skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As part of my ongoing quest to master the French language — a journey filled with numerous challenges — I've turned to Python, creating a practical tool in the form of a package that can assist language learners like myself. This is just one of several tools I've either developed or adopted, aimed at making language learning more accessible and effective.

This Python package, based on OpenAI GPT-4, comes with two main features. Firstly, it has the capacity to extract unique words from any URL or text and subsequently convert these into flashcards, compatible with Anki—a popular, versatile study tool. This allows learners to reinforce vocabulary learning at their own pace.

Secondly, this tool can generate example sentences for any word or set of words, further converting these sentences into flashcards. This aids not just in vocabulary acquisition but also in understanding the contextual usage of words, a crucial part of gaining fluency in any language.

For the full story, please check my blog: https://osm3000.wordpress.com/2023/09/24/french-journey-part...

Github repo: https://github.com/osm3000/LangLearnCopilot

I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions :)
Most of ODESZA’s discography is in Dolby Atmos and it is sumptuous. Also, my favorite pianist, Ludovico Einaudi, has his Underwater album in 5.1. Tidal offers hundreds, but I only have about a dozen downloaded.
> its pretty clear how much they each paid

By what surveillance method is this?

Or you mean there is a locked down trading platform, and only there can tickets be traded? What prevents additional money from changing hands via an off-platform backchannel?

A law could discourage that, like the one in Norway your sibling comment pointed out.
Likewise. I've never found anything as effective as a pencil and paper as a scratchpad when thinking through problems. I also find a strange motivation day to day in checking items off a physical checklist/todo-list that I don't get from the digital equivalent. However, digital is indisputable king when it comes to sharing information.
Registry bloat was one of the reasons why reinstalling Windows used to speed up computers in the 95-2000 times.
It's about 15 different things, including NIMBY-ism.
Please don't post in the flamewar style. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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The most unhinged “acknowledgements” of all time
How many places have public transit systems used by older people, and how many have accomplished this by policing the antisocial behavior away? It seems like it is at least as easy to get older people to use public transit where they might see people with mental illness and addiction than it is to keep mental illness and addiction off of public transit. In countries that value civil liberties it is probably easier. As you observed, fear is driven by perceptions and rare incidents of violence covered in the media, not by statistics, and you can't pull somebody out of a bus or a subway car because they contribute to somebody's fear. You can arrest and remove a person who shits on the floor or threatens somebody, but for every one person like that, there are twenty people who are obviously in bad shape, obviously suffering, and look like they might do something alarming at any moment. You can't arrest and remove those people. You can get people to ride public transit despite the odds of seeing people like that.
I'm not religious myself, but I still think it's pretty ridiculous for you to assume that this mode of education has no value. Isn't our modern watch word supposed to be "tolerance", and not objecting to other members of our community following their values even when those are different from our own?
> So to characterize the ASF as "kicking this can down the road" for some kind of inscrutable motivation is just not how things work.

AOO being moribund has come up at ASF board meetings, and they really did just kick this can down the road.

like c'mon, you're literally an ASF guy, you should know this happened
Do you have a reference to some of those "all accounts"? Doesn't need to be all of them, just a couple of the most credible ones would be great.
I'm a broken record but you can buy used Chevy Bolts with 20-30k miles for $18000.

That's about 10 cents a mile capital cost. And the electricity will cost about 5 cents a mile.
Yet we're out of sand[1] without any central planning involved.

Government can be stupid and wasteful, but they cannot even dream of being more wasteful than a competitive market.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...
Yes, but not really. There are piles of industry around the world that deal with silica and don't have workers dying left and right. There are also piles of industries that do have workers dying left and right.

The difference is not in the danger of the materials.

The difference is supplying safety equipment and having a culture that demands the use of it.

Regulations work.
Really? Is there any way to download these? Because there’s a Python project to download the .m4a files containing the EAC-3 codec from Tidal that interests me the most.
I have never heard of anyone referring to a CNA (certified nursing assistant) as a 'nurse'

What most people mean by 'nurse' is an RN (registered nurse)
> Violent revolutions are very rare and nowadays only happen if a significant part of the military takes part.

True, but just how many of the 1% and above are members of the military? "I ain't no Senator's son.", after all.
The Grey Ghost – The USS Enterprise
> we currently implement this with a transaction and a DELETE after the upsert because we want to do updates only, not unintentionally insert new rows.

Huh??? Why not just do an UPDATE then? After all, you seem to be saying "we want to do an upsert but without the insert part".

Edit: I'm also trying to understand the value of "WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN DO NOTHING". How is that any different that just leaving off the "WHEN NOT MATCHED" clause altogether?
One aspect that strikes me about the US system compared to other nations is its rigid nature. Maybe due to lessons learned (since almost all democratic Republics are younger than the US) and maybe from a cultural angle (less Evangelicism?), other nations typically don‘t set e.g. their constitutions in stone and e.g. election process reform is a real thing. I think the biggest change the US could & should strive for is to be more open to change itself.

E.g. one thing I‘d wish every legal system would introduce is an expiry date for laws - if a majority cannot be reached again after a set amount of time, the law would be removed. For efficiency this could be combined with an exponential backoff algorithm - e.g. the expiry dates are set 10, then 20, then 50, then every 100 years in the future.
I can see clear value in a framework that minimizes dependencies. The choice to supply both a web framework and a persistence / database layer puzzles me somewhat. I understand this can be the basis of an "everything included" framework, but I think especially for persistence, most would like to make a conscious choice independently.
No, generally podcasts are far worse than that...
like getting blood from a stone...

Most of those open-source companies turn "evil" stories (like IBM/redhat ) seems to follow the same pattern. IMO, there is a limit of the amount of value one can extract from those venture. Trying to increase revenue beyond a certain limit will always result very bad outcome.

But i also think it's a lesson for the gaming industry. Why is something as core are a game engine, not something properly open-source and license such as QT, LLVM or GCC...
> On the other hand, as the Associated Press notes, California Labor Federation head Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher estimates that not requiring human drivers in trucks would cost around 250,000 jobs. “We will not sit by as bureaucrats side with tech companies, trading our safety and jobs for increased corporate profits," Fletcher, who called autonomous trucks dangerous, said in a statement. "We will continue to fight to make sure that robots do not replace human drivers and that technology is not used to destroy good jobs.”

At least they are being honest and not pretending it is about safety or consumer benefit.
You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately. If that keeps up, we're going to have to ban your account. I don't want to ban you, so would you please review the rules and stick to them? We want thoughtful, substantive, and above all curious conversation here. We don't want snark, name-calling, or flamewar.

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My company is actively using this model now. It's really hard watching competitors raise multi-million dollar rounds though.
Same here, and when I was a grad student (phd) I used to write most important sections of a paper on paper.
We have no idea what consciousness is. Therefore we have no way to determine if AI is or is not.
But MERGE is now the upsert that is part of the SQL standard.
Few scientists try to answer these questions for me. I expect philosophers to have as much humility.
Seriously? Riding an Uber from Universal to a restaurant in I-drive would take $10-15, a paltry fee. You'll spend that much on soda for two at the theme parks.

Of course a Disney owned hotel is not going to offer complementary shuttle access to Universal. Meanwhile a Hyatt or Hilton or Gaylord or Rosen or any number of dozens of large hotel chains in the area absolutely run shuttles to both parks.

I've driven from Miami to Orlando many times, it sucks and it takes up 4 to 5 hours each way. Way more relaxing to spend it on a train. Many families will fork out for it.
I did all of my note-taking on paper in school. I felt like I had to to keep up with complex visualizations and concepts. The habit has carried with me.

I still keep those notebooks for reflection on what I studied. They're very valuable to me, even though I get teased for it. To me, it is like looking at a photograph of your younger brain.
Funny, my dermatologist just told me about a similar scenario where a study found that pig whipworms seemed to help IBS significantly
I just wish I could figure out a power scheme that would make it worth my trouble to use them as information radiators. Perhaps rechargeable batteries.

Displays like this would be a good candidate for wireless power schemes, but they aren’t sited in places with a good set of power scavenging options. Maybe solar.
My coworker got an acid etched back patio. The guy doing it was throwing the acid out of a 5 gal bucket with his bare hands. She asked "shouldn't you use gloves for that?"

"I used to, but the acid kept dissolving them."
I would love to use your product, but there is certain data I can't send through a remote proxy (like my work calendar). Is there anyway to run whatever the backend is locally on a machine on my network? Or to have the device pull from a custom URL that is local to my network instead?
Truly weird: for me, -california won't suppress the top result (a map of St Helena California) but adding -carolina and -california removes the map and puts the wikipedia page for St Helena (the saint person). In either case, using Tools -> Verbatim works better than "All Results"
I too am a proponent of proper half face respirators (7500 here), and they are quite comfortable compared to the various disposable solutions, but I'd still acknowledge that wearing one does carry some discomfort. Not enough to make me want to get silicosis instead, but also not so little that I can confidently say I'm happy wearing it for 8 hours.

What's your solution for the full face with glasses? The spectacle kit looks like it's a frame that you need to get custom lenses put into. The few times I've worn mine (FF-400) I've just suffered the extra ear pressure, but it's not great. It's also a size too small because it was what was in stock at the start of Covid when nobody knew wtf was going to happen, but I don't see that increasing one size would change much. I plan to eventually trying to form a custom thing to hold a regular pair of glasses.

And have you really found the P100 cartridges need to be discarded every few weeks? The only things I've found say that particulate filters only need to be discarded when they become difficult to breathe through, and I've never actually reached that point.
Thanks, what would you suggest in their stead (for each one, please)
Apples and oranges? Thread is about SF. Having known someone who lived there ~50 years ago, not to mention the parent poster, they described better living conditions for less money.
My only question is why AC/DC? Surely American bands have produced enough great sports worthy anthems that you needn't import music from the other side of the world (where "football" means something entirely different, and gridiron is very much an extreme niche activity)?
Though I do remember an ex who grew up in the states assuming Acka Dacka must be a US band due to the "knocking me out with those American thighs" line!
I agree with this, but I think there is a deeper level which explains this. And that is convenience is a product. The thing that truly defines how corporations in America have shaped our culture is that everything is turned into a way to sell you something.
Lady Gaga's performance of "Paparazzi" at the 2009 VMA awards for me. But also the Roman empire. I just finished making a table. Whole time I was wondering how the hell anyone without cast iron base plates on their power tools could ever make such a thing, and that for sure included the Roman empire. What was life like for a regular guy back then who wanted a table? Crazy.

Once you throw in all the things before (Roman kingdom, Roman republic, who the heck were the Etruscans anyways, things of that nature) and after (who was the last person in what's now Spain to think of themselves as a Roman subject? Holy Roman empire: pretty wild huh; is there a through-line of kin based organized crime to the classical era?) you've basically got the last 2000+ years of history. So it's easy to count just about everything as "the Roman empire" with the level of handwaving I'm comfortable doing.

This isn't to say I'm stuck there. Pre Indo-european Europe is wild. The Tang Dynasty is wild. People settling high up in the Andes or Rockies or Himalayas is insane to me. So there's a lot to think about!
>Or the committer is making very small changes that are hard too see amongst the massive whitespace changes his auto-formatter makes every time she saves a

How about you show it? lmao

Can't believe that this is even a comment.
Am I missing something or does the quickstart recommend an XSS vulnerability?

String name = request.startLine().queryString().get("name");
return Response.htmlOk(String.format("<p>Hi there %s!</p>", name));

Maybe having a little bit more available would be valuable.
Hey, could you please review the site guidelines and stick to them when posting to HN? I'm afraid your comment here broke them rather badly.

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I think the compelling difference is truthfulness. There are certain people / organizations that I trust their synthesis of information. For LLMs, I can either use what they give me in low impact situations or I have to filter the output with what I know as true or can test.
I would say, using something that doesn't belong to you as a primary key considered harmful. Create or update is a good pattern for robustness (eg so a troubleshooting user won't brick the app by deleting or renaming the key), if you can guarantee the uniqueness of the primary key. You can't constrain some identifier from a different system.
google assistant is probably still not Bard powered, so it just means someone didn't coded some rule: user asked "closest one" -> locate user location -> locate home depot closest to that location
What is the etymology of this term “enshitification”?
It's a really recent addition to Chrome/Edge to support that, and it only was supported on iOS in v17 which came out last week. Actually, 1Password probably released their support for Passkeys last week precisely because iOS 17 was finally out.

For reference, I just 5 minutes ago opened GitHub in Edge on my iOS device, clicked "Sign in with Passkey", and 1Password correctly popped up and offered to sign in with the passkey I had created in Edge on my desktop. I then opened Safari on my phone, and did the same thing. So it definitely is getting there.
If I need the preponderance of the evidence to find you liable, you were presumed not liable. Obviously the presumption is not as strong as clear and convincing or reasonable doubt, but there’s no reason to say that there is no presumption of a sense of liability under this standard.
> Arm is generally more efficient than x86

This is not entirely true in general sense. Yes, a typical ARM CPU is more energy efficient indeed, but theoretically nothing prevents x86 to be nearly as efficient.

The main reason why Apple silicon is more efficient is that Apple silicon is a mobile chip basically, and competition on mobile is harsh, so all the producers had to optimize their chips a lot for energy efficiency.

On the other hand until apple silicon and recent AMD ascension there was a monopoly of Intel on a laptop market with no incentive to do something. Just look at how fast Intel developed asymmetric Arm-like P/N-core architecture right after Apple Silicon emerged. Let's hope this new competitor will force more energy efficient x86 chips to be produced by intel and amd eventually.
>I used postgres subscribe/listen built in combined with a database table to get a distributed message system.

Every single person I know who's done this says it was a fantastic decision, and the "eventually I'll have to migrate to X" never came.
So step 1 is stalk someone to see their passcode, and step 2 is steal their phone. Is phone theft of this level rampant where you're from? Even if a phone is stolen, going far enough to commit wire fraud by stealing money from someone's bank is too much to ask for over selling it to China for $200+.

> But hey at least advertising agencies and the police can track you from one device to the next.

Passkeys are unique per login (not per device/user) and the actual synchronization provider is not in the loop - and for e2ee solutions like Password managers or iCloud Keychain, they don't even know what websites are being synced.
I assumed that avenue would be a subpoena or a warrant.
I think the reproduction of recognized watermarks is hilarious.

I could see some kind of trend emerging as a competition to replace the watermarks as closely as possible to the real thing without it actually being the real thing just for the joke, an argued original work. Kinda like Nathan For You's Dumb Starbucks becoming some viral hit just by changing one word, could see some bored anti-establishment dudes following a similar path.
> value of governance in OSS

You are assuming that a strict and stable governance model is good for OSS.

But often it is the least stable projects with lots of hostile forks and huge mailing list arguments which turn out to be the most successful projects.

Strict and stable governance model is perhaps dull and turns away contributors who feel they will never get to the top of such a stable project with long timelines and complex procedures for everything.
Blog author here. This index is built in PostgreSQL. We make it very clear that this is cloud-only in the post and never mention OSS. While we offer it via the Timescale cloud platform, everything under the hood is still PostgreSQL and works with the entire postgresql ecosystem.
>A more logical solution might be to not run society on bullshit

And this is why you're poor. In fact, depending on your definition of bullshit, if you did not run society on bullshit there wouldn't be billionaires at all. Once you reach the level of technology that can provide for everyone, what need is there to make more?

>The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Two things:

1. From a policy standpoint, limping the government along in two week increments is a bad way to run a government. You can't start or stop programs when the budget is "do more of the same". And if the bill contains some kind of provision for only doing "essential" programs, that can be used to shut down large swaths of the government indefinitely.

2. From a political standpoint, there's a saying: "never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake". Government shutdowns are popular with certain Republicans, but it's widely seen as irresponsible. Republican leadership doesn't want a shutdown, but they are stuck an anti-government wing of their own party. (The alternative is to ignore them and work with Democrats, but the anti-government wing has threatened to remove the House Speaker if they do.)

So Democrats are not particularly incentivized to help out the House Republicans. Even if it were good for the country (see #1) it reinforces the internal politics of the Republican party that treats Democrats literally as enemies of the state. They don't want to be seen as giving in to threats.

Democrats may end up signing on to the bill anyway. They're just not co-sponsoring it, which would limit their ability to frame the bill in a way that suits their priorities.
> Looking at the volume though, kafka is overkill.

Overkill in what sense? The blog post seems to suggest Kafka was already pervasive in their organization, and that they leveraged the existing infrastructure and simply added.a couple of topics. How is this overkill?
The big difference is the continuous nature of the game- rather than a serious of short plays, there are two 40-minute halves, during which the ball is in play, and in motion, continuously until it either leaves the field (whether by someone scoring or via a touchline) or a rule is broken that requires the ball to be given to the other team. There are also very limited tactical substitutions, in contrast to American football's platoon system where specialist offensive and defensive teams alternate being on the field.

This means that a rugby player must be able to keep running for the whole match, so they can't be as big as the biggest NFL players. For example the heaviest player on the England rugby team, prop Will Stuart, weighs in at 291 lb (most of his teammates, even those who play the same position, are significantly lighter). Every single offensive lineman on the current Chiefs roster, plus several players in other positions, is heavier than him.

Another effect of the stop-start nature of American football, and in particular the system of downs, is that small differences in how far the ball advances are often very important, and are more important than actually bringing the ball carrier down. In American football, a tackle is a head-on collision between the ball carrier and (often) several defensive players, with the aim of immediately stopping the forward progress of the ball. A rugby tackle is usually one player, often from behind, wrapping his arms around the ball carrier's legs to bring him down, at which point he has to give up the ball but play continues. It's designed to bring him down as efficiently as possible (because play won't stop), while leaving the tackler's teammates free to tackle whoever receives the ball if the ball carrier can get rid of it.
In the end, he didn't even get his hammer back. Outrageous.
Good luck, even internally it's hard to get access. Got to have a director sign off.
Depends where you live, for me in UK it brings up a) a location in uk, then the rest are about the island.

[Saint Helena Island] brings up only results about the island
I don't see the word exclusive anywhere in that press release so in all likelihood they'll be using both providers, just in different capacities.