skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the time, the non-native speakers learn English from the books instead of absorbing the local dialects/nuances since they don't hear people around them speaking English. However, depending on the quality of books / teachers, this means they pick-up a weird/artificial view of English (speaking is still difficult because you don't get to do it everyday - this is changing though). Then when one lands a job requiring English communication, they pick-up the "do the needful" type of oddities by observation/convention. So when they communicate with a native speaker, what comes across is a unique edition.

Interestingly, I can speak four languages (three fluently and one semi-fluently) and there is no equivalent of "do the needful" that is actually used in any of them - you just specify what is required - the closest non-specific equivalent I can think of is "take a look at it"/"take care of it"/"resolve it". God knows where that came from.
I know a woman with no teeth who lives in a shed in a friendly neighbor's garden. After her husband skipped the country in the 90's and left her with a sizable pile of terrible credit, highly leveraged "assets", and fraudulent tax returns she was left homeless for a period but eventually managed to find a new fulfilling career as a social worker and worked diligently for almost 20 years before giving up her apartment and "retiring" to the shed in her 60s with debilitating health issues.

How can we build a system that punishes people like your father but not people like my neighbor and should we even try? Does our current system try?
Same exact same thing as described in the article happened to me a few months ago when I bought my new MBA M1. I’m at least happy to learn it wasn’t Apple itself that directly screwed me, but they ought to investigate this. It definitely hurt the overall experience having $200 shaved off my buyback quote.
It's the <title> tag displayed in tab. It's the site's mistake that <title> and heading are different. But I don't feel this is a case of editorializing.
Not everybody has a DBA :(
this one got my upvote, it seems to work.
Eight Steps to solve coding interview question
Was just considering this when I came across your comment.

I'm hoping someone here can suggest a one-way audit-log audit-trail sort of solution, because I need this for the medical industry.
this is more like 3 semesters of calculus, and 1 semester of linear
Generate QR Code in 4 Lines of Code – By Sukhpinder Singh – The Startup
Not GP, but on a Mac, which produces mov per default.

Started using Kap to record to webm: https://getkap.co/
You've just described the Zoo Hypothesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis
Also a lover of sci-fi/fantasy

I watched the 2011 film and wondered if I might enjoy reading the book now I know what will happen. But you've convinced me to give it a go.

I know it's not quite the same but I'm Reading through the Anne of Green Gables series and thoroughly enjoying it.
Sadly I also experienced a native (Canadian iirc) speaker mocking me for my pronunciation of 'power'. Indeed, I used heavy German accent on that specific situation, because I was excited at that moment. It shocked me quite a bit and I didn't know what to do back then.
Now I can laugh it off - English was my first foreign language but only one of three in total back then. And it must have sound funny (like Arnold Schwarzenegger), which I felt unnecessarily bad for.

Edit: I posted this story mostly because it really stuck in my head. It constantly reminds me to be aware of how I pronounce things. Before that incident I was quite confident about my English pronunciation, maybe even proud.
Woodworking, carpentry, welding, electrical. I previously wanted to be a school psychologist but the reality of the job was too harsh and killed my drive, now I am a mid-level systems analyst in an IT org of clock watchers. Now I envy people who work with their hands, the get to see the fruit of their labor, can almost at will create their own business and be on their feet as much as they'd like.
> > The Zoom bombers’ local IP addresses, which identify the exact device being used, did not match Malachi’s

> And his device cant be multihomed? He cant have two devices?

He could. But the only evidence of his guilt is the IP address.
Dope. Will make writing guides so much easier. And I do mean written guides. Just sometimes they could use a little context with short clips.
Systemd.

Whatever you think it is that is simple about php, I am certain there is plenty happening behind the covers that you are unaware of. An environment built around supporting php is required.

A compiled golang binary only needs a linux system. That is it. Very, very simple.
> Our apologies, unfortunately our website is currently unavailable in most European countries due to GDPR rules.

A recap?
Glastonbury: Emily Eavis says she is so sorry after live-stream technical issues
Please don't perpetuate flamewars or tit-for-tat spats on HN. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's a good point. Most subscription service providers, like Stripe, Chargrbee, Braintree, etc, use a fairly conventional one-to-many data architecture for Customers and Subscriptions.

Just take care to use the subscription service provider data model how it is intended. It is possible to design your integration in a way that goes against the grain and end up with gaps in your data. For example, by re-using a single subscription instance per customer and changing it's properties when the customer down/upgrades rather than creating a new Subscription instance.
I took some glass blowing classes in undergrad and wanted to make something with uranium glass. I bought uranium glass frit from Gaffer glass and used it, none of the instructors or students seemed to mind. The main concern was the dust when pouring out the frit, once it is melted into something its pretty inert.

I made some cool stuff with it (only limited by my glass blowing skills).
Introducing BaseTen — build machine-learning powered applications
This is not about who is the “adult” … it’s about creating an environment for success given the expectations of the job.

Technical roles like a true principal at a high level require deep concentration and focus … being interrupted every 15-30 minutes to attend a meeting, answer a phone call, strategize a political response, respond to a slack message, handle complaints from critical clients, attend budget meetings, create reports, etc. is not the right environment.
Well, growing up in SJC/SV/SF, nonnative speakers were many: roommates, girlfriends, coworkers, and more. Heck, one of my first girlfriends and I could barely communicate verbally: but it wasn't really a problem when gestures, simple words, and "thought synchronization" explained ideas more efficiently and succinctly than learning each others' complex languages.

The other thing is immersion doesn't necessarily seem like a good predictor of language mastery: one roommate had trouble speaking English, despite living in the US for 10 years, while his older brother, who had never been to an English-speaking country before, sounded like he was completely American. This maybe anecdotal but there seems to be an incredible amount of variation in language and accent mastery that doesn't improve with experience (or above a fuzzy, certain age).
it sounds like you're making an interesting point but I'm afraid I don't follow, could you elaborate?
This is not a native/nonnative problem, but more a high vs low content languages, with native English being at the bottom of low content.

Low content tend to stay in the abstract, and leave out the details. High content give detailed descriptions and let the abstractions to be deduced by the listener.

This often leaves low content speakers wondering how things are being communicated, while they've had the issue described in great detail earlier, but incorrectly discarded the information as meaningless small talk.

High content speakers, on the other hand may struggle to decipher something that isn't really meant to communicate anything, or they may feel being kept in the dark and made guess then punished for guessing incorrectly.
Reproducibility is 10x more expensive, you have to make sure you can replicate all the conditions exactly, and there are no thanks at the end for all that effort. The incentive is to publish instead of finding the truth.
Slightly off-topic, does anyone recommend any open-source ANSI C implementations of knowledge graphs/graph databases? I had toyed around a bit with Neo4J and am interested in something in a language I'm more familiar with.

I've created some useful output from Wikidata's dataset with some-space saving decisions like focusing on certain languages and an arbitrary data structure. The dump is quite big and space at a premium.
The same but I would push hard to make as much money as possible and build my network from the start because after a decade almost every job gets dull and when you have some money and a network a lot of new opportunities come up.

Also learn to talk to people, pick up your phone and call. Basically, throw out the thought I can build something on my own without putting myself out there. Eventually you have to.
Porn in 3...2...1
I really enjoyed these, thanks for posting.
As a past user of Screen2Gif I can say on Windows ShareX does a very good job of screen capture and recording.
My next door Danish neighbors learned English in the late 70's and early 80's by watching TV.

The guy worked at Spectra-Physics and drove a Wankel Mazda RX-7 that he backed-in to their garage.
Delete From "APCRoleTableColumn" Where "ColumnName" Not In (Select SC.column_name From (SELECT SC.column_name, SC.table_name FROM information_schema.columns SC where SC.table_schema = 'public') SC, "APCRoleTable" RT Where SC.table_name = RT."TableName" and RT."TableName" = "APCRoleTableColumn"."TableName");

I know this is not an optimized SQL. But this takes about 5 seconds in Postgre while the same command runs in milliseconds in MSSQL Server. The APCRoleTableColumn has only about 5000 records. The above query is to delete all columns not present in the schema from the APCRoleTableColumn table

I used to be a heavy MSSQL user. I do love Postgre and have switched over to using it in all my projects and am not looking back. I wish it was as performant as MSSQL. This is just one example. I can list a number of others too.
ffmpeg has the best gif output I've found.
Thanks for the feedback. I've provided a few replies below but I think you have made some great points and I will share them internally.

> - the site does not do a good job of describing the products and what they do.

The page does lead off by telling you it is a software load balancer, but I agree, we can do a better job of giving more information on the product itself. Most people who pursue HAProxy Enterprise are already familiar with HAProxy. With that said, we're actually working on a complete overhaul to this page and I believe the new version will address this.

> - it is hard to find requirements from the first page.

This is just a reference point and typically organizations are working closely with a sales engineer.

> - is there a simpler HA setup than the 3 layer one here:

A simpler version is found under active/standby here [1]

[1] https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/hapee/2-2r1/high-avail...
You're right, and the HTML doc title is often a better choice. In this case it was more baity, though, so we swapped it out for the page heading.
Interesting related bit of info: Charanjit Singh made arguably the first acid house music album, 'Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat', in large part due to the fact that he bought one of the first synths while shopping in Singapore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charanjit_Singh_(musician)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT64B6vs9Mc
I think wealthy people should marry poor people more often so kids can grow up with the benefits of both types of influence.
Maybe the other side hired even more mercenaries who were even better, we have no way of knowing. We don't even know if anyone was hired, could be some form of feudal obligation.
I wonder how much computers and spell-checkers are reducing the evolution of writing systems?

In the past people could naturally stop using diacritics or make letter substitutions. Over time the language might eliminate their use. That seems less likely now.

Similarly introducing a new letter seems rather difficult in the computer age.
The article assumes "best" = simplest. If you define best to mean most elegant and precise, the result would be opposite I guess.

Although among technical literature I've most enjoyed the language of The C++ Programming Language by Stroustrup, and he's not a native speaker
schema.org is certainly getting used more. Not sure how trusted it is wrt search.
Towards the end of the article the author mentions:

Full size: 1440KiB / 1.44MiB
Kernel size: 632KiB
Tools: 552KiB
Free space left (du -h): 272KiB

So... it does look to me like the kernel and tools would fit 1.2MB too.
Also this one:
Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27220789 - May 2021 (245 comments)
While I agree with the broader point, this is grade A BS and I think you know it.

Anyone who's ever spent time in a classroom viewing the experience with an objective eye knows that teachers can't be reasonably expected to teach everything they need to within the constraints given to them. As a result, they assign homework (reading, projects, busywork) over the course of the semester to ensure that the knowledge they're asked to pass on actually sinks in to the minds of the students.

Good teachers make good homework. Bad teachers make bad homework, but not necessarily because they're trying to waste their students' time.
I'm sure class action lawsuit attorneys are feasting over this.
Pigovian taxes are good economics but dubious politics for this exact reason. If you rely on them for revenue, you don’t want to actually disincentivize the behavior they’re intended to disincentivize so you keep the tax artificially low.
You did the right thing and taught him lessons that will be useful in life.

A "saw" being slang for masturbatjon in some languages is the cherry on top.
Indian variant: What's causing the spike in Bolton?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57094274

That suggests to me that we've got transmission within households and that's now part of the situation here.

The latest data suggests both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid vaccines are extremely effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalisation and death, meaning the most vulnerable should be far better protected than they were in earlier waves of the pandemic.

But there is one stumbling block. In Bolton, the areas with the highest infections over the last week map very closely to areas with the lowest vaccination rates.
"do the needful" is found in British English books from the 19th century.[1] I suspect it's officialese that never went out of usage in bureaucratic and judicial circles in former colonies.

[1] : https://www.google.com/search?q=%22do%20the%20needful%22&tbm...
Sorry, to clarify, all of my devices are Apple so I expect .mov with H264/H265 encoding. I’m wondering if other devices encode to webm without conversion now, and it’s a format people expect to be able to exchange by default.
“Maybe we could commit one engineering-day per month for contributing back to OSS libraries we use heavily”

This could be more disruptive than helpful as very few engineers would contribute much one day a month. Would you hire a developer for 1 day per month? They would more likely burden the experienced developers with questions and poor code submissions that need to be reviewed and then forget what they learned a month before.
I would really like to know some the misinformation of the time.
It's possible I'm missing something, because the reality of cryptocurrency as I understand it seems bizarre. To my knowledge all of the borrowing/lending/ownership stuff is about making speculative bets. i.e. It is of the form "You can lend some crypto and get some return so other people can borrow some crypto and take some positions short or long on the rising/declining prices of different currencies or currency pairs.

This kind of thing isn't really valuable lending or borrowing in my view. It's just part of the musical chairs gambling game that is the larger cryptocurrency ecosystem. It's also not possible (that I know of) for cryptocurrency to supplant our current lending/borrowing system. If I want to borrow 100k to refit the kitchen in my restaurant, can I do that with cryptocurrency? I haven't seen the defi solutions for business loans in other words, just the defi solutions for "I want to 100x the risk/reward when I buy bitcoin calls expiring next week."
> I think there is still a bit of a perception that IC levels higher than Senior are about "Senior but with more interesting technical problems". This is largely false. In most organizations those roles are about empowering other people. You can see this if you read the stories Will Larson's new book, Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track.

I think that's _one_ way to do it, but it defeats the purpose of having an IC path. It's basically "ship code while being a lite-manager". There's space for more types of staff+ engineers than "manager-lite" versions of the role.

I'm in a semi rebellion with exactly the description you provide, because I find it's short-sighted. We need to allow these roles to be anywhere along the spectrum from manager-like to purely technical. The best description I found of these more senior roles is that they give you license to build the role you wish to have. Kind of like being a tenure professor.

Here's my own self-defined role definition: focus on exploration and research along with mentoring my peers into becoming the next version of themselves. On the other hand, I have no interest in managing the day to day process; it gets in the way of my primary goals.
Hivery (AI for retailing) came from Data61 and has raised a massive amount of money, and Propeller Aero (drone surveying) is profitable. Not sure if seL4 and Audinate count (they started out as NICTA projects, before Data61), but they are both commercially viable.
This says more about you than the baseline.
I fear that developed nations are in a fiat currency end-game where interest rates stay at near zero levels for the foreseeable future meaning that borrowing stays cheap for decades on end, which exacerbates asset prices, incentivizes builders to only produce real estate projects like “luxury” apartments, and makes government borrowing easy, too, so that bond yields produce negative returns for investors.

We’re living in a world where politicians aren’t fighting the international housing crisis, and I think the only meaningful way you can do so is by nations coming together and forming a Breton Woods type era of agreement to establish the world over what housing rights look like and what restrictions companies, REITs, builders, and landlords have so as to prevent neofeudalism from continuing to proliferate.
Past threads (most, but not all, from the same site):

RegEx Crossword - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439208 - March 2021 (151 comments)

Regex Crosswords - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26117669 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

Regex Crossword - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20874475 - Sept 2019 (59 comments)

Regex Crossword - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715819 - July 2017 (1 comment)

Regex Cross­word - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11935461 - June 2016 (1 comment)

A regex crossword from LinkedIn Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266774 - March 2016 (40 comments)

Regex Crossword - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10997861 - Jan 2016 (2 comments)

Hamlet – A crossword puzzle game using regular expressions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9288605 - March 2015 (11 comments)

Regex Crossword - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682792 - Dec 2014 (2 comments)

Regex Crossword - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8674039 - Nov 2014 (108 comments)

Regex crossword - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6061674 - July 2013 (1 comment)

RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056011 - July 2013 (11 comments)

Mystery hunt regex crossword solved in 127 lines of Haskell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5495646 - April 2013 (1 comment)
In Seattle hand-picking like this is explicitly illegal; selection criteria have to be published beforehand and the first qualifying applicant accepted.
Suppose you wanted to attack encryption using keys created on a laptop or desktop.

For "strong keys" in certain forms of encryption you'd like to create 2 "random" primes that are of about equal length. This greatly reduces the space.

Given a pile of machines it seems that a feasible attack would be to "randomly" generate primes clustered around the 1/2 length size and write them to disk. That's a lot of primes but we have plenty of time, plenty of disk space, and a rather smaller search space based on our assumption.

Next you create "rainbow tables" by multiplying the resulting primes, keeping only a small portion of the result such as the first 16 bits, and the two primes used to create the key.

Now, given a key to break, you index it by using the first 16 bits as a hash key, finding a "bucket" of prime products that result in the same 16 bits.

For each entry in the bucket the question is "if I recreate the product of the primes, does it match the key?"

It is "brute force" on a large scale but I'd bet that certain agencies can create these rainbow tables and that with sufficient effort such tables could "break" any crypto key you're likely to generate using commodity hardware and software.

Just a thought...
& Bolton - except this one, Indian population of England and Wales http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/coun...

doesn't match https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map ,

but: In Bolton, the areas with the highest infections over the last week map very closely to areas with the lowest vaccination rates ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57094274 ) and this variant evolved without much of the vaccine pressure (Kent variant evolved with not a risk for children and there may be some antibodies).
I half expected there to be a torrent for the entire collection. Slightly surprised there isn't one.
Beginners guide to using MongoDB with C#
ILO are an interesting idea:

https://medium.com/avalancheavax/initial-litigation-offering...
Generative Art using Wind Turbine data
Didn't realize that's an option. I wonder why more people don't do that.
A lot. Find it impossible to listen to music because I start thinking and then have to turn the music down to focus on my thoughts.

One thing I've noticed is that thinking is like a habit. It does not matter what topic I think about, I can sit there and be in my thoughts for days and sometimes even weeks.
In the RDF world, there is Redland: https://librdf.org/

But I don't know if it scales up to Wikidata size.
I'm very unfamiliar with this, but are Kanrens similar to Answer Set Programming? with ASP programs you generate a set of symbols, define relations between them and then filter out wrong answers with logic formulas. It's a prolog-y dialect that gets solved with something like a SAT solver.
https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-sources-and-doses#av...