skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My limited understanding is that the reality is muddier than them being full fledged languages that originated independently and share only a common written language. That is a Western overused trope.

Cantonese seems more a hybrid language akin to English in that it is a blend of Tang Chinese during a migration of Chinese from further north and the language(s) of people already living in that area.

The Cantonese description of the entire Chinese ethnic group is literally the Tang people. It applies to all of what is considered subgroups including Teochew, Taisan, Hakka, etc...

Cantonese definitely shares similar pronunciations for certain basic words with other Chinese dialects/languages.

Also, Cantonese is just one language in the area. There are other dialects that preserve Tang Chinese pronunciation more clearly and are closer to Mandarin. My Chinese surname in my dialect sounds exactly like it would in Mandarin but not in Cantonese.

Supposedly Cantonese is actually closer to Tang Chinese than Mandarin because operas/poems from Tang times still rhymne in Cantonese but not Mandarin. This is supposedly due to language drift rather than them not sharing some common ancestry.

Think more of the Norman invasion and how German (proto Viet and who knows what else) merged with French (Tang Chinese) to create English... and then suppose England and France would periodically merge and separate instead of splitting apart decisively after the Hundreds Year War.

Thus Cantonese and the other similar languages are definitely full fledged but there is also some shared ancestry with Mandarin. Also there is a long, long history of a common written language.

People may wish to highlight one aspect or another. Is it English or French if the histories are much more intertwined? Does that question even make sense or is asking that question mostly political?

Someone else may have more knowledge of origins of other Chinese dialects/languages.
dude im totes happy when i found out i can do dev work on linux and play valve games on same device!

windows is shit these days oh god.
This is the conclusion that I personally arrived at. When I confronted some friends of mine with this, they gave me some good points to the contrary.

Letting Apple scan for government-related material on your device is a slippery slope to government surveillance and a hard line should be drawn here. Today, Apple may only be scanning your device for CSAM material for iCloud. Tomorrow, Apple may implement similar scanning elsewhere, gradually expand the scope of scanning to other types of content and across the entire device, implement similar government-enforcing processes on the device, and so on. It's not a good direction for Apple to be taking, regardless of how it works in this particular case. A user's device is their own personal device and anything that inches toward government surveillance on that device, should be stopped.

Another point made was that government surveillance never happens overnight. It is always very gradual. People don't mean to let government surveillance happen and yet it does because little things like this evolve. It's better to stop potential government surveillance in its tracks right now.
Those are all correlations and observational studies. There is no actual evidence of any meat increasing risk of cancer.
Unsafe monads were already a thing in Haskell.

Sendable is just yet another monadic type, or a ML functor.
The problem is that we have introduced so many new chemicals recently and have seen so many unexplained changes to health. Its virtually impossible to work out which thing did what. I'm not going to stress over aspartame though. Plastics, PFOA, PTFE, processed meats, and air pollution are way above on my concern scale.

If I was concerned about cancer from aspartame, I would never touch any form of alcohol again.
I agree. Flavor should follow function. Too many people prioritize building meals that taste good when they should first be optimizing for nutrition. Once you've configured genuinely healthy foods into some arrangement suitable for consumption, it's best to just keep building that same meal over and over. You'll get more efficient at making it and eating it, thus saving time and never having to worry if you're hitting your nutrition goals.

Save the creative meals for special occasions or social functions.
I think you might be onto something. What examples do we have of products that purely use likes or upvotes that benefit the thing shared without benefitting the user?
He's not confusing it with something else. He's describing ~VB4-6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)
"regrets confusion" is the most milquetoast, boilerplate response I could imagine. just apologize, even if people are blowing it out of proportion. this "whoops we did nothing wrong" line is insulting, even if it's true.
The Science of Imposter Syndrome
There are actually a number of drugs where they specifically state the actual mechanism of action is unknown, but they do know from proper and continued clinical trials that the drug does indeed work. A lot of pain killers are in that category.

Here is a list of 68 drugs that are known to work, but apparently we don't know how or why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Drugs_with_unknown_me...
> In a statement, Apple said: "Optis makes no products and its sole business is to sue companies using patents they accumulate. We will continue to defend against their attempts to extract unreasonable payments for patents they acquire."

I don't understand this approach. I hate patent trolls as much as anyone else, but my feelings are irrelevant to the laws, no? Who cares what Apple lawyers feel honestly? Where does it say in patent laws that only patents you are utilizing to the max 24/7 are viable and "real patents"?

Patent trolls are patent trolls but as SC said many times, if you don't like how we interpret current laws, change them and make them more precise.

Besides, its not like Apple hasn't been a "patent troll" themselves - anyone remembers Apple vs Samsung re too much curved corners?
Doesn't matter, we'll make it easier for ourselves. The personal computer revolution made it possible for the rest of us to make computers useful for ourselves, on our own terms. If necessary, we'll hack our way just deep enough into software with enough flexibility to support "coding," and we'll code. (For instance, Excel).
That is by no means a fair exchange. You'll do anything to save your life.
Every Millennial Knows Each Other
Windows 10 of today is just a reskinned Windows 10 from when it launched. This statement bears no meaning considering the considerable changes over time that happened.
I’ve seen the prop65 warnings about reproductive health on Japanese canned coffee and tea, but I’ve never seen these warnings on any other canned drinks here in the US
How long can courts delay this? How many times can Apple appeal until they have to shell out hard cash?
Why ban American Gods?
This doesn't make any sense you don't need to break compatibility in order for Windows to not be Windows 10 anymore. Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds? I can still run Visual Basic 6 on Windows 11... But for some reason by your logic that means that it's still Windows 10? Which is still Windows 8.1 which is still Windows 8 which is still Windows 7 which is still Windows Vista which is still Windows XP which is still Windows me and I could just keep going every Windows is every Windows just reskinned right? Does it have to not be NT anymore for it to not be Windows 10 anymore?
Jensen's Kitchen was a lie: Nvidia reveals GTC 2021 keynote nearly 100% fake
Show HN: DocOne – A Search Engine for Healthcare
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On iPhone Safari, I can’t change the Combobox value using the Combobox widget.
It's a big category. Aspartame has a really distinctive taste, but lots of sweeteners like sucralose and allulose not so much.
The cheapest Taiwanese mask shops who work for discrete device manufacturers will bill you 10x at least.
That money will be largely going to executives and shareholders, people who had very little hand in the science.
I'm fine with that if it happens in a free market under informed consent and for curing real diseases. But big pharma, big media, big tech, government and law enforcement acting in complete lockstep to forcibly inject experimental vaccines into your veins for something that amounts to a bad variant of the flu is something else entirely.
In my mind you've created value.

I'm told some people pay prostitutes to just hang out with them to feel some sense of intimacy, without even having sex. Ie, people are basically being paid to hold hands.
I came to the comments to read people shitting on minio; can’t get enough of that. But you made me read the article.
Drinking five diet Cokes a day is probably healthier than drinking 5 regular cokes a day. Sugar is linked to diabetes and other ailments.
Interesting tip, but this looks lower-budget than the WeLive photos I find online.

It was so low-budget, that if the guy weren't on his laptop, I would have considered that this could have been an Evangelical thing rather than a Startup thing.
Half the problem is that the user agent string is insane and almost impossible to parse other than having a big list of every possible string.
When I use a web service, I expect my data to be collected by the service, especially if it is free of charge.

A device I own should not be allowed to collect and scan my data without my permission.
They seem to have done a great job of combining async with multithreading by using the actor pattern which is really smart.

They also seem to have an m-to-n scheduler (not sure if in user space or kernel), so you can have more actors than “threads”.
Perhaps others like yourself emailed them once in a while over the years, each getting ignored, but eventually they got that comment enough to check it with an actual authority on the matter, sheepishly realized they were the ones being idiots, and silently edited it without admitting their mistake.
Super illegal in Germany, luckily. It's shocking to me how people here accept this as normal.

You shouldn't lose all rights just because someone is paying you any amount of money. The company does not own you. You're not a soulless resource that can be used and tossed whenever your boss pleases.
> You can very much respect the local culture while smashing out and cultural practices.

Know, you can't “smashing cultural practices” is not respecting local culture, its imposing your preferred alternative.

I’m not saying its wrong in all cases, I’m saying you are engaging in doublethink of the highest order if you maintain that it is compatible with respecting the culture.
This seems like it would be a mess. My local news has a weather page that they constantly update. Sometimes 10 times an hour. While some people, like you, care about the original accuracy, I think most people don’t care at all about the past forecasts. I think a bunch of links and references to a change of the 1pm temperature forecast from 86 to 87 degrees would be more annoying than useful.
This was just posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28155716
Hey EU: do universal replaceable batteries while you're at it please. That matters more than the chargers, as long as the chargers can be interchanged using the right cables or adapters.
You get used to it after a while. I actually sometimes prefer a Coke Zero because of its unique taste (though I try to avoid soda altogether.)
We detect IE to show a banner saying to upgrade. I assume some sites like google search do so they can support literally every browser. I was shocked to find out IE 8 on a fresh windows xp vm was able to use google search without any issues.
> Simply audit the events where data is accessed....

That would be a sane approach. Indeed, if there's "data" to guard, then one just properly secures it and allocates access to it. If "theft" happens, then there's access log.

If data is ubiquitous that everyone should be able to access it, then it's hardly data to "guard". In any case, it makes more sense to monitor access to data, not just a sea of keystrokes... unless the concern lies with something other than the data.
Wasn’t there a study in the last couple years showing evidence that diet soda causes cancer?
Nope, Every politician wants you to believe their propaganda more than the next politician.
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Aspartame also rapidly
"breaks down into residual components, including aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methanol, and further breakdown products including formaldehyde and formic acid" on ingestion. [1]

Even with no smoking gun for cancer, why would anyone tempt fate after reading that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#Metabolites
Australia is becoming a police state
These are literally, literally, the same ingredients which are found in "natural" (animal-fat derived) soaps.

This is some "dihydrogen monoxide" grade FUD.
That’s a straw man argument. They’ve made billions and will make billions more. Nothing is being given away for free. But currently, it is in their financial interests for this pandemic to go on indefinitely with continued mutations and a never-ending need for boosters. And our free market always seems to tilt in favor of monopolies. Shut down small businesses but don’t put any pressure on big pharma. Similar to 2008, let average people suffer but prop up the banks. I believe in free markets, but there is a reason people are turning against capitalism. No markets are truly free and we need consistent values applied to players big and small. Helping the world get vaccinated is the morally right thing to do, not optimizing pharma profits for the next decade under the guise of “incentives.”
Around $20 for the incredibly new mrna based vaccines. Other versions, like oxford-astrazeneca, are single digit USD per dose. As I recall ISI has set a price ceiling of about $4/dose there.

These vaccines are so stupidly cheap and cost effective that the priority is, has been, and will be simply manufacturing and distributing enough.
There is really no way in which Rust's Send or Swift's Sendable form a monad or a functor in any of the senses of those terms.
Their taste is definitely odd. It’s sweet but not really, and often leaves a soapy aftertaste. The only way I can deal with it personally is if the food in question is flavorful enough to drown out the strangeness, in which case it probably didn’t need sweetening much anyway.
> The comparison I was going for was the imposed system coming from an occupying US force.

We’ve tried an imposed system from an occupying US force in Afghanistan longer than we did i Japan. Or Germany, in any real way.

It might have worked if we had made the right decisions early on, but successful occupation is path-dependent, you screw it up and you don't get to start over with a clean slate, and the evidence is that we didn't do it right from the outset, if there was a “right” open in the particular circumstances.
China has tiger chairs. Should we move closer to their big brother systems?
Background for folks not familiar with cocinnelle: the Linux kernel has a fairly extensive cocinelle setup. Cocinelle has been leveraged extensively for large tree-wide code transformations in the kernel.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/coccinelle....
Can you link me to some news about Apple providing a way to bypass/break encryption for “the good guys” that’ll inevitably be exploited by “the bad guys”?
The fact that you can opt out for now does not set me at ease.
In that specific case at least the FBI is asking Apple to produce new firmware that will bypass existing protection on an existing device - basically asking Apple to root a locked down phone which would likely require them breaking their own encryption or finding vulnerabilities in their own firmware. This is not exactly technically trivial since anything of this sort that’s already known would be patched out.

In this case it seems only a matter of policy that Apple submits CSAM hashes to devices for scanning. No new software needs to be written, no new vulnerability found. There’s no difference between a hash database of CSAM, FBI terrorists photos, or Winnie the Pooh memes. All that’s left is Apple’s words that their policy is capable of standing up to the legal and political pressures of countries it operates in. That seems like a far lower bar.
It sounds like you've become more conscious.
I'm saying "does it matter how we arrive at a model?".
Part way through this radio program, they have a conversation with one of the team members. Very interesting stuff. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-frida...
Aspartame is an amino acid right? Isn’t it going to be in all sorts of proteins then? Doesn’t that make it rather implausible that it is toxic?
I have that book (SQL Performance Explained) and benefited from it and think it was worth it, but I'd also like something more advanced. If he has another book out, that's great, I'm ready.

Added: But, it looks like the link for this thread is just a slide deck. Oh well.
Only commie liberal pieces of shit want to walk around with a fucking mask on their face 24/7.

Fuck Blackhat.

Fuck liberals.

Fuck Xiden.

Fuck everyone that thinks this is 'normal'.

I hope you all get fucked in the ass by a rhino you aids infested cocksuckers.
You can't solve the human-bias problem with technology. That's the whole reason Apple didn't want to build in a back door in the first place.
"I'm a hacker though cause I read hacker news."

Bitch, Hacker News is Covid News - get with the pogram/program.
I wonder what compelled the authors to focus on Java first, given that it accounts for an ever smaller chunk of the code space and market share has been decreasing year on year for quite some time.
No but this has nothing to do with that.

In case you missed it, I think this is probably a bad move.

I just don’t think these arguments about back doors and creeping totalitarianism are either accurate or likely to persuade everyday users when they weigh them up against the grotesque nature of child exploitation.
> Modern management believes that the lower ranks need the whip while upper ranks need the carrot to get motivated

For some in the upper ranks, applying the whip to lower ranks is the carrot.
On the other hand, anyone who's taken a college anatomy class is more "expert" than a large majority of others, including some loud voices. Unfortunately, expert doesn't always mean well informed. That's why we look for the collective expert opinion rather than an expert's opinion.
I'd rather shove ten dicks up my ass than participate in some forced-masked, vax-pass commie program like Blackhat.

Fake ass hackers. Couldn't hack their way out of a paper bag. Fucking rainbow fucking cinderalla fuck asses.
Why all these measures so late into the pandemic? Isn't everyone vaccinated by now? Is there a surge of cases or something?
Aspartame was approved by the fda in 1981... no spike in cancer rates AFAICT:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-death-rates-in-the...

Doesn't mean it doesn't cause cancer... but even if it does, it must not be a very significant cause.
Migration paths were disturbed too. We need connected green corridors for animals to travel through that span the continent.
It is only supposed to detect CSAM already known to NCMEC, not identify new images.
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You can disagree with the merits of a patent fight all you want - but suing over a design patent for a product you ship and sell millions of units of, is the literal opposite of a patent troll.
Did you ever have the flu? I bet you didn't and if you think you did, you probably had a cold instead. A runny nose, headaches, and a sore throat doesn't mean you got the flu.

The flu will bind you to your bed for at least a week and you will need 3-6 weeks to recover. You will feel like somebody ran you over with a truck. It's not fun, it's highly dangerous.
> This is not a problem for multiple reasons.

Wernher von Braun considered this a problem.
He (and his team) once was frustrated when instruments came in yards and pounds.

I can believe that maybe geographic mile will be used in future but all those local standards cleary not belongs to space future.
You may not be able to solve the bias problem altogether, but you can definitely change the threat model and who you have to trust.

Apple’s model has always involved trusting them. This model involves trusting other people in narrow ways. The architecture determines what those ways are.
> "once Apple rolls this out there's no longer a way to confirm they're not signaling to authorities over other types of content."

What way are you confirming that at present?
#monsanto
AWS offers encrypted backups, and afaik there's no scanning of anything you put in a bucket, but why trust them? Just encrypt your own backups before uploading them, and keep your own keys. In other words, your storage provider needn't and shouldn't be the purveyor of your backup software.

Except with an iPhone, you don't have a choice.
When I was at university, they implemented a register for classes by phone system in the early 90s. (How things were done before computers…)

I remember being in the bursars office and someone was complaining that they registered for a class and it didn’t show up. The woman working there spun her screen around and said “here are all you keypresses from last week, you clearly didn’t register.” Now with so much more computing power/networking and storage everything is stored..but I wonder if they’ll ever look?

Makes a great target for hackers though.
Sounds a bit like MAGA, only the latter is more ambitious (and dumb) by using superlatives.