skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK in the 80s and 90s it was unfashionable to teach formal English grammar in schools. A whole generation grew up without knowing their gerund from their past participle. (Even as I write this, I know that if put on the spot to explain those words, I’d need to check on Wikipedia). As a native (post-?)modern British English speaker I have observed that “Global English” is a truer version of the language I speak. It intimidates me a bit.
Another example: If you know how to pronounce "in" and "famous", you still don't know how to pronounce "infamous".
Surprisingly I found myself not preferring the OS 9 versions nearly as much as I thought. I have always thought of the OS 9 UI and the late '90s to early 2000s as representing the peak of OS UI design before everything went skeuomorphic, but a lot of the general aesthetic of that time just doesn't seem to have aged that well. I still miss the crisp lines and clear affordances of actual buttons and other elements of that time, but there was also a LOT of visual clutter that we no longer need. There's much to say about modern design fads, but we have also come a long way.

The author has certainly done a great job of capturing the zeitgeist of the era (the garish bevels on the Spotify app are spot on!), but I would love to see how the OS 9 UI would hold up in modern times, on a retina screen with more than 256 colours, modern anti-aliased typography and much more screen real estate.
This is only one side of the story. Yes the North American exchanges have changed policy and this is pushing many Chinese listings out, but there is an even more concerning thing going on in China currently. It seems that Beijing has decided not to bail out companies who's bonds are held by foreigners, more to the point it is only facilitating the servicing of interest payments on Sino held bonds.

We are soon going find out what happens when globalization collapses.
Yes. What you should do is not quit and get two or three more jobs at large companies, perhaps even 5, if you’re a 10x’er maybe even 20.

Then use all the money you’re making to be an angel investor.
Ask HN: Do you have a go-to joke for job interviews?
My partner was in an job interview the other day and the interviewer asked what her favorite joke was.

She somehow managed to cite a meme she saw earlier that day which was kind of funny. Later she asked the interviewer what joke others' would tell?

He said that no one really knows good jokes anymore. However, he was generally more interested in seeing the interviewees' reaction to his question.

Do you have a go-to joke for job interviews?
Being educated doesn't mean that they believe in science, does it?
I walk my dog twice a day every day (just myself) - sometimes I will be on my phone because twice a day every single day means at some point I'll think of something to google or check on an email or whatever. Do something outside twice a day every day for a year only and report back if you've never pulled out your phone.

That being said I do prefer keeping attention on him and enjoying the outside quiet time. I would recommend being less bothered by other people using their phones out in the world though, or you'll be constantly bothered.
While I do know both of the mentioned German/Austrian sayings:
"It's sausage to me."
"It's blood pudding to me."
I'm not sure those actually capture the feel of "zero fucks given"...

"It's sausage to me." is rather tame, would fit "I don't care" or "I couldn't care less.". The blood pudding is the same, but feels a bit archaic/backwardly.

There's also:
"This goes straight past my arse." - which might be a better match for "zero fucks" in terms of tone and vulgarity. But even that feels more like "I don't give a shit" rather then "Zero fucks given". I don't think there's a perfect German translation of "Zero fucks given" that captures all the nuances.

"The dog shits on it." (mentioned for another language) exists in German as well. Feels a bit more aggressive/confrontational than "It's sausage to me."
(It's also more of a "nobody cares" rather than an "I don't care")
You can eat your cake and have it too?

I use an ide for core development but knowledge of vim, tmux and linux tools has served me really well.

Also, it helps that a lot of the similarities in newer IDEs are inspired by the predecessors.

There are times where you can't use the ide (middle of ssh session to a remote server, quick edit in a file w/o loading entire folder &c.), so its worth investing some time into these basic tools.
I actually built an Aircrib, B.F. Skinner style. Basically, a wooden baby box on wheels, raised to eye level, and with heat and humidity control.
It sounds absolutely horrible XD
The AI is the final product of applying a learning algorithm on a training set.

Claiming that "the AI is not biased, the training set is" is like saying "this running program isn't buggy, it's just the source code that is buggy".
Don't stress too much about it. Very few items are really necessary for a newborn, most things can be gotten when you need them.

As DIY projects go, check out something called a "baby nest". It's an insert that can be used for either a shared bed or a crib, easy to sew and can be convenient.
Is Streaming Music Dangerous to the Environment? (2019)
"It's passing by at about the height of my ass"
The wax engraving print-making process (1999)
Variations of "jeg driter i det" (literally: I shit in it) seems to be to be common in Norway.

Edit: A more polite one in Norwegian I think is "det blåser jeg (en lang marsj) i" (roughly: I play a long march to that. Implied that it is played on trumpet or something since blåser equals blows).

Someone who knows Norwegian and English better than be should feel free to correct.
“Like an avian dinosaur” would be the modern terminology, I believe
Virtually every major health official in the US claimed Covid shots stop virus
> I’m so tired of this.

So am I. Not user hostile? Since when is it acceptable to assume that users don't care about efficiency? People care about battery life, people care about responsiveness, and people care about interface consistency. You may be tired, but I'm happy that slowly the tide is turning and people are less friendly to things like Electron that put developer and business priorities before anything else.

I also don’t get the argument that it is a good thing for users to make desktop development open to the glut of web developers we’ve created. Again, that is a developer- and business-centric argument. This feels like saying we all should accept a lower quality of software simply to match an average skill level for a large collection of available programmers. Is it really unreasonable to set our expectations of quality higher than that which an average web developer can (or wants to) achieve?
You cracked me up.
> Finally, am I the only sick of these stereotypical images of 'native indigenous cultures living in simple harmony with nature' a la Avatar? One real refreshing aspect of the film and the book is that the Fremen were often more technologically advanced than offworlders, having superior stillsuits and so on, and they had their own long-term agenda - i.e. slowly terraforming the planet to make it more suitable for human life. Note also that the infantilization of native cultures was often used as a justification for enforcing 'civilization' on them, as well. Enough already, they were people with goals just like all other peoples.

While I agree with this sentiment, I think it's still really important to recognize the deep ecological knowledge that indigenous peoples have of their environments. The Cahuilla people, who are indigenous to where I live, for example have always had botanical experimentation deeply integrated in their cultures. Some of the most important people in their cultures were botanists. They had many complex rules around patches of certain plants growing and these important people (who I'll just call "doctors" as an insufficient translation) would claim certain patches and study them for years. Some of this knowledge was shared with the rest of the communities, while some was protected and only shared with their close family members or apprentices. Their "folk taxonomy" had names for every single species of oak that is recognized today in the area. An extremely impressive task given how readily many species hybridize

The same can be said of many indigenous peoples around the world. There's an increasing recognition that the Amazon isn't just some pristine wilderness but rather a "manufactured landscape" that has been deeply shaped by the indigenous caretakers of it. In fact there's also an increasing recognition that oftentimes "conservation" ends up hurting the environments it's trying to protect because it kicks out the indigenous people that the landscape relies on. This can also be seen in California where so much of the ecology is dependent on the cultural burn practices of native Californians
I'm a native English speaker, but not from the USA, and I'd heard Arkansas spoken out loud and written down separately for over a decade before I understood they were the same place. And my first thought when I realised this - even as a native English speaker - was incredulity at how mind-bogglingly stupid that was.

You know, before I took 30 seconds to come up with a handful of other inconsistent pronunciations and begrudgingly concede that it wasn't any weirder than a lot of other inconsistencies I'd already absorbed without really realising it.
As an American living abroad, I learned this fast when I started working in a multi-lingual environment. If I just spit out words naturally, people don't understand me. It's frustrating at first but if you want to be understood, then well, you should just speak more simply. I've found that the habit of speaking in a simple manner has helped a lot even when speaking with other English natives.
Second this.

Also, earlier this year, a newer version of Driven to Distraction was published, ADHD 2.0, written by the very same authors and featuring a lot promising new strategies backed by recent research. Definitely a recommended read.
Eafa framework (Easy automation for all)
A must try automation framework. Created by using Cucumber, Selenium and Java mainly to help testing community so that they can automate any web or mobile application without coding knowledge.
With Live Share you see their text selections, but not mouse movements. (except inside the Draw.io integration [0], then you see a remote mouse that is drawn by the extension itself). It's a bit like Google Docs or Etherpad, but for code.

Also: other editors could implement the same protocol perhaps, it would be cool.

[0] https://szymonkrajewski.pl/drawio-real-time-collaboration-in... here it says it doesn't show the cursor, but a new update does
"Did you hear the one about the interviewer that failed the interview on behalf of their company by asking the candidate about their favorite joke - something which has no business being asked in a professional setting like that?"
Je m'en fustige le cristallin avec un fémur d'alligator femelle.
What ever happened to Latin?
Step 1: Ask the previous programmer if available.

Step 2: Document their knowledge
mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine boosters induce immunity against Omicron
I'm not going to get too far into hypotheticals about who exactly would end up losing out, I gave some examples of groups (which included not only insurance industry but others) who would plausibly have a profit motive to address this problem, and an example of another case where similar did happen. You don't think the home insurance industry would be made to pay for these costs, okay without knowing what UK insurance policies and laws look like maybe that is the case, but it's sort of avoiding what I'm asking because then then we know the building industry or home or other property owner groups will be out of pocket so why would they not organize and take action?

I never said I had a crystal ball and could tell you that would happen, or claim that private is better than government (which I assume is what is upsetting people who are reading that into it). Read the post I originally replied to and look at the context.

If you did want to get into government vs private, there are plenty of examples of government failure to deal with introduced and other invasive pest species, not to mention countless examples of large scale collective organization or lack thereof which have been spectacular failures of government incompetence and corruption to the detriment of the public good everywhere you look. Not just in invasive species control failures, but from wars to healthcare to drug policy to homelessness to climate change. So anecdotes won't be enough to demonstrate the case one way or the other, unfortunately.
Setup: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
...
Punchline: That's not funny.
Einstein famously helped solve the ultraviolet catastrophe by "inventing" photons as the mechanism for the quantization of light proposed by Planck. He even got the Nobel prize for it. So he was very much a founder of quantum mechanic.
Nobody expects mathematicians to write all their formulae in ASCII either, they are allowed to use special markup to denote specific things. Why can't developers use more specific notation for displaying code? We use `==` for equality checks due to a limitation of typewriters, not because it's the only sensible way to do this.
Give ligatures a chance for a single afternoon, and you'll see the value of purpose-specific glyphs. They aren't replaced by arbitrary hieroglyphs, but actually self-explanatory, helpful representations of the thing a bunch of characters are supposed to tell you.
I don't think it's the constructs & vocabulary which causes the most problems.

It's mostly the dialect (pronunciation), fast speaking and unclearly articulated or swallowed sounds.

(nothing specific about English here, most of us speak like that in our native languages)
Birds are dinosaurs, but dinosaurs are not birds. If the article were about a fossilized mammalian embryo being born like a dog, you wouldn't say "since dogs are mammals, don't you mean born like a mammal?".
> * Idioms are not universal.

if you think idioms are bad, try cockney rhymes (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/09/guide-to-c...)
Good question.

Tesla already have limited number of sensors, and they do most of the driving using monocular(single camera, or single viewpoint with three different zoom levels) inference. This is absolute madness, given the state of current tech.

For that night situation, I would be pushing for a different camera type. One that doesn't have a global exposure setting. This means that groups of pixels can be lumped together to have local ISO settings(its more complex than that, and involves integrating processing silicon directly under the sensor, on the same die.). This is a way to get vastly greater dynamic range in a situation where you have lots of point lights (ie headlights)

This would require developing and qualifying a new camera sensor from scratch (I don't think generic versions of this type of camera exist yet) Musk is unlikely to do this as he has signaled that everything should be done via ML.

Second, using a different wavelength, IR, or near IR.

Thirdly, higher wavelength radar. It gives you this information for free, they are cheap and already qualified for vehicles.
> As an engineer (and manager) who owns infrastructure components, these “little” requests are death by a thousand cuts. They typically aren’t actually little, but even when they are, they forever add additional maintenance cost and complexity.

As a former SRE and tech lead for some OPS teams, I agree.

Sometimes they are actually little but will create divergent states for your code/infrastructure, increasing complexity and cognitive load on the team maintaining infra, slowly but surely.

In my experience with infrastructure on larger organisations it will require, at some point, to standardise practices and processes, and it will be painful for teams that don't fit squarely with the standard. You always aim to embrace 80-90% of the components in the organisation (or at least 80-90% of the most profitable/important ones) and take the hit that 20% will require modifications, as extensive and costly as they might be.

It's always a juggling act, engineers with the mindset of building whatever/however they want will feel less empowered when their favourite set of tools, tools that they might be using for a while, isn't supported by the standard. Some teams will take a lot of the load to adapt to whatever was agreed as a standard, churn will inevitably happen in those teams so it requires a long time deliberating what is acceptable or not. The job is always to strive making everyone as equally unhappy as possible because it's impossible to please everyone.

Those little requests might also have impacts and implications much larger than what the requester thinks about, when your infrastructure system is supporting 200+ teams any change is bound to cause ripple effects so you have to be deliberate.
Do you happen to know what variety the orchard was growing? There are a dozen different varieties, and nut size does vary considerably.
I will def remember that one for future interviews
If you learn something in a bad way it takes more effort that learning that straight well.

If you learn English pronunciation from Europeans you are not really learning English, you are learning Spanish, German or French pronunciation rules on English words.

Spain and all the Spanish speaking countries(Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela,Ecuador, Peru...) is such a big environment speaking just one language that they usually don't have the need to learn proper English pronunciation. You could even live in parts of the US speaking Spanish only.

Also happens with French in Africa. I have so many French friends that don't speak English well because they don't need it.

Any Spanish speaker can communicate with a Portuguese, French and specially Italian with little effort because they are so similar.

It also happens in Germany, being much smaller environment but having all those Nordic countries that speak Germanic languages they can communicate with little effort.

The exception being small countries like Netherlands or Switzerland in which work is done in English being interconnected with the global economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOd3lwluQIw
That site has unfortunately gone downhill. It used to be that Quora had real world experts to answer almost any question with excellent detail. In fact, scrolling through Quora looking at different answers on different topics was a major pastime for me, and I think many others.

However, Quora massively opened their user base (I suspect to justify VC funding) and the quality of answers suffered. Now, I dare not open my feed because it's full of political vitriol on a large scale.
Nope, but what I want to know is did she get the job?

I can think of a bunch that I would avoid, but I suppose the best would be a "Dad Joke" that somehow fits into the companies marketplace.

Eg. For a coding Job I might use

Q. How did the programmer die in the shower?
A. He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Some additional ones would be:

"On my testicles" (short for: "I've noted it on my testicles", i.e. I don't care about it), also said as "I write it (meaning scribled/noted) on my testicles").

"Something is going on at the gypsie camp" (as such camps are lively, there's usually always something going there. So something "going on" there would be a common occurence/irrelevant, and by extension, we don't give a fuck about it).

"The mare shat on the field" (as horses do that all the time, it means it's a trivial thing, and by extension, we don't give a fuck about it).
I do understand that argument, I just remain unmoved by it. Watch this, I'm about to show you a complete finite representation of an irrational transcendental number: π. That took literally three lines to represent and then an additional half page's worth that I'll skip explaining how to calculate a numerical value to however much precision you have time and space for.

Now granted, there is an underlying assumption that when you need to use that number you'll select an appropriate algorithm to compute it to the degree of precision you need, much like how if you were instead considering the rational number 22/7 you would need an algorithm to numerically evaluate it. We don't quibble about whether or not the universe has enough space to hold that one though because we have a simple abstraction which lets us refer to it with infinite precision and evaluate it with arbitrary precision. Just. Like. π. Yes, literally none of the reals would fit in the universe no matter how small you wrote them if you want to represent them with full precision. That is literally the point of the reals, that they are an infinitely dense field. It doesn't matter, we wield the same tools we used to construct them and refer to them by their names or by their construction.

If your definition of "based in reality" means "can be explicitly written out with full precision" then literally none of the reals or rationals are "based in reality" because for otherwise finite numbers you can keep padding zeros to the right of the decimal place and a finite universe doesn't have enough space to hold infinite objects. Taking a definition of reality that provides actual utility, the reals are clearly based in physical reality by virtue of their construction being explicitly guided by the objective of modeling reality. Just like the rationals and integers before them and the complex numbers after. They were literally created to model reality. Imaginary numbers are based in reality too, despite it being equally impossible to own sqrt(-2) and π melons. At best I will concede that there is an additional layer of abstraction between whatever "reality" is and what the real numbers are, but that's not a very interesting distinction given that humans are already running a dozen intermediate layers of abstraction in order to process their surrounding reality and then overlay math on top of it.
“ These formations may have resulted from carcass burial in an anoxic environment with minimal bacteria, thus delaying the decomposition of both gross and fine biological features until long after a durable impression was created in the surrounding matrix.”

From the linked Wikipedia page.

In many places, it is indeed impossible for fossils to form (for example, rainforests) due to various environmental factors. But in some places, fossils do in fact form, as evidenced by the fact that we have fossils.
I'm familiar with the technique, and if the TV shows were educational it might be reasonable - but the content is inane trash (or to be more charitable, not things anyone has need to remember). It's like "we have 5 minutes of footage of Dave and Julie flipping this house; here's a 45 minute show".
but that's the point of this website. all the computation is done on the thousands of clients generating these keys. its only a matter of time (and some luck) until a green wallet is hit. if the site owner is malicious then it will actually empty the wallet in the background and show it red in the front.
> The 1880s German immigrants to the US completely missed slavery and the Nazis so its tragic for some kid of that heritage to be grouped into the generic white guilt idea if they accidentally walked into a segregated space at Berkeley, for example. Its just not nuanced enough.

What difference should it make for you? I honestly don't get this idea of inheriting guilt or being directly responsible for the actions of your forebears.
> despite Tolkien's opposition

This should tell you and all english (and german) teachers enough. Not everything has a deep meaning, and certainly the protagonist isn't sad because he has blue curtains.