skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old English has the same gender system as German. The reason English doesn't have gendered nouns now isn't because we are so progressive, but because language tends to lose all its excess features as it gets spoken and a LOT of people speak English. Basically, people can't be bothered to do grammar properly so eventually it just goes away (see: “whom”).

Also, English is not the language of gender progressives. Many cultures had different conceptions of gender, including additional gender categories or even a total lack of concern for categorization. All of this was stamped out by English colonizers, who had extremely rigid ideas about gender (that they apparently still haven't gotten over in 2021 tbh).
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> This is more like an options trade that didn't work out because someone with more money used their capital to blow up the trade. You can't make a bad trade in the stock market and then argue that your loss was a "bug" because you intended to make money, not lose money.

100% Agree you can also look up trading patterns on option expiration Fridays to see people making sure that their trades 'work out'
That's not a new problem, in the USA even a man who is raped can be forced to pay child support to his rapist.

Obviously these child support laws are in need of reform.
And because the graphics primitives built into X11 are... well, primitive. The protocol was designed in the mid-1980s, at a point in time where display resolutions were low and color displays were usually limited to 256 colors or less. As a result, the graphics and text primitives don't support antialiased rendering or any kind of color blending -- so anything using those functions looks rather ugly and dated.
We think so.

PWAs can alleviate the need to build 4 separate apps:

- Web app
- Android app
- iOS app
- Windows app

With PWAs, you can build a Progressive Web App, and publish it everywhere. We recognize that this doesn't work for every scenario -- maybe you need to use some non-standard proprietary technology for instance -- but for a majority of apps, it works well and saves you development costs.
Think Nucleus!
Could you not make an argument that you're merely taking people up on their offer to the letter, making the earnings essentially an expensive bug bounty?
Ongoing related thread:

I made my own garum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011872 - Oct 2021 (96 comments)
More than anything, I'd like a one-handed steno scheme to become available. It would be a game-changer for wearable and XR input.

Unfortunately, I think English language input will always be at a disadvantage compared to those that use ideograms. Steno-ing radicals would be ideal; one stroke per "word" without having to worry about pronunciation.

Swype-style input is actually quite fast, but the necessity of looking directly at the keyboard to ensure any measure of accuracy is limiting. I wonder if force feedback to help users know where on the keyboard their finger currently is, as well as improved input of punctuation, might bring it up to steno's speed (which would be revelatory in a world where a huge portion of text input is done on mobile devices).
There was a recent interview with MZ on HN that addressed this. He was asked if it was a mistake to require one account, and he basically said "we wanted a single-login, but we didn't think about how combining accounts would be undesirable, but we recognize it is"

So I think the end state is a single-log in Meta account with discrete FB and Oculus accounts to accompany it, logged in through Meta?
That's the argument he's making. Checking is only free because it's being paid for by people who who run up fees, and these people tend to be poor.

It would be more fair for everyone to pay the same for a service, but banks decided it was "better" to get 10% of the population to pay for it.
i7-9700K can reach up to 4.9 Ghz and Meow Hash can hash at a rate of 16 bytes per cycle. That means 78 GB/s.

xxHash rate is 31.5 GB/s on that CPU.
It's unfortunate, there was some real progress being made on civil asset thefts by government, or 'forfeitures' as they're euphemistically labeled. Then something happened in 2016[1] that pretty much destroyed all that progress.

[1] https://outline.com/Xujbxc
We would be even safer if every citizen had a chip implanted, and when a crime is committed, everyone within 300 feet gets enough electricity through their bodies to be knocked out.

Or if there was robots patrolling the streets, making sure all citizens behavior is within programmed parameters.

I'm sometimes surprised how people here are completely unaware of the society they support because "safety". You can't all be dumb, so I'm guessing... No experience from dictatorships.
> If UCSB put in one of these requirements students could be forced to take part in a social experiment

Well nobody needs to go to UCSB. The US is fortunate that it's got such a huge and massively diverse range of options for university.

I guess if the results are bad they'll suffer for recruitment and the problem will hopefully correct itself.
Good thing you bring that up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...
> the fact that there's no particular reason to expect Invermectin should have any impact on any particular virus.

Ivermectin (you spell it wrong) is a known antiviral against several viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, when studied in cell cultures. This doesn't mean that it would work as a treatment in real patients. But it gives some reason, maybe just a little, to expect that it maybe could.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#COVID-19

The trial run by Oxford University might eventually give some good quality data on this.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-06-23-ivermectin-be-investiga...
https://archive.ph/sTa0U
While anecdotal, this article seems to confirm my suspicion that motivation for crime is seldomly rational. It seems more often to be driven by some form of mental or emotional trauma.

Makes you wonder if treatment rather than punishment wouldn't be a more effective remedy...
You say that like it is a bad thing!

It's lightweight, has the information I need with no spammy advertisements.... yet has a quirky, slightly fun design. Looks good to me!

EDIT: And best of all, it isn't optimised for a sodding 15 x 7 cm screen!
> carrying $30,000 cash with an unlikely explanation

"Unlikely" in _your_ experience. Your suggestion is a prescription for the police going on fishing expeditions of the poor and unlucky who are least able to defend themselves. (Poor people are more likely to use cash for everything, and less likely to have alternatives.)

Just because you're not arresting them doesn't mean it isn't harassment.
Grew up with German Shepherds that all did this. I actually find it pretty obvious that its about cognition. When they tilt their heads I can just about hear their brain working to figure out what you mean + want. They've got excellent hearing and they don't really need to improve it, they're just thinking about whatever stimulus they're reacting to.

And probably did evolve to communicate that thinking pose to humans. Its a little bit of an "I've almost got it, can I get another hint?" kind of pose.
> Those are interpreted as equally applying to non Americans.

But, oddly, as not applying fully to acts of the American government taken outside of the borders of the United States, which is why Gitmo is used for sketchy War on Terror detentions, and not any place on sovereign US territory rather than territory notionally leased by the US from a foreign sovereign.
There's a big difference between charlatans touting miracle cures and commercials for FDA-approved drugs, but even the latter are considered by many reasonable people to be harmful and worthy of banning.
I did commercial lighting for a few years. Relamp/reballast or LED retrofits are almost always done during business hours, with the lights on. Big lighting systems usually run at 277V. (Phase-to-neural voltage of 480V three-phase)

I would much rather work on a hot 277V lighting fixture than a 120V wall socket. Much more room to work, wire gauge is way thinner. The downside is that you're always on a ladder, so a big shock is comes with a ten foot fall as a free bonus. If I'm touching anything inside a wall, the breaker is getting flipped.
Your experience is anecdotal. What "you think" isn't what others have found through actual testing, there are actual papers written about this. Also, I don't think TikTok is different because they are more ethical or anything; I think the framework they operate in (China) has forced them to take a heavier hand on emotionally extreme content.
It's interesting to think that before Bitcoin, money really had no digital form that could exist independent of a bank. Like I can store cash in my wallet outside of a bank, and give it to someone else without going through a bank. That concept didn't exist electronically before Bitcoin. Services like PayPal made for a similar experience, but it was only an abstraction over bank to bank transfers.

So cool now that we actually have a fully distributed and digital form of money. So much innovation is happening right now to explore all possibilities of this new capability we have.

Already moving Bitcoin compared to an ACH or Wire Transfer is night and day. Much faster with no limits or constraints, or even having to pass money through a bank as an intermediary step.
Create an optional "click here or use some gesture to actually remove the lock screen" feature. On iOS, the device unlocks with FaceID but does not open until you swipe. Then the only issue would be if someone else had the device and pointed it at you to unlock it and then opened it up. Same issue with TouchID, though, as both are single factor authentication techniques (what you are). Though on iOS (and iPadOS and macOS) Face/TouchID both require you to enter a PIN/password/passphrase before unlocking depending on the system state (fresh from a reboot, too long, other conditions).
IF you were just adding a reminder, the point is certainly true. Hopefully it helps the vaccinated, recently vaccinated, and truly unvaccinated.
Capacitor creator here: agreed that Capacitor absolutely could be used by the PWA Builder team to power this and still keep their goals/values in mind (we also have a connection through Justin at PWA Builder who was an old Ionic team member!)

I am going to chat w/ Judah about this, already have a convo on github
I suspect the intent for the HDMI port is really for hooking up to projectors. If you want HDMI > 2.0 there is usb-c to HDMI.
I think part of it could be the 9% guarantee[1] which mandates that the top 9% of California high school students be offered a place at at least one UC.

[1]: https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
I'm not saying it wouldn't be a good idea if it was possible, but do we have enough sanitized, high quality, and complete medical data to pull that off? Given the number of potential interactions with all the different medications and conditions, could we actually pull out those links without a ton of confounding variables? Would it produce signal, or just noise?
Vaccination protects against Covid-19 more strongly than prior infection, study
I believe it's an open legal question. That's one reason why the prison at gitmo is where it is, so that the prisoners there were never brought on to US soil where the court system has the potential to grant them more rights.
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It's an American company and Meta is an English term so I don't see how that's relevant to anything. I hate Facebook just as much as anyone else but this story is a nothing burger.
The puppy stuff is a challenge but worth it because they get so heavily bonded with you. They really integrate into the family so strongly when you have them from little. My experience anyways.

Our previous collie was a rescue, and she died young (like 6 years old, poor thing) and we were so heartbroken my wife went out and got a puppy about two weeks later.

We also had mixed experiences with rescues. They can be hard to deal with and in general most wouldn't even talk to use because we live on a farm without a "fenced backyard" (you try fencing 6 acres)... Except it's actually heaven here for a dog and we are good at taking care of them.
What is new is that the "integrated graphics" are programmable, like tiny little GeForce or Radeon chips. No, they aren't as powerful as discrete GPUs, but they can do a lot of work.

If you want your software to stay competitive, you'd better start using it. Notice the quote - a software update to After Effects caused the execution time of some job they were doing to go from 4.5 minutes to 0.75 minutes. Same hardware. Same workload. The only difference was software that took advantage of this new hardware paradigm that is going to start showing up everywhere...

> I'm guessing the change you're really trying to speak on is the pairing of performance and efficiency cores, which has been common in mobile devices for quite a long time, but was brought to laptops with Apple Silicon, and finally reaches desktops with Alder Lake.

It is that, AND guaranteed access to a programmable GPU
He seems kind of spoiled to me. My apartment has two windows. The one in the bedroom is always closed because my wife works the night shift and needs to sleep during the day. The other window always has the shades drawn because I'm too lazy to put on clothes and don't want to bother my neighbors with kids when I get up at 6:30AM each morning and do my VR boxing practice in the living room.

Pretty sure plenty of college students would be OK with the false window shown in the article for reduced cost. The ones that want the outside rooms with windows could pay more. Upgrade the false window to a free OLED TV and students would probably pick interior over that for the same price. Plenty of office buildings have windows that don't open, and college kids with windows that do open tend to throw TVs and the like out of them, so I doubt exterior rooms with windows would even have openable ones with a building that tall.
Totally, it's the low hanging fruit of the political discussion. Someone says something that should change, instead of attacking the argument they point and yell look they aren't perfect!!! We can't listen to them.
If you haven't moved people to crypto, you're enabling the problem.
What does Apple see in it ?

They are investing heavily in AR/VR and they have a proven track record in new product categories e.g. smartphone, tablet, headphones, watch.

Once the technologies improve such that the glasses/headsets are light and small enough then it's going to be something you can bring and use everywhere. And then the popularity will increase which in turn will attract developers. Repeat this cycle a few times and you have another $100+ billion App Store business on your hands.
A unified google account predates Google+. Really the two pushes in that direction that Google+ contributed was when they decided to force the holdouts on legacy unlinked YouTube accounts to make G+ brand accounts, and when they shuttered orkut which had its own account system iirc.
Do you also bring all your USB-A peripherals with you?
I was indeed referring to you!

I'm surprised by your account, and glad that you've given it. This is mine:

In high school, I was a Linux hobbyist and I also had a habit of forgetting and losing documents I needed for school. Additionally, the school's computers not completely locked down, but the selection of software on them was very limited.

So I played with a lot of remote access solutions for accessing my home desktop, both to do things on it that I couldn't do at school (like browse an uncensored web or using an IDE I couldn't install on the school computers) and to access my files or even running applications. I tested a lot of stuff, both with Windows clients and with Linux clients (but I was limited to the former at school).

I tried X2Go, TigerVNC, plain Xpra, SSH (with normal and insecure forwarding, with and without compression), NX (FreeNX on the server, but with the proprietary client alongside several open-source clients), and WinSwitch, which was some nice tooling built around Xpra. (On the LAN, I even messed around with VirtualGL for 3D acceleration with remote applications.)

Xpra was the preferred choice, and WinSwitch using Xpra and H.264 encoding worked best for me when I was away from home. Using plain X forwarding, I noticed that some applications were painfully laggy, especially Eclipse and Firefox. But even with my modest home internet connection (with especially low bandwidth on the uplink), the H.264-based solutions were very usable for any application I threw at them.

> But also just ask anyone who has used RDP versus something like VNC.

For connecting to full desktop sessions, I remember tigervnc being way faster than x11rdp.
Here's some more context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lago_Agrio_oil_field
Are you implying that their interest suggests that non-shit AR glasses will actually happen in the relatively short term? Big tech companies were and ostensibly are interested in self-driving too, and that seems to be taking much longer than they expected.
I would recommend checking out Capacitor which can bring your web app/PWA to mobile and has full push support for iOS and Android: https://capacitorjs.com/docs/guides/push-notifications-fireb...
Ehm... https://www.britannica.com/topic/stenotypy
Watch this M.C. Esher-like simulation teach 4k robots how to walk
What if there was a word for a group of men, a word for a group of woman and a non-gendered word for a mixed group?
The difference, I think, is that builders of other systems usually don't say "We don't need law enforcement to tell our users what they can and cannot do, because what is allowed is clearly written in code, and the code triumphs everything else. That's the major selling point of our system."
There was plenty of technical headroom left for making more fearsome weapons in the early 1960s. Fortunately, the pace of innovation plummeted after atmospheric testing ended, and none of the later nuclear weapons states have surpassed the high water mark set by Cold War era superpower rivalry. Chuck Hansen's book The Swords of Armageddon is a fascinating account of the vast hidden empire of the post war Atomic Energy Commission, and how it developed atomic weapons so far beyond the early atomic bombs used on Japan. And then again optimized thermonuclear weapons so far past the early hydrogen bombs.
Regardless of the actual policies and intentions, a person who pays money to the government in taxes is going to see someone getting money from the government as being partially funded, or taken, from themselves.

For what it's worth though I agree with you. Government programs should be funded and planned based on net-benefit to society not strictly on an individual idea of fairness.

An example would be homelessness or drug rehab programs where it ends up being cheaper and better for society to help people than to continuously ignore and/or punish them.
Fun fact - most of these "innovative" banks (Chime, Mercury, Rho, etc.) are just "skins" on top of legacy banks that built out APIs (which in itself is probably innovation). I'm not aware of any classic "bank" that does the old boring retail stuff that Chase, BoA, etc. do but add in APIs, free wires, etc.
not sure about crYUSD.. but there is an article about yUSDVault here: https://medium.com/talking-crypto/introduction-to-yearn-vaul...
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It is very common for folks to forget to pass --release, were you doing that?
What surprised me was how pathetic the move looks (as does the logo, that looks like the brainchild of an actual child; infinity symbol? srsly?). Not only has Facebook proven unable or unwilling to make even less immersive wide-scale online interaction pleasant and beneficial that they claim it's time to be looking for the next challenge (oh, and did they forget about their digital currency?), but they don't even have the technology to start. If this had come at the same time they unveiled some impressive skunkworks project, or even after they emerged from their "trial by fire" as the article calls it, it might have been a different story, but as it is, it appears like a weak act of desperation. Is Facebook feeling that threatened?
Thanks!

Yea, Firebase is pretty nice because you can use it on both Android and iOS and it's free :)
This review doesn't seem to bring anything new to the table, and seems very, very much written for people using existing Intel-powered Macbook Pros.

> The Intel chips in your laptop, based on x86 architecture, are quite power hungry

Spoiler: The 2021 is better than those.
Then... turn it off?

I'm not sure if this is typical of Windows laptops but my girlfriends' HP has both types of sensors.
I agree that $2M cash in a vehicle seems suspicious, yes, but I'm uncomfortable with the idea that it's probable cause without additional evidence.

In part because having $2M cash isn't illegal, and in part because if you make it illegal, you have to start defining what the maximum acceptable amount of cash is.
To be crystal clear, at least in California on-campus housing is generally where students want to live.

With berkeley on campus housing can rely on FA awards, much more flexible in terms of reasons to cancel (ie, you withdraw from school), big issue with group leases off campus when one person flakes.

What's interesting is that there is a view that we can't try out things like this in the US. There are so many critics, and so few doers.

Be worth seeing what students think of the housing. I realize that may not align with some of the NIMBYs and critics, but ultimately they should have voice as stakeholders.

And why not try something out?

For those not familiar, there is a big shortage of on campus housing, many schools are waiving requirements to live on campus in year 1
> Are you saying there’s some negative impact to allowing people to have children who otherwise couldn’t?

In and of itself, no. I'm saying there's issues with some particular ways of doing so.
Yes, but IntelljIDEA's Linter showed me the error. Without linter you'll need compiler/interpreter to tell you something is not right.

And in my case, even if compiler / interpreter reported about an invalid syntax - I would not think of checking the unicode codepoint as it the character appeared to look exactly like semicolon.
Wow. I am speechless. I can't understand how a society can accept a practice like that.

I know that there is a lot of shit in Germany if you dig for it. But that is a very different level.
Yes but that treaty was signed because of the "bigger guns" diplomacy part.
I find this to be a complete crazy take.

Even if intent isn’t written into a specific law, the whole system is built to specifically allow intent to be considered in so many stages. Sometimes they don’t even decide to prosecute.

Laws exists specifically to create a functioning society. Laws do not exist for the sake of having laws. Any sane person enforcing any kind of rule understands this.

This take is like programmers getting angry when businesses don’t care about the quality the the code or something, forgetting that the whole reason people hire programmers is to solve business problems, not to write text on a computer. Total miss of the point of the exercise.