skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another classical, interesting but evil example:

工信处女干事每月经过下属科室都要亲口交代24口交换机等技术性器件的安装工作

Literal translation of each character one by one:

工(industry)信(information)处(place)女(female)干(do)事(thing)每(every)月(month)经(through)过(pass)下(below)属(obey)科(division)室(room)都(always)要(would)亲(oneself)口(mouth)交(deliver/intersect)代(replace)24(24)口(mouth)交(deliver)换(exchange)机(machine)等(etc)技(ability)术(technique)性(nature/gender)器(device/organ)件(piece)的(of)安(install)装(costume)工(work)作(job)

Correct segmentation:

工信处(ministry of industry and information)女(female)干事(secretary)每月(every month)经过(pass by)下属(subordinate)科室(department)都要(would always)亲口(from her own lips)交代(arrange)24口交换机(24-port switch)等(etc)技术性(technological)器件(device)的(of)安装(installation)工作(work)

Every month when the female secretary of the ministry of industry and information passes by the subordinate department, she would always arrange in person the installation work of the 24-port switch and other technological devices.

Vulgar segmentation:

工信 处女(indoor female=virgin) 干事每 月经(month through=menstruation) 过下属科室都要亲 口交(mouth intersect=oral sex) 代24 口交(oral sex) 换机等技术 性器(sex organ=genital) 件的安装工作

Obviously google translation passed the test!
Yes you should be able to model that using `.begin()` and `.savepoint()` within. https://github.com/porsager/postgres#savepoint-sqlsavepointn...

Is that what you're looking for?
China-made processor, UOS completes adaption to provide Wintel-like experience
For comparison, the Raspberry Pi 1 had an armv6 core.
Many countries already have applications like this with databases ranging back into the eighties or even earlier, and are used both by professionals and others. And a lot of them. So unfortunately I don't see those people leaving their track record behind and swith, which is going to lead to uncovered areas in this application. Unless they can hook into each others databases?
Watson's bigotry was not a key feature of his legacy. It was confined to some comments that would hardly directly impact anyone. And he resigned after it.

Contrasted with his discoveries that will benefit all humanity forever. To a reasonable person, this is obviously more defining than his ineffectual coarse statements at the end of his career.

Conversely, Monson was the leader of a relatively small religious group which he worked to benefit in roughly the standard manner.

But he also used his considerable power to directly lobby and negatively affect thousands of people far outside his own religion. He certainly did not resign over this but worked continuously and unapologetic.

So as you say, it'd be pretty ridiculous to portray Watson's core legacy was bigotry. But clearly reasonable people can disagree about Monson's legacy. Especially those who were directly affected.

Rather than a scientist, I think a better comparison would be other religious or maybe political leaders. Elsewhere I point out complaints about Jefferson Davis' historic portrayal. Another might be Saint Louis of France. Or Pope Gregory VII, reformer and which hunter. (For that matter even the city of Salem Mass is still defined by its lunacy 300 years ago.) Trump's obituary will either list the impeachment first or not, either at length or not. Either way someone will _call_ it biased but that doesn't mean it is.
They didn't. No selling and multiplying. Only taking and dividing.
Microsoft's Unlikely Millionaires (1992)
Charliewatch
tldr: Timing is important when launching a product, there are a few indicators (he calls "tests") that timing might be good:

- Nerds use it a lot

- People use the product despite it sucks

- People wear t-shirts of the product/brand

- Most people don't undertand why this product is important although it's obvious to you

For me, these are also truism (as he rightfully calls "product market fit" one in the beginning of the article). I'm not sure if this is actionable or even good advice for entrepreneurs...

Edit: Styling.
I think it is a similar kind of excitement people have when learning Haskell and functional programming: pleasure to experience the aesthetics of pure forms, distilled mathematical concepts, that contrast with impurity and mess of real world coding.

I see some practical benefits from studying Category Theory and Pure Mathematics in general: mental patterns, some limited applications in general, interesting application in specific problems, but it requires huge investment of time, and, frankly, there are much more practical applied areas in maths that can bring food on the table: optimizations, probability, linear algebra, fluid dynamics, Fourier transforms.

One usually does not ask questions about applicability when decides to study Pure Maths, it is a passion driven adventure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician's_Apology
An article or review about a product written by an independent journalist that wasn't bribed is not an advert. Whether it appears in a printed publication or an online equivalent is immaterial.
I wouldn’t try to Learn nuxt before Vue. Frontendmasters has a great variety of tutorials for Different js skill levels

But that aside, I would probably try to work through eloquentjs, the projects ramp up very quickly and are a great foundation
> Isn't this going to make the argument for making teens smoke cigarettes so they can get access to vaping with nicotine?

Then simply apply the same to cigarettes. Only current people who smoke can buy them, this paves the way to eliminate it altogether. But unfortunately, greed and money speak more than the health of people.
The Problem with “Smart” New Years’ Goals
The best advise I can give you is: "Do it with a friend"

It's the best formula to keep yourself accountable and keep going even in the less fun moment (because even in Greenfield hobby project there are shitty moment's)

If possible do it in pair programming, it's the best for sharing and learning from each other meanwhile
See this: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/...
Violent black hole outburst provides new insight into galaxy cluster evolution
I don't follow your logic. Could you explain your thoughts a bit more please ?
> But you're right, adults should be free to be idiots if they like.

This is the mentality that ended up getting society down the drain. No, "adults" (many of whom aren't mentally) shouldn't be allowed to be idiots, especially if it puts other people at risk.
Valid way to look at the world through the VC lens. I recently launched Nocs (nocsprovisions.com) - a styled, branded update on the age old product of binoculars, small and high quality built for the traveler/weekend warrior nature explorer in mind. There was not one pure target market, rather it just seemed aligned with the consensus to disconnect and “go outside and explore nature” vibe that exists in SF and the coastal cities today. Designed product, built brand + product, shipped XXXX, build more! Not in much of ways for scale but a fun adventure in PZF.
Planting trees is only a good news story if it’s done right
Yeah, the government in Victoria (Australia) forced the Sydney Opera House to accept gambling ads (for horse racing) projected onto it a few months ago.

Despite large public outcry, etc.

Definitely some money changed hands to bribe the gov people involved to make it happen. Can't see any other excuse for it.
Merry Christmas from the faithcircle team!
That seems... well, beyond idiotic. Have to confess I've not been paying much attention to EU plans for continental railways, I just visit Netherlands and France from time to time and remind myself we could have done so much better. Netherlands has proper integration, France actually stumped up for a proper modernisation and high speed rail. UK had BR's (actually very good) plan that no one paid for...

With the number of failed and failing franchises, there's a lot to be said for a new approach, perhaps via a period nationalised to draw a line and start again. It seems patently clear that the post-Beeching nationalised years, decades as under-funded political football, and UK's privatisation were all absolute disasters for passengers... Seems like the EU should look, shake their head, and mutter "definitely not".

If it were me, I'd go back to the pre-war big 4 era, where there were a dozen or two smaller companies running parallel competition on some routes, or running goods and charters on big 4 lines. I probably wouldn't reinvent the pre-1921 situation that gave Manchester four stations all essentially overlapping - Central, Victoria, Oxford Road and Exchange. Pre-big 4 company history detangles that! Manchester Piccadilly was lucky in having less parallel competition.

What we've lost, and totally forgotten, is just how much those pre-war railway companies did to feed the railways. Hotel stations that were not the manky unloved budget rooms of the seventies through today, but often a premium offering. The railways bought into early bus, ferry and tram services to develop those, and ensure services fed the stations. Integrated transport and travel! Compatible timetabling! Now I have to go to the Netherlands to experience that.
It's from Gibsons "Virtual Light", a vastly better book than Snow Crash. Highly recommended!
To be fair, so is the US (NSA) , but people rarely suggest that packages from the US should be monitored extra closely for some reason.

Of course every package used in any code that contains sensitive data should be audited along with its dependant, but I see no reason to be more afraid of this particular package than anything people happily install from npm.
I think you needed more time and a more sophisticated approach. One could have used a 3D scanner and acquired the body shape and then one could parameterize it and then figure out the deformation you want to achieve from the bra -- even preview it for the customer, where do they want things to end up, and how much stress that will put on their body -- and then one could figure out the patterns to make again from the contact areas you wanted.

Basically it is a 3D problem and I think you didn't take a sophisticated approach because you are likely not knowledgable in that area.

You tried to apply tailoring to it, but tailoring is not body fitting nor shape changing as a bra is, nor is tailoring about stresses and weight distribution (which is comfort.)

It is a solvable problem, but your approach was not the correct one, it was simplistic.

It is an incredibly interesting problem though.
The asymmetry of the USB-A connector is at worst a minor inconvenience. Definitely not in itself a good reason to break compatibility. And most USB devices are not frequently plugged in and out (indeed, for those that are, Bluetooth is a better choice!)
Sounds similar to viral capsid development, likely the same process occurs in "safe room" construction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsid
`Some viruses, such as bacteriophages, have developed more complicated structures due to constraints of elasticity and electrostatics.`
Money, greed, and ignorance are at play here. If they truly "cared about the children", they'd ban smoking altogether.
http://archive.is/FB0rA
> - It uses a closed-source fork of libv8 on Android called X5[6].

this makes my spidey senses tingle. What might be hidden there?
You say you want to use python or nodejs, so just go with one of them and don't look back. It really doesn't matter what you choose, just start creating. Don't spend days upon days trying to predict issues that you might never ever have.
Ruby 2.7
Reddit has a collection of reviews [1], that have some really funny quotes.

My favourite being from the Boston Globe [2], comparing the screening to a real-life springtime for hitler

> As Dame Judi carefully enunciated each verse, then paused, then started a new verse, the audience began to titter. Then laugh. Then roar. Because each pause seemed to signal — at long last — the film’s end, each new verse became a fresh source of hilarity. It was that rare occurrence: a packed theater going the full “Springtime for Hitler” and giving release to blessed, hard-earned mockery.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/eckx4x/cats_review_...
[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2019/12/18/arts/claws-out/
https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/DoD%20Enterpr...

https://dccscr.dsop.io/dsop

https://www.dau.edu/cop/cybersecurity/DAU%20Sponsored%20Docu...
Most busses here (the Netherlands) already are electric I have read in China it's the same.
For trucks it will be harder though
Monads were described as uncomposable. Monad transformers are one way they’re composed. I don’t understand your objection.
The low down on SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate)
Ansible Vulnerabilities 2019
Ah thanks for sharing your experience. Could I hit you up in a PM for some more details if it doesn't bother you?

In case you are open to the idea, my is contact@helplicit.com

Thanks in advance and hope to hear from you!
> And before that you said that the US is 'splendid' compared to Russia.

I've said no such thing. Why are you making quotes up now?

> That is a paranoid mentality stuck in the past.

Many Ukrainians would disagree. Regardless, I'm not arguing that they should feel that way, only that they do as a matter of fact.

> An American NATO general gave an order to attack Russian paratroopers in Serbia during NATO's illegal compaing there. NATO countries have been closing air space to Russian military planes and refusing refuelling to Russian warships under the pressure from Washington. A NATO member shot down a Russian bomber. Most importantly, if you have a loaded gun pointed to someone's head, you don't need to fire it to get complaince.

And a British general countermanded that order, during events that took place far from Russian territory. There is no credible loaded gun pointed at Russia simply because it is apparent to all parties that a first strike on Russia would be utterly ruinous to the West.

> Did the EU actually had to choose?

The entire EU? No. The EU countries that border Russia? Yes, they did. And it is obvious by their actions that they want to get away from Russia's sphere of influence as quickly as possible. It's not hard to figure out why if you know a bit of history and look at the state of Russia today.

> Was it in the EU's interest to antagonize Russia by trying to expand NATO into Georgia and Ukraine?

In retrospect, probably not. This is now fairly widely regarded as a geopolitical mistake among EU policymakers and analysts.

> There was an immense amount of good will in Russia of 1990's towards the West and the US and American elite choose to throw that away and go ahead with NATO expansion.

That's a very simplified view of a complicated decade of international relations. You're not wrong, but you're also omitting a long list of things done by Russia that also squandered Western (particularly European) good will. Mistakes were made by both sides.
For a project that seems to be based around a mobile app it’s a shame that the site doesn’t seem to have a mobile version (at least not for me on iOS / Safari)
It's interesting to see how crazy complex some of these scale-out solutions end up being, especially when they start off with something like MySQL and are forced to maintain compatibility while scaling far beyond what it was designed to do.

You've got to wonder if simply sharding by either player or game would have worked well enough, even with MySQL. Worked well enough for Blizzard for over a decade!

Similarly, I wonder if a single active write server paired with a handful of readable secondaries could have taken this query volume in its stride if using something like MS SQL Server on high-spec bare metal kit. Think In-Memory processing on dual AMD EPYC 2 servers with 128 cores per box.

They mention billions of rows and terabytes of data, but I've heard of similar scale systems as far back as over decade ago! The Australian phone company Telstra did all their billing in a single IBM DB2 database, for example, and the incoming data in that system is just as real time.

I'm probably wrong, but this smells like the company missed some basic optimisation opportunities somewhere...
This seems Just the sort of thing that I need to make a physical version of my fantasy console.

It's 64k ram 8-bit avr instruction set and a blitter doing a variety of data formats. It's not quite ready for prime-time yet, but you can see some of it online. The virtual hardware registers can be seen at
https://k8.fingswotidun.com/static/docs/io_registers.html It might be quite amenable to something like this.
Geopolitics of the South China Sea
It's okay to collect the CO2, but what source of energy will be used to reverse the C -> CO2 reaction? Renewables and even nuclear are by far insufficient.

Global warming is fundamentally a problem of sourcing enough energy in a different way than we used to. And the world/technology is nowhere near ready.
Sounds cool, is it open source?
Linux Cheatsheet for Beginners
As a married since 30 years and father of 3 girls in their 20's, I thought I knew a thing or two about bras. I now know I knew nothing.

Thank you very much for this detailed write up.
Unless there is some rigor in the selection of the speakers of the conference (e.g., top CS conferences) they're mostly a scam and a waste of time.
I'm interested in art and culture.

Here's my favourite piece of art of all time, the Artemission bronze:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemision_Bronze

I guess, if you look at it from the wrong angle it looks just like a dude with
his feet planted apart, like he's about to take a shit. But, look closely and
you see that he's in full motion. His right leg is twisting behind his body.
The heel is raised and the toes are pushing down hard to put the full strength
of his body behind the throw. His left leg is pivoting on its heel. The toes
are pulled back as he turns his torso. He is leaning back, slightly to add his
weight to the power of his muscles. His left hand is extended in front of him,
so that he can swing it around like a pendulum, and add momentum to the throw.
He is throwing a weapon- and dancing at the same time.

This is a bronze statue so it was made to stand on its own two legs, without
any props to keep it upright. That is the biggest shock of all. A living,
breathing man would keep himself upright in the middle of this whirling move
by pulling on his mucles to maintain balance. And yet, here's a lifeless chunk
of bronze that has caught this man in the middle of all this pulling and
twisting and pushing, and dancing- and it's standing upright, balanced an
unfalling.

The artists who created this piece must have spent hours upon hours, days upon
days, studying the human form. They must have sat at the palaistra (the
public gym) observing the young men of Athens competing in javelin-throwing
for ages. Until they learned how the human body comes together, how it moves,
how it balances itself; how it _works_. Then they went off and transferred
this knowledge into bronze. And now, thousands of years later, any human can
look at the bronze and see what they learned.

This is what makes humans, human. To be able to look at the world and know,
and learn, and then put this knowledge into a form that can reach through time
and speak to other humans, and communicate this knowledge. To touch another
human's heart and mind through time and space, even after you're long gone. To
leave something behind that says "I lived, I learned, I created".

So, yeah, I see the value in art.

But modern art, like Jackson Pollock, that's a steaming hot pile of shit that
means nothing. There is no skill in it. There is no knowledge. No study. No
insight. There is no thought or emotion. There is just the cold hard glint of
gold in the eye of the so-called artist and those who sell his garbage on as
art to people who only understand the value of money, and have no other value
in life than money.
20 years ago I voted in my first Presidential election. I voted for Ralph Nader. Nadar ran in 2000 as the Green Party candidate in the Presidential election and got 2,882,955 (2.74%) votes. People called him a socialist nutjob.

In 2016 Bernie Sanders ran on an almost identical platform as Nadar and I voted for him. Sanders got 13,206,428 votes in the Democratic Primary and lost to Hillary Clinton amidst rumors and evidence of vote manipulation, collusion between the DNC and Clinton, and murder.

I think people are finally starting to notice.
The problem with Chinese, in particular, is that despite unicode and additional software for input, the language is terribly unergonomic to use.
It makes sense when you have enough scale that DDLing all the sharded databases for every release from every team is too much overhead.

(Storing unindexed columns (as JSON rather than binary though) is where I'm headed at my job, due to dynamic schema, the cost of coordinating DDL, and the excruciating cost of joins.)
Ask HN: What apps on your phone do you completely swear by?
Recently I’ve discovered Life Cycle an app that automatically tracks where you spend your time. It’s IOS only unfortunately, but its has had a big impact on my life as it’s allowed me to realise and optimise where and how I spend my time.

I’m looking for similar apps that have changed your life for the better in some way, no matter how minor.

Link to the app here https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/life-cycle-track-your-time/id1064955217
https://cl4es.github.io/2019/11/20/OpenJDK-Startup-Update.ht...
I can definitely attest for the English bias of Google translate, even if you're translating between pairs of languages that don't include English. In particular, as you point out, it's often confused by English homonyms (even if they're not homonyms in either the source or target language).

For instance attempting to translate Portuguese "o báculo" (the staff, the object) into French gives you "le personnel" (the staff, people working together). It's a completely wrong translation that, I'm guessing, is caused by the algorithm not managing to differentiate these two different meanings because they're homonyms in English: https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=pt&t...

An other thing Google translate is terrible at is handling the various level of addressing. Many languages have the notion of polite vs informal "you" (you/thou) which have mostly disappeared from modern English. Google very often translates a formal/polite form of address into an informal one, or vice versa: https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=fr&t...

Here the polite French "how are you" is translated with the informal "ты" in Russian instead of "вы". Interestingly if I then translate in the other way around it correctly uses the "tu" form in French: https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=ru&t...
> first stiffening the cloth with starch so it could be more predictably moved from place to place.

Hah! I thought I was the only one to have this notion...

I was thinking of impregnating cloth with a hard wax similar to candle wax and then melting it out after automated sewing.

Starch makes more sense from a cleanup perspective, but it may not have the required control over stiffness or other useful properties.

For example, wax would allow temporary joins using pressing and heating, which would then hold the material in place before the permanent sewing.
Zebrafish acquire their shape from intertissue friction and active stress
It seems to be a growing trend in other avenues of communicating scholarship. For example, there are too many journals, conferences, blogs, podcasts, degrees etc.

There are so many now that it's a strong hypothesis to say the quality of the median conference, journal, blog, podcast etc have really declined over the years.

I think that as the number of these channels begin to grow, the branding will become increasingly important to separate the good from the bad because there are too many to evaluate them all thoroughly.