skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I explicitly did not belittle Welsh society or the Welsh language. If you care to take exception to my language as simply inappropriate, I'll concede and apologize. If you insist on taking it as an insult to minority groups (your perception, not my intention), well ... I won't do anything. Including apologize. My condemnation isn't aimed at the Welsh or minority groups but specifically at the author of the article, Stephen Harrison, whose ancestry I'm wholly unaware of.
How many km is 4 miles? That's not on the list of numbers.
In French Hebrew is used (c’est de l'hébreu)
> Life is the most interesting problem

Most of life is mundane. That's why there are entire entertainment / leisure / travel businesses to fix that issue.
Servlet vs. Reactive: Choosing the Right Stack (2017)
In Danish, we say Volapük (well volapyk in Danish). So nice of us to give an artificial language some exposure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volap%C3%BCk
These were useful for parameters (conceptually anyway, I haven't done any hard labwork with this yet):

Kirt R. Williams, Kishan Gupta, Matthew Wasilik - Etch Rates for Micromachining Processing—Part II

Mark R. Jackson - Effects of Radio Frequency Power and Sulfur Hexafluoride Flowrate on Etch Rate of Silicon Dioxide

S. A. Moshkalyov, C. Reyes-Betanzo, R.C. Teixeira, I. Doi, M.B. Zakia, J.A. Diniz, J. Swart - Etching of Polycrystalline Silicon in SF6 Containing Plasmas

I.J. Kima, H.K. Moona, J.H. Leea, N.E. Leea, J.W. Jungc, S.H. Cho - Silicon nitride etch characteristics in SF6/O2 and C3F6O/O2 plasmas and evaluation of their global warming effects

http://microchem.com/pdf/PMMA_Data_Sheet.pdf

These for further general process design/example values:

http://ww2.che.ufl.edu/unit-ops-lab/experiments/semiconducto...

These are by no means the be all and end all, they were just useful for the parts of the process I've looked at in detail so far and there are often several options at every step for chemicals and approaches, these were suited to what I was aiming for.
Just the beginning of the ending of the round of tech boom we have seen. Overhiring might be a cause of it, but big companies overhiring isn't particular unique to Uber, and when they start to curb hiring, some fundamental correction of perception is probably under way.
It has been happening for years, on HN too. Astroturfing used to be extremely obvious and you could quickly verify by looking at someone's comment history. No longer the case I'm afraid, since accounts are either bought outright or pre-processed by intermediaries to have varied histories.
> It isn’t just detective work, it is personnel with the skills to identify and pursue likely evidence.

I think that at this point of the 21st century, this is 100 % detective work.
I don't think automation will work or has worked. Look at emails and robocalls. I still get plenty of spam, even if it gets filtered into a spam folder, there is no reason I should have to peruse my spam folder but still some important emails get labeled as spam. I believe the issue is that corporations as a whole simply can't be trusted, and that the only solution is decentralization with open source technology and making it easy for users to create their own filters and control their own data.

Also, the bots I see on reddit, YouTube and Instagram generally aren't pushing liberal agendas but right-wing. The automation I see are networks of influencers working together to push out the same narratives.
I agree about the article, I just want to mention that improving motor efficiency would also help with some of the other losses you mention. Going from 80% to 90% means that you need half as much cooling, batteries may be more efficient when you draw less power from them, etc. That might it worth it even if the motor efficiency gain alone doesn’t look like much on paper.
OS Security: iOS vs. GrapheneOS vs. Stock Android
The approach is like programing with inline-css but using classes. Once you start working, you will realize you will reuse more classes and your code will be 100% redeable. Anyone coming behind your work can easily work it. Otherwise he needs to re-learn all the architectural tidbits and change it to his way to architecture it.

This doesn't stop you to code small and repetitive components like "buttons". There's an article where you can see how it works.
it's good for a gag - but it's much simpler to just go and add half of the number + a tenth to convert from miles to kms
I wouldn't say that a language studied by a minority of students (those in liceo classico) is the reason we use "Arab" as the incomprehensible language shorthand. Especially when you consider that the Greek studied in liceo is not the Greek spoken in Greece today.
Interesting. The first sentence seems to translate correctly for me: "Wikipedia is an independent research journal."
> I mean, she's arguably a public figure, so a libel case wouldn't stand.

No, it would just require evidence of actual malice: that is, knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth.
That's how I was taught to do it in primary school, yes it's simple, but I don't see what bases 2 or 16 have to do with it?
Is this the same airline that likes appearing in Google Flight because lots of customers book tickets through it?
An engineer's way: Pi = 3
this will escalate quickly. figure 5 years or fewer until we see laws that have insanely harsh penalties (20 years in prison) for using non-backdoored encryption.
4 is the average of 3 and 5, so its km value is the average of 5 and 8 (assuming the Fibonacci series to be a geometric progression as described in the tweet).

While I can do this for 4km, I can't for different values like 9km. I've done the multiply-by-1.6 thing often enough by now to be fast enough at it, so I'll likely be sticking to it. This is a cool trick nevertheless.
It might depend on the region, to me Chinese feels more natural. "c'est du chinois"
Wait, doesn’t everyone know there 1.6 times tables ?
Here you go:
https://telegra.ph/Opinion--China-Tries-to-Teach-Trump-Econo...
I have, I wasn't much of a fan :P

(Cow) milk just seems to have an unpleasant aftertaste to me. I get on well with oat milk, though.
I feel that if the NSA were to ask for much of Google’s data right at this moment there isn’t anything Google could do, and I’m not even that sure that they would want to do anything. The same goes for FB. If they decide not to comply then both of these companies might risk being broken up or worse, so why risk it?

The bottom line is that if you decide doing anything against the current US powers that be (like harassing a Senator from outside his house late at night) do not use any of the services coming from companies directly liable to the US authorities. The same goes if you’re in China or Russia, try not to use the services of companies directly liable to those countries’ governments if you want to vigorously protest the current political status-quo.
Side-note but I rather disagree with placing Mandarin and Cantonese on the same level. Cantonese is definitely quite a bit harder than Mandarin...

As for Japanese being harder than Mandarin and Cantonese, I think it's true if one considers complete mastery of the language but I would say that Japanese is easier to master orally for day to day life than either Mandarin or Cantonese.
> akin to saying "stop and smell the flowers".

Actually, "pluck the ripe fruit" and use the day to enjoy it, which is far from the connotation of "stop and smell", where one just stops for a moment, smells the flower and continues going wherever he goes (which would be again too convenient and matching the currently established cultural expectations). The Chi Luu's article refers to this work by Maria S. Marsilio:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23048886?mag=how-carpe-diem-got...

published in 2010 which analyzes the poem.

We also have the whole poem with the recent translation online:

https://www.loebclassics.com/view/horace-odes/2004/pb_LCL033...

so everybody can read it himself.

According to the 2010 Marsilio's scholarly article (and my understanding of it) in the poem the poet speaks to Leuconoe, a woman who wanted to consult the horoscopes about her and him, he being the poet himself, that is, she cautiously wanted to see what would future bring to two of them together (probably to decide if she'd accept the poet's approach). The poet, conveniently for him, tells the woman to "pluck the day" (which is seen by some as having almost an erotic feel) and not worry for the long-term future, even to "cut back far-reaching hopes to within a small space".

In the words of Marsilio: "Horace wants to share with Leuconoe the pleasures of the present - chiefly
wine and love - since "envious time" (invida aetas) attempts to rob them of
the enjoyments of life and they may not have the future to enjoy these pleasures."

And the article we all comment here, by Chi Luu, argues that "Gathering flowers as a metaphor for timely enjoyment is a far gentler, more sensual image than the rather forceful and even violent concept of seizing the moment" and "By seizing the day rather than plucking it like a flower, however, we’re actually conforming to hidden cultural values that we all share, not looking at the world in a different way from the norm, but in the same way as everyone else. These are cultural values that some argue have been co-opted by advertisers to sell us more things that we’re told will make us happier." (More argumentation is in the text, so I won't repeat it all here, but it's needed to be read to be able to discuss the article's messages).
You're confusing backcompat with forward compatibility. Old code still works, since old code doesn't use [[ ]]
Just put a bag or sack over the top of it. All visual, radar, laser and ultrasound sensors will become pretty useless when covered, but there won't be any physical damage done to police property.
That's why I maintain my DVD Netflix subscription, and keep stuffing my Plex server.
Divulging classified information is not a crime unless you hold a security clearance.
> On the one hand, I've heard that authoritarianism is soul-crushing and I've been raised to believe that individual freedom is paramount.

You need to be aware that you're buying into a persistent pro-Western, anti-China propaganda.

If you survey a random sampling of Chinese citizens, the vast majority of them would in no way find the system they're living under "soul crushing". Yes, people of Xinjiang and Tibet live under brutal paramilitary rule and those issues have gained special salience in the West but they represent a tiny fraction of the Chinese population. If you happen to be a political advocate or trying to shed light on human rights, then the Chinese government is not a pleasant adversary (although again, the stories in the West focus solely on the worst cases. I know plenty of Chinese NGO workers who are fighting the good fight while playing enough by the rules that they've forged a productive partnership with the government). But, for the median Chinese person, the weight of the government rests pretty lightly on their shoulders as they just want to have economic opportunity, raise their children well and enjoy their lives.

I tell people that, in many ways, life in China is much freer than life in America. The Chinese system looks totalitarian from the outside but, from most facets, more closely resembles ungovernable anarchy. The CCP has been likened to the Eye of Sauron, overwhelming it it's power when it gazes on you but can only focus on a limited set of concerns at any one time. There's a reason why the air that the leaders breathe in Beijing continues to be extremely polluted and it's because the power the CCP has in Beijing province over factory owners in neighboring Hebei province is, by design, so limited that even Beijing Rulers can't clean up their own air.

For day to day life in China, there's a real sense of mind your own business, to each their own indifference which is both thrilling and terrifying at the same time. People renovate their houses in crazy ways and their neighbors don't care, I've seen empty concrete shells transform into functioning business in a matter of weeks as there's very little red tape you need to comply with. There's regularly blue trucks on the road that visibly fail China's emission regulations and are the cause of the bulk of the vehicle pollution but it doesn't matter because the trucking company knows how to pay off the right inspectors.

If you speak to most Chinese people, they're generally in favor of more government, not less because they feel Chinese society is too 乱 (messy) still and the government hasn't reached far enough into people's lives to provide enough of a civilizing force. That's one of the many reasons why, despite Social Credit being so derided in the West, it has largely broad support from within Chinese society.
8 -> 13 and halve it for 6.5?

Or any other combination, but using a higher Fibonacci number is going to be more accurate than combining smaller ones.

Or in this case, as it's only 1 off a Fibonacci number you can convert that one and add 1.6 without multiplying it by anything (multiplying by the 1 off).
I would solve it mentally as 4 miles = 3 miles + 1 mile.

3 miles ~=5km

1 mile = 1.6km

So 5km + 1.6km ~= 6.6km
In part, we need a better lobby, or more lobbyists, who can break down what the real issues are and effectively explain those to Congress and the government.

Though, this reeks of the Executive branch making a scapegoat out of tech to distract from the gun industry, just like getting Walmart to pull game adverts and talking about "red flag" laws.
And if it’s big enough, just prepend 0x.
Can does not mean will. People do dumb things like get 10+% of their calories from sodas.

The tendency to over eat, eat lots of meat, and have a very sedentary lifestyle are the main reasons it’s uncommon in the west. However, it does still occasionally happen to people due to very poor diets combined with active lifestyles. Healing and inflammation related heath issues can also increase people’s needs for protein.

PS: People also very rarely get scurvy via avoiding or over cooking all their sources of vitamin C for months. Occasionally taking a multi vitamin covers most nutritional issues except for macro nutrients.
> Perhaps other languages could take this idea and run with it.

Does Lua-Terra (http://terralang.org/) accomplish what you're thinking of here, or have I completely misunderstood you?

Another commenter already mentioned LLVM, but here is a concrete example (https://weliveindetail.github.io/blog/post/2017/07/25/compil...). Of course it would still be nice not to be tied to a single compiler...
But readers have a real choice and freedom on what to read, in that situation, what benefit does restrictions on writers bring?
You may be right, but I'm not convinced.

> and mostly it is redundant with other sources

The main means of communication other than face-to-face is telephone calls and this newfangled web with its many features. Both are provided by a modern smart phone, which most people seem to live through. Therefore you can expect most to all non-F2F comms to go through the phone (typically; not necessarily).

So I can't accept what you say (yet).

> If he used the phone for contacting co-terrorists there are trails in many other locations

These being? You can move about freely in the states, and he was a domestic terrorist.

> unless he really knew how to hide his tracks

Agreed, but it seems most domestic terrorists are bad planners or stupid AFAICS. People like Ted Kaczynski seem to be the exception, most are idiots who will boast online or ask "how can i maek teh THTP" from google.

I care greatly about privacy but when there is legal cause as people have died, my feelings are the law must have access. It is a balance though, and USAins may draw the line differently from brits like me.
was thinking about some sort of product line of eyewear or mask that would mess with facial recognition.

wonder if people would purchase it if it wasn't too obnoxious.
Or use them in combination:

9 is 8 + 1, so that's 8->13 + 1*1.6 = 14.6
LinkedIn shuts down for 2 weeks a year. These are the best vacation weeks. Like others say, there is no email waiting for you. No meetings or decisions that you regret not being involved in, etc.
The Original Kindle Was Crazy
You’re gonna like this - in Czech it’s “je to pro mě španělské vesnice” meaning “it’s a Spanish village to me”
I'm a total novice to electric motor design, but they mention being able to switch between simulating phases. I don't think they mean they do higher torque at lower power input. I think it means that they can transparently trade efficiency for higher torque, so they can be efficient at low torque, high speed, while also be able to deliver torque at low speed without requiring gearing.

I know how marketing departments work, if you have a product that has only one advantage over the competition, then they'll go and market your product as if it's the best at every point. I bet they've come up with this design that eliminates the need for gearing while retaining efficiency at low torque, and the rest is just marketing jabber.
Not instantly. First Japanese made shitty copy factory that was behind the west and produced low quality products sold cheap. "Made in Japan" was brand for cheap knock off products for a long time. Japanese cars had a reputation of being easy to break "rice cups" even in the 80's. Gradual improvement and climbing up the value chain happened in Japan, then in South Korea and now it's happening in China.

Asian cultures have this idea that you learn from the masters by copying them. After you master the previous state of art you start to improve upon it.
When you laugh at stealing copycats you fail to see the constant gradual improvement.
The Mars Climate Orbiter[0] was lost due to errors in converting between Newton seconds (SI) and pound-force seconds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
Not just books, you can apply this thinking to just about any purchase.
Rough guess would be around the 6 week mark. It may not be on traditional holidays per se, but I took a day off to help my parents fit CCTV last week - those individual days start to add up too. The company will tell you to take some time off if you're not taking enough.
I believe on the Fragmented podcast there was someone from Uber who said they had 200 Android engineers, blew my mind.
> Because there's zero evidence for any of it.

There's all the evidence in the world if you want to see it. I you don't, there is none.
Good god you sound ignorant. Uber isn't a post office with multi day SLA.
It's a realtime service with second-SLAs that needs to know where you are, where the closest 20 drivers are, the map of the area, places of interest and a dozen other things - for millions of users in hundreds of cities - and that's just one part of the company.
Payments is a whole chunk of the tech industry in and off itself. Food delivery is a whole of the tech startup scene in an off itself. As is Freight.
Uhm. *Halbach Cylinder" like in

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbach_array ?
Then that is an issue with the company culture, processes and staffing. Holiday is holiday - I've never worked anywhere which would expect me to remain contactable whilst on holiday.
I'm curious about Macs. If I have Firmware Password and FileVault enabled, is it same FBI-proof as iPhone? Does T1 and T2 chips or absent Tx chip (older Macs) make difference? Is storing FileVault unlock key in iCloud makes difference?
I hope their internal report has more action-items...

They should have had probers running over test accounts on the production system to detect this kind of thing much quicker.

Cassandra's config layer needs some kind of check that it isn't allowed to make a change which turns a working service into a non-working one (adding 6 nodes while auto-bootstrap is set to false always leads to data inconsistency - so why did the config system allow such a transition?)

Doesn't Cassandra support some kind of autoscaling like spanner/bigtable? Something that happens automatically a couple of times every day is far less likely to go wrong. Less human effort too.
My problem with Elixir is kind of similar to C/C++. Interfacing with C code from C++ is easy, interfacing with C++ code from C isn't easy and you end up with loads of ugly wrapper code. The same goes for Erlang and Elixir, interfacing with Erlang code from Elixir is easy, interfacing with Elixir code from Erlang is ugly. And the more people start writing code in Elixir I fear that more people are turning away from Erlang. And even if the entire environment in total benefits from more people using Elixir, that environment will more and more turn into an almost pure Elixir environment with very little of Erlang left.
Syntax complexity is highly debatable topic. It involves complexity of parsing (by machine), reading and scanning(by human), conciseness, coherence of syntactic constructs and more things I don’t know. I wouldn’t say prolog based syntax is necessarily simpler than ruby(?) based one in all those categories.

Of course only LISPs have achieved syntax perfection, all hail LFE and other lispy fronts to erlang!
And we shouldn’t believe for a second this isn’t already happening with multiple three letter agencies.
That answered one of the biggest questions I had when I saw that CRT display magnification of the chip. Well done to him, hope he doesn't get bored in college though I'm sure he'll find ways to pass the time.
> I care greatly about privacy but when there is legal cause as people have died, my feelings are the law must have access. It is a balance though, and USAins may draw the line differently from brits like me.

I draw the line on the side of privacy. I'm absolutely fine with potential unresolved loose ends in a criminal investigation if it means we actually get to practice real security and gain all the privacy that entails.

Regardless of that, I'm not convinced that the actionable information they could obtain is unique to the phone; there are always several avenues of inquiry for evidence-gathering. It smacks of laziness by law enforcement to suggest it's somehow impossible without encryption backdoors.
> To be fair, most of innovation in America also comes from the public sector not the private one

What does that have to do with what OP is talking about?
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Game of Trees: a version control system under development for OpenBSD
Meeting Protocols
> which miles vs. kilometers doesn't really in day-to-day life

Standard units are much more useful in carpentry. It's a lot easier when you can divide by 2,3,4, and 6.
But isn't the main theme of NNs that the low level understanding is the best we have? In other words, there is no body of theory we can use to analyse architectural decisions so we just have to go off experimentation and heuristics derived from that.
We still use PSI for tyre pressures in UK, probably some other things too.

They're given in N/m^2, but all the petrol station machines are in PSI, probably because the numbers just fall better.
I first learned about him from The Sandman comic book series, it is a nice take on the real story.
Definitely not true, you can get much more than that in London.
Not so obvious to me ! I have created the Quick Action but I don't know how to trigger it, so I have saved it as an app. Also when I execute it from Automator (play button), the script doesn't work (nothing is pasted). Would you mind helping ? Looks the best way to quickly format a copied json ! Thanks
It annoys me more that Trump gets credit for "standing up to China" where is is bumbling into a poorly executed trade war that will disappear when his daughter gets more under the table trademark deals for her purses.
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There comes a time when stealing and integrating IP is not worth the effort. See the 5g development thats going on, where Huawei is undisputed king from what i gathered they are outspending R&D the next two competitor combine.
Off course they will now also receive a lot of patent licensing income. Now that 5g is being rolled out..