skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be a reason, yet it would be strange because in all other areas of Japanese life, there is almost no stigma attached to erotic content or even hardcore porn. Ride the subway in a big Japanese city, and every other man in there will be openly reading some kind of pornographic material, either as mags or on their phones, with children being able to see the extremely lewd cover page or more.

In every convenience store, the lewd mags are also on full display. In primetime comedy variety shows, the comedians make gross jokes about beating off or "f...ing" all the time. American stand-ups do those jokes too, but surely not on NBC at 7pm.

Even hardcore porn actresses are mainstream "stars" in Japan - they are regular guests on mainstream TV shows or do ads for chain restaurants etc. Accordingly, there is no stigma attached to young women choosing a career in the adult entertainment world. Their parents will be proud of their hard working children.

I was on a flight to Japan once where the Stewardess had to tell a Japanese man sitting next to me to please not read his porn because the "gaijin" people around him could be uncomfortable.
Hey, which one was the shop exactly? At this point I'd like to give a try to his fried potatoes (not sure if calling them french fries would be always appropriate :) )
> Interesting point. As far as I'm aware though, Zakat laws do not apply to land. Only if that land is making produce, then Zakat is owed on that produce. Zakat does not apply to properties either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Interesting! Land Value Taxes are seen as especially efficient, because they also apply to fallow land. Thus giving a strong incentive to do something with the land, instead of just 'banking' it.

> Islam encourages people not to be needy and depend on others; they should work to sustain themselves and not be a burden (e.g. https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:296). Living one's life purposefully relying on Zakat is not something that is common (of course barring certain situations that are beyond one's control, e.g. some severe injury or an old person who has no family members left). If you look at historic accounts, there was a time during the Ummayad Caliphate where in Iraq there were no people left to take Zakat, because everyone paid their share and everyone was working. The poor class was all but eliminated.

These kinds of social norms are common outside of Islam as well, and very doable in smaller scale communities.

It's a bit harder to keep them up when the welfare system gets administered at the level of large countries.

(Though not necessarily impossible.)

Of course, geographic diversification also has its advantages: even if a whole region is devastated, the rest of the country can easily pitch in.

Trade-offs everywhere.
Microsoft Has Now Its Own Linux Distribution Builder, CBL-Mariner
> and the sports that usually get a boost from TV coverage will struggle

Like the IOC cared about sports in the slightest. The only thing they care about is cash. Like FIFA in football, these big international organisations have been fundamentally corrupted a long time ago.
Well, the first step IMO is to eliminate single family zoning in favour of mixed use zoning and legalize middle housing, that should cut down the need for cars substantially in most North American cities. Then anyone who still needs a car can be inconvenienced by stricter regulations.
Nah, writing CGIs in C, that was my first handling of FORM submits.
Russia's Pirs ISS module scheduled to fall away ahead of Nauka arrival
The Olympics is usually an economic and ecological disaster. This year, it is also a public health disaster.

I dream of a world where the world's governments recognize the IOC for the mobsters they are and it is put out of business.

Sports is cool, the Olympics is not.
Then I would kindly suggest governments stop encouraging people to continue reproducing at an unsustainable rate. Reversing overpopulation would make both mitigation and adaptation much more feasible.
You don’t say why, so I will simply assume that it doesn’t provide specific enough information.

You don’t say what operating system you are using, but on Linux you can extensively customize your fontconfig configuration to produce almost any look you desire. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/font_configuration is a good place to start for concrete examples.

I assume that other operating systems have similar capabilities, but you’ll have to find their documentation on your own.
I think your comment is a unfair and loaded. These are the European girls that have the right to perform their sport without being perved on.
Can I use this to read my (data) backup tapes? I have am 8mm that I can't find a scsi drive for
This list could have been generated by pointing GPT-3 at a list of self-help websites.
> This is my experience too. Unless there's some sort of heavy workload going on you can have an "inaudible" computer fairly easily.

I agree and it doesn't even need to be a custom built computer. Any laptop with 15W TDP CPU with a power saver governor would be completely silent for most day-to-day task.

Since they are usually entry level the cost saved can be invested in buying nVME storage, RAM and what not. Many have USB 3.1 with display port and if connected to a monitor you have easy access to the more ports than a >$1000 laptop.
Doctrine DBAL: https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/l...
I think it was just sheer incompetence. If you look at subreddits like /r/urbanplanning, the mistakes are clearly recognized and modern urban planners are desperately trying to undo their predecessors' mistakes, but the hole has been dug, and these things take time.
First, you are arguing a point that I never made and that I honestly don't give a fuck about. The discussion was never about "what OS is better", but "Linux Desktop is mature enough to the point that people can use it as a daily driver without issues when joining a conference call".

What ticked me off was "rar rar, Linux users always have trouble at work". I want to fight this idea because it spreads a false prejudice and that could be used for misinformed people to justify things like "So Linux doesn't work for group calls? This means that everyone must run Windows/MacOS for work".

Second: "Linux is inferior (to Windows or MacOS) on the usability standpoint" much like "Democracy is inferior (to autocratic dictatorships or communist-style central planning) on the speed of decision-making process." In the face of a larger principle that clears out all but one OS, insisting over arguing about one dimension is pointless, stupid and/or dishonest. If all the alternatives you consider to be better (on your peculiar definition of usability) are closed, I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR DEFINITION OF USABILITY.

You can go ahead and keep building strawmen all you want, but to me this just sounds like you are trying way too hard to rationalize your preference for proprietary/closed systems. We are only going to have a serious problem if you ever try to impose your choice on me.
It's such a shame, because I'm sure the Japanese could host a hell of an event. But the combination of negative aspects for this year is massive: covid, weather, greed...
Important to note the word 'any'. Even if you never watch BBC programmes, you need a license or you'll finally end up with criminal conviction if you persist. Poor single mothers tend to form the majority of convictions in magistrates courts when I last checked.
How is it that green user names always are climate-drift negationists? Should they not be red instead?
The word the author seems to look for is "evolvability" [0].

> Evolvability is defined as the capacity of a system for adaptive evolution. Evolvability is the ability of a population of organisms to not merely generate genetic diversity, but to generate adaptive genetic diversity, and thereby evolve through natural selection.

In changing environment organisms have to be able to quickly adapt.

You can compare organisms like Greenland Shark with lifespans of up to 400 years with a common mouse. Mice will go trough some 100-1000 generations in lifespan of a Greenland Shark. Which one is more likely to adapt to changes in the environment induced by humans and which will go extinct?

Anthropocene extinction event will eliminate a lot of life forms with long lifespans, many are already gone, and previous extinction events probably did it too.

BTW - This is a falsifiable hypothesis in a fairly simple simulation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvability
I suppose you don't like the way Americans pronounce the A in the English word "sander". I'm multilingual and it's gotten difficult for me to be sure how native speakers pronounce things, but here are some other variations that come to mind that might make sense to a native English speaking American:

Xander - a common nickname for Alexander. The x is pronounced as a z, but it still has the problem with the American a.

Sunder - Not as common, but it's a name Americans might have heard and in my opinion is closer to the Dutch Sander than "sender".

San Der - For the large percentage of Americans who are familiar with Spanish pronunciation, you might have luck with this spelling, but those Americans probably aren't the ones who mispronounce the Dutch version.

"Like Shaun Der, but with an S instead of an Sh on the front" - The way I explain the Hungarian variant Sandór to Americans is "like Shaun Door".
> quality is not negotiable? Really?

I read this as "certain principles must be upheld at any cost" and I agree with that. E.g. if your project is dealing with people's health data, not securing that database is a cut on quality you just shouldn't make. Or to phrase it the other way around: If your project cannot reach that basic quality level, maybe it should be ended right away, because it clearly lacks funding/resources. As a freelancer I wouldn't take that job.

> Negotiation is not collaboration? Really?

Well it can be, but it also can't be. The phrasing on this one is a bit vague. But if you read it as "just defending your interest and not trying to discuss common goals and the goals of the other side is not collaboration" it would be true again.
Yes, this is a valid point.

I only referred to the actual bug fixing.
New face mask prototype can detect Covid-19 infection
I dunno, I find having children have experience with real death is better than insulating them from it. I bet you're thinking about some psychopathy cascade where the poor not-helicoptered-enough Billy goes from gassing butterflies to burning cats to murdering hitchhikers and, well, I don't think that's a very likely thing outside of TV.
Battle for the Cloud, Once Amazon vs. Microsoft, Now Has Many Fronts
Same here. PHP is also often picked by beginners (including me 15 years ago) and you can see that. However, I have a lot of fun fixing these kind of issues and improving the code. It feels like archology/restauration sometimes and it makes me happy to keep them running securely. Also, it pays really well usually.
Yes, and as such I'm aware that it was not the Silicon Valley-only project that a certain crowd likes to portray it as. The specific implementation of TCP (and indeed DNS) that ARPANET used came from UC, but it's derived from the French CYCLADES project via the INWG. So it was an international effort from the start, and that's even more true for the complex stacks that today's commercial websites run on.
What sympathetic media? There are none, except maybe for Breitbart?

Look at what happened with James Damore. His memo didn't contain the incriminating ideas or language the people who wanted to get rid of him would have needed, so they simply invented it, claiming his memo said women programmers are worse at it than men when it said no such thing. Media blanketed the news with this false claim even though the document was public and anyone could download and read it for themselves. The only news outlet I saw cover this story correctly was Breitbart, who also ended up as a result with lots of leaked screenshots from disaffected Googlers talking about internal racial and sexual discrimination against "white" (+Asian) men.
The article begins by setting up language/display barrier but looking at MiniDisc players of that era (which did in fact have displays and often a second one on a remote) all of them used English menus. And judging by sales the Japanese consumers were fine with that.

Also, in 2001 Sony introduced USB connectors on their portable MD lineup so they didn't miss the train by much (by Japanese standards).
It's interesting to think that people can be created in 2021. Faces, voices, videos can all be generated.

If you're not in the field, it's pretty hard to know who to trust or what is real.
Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine
also csharp, python, JavaScript
There are mentions in papers from the 1980s, eg https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02507142

(edit: changed link, fixed from earlier where the context was minerals instead of climate and dates were in 70s)
Restic runs natively on Windows too which is useful in heterogenous environments

Filippo Valsorda thinks[1] the encryption implementation looks sane.

[1] https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/
> I don't know why this is.

Strong aversion to anything digital. Even nowadays the number of ebooks in Japanese is ridiculously small compared to how easy it is to find most books online in English (through Amazon or other book stores). And that's despite Japan owning the Kobo platform (through Rakuten).
As someone from the UK I consume a lot of BBC radio. Mostly BBC4 for news/docs, BBC6 for music and BBC5 for sports when I can't get to a TV. I'm intrigued by the idea that people from other countries might be similarly enthusiastic.

I was surprised to find family friends who lived in Philadelphia watched BBC World Service as their primary news source when I visited them.
Interesting article. There's also one on how typing Japanese is done on modern computers:

https://blog.gatunka.com/2009/09/12/using-a-japanese-ime/

It all sounds horribly complicated, although it may be one of those procedures that's easier to do than to describe.

These kind of writing systems really don't seem suited to being input via a conventional keyboard, even with software assistance.

I wonder if things will change [or have changed] with the advent of touch screens and styluses? [stylii?] which would allow the characters to be written manually, using finger or stylus and then have the software convert this to the appropriate typed character?
Windows doesn't run on my fluid based CPU. It's not an OS. 0/10.
> Still, cars are everywhere.

I don't think cars will ever disappear, they're useful in many ways. But saying "cars are everywhere" in NL seems a bit of an overstatement, no? Cars are so much less dominant in NL than in other European countries (even Denmark).

> try everything to make the life of car owners miserable

Are they miserable because of inherent challenges of car ownership that other countries try to mitigate or is it really municipalities actively causing their misery?
Here is the Norwegian Meteor Network's report on the event: http://norskmeteornettverk.no/meteor/20210724/230849/
> of about £100

I renewed it literally this morning with a credit card and it clocked £ 159. But the radio is free.
By British accent one assumes they mean Received Pronounciation, RP.

It’s sad to see all the regional dialects blending into an amorphous English, perhaps we need a Campaign for Real Accents, could call it CAMRA.

I recall an interview with the Blue Peter presenter John Noakes regretting changing his Yorkshire accent to RP so he could work as an actor.
There is no historical precedent for the CO2 levels since well before mammalian life surged to the fore. Burning hundreds of millions of years of sequestered carbon in the span of 150 years turns out to have consequences. The carbon cycle has been known about for roughly the same time period that we’ve been in accelerated burning mode. Oil companies also extensively researched the likely impact of continued fossil fueled economic activity and the results confirmed what we know today. The oil companies decided to bury these findings and instead paid for the dissemination of rhetoric such as you are emitting here. It’s based on deceptive data and a tactic to always deny the link between human burning of fossil fuels and drastic climate change such as humans have never seen before.

Here, I see your untrue statement and raise you an info graphic
https://xkcd.com/1732/
There is also a very small shop in wedding that only sells darts (and targets I assume). I passed by in front of it many times and always wondered how big the darting community must be for that shop to stay in business
Restic doesn't implement compression and most probably never will (since compression when combined with encryption has been known to make the encryption "weaker").

Borg's "encryption" doesn't instill confidence in me.

Restic ships as a static binary so you can shove the version you used to create the backup and will be able to restore it forever (assuming we still run x64 machines).

Borg requires a server side component so cannot natively backup to cloud object stores. Restic can.

Borg OTOH is very lean and doesn't take a lot of RAM compared to Restic.

You cannot go wrong with either. I tried both and found Restic much easier to run and manage and the memory usage wasn't an issue for me (~4TB backups).
I saw on Twitter that you can search for "he said,she said" and you get massive recent spikes suggesting a change in the composition of Google's data. (i.e. More fiction where characters are saying things)

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=he+said%2Cshe+...
No, it's either the same as "ż" (in most cases) or the same as "sz" (after devoiced consonants). And there's like 3 words where it's pronounced as separate r and z letters (tarzan, marznąć, I don't remember the 3rd :) ).
In most areas of the German economy, IT is still seen as a necessary evil to be able to run "real" businesses like auto manufacturing.

With the success of big American social media companies like Facebook, the public mindset has started changing, but on a glacial timeline - too little, too late.

German internet startups are comparable to their American counterparts nowadays. But the majority of IT jobs aren't at startups, but in other industries - and they still suffer from the image of being a necessary evil rather than an asset.

One example is the desolate state of car-entertainment software even at the luxury brands. No German car manufacturer could come up with something like CarPlay or Android Auto. Not because they don't have the money to acquire the talent, but because of a "what we have is good enough" mindset.
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/j569y/can_someone_exp...
I have increasingly ignored the Olympics over the years because I'm so tired of the garbage coverage.

We have the technology to stream every single event in its entirety yet somehow NBC always manages to never cover anything well.
> Also, in 2001 Sony introduced USB connectors on their portable MD lineup so they didn't miss the train by much (by Japanese standards).

It was still ridiculously tedious to transfer songs to a Sony device with USB. They did not support MP3 initially so you had to convert everything into their own proprietary format. Completely useless piece of hardware.
Eh, I've been at a company where the CEO announced at an all hands that he'd have to do the job of a direct report he'd just fired for a while, because the next one had to be a woman and there weren't many available. It took like 8 months to find a replacement for that critical role, at a time when the company desperately needed commercial success.

Worst thing is, the CEO wasn't even a culture warrior. He just seemed to be afraid of board members and/or radicalized employees who were.

The thing to understand is, these people aren't ignorant of the law. It's plebs like us who are ignorant of the law. The people doing this are well aware that their ideological allies have taken over most government institutions, including the ones that supposedly protect people from this, and are not interested in enforcement of the law unless it elevates women and minorities. The law is not what's written, it's what's enforced. These ad guys are a rare exception where the law was enforced as written, but even then, they literally had a written presentation that said the female CEO planned to "obliterate" white men from their team and were fired two days after objecting to it, yet it took so long to get a judgement that their former employer technically no longer exists. Three years for them to get any kind of justice, and other men who were sacked as part of their "diversity" drive ended up settling out of court.

That's the penalty for cases where people admit to what they're doing in writing, and present it to the whole firm. Good luck getting any justice in cases where it's less obvious than that.
> will almost certainly have backwards-compatible zSeries or System i hardware running literally 30-40 year old programs.

But like, isn’t that a them problem? If you want to calcify your compute layer, don’t be surprised when the rest of the industry moves on, and possibly does things that aren’t compatible anymore? If they want to keep running that software, I think it’s their responsibility to either evolve their software to keep up, or deal with the fact that they’ll have to run their own old version/fork when the time comes.

If they contribute to the kernel, I would have thought their perspective would have been represented on one of these threads by now, as they seem to get posted at pretty much every event hahaha. Maybe they do and I totally missed it as well.
Yeah sort of lacking the concept of hierarchy and/or recursion. “We need Z to do Y to do X” - no no the operand can’t be a pointer to executable address. That’ll fault.
how I'll walk to home when drunk at night without streetlamps? :|

damn, those trade offs!
Good idea. Establishing a relationship between your name and with some named thing of the real world: a TV series character, a city, etc.
It wouldn't, call them just Pommes. Pommes mit Mayo.
I guess free as in, the signals are floating around free for anyone to pick up and listen to - there is no subscription technically needed.
You don't need a TV Licence to view or listen to anything, you are just supposed to.

Nothing stops you from firing up iplayer or BBC sounds over a VPN or something (unless something has changed outside the UK)
This article takes ages to get to futures because the writer seems to want to go on some tour of Rust crates first.
In-house MLOPS or third-party MLOPs?
I am part of transformation team in my company. We want to improve the processes involved in machine learning model development in the data science teams, making them enterprise ready. We realise an MLOPs system could be a major upgrade for the team. Is it worth-it to purchase subscription for MLOPs platform from a third party? Or is it more resource efficient to hire Data engineers and software developers to build bespoke MLOPs systems in-house? Are there any free tools that can be leveraged upon to build the MLOPs system by data scientists themselves?
In that case, the moratorium placed on local radio seems even more bizarre.
The correlation between amyloid plaques and Alzheimer's has long been known, but how well established is the causation? All of my information is dated, but last I read, causation still hadn't been conclusively established.
I'm not sure what you mean by "retaliation". The BBC does not have the right to broadcast olympic coverage outside of the UK, even short clips, therefore they are not doing so.
But where do you actually see that prosperity? I don't think the average American has a better lifestyle than the average German or Swiss or French person.