skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being fluent in Japanese as a second language, I agree with this. It's Zipf's law and sounds great, but 90% isn't as useful as it sounds. You'll mostly recognize a single common Kanji of compound words consisting of 2-3 characters, or common structural words. It's a far cry from being able to understand content you find in the wild.

Also, "understanding" a Kanji is an ill-defined term. Most Kanji have multiple meanings based on context, and many different readings. So for each Kanji you're not learning a single character, but possibly a lot more. Especially the Kanji that correspond to more abstract concepts you cannot learn by themselves. They don't have a concrete meaning like "eat" or "drink". You essentially have to memorize all of their word compounds, a single character does not help.

EDIT: I also started out learning Japanese by memorizing the top 2000 Kanji using Spaced Repetition. While it definitely helped, it wasn't nearly as useful as some of these marketing-driven sites want you to believe. Kanji meaning are too complex to be captured like that. Even if you "know" all Kanji in a word you'll likely not understand the word's meaning unless it's something simple and concrete. I think you are much better of memorizing and studying word compounds. Over time you will automatically "pattern match" the Kanji you see often to their abstract concepts.

Example from 1min of browsing a JP text: Take "可能" which is a very common word that usually means "possible". Knowing the two Kanji (tolerant and ability) it not going to help you. It could mean dozens of other things based on those simplified Kanji meanings. This is not an exception, the majority of words are like this. On the other hand, let me give you a bunch of words containing "可": 許可、可決、可能性、不可欠 (permission, approval, possibility, essential) and you start to pattern-match that "可" corresponds to something like "positive possibility", but it's hard to translate.
What percentage of the earth's temperature history have we recorded?
Ever hear of the Medallion Fund, which has averaged ~40% annual returns since the late 1980’s?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-07/jim-simon...
Yet another (re)discovery of Pareto's distribution. Net worth, stock returns, popularity of words in languages, casualties in wars or natural disasters, size of cities, popularity of artwork pieces like songs or computer games, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution#Applicatio...
Well, aside from compatibility with certain web proposals and specs, a complete lack of tolerance for WebDRM/EME, and a couple basic things like that, I couldn't really tell you; because 99% of my web browsing could be in Lynx for all the garbage I don't download (ECMAScript, many images, ads, etc). Most of the development they do is for users with different use-cases than mine who want to do more things in their browser that aren't text and hypertext links.

The biggest upside, to me, is that what it offers customizability in the UI, that the settings actually feel like they mean something (when I turn something off, it stays turned off) and that addons/tools like Eclipsed Moon and Pale Moon Commander are made to actually protect my privacy. Oh, and there's the other big thing, that it's not taking money from Google or making money for Google. So, y'know, offering a Web Minus Alphabet is a good thing.

Oh. And it still runs in a single process on my 32-bit computer, so it doesn't seize up, cause my HDD to grind, and force a reboot every time it launches. Chrome, Electron-based programs, and e10s-Firefox all do that, and I've had some pretty spectacular crashes that required using a system restore when something I installed also tried to sideload Chrome with it. Thankfully I identified the culprit, went to a restore before the install, sent a nasty email to the people who wrote it, and went on with my life.
Automation is not new, it has been happening since the printing press, the cotton gin and the assembly line.
The problem I've always seen with structuring code, is that text files are basically one dimensional, meaning that you always run into conflicts between putting things close to each other that are similar in one dimension vs. those that are similar in another dimension.

I'm not lucid enough tonight to give good concrete examples, or be more specific about how this relates to repetition, but I feel like there are deep problems with designing software automatically even looking at mundane, small scale stuff.
https://www.ceramicspeed.com/media/3505/velonews-friction-fa...

See page 63 for efficiency and 64 for longevity.

The graph on page 64 is confusingly labeled, but the numbers indicate "watts expended before wet dirty run" - "watts expended after".
Oh man, I played Popcorn on our 386sx with grayscale screen. Haven't thought of that game in almost 30 years.
Say you want to listen to a socket and also receive input from the keyboard at the same time.

If you have an async method that can wait for input on both devices, you can await the results of both of them, and they won't block eachother.
I work in manufacturing and we're impacted as well. The largest impact is reduction in Chinese end-user business.

The products we make are used in Chinese factories to assemble smartphones. Believe it or not (I do) but the Chinese do not possess the technology nor the manufacturing sophistication to make high quality items (read: iPhones) on a large scale efficiently with a domestic (to China) supply chain.

Sure, the factories that produce iPhones are capable of producing a conforming iPhone. But the machines it takes to produce a conforming iPhone require technology, skill, and technique the Chinese currently do not possess.

So, believe it or not (I can prove it) the Chinese buy their factory equipment from small suppliers in the U.S. where the quality is decent enough to get equipment capable of producing an iPhone. We make the machines they use to laminate screens.

We are currently incentivizing China to develop the technology to domestically create the iPhone. That isn't a problem because it puts me out of business. That is a problem for the western economy because it reduces Chinese reliance on the Apple supply chain. We're teaching them, through trial and error, how to replace Apple with Huawei in the Chinese market. If Apple loses the Chinese market; the world market is lost inside of 10 years. We're teaching Huawei how to make an iPhone by brute force by making it economical to do so.

Nevermind the price of materials like aluminum has gone crazy. Even the DFARS stuff has gone up as a result of reduced supply in domestic markets. And for some customers we can't use anything else. So either make up the supply difference or get fucked on DFARS requirements. You're the ones costing America it's world dominance. Not us.

So do whatever you want, conservatives. My personal opinion is that your trade war is shooting yourselves in the foot.
Aren’t these numbers misleading, by implicitly treating gas as clean energy?

The right metric should be %renewables of installed capacity

USA < 15%

India almost 17%

China almost 25%
To preserve what 'culture' exactly? When you say 'our' who are you referring to?
Nice; thanks for the throwback, I played the dickens out of that game.
What's the point of automating everything if there are no more people? I think ultimately people are the source of happiness for people. Material things are just an intermediary in the happiness exchange. So, if we get rid of people to replace them with material things we will become less happy.

Plus, it isn't obvious that all the important stuff can be automated.
There's also a great "Classic Game Postmortem" video from 2012 by Frederick Raynal, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2lgEyNaop4
All of it. At various granularities of measurement.

For what we would consider modern, direct methodologies, about 150 years. Think mid- to late 1800's.
What big attack surface? The client? FTP is an ugly/stupid protocol, but it's not really complex (I suspect it's far simpler than HTTP).
I am not familiar with US politics, but looking at your link, the bill is sponsored by 58 Democrats and 1 Republicans. Is it a usual practice to describe such bills as bipartisan?
Everyone in my neighborhood had the demo version of this game. It’s awesome, but we could never leave the first room (and it wasn’t for sale in my country).

I might as well play it today to overcome this childhood frustration :)
This is closer to 90:25 rather than the typical Pareto of 80:20
It will be interesting to see how this develops.

I've spent the last month implementing and testing IMAP support for my app [1].

It has... not been very fun.

Before we were limited to providers with a REST API, so implementing IMAP should in theory allow us to support a much wider range of email servers with a much lower support burden.

Although the protocol spec is tight, it seems like some providers randomly bug out or hang [2], respond with custom error messages, offer bespoke functionality [3], or generally don't comply with the spec in breaking ways [4].

As a result I'm more worried about this going forward than I had hoped.

I'll now also happily support anything that can help modernize email, so I'll apply to the developer program and will be watching JMAP closely.

[1]: https://leavemealone.app/

[2]: Yahoo Mail always down (https://downdetector.com/status/yahoo-mail)

[3]: https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions

[4]: https://github.com/mscdex/node-imap/issues/775
> "The value from "religion" is the resonance of a dynamic, mimetic process played out usually in narratives in historic texts/scriptures."

Says who? Most religious people do not say that. Most christians would claim Moses did in fact split the sea in two, literally, with 0 ambiguity. And just a couple of centuries ago all christians would have claimed that.

This is the trick you've fallen into, you've decoupled religion from the banalities of daily life in order to separate it from "observable" things and fit your narrative, as if nothing in those texts could be related to the mundane routine of for example looking at the objects in the sky. In that almost all religions would disagree with you.

So I say you are wrong not only because you've misrepresented the conflict between science and religion, but because to do so you had to construct a straw-man definition of religion with which almost no religious person in the history of the world would identify with.
Once every site serving FTP makes their files available on HTTP, sure.
Could a fuse filesystem do the trick for maildir emulation? Assuming that'd be beneficial to a full maildir, but I guess it'd only be so at large sizes.
Let's say we have a population of 100 people living in caves, and all they have to entertain themselves is paint on rocks. Then, someone draws a picture on a leaf. Suddenly everyone is snapping those leaf pictures up. Next, someone sticks the leaves together into a book, and that's the next big thing. Finally, someone invents the leaf screen, that is constantly beaming new leafy picture shows into your personal cave. They can't make the leaf screens fast enough to keep up with demand!

So, with a constant population we still achieve economic growth.
Supermarkets and Twitter are exactly the same thing.
I think your "general usage" is actually fairly specific to particular places and people. Without the explanations, I wouldn't have gleaned the meanings you're assigning (I'm a native English speaker from NZ). It seems pointlessly obfuscated and offensive to me.
The form of your argument is essentially:

> the right of the public, through their government, to effectively do X via the government would be infringed if anybody could do Y.

Someone could literally substitute anything into X and Y here to justify very bad things. Such as:

> the right of the public, through their government, to effectively forcibly redistribute wealth via the government would be infringed if anybody could refuse to pay taxes.

I know this is a bit of a strawman to illustrate the form of your argument, but the gulf between your statement and my strawmen is a spectrum of X and Y pairs, many of which are legitimately debatable.

Free speech is a negative right, which is a limit on government, which in turn means it cannot be infringed and that it has priority over rights of the government.
> this seems like another move to bully the Internet into what Google wants it to be

Bully them back. Don't use Google search and don't use Chrome.
FTP became a nightmare to use thanks to introduction of NAT, it was developed before NAT existed so it wasn't designed with it in mind.

As for rsync, sftp, scp those are heavily tied to ssh, rsync to the point that you actually ssh to host and call rsync command. rsync has a server mode as well, but almost no one uses it.
Keep it simple: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YkPnwoYyE
From the outside this seems obvious and perplexing why it is being done anyway.
Yes, the idea is that the thread that is executing this piece of code can "steal" other work when it is awaiting on either of those methods.

Frankly, in the case of sequential flow like the above, I would rather write

result = server.getStuff()
second = server.getMoreStuff(result+1)
print(result)

and have the runtime automatically perform work-stealing for me. No need for awaits. They just litter the code. This is what Go does.
Not sure how trust worthy the TunnelBear company is if their up to ripping off other software projects e.g. their Remember service [1] which is a copy of 1Password

1. https://www.remembear.com
So, are you saying this is the hottest July in 4.5 billion years, or that this is the hottest July in 150 years, which is 0.00003% of the earth's history? Two fairly different claims.
this looks awesome and is a great writeup.

Is it possible to use (peerage)[https://github.com/mrluc/peerage] to setup autodiscovery between vms like you can in gcp?
> The parent comment is basically implying that the cook has cooked the dish completely wrong and that he (a non-cook) could do a better job of cooking that dish.

I may not know how to cook (insert complicated dish here) but I can tell if it's too salty. Users of systemd / whatever software this man wrote may not have the time to do all the stuff I mentioned, but they know using/configuring the system is a nightmare.

> It's easy to complain and bitch online, that's the problem. Everyone seems to know the solution but no one seems to do it.

I repeat, they might not know the solution, just that the software tastes bad to them. Some of these complainers might be able to come up with a better solution, if they had the 3 things I mentioned before, but sadly, apparently, no one actually does. Otherwise a replacement would already exist. Of course it's another thing to get distros to adapt it.

Their lack of time/ability doesn't mean they're forbidden to say "this thing sucks!". IMO at least.
Also topsoil depletion.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/201...
What a shame to see such a venerable institution taken over by such an antisocial group of people and ideology.
Technical analysis is pseudoscience.
It looks great.

But it's odd that they do not cite Tokio. I know this isn't an academic paper, but come on have some professional curtesy and discuss the contributions made in prior art.
> So the answer is to create dummy debt ...

QE is buying debt on the public market and removing it from circulation, while injecting newly created money into the economy, in order to increase liquidity.

What is "dummy debt" and how does QE create it?
For an Analytical Approach to the study of the Mind based on Patanjali Raja Yoga, you might find the following helpful;

* Yoga and Western Psychology: A Comparison by Geraldine Coster - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189086/page/n1 - This is an old book so the "psychology" part might be outdated but nevertheless the approach taken to look at Raja Yoga as Practical Applied Psychology is something i believe is the correct way.

* Samkhya Darshan: Yogic Perspective on Theories of Realism by Swami Niranjananda Saraswati - https://www.amazon.com/Samkhya-Darshan-Perspective-Theories-... - The model of the mind in Raja Yoga is based on the earlier Samkhya Philosophy. The "Mind" is considered a layered model with layers called "Mahat, Buddhi, Ahamkara, Manas etc." This book is one of the best on Samkhya.
I'm surprised the article claims there are still bugs, because one would think (hope) that a protocol over 30 years old with an implementation over a decade old should've received its last bugfix long ago and become truly stable by now.
I think a trillion people can find a solution to that problem in under 440 years.
The Fortnite coach who helped create teenage millionaires
It's a beautiful story.

https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas By Ursula LeGuin
Notable examples are The Cat in the Hat, which uses 236 words, and Green Eggs and Ham, which uses only 50 words. (Wikipedia)
> Interim assistant dean of students: "I hope we rain fire and brimstone on that store"

> "Fuck him. I’d say unleash the students if I wasn’t convinced this needs to be put behind us."

Oh wow. That's a very interesting and scary quote. They think the students are their little minions to brainwash and "unleash" on someone.

Are these people still employed there? Because it would seem they have severely damaged the reputation of the school for years to come. I wonder also how the students who participated in the protests feel. Did they realize they were manipulated, do they regret showing up or even graduating from the school altogether.

> “Think one person can change the world? So do we,” has been Oberlin’s official motto for quite some time.

Well these administrators did change the world, so the motto is true. The only problem is, it doesn't seem like they changed it for the better.
If you start an SMS (MMS?) group chat with >10 people, any AT&T customers (and possibly others—I'm not sure) attempting to reply will end up replying to 10 arbitrary members, leading to a huge pile of separate chats, each missing a few people. Even under 10 people, SMS/MMS group chats don't support features like adding/removing group members, among others. It's a substantially worse UX.
This might work if income were more equally distributed. If food becomes more scarce and the typical American has to eat 20-30% fewer calories, the price of food will spike significantly. People at the bottom will be priced out and will starve without government intervention.

Managing the food supply to make sure there's always a healthy surplus makes a lot of sense to me. The problem with holding land in reserve, as you're suggesting, is that it takes at least an entire growing season to start producing from that land. That might be too long in the case of a famine.
I've always felt browsers are gimped FTP clients and found it weird they had support for the protocol in the first place. In fact the first time I used an FTP url in Netscape I was surprised it actually worked.

That said, I find the viewpoint "users should not be impacted by this deprecation" the height of arrogance. Note that phrase is lifted from the article, and is not present in the dev team's post.
As a comparison, mercurial seems to do this; if you revert an uncommitted change, it makes a "*.orig" file. (Mercurial generally is more obsessed with never losing anything than git, such as its refusal to delete commits)
That’s the increase in the global average, over just three years ago!
> risky

It just depends on the debt to collateral ratio

25% could be good enough, but when they do 50% or overleverage then you should worry

The bay area would definitely be hit hard temporarily if tech, housing and lending slowed as some real estate companies take on greater risk than others, like offering no money down if you work at a FAANG with a lien on your shares.

But if there isnt much leverage then asset prices themselves dont magically become a problem just because the upward trajectory lasted a while

1999 and 2008 were leverage problems, with 2008 exacerbated by the surprise implosion of a large bank - Lehman - a few days after getting the highest credit rating, this simultaneously froze all lending since the confidence system failed. Morgan Stanley was leverage 40x the assets they had. So regulations since then ensure certain capital ratios: deleverage. As long as people find wealth and buy with that found wealth, bull market continues. If people buy with the future prospects of finding wealth, and that fails, bull market fails. Less future betting, continued steady bull market.
FTP in PASV mode operates very similarly to HTTP, and is no more insecure. With an organization the size of Google and the Chrome team, they should be able to make it work.
Stanford is not going anywhere. UCSF is not going anywhere. UC Berkeley is not going anywhere. VC not going to completely uproot anytime soon. Can’t build much farther out in the suburbs due to water shortages, and not making more land. NIMBY prevents higher density housing projects.

Apart from fires and earthquakes, I don’t see why the trend will change.
Ditto, though we started this behavior in Rails 3 or 4, I no longer recall, and are now on 5.2.X.
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That is inaccurate, banks heavily use ftp. Probably not a world that many here are exposed to, but it's very normal in the financial space
How did they extinguish anything? The new added features to iMessage are not part of the SMS spec. They didn't take any features away, or degrade the experience.
Actually they don't even let them settle in their own currency. Almost all of the global trade happens in dollar or euro or yen. Even loans between countries happen in these currencies along with interest payments.
This will never pass. This is not simply me being pessimistic. US current government doesn't believe in climate change, and doing everything in its power to roll back whatever progress was made in the last decade or so. The current senate majority is a puppet of the government and will not pass anything Trump doesnt want. And even in the extreme unlikely scenario of it getting passed. It will get vetoed.

Since getting downvoted, maybe people don't know Trump's relationship with climate change:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-envir...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/15-wa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_Do...
The issue isn't "making a creative work which includes the tones" (which is where the 1A argument would come in). Nothing's prohibiting that that I'm aware of. Many, many examples of this on YouTube.

The issue would be "an FCC licensed-station broadcasting the tones to the public on the public airwaves in violation of the rules governing their license". The rule is a technical restriction that's a condition of the broadcast license. Very different.
Rails: still dead after 15 years.

Will it ever hit critical mass?
Using Chrome these days is like Internet Explorer in 1999. You are at the mercy of a giant corporation.
When you want to learn an abstract word, you have to learn it in the context of a sentence in the foreign language. In order to do that you have to know the meanings of the other words in the sentence.

This works passively as well, if you see a sign and you understand 90% of what's written on it but there's one word you don't understand, you will much more easily remember that word later because you can place it in context.