skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> could you give an example please?

Here are three two-character combinations in Japanese in which the first kanji 有 functions as a verb and the second kanji as a noun:

有人 <to possess> + <person> “manned” (as in “a manned spacecraft”)

有力 <to possess> + <strength> “powerful; influential”

有線 <to possess> + <line; wire> “wired” (as in “wired Internet connection”)

Here are a couple of examples where the verb-like character 有 is preceded by an adverb-like character:

共有 <together> + <to possess> “joint ownership”

現有 <presently> + <to possess> “existing; current”

Many of these combinations, and the patterns by which they are formed, originated in Chinese, which is why many have a Verb + Object order. Chinese is a verb-medial, or SVO, language, while Japanese is SOV.

The grammar that influences the formation of these combinations (called jukugo in Japanese) is productive, in the sense that new combinations can be formed and used based on the same rules, but it is not as productive as the grammar of sentence formation. Most of the jukugo that one encounters in writing and, especially, in speech are fixed vocabulary items and are treated as words, not as phrases or sentences. Their etymology, however, is usually clear in writing and aids in their understanding; that is one advantage of ideographs, and it also makes it easier to create neologisms when writing. In speech, because many characters are pronounced the same, it is more difficult to use novel combinations and still be understood.

> If anything, I suspect emojis would most likely evolve into some kind of ideophone-like system.

That certainly seems possible, too. I suspect, though, that if they evolve into anything, it will be many different linguistic systems, for many different online communities.

> Japanese is quite unusual amongst logographic writing systems in having so many readings for each character. ... Thus, I doubt that any descendant of emojis would end up like this.

Unless emoji acquire readings from a variety of languages, which seems possible, as they are already being used online in multilingual contexts. Let’s wait and see!
Skype is all good and fun, until you just want to exit the application.
> a cable connector that has a massive installed base and that works well for most people

You are confusing Apple users with the whole population. USB-C is ubiquitous and I have seen many new and not so new edvices implementing it, yet I have to lay my hands on a Lightning device, let alone having a Lightning - enabled personal computer.
I participated in a 24 hour hackathon. The first 8 hours or so were fun, the rest was scrambling to get by while drinking lots of Red Bull and thinking that I'd rather be home sleeping. Maybe it was just a particularly bad one, but it's not an experience I want to go through again.
For anyone who’s dealt with human systems, corruption and private interest at every level is ubiquitous.
Cats: No Code Automated API Testing. Remove the Boring Part from API Testing
Bezos is probably the worst billionaire ever
The notion of fairness is contestable, but that does not mean we cannot progress past Perry’s second stage of development [1] (“it’s all subjective”). Fairness can be equated with due process or natural justice, which in a workplace relations context, commonly includes the right to be heard, have your personal circumstances taken into account and be given reasons for decision, and the right of appeal. Automated decision-making threatens these rights.

[1] https://www.jmu.edu/geology/_files/willperry21.pdf
> This comment is hilarious. It highlights Americans selective view of history and ignorance of what their country regularly does.

Or the GP commenter thought it went without saying that prosecuting other countries intelligence services for this stuff will happen as a prerequisite to prosecuting our own intelligence services for this stuff.
So you have signed up for insider builds? Then claiming that they have "randomly thrown" it at you is just odd. You explicitly told them you wanted early builds.
Ahh, but MSN messenger was not the best of all chat clients in its day either. I remember advertisement aplenty, spam, terrible "candy bar" UIs and a password reset system that basically let others steal your account easily. I think I used the official client maybe twice at an upper limit.

Honestly, the best UI Microsoft ever invented were always those inside their video games. I still think AoE2 is hard to beat.
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Not necessarily. Well, not necessarily more than doing the same with trees instead of bamboo.

But, yes, it'd require some care.
Cloud neutrality: have cloud providers become too powerful?
You are not opposing my point:
1. shit happened
2. rules have been put in place to avoid it from happening again
3. we are now skipping these rules in the name of urgency.

These are not vaccines but gene therapies that have never been tested. History proves risks do exist when new therapies are given to people.

I suppose when a normal vaccine like the novavax is coming out there won't be as much opposition.
> Once the risks are reviewed in open and honest ways, we find that virtually all of our clients would prefer to keep our solution on-prem.

I hope this kind of risk assessment becomes more common. I'm used to people not caring until things blow up on their faces.
Thanks for your response! Also thanks very much for your efforts! I've been using Firefox exclusively for quite some time, and it's by far the best browser for me. The focus on privacy and user protections (like this one) has also already helped me convince a few people to switch over.

I think the main attack vector I'd be worried about is if the SDK itself implemented a way around this protection, rendering it relatively useless. If that's not a feasible exploit, then I wouldn't be overly worried about as it would take effort on each website maintainer to implement and maintain the exploit.

The "real popup" detection sounds like a great addition if it works well!
At Rest.....
I like an earlier thread about PaperTTY: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17896825 . The github project at https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY links to youtube videos showing console use with an eink display.
The point of attribution is to give credit to the creators. It's an intrinsically valuable act. You might not go look at their other posts, but I might. And if I were one of the creators whose work was taken to add value to someone's blog post, I'd appreciate the courtesy.
That sounds like fun! It will be interesting to see if emoji-only modes also come into use as a lingua franca among people without a shared conventional language.
For those interested, I wrote a blogpost that touches on this general topic a while back, after learning some surprising things about the causes of high tuition costs:

"Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? Probably because the government handed them a blank check in 1993."

https://blog.usejournal.com/why-has-college-gotten-so-expens...
Hm, a hello world program is:

$ jelly eun '“3ḅaė;œ»'
Hello, World!

Surprisingly concise and obtuse, even for an APL language.
In London geometry, the distance depends where you are in the one-way system.
OMG I lost it at the resistor color band selection version XD
> The switching dynamics showed that a complete switch took ∼1 min (see videos in the Supporting Information), which is slightly slower than for a WO3 film in direct contact with the electrolyte.(13) … but it is already sufficient for display applications where images do not necessarily need to be frequently updated (e.g., advertisement or decorative images).

So it ain’t gonna be with this particular technology. Doesn’t detract from the quality of the paper though. Very well presented and approachable.
Bonus points for the name! Happy little diagrams.

I do think that creating and updating these kind of diagrams would be quite tedious. I'd take a DSL (PlantUML, Graphviz, Structurizr) over graphical tools though. At $JOB we also use Miro at the moment, and that tool has a way to see changes since your last visit. I'd much rather be able to approve a change in a diagram via a pull request review.

That makes me wonder, do any of you know about content management systems that are GUI based, but are able to have a pull-request like workflow?
Python should have an automated testing system - something that would run the package tests on different architectures. The Perl ecosystem was really good in that - there was a testing farm comprised of personal computers people would register for it (when idle). And also the tests were run on installation - so developers were also getting much feedback on that.
I agree. How is the 30h of no water and no food not the main point of this article. People will always get wrongfully detained for a while, (no matter what or no technology used), isn't the real important thing to treat detainees well?
Not sure I understand what you mean. It's a motivational speech like many others. Goebbels was a brilliant public speaker, no doubt. But he wasn't a social wizard who cast an evil spell on the German population, the way people who like to mysticize Nazism often portray him as. Such speakers still exist today, the same old populism still works great. The dangerous part about fascism is exactly that it wasn't a one off terrible mishap, it's a regular occurrence. The Nazis most certainly made all kinds of positive promises, they were the whole reason they got elected. They promised to fix the economy, fight unemployment, fight back against the unjust Versailles Treaty, support families, bring political stability and make other countries respect Germany again, etc... Just look at their campaigns and posters.
First Japanese in Europe: Story of the Tensho Embassy
Neat. I like how it more or less directly translates the input instead of trying to guess shapes. That's definitely the better approach for real scenarios.

Not sure why it concatenates some of the words in the demo, but it's pointless for normal text, so probably not important.
Usage of an existing, portable and safe memory profiler, like dTrace or cachegrind would have been easier, faster and cheaper.
What was their comorbidity?
IIRC, bamboo ends up as "less wasted" when you turn it into charcoal than most woods. And you'd need to do a lot more energy-intensive processing of the tree to get it into a for suitable for turning into coal. With bamboo, it's mostly "cut into suitable length". With wood, it's at least "cut into suitable length", but may also require splitting.

But, yes, my main reason for thinking bamboo is that it is pretty fast-growing under the right conditions.

And with a Watt actually being "kg * m^2 / s^3", your unit ends up being s^2 / m^4, which dimensionally looks less pleasant.
Nobody in their right mind would want to employ humans in a megacorp machine like Amazon.

The goal isn’t to mistreat humans or even to provide them with jobs. The goal is to gather data, build models, and replace the human components over time.
1. We're still figuring that one out. From an HR software's point of view, we think they ideally want the payroll API to be white-labelled, so that their customers don't have to think about another product. We're not yet experts on the legal relationship here, but I imagine disclosure can be covered in a privacy policy and we're the "data processor" for them under GDPR. As far as a separate brand for the API, it's a little early to say. We're talking to lots of people at the moment about their use cases. I think we'll figure out how to market it later on.

2. We do indeed have liability insurance! We usually have the accountants of our customers raise any weirdness to us before payruns / run things in parallel for a month or two before going live. That's thankfully become much less common as we've done more reps.

In our second month of payruns we made an error where we didn't factor in the 4k employer allowance in the UK for one of our customers, which resulted in their PAYE bill being off.

The only way to react to those moments in my experience is to admit it and own it. Doing everything in your power to communicate exactly what went wrong, rectify the issue (usually via a correction to HMRC made over their API), and put tests in place to ensure it can't happen again. Integration tests can really help here, defining the exact scenario that led to the weirdness and asserting that the correct response comes out from now onwards.

Thankfully it's been a while since something like that's happened. We've had offers from a few payroll pro's to stress test the product which we'll definitely be taking them up on.

The trickiest scenarios that often catch people out are when employees move from part-time to full-time or paid weekly to paid monthly. So far we only support monthly payroll, but we'll definitely move into weekly at some point. Time is hard!

I dearly wish that every month was 28 days long.

Another tricky thing is communicating to customers things like how income tax is calculated. It's not done per month, but based on the amount you've paid so far this year. The method is different for directors, for whom you get to choose between two methods of calculation: https://www.gov.uk/employee-directors
HN loves contextless titles, I'm not sure why really
There's usually quite a strong "time crunch" element. In my more snooty moods I say hackathons only teach bad habits and how to throw together software in a dreadfully hacky rushed manner. But in truth these are not always bad habits. Delivering a quick prototype to a tight deadline is a useful skill. I usually fail miserably at hackathons, which I find interesting. I think it means I should hone my dreadful hackery skills, because I can be too slow and considered and perfectionistic as a developer.
I'd take it a step further and ask if we really want such an extreme in utilitarian ideals guiding such fundamental human needs like employment and its associated income that serves as a generic resource pool for food, housing, healthcare?

I don't know about most people but objectivity can fly out the window when it comes to my essential needs. I want another group of humans involved who have similar needs and may consider things an objective metric likely won't.

Some mixture of a utilitarian performance metric balanced with some empathy, morale, and ethical reasoning seems like a better blend to me. Either extreme leads to undesired outcomes in my opinion.

With pure human involvement you can have extremely biased no justifiable firings based on emotion, hatred, racism, sexism, ageism, whatever and in those cases, a metric is your friend. It can potentially show that undesired bias for what it is to others.

On the other hand, that bias may be a good bias. Perhaps your manager is a reasonable human being, they know data the algorithm doesn't like how many additional hours you put in unclocked or that you helped your coworker through a rough problem a few months back, perhaps that you saved the company at a critical junction. They also know your performance recently dropped because there's a pandemic and subequent emotional distress might be effecting you. Perhaps they also notice your performance dropped just like the metric identified, but they know the cause of this is because you just became a parent and have had to divert focus and time towards your family. Your manager has the ability here to step in and override the metric because they know better, have empathy, and understand the world isn't about constantly working at maximal efficiency. This is, to me, a desirable bias.

If we keep chasing and supporting utilitarianism pushed by corporations full-steam, we're going to create quite the hellscape that no one wants to live in.
> What is? Do you think free food, free housing, free education and free healthcare is too much? Do you think power to the people (not parliaments) is too much? What about libertarian communism (anarchism) disgusts you?

Haha, no comment..
Temeraire – Google's hugepage-aware memory allocator
Railsbank raises $70M to build out its fintech-as-a-service platform
I can't believe it. This is too much.

All the facial-recognition software is supposed to do is point out similarities in pictures, and then humans can see if they agree. That's it. None of the silliness after that is due to the software, anymore than it's due to the security-camera that captured the grainy-footage in the first place.
Dasung is state of the art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTok6imfgoM

For a laptop, you can contribute here: https://alexsoto.dev/challenges-building-an-open-source-eink...
Without the Google middleware:

Type Systems as Macros - https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stchang/pubs/ckg-popl2017.pdf (PDF)

Stephen Chang, Michael Ballantyne, Milo Turner, and William J. Bowman. 2020. Dependent Type Systems as
Macros. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 4, POPL, Article 3 (January 2020) - https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3371071 (Redirects to download PDF)

> We present Turnstile+, a high-level, macros-based metaDSL for building dependently typed languages
The issue is the limited ability to fit a morphological model to facial features which are "distinct from the ones you are used to".

Machines aren't fitting a morphological model. They are being fed 2D pixel patterns -- this information is profoundly insufficient.

"Contrast bias in pixel patterns" is not the same as "needing a few more cues to fit a morphological model". The former can never be made into an example of the latter; and therein is the problem.
I think this is one of the most important health information most people have no idea about.

When you feel sick don't stay in bed, go for walks, a large part of your immune system is passive and rely on muscle contraction to work optimally.
Twitter's new business professional site wants to kill off LinkedIn for good
> "Logic" refers to the most basic set of logical operations (AND, OR, etc.) and their use.

That's not what mathematicians mean with "logic". It's a much broader field than just boolean operators. Those are what computer architects and perhaps electrical engineers mean with "logic".
I suspect it was in jest, but the reason why is that he is obviously immensely passionated about aviation and logistics. He makes really, really good videos about both, I'd recommend his channel to anyone.

PS, I had to vouch for your comment to reply, as it was dead. Had a look through your profile… I think there's often a lot of value in asking simple questions, but a lot of your comment history is just extremely low value (eg. correcting people's spelling). If you don't have anything meaningful to add to a discussion, maybe consider not replying at all.
They also launched Google Workspace for Individuals in some countries, which grants access to unlimited Google Meet calls (and other perks) for a monthly fee as well.
Hello, thanks for the kind words!

It is indeed tricky, but in a meticulous way. I wouldn't claim that we're doing anything truly hard like quantum computing or predicting the weather :)
Moving a round volume control in a circle would be even worse.
Tbh, I saw that example in the post and thought "that's ugly but extremely usable; I don't think that belongs here".

Sure, it would be a little easier to use with some extra UI tweaks - e.g. aligned correctly (10x10 instead of 11x10), digits padded & maybe larger click areas - but the general idea of being able to click once and get the desired volume is pretty powerful: you can technically do that on a scale, but accuracy is tricky and the annotation isn't as detailed.

I'm not saying it's better than a scale (a certain compromise on granularity provides the optimum solution), but it's hardly a candidate for "worst".
If your goal is purely being present in a beach and coding at the same time, I guess you could code in a tent or use a VR glass :) But seriously, and I'm not judging you at all, but why would you want to code on a beach? Or maybe I took that too literally. As a person who can't stand even to read in bright light, benefits for an e-ink display would actually come from using it indoors:

Firstly, no damn heat from the screen. This is my pet peeve. I can't even stand the heat coming from the good old 17 inch LCDs, let alone the giant ones these days.

Secondly, less energy consumption. Well maybe this comes in hand to hand with the first.

And finally, no direct light coming from the monitor, no headaches! I hope everyone has a significant other who looks at them like I'd look at a giant e-ink display.
It depends what you give "priority" to -- my view is a philosophical one.

I think we ought really see `R` as an algebraic stand-in for talking about geometry.
95% of daily maintenance costs. Overhaul costs of jet/turboprop engines are considerable, several hundred thousand dollars per engine. A reasonable operating budget is about 1000$/hour per engine. Electric engines should avoid overhaul costs, and the fuel costs would be practically zero.
> Plus 78-119 miles means either paying a lot of money for a cab, paying gas & parking fees for the duration of your trip at the bigger airport, or asking a friend/family member very nicely to take that trip to drop you off/pick you up.

How about trains for those distances?
Do you have an idea of when hookdeck will have transformations. It's not something we need immediately but would be the win over something like: https://webhookrelay.com/ if it's something you have on your roadmap for sometime soon.
I was a bit too ambitious/hard working, and a coworker made it her mission to get rid of me.

After 2 years she succeeded.

I admittedly didn't care because I got a higher paying job in a better field, but I'll take AI over office politics.
Consumers aren’t the only people for whom laws and policies are optimised for. It’s fine to have laws which are unfortunate for consumers and great for the society.
ETHA Lend to Launch Mainnet on Polygon – Sustainable DeFi Yield Optimization
> ultra low current use, dropping as low as 20uA

In the low power world where I live (NB-IoT on battery for 10 years) 20uA is way too much. Standard is 5uA.
Getting Started with Podman on Fedora – Fedora Magazine
> There are also two fundamental components of the Big Tech debate at odds with each other here - privacy and competition.

The article explicitly talks about how this is a false dichotomy.

> Regulators in the U.K., he said, had bought the ad industry's argument that privacy and competition are on a collision course. That, he said, is a false choice. "They could have required everyone to not access that data, Google included, which would have been a net benefit for competition and privacy," Soltani said.
I meant the whole field of logic; I was keeping it simple.

Pi is not "from logic" however broadly you construe it.

Unless you endorse logicism, but I think that's both highly implausible and somewhat incidental.
Yes, when one website relies on the fact that you're logged in somewhere else.

Thing easily being able to add embedded Youtube videos to your watchlist, adding favorite articles to Pocket, being able to pay with 1 click using a payment method saved somewhere else, and so on.
Maybe zero corporate tax and ordinary income tax on dividends and capital gains. That would put mom and pop [on][near] the same footing as shareholders of public companies.
How do Mesh VPNs work? Writing my own VPN tool in Golang to find out
Another perspective may be - similar to how people were saying the post will go bust when internet came in with email etc. - but it turned out to be the opposite.

Maybe intelligence will simply become commoditized and programming/creating things with it will require even more programmers.
Just be sure people complained about a formula being objective, it doesn’t mean any objective formula should we accepted.