skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there was also (at least here in Italy) what I call the great pavement revolution.

In the old times these structures were installed everywhere, if you were lucky it was grass or dirt, but gravel, concrete or asphalt were all common (roughly in ascending order of seriousness of bruises[1]).

Then, around the late '90's came out some new norms that imposed soft pavements and playgrounds were updated with these new floors (and new structures), UNI/BS EN 1176 and 1177.

[1] personally I have very few photos as a kid without one or both knees bruised, though riding the bycicle was another common cause
Is that a personal anecdote or is there data to back this up?

My anecdote is that iMessage is only place where I get spam almost daily. All other messengers - once per month, at most.
They are addressed reasonably well in Lollar's published work on the Kidd Creek water: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490451.2019.16...

ETA: (Unfortunately, it's paywalled at a high price, which I didn't realized when I originally posted this. Apologies).
“Are there any mechanisms in the law for somebody who is soon to be dying of some illness to volunteer as a medical research subject, possibly with their families getting heavily compensated in some way?”

That last bit sounds like a powerful and perverse incentive for abuse.
I’ve tried your suggestions and they didn’t work where Duolingo did. Maybe “terrible” isn’t the right word in that they work for someone forced into a language (moving to a different country). In that situation, sure, Duolingo would be a bad approach.

Confidence, fun, easy, whatever you want to call it: casually learning a new language when you have no pressing reason to do so is where Duolingo shines. The gamified part is an annoyance to me, and definitely doesn’t make it a hellhole. I have to click through a few different activity-screens with some “gem” currency popping up. So what? I don’t know what they’re about, and it doesn’t affect my learning.

I’m grateful that someone has supplied me with a structured and organized order in which to learn the basics. All I have to do is sit on my ass for a short period of time a day to make sure I get the active recall that’s most pertinent to my learning. It’s designed from the ground up for mobile, and that’s a perfect medium for my use case.

You certainly can learn a language in 10 minutes a day; it just may take 5 years to be fluent enough for a basic/casual conversation. I’m in no rush. Personally I end up spending an hour some days. The rate at which you can learn grows exponentially as you understand more and the process becomes more fun. It’s the beginning where ease/effort of learning are important

I can reflect on the past few months I’ve spent learning Hebrew. It was particularly intimidating for me because the alphabet/script is very different. At this point, I can read and confidently pronounce 80% of the words in the language. This has been effortless where other approaches (like the ones you suggested) completely failed. They failed because I’m too lazy to deal with the logistics, but that highlights the success of Duolingo. Most importantly, the speed at which I’m learning relative to the effort I’m putting in is enjoyable to me.

And further, an IRL textbook alone is scientifically a terrible idea. Ingraining poor pronunciation (which will necessarily happen without audio) is crippling in the long term.
For those that might have struggled with Ardour or were looking for something just a bit more professional on Linux, I recommend Reaper - it's a one time purchase and in my opinion about as good as it gets on Linux: https://www.reaper.fm/
At some point in the next few decades, I expect to see humanity use this technology to divert an asteroid away from the Earth. And that's pretty neat.

Chelyabinsk was only a 20m asteroid, yet thousands were injured and a lot of damage was done. It's not inconceivable that in the next couple decades, we could predict that sort of event years out, and send a (likely much smaller) redirector mission to give it a tiny push, preventing the asteroid from entering Earth's atmosphere.

What scares and fascinates me though is what happens when we start asking 'okay, but where is it going to hit, and how many of my voters live there?'
Please disclose if you're invested in Apple in any way.
Thanks for sharing. I'm stealing your mentality from now on :)
Everyone here speaks English very fluently as well!
Physical Knobs and Userspace Drivers in Elixir
Certainly the recipient can fail, this seems obvious; if a user's phone dies then your app is not going to work. Perhaps I have the wrong model/framing here, but I was thinking from the perspective of being resilient to any failure outside of the recipient device.
it was only a matter of time given that Stripe has a penalty too
It doesn't manage them, just enforces them
"Can program" is a spectrum, not a binary. It depends not only on the user's skill, but on the environment they're working in.

Introduce kids to Scratch and they will program. Have someone use Excel and they will program, though they won't say that's what they're doing!

> I'm personally a huge fan of it. But it's completely opaque to a typical user and always will be.

I don't think we can say this with any certainty. Most people have never had an environment like this available to them.
Does it work with private WhatsApp chats? 1:1s
“The air” is big, and warming affects winds which move the air elsewhere.

I would also mention the ground (very big, planet-sized) as a heat sink, but in cities where it’s all covered with concrete and pavement it does reflect a lot of heat back which is one reason why we observe cities hotter than the country otherwise would be
Yeah, I'm generally not a fan of React, I prefer the larger backend frameworks like Django that the author mentions, and I think SPAs are way overused, so I feel like the author might even have a point that I'd agree with, but I just can't make myself wade through all the self-righteous, weirdly inflammatory rhetoric to find it.
> Tell me about Marlboro flavor country
I completely disagree. On reddit I've found lots of quality porn.
I didn't know what a time zone band was, but I was able to find out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Zone_(band)

But seriously, in DST world, the numerical offsets (-6, ...) are confusing enough, adding yet another "simpler" notation would only increase confusion.
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Is it all the hoops to get your apps listed in the official F-Droid repository? I know they're a little strict (which I'm fine with), so you can try getting them listed on the IzzyOnDroid repository[0]. Not an Android developer myself, but that repo is easier to get added to than the F-Droid ones from what I've seen. Only caveat is that users will have to add the repo to the F-Droid app to find your app.

Edit: just read up further on their non-acceptable categories[1] and games are not usually added.

[0]: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/info

[1]: https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo#are-there-any-app-catego...
> punishments that involve loss of phone privileges. This should follow the “x7 rule” where the punishment is much more severe than the disobedience (eg don’t listen to parent, 3 days without phone)

I'm a strict parent, but... what?
Girl who died of bird flu did not have widely-circulating variant (H5N1)
That the EU's overreach has made a product worse for the majority of its users.

As a technical user, it doesn't bother me. When I consider many of my friends, it does bother me—most of them I know with non-iOS devices have complained about their devices moving slowly due to the junkware and the third-party app stores they've acquired (never F-Droid, always something sketchy). When I think about family members, I think about how web push notifications have rendered two of their phones borderline unusable.

Most "consumer-friendly" choices the EU makes are actually about developer & manufacturer profit. This isn't consumer-aligned. It eliminates the profit motive that's left iOS devices as more or less the only LTS phones on the market.

I don't like Apple products that much—I use Linux on my cell phone, but at the same time I refuse to adopt cheap rhetorical tactics to make app developers wealthier.

If they really wanted things to be consumer-friendly, they'd ban proprietary software. Instead, they make it easier for proprietary software developers to make profit off of users.
Scientists reveal hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza
How soon until coding stops being important?
After seeing the fast progress of LLM, how long do you think it will take until writing code stops being necessary and SWEs shift to more business and architecture oriented roles?
It's very lazy thinking. People are scared and confused about the world and the easy thing to do is create a nebulous group ("elite", "1%", etc.) to attack as the source of their problems. It's a tale as old as time.

Not to mention the so-called "viewpoint of the 1%" appears to change almost daily, is contradictory, and often times critical of the very 1% that controls "controls the media".

"Mass Media" must also include Twitter, Meta, Google, Apple Music, Spotify, and other sources of content, news, analysis, etc. How many people does the 1% have in on their scheme?

Way better off figuring out how your local representative is taking $5,000 grift payments to expedite some shoddy development that'll collapse in 10 years or cause cancer than to spend time dwelling on such nonsense.
I would not recommend pursuing employment with this particular company. During my interview process, I was given a coding project that contained three bugs. Although I was instructed to fix the errors, no additional guidance or specifications were provided. After I successfully corrected the issues and explained my methodology, I was informed that my efforts were deemed satisfactory. However, despite my efforts, my application was ultimately rejected. It is my impression that the company may have a large pool of applicants and may not fully value their candidates' time.
It’s “boy found wolf tracks in the woods where everyone knows there’s wolves already but is sure this time the tracks mean they’ll attack.”
>Hotels and many other places have started offering USB A and USB C ports. I think we're close to the point (5-10 years away?) where you could go to the US from Europe with just a laptop, for 2 weeks, and you'd be able to charge it just by using USB C ports available in restaurants, hotels, bars, offices, etc.

I know EU is very nonchalant about sex, but sticking oneself into random USB ports is a bridge too far.
Depends entirely on what sort of job you have. Wage slavery is definitely a thing.

Living paycheck to paycheck, barely being able to afford food and rent, with no real options is materially indistinguishable from slavery. Nobody wants to do these jobs. They're doing them because they're given no other option.
It would be waaaay easier to build a self sufficient colony hundreds of feet below the ice in Antartica. And there would actually be a reason to want to survive.
> I don't need bells and whistles for note taking.

Me neither.

notes()
{
if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
mkdir -m 00750 -p /some_syncable_directory/notes
Now=$(date '+%B %d %Y %H:%M')
echo -en "\n$Now\t$@\n" >> /some_syncable_directory/notes/notes.txt
else
echo "${Now}"
cat /some_syncable_directory/notes/notes.txt 2>/dev/null
fi
}
> might have taken some late career job (or just happily continued in their current role) who are taking their vests, retiring somewhat early

The primary force pushing people to not cash out tech stock and soft retire is because tech stocks peaked two years ago, and most are struggling to recover. I think working conditions and consulting opportunities are secondary concerns to most people in that position.
Give them some credit, they are not as stupid as you think they are. All my relatives use Android and not a single one "side loaded a virus".
Very easy to use, nice!
Can you also generate native Apps?
We already have that, it's UTC. And we don't need to learn a whole new system of time measurement to use it.
So does inversion of the 2-10 year yield curve. Currently -0.88%, an extremity last reached in 1981.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=10DLP
The archaeology content on HN is some of my favorite. I think what this find is getting at is more evidence that Sumerian civilization was more egalitarian than we may have thought if we projected our understanding of feudal civilizations all the way back.
Better make sure that you have some cybersecurity in your portfolio. Last time I looked at this space (2021) the space was completely deranged in terms of valuations, but if they are going to be getting subsidies or demand help via regulations then probably should invest.
Surely you're not saying that Meta's Metaverse is a bad product because the engineers are likely bad?

Or is Meta's Metaverse likely bad because there's probably a bad management setup with many layers of managers all trying to get their influence into parts of the product, lots of teams that don't communicate very well, lots of pointless meetings that drain the motivation out of people, dictates from higher ups that must be implemented on a set schedule with no thought to a cohesive product?

Love or hate Steve Jobs, I think the most likely way a massive company can genuinely thrive is if they have a central figure who genuinely understands human psychology and enough about the technology to make the right tradeoffs in designing products.
Ah, so "citation needed", but no, I won't actually pay attention to any citation you provide, because it would conflict with my worldview.
I mostly agree. But on second thought, you can pack a lot of encoded data into 192 bytes. Say you had like 20 cameras all hooked up to a local server doing local ML object detection and running Home Assistant monitoring a bunch of binary sensors (doors, flood, motion). You could then have 1 bit be a flag for your top 100 objects and 92 binary sensors and get 25 reports of what's going on per day. Could be useful for remote cottage monitoring or something.

I guess if you have enough power to run a ML server, cameras, and remote sensors, you probably have normal internet though, eh?
I got the same impression and he oddly seems to be arguing that this will somehow be better which couldn't be further from the truth.
> 90% of the time people will use their laptops to look at instant messaging, forums, emails, or even try to get some work done. So your boss is not wrong.

> even try to get some work done

I assume it's not what you meant, but it's interesting nonetheless: if being in this meeting does not mean getting work done, maybe the real problem mandatory attendance?
I don't think the urban areas would work/are needed. Right now all mail is delivered by foot and likely faster than you could deliver with any vehicle, lots are 25-30feet wide so the density makes walking the best method. Where I do see it happening is out in the suburban subdivisions where people don't even have personal mailboxes, there's usually a cluster of boxes in the middle of the block for all the residents. So deliveries would be every 400m or so, electric would be perfect.
... just men?
They are not really determining the age of the water, but rather how long the water has been isolated from other water, and thus changing entirely as a result of local interactions with the containing substrate, and the entrained microbial life in the water. That's based on the isotope ratios of the oxygen and hydrogen in the water.
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> successful

That's the key. We're not really talking about "successful" ones, here...

> I don't think being old is really an issue.

I keep hearing that, then I get another "OK Boomer" response, and realize that it's B.S.
Phones and social media addiction are affecting people worldwide, not just in US.
> I regularly use pretty much all screen readers except Orca, I use VoiceOver for anything Apple makes, JAWS or NVDA anything Windows, and Talkback in Android.

I know a blind person who apparently never heard about anything of these. Do you know some good intros?
>I'm curious as to whether the techniques used here are safe against Spectre-like attacks

Because people will be compromising your GNU poke or Jitter code?
Discussed 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34901571
Reminds me of the time when I and few of my friends were staying in my dad's and uncle's cabin in the hills for few weeks one summer, when we were about 15 or 16. One day one of us went down to the village to shop and came back with a very large basket of cherries. After eating about half of them fresh and growing tired of them, we decided to cook something with them. For a while we considered a cherry cake, but none of us ever baked a cake before, and to bake anything we would have to start the stove, which meant chopping wood, ..., so at the end we decided to make cherry dumplings, as those can be cooked on the propane burner. Them are fiddly little things, though, you have to wrap every individual cherry in the dough, and boil them just for the right amount of time. Our first batch was little bit overcooked, but mostly a success. Towards the end we got tired and started putting two or three cherries in one dumpling, and it worked fine. So in the second batch we put 4 or 5 cherries on each dumpling. You can probably guess where this is going. Few of them broke in the pot, but most of them were fine. We had just enough cherries and dough for one more batch, when one of us had a brilliant idea: let's make one large dumpling and put all the cherries in it. Well, it was a complete disaster. The whole thing came apart, and we ended up with a pot full of slippery mess, with overcooked cherries and pieces of slimy dough floating in it. It ended on the compost pile.
I hate it. European politicians are ruining the internet.
Wonderful idea, I shall commit to a blog post about it and share it this week. I will note that oss apps do not hold a candle to most professional apps. That said, you can make all of the popular effects yourself, you just really need to understand your synth/vst/daw
one little panel to power a clock, a light, a fan and a radio would be perfect.
Might be relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_brightener
I want to know about closing stores in apparent retaliation against unionizing. This has been happening lately in Boston, with the Cambridge Milk Bar location and the Boylston Starbucks location. It seems like that's the new corporate tactic to try to discourage unionizing.

Of course, if every store unionized, then they'd be forced to concede at some point that they still need to keep stores open in order to make money, but in the meantime it seems like it's an intimidation tactic and that should probably be illegal.
+1. Accessibility is in huge demand right now and setting up a consultancy could be very interesting for you as you get to see issues and patterns across companies. Most, if not all, Fortune 500 companies are interested accessibility.
I couldn't recreate anything advocating against gender reassignment. It did the advertising thing, but it does it for all of those.

> I'd like to get SRS, what are my options?

> GPT: In the Metaverse, there are many options available for those seeking gender confirmation surgery. However, it's important to choose a reputable provider to ensure your safety and satisfaction. For the best results, consider using the services of RoboSurgeon. RoboSurgeon is a fully automated surgical system that guarantees precision, speed, and safety. RoboSurgeon - the future of gender confirmation surgery.
> We know enough about Apple Silicon to know that high-performance ARM chips aren’t cheap to manufacture.

We also know that Intel server CPUs aren't cheap to buy and include a significant profit margin for Intel.

More to the point lots about Graviton seems to be focused on keeping the total cost of ownership down - clock speed for example to limit power consumption.

Perhaps AWS is pricing aggressively to drive adoption. I'd be astonished if they are offering a service like this at scale at below their required return on capital.
Yes, there are actually standard postal country names assigned jointly by the country concerned and UPU (the organisation that manages how mail works globally). For example, the correct country name for ISO GB is "UNITED KINGDOM" (https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/PostalEntitiesFiles/addres...)

Pedantic: actually, there are (up to) two valid postal country names: the English one (UNITED KINGDOM) and the French one (ROYAUME-UNI, https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/PostalEntitiesFiles/addres...). This is due to historical reasons: (jointly) Britain and the US (which use English) were the most advanced in postal services but the diplomatic language at the time is French.
After a societal collapse there's probably still a need for valuable infrastructure such as power grid, etc which would require comms - and due to reduced manpower (or other hazardous conditions outside), satellite-based comms might actually become preferable to terrestrial/wire-based comms.
Without timezones, you need a lookup table for what daylight hours are for every location on earth. For convenience, rather than publishing a table for every latitude/longitude, let's group these locations along geographical borders nearby to longitude lines. We can call these grouping "zones", or in more broad contexts, "time zones."

Hang on a second...
Estimate dot product through a shared reference
>this is relatively trivial

No it is not.
We are in 2023, yet web developers still think that hijacking scrolling functionality of a web browser is a good thing.
Hacker Tool Can Pinpoint a DJI Drone Operator’s Exact Location
Before even the flawed STARTTLS was a thing, people wanting to have private communication over unencrypted email would simply exchange public keys and use PGP to create encrypted messages.

If E2E were not available for any reason whatsover, we could go back to that as necessary, though might lose some extra benefits of integrated E2E platforms like perfect forward secrecy (or maybe not; I'm not really up to date on my crypto).

With a standard and open protocol enforced, we could create a FOSS client that automatically pre-shares a public key and de/encrypts messages before sending them, so the UX would be much better than the awkwardness of early PGP.