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> Levenshtein distance between conventionalized IPA orthographic representation is not a useful metric for the perceptual difference between two spoken sound sequences.

I know. Just wanted to provide some metric for the quantitatively-minded, and because the example is hard to follow if you don't speak Spanish or read IPA, and I don't know any least bad quantitative metric. But qualitatively speaking, I can tell you that inferring the meaning of that English word from the written form is obvious even to a Spanish person with zero English knowledge, while inferring it from the pronunciation it's very difficult. And it's just an example, but it happens with many words.

> This problem actually comes up in writing too; I knew some Chinese students who were really offended by English typos. They had a point - lacking the pre-existing knowledge of English that lets me know what a typo was meant to say, they just had no way of finding out what a misspelled word was supposed to mean. You can't look up words that don't exist.

It can come up, but still, the normal frequency of typos is much, much smaller than the frequency of accent-specific pronunciation variants, which typically change several words per sentence. And with Google you can look up many light typos and it will come up with the correct form (although not things like using "of" instead of "have", of course).
IME Python is pretty great as cross-platform scripting-, automation- and glue-language up to a few thousand lines of code. Essentially replacing bash scripts and Windows batch files or for simple command line tools that don't need the performance. It should be just one language in one's language toolbox though.
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Ask HN: Would you allow outreach sales agents use existing C-level account?
We've signed a contract with outreach sales agency and they asked us to give them access to C-level account to contact potential leads and try to make calls with them.

What do you think about this practice? Is it shady? Can you convince yourself that it is similar to automation?
Hackernews in a nutshell. MBA useless in everything. Engineers gods in everything.

If only the world was this simple.
I remembered that fact, too and was wondering about it, how it fits with it. My conclusion was rather, that the growth rate was probably not constant over that time, because yeah, 2km is quite a lot. But others mentioned that this area was quite unchanged.

I am going to investigate..
>In addition to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created it, the SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and other statutes.

Do you have an actual theory as to which laws Tether may have violated? I have a hard time believing that they'd qualify as investment advisors or have to comply with reporting requirements for publicly listed companies.

>Despite what a crypto telegram group may suggest, the SEC does more than just run the so called 'Howey Test'.

I don't use telegram or participate in any crypto groups, so I wouldn't know what they'd suggest.

>Honestly I dont know what tether fan boys are so scared of, unless they know it is a scam - a regulator and/or court approval is what they should want, it is what everyone should want. If you believe in crypto you have to campaign for it to be properly classified, that will be they turning point.

I'm not a fan of Tether, I expect they will go the way of Liberty Reserve one way or another. Decentralized solutions like Dai have far better chances of success.

I'm just trying to advocate for reasonable discourse and serious analysis of the involved legislation instead of circlejerking.

>As for the 'expectations of profits' zero coupon bonds look identical

There is no 'expectation of profits' test for bonds which are specifically defined to be a security (see 15 U.S. Code § 77b(a)(1).
They don't wear body cams while off duty, in plain clothes.
>Ad hominem attacks undermine your arguments and suggest that you don’t actually have very strong argument, instead you’re forced to attack the character of the person your discussing with, due to an inability to attack their argument. Try harder.

I did attack your arguments, including many other points and I never called you a loser. Quit being so defensive. I said those who continually look for ways to make something not work, rather than finding the ways they do, think like losers. And I back that 100%! The only of the two of us who had made an ad hominem against the other is you, by saying I have an "inability to attack their (your) argument." Thanks hypocrite!

>Unfortunately crypto has descended into little more than get rich quick schemes that take advantage of naïve investors, or produce profit by externalising all of the negative consequences of crypto mining (such as CO2 emissions). Forcing the rest of us to bear that long term cost, for a grifters short term profit.

I'm not a fan of stable coins, but how many people you reckon are buying DAI or USDT with the idea of striking it rich? I hear this sad sad false diatribe over and over, completely ignoring that crypto-currencies are currencies and not investment, with people getting mad that crypto is not an investment that is going to provide returns for naive "investors." And then they go on to attack crypto for not living up to being an investment!

>I used be a fan of crypto, did plenty of trading, bought plenty of pizza etc with it. When to meetups, evangelised crypto to friends and family. Back then it looked realistic that crypto could be a genuine currency, and the concept of DAG was incredibly.

So you were a dogmatist for, and then apparently now a dogmatist against. Try being a neutral pragmatist that doesn't believe crypto is an investment utility but rather one possible financial engine that allows electronic transactions without KYC or centralized authority.
Right.

I think the interesting lesson here is that if you find yourself in the position of the tweet's author you should be thinking "Hm, maybe writing blocktext is easier than I'd expect" rather than "I have discovered an unsung linguistic genius".

The skills required are similar to those for writing in metre: have a decent vocabulary and a good feel for the different ways to structure an idea, plus a small bag of tricks for adding or removing a syllable / character.
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It does at least give you a chance to see whether you can spot it for yourself.
I’ve heard exactly this from a couple of blind people I’ve interacted with too.
Seems to be all c++. Likely performant but no way would I run this for my company. God knows how many security issues it has.
Also the author gives himself the liberty to use one or two spaces following a period, and on occasion even following a comma.
Nice idea in principle, but the article conveniently sidesteps how "success" is defined, which I could easily see being the bigger problem here.

If success is a particular percentage of outcomes after 10 years in a trial, maybe that's not that attractive to an investor.
whilst all of that is true, temporary support from society for dealing with natural disasters (of which a pandemic is one) is justified.
I think your comment can be improved by removing your first two words, which brings nothing to this conversation.
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Nim has hygienic AST macros, so it has really good metaprogramming capabilities. An example of the sort of thing you can do with it: use pattern matching to implement a functional programming DSL:

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/03/10/fusion-and-pattern-matc...

This makes it really easy to reduce boilerplate and create low- or 0-cost abstractions for your problem domain. Example of this done in a microcontroller project here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fUqdYC71k

Async/await is also implemented by metaprogramming, rather than as a "core" part of the language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0RB7UqxERE

Unrelated to the above, Nim also compiles to Javascript. So you can use the same language for both the backend and frontend.
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>the Howey test is not a magical test to determine what a security is

You are correct!

>For many things, Tether included, we have very simple rules based tests.

Then I have a very simple question for you.

Which of the following is Tether? any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas, or other mineral rights, any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities (including any interest therein or based on the value thereof), or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a “security”, or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.

Just choose one of those that would apply to Tether.
What if the North Americans told the Europeans stories about the stone buildings in South America?

The buildings had already existed for a long time when the Vikings visited. It is unlikely that they would have seen them in person, but stories could have travelled for generations over long distances.

The first pyramids in America were built 1500-2000 years before the Vikings. We are closer to the Viking age, than they were to the first stone buildings at the time. I don't think we should underestimate how far stories can travel given enough time.
We "did." [0]

What we did not know was an accurate way to determine longitude, specifically on a ship, until 1761. [1] [2]

Consequently, any voyage before 1761 knew its latitude exactly, but dead-reckoned its longitude.

33 days of speed-estimated dead reckoning in 1492, plus having no idea of the speed or orientation of the underlying current you're in, leaves a lot of room for error.

[0] For values of "did" that include "the correct answer had been derived and was documented (Eratosthenes, within ~2.5% in ~240 BC, working at the Library of Alexandria), but it wasn't broadly accepted as the correct answer." Thus leading to Columbus believing an incorrect value instead https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference#Colu...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison#H4

[2] Except via some very complicated planetary transits that were pre-calculated and could only be used as they occured. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Satelli...
Exactly, `async`/`await` is in the same realm of `yield`, it tells the compiler to take your code and create a state machine out of it. And also similarly to `foreach` and LINQ it boils down to a lot of duck typing.

There are two concepts:

1) _awaiters_ offer methods that the compiler-generated code will call to schedule continuations and ask whether it is completed. The thing that you call `await` on needs to offer a `GetAwaiter()` method that returns such an awaiter. (Due to the nature of the duck typing it might also be an extension method actually, so you can make types in other assemblies retrospectively awaitable)

2) _async method builders_ offer methods to perform the state machine transitions and connect them to the result object (which is traditionally of type `Task<T>` or `Task`). To register other types you can decorate them with the `System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderAttribute` attribute to tell the compiler what builder to use depending on the type you want to return in your async method.

I recommend this blog post series by Sergey Teplyakov for more details: <https://devblogs.microsoft.com/premier-developer/dissecting-...>
I like both and I guess many people, too. But it depends on the people involved.

I think the big advantage of text is accountability.

Lots of people say lots of things (the other person wants to hear) ... and remember only some of it. I wasted so much time relying and then discussing forgotten promises, where I wished have had that exchange via text. And I actually believe, this is a big (unconscious) reason for many avoid written communication. Talk is cheap.
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From my own experiences building/scaling graphql, this is embarrassingly low. The poor performance is definitely coming from poor code/lib selection.
I don't think it's a particularly new feature of software development that a few highly paid employees who've got the entire stack in their brains are vastly more productive than a vast cross functional team.
I know a very good man that was a cop. I think he could only stand about 5 years of it.
Note that Tesla started out retrofitting Lotus Elise bodies.
Another example of Rome. It took over 1000 years before another city in the world became as big as Rome in its heyday.
This makes me think it isn't an accident Keller left Intel after such a short stint with nothing to show for it. I'd imagine the cultural issues run so deep now that even he couldn't turn the ship around.
Most of these cars already require special high-octane racing fuel, so they’re not filling up at a normal gas station anyway.
An exception for the rich people to be able to ignore what's best for humanity while we ask all the regular people to make sacrifices. How surprising. Never seen that one before.
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Sure, in much the same way that a ChromeOS box is a Linux box but a MacOS box is not, but both of them are UNIX boxes.

Which terminology you use depends on what you want to emphasize.
How would you define "common sense rules"?
> I can't find the reference right now but the evidence can be gathered from hospital records.

This is why there has been a lot of attention on certain animals, such as raccoon dogs and minks. It turns out that a lot of the early infections linked to the various Wuhan markets were from shop owners and employees who either sold or were in close contact a small number of animal species. It also turns out that these animals can be infected by SARS-CoV-2. See https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/animal-sales-from-wuhan-wet-....

The issue is that (as far as I'm aware) there's no immediate evidence that SARS-CoV-2 jumped to humans from any of these animals, only that there was an (again, as far as I'm aware) unknown intermediary species. However, because the animals at the wet market were disposed of, there's no way to definitively link SARS-CoV-2 to them.
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The big joke is that any of these arguments matter. As if we live inside an enlightened society where citizens are engaged and informed on every issue and their preferences then bubble up to lawmakers. lmao.

90% of people don't give a shit at all. The airports are already running face recognition. PRISM continues, seemingly without opposition. Every 4 years we get to choose between puppet X and puppet Y who promise different variations of "more jobs" or "America good" or some equally vague idea. There's no debating your way out of apathy or idiocracy..
https://legiblenews.com/

This is daily, but published only once. Same idea of what you’re asking for, plus no tracking and it loads each page with 1 HTTP request (no images, JS, etc.)

Some of the points you touch on are addressed with https://legiblenews.com/about/
Individuals who prefer legible, honest signalling and understanding to doing double-work for ignorant, ungrateful people. Yeah, it's a mystery.

In short: "Programs are meant to be read by humans, and only incidentally for computers to execute."
Cloudflare has a VPN product, WARP. It's possible that they are clients of theirs doing the scanning.

In any case I wouldn't think much of it. If you obsess over any garbage traffic you get you will go insane.
I assume petrol/diesel will become a delivery service in years ahead.

Especially rural, diesel will be around for a long time after suburban cars go electric. But also petrol for vehicles and tools.
I've also been looking for something like this. I find that most news outlets are trying to maintain a high volume of stories so you get lots of uninteresting stuff (my definition is fairly strict and includes homicides, most building collapses, most severe weather and other things that I don't feel has an impact on my life) and continuously repeat stories on incredibly minor updates (for example I don't need to know about every little fluctuation in the COVID trends).

I feel like the optimal amout of news for me would be low single-digit articles a week. Ideally with both Canadian news and global news but I would be happy for something global-only if I could find it.
Documentation != user guide or manual. Manual are part of the documentation. And it is still true that the source code is the best documentation, ideally the source code can be used to automatically generate the docs. But overall documentation and things like ADR will hardly ever find their way into the source so require writing then externally.
I used to run an exchange4linux server as well as another open-source variant before that (but forgot the name... This must have been 20 years ago). The biggest issue was always the Outlook plugin that had to be used, so if Grommunio has really managed to do the communication with the server natively, this seems like a big win.
Milieu is a French word. My guess is that your Danish word is also derived from the French.
I guess Lotus have had some time to think about it given the Elise chassis was used for the original Tesla Roaster.

I got to spend some time at the Lotus factory in Hethel when I was 16 doing work experience. Was definitely an interesting thing to see and experience. I apologise to anyone who ended up buying an Elise with a pedal box that I assembled.
Can confirm that whenever I read/hear Poäng I think "Po eng". Somewhat disappointed that this is not the reasoning behind the name
Most people think your comment is unsubstantiated.
Maybe that's a case, but their abuse team hasn't replied anything in a 2 weeks about that after I gave them all timestamps and both source/destination IP addresses
Assuming naively: A serving is 665 kilocalories, or1/3 RDA, worth of starch, 1 serving needed per day per human, and capture, synthesis, and storage is 100% energy efficient, .86 kcal per watt hour of energy conversion rate, then you need 775 watt hours of energy per serving per day.

Assuming a standard solar panel and conditions, a 1sq meter panel captures about 700 watt hours per day.

I'd guesstimate the creation is less than 10% efficient, meaning you need 10-11 square meters of solar panels per serving produced per day.

Processing plants or fungus or bacteria from bioreactors is orders of magnitude more efficient.
Why would anyone still buy a dinosaur engine car is beyond me. Electric cars have a higher top speed and accelerate faster.
This is not true as far as I’m aware. Novel bat coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2 are usually found deep in bat caves in the south of China, ~2000km away from Wuhan. The WIV was established in the 50s, long before serious coronavirus research was a thing.
Yea agreed this seems like an additional data point, that looks suspicious, but it is very new (at least to me) and I will wait to see what experts make of this.
I mean, you can already create homebrew apps. Like, it's pretty much like any Android device. Just use adb to add any .apk you'd like.
"apparently it is easy to miss the heading Summary."

It is, when you are not paying attention, because you are busy with lots of other stuff. So putting the summary in the email seems lile a working pragmatic approach.
> > Salary and equity first

> I disagree that every company needs to only ire missionaries

Shouldn't that be "mercenaries"
Sound and feeling.
Why are you under this impression? 99% of exotics take regular premium gas.
I rarely do, and I wish it was more common to summarize an article in a top comment with one or two paragraph quote.

The reason is simple: HN is lightweight and works on all my devices, while other pages typically bog down my slower ones.
I guess it is ultimately about money so as long as the tax is really high on petrol or diesel, let them buy it I say!

A handful of fast cars won't make much of a difference compared to the 100s of millions of engines running now.
"take a possibility", "as author seems it is", "not even native speaker".

It's simple to fulfil the requirements, making it flow naturally is not. Also, any mistake early on in any paragraph will have cascading effects.
Range, always range. If you travel long distances with a vehicle, electric cars are a real hassle. An all-electric roadtrip would require a whole new layer of planning and compromise.

Charging in general is a hassle if you live in the city. You might need to park in a different neighbourhood just to let your car charge while you're at home.

For many use cases, EVs just aren't practical.
Coupled with a high enough property tax or fuel tax it may even be a good idea.
This is obviously a high level agreement between the US and China. As evident by the fact that chartered planes literally were in the air at the same time with the prisoners under exchange.
How about sleep, trackpad support/configurability, battery endurance, 4k display support, external monitor support? I've seen complaints about all of these wrt Linux on X1.

Macbook now has the M1 going for it.
I'd like to bet against you two. ;)
I think GraphQL + a REST (JSON RPC) interface will be an optimal balance between developer experience, performance and security. I'm the founder of WunderGraph and we're doing exactly that: https://wundergraph.com/docs/overview/features/json_rpc
Whoops. Maybe 17%efficient according to the paper. 5 or 6 square meters.
That’s incorrect, I have a Ferrari and it takes 91oct+ which is premium fuel at most gas stations.

For racing (higher output), I can get 110oct or ethanol blended gas which is not as easily available on west coast but is cheaper than gasoline in Midwest.
> nothing about how cool the company is

I think there can be a paragraph about the company at the end, optional reading

Otherwise I like your job ad
I've seen it happen. Blizzard is quite notorious for having some weird network links, where a VPN is known to be a workaround. Example [1], and I've heard the same from WoW players.

[1] https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/lower-ping-whe...
I too am unskilled at navigating unfamiliar codebases and demand clifnotes because my time as a user is more valuable than yours as a programmer. these gift horses are AWFUL