skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I only had 10 minutes a day, I would go to an online newspaper and go to the advice column. There are people who write in for advice/discuss and people in the comments will reply. They're going to be using native expressions and idioms, making references to shared knowledge that everyone there knows. It's also going to be about a wide variety of problems (although a lot tend to be relationship based) which means you'll be able to naturally recall a large variety of words.

Try to read it. If you don't get some words or sentence, skip the sentence for now. Then once you're done with the first read lookup in a dictionary or glosbe and then finally text someone for an explanation to that phrase. (It can be hard to find those friends without visiting a country that speaks your TL and befriending people there).

And then feel free to enter that phrase in your SRS.

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I went abroad for 6 months to study my TL (target language) at a foreign language school and would roam campus finding (local) people who don't look busy to help me accomplish this task in real time.
If it takes off there's usually some sort of discussion, and I find it interesting and/or useful to engage with those who have commented. The vibe I'm getting is that people aren't really here for the community.

I think that's a change from when I first "joined".
I dunno i think its kinda cool. its not necessarily a bad thing to hold people to higher standards and have expectations of excellence in everything you do. that is part of the reason japan is such a nice place.
Sounds like she had people negotiating for her who failed to recognize the full weight of the pandemic's lasting repercussions. Who knows? They may have even negotiated this deal before the severity of the pandemic was plain? Whatever the case may be, it's a teachable moment. You almost have to have "continuous wargaming" to sort out ongoing effects the pandemic may have on your business.
If you were speaking of a solar power installation you would say, for example, a 300 MW installation -- honoring Watt.

Why, then, a M8.2 earthquake? Why not a 8.2 R earthquake to honor Richter?
You'd be suprised how many idiots there are.
In the entertainment Biz unions these days they use "call first list " get a rep for not paying talent and you go on that list.
Buying and selling stocks (or crypto, or ...) on its own is zero-sum. If you sell your stock, someone else has to buy the stock for that same amount of money. You can only make money if someone else loses.

The loser does not realize they have lost money immediately, and while the stock price is up it looks like there are only winners. The losers only realize they have lost money after the asset collapses in price while they own the asset. That is the beauty of these schemes. The losers are already there, they just don't know it yet. Of course they are also heavily motivated to keep the price up to prevent themselves from becoming losers (hence HODL, "apes together strong", etc). These schemes can go on for a while, and a lot of people can make a lot of money in the process (again, at the expense of the losers, no money is being created here).

Stocks are only not zero sum once you account for e.g. dividends being paid out. That applies to companies with a solid foundation, but it is unlikely a company with no income stream that is rooted in fraud is going to be paying out sufficient dividends to their stock owners to account for the purchase price.
Those FAANG are also in HCOL locations. SWE roles in smaller towns and other states then the coasts don't command nearly as high a salary.
There's an officially-supported skin with good sprite-based graphics. It's still a bit in progress however. https://www.kitfoxgames.com/press/sheet.php?p=dwarf_fortress
git commit to which branch? git push to which branch?
Climate Change. The Human Tragedy: Not Understanding Until We Lose It
https://github.com/akavel/up ?
As humans, we tend to not understand the true value of something ‘till we lose it, starting with health. In life, everything is interconnected deeply and that’s the same for the blue marble space station we call home in the vastness of space.
There's a decently sized cohort that hasn't forgiven ActiBlizzard for what they did to Warcraft III as well. Nothing like ruining a 20 year old game by forceably replacing it with a broken, partial reimplementation.
The PC speaker version is really clever. It's arranged in a way that suggests to the listener that multiple voices are present, but they can only hear the most prominent one that's active at any given time. The arpeggiated chords (marimba on other arrangements) help with this; in other cases, a background note is offset slightly to make it "peek" around the edges of the lead.
We are incredibly creative and ingenious people. That's not "the best we can do". Why hope that a solution being discussed over on hundred years ago[1] will spontaneously start working? Identify who stands to benefit from those solutions, how it divides the the populace, and find a better solution. Self-defeatism is a mind killer.

[1] William Jennings Bryan described the concept using the metaphor of a "leak" in his Cross of Gold speech
Not OP but I also interview. I see CGroups and namespaces is a follow up to “how does it work or how is it usually isolated?” And I ask “why would I use it?” Or “when would I choose containers over vm?” Or vice versa to get to actual architectural decisions

The wrong answer usually involves a lot of hemming and hawing
What about non-traditional-FOSS licenses? There is a lot of source-available not-OSI-compliant licensed software on GitHub like MongoDB, CockroachDB, etc., and that's clearly proprietary. If this thing is trained on that and generates what amount to snippets of that code then it's clearly violating those licenses.

Then there's private repositories. If they included those in the training data set that's even more actionable.

Personally I think this is software piracy at an absolutely unprecedented scale. Machine learning is just information transfer from the training data into weights in a model, a close relative of lossy data compression. Microsoft is now reselling all its GitHub users' code for profit.
Here: https://is.gd/BECTL
Please don't refer to people as "blacks" and "pocs". That's racist as it boils people down to their most superficial trait. I'm being sincere.
The damage of identify theft is the damaged credit report, and the fact you now have to explain to every entity you do business with what happened - and hope they believe you. Many won't because it isn't worth the risk to them.

Garnished wages are pretty rare from what I've heard, and yes it rarely gets to that point. It's still a nightmare for many people with real world consequences if it happens to you.
Just unintentionally confirmed it was still there for me when I searched for Roblox gift cards.
Why relatively expensive RFID vs pretty much free QRCode printed on the bottom?
> Some pheromone

Interesting you brought up pheromones. There exists a whole cottage industry of companies selling pheromone scents used for the dating game. Most of it is snake oil though and they lack the proper studies needed to prove that the scents actually work
Project Lagrange: Robust Geometry Processing Library
https://archive.is/es07a
It is true that _most_ functions do not have side effect and that this is very liberating (makes it easier to refactor and maintain). Also, most of the time when there is a side effect, it is clearly visible (due to using a stateful abstraction or library).

So all in all while stating "every function has no side effect" is incorrect, I still share your overall feeling.
Most of the people who go nuts when you point these things out are FOSS zealots reacting to the idea that FOSS licenses should be adjusted to prevent billion dollar companies from co-opting it for profit.
Meetings are awesome because I get to do nothing, get paid for it, and everybody agrees I did something that took up time and was work related. What is there not to love?
> The decision to put the movie on Disney+ is projected to cost Ms. Johansson more than $50 million, a person familiar with details of her contract claimed.

Granted, those financial estimates likely assume the movie had premiered as planned without a worldwide pandemic.

Legal accounting is fun.
I'm interested in learning about prolog. Where can I learn about the problems with it?
What exactly do you mean by proper balance? What you said later in the comment basically applies to all large companies:

> The wages are below what the market pays, hours are exploitative and the companies are making massive profits
Like that: https://is.gd/BECTL

By using ZFS Boot Environments.
It seems like practically anything car companies do that's not the actual car itself is usually bad unless you pay for the superpremium brands.
Many poor have the option (depending on location and availability) to live in homeless shleters. Even when given the option many choose to not live there. My understanding is the shelters often require no drugs or alchol and that is a deal breaker for some homeless people.
only in 2019 the Netflix contract ran out making it possible for them to use the full Disney catalogue while reducing access for Netflix. Thus creating a competitive product. Only in 2020 they launched in Europe.
Unions are a part of the free market, unless you'd like to remove people's freedom to associate just because they all happen to work at the same place.
I just completed all of that content up to French level 1. It's helpful in introducing a lot of important-but-uncommon verb cases (conditional, subjunctive), but at least at level 1 I still wouldn't really be able to follow them in context.

It sure as hell doesn't help that in French they all sound the same. They're clear enough in written form, but French in particular requires close attention to context. Even other Romance languages draw the same distinctions more clearly.
Comparing to how Twitch... encourages the hustle over there...

Naomi is far better content than Amouranth and the similar
> Yes, he did wrong and gross things, but in the same breath he's brushed under the rug, so are his ideas.

His ideas being "brushed under the rug" had nothing to do with his public "cancellation" that happened in the past few years.

Stallman has always been an extreme purist that prioritized his ideological stance over anything else that matters to users. And his ideas were "brushed under the rug" just as much 5 years ago (before public revelations about his misdoings) as they are now. It might just feel like he has been increasingly "brushed under the rug" more recently because he has been becoming increasingly irrelevant and more of just a spokesperson.
What the Heck is a Data Mesh?
Yes, like that: https://is.gd/BECTL
Maybe. I've heard that only now for the first time so wondering if this is what I should be explicitly keying in on.
Custom cursor on a webpage in pure CSS
Personally, I started using git for my projects after I accidentally deleted a good chunk of source code and my closest backup was several weeks old.
Being reported as a flight computer state machine fault. https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/14208042826857922...
Also, she is near the end of her run as the character, so has little to lose.

Many of the Avengers are moving on to let others take over.
Neanderthal blood study hints at one possible reason they went extinct
We didn’t have any trouble borrowing absurd amounts of money in the past to fight wars and build border walls. WWII was paid for in large part with US government debt. Debt can be a useful tool for getting out of a bad situation. The only difference I see here is that we’re unwilling to borrow to make life easier for the 95% of people who live tenuously within the bounds of ordinary life. And when we stop helping them everyone suffers.
It's dystopian to see Chinese people consume American products at the expense of American workers.
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Very well put and refreshing. Thank you.
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So the thing you want already exists but you're not willing to pay for it but you hope Amazon releases a new version because then you'll buy it? Do I have that right?
My dad was a big CR subscriber. After a while I realized that they focus on what might be termed "best value", although that's still not quite right. Their picks always emphasized mundane things like TCO, reliability, durability. For cars they were very explicit about this, each year issuing data on vehicles with categories like reliable, held their value, and low-maintenance, etc.

The prefect example of a CR-friendly car, in my mind, is the Toyota Camry. Completely unremarkable.

Everything else I remember them reviewing – watches, TVs, stereos, calculators, cameras – always ended up recommending some middle-of-the road "it works but it's not fancy and doesn't have many bells-and-whistles" product. I have a vague memory of them putting a Minolta camera at the top of the list of best 35mm SLRs in the 70s.
Somewhat off-topic but still wanted to share. A while ago, I realized that I am consuming so many books through Public Library service Libby in the form of Audiobooks nowadays and for a few books that I want to "read", I can just read in the Libby app itself on my phone. This saves me time in transferring an ebook to Kindle mainly but also the entire UX of Libby is just so great that I don't even feel a need to read a book on Kindle. Because of this, I have not been using either Kindle app or Kindle eReader lately and may rarely do so in the future.
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>Have you been to the US?

>From the amount of homeless and people living in tents and cars, AFAICT the expectation from this society is that people that can't afford rent for whatever reason should just live on the street.

Have you ever been to the US other than the west coast?

There's the occasional tent in a discreet spot in a vacant lot or under a bridge and the occasional car being lived out of at a truck stop. Maybe if you got every person living on the streets (vs a shelter) in a city to pick the same spot you'd have enough to be described as a "camp". It's nothing like you see on the west coast where the homeless are practically everywhere.
> media production. It works.

Does it work? Wasn't it medium (or someone) who when faced with unionization pivoted the company (left severance packages) to a substack like model?
Sort of :). Most of the games are “technically” playable, but not quite ready for distribution (buggy, missing settings), and I’ve never published.

The main issue is that I make most of the game, then realize that it’s really unbalanced and the controls are clunky and it isn’t that fun. So i lose interest. Probably related, I don’t really enjoy video games anymore because I get bored too easily.
That same group is the first in line to shower their states with pork and a disproportionate share of tax revenue.
Sadly I never finished that blog series due to severe suicidal depression (ended up being hospitalized for several months), but I do have a toy implementation of that laying around somewhere.

Currently abroad for my primary profession (fashion model), but as soon as this current job is finished and I'm back home I could look for it and ping you.

Any preferred channel where I can reach you, or do you prefer me replying here?
I'm really interested to see what happens here. Amazon busted the efforts of people with few options, people who could be threatened with bullshit/propaganda. I wonder if big law is sufficiently aware of the substantial impact that the recent years of ethical discussion have had on the gamer and game dev psyche. No matter the individual ethical stance of an employee, this sub-culture has had practice critiquing words and ideas.

It looks like the employees are almost universally on the equality end of the ethical spectrum (given how widespread the walkout was), which is even worse news for union busting.
You can be shy and still be a CEO
In times like these you can see that some things are just fundamentally wrong with our economic system. On the one hand upper incomes have done extremely well during COVID with stock market and housing going up like crazy. And on the other hand you have a lot of lower income people lose jobs and now also places to live through no fault of their own. 2008 with it a bailouts has already taught me that the upper class will twist the rules to their advantage and COVID repeats the same thing.

Reminds me a little of 2003. The big defense companies had posters in the metro touting their patriotism while taking in record profits, paying 30 million dollar CEO paychecks and receiving big tax cuts. And that while in Iraq low paid soldiers were injured and dying for an ill conceived war.

I guess the old saying to never let a good crisis go to waste is very true.
The nature of the current economic recovery incentivizes evictions, as there has been a very strong split between winners and losers (often through no fault of the losers -- reopening has not been evenly distributed across industries). Someone who is not making rent right now is likely to be on the losing ride of the reopening, and any landlord would prefer to get one of the winners as a tenant.

Not saying this is a great thing for a society, but without some form of tenant protection that is probably what landlords will do.
I totally agree. It's supremely messed up that companies are trying to force workers back into the office.

The safest approach, beyond even vaccination, is to physically distance by simply not being around each other. It is not possible to spread this virus when people aren't around each other!
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This is slick.

1 suggestion - make a Created (published) note optionally editable... so when the note is originally being edited there is a checkbox to allow it to be editable or not, so once it's published, it's fixed in space and time...

The viewer of an uneditable note can have a button to "Edit a Copy" of the note to create their own version of it and publish it under their own URL, but they can't edit the content of the original one.

NOW you've got yourself a forever tool here.
Sorry but a lot of the complaints from the article and what you linked are... well weird. Look, I'm no grand ninja guru wizard programmer, but after a decade of programming on and off as a job... wtf are you all smoking? Theres nothing to preach but to check your hubris. A majority of problems stem not from OOP or whatever language being used, it's from over abstracting. This is mostly due to trying to pre-build for a scale that will 99.8% never happen or to account for some wild potential esoteric function in the ether that'll never happen as well. There's some weird dick measuring contest out there on the internet that I wasn't invited to where everyone is trying to out over complicate each other. They never stopped to properly learn any real design patterns, so their classes end up all over the place. "Its OOP's fault!" And hell, sometimes you used a hammer when a screwdriver was more appropriate. No big deal, we all make mistakes in lines of design logic. It ain't OOP's fault you made an oops.
Private repositories weren't included in the training data per-github, only public repos.

This really doesn't give me much comfort though. Making a repo public doesn't imply anything, it could be "All rights reserved".
> Is anyone building strong communities on AGPLv3 / GPLv3? I feel the momentum shifted towards Apache / MIT style licenses unfortunately.

While the corporate momentum switched to Apache/MIT licenses, there are strong communities built on AGPLv3/GPLv3.

* Nextcloud - file hosting (AGPLv3)

* Source Hut - git hosting (AGPLv3)

* StreetComplete - OpenStreetMap editing (GPLv3)

* F-Droid - Free Software "app store" for android (GPLv3)

* NewPipe - alternative Youtube frontend (GPLv3)

While these aren't necessarily used by large corporations, their individual communities are thriving and strong.

The shift toward SSPL and Commons Clause licensing is another argument in favor of AGPLv3 licensing. Amazon/Google often won't touch your AGPLv3 code (and you can still sell proprietary licenses to other companies that can't/won't use AGPLv3).
Eh? 'Ceremony' is a word we normally use for important events. Weddings, funerals... that kind of thing.
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From the article:

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The first 20k units (which will ship in late 2021) sold out in about 20 minutes. Exciting to see. Can't wait to get access to the SDK...!
It's a great game, but if you are concerned about Freedom in Hong Kong, Grinding Gear Games is owned by Tencent, so you are still sending money to support an authoritarian regime that is still finishing up their latest installment of ethnic cleansing and re-education camps.
SSN is used by many, many entities as a 'secret security code' essentially. Including (still) many banks, government offices, etc.

It's also used for things like tracking of tax liabilities - so if someone has your SSN, with some minor fudging of other data there have been historic issues like claiming tax overpayments and getting checks from the government.

It's incredibly dumb, but it is what it is (mostly still).

At least most of the big players aren't quite as dumb about it as they used to be.
In my experience Kotaku has not been a reliable source for much of anything, although I don't know the OP domain either
I would like to see why Overwatch is so expensive. They don’t have some cutting-edge tech, it could have been a Quake or Half-Life mod and have the same exact gameplay and marginally worse graphics. Ok, there is the networking and matchmaking.
Ok, they need anti-cheat and perfected loot box drop probabilities.
Still, free to play South Korean shooters achieve that for way less.
“Three other federal courts have ruled in favor of the CDC's eviction moratorium, including a U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruling in June. That same month, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up an emergency petition to hear a challenge to the moratorium, although a majority of five justices did indicate that they considered the policy illegal.”

It’s less clear cut than your suggesting. The Supreme Court left the memorandum in place 5-4 while saying they would reject continuing it without congressional involvement. So, it looks like the CDC could do this on the next pandemic, just not for this one.
SCM was commonplace by the mid 1980s at the latest. My CS program used CVS to submit code in the mid 1990s and as a network engineer we used RCS in 1990.
Profit is fine. Building anti-competitive monopolies that don't share and that seek to own more and more of computing was an unanticipated side effect.
Yeah it’s impossible to get any government aid without a permanent address that is not General Delivery at a post office. Housing is not just about keeping a roof over your head. For people who are already reliant on welfare and unemployment it’s the difference between being on the dole and losing everything.
One of many poor editorial choices they seem to be making recently.
This assault at our language is so counter-productive. If you indeed want races to coexist cordially, spend your energy on something that actually helps their relations. You are literally making people who were not racist before to resent the other races.