skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in most of the world i'd hope an accident caused by using these features is the drivers fault for switching them on and not 'driving with due care and attention'

If I can die because a driver has a big red "kill" button in their car, I'm not going to blame them for pressing it. I'm going to blame the manufacturer and regulators. That button is just too damn dangerous for humans.

Similarly, there's a reason we don't put a "nuke" button on the president's desk directly guarding missiles and then blame him for pressing it at the wrong time. Some things are just too damn dangerous to put in a single human's control, let alone so easily.
I am no expert, I asked the same question.

It seems this system is the Pinyin system common to mainland China, there are other transliteration systems used in Taiwan (Bopomofo) and Wade-Giles (which seems to create more phonetically obvious transliterations).

This link has a nice table in the symbology section.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
PDO + Prepared Statements

https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepared-statements.php
Agreed. Anyone can point out a problem, some can be "pro solution", and very few actually solve problems. Unfortunate reality of the world.
Much of the science research in australia was performed by the CSIRO, which has been hacked to pieces by the current administration. It was a world leader in research, there is still medical research being performed though under funded.

The assertion that market prices drive innovation in health is interesting though a counter example is the US health system which is the most expensive in the world. There is no proof that competition enhances health outcomes.
There seems to be an assumption in this thread, that only American English speakers mispronounce non-English names. I've found the British and Australians, to be equally terrible at this.
Some standing desks require you to hold the button when they move, presumably so that they could skimp on the testing requirements and/or hardware needed to safely stop when the desk hits an obstruction.

BTW, this is often totally undocumented (often blatantly on purpose) and you basically need to find a video review of the desk in question where you can see the desk move on its own or else it's not guaranteed it will do that & you will spend a ~minute every time you want to rise or lower the desk to the standing/sitting position.
Despite the name, “Reverse Engineering for Beginners” is an excellent resource and can get pretty advanced at times. https://beginners.re/
> statues of philosophers as their avatars

Are you suggesting philosophers aren’t a consistently unhappy lot ?
who are "they" ? not its people.
The thing is, most of the cycling advocacy I see is pro solution yet the opposition response is largely anti problem. Those who want to ride safely typically propose infrastructure based solutions and rarely treat the automobile itself as the problem. For example: while you may see advocacy for protected lanes or traffic calming, almost no one is arguing that cars should be removed from the roads. Contrast that to the opposition response, which often seeks to have bikes removed from the roads and never supports accommodation for different modes of transportation.
Which alleged crimes were fabricated? Cite some sources if you could
Pinyin was not designed as a system for making it easier for English speakers to pronounce Chinese, but as a way for native Chinese speakers to write their own language. During the early years of the revolution in China, there were proposals of various levels of seriousness to ditch characters entirely in favor of a Latin script like pinyin, and this actually happened in Vietnam.

Wade-Giles, an earlier system of transliterating Chinese, was designed more with English speakers in mind, but suffered from a number of problems of its own, particularly requiring apostrophes all over the place.

And in Japan you can still see two competing systems duking it out, with the Japanese-for-Japanese Kunrei system ("Huzi") officially anointed as standard but in practice the Japanese-for-Americans Hepburn ("Fuji") being far more common.
I really hope that sometime in the next 20-30 years light pollution gets the attention needed to do something about it.

Especially since in many cases the better lighting is as cheap or cheaper (tco), it just takes someone in the decision tree actually caring.
No, I didn't know about it until relatively recently, and whilst I'd like to try it out, and it's community, decentralised, federated, open source focus sits well with my world-view, it's just not high enough on my priority list.
Four points for Italian:

1. Vowels are like in Spanish ("a" always sounds "ah" etc.)

2. The group "ch" sounds like a "k" sound, e.g. bruschetta is "broos-keh-tah"

3. The groups "gl" and "gn" sound like Spanish "ll" and "ñ" respectively. Those are hard to pronounce for English speakers, the easy shortcut is just imagine that the "g" is silent and that the "l" or "n" are a bit more pronounced.

4. Double consonants need to have a much more pronounced sound, almost as if you pause for a moment on that consonant. It should be easy to tell apart "nonno" ("grandpa") and "nono" ("ninth")
You’re right. This also is made even worse with OTA updates since a user might have learned one type of situation response only to learn the hard way that it just changed.

So I guess I have to take back my earlier comment then, they’d still be criticised!

I’m not hating on Tesla, they make beautiful cars and tremendously fun to drive. If I had $50k to spend frivolously I’d buy one in a heartbeat (without “FSD”!).
so that's where the picture of my forehead went to. give it back!
Nothing’s exposed to the Internet here. The pi zero is part of a closed loop.
>Just saying that it’s not terrifying

If you think China's social credit system isn't terrifying, then I guess I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't find this terrifying.
PDO explicitly does not support the functionality being discussed [1]:

> For example, you cannot bind multiple values to a single parameter in the IN() clause of an SQL statement.

You're required to roll your own implementation, something that thankfully isn't particularly difficult, but unfortunately also seems to be enough of a barrier that a lot of programmers don't bother.

[1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepare.php
And its MMS support is both gravely broken and has been declared a non-priority (I don't have the link handy, but also don't care if folks think I'm lying)

I don't know that this incident will cause me to uninstall Signal, but it for sure is going to get my recurring donation cancelled

If I fix the MMS for my carrier *again* and then that fix is ignored or rejected, that's when I'll uninstall it
Whether The Guardian is good or bad, it's one of the widest known and best selling newspapers in the English-speaking world so asking people here not to post Guardian links is unlikely to work.
That is a fun fact!
Yes, autopilot is just cruise control. No other cruise control I've used before violently brakes on the highway for no reason. I don't think expecting it to not do that is unreasonable.
I find the title misleading, as the link is only covering Chinese. But the same problem exists with other languages that are already using the "Roman alphabet". So, with that in mind, what makes you think the transliteration should be optimized for English? :)
How does AEMO predict demand in the National Electricity Market?
"please dont present a united voice against the source of the problem. Balkanize yourselves into a dozen little groups so no change ever happens!"
Chinese has (at least) two different sounds that map to "Ch" in English. Pinyin has both a "Ch" and a "Q" to capture this nuance. Of course, when you translate it to native English phonemes that difference is lost.

You can listen here:

https://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/chinese-english/transla...

https://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/chinese-english/transla...
The goal of pinyin was not to make Mandarin words pronounceable to English speakers, but to be a consistent means of representing the sounds of Mandarin to Mandarin speakers.
> My French background doesn’t make me any better at pronouncing Chinese names!

It would have, back when the sound currently written "r" was written "j" instead.
> When being harassed by police is itself sufficient to turn a person into a criminal, or ruin their life, you end up in a situation where everyone is doing what is 'reasonable', but leading to outcomes that are both unfair, and even negative overall, to society.

I agree. I just think that when critics read articles like the one in this post, they might walk away with the idea that all of these assumptions are fine and that critics of these systems are being alarmist. They might see these metrics as reasonable considering they reflect trends in actual criminals, but not understand that they are being used to predict criminal behavior, which like you mentioned with the two almost definitely innocent people is not the same thing.
Maybe it's transliterated for a more Latin-like crowd where vowels have exactly one pronunciation, like in languages like Spanish, where reading the second columns as they'd naturally think to, would likely be 95% OK
Not a native speaker, but at least in a Beijing accent, I wouldn't say that "Chen" rhymes with "fun." "Cheng" or "Zheng," or "Feng," sure, "fun" works as a comparison. "Chen," "Zhen," etc. would rhyme more with "pen" or "hen."
In the older Wade-Giles system, they indeed tried to maintain some similarity with how English uses the Latin alphabet. Ch was used, for example Ssu-ma Ch'ien, which is now Sima Qian. Using Latin q for a ch sound isn't unheard of in European languages, for example, in Albanian. Mandarin pinyin is "rational" in the sense that any other language with phonemic values for the Latin alphabet widely divergent from Latin or English, like Turkish, Albanian, or Irish.
Did you also try AirSonic Advanced? I have not used it much myself but seems to be a strict improvement over AirSonic. It has diverged enough that it should be considered a separate effort and project at this point.

https://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced
Ha, not necessarily, but just curious what the subculture or connection is.
It's physically impossible to solve most of those "hard" crimes. No evidence, no witnesses, no recordings, no leads, nothing. Reality precludes the possibility of them being solved.

They're also not allowed to mass read text messages, listen to phone calls, get phone-call "metadata", run security-camera footage through "AI", do facial recognition, can't capture everybody's biometrics, etc. Oh and they can't profile people or perform stop/frisks, their hunches are biased, they can't walk dangerous neighbourhoods because they then "police" them unfairly, etc. They can't win.

At this point, short of magic and wishful thinking, I don't see what we want the police to actually do to solve these crimes. No wonder they "game their numbers" as you mention, that's all they're really allowed to do by us.
> “Ching” ㄔㄧㄥ is a technically valid syllable in the Pinyin system

No, it isn't; "ch" cannot be followed by a front vowel.

There are plenty of theoretically-valid but nonexistent syllables such as sěng or nǖ, but "ching" is not such a syllable.
There are plenty of other transliteration systems that might lead to more accurate pronunciations for English speakers in particular (as opposed to say, native Russian speakers); see Wade-Giles or Gwoyeu Romatzyh. The factors that led to the current de-facto standard are more related to 20th century history rather than optimizing for the particular use case of reading aloud by non-natives.
The funny thing is I have a similar issue with an update on my Model S - I know the exact spots where phantom braking engages and just start turning off Autopilot in those spots.
As always, “rational” is subjective. Pinyin, the transliteration scheme in use in this post (in use in the PRC since the 50s or so), is necessarily full of trade-offs.

Ch is already needed to represent a sound which is much closer to the English “Ch”, as in Chen. But then there is this other sound, which sounds superficially like Ch to a non-native speaker, but actually is quite different (and if you mix them up, you might not be understood by a native speaker). What letter do you use for that?

Originally people used Ts, as in Tsingtao the beer, named for the city on the coast (but that wasn’t perfect either, because the sound also has very little in common with T). Then in the 50s Pinyin came along and it was changed to Q, so Qingdao (the final consonant was changed too).

Btw this change in transliteration schemes is why Peking Duck is still a thing: even though the city’s name is now spelled Beijing, the old spelling of Peking lives on in the name of the dish (and a few other places).
They are talking about Traffic Aware Cruise Control (TACC), not actually AutoPilot as most people think would be the case.

I love our Tesla, but the TACC is not that great, the most annoying part is when passing cars on the freeway it sometimes all of a sudden it thinks the car next to me that I'm passing is in the same lane, and then phantom brakes while trying to pass. It is disappointing.
> Is there a more complex queuing service? No. There’s only SQS.

Yes there is: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/
I'm not really sure how to feel about this sort of criticism because you could apply it to basically any court case. The goal for any defendant/prosecutor isn't to have a believable case it's to have a legally sufficient one.
Navidrome [2] is another relatively new option for music streaming servers. Lightweight, written in Go, can handle very large music collections, and is compatible with Subsonic/Madsonic/Airsonic.

[2] https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
Of course.

But the "official" (as you say) transliterations of world languages enjoy wide usage not because they're necessarily the best anyone could come up with --- rather, they just represented the right local maxima at the right time in history.

Displacing those romanization systems with better ones (assuming those exist) would be an uphill battle lasting decades, and I wager there aren't many people who would find that struggle worth the effort.
A family friend had parents from New Zealand and Norway. He was born in New Zealand, and was named Brent after his grandfather.

As an adult he moved here to Norway, and immediately had an issue with his name. In Norwegian "brent" means burnt, and is pronounced almost exactly like "Brent".

So, he changed his name to a fairly common Norwegian name: Bernt.

Fast forward a couple of decades and he moves back to New Zealand and, as you can imagine, again finds himself in need of a name change since everyone is pronouncing his name as "burnt"...
Welll, technically, in my country, India, the right to repair sort of already exists. I have gotten my devices repaired by third party vendors many times if my device was not under warranty.
I agree that fractional bus factors would be better if we could completely redefine the metric, yes - they do a much better job conveying the fact that doubling your bus factor does way more than halve your likelihood of actually getting stopped by losing a contributor. I was stuck reinterpreting existing definitions when I wrote that post, though, so /shrug
My name is "Sander". It's a common Dutch calling name, related to the (baptismal, in my case) name Alexander. I have always introduced myself in the US as "sender", which is easy and fine to me, but not how you pronounce it in Dutch, where the "a" is more like in the English "hard" (I suppose). I don't care. Until my mom visited, who started calling out everyone in my sphere for mispronouncing my name, despite my pleading to leave it alone... oh, well...
>Pinyin was not designed as a system for making it easier for English speakers to pronounce Chinese, but as a way for native Chinese speakers to write their own language.

In this case, it makes even less sense to blame English speakers for incorrect pronunciations resulting from this system.
I'm not sure I agree that the best mapping of Pinyin "e" is to the English "u".

To my ears, Chinese "he" sounds closer to (non-American) English "her" than "huh".

Same for "chen" - "chun" captures neither the Chinese phonemes nor the English spelling. I'd argue even "Cheng" (hard e) is less likely to cause confusion/disrespect.
Investigators are still looking at it to determine if it was actually cracked, as some are calling doubt. Unfortunately the Zodiac’s name is not revealed.
The title reminds me my favourite yt video about Korean name.

https://youtu.be/p1RKkRCiU90
Title: "having a non-white name" by ProZD
Is this the wrong link? All I see is how to pronounce 3 Chinese consonants.
Yes, I mean that it is a valid syllable in the orthography rules but that does not imply it can be pronounced sensibly.
Word. In fact, most of these phrases, to me at least, imply sarcasm.

To say "social science studies are bullshit" implies a more generalized claim to me than "social science studies are always bullshit"

People use overt generalization words like these, in my experience, to indicate generalization with obvious exception.

This study is selecting for precisely the wrong thing, imo, or is not properly interpreting what they've selected.
Quite. this is nice, but the idea that 'I think you can actively try to become the hot new thing in part by working on being inoffensive' is naive. That approach works great for networking with peers but not against aggressive opposition.

There are a lot of people in the world who thrive on seeing other people worse off, to a greater degree than being equivalently better off themselves. In game theory terms, they're willing to experience a loss in order to inflict a loss on others. Online they present as trolls.
Oops - see my edit!
The NIMBY’s are at it again. Shameful outcome. We are going to push forward on reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, we have got to build solar panels and other great energy. NIMBY’s are the new enemy of a forward society.

“ Although a majority of the state's voters approved an energy transition ballot question last year, large-scale projects like Battle Born Solar have drawn backlash from conservationists, endangered species advocates and local businesses that cater to tourists.

Nevada fulfills most of its energy needs using natural gas plants or through importing power produced elsewhere. But developers have rapidly scaled up their investments in solar and geothermal in the windswept lands north of Las Vegas, where sunshine and open land are abundant.”
It also applies to the most commonly used COVID-19 vaccine in the world, Oxford-AstraZeneca. Maybe others I'm less familiar with.
I was chatting to a speech pathologist the other day, apparently when they were being awarded their degrees, the entire class submitted the IPA transcription of their names to be read out at the graduation ceremony.
Termux has been awesome.

It was the number one reason why I chose to get an Android phone when my last smartphone died.

When my current phone bites the dust, I am not sure what I will get next:

Apple is very nice and the hardware is supported for a long time, but as the tweets illustrate, iOS is too locked down.

Android has been good enough, but Google has gotten more pushy and is locking down Android to be more and more like Apple.

PinePhone and similar Linux-based phones are interesting, but they are not quite ready to act as mature replacements for an Apple or Android smartphone.
This is exactly why one of the lesser known provisions of GDPR (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/) addresses "automated individual decision making" (although there are likely exceptions for government activity, but they may require a law).
and you have to pay 199$ monthly for the self driving feature, or 10000$ without subscription. [1]. Couldn't find the EULA for the feature, wonder how it is termed.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/tesla-ful...
In many cases, that body may not exist. Freenom has placed themselves in the role of the registry.
> So, if we saw the kinds of initial digits that your hypothetical produces, we would be correct to guess that this stock is behaving in an unusual way.

Sure

> And it would be a correct application of Benford's Law, because we can reasonably expect that its key assumptions apply.

No, absolutely not.

The fact that Benford's law would trigger on that one example is not evidence that using Benford's law in this situation is actually a reasonable thing to do. Applying Benford's law to observations over time from a highly correlated time series (e.g. a stock price over time) is fundamentally different from applying Benford's law to a bunch of observations from different time series at a single point in time (e.g. the NYSE prices in the first figure from the original post). As I pointed out in my comment above, applying Benford's law to the single time series must be justified by an ergodicity argument which nobody has attempted to make. I don't know if Smith has any background in stochastic processes, but given Gelman's work on MCMC convergence (which deals with similar issues) he should have flagged that.

> It turns out that red flags are useful even when they're not admissible in court, because they provide an easy heuristic that you can use to help direct your search for more compelling evidence.

No. A "red flag" like this with no theoretical justification and unknown operating characteristics is a good way to get led down false paths. About the only thing it's good for is confirmation bias.
More than that, it would have to have to be statistically significant versus crime in similar counties, cities, and the country as a whole. Some quick searches[0] show an overall crime drop in the USA since 1999, ~2010, and certainly the beginning of the reporting period. Unless this activity is nationwide, which given the usual nature of the policing policy, I reject out of hand.

One consideration about the 1990s crime drop should be the Lead-crime hypothesis[1], which basically refers to the banning and reduction of lead in fuel and consumer products in the 1970's bearing fruits a couple of decades later as people begin to mature in a less toxic environment. The information I have reviewed[2] about the US and even internationally[3] is quite compelling to me. Motherjones has collected all of this information.[4]

There could be a similar phenomenon (not necessarily environmental, but prop65 passed in 1986 and there is also the 1974 SDWA[5] with substantial amendments in 1986, and 1996, as well as numerous changes in the period about the 1990s) affecting the country after about ~2000 and again ~2010, but I do not know of any other information supporting this analysis.

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

[2] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041201...

[3] - https://pic.plover.com/Nevin/Nevin2007.pdf

[4] - https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...

[5] - http://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-safe-drinking-wa...
One day some guy will build a potato powered Rasberry Pi.
> DRY paints that as a feature

That's not what DRY should be. Good developers should understand at least a couple of levels of abstraction underneath what they're writing in order to produce sensible code.

The idea of abstraction is that you only have to spend the afternoon/day/week (depending on the complexity that's being abstracted over) learning how everything comes together once, as opposed to spending that time to grok a slightly different version of the same complex system every time you read/write something new.