSSR countries de facto making transition from russian language to their own. Some parts of these languages wasn't used in many fields (science, street language, popular music) for 50-70 years and only exists in the books. Push is mostly centralized by government or people who pay them. Correct me if I'm wrong, russian speaking population lost about 50 millions speakers in last 10-20 years. Most of these users made switch to languages that before was almost lost. Also some countries changed Cyrillic letters to latin.

I dont want to attack you personally, but idea that languages are uncontrolled is quite opposite. It is centralized more than many things. I think McDonald's is less centralized than this.
Andy goes into even deeper detail of the need of having Executable Books in order to enable learning — https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2UKZTkAbLUKR85d92gqB7ahoxcS...
> a social network based on proximity and centered around community information is a viable idea, It's just that NextDoor is doing that with our worst instincts

I have only seen a little bit of NextDoor, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me to be more of how people are deciding to use the platform as opposed to NextDoor purposely promoting our worst instincts. Do you feel like they really are promoting the most inflammatory posts for the purpose of increasing engagement? (like so many of the other major platforms out there)

For me it is sad to see that there are so many people out there too quick to pass judgement on anyone that looks different in their neighborhood. But so far it feels like another example of how web platforms allow people to be more comfortable in expressing their true feelings, and while often disappointing, is a good reminder of the very different views people around us can hold.
You can get an XML dump of all your subscribed channels which contains these links: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager (scroll to the bottom)
Authors explain background and motivation for spaced repetition and mnemonic media in this extensive article. May be helpful if you're seriously getting into this.

https://numinous.productions/ttft/
I'm very excited by the DSRC/IEEE 802.11p technology used in this pilot. I don't want to wait for Tesla's "Full Self Driving" to, someday, reliably and automatically avoid an accident; I'd much rather have an idiot light on my dash provide a warning.

See https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... for details on the "Basic Safety Message" that each vehicle broadcasts.

Also see that this technology is already being used in the new VW Golf Mk 8. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2019/10/28/volksw... and https://www.eetimes.com/vw-pits-its-new-golf-against-the-5g-...

But the situation has been terribly complicated by the cellalur industry (and Ajit Pai's FCC) wishing to appropriate the needed frequencies to provide a similar service over 5G (https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/fcc-plan-could-st...)

Are there any Europeans who have experience with the new Golf Mk 8's DSRC, which they have branded as Car2X?
This reality you want to impose on the world is hilarious.

Just picturing wanting to sit down and play on my PS4 and having to first run virus and malware checkers.
Many of us have been pursuing personal projects to breathe new life into old technologies:

Nick Black has been doing great work creating a successor to ncurses. He took the latest and greatest modern C++ / UNICODE development practices, and made it work really well for the old school terminal stuff from decades ago, which was easier said that done. https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

See also Cosmopolitan, which is more focused on the use case: "All I want is stdio and math; how can I do that without all the breaking builds and broken hearts?" https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

Please consider supporting us. These old technologies are widely supported and have stood the test of time. Any positive developments towards making them fresh again, is going to benefit both you and the technology community as a whole.
Ditto, we have a quite a few designers and they mostly seem to struggle with thinking in components. They use design system like a color guide, and we keep reimplementing patterns on many pages.
Sure, it “constrains the labor supply” by making people choose their livelihood over visiting their family. I think that very obviously qualifies as cruelty.
yes, that is a real problem and it should be solved. but in the absence of a solution to that problem, shutting down tools that make it easy to take advantage of that problem to be racist and/or annoying is a decent starting point.
Industries in the US favoring contractors/freelancers over fulltime employees.

I personally know people who have been affected by this or witnessed this first hand in well known media companies and more recently at a casino.

Most were laid off and replaced with contractors, but in some cases the media people and their respective departments were demoted to freelance workers. In doing this, companies avoid covering benefits, unemployment insurance, liability costs, paid time off, etc. They're also off the hook when it comes to traditional working hours/days. At least one person has said that working 7 days a week tends to be the norm for them.

The casino employees have been threatened with layoffs if they did not return to work during the pandemic. Those who were laid off have been replaced by contractors.

It wouldn't be all that surprising if this became more prevalent across industries.
> Meanwhile, I’ve seen e.g. Mexican and Chinese ESL speakers have very bad mutual intelligibility, because they make very different mistakes.

That's true. Assume a monolingual learner. You can predict the kinds of mistakes they will make based on their native language (phonetical, phonological, semantic, etc.). As a person learns more languages, they will likely get better at decoding these things. Particularly cultural based assumptions used in languages.
Nicky Case also does it in the most delightful way — https://ncase.me/remember/
“piercing the lumen” is a drastic over-simplification. We don’t know how much LDL is in a healthy lumen (the small amount of research that exists suggests its greater than the serum concentration). Much of it gets there via active transport mechanisms (transcytosis).

Also, why would an endogenously produced protein end up killing you? Seems like evolution run-amok.
That makes no sense at all. A employee visits his home country on vacation, now information to return causes problem for both the individual and the employer, especially if that person is in a critical role and now unable to do their job.
Oh come on. You have to deal with negotiating a future first before lamenting the past. It is the privilege of a nation's people that the government is enacting harsh measures in their (alleged) favour, and so be it; they have recourse to reprimand their leaders. I am sick and tired of the whataboutism that calls every single persons feelings into consideration wherever they are on this sad planet when whatever happens. That stance has never ever been the basis nor the reality of real power on the nation state level. Realism is real, you ought to try and deal with it.
RPi4 has a different GPU than the older models. Someone else is already working on an official Vulkan driver for it.
The term you're looking for is 'sybil attack'.
Calling the Indian Government a totalitarian regime is stretching it a bit too much. India is still a paradise of liberty compared to China and some other countries in our region. Indians want H1B because they want to earn in dollars, plain and simple. All other reasons are secondary. H1B is modern-day bonded labor. You guys are the sugar slaves of this age, like it or not.
Everything that is new or was causing problems, moved under expiremental https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual_experimental.html
These are the features you are describing, the ones needing more refinement.
How about fixing the crap average american joe eats starts with the crap itself, rather than some substance that would magically fix bad effects?

It can be far from perfect, nobody actually eats that, just normal food, in normal portions, like our ancestors ate.

For many europeans the scale of how crappy US food can get while also being calorie-dense is hard to comprehend. Its not like US is a 3rd world country where most of population can't afford better - most simply don't even try.
> Metaprogramming in particular is just great in Nim and give you a lot of scope for doing things that would otherwise require new language features.

Metaprogramming is v alluring to me, but I’ve been wondering, people that write code super heavy on the metaprogramming, doesn’t revisiting code and debugging become much more taxing?
These prices are not high. I went through a period when I had no health insurance, and I had to rely on generic insulin, the kind you can buy at Walmart for $25 a vial. I have insurance now and the insulin I take now costs me a co-pay of $100 a vial. Paying $35 a vial without insurance is not bad at all.
> reform English spelling

You forgot about this one: http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/european-commission.html.
It wouldn't be entirely sad if some British artefacts ended up in Athens somehow. Athens could hold onto them for... safekeeping.
Yeah it’s a double edged sword. On the one hand you know if your neighborhood is getting hit by package thieves, car-break-in’s, etc., on the other hand people walking disheveled in their sweats can get called out.

On the other hand this is a neighborhood app and is used differently in different neighborhoods. Tenderloin vs Nob Hill.
As ptcampbell stated, I do not believe there is any collusion. It's just natural... people will get tired of reading about the same thing and stop visiting your site. So you hype up something else and see a ton of new visitors. After a while people get tired of reading about that so you come up with something new to write about which drives more hits. Eventually a pattern becomes clear, you either need to constantly write about new things or your site will be forgotten.

The changes are not being driven by any need for a new language or framework, just the hype cycle of technology. And when your business depends on that hype cycle, it is in your best interest to keep that spinning as fast as possible. No collusion or conspiracy needed.
It also manages to be unreadable with Reader view on iOS.
"harsh punishment and a system that learns from its mistakes"

... what?
The problem is that when everyone is guilty of something, the government can pick and choose who it punishes, through prosecutorial discretion, selective policing, and other means.
I'm glad the Wikipedia article included the link to this page (http://zompist.com/spell.html) that give a good breakdown of the actual general rules of English spelling - granted there's almost 60 of them.