skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got huge value out of Duolingo as a first step. I live in a German speaking country where it’s entirely possible to speak no German. Duolingo and textbooks got me far enough to enroll in a B1 course and find some speaking partners. The alternative would probably have been paying for a year of A-Level courses, and to be honest I may not have found the time. For absolute beginners, Duolingo has a lot of value.
I've also seen this, but from a different side. I have Google Alerts for many open source projects that I run, but in the past few years these alerts have become all but useless. Spammers scrape genuine pages from all over the place (including ones containing references to my projects) and put them into scammy ".it" domains. These appear both in Google Alerts and high up in Google Search. So alerts and search both become useless. The scam appears to be that when you visit these web pages they say you're the billionth (or whatever) visitor to Google and you've won a prize, just type in your bank details.

This has been going on for years now, so I don't have much confidence that Google is able or willing to fix it.
Spock logic "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" as an individual it will feel wrong but from the point of view for the many it seem selfish.

I do think people with no vaccine now are becoming more and more at risk as the vaccinated population grows with more social interaction without much consequence to the vaccinated. This has increased the risks to the unvaccinated. Being a holdout is not a great position to be in now.
Maybe name it Trinitron. That name is not used so much anymore :)
If that’s your choice.

And if you want to get vaccinated, keep up with boosters, and wear a mask in the workplace that can be your choice as well.
> I agree with the posters, that the skills which make a manager successful can be executed remotely as well as in person.

I agree as well and just for the record, I wouldn't say I'm ineffective. We 10x'ed our revenue and tripled the team during the pandemic. I'm getting top notch reviews from my peers and I've got a kick-ass team around me that I really like.

It's just that my job itself went from an onsite one that I loved to a remote one which I absolutely hate, and I'm at loss about what to do with that or what I'm doing wrong.

I'll definitely check out your book suggestion though.
Has anybody done a back of the envelope calculation regarding the energy efficiency of various cookware? Watt-hours delivered to the food / Watt-hours delivered to the cookware (+ Watt-hours spent for cleanup)

Maybe microwaves would win? Note that I'm not saying that should be the be all end all. I'm just curious. Although the amount of recipes that want you to crank up the oven just to brown half a cup of almond slivers is pretty annoying.
The FAQs make it seem like it's not as straightforward.

"Most of the time, you must first file and have your claim processed with the VICP before a civil lawsuit can
be filed against the vaccine company or the person who gave the vaccine"
based

lol, these are our role models
4000 had 68030 or 68040, but 68040 was only clocked at 25MHz, wheres in the video it's running on 68040 at 50 MHz.
The issue is that young people can die of covid, even if it's rare, also they can have some comorbidity that they do not want their employer to know about.

Also, you can transmit covid and be asymptomatic.

Finally, death is not the only "bad" outcome of covid. About 1/10 people have "long covid", ie symptoms that persist over time (lack of smell or taste, fatigue..). And this affects young people too.

So, as others have said many times, this vaccine is not a matter of individual choice. This is an infectious disease, so by being infectious, you may harm others, even young people. This is why governments or companies are making it mandatory.
That argument might hold... but other commenters here suggested the same terms were put to first world countries, like the US and UK.
I'm not sure the interpretation of the headline is the best here. Going from the abstract, this seems to be a compelling example of patents harming innovation.

The big picture story here is firstly to grant a patent to give Bell a monopoly on an idea. Then recognise that giving it a monopoly on an idea slows progress, so remove the monopoly.

If patents do exactly what they are intended to do, they damage periods of rapid, cheap progress. They allow the people who were there first to capture the value.
Ah yes, outside, busy places, it's been a while :)
I used to have a text document on my desktop containing a list of domains that contained autogenerated content, each with a minus in front, like:

-stupidautogeneratedcontent1.com -stupidautogeneratedcontent2.com etc

I figured sooner or later Google would pick up the signal but I think instead they just started ignoring my "- requests" as I stopped using them. edit: or maybe they fix the problem. Spam sites used to be a problem during the early decline of Google. I think what happened was that problem actually almost disappeared for me and was replaced by irrelevant results from non-spam-sites

Edit: mahalo.com was one of those, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com
Is there really any difference between DDG and Google when it comes to SEO spam? If there is, I sure haven't noticed in spite of using both, often for the same search terms.

It seems to me that the techniques used to spam Google's index work just as well on Bing's index.
I think it depends on what you’re searching for, for dev related stuff no other search engine I’ve tried comes close. But there are whole industries now that are so heavily SEO’d that finding useful information without knowing the exact keyword to search for is incredibly frustrating
hah! we have been competing internationally for years.
This is productivity porn for programmers. While obviously these tools are deep and powerful, there is also a learning curve and experimenting wether you can adapt your workflow to them or vice versa. Next year we will have another 5 shiny command line tools, and so on.

My point being: only replace your weapons of choice once you are confident you are using them to their full potential and you identify needs that these known tools wont solve.
There are several adenovirus based vaccines, including vaccines for tuberculosis and influenza, among others. The first adenovirus vaccine I'm aware of was developed in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector
It's under a separate program for products used during pandemics (versus just routine vaccines).

https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp
I agree Celcius is also entirely arbitrary, any scale would be really, but when 95% of the world's population uses Celcius (and the metric system has similar worldwide usage) perhaps it's time for them to go with the consensus.
Ask HN: Do you implement a CMS for small business websites?
Say I want to build a website for my dentist, should I implement a simplified CMS for it?
I've read some articles that state how it's a bad thing, because at some point the user ruins the website to such a degree that you have to remove it from your portfolio because it's nothing like your original one, or they end up blaming you for it, if some of the changes they apply end up breaking things.
But just making a static website for them and having me update things won't cut it either, I want to make something that is a one time thing and be over with it (not accounting for long term support). What's sort of a solution that's the best of both world?
I've worked with Django in the past and for example there you have Django admin where you can let the user do CRUD operations on some of the models you've made available for the client. Should I go for such a solution. It seems to me, as the perfect solution in that type of situation. The user can easily add new content, but he is only allowed to add content for stuff that I deem safe for him to manually edit, how would you approach this problem? What are some existing best practices?
In fact I completely agree with that stance. It's not cloudfares job to police the content. They provide a simple service. If something is unlawful law enforcement should go after the owners.
COVID spreads most in the few days before and after the appearance of symptoms. Organ failure, lethality, are largely due to the immune response to the virus.

The virus has little evolutionary pressure to be less lethal. COVID has already spread before the symptoms appear.
Just to add to that, uBlacklist has a power feature called subscriptions. Which is massively under utilised.

It enables a collaborative effort in blocking spam / low value domains.

If you make a block list, please submit it to the list I’ve made: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist

(There’s no great subscription discovery as yet)
I’m neutral on the vaccine itself, and I don’t believe Google and FB are doing this for any valid health reason. It’s more political signaling.

Since it’s really one “side” of the culture divide who’s pushing this, I just want to ensure we’re all on the new rules:

1. I don’t ever want to hear the “my body, my choice” slogan again. Not when abortion laws are debated, not when you’re demanding legalization of drugs, not when the dangerous bath houses are being shut down, etc. Your bodily autonomy apparently stops when any vague connection to the “common good” can be made.

2. Don’t even try to continue to play the “IDs for voting are racist” card. Not while you’re demanding to see my vaccine card to buy groceries. It’s just too absurd to even debate it with a straight face at this point, so don’t try.

3. Don’t cry when this same precedent is used by private businesses in ways the “science” will inevitably enable. In 20 years, they’ll have enough knowledge to correlate everything from intelligence to aggression to specific genetic markers that can be tweaked. “Sorry, for the safety of our fellow employees, we won’t hire <racial group> until they’ve been vaccinated against hyper-aggression.”

4. When the right comes back to power, no more pseudo tears when they literally place land mines along the southern border to keep out dangerous, unvaccinated immigrants. Likewise, all your H1Bs were denied cause two people got Polio or some other mostly eradicated virus in India.
A good book about trusts, antitrusts and monopoly in it/communication in US is “Master Switch”.

https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire...

It talks at length about Bell, but also other monopolists in our field.
We have failed to act. It's basically too late for anything but drastic action, no one was willing to take smaller, less drastic actions. We need to abandon this fallacy that its all about to come together, and more to adaption and mitigation efforts.
Also, change takes time. There's a digestion process. Of course some people are not interested in finding truth and simply cling to their own opinion.
Can you contribute useful data in addition to your angsty snark?
The “wait 2 weeks” argument did not work for Florida when they took the lead, nor Texas when they had the first full capacity sporting event, and not India when they were on the “brink of collapse”.

Delta is confirmed to be more contagious and less deadly.

In a few weeks the numbers will be low regardless of what measures are taken. But the forced vaccination of federal, municipal, and private employees will be given credit.

I am not against the vaccine. I am however against governments determining what freedoms their citizens are allowed to have based on what medicines they chose to take.

We’ve all seen the disaster with our personal privacy across social media and the internet as a whole.

Health is where the line gets drawn.
In German there was actually quite a lot of historic development about whether to write words together or separate or with hyphens.

The current state of formal German will surely not be the end of history.

See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leerzeichen_in_Komposita#Gesch... (Might need Google Translate, if you don't speak German.)
Since I got a decent stainless steel pan, the cast iron gets used less and less. And when I'm done cooking with it, it goes in the dishwasher.
Whichever vaccine you had, it has a high chance (90ish percent) of preventing any detectable infection, and as a corollary being contagious.

If you do lose the odds and develop an infection, the rates of various outcomes are all better. i.e. very low chance of death or ICU visit, very high chance of no or extremely mild symptoms

People don’t have a good understanding of statistics, of how to treat risk, or of basic disease dynamics.
Careful. When you actually get into it logically who can and can't vote makes zero sense at all. Kids should all get a vote for a start.
> I prefer the known, extremely low risk of contacting COVID

I'm a little confused by this. I live in King County, WA (and I work at Google). According to data reported by the county (as tabulated by the NY Times), one in 19 residents have contracted COVID[0]. That's >5% -- with a 1.8% case fatality rate in the US[1]. That's a bit below a one in 1000 chance of having died of COVID if you live in my county, including the infection fraction. If you look a the risk of just contracting it, based on the county, the risk is higher than any other disease I'm aware of.

Am I missing something?

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/king-washington-...

[1]: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
I was curious about places which allow non-citizen voting. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12134-019-00687-8 says:

> at least forty-five countries presently allow noncitizen residents to vote in their local, regional, or even national elections.

It's behind a paywall, but from the references it seems it's possible for non-citizens in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Belgium to vote. (One of the citations is "Local voting rights for non-nationals: experience in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Belgium".)
ahrefs is the best in the business.
In Turkey, we tested this idea by accident. Refugees were given temporary citizenship, then allowed for the real one after a while. Turns out they stay loyal to the government who allow them to stay in the country. I totally feel for them to secure their stay but it gives the ruling party a huge advantage on the elections. Total number of former and current refugees exceed 4 million which is 2 percent of the total population. It is large enough to change election results.

This stuff is messy, both sides have legit arguments.
I see this argument brought up often in such discussions, but the data doesn't seem to support it:

https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#ove...

At least on desktop around 40% of the visitors are located in the US.

One could argue that the other countries are represented by expat Americans, but the US also has a sizeable immigrant community.
There are a bunch of techniques to see the heating pattern of a pan and to show how poor cast iron is in that regard. I remember someone using parchment paper (maybe Harold McGee?). In looking I found someone suggesting a light dusting of flour [1]. Of course, an IR camera is the most obvious. I've also noticed water boiling in unique patterns, like you mention.

[1] http://cookingissues.com/2010/02/16/heavy-metal-the-science-...
The solution to tyranny of the majority is NOT to hide down-voted comments and provide sorting options. Big problem with reddit is that it hides comments below certain threshold essentially silencing minority opinions.
I really like how people are making comparisons to the US, as if South Africa is a real country rather than a failed state on a bad day and a typical African state on a good one. What's more likely? Pfizer is trying to take over South Africa with their miracle vaccine or a bunch of ANC goods are trying to shake them down because that's all they do in that country?
> Thus, they can easily come to the office if needed.

Well yes, but that's moving the goalposts.
Parallels Toolbox 5.0 for Mac and Windows released
For every country/market somebody should better make a search engine to compete with Google. Now this is a chance for Norway.
One of the last use case for Google is being a proper search engine for Reddit. But I think they are aware of their downfall, that's why the top of the page is increasingly taken by their widgets to provide directly the information.

On the other hand, Youtube is the second most popular search engine and I don't see it slowing down. What an insight they had when they bought it.

Edit : I entirely agree to the fact that valuable information is found more in communities nowadays. I also predict that the web in 5 years will be mostly explored through communities
This guy is toxic in everything he does. I greatly dislike him because of this. But I almost always agree with the actual points he makes.
Pfizer vaccine second dose has ‘sweet spot’ after eight weeks, UK scientists say
I think it is worse than flashcards because you usually use flashcards after a tutor who can give you some context around what you are learning. I found two big problems with Duo:

1) You are not given any input as to why or how e.g. German words are conjugated, not just verbs but adjectives as well, you are just expected to learn them. If you don't know what gender is, as an English speaker, then trying to learn der, das and die won't make any sense whereas if they said, "German uses different words for 'the' so make sure you learn the article with the word to remember which it is", it would be more useful.

2) The insistence on being text-based makes learning things like Japanese especially hard. Many people only want to speak and understand a language so forcing them to also learn an alphabet just makes it even harder, especially since in Japan, you won't see everything in Hirigana anyway! If you want to help with pronunciation then you could use a pinyin to do so.

I also thought it was quite funny that the premium version gave you tutoring, in which case, I might as well attend a college class?
Watch this video from 2016 by James Hamilton at AWS Re:Invent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyOAjFNPAbA

It'll tell you lots about how AWS is built
It is not very difficult to manage: a company of mine was bought by a squatter (I found out after dealing with a broker for the sale; I had to integrate it with their 'tech team' and walked away after) and for many years already, this all has been fairly easy to automate. The registars have apis, cloud flare has apis. There was 1 tech guy keeping it all up and running and he didn't have to do anything. It would register and provision with content automatically. There is really almost no work involved besides keeping money in the registrar account and the costs are only the domains probably, maybe they have a little hetzner load balanced setup with 2 machines but that's likely it.
google is taking a hit this week
I'm glad that it worked out for you! I can't comment on the quality of every individual course, but if it propels you towards your language learning goals, then it's definitely doing its job.

I do think that for many languages there are more effective ways to learn in a given time period than Duolingo, but if Duolingo helps you stay motivated and keeps you practicing in a way that other methods couldn't, that in itself has a ton of value.
That doesn't sound right... all of the Nordic designs I've seen have been exceptionally low power. The internal LDO / DC-DC blocks for running directly off of a battery are sized for <100 mA. Even with bypass caps, 2A spikes seem like the wrong order of magnitude for a chip that can run off of a coin cell.

I have an nRF52840 design, and I've never seen it draw more than low ~tens of mA during BLE transmit spikes, even at the maximum transmit power setting.
M4 as a templating language (2020)
If you are working face-to-face (with clients and/or colleagues), that's simply not true.
Within the EU, EEA citizens (that includes Norway) have the right to vote in local and European elections in the country they live in.
This is directly contradictory to the evidence I've seen (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34103407/ for a publication, this article based on a similar study: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera..., and this https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.25.21256049v... which suggests that you get a boost from the vaccine even if you've had the virus).

In other words, there's strong evidence that you get a stronger immune response, for longer, that is more effective against variants with the vaccine than with a natural infection. The paper I think you're referring to (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...) states "It is not known how well these results will hold if or
when some of the newer variants of concern become prominent. However, if prior infection does not
afford protection against some of the newer variants of concern, there is little reason to suppose that the
currently available vaccines would either. Vaccine breakthrough infections with variants have indeed
been reported [17]", but this is directly contradicted by some of the other studies I cited, that to show better protection against variant re-infection.
Funny 2 see how reactions change - as soon as the laptop bubble is affected personally
The most obvious answer would be that many people who can afford basic internet but cannot afford a college class can learn at least the basics of another language.

I guess they only need to upsell a small percentage to the premium version to get a large ROI.
For all the Greeks: The institute behind the discovery is named Kavli Institute.
he is a feminist you know? he also like to call anita sarkessian & CO. BS
I never understood this "fallacy", it's really common for laws and policies to build upon themselves. You call it the slippery slope fallacy, I call it slowly boiling the frog. People adapt and suddenly it's the new normal.
A hacky script to emulate git bisect should be fairly easy to set up. It's not much more complicated than writing standard binary search.
Not true. CDC claims same virus load in v/uv
Well this would then apply to the other side too - being pro-vaccine and pro-abortion is the same kind of hypocrisy.
I'm referring to the cost of healthcare in the U.S. compared to the awarded amount. If serious health effects exist I assume the care will exceed the amount awarded.
I'm surprised to find out people actually return to the search results page using the back button. Whenever I am serious enough (enough to keep looking after the first link I click does not satisfy me) about finding something I always Middle-Click or Ctrl+Click the links to open them in new tabs.
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Ignoring double brackets drives me crazy. That's the last straw that sent me to DDG, although I have to say that DDG isn't much better either.

What made me really angry aboyt Google Search was when they removed their function to search in discussion forums. But even then you could more or less filter out crap.

Nowadays it feels very hard. I find myself using the site: flag many times, but you need to know the site beforehand, which is another problem.
> Except in very cold climates, it should still be cheaper/more efficient than gaz

This isn't true at all. Gas is much cheaper per joule than electricity.
Who nominated you smartest person in the room, yourself?
There is no good reason the NYT should exist any more.

They are the stuffed husk of the serious journalistic entity they were at one point.
Duolingo's loading screen regularly highlights that:

"Did you know that most people learning Swedish on Duolingo are in Sweden (refugees)?" (quote from memory)
I'm not the maker behind this project, nor affiliated with the maker in any way, but sharing this here as I think it might be of interest to the community.