skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar with the Chinese writing system. :p

It's not similar to English at all. Compare this translator's note from https://www.amazon.com/Xunzi-Complete-Text/dp/0691169314/ :

> The other feature of this translation that warrants comment is the handling of rhymed lines. The Xunzi contains numerous rhymed passages... Both Watson and Knoblock often overlook them, as do many translations of the Xunzi into modern Chinese and Japanese and Korean... I consider the presence of these rhymes a feature of the text that is sufficiently noteworth to deserve being reflected conspicuously in the translation. Since the rhyming sections can easily be overlooked... I have chosen to make them conspicuous by translating rhymed passages in Chinese with rhymed sections of English...

> The identification of the rhymes in the Chinese text requires detailed knowledge of ancient phonology that I lack, and so I have relied on published studies of rhymes in the Xunzi by other scholars. Since their analyses may have missed some of the rhyming passages, and since there is ongoing scholarly debate about how to reconstruct the sounds of ancient Chinese in the first place, I do not claim to have identified every instance of rhyme in the text...

So:

- In Old Chinese, before the pronunciation divergence you mention, the form of a character is not a guide to its pronunciation. (Rather, the pronunciation of another character is often used as inspiration when inventing a new character. But the relationship of a new character to its component parts is not regular or predictable.)

- By inspection of text, it isn't possible even to tell the difference between text that rhymes and text that doesn't rhyme, much less to tell what the words sounded like.

- A scholar who is competent to translate text written in Old Chinese is completely incompetent to determine whether Old Chinese text rhymes or doesn't rhyme. That's an entirely different field of study.

- Even when a scholar has published a book devoted to identifying rhymes within a very famous text, it is considered likely that that book will have just plain overlooked a number of rhymed passages.

These are not symptoms of a writing system that reflects the sounds of the language. The information conveyed by the writing about the sound of Chinese is so close to zero that the difference is immaterial.

Go look at some English rhyming poetry, and ask yourself how easy it would be, if you didn't know English, to tell the difference between that and unrhymed prose.
Isn't it a bit much to say "Scientifically Accurate" when more or less people are just checking boxes? My feeling would be that people are massively over representing their own knowledge.
For anyone else who's curious what their standards are, the guidelines seem to be here: http://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#selection_factors

I guess they could say it falls under "Already representable" since we have eggplant emojis lmao. I would have guessed that they want to avoid emojis that are generally used in crude/offensive contexts, but there's a middle finger emoji so...
Here's a slightly related open question: Are Engineers in the US just much richer than in the UK?

For perspective, I started my career with an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering as a Hardware Design Engineer at £35k (I out-earned most of my fellow graduates). It seems like these salaries are just comically disjointed from my entire experience of life. Can anyone here speak to the differences? Everything I've seen points me to Californians just living an incredibly well-off lifestyle, but everything I read also indicates the people who have those lifestyles do not feel well-off?
The pricing stuff really bothers me with AWS. Maybe I missed something in the interface? (It's bloody complicated).

Seemingly Amazon can provide and spin up all of these services at a second's notice, but can't provide realtime billing information, or realtime predictions.

You have _so many_ seemingly arbitrary sources of cost that for anything moderately complicated it feels very much like the model is "use it, see what it costs, pay us for it, then cancel if you don't like it" which doesn't really mix well with, well, how I spend money.

Maybe it's a deliberate strategy to squeeze out low margin customers or something?

(edit: so theoretically, given that all the pricing information is public, I could write my own backend that comes up with a figure on the fly... anyone got anything clever like that? :P)
Agreed. Very easy to read and understand. Family offices as investors isn't surprising, most of the gains go to the top .NNN% and they are running out of places to invest.
Yea, I removed the Vinyl argument. That's for another time. Nothing wrong with Records but I've had the same issue talking to people about Records wrt to audio quality.

I own Records and like you, I enjoy the experience. There is something amazing about listening to the entire album without distractions and in the sequence that the artist intended. You could do this with mp3/CD, but Records get me in the right mood :-)
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> I've been telling my non-tech friends recently that the great sin of our industry is not greed, its naivety and hubris."

Close. But I would say it's ultimately a lack of empathy that is doing the most damage. It manifests itself in so many (negative) ways. It doesn't have to be this way. But that's the irony of lacking empathy.
No, guitar amps are a totally different beast with many different components.
Fluid dynamicist here.

If I were teaching this I would add the vorticity-streamfunction formulation before "primitive variable" incompressible Navier-Stokes in 2D. ("Primitive variables" include velocity and pressure, and not derived quantities like vorticity or the streamfunction.) It is a more theoretical approach, but it satisfies mass conservation by construction. Satisfying mass conservation in primitive variables for incompressible CFD is more complicated, and is often poorly understood. That's why I'd also have a lecture about mass conservation in the class.

Then again, Prof. Barba probably recognizes this and didn't have the time to cover this in the class.
That would raise a variety of other serious issues. Besides the ethical problem that just because someone else does something bad, doesn't make it ok for you to do that bad thing.

I could list several important reasons why "hacking back" would be a bad idea, but I'll just stick to the pragmatic "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones". We have a much larger surface area and much more to lose if we get into that kind of tit-for-tat. Instead, the US is building a case that China is an aggressor, and is responding in other ways that will apply more pressure. For example, tariffs on Chinese exports.
Much of this is cultural driven by a historical time when we didn't have the tools to measure this stuff, and reproduction was so bad that nearly anything that changed the sound in any way could be argued to be an improvement.

Those days are long gone, but the culture remains.

Getting good sound out of an old victrola--which were very expensive--truly is an art. Getting passable sound out of today's average off-the-shelf electronics doesn't take much at all. But many audiophiles act like are living in the late 1800s.
https://www.amb.org/audio/
Ask HN: Interviewing and Rote Educational Backgrounds
I recently went through a round of software developer interviews and detected a slight pattern. It seemed to me that when the interviewer came from a country where rote learning is the norm, the questions tended to be more geared towards a right or wrong answer. In contrast, the other strain of interviewers asked much more conversational, open-ended questions and tolerated a less direct path to the answer.

Has anyone else noticed something similar?
Most likely, I've read the other day a new grad that signed a $200k bonus / stock over 3 years in the bay area. It's just insane.
If you just want the amp without building it, you can get a TPA3116 Class D amplifier. It is only $21 USD from aliexpress (with free shipping of course!). It accepts a supply voltage of up to 24V meaning that you can just dig around for your old laptop power supply (19V). It comes with a nice and sleek aluminum case, and has low enough noise floor that I can't detect it at all unless my ear is right up against the speaker. Although slightly less power output compared to the chip from the article, it gets loud enough to drown out someone yelling. This amp from aliexpress has gold plated banana plug terminals, RCA inputs, and a smooth volume potentiometer.

Link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Breeze-Audio-BA100-Class-D-P...
See my other response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349921 . There is often an element in a Chinese character which is historically related to the sound of the character, but the information flow there is in the wrong direction (and is historical rather than current). You can't predict the sound of a character from its form.
> but upon closer examination it falls apart as quite simply an irrational fear

Yet you didn’t actually explain where it falls apart.

Valid malpractice claims are reasonably common in other much more measurable types of medicine.

It’s often a good idea to get a second or third opinion when you see a normal doctor.

To be wary of a branch of medicine like psychiatry with its far fewer checks and balances seems prudent.
One binding method I rarely see on these types of tutorials is Smyth sewn binding: https://craftschmaft.com/smyth-sewn-book-binding/

It's got the desirable property of being lay-flat (like perfect binding), but also allows you to make a very strong/durable binding. I'm excited to try it for my next project.
Kernel RCE in iOS/macOS with ICMP
(EDIT: Parent deleted argument about Vinyl)
Vinyl has a few more dimensions than the "quality" aspect. I totally agree that there is no argument for vinyl offering superior quality. However, I have bought a few records simply because they were actually the _easiest_ way for me to buy something I could play back for a few albums/tracks that never saw a proper online release.

It's also easier to display a 12" sleeve as "art" than a CD or a FLAC download ;). Turntables are better decorative living room items than CD players or tape decks, but that's also subjective ;).
Yes, I think they're more well off in general. The UK in particular pays developers very poorly.

That being said housing costs in California are no joke, although you can find some analogies in London. Not sure how devs can afford to live there tbh.

It makes sense that they would get paid this much, and quite frankly I think even the FAANG devs are drastically underpaid. The companies are printing cash and almost entirely powered by developers. The salaries sound high but execs are grabbing the vast amount of the real money.
Huge fan of this site, for two reasons:

- It lets “outsiders” to the tech scene understand salary and levels at big companies. If you went to MIT you probably already have frat brothers/sorority sisters or an alumni network that consists of senior engineers at these big companies that know the promotion and compensation schemes well. But if you were an equally smart student who went to a non target school, many of these organizational “open secrets” are hidden and must be earned through work experience, which costs time and career opportunity.

- Even if you do have some access to a network, these schemes evolve over time. Salary especially (levels not so much). Having up to date data is huge for assessing options during a job search or even planning for one.

The site isn’t perfect— a lot of the leveling data is subjective AFAICT and not based on cross company moves, and the comp info seems a bit skewed for some companies and more senior roles. But its a huge step in the right direction towards empowering employees.
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Thanks!

No production use cases yet. This is the first usable release, and it's the bare minimum we felt we could build before showing it to people.

> Are you a YC company?

We have a YC interview on Friday, so hopefully in a few days I'll be able to say yes.
For a core service, github is sure to have a 5 minute human SLA from dedicated SRE's who have an on call rotation etc. That means someone is already at their computer, logged in, and ready to go. They'll typically be investigating within 30 seconds.

Probably within another 30 seconds that human sees many alerts coming in that don't look like false alarms and hits the 'escalate' button.

If it's within office hours, anything that looks major will usually have a bunch of SRE's on the case within 3 or 4 minutes. Usually in various roles from 'I acknowledged this page, it's my job to fix it!' to 'I'm just laughing at your misfortune, but paying a little attention just incase the broken thing turns out to be that change I made yesterday and I have to take over mitigation efforts'.
The freedom to have, and express, that mentality is precisely why we maintain that military that those men and women serve.
Almost a decade ago I remember using an online service called Vector Magic to do this kind of stuff. At that time it was considered the state-of-the-art auto tracer.

Is this noticeably better than Vector Magic when using Bezier curves?
Yeah. It's all situation dependent. If you slow, then she'll keep increasing the distance between you. I try to pass if reasonable. Especially if we hit a light or something, even crossing on red if no cars. Really anything that feels reasonable to show I'm not interested in them at all. Hard to give all angles in a comment.

I guess my point is that I feel like you are doing something wrong if you /aren't/ considering how those around you are interpreting your actions. It's like the people at the grocery store who blindly stop their carts in the middle of the aisle and walk away to browse...seriously? You didn't consider how your actions impacted anyone else at all?
I think it would be more accurate to say it has been built by people working under the coercion of masters. Just like civilization has been built by people subjected to rain, snow, drought and pestilence. These conditions may be necessary for civilization to work, but I don't think we can say for sure they are. It's just how we got here.
I agree with you about A and C, but not your reason for discounting D.

In particular, https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/unicode/str/trait.UnicodeStr... is an ancient counter-example (it was replaced by split_whitespace).
The amendments themselves are not in the constitution itself, so do they not apply?

Amendments were added to the body of laws after the constitution, and congress and the supreme court have since added more to the body of laws after the amendments. The cumulative result is what governs citizens today.

Those laws are in fact very specific about their exceptions, as shown very clearly in the wikipedia link. What exactly do you find fuzzy or confusing about them?
Those 3 companies pay significantly higher than your average software engineer as far as I can tell. I make close to 80k in Southern California and I don't stress about money but I'm also not retiring early.
Your generalisation is unfair. Most Audiophiles just want to listen to music the way the artists intended. This is not easy in a industry where colouring the sound is even celebrated, e.g. 'Beats by Dre'.

I recently tried the latest noise cancelling headphones by Sony (1000XM3). The noise cancelling was excellent, but the bass was +5db overblown, boomy and drowned out most of the mids, the treble was dark to hide the NC hiss. It was unlistenable for jazz and classical without EQ. But the mainstream tech press think they are wonderful, even "WhatHifi" gave them 5 stars. An Audiophile is simply someone that cares about sound quality, most people don't.
Clicking around on the page adds to the tab's history. I had to click back 10x to go back to this thread. Seems kind of pointless to record state in this usecase?
Part of the problem is that nowadays, people don't even recognise their accusations as such, but consider them benign, universally-understood downsides.

"Professionals tend to act based on financial motives" is among these. You seem to think it's just human nature, and don't even expect anything different. Yet ask any psychologist, and they'll react as the would to an accusation of murder.

That's because in their job, intentional deviations from the standard-of-care can quite easily turn into murder (or manslaughter/negligent homicide to be more precise).

Very similar: accusations against journalists that they are acting on behalf of some publication-wide agenda, take money from the subjects they cover, or write/don't write certain articles with an eye towards the sector's financial future ("The Times studiously avoids mentioning adblockers")
> There are countless comments on Hacker News by a developer impressed with something. So this headline is wrong.

While I agree with you, I also think that technical fields promote negative assessments more than average.

An article a while back pointed out the difference with interviewing: a technical interviewer thinks about starting from some high total of points and subtracting--a management interviewer thinks about starting from some low number of points and adding.

It makes a very different experience.
Institute a special tax. Election Tax. 0.001% of all corporate/personal income. No exceptions, no write-offs.

Once every X years, a web-site, a tv station, and a radio station come online.

The money collection from the tax is then used to give 25, not more than 2 per registered political party, enough air-time to express their views. Money is distributed evenly and the entire process is overseen by 25 randomly-chosen people of which at least 13 have no party affiliation.

A federal 3-day holiday is in effect during which you, as a citizen, have no other job but to vote for a candidate after learning about their positions on various policies.

The whole circus ends after 3 days and we go back to living our lives.
It's one of the most comprehensive surveys to date. Meanwhile, the job numbers can relate to many factors. For example, there could be more turn around for Scala jobs.
>This is not a rational fear. There are at any time an average of 10,000 planes in the sky

Planes don't have flecks of paint, screws, etc flying by them at 28,000 kilometers per hour with the ability for one impact to send debris going dozens of directions.
Malpractice is mostly about errors of negligence. The accusation here was about intentional behaviour, which would actually be criminal.
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Squidlib is also popular and has a lot more functionality in terms of level generation. https://github.com/SquidPony/SquidLib.
You don’t align your speakers with the grain of the carpet? Or have little saw horses to rest your speaker wires in? Maybe an iron brick to lay on top your transformer?
History of Hawaii is all about using force to take land from the population. First settler where from the Marquesas Islands and they were conquered by the Tahitians.
...which is not all that strange. If you were using a Lisp machine (or, say, IBM z/OS), and you wanted to do POSIX software development, you'd probably

1. use your own POSIX machine to cross-compile a POSIX ABI simulator for the target OS; and then

2. deploy a POSIX sandbox to the target, with POSIX tools like gcc inside, and continue work on things like the POSIX ABI simulator in there.
Unmaintained at this point, but here's a Webpack loader that does this: https://github.com/technopagan/sqip
By "rent-seekers" you mean organizations that have spent billions of dollars to research and prove the tech? As the current top comment represents, if company A spends billions of dollars creating a technology, then company B steals it, company B can sell it for less because they don't have to pay the R&D overhead. Company A falters or dies. The company that actually knew how to advance the field and create new tech suffered. Is that good for the world?

The way it is supposed to work is, company A researches a tech, company b also researches a tech, the best one wins (or more likely they split the market), the competition induces more advances, and eventually the old tech becomes cheap (or free) and widely available as it is supplanted by even newer, better tech.

And yea I know our patent system is broken, etc. But I don't understand how you can have a general principle that the people who created something don't have the right to benefit off of it.
My gf hates when I mute commercials, and I hate when I don't mute commercials. Rarely a problem as we mostly watch Netflix.
In my house my dad ran 2 VHS machines and 2 beta machines, commercials were muted if we watched them at all. They still run at least 2 dual tuner PVR's.
$300 will not last in Egypt let alone in Thailand. And if by Thailand you mean the big city Bangkok, well, good luck with that.

SEA prices have gone through the roof. The discounts are pretty much over.
Ahh I see... I've been looking at the PR and the implementation is really nice, I'm excited to see what it turns into :)
Can you really make a million bucks with just 10 years experience as a T7 at Google? What does a "Senior Staff SWE" do? Are there a lot of them?
There's also the chance that microphones and signal analysis aren't the best metaphors for how ears and brains process sound.
But if the audiophiles you're talking about are endoring $8500 mp3 players, maybe we're talking to different people. That does sound silly.
Hi and thanks for the info. A couple of things if I may. Please don’t hijack the browser history, played around with some companies and levels and when I tried coming back to HN the history was full ;-) Also it would be good if you could include some extra details about each level (e.g. education, years of experience). I think I’ll give Triplebyte a try, reminds me of HackerRank.
Where Brexit Hurts: The Nurses and Doctors Leaving London (2017)
I really liked _The Thoughts_ section.

Before _The Thoughts_, this paragraph in _The Notepad_ caught my eye:

> Honestly, I don’t consider the bad memory the younger generations have to be that big of a problem. True, we have to search for information all over again, but it might be a good thing. Information is so quick to change now. What you learned yesterday might have already become all wrong today, while bad memory has you find the latest, most accurate data every time.

I think this person _should_ worry a bit about this lack of memory, if it is a real phenomenon. If you're not updating the knowledge in your head, then how do you develop instincts about what to trust? There is a certain rate of change you should learn from experience, which you never notice if you have no memory. Some things you should expect to be different every day, and some things should not change very often, and if they do (or don't) change, they deserve more scrutiny. If you don't know the answer from yesterday or last week, you're stuck in a kind of neverending present and you're easy to deceive (a la _Memento_)
This is by Hansjörg Wyss the founder of biotech company Synthes. His focus is on nature conservation.

But i do feel this is treating the symptoms rather than the disease e.g. excessive population growth, extraction rather than recycling, free externalities.

The US, EU & Japan are still on an urbanizing uptrend, and nature areas (e.g. forests) actually growing.
Cool. If we had a working tax code, we wouldn't need billionaires' charity and could actually regulate carbon in the atmosphere instead of these sort of band-aids and PR stunts.
Good idea, thanks for the feedback.