skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Quebec we also love to take English verbs and add them to the language. If you are in front of a shop, the proper way of saying things would be: "Je vais me stationner" (I am going to park)

Here you would say something like: "J'va m' parker dan'l stationnement" (I am going to park in the parking).

The rules are somewhat simple:
1) Take the verb in English and give it a French spin (add "er" to the end)

2) Add an unnecessary second part to your sentence in French to clarify the English verb

3) Reduce the total runtime by mashing together as many syllables as you can

God I love our dialect!
That's how everybody is here. Nobody takes a principled stand when it involves even the slightest sacrifice.
Yeah it’s just being a nuisance for the sake of it.

There was one who lived over the road from me a few years back who would rev his broken exhaust bike at 5am and wake everyone up. About three weeks later his motorcycle mysteriously caught fire in the early evening. There were people smirking out of their windows enjoying the schadenfreude. There’s still a puddle of aluminium melted into the ground where it died.
You need to spend more time in a bar.

(Another one.)
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My uni taught Modula2 until 1999 basically. To be fair though Java was about to replace it but python was around and could've been used.
They also expanded all keywords, so "fn" becomes "function", "mut" becomes "mutable" (which is not even a common word? How about "altérable" or "modifiable"?). Interestingly the Result::Err variant was kept short with Résultat::Arf which is an onomatopoeia.

10/10 looks very painful to use. Reminds me of my college days.
Cattle is Brazil roams free and eats grass.
I always think it ironic that the C order of variable declaration prevailed for so many years (C++, C#, Java) yet in recent times several newer languages have discovered that the Pascal declaration order is handy for compiler type inference.

var age : integer; pascal

var age int - Go

var age : int - Swift

var age = 52; - Dart

var age: Int = 10 Kotlin
I have a good middle ground between your positions: conversational writing. Contrasted with public journaling and lecturing. Some people have to start with one or the other to get the writing out, but editing it into a conversation with the reader makes for better reading.
Did you mean device-free? Are you saying 5G can track and identify people without using their phones?
The world average temp has warmed .9°C since 1880.
A fair point, but doesn't this happen already? My experience working in a large corporation is that there's a pervasive "us vs. them" mentality when it comes to outside auditors, inspectors, etc., as well as a mindset that "they're just here to make our life harder," via imposed red tape, controls, etc. If this was really an issue perhaps there could be a whistleblower provision stating that anyone who assists with an audit or investigation is exempt from any personal fines that may result.
I use this picture when I'm telling my kids how important a coherent point of view is in writing. This woodcut has almost no detail correct, but it's a convincing picture of a rhinoceros nonetheless. Dürer had a clear mental image of the whole beast, and communicates that critical point through the noise of all his misunderstandings.
Vaccines will not produce worse Covid variants
Yes. My TP programs were more than 50% inside asm...end blocks and would break even if you switched out the graphics card let alone tried them on a different architecture.
Compilers actively translate code into a representation understandable by the machine.

It just so happens that the “machine” is an abstraction of a CPU.

Interpreted Javascript doesn’t fit this bill. If compiled to web assembly then it would.
"Je te dis merde" before a performance would translate to "break a leg".

The supersition goes that you should not reply with "merci" ("thanks") but "je prends" ("I'll take it ?")

There are unverifiable explanations for why "merde" is used by actors ; my favorite one is that it is related to horse carriage carrying theatre-viewers to the theatres ; you're wishing actors that a lot of horse will carry a lot of viewers, and do the other thing...
I think it's reasonable that if your toaster has modifyable software memory, that if that modifiable memory is locked down cryptographically, that the toaster manufacturer be required to include that cryptographic key with purchase of the toaster, yes.

We've had all these debates. It was called "TiVo". It should be illegal for manufacturers to sell hardware with capabilities specifically denied to the owner. That's not when any sane person would have thought "ownership" meant prior to 1980.
> Because the promoted alternative (soy) makes people docile and easier to control.

This is a bold empirical claim. Do you have any credible reasons to believe this that you could share?
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To the extent that’s true, it also demonstrates the false causality in your own claim: poverty, not the absence of meat per se, is the cause of all the things you’re blaming vegetarian diets for.
It works just fine because the net effect of the vaccines on transmission is not known, and may even be enhancing.
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The biggest problem is anti cheat software. As soon as they figure that out it’ll get a lot higher!
Someone should make a modern recording of "Finite Simple Group of Order 2"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
obesity doesn't put as tremendous a strain on the health system, but I figured this would be obvious

look at the total ICU numbers before COVID (obesity still existed then), versus over the past year, to see the difference in strain

also, your unsubstantiated claim that "the contagion argument for mandates is shaky too" seems to be itself shaky, as herd immunity is not required to make a nonzero positive impact

which is good, because a nonzero percent of the population has tried their hardest to screw up every single covid preventative countermeasure, just so they can say 'oh, guess we didn't/can't achieve herd immunity, so now we should do nothing like we said and did all along'
‘Dampening’ - it’s damping not dampening.
Technology is the problem is a common view in the public consciousness.

When I took a film exhibition class and we had a class on showing older films, I was surprised to hear that old analog 35mm film was considered the gold standard of archival formats for film preservationists.

The reason why digital formats, formats where the data is not liable to degrade over time, are not considered better is because “the formats keep changing”.

Of course you can encode your media in a lossless format, carefully choose open formats over bespoke proprietary formats, transcode as needed for the latest codecs, and if all else fails, play it in an emulator, which can run the proprietary codec.

Most people in the public, artistic professionals, and the journalists, are at the application level. They want to plug something in and have it just work. If you say you have to put thought into how you do something, it’s equivalent to saying it’s too hard and you basically can’t do it.

Besides, why should they hire you and me to play this media? They basically didn’t have this problem for decades with film/video. Then we, as technologists, come in with new wiz-bang toys that break compatibility every few years. If they’re being uncharitable, they see us as coming in with solutions to problems our industry imposed on them. I can see how technology could even be seen as racketeering. For journalists, technology has been bad for the business model and imposes new costs. Not a great look.
> It'd be like using Unreal Engine to make your 2d indie game

Except that would be free.
It does not stop the pop ups. Safari asks from you permission for location services, you tap ok, and you get an error message that says getting location services failed.
> The human body can produce almost everything it needs internally from most editable plants and animals.

I note that your statement is appropriately very strongly hedged.

> So, based on all existing research and in the context of a normal diet,

Dietary “science” has one of the lowest standards of rigor of any field, in the same ballpark as psychology. Until we have accurate computer models of every metabolic pathway in the human body, I’m not going to trust papers that are like “actually you can just eat soy and seitan and be fine” (incidentally, the counterfactual study got funding approval from vegan activists and seventh-day Adventists!). Also, “in the context of a normal diet” is another pretty big hedge - “normal” diets are terrible.

In any case, when we’re talking about nutrition, since the state of research is so bad, we’re basically stuck with a priori reasoning and Bayesian observation, and after applying those two, my observation is that people who eat only ruminants and fish and stuff look really good and are strong and healthy, and the exact opposite is true for people who eat only vegetables, and this doesn’t really impose a big update on my prior derived from what I know about pre-agriculture food sources in these people’s evolutionary environments.

> Because beef is tasty.

As you point out, when your body makes something taste better than something else, it’s probably because it’s doing a better job of meeting your nutritional needs. If two foods were abundant in the evolutionary environment, I expect taste to be reasonably well-calibrated in terms of causing me to eat the nutritionally optimal distribution of foods.

Ruminants and birds were both abundant in my evolutionary environment. So what does it say that ruminants taste so much better?
we are running private communities (invitation only) using airsend.io. it really works great.
I was in college. I was walking through the lobby of my dorm building and someone pointed at the tv and said “you have to watch this.” All classes were canceled for the day, and I remember that the sky was completely free of contrails as all air travel was suspended.
Those praying hands you've been seeing everywhere your whole life?
How to lie with statistics. 'Real Disposable Income' on the charts means nation's combined income, which largely tracks working population growth. Median real household income didn't triple since 1975 as the author wants you to think. It grew by a moderate 30-50%.

So yeah, U.S. housing prices are as crazy as you think.
I understand there are K prototypes (centroid) in each subspace. And there are C disjoint subspaces. But how are subspaces chosen? Do we naively split the vector space?

For softmax example, if the original 512-element vector is x = (x0, x1, ..., x511), and we want to compress the vector to 4-bytes (and K=16 using 4 bits per prototype). There should be 8 subspaces. Does that mean we break the 512-element vector into eight 64-element sub-vectors? Like (x0,...,x63), (x64,...,x127),(x128,...,x191), ..., (x448,...,x511) and each sub-vector e.g. (x0,...,x64) is compressed into 4 bit? It looks like a lot of information are compressed into to zeros and lost.

I wonder in the image filtering field (such as Sobel and Gaussian filter), how to choose a compression ratio in order to get a reasonable good image quality.
The OMI issue is probably solvable with an open controller. Not a trivial undertaking but OMI, at least, is documented.

The on-chip PPE I/O controller is a bigger problem. I suspect, but don't know, that it's the PCIe interface. If so, I can't think of an easy way of getting around it.
Meat is rather different. Just about no kid in America would want to eat a dog. And there's nothing significantly different between a dog and a pig, other than our cultural attitudes towards them.
Yes. Look up passby noise.
I suspect Google thinks the $400m/year is worth not having to deal with antitrust proceedings due to having a competing desktop browser.
I almost entirely agree, though I think your third point (typing non-ascii characters) could be less severe with one extra lesson in the typing course most kids are forced to take. When I first took French in 7th grade somehow I learned online you could enter ascii codes (whatever those were) on Windows with alt+numpad, and I still have memorized that alt+130 gives é. Later I moved to Linux where we have a great Compose key system, so I can just type <compose> + e + ' and get é, <compose> + c + , to get ç, and so on, with <compose> mapped to whatever I like (currently right-alt). Supposedly (haven't tried it) this system now has a Windows port: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

Asian languages are harder. But if you're told about IME, then at least if you know what you want to type, how to actually type it isn't a big burden. IME can also help with rarer math symbols like ⋂ (\bigcap) ≅ (\cong) or ⊵ (\unrhd), or is another way to get something like the compose key system.
I don't know of any situation where anybody other than Timnit called out Jeff Dean publicly on twitter, at least not until Timnit had, or with nearly as much vehemence.

I'm familiar with ethics in science; worked in biology for many years before concluding humanity isn't ready for gene modification.

It's pretty clear that her opinion space in ethics is just one view, and not a particularly representative one. I know other ethicists who are far more careful (Sara Hooker for one) and say things that have much more impact, through careful writing to make it clear they are showing a societally relevant position on ethics.
While there's an underlying point that could be gleaned from your inane post, you could make it without sounding like a blubbering idiot.

Do cows/cattle/livestock produce methane? Yes. So do humans.

How did the planet manage? For one, there was a helluva lot less other greenhouse warming gases in total larely due to human's industrial revolution. Once humans found out about using coal/oil/etc, it quickly dwarfed anything ever seen other than volanic eruptions.

The livestock methane argument has always sounded like a BigOil tactic rather than a scientific one to deflect blame, and then championed by someone like PETA to help further their agenda. How significant would livestock methane emmisions be to the climate if ICE pollution was elminitated?
Prisjakt[1] is the Scandinavian version I guess.

1. https://prisjakt.nu https://prisjakt.no https://pricespy.co.uk etc
One example would be to use “interconnects” which link your data center to the cloud through a high capacity (maybe low latency?) “dedicated” line. So basically you have private IP connectivity between your DC and a virtual private cloud (VPC) so your workloads “think” they’re on the same private IP network. I thought of interconnects as beefy VPNs (but this may not be accurate, just a helpful mental aid).

Note: I’m using mostly GCP terminology, https://cloud.google.com/hybrid-connectivity
One strategy Apple will explore is turning the Apple appstore into an Apple Arcarde/Plus -like service and use dark patterns to basically convince/force people to use it. Because the other alternative will be for customers to deal with malware on iOS for the first time (as any other appstores on iOS will always have lesser security because Apple's system isn't free and open) [1]. Apple didn't allow users to change their default browser until iOS 14. That's 13 years on from the release of the original iPhone in 2007. They sure as hell aren't going to make it easy for other appstores to exist.

Business customers will be able to afford this new Appstore 'service', but the negative costs will be carried by everyday people, who will, due to the closed nature of Apple's walled garden, be forced to get by with much less security.

If anything goes wrong with these other app stores Apple will deflect criticism by blaming the govt. for not allowing them to control the full 'iOS experience' anymore (or in business speak: 'to control all the verticals'). This of course is the weaponized rhetoric of a monstrous monopolistic entity who uses illogical arguments to misrepresent and confuse the average user/customer. We've already seen how far these profit-seeking firms are willing to go to even directly mislead customers into voting against labor protection laws with Uber and Prop 22 [2].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

[2] https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/12948656847829196...
I worked in Tokyo for Sony in the early 90's, when they were just getting into game consoles. Their C source files were "well documented" with code comments, but required an editor plugin to handle multiple possible character encodings for them, because this was before standards like Unicode and the Japanese language comments could be in one or more character encodings. That period was kind of haywire, because code could be copied from an email between people, but emails used other character encodings, causing a mishmash of possible comment encodings for any comment. And being a gaijin dev, I could not read the comments if they appeared correct anyway. Fun times.
I wanted to check, I don't know if the following sources are reliable:

http://www.ozarkbisons.com/aboutbison.php
"Table : before 1800 60 million bisons in North America"

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2021/01-29-2021.php
"There were 93.6 million head of cattle and calves on U.S. farms as of Jan. 1, 2021, according to the Cattle report published today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)."

I didn't find number for ruminant megafauna in prehistoric times.
One serious answer is the work of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Savory

There are claims it's all bullshit (ahem); I wouldn't automatically trust either side.
This stack exchange question shows everything wrong with SE and why I no longer use it.

99% of the answers are sophistry. Along the lines of "I'm authoritative" "You need to respect my job title" "I mentioned a pop culture icon so updoot me" "I don't believe in imaginary property so here's a stolen encyclopedia article that doesn't even apply to your question" "Here's someone else's picture, but at least I gave them citation credit" "savaged for not providing his answer in the form of an answer and various other site meme infractions that don't matter to people outside SE" "The usual making fun of the asker for asking a question too poorly to properly answer"

PlasmaHH provides the only answer, and its only a partial answer, that they personally used mirrors to turn the UV band on some UV-sensitive ink on money and it lit up, so yeah rainbows clearly output enough UV to activate currency inks. Cool experiment and it answers the question!

As for the UV, if it were not for PlasmaHH's IRL experimental results I'd think air and rain would filter UV and IR pretty effectively in general such that you'd get no UV and some narrow "water-proof" IR transmission bands (think of how military FLIR sees thru clouds in specific narrow IR bands but in general IR is blocked by water pretty well, clearly the bottom of the ocean is not cooked by sunlight all the heat gets dumped in the first few feet of water)

I know from optical fiber work that non-linear stuff is stereotypically non-linear so its possible the rainbow doesn't emit all wavelengths of EM radiation; an ideal prism or droplet would, but its not ideal, so ... Experimentally I've never heard of a microwave relay path having its SNR knocked down by GHz range "rainbow interference" or wifi does not shut down for miles because there's rainbow interference. Certainly aircraft navigation does not shut down because of rainbow interference. At some frequency range, the total light energy emitted over the life of the rainbow drops below one photon's worth across that range, so you don't get to detect it, so you could usefully argue its not there.

It could be fun, but its stack exchange, so its not fun.
I've mostly switched over and it's been a fantastic experience. I use ProtonDB [0] to gauge whether a game will work and there's usually some small tips and tricks to make sure the game will run fine. It's nothing more than copying a run command into Steam.

I've even noticed some games, like Valheim and Path of Exile, run better in Linux.

[0] https://www.protondb.com/
And with the Steam Deck coming, Valve is working hard on solving this problem. I think by next year, I will never be needing to boot my Windows VM.
that is actually a very small difference

maybe your source says that 99 is "much higher" than 95, and I just missed it?
Over a long enough timescale, it basically is inevitable, because no assumption is safe in unbounded time. There is that “technically” bit where you could just emulate the legacy, but as seen with Flash it’s easier said than done. (We could do better if we disregard copyright, but it wouldn’t be easy.)
Well in France, most people just say "un stop", you don't need to precise it is a sign, because it was originally a borrowed word
I've also observed this. It's great to see, if not a bit late.
I never play AAA games with anti-cheat, so it doesn't bother me much, but this is still exciting.

>The developer or Rust has already confirmed that on his devkit EAC was working as expected on the Steam Deck with SteamOS – while it will apparently require some modifications from the devs themselves to make it work (not as seamless as Proton itself).

SteamDeck, even if it doesn't break any sale records should still be enough to prove the viability of a gaming console PC that doesn't need Windows.
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https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-that-lower-testos...

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/17/science/aggression-in-men...
Only 3 in top 10 though
Yes. A better way to put it might be "it is related to self-control, but in a more complicated way than you imagine."
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If there would really be wormholes, did Einstein or anyone else have an estimate on how we would perceive the time elapsed after passing through one?

I understand the definition of a wormhole is the entrance is a black hole, the exit is a white hole, that's what I read once. Means one way journey.

Maybe we will be able to generate black holes with a white hole to emit ourselves to another place, but that would still not mean we would escape the end of the universe.
Unless I understood wrong and a wormhole is not a black and white hole construct, but leading to another universe.
The only tangible clue you mentioned that didn't rely on "it sounds absurd" was the fact that it was initially cross posted with r/Drama and I agree with you on that point. If journalists could easily see that, they should have looked into what it was.

If the "joke" is supposed to be similar to what Sacha Baron Cohen does, this isn't enough. Like his Erran Moorad stuff, a reasonable person would look up his claims before sitting in for an interview or "training" with him and asking for 3 year olds to be given guns. In Borat 2, the disguises seemed to be intentionally bad.

Most importantly, at the end of the joke he came out to the world and said it WAS a joke and publicized that it was a joke. What r/Drama is doing is less like a joke and more just ways to basically start a civil war. If they were genuine clowns and cultural critics like Cohen(who is literally a classical clown according to Wisecrack) they would come out and proudly declare it in public.
It's debatable how effective this is but CV Dazzle may just become a trend for youth. I'd support that but I'd expect to start seeing schools and commercial areas ban such practices.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/makeu...
“Discovery shifted from search to app store.”

No.

The App Store is like going to the dentist.