skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F and S sound similar over the phone, at least on POTS landlines, as they don't carry the higher frequencies (> 4 kHz) that distinguish the S from the F. Note that cat names tend to have S sounds.

POTS = Plain old telephony service is restricted to a narrow frequency range of 300–3,300 Hz, called the voiceband, which is much less than the human hearing range of 20–20,000 Hz [from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service ]
I didn't know! Linking for whoever would like to look into this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
Yes, I would imagine so
The same reason printers made by large manufacturers break all the time: printing is hard.
Something happened the past few years where DDG image search feels like a functionally better product than google image search. I think it's a combination of a simpler frontend, and maybe a simpler "keyword-based" search algorithm (vs google which feels more ML-leaning). Note: I can't prove this claim at all – just a general feeling I have as someone who uses image search a lot.
A step towards selling mileage as a service. Eli Goldratt would be proud.

Something like BMW's Car2Go is the logical endpoint. I'm curious why that effort seems stalled.

Maybe Tesla's move into auto insurance is the better path. Financially. Free capital, like Buffett did with Geico.
Apple doesn’t make it clear, but you can still get this without using the AppleID to log into your device.

When setting up, create a local account first. You’ll have an opportunity to later log into your AppleID for use with messages, FaceTime, App Store, etc.

You can also switch to a local sign in account after the fact. This may have changed in recent versions, but try going to system preferences and selecting to reset your password. You should see an option to switch to a local account for sign in, which will only impact the log in process. You’ll still be able to keep your id associated for all of the other benefits.
Are you people getting NAN going to fight for the ultimate prize? There can be only one...
>The single biggest issue I'm seeing in the original post is 40% of teachers being out. All the talk of being corralled into study hall is the fallout from this 40% figure.

The reason teachers are out is because of the absurd quarantine rules.

If you are fully vaccinated, but not boosted, you are required to quarantine for 5-10 days if you were exposed to someone with "confirmed or suspected COVID-19." At present the rate of boosters across the adult population is around 20%.

Can you imagine how often a teacher is exposed to someone with a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19? I'm not trashing on teachers specifically here. It's human nature.

TLDR... 40% of the teachers aren't out sick with COVID-19. The quarantine rules are taking a problem and turning it into a catastrophe.

It honestly seems as if our quarantine rules in NYC are based on best available data from April 2020.
Yikes, those are some really bad assumptions. It's been a decade since I've read the book, so skimming now I'm seeing an awful lot of hot air in the assumptions that went into it.

For example, the mythical, never built, "clean coal" shows up in most of the potential scenarios for the UK! That was an obvious stinker back when the book was written, but to simultaneously give the benefit of the doubt to charlatans, and then misestimate solar and wind so much is pretty unforgivable.

I think we perhaps give the book too much credit because it converted everything into understandable units, which is the primary utility of the book. But that utility papers over a lot of really bad judgement, so using it as a guide for sustainable energy leads to really bad conclusions.
If you actually work on a project of significant size I don't see how one can reason about code that's not encapsulated via classes.

I used to contribute to RunUO, an emulator for Ultima Online, and it's near the 1000000-SLOC level. There's too much going on, too much state, too many corner cases, to consider functional as an architecture.

Not every OOP project is full of FactoryFactorys.
This sounds fine from a technology perspective, but personally I wouldn't be comfortable building iOS apps professionally running osx in a VM - I'm fairly sure this violates the license which could turn into a big head ache later.

(Linux user who wishes there was an easy way to build iOS apps from Linux)
You clearly don't remember the https://www.dogpile.com/
The WTO most favoured nation rules don't allow that. Which is why nobody does it.
Not needed. Book about Common Lisp without CLOS does not make sense. BTW, in this book just 2 chapters out of 32 are devoted to OOP.
> This is under the assumption that each browser is being used with the default settings

That is the only valid assumption. The absolute vast majority of users will use any and all software under default settings.
Thieves Steal Multimillion-Dollar NFT Collection
I haven't used Confluence or BookStack in this case. Does these platforms have git like version controlling and collaboration in them? What about login and admin stuff? Also gitbased blog platform like architecture perhaps?

I am a big fan of journaling, documentation and having a knowledge hub. I am not sure what is out there for a monolithic yet shared and controllable knowledge hub.
Due to the HN interest in search engines, you may find useful the "Search Engines" entry on Curlie: https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_En...

And the "Specialized Search Engines" one: https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_En...
I tried to use it but I agree, it’s no where near as good as Google, I don’t like Google ad a company either but I use it because it’s better.
In another light, automatic security updates also gives Apple the ability to lock you out of your computer.
Use DDG daily.
I think the parent is conflating easiness with lack of complexity. Lack of complexity does make doing things less confusing if you have less options to choose from
In ohio we have pawpaw festivals! Even most of the people where they grow have never heard of them, because they don’t transport well enough to be sold, but those who have can’t wait for the season. I didn’t know they could grow in full shade though.
Same. These results are far better than I (with little 3D modeling experience) could generate.

A pro could do better, but a) do you have a pro available? and b) can they afford the time to model all of the item you want to throw into your mockup?
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Are DDG searches fulfilled by Bing?
It might be interesting to be able to tell the VM to resume into code for exactly N instructions or branches. I can see instrumentation/debugging tooling using this with N=1 for example.
Testing EVC, VVC, and Lcevc: How Do the Latest MPEG Codecs Stack Up?
I was like that on games. A half and a decade ago I switched over nes/snes/md/genesis/pce classics, roguelikes and text adventures. No bullshit mechanics, no addictions, no DLC. The 8/16 bit games are short enough to be enjoyed fully, roguelikes add random mechanics and calmness, and IF is like a good book but with far more interaction and rewarding puzzless.
I hack without a key and i get rebuffed in all my attempts.

I hack with my KNOWN keys (which gets scrambled) to get in.
It's a fair question. The amount of earthing and electrical safety required, when repairing EVs, is quite something.
Yeah, fair point. I'll try to improve that. Any idea on how you'd want to see it done?
To be clear, I am not advocating for nuclear energy. I don't have a preference for one non-fossil fuel energy source over an other. It is good to see that off-shore wind is becoming much more viable.

That slide deck repeats over and over that renewable prices have come down. That's great, but as I said in my original comment, it is hard to find actual calculations about this being implemented in a real country rather than breathless exhortations about the coming revolution.

That MacKay report is valuable for the energy distribution numbers - for example, it talks about the massive amount of panels and windfarms that would be required to meet demand and that this is unlikely to be feasible (notwithstanding the fact that the UK isn't very sunny). Maybe this isn't so true any more, but you seem to be saying that the UK should install an even more than massive amount of renewable capacity, along with various storage solutions to store the excess (presumably to deal with the intermittent nature of wind and solar). Maybe I don't have that right, but it seems to me to be overly optimistic. The recent energy crisis in Europe would seem to suggest that is the case in the medium term.
Thank goodness Microsoft hides file extensions by default. We wouldn't want these children learning!

Major /s
I looked up the oil change schedule for my car once. Same car and specs available in both the US and the UK (minor compliance issues like colour of indicators beside.) In the UK the manufacturer recommends changing every 20,000 miles or two years, in the US every 5,000 miles or six months. Same car!

I have never changed my oil in my car, despite having it over a year, and won't look to do it for another year yet. I think that would give most Americans a heart attack.

They've got an entire industry over there changing oil 4x more frequently than actually required.

Absolutely bizarre.
I'm not talking about a gaiters and ski masks situation. I'm talking about a normal winter day, walking down the street, wearing a normal standard cloth mask. It keeps my face warm and I like it. If you assume I or others are doing it because of covid, it just a reflection of your personal biases.

> Kids sitting indoors isolated from their peers in front of computer screens is not a good thing. You didn't comment on that at all.

In my experience as a teacher, some of my students flourished in this setting, others did not. It's not a good thing in some ways, it's a good thing in other ways (hence this article). If you want to see more of my thoughts on this see my other post I just wrote.
It’s time to admit that hybrid is not working
I don’t think Reddit and Twitter are the place to go for the views of the moderate majority. I’d like to see Islam and Christianity go away though.
We remember it, we forgot it, terrible name
I fail to see the point of these "bangs" versus resolving them locally (e.g. using firefox keyword bookmarks -- http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html). Specially if you are using DuckDuckGo which I guess it's for privacy reasons (rather than say quality of results), why would one proceed to send them many more queries than they ought to receive?

Just do these redirections locally and send them to the appropriate site directly, skipping yet another unnecessary and potentially-meddling middleman.

Most damning is !g where both DDG and G get to see your query , offering zero privacy benefit and double the risk.
I might be crazy, but reading this I imagine a blockchain based temporary democracy: full proof-of-whatever correct voting scheme choosing a temporary centralized “government” with measurable goals to move the system to eventual decentralization.
Write-only memory! In a very literal sense.
I used to say that too but 2016 is an example of the internet made manifest.

We tend to forget that children and young minds live on the internet now and they will be influenced by Reddit and Twitter posts. It's a real problem that I think we make for a more radical younger generation.
Fathom (YC W21) Is Hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Remote)
Interesting: https://i.imgur.com/Ahy0GtP.png

Any speculation on the causes of the plateau?
But it does apply to a lot, if not most, of the popular “crypto” out there.
Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination
The graph is averaged over 365 days by default. If you change it to 14 or 28 days you can see that their growth has stagnated since early 2021.
I found the Firefox extension "Search Filter" [1] to be immensely helpful at combating SEO spam. It allows you to define a list of URL patterns to remove from the search result list altogether, you can use mine as a start for your own if you wish [2].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt...

[2] https://pastebin.com/5MPSHv3w
I always reach for it too for some reason
MySQL doesn't have a UUID type, so naive implementations use (VAR)CHAR. Those in the know use BINARY(16) and MySQL 8 now has helper functions to convert to and from hex. Apparently MariaDB will soon have a native UUID type. PostgreSQL has had them from for years.
Any social features are appreciated, even though I don't use them.

Payments were probably a waste of engineering time, unless it somehow attracts users in oppressed countries.
This is a nonsequitur. Both variations apply to everyone, it's just that not publishing the financial information mainly helps the rich, while the poor suffer in subtle ways. This is about which rights we grant, not to whom.
No, no. It must be the intentional paper wasting because corporations are intrinsically evil, and so will choose evil solutions even if they are not profitable.
People tend to dislike companies that are popular/successful in many sectors at the same time and they mistake popularity with monopoly. Do a lot of people are "Apple-mad"? Yes, they are. They would buy anything with Apple logo on it no matter the price even if there are better alternatives available burt that doesnt mean Apple is monopolistic, as long as there is a choice. You can buy Android mobile phone, listen to your music on Spotify with Cambridge Audio headphones on, buy Yamaha speaker for your house, watch Netflix on Lenovo laptop with Ubuntu on it if you want.
The tweet references a German tweet... anyone have the actual instructions from Canon, in English? (I don't have a Canon printer, I'm just curious).
28 or 90 day average shows essentially the same thing but with less noise. Showing a 365 day average is actually good for the casual observer to remove holiday/seasonal fluctuations and show YoY growth.
I read the proposal. It argues for making the accelerator "heavier" when over the speed limit. For safety (and political) reasons the driver will have full control over the throttle at all times.
Seems broken to me too. I put in 1926 for my 96-year-old dad and it says 61% remaining. Which would be great, but I don't expect him to live to 246 (of which 39% lived so far would equal 96).

A calculator which is much easier for me to use and gives more reasonable results is https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/population/longevity.html Its inputs are gender and date of birth. Gender has a big effect on life expectancy. This one shows 2.7 years left and a total estimated lifespan of 98.7 years. By this calculation he has about 3% of his life remaining.
It's only useless if your goal is to have an archival copy of the entire social network. That isn't the goal for most social networks. The build around communities and grow/evolve over time.
Countries well known for their fair democracies right?
I would have joined that meetup for sure!
Also in France.
duck.com works as well.
The interviews had ridiculous questions like “why is a manhole cover round?”

That was always one of the worst standard brain-teaser questions because so many people who asked it didn't know the correct answer.

Hint: If your answer was that a circular cover is the only shape that can't fall down the matching hole, everything you think you know about the world is wrong and the term you're looking for is "curve of constant width".

The real answer is because manhole covers are mass produced and manufacturing circular ones is usually easier and cheaper than the alternatives.
Infohazard comes to mind...

As compelling as that tech would be, the risks are crazy!
Atomic habits: just show up to the gym or start running. If you can’t run 5 miles run 1. Can you force yourself to run 1 mile every day?

Also make accomplishing your goals as easy as possible. You don’t have to get up at 4:30 to run or workout. If you have cravings for drinking or smoking or drugs, watch TV or play video games to distract yourself.

Once you start running, you have to deliberately choose to stop. To skip a day all you have to do is not choose to run. Humans have inertia, we naturally don’t make choices = starting and habits is hard.

I think attributing habits to willpower makes it harder for people to start, because they fear they’ll have to put in a lot of willpower and suffering in order to succeed. Effort comes naturally and it’s a means to an end - when you’re running to catch a train you don’t think about how hard you’re running.
Read "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" by Neal Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell
On mobile, there is a “Share Feedback” in the hamburger menu; on desktop, there is an almost invisible “Share Feedback” button in the bottom-right corner which disappears if your screen isn’t wide enough. (It seems to me like they don’t quite understand how responsive design is supposed to work, they have some breakpoints but the layout breaks when the window gets narrow, and they load a separate layout for mobile apparently based on UA.)

Personally I haven’t had much success at all submitting feedback. I guess that it is hard when you have so much traffic, but whatever they are doing really doesn’t seem to be working right now.

`!fedex` has been broken for months because FedEx changed their tracking URL. I submitted feedback using the specific form they created for situations like this, and it is still broken.

When you get bad results and know which result should’ve been at the top, there is no way to say what page you expected to see but didn’t, unless you choose “Other” and write it in the box, but I suspect that all goes into a black hole too. Not quite sure what the solution is here since obviously they want their results to not be bad but it’s not so simple as hand-tweaking one query until it’s better.
There's is good versionimg in confluence, and also good search. The editor is also nice (improved a lot since a few years ago). Compared to the mess that is JIRA, I actually like confluence.
How about the US?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-10/mobile/trends-in-elec...

Of particular note is the graph showing prices in areas heavily reliant on coal, vs those with a high renewable usage.

Conclusion:

> Regions with higher use of natural gas and renewable fuel for electric power generation, in particular hydroelectric power, have seen prices rise more slowly than prices in regions that have predominantly used coal. Although it is not possible to attribute the differences in the retail price development solely to fuel mix, the significant role that capacity investment and fuel costs play in determining distribution rates suggests that at least part of the variation between these regions is explained by capacity shifts in the industry.
Mostly yes, but also Yandex, Wikipedia, etc. But for reference the https://mojeek.com is actually an independent search engine, with own index and crawler.
Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning in US. The world is made up of nearly 7.8 Billion people. ~4.5B Smartphone users, ~1.1B iOS users. The rest are 95%+ Android ( Both Google and China ) and KaiOS.
Largest Pumped-Hydro Facility in World Turns on in China
HP is just awful. I will never buy from them. I bought a Samsung laser printer assuming they were less awful, but now support for Samsung printers is handled by HP.

My next printer is going to be Brother; that seems to be the only honest printer manufacturer out there.
> One problem with film reviews is that they are often so concerned with evaluating the quality of a movie that they don’t get chance to seriously discuss the ideas it raises.

Perhaps it is lost on the author just how pretentious it is to disregard the quality of a movie just because the material pushes ideas deemed morally righteous.

I'm guessing the author is also the type of person to admonish consumers of comedy for not enjoying the material of woke comedians.
I did a Win10 install last night, the local account button has been removed. You also can’t go back to the screen where you connect to the internet and undo it. Luckily this was on a laptop so I was able to use the Fn key to kill the wireless. Only then did the installer let me proceed with a local account. I hate the way computing is headed…
I still don't get what I want out of DDG, but every time google hits me with their fucking "train my ML with this select the americanism please" for no good reason BS I go straight to DDG.
If we want to have this discussion, we should have it holistically.

Negative mental health outcomes for children don't fall neatly into regularly discussed statistics. Poor educational outcomes don't fall neatly into regularly discussed statistics.

Suicide attempts among young persons aged 12-25 have risen 30-50% during the pandemic. An order of magnitude more children aged 5-18 will attempt suicide or die from suicide than will have died from Covid-19.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
Where would I put this file on my Firefox install ?
Because apart from this, MacOS is an excellent operating system that "just works" for most people, and Apple's hardware is excellent.
This looks really nice.

Atlassian did not consider small businesses with regulatory requirements when it decided to push everyone to the cloud. Atlassian's cloud cannot ever meet my regulatory requirements, by 2024 I need to replace Confluence. There is no way I can pay for the cost of the Data Center version of Confluence you'll be able to self-host, over $20K/year to self-host Confluence is a non-starter.

Does BookStack index uploaded files for search? If so, what formats does it support?

Can pages (or books) be exported in common formats?

Any plans to support Postgres in the future?
I understand and agree with that. Pascal’s Wager is the extreme example: unlimited upside makes the likelihood irrelevant.
What do you mean, forget? The whole point of the OP was that they are aware of how much time learning takes in real life, otherwise it wouldn't be a problem to solve.
This is objectively wrong. It's not 'hyperbole and hysterics', it's the fact that people simply cannot work when sick. Every discussion around covid, about returning to work, about trying to return to normalcy ignores that even among people that are vaccinated covid can and does still hit you hard and can prevent you from working anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Especially if it spreads to other family members that you then also have to take care of.

The way that it spreads like wildfire is precisely the issue because there are multiple school systems where half or more of teachers are out or unable to teach due to being sick. If your solution is to force them to work then you're going to get poorly ran classrooms at best and at worst you're going to see the next 'Great Resignation' but this time among teachers.

I have multiple friends in the schooling system and this is exactly what's happening.
Sorry but this isn’t “science”. The video did not mention any study done where participants in the Middle East were divided into two groups; those who regularly fast during ramadan and those who don’t.
Usually non-military satellites max out at 1 pixel per 30 cm, so the resolution will most likely be too bad to decide if it's a Tesla or not.
Tesla's have a 2 year maintenance cycle. They replace the brake fluid, the cabin air filter and do an inspection.
Google tech talk by the book author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NO83wZVT0A&t=79s
Scale problem? How to do that for 4B sites?