skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 20% of the world speaks Mandarin Chinese (not all as a first language tho). And, about the same % as speak English natively, speak Hindi (+ dialects) natively, and again about the same amount speak Arabic, and again about the same amount (all above 300 million) speak French, tho a greater % of those have le français as an nth language.

What are your sources for this because cross checking with wikipedia, which uses Ethnologue as a source, I find several discrepancies. For example the number of people who speak french isn't "the same amount" as native english speakers, it's 53% and that's if you include 2nd language speakers. You make it sound like Hindi and English are comparable but Hindi has very few 2nd language speakers.

In fact looking at [1] the choice of english looks a lot more logical than I would have thought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
Pretty much everything that's worth automating, mostly macOS specific stuff though vim KM macros & Alfred workflows:

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/macos/macos-apps/alfred

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/macos/macos-apps/keyboard-ma...
> Which don't show daily slumps in production, nor issues with overproduction at times.

The atmosphere doesn't care. Less CO2 is less CO2.

>If you look, right now as I am writing this Germany is importing ~294 MW of power from France.

I think you're missing the entire point of a continental grid. The 294MW are a sign of cooperation, not of failure. If no country imports or exports energy then we could just get rid of the European grid.
My early-2013 (7.5 years old now) will be getting Big Sur and 3-4 years support after that.

And it still works like new - something that I’ve never heard about a similarly aged Win19 device unless it was very recently reinstalled.

You’re likely to have problems finding drivers for your other hardware, though - especially 10-year old printers or scanners (even though they are likely to work out of the box on Modern Mac and Linux)
That's what corporate bonds are. In the extreme, every as-yet-unpaid invoice on 30 or 90 terms creates a debt and "creates money".

Full Tilt Poker created a small closed e-money system which was seemingly legally fine; it was the gambling that got them raided, because only mob bosses in politically connected US states are allowed to profit from gambling and the US will go after gambling providers in other countries.

Liberty reserve were facilitating money laundering. This is the difficult bit - if you provide an electronic facility for easy transference of ownership of debts or e-money, the authorities want access to the paper trail.
Note that the article talks about 37 "possible stories", while the manual talks about "basic dramatic situations" which is a different thing.
Application Monitoring Tools and Server Monitoring Solutions
Cruise missiles generally have a diameter of around 70+ cm and a length of over 5 meters. They are also hideously expensive. These drones would have a diameter of around 15-25 cm, a length of a meter or two, a cost a hundredth of a cruise missile. Not comparable.

They're not bigger than a large camera drone, they're just much faster.

The US military has absolutely nothing that can stop a legion of a thousand or more "mini cruise missiles" such as these. Not a chance in hell.
Every time the Pine64/Pinephone stuff gets mentioned I go looking for the Arch Linux ARM project mentions, and donation links. Previously they just avoid mentioning this, but most of the Manjaro ARM stuff couldn't happen without the tireless work of the Arch ARM developers.

I've had to repeatedly mention they shouldn't remove attribution from PKGBUILDs they take from Arch ARM.

https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/core/linux-r...

Also begging for donations to Manjaro ARM, but with no mentions of Arch ARM. This was fixed with the old announcements, but it seems like any donations has been removed from current announcements.

> We will donate $10 per unit sold to the Manjaro development team. To learn more about this scheme please click here.

But where? Currently there is Manjaro the Company and Manjaro the Community. Both has separate funds, which is partially where the treasurer drama stems from. And is there any donations to the dependant projects?

This annoys me as most of the packaging efforts are on the Arch ARM side of things, not Manjaro. You can open any of their distributed ISOs and take a look at the packager information.
I had filled a relevant issue [1] a while ago in Ruby issue tracker. I also thought that teaching Ruby language in children, in their native language, would be so cool.

[1] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12722
> the concept of ‘race’ is scientifically and socially unsupportable.

Just like the concept of "culture". See https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/12/does-race-exist-does-c... , here's the kicker:

"There were two arguments against race being a real concept: it didn’t cluster nicely, and within-group variation was greater than between group variation. And both of these are equally true of culture. Any mathematical argument considering races as clusters of genes can be used equally well considering cultures as clusters of memes, and will likely return the same results.

Yet I can’t imagine someone saying “culture doesn’t exist” or “culture isn’t real”."
I think you are wrong, see the author, maybe it is not the best italian but nobody is perfect.
They're definitely being sarcastic.
It's in the LTS release, so hopefully it's supported for the next while and given time to mature.
The question is if they dont' collect feedback they don't know how many users are affected. If you break feature X and all users are affected but you send them to read some FAQ and not record the reports then the only way you get informed about this is from Hacker News or a news paper, maybe this is the Google and Apple strategy, if it causes an issue that reaches a news paper then we investigate it, otherwise we fix only the bugs that upset our developers or bosses
No. Money creation through fractional banking is neither directly related to, nor dependent on, wealth creation.
It's not black and white like some IOUs are accepted everywhere and some IOUs are accepted nowhere. For example, USD is not accepted as payment in Finland, where I live. In the article I gave a concrete example of non-bank IOUs which were effectively money. If you have an argument why the Full Tilt Poker IOUs should not be considered money, let me hear it.
Is Pinterest going WFH?
Not true. Covid 19 is about 10x as likely to kill you even in that age group.

See:
https://i.insider.com/5ef234caf34d051bc821d0d8?width=1000&fo...
Why does a company that is worth more that 20 billion dollars rent property in the first place? If, as others have said, the total value of the lease was $440 million, surely its better to hire people to buy and run an office building?
I've been very influenced by Isabel Wilkerson's new book to look at America as having a racial caste system that's 400 years old. The entire economic and political history and present of the United States is governed by this caste system; it's even written into the physical geography, e.g. where there is lead and where there are trees. If you don't ask about race on government forms, how are you going to measure progress on dismantling this system?

Abolishing race is a good goal, but it's going to come after we've acknowledged and reckoned with the violence and harm this country has done to so many millions of people. And we've barely even started that process.
> You don't need to memorize lots and lots of command line options.

But instead, the keyboard shortcuts for the file manager.

> Bookmarking directories (local and remote), although there are command line ways to do this.

For example zoxide. And depending on the usage pattern, it might turn out more flexible and easier to interconnect with other things.

> Say you have a directory of 100 files, and you want to copy about 15 of them elsewhere.

What is your typical use case for doing this?

I can quickly think of two situations where I needed to do that:

One I was copying a selection of photos for my uncle to a folder which I was going to burn on a CD. I am right now not sure whether his laptop still has a CD drive.

The other was I was developing some windows library and I needed to make a zip package for other people to test it, because there was still no installer.

I think I am not that unusual that generally I try to avoid making copies of the same data to different places; I try to use version control instead.
> Managers will have to let go of the desire to see that everyone is in their seat.

Was it front-line managers who thought this or directors and VPs? Front-line managers have a better pulse on what their team(s) are doing by keeping an eye on Github/GitLab/VSTS checkins, PRs, and kanban boards than by seeing who has a butt in a seat. It's usually the more senior (and disconnected) managers who get nervous when they don't see their domain fully staffed between 9am and 3pm.
I used 3 different unlocked phones in US, as for US sim cards, I used MetroPCS, T-mobile, and Cricket, non of those added anything, althought their respective websites told me about an app they strongly reccomended.
Only trace was the Sim card toolkit menu which was diaplayed for whatever inserted sim card, but I never used any of those.
To be pedantic, a particle without rest-mass...
That does not compare flu to covid19.
Not only that but if powered off, the windows machine will actively power itself on late in the night unless drastic measures are taken to disable this feature. The amount of times I have been spooked by ventilation noise + monitors turning on at 2am is far too much.
Localized error messages have pretty much been a curse for me every time I encounter non-trivial ones. Quite often they end up being horrible mistranslations of the original text and terminology that make them hard to understand.

I get the need for interface localization, but I prefer no translation to a bad one. And many translations are bad.
Here is a fun demo of TNSE, projecting MNIST digits interactively in your browser. To start it hit "iterate".
https://nicola17.github.io/tfjs-tsne-demo/
Time series databases perhaps?
There seem to be some conflicting ideas here. On one hand, the concept of 'race' is what allows racism to exist and we need to remove this concept from our collective ideology in order to defeat racism -- people are just people. On the other hand, it is a fact that external biological characteristics (predominantly skin colour and facial structure) result in social clustering and discrimination, at the individual, collective and institutional levels -- racism is real.

I appreciate the principles behind race abolitionism, as I have often applied the same logic to gender, which is arguably even more socially constructed than race, since the appeal to biological characteristics is weaker for defining one's gender than one's race. However, if we remove these ideas from our collective understanding of the world, do we not make it harder to argue cases of legitimate discrimination? If the generally accepted notion is "gender does not exist" or "race does not exist", how does one make the argument "I was discriminated against because of <attributes>?" Or is the idea that once people no longer make the distinction between different groups of attributes, then individual and institutional discrimination will no longer exist? It seems to me that in order for such an approach to be successful, we would need to train ourselves to not notice external characteristics of individuals, effectively becoming colour-blind, a task which not only seems impossible due to the nature of the human mind, but also a dangerous position to take while racism still exists -- since it also blinds us to an understanding of why a person was discriminated against and what factors affected their experience --, and risks destroying our concept of cultural heritage. Perhaps race abolitionism is more suited for a post-racism world?
Rube Goldberg Exercise Bike is also a back-scratcher, fan, and cookie dispenser
I have these regularly when I wake my 16inch macbook from sleep. Keyboard+Trackpad+(Touchbar) Freeze for 30s or up to 1min.. and then it continues like nothing happened. Haven't found much info about that, but reading this, it seems to fit. I'm really digging my machine, but those "silent" errors and apple not admitting anything takes a lot of fun out of it.
The thing is most Italian schools don’t do a great job at teaching English [1]. Students either pay for courses, self-study, or forget.

I’m Italian and I don’t agree with the author’s premise that non-native speakers have an additional translation layer (e.g. Italian -> English -> Ruby). It depends on your knowledge of the English language. As you master the language your brain becomes better at context switching; you don’t even notice it anymore (Myers and Cotton, 2002).

We should fix our schools, not translate programming languages. The technology sector speaks English. You can’t escape this language.

[1] https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/conoscenza-dell-inglese-alta...
Btrfs came in time, when RAID5 was "declared obsolete"[1]. All its users are focused on single/striped/mirrored functionality, and almost nobody is interested in (paying for development of) parity functionality.

That's why btrfs RAID5/6 mode is in the sorry state it is. Nobody capable of paying the piper is interested in it. It is a domain of datahoarders, but that's not where the money is. Even Synology has put btrfs on top of mdraid for that.

Outside the parity modes, btrfs is stable and reliable. It is here to stay.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-20...
“Hello, World ” in 10 Different Programming Languages
... and only has two prime factors, the same as 10 does, undermining your original point about prime factors.

In 2015, Cadbury stopped selling its creme eggs in packs of six in the U.K. and now sells them in packs of five. Ironically, a subsidiary of a U.S. conglomerate (Cadbury having been taken over in 2010) metricated creme egg packaging.

* https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/287062141
Thank you. Didn't know about QuickBase, looks interesting. It isn't cheap though!

I'm thinking about picking up some freelance work in this area. Not really sure where to start
Exponential types are functions [1]. The type A -> B could be written B^A. Interestingly, if you take functions to be lookup tables, then that's related to the number of possible unique lookup tables. First, notice that the type A + B has |A| + |B| values, the type A × B has |A| + |B| values and then we can see that A -> B has |B|^|A| values by remembering that functions can be seen as binary relations with the property of being functional. This means that there are |B|^|A| possible unique functions. Try an example by counting the number of functions from the set { 0, 1 } to { 2, 3, 4 }. You will see that there are 3^2 = 9 possible unique functions.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_type
The argument put forth in the book Racecraft [1] is that America's founding on individual liberty juxtaposed with the economic reality of chattel slavery created a contradiction so stark that it was necessary to invent a framework to justify slavery culturally.

[1] Fields, Karen E, and Barbara J. Fields. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. 2012.
As a European, every US election season I'm always dumbfounded by how much the "black vote" is discussed. Just recently, when Kamala Harris was announced as VP, all they talk about is how she will contribute to the black vote. This makes it seem as she was only chosen because of her race, and even worse: it's an insult to black people, grouping them together as having one opinion.

I don't know why there's no backlash against this.
No they wouldn't. Flak cannons don't work very well against low flying targets, they tend to just kill everyone on the ground.

Morso, flak cannons are less effective against small targets due to a smaller amount of debris.

Finally, there's no reason for the drones to be that close together. You can have them 30 meters apart , flying at an altitude of 20 meters or so. What then?

Finally, there's targeting. How are you going to target reliably a threat you've never seen before that's a similar size to a lot of birds?
This is true as far as I am aware, and I agree. It is (IMO) objectively backwards and ugly to discuss someones physical characteristics instead of their contributions, especially backwards if one are trying to get rid of differences.

That said, you will find many larger companies actively trying to be or at least look diverse.
What do you mean the logistics aren’t there yet? Drones are used daily by bad guys for recon purposes.

These bad guys are groups with caches of weapons and skilled bomb makers in their numbers.

Why in 7 years havent They just put the two together?

What in our arm chair analysis are we overlooking?
Digital forensics is a situation where you need extreme IO but you aren't really writing all that much -- it's mostly searches over the forensic copy of computers you are analizing.

As for write speed, you don't really need it unless you're doing file/data recovery, but even then you can just make indexes to the disk image.

AFAIK, very few (if none) are using SCM in their forensic expert workstations, so I can't really tell if you'd saturate the storage capacity or the bandwidth. But in digital forensics, NVMe's have been a must for a while, so this would definitely help.
Great extension, I always search for recipes using google images. Pinterest results show up ALL the time, quite often they either don't have the actual recipe, or the image is way better than the underlying recipe. They are just generally low quality results.
But then everything has to be based on those fractions, instead of just using the lower unit directly. I guess it's just a different approach.
Related stuff:

* Claim that word order in Japanese suits ST-style message-passing OOP better than English: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/learning-japanese-the-rubyist-wa...

* APL, a language that uses symbols instead of keywords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

* Non-English-based PLs on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...

* How does English proficiency correlate with programming mastery: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277097932_A_CORRELA...
Skip-Level Meetings
The reason for creating these pairings is that they make calculations easier. Maxwells laws of electromagnetism in particular become very beautiful when defined in terms of these 4-vectors.
Yeah. I prefixed my country listing with "the two main" as I know Malta is also another but I know much much less about habits & metrication there.

It looks to be quite complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_units_of_measurement

Also, I think English, while an official language of Malta, is much less dominant than it would be in Ireland (or the UK).
I’m not knowledgeable enough on the current state of VR, but I’m curious as to how it will affect office setups. If VR can replicate the feeling of being in the same room, I imagine some companies will skip the office expense entirely.

I can’t foresee wanting to wear a VR helmet all day, but for an hour-long meeting? Maybe. Presumably projection tech will also progress and we might not even need to wear a helmet. Is this something that can conceivably exist in the next 10-15 years?
Did they completely skip Metroid? Samus Aran showed up in 1986.
“Lumpers vs Splitters” is itself a splitting or a lumping?
Race or culture isn't the issue but "identity politics" which mandates that one must see themselves and others not as the unique and wonderful individuals they are but as an impersonal member of a class to be treated according to the understood (or assumed) qualities of that class. Nothing is more destructive to cordial interpersonal relations than saying "Oh, you're an X and I will treat you as X-types ought to be treated" without regard to who the individual actually is.

It's not impossible to see, recognize, and appreciate races and cultures as long as the dignity of the individual is maintained.
https://archive.vn/M1LQB
I haven't seen any demonstration of a laser destroying a rolling airframe with reflective coatings. The only practical demonstration I could find anywhere was a laser on a boat burning one single drone that was gray in color, from only about 800m away. And it took about ten seconds to do so.

Anyways, I'd love your source.
Operational complexity for one? Their business isn't managing office buildings
I had to book my uncle some blood tests. The website is slow and appointments are always booked up the moment they become available.

So I wrote a script that automatically receives the same json payload the website does, and notifies me when that payload includes a free appointment slot.

I've done this with other services and not only has it saved me time, it's gotten me free booking slots that I otherwise had no hope of getting.
Do people expect google to be run by Magic?

Google, wikipedia, even facebook, twitter and reddit have been a plus to modern human thinking.

Just coz they fail somewhere doesnot mean they are bad.

People dont remember how much things sucked before them. Also computer vision, AI are new things.

""And your mission was to organise the world’s information. How’s that working out for you so far?""

It working out so well. Internet is just 40 year old and we are here for fu*k sake.

Some people have 0 bigger picture scene.
Agreed, but I think we should also pay attention to reasons which have nothing to do with practicalities... however they are represented.

In the medieval world of that novel, people didn't count much. Most people didn't use money much, and everyday language didn't place much demand on counting systems. The domains where numbering systems were used beyond simple basics were pretty isolated. Shepards count sheep. It's probably the only thing they ever count past 10, so a counting system for sheep is what evolved. They didn't interface with warlords counting troops, so there was no reason for these numbering systems to converge.

It seems obvious to us that counting systems should be universal, but standards don't tend to appear in advance. They appear when needed.
> the game thinks you have crashed into the ocean.

then how come you can land at Schiphol?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjZrizIg2CQ
I recently learned this and it blew my mind because it had never occurred to me.

Another way to put it is that when you’re in a moving bus and you throw a ball towards the front of the bus, the ball is moving the speed you threw it plus the speed of the bus, but, when you shine a light, the photons from the light are moving the same speed as someone off the bus! That seems super weird.
“Instead of just about money” and asking for specific examples where the complainant actually did something that benefited end users.
And now you understand that everything is politics. There is no avoiding it. The moment you begin to make any form of decision that affects more than yourself, you are engaging in a political act. Ignoring this fact and doing things without political discussion is what we call authoritarianism.
Partly. From two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24312478
Thank you! I didn’t realise about the glue servers, now it finally makes sense!
If we discover any issue with this vaccine in the future, this will be a total disaster, not only because of possible complications that vaccinated people may develop in the long term but more importantly because of the anti-vax and the fear of any vaccine people will have for the next pandemic.
Established companies with well-defined processes seem to have adapted to WFH. I wonder how early stage startups are doing with WFH as communication is much more frequent in their case.