skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just before the pandemic I had a trip to Mexico City planned and spent a couple months learning Spanish, and I like many others took 3 years of Spanish in high school, but that was over 10 years ago

I went on the trip and while it helped a little, in conversation it was practically useless outside of the very basics.

I dropped Duolingo and took an intensive 3 month course of Spanish with a minimum courseload
minimum 2-3 hours a day because there was nothing else to do. I changed all media I consume to Spanish (music, news, shows, books, etc) I learned more in those 3 months than all of my high school classes and any amount of Duolingo could have helped me.

Now it's 3 years later and I have spent a cumulative 1.5 years of time as a digital nomad in Spanish speaking countries and most consider my Spanish to not necessarily be native fluent, but conversationally fluent in that I can understand jokes, ask for whatever I need, etc.

I'd personally only recommend Duolingo for maybe vocabulary, but if you really want to learn you need to immerse and actually talk with people frequently, as in basically daily.

You need to make those stupid mistakes that native speakers may giggle at and then correct you.
The unions have had Tesla in this sights for far more reasons for a long time. I’m not sure it will make any difference.
What percent of a uterus owner's day is spent doing actions related to having a uterus? On a heavy flow day, maybe 10 minutes? Maybe half an hour a month? That's 0.3% of their life, leaving a possible 99.7% overlap in shared similar experiences.
The problem here is that, Google should have made very clear that the domain is converting to premium and provide necessary suggestions and/or give time to the newly-premium-assigned domain owner so he can act accordingly. Otherwise I don’t think this is not a sneaky way of doing business.
gTLDs are a lovely combination of vanity and cashgrabs.
Great project, thanks for sharing!

I think it would be more useful if there were more ways to sort and organize the content. Right now there's only "Front Page" (I assume that's what's hot), and "Newest". I'd like to see "Best of all time" (maybe other time periods), and some categories for Useful, Innovative, Fiction, Unexpected, and others... Maybe as tags, but have links to a few of those broad category tags on the front page.

Adding these features will help keep promote diverse usage, instead of cute memes devouring everything.
Interpreting Girard Lecture I
I worked with a guy that did this.

Instead of writing for loops he would write comprehensions everywhere because "list comprehensions are pythonic".

Think like:

[send_welcome_email(u) for u in users]

Just hanging out in the middle of the module or function.
Hacker News has a weird cultural dissonance where it's designed to encourage tangential conversations as you mention, but also has numerous features designed to discourage engagement and casual style for the sake of maintaining quality and avoiding the Eternal September effect. It wants to be a water cooler or a pub where people discuss interesting things, but no one polices the conversations in a pub or around a water cooler for topicality, novelty or substance.

It really should use a flat format to that end, but it's written in a lisp, so not having it render a tree view is probably sacrilege.
Maybe I'm just being pessimistic, but the failure mechanism is the erosion of the underlying denuded ground in a large storm to the point that the underlying structure moves.
Octagonal house: mid-19th century quirky architectural fad swept the country
According to my little research you can insert script tags, but you can only use the scripts which are bundled inside the extension. It's still not clear to me what prevents this script to download external script using AJAX which will execute whatever user wants (e.g. some cloud userscript service).

Also for power users it should not be a problem at all. Just create your own extension which is literally few simple files and put your userscripts inside that extension. Then load this extension from the chrome and voila.
Some real tone deaf behaviour
Sun Cable's 10GW in the Northern Australia is also ground mounted:

https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/sun-cable-5b-solar-mb118...
I read all the comments, the most popular income stream in the comments is to get a FAANG gig. Pow. Done.
I did Duo Korean for a while with my SO. We got stuck on a section that started introducing a lot of proper names for people - the grammar around it was really confusing.

After a few weeks of struggling, we discovered the website had PAGES of grammar notes for the section we were on. It was impossible without them and the way it was introduced even on the website made progress feel very slow compared to the pacing up to that point.

There was zero indication of the extra notes in the app and eventually googling the for tips on the duo section led us to a bunch of people complaining about it and linking to the notes.

When the pacing is good though duo is fun and easy to do consistently. I'm sure it is not super effective after a certain point but I could definitely see myself navigating Seoul with just the lessons there. The hangul character lessons seemed well done.
Yes, marking domains as "Premium" is very common, it's not just Google that does it.

I registered a .sbs domain for a couple dollars the first year, and they want $200-300/yr from me now.
> is that they just slip a version on your machine that sends the password to the feds/whoever when you type it in.

Apple has very publicly refused to do this for law enforcement and there's no evidence they have or ever will
I got a bit triggered by that "sub-$1k keyboard" of yours. I mean, you are totally right, this is a typical product for that price, i.e. this is a "normal" market price for this kind of product… But, man, I just can't get over the fact how ridiculously overpriced these things are! These are such simple devices, so much easier to produce than "classical" music instruments. Yet because of small market and the product being somewhat of a "professional tool" we still get these pretty basic keyboards for $1k+ and behave as if it's a totally fair price because of hammer action and stuff (and take it for granted that $500 devices should have shitty keyboards).

Sure, good mechanics are worth something, but (especially when talking about midi-keyboards) it's the only thing that's complicated in these devices, and it isn't that expensive to produce.
This is pretty disgusting on Google's part if true. It sounds like they're only letting people rent domains then acting like a landlord who increases rent to match "market rates" when you renew the lease. Hopefully this is some sort of error, but somehow I doubt it.
ChatGPT Will End High-School English
Edit: I'm wrong. Many domains say "renews at $xxx", the .dev domains say "retail $xxx" and offer some small discount. I can't see what they renew at.

Original post:

I'm looking through namecheap now, and all the available .dev domain I can find say they renew at (Canadian)$20.37 per year. Can anyone find listed ones that say they renew for way more?
Maybe the future is AI. If ChatGPT is conversational in several languages it could work as the teacher and it can also look past these mispronunciations and misspellings.
There's no need to see it so zero sum. Typically in civil cases, especially of this nature, the payment is a combination of restitution ("pain and suffering") and a penalty.*

If the lack of gag clauses means there will be earlier intervention, then there will be fewer cases that are so bad that they need litigation: a good thing (perhaps this is what you mean by "benefit many").

Ones that, despite the removal of the gag clause, become so egregious that a successful lawsuit results, will still be subject to the same calculus: restitution + some penalty that may be higher, same, or lower.

So the victims should suffer no loss: any restitution would be decided the same way as without the gag rule.

* In a just system the penalty should not go to the victim but into the general fund, as punishment is really the responsibility of government, not private actors, and in awarding punishment the jury is acting as part of the court, thus as an organ of government. Giving it to the victim is second best, and better than not assessing punishment at all, and having these fines stapled to private cases is itself a good idea. But they shouldn't go to the victim -- if the restitution is inadequate, address that instead.

It's OK that any lawyer commission includes the total sum, as reasonable restitution alone may not be a large enough figure for a lawyer to take the case.
What the comment wanted to say is that the power per unit of ground surface area is fixed for a given location and time, i.e. it does not matter [1] whether you cover a given area with panels angled towards the sun or lying flat on the ground, at least if one only looks at the available power. There is of course a difference in the solar panel area required to cover a given area of ground surface - solar panels lying flat on the ground will obviously have to have the same area as the ground surface area while panels angled towards the sun will only require a fraction of the ground surface area equal to the sine of the angle of the sun above the horizon.

[1] For a sufficiently large area so that effects on the edge are negligible.
Software Engineers Are in Denial
Are developers in denial about ChatGPT?
Where does the "all" come from in this headline. I only read the abstract but I read:

>For a majority (69%) of traits, the observed twin correlations are consistent with a simple and parsimonious model where twin resemblance is solely due to additive genetic variation

69% is not close to all. Especially when (I believe) trait is defined fairly strictly in the study to be something easily measured.
Are any of these actually for sale yet? I work for a trucking company that says they ”have” alternative energy vehicles, but nothing is shipping yet.
FYI Firefox is ditching MV2 too, they are keeping web request blocking but they will deprecate v2
> Once again, I realized that it is foolish to trust Google on any matter.

We can make this into a proverb at this point.
Would you mind giving an easy explanation of the difference between raytracing and pathtracing? I find it a bit confusing.
As long as the tire and brake wear isn't creating CO2 or methane, I'm not so worried about it.
* Audio on Linux "used" to be a complete joke. Pipewire fixed that.
looks fantastic, wish this was the direction of webapp development
Okay how about modern medicine then? If you got a cancer that only became treatable in the last ten years, would you trade your life away so that everyone in the last century could work 15 hour weeks and most likely never discover the treatment which was the cumulative result of a century of people working 40 hour weeks?
I've had the best success with Pimsleur, which is almost completely audio-based, and just rotates through vocabulary and situations at increasingly lengthy intervals. Somehow the constant back and forth talking to the tape just works better for me than looking at something in writing. As a result, I can't write anything in French and have no clue how most things are spelled, but I've been told my pronunciation is pretty good, and definitely not American-sounding. To me, being able to get by speaking while traveling is my main purpose in learning a language so I'm not taking it as seriously or studying as long as someone who wants full fluency. But for a really rapid 2- or 3-week launch point into a language you don't speak at all, Pimsleur is really impressive.
Right, if the average American spends more than a few hrs/day watching the tube, as commonly reported, they could easily spare 30 minutes/day to cook if they wanted.
Several studies have shown touch screen are less safe. Having tactile controls doesn’t prevent automatic wipers etc, it’s a pure UI choice as your generally run everything through the CAN bus either way.

The initial idea for the CAN bus was simply to save copper by having fewer wires inside the car, it was only much later that touch screens leveraged that system. Basically if you want a truck release from a key fob and a trunk release from a door you might as well have both talk to a computer which only runs connection to the trunk. At which point you can redesign the controls more or less independently because they don’t change how everything is wired up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
My PHEV has a two year oil change interval, I'd imagine a Toyota hybrid does too. So in 3 years of driving, there's one oil change, but they only said they didn't pay for anything other than wipers. First service paid for is a pretty common incentive with a car (may be factory included)
At the end of the day, somebody needs to do the work in order to create good. Adding layers of transactions can only reduce, not increase efficiency.

If you, a person who knows something, want to achieve a public good in educating others on that thing, then the most efficient way of achieving that is just spreading the knowledge yourself. If you sold your knowledge in a book, and then used the money to pay someone else to write a book teaching the same thing, and then distributed that for free, you can only have lost efficiency.

It's like asking "Why should I pay for college instead of working to make money to pay someone else to go to college and then teach that information to me": It's absurd, because it introduces entirely unnecessary transactions.
Specifically, I believe you are looking for E&O (errors and omissions) insurance. Make a mistake doing something, or mistakenly not do something, and it will cover your liability up to whatever coverage you buy.

As you say, willful negligence, malicious acts, false advertising and fraud are of course not covered.
You should probably be more clear in what specifically you are talking about. Names and links would be helpful...

Regardless, just because he was part of some team at some truck manufacturer doesn't mean he knows what he's doing. The Tesla Semi isn't a "Trucker's Truck" by any stretch of the imagination. It was designed to look cool and get good PR...
Both talk a lot about time and material saved, which I guess is also important, but neither gives any figures as to how much efficiency will be lost.

Isn't the whole point of trackers and optimal angle calculations that regular panels are kinda crap if not pointed directly at a 90 degree angle to incoming light? If I recall right some installations have almost got half more output by going from fixed to trackers. This would be even worse than fixed at the optimal angle...
Good question. More context would be good.
"immediately lost control of it because all its components except the BIOS were COTS" is also a good description of the Apple II, but Apple was able to mostly keep clones at bay in their key markets. I believe IBM could have as well, but didn't initially care enough (the PC was a small part of its business, but micros were 100% of Apple).

Note that they took out 7 patents on the PC AT (286). When their attempt to take back control via the PS/2 in 1987 failed, they spent the 1990s getting chipset makers and clone makers to license their patents. Had they tried this in the 1980s the industry might have gone in a different direction.
Sue for what?
How does this work for .com? Can I just get extorted for more money once my business becomes successful?
I assume they need to worry about scratches. An XXXXXL clean room bootie wouldn't work because it would pick up sand and grit as you walk across the panels.
pose research?
That set of features literally already exists. An iDevice will very aggressively warn your about trackers that don’t belong to you following you around. But of course only on iDevices. Though there’s no way to share an AirTag with someone else. (That might open up the risk that a stalker could “share” an AirTag with their victim in a way they’re not aware of for the purpose of silencing those alerts)
>The difficulty in having conversations reduces the tendency for people to get caught up in the cycle of reactive response.

The increasingly frequent multi-thousand comment long garbage fire political threads disagree with you.
I download old Pimsleur mp3s from TPB and listen to them when travelling. It's super repetitive, but I find it really useful to learn some quick basic conservation.

If you can listen to them with a partner, it's even more efficient, because you can practice pronunciation together. It's been two years since we listened to Japanese bits (trip was cancelled), but we still joke about the words we remember.

(I also use Duolingo, but you have to very consciously make an effort to learn. And I'm mostly just doing it for fun and exposure to languages)
That's why I only use .com (strength in numbers, historical precedent) or the appropriate country-level domain so local politics and laws can get involved if need be.
Patterns and consistency are a large part of accessibility.
yeah good point, why not walking/drain space between rows? optimizing for minimal area?
I think the latest one I got was in July and it was a CM4 8GB/32GB
> Moving the air vents around being 3 menus deep seems like a no go but some designer still made it.

What model is that on?

M3/Y at least you literally just swipe up from the bottom and there's your entire cars hvac controls, including air vents.
Musk's whims clearly took precedence over any sort of received feedback.
My lastname.sbs was a dollar or two for 1st year. $200 2nd year. Understandable, but still its bad. Good thing I didn't use it for something big, being lazy paid.
HN often suggests having your own domain so you own your presence (instead of having a gmail.com address or a blog on medium.com). So it's a lost cause?
My fav YouTube channel! I didn’t even know about fireship.io, so thanks for linking this here on HN!
This sounds like sharecropping or something. Why are farmers signing contracts like this?
France to Make Condoms Free for Young People
What are the tradeoffs of building a Chrome extension vs a bookmarklet?
While at DoorDash, I have spent my time focused on building and maintaining two isomorphic javascript libraries: one for analytics, and another for experimentation (e.g. feature flagging, a/b testing). workingThese libraries had been my first foray into isomorphic javascript and I had faced many unexpected challenges along the way.
The benefits to isomorphism were clear; DoorDash is in the process of migrating pages from being client side rendered to being server side rendered so being able to use the same code regardless of the environment made migration easier. And I had heard that moving to Nextjs was super easy. However, there were times during the process where I began to wonder if the challenges outweighed the benefits. I wrote a blog post here to reflect on the different types of challenges I faced, using a super simple example library to illustrate the points. I hope this guide is helpful to anyone either considering to build an isomorphic javascript, and let me know your thoughts!
Again politics.

It’s a sovereign state with claims over a larger territory than it controls.
This is woefully simplistic

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burnham#The_Managerial_R...
Nikola was convicted of securities fraud last year for faking their electric truck. They finally delivered 48 trucks this year, and then all of them were immediately recalled for safety issues. I think the fact that the author referenced them as viable alternatives is pretty emblematic of how accurate the thread is.
Price gouging.
VS Code makes visualizing diffs extremely easy. You can also select specific lines and commit them as you want.

This enables a workflow I love to use for smaller PRs where I just do all the work without making any commits and then at the end of it all I walk through my changes and group/organize the changes however makes the most sense
Look at Japan, they still use Fax for everything. Sometimes once a UX or system is accepted it hard to replace it with another system, even if the newer system appears to be better.
Google currently says .dev domains are $12 per year with no fine print about renewals.

https://domains.google.com/registrar/search?searchTerm=asdfg...

I think there's more to the story here.
No, because for .com there is a free market and you can take your domain to another registrar.

Google owns and operates these tlds and is effectively a monopoly
All of Google's documentations are awful.

I spent a few days on a pet project using the Google Sheets API and the official docs use a mix of 3 different versions of libraries, none of which are really up to date, and you have to guess which is the right one.

They don't care about developers.
The anti reflective layers and texture on the panels are usually pretty good, such that then reflection is less than the area loss due to the angle.
To be fair, it seems that all the other manufacturers have decided to join in on that penny-pinching. :(
This is a funny argument. I spend less than a fraction of 1% of the time I wear a ski jacket operating the zipper, but if I had a jacket with a fussy zipper that required special attention to operate, I'd absolutely replace the jacket. Or never buy it.
> This is the same with all kinds of generative models. Humans are a critical part of the system.

Part of what I find frustrating about Stable Diffusion (and to a lesser extent Dall·E) is that they're so ridiculously far behind ChatGPT in some ways.

For example, I ask ChatGPT (in French) for a short story of three firefighters in the style of The Three Musketeers. And it writes me a perfectly serviceable little story about a brave and heroic rescue, with good pacing and structure. And it's written using the French "passé simple" tense, which is normal for fiction but virtually never used in speech. And I get this in a second or two, on my first try.

Meanwhile, I ask Stable Diffusion for a picture of "an astronaut on a horse" (the demo prompt in my copy). And I get endless badly drawn astronauts on dismembered horses. Dall·E does a bit better, but I'd obviously have to generate dozens of images and accept something visually interesting that doesn't bear any resemblance to what I envisioned. Apparently I can do better with a lot of prompt engineering. But it's a lot more work than ChatGPT.
Almost every registry does it (Google is one of them).
I think using the dirt that's already there and building the structure with some kind of machine would be cheaper than having someone mounting them on a steel rack. See for instance large potato fields [0]. The point is instead of putting them on flat ground, make the ground have a better shape first.

[0] http://www.thompsonpotatofarm.com/common-tater/banking-the-p...
Any solar installation will face that problem though
Yes way
You can always put your site behind a Handshake[1] or ENS[2] + Limo[3] setup.

[1] https://handshake.org/

[2] https://ens.domains/

[3] https://eth.limo/
I went back and forth on "Front Page" vs "Hot" and went with the former for now, but maybe "Hot" would be clearer.

Totally agree on needing some way to filter down the list.

Having a "Best" section would be easy to add and valuable too. Will add on Monday.

Appreciate the suggestions!
Sure. It used to be on the Chrome Extensions page. It wouldn't let you download the extension and had a big "malware" flag on it. I don't think that's up still but there's articles written about it:

https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/05/adnauseam_expelled_fr...
What makes a name "premium"?
Some people argue if the US were to lose its reserve currency status, this is likely how it would start. Nations doing QE, against a tightening dollar, and starting to seek doing international trade in currencies other than dollars. Russia is doing this now. China is also seeking to do the same with Saudi Arabia (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/dollar-...).
Comparing corporate decision makers to devils is unfair and bigoted against devils.
I laughed out loud when I saw that one on Twitter :D