skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People trying to get in shape who buy fancy workout gear instead of exercising.

Translating this idea to learning a programming language, the best way to learn a language is to apply it to something real, almost immediately. Following tutorials has a use, but you'll get a lot more out of it after having flailed around trying to make the most ridiculously minimal version of something you really want to build.

This is one of the main problems with science education. In most cases, there's nothing like the "flail around" stage while you try to do something applied but which you are desperately underqualified to do.
Plus, native speakers tend to use a lot more idiom. Which generally makes things much harder to understand (but arguably more fun) -- this is even quite noticeable when encountering English from different regions.
Nope, we were talking about visas and legal status, and about getting kicked out if lack of visa. But whatever, I think you get the point.
I'd buy one if:

1) It was prebuilt, plug-and-play.

2) It comes as a kit. I can do it as a project with my kid. Once assembled, it's as above. Kit is consumer-friendly.

Digikey parts list and PCB is a little over my laziness tolerance.

People confuse free-as-in-freedom with free-as-in-not-making-a-profit. I've done free-as-in-freedom businesses, successfully. I wish others did too.

A lot of manufacturers underestimate the power of 100% open. I'm not price-sensitive. I'll pay for it. If my cheap Chinese [tablet/keyboard/mouse/webcam/etc.] comes with a PCB schematic, parts list, and open source firmware, I'll probably pay triple and prefer it to a Logitech/Razor/etc. I'll give nice online reviews too.

And the designs are simple enough no competitive edge is lost.

On the other side, projects like this, lacking a business model, rarely get mature enough for me to use. Make 'em nice and sell 'em, I say.

And yes, there will be cheaper clones, so profit margins can't be insane, but people will pay extra for the original branded version, AND profit margins can't be insane in competitive markets either way.
Can't edit my own post, but please stop downvoting mobilio. They admitted they were wrong, and there's no shame in that.

Even if they had been wrong, they shouldn't necessarily have been downvoted, because it still ended up adding to the discussion.
Did you mean Gloucester and lieutenant?
>the elite won't need most of us

Whereas we don't need ANY of them and can vote away their wealth and their power. If needed we could lop off their heads but we won't need to as its far easier and more defensible to lop off their wealth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility

As of 2010, about 48% (3.3 billion people) of the world population lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility.
Apropos not much, I’m a native English speaker who is learning Spanish quite intensively, and I can say without a doubt that there is more variation across Spanish dialects than English. Different regions have hugely different lexicons, with many many different words for the same things. Just try to predict the word for “green pea” based on region! Learning Spanish is like learning 15 languages at once. It’s hilarious fun but specialization becomes a concern very very early.
Sorry, what's GP?
> I likely break dozens of laws/ordinances every day and I'm very positive you do as well, without even knowing it.

Any examples?
SETI: Intermittency and Detection
I second this. The most efficient frontier in communication between engineers and designers is about striving for simplicity by stripping visualization to stick figure like representation.
One can hope Mount Rushmore has extra protection in times like this. Not in any way by vigilante groups opposing BLM, but in a general preservation against people in a time where monuments of presidents may be attacked.
I thought this was about Eastern and Western Bengali at first.
Scroll zoom on the demo image is very choppy for me. Not sure if it's my screen or the library itself.
> I think that's the point: a new chip with mobile like performance does not qualify as a working machine

For whom?
The NHS (how much it pays not the patient) annual costs are about £400 so it doesn’t seem excessive
Got it - fixing it now. Thanks!
This would be a fun way to antagonise the police.

Flash mob style, waiting in line, no! camping out for days waiting in line, not to buy tickets to the next reiteration of $sameoldstorybutwithmorelensflare, but to turn yourself in with video evidence of jaywalking or cycling without a helmet.
Let alone "absent in some varieties", there are sounds that are absent in all varieties but still spelled (e.g. the h in hombre or the u in queso). There was an attempt to regularize that in Latin America but the countries that tried to adopt it reverted back to the old spelling[1] - I guess the same will happen if someone tries to "reform" English

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bello_orthography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
Hey, do you mind me asking what mac you're using? (Or hackintosh?)
I'm assuming that you already tried contacting the listing owner and they haven't been cooperative.

The easiest thing to do would be to make them want to remove your website. At the top of your main page put a little note saying something like "If you're searching for <foo business> in <location> we're not them. Please click here." Then, since they don't have a website you can send users to a page that explains the situation, suggests that they may want to do business with a more reputable company, and provide links and phone numbers to their local competitors.

Alternatively, if you don't care about your websites reputation, you could just fill it with porn, popups, or other content that users won't expect or want from a business.
I think the OP intentionally didn't identify their website for privacy reasons. Don't you feel like this comment is kind of doxxing them?
Got it, we'll be sure to add Spanish and let you know. Thanks!
Did u miss the part where he said “they don’t make it in the interview “?. It’s not about handing out a job because there is one ...there is a interview process and quite a rigorous one when it comes to FAANG companies. They don’t go out seeking cheap labor.
In the UK immigrants, I gather, produce more in tax revenues than they use. That aside from everything else they bring - friendship, culture, knowledge, labour - indicates financially we have a net benefit.

So exclusion of immigrants can reverse this, lowering fulfillment and reducing financial wealth.

Any ideas how those finances look in USA?
Most interesting problem of English language is that it is not direct. Good example is small talks. In many cultures direct question assume direct answer. If somebody asks you "how are you" you kinda obligated to give response with your real feelings and events happened to you last time. In USA mostly every stranger can start this conversation and expect only unsalted response. This tradition is much deeper than you think. On some lever you will never understand price for thing you buy, or will never get invite to the party or have no chance to get investment to your startup. And these games everywhere in English culture.
We can't have many of those on HN!

This kind of careless talk is going to trigger the Great Front Page Detectives-Who-Love-Erlang Bloom of 2020.
The Reformation doesn't happen until well over a thousand years later, and the Eastern Orthodox church is just as panoplied and so visual that it gave us the word "icon". I think the original wording is better.
Yeah, but "bollocks" is a four-letter word (metaphorically) -- the feature doesn't first establish consensus on what laws are bollocks. What you call a bollocks law, I might call "reasonable one that ensures people aren't screaming outside my window at 1am".
It's just misspelled. 'Could've' is a standard contraction.
The panels above the doors are wonderful.
Sounds like DataScript [0] could be a good fit for you. The Datalog query language is very powerful for writing recursive rules.

[0] https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
Ask HN: Favorite Monospace Font?
What is your favorite monospace font for prose/code?

Related: Do any of you use non-monospace font for code?
You are still placing all of the reputation risk on Apple though.

If this guy builds an app which is forcing users into paying upfront and then hiding a money back guarantee in some hidden text then that is deceptive. And Apple suffers since they allowed the app to be sold on their store.
How you pronounce “New Orleans” can show not only whether or not you are a local, but which part of town you are from, and how old you are. I can think of at least four or five ways.
Same experience here. I have literally never purchased a single book from Amazon, though I have read lots of their free "classics editions". I've jailbroken my paperwhite so I can read/do whatever I want, but I still get great battery life and the ability to do things like send to my kindle over e-mail. I get the free-as-in-freedom guys' argument, but I'm perfectly happy with my device and like the convenience of a simple book-reading device.
What I liked the most was the "reverse-playlist search". For instance, if you find a song you like, you can see all the public playlists containing it. I much prefer that to the "let me recommend you songs" approach.
Typically language reforms "solve" this problem by standardizing on whatever dialect is considered most broadly prestigious (often the dialect of the capital city).
On what planet should “shutdown STEM” be a reasonable position to hold in the middle of a global pandemic where hundreds of thousands or millions of people’s lives depend on quality STEM research being done in a timely manner?
Just watching someone doing the real thing is one of the most prominent strategies to avoid doing the real thing.

It is not enough to watch someone very skilled do the real thing. You have to imitate them: Reading a lot of great novels will not make you a better writer. Instead write a story in the style of any writer you admire and you will learn a lot while still doing the real thing. The same is true for almost any art you want learn.
I have written a lot of metaprogramming myself, like 5/10 of my repos are macro libraries. And I share your concern. Even the manual advices people to use the least "powerful" tool for the job. These are proc/func<template<macro.

Macros are prefered for creating dsl like https://github.com/treeform/fidget or https://github.com/pragmagic/karax

Otherwise the advice is to use them when they "pull their weight". The reason is they're a lot harder to write and even "design" them right (how they function, what code they write, etc) takes a lot of effort. And in most cases the simpler "tools" will fit your needs.
And even Greek uses a single letter for the "f" sound. The fact that "φ" is transliterated as "ph" is a historical accident: in ancient Greek the letter was pronounced like p with an extra puff of air, like in "Phuket".
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What if Svelte would had another change-detector
Yeah, my four year old daughter is super into learning what words start with right now... I always feel so bad when I have to tell her she is wrong because of the weirdness of English.
What does CHD stand for in this context?
There is a book, "Three Felonies a Day" that may interest you. The suggestion is that essentially all of us are committing at least three felonies a day. I have not tried to verify the claims made in the book.
You must not know too many people that have taken statins...

Sure, on paper, the LDL number goes down and according to the numbers you have a lower risk of heart attack, but the one common thing I've notice is that everyone complains that they feel terrible. Things like dizziness, nausea, low energy/libido, etc...

Let's not forget that it takes mainstream science time to catch up to new research. There is a lag in existing beliefs while more research is being done and evidence solidified.

That being said, lipidology is extremely complex but in the case of low carbohydrate diets the issue of having high LDL and HDL may not be as bad as mainstream medicine would make it out to be.

For some interesting insights on research being conducted in this field, Thomas Dayspring and Dave Feldman are extremely knowledgable and explain things quite well.

https://twitter.com/Drlipid

https://cholesterolcode.com/

They both have appeared on a number of health/fitness related podcasts but a quality one they both have been on is "The Drive" by Peter Attia:

https://peterattiamd.com/tomdayspring1/

https://peterattiamd.com/davefeldman/

edit: I would also argue that his subjective feelings of good health are a much better indicator than the population-averaged cholesterol numbers...

edit2: to say that this type of research is outside of mainstream medical advice is misleading. Lipodology is a prominent topic and a quick pubmed search for the "lipid" keyword since 2018 shows over 60k results. In medicine there is rarely a such thing as "settled" science. Things are continuously researched with new questions and information is used to update our original hypothesis. To refer to current advice as set in stone is very naive...
Portuguese had an orthography reform to unified how words were spelled and accentuated in the different countries that speak it.

It was defined in 1990, but actual implementation started in 2009 and was complete by 2016 in Brazil.

Actually, software — in particular autocorrect software, helped to spread the reformed spelling quite a bit in my opinion.

There is a section about it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Portuguese_orthog...
We use a shared Figma component library, which gets implemented as a shared Storybook library for front end developers.

In theory, this means the designers are designing with components which are already represented in code, and as long as they update the library with any new or modified components, it should be straightforward: a change in the Figma library represents a change that needs to be reflected in Storybook.

But that's just the theory. In reality, designers often need to work quickly, and the idea of design debt is just as real as tech debt. Indeed, it's probably more of a problem, since there's no such thing as pull requests or automated regression testing for design, so it's harder to spot problems.

Figma already has a way to at least partially address this issue: they provide analytics that show you which of your components are getting detached, as well as a lot of other useful stuff. Unfortunately, the tier that allows this feature costs about 4x as much as the normal pay tier most people use.
That's a long road. Very few tech firms generate the kind of money from tech abroad like many US firms do. You won't be earning 300k in a non-US company in Germany very very likely when looking at similarly-levelled roles (to exclude high-powered roles) compared to the US. You'll be looking at 1/3rd the total comp max in many cases and that'll already be a very good salary in the field. And possibly higher taxes, no effective investment-based retirement schemes, and other disadvantages.

US firms have a very long way to fall before they get even the least unattractive, relatively. A young person emigrating from Germany to the US working in a (now) good tech job there making 150,000 plus benefits will be out-earning their age cohort back in Germany 2-3x at the start of their career. Heck even at 120,000 that's likely 2-3x what a somebody with a Bachelor's here would get. That's a tremendous difference no career-focussed person would shy away from wanting.
Helium expands LoRaWAN network to Europe and releases personal IoT tracker
IME as an American, London British can be quite hard to understand, especially at a high word rate (which was my experience). Yes.. it.. turns.. out.. that.. speaking.. slowly.. does.. make.. it.. easier.. to.. understand.
> Taking the first step often requires a lot of research and thinking

I generally agree with your comment, but strongly disagree with this part. You will have much more success if you take this first step as soon as possible. No research, no thinking. And a “real thing” first step. You want to start running? Put on some shoes and go for a run. Don’t sign up for a race, don’t look up running tips, don’t buy nice shoes. Just go run for a bit.

Coding? Pop open repl.it. Scuba? Get your head under water. Even for things that might be out of reach like flying an airplane, read up on something specific like how to land.

With your very first step out of the way, you can then start thinking a bit more.
> it doesn't do ePub

I was able to easily jailbreak mine and it does ePub fine after that. I don't think a home-made device offers me any more freedom than a jailbroken kindle; I can drop to a shell and do all the same things. That said, while I enjoy tinkering, basically the only non-stock things I do are read ePubs and play zork. I'd prefer to save my tinkering for a desktop or laptop and keep a device just for reading books.
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That attribution to Twain is bogus. I believe it started as a letter to the editor in some mid-20th century magazine. Let me see if I can dig up the citation.

(Edit 2: the Economist came later! see downthread)

Edit: the joke originated as a letter to the Economist in 1971: https://web.archive.org/web/20200807181810/https://lettersof.... The classic internet version (referencing the European Commission) was a later rewrite—no idea by whom. It's interesting that the original was a UK in-joke ("Haweve, sins xe Wely, xe Airiy, and xe Skots du not spik Ingliy") but the rewrite became more outward-facing, a sort of Euroskeptic joke when light humor about that was still possible (I got it in an email in the 90s), as well as quite a bit funnier.

Misassigning it to Mark Twain is not surprising, because all great quotes by obscure people get reattributed to famous writers over time. Also, Twain wrote a famous and funny essay complaining about German (https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html), and he was interested in alphabet reform too (http://www.online-literature.com/twain/1322/).
Despite sibling comment implying otherwise incorrectly, there are multiple ways to install non-app store approved apps.

1) you can sign an app for your device and run it without paying Apple anything for 7 days. After 7 days you have to do it again. Not convenient in the slightest, but still possible for free.

2) you can pay Apple $99/year for a paid dev account and the 7 day window extends to 365 days.

Neither of those above options require source code, somebody else could’ve compiled the app, you just need to sign it.

3) TestFlight allows installation without full App Store review and builds expire after 60 days (or is it 90, I forget?). I believe the cap of “limited people” sibling referred to is 10,000 these days, but I could be wrong. iSH is an example of a popular app using this route.

4) Corporations can sign up for an enterprise account for $299/year. This allows signing apps similarish to option 2 above, but for a virtually unlimited number of devices. The apps are required by policy to not be distributed to the general public though.
This is fantastic! I hope other cities follow suit and the restoration of civil liberties continues.

> The NYPD’s use of DAS is not restricted to suspected criminals or terrorists, and the collected data is retained for upwards of years.

This is concerning, too. I'd like to see some sort of federal requirement prohibiting agencies from storing data including metadata for excessive periods of time. I don't know what a reasonable limit would be but it should probably be on the order of months.
I’m over in Dorchester and holy crap is our next door a mess
May I ask what language you are a native speaker of? I have a couple ideas based on the patterns of your errors but I’m not sure.

(My strongest guess is Russian due to your omission of articles.)
Police departments are failing to arrest murderers even when there is ample evidence. Let's focus on the felonies until they can get those right.
Relatedly, this video is hilarious:
What If English Were Phonetically Consistent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU
Right, homelessness is a consequence of structuring society around the accumulation of wealth, concentrating it into the hands of the few at the expense of the many (and at the serious expense of some very unfortunate people, leading to issues like homelessness). And Silicon Valley has proven itself very good at concentrating wealth. How can they act in a way that avoids this consequence without completely overturning their raison d'etre?

This is very closely related to the idea of reform vs. revolution. Sometimes you just need to burn the whole thing down to get the outcome you want.
> like putting advertising everywhere and selling your data

Ever used Xbox Live on the Xbox you paid for and seen ads? We're already there.
Might be, but it might be Epic and Humble Stores to Apple's Steam.
I agree with him. Every example of a bad modern building, I agreed, they are repulsive.
[Ongoing Interview] From Rails to React; a Fullstack Conversation
The discussion is unrelated to a bug, and belongs somewhere like the mailing list.
Initially I was a fan of the curation approach, particularly for Apple and iOS since it was a new platform. Sadly, it's obvious that none of them can keep up with all the reasonable edge cases. Curation just doesn't scale and I don't see AI/ML or anything else closing the gap any time soon.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted--it's a fundamental truth. Especially given how truly little we understand about biology.
Is there any usage of Nim in “production”? How is the performance of the compiled code (and also the compiler)?

(NB: I love a fun new language to play with as much as the next guy, just curious)
> Android you can use third party app stores and sideload without any rules at all, and it's a bigger market. Sounds like a viable alternative.

Telling someone that Android is a viable alternative to iPhone is the same as saying Marvel and DC comics are equivalent. They offer similar services, but do it in very different ways, and people have strong preferences one way or another.

> Gmail has a website and an app. Both do the same thing - email. It's a viable alternative.

This is actually a perfect example to prove my case. Things the gmail web app can't do on iPhone: Use your phone's contacts, notifications, photo previews on send, use native gestures, and lastly, the native app is significantly faster and more responsive.
An explanation of Grover’s quantum search algorithm
Yes, the Egyptian collection, including the Rosetta stone, should be returned to France.

(Under no circumstance should it be returned to modern Egypt, which doesn't care about ancient Egypt and used the Rosetta stone as construction material before it was found by an officer of Napoleon)
Thanks for the info. What search / filter features are available?

Also, what’s the pricing model? And how do I get my data back out?
Similar experience for me... I joined when our cat was missing so I could post to see if anyone had seen him.... this is in Los Angeles, and I have been pretty shocked by the racism and classism... I feel like 75% of the posts are things like "I saw a black man walking!" and "someone was SLEEPING in a car! Someone needs to call the cops!"

It is crazy how much everyone assumes all these people are out to get them.
Very jumpy on my iphone with firefox or chrome, sadly. Okay with safari. I suspect it’s the shoddy version of webkit apple forces upon moz and google.

Nice effort. I applaud any efforts to make a dependency free anything in js.
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