skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, no. Sign languages, like American Sign Language, are not "simplistic" versions of spoken languages. They are complete, complex languages with their own robust syntax and grammatical structures. A better way to explain this is that it's like an adult who is natively fluent in one language trying to read subtitles in a second language with which they don't have working fluency and rarely, if ever, speak.

Source: My degree in American Sign Language.
Love it. This is one of the primary features that RDIO had that I miss in Spotify, because it allows for discovering songs, as in “if someone likes this song enough to add it to a song list, I wonder what else they like”. I look forward to the indexing to increase, because many of my favorites aren’t in your index yet. (And they what would it be like if you cooold enter two or more song titles?)
Assuming you're using A440. I do not see a way to change it to my preferred reference frequency A432.
My experience is the exact opposite.

ORM's never scale and you end up with hand written SQL long term. Unless it is really just a CRUD app then ORM's really work fairly well.
> Sawyer is a crazy class that converts a hash to an object whose methods are based on the hash's key:

People keep adding hidden interpreters and 'exec' commands in their projects where no one expects them to be. As far as I can tell the library is just supposed to make HTTP requests, it's just a fancy client library?

This needs to be the kind of thing that developers are trained on, like "don't hash passwords" and "don't build up SQL strings from untrusted input". "Don't build your own 'exec' and hide it in your library, don't reinvent object serialization".

There is almost always a better way to solve a problem than by transmitting arbitrary code. Sometimes there isn't but it's rare, and in those cases it's very explicit ie: "I'm sending this database a query, I expect it to execute it".
I get the impression that OP's project is not aiming for scale.
Wood lasts essentially forever in the southwest. We have dendrochronological records going back thousands of years from the Colorado plateau because there's so little decay. There just wasn't much of it to build with out there by the classic period, so they relied more on abundant stone rather than trying to drag more timbers than strictly necessary the tens of kilometers from where they grew to where pueblos were built.

You probably know this as well, but for those that don't, the Anasazi are typically called "Ancestral puebloans" in modern literature because it's been well established that they didn't actually go anywhere, they're pretty direct ancestors of the modern puebloan nations (among others).
Noise cancelling headphones are a game changer.

I got a pair of Sony WH-1000XM5's and they're like magic. Lightweight, incredibly comfortable, and the active noise canceling is like getting transported into another reality.

It's the first pair of headphones I've been able to wear for a full 10-hour flight and never feel uncomfortable.
Compare the contents of the actual buffer.

If == on string was a bitwise comparison, it would be an identity check. But two different strings with the same content compare equal, meaning go dereferences the buffer pointer.
> Why don't iOS and Android allow plug-and-play layouts with their built in keyboards? It would be low complexity and put power/accessibility back into the hands of users.

The worry that said app would find some way to exfiltrate what the user types, perhaps? What with passwords being typed with keyboards and all that.
> It's not an oversimplification if it is a common use case.

If I listed scams successfully cashed out in USD over the last decade, roughly the time Bitcoin existed, and tell you that since this seems to be a very common use case for USD (most likely tens of billions worth world-wide in the last 10 years), all types of fiat money are basically scams now... Wouldn't you tell me I am oversimplifying the issue?

> While true that it is not crypto as a whole [...]

I assume this is you answering the above question, but I feel worth it to clarify, I use Bitcoin as a kind of measuring stick in this example because it is the largest cryptocurrency, it has over a decade track record of maintaining the principles it established without deviating from them and should be a representative project to consider when you pass generalized statements like "crypto = Ponzi".

> The community at large who loves crypto should really be doing more to stop every person with a modest twitter following from performing a successful rugpull since now the governments want to be involved.

Social media platforms can deal with this through moderation and reputation. They have to abide to both market laws (harboring too many scammers will lead to people fleeing away, so they have incentives to fight this) and legal codes.

Why should we limit the set of tools available to humanity to transfer value to stop a minority of scammers? We already "try" this with fiat and it just doesn't work, the current planned escalation to answer is more restriction (switching to CBDC with total control for Central Banks), more censorship.

Tools like Bitcoin want to provide an alternative to all of this, provide you with an option with wich even if you have more responsibilities/risks, you are in control. And the bonus is that all of these restrictions can become walled gardens on top of Bitcoin, for people who want/need the reversibility (use escrows, like they pretty much already do), but the basic right for you to transact with anyone else can't be removed by governments.
If you could grab a profile of the problem with the Firefox profiler and file a bug it would be greatly appreciated. From the sounds of it it's probably an edge-case we're not aware of where Firefox performs very poorly. The problem with this kind of things in Mozilla is that we're often blind until someone brings up the issue and notifies us.
ANC Headphones and Eardrum Suck: The Mystery Solved
The US has ITAR. If you have certain government contracts you are prohibited from selling products or providing access to certain foreign nations (blacklists), or a complete export blanket ban.

For instance, I recently started investing in an excitingly expensive hobby, night vision. The tubes in those things are so heavily restricted that I cannot even let a foreign national touch them, technically. Which makes it interesting considering my girlfriend is a Tunisian foreign national here on a work visa, so technically I cannot show her my cool new toys I spent thousands of dollars on.
And yet, somehow, I feel like it was a lot faster for me to learn how to type on an iPhone--nearly instant, really--because it was using QWERTY instead of having the letters in a random order, so it isn't clear to me that what you are saying matters even if it were true.
Swagger has the ability to turn api definition to libraries in any language. It is too verbose
If that's the case, then why was there no difference in mortality in the study?

Possible reasons I thought of:

- cancer cells metastasize/spread much earlier than we previously thought (https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/14/cancer-cells-spread-meta...)

- what if the presence of polyps is not all bad? i.e. maybe they keep the immune system in a tumor-responsive state, or they locally deplete nutrients that would otherwise feed other pre-cancerous cells?
No, you have the right to an attorney.

And what's popularized by TV, through dozens of police procedurals, most of which could be fairly accurately termed "copaganda," is the idea that asking for a lawyer is what guilty people do.

And, again: even if you actually have an attorney present with you, it is not guaranteed that they will be effective, and your handwaving that "If they don't work for your best interest and you can prove it, you get a retrial" does not negate the fact that a) people can, and do, take bad advice from attorneys that results in devastating plea bargains, b) actually proving they didn't work in your best interest is nontrivial, and c) even if you can do that, a retrial also requires an attorney, which you probably still can't afford to hire, so you're just getting another public defender, and also, in the vast majority of cases, takes place while you are still in prison...and will likely take months to years.

In general, your assumptions are very much that for someone wrongfully accused, the justice system will be kind and work in the most ideal way possible. I would not seek to deny that that can happen (particularly for affluent white men); my point is simply that it is only one end of the spectrum of possibilities, and far from the most likely for people who are further down the socioeconomic ladder.

Edit to add: Re: Miranda rights, the Supreme Court recently gutted that, making it far, far more difficult to ensure that any given accused has been read and understands their rights.
Have you looked at ProseMirror and Quill? I'm wondering how they compare.
As US debt continues to spiral, I believe the likelihood of bitcoin overtaking the dollar as global reserve currency increases.
The current frontpage story about Dvorak layout for the iPhone triggered me to search online if someone implemented a single handed chording keyboard. It turns out someone has!

For me, having a chording keyboard on the phone itself is the key feature. But it could double as an input for other devices I suppose.
Some of the best technical writers I've met were classmates from the NTID, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. But I think it was that english was in some ways a "foreign" language that made them so good; They went out of their way to be clear to the point of verbose, probably because it was unnatural and they felt it.

I don't want to sound judgemental, but I learned a little bit of sign language at the time, and the conversations I and friends had in sign seemed... Slangy. ASL is a language that has to deal with it's bandwidth limitations and the fact that it's not quite as broadcast as shouting is. Deaf culture involves a lot of physically reaching out and "Grabbing" the audiences attention; Tapping someone on the shoulder is an attention grabber of last resort for the hearing, while it's the obvious and only way of grabbing the attention of someone who's looking the other direction to the Deaf. Perhaps for that reason I always felt like Deaf people had no concept of personal space (Though my personal intuition is that it's actually literally about the little sounds your movement makes - I've encountered the same lack of personal space at Gun Ranges, where everyone is wearing hearing protection and you'd think that people would want to be separated)
True, there is a stark difference between the optimism before vs. the more dystopian outlook that a lot of people (myself included) share about it

'A just machine to make big decisions, programmed by fellas with compassion and vision...'
If you've striving to find something, you'll regret it. Embrace wrecking.
"We lost, you refuse to realize it at all costs."
https://youtu.be/VU02xELF1uE
Perhaps we should take a good look at countries where people are happiest, and at how their governments are run.
Don't be fooled, the central in "Central Banking" is about decision making power and profit. The losses are all distributed.
Immutable-ish builds are a great idea, but you should fix why on earth it's taking 2 hours for a Docker build :)
What's surprising about this to me is that ASL has no written form. I found si5s but it doesn't seem incredibly mainstream. I'm curious how people who speak primarily with ASL interact on the internet.

How do people who speak with ASL communicate over long distances without video, if not text? An AMA would be appreciated.

An interesting idea would be processing subtitles to some sort of digital mannequin that makes all of the gestures. I imagine you'd do this by coding all of the sign and finding all of the appropriate mappings, a la translation.
Co-authored by Eric Posner, law professor and son of HN's darling judge Richard Posner.
Would something like this work for you? That's what I'm using to switch between proxies but I'm unsure how your VPN setup is done.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switchyomega/
For you the important part is informing us what happens to the data with a Privacy Policy, and I would also have a Terms of Service requiring uploaders to acknowledge the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual rights.
> So next time you hear someone declare they’re entitled to their opinion, ask them why they think that. Chances are, if nothing else, you’ll end up having a more enjoyable conversation that way.

Not really, most of the time people use the titular phrase as a way to stop discussion because they don't want their opinion challenged further -- as the author himself says at the start of the article.

Pressure people even a little beyond that point and they become unreasonable and even aggressive.

Attacking deeply held beliefs and attacking the person's ability to think are different things but these people are unable to separate them after they get triggered because they feel under attack. It becomes a desperate defense of the ego and further discussion is doomed.

People love anecdotal evidence and they especially love the idea of the underdog lonely sample that goes against the established thought in an area. Many feel that sharing such beliefs in a group event makes them more interesting, i.e. they're seeking social prestige and the goal definitely isn't search for the truth.

They're all brain defects and we all have them and we all fell victim to them at one point. I respect more the people who are able to recognize they're being unreasonable and either ask to postpone the discussion or restart it with a different set of assumptions.
what would be a shortlist of your best VR experiences?
Do your own projects start to finish.

At my job I have yet to do the same thing twice. It's hard to get any momentum like this. Maybe your situation is the same and by great programmers you mean people that do the same thing over and over.
Speed limits are actually another great example of an ineffective control. I live somewhere with lots or wide straight roads that have ridiculously low speed limits, and they are ignored utterly. Sometimes you find a really big speed limit sign, as if that is the problem. I feel to some extent that it makes people drive even faster when they are absurdly low, because they're pushed so far over the line they just say screw it and ignore the limit entirely instead of feeling restrained a bit, which is probably another good covid analogy. Telling people "it's not that hard to drive safely" and then defining "safety" as something absurdly cautious and frustrating is just as unhelpful as many jurisdictions' civic guidance, and the article is providing evidence that the latter is just as useless as the former
In real code, the problem would usually occur not because you want a value to be nil but because you’re converting a value you already have to an interface. And that value happened to be a pointer which is nil.
Good well-being should be the desired outcome. It should be the measurement by which "success" is determined.

What tools are necessary to achieve good well-being should be the topic of research and political debate.

I think the problem we have today is that, politicians in particular, are only interested in the metrics that make their preferred tools look good. So a hard line socialist is inclined to ignore the benefits a free market provides and focus solely on how state-run programs can solve everything. On the flip-side, conservatives see a strong economy, put all their faith behind the free market, and ignore the proven effectiveness social programs have in areas where capitalism struggles like healthcare.
Gambia cough syrup scandal: Police investigate deaths linked to Indian medicine
Not really that dystopian: different cultures we have now, they evolved because people were spread across the whole earth with no means of instant communication. Now that we have Internet, cell phones, etc. we will eventually blend into one culture (over the next 200-300 years). That's not a problem really. What is the problem is people who are impatient, and try to speed up the whole process. Such as current European Union leaders. Trying to force the change, instead of letting it happen naturally provokes unrest, conflict, rise of nationalism, etc.
So it's just a static site generator for blogs....?
No, Satori does not guarantee that the SVG will 100% match the browser-rendered HTML output. That's because Satori implements its own layout engine based on the SVG 1.1 spec. However, Satori generated result (SVG) is stable on all browsers.
It's still in rapid development mode. Can be booted on bare metal, but it's not ready for prime time yet.
Every time I've tried to understand the entire argument it just raises more questions to me. For example as I was first introduced to it, frequentists simple count frequencies observed in nature and then compute stats on them, and then build inferential models using those stats without assuming any complex underlying distribution. While Bayesians count frequencies, apply a prior correction (say, adding a pseudocount of one for every unobserved possible event, or any other way of assuming the generative process has a distribution that we've previously estimated), some stats,then build models from that.

however, after I was told that, I've seen several other arguments that quickly dive into: the distribution of the underlying events (I've heard that frequentists assume one type while bayesian assume another). Other folks just sort of give the example of the base rate fallacy.

Throughout all of this I've realized: I don't understand stats at all. I came to the scientific world with a view much more like physics: there is a microscopic event system (a particle simulation, or whatever) that we are observing, but due to limitations, we can only make macroscopic observations, which represent biased aggregations of the underlying microscopic event system. We can figure out those biases and use the aggregate data to build predictive models of the underlying systems- without ever really knowing the true details of the microscopic model.

From what I can tell, everything about what physicists do to model the world mentally is more Bayesian than Frequentist, if I understand what the hell people mean when they argue about it. However, as I said, every time I look at the arguments, I realize I don't understand stats, while I understand the physics approach which seems to be fairly obvious.
But this is like saying zoom shouldn't let you turn off the mic or video and shouldn't have text chat.
I hate this argument because it's fucking stupid. I think we can draw a clear and logical line between "gun" and "doomsday device".
the part where it says "the word order is strange" is implying that they don't know how to read properly
Man, if the state of the art is to suggest something Cloudflare related, that's a really sad state of affairs.
Great question! And what about the distain for MBA degrees (where management ethics are taught) among so called software engineers?

And what good is a code if you have to be an "underling" to follow it?
i see. i'll bet you that it doesn't on this website: https://longbets.org/
I don't think the NSA pays as well though. You also have large restrictions. Not just stuff like never having smoked weed in your life (we are talking about CS people...) but that once you even have a security clearance (a pain to get in the first place) you have a lot of daily life headaches. You have to carefully watch what you say. International travel has to be reported (and can even be a big hassle). Etc. I'm not sure if the same is true for Google's Red/Blue teams, but I feel pretty confident in saying that they probably get paid more.
You are right, but Substack nevertheless presents a screen that looks like a paywall even on free articles like this. You need to notice and click a small "read the post first" link below the faux paywall into order to continue reading the post.
Breathing System for Last of Us II
I won’t speak for management, as MBA is pretty easy to search for on the internet, but project management does have the following:

https://www.pmi.org/about/ethics/code

It does speak volumes that even PMI has links to articles such as “Being Ethical is Profitable”
Facebook was also limited to JUST college students at that point which very much made it not an Everyone app. Part of the appeal originally was that Grandma couldn't comment on the photo your friend posted of you where you were passed out shirtless on a random persons couch covered in doritos
Poor Dyna-Soar. Even its name seems to have jinxed it.

Some cool tech was there. They got so far with it as well — search for it on YouTube and you can find videos of various aspects of research that went into it. [1..6]

I like the landing skids that used the stretching of metal as the means to adsorb the shock of landing - reminds me somewhat of the metal honeycomb that collapsed to adsorb the lunar module landing on the moon.

I believe water circulated through the skin of the craft near the astronaut compartment to take heat away during reentry.

I recall that the nose of the craft was made of a rather interesting material. That may've been shared with the X-15 as well.

Enough blueprints too are available for the craft-that-never-flew that I enjoyed creating a kind of balsa-kit-that-never-existed. [7] A very pretty plane it was/wasnt.

[1] https://youtu.be/TkWg4dd7e8w

[2] https://youtu.be/8Bn5A0oNpuM

[3] https://youtu.be/drfcrl_vc8M

[4] https://youtu.be/muNYhj9DFrM

[5] https://youtu.be/TikodTMGdP0

[6] https://youtu.be/NXD6oAEDKqA

[7] https://imgur.com/a/VEqKG13
There was an article written by the author of 1491 in the Atlantic that is a great abbreviated version of the book for anyone interested:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30...
Fun fact: Andreas contributed to KHTML
https://github.com/KDE/khtml/blob/41057a9a8e491b72c8296bf5ed...
Longplayer: A one thousand year long composition
I've seen the effects of "limiting" the price.

I started paying 0.17€/kWh which is way more than I used to pay but not that bad with all the current events. After limiting the natural gas price I started paying between 0.15€ and 0.2€ per kWh as a kind of subsidy to keep the price below certain threshold. So, yeah, I'm paying twice as much per kWh to keep the prices low.
yes, investment in any other area benefits the whole economy - like infrastructure or education. Military hardware is very specialized, for example you can't use the armor of a tank for any other purpose. Also the price of military equipment tends to be very high, some say it's artificially high. It generates huge profits, but only to the benefit of few people. This in turn is pushing inequality.

However if you don't invest enough in these thing, then you stand the chance of running into real problem. However it is hard to tell what the right balance is...
Its their country. Not every nation has to turn into a western cult.
I've had my canoe in weeds so thick the bottom wasn't even touching water, but I could push my paddle through and not touch bottom.

Canoes make acceptable sleds in some situations.
Write down your requirements before you start (README.md).

Always write documentation.

For nontrivial projects, iterate your design on paper before writing it in code. Write down why you chose a particular design against other candidates (eg. buy vs build) as part of your documentation. Use CI/CD and automate testing. Document test results. Use an RCS/VCS.

You're not going to come up with a simple design through any kind of coding techniques or any kind of programming language concepts. Simplicity has to be achieved above the code level before you get to the point which you worry about how you actually implement this thing in code. - Leslie Lamport

You're not going to find the best algorithm in terms of computational complexity by coding. - Leslie Lamport
Ironically, by using modern tools.