skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German government speak suffers from turning all verbs into nouns and the overuse of compound words (traffic light in regular German is "Ampel", in government German it's "Lichtsignalanlage" - light signal installation). If anything there's an underuse of metaphors, to the point that excessive clarity starts obfuscating the intent because it forms its own dialect.

Meanwhile corporate German is very different, and notable for the use of English or pseudo-English words where perfectly good German words exist. And of course an unhealthy dose of euphemisms.

Regular German probably tends more to understatement (the highest praise is "there's nothing to complain about")
I didn’t know that rfc, but afaik the usual way is what I’ve written.

Will take a look at that,btw. Looks interesting.
I'd like courts to find that giving someone a long contract online is responsible for you understanding it and if the bulk of users are confused to meaning of it, the parts that are confusing aren't legally binding.
I come from the game development world and this is one of the reasons (in my opinion) why there are so many solid independent game makers that come from the Nordics.
No appreciation from me.
Just give it the return code (200 vs 404 vs NXDOMAIN) and avoid creating Skynet.
They wrote that other users connected to her were also targeted, which apparently included Americans too. Otherwise why would they do this:

>ByteDance has since restructured its internal audit team and removed access to US data from that department.

I read it as their internal audit team still having access to userdata data from other regions.
isn’t denying service actually quite common? is the use of face recognition the ethics issue?
The lucky ones also probably failed a couple, but in these lucky ones the real lucky ones are who don't fail in the beginning.

Once we gain our most desired possessions, we'll try and do everything not to lose them - and what comes fast goes fast.
Keep grinding, I'm sure it won't go to waste.
Ticket prices at MSG are notoriously high.

For comparison, average ticket price for a regular-season NHL game for NYC-area teams during the 2021-2022 season:

- New York Rangers (MSG): $273

- New York Islanders: $213[1]

- New Jersey Devils: $104[2]

[1]: The Islanders played in a brand-new arena last year, so ticket prices were higher than expected.

[2]: The Devils were one of the worst teams in the league last year, so ticket prices were lower than expected.

And the area NBA teams for that same time period:

- New York Knicks (MSG): $394

- Brooklyn Nets: $339

These numbers, as far as I can tell, do not include luxury boxes, which average an eye-watering $16,000 for a regular season NBA or NHL game.
> This is not the reason jargon exists. What made you say that?

Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct.
RISC-V Pushes into the Mainstream
From Wikipedia:

> The dialog box (also called dialogue box (non-U.S. English), ...

This is a British government website, so "dialogue box" might not be uncommon.
Unfortunately another component of the Nordic model that makes it work is that everybody trusts the government. This is what makes the Nordic model hard to translate to other settings in my opinion.
My Grandma’s List of Values
AR is more desirable than VR because it gives them an excuse to scan/monetize your current surroundings for even more advertising data!
Take care of yourself mate. Not everyone has to be an entrepreneur. I tried to be one for 10 years, couldn't make it work. Now I am happier and wealthier working for a good company enjoying my work and people around me. Go find meaningful employment, life doesn't have to be about hustling only.
Combination of the halo effect and allegiance signalling.
Thanks dang! It can be a difficult job, and you do it well. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
I knew and have an enduring fondness for PCMag founder David Bunnell, who also started PC World and MacWorld and ran/edited for many years Upside Magazine, the first mass audience publication at the intersection of business and tech. He was from New Mexico and got his start in the industry as a marketing person at MITS, maker of the Altair, where he met Bill Gates and Paul Allen (they worked at MITS before starting Microsoft in Albuquerque). He stayed in touch with Gates for years including at Upside. I have a vague memory Gates invested in one or more of his publications. Or maybe he was just an advertiser. In the end those are pretty similar roles.

I’m not sure my point here but I do think this gives reason to pause before you dismiss a marketing “droid” or whatever in the industry. The actual engineering of personal computing has always been intertwined with communicating about it to people.
If it’s four random
Unicode code points, it’s not a dictionary word.
I think this perspective is born of ignorance. A mature company doesn't rely on interactions of the ceo in day to day operations. If the right people are in place those will take care of themselves. The ceo value comes in from the strategic and big picture elements.

Twitter will eventually get to this place too. The risk to both Tesla a d SpaceX is where Musk as as much as lead engineer as CEO. Distracting him from that side is where there is likely to be an impact.
Twenty years ago or so I got a copy of Database Design for Mere Mortals to review for a users' group. The author spent several pages almost-but-not-quite defining Third Normal Form, without ever using the expression. I complained of this in the review.

That's why jargon exists. It is much better to use 3NF or BCNF or simply normalize or denormalize than to bury the point in many words.
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This isn’t a new concept or area of the law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_accommodations_in_the_U...

This isn’t a matter of private property rights. The owner of Madison Square Garden is free to sit inside it by himself and keep the world at bay.

But once he creates a business open to the public there are rules. There are rules about what hours he can be open and closed, rules about the number of fire exits, rules about the labels that have to be on any food that’s sold, rules about how loud sounds can be and how bright lights can be. If he sells someone real estate the contract must be in writing. If he sells someone a toaster there is a legally enforced warranty that it will be able to make toast.

This hypothetical idea that businesses have the right to sort of do whatever they want comes up a lot in arguments like this, but it has no real basis in law or tradition.

Businesses don’t now, and have never, had the right to do whatever they want. Their ability to even operate at all is a privilege that requires advance permission and registration.

The state regulates commerce that’s literally what it’s for. It enforces principals of fairness, honesty, enforcement of promises, and all sorts of other stuff.

If the state believes, correctly, that this kind of behavior is incompatible with the state granted privilege to operate as a business then it should prohibit it without hesitation.
First, note that 9 out of 10 startups fail.

I'm sorry you tried three times unsuccessfully - I'm sure you have learned a lot.
Perhaps you would agree with me that the first attempt wasn't based on a lot of knowledge compared with the last; so maybe we discount that early one. Then trying for another 8 time would put you in a position where you can say "it doesn't work, I've done it all by the book".

Now it is your right to stop. I would rather you stopped than have you get sick (again). But analysis your post suggests that you may potentially confuse "start up" and "indy developer", at least you use the terms rather interchangeably. That's not at all the same thing! For a startup, you need a team. An indy developer (freelancer) is a solo play, where you would be very unlikely to be impactful in comparison, even if you tried 30 times.

Watching influencers is a waste of time. What I have observed is that people driven by their hunger for success more quickly burn out. You need to best pursue something that intrinsically passionate about, then you may never get tired. Anyone coding, writing a story or even sleeping uses their time better than watching influencers, IMHO.
how is this company “generally discriminating” or “suppressing free speech”? i feel like your comment is about the right to deny service more than the use of face recognition.
>You waste a lot of time at generating a "strong password" that complies with a website's policy

I let my password manager do it and don't bother with it any time soon.
It would be nice to understand what you're trying to find here. What are the constraints?

Do I have to start and end with a neutral position?
Am I allowed to short; i.e. do I have to buy before I sell?
What are the limits on liquidity?
Do I have unlimited access to margin?
Is there a limit on holding time?
Are there any borrowing costs?
Are there any transaction costs?

All these should be addressed in the problem definition
Like others have said, your infra might itself be the product.

Look at https://gruntwork.io as possible inspiration.

They’ve made a lucrative business by selling infra scripts that others can use.

And their subscription model means they keep the scripts up to date.
Walk as Spreadsheet (2021)
Half your examples would be flagrantly illegal. There's no comparing banning members of a rival company you don't like, and banning a race. These aren't even remotely similar from a legal point of view.
>You could simply apologize to the GP instead of tripling down on snark

No why? It's wrong to give your password to a 3rd party, you cant be a victim if you jump of a cliff all by yourself...so no victim-blaming here...the victims could be the (theoretical) customers of him.

And btw i never called him "smartass"....so i would say if anything the "apologize"-thing is on the other side, but no feelings hurt ;)

Oh and you used that word too...so much for a nicer HN and victim-blaming ;)
This attitude leads to generals sabotaging the Christmas Truce and way more deaths than necessary. Very very few wars are against invaders who want to kill everybody.
It's in the phrasing, then. Telling someone to "start a company" implies something larger than a sole proprietorship. At least that's why I would assume people took umbridge with your comment.

Maybe, "You're an iOS dev, have you ever considered making and releasing your own app?" would've had a different impact.
> Here's some advice:

I strongly doubt OP wants advice.
The company is denying service BECAUSE the customer is involved in a lawsuit.

If you don't think that's suppression of free speech, then I guess it's subjective - but I disagree.
Ok, I appreciate this response and I hadn’t read the comments you reference from a past post. This nuance is valuable and I can understand the logic. There should be some connection to the thing offending the land owner, and the way to embed this into the decision making is to take technology out of it so that decisions have to be internally governed by some thought to efficiency.

Thank you
If you are the admin/owner of HN I'll buy your argument. I'll even go away. If you are not, bugger off.

Calling out stupidity is important. In your 'kind' world, every idiot will have his say to the detriment of everyone else.

I mean what a surreal and disturbing thread - people calling for the robbing the rich, via taxes. Robbing is what thugs do, not thoughful, 'kind' people.
Interesting. That code will only need to the "stat" files of processes in userspace, so it's correct for its use-case.

But you're right that a more general parser would need to ignore what proc(5) has to say about the limit, and parse up to a limit of 64.

As far as I can tell the difference is because when you call prctl(2) with "PR_SET_NAME" it will get truncated to the "TASK_COMM_LEN" that proc(5) discusses. See this code in kernel/sys.c: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/493ffd6605b2d3d4dc700...

This is the linux.git commit that changed it, before that kernel worker threads had to obey the same limit, it was first released with linux v4.18: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6b59808bfe482642287...
This article is intended for government employees, the style guide applies to the UK population as a whole.
It's time for an RSS revival (2018)
Wow, this is delightful. How do you even do something like this on PICO8? I imagine the constraints of the platform will be an issue for the development of features down the line, but sometimes that's a good thing.
>!Without the state to at least enforce laws, enforce property rights, and physically protect you, there wouldn't even be any wealth creation.

This is the kind of minimalist state that libertarians would agree to. People talk about robbery when the state is spending money on arbitrary things.
Please go file your taxes in 37 different countries with different regulations where your customers are.

You will bankrupt from your accountants’ bills.
It seems to work for me if I rotate the phone to landscape mode.
At the same time, not living in a place where every other car is a Tesla (as seems to be the case when I visited San Diego recently) to the extent that I see electric cars they are VW and Kia. Teslas are very rare to see.

We don’t have the same charging infra as other places so electric cars aren’t common at all; we just got our first charger at our first grocery store. But as that came, some people thought they’d want an electric car, and they didn’t turn to Tesla. If this trend continues and is representative of what’s happening elsewhere, that’s bad for Tesla.
Using fewer words introduces less cognitive load and drives your point better.

For example, you wrote "The advice [...] seems somewhat pointless to me." Well, are you saying that it is pointless, or not? I don't know you, so I don't know what your scale of pointlessness is. I don't know what "somewhat pointless" corresponds to. Is it a tiny bit pointless, is it a medium amount of pointlessness, something else? I don't know, but I have to think about it because you wrote a meaningless word in your sentence. And even once I have understood the sentence, I am left thinking: "well, if it's only somewhat pointless, maybe it's not pointless after all!"

The same thing happens with "key stakeholders": now I have to think about a hierarchy of stakeholders. What scale is being used? Who's key, who's non-key? Does the sentence apply to all stakeholders, only some of them?

Multiply this by a hundred occurrences in a long document, and you obtain something that will be more difficult to read. But government documents have to be readable by everyone: people whose native tongue is not English, uneducated people who have trouble reading simple texts, etc. And for what? Sugarcoating your text so that it's less assertive? Showing literary prowess?
Before I jump in, I hope this opening up has helped you. You're not alone. You took the road less travelled. That isn't easy. God bless you.

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> "But it's not just the lack of success that's getting me down. It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy and anyone can do it with the right mindset and a few key tips. But the reality is that it's not that simple. It's fucking hard and it takes more than just a positive attitude to make it."

I know you said you're done. But for anyone else still looking, there's a market right there. Well, the opposite actually. That is, be a no BS social media "influencer." Tell it like it really is. Call out the snake oil sellers and the liars. Be honest. Be transparent. Share to help, not to deceive.

Because: "I know I'm not alone in feeling this way."
It's actually PCI DSS that has propagated some of these bad practices.
Interesting point. So as dimensions we now have

- security

- freedom

- convenience

- speed/newness

Who can build me a UI with four sliders that selects the packages I
can install? Bonus: when I move a slider it highlights all the
potential packages that changed status with reasons why they are now
included/excluded.
"Until we lost we were winning."
Show HN: Sell access to your Notion content
I created a simple tool that lets you add a Gumroad paywall to your Notion content. Would work well for courses, paid memberships, community assets, etc.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
> Is it fair to ban some paralegal who works in probate law from seeing their favourite artist or attending a show with their kids because someone in a different state in a different division is suing a different division of the giant conglomerate that owns the venue?

depends on many things, from pettiness all the way to financial harm. i’ve seen places ban whole families.
This is the year of the RSS reader?
> If you stop using jargon then people assume you don't know what you're talking about

I think it's starting to go the other direction. As a technical-minded person if I have a business meeting and the other person starts throwing those yuppie buzzwords in my face I'll just mentally put them in the "empty suit with an MBA" bin.

It might be my Southern European sensibilities, but I value straightforwardness very highly than time wasting nonsense to signal you're part of the in crowd. Unless the hacker ethos has died, and we're back to the 1980 where middle managers in business suits are the cool guys.
Normally, yes, but for an iconoclast like Musk, in addition to having to handle helicopter CEO-ing that takes careful management by specialized teams at both SpaceX and Tesla, there's also the unknown amount of Tesla and SpaceX engineering time that's been spent on Twitter instead. Depending on your opinions of FSD though it might be a good thing.

With the rest of the auto industry finally getting into EVs, I'm sure there are strategic and big picture elements that are going unnoticed by the absentee CEO.
Ask HN: What is your wise advice on learning and writing JavaScript in 2023?
I want to start from the ground up. What advice did you recieve? What advice would you give? Given that the language has become somewhat modern, how should one go about learning JavaScript the good way, avoiding the bad way, the right way to think in Javascript, etc.

Also, what resource would you suggest?
thank you for saying what I have felt for the last 20yrs in tech.
I will humbly add going to Mars to the list of wasted resources.
It’s already gone beyond the funny meme phase.
All the problems you listed as US-specific problems exist in my corner of Europe too, except gun violence. And on top of that we have fewer jobs, lower salaries, higher taxes and high unemployment.

I love Europe: its history, its music, its art, its architecture, its legacy - yes! the good and the bad -, its food, its cultures. But from my point of view we are killing ourselves, choked in an endless decay, metastasizing bureaucracy, and never-ending hopelessness.

I'm sure the Nordic Country are happy though, and that's the problem: American tend to compare the worst of their country with the best of our continent.
Reacting to "Audible monopoly", and while it may technically be so, it needn't-

Most of what I read and listen to is provided by my tax-supported public library. If I find something I think will make a welcome gift, I buy it from bookshop dot org or a local bookstore (Minneapolis is rich with them). If I had the discretionary income I'd give more money to the Library foundation, continue lobbying for strengthening the public library system, and continue checking out books; it's a model that lowers the barrier to accessing art, information, and wisdom.
What is the real reason that jargon exists?

Ostensibly it's to increase precision and allow experts to communicate quickly with each other. However that explaination can't explain phrases like "Ring-fence", "Let's take this offline", "360 degree feedback". All of those phrases have better simple English translations.
:)

But I do live in California for the last 10 years.
It seems many people don't know about .gitignore or misunderstand its use.
Most wealthy Americans were never paying 96% in taxes, if any at all. There were many more loopholes during this time.

People are forgetting that the high tax countries are enjoying the fruits of lower-tax countries labor.

Technology and drugs are the big ones. Big, evil companies create life-saving drugs and generics are created and sold for pennies to these countries.

With no incentive to create (ie: large profits), humans will definitely not advance.

Money is also freedom. The less we are able to keep, the less free we become (and more dependent on the government/state).
Well, as the saying goes: great doubts, great wisdom; small doubts, small wisdom. (That's supposed to be a compliment, BTW). There's a great deal of uncertainty in investing, but that doesn't mean it's not something worthwhile. You have to remember that you will get a lot wrong. That's the nature of the game. The trick is to get it more right than wrong. Early success is not much of a predictor either. In fact, it often breeds overconfidence.

Try to avoid hype stocks. It's easy to get burned. Recommended reading is "Intelligent Investor" by Ben Graham. Warren Buffett calls it the best book on investing ever written, so you can't go far wrong. It's importance is in emphasising valuation rather than narratives.
Nothing wrong with face recognition itself, when used responsibly. People who commit crimes, for example, at MSG's venues should be banned! The problem here is that they're denying service to people who have done nothing wrong. In some cases just for being associated with a law firm which is representing clients against MSG.

Suppose Google decided to ban you from using all Google services, just because you work (or once worked) for a law firm that is representing someone in a suit against Google. Would that be fair?
I think it’s right to get out. Give yourself time and you will start to feel better. I’m hindsight you will see that this issue is with this “space” and not at all with you.
Perhaps a different culture between string players and brass players? Or maybe just different parts of the world? Eastern US here. I play trumpet and from the earliest years was heavily encouraged by all band directors and conductors to tap my foot at all times. No conductor ever corrected the practice later or pointed it out as an error, but I often heard the advice repeated for everyone to do it. Maybe they viewed it as a necessary evil though, like in Mr Holland's opus when when he is beating the tempo into the guy's head with a mallet while he wears a football helmet.
> With Ansible you may achieve something similar, but afaik require way more setup and discipline to keep it clean, and the "programming" in Ansible feels rather painful, if you're used to a real (functional) programming language.

Not to mention that templating a language that uses spaces for logic (YAML) is just useless amounts of pain for no good reason.
People laugh at jargon but my take is that most people learn things without any critical evaluation. If you do your internship at a big corporate, all you will hear is "kicking the wheels", "criteria-based project team" or "key stakeholders".

I think people just assimilate it, don't question why and then re-iterate it.

As others have said, it is also an example of "weasel words". Words that are designed to make what you are saying sound more impressive.
What are you accusing them of exactly? Lying? Or truthful reporting that happens to align with the interests of some American politicians?
I see your point on the "understanding", I have a similar view on most drugs.
Thanks for the recommendation on the SDT, it sounds like something that would benefit me also.