skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a former military linguist who was trained to learn Arabic.

I've always disliked and distrusted Duolingo (and before that, Rosetta Stone), for providing people the basics (which they do just fine) but making it seem like fluency is always just one more upgrade or lesson around the corner while not-so-subtly implying that it's your fault that you're not there yet.

Even for the most talented learners of languages it takes many, many more hours and types of exposure that these apps cannot achieve. For Arabic, for instance, the military gave us 88 weeks of full-day instruction with native speakers, in addition to homework. And that's all just to achieve basic reading/listening fluency. And many of the people who start the program (and have passed an aptitude test even to start the program) do not complete it.

Like I said, it's as good as anything to start, but it's the marketing of it as the complete package that irks me.
I am not saying they don’t. I am just saying there are (except in a few rare cases) better uses of your time.
Ask HN: Work on a travel buddy app together?
I'm looking to meet mobile developers and marketers to work with me to take my app to the next level of millions of users. I think I've done a good job of getting it to 50k+ users with thousands of MRR as a solo entrepreneur but it's hard to do everything myself.

My app is called Fairytrail. Our competitor is TripBFF which has 600k+ users since launching 1.5 years ago. Another competitor is Going Solo which has 200k+ downloads and raised $350k.

My background is in product and I've coded cross-platform apps before. I've worked at marketplace startups, Indeed, and Apple.
Housing crises are generally a function of policy and markets, not, er, land. Like, the US is pretty sparsely populated and has one. Ireland has a particularly nasty one; again, low population density.

In the Irish case it’s largely down to an attitude after the financial crisis that Ireland would go back to its old pattern of bleeding out the working-age population through emigration, and therefore there was no need to keep the construction industry on life support in the way that other countries did. When this did not come to pass there was a problem; building shut down completely from 2008 to 2014, and while it’s now back on stream, there’s such a huge deficit from the period of no activity that it’s hard to overcome in the short term. Ireland currently has about seven times more housing starts per year per capita than the UK, and it’s still not good enough.

This is a case where a recession, coupled with bad policy, made a housing crisis far, far worse.
My experience is that LLMs can't actually do 3 at all. The intersection of knowledge has to already be in the training data. It hallucinates if the intersection of knowledge is original. That is exactly what should expect though given the architecture.
>You say overly-regulated, I say sufficiently regulated. Maybe, just maybe, those companies should not launch here

Sure! Sounds like we're in total agreement that the comment I replied to suggesting that the EU was "too big to ignore" is false, and that their regulations do in fact make it so that some products stay out.
There's already an x86-64 extension for this: RAO-INT (remote atomics).
8k is a very common page size, but 4k isn't unheard of. Oracle's default is 4k.

The issue is that page size caps row size (for on-row storage). Also, if you have a smart clustering index, larger pages can be more efficient use of index addressing. So it's a trade-off.
It occurs to me that BTC behaving this way is a good thing in the long term, because it means that people are treating it like other asset classes—something to rotate in/out of as appropriate—as opposed to its own thing (which, in this context, means "different"/"bad")
> Otherwise we'd just pick up a foreign language book.

The problem with this approach is that it takes several hours to get through a couple of sentences.

All of the effort is frontloaded; if you stick with it, your pace will rapidly improve. But starting is a challenge.
The definition they use is so incredibly broad as to mean anything. If you think man-made climate change is real but doesn’t take a higher priority than the activities causing climate change, you’re a climate denier. If you think man-made climate change is real but aren’t sure that natural disasters are increasing in frequency or severity because of that, you’re a climate denier. Both of these types of people believe in man-made climate change yet are said to deny it.

Does that even make sense? This article is trying to drive a wedge between people and foment hate, as is anyone using the term “climate denier”, whether they know it or not. It’s not productive.

The readers of this article could be talking to people, learning their nuanced views, exchanging ideas, and finding common ground with the so-called “climate deniers”, but instead they’re reading a hit piece that makes them think Republicans are going to cause the literal end of the world.
I had no idea Doulingo was a Tiger parent.
As a math major, programmer and musical snob (I do hate jazz though) I figured that there are people who love complexity and nuance and their brain lights up with sense of awe getting into Haskell, jazz, and pure math. And there are people who (1) do not necessarily enjoy complexity and nuance that much and just want to get the job done and (2) hate us, pesky snobs (we can be pretty annoying).
I really like The Amp Hour by Dave Jones (EEVblog) and Chris Gammell, if you are into electronics I think it's a brilliant podcast:

https://theamphour.com/
> if you are specifically targeting PHP jobs

Lot of those around[0].

[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...
I must be in the right demographic because I find their violent blackmailing owl shenanigans really funny for a marketting angle. I like it.
This type of response is called tone policing, which is often used against feminism or anti-racism advocates, who insist people use nice language while they are being denied basic existence:

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

We've tried raw science and data for more than 100 years when the oil industry correctly predicted our current levels of CO2, and then kept doing business as usual. We knew something was up around 1821, and had a firm grasp of the situation by 1861 (one eight six one):

https://daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicte...

If you make money by risking the lives of my family, I'm done being polite.
Don't know the average age of partipants here but I assume it is low enough to explain the focus on longevity rather then on the quality of life.

If you get a chance to interview a person in their late 80s, ask if they would welcome a life extension of say, 20 years.
Very good point, I've rephrased this.
Wall Street want to see Apple keeping up with others. If they don't, they'll downgrade Apple's stock. Apple is moving in last, because they know AI is not worth anything so they ride the final cycle of the craze and write it off as cost. Same thing happened to VR/AR.
There's certainly a ton of use cases where php is a few minute job and anything else is 10x more or even longer just like is true with shell scripts and perl

Snobbery is like saying you're intellectually superior to using a specific screwdriver or kitchen knife.
Action Centered Design
nobody yet mentioned the Shiller CAPE yet, I think this discussion could benefit from some valuation talk.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
PHP is so much nicer to use on a webserver vs Python or JS. It’s almost like PHP was built for the web and fits it like a tailored suit!

Would I use PHP to make games? No! I wouldn’t use JS or Python for that either.

I try to use the best language for the job without letting any cargo cult biases get in the way.

Front end stuff? JS!

Backend stuff? PHP!

AI stuff? Python!

Games and microcontrollers? C/C++!
Show HN: Dashbreeze – dashboard builder for non-experts
Hi everyone!

I’m Guta, based in Brazil, and I’m the co-founder of Dashbreeze.

Dashbreeze is a side project I’m developing along with my co-founder, Tomio, to create a new kind of dashboard creation experience—one that is easy, visually appealing, and affordable.

With Dashbreeze, you can upload your spreadsheet or connect Google Sheets or Notion to create and share your dashboards or charts online. No coding or data science expertise is required, and our interface is designed to be intuitive and free from unnecessary clutter.

We’ve just launched our beta version, and we’d love for you to try it out! Visit [https://dashbreeze.com](https://dashbreeze.com/) to give it a spin. You can test it out without signing in by using our demo version or create a free account.

We’re also planning to add more integrations, collaboration tools, and dashboard templates in the future, so stay tuned!

Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us, so please feel free to share your thoughts or reach out with any questions at hi@dashbreeze.com. We genuinely want to hear from you!
This doesn't surprise me based on my knowledge (or lack thereof) of the demographics of US Congress.

Exemplified by Trump: 78, Biden: 81.

Most older folks I have conversational relationships with are deniers of literally anything that may negatively affect the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed. Even to the point that they think such changes are actually going to be worse for their grandchildren.

As per the old adage: science advances one funeral at a time.
That's not how registers work. Register names are not registers. Unless you are in the deepest of embedded, all operations that write to a register allocate a new one, and do not write to their input register.

edit: OoO primer, assuming x86_64 but everything else works the same way too:

Your cpu has hundreds of physical registers. There are 16 register names managed in the frontend. Whenever the frontend sees an instruction that writes to RAX, it allocates a fresh register that does not contain a value, sets it as pending, writes that register number under RAX in the register alias table (RAT), and sends the instruction forward. Once the instruction is in the scheduler, it waits until all it's inputs are ready, and then issues to an execution unit. Once it gets executed, it writes it's value to the register allocated for it and sets it as ready.

If you have an instruction that uses the same register name as input and output, those are guaranteed not to be the same register. Used registers get garbage collected once no name or pending instruction refers to them anymore.
It so happens that a few months back a friend of mine started to make his own hot sauces.

Shameless plug for his Dutch website here: https://lavasaus.nl/
This context helps me understand more what you're getting at quite a bit. I dunno if I could manage the same approach but I at least appreciate how you're thinking about it. Thanks!
I like Lingvist for vocabulary building, but it's also not perfect.
Thank you for the interesting article!

The response letter at the bottom- “Is the effectiveness of alcohol-based handrubs against enterococci really compromised?” by INGEBORG SCHWEBKE has some interesting counterpoints and implies they used 23% isopropanol instead of 70%, which is not enough to sterilize.
Yes and no.

Shell scripting is incredibly powerful and omnipresent. So you want to know the basics about pipes, loops and the like.

But the language itself is broken by design (error handling is a mess; whitespaces create headaches daily; sub-shells can be a pain; ...). So, creating reliable scripts can be a challenge, and you do not want to become an expert on how to write large programs with the shell. Other languages, e.g. Python, are much better at this.

My favorite site in this context is https://shellhaters.org. It has a list of links to the POSIX standard so that you can easily look up functionality that is part of it (and should be present on all POSIX-compliant operating systems).

If you know everything on https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/ you most likely know more than you need.
This is one reason among many that I have vpn/vps/etc.

At least duckduckgo is only blocked at the dns level!
Please give me some examples!
>I knew we were close to top when I saw that.

I guess "'I put my life savings on [most buzzed-about stock of the day]' on Reddit" = "shoeshine boy giving stock tips to Joseph P. Kennedy"
I have frequent crazy emails getting past gmail spam detection (I've reported and even reached out to support who does nothing. Well they blamed Microsoft...).

The email appears like normal spam just like this one. Things that a Naive Bayes filter should catch... But if you open up the original message there is about 20 pages of text there and they are filled with stuff that looks like password reset emails, account creations (ironically one has a email link for OpenAI account creation), universities, and so on. Recent emails are getting a lot smaller (maybe a few pages) but clearly what's going on is that they were just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck. I've saved a bunch of these because they are actually quite fascinating. Not sure if anyone does research in this but I'd share for that (don't want to dox myself to all of HN though)
The fact either let an msnbilling.co.in email through is embarassing.

Although I don't think iOS Mail app has spam filtering like the desktop Mail.app if you're using your own server, at least mines never worked if it does.
Bringing Camera Control to the New Generation of Video Diffusion Models
> I don't know the outcome of the second one you mentioned,

There is a whole paragraph about the outcome in the page you literally linked.
It leads to this report [1] where the commission basically dismisses the ECI and explains they will do nothing but at least the commission had to make its position clear and replies.

[1] https://food.ec.europa.eu/document/download/09b68864-8425-4f...
I mean when people are ignoring facts, to the point that its probably going to hurt people, I feel like I'm justified in trying to know who they are, like "transphobe", "racist", "ableist", "climate change denier". I'm aware that JK Rowling and Graham Linehan probably have various views, opinions and concerns, but neither of them want me and my friends to exist
Ask HN: Popular websites/open source projects/ that use jQuery?
I am learning JQuery and Bootstrap and I would like to read some codebases to understand how it's in done "real world". I can also try to read code of popular sites which use it using "View Source".

Google search is full of SEO articles completely unrelated to my query.

Thanks

Google search d
"Voter literacy" is obviously a good thing; but blockchain and encryption are not part of that. Very few software developers, for example, are qualified to evaluate a crypto scheme.
CrowdStrike Sends Scathing Letter to Delta, Strikes Back
Structuring Your Engineering Organization
Why can't you? As someone else already said, it's a combination. I'm learning french and I'm enjoying A1/A2-specific books and newspapers (Zeit Sprachen, idk if something like this exists in other countries)
Two techniques, even: More requests processed at once, after a very (bandwidth-adjusted) precisely user-controlled starting point.
One helps with race conditions in the server, the other helps racing 3rd party requests. Sending a highly-efficient "go" packet for many HTTP requests is sure ruining the fun for all the others awaiting some pre-announced concert ticket / GPU sale to open.

If the website accounting is merely "eventually consistent" between threads/servers and you are able to fire many (large) requests at a precise (determined by small packet) point in time, both techniques work in tandem - could have (one of) your post(s) appear with repeating digits (such as at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42000000) without just seeing "Sorry, we're not able to serve your requests this quickly."
They have the common feature of, being glad to trade our lives for money. It's a helpful and useful label for people standing in the way of efforts to save our ecology and civilization.

That's what words are for. Nobody is going to stop because you're upset at being correctly labelled.
That's disheartening to read. I will say, that in Western Australia we aren't experiencing as bad an increase in energy costs since our main energy provider, Synergy[1], is state owned, allowing the state to set the price. It's been pretty good over here, but I do hear it's pretty bad over east.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_(electricity_corpora...
If you're not a Medium member, I've included a link in the start of the post where you can read it for free :)
Wow using a 12 year old obsolete article to prove a point, nice.

Lets be honest here, the modern web is an over engineered fractal of bad design.
I live in a suburb that used to be all farms. By some miracle, a single one survived and still operates, so I get fresh corn, tomatoes, and a few other things all summer long that is grown a mile away.

If it ever goes, I’ll be beside myself. It’s an invaluable, irreplaceable resource.
> An evaluation also showed that employees had started to attach more importance to diversity.

Hm, how valuable... I would assume that the engineering approach would be to question the assumption that absence means discrimination. And perhaps they would point out the obvious that this university does discriminate on the basis of sex. Allegedly that is justified because discrimination happened in the past.

But the absence of women in engineering isn't due to discrimination. Of course some might not be on board with this. Also this already had the effect that the work of women is scrutinized to a far higher degree. There was imbalance before that too, but today it is on another level.
For IoT devices, the upcoming regulations will probably include a stipulation that vendors need to specify a guaranteed support period for the devices. I would prefer the same kind of commitment and dependability for games to a simple badge. It would combine free choice for how to build your business model with the ability for customers to make an informed choice ("they can pull the plug in 5 month? I'm not paying EUR 60 for that"). At least as long as there isn't a malicious compliance cartel, e.g. all big vendors only guaranteeing a month and "kindly" supporting it for longer…

(And my highest preference would be for vendors to be forced to publish both server and client code as free software, if they don't continue selling their service for reasonable prices. Not only for games, but for all services and connected devices. Getting political support for such regulations is, of course, extremely hard.)
Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #043 | Archiving and Awakening Memories

- Tile Image in SwiftUI
- Exploring Writing Tools
- Going Indie
- WKWebView Cache Research
- Performance Testing on CI
- Swift 6 Migration
- Non-Sendable
- Reference to captured Error

https://weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobmans-swift-weekly-043
HardenedBSD July 2024 status report
Disagree. Laravel is a great productive framework and there are actually a lot of high paying PHO jobs
Kelvin Tay of UBS said today that jumping back into the Nikkei is like trying to catch a falling knife. <https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ubs-says-going-into-...>
Learn a functional language like Elixir. That’ll prove both useful and mind expanding!
Mysterious Antimatter Detection on ISS Sparks New Theories
The spam filter failed to catch it, which is expected - nothing gets 100% – but then the Mail app interpreted the text of the message in the inbox as legitimate and placed it in the priority section with an excerpt which sounds legit and none of the suspicious parts displayed.

This is basically the Achilles heel of LLMs: they’re gullible, and in a context like spam there are many people with a financial incentive to figuring out how to exploit that. The rush to deploy them will lead to more of these problems as people start using them on untrusted inputs at scale and I imagine a ton of money is going to flood to people who say they can limit this.
Open AI literally said they have a semi-resilient method with 99.9% accuracy. It will become full-resilient for practical purposes if all LLMs implement something similar.
Vote with your money is by definition an approval of oligarchy, not democracy. It is appalling it is so common a refrain nowadays. People with more money shouldn't necessarily get more say in our society's norms. You are free to your opinion but when you say that people should vote with their money one whale is going to come along and swamp your "vote" 100x. Your opinion should be just as valid as theirs not less because they spend more. If I got it wrong and you're the whale then I just hope you can have some empathy.

Launchers aren't necessarily a problem when they are held to reasonable standards on data privacy, refunds, and durability among others. There is unique value that they can offer which is typically lessened by not being interoperable with one another. Many of the norms were hard won via EU and other national regulations. On the other hand, far too many companies want a piece of the data pie without even attempting at interoperability and egress. The Helldivers 2 debacle is an indication that clearly something is wrong.

The markets are still highly polluted with things that should be a violation of our norms even though things are getting better.
Well, it's NORMAL to have deniers in general, because any change, especially if substantial and not pleasant got denied en mass in a general population. That's a classic psychological phenomenon.

In this case it's more normal since most of those talking about climate change, those most listened by the people are objectively PRs who push and agenda using the climate as an excuse and the others talk about mean values changes people typically do not understand. The average Joe hearing about +1.5℃ imaging a daily maxima +1.5℃, that's is. So switching from 30℃ to 31.5℃ (88.7℉) it's unpleasant but not that dramatic. The average Joe can't think about ANNUAL mean values vs extreme values during the years, for instance.

Anyway: IF we want to share the relevance of climate change it's about time to talk about food crisis and how hard is sourcing food around the world. We should show, locally, area per area, the amplitude and effects of extreme weather events. We should state clearly WE CAN'T AVOID THE CHANGE just reducing the animal flatulence etc, we MUST adapt. Then we mast be realistic stating clear that many currently densely inhabited places have no future fully knowing the real estate storm that will follow, and observing where we can instead go and how, or cease the rhetoric about smart cities, novel Fordlandia equally distopic with equal (no) future and admit we can only implement the New Deal at PERSONAL/FAMILIAR/SME level creating small buildings not wasting gazillion of resources in un-evolvable hyper fragile modern dense cities.

While most people do fear any change, to reject any change, to not understand any change a thing like the 2030 Agenda it's understood enough, the current impoverishment of all, especially of the middle class is very understood. The rest it's not since like every years we witness people die from heat not only working because they need to but also at the beach because "they do not have consider much their body tolerance to heat".

I know it's unpopular among current US Liberals dreaming the friendly, social, connected nice and dice clean, silent and green city, but sorry, I'm between those who have studied and implemented the Green New Deal building a new home, all electric car included with p.v. etc, I know enough to understand what could be done and what not. If you the reader are one of them try to draw yourself a possible or impossible scenario and share your conclusion and process.
Video with Alpha Transparency on the Web