skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not seem to be accurate, in my experience.

I've never heard an actual speaker of the language (or of either language, if you want), claiming that they are two separate languages. If anything, there is a tension regarding certain choices in the standardization of the orthography that are sometimes claimed to be Barcelona-centric and disregard the Valencian way of speaking. This may be true, I'm not a linguist to judge; but it might certainly justify having separate entries in e.g., websites, just like one often sees for american and european spanish and french, or for brazilian and european portuguese (which nobody claims are separate languages). Anyhow, the speech in the cities Tortosa and Castelló (on both sides of the purported boundary between the languages) is nearly identical, and very different from that of, say, Barcelona or Girona.
That is more like "speak as it is written" -- ie, the pronunciation derives consistently from the orthography. That is slightly different from "write as you speak" where the spelling of a word is literally speaking it slow enough so the individual sounds can be distinguished.

Not disagreeing with your overall point, most romance language have a much easier mapping from speaking -> writing than does english, but the principle of "write as you speak" is probably the simplest you can get.

(ie, the letter 'c' is used to represent different sounds in the word 'calambre', 'chorrizo', 'proyeccion'. It's not complicated to learn at all, but you still have a one -> many mapping on the letter -> sound. For languages like Serbian, it is straight up one to one.
Without citing philosophers, how do you reach the conclusion that your identity, once dead, (and therefore your vital status) is a private information?
Put his dna into 23andme and a detailed family chart will emerge.

This is the future of crime fighting, or if someone has lost memories.
It’s not that slow...
Wait, how can it recommend to do contrary to MUST?
I understand your frustration, but the public library, museums, schools, or roads, for that matter, follow the same funding scheme.

In a pure capitalist world, you pay as you go, but in reality, people want common public goods funded by the public regardless of use.
The article says he weighed 86 lbs, so it sounds like he died of starvation or malnutrition.
Slashdot and StackOverflow give you more capabilities with a higher reputation. Slashdot likes to give moderator points to people with higher reputations, and to people who metamoderate frequently which is itself guarded by reputation. Your votes are recorded at StackOverflow with no real reputation, but they only count for or against a post if you yourself have a high enough score - I forget what they call your reputation/karma/whatever there.
Arch Exit Signals Next Phase of Decline for Wyoming Coal
Tax any money going to these havens at a similar rate, don't allow it to be a tax deduction if the money is leaving the country.
I use go and angular. Both google projects.
I opt out of their services not their tools.
Further down it says 9% of our waste is recycled, and our exports should come out of that.
It's a misleading headline, since it's really saying that the US exports plastic and the places where it's exported manage to get it into the ocean.
Is that your justification for not testing the actuator? Space is hard, let's not test things?
How to stop using the mouse: Vim, Spacemacs, VSpaceCode and i3wm
"...who think they're always right". Thanks once again for not reading the rest.
It does seem to be a trend nowdays. I think the most fitting analogy to what we are doing is "Desigining the album cover for the world tour, when we only have a few songs for it." It most definitely is a little overerpresented on the website, but i'd say the goals and features are completely attainable, they are represented to be high when they are really standard features that are relatively easy to implement.
Bringing the price of healthcare down simply has to do with increasing the supply of healthcare providers and medicine. Technically, I guess the nation could also work on reducing the demand side of healthcare by promoting better diets and exercise, but I won't hold my breath on that one.

The prior is already happening with the introduction of PA and NPs taking over roles that MD/DOs used to do (for better or for worse, I've seen many discussions on how PA/NP education is very lacking and the bar to qualify is too low, which I agree with).

I don't know much about increasing supply of medicine, but that probably has to do with patent reform and/or FDA approvals for slightly modified medications.

There's also probably something about liability and litigiousness that is a factor of higher prices in the US.
In the US they will print money to bailout poorly run cities and towns, and especially to bailout pension funds (the two are often linked). This is presuming a Biden victory.
I'm a big DO fan as their pricing models are easier to understand, and use them myself for personal projects, but I would hesitate to use some of their products at an enterprise. The reason is that they do not seem committed to SLAs and offering metrics around their reliability.

One example of this is in DO Spaces [1]. Nowhere on their site do they say the durability of the data, or whether they have multiple AZs within one DC for availability, or anything like that. Compare that with AWS S3, where the 11 9's of durability is front and center on the page [2]. Marketing Spaces as S3-compatible without providing transparency on the reliability of the underlying storage engine feels disingenuous to me. Especially when, upon investigation, there are several complaints of data loss on the Spaces storage engine with DO not able to provide assistance [3].

Now whether that's an issue for a container registry, maybe not so much, since you can likely rebuild containers if you have reproducible builds, but it's a pattern I've seen across their offerings.

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/
[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665
GH keeps rolling out more features for Actions well after the initial release, adding things like Organization wide Secrets. Overall I'm quite happy with the progress.

I've run about ten thousand builds now and find the biggest issue the mysterious cancelling of jobs (especially on Win/Macos host), crashing of jobs across the board during GH outages, and the intermittent long pauses (e.g. 15min) between jobs in a multi-job build when nothing appears to happen (scheduling delays). GH could have more clarity on the status board, since I'll see many jobs fail, and check the status page to see everything is green. :/
AI learns to estimate oil viscosity
These are great! but for Show HN, a better fit would be if some of the individual contributors shared their work. Lists are excluded from the Show HN guidelines (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). They also don't tend to make for great HN threads in general, since there's not much that's specific to discuss about them. It's generally better to submit one of the interesting elements from a list than the list itself.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
You want me to pay for being subjected to undisclosed advertisements? I'm afraid I will have to start pirating again.
Do you know why promoting Nazi symbols is illegal, but communist symbols (a system that claimed magnitude more lives than Nazism) are completely fine to promote?
frankly you're not being threatened

I am not being threatened because I don't see people as a threat. I see ignorance, hate, greed, anger as threats. I have background that would allow me to claim oppression based on ancestral origin, but I choose not to claim it as I am not oppressed.

Hitler would have never been able to gas the jews had people adopted a world view of non-violence and non-agression. He would have never had the support that is bread out of hate. You see you are prescribing a remedy for the symptom, when I advocate curing the disease.

You do not need to see the difference for me, that is the point one has to see it and hold it valuable for oneself.

My worldview is anything but majority oriented, people think I am a wimp, they thing I hate America, they think I am a racist, they think I am a bigot, they think I am a homosexual loving pervert and a deviant and claim that I support all these things because I don't agree with their radical world views and they can only accept by their worldview that if I do not accept theirs than I am the opposite of their position. The reality is very few people agree with my worldview, certainly not the majority as I am constantly explaining to them their doctrines of hate. But again, just like you, I can only fix it in myself and explain to other how it is harmful to us all, but after that it is up to them. Most people do not want to do that level of self reflection because it removed their justifications for feeling the way they do.

Try it, take an inventory of who you dislike and why, more importantly what you would like done with those people. Really reflect on it, do you want justice or revenge on those people. Take yourself out of the equestion, do not justify your position with your feelings or the plights of past errors that have happened to others that you believe need vindication. If you want revenge then it flows from hate. Don't expect them to put down their hate if you are unwilling to put down yours. It is really that simple. I am constantly doing this, as hate is insidious and creeps up in us naturally, it attaches to emotion and hides itself with justifications. You have to strip all that away to see it, and you have to rid it in yourself before you can expect others to do the same. The old adage still hold true, be the change in the world you want to see. It's the hard road and most certainly not the majority "safe" worldview.
Years ago I saw for the first time the word "balkanization" being used by people not from the Balkans (I'm not a native English speaker). It was quite surprising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkanization
Ok, so you think he might be lying.

That’s always possible, but it seems irrelevant to the argument.
The article at least hints to the fact that MH was weary about digital evidence:
"He asked Mostly Harmless if he could take a picture. Mostly Harmless hesitated but then agreed"

Are there better ways to slip into the void than going into the wilderness without even a phone?
Thanks for the keppel link. Impressive work.
I filled paper forms and wrote email in lower case all the time. What I miss?
Plastic manufacturers could be made to buy back plastic goods at a rate that would bankrupt them if they're unable/unwilling to reuse or recycle that plastic. This would incentivize the use of less plastic overall, recycleable plastics in general, and the creation of products that remain useful to consumers for longer (to drive down the return of plastic products.)
They are cheap enough that you can buy one and setup a dedicated machine to play old video games.
I use it for emacs, mostly org mode on my phone. It works reasonably well with a small bluetooth keyboard.
I spent a couple decades as a scientist. I was modestly successful, published only work that I believe was truly defensible, and never over sold any of my results. I've asked to have my name removed from a paper that was submitted when I noticed it was revised to include lies after I had written it.

I believe you are wrong in saying that scientists aren't idiots: they make colossal errors, obvious ones, all the time! Frankly, I think most successful (in terms of adulation and $$$) scientists are ones who learned how to play the games scientists play, and publish known incorrect work, or unknowingly publish overly strong estimates of their confidence, because they've mastered the incentive system, not because they're not idiots.

I see very little true humility amongst scientists- nearly every successful one I've met was aggresively egotistical.

That said, after another 10-15 years of being a SWE, I've come to the conclusion most SWEs are idiots, too- too focused on clever algorithms and microoptimizations.
Slashdot had something similar many years earlier
Billions pirate a movie, yet they still recoup the production costs somehow because they aren't anywhere near going bankrupt.
Why in the world do you think a company shouldn't pay for taxes on profit? If that were true everyone would just incorporate and no one would have to pay taxes.
>But I also feel like the language is mainly used in a type of business environments that are already tied to .NET infrastructure anyway, and who actually appreciate the interlock.

I think that's still somewhat true just because there is momentum carried over from the past, but it's definitely something I see changing in the industry.

.NET used to mean SQL Server and Azure in addition. These days I'm seeing .NET Core with AWS and Postgres.
Termux has recently run into issues with Android 10 and the more recent APIs, which break its form of package management.

Their workaround is fairly clever (although not yet implemented) but means that updates to the Play Store version have been temporarily put on hold.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
The new dark pattern is to default everything off, but then have a separate switch labelled "legitimate reasons", which are all turned on for default.

For example https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ (right wing UK newspaper). In the pop-up it says "You can also review where our partners claim a legitimate interest to use your data and, should you wish, object to them doing so.".

If you click manage it opens with "user consent" selected, where everything is turned off. Click save means they're not going to start tracking you, right?

Wrong, if you switch to "legitimate purpose", you'll see that everything is turned on. All those ad companies claim they have a legitimate purpose to be tracking you, even though you have zero business relationship with them.

Unless the ICO hands out some very heavy fines to those companies, the whole thing's become a farce, just like the cookie law was.
I’ve found that consistent CVSS scoring is practically impossible, both because many criteria are defined in ambiguous or confusing ways, and because rating any obvious knock-on effects is proscribed by the official scoring rules[0][1].

For example, if a software component has a vulnerability which allows an attacker to steal admin credentials by exfiltrating a password file, the fact that this would allow the attacker to then have admin access to do whatever they wanted in other software that shares credentials doesn’t matter when calculating the core score of the vulnerability. (As a user, you would need to calculate the “environmental score” in the calculator[2] to decide what your score is given whatever configuration you/your company uses.)

Additionally, if some software enables privilege escalation at the OS level by misusing APIs, this escalation is not a “scope change” unless the software tried to create a separate security authority for itself by having some form of sandbox or authentication, so a vulnerability of this kind in software that has no added security mechanisms at all will be scored lower than a vulnerability in software which has implemented some additional access control which was bypassed.

I’m not saying that the limits are nonsensical since without them you’d end up with a whole lot of Critical base scores, but in my limited experience the CVSS core score is pretty worthless when it comes to getting a sense of how bad a vulnerability actually is and I don’t know how security analysts cope with this system.

[0] https://www.first.org/cvss/v3.0/user-guide

[1] https://www.first.org/cvss/v3.0/examples

[2] https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0
Definitely not drowning in $variables, he's 40 something.
Startups, connect directly with media and speaking gigs
All of these can be a replacement in some situations.
Vimeo can be a good idea if you don't care about discoverability and just want to put your video on the internet without self hosting.
These are google alternatives not 1:1 replacements in all cases. Deepl.io (translation service) is a one clear replacement and also superior to anything else.
It makes me feel like shipping it overseas was a way to keep from having to deal with it. If we have to deal with our own garbage, then maybe we'll care about reducing the amount we produce.
I have significant professional experience in audio engineering so let’s skip the petty rhetorical questions.

Windows audio drivers are so poor that they’re bypassed completely and basically all major hardware producers offer either ASIO drivers on windows or native CoreAudio drivers.

Using the same high quality external sound card, I get better performance on macOS with latency and buffer than I do on a windows machine with significantly ‘better’ hardware.

I know full well sound hardware makes a difference, and macOS and CoreAudio interfaces with said hardware significantly better than windows. There’s a reason producers of pro audio interfaces write their drivers natively for macOS and use ASIO for windows.

I’m talking about pro audio production tools here, not playing a few mp3s.
Maybe today, but a lot of these third world countries are very rapidly developing a surveillance culture as well.
The author seems to use the word "workstation" specifically to refer to machines running a proprietary Unix variant, usually using a specialty (non-x86) CPU architecture.

What you're describing are workstation-class PC-compatibles, not workstations (as the author defines the term).

What the author is really talking about is the death of systems where the hardware (sometimes all the way down to the CPU architecture) and the OS are produced by the same organization as a single, integrated solution targeted at a specific vertical.
Aneurisms, strokes, toxins (spider/snake bites). The first is pretty quick, but the latter two could leave someone sufficiently weak or incapacitated to move and care for themselves, but still survive long enough to become emaciated.
Picking the first demo on https://gallery.flutter.dev : https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/reply

It seems like it renders text via a SVG on top of a canvas layer that is the background, so that's a plus for a11y. As for the downsides, and I'm not sure how much this is due to flutter or the app itself:

* I can't use the browser search for elements outside the viewport

* I can't select text at all

* I can't tab through elements/links at all (which is often seen as a strong indicator of bad a11y)

* Browser back/forward do not work as expected (back exits the app completely, and then forward does not bring me back)

The second demo there: https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/shrine

* All the same as the first one, but also clickable elements do not give me any feedback that they are clickable (hand-pointer cursour or any underline/similar effect)

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Maybe these are just demos that have not thought of these specific things but since it is a web showcase of a framework meant to work on the web (although not exclusively) and these were the first links up there it's a bit disappointing.

My point is that you get most of these things for free (or easy) on the normal web, but flutter seems to try to patch them back onto it instead of using what is there.
I'm not the person you asked, but in general with polynomials, if you need to go much past the second or third order order to fit your data, you should probably be fitting with a different set of functions. Take a look at Runge's Phenomenon for an example where higher order polynomials really aren't making the approximation better in a useful way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%27s_phenomenon
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“Spousal and child support _are_ where divorce courts are influencing equity, by having the parent who's career was not impacted by parental duties provide monetary support to the parent who was.“

This is quite clearly not true because of maternal preference, which is openly acknowledged by the courts.

They are not in fact basing their decision on who’s career was not impacted.

They are making the decision based on the sex of the parents, and simply recapitulating traditional gender role assumptions.

I’m not making a case that it shouldn’t be this way.

My point is that we shouldn’t gaslight ourselves about what is going on.
Polynomial fitting can be used to generate curves which fit any dataset perfectly given enough degrees. Like if you give me a data set with 150 points in it that are apparently randomly distributed throughout the sample space, I can give you a nice high-order polynomial that perfectly passes through all 150 data points.

Making any claims based on that kind of curve fitting is a huge red flag, especially if you don't discuss that.

One of the reasons we would prefer lower-order fits to higher-order fits is that there is a very real risk of overfitting in the interior of a data set but then providing completely inaccurate results anywhere but at the data points. Seeing that kind of overfitting in a scientific paper without any justification suggests that the author of the paper is making statements without any basis in science.
Seems like you have an axe to grind. Sorry if my not liking a rude, poorly-written article bothers you.
I live in an area where we have at least 3 providers, I pay 20$/mo and never have to call to lower my rate.

If government didn't create regulations or horrible contracts this is a solvable issue.

This reminds me of another complaint about regulation in healthcare... Does any party support deregulation? Or is that a sure way to lose donors?
Spotify is a champion of profit for Spotify. Just like any other for-profit company.
> I just need to trust my fingers, you need to trust an algorithm choosing something for you.

but, that's the thing, I don't even remember the last time my autocomplete didn't complete the right thing. So yes, I entirely trust the algorithm, it has already saved me so muchtime.
>What do we do about all this?

There is no solution other than reducing consumption. Which can most easily be accomplished by increasing taxes on the consumption you want reduced.
Indeed, basically you need 3 residences or 2 shared residences and people who are tolerable to live in the same place with you (even if not at the same time). All of this takes money and the ability to tolerate someone you couldn't live with previously.
Minority Report proposed a solution to the automated public retinal scans...
It's sad because even if US Democrats have the momentum to make a clean sweep of government, it's unclear if they have the political currency to pursue a green agenda, especially when economy/Covid are the top two issues. A large-scale plan will likely dampen the US economy in the short term at time when voters want short term wins.

It will fall on the rest of the world lead on ecological responsibility & technology, while the US becomes an increasingly odious neighbor.