skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be good if Duelingo hooked you up with native language speakers so you could try to strike up conversations in text and voice?

It's great to learn words, phrases and so on in isolation but actual conversations in a new language are where the real learning happens. You've got to be on the ball
If its been 3 years you should really get an oil change.
I learned C++ from a book and I learned JS from a video course. An average book > an average video course, but a good video course > a good book.

One of the best intro to inner workings of JS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o8hhJPK0m0&list=PLAwxTw4SYa...

sadly udacity is hell bent on removing all quality content off their website so get it while it's on youtube.
Poems about Programming Languages – as written by ChatGPT
I'm betting that ChatGPT wrote this
I would assume the risk of moving them each year is much bigger than any reduction in loss of function?
Why bother stacking them in the garage during winter. Are you afraid of winter panel damage?
Thanks. Plugh
What would you say is the average speed on every lane?
Install cost is ~50-75% the total cost of the system. If you can bring install cost down your tolerance for panel failure can be quite high while still having a better roi
To what end, I wonder? It's not like domain names cost much money to issue.
Which assembler syntax for which target and is it actually human writable or does it need a proprietary tool chain?

ISAs have to exist but the way that code is generated for them is as varied as the landscape of high level languages.
Most full-screen programs wrote directly to video memory anyway. It's mainly the ones ported from UNIX that needed an ANSI driver.

Now in the glorious future of 2022, every console app runs on an emulated DEC VTxxx, and if you press "Esc" it can't be sure if that's a real key or part of some control sequence unless it waits a second to find out if more bytes arrive.
Afaik the rumour[0] is a Semi wheel[1], not a Model S wheel.

Would be surprised to see the yoke on TM3/Y, since the only purposes of that thing are to make TMS/X "cooler" and to make it easier to see the the display which TM3/Y lack.

[0] - https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1084/tesla-s-2023-model-3-...

[1] - https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/tesla-s...
iTalki. HelloTalk also works.

https://www.italki.com/en

https://www.hellotalk.com/?lang=en
> Slavery usually includes ownership and force.

Ownership applies very specifically to chattel slavery, and does not apply to the vast majority of extant slavery today.

> I believe "wage slavery" is mostly used today because of the connotations of slavery that the user wants to hang their idea on to, but also clearly knows that it's not really it.

No, it’s a much more sincere concept than that, from an analysis that workers are forced to do labor which enriches others—in an involuntary exchange for a disproportionately small fraction of the fruits of that labor—rather than doing either the direct labor which would satisfy their own needs or the collective labor whose fruits would be shared by all.

The force is rooted in private property; importantly: private in this usage is jargon, meant as ownership of productive means, not as individual personal ownership of arbitrary stuff. To the extent productive property ownership is concentrated and pervasive, which is a nearly total extent in most of the world, this force is practically unavoidable for the vast majority of workers.

Your likening, along with several others, of waged labor to basic labors like nutrition or shelter is not wrong but misses the point. For “wage slaves” (quoted not to dismiss its validity but to indicate I’m still engaged with clarifying the term), the only options available to acquire food and shelter are:

- work to enrich others in exchange for a fraction of their productive output

- become an owner of productive private property and an employer of other “wage slaves”

- become an owner of some productive private property and voluntarily share it with others (to the extent that’s achievable, practical and sustainable)

- reject productive private property claims (which itself may be punishable by more explicitly forced labor! but in any case is a high risk to other aspects of one’s autonomy however limited)

If there truly are fruits to eat and woods around from which to build a shelter, from which anyone could freely choose that lifestyle rather than wage labor, then the term “wage slavery” would definitely be as sensational as you suggest. But for, well, nearly everyone who works for wages, that isn’t true. The options above are the only ones available, and acquiring private productive property is an exceedingly limited pursuit regardless of how one wants to use or share it. For the nearly everyone else remaining, they must toil so others profit or they must do crimes.
The “sneering” podcast that found serious problems with his work? I admit that the hosts are both sarcastic sassballs, but in some cases their sneering is justified. That’s the point of their podcast after all, to snipe at these “truthy” ideas that have grabbed hold of the public imagination.
Building your own custom Fedora Silverblue image
You still have to look at the screen because you can just feel it with your fingers without looking at it.
The purchaser of a settlement (in this case Apple) is buying a 'basket' of things (non-disclosure potentially being one of them). Taking one item out of the basket will make the basket less valuable (less worth pursuing for plaintiff lawyers), and disclosure of settlements will (obviously) increase their visibility, which is undesirable (and may increase the number of victims wishing to pursue them).
The World of Yesterday: a brief review of a 1942 book
The problem is that I do not have enough disposable income to give $30 to everyone.

The 60k for college is an investment in the future, but more importantly it’s not my money I’m spending, and there’s no replacement for that piece of paper.
Speaking as an American, I spent a summer in Germany, Austria and Denmark delivering cars shipped from California. They were largely turbo diesel and stick shift, and I loved every minute of it. My friend's business had us hunting in LA for good used deals that went under the "old-timer" tariffs.

German roads are far superior in every sense: materials, construction, maintenance, drainage, etc. They pay a price in taxes and construction traffic to be sure. But driving there makes you realize that half your experience with a fancy car will be shit no matter what, if your roads suck.

Driving is really "a privilege and not a right" in Germany, not just a slogan. Last I checked, a license cost thousands of euros and there are many other ways to get where you need to go besides driving, compared to the USA (depending on where you live of course).

That's not to say I don't appreciate that I can buy and maintain German cars and usually spend less money than the Germans would at home, (awful!!!) here in the states, and we have tons of great roads, however the quality.

Any idiot can get a driver's license in the US. This is not true of Germany. The consensus among the Germans I knew when I was there was they are better drivers. (Of course they would say that, right?) And if there was a bad accident, it would be less frequent but bad. Totally anecdotal but that was the truth I felt/experienced.

The driving enthusiast in me could never accept additional speed limit restrictions in Germany, regardless of how rationally the data may argue against them. <shrug />

It's Mecca.

I always buy used/CPO German cars, with stick if I can get them, and I'll do that to my grave. (despite unfortunate changes to the market against the enthusiast). Love babying them, love the maintenance (really), love the superior feel and handling. :-)
The driver is the buyer for at least half the trucks in the US.
I don't know the answer to that question, but it's definitely worth thinking about!
+1. JW what rate do you charge and whats your stack? I do about $60k/yr at 8-10hrs per week at $130/hr. Not sure if I am under charging.

If you bill more than me, any advice on how to find bigger clients?
Livemocha got acquired by Rosetta Stone and was closed in '16.
This is pretty obviously a power play on her part... she's going to be courted by both parties on every close vote.

But, in general, the more independents the better, so maybe this'll help make independents less anathema.
It took me a moment to understand what they’re saying, but I think that they’re talking about post lawsuit settlement restrictions which certainly exist, vs speaking out about issues before a lawsuit.

Restrictions on talking about an event is standard in most settlements as part of the “paying someone to disappear” solution to illegal working conditions. Presumably the “just shut up about it” has some value to the company which would now be lost.
As I alluded to, renv exists, but it requires a lot of development work before it is a comparably robust option for the ecosystem. Basic things like a command-line interface [0], working with non-CRAN repos [1], using an existing DESCRIPTION file [2], etc. There are many use cases where renv does not work in a corporate environment (ie not open-source all public code scenarios). Some of those issues have been open for years.

I do not believe the situation is unsolvable, but there is significant work to be done. Renv provides value today, and I will encourage everyone to use it. However, it has significant blind spots which continue to make R deployments challenging.

[0] https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/1055
[1] https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/471
[2] https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/233
> Electric cars are more harmful than gasoline powered cars if the energy they are powered by comes from coal plants.

This has been debunked over and over. Even EV’s charged by coal power plants have lower lifetime emissions than similarly-situated gasoline vehicles.
HN predictably tearing him apart for his pricing and marketing.

If you haven't heard of fireship, do this instead of complaining about his prices:

1. Watch a few videos on his YouTube for free (https://m.youtube.com/c/fireship)

2. If you enjoy it, subscribe/watch more.

3. If you really like it and want to take his courses then pay for a membership.

This guy can get information on a new topic into my brain faster than anyone on YouTube, while keeping me entertained and enjoying every minute of it. His code report videos are so entertaining (but less technical) that my non programmer wife likes to watch them.

I'm glad he can make a living at this. He's put thousands of hours of labor into producing fantastic content for free. I was happy to pay a fraction of a days pay to buy a lifetime membership to support his years of work, but if you don't like it don't buy it.

High quality technical content is important to me, and I'm thankful whenever those creators find a way to eat without being totally subservient to google's algorithms.
>NATO bombers just as well fly into Russian airspace

What's the source on that claim?
Blemishes on solar panels aren't necessarily bad or have a huge effect on generation or durability. These could also be previously used panels in the image, which are often sold at enough of a discount to offset the loss in power generation.
This should really be an easy fix, since Stable Diffusion is open source.

Just find and remove the code that reads:

if (drawing_bottom_of_cliff)
fuckup(dock, RIGHT_SIDE)

The team is waiting for your pull request!
Thanks, that is useful. So 1/3 get zero years, and the average is 5 years. Speculating the time spent in prison is bell-shaped - and this is a huge if - 1/3 of the sentences could be over 10 years. I think we need more datapoints to conclude this sentence was an outlier.

I think the sentence is lengthy but not outrageous according to Russian standards, a country where unfair sentences happen constantly.
> not blindly accepting auto-exposure, is probably the most fundamental skill to develop

Bit late to the party (why is hn so ephemeral) but this made me realize that my Samsung phone camera has literally 1 option to adjust: exposure. Sure, zooming is also default-accessible but that's selecting what to capture than photo-technical adjustments of what you're capturing. Any other such slider, you have to go into pro mode. Never realized this was the most fundamental skill but why they picked this just clicked into place!

> if you take a picture of a white wall, the camera will expose it as 18% grey. If you take a picture of a black wall, the camera will expose it as 18% grey.

That sounds like the two pictures should look the same in the end, then. If the walls are perfectly black and white and nothing else is visible, of course, but even with imperfections it should still look similar and not necessarily recognisable as a white or a black surface. Am I understanding you right?
It doesn't. Use C#, Java, or even python. If you're low level and dealing with low level code and constructs, you're better off using C, or C++ just for the language features like templates.

Rust is genuinely only useful for the niche application of a desktop application, that doesn't reach low level, but you need a bit more fine grain controls than C# or another higher level language will allow. For example, a web browser is like the ideal usecase for Rust, and it makes sense, since that's really where it's got most of it's teeth with Mozilla.

I personally don't see why you would do something like Grep, in Rust, when C#, Python, Go, exist. But I do see like Unreal Engine or again, Firefox/webbrowser in Rust being nice.
I don't see why an RPi is needed for a thing like that.

If you need a cheap Linux desktop, or a cheap Linux server, there is a ton of x86-based options.

It's when you need all these numerous GPIO pins is when an RPi starts making serious sense. (But an ESP32 could do, too, if running Linux is not a hard requirement.)
When I've looked at domain names e.g. on Namecheap, you often see a much higher cost for the first year for premium domains, presumably because someone is squatting it, but then it usually says "renews at $8.95" (for example) which I always took to be because the registrar is just acting as a registrar and once you own it, treats all domains the same.

If the information in this post is correct, it looks like google is just shaking down people who registered domains they control
I admire their boldness. They took a chance gambling on crypto lending (with hardware as collateral, what could go wrong?) to gather some new clients. It paid off... Not sure they'll survive though.
IDK, when I see threads like this hit high rankings on HN, I don't even have to click through to know that it's a rant — it wouldn't make the front page if it was like "Sweet, this looks good."

Parts of the thread are just nonsensical; for example, I've seen many other threads and business analysts concerned about whether an electric semi-truck is even viable at all. Meanwhile, this thread explains that "All major truck manufacturers offer [sic] electric trucks for years now." Wow, maybe everyone else is wrong and doesn't know anything about truck sales? So I did the bare minimum of research, and... The Mercedes truck he claims has been offered "for years now" is in prototype phase and has never been released; the Volvo class 8 semi was only released in October of this year and has less than half the range of the Tesla; the Scania was also only launched this year and similarly has less than half the range... He even cites "Nikola" as a manufacturer that you can buy a truck from. Nikola! The infamous company that was convicted of securities fraud for faking their electric truck last year! Apparently as of this year they finally managed to deliver a whopping 48 trucks, all of which were promptly recalled for safety issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Corporation

Meanwhile, the snow considerations from the dreaded "angled windscreen." In the thread, the author posts a few pictures of trucks with completely vertical faces. Is that representative of semi trucks? Well, let's go ahead and look at a picture of the Volvo electric class 8 semi that the author was touting... https://cleantechnica.com/2022/10/18/first-drive-the-volvo-v...

Uh-oh. It's got way more horizontal faces that the Tesla! And look at those giant mirrors placed 5+ feet in front of the cab... How will the driver wipe them without leaving? Whoops. Or, maybe that's not actually the death sentence for the truck that the author claims?

And then there's the "place to put a mattress." But — the Tesla Semi is what's known in America as a "day cab." Day cabs do not have places for mattresses, and it's generally illegal to sleep in one: https://ratings.freightwaves.com/day-cab-vs-sleeper-cab/. If you're on a route that requires sleeping, you need a sleeper cab. And yup — the Tesla Semi isn't one. But neither is any other day cab.

Rants like these are usually pretty boring TBH: if the product is actually terrible, no one will buy it (and thus the author won't be angry about it). The anger betrays their certainty that the product is actually more attractive than they'd hoped, and than they're claiming.
Yeah my comment was probably way too clever in my own mind for its own good. Iowa farmers have vastly more influence on all sorts of things than they should, in no small part because of their weird symbolic early influence on elections.
"From the very start it was just Tesla penny-pinching."

I don't think so. I think it was worse, and indicates a deeper (and more depressing) inadequacy:

I think Tesla put the big screen (17" ?) in the first Model S as a signifier of high technology and modernity.

So far, so good ...

Now, however, as the Tesla itself came to signify the steps forward to an electric car future and modernity in general, designers of other cars copycatted the Tesla so as to evoke the same sentiment.

Meanwhile, actual interior design of automobiles has regressed significantly - and very often, dangerously - and we have one, and probably two entire generations of vehicle models to get through before it gets fixed.

In the meantime, get used to monstrosities like this:

https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bmw-7-ser...

... and if that wasn't bad enough:

https://media.wired.com/photos/625f4ef8536da34b19a67a72/mast...

These designers are clowns. They should be ridiculed. Screens are a poverty.
HelloTalk does this (chat/voice/video, with language corrections as a first-class feature). It's aggressively monetised, but I'd still recommend it.

I've heard good things about Tandem, but haven't used it myself

https://www.hellotalk.com/?lang=en

https://www.tandem.net/
So we are fighting fire with electricity?
The audience was slightly in favor of the media in the pre-debate poll. Or do you think they weren't really, but were massively sandbagging? I admit that it's a possibility, but that wouldn't explain why this was apparently the largest pre/post swing in Munk history.
It's likely being guaranteed because he knows the cost of installing solar and battery banks and he (and his customers) doesn't have to buy directly from local power companies.
> Do you consider the Guardian and Business Wire to be reputable news organizations

No not really. Also, there are no “forms of substantiation”or “grey areas”. Either the allegations will be confirmed true (substantiated) or not (un substantiated) after the adjudication process…

So the logical thing to do is wait and see for any ruling to come out. I despise hopping on any speculative bandwagon.
Host it.
> Have you heard of being gay? I'm guessing you have, but you choose not to care

Being gay has nothing to do with child abuse. You're gay-baiting, conflating transgenderism with homosexuality. This is one of the issues the LGB Alliance was founded to address.

> the insane amount of male-on-male sexual violence that occurs among children in the current system.

Yes, from men. That's my point. As a parent you need to know the sex of those who are interacting with your children.

> Again, then why do we let young boys change in the same room as grown men? Is the problem really just about biological sex?

We let them change with either parent because presumably their parent can keep them safe with active supervision. Generally though, other parents would recommend that young children use the womens' facility with another woman if neither parent is available.

> Wait until you find out how gay men feel!

Men are men, straight or gay. Women are smaller and not as strong.

> Sure, and what exactly is the reason behind why a vagina is the definition of who is a woman deserving of protection?

Having a vagina is not the definition of a female, but they do strongly correlate.

Everyone deserves protection but women's protection is largely achieved by providing sexually segregated spaces.

> There are plenty of weak men who empathize with women who are very at risk for physical and sexual violence.

Hopefully most males empathize with women but even if the risks were justification for a man to leave male spaces they aren't a justification to invade female spaces.

> IS the only solution to say who cares you were born with a penis?

Why is your solution to take away all women and children's safety to provide questionable safety to some males?

If you can't stop abusive men in the men's room how do you plan to stop them from following you into the women's washroom using the same legal exception written for you?

> Buddy, would you be willing to believe I have less than zero interest in women?

Would you believe that this isn't relevant? It's not "Women's spaces, and anyone else who swears they don't like vaj".

Women's spaces don't work if there are exceptions, they only work if they can be used to instantly exclude any male who tries to enter. You being there lessens the effectiveness of the system even if you are pure of heart.
I'm guessing it could have been a risk-management strategy.

If the 680x0 product is a failure, they've saved the cost of designing a custom machine and stocking inventory.

If it's a wild success, they have a partner which can scale up on demand. I suspect even in the Amiga's mid-life, Commodore was shipping an order of magnitude more machines than Sun was.
Sounds like Just a Minute[1]. You have to speak for one minute on a subject. You may not deviate from the subject (or the English language), repeat yourself (except the words literally on the card) or hesitate (including umm and ah).

There are hundreds of episodes: the original presenter, Nicholas Parsons, held the chair for over 50 years, and it's still going. You can find some on the Internet Archive.

While the panelists on national radio are perhaps above average in terms of wit and comedic turns, it's also good fun at home or in the car. And all you need is a timer and a few subjects on cards (literally can be anything).

Having to avoid umm and ah is half the game. A well-timed pause for thought between words (but not long enough to be hesitation) may be tolerable, but an umm is an instant handover of the subject to the next player.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_a_Minute
Preemptibility is an optional kernel design feature. Not all kernels have it and not in all ways. If it's intentionally designed that way it's not a bug. No kernel stops users from filling up disks (though some filesystems have such limits as features, which most of us turn off)

Pretty much the only kernels that are totally preemptible are RTOS and they still don't stop you from shooting yourself in the foot.
Yeah, the planet is speeding down the road towards a brick wall and these dumb environmentalists just keep complaining whenever we push the gas pedal a little harder. What buzzkills…
> To what end, I wonder?

Increase revenue.

> It's not like domain names cost much money to issue.

You charge what the market will pay, not how much it costs to produce.
Doesn't have to be effective everywhere for it to be useful.