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Could you please not post flamebait or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We ban accounts that do those things. You're welcome to participate here, but please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and contribute to curious conversation.

The idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
I have been using Duolingo for about 7 months now and have made much more progress in it than any of the language classes I took in high school and college. I think the reason is because course based language lessons focus mostly on teaching grammar to be tested on exams. On the other hand, Duolingo focuses on repetition and practice which helps you retain what you learned and build an intuition for the language.
I guess it comes down to proportionality and if you believe that "your solution is a ridiculous PR stunt" warrants a response of "I'm going to destroy your reputation"

I know that such nuance in conversation is not de rigueur on today's internet.
Suppose that this was fixed, and tech companies had to be profitable to stay in business, like mom and pop shops. Would that do anything to improve the circumstances of the McDonald’s worker described in this article?
Clearly the part about it being subjective is a reasonable source of disagreement. Personally, I think the notion that insulting somebody somehow automatically clears that person from defamation charges regardless of how they respond is ridiculous (this is a comment on what you and the parent post appear to be implying, not on Elon's case).
Duolingo tries to do some spaced repetition, but it’s not very effective. Spaced repetition should be at least explicitly memorizing the definition of vocabulary (and related uses) with a smart algorithm while Duolingo only exposes you to words occasionally, in the form of sentences.
Other than the flu, none of them kill more than a handful of children per year.
It's definitely not "just" spaced repetition in the way that Anki is (asking you how difficult it was to recall the answer and choosing to ask you again at some time "t + now" in the future, where "t" is determined by your answer). As far as I can tell, as you're working through a tree in Duolingo, it tries to sprinkle in words that you've seen a few checkpoints ago, but it doesn't seem to do so dynamically based on demonstrated mastery or lack thereof of the words sprinkled back in.
These arrests are anti-free-speech and therefore anti-freedom. This is a classic short-sighted decision that opens the door for widening definitions of crises, emergencies, etc. to justify any action or shut down opposing views.

While these arrests have a clear and problematic free speech issue, I also think societies should be careful to preserve bodily autonomy in instances like this. People have a right to decide what goes or doesn't go in their own or their children's bodies. They get to decide what risks they are willing to take or not willing to take. Bodily autonomy is also an important part of the argument to preserve a woman's right to choose (abortion rights).

Lastly - are people really factually wrong to distrust vaccines or the medical world in general? Note that this article mentions how nurses administered vaccines incorrectly previously (by mixing the vaccine with muscle relaxants), which is what set off public suspicion in the first place. That's the type of unexpected risk vector that spooks people and causes them to see risk even in highly-safe treatments, since some dangerous flaw can surprise patients out of nowhere. The medical world is full of stories of malpractice, orthogonal to the safety/efficacy of individual medicines. So it is totally understandable for people to sound the alarm and warn others.

I also want to point out that there are various legitimate stories or issues for people to view vaccines with speculation/distrust:

1. Experimental vaccines administered in unsanctioned trials (2018: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/recipients-of-exp...)

2. WHO and FDA approve controversial vaccine despite serious safety issues, and then eventually reverse approval (2019: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/7190377...)

3. Note that even tenured vaccines do have a non-zero risk rate. See safety data at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/mmr-vaccine.html for the MMR vaccine specifically.

Talking about those issues openly and with precision (characterizing risks/tradeoffs transparently) is an important part of building public trust, getting things right, holding various parties accountable, and ultimately avoiding epidemics.
It does seem like the operator is more of a line cook than a restaurant owner. Where it could be valuable is for folks looking to test recipes and menus on customers before opening a brick and mortar. The delivery aspect is going to greatly impact quality though and may not translate well to a sit-down restaurant anyway.

It's an interesting point about the drivers. It does make sense to make it first in/first out as the food is ready.
Not sure if you replied on a wrong comment, but I do have JavaScript disabled by default with uMatrix.
that's just poor wording -- the first example wasn't supposed to be linked to the second example;

A better sentence is probably

A monad is a datatype (e.g. Either<T,U>) that encapsulates some control flow (e.g. if T != null return T else U)

if I understand it correctly
It went up their noses.
If sufficient regulatory oversight is politically infeasible, I would think that the government directly employing construction staff would be politically impossible.
> She insisted, “My dream is to build housing only for women who plan to never marry.”

Sounds a lot like a convent
It’s true - there have been attempts to fix it, but nobody has created something other people want to use. The Torch project largely replaced all of the then-popular Lua packages — wxLua was dropped for Torch’s internal qtLua, the Lua concurrency libraries (Lanes and luaproc) were ignored in favor of zeroMQ, LPeg and Lua patterns were generally less popular than PCRE and Re2 bindings, et cetera. Maybe Torch is to blame (NIH syndrome), maybe the Lua packages weren’t up to the task, maybe communication within the community is too hard (Lua lacks centralized discussion channels where experienced users are regularly active), but in the end, Lua didn’t come away looking good here.

Learning a new language wasn’t too hard when that language was Python, after all.
> I also understand it’s a very “sporty” city, which is something I’m not very into.

I wouldn't necessarily discount the city for this; in my time there, I realized there were really two Pittsburghs. You'll see the steel-town football-obsessed side any time you walk past a bar, but near the CMU/Pitt bubble it actually had a really intellectual vibe that I miss now that I've left. Not just the abundance of grad students, doctors and the like, but good libraries and bookstores, a fantastic symphony orchestra, a quality coffee scene, etc. Has a Portland/Seattle-like (including gray weather) vibe. And Steelers games are great times to go grocery shopping!

The travel situation isn't great though. PIT has direct flights to most east coast cities but getting to the west coast indeed sucks. (United does have a direct SFO flight, IIRC, if a bit pricy.)
Imo, they are not really trying for the Consumer market right now, and these units are aimed at Developers, who are needed to create content for the platform. Kinda big point that was skipped over in the article, but it still paints ML into a corner.
The Cloudflare workers using WASM allow an image from a server to be resized on the edge before being delivered to the end user, not the other way around.
Every time you buy media legally, you fund these kinds of laws. Not only are media conglomerates not our friends, they are openly hostile to the rights the growing IP laws have not yet robbed us of.
They shot themselves in the foot 'demanding' 190m (I read 170m elsewhere I think), that's absurd. Not defending the personal insult/slander/whatever you want to call it either but to turn around and seek that much in damages is just plain greedy and opportunistic.
I would pay $5 for a CRUD app. I would pay a great deal more than $5 for a CRUD app that meets all of my specifications. I would pay a considerable amount less for tooling to help me create a web app to my specifications. In order for me to pay it would have to be better than existing tools like Django and ROR which are free.
That code is a nightmare.
Thomas Edison’s brilliant life, told in reverse
> 6,000 units

This number gets more mind-blowing the more you think about it.

It's small enough that one needs to start considering the units bought by management, employees, investors, suppliers, competitors, et cetera to say nothing of their friends and families.
I disagree that identifying people and tracking them across cameras works well. If you have high res cameras and facial recognition then maybe.
The advantage of this is that they don't even see your password in memory as you log in. They only see their randomly generated one. Forcing users to use unique passwords (that is, not allowing the user to pick one) seems like a pretty good idea to me.
https://beta.trimread.com/articles/589
Gandi has had a "moral clause" in their ToS in the past. Don't know if it's ever been enforced or not.
"uh, stupid women! why won't they procreate! huhuhu, priceless"

They are fed up, because men treat them like shit. Period. If anyone is to blame for the demise of the population then it's their fathers, husbands and boyfriends.
Is there an equivalent to "small claims court" in Colombia where you don't need a lawyer if you're willing to do your own research? Maybe threaten to take them to that court for disclosing private information without permission, and also for libel if they accompanied the photo with untruthful badmouthing. And then take them to that court if they ignore you? IANAL though, and I know nothing about what's legal or not in Colombia.

One other thing you can try is get more people to report that post. Maybe there's a threshold at which they will look into this more seriously.
The readme has a link to the steam page with videos and images.
I think this is a valid point. The thing that makes it a bit different from traditional gig workers is that food prep requires formal training (food handling/safety, knife skills, time/temp, etc.).

Your point about VC money propping it up is right on. We saw this happen with box/meal kit companies that couldn't achieve realistic unit economics in the food supply chain and instead were paying for customer acquisition in the form of free meals. Most have folded but some are still dying on the vine.
Archaeologists use radar to find a Viking ship buried on an island
VCs find new way to blow $1m: Wire it directly to hackers
Most major browsers support the Web Payments Api, but Firefox still has it behind a feature flag [caniuse]. The Web Payments API does not enable micropayments by usage. The W3C is absolutely not (yet) behind Interledger Payments (ILP), Coil's proposed spec. You can determine this from the fact the unofficial draft spec has giant red watermarks saying "UNOFFICIAL DRAFT", and the following disclaimer:

> This document is draft of a potential specification. It has no official standing of any kind and does not represent the support or consensus of any standards organization. [draft_spec]

It is being discussed on the W3C's Web Incubator forum, which is promising but not an endorsement by the W3C [wicg].

The Firefox addon, which acts as a shim until they can get native support in Firefox, may well be in partnership with Mozilla (I couldn't find anything about it), but the partnership would most likely be in very early stages. When I click on the link you shared to Mozilla addons I get the warning:

> "This is not a Recommended Extension. Make sure you trust it before installing."

It has around 350 users, which includes people who installed the add-on but didn't setup payment.

In summary, the tech is promising but browser support is a long ways down the road.

[caniuse]: https://caniuse.com/#feat=payment-request

[draft_spec]: https://webmonetization.org/specification.html

[wicg]: https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-web-monetization-a-new-...
The Volt was an interesting case of short-term mismanagement versus long-term goals that was almost shameful. The Gen 1 Volt was lauded for being a more "cross-over-like" assembly for the Hamtramck plant, with the long-term goal of moving Hamtramck away from traditional sedans and more towards cross-overs because the American writing was already in the wind (why the Gen 1 Volt was made there and not a plant already more familiar with cross-overs). But then the Gen 2 Volt for short term efficiency retooled to be a more sedan-like car to better fit the rest of Hamtramck's production, instead of the original plan to push at least one more Hamtramck vehicle towards the cross-over form factor. The Gen 1 Volt could have easily been sent back to another plant, but the Gen 2 Volt was doomed when bean counters thought closing Hamtramck the best bet.
Thanks for that clarification with Touchscreen BMDs.

The problem here is that many of these don't have the receipts (see link). And I'm guessing the other ones the receipts are upon request, so I don't know if it is obvious for users to print them out. And that still doesn't solve the problem of a lack of a easy to access database to check your ballot.
> The title of the proposed law gives a glimpse into the mindset of French legislators, presenting the enforcement of copyright laws in the interest of private entertainment companies as a matter of asserting France’s “cultural sovereignty”. It frames Article 17 as a means to support the European entertainment industry in its conflicts with American tech companies. Users’ interests are at best an afterthought in this struggle for “cultural sovereignty”.

I would imagine that the legislators of France and other EU countries are fairly accustomed to seeing through the lens of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_t... protections, and tend to apply that mindset to other "trade protection" issues.

In a sense, someone sharing a French-copyrighted work on Facebook with the source+watermarks stripped, is doing something kind of similar to an American winemaker who labels a sparkling wine they've produced as e.g. "Napa Champagne".... but in another sense, no, that's an awful analogy.
Where's the database you can easily access?
Creating a large window to account for some uncertainty is fine. My main point is in working with some less experienced engineers they'll say "This will only take 2 days" and it takes two weeks. This kills teams.

I think less experienced people do this because they are excited / eager to please, but it only hurts in the long run.
Pizza delivery = the OG cloud kitchen. They revolutionalized delivery.
I think you'll need some evidence for that. Silence is not consent, and it's certainly not enthusiastic consent.

And even if you do want to take silence for consent, the fact that the vast majority of millions of millions of web users do not install an extension to route around Google AMP indicates that they do not want the operators of the web page to do whatever they want, they want to run a restricted subset of what the web designer might imagine. AMP is extremely popular among web users; approximately 100% of Google users use it. (The more defensible argument, of course, is that users don't really want AMP, at which point the question of what users really do want gets back on the table.)

Also, users did vote with their feet against downloading EXEs from the internet - which can actually do whatever the developer wants - and using JS on the web platform, which can make unrestricted GET requests (even if it can't see the responses), sure, but can't do anything near "whatever." It stands to reason that users would gladly accept even more restrictions on the execution platform.
I work out of rental kitchens. Few things.

#1 the dream of being a professional painter is to have your works in the Louvre, but that doesn't stop you from enjoying your small gallery openings at the beginning of your career. You have to start somewhere.

#2 Opening your own restaurant is hella expensive and takes fucking forever. It's hard to explain the hell that is building a restaurant, and I don't even live in NY or SF where it's worse. You can get a product launched in a software company for less. The upside to a software company is a whole lot bigger though, so there's a lot less investment in restaurants. And I don't know if you know many chefs, but they tend to not have much money.

#3 there are all sorts of kitchens you're not thinking of where the space is rarely utilized, or frequently underutilized. VFW, church, and other social halls. Small food producers. Etc. This is money wasted to the owner. It's a win-win when those places get food trucks and ghost kitchens.

#4 a ghost kitchen isn't that dissimilar to owning a food truck. In fact a lot of them come from food trucks who have to operate out of some commissary anyway and want the stability of selling stuff year round.

#5 You're still doing most of the things in a ghost kitchen you do in any other restaurant, you just don't have tables. You still have a brand. You still develop a menu. You still manage employees. You still source ingredients. Etc. You just put stuff in a box instead of a plate and don't have a front of house (which, frankly, most chefs suck at anyway) to deal with.

The entire food industry is a bad business model for most of the people involved somehow.
Just an anecdote. My son was taking an extra language at school and wasn't doing too well. Duolingo every day for 6 months with one rest day and he went from a C to an A.

I believe it gives people basic, basic competency like you would get if you were a Chinese person who never learned English formally but watched English movies all the time.
As I understand it, if it doesn't have a paper artifact, it's not a BMD, it's a DRE. BMDs are suboptimal; DREs are actively harmful.

I strongly recommend people volunteer for their next election cycle to see this stuff firsthand. You'll definitely have better "this is how the election will be stolen" stories to tell than this mixnet verification stuff. At this point, I'm automatically skeptical of any story, positive or negative, about election security that doesn't include the word "pollbook".
Only if the newer phone actually has desirable features.

- physical, normal headphone port

- Swappable battery

- microsd card slot

- 1st class LineageOS support

I think Samsung Galaxy S5 is the newest phone that has all four of the features, with irblaster and waterproofing as nice extras.
I think that it's important to acknowledge that an effective language learning approach is multi-faceted and learner-specific. Any single app can only be a small part of a larger learning strategy, combined with books or podcasts or tutors or reading and listening practice or making friends with native speakers... you need it all.
I would agree with this if C# didn't definitively show you can have a successful enterprise/"LTS" language that doesn't move at a glacial pace and spend several years doing little to nothing (pre Java 8)

It's implemented features Java had just gotten much earlier, in much more useful forms (see: generics, lambdas) without them being "haphazard" about it.

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To me tasteful is what C# did, breaking changes when needed, but only when so much value was added no one could be upset with the result.

It takes way more effort, and way more carefulness than "we're going to move at glacial pace and provide half-hearted features in the name of backwards compatibility" (again, see: lambdas and generics)
I hope people who downvote dissenting opinions are outright banned from hn
I’m surprised that these students learn to solve quadratic equations before they learn what parabolas are.

If I were teaching quadratics, I would probably start with squares and square roots, and I would draw pictures. I would present some motivating examples (from kinematics, maybe? just the pictures may be okay, especially if the fun game where you try to zap the targets by hitting them with graphs is still around.). Then I would teach translations. After that comes the distributive law and polynomials written ax^2 + bx + c.

And now you can solve them! As far as I’m concerned, solving equations (polynomials, systems of equations, integrals, ODEs, PDEs, etc) is a puzzle, and learning a bag of tricks to solve them is just that: learning a bag of tricks. Quadratics are nice because the tricks always work. In more complicated math, it’s important to understand that the tricks can be very hard or even probably nonexistent, and accepting that is important.

But I don’t see why we should teach people to solve quadratics before teaching what they are.

edit: it’s not clear to me that the method in the article is dramatically different from completing the square. Assume a=1 for simplicity. Given the knowledge the the average of the roots is -b/2 (which one can deduce by any number of means), you can solve the equation in quite a few ways. One is the way in the article. Another is to say “the average is -b/2, so the vertex of the parabola is at x=-b/2, so the polynomial can be written (x+b/2)^2 + something”. Another is to just write down the solution x = -b/2 ± something and solve for “something” (which is more or less the same thing as in the article).

In high school, I used to have fun solving quadratics in my head by seeing which technique gave a quick answer.
There is nothing "conservative" about the NY Posts view. They are reactionary rabble rousers.

The economic challenge for NYC restaurants in reality is the rent, full stop, end of story.
No, that is not what web users want. No one asked them and they probably don't even have an opinion on that. It's what web developers and browser makers want.
All these talks on AR VR and I still haven’t seen a single killer app that would make me want to buy it.
How many people are there where a vaccine actually killed their baby?
I had assumed it was like Linode:

"Linode Kubernetes Pricing
LKE pricing includes only the resources you consume – Linodes, NodeBalancers, and Volumes. Your cluster’s master services are free of charge."

So whenever they are out of their beta, you should be able to run a $5/month single node K8S "cluster".
The buzzing beehive? The state is predominantly LDS. It’s one step away from being a theocracy.
> detecting suspicious activity / shoplifting

This one seems hard to do right. How do you avoid false positives / negatives?
s/company is/companies are/
China can easily operate any number of servers outside China.
Observability: Tracing Malloc Calls
On DigitalOcean they have one-click setup for Dokku.
>>Is that enough? Definitely not. Not for me at least. They basically give you the 'hello world' of a language.

Maybe try something like this: https://www.conversifi.com

It allows you to practice with a native speaker in your target language.

Disclaimer: I'm friends with one of the founders
I am still super confused. They posted your personal information on Facebook and said to you "we will take this down if you pay us." This makes no sense. Your passport has already been put out on the internet. Even if the post from Facebook was removed the damage has already been done. They don't really have any leverage here.
I wouldn’t classify the owner as a gig worker. They own the customer-facing brand and other IP. Much of the customer data they likely share with delivery services, but not the kitchen (of course, vertical integration is a future possibility.) What this does is shift the necessary owner competencies away from operations and more towards marketing (and chef skills.) Which seems like a trend, as the same statement could be made for many different industries that have been heavily disrupted, e.g music, podcasts, book publishing.