skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://japaneseruleof7.com/are-japanese-people-retarded/

That is not exactly an academic source and it's from someone living in Japan that doesn't read Japanese very well (check the comment section where they admit that themselves) so this is far from authoritative as a source.

I heard that after WWII the US occupation administered a national literacy test to see if Japanese people were as literate as their US counterparts, as it was becoming a serious idea to replace the existing writing system with the US alphabet. It was found that their literacy level was comparable so they didn't change anything so drastically.

Consider that learning to read kanji is much different from (easier than) learning to write them. There are a ton of contextual clues when reading, and furigana inserted by the publisher if the kanji would be hard to read for the target demographic. There is also the option of just substituting kana for hard-to-read kanji. Publishers and writers will obviously add furigana to any kanji that are hard to read as they have a monetary motivation to make their content as accessible as possible.

So you tend to pick up a lot of kanji based on these contextual clues and furigana over the years if you read anything, similar to how English speakers learn spellings of words when they read a word they've only "heard" before.

Writing is harder because when writing you will sometimes struggle to remember the correct kanji to use, or sometimes forget a small portion of the kanji. This is the why schools need to spend so much time teaching kanji as a subject of itself.
Sure, the candidate may say things they like but since when do politicians do everything they say? They are going to prioritize whatever has the most money behind it.
That's correct. As long as you have the correct apk with the same signature as the one you already have installed you can update without issue (I've done it myself several times).

The opposite also applies, if you install a signed previous version, play store will update it.
> I do object to simple fear-mongering over yet another new thing to be afraid of in our world

The world is full of dangers, large and small, and it's normal for adults to discuss and evaluate them. For example, if I've left a cupboard open, I might say "oh hey, watch your head" as you walk into the kitchen -- even though it's less dangerous than a falling anvil. Microplastics are a relatively novel phenomenon, and therefore an active area of scientific research.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the risks in the world, and the consequences of living in a society, maybe that's a sign that you should step away from the news for a while. Read a book, paint a picture, play an instrument, go fishing, or something that will get you and your attention away from computers and phones for an extended period.
We have an high tech whiteboard in the office I work.

And it is fine, it is always on, you can draw as soon as you pick the stylo, the UI is minimal to non existent, you just you can drag the screen left or right to get more screen estate and when you are done you can email the result to your inbox. I actually like it.

It is not significantly better than a whiteboard, but also not worse. It is probably 100x more expensive though.

Edit: it might be cheaper than having someone that make sure that working markers are always available which is a common failure mode of phisical whiteboard. How long this will last we will have to see.
It wasnt just good, it was almost broadcast quality :) This was still a time of CIF 352x288/QVGA 320x240 webcams with interpolated 640x480 modes. "High-End" Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000 produced something like this https://secure40.securewebsession.com/mikeshardware.site.apl...
why are you mirroring website's content?
SoftBank launches Spac and may buy one of its own investments
What does privacy mean under surveillance capitalism?
People pirate because organizations like the RIAA/MPAA have perverted the democratic process to ensure draconian consequences for downloading a couple megabytes of information. They don't care about paying artists more, they don't care about working to provide a platform to curb piracy, they only want to enrich their bottom lines.

Fuck them, and fuck anyone else defending them.
It was proposed when it was posted, two weeks ago. It's now no longer proposed, but actually passed, as part of the covid relief bill. Unless Trump vetos it, it will be legislation quite soon.
> Getting Kubernetes up and running isn't really the issue anymore, that's pretty easy to do. The tricky part is long term maintenance and storage.

This times 100. Deploying basic clusters is easy. Keeping a test/dev-cluster running for a while? Sure. Keeping production clusters running (TLS cert TTLs expiring, anyone?), upgrading to new K8s versions, proper monitoring (the whole stack, not just your app or the control-plane), provisioning (local) storage,... is where difficulties lie.
Whenever I took my vehicles in for service at a dealership, they would always provide a form for me to sign to pre-authorize any work they deem necessary. I always leave those forms blank. Never had an issue.

Whenever I go to a new doctor or medical facility, they always ask for tons of personal information such as my social security number. I always leave most of that blank. Never had a problem.

I've never been asked to write a blank check for a medical operation like I have at a dealership, but perhaps we should just make such practices illegal?
Leaked documents from Nintendo investigation of hacker in 2013
GOG isn't perfect. Rights holders are still keeping plenty of niche games inaccessible to most. You can check the wishlist on GOG itself to see the latent demand.

All that said, the market compensation for fully FOSS games (assets+code) is a drop in the bucket compared to proprietary games.
Probably because news articles don't use his name in their headlines
As someone else pointed out, it is indeed published on F-Droid, as well as on the torproject web site.
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A recent leak shows that Nintendo has "stalked" various console hackers with private investigators, trying to coerce them into settling on an NDA.

I thought this was very interesting - is this kind of behaviour/planning common in other industries as well, or is this a consequence of Nintendo's/Japanese company culture?

Marcan(popular console hacker, often seen on HN as well) recently tweeted about his experience, apparently noting that the company seems to have changed their ways in recent years: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1341330839993339905
I love this. It's so easy to use and works great on a trackpad. I'm going to start using it in my meetings.

Nice job!

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EDIT: After playing with it for a bit, I have some feedback :)

- Sometimes, I accidentally press Z instead of shift, or vice versa. I would love to have undo! Backspace or delete hotkey would be perfect.

- For selecting colors, it would be great to just be able to press 1,2,3,4 (rather than cycling through).

- I often forget what color I have selected. Perhaps the cursor could be colored to indicate this?

- When typing text, my first instinct was to use the arrow keys to move the cursor around, but this doesn't work. Also, it's hard to select where the cursor should go to edit.

- The shift and Z hotkeys are great. But I don't quite understand selecting the tools. If I can just hold down Z to erase, why would I ever select the eraser tool? It seems like the most efficient approach is to only ever have the text tool selected, so that at any time I can click to create text, but otherwise I use Z/shift to draw.
I don't think that confronts the clustering of unrelated issues. It seems much more to be a tool of hiding things behind the ability to make blanket statements about who voted for certain bills when the complexity to explain why is far beyond how involved most voters will be.
Fun fact, this is how Crunchyroll started. Illegal for-profit streaming site which eventually turned legal. And now Funimation is set to buy the site for $1.175b from AT&T.
I have been bemused and disappointed that with all the high-end talent in Hollywood, there has been such a long-term tolerance for the trope of crappy sound and badly-lit faces that we continue to see on remote feeds from the "homes of the stars." I have come to believe that directors think the audience wants to see the talent are "roughing it".
Don't agree with AOC on much, but she's dead right on this one. I do wish the New Left and New Right could at least unite around getting rid of this kind of entrenched BS instead of (okay, at least in addition to) constantly dunking on each other.
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Why not use something like Splitwise for tracking IOUs? What use is a blockchain/cryptocurrency for this?
You could use PopcornTime for showing copyright-free videos, they exist
on pace for 15% increase YoY, approx ~0.9% compared to long-term of 0.8%

also the largest population ever counted here as well, one should expect this number to go up with population growth
You can check the refresh rate as follows. Open System Preferences, then click on Displays. There's a radio button, titled "Scaled". Option-click that radio button, and you'll see a pull-down menu, titled "Refresh Rate". It should be 60 Hz or higher.
We have themes and extensions (different experience, same codebase), we have libinput, X11/Wayland (same codebase). It is the same old question "why many languages, libraries, frameworks?"

Can you imagine if engine was interchangeable between car models, planes and ships too? But also appliances, power plants, rockets maybe?

You may enjoy Nissan Leaf commercial - it questions only engine type though, not universal transmission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vog7yDmcDNQ
reminds me of the http://vanilla-js.com/ which is actually a parody, but also... not?
Preach! Websites don’t seem all that much better to me than they did 10 years ago [^fn], so what are we gaining with all these much more complex and fragile tools?

[fn]: Arguably, the web is worse with chat bots, sticky headers, and modals constantly vying for your attention.
No a submarine blockade can't do it unless Turkey allows it. Submarines would have to operate in Turkish territorial waters and would be vulnerable to their ASW defenses.
Staying ahead of the competition with executable specifications
System Preferences can also show this, check my other comment in this thread.
> I don't understand how they get away with that.

99% of people don't confront them.
The photo on Google Maps shows a cruise ship, and the map shows a harbor. Perhaps a fixed bridge with enough clearance is impossible and one that opens not any cheaper than a tunnel?
It's always nice when you want to make a comment and it's already the top one. Happens a lot on HN.

Indeed, some of these are possible to falsify with experiments. For example:

> 14. A good type system is worth its weight plus some.

See e.g. what Dan Luu has written on this subject.
The reason healthcare is not a free market in the US are not market's fault etc. The govt restricts supply, subsidizes demand directly, and also created the system where insurance is tied to work so the major consumers are completely price insensitive... that is why healthcare is expensive.
How I side project
I was at Netflix when we decided to undertake splitting DVD and Streaming. We had chosen to make that change, and had high motivation to do it. It still took about seven years to finish that task.

Google is even more entangled than Netflix was. I suspect it would take them at least a decade to execute a split like that.
Oooh thanks for sharing. I really appreciate the simple keyboard layout, and that I can jump in without signup and sharing a link is very simple.
Interesting topic for a research project: create a bill outlining/condensing application which takes the final text as input and enables legislators to quickly get the gist of the high points and skip over narrative text, formatting, even penalties (perhaps color code those or something) — there would be lots of opportunities for the creative presentation of the material to suit various legislator's needs &/or preferences.

I could even see clever presentations like a pie chart illustrating how much of a bill is actually related to the topic at hand. That would make a fantastic tool for an opposition member to use in order to illustrate the absurdities of these omnibus bills.
A while ago, way before SPA were cool and even AngularJS was around, I had done something sort of like this, based on Ajax calls though, so the underlying tech was definitely different.

While this is truly clever and being based on sockets does seem to simplify communications between client and server, I'm not fully convinced.

Currently I see client side rendering as a way to delegate some computing to the clients. Which is a nice way to lower operating costs.

I can see the benefit of this and the reasoning behind it. Because SPA still need a server (serverless still implies server side coding) as long as you are executing code on the client you need two codebases. One for the client, one server side.

With this solution it would seem that it's possible to serve a web app with only one codebase, so that's definitely a plus. But then performance and costs do preoccupy me a little.

Perhaps the ideal scenario for this tech would be for (enterprise) apps to be deployed on proprietary servers, where scale is a minor concern.
That still doesn’t change the fact that this is a huge investment for 50,000 people. Those tunnels will likely never pay for themselves
> dare people to vote against or veto it.

Why vote against it or veto when you can just never bring it to a vote?
This is so great! I've been looking for a solution to no avail but I have not seen that one. Yes I use DP cable. I'll try that. Thank you so much!
The same way there is a protuberance to fit large lenses on the back of phones, there should be one on top of laptop monitors. The exterior of the laptop wouldn't change but we would be able to get a smartphone-like camera in a laptop. Add in features such as an led strip to improve lighting, market the product to people who use their laptop mostly for video conferencing and that surely would be a hit.
I wonder, how much of that I get everytime I brush my teeth.
Qatar can buy the votes of individual congressmen for only a couple thousand. 100k can buy a lot more.

Source from Center for International Policy:

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/3ba8a1_eae58acd2c11459894d8...

If you are sketched out by the direct link you can also find it by scrolling down on this page:

https://www.internationalpolicy.org/program/Foreign-Influenc...
If store B is actually the black market then you actually did steal from the one producing whatever you bought or possibly from store A.

What do you mean by your first sentence? I am fairly sure that movies do actually cost quite a lot to produce.
Yes, if you are the one distributing the podcast directly on a platform you control and the platform is primarily to distribute music you don't own the copyright to, it doesn't matter if you happen to be dancing while the music is playing, that is copyright infringement and under this law would be criminal.

You can always have a podcast that reviews songs, and people have been reviewing songs for as long as there has been music without the need to play substantial portions of the song itself. You just can't be the one distributing songs as a commercial enterprise and then saying that because there's a video of you dancing that makes copyright infringement acceptable.
Still laughing. Thanks!
Android is not under a roof.

Google's services are, and they are not Android.
Code128 has a mandatory checksum, so I'm surprised they try to do it with a font.

Code39 is pretty common to convert into a font, since the checksum is optional.
You're right, I just successfully updated Tor Browser with an apk. In the past I've had errors updating other apps, presumably because they used Google's signing services, I assumed it was the same for all apps but was wrong. Thanks for pointing that out, I edited the comment.
America: Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations

China: Wealth does not survive three generations

Japan: The third generation ruins the house

Italy: From stables to stars to stables

Australia: From goon to Grange to goon

England: Clogs to clogs is only three generations

Scotland: The father buys, the son builds, the grandchild sells, and his son begs
You can see a lot just with tcpdump on your router: either buy one supported by openwrt or buy a model with shell access available out of the box.

You can also use tcpdump to save a pcap file that can then be analyzed with wireshark.
Also a Vet - I'd be fine with giving them a second chance - as enlisted men. Once they've proven they can be soldiers, they're welcome to re-attempt becoming officers.

The lack of quality officers was, and still is, one of the most egregious failings I encountered throughout my service.
Part of me wants you to go on r/cscareerquestions and ask them all honestly about how to sandbag your resume :P.
Ask HN: Future proof project documentation?
I have been tasked with coming up with ideas for the best way to migrate a very large and very fragmented documentation base spanning 30+ years to a more manageable system. The current documentation is in every proprietary file format / cloud system imaginable (Lotus Notes, GDoc, SharePoint, shared network folders).

In my dreams I would like everyone to start maintaining all documentation in plain text (markdown probably?), checked in the same repository as the source code, with possibly a simple cron job to convert everything to a static html webpage every night. While I think this is the best system, discussing casually with colleagues (mostly EE, not CS) has revealed the following roadblocks to my plan:

1. Reluctance to learn Markdown, which is seen as a new fancy technology to learn. Given the math heavy lean of the documentation, and the mess that is Latex math notation, is sort of understandable. Also, I am worried about the lack of a standard for Markdown, but I like how instant it is to learn.

2. Limited knowledge on the team of the small amount of web technology that it would take to maintain this infrastructure.

The last thing that I want to do is to go back to a proprietary platform as our IT group pulls this rug out on us every ~5 years. I tried a web search but mostly came up with quick buzz-word heavy blogs and landing pages for proprietary systems.

Does anyone have any experience doing this for documentation? What are the drawbacks? Are there any pitfalls that I am missing that make this a foolish idea? Any high quality resources or blog posts that I can take ideas from?

Thanks in advance!
> Integrating a password manager with a browser is too fragile and risky way of using both. It is best to have them fully separated so they can't communicate. They should communicate exclusively via the user.

Passwords are about proving identity. Using high entropy passwords for greater confidence of user identity is only part of the equation, the user needs to be able to identify the validity of the service as well.

The greatest benefit of an autofill enabled password manager is it handles the task of URL validation before offering up credentials. When you split up that function, now it's back to relying on humans to get everything right on verifying credentials get submitted only to the intended service.
You can have different choices - one that's closed and one that's open -- both have advantages and disadvantages. I like the android ecosystem but I understand the apple one too. I can choose which one I'd like to be in.
That's an excellent point. I am aware of the bitterness trap, and it's something I have take into account in life as it is a very potent danger, especially for people with my personality type.

In this case, I made the analogy with feudalism because the perspective seemed to fall in the diagonally opposite trap, that of just-world or bootstrap thinking. I believe the equilibrium lies in trying to see power relations as they are, which is obviously a difficult task that I don't claim to be proficient at. These power relations are wrapped in so many social constructs that my intuition tells me to be extra-critical to correct for these hidden influences.

Another aspect is that I don't have an outlet to discuss intense topics in real life, so I jump at the chance online. I hope other posters can relate to this ;)
And perhaps the issue is on the current version, or in the play store description, which Google doesn't like or noticed now.

That's right, sometimes you can't publish an update because the play store description, which was approved in the past, isn't now.

Sometimes it's the opposite, the app (which is published) has a problem and you can't change a dot from the play store description unless you send a fixed version.
> LYING about it, hiding it, or attempting to cover it up or show ANY KIND of dishonesty is what prevents you from continuing in the process.

This is false. Polygraph tests do not detect lies.

The polygraph is pseudoscientific snake oil, used to perpetuate fear.

https://antipolygraph.org/
yeah... fallback is not a problem, you can always long-poll as socket.io has done for years
At the risk of putting words in OPs mouth, sounds like SCRUM burn out and continually keeping up with changing tech. I wish them the best of luck with their change of career.
The article didn't mention why this particular VPN was taken down. Does anyone know?
Just seems like something from a far more ideal world that isn't cutthroat capitalism and information warfare.

This exposes way too much personal information.

For hiring it may flag HR paranoia.

The level of detail suggests self-awareness that psychology has shown to not exist in practically all people, or it will be a platform for career posturing like your resume and linked in.

So you're either lying to yourself, or lying to other people.
Are Android users even customers of Google? Aren't customers the people who... buy stuff from a company?
C++ logging library – check out my new logger
Hello everyone,

I'm writing this post in regard to the new c++ logging library that I am working on.

• Written in modern C++17/20

• Very fast non-async logging (async logging is yet to be implemented)

• Verbosity levels

• Various thread-safe log sinks

‣ Console (stdout, stderr)

‣ File

• Support for both compile-time and runtime sink configuration

• Custom sink configuration - each sink can have a unique log pattern and verbosity level

• Log formatting according to a custom user-defined pattern

• Custom pattern attributes

• Global logger registry

• High extensibility - very easy to add your own types of sinks and loggers

• Very configurable - it uses policy classes which you can just plug in based on your needs. At the same time, convenient easy-to-use predefined types are made for the people who want simplicity without too much configuration. Most of the time you will be just fine with using the predefined types. They can be found at the top of the "lwlog.h" file.

What is yet not implemented is:

• Portable colors (the colors are only handled with escape sequences, there is still no cross-platform coloring since some consoles do not support escape sequences)

• Async logger

• UTF support

I have done benchmarks against spdlog, and you can take a look at them in the README in the repository

Also benchmarking is not done correctly in the main repository. I have benchmarks in my private dev repository and I am benchmarking either with picobench or nanobench. So if you want to benchmark, do NOT rely on the Benchmark.h file in the project (it's a temporary file that is meant to be removed)

I would be very glad and honored if you drop a critique, an opinion, an idea, or want to contribute to the project: https://github.com/ChristianPanov/lwlog
You do realize this legislation is sponsored by Democrats, right?