skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost 2 years of using Duolingo, German, here. At this point, I can understand the very basics and even less when it comes to speaking.

Here's what I learned about duo

- Good to get you started on the language

- It's very good at keeping you engaged initially

- Hard to remember everything so at some point you find it hard to understand the new lessons. There's a language deficit that eventually catches up with you.

- It's not bad to get you started but long term it's not the best way to learn.

If I had to do it again:

-I'd say use it for a few months while it keeps you engaged(6months?) along with a system where you are forced to speak it. Like the Pimsleur system.

- Find someone to speak it with on a regular basis as soon as possible.

- Continue with Pimsleur and dump Duo.

- Immerse your self with the media in the Language you are trying to learn.

The absolute fact is that you can never be fluent in a language unless you speak it on a regular basis so move towards it ASAP.

There's no substitute for determination. Eventually, you just have to fight the feeling of wanting to quit once it gets difficult. By the way, wanting to quit is a sign that you are about to take a major step forward if you can fight through it and move forward.
That's pretty much what every local bar is. Have you never seen Cheers... that's what bars are. That's what being a regular is. The other regulars become your friends.
Please don’t do the “explain it privately 1:1” thing. I know it sounds like a good idea, and I’ve done it so many times, but it’s going to back fire and I’ve never seen it work. Really I’ve never seen it work.

Leak it to some outside source. The local media station, anyone with “security researcher” in their name on Twitter, whatever.

Please feel free to email me too. Check my profile. I can give you stories from previous situations I’ve been in.
It seems like he took all of the photos in the link. That doesn't seem like a lazy homeowner who just can't be bothered to mow. Maybe he didn't hire a landscape designer and buy all his native plants from the local nursery, but I'm not getting the lazy hippie vibe (and I've seen those properties)
throwing annotations on structs and letting the library generate suitable serializers and deserializers works reasonably well in Go, as long as the JSON is not too unstructured. The same applies for Java and C# (here the JSON libs might be even better). And obviously for Rust too via serde.
Show HN: Web Radio – Submit your web station and/or your animation
Seems like you really know your house. Not sure if you're musically inclined but if so the OP-1 is a great tool[1][2]. If you ever make it to nyc hit me up, I know James well and I'm sure he'd enjoy your thoughts around E2-E4.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDqThYqldBI
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umatbZ0n4mE
CoinView Releases Client-Side JavaScript SDK for Building DApps
I've played both hockey and soccer for a long time (not super-competitive though). Hockey is far more tiring even with short 60-90s shifts in a 60 min game vs. full time for a 90 min soccer game.

I'm not sure why but for me at least the short shifts mean I'm flat out when on the ice and never quite get a rhythm like I do in soccer where I eventually settle into a steady pace... like a long distance runner.

Anyway, agree with parent comment that penalties aren't a great way to settle a competition. One option that could be interesting in soccer is to drop to 9 players in overtime and allow a couple extra subs.
Well duh, but then you miss all the awesome late-game tech!

Anyway, play Vox Populi people, it's much much better, also in OP's regard.
Great until they release "AWS Coder" - Coder as a Service offering, likely some AI stuff ;)
you'd also spend a whole ton of time waiting for players to get on and off the field.
Just look at how useless the park ranger are! We should just the whole program.
> That is, at least how I read it, a good developer -- with high-productivity tools -- nets about 20loc/day.

And I'm saying that's still a terrible measure and not accurate. LOC is simply not a valid statistic to even look at. It's an example of lying with statistics; you could take a thousand good developers and you'd probably find their LOC per day counts all over the board. The amount of code you write is not a measure of how good a developer you are whether it's high or low. That's not how you measure a good developer.

The OP is trying to say looking for high LOC counts are not a measure of a good developer, and he's right; but he's failed to realize yet that the metric itself is what's bad, not the values derived from it.

Good developers don't have to be highly productive, but they might be; what matters are the results of their efforts. Do they produce good programs, with few bugs, that age well over time, and are easy to change to adapting circumstances. Good developers write good code; some write more than others, but LOC tells you nothing about how good a developer is whether that number is high or low.

Like any writing, it's the quality of the code that matters, not the quantity. You cannot measure quality by looking at quantity.
You are essentially funding and enabling a dictatorial regime if you buy products made in China — you think Foxconn doesn’t pay the Chinese government any taxes?
Is this representative of what's on that play list? I really don't want to sign up for "yet another thing" to hear the original link.
By chance do you know if/where the collected 3ve js code will be published? I'm specifically interested in looking at their js property patching
The data is sampled in the Fourier domain. A complete scan (frequency up to a desired Nyquist limit) takes a long time for the MRI machine to acquire all of these samples.

If you can get by with sampling only a subset of this space and approximate/reconstruct the rest with a mathematical model, yet yield reasonable accuracy (wrt diagnosis or other criterion) relative to full sampling, the MRI session will be a lot faster because you don't need to acquire all the data you did before.
Chinese Cryptocurrency Miners Selling Their Used ASIC Models
Balero says>" Luckily for us where guns are not available, running away is the best option!"

Its usually the best option even where guns _are_ available (even in Texas). Unless a shooter is an outstanding shot or very close, its hard to shoot a running person.

A good rule for some is, if the distance from an active shooter is less than 20 feet and there is nothing between then attack, otherwise run away. FWIW I always carry a knife.

See Tueller Drill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
GCSB (NZ) bans Spark from using Huawei gear for its 5G mobile upgrade
Deep Learning Tricks
I've repeated it several times. Your presented idea of diversity is about physical characteristics. Things we cannot change and yet define us forever. Diversity defined by how you look is not diversity that matters in any sense, and people who believe it does (which is a loud minority) are either ignorant or willingly malicious.

Inclusion and exclusion are two sides of the same thing. If you forcefully include group X, then you are by definition excluding group Y as a reaction. Therefore, the only truly fair design is to not preference anyone by any physical attribute, and in this case only judge for positions based on competence and merit.
I think you’re taking this viewpoint quite prematurely. It’s been about 3 years since we found architectures that surpass human level performance. The process in medicine is slow. FDA, billing codes etc. Give it 3 more years before drawing strong conclusions like this.
The acid sound is still immensely popular amongst my cohort even after 30 years. And still some great stuff being produced (relatively) recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHIEqdOic9w
The UK police manage to PIT vehicles (and, in a recent turn of events, mopeds) without needing to fit metalwork to their police cars.
Even if laws hadn't changed the other members will use it as an opportunity to take away some of the special deals that UK had pre brexit.
My big question is: is this something only exciting for people doing lambda at massive scale?

Qemu is exciting technology and has paved the way for all kinds of interesting layers. So, creating a slimmed down improvement that really makes it faster and provides a new lambda-ish execution context is great.

I'm sure Amazon cares about that. I'm sure people doing millions of lambda calls a day care about that.

But, if I'm an entrepreneur thinking about building something entirely new, is there something I'm missing about this that would make me want to consider it?

Lambda and Firebase Functions are exciting partially because they break services into easy to deploy chunks. And, perhaps more importantly, easy things to reason about.

But that's not the big deal: the integration with storage, events, and everything else in AWS (or Firebase) is what really makes it shine. It's all about the integration.

When I read this documentation, I'm left wondering whether I want to write something that uses the REST API to manage thousands of micro vms. That seems like extra work that Amazon should do, not me.

Am I missing something important here? Surely Amazon will integrate this solution somewhat soon and connect it to all the fun pieces of AWS, but the fact that they didn't consider or mention it makes me think it is something I should not consider now.
What I value from DataDog are the vast number of integrations available. Want to monitor and alert on prometheus endpoints? No problem, just set up a little config. Want to monitor your EC2 nodes? No problem just link up your AWS account. Want to monitor k8s, etcd, nginx? Cool, no problem, there's a thing for that too.

If Logs Insights can match the simplicity of integration that DD and the like services provide, then those services had best watch out. On the other hand, DD's dashboards are pretty slick and I can't imagine AWS's utilitarian UI/X ever competing. I wonder if that is a big enough differentiator. DD can get really expensive as well, but I'd love to see some comparisons on price.
> What concerns me is how quickly a full moral judgement appears to have been passed on what is a sticky, thorny issue.

I think this is quite valid. Especially from the progressive side I guess I'd say, there's a certain moral altruism that has no regard for other ideas or even the questioning of certain ideas and ideals. And to me, a lot of it is certainly a feeling of moral superiority that self legitimizes certain values from the authority of a middle and upper middle class socioeconomic position with complete disregard for the working and lower classes. The classes which served the progressive side so well until they became inconvenient.

My points are only trying to find a balance such that we can still live in a world with merit; where we can compromise a bit by ensuring there is a measurable opportunity available but yet the outcome is up to the individual.

To be frank, my dissenters here are people I probably agree with more from an idealist vantage. But I also understand that when working in a larger social system we need to be considerate of other points of view and to create systems that the reasonable people on "both sides" can live with. It's when we play to the unreasonable that extremism gains foothold.
> If you look at the OP's photos of his yard you'll see that it is just a mess of plants with no rhyme or reason.

I think it looks wonderful. 1000x better than the bland, sterile putting greens in front of boring mc mansions.
Google can't know in advance what the Chinese authorities are going to consider a "problematic" search.
The fact that Chicken actually has a package manager and central repository is a big plus for me.
“MMA rules are set at a level heavily biased in favor of BJJ”

Completely not true. In the UFC if a person sits guard the standing practitioner can force the ref to stand the guard player up. (Heavily favors a striking based martial art). If there is a temporary lull in action on the ground the ref has the discretion to stand the fighters back up (also favors strikers)

In the early days of the UFC headbutts were allowed so those didn’t really seem to get in the way (they are allowed and practiced in Sambo as well) and finally try to the gouge the eyes of a BJJ black belt (or blue belt for that matter). Bas Ruten actually answers this rebuttal hilariously in an interview I watched years ago.

I’m confident krav-maga gurus would still get mollywhopped if the UFC completely threw out their rule book.
It’s version 1.0 but this starts to make Splunk and similar utilities look less and less important or differentiating in the future of cloud.

AWS understands most people using tools like Splunk probably only need a few simple features so AWS just goes and builds that and gives a lot of people excuses to dump expensive licenses for the AWS version of it. It’s a sneaky but highly successful business model.
No, none of that music sounds like acid house.
20min quarters with stoppages

120 interchanges per side for the match

different, but still equally intense as FIFA Football
Rethinking Topology (or a Personal Topologodicy) – Chris Olah (2014)
Hi Nihil,

This definitely helps, in fact this was the nicest post I've seen and I will try to reply equal care.

Sceptical - Yes I expected this, I didn't expect as much skepticism though.

benchmark - It is difficult to compare to something else as there's no one doing something similar (afaik) and would be comparing apples and oranges, nonetheless I will provide a comparison details at the bottom which is easy to understand to general public.

DATA - The disks have a clean installation of Windows XP, chosen due to relatively small size of 1.5GB compared to Windows 10 with 10GB and makes processing of the model much easier. If you compress the Windows XP image with Winrar it shrinks to ~500MB so around 30%, my method requires only 200MB physical space so down to 13%.

It also differs from traditional compression in that with more powerful hardware I can shrink the storage further preserving fast I/O, but it gets exponentially more expensive for each %. Still large companies can afford the benefit which is multiplied for thousands VMs.

Sparse file system - no, it's much better :-)

Additionally I'm having trouble to name my technology, it has much similarity with compression but it is not traditional compression, it uses some math functions such as number pairing function and others (I can't disclose the sweet secret) and achieves an I/O much better than a traditionally compressed file system.

Performance is in fact better than plain NTFS as can be seen in the third video, a Windows 10 boot in 5-8 seconds is better than an SSD can do (around 25 seconds). Ultimately apps and systems can be written to take most advantages of the technology characteristics.

Your last paragraphs were the most helpful I agree I need to get people excited, I was hoping I could do this mostly anonymously but perhaps not (don't need people to know my name). I will need to think what is best strategy.

Some benchmark.
HOST
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OS: Windows 10 Enterprise
Processor: Intel Core i5 8 Gen
Memory: 16GB DDR
Base Storage: SSD
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GUEST 1 (Normal)
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OS: Windows 10 Education
Processor: 8 Virtual Processors
Memory: 2GB dedicated
VM Storage: SSD
Boot time: 18 seconds
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GUEST 2 (New technology)
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OS: Windows 10 Education
Processor: 8 Virtual Processors
Memory: 2GB dedicated
VM Storage: Enhanced File System
Boot time: 8 seconds
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Lastly, this is not only application for VMs, same technology can be used for e-mail servers, databases, etc.
Any more comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks
"so encouraging folks to conserve them by charging for bytes scanned seem like a good measure."

I wonder if it warns you about potentially expensive button clicks. A little cartesian join, and...ouch.
There are better places to play the virtue game, than on the stock market.
Capital one didn't eat those charges, the merchants did. They are the ones that get fucked
You don't call in SWAT for their domain specific knowledge though. You call them in to clear/pacify/etc a location.
Lots of cars don't support transfer of audio via USB but do have an AUX socket.

I think OP was talking about people plugging between the headphone socket of their phone and the AUX input of the car stereo - not wearing headphones in the car.
Probably much sooner than 2100. Blade runner 2049 seemed fairly on point with the erratic climate, rising sea levels, hyper-urbanization and mass extinction of both animal and plant life.

And "cloning" in a sense. Only a matter of time before someone finds a gene for obedience and decides to edit it to create a workforce. Amazon warehouse conditions and Equifax leaks will seem like child's play compared to that.
Now examine the price of "I should have tried" regret.
I have done so as well.

Something related regarding flight. I LOVE my yearly 14 hour flight because it means I have 14 hours of absolutely no obligations, be it work or simply answering a text.
First, and most importantly, thank you for the friendly reply.

Regarding your questions, I can't think of a clearer explanation that the comment that I initially replied to. Fundamentally, the core argument is that the moment you start using immutable characteristics as part of your heuristic, you've already lost- there will be resentment, because now, by definition, you've given something to someone that they did nothing to earn, and that position is coming from someone else.

That these exact things happened in the past, and happen now, doesn't mean that reversing the arrow makes things better- it just breeds a new generation of the same thing.

In terms of how do we move forward as a society, and speaking strictly as just my own opinion: we need to focus on what our commonalities are, not our differences, and go from there.

I had the great luck of growing up as the child of a diplomat, and thus getting to see a much wider variety of countries and ways of life than most people do. One of the most important lessons I took from the experience is that people are far more alike than different, even in areas that have had little previous cultural exchange. It takes some time to find out how to translate across different givens, but once you understand the shared local model of how things work, people's decisions make sense.

The catch is that if you don't agree with some of the base assumptions, then some decisions will seem utterly abhorrent, and the same is true in reverse. Some are mutually exclusive, in that there is no such thing as a middle ground. That is the problem of diversity, and it is a very real one.

So, moving forward- these schisms exist because the world used to be far more closed off from itself than it is today. I'm only in my mid-40's, and yet when I was a child, a letter to the US and back was a 3-month round trip. Now I can hop on any of a dozen free webcams if I felt so inclined and look at who is walking down the street where I used to live. All we can do is start talking to those now so close, find out what we can agree on, and try to forge something we can all live with.

(I realize this is a bit further afield than the original subject of applying for jobs, but I think a friendly reply deserves an honest answer.)
China's current academic system is mostly a copy of that of the United States, and all of the current reforms are pushing further to be more like the United States. Whatever flaws of American grad school are and will be in China's grad school.
sorry need to learn how to format text here.
I have been making videos with the same mentality. I know my footage is not perfect, but it is what I have and it will only get better if I keep working on it.
I find tmux makes less sense within a tiling window manager because then you have two contexts effectively providing the same functions (or three, if you use vim :split (or four, if you use tilix)).
Amazon with Little Fanfare Emerges as an Advertising Giant
Bittrex Exchange, Bitterx.com Being Sue for 45M in New York Supreme Court
For those just wanting to play a bit, a web based TB-303...

http://errozero.co.uk/acid-machine/
DriveSavers claims it has a way to break into locked iPhones with 100% success
I know this is a big controversial can of worms, but as a filthy casual who just happens to like Lisp, the idea of R6RS is pretty appealing to me. This post seems very much R5RS-oriented.

Are there any R6RS-conformant Schemes that are recommended?
How about small trucks, not the behemoths that are what most car makers are selling. Like even Toyota's pickups are bigger than I remember and seem to keep getting bigger. Almost all the trucks in the US are made for the US market because of a 25% tariff. It's really annoying.
It’s Official: China’s E-Commerce King Is a Communist
Air Canada Cargo's Tim Strauss Joins Drone Delivery Canada's Advisory Board
Ask HN: What are some practical uses of a blockchain?
Question inspired from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543454
I think they are talking about Apple Watch
Something like a civil service exam?
I can't find even one Chinese name on the signing list. These people have no idea what Chinese people really want and what they really need. Chinese people already lost all their privacy. They have nothing to lose by having Google operating in their country. But in contrast, I believe having Google operate again in China can actually help human rights in there. Why? Because currently the Chinese search market is monopolized by Baidu, and if you read the story behind Baidu and Putian Medical Group, or know about how Baidu is making money by abusing all kinds of human rights, even putting lives in real danger, you would understand how necessary it is for Chinese people to have a search engine, that at least doesn't direct you to a fake hospital.

If you search the word "Baidu" in the first page of HN comments, you will find 0 results (at least at the time I'm writing this). No one cares the reality in China, because that's different than their imagination, and they live in their arrogant imaginations.

These people are just hypocrites. They don't care about human rights, or Chinese people's well-beings as they already lost human rights. They don't even bother to think in others' shoes. They are just feared. They are afraid that one day their own government will utilize the same practice and steal their little privacy. Cut the bullsh*t. If you really care about human rights, try to make some changes in China, start by making a better and healthier search engine than Baidu. There are many more evil business practices in China, like in food delivery, bike share, P2P loans, etc. Try make some healthier alternatives in these business as well. This is the way you should help human rights, not just keep ranting about something they have already lost.

Just do me a favor: ask any Chinese people you know, or think about this as you were Chinese: would you prefer a censored Google as an alternative, or the monopoly of Baidu? Please do this before you leave any comment.
Weird Facebook bug pulled up years-old conversations: Details here
Is It a Good Idea to Name Your Company “MyThis” (as in MySQL or MySpace)
> At least you got funded. I'm still bootstrapped, spending my own money for the privilege. :)

The best move my founder and I ever made, by leaps and bounds, was to not take any outside investment. If you can manage your cash flow and not get over excited about rocket trajectory growth, bootstrapping has its benefits; for founders especially.
I really hate how big trucks are in the US. I wish there were something slightly bigger than a Kei truck. I would really like a something like that.