skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clear things up a bit, the correct spellings are:

- „ihr seid laut“: you are loud (seid is the second person plural form of to be)

- „seit drei Stunden“: for three hours (seit gives a temporal reference)

- „bis am Freitag“: by friday (in the context of homework)

- „der Biss“: the bite
Alas cockney is one of those things that died just after WWII.

I grew up in a rural county, which _had_ a rich tradition of both hyper local words and idioms. I used to be able to place someone in a sentence to within 5 miles of where they grew up. ( I can't do that now, I've been away too long)
There's also the use of sein (bin):

Ich bin seit fünf Jahren in Hamburg.

which in English Germans will often say: I am living since five years in Hamburg. Whereas nobody uses "am" any more in the past perfect in English, but there are some fun examples where it's survived: "Joy to the world, the Lord is come" for example.

Another thing is the use of the dative (not genitive): Der Hund von meinem Vater. If you hear someone say "The dog of my father", that's really really German and something no native would say, they're just directly translating the above dative construct into English.

Lastly there's the misuse of wie/how. Wie heißt das? In German English, "how do you call that"? But in English it's "what is that called"? Although actually this problem goes far beyond just Germans speaking English. Also: how does it look = correct, how does it look like = wrong. Slavic native speakers make this mistake as well for example, and probably many more.
Only France of those is under the Western regulation, and even though they did bring a couple of reactors online in the beginning of 2000s, those projects were started at least 30 years ago, using designs from before that. Hence, for example the burden of verifying that industrial digital automation can be made nuclear regulation compliant lied on the EPR project.
>which doesn't make much sense

Err, how doesn't it make sense? Doesn't it metaphorically refer to tea-bagging?
Use what you are already familiar with. Searching for a framework that fits unknown criteria is only a way to postpone actual work.
Can attest to this. Well not me, talking from experience from a friend. She keeps telling me about engineers from the startup that "they" acquired. Her team is already overloaded by requests from a bunch of other teams that they try their best to prioritize and deliver - it is hard work.

Even after that they get comments like OP "This is a simple change, why will it take a week?", "I can just finish this in few hours and submit a patch". I guess it takes a while for people to learn that writing code is only 5% of the effort, the rest of it is review, testing, QA, E2E, compliance and what not. There sometimes is unnecessary bureaucracy as well, but that doesn't mean that the actual engineering processes are useless.
Are you going to assume ownership of that change if it breaks in production at any point and the team needs to provide support? Because I surely don't like owning pieces of critical code that wasn't implemented/explicitly maintained by my team, doing code archeology while putting out fires caused by 3rd parties' code is in the not-so-much-fun category of work.
What is a "valve" in this context? A transistor?
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Especially since the alternatives are openly hostile to FOSS.
Okay. Now make the small AI with memory 25 times bigger!
Even worse than it's/its and who's, which in my opinion can at least be understandable mistakes, are things like when someone uses "they're" in place of "there" or "their". I could understand mixing up the latter two, but it's like, what do you think the apostrophe means, exactly??

Obviously the answer is that they don't think about it at all, but it is indeed a bit jarring.
It is obviously easy (and perhaps often true) that many problems in corporations are due to inefficiency and job creation but there is something important that is also implied from the fact that they have got to the stage of large corporate that dictates many things and that is reputation.

If you are a young startup, you get the luxury of making bold changes in production because people are probably paying a good price and getting lots of funtionality and most people can live with the odd bug, as long as it gets fixed quickly.

If you are e.g. IBM, you have massive codebase(s) developed over many years that are fragile as a spiders web. Sure you can dive in and attempt a fix but that is both more risky than your much younger and consistent startup codebase but also affect not just lots of customers but also your reputation. Any problems with the software and your customers are suddenly asking, "why are we paying a premium for IBM when we keep getting these bugs?"

Someone also mentioned compliance. The bigger you are, the more likely someone will pre-emptively prove your compliance (or not). Why? Because they are also corporations and don't want their reputation to suffer.

Personally, I think those that thrive in startups never do in corporates and vice-versa.
I feel the authors pain of learning a foreign language. I’ve struggled with Japanese just as long as the author has with English and I am no where near being able to write a blog post like that.

I still think the author misses the target on a few points:

English phonetics are no worse than any other language- when the author writes phonetics he means spelling, which I suppose is more difficult than average (being Danish myself, I don’t see it as more difficult than “normal”)

English is a first language across a huge swath of the earth. No wonder British, Indian, American and Australian English ended up so different. But due to politics and the internet, we barely recognize these as dialects.

The author says it’s easy for Italians to understand Sicilian, but I’m sure anyone who learned Italian as a second language from textbooks won’t feel the same.

If you’ve learned Japanese or Chinese from a textbook you’ll have a hard time understanding what people are talking about in Shanghai or Guangdong or Osaka or Kyushu.

Languages are difficult. Difficult to learn, difficult to measure and difficult to categorize.

The biggest myth on the internet is that English is somehow easier or more suited for as a common language. But I disagree that it is worse than others.
Whichever way it may happen, I just want it to happen already.

The recent wave of pyramid schemers and cult-like praise of NFTs/smart contracts/the holy Web3 is much more insufferable than before. I think that before, it was relatively easy to maneuver around them in the media I consumed. Now, the pyramid scheme has infected literally everywhere I go on the internet, almost as if the only way to avoid cryptocurrency ramblings is to go offline.

Please, just burst already, and let the insufferable stop their shilling.
Correction: Kan me AAN me reet roesten.

At least in Amsterdam we use the expression like this.
Analog washing machines had one nice practical thing since you could force the "program" counter forward or backwards. This was especially practical if you were with a tight schedule and the program contained unneeded parts. You could skip them manually. Of course you had to know what you were doing, like not open the door with water in the machine.
I would like suggest Bernd Ulmann here, who's an expert in modern and also past analogue computing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVKmiCy4LA8

Here is a very opinionated promo video..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1wZ8zU1ZGI
Maybe I missed it but I don't see anyone mentioning Git blame. It is great tool to see how recently some part of the code you are working on were changed and by who, so you know who to ask. Also good to know what kinds of commits happens in your part of the code (if it is a good commit it probably describes what problem they were trying to solve). Hook it up to your IDE/editor (guessing it works with most of them, I have it hooked up with my vim) so you can see which lines changed in which commits.
> I'm from the south of Portugal

Great. Then you should be able to grasp a few really basic concepts.

1) Some countries need to trust in seafood to feed their population. Portugal for example.

Remove cod overnight and a lot of Portuguese will have problems to feed their family accurately. Do we want that? Do you think that octopus are "smart" and cod are "dumb" so one is kosher and the other not? Well... This is pseudo-religious thinking, neither based in logic, nor supported by real biological knowledge.

2) In the market, more offer leads normally to a decrease in prices.

So is easy to understand that more affordable prices benefit mostly the lower classes (aka poor people). People that weren't able to buy some food can now eat it.

3) Alleviate the excessive predatory pressure over a species is a desirable outcome.

Alleviate the pressure over the wild fisheries of octopus is good for the species of octopus, not bad. Think in all the octopus children that will survive now instead being killed in their tender infancy while sucking an ice-crab cream (eh, emotional manipulation is a lot of fun. I should use it more).

The farmed octopus? would not live otherwise. In my book living a short live is better that non living at all. Specially when you are a short lived species and a year means like 50 years in human time.

And you should support the "sad women octopus that avoid now a cruel and painful dead starving for months while crying in a dark crevice after being raped by an evil male". Don't you? Facing a quick painless death after living a happy life in a place without predators or diseases and with plenty of food and home rocks doesn't look so bad now.

Who knows? Maybe this solitary creatures will finally have time for developing Philosophy, shell's art or playing Squidspeare in the park
Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
I think it's that usually ESL mistakes make sense. Generally it's going to be because they generalized a rule that doesn't apply in that particular case, or that they've used a construction from their native language that is different in English. Whereas native speakers do weird things like using "they're" for "there" as I mentioned in another comment. Obviously you can still understand how that mistake happens, but it doesn't feel logical in the same way that many ESL mistakes do.
Fossil of Baby Dinosaur Tucked in Its Egg Yields New Evolutionary Clues
Wow just wow i feel with you guys, its amazingly sad for such a rich country..
Interesting and scary to think what will happen with climate change - will termites move north? https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/termites-and-climate-c...
I agree with you on "perfectly preserved".

> fossils are rocks

Not always, especially in paleontology. Any kind of preservation counts, e.g. amber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil
Sounds like a fun debate to me.
>Wind farms can’t plan to make 100 MW or 150 MW or 50 MW on Tuesday next week if there is no wind.

Once again, nobody said it could.
It's actually extremely old school. ROFF is similar to this

You can just make it .p, .i, .b, etc. .br for line break.

https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/7-groff_man/
The honest answer to your question, is that the military usually operates like the original post describes, but in wartime or other very special cases there is super high priority and you just get s&*t done. The startup's app is probably not, to the larger corporation, a particularly high priority, so it is happening in a way much like the military does most things in peacetime, i.e. a lot of bureaucracy and politics.
I married a foreigner and for a few years when she was learning my native tongue, my own vocabulary and ease of expressing my self deteriorated noticeably. Even when speaking to others. This was quite a few years ago. I'm back on track but it was a frustrating experience.

Similarly I find myself speaking better English when "guided" by an American or English person. It's weird... If someone else speaks broken English, I will too.
I've learnt several international languages, and what you describe is very hard for me. I'm guessing there is an built in arrogance in my mind that "everyone should understand me", I do make an effort. One thing that makes it harder is the taboo of seeming studpid, and hurting my feelings. So while I do want to agree that I am better at communicating it is not a given, the give and take of communicating is not only about languages and I've met some excellent one-language communicators.

Arrogance sucks, just trying to be humble is not enough for me to shake it.
It could be either one. You could also say, "We have to hand in the homework by Friday." Depends on which meaning of 'have' you're using, with 'have to' meaning 'must' in this case, as opposed to having an amount of time.
Every time I have demonstrated Tuple to a colleague they have been left gobsmacked and short-changed by all other audio call and screen-sharing utilities. Clear sound is so critical and pairing with everything else feels like you're in a Christopher Nolan film with no idea what's going on.
There are lots of equivalent representations of the same thing, and for non relativistic QM i is by far the simplest way of proceeding. Part of learning QM is learning that changing how you view the world without actually changing the world is a very powerful thing and sometimes more complex ways of thinking are actually easier "later on". A simple example is the equivalence of two complex parameters, alpha and beta, arranged in a 2-matrix and a real 3-matrix for the representation of rotation. Another example would be ladder operators for the simple harmonic oscillator -- arguably overcomplicated for the problem at hand, they form the basis of much of what follow (i.e. vacuum creation and annihilation operators).

The whole point of the notational soup that one finds e.g. in an extended field theory is that it correctly generates a lot of these details "automatically". It's obtuse and makes doing simple things hard, but makes showing non-trivial relationships that are true in general very much easier than the alternative ;-).
A coworker used this to produce interactive object/flow graphs, years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understand_(software)

By https://www.scitools.com/

It was $800 or $1000 then, but considered worth it. Now looks like $100/mo.
He literally gives an example how calculating tides was unfeasible for humans to do by hand.

Unless you are trying to go into 'definition of' argument
"In some ways, new Navy computers fall short of the power of 1930s tech" [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/gears...
How do you define rich: currently Finland has higher GDP per capita than Germany, France and the UK... and well Norway is well ahead of the most West Europe (lots to do with the oil but still).
Not an expert in the field, but the consensus I keep seeing is that:

1) Gecko is harder to embed and fork. Google built chrome to be "embeddable" from the start, while Mozilla slowly made it lower priority, possibly due to the lower budget.

2) Gecko is licensed under MPL, while Chromium-Blink is available in BSD. Even if companies are going to release the source code, its easier not to be under obligation to do it properly in a timely manner.

3) A lot of websites only support Chromium-based browsers, or are at least only tested on them. While we all like an underdog success story, it makes more sense to use the better supported option.

Someone more experienced can provide better insight though.
To me, the entire article reads like the airlines are using outdated technology but they don't want to foot the bill for updating it. That would also nicely explain why this isn't a problem for the exact same airplanes landing in Europe.
There were no transistors during WWII. (The first one was demonstrated in late 1947 apparently.) A valve is a vacuum tube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube).
Caps lock has to be mapped to the command key, since my IBM Model M physically doesn’t have a command key.

I guess you can call keyboards snowflakey too, but I don’t see why anyone should dictate what keyboard I use in my own home.
the greek one sounds great, but as a native greek speaker i've never heard of it
Delivery Hero scales down foodpanda Germany
It’s basically just an icon in the top bar. There really isn’t much of an interface, which is wonderful.
I want to say no, but that's unfortunately the reality in many places. In my country (Nigeria), what we get every four years is the choice between one despot, albeit an educated, reasonable one, and another corrupt despot who tacks on some religious extremism on the side.

Not all democracies are equal, for various reasons. In fact, my experience here is making me to not like democracy.
No matter how fast you'll use those rubbers, it's also good for hygienic reasons. Would be very annoying to get UTI or such when there is a new humanbeing to be taken care of.
I'm from the Antwerp region, and also never heard of that expression.

What is actually the Flemish expression for this? "Den boom in" (=up the tree) is the closed one I could find.
Use trading algorithms: https://tradeq.xyz

You don't know when the bubble will burst, and emotion is usually the driving force.
It's useful for Canadians to know that the rhetoric coming from our politicians is garbage. Most Canadians buy into the propaganda that we have a world-class health system but the truth is, even the poorest EU countries have better healthcare than we do and the best are miles ahead.
It's extremely funny that the US kind of does the same thing in a roundabout way - if you're a US citizen, you have to pay taxes to the US government, wherever you live. If you want to abandon your US citizenship, you have to pay an exit tax and pay all the other taxes you owe.
Tangentially but on topic, you have me questioning whether "used not to" is grammatically correct in English. I would say, "I used to not make these kinds of homophone mistakes," and the other phrasing definitely sounds wrong to me, but I'm not 100% confident it is.
An article about how to NOT do things.
The problem is the time spent setting up this environment and dealing with the inevitable Linux issues exceeds the ease of setup of the said Windows environment. I am aware though that the windows env is unsustainable due to it being discontinued.
English does have a major advantage over more tonal or accented languages and that is that pronunciation and grammar are not critical to understanding people speaking it as a second language.

Correct grammar would say e.g. "Are you French?" but if someone says, "You are French?" or even "You French?" then the meaning is still there, especially if a foreign accent means somebody is not speaking their first language.

But I also agree that many native English speakers forget that just because someone speaks quite good English doesn't mean you can speak at 200wpm using idioms and advanced grammar. I think this is mostly because we have become so used to people speaking English that we forget there are degrees of ability.

I am aware of this with some people where I will speak slightly more slowly and perhaps use more simple words e.g. "get" instead of "gain" etc.
"These stories" are not scientific publications! We are meant to read the primary literature if we are curious about more details, not simply go "ooh ahh" ... or complain.

Here's the primary literature. https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01487-5

Similarly, news articles aren't textbooks on paleontology, if only because otherwise every article on fossils will need to have pages of identical introductory material.

You are the most boring kind of skeptic - the one who wants the world to spoon-feed you information until you're happy.

If you're a real skeptic, then apply that skepticism to your original questions.

You asked:

> How would you be able to distinguish it?

Why do you think they couldn't be distinguished? Haven't you ever seen a rock with multiple minerals in it, like mica in granite? Or the individual components that make up coquina?

> the egg would not likely be egg shaped, imo?

Why do you think that? If I read the paper correctly, the rock was mostly made of river sediment. The egg would have been buried, sat for a long time to fossilize (>10K years), and over a much longer period that sediment turned to rock. Why must the fossil, which is a rock by this point, change its shape?

> preserved in something like mud

I believe that means you didn't read the primary article, which describes the rock as: "red, fluvial, coarse clastic deposit (He et al., 2017), and mainly consists of a red conglomerate and glutenite, interbedded with a small amount of sandstone, siltstone, and locally interspersed tuff. The formation preserves dinosaur bones and eggs, and fossil plants (Department of Geology and Mineral Resources of Jiangxi Province, 1997)."

In other words, yes, "something like mud."

> it would still be so much less dense than the matter around it

You do not understand what fossilization means. By this time the original materials of the egg have been replaced by minerals, preserving the form, but not the original density.

> if it is a stone, how were the scientists able to cut open the stone to expose the fossilised skeleton system etc? After the fossilisation process, its all stone, right?

Again, have you never seen a stone with multiple minerals in it? The minerals that become the fossil are different than the minerals of the surrounding stone. That means they can be distinguished.

They can be hard to tell apart, yes, but as https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bone-vs-stone-... comments "fossils are often different in color and smoother than rocks from the same deposit", "A rock ... will be solid, and the inside of the rock will look like the outside. Fossil bone, on the other hand, will probably preserve the internal bone structure", and "The porous nature of some fossil bones will cause it to slightly stick to your tongue if you lick it".

And those aren't the only differences.

> it's not like archeology where there is material that can be brushed away.

Archeology doesn't only brush things away. And in any case, shouldn't you be skeptical that your understanding of archeology is relevant?
I do not care enough to maintain this piece of crack and thus will let it rust. This is fun.
>you can even precisely compute irrational numbers like sqrt(2) to their limits of precision in o(1).

Can you elaborate? I have a feeling they would also be O(1) on digital computers.
>That machine didn’t have any fans either so I usually just turned the brightness nob down to zero instead of turning it off.

That is actually hilarious! Its as if you told the computer to "hold on for a bit and i'll get back to you". I wonder if you had any issues with memory leaks? I guess the software was so simple that leaks were probably not really an issue.
> I have fallen mildly ill, as have my wife and son. So far we don’t have a positive Covid-19 test, and everyone is maximally vaccinated, but given the timing the obvious conclusions do seem likely

I stopped reading right there. Many cold viruses are circulating right now, it doesn’t mean every illness is Covid. You must always be careful not to spread any illness you have, but it is dangerous to make assumptions, especially after being tested and the odds are you don’t have it. Add a small child to the mix, where viruses are pervasive and parents are usually sick more often. It spreads false ideas to suggest your symptoms are Covid if they very possibly are not, or to just speculate in general without evidence.