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I don't have any reason not to believe you, but your position does not seem to be backed up by Wikipedia, where /d/ is not listed as a phoneme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Taiwanese_Hokkien

I have a hypothesis, mostly dependent on the position of a native English speaker, which I have no idea whether you are or not:

It's common to not be able to easily distinguish /e/ and /ai/. English does not have the former, and it tends to best match to the /ai/ diphthong, which glides over and would "average" to /e/.

It's also common to confuse aspiration and voicing on stops. English initial voiced stops are unaspirated, while initial unvoiced stops are aspirated. Hence, an unvoiced, unaspirated initial stop does not typically occur in English, and can vary in listener interpretation between /t/ or /d/.

This article covers voice onset time (VOT) and how voicing and aspiration play into it:

http://www.linguisticsnetwork.com/tutorials-aspiration-and-v...

Important note is that VOT is negative for voiced, near zero for unvoiced, and positive for aspirated. This measurable phenomenon backs up the fact that unvoiced, unaspirated sounds are basically in between standard English sounds and why you can get differing interpretations.
The worst thing a father can do to a son without getting arrested, is to deprive him of his own name. It isn't as though "John Willard" is such a wonderful moniker that it must be inflicted upon the third and fourth generations.
A tool that can reliably tell whether a given program will hit a null deference or not can also trivially be repurposed to solve the Halting Problem. Thus, no such perfect deref tool can exist. The best you can claim is that there’s a tool with few false positives and false negatives. But the original post seems to claim that there’s a perfect one.
The author introduces his example with "Let’s take a look at a very short Kotlin + RxJava sample." But IMHO his sample describes a Java-only problem (and solution). He could have written a quite similar article without any mentioning of kotlin.
Finn here: it reads like language that's tediously formal to the point of being awkward, kind of like an old translation of the Bible ("And verily X did beget Y").

"Natural" spoken Finnish abbreviates a lot and dispenses with many conjugations. Maybe I should fork this and build a Helsinki slang version...
Too bad he couldn't use FUSE. Would be nice to do `ls` and other commands with this.
One more equivalent expression: ?x

A question mark followed by any other single character is treated as a string literal containing that character.
What is the cause of the burnout? What exactly are you struggling with?
It is, however, an incredibly predictable failure.

As far as nightmares are concerned, I suppose it depends on the anxiety's of the particular security professional. ;)
The headline seems to imply an overland trade route between China and Japan.
The Dutch would have pronounced 'thee' closer to 'tay' (i.e. /tʰe/) whereas modern English speakers would pronounce it like the word 'thee' (/ði/).
When I string these three sections together:

The local Balinese schools were all about learning “by rote,” he said; at the other end, the traditional expat-driven international schools were a “monoculture” of privilege.

[...]

Ambitiously idealistic experiments often collapse under the weight of their own internal contradictions, and it is certainly possible to find these at Green School: Here are mostly Western, affluent families, many of them temporarily abandoning their comfortable lives for a metaphysical gap year of voluntary simplicity (or life rebalancing or spiritual reawakening) in an exotic stage-setting, at a school whose annual tuition (roughly $15,000 a year for a sixth-grader), while a bargain compared to New York City private-school standards, is far beyond the reach of the average Balinese. (Hardy’s original vision of having at least 20 percent of the school comprised of Balinese scholarship students was, Druhan noted, easier to scale when the school had 90 students. Today, about 9 percent of the student body are on scholarships.)

[...]

Diamond was struck by how different it felt from the “traditional boarding school model — you go here because your grandfather went here and then you’re going to go to Yale and then work at this law firm and charge people $500 an hour to argue about nothing.”

It's hard for me to see this article as anything more than a wealth admiration puff piece. I mean if you locate in a super cheap country, court the kids of Yale graduates and rockstars to get $15,000 a year from them and give up on your mission to also educate the poor locals then yeah, it's easy to build a super impressive, large, expensive school. What's the point? These kids will be the next generation's leaders whether this school exists or not.
> our social safety nets for the elderly will collapse.

Not everyone agrees social safety nets are a good thing. Some of us think properly preparing ourselves for retirement is more important.

> population decline is going to be the problem of the 21st century

We have too many people already. Population decline due to reduced birthrate sounds like a solution, not a problem.
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Why was there no class-action lawsuit to come out of this?
> I wonder if we will see a new paradigm anytime soon.

I'd like to see something like a self-hosting library OS. The entire OS is a single giant application, software is installed by adding the source code and recompiling the whole thing, and security is done using language-level and package management constructs.
People are already sneaking data through DNS in both directions. Here's a quick example from a year ago that popped in my head first: http://4lemon.ru/2017-01-17_facebook_imagetragick_remote_cod...
It's time for robotic scarecrows!

Eventually, all farms will do away with pesticides and either keep out pests or kill them without chemicals. Swat them or catch them, just like the robotic exterminators that will live in the walls and floors of buildings. Maybe they'll even digest them for energy.
Sounds like you're looking at the wrong metrics. Dogecoin had 0 commits to its main repository in 2017. Compare that to 3,277 commits to Bitcoin Core alone. Bitcoin has scaling issues that developers are addressing with second layer networks because tons of people are using Bitcoin. Dogecoin doesn't because it has so few users that the demand for block space is well below the available supply.
They spoke of the pursuit and acquisition of virtue as the highest good man can achieve, yet everyone seems to conveniently ignore that these days and pursues bodily goods instead.
A blockchain-based cryptocurrency has 3 central qualities: decentralized, permissionless, irreversible transfers. That's what makes it transformational. No other currency or system can provide these 3 properties (except physically exchanging a commodity, eg. exchanging gold in the real world.)

You claim most cryptocurrencies are "effectively centralized", but that is false. For example if I make a Bitcoin transfer by broadcasting it to the P2P network (ie. assuming it reaches most miners), no single entity can block the transaction, thanks do decentralization (ie. many disparate miners around the world attempting to include the txn in their block.)
I know I definitely want to try this. I don't think I would ever buy one to have in my home, but it really would be cool to and fun to try.
Over decades, research and a development of better economic theories should be pursued.

But if you think a better understanding of economics will solve all our ills w/r/t scarcity, income, and wealth inequality, you're way delusional.

Solving for scarcity, and the only reason to undertake the effort - the well being of a society - is a political and social exercise, not an economic one.
This type of story had been reported many times over the years. The only difference is the animal in the food chain in question. Something up the food chain is feeding on something humans want to eradicate. Horrible, yes, but unless they ban such things this will continue. The last time I heard of version of this was Falcon being killed by eating poisoned pigeons in urban areas.
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You think Google is going to just let work go un-done because they don't have a diverse candidate in the role?
Ah, please don't take my point as dismissing the new tools, either. Indeed, I would hope that a synergy between all tools lead to better tools for us all. I just have a pet peeve for the attitude of jumping rather quickly to "rewrite it all in new language" and not realizing you can bring a lot of this into existing codebases.
Are there wrong povs? Your comment addresses nothing specific about mine.
> It's relatively established, the community doesn't or at least didn't take itself too seriously (sounds like that may now have changed)

It changed a bit, but not entirely. Check out the subreddit and you'll still see lots of Comic Sans and image macros.

I have Dogecoin to thank (blame?) for getting me initially interested in cryptocurrency precisely because the community was so welcoming and didn't take itself so damned seriously, and even though Dogecoin is more "valuable" now, I'd still recommend it for those looking for a low-risk and relatively simple introduction to the concept.
He asked for source of multiple claims one of which was "Women found staying at home stifling".

But I also think that while some dads would be happy at home long term, just like some women really are, majority would have same problems then women at home do. However, the stigma of "it was your choice don't complain" etc could be even larger.
> I would have a bone to pick with folks who feel entitled (or "commanded by $deity") to have 6, 7, 8 or more kids. That's just absurd stupidity.

I have to laugh at this, because 3 years ago I was this person and I know exactly how the conversation would go. I had 3 kids and planned for 6-7 of them, then I left the Mormon religion.

But I would love to hear the conversation. I can't speak for everyone, but in Mormonism at least you literally believe that having children is commanded by deity and any environmental offsets are not an issue because the Second Coming is soon and the earth will be cleansed by fire at that time anyway. Besides, God created the earth, he would never let man destroy it.

There just is no real discussion to be had with somebody who believes those things. Fortunately, higher education and sex ed are highly correlated with lower birth rates, so I'd push for those if you're looking to reduce birth rates - even in Mormonism or other religions.
It’s time to go nuclear in the fight against climate change
Is this flagged for an obvious reason or is it that the topic is distasteful to some in the community?

Reading through the actual complaint[0], as much as I despise many aspects of the Damore memo, there is a lot of substance (in the complaint itself).

One example is the quote: “If you put a group of 40-something white men in a room together and tell them to come up with something creative or innovative, they’ll come back and tell you how enjoyable the process was, and how they want to do it again, but they come up with fuck-all as a result!”

HR defended this speech, but when substituting in any other class of individuals it would have been violating... It's hard to empathize with the conservative white males that filed the complaint but the substance of the complaint does hold some weight.

[0] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180...
These shenanigans are why telcos/cell networks, and not ISP's/cable networks, are probably going to end up controlling all Internet traffic someday
Canabis Sativa is from hotter climates but Canabis Indica is from colder places. The best strands are hybrids that try to select the best properties from each natural variety.
If you're interested in different paradigms see https://github.com/dzavalishin/phantomuserland/blob/master/R...
Mullvad open-sources their VPN app
Denying the concept of morality is merely a transparent excuse for not feeling bad about behavior you know to be immoral.

You were doing better in your previous comment when you admitted you were being a bad person and simply didn't care.
If you click the "Full Document" button on the left, it provides a single PDF.

Why that's not the default behavior though...
Real world tech forums for computer architecture.

Comp arch Google groups for.. well, computer architecture.
I actually don't think there is a BIP for it yet... So I guess I was mistaken saying it's already part of LN (it's part of the paper, but not of any implementations).

But the idea relies on miners "doing the right thing", and in this case since there isn't any downside for following this rule, the assumption is that miners will act in good faith.

>The blocks are almost always full, so is it just up to the miner to choose if time is stopped or not?

It's not necessarily if the block is full that the bit is set, but rather if there is "network congestion". This can mean many things to many people, but the assumption is that if fees go up significantly over a short period of time, that could indicate congestion which miners would set the bit on, or perhaps if the mempool of pending transactions gets over a certain BTC amount, it could be set.

Also, I completely forgot to mention the other piece that makes all of this much less worrisome. If you need to broadcast any transactions to prevent "theft" of your BTC, you will receive all of the BTC in the channel by doing so. This gives you the ability to make a child-pays-for-parent transaction with the UXTOs from the channel closure (in a contract revocation scenario) with an absurdly high transaction fee to guarantee inclusion in the next block (basically using ALL of the other party's money as the transaction fee).

Technically, the other party in the channel could also do a CPFP to try to get their transaction included before yours, but as long your side of the channel never went to 0 at any point, you will always be able to "outspend" the other party for transaction fees.
I've typically blocked outgoing DNS requests to arbitrary resolvers on every network I've managed, which disables the use of this FS.

Reason being, if users on my network are using a resolvers other than my own, they can resolve all sorts of domains I would have otherwise blackholed.
Because children are people and people by necessity must displace natural ecosystem fixtures to survive.
> I have a feeling you know absolutely nothing about rust.

Please edit uncivil swipes out of your comments here. The rest of what you wrote is fine.
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Please don't post flamebait to HN. We don't want programming language flamewars, or any flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is this supposed to be a replacement for using PINTOS to build an OS in C? I remember the PINTOS projects as one of the most rewarding things I worked on in my college career.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos_...
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Total bullshit.

Coffee is fine. Butter is fine. Mixing them together is nothing special.

Adding butter does not help you lose weight. At least not directly. It could help you feel satisfied so you end up eating less than you may have otherwise.
Yep, luckily there are definitely a good handful of interesting OS projects around. HelenOS[0] stands out to me the most due to its component-based design. Though I'm also looking forward to seeing how seL4[1] and Genode[2] might be put to use.

[0] http://www.helenos.org/

[1] https://sel4.systems/

[2] https://www.genode.org/
They saw what happened to AOL, and they know it can happen to them too.
Maybe something like a LoRa network might wind up being more durable and flexible over the long term?

If you have a tiny low-energy sensor that only wakes up for a few milliseconds out of every hour and can be powered by something like a little peltier element or turbine or pile-driven geothermal shaft, what's likely to go wrong besides someone stealing it? And with the design worked out, how much would a unit cost, $100 even with a rugged enclosure and special pricing for government jobs?

You'd only have to maintain a handful of base stations as opposed to umpteen dozen fiber terminations, and you could freely move sensor nodes or install new ones depending on what you learn or changes to the program.

But that said, it sounds like these sensors are A) along an existing infrastructure project like you said and I misunderstood, and B) also need to monitor for intruders which presumably also involves general surveillance. So...yeah, what gives?

Well, whatever, it looks cool.
Yeah, a cornerstone of my assertion has to be that references to original works are present and that documents are updated on errors found. Two things that I grant are not always the case.

I don't feel this is much different from any other pedagogical practice, though. How many of us come at "imaginary" numbers with a given metaphor that severely fails us in some understandings?
Technically you're right Microsoft didn't steal anything, they just did Business. Which often feels to the common man like theft when Business is done as well as Microsoft did it in their heyday. On the other hand technically Oceanghost didn't steal anything either. He just customered a little better than Microsoft was counting on. Seems like fair play to me and I'm not sure how using the word theft is fantasy-land justification. It's not theft in the strictest legal sense, but it's a very common usage of theft.
Your dad was a dick. So what? That doesn't entitle you to his money. And guess what, you're a dick too.
When it is time someone or a group of people will step up. Then issue will become that of adaptation. Enough people will have to see it through the early and rough stages. Prospective users will have to not get turned off by negative hastily written or outdated opinion pieces.

Most people would not be willing to give a chance to what may be a great product in 5-10 years. So the next great operating system will most likely sneak in through a Trojan horse. My bet would be, containers, something, something, something, operating system.
I would be very interested to hear more about your experience dboreham! I'm assuming you mean you ran a small/local ISP and it was an overall loss?

What do you think of something like Hyperboria (https://hyperboria.net/) which is based on CJDNS, so there's no "ISP" really, but each peer sort of is a very small very local service provider to whoever they decide to peer with.

I was imagining some peers will charge other peers money to act as their gateway to the public network. Or maybe a bunch of people will pool their money and buy commercial network access
That's a recent change, broadband used to be defined as 25mbps, and that definition was recently lowered to 10mbps.

But for what it's worth, a lot of US DSL still wouldn't meet broadband definition, even using your lower speed definition. AT&T DSL (the non-FTTN version) in Michigan maxes out around 6mbps down for most people.
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> The Damore memo was anti-diversity, under the stated guise of being pro-diversity.

It was anti-pro-diversity policies (at least the existing ones). That doesn't entail it was anti-diversity. For instance, if I prove that diversity policies are completely ineffective and say we should do away with them, that doesn't make me anti-diversity except to people interested in token PR efforts rather than real change.

> It was a criticism of Google's policies to fight social biases and promote diversity in hiring, using cherry-picked and misrepresented evidence.

Not really. Did you actually read the memo?
Personally - there is something that I would like:

A monitor of exactly how much traffic is used by ads vs content.

So if I load a page, and say that page is just an article with text. What % of the content is the bandwidth-consumption I am interested vs the ads surrounding it?

The reason why this number is important is Mobile.

So a user signs up for "3 gigs of data" - how much of that 3 gigs is consumed by ads and shit they dont want/need?

Actually - it would be good to have a standard on reporting for any given page "this page weighs in at 50KB for content and 500KB for ads..."

Does this exist?
The problem isn't with `foo`, it's with how Kotlin's Java interop treats `just`.

Because Java doesn't have a language-level concept of non-nullability, Kotlin's interpretation of the type signature for `just` must accept nulls (sure enough, non-nullability is enforced at run time inside RxJava). Kotlin trains you to expect nullability to be a compile-time constraint, and has borderline frictionless with Java. Put the two together, and it's very easy to walk into a runtime-error trap.
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Not "credit" in the sense of a "line of credit", but "credit" in the sense of "increased the amount held in their account" -- the banks, if they so desired, could ask the Fed to deliver, as cash, the money held in reserves, so long as they upheld their reserve requirements at the same time, and the Fed would have, by law, been forced to instruct the Treasury to deliver the specie.

Of course, the plan was that the troubled assets would be purchased by the Fed, an sold in a non-firesale fashion, and cancelled against the increase in the money used to cancel that out, to return the held reserves back to the trendline that predated 2008.

Congress had instructed, through TARP, the Fed to purchase "troubled assets" and had authorized amounts, but the Fed ignored those instructions and restrictions entirely and purchased none of the troubled assets, instead bolstering the reserves through the standard open market operations, and later, through quantitative easing, which is just an acceleration of the standard open market operations, with the purpose of creating enough inflation to allow the economy to recover. But that inflation didn't happen (still hasn't happened) for reasons that literally no person on earth can explain. Then the Fed did some balance sheet gymnastics (mark-to-market is a glorious thing) to show that all the TARP funds had been repaid (with interest!).
What would an ethical person in this framework do with pets that can't be vegan (ex: cats)?
> Also, we chose to completely scrap whiteboard coding and assigned homework instead.

For an entry level engineer, this removes a bunch of variance and also because it gets you another scenario which happens way often in actual work.

You show up with the code and it gets reviewed & discussed on how/why of the implementation.

The most talented entry level people I've worked with have struggled with criticism instead of grading (i.e "grade the code" through a bunch of test-cases is different from "why did you do this and explain").
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VSCode makes this a little easier. It's pretty good at suggesting index.jsx if you search for "ComponentName".
I was curious how accurate those are, found a datasheet for the PRO-OBL-201A ($1600, or effectively nothing compared to an oil pipeline). It's a portable "optical break detector", full blown reflectometers might have more features.

They list the maximum range as 100 Km, with accuracy of +/- (0.8 m + 0.001% x Distance). So measuring to a break at maximum range, you'll be within 1.8 meters.
Spectre and Meltdown: Data leaks during speculative execution – J. Horn
What's with the output of the hexagon's vertices? There technically isn't a 285th degree line of meridian, or are they saying, 285 degrees east from 0? In which case, why don't they just subtract 360 from all values greater than 180 (since the input is in decimal degrees)?
Controlling network access on DNS level seems pretty ineffective to me.

Especially with things like Google DNS over HTTPS and https://github.com/pforemski/dingo ...
It's in the intro of the white paper.