skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Have you learned Chinese?

Yes, and still am. Not really active anymore since I'm busy with other things. I don't read much, but I can read a book, albeit slow and with much difficulty. Writing I do even less, and handwriting I never really did apart from tests and filling in forms. Speaking and listening I do every day. After a while I just decided to not focus really much on handwriting because it easily takes the most effort for something I actually barely use.

I've played a bit with memory palaces for fun and found them to be effective, but really not for Chinese Characters. I mostly used my own flashcards with Anki. I used pictures and tone colored characters to help. That worked fine, but making the flashcards also took a lot of time so it wasn't really perfect either. Having many synonyms also complicates the whole ordeal. But overall spaced repetition really, really helps with managing lots of vocabulary. You can have a deck of several thousands of words without too many issues. If you find words hard to remember it's also OK to just delete them (Anki also helps with this by automatically labeling cards you often fail as leech).

The mnemonics I use are the "build in" ones in the characters, maybe you already do this by yourself and actively learning them won't change too much. Nearly all characters have some meaning and/or pronunciation component hidden in them which can help you remembering them, or guessing their meaning or sound when you first encounter them.

I don't really think about radicals since those are just arbitrarily chosen components used only for paper dictionaries (and who wants to use those in the age of smartphones...).
Some random examples of interesting components:
疒, is a character that is not used anymore (I think) but it means disease and if any character has this component you can be very sure it's some kind of disease.

月 is a tricky one. It's moon and it often really doesn't make sense in words until you know that 肉 is often corrupted into 月. The 月 in 脑 doesn't mean moon but meat/flesh.

Some characters change depending on where they appear as components: 水/氵, 人/亻.

I like to use the Outlier Linguistic Dictionary on Pleco for looking up how characters are build up and see if it can help me remembering the character. I find little stories help me to remember words/characters. A character I forgot how to write and just looked up: 虹 (rainbow). It' made of the component snake/insect/worm because the ancient Chinese thought it looked like a snake in the sky. 工 is there for sound because gong/hong sound similar.
Or 取 (take/get/fetch), it's literally a hand taking an ear.

I don't think mnemonics is the One Easy Trick that will make your routine 10x more efficient, but depending on how you learn now it could really boost your efficiency. If you're not using any form of spaced repetition yet I think that really could be it.
Yeah, because we have a -1000 points on death built-in.
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Not going to be merged into a release branch yet, this is more of a "status update, give it a try" posting. We'll certainly see a few more of those before we get a proper Rust-enabled Linux release.
I think efficacy is usually defined as preventing symptoms, a higher bar than preventing hospitalizations. I believe most vaccines were extremely successful at preventing hospitalizations.

Edit: Pfizer's primary endpoint was efficacy against lab-confirmed Covid-19 [1].

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577
Frankly, the dystopia is an economy that forces me to be friends with randos who also passed through the filter, and not with people I would pick.

The dystopia for HR is the burden these apps alleviate.

Stop accepting contrived gate keeping and gifting unwarranted political privilege on corporations if you all are sick of this.

It's public agency that’s the problem. Everyone hates the way the world works while they keep shuffling into that office or opening that laptop.

I have little sympathy for smart people who fail to realize Bezos and the rest literally have no leash attached to them.
its a welcome addition to the cf worker ecosystem especially because of the features that are missing in most alternatives. however deno would lend itself much better to running cf workers locally and also i feel after the 4th cf workers testing environment it would be time to focus not on "simulation" or local testing but to start projects with the goal of being a compatible production ready implementation. such a project could be used for local testing and also for creating cf worker compatible services like deno deploy or just a compatible docker container that runs in your datacenter as an alternative to a nodejs express server, the possibilities are endless.
Someone didn't understand compliance. To have painted yourself into that tight of a corner is just bad policy. I've been involved in half a dozen SOC2 programs and can't imagine how I'd actually be able to create that problem.
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> ” pushing all their crazy beliefs down our throats,”

It always sound both funny and silly to me when people use these terms to describe the presence of equality ideas in movies/shows. I read a review of Brooklyn 99 where the reviewer complained that the episode was ”force-feeding” political discussions to them.

Really? That’s the analogy for it? What is remotely mandatory about including a political topic in a movie? I couldn’t think of anything less mandatory than an arbitrary American movie or show. There are literally thousands and thousands of them. And movie watching is not “required” in any sense or circumstances.

And when you compare one black actor performing a role that you have an opinion that should not be black inside a movie with how much white washing and under representation of black people happen in Hollywood movies, it becomes even sillier to say that you are entitled to have your allegedly white roles being performed by white actors.

How can someone seriously use analogies such as “down the throat” for this kind of message?
I don't disagree with that view, but it's really hard to find positives from the rise of Covid. Everyday life was effectively mutilated for more than a year, we might have to coexist forever with an infectious disease that can debilitate us even after getting "vaccinated", and most of the Western ruling classes were revealed as incompetent buffoons just "winging it" from day to day.

On the other hand, we can now mitigate deadly diseases in less than 12 months, as a species, although we'll be fleeced by pharma companies for the trouble.
Which phone do you use?
Yes, but that moral is attached to a story. Morals and saws work as handles - they're useful for communication if both you and your interlocutor know the thing they're pointing to. Conversely, they are of little use until you read the story from which the moral comes, or personally experience the thing the saw talks about.
Where's the No Starch judgment coming from? While they seem to have started veering into more mainstream/maker-y type stuff over the years, I've never had a single bad book off of them, and in terms of actual physical quality I'm not sure there's any publisher that's better.
Apple’s high reliance on TSMC could backfire
That's a different type of attack. The attacker would need to compromise the validator's signing keys to do that. In crypto, if you have lost control to the signing keys then game over anway.
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None of these options have made the form factor a failure if they were not paired with adequate hardware and software.
Seems like any other bot could push it to the edge. It just requires a failed robot to default to a neutral gear.
It doesn't say otherwise, so I'm guessing the screen is still scratchable plastic, rather than glass.
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No, I don’t think so, and I also don’t think that everyone who disagrees with you is being dishonest. That’s why ideological viewpoints like yours are so misleading.

1. Australians are a tiny minority in America. Most people have never met someone from Australia. Whether they are stigmatized or not is frankly irrelevant. They play almost zero cultural role in American English.

2. Having different pronunciations by default makes it not standard American English. Not sure why this is controversial. If 90% of the country uses a certain pronunciation, why is the 10% one just as valid? Is the avoidance of it discrimination? I don’t think so. More like basic practicality.

3. Again, you seem lost in a loop here. Either AAVE is a separate dialect with its own internal grammar, or it’s an extension of Standard English that uses incorrect grammar. Which is it?

4. Considering that pretty much every other dialect is treated exactly the same way (Appalachian, etc.) it’s pretty clear this has little to do with race, as you are ideologically trying to shoehorn into your argument.

You see some grand conspiracy when the reality is that standard American English has a longer history, more cultural works, and is agreed upon by the majority of the population. It’s really that simple.
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This whole "microeconomy" thing makes me feel uneasy. I personally dislike everything I do everyday being incentivized for some reason, you're telling me I now need to pay my coworker to "help" me with something?

I'm not sure if it is bad though. And would like to hear people's opinion on it.
That's not what I meant.

I simply disagree with the position that it is better to not have the tools integrated for "history" rewriting in a version control system, esp. when that position is presented quite aggressively against VCS that have those tools, when such tools are in practice overwhelmingly used correctly (and where they should be abused overwhelmingly for it to become something to get ride of despite the existence of valid use cases, leaving a huge margins between the real and the straw man situation). I actually would not even call that part of (most of) the tooling "history rewriting" but more "patch preparation" tools, because that's what they are used for. In my books, conflating with the flow WIP changes with "real" commits has little value, but I see value in using some of the same tooling to handle the two. I also typically do not want to long-term track false starts and the WIP history, but if I wanted to I could with git, and that would even be trivial to do.

It is fine for a VCS to not propose anything for history rewriting, it is not fine to criticize others by employing a discourse making it look the mere existence of such possibilities is a mistake that is often abused, when it is not.

BUT if some people found some value in that and good alternative workflows for their projects, with Fossil, good for them. It is just that for now, on my side, I'm (highly) unconvinced. And I'm not forced to use that. And I don't. And if limitations are to be considered a main advantage, I could as well put a few aliases and conf in place to forbid be from invoking some git commands anyway, and continue to happily use the rest...
You are right about the majority of those jobs, I guess. I maybe shouldn't have brought in the quality of the job here.

I actually wanted to make a point against reducing social interactions in everyday life, especially with people outside of our bubble.

But well, I don't really see a way out, that wouldn't be completely illusive at this point, like, valuing well being of humans and nature over productivity gains and because-we-can in technology. That doesn't justify worsen the situation though.

As for me, I try to go only shopping in independent and ecological grocery shops, because of the products and because of the more welcoming atmosphere. Working there is not so bad, it's actually quite nice mostly (I can tell from experience).
> By comparison at 2.9kWh per day panel * 2000 * 640 = 3,712,000 kWh per day from solar.

How is being less efficient by ~10,000,000 kWh per day preferred? That's a significant difference in output. You seem fixated on price and are ignoring the reality that solar panels inconsistently generate that amount of energy whereas nuclear is more stable. If climate change is literally going to destroy the world, then cost should be of less concern than "can it give us the power we need while reducing emissions?"

> Try and hit 100% with nuclear and your stuck with sub 50% capacity factors or your need a lot of grid storage both of which dramatically increases the price.

Can you share what led you to this 50% capacity number?
>So, those people were jailed for mocking the death of a politician, not for merely saying that cowdung does not cure covid.

Again, not illegal to make fun of dead people.
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Rural roads = not that much traffic.
If you don't know statistics, it's time to learn.

Coronavirus was never a big deal unless you were old, sick, or obese. Even with these demographics, it had a 1% death rate, the same order of magnitude as various viral illnesses.

We really should have not blown this out of proportion. I think when people realized we could work from home, people faked fear to enjoy a mini vacation. Media loves fear. Politicians wanted to use this.

Do we spend trillions of dollars a year on safer cars? No, but apparently if we use statistics we should.
To be fair, Debian has popularity-contest. (You have to install the package manually – or via a prompt in the installer; if you don't, you don't even have the tracking code on your system.)
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> i think any decentralised network will eventually skew towards increased centralisation. something we see already in the centralisation of mining and/or network validators.

This actually happened to Mastodon (decentralized social media). Suddenly out of nowhere a new Mastodon Instance/Server become big in Japan, bigger than the server hosted by the Mastodon developer themselves.

However it got blacklisted by the Mastodon developer because certain content "that are legal in Japan" are problematic/illegal in the West. So the network are split in two despite using the same software. Which is ironic since Mastodon are created to make decentralized social media that can't be censored.

Here if you want to read more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15053064
The hard part about programming is that you have to tell the computer what you want it to do.
> 1. There wasn't a consensus, some scientists disagreed

Consensus means "general agreement", it doesn't mean unanimous.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consensus
I believe that when we are presented with a threat our instinct is to identify and classify it to the best of our ability. A comment on HN that has stuck with me:

> Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks

> This didn't address my favorite theory: that (some) kids are programmed to learn as much as they can about the nearby megafauna, and in this world the closest approximation is these big garbage/fire/construction vehicles.

There is an asymmetry between the level of information we can collect in our immediate surroundings and online. The same method that kids employ to detect an unknown and quickly classify it as a non threat with the limited information they have available to them becomes paralyzing when the amount of information available is seemingly infinite. An endless number of threats, and an endless amount of information available about them.

Before the internet and television, how many times would a person feel threatened in their lifetime before a threat materialized that ultimately took their life? What is that number now?
They solved it as long as they can live without contact with anyone else.

As much as it shows what could be done with drastic measures, NZ is an island with small population, in the middle of nowhere so it can easily lock its borders compared to say, pretty much any European country.

They certainly handled it better, but I'm not sure that they will actually be ready to live in a COVID world any time toon without a strong and thorough vaccination rollout like everybody else.

Wanting to keep zero case as all cost is going to be increasingly difficult and expensive to maintain: how long will the population accept that they can't travel? Can an economy partially dependent on tourism afford not to be open? Wouldn't NZ be penalized at some point if business people/athletes/students/engineers/scientists can't fly to or from it?

Even if all western countries had been exemplary -ignoring that it would probably be impossible anyway- as long as we don't ensure that even poorer countries are able to stamp out the virus, there will always remain sources of variants that will continue to spread across the world.

Look at Australia. Small population, big country, huge barriers to entrance (even for residents), extreme quarantine measures, and yet, you only need a single infected person to start spreading again.[1]
As long as the population won't reach the minimum vaccination level required, they will continue to be barred from travelling and get lockdowns.

Looks like the only hope we have is to accept it's there and ensure that the impact remains manageable through vaccination and targetted health control measures.

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/world/sydney-lockdown-cov...
> all static analysis rules should be followed to the letter.

But all static rules should be carefully reviewed as well. Those who wrote those C rules (probably MIRSA, but there are other sets of rules) have a long list of considerations and whys. Many of the rules of exceptions built in so that they can avoid the problems while allowing the useful case. (Ie no memory allocation EXCEPT at startup)
Just remember that you are optimizing for what you actually encoded in your rewards, your system, and your evaluation procedure, not for what narrative you constructed about what you think you are doing.

I had my own expeirience with this when I tried to train "rat" to get out of the maze. I rewarded rats for exiting but for some simple labirynths I generated for testing it was possible to exit it by just going straight ahead. So this strategy quickly dominated my testing population.
Trolls has special enzymes to convert ambient CO2 into glucose so quite hard to practically avoid it.

IMO the only way to suppress trolls is by silencing them systematically, consistently, un-emotionally and thoroughly till their brain becomes confused as to what outcomes were to be expected. Any sign of life or gamble-able metrics coming through reignites their reward system.
The idea that you can start with the good ones doesn't make sense to me. It's the same with literature. There's no guarantee you'll enjoy the "classics". How many books you had to read at school did you really like ?

Finding good works of art is a really hard problem, because what you'll like depends a lot on your personal taste and experience, and it evolves with time. Once you've seen a lot of films you can orient yourself by following directors you like, and if you're lucky you find a film critic you can trust.
One small argument for little endian is that if you have a pointer void* then in little endian format you can interpret it as a int8_t*, int16_t*, etc. (or char*, short*, etc. in old money) and get the same numerical value if the number is small enough that it fits into all the types you try. I don't think that has much practical use but it does have a nice feel about it.
Any shame a person feels for their public contributions is their own.
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What's going on on page 12?

35,251 unvax cases, 34 deaths

4,087 full vax cases, 26 deaths (!?)

I'm guessing the vax population still skews older?
https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/82402134
>Most cars only very, very rarely do long travel at all. And when they do they don't do it very often.

I agree, and this is what I said in my first post. My entire point is that, for most people, a car needs to meet _all_ needs, not 99% of them. Don't get me wrong, EV's are a great step forward, but perhaps hydrogen can solve some problems EV's can not. They might very well introduce more problems than they solve, fair enough. But it seems silly to just brush off possible solutions in favour of an incomplete one. Yet this is what happens every time hydrogen gets mentioned.

>And when they do they stop reasonably often anyway.

You are ignoring the optional vs mandatory difference. Whether it's a problem for you or me personally is irrelevant, the fact is it limits your freedom considerably.
yeah, right... this gonna work.
Totally unrelated (or perhaps due to a parasitic conspiracy idk) Dave Aitel an infosec policy influencer just started a company by the name of cordyceps. First time I heard of it in nearly 50 years of my life was reading his twitter, now it pops up on this timeline few days later.

https://twitter.com/daveaitel/status/1410308330808135691
A different source [1, German only] details that these numbers are based on observations from the last two weeks, and that 50 percent of the newly infected people had been vaccinated.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/israel-studie-impfun...
Except the gain-of-function research specifically targeting covid-like viruses did not help us prepare or respond to the current pandemic one bit. On that basis alone we should suspend this research. It's not worth the risk.
The difficult, but in many ways rewarding, core of that is that it forces you to finally figure out what you actually want, because the computer won't accept anything except perfect clarity.
This notably contradicts data by PHE (Public Health England), which was published.
Last page contains references for scientific studies http://pdf.retrievalpractice.org/InterleavingGuide.pdf
Given the product is mostly for kids who are prone to dropping it I think scratchable plastic is a better idea than breakable glass.
I boycott Microsoft since ~2001...well as much as possible...
There's no question that Hollywood has increased their reliance on tie-in franchises and sequels and remakes for money-making--any chart of top-grossing films over the past few decades will make the trend clear. Good non-franchise movies are still getting made, you might just have to look a little harder to find them. Some of it is not coming from Hollywood, but elsewhere.

The trend of higher-quality tv really began with HBO and shows like the Sopranos, when they realized they could get away with stuff you couldn't do on broadcast tv, and have bigger budgets for production and talent. I remember not even having a TV for much of the 1980s--network tv was so bad it was entirely missable. Streaming and cable channels have given a lot of opportunities for niche productions that wouldn't have survived in the old days, or made it past the censors.

Sure, there's tropes and common story elements, that's not new, and it's a feature of every media. Film comedies are still cribbing from stuff invented by Chaplin and Keaton.
Personally I found the announcement underwhelming. Aside from the screen size, it felt like the changes should've been part of the console from day one. That being said, I still support Nintendo for offering a unique and, frankly, fun experience in gaming. The PS5 and Xbox being not much more than home PCs and hardly available to boot really take the wind out of gaming sails.
> I think when people realized we could work from home, people faked fear to enjoy a mini vacation.

Or, you know, people who have "old, sick, or obese" people in their family and maybe don't want to get them killed?
That sentence would be perfectly fine in British English. But I've noticed that British english seems to have kept more similarities to French grammar than US english.