skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing you learn as you get older is just how much the entire world runs on the concept of plausible deniability. It's kind of a core basis for human interaction, and it gets especially sophisticated in complex organizations with power structures.

It goes back a very long way. Just google the phrase "meddlesome priest" for a particularly illustrative and amusing example.

Corporate speak is just a combination of that with the more prosaic concept of jargon.

Jargon, the part that doesn't involve purposeful obfuscation at least, is often highly useful for saving time because it allows people who engage in repeated interactions to be highly specific. The phrase "annual review" could mean a bunch of things, but a Y1-AAR could be a specific set of questions with a specific range of predetermined outcomes for a specific type of employee.

When jargon is done well it's just really effective, people within an org can communicate highly efficiently with extremely clear meaning. When corporate weasel words are used well they can be highly effective at communicating intent while obscuring meaning for those in an out group and creating plausible deniability.

For the uninitiated the fact that the two concepts live so closely side by side can be bewildering of course.
at some point the chance of dying not crossing the street and crossing the street are equal.
It's the same in the UK, junior doctors and nurses have had terrible compensation for years (the Conservatives even scrapped the student bursaries).

And now they're surprised when they all leave for Australia and the USA where they can earn 3-4x as much...
Talking about the indirect meanings of 'corpspeak' is only interesting to me in the way we approach the topic.

Corpspeak isn't novel in being duplicitous language. Compared to deliberately vague, concealing, and/or loaded language from life outside work, the corporate lingo is easy mode.

But corpspeak has the property that in can be publicly discussed. "lol look at this dumb bullshit we all do for exactly these reasons" can be stated openly and plainly in a innocuous blog post, and posted to hacker news for people to hem and haw at.

Rarely does anyone even bother scratching at the fiction of our real life linguistic tricks. Because a very bland explainer of surface level phenomenon leads to outright denial, or develops into flamewars.
You should read up on cybernetics for what I mean regarding mass collection of data leading to undemocratic outcomes, my guess is you haven’t ran into it. But, large area of research.
I heard this point made a while back about how design choices and/or technical limitations led to different parts of ancient cultures being preserved:

- Some civilizations wrote on clay but built with wood/straw. We know a lot about their writing but almost nothing about their structures.

- Some civilizations wrote on papyrus but built with stone. We know a lot about their structures but not a lot about their writing (unless it was written on a building). The ancient Egyptians are the classic example here.
> It kinda amuses me that mobile spent a long time moving both storage, computation and network traffic from the client to the server as much as possible (because the mobile devices had too little of each), and E2EE significantly forces it back the other way. One would hope this would mean that you’d get more just-software rather than software-as-a-service, but no, mostly you just end up with the worst of both worlds.

This kind of pendulum like, tick-tocking back and forth between things like fat clients/thin-clients, dumb termials/PCs, centralized vs. decentralized (well, cloud-based [i.e., someone else's computer]) applications, and so on, are part-and-parcel of computing that goes as far back as possible. This is just another "tock" in that cycle.

Technology happens in leaps and bounds and not at all uniformly, so this is a natural result. I personally am for the best of both worlds in whatever makes the most sense, but definitely skew towards privacy, security, and user-authority.
>>India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space

I don't quite understand this. Do you mean that they are still using Internet Explorer , Java 5 , Windows 7 and Myspace?

Please explain.
> hasn't actually led to the terrible outcomes people predict

I guess censorship is perfectly fine for most people, and that's the scariest outcome.

"Too bad for them, they should have been thinking like us." No wonder we descent into authoritarianism. Thanks to well meaning crowds of well mannered citizens cheering because the big bad got ousted.

https://youtu.be/BiqDZlAZygU
Arithmetic is both an axiomatic system as well as having a correspondence with real world counting. If observations and recent experiences illustrated 2+2 = 3 I would think I was dreaming. After a while I'd accept it as how counting works here/now. I wouldn't invalidate 2+2 = 4. OniIt's still true within its own axioms. I'd look for new axioms for the 2+2 = 3 system. If I could make no sense of it. I'd learn to cope and enjoy this new real dreamland.

The situation doesn't seem well described. What happens if I put two boys beside two other boys? How similar/exact do they have to be to become 3? Can I just put any 2 humans or animals with 2 others for one to disappear. I don't think I'd be thinking about the consistency of the math--or only so much as it continues my existence.

Or maybe only our perceptions of counts is off. I'd put 2 things beside 2 more in a line. Then I'd look at them closely two at a time with blinders and see if I can make out 4 distinct forms. If so there still there I just can't see all 4 at once. Basically do some debugging, what's actually different.
I wonder if something can be deduced about people's opinion of the world/economy based on the colors (or at least the manufacturer's).
> And the opposition seem pretty uninterested in taking advantage of this massive open goal.

Never interrupt your opponent while they are making a mistake.

Right now, Labour and the Lib Dems don't have a particularly credible method to cause an election. Given that, their best _political_ option is probably to allow the Tories to run themselves into the ground.
> Now that every one calls themselves a developer, bootcamps churning out devs that know the exact same thing as seniors (on paper), I'm not sure if this will drive salaries down in 5-10+ years time or would our jobs even exist then? Don't even get me started on interview processes and how high their standards have become such that you will get disqualified over minutiae.

that's pretty much how i feel. been doing it 15 years.
Scientists are considering how the SpaceX Starship accelerate space exploration
So you're saying as a result of these two positions that he holds he cannot possibly be wrong and I should blindly trust anything he says so long as he shows some workings?
I know that part. But in this case another user, who seems to be european, calls my experience in Eastern europe „American paranoia“.

It feels like some people have such a strong irrational love for certain political system that they can't accept that some people dislike it for valid reasons.

Maybe actual American paranoia is when people blame US of A for whatever when their arguments run out.
Have we come full circle where Google killed Google Reader only to have someone at google needing a promotion to re-create google reader and put it into chrome?
The 12” MacBook (2015) was the last Apple laptop I bought before the current MacBook Air M2. I opted for a BTO with the i7 processor but it was still stultifying and slow, a constant exercise in frustration. Eventually the motherboard died requiring an out-of-warranty repair, which I conceded to, but shortly after that the batteries died… and then I set it aside. An absolutely stunning piece of design work but so unusably slow it put me off laptops for a full seven years. What did I use in the meantime? A 2012 Mac Mini upgraded to the hilt and more recently a Mac Studio, and various releases of iPads and iPad Pros throughout the years.
I think you might have worked in good places then. Kudos, and I'm jealous! :-) Wherever i have worked, there has been a constant corporate push to squeeze the least amount of people to work on "web stuff"...and of course such "web teams" need to have several (high-paying) Chiefs leading them, who merely direct orders at the "web team". /sigh
Yes, but its not in Germany.
They did: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/running-and-aerobic-ex...
You don't have to believe anyone. Try to run code on the GPU using OpenCL on Snow Leopard, you will be using NVidia or Intel implementations. I know as much because I've been there done that 13 years ago.
Active post right now with same topic, cnn.com link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562815
At the same time there are plenty of medical specialists in the sunshine list making 400K+ CAD. Keeps me wondering why radiologists are paid that well, compared say with oncologists. Also do not forget 1) province caps on medial school admission and 2) administrative bloat. Nurses shortage is only one of the many issues with the healthcare in Canada.
Uh… how?
In the US it's because the least car-dependent cities all enacting zoning ordinances in the mid-1900s that prevented housing supply from keeping up with demand and made it very expensive to live there.
This is something that has been on my mind a lot lately - just wanted to share a couple articles I came across and love:

- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/23/from-inboxing-t...

- https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.ht...

Along with a book I haven't read but have considered gifting to a bunch of people:

- https://smile.amazon.com/30-000-Pound-Gorilla-Room-Annoying/...
The funniest thing was that we got about a million in CAF bucks from them to go contract and move more stuff from AWS ( our monthly was low triple digits thousands ) and their AMs still messed everything up.
I’m curious how corpspeak became a monoculture. How did this spread so pervasively?
Not the first of such stories either:

https://borncity.com/win/2020/08/16/microsoft-kontensperrung...

This is why I explicitly make on-site backups of anything that's in the cloud and don't store my passwords with Apple. If they suddenly decided I had CSAM for some reason, I'd be locked out of everything.
Generating PDF from HTML works in many simple cases. Once you want to have finer control over the content, document structure becomes more and more complex, and you want to achieve higher performance - having a proper tool is really important. It all depends on the scale of your solution, how often you perform changes, and how fast should be the development loop before it is too painful.

I got a lot of positive feedback from QuestPDF users, and I hope that it will become useful for more developers in the .NET ecosystem :)
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>> thing that caused Ken Paxton in Texas to start investigating Twitter?

Immediately thought of this item that came up in my Twitter news feed last week [0]

>> "Elon Musk went to Kevin McCarthy’s Party last night in Wyoming—to celebrate Liz Cheney’s loss. While speaking at the MAGA party, Musk asked everyone to deny that he was there. Musk made sure that no press was allowed anywhere near the property — then people started posting selfies"

I'm sure Musk wasn't there to privately insult the Republican leaders by acting like they're the ugly person that they'll date in private but don't want anyone knowing about — he's almost surely seeking some kind of influence/benefit.

Maybe coincidence, but I certainly wonder about the purpose?

[0] https://twitter.com/FriendEden100/status/1559974086264209414
I know about a certain person who has been doing very unorthodox moves towards the acquisition of Twitter since earlier this year; this person, as well as all the wealthy stakeholders who have a lot to lose if the deal goes through in an unprofitable way, would certainly gain a lot by amplifying this story with a few grands in the pockets of the CNN business editors.
> But it should be controlled with strict vetting, not random people paying coyotes to smuggle then across the border.

But then it's an official system and the immigrants are recognized by the law, which means they can't be exploited as much - which defeats the purpose of the whole thing.

For example, if Julio from Mexico falls off poorly constructed scaffolding and is disabled for life, he could sue his employer, but he'll have a hard time doing that if he's deported back to Mexico two weeks later. Whereas, if he was here legally, he could sue the company for millions, which would increase the price of construction, which would make American houses less nice. People like nice houses though, so things will probably stay as they are.
How does said software get "flashed" onto the hardware?
Nearly all marine species face extinction if greenhouse emissions don’t drop
“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”

— P. J. O'Rourke
Apple plans to cut iPhone 14 production lag between China, India
USCIS and border control are government agencies with power without accountability. The system is cruel. Both legal and illegal immigration is cruel. There is a reason why people from developed countries have stopped immigrating. Nobody likes American immigration. It is not great. America has forgotten what it means to be humane.
Good news. Firefox removed support for displaying feed XML in version 64 in Dec 2018. If Mozilla follows Chrome like normal it should be back soon.

Being able to display feeds is a nice thing to have in a browser. But a dedicated native feed reader is almost always a better way to go. QuiteRSS handles large (1000+) feed lists well.
> The only real solution is to rethink online identity and stop depending on email addresses.

I think that is true, but it would have to be a better solution. Some groups heavily push for this reformation of online identity but most of them have in common that they want to strongly bind online identity to your offline one. That simply isn't desirable in many cases.
Wow, earth.li! I'm an ex-housemate of huggie.
From elsewhere (site is down for me):

> jpro is a new technology which brings Java back into the browser — without Java Plugin. To achieve that, jpro runs JavaFX on the server and maps its scenegraph directly into the browser.

JavaFX is the most recent of the standard GUI libraries for Java. Seems like the Java all runs server-side, but it is effectively using a display device which is "send draw commands via a websocket to a JavaScript driver running in a browser". It's sort of an ingenious idea.

I assume the target market here is companies which already have custom desktop applications written with JavaFX, and want to make them available remotely. This is competing with remote desktop solutions, not React, wasm, etc.
I find with things like "plates" that the normal china/white/off-gray colors are fine.

But with things like mixing bowls, measuring cups, etc, having bright colors is incredibly helpful if someone is in the kitchen with you - "give me the red cup" is easier to understand than "give me the 1-1/4 cup, no that other one over there".
Those requests would neither have been possible nor come in by such numbers if Germans were not privacy-aware.
The British Medical Association quotes a shortage of 50,000 doctors: https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/nhs-short-of-50-000-...

There's an amazing chart here: https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w... which shows the "Practising doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: England, UK and OECD EU nations". The UK is 16th out of 19.
Yes, thanks to the wind when driving fast.
Calculation is trivial if you are only operating in a single tax jurisdiction, maybe.

Tax calculation software handles all the different tax rates for product categories your business sells, changes in city/district/federal tax rates, brackets and min/max caps, sales tax holidays, etc. It costs money to maintain those databases.

Saying it can be done by any developer in a day is absurd.
Yeah, even from his perspective it's survivorship bias. The sailboat captains that got jumped by a dinghy full of AK47 wielding pirates aren't around to write deluded articles.
Because French cities are now planned to forbid cars inside the center. A lot of cities like Paris or Lyon have already planned dates for it to happen. Plus, old city centers tend to not have any garage and the few parking places are very expensive. Bicycle lanes tend to replace car lanes and circulating in car is nightmarish on design.
Fuck, that was well written.
The Conservative Party have been in power for 12 years. When they gained power they pursued a policy of "austerity" to reduce the size of the govt and local govt, reduce the funding of nationally funded things, and to replace such govt owned things with "public private partnerships". This can be seen everywhere from social care (private care homes), schools (academy schools), transport (where area contracts are bid for by private companies), etc.

With health specifically the goal is to have more privately owned profit making companies in the NHS. The NHS as it is constructed doesn't allow for this. But for the Conservatives this opportunity for them and their backers. For the public, there is a national pride in the NHS.

So we entered the pandemic with an already under-funded and stretched health care system.

Much to the chagrin of those in charge though... this has not led to any calls for privatisation. Nor has it led to a boom in people taking out private health care cover.

It turns out that the British stiff upper lip response to something they're nationally proud of is that they'd rather die than embrace health privatisation. So we're in uncharted territory... the playbook that had allowed the privatisation of almost everything else isn't working now, it's just killing people.
Watching from next door (we've had STV PR in Ireland since independence), I never got this. PR _wasn't on offer_. Unless you actually preferred first past the post to AV (PR > FPTP > AV seems like a weird preference ranking, but I suppose it might be _someone's_), why on earth didn't you vote for AV?
Accelerating Structure Prediction of Protein Monomers and Multimer by 11 Times
It's not unfair. If someone isn't fluent in English how are they going to be fluent in code? Fluency is also an indicator of thought, reasoning and critical thinking ability etc. It's the bare minimum a 'senior' candidate should be capable of.
Non-alloy aluminum is too soft sapphire would be more durable ironically (?) it's a form of aluminum oxide.

Diamond would be even better. Maybe we are wearing the messages of an ancient civilization in the form of diamonds?
Yep, also, say, Israel, Tunisia, in practice most of south mediterranean countries, basically anywhere houses have terrace roofs.

The tank is just a water boiler, to store the heated water and usually (not always) it has a resistance heater for those few cases/days when hot water from sun heating is not enough.

The only issues with these is that they are suitable for single homes (or however small, self-standing,) as the water pipes have to go up to the roof and back, the commmon ones are pumpless[1] (so multi-stores/multi-apartments becomes a problem), though they do make much more complex systems (with pumps, mixers. etc.) for such buildings.

Example (from a Greek manufacturer):

https://www.andrianos.gr/en/products/solar-thermal/solar-wat...
> "A significant finding from our study reveals that just 0.002 percent glyphosate, a difference of about 300 times less herbicide than the lowest concentration recommended for consumer use, had concerning effects on the nervous system."

Many toxicity studies feed animals millions of times more of the substance than a human would ever be exposed to, in order to produce a result. This is not the case here. Also, it seems to target the GABA-A receptor, which is pretty stable across species.
Or conversely, "Thank you child. Your abuse, was all worth it."
If you have a machine learning model that attempts to judge that color is disappearing from the world using pictures did they take into account that people now use cameras that change the color space of a photo to be more bland?
The 90s in the internet were awesome. I loved to surf it with my Red Hat or Slackware using lynx and netscape and feel like a real hacker <3
Sure... In order to build a house, you just need to bring your motivation... And lots of time... And money... to hire an architect and an entire home building company... Without having any income the whole time...

Hard work for free does not make sense in this type of post-pandemic world we live in... It's too "Marie Antoinette-esque" of people to say it's anywhere near reasonable.
Do you think it doesn't apply to the UK? I drew on a US example because it was something I could explain in enough detail. Maybe UK economic elites have mastered control of their voters in a way that US elites have not. Although, you'll have to explain which economic elites in the UK decided that Brexit would be to their advantage and how they stole a march on the UK finance industry.
> Also real estate in dense cities is disproportionately more expensive.

That's not a law of nature. It's a result of deliberate choices made by city governments to restrict the supply of housing over the last few decades. Also the fact that it's so expensive and people keep moving there shows that it's an attractive way to live.
Once place color has been exploding is the power-tool market.

Years ago almost every corded drill you could find was black or gray or maybe a dark red. Now each brand has their own color (offhand Dewalt Yellow, Milwaukee or Craftsman Red, Ryobi Nuclear Waste Green, etc).

They're very bright and there's an argument it makes them easier to see on the job site, but it's also an important part of their branding, too, so much so that contractors will say things like "I hope yellow catches up with red, I really want a tool like that."
lol. i don't see how this being marketed as duty to society like covid vaccine. No denunciation or shaming of voluntarily obese as a strain on society. No "COVID is a disease of unvaccinated" by the presidents.
This idiom is referring to the maturity of their tech industry at a high level, not their tooling (though that could be a minor part of it).

As an example, a country with paper-only tax filing might be said to be a decade behind a country with easy online e-file. It’s referring to the difference in technical capabilities, capacity, and/or innovation.
No, it is because we don't use the tipping system.

And it's not awful, and people are not rude, just not "fake-friendly" as americans.
People would work Tim Horton's jobs for $30 USD an hour.

The vast majority of Americans and Canadians wouldn't do farm work for $30 USD an hour.
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But the worst offense is that AOL, like other major on-line services, is taking from the Internet without giving back.

Replace AOL here with some other big internet companies I don’t have to name and it’s the same story
> in Twitter due to linking of phone numbers to people

Except like the linkedin "hack" which was just a scrape of peoples profiles, the twitter "hack" was someone running phone numbers through the "upload you contacts and find your friends account" feature.

They are both barely stories, except to remind people that posting stuff publicly is public.
Which most likely will never happen, given the security constraints of browsers.
Until US workers keep voting for the party that enacts such policies, I don't see anything wrong: just democracy working as intended.
Personal privacy is different than commercial privacy I guess