skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strictly anecdatally (nb: intentional), I moved to France at 26, spent a total of five years living in France before heading back to the US, have kept French involved in my life, and now fifteen years later will have French people ask me where in France I am from. Which is to say, that this article reads as personal experience more than anything else. However, French is probably a very unique case for study.

French poses a large number of difficulties for the native English speaker. While the letters are the same, the sounds are subtly different (more precise, less rounded than English), and there are at least three sounds that simply don't exist in English (the two "u" sounds "ou" and "u", the nasal "n", the guttural "r"). You most likely won't even be able to hear the difference between the two "u" sounds until after you've trained your ears.

Also, many sounds are simply elided from the words they are attached to. Almost any word with an "s" loses that sound ("filles" and "fille" for daughter(s) are both pronounced "fee"). A word like "comment" (how), where if you were to pronounce the "ent" would be a very light nasal "n" sound, is pronounced "co-mo".

Additionally, while the number of contractions in English is small, French has a construct called the liaison (which means link), which causes a combinatorial explosions in audible contractions. For example, the word comment (pronounced "co-mo") and the word allez (pronounced "ah-lay") links to become "co-mo-ta-lay". (added "T" sound).

This link is because normally, in French, two vowel sounds can not be consecutive, and so the otherwise silent sound is re-injected to make the two sounds flow together better. In cases where no sound has been elided, a new letter is injected to keep the flow. "Has" is "a", and "he" is "il", but "has he eaten?" gets an injected "t": "a-t-il mangé?". However, if adding the sound for flow causes confusion, then the French will leave it out for no strict reason. The example given to me was "trop aidé", which translates literally as "too helped", because the link would make it sound like "too gay", which would cause confusion.

So when you combine these (along with a number of complexities I haven't mentioned yet (like there's a whole verb tense that only exists in writing, but not spoken form), then French in specific conflicts with a lot of what you learn for English, making it very difficult to learn as your second language.
Shameless plug:

When 3.7 was first released, I created a library to use dataclasses and add some light type validation to them. The library grew and now also supports some basic serialization mapping.

I'd love some feedback/issues/PRs

https://github.com/abatilo/typed-json-dataclass
I was in "GIFTED" in elementary and middle school.

The elementary school one was amazing, and I would recommend it to anyone.

The middle school one was mediocre at best. I liked it, but it wasn't actually any better than regular classes.

So it can vary pretty wildly, even in the same school system.
ASK HN: CVS Pharmacy Sharing Data with Facebook and/or Groupon?
Yesterday I had to buy a compression sleeve for my injured knee. I didn't do any searches on the internet, just went to the nearest CVS and bought one using my wife's CVS loyalty card. Today on her Facebook account she was presented with an ad from Groupon with a coupon for knee compression sleeves.

I never had problem with my knee before, I didn't do any searches for knee injuries or anything related to that before, and neither did my wife.

I was under impression that sharing of personal health data is prohibited, but it seems that if you buy stuff that's over the counter, there is nothing stopping companies from sharing it with 3rd parties.
from the "Personal thoughts" section of the document:

> An analysis of the likely number of deaths over 10,000 years due to inadvertent intrusion should be conducted. This cost should be weighted against that of the marker system.

i'm curious re: where you're coming from with "ignoring the possibility that Earth may not be hospitable to humans within two generations" – I feel like that's outside the scope of this document. also, couldn't the same be said about any plan with a long enough timeline?
Agree that these companies are using the tax code to write off losses that they are intentionally incurring in order to achieve a lower cost point than their (profitable) competitors. This is a very predatory practice that should be ended. Companies should compete in the marketplace. Having tax payers foot the bill for some companies disruption gambit makes no sense.
congratulations! What an accomplishment
[Referring to trans people]

> You are absolutely evil if you want to encourage delusion. What happened to not stigmatizing mental illness?
Ransomware continues to cause trouble around the globe
faux amis in French, and that's obviously a problem for the opposite direction as well.
Here’s the Reddit thread with more feedback from the creator[0]. Amazingly gets a week between charges[1]

[0]https://old.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/bivyok/i_made_a_smartw...

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/bivyok/i_made_a_smartw...
I used to scuba dive a lot in the kelp beds off of Point Loma, San Diego in the early 90's. One day while floating on the top of the water with my buddy after a dive, a military boat drives by really fast. All the sudden, I'm lifted and spun around by a huge push of water. Scared me silly, I will never forget it. After a moment, I realized it was a couple of trained dolphins following the boat and messing with me. My buddy couldn't stop laughing at me.
This is nicely done, beautiful aesthetics.
There are multiple phases (HW, SW, Mechanics) which would be impressive enough on their own. Kudos!

Love the little gifs to explain how it's done, especially the stenciling of the PCB.

I'm curious, how/why did you choose the DA14683 chip?
I think you are just lazy, and there is no problem with that. Anyway, laziness is a sin, and some philosophers classify this sin as "the loss of taste for life", which is not good for you.
Ivan, is that you?
> We wonder why fake news and bullshit work ? It's because we teach kids to repeat popular opinions and make up things because they look good. We teach them that not only there is a price to pay for not doing that, but that we are ok with being the ones making them pay it.

Luckily, you are overestimating the effect of education.

Kids don't pay enough attention to be so indoctrinated.
If they are not all water soluble, you might be taking too much of one (or more). This is not always safe.
Iff the answer to paywalls (and not site access) is CAPTCHA, then I would have been game. Problem is that I'm still not going to disable uBlock due to the poor practices of ad companies destroying web usability.
Plenty of blogs are nothing but interesting comments on topics that frustrate the author.

Even some of the most well known writings in computer science are just that, like the short article by some guy frustrated with everyone using goto instead of functions/while/for/etc (the article that inspired countless "... considered harmful" headlines).
Couldn't the latency problem be at least partially solved by moving servers to LEO as well? At least as a CDN?
Actually I have, most of my employers and clients the past few decades have 80k++ employees. I understand that there are PLENTY of interfaces on a company on the size of Vodafone (let's call them that) that have live access to networks, infrastructure, and what have you (e.g. Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson to name the big whales) and myriad other smaller ones monitoring, fixing, live, a million moving parts.

The responsibility and accountability remains though. I do not accept the 'we are big and busy so we drop the ball'.
Oh wow I didn't know you can do conditionals with variable like that. I'll give it a try later, thanks!
It’s hard to compare to other businesses because amazon cannot capitalize R&D. If they spend $1bn on software dev and Tesla spends the same amount on a factory, Amazon’s ebitda is down $1bn and Tesla’s is only down ~$100M.
I guess because of exactly how weak the 'right' answer's justification is, that they have to defend it so vigorously.
My elementary school "GIFTED" program didn't attempt to teach us at a higher grade level at all. Instead it introduced us to different ideas and challenges that normal classes didn't cover. It was everything from an egg-drop contest to programming to creating slides for a report to adopting a manatee to solving "logic problems".
Quoting the OP from the reddit thread:

"I picked the MCU for a couple of reasons:

-Very low power transmit/receive for the bluetooth (<4mA). I get around a week of battery life

-Cheap

-High speed on the SPI bus. The display writes are limited by the SPI bus. It requires a 9-bit word (additional bit is used for data/command). So being able to run the SPI bus at 48MHz is clutch.

-Has PMIC integrated into chipset. I don't need to include additional circuitry for a buck-boost regulator or a lipo charger since the dialog part has it all built in!

-Cheap"
Compiling will not change READ into PARSE. READ is still there.

> Most CL implementations compile before calling eval

Many or a lot, but I'm not sure actually most.

There are quite a lot which use an Interpreter in the REPL, but where one can compile on demand. SBCL by default compiles. LispWorks for example does not.

> After it's reader is done with it, the code is represented with CL data structures.

Right, but the data structures carry no syntactic information. If you write (1 2 +) the reader accepts it and does not know that this is invalid syntax.

> AST and IR are all CL data structures.

True, but not necessarily like s-expressions...

See for example data structures the SBCL compiler uses:

https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/compiler/node.l...

> Saving the image and exiting the runtime is like compiling in normal languages.

Working with images is optional - the Common Lisp standard says nothing about images at all.
Bottom images seem photoshopped.
> what kind of bandwidth can an inexpensive ground-based system get, reliably?

Theoretically 56 Kbit, but practically closer to 40 Kbit. I'm being serious! Given the choice between hugely expensive and high latency satellite Internet and dial-up, many have opted for dial-up, even in this day and age! We're not even talking that far away from urban centers, either, especially in hilly areas. A couple hour's drive outside of San Francisco is enough to get to cell-phone network dead spots, never mind LTE. There are some hyper-regional wireless ISPs using 802.12-based gear (Uniquity), but those are the exception.

Given that, (which is so extreme that I'm sure that not everybody that reads this will even believe me), any competition to HughesNet will be very welcome. Prior to SpaceX, the cost of getting a constellation of satellites into orbit was prohibitively expensive, but with this being done by SpaceX, the launches for this will be done "at cost", (corporate accounting and cost centers notwithstanding). (Which, mind you, is still several million dollars per launch in rocket fuel.)

Hopefully that means a genuine competitor to HughesNet, but that's a low bar. There is a large initial investment (of time and money), but FCC approval is an important first step towards providing this service.
Very few french folks who live in France like to speak any other language, regardless of their objective level. Those who went abroad are better in this. The excuse is always the same - "my level is not so good" - which is mostly not true, they are perfectly understandable and speak fine. Maybe they don't like their accent, but this is not any blocker for a good conversation.

Very personal experience for past 8 years - living 2km from French border, surrounded by them day and night.
I agree. The test was for pattern matching. The student succeeded.
In middle school I was placed, by standardized testing, into bonehead classes, where I was extremely bored, not because I was so smart that I knew it already, but because it was boring. I took a writing elective course, impressed the teacher sufficiently that she got me into eighth grade honors English, where my dear teacher lectured on grammar like it was a game of chess. I lived it, but I struggled to get my C. Getting extra credit for reading Chaucer, on my own initiative, probably made the difference--or more likely my teachers good will and support. Teachers count.

Not sure I would have ended up where I did but for their intervention.
Why can't you avoid the ground station and just do satellite to satellite for relay? I believe that's precisely how starlink works.
There's wine tasting and than there's blind wine tasting. The latter has some things going for it as a proper endeavour. The former is just a pastime that's more about finding nice words than actually tasting wine.
Yes. I actually have very large balls so it was quite uncomfortable. With training I believe this is less of an issue but I was put off at that point.
And how do you buy a phone you can completely own? :)
A company paying a cost of $50 to produce widgets for 1 year (and don't sell any that year), then selling all the widgets on the 2nd year for a profit of $100, can claim that they made a loss of $50 in the previous year, and therefore only have $50 that's taxable.

A person who works for 1 year for $100 income, then stops working the 2nd year (and live off their income from the 1st year), must pay their taxes at the $100 rate. If they are allowed the same 'carry forward' as a corp, they should pay at the tax rate of $50 for both years, rather than at $100 for the first year, and $0 at the 2nd year. And yet, this isn't allowed for a person. Of course, you could claim that the gov't can't tell that the first $100 is supposed to be 'averaged out' in the future. So would the situation be any different if you lived off savings for the first year, and replenished them in the 2nd year? I don't think this is any different.
Calling a real estate robocaller back
"...And yet it was supposed to be _the_ right answer. When I offered another one, even knowing the official one but disagreeing, I was graded as failing."

Funnily enough, Death of the Author is well established critical theory in English literary interpretation (criticism). On Academic merit, if you have appropriate evidence in the literature to support your theory then your theory is valid and discussable on its interpretive merits. This is taught at the college level.

I would like to have English classes teach critical reading in the classical sense of english literary theory much earlier. But I'm really not sure how to begin to teach someone how to interpret before I show logical steps towards singular interpretations first.
The whole poem and questions are here: https://www.jiskha.com/questions/1027961/Midnight-by-Sara-Ho....

Frankly, I think the author is being a bit disingenuous. Question 5 for example: What function does the stanza break serve? She says she put it where it is because she's a performance poet and thought it should go there. One, that isn't the question. The question isn't asking about the author's subjective state of mind, but to remark on the objective function of the stanza break. The subject of the poem clearly shifts at that point from reflecting on the weekend to talking about the anxiety of the upcoming day. Out of the answers presented, (C) is clearly the best answer. Two, the author's point simply begs the question. The break sounds good there because there is a structural break in the underlying poem. Her subjective impression of where the break should go reflects an objective fact about the structure of the poem.

The other questions are likewise quite straightforward. The website doesn't reproduce the full test booklet, but I suspect the prompt does not ask for the "right answer" but "the best answer out of the choices presented." The test is not asking students to plumb the depths of the author's pscyhe, but evaluate consistency or inconsistency between each answer choice and the objective aspects of the poem. It's not an exercise in literary analysis, it's an exercise in reading (knowing the meaning of words) and logical analysis.

Take Question 6: "The train is important to the poem because it represents..." Who knows what the author meant the train to represent? But to an objective observer, C ("following a planned routine") clearly "fits" the text better than the other answers. That's all the test is asking students to figure out.
> Colin Robertson wonders why he pays federal taxes on the $18,000 a year he makes cleaning carpets, while the tech giant Amazon got a tax rebate.

Who cares about what Colin Robertson thinks?
TL;DR:

Most police forces in the UK are using digital forensic "self service kiosks", which allow ordinary officers to create images of the storage of mobile devices seized during criminal investigations. Privacy International are concerned that policies and procedures surrounding the use of this technology may be inadequate. In particular, they are concerned that the Police and Criminal Evidence Act gives the police relatively broad powers to image devices without a warrant. The report does not identify any specific evidence that these powers are being abused.
If I do that, I’m adding non-latin characters. B. 狐. Я. W.

(I don’t except a publisher would let me do that).
I hope this is it and not hidden backdoors for the law enforcement agencies.
I believe this is important. Mark Z. and the gang are Rich enough, they dont need or deserve your content anymore. It appalls me that there is a desert of content for a few years everywhere online as interesting blogs went dark as everyone posted on Facebook or Google+.

The Internet was always more interesting when people took the time (and it will take some of your time) to put their own content online on their own site. The internet and Society in general needs the diversity more than ever right now.
FYI, I was hired by Gravitational back in April 2018 and I was given that same take-home assignment as part of the interview process - to write a CNI plugin for k8s which created an encrypted mesh network between nodes. My work is here: https://github.com/webvictim/k8s-ipsec-cni

I found some other resources/projects online while I was writing this which indicated that I certainly wasn't the first interviewee to be asked to do this - I evidently wasn't the last either as your project shows.

My point is that it seems Gravitational has had this 'idea' for quite some time as they've been using it as an interview question for at least the year 2018. I don't feel like that constitutes them using anyone's interview work as free labour.
https://imgur.com/gallery/yOqWINO
I was homeschooled for most of my pre-univeristy education. I disagree with the notion that homeschoolers have a socialization problem. In my mostly rural Ohio county of about 50,000 people, there were around 50 families homeschooling about 100 kids. There were regular events like drama and chess clubs. I never felt like I didn't get enough socialization.
Russia literally invaded Ukraine 5 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_...
Fair enough. I agree that the word count would much better be spent on discussing the relevant legislation and resulting tax codes.

But let me be honest. I wouldn't read that story. I'm not a tax policy wonk, nor am I qualified to opine on the legislative process except to express exasperation at the gridlock. I am however qualified to vote for candidates who are and that first requires awareness of the issues, a topic orthogonal to a precise understanding of the solutions, just like I need a doctor to tell me what to do about my infection after the pain has brought attention to it, not explain the intricate details of how assays work or how antibiotics disrupt bacterial functions.
Why Denmark is .NN Seconds Behind The World [video]
Poetry is not a particularly common use case on Hacker News, though, and I'm not convinced anybody needs to optimize for it.
What I'm reading from your comment is that you have a strong, implicit association between "giftedness" and "notability" - perhaps the latter taking the form of socially recognizable achievement.

Speaking as someone who was in a gifted program in my youth (and who knew others in more advanced programs), I would like to caution against this perspective. My achievements are not notable, and I would not use that as a heuristic for determining whether or not a particular program/standard is successful or useful. Yet I found my experience to be very positive. Despite the fact that not all programs are created equal, I would generally recommend a suitable one to any parent with a gifted child.

I understand MENSA is a bit loaded since it can come across as pretentious, so let me reframe the example for you. Take a look at past winners of the Putnam exam. Most of them are not nearly as notable as cperciva[1], but they're all demonstrably gifted.

Giftedness is not about being entrepreneurial or about how you apply your intelligence in a notable way. Programs designed for gifted people are not trying to create a class of people who are more impressive. In general, they try to foster natural talent in a way that cannot typically be accommodated in the modal classroom setting.

________________

1. For those unaware I'm referring to Colin Percival, an HN user who designed scrypt and developed Tarsnap. He won the Putnam.
A good way to get an idea of how your language sounds to a foreigner is to throw away every other word. Literally. Then randomly mix close sounds (depending on your accent it can be buck/bark or buck/book).

Was it "a symmetrical" or "asymmetrical"? Was it "inward" or an "n-word"? Was it "not able to" or "vagina"?

Lots of fun!
You're actually touching on the reason why SEO is an anti-pattern for society. Search engines (ideally) eventually find the best source of information for a query. SEO artificially skews these results.
> and inevitably it'll either become a chore or go out of date.

That, or you might feel pressurized into finding some interesting hobbies or pastimes. The horror!
Official writeup of the Rust async-await syntax debate so far
Research code for live nuclear program
For a complete live custom nuclear research program code email: frazerwoods4@gmail.com.
I think the confusion is people who influence us, and the specific role of influencer. People who influence us are influences on us, but they're not usually influencers.
1. I think it’s generally sort of amusing to see a bunch of STEM oriented people (who generally are less than sympathetic to people who are math or computer illiterate) take the position that the art subjects they probably struggled with are BS

2. I actually think many creators/authors of art are sometimes least well positioned to describe its cultural implications/significance

3. As everyone here knows standardized tests are less about the perfect/correct answer, but rather the least bad vs the other choices
Am I crazy to refuse to use a package manager on macOS? I thing that you should just follow the instructions and understand how to install a project. As an example, I use a lot FFmpeg, just doing brew install ffmpeg does not make sense for me; there are so many options... you need to understand what they are and the implications...