skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who taught English as a foreign language for many years, I'd say it really depends on where your specific difficulties lie.

If you're looking to improve your verbal fluency, I would absolutely recommend lots and lots of television. Find a show you love, watch it lots, and try to copy what the characters say -- in rhythm and intonation. Even better if you can find a show where there's a character you identify with, an actor who is similar to you in "type". Get closed-captioning transcripts of episodes and try to say each line before and then compare with how it's actually said. I would say this is absolutely #1.

I see other recommendations here for Toastmasters and for improv comedy. Toastmasters is specifically about public speaking -- if that's your goal then absolutely, but if you're looking to improve personal conversation I'm not sure it will help much. And while improv comedy is a blast (I've done lots myself), I don't think it's going to help much with linguistic fluency. There's a ton of focus on physicality and teamwork, but it will go much better if you're already very comfortable with your speaking.

All of the best students I ever had in English classes would basically watch the TV show "Friends" for like 2-3 hours a day, I'm not even joking. It's surprising how well the TV route works. And after that it's really about practice -- figure out whatever situations you can have a lot of conversation with native speakers in, if there's some kind of local club/activity you can join.
Okay come on. I believe you saw something credible at some point, but to post "it's common knowledge" two minutes after saying you can't find a source is a really weak argument and doesn't justify "who are you".
So how much NVIDIA stock did you buy? How much profit were you able to make from your foresight?
And the Apiaceae family is particularly evil in that sense. Ferula is in the same family as the carrot, but also is a distant relative of Hemlock and of the "Joker's plant".
Maybe check out https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
It's a cool name if it is a good product. If it is less-than-stellar, though, it's not that far from "face-palm". LOL
As somebody who has taken improv classes, I would be very hesitant to recommend this as a general approach. It not only draws heavily on language skill, but also on deep cultural competency. It's a team sport, and not being able to play at the level of one's team can be a brutal experience, no matter the reason why.

I think the closest I could come would be suggesting conversations with individual instructors about whether their particular classes would be safe and useful for immigrants who struggle with verbal communication. Or perhaps to create a class where all the participants have the same challenge, in which case it becomes something to improvise with.
mindset shift - every encounter as an opportunity to practice the language. The grocery store, the bus stop, shopping at IKEA - whatever the circumstance where there are other people, go do the thing you were going to do, but also have an objective to have an engagement of some sort with somebody every time
Enlighten me - what's stupid about it?
I side with you. Basically "Volvo is using Rust..." translates to: "Volvo is adding Rust to its stack of complexity".
Does the unix rosetta stone page still exist?

That was a godsend when trying to move between half a dozen commercial unix systems 15 years ago.
I’m driving rental MB C-class this week (after 4months of Hyundai Kona EV) and holy smokes it is obnoxious. No bugs per se, but touch-everything is horrible. Tons of warnings, panic breaking, limp mode. Top it with horrible throttle response and this thing reeks of legacy. Sure ride quality and steering is good, but I can see now how people hate touch interfaces.
These APIs were synchronous and thus blocking. People blamed Firefox being slow when in fact, it was mostly extension APIs and the extension code.
SQL is a fairly common standard that’s been around for a few years.

Postgres is an open source product that has some traction, and even if it disappears next week you still have the source.

Linux is starting to catch on and you can even find places that support it.

The POSIX layer is widely implemented and even Windows and Mac have sone level of support.

What I’m saying is, you can choose from a wide variety of databases on pretty much any common OS and most of the features will just work on all of them.

Minor versions of a single database on different flavors of the same OS are not a big deal.
Based on one newer article I've seen, leaked data dates back to 2017, so...

No idea how accurate this is just yet though.

They claim to have started notifying people today (Saturday), with customers with most amount of info leaked being prioritised. Supposedly if you've had ID information stolen, you'll know today. Fingers crossed.
It would seem people would rather leave the next generation with comical amounts of debt then admit that at some point someone will have to pay this off when the US isn't the biggest guy on the block
"a couple of the main things that goverments are for: to do violence and tax externalities"

huh? Maybe in authoritarian countries, but not in countries whose constitutions are geared for individual liberty. Your fascist tendencies are showing.
Would you care to source that claim? All of the research I've encountered suggests agriculture in toto contributes around 8% of total GHG emissions, with meat production responsible for at most 60% of that number. Even if meat production was eliminated that would not in yield a 5% reduction in GHG as additional plant-based food production would be required to pick up this slack. Given the current state of play of arable land globally (near maximum utilization, available land shrinking rapidly, unrecoverable topsoil depletion rampant globally) one wonders where proponents of this idea think all of this extra agricultural output is supposed to come from.
I think with Volvo it's a bit like with ThinkPad: The quality went downhill after a Chinese acquisition.
Is there a demo available of someone using it to create music?
Read more. And say it out loud.
Yeah, when he says "my math" he means "I'm assuming a 5% conversion rate for every app this guy has ever written". Which is insane, if you're wondering.
Upfront or continuing - a portion upfront that is invested in bonds or whatever, and a per annum or per kWh levy toward dismantling. If the plant runs longer than expected the extra dismantling fees can be used for the next plant or something.
It’s been ages since I did bare metal/VM installs of databases and then it was MySQL. But installing the database is a one time thing. The challenge was and is always syncing schema changes and loading seed data.
It is important to note that the search space is just the training data. That space does not span enough dimensions to actually solve the problems in question.

For example, we act in the world so as to set the state of possible causal variables -- and thereby can distinguis
causes.

Above, graph algorithms operate on a discrete graph space and hence on the graph. GPT here isn't doing that.

Seeing NNs as distance-based searches in a compressed 'training space' demystifies what solutions can be found.

Here the text space defined by the training set does not permit a graph traversal, so eg., the NN 'uses' edges that don't exist

We are not searches across such spaces, which are radically impoverished and not parametrised by time or action
Don't know for sure, but their share the "platform" with Volvo.

That's off the point though. The choice of language matters, but it matters less than the development process and the professionalism of people involved.
If you even don’t want to host the deployment environment, upload your docker images to https://fly.io. It brings your services online in minutes. Ship quickly today and once you have more time you can later run your docker images on your own infra w/o much or no changes at all to your images.
I just moved to Des Moines for work about a year ago.
I think exactly the same thing of motorsport as I explained in another reply. These records are entirely based on technical advance in the equipment. The human factor is incidental.

It’s even worst here because the limits set on the record are purely arbitrary. Why is a souped rifle, civilian optics cobbled together and a calculator significant when you could just use a higher calibre and a better designed gun?

The whole thing is completely artificial therefor pointless to me. I mean there is reason they are beating their own previously held record by 46%. No one cares so no one is trying to beat them.
> The cost: $300k, plus the cost of inventory (~$100k) and a 0.5% cut to the store’s previous owners for the next 10 years — in total, less than ~$500k.

Who knows more about grocery retail, and can say: What makes buying an existing store like this preferable to just starting a new store, and avoiding the $300K and 0.5% cut for 10 years?
Add 13 years, and I could have written this. I must admit I cringed a bit when the author said 40 was old. I still love what I do, and I have no desire to live the manager life of all day meetings.
I would recommend to focus on British English instead, as it is more graceful.
That's what you get when you have over a decade of near zero interest rates and easy money. A lot of hyped products and companies that mysteriously don't make any money. We're paying the price now.
It's discoverable but you can't post comments in old threads, after a few months they get "archived" and you can't reply any more.
Thanks!

After scrolling a bit it shows that "Energy" accounts for 73%+ of greenhouse gas emissions. Seems like 100% of effort should be going to energy production for the highest yield, most efficient outcome - and while not increasing the cost of food for everyone which disproportionately causes suffering for the poor; increasing energy cost does the same of course, so it has to be done carefully.
Sorry for being overdue! I have just asked once a year when I remembered it, love the fact that someone else appreciated it enough to continue asking when I forgot
Should it even be a tech product?

What’s the mass market business model for “pretty good, minimally processed, reasonably healthy, low cost burger alternative”? Institutional? Workplace? Schools? Prisons? Dollar store frozen food section? Food cart?
You’re wrong in your belief. We all know what a WebView is, but what is being discussed is bundling WebKit vs. bundling Chromium (like Electron does). A solution that bundles only a WebKit engine would be smaller than one that bundles a Chromium. What is your objection, specifically?
Also when I made my own vegan bbq out of seitan (gluten) I can mix the smoke flavor right into the wheat flour mixture. It doesn’t take the 14-18 hours to coax smoke flavor into a bit of meat. Can dial it all right to whatever I want from the get go.

But ultimately finding recipes that people want to eat without meat should be a better goal. Feels like a false premise.
Limiting a software engineers career to less than 20 years is a pretty fucking idiotic thing to do.
I'm sorry but what are you talking about?
Recording yourself is not a bad idea. Try reading a page from a book or a newspaper, then play it back, and see how it sounds. Good use of pauses and emphasis helps listeners too.
Reddit Threads are locked after a while aren’t they?

Even if all of this would be in a Reddit thread I’d argue the usability of their site has declined to a point where using it for longer reading is unpleasant. (Login-Wall, collapsed threads, slow JavaScript frontend)

So yeah discoverable yes, but nobody would use it like that.
But they actually got funding to implement these fads. It took a decade of near-zero interest loans.
In the article, they talk about McDonalds... I don't know about other stores
but when I went there as a kid, in Europe, the meat had no taste and its texture was s*t so I don't think the the problem comes from fast food meat being better than plant-based meat. I don't think it's about taste. I think it's about price and about culture.

"But the consumer environment is tough, and this stuff is not cheap,”
"If I’m spending money in a restaurant, and I’m a meat eater, why would I spend money on plant-based meat? I would rather eat an actual burger,” --> I want the bang for my buck.

I think people who to eat in fast/junk food restaurants are :
1. Rather poor so concerned by price
2. Participate in a working class culture in which hard working men lives must be fueled by meat, which is effectively a super-food. So a cultural matter.

The sad thing though is that culture demands meat but the quality/taste of the meat provided is shit.
I am personally in favor of banning processed meat (the one that's bad for your health) and that non processed meat is reserved to people doing hard physical work while the rest of enjoy our plant based meals :D
Convention is to keep it in the top left. All the stock apps will use more or less the same navigation dock up top for back and other functions. Often apps will be rejected for not providing this kind of functionality predictability. This was the hardest thing for me to learn moving from Android to ios as well, but the smoothness of ios trumps all the hardship in my opinion.
If it's so easy to adopt that food additive, and it's so effective, we can also do that while trying to go meatless. If the additive works well, and livestock emissions (and runoff) become not a big issue, I'm sure people will happily return to meat (unless the alternatives have become too comfortable.)

If it turns out to be hard, we'll be glad that people were pushed toward meatless. If it's easy, it won't ultimately matter that people were pushed toward meatless.
Yes, I would like to add that to the repo's readme, but Github's Markdown does not support JavaScript links:

https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1592
I recently had some funny business on a United Airlines flight where the high-low chime (you hear for the seatbelt sign and landing gear, etc.) was going bonkers and chimed maybe 10 times in a row while the cabin lights faded on and off.

No announcements were made by the pilot or flight attendants afterwards, and everyone was left confused. I turned to the passenger next to me and we both shrugged.
OnFOSS-LAN hosted by LibreGaming on October first
Exactly. I'm not a vegetarian, and I won't even consider buying an impossible burger or whatever, but I would love to eat some meat free meals like you described.

I'm also really picky about meat and I love vegetables.
Today would you look for someone who grew up doing Rasberry Pi builds?

I haunted Radio Shack back in the day, but would have loved to grow up doing single board computer stuff.
If you're going to go vegetarian, go all the way. No need to be a vegetarian while pretending to eat meat.
Arguably, we can still do almost all you have listed. But the desire is missing.
(As an elder cusper due to being terminally online for 15 years) 2020s pop culture so far is miles better than what we had in the early 2010s and IMO the 20 year olds are far more tolerable than they were when I was 20.

All the complaints about them are still valid IMO but even then I see it as less of a problem than the pathologies of previous generations.
I don’t think so, first time I’m hearing about anything like that.
"is human intelligence anything more than "building a search index" and "looking up examples in the search index and combining"?"

Yes, it is more than this. Even if we can simulate things that appear like thinking using these methods, what we do bears no comparison. That's not a criticism of the computer here but the brain doesn't work like this.

Ultimately, maybe the question "can computers think" is meaningless as Turing himself said. If the output appears like it is the product of thought, then what difference does it make?
A software engineer is always wrong
I really need to learn the Firefox debugger. My years of chrome debugger muscle memory has tied me to that product (at least for work which is 95% of my desktop browsing)

Personally I’m a mobile personal browser person which is safari. I can’t stand to be at a computer after a day of being at the computer.
We all benefit from a world where productive developers are applauded for choosing between parallel tracks as ICs and managers.
Also from that Wikipedia article:

> Distributed revision control (DVCS) tools have popularised a less emotive use of the term "fork", blurring the distinction with "branch".[14] With a DVCS such as Mercurial or Git, the normal way to contribute to a project, is to first create a personal branch of the repository, independent of the main repository, and later seek to have your changes integrated with it. Sites such as GitHub, Bitbucket and Launchpad provide free DVCS hosting expressly supporting independent branches, such that the technical, social and financial barriers to forking a source code repository are massively reduced, and GitHub uses "fork" as its term for this method of contribution to a project.

On GitHub, if you fork somebody else’s repo, your version is called a fork. You don’t have to diverge. You don’t have to merge. You don’t have to do anything, but it’s still called a fork. Do you agree that this is how GitHub uses the term fork?
Gas prices go up, everyone gets mad. Dude adds supply to try to lower input prices, everyone gets mad. Conclusion: some folks were born mad and are gonna stay that way regardless.
Sorry, I don't understand the question. It seems to imply that there's some sort of limit on the number of people who can try finding a new thing for people to eat. This is one of the ways and they are doing it. I don't see how "should" enters into it.
This sounds very reasonable on paper. The elephant in the room, however, is that most people and even those who claim to want to move past ads don't want to pay that much for what they consume. The barrier between consuming something for free and paying even a tiny sum towards supporting the author is an enormous psychological chasm. The internet would definitely be much more restricted if the ad-financing model was not doable. There would be less crap as per Sturgeon's law, but the good parts would shrivel up too.

The case of HN is particularly enlightening because the community is very hostile to ads and for the most part has the technical ability to avoid them with a higher degree of sophistication than just installing Ublock. But there is also the majority of the focus and admiration placed on SWEs and companies that are directly and indirectly tied to the ad ecosystem. The energy given off is similar to McDonald's executives yelling at their children if they see them with a processed patty in hand.
Some companies have different offices in different countries, and one can issue invoices to the one in the US for 6 months and the one in Dubai for another 6 months if that were a problem. I've never heard of anyone in the EU having "exporter" clients in the US to require multiple of them every year though.
Damn, imagine having to spend so much of your life grinding just to give your kids a life in the shitty suburbs with an insane commute, and then somehow still being priced out a decade later.

The US working class is so fucked
Agreed. Maybe people could just start eating plants instead of over engineered industrially processed blocks of “food”.
Sure. Ageism, sexism, racism, etc, etc, etc, are all fucking idiotic. And yet surprisingly popular. So we have to deal with them.
Yeah myself as well, I want number 3. And it won't always be tracked...or will it? Cat and mouse. Honor system, a little bit.
Was that a helicopter I saw? Couldn't find anything about it in the source or discussion... nice touch!
I wonder where the genesis is of this idea that programming is young person's game akin to physical sports where speed, explosiveness and endurance matter.

It seems to me that it's an intellectual activity where one should go on for very long honing their skills and becoming better and better at it with age.

Maybe the industry sidelines the older more experienced technical folks at a cost, and that's why there seems to be a reinvention of the wheel several times in the software industry.

I'm curious if there are other technical fields that are similar to programming with regards to ageism.

Wishful thinking maybe, but open-source may help in this regard. As more and more of software is being added to the commons, those who've been there and done that can have a greater influence in driving progress.
They're hard at work in this thread today; people must be convinced to buy Tesla, and to stay away from Polestar.
>I never understood why some people despise the term full-stack.

More for the role: full-stack has you doing multiple roles, but is not compensated as such. You're even removing the communication overhead if the role had been split in two. It seems to me as a business move to compress roles and pay you less for double the capability in exchange for varied work. I don't think people should just accept lower comp just because they prefer varied work.
> Other than thinking the spread of yellow is limited to one gloober at a time, this seems right.

Yup. Here are the results I get when manually applying these rules myself.

Here I mention only the flomps that change gloobers to become yellow.

Turn 1: Zoo is yellow.

Turn 2: Zoo flomps Bat, turning Bat yellow. Zoo flomps Crystal, turning Crystal yellow.

Turn 3: Crystal flomps X-Ray, turning X-Ray yellow. Bat flomps Lovely, turning Lovely yellow.

In other words it would be:

1. Yellow gloobers - Zoo.

2. Yellow gloobers - Zoo, Bat, Crystal.

3. Yellow gloobers - Zoo, Bat, Crystal, X-Ray, Lovely.

So it’s got the order correct, and like you said it’s just that it thinks only one gloober is flomped each turn.
What is with vocal programmer types and their love for dancing?
AIX pioneered technologies, like logical volume management, journaled file systems, etc. way before they were available in other Unixes. LVM existed for Solaris, but was an expensive third party add-on (Veritas Volume Manager, etc.)

It definitely had a weird feel to it though!
Isn't bzip notoriously slow though?
Ok the RT thing is clearly a joke, but the unit test comment hopefully similar, or was that meant seriously? Likely no, otherwise please url for logging a ticket
> "False self-employment is a situation in which somebody registered as self-employed, a freelancer, or a temp is de facto an employee carrying out a professional activity under the authority and subordination of another company. Such false self-employment is often a way to circumvent social welfare and employment legislation, for example by avoiding employer's social security and income tax contributions."

Could you kindly explain how this definition of "false self-employment" is in any way relevant to the situation I just described in my original comment? I'm struggling to see it myself.

What about the specific situation I described implies circumvention of social welfare, or employment legislation, for example?
They should have included Atari River Raid for bonus meta points!
That amp link doesn't work for me.

But the article doesn't really support the argument. Complaining that many soy farms are currently using bad practices doesn't make soy inherently unsustainable. Neither does an argument that cow farming preserves certain grasslands. And even if CO2 is a "limited" metric it's one that's pretty relevant to sustainability.

So I'm open to being convinced, but this article ain't it.
Yeah, there's not a chance. You have to save them when you find them. That's the real benefit of the actual source over the pop science article or press release summarizing it: the real source is going to be typeset into a pdf that you can keep, instead of being a link that changes or rots, or a memory of something that was dropped from search engines or out-SEO'd.
People belittle Firefox and its parent company out of both love and fear because it's one of the few bastions remaining in a sea of botnets and data siphons. And no, le shill lion doesn't count.