skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is also able to create sub titles. So, people will have a choice. Many people prefer subtitles.

Dubbing movies is common in big countries where the locals speak nothing else than their own language. Here in Germany, you have to pay attention if you go to the cinema but they do have original language movies as well. Lots of Germans go to see those instead of the badly dubbed versions. I tossed out my TV ages ago because I don't speak German very well and don't like watching dubbed content. Especially if that content is originally in English which I actually can understand.

One annoyance with the local netflix here is that while they have most content with the original sound track, they often swap out a lot of the text in these movies with German text. E.g. movie fragments showing a news paper or somebody's text messages, or the famous rolling text in star wars. And of course a lot of American movies or series sometimes feature people not speaking English. Netflix solves this by offering German sub titles. And sometimes those are actually baked into the movie.

Par of the issue is that there's a big dubbing industry that is incentivized to keep on dubbing everything whether people like it or not. AI will decimate how profitable that business is.
Here's another you might like: https://www.zettlr.com/
It was the same thing when I was a kid in the 90's and I was bored out of my mind at school, completely and utterly un-challenged. I can barely even put into words how bitter I got about being dragged through such a system. There was no such thing as "advanced" classes, and the only so-called advanced stuff I ever did was outside of school in special programs, which I'm pretty sure my parents had to pay for me to participate in. It was a parent-created/run organization.

Anyway, to answer your query, my belief after decades of observing the education system here (BC, Canada) is, politicians and decision-makers basically feel that smart kids have a huge advantage and they don't need the help. They will succeed and be useful members of society whether we leave them for dead or help them thrive. So... the dollars can be allocated to "those who really need it". I have heard this overall sentiment shared over and over and over, as far back as when my parents and I attended city council meetings appealing for ANY sort of "gifted" program implementation, even a tiny hint of one. The answer was always "find a private school", "I heard there's this virtual school you can attend on the computer", "we'll think about it", etc. I honestly don't see this changing anytime soon.

I could say way more on the subject but didn't feel like posting much more of such a personal topic. Happy to chat about it more with whoever, though.
I'm with you on this. My personal definition of an engineer involves designing systems that can potentially kill humans or other creatures.

If you design pacemaker software, you're an engineer. If you build RESTful websites, you're not. I say that as someone who builds RESTful websites.

The reason engineers need difficult certification exams is, so they don't destroy lives or expensive property.

There was a programming PE (USA) at some point, but it was closed.
It's not dead. US gov sites do not represent the entire web.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this shows that in the last 90 days 5.06 billion visits came from 31.3% Windows while 1.1% were from GNU/Linux. If we assume that both groups visit government websites equally often, then for every GNU/Linux user there exist (31.3/1.1) = 28.5 Windows users. Scary stuff.
You'd probably change your mind as soon as you'd receive a devastating diagnosis, such as parkinson's.

if you knew, that nicotine could at least potentially arrest the progression, how sick would you need to get before you would try nicotine patches?

would you rather wait until you are unable to walk, talk, eat, wear adult diapers, but never ever attempt anything on your own?

"clinical recommendation" is nothing more than an OPINION, not some eternal dogma to be venerated.

Marijuana is being used medicinally en masse in many countries today. Still not a "clinical recommendation" in the US, and even an absolutely illegal drug with apparently no known medicinal use, but somehow thousands of epileptic kids manage to control their disease with Charlotte's Webb.

Strange how official "recommendation" can be total lies, no?
What's interesting about this is the conscious decision to throw money at the government IT problem. Meaning, services like AWS Lambda get very, very expensive at scale. Nationwide government-scale is probably pretty high scale, and I shudder to think what the AWS bill would be.

Yet, most government IT projects run very high costs to begin with anyway. Indeed, for all we know, they probably saved money, even with the high costs of running this at scale on Lambda. And it'll be worth it if the service is actually functional.

Just interesting to think about the cost of introducing stability as a standard before eventually the pendulum will swing back and get people to think about cost optimization.
You get most freedom as a solo developer, but most jobs involve teams, otherwise freelancing.

You could search for 'greenfields' in job ads, it's a common keyword for 'new systems' instead of existing large systems.
A reduction in overall ambient anxiety is definitely a worthy goal for anyone. Do you feel like this might be partially due to the fact that being on your phone less gave you less access over all time to be exposed to the news?
And? Small percentage bothers to use, and it’s not foolproof on inappropriateness. They were caught surveilling kids also.
Yeah, except majority of those were nit legitimate questions. They were partisanship or other immediate political goal motivated bullshit.
Turning off all phone notifications except for messages from close people.

Having several in-progress books I’m reading at once. Didn’t read much before, now about two books a month.

Moving from an apartment where my desk had a view of a parking lot, to a house with a river view. Thought it’d be nice only temporarily, but a year later I still feel happier and more motivated.

Stopping ambien use. I realized it’s better to sleep when I’m actually sleepy and wake up late rather than wake up early but feel depressed and brain-foggy.

Tracking my work hours but not pomodoro-style, but by setting tiny tasks and seeing how fast I can complete them. Aiming low with total time, defining spending 3 hours per day spent in actual deep concentrated work on the most important task a successful day.
This. Even if something gets „mass-produced“, it doesn't mean it has to be bad. It just won't be the cheapest product on the market any longer.
> If we assume that both groups visit government websites equally often

My pattern matching experience from real life tells me that this is unlikely....
Well, it hasn't had anyone implementing something like Rails - it's easy to underestimate the importance of making a really simple onramp for beginners. I think there's a lot to be said for gradual sustainable growth though; OCaml isn't hyped, but we're quietly seeing more and more of it.
>rents in the city where I live are up 11% in the past year. did the cost of repairs and inspections increase by that much?

It increased much more, even the official inflation is 7% over 2021.
RFC6979 has a fairly convoluted design (and poor performance, requiring 12 invocations of the compression function when implemented with sha2 for a 256-bit curve) specifically so that it is actually a FIPS compliant DRBG with its initialization parameters set in a particular standard permitted way, so as to result in a derandomized nonce.

While I not a FIPS certification expert by any means, it was intended that implementations could implement RFC6979 without breaking the standard by simply using a standard allowed DRBG in the right way.

> EdDSA is designed to be harder to screw up an implementation of, by construction.

That's the marketing claim at least. It's debatable. Some of its choices make it easier to screw up, and widespread implementations of it have also been wrong in the varrious ways it was intended to address. It's a good idea to try, at least, for sure.

I think nonce security in particular is not at all the best example since modern ECDSA implementations are secure against in that respect. I'm also aware of some systems which have had grave security flaws because they believed the EdDSA claim of a deterministic signature meant that it was a unique signature. The promotion of EdDSA itself as magic pixie dust creates vulnerabilities.

There is just no replacement for understanding. :)
The economy hasn't been good anytime recently until 2019 or so. Unemployment consistently improved over time far past any mainline economists predicted, especially the Larry Summers types who ran the 2010 recovery. Maybe they should've lowered the rates then so they could raise it later - they certainly didn't do enough stimulus.

There are weak models behind all of this at best; "cheap money and fiscal discipline" isn't even a model, just moralizing, but the actual arguments about fiscal policy use things like "potential output", which has assumptions like "the economy will overheat if black people have under 10% unemployment".

https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/racism-skews-our-beli...

As for current inflation, it's not yet enough to ruin the Fed's decades long record of undershooting the 2% target, but it is caused by an ongoing natural disaster and not money printing. So to fix it, you can try fixing the natural disaster…
I first read Ubik while on a coach (next to the loo) driving down from Edinburgh to London whilst suffering from from sleep deprivation and travel sickness - it made a lot of sense to me at the time! Almost as much as reading the Illuminatus trilogy when I was bed-ridden with a terrible dose of flu!

But seriously, Ubik is a great book - one of Dick's best.
Yeah, it's indoctrination into the 9-5 worker mindset, with a touch of "education" on the side. Parents who are concerned about their kids' all-so-important education being hampered by COVID-related school closures are seriously misled, unless they happen to have the most amazing schools on the continent. Even people I know who work in public education agree it's more daycare than actual education.
It means that Edge is less used within Mobile device type.
Nothing wrong with posting your stuff on your own feed/group/list, but it is good practice to not spam external ones or to do so only rarely.
> >You'll look back on the plague years, and remember them as the calm before the storm.

> There's zero evidence this will be true. If anything we'll see this as the dawn of chasing fascism out of the country and a rise of class consciousness for workers...and how wealth disparity hurts us all.

When Russia and China had a "dawn of chasing fascism out of the country and a rise of class consciousness for workers and how wealth disparity hurts us all," that was "the calm before the storm." The storm included GULAG, the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the greatest famine in human history, decades of economic stagnation, and ultimately civilizational collapse in Russia.

PRC escaped that fate because, after the Cultural Revolution, class consciousness and eliminating wealth disparity went out of fashion, and consequently it went from being one of the world's poorest countries to one of the richest.

When videos of Americans tearing down statues went viral a few years back, lots of Chinese people thought it was hilarious that the Cultural Revolution had come to the US.
do you have a link? i thought failed studies aren't usually published?
That would be government small enough to fit into a woman’s vagina, right?
The fines will just be passed off to the customers.
> It’s easy to paint customers as frightful moaners, but that’s a surefire way to lose customers, or at least alienate them. Google’s Reader debacle comes to mind.

Years later and I still don't use Google (except for search and sometimes maps) because of Reader.
US gov sites may not represent the entire web, but the platforms that the entire population uses to access government websites, does. People don't use a different browser for the State Department and for Facebook. The data presented here is actually reflective. If anything, it's conservative. Not many teens are looking up tax forms or passport renewal forms (their parents do it for them). And these young users are less likely to use anything other than Chrome and Safari.
You should only note things you find noteworthy.
I am fairly certain this is a side effect of people sharing this link through messaging apps, thereby inflating Chrome (default browser for Android devices) and Safari (default browser for Apple devices) relative to Firefox.
Typescript can do exactly what you ask for, “static duck typing”. Just define the input argument to be a interface with the 2 relevant attributes, any struct having at least these 2 attributes are now allowed, even if there is no explicit inheritance to it. This can be done inline in the function signature so doesn’t contribute to bloat.

Python can do the same using what they call Protocol. Here protocols need to be defined upfront.

This is usually called Structural typing, as opposed to nominal typing where classes inherit from a base.
PRC thinks Bitcoin is the devil, and it's the world's largest manufacturer. I don't think you'll see Bitcoin as the global reserve currency until after Xi and maybe his heir die of old age.
Nothing here indicates this is an Apple issue...
Computer scientists eliminate pesky quantum computations
What a disturbingly scary article!

> He objects to going to bed but then sleeps well. He does a good deal of daydreaming and when asked about it he says 'I don't know.'

Doesn't this description fit most kids in the world? It was used to justify the lobotomy of a poor boy.
Only the unsuccessful ones.
This is a hypothetical explanation because I don’t know how grids work in practice. The faster turbines turn, the more voltage they generate because the rate of change in flux with respect to time increases as per Faraday’s law. This means they can compensate for the voltage drops across the network due to increased current as per P=I*V.

I think frequency dropped because there was too much load on the grid. More load produces more impedance in the grid, this means that, without additional power on the turbines, they respond by turning slower. Like having to bike up hill.
The bigger issue in my view is that Azure, AWS and GCP may be illegal.
What should we use instead?
How much will it cost to switch?
We’ve gotten USPS mail on Sundays for awhile now. Why? I don’t know.
Definitely the "sign here" line. Throw in your Meyers Briggs type for good measure ;)
Chromebooks have high (unit) sales (some say) but I've yet to see any signs that they are used a lot. Here only 1.4% of visits are from ChromeOS.
What would that look like, and why horrible?
My understanding is that the author is not a technologist and that these aren't literal physical descriptions of what happened with the turbines. The simplest generators maintain a steady angular velocity that (when normalized for the number of poles) corresponds to the frequency of the output signal.

To give the benefit of the doubt to the author, it is also true that a turbine shaft can be connected to a generator via a gearbox, in which configuration a faster turbine would correspond to more power delivered to the generator at the same generator RPM.
I think you’re simplifying. If nukes fly it doesn’t matter where your kid is. And the government can decide to take your kids to war with or without consent
Interestingly but perhaps not surprisingly, Moore's Law extrapolated backwards in time would be vastly more expensive than this.

We might get 10^14 more bits out of something that costs 10^-7 as much today, but that's only 21 orders of magnitude out of a suggested 1200 or so.

The universe only has 10^50 tons of mass, so it's meaningless to even attempt to describe what would that cost would look like.

I'm personally saving up to buy a bit of storage when it only costs a thousand universes or so.
Was forgiven on my end, which is some social justice.
This. I hosted my own email for over 15 years, and last year was the year I gave up. There was nothing wrong with my machine's IP, I was doing the right thing email server wise, but Gmail still didn't let me deliver. A racket is a good way of describing it.
officials decided to bypass the market and, on Monday evening, manually set prices at the maximum of $9,000 per megawatt hour. (By comparison, the average hourly price in 2020 was $25.73.)

I don't understand why the max price is so exorbitantly high -- if they capped it at, say, 10X the 30 day rolling average, then they'd still incentivize everyone with energy to sell to bring it online, but without bankrupting utilities and customers who have to pay over 300 times the normal cost of energy.

A family that normally pays $20 for a day of electricity in cold weather can probably manage to pay $200/day for a couple days, but probably not $7000/day.
Nope. Using a CRM to keep in touch also rubs me the wrong way.
Latin was also the language of academia, which gradually separated from the Church starting in the Late Middle Ages.
Well, marine cloud brightening is small scale and involves lofting salt water in the air. It is immediately reversable.

The opposition comes from political signaling and tribalism.

Read more:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02290-3
Arxiv papers, and follow the authors on twitter. 2 minute papers is nice to discover new things: https://mobile.twitter.com/twominutepapers

For example, if you dig quadruped robots (I do) follow https://mobile.twitter.com/leggedrobotics/status/14838769163...
A Faithful Implementation of Fluent Design System in Svelte
Is it illegal in the United States?
As someone pointed out in another thread, there is something fishy going on with these with a high percentage of usage coming from Graceville. Who knows if they are spoofing user agents and what not.
Maybe read about it:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02290-3
A bleak and honest look into the current job market but also hilarious and relatable. Every recruiter I've been contacted by always seems confused about some aspect of whatever job they are trying to find interviewees for.
Typed Config Languages
I made a platform for publishing and purchasing photoshop files/effects, music, high res images etc. https://crate.as/

The main gimmick is that it’s a native Mac (and very soon Windows) app, so once you buy a file, you can drag it directly out of the app and into other programs as if it were file explorer.

I’m not at $500/month yet, but the project is well over 1k a month and I have a percentage of the income.
A "woke" claim asserts that some widely accepted and seemingly race-neutral practice is actually racist, whether in its intent or its effects. These arguments are often made in terms of disparate impact. Gifted and talented education disproportionately benefits white and Asian students.
Any apps using that currently?
I'm surprised how big the difference. 40g/y seems to just eat soy once per year, despite soy are farmed in the US.
3% of almost billions(?) of browser users are still a fews millions of Firefox users. Millions of users is not "dead".
And this is for something that the scientific community did not have vested interest in protecting. That is, the scientific community did not come up with smoking as some boon to humanity.

Now imagine if that was the case here; That the big business and the scientific community had a natural alignment in promoting and protecting a practice with huge commercial interests...
> I’m still not understanding this… why is it so hard to display the birthday date on the settings page?
>Algolia is a YC company.

As I stated, I'm not bemoaning the use of algolia here (there's at least an icon to inform the user of its use). Only that Google Analytics is being used in addition to it.

I would think in theory algolia being a YC company would make it easier to request a workaround without GA if algolia is the one using it.

>Before that, Google was the practical way to search HN.

In that case, the user would be explicitly made aware they were using google services I would think. That is not the case here.
Their equivalent FCC bodies limited the power gain on the antennas and made them have slanted downward facing beams.

The better question to ask is why is the FCC selling spectrum that is actually already in use by aeronautical instruments?

Narrator: the answer $$$
That's how I felt about "The Office"
Sounds like you’re making an assumption that the jail is at capacity. Nobody said anything about the jail being full.

What’s your plan if the jail is at capacity ? Stop enforcing the law? Anarchy?
Who says Ecosia underpays anyone? Please don't spout nonsense.

The salaries are not top 1%, but each Euro paid in salary is one euro not going to the projects (only 80% of profits, not revenue, are guaranteed to finance ecological projects). Salaries are fair and the market is analysed yearly for adjustment.
Any hygienic team using those today, are using analyzers on top, like mypy, hhvm or typescript.
I would never agree with this comment above, but today we see nurses fired over this whole vaccine issue. Nurses, who worked frontlines during the first wave when vaccines weren't available, contracted and recovered from covid, and have antibodies to prove it.

They were called heroes.

Today, none of that apparently matters, valuable medical staff were fired anyway, in a middle of pandemic. Why???

Only to turn around, and demand that the vaccinated, but COVID-positive workers (who'd normally have to isolate) work the COVID wards instead?

Couldn't they just ask those that declined vaccination, but previously infected with COVID, work in those wards?

They've done that in 2020, and if they are willing to do that again, are they not heroes, risking their own lives to save others? Well, suddenly they are now pariahs instead of heroes, and must be fired and ridiclued.

How does any of this make sense???

I'm lost at this point.
Given what they’d probably spend to a contractor like General Dynamics to completely flub this, I’m glad for them to foot a massive AWS bill instead.
US is not the world. Just felt like it had to be stated.
Assuming stupidity/incompetence of an adversory is usually not a solid analysis, if one does that and then the adversory suddenly starts pulling smart moves, one could be at serious disadvantage.

In general though, I do feel much of western analysis on Russia etc is too simplifying, and naive. Cultural and historical context are so vastly different that, I think certainly more nuance is required.
Even in 2019, Trump pressured the Fed into not raising interest rates, saying they would make the economy crash. Trump is hardly alone in blame, Obama, Biden, and Bush are just as bad.

Money has been cheap since 2008. Did everyone expect it to be cheap forever without consequences? COVID just blew down a house of cards, fixing COVID isn’t going to magically fix our inflation problems, the house has already been blown down and it will take another decade of fiscal discipline to build something sturdy back up again.

It should be possible to achieve better employment without punishing savers and rewarding debtors.