skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s surprising to hear. I’ve found P&V’s Dostoevsky translations very readable, and my understanding from reading reviews online was that P&V’s translations are well regarded in general.

Which translation did you read/would you recommend?

Edit: I did some reading online and found some criticism of P&V, such as:

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/gary-morson/the-...

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-...

Interesting to see the comparisons!
I remember this effect being mentioned in the documentary miniseries "Time"[0] hosted by Michio Kaku. It looks like it's on YouTube if you're interested[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(British_TV_programme)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL03F2D49431E2A889
>I'm an atheistically and scientifically inclined type, non-religious, without a mystically-oriented mind, and these types of coincidences or oddities always throw me a bit regardless.

Personally, I've had enough weird things happen to me in my life that I've left that entire thing open to explanations simply aren't covered by our current body of scientific knowledge. I'm a non-mystical atheist also, but I'm not willing to completely write off the unexplained as simply "coincidence" just because a lot of folks ascribe it to religion or other magic. I mean, what did people think of bacterial/viral infection 200 years ago? A lot of crazy mystical stuff, for sure, all laughably inaccurate. What sort of stuff will they laugh at US about in 200 years?
> Legislation isn't based on majority votes though...

This only makes it worse. This year 51% of the population voted for Party B, so they have 51% of the legislature. They vote as a block, so they vote in anything supported by the majority of the coalition that Party B represents. So then you get bad laws that are only supported by 26% of people (51% of 51%). Next year Party A has 51% of the legislature, but not the Presidency, so they can't repeal it.

A possible solution to this would be to allow for the repeal of any law that wouldn't currently have what it takes to pass, i.e. anyone can resubmit any existing law as a new bill and if it fails to pass both houses and earn the President's signature, it effects repeal of the existing law.
Interesting. The only other instance I remember of (sort-of) awaits being converted into callbacks are LiveScript "backcalls":

https://livescript.net/#functions-backcalls
Nice! pairs well with the 3Blue1Br video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jsijhllIA

Hamming's book The Art of doing Science and Engineer's a solid read. Mixed topics, centered around problem solving techniques, and pitfalls.
ISRG (the charity behind Let's Encrypt) has been pretty clear in the past that they aren't interested in doing that. Do you have some particular reason beyond wishful thinking to believe that will change?

If you want to build a CA that issues S/MIME certs you can already do that. If you want to leverage ACME you can even do that (using https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-email-smime... for example).

Perhaps you can persuade S/MIME client implementations that your certificates are universally trustworthy, and then you've got the makings of a PKI for S/MIME. But I would not hold my breath.
David Malouf writes about similar phenomena. I think he even uses a similar term "waves of thought emanating out from somebody around the room" or something, effecting other people.
> I was surprised that Substack doesn't address the main problem of journalism ... a lack of a viable business model to support people who practice journalism.

It... does, though? Substack is a way for writers to offer subscriptions for their content. Two friends of mine are benefiting from this, one has managed to pay her bills this way and the other is well on his way.

I don't consider it a magic bullet, but it's clearly a step in the right direction.
Let's get rid of ties! I have always hated them and thought they were moronic.
I care as non technical person to know the difference between encryption and hashing. And to know why easy passwords are useless. This was an extremely informative article.
>Is this a specific suggestion that you believe a significant fraction of news articles are written by bots?

Financial news on lesser known public companies seems to be.

It's easy to generate a story based on some numbers about the stock to parameterize it.

Example (showing absolutely no understanding):

"Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc., belongs to Healthcare sector and Biotechnology industry. The company’s Market capitalization is $1.68B with the total Outstanding Shares of 32. On 03-09-2020 (Thursday), SRNE stock construct a change of -2.89 in a total of its share price and finished its trading at 7.06.

Profitability Ratios (ROE, ROA, ROI):

Looking into the profitability ratios of SRNE stock, an investor will find its ROE, ROA, ROI standing at -297.9%, -49.4% and -91.3%, respectively."
I don't think they need to be explicit courses, since that means making credits and charging students more. Rather, my research is about providing exercises specifically targeting those lower level skills. Since many of them are only a fraction of the "programming problem", they are do not require the expected hours and can be completed quickly. My hypothesis is that doing these types of problems will help reduce the time on task for coding.
What the GP describes is absolutely correct. It may not be all that common but it is a known pattern. That you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

> An alternative approach is to hash the passwords as usual and then encrypt the hashes with a symmetrical encryption key before storing them in the database, with the key acting as the pepper.

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...
Enpass’ password generator has a field were you can enter characters not allowed.

Regretfully Enpass doesn’t store this field nor the rest of the complexity rule as part of the password entry. The next time when password has to be changed you have to figure out the underlying complexity rule again.
Not just the market, property to. There's this giant floating pool of money thats looking for anywhere to grow.
Not this old sysadmin.... count slow when waiting to reboot cable modems.... or you have to wait and do it again.
I remember that and thought they came to the opposite conclusion. That the older you are the slower you count out a minute. I performed the experiment on my grandfather shortly after finding out and he counted out a minute in about 2.5 minutes. It'll take a while to go through the videos to reset my memory though.
This seems to be an vulnerability analysis of the Nano source code. I meant the monetary security and game theoretic plausibility of the protocol itself.

E.g. how do we know which blocklattice is the correct one? (in Bitcoin it's the longest chain, which contains most energy and thus can't be created from thin air). Are there enough incentives to keep the network running and decentralized? Etc.
I urge you to read through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism before dispensing with any additional wisdom on what is obviously a very nuanced topic that depends a on great deal of context.
You're assuming that Korean political/economic system was the same as the one of Europe. It was not.

Nobles didn't own all the lands or people around them. Some of non-noble people owned their own lands, others didn't and had to rent lands from landlords.

So the story that you quoted means that Grandma Jang was generous to poor people who have neither lands nor money to rent lands, and allowed them to work on her lands.
Leaving this here as a loving reminder to myself:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapo...
Where do you find freelancers?
Where have you had success hiring freelancers? I’ve hired on upwork, freelancer, fiver and found the experience lacking. Why aren’t there decent portfolios to look at? Lots of time wasted qualifying/disqualify candidates/companies. Lots of auto reply spam. This has to be a market opportunity for someone. I’ve used Indeed for local hires, but haven’t used stackover jobs yet. I’m looking for short term flex hours mid level mobile development in react native and xamarin and am exhausted by these platforms.
In addition to what I said, I will fully understand if I’m actually completely wrong, too.

What I mean is...I shouldn’t assume that these companies haven’t already made these calculations in relation to the long term picture. For example, perhaps the MLB has run the math and knows that going for broad appeal (e.g. games streamed/broadcast for free) is inefficient or results in lower revenue. Perhaps cable companies have already calculated that they will bleed customers no matter what they do; that they’re best off milking their customer base until they disappear.
You might be right! It's been a long time since I watched it.
Here's one: a majority Americans surveyed on various occasions usually believe crime rates at the time of the survey are worse than some point in the past. This holds true even when there has actually been a large decrease in crime over the given interval.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-perc...
Wait, explain more please, the prompts are you. ‘browse Reddit’ etc.
Even when I was in my early 20s it took way more discipline for me to work in an open office than WFH. It's hard to concentrate on a task when your coworkers of all ages and ranks are talking about TV, sports, and politics all day long
> all we are fighting for is that nuclear is __part__ of the solution (not __the__ solution. Big difference).

It seems to me that all this is about the balance between the relative importance of nuclear in the solution and its costs, along with the risks it induces.

Having nuclear as part of the solution implies mass-production of plants parts (building a few plants is much more expensive and projects are nearly always way behind schedule), risk and waste, decommission costs... If nuclear power could solve the challenge (that is to say let us live as we do now while reaching the GIEC's objectives) it could be justified, but it fails far from it.
I am skeptical that commoners and govt officials will experience this the same way.
See: Wisconsin.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wisconsin-e2-80-99s-...

> The maps have exceeded their designers high expectations all decade long. In 2018, for example, Wisconsin voters re-elected a Democratic U.S. senator, backed Evers for governor over two-term Republican incumbent Scott Walker, placed Democrats in every elected statewide office, and preferred Democratic assembly candidates by a margin of 190,000 votes. Republicans held the chamber, 64-35. They won 64 percent of the seats, with 46 percent of the votes.

It would be difficult to call Wisconsin a democracy with a straight face at this point.
Just because they want more of a police presence doesn't mean they want aggressive policing.

If you live in a rough neighborhood, it is reassuring to have a police officer nearby or at least in the area. However, that doesn't mean you want that police officer harassing you for trivial offenses.
> That's 0.0022% of the Pentagons budget, i.e. essentially nothing.

This is the wrong way to think of it. It's either a positive use of money or negative.

But on top of that simplicity, Ryan Air for instance asks employees to steal pens from hotels.

They are extremists, but they run some savings that would be so silly they are negative to create a culture.

This however seems political. Someone is trying to make someone else look bad.
Short answer: if they are unique because they're a small sample from a large space (e.g. UUID v4) no salt is needed. If they're unique but maybe predictable, salt.
> The modern Korean writing system (hangul) is unrelated to Chinese.

This is true, though newspapers and some other written texts make use of mixed hanja-hangul script (hanja honyong) where Chinese characters (Hanja) are interspersed with Hangul in the same piece of Korean text in order to disambiguate homonyms.

Interestingly, you could argue this is attempting to solving the flip-side of the problem that Furigana in Japanese solve (where a reader may know the phonetic reading of a word but not the Kanji that are used to write it -- though native-level Japanese speakers don't need Furigana to read the vast majority of text since Kanji represent more conceptual information than Kana).
You are reading way too much into my comment. I was directly speaking to the example given and not making some universal endorsement of empowering cops.

There was nothing in that example that was specifically linked to data collection. You could have had the exact same situation except they are rounding up Black people as suspects. The problem there is bad cops not dangerous tools. The tool is irrelevant in the example.
Is that not this part?

> > but if my computer keeps guessing them, it can know when it is right. And my computer guesses really, really fast.
The most (subtly) terrifying book on US PSYOPS I have read is "Men Who Stare at Goats", by Jon Ronson. Read carefully, it demonstrates that the US has engaged in PSYOPS against American citizens for decades, that continues to this day.

If you thought the CIA tried to use ESP against the Soviets, or that the MK-ULTRA program was shut down after it was exposed, then congratulations! Your belief demonstrates the success of the program.

All we (think we) know about those activities is what they chose to publish. What we do know is that the people in charge of the programs got promotions on schedule and retired with full pensions.
How long until it’s embeddable inside an ordinary-looking ethernet cable with no nondestructive detection methods other than x-ray?
I challenge anyone who claims they have no secrets to upload all their cloud files and hard disks inc. browser history and cookies to a s3 blob and share a link on HN.
> He didn't just attack other businesses, he attacked open source, and would have destroyed it if he could have.
By all means, you can think whatever you like about the man. Gates has done some pretty slimy shit. Being nice now is nice, and I applaud him for it, but nobody is obligated to develop amnesia.

I’m not asking you to forget what he did as a business man. But people grow by integrating new information and changing their minds. And Gates seems to be progressing in the right direction.

But all of you anti-Gates people are hell bent on defining him by his actions as the head of Microsoft. And being cynical about his motivations.

I’m grateful that he’s changed his ways and is making a positive contribution to the world. He really does seem to try and understand the issues he wants to tackle and not just hire people to do it for him.
Humourously your 'ability' to judge the passage of time is part of a field sobriety test in many parts of the US
Avoid the “feedback loops from hell”, you don't deserve to be more depressed
If you live in China and care about privacy, get an iPhone. The local offerings (Huawei, etc) are compromised, and Google's stuff is blocked.

Apple's in a tough spot, but the iPhone is one of a few remaining viable choices that isn't dominated by the PRC and why roll Apple for that? What's the plan if Apple pulls out?
This sounds incredibly interesting.

How does it work privacy-wise? Can I see other peoples wallets and who they've sent money to, received money from, etc, like Bitcoin or is it closer to Monero in that regard?
Citation needed. Where are deaths increasing?
>I am literally retarded.
This is key. If we could wipe the slate clean and provide equal opportunity, then we would have a strong blueprint to do so.

But we are fighting close to 400 years of systematic oppression to turn those opportunities into tangible results. That history requires some type of direct action to advance the current state of Black Americans.
A few other commenters seem to be confused about the purpose, so here's what we use Restream for: easily switching streaming destinations without reconfiguring our encoders (eg we use Twitch for informal student facing content, LinkedIn + FB + Periscope for content we want to be seen by professionals).

Honestly I was also initially skeptical of its utility but it turned out to be pretty worthwhile.
I would be willing to bet that this isn't true for trained classical musicians. I've been able to very accurately count seconds for 30+ years now and I don't seem to be getting any worse at it with age, at least not yet.
Also fun is Jung's work on synchronicity and of course this gem-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect
So why is it that an editor would let these statements pass.

If, say, the publisher was Addison-Wesley or Prentice Hall, would they make it into print.

I am sure that this is not the only programming book that made it to publication with a lack of meaningful editorial oversight.
I'm happy to present one as an example. If be happy to continue discussing it past that as well, as long as you are willing to converse and not argue.

Wealth in the hands of a few becomes static. Jeff Bezos can only buy so many jets. When you leave it there, the entire economy stagnates.
I’ve been a musician for 20 years and I still rush a beat if I’m not careful.
All you have to do is to ignore email that is signed by entities you don't know and/or don't like. It is as simple as that. The mystery is why people accept anonymous email at all.
Ajit Pai touted false broadband data despite clear signs it wasn’t accurate
Test Smarter, Not Harder
Apple essentially failed to patch a current plaintext backdoor to iMessage end to end encryption (due to the fact that device backups, on by default, containing complete plaintext message history are NOT end to end encrypted and are uploaded to Apple with Apple keys each night) because they didn’t want to cross the FBI.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/
> but it may not necessarily have relation to what the sounds are in Chinese if someone were to read the characters as if Chinese

But they are quite similar for this example:

Korean: Eumsik dimibang (like 'Eyumsik dimeebong')

Mandarin pronunciation: Yinshi Zhiweifang (sort of like 'Yinshur Jurwayfong')

Cantonese pronunciation: Yamsik Jimeifong (like 'Yumsik jimayfong')

Korean Hanja (chinese character - 汉子) words mostly had their taken pronunciation taken from Middle Chinese. Modern Cantonese preserved more Middle Chinese pronunciation than modern Mandarin.

Also, Japanese kanji (汉子) often have both onyomi (foreign) and kunyomi (native) readings, where the onyomi pronunciation comes again from Middle Chinese.

For example, 电话 (telephone):

Japanese - denwa
Mandarin - dian hua
Cantonese - dinwa (like 'deenwa')
> For instance, if I'm just walking arena-allocated memory, the borrow checker does nothing for me.

The borrow checker is most useful when you are using it in a team or just using external Rust code. By forcing code to be explicit the borrow checker ensures that most, if not all, implicit restrictions are propagated through the codebase. Naturally this makes Rust far easier to compose than C.

> Also I think C plays an important pedagogical role. When writing C you learn a lot about what a computer actually does, whereas with Rust you're working with an abstract system.

C is to modern hardware like the Intel 8086 is to an Intel Xeon Platinum. The mere fact that ISO C runs on some many different types of architectures and platforms proves that C is far removed from any particular computer's mode of operation (which isn't a bad thing). Even programming in machine code wouldn't reflect a CPU's true mode of operation because of things like Macro-op Fusion, Register Renaming, TLBs, etc. Processors nowadays are probably the most dynamic and complex "programs" seen in the industry.

If C and Rust were graded on "similarity" to hardware, then C would be neighbours with Rust and hardware would be located ten timezones ahead.

> I think a lot of the reason C gets a bad rap is because it has been used historically in a lot of use-cases where a language with better safety guarantees would have been a better fit, but that alternative didn't exist until maybe quite recently.

Ada is only eight years younger than C, Pascal pre-dates C, etc. There were alternatives but people used what they knew and what their systems were written in. But to be fair, it is far easier to find new languages and tools today than it was pre-internet. However, the problem with C being used in inappropriate places hasn't gone away. People still push to write new applications and software in C despite the safety problems and developer ergonomics.
That seems irrelevant - I wasn't at all talking about which individuals were recognizably doing science, but where (the program of) modern science came from. Bacon didn't do science, didn't 'employ the scientific method', just wrote about and promoted a huge program of scientific investigation, which is what we call 'modern science'. From The Oxford Francis Bacon:

Before Bacon where else does one find a meticulously articulated view of [science] as an enterprise of instruments and experiment, an enterprise designed to restrain discursive reason and make good the defects of the senses? Where else in the literature before Bacon does one come across a stripped-down natural-historical programme of such enormous scope and scrupulous precision, and designed to serve as the basis for a complete reconstruction of human knowledge which would generate new, vastly productive sciences through a form of eliminative induction supported by various other procedures including deduction? Where else does one find a concept of scientific research which implies an institutional framework of such proportions that it required generations of permanent state funding to sustain it? And all this accompanied by a thorough, searching, and devastating attack on ancient and not-so-ancient philosophies, and by a provisional [science] anticipating the results of the new [science]?

But thanks, I didn't know anything about Ibn al-Haytham, e.g. that his Book of Optics (written 1011-1021) "was read by and greatly influenced a number of scholars in Christian Europe including: Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste, Witelo, Giambattista della Porta, Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Christiaan Huygens, René Descartes, and Johannes Kepler"!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham
Indian NPS, equivalent of personal pension account, government operated, website forces you to change password every 90 days. Accepts any length for new password. Silently truncates it & then hash & store. Now, you are locked out because you dont know what was the actual truncated password they stored.

Happened to me two times, changed password, locked out, had to reset. then while logging in, I noticed their requirement of 12 characters, at next reset used 12 characters, & did not get locked out.
> Why would I be upset that that some teen or 20-something, who primarily uses the internet to post and browse selfies on social media, does so from a phone rather than a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad?

I care about this.

It’s the same reason I care about consoles versus pc’s. If all a young person has is a console, it’s difficult for them to realize they can change things, instead of just being a consumer.

I’m finding it difficult to put into words, but just this week I had to buy my three young children some kind of computer for school. The school suggested chromebooks because they were easy yet I just couldn’t bring myself to get them and got some refurbished macbooks instead.

The reason, I guess, is that I want my children to understand technology and to be able to hack it to suit their ends. I don’t want a media consumption device, I want them to have computers.

Literally the only reason that I can do the things I can do today is because when I was young, I had access to an 8-bit computer that I could easily write code on, even though I mostly just played games on it. If I’d had a console instead, my life would have been much poorer.