skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At uni I had a Vietnamese classmate in my group called Thanh. This was easy enough to pronounce, or so we thought. One day he introduced us to his brother, called Than. If I remember correctly, the difference between their names was in the melodic intonation, which none of us could master.

Ultimately, we ended up naming then Hans and Daan. I don't recall if they were bemused or bewildered by our inability to distinguish their names, but they accepted their new names with grace.
I don't think you're quite there yet. It's more like how this lady says it in the first 10 seconds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMJNV61I9iU. She guides you through pronouncing these sounds.

You're right though. I could probably get Chinese pronunciation correct given enough time and effort. but it's not trivial, like I thought earlier.
> What if you pay for Netflix — because you want to support creators, — but you actually download stuff — because you also want to be able to watch it without hustle?

I dont have to do that with music (spotify works on linux and my phone so its fine) or with games (steam works with linux and valve makes linux gaming better every single day).

I don´t mind paying a fair price for media and i like the convenience of a large, always available, curated, searchable, instantly available Media service. But the movie and TV Industry doesn´t offer it. Netflix here in Germany has a pathetic libary and i dont want to subscribe to 5 services to watch the 5 or 6 TV shows i want to see. Thats neither fair nor convenient. I´d rather take that money to my local cinema and pay for the experience instead of just the content.

Piracy is mostly a distribution problem and to a much lesser degree a pricing problem. As long as I can´t buy into a service that is better than pirating content why should I pay for it.
every time this comes up i just have to ask

- what do you think a language standard is or does

- what languages with standards do you think standardization has helped (this is a trick question! do not answer "c" or "c++"!)

- in which languages with standards is a plurality of code written to that standard? (this is also a trick question! do not answer "c", "c++", or "javascript"!)
You should probably research how the crash reporting works, but the gist of it is (iirc) companies can register their software with Microsoft and get these crash reports sent to them.
It isn't incompetence. The security establishment across the west don't share democratic values. The politicians are too weak or distracted to fight them even when they're inclined to, which seems relatively rare. A sad state of affairs.
Which makes them more honest, in that regard.
The whales can redeem, in minimum chunks of $100,000. Mostly these are exchanges. Thus the peg is supported by the reserves in a roundabout way.

If Tether can’t redeem, and trades break the peg, then ultimately either exchanges go insolves or anyone holding tether has to write off their holdings. Or both.
it can be both!
If your goal is to avoid regulatory risk, you might consider taking seriously the possibility of avoiding cryptocurrencies entirely.
Thanks for the encouragement, I really appreciate it.
I recently saw some publicity video by Mitutoyo America on YouTube that pronounced it [mitutɔjou]. All the machinists I watch on YouTube pronounce it [mɪtsutɔjou] though.
Because it's now two things to care of. Which will diverge eventually, even if only ever so slightly. If not, what's the point of the whole exercise?

It just adds additional friction. Whereas when you set out your supply chains within the EU single market you don't have to deal with that.
There is a new Washington consensus emerging that will reverse the productive relationship between US and China for the last 50 years.

Not sure what impact this will have in the 6mo-1yr timeframe, but we can expect the relationship to deteriorate.

The recent issue of Foreign Affairs (a bellwether publication for the Washington consensus) is about this decline in the relationship between the two countries.
Because I have performed out of band verification for contacts in my chat app.
There absolutely is, per the last comment in the thread: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/14489#issu...

However, that also means disabling protection against cryptominers and a host of other nasty stuff, so it's not really a great solution IMHO.
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The "always growing" part, I think has a lot to do with the stock markets and public companies. Private companies can go up and down, expand and contract (it's not painless of course). But a lot of this is due to expectations.

Society can adjust if it's allowed. Before the 1900s old people didn't retire (unless they were wealthy and never actually did hard work). Maybe we need to rid ourselves of the idea of living idly with golfcourses and driving an RV all over the country and instead to add to the household, if in diminishing amounts as one ages.
I think are at least a couple hundred million people who use USD.
I don’t know if it’s widely implemented, but the way Stripe IDs resources comes to mind.
Came here to say this. They showed it live at 7 AM, on broadcast. No accounts or payment required.

I know some people have issues getting a signal over the air (live in an apartment, too far from source), but usually when I talk to people about broadcast they just have some weird hangup about buying a $10 antenna and connecting it to their television.
"These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others." ― Groucho Marx

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/09/groucho-principles/
I am saying it is technologically possible. In the US, I simply do not watch sports as it all requires buying a subscription to an archaic and obviated cable/satellite TV service.

Once I can go to the sports league’s website and and pay directly for what I want to watch, I will start watching.
More can be seen on the lambdatalk language in http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=coding
> This is exactly how it goes every damned time.

Well, if you're going to post arguing against your own point every time... :)
Yeah, no. I don't have to prove to a company that i am worthy to use their service without selling my soul and privacy to shaddowy entities. It's their job to sell a service that i would want to use to me.
>Well, they're cheaper than all other forms of electricity. The cost of renewables is mostly capital expenditure

There is a cost to renewables that most advocates don't factor in - balancing. Most studies use the prevailing market rates for energy to prove that renewables are cheaper than coal or gas however, when renewables aren't providing power, something is and that something has a cost.

This is a cost paid for by consumers though it isn't attributed to the source of the problem - the variable renewable generators.

Similar argument for energy storage. You need storage precisely because renewables are variable and that cost should be factored in to the cost of renewable energy. At the moment, it isn't.
Ehhh. I'm pretty close to an Ethereum maximalist, but I'd actually say ETH is more at risk than BTC for these types of downside risks.

For one BTC is just bigger with more people widely invested in it, and more name recognition. That's going to constrain government action from interest groups and the public perception of overreach. If Biden announced tomorrow that he was going to "shut down Bitcoin", a lot of conservatives, and even moderates, would have a knee jerk opposing reaction. If he said he was going to "shut down Ethereum", most people would be like "what the hell is Ethereum?"

Two, Ethereum's smart contract system allows a lot more shenanigans. Remember, Tether runs on top of Ethereum, not Bitcoin. As does almost all of DeFi, which is starting to piss off financial regulations. Bitcoin doesn't come with all the baggage attached. 99% of it is just people transferring Bitcoin to one another. That makes its systematic risks pretty self-contained.
fair point. counter-argument: i'll start modifying my C:\Windows directory and make it my own dumpster fire.
"Single button mouse"...

You did exactly this.

Edit: changed to the relevant statement
> Most GMs probably aren’t doing it to make money, they get a similar thrill from it as, say, a mathematician gets from understanding and solving deep math problems.

Very apt analogy. Most math faculty members in my department stopped being productive in the last third of their career. After a while, it just gets old. Proving yet another theorem no longer excites them.

At least they collect a decent paycheck, though.
I'm not sure ETH would be any better protected from tether's collapse. If anything it might be more affected since a fair number of defi projects use it.
...I'm less sure of this.

If Windows Defender was deleting any file named "Animal Farm.txt", that would be a form of censorship, right? It's preventing the transmission of a piece of political literature.

Now, what if it was deleting "Animal Farm - The Video Game.exe"?

Now, what if it was deleting the keygen for "Animal Farm - The Video Game"? What if the activation server for that game had gone offline, and this keygen was now the only way to play it?

My point being, software (and especially games) can absolutely be a way of expressing ideas, and if you block the software, that seems like censorship to me. I also think that some forms of censorship are fine and even necessary—I don't particularly like stumbling across porn unprepared—but it should be optional.
You don't need to see what $ScaryPipples are saying. you just need to know they are, indeed, scary. We'll tell you about how bad what they said is.
And continues to inspire and radicalize people. It's only that the world has come through the other end of that insanity and the body count is high enough, that Mein Kampf stands, to most people, as a tombstone monument to complete insanity.

Do we need to let every kind of complete insanity run its course and generate a body count?
It has many issues, especially in recent years. However, in terms of most of the metrics you'd measure a city against--culture, cuisine, architecture, green space, natural beauty, diversity, etc. it's got a lot going for it. And cool grey fog aside, it's got a far better than average climate. I've never lived there but have visited many many times and definitely see the attraction.

I'll also note that, if you're there on business and never stray too far from the Moscone, you're seeing one of the least interesting parts of the city.
Tether likely impacts eth as much if not more than Bitcoin considering it 1) runs on Eth and 2) Eth tends to be the financial product crypto of which tether is the largest element.
Taiwan as a country was not allowed to buy vaccines (since China views them as an administrative sub-unit, Taiwan should not be engaging in international relationships from their perspective) and are still getting hit hard by COVID. At one point recently TSMC itself was negotiating with an EU pharma company for vaccines (to be purchased through a Chinese intermediary) as a proxy for the national government (due to the aforementioned "china says we're not a country" politics) and I wonder if these two things aren't linked. Give us a fab so we aren't wholly dependent on Taiwan for supply flunctuations in our automotive industry, and we'll grease the skids with China and make sure you get your vaccines.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3140662/tsmc...

I guess arguing against that idea is the fact that Japan also got a 28nm fab recently and I dunno if they've done anything particularly special for Taiwan lately in return.

But up until recently TSMC was very much "negotiating via the press", protesting that Germany was not a good location due to lack of supply chain, etc (despite GloFo having the Dresden fabs nearby and all - certainly not cutting-edge anymore but they are 14nm/12nm fabs, they aren't chopped liver either).

There clearly has been a sea change lately though with TSMC and their policy regarding fabs outside of taiwan. The US got a 20k wafer/month fab (later upgraded to a 100k wf/mo "gigafab") based on the cutting-edge 5nm node, which would have been unthinkable even a year ago. Japan got a 28nm fab for their automotive industry as well. Clearly the chips shortage has been a factor in all this but particularly the change in position on the 5nm fab is pretty stunning - the exclusivity of TSMC's cutting-edge nodes in China is effectively part of their national-defense strategy and there must have been some pretty good trades made in order to get that fab in the US. That is not an automotive fab and it's completely contrary to the well-established policy of TSMC never to let their cutting-edge nodes outside Taiwan to use the potential damage to the world economy as a suicide bomb should china try to invade.
They expect it because it's been the norm for a couple of generations. And we're paying a lot for it (in Europe, at least).

But yeah, it looks like we'll go back to no retirement soon enough, the current systems are not sustainable. Lots of people will be pissed off.
Access to opportunities has to do with socio-economics.

His point was that simply existing with a darker shade of skin does not preclude you from being a GM due to any innate (in)ability. It's generally considered in bad-faith to presume an author is making a political statement that they very clearly aren't making.
Trust Service on Ethereum
Code is law, we got decentralized lending, exchanges, time to build our decentralized trust service on chain.
And Japan is betting on pervasive hydrogen based electricity generation to manage carbon neutrality by 2050... A lot of wishful thinking + hot air and "I won't be there to see the disaster" from current politicians...
> With windows I don't think this will be technically feasible.

It's not only feasible but it's basically reality.

Anti-cheat systems for online games can literally ban you if they detect that you run a blacklisted program in the background or use a modified graphics driver. And you won't even know why you were banned, and lose access to all games you bought with that account.
The economics of wind, solar, gas, and nuclear are very well documented and known. Making a robust grid is well known.

"That's when I realized"

You understand how utterly ridiculous this sounds, right?

"That's when I realized that spacecraft should be made out of aluminum foil"
As I remember the book didn't start to sell very well until the Nazis took over in 1933, at which point it was a little too late to stop them.

The book did (as I recall) describe Hitlers plans in some detail, so had more people read it, maybe they would have done something.
Case of System Becoming Unusably Slow When Visual Studio Hit a Breakpoint
It’s targeting certain copyrighted works too, even legitimate ones

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/oof29b/windows_de...
Behold! http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~demo5337/Group3/Bhaskara.html

It's so pretty everyone should know it.
How Science Lost the Public Trust
it's a much better analogy than wrycoder's. cars don't generally have long-term idle states like computers do.
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Most major US cities did not start out as car centric locations (even the south and west), but we made them all so within the span of 100 years. Doesn't seem unreasonable it could be undone as quickly
Obamacare drastically raised insurance costs
Agreed - just log into app via cable provider and voila, Olympic paradise.
Pretty easy to solve. We know that electricity can go around the Earth 7 times in a second. Now, if Germany has excess electricity during the day, they can simply pospone that electricity by wrapping a long cable 302 400 times around the globe (12h * 3600s/h * 7/s = 302 400). During the day they feed the excess electricity into one end of the cable, and then 12 hours later at night, electricity comes out the other end at just the right time, when they need it!
Possibly so (I agree there is no "head termite"). But if you observed humans on a building site, I think it might be difficult to identify a "head". They would all appear to be doing their own thing - more or less.
If I were holding any Tether, articles like this would probably push me to buy btc or eth with it, then transfer it out of exchange reach. I would, then, consider moving it back to USD only when the dust settle.

From that point of view, it's easy to imagine why a tether collapse would temporarily push crypto prices up - not down.
Please distinguish between Democratic Party and actual leftism. I don't like NYT because they keep lying us into stupid wars, which isn't leftist at all.
Chess ratings make this point really strikingly.

A rating difference of 400 points means that the better player will score 0.9 on average (where 0=loss, 0.5=draw, 1=win).

A typical hobby player might have a rating of 1600. A good player at a chess club will have a rating of around 2000, meaning that they beat the hobby player around 90% of the time. A low-level grandmaster will have a rating around 2400, meaning that they beat the strong club player 90% of the time. The top few chess players in the world have ratings around 2800, meaning that they beat low-level grandmasters 90% of the time.

You might think the top human players are nearly perfect, but the top chess engines running on an average desktop computer are probably >800 Elo points above the top humans, and they're getting about 100 Elo points stronger every year, based purely on algorithmic improvements (not computing power).
I've been convinced this complaint is BS. Substack wasn't trying to push particular points of view; it was simply making a deal that was economically beneficial to them. They also extended that deal to a number of left-leaning/leftist writers, some of whom silently declined—and some of whom took it!
It used to be much more common than it is nowadays; commonality between desktop systems used for development and production has slowly got rid of it. I know certain TVs and set-top boxes at least used to use big-endian, but mostly them long-ago migrated to little-endian nowadays.
> Despite the stereotype, it's not Americans running around telling foreigners how to pronounce English words in their native tongue.

This seems to be the root of your annoyance, but it's also false. If an Italian said "President Bee-den" there would be plenty of Americans falling over themselves to let them know that it's pronounced "Bye-den." I've been there. I've experienced it.
Agreed. We point the finger at the media all the time, but the media is just a reflection of society. Why is Kim Kardashian on the front page of CNN? Why is "Iconic New York City park, featured in sitcom ‘Friends,’ trashed by urban decay" on the front page of Fox News?

Because they drive clicks.

As soon as gossip and unedited "news" blogs started appearing with rumor and unsubstantiated claims, it was a race to the bottom.

Why? Because the majority of people prefer mindless trash to the idiosyncrasies of a local county commission meeting.

I don't have a good answer because media companies have to make money to stay in business. Making them backed by the state is an even worse idea.
Don’t let the haters drag you down. Myself I think Windows is fine (I work in finance). I use Fedora at home as my daily driver but lots of things on Windows are just as easy (or as tricky) to get running as they are anywhere else.
It is, though. It's backed by the economic output of the United States, which is transacted in USD.

But why are you conflating USD with crypto anyway? USD is a currency that is actually used for purchasing goods and services. Crypto isn't used for anything except speculation. If capital gains is the goal, then yes, the USD won't be of much value to you as it's not particularly volatile.
"Japan getting an edge with future technology!" When have I heard that before?

Oh, yeah, it was 1983:

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige...?
The US is notably the most immigrant-friendly country in the world*, and has been since 1965. Birthright citizenship is unheard of in most of the world, but it's a constitutional right in America. Even skilled workers have a fair shot in America, but I do personally think it should be easier and more flexible than the H1B system we have today. More immigrants of all kinds are good for this country.

*recent president notwithstanding
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Rejuvenating Autoconf (2020)
Re: their recent settlement with the New York Attorney General - https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

> 3. The OAG finds that the conduct set forth herein violated the Martin Act and
Executive Law § 63(12).

> 4. The OAG finds the relief and agreements contained in this Settlement Agreement appropriate and in the public interest. Therefore, the OAG is willing to accept this Settlement Agreement pursuant to Executive Law § 63(15), in lieu of commencing a statutory proceeding
Page 2 of 17 for violations of the Martin Act and Executive Law § 63(12), based on the conduct described
below.
Keep waiting, kiddo
I think it was Bill Murray that had a quote/idea that in the Olympics they should have a regular person compete in each sport for reference.
The Nazi's didn't need a book to take over Germany in the 1930s. Their use of radio, and controlling all theater was much more important to their campaign.

They controlled who was allowed to express themselves and how. They limited everything to their message, even suppressing branches of science that didn't support their views.

That we as a liberal society can tolerate illiberal views is important. You should read things like Mein Kampf and the Unabombers manifesto - not because they are good but because you should know your enemy and how they think.
Many people like to exaggerate the minimum cost of living to justify extravagant lifestyles. It's not necessary to eat out multiple times per week, have a new/recent car, subscribe to a long list of services like Netflix or Peloton, spend dozens/hundreds of dollars on eating or drinking out, keeping up with trends in clothing and commodities. But a lot of people don't have the self control to live simply, so instead they say that that's just the basic cost of living.
What's bad about Julia?
I think it's unfair to look past the tone and language of OP's subsequent comments (not an OS in a meaningful way, "can't run on an actual computer", "social disability", "It's just dogshit, and it's getting worse", etc.) and just summarise the core of their complaints as "frustration"... after having decried open source communities for counter-productive reactions.

I feel like when you apply this standard of "overlook the tone, understand the message" asymmetrically to only one "side" of the argument, it highlights your biases.

As an aside, if you look at the proportion of comments (and maybe even the fuzzy timestamps while they're still discernible), the original commenter's hostile comments outnumber their "just frustrated" ones, while a large majority of responses to them are civil and constructive. The 'shut up and get your shit together' was in response some weirdly aggressive attack on the Haiku mantainers/contributors, after OP had also called the OS dogshit.

Anyway, this is all mostly off-topic and I have no affiliation with Haiku at all, but I just didn't want an unwarranted attack on obviously motivated and passionate developers' labour of love go undefended.
This generation has not experienced anything remotely like censorship. Telling nutters to go elsewhere is absolutely nothing like the draconian measures of last century.

For all their belly-aching, there is literally no insane idea that you can't put out there with essentially zero repercussions.
Minor nitpick: Schengen does not matter, membership in the customs union does. For shipping, availability and quality of infrastructure is more important.
From λ-calculus to a programmable text editor