skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Believe me, native English speakers do not think about the definite-ness of a word. We just knows that "the" comes before some things and not others and it sounds odd when someone gets it wrong.

My argument is that these differences are cosmetic, not that they don't exist. Also, Sapir-Worf is not at all referring to minor grammatical issues of this kind.
I have worked with both, including Widgets and Quick. I wonder why you think Qtcom is focusing development on Quick, which uses QML (JSON-like syntax) and JavaScript (ES6), while declaring Widgets "feature complete", mostly releasing minor fixes, in other words, keeping it stagnated. The obvious answer for me without getting into Mobile vs Desktop development is: it's easier to get new professionals to use technology as popular as JS (or any other web related stuff), and definitely cheaper for companies to hire said professionals, therefore making it a easier pick for new projects. To summarize the benefits: easier for junior devs to use and because of that overall cheaper/faster deliveries. Note that I'm not saying anything about quality.
I broadly like the idea of "slicing up reality differently". Usually when this it comes up the focus is on grammar, but I think this explains the relative ease/difficulty of learning close/distant languages quite well. You can argue about whether grammar or vocabulary acquisition is more difficult but it's certainly true that there's just more of the latter.

One way I look at this to pick a word with many quite different meanings. "Set" can mean a group of things or something to turn hard (like a jelly) along with plenty of other things. Since European languages tend to share ancestors you aren't surprised that these multiple distinct meanings are shared. But with distance languages you have to learn a completely different word for each particular meaning. In fact, I'm sometimes surprised when two different meanings line up between English and Japanese, as I'm so used to them being completely separate.
You can also use SnoopSnitch from F-droid for this.

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.srlabs.snoopsnitch
They’ve killed 47 children in a few days.
The Suez canal does not have locks.
I’m about a year in studying Mandarin and feel the same way. All the “exotic” features people say make it hard to learn, like tones and writing characters, aren’t that hard to remember and use. English let’s us have a lot of flexibility when it comes to putting prepositions like “last week” before or after the main clause in a sentence. Maybe Mandarin too has this flexibility and I just haven’t gotten that far in my studies, but it sure feels like I can’t make up what I’m saying as I say it.

Aside from that, I’d say some features of the language are quite nice, and feel like they were created with human experience in mind more than rules of logic. For example, it relies on specialized complements, like 過 guò (past experience), or 完 wán (finished something), to modify the action of a clause. Unlike English which uses the same past-tense grammar to describe that I ate something in the past and a tree fell in the woods. There are even complements to express the result perceiving with ones senses “I looked and saw”, and the result of cognition “I looked and understood.”
Beaver-hunting wolves have perfected a sit-and-wait strategy
Something cool, and that could grant visibility to the project, would be to host have a mirror of Sci-Hub hosted on an IPFS Cluster.

https://cluster.ipfs.io/
My read on Germany specifically is that it's less about Russian invasion worries and more about domestic economic politics. The bases are important economically to the towns/regions they're in, and closing them is unpopular in those areas, similar to how choosing when/if to close US bases in the US is controversial (https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R45705.html).
I live in Manhattan and will defend it in all things EXCEPT clam chowder. Manhattan clam chowder is hot garbage.
I find the kind of generalization and meanness in your comment is counterproductive: and also commonly trotted out when justifying the extroversion dominance in organizations.

Also: social anxiety and shyness are very real problems that can easily be induced by the shame, ridicule, and lack of acceptance that introversion often is accompanied by. The fact that these things are often equated with “socially inept/incompetent” is extremely problematic.
> The portability could be fixed by having a local cli runner that understand action yamls. Would be interesting to explore this.

This is a great idea. I guess the challenge would be keeping up with the more advanced aspects of Actions, eg. spinning up multiple VMs during the build process and other things that have a heavy infrastructure (or platform-specific) element.

I'm currently caught by the GitHub Actions downtime, but like the GP, all my build scripts generally make very light use of the platform-specific features and generally I keep most of the build logic in a build.sh file.

So I can build production builds locally if I need to - but a CLI that lets you "properly" run the GitHub yml files locally would be very interesting.
Raycast (Mac app launcher) has a similar take: https://raycast.com/blog/feedback/

Building a “send feedback” action into their app was a smart move and I’ve used it quite a bit.
I agree with this 100%. The most effective UBI is providing water, food, shelter and all the other essentials + some cash for extra, where the cash part can be small.

As the time goes on and our society gets richer, we would include more things into the essentials (holidays, a personal vehicle, etc.)
The canal has been continually widened over time. This may not be entirely reactionary.
Stock markets help allocate resources to the companies that will make good use of it. We can't say something similar about crypto until speculation stops being 99.9% of the use case and it starts being used for something more practical. We may get to that point, but that's still not a certainty.
The only reason HN cares about young men is that most users here are young men. Young women, old men and old women don't care about young men at all. And the fact that the concerns of old women are still brought up here is evidence that society actually values old women a great deal considering how different this demographic is from them.
Well apparently it's been blocked five times since it opened in 1869 so that might be a bit of a premature optimisation.
"a matter of national security" - there are endless interfaces into the network (by law) for lawful interception and some of them are designed in such a way that Interceptor E1 cannot see what Interceptor E2 is trying to read.

Still, some 'other' interested parties that have reasons not to use the standardised interfaces.

For 5G at lot of additional security measures CAN be enabled, but you can guess who started to complain about that.
Modern in tech usually is synonymous with new, but the authors also try to associate it with something better than established approaches. In the last ten years, many modern technologies have failed at the latter and instead offer something different with tradeoffs. No more.
Not everything needs to be architected to be "enterprise grade" though. And a lot more languages can handle DB than just Java and C#.
I think that what you do is really cool: https://origami.kosmulski.org/about

I'm a big fan of "do what you love."
Covid-19 Will Change the Geography of Competition
What would you prefer to those reviews?
Look at that tree over there.

I worked with a French person once. They were very good at their job.
Governments are daring people to say fuck it and start breaking laws. Ludicrous what Israel is doing and no one can defend it.
Could just act as a little nudge in the right direction.
Racing the beam is very good. Been a while since I read it though but I really enjoyed it at the time.
Now we just need a few of these on coordinating drones to triangulate in real-time and snap some pictures of the transmission source.
While I empathise with your struggles with kanji, the language itself provides a solution: furigana. Japanese is wonderful for having a very close mapping between letters and sounds. These easy to read and pronounce letters are often written above kanji for young children.

Admittedly, once children become teenagers they are expected to be able to read a good amount of everyday kanji words and the use of furigana falls away apart from for unusual readings or less common words, and pretty much entirely for texts aimed at adults. Still, if you're content with quite simple content you can pick up a wonderful amount of language by osmosis with the helping hand of furigana.
It's mostly a wrapper of JS functions that takes care of compatibility, and makes code more readable.
Maybe a better strategy is to discourage crypto through fiscal policy: Imagine 90% capital gains tax on crypto profits, no credits for capital losses on crypto, 10% crypto wealth tax. Put those taxes to use fighting climate change.
The German page of the Braess Paradox has a description for this. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess-Paradoxon#Mechanisches_...
Pursue whatever it is that gives them happiness or satisfaction.

Some people like to travel. Others may like to research. Yet others may want to really focus on their careers. Their choices should not be held hostage by arbitrary biological phenomena that can be controlled with technology.
See, this isn’t a conflict or a both sides thing. This is a country invading another country against international law. Israel is an apartheid state. Free Palestine.
There is about zero chance of bitcoin moving to proof of stake. Something so fundamental about its SHA256(SHA256())) PoW structure just isn't going to get changed, unless there's a vulnerability in SHA256.
Some of my tests have dozens of parameter sets with a half-dozen parameters. Getting those all aligned with individual 'each' statements would be interesting.
FYI, if you ever have this same usecase again, look at mp3splt. It does just splitting of MP3 (and some other formats), with the significant benefit that it does not decode-and-reencode. It also works as a pure CLI tool by just giving the input file and timestamps for where to split.
Fascinating insight.
So this is replacing one cumbersome and unintuitive syntax (MultiError.catch) with a slightly shorter syntax (try except*). Given the amount of verbiage in the PEP and this blog post I'm guessing it will still be unintuitive though.
Business side manages financial transactions. Sales, accounts receivable, accounts payable...

Operations side performs whatever services the business side has committed to.
Looking back to an old Newegg order from my last PC build in 2012, I paid $84.99 for 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3. Today (9.5 years later) it looks like ~$150 at least for 32GB.
I fear the same. This research will drive stingray to be more stealth.
Bash runs on an vastly larger number of different environments yet Bash devs still manage to write forwards compatible code. It's the culture, not the language.
This is one of the key open source strategies used by Red Hat, Microsoft, Intel, Google, etc. I am not implying anything nefarious here. (Cygwin, a product of Red Hat, specifically advertises on their commercial license page how many core contributors for various open source projects work for Red Hat. This allows them to quickly fix bugs for major customers.) In short, if there is a very important open source project, you hire a lead developer from the project who has commit access to the main repo.
The obstruction was resolved in one week because of the spring high tide. Had this happened another time of the year, it could have taken much longer than a week to remove the obstruction.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a359688...
> The new product was designed to to compete with spicy snacks sold in the inner-city mini-marts of the Midwest. A junior employee with a freshly minted MBA named Lynne Greenfeld got the assignment to develop the brand — she came up with the Flamin’ Hot name and shepherded the line into existence.

This names the person who branded the line but with an internal investigation I would expect the person and the story of how the flavour itself was conceived to be reported.

Seems like there's more to the story than is being told by both sides. The company story would be more believable with more details. There's no reason not to believe that official company records didn't credit a janitor who conceived and prototyped a flavour by someone in a position who was happy to take credit. Could be either way or a bit of both not wanting to give or share credit for whatever reasons.
Good point. I don't think I've run into many non-iterable arraylikes, but I understand they used to be more common (e.g., a number of standard things that are now specced as iterable arraylikes used to be just the latter) and there’s probably a lot lurking in library/legacy code.
The US could simply ban US banks and financial institutions from doing business with crypto, and from doing business with any foreign entity that does business with crypto. That would make it mostly unusable except as just another aspect of the criminal underworld shadow banking systems. That's based on the current state of crypto though. If it becomes a common medium of exchange with many people having some or all if their transactions denominated in crypto, that option kind of goes off the table.
There's a really nice essay by David Moser about why Chinese is so hard to learn for English speakers. It comes down to the hot mess of a writing system:

http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

My Russian professor had an interesting insight about why that language had such a high attrition rate among college learners. It's not possible to say even simple things in a Slavic language without learning much of the grammatical apparatus of noun declensions, verbs of motion, and the perfective/imperfective distinction, all of which are profoundly alien to an English speaker.

So Russian departments end up teaching the material three times through—first years are overwhelmed and try to retain what they can, in second year you are expected to absorb the material, and in third year you're supposed to internalize it. That means you study for three years to reach a level of proficiency other students gain in one.

Sentences like "I took something there with me", for example, are almost comically difficult. Did you go on foot, by vehicle, run, crawl, fly? Was it a habitual action or a one-time thing? Are you stressing the trip or its completion? Did you enter there, climb inside, descend down? Did the trip require overcoming an obstacle? Is the object known to the speaker and listener, known only to the speaker, or unknown? Is it animate and went under its own power? Was it carried in the hands, dragged, or carried on a vehicle?

Meanwhile, fellow students learning German or French can speak proficiently after one year and start reading literature after two. It's a bitter pill.
What about dragging out lines with acid similarly to how napalm is spread out in a line?

Otherwise carpet-bomb with nuclear warheads should do the trick as well.
And just why would they do that? The only reason China supported North Korea historically is because they don't want US troops at their doorstep.
The Making of Prince of Persia and Karateka books by Jordan Mechner are also very good.
Hugh Jackman and the 85% Rule
Pre-emptive fiber-based concurrency in MRI Ruby
Well, yeah, but then you’re using modern TypeScript, not modern JavaScript.
Ftlog not another round of 'let software do it', please.

How about, when a couple of dead simple switches will do it, DO NOT stuff an embedded Linux SoC in. A toaster, for example, should not require one single bit of software.

Cars. Omg. Do we have to turn them into rolling smart phones? DO we? I dread the day when my car has to OTA update every 3 weeks. There should be no need for that. Yeah, I can see you might want something to handle engine timing or active suspension. But I do not need or want all these 'apps'.

We seriously need some sanity in product design these days. Don't blame engineers. Blame the product designers.
If crypto only ever rises to the level of the human organ trade, it will have failed to deliver on pretty much all of its promises.
Wut? there's thing called telemetry observed by multiple receiving stations.
> 1. Separable verbs in German. My favourite example is "Ich bringe meine Frau (um)". "Umbringen" means "to kill". "Bringen" means, well, "to bring". So you can't start translating German to English until you hear the whole sentence a lot of the time. I believe this has a name in linguistics. Front loading of information? Something like that?

Well, but you can often translate incomplete German sentences to another SOV language easily.

> 2. Word order. Again in German, "Ich habe meine Frau gebraucht" (I brought my wife). You don't know the verb until the end. For reference, the kill version is the fairly sane "umgebraucht".

Well, it's just a different mental model of incomplete sentences / information. With SOV word order you just infer that the S and O have a relationship and make the nature of the relationship more precise after.

> 3. Many Indo-European languages have strict requirements where words have to agree in case, gender, number and even article (eg in German this changes based on the definite vs the indefinite article). I have trouble believing this doesn't have a cognitive load. This does allow shortcuts. For example, it seems like it's common to omit the subject pronoun because when it's obvious from the verb conjugation.

As you mention, what complex morphology gives can allow someone to waive finding a precise word in a language without that morphology. It's not like these distinctions don't add information on their own, however arbitrary they are.

> 3. Writing system.

I agree that Chinese character-based scripts cognitively heavy, but this is a characteristic of the script, not the language.

> 4. Suffixes to change word meaning also mean you need to keep that word in mind until you hear the end of it. Word order just seems so much more predictable but that could definitely be native English bias.

write vs. writing, writer, rightly, etc.

turn up, turnaround, turner, etc.

There's more nuance to what where these counterpoints are coming from, but I think I've given some food for thought. The points you mention look to me very typical of someone learning a more inflected language.

But consider also the flipside of learning Classical Chinese, which fails to make many distinctions that many languages make. You might, say, struggle with the ambiguity: is the action meant to be in the present, past or future? But perhaps that is not important with respect to the passage (and the language has tools to signify it where important). And consider also that in languages like English where tense needs to be signified, in narrative contexts where tense is not important, we conventionally use the past, but may use the present (historic present) for stylistic effect.

Note on Classical Chinese: of course, it survives only in writing, and beyond Old Chinese it is a separate language from the vernacular, and it is not very friendly to being spoken in the pronunciation of in the modern Chinese languages. But books like the Mencius were dialogues that presumably recorded Old Chinese.
Naw, this is HN, so it'd be more like take a screen shot, upload to some ML tool you cooked up in a weekend that OCRs the data, loads it into a NoSQL database with the cotnent presented in the latest fad JS framework using Lamda functions or some other cloud hosted CI/CD blue-green deployment to support both users.
> Ability to say that certain objects is far from both speaker and listener for example.

Non-native here. I don't quite follow. How about: "The object is far away from both of us.".

The concept is there, but maybe not as a single word. Sure, it might be convenient to be able to say "The object it broscht!", but it would just be syntactic sugar. Not a new concept.

Same for french coworker. Not a new concept.

"French person",
"Frenchie",
"Cheese eating surrender monkey"

Latter two might be SLIGHTLY inappropriate in a working environment.
Soliciting feedback is an indicator of curiosity.
You can take the AP test without the AP class, and an AP class is like a magnitude more easy than the SATs. Nobody studies for a class for years, yet on the SAT they do.

On the SATs you’re studying how to memorize the ocean. With AP classes you’re taking a “college level” course that allows you to save money by skipping courses. You can’t meaningfully Khan Academy SATs, and yet it is a world class resource for standard K-12 instruction.
Telemetry is part of a toxic pattern: It gives people a sense of control, which makes them feel more confident in their decisions, even though that confidence is usually not actually backed up by anything meaningful.
No. I'd rather walk.
This is a strange suggestion to me because, if anything, I tend to find the opposite. That is, introversion has a lot of positive connotations (introverts are thoughtful, sensitive; extroverts are vapid, etc.), and people are generally more eager to describe themselves as introverts than extroverts.
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So your dad will only shop at Sainsburys despite having an Asda on the doorstep?

I don't get going to a supermarket at all. We've had groceries delivered once or twice a week from Sainsburys, Ocada, Tesco, Asda, etc for about 10 years.

The concept of walking around a supermarket on a regular basis fills me with dread - all that wasted time and effort.
> Imagine if /bin/bash had optional telemetry.

That immediately brought PowerShell to mind -- it boggles the mind how much opt-out telemetry Microsoft has in their core offerings.
> To change anything you have to be responsible, empowered, and knowledgeable about it.

What do you mean by those that?
I wonder if you could put a small RTG to produce electricity to use for thermoelectric cooling. The RTG would have to run pretty hot but it would be also rather simple to create.

You need to be able to use temperature differential to produce rotation -- that could be taken care of by simple Stirling engine. Fortunately, given how thick the atmosphere is, the engine would be very small.

Another problem is bearings which would be essential to get and keep it running constantly. But here the thick atmosphere also helps. The thick atmosphere would make it easy to create efficient aerodynamic bearing.

The last problem is magnets. To produce electricity you need a magnet. Now, looking at a chart I see that there is a bunch of materials with curie temperature higher than temperature on the surface of Venus.

Now... just because we can get electronics to run somewhere deep below multiple layers of insulation doesn't yet mean we can do anything useful. For that you need sensors and I don't know what kind of sensors you can build that can withstand that kind of temperature.
I bet that «frau Ribentrop» will work for Gasprom, like her patron. Or, maybe, she already does that.
Placing aesthetic files needn't be illegal; see eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_banknote_neutralis... for a similar situation with banks, banknotes, and -presumably aesthetic- dye packs.

This is pretty similar. Only hostile breach attempts are thwarted.

It may need precedent or legislation to be fully legal, however. I would hope for EU-wide legislation to that effect in short order.
Germany doesn't have a powerful military or its own nuclear weapons.