skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think I'm missing your point, but it wasn't because I missed your 'unfamiliar' remark so much as it's confusing (how can a manner of speech be universally confusing unless it simply doesn't exist, and presumably you aren't arguing that it doesn't exist while also arguing that it does exist?).

> The point is not that there are different dialects (although there are to an extent, but that's an entirely sperate discussion) It's that English vocabulary can be sorted into these two registers, a common and an academic one, and that this distinction is largely absent in several other European languages.

I don't understand the distinction you're describing in English. You give an example of "coal" and "stuff" and "carbon", but I don't understand why you're arguing that "carbon" belongs to a higher/academic register. Your examples seem to support the inverse of your argument, which is that German (and presumably other languages) has a distinction between a higher and lower register (one could choose between "Carbon" or "Coal-stuff") and English doesn't have this distinction (you must use "carbon" when talking about carbon and "coal" when talking about coal).

> This may be "an altogether different phenomena" to what the author is describing, though that should not stop you buying it. Equivalently, it should not impede your purchase of the concept that English does have some form of "high/low language pairs".

I don't disbelieve the author's premise, but that's not your premise. English doesn't have a single "high dialect" or a single "low dialect", but again, I don't think that's what TFA is talking about with respect to other European languages. Rather, I'm guessing the author is arguing that because Latin was the written language for continental Europe, and because the scribal class was markedly different than the illiterate masses, there was a considerable divergence between formal/written Latin and vulgar Latin which was persisted as vulgar Latin became the Romance languages--indeed, this division has deep historical roots into Latin itself (scribal/educated Latin was different than spoken Latin) and perhaps even earlier. On the other hand, in England, that educated Latin tradition never took root--the English vernacular quickly became the language of literacy hundreds of years before written French, Spanish, Italian etc came into existence (continental scribes were clinging to written Latin). Again, I'm not sure if that's what the author is driving at, but it seems that way to me.
MMT discussed by economists about the truths and fallacies of MMT (link at bottom). It is lacking in real data and has a lot of very siren-like qualities to it.

https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/the-right-and-wrong-of-mmt-...
For something as simple as a sensor reading, you're right, the most natural way to store it is basically an append-only time-series database so it doesn't require much special care.

But say the Rainfall table had a foreign key to a Sensor table that had the coordinates of the sensor. If the physical sensor were moved, the most straightforward data schema would call for the coordinates for the Sensor table to be updated, but then the historic data would have the wrong coordinates if you did a join.

The ideal solution is to design a bitemporal schema so that rows are only ever inserted, not updated, but failing that, regular automatic database snapshots are a good start.
In order to build the first airplane, you need to introduce a lot of concepts at once. The Wright brothers needed to build a custom engine just to get the weight-to-power ratio they needed, on top of understanding spruce wood fabrication, wing aerodynamics, propeller design, etc etc.

If there was a logical midway point between the old jQuery-style paradigm and react, I suspect it would quite popular. However, all the react alternatives I've found make an equally large leap in terms of new concepts, because that's what makes the total development experience viable.

Edit: typo
The cost of the property reflects the value of the rents, the cost of financing, property taxes and maintenance. Rents are probably not that out of wack with the landlords costs. If the landlords revenue does exceed costs you could see it as either money the landlord needs to save for future major repairs like new roof, new appliances, payment for their labour, return on the down payment invested, etc. if you can’t beat them join them and if you can’t join them then maybe it isn’t quite so easy and cut and dry.
Your intuition is incorrect. Almost nobody goes to jail for tax related crimes. The ones that do are folks like Wesley Snipes who just refuse to pay taxes period.
Why DOS Was (and Is) a Thing
> What I mean by this is that when you try to join a company where the culture is geared towards white men in their twenties, you have to fit that culture.

That's the core of the problem isn't it? The source of gender discrimination and racial discrimination and religious discrimination and age discrimination is that there are a whole lot of teams at a whole lot of tech companies that are white men int their 20s, and have no interest in hiring anyone who isn't a while man in their 20s.

It's the reason 'culture' should be entirely removed from any sort of interview criteria - more specifically, interviewers should be warned that measuring a candidate based on 'culture' is an open door to discrimination.

More broadly. it's something that needs to be pointed out whenever discussions drag out about "why aren't there more of <X>?" and "Why do <X> make less?" It's because our entire industry does it's best to keep <X> out. It's not brain chemicals, it's not negative role models, it's not any other excuse that likes to get thrown up. It's deliberate, at least as deliberate as it can be.
> The IPO was a sensational draw for China’s retail investors who bid a record $3 trillion, equivalent to the entire annual economic output, for shares in the fintech giant.

:o that sounds quite frothy.
I’m a bit confused here. Isn’t Pulumis big claim that it’s compatible with Terraform providers?? Why would Terraform trail that?
Stop Using React? But Why?
Did not use it, but looked at it quite a bit. Felt like Force.com and the Apex language for the modern age.
The Conflict of Interpretations over What Pope Francis Said About Civil Unions
At what point does it become obvious that someone is playing a joke on us?
Why is it bad that it is embedded in the .NET ecosystem?
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...

Here's what the UK Regulator says.

It's a bit unfortunate, there was a follow-up to this law that much improved the cookie nagging, but unfortunately it seems to have been stopped in it's tracks by lobbyists because of its restrictions on ad tracking.
You might be interested in Ocaml.
I agree, I’m trying to explain why people don’t feel like inflation statistics are legitimate.

For example, I don’t care about housing in 90% of the country if I think only 10% is going to provide economic growth and opportunities sufficient to make me feel secure.

Or if you think you need more retirement savings than generations before because you think money will be worth less or returns will be lower, perhaps due to lower population growth, environmental concerns, etc.
There is iodide for vscode. http://ionide.io

JetBrains Rider also supports it.

Fantomas can be used as a formatter. https://github.com/fsprojects/fantomas
What music are you listening to today?
For GDPR or CCPA?
I'd be quite concerned with anyone that uses those so called "masculine terms".

I don't want an aggressive, confident, challenging, outspoken and strong coworker. I want a team player.
I would love to see these things GPG signed. This has been done with Linux packages for ages. This is a real problem at my workplace. We pull in python and ruby files, mirror them in artifactory and have no way to know for sure where they actually came from. We use tools to scan the files, but these tools are really just looking for known CVE's and not likely they would find subtle changes that dial home and execute code.
The complexity doesn’t come from the tax code per se. It comes from accounting rules which are reflected in the tax code.
Ebay's policy is simply wrong. It may be a good move for them PR wise, but it will only result in people being unable to obtain the goods they need. When real prices shoot up, people will just avoid selling those things via Ebay at all.
> Selling assets to offspring for a $1 is as old as money

Some tax authorities frown on this, and require that transactions be conducted "at arm's length": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%27s_length_principle#Examp...
What Makes JavaScript JavaScript? Prototypal Inheritance
Let me Google that for you.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=femi...
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=feminine+terms...
Original mission for Voyager 2 was Jupiter and Saturn fly-bys which was mostly a success. The idea is to engineer parts to survive the mission and maybe go a bit further if you aren't at a point of diminishing returns in regards to cost. If it costs $1000 for a 10% gain in life of part, maybe go for it. $1M for 10%? Maybe not. Additionally, gamma radiation can do some weird things to materials and can effect things differently depending on dose rate. Lubricants can increase in viscosity and acidity under gamma. Radiation effects on spacecraft was not as big of a deal back then. Missions were short and electronics weren't small enough to have noticeable radiation effects.
Illegal to distribute under the DMCA.
This is white supremacist drivel.

If your conclusion from examining the path-dependency of history is that good scientists are white male non-catholics with a troubled past, you're not doing scholarship. You're pushing numbers around.

The other articles on this site are even more egregious.
In theory of course this should be the case, but in practice this is terrible advice IMO. There are tons of great successful businesses that wouldn't have passed this test.

Did anyone really need the early AirTable? No, you could just use Google Sheets. Did anyone really need WhatsApp? No, there was texting already. And so on.

In theory everyone should stay far away from building "nice to have" products and only solve hard business problems but that is a super high standard that even most companies that are already out there probably don't meet.

Of course, getting feedback and adjusting your vision is super important though and sometimes a radical pivot is needed.
dotnet and Rust are essentially neck and neck on plain text. On any benchmark that actually does work though, dotnet is nowhere to be found (less than half the performance of actix).
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but I only see a blank page on that link.
Why don't more nations hold elections online?
Printing money and issuing debt are almost interchangeable in terms of what they perform. My sense is that modern economics is steering towards full employment with an eye on inflation. Multiple goal setting and balancing makes more sense the strictly the 2% inflation goal.
Wait, Rust doesn't associate executors with futures? If it does, and there is a single-threaded executor available, then it's absolutely possible to deadlock just like in .NET.
> Petty crime is unenforced and people are well aware of that fact.

a. The evidence just doesn't back up that enforcing petty crime in some way makes cities safer. Peaks of petty crime enforcement were in periods like the late 80s and 90s, which were when violent crime exploded.

> there is an assault or a stabbing or shooting every day in Hollywood now.

b. Crime statistics also don't back up the idea that violent crime is much worse now, especially when you consider the fact that we're talking about a comment comparing with the 80s/90s.

Do these things occur? Yes. Is it much worse than it has been historically? You've provided no evidence of that. Is it something likely to happen to you? Not really at all.

We ended the war on drugs and "broken windows" policing for a reason - it had huge negative impacts on people caught up in it and didn't actually succeed in making people safer. It would often create cycles of policing that made violence worse.

The crime in most cities has not substantially increased, if at all, the number of affluent, white people from suburbs who demand heavy enforcement against minor crimes in the city has.
> It’s very likely that something bizarre happens. And there are still thousands of other things that COULD happen that didn’t, like a candidate getting removed by assassination, car wreck, illness, fatigue, enemy attack on the State, pandemic, on and on, that will have a massive impact on the state of things.

Yes, there are lots of things that could happen, but they're all pretty unlikely. A huge impact times a low probability doesn't affect the outcome much.

> I really don’t know how to value/process information like “Clinton 90% most likely to win,” and “Clinton loses in hotly contested election.” How do you get from A to B.

Well, it helps to not start from "Clinton 90% most likely to win"—if I remember correctly (which I may not), the final odds for Clinton were in the 65%-70% range.

> Taleb says model should never have been so confident. I would agree.

538 was not especially confident.

> the output information is certainly less valuable than the attention it’s receiving. Seems largely academic, and worthwhile, but not worthy of broad attention outside of the quant circles.

Maybe, but it's popular because it's something that people want to know.
This may only apply to junior people. Take James Gosling's super dense style of coding and disregard for style guides. These ultimate geeks would just leave.
I’m trying to make the same decision right now. I’m the first product engineer at a AI startup and started using node.js but... meh (i use crystal for stuff and have exp in ocaml, elixir, ruby)

I’m leaning towards f# or Scala. I love static typing.

Since it’s a data science, machine learning company Scala makes more sense.
> Baltimore, Newark or Trenton the cops won't pass up an opportunity for an easy arrest

Don't know about the others, but this is not true of Baltimore.

Honestly, the largest predictor of how often I hear about "rampant, unenforced crime" seems to be the proportion of people in the city who moved from the suburbs and are unused to cities.

> Regarding the public drug use and other publicly visible low class behavior shenanigans, there's a large portion of the public that just DGAF.

I'm one of them - visible poverty is sad, but it doesn't make me fear for my life or feel like more jailing is needed.

To me, as someone who grew up in a Baltimore-adjacent city, SF just seems like a city full of people who are city-inexperienced.
Doesn't have the same kind of large and innovative ecosystem around it, like competitors such as the JVM.
the emphasis is on "deeply".

I think .NET can be quite an advantage, as stated also in the article.

but if I want to, say, set up a dev environment on linux, it comes with a set of quite different dependencies than what other languages use.
What about using F# just for the compiler and C# for the rest of the backend? That way, the friction of using libraries goes away, for example, using asp.NET core or other third party libs will be smoother. Though joggling between two languages may seem to have higher cognitive overhead I think you are already doing this by having to call C# APIs in lots of places.
You should read Rhodes’ “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” if you want to understand what incredible engineering feats academic scientists are capable of — when the people are tightly focused on achieving a single goal. You should also read Rhodes’ book if you want to understand why unguided fundamental scientific research itself is so critical, even when it doesn’t immediately seem useful to you: without the discoveries of science, nuclear fission wouldn’t have been understood. (Of course, many will disagree that the development atomic bomb is a good outcome, but that’s a very different conversation.)
I think it's as much to do with the flatness as it is the sheer hardness. If interior floors were cobbled and at angles, our feet would be required to work a lot more and our stance would change to fit. We'd also probably wear thinner and more flexibly-soled shoes.

As it is, a constant flat hardess, coupled with shoes, only serves to constrain the foot and work singular positions.

I know if I'm on foot standing all day in the workshop (concrete floor) my feet hurt a lot more than if I'm out walking on the street for the same sort of duration.
If it's not partitioning data per processing unit then it would not be considered a "thread-per-core" architecture based on the definition the article provided. Work stealing means more than one thread can be responsible for a single piece of data. This could result in crossing NUMA nodes or servers.
It's a wave. it will rise again.
> Most professional classical musicians play with sheet music, no ?

That is WHAT to play, not how to play... also I actually thought more of improv players, but that wasn't stated :)
You're aware that there are two cuts of the movie? The US version was Taco Bell, and the international version was Pizza Hut. Both are owned by Yum Brands.
Addition by Abstraction
> It tells you if the person can't communicate beyond bullet points in a resume.

I guess it depends a lot on the industry. Most of the cover letters I've seen when hiring are following a template or pattern gleaned from a website or book telling you how to write a cover letter.

Also, you're never 100% sure that a job seeker didn't get someone to help them write the cover letter or if it's copypasta.

Admittedly, if I was looking for a job, I'd provide a cover letter just to satisfy arbitrary expectations, but I hate writing them. All I do these days is regurgitate the list of the advertised requirements and for each item, indicate if I meet, have comparables or don't meet it. It beats having to come up with a bunch of made up platitudes about why they should hire me.

In the same vein as cover letters though, I don't put much weight on post-interview thank-you letters.
I personally don't like working with people that are too assertive, male or female. There is an intense energy and forced viewpoint that I don't enjoy the experienced of being pushed down my throat. Being more loud and more confident in what you're saying does not make you more right.
> Have you actually tried connecting a new phone to your google account without access to any old "burned down" device?

Yes

> My mother's phone got stolen and I had a lot of trouble trying to get into here Google account for her

The first time, my phone bricked itself (you get what you pay for. Don't buy $30 smartphones). I have 2fa. I use both Authy (syncing) and WinAuth (local, with encrypted backups) to manage my secrets. Entering the code is enough to sign in.

The second time, I was moving from an old phone to a new phone; I turned off the old phone to remove the SD card before turning on the new one, and it worked fine without turning on the old one until after signing into accounts, when I needed to transfer data for some FOSS apps (termux, Fdroid, etc).
You're absolutely correct. The writer's icon resembles Alt-right insignias[0]. I am speechless...

Actual comment sample (not post but speaks to target audience).

> Do we actually need more ‘scientific progress’ though? That is the question. The ‘rise’ of science has destroyed us. All it has done is cause more complication and is driving mankind mad.

What?

[0] https://www.adl.org/hate-symbols?cat_id%5B146%5D=146
Classified and visible on mapping services!

https://i.stuff.co.nz/technology/47327/Maps-site-reveals-US-...
European police in coordinated raids against online hate speech
> Sessions cookies are allowed, as per GDPR.

Would you have a source? Reading through this page[0] I don't get the impression this is right. Session cookies are cookies nonetheless that can be used to identify users and if they are used that way, consent should be asked and given before usage.

[0]: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
The cookie law is no more. GDPR superseded it. It requires user consent, but only in some cases. Under GDPR, cookies that are not "personal information" (those that do not track users) do not require consent.
EU is still working on a new version of the directive. I heard they have been doing it for three years now.
Okay, so you're looking for batteries included.

What Javascript framework are you using? Or did you just mean on the frontend? I figured from your including it you meant something backend, like Express, which is probably the most popular in that space, and fairly minimal, but super easy to grab the middleware pieces you want.

As, yeah, if you're looking for one giant "does all the things" framework, I don't know of any. Even the ones that started that way, reconfigured their projects to keep them optional (i.e., https://github.com/actix/actix-extras ) ...and honestly, I feel like most frameworks are moving in that direction. Even ones that want to be like Rails (i.e., Phoenix for Elixir) tend to be very intentional in making the included pieces fit the middleware pattern so you can swap them out easily.

So you may be staying with Rails for a while if that's important to you. I will say, comparing when I had to learn enough Rails to get something done, and having worked with Express, and Phoenix, and Gin, it's generally no harder to learn the pieces you need than it is picking up any new batteries included framework. Oftentimes the same web search that would turn up the one bit of syntax you need for the batteries included framework (i.e., "actix-web auth token") will turn up the most obvious choice of middleware you'd need for the middleware approach. And the usage will be of similar effort, once you've installed one.
Link needs to be updated: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/where-ren...
I believe theres still a whole bunch of useful "multicloud" products out there. For instance if you have services in different clouds that talk to each other, having a performance monitoring software that gets data from both and stitches it together is useful.
Similar for Go for me. I personally like Go and will go out of my way to use tools written in it because I understand the tooling and the language well enough that building from source is painless.
> Fat tail risks

The 538 model does have fat fails, and also, adding even fatter fails doesn't address Taleb's fundamental criticism.

> Edit- I’m getting downvoted im guessing because I said Clinton has lots of dirt and called Trump obsessive, I’ve revised the comment to be less politically accusative. I’m not concerned with the politics, just interested in the obsession with these “predictions”

The 538 model does have fat fails.
I'm glad you asked as I'm only a few years younger than you and I have a distinct memory of these too - perhaps in Clarks stores? Must've been, for me anyway, up until around 1985, but that seems so late given how long at that point they'd been deemed dangerous?
What I'm saying is that such stereotypical premises are inherently flawed. If someone produced a study categorizing a high speech volume as "Hispanic language" and saying that Latinos like me get hired less when we use "Hispanic language" in interviews, I'd be pretty mad.
> This means we are now just using Cloudflare for DNS. But it's possible to hit this button again and re-enable Cloudflare forwarding temporarily if we find ourselves under attack, so I figure this is a good option.

Without this enabled, attackers know what your backend IP address is, so even if you enabled it later, they could continue to DDOS your IP directly, without doing a DNS lookup.

You'd only get what you want if you both re-enabled this and switched to different IP addresses.
Not if you strike with your forefoot. If you are landing on your heels, then yes. Don’t do that.
GDPR and PECR (CCPA is primarily aimed at preventing selling of data)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident