skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you want to learn Chinese? Your goals inform a lot of the advice. If you desire to work with the PRC, then learning Chinese in Taiwan, which is a very comfortable country for a westerner, will probably greatly harm your prospects and literally put you in harms way if you go to China. People I have met have first hand told me of threats to revoke visas (trapping a person in China) and literally imprisonment for saying the wrong thing, requiring action from the US State department. That was before China went full fascism on Hong Kong.

My low quality advice from someone who has done minimal research but who also has a desire to learn Chinese:

Go to Taiwan and take classes. Learn traditional Mandarin in Taiwan.

Why should you take classes even though you don't want to? Chinese is tonal which is completely different from the languages you already know. I don't know how you will get tonal feedback, training, or practice without classes. The writing system is different than the languages you already know and will likely require different strategies to learn as well.

Additionally Taiwan frequently uses bopomofo rather than pinyin. I am convinced (not through first hand experience) that it is better to attach meaning to completely new symbols rather than bring in legacy phonetic associations from the western alphabets.

The US state department defines Chinese languages as category 4, meaning they expect learning it, on average, to take on the order of 2 years of 30 hour weeks to become business proficient and that is with traditional training.

As far as culture and literature, when I asked a similar question to a well educated Chinese person, they suggested the four classic Chinese novels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Chinese_Novels) and specifically said romance of the three kingdoms has become a somewhat apocryphal history of China.
You are aware that an entire generation of Internet forums operated (and still operate) this way, right?

Big forums had big hosting costs and required donations from members, had issues with spam, had to source volunteer moderators from the community, etc., just like big Mastodon instances today.

Small forums had few of those issues because the scale was smaller. The problem was not that nobody wanted to run a small forum: it's actually kind of fun to be a forum admin for your friends, and only one person in the group actually needs to be the admin. The problem was that nobody wanted to be on a small forum because it was small.

Now you can have it both ways: a small instance with trivial running cost and moderation demands, but all the benefits of being on a huge forum with thousands of concurrent users.

See also: Discord servers. Administering a Mastodon instance that you pay someone to host is not much more difficult than administering a Discord server. If people found it difficult to moderate a Discord server, why would so many friend groups, gamer groups, content creators, sub-Reddits, and software projects have their own small Discord servers? The answer is that the cost of moderating a small group of people is really small because small groups are easy to moderate, and the main downside of a small group isn't really relevant when the small group can follow and interact with anyone in the huge federated network.
That redirects to mast.to for me?
Very much agree, the post by Scott Alexander is nuanced and well worth the read
> But in another sense, I think it’s important to remember that copyright is a restriction on people’s behavior that does not naturally exist, but has been created by law.

So is physical property ownership. Someone not walking up to your car and taking it from you at the end of a shotgun is a restriction placed on everyone by law. The only natural right you have to your car is whether you can keep it from everyone else by sheer force.

And yes, just like piracy, people can still break the law and take your car regardless. But you at least have the force of the state on your side.

Possession grants no "natural" rights by itself.
Bad time of year to look at this. I'd be more interested in this answer in a month.
I don't know about the others, but AWS is not free and it's not cheap.
There are ways to set alerts on budget overruns, but there is no foolproof way to limit monthly spending.
Eventually you will configure something that goes out of control, or I was able to conceive of a few scenarios where a malicious third party could rack up charges for, e.g. S3 egress costs.
Good luck contesting the charges more than once.
I shut everything down and pulled out of AWS. I believe that Azure's free trial featured a hard cap, but still requires a credit card to open your account.
You should check out Modal! Does much more than just cronjobs, but super easy and cheap: https://modal.com/docs/guide/cron. They have an example with a simple web scraper as well: https://modal.com/docs/guide/web-scraper

From their pricing example:

> You schedule a job to run once an hour for 15 seconds. This job uses 50% of one CPU core and 256 MiB of memory. This job will cost $0.016/day for the CPU, and $0.001/day for the memory, adding up to $0.017/day, or $0.51/month.
As far as I know, the draft in the US has always had a minimum age of 18, and one could volunteer at 17, but only with a parent's consent. Most young men grow considerably between 13 and 17.
Doing it for charitable reasons: False

Using public information only: False

A true free speech issue only: False

George Carlin's 2nd coming: False
I have a PowerShell script that collects some RSS and posts it to my journal.

Easiest way I found to do that was Azure Functions. Costs me about 35p per month. Mostly for storage for logs as far as I can tell. I'd sort that, but it's literally not worth the time it would take
+1 for Endurance, and if you enjoyed that I also recommend The Terror (which is historical fiction but had a similar feel to me)
If you are interested in investing in stocks, Joseph Carlson is a nice podcast. I would recommend starting from first few episodes, after some basics you might switch to recent videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbta0n8i6Rljh0obO7HzG9A
Have to admit, the change to Twitter in terms of personality the past few months has been as fun as Twitter around a decade ago... I mean, a lot more snark, memes and generally fun. Not perfect, but definitely more entertaining than when people were getting banned for parody accounts.
I don’t see any options or ”follow all” at all, just a list of accounts. This is safari on iOS 15. The only two buttons are “Logout” and “Hide followed accounts”
Schedule a cron job: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/triggers/...

Send an email (for free): https://blog.cloudflare.com/sending-email-from-workers-with-...
Thank you for the thorough break down. All the replies have immediately framed my "understanding" much more.

I'm not exactly sure why, but I'm very intrigued nonetheless.

Aside: TIL, Thanks!
Sunglasses type form factor makes sense. I think a contact lens form factor would hurt adoption though. Some people wear contacts full time and you wouldn’t want another similar sized device stuck on top of it. A lot of people do not wear contacts and it can be a major struggle to force yourself to stick something onto your eyeballs.
Wind Power Giant Will Make Green Shipping Fuel at Big Plant in Sweden
We had a salad like that for a while but I think it was in danger of becoming a serious health risk after a week or so.
I agree with everything in your comment.

I think Zuck is impatient. He wants to skip the gaming stages of the VR evolution.

Yet VR must be a huge gaming success before something like a social network in VR can happen. Quest 2 and Rift before it is almost that, but still a large part of gaming fans remain unconvinced. But that is surely possible to solve.

We are at the Doom/Quake stage and he wants to skip WoW, Fortnite and get directly to what comes after that by building the equivalent of VRML or Second Life. Its too early.

Also AR is a distraction, not possible to do well with tech existing today, if ever.
The guy was masked, wearing gloves, and in a rental car. It seems like there was some intent to do something worth hiding. Yeah, he is nuts but it's hard to ignore that detail. What are the chances that someone prepares like that and just happens to run into someone this high profile at a gas station?

I'd say it's a stretch to say the guy just happened to run into them.

It's also a stretch to say this had anything to do with Elon Jet.
Thanks man, this was a very clear explanation!
Users flagged your comment. They were correct to do so, because it's not the sort of discussion this site is supposed to be for.

Joking isn't the problem; the problem is lazy internet snark/trope/flamebait style comments. Users here are generally quick to flag those because we all know from experience what sort of low-quality threads they lead to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Don't understand why you guys characterize these things this way. The person who brought it up would probably just say that it stimulates thought and make you think. In your response, you assume one who shares the show has "fallen for" it - like definitely believes it, without doubt.

Never heard this type of pushback about Ancient Aliens, which is even more ridiculous. I feel like the replies are going to be "but nobody took that seriously anyway." Firstly, I dunno about that. Secondly, not sure anyone's taking Ancient Apocalypse more seriously.

The show presents a theory, it's not claiming a fact. It's so bizarre that out of all the media out there that walks the line between history, science, and outlandish ideas, this one very specific show, for some reason, gets all this hateful focus. Very weird.
A significant amount of money transferred for political purposes falls within campaign finance reporting which includes contact information for the transaction. I'm sure this is used broadly for folks to make funding pitches to donors but cold calling is a tough way to start fundraising.
If you read carefully the thread you linked you will see that Elon affirmed the following statement:

> You just can’t create or turn (my emphasis) your account into a free advertising unit for one of the listed competing platforms.

This is what PG was doing (you can argue that he actually wasn't - but he was according to Elon's standards, which is the important sense). One Tweet buried deep in a thread that could possibly be misinterpreted to support your position is not convincing.

I am not "inventing a new definition of ban evasion". I am using simple English words in a straight-forward way.
Any of the managed serverless options with a free tier
cloudflare has a free tier but it looks very limited compared to AWS/GCP/Azure
url as submitted seems to be to "https://amazon.com." - note the . on the end. The strange bit (I think) seems to be a blank page titled "x" rather than ending up on the standard shopping home page.
Former NYU Administrator Charged in $3.5M Fraud Scheme
I suppose with this solution you could also run one of those free tier machines that spins down when not in use, or a lambda function, etc
One of my favourites of all time. The singing Cockney hedgehog is such a gem.
It varies... I'll often see mention of interesting/useful tools/sites/applications mentioned in more technical discussion. I don't always find these things immediately useful, but often even a year later if I can remember enough to search and find what I was looking for. Sometimes just knowing something exists in extremely useful.
Here’s a study from a month or two ago (10 years after your meta analysis) with n=216 and long term follow up showing (high, increasing) efficacy. You seem confused about the conclusions there, that doesn’t discredit psychoanalysis, it encourages further study. And here is further study. You should try to be more rigorous in your thinking.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9710086/
TWO profiled broths were destroyed by bombs in war. Apparently a leading cause of broth destruction.

> an even older pot, in Perpignan [France], had been bubbling since the 1400s until it finally met its demise in 1945 during World War II bombing raids.

> The broth [in Tokyo’s historic Asakusa quarter] would be going on 100 today, but the previous batch was lost in 1945 during World War II bombing.

1945 was not a good year for ancient broth, among other things.
Just FYI for all those in the thread who don't know, unincorporated doesn't mean "no taxes, no fees". Generally the county provides services (Sheriffs and Constables, fire dept.), and ambulances tend to all be private anyways. If you're in the middle of nowhere then you may have to join a co-op for helicopter medical, and the nearest fire station may be too far to save your house in a fire.

If you're in the middle of nowhere you're probably also on unincorporated land, but the challenges of being in the middle of nowhere have nothing to do with the land being unincorporated.
At some point Jack may get legal problems. It's starting to look a bit like extortion.
The OS X platform code for Firefox is written in Objective-C++. It's not without issues, but overall it's a nice way to use Objective-C from within a larger C++ code base. I didn't find it difficult to work with, particularly as opposed to what we'd have to do if Objective-C++ didn't exist.

If you want to see what this looks like, look at the .mm files here:

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/widget/coco...

If you want a specific file to look at with good examples of how this works, here's one:

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/widget/coco...

Basically what you're looking for is being able to make Obj-C calls (e.g. [[ChildView alloc] initWithFrame:r geckoChild:this]) from within what is otherwise normal C++, and vice-versa.
VR has a place. I don't know if Meta is capable of getting it there. Occulus is a great piece of tech, I own one and I enjoy it. My wife who does not game at all, also likes it. There are games like Beat Saber a few others that are good for getting the masses in. And games like Half Life Alyx that can get gamers in. But outside of that there is nothing that really makes it seem like an improvement to life, its still a novelty.

>when you look at the software side. Horizon is a horrible pile of ugly jank that no one uses. I gave it another shot for the first time in ages last week after seeing an advertising campaign for a deep faked Notorious BIG concert in Horizon. Long story short, the “live metaverse concert”

Why would I want to go to a low resolution hologram concert and sit in my house instead of being at a concert? That's not cool. People don't take photos of that, they don't talk about it at lunch the next day, they don't reminisce about that. Its divorced from people.

I think that the "Metaverse" is actually on the right track somewhere but doesn't have the vision of a product to get it finished. I would love the Metaverse as some kind of "tabletop" simulator. My vision of the metaverse after Zuck's announcement was that it would be cool if I could play rpgs in there, where I can customize my avatar, and a gm can build a dungeon out. Let me do fantastical otherworldly things, not just try and save myself a 20 minute drive.

That is where I think metaverse will win, unique experiences that I can only get in there. The problem is that the Metaverse is trying to see copies of real world experiences, but worse.
+1 for urlwatch. I run it on my pc with Docker (restart=unless-stopped), and Discord integration on a personal Discord channel with alerts enabled. Takes two minutes to set up and is online whenever I'm online.
If Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETF Dreams Fail, Firm May Try a Tender Offer, CEO Says
Thanks for the resources, these are great! As an avid chess fan I've always played around with the idea of trying making a basic chess engine.. This might just be the push!!
Honestly, it isn't the writing part that annoys me the most. It is tikz and the fact that I can't make animations in beamer. Just resolving these issues would go a long way for me. Tikz could be fixed simply if there was a GUI that could allow for sliders or moving specific objects. Or at least a better way to make a good grid (tip: draw a grid on your canvas, draw whatever you want, remove grid). Things are so difficult to properly line up, even if we have mathematical representations. It shouldn't be that hard...
In the past, another tool I’ve used is this bash script that interacts with Spotify over dbus:

https://gist.github.com/wandernauta/6800547

It’s nowhere near a fully featured Spotify client, but for little scripts or UI things where I just want to see the current song it’s pretty lightweight and already works with the Spotify app I have installed (obviously this means it has a different end goal in mind than Spotifyd).
No better way to get public support for restricting housing development and drive property values up than by putting labels like 'inclusive' and 'affordable' on policy. Wish her luck.
You can't attack others like this here. Since you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly in other contexts as well, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to do this with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
High tech: https://youtu.be/Rlh_7xzXwtc

Low tech: https://youtu.be/Oq4H3awS5iA
archive link: https://archive.ph/Da9Af
Oh, absolutely for what you describe newer chips are going to make a huge difference. The system I'm describing is used by my wife for Steam games, remote desktop, media consumption etc.

My work laptop is an M1 Max and personal laptop an ancient i5 Macbook. I had it upstairs recently and thought I'd do a little coding but gave up after a single `brew install whatever` was still going after 20 minutes and I lost my motivation...
Have tried this several times but I find it drops off the network as a remote play device.

If you have a PC with the Spotify app running, that appears as a remote play device to other clients.

Otherwise I found ncspot to be more reliable than spotifyd: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/
THE ALGORITHM IS WRONG.

But I can no longer edit it. 1110 should become 10011 but my »solution« yields 10110. Will have to rethink this.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057162. (This is not a response to the content of your comment here. I'm just adding a reply to your most recent post since the previous comment is already a day or two old. It doesn't seem fair to do that if you don't see it.)
60 Songs that Explain the 90s

The podcast is from a music critic who works his way to the title song by showing how other songs influenced the title song, or the band who made it. It’s been so good they expanded it to 90 episode.

https://www.theringer.com/60-songs-that-explain-the-90s
NREL keeps a detailed chart by technology - it's already updated with HZB's latest which is pretty impressive - the Perovskite / Si Tandem line:

https://www.nrel.gov/pv/assets/pdfs/best-research-cell-effic...

(Base webpage for the chart: https://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html)
IIUC, Infisical uses end-to-end encryption. Does that change your attitude towards cloud-only options? I'm genuinely curios to understand how SaaS products can be made secure so people are comfortable using them for sensitive data.
I just had my first cup of Brunswick Stew the other day. Extremely delicious and was as cozy as you said.
Import { Utility} from StackOverflow
where did the idea come from that you missed the prime years of life? What facts support that? I am in my 40s and it is the best time of my life so far.

It sounds like you have some definition of what life should be and your life isn’t meeting your own expectations and yet you alone are defining the expectations and deficiencies. How about accepting that you are perfect and your life is perfect how it is? Then if you want to add something more you can but not from a base feeling of unworthiness and disappointment.

There are tons of people that aren’t married and have no house or kids and love life. But that’s because they define that as the good life. There are tons of people that are married with a house and kids and are miserable and wish they were single and un-encumbered. Only you get to set the definition of the good life. Start by seeing what you have that is working. You probably have health, intelligence, ext. celebrate that. Get to a place of gratitude not unfulfilled expectations.
> Surprised his opponent or his party didn't do some vetting.

Implicit in your statement is that oppo research is at least as good as the journalism machinery. Perhaps the answer to your question is that they did some vetting, but are nowhere near as effective as the press. It's fashionable to dunk on the press (or "mainstream media") lately, but perhaps they have a useful function whose effectiveness does not wax and wain with the election seasons.
NPR is going a great job with this. Another interesting report they have is at National Public Media (which receives corp sponsors for NPR, PBS, etc):

How do brands establish trust? A ground-breaking new study from NPR and Neuro-Insight explores how a platform can transfer its trustworthiness to sponsors, what the subconscious can tell us about purchase intent and the effectiveness of NPR radio sponsorship vs. commercial TV news.

https://www.nationalpublicmedia.com/insights/
If you’re willing to spend the money, I’d recommend getting a ZigBee or z wave thermostat(or an EcoBee, as it has local control through HomeKit) and then you can combine the temperature readings with your own humidity/temperature sensors - as mentioned above, ESPHome/Home Assistant may be overkill, but would work great for this kind of setup
The issue is that the aim is to model the one shot of animals, not some other target .

Animals are one shot learners because we're in causally direct sensory-motor contact with reality, such that we can dibiguatw it live.

No train/predict system can disambiguate the causal origin of data and so can never be one shot.

What they're targeting is a triviality within a system of trivialities and misdiscrubjng it
Thank you, Do you use it regularly? I run a problem validation forum and someone was asking exactly for that[1].

[1]: Searching YouTube videos with transcript - https://needgap.com/problems/88-searching-youtube-videos-wit....
Congrats on the launch!

The first thing that strikes me is the flat organizational structure of secrets. We have at least 45 KV secrets per environment in Vault organized in a directory structure over at Rivet. Managing access policies and organizing these without a directory structure would not be fun.
It's pretty telling that Monero, a project with actual utility, underperforms in terms of value/attention compared to pump and dump scams or useless NFTs / tokens.
Intelligence Matters is pretty amazing. Former Interim CIA Director interviews people from all over the Intelligence Community and related private entities/think tanks to discuss global happenings. Really insightful stuff, a valuable peek into "the establishment."
Yes, fighting fires is dangerous. Can't blame the firefighters for not fighting a fire that they weren't legally or contractually required to fight, though fire departments can and do often volunteer to fight fires in other jurisdictions, so they could have (and perhaps should have, but that depends on the details of the fire).
If this question came up at work, I would recommend a Lambda function that sends email via SES and is triggered periodically by a CloudWatch event. It would be cheap and require basically no admin overhead once set up.

That said, there are probably different forces at play if this is a personal infrastructure question: while cheap is good, if you aren't fluent in AWS it may be a slog to set up. If you're not, easiest thing is probably a real cron job run on a cheap VPS.
> you're right back at square one and need to send someone out still.

So either you're no worse off, or the link is fine and you don't need to send someone out at all. Sounds pretty good to me!
There was a "follow all" and one "follow" button for each person for me in Firefox on Desktop/Linux. Try FF or Cr?