skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think anyone is seriously under the delusion that Duolingo alone will make you fluent in a language.

I'm active in various Facebook/Reddit groups dealing with language learning. The average user, who's never learned a language before, does think DL will make them fluent. And DL advertises themselves in this manner as well. It's a common issue: "I've got my entire tree gold, why can't I understand natives?"

> I cannot think of a single more effective method than Duolingo to get over this first hurdle.

I think an actual coursebook is more useful, but it also likely depends on person. DL doesn't really teach language skills for most the courses. It has you translate, you never practice reading for comprehension, listening for comprehension (or listening to natives at all, in the courses with TTS), or writing. And not to mention the default of 'click the words' in the mobile app doesn't force recall at all.
This American fixation with the word "free" always makes me chuckle. Aa when a bus driver in Las Vegas got angry when I asked them if thag was the "free" bus, and he angrily replied "it's not free, its complimentary " .
That's odd. I assumed it would act like, well, an input box akin to the one I'm typing this comment in, but it's not. At the very least, Ctrl + Backspace doesn't work (on Firefox on Linux) to delete entire words, which works everywhere else.
I'd rather have someone learn to use M4 when needed than have "some Python" replace M4 in an important project. But that's just me, other people like building sand castles.
>And if your meeting ran over, it wasn't uncommon to have a group of people standing outside waiting for you to vacate.

having a meeting run over is a problem, having someone waiting to get into that room is a solution to the problem.
That is highly dependent on what your plan is.

Some plans are flat co pay. Some are percentage. Some are mixed. Some max out at particular amounts, some dont depending on the care you are doing.
If so, seventeen years later, nothing will be patentable.
If you use Netflix and VPN into Germany or Austria to watch movies then many of them have closed captioning offered only in German.
While I agree that losing the Amazon, and all of its biological and human diversity is a catastrophe, I don't agree with this sort of finger pointing.

The same argument can be said of most, if not all, of the western countries whose primary ecosystems have gone extinct by mostly the same reasons. How come then that when the developing nations in the global south do so, they're short-sighted and ignorant?

Yes, Brazil has the sovereignty to protect the Amazon. But one also has to understand the political and economic pressures exerted both internally and externally.

Brazil was responsible for ~20% of the word's beef exports in 2018 [1]. Who is purchasing that beef? What trade arrangements are incentivizing this activity?

This is not to justify what's happening in the Amazon. This is to point out that the situation is more complex that being "short-sighted" and "ignorant".

[1]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2019/july/brazil-once-a...
Yes but unfortunately it still creates links using the “new” Reddit interface. Installing an add-on like Old Reddit Redirect helps to restore sanity when searching by site.
Buried in there is also the fact that getting good and reliable information might indeed not be cheap (could be paid for by the public/donors if it is a non-profit, but still costs).

In the earlier days of the web and search that was not so much the case, I reckon. For example, a lot more paywalls than 10 years ago.
> Are there any nice Chrome extensions to expand on Google that anyone can recommend?

Just have to point out the irony of patching google’s spyware browser to get around google’s poor results
Eh, I suspect the author is mistaken here, but who knows, maybe that was updated after the fact? Hard to say who is right.
But in the case of the US, we pay for healthcare in our taxes, pay again as companies, and again pay co-pays as individuals.
No, not at all! The goal of the comb isn't just about fencing off area, it's about having functional chambers that can be used for things.

The chamber size is fit to purpose; smaller cells for incubating worker bee larvae, larger cells for drones and queens.

Even for honey and nectar storage, the cells are sized to a single serving (fortunately roughly the same size as a hatchery cell), so the bees can consume what they need while the rest stays safely sealed with wax caps.
Duolingo has worked great for me. I had learned Spanish a decade ago and completely forgotten it. In a few months of consistent practice, I learned enough to get around. And after 6-9 months, I could have basic conversations.

I was never good at learning languages and Duolingo has been the best system for me. I like the paced repetition it does. Also, that it has you practice reading, writing, saying, and listening.
Cybersecurity Chiefs Are in High Demand as Companies Face Rising Hacking Threats
Does it make sense to snapshot the entire root dir or just the home directory? Asking about desktop PC.
Glitch can run nodejs+static web+hide keys
Galileo Project: scientists to search for signs of extraterrestrial technology
Hi Ahmed - I'm a very heavy user of YourMechanic in the US. One of the biggest benefits I've heard for mechanics is that without the overhead of a garage they can run their own operations much more profitably. Being able to recruit good mechanics who have more favorable economics lead to happier customers.
If consumers start relying on niche subs en masse, then it is only a matter of time until Reddit is overrun with shills and sock puppets.
The author says "(Maybe it does cause a problem, but it wouldn’t have to.)" and this feels extremely dismissive of people who actually rely on screenreaders today.

I had Safari/VoiceOver speak this tweet [0] (no offense to the author, it was just the first one in my feed that had this style of character in it). Every letter is some form of "Mathematical bold script capital s"

In that particular tweet, not only does it not read the word, but the "i" character is "Mathematical bold script small 1"

[0] https://twitter.com/kiwapebretech/status/1420613820876271617
Very impressed with the editors making the headline here.

The truth: reddish rocks from further out in the solar system (like Neptune) can be found in the asteroid belt - probably because of chaos in the early solar system.

Possibilities from the headline: Red objects? Are these unnatural? Aliens? Some new form of matter? Shouldn’t be there...Did someone put them there? Were they not there a year ago?

The truth is mundane for most viewers, but the second sparks some level of interest in far more people. The result is I just end up disappointed with the article (asteroid immigrants are interesting, not as interesting as Red Alien Artifacts though!), and I distrust NYTs to deliver measured news (I’d expect this clickbait from a tabloid)
Courts in and of themselves have no hard power. Law enforcement agents and other officers of the peace are the ones in charge of delivering on courts judgements.

I, for one, welcome our new Robocop overlords.
I find that I make a lot of mistakes with asm. When you've written hundreds of asm instructions in one change, because of debugging is superlinearly hard, one can easily spend a lot of time debugging. So now I write and commit in small chunks and test repeatedly. This has made me much more efficient by drastically reducing the time searching for where in the hundreds of instructions I've gone wrong.
It isn't "dehumanizing" someone when they ignore substantial and overwhelming evidence and others point that out.
> enigmatic billionaire

Doesn't describe Musk at all.
> As I see why asking "why are you eating pizza is wrong", but not why asking "why are you using man in your tests" is wrong. So your analogy is more of a misrepresentation of the situation than anything else.

So far you seem to be the only one failing to grasp the original point. Your misunderstanding of the analogy does not transform it into a misrepresentation.
What? Yes you can. I know because I just created a new domain today.
I agree with try-before-you-buy for bicycles - size, style, etc make a massive difference in utility and comfort.

But, how would somebody who only had a bike as a child know this? Google isn't telling them - it sends them to Amazon via listicles. If they happen to search "how to buy a bicycle" there are some potentially useful results. But, even if they do end up a bicycle shop, their likely to run into inventory problems - many bike shops simply don't have any bikes right now. So, it's back to Amazon, or Craigslist/FB Marketplace, or worse.
Aah, now I see. Awesome, I'll try that out. Thank you.
I think a tool like that could be very valuable, as you said in most cases you end up in the same few common locations. Most of the time the reason I fall back on google is because I'm not sure whether what I'm looking for is going to be in a github issue, in a bug tracker, in a forum, in a stackoverflow answer, in a mailing list, etc.

There was a docs aggregation site I tried at one point that was quite useful, but without search across issues/forums etc. I didn't end up sticking with it
Ask HN: What's Wrong with the Gmail Spam Filter?
In the past month or so, I have been receiving an increasing amount of spam that reaches my Gmail inbox. See example here (https://imgur.com/4efNttg). They are so blatant that I can't understand why Gmails' spam filter doesn't catch them.

Any one else get this problem? Are spammers getting better or is Gmail spam filter getting worse?
I agree on all points but once you start talking about a class of consumer who could afford to (not that any specific one does) shop at Whole Foods facts matter far less than perception/reputation.
Reddit would need to fix their UI so that it isn't actively hostile to people trying to read content on their site.
If I would run a global infrastructure company like Cloudflare, I also would not take any sides, and leave my service open to anyone. The world is full of people who get upset about something. However, if I declare a hands-off policy, it must be truly hands-off. Cloudflare kicked off Switter https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17256370/switter-cloudfla..., it banned 8Chan https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ , it banned the Hacker News https://mobile.twitter.com/thehackersnews/status/66900183605... . That’s not how hands-off works.
My reaction was on the idea of "too many people". I posit that urbanization, etc solves this problem within 100-150 years by natural means.
I filed for bankruptcy about 10 years ago due to a family member's medical bills. Funny, a year afterwards, when establishing credit again, all the financial institutions were like "yep, no problem, it happens".

24 months later, credit was back to normal-ish, bought new car, financed new home, and no medical debt.
What we in the EU actually can do: campaign for a ban on imports of Brazilian beef as long as they’re allowing the destruction of their rainforests.

The cheaper beer I see at the discount grocery stores is often from Brazil, so this isn’t merely symbolic.
The fig is an ecological marvel
I don’t know. It depends on the ‘quality’ of the community. Eg when I’m considering a new IT tool, I tend to search ‘!hn $tool’ just to see what the comments on HN are like, as it’s the most reasonable signal I can find vs google. Similar example, when searching for a good EV charging pass my first go-to were the Tweakers.net forums. It’s a place where the general IT crowd of the Netherlands hangs out and indeed someone already wrote a very extensive topic on the EV charging world, the business models, what to watch out for, etc.

I suppose if you have the same for cooking, cycling, cars, etc. It might actually end up going that direction for more people.

As a community becomes higher quality though, it also becomes more interesting for scammers to abuse. (The Bitcoin Reddits you mentioned are a great example). Good moderation is key I think.
Twitter Closes San Francisco, New York Offices as COVID-19 Cases Surge
The counter is right there in the article:

> Global markets don’t buy enough sustainably produced foods such as Brazil nuts or acai to keep people afloat, whereas the appetite for beef, grains, and timber seems bottomless. (In 2020, Brazil exported $35.2 billion of soybeans, soybean meal, and soybean oil, and only $128.3 million of nuts.)

When you're down at the bottom, living under a tarp, and barely making enough money to support yourself and your family, then you're going to chose the money.
I'm not sure what this means - I thought Inventor meant owner or part owner in some sense unless the ownership has been transferred, presumably Dabus isn't a legal entity - so this is meaningless.
Unfortunately Germany deliberately borked the encryption ecosystem so it’s useless there. And many of the the smaller countries have trouble building out the infrastructure with everything else on their plate (Estonia being a significant exception).
And for most citizens of developed countries that selfishness translates to universal health care. No need to worry.
Here is a guy who worked it out:

https://github.com/jonatron/test_nn512

That's a full ResNet50 conversion from the corresponding Caffe protobuf. He also wrote a small script to convert TensorFlow networks.

GCC warns about perfectly valid, correct C. It even warns about switch case fallthough. All of the generated code is fully correct. Turn the warnings off.

Please don't copy and paste from the website! Download the NN-512 executable and run it.

Email me if you still have difficulties.
Restaurant Online Ordering Systems That Aren't 3rd Party Apps
Population network structure impacts genetic algorithm optimisation performance
"That said, the government needs to step in and set prices for health care."

I don't see this working without other substantial changes. They do this with Medicaid and Medicare already. The reimbursement rate is pretty low and the actual costs of some services actually exceed the payment. Without fully going to a government run system, I don't think setting standard prices will work well due to the quality and cost differences from location to location.

A better solution might be some sort of truth in advertising/billing that changes how the providers and insurance companies run that process, like presenting actual cost of care, actual payment by insurance, and protecting individuals from any charge that exceeds the cost of care plus some profit limit like 2%. I'm sure there are a lot of details to prevent loopholes, but that's my general view.
Some of these tools are pretty easy to use. Entr is amazing and can be incorporated into a workflow very easily

Same with fzf. On a Mac, copying specific output from a command becomes so easy. For example `git branch | fzf | pbcopy`.
If anything - they should add an additional test/assertion that they receive “gimme gimme gimme” half past midnight!
The GNU M4 manual has a sizable section acknowledging its precursors: https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#History
No, it "just works" for me. I have their G3100 gateway, and it came with V6 enabled by default. I got service ~18mo ago..
NYT IS a tabloid. Has been for years. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Show HN: Drag and drop website builder designed for mobile
Like which ones? I can't see the comments you're referring to.
Similarly on Google and YouTube- nearly the entire search space for "how to pronounce xyz" has been taken over by videos of text to speech recordings that have absolutely no idea how to pronounce anything.

There are huge YouTube channels posting this scam content, and they never seem to go away. There are real ones in there too, but there are way more spam words than real ones.
This reminds me of the facebook group: Bilder i kampen mot særskrivingfeil: https://www.facebook.com/ettord :D

(Something like: Pictures in the struggle against mistakes when using spaces between words)
Octagons don't fit together on their own; they need squares in between them. Like a soccer ball. Hexagons let you cover area with the same shape over and over again.
> No, it isn’t. It’s useless without HEVC, which is encumbered and requires royalties,[0] most of which go to Apple. VP8 is free (as in “free beer,” not as in “freedom”).

HEVC is H265 which is not as widespread. But either way, one benefit to Google I guess is you can avoid the $2.60 device fee. But also scroll down and see how many companies were involved in HEVC vs VP8/9.

> HEVC is not open.[0]

Source code is readily available, codec formats are as well, all that's keeping it from being open is a licensing fee.

> Chrome has its own issues, though, as does Firefox. Safari just seems to have more than the other two. For example, for the longest time, Safari was the only browser to support color() and DCI-P3.

Again, not my experience. I have only had to perform CSS hacks on chrome because chrome adds some CSS features ala IE.

> If you want to cater to an audience that prefers a clean, efficient UI while simultaneously avoiding creating a horrible mess of dark patterns, yes. If you want to run on as many browsers as possible without looking like a Word document, yes. If you want to appease Google so you don’t get deranked, yes.

So using safari I am part of the audience that doesn't want a clean UI? That's the entire reason I use a Mac and Safari. So the question stands. What does CSS have to do with SEO?

How do companies create cross browser experiences these days without making sites look like "word docs"? Apple themselves seem to have quite a design and css heavy site.

Since Safari is such an issue for you, why not just block the sites? Likely because you'll lose market share. So instead you try to demand your customers switch to something you prefer they use to make it easier for you to make money off of them. When will you Google shills leave the rest of us alone? Also how much are they paying you to promote Chrome these days?
Screen sharing and cameras go a long way, office networking and what people say offline can be important, but I fully believe it is possible for tech work to be fully remote. Paired programming is possible if not better while remote.

Programmers don't have the best hygiene in my experience and not having a sweaty meatbag in the chair next to me while we share concepts is justification enough.

Perhaps if your work isn't all on a computer you can't get around this, but at least for programming I firmly believe in remote work.
It's a criticism of the way FOSS software advocates seem to want to eat their cake and have it too. They ask the world why they aren't using more FOSS software, which has all these benefits from being free and open, and when the world replies with a list of all the downsides of relying on software written by people hacking in their spare time --see: JWZ and the CADT model-- the advocates fall back on the defense that you can't complain because it is free.

I know it sounds ridiculous, because free software is written by a diverse group of people with diverse goals, but this conversation happens all the time because its advocates often try to represent it as a cohesive whole, that it very much isn't, in pursuit of their own agenda.
I don't disagree, but then the question should be phrased that way, or it should be mentioned than there may be better way for generic use cases but the original question still answered.
And 8chan, the 4chan alternative where anyone can make and moderate their own board.
(not op, but) I don't recall exactly what I experienced (in development- I think it was just terribly slow?) - I ended up carving out a volume (zvol) and formatting it with ext4 (or xfs?) for docker.

It might actually have been this ms sql issue that led me to do that, actually:

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/33191
Considering how far what's currently styled "AI" is from a real GAI, that's got to be a gimmick.
Affiliate links arent the problem per-se. Shitty content is. Google is supposed to penalize sites like this with lousy, thin reviews and promote things like wirecutter and whatnot.

I much prefer affiliate links to the alternative: Unblockable ads and paywalls.
At that level, It is digital pollution. Hosting that much crap use up ressources and accomplishes little to nothing.
It is always weird to me that people think the quality of Google results compared to the past are a deliberate choice by Google, and not the consequence of an adversarial process where marketers spend billions of dollars trying to distort the rankings
Probably home did, maybe etc and var, maybe other important dirs... full root would include temp and logs that may not be needed and folders that don't change often
I worked for a company where a developer put a dirty limerick in a UI control, activated by a keystone sequence.

They also turned on output tracing via another keystroke sequence.

During a presentation, one of the consultants needed to turn on tracing in front of a VERY large multinational client (heavens knows why, it was in front of C-suite execs…). They hit the wrong keystroke, and up popped the limerick - on a large projector, in front of the CEO.

Don’t put in Easter eggs.
Russian lab module docks with space station after 8-day trip
Given the author mentions multiple cores being available, I'd guess you could use any method, including MPI, to distribute the computation. But whether you used 1 core or 10k cores, it would be nice to have a 20x speedup on each core via this arithmetic/fixed size optimization. Since that's the focus of the article, communication technologies feel pretty unrelated.
>>Huge swathes of manufacturing have been outsourced while CEOs collect massive bonuses; not mentioned.

Manufacturing was outsourced because the US became inhospitable to it.

The OSHA was created in 1971. The EPA was created in 1973. By the 1960s, the Big Three automakers had been forced via collective bargaining with the UAW into giving exorbitant benefits to their work forces. Any major manufacturer has that to look forward to for their US-based plants.
You could use AI to produce thousands of patents in a single day and put your name as the inventor - I'm not sure having the AI system recorded as inventor adds much for patent trolls.
fwiw pretty much all unfamiliar americans will associate 'centi' with small, not "hundred"(eth)
> I wound up buying a used bike from a local shop

I think this is a positive outcome. Google and Amazon are driving people to shop locally with their tricks.

Same thing happened to me and I couldn't be happier I bought an electric bike from a local shop. I probably paid a little more, but I made a new friend. The local shop owner is a really cool guy who was interested in meeting my needs, not in selling me his most profitable bike.
Buying land would be fairly trivial. Feeding the people that would otherwise raze it for money to buy food and housing? Much more expensive.
Scientists observe gas re-accretion in dying galaxies for the first time
The hard problem here is that you’re right; but who are we to tell them they can’t do the same things that North America and Europe did to survive and prosper? We have released ungodly amounts of green house gasses and clear cut millions and millions of acres to build our cities and factories. Who are we to finger point any day “yeah we did it and life is great but you can’t because we beat you to the punch and did it first and now the worlds fucked.”

Instead we have to have better solutions at hand to offer them that make more economical sense than clear cutting the rainforests.