skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen this kind of attitude before in Taiwan many times over the years. I can’t help but feel that it comes from a place a bitterness due to being forced to learn English at a young age.

I would agree with you in full in certain edge cases (such as Vladimir Nabokov’s mastery of English which absolutely eclipses 99.9999% of native English speakers) but to suggest that most are better is a bit rich.

Average native speakers may be unaware of named grammatical concepts, such as tag questions or contrary to fact conditional statements, but they certainly understand how to use them.

Where you begin to see the gulf between native speakers and ESL people is in their swiftness in things like satire, asking questions which nudge conversation, effortlessly using articles correctly, communicating abstraction, making long sentences with numerous prepositional phrases which all use the right preposition. There are many tells.

A great number of people absolutely reach the level of being truly bilingual and integrated into the culture but it’s uncommon at least to become better than most native speakers.
There was never good intentions here, they just started at the most palatable points and will keep cranking it up as they can.
I think he shouldn't try for a national, political format. Instead, I think he should form a sort of member-owned corporation. Make the AI, make the money, pay dividends.
Its already number one by many measures:

- world trade
- PPP
- Navy size
Ask HN: I use WAMP stack. What Node.js stack do you use?
France might not be the place to argue ownership by birthright. Vive la République !
Any abstraction possible in Python can be expressed in Go just via the interface{} type, as the type of everything in Python is just interface{}.
Sam is only rich enough to influence one of the two -- AI making the jobs go away.
I wouldn't your hopes up until we start to see any real movement in the productivity numbers, which have been stagnant since the the early 2000's.
Maybe this is working for the masses but I HATE searching for things to buy on Amazon. Last time I tried, the results pages are overwhelmed with sometimes literally hundreds of the exact same product sold by gibberish seller names. Ratings were obviously useless (the same product will have thousands of 5 star reviews by one seller, 10s of more mixed reviews on others).

Maybe it's better now but I can't remember the last time I tried to find something on Amazon because of this.
Almost all meetings and forms of communication ARE open to the public, with nearly unlimited public comment.

San Francisco’s problems are not caused by shadowy figures doing devious deeds in the dark.

They’re caused by rampant small-c conservatism: a constant drive to veto everything and anything. In the well meaning interest of allowing the public to participate, anything and everything can be stopped be very people.
Any sci-fi recommendations on post-scarcity economics? I'll offer one by Walter Jon Williams, https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/07/19/sci-fi-book-review-t...

> “The Green Leopard Plague” is the story for which this collection is named. It is the best work I’ve seen in explaining how economics and taxes would work in a post-scarcity world. How do you make people pay taxes and do dirty work when they don’t have to work to eat? And the narrative lacing around the academic discussions is a quest to end world hunger by genetic engineering, the namesake plague, and a failed youthful romance in the post-singularity future.
Best landing page I've seen in a while. Software is slick as hell. I used to use the old Midnight/Norton Commander software under DOS in the 1980s but have hated most modern implementations. To my surprise, I love this one - super polished, super responsive, fully intuitive and with a very consistent UI. Beautifully customizable theming too.

I curate a large and disparate data collection that's rather a pain to manage and this seems lie it will substantially reduce the daily grind, so after only a few minutes of use it's already pinned to the taskbar.
In Australia we adopt American corporatisms with unnerving eagerness. Historically there's been a lag as corporate types discovered, and then experimented in the domestic environment, before common adoption here.

That lag has significantly reduced over the past couple of decades, but hasn't vanished -- so like an ineluctable tide of horrendousness coming in, we can often see these unpleasantries from a good way off.

Most corporate jargon is harmless, some can even be funny, but some are just unreasonably offensive. At the top of my current fingers-down-a-chalkboard list is 'reach out'. It's penetrated pop culture more than most corporate buzzphrases, so it's increasingly hard to avoid hearing.

On the upside, the previous #1 item was 'pre-plan' (and the much less common but way more invigorating variant 'pre-prepare'), and thankfully those seem to have mostly returned from whence they came.
The analog hole applies to digital currency, too.
You assume the companies are the source of the shenanigans, which I disagree with. It seems counter productive for a tech company to want their worker's cost of living to be higher, as that just means they will cost more.

The reality is the companies create a large inelastic demand for living space, and the local government and property owners of exploit that for profit. If you just create adequate supply (build residential), or constrain demand (don't build office space), the problem doesn't happen.
Neither tuples nor frozen dicts offer efficient (logarithmic or constant time) updates, like lists or balanced trees or HAMT do. You can't really write a program with only immutable structures in python, unless you accept it will be unbearably slow, even for python. Clojure, erlang, elixir, these are dynamically typed and functional.
I'll just add for anyone interested that you could replace “Russian” here with pretty much any Slavic language and most (if not all) of your observations would still stand.

As for the needles redundancy in vocabulary in English, this letter, which was discussed on HN recently, sums it up perfectly:

https://theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-second-l...
What's wrong with signing an agreement with Iran? They've got cheap oil, that could be sent by pipelines rather than the US controlled Pacific ocean
Starting a Free Community on Loccality
Those are all American colonies. What's the difference?
Well, let's see: I have zero debt, I have enough savings to put 20% down (even for a 1.3M house), and my take home pay after taxes is ~11.5k/month. I don't make any significant deductions from my paycheck (no 401k, regular health insurance, no health problems).

I have talked to multiple loan specialists, and they all recommended I stay below 1.3M prices. I agree with them, because $1.3M house means ~$6k monthly payments (including property tax, HOA, and insurance, and assuming 3% interest rate). This is more than half of my paycheck, and I'm not comfortable spending more than half of my paycheck on mortgage.

Sure, I can buy a cheaper home - a small condo, or a house in a poor neighborhood. I can definitely afford a very nice house if I'm willing to commute for 1 hour (one way). But why should I? Why should I settle for a less than average home? We are talking average quality here (median, to be more precise), so those 1.3M houses are nothing amazing. They are just regular homes for middle class. I suspect a significant fraction of homeowners in SB wouldn't be able to afford their houses if they were to buy them today.
unlike other economies that are resistant to manipulation from majority stake holders?

I suspect this line of thinking will usually end with "world economies are backed by military groups.", to which I have no rebuttal.
i had the impression they[samsung] were using quad copters such as that depicted in the article:

https://img.global.news.samsung.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/20...

this is a rotary wing craft.

these :

https://www.dronethusiast.com/fixed-wing-drone-reviews/

are fixed wing drones
I don't think that's the case - I haven't run into many people who think all of Intel's problems went away.
first link is "The World in 2050 report was published in February 2017"

second link is only regarding goods. goods + services, US is EU top trade partner

third link: there are now Japan/Australian/US/UK/France/German warships patrolling in the indo-pacific region.

fourth link: costly to maintain, uncertainty post covid
In the US, providers typically negotiate exclusive long-term contracts with local government. The argument is that's the only way to make it profitable enough to invest in building out the infrastructure.

The only way around that is for localities to build out the backbone themselves and then request competitive bids, but the providers counter that strategy by lobbying state representatives to ban local Internet infra in the name of privatization or core competency.

One workaround for that would be what's done in old European cities where you can't dig or easily run wires/fiber: just build out a backbone for wireless infra, then let providers compete on last mile wifi/billing/service/price.
While I agree with many of your points comparing Spanish and English, I disagree with several points:

In Spanish, word order is more fluid than in English--greatly facilitated by the fact that the person (1st, 2nd, 3rd...) of a verb is an ending rather than a separate pronoun. You can quite acceptably start sentences with subject, verb, direct object, even indirect object.

And while there are more rules than in English, there is also a much greater dependence on context to understand basic meaning. If you use loismo, 'lo' can refer to: you, he, she, it. If you don't pick up on a sometimes subtle contextual marker, you can quickly be talking at cross-purposes. The need for context also results from the much smaller vocabulary in Spanish, so meaning has to be interpolated by context or remain imprecise. (As a visual demonstration, look at any Spanish-English dictionary and see how much wider the English-to-Spanish section is than its counterpart.)

Your view that spelling = correct pronunciation is not as ironclad as you make it out to be. It has exceptions: Mexico and Texas being a prime examples--the x being pronounced like a jota.

I agree overall that Spanish has a clearer grammar that is more widely applied, but I don't think it's nearly as clearly defined as you make it out to be.
I mean, you can also just do finite differences. Of course Galerkin opens up the very “rich” design space of finite elements methods.
I really hope the employees who follow don’t vote like they did in CA. I’ve seen first hand the effect that had on politics in WA. I hope TX avoids the same fate.
Dictators have broad powers -- the tenure is orthogonal. You could have a dictator who's in for a year
If you look at it from the input-output financial perspective, where the effort in open sourcing it produces X amount of money, I'd agree its not viable. But if you look at it from the advertising perspective, there are other advantages:

- Appeal to potential employees for their exposure boost

- External contributors to fix minor bugs and do testing, along with online presence

- Availability after the entities maintaining it goes defunct. With any luck if the project has gained some momentum other companies will also have programmers using/wanting to maintain the same thing

- Free to 'on board' or filter candidates even before hiring

So I'd view it as a kind of branding strategy, helping spread good optics for the business. This in turn makes a system where it increases the pool of potential employees and external user support.
But that's not what's happening. What's happening is that the union is against using stock options as benefits.
Why do you choose to "believe" or not to "believe" an actor based off of what you know to be a performance?
That’s why the 2nd amendment is so important.
The /idea/ of going from a design tool to working app is obvious. It's figuring out a way to do it that works which is hard.
> In this case many Chinese think this whole debacle is a based off lies fabricated by dubious western sources

This is very true, our media lies to us, and it lies to you, but isn't there something to be said about not having the freedom to think what you want in your own country, nor being able to read what information you want?

No matter who commits a condemn-able act it should be condemned, most of all if it's your own group. The most scary thing to me about China or a Chinese hegemony is not the shift of power, but that Chinese citizens are unable to be informed nor are they able to condemn their own government. There is no public veto for CPC behavior. China has assumed the role of the victim (century of humiliation), but acts as the abuser (destruction of Tibetan/Uigher/Hong Kong culture and a desire to destroy Taiwan), and then justifies the abuse it doles out by the abuses it has received.

The second most scary thing to me about Chinese hegemony is that dialogue is primarily based around power. Who has the power to do what, not what is morally right, not the rules that should apply to all countries and people, but most of all itself. So what is China's moral basis and ethics system founded upon? Might makes right. That is terrifying to me.

> The problem is whether you western folks will be played by your institutions into doing things that destroy your own credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Does China's own credibility not matter?
I did the same, though there are weird people who lie for no reason and screw over the team, too, and sometimes you catch those idiots in a provable lie.

The best way to catch liars is to know things they don't know and trap them with that. In Among Us, it could be as simple as two people saw each other do a visual task (one that proves they're not an impostor) then have someone accuse the wrong person, or worse, be the only person that wasn't cleared that's left.
It's a book, by Malcolm Gladwell. The comment said the audiobook is like a good podcast.
I don't remember having a single problem with developers with my idiosyncratic preference. Actually my process is driven by the lack of good prototyping tools and optimisation in implementation time. Mixing multiple abstractions? DSL?
No. Last I checked - HTML and CSS are not soup of technical debt. Actually I am quite shocked to find out the lack of knowledge of CSS in developer community.
The Actual OSI Model
Morphing in Michael Jackson’s ‘Black or White’
Any pointers on getting started with the postfix/dovecot method?
Functional languages don't need a strong type system
Yeah, I gotta admit I read about Governing Bodies, Working Groups, and Technical Advisory Committees - and instantly pigeonholed this as “for academic tenure track or Big Corp evangelists and subject matter experts only”.

Looks way too much like a bunch of suits and the occasional skunkworks greybeard deciding they want to tell open source project maintainers and contributors what to do.

Maybe they’ll do some good, it doesn’t sound like a thing I’d ever want to be involved in (you know, unless IBM or Microsoft or whoever offer me a Distinguished Engineer role where I can choose to dabble here at my leisure on their great big firehouse of dimes...)
Are the "things I just purchased" suggestions actually bad though? I see people complain about them a lot, but I haven't seen anyone chime in with what the conversion rate is on them compared to other targeting strategies. Like I'd suspect that having already purchased an item is highly, highly correlated with purchasing it again. And that probably even applies to things that don't initially seem like you'd need more than one of.
It's one thing to feel attacked, but they apparently actively try to undermine and derail the competing open source project. That's not mere defending, that's open hostility. So the obvious inclination, IMHO, is that the company behind the original code wants to continue to gain from the ongoing (and, ideally, perpetual) cost of maintenance. Naturally said software company itself cannot openly be the source of those obstructing software changes, so they have the officials to act on their behalf and request them. I hardly can think of any other scenario in this case.
I've been saying this forever. Open source is just a tool. It's a tool you use to attract customers who want it, or employees who want it, or whatever. It's not a product though, and it's not a sustainable business model. The choice of license you use too is a business tool.

Consortia are about the only successful open source business model. The most successful such consortium is the SQLite Consortium, which clearly makes D.R. Hipp and his team very happy. One key to SQLite's business success was keeping the best testsuite for it closed source, which makes it extremely difficult to fork the project, or even to contribute to it, which leaves the team as essential to those who depend on SQLite (which includes a lot of FAANG).
I remember when this happened. Over the years, telco fiber projects have been blocked by neighbors and city hall too. Often over odd things — The sidewalk boxes are ugly, or will get tagged, or will cause cancer.

Fiber is also supposed to go in when streets are repaved, but when I asked after mine was done, I was told nothing was trenched. The voters put up bond money for these repaves and it was poorly planned. RIP Mayor Lee, but that was under his watch.
The concern you raise is a valid & important to consider. I’ve seen situations where there’s a mismatch between the update schedule of a component and the update schedule of the larger project & it creates an issue.
Then I'll quote the article:

"In the United States of America, (where polygraph testing is a growth industry) the admissibility of lie detector test results is determined by courts and legislators on a State by State basis.

In the Federal legal system, test results are inadmissible as substantive evidence. Whilst some States have allowed test results in criminal trials, States such as such as California have prohibited the admission of such evidence unless all parties consent to its admission."
There is reason US is very competitive globally vs France just the shell of its former glory
And the eponymous commons didn't suffer from a tragedy of the commons. It's still the name.
The United States is sailing the 7th fleet off of the Chinese coast and has China surrounded by military bases, some very close to the Chinese mainland.

The Shanghai Communiqué - Joint Communique of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, settled the Taiwan question in the 1970's:

http://www.taiwandocuments.org/communique01.htm

> The U.S. side declared: The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves

If you put yourself in China's shoes, and consider China's history. How would you feel if a Chinese fleet was sailing off of the coast of California and stoking internal tensions?
If true, this is scandalous. It seems a lot of folks accept these claims on face. Maybe it conforms with their pre-existing belief that politicians are corrupt and self-serving. Personally, I don’t find this uncorroborated testimony believable.
It's not too far off that the EU starts properly taxing US services, so that might not last
So basically, it's a guide to sounding like an old-timey pretentious twat instead of a contemporary one
Great to have the whole collection but the realizations are very disappointing, barely better than Wikipedia if that. The zoom is a joke. I looked up Napoleon at Eylau which is gigantic painting, about 5 metres by 7. The download version is only 126kb - GTFOH.

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066486
Isn't this an interesting example where you could do fun things by writing the image data into a cheap blockchain where the cost isn't high (making it immutable) but then associating it with the SHA or encrypted private key on the blockchain where the item is sold?

The art goes on the dogecoin, the purchase happens on ethereum.
I think there are three decent ways to tell if someone is lying: the statement itself (did it contain self-contradictions), the context around the statement (was their hand in the cookie jar), and credibility (does the person have a history of lying).

You can use each of these questions to sway your belief in the truth of a statement, but nothing, short of corroborating facts at hand will give you an absolute assessment. Most of the time you just don't know, and it's a good reminder just how important trust is to a functioning society, and amazing how far some pathological liars can get. Importantly, behavioral queues are often misleading, and a person might be acting nervous for an independent reason, yet register all the behavioral clues of lying.
You may be right

74.64.250.142 is listed on S.O.R.B.S, my tablet battery is dying so can't check them all.

But You might want to search the other IPs on

https://whatismyipaddress.com/
I'm not so sure that it's counterproductive, because the senior leadership of those tech companies is also frequently part of the local NIMBY class.
I already know it doesn't bring up China's global fishing flotillas, who overfished China so roam the world stripping other coastlines, even protected areas like the Galapagos. One of the top reason for overfishing today. Or does it talk about this?
On one hand op was talking about profit on the other you talk about revenue? You can't compare apples to oranges..
I just remembered this rant:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rant/comments/5shm1r/why_i_hate_the...
What do her parents do?
It's funny that you mention the WMDs in Iraq. This is an episode of US foreign policy that many people and countries (rightfully) criticized. Yet when it happened, the US didn't start boycotting everyone who criticized it; the worst that happened was US Congress deciding to change the name of "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries" in its cafeteria [1].

In contrast, China right now seems to be responding right now to anyone who dares to criticize it with immediate sanctions and reprisals. I'm not immediately aware of any time in the history of hegemon replacement cycles where either the old or the new hegemon acted in such a manner.

[1] Amusingly, the dish isn't even French, it's Belgian.
Sam's idea of taxing market cap would cause much more than the 15% depreciation than he seems to expect. Any company with a P/E of 40 or more immediately would be losing money. Companies with P/E of 20 would lose half their profit. That's most companies. I would expect a 50% drop of the S&P if this policy was enacted. Even if this tax is somehow enacted it would only collect half as much as Sam expects.
Idk have you ever considered because the boss wants to minimize costs and paying engineers 50x (or even 2x or w/e) isn't the norm in the industry so they don't? Chalking it up to "it's hard to evaluate" seems to be missing common sense.
And I was downvoted yesterday for even daring to suggest the idea of using nukes.
To be precise: a lot of people (even on hn, especially on hn) are personally and practically invested in authoritarian practices being legitimate.
The Bay Area can disrupt anything, except for the local party machine.
Like how to run dangerously outdated reactor designs for decades?
From my perspective, try sounding less like a uniform beige bureaucratic committee and meeting machine, and make it way more clear why some under appreciated oss project maintainer might see some worthwhile benefit from what you’re doing.

Attending meetings with workgroups and advisory committees filled with people from Microsoft/Google/Redhat/JPMorgan is not the sort of thing that fills most oss devs I’ve ever met with joy...
RMS support letter signees receiving harassing e-mails
What evidence is there that it is rare?
Many British believed they were number 1, a world leader, long after they were left behind and this was not the case.