skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, but sometimes speed is not the top priority. I have a 1Ghz single core ARM-based Guruplug with 512MB of RAM - slow, but I would run certain tasks on it because I can control and verify the code path from the bootloader all the way to userspace.
I believe the NYT also published their own failing there, widely, on its own front page.
> refusing to pronounce words correctly

That's skewing the argument. The discussion is "should English speakers be expected to pronounce foreign words as they are pronounced in the original language"?

Not "pronouncing words as foreigners do is the correct pronunciation when speaking English"

Despite the stereotype, it's not Americans running around telling foreigners how to pronounce English words in their native tongue. No American tells Poles how to pronounce New York nor Yoruba how to pronounce jazz nor Italians how to pronounce pepperoni.
It's not like Russia has a long history of having "pipeline malfunctions" during periods of intense international disagreements. What could go wrong with Germans being firmly under the thumb of Putin or his successor?
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Agreed. From my perspective, the Japanese are so hostile to foreigners/immigrants that it's borderline xenophobia. I'm not seeing a way forward for them as a technological power again until they first address some of their social issues. It's like someone wanting to become a marathon runner while refusing to quit smoking cigarettes.
I sometimes wonder if Japan's work culture that demands long hours from workers disincentivizes time-saving "automation": In the US, where the expectation is closer to 40 hours, you don't have the luxury of always assuming employees will be cool putting in 10-12 hour days.
> doesn't matter that pretty much all software is a dumpster fire, and linux is just another, less hot dumpster fire compared to windows.

Yeah, but the difference is that Linux is MY dumpster fire, not Microsoft's!
What’s the deal with UPX compressed executables being “dangerous”? Is there self modifying code or something?
And that’s actually been happening. For week’s usdc’s biggest trading pair has been usdt. So some people are dumping usdt on usdc holders at 1:1 ratios.

Why anyone holding usdc would exchange one for a usdt at par is a question I don’t have an answer to, but it’s happening en masse.
That's not true at all. There's literally no way for many Americans to find live or recorded events for free or to pay. NBC has blocked it off.
If you haven't already, I recommend reaching out to Edrizio and the team at Arcus (formerly Regalli) - they are YC alum https://www.arcusfi.com/
The ‘Weirdest’ Matter, Made of Partial Particles, Defies Description
That makes no sense.

By that logic, what are firefighters doing but censoring homes? What are koalas but a form of eucalyptus censorship? What is locking your front door but a form of censoring burglars?

No, just no. Censorship is preventing the transmission of ideas, nothing more, nothing less.

Deleting a file has nothing to do with transmission, and it's being done in response to a perceived threat, not its communicative meaning. (Like how you lock your house to protect from burglars.)

It's important not to abuse the term "censorship" -- if it means everything then it ceases to mean anything at all.
I haven't seen any commercials on the nbcolympics.com streams. They just go to a blank stream during breaks so you can keep the volume on and watch a different stream until it's back.
Here's a workaround: rename the .exe file to a .txt file, then put that in a password-protected zip file. Now braindead security scanners have no choice but to believe that it really is a text file.
My understanding is that the issue with declining population is that typically that also means an aging population. Younger people are not having children which causes a whole slew of issues.
So people can learn names like Schwarzenegger but not others?

We can learn chai and yoga and namaste but not the names of the people it belongs to.

Seems more not wanting to make people uncomfortable which is fine, I have had to navigate the same.

When I come across a name I haven’t heard before, I just go out of my way to ask people how to pronounce their name and say it’s important to me. Sometimes demonstrating how to have the conversation of asking comfortably is the most important first step.
That's the usual specter; however, before modern times, populations grew and shrank for many reasons. Once people were out of the weeds from childhood disease, people lived reasonably long lives.

One big difference now is people expect to "retire". That's a modern construct. Sure, people used to add less and less to society as they aged and ultimately would need some subsidy, but much less than today.
> Actually, I'm surprised the Olympics themselves don't have a direct subscription for streaming the entire event

NBC (and other networks around the world) pay incredible amounts of money for those rights. And the arrangement makes sense for both parties: NBC can use it to boost viewing figures of their own shows in a way the Olympics couldn't/wouldn't. And they have surfaces to advertise coverage that the Olympics doesn't, or would have to go to considerable lengths to get. So it's a value multiplier for the Olympics to sell it rather than handle it themselves.

In the words of the (NBC) TV Show 30 Rock: "You can't fight synergy, Lemon. It's bigger than all of us"
> I was tracking it on a separate issue

Do you mind linking to that issue? Thanks!
The 11 athletes who cheated at Sochi were banned for life from all Olympic events. The issue is that Russia as a state cheated as well, so its a bit difficult to figure out a proper punishment.

They just didn't want to ban the new generation of athletes. A lot of these kids are just 19 years old (aka: they were 13 years old at Sochi). I think banning the cheaters, but not the "next generation" is a good plan.
If you have cable TV, you can watch everything at nbcolympics.com/schedule so it’s actually quite accessible. I believe you can watch 30 minutes of content without signing in using your cable account.

Also, the author is wrong. NBC broadcast the opening ceremonies at 7am [0]. The author must have seen a rebroadcast.

[0] https://sports.nbcsports.com/2021/07/23/when-do-the-tokyo-ol...
It's moving the source of the issue elsewhere, just like with moving manufacturing to China.
> ... take a risk. As far as I know nobody guarantees that those COVID vaccines are without any dangerous side-effect, therefore there is a risk.

Covid is a risk as well. And it's a risk not only for yourself, but for other people, both around you and complete strangers. There are some people that are can't be vaccinated at all, they are at higher risk of dying or having severe long term side effects if they get Covid.
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AP Interview: US calls on China to be responsible power
I think it's a "big splash" thing -- make enough waves all at the same time, and you'll spread to people who aren't paying attention. It's the same reason why the video game industry still did a bunch of press conferences all around the same time last year and this year, in place of E3 -- generate enough noise, and you start to move outside the enthusiast press and into mainstream press.
BoiledCabbage:

You are on the right track!

[Dedekind 1888] started out on the correct path by defining

natural numbers up to a unique isomorphism.

Unfortunately, there was long detour through 1st-order logic :-(

Powerful foundations are now urgently required to prevent

successful cyberattacks.

See the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJP1VL7shiI
Does it demand just long hours or also a certain level of busyness?

As walking around with a clipboard looks a lot more busy than typing.
Importantly SHA-512/256 does not mean "Either of these two different functions" but instead another function, which is similar to (but slightly different from) performing SHA-512 and then throwing away all but 256 bits.

This prevents length extension because you've thrown away 256 bits the attacker needs to perform their attack.
Why downvote ? Why database needs to worry about executable wrong input ? That’s input ( App ) level problem. Database will do what it is asked to do.
The last European war was over 70 years ago and today it is one of if not the most stable regions in the world. The idea that they are doom spiralling into authoritarianism is a conspiracy theory that is easy to dismiss.
If I customize the screen, can I save the items and positions and reuse that in other stream a few days later?

> donations = your community can support you and 100% of the funds (minus processing fees) go to the creator (we do not take a cut)

It's slightly confusing and my guess is that people does not care if you or VISA is taking a cut.

Do the streamer have to pay upfront? Do streamer prefer to pay instead of "sharing" a part of the donations? (I think this is the twitch model.)
So, not an Export Ban. Gotcha. Thanks.
An Australian VPN and 7plus is the closest you'll get.
It is easier said than done. While the discourse in the media is often skewed towards accusing the West, the elephant in the room is China with its 30% of global CO2 emissions.[0] Discussions with China aren't particularly easy, especially if you start from the position "you must stop doing what we've been doing for a couple of decades."

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
Stopped doing calls on Signal after my Android contacts started telling me that they see active calls minutes after I successfully hung up from my side (iOS). Not to mention the countless UX bugs.

I’m back on WhatsApp and not telling anyone anymore to move to Signal or any app whatsoever. I’m done.
Why do I get the feeling everything is too little or too late? I agree though, let's make them do better.

I live in Gary Indiana, and while we have 2 smaller power plants near us (25-50 miles ish), there's about a million steel mills, oil refineries, and a bunch of other polluters thrown in for good measure, all either on or near Lake Michigan, which is our main source of drinking water.

Can't we just target all mega polluters? I wish we could just force industry to spend a shit tonne of their profits on R&D to offset their damage, not improve their product, but improve their processes for something other than cost, efficiency, speed, and just did shit in the least destructive way possible.

I've been tracking air pollution in Gary (and also cargo ships, flights, etc) on my lil community website: https://millerbeach.community for the past two years. I'm trying to fund a proper air quality sensor/monitoring system that does more than just PM2.5/10, but until then it's just PM.
"If you don't read newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read a newspaper, you are misinformed" --Mark Twain (b. 1835) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law
You can also sponsor him on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/marcan

(Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think more of the money makes it to him through a GitHub sponsorship.)
Naive and perhaps pedantic question from me, does using scanning for monitoring not create an aggregated/correlated re-insurance risk?

It could seem like the PCI/NIST and others are akin to a building's electrical or fire code, which raises all boats, but it also concentrates overall portfolio risk in high-value assets with catastrophic failures. Like saying, "we only insure unsinkable ships certified by Titanic & Co., it's free money." Where instead of Titanic, with cyber the risk is only diversified over configurations of MSFT, AMZN, GOOG products and some linux kernels. Not a criticism, but as a security architect, it's the most interesting set of questions of all.

The insurance incentive to close ports is great, and super positive, perhaps how that risk gets managed on the back end is secret sauce.
My high school science teacher explained it well with something a long the lines of "You can't grog it since you're big and stupid". Technically even normal measurement is action at a distance since we're collapsing a wave function that covers an area into a small point instantaneously. In entanglement the wave function is just spread out even further, but if we already accept wave functions over areas for particles it's not that big a stretch. Problem is that it obviously doesn't jive with what we have experience with everyday as big stupid people.
Jail or death. They’re rumoured to be heavily involved with drug cartels for money laundering.

But jail is a near certain outcome if they just took the money and ran off.

So they’re stuck with it. Once it implodes they’ll also face jail, but they can kick the can down the road.
I'm used to the convention of giving short all-caps acronym names to type parameters, so this is less readable to me, because I automatically assume that something named `Error` is a type, not a type parameter.
It's his second bullet point
This article came out about the same time as the first volume of Weinberg's textbook The Quantum Theory of Fields. It's a nice semi-technical distillation of the core argument in his textbook: We see a world made of particles, but Poincare invariance and cluster decomposition (the fact that widely separated systems behave approximately independently) force us to organize these particles into fields.
Toyota Led on Cleaner Cars. Now Critics Say It Works to Delay Them
So they should have hidden the lack of testing in older population and furthermore hidden any potentially fatal complications?
Between US (NBC), Canada (CBC), and the UK (BBC), Canada’s CBC site seems the best. I’m still disappointed at the number of replays not available. Does anyone know of a country with better coverage to VPN into?
or a long-form textbook on the foundations of mechanical accuracy. Someone linked to this a year ago and I found it a fascinating deep dive:

https://pearl-hifi.com/06_Lit_Archive/15_Mfrs_Publications/M...
China is building the first prototype Thorium/molten salt reactor
> The problem is that humans don't play that way, by evaluating a tree a few moves ahead and selecting from that.

As a modest 1400 blitz player, I definitely evaluate future states. That's not all I do, but it's certainly one thing I do. AlphaZero can also run just intuiting the next move without evaluating any additional states also fwiw. Though it is much better when it is allowed to do so.

> Consider the task of picking apples from a tree. You could easily make a machine to do that. But what if you had to make a machine that to an onlooker (who couldn't see the robot's "face", let's say) would appear to be a human picking apples from a tree? That would be much harder.

This is a very deep and nuanced task, made doubly difficult by obscure robotic hardware requirements. Not a great parallel.

> There are many chess AIs on chess.com, specifically designed to play "like" a specific grandmaster or well known chess streamer. I don't think any titled player would not be able to guess they're playing a computer if they played a few games against the AI without being told. It's very well known that computer moves are very different from human moves.

Maybe? A quick google suggested Maia is a close match to what I was suggesting. People are suggesting it does feel like a human in the thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/k4o6z1/introducing_m...
Super exciting. If you can solve the many trust issues, this could become an unicorn that could service millions of immigrants in virtually every country on the planet. One of the very few Y! startups that I actually believe can do some good as opposed to create a less shitty fart app.

Nitpick: the UI needs a makeover. Feels bland and dated. Also, is this only available for Pakistani citizens right now? Because my country is set to Pakistan and cannot be changed.
First love seeing more Pakistani founders! And second - this is super interesting (I'm a first generation kid - parents also came from Pakistan) my parents basically route this all through trusted family right now, have property back home they manage, and this could have made everything WAY simpler.

Congrats on the launch and excited to see where this goes!
> When converting the original characters into English

Latin characters is correct, not English

> why didn't the creators of this system choose letters which more closely match the native pronunciation?

Because among other things the designers of Pīnyīn wanted the users to be able to type the letters on commonly available typewriters (in the 1950s).

A 100% match is of course the IPA, but that was exceedingly difficult to type until late after the advent of personal computers. Pīnyīn is a compromise. Compare:

tɕʰiː˥˩ · qì

ʈʂʰɻ̩˥ · chī
Meanwhile google is flooding school systems with computers where the OS basically is their browser. Honestly, Teams sucks, and everyone knows Teams sucks, but that's the least of my worries these days. This feels like it's written by someone who seems to think that microsoft is still the dominant monopoly it was in the 90's.
Apple's AirTag Saved My Bike (Real Theft)
>It just means that the manufacturer received Windows certification. Similar thing exists for Linux.

I don't need certification. I can custom build a computer and pretty much not ever be worried about incompatibility with windows. Such certifications aren't really things a regular user needs to think about for windows.

>Did you just compare the Linux community with a trillion-dollar company?

I'm comparing Linux to Windows. And I'm saying Linux is inferior from a usability standpoint. So yes I am saying the Linux community built an OS ecosystem that is INFERIOR in terms of usability to an OS ecosystem built by Microsoft. That is a Fact.
I love this option to watch all of the events, the ones without the commentary are a refreshing change.
I had this happen on my commute to work, but from the sun. It's really smoky here, and the sun was breaking through the smoke just enough and at the right angle to look like a yellow light. It was pretty amusing to see a bunch of yellow traffic lights stream by as I was driving.
It is comparable, that's why I'm moving to Rust. Hence I said I don't want to participate simply because I am not defending C either. It played its role and it's time for it to be phased out.
Can confirm that with 3 kids under 3 I have ZERO time to do anything I would like to programing wise outside of work.
I also don't believe in "intellectual property", but in a legal regime that isn't so enlightened it isn't surprising that we have to go to some small amount of trouble and pay some small amount of money to see non-shit coverage of a ridiculously costly sporting event.
It's called a common key. You can buy them online for a couple bucks. It's a basic tool for pen-testers. Why is this being blown out of proportion?
Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters pseudoscience
I'd err on the side of you not fully understanding the crypto picture rather than it being an enormous scam.
Don't forget the prevalence of faxing as well.
That’s an interesting question. I’m sure as you say that there probably are such operations (…do you have articles/information you can find to link to?), but perhaps they are disguised differently, more effectively countered or perhaps subtler/different in nature? I would guess: firstly the KGB doesn’t exist any more, its successor (for the Russian Federation) is the ‘FSB’, but I would imagine that there’s a lot of crossover between the two in terms of tactics/specialities? (…esp. given the president started his career in the KGB…). Agencies on all ‘sides’ always have used various disinformation campaigns historically at one time or another (ideas of P.R./public relations initially concretized by Edward Bernays?:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays ). You could cite that the CIA would sometimes fund ‘soft power’ media like artists/films/music etc. that perhaps ‘worked’ in different ways, whilst KGB famously planted eg. fake news articles/plants to journalists etc.? The USSR seemed to excel at finding weak points in political/civic culture/society and exploiting those pressure points? Maybe the countering of these types of tactics is part of the idea behind isolating Russia’s internet, as China has more or less effectively done - also this could be an exportable commodity to authoritarian regimes - you can see the attraction perhaps to eg. customers of NSO group …counter to the old quote from Bill Clinton about ‘nailing jello to a wall’. The Russian Federations’ political model differs, perhaps in degree at least, to eg. the U.S.’s in that although a ‘representative democracy’, there is maybe a higher degree of integration, even if that is through networks of money/power/influence/intimidation etc. between the state and media and a higher acceptance of suppression of counter-narratives? The USA/Europe’s strength is partly built on freedom of information/ travel/ diversity/ flow of goods/services I would argue, but that can also be (rather cleverly) used against them in a kind of low-level assymetric ‘warfare’. A lot of ordinary people on both sides have neither the time nor will (and maybe effective education?) to try and separate facts from fiction basically and so these types of ops succeed... So: a difference in operational ‘philosophy’ and a historical/cultural background of different areas of ‘success’ to draw on maybe?
It's in the blog post, I was quoting from it: stream.nbcolympics.com
> So in my estimation, it probably is a scam...

It IS a scam and it is backed by nothing. Only to pump the BTC price artificially.

The unveiling of this scam was seen and covered a mile away and was a long time coming.

To Downvoters: I'm sorry BTC maximalists, but this scandal was waiting to be cracked down and no, it is not FUD, or whatever denial spiral you are going through.

Just read: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1393669812220465162
This is insane. The only way to win really is not to play.
I don't care about the storylines at all. I dont care about their sob story. I just want to see some humans do some amazing things with their body.
Could you please stop creating accounts to post flamewar comments to HN? That's not what this site is for.

I suppose I should add: No, we don't care about your views on China. We're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't burn itself to a screaming crisp, and also (if we're allowed a stretch target) that doesn't suck.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
STEM could solve this problem if you could automate all the low value stuff and use the humans for higher economic value tasks, but it is uncertain whether you can educationally get all people up to that level.