skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to your note about dental fricatives.

Arabic has separate consonants for /ð/ (ذ) and /z/ (ز). But it also has a consonant ظ that can be pronounced as either /ðˤ/ or /zˤ/. For me as an English speaker trying to learn Arabic it was confusing because /ðˤ/ and /zˤ/ don't sound the same at all, but evidently to Arabic speakers they do and the pharyngealization makes all the difference.

Malay/Indonesian also turns fricatives into sibilants. So /θ/ becomes /s/ e.g. ath-thulathaa /aθ-θulaθa:ʔ/ (الثلاثاء) becomes Selasa. /ð/ would become a /z/ but that sound isn't native to most languages in that part of the world either, so it can become all kinds of sounds including /dʒ/ and even /l/!
It's fraud towards the user but theft in the sense that it removes the ability for the trademarks 'owner' to use the mark to uniquely identify the origins of their goods/services.

If I also make Nike products then they lose the ability to identify by branding alone that marked goods are endorsed by them.

IMO trademark should have a requirement to identify the factory in which a good was made (eg on the label or packaging). That extends the ability for consumers to compare the _true_ origin of goods in way that gives usable information. Capitalism only optimises resources if consumers have perfect information ... so in theory a goal of capitalist government should be provision of as much useful information as possible.

An example of how that would be useful would be if I buy supermarket Weetabix, that uses the trademark shape, if they're from the same factory then they're probably the same product (not necessarily) so I can just buy the cheaper product.
I don't see why we have to assume that a robot would feel pain. We can explain its behaviour easily without recourse to pain: we 've programmed it to avoid certain situations that we deem dangerous.

On the other hand, I don't see why we have to assume that an animal does not feel pain. Have we designed them? No. Don't we, who are also animals, feel pain? And isn't it reasonable to assume that pain is one mechanism by which we learn to avoid dangerous situations? Yes.

So, no good reasons to assume animals don't feel pain. Animals don't need to not feel pain just because robots don't need to feel pain.
It is great that it has an RJ45 port, something that almost disappeared from every other model of laptop. Unfortunately my experience with the movable plastic thing they use is that it is not durable (it was on the original z series from before the reboot). The plastic bracket bends and/or goes away and the port becomes pretty much unusable.
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This is too common of a problem because many developers are functionally illiterate in their primary programming language.

Invented here syndrome: https://dev.to/mortoray/invented-here-syndrome-4mg8
Probably still worth checking that it doesn't return -1 every time.
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The sudo utility doesn't really give any guarantees or produces reproducible states. You can mess around with sudo however you like.rpm-ostree transactions are completely reversible.

Silverblue is the equivalent of an accountant having a transparent history of your machine states. Sudo is like grabbing a pencil, a rubber, and a spraycan and gowing to town.
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First of all, Thanks. Hats off! Learning BASIC made me a better human. I learned x86 ASM, Win32API all thanks to freeBASIC and VB6. I think the best decision I've made in young life (13-14 years old) is learning BASIC, which made me the developer today.
Any way to download it as a PDF/epub? Something that isn't tiny text in a browser window. :)
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I'm usually a lurker and rarely comment but yours was such a nice little informal comment that I had to say something. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face :)
Well, there are languages that are almost 100% phonetic and regular, like Finnish. Finnish "a" equals IPA [a] and so on.
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Those would probably be more helpful as Wiktionary links:

rain - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/雨

field - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/田

thunder - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/雷

Note that the "glyph origin" section describes 雷 as an ancient simplification of the phono-semantic compound 靁, where 畾 indicates the pronunciation. Any relation to rice paddies is probably a post-hoc rationalization.

rice - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/稲

wife - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/妻

lightning - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/稲妻
Some large fraction of patents are useless and will never be commercially licensed because it would never make any sense to pay a dime for them. A further fraction would demonstrate market failure if they were licensed - there's something much better that isn't patented, so if people are obliged to do the worse patented thing AND pay commercially for a license then we've made everything worse. So "more than 5%" might be a bad sign anyway.

This is what happened to audio codecs for years for example, several alternatives are superior to MPEG Audio Layer III (today you should use Opus), but the MP3 patent holders could expect their revenue to keep flowing for their inferior alternative anyway.

A certain kind of person really wants a patent, the same way someone might really want to win themselves a Hugo. I guess employer can think of it as a relatively expensive employee retention benefit, OK, we'll pay for your useless patent filing and we'll get you a laminated front page you can pin up in your cubicle. Go you.
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The precision required for a mouse is very low compared to writing. So it's mostly preferrence or what is set as default.
Completely agree. As a low-level developer on a PC it's been indispensable and I miss its simplicity over other methods.
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Ordino already had both meanings (arrange and command) in latin and I think it remains true in romance and germanic languages alike. I'm not sure that's really "an extra meaning" in Latin America.
No, it's far too limited to map all phonemes.
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You included my sentence: "Efficiency really matters when we have >1000 GW of installed nuclear capacity." I wanted to address that: efficiency matters.

Inefficient technologies will hit some constraints if not others.

We may run out of time: A pressure vessel production cycle is over one year[1]. By the time we reach >1000GW someone may make fusion practical or China's competent nuclear industry may start selling MSRs to everyone.

We may run out of highly skilled people required to build and operate these complex machines. The safety is highly dependent on operations and management throughout the life cycle of complex machines. From manufacturing to operations there is tiny margins for error. (Not a physical constraint.)

LWR technology is associated with military ships and submarines, no one shares it. Few countries control the technology and there are only a few places in the world to make pressure vessels. (Not a physical constraint.)

We may run out of waste disposal sites. A geological repository needs special rock formations away from earthquake zones.

The article is written by a nuclear industry professional who tells that routine things done by the nuclear industry today when applied to MSR is a "disadvantage". They open the lid of an LWR every 18 months and replace/shuffle highly radioactive fuel assemblies and say that it is a disadvantage for them to replace graphite. That is totally unfair.

[1] VVER pressure vessel production cycle needs 3 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91yVhrSZ5jQ

NuScale pressure vessel R&D: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2016/10/f34/02%20-%2...

TL;DR
Even small pressure vessels (used by nuscale) have lead times of about a year. A megafactory can build like 1 or 2 vessel per month. At 1.5GW/year/factory, we need like 22 factories to keep up with the production schedule if we need to reach 1000 GW of small-LWR capacity within, say 2050.
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It'd have to be designed with lots of error correction for degraded channels, which most often it isn't. Analog solutions work until the point you physically can't hear or see things through the noise.
> In any case, the simplest hypothesis is that all animals can feel pain. The null hypothesis should be the opposite.

Following the interpretation that "The null hypothesis is generally assumed to be true until evidence indicates otherwise." I'd argue for H° being that all living beings feel pain until evidence indicates otherwise. That approach wouldn't be very economical though which is why do the opposite.
Lattes are a convenient example of a "money leak" because I suspect they don't really add value for many people but are instead a rote thing they stand in line to do every morning. If they're an important step in starting your day or they're a "tax" to give you an hour or two of coffeeshop work time, great!

But it's pretty reasonable to think about routine or automated purchases that are just habits.
As long as I want to avoid very edgy race condition cases (low throughput), any DB will work right?

Either Mongo, MySQL or List in Redis.

Is there anything sepcific about Postgres when it comes to this? (except SKIP TABLES, as mentioned in other comments)
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Indeed, I think the support for insects feeling pain probably extends to saying cars with accident avoidance feel pain.

That is to say, I'm not convinced: pain is a perceptual result.
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I have a strong suspicion that a good chunk of the opposition to solar is good old fashioned white racism. Can't have an energy source win that benefits the brown skinned parts of the world, this thinking goes.
> I honestly feel like intellectual property is harmful in almost every field I look at. It concentrates wealth and slows innovation (the opposite of what IP proponents claim).

Do you have any reference/proof for that? At least the part about slowing innovation?
Book value. If you tried to sell the property, plant and equipment (without staff) then the market value would be a lot less. The plant is almost a sunken cost (e.g. 10nm plant for Intel is a sunken cost).

The current market cap of TSMC is 210B - related to the value of its future expected earnings compared with other companies.
I didn't actually follow those, but it looks like if you start contributing to openstack, you'll get people emailing you with offers. Not as many now as 5 years ago, but still.
Good, now how can I get a business class laptop running AMD processors?

I love the HP Elitebook series (still on an 8560p but want to move to a Zbook Studio x360) but their current offerings are super pricey and only offer Intel processors on that terrible, nightmarish land of horror known as HP.com
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Actually, solar still has huge advantages at the distance of Mars.

In space (actual space, not a planetary surface), it's difficult for nuclear to dissipate its prodigious amounts of waste heat. Solar, in contrast, can be made much lighter than on Earth, as there isn't wind and rain to deal with. And of course in general the Sun is available 100% of the time in space, further improving the economics.

But in any case, the argument wasn't that solar was necessarily better, it was that nuclear wasn't necessary. Solar can provide energy basically anywhere, with power beaming, even out into interstellar space.
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> > surveys of medical professionals indicate that as recently as 1986 infants as old as 15 months were receiving no anesthesia during surgery at most American hospitals.

From a quick search: "Only 45% of doctors who do circumcisions use any anesthesia at all. Obstetricians perform 70% of circumcisions and are least likely to use anesthesia - only 25% do."

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You'd think that with the DIY freedom people would be making Kinesis Advantages and slapping touchpads in the middle. But no, somehow it's the same old flat boards for arms that grow out of the chest and fingers that extend out of the hand instead of rotating on joints; with the typewriters' staggered layout that makes no sense on electronic keyboards. Only now they're a couple centimeters higher so the wrists are even more crooked, and of course there's no wrist support.
In real life you cant do much without depending on others. Good luck getting access to the Hubble space telescope or building one yourself.
Simple cycle gas turbines are 20 times cheaper than nuclear power plants of equal power output. So, no, your argument doesn't hold up when the actual numbers are examined.
Interesting case: in Thai (which is my mother tongue), both the words "วันหน้า" (literally "front day") and "วันหลัง" (literally "back day" or "behind day") both mean "(in a) later (day)". (Yes, it's kinda illogical, like "flammable" vs "inflammable".)

Personally, I think of the past being on the left, and the future being on the right. (Thai is written from left to right, like English.)
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> No I said the protestors claiming there is an easy solution is the problem.

Source?

> They believe everything could just be switched over to renewables at no cost,

Source?

> in fact, they think it would be cheaper to do so.

So, how do you know that is not the case? (And no, pretending that climate change won't cause any costs is not how this works. If your stance is that climate change won't have any costs, that's on you to demonstrate.)

> You do the same. You claim it is "technically a solved problem". It really isn't.

So, which part of it is not technically solved?
I ran across a PDF of ignition a while back and lost a couple of days to it.

My recollection is that they were aiming for atomic mercury, because a monatomic heavy propellant was one way to optimize the specific impulse.

Not as bad as dimethyl mercury, but still quite toxic.
Another old one in that vein is hanged/hung with hanged pretty much specific to executing people. (Although, partly because "hanged" just doesn't come up in daily speech much any longer, hung almost certainly gets used more frequently and isn't considered especially incorrect.)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/hung-or-hanged
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Renewables can ruin the market for nuclear even without storage. Adding economical short term storage (we're close with batteries, and almost certainly will have it before any nuclear plant whose construction was green-lit today could be completed) and nuclear is not just in trouble, it is dead.
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> There's never been anything quite like Qbasic. Bundled with the OS

On home computers throughout the 1980s, BASIC WAS the OS.

I also found it bizarre, how you can't even use modern computers costing hundreds of dollars as a simple calculator if the OS can't boot up.

I wish Apple would bundle something like iOS Swift Playgrounds with macOS, considering they already include Script Editor, Automator, Pages, Numbers, GarageBand etc.
Why wouldn't they be concious?

They probably are concious in some form but their pain might be so much simpler than ours as their conciousness is.

They lack a lot of hardware to expeirience what we expeirience.

The risk of using a word like 'pain' is because it's a very sharply defined word for most people. While in fact expeiriencing pain evolved and your pain might be very different than fish pain or insect pain or nematode pain.
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Agreed. Since the advent of SaaS and mobile apps the software industry has become more like fashion industry.

That's why I stubbornly try to stick to FOSS in order to avoid all the nonsense of the commercial software.
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> Kinesis Advantages and slapping touchpads in the middle

that sounds like an amazing product TBH-- does anything like that exist?
this is an awesome idea, for a handful of different reasons. "A feed of the present". The post got my attention because of the domain name. Perhaps including your description "A feed of a present" would get more deserved attention
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Also props to Sqlite for being one of the last ones standing when it comes to fighting filesystem crashes. It is truly an incredibly high quality piece of software AND it's free, what a world to live in.
A lot of people build their own ergonomic split keyboards, there are even websites like keeb.io which focus purely on kits for such variants, and open source projects like the ergodox or dactyl keyboards that everyone can 3D print(or otherwise create) and handwire with their own choice of componentes and materials. Of course it's not the majority but a market exists and many of the kits are almost constantly sold out.
No touchpad but: https://shop.keyboard.io
Blindly updating ffmpeg without the app being tested for it is a recipe for disaster -- ffmpeg has made API breaks in the past, and that meant that when an ffmpeg system update was required, all projects depending on it would need to upgrade to the new API.

So often, a distribution would be held back on an old ffmpeg (perhaps patched with some of the CVE fixes by a distro maintainer who might not be familiar with the codebase) to isolate the churn of upstream.

flatpak lets app maintainers update at their leisure, which actually gets them on a faster update cycle.
Well nothing will be better if you don't follow that advice, and you can't do much else.
> only to be told by the GPG wizards that everything is fine and working as intended, it will be fixed anyway by that one guy that volunteered on the mailing list to do it, they assure us.

Haha, actually this problem has been fixed for some time. Now subkeys need to be cross signed by primary key so yep you can share them but only with the key owner's private key.

For more details see: https://gnupg.org/faq/subkey-cross-certify.html
Kinesis looks good for data entry and such keyboard-only activities, but otherwise, when one hand is using a mouse, I don't think it is comfortable. Any experiences?
You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so

Bit of a blanket statement. I’m totally happy on my 11" Macbook Air still. Full-screen browser on one workspace, full-screen Sublime on another and full-screen terminal on the third. Trivial to cmd-tab between them, and the portability gains massively outweigh any benefits of having all windows open at the same time, especially if I have an external monitor available at most workspaces.
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I was referring to your definition of what a loophole is and the example of that (forming an S corp to avoid payroll taxes).
Because they didn't prove that insects expeirience pain as people understand it. They just proven that expeiriencing injury sensitizes an insect.

Article tries to balance between biting the audience with insect pain but then trying to not be completely false calls it 'pain' and nociception which is the only scientifically accurate term for what is observed.
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> 'It Just Works

Well, apart from the major cloud-breaking side-channel security issues.
I use graphviz often and I'm very happy with it. I'm aware of the cluster tool. Still sometimes I miss some things that graphviz does not have currently (and lisp, python or R could provide). If you need to represent a node in form of a computer, a switch or a room; graphviz is limited in that sense.

I agree in the database focus
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> You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so, and I'm sure there'll be lots of people that tell me [...]

I think the 13-inch Macbook Pro is a fairly good counterpoint. There are plenty (millions) of people who use them as their primary computer every day. Personally I tend to have mine plugged into a monitor, but I also do plenty of work on it freestanding.
> 4. DNS (sort of a walled garden, yes)

IMHO, Web Key Directory is a better option here. It has all benefits of DNS but none of the drawbacks (DNS has plain text queries etc.)
I agree, and I whish others could see this as what it is - a push to make everything so overcomplicated and repository-locked in the name of security that you need endless maintenance and a support contract to run even basic software on your PC, thereby taking F/OSS ad absurdum. When in reality we haven't seen significant end-user F/OSS in almost a decade.
That looks incredible: build quality, ergonomics, there's even an Any key

But the edge of maple body looks a bit high. Do you own one? How comfortable is it to rest your wrists on it?

(I prefer the shallowest possible keyboards myself)
My default these days is to roll my own (at least within some predefined context), this is because I view each new dependency as a significant cost, so i'll invert my answer: For me to include an external dependency it must provide very relevant and high value to the project to outweigh it's inherent costs.. even if that is satisfied I feel like I should also trust the authors.

This attitude has basically eliminated unhappy surprises from external code for me. This is probably a disposition earned through developing mostly in the JavaScript community (I am now the polar opposite of the NPM duct tape developer, and I prefer flat dependency trees).