skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Invented languages are overwhelmingly boring in their likeness to English, Spanish and other Western languages.

Toki Pona is not like English, Spanish, or other Western languages.

It has no singular/plural distinction. It has no past/present/future tense. Its pronouns have no gender. All of its phonemes are present in almost all languages (this is on purpose). The way it forms questions is not like Enlgish (I don't know of any language that it's similar to). Its word order is subject-verb-object, like most languages. [EDIT: not most, only 42%]

The only thing its taken from English, as far as I've seen, is a bunch of vocabulary. Though honestly its sounds are so limited that sometimes you can't recognize which English word a Toki Pona word came from.

> What if we tried to create, say, a language with a logographic written system that is pure WYSIWYM (as opposed to “what you see is how you pronounce”) and synthetic to boot?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I'll just leave this link here...

https://omniglot.com/conscripts/conlangs.htm

> Instead of borrowing around, use a random seed in generating a minimum set of unique basic “native” words according to language rules and build on top of that

Lojban does this.
We've been in that worst world since 2008 and will likely not be leaving any time soon.
I'm personally looking forward to the Your Phone making its way to ios. https://www.cultofmac.com/546617/microsoft-your-phone-timeli...
Because Apple has signalled an intent to become more service oriented instead of device oriented.

Because theres a limit to how many physical devices they can sell and would like to keep growing after they hit that limit.

Its why Apple Music works on Android and has a Javascript SDK
The biggest problems are email and phone, which are the two most open systems. I get a decent amount on the ones you listed, but it's not as bad. A few messages a week on each. Most of those have ads, though, too. Different issue, but same problem... a cheap, unavoidable way to force me to see your message. iMessage is the only inbox I feel like I control. No spam, no ads, just friends.

(Not the point, but I'm looking at my Instapainting as we speak! One of my favorite things I own.)
HARM missiles don't seem to be active and a special HARM derivative might be suitable. Something that may not have been made public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM

Normal HARMs have hit radar emitting aircraft :

During the Gulf War, the HARM was involved in a friendly fire incident when the pilot of an F-4G Wild Weasel escorting a B-52 bomber mistook the latter's tail gun radar for an Iraqi AAA site. (This was after the tail gunner of the B-52 had targeted the F-4G, mistaking it for an Iraqi MiG.) The F-4 pilot launched the missile and then saw that the target was the B-52, which was hit. It survived with shrapnel damage to the tail and no casualties. The B-52 was subsequently renamed In HARM's Way.[4]
Look at EpocCam. Works for me.
the querystrings on this url seem harmless. i suspect im missing something, so out of geniune curiosity why the need to clean it up?
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In southern Sweden, people are still daily commuting to/from work in Denmark over the bridge and ferry connections
yep, except Clancy used the (theoretical) F-19A "Frisbee" stealth attack fighter.
Tell me why this won't work.
I'm not personally a fan of anarchism but that seems like a weak argument. Many people of that persuasion also support significantly down-scaled local and self-sufficient communities or pastoral lifestyles, I very much doubt that Bakunin had modern Montreal in mind as a sort of model society for anarchism.

For a different take, do the Amish have a police force or are they frequently policed from the outside? Many people who advocate anarchism do so in the context of communities in which widespread looting makes little sense.
I'm 22 and live in a mid-sized city, and I've seen people trying to get into a relationship (or even something more casual, but not a platonic friendship) get rejected because of the dreaded "green bubbles" - and really, I'm not exaggerating. And not from rich people who have the latest iPhone either.

In addition, I have been in friend groups that would exclude Android users because if you have even 1 Android user in a group chat on iMessage, you lose tons of features, like the ability to name the group chat (I'm being completely serious here; this was considered an important thing). The work around was "we'll take you out of this chat, and if something important happens someone will send you a text" - of course, it's not very easy to always remember to send that person an SMS, so they end up _very_ left out of things. This has also happened with middle-class people.
Might be missing your point, but a studio for rent does deny paying customers if it wants. Conference facilities might deny particular events. TV networks deny ads that are otherwise legal.

But I don't think it's needed in the argument. As you say, the interesting distinction is around platform versus publisher and any legal protections you gain from posing as the former.
I'm using a similar layout (Norman) that was derived from the Workman analysis. https://normanlayout.info/about.html

It was a bit easier to learn because most of the keys are on the same finger as on qwerty, but with the rows swapped. For me the biggest problem with using an alternate layout is that the hjkl vim movement keys are scattered.
I was stuck on that as well. For reference, this is typing the combination HK on a Qwerty keyboard. I shift my index finger over for the H, and then use my middle finger for the K. Watching my wrists, they don't move at all.

I thought the rest of the article and the approach very interesting and rigorous, though, although I thought the text-only effort results of all the different books impossible to grok as text, and would have appreciated a simple chart.
This is a misreading of what I've said that is so egregious that I cannot reply assuming you're writing in good faith.
I think that would be better off in a different book rather than as a part of this book.

It is better to provide a clear and memorable picture that is only slightly wrong than a hedging and muddled picture that is still slightly wrong.
They could offer a proxy service that lets people interact with conversations in a secure way but still keep the bubble green.
I'd love to see a rigorous analysis of whether this type of keyboard layout really reduces repetitive stress injuries. The metrics presented are interesting, but the reduced finger movement could be a bug rather than a feature. Small micro-stretching by having to reach for keys could actually be beneficial.
I think that Style: Towards Clarity and Grace is a good follow-up. Have a free PDF: https://sites.duke.edu/niou/files/2014/07/WilliamsJosephM199...
Near as I can tell, the four cops on scene were quite racially diverse. It’s not clear that that’s the only answer either.
The interface is misleading, put mitch in the search field by name and then you will see all his investments.
Since I've been downvoted, I will clarify. MSFT discourages competence in users and is a workflow manufacturer for assembly lines. Its user interfaces are designed to inculcate learned helplessness in their users. That company will be remembered as the prime architect of an intellectual dark age. Its business model is parasitic, its products are managerialism made real, and it mainly facilitates business anti-patterns that bring suffering to millions of people whose jobs depend on navigating them.
Yes but were not asking the most important question... Is there less crime? If police departments that didnt receive these weapons are too afraid to enforce laws then perhaps they should be getting some.
There is nothing wrong with this. I am saying what is wrong is that people aren't made aware that this is what the position entails. You are being hired on as a lower class engineer.

I've had friends hired without being aware of this fact. Literally great software engineers at other companies with google fully aware of their previous title than suddenly unknowingly delegated to a lower class position with google not elucidating the difference.

It's like a software engineer applying for a software technician job. And you as the hiring manager not mentioning anything because you know the person applying isn't yet fully aware of the difference. These roles are literally targetting people who have software engineer in their titles but can't make the cut of the normal google interview.

It should be made clear that there is a difference between a technician and an engineer... just like it needs to be made clear that an application engineer is not a software engineer at google.

Also I would argue that the expectations are generally the same. You are spending your days programming there's really no difference.

Additionally it's an elitist attitude on googles part. Basically their saying that everyone who is normally considered a software engineer at other places aren't qualified to be software engineers at google. The only people considered to be software engineers are the people who pass that interview which is less than 1% of all people who apply. So they funnel these people into a lower caste that can never move on to be a software engineer EVEN when performance proves otherwise.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

> What is the process for overturning a ruling?

The staking is open for 7 days, so discussion and adding more stakes is fine during that phase. But after 7 days, since it's tokens, it cannot reverse the transaction. However, I plan to allow "re-posting" the Tweet, and then it will show the new updated consensus (with a button to view the old one).

> ... to convince people that you understand the human relationship with truth-seeking well enough to optimize the process with technology. That will take some thoughtful writing.

Yeah, exactly right. That has been very challenging so far, but I'm making some progress, and working on this. Is there anything on the subject that has made a difference for you personally, perhaps for ideas and inspiration?

Thanks
Even worse than just the misleading practices - we've been unable to connect through these proxied phone numbers at all. We just get an out of service tone. Both at&t and T-Mobile. I have been assuming it's because too many people are calling. Next time I pickup, I'll ask for a direct line.
Just an obvious question to ask: have we human-being ever gain immunity to common flu? Then how could those Hurd-immunity advocates be so sure it would ever work?
Does the “Brandlessness” Trend Work?
First you have to get rid of the absurd Euro/ISO keyboard layout. http://i.stack.imgur.com/j4xYE.jpg

Only then can we talk about moving the vowel keys.
Needs an editor tbh, far too long and waffly.

I'm guessing from the title there may be a useful point to it, but it could do with some tough love to unearth it.
For me - it's simply a question of reliability. SMS is not reliable in the US, and I live in an area with poor coverage. My preferred mode of communication is texting but SMS is a no-go.
There is massive demand for dollars worldwide, specifically related to dollar denominated debt and commodities contracts and the first part is likely to get more intense if there is a global recession.

I'm a gold bug libertarian end the fed kind of guy and even I don't think we are at any risk for hyperinflation. That is definitely not to say these policies can't have seriously negative consequences but I don't think hyperinflation is one of them, at least not for the US in the next decade.
An oversight in the layout, in my mind—the human hand is better at typing in certain directions… the hands very naturally roll towards the center, but it is less natural to rotate away from the center. This is… somewhat covered in the article under SHU…

> It is much more efficient to ride the momentum of a single arm or wrist stroke and type a combo rather than just one key.

Try ASDF versus FDSA on a QWERTY layout. ASDF feels much more natural, doesn't it?

So, I’m concerned about the sequences like TH in the Workman layout. It looks like Workman is optimized more for minimum distance, and less for other factors. I think this is what happens when you optimize for the metrics that are easiest to measure! The thing about Dvorak is not just which keys press the fingers, but how you alternate.

So if you write THE on Dvorak, your right hand naturally rolls TH using strong fingers, and then you type E using the left. On Workman, you are rolling away from center, which is less natural.

Some clumsier words in Dvorak: SPHINX. PIX are all left 2nd digit, but they alternate with the right hand, to give the 2nd digit on the left time to move.

I may be biased. I switched to Dvorak in high school and it fixed my RSI. Dvorak is also available everywhere. I can sit down at an unfamiliar computer and change it to Dvorak within a minute. The alternation, to me, means that my fingers have more time to move and can move more slowly and gently at the same typing speed.

As a technical note—you should not be changing capslock in your layout like this on Linux. The option to choose a keyboard layout like US QWERTY or US Dvorak is a separate choice from the choice to map capslock to something else, and they shouldn't be combined.

I’m also a bit surprised that the bottom row is ZXMCV. This is so close to ZXCV… why not just use ZXCV?
> However, it's my understanding that traditional health insurance in the US pays for those things (often without co-pay) because preventative treatments are cheaper. If you add a co-pay for getting a flu shot, or even worse don't cover it, many more people might skip it and some of them will inevitably develop the flu. Treating those cases will likely end up costing way more than paying for flu shots for all the insureds.

So full disclosure: I work in insurance and adjust claims myself.

This is certainly a reasonable cost-reduction strategy, but it isn't necessarily the most cost effective strategy, nor is it the only strategy. Indeed, Singapore has shown us that you can achieve more efficient per capita health spending WITHOUT covering flu shot co-pays, etc for everyone.

> But (to me) it comes off as a self-managed insurance plan that you use to pay for your actual health insurance. It's insurance for insurance. Which is slightly bananas.

I recommend listening to 3 or so minutes of this Reuters podcast (starting at 12:30)[1] that talks about Singapore's healthcare system, its journey trying different systems out, and some of its learnings. One key insight that they picked up on was that for the vast majority of people, the bulk of one's healthcare expenditure in life occurs at older ages once health starts to deteriorate. In that regard, it's almost like social security, where you save up over the course of your lifetime and build up this trust fund that you would eventually expect to use once you're older...which is largely what HSA's are: a savings account in a wealth fund that grows over time.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/reuters/the-exchange-too-small-to-fai...
Here's a tip: you and the users of your site are being tracked anyways.
Neat! I subscribed via RSS. Can you expound on what exactly the criteria are? I'm assuming it's subjective, which is fine, but since almost all submissions are on the front page for at least a few seconds, I'm curious how this part works. Also worth pointing out (maybe there's another product for this): I would also be interested in things that maybe made the front page but I still missed, perhaps because they were only on the front page for a few hours.
And? GA is a good product.
In theory, no, you should review the definition of semantic security to see why. In practice, deep learning is likely useful with side channel attacks, and here is an interesting talk about such a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXTricqAtPk
There is a fundamental conceptual error you are making here, but I can't quite come up with a good description of it.
I agree a performance bond would be best, with enough teeth that the worst case forces SpaceX to give every cent back or go bankrupt. Same with Comcast et al.

But you're unnecessarily ascribing malice. SpaceX has made some big promises, and if it delivers it deserves to hoover up basically all of that money.

But until the network is real, customers can sign up, and it's just a matter of scaling, a rational actor attempting to genuinely forward the interests of the country may well decide it poses too much risk.
Discourse is when individuals are willing to argue civilly with people who believe fundamentally different things, and are able to do so without concern for 'watching their words'. Whether they are engaging in an informed discussion or an uninformed one is between the people talking.

For anyone else to insert themselves into the conversation, public or not, and claim to have The Real Facts is arrogant. For an institution to attempt to referee the conversations it is privy to, prevents actual truth from being discovered. To require institutions to referee in that way? Is another act of arrogance: placing oneself above 'the other people who have to be kept in line'. To leave those institutions at the mercy of popular opinion, to referee as the mob sees fit, is insanity.

At least, that's the way I see it. Thank goodness we're still allowed to disagree on this.
I second this. If you are new to the series, the recent Lingwa de Planeta episode [1] contains a good introduction to conlangs and especially international auxiliary languages in general.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi1-ZWiqjD8
You should show all a senators holdings in one view when filtered by their name.
Yes and Norway also had the largest mass shooting ever because police couldn't respond to the killer in time. Maybe some military equipment would have helped
Once the number of cases falls below a certain level it becomes feasible to test every visitor, contact-trace every infection, and only quarantine the people who need it.

This is a strategy that has worked well to fight other communicable diseases for which there is no vaccine.
Well, if so I don't think it was true until recent JS versions. And I'm not sure you're picking very good languages for your async comparison. (Python? yikes.)
Long-standing async support in C# or newer support in Kotlin, or almost any language with real co-routines will fair better than JS. As for as promises go, using CPS with or without Promise wrappers seems pretty old hat.

More to the point I think, is that Node (and Deno, FWICT) lack general native or green thread support for true multi-processing without serialization to separate clusters, so you are forced to use async and timers for long-running or parallel work.
Yikes. If the thing you're worried about the most is how replaceable your staff is, there's something smelly going on ...

That said, any web developer worth their salt should just be able to pick up any tech like Mongo or React with ease. There's enough resources out there that wouldn't mean this is an issue.
But you're not getting the wrong answer, it's doing exactly what it should do. That one isn't really even a weird language quirk like the others. It's just assuming you're not aware that parseInt can take a 2nd argument
Ideally all the speech, including every kind of speech you find disgusing, should be left as is, without censorship.

As long as it's not anonymous, you can see who is who (even under screen names), and value other speech and actions of these people accordingly. For instance, it would be easy to let anyone know that Paul Nehlen is a racist, by pointing at these posts

As a service owner, you could collapse and mark certain posts so that content offensive for most people won't jump in their eyes. Twitter does this.

Unfortunately, this is not always possible. First, there are legal limitations (hate speech, libel, etc). Second, the public outrage: people actively want to destroy things they find offensive and wrong, and put pressure on the service's owners. This includes its employees and shareholders.

Most people only tolerate free speech as long as it fits the confines of the Overton window. You have to have balls of steel and really good sources of money to explicitly and publicly tolerate anything beyond. Common carrier protections help here, too.
Punishing the taxpayers is fine. At the end of the day, they’re the ones who elect the officials who hire the police chiefs.
If everyone's vote only counted on the story they upvoted that is currently highest ranked we might see more variety in stories as simultaneous stories that share a similar audience are punished.

This would probably increase randomness though. "Awesome rust post" could fail to gain any traction because "Half decent rust post" was already on the front page sucking up the rust developer votes...
The tax payers should elect officials who will hold the police responsible. Ultimately, the police report to the Mayor, Sheriff or some other elected official who is responsible for setting the policies for officers.

Yeah, it's pretty indirect and not ideal. But it does work. My parents live in a town that dissolved their police force because police abuse caused the city to institute an income tax. This was a pretty far right town too.
The police did not instigate Sunday's criminal raids in Tukwila, Bellevue, and Southcenter. Nor, did they force people to throw molotov cocktails at Nordstroms or light cars on fire in downtown Seattle on Saturday.

Some act like that stuff has nothing to do with the curfew being imposed.

Now, as you may now, the local subreddit is filled with people suggesting different Hong Kong style tactics to exhaust the police or stretch their resources. Of course, exhausting the police will make it more dangerous for everyone. Because the police will be forced to take shortcuts or make mistakes which will increase the risk for everyone.

To what end? Seattle is a progressive city that could reform the police tomorrow if they wanted too.

edit-to-add:

Looks like Seattle police are getting to disperse the crowd. They are putting on gas masks and the scanner report objects being thrown from the crowd at 12th and Pine.
It's the website's responsibility to respect DNT=1, then not load the ga script. DNT is not widely adopted and there are no legal mandates for it. It is simply an expression of preference. Blocking third party scripts and third party cookies is something you can set in all browsers which will block GA.
The voters are the state.

When the taxpayers are citizens with voting rights they do bear responsibility for the actions of the state they voted in.
Thank you for the recommendation. Looking at my Downloads folder, it seems I tried it out about 6 months ago, very shortly after my son arrived. I imagine that may be why I never gave it much of a chance. I look forward to revisiting it.
In terms of not crashing, fewer security issues, no telemetry, or having to pay money for it, sure. Point is it's an alternative that could potentially serve the needs of some users better than Windows does, but will likely never be considered by them just because it's almost unknown to the general public. I'm sure better examples exist.
For people looking to try a new layout, I recommend a Carpalx optimized layout. They have very detailed analysis on the layout:

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization

I've been using it on my Kinesis for a while, and it's totally worth it:

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/ki...
Yes, works fine. It's a bit silly to run an entire VM for a single application, but it does the trick.

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
Los Angeles, North Hollywood. Super competitive.
Seems like that wiki page says exactly the opposite. That Michael Baden was the forensic pathologist that disputed the idea that Epstein's death was suicide and stated that Floyd's death was due to mechanical asphyxia.