skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But after completing the entire suite, I still can't look at a japanese text and read it.

Well, if you're coming from a European language background, Japanese is one of the hardest languages to benchmark on. I mean, there's three writing systems (hiragana, katakana, kanji) for starters! And then unlike European languages, it's not alphabetical and kanji is not even really syllabic - which means, the background you need to get to be able to read texts is huge.

E.g., for Spanish, I can read the newspaper (not understand yet, but just reproduce, look for words I recognize, etc.) without even touching a language course. And if I get the basics, I can see grammatical structure, and given common Romance background, get about 20% of vocabulary for free just from knowing another European language (well, not true for all European ones, but for many it is).
Yes, that's a real possibility.
I don't think Zipcar owns the cars. Their model may not be as low touch as Turo or Getaround where you can just list your car. But the cars on the Zipcar platform are owned by other people that have lent it out to Zipcar through a more thorough process.
From where did you get the money which you saved?
Anyone know if Oak is (or will be) released as Open Source?
We make two tings:

The Boundless AI helps companies build habits that help people (fitness, health, financial responsibly, etc). https://Boundless.AI

Space helps people quit habit forming apps. https://youjustneedspace.com
> I still like it and am glad I opted for it, but it is far from earning its namesake.

I trust the intelligence of drivers, but this brings up a good point. Could calling it "autopilot" be perhaps a bit much right now? I'm not claiming it's false advertising kind of bad, but I can see it being better for marketing than giving a reasonable sense of what the feature is capable of.
Whatever system Facebook was using to determine the contents of your feed back when Facebook was more enjoyable for you would probably still be the best system to use now. Someone clever should just recreate the Facebook from 2000's that everyone liked, call it something else and give the UI/UX a long-overdue upgrade.
I've tried with Duolingo quite a bit, but what I studied never seemed to stay in my memory. I've had much better luck with Language Transfer - https://www.languagetransfer.org

Disclaimer: the guy who runs it is a friend, but I met him through the project.
> Also, could one build a local positioning system that has a few ground

In _Russia_ during _war with Russia_? Sure, go ahead, you drive the truck and I'll monitor your progress and provide snarky commentary from home.
It takes a couple of years before you can look at a Japanese text for normal adults and read it without problems.
I'm pretty sure that this would drop the volume of the 0-100hz range to half the volume since we dropped the amplitude to 1/2 and shifted. Any sound system with loud subwoofers would be able to detect the difference, but woofer only systems would probably leave the modification mostly undetectable.
Because Facebook is not a governmental agency for starters...
I think it applies to almost all conventional video compression algorithms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling#4:2:0
> Being rich and powerful is stressful? Yes, we all knew that.

Uh, that's not the point at all.

Maybe it's overly simplistic, but the point of the article is that Tom went from being on top to having his company become a punchline. But in retrospect, having $650 million dollars and not a care in the world is quite possibly a better place to be in than the guy who's worth tens of billions, but it is spearheading one of the most socially destructive organizations on the planet.

It's obviously arguable, but in my opinion, Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg's legacy so far, is a big fat net negative on the world.

At it's best Facebook offers me a paltry and superficial insight into the lives of people that I don't really care about enough to talk to on a regular basis.

At it's worst, Facebook feeds social insecurity and anxiety; builds and sells terrifyingly accurate personality profiles of people; deepens partisanship and tribal tendencies; and has become one of the premier conduits for falsehoods and propaganda.

I won't demonize Zuckerberg because I can't presume to understand his motives; and I will give him the benefit of the doubt that what he wants to do is make the world a better place. But so far, like giving a time machine to a chimpanzee, he's really making a fucking mess of things.
117 years of glowing light
Without a different rendering engine or plugins(Android version has both), the only reason I can think of is to sync history and passwords.
I fear the worst here. We hear stories about the armies of people in other countries. We can feel the presence of mainland influences in these threads.
oh that sure, reddit has no function here on most subreddits, but for non instantaneous chat/help it's very good.
nftables doesn't support TPROXY.
No, languages are indeed different. Providing elementary grammar or vocabulary is next to useless in real conversation with natives. I highly doubt anyone is SOLELY learning English or Spanish through Duolingo.

It's important to look at resources that languages provide- English and Spanish also have immense amounts of media to listen to and read, and obviously a lot of people to talk with. I would say that helps far more than learning simple grammar.
I see no need for another query language, I don't find using SQL to be that taxing, and I don't find using different tools for different parts of the stack to be a huge hurdle. This feels like it's made for people who have never programmed before and will entice people to use it for that reason. Much like MongoDB it will not work well at a scale of production and will need to be replaced or scaled up to such an extent as to being too costly. Everything about this in undesirable.
*> Several service providers are not receptive to US Court orders. One example is Iceland’s domain registry ISNIC and indeed, at the time of writing, Sci-Hub.is is still widely available.

Why is ISNIC different?
I get there often, I don't know if it's worse because I didn't read it until recently.
Do you really think they're obligated to provide you absolutely everything they know about you? I don't.

I would say if they provide everything you've directly provided, they've fulfilled their "obligation."

Obligation is in quotes, because I don't actually believe they should even be required to do this.
IMO CoPilot would have been a great name that much more accurately covers what it does.
Jakob Fugger the Younger, the most wildly successful link in the Fugger dynasty of bankers to the Habsburgs, and who was immortalised in the 1990s German video game Die Fugger!
Opinion:Big Data and AI Craziness Is Ruining Security Innovation
I kinda disagree with this. Its the company's job to be on top of whichever forum its users are using to discuss its products, especially looking out for security/safety issues. While it would nice for the Op to directly contact the company, I'd place more of the weight of responsibility on the company than the user.
Any know how this device works or gets around wiping the phone on 10 failed attempts?
What I Wish I’d Done Differently as a Data Science Leader
You'll get a small steam explosion but there are lots of ways for the pressure to escape, and if the circuitry protecting the 50 meter stretch is fast enough that might not even happen.
> every single mistake has an alternative action that was a non-mistake

This is only true for a very narrow view of what a "mistake" is. Classical tragedy is more inclined to the view that in some situations, there will be at least one mistake somewhere no matter what choices people make.

In a more contemporary source, there's an episode of Friends in which the backstory is that, years ago, Phoebe married a gay ice dancer so that he could get a green card, and also because she was secretly in love with him. He comes back to ask for a divorce because he's learned that he isn't gay after all and he's fallen in love with another girl.

This is painful for Phoebe, and she asks "Do you think, if you'd realized you weren't gay earlier, that we could have..." "Never mind, I don't think there's any answer you could give that would make me feel better."
Let's just only have train tracks? We can still have electric trucks for the last mile, but then they won't need electrified roads.

Long-distance goods transport with trucks is such a ridiculous concept, it's really time we just face it: it only ever made sense because the state funds the roads and road repair from general taxation, we have ridiculous subsidies for the fossil fuels that make it run and trains had the misfortune to be invented such a long time ago that the government has suffocated the industry.

Rolling resistance is somewhat of a rounding error, by the way. The big killer is aerodynamics: the power needed to push air out of the way increases quadratically with speed. But there is a cheat code: if you make the vehicle longer or add something to the back, it can ride in the slipstream. Only you can't make trucks very long at all because they need to work on public roads. Trains on the other hand can be made ridiculously long, saving massively on energy - multiple miles of wagons if you so wish.
Firefox on iOS doesn't even exist really, it's a lie. It's a Firefox front-end to Safari designed just to look a certain way and sync settings and bookmarks. Apple won't allow anything more, it's not Mozilla's fault.
Why do you get frustrated if the driver failed to maintain control of the car?

When autopilot on airplane crashes the plane, what do you think is the primary cause?
> Then, in the vein of technological progress, services started popping up encouraging potential clients to do background checks on contractors. You wouldn't want to let a former criminal into your home to do repairs, after all.

How in f..ks name is this even legal, to begin with?
I sent a request. I used to have a Facebook account but deleted it about a year ago. I asked for the standard data they give to people who still have accounts as well as any information about me that exists separate from the information I willingly provided.
The design reminds me too much of the native iOS Reddit app; fine for mobile, but I really do not like it for desktop. It is absolutely annoying to me.
Why are they gifs instead of mp4s? Yikes. Also, since they are screenshots without a lot of movement, they really should compress better than that even as gifs.
Facebook's reckoning never came, judging by the laughable "grand inquisition" that happened this past week.
That's certainly good but you can't get an MIT degree with Open Courseware, so it's not providing the same value that being a proper student does. I don't see how having more of the best is a capitalist thing and not generally good no matter how you look at economics. It's not about MIT gaining market share, but about them giving better education to more people so the overall good to the students is higher.

Perhaps there's a practical reason - maybe they can't find enough professors of the quality they want to teach any more students, but last I heard, professors weren't in short supply, especially not when you have $15 billion like MIT does.
Love this idea. On the subject, does anyone know the potential fuel (delta % mpg's) savings of an optimally coordinated self-driving fleet that utilizes drafting?
Sun can charge battery thru solar panels we all know that. Can Musk use his sattelites network to shoot down a precisely guided laser to charge your Tesla i.e. thru roof/hood made off of solar panels?
Look around at other comments, no one is using all caps to get a point across. It’s uncouth to use caps here.
So websites now no longer simply want new users, they want unique,verified users.

I understand the need for such verification when a webmaster wants to prevent easy re-registrations of trolls and/or banned members, and it's still better than Google's invite only system for when they release something big like gmail or g+, but it's a dark pattern all the way.
Funny you should say that, I'm struggling with that exact problem right now. And it's a tough one.
The biggest issue I have with Duolingo is that they offer "grammar notes" to explain why specific elements are the way they are... but only on desktop web. In-app, which is the main way that I (and I'd imagine most users) use Duolingo, there are no grammar notes and no way to access the grammar notes - they just seem to assume that you'll pick it up from context. Personally I've been studying Russian, a language with extremely complex grammar much of which has no analogue in English or Spanish (the two other languages I speak), and were I not supplementing Duolingo with a textbook that actually explains the grammar, I would be extremely confused.
EU report recommending new Civil Law Rules on Robotics
Whew, what a gross way to over-engineer a text editor. If the NYTimes structured themselves like a dev team, they could use common sense tools to get much better results.

Why is the journalist responsible for how it's presented? Wouldn't it make more sense to have some kind of product manager or designer handle this? And why is the journalist responsible for programming the look and feel of the their article? Why not have a front end dev do that?
A similar article on one of the same studies was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16636791.
Sinclair’s ‘Next Gen TV’ Set to Start Data Collection on 72% of US Households
The amendment doesn't say anything about the government agencies. It says about the unreasonable search.
Pretty much agreed with blogging part and niche as fellow HN'ers mentioned below.

I (re)started my tech blog after several years and made it more active and discussed things which were kind of like a "niche" that is web scraping and automation. I wrote posts how things are done and put code on Github. At one side I was building my Github and on other hand my SEO optimized posts attracted Google and eventually developers and..site/business owners too that helped me to get contractual work.

The biggest issue with us, techies, is that we don't know how to sell ourselves. Blogging could be pretty effective to get consulting work.
Show HN: My Compact iOS Calendar Widget had a major overhaul today
We don't see it as making "tech addictive," but that's the story the press likes to tell about us. Behavioral Design is a lot more than "do it more." The understanding of neuroscience that we now have, and the ability of machine learning to quickly 'understand' a user is opening up a whole new frontier of ways to change people. So far, these techniques have only been used to make games and social media addictive; we're making it possible to use it for everything else.
They remove/demonetize videos that contain pro-gun/2A content (some as simple as footage at shooting ranges), meanwhile they allow for rap music videos glorifying sex, drugs, and violence (guns included). Same goes for a fair amount of right-wing content makers regularly having their videos demonetized.

I think it's easy enough to form a conclusion based on that alone.
No, that's a poor analogy. For example, I purchased a timer plug socket that turns off my router between the hours of midnight and 7am. That's using technology to solve the problem of technology addiction. If you apply technology in the right way, it can help you to use it less.
No way will Duo Lingo get you anywhere close to A2 for writing or speaking. MAYBE A1 if you try hard at it for a long long time in a language it well supports.

To get to A2 you need a real tutor and real communication experience. I used Verbling to find a tutor and I traveled to Eastern Europe over the summer to practice and only after hundreds of hours of practice was I able to communicate in Russian to any degree even approaching A1.
Enlighten us with what that means and perhaps we'll be able to tell you why its not in the article...
> Even worse though, is the fact that ivy league colleges aren't growing much bigger. If they're so good at educating people, and have so much donation money, why not expand?

Maybe what makes them good isn't scale independent.

Functional features of human organizations generally aren't, after all.
Focal length and shape of the face (2016)
I am overall critical of FB (see my top comment on the omission of search history) but in this case I can see this as a good faith design decision. Yes, ideally users should distinguish between:

- "block" (keep track of them so they don't appear in your feed)

- "unfriend" (erase the connection; they might reappear)

But this also adds complexity which can lead to UX failures. Probably a lot of users were using "unfriend" when they really want to block someone. So then their abuser shows up in their memories and Facebook suggests they become friends or whatever and then there's a scandal because look how insensitive FB is.

So the UX designer's choices then are, try to educate all your users about the distinction here and get victims to use a block -- which is not going to be 100% successful -- or err on the safe side and just make "unfriend" work more like a block. I can see them making the latter design decision in good faith, and maybe I would too.

Note: It is very common in more technical circles like HN to just implicitly blame the user here for not understanding the options. I.e. if less than 100% of users understand "unfriend" is not a "block" then, well, they should pay more attention. (This is very common in security discussions.) But good UX design means owning the outcome and how users interact with your interface in the real world. And so simplicity often is the better route, even at the cost of some tradeoffs.
There's a form of doublethink going around that says that, for instance, censorship is fine as long as it isn't the state doing it directly.

(Usually only when the sauce is for the goose. If for the gander, indignation ensues.)
Did you check if other language learning apps were wrong as well?
I've learned Japanese to a level where I can read the children's news mostly without using a dictionary mainly by grinding vocabulary in Anki and reading with Yomichan. Depending on the topic I can follow spoken language decently as well.
IMO this document pushes for some seriously misguided legislation due to sensationalist characterization of the technology by the media. Consider for example:

> 59. f) creating a specific legal status for robots in the long run, so that at least the most sophisticated autonomous robots could be established as having the status of electronic persons responsible for making good any damage they may cause, and possibly applying electronic personality to cases where robots make autonomous decisions or otherwise interact with third parties independently;
I actually use Search Encrypt and like it. I've seen people complain about it online, but it's useful for keeping my search terms hidden or encrypted.
I use Chrome as my browser, so I'm pretty much handing my info over to Google anyway, but I use SE.
Because not every country/company will let the US legal system steamroll people.

They have no legal obligation to, so it's up to their discretion.
> ...or to reparations for victims of crime?

The courts already have a way of doing this that doesn't involve slavery.
Really? It seems companies respond to problems that are aired in public much quicker and more thoroughly than through their official support channels.

.@brand on a public twitter with enough followers to care about usually gets a pretty quick response.

Hell, how many times have YC companies prioritized support issues because a user posted it here on HN? I see it all the time with coinbase and crew, even googlers hanging out seem to be able to get account bans reviewed relatively easily.

I would argue the /r/teslamotors sub would be BETTER than going to Tesla directly. The motorist that died in this crash had contacted Tesla multiple times regarding this issue, since the crash plenty of others have made videos of similar behavior at similar median splits across the interstate system.

If the driver had made those complaints public perhaps others would have corroborated his accounts and or recreated the issue with video proof. Certainly putting somewhat public pressure on Tesla to fix the problem quickly.
The nature of business is so different today that direct comparisons are difficult but you might call Crassus a businessman
> A microkernel delegates responsibility to ring3 processes, but those processes are part of the microkernel system

I disagree. Certainly you won't get a usable system without some core services, but the fact that you can replace these services with your own as long as you satisfy the protocol means there's a strong isolation boundary separating them from the kernel. Certainly they are essential components of the OS, just not the kernel.

As for the alleged dynamism of thread management and IPC, I don't see how it's relevant. There exist asynchronous/non-blocking IPC microkernel designs like VSTa and Minix in which the kernel allocates and manages storage for asynchronous message sends, but it's long since proven that such designs are hopelessly insecure. At the very least, it's trivial to DoS such a system.

Only bounded message sends with send/receive buffers provided by processes can you avoid this inevitability. If the idea with Fuchsia is to reimagine consumer operating systems, avoiding the same old mistakes seems like a good idea.

As for scheduling, that's typically part of the kernel logic, not a user space process. Yes, message sends can donate time slices/migrate threads, but there are priority inversion problems if you don't do this right, as L4 found out and avoided in the seL4 redesign. I honestly don't know why Google just didn't use or acquire seL4 for Fuchsia.
iOS has built in content blocking that works with Safari and the newest embedded web view - meaning that you get the same ad blocking in apps like Feedly.
I think the problem is the yelling itself, not how it's designated.

That is to say, if you simply replaced all caps with italics but were still intending to invoke the feeling of yelling (which I consider distinct from emphasis) then your comment would be in violation of the spirit of the guidelines. The all caps are just a red flag.
Considering that they have built it on top of ProseMirror makes it seem pretty reasonable approach in terms of "reinventing the wheel"
There was a port of scsh to guile that was more of a library - it worked really well. I doubt it's up to snuff on guile 2.0+ though.
> When you complete a course you're not done

This definitely rings true. I was using it in the hopes it would help me provide some structure to teaching my kid portuguese (and it does to some extent), but by the time the app says a lesson is "complete", my kid is still a long ways away from having memorized it (and he's 5). I tend to complement it with a boogie board and repetition over the course of several days to really nail down new vocab.

I also wish it had some feature to introduce foreign concepts (e.g. gendered articles in portuguese). It's very awkward to try to explain the difference between `the`, english `a`, and portuguese `a` (and the remaining counterparts `o`, `um`, `uma`) for example, and the word matching exercises can get quite confusing.
She basically opened the floodgates for banning subreddits Reddit doesn't like. Up until the ban of fatpeoplehate, the only subreddits that would get banned were CP related or based around doxing.

Now pretty much anything is on the table.