skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a native English speaker who ironically first encountered the use of English as a lingua franca when I moved to London for the first time. London turned out to be a much more cosmopolitan place than anywhere that I'd lived before and I'd say that around 50% of my colleagues at work were non-native English speakers, as were a similar percentage of the new friends that I made. I quite quickly learned to change the way that I spoke in order to be understood, and I learned that certain words that I'd used all my life were not even recognised internationally. The example that I remember vividly: a Polish colleague had to ask me why I kept saying "ta". Where my family comes from, "ta" is short for "thanks" and I had used it all my life without even thinking about it. It was one small example of the things that I had to try to un-learn in order to be understood in the more international environment that I found myself in.

As the article states, many English speakers are monolingual and probably have a hard time empathising with the struggles that non-native speakers can have with a language. I worry that the situation will only get worse. English is now spoken by so many people in so many places and the incentives (and opportunities) for English speakers to learn other languages are consequently increasingly small.
I was once asked in an interview for a PHP role what was my favourite feature of PHP and my answer was deployablitiy. In my opinion it can't really be matched on how easy it is to deploy. I can deploy any other language but it is never as easy as deploying PHP.

The guy who was interviewing me was sitting their shaking his head like that wasn't a valid answer.
Believe it or not there are plenty of people who live their lifes outside of politics. They don't vote, they don't have any favorites in the political arena

Politics is divisive and agressive. Some people are put off by the easy narratives of good vs bad

Only dictatorships have historically wanted to permeate every aspect of life with politics. The USSR used to say "everything is politics". There are plenty of examples... politics needs moderation. I wish that people could vent their passions with football like in the old days. At least everyone knew no one was "really serious" about why their team deserves world domination

There is a time and place for politics (not at work). God knows how many times I've had to put on my earphones just to disappear from the latest office brawl about politics
In the gumbo journey intro, the tool is as a replacement of the common approach of a “long boring Dropbox folder.” I liked that. Seems like (just poked around a little) it’s a guided tour for all necessary and typical marketing/sales media. Looks cool! Async vs sync...I’m assuming you’re talking about back and forth sync interactions (emails/zoom) vs customers exploring async? Framing as push vs pull model might better focus on the pain relief. Lets Journey contrast with a pushy sales person.
> The first time a black coworker gave a black thumbs-up reaction on slack, I noticed I didn't want to +1 it. I didn't identify with it, it didn't feel like it was coming from me.

Why wouldn’t you identify with a +1 from a black (or other race/ethnicity) colleague?

The question is a bit aggressive, but if possible don’t consider it like that — I live in an (unfortunately rather conservative) part of the EU and TBH I’m often surprised with the race/diversity activism. I usually support them, if nothing else then because I’m clearly ignorant and not affected by the challenges some of my coworkers have to put on with.
Flutter is much much better than Xamarin imo. And imo, it has been far easier for many folks to pick up Flutter over ReactNative, especially those coming from JS backgrounds.

That being said, the jank issues with Flutter on iOS make it a showstopper. And web and Windows Flutter is like in alpha.
> It appears to be biological.

Even assuming "its biological", that means that every single boy in the country must be disposed to liking guns, and every single girl must like to mother baby dolls?

And you'd think that a community of "Hackers" would be a bit less concerned about what the bulk of the population does and a bit more interested in the outliers.
Those "buy now, pay later" schemes aren't really available to poor folks in the same way, not the least of which because you are more likely to have bad credit, often because you owe things like utilities (maybe you moved and the old company still wants money) and medical bills.

When they are available, it is never really for things like shoes or the specialty-sized bra you really need that they do not sell at Wal-mart or a non-specialty store (I spent over $100 for my last one, and had to order in the US or wear something that didn't fit).

Instead, they'll lease you furniture, refrigerators, and stoves with the promise that you'll own it some day (and honestly, for washer/dryers, this might be the intelligent choice as it is cheaper than the pay laundry if you have a family). They'll give you a car loan for a bad car, too.

Buy now pay later schemes aren't even worth it if you are financially insecure: I'd have never done this with my ex, for example, even if I knew that on paper, we might have the money. My ex, you see, is my ex for a reason, and part of that reason was money simply going missing, sometimes meaning that I couldn't buy more food or be afraid of running out of gas. Poverty - on paper - is like this.
PHP 3 is what started the careers and it comes from Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. I'm sure Rasmus Ledorf has pulled his weight throughout the entire thing but without the Zend Engine PHP would have never became what it is today.
No happy with macOS or macbooks in general.

The amount of defects and other miscellaneous issues I've encountered, along with numerous productivity losses moving from Windows and Linux. Makes no sense. My computer needs to function as a productivity machine. I don't have time for it.

Next laptop(s) are going to be ThinkPads. Because I can buy two for the price of a macbook. We program for Linux servers anyway.
It did however need to protect itself from the constant threat of annihilation by the US. At one point US generals were proposing to preemptively nuke all of the USSR because their own losses would be acceptable.

So it didn’t help that a developing economy had to redirect a sizeable portion of its productive power towards defence. Nor did the constant less direct attacks from the US and its allies. Despite all of that, average workers had good conditions even when compared to the US itself.
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There's also the issue that people who are having to work long hours and even multiple jobs to scrape by are time poor as well ... after 12-14 hours of being on your feet, cooking a fresh meal takes second fiddle to just eating SOMETHING and crashing out to try and rest.
This thought feels a bit like a generalized version of that quote on ads:

> Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

But swap out money for time: “Half the time I spend is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.”
Whenever FB translated a comment for me, it was a complete gibberish. I'm a bit sceptical about their efforts. Is it really good quality?
This. I tried out Flutter Flow a few days back. I was able to do a ton of boring design work very productively, as well as the Firebase integration gamut, but I can't see myself coding app logic with the existing setup.
A biological effect on character doesn’t rule out outliers.

I’m not sure what u are trying to say tbh. Conceding there is something biological at play doesn’t mean no boy is ever allowed to play with a Barbie.
I used to go to the movies a lot. One day I realized I could go to the movies as much as I wanted, and it had no impact on my financial condition. It was a nice feeling.

(In college my discretionary budget was $5 a week, so going to the movies meant going without something else.)
Lots of innovation is missed out on because of lack of regulation. So this is not a good point. The EV and solar panel revolution was largely created due to regulation.

It is a very neoliberal view to think free markets are the only source of innovation and government is just standing in the way.

Governments create lots of different incentives to foster innovation. Patents themselves are a government regulation meant to encourage innovation. Ironically companies have corrupt government to such a degree that patents today is often a hindrance to innovation. However well designed patent laws are likely better than no patent laws at all.
I have the same feeling. I was poor when I was a kid because of the fall of Soviet Union. But I did not feel bad or worse then everyone else becaue 95% of people were dirt poor back then. Therefore I never got any psychological difficulties with it since I never was discriminated against. When everyone is poor you don't think about it too much. For example, pretty much everyone had the lunch tickets at school so nobody was ashamed of it at all.

Also note that there was no instagram/facebook/yt so you could not even compare yourself with people you don't know as kids can do now.

In a way I am greatful for my experience. Gives a lot of perspective and sympathy for people who struggle with money.
Now it is more relaxed but in the beginning the travel was very restricted. What is the point of traveling when everything is closed and you have to stay in quarantine for 2 weeks? Besides traveling increases the risk of getting infected.
And I said it is impossible, not only from logistics perspective, as VLM did clearly show.

> most importantly early warning tech to detect incoming solar flares and take transformers offline to protect them

This is politically impossible. If one takes the entire grid offline, people suffer and lash out. If the grid is instead taken out by a solar flare, aliens, you name it - it's much easier to shift the blame.
Would it even pay for itself? It seems to me like bandwidth is pretty cheap compared to computation costs so why bother trying to squeeze everything out. Just do some basic compression and you're good to go. Buy a bigger SSD if necessary, with technologies like reBAR compression just slows down a game anyway.
Well yes, but a 10x mathematician/scientist. Plus important enough to the field of computing to be comparable I think
The main thing which protects them is size. Roll a neodynium magnet around a laptop or cell phone and it's already experienced a far larger magnetic field change than will ever appear due to a solar flare. The earth's magnetic field holds immensly more energy than the magnet but it's so extremely diffuse it will only effectively couple into massive-scale structures.
Because "no politics at work" isn't neutral, it means supporting the status quo by way of defining what counts as "politics". Is calling someone by their preferred pronouns, or wearing a mask during the pandemic politics?
Yeah, that urban legend is often repeated but it doesn't stand up to much scrutiny.
For me the most scary part is not doing end-to-end encryption in Messenger, which means that the US government has a right to listen to my conversations on it.
Could you explain how that would work? I thought DOS generally worked by overloading a host with mostly invalid incoming packets.

Are DOS attacks that cause lots of outgoing bandwidth common? And wouldn't launching such a DOS attack be somewhat expensive in the first place?

Also, I don't think any of the hosting companies I use have metered bandwidth. I assume that if I used excessive bandwidth I'd just end up saturating the network, but for a blog with mostly text and a few images that shouldn't be an issue.
It was the largest increase because of the large drop in 2018 and small 2019 rise from that low point. Yes, I am saying that the 2020 rise was in line with expectations and any attempt to link it to lockdown will be weak. In five years they will be able to show the graph without years on it and most would guess 2018 as the lockdown year due to the anamoly.
that's interesting, thanks
This is not the standard at all in Europe, maybe that's the standard in your specific country?
Several socialist countries tried to export the west, but it was always with the condition that they privatise, reduce worker wages and take on extortionate IMF loans.

I’m less familiar with the USSR’s policies on this, but I can tell you România tried to export to the west and took on an IMF loan to do so. Then we were blocked from actually selling our exports and the loan was required to be paid early and in full regardless. Since we were only allowed to export food for the most part, rationing had to be used for several years. This economic crisis, in addition to constant propaganda via radio and funding of fascists, is part of how the US and its allies made the 89 coup successful.
I say this as a non-white person who ostensibly should feel better represented by these emojis: a person who feels anxiety or exclusion when they see a yellow "thumbs up" is someone who has a low grade mental illness in need of address.

Well-meaning white people have been duped by a vocal minority of non-whites, who themselves were duped by cynical, washed out 60s radicals with bad ideas who failed to achieve anything in their time. You have been encouraged to treat non-whites like child emperors in your midst, whose every whim and dictate can only lead the way to racial harmony and absolution of your inherited sins. This is madness, and it's embarrassing for me and other right-thinking people to witness.

>Believing that the pan-white default of “simpsons yellow” is raceless because you feel represented in it excludes that others might not feel represented in it.

What race is Milhouse, with his blue hair?
It is different: But you can basically replace "car" with transportation (poor people have issues affording transportation in general: For most of the US, this means you must have a car to even go to work) and Cereal with "whatever is cheap and easy to make for breakfast, only not quite enough".

In some areas, everyone is horrifically poor. In the US, however, it has been painfully obvious in every single place that I've lived that not everyone is horrifically poor and has a panic attack over half of a dollar spent on some food of better quality.
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The flip side is that when the Great Marketing Algorithm tags you "rich", you're suddenly inundated with special offers, savings, concessions of all kinds, freebies, investment opportunities - some more plausible than others - and other benefits.

You not only get your boots discounted and/or bundled with some other offer, there's a fair chance you don't have to pay for them at all.

I've been on both sides, and the differences are a real eye-opener.
I think if you click a link which points to a very detailed list of programming languages based on non-English languages, then decide to take an example from a different list and suggest that’s what OP was “reaching for”; then you’ve probably failed.
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I don't really like the idea of 'replication police', I think it would increase pressure on researchers who are doing their job of pushing the boundaries of science.

However, I think there is potential in taking the 'funded by the government' idea in a different direction. Having a publication house that was considered a public service, with scientists (and others) employed by the government and working to review and publish research without commercial pressures could be a way to redirect the incentives in science.

Of course this would be expensive and probably difficult to justify politically, but a country/bloc that succeeded in such long term support for science might end up with a very healthy scientific sector.
> Although I never went a full day without eating at least two meals, it wasn't rare to go sleep hungry.

I go to bed hungry every night, not because I can't afford food, but because that's how I control my weight.
True, but I, for one, want at least a decent GPS / map, for example. And that kind of needs a bigger screen.
Will this game still be playable in 20 years?

In this case, wouldn’t bundling everything be more stable?

It’s notoriously difficult to install some very old software on modern Linux distributions, because installing old dependencies might just be extremely hard or no longer possible.

Also, what happens when the glibc has a new version with breaking changes? Then the game won’t run, even though it depends on an old version of that lib.
It is in several states including CA and NY, where most tech firms are located.
OK, that's not how I understood your comment. I thought you meant that macOS always renders in 2x and scales down for 1x. That's not the case.

(Also, the pictures in the blog look like they have been resized for the blog, so I wouldn't read too much into their blurriness)
Did he ever had a dayjob as a programmer? My bet is ‘no’
That's really good to hear. Perhaps I need to stop using fringe distros like NixOS.
Are you able to cite an example of this particular, direct consequence?
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Are you talking only about the UI? I can't really comment on that since I haven't played Dota enough. But in terms of clarity, other MOBAs (HOTS, LoL) are miles ahead. Just a few examples of what I mean:

- Little portraits show which hero is which in the mini map

- You get a loud and obvious ding and visual effect when you get turret aggro

- This is subjective but the Art direction is way better. In Dota it's often very difficult to discern the players from the background.
Open source and Free Software is (despite it being a cliche for programmers to over apply it) a good model to compare with.

You have big companies making Billions with the work of relatively poorly paid nerds. But as soon as you make it possible for the nerds to claim all the profits of the work then you have a whole class of people whose job is to insert themselves as middlemen and ruin it for everyone, both customers and developers.

So basically the aim is to limit the degree to which you can privately profit from science, and expand the amount of science you can easily build on. You still get enough incentives for progress, the benefits accrue to society as a whole, and competition and change is enabled without powerful gatekeepers controlling too much in their own interests.
I would say an innate talent for ‘coding’ is a relatively minor factor. What is very rare to see is people showing the level of responsibility and grit to get on by themselves and build something. Also in a business setting it is unheard of for someone to have the opportunity or even be trusted enough to do it not to mention all the other business factors.
Ok it sounds like this is a locality thing. In Australia you can just about buy a pack of gum on these apps and have monthly repayments of 50c. They have been pushed as almost replacements for credit cards.

They are absolutely a trap but if you were financially smart, you could use them to your advantage to overcome the initial investment vs lifetime cost problem.

The issue is not so much that these people have no options, but that they do not have the knowledge to pull them out of the endless traps that get marketed to them.
So you have a big pile of cash. And you will just use it to pay someone to take care of you in your old age. And they will do it lovingly because you paid them. They won't take advantage or even abuse you when you get to the point of not being able to do anything about it yourself.
It's still an amazing research result.

Demonstrating a novel compression scheme with a high compression ratio is worthwhile. It might inspire something else.
Twitter is worse than other platforms because the format is really contrived. The 280 character limit doesn't give people space to write a nuanced, fair, well thought out response to things.

Also, if you contrast twitter and reddit, I would say that on reddit, everyone is kind of on the same footing more or less. Anyone can post a thread and if the content is interesting, it can rise to the top, then every response in that thread also has an equal chance to have visibility. The design of twitter is made so that masses of people follow some small number of "influencers", and these people have an outsized voice. There is no upvote or downvote, it seems to be largely based on how many followers you have.

The fact that there's no specific topical discussion groups I think also really amplifies the toxicity of the platform, because twitter can suck a bunch of people who have nothing to do with the discussion into the flamewar, as a way to increase "engagement". On a platform like HN, you have discussions about programming, and they're split into threads which people can choose to read or not. Reddit is split into subreddits on a variety of topics. It doesn't actively try to rope random people into some bullshit drama they have nothing to do with.

And uh, fun fact: twitter is not profitable, more than 15 years after they were founded, 8 years after their IPO. The stock has basically gone nowhere. It's a wonder they're still here, despite their lack of innovation and lack of business sense. IMO, the world would be better without this platform, but uh, I guess once your tech company gets past a certain size, it can never go bankrupt?
Registering the methods/details before performing the experiments is another technique that is used.
My 4yo and 2yo girls are also enthralled with diggers. I think there's just something about big equipment that's impressive.

This is a really good book on the subject :) was both their favorite for quite a long time:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/228537/digger-dozer...
Everyone should remember how Intel anti competitive behaviors had almost killed AMD. And it took a long time for AMD to recover after Intel was forced to stop doing that. But today, AMD is the innovative one and Intel forced to run to try to catch up. Still, a few other CPU manufacturers died on the way.

And the crazy thing is that, at an earlier time, a lot of idiots had supported Intel saying that their bad behavior was in the interest of consumers, and that it is thanks to that that they were able to provide innovation to the market...
In an another statistic published 64% of surveyed think they will save 34k-tax on rent mortgage and live in a nicer place if they can permanently WFH
> I thought DOS generally worked by overloading a host with mostly invalid incoming packets.

It's any traffic. It can be invalid packets if that's effective, but it can also be complete http requests.

> Are DOS attacks that cause lots of outgoing bandwidth common?

They're commonly about saturating the incoming bandwidth. But there's nothing wrong with more outgoing traffic if someone wants to hit you that way.

> And wouldn't launching such a DOS attack be somewhat expensive in the first place?

Not if you're using other people's hacked endpoints. (Which is pretty much the default these days)

If you use a service with just a data cap, that's fine. I commented with AWS / GCP / others in mind.
Microwaves are known for making it easy to cook a complete meal for a family of four, right? Especially the small ones that are common in hotel rooms? And you have to afford a rice cooker and have a way to learn to cook with it. Maybe you have internet, but maybe your phone just broke.

Poverty simply means you live without things. I lived for some years cooking on burner plates because I couldn't afford propane/natural gas (different houses). I also didn't have hot water. If my electricity got turned off? No warm food.

There are a number of rentals that do not come with appliances. "You can use what is there, but if it breaks, I'm not replacing it" happens a lot too. Maybe you can rent one, maybe not. You can probably carry a rice cooker home if you don't have transportation, but not a microwave (easily, anyway)
That's the point - why it costs $50K/mile? Regulations, that's why.