skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, I’m realizing now that you may just be good in English as a non-first language. I assumed you were a native English speaker; your comment comes across as intentionally snarky and antagonistic. If I interpreted your comment as intentionally offensive, where you didn’t mean it as such, sorry. I only returned what I thought I was given. You implied my approach is ill-informed, and you gave absurd alternatives for my use case. I’m still pissed off thinking about it.

I’m not talking about Duolingo’s Spanish course. I have no experience with that. I actually speak decent Spanish learned from much more traditional means including textbooks, teachers, and then native speakers who enjoyed conversing with me once I was good enough.

I’m having great experience with Duolingo as the very first step of a much different language. (It’s the first thing that’s ever worked for me in this space, and at least my third try.) Your original comment suggested native content as a way to learn a language. This is ridiculous if you don’t even understand the alphabet. A children’s show specifically made for native children doesn’t work if you don’t have the very bare foundation. I can’t say I’ve tried your suggestions for these first steps because they are absurd.

Duolingo, on the other hand, makes these first steps particularly easy. It’s a free, structured, mobile-first, SRS-aware, active recall for alphabets and basic grammar where no decent comparable alternative exists.

Moving beyond the alphabets, basic grammar, and basic vocab: sure, consume native content. Personally I’m planning Pimsluer as my next step with my current undertaking as it’s SRS-aware and focuses on native media.
The social contract of email dictates that it is not a real time communication media. Some people do check their email in real time, but many don't, so you can't rely on that.
+1 although I wouldn't call them buzzwords. The whole architecture community tends to use vague metaphors, borrowed or overloaded terms (events, commands, nouns, verbs and the like) without ever defining them technically or formally. Due to some kind of Illusion of Transparency [1] architecture people often overestimate the degree of common understanding about such terms.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_transparency
maybe they found it in a sumerian freezer
How does this differ from the original idea of a meme?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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People said this dumb shit about novels too. It's not the phones.

It's the dystopian late stage capitalist hell world they live in. They see no good future for themselves. They know their lives will be worse than ours, which are worse than our parents' were on average in the US.
I thought we're talking about young people, not --toddlers-- children, for Christ's sake
Same idea now
The world is full of people who have been rendered unemployed or underemployed due to globalization and automation. Not only has it happened, it's happening now, and it will happen to knowledge workers and creatives.

The increased demand for the work AI can produce will create jobs filled by AI, so Jevon's paradox doesn't guarantee anything. If it did, cities like Detroit wouldn't be ruins now, as the boom of outsourcing and automation in manufacturing would simply have created more jobs as demand increased. But it turns out the market isn't an infinitely frictionless superfluid and the incentives for businesses change - when they can create value without human labor at all, they will seek to do so in all possible cases.
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Maybe, but Twitter actually did infamously censor Mastodon links for a while, so they'd have to be the prime suspect.
Just a tangent that it's strange this is a local story for me (Rochester NY) and there is no local coverage - had to go all the way to the UK to learn about this!
OH DANG! Nice. Psh yeah you can run a whole facility operation off that kind of bandwidth.
> You don't care about any features, apart from the features you care about. Just like everyone else.

That's a pretty uncharitable way to interpret the statement, when the three features OP mentioned are a part of literally every modern messaging platform that people use. Not just iMessage and RCS (the open protocol which is the best analog to iMessage), but WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Discord, Messenger, Instagram, Slack... It's actually hard to think of one that doesn't. I guess IRC, if you consider that in any way comparable to the others, but it really isn't at this point, being a now fairly obscure protocol reserved mostly for tech-savvy people and niche cases.
Sure, but twitter is somewhat of a litmus test for this. When twitter started trying to cut fat they also crashed their revenue.

Organizations love to accumulate fat, I don’t think anyone really has a clear idea of what is necessary fat and what isn’t. Your best bet would be getting consultants in to figure it out… who probably don’t know a heck of a lot about running a tech company.
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> Funny, in most my friends groups someone checks their phone and I'm glad they do

I hate it, it just completely disrupts the conversation, as OP said.

> Why would we be talking about this if we didn't care about the truth of it?

Because often it doesn't matter. The truth of who plays in a movie really doesn't matter as much as people think it does, even when discussing the movie itself. And if it's not important enough to remember, I say it definitely doesn't matter as much as whatever else was going on in the conversation surrounding it.
What sort of features would prevent a client from receiving a text-based message? XMPP used to work across platforms but commercial interests killed it. Surely, messaging clients can publish a protocol and provide a reference library for others to use to directly contact users on their platforms?
Real median household income has been in decline since 2019: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
On the site linked above, over on the right-hand side of the page there's a "download" button that still works.
At what point does carrying around cell and wifi jammers become a public health service? What's the safest protocol for doing this? The last thing I would want is to be involved in a car accident and prevent medical personnel from being called.
Swarm was bought by SpaceX a couple of years ago.

I hope we get some affordable alternatives that provide enough bandwidth for 1-2 detailed weather reports per day soon. I can't believe Iridium Go is still the best option.
I imagine they'd setup a basic protocol for interoperability of simple messages and then each client can build anything they want on top? Similar to other protocols. At least that's what I am hoping for
> As far back as the 1970s, scientists and manufacturers had been developing whiter and whiter paints to help reflect sunlight and keep buildings and other surfaces cool

The thing I am pondering: if the objective is to reflect as much as possible sunlight shouldn't the solution be more like a... mirror than a white paint? According to wikipedia a very complex dielectric mirror can reflect up to 99.999% of the light incident upon it while simple mirrors may reflect 99.9% of the light.

Cost and practicality will significantly lower these figures but there is still a gap versus the current 98.1% white paint record. I recall seeing various gold tinted mirrors covering buildings but they seem out of fashion.
I would note that MOTU is very solid for Mac-based studios, and I've heard that RME is comparably solid for PC-based studios.
Humans have always been part of the natural ecosystem alongside wildlife.

What is new is the virus gets on a plane and goes 500 mph.
There is no cheap way to store large amounts of electricity.

EVs are great when in used in the right applications, but trying to make them work for everyone and everything is just going to tarnish the platform.
I'm sure there's some truth to what you're saying here; chiefly that there are some well optimized libraries out there that handle certain types of problems very well, but the comment reads as satire. A fundamental primitive should be built in, provided as the default, and high performance.

Recently I was troubleshooting why a protocol parsing driver we have written in python was performing so far under benchmarks. After hours of debugging I found that an enum had been added to keep track of a specific state, and that it had increased the processing time by 100 times! How am I supposed to trust a language that can't even get the basic data structures right!?
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We are. Toddlers don't go to school, so they didn't miss any school during the pandemic.
The EU doesn't seem to trust its own privacy laws enough to allow TikTok on staff devices[1].

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/28/tech/tiktok-eu-ban-intl-h...
> [...] without actually realising that it is actually going to make things worse, that's what regulation does in most cases.

Feels like a uniquely american take. Companies that are maliciously compliant are not the norm.

Leaving behind that most is an ambiguous enough term that means you could basically discredit anything I come up with, how do you feel about regulations that limit the use of harmful or toxic chemicals?

What about regulations that disallow predatory gambling, or the sale of products that do not meet their claims?

Regulations are the only tool that society has to prevent companies acting against the social good.

If you think the regulations are bad then you should genuinely consider sending updated versions to your representatives.
One can think of a million reasons, but we will never know. Maybe the owner died and the kids didn't want to take it over and boarded it up.

Maybe someone was murdered there or everyone got food poisoning and it was closed up because people were superstitious.
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This is a thing. I grew up in a conservative Christian family and saw some of this. For some families (not mine) punishment was considered the primary tool of teaching. As the Bible says: spare the rod, spoil the child.

What most people don't seem to know is the "rod" isn't something you're supposed to hit a sheep with. You nudge and guide them with it.
iMessage already has that, by falling back to SMS.
Specular reflections will blind pilots, drivers and even pedestrians, melt things if the mirrors aren't completely planar, and cause all kinds of issues.
That seems an infinite road. Humans don't need to memorize every token in every context in order to learn. They extract patterns online as they go.
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I think a well-known problem with meetings is that most of the time, no meaningful work can be done during them.
It is using direct 3.3V serial for embedding, the mini PCIe is just used for the ubiquitous, effective, cheap, and low profile connector.

It doesn't actually have any PCIe lanes, it has power, ground, the aforementioned 3.3V serial, a transmit/receive indicator, and a single (!) GPIO.

I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect if you tried to plug it into an mSATA slot either it or the laptop would be damaged.
Same, but I do allow ebook readers obviously not connected to Internet.
I think part of the problem is that the danger from cars kind of force the bikes onto the sidewalk. If a biker has a choice between possibly getting hit by a car or possibly hitting a pedestrian, the choice is kind of obvious.

The solution is better infrastructure for bikes. Separate bike lanes from cars and pedestrians, slow the cars down, and improve visibility at conflict points.
> businesses do a horrible job of accounting for the externalities of their decisions.

If businesses account for them, they stop being externalities.
>I don't get why you would regulate such a thing

The job of most government officials is to find plausible solutions to real problems, get a mob engaged and mobilized to solve it, then get the money voted into play so they can extract it via kickbacks and other indirect payments from the contractors.

They're gonna be trying to regulate anything they think is capable of justifying the racket.

Example: Youtube.com 17million dollars running for 18 months, healthcare.gov, 2 billion dollars failed on launch and not used at all.
I think the reluctance to blame phones is not just that people have a personal, dopaminergic fixation on them.

There are a couple of other factors at play:

1. Thinking people, especially of the sort that frequent Hacker News, want there to be a more complex and multivariate reason behind the "big problems" like loneliness and alienation. It feels wrong to just say "phones bad."

2. Many of us grew up with emerging technologies, like video games and the internet itself, that were reflexively rejected by generations older than us for reasons that seem poorly thought out in retrospect. We pattern match on the type of blithe Luddism we grew up with, and are instinctively reluctant to say "phones bad" for fear of falling symptom to it.

But I agree with you, and the thesis of this article. The "phones" argument has such obvious explanatory power for a wide range of regressive social phenomena that there needs to be overwhelmingly strong evidence for some other catalyst to drop it from consideration.
Calling attention to this but "as the number of humans is growing, and we are encroaching on the natural habitats of wildlife further and further" is a "mother-nature's revenge" meme and isn't really true.

Zoonotic plagues are not new but pandemics can spread much faster now due to cheap travel and relatively open borders.
Our government want to phase out fuel cars entirely by 2030 which makes no sense but, at that point it would probably be illegal to use an older fuel car.
Overall the experience will be worse. No doubt about that. Features like the Privacy Nutrition Scorecard (I can't remember what it's actually called) won't be nearly as powerful, for example, because other giant multi-national corporations will just create their own app stores to avoid playing by Apple's rules and "paying the Apple tax", which is something that they have to pay and end consumers don't. I.e. it's just a payment negotiation between big corporations.

It'll also lead to fragmentation and you'll have to manage 5-10 different "app stores" in order to use apps that you use day-to-day right now.

Overall it's just going to be a mess and really suck. Fortunately I don't use many apps so I don't see this affecting me personally other than occasional annoyance when I can't find something I may need in the future or having to help family members fix their phones now. For many though their experience using the iPhone will be degraded, particularly when it comes to software.
> We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth

This is also what terrifies me. You'll never be able to trust any digital medium again.

- a chat with your uncle could've been convincingly trained using his hacked emails

- someone calling you on the phone with a familiar voice could be using AI voice imitation

- any photo or video could be deepfaked, leading to the possibility of everyone's most hated political figure (on both sides) being 100% guilty of ____ (whatever their opponent wants)

LinkedIn is already teeming with convincing AI-generated faces that would defy facial recognition because they're novel. The only way I can tell they're fake is that the backgrounds are blurry and the CV doesn't make sense (for example, going to community college in Colorado and then working for Goldman Sachs).

Dating apps aren't too bad because the scammers use recognizable patterns, but they could easily get worse.

This technology will kill all digital information exchange.
I think you are referring to "The Hidden Life of Trees" [1] a film based on the book by Peter Wohlleben of the same name.

[1] https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hidden-life-of-trees-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wohlleben
The person you replied to used the phrase 'the help' rather than staff or workers. I take it to indicate sarcasm.
On Android it's also built-in, iirc it's called Bedtime mode.
I actually develop modern-day plugins on an old Snow Leopard macbook pro, before porting them to other systems and making the more modern, signed, M1-enabled versions. I've not run across anything that the Snow Leopard box can't handle, at least without expecting to run lots of instances of it.

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Expensive? There is no cheaper option.
> The issue is rather that the fixed versions are not being used. Things remain unpatched and running old, stale, versions because upgrading is hard and has a cost attached to it. Many stick to not upgrading their product and rather make the bet that whatever problem that practice might bring in the future, it is cheaper than doing upgrades. Capitalism.

This pretty much nails the situation. BTW, I think the author is not necessarily criticizing "Capitalism", but acknowledging the fact that most businesses and individuals will often prioritize financial interests over security and risk managment.
> There will be many answers about a technical solution for this (apps that limit apps, dumb phones, different launchers etc.). None will work.

Don't listen to this guy, all of those things work well for a lot of people.
> until writing code stops being necessary and SWEs shift to more business and architecture oriented roles

IC advancement ladder looks like that already. LLMs remove the justification for low effort, low quality developers, because they can simulate that and far better.
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I live in Georgia, a place where everyone owns trucks. I honestly don't think it would matter what Tesla released, because it's Tesla. It will have a rough general acceptance curve in Georgia and I'm not sure that would change a ton based on vehicle form.

Personally, I don't care if it can do what I need.

But it is fair to say that acceptance often has a very significant social component (and most engineers ignore this). It's often impossible to gain acceptance of a very new thing in one step (to different), but possible by producing multiple in between points. This is true even if the end thing is much better.

So for other vehicle makers, I would expect them to be smart enough to get to amazing end state in steps instead of trying it all at once
>Isn't this going to kill features that only some apps have or offer? What if one day Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp...

Okay, this is where I think we need to make clear who this requirement applies to. If we click through the first link, found in the first sentence in the article, to the actual source text[0] and run it through Google Translate, we can find that this requirement only applies to companies...

>... whose market capitalization reaches at least 75 billion euros or whose annual turnover exceeds 7.5 billion euros. To qualify as gatekeepers, these companies must also provide certain services such as browsers, messaging or social media which have at least 45 million end users per month in the EU and 10,000 business users per year.

[0]https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/fr/press-room/20220315IP...
This is a very common tactic these companies typically use to discourage employees internally. Not that the company doesn't want to associate with a union but an attempt to convince workers that they shouldn't want to associate with a union.

Lots of companies have been "caught" putting up signs in the break room next to the legally required signs about worker rights, they'll put up a sign in the room that tries to convince employees that Unions take away their rights.
Can this be demonstrated true? Where has this fix been tried to success? Where is this capitalist utopia where nobody dreads going to work.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this. The idea that a lot of these names are just "prescribed semantics" really makes understanding git easier. I think it also drives home the point of how powerful, "simple" and thought out git is.
Indeed, I always get rap vocals no matter what genre I try.
"The second [...] is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, ΔνCs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s−1.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second

so unless caesium behaves differently at different locations in the universe, this definition should be pretty uniform.
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This just in: half of a population are below average.
To this, it seems like a mechanism by which they are firing workers that are organizing and is just a scale motion over the same underlying illegal action.