skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just starting out with Japanese, but a weird thing I have found is that private lessons with professional teachers (with 5-star reviews) on Italki seem to be about as expensive on an hourly basis as group-based lessons (at least in my country).

I was going to sign up for a class, but noticing this has made me reconsider, and now I am planning to just take private lessons for the same amount of money (or cheaper, as a class needs to move at the pace of its slowest student).

But if you want to be thrifty, I have heard of people who mostly self-study, and only consult with a private teacher to practice their speaking. I don't think Duolingo is a truly effective way to learn, but the last time I tried it was a decade ago.

The community on /r/LearnJapanese is massive and contains a lot of information.
If you view source, it is encoded in an s-expression equivalent.
Lisa Su and by extention, AMD, has been ahead of anything out there. If intel can pull this off, i will be happy to have competition back in market.
without referring to this particular case, how is `/.well-known/LsyrYyZGDMMPwS1lAUS7qXo7c81XLaxPeRrSZdSReFk5zPaJaD` less secure than `/.well-known/key` requiring an `Authorization: LsyrYyZGDMMPwS1lAUS7qXo7c81XLaxPeRrSZdSReFk5zPaJaD` header?
Easy and realiable online free cron jobs
Oh, I agree completely that the article should be taken with a grain of salt but don’t need a disclaimer. I also didn’t really see anything in the article that made me suspicious.
Steelmanning Divination (2019)
>worldly logic

So your argument stems from illogic? Surely you don't admit such do you? When I was religious, religion captured me by thinking 'that makes sense'. It used a minor amount of logic to convert me but ultimately it failed because it didn't stand up against my rigors in the end. Religion wants to ultimately refrain from the rigors of logic but when confronted, how does it defend itself? That's right, it tries to use "logical" arguments just like in the video you linked.

If you want to deny logic then the guy you're arguing with is just as right as you think you are because he has justification to be illogical. That is the problem with making unfalsifiable claims like the gods exist outside of logic, you basically admit to a tie, at the very least.
1Password manages to autocomplete the 2FA code in the next screen, for what it's worth.
Vermont, and perhaps Maine as well, have initiatives to transition housing to high-efficiency heat pumps that are still efficient enough to be better than just resistive heating even in negative F temperatures. Obviously they will not be efficient in something like -40F, but I believe nowadays they break even in -20F, but don't quote me on that exact temperature. And even accepting that you'll get <-20F a few days a year, it is likely still a net-energy win, and I would suspect, suitable for use even without a fixed backup system. I'd imagine if it's good enough for Vermont, it would be good enough for Wisconsin. The state has websites listing suitable models that might be a good starting point for you.
How do book fans discover and boost the gems among the streams of books?
As an engineer who becomes a leader – what is your number one challenge?
Hello HN,

as an Engineering Manager I frequently find myself supporting engineers who become leaders of one kind or another.

If you're an engineer who has recently become a leader or if you're thinking about such a move:

what is your number one challenge?
The linked article seems to want us to believe that concern about global warming is part of a CIA mind control plot. I would skip it.

No doubt considerable effort has been spent muddying waters, and it's not an easy topic to research, but it might be better to take a look at John Marks' seminal work based on documents obtained under FOIA, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - The CIA and Mind Control, available for free at https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm
Ask HN: Best free option for cron-like scraping process
Hello HN!

I'm looking for a cloud service that would allow me to launch a process every few minutes. This process would check something on a site (probably a few https requests) and then email me if certain conditions are met.

This would be for something personal so I'm looking for a free service if possible.

I'm looking at AWS lambda as an option as I'm fairly familiar with EC2 and lightsail...but I'd prefer a service that would either not ask for a credit card, or have some hard limits for spending. AWS horror stories are awful...

I already do this with a python script locally on my PC, but I'm looking to have this run on somebody else's computer (aka "the cloud"). I'm willing to learn any language or technology.

Thanks!!!
My first web app was functionally very similar, right down to being vulnerable to XSS[1] and someone exploiting that vulnerability soon after I shared it. At least that’s what I’m assuming happened here, and that you’re not intentionally redirecting visitors to an adult site. Don’t let it get you down though! (I know I did at first, it’s understandable.) Take it as a learning experience, and make your web app better by (at least) sanitizing user input. Good luck!

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
One day, I'll get myself an El Casco pencil sharpener. It gives a very special point shape, a long point, but ends in a blunt surface. Here's a review that describes it really well: https://www.penciltalk.org/2012/05/el-casco-pencil-sharpener
It seems to me that most of the truly transformational technical books I’ve read have come from Addison-Wesley, an imprint of Pearson PLC.
A native app on Android can install OS hooks for all sorts of things (such as, "you connected to a WIFI network", "you took a photo", etc) and thereby can silently react to events while it is not even running.

This is intended and requires the appropriate permissions to be given. In the same way, I don't see the problem with an extension monitoring the clipboard as long as the user has to give explicit permission for it.
Thanks for the perspective. While I was in the industry, being on the tech side felt like it insulated me from a lot of the drama of the editorial world. I would share your sentiments about money being secondary for them, you would meet people that had been in "assistant editorial" style roles for decades! All waiting for the chance to be in charge and have the cultural cache that came along with gatekeeping/creating trends.

At that level, definitely not in it for the money. At the C level though I got the sense that there was supreme respect for the cultural role of publishers - but it was a narrow second to business concerns, and they would make that tradeoff if necessary.
Bahco Swedish Hacksaw Blade vs. South/Central/North America and China Blades
Look no further than the Orwell Ministry of Truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-... and the current administrations attempt at establishing one https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-department-of-home...
Supposed to, yes. But clearly not, based on this article.
In Australia we have a large amount of rooftop solar. We used to fit isolation switches near the panels on the roofs so that we could de-energise as much wiring as possible in the case of a fire.

The stats showed that the rooftop isolation switches shorting out was the leading cause of fires. We no longer fit them.
Also, a prompt decision can also get the team to the point where the decision is proven wrong and one of the other decisions correct or, as is often the case, a separate best option becomes obvious.
The hard thing with taste is that it's usually the sum of many quantitative traits, each one being governed by several genes which can be located on different chromosomes, as seen in tomato[1]. Transferring enough of them into the modern genome through backcross would probably require a crazy amount of generations... or a crazy amount of luck :)

[1] https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erf058
Yeah weirdly redirects to a favicon

[edit]

Oh some weird google amp prefix, what is this supposed to do?

here's the real link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/03/elephants-drun...
Not a native in either English or Japanese, but fluent in both, and I feel that skipping particles in Japanese doesn't alter the flow of speech (because Japanese doesn't really have consecutive consonants), while it does in English (at least in your example).
I'm surprised to see this type of comment on HN. Many people have been successful because they aren't in the industry and "don't know anything". The OP is asking the question and learning, not jumping in and saying "I know how to do it better than anyone else", but because they don't have the ingrained "knowledge" of how things are done, they just may find a better way.
Not defending the standard, but I guess since this is a shared secret you don't want to put it at a well known location. There's a (slight) attack vector from having an attacker know the secret, since they can "launch" a crawl against a site. Maybe could get a crawler to access private URLs or something?

Another interesting feature I saw in the standard is that you can host keys in subdirectories too.

"the location of a key file determines the set of URLs that can be included with this key. A key file located at http://example.com/catalog/key12457EDd.txt can include any URLs starting with http://example.com/catalog/ but cannot include URLs starting with http://example.com/help/."
Ah gotcha, I usually understand "astroturfing" to mean piggy-backing on already existing platforms.
professional urban planning is very contentious, time-consuming and complex. Moronic side-jeering is definitely part of that friction.

source: professional urban planners
The Wire also showed the importance of modifying Roberts Rules to meet the needs of a particular organization. In this case, not taking minutes, because they were discussing a criminal conspiracy to buy and sell large quantities of drugs.
Gimp development release 2.99.12 includes initial CMYK support
The greens are part of the current government, I wonder what's not clear about the previous message?
How did I know before I clicked that link that it was going to be apologetics.

Faith is not a shortcut to knowledge. "Hey, we can't yet find the answer to big questions through rational means, so let's try irrational means!"
Anyone who builds a genuine free energy device that works is an instant billionaire. I don’t buy the narrative that power companies would want to silence the technology - they’d rather use it for themselves and pay whatever it takes to get it (for a power company, paying the inventor even a billion is a small price to pay for infinite free energy, and a billion is big enough for anyone to set whatever morals they have aside and just take the deal).

If “free energy” was a thing, power companies would already be using it.
kat, prise, sirkle, sirkumferense, kik.

I think if someone sent me those words I could parse it!
In the US, the idea is that poor people commit more crimes than rich people, and whites are more likely to be rich. Whether that is actually true, I have no idea.
Hard disagree here, both compile-time static strong typing and runtime validation have their role and my experience has shown that combining them works best.

Knocking on static strong typing is not a productive mindset.
Setup Neovim in a New MacBook Pro M2
Interesting. Thank you a lot. Can't say that the post referenced makes this less funny of a statement!
I think that it should be unnecessary. The address of the array could be adjusted at compile-time so that one-based index numbers will be possible.
Economics should be thought about like sports, with the corporations as athletes, countries as teams, regulators as referees, and citizens as owners.

If you don't keep it competitive and rewarding for the athletes, there's no money for the owners of the franchises to share.

Moralizing either in favor of the owners (socialist demagoguery) or the players (capitalISM) ends up harming the game.
The Wright Brothers owned a mechanical shops for a decade specialising in printing press and bicycles before building gliders and prototype for years. They had a lot of experience in manufacturing.

Earhart had been a pilot for eight years before attempting to cross the Atlantic.

The only exemple of someone entering a highly regulated industry without being an insider I can think of is Musk and SpaceX and even then he was previously rich, started by building the connection which would allow him to get public funds through the Mars Society and his first move was hiring Tom Mueller, an industry insider.

In my experience, people with a software background who don’t have an industrial background heavily underestimate the complexity involved.
No Starch Press! https://nostarch.com/
As soon as I saw AGILE on a vegetable farm… It seems like a lot of bs.
My favourite way of "chunking" chords (i.e how to think of them to remember them) is to "decompose" them to think about them in a different way.

For example: Think of Bbmaj7 as just Dm with Bb as the bass. Bb + Dm. It turns out that this pattern always works for the maj7 chords.

Another example: Cmaj7 "is" Em with C as the bass. Think of Cm7 as Eb with C as the bass. C7 is Edim with C as the bass.

These decompositions are just a different way to see the same chords, maybe it helps some people to form associations/connections about these shapes in some way. Of course, once played enough, a chord is simply remembered as it is, its own thing.
I imagine soil quality and time of harvest also play a decent part in taste. All other factors being equal picking a green tomato isn’t going to be as good as letting it ripen on the vine naturally.
https://vinylwriters.com/weird-scenes-inside-the-canyon-laur...

> The following text is the first chapter of David McGowan‘s astonishing book “Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon‘ The very strange, but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia, in which Laurel Canyon’s colorful characters – rock stars, hippies, murderers and politicos – happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.

To draw an analogy with 1960s computers: manipulation engineering of human perception and sensory response has been scaled with market volume, miniaturized, refined, commoditized and widely dispersed. It would be logistically and politically simpler if there was one Big Bad that could be regulated or otherwise influenced, but like computers, the genies are out of many bottles, regardless of who opened them. In response to the public release and subsequent offensive use of such technology, we need more investment in defensive equivalents.

More recently: https://web.archive.org/web/20190227050755/https://www.bigge...
I actually do believe it's perfectly fair in theory to require criminals to pay for damages etc. that said, the application of all of that can be very problematic.
> I wonder if / when Marginalia will get onboard and implement support for it, too.

I created an issue for it as a reminder. Probably not gonna implement support for this type of active crawling hints in the short term, because a lot of my model is based on full-site crawls at 8 week intervals. While something like this would help with identifying new content, it doesn't do much to identify when links go dead, so you still need to crawl passively.

Although, on some level I'm a bit uneasy, I have a hunch this may be a bit of a vulnerability. In general giving websites the tools to control the crawling process beyond like robots.txt and so on seems a bit sketch. Maybe it's possible to build checks and balances to prevent that though.

Would take some work to support real-time updates. Not impossible, but I've got a lot of work to do with regard to search result accuracy that I feel is more important.

I've been looking at using RSS feeds as a signal for when to re-index sites before, not doing that now but the general idea works I think
Different functions scale differently. With the latest processes, logic scales best, while analog scales worse: SRAM (which is internally pretty analog) still scales decently, but less than logic; and I/O scales very little at all (think of it this way: the size of transistors that drive outputs is pretty much determined by the current you need to drive, and the current is determined by e.g. the PCIe spec, which is itself subject to the physical constraints of relatively long wires).

As a consequence, if your design has CPU dies and I/O dies, using a smaller process only for the CPU dies is likely to be a good trade-off.
Did they ever ship functioning software or was it a pre-order? If it’s the former it seems like an odd choice for a scam - it’s not trivial to make even a basic code editor from scratch and the market is niche enough that the payoff is relatively tiny (compared to other scams they could pull).
> Sure, it might be harder to get a sizable advance

It's not hard at all, that's what crowdfunding is for. It's been quite successful at rewarding free and open content, especially for lower-cost media like books (compared to live action movies or AAA games).
This wouldn’t be in a place like “.well-known/secret-key”, the key would still be part of the path. It’s just a well known prefix to put exactly this kind of thing.
I agree, but there are also strong societal forces at work keeping us divided and in constant conflict. I think it’s really hard for most people to navigate through this morass, and they either become bogged down in it or end up on one side of the opposing division. The trick is not to give in to one side or the other and to choose equanimity.
Wouldn't have expected Wood to be the most cost effective option.
for learning, why to emphasis on profits?
Chapter 8 was the most surprising part of the book for me when I first read it. Up till that point lot of the information was mostly what seemed like administrator/user territory. Then BAM! it goes into designing a full fledged interpreter for a BASIC level complexity language, suddenly you are into language design; utterly fascinating how using simple tools like yacc, lex and some simple code (the entire code for the interpreter is published in the Appendix) you can do amazing things as a programmer.
> A “results” oriented society is a regression from a “rules” oriented society. We have that in Bangladesh—courts that do what they think is “right” instead of following the rules. It’s better than courts where judges take bribes or act in their personal self interest, but not as good as courts that rationally apply the rules.

Applying the rules is great when the rules seem mostly fair and reasonable.

When the rules, applied to a situation, produce a seemingly very harsh outcome – especially when there is no evidence their original authors would have actually wanted that outcome in this particular case – judges often look for ways to "bend" them.

Rather than something limited to countries such as Bangladesh – it is something which has happened time and time again in the history of common law tradition. If a judge feels that mechanical application of the law produces an unconscionable outcome, they will find a way to reinterpret the law, so it doesn't actually mean what it says on its face.

This especially happens when the judge views the aggrieved party sympathetically – far more likely for a well-respected businessperson who has received a seemingly disproportionate penalty for unintentional violations of the law, than a career criminal on death row.
Year zero will be possible with astronomical year numbering. In this case, 1 AD will be +1, and 1 BC will be 0, and 2 BC will be -1.
Interesting. Usually both languages are too distinct to me/"my ear" to confuse them, but I do encounter that phenomenon with other pair of languages.
Ans: I live abroad/SF Bay Area. Κοίτα προφίλ για επικοινωνία! Εσύ;
Compare it to Haskell, OCaml and Rust and it looks like a toddler tripping all over itself compared to an adult athlete running at a steady 20km/h.

There are libraries in these languages where you can get a compile error if you make a mistake in an SQL statement.

Also, Python technically has no typing system to speak of so your comment is kind of strange. Not to mention pattern matching, destructuring and other goodies that improve productivity.
3x is probably only for Pacific Northwest. I would be curious to know where else electricity is $0.08 per kWh.
Or maybe just ask?

I've had staggering success with just ending emails to people, including businesses.
You’re preaching to the choir. I am very much a skeptical materialist. The problem is that there are a significant number of unknowns and unidentified reports that have never been explained. And those are the ones we are talking about.
I'm pretty sure your example just demonstrates the point that I was making originally though. Assume there is a massive shortage of food workers, food prices increase and the food industry starts pulling people from other industries like ad-tech which can no longer offer competitive salaries. This implies an aggregate shift in spending from discretionary consumer purchases (which are specifically what fund ad-tech and the advertising industry) to food. In other words, people have on average become poorer: they have to spend a larger proportion of their money on essentials like food and have less left over for other stuff. Which is, of course, just another way of saying that on average people's wages have shrunk in real inflation-adjusted terms.

(It's not like the other stuff can just become cheaper in order to make up for it either - remember, all the other industries are suffering the same underlying cost pressures as the food companies and the whole reason they're losing the competition for workers is because there's no longer enough people willing to pay the increased prices they'd have to charge.)

If I remember rightly, the proportion of a country's workers employed in food production is even pretty good approximate measure of how advanced an economy is, with more advanced economies employing a much smaller proportion of their workers that way and having much more doing other things.
Yes, easily said. There is a solar power installation boom going on. Do the math.
> I think that anyone given a choice would be one of "tomorrow's students".

this is true more generally, though. if we're on a path of progress, then life is better for each successive generation. the previous generation should prefer to have been the future generation. so i'm not sure shaping the answer to this "would you prefer to be yesterday's student or tomorrow student" to be a 50/50 is the right way to guide policy, though that could be an interesting philosophical rabbit hole.

> doesn't refusing to forgive loans entail refusing to help the students who suffered from tuition being too high?

i was focusing on this point. we did help these students already -- that's what this federal loan program was trying to do. we invested some resources into creating and operating the program, and it led to some outcome.

so what do we owe each generation? i would propose: we invest similar resources into the educational system during the next generation as we did the previous generation. if we do this right, that investment means better, cheaper education for the next generation. if we lower tuition and (in doing so) lower the loan benefits, that's akin to making a similar investment.

yes, this means the next generation gets more effective "help" than the previous generation. but they don't necessarily get more investment. the costs are the same, but the outcomes are better. that's fair. that's progress.
No private business is going to invest just to have its upside limited.
New York / New England electricity costs are about $0.25 to $0.3/kWh these days unfortunately.