skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest way is to sign up for in-person lessons, do your homework and keep attending until you are fluent.

In addition or even as an alternative, there are a few things you can study on your own:

1. Phonology. Learn the International Phonetic Alphabet and use it to understand how the pronunciation of your target language differs from your mother tongue. I like using Wikipedia's help pages of the form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Any_Language for that.

2. Vocabulary. In the beginning, it's probably most efficient to learn new words ordered by decreasing frequency. Once you can read simple texts with the help of a dictionary, learn words you had to look up repeatedly.

3. Practice. Use a spaced repetition program like Anki ( https://apps.ankiweb.net/ ) and make your own flashcards. Pre-made decks are unlikely to take you in exactly the direction you want to go.

3. Listening. Even before you're able to understand anything, you can get a feeling for the language by watching subtitled shows. ( https://www.viki.com/ has a decent selection in East Asian languages.) Later you can turn off subtitles (or switch them to the target language) to avoid overly relying on them.

4. Reading. Find something you can enjoy and read a little of it every day. In the beginning, that might just be a single sentence; you'll naturally end up reading more as your skill improves.

5. Speaking. This is the hardest to do on your own, and you definitely need a solid base vocabulary before you can have an intelligent conversation. To speed up the process, you can try finding a partner who'll be willing to listen to you babbling as long as you do the same for them. You need to make sure not to fall back to your mother tongue too easily, though.

6. Form a habit. If you have some fixed amount of time dedicated to learning every day, you're not as likely to procrastinate on it.
> well sourced

What kind of sourcing are we talking about here? Articles published in renowned journals and based on sound research or...?
If his dream is really to have the world switch from ICE to EV cars, then he should consider this. That would be an engineering and laudable feat, and he would be in the annals of history. He can then focus on SpaceX and go to Mars. But if his dream is to become ultra-wealthy and be like Stark in Ironman, then I guess he can keep to himself Tesla.
But what happens when the stock’s market price drops below the discounted price?
The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own
Switch back to Reddit? Start a copy of HN and wait patiently?
What the button that when pressed, goes and gets the washing from various rooms, checks pockets and such, checks washing instructions and separates colours, and then hangs it out afterwards?
There's none, use Ctrl-[, duh.
That’s not a uniquely African problem, although one could argue it’s on the more extreme end of the spectrum.

Really thinking about it, it’s a need for people to work for the common good. “Rather than voting in the guy who will give me money, I’ll vote in the guy who will make sure everyone has clean water.”

I assume the reason that doesn’t happen is because they tried the 2nd option and it failed.
The Fourth Way: Design Thinking Meets Futures Thinking (2016)
> especially given a community so willing to publish backwards incompatible changes come hell or high water

This triggers me. I feel like I dealt with this issue almost on the daily (ok, ok -- weekly) until we fully moved to yarn and started freezing the lockfile [0] with:

yarn --frozen-lockfile

It really is ridiculous. And even with yarn, I still have multiple resolutions [1] in our package.json files due to breaking changes in patch versions without a fix.

[0]: https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/install/
[1]: https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/selective-version-resolutio...
This is an article that refers to a Daily Mail article that refers to a study. The study in question [0].

There's an article in Nature about this topic that was discussed recently on HN. That one found that the association between screen time and negative well-being exists, but is low. [1]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328371592_Associati...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00137-6
Isn't this the concept behind dry needling?
Note the previous 3 parts are also make very interesting points.
Because this is easy to put in a press release... actually fixing customer service/safety issues would be more difficult.
> But why isn't there more alarm—or even action—over the fact that foods that were near-universally consumed by people are now increasingly capable of quite literally killing a relatively large part of the population?

They appear to have always been allergens to which a certain share of the population had extreme reactions, which is what produced the advice in the US to avoid exposure at ages when children would be unlikely to communicate a reaction, which is what produced the surge in sensitivity since apparently people are more likely to develop lasting and severe allergies if they are not exposed early, which is why the advice has since been reversed to encourage early exposure with close supervision, rather than a avoiding early exposure.

> For example, why is hand sanitizer still widely distributed?

What does hand sanitizer have to do with the issue?
> But seeing decisions being made based on the lowest common denominator is annoying to everyone else (edit: for small values of everyone) regardless of whether or not it's an objectively good decision.

I don't agree. Vehemently. I am not irritated by the fact that there are ramps on most sidewalks to accommodate those in wheel-chairs, or that there is seating set aside on public transit for those who need it, or that sidewalk crossings speak to those who cannot see...

Have you no love for your fellow man? Are you so disconnected from others that their lives are now just an irritation to you?

What you've said makes me sad. And angry. All life is valuable, sacred even. Assuming there is some "lowest common denominator" that must be "catered to" places a value judgement on those who have different needs and abilities. Are some people really worth less to you?
This was mostly due to a tax incentive if I remember correctly.
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From what I know of at least european car makers, they see the writing on the wall, especially with various governments making noises about banning petrol and diesel cars in the next decase or so, and they are heavily investing in the switch, even if it's not so obvious to consumers at the moment because the industry moves slowly.
Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
That is far too narrow a view. There are many ways a person can be harmed beyond just physical violence. Instead the question we have to tackle is how much harm are we OK with.
Looks like it's mostly DNS-based. Meh. But still, this underscores the importance of operating your own VPN if you want to maintain comms through the silly twitches of a gov't like this. The biggest VPN providers are the first to be targeted. Even just having an SSH host outside the country will do fine.

On another note, I recently set up a Tor bridge with pluggable transports to help those in choked areas. It was a fun homelab challenge, and a good way to spread my privilege of having a free connection.
Everyone has limited time and (presumably) attention. You don’t go around adding paragraphs of lorem ipsum or random bytes/words to your replies. Why not? Some of that could have some point worth considering.
Are allergy rates really increasing or is this just the effect of media?

Our bodies are weird. I spent all my summers as a kid in the countryside, with various animals and lots of vegetation. At age 12, for some reason I developed hay fever. I still spend my summers in the countryside and have to eat allergy pills throughout the summer. Is this the effect of hand sanitizer? Autoimmune disease: hand sanitizer? Very hard to pin down.
Indeed, if V8 has a deficient design, well, it's no reason to stop the world. Adults can't be cry-babies.
It's additional years of life - so 76 total.
Much worse than that: their (pre-market) valuation is 44B and takeovers require shareholder agreement, usually at least 20% premium to the market — I'd wager the ask price would be a lot more but let's be conservative... 53B buys you a 9B debt.
...and on my laptop, those are both physical keys with tactile sensations!
Toyota has solved enough EV for practical requirements, in the form of hybrids. They've over a decade experience in deploying for practical purposes.

Toyota's "basic" software can be an advantage, it works. Autopilot is far from mastered, by anyone.
New Nanomaterial to Replace Mercury
> There's a very good reason why seabirds in general are long-lived.

> probably due to overfishing for sandeels, their main prey

It's interesting that you point to an evolutionary fix (longevity to compensate for frequent breeding failures) for a problem caused by humans (overfishing). To me it seems more likely that if the population was at relative equilibrium for the past 100k years (seems like a reasonable assumption), then any steady increase in the number of breeding failures is a huge problem. Population dynamics are complex though, I'm not claiming to be an expert.

The actual cause is secondary to my point, be it overfishing, anthropomorphic global warming, plastic pollution, etc.
You don't induce it by breathing in residual dust of gluten though, do you? And again, if you do, then I'm sure the airline would accommodate you.
Or simply disabling JavaScript would have the same effect.
>Chinese airline paid $280,000 for the phone number 88888888.

It certainly added wealth to the phone number holder/assigner.
This is a guy with 5 Beverly Hills mansions and a private jet. All financed via his Tesla stock.

It seems as though any sacrifices related to "the mission" are expected to come from Tesla and SpaceX employees who have to suffer through periodic rounds of layoffs.

https://variety.com/gallery/elon-musk-buys-fifth-bel-air-hom...

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-elon-musk-mortgages-m...
This seems quite moderate compared to some UK primary schools banning all nuts even though several species are growing wild on the school premises.
There’s a lot of knowledge we take for granted when programming. A lot of problems in coding come from having an inadequate mental model, so I always try to explain how code runs on the machine as my first lesson.

I’ll give an example, to an experienced programmer you can look at code and tell what sequence the lines are going to run in and what sequence the expressions will probably be evaluated in. To a new programmer this isn’t obvious and they can make mistakes by making assumptions based on the code running at the same time and having an inaccurate view of the state at different points in a program.

I also think people dont emphasize how to find solutions to problems enough. Most time spent coding is spent trying to find someone else’s solution to something and figuring out how to apply it to your code. For example, a strategy like searching on google with site:news.ycombinator.com or site:github.com is not as obvious as you might think it is. Everyone has strategies for finding libraries, tutorials, and docs you should try to share them with students.
I think you're wrong about Tesla having an advantage in the non-electric parts of the car. The legacy car makers are way way better at actually building cars at a profit. If a big touchscreen was a way to do that they have the chops to pull it off (or at least one of the suppliers does).

There is/was a race between Tesla getting good at traditional car manufacturing and the legacy car makers coming up with their own EVs. It appears that Tesla is going to lose that race. Or at least not win it by enough where they will end up as one of the bigger car companies.
Seems like an actual use case for a spreadsheet. Is there anything you need from this tool that a trivial spreadsheet won’t support?
The quarterly loss comes directly from Tesla’s own reporting. You don’t think loss is derived only from revenue, do you?
If they aren’t part of the legitimate banking system then likely your funds are not safe. In the US you are automatically insured by the FDIC for up to $250k per bank and per account type (like savings and checking).

Does the EU have a similar concept? If so, will you lose insurance if their license is revoked?
> Maybe not the Model 3, but the model S has replaced a lot of the Mercedeses that used to dominate the taxi fleet in Amsterdam.

> It's entirely possible that Germany is more conservative than Amsterdam, though.

The taxi driver I spoke to about it told me they were using Teslas because they had gotten an agreement for free charging. I believe this has since changed though (this was almost four years ago).
sounds like you have a lot of programmers and little system engineers / 'devops' engineers. in my opinion it's a different kind of person who can fight environmental details into working with some programs (i.e setting up some environment / server and getting everything tested / deployed) than a person who can write the thing being deployed. Generally i think both have very different information to their disposal. Someone who makes a life out of tying things together, will know a lot of these 'things' he ties together, like ldap/ad,dns,okta,random_api_xxx,etc. where a programmer might know just as much sorting algorithm as and methods to make efficient linked data structures as this other person knows different apis and python modules...
Ctrl-C also works
Hmm, depends on project size I guess. Polish for me means simplify and make prettier.
This. It's a bug to use a different text renderer than the system, because it will never look the same and with text this is very noticeable and irritating even to some people. You do _not_ want your core visual to be irritating.
Proprietary software companies are equally likely to fail, and take the source code down with them. Free Software (and, to a lesser extent, Open Source) are less risky than proprietary software.
Robert Durst’s Infamous “Confession” on the Jinx Was Edited Out of Order
If you believe that then you have defined "harm" so broadly as to be utterly meaningless.
While she looks accomplished, it doesn't look like she does any teaching, so why recommend her?
The big problem the big auto manufacturers are having is the battery and cost. A mass-market electric car cannot cost as much as Tesla's offerings, and a huge part of that cost is the battery. Even with the most optimistic cost projections of battery costs in the near future, it's hard to see how to offer an electric car which is competitive on both cost and range with an ICE car.
Most of the complaints I have heard are about the developers using their position of power to push their own political agenda.

In the past they have ripped off some ones copyrighted code when it was a dependancy for everything[1]. After that they then deleted other peoples packages claming copyright infringement because there partner wanted the package name[2]

A lot of people moved to the faster alternative yarn, this caused the NPM developers to rain in their bull.

Their past actions and how they wield power are a demonstration that they should not have it, their attitude is one rule for us and another for everyone else.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
[2] https://kodfabrik.com/journal/i-ve-just-liberated-my-modules...
I've read that the wiring harness of a modern ICE car costs more than the transmission.

Do you think it's possible that all we need is ~$100/KWh, after which due to diminishing returns, find better ROI improving other areas like a dramatically cheaper wiring harness?
It's possible to question without being a paid shill - overpopulation is relevant yet taboo, we are bound to an economic model that worships inexorable economic growth despite likely consequences for the planet that cannot be solved by innovation alone, the rich and powerful are disproportionate creators of CO2 and in unique position to influence yet apparently most show little true inclination to change matters, we are kept in the dark about the true scale of the changes required (which would leave our lifestyles unrecognisable compared to now - forget cars, forget flying, forget imported goods, forget cheap clothes, forget meat) and there are myriad other environmental issues that to my eyes are conveniently ignored in favour of the 'push global warming at all costs' directive. I care about the planet and want to see global warming tackled, but look past the rhetoric and there are discrepancies galore.
Anyone using ProtonMail regularly? I created an account but haven’t used it much.

How are your experiences? Any iOS users who can comment on their experience with proton mail and the default mail client?

I don’t went to switch to something that won’t be around in a decade or so.
Nitpick: I doubt that populations of anything have been at a steady state in Shetland (or anywhere nearby) for more than 12,000 years or so.
> Part of the reason we have so many climate change deniers (IMHO) is just how bad climate model predictions have been.

Sources? You seem to have read the number and automatically assumed it's a straight line extrapolation.

As far as I'm aware the climate models have been fine and - corrected, but not majorly disproven; it's the reporting on them that looks at the most extreme extrapolations to whip up hysteria (and so it gets ignored and so the extreme cases become more likely).
The False Choice Between Business and Ethics
No, "diversity" would be more analogous to a mixture model. The parent comment was referring to a normal distribution.
> Specialised enough that I didn't come across it during my years of work on Qt.

Of course you didn't, Qt is retained.

It's a bit like imperative programming vs functional programming. Before functional programming gained any significant traction, imperative programming was just "programming".
I have to second this comment. I think it is also important to stress the activities after the failure is also important. ie reporting it at earliest, proactive in helping to contain its impact, conducting a lesson learn etc.
Thanks, I have added MIT license now.
I am literally creased up laughing.
The Roadster hasn't been released yet so nothing needs updating yet.
It's kinda weird how little you have to do with 32 GB (!) of RAM until Windows starts to complain about not having enough free memory and you-better-close-some-applications-right-now! I remember when a 1 GB memory upgrade was something, and back then I could even play a game on 512 MB of memory and occassionally alt-tab to a web browser for cheats... nowadays a web browser on 512 MB RAM is virtually impossible.

(Edit: I realize this complaint is quite old, but from the age where hundreds-of-MB main memory were mainstream we have seen very little actual improvement in GUI fancyness, yet a massive explosion in CPU and memory use, and often even heavily deteriorated responsiveness. That doesn't hold going from the "couple of megs" to "hundreds of megs" age.)
While I appreciate advances in cryptography, I would rather protonmail work on things like getting their bridge returning properly formatted IMAP responses[1] so we can use whatever clients we want with it.

The mobile experience is fine, but desktop is brutal unless you happen to prefer one of the few clients they support.

[1] https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/429
I made a free course that teaches D3+React: https://webvis.paulbutler.org/

I wrote it to accompany an in-person class I teach at work, but it's meant to work standalone as well.
> Squeak Smalltalk uses Morphic, although its descendents (e.g. Pharo and Newspeak) seem to have replaced it (I'm not sure of their paradigm though)

Pharo is still using Morphic, though there is a new graphics layer called Bloc (vector and constraints based) that has been under development to replace it.
Don't get me started ;)

I'm sure Amazon has stats on fraudulent transactions; would it hurt them to say "two sales per thousand are fraudulent"?

Also, the light that burns twice as bright burns one eighth as long.
This is what I did. Extremely time consuming but does the job pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpIkP4OUlkY
Claiming that people donate anonymously because they are concerned about claims to their estate is, IMO, pretty ridiculous. There have been millions of sperm donations done through fertility clinics and not one documented case of any offspring laying claim to an estate.

You claim restriction on testing seems reasonable - restrictions for whom?

For the offspring? As another person pointed out, they have no agency in this. They did not sign a contract promising anonymity. They should have every right to seek out their genetic origins.

For your 3rd cousins who you've never met? If even one of your distant relatives has tested on one of these sites, it's incredibly easy for an offspring to track you down and figure out who you are.

How would you suggest restricting or preventing that? Whose usage would you restrict?
Or give it to an elderly family member and sue Amazon for negligence if something happens and their surveillance device doesn't summon an ambulance?
Tesla stock trades like a leveraged Credit Default Swap
A little decorum, please.
Exactly my point. Confusing is with the common understanding when they mean something else.

They aren't lying, exactly.
They are also a huge importer of input materials for their farming machine. Fertilizer, livestock fodder (that will result in even more fertilizer), fossil energy to fuel greenhouses.

Thinking of modern Dutch agriculture as food production is misleading, it's more meaningful to think of it as a refining process. Cheap nutrients go in, expensive nutrients go out.
> 'However' is longer than 'that said'.

We're both nitpicking at this point: "however" is shorter than "that said" according to two out of three relevant metrics:

"however": 1 word, 3 syllables, 7 characters

"that said": 2 words, 2 syllables, 9 characters

That said, it's a waste of time to worry about the difference anyway. Keep in mind that we aren't minifying JS or hand-optimizing processor code. When it comes to natural-language communication between humans, not every byte matters.

Use the words that sound natural to you for your intended audience. Weigh feedback from trusted coworkers and members of that audience.
People using the term "sucks" seldom have a valid criticism (and never a subtle one).

The problem here was GitHub making an abrupt change (and switching defaults), not Markdown itself.

Which has its problems, but those are not it.
ICANN proposes to lift price limits on .org TLD
So you have no actual explanation for your hiring practices, just deep-seated biases that happen to correlate with bias against protected classes but isn't nominally actually against protected classes. Makes sense—that makes you well-qualified to be an interviewer for many tech companies.
1000% this. Just because LEGO pieces fit together doesn’t mean they take the form of a cohesive argument. It’s actually concerning to me that there is too much focus on practical coding skills in e.g. high school, to the detriment of essay-writing and critical thinking in non-technical domains. The “five paragraph essay” is actually fantastic preparation for “defensive coding” - if you can write good counterarguments, you can write error handling code.
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> Difference between "agression" and "microagression" is one of scale

No, you're comparing physical aggression with verbal aggression. Sure, the latter might hurt, but I think many (most?) people would agree that it's not just a difference "of scale".

> But the intent to hurt is common.

No, "microaggressions" are often accused even when there's no intent to hurt. E.g. asking a foreign-looking student "Where are you from?" - which is most often likely asked with genuine curiosity, and no ill intent whatsoever - even if you don't assume the person is a foreigner!