skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man... there's a long way to go down this rabbit hole...

Maybe I've lost touch with the current Canto-pop scene, but I seem to recall quite a lot of modern-ish Canto-pop (late 2000s) being written in Mandarin.

白话文 is sort of ill-defined. It really just means "vernacular written language" as opposed to Classical Chinese (文言文). There is a Yue vernacular (粤语白话文), Wu vernacular (吴语白话文), etc. There is also a Mandarin vernacular (which is what 白话文 usually refers to by itself in Mandarin) that you can further specify as 官话白话文 (although that term is getting quite specialized and not every native speaker is necessarily going to have heard of that), but that is exactly what it sounds like, the semi-formal written Mandarin vernacular. This is exactly the same situation as standard written English. While this is a restriction of "English" in some sense (does this include regional-specific terms such as "yous?"), it still is more or less equivalent to what most people think of when they think of "English."

咱们 is common in Northern dialects of Mandarin, but used to be a pretty strong marker for a Northern Chinese speaker. That's changed somewhat over time due to broadcast media and the primacy of some Northern Chinese accents, but you're still not going to hear a ton of older Southern Chinese speakers use 咱们 when speaking Mandarin (and when I mean south I mean essentially anyone from Jiangsu/Zhejiang on down) even if they speak pitch-perfect Standard Mandarin. They almost exclusively use 我们 instead (which is also valid Standard Mandarin, everywhere you would use 咱们 you could also use 我们 although not vice versa).

I think this is the phenomenon you're picking up on, that a lot of Northern Chinese Mandarin terms don't show up in Southern Chinese Mandarin.

More broadly, I think what you're pointing out is that "Mandarin" is really itself a fuzzy category that starts falling apart when you poke a its seams, but really that's just the nature of language. "English" starts falling apart when you poke too hard at its particular words as well.

The central point about the embedding of Mandarin though is that it reads completely fluently to a Mandarin speaker. It's not a pidgin, it's not a situation where the Mandarin speaker can understand it in bits and pieces. It reads like anything a Mandarin speaker would have written.
Openstreetmap. It's an alternative that desperately needs your (and other's) help. There will not be a 1:1 replacement for google maps unless folks put forth some effort. Be a osm contributor today (it's ridiculously easy with Osmand, or maps.me, or many many other clients.)
Quite often, someone in this situation is going to also have more shares vesting over time. Even if you sell all you can on day 1, you will likely participate in future gains.
> Creating an account is a pain point for some people.

Fair enough. And even fairer, if you're not an experienced mapper you may easily be able to spot a problem but not be sure how exactly to fix it. OSM has you covered -- right-click the map and select "Add a note here". Add a quick note with all relevant info. It won't appear on the map, but mappers who are working in the area will (hopefully) see it and fix it.

Not sure if Gnome Maps implements this functionality, but most phone-based OSM clients do.
Pay walled on mobile.
It's literally like wikipedia. Anyone can contribute, provided they make an account. There has to be some accountability with edits, hence the requirement. Your dream requires accepting anonymous edits, which opens the doors wide open to abuse.
why would you use a navigation app on a desktop os ?
Only worked with the kiosks directly, which were being deployed by Gumtree-Kiosk to medical clinics, and NEOTouch to retailers.

Both very small Australian companies, probably about 100k deployments between them.
Search for Wulfram Gerstner's courses and books. You'll find most elementary (and advanced) topics in there.
According to https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/oscar-health-raises-165-mill... Oscar is gross margin profitable now?
Can you really expect more than a formulaic move with a premise like this.
So?

A rising tide lifts all boats.
Efficiency.
I think you're right that the author is using "GUI" as the opposite of programming. I think he's correct with respect to nearly every GUI I've ever seen, but incorrect with respect to what a GUI could do in principle.

There's no reason that your wizard dialogue couldn't be exactly as expressive as SQL. In principle you could make a wizard that just built an arbitrary SQL query and ran it.

I said "nearly" before, the reason is graphical programming languages, for example unreal engine's blueprints. These are a "gui", and allow general purpose programming. One could imagine a tool with a similar style of programming, that extends them with inline data visualization and other tools, that would both undoubtedly be a GUI, and have all the nice features of programming.

I think the better compromise is probably something like jupyter notebooks, but that doesn't mean a GUI couldn't do it. And maybe a better GUI exists that I just haven't managed to imagine.
Windows 10 is good (really!) if you haven't taken a look at in a while. I switched from Mac on the Desktop to Windows 10 because I needed "pro" hardware (NVIDIA GPU, 1 TB RAM, etc) and it works just fine. They've really been on the ball in the last couple of years.
It needn't be this way: we /could/ have a well defined set of actions encompassed by an API and the GUI just allows one to tinker with the API, and we could have a detailed audit history of every API call that was made, and with which parameters, regardless of whether it originated from the GUI or from a script. This also means scripting support, of course. Finally you should be able to re-play a portion of history. This is approximately how photoshop works, as far as I remember. Perhaps it's slightly worse.
Except corporations don't really die that way. Even if the parent organization dies (goes bankrupt say), the children organizations normally survive with different ownership. So as long as a product or service has a market it won't really go away. A replacement would have to be in place first to kill the obsolete product or service.
First off: Thank you for the mobile-friendly link! I didn't realize this would work... I'd always just interpreted the broken PDFs on phones as "GitHub has a bug". ;)

This wasn't really "shared" on GitHub... this is a work in progress. A colleague of mine (the OP) posted a link to my paper without asking me about it. I've shared it on Twitter before, which may have given him the impression that the paper was complete.

I do plan to put the paper up on a website with some additional material (anecdotes, other meditation resources, etc.) this summer. Apologies for the current format.
Have you ever thought about making your own?

It's surprisingly easy. I have ulcerative colitis and a friend recommended diy yogurt. It's not a silver bullet but it helps.

Im making some now with whole milk, and starter cultures I got from yogurmet,and an anova sous vide circulator.

Get milk to 180
Drop to 115
Add culture
Keep at 115 for 24 hrs
Put in fridge

First time I tried it I think I finished a half gallon in 2 days.
Thanks for this! I've been trying to find something quantitative about modeling neurons for a while now but everything seems to be either basic research ("when we poke the rat we get 50hZ spikes of 5mV in the temporal lobe" type information) or handwavey qualitative pop-sci ("neurons link together to make a magical biological computer"). This is great. :)
I don't know. I feel that speed is not important to me, it's the accuracy (gained with practise, of course) that I want. I make a lot of typos, it takes me much longer to edit something on a touch interface as my thumbs just don't seem to be very accurate. I guess you could say I'd rather slowly input the right thing the first time than to edit it quickly the second time
I agree. Its a risk of opportunity cost
Not sure what you mean with "Netflix not working natively" but on Linux you just need either Chromium or a recent version of Firefox (maybe not the ERS version) and enable it to play DRM content. It just works.
Am I the only one who, upon reading the title, thought it was about menu shortcuts? (It's not).
Talk about feeling silly...
It's much easier to Greenfield your way rather than reverse engineer (bug-for-bug) complicated code.
Huh? Why would you even say this? There's no MS-DOS code in Windows 95, and you couldn't exit Windows 95 to a command prompt. Are you just trying to throw some FUD into this conversation?
He said he didn't have to sign an NDA. I suppose he felt free to say what he wished!
This anti-technological-advancement stance comes up often enough and always seems ridiculous to me.

> We rely too much on GPS.

A slightly more extreme variant of this argument would be "Have you ever set out a rain-catcher and drunk your own water? It has more bacteria so your guts are more hardy, and not having enough water builds character. We rely on the water system too much".

There are various other arguments along that line that could be made, but they're all basically "Why not ignore technical advances and do things in a more time consuming and error prone way to build character (or have a more genuine experience or something)"

There is nothing wrong if a person wishes to do this. I know map enthusiasts who like to learn roads and maps and cities' grid systems because it's a hobby.

However, encouraging people to ignore technological advancements is silly; for someone who wants directions from A to B, digital maps are obviously superior, and it's time-saving measures like these that add up to advance society and improve our lives.

> Aint no online system telling you those gems.

Google maps and reviews do tell you if a place is closed, if you should go in a different way, or if there are secret menus often as not, but this tiny factual bit isn't my actual gripe, but rather the tone of the comment as I responded to above.
I just don't get where the money goes if that's true.

If I pay $10 for a ride, $7 goes to the driver, which covers all the cost for the car, gas, his wage etc.

$3 goes to Uber. What marginal costs do the have for my ride that are anywhere close to that?
And if you look rich enough, "for life" is about another 20 minutes.
This will keep you on your toes
>I'm not mentioning age anywhere in my post?

You said "Isn't reading the kind of thing that should be taught by parents before the kid even goes to school?". Since most countries start school at either 5 or 6, 5-6 is implied in that statement.

> If you are not ready to read at 5 before school, why would you be ready to read at 5 in school?

You wouldn't. 5 is probably too early for most kids, less than than 5 is too early for an even greater number of kids. 3 months is 5% of a 5-year-old's life. Starting 3 months before starting school, which is probably already too early, isn't going to be helpful for most students.

>If that's the argument, school should just start later.

School probably should start later. In Finland, one of the highest ranked school systems, kids start at 7.

>I am not really seeing that parental interference is not needed.

Where did you get that? I said most children shouldn't be forced to learn to read before they go to school--not that parents should never teach their children.

>This is a tautology.

No, it's not that children won't learn to read before they are ready. It's that forcing them to try to learn before they are ready is actively harmful.

>but I am very sure that people should be able to comfortably read by grade 6, and I'm similarly very sure that the educational system alone won't accomplish that.

You're arguing against points I'm not making.
I did this for a 12 hour flight I just had. Arrived in the afternoon and went to bed at midnight like i do at home. I left the curtains open so i woke up from the sun in the morning. Not feeling the jet lag yet, but we'll see how it goes
I would elaborate on that as well. The main focus of the media is on "assault style weapons" which translates to semi-automatic rifles. Of that < 1% of deaths, rifles (of any sort) are the weapon type in less than 3%. Literally nearly all gun deaths are caused by pistols, yet the media obsesses on rifles. Even if we filter to mass shootings, the primary weapon is most often, again, a pistol. [1]

How many people are aware of these data? I think that ignorance is going to be primarily the media's fault.

[1] - https://news.vice.com/article/glock-pistol-omar-mateen-orlan...
It’d be good if it didn’t have all the damned spam baked in with non obvious ways to remove it. I got so mad the FIFTH time windows 10 pro installed Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush on my system.

After seeing that I really want to save up and buy only Macs from now on.
Show HN: Pygrape is a python library for updating terminal output in realtime
I totally agree with you that all these terms are ill-defined and falls apart once you "poke at its seams" as you put it. I think my point was that 1) the formal written form across various regions have slowly converged into roughly the same form over the past century or so; and 2) this "formal written form" might be based on Mandarin, and reads like everyday modern, spoken Mandarin, but is not exactly 100% Mandarin.

For modern Cantopop, the recent putsch to match more closely to spoken Cantonese is due to an increasing dislike of Mandarin among the young in Hong Kong.
Ask HN: Matrix vs. XMPP vs. IRCv3
Which do you think is most promising? What are issues that face federated messaging protocols adoption?
Trump Seeks to Delay Own Justice Department in Cohen Probe
"There are a few mentions of Zynga (which we were investors in) in the various article chain which caused me to reflect even more on the 2007 - 2010 time period when free-to-consumer (supported by advertising) was suddenly conflated with freemium (or free trials for enterprise software)."

Is that the company that sold "virtual goods" on Facebook.

Pay real money to "send" a cartoon image of a brownie to another Facebook user.

"What is going on here ("free services") is nothing new.

The entire television industry was created on it (broadcast TV was free, supported by advertising, dating back well before I was born.)

Nielsen ratings started for radio in the 1940s and TV in the 1950s. The idea of advertisers targeting users of free services based on data is, well, not new.

Propaganda is not new either. The etymology of the word from Wikipedia is entertaining in its own right."

Questions:

What if a user simply wants a method of communicating with a friend, family member or colleague

Is that type of communication done via television, radio or propaganda

How about telegraph, telephone or internet service

What is the "service"

Is it entertainment

Is it a means of communication between friends, family and colleagues

If it is entertainment, then is it dissemination[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16840205

Is advertising also dissemination

Is communication with friends, family and colleagues different from "dissemination* See [1]

Is there any history of surveillance of communication over telegraph, telephone or (until recently) internet service in order to inform advertising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz7QHNvNFfA&list=PLPJVlVRVmh...
Ha ha, I’m an EE just passively investing extra income. Nothing more than a side interest. I assume you are talking about using higher volatility stocks with negative correlations; he talks about that in the aforementioned book.
Gary Vaynerchuk Bet Right On Facebook, Wrong on BlackJet
Robots Are Now Everywhere, Except in the Productivity Statistics
Parts matching. Example, while the block and pistons are made to within tolerances, it's possible to put together an engine with parts that mate well.
a lot of things start by being sold for a lot of money to the riches first before their execution become cheap enough to be targeted

Things don’t become cheap in a vacuum: advertising is literally how many things that would have cost money could be offered for free. In that sense, we already have a solution to what you describe.

It’s been over a decade since the iPhone was launched. Its cost hasn’t come down. So Apple can boast all it wants about its privacy features but it’s not a mass market product outside of the US. For proof, just look at their marketshare in countries like India. I think if in a decade a company like Apple hasn’t been able to figure out a way to lower price in order to make their privacy-first product more affordable, it’s at least worth admitting this is a very hard problem to solve at scale. And I say this as an Apple fanboy.
One time I learned a fair bit of Android programming while in-flight. Of course that does require beforehand preparation -- you gotta snarf down documentation, etc. before you get on the plane because the in-flight wifi doesn't cut it. It's a great time to pull out the laptop and just mess around with coding stuff -- not necessarily work related. Try learning a new language or framework and see how far you get.

I also like to watch movies or TV on the little entertainment center (which, 90% of the time, is running some version of Linux -- I know this because of all the crashes I see) or play video or cellphone games.
Yeah that's just distance divided by speed, I think. That's why I picked the Pacific Trail data instead.
Commenting on style since you were concerned about that.

> Please excuse the tone I'm using. I'm just working out my style, and so on. Not an excuse. Just asking for kindness while I work out a writing voice.

I enjoyed the style. Lots of people aren't able to pull it off but I thought it worked well. It was fun enough to read that I made it through to the end:) It did end on a bit of a sour note - clashing with all the above:

> if you really have some major issue and couldn't be bothered to fix it yourself but believe I could be bothered to fix it

You went from very approachable (fun read, open source, caring about the work you do) to the opposite of that (and not caring about the product once it was completed).

Also, great solution to a gmail annoyance. I had one concern which was answered on the page itself: "any files for download here will not persist beyond page reload"
I’ve been meaning to read this for some time. Thanks for reminding me. What else like this is there? In book form or paper form. Or video.
What about Lineage and rooting your phone?

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
I've burned a whole day as a "calibration day". Slept for 16 hours straight when I landed in Osaka. When I awoke, it was morning and I was good to go for the rest of my trip.
OK, but consider MySQL Workbench. One types SQL in a query. Or loads a saved query. And there's an execute button. But unlike working in terminal, the SQL is still on screen after a failed run. And there's red markup pointing to errors.

That's the advantage of the GUI.
Fourmilab is chock-full of interesting things. Be sure to check out the gravity detector, too.

And the SlideScreen screen saver for Windows is still the best slide-show screen saver on that platform, after 15 years or more.

Not to mention how interesting John Waters, the creator of the site and Autodesk founder is.
I use the "Report an issue" feature with Apple Maps quite often, and I've noticed that they've become a lot faster with updating things. even things such as "pin in the wrong location." I've added new businesses and found them on the map just a few days later.

Apple Maps has improved so much. but it's only as good as the data it's fed.
> Windows 10 is good

Did Linux succeed because other UNIXes were bad?

In my opinion, the reason why we need ReactOS is independent from whether Windows 10 is good or not.

And yeah, I agree besides the privacy issues, Win 10 is pretty good
That number sounds absurd, either in magnitude or definition, so I wouldn't worry about finding it. You probably just misremembered.

In magnitude, total venture capital invested last year in the US was $84 Bn. Just the top two PE firms combined exceed this number[2]. It's not a 1:1 match but gives you order of magnitude. And that's just PE (since VC is a tiny subset of PE): in the broader financial world, even considering the US alone, these numbers are almost invisible. I have friends who started an investment firm about 10 years ago with an AUM almost as large as the sum of the VC funds (not merely amount invested) -- and I don't even know anybody at the huge players.

In definition? Above is simply investment, what about revenues or headcount? In revenues, merely the top 103 of the F500 add up to almost a trillion USD in revenues last year. By contrast Uber's revenue was 37B and AirBNB was only 2.6 (and neither really count as startups). 37B will get on you the F100, but not high. 2.6 does not.

In terms of headcount it's not even close.

It does look exciting from our perspective, since the giants of industry were each startups at one point in time. But they all took years to really move the needle, by which time they didn't look anything like startups.

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/record-unicorn-fina...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_equity_firms
* SMS - yes

* Email - yes

* Browser - yes -- the official one browser is based on [an outdated] Gecko engine. Unofficial browsers based on QtWebkit.

* Maps - yes -- the official solution these days is HERE Maps (this requires Android support which is available on Jolla-supported devices). There are several other Map solutions available through OpenRepos (a popular 3rd party repository for Maemo/Meego/SailfishOS software).

While the app ecosystem can in no way compete with the number of apps available in Android or iOS -- if you use your mobile for web-browsing, music, podcasts, weather, timers, etc. it's sufficient.
Keeping money for not delivered product, while spending cash on other parts of the business, sounds like fraud.
Why? Intelligent people can't use the words "so stupid"?
It is possible to create an OEM install disc.

I've done it once in the past and it wasn't super complicated. It looks like it might be harder to find the oembios files now, but I bet you can still accomplish this if you're determined.

https://superuser.com/questions/539714/windows-all-oem-activ... has some details that could get your pointed in the right direction
Doesn't Photoshop have a macro system for reproducible commands, though? I'm not an expert user, but I've definitely seen they have some form of automation available.
NO NO NO!!! Don’t start with Venn diagrams, sets, and other such fluff. Reminds me of the thin, little book they tried sticking on us in my probability class; undergrad EE. It was meant for math majors.

There is a book “Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scienctists” by Raymond Walpole. That book is excellent. Rolling dice and pulling colored marbles from jars is how you teach probability.
Are the Moto X1 and the Nexus the same phone? The parent comment seemed to suggest that they were 2 different phones. Even in that case, what Apple released was slightly different from what AuthenTec had created at the time so I don't see how anyone can say that Touch ID was out before Apple brought it to market.
Can you point me to some resources that can help me with D3?
I'm bad at sleeping on planes. For years, I would play the original Legend of Zelda. I'd play half on the trip out, usually thru level 5, and finish it on the trip back. It provided a nice break from email, was a bit of fun, and helped me rest.
Sleep. Read.
Mach2: Managing the Windows Feature Store
Sorry, I should have clarified but I was responding to the “Amazon fan-boi-ism” point.

What “manner” are you talking about?