skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese grammar is refreshingly simple. I'm currently learning Chinese and it was shocking to me how easy it is to sensibly express ideas with very basic grammar (and some really funny idiosyncratic phrasings like… dong bu dong).
There is a strong imbalance there. There are three dozen common languages in Europe. As an American, you stand no chance against that language diversity when it comes to matching up with a given person in Europe who only needs to learn English to match up with you.
totally, but hard to get a course to yourself. To be clear it isn't the people I am playing with but the others on the course at the same time.
They have, they have other SaaS products such as YouTrack and TeamCity.
The original point of yours that I find issue with was about "perhaps why most scientists are less concerned", which is really bullshit because most scientists in the field are concerned about premature germline editing. And the arguments you've arrived to in support of it rest on a bunch of false equivalences.
Nestlé cannot claim bottled water is 'essential public service', court rules
> Otherwise, how could it know what cellular bands to use?

By passively listening for what bands are being broadcast on? I mean, dumb phones without any kind of location support whatsoever could do that, without determining what regulatory region they are in.
The page source confirms that it was converted from LaTeX, but TeX itself was only released in 1978 and a sibling comment to yours points out that this article refers to 1978 as the future:

> Well, if programs can't do better than that by 1978, I shall lose a L250 bet [...]

(presumably £250)

This makes the original format of the document more of a mystery.
I sorta get the idea but who wants to burn cycles on your EV to save a couple of bucks a month? It makes no sense to me.

You can just buy batteries for your house. We’re down to what? $200/kWh? Less? If there wasn’t so much mark up in the industry, you could buy a whole house battery for 2-3k that would be good enough to shift most of your energy usage. Utilities just need to incentivize it, which presumably would happen naturally due to market forces as solar adoption goes up.
That argument is why Apple tries to encrypt by default... and is actively employed by privacy advocates.

Your iMessage history is hardly banking website info, yet it employs the same “Military Grade Encryption.”
I don't know why this was downvoted - it only takes a single counter example to invalidate an absolute claim like "impossible".

Of course I can't prove I independently reinvented the tortoise-and-hare algorithm, you'll have to take my word for it. But it should be obvious that somebody did it or it wouldn't be well known today.
Yes. Because people who need jobs to live shouldn’t have to suffer for those people you mentioned. All those people you mentioned it’s a fucking optional thing - don’t optimize for the optional.
Here's the paper that this is a review of:

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/reports/l...
I'd be willing to accept school-issued laptops, if any monitoring software is loudly announced, and the parents can modify/install/remove software as they wish. I.e. with the exception of needing to return them, it's their laptop - no "it's okay if they spy on you because they're not really yours" justifications.
My friend and I both work at FAANG. He told me a story once about how he wrote the solution for a whiteboard problem in Haskell. Once he was done the interview asked “great, so do you want to start coding this up?”
Three thousand out of what? A million?
What if your non-conformer is heavier than a duck?
Here's a thought experiment. Imagine if every fatty acid in your gut is contained in a cell that will independently try its best to maintain homeostasis. When it's under stress -- from any source -- it will secrete hormones.

Now imagine an anorexic woman who recovers, but she overcorrects and ends up overweight in the eyes of her anorexic friends. They shame her for overeating and she tries to eat less, which puts her adipose cells under stress. Is it possible that she'd keep gaining weight from the stress of undereating? If it's impossible, how do you know? If it's not impossible, should we blame anorexics the same way we blame people with habits that you think are bad?
Try at the very minimum matching to inflation, and adjusting the current wage to what it would be if it were. Then all you have to decide is whether the minimum wage should’ve been a thing in the first place.
We let people breed with anyone they want to, and look at the reject rate on that.
For generalist developers who have to get things done: learn at least a little about the major classes of security vulnerabilities that impact your development environment, and select libraries designed to mitigate them.

For students: learn a lot about the most important classes of security vulnerabilities, of which memory corruption is one important example but just one, and then take the time to learn how to exploit at least simple variants of all of them in a realistic setting, to cultivate the mindset needed to think critically about software security.

Don't write anything in C. Sure. But really almost nobody does that anymore anyways.
Are you saying that you don't think office politics ...exists?
McDonald, bless them, gives some education aid to employees, up to $5000.

http://www.archwaystoopportunity.com/tuition_assistance.html

Seems like giving up your best employees who are motivated to improve themselves.

Unfortunately the women in this article probably lacks the free hours to pursue this benefit.
And the plantation owner. Cheap labor is not a right.
Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts (United States)
Remote: Yes

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I currently built most of a desktop file synchronization product, including part of the drivers needed for a virtual disk drive. In a past life, I built a web server / web based application platform.

Note: Within Massachusetts, I'm available for daily on-site work on or near the Cape, or 1-2 days a week on-site in the greater Boston area. Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy working 100% remote!
Shouldn’t these devices be UL or CE or TÜV rated so that we know they’ve gone through some kind of basic safety testing?

There is so much cheap untested crap that gets sold on these platforms. We should stop it.
Why are you repeating what I said, yet as if you're stating a contrary point?
This should be higher. By googling, you are using way more data because of AMP pages, that is big minus especially if you are on mobile plan
Sure, but I don't know even one foreign language as well as similarly-positioned Europeans tend to know English, and neither do most Americans.
> There won't be an electric car charger on every street and every parking spot at every apartment building for decades at best

You don't need them at every parking space, you just need enough density so owners can charge regularly. Maybe in Nimbyism America that's going to take a while (I recently took a trip to San Francisco and didn't even see one electric car charger), but elsewhere it's already possible. In my Eastern European country most supermarkets and shopping malls have electric car chargers, and in the city center there is nearly one fast charger per square km. You can already own an EV here, if you live in an apartment but have to park it on the street.

The average American drives 16 miles each way to work, so that's 160 miles a week comuting. If they had a Model 3, even charging once a week would be more than enough.
When one of your 'advisors' is charged with making peace in the middle east (among other ridiculous responsibilities), is he really an advisor? Was Ivanka acting in an advisory role when she hosted meetings at the UN? C'mon.
Even if the technique were perfect, there are unintended consequences to letting people pick things.

You can think of the one child policy as a precursor experiment to letting people select genetic attributes (gender in that case). People selected the trait that they thought was “better” (male). The unintended consequence wasn’t that it turned out men are not good, but that too many men instead of woman was bad for the population in general.
> I am reporting a vulnerability that exists on most Linux distros, and other *nix operating systems which allows a network adjacent attacker to determine if another user is connected to a VPN, the virtual IP address they have been assigned by the VPN server, and whether or not there is an active connection to a given website.

I'm not sure that I understand exactly what "network adjacent attacker" means. But I'm guessing that it means an attacker on the same subnet. And that it doesn't involve actually hacking VPN encryption.

But isn't it well understood that sharing LANs with untrusted neighbors is hugely risky? At least, I always segregate critical machines in protected subnets.

Or am I missing something?

Edit: OK, I was missing that this focuses on using VPNs via WiFi APs. And depends on the AP being malicious. So yeah, this is a huge issue, for that use case.
Hmmm, at those prices I would worry about the quality of the SSD. (I've learned to trust a few brands, learned to avoid a few others, the hard way. The 512GB SSDs I'd consider purchasing go for 2X-4X your mentioned cost).
DoH moves the attack point to a different place - either between the recursive resolver and the authoritative servers, or (with DNSSEC) to the recursive resolver host itself. This is certainly a step up for security against malicious neighbors, but doesn't address malicious infrastructure.
I tried renaming the "kingdom" and found it to be oddly consistent:

You are , a wizard living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a staff and a spellbook.
You finish your long journey and finally arrive at the ruin you've been looking
for. You look around and see that it's not much different than when you left
it. The only thing is, there's a large hole in the ground where the road used
to be

> rename the kingdom to Snabba

"I don't think I like this name," you say aloud. "It sounds like something from
a cartoon".

The people seem surprised by your choice. They all ask what you mean. You explain
that it's an old word meaning 'stupid

> what is the name of the kingdom?

"Snabba Nul", you reply.
Everyone seems to like the new name. You decide to stay here for awhile until
you can find another place to live.
What if, to make it more interesting, we throw in the perk of having a cool boss that allows you to be rude back to customers?
Joined this summer an international organization in Rome, Italy. I was quite surprised by the quality of the English skills in here. Like,... In our African countries, not knowing English/French is a question of whether you want to live a miserable life or no. Like, we have kids who failed their studies for just 45 hours of English practice each year starting grade 6.

I think that's the key difference between countries: some are compelled to be proficient in English because it is a necessity in order to get a descent life. Some sees it as just a need to compete.

I really understand. It might be also difficult for a great civilization like the Italian one to admit that they need to adapt to other civilization, speak English, adopt this language in order to express their ideas ...
That's exactly what the parent is saying conceptually.

The mega cultures with their larger populations are able to live within their own bubbles more easily than smaller countries. They typically produce a lot more media content to fulfill their own demand, as one example. It's true whether we're talking the US, Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Russia, China, Japan and so on.
> "Then maybe a business that can't make enough money to pay livable wages should cease to exist?"

Sounds like a recipe for business closures en masse and ballooning unemployment, which I don't think is something anyone wants.
>Now, if they could randomize dungeon maps in the original zelda...

They do, and have for some time.
The only way we will know that those claims are remotely true is if they release spice code. Until then, how can we know?
Torture is illegal. Destroying records on torture with the permission of supervisors is not as there is no international requirement to preserve evidence of war crimes.
Monads do work fine in languages with strict evaluation.

In and of itself, that isn't really any more compelling a statement than observing that the strategy pattern works fine in languages with first-class functions. Just because you can do something in a certain way doesn't mean it's your best option. The argument's got to go a bit further than that.
You get points for tenacity, I'll concede that. But your argument is simply wrong. You stated: "Killing someone while drunk is called involuntary manslaughter" Of course, most of the time it is. But you didn't qualify with "usually" or "often" (or with "while driving", for that matter). A single example of killing someone while drunk NOT equating to involuntary manslaughter, is sufficient to prove your statement to be false, same as if you had said "prime numbers are odd."

The flaw in your logic this whole time is your insistence that anything unintended = accident. Things can be unintended but also not an accident. All the previous examples. Involuntary manslaughter laws tend to use the word "unintentional" but not "accidental." How about the Free Solo guy -- certainly he didn't intend to die, but had he slipped and fell, when the whole point of the climb was to do it without any safety equipment, it couldn't be classified as an accident. Car "accidents" are rarely accidents -- in most cases, one party failed to follow a safety signal or violated some rule. And yes, if you deliberately drop a bomb near a border, you can't claim the allies you killed on the other side were accidental. Collateral damage, yes, accidental, no.

If you cannot see that, or that it isn't "accidental" when a serial drunk driver kills someone, or a gun getting fired during a robbery also isn't accidental -- or when a government unleashes a computer virus that it knows will likely affect hundreds/thousands of computers owned by people or companies it doesn't care about -- well, you're maintaining a position about which few people would agree.
It's worth noting that Apple News take a 50% cut of the revenue. On the web, a publisher is free to do whatever they want so when Google can insert themselves into that, it is a fraction of the cut that Apple takes.

It's the sort of thing that reminds me why I want the web platform to remain competitive with iOS, Facebook, and Android. If not AMP, something like it was sorely needed.
You sound elitist. Not everyone has the family support or smarts for better paying jobs. I admire the woman for for working so hard.
Google will never ask rote questions
One way I found helpful was to look at ORM libraries like sqlalchemy to see how they queried each db to translate schemas into objects.
Yeah I have wanted this option since the beginning. Precise location, no, but want to provide just my zip code or city or state? Maybe I'll actually say yes.
The hard part is that you have many vowels. In Spanish there are only five. Understanding is often done by elimination. If I can't discard a word because I can't tell if it's bar or bore or beard or bird or bear or beer, unless context helps, I'll simply stall.

That's why I consider native teachers to be the most powerful advantage. At school they insist too much in grammar, that's important, but the foundation is how the language sounds.

I hate movies with original language and subtitles. I've used them with subtitles also in English with great results to learn.

But nothing can replace a teacher that corrects your pronuntiation as you speak and repeats the right sounds as many times as you need.

Also when I'm watching a movie for pleasure, I like to watch and listen, not to read.
I can't even tell you how much fun my friends and I are having with this game right now. The ability to do anything in the game (so long as the AI understands it) is just incredible. Thank you for sharing this!
Aphyr is also the author of many Jepsen tests, such as this somewhat infamous case:

https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

Jepsen: MongoDB

Aphyr is an incredible writer and just extremely smart, it is hard to read anything from him and not come away humbled.
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Language adoption figures indicate that essentially nobody is learning Mandarin outside of China. It's such a small percentage as to be rounding error versus the major international languages like English, Spanish, French, German. Due to the tightly controlled culture of China (eg the firewall), which barricades foreigners to the outside and natives to the inside, that will continue to be true. The difficulty of learning Mandarin makes that even worse.
Symptom, Condition, Cause
"I just bought into the Nest system (which also had great deals on black friday), and I'm just not worried about it.

In reality, bugging my residence isn't going to result in very interesting data."

You need to be doing everything you can to discourage any sort of data in this data-economy-style world we are pushing ourselves into. And if I want to walk down the street, I sure as hell don't want your camera recording me, especially since knowing the involved company, one way or another that recording WILL get used for a monetary purpose, and I sure as hell didn't sign a model contract, so despite being in public you're still potentially violating some of my rights with your doorbell camera.
Makes me think there is a business opportunity in urban areas?
It’s also a great indicator for whether you already have a job or not. If you do have a job, you probably don’t have as much time to cram for interviews. Not a great thing to select for, in my opinion.
I'm not sure how many people use YT and Teamcity hosted vs on-premise.
Yeah, that is unfortunate. Even if you want to do that (in C, the correct way, of course, is to name them differently), should use macro to select correct function prototype to dispatch to, that still enables type checking and avoid the variadic function non-sense. Variadic function is pure evil (seriously, who can remember these random rules that in variadic function, a char will be promoted to int and a float will be promoted to double ...)
So it’s “optional” for the single mom who was married and whose husband left/died? Is it “optional” in any circumstance for the kids?
That $300 kit is the second version of the dev kit.

Yes, line of sight is very important for this. You want all of the anchors (the fixed, non-moving devices) up as high as you can get them, and you need their positions to be known with precision, or the location of the tags will be off by a large amount.

There are also limitations with UWB that must be understood very well and designed around in order for a successful deployment of any size.

There is no way I can fit everything I learned about this system/technology into an HN comment.

I recommend getting the $300 kit and experimenting extensively to find out if the technology is suitable for your environment.
The phone call with Apple that Kapeli recorded makes it pretty clear that it wasn't him making the shovelware or manipulating reviews.
But also made it clear that Apple were justified in taking action against linked accounts as part of their integrity process. That they were willing to work with Kapeli to get his account reinstated I think shows Apple in a good light.

As for the price, It's been 2.5 years since the last paid upgrade, and I use it every day so I'll probably end up paying again even if I can't expense it because it's so useful
Interesting that you mention ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil does, in fact, cite "technological advances
in energy storage that make wind and solar more competitive for power generation or increased consumer demand for alternative fueled or electric vehicles" [1] as a risk factor on their annual form 10-K.

In a bit of a twist, worth noting that Exxon Research & Engineering was involved in the invention of the rechargeable lithium ion battery [2]. Quoting from [3], "Thus Stanley Whittingham invented the first rechargeable LIB, patented in 1977 and assigned to Exxon."

[1] https://ir.exxonmobil.com/static-files/37b7e1b7-620b-4248-a3...

[2] https://patents.justia.com/patent/4009052

[3] https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/117/09/1416.pdf

Disclosure: I worked for ExxonMobil from 2012-2017 but don't have any remaining ties.
> You have an apple seed

So where'd you get the seed? Or the land? Or the time to plant and tend to the tree?
It's surprisingly enjoyable
I think this is the biggest problem America has as a country now. People dying in the streets due to lack of healthcare/homelessness, and being stuck delivering pizza with no real routes to get out other than to “learn to code”...
Reading your careers page [0] is a total revelation. You provided clear guidelines, as well as a mechanism to ensure the employer and applicant is aware of the status of their application. Kudos!

[0] https://www.level12.io/careers/
Hmm. Nothing very horrible. 20 ms to 200 ms.
The “living wage” would be different for someone with no dependents and no health problems than someone who has health problems and/or kids.
Thanks! I have no idea how I would afford to host it myself haha. GPUs don't come cheap!
Supermarkets and drugstores are notorious for this.

Supermarkets will often see a product that is selling well and copy it as closely as they can without going over the line -- similar colors, size, packaging -- then sell it under their own brand right next to the branded product at a more attractive price.

It feels unfair if you're a producer, but it's often just one of the costs of having access to the distribution platform.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for a bit better than internet default here.
I’ve asked this before, how much “labor” could the average money losing, VC backed, startup afford?
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The latest article in the NYTimes says he is under an NDA so that may explain it.
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