skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immersion, but since that isn't feasible for most people, traditional textbooks with a teacher, Mango Languages or similar software, consuming media in the target language, etc. And ideally in combination with each other so you're doing a bit of reading, listening, and speaking.
Direct Detection of Dark Energy
Official UI style is a complete garbage. They killed the most common thing that I as user need to do, and that's quickly identifying which tab is active. It doesn't stand out at all (default style after creating a new profile):

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2eddfc6ed4ebe129.png

No background difference, nothing. It's not visible when I set monitor to low brightness during the night.

Most installable themes are similarly non-distinct. I had to go through install/uninstall loop of around 15 themes before finding one that has strong contrast on the selected tab:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/3571258bbc86a7db.png

That's what happens when things have to look pretty, instead of being usable.
Listening and watching is not a form of aggression. A state have right to listen and watch other state actions from their territory. If a foreign traffic is passing through your state territory, your state has rights to look into it.
Any time you have kids with parents who put them under the care of authority figures you’re setting up a stage for abuse of trust and power. Abusers seeks these positions of trust and exploit them. [edit Penn State] and Sandusky, the Olympics, the Catholic Church, other religious orgs, schools, etc.

There needs to be more oversight and kids need a better reporting environment while also protecting good people from ‘revenge’ unsubstantiated accusations. I don’t see an easy solution. But in most large cases, there are years or even decades of repeated accusations which go ignored. That can’t be squared. That’s a leadership failure.
For TV viewing, try to watch the "fixing the stuff that went wrong" style TV/YouTube shows, where a builder is going around going, "Oh god, you can't do that that way, do that this way".

Part of learning is learning from mistakes -- you learn which parts of the "correct" way to do something are essential, and you learn why the correct way is correct, when the incorrect way fails. Ideally, that's the part you want to outsource as much as possible; if you were working with an experienced builder, they'd be correcting you constantly to keep the mistakes from affecting the build, but hopefully YouTube can at least show you the big "don't"s.

Pro-tip: most fasteners (nails and screws) are not "structural"; they hold wood in place, but they don't support weight. That's why eg windows are framed the way they are, instead of just nailing a 2x4 between two others; it allows each piece of wood to be supported directly by another.
The stock market isn't reacting because of the Fed. As long as their programs remain and interest rates say 0, the asset inflation bubble will continue. Also, the stock market today is so heavily dominated by tech that don't have these supply chain issues.
I agree it's a bit like playing in the mud, but the more I work the more I suspect that's just accepting reality.

Requirements gathering works wonderfully for internal projects with a fixed set of stakeholders and a well defined problem with measurable outcomes. Product development is a whole different world whose outcome is the much more vague "generate profit for the developers". Particularly in the realm of B2B software.

You need to find some local minimum that will meet the needs of thousands of organizations in order for development to be worthwhile.

You need to get many busy people who don't know you to actually talk to you.

You need to talk to multiple different stakeholders within the organization.

And even after you group all your stakeholders into some kind of user personas, you still haven't accounted for what the larger organizational behavior will be, as B2B products generally require large-scale buy-in.

And at the end of the day, no matter what people say they will do, the true test is when a company actually opens their coffers and pays your invoice.

We've arrived down here in the mud through years of experience of doing requirements gathering, building to a spec, and then finding out that we built the wrong thing and nobody will pay us for all our hard work.

Sometimes you really do have to build it to see if they will come. And the more formalized (ie expensive) you make the requirements engineering process, the more compelling the iterate and start getting paying customers asap plan becomes.
>shouldn't have taken vc funding

That was my first thought too. The whole idea seems great, but more as a community project or just smaller slower company. Not sure you can make Genius into something that justifies hoping for massive returns.
Not really possible when you’re already inside US with a visa tied to your company. Plus not sure how investors would see a foreigner setting up a us company he can’t run without their investment (risk coming from gov ineptitude is not something anyone likes)
Simultaneously annoying both China and the French, the British foreign office must be terribly pleased with this new partnership.
If you google ANY SONG, Genius will be a top 3 result. Their SEO is very good.
My wife prefers bright lights while I prefer them dim. My solution was to have the dim lights switch on when motion is detected and it is dark. My wife would then use the wall switch for the bright lights. This works great for the kitchen and bath.
Seconding the suggestions in my sibling comments. I think I managed to learn some category theory by haphazard clambering and osmosis of the material.

I’d like to add a recommendation for the book Category Theory for the Sciences: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/category-theory-sciences

Archive.org seems to have it for download: https://archive.org/details/cattheory

(I prefer the printed copy myself, i.e. it has been worth having.)
Amazing! I've just recommended Dieter Rams: As Little Design As Possible book on LinkedIn.

Good design is needed everywhere. It's much more than adding a gradient to a Buy button.
The people who had the original version of SARS 20 years ago, still have an immune response today. Memory cells work just fine.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02260-9

When you encounter the virus again, those with a healthy immune system will ramp up antibody production.
Smartphones are pretty good for a lot of people and, truth be told, I probably use mine more than my other gear.

I have a pretty big Canon EOS system that had its start back in film days although it's a not-current FF digital body now. I mostly use it for events where the lighting isn't as good or where I want a longer or wider lens. But it honestly doesn't see a lot of use. I've thought of selling the whole thing but there are times I would miss it so I haven't.

I also have a Fujifilm X-E3 with a few lenses which is my go to for travel when I'm not just going to shoot some casual shots with my phone.
I dunno what they expected. Even if it was recognized at one point it’s not recognized any more now.

A passport is only as useful as it’s acceptance, and that’s been true for centuries.
Yeah, I realized that growing meant nothing meaningful after a while. Kept growing, but nothing changed.

This is something that happened 5+ years ago, and maybe three years back. I reckon hashtags were bigger than right? Certainly seemed to work.

I could have been able to short-circuit that if I started now I suspect, but I was waay to young.
Mapping Types to Values (In C++)
Why an Electric Car Battery Is So Expensive, for Now
All these stories about power/sex abuse sound so similar. It always seems a ton of people knew and did nothing to stop it. Reading about this guy was like reading about Jimmy Savile or Harvey Weinstein.
All you're doing is putting lipstick on a pig. This isn't even a better Nitter <https://nitter.net/about>.

If you want to do something useful, I'd like to see you create a Twitter look-alike that pulls from members' RSS/Atom/JSON feeds rather than letting them post directly. No likes, no reshares, no comments. Just pure feed aggregation in reverse chronological order like the Demiurge intended.

We need more webrings and sites like Nightfall City <https://nightfall.city/>, not FOSS developers reskinning a parasocial media site and not getting a dime in payment.
It seems like america is the land of monopoly, do people complain about monopolies in retail?
abcba is a palindrome
Yeah, I have long learned that what needs to be compared are eco-systems, not grammar and semantics.
Yeah it's very possible I've used their site ... just not noticed.
In your screenshot the active tab is easily distinguished to me. It has a border around it and appears raised above the other tabs.
Back in the day, it was cheaper to make it there and ship it halfway around the world, I imagine. And so long as everything connected up, there wasn't a problem.
which is the stronger deterrent, a (large but recoverable) corporate fine or prison time for the decision makers? I'd wager the latter --- the former mainly punishes shareholders.
That’s the theory, but is it true in practice? How do you KNOW for certain that if they raised their prices by X, their revenue would fall by > X?
Habitica – An OSS habit building program which treats your life like a RPG
The first ToDo app that worked for me.

Clients for Android and iOS are availlable, or you can just use the website which is an SPA built with Vue.

Helps me strengthen habits i failed several times implementing. Made 2,5 apps obsolete for me.

And it is open source, so if you hit a bug you can fix it!

https://github.com/HabitRPG

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> FBI Director Chris Wray made no excuses and said the bureau had fired one of the agents who had falsified the details of Maroney's 2015 interview about the abuse.

I remember there was another FBI agent falsified evidence in Trump investigation. Found it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/kevin-cline...

Now Durham is going to charge a former federal prosecutor of making a false statement to the F.B.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/us/politics/durham-michae...

As citizens, we usually put great trust in high level law enforcement persons. It seems many of them do not deserve the trust.
OTOH executives can't hide behind the company as an entity.
I think you hit the nail on the head. The reasons Discord works well for you are unfortunately ... why it won't work for me. (I'm a late 30s male, but, I don't play video games. Nothing against games or gamers, I'm actually jealous! Just never found anything fun since Zelda and Tetris)

I loathe seeing something I'm interested in, something math/science or technology oriented, on Discord. Quoting, and agreeing with you, "I think it's way better to use a system I am already signed up for." I don't want to sign up for a friggin Discord, or a Telegram, or a Slack, or a Whatsapp, and who knows how many other variants of IRC, just to find information!! I have "account fatigue".

I already have a web browser!

Why should I create an account on some closed source platform (that will probably collapse in 5-10 years like all of them), and learn yet another style of markup and communication and lingo...

It's much better for this information to be on a webpage, possibly a web archive of a threaded email list, or a subreddit. I can read the thread, get my answer, then close the tab without carrying around a basket of one-off bullshit accounts I created to join a plethora of chat rooms. And when I leave, it's worth noting that the comments/questions are still on the page, and indexed by a search engine for those to find after I'm gone.

Compare with discord, where it's ephemeral and behind a walled garden. Even worse, I think proliferation of discord chat rooms might suck the useful people and information away from areas of the internet I can easily access, and hide them somewhere hard to get.

I'm appreciative of your comment and glad you made it. It's good to be reminded that kindred others enjoy the "other side", but remember it slices both ways. :)

"Discordization" makes it more convenient for you, but at the cost of making it less accessible for others. I suspect the bulk of your happiness with it derives from your early presence in the ecosystem, not because of any strengths of the platform itself.

A possibly better solution would be something that doesn't put up any barriers to entry for any of us. :)
To me your position would be defensible if you were talking about, say, a crashing bug in a phone app. For a security product with privileged network placement, it’s like getting salmonella from a restaurant and then being told that food safety is easy to forget when you’re busy.
And all are replaceable. The kernel is not.
Please watch the documentary "Pain Warriors" to see what is happening to people with Chronic Pain and the other side of the "Opioid Epidemic".

"Pain Warriors" is NOT a warm and fuzzy movie to watch. It is five stories, two being suicides one of which was my late wife.

It is also a good example of how today's Medical Establishment fails people. In Karen's case each doctor did what they thought was in her best interests, and I have no issue with any of them. Yet the system as a whole killed her.

"Pain Warriors" can be watched for free on Amazon Prime, and TubiTV. It is also on iTunes, Google Play and Veimo for international viewers. We are in the process of applying to get it on Netflix.

I receive no remuneration from the documentary. I'm simply trying to raise awareness of obscure conditions like Intracranial Hypotension due to Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks. As well as raise awareness of how broken the Medical Establishment can be if you have an obscure condition.
He's correct...when there is no pandemic, the best steps to take are to just be healthy...eat right, get plenty of sleep, and exercise.

Wearing a mask protects others from viruses the wearer has. That is why people in Asian countries have worn masks when they are sick (not to protect themselves from other people who are sick).
It was an interesting idea but I never really found much reason to use it over OHHLA.
Also comparable standardized test procedures. Those are needed for certification proposes.
Here is the video: https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1437601768217747457
It's funny how the dieselgate scandal was just a few years ago (and still ongoing) and now that same company's big and bold slogan is "VW way to zero - roadmap for climate neutral mobility". We live at a time that a bit of shame is easily forgotten.
Apple offers more ways to shop for the iPhone 13 lineup, iPad, and iPad mini
If the string is known to be in some specific alphabet (ie only lowercase a-z), you could use a 32-bit integer as an array of bools and toggle the individual bits between false and true. The final s.size() could be done with popcount(). Not even any sets needed.

(This type of stuff might fail the "overengineering" test that the grandparent comment talked about though.)
If I'm curious about a pop song it's a good site for annotations. At least as interesting as VH1's classic Pop Up Video.

For my more niche music tastes, the songs are never annotated or commented on even. A vision of annotating the planet seems unlikely when the music annotation site can't even annotate all the music genres.
This is a bit like saying all houses shouldn't have locks because they can be used to lock people inside against their will.
Why doesn't the rate of entrepreneurship increase with age?

I thought it DID increase with age. A quick search suggests that to be the case, but I stand by to be corrected.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/693467/rate-of-new-entre...
It would be pretty easy to offer a tax rebate for people who use a van for work.
FF's horrible bookmark interface is what has kept me away from it.
This experience was part of what triggered a real depression for me but I feel you. I found that reducing friction as much as possible helps. Nowadays, if I take a photo, its whith my phone. The quality isn't as high, but there is almost no commitment.
Lol what a load of crackpot nonsense, half those links are dead or photoshopped
Really? I’ve never found a good single source for discovering servers, only ever find expired links buried on old posts online
I do indeed index the web myself. Not the entire web, just a subset of it. The crawler quickly loses interest in javascript:y websites and only indexes at depth those websites that are simple. It also focuses on websites in English, Swedish and Latin and tries to identify and ignore the rest (best-effort).

You'd be surprised how much you can do with modern hardware if you are scrappy. The current index is about 17.7 million URLs. I've gone as far as 50 million and could probably double that if I really wanted to. The difficulty isn't having a small enough index, but rather having a relevant enough index, weeding out the link farms and stuff that just take space.

I only index N-grams of up to 4 words, carefully chosen to be useful. The search engine, right now, is backed by a 317 Gb reverse index and a 5.2 Gb dictionary.
They haven't. It's all, "because we damned well said so."

So when I do my exit interview I'll say, "Why? Because fuck you is why."
The study you cite is from 2015 when remote work was for people who chose it themselves. I don't think that the results will necessarily be the same if you scale it to everyone being remote.

Personally I can say that I'm far less productive when I'm remote and I can't wait to get back to the office - it seems like a better deal for me and for my employer. I would definitely look for another job if they said that we'll be always remote.
I ended up using services to upload from my computer in the end.
Technically low interest rates are a response to low inflation. The point is that the interest rate moderates saving (in the general sense of deferred consumption) and investment.

If there are plenty of investments then limited resources won't allow you to do all of them, otherwise we would have grown our economy all at once in a single year. The interest rate is compensation for deferring consumption. i.e. you are being compensated for the opportunity cost of not spending money on consumption. The interest rate goes up in response to the profitability of investments. If I can earn a 8% every year then I am willing to take a 5% loan. Inflation makes investments appear more profitable than they are so the interest rate has to be raised according to inflation.

Well, ignoring 2020 and 2021 inflation was really really low to begin with. It's been at 2% at most. When inflation is low, interest rates can't go much higher. The fact that interest rates have gone down all the way to 0% (especially in Europe and Japan) without causing any meaningful inflation tells us that the interest rate is still too high to attract borrowers.

If one really wants to know whether interest rates drive inflation one must precisely define the term "low interest rate" because it's all relative. It's relative to inflation, it's relative to investment profitability and relative to how many people are deferring consumption (aka saving). Just because 0% is a really low number doesn't mean it's low enough to cause inflation.

From what I have heard (i.e. I don't know if it's true), large businesses are being overfunded and small businesses underfunded with loans. It's entirely possible that some structural reason is preventing lending that is completely inelastic to the interest rate.
Not sure why this is down voted.

The last century has been painful for children as every venue of leadership has been used for abuse, the list is vastly longer than what you state.

Understanding why abusers seek out these positions is not difficult. The solution is more transparency of interactions at every position.
> A few outliers discovered that optimism in the face of pessimism has big rewards

It didn't pay off to be optimistic in 1930.

The government got into the business of subsidizing asset prices at all costs after The Great Depression, and especially after The Subprime Crisis in 2008.

I don't see this ever changing. But if it does, ignorant optimism probably won't be a good strategy anymore.
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> Wray said the case was presented twice for possible prosecution and declined, but he deferred to federal prosecutors to explain their reasoning.
I work in a FAANG and have a handful of German people on the team. They had to consent to have the former employee even called. Whether or not it was done , I don't know, but the new company can do it if the new hire consents to it. And the consent request was on a yes or yes basis.
That's exactly my point. The demand is far higher than the supply.
Good. Women should be armed. That way they can gutshoot conservative men who presume to try to control women's sex lives.

LGBTQ people should be armed, too, so they can kneecap fundies.

Everybody should be armed. The only good authoritarian is a dead authoritarian.
(Old man yells at cloud.)
How so? It's intuitive and super fast. I whish there were more websites with such a simple UI.
Oups, title wasn't an English translation of langues d'oïl!
so the problem is that vw purposefully lowered engine performance during the test. they could have done that on the road, and been within spec, but then their cars would have felt sluggish, so instead they just made their cars lie during the epa test
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Low interest rates increase the attractiveness of loans, they don't actually force people to borrow money.
This sounds like something Google would want to fix ASAP. Are they talking to Discord about the issue?
I’ve noticed this is very prevalent in industries and academia where there are very few spots with oceans of people trying to “make it” into said spots. For example, academia is absolutely insane how insular it is. The communities of experts in fields is so small, and mainly due to tradition in most cases professors pretty much dictate who succeeds because the communities and available positions are so small. Surprise surprise, after decades of this cutthroat rat race in academia, there are many assholes in power. Rinse and repeat for Condé Nast (old school media (newspapers, magazines) were exactly this gate keeping BS. Hollywood!! (Harvey Weinstein and co) and honestly we are starting to hear about it with startups and VC. I’m sure this is everywhere, but especially in these areas/industries where there are a few kingmakers and swathes of people willing to do anything to get ahead, the kingmakers take advantage of their power.
WireGuard for Windows now uses high speed kernel implementation
And when they’re young, a boy and girl in the same room is absolutely fine.
Sharing widely is great, but to develop as a photographer, it can be a lot more rewarding to take an in-person workshop class. In a well-run workshop, you can get thoughtful critiques, find fellow students whose opinions you value, and learn about your own priorities by contrast with the other students' styles. For me, it also helps keep the emphasis on developing your own craft -- just launching images into the internet can't help but feel like participating in an awful global popularity contest.
In my opinion, it's more meaningful to look at top X% as a function of age bracket. Any moderately successful American born in 1950 is probably a millionaire today.
Whoops, indeed, the intended target was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549925.
Here's another one that blew me away even though I come from a family of doctors and nurses:

Medical Students Practice Pelvic Exams on Anesthetized Women Without Consent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3tuV8TJHT8

(the video is a non-sensationalist review of literature on the topic)
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Probably. I wouldn't have done it without the comments, because I wanted feedback.