skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be too naïve but being a new platform, evolved from Musical.ly, closer to the Gen-Z by just being something that their parents/teachers/"older" people won't use was the most determining factor in its explosion. So, Vine being bought and deeply connected by Twitter was definitely an issue for Vine.
I think you've missed the point of English, which is a collection of languages that evolved over time. Unlike e.g. French, there is no definitive, latest version of the language decreed from above. The dictionary is post-hoc, and long may it stay that way.
related "Ask HN: What podcasts do you like listening to?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553772
I'm interested in developing a product to increase farm animals quality of life. Does this resonate with you? I develop PCBs for IOT type stuff. ML could translate into detecting sick animals, falling, coughing, eating habits, etc. ML is not my strong point.
>The idea that our existing franchising system was anything remotely resembling free market is absurd.

As was the idea that this was even possible.

It was never set up to impose market discipline on the rail providers. It was set up to be a profitable investment. So Richard Branson could (as he put it), print money.
Is it worth mentioning that you can embed a GTK+ GUI in a webpage[1]?

I've personally never tried it, and there are Java bindings for GTK+ I think.

[1] - https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html
I should add that burnout is a massive problem when it comes to quality. Even if you found a good consultant (or group of), for round #2, they could have just finished testing all of your competitors products and are now worn out.

Scheduling in variety to try and prevent partial burnout is difficult if everyone in a vertical only wants to use the same person.
Sure. But still.
Does "back in time" mean earlier when speaking of future events? Or only past events?

A future meeting "moved back" is definitely postponed. (US English)
Everyone else is working together. They're using CCS. Even Nissan has switched to CCS. The only laggard at this point is Tesla.

Tesla switched to CCS in Europe. When will they switch to CCS in North America?
I suspect the answer is because of compatibility. Chromium has become the industry standard, everyone tests only on Chrome (and Safari for mobile) so you can expect fewer issues if you're based on chromium.
Damn. Sometimes the world works with a chuckle.

If interviews worked, then Bob would not have not needed two slaps upside the head to get it right.
I prepend() things to arrays sometimes.
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As a non-native speaker, one fascinating phenomenon for me is the flip side to Uncleftish Beholding[1]. Many latinate words are considered more sophisticated, or fancier in general, than germanic words.

Because I'm a native speaker of a Romance language, those are precisely the words that I reach for naturally, because they're familiar. What follows is that, past a certain threshold where your English is good enough, there is a very sudden phase change where people around you go from "you speak pretty good English" to "you speak amazing English" with nothing in between — all of a sudden you're perceived as a peer, and you choice of vocabulary then sets you apart. Ever since I've noticed this I've been trying to make my vocabulary "worse" by incorporating more mundane words into it.

1. https://msburkeenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/uncleftis...
exactly, my point was, some people think they can build it in a day, because they see their favorite library already supports sending HTTP, they might not be aware that some of those libraries are wrappers around cURL library
The funny thing is that I remember back in the Aughts when guys like that were trying to "save" people from using Ruby or Python.
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I hope this entire ordeal makes it all clear that when a company snatches up a community project, it'll be very likely with the intention to monetize it down the road, and I really think the changes being vaguely alluded to were oriented towards that.
> the first seems to be a native speaker

What makes you think so?
Not to mention they've had money flowing like water. When you don't have to worry about being financially efficient a lot of management structures and unstructures seem like they "work".

It's when the money dries up that cracks in the foundation are evident.
Probably any country that's not the US. Very few companies in the world have FAANG-level cashflows or Silicon Valley-level funding to be able to pay developers high salaries.
If you're a fan of curl and have benefited from it but can't contribute via code, docs, etc, I'd recommend their OpenCollective page: https://opencollective.com/curl

Many employers let you expense $50-100/month without much effort so get a handful of friends and it has a bigger impact than one corporate contributor.
I think the comment author removed his own comment.
you can move up a date, but nobody talks about
moving down a date.

It reminds me of this scene from Stargate SG1: https://youtu.be/LxK0ZIk_sSE
I'm a native English speaker who's lived in other countries a lot and speaks three languages, now trying to learn a fourth. The weirdness of "English" is something I think about often.

For starters, you have to live in it before you can really speak it. And our spelling is the least rational, least consistent thing I've ever seen. In addition to the weird way we spell a lot of things, many of the sounds are not pronounced at all, or pronounced differently, in different countries.

And there are dialects that are pretty much incomprehensible to people who grew up in the mainstream dialect (true of many other languages as well) but then we add weird things like Americans hearing race in accent and dialect, while the British can hear class but for the most part the opposite is not true.

I think simple English is one of the easiest languages to learn, because of its ubiquity and in most places the material advantage of speaking some; while good English is one of the hardest.

Thanks to the magic of the innernets I have recently discovered a Finnish comedian named Ismo who talks about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGcDi0DRtU

(Arguably NSFW if you work in a kindergarten.)
You can generate web pages writing only javascript to create elements.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/cr...

It's really roundabout and pointless, but you can do it.

You can avoid having to write any HTML or CSS, and only write javascript.

I suppose the minimal html web page would be:

<script src="./main"></script>

That's all the HTML you'd have to write, and the rest would be javascript inside main.js
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In what way do you "have to deal with a multitude of formalized language variants"? How does that impact you day to day?
Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation
It is fully supported, everywhere!
As a midwestern white American, I've certainly had prejudices based on people's accents, and I've probably misjudged whether someone was a "native" speaker. Having read this article, I will renew my efforts to fight those ugly prejudices.

For a few years now, I've thought that the ideal work environment for encouraging diversity and inclusion would be an all-remote team that used only written communication, preferring asynchronous communication as much as possible. One advantage of such an environment would be that people like me couldn't judge others based on their accents. But then, I'm not ready to actually go to this extreme in my own work. I'm the cofounder of a tiny company, and my cofounder and I have several spoken conversations per day. I don't think either of us want to change that. Perhaps I could limit myself to written communication with any employees that we hire, but that feels like a double standard.
"Yesterday morning" and "tomorrow morning" is my favorite example. Several previous Indian coworkers of mine would say "today morning", which always made me smile a bit. It's not an unreasonable phrase to exist, given the others do as well.
If I'm not greatly mistaken, there is no way to embed Gecko in a desktop application right now
If you use it, then it is a word. If other people don't understand you, then that's your problem.
> Even Linus has spoken on how much of a pain in the ass it has made it to distribute software

I've watched that Q&A before. Linus is of course right but not because of package managers and not because of distribution maintainers. He eventually starts talking about binary interfaces which are the root cause of this issue.

The fact is most open source projects out there don't have stable binary interfaces. So we have important libraries in the system breaking working binaries because they do things like change structure layouts and function signatures. This is a problem of the wider free and open source software ecosystem in general. In that same talk he contrasts this with the kernel which does have a stable binary interface and can therefore effortlessly run binaries compiled in the 90s with no changes at all.

If all software had stable ABIs, you wouldn't even need packages at all. You'd be able to just compile stuff and distribute that binary directly.

> But hey, you guys keep doing what you're doing and ignoring what potential users want.

Sure thing. I don't really care at all about what "potential" users want. I'm a programmer and I want a system suitable for programmers. "Normal" people are more than welcome to keep using whatever it is they're still using. If they don't see the value I'm not gonna convince them.

With Linux I get to trust that if something's made it into the package repositories then it's trusted by the community. That also means maintainers fix idiotic "features" like old and insecure bundled libraries in the case of dynamically linked distributions, telemetry in the case of a privacy-focused distribution or non-free code in the case of Debian.
'antepone' seems to have the advantage for the latter half of the 19th century and then around 1965 'prepone' blows it away.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=prepone%2C+ant...
Me neither, but it's a perfectly cromulent construction.
My apps were listed at the top of Developers Tools (iOS/Mac), I made $60
> What’s costs £25 fuel will cost £70 for a rail ticket

Where are you planning on parking when you get there though?

I'd rather pay quadruple for a ticket to London, than drive into London and then try to park a car. I can't imagine driving into a city - seems insane.
Thanks for the question, we hint at in our FAQ “ Nyxt differs fundamentally in its philosophy- rather than exposing a set of parameters for customization, Nyxt allows you to customize all functionality. Every single class, method, and function is overwritable and reconfigurable. You'll find that you are able to engineer Nyxt's behavior to suit almost any workflow.”
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/faq
> Let's be honest here. Curl to 98% of people is http/1 requests with some post params and maybe json body, with some custom headers.

100%, that's why we see so many smaller projects pop up (on GitHub and the like) that support basically just this. No shade to those projects, improving the UI for this subset is a worthy cause, it's just not anything near cURL.
Currently, to some extent. Again, my point is that there’s a ton of money at stake and it’s not like companies are going to say “welp, someone blocked our ads, time to close up shop”. Each time blockers have gotten better, all that’s happened has been the ad delivery systems getting more sophisticated — and since the providers can run the same tools I don’t think that’s going to change. Containing some of the damage by, for example, continuing to restrict JavaScript at least has some benefits but things like YouTube ads are the same format and delivery path.
Samsung's bastard version of Android had a similar "Automated Subtitles" feature. It's decent for watching videos with the phone on silent, but it's pretty crap when there are lots of proper nouns and unusual jargon, as I imagine this podcast has.
Like when I committed that greatest of Canadian sins: using the work 'labour' in a document read by an American client. The reaction was ridiculous.

Or the hilarious situation I had at a legal conference. I thought one of my right-wing US friends had gone totally racist. He was complaining about all the new "turbins" he was seeing while driving to the conference. I thought he meant turban, but that's just how Americans pronounce "turbine", as in the wind turbines he could see from the highway.
For the purposes of this OC topic, it's sufficient to say:

People are generally happy to tax themselves for the benefit of the in-group, and continue to oppose helping the out-group.

Optimistic me continues to believe that society's notions of in-group continues to expand. By fits and starts, including the cycles of backlash.

FWIW, I highly recommend Robert Wright's book Nonzero. Helped transmute me into an optimist, despite everything.
It's a shame there's no middle of the road when it comes to climate change - I'm happy to do what I can to make the planet better, but it doesn't necessarily have to be at the cost of human civilization.
You can charge it at 4,375 CCS charging locations in North America:

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html

New CCS charging sites are being added every week. Electrify America and Petro-Canada both have transcontinental CCS charging networks.
In other words, it's basically closer to a replacement for MIPS, which is already everywhere in a lot of embedded devices (and arguably not "high performance" ones --- the cheapest tablets and smartphones use MIPS.)
I'm not sure I agree with anything you have said here.

"Black Swan" was in use before Taleb's book, at a similar frequency as it is today (Google Trends scores 2 vs 3, where 100 is when the book was released).

"Black swan" as a phrase dates at least to Roman times, often referring to the philosophical idea that the observation of a single black swan would prove their existence. (I've heard 'black sheep' used for this as well, although that has other more popular meanings).

The interesting part is that this did come to pass, for black swans: which are only native to Australia.

So, in my mind, it refers to something which is conceivable, but not believed to exist and not (yet) observed.
Ah but which "mother version"? American English is closer to the original spelling than British English, but getting the actual English to change their use of their own language because the Americans use it differently seems... odd. Plus there's no intrinsic reason to prefer the original spelling over later versions.

So maybe we should all use English as it is used by the actual English? But that would see a small minority of the number of English-language speakers setting the rules for the huge majority.

So maybe (as others have suggested) we follow the majority of native English speakers and use the Indian version?
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Verbs that don't end with -ed in past tense. No rule, you just have to memorise all of them.
Statistically nobody is buying a Lightening (or Raptor, or anything similiar) as a work truck.
Yes, what the other commenters said. By exerting unilateral control, he's destroying the existing democratic governance mechanisms and making it a sort of rule by dictatorship. If you metaphorically treat freenode as territory, you can say that it's become Lee's fief, or fiefdom.
Read more on this "Obama scientist" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Koonin
> Unlike e.g. French, there is no definitive, latest version of the language decreed from above.

What do you mean by this? French is spoken differently with different dialects over the world - eg. Quebecois French is not the same as France French. And while French may be one of the roots of English, there are also French words with their roots in English. It's all a mishmash.
Wendover Productions made a great video about this ridiculous system. It’s totally mad. https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k
There is such a thing as Indian English, maybe not officially but it certainly exists and it does differ from British and American English.

As a matter of fact, if you look up prepone in Wiktionary "prepone" is mentioned as being used in India, so it's not that weird that the teacher in the article used it.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prepone
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Kerfluffle is the way I say and spell the word. Wiktionary lists it as a variant:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/kerfluffle
I just fast forward them lol
Both are important, but for different things. If the trip time is too long nobody will take the train. If the train isn't predictable nobody will take the train. You get a bit of leeway in different situations though. The longer the trip the less either matters because what else can you do? If you are only going a few meters it needs to be here now (whenever now is - on time in 1 minute is too late!), and it only needs to be faster than walking that distance. In between you get some ability to do things.

In the Swiss case on time is critical because they want people to depend on their next train being there when they get there. They assume most people will get off one train and get on another (or a bus) so they all meet in the same place at the same time. Early does nothing for anyone unless the bus/train they are meeting is early and leaves early. This is one good way to run a system. The other is run so many trains/buses that whenever you arrive there is another waiting for you that will leave as soon as you can get on. This second way to run a system is much faster and better for everyone - but the costs are significantly higher though and so nobody can afford to run a large system that way. (large cities often can run this way and should where they can). Note that system is the key word here. If you only have one train the considerations are different.
Thanks Mark, I really appreciate that. We’re working on a Nix recipe to make it easier on MacOS, making some progress https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116233
They tried. It’s too complicated to do it with all of the available features.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/0nSxu...

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/07/nostate-pr...
Even for French, in practice, that’s not how it works... The académie is often criticized for being too rigid and not following the language that’s actually spoken.
Great point, I'll ask my landlord if I can pay my rent in status this month.
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If it makes sense and its meaning is widely understood by other English speakers, I think it is a word. We don't have some academy with the authority to say it isn't.
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But I think it's a valid question. Because for a niche browser (which most of these alternate projects are), mainstream compatibility for all websites doesn't seem like it would be the most important thing. I think the idea of using Gecko[0] is a solid one. :P ;) xx

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
I've heard a lot of people pronounce it that way. So much so that I figure it may actually be like 'irregardless' now.
This is happening to the NHS right now.

128k deaths thanks to an overloaded, underfunded system and Boris Johnson's own nurse rage-quits and the conservatives are still gaining electoral ground. It's bizarre.
I don't think there's any voting system that genuinely gives you three choices to lead government at every election. Even in proportional systems, you might be able to select someone who more closely represents your interests and can advocate them in parliament, but the government is probably going to be led by one of the same two parties over time. If party A and party B are both ideologically inclined to fuck up rail, getting party C elected as a junior partner probably won't change that.

And if you're just hoping to replace party A entirely with party C, FPTP is one of the better systems as long as you're not in a country where election laws are set up to ensure that the Democrats and the Republicans are going to win almost every election. But that's a question of candidacy laws and incumbent rights; changing the voting system in the US won't suddenly cause other parties to get elected.

Anyway, the fact that party A fucked it up and party B is fucking it up doesn't mean party A lacks incentives to improve it tomorrow. Perhaps they fucked it up because their leader was incompetent, and now that there's been a change in leadership they will be motivated to improve.
The business was pretty strapped for cash (they had to pay me $3k over two payments).

But yeah, it was a 100k problem. All or nothing. Either it was fixed or not. The previous contractor had completed 97% of the work, had billed $10k, and then left when the company wouldn't pay any more.

I swooped in, finished the last 3%, got all the glory, and charged 3k. The business thought I was a miracle worker.

To be clear, the previous contractor did a crap job communicating with the business to explain how things were progressing and made it look like this would be a black hole the business was throwing money into. Had the previous contractor said "we're really close, we just need a little bit more money" the whole thing likely would have resolved without my intervention. But communication matters, I suppose.
is his language abusive? I would say it's abrasive, but I don't really see how it's abusing anyone except maybe large faceless companies. He doesn't really go after specific individuals
Surprised about the "hiring new colleagues" part already. I've been subscribed to their job listings since the news story broke and they haven't actually listed anything new. They must have had a good pipeline of candidates already queued up before the exodus. I suppose that's a smart move when you extend a "6 months severance and assistance with placement elsewhere" offer for disgruntled staff to voluntarily separate.
I love the description of English as "three different languages dressed in a trenchcoat pretending to be a proper language" :)

I'm trying to learn German at the moment, and it's fascinating seeing the similarities between the languages, and the things we used to have in common but got dropped or modified in English.
We are not based on Chromium, we are engine agnostic. As to why no Gecko support? Mozilla does not make it easy!
And of course, CURL deals with multiple protocols as the OP mentioned. I've used libcurl for sending emails and FTP but mainly for HTTP.

Using the multi interface it's relatively trivial (a few hundred lines of C) to fetch using hundreds or thousands of concurrent connections. There's even some courtesy opts for rate limiting per host.

It's so good he/they built c-ares for asynchronous DNS lookups, IIRC something that wasn't so readily available in years gone by.
> If we stop emitting CO2 today, it would still be there in the atmosphere for hundreds of years” he tells me. “If we manage to reduce emissions a little bit, it’ll just accumulate at a slower rate but it’ll still go up.” Even that is hard to do at an acceptable economic cost. During last year’s pandemic lockdowns, when much of the economy ground to a halt, our carbon emissions fell to about 21 percent below 2005 levels — which was less than halfway to the Biden’s administration’s 10-year goal.

I think the pandemic has proven definitively that we can't stop producing CO2 unless everyone on the planet changes their way of living significantly and permanently.. which I'm afraid won't happen.

I don't know how successful it will be to suck CO2 out of the air but seems like that's the best bet.
Oh, cool. Kerfluffle is so much cuter.
Excellent Article on an assumption while porting Oracle PLSQL to PostgreSQL