skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend Journey to the West out of the four. Kind of like an RPG-esque journey about a monkey and his gang traveling in search of Buddhist scriptures. You'll get to learn about Sun Wukong, who is the basis for a lot of Chinese, Japanese, and (I believe?) Korean spin-off characters, like Goku from Dragonball[1]

Another good option is Romance of the Three Kingdoms which will cover a good portion of Chinese history (in a mythological way). A lot of the characters like Zhu Geliang [2] are still highly influential in modern Chinese culture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong#Influence
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuge_Liang
Surely it helps that English borrows heavily from the Romance languages, among others.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12370119 (45 comments, 3 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9054627 (43 comments, 4 years ago)

See also issues/pull requests in the repo:

https://github.com/olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog
The sixteen year old entrepreneur
> STARTTLS is not an end-to-end encryption system. [...] But for various reasons it’s hard to deploy end-to-end email encryption, and we’ve spent decades trying. Also, STARTTLS works just fine with end-to-end encryption.

> Please indulge me: I think a small rant is appropriate here. There are some security specialists who think that only the perfect is acceptable. Nonsense! Requiring perfection is crazy. [...] For almost all users, email encryption with STARTTLS is a major improvement over what they had before. Let’s keep working to deploy even better systems, but let’s take partial victories where we can get them.
I really hope they don't give up on making discrete GPUs again. That internal program and been brought back up and killed a few times.

I use to own an i740 way back in the day, and my cousin even worked on that video driver. With nVidia's buy out of 3Dfx and PowerVR pretty much only doing mobile phones/tablets, it'd be nice to see a 3rd player in the nVidia/AMD space again.

I know Matrox still exists, but for what I can tell, they just make cards for 10~20 monitor setups (kiosks, stores, airports, etc).
It can, but I mean really blocking spam at the TLD level is not the most effective way to do it.

If I control the rDNS for a public IP I can set it to anything I want. Of course if I want any chance at all for mail delivery the rDNS for the smtpd needs to be the same as its 'forward' DNS name and name in the MX records.

But you're much better blocking by IP RBL (ex: many /16 to /18 sized blocks of taiwanese DSL ISPs are blocked in all the major RBLs), using tools like spamassassin on your incoming smtpd, opendkim integrated with your smtpd for incoming DKIM verification, and generally filtering by content.
Maybe the greatest success and failing of English is that it has never undergone the rigour of standardisation of many other languages. While most other world languages have all at times had a central authority dictating what is right or wrong, English has a history of pluralism (particularly from American vs. British English, but also from other sides). This makes for difficulties (regional variation, different pronunciations, etc.) but I think easier to approach as an outsider, and also flexible to changing use over time.
One time I smoked a lot of weed and I felt myself rising and falling with the music in my room. It was quite pleasurable.

What does this profound experience with drugs tell us about human consciousness/thought? Literally nothing.
> I'm sure Google is doing some shady stuff on the edges, but nothing so egregious to warrant antitrust action.

And when they do do stuff that is so egregious but they are too big ($$$) how are you going to stop them from abuse? Isn't this why, for example, people absolutely loathe telecom/ISPs? Sure they were great when the internet first came out ("it was just that good"), but now look how abusive they are since only a few co's own the copper that runs into your house.
> My Ying character is also absent from the database used to make online medical appointments...

I meant, in the above case, why can't he make an appointment using his identity number from his Resident Identity Card? http://www.wiki-zero.co/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVk...
The idea that Hollywood films are propaganda is a historical fact.
Here's hoping this becomes mainstream again.

The usual "Make sure to grab the latest update to get the greatest experience. We bring you performance improvements and bug fixes every 14 days" or some annoying joke about dusting code off, taking the trash out and fixing the space-time continuum is getting pretty tired.
I feel like dogs have co-evolved with humans to such a high degree that they are much more approachable with an anthropomorphic perspective than equines. They, for example, understand human facial expressions, pointing, and words, among other things. There's a massive amount of research done on how well dogs understand humans - maybe the reverse is also true.
Between this and SMS, the NSA (et al) had a gold mine of data when they directly tapped the lines.

I remember reading they were really upset when this email providers started using this by default... always a good sign when warrantless/dragnet surveillance is made harder.
There are other "works only up to N, where N small +ve Integer" scenarios. e.g. :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%E2%80%93Ruffini_theorem
I figure that consciousness is one of the inputs into the rest of the brain. It can convince other parts (but it's not the default mode, at least in many contexts). Sometimes companies do follow suggestions from the PR department.
Mobile app development services
Even if information is free and infinite-- perhaps especially in this situation-- there's value in curation and expert research guidance.

In a different timeline, libraries might not be buildings full of books, but there'd still be a purpose for librarians.
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-playe...

It links to: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers...
Or maybe they should send email to the address their users give them?
I don't know about all the quiet people, but I fall into your generalization. I'm on vacation and while I've enjoyed the places I've been I can wait to get home to some peace and quiet where I can curse my refrigerator for being so noisy. (It is just fine, but when it is all you can hear it starts to seem loud.)
Yes I agree with you. Apparently it wasn't obvious from my /s, but the entire narrative around this is absurd.

There are people in this thread who seem to be both decrying capitalism, and also asking that extremely rich venture capitalists fund the projects with their riches.

It's absurd. Capitalism has given us the most prosperous, longest living, most peaceful grouping of people in the history of mankind. The drugs these people are synthesizing exist BECAUSE of capitalism.
Other email services might not ignore periods, and might really have separate myname@example.com and my.name@example.com users. If someone is going to make a site that tries to ignore periods for equality, then they should hardcode it to email domains that they know do that.
I like the peace when hiking, except in bear country. I don't mind a loud mouth in the group so we don't sneak up on things that cause injury to life and limb.
Inside Google's shadow workforce of contract laborers
China is already experimenting with pre-empting crime by attempting to monitor their vast network of cameras using ML systems.
Re-testing the MacBook Pro: Apple’s firmware update led to a big improvement
I could possibly imagine MoviePass working IF:

MoviePass can predict:
Who(subscribers)
What(movies)
When(what movie showing subscribers will attend)
Where(which theatre)
Why(Netflix like recommendations)
How(um, non tech cliche use of “algorithm”)

And then MoviePass can bulk pre-purchase tickets at steep discounts to solve movie theatre excess capacity problem(if it is a problem).

With how tenuous things are now, I suspect MoviePass is NOT Netflix circa 2002.
Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London
Since, as okket mentioned, Keep a Changelog has been featured on HN before let me give you... a changelog of what's happened in the project since the last time: https://github.com/olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog/blob/master...

Version 1.0 was released introducing: a much cleaner website presenting the guidelines in a more digestible way; 13 new translations; a semi-decent versioning system to help synchronize translations; and a lot of clarifications and updates based on feedback and conversations that occur regularly within the project issues: https://github.com/olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog/issues.

I know trying to get ahead of the torrent of critical comments is pointless but let me summarize: yes, I know you think changelogs have been defined before. But you know just as much as I do that most changelogs (or whatever you decide to call them in protest) are terrible and not as helpful to software end-users as they should be.

There's been a lot of progress in the past 3 years alone in that regard. It's nearly unthinkable for an open source project to not include a decent changelog for each release. That's good. There are still a lot of smaller, less known, or older projects that could be improved with some basic changelog hygiene. If you're interesting in helping, please do, and if keepchangelog.com can help I'll be glad.
I'm in a habit of putting it in and it seems to be about 50/50 as to whether or not any given site will accept it. Surprisingly, I've run into at least one YC company which doesn't like it.
ACLU went so far left as to stop Iowa's medical board sanctions on doctors who perform cosmetic late term abortions. That disenfranchised several Libertarians who believed the law struck a balance between not criminalizing abortion and not allowing gratuitous late term abortions unless the mother had a health need for it.
Interesting, I don't play games, but I'm all for preserving stuff.

It seems that if you change your user agent you can get the links.

--------------------------------------

Shockwave 12.3.4.204 Windows Full Other Browsers

https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/download/?installer=Shockwav...

Shockwave 12.2.5.195 Full (OS X 10.6 and above)

https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/download/?installer=Shockwav...

Shockwave Player 10 for Mac PPC

https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/download/?installer=Shockwav...
I'm on mobile right now so I can't be bothered looking it up, but the fastmail devs mentioned here a week or two ago that they're working on labels. So if you like that feature it's coming :)
> I, for one, love asking an honest-to-god question on a potentially contentious topic and then watching my score bounce up and down as folks ascribe intent to the question.

Personally, I don't love that one bit [1], so if I'm asking a genuine question on contentious topic, where my actual intent is to get an answer from someone more knowledgable than me, I make sure to specify that intent, including professing my ignorance and disclaiming any preconceived notions.

One might argue that I shouldn't have to do that, but that's sort of pointless. I'm happy to do whatever it takes to get an honest answer faster, such I might be able to participate more meaningfully in the thread. I've found HN threads to be very ephemeral (and the fact that it's still possible to reply after 2+ days, when there's no notification system, to be a bit bizarre).

[1] Not because I care about karma but because my goal is to engage in conversation that gratifies intellectual curiosity, rather than attracting clicks on the up or down arrows.
Haha I read the article but didn't actually remember the subway woman's name until I googled for the story.
This is an example of the Inner-platform effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
Yes! A few years ago I quit going to a restaurant I liked because it was so noisy. I'd leave with a headache and felt like I couldn't carry on a conversation.

Vote with your feet and wallet.
My Name is Brian and I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time (2014)
The most infuriating changelog lines are the ones that just say 'bug fixes' or 'enhancements' (or 'improvements'). Too many change logs have these lines.
So you are saying you do not trust your e-mail provider to secure your email. At that point I suggest finding another provider or running your own service. This secures a significant point of interception and modification of data.
I get the idea that people who join the police in the US do it for the authority, where police in the UK are well aware that 95% of the authority they have is "by consent" of those they have authority over.
Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts
I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time reverse engineering SWF files. There was even a time when Adobe published the SWF file bytecode format. It’s not a terribly complicated format like photoshop psd.

WebAssembly is probably a good target. However flash added a ton of apis in their latest versions. They were so ahead of the game before html5 before even became a thing.

I’m sure Adobe has patents/trademark on some of the things. Also Adobe Flex, that was a god send for rich internet applications. Their components were really well done and I still can’t fine equivalent things in this day and age.

I do strongly believe if Adobe had open sourced big chunks of things, Flash and a number of technologies would still be relevant today. Their big money makers were the IDE’s like Flash Studio, dreamweaver, photoshop etc. The formats and the runtimes should have been open from the get go.

Although it was the Ballmer era when most corporate CEOs truly believed OS was cancer.
...little girls can't learn about tech because qualified adult women to teach them are scarce and they're not allowed to be unsupervised around adult men.

This may change with the rise of ubiquitous surveillance. In fact if I'm alone with a teenage girl to whom I'm unrelated for more than a few minutes, I'll be much more comfortable if there is a recording. This may also change as deepfakes become more common...
Does a work need to be written to have literary merit?
Orca mom mourns calf's death by carrying the body for days
The comment I was replying to made a clear distinction between acoustic and aesthetic aspects.

Music is aesthetic sound, so you have a point, but most architects consider acoustics as something functional like temperature or ventilation. It's really rare for a space to be conceptualized in terms of a particular desired acoustic, except for theatres and concert halls.

I remembered something the architect Peter Zumthor said, which is quoted in this article: https://www.dwell.com/article/the-world-of-sound-2b3fbcf7
There have been multiple times that I have wondered how much latency a call out to some aws api was going to add. Something like this would give me a baseline, is it 20ms or 200ms without having to profile it myself. The ability to monitor service degradation is a value add.
Fair point, but in the specific case the differences matter indeed. StumpWM is coded and extensible in Common Lisp, while Emacs use Emacs Lisp and Guix is built on Guile Scheme - both not CL conformant.

it's a very lispy stack, otherwise!
Green Wild Alien: Clash of Aliens
‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI wrong
In many cases the motivating emotion isn't anger, but jealousy. Others live as they wish they had permission to live.
There are no "cosmetic" abortions, and the ACLU is not in the position to "stop" anything; all they can do is file a brief with the court ... and I'm not aware of a case where they did that in re "gratuitous" late term abortions. Roe v. Wade explicitly gives the State permission to regulate or proscribe such abortions.
Are there any with good carrying cases along the lines of apple airpods? I can fit those in my pocket and forget about them. Would love to do the same with some hife earplugs. (Have never tried any but they sound great)
Key Researchers on the Pace and Peculiarities of Developing Quantum Computing
You assume people understand the risks involved. I dont think they are capable of understanding the risks without having a background in chemistry. It's myopic to give uneducated people the ability to do chemistry in an uncontrolled environment that does not have proper ventilation, disposal, and safety/sanitary equipment.

Tobacco, alcohol, driving vehicles, and fire arms have all been regulated to limit use to prevent as much collateral damage as possible. It's no longer just their business when they're behind a steering wheel or holding a gun, or smoking/drinking in public.
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What type do you have? Sounds convenient.
Ytterbium: The quantum memory of tomorrow
> If you have already accepted cryptocurrencies as the wave of the future, Coinbase provides enormous value. You can't do much in the crypto world without owning some cryptocurrencies, and they are the largest, easiest to use, and generally most trusted way to exchange $USD for Bitcoin or Ethereum.

If you accept it sure. However, the utility between the internet and cryptocurrencies are vastly different.

The internet provides light speed communication and seeing as we are a species built upon communication, communicating from days to fraction of a second which is also orders of magnitude cheaper (granted, not at the start but it got there and cryptocurrencies have not solved the scaling problem (cost) yet) is hugely beneficial. The benefits are completely obvious.

Cryptocurrencies provide you the ability to incentivize people you cannot trust to spend money to secure a network in the hopes that the cost of securing the network is greater than the cost of someone oversupplying your network and stealing your money.

Also, the benefits of control not being enforceable by a central authority is a bad thing in most cases and the few that are useful are outweighed by in pretty much every use case the billions of dollars it costs to run those computers to secure it.

It has been almost 10 years since the bitcoin network started, where is its killer use case?

Lastly, the billions of dollars spent to pay for the decentralized network to secure it are mostly payed for by creating new coins. At the end of the mining timeline, they will have to rely purely on transaction fees to pay for the costs to secure the network and the billions of dollars used to do so currently at a fraction of the scale Visa does will likely never outweigh the benefits of decentralization.

TLDR: Running decentralized nodes to recompute the same transactions to protect against untrusted nodes will always be more expensive than running each transaction on a single node on a trusted server.
There is also a human problem to consider, my spouse owns surname.com (their address is firstname@lastname.com , we run our own authoritative DNS and manage the MX records for lastname.com) , a bunch of people out there assume that they are such a foolish, technically ignorant person that they don't know how to properly format an email address. To the extent that signing up for some things in person just results in time-wasting questions and "what, really", so they just give a gmail address to some people.
I'm in my 20's. I remember the same
If you're lucky...

But think tinnitus and inability to filter out background noise is often the worse of it.

I'll admit to not have any deep knowledge. I do remain firmly opposed to determining noise trend in society based on sampling your own aging ears!
"Reason" is a medium for ideological polemics. Sometimes they publish reasonable pieces, but not reliably.
Just got back from Italy. We hadn't really noticed the noise levels while there, but when we got back and ate out, we were like "OMG, what happened?" It was almost impossible to have a conversation. And, it seems like all of the newest restaurants are insanely loud. We went to Seasons 52 and a couple ladies at a table next to us almost knocked us out of our seats especially with their laughs and screams.

But, it's funny because so many Americans think Italians are loud. They're much quieter when eating out. And other cultures, like the English and Dutch talk basically in whispers.

And living in California where there's a law for everything. It's gotta be bad for your hearing. Which brings me to another question. I wonder why CALOSHA hasn't done anything about it?

Maybe the same reason that the fire department doesn't do anything about all the locked doors with the sign above that says "These doors shall remain unlocked during business hours". Apparently public servants are only required enforce laws against the homeless and kids riding without helmets to junior life guards ... and people who point out stuff they're supposed to be doing...Uh oh.
It's true though. I just got a job at a FANG company right out of college and if I wanted my own 1 bedroom apartment it would look like a repurposed motel from the 50s.

I make over six figures but can't help but feel guilty when I have to tell my parents, who are below poverty line, that I can't afford my own apartment.
as Americans, my wife and I laugh when we watch British TV shows because we can't understand half of what they are saying. Fortunately we have a DVR so we can repeat things 4 or 5 times to figure it out.
Flash was mixed with licensed non-opensource-able stuff and it wasn't a trivial code base in the first place. Given that Adobe hasn't actually made much money off Flash, such an effort would have been likely unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.
Someone from the Flash team could chime in here to give more details.
That's fine, movie theaters can sell food for whatever price they want. My problem was that movie theaters don't sell anything we want to eat! candy and soda? No thanks!
Fastmail has a really smooth import function that lets you migrate your gmail mail easily. They also make it easy to regularly backup your mail offline and if you ever want to quit their service they have a "Download everything" button that gets you a copy of every piece of data in an accessible format.

One of their principles is "Your data is your own".

I migrated from Gmail at the beginning of the year and I haven't looked back once. My Gmail is still active and is forwarding to my fastmail account, but at this point it wouldn't really affect me if they shut it down.
I'm not "playing the victim", I'm bitching about how terrible my own life is. Which it is.

Why do I see literally everyone else have their dreams come true while mine don't?
At the beginning of his paper he cites the relativistic nature of Maxwell's equations, and "unsuccessful attempts to discover any motion of the earth relatively to the 'light medium' ".

https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
Thank you for explaining this to me! (And thank you to everyone else's comments too of course). This is fascinating.
A common observation, yet how have things really changed? When I was riding subways, buses, and commuter trains back in the 80s-90s, everyone had their faces in books or magazines the entire ride, and there was zero interaction with their fellow riders. Maybe in some non-East Coast region, people do/did interact more; I wouldn't know.

I would further observe that in a way, people have more of a shared experience today because of social media & internet in general.

We're still social creatures, just in a different way today. Admittedly, it's different from the days of yore, when people would hang out at the general store (or bar) and chat with the general community of people who passed through. But those days ended long before the Internet came along.
In semiconductor fabrication “process” almost always refers to the manufacturing process, not the design process.