skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practice. Use the language socially and casually. If you don't have an outlet for that, consider hiring a tutor. You're probably at the point where you want someone with some experience with more advanced (near-fluent) students. Do the entire lesson in English.

Something like a guided conversation where they move you through some topics in a structured discussion. Could be about English grammar, or the daily news, or some literature, or just popular culture. Whatever you like. They will ask questions about what you've been talking about, ask you to restate what they said, or ask questions about how you feel about the topic. Repeating this kind of exercise regularly can be very effective.

(And if your tutor doesn't correct your word choices and pronunciation almost constantly, you probably need a new tutor.)
I think that's more of a symptom in this case. The problem is that the writer and, likely, her husband are driven by ego. Everything about the first few paragraphs screams, I'm putting on all sorts of fronts (bc I think I'm being smart/cool).

If you feed your ego ahead of your soul, you won't know what you really want/need, and if you don't know what you want/need, how is anyone else supposed to satisfy you in any sustainable fashion?

The good news is that relationships can help you develop as a person. You should be growing together and on your own. If you care for someone and feel you're failing them in some way, it should drive you towards self-examination, which should spur new perspectives and development.

I would guess that you and your wife are less driven by ego than most. You probably don't reach a place where you're self-giving without at least corraling your ego. You may be at a point where you take it as a given.

To be clear, everything in your post is good. I just think it's Step 2, rather than Step 1.
NPR ("Science" Friday) ran a segment on a nuclear plant decommission the other day. All fear mongering and swooning over the "waste" issues. No mention of the dire need to roll out new nuclear plants (for clean energy!) that run on...nuclear waste.

I was appalled but not surprised. I have seen much better science coverage on YouTube by indie content producers.
One thing we can learn from Fukushima and Chernobyl: humans are more dangerous to wildlife than nuclear accidents.
We imagined a future with flying cars, but today, the notion of wasting energy to overcome gravity, when the normal force from a road could do that for free, seems wasteful in a world struggling to meet its energy needs without emitting more carbon dioxide - and the dream of flying cars seems somewhat antiquated as a result.

We didn't get that future (yet at least), but we got supercomputers in our pockets instead. The point is, trying to predict the future is hard, not because of a lack of imagination, but because technologies don't just have to be "neat and possible", they have to be feasible and compelling enough to justify the economics of commoditization before they can be deployed at scale. They don't exist in a vacuum, they have to make sense in the world in which they show up.

I wonder if the metaverse will turn out similarly to the flying cars - "neat and possible", but not really compelling enough to justify the expense of making it happen at scale? Facebook is making inroads in the commoditization of VR hardware, but does the metaverse itself solve any problem that normal people care about today? Or does it add something compelling that we will turn out to really like? (like how smartphones made the personal computer truly personal, and allows us access to online services at a moment's notice). Maybe there'll be a "killer app" for the metaverse, maybe not.

The point is, it's dangerous for Facebook to assume they know what the end goal is for a new product category, just because they read about it in sci-fi books, and it might lead them to ignore the reality of what market is actually there. OTOH it also means that while FB is busy turning their walled garden 3-dimensional, there might be room for other players to create a related product that more closely aligns with what the world is actually ready for.
Why would they have any loyalty towards wikileaks? What is a useful idiot that has outlived it's usefulness?
Probably because what most people call "love" is really just the first stage of it, and if it has not been replaced by something deeper (i.e. respect) by the time the initial love fades, then it wasn't love but infatuation - or, more precisely passion was not nurtured carefully enough to become respect, and so it was just an infatuation.

In short, it would be absurd to mix up infatuation with love.
I'd never found my workplace very social. Already back in the office but we're still video calling
I won't say there's something "wrong" about someone who feels comfortable to be permanently in so rootless an existence

I will suggest that they're way out on the tail of the distribution, and their experience of the lifestyle is unlikely to be a good guide for a randomly selected other human.
>Hype, while not always okay, isn't fraud.

There is a legal concept of “theft by false promises” though. I don’t know where the line is drawn between that and “hype”.
This effort seems to be hosted in Australia, there is another similar project (albeit a magazine rather than personal website) that is run from Barcelona: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

It would interesting to see similar efforts but from locations where the sun is less prominent, although I don't know how feasible that would actually be, guess it would depend on the size of the battery installation to avoid the fluctuations. Also projects powered by alternative means (wind and hydro comes to mind) would be awesome to see.
Until it decides you must have this new update and reboots your machine at 2am for you
The Open Technology Fund is one of the most underrated government agencies out there.
He does seem very aggressive in his attempts to get this into as many popular packages (and/or onto as many machines) as he can in the shortest amount of time.

According to the original project's author, he even silently removed loads of edge case handlers until he was called out on it [0]. That seems to have been a really quick and dirty tactic to get his performance numbers up.

My spidey senses are tingling too.

[0] https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/pull/14#issuecomment-927152...
Belgium does that? There is a sort of property tax (cadastre I think), but it’s not very high. And rent income is tax free
oh ok, missed that little wrinkle, but its there now at least
What's the difference between Chinese patriots and American patriots?

Chinese patriots think their government is the best. American patriots know that their government is the worst.

The American patriots are clearly less delusional.
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Big difference between life expectancy (which is an average including child mortality) and life span once people reach adulthood.

> Those records show that child mortality remained high. But if a man got to the age of 21 and didn’t die by accident, violence or poison, he could be expected to live almost as long as men today: from 1200 to 1745, 21-year-olds would reach an average age of anywhere between 62 and 70 years – except for the 14th Century, when the bubonic plague cut life expectancy to a paltry 45.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-anc...
And somewhere in between those two is "don't be in the wrong place when we are rounding up people we don't like in a country we just invaded, else you might just spend 15 years in an island prison without charge, representation, or compensation."

Perhaps you would prefer to retry this by writing down your inalienable principles.
[1] comes to mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
what.cd was the high point IMO
I can see the need for a tenure requirement. How do people ask questions at your company?
They have a pretty useless customer service.
Once I could not check in as the host did not show up and I was waiting in the rain outside for hours. I contacted Airbnb support and they responded in exactly two weeks asking how they can help. When I pointed out that they are late by two weeks they blamed it on Covid.
Also a good formulation. It's amazing how little has been written on the subject (of what logic is.)
Neo-Nazis are still on Facebook. And they’re making money
This assumes that your shopping needs can only be met by shopping malls.

I do all my daily shopping in local shops, I have 5 or 6 in walking distance, 20+ in bicycle distance. The last time I went to a mall was for a specific offer in a specific specialty store, which is certainly not a daily activity.

It's a matter of will and not killing off in-town shopping.
> Stopping to think is exactly what might prevent this situation but it’s also excruciatingly difficult once there

Which is exactly the reason to stop and think. Even during most damaging outages I took part in there was never a situation where I couldn't stop and reassess what is going on.

> I think that applies as a pilot too.

Most pilots will never meet a situation like that. But the training is aimed to prepare pilots to handle even worst possible situation where there isn't time to think and it is not just the choice of the pilot -- the the conscious part of human brain isn't able to process stuff that fast.

I personally do not fly but I sail. To become a skipper you must learn to handle your boat and manage your crew. Full HALF of the training is devoted to just one maneuver, which is man over board situation.

Yes, I repeat, half of the training is so that you can make a simple loop with your yacht and come back to rest just by the person that fell into water.

There is lots of stuff to be done during that maneuver. On the type of yacht that I sail you will have to throw the person something floating, put MoB marker on your navigation, keep an eye on the person in water, manage the crew, prepare the deck for recovery, keep an eye on your boat so that you don't screw the maneuver, recognize the exact direction from which the wind blows so you know where you want to end up in relation to the person and execute complicated maneuver that will include at least one tack. Then you drop your sails at just the right moment so that the wind will slow down your boat as it comes to rest. During that time somebody would also be starting the engine to complete the maneuver.

On a good day it takes about 10-20s for me with a crew that has at least been trained a little bit, over 20s on a worse day.

There is absolutely no time to think then, you just go off "autopilot".

But this is extremely rare, in most situations in life even in distress it is good to stop and think.

I made it a point with my teams, whenever we have particularly stressful situation (like overruning an important project or an outage) to have a regular meeting devoted solely to stopping and thinking. Just to counteract the natural tendency of people to run on autopilot.
Mellium.im/XMPP (Go XMPP library) version v0.20.0
Very useful. Just one thing: You should reduce the long tail and filter out all books which have been mentioned in only one comment. I think these books are not representative for hackernews.
Bailing out the private sector every time they go bust due to incompetence won’t solve the problem (in this case, problem of management and security incompetence).
Update: scratch that, StoneQuest is the best so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXm5JWys55o
The entire conversation is about using investments to create income, of which substantial portions must be disbursed annually. The original article says that their investments were deployed so that "7% earns me $31.5k per year.".
My Microsoft desktop restarts itself overnight to install updates no matter what registry settings I change.

I’ve lost a lot of work this way.

Later this year, I will buy the 2021 Macbook, and put Linux on the desktop. I can’t wait!
> In other words when correctly and honestly called out for sprouting bullshit Musk goes fully delusional in the nastiest way possible.

It's called narcissistic injury, a behavior associated with narcissistic personality disorder.
> After using a license that explicitly allows others to take their work, it's suprising the author thinks that someone "pirated" their work.

He stripped the license when he created his fork. (Only adding it after the thread on Twitter became actively noticed).

How is that _not_ pirating?
I think C (and later C++) made things unwieldy harder.

Sure, you needed a higher-level ASM and C filled that space, but there was a void between that and the (very) high level languages like BASIC, bash/awk etc that took some time to be adequately filled (and maybe even today isn't)
Archaeology. The use of scientific methods to determine facts. Facts are then used for large swathes of conjecture.
This is excellent.

I just want to point out though that the submitted URL is not a permalink. For now it's nice that it means all installments in this blog post 'series' are listed one after the other, but it won't make sense once there are any future posts that may have nothing to do with stools or Egypt.

Here's the first post permalink:
https://woodenfossils.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/building-a-th...

Also,

> Geoffrey Killen made a very useful observation about EA2476 on pg 44 of Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture “Some of these (lattice braces) are tenoned into mortises in the horizontal elements while others are simply wedged into position.” I’m not sure exactly what he meant by “wedged” in this instance but it got me thinking…

I would read that as meaning no joinery - put in at a relaxed angle and then biffed into position ('wedged') a sort of press fit so that it's held there by its own compression.

TFA author's take on it (the 'stub tenon') seems better though.
FSD regularly drives me on highways for hours without intervention…pretty amazing stuff considering where we were 5 years ago…say what you will about it, it’s not vaporware and gets better every update
Probably loaded with trackers and backed by the stellar support that Paypal is famous for.
This is a feature not everyone stumbles upon, but if you follow the 2nd link called “past” on the page, the one under the headline, it performs a search for you for previous discussions.

Dang has his own tool, but it’s handy when he hasn’t done the search yet.

(The 1st such link, at the very top, emulates previous days’ front page.)
> “I don’t think there’s such a thing as cool or uncool architecture– there’s just architecture that works”....

Indeed, great point.
Everything in the npm ecosystem pretty much has to be MIT, or none of it would work.

You could poison most of the web dev ecosystem by changing the license on a handful of packages to GPL...
Yip, their is a rogueish honour to admitting that they were hostages and getting it over with without delay or fuss.

Instead the USA has to go through all this undignified confession theatre; its beneath a country with as proud a history as theirs.
The two biggest complaints I've seen:

It's incredibly bug-filled. Not in the sense of, "Oh, this is crashy garbage!" like is par for the course in this space of software, but in the sense of "Wow, there are literal functionality-breaking bugs for nearly every user, albeit consistently different ones for each user on the same hardware."

It's hollow. A lack of anything to do may not seem like a big deal, but the only things that people seem to like about it have often been directly cloned from the product tyleo mentioned, and aside from it there's roughly nothing there or worse, downright strange things. It isn't aided by the fact that the design is intentionally more constrained than most of its competitors.

There are a bunch of major issues, but the main thing is that it somehow manages to have nothing going for it in a field where none of the competitors are all that good to begin with.

Second Life, while being a vastly different thing and not particularly comparable, allows open-source clients. That's pretty big!
I bought a lot such files on various web pages. I am not sure what your question is. Good point re Kindle/Spotify.
I suspect that marriage as we know it was built for an agricultural society. We are (mostly) not that any more, and the “until death we part” doesn’t make as much sense as it did. Marriage will change into something else, we just don’t know what that will be yet.
We're never going to achieve perfect self-driving cars, and that's okay. Waiting for perfection wouldn't be the prudent option, anyway. As soon as self-driving cars are better than the average human, using them becomes a moral imperative, because not using them would result in a net loss of human life.
I had to look it up, since I live in the center, but this is what we have.

The parking is free and the bus fee is € 6 for two-way to the center, and addtionally for all lines in the city within an hour of parking or leaving.
Maybe it varies by company but at every place I’ve worked the company sells a percentage of the vested RSU’s to cover tax liability so you’re left with post-tax shares. In my mind I agree it’s better to sell since there’s no tax advantage to holding and really just lots of downside potential.

Plus holding large amounts of your net worth in your company’s stock where you can only sell it at certain times of years doesn’t seem like a great plan.

ISO’s are different of course. It could indeed make a lot of sense to not exercise them for tax purposes.
Looks like a nice framework, and very similar to Django in its approach, which is quite good in my opinion.

I have an upcoming project that I was going to build in Angular + NestJS, but I might take a look at this as it would be a simpler solution overall.
Many times i've dabbled with recreating it, but with a more modern approach. Is anybody out there also interested in this?
What about manufacturers and the like?

Or companies that don't use laptops for everyone and don't want to double up on equipment?

And people that don't have suitable work from home spaces?
> Surely nobody sane would never trust his word on anything for any purpose ever again after that display.

TSLA is one of the most widely held retail stocks. Why do you think this is? Might you be assigning too much weight to this?
I hate to be that guy, but the Marshall Plan only lasted 4 years and primarily benefited the UK, France and Germany (in that order) among other European nations. Its effect was estimated to be an increase in GDP growth of less than 0.5%. The US contributed the equivalent of $200 billion over the course of those four years.

Note that they didn't simply dump money in Europe, the amount refers to goods and services (including shipping those goods to Europe and shipping exports back to the US). The US effectively provided European governments with goods that those governments could then sell to local companies. In Germany this was done under the presumption that the revenue would later have to be repaid to the US, though the share to be repaid was later drastically cut by the US.

The biggest reason Germany benefited more from the Marshall plan than other European countries is that they expected having to repay it fully and thus were able to pay off the loans that were part of the Marshall Plan decades before other countries. But even so the overall effect has been overstated in the past and is not considered to be crucial to the economic development of Germany or Europe in general after WW2.

Most of the "aid" after the Marshall Plan ended (because the US got involved in the Korean War and thus not interested in extending the program) went towards building European militaries and suppressing communism.

While I think it's an exaggeration, there's some truth to modern critics of the plan saying that it mostly served for the US to get rid of excess production (as the US government paid its local companies in US dollars the treasury generated as part of the Plan) and stabilizing its currency (because the goods were then bought by European companies in their local currency from their own governments rather than in US dollars from the US companies directly) while also combatting the potential for a rise of communism and unifying Western Europe as an ally to the US in the Cold War.
He says he was inspired by https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/.
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But isn't then the "aquired taste" linked to that specific sensory input? So even though your brain likes substance x in the new coffee - it cannot connect it when drinking something that tastes different on first try, even though might have the same effect.
> core of science is repeatability

It is indeed. But with experiments and theories getting ever more complex and difficult to verify [1], we are edging towards just having to believe what we are told. Verifying Newton's theory of gravity was relatively simple, just throw stuff from your balcony and verify that s = 1/2 g * t^2!

So we are deep inside the second Middle Ages, where the priesthood tells us what to believe and how to behave, without us having any chance of verifying their claims.

I greatly wonder if and how humanity will get out of this one, and what a second Age of Enlightenment would look like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
I don't know about "priests." I have recently seen crowds of rock dumb idiots gathered outside of scientists' homes threatening their life and their family's lives.

I don't think priests ever had to worry about the rock dumb laiety showing up with pitch forks.
At some point the evidence crosses the line of "beyond all reasonable doubt" and SARS-CoV-2 itself becomes the proof.

The virus was already looking suspiciously engineered, in ways that you wouldn't expect from natural evolution. It appeared right next to a lab doing virus work. Now there's a document saying they wanted to engineer a CoV in the exact same way that SARS-CoV-2 appears to have been changed. The question is not "did they get funding to do the work" at this point but rather "who funded it" (assuming it needed explicit funding in the end and wasn't simply creamed off another project).
To be clear Noam Chomsky would never agree with people ruling over each other with violence; he’s an anarchist, the whole point of his philosophy is that power should always be questioned. His critique of imperialism is that it’s another form of rule by violence.
And I think this is one of the reasons we are seeing so many companies racing to create a commercially viable eVTOL (electric - vertical take-off & landing) product. To me, this transport system only seems to be a solution to the problem mentioned above. I can't see them ever being commercially viable (FAA regulation, power density, etc.) And yet there are a lot of companies trying to make them a reality when really the cities they have renders of with their flashy electric vehicle flying over just need better public transport systems.
Javascript is the opposite of a batteries-included language, so there is and has been an enormous amount of wasted effort duplicating functionality that should have been in a standard library.
> The reanimation of the pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology at scale through computer vision and machine learning is a matter of urgent concern.

When a computer can accurately predict (90%~) sexuality, criminal proclivity etc through facial features then what exactly is 'pseudoscience' about it?

Sure it can and will be abused but that doesn't mean to ignore it or label it as 'pseudo' simply because it hurts your fee-fees.
In 2016 Tesla falsely claimed that all Tesla vehicles being produced had the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

It doesn't seem to have hurt Tesla so far. People are still spending money on the undelivered promise of full self driving.