skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised that I didn't see Memrise (https://www.memrise.com/) in the lists. I've switched to Duolingo myself in the past year but there are a lot of crowdsources resources there for heaps of languages.
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I agree, but it’s not such a no brainer. You’re making a common purchase more expensive. Meanwhile EVs are only similari price because they are heavily subsidized by governments all around the world.
Open sourcing e-commerce framework with Elixir
Interesting idea to use inflation for tax means. China however doesn't appear to have much inflation compared to other countries.
but of the 'primary goods' (e.g. food) the minimum rate is 5%

Food is zero rated in the UK.
How can we prevent the chargeback frauds?
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> In the old days, JavaScript did not have classes.

Feels like yesterday to me. I still do my objects prototype style because classes feel too new and bleeding edge.
AskHistorians is definitely not about the length of answers, except in that it takes a fair bit of writing to communicate complicated histories. The format does encourage a narrative, but that's reflective of the fact that most of the people reading are laypeople, not scholarly peers who can be expected to know unstated background. If you personally find it easy to teach laypeople the breadth of a field of discourse without narrative simplification, you have a very rare skill.

That said, I think many people misunderstand the discourse that's happening there. It's not academic, but instead a touchpoint between academics(-ish) and laypeople. The kinds of questions being asked are decidedly not the sorts of questions discussed in literature. Flairs in turn have to give an educated answer that actually communicates with the asker. Citations don't really fit well into what's happening for either side. They're time consuming to produce and no one reads or even understands them, nor do they provide particularly relevant information. You can't usually cite a consensus, after all.
Do you use "vi" or "emacs"? It's my opinion that "vi" warps your mind about how pointers work, with its cursor that can't decide whether it's BETWEEN characters and OVER characters.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11402/why-does-esc-...

>Why does `ESC` move the cursor back in vim?

>In insert mode, the cursor is between characters, or before the first or after the last character. In normal mode, the cursor is over a character (newlines are not characters for this purpose). This is somewhat unusual: most editors always put the cursor between characters, and have most commands act on the character after (not, strictly speaking, under) the cursor. This is perhaps partly due to the fact that before GUIs, text terminals always showed the cursor on a character (underline or block, perhaps blinking). This abstraction fails in insert mode because that requires one more position (posts vs fences).

>Switching between modes has to move the cursor by a half-character, so to speak. The i command moves left, to put the cursor before the character it was over. The a command moves right. Going out of insert mode (by pressing Esc) moves the cursor left if possible (if it's at the beginning of the line, it's moved right instead).

>I suppose the Esc behavior sort of makes sense. Often, you're typing at the end of the line, and there Esc can only go left. So the general behavior is the most common behavior.

>Think of the character under the cursor as the last interesting character, and of the insert command as a. You can repeat a Esc without moving the cursor, except that you'll be bumped one position right if you start at the beginning of a non-empty line.

Also:

https://superuser.com/questions/242156/make-vim-normal-mode-...

>Make VIM normal-mode cursor sit between characters instead of on them

>I would really like it if the VIM cursor in normal mode could act like it does in insert mode: a line between two characters. So for example:

>- Typing vd would have no effect because nothing was selected

>- p and P would be the same

>- i and a would be the same

>Has anything like this been done? I haven't been able to find it.

>Answers:

>The idea that the cursor is always on a line and on a character position or column is inherent in Vim's design. If you were to try to change that, many of Vim's operations would behave differently or would not work at all. It's not a good idea. My advice would be that you learn and become accustomed to Vim's basic behavior and not try to make it behave like some other editor. – garyjohn Feb 5 '11 at 23:55

>What you want is not Vim, I'm afraid. – romainl Feb 6 '11 at 7:15

And people wonder why I still use Emacs...
"Atomic Habits" by James Clear
Well, a couple of things start to make sense about the kludginess, if you start with the single-cellular origin, and then pile up layers of specialized tissue, with some cells permanently buried within the organism, never to be exposed to an external environment.

The first part is that brains are just plain weird, and perhaps one of the weirdest aspected of any multicellular organism. More than half of all known life forms don’t have brains. So, brains usually aren’t a priority.

Second, the gut is often regarded as a brain-like organ in many vertebrates, and so, with arthropods and crustaceans, it’s interesting that the the two might be more tightly coupled. It probably cheapens the endocrine feedback loop.

Third, external digestion actually comes across as less freakish and uncivilized underwater. On land it has a messy, disgusting sensibility, but in the ocean it’s kind of on par with a smokey cooking fire at a camp site, especially when considered from a single celled animal’s perspective.

When you consider that crabs and lobsters are the ancestral relatives of insects and arachnids, the low prioritization of a brain, and externalized digestion start to look more and more normal.
It‘s the injection vector. People used to sideload malicious addons a lot by „accident“ when a rogue website told them to („You must install X player to see this video. Click here …“).
I used to live quite close to there. As the bird flies, doesn't seem that remote. Probably hard to get to though.
Fascinating. Despite its relevance, this story never got higher than page five, even going lower for a while:

https://i.imgur.com/BYcBGDz.png

Here's the "worst" snapshot, first column is rank, second column is age in minutes, third is score; all compared stories had less or equal number of comments, so in this case, zero.

71 660 3 The Patrician President and the Reporterette: A Screwball Story
72 780 5 Plane – minimal visual improvements for Linux
120 1080 3 The plan to move the Swedish town of Kiruna
128 1140 3 Slow television
129 1380 4 The story behind the first computer in Canada (2016)
139 1200 3 Experience of phantom limbs lets amputees control real replacements
140 1200 3 Old coal mines can be underground food farms

150 540 6 Germany pushes router security rules, OpenWRT and CCC push back
That's pretty impressive! Nice work man.

I had the 500 with memory upgrade, then upgraded to the 3000 - where I got a new CPU, either the 020 or the 030, and my first ever HDD. I think it was a massive 50MB.

I searched some of the demo archives and could find an intro of kinds that I wrote as a teenager. I was able to start it up in an emulator, and it was a fairly good representation ... memories long lost, revived!

The most fun was probably reading the fantastic crap I wrote in the greeting scrolltext - it was like a portal into a former self. :) And, no, none of my folks had video records back in the 80s, so that's all lost.
How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
My current teams on call is pretty taxing. Two weeks on, two weeks off (only myself and my tech lead in the team at the moment), but our alerting is pretty good.

The places it falls down are where we interface with other teams who aren't on call for their systems and for them a weekend long outage is "acceptable".
This is so true. For example, AWS ElasticSearch, only a tiny fraction of plugins are supported, it doesn't even support gzip compression for requests and responses....
Mushrooms aren’t plants.
Self-Improvement Vs Self-Love
Ask HN: Review my product, zalster.com/slackbot
We created a Slack bot for Facebook Ads.

Have a look and give me your toughest feedback: zalster.com/slackbot
Presenting Aviacommerce(https://www.aviacommerce.org/) and open source e-commerce framework written entirely in Elixir(https://elixir-lang.org/).

Github: https://github.com/aviacommerce/avia

We are in the early stages of the development I would say. With the core engine mostly complete we think the framework is at a stage where developers can start to experiment with it.

Why did we work on it?
Well, there are many open source options available but like everyone else, we think we can do a better job at it.

The docs are also at an early stage but enough to get started and have a system up and running in production.

Do leave your feedback on how can we make it better.

Thanks,
Aviacommerce Team

PS: If you are looking to contribute in any way feel free to reach out. We'd love some outside help. Talk with us on gitter(https://gitter.im/avia-commerce).
Lets break it down. You intrepid reporter have discovered that Chairman John Smith has been embezzling from the company coffers and lying to shareholders and even now is preparing to abscond with his ill gotten gains to an island paradise. Your release a blistering expose on this titled Mr Smith goes to Jamaica... with all your money. Robbery and shame at foo corp.

You might think that your title communicates the most import part of your hard work but 99.9% of the value consists of the fact that you have no right no NOT your clever presentation of such.
Learning Quickly to Plan Quickly Using Modular Meta-Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07878

Automatically Composing Representation Transformations as a Means for Generalization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04640

Modular meta-learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10166

Omega: An Architecture for AI Unification
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12069

Cortex Neural Network: learning with Neural Network groups
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03313

Evolutionary Architecture Search For Deep Multitask Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03745
What kinda stuff does your company make, anyway?
Giving everyone a basic bank account with a debit card would be a great solution. A lot of people don't have a fixed address or live somewhere that they don't have a utility bill in their name, therefore they can't get a bank account.
One solution would be to allow the post office to operate as a bank, as is done in many countries. Right now the working poor are screwed by predatory banks and loan cashing services who work the system to stop alternative services.
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> Otherwise the government is telling businesses that they should succeed up to a certain point

That's the ultimate point, though. The reason why anti-competitive laws exist. The reason we like free markets on a societal level is that competition - where it happens - keeps the prices down, and prevents a single entity from having too much control over people (via prices and availability). We benefit from entrepreneurs playing the game, not winning the game. A total success on the market is a disaster for society (imagine e.g. Walmart being the only grocery store, or fully vertically integrated Unilever controlling food production).
Search is definitely one of the canonical AI applications.
>Pay. People on call should get paid extra for it. There is a significant impact on your life if you have to be ready to log on and trouble shoot issues at any time during a week, so you deserve to be compensated for that. I think the best system is when you both get a fixed amount just for being on call, whether there are incidents or not, and you also get paid every time you get called out. Getting time off in lieu is also a possibility.

Depending on where you live this may not be realistic. In Japan for example it's quite common for companies to put their engineers on call without compensation - even if it's a legal gray area. I was once on a team that had to threaten management with a lawyer when they tried to propose this, but I have a feeling the majority of workers here would just swallow it.

There are other logistical factors that need to be considered which this article makes no mention of. What happens when someone who is on-call lives/commutes through an area with patchy cellphone coverage? What do you do regarding alcohol consumption?
I think you're talking about something very different than that about which the person to whom you responded was talking.

I'm assuming they were talking about different systems they don't own, aren't their own systems, and over which they don't have the sort of control to install their own software and set things up using their personal configuration files.

It's awesome that you've got, or at least dreamt up, a system that works for you, but if you're able to use that exact system on every single machine you use, that isn't quite what was being described. That's an ideal, but only really feasible for personal machines.

Also, I'm going to get downvoted, but please put in a few line breaks.
JSX is not only not required, it's sugar that breaks referential transparency: https://medium.com/@david.chambers/jsx-violates-referential-...

Personally I still use it, but I think it's fair to say that as much as JSX was created for a reason, it's made optional for a reason too.
Despite built in options for ad-block, uBlock Origin is still essential for me.

There is too much junk on sites, poorly designed elements that take up half my screen, social media elements, video elements - I tend to block those elements freely.
I have been saying for some time that Amazon can't be allowed to operate the marketplace and be a vendor. They could have protected themselves with a 'Chinese Wall' between the departments, but chose to abuse the position.

Tip, if you are selling something through Amazon, make sure it is branded. At least you may get Trademark protection.
„This cool trick gives your Firefix super powers“ articles will appear instantly. This happened before with noobs following instructions to copy & paste code into the developer console(!), which pwned quite a few Facebook (and other) accounts. Same for banking websites, intranets, … social engineering works well on the unsuspecting. This is btw why browser vendors implemented measurements to make it harder to copy & paste into the dev console, as well as disallowed pasting „javascript:“ URLs to the address bar.
Ah yes.. the sweet sweet distortions of valve on my mp3 player!
Building and Maintaining a Sustainable Fire in Winter
I have done it for 1 year and half and I’ll never, ever do it again.
As I learnt, my sleep is worth much more than any amount of money.
Ideal process for me is being placed in front of other engineers and discussing what I did in the past and how I understand their challenges. Meeting the team I’m working with is a plus to see if we are a match. I don’t do tests and stop the process before it gets to that. I also consider talking to HR a waste of time. The company should sell itself to me.
It seems a completely reasonable hike from the sandy bank of Azure lake (in summer).
Your company might be inadvertently attracting poor candidates. I imagine a lot of good candidates (like myself) would just pass on a 4 hours of homework for a random programming job. And good candidates almost certainly won’t spend 3 days on it.

Remember Joel Splosky’s classic observation: all the good programmers already have good jobs. The ones on the job market who apply to jobs are usually the bad ones.
The new suspense api is based on throwing and catching promises as part of the render, so I don’t think its that.
What? No. Porn is the lifeblood of many industries.

The problem with porn is two-fold:

- Some classes of advertisers don't like it (don't want their ads associated with porn). Removing porn from your platform might be necessary depending on your business model and target audience.

- Websites that will commonly have minors will usually avoid the risk and outright ban porn. Still, it's not like they wouldn't take it if they could. Steam for example has recently started approving porn games.
I'm not really criticizing Material Design per se here, just people jumping to it (especially on the web) regardless of whether it makes sense for a particular product.
The zoot suit riots were during the war, right? Man... Those pants were pegged! Very nearly hammerpants.
Clause Creates Smart Contract Template for IoT Devices
> In the JavaScript world, debugging is almost a bad word. It’s almost impossible to maintain a sane debuggable trace though a “modern” JavaScript application.

I felt this last week as I tried Webpack 4 on a new project. The source maps weren't correct, and instead of debugging my app I had to debug multiple Webpack plugins and work out which one was breaking the source maps.

Never did find out, but I fixed my app by debugging it mentally. It sure made me wish for a developer-first language.
One solution to this problem is to "follow-the-sun" if you have multiple teams across the globe.
Their addon tool includes a well documented facility to sign an extension without listing it in the addon store so you can host it somewhere else. This can e.g. be used for company-internal extensions.
I have always put the Taskbar on the left as long as I remember I could.
At work, it seems I am always the only one with such habits for more than a decade in different client environment.
If the on call hours were part of your initial contract and renumeration then that's OK. Otherwise they're changing your terms of employment in their favour, taking more of your life than they're paying you for.
I'm a bit concerned about the communication here. Last week Mozilla were saying this was an action by a community reviewer.
It also generalizes to any object that can be seen as an infinite stack of concentric infinitely thin objects of the same shape (that set includes all convex polyhedra)

For example:

- for squares, area is 4r², circumference is 8r

- for cubes, volume is 8r³, area is 24r²
Sorry, not browsing through hundreds of articles about all sorts of things being found in permafrost. Any direct links to your particular doomsday scenario?

Doesn't Methane burn? Maybe another energy source for the future...
Can't they do that anyway? I mean there's more than one John Smith in the world, there's nothing preventing all of them from having an account. What normally prevents impersonation is people checking if you have the same set of friends.
The accommodation crisis close to big factories was awful but remember people who had been in the depression were living in jungle camps made out of cardboard by freight lines. These caravan trailers were a step up for e.g. former migrant field labour.

Richard Rhodes talks about workers in the wider Manhatten district nuclear factory system eg at oak Ridge having no limit to meat in their ration to attract workers to barracks style entertainment free zone: bars with windows which swing up and out for rapid teargassing by police due to barfights.
Someone hacked 50,000 printers to promote PewDiePie YouTube channel
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Nope — sideloading is still easy in Chrome.
Governments create their own money.
Can we add some sort of HN rule that bans sites with paywalls?
Coal mines are exceptionally dangerous places. They require constant ventilation against methane accumulation and pumping out water that seeps in all the time. The soil is friable and there is a careful trade-off between personel safety and resources invested into consolidation and securing the galleries against collapse.

A mine is not some kind of free underground cave, it's an industrial installation requiring constant engineering. They have 24/7 command centers that monitor and correct safety parameters before anyone is allowed to go in. When mines close, they are flooded, refilled or sealed, to prevent underground explosions and collapse that could kill people above. The closure of mines is itself a dangerous and expensive operation.

Bottom line, if it ain't worth going down there and picking unlimited quantities of coal worth $70/ton, it most certainly isn't worth it to invest and labour for months in a high risk environment, only to get limited quantities of agricultural produce worth $200-$300/ton.
Is seems we are running out of breathable air faster than petrol. :)
The nazis who live in the hollow earth
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but in this test uBlock Origin failed miserably, to say the least.

https://avlab.pl/test-web-browser-extensions-protection-agai...
How do these add-ons work? For sites with an x-number of free articles a month I have come across an add-on that would clear all local storage for a particular paywalled site. Using a private browsing window would also allow me to view the site paywall-less in those cases, so I didn't need the add-on in those cases.
I have recently bought an A1200 as well, but one thing that surprised me was the unbearable-ness of the refresh rate (50/60Hz ?) of the original monitor. I eventually had to buy a signal converter to connect the machine to some better display unit.

I cannot imagine how I could have spent day-long gaming sessions in front of that display.
I‘m pretty sure there is an un-branded release version of Fx on the Mozilla website that allows side-loading and allows disabling the signature verification. I don‘t have a link ready and on mobile so I cannot easily check.
You mean like in the US? Oh wait...
Rabbit-hole: Vampire FPGA accelerator
Product People: Embrace Your Inner Imposter
5 Tips for Writing Better Examples
In the Netherlands they’ve just reversed subsidies for electric vehicles, increasing bijtelling for them which makes them a lot more expensive for business purchases and leases. It’s a step backwards.
> Writing news is work of perhaps a different subject

Don't care because that is not the subject of this issue not matter how much you wish it were. The subject is whether or not a paywall is adequate for restricting access to content on a public medium. If that restriction is so easily bypassed it is clearly ineffective and inadequate. If you really cared about your business and revenue you would solve this problem instead of complaining about failed value assessments.

> control over their work

Journalists don't have control over their work. Publishers do. This is the same failed argument the music and movie industries peddled from around 1998-2008. Instead of wasting your energy on distribution control spend it on what you are good at and return superior value to your work.
Isn't the 1200 supposed to drive a VGA monitor?
Using Events in Node.js the Right Way
True capitalist just takes your money and does not give you anything since they like money so much.
Thinking about the history of the world, brain washing people since they are born and having no opposition is much a safer approach than crushing occasional revolts.
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This is already happening in Amsterdam
That’s really awesome. All modern platforms should do this