skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(For the record, I'm not downvoting anything in this thread: I consider it rude to both downvote and reply. So someone else is downvoting both of us.)
I commend their effort, but I believe it should be done on an entire ecosystem level. From assembly to libraries to documents to frameworks. All of it should be turned into Korean, French, Mandarin, Russian, etc. If the governments of major nations decided to do it in a systematic manner along with corporate and university help, it shouldn't be that difficult a task. Create it once and then your entire citizenry can use it. It's rather surprising that there isn't much effort to port "computing" to people's native language. Why should the french or arabs have to learn english to code? Imagine having to learn russian to study physics or learn korean to watch Parasite. By making english the default language of computing, every non-anglo nation disadvantages their own citizens by placing an unnecessary hurdle in front of them.

How many people around the world are simply discouraged from programming because of added burden of having to learn english? How much are we losing out because of that?

This might be difficult for smaller and poorer nations, but what is the excuse for germany, france, spain, japan, brazil, etc with large enough populations to justify porting "computing" for their people?
I still think all these details could be solved for with a friendly IDE for beginners. In most cases folks just want to build a thing for themselves or a small group. Right now the tooling is still unfriendly to most but it feels like it’s moving towards something better

Here’s an example, I built a simple app to keep a schedule for watering my various plants that all have different needs. Originally it was just a google sheet but I saw an opportunity to play with ReactNative and expand my knowledge

A lot of everyday people, have spreadsheets like this that could be friendlier. They’re not trying to ship it to thousands just themselves and maybe a friend. Like sharing a meal and then the recipe :)
This is my grim little friend in green coveralls and a green hat. Maybe he is confiscating some masks.

https://vcloud42.com/file/art42-cdn/cubism/seed_0000213622.j...
CoinZoom is hiring iOS and Full-Stack developers
If you want to take back control, turn off your phone and avoid visiting people who have smart devices in their homes (or offices).

Don’t go jamming all the radios because you personally don’t like the uses that some radios are put to.
I don't see how you can fully dismiss the idea that it was an accidental outbreak from a lab, especially when there's precedent.

The truth is we don't know yet, and we can't trust the Communist Party of China.

If you have an issue with the article please point out something specific instead of stating innuendos.

An expert scientist on coronaviruses that made one from scratch at UNC was working in Wuhan.

The virology lab is across the street from the animal market the outbreak originated at.

If that's not plausible, what is?
I'd encourage you to read Brian Eno's "Composers as Gardeners"[1], which talks about a different way of looking at composition, which is pretty different from the usual way people think about it.

Many non-musicians are under the impression that composers think up music in their head and then write it down, and while some do work that way to some extent (with they myth of Mozart working like that in the movie Amadeus being probably the most well known and most extreme case of composition being completely like that), for most composers (including Mozart) this is much more of an iterative, experimental process.

In recent decades, and especially with the advent of electronic music and computers, a lot more randomness and elements not fully or directly under the composer's control have entered in (though, again, this goes back at least back to the age of Mozart, with his dice game[2]).

There's a whole field of algorithmic composition[3] where music-generation becomes either semi-automated or even completely automated, and the composer's role is one of writing or choosing the algorithms, and of choosing various other aspects of the music (such as which instruments or sounds get used) but without pre-determining the final work in totality or in advance.

Brian Eno talks about this much more eloquently and deeply than I can, so I again encourage you to read his talk.

[1] - https://www.edge.org/conversation/composers-as-gardeners

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_composition
A lot of employees either A) don't know what to talk about or B) aren't sure what their current manager considers safe topics.

Questions like the above (though not all of them) can help spark discussion and get them to open up. I've personally seen a number of times where team members have a lot to say about something and didn't realize I wanted to hear their ideas on that topic.

Obviously, delivery matters, and choosing a good question is important. If you have a foundation of trust already built (see Psychological Safety research) then a lot of those questions can help.
Google to Samsung: Stop messing with Linux kernel code. It's hurting Android
Show HN: FWBer, open source AdultFriendFinder clone (NSFW)
From a purely aesthetic perspective, someone waving their arms, holding their nose, and talking loudly about how disgusting smokers are as they walk past a cigarette smoker is far more unpleasant than the original act. Theatrical public shaming is one of the ugliest things in society.
Smelled like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project#History

Remains to be seen what happens now, though only vauguely comparable situation, whith much of Linux in the hands of US-based corporations.
That would be the next step to close the circle
https://twitter.com/sougwen/status/1218672595350032385/photo...
The data type and edge case issues have to be considered 100% of the time unless the transpiler can reliably determine through static analysis that they aren't a factor.
I believe there is a clutch mechanism. There are videos on YouTube of pilots doing this (in a simulator.)
"He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer." - Elie Wiesel, Night
Apollo might be awful, but it can't be worse than reddit on the iOS browser, which they deliberately hobble by constantly asking you to switch to app, and logging you out.

Now, if this app removed duplicates of stories and pics that I had seen, that would be great.
Totally fair question - here's how Slimbox is different from other 3rd-party email services:

TL;DR – https://www.slimboxapp.com/privacy-policy (seriously, it's actually an enjoyable read in plain English)

1. Slimbox is verified to be in strict compliance with Google's User Data Policy
- Edison and other apps are literally what caused Google to change their Gmail user data policy. This means that the use of user data is limited in ways that does not allow monetization. See the Limited Use section here to get a sense of how strict everything is now: https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-p...

2. Slimbox is NOT in the data business
- Our business model is a simple subscription service ($1 per month). Slimbox does not monetize user data in any way and does not allow ads of any kind. Even before Google's policy revisions, we were focused on delivering a service that we would want to use: one that doesn't operate on a surveillance capitalism business model.

3. Slimbox requires the absolute minimal data to operate
- When you sign in with Google, Slimbox gets your name and email address to send your daily summary and log you in to the app (where you can manage your senders, set your timezone, etc). The only other information stored in our database (encrypted) is a list of clutter email senders - this is essentially a list of filters that Slimbox has created for you in a single click. This information never leaves the database, and is strictly limited in access.

4. Slimbox does not have the capability to access the content of your email.
- Slimbox never stores or takes possession of your emails on our servers to operate. This keeps user cost as low as possible, ensures there is never a data-leak from our side, and also means that if Slimbox is down for any reason, you continue to have access to your email as you would normally.

Lastly, we are doing everything we can possible to put user trust first because that's what we expect from any service that requests access to our inbox. We don't even use Google Analytics, and there are zero trackers on our site. Even our Privacy Policy is written in plain English.
Crazy Mascots Flooded Japan. Can This Grouchy Boar Survive?
We don't freely share the data up front because we don't have the data up front. The service we provide is getting personalized estimates of how much a given company would hire you specifically for (not just a broad estimate).

Salary estimate websites that use survey data are great tools to use to get a generate ballpark but have their limitations.

Levels.fyi is one of the best if you're looking at FAANG tier companies and is one of the few that actually verifies salary data is correct with W2s or offer letters
Chromium. Does everything I need it to. No reason to switch. Also Firefox DoH plan concerns me
While I had the same experience as you in high school (and primary school language learning was altogether a farce), I found the experience very different in classes at university. I think the primary factor was that there were a negligible number of unmotivated students.

Listening to other people at my level didn't seem a particular detriment because teachers have to speak at roughly my level anyway. They made more mistakes, but the instructors corrected them, and the corrections were valuable since they were often the sorts of mistake I'd make myself. Textbooks are trite, but since their main competition in the internet age is materials put together by dedicated but ultimately pedagogically-unskilled amateurs, I think they're better than most alternative prepackaged materials.

What I will acknowledge is that private study through a flashcard deck is probably the best way to acquire vocab, but that was never my biggest challenge. My vocab has consistently been on the large end of other people I've learned with, just because memorisation suits my personality (and I suspect that's true of a lot of people here). That never, though, translated to being the best in class - ability to fluidly construct a sentence beats out perfect word choice every time. It's also very easy to pair with a taught class, since there's no downside to learning extra vocab on the side.

Classes move a bit slowly, but I think the rationale is valid: You're here for three years anyway, you're probably trying to get to around B2, so we'll train you up to B2 in three years.

I'm not going to argue that it's as good as a private tutor, but it was closer to second-best than worst in my experience.
If the benefits were large they’d be much easier to measure. From my research, it seems to amount to 1-2 fewer colds as a baby, if that.

Contrast that with what pregnant women are told from doctors and lactation consultants: that breastfeeding helps with bonding, dental structure, allergies, weight gain in babies, weight loss for mothers, etc. They’re pushed to websites like KellyMom that cherry-pick studies supporting these outcomes, and shamed for choosing alternatives. They’re told that just one bottle in the first month can ruin their chances of breastfeeding successfully.

Many hospitals belong to an initiative that pushes breastfeeding on new mothers to the extent that they have to get a prescription to give formula. You can’t put your baby in a nursery anymore because the baby needs access to the breast round the clock. But heaven forbid the mother fall asleep holding her baby! Babies go home from the hospital to mothers who are exhausted from birth and trying to feed round the clock. Their milk supply hasn’t come in yet and their babies leave the hospital having lost 5-10% of their birth weight. Some of these babies never get enough milk, and they die while their mothers are still told ‘Breast is Best’. Others feel shame, embarrassment, and inadequate for not nursing their children, from professionals and laypeople who have internalized this message.

All this to prevent a couple of colds in a baby. It’s insane.
Yes for the time being we're only focused on the US
On Android, you can just download an .apk and install it (you need to change the "Allow insecure apps" setting). No code signing, app store, or corporate approval necessary. This is the #1 reason I will never be getting an iPhone (which is a shame, since iPhones are beautiful devices in almost every other way).
>Started working on it in 2014 then moving to full time in 2015 when I graduated university, then in late 2017 finally released it. :D So been full time about 4.5 years at this point.

Out of curiosity, when did you work at Apple? Your website says "built by a former Apple employee", but it seems you've been full-time on this app for most of your post-college years.

Great app though, I use it :)
On mobile (iOS) neither link works for me.
I'd also like to know what your business model is before I sign up - perhaps it is already in one of those pages?
When did art ever require purpose? Who decides what is and isn't art? Very tricky path to trod down.
Good point. I'll follow up via email to get your resume and add an upload a resume option
I found this article when I went looking for recycling information. Over the last month I started using Amazon fresh, and for a family of 5's worth of groceries, these silver bubble bags end up filling an entire garbage bag to dispose of each week. Normally I have 3-4 garbage bags a week, so this is an increase of 25% to 30% in raw volume of garbage produced.

It's weighed on me more and more as my use of Fresh has increased. I used it the first time when I was sick and couldn't get out and other services were both more expensive and had no delivery slots when I needed them. Fresh was also cheaper on the items. Not everything, but about 10% on average overall, even after a tip to the driver, plus I get 5% cash back by using my Amazon card, so it's upwards of $60/month saved. That's hard to overlook.

But the packaging is so excessive for something that, basically, is untouchable for any likely recycling option. That's on top of the usual bad packaging re: space and packaging waste. Among my order, I received a single 8oz package of quacamole. It was delivered in it's own full-size large brown bag and one of the large silver-lined bubble packaging pieces, by itself. It's about 5x5x1 inches in diameter: It easily could fit, without fear of crushing, in any 4 of the other bags I had which were also insulated.

I feels like Amazon is having to re learnd so many of the lessons it's already been fixing in its traditional business. 5-7 years ago, crazy wastage on packaging was much more common with Amazon, and they've done a decent job improving (not eliminating) that issue, but with Fresh it's being taken to an entirely new level. And there's no rhyme or reason to it either: It doesn't seem like an abundance of caution to protect food, there's no pattern to it. In fact in one order they put a gallon of milk and 1.5 quarts of orange juice on top of a dozen eggs. Remarkably non broke, but this just evinces a pick-&-pack operation that either has little in the way of clear standard practices for this sort of thing, or if they exist the quality control for adherence is awful.

But it's the shear waste with those metallic bubble bags that's the worst. Literally a whole garbage bag filled by the 6 or 7 I receive.
Appreciate the comment – we're hopeful that others see the price point as fair and also accessible.
Every politician that is a hypocrite could use of one I suppose....

However, the public would probably assume they are hypocritical to use one anyways....

So what's the point of most commoners who are already known "unknowns"?

or should we all be

known "knowns"

or subterfuge with

unknown "knowns"??

Do pray tell?????
It can be a combination of multiple things.

It can be your environment, some places are designed by people who don't care. Some places even are adversarial.

It can be you, either from lack of something (sleep, magnesium, ...). It can be you missing some understanding. Or you just don't getting that most people either don't have your attention to details, don't care, or don't want to do anything to improve their environment. It can be you not being the intended audience. It can be you not putting yourself into the intended usage.

But either way, you can choose to accept it or change it and be proactive about it and don't whine as it reinforce learned helplessness. Pick your battles. The environment is dynamic. For example try littering and see what happens. Or you can make some improvements to it. Or you can point and shame on the internet.

Giving feedback in the real world is quite easy. You can carry a pen and a stack of stickers, or a spray paint can to mark things. For example you see ambiguous handles just mark one red sticker/dot on the handle which is closed and a green dot on the handle which is open, (or do the opposite and set-up a live twitch :) )

You can write letters to the mayor. You can also notice the positive small details left by people who care, and reward them.
Hey this is an awesome project with really cool results. I think it can be grouped with "found art" conceptually. Several of the generated pieces are really quite interesting, though at some point the styles seem a bit repetitive, though I imagine that's simply due to training on cubism.
It's not even a protection, I'd call it a "liability indicator," or even a detector.
Username checks out.

Also, I can say that the more I’ve opened up at work, the more my career has improved, from finding better-fitting positions to finding interesting and meaningful work within those positions, to enjoying my time at work more, to getting paid more. It’s really worth it. You may want (or may not) want to start by seeing a therapist.
Anti-ageing therapy i.e. lifespan extension (also related to medical science as a longer lifespan also requires dealing with other health issues like cancer). The technology for the first iteration of this is probably quite close, within a few decades or by the end of the century at the latest.

It's a thorny issue though. People are afraid of death but paradoxically this sometimes manifests in resistance to any efforts to address it. I think people have difficulty dealing with the idea of life extension in an equanimous manner, as the concept of death is loaded with fear.

So there will be arguments against it from many perspectives: psychological, philosophical, economic, religious and so on. These arguments can have merit and warrant due consideration but I think that fear and pessimism should be balanced with hope and optimism.
Literally any range with min = 0 and where the max isn’t a power of 10.

For example 0-300

One third of numbers are evenly distributed:
0-100

One third starts with 1: 100-200

One third starts with 2: 200-300

Do you understand?
Not really. From our perspective, IBM is a partner (we have lots of those) that we just happen to have alignment on both sides to work more with. That means that on the sales side we spend more time trying to find ways to collaborate. Usually there is this long awkward dance with a partner, where you're not sure who is committed and how committed they are. The IBM acquisition cuts a lot of that out, we know that we're tied together so we have to figure out how to partner together, even if we are two separate companies.

On the actual consulting side, 95%+ of consultants have seen no impact. Those that are being impacted are working on projects that have more IBM products involved. For example, some of my team is starting to work with OpenShift on Z.
> I’m curious why people never moved to say Quark XPress then, but presumably it was “Hancom makes us this super custom thing, and it’s way cheaper than any desktop publishing software”.

First of all, QuarkXPress had shitty, really shitty language support. You might be surprised when you know that most pro apps have really, really poor CJK support — apps like Photoshop currently has really hacky input support bolted on later, and frequently a problem. Even big, user facing apps like Microsoft Excel still has lots of problems with input. So back in the days where the word processor market was more diverse, QuarkXPress was not an option.

Then also, there is the popularity problem where people have not used or even heard about DTD software like this, and it’s not really a friendly interface for users to create and modify documents.

This is a side story but... publishers that needed DTD software used QuarkXPress back in the day. The company backing the software had frequent conflicts with the local publishers with license pricing, and the publishers decided to protest by not upgrading to the latest version — and AFAIK lots of small publishers that didn’t have the manpower to convert all of it’s files to InDesign still buys used PowerMacs to run the version(I’m not sure but something like 3.3 — released in 1996!) that they use.

> Is there a lot of diversity in the types of documents people make? (Like, why isn’t this a case of having lots of templates?)

> presumably it was “Hancom makes us this super custom thing, and it’s way cheaper than any desktop publishing software”.

Yeah, pretty much true too.

Having lots of templates in HWP is one of the reason why HWP isn’t disappearing; there is vendor lock-in due to custom file formats, and people don’t feel any reason to move to another one.
The article doesn't make the claim that everything is 100% correct. It is simply pointing out some interesting problems with the analysis of the virus so far, and also pointing out some events that seem to be more than coincidences.

> And so a scientist who’s been prolifically involved with studying the molecular interaction of coronaviruses and humanity, spending decades and millions of dollars, and having even helped build a hyper-virulent coronavirus from scratch at UNC – just so happens to be working at the only BSL-4 virology lab in China that also just so happens to be at the epicenter of an outbreak involved a coronavirus that’s escaping zoological classification and whose novel spike-protein region shares more in common with a commercial genetic vector than any of its wild relatives, and has other unnatural characteristics that will be discussed below.
Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Has Established a Foundation
Author here. I don't work full time but I'm a master's student. I had a decent enough chunk of free time to dedicate to this without too many serious obligations. It's hard for me to estimate time per day, as there were some week-long periods where I did very minimal study when particularly busy, and other periods where I'd spend 20+ hours a week of solid effort on it. I think achieving this is probably outside the scope of someone who isn't extremely abnormally self-motivated and efficient and who has a family, long working hours, etc. That being said, I think most people can find the time to reach a moderate conversational level in a year without too much trouble, assuming they work efficiently.
I think Mario Klingemann said it the best.
https://vimeo.com/298000366
This becomes just a tool, like everything else
Is Reddit social media? Nobody on there knows who I really am. I try to not post any personally identifying information (and even post purposefully misleading information). In my mind it is just interacting with people online or having an online community that defines social media. It is knowing who the people you are interacting with are in real life.