skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why haven't delivery companies cracked down on this? Maybe they have, but I still hear about it a lot.

I don't know about the American package delivery space, but assuming it's somewhat resembling the German one (sub-sub-subsidiaries, work days until 11pm, because you've got a quota etc.): because it is impossible to fulfil the quota. So you get creative, fill out some "did not open door" papers and hope you can get around to delivering them the next day.

And it's impossible to fulfil the quota because that's directly profit. So companies can choose between abysmal service (but still not so bad that customers would leave, because everyone is playing that game) and lower profits. They have zero incentive to "crack down".
> I don't want a Chinese-style great firewall

But the person you're responding to does. They may not admit it to themselves but that's what they want.

When I see this kind of discussion and how "Internet helps terrorists" I imagine them in a military uniform doing the same speech about the Résistance.
I use the DDG extension for Firefox and it does a decent job as well. It regularly catches Google's and FB's trackers for me.
I'm currently learning Japanese and I've only been at it for a month. My tools are :-

1) Pimsleur Japanese [0]

2) Michel Thomas Japanese [1]

3) Creating my own Anki decks [2]

4) Genki Textbooks [3]

5) Remembering the Kanji [4]

Firstly, I know it's going to take at least 2 years to be good at Japanese and I'm intent on just enjoying the journey. I have absolutely no need to rush.

Right now I'm only concentrating on my speaking and listening skills. I'm not at all fussed about pitch accents and will improve that when I get a tutor (think year 2).

My methodology is going to consist of:

- Doing each CD of Pimsleur (there are 5 in total, with 30 lessons each).

- Actively listening and speaking for 30 minutes in the morning, just after lunch and just after dinner. Thus doing 1 hour and a half a day.

- Write down all the newer words for each lesson into a notebook for review later.

- Writing down all the sentences in an excel spreadsheet for the anki deck. So far I have around 900 words and sentences.

My progress is that I have completed the first CD and I have memorised into my long term memory up to lesson 20. Unfortunately my memory starts to fade when reviewing the anki deck past lesson 20 and I get the sentence order incorrect even though I know the words. Of course, I want to get to 100% before moving onto the next CD.

To switch things up a bit. I've now started to do Michele Thomas CDs and listen passively in the background. Michele Thomas isn't as demanding for your attention as Pimsleur.

When I have finished both groups of CDs. I'll go through the Genki textbook and after that start to focus on my writing skills with Remember the Kanji.

After that, that's when I'll go on italki [5] and get a tutor.

Oh and when watching Anime (with Japanese Subs). I understand around 10% so far, in just a month. I do start to laugh though when the subs are not correct.

I can only imagine what I understand, when I have finished all CDs. I hope to get to at least 75% and then start to watch Anime with the subs removed.

Finally, if anyone wants to go the immersion route. Highly recommend Matt vs Japan [6]. I'll be doing this once I finish the CDs and books.

[0]: https://www.pimsleur.com/learn-japanese/pimsleur-japanese-le...

[1]: https://www.michelthomas.com/learn-japanese/

[2]: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/GENKI-Integrated-Elementary-Japanese-...

[4]: https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Kanji-Complete-Japanese-C...

[5]: https://www.italki.com/

[6]: https://www.youtube.com/user/MATTvsJapan
Yes, of course. Valve is a very good open source citizen. The fork was necessary because we have a fair number of changes that are not appropriate for upstream Wine. As a single example, we integrate closely with the Steam for Linux client for stuff like achievements and multiplayer, which obviously can't go upstream. I'm actually the guy who does the rebases, so I'm very motivated to keep the diff as small as possible :) You might find this article from March interesting: https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/aeikum/2019/3/27/how...
There is a lot of environmental friendly food that is underutilized because it does not scale to current level of consumption. We have lakes that because of eutrophication is overpopulated. We have biodiversity important grass regions where nation use fossil fueled machines to keep open. We have regions where the only farming possible is animals that eat lichen. There is invasive species which nation pay hunters to kill and throw away the meat because its not economical to sell it.

We are no where near tapped out on unscaleable food sources that has a positive effect on the environment, and yet we put zero resources on it just because we consider it unscaleable. The result is that we do nothing and put all our hope that in the future some scaleable solution will fix everything. That does not sound rational approach when the problem of environmental catastrophe is already here.
> There is a reason and it's a darned good one: piracy.

This is not a good reason at all, especially from the consumer's perspective.
He meant 737 Max (order was about 200 jets).

https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-737-max/
Chickens and/or pigs used to be how one dealt with food scraps that couldn't go back into the field/garden. After first using them to make broth or whatever, if possible. A recycling system that turns garbage into food.
The pervasiveness of growth mindset theory is one potential explanation for the absence of a measurable impact of the
intervention: for example, over a third of teachers in comparison schools had previously attended training days based
on growth mindset interventions. However, while many staff members were aware of similar approaches prior to their
involvement in the project, few said they had used these within their own teaching practices. Due to the ubiquitous
nature of growth mindset, it may be hard to find schools for future research where awareness of the concept is low.
Particle Filter for Localization
Open source JavaScript template engines
Nope, not Hong Kong. HK hasn’t had death penalty for anything for a loooong time.
>shouldn’t have games on a work PC

Steam also sells design tools and complete sdks. Idk if it is a common way to install them though.
Iceberg Tracking Database
googling returned https://github.com/azz/ast-grep for js
Ok, so the first picture is a lady holding a GIANT glass of wine. Does this mean that the best way to learn a language is to get drunk while doing it?

For those who don't drink wine, that glass probably has about two "servings" and will give anyone who drinks it a small buzz. Large wine glasses like this aren't meant to be filled up, they're meant to help the drinker really swirl the wine. It brings oxygen into the wine which helps release the flavor.

Edit: The amount of alcohol that the lady in the picture is drinking is more than what the article recommends.
for some reason, i only ever draw skulls.
I'm an american who is not on twitter.

We have these things called news outlets, newspapers, and so forth. Apparently these places take an interest in what the president does. weird, I know...
They said the reason Airbus was not invited for the offer was because they are always months late with their delivery
Note that this does not contradict previous studies, because they did different things. In other words, this is not a replication failure. To quote:

"We have never (or at least not yet) conducted a mindset research programme aimed at teachers" and "All of our studies to date have been directly aimed at students". That is, teaching students growth mindset works. Teaching teachers to teach students growth mindset didn't work.

Also "we have a large study with a nationally representative sample of 9th grade students coming out in Nature next month". Large studies are good, so I eagerly wait for this larger study of direct-to-students programme.
HN hug of death? https://archive.is/VVpgQ

I just hope they gonna keep memory footprint as low as possible so I can keep bashing electron devs.
Do you mean ZFS as root or as a data partition? and when you say migrating to a fresh OS do you mean the Stretch to Buster upgrade? If so, it is great to hear it is working so well now.
Manjaro, snaps and the spirit of collaboration (Ubuntu)
> If not, the reviewer can quickly dismiss it as a false positive

This is were you could be wrong. We would need to give a reason for dismissing it and then the risk officer would need to approve it (or reject it). False positives can be a real pain in the ass.
> The million dollar question is whether and to what degree is human-made.

This is just another form of denial.
No, the task selection function is dominated by the one's efficacy, not the task's importance. Or to quote Michael Bolton in Office Space (1999), the "question is bullshit to begin with. If that quiz worked, there would be no janitors..."
The method that outperformed the others was MultVAE [1]

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05814
>A chicken has the awareness of a bug
I this true? I thought that all birds were highly intelligents. Although they don't have any pack instinct, chicken still have a peck order, that mean that they recognize individuality. Thus they probably have a sense of self. If consiousness is an illusion created by senses, they probably have a conscience too then.
Three anecdotes and I wouldn't be treated this way.
Any ideas in Flutter or React that might be useful to have in Qt?
USPS won't attempt last mile delivery for me, requiring me to drive into town to pick up packages. The other two will deliver to my door.

Post office staff here are surly. UPS and Fedex drivers are bright and friendly.

Obviously it varies by location.
Coming? Nearly all packages in my area (Grand Rapids, MI) are now delivered by Amazon.

Which is super annoying for me, I live in an apartment complex, they used to almost exclusively use USPS where I live, and they have a system where they put a key in your mailbox, etc.

Amazon's deliverers are literally random people - after talking to one myself it became apparent that they barely even require much English (I'm only complaining because that makes it harder to communicate - I don't care if they speak english or not but if it's impeding their one job - delivering a package, then I'm kinda erked)

Since it's never the same person, the standards are wild. Sometimes the package is left in my garage, sometimes by the front apartment door (you have to be buzzed in)[0], sometimes they're by my specific apartment's door [1]. Other times they take it to the rental office.

Amazon really needs to figure this out, this isn't the only apartment complex in the city.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/6GcPI7N.png
[1] https://i.imgur.com/9RuceQj.png

EDIT: Also sometimes they call when they can't get inside, sometimes they just leave it outside, sometimes they don't call or ring the buzzer and just say "Couldn't deliver". It's wildly inconsistent.
Refusing to drive could work when starting out, but handling changing conditions on the road is harder.

A scaled request for the driver to take over as conditions get worse can train the driver not to use the self-driving system in adverse conditions, so hopefully it wouldn't have to refuse (unless the driver is negligent).

Getting back to the OP, Musk may have a point: people are terrible at evaluating risk for low-probability/high-consequence events like a car accident, so LIDAR might lose in the market even if it is worth it. But if there were standards for when the car asked the driver to take over and LIDAR is able to pester its drivers less often because it is more capable, then perhaps LIDAR can justify its place in the market.
>My argument is about this case, not about hypothetical cases in which animals cause each other to suffer.

I don't know what you're talking about. You said it is wrong to assume humans are different from animals, which makes this case a case of animals (humans) causing suffering in other animals (cows).

>If I were able to communicate with, say, a predator who likes torturing its live prey, I'd be happy to do my best to convince them not to do so.

If I crapped gold, I would be rich. That doesn't mean you can assume I am rich. You can't make a convincing argument by basing your assumptions in fantasy.

>So as long as we strip children from their parents (like cows) and thereby ameliorate the generational connection to the parents suffering, it doesn't matter so much that we cause suffering to both the parent and the child?

What? No. This has nothing to do with parent-child relationships, it has to do with the fact that humans teach and write and communicate ideas across long periods of time. If you take away the ability of humans to communicate and teach each other, then their suffering will be comparable to animal suffering. If you teach cows to read and write, they will stop being treated like animals.
You must have been very lucky. BA under its current ex-Vueling CEO is twice the price of EasyJet for half of the service.
You’d be surprised. Maybe YOU don’t get calls from the same number (though I do at times) but it seems like scammers will use one number to call 100,000 people then switch to a second number and call again. So as long as someone reports it lots of people will benefit. It’s not a random number per call, which would make this approach unfeasible.

This shared block list is basically how Nomorobo works and it’s quite effective for me.
> Walmart's suppliers and vendors actually significant cloud infrastructure users?

You'd be surprised at the reach of Walmart. Some former colleagues of mine left for a heavy equipment manufacture which has an IoT fleet management solution. The company spent a solid 18 months migrating their platform to AWS, then had to turn around and migrate to Azure after complaints from Walmart, their largest customer.

Combine that influence with other retailers, and they make a solid business case for companies to avoid AWS. If a company does any significant work in retail, then their executive team is going to push against using AWS unless they offer fair superior services.

FWIW, I'm staking my career on AWS, and I realize that this skill set will not be transferable to a significant amount of the job market because retailers dominate my area.
This seems a bit silly, but I can see room in our culture for an analogue to the Iron Ring.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
Yeah, true. Apple pay should get rid of this limit too, but some countries have fucked PoS configs.
Ooh. What's pihole and $increasing_complexity?
The article refers to 3D printed acoustic lenses, and previous research also uses 3D printed lenses (https://courses.physics.illinois.edu/phys406/sp2017/Student_...)

Does anybody know if any of the files for these are public? I think it would be fun to experiment with this idea at home.
There are so many counterpoints to that statement that it's ridiculous. The American revolution, the Russian revolution, the Ides of March, every single coup throughout human history, every single cult, religion, or terrorist organization throughout human history. The only thing the internet changed is the fact that now the NSA has the entire log of all their conversations.
Having been a ZFS fan since the twilight of OpenSolaris, I'm very glad to see ZoL taking off. Rolling it into Ubuntu and making it officially supported was a great move - after some frustration with trying to run ZFS on a CentOS box and having it occasionally break after a kernel update, having it easily available on Ubuntu was like a breath of fresh air.

Having it readily available as a root filesystem, and having TRIM support at long last, is great news.
I created http://masterspanish.today to help with my Spanish.

I receive a daily email, at noon Eastern time, with a Spanish article from El Pais and an English translation.
> Our broken monetary system that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. But then again theres enough crypto currencies in the world.

The monetary system itself is fine as an exchange medium (apart from it being controller by non-neutral, corruptible actors, i.e. the state). It's the distribution of resources that's the problem, and that's a policy issue.
In business telephony, issued numbers have nothing to do with outbound transit. You just have a bundle of circuits/capacity that signal source and destination numbers on a per call basis, inbound and outbound. There’s no requirement that the caller ID you send is one of the numbers routed to your trunk by that provider. A branch office could accept calls only through an extension on the enterprise VoIP network, while still placing outbound calls on a local provider and sending the main headquarters number as caller ID.
Do herbivores not have livers and kidneys?

Sounds like woo-woo to me.
It's not only the steroids themselves messing with your brain, it's also the fact that you work out in a shady gym and buy them from your dealer gym buddy.

Here's a shining example from Arlington, TX: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2014/02/12/ex-arlingto...

Arlington has recruitment trouble, like so many other police forces around the country. Normal people don't want to join the steroid-addled gang, that leaves only highschool bullies who don't mind the low pay and love hassling the public.
Snap a photo and then continue experiencing it in the moment. Not sure why it has to be one or the other.
This is great! Reading the Wikipedia article on the calendar helped my understanding of what's going on a lot. Glad you added the Gregorian calendar option for translating between our dominant calendar and this.
> As an aside I have lots of friends who own fast cars who haven't gotten into accidents by avoiding them.

As in driving aggressively and avoiding accidents they were about to create ? Statistically most accidents are rear ends and side collisions, both of which you most likely won't see coming with enough time to react let alone move your car. And getting plowed by an SUV when you're sitting in a sport car means your head is on the absolute worst position you could think of.

Bikers say the same "I'm small, agile and fast, no accidents for me", yet they're disproportionally represented in crash stats.
Dead planets can 'broadcast' for up to a billion years
Do you think it is ethical to farm and eat humans?
Ask HN: Where to learn designing beautiful websites?
Yeah - and if you believe Watsons autobiography, she was strongly opposed to the idea that DNA had a helical structure until Watson and Crick basically figured it out and presented her with some very convincing arguments.

Franklins contributions seem pretty overstated compared to how people don't mention all the other people involved that had some critical insight.
Bernie Sanders Promises to Tell Us About Aliens If He's Elected President
I don't remember the last time FedEx delivered an Amazon package to me (it HAS happened, but been a while). Mind you the last like 15 packages I've gotten (guestimate) were all from Amazon's own delivery service minus one third party seller that went USPS, so this doesn't surprise me. Just wonder how much longer they even use UPS (I think for some non-prime deliveries they'll still use USPS because they're an efficient system for that).
In 300 thrives on very-early-to-bed, very-early-to-rise routine
Chinese Video Streaming Giant Introduces Anime Facial ID Dataset
Well they have a huge backlog for the A321Neo... for obvious reasons!
This is my experience in learning Japanese. At first, it was kind of an accident haha but you sort of link the general meaning of things after months worth of content. For me though, there was definitely an upper limit (not to mention this does very little for learning how to speak--at least in my experience) and because of that I've started on more concrete methods of learning.

I also feel the process has given me a kind of a boost in my studies as certain words and phrases have already been ingrained into memory.

I still do consume audio/video content primarily in Japanese (mainly because that's what I'm interested in--which definitely helps the learning process) and it's gotten easier and easier to listen/watch without subtitles lately.
I can’t speak for other faiths, but Judaism doesn’t really give or need a reason for dietary restrictions. It’s simply what the law is, and some laws can’t be understood by us on Earth.
Brazil’s Sacked Space Director Speaks Out on Attacks on Science
And it’s nothing new.

It was just a lot more expensive.

People used to go with their cameras and invite their friends and family to a slide show when they returned for all the same reasons.

Now that the bottom 95% has the wealth and tools to do it, it’s somehow bad and we’re finding ways to keep them out of these experiences that used to be unavailable.
The FDA rules left a number of loopholes. Overall usage has declined and in some cases quite substantially, but they're still being misused. For instance animals can still be given antibiotics as a 'preventative measure.' In 2017, there were still 2.3 million kg of antibiotics sold for usage in cattle alone. [1] To try to give that number some context there are about 95 million head of cattle in the US, so that works out 24g per cow per year even at the current reduced rate.

Actually creates quite a sick motivation system if the FDA does close the loopholes. Growers would have an incentive for their animals to develop conditions requiring antibiotics, so long as it did not significantly risk the animal's health.

[1] - http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2018/12/fda-repor...
Not disagreeing that they has a long way to go here, but Amazon beats 100-year-old companies on their core competencies all day, every day. I'm not sure the history will save UPS in the end.
A Revolutionary Technique Got People with Spinal-Cord Injuries on Their Feet
By far the nicest thing I have ever eaten was impala. This was from a restaurant, before I started restricting my diet, but I would love to go and hunt me some of those.
How Tesla Is Like a Startup in a Bad Way
I don't think that's true - I can find the opening sentence in the submission, as well as in their FAQ and an interview, but not the rest of the paragraph, and in particular, not the implicit instructions for how to access Sci-Hub.
> I don't give automated driving any allowances, if it can't do what I do, it doesn't belong on the road

In that case, you’re almost certainly grouping a lot of current and safe drivers in the “it doesn’t belong on the road” category. Not having lived in a place where I’ve needed to deal with white-out conditions myself, I doubt I’d feel comfortable continuing to drive. I know this about myself, though, and am likely more conservative than you about canceling or rescheduling a trip when such conditions are a possibility. This is the same bar that I’m proposing automatic driving systems need to meet; if that means they only work on cloudless days with 0% chance of rain, so be it. In practice, this means there’ll need to be some way for a human to take control for quite a while yet.
> Companies won't even know what are my abilities are.

A rookie discovers that corporate recruiting is broken.

Flip the script. Find an employment opportunity by in-person networking and looking for "people" (not jobs) that you can help. Start attending meet-ups, conferences, trade shows.
Not sure why I'm getting down voted like this. The golden rule of exploration is "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time."

By bending these "rules", we have now contaminated a once pristine environment, and new scientific discoveries will have to eliminate our contamination on anything they find. From bacteria to tardigrades, to liquids and other potential chemical contaminant.