skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems really cool. Even though there are clearly some flaws, the most important thing for learning to speak a language is simply the act of speaking and listening.

There's some key points of advice I'd give:

- Allow multiple languages under an account. People that learn languages tend to learn more than one. I'd personally like to practice my Spanish AND Chinese.

- Forget the lessons (for now at least. You're jumping in too fast and even the basic lesson requires quite a large barrier to entry). Make an easy way to just get to the chat in a specific language. That's the greatest utility of the tool, make it shine.

- There's also some ease of use things like lack of pinyin/latinization for some languages. Or like not being able to delete your message when in the translation (and that pressing the record again appends instead of rewrites). But this all seems like it'll be worked out by dogfooding.

Great job though! I'm excited to use it and have already shared with a few friends.

As a (CV) ML researcher, I'm curious what backends you're using and your control flow.
Strangely, gas turbines supplying Hungary which showed a more friendly posture towards Russia didn't break all of a sudden... I obviously can't prove that the Russia controlled companies that operated this equipment deliberately broke anything but in the past outages like this were relatively rare.
Aside from the scheme example in the sibling reply, ruby has had a lambda, as a special kind of proc, for a very very long time and it is similarly not a "real lambda."

Honestly it's likely that for most of the history of the term it's been more used for "incorrect" meanings than "correct" ones.
If only we had a rapid rail backbone so people could live further from these desirable cities without losing easy access to them.
Why are front end developers like this?
Well, pago isn’t weird, it’s paĝo that is.
Great story! How were you able to diagnose the issue? I imagine it must have been quite a bit more difficult back then before the advent of Google.
FWIW you can still click+drag on the file name/search bar. Not as intuitive but it's a big target that you can still use.
You will never see a truce between developers and people who challenge their profits. Be realistic.
> The story is morally neutral. It isn't a complaint; that's the beauty of it. Bradbury is one of the few authors who often tried to achieve that kind of neutrality.

Bradbury's writing is many things, but morally neutral it is not. Throughout almost all of his books is a morality that looks very skeptically at change, and a tendency to predict any trend into slippery slope. His prose and storytelling is fantastic and as a counterbalance to more optimistic authors of the time like Heinlein his works are great, but Bradbury writes from a very distinct viewpoint.

A much more neutral older SF author, IMO, is Le Guin. She does a great job of bringing up complex ideas and not picking sides.
The author says as much in the post. There's some discussion of inline towards the end.
For me as an American, $5 a month (or less with longer terms) is pretty damn good! Who has cheaper prices that actually competes on features, performance, reliability, goodwill, etc.?
I think fastmail is trying for an 'everyone supports this standard except for you' strategy

could work, I feel like the bigger question is 'will email still be the standard' in 5 years -- it has iffy security, it's complex, nobody can self host it, it doesn't integrate well with other applications (i.e. 'push messaging' features)
The problem is the people who live and vote there want the city to remain as it is - certainly it would be a successful city if it were as dense as Paris, but it wouldn’t be Santa Cruz anymore, but Paris West or something.
It's exactly a diagram DSL which outputs SVG.

It's by the author of SQLite, and is used for all the syntax diagrams in the SQLite documentation, and a bunch of graphs in the Fossil docs.
Oddly, Cloudflare is part of the Bandwidth Alliance - a consortium of 19 companies who want to reduce bandwidth costs.

Backblaze, an online storage and backup company, is also a member. They charge $.005/GB/month for S3 compatible storage. And if you map and access a bucket through Cloudflare there is no egress fee.

So it's possible to store and access your files at 1/3 the price of Cloudflare alone by using Cloudflare (plus Backblaze).
Dividends and Distributions
Can you give more details about this stenographer tactic?
Recently i found that while basic stop autoplay option in Firefox does not work reliably, if one also sets media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2, it works much better than the default policy.

But it seems it is still just a heuristic that blocks some JS play commands, while allows them in some context.
True. Even if they seem nice and a quick learner, the identity fraud can be a security issue.
Also "A Logic Named Joe", with social networking stuff.
> l_add needs the arguments passed one at a time. We never see this syntax with multiple parenthesis in Python. It works and it has many benefits built in, but it would be a paradigm shift to expect pythonistas to start writing their programs this way, it’s just not Pythonic.

He makes a big point about currying in his particular manner, but what's wrong with

f = lambda x,y: x+y
g = lambda y: f(3,y)

That's also currying right? I've always been a little confused as to why the style he advocates is necessarily better. I'm not a functional guy so I'm maybe I'm missing something, what is the benefit of syntactic sugar for partial application to the first (or last) argument of a function? What if I want partial application of a function with the middle argument specified? Now you're out of luck and have to do the above anyway.

ETA: on the main point

> In Python, we do not use lambda with the intention of using lambda calculus. Our syntax needs to encode our intention in the places we have used it, and where we will use it. These use cases are inline, anonymous functions.

That seems needlessly nitpicking. Wikipedia has "lambda function" as a synonym for anonymous function so it seems pretty widespread in our language at this point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function
Do they actually do that though? Pump and dump their followers?
So repeal prop 13 for non-owner occupied properties, and tax rental income at insane amounts.
Hmm. Id say historically Republics were the exception rather than the rule.

> we can have something that works similarly without the issues of the inherited rights.

This argument...

What exactly is the issue with birthright that monarchs have?
I feel like that is a different concept of infinity than the one the article is talking about. Thinking about time as it approaches infinity feels more like an asymptotic notion of infinity instead of a cardinality one, i.e. similar to the type of infinity we mean when we say quicksort is O(n log n).

That said, i dont know how to really make this any more concrete then what the article did. Perhaps an analogy of an infinitely precise ruler with every possible tick marked off (e.g. marking off 0.1 cm, 0.01, and so on for every real number), and how if in addition to labeling the ticks with lengths we also wanted to label them as first tick, second tick, third tick, it would be impossible. The basic gist of the proof from the article is given any proposal for a way to label the ticks on our ruler as first, second, third, ... covering all the ticks, there is a generic way to find a tick that is missed, so any such proposal must miss some ticks. So in a sense the real numbers are "bigger" than the integers, because if you try to match them up you will always have real numbers left over. Thus people say the real numbers are uncountable as there is no way to count them all.

This is in contrast to something like the integers where you could say 0 is the first one, 1 is second, -1 is third, 2 is fourth and so forth, eventually getting to all of them given infinite time with nothing left over.
$9/mo for 100GB doesn't really compete with the $10/mo 2TB Google plan or the one I have now for $12 and get unlimited storat
Who's we? You and me? Some people care, some people don't.
There is quite a bit of risk involved in a covert operation like this for Ukraine. Let's just imagine they sent a special ops team covertly into Denmark (onto the island of Bornholm which is mostly reached by airplane or ferry) and planted some explosives on the pipeline in a secret dive operation.

There are quite a bit of scenarios in which this could go terribly wrong or be successfully attributed after the facts.

The paramount Ukrainian reliance on western support to have any chance to win this war makes me think that the risk/reward ratio for this operation would make it super unlikely that Ukraine would consider doing this.
Ada: Supporting better health outcomes and clinical excellence
What's the use-case for workers outside of CDN edge compute?

I understand why I'd want to do edge compute: it lets me shift work (in some cases at least) from my backend to the CDN, so my backend gets less traffic and users (possibly) get responses faster since the workers run on CDN edge nodes.

But obviously if I'm running workerd myself, I'm not doing edge compute (unless I'm also operating my own CDN). And if I'm not doing edge compute, just deploying code or a container to a server seems easier. Is it for the case where you want to do serverless stuff in a runtime you host yourself?
Started the transition from Gmail to FastMail at custom domain yesterday. Presence of an API was definitely important (though I probably should have tested it out during the free trial).

Had some initial buyer's regret for no reason in particular (did the 3-year plan for the best price and assuming prices will go up over time), but already feeling really solid. The web client is very snappy, documentation is good, able to import my Gmail messages, contacts, calendars, and even filters in a snap (though imperfectly). Looking forward to seeing how the API compares with my Google API scripts. Definitely seems to be more knobs and buttons for power users (more powerful filters, regex, etc.).

While not relevant to FastMail per se, also really glad to finally start the painful process of migrating decades of accounts to my custom domain email, where I hope it will stay forever. Growing concern about the (admittedly slim) possibility of losing access to my Gmail account was a big motivator, as was the recent move to force the Google Apps stuff to a paid plan.

So far so good.
nice! The visual feedback while making a selection is a big plus
I expect most who click will think this is about the subdomain name of their server, as I did. It's about the Christian name (prenom) of your waiter in a restaurant. Also important I'm sure, but probably not the first way it would be interpreted here
A fasting mimicking diet? There is nothing that mimics fasting 1:1.
You think e exists but 0 is only to help computations?
Possible security issues, stealing data, corporate raider.
The Future of Power in a Virtual and Intelligent World
And the most dangerous warmongers and facists today, may very well believe they are fighting those very same things.

But then again I believe germans in WW2 saw themselves as fighting a war for peace.
>I am not aware of a more prescient bit of science fiction. Bradbury knew how people worked and what we'd try to make.

I'm not certain it is, but The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert has a rather interesting excerpt:

>To those men in their oddly similar dark suits, their cold eyes weighing and dismissing everything, the people of this valley were a foe to be defeated. As he thought of it, Dasein realized all customers were "The Enemy" to these men. Davidson and his kind were pitted against each other, yes, competitive, but among themselves they betrayed that they were pitted more against the masses who existed beyond that inner ring of knowledgeable financial operation.

>The alignment was apparent in everything they did, in their words as well as their actions. They spoke of "package grab level" and "container flash time" -- of "puff limit" and "acceptance threshold." It was an "in" language of militarylike maneuvering and combat. They knew which height on a shelf was most apt to make a customer grab an item. They knew the "flash time" -- the shelf width needed for certain containers. They knew how much empty air could be "puffed" into a package to make it appear a greater bargain. they knew how much price and package manipulation the customer would accept without jarring him into a "rejection pattern."

>*And we're their spies, Dasein thought. the psychiatrists and psychologists - all the "social scientists" we're the espionage arm.*

The Santaroga Barrier,

Frank Herbert, 1968

The way that tech uses "dark patterns" to keep us glued to our phones, and use fairly advanced science to do it, was sort of called out if not predicted.
No, of course not, but there's plenty of apologists that will show up and tell you that these companies are actually very important because replicating their enormous "domain knowledge" or whatever is impossible.

Nevermind the fact that even if such domain knowledge existed in them, they probably wouldn't have a process for transferring it to the juniors they throw in the fire pit to actually "execute" a project.

Best you can get with these companies is avoiding a complete crash landing and "only" striking the tail.
Thanks! I've heard some performances with Partch's instruments, but a visual 'orientation' like this is rare.
There are two kinds of people who don't need a lot of disk space on their laptop:

1. Those with few big things - these people just don't need a lot of disk space

2. Those with lots of big things - no matter what you do your laptop can't hold everything, so you have a different place for the overflow anyway.

Personally, I think 128GB is crazy small, but it's been working fine for my wife for years, so what do I know?
This was never an economic conflict.
Other than crushing the economy to deal with inflation, as the Fed is attempting to do, you can also boost production.

That's what the US should be focused heavily on.

Infrastructure generally, grid, wind/solar/nuclear, manufacturing.

And start expanding Medicaid upward (by incomes) and Medicare downward (by age).

Raise income taxes on the top 1/4, aggressively on the top 10%.

It'd be a good, modest start.
Lambda has to be the least intuitive part of Python. even the name of it "Lambda" makes it sound like some deep computer science complex thing, inaccessible to beginners.

In JavaScript I constantly use anonymous functions everywhere and they are easy to understand and use.

The same concept in Python is clunky, hard to understand and definitely not easy to use.

JavaScript absolutely trounces Python when it comes to compact, minimal, highly expressive anonymous functions.

JavaScripts arrow functions are so elegant and so compact and so effective that they completely change the way I program JavaScript. No such equivalent exists in Python.
lol. You made my day.
The bandwidth alliance only applies to serving web content. Backblaze and R2 are not exactly aimed at the same market
Title is cringe:

> Benzene’s bond lengths corrected

First, passive voice should not be used when avoidable.

Second, the bond lengths are fine. It's the measurement that was wrong.
This is the nth time I see "have you experienced hiring fraud" ask-hn's in the last couple of months.

The frequency at which they show up on the front page makes me think someone's trying to build a narrative.

This is particularly concerning given that this website is also one of the tech sector's most respected hiring sites.

My main question isn't /whether/, as I have enough to go on that this is somehow deliberate. What I'm asking myself is what the ultimate goal of this is.
I take a look on Twitter for inspiration, there is the #buildinpublic hashtag where you can see what others founders are doing. Also is good to promote what you are building, I've made 5k in 5 months thanks to it :)
Except hopefully they won't deplatform and take your emails unlike Google, if their AI doesn't like your email content
> actually performing as a DJ?

Performing where? Doesn't a venue's ASCAP license fee cover that? If I go out on the weekend, there's gonna be a DJ at the bar/club and most of them aren't playing exclusively their original tracks. I'm sure some of the smaller venues are skirting the law but anywhere notable isn't going to be able to get away with that, and be paid up on their licensing fees.

As far as just listening to SoundCloud, maybe my cohort is more musically adventurous but there are a ton of 3 hour mixes that are on heavy rotation, with Spotify a distant second.
> I think in general the human mind treats Maintenance as less important or not important at all.

I think you're probably right.

As another simple example, I like to actually keep a pretty clean house. I know that this frustrates roommates or other people I live with but it actually takes very little work to keep the house clean (I'm honestly a pretty lazy person). My motto is "It is far easier to _keep_ things clean than it is to _make_ things clean later." It is amazing how far just wiping up a mess when it is made goes to keeping things clean. Takes 5 seconds if you do it after the mess is made but 15 minutes if you wait. Or just simple maintenance things like once a week spray your shower with bleach water 15 minutes before you get in (and rinse the walls). (Obviously there's exceptions to the "clean now" "rules" because schedules get tight and that's not always possible. So I just want to make it clear I'm not harassing people. I just don't want a stove top covered in oil or garbage littered in the house)

I think this style of maintenance extends well beyond cleanliness or health. We also probably undervalue it because we're also pretty well known to be bad at future planning. It is basically the Marshmallow Experiment. For cleaning (or most maintenance tasks) the cost is little now but requires effort now while the cost is higher in the future but you're able to put off the effort. Problem being that we view future costs/rewards as smaller than immediate costs/rewards. I always wonder how much faster humans could progress if we were able to more accurately internalize future costs/rewards into our mental models (even just a small improvement).
Looks to me the author hasn't run different workloads in different production clusters of any complexity. Advise is fine for a small predictable cluster but too simplistic for any real complex cluster.
I left Gmail for that exact reason. I just didn’t want to wake up one day to find my digital life had been locked out because Google Photos has thought my picture of a funny tree was somehow an object that violates their terms of service. Fastmail has been great, and I also prepaid for multiple years. No complaints.
i think it would be cool to start over with a whole new markup language. Probably keep http, but html and css and javascript are out the door. The new "browser" could be more like a container/sandboxed thing that fetches some markup and code and does who knows what.
lambdas are very useful for example for sorting data using a key function.
Maybe the auther is saying that it should be called differently, or have a different syntax and the title is just clickbait.
> 1) Going from $0 to $50/year is such a tough pill to swallow ..

If you’re in a first-world country and knowledgeable enough to be reading HN: how can that be? It’s one coffee a month. If needed, think of it as charity to support an indie developer.

#2 is not an issue. Your Google account and associated files and services continue to work. Email moves, nothing else.
~/Library/Containers/* is where sandbox containers live. The folder structure within the container intentionally matches up with the folder structure non-sandboxed apps use, where the Data subfolder looks very similar to the user's home folder. I've never tested but I assume that sandboxed apps that call the macOS API that returns the user's home folder are actually given the path to their container's data folder instead. This makes it a lot easier to sandbox apps.
I always worked with individual contract engineers. I mentioned it here, a couple of weeks ago[0]. The type of work we did was waaaaayyyy too dicey to chance on "just anyone."

In the Days of Yore, they had "Contractor Agents," that acted like talent agents. We would deal with them, to get introduced to the ICs that they represented.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32838336
>without prices

What in god’s name what!? How much business are they losing from that I wonder haha
"They" the anti-KF activists, sure. I haven't heard that Cloudflare had anything to do with the pressure campaign on archive.org; do you have a source for that?
Are these cached files marked as purgeable? If they are, then what's the big deal?
It’s called market manipulation and is very much a crime.
NOICE

Didn’t think of that. Still damn impressive
Efficient Energy claims first climate neutral chiller
Zoom does, Teams does, Slack does.
just use multicontainers for this in firefox. There is no equivalent in safari or chrome though.
I feel like this PND thing might just be an agency for the folks on https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed to outsource the acquisition of their 2nd, 3rd, 4th jobs.
>“Even in the Indiana Jones movies, there is a white guy who, ‘bang,’ shoots people, right? Japanese people who go along and enjoy with that are unbelievably embarrassing,” Miyazaki reportedly stated in a resurfaced interview. “You are the ones that, ‘bang,’ get shot. Watching [those movies] without any self-awareness is unbelievable. There’s no pride, no historical perspective.”

Hayao Miyazaki.
What does imaginary numbers have to do with the topic at hand?
I've supervised a ton of internships, and was an academic before that.

The success of internships is largely preordained by the quality of the mentor. Specifically: careful project selection, good advising particularly in the first few weeks, and political/social capital to translate internships into offers (both at the company and elsewhere). Interns can screw things up, and in rare cases heroically rescue an internship, but the liklihood of a good outcome for the average intern is often preordained.

So the real advice is to find an excellent mentor. But that's really hard because you rarely know who the mentor is when applying. In lieu of better information, FAANGs and Better-than-FAANG (eg Jane Street) are a good proxy because they disproportionately pull individual contributors with significant experience mentoring juniors: PhDs, people who TA'd during undergraduate, etc.
Pandemic is a decent team (all players) vs outbreak (board/chance) game.
> The dollar is rising because people need American stuff, not in spite of it.

Need is doing a lot of work here. Recently our trade deficit recovered from a trough of growing at the rate of $100 billion a month back to $70 billion a month. For comparison, during the entire 2010s, it only grew by $40 billion a month. We haven't had a trade surplus since 1991, when we managed it for a quarter, and before then not since Reagan was elected.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOPGSTB
I don't doubt that quantum experiments like Stern Gerlach are sensitive! :)

I probably should have specified: can you break stern Gerlach specifically by introducing isometry and the constructing an experiment that allows the particle to move through an expanding spacetime?
Nord stream 2 had already been halted; Biden already got what he wanted. Far more likely IMO is that Putin did it hoping to blame it on the US to divide NATO.
Audit your DNS config, you'd be shocked at how bad it can get
This is a complete non-sequitur - Krugman isn't here complaining about him being judged. And this is a strange reply given that you do not seem to have the ability to correctly judge Krugman. As I had mentioned, GBP/USD has hardly moved since Krugman's tweets, yet you came here to talk about how Krugman is consistently wrong.
He probably got chastised for poor interviewing in Feedback on Feedback.