skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe that alone makes the assertion that traditional Chinese is "just another character set" as controversial as calling English "just another Newspeak".

I strongly disagree. The simplified/traditional split is not the first time new character sets have been introduced. This has happened many times throughout the history of written Chinese. E.g. ever wonder why things that have to do with body parts and organs have a moon radical associated with them? That's because of a conflation of two separate radicals (moon radical and meat radical) that were distinct in Qin Dynasty seal script. And yet this doesn't mean that our Classical Chinese works are all of a sudden written in a different language when written in modern standard script or Han Dynasty clerical script or even seal script (which in turn is definitely _not_ the original script that these works were written in).

Moreover the vast vast majority of differences between simplified and traditional Chinese characters are one-to-one mappings between different characters. While simplified Chinese characters sometimes map multiple traditional Chinese characters to a single simplified one, the reverse direction also happens! See e.g. 乾 which is split into 干 and 乾 depending on meaning and pronunciation.

> Those are characters with entirely different meanings and often different pronunciations in various forms of Chinese.

The fact that a single character can have different pronunciations and different meanings which can coincide or not among different varieties of Chinese has endured for as long as we've had written records of non-standard Chinese varieties. This is not something new with simplified characters.

At a higher level, there has been a split in Chinese between officially sanctioned characters and non-standard variant characters since the first unification of characters under the Qin dynasty (which characters are sanctioned has changed over time). Traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese characters are simply changes in which characters receive official sanction.

Basically at the end of the day the simplified/traditional split is nothing new in Chinese, it's happened many times before and it's very easy to learn one if one knows the other.
I'm inclined to agree, but I'm wondering if there's any data to support that.
The questioner asserts that Google requires SWEs to know python.

Although it can quite helpful, Google doesn't require that. Google does assume that you can figure things out, and that if you need to figure something out in Python, you will, but that isn't the same as requiring you to know python.
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That's fair, but that also means that Wikimedia is then asserting a political opinion rather than being neutral on the issue.

When something is disputed, arguably the most neutral, unbiased way to go about things is to deliver information to each party within the framework that they have established, and technology enables this as a possibility when it used to be cumbersome in the old days.

If Wikimedia wants to assert a position on the Taiwan issue, or politically help Taiwan by supporting its majority viewpoint, then great, I completely understand, though I feel like its fundamental mission would be better accomplished if it did not take sides on any political matters and strive to be the most neutral source of facts in the world.

For example, there exist certain species of birds native to the island of Taiwan. Wikipedia can be a great source of information about those birds. It doesn't need to define what type of political entity Taiwan is in order to deliver great information about those birds; as far as the birds are concerned it's just a huge island.
It's pretty neutral and evidenced based... the hosts are all MDs or PhDs or both. They criticize political decisions that they feel are based on bad science, but they usually stick to what can be objectively measured and proven.
So they had to burn many trees. Stupid question: were those regions with many forests ruling other parts of the world because they had access to trees? I don’t quite remember if something like that was mentioned in Guns, Germs and Steel
But you didn't answer the question.. Why have savings? Why not spend it all on the project? I think the story is incomplete if you save but don't know why.
Which is still 12.5%. Which for most people wouldn't be a problem since ram is a fraction of the system price (so it might only raise the price of the machine 3% if the ram is 1/3 of the total BOM).

The problem is _INTEL_ deciding its a premium feature, and the memory manufactures charging 50%+ more for 12.5% more hardware.

So instead of being a couple percent of the system cost, it ends up being a noticeable double digit percentage.

Of course none of this explains why apple/etc haven't done it in their phones.
I have a lot of IoT devices in and around my home, including some cameras. I don't trust any of the smart devices, which is why they all have offline/locally controlled operation modes and are segmented off from the rest of the network with their own manufacturer/purpose specific VLANs and firewall rules.

I don't think most people comprehend what their devices are doing, or how their data could be used against them. My robovac has a LIDAR sensor that maps the house - that's cool - what isn't cool is that by default it uploads those maps to Xiaomi and they can connect it via GeoIP (or GPS if I ever use their app) and have the location and floorplan of my home. I'm not special enough for that information to be very valuable, but it's still super creepy and I would prefer they not have it.
Thanks. We're keeping track of feedback and have a few features like this one the way!
I take offense to your assertion that people that rely on safety nets are not “productive members of society”.
In Louisiana we have Kanopy and Hoopla too (I can't speak to outside New Orleans metro area but there are state wide ILL programs)
> But the thought of "What would I do if I didn't have this job? I've got rent and food and car payments and bills, I'd be homeless and never work again!" works against this advice and so people compromise their principles or their morals or their willingness to do harm to others, because they are just doing what the boss told them to do and they really need this job.

I will give an anecdote - take it for what you will:

Once upon a time I was driving in India with my FIL. If you don't know about India, traffic is nuts. We were going down an one-way street and folks were still coming in the opposite direction :). I was raging as expected because it was so dangerous - my westernized sensibilities meant I was remarking how come these folks can't follow such simple rules! My FIL responded in a way that has stuck to me till date: You have a job in a multi-national company and have comfortably crossed the base level of Maslow's hierarchy. That guy who's coming in the wrong way, if he is late to his job, he doesn't eat today. Strong morals are sometime a privilege :)
Almost one third of Covid deaths in (the UK in) July and August 'primarily caused by other conditions'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/almost-one-third-covid-deaths-155...

Source: Oxford University
Ring already has a base station. Why doesn't that base station have a solid state drive to store all the video/images, and allow the user to view them on their smart phone by connecting to the base station through the wifi?

The argument "you need to upload all your data to our servers or you'll likely have to get another to TV to view it" is just beyond lame.
One of the top three reasons I use Ubuntu: no fiddling with fonts. They look good out of the box.

There's enough things to fiddle with on linux.
This looks kinda cool, looks like FreeBSD already supports this directly.
> I can't believe that 2020 is making Windows look like a respectful steward of open platforms.

Damn it, read that right as I was taking a sip of coffee.

Side note: TIL my key board is water proof
This comment reflects a broader problem in our discourse: why can't it be both?

Why can't we acknowledge that some of the US constitution's framers were great men who also owned slaves? They weren't perfect. You can be great, and flawed at the same time.

Why can't we acknowledge that YC has had a massive positive impact on the world, while still acknowledging that it's a bit of an echo chamber and does promote a certain amount of self-congratulation?
So you're of the opinion that the gallup study about economic inequality [0] is flawed (or maybe politically motivated?).

Or is it that you think even the most charitable nation is not charitable enough? (hence acknowledging that charity doesn't appear to work).

[0] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-...
Do you seriously think that Amazon never thought of not showing you a second power washer? The data must show that this is more profitable than the alternatives.
> I don’t know what has to happen for people to stop tolerating software as it is.

Deaths, a lot of deaths.

Software Engineering needs a PE type licensure and a union. We need a way to stand together to advocate for better working conditions, practices, and tools.
Is it bad that Obama criticized Trump?

https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/web-video/former-pre...
> Their last-minute objections claimed Wikimedia’s application was incomplete, and suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation was carrying out political activities via the volunteer-led Wikimedia Taiwan chapter

So seems China has a problem with that the Taiwan chapter is being used for political activism, rather than just serving/working on Wikipedia. Similarly if the Catalan chapter did activism in favor of independence, Spain might react to that in one way or another.
I just read the whole thing, how is it a takedown? Plomin's paper is a meta-study which discusses results that are robustly replicated because there is a crisis of reproducibility in this domain and replication is the arbiter of the scientific method. This article you linked is essentially an opinion piece about Plomin...

edit: Did I get shadowbanned for this?! Post not showing up on different device..
what's the craziest idea you have heard of that would advance medical science?
Last summer! It's the most expensive thing I own haha
I think that you have a good point with the example of gitea, the language and other tools can be as minimalistic and clean as you can wish for, and you can have the best intent to have a stable ecosystem, you are still likely to have the same kind of issues.
The pro-Apple argument centers on “you got what you signed up for, what’s the problem?” Arguments about uniform treatment don’t play much part. The anti-Apple argument (at least the one that matters) is that Apple has hurt consumers in some way. Whether Apple has made life difficult for developers is pretty much irrelevant.
I disagree. It looks more like if you ensure that medium to high income earners have stable employment, the economy is more or less okay. By all indications the economy is doing much better than anyone would have thought and that’s on the backs of the medium and high end. The low wage earners spend their money on things that don’t move the needle for the economy otherwise it would have taken a bigger impact.
It's sad how these valuable optimizations are unknown to the average person. When I hear "the browser" discussed in almost any parlance, the implication is Chrome. It's rare to even hear someone say "Chrome," as it's the defacto choice for the non-mobile web. Convenience breeds ignorance.
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As I recall (I think I watched some theater a few months ago), you had to check a box that you had a license but you didn't have to actually enter anything.
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"Jessica still sadly doesn’t get nearly the same degree of public credit"

Never mentions her last name.

I wonder why she doesn't get public credit?
In one sense, if you have overlooked important information, then you don't have it. And looking for overlooked information is itself an action, with costs and benefits that you need to evaluate with your current information.
I don't think it's appropriate to speculate about other people's neurodiversity.

Also, for the most part he is "the project".
When you collect lots of coredumps you'll get a long tail of bizarre, one-off crashes. Some of these are subtle memory corruption bugs that cause random crashes, but others are caused by bitflips-- either faulty DRAM or cosmic rays. Usually you throw your hands up and only look at crashes that happen multiple times because they're more likely to be reproducible.

The unique factor here is that rr provides _reproducible_ crash recordings, so when it fails to reproduce a crash, you've found some nondeterminism-- either a bug in rr where it didn't replay syscalls correctly or nail down thread behavior accurately, or a hardware issue like this.
The next best thing I miss from online team games was training newbies and seeing them perform at a high level (over time). The conversion rate was very low (20-25%), but if I'm being honest that made the reward all the sweeter.

However, I appreciate and understand that work place dynamics are the real world where external factors can play outsized roles and "performance" is often much harder to measure directly.
I remember reading an article some time ago about thr experiences of a developer who I believe was working on the most recent Mortal Kombat game. They talked about needing to watch lots of gore and similar content for the games cinematics, and about how it started to affect their mood. I don’t think I’d be able to work a job like that for very long.
The way scientists are measured reminds me of how teachers get measured by their students test scores. In both cases we reward or penalise them based on some measure that is often only partially in their control, then people get angry when they try to maximise that measure.

The working scientists I know are as frustrated by the syst as it's external critics, but they still have to work in it if they want to pay their rent.
I'm hearing an argument here that charitable giving is somehow inferior to taxation- or that amicably receiving charity is somehow less dignified than asking the government to take it for you through force. That's really what I'm responding to here...

My belief is that forcing somebody to do anything against their will is inherently immoral. Taxation is included in that. It's not that simple of course- it's all relative, and sometimes taxation can do enough good to outweigh that morality.
I don't know if the author meant playing poker online or at a competitive level. I play poker with a group of friends, that were all somewhat skilled before we started playing together, and I certainly flex all of the skills he mentioned.

The most interesting part now is the meta. Once you know someone well it's easier to find their tells. Unless they know that and adjust. The final 4 at the table is really fun every week.
Do you want to eliminate white-collar jobs? Who will give you medical care, dentistry, engineer new products, design new buildings, etc?

You can call it a "better model that's not called college", but I bet it's going to look a lot like college.
I don't think either are particularly caused by the other. I'd argue both are naturally and ultimately caused by inherent subjectivity and bias in the populace.

"What's house X worth?" - Some people might be more willing to trade more money for it than others, and hence inequality ensues. Someone might become a millionaire simply from being in the right place at the right time, and/or buying/selling at the right time.

Or, "What's fair compensation for job X?" - Again different people may value job X differently. Hell, the worst high school teacher I've ever had turned out to be the most highly paid (over $160k a year - 20 years ago). Either it was simply out of generosity, or someone held him in high esteem. If the latter, it definitely wasn't me.

Likewise in education:

"Not everyone can go to university X - who gets to go and who doesn't?" - While a criteria may be used and itself may be objective, which criteria to use it ultimately subject to opinion. In ways, this is sort of similar to Goodhart's law.

"What's a degree from university X worth?" - Again opinion is a factor.

etc. etc...
This is called being pragmatic. pg is excellent at this.

If the rest of the world operates on credentialism, you either go with the flow and just play along, or refuse to acknowledge how the rest of the world works, and get caught up in a lot of stupid arguments.

It's important to understand, there's a cost to being unconventional. I think pg understands this better than most. Sometimes that cost is worth it. A lot of times though, it isn't.
I was looking to replace the A6 sketchbook I carry everywhere, and the A5 notebook that always sits in front of my keyboard.

I thought it would be nice to access my notes when I don't have my notebook on me, and to have layers, zooming, undos etc. However, the more I look into it, the more absurd it seems.

I'm replacing a 15€ notebook and a 2€ mechanical pencil by a 400€ gadget that doesn't quite work. Why? So that I can spend my time organising notes in a digital space. Why? I don't really know.

It would be cool to have layers, zooming and an undo button. It would also be cool to have access to my notes even when I don't have my notebook. However, it would just be cool. It doesn't actually solve a serious problem.
In a similar vein, "You Are Not Late"[0] by Kevin Kelly is a great read.

[0]: https://kk.org/thetechnium/you-are-not-late/
You're question begging here:

>"No healthy society should rely on private charitable as safety net for the less fortunates."

Why?
> First, the high federal taxes preclude it. The federal government has set itself up as the collector of most taxes, which it would then dole back out to the states with various strings attached.

This is half-true, and to the extent that this is the case, the major political party that GP is attacking here has essentially made it its mission to reduce those high federal taxes.

But on the other side of the coin, itt's also worth mentioning that the US Federal taxes are some of the lowest among the OECD. Germany’s second-highest marginal income-tax rate of 42% kicks in for married households earning around €112,000 ($124,000). An American couple with that income pays a marginal rate of only 22% and would need to earn $612,350 before paying the top marginal rate of 37%[1]. If there's a state that wants this kind of a couple to pay taxes that are comparable to Germany's, they have a LOT of room to work with.

> Second, a significant source of federal funds is newly printed money, which the states do not (currently) have the ability to do.

1. This is true of the EU as well. Each member state has to get approval from the ECB to print new money.

2. the numbers I've cited are the spending numbers, that's downstream of taxes and money printing.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-middle-class-always-pays-11...
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What's PG?
And California is run by that other political party.
I do not need arguments to support my opinion that most soy products are garbage. I have tasted most of them and that is my verdict. Exceptions include soy sauce and miso.

There is also some research that suggests soy is unhealthy, but since I am not interested in a debate on the validity of such research, I will not link to any of it.
FAANG engineers definitely do, especially with a few years of tenure. My SQL-slinging data analyst friends at Netflix start at 350-400 base, and the sky is the limit. Now, if you don't work at FAANG, you're probably averaging in the 200-300 range total comp. A couple can easily clear 500k a year for 5 years, and still not feel comfortable buying a house the size of which I grew up in the Midwest (i.e., small).

In short, incomes are high, and so are costs. That being said, I've definitely come out way ahead by living here by staying somewhat sane with expenses.
Not a compiler expert, but looking at the bytecode it looked fairly limited and minimal number of opcodes.

Giving it has to be universal, i imagine where a LLVM bitcode op might translate to 1, 2 or 3 native opcodes, with WebAssembly you might with much more opcodes in the native output.

I mean, of course they will be able to make it better with time and effort, but i dont think we can spect a much bigger speedup in comparison with the native equivalent.

Note: this is all very speculative, but by looking at it, it looked great as an accelerator, specially for math stuff, but i imagine that it will be hard even to beat the Javascript code for generic stuff giving how much it was already optimized for it.

If any compiler expert here that is familiar with it want to correct in my assumptions, please feel free to do it.

(Not event touching in issues like the ones you mention, like memory copy, where the compiler cannot translate the thing in a more optmized manner giving it cannot speculate about the environment and optimize for it)
You're getting roasted enough, so I'll assume you might have meant their behavior i.e. ego, tact, trustingness, etc.

* Tell me about a time when you disagreed with a coworker/manager.

* Tell me about a time you had to persuade someone to see your point of view.

* Tell me about a time you caused a major production issue.

These are pretty standard behavioral questions. The key is to focus on a specific example, not a hypothetical. Look for their impact and their actions.
The average number doesn't speak to the impact on individual districts.

I'm sure the impact of federal spending cuts will be small on schools whose per-student budget is already large, and large on schools whose per-student budget is small.

In other words, cuts would hurt the poorest schools the most, and increase the divide that the parent article is talking about.
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This is:

1. Not true of all low tax states (Nevada, Washington, New Hampshire, South Dakota, etc)

2. More representative of which states have the most senior citizens and military bases, because most of the Federal budget goes into Medicare, Social Security, and the military.

3. Better alleviated by directly targeting net-takers rather than trying to approximate which states are net givers and takers based on the state and local tax rates, which is ham-fisted
Both mov and mp4 are "containers", which can contain different kinds of codec. Both are usually h264 - mp4 especially - but they don't have to be. mp4 files can contain many different variants of mpeg-4, including hevc. mov files can contain virtually anything.
SALT deductions (at least on Income Tax) are essentially meant to prevent double-taxation.

Why can the federal government tax money that can only possibly be in my pocket if I've committed tax fraud against my state?

If I make 100K and my state takes 5%, I now only have 95K. There's no option for me not to pay 5K to my state.

(and no, for most people uprooting yourself for tax purposes isn't a tenable option)

Now, I have to pay the federal government. Why should I be on the hook to pay taxes on 100K in income, when I truly only earned 95K?

With sales tax, you could theoretically not buy things subject to sales tax. With real estate tax, you could in theory just rent.

Yes, in practice it's not like taxes are so punitive that > 100% of my income will be demanded, but it seems unfair to levy such taxes.

This assumes, of course, that the state has the first dibs on a person's income. I'd be just as happy if the federal government amended the constitution saying that all states levying income tax must deduct federal taxes paid from taxable income amounts.
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It should be dependent on your edge no? With tiny edge you can run bad way longer than you can with a big one. And in live-play you should be able to find a table with a huge edge.