skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When you adjust for the value actually created by a company, the stock market is a zero sum game.

Not really. For example: if I am a terminal cancer patient that wants liquidity now to do the things I want to do before I die, and you are a pension fund that only really cares about the return thirty years from now, I can trade the stock that I have to you in exchange for money I can spend right now at a price both of us agree on and (this is the important bit) BOTH of us gain from the transaction.
You misread. A course is 40h (20 classes), and it takes 10 courses to get reasonably conversational. i.e. 400h of class-time (not counting homework, study, and practice in the wild time)
IIRC, common law also presumes that snail mail is robust.

The idea is that it is common for someone to deny receiving a mailed notification but that it is uncommon for mail to actually be lost. So, it makes sense to presume that the mail was successfully delivered unless there is evidence to the contrary (i.e. other mail to nearby addresses was also undelivered due to a weather condition).

My take on the UK law is that software is presumed to work unless an actual bug can be demonstrated.
The article mentions the 2012 US House Intel Committee report on Huawei and ZTE but says (incorrectly) it was never released. Here's the report:
https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligenc...

This report is why the US government is taking action against Huawei. In it, Huawei refuses to answer some key questions about the structure of their company that strongly indicates they are controlled by the CCP. So what did Huawei think was going to happen after that?
Quoting Huawei doesnt make for great evidence here
Two things really struck me in this article. The first was the graph of sales over time. The current boom in sales is the biggest and longest - only the boom from 1985 to the mid-90s comes close in duration. All the other booms seem to have ended in a sharp drop in sales.

The second is the continuing trend - in both private industry and government - to atomise organisations by outsourcing important work. The immediate, formal needs of the organisation will be met by the contractual requirements but informal communications and long term development of people and institutional knowledge aren't paid for and won't happen.
There are? Can you give a list of pointers or what to look for?

I was looking for an OCR that can do license plates while the car is moving, for a hobby project. The image quality is less than perfect, the lighting is never very good, and as the camera is mounted on my side window, all plates have a perspective transformation applied (e.g., topline and baseline are essentially never parallel)

Tesseract fails miserably. Trying to help it, I have not found a good open source project that would consistently equalize color pictures to black-and-white - sometimes there's shadow on the plates that foils all simple attempts.

And yet, GCV needs no parameters, and seem to do this perfectly on images I've tried.

So, assuming I'm willing to put in the time - how do I build my own GCV -- even if it's just for the hobby use case of reading license plate (and the next stage: reading house numbers - which GCV does reasonably well, although it is a much much harder problem)
> I've decided to focus purely on conversational mandarin, and skip learning Hanzi (characters) entirely

I initially did the same, but for curious and started learning a few characters too. It actually proved to be beneficial to my speaking too, as the characters provided a kind of visual mnemonic in a way I hadn't expected, helping me to remember sounds and tones.

And of course when actually in China, it's really beneficial to be able to read a menu, or at least have an idea of what you're ordering!

Absolutely do what works for you, but I'd suggest trying a few to see if you get the same kind of "visual reminder" benefit I did.
Military drones armed with machine guns
Well, like I said, after being AFK for 6 months I've made a recovery that felt unimaginable when I was at a computer every day. So i'd guess it was 10 hours a day on a computer still.

But since you speculated, I was on 120-150g protein per day, and I am now on 80-100g with 10 hours of hiking (very little wrist exercise, all in one direction) per day.
This is a nice idea, but I think it needs work. It classified almost every tone that I spoke as 3rd tone. Granted, I'm not native, but I speak well enough that my 4th tone couldn't possibly be interpreted as a 3rd tone.

What's the training data? Is it trained on both male and female voices? Anyways, very nice idea - I hope you pursue it and I'm looking forward to seeing how it improves over time!
Isn't this just mixfix syntax? It's simply a matter of convenience and perhaps idiomatic convention.
What about existing shareholders?
This retired physician (neurosurgical anesthesiologist) agrees wholeheartedly with you re: the radically different results the same patient often receives from different companies. Better not to test at all?
As a dev, I grok that smalltalk is all about messaging but I find that it bores me to discuss the trivialities of sportsball with marketing or business people.
Also Java:

bank.move(new Amount(100), new FromAccount(checkingAccount), new ToAccount(savingsAccount));

If you are really trying, you will be able to convey enough information so that your fellow programmer. will understand what you are trying to accomplish. Unfortunately, in practice, even Java Experts will convey to you that this style is wrong, classes and objects are " too expensive", primitive values are fine, and that this is too verbose.*

I learned about this style from Yegor Bugayenko's Book "Elegant Objects", go check it out. https://www.elegantobjects.org/

*) Yes, Java is verbose; not trying to defend that. I am very happy about keyword arguments in Python, for example. But, as soon as you have classes, ctors, objects, you can use them to add rich semantics into your code. Works with functional languages and other, better typesystems, too.
I see, thank you so much for your detailed response again davismfwl. It definitely seems like going the international contractor route seems most feasible. I do wonder though at what breaking point it just makes sense to hire an international worker full-time and when that investment is worth it. Given your explanation, it definitely seems that PEO is the best route.
> I like to say that scala is as if java and ruby had a love child and it all worked out.

I feel Kotlin is probably a more accurate result of this mindset, but reasonable people disagree.

What part of ruby or java has anything morally or technically even approaching the concept, use case, or meaning of implicits?
Does anyone know how this would relate to Qt signals/slots?
To be fair to the ACM, they do have cheaper rates in developing countries: $99 won't apply to you if you're outside of North America or Europe.

Still a profiteering organization, but they've thought this out a little.
>but simply have no recourse against most gun violence

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/small...

Those suits will stop most commonly-used pistol rounds. If you desire protection against rifle rounds, you can purchase SAPI plates from China for fairly cheap, but them, and their plate carriers, are fairly bulky....worse than wearing an armored motorcycle jacket, for comparison.

Aliexpress example: https://tinyurl.com/quy7edr
Had a similar experience recently with Time For Aristotle, it made design make more sense.
I just installed the rpm on a modern Fedora (Red Hat) virtual machine and it worked ok. Pretty amazing given the age.
But it was too small and I didn't see how to increase the size.
Yes and as a side-effect some of the brighest minds in the world may end up working on more pressing issues than getting people to click on links.
I'd say it's a moot objection, as long as quite a lot of skilled people still want to move to the US.

My point rests on more (than now) skilled people coming into the US, not on all skilled people coming into the US. So your (true) observation that a number of them doesn't want, and wont come, even if it's totally allowed, doesn't really affect the argument.
For me this is much slower than the native-app-like speed of the actual mobile twitter website.

How much longer is this anti-JS ideology going to dominate HN?
MIT Gallery of Hacks: Best Of
You’d be surprised the lengths governments go to for espionage.
The pattern in rust is to use enums and structs instead. Design patterns are always needed when the language doesn't support a given construct but once it's usefulness is established language designers incorporate to (the same or other) language.

The problem with named parameters as seen in Python is that then the name of the parameters become part of your APIs contract, making changes to your API harder. This has been remediated with patterns in Python 2 and explicit design in Python 3 by incorporating named only parameters so that you can't call them with both positional or named args.
That was phenomenal, beautiful and intense. Wow. I hope we get more writing like that here on HN.

I feel like I've been drinking the author's life from a cup. Spectating his memories right alongside him. What an engaging style of writing.
"Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is an interesting listen on Audible. Surprised that nobody has mentioned it here yet.
It is a perfect candidate for an audiobook because of lack of code snippets and formulae.
Most people are probably using scrapers and crawlers to collect data on sites that either don't have an open API or the API is difficult to use.

Examples:

Ancestry.com scraper - https://github.com/mjhea0/ancestry-scraper

Indeed job scraper - https://github.com/mjhea0/indeed-scraper

Craigslist housing scraper - https://github.com/mjhea0/craigslist-housing-scraper

https://github.com/ThaWeatherman/scrapers

What can you then do with the data?

Monitor competition or your own brand

Sentiment Analysis

Gather sales leads

Machine learning

Generate content (blog posts, building a custom job board)
Find cheap flights
Linux has to support multiple architectures, and it's a pain in the tuckus to add conditional support for different CPU architectures which might or might have AES acceleration, using different CPU instructions.

Linux does have support for it, but you have to drag in the crypto system, which is optional, and it's a super-heavyweight and complex interface. Jason tried to simplify it for Wireguard, but ran into a lot of resistance, and he's now adding Wiregard with an interface layer to the crypto subsystem. He's still going to work on trying to add a simpler crypto interface, but a core principle of Linux's RNG is that it must always be present; I didn't want to make it an optional component that could was enbled or disabled at compile time. That means I couldn't rely on the crypto subsystem, even if I was willing to put up with its rather horrific interface. (There are some reasons for its complexity, but it adds no value to the random driver or Wireguard.)

In any case, if you really need more speed than the current ChaCha20 CRNG, you're doing something wrong. It's almost certainly not for cryptographic purposes. So if you do want that kind of speed, number one, you probably really don't need the security, and so a PRNG will always be faster. Or if you do need the security, grab a seed value using getrandom(2), and then implement a userspace CSRNG. (But I bet you really don't.)
>Or the US would gain a population of highly productive people who can further technological advances which would induce demand for high skilled labor at a faster rate than supply would lower the price point.

Not what we usually see, though it's hidden through doctored statistics about how it's never been better.

Plus, that would still be to the detriment of other countries, losing those highly productive people.
It's an app designed to provide feedback on your tones; I don't see how it would work _without_ microphone access.
If they're high level execs, presumably they know about major company news. I don't think that's hard for the prosecution to establish.
Increasing amounts of data suggest that obesity is enormously more complicated than "willpower." I feel like studies like this are a strong indicator of that: the entire generation doesn't just, you know, lose willpower overnight. Nor is it likely to be genetic; a species doesn't flip a switch like that.

But point out the amount of endocrine-disrupting chemicals we stick in our environment, the amount of processed food we use to replace real food, the way our built environment actively pushes people away from fresh produce - well, duh, but who would ever do anything about that?

I went back to school for a masters in public health at one point. The very first day of behavioral psychology our professor chose to discuss food deserts - the phenomenon in which grocery stories target high SES enclaves, leaving most lower SES folks without access to fresh groceries. The campus was situated, like most urban campuses are, in a so-so type of area. This was a major northeastern city, not some obscure nowhere.

He cut the class into quarters, gave each quarter a $15, a short shopping list (banana, lettuce, milk, chicken breast) and a cardinal direction. Go forth, my children, and return unto me within two hours.

Not a single one of us managed it. Three groups managed to find a bodega or something and came back with, say, milk and a shitty banana. One group managed to make it to a fancy market on the edge of the hood where it's beginning to gentrify - but couldn't afford the full list. (Never mind how unrealistic it is to walk almost an hour in each direction to come back with a full load of groceries.)

I actually lived near campus. I lived that experience. I had to pay a premium for peapod so that I could have, you know, fresh produce. If I'd run out of food and couldn't wait for peapod, my only reasonable choices were a bodega full of crap and a 7/11.

Meanwhile, when I was in Europe, there were tiny hole-in-the-wall shops stocked with fresh nearly-everything nearly everywhere. In London I could always swing by on the way back to my apartment without going more than five minutes out of my way to grab some fresh salad vegetables; in Madrid the same. In Athens I had to go almost ten minutes out of my way.

Of /course/ we're fat, and getting fatter.
Tones just clicked for me one day — I could hear them distinctly in both people who were speaking to me and when I was speaking (it hurt my ear to be able to hear all of my tonal mistakes).

The key to mastering tones (actually all of the spoken language of any language) is to listen more. Receptive skills like listening develop before productive skills like speaking.

In order to supplement your tutoring, I suggest you listen to a lot of Mandarin while you away from the tutor, especially when you are on the road. Specifically, I recommend TV shows, radio shows, or podcasts that are aimed at younger people (maybe 8-20 — younger than that has some strange kiddie terms, and older usually gets you full on adult language). Language targeted to young people usually has a relatively narrow set of vocabulary, and it usually avoids complicated words (e.g., like Latin-based words in English) and idiomatic phrases (e.g., four character combos).

Even if you don’t understand much or even any of what you hear, you will start to develop an intuitive feel for how the language sounds. Once your vocabulary develops, you will start picking up phrases, then sentences, then entire paragraphs. Somewhere in that journey, your ear will (most likely) develop to a point that you can not only hear other people’s tones, but you will naturally hear your tones as well (at least when they don’t sound right).

Best of luck!
It seems more like a feature to me. Sometimes parameters change slightly and you will never notice it until you re-read the docs. So if the change is explicit I can go look at it during compile time and not be surprised by it during runtime.

Of course there are occasions where the name is unfortunate (typo, ambiguous name or incorrect term) but the docs could mention it and it would not be the end of the world.
Enjoying the language you're using is as important as pretty much anything else.
When a Dutchman writes "ij", it looks like "ÿ".
I think you might be getting confused in the different lighting models. IRL there is no hard difference between specular and diffuse surfaces, that's a separation we've made in rendering for convenience. A raytraced pbr scene will use the normal and the roughness to determine the grouping of the resulting light bounces. But unless the surface is also emitting light, all lighting in the scene is from bounces, even of everything in the scene is diffuse.
> Even native speakers of a language in its native country are explicitly taught grammar and vocabulary in school

It is not that there’s no value whatsoever in formal study of grammar. It might come in handy if you want to be a linguist, an editor, a high-level writer, a lawyer, or the like. If students want to take a grammar course in high school or college that seems okay with me.

It just doesn’t teach basic language fluency.

Native speakers don’t start studying grammar until they have had 10+ years of full-time experience with the language. And anecdotally, the students who spend a lot of time reading independently don’t really need the grammar lessons (they already have a subconscious understanding of what is or isn’t grammatical, and the typical school grammar lesson is very slow and obvious for them), and the students who don’t spend any time reading independently and regularly speaking with educated adults would get more value out of instead spending the time reading or listening to someone read. YMMV.
I tried your trick, and it worked like a charm! I guess that's how I'll be speaking from now on...
The bit on quality might resonate more if you have to ask someone else to maintain your motorcycle. It's extremely hard to get someone else to care as much as you do. I think the decline of companies often comes down to the departure of people who really care.
but then how do you deal with transactionnal behaviors ?
They could increase their offer and attract more talent? They could make the job more favorable to local talent.

Who does this benefit? American Software Engineers. The United States. Tax Payers?

Or we could depress wages by bringing in outside labor and applying handcuffs (H1-B) which will depress wages further. The company wants all the benefits and efficiencies of being in America without paying into the system
Sure, and looking up, I think the answer to the implicit question "Why are we supposed to memorize word tone in Mandarin when we don't need to memorize word stress in English?" is "You do need to memorize word stress in English. The details are up to you, but it's not optional."

But here, what I'm really asking is:

What's the difference between "saying the wrong word" and "saying the right word in a thick accent"? In my eyes, those appear to be the same thing, so I don't see how anything could be more like one than the other.
I guess the 'ui' and the 'g' are hardest to pronounce correctly for non-native Dutch speakers.

We have a tongue-twister for German and English people that goes like this "Ik eet uitsluitend gefruite uien in mijn geruite keuken" (you can have Google Translate read it out loud). Meaning is "I only eat fried onions in my checkered kitchen".
This is a pretty old technique in the demoscene ('called bump mapping there'). There's probably a few hundred demos from the late 90s that use this technique on everything from Amigas to DOS systems of the time.
I’ve found blocking an iPhone on my WiFi AP effectively cuts it off from the net. It may have cell, but I think iOS prioritizes the WiFi connection because it’s live to the AP, even though all requests stop there.
No, read this, but I doubt it would convince you and may only fall on deaf ears.

https://spartacus-educational.com/SPYbsc.htm

>Roald Dahl was assigned to work with Drew Pearson, one of America's most influential journalist as the time. "Dahl described his main function with BSC as that of trying to 'oil the wheels' that often ground imperfectly between the British and American war efforts. Much of this involved dealing with journalists, something at which he was already skilled. His chief contact was the mustachioed political gossip columnist Drew Pearson, whose column, Washington Merry-Go-Round, was widely regarded as the most important of its kind in the United States."
People didn't like this comment, which I kind of expected, it would be nice if they stated why so we could have a discussion about the topic. I stand by it.
This tool is exactly what I wanted whenever I was first learning pronunciation. I've found myself using siri to check my general pronunciation in longer sentences. This tool with segmentation would be a huge game changer.
Can you list your script/pipeline? I haven't had much success (though, I only ran ffmpeg's internal tesseract OCR[0], no imagemagick processing or any other processing in between)

[0] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#ocr
What does a “backup” mean, really? When a site posts multiple links to a stream, latter ones are “backups” but I’m not forbidden from using them. Most of the time, backups are just less good alternatives. Ostensibly, a non-video stream should fit the bill...
Using Ground Relays with Starlink
I think this article is not advocating for the legal apprenticeship, but instead for the theory behind. A _good_ apprenticeship would not need pay because the education side would compensate the work side. But of course then lots of "entrepreneurs" would take advantage of this, and so it's not possible to do it for free.

As a closely related example, internships can be free in Spain, and it happens quite often that the business just rotates interns without teaching them anything. So when the maximum legal time of unpaid internship is over, they just find a new intern. Sometimes they do pay, but pennies on the dollar because there's no minimum requirements.
Why would they not divulge audio from a public, live streamed announcement?
I agree, although I haven't done enough work with languages using named parameters to really judge how inconvenient they can become in practice.

It seems like most naming issues could be alleviated by allowing the developer to provide aliases, this way you can change the preferred parameter name while still keeping the old one around for backward compatibility.
Frequently Asked Questions on Nench VPS Benchmark Script
> The early SpaceX Starlink satellites lack inter-satellite links planned for later versions. Can they still provide low latency wide-area communications? In this video I look at what might be possible using ground relays to hop from satellite to satellite around the world.
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Companies pay you to watch their ads this xmas
Related recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21833718

Since the article title is baity, we changed it in accordance with the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). If anyone suggests a better title, we can change it again.
What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers? (2017) [pdf]
> I don't think you need base stations, given atomic clocks shared between the network and possibly on some of the client devices, the client devices could form a large phased array receiver and then mesh the data between the ground based mesh.

Are you suggesting that no person with an iPhone ever makes/takes a call with a non-iPhone user?
I have an xps13 9360 (1 generation ago I believe) and I use it outside regularly. The matte screen helps a lot
Why not initialize ip outside of the loop since the value is not required to change inside?