skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just learn INGSOC's Newspeak. I know, it doesn't exist yet, but big tech and lefties are making it happen by changing the meaning of commonly used words in the dictionary.

As personal communication, Newspeak is to be spoken in staccato rhythm, using words that are short and easy to pronounce. The Party intends to make speech physically automatic and intellectually unconscious in order to diminish the possibility of critical thought occurring to the speaker. English words of comparative and superlative meanings and irregular spellings were simplified into regular spellings; thus, better becomes gooder and best becomes goodest. The prefixes plus- and doubleplus- are used for emphasis (for example, pluscold meaning "very cold" and doublepluscold meaning "extremely cold"). Adjectives are formed by adding the suffix –ful to a root-word, e.g. goodthinkful means "Orthodox in thought."; while adverbs are formed by adding the suffix –wise, e.g. goodthinkwise means "In an orthodox manner".
Yes, it's certainly more ergonomic and comfortable. Still, I find the mouse pretty fast overall. But I'm pretty good at aiming at things with it after playing FPS games for a while.

>how easy vim handles the _not_ simple things

Agreed, despite any minor differences in movement speed, even '.' by itself is useful enough to never switch back.
I totally agree. Even non-developers can benefit from a better understanding of how the internet works.
I've worked in this space before (though ~5 years ago), and I would say that most of the solutions are so unsophisticated that any measures to prevent this, like the ones you propose, would likely be completely overkill.

AFAIK, there have also been some safeguards added into the MWS API itself, which prevent too drastic price changes to be uploaded, which prevent those bugs from surfacing nowadays.
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> Esperanto is a romance language - I don't see any Germanic or Slavic in there

There are loads of Esperanto nouns and verbs based on Germanic (mainly based on German, the main Germanic language L.L. Zamenhof knew and a prestigious language for intellectual communication in Eastern Europe at the time, but also a few English roots). With regard to Slavic, the question particle was taken from Polish and I have always assumed that the inflexion of participles was copied from Russian.
It has to be done server side considering reddit api doesn't show how many upvotes or downvotes comments get.
Not really; maybe for a particularly motivated individual but not on the large scale. You'll have more succeeds teaching English to large numbers of people because more people will be motivated to learn it, because learning English presently had WAY more immediate short-term utility than learning Esperanto.
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Esperanto (and all the other intentionally designed languages) are simple and logical only because nobody actually speaks them as a native language. They're consistent because everyone learned them from the same miniscule corpus of available books and the occasional film.

If any of the intentionally designed languages were to actually come into common use, it would immediately be subject to the same kind of regional pronunciation differences, usage drift over time, coining of neologisms and idiomatic phrases, etc. that make real languages so complicated.
What is choice C?

The last choice is not a choice is to let incompetence and delay take its toll
That's not nitpicking the grammar. It changes the meaning of the sentence. And if that's the only sentence you read you'd have no way of knowing it's wrong.
Digitalization and Technical Debt: Memories and Trauma
> the sails can be retracted to 195 feet in order to clear bridges or withstand rough weather.

That's awfully close to the clearance under many bridges. The SF Bay bridge for example, which has to be crossed to reach the port of Oakland, has a clearance of 220 ft.
The crew, maintenance, processes (including security) of US Navy subs is at a vastly different level from a typical merchant ship.
Cryptic crosswords are similar and quite popular in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword

The wordplay riddles in the article are a lot more verbose and less ritualized, but the key idea is the same.
Vim can't highlight Markdown correctly because it does highlighting via regexps. For correct parsing and thus for correct highlighting of Markdown you need a real parser. See e.g. this:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown/issues/4
Not only is our view of free speech different today, but the US has a long history of censoring minority groups. Take the Hays code for instance which made it de facto against the law for movies to portray gay men in a positive way or "race mixing" at all. That was around until nearly the 70s. That's still within living memory [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Co...
Highly recommend from Steve Friedl's excellent Unixwiz.net Tech Tips collection[0]:

"So you want to be a consultant...?" [1]

[0] http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/

[1] http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html
Can you say more about what ‘accountability’ means in this case?
Nothing in their post or the article says that things shouldn't be up for discussion. That's not even the point of it.

The point has been about whether more powerful figures can use their platform to drown out the free speech of others and the lack of accountability.

The article is in fact calling for more accountability, which is precisely what your comment about discussion would be.

You're in effect reinforcing both the articles point and the points shared by the person you're replying to
I can understand French and German. I will never be able to speak French without offending the ears of natives. German I might do better in with another 10 years, that will be about 20 years of being an annoying drain on the culture.. A bit like a second childhood.

In Esperanto, it's about 3 months to get to not terrible for native speakers (yes there are native speakers) and a year or two to be quite good, maybe as annoying as your typical undergraduate to the top level of translators, authors, etc.
How else are they going to suppress wrongthink.
“I think there’s likely to be lots of explanations for why people were reporting problems” - This is right at the end of the article.

The title is clickbaity. MSM knows everything with "covid" in the title generates clicks. Sadly, it also spreads fear and contributes to the rising mental health problem.
exactly. I work with a guy who has a family, and probably stopped growing career wise years ago. But he makes good money, he enjoys the company, and he seems happy. He has enough depth of skill that if he were to get laid off, he could easily find another job in that area.

For a while I looked down at him, like “dude why are you stagnating?” But over time I could see why he’s doing what he’s doing, and it works for him. Maybe I’m wrong and if he got laid off he would have difficulty finding another job. But that’s his choice, relative to living with daily stress of stretching and pushing to the next level.

I think the people who are making poor choices are those who are driven by fear - they want to grow, they aren’t, and they are afraid to make a move. Or they fear being disloyal, or whatever.

I myself stayed in my second job far too long, and have regretted it since.

Since being at my current company, I’ve done something like this, though less formally. I went thru a period of 6 months where I was having less impact and I felt like I hit a “ceiling”, so I kept pushing for a different role. Then covid hit, some people left, priorities change, and now I have a perfect role and am growing again. If covid hadn’t happened I think I would’ve needed to start looking. I love my current company so was willing to wait it out a bit longer.
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting this, but I wonder if the author is suggesting ("dog whistling") that in our (US) current two party system, that only one side is guilty of it? (I guess my question is actually: I wonder how paragraphs like this are unpacked in the minds of readers, depending on their particular worldviews. Written English is so brutally flawed as a communication medium).

Or maybe this is the nuance but I'm not picking it up:

> It’s alert to the ways in which demagogic leaders or movements can use propaganda, an older term that can be synonymous with disinformation.

Trump (primarily, but certainly not solely).

> A crude authoritarian censors free speech.

"Crude authoritarian" typically unpacks to Trump in most people's minds, but it's mostly "the left" doing the censorship these days.

> A clever one invokes it to play a trick, twisting facts to turn a mob on a subordinated group and, in the end, silence as well as endanger its members.

I interpret this as "the left" again, but I wonder if that's what was intended?

> Looking back at the rise of fascism and the Holocaust in her 1951 book “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” the political philosopher Hannah Arendt focused on the use of propaganda to “make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism.”

This feels like it is pointed at Trump ("the rise of fascism", "the most fantastic statements"), and fair enough, but what many people don't realize is that both sides do this, regularly. What most people don't realize though, is that "if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood" doesn't happen with mainstream falsehoods, because the disproofs aren't published in the mainstream. Why would they be? To find disproofs of many mainstream facts, one must read "alternative media" - but, due to a decade of skilful propaganda, these sources now intuitively evaluate in most people's minds as False by Definition.

Or perhaps the author is saying this only with respect to history, and I'm getting all worked up about nothing.

The biggest issue right now (other than the widespread lack of appreciation for the importance of truly free speech, and how biased and simplistic mainstream speech is) in my opinion is the lack of realization of the degree to which the ability to restrict free speech now lies in the hands of a very small set of elite companies, who are arguably not entirely politically unbiased. The number of people on HN who seem unable to distinguish between the broad general principle of free speech versus the first amendment is very concerning.

EDIT: Wow, the silent majority is fast on the gun today! But alas, the reasons shall forever remain a mystery...
From what I understand the display is still stereoscopic so you will see a separate image for each of your eyes.
Johnny Lee's demo was just a regular image with view-tracked parallax. It looks really impressive in a 2D video demo, but you'd immediately notice there's no depth if you saw it in person.
What you or I want is no longer a question afforded to us sadly.

I'm genuinely curious: Are there periods of history where people could choose what to go into without it having a large effect on their income or quality of life? From my point of view, it seems like our standard of living is at an all-time high and our freedom to choose what we do with our lives is unprecedented. But I'd be open to being shown empirical evidence to the contrary.
Apparently, the problem us not technical, but political. Offloading the product is relatively straightforward, but this is a platform used by Venezuela for oil processing. One would need to apply political pressure to force them to allow for offloading to prevent a marine life end environment catastrophe, as they are going to strongly assert the sovereign status (it's currently positioned in Venezuelan territorial waters) of the oil processing platform.

EDIT: Links moved from another comment as they are my citations for this comment.

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/jctitw/oil_tanker_w...

This comment in particular: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/jctitw/comment/g93n...
Agree, I would add, make vocals consistent, ‘a’,‘e’,‘i’,’o’,’u’ should only have one sound per each letter for every case, if we need more vocal sounds then use different characters.
Weird, I've not encountered a laptop yet that doesn't work better or at least the same for touchpad with Linux. I always setup my laptops to dual boot for a variety of reasons and never once encountered touchpad driver issues, it always works as expected right after install. From business laptops to consumer laptops, to gaming laptops.
Airflow is only a DAG task executor, which hardly scratches the surface of what is needed for managing experiment tracking, telemetry for model training, and ad hoc vs scheduled ML workloads.

Airflow is useful as a component of an ML platform, but it is only in principle capable of addressing a really really tiny part of the requirements.

You also need to ensure Airflow can easily provision the required execution environment (eg. distributed training, multi-gpu training, heavily custom runtime environments).

Overall Airflow isn’t a big part of ML workflows, just a small side tool for a small subset of cases.
> I'd like to use it as more of a tool to solve problems that I find interesting

A lot of companies work on tools to solve problems. My suggestion is to join a company try it for a couple of years and experience it first hand. This would give you enough experience to start your own company and work on your ideas.
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Off topic but it reminds of the book by Jack Stratton called "How I made $290,000 selling books" priced at $290,000.

Couldn’t find the original listing.

The author is a member of Vulfpeck, pretty fun band.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6ofdt6/how_i_made_29...
Interesting.... as a Portuguese speaker, I'd say that it gets progressively easier to read. Note that portuguese has way more coherent writing than english.
Kids today spend their time in Snapchat or whatever, kids before them were into Facebook, those before who had access to forums, and before that there was TV, and radio, and Beatles. It is easy to arrive at the conclusion that things were better back in the days, but in reality there were just less things to do.

Engagement-driven kids are not dumb. They live in a different world, and it's their world now. The way we look at older people who can't figure out computers, they will soon be looking at us.
Engineers work in terms of 10 thousandths of an inch.

25 feet of difference is massive.
I agree with your overall view, but I don't think the understanding of commanders intent is quite right. Field manuals are meant to give the tactical, detailed guidance. "Commanders intent" is specifically meant for times when there is no detailed guidance. It's meant to guide decisions when the situation is unique enough, or moving quickly enough, to require improvisation because there is no standard procedure or field manual to guide it. Instead of a strict procedure, it's meant to give a philosophical decision framework.

"Provide the most value to shareholders" and "Provide more value than you capture" are two high-level (granted, not the most specific) mission statements. But if you can imagine an ethically ambiguous decision point, you can see how each can lead into diverging choices. Whether mission statements truly guide decisions or are just lip-service is largely a leadership issue.
Let's imagine that there is an auxiliary language that takes 10 words from every language on Earth.

Such a language would in fact be profoundly unfair to speakers of minority languages today because it would deny them access to the largest markets of the world. The English speakers would keep their knowledge and access to global markets while the Finnish speakers would gain 10 words of English. Woopty doo.

So a language that takes words only from the top 5 languages would be better, yes? Because it teaches minority speakers more words from more important languages. But even still, what does that give you if you learn 500 words from each major language and the grammar is a bizarre mash up of totally different languages?

The most "fair" language would be the one that gives the minority language speakers useful and meaningful access to the most influential language family "at a discount". Picking from one family would allow one to distill the grammar and vocabulary, giving the student truly useful and applicable information if they decide to later branch out into natural languages / dialects.

In today's world, the most influential language family is by far Indo-European (for better or worse). And it just so happens that this language family is the easiest to synthesize and join back together, although there's nothing stopping others from trying to make a Semitic auxiliary language or a Sino-Tibetan auxiliary language, etc.
That's a good idea, but not nearly enough. I haven't bought a single smart TV, but despite this, non-smart options have nearly disappeared from the consumer market. The only way to win this battle is through collective action in the form of legislation.
Just a thought experiment for the numbers on oil tankers. The big ones carry 2,000,000 barrels of oil, which translates to 860,000 tons of CO2 produced from their cargo.

As to fuel, the bunker fuel used by cargo vessels is really dirty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_tanker

https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-ca...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Bunker_fuel
> Chase customer support had one clarification to make. I'd originally said it might take, weeks for the check to clear, but the explained it could actually take more than six months. And you'll have no idea when that magic moment occurs.

Good lord, I had no idea this is how bad things are. Haven't used checks in a long time and happy I haven't. The privacy trade-off for cards is concerning but the convenience is hard to give up.
The tanker I recall sitting off the coast of Yemen is known to be used as the lair of the Iranian RG. Is it slowly sinking?
I used to think so too but I once did a little thought experiment, and while it seems to be true that language influences our thought patterns, I'm not sure if it necessarily limits them.

Empirically, we are able to think thoughts and feel things that we cannot describe in words. I know I'm able to feel ennui, limerence, or hygge without knowing these words.

I can also perceive things and states without necessarily being able to describe them precisely with single words (but I could probably describe them approximately with many words)

The classic example is that the Inuit have many words for different types of snow -- implicit in this example is that they are able to recognize different types of snow and have codified them into shared symbols (words). But to me, that doesn't mean the rest of us who don't have those words cannot perceive the same if we'd lived in the same environment. Children can tell packing snow from sleet from a dusting even without knowing the words.

There's an industry of people romanticizing certain words in a foreign culture, claiming them to be untranslatable, and then writing books/articles about them. Not all of this is without merit, but I believe that the words themselves aren't so much untranslatable, but that they have no compact representation outside of a certain cultural context.

Words are compressions of meaning, but meaning can be perceived outside of verbal representation, or even language. It seems to me one can look at a picture or taste a meal or listen to instrumental music and perceive and manipulate meaning through no use of language at all.
Depends on what period of early internet you are talking about, but non Mac Apple where around and in use during that dawning of the web period. They where a little long in the tooth but certainly where in use. Personally when the internet broke out of the Universities I was using an Amiga, then switched to Mac and finally a Next box when the web took off as at the time Next had the best tooling for web-dev and I was still dabbling in Motorola assembly so wanted to stay on a Motorola based system. IIRC PowerPC based Mac's hit around the time AOL was finally offering Web access thru their service. I never used AOL so don't recall for sure, but it seems right around the same era. The BBS type dial-ins offering web access is what really transitioned the net and specifically the web into what it is today. Before they offered access, you had to get a provider (if there even was one in your area), configure your TCP/PPP settings and connect in, it was not just pop the AOL CD in and put in your credit card number. So those services (Specifically AOL and Compuserve) offering easy access really spring boarded a lot of general non-tech users onto the net and started the next era of the net/web.
Have you tried. I wonder if I'm more qualified to judge or are you.

I know three languages, Finnish is my native and I know both Sweden and English. I'm not good at languages and but Esperanto was incredibly easy to learn. The grammar is so simple and logic.

Words are created from 900 roots by just adding affixes or making compounds. This makes learning the vocabulary incredibly easy.
Gnumeric or Tex combined with R can help also...

There is ages since I opened an excel and I don't miss it.
This is incredibly frustrating, I can sympathize. But this is why we do backups even on cloud storage. I had the same thing happen with an EBS volume on AWS becoming unresponsive, unable to attach and load.
As a hobbyist in a state with relatively high electricity prices, I do care about the power efficiency of training.
I understand that point of view, but desiring the creation of a universal language makes one an aspirational conqueror. The whole premise of 'a universal language for world peace' is oppressive (and for that reason I don't support it no matter the language chosen.)
Free speech is always a problem. But the problems of not having free speech are worse.
Hmmm. I like the insight, but I feel like there are multiple ways to reason about the tools. I think that learning another programming language is a relatively straightforward way to learn about one of the major tools developers have.

But yes, learning about memory, how databases do indexing, how networks work (https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/10/11/learn-a-little... covers a bit of this), how assembly works (even at a high level)--these will all be helpful at understanding how systems work together and can break.
I think that I see a lot of “convenient delusions” posted.

Here’s my current theory...

I think people want to be seen as virtuous.
Stuff is bad.
People want positive change.
Either they don’t know what to do or making change is too hard.
So they say that change is impossible.

Based on the really high rates of obesity, I think more people know what to do, but it’s hard, and they don’t do it. I know what I should do (eat less, exercise) but I don’t.
What does "de facto against the law" even mean?

The Hays code was an industry-imposed form of censorship, there were no actual consequences, legal or otherwise, to ignoring it.
Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic
My grandfather had a story from when he was travelling around Europe between the wars: he tried to have a conversation with someone in a youth hostel but they had trouble finding a language they had in common ... until they tried Latin!
Show HN: QR-to-QR – enables two phones (with front cameras) to share text
Let me know if you can think of a use case for this..
So Ben Shapiro?
They could show it in their UI:

- Pending

- Pending with funds available

- Cleared
Sure, but why do we have to use a character set that can only cleanly represent sounds made by the Romans of 2500 years ago?
I don't know about that, in my experience careers are built on political skills as much as actual ability to do your job. Then there is the obvious problem that winning the rat race makes it pretty clear that you are a rat. I prefer to leave all that to the budding sociopaths.
Lol English is the new Esperanto!