skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a result of a tightening labor market that is forcing employers to raise pay even for workers at the bottom of the earnings ladder."

I.e. Supply & Demand

(It's the law!)
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ireland-ufo-pilots-intl/i...

> "It came up on our left hand side (rapidly veered) to the north, we saw a bright light and it just disappeared at a very high speed ... we were just wondering. We didn't think it was a likely collision course .. (just wondering) what it could be," she said.

> A pilot on Virgin Flight 76 added that his flight crew had seen "two bright lights at 11 o'clock (which) seemed to bank over to the right and then climb away at speed."
Ok so using your definition they is not happy. But thats just because how you define happiness.

If you define happiness = a result of making others happy.
What is your definition of happy?
I bought my son a cheap Moto G because they were always touted as being a good value. He was more than happy when I upgraded and he got my 6s that was two years older. There is a stark performance difference between a mid range current Android phone and iPhones that are two or three years older.
This argument isn't even a little bit consistent with the facts. We don't "import poor foreigners who undercut American wages", we import products produced in countries where labor, along with human life, is valued at vanishingly low prices for abuse by capital.

Evidence is that the vast majority of immigrant labor, both skilled and unskilled, are net positives economically. There is some modest abuse in a couple of highly specialized cases where the very top end of the labor market is probably priced lower than it might be otherwise, but those are not statistically affecting the national economy.
> Children however aren't handicapped by this problem -- they actually learn the phonemes of their language before they understand the words.

This is accurate, but it's worth pointing out that infants are born recognizing every potential phoneme, and what they learn to do is to ignore the differences between sounds that their language considers equivalent. They don't learn to make distinctions they weren't formerly able to make. (This supports the idea that learning foreign sounds is much harder for adults -- I mention it because most people intuitively believe that things happen the other way around.)

Adults do preserve the ability to learn to ignore the difference between two sounds, but that's much less useful than learning a distinction would be. :(

> Tones are another category, where it is just plain hard for adults to distinguish words by tonality.

English features tones pretty heavily, most prominently in the usually-obligatory tonal marking for yes/no questions, but interestingly also in the I-don't-know tonal sequence.

> I find Pimsleur's claim of learning a language "effortlessly" with a "near-native accent" - with only the aid of a CD - absurd in this context.

Agreed.
Published an app on GP called “Code News” and would like to hear your feedback
Hi there guys! Today I published an app on Google Play called Code News - News for Programmers. It is a simple news app for programmers :D. I would appreciate if you guys give it a try and share your feedback. Thanks!
Is the recent trend of Boeing failures a sign of diminishing quality?
> Free lunch, though, is not where the action is: the economics of free food are driven by free dinner. Lunch just amortizes the fixed cost of food prep facilities.

The Google SF office had lunch, but not dinner, for 10 years. Dinner is a fairly recent offering.
The Official Ubuntu Merch Shop Has Closed Down
On that note... Is he really claiming to have invented the Church-Turing Thesis years after their deaths?
My favorite conspiracy theory (emphasis on theory, this is pure speculation) is they're Chinese drones.

The logic basically goes that 3M accidentally created a force field[1] in a factory[2], factories are mostly in China now, so if "running a factory" leads to antigravity tech, China would be the ones to develop it.

As much as "I want to believe", if it's true they're not American, it's quite possible they're not alien, just foreign.

I've noticed a weird kind of racism in some folks who talk about China: they simultaneously think they'll conquer the world and that they can't invent technology on their own.

It's certainly interesting logic to conclude "If it's not American, it must be alien".

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-plastic-sheets-an...

[2] http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html
> Fu, a geneticist, analyzed their DNA and found one particular mutation in a gene known to regulate circadian rhythms that seemed to separate them from their sleep-deprived counterparts. She then inserted that mutation into mice genomes.The effect was clear: the animals with the mutation not only began to sleep less than their counterparts but continued functioning well even after six hours of sleep deprivation (a long time for a mouse). Those without the mutation showed the usual signs of deprivation.

This is pretty cool as it means that at least some aspects of sleep deprivation are caused by dedicated circuitry. It's basically like pain, your body is doing it to yourself.
But that option only works in nightly builds, not Firefox release builds. If an option doesn't honour what it claims to, imho it might as well not be there.
>That is, people in the child's life who can already speak are liable to ignore errors in the child's speech, and when they do point out errors, the child will essentially always ignore the feedback. //

Interesting, I've some previous and am currently in a situation where I actively correct a child learner, and they respond well to that correction wrt language, less so in behavioural aspects unfortunately ;o)

For clarity, what I do with mispronunciations is break down the word in to phonemes. Yellow is a classic, that a lot of kids struggle with, current child subject has a propensity to say "lellow", though he gets it right more often than not now (age 3) -- I break that down as "yuh-ell-oh" and have him say other words that he can pronounce like "yes" and "yum". So I go "yes, yes, yes, yes, yellow" whilst he listens, then we do it together.

Most early language acquisition is done at home, and for us that has meant away from other parents so I'm not really sure how others do it. I have seen the "aw that's cute" reaction to mispronunciation in the wild, which I guess is a blocker for some.
After reading this article I felt like asking the author, 'why havent we built DNNs that can write code?' That seems like a very domain specific problem and for the purposes of research, one could even stick to a single language. I remember being amazed by SHRDLU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU) and had a sense of deja vu after reading this paper
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rJgMlhRctm

Curiously, I had totally forgotten SHRDLU but had a vague recollection of colored blocks in an AI paper in the 70s. Google pulled the paper as the first hit from the terms('red block, AI, 1970s')

In 40 years it seems we are still doing the same thing. Moore's law has enabled us to build much fancier searching,sorting and filtering algorithms. But there has been no progress in being able to ask a machine if something is good or bad. Fortunately.
> What a fantastic argument in which you completely ignore the gargantuan shadow of the US War budget against our social spending programs. Cutting the programs will never come close to the money saved by producing just a few less bombs and aircraft a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...

In 2018, the "war budget" was 12% of the total. For comparison, education spending was 15%, health care 23%. I don't think the "war budget" piggy bank will go as far as you think it does.
Isn't there a distinction between manslaughter and a premeditated murder in most jurisdictions? Where I'm from, impulsively killing someone in a burst of anger ("a crime of passion") is definitely different from a cold-blooded murder in the eyes of the law.
Then overrides could also be made configurable as root.
Please at least get your facts right. They have lowered prices and introduced less expensive options.
Unless you are careful, the Django ORM will generate a lot more database accesses than needed. I'd almost bet that most of the time the user spends waiting for the app, the app is waiting for the database.
They were doing this well before minimum wage increases.
>allows workers to bid up wages, which will create inflation

Is this phrase suggesting higher wages for workers is bad? Care to spell out your argument in a few more sentences?
> I made this account just to reply to you, because as of now, I sincerely think you are either uninformed or lying.

Gee, you sure got me there. Ok, so let's say you mercifully bestow upon me the benefit of the doubt that I did not remember the exact details of the incident.

How does that change the thrust of the argument?

The argument was the reason for mass surveillance and communication controls in the region is that social media was deliberately used to exaggerate facts and foment outrage, leading to the butchering of 200 innocent Han Chinese in the street and the injury of thousands more. How does your first point contradict that argument?

To your second point, once again. That detail is literally inconsequential. Substitute WeChat for [whatever social media platform they were using at the time to circulate videos]. I ask again, what exactly does that change?

Very interested in reading your response.
This is the best discussion I’ve read for anyone who wants a bunch of details on the history of this case, why we’d want to measure testosterone in the first place, how it may affect some women more or less than others, and how nonsensical the CAS ruling is, at least based on the evidence presented:

https://sportsscientists.com/2019/05/on-dsds-the-theory-of-t...
A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the Darpa Robotics Challenge
from the article, a description of "Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC)" system:

>What most don't realize is that the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group wasn't just equipped with some of the most advanced sensors the world had to offer, but that it also had hands-down the most advanced networking and computer processing capability of any such system. Dubbed Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), this integrated air defense system architecture was just being fielded on a Strike Group level for the first time aboard Nimitz and the rest of its flotilla.

>Our readers are familiar with CEC and the follow-on iterations that have come since, as we talk about the concepts behind them often. At its very basic level, it uses the Strike Group's diverse and powerful surveillance sensors, including the SPY-1 radars on Aegis Combat System-equipped cruisers and destroyers, as well as the E-2C Hawkeye's radar picture from on high, and fuses that information into a common 'picture' via data-links and advanced computer processing. This, in turn, provides very high fidelity 'tracks' of targets thanks to telemetry from various sensors operating at different bands and looking at the same target from different aspects and at different ranges.

>Whereas a stealthy aircraft or one employing electronic warfare may start to disappear on a cruiser's radar as it is viewing the aircraft from the surface of the Earth and from one angle, it may still be very solid on the E-2 Hawkeye's radar that is orbiting at 25,000 feet and a hundred miles away from the cruiser. With CEC, the target will remain steady on both platform's CEC enabled screens as they are seeing fused data from both sources and likely many others as well.

So these 3 paragraphs state:

1. Instead of each platform (plane, boat, ...) relying on only it's own sensors, the platform sensors (radar, IR ...) are automatically sharing their observations across platforms by data links, fusing them into one scene, such that each platform has the eyes and ears of all platforms combined. Obviously only 1 sensor needs to malfunction or misinterpret signals such that they are gossiped across platforms where the operators seemingly "independently" observe the imagination, i.e. data fusion potentially triggers common hallucinations. Regarding the pilots, navigators: I speculate for example this could have been the augmented reality HUD overlay showing the IR feed...

2. the system was "just being fielded", increasing the odds of initial wrinkles in the data fusion system.

3. again the system was "just being fielded", increasing the odds of human operators misinterpreting their display systems as depicting what the sensors of their platform are sensing, since before introduction of sensor fusion this would have always been the case. Human operators would thus more easily fail to realize that their "independent observations" were not in fact independent at all.
One can only cry wolf on the Chinese spying apparatus so often before people see it as politically motivated racism. We should have tuned Bloomberg out when they were hyperventilating about secret spy chips that completely failed to materialize.

Who needs National Enquirer when you have Bloomberg raising so many bogeymen?
> It's time for me to learn the fundamentals, so I can then learn libraries like React.

There are more effective ways to learn. Instead of learning "bottom-up", start with your end-goal, e.g. creating apps with React.

This is a good start:

https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html

You'll find out what you need, and, more importantly, what you don't need to know along the way.
Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman is a Greta book in the US homeland industrial transformation in WWII.

I hope you’re right and I hope it works.

We are up against a well aligned and fused authoritarian juggernaught.

Hopefully the most trusted and best value proposition platform wins.
I am actually not trying to generate any grass roots support for anything. 2 days ago I saw a reddit post of a guy in New York dressed as a Nazi and the public attacked him and threw eggs at him until he ran off. I do not condone violence and it is the exact opposite of the world I want to live in. But at what point is the line crossed where our moral consciousness says I can no longer stand idle and I will not be associated with anyone from China. The German people endured this after the war. Just being from Germany was the only association needed to bring on dislike. Germany has worked extremely hard to move away from that stigma. Doing a Nazi salute in Germany today will get you charged. I don’t blame all the Germans for what happened in the past either but when the whole world was angry and hated them I also think it was justified. They earned their respect back over the years. I also am fully aware China is an oppressed country and most citizens are simply trying to survive in a rigged system. But perhaps it is time we pressure our businesses and the like who do deal with China and ask they refrain from doing business there. Of course money talks and this will likely never happen but out of favour fell Nazism perhaps to we can put enough shame on China to reconsider its ways.
Hack into school lunch company leads to arrest of competitor
I do not use a debugger (2016)
Article misses an important point. Free food is a benefit, and ERISA requires all employees get the same benefits. If you have a company with lots of low paid workers, it doesn’t work financially. Silicon Valley firms mostly contract out low wage jobs (janitorial, security) partially for this reason.
Save any related data. They'll have a documentary on Netflix about you in a decade or two.
> I've noticed a weird kind of racism in some folks who talk about China: they simultaneously think they'll conquer the world and that they can't invent technology on their own.

China is the new USSR :)
There have been reports of UFO sightings for 50+ years. This is not a new phenomenon. There were reports of UFOs during WW2 (so called Foo Fighters).

If this existed during WW2 it means it started development way before that. The implications that such level of technological advancement was available at that time, and is still under active funding and development today doesn't add up.
FWIW I don't think panics are a bad idea necessarily, they're just very different from errors. Errors are part of the API contract (whether enforced by the language or not). Panics are for when the contract is broken on either side, or expected invariants suddenly don't hold - the reason being that if your basic guarantees about process state are broken, you can't really guarantee that you'll be able to handle the error either, and trying to do so regardless might result in a security issue.

This distinction is growing popular in general, including languages that have exceptions (e.g. FailFast in C#) and error types (e.g. panic in Rust).
The handling, or the bug itself? Sound like the damage control is fine (although worrying that they have no way to distribute hotfixes more rapidly than this).

The bug in the first place, on the other hand, seems pretty negligent. Not that it's incomprehensible, just pretty stupid.

Anyhow, good luck with brave!
The pertinent gene in this article seems to be missing.

I've gathered a text file with interesting genes from random science articles. If/when full genome testing (emphasis on full) becomes affordable, I can hopefully CTRL+F (search) my personal source code whenever and check which variants I have.
Only if the performance of your hot Python parts is a deal breaker, which is almost never.

In almost 20 years, I did it once. And it wasn't really needed, but I wanted to know how much it'd be improved.
In my experience, a little hardship when looking up a word helps you remember it. Like having to alt-tab to a Google Translate tab vs just tapping the word inline, or having subtitles.

If it's too easy, then I found I'll look up the same words every time because it's too easy-come-easy-go.
How Azure is transforming the way we do anomaly detection – Part 1
Considering how many people are learning Rust, I think that Anki Rust cards could be a huge hit. What do you think?
Public perception. For instance, one of the first comments on their post is this:

> Why not just post a link to the fix that can be installed WITHOUT enabling Studies? This sounds like a clever plan to get more people to share their data via Studies…

I definitely don't agree with that guy, and I doubt that's a majority opinion, but asking people to use a workaround that benefits them (Mozilla) after they broke things for a lot of people is bad publicity for sure. For what it's worth I think Mozilla is doing the right thing here, just it's not going to make them look great.
Alright then, let's go see what the dictionnary has to say.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/happiness

Happiness:
a) a state of well-being and contentment
b) a pleasurable or satisfying experience

No where does it say that it comes from making others happy(which again, this is in itself illogical). Also, you claim many times that "sadistic pleasure" isn't happiness, but that clearly contradicts the second definition of happiness. You are free to misunderstand happiness as much as you like, but happiness has a meaning and trying to force definitions from your own universe down other people's throat and denying other's doesn't seem like the right thing to do.
I understand what you mean and I think I feel quite the same.

"The web" has just become so... "strange" in the way everything works and we take care of it or however you'd like to call it. Often it's just broken with full intention to do just to push some new shiny technology on us. And I'd really like if it wasn't that way.
What Is a “Now Page”?
Sure, but it's definitely not the case that Lewisham only has an issue with people driving at peak time, and trains are not the only answer either (if someone is driving over taking the train, then it can't be impossible to design bus routes that would work for them even if perhaps slightly less optimal).

Basically any hour of the day people will be rattling up and down the South Circular, up and down the rat runs, etc.

I used to live near a long arterial road. I would do things like count the cars whilst waiting for the bus. It had buses every 15 minutes, and between each bus you'd have way more cars than the number of people that would fit on a bus.

Unless we say they just wouldn't make that journey otherwise, increasing taxes on private cars can help with the transition that could make that bus every 7 minutes instead (which would eventually be self fulfilling due to fare intake).
some things I wrote I can not prove, that is right. I would love to revise my negative opinion in light of better evidence.
On keeping an Online Identity
My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
>"sort these English words to translate the sentence" //

If I remember correctly you can choose to type in the words, but on mobile it can be easier mechanically to choose the words from the list and place them in order. Later on I think it removes the choice in some tests and has you type full sentences.
This is your lucky day, half of what you want (Ctrl+F) is already there in the form of Promethease (https://promethease.com), and the other half, the data you stick into Promethease (full-genome sequencing), is about to drop below the $1000 barrier this year or the next.
The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)
I understand the appeal of that for developers but it comes at the cost of users agency and control of their own system, I've been very annoyed with even simple UI changes in firefox updates as I simply didn't ask or want any such change. Reading other comments here it's clear I'm a dying breed of old and stubborn users that prefers full control and agency over my own system. Making it easier for web developers to implement new features is absolutely not a tradeoff I'd make willingly at the cost of my systems consistency and reliability. Also the reason I use firefox is because of all the major browsers vendors they seem the most aligned with those values although this seems to be changing more and more every year.
California already makes you post warnings about the most miniscule concentrations of, heaven forbid, "chemicals". You think this would be ok? Much less, understood and accepted by uninformed consumers??
> There are apps for watching movies for language learning (which adds subtitles, dictionaries, etc.)

I've been searching for such apps (for watching movies/audio-visual content). Got any names to share? Thanks.
In my brief experience with the app, it doesn't bypass the pay walls.
> You have to either keep upgrading to newer OpenJDK (with potential breaking changes) or pay Oracle license to use their LTS JDK

I don’t think this is accurate. Alpine and Debian OpenJDK have been getting point releases (u###) through the distribution package manager. I’ve got apps running on openjdk 8 and 11 (the LTS versions) and they are still getting u### releases with security fixes and bug fixes despite Java trunk already having moved past 11.

Edit: did some further research on this and it looks like various distros are providing the LTS support for java 11. For instance Amazon Linux will be supporting Java 11 through 2023. https://dzone.com/articles/oracle-continues-long-term-suppor...