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Ask HN: How to improve communication (listening, verbal and writing)
How to improve communication (listening, verbal and writing) when English is not your first language. I live where most of the population are not English speaking.

Any actionable advice which I can practice daily which you or your near ones did and helped them.

Few thing I considered like joining Toastmasters but nearest club is too far to my place.
If it's not less important, then why should it require less verification? Should the right to bear arms require less verification? What is the difference?

What do you mean by multiple attempted votes? Using the same name? That's a different situation though because I'm asking about a name which didn't otherwise vote. 40% didn't show up in 2016 and that was with record turnout, which makes a large supply of names that can be used, and that's assuming that everyone who did vote was completely legitimate.

Considering that, how can you possibly reconcile that everyone who voted is who they claimed to be without verification? How can this be tested post-election?
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“There is NO MORAL ISSUE with stealing from a store that forces you to use self checkout, period. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU TO WORK AT THEIR STORE.”

The above sentiment is the basis of one of my favorite comedy bits by Bill Burr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxINJzqzn4w
Right. Living mindfully simply means that I'm aware of my gestures, words and actions. A good meditation does just that. For this awareness to remain at all times with you, a certain sense of detachment is inevitable but that doesn't imply that you are no longer supposed to care about what's going inside you. IN fact it should be opposite; once you're aware of content of your mind, you need to do cleansing to rise above conditioning that binds you [0].

0: In Mind Full to Mindful (book on Zen/mindful meditation https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Full-Mindful-Wisdom-Monks-ebook/... ) Om Swami has given a method to do Emotional Hygiene and Cleansing (Osoji). It is about emptying the baggage we carry in our minds. Believing Zen, if everything is empty, we may as well realize that essence in practice and not think of it merely as a philosophical proposition.
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> It also goes against a wider industrial trend of moving from ARM to RISCV and other architectures.

Is this really already an industry trend? It feels more like some parties experimenting with the platform, not necessarily with intentions to move to it wholesale at any point in the future. But I'm probably missing stuff, since I'm not following that space well.
> You’re vastly underestimating the impact of a new airframe on carrier operations if you think it’s as simple as simulator training.

What about the impact of a new model on the ground for several months, maybe a year, even maybe (with a tiny chance, of course) forever?

I bet it would have been cheaper if they started adding a new model to their operations already (for those who don't have it already)

Sure, customers always want the cheapest option, and it's up to Boeing to say when enough is enough.
No. You can probably have various specialized AIs take over 99% of all jobs, and still not be anywhere close to AGI, or “strong AI”.
> It got exposed by the private sector.

Was it really exposed by the private sector, I thought it was bunch of university students and their prof doing some research.
> I wonder what kind of metrics would incentivize Google to be better at finding these.

Collection of personal information that can be monetized, and ad clicking.

Everything about the Google search is easily understandable in terms of these fundamentals.
Classic clip from 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Metzinger, Being No One (2004) may be just the step forward to which you refer. The prereflexive sense of self (as, say, a point-source of will and identity) is empirically inaccurate and faulty, and Metzinger attacks philosophy grounded in this untranscendable experience. But, unlike many philosophers, European or Buddhist, who satisfy to negate the ontological status of the self, Metzinger develops a theory of the self which is conceptually constrained by clinical medicine's empirical totality.

Two warnings about Metzinger, though: (1) a mood leaks through his writing, a sort of nihilistic determinism that his rigorous philosophy relentlessly evokes, but which his assertions do not imply; and (2) it is quite difficult reading, like a new Kant, lucid yet dense, requiring of a layman to assiduously infer and integrate the language of cognitive science.
> We’ve been undergoing a 70-year long period of deregulation

This is incorrect. Deregulation only started in the late '70s. There was adequate oversight and anti-trust enforcement until then. The unusually high growth in that period was during an _expanding_ government role (and wider union membership and 90% tax rate for the extreme brackets). Since the 80s, GDP growth has slowed to low single digits with continuously rising inequality.

>In the electric industry, deregulation...

Deregulation in this area also resulted cutting of power to tens of millions as blackmail for orders of magnitude higher rates until the state stepped in again.

And while initial deregulation of airlines has had many advantages, stifling the already inadequate oversight from FAA and thinking it will produce better out comes is literally fatally flawed reasoning.
make it a bit longer and have it vary the speed on the position of the swimmer...
People don't seem to be talking about Crime and Policing, btw. If Criminals get super-intelligent, then we are going to need super-intelligent Policing. This is a smaller fractal of the Military competition aspect, but the dynamics are similar. Ultimately, once this tech becomes reality, it will be impossible to contain for this reason alone. You can't have Enhanced Cops themselves imprisoned in a way that they can't spread their genes.
5 stars.

This is the best utility to detect if your image has been transmogrified.
Let's say we lived in the centuries old, long debunked eugenicist's fantasy you think is reality.

We'd sooner use gene editing to make people more empathetic, briefer in their words, less absolutist, less looking at things as "programmer problems," less engineery. Higher "EQ."
Interest in PyTorch among researchers is growing rapidly
The machine learning solution:

* LaneHawk - identifies items in bottom of car [1]

* Everseen - watches object move through a checkout [2] and reports if they are not scanned. In use at Walmart and "5 of the 10 top retailers" now.

* StopLift - also watches checkouts. Recently purchased by NCR.

This problem is on its way to being solved.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYd7CcInZ28
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/20/18693324/walmart-ai-camer...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4VR2z2n5Ec
The feedback I had indirectly is that he feels that replacing his work with a platform would negate the value of what he's built so far. We're flowgear.net
Napster was shutdown for copyright infringement in 2001.

The iTunes Music Store opened in 2003.

The convenient-online-store model only succeeded because of the success of the legal attacks against file-sharing.
Genghis Khan would like a word with you.
Your whole point hinges on the claim that Amazon routinely and deliberately acts fraudulently and is never held to account.

But Amazon and companies like them are absolutely held accountable for legal breaches all the time. Here's just one recent example: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/05/...

Companies are under constant scrutiny by various bodies and agents including regulators, consumer protection groups, media outlets, unions, review sites, consumer word of mouth - not to the simple market reality that if too many customers feel defrauded, they'll soon stop being customers.

It's a huge leap to argue that since some counterfeit goods have been sold via their platform, blatant theft from them or other companies is therefore justifiable, particularly when you don't mention that those counterfeit goods were sold by third parties, and that Amazon has a formal process to refund customers who have been sold counterfeit goods and to bar such sellers from their platform: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/201165970

We all learned as children that theft and dishonesty is wrong, because in families and societies alike, things quickly break down if it becomes widespread.

It's pretty simple.
Ctrl+Shift+I should work in most browsers.
in a past life i learned a little about PDE and the theory justifying why finite element methods work to approximate solutions.

i never explicitly ran into anything about discrete differential geometry, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there all along, lurking beneath (or perhaps above?) my level of understanding.

some reading: Evans -- Partial Differential Equations, Wendland -- Scattered Data Approximation, Wahba -- Spline models for observational data .
While I can agree with the accessibility stuff usually, depending on how the feature is abused ... some of these arguments are pretty weak.

For example, for a lot of people the CDN and WAF are now bundled together and completely transparent. I.e. Cloudflare and StackPath's implementation.
Can confirm. "Use this new framework and you won't have to learn to..."

Yes you will. It will just require more steps.
I think there is always something new to learn. People spend their lives finding optimal solutions to problems at every level of the stack. Even just in computer architecture people are experts in developing specific modules like a cache, arithmetic logic, etc. I feel like you’re at a great point and you should be using the knowledge you have to build specialized systems.
What have people been using for Yubikeys as an alternative? Installing safes onsite and self monitoring?
It's not a genetic modification of a kid. This is embryonic preselection.
> That or maybe it's just the hypoxia ;)

Or a kind of mild hypothermia? I've experienced your "euphoric feeling" during and after swims in cooler water. Google tells me the water temperature in San Francisco Bay is about fourteen degrees Celsius.
> If one finds Netflix, video games, partying, and vacations enjoyable; and they spend time pursuing those after becoming financially independent & retiring early, are they missing the big picture?

Each of us has to define the scope of his life, I personally have a hard time imagining that a fully developed human being will be deeply satisfied by consuming media. In French these things are called "divertissement", which literally means "diversion". There are many other things to explore than mere consumption. It's kind of the junk food of life, it makes you feel good for a short while but not that good in the long run. I doubt anyone will remember binge watching breaking bad as a milestone of there life (Or remember it at all).

I'm not saying these things are intrinsically bad, we should just be careful about how much of our life we dedicate to them, especially when work already takes most of our time already. If your life is work>consumption>sleep and you feel like you're missing something your probably are.
true, I can stomach the propaganda, but that aside, the way he links each chunk of the story together is really fun. Hes like a college professor that I would of loved to have , where every lecture was a mini adventure.
I’m assuming you work a desk job. Your energy and appetite fluctuations wouldn’t be the same if you had a physically strenuous job.
We have that in Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_public_bank

For day to day common needs Sparkasse are the most popular banks. Usually private banks will give you better offers. Sparkasse is big, slow, and burocratic. Maybe that is just the size though.
> What does the discrete version get you? What are its applications to CS?

Everything! When you are programming a computer, everything must be discrete. If you need any differential geometry, it is discrete differential geometry then. You may want to hide this fact and pretend that your stuff is continuous, but at some point you will be computing derivatives by evaluating a function on nearby points. In that case, discrete differential geometry tells you which weights to put in your difference scheme.
You were coding for 15 years when I started coding. Still excited, but oh, didn't think that I can get bored.

Anyways, I keep myself excited between 2 fronts. Officially I'm sysadmin, but programming is just a coincidental skill that I apply starting from automation to the point where stuff gets built from ground up.

Probably excited because within sysadmin+programming world there is so much to learn. Only now getting the skills to debug .net 3rd party sofware, uh, that's so interesting. Lots of internals to learn.

Getting to know embedded world is also something interesting which I'm now only barely touching.

I have no knowledge but would find it interesting if I could know electrical engineering. Understand, fix and build stuff at that level seems exciting. Maybe someday.

I have had to build knowledge from high-level stuff to low level stuff. For you perhaps it was other way around? I think that high-level stuff was probably easyer/complementary to low-pevel knowledge, which gets you further much faster. I don't mean by developing a solution, but understanding systems, problem space and solution.

Ofcourse I'v thought about which I like more: sysadmin or programming tasks. Both get me excited. And then I thought if I'd be doing only one of them, probably I would be less excited.

Perhaps apply your knowledge to some different problem domain? I have this dream maybe someday I can build stuff for agriculture (whatever helps grow something). Be out on the field to see what I have to do and then test, improve it. Well, the other half says me the reality probably is a bit different - sit in the office 95% of time, and maybe the rest eith some real stuff. Dunno. Ohwell, that's just some wild dream.
Our local public pool opens at 7:00 and the small group of people who are there every day at that time all come purely to do their laps for an hour.

Personally I can't stand chlorified water though...
Politically, I certainly see the appeal.

From finance/economics point of view...I dunno. If I was cynical, I might say it seems like we're being asked why city funds should be parked in accounts making safe, legal, loans which are likely to paid back, when we could just let the amazing SF city government use the money as a slush fund to make loans to their pet causes and politically connected businesses.

Phrased like that, it doesn't sound amazing! Or as the article puts it:

> There’s been some suggestion that these types of banks would lend to entities that might not otherwise be creditworthy,” Beth Mills, a spokesperson for the California Banking Association, told CityLab.

Yeah, and most of those suggestions are coming straight from the mouths of the proposals supporters. If you're struggling to find loans for your ambitious infrastructure project, is it... maybe... possibly... that the proposal doesn't make a ton of financial sense? What's your city's (or state's) track record on these projects? Would a neutral analyst fear that you're fudging the revenue estimates and lowballing the costs? What is the risk of overruns? Bluntly, how credit worthy is the project?

> “Every politician is talking about affordable housing, but it would be so much more powerful if they had a bank that was financing affordable housing,” said Jacob.

No doubt. But will building affordable housing be profitable? And if not, will the project be able to repay the loans? (Or if so, why are banks not willing to finance it?)

There's a real "dog that didn't bark" feeling to this article, at least for me.
Do they though? They do know where and how much, but the cashiers commonly put in an amount manually into the credit card device.
Like most progressive issues in the US these days, this issue has taken a lot of inspiration from Europe, notably in Germany where public banks have been around for a while. The public banks there help to fund infrastructure investments and renewable energy projects.

The recent effort in LA probably successfully pushed the issue the furthest, despite not passing the vote. It got the issue to resurface after the initial interest from the VC-funded weed startups.

Bob Hasegawa, a Washington state senator, has also spent a lot of time advocating for a public bank in Washington and Seattle.
> Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)
I'm a bit worried that both the coworkers, the writer of that comment and everyone else in that thread all somehow don't know to put one line of sed in a githook to fix that problem?

Easily the most trivial objection I've ever seen in the never ending spaces/tab debate.

Many people I know customise their local environment to suit.

https://githooks.com/
Also, if you're interested in the nitty gritty of the recent LA vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4sgDlalgA is a great discussion with some of the organizers behind the effort.
CPAP just splints the airway open, but BiPAP actually has an inhale/exhale cycle, so maybe they use it for people who have trouble breathing on their own?
> Well, Stoicism turns out to be difficult.

SV couldn't make an app for that.. and profit
Even if this were done (I don’t think that either of the involved companies would or could share this detail of data) you still have a problem. What about ads that don’t work?

I have put an ad on your site, it took up space for some time. The ad was bad and nobody bought anything even though a hundred thousand people saw it. The publisher is still owed money because they did their part.
Logical on computer science, but when it comes to political science they defend ideologies. I have 15 years of ideological propaganda behind me so I can't blame them, but I feel guilty about my hacktivist past now that I got at least solid bases about political science.
Being pro-choice about advertising is like being pro-choice about influenza. Advertising is an infectious disease, it does not respect the choices of those who'd prefer to pay up front, and people underestimate its danger to young, old and weakened individuals.
To me code smell is a clue that some code might be badly written. But it's not proof - and there could be good justification for the smell. An example would be a 500 line method.

Antipattern is more serious IMO because of the work "pattern", i.e. "something repeated". It is a repeated occurrence of doing something badly (in someones opinion!) across the code base. An example that comes to mind is making references to packages that you don't want structurally in your dependency graph, just to use a utility function.
You got my hopes up, thinking you’d discovered some esoteric way of overloading the console to behave as a chat box itself. Manually calling a global function from the console and having messages logged to it… I guess it is clever, but I hate to admit it’s a bit of a letdown.

Also, long polling when websockets exist? Reeeeeeeeeeeeee

Edit: It’s even worse than that! You pull in the entire chat history every 5 seconds! Reminder to everyone on limited bandwidth not to leave this open lol
It's not wrong to imprison people against their will. It's part of the societal contract.

Not imprisoning someone when you should is, however, wrong.
Read the actual comment.
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gitea is community driven
Why would you want to store yubikeys securely, as opposed to recovery codes which you can print out in multiple copies? Store it in multiple semi-secure places. Unless you're running infra for an international corp, government, bank, or are likely to be physically targeted for some reason, you can likely store it in a folder on a shelf.

(And if you actually need to worry about things like that, then you've got (or should have) people who think of things like that for you)
Gardening is the new mindfulness. :-)

Also sailing non-stop for nine weeks in the ocean had been for me much better experience (in terms of emptying mind and getting in touch with myself) then any retreat (and I did some).
I propose that if you want to run a bank you probably want sufficient facility with numbers to make projections about the future and sufficient probity to trust those projections even when they’re inconvenient, plus the integrity to not steal from the bank.

Happily, there is a trivial work sample test of this for cities: are your city employee pensions fully funded?
I'm going to preface this by mentioning that I swam competitively starting at around age 6 through high school, was both a life guard and swim instructor at UCSF's rec center during high school, tend to be an overly cautious person, have had to pull a lifeless body from the ocean before, and have witnessed too many near drownings to count.

With that out of the way, does anyone else think its a really bad idea to advise someone who in their own words is trying to develop their swimming skill to the "point of not drowning", to simply find some seemingly calm piece of open water and have at it? I think this is terrible advice. If you aren't comfortable in the water you shouldn't be going into any natural body of water unsupervised, no matter how calm it may appear.

I no longer live in the BA but you should be able to find a YMCA, community swimming pool, or your local community college, that will have adult swim classes for beginners at a very reasonable cost. A couple weeks of classes and you should be comfortable enough to where you most likely won't drown, keep in mind even excellent swimmers drown on occasion.

Once you have the basics down you can join a local Masters club if you want to get more serious. Please don't go practice at Ocean beach.
Isn't Boeing a part of society? How do you define maximum benefit of the whole society please share the wisdom! A point where there is maximum benefit to one part of society is probably not the point where there js maximum benifit to the other part of society.
This is a horrible idea. Banks that operate based on the whims of the public are going to invest in stupid but popular projects that are doomed to fail. Popular ideas align poorly with financially-sensible ideas. Banks don't want to fund public housing and other social programs because they are risky and will probably lose money. A city like San Francisco is going to fund feel-good measures that are doomed to fail. Then they're just going to need to be bailed out, and the taxpayers are going to suffer.
> PureScript always seemed like a saner, more practical Haskell to me.

What gave you this impression?
Krugman’s own thinking about economics (and the role of public intellectuals) has changed a lot since 1996. I am curious if he still feels that way about Galbraith.
I'm a bit disappointed, I did domain = "news.ycombinator.com" and no one showed up to the party.
They’re not, it’s the speculators that need discouraging, not builders.
Every analysis I've read, including this one, assumes that Apple would start at the bottom rather than the top, as they have with every other CPU transition in the history of the company.

Is there something especially difficult about making a high-core-count CPU? The A-series is already crushing single-threaded performance and they're competitive with Intel desktop CPUs for some applications. Once you have a high-performance CPU with multi-core capabilities, is there any reason you can't just copy/paste cores?
The US federal government and the 50 US state governments have been deeply involved in banking for many decades -- as regulators. What would be new is for the government of a US city to become involved in banking.

Which leads me to ask you, Do any of the Kreise (roughly analogous to the county governments of the US) or the Gemeinden (municipal governments) of Germany operate a bank?