skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that counter evidence to the claim, but one thing to keep in mind is that Cantonese is a local language, which many speak at home and with close friends and family from birth (or at least some closely related dialect), while Mandarin is often not. So if you concede that something like Pinyin might help L2 learners, it's reasonable to think it might be less necessary, but still helpful in an L1 setting, which Mandarin sits somewhere between, and Cantonese is well in to L1. It will be interesting to see if something like Jyutping takes off in the native Cantonese speaking community at some point or not. It's also a different case because spoken and written Cantonese are such different languages, although I don't want to overstate what effect, if any, that might have.
> I think Apple moving towards entirely ARM compatible Macs and Macbooks will drive the ARM SBC market forward for developers (it’s difficult to develop on architecture X for architecture Y).

I'd be very surprised if this was the case.
Well, the fact of the matter is that the central authority exists and is taking active corrective actions on the economy right now. My observation is that the tools and levers they use to steer the economy are limited and there are consequences to this self-inflicted limitation.

If this central authority is even necessary is an entirely different discussion. My current view is that the economy viewed as a dynamical system is subject to strong positive-feedback loops and these are known to cause ugly behaviors in the solutions of a system (the equivalent of boom and busts in economics). Introducing forces contrary to those positive-feedback loops to stabilize the economy may make sense theoretically. The jury is out if central bankers can do this, know how to do it or if the political incentives are there to even make it happen.
And then check out the cost overruns on Flamanville 3. What is now, 4x the initial cost promise? Or is it 6x?

New nuclear is dead in France just like it is in the US.
Well, clearly Italians thrive with smaller software teams
I've been looking for these for a while now. I remember seeing early prints on Twitter some time ago but couldn't find them again. They are pretty interesting IMO - maybe comment about the RAM being used to make the art just in case people only view the thumbnails and think they are a collection of emulator screenshots or something!
I strongly believe there is some signal to shoving enough familiarity with at least one language to come up with mostly correct syntax.

I won't ever fault a candidate for failing to close a paren or being unsure of whether the size of a container is .length() or .size(), but if virtually every line a candidate writes is of questionable value, I'd say that means something.
This is probably one of the reasons why the Free Software Foundation has such an extensive FAQ, because it's the easiest way for them to document their intent.
I will probably never use Go in its current situation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8733705
You’ll notice that those abusive places outside the "western society" seldom have functioning free markets.

That is what made those societies successful anyway: freedom which brought innovation which brought prosperity. Not the fact that they were "western".
Shut down the whole internet because criminals use it for crimes!
> UK Telegraph isn't the most reliable source.

Why not? As far as I am aware it is a legitimate and decent journalistic news source. It might have a political leaning, but for this sort of reporting I don't think it would give their preferred political party and leverage.
> You'll have to find a way to make them agree with it. If you forcibly take money from people then you're just an angry mob.

Not really. They use the "mob"'s roads and banks to make their business work and store their wealth. They use the "mob's" courts and police to protect themselves and their property. We live in a society, if your worry is that they are too powerful for them to participate in that society (e.g. because their power would let them hide their wealth away), then that just makes the ridiculousness of their wealth all the more apparent.
I can actually argue for the F35. F35 and Carrier groups ensures open oceans and secure maritime trade for all. 90% of global trade is over the sea and is worth Trillions of dollars.

There were times when countries would actively block maritime routes and steal cargo. A well integrated global economy, with open and secure maritime trade is beneficial for everyone and particularly the USA.
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Reddit, Twitter etc. are quite okay for naturally-ephemeral content but if you want to share a stable/growing bookmarks collection, or even cooperate with others sharing their own, there's nowhere to do it. DMOZ used to work quite well aside from the usual controversies relating to its centralized moderation, and a federated variety of that plus something like delicious/stumbleupon for "tags" and folksonomy would be interesting to experiment with.
People in the US are pretty huge, I think a two pizza team is a team of 1 person :)
I wish your bad posting would be reduced 40x.
1. Some questions in this category aren't actually about forgetting the Pinyin system, but rather, Pinyin for specific characters, often because people speak dialects where the pronunciations of words and characters don't perfectly map to Pinyin in Mandarin, or at all. Fuzzy modes serve that population. (Of course, there are also commonly mispronounced characters and words.)

2. A lot of older people educated in 70s or earlier may have been taught some Pinyin, but never systematically. I know from talking to people that this is especially true in rural regions (well what can you do when the teachers don't know Pinyin). They simply never mastered Pinyin in the first place. A good part of this population didn't even go to high school, but even highly educated people in this camp can have a bit of trouble with Pinyin later, after relearning; I know a PhD born in the 60s fitting this bill, and he could still stutter on a character's Pinyin from time to time when typing.

The questions you found are very likely from this camp especially when they didn't have to type for decades until smartphones became prevalent.

Younger people from 80s and especially 90s onwards were taught Pinyin from first grade or even kindergarten before they were taught to recognize characters, then PCs and smartphones came along to reinforce the knowledge. It's pretty damn hard to forget that.

Again, of course there are "many"/"plenty" of any kind of people doing fringe stuff in a country of 1.4 billion, but presenting outliers as common or mainstream is misleading.
> (the conspiracy theories around that alone have been absurd, despite all its excellent health programs for the developing world)

I mean, super science mega charity is going to have worse conspiracy theories. It's going to be the Gates foundation stuff mixed with the LHC stuff.

Like he's opening a portal to hell to mine energy from or something. No wait that's DOOM.
Ask HN: How to restore Drupal backups on dedicated machine?
There are about 70 websites made with drupal ( versions vary: 7.72, 8.91, 9.0.1). There are daily backups from these sites, and sometimes I want to test them on a local dedicated machine. Essentially there would be one machine for it, and I would test all the sites once in a month (working everything properly, backup is good, etc.. ).

Now everything happens manually, copying database and files backups(created with automysqlbackup and duplicity) from the 70 websites to the local machine. I started to write a bash script for it, to make it faster. Are there any other options for it? How should I make it faster? Maybe dockerize?

Thx guys.
> The one I found worked best for me was blocking both nostrils and trying to inhale through my nose. If you're dreaming, this will still work. If you're awake, you obviously won't be able to breathe.

Learned and practiced exactly this about 6-8 years ago. A little strange to observe, and a definite sign one's dreaming! No need for any interpretation like "clear sequence of events". Your nose is fully blocked yet you can breathe through. Dreaming!

This is interesting also as I felt it like a schism in body image. When dreaming, body representation is the dreamed one, separated from the actually perceptible body. Only airway (as "does air flow normally") does not have this separation, allowing you to block your dreamed nose and continue to dream peacefully because actual airway is not blocked.
While you may be right, knife crime is not murder. Knife attacks are less deadly than firearms and we dont see breakdown there.
I would be careful about that. People with law degrees rarely provide useful generic guidance. They're paid not to, and there's a lot of downsides for them to do so.

Consequently, always treat guidance from folks with law degrees with a degree of skepticism. Do your own research and ideally get your own person with a law degree to develop an opinion you can trust.
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What downsides are there to fusion power, assuming it's commercially viable in a couple of decades? What negative externalities are there that could make it prohibitive?
Fossil fuel has pollution etc, solar takes up lots of space and is apparently also ugly, wind energy is ugly and makes noise (according to NIMBYs).

What argument could a NIMBY person have against fusion power, besides the big building in their back yard?
I had a similar almost to the letter conversation when I did some web work for a much smaller GIS firm back in the day, but wanted to add that in my experience this isn't just a google thing but an issue with governments and outsourcing in general.

Anecdotally, a close relative (and many others in her institute) designed entire curricula of learning modules for a government-owned nationwide technical college, back when online learning was newish, ~20 years ago (I think back when SCORM was fresh). These were tightly integrated into the traditional in-class offerings. A couple of years later a "trim the fat" government slashed internal capabilities and outsourced all "IT" hosting, management, etc.

All of the online learning modules (which would have cost millions in man-hours to develop) were literally handed over as "content" to a company who to this day offers them back to her institute under per-student licenses (that far exceed any "hosting" costs of these basically static resources) over a decade later. This company also profits off licensing to an array of pop-up online "institutes" that don't even approach the pedagogical context needed to ensure quality education outcomes from these resources.

Like a comedy of errors, from time to time some lecturer at her college will want to ask some question about the materials, their boss directs them to the company support (which is a paid service), after the issue escalates through the support tiers and they realise they need the expert knowledge of the author she'll get an email with the question, a process that can take days or weeks when the lecturer could have walked into the office next door and asked her directly, if the company hadn't stripped all author credits from the materials.

If the company decides to shift business models, or goes out of business, or is acquired and scuttled, these assets get blown to the winds.

There's a lot I could say about this situation, but essentially governments in general seem to devalue their assets at taxpayer expense, the IP of these assets could have been better handled rather than just giving it directly to the first company to win the contract all those years ago.
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It's crazy to me that once they had this high-performance jet fuel, they also used it as a coolant and as hydraulic fluid.

I guess the main requirement for the latter two purposes is that it doesn't break down at really high temperatures. The jet fuel needs to be stable at high temperatures too (additionally, you need to be able to burn it to make the engine go) so once you put all this research into finding the right jet fuel you have a liquid that will do OK on the other jobs.

Edit: and also it was used for lubrication! Good fuels definitely do not necessarily make good lubricants...it must just be really hard to find anything with the right thermal stability.
See recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23977234
This is similar to my experience at Spotify, where I had similar takeaways: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/
Yeah. From the interviewer's standpoint, there is no added benefit of having the candidate write code on a whiteboard, as opposed to a computer.

However, a whiteboard certainly can be easier to write anything that is not code on. Like for instance if the candidate chooses to walk the interviewer through a high-level approach, including a graph topology, before actually starting to code.

I know Google started letting candidates choose between laptop and whiteboard a few years back. I suspect others alos have.
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I used to teach computer literacy for a highschool co-op (home-schoolers would come in once a week) and the school used a free-housed phpbb for everything. The amount of engagement and discussion was actually somewhat surprising
> I have decent health insurance, but it costs enough and has a high enough deductible that every potential trip to the doctor is prefaced with "Is this an issue worth $100?" That's a pretty high bar to clear. Usually you go to the doctor and the answer is "well just wait and see if it goes away." That's not $100 worth of advice.

I actually like this (generally speaking) as it causes you to bear some of the upfront cost and allows you an easy way to question the value of an action. With that being said, we should all be able to email our PCP to get answers to questions or schedule 15 minutes video calls.

I’m not against UHC, I think as I’ve mentioned before there are merits to both approaches (we just happen to do neither in the US). What I like about “is this worth $100” is that it introduces some upfront personal responsibility and decision making versus “well I sneezed let’s go to the doctor it’s free!!”.
reverse the damage we’ve done in the past 200 years

From the little I know about it, this damage you talk about only means getting CO2 levels back to normal. Great, but by the time that becomes realistic (seems no sooner than 2050 since that's about when there will be a demo, and only a demo) it's getting a bit too late for all side effects, i.e. global warming and all damage which comes with it. Add to that the whole latency of the system, and I'm not too optimistic.
In the City, I can easily imagine there's still a single entity behind it, just one that's not accountable to the public. No idea whether that's the case, though.
It's particularly confusing because of the mixed scales; two negative characteristics mixed with a positive characteristic. I was reading it initially as “while we regressed on power and area, we got a lot of performance out of that!”.

I think that ultimately it achieved its goal, by being extra suspicious and wrong, and inviting you to look at it for long periods of time. Cute koala clip art too, I can sorta guess where in the office that would have come from, if they were at the office.
Actually the product is called AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ by AMD, see https://www.amd.com/en/products/ryzen-threadripper, in general that is reduced to Threadripper for sanity :)

I found a nice walkthrough of Ryzen products at this page:
https://specby.com/ryzen-explained-r3-r5-r7-threadripper-epy...

And the CPU and GPU roadmap is worth a look as well:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-ryzen-radeon-roa...
Amazon Has Too Much Power
Interface implementations with injectable definitions in Go
Which is a great point. It's like autonomous vehicles: it doesn't have to be perfect; being better than humans is enough.
Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'
And then you go to the arxiv paper for ARC and learn: the power density is 40x worse than a PWR primary reactor vessel, and their projected cost is $29/W(e) (vs. < $1/W(e) for PV). Also, the vacuum vessel likely wouldn't survive a disruption (although maybe they've fixed that in the years since).

Compact high field tokamaks have better power density that ITER or DEMO would, but they still are very inferior to fission reactors. And fission reactors are far out of the running economically.
Can anyone ask GPT-3 who will be the next president?
Using their data for the UK (2011 weather) and the 2020 technology scenario (rather than the projections which conveniently make renewables and storage significantly cheaper and Nuclear costs constant) and requiring that the system be carbon neutral it only takes very small tweaks to their assumptions to make Nuclear a clear winner. They are assuming by default that countries will be able to use salt caverns for hydrogen storage, which seems unrealistic given the amount of it their scenarios require. Using the numbers they give for steel tank storage instead, it only takes a 5% cost reduction for nuclear (which seems self-evidently possible with economies of scale) to make the optimal solution a 100% nuclear grid.

Right now I don't think people are pragmatic enough for that to be politically viable in most western countries, but that may shift as the adverse effects of AGW start to be more acutely felt (and, hopefully, as more and stricter carbon taxes are implemented across the world).
Right. It's all about perceived future growth.

AMD has a ton of room to grow. Intel does too, but not in the processor business where it's had a near-monopoly in some spaces. Intel also has challenges in other areas, and ARM is looking strong too.

It also doesn't help Intel that the long-running data leakage issues hurt it a lot more than AMD.
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> Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.

hilarious :)
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22803504

As I already said or rather asked there: Assume I already use Clickhouse for example. What are the benefits of QuestDB? Why should I use it instead?

Surely it's a good tech and competition is key. But what are the key points that should make me look into it? There is a lot of story about the making and such, but I don't see the "selling point".
For all the texts generated by GPT3, is anyone verifying that it's not just copy pasting paragraphs from previous seen texts? (like by, searching n-grams or even just googling it?)

If not, then its pretty easy for GPT-3 to copy paste existing human written texts and just prove that it can write like a human.
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Not only limited connection between Macs and SBCs, but the opposite has been true about iOS development.
Monolithic architectures are more performant generally. That's the reason why we fly in giant aluminium tubes rather than by dangling off a flock of bird-sized drones.
Where i work we abuse semver but I hope in a good way. Major is wire api break. Minor is effectively YYYYMMWW (we ship weekly) and patch is number of commits off stable branch.
Cool! I was looking for a service which would auto-tag my bookmarks kind of like Del.Icio.Us did long ago. Pocket requires a premium account for this (which I find slightly overpriced) so I was looking for alternatives (can anyone suggest any by the way?) and now I see Del.Icio.Us coming back! That's a lucky coincidence! I would prefer to avoid exposing the list of bookmarks I have made, however. All I want to share is tags, without information about who exactly bookmarked what.
> This is entirely unconscious and we're generally not aware of it.

I wonder if I'm unusual in that I can consciously control which nostril is open or closed. Most of the time the switching from side to side is unconscious but if I concentrate, I can cause it to happen consciously. This is really useful when I have a cold and a blocked nostril and I want to get some relief when blowing my nose doesn't help - I just focus on allowing that side of my sinuses to open and after a few minutes it will happen.
> What makes scientists believe that the solution to nuclear fusion power is only a matter of scale?

I guess there are too many physicists who can lobby well and their income depends on it.

I don't expect any results after the many attempts (as opposed to fission, which had almost immediate results).
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I used to think Jedi was political, but I'm not so sure now. AWS is the superior pure cloud play, but Microsoft may have been able to make a better case for supporting a hybrid cloud. It makes sense that the DoD would want to keep parts of the system in-house. Also, if large parts of the existing system are Windows-based, that's another fair reason to consider MS. And continuing to put more power, in terms of hypothetical access to data, in the hands of one man who is already perhaps the most powerful in America, could be considered a dangerous idea.
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> The claim was that there is a trade off - which is a pretty common sense assertion...

It also happens to be wrong.

If more projects that require nuclear physicists get funded, more people can become nuclear physicists. We're nowhere near the point that we're going to run out of potential nuclear physicists who could be trained if there was more demand for them.

At some kind of abstract level there are a finite number of people in the world so anybody who does something can't be doing something else, but there are more than enough people for whom the "something else" is either unemployment or some net-annihilating occupation like divorce attorneys or advertising that we shouldn't have to worry about people spending their time doing something actually beneficial.
8 slices !== 8 people. Most people I know will eat 2 or 3 slices. You can also save leftover slices.
No skin off my nose either way - I'd be quite happy to see house prices fall, which is one of the likely consequences.
Or, just store the hydrogen.
I loved StumbleUpon, and I find myself missing a discovery tool like that one. Reddit and other websites give me the impression of running in loop. If anyone has good discovery tools to recommend!
The unions bear a large part of the blame for destroying British industry.
Is the distribution of dark matter correlated to regular matter in a way that suggests one is more causal to the other than to itself?
What’s the general “hit rate” of date commitments? Do 100% of announcements go live by the specified date?
There is a well-hidden note in the footer that is well worth a read.

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/note.ht...
Yes, and the death of the UK and London has been predicted over and over, and yet somehow they continue to flourish...
Obviously it is not a problem for today, nor during the transition phase.

Afterwards those red Fiats with Ferrari stickers won't do anymore.
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Dude! Nothing frustrates me more than people mistaking server version with api version. It means I can’t update one piece of infrastructure at a time or you can never break api compact. Your server needs to support multiple api versions for rational progression of a distributed system.
SmartPipe already has a lock and key algorithm that employs your topographical anal handshake.¹

https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
That is how Intel is hanging on...

The problem for Intel is AMD is putting out a clearly better value proposition in the high-margin server space, with single socket systems beating Intel dual socket systems, and other advantages like more PCI lanes and lower power consumption.

That will drive Intel prices, and margins, down. That means a lower Intel stock price as probable future earnings shrink.
I'm surprised that Apple didn't buy ARM yet.