skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the older you are, the more socially-unacceptable it becomes to point out grammatical and vocabulary errors

That is a factor. It can't really account for how amazingly fast children are.

I've witnessed from absolute zero to conversational English in 3 months. Fluency within a year, with no discernible foreign accent (even got the local accent)

It took me years (late teens to early twenties) to achieve the same level that was attained by a child in a single year. My brain wasn't even old by any means. I got plenty of exposure, daily (advanced) classes, where I would be corrected by experienced teachers. Plus I had some early exposure to written English.

The kid got... a normal class at a public American school. Nothing special apart from an exercise book we got from a teacher, to help with basic concepts.

It is astonishing.
| I feel completely demotivated that most companies (and all big companies) weren't considering me when I applied to them (and probably still aren't). It crushed my motivation

I understand that feeling. I lived a very structured life, gym in morning, breakfast in the office right after, clean diet eg. the lockdown + moving back in parents, removed those structures. When I first started looking I got my DS/A in tip-top shape, and consistently applying but after grinding for months with no interviews and ghosting recruiters I've hit a point where I'm tired. I think I've accepted that I'll need a new career and it's been an ego blow but it's freeing. I feel like I'm 17 again with no idea what the hell I'm going to do, thankfully, I've got my health and no dependents.

I too did just learn about hooks for a little side project. React is interesting, I've never done any frontend so it's different. I've also been playing around with rust as a backend too, that's such a cool language.
1.0 and 1.1 didn't have a different URL scheme, why should 3?
Is the state of public transit in NYC (subway) better than in SF? I had an impression it's horrible (everybody hates it) and it's a total money pit.
I’ve owned:

Honda Accord

Honda Fit

Toyota Camry

BMW X3

BMW X6

Model 3

The driving experience is very nice, but I think my next car is going to be either a Porsche Taycan or another BMW SUV but I do like electric cars. I love not going to a gas station to fill up every week.

I don’t think I will get another Tesla. I think most electric cars will drive similar to the Tesla in 2 years, and what I’m looking for is a more solid, luxurious feel to the interior. The Model 3 interior feels very cheap and plastic vs BMW that feels nice. I hate the all-screen experience of the Model 3. The X6 was probably the best driving experience I’ve had and I miss it. I also miss knowing I can get in the X6 and drive anywhere in North America without thinking too deeply about it. I would have driven my family to Canada for a few months during the pandemic but we didn’t have a car that would reliably take us that distance from SF.
This seems to have the same issue as Pirsch[0] in that (i) a mobile user will have multiple IPs during a day as they roam between wifi networks and mobile networks - which will incorrectly over-report unique visitors and (ii) NAT gateways with similar devices behind (a home with 4 iPhones, a workplace with 5000 identically imaged desktops, all similar devices at a starbucks, an entire lab of computers at a school) will incorrectly under-report unique users.

An IPv4 address is an unreliable way to count "a visitor". At best it represents "at least one network (~building) of 1-n visitors". You could argue 0-n visitors (some sort of automation/crawler). It could also represent more than one network (a temporary IP obtained for less than a day, a IP obtained for a day that changes during your definition of a day).

User-agent reduces the scope, but doesn't eliminate (between recommended evergreen updates and identically imaged/uncustomized use of devices).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668212
eh I hate this kind of Ender's game self-victimisation. Nerds aren't unpopular because they're too smart for school and all the athletic jocks envy them, they're unpopular because they act like nerds. That's not a passive thing happening to someone, it's something that people actively act like.

Obviously one can be highly intelligent in school and not be nerdy, everyone knows people who are intelligent as well as popular have a healthy social life.

Nerds never did well in school because they're often smug as hell, think they're the brainy protagonist of some sort of TV show envied by everyone else, but in reality not even that clever. That's a bad combination. The nerds are no different than the goth kids, or the punks, or anyone else who conjures up an identity in high school to declare themselves the moral centre of the universe. It's unpopular because it's immature.
> suspect Sony didn't penny pinch since they plan to make most of their money back from sales of games and services(ala Apple) while Microsoft probably wants to make more from the hardware itself(ala Android devices).

When I saw how nice everything looked my first thought was that they’re going to release an updated “slim” console in, like, a year after launch that cuts a lot more corners. They get lots of hype to encourage sales up front by packing a ton of value in the launch model. That encourages more people to buy into the ecosystem and then they launch a future one that designed with higher margins in mind.
I had a similar feeling when I saw the PS2 had a logo on the front that could be rotated if it was in vertical orientation. Really nice thought put into these details.
> They haven't spent years fine tuning their QA processes so these things slip through.

That's not true. Similar things happen with all car makers, but if you pick up your car from a car dealership, the dealer will quietly fix the cosmetic issues because they want to avoid a bad reputation.
Interesting you list a lot of things about Tesla and not the model Y.
I want an LC500 convertible because I think it looks fantastic and it’ll be fun to drive. But I want that car not just a Lexus.

And 4) could go either way:) no one is able to disable bits remotely on most cars, or at least until BMW get their subscription service going for heated seats and radio stations.
Thanks a lot for these helpful links! don't know much about Ada/SPARK but will spend some time going through these resources.
Definitely, even more so as this title is editorialized, the original title ends with "the results were 'beautifully surprising'"

It's also not really a particularly surprising result.
Haha thanks, I appreciate the compliment! I'm actually in the middle of a rewrite to make adding new camera types a lot easier and the code a lot cleaner in general.

I wasn't aware that it was possible that you could request I-frames in the RTSP spec. Which clients provide such functionality? I am looking for some web based RTSP streaming solutions, so your project could be very useful :-) Good luck for it!
Eternity is an overwhelming concept. It's easier to tackle it through mathematical induction.

Can you imagine a day in which you feel so fulfilled, so bored, that you say to yourself, "it's enough"; a day in which you wouldn't be interested in what tomorrow will bring? I can't. Hence, by induction, I'd prefer immortality.

I'm probably not going to change your mind, just sharing the elvish perspective.
That's true outside of software as well. It's a complex world out there. Follow a thread far enough and you'll find that 7 billion people isn't very many after all.
eh I would have abused some substances with some of the money

what's the tl;dr
CTRL+F Asimov on the comments didn't disappoint, I knew someone would relate this to that story! :)
Why does this fact make a difference? His point still stands pretty strongly in light of this keep in mind comment.
What and lose all their iOS customers ?
It's called Wine.
Program identifiers use exact matches. The analogy works fine understanding this context.

It's possible to extend any analogy in a way that doesn't make sense, which is what you've done.

It seems like your complaint may be that you simply don't like, or perhaps don't understand, analogies in general.
i have a model 3 performance and the suspension tune that came from the factory is worse than any performance car i have driven—rear seat passengers actually complain if you do more than highway cruising or drive somewhere with perfect asphalt. i am used to suspensions being stiff, but this one just bounces. tesla considers it within spec.

that said, the feeling behind the wheel is completely addicting. i cannot go back to noninstantaneous peak torque. this is pretty lizard brain of me, performance is more than acceleration, but pinning your head against the seat is a ton of fun and when i purchased the c8 hadn’t come out so there wasn’t another 3 second to 60 option in this price bracket.

agree with everything upthread about build quality issues, UX is not great, hope you don’t live somewhere that it rains hard because the fastest setting on the wipers is way too slow, etc etc. still fun as hell.
Not specifically (but it's still a surprising story). Emphasis on "or":

> to be forfeited to him and his company, Pentaplex Ltd, or to be destroyed.
The problem for Google is that "compilations" in copyright law may be considered copyrightable even if the underlying data being compiled is not. The legal requirement is that the data needs to be "selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship". (https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html)

As an example, individual recipes are generally not copyrightable, but if you compile a set of recipes and publish them in a cookbook, the cookbook itself would be copyrightable.

As applied to Java, even if individual method signatures like max/min/split/replace/delete/etc might not be copyrightable, the fact that you've organized those specific methods into specific classes named Math/String/File and then organized those classes into specific packages named java.lang and java.io might meet the threshold for copyrightability as a "compilation".

While it would likely not be good for the software industry for reasons discussed in this thread, I would not be particularly surprised if the court ruled in favor of Oracle on this particular subject.
Found Kioxia NAND on this device. Possibly they also use SanDisk. I wonder whether they use other NANDs or not because they developed original controller.
>But what they're really doing is auditing several totally innocent people to find someone who has significantly underpaid and covers the costs of the audits for the others.

Is that's what's happening though? Although the budget cuts have reduced the amount of audits across the board, audits of the rich has dropped faster than everyone else[1]. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that the rich has benefited from this policy more than the average joe.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
My undergraduate degree was in Cognitive Science. I took a large amount of neuroscience, psych, and philosophy. Discussing consciousness was the part I loved the most, and I had plenty of patience for plenty of writers.

My dismissal of his work on consciousness was based on those grounds. I think my "caricature" was fairly accurate, but if you think different that's fine, if you can elaborate.

The part I forgot above was that I also dismissed it on the basis of math, which is surprising given that Penrose is a greater mathematician than I'll ever be, but his whole reason to evoke "quantum" was that a Newtonian-based brain could not know that a "Gödel sentence" was true, so our brains must be non-Newtonian. It was absurd on the face of it (our brain's belief about statements don't constitute a formal logic), and was also well-criticized by other mathematicians, whose names I'd have to dredge out of my 20-year old essays.
Iceland is a little bit more "on the way" than NZ is - it can be a stopping point on a trip to Europe or the US.

But I think you must be right. If the trip becomes less burdensome more people will want to come. The obvious (to me) response is to set a target tourist number, and raise the arrival fee until we get approximately that number of tourists. But now we're getting into policy :)
You see the mirror raising your mirrored hand.

I see a two identical individuals raising their opposing hands in unison.
The concept is great, but I don't really find it worth pursuing because it's based on Jitsi.

I do really wanted to love Jitsi, but I've had frequent bad experiences. Every attempt I've had at a meeting has at least one person who's audio and video is bad to the extent that the rest of us can't really communicate with them.

I really do want to use it, but it always ends up with "Screw this, let's use Zoom"
I’d really love to see an exodus back to Internet forums. I forged a lot of great relationships while I was growing up on forums, and I learned programming through hacking on extensions for little communities I was running.
Do names work fine when 3 John's walk in in a row?
> The 50 cash transfer recipients not only found stable housing, they freed up space in shelters and, according to project data, saved the shelter system $8,100 per person over those 12 months.

Key takeaway.

Turns out it's way cheaper to provide baseline needs rather than letting people drag along the bottom indefinitely without support. It's also much kinder and more humane.
There's a difference in intent which isn't obvious from the atonal text medium. Humans are pretty good at spotting fake in person. Thus the desire to shake a hand and look in the eye. Over email, I think many people have developed a decent sense for it, but it's much harder to distinguish the two.
Bell X-1
I wonder if your map of the room has to map the other people's map of the room?

sort of like ... can you have a map that blocks someone without letting them know you just distanced yourself? :)
The hospitals were overrun in New York, or we feared they might be? Afaiu the hospital ship as well as the temporary hospitals were never used.
just give it a little bit of time...
Cool. I wish there were durable computers.

E.g. I've got my Dell E5500 about a decade ago and still totally enjoy it. Since then I've just replaced the HDD with an SSD, replaced the RAM once and clean the fan every now and then (super easy!). It really seems built for ease of maintenance/upgrading as a top priority. Everything works perfectly. The only thing it can't do is modern 3D gaming (which I don't want).

I'd don't mind buying a modern analogue which would last me the next 10+ years but I don't know which modern model can be expected to be nearly as durable and pleasure to maintain.
If you do what the specification told you, in TLS 1.3 or in QUIC, you can build these products and they'll work as intended for web browsing. In TLS 1.3 there is even a whole section of the RFC (under "Invariants") that explains how to do this properly.

What you end up with is two connections. A connection from the browser to your product, and then a connection from your product to the web site. Your product is in the middle and can apply any policies whatsoever that it desires.

There are two things about this that vendors do not like, or which their customers do not like and the vendors would prefer somebody else take the blame for not them.

1. For this to work the browser needs to trust the product. The product will need to mint its own certificates for each site visited, and it can't make genuine ones, so it'll need to be explicitly trusted by the browser. This requires more honesty from your customer (the product's operator) in regard to their users (employees / students / visitors / whatever) where previously a product might try to snoop unobtrusively. That's no longer an option.

2. Actually doing all this heavy lifting costs money. More CPU power, more RAM, even more network bandwidth because you can't just snoop a few frames at the start of a connection you need to proxy decrypt/ re-encrypt every single byte even if you realised very quickly that it was actually fine. This makes the product more expensive, even though it's also worse because their users ask awkward questions now.
Looks similar to jrnl.sh which I have been using for years. Combine with iTerm2 with it's configurable "drop down" terminal with a global shortcut and I can save anything from one word notes to full meeting minutes using the same flow.
The problem explicitly says that he opens the door to reveal a goat, though. If he was opening the door at random, then he would have a 1/3 chance to reveal the car. Since he always reveals the goat, to me that implies that it's not random.
1996 is many years to late, maybe 118 years[1], maybe 14 years[2] but late anyway. Hard to say [3], but to answer your question: "no, probably not"

1: The Telephonoscope was already imagined in 1878: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Telephon...

2: William Gibsons is often credit with the idea of "cyberspace" as in a virtual environment where people choose their own avatar and move around interacting with each other, with systems or data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome#Reception

3: Gibson might have played MUD in the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1
It's an interesting perspective. Microsoft already promised not to harm Mono, so if the lawsuit is won by Oracle, it's certainly possible for Microsoft to promise not to harm Wine as a PR move without addressing the actual issue, and this strategy can actually work better for Microsoft to keep its control on APIs! It can be similar to how Apple had broadened the scope of its repair program to weaken the Right to Repair movement.

Really scary.
it's fugly.

I understand what you say but even bricks have more taste than this.
I think last two points are contradictory because Tesla optimised interior design for self driving - they skipped out on driver instruments in your direct FOV or a windshield HUD - electric car market is still kind of new but the newcomers seem promising - TBH if an electric car fit my lifestyle I'd be looking at Jaguar iPace over Tesla model Y.
Yeah, this drives me nuts. Even if they can't use Linux at the start of the project name for copyright rules or whatever there must be another name that isn't the exact opposite of what it is.
> Instagram like stories.

Oh god, please no.
further down however, it indicates you may also optionally post onchain ie- to take advantage of a blockchain backed timestamp.
That is exactly how FileVault 2 functions. It also adds defense-in-depth to the T2 hardware encryption.
You only remove games as moot when Monty reveals a car, which can only happen when you haven't initially selected the car.

Therefore, no games are removed as moot when you have initially selected a car, and 50% of games are removed as moot when you have initially selected a goat.

So it ends in a coin toss whether you switch or not.

The 2/3 to 1/3 split only happens when Monty removes a goat using privileged information.
I don't find the SAG a convincing example, personally.

Reasonable people might debate what should and shouldn't be a union's responsibilities and powers - would we want closed shops to exist? what about job demarcation rules? should the union set rules around hiring, firing and promotions? - but everyone could agree a union should make sure you don't have to have sex with the producer to get a role.

And yet, the Me Too movement reveals this abhorrent behaviour has gone unchecked for years? Obviously, the blame lies with the perpetrators of the crimes - but it was a damn big oversight by the SAG.
As a tourist in Greece, locals would stare in bewilderment as I sounded out all the words like a 5-year-old. I guess most tourists either know Greek or don't try.
I keep on seeing this link pop up. Since no one is replying, I'd like to point out that I think the Wirecutter is actually in the right here. Another HN member did some investigation and found that Xdesk is stretching things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22144078

In general, having been able to talk with some of the people there, I'm convinced that WC was focused first and foremost on truth-seeking and quality at this point in their life (pre-acquisition) — however, the consensus seems to have been that after the NYT acquired them, they started becoming more incentivized to grow revenue, and started to jump the shark.
Couple of years ago Salesforce switched from Eclipse plug-ins for development and went all in on VSCode. They have a set of plug-ins that log in to Salesforce and send configurations and code back and forth. They're even going to use "VSCode in the browser" to edit code in place in your organization.
Yeah, especially on the browser it’s like setting off a bomb.
Tesla initiates talks to set up research centre in Bengaluru
Is time longer (or shorter) in the next universe? That is, if we could compare seconds or minutes, would the ones in the next universe be longer or shorter?
Wow, seeing what they were seemingly going for just makes there attempt appear even worse.
Unless you’re the type of person who test-drives cars you can’t afford, just for the experience of it; and then ends up buying something cheaper that is, by comparison, full of compromises.
Struck a nerve? Not a nerd? Confusion about terms?

Most people spend large part of their effort on popularity contest. Nerd is somebody that even if he/she would like to take part in the contest they value other, more intellectual exercises. They end up underdeveloped socially because they don't have as much experience as somebody that spends most of their time partying, socializing or avoiding study or work to be able to party and socialize.
> That’s the purpose of the Supreme Court: a check on the legislature and executive branches.

This is correct, but not intended to be the source of law(1). In fact, Supreme Court decisions aren't a law per se, but a deterrent in creating legally questionable situations.

(1)A Supreme Court decision is made moot by legislation, as per any law, but the deterrent is significantly weaker in practice than a written law as it's scrutinized more closely as a matter of interpretation, court makeup, and public opinion.
What utility function would you propose?
We have quite a cruel system in Canada, where foster parents are paid over $1000/mo per child; and children are taken away from parents on grounds of poverty, with no offer of such assistance
And I have only had good experiences once we enforced _not_ using Firefox there were no problems.

'Use zoom and get screwed.'
Most people don't realize this is just going to lead to a massive amount of outsourcing to India. At least before, the H1B guys were spending their money in the US.

Best time to start an outsourcing firm
> Linguistically, there is no such thing possible that a native speaker not being a master of their languages.

Is this a necessary distinction? Taking this to the extreme, there would be no such concept as a grammatical error. Or even syntax, for that matter.

If a native speaker says 'loose' instead of 'lose' (or 'rouge' vs 'rogue') did they just create a new dialect? Shouldn't we consider these as being 'mistakes' - until such a time these forms are the new accepted norm?

What about vocabulary? There are natives who never bothered reading a book, and thus are limited in their vocabulary. Are they 'masters' of their language? Is the lack of knowledge about certain words also to be considered a dialect?

I am not sure one's upbringing gives them any authority on language usage. Collectively, sure. Not on an individual basis.
My contract contains a few terabytes of data transfer. I sincerely doubt you’d get through that any time soon.
tldr: "On average, cash recipients spent 52 per cent of their money on food and rent, 15 per cent on other items such as medications and bills, and 16 per cent on clothes and transportation.... Williams ... said it costs, on average, $55,000 annually for social and health services for one homeless individual."
Yeah. That is literally the whole reason to use the game show analogy.