skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the question.

If the question "你好吗" ("How are you?" although literally translates to "Are you good?"), you can answer with "好" ("Good"). If you're asked "你是老外吗" ("You're a foreigner?") you can answer "是的" ("I am").

So it usually depends on the verb that was used in the question. Although you often can say "对", which is with “是的" the closest Chinese have to "Yes".

In this specific case, you would likely just answer "吃了" ("I ate") or "吃了，你呢？" ("I hate, what about you?").

Keep in mind that this is more or less the equivalent to"How are you doing?" or "What's up?" in the US; it's a greeting and people aren't necessary expecting an actual answer.
> There is every reason to believe that a modern VW will last for 60 years as well in similar situations. I would guess the new one will last longer than the old one

That's funny and must be a joke.

Cars since at least the late nineties are completely designed in 3D CAD (computer aided design). The manufacturer knows exactly what each part weights, how much each part costs, how long each part lasts and they increased the revenue margin tremendously while lowering the car quality to last just as long enough and earn a lot of money additionally with car parts that break exactly two weeks after the 3 or 5 year warrent. Or vital parts that aren't protected to corrosion, and transform a good car in a few years.

Look at the BBC TV show Top Gears (pre 2016). For their christmas special the hosts drove with older cars around the world in sheer unbelievable tortious conditions for the cars. An american or european car build in 2000s/2010s is made to last for x years, and need to replace several parts after every y thousends miles. If you take an old Mercedes, Volvo, etc from the 1970-1990s you can use it for thirty or fourty years even in demanding regions of the world. Such cars run in their later life after being a taxi vehicle in US/Europe for twenty years with the same car engine or a replacement another thirty years in Africa or parts of Asia. You can't do that with newer models, at all (with the exception of a few models like Mercedes G perhaps, but certainly not with Mercedes E or S class - the last "well" built ones are from 1999, the same or often a lot worse with most other US/European car manufactorer - like the 1970s VW cars run fine today, but don't even think about owning a new model for more than ten years - it would get very expensive fast).
"Vanguard runs ETFs mostly"?
Well, in Heroku proper, you feed its git repos an app, it figures out what type of app it is, and applies the right build pack and hosting environment for it. Keeping build packs up to date, keeping all the scripts running, and making sure an app has associated dependencies, etc--I imagine that's the difference between an independent setup you can self-host quickly and easily and one that's very dependent on an ecosystem of Heroku maintainers, tooling and existing server infrastructure...

It's a very hard problem to solve, and one which will likely only catch on as devops tooling improves and becomes expected for apps, and as app runtimes standardize. Alternatively, you could look at the myriad ways operating systems package applications, and the ways applications allow themselves to be packaged, let alone store data in production, and ... basically give up on this ever happening in an easy, hands-free automated way.
> ex: Sungard got 34m reads per second and 23m writes per second[4]

Interesting how fast they drained money with such traffic..
Explain why you disagree and don't cite some western European social democracy which knows that the US would bail it out if push came to shove.
That is not the problem.

The problem is you can't compete with cash buyers, or people who can qualify to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars when you can't (along with the influx of foreign money from China and South America, and stagnant middle class wages for 40 or so years).

Remove government support for mortgages, remove tax deductions, and put in place higher taxes for non-owner occupied dwellings. This will (mostly) fix the affordable housing issue. Work will still have to be done on pushing wages up.
It's usually a matter of misaligned incentives. People are working in their own best interests within the structures available.
Random positive comment. Thanks for what Hashicorp is doing. You all do a great job with many of the crucial pain points in the SW Dev lifecycle. We're using several of your products to solve some deployment/delivery issues and I can't even imagine how we would go about it without your tools.
I definitely agree with you — I think interacting with the environment is an important part of "processing" it. The motor/action feedback loop (cf. artificial motor control in monkeys) is exactly what I had in mind when I said that "touch" is a big one.

I definitely should have clarified that point, though, as it's a huge one, I agree!
Does anyone know of any startups or upcoming projects that are trying to compete with Facebook (i.e building a social network?).

I still haven't managed to wrap my head around how exactly facebook makes money. Do so many people actually click on ads? And this somehow makes billions? I find it very hard to imagine (for myself).
EME requires a binary-blob decryption module. Imagine the scenario where the only browser that provides some function "X" that you use isn't one that a binary-blob is released for.

For most people that don't care about "X", they'll go for the browser that supports EME. As the userbase becomes more widespread, why wouldn't a content owner want to DRM-enshroud their media? Everyone but the mainstream gets squeezed out, choice is reduced, and we're all worse off for it.

Maybe that's a little over-dramatic. But if I want to watch DRM content and HTML5 with EME is the accepted standard for that, then I need a browser and platform that support it. That limits my choices, purely for the benefit of others. That's a reality that I wish I didn't have to deal with.
I was expecting a story about a bread expert. I am disappointment.
A nVidia GForce GT580 was less than $500 (like $400), and a mid-to-highend GT570 around $250. The same class of cards the GTX 1080 costs now $650-$700 and the GTX 1070 $450.

"GTX 1070 prices start at $429 instead of $379, while GTX 1080 prices start at $649 (and if you actually want a card in stock, that’ll be $699). These are prices that are closer to last generations GTX 980 Ti/980 prices than they are 980/970, and it means that the actual GTX 1000 series price premium is much higher as it stands, at $100+ compared to the last generation. Given that these cards keep selling out, clearly there are enough buyers willing to pay these prices – it’s the free market in action – but it means NVIDIA’s MSRPs are for the moment an imaginary number."

-- http://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1...

Fact is computer components got more expensive, as less people buy a PC. It correlates with the stagnation of single core performance of Intel/AMD (aka no need to replace a years old PC at all) and the less than inviting situation that Microsoft introduced with Windows 8 and continues even more aggressive with Windows 10. The users simply buy an iOS or Android tablet and a Playstation 4 to prevent continues frustration.
I doubt that the amount exported as nuts is significant. A rough back of the envelope calculation for almonds (I picked almonds because people complain about almonds a lot whenever water is discussed) indicates that California's annual exported almonds contain about as much water as 14 Olympic swimming pools. That doesn't seem too bad considering how large the almond crop is.

Almonds use a lot of water to grow, but most of that water doesn't actually end up in the almond, and so doesn't go with the almond if the almond is exported.

The numbers I used were 10^12 grams of almonds produced per year, 5% water content per almond, 3785 grams per gallon of water, 660000 gallons per Olympic swimming pool, and 70% of California's almond crop exported.
Im sure a lot of shareholders are too now
You might be surprised to learn that "HD audio" often has worse sound quality than "CD quality".

The science is here: https://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

Edit: You're being downvoted which I think is unfair. It's completely logical that higher sample rates and higher bit depths "should" sound better, and certainly the music industry wants you to believe that. Unfortunately it's simply not true above a certain threshold.

"Lossless" here is defined as "stays the same once it has entered the digital domain", and not "identical to the real-life source", and so CDs are in fact lossless.
Generally no. The thing is the value of that connection is really low, because most recruiters connect with as many candidates as they can indiscriminately. The reason for that is financial: If you're directly connected then it doesn't cost any credits to send an in InMail message.
Why Can YouTube Charge Money to Enforce an Owner’s Copyright?
I don't say this lightly, but wasn't the open source license of MySQL the main source of its success? As I recall, it didn't really get huge until they loosened up the licensing terms. And wasn't that one of the main reasons it made $1 billion? Not criticizing – his business is his business. Just curious.
Of course it does something to prevent copying. The idea that DRM doesn't prevent a single copy being made is as absurd as the idea that every single infringing copy made of a work represents a lost sale.

In reality, most infringing copies (other than professional pirates) are casual copies made just because someone can, and most works being copied illegally are recent. If DRM avoids even a modest fraction of those infringing copies for even a relatively short time before it's cracked, it probably still leads to increased legitimate sales as a result and has at least partially succeeded.
urandom(4) and random(4) are /character/ devices, and getrandom(2) exists.
Worked for CHVRCHES - always loved how one of the dudes wore his SoundCloud ballcap as kind of an indicator of how they started. Their Guitar Center Sessions episode is very much worth the view in my opinion.
In total, yes, but probably VISA gets about half what you get in fees, and your bank gets the other half.
There's diaspora [0] and GNU social [1], but those haven't yet managed to pop up into the mainstream. Network effects should ensure that they do not anytime soon. With that said, the mounting controversy over Facebook and Twitter's moderation may end up pushing marginalized groups into these platforms.

[0]: https://diasporafoundation.org/

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/social/
Yes so many people click on ads. Brands also pay to get higher on users wall posts. To evaluate what brands do, try creating an advertising account and check for yourself how much they charge you and how good their targeting is.
I used to work at Microsoft and have never heard or seen the TLA SWE before. Did mean to type SDE?
They lost quite a few sales to me due to their ministrations. And I literally just made my latest music purchase 2 days ago on Bandcamp. First time buying on their site. Easy, quick, got exactly the formats I wanted. I kind of wish every artist was on Bandcamp.
Actually, without the emojis, it's even more intriguing!
I did networking in another life, and I'd love to take some vacation time from my current gig to finagle networking in Cuba or Caracas.

Dangerous? Of course. Where would the fun be if it wasn't.
When people purchase GQ or Vogue, they are buying it as much for advertisements as for editorial content. When someone flips through one of those magazines, it's like they appreciate the designers hiring models, taking pictures, and sharing it in the magazine even though both they and the reader paid. Take the ads out of GQ or Vogue and there is almost nothing there.

If I create an ad on Facebook and people click on it, leave comments, and share it, Facebook will mark it as quality content and discounts the price per impression. It seems that Facebook wants to create the ad experience of GQ or Vogue and gives money incentive for advertisers to do it.

Facebook knows I'm into technology and web development. There are lots of great products for web developers created every month. Facebook is a way for companies to find people who are interested in their products. It helps people learn about new products and it helps companies target people who are interested in their new products.

There was a fundraising concert last year for a local charity. I volunteered $300 and time to do Facebook advertising. It yielded several thousands of dollars in ticket sales. For $300 Facebook let me communicate to people who really cared about either the bands who were playing or to people who really cared about the project what was happening. Facebook let me target people who like Candelbox within 40 miles of the venue.

This is good. I don't understand why people hate on it so much.
I like the variation that includes apples:

http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-the-apple-pancake-13112

Also, my favorite biscotti recipe (a proper Italian biscotti without butter):

https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/07/chocolate-hazelnut-biscot...

(Skip the hazelnuts -- you will go crazy trying to peel them, blanched or not -- buy hazelnut meal/flour instead and use 8 oz of it in place of the hazelnuts.)
You assume that I have a problem with less media in the world. I don't.

Then you're welcome to ignore anything DRM'd. No-one is forcing you to watch it, listen to it, play it or run it. What you're not welcome to do is dictate to many millions of other people who do enjoy that content and/or find it useful how they must live their lives or what must matter to them.

The lack of implied paywall is not going to stop the people who have real passion from doing what they love.

Perhaps not, but lack of funds to buy food or pay the rent certainly will.

And anyone who's skilled that it does stop (because they were in it for the money), well, we might mourn the loss. But someone will come along with the passion and skill to replace them.

Unfortunately, the world does not work like that. Producing the best work is often a full-time job for many people for an extended period. Few of us are lucky enough to be financially secure without working for a living, and that includes those with the talent and and skills and creativity to produce amazing work.
Kudos to HashiCorp for realizing that the complexity of the project was getting away from them and for having the guts to pull the plug in such a public way.
I actually did some of that yesterday (today). I took the day off because of today's birthday party in the morning. I figured I needed to clean the house, do some shopping and relax. Next time I will probably work on personal projects I meant to finish.

I did quite well by not touching my electronic gadgets so much. Although cleaning is really tough, I feel satisfied. Actually I am thinking about quitting my job just to spend more time doing more personal things. With work, I can't get that.
It's funny you should post this. I literally bought an album from CD Baby yesterday: my first one since you'd moved on.

It was a quite a different experience than I had remembered.

On the other hand I have bought quite a few albums from Bandcamp and am I big fan.

I do still have a wistful fondness for CD Baby. And they've kept their word; my little brother sent in a half dozen copies of his CD back in 2003 and it's still available for purchase!
In fact `code_lengths` and `code_table` are never used again so should just be passed by value, which saves four more `&`s.
I always thought 商 kind of looked lik a face with a hat.
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I'm curious: did you only answer yes to the words whose meanings you knew, or to anything that you knew was indeed a word? There were some that were pretty obviously words, but I wasn't certain the exact meaning (although I could guess), so I answered no. Ended up with 77% (as a native speaker). Apparently average for native speakers is 67%, so 77-89 as a non-native speaker sounds really good.
> Sure, it beats Java, but the VM is worse for running other languages,

based on what criteria?
We do not know how to drive
Yet another book out recently which explores this topic:

"Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy"

https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-In...
> it has made compromises (like using comparison operators like -eq instead of ==).

wat.

The use of -eq instead of == is a compromise?

I don't get that.
Jiong is the craziest character that you'll never use, then there is 晕 (sun on top of car, haze, smog, but also means feint).

I just moved from Beijing to LA this week to work for a YCR funded/managed research lab. My time in China has finally come to an end!
Contrary to popular opinion, people want to see ads.

A good ad is very much appreciated. This is why magazines still make money. This is why the SuperBowl is popular amongst non-football fans. Unfortunately, most ads are spammy which is why internet ads have earned this terrible reputation.
> I've never heard of anyone using Javascript or VBScript to automate anything.

as just one example,
It's common to include JavaScript or VBScript steps in Windows installers. You would never know it, if you ran an installer that used a script to automate a few things.
Sadly, it is often the minority opinion. There are a lot more people who want to enjoy good content than people who actually spend the time and money creating that content.
Yes, if you have a commonly used command that has "exit" as a commonly used flag that means something other than exiting, then by all means use something more specific like "exit2".
I suggest to create an internal view that lists the top 50% (story vote count) per day ordered by date descending. Mark all stories that are currently on the HN frontpage in a certain color. Also include all stories that got flagged, deleted in another color.

I have created such a view and see correlation with stories from MS. But not from Google, Apple or Amazon, nor any other company.

The usual tactics one can see is that a negative story about MS is getting flooded (after x min after they started to react) with many comments. As soon as the story has more comments than upvotes the HN sorting algorithms acts like the story was flagged and puts it of the HN frontpage to page 100+, and put a few flags to the mix and the story vanish pretty quickly. One can also see that MS seem to have a backlog of prepared positive stories. As everytime a negative story hits HN, the negative story is threaded as mentioned plus a new positive story is submitted and upvoted as replacement.

Edit: everyone else can do this too, and can watch these behaviours.

I come to HN to read news and the comments. So I sincerly don't understand why a story with eg 400 upvotes and 500 comments is hidden from me, but being the number one story on HN of that day. I suggest to change the threshold on HN so that either a comment count higher than upvote count don't alter the story position at all or change the threshold to make the site experience more transparent and fair.
>I don't understand why people hate on it so much.

Because they fundamentally misunderstand how advertising works. Read the comments on any article that discusses advertising and you'll see endless pages of people furious that Facebook or Google or Microsoft are "selling my data", as though an advertiser can click a few buttons and download a list of people's names and addresses and preferences.

It's the same confusion that exists about cookies, which people seem to think are super secretive bits of code that can somehow infiltrate your browser and watch everything you do.

The average person is completely misinformed about how advertising works, and the media breathlessly hypes up that misinformation despite the fact that they know very well exactly how advertising actually works and that nobody (well, nobody like Facebook or Google) is selling your personal information to anyone.
I don't purchase GQ or Vogue because I don't want to be visually assaulted with lifestyle gunk. I have enough uses for my money and I don't want more things competing for that attention; trying to inculcate extra desires is not increasing my welfare.

Some people aren't like you. They like having higher-level control over what they want; that is, they want to will what they want, and in that effort, they are working in opposition to advertisers, who are trying to make an argument that you should change what you want. The more information you give advertisers, the more leverage you give them to try and sap your willpower as you control your desires; i.e. the more "handles" they have to try and get a grip on your attention and direct it other than as the viewer wills.

If you try and live your life at a higher level than a hedonistic consumer flitting from one pleasure to another, you'll see that people who try and tempt you with new pleasures are not working in your interest. It's as simple as that.
> If your shell is bash, when you write a script you use a different language.

The number of bash scripts I see for various -n-x related tasks suggests that this is substantially untrue; people do, in fact, do scripts in bash.

> What if there was a shell where you could actually script ...

I can't think of any shell that you can't script. OTOH, interactive use and scripting are substantially different use cases, so it really makes sense to have both interactive-optimized languages that may be usable in script and scripting languages that may be usable interactively, but focus use of each in their optimized role.