skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that unusual. Japanese, Korean, and traditional Chinese are primarily written vertically, in columns right to left: https://i.imgur.com/Jai2Qcm.png The common exception is technical works, and translations, which from the early 20th century onward are often horizontal and left-to-right to allow using the Latin alphabet, math equations, etc.

Well, not quite. That was the situation until very recently. It's now mostly horizontal. Almost everything on a computer is horizontal. The first Korean newspaper to switch to horizontal text did so in 1988. It was universal by the mid-90s. Japanese is probably the most resistant and has its traditionalist holdouts in novels and some print newspapers. But horizontal text is ascendant there too.

While those languages are basically compatible with writing in any direction, this shift is mostly because software can't handle vertical text. It was terrible when computer typesetting first took off. Even today for publication quality, it probably requires specialized software. So the answer is that UI's don't handle it. It's almost always a disaster in software. The traditional writing system of several major world languages is simply not properly supported by most software, and much still fails completely.

An observation to close with: perhaps ironically, the Mongolian script is from the Syriac alphabet that went along the silk road route, and is distantly related to the Latin alphabet. It was rotated 90 degrees probably for no other reason than because it works well alongside vertical Chinese. It seems that rotating to get along is a recurring theme.
Re-entry is a bit of a feature, though - should a satellite be DOA, it will be in a low orbit and burn up faster.
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It's interesting to see so many of these satellites are listed as "Bright" in my area.

Before the launches, the HN crowd promised repeatedly that nobody would be able to see these satellites and they would not change the night sky at all, and that that looking up in wonder is only something that old people and luddites do, because nothing is more important than global always-on sacred holy internet access.
I spent a solid 5 minutes trying to get what this project had to do with the Pinecone board, the BL602 based dev board by Pine64.org. In my head IoT over secure decentralized channels made sense, so it had to be a connection somewhere:)
E-mailed. :-)
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They already have one
> In the critical social justice paradigm, Jews, who have never been seen as white by those for whom being white is a moral good, are now seen as white by those for whom whiteness is an unmitigated evil.

Being seen as white is in fact now a net advantage for Jews in the US, who thus avoid being singled out as a particularly "privileged race". I bet that if statistics separated Jews from the rest of the white population, their success would stick out as the supreme privilege (and proportionally the rest of the white population would be seen as rather less successful). It's an advantage for proponents of critical race theory, too, who would otherwise have to accuse of privilege exactly those who are associated with the greatest possible victimhood, short-circuiting the whole ideology.
Thank you! Yup, that's basically why I made it!

> More details on how the encryption for server sync works would be helpful for assessing security.

Good point - I'll add something more detailed to the README shortly

For now though, it's fairly simple. Almost all of the information is first serialized with MessagePack, and then encrypted using libsodium's secretbox. This blob is what ends up being POSTed to the server

The only other information available to the server operator is

- the username/email address/hashed password of the user
- the UUID of this history item
- the history timestamp (needed for sync at the moment)
- the hash of the machine's hostname (also useful for sync)
... you do understand that on any phone you can just not click the "QR code" notification? But of course reminding people to not be shitheads is "preventing accountability"...
Yeah, but my guess is the people who took your old books will probably not actually read them and then will donate them somewhere else in the future.

We have an aversion to throwing out books out of principle, but sometimes you just have to admit that a book is worthless and perfectly fine to throw out.
Your subjective appraisal of their aesthetic appearance has virtually nothing to do with how well engineered they are and is not the issue being contested.
> if it allows us to escape government stupidity it's more than worth it.

It doesn't and it won't. If governments outlaw crypto currencies you have no way to use them.

I live in a country where my government and the banks are OK, there is no problem to be solved.

Inventing non-existing problems to justify this crypto-madness is dishonest.
> I don’t think it’s fair to say “lockdowns work” when you really mean “lockdowns work at the very start of an outbreak when paired with a strong contract tracing, quarantine, and border sealing.”

Well, I was initially responding to a context-free claim about them not working. I agree, my response was also a bit light on context, and it made a stronger claim than was warranted.

> Total speculation, but I think the US would have had to implement the NZ plan + military on the borders + internal restrictions on travel to different metro areas in Feb. 2020 to have really successfully avoided Covid.

That may be true. It might not be. I think we will never know, because official policy at the time was 'don't test sick people [1], sweep everything under the rug to make the numbers look good, don't let private providers test people, institute a delayed travel ban that does not include Europe.'

[1] Unless they recently traveled from a foreign outbreak area. I remember reading about the hoops people had to jump through to get tested - and how many of them just gave up on the whole thing. Official policy was not to test non-travelers, because there was no evidence of community spread. Of course, if you never test anyone, you won't find any...
And to everyone who is vaccinated, since no vaccine is 100% reliable.
The problem is not misinformation. The problem is that people no longer trust "experts," "authority," "scientists" etc as much as they used to, because that trust was betrayed. When you lie to people repeatedly about something important, they stop trusting you. That's why we have that story about the boy and wolves.

Stop blaming the public for believing "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories." In the past few years, many of those "conspiracy theories" have turned out to be more truthful than what you were telling them. They're just being rational actors.

If you (the media establishment) want your relevancy back, you're not going to get it by insulting your former audience at higher and higher volume. If you want people to start listening to you again, you're going to have to stop lying for money (or at least drastically cut down on it). Barring that, you will continue to fade into obsolescence, replaced with a field of new info sources.
The other way round is the time I left a negative review for a phone case. I was emailed every day automatically by the seller directly to my email from theirs to retract my negative review. I asked them to stop. They didn’t.

I reported this to Microsoft as it was an outlook.com source address. Microsoft did nothing. My junk mail folder was starting to fill.

After about two months of this i got passive aggressive and set up a script to email them a 20 meg gif with “fuck you” tiled on it hourly to their mailbox. After about a day they got the point and I stopped receiving emails.

I think amazon have stopped sellers getting hold of buyers emails directly now though.
> Tesla just doing something "to be different", and paying the price for it.

I own a Model Y, and there are absolutely things I wish they just keep the status-quo.

- Navigation / map data here in Tennessee is frankly awful. Much worse than Google Maps. Missing locations, wrong/inefficient routes is common.

- Turn signals. Infuriating, just stay up and down when engaged like every other turn signal.

- No windshield wiper physical control. Add it to one of the stocks. Using the touchscreen to control wipers is silly.

- No HUD. A optional HUD that displays: gear, speed, battery percent, and direction would be super useful and a missing feature from a $50k+ car.
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I am really confused by this article. The section "First An Issue" is a great example of how NOT to teach math.

First, the class of sequences under consideration is not clearly defined. (I am not going to invest time solving a problem, if I am not sure about the definitions involved, constant coefficient/variable coefficient etc).

Second, a question is asked "Is a product of two such sequences also of the same form?" and the meaning of product is also not clearly defined.

Third, the author links to an article whose PDF on the publishers website is unreadable, and does not seem to answer the question from what I can tell. The only purpose linking to this article serves is intimidation.

There is a happy ending to my rant. I googled the topic alluded to by the author and found a clear post explaining the solution. In this stackexchange post the question and solution are both clearly stated.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1348838/sum-and-pro...
I'd assume much of that was new, as cloths regularly fail to sell.
because C++ allows RVO and not C (as this is technically a change in behaviour as one may instrument memcpy - there are also a few cases where the copying of the return value of a function is observable so this does not fall under the default "as-if" rule of optimization)
WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy
Is that before or after the floppy-based QNX?
Printed t-shirts at my local Goodwill are more expensive than brand new ones at Wal-Mart a few blocks away. Goodwill seems like it's only a good deal if you're buying whatever higher end stuff they happen to have.
I have been an engineering manager for 2+ years.
Being hounded by debt collection agencies for months on end is miserable even if you don't end up needing to pay.
Building an Open Source GPU
I'll take one last stab at this. Founder of Chip11 here, we're on a mission to disrupt the currently siloed Silicon industry by building an ecosystem of open source hardware components.

Our progress so far:

- we're funded

- functional/verified LPDDR4/5 PHY

- functional/verified SERDES PHY

- GPU RTL running some basic 3d application

- CPU RTL running some basic C code

Hoping to meet someone passionate about GPU and GPU driver design.
I don't know the context of the quote, but I don't think it's necessarily elitist.

I have a lot of non-programmer friends who sometimes say that programming must be very dry and boring. My shiny go-to example to convince them otherwise is a nice desktop planetarium app, which you can't develop without first learning how the solar system works. Once you do you can write that down in code - an executable, computing form of knowledge, a living document that allows you to tinker, refine, share, reproduce. Software truly is pretty neat as a human societal tool with a wide range of applications.

It should be for everyone. The other thing I tell them: If you've ever been in bed in the morning and planned out your steps for how to get that cup of coffee you need, designing an efficient bed-to-coffee algorithm, you've already been a a programmer.
Apple (and I’m pretty sure ARM as well) does not want you writing programs that rely on its proprietary extensions to the ISA. The specific things mentioned here are either not exposed to userspace or wrapped in API that hides these implementation details so that third party developers don’t have to deal with them. And Apple changes all these almost every year, which they certainly wouldn’t be able to do if they exposed these; you’ll note that some of my experiments that I wrote not even a year ago are linked in the article as being fundamentally broken now.
This has been my observation as well: I see these often in slightly more affluent neighborhoods, not at all in less well-off neighborhoods. It doesn't help that LFL's are much harder to get going (approval from management) in apartment complexes. For this reason I take all my books to local laundry mats: most have a book repository area with a sign to encourage swaps. Since laundry mats are often used by apartment dwellers without built-in laundry facilities, it at least covers some of that factor.

Regardless though, even if LFL tends towards more well-off neighborhoods, that doesn't take away from the merit of the concept. It just means that book access for other areas of the socioeconomic ladder need different solutions.
500K is very cheap for the leadership of an organization the size of Goodwill. Calling 500K "top dollar" for a 100,000 strong organization is ridiculous.
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Conspiracy BS because it cherry picks ideas to support a conclusion.

The implied conclusion is that Covid has been exaggerated to sell vaccines

Cherry picking exapmple: "criticized GAVI for focussing on funding expensive new vaccines and neglecting to give children cheap old ones" Two minutes reading the article on Wiki tells me that the purpose of the organisation is to facilitate access to new vaccines, expensive patented ones. Access to non patented cheap vaccines does not need a group like this.

Hardly worth bothering about, but the question was asked. That is why "conspiracy BS"
Note that these features exist on the M1.
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Is this how the Python `aws` CLI and boto is implemented?
thank you! mobile is my biggest issue as well.

to add to what you wrote, mobile web has this nasty bug with code sections with a horizontal scrolling bar inside a page that already has a horizontal scrolling bar. these two don't play well.
You can do a little more if you have root access, like use XPrivacyLua to restrict the amount of data and hardware apps like your browser have access to, and AdAway to block ads globally (protects you from app telemetry that shares data with third parties). You can also run a DoT server and point your phone there to protect your DNS queries from random WiFi networks you may have to connect to, or better run a VPN server and stay connected to it. Also whenever you can, always replace the OS that comes preinstalled with LineageOS (just makes sure everything works for your phone, like the camera and LTE). With the latest LineageOS you can also restrict internet access per app and per network type, though AFWall+ still gives better control over that. For the extremely suspicious apps you can install them on the work profile for extra isolation with Island (Play Store) or Insular (F-Droid).
Do you want to know the real "problem"?

It takes a long time to develop biotech, test it, approve it, market it, and make money. There is also a limited market (ie the people sick with that condition, specifically in rich countries). The reason tech companies make money, grow/iterate, pay more, is because they are in a field that does not require the same oversight and moral safety obligations (maybe they should to an extent) as well as being marketable to basically everyone in rich countries.
Similar higher-than-rated-bandwidth can be achieved on the TRS-80 Model 100, which uses an array of 10 HD44102 controllers. With an FPGA it is possible to draw full motion video on the LCD: https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1092410264316653568
What's wrong with influence?

There is a thing called Radio Liberty / Radio Free Europe since 1949. It still exists.
Exploiting is a tricky word, the argument that they have used in the past is that they more or less employ them as a charity and if they had to pay normal minimum wages would not.

I don't know the specifics of what people were making, but when I was working at Burger King in college we had a disabled person who did approximately nothing, and had a caretaker in the lobby waiting for the shift to end the whole time. But it was good for him to get out and interact with people.
You mean "To be grim...."
Many such examples: https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/new-study-shows-mass-sur...

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html
I limited the search to “brian research”, the first link takes me to a “Brian Research Centre”.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22b...
the volume/variety may have increased, but the value-finds have gotten much worse.

As a kid I used to frequent the Goodwill Electronics Waste store in Santa Ana, you could kit entire machines together for just a few twenties; the value of the parts compared to their once retail price was maybe 5 or 10 % of the MSRP even back then.

I went back two years ago to satisfy my nostalgia and found the place now filled with 3-4 year old product that hovered around the cost to buy the same parts on an online vendor of some sort, and any of the interestingly-old-but-useless equipment like old ISA video cards/early PCI stuff/AT keyboards/anything beige was marked up so huge by some staffer that mistook vintage for value that it was absolutely impossible to find anything worth buying.

Water damaged gameboy faded-grey cartridge? 200 dollars.

Pentium 3 e-Machine? 300 dollars.

480 line composite security camera with no power supply and no hope that it will ever do anything useful ever again in the future?

Does it have a beige or metal casing? 200 dollars.

I think I ended up finding some cheap molex-style 12v fan to buy for a few bucks (more than any online retailer, still), but it was mostly just a guilt purchase to help support the Goodwill.

I left incredibly disappointed.
Facebook and Amazon can both track you individually and correlate accounts because you need an account under your real name to use the service. They can just choose to share this information with each other. This only prevents services from using IDFA to correlate pseudonymous accounts or across services that don't require accounts at all.

I especially don't understand the complaint from Facebook with reference to the four plus apps they have where users may very well just use the same account. As it stands, they've been wildly inconsistent about this. Here is Mark Zuckerberg only six weeks ago claiming this change would be good for Facebook: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/as-apple-app-trackin...
Wikipedia says in the article on "Languages of the Soviet Union": "After 1937, all languages that had received new alphabets after 1917 began using the Cyrillic alphabet."

If you've got a bilingual society I can imagine it makes life easier if both languages use the same alphabet, particularly in the days of mechanical typewriters. But think too about road signs, for example, which could be written in the local language but still mostly comprehensible for Russian speakers who don't know the local language if it's the same alphabet (though there's still the classic problem of "Why are half the streets round here called Einbahnstraße?"). Learning to read a new alphabet at speed is surprisingly difficult. I'm surprised by how hard it is for me, anyway.
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The question of SARS-CoV-2’s origin has little bearing on the trajectory of the current pandemic. But it’s hugely important when it comes to preventing future pandemics.

If the research that supposedly protects us from zoonotic spillovers is in fact increasing the net pandemic risk (due to human error, accident, etc), then that research needs to be halted. At the very least, it should be limited and done only under tightly controlled conditions. This would require international agreement, and perhaps an auditing regime with actual teeth.

One thing is for sure though: we will never sort this out if we leave it to the WHO, and to certain researchers who have a personal/financial stake in preserving the status quo.“

The institution like china, lancet, the virologist community ... is what worry me more. Accident happened. But if this is nuclear accident ... but it seems we can let Soviet Union covered up the investigation to the nuclear plant accident because it is funded by America.

Without fixing the institution all is lost.

And it seemed instead of fixing it the America would let the technology that grounded the other “dangerous” way of making vaccines to everyone without ip protection. Commerical interest whilst is not the best way to protect is still an alternative to this scientific community that seems not able to. At least sine did not.

Government, public institutions, medical, scientific, commercial, social, media ... what is left.

Good luck humanity.
The Ashtray Maze is one of the funnest gaming experiences I’ve had in a long time.

Was just smiling the whole time playing that level.
But the countryside is more vast than police can monitor.
One of my best memories from high school math was our teacher taking us outside to measure the height of our building after teaching us trigonometry.

We took a triangular ruler outside, leveled the base and lined it up by eye with the top of the building. Then we measured the distance to the point where we were standing and the distance from the ground to the ruler.

I really wish education reduced the amount of rote learning involved and focused more on letting students explore and make mistakes with the educator as a guide.
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That's an odd set of initial services.

I was thinking that it might be just some newer services, but then I saw DynamoDB which has been around for quite a while.
In the context of the rest of my comment SARS, MERS... so we know that deadly variants of coronavirus break into the human population. But THIS one is the lab leak...
Wife is a PhD Animal Geneticist, but works as government inspector on slaughterhouses. Makes 3-4 times the money her research colleagues do.

I'm not even sure what to think of it, honestly.
Show HN: Direktiv adding your own serverless custom plugins (any language)
I couldn't sleep two nights ago, and went outside at around 5 am. I looked up, and was astonished. It was a full moon I think, and the satellights looked magnificent. Those satellites will steer a lot of young kids into science. I was to young to fully appreciate us going to the moon, but seeing a perfectly spaced row of "stars" above my home while the neighborhood was dead silent was something I will always remember.

This was in the Bay Area. I'm living in Fairfax now.

I have been following Starlink since. I haven't had much luck. I thought their telemetry could be configured within seconds, but I guess their are other variables according to Startlink? Oh yea---there is part of me hoping man doesn't overdo it though. This was great, but thousands would be another story.
Tomte use to post a lot of good old stuff. I didn't notice s/he is reposting because the frequency is very low (6 months?) and not too many posts.

Also, it's generally interesting stuff, that raise the bar before I complain.

Edit: * and from a lot of different sources
Sub-minimum wage pay is obviously bad, but why does everyone seem to think that non-profit CEOs shouldn't get competitive salaries? Goodwill has tens of thousands of employees and something like $6 billion in annual revenue. Anyone with the demonstrated skills and experience to run an organization of that scale could earn a very generous compensation package in the private sector.
Might be useful to mention what help you need. It sounds like you have all of the bases covered already!