skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple Chinese surnames which map to the Latin letters Xi.

Just doing some ad-hoc lookup showed me that here are at-least over 700,000 People with "Xi" as the last name. Not including quite similar names like "Xié".

Sure that there is a certain very powerful person with that name, probably mattered in making them rethink if they should use it. Still there being over half a Million people with that name is a sound argument anyway.
I was answering in general, these DAOs are dime a dozen and most never try to do something with the classical financial system
Whoosh!

Hey, what was that?
The first numbers are short in every language. That doesn't distinguish Chinese in any way.

Taking some salient examples, in English 9 out of 10 of those numbers are single syllables and 7 is two. In French, all ten are single syllables.
I think we need a law that all data needs to be presented in deciles, or at least quintiles.

It is incredibly annoying to know that someone had the data and chose to not show its distribution, when it costs them almost nothing to do so. I assume any use of the word “average” without specifying mean or median, or really any use of mean average, to be clickbait because there is no reason to use it when you know the underlying distribution is skewed.
That’s not what that means. It’s just the withdrawal of PCR assays that can only detect SARS-CoV-2 in favour of newer assays that can detect both it and Influenza A/B.
Would a Level 5 automated bar be easier?

What level do we have with coffee? Those machines must be level 4 now.
I haven't heard of housing sitting empty. Even if there is a flipper in the chain of possession, houses end up getting acquired by long-term investors who rent them out or people who actually live in them. As far as I'm aware.
Love your website. Selection of music for the Rock channel is very nice as well. Bookmarking it.

Btw I've written pixel shader based music vis ages ago. Here is screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/txWiOih
apple watch will measure it, though i have no idea how accurate it is.
to do it properly you need to undergo a supervised test in a lab with the right equipment.
You didn’t check what it could do before buying it? Especially when these are the lacking features you are now returning it over?

I dunno, this whole article screams ‘user error’ to me.
Migrating birds stopping to rest in water tend to drink the water. Once inside the body, if the water is too acidic, it begins breaking down cell walls and denaturing proteins. These actions are analogous to cooking.
They have rather clear guidelines on names:

> adding that the agency’s “best practices for naming disease suggest avoiding `causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.”’

The list does not include brands.

Also, there are different measures of confusion: "Nu" being confused with "new" is on a phonetic level and could make actual communication difficult. "Delta (the virus)" vs "Delta (the airline)" is semantic confusion and most people are quite capable of distinguishing those unless they deliberately want to be confused.
You can fork decentralized over (crypto) collateralized stablecoins

In practice the value of the forked collateral is likely to be low, leaving the stablecoins insolvent.
Objects are records with a controlled interface, so that you don't have to see the internal details. This allows restructuring of the internals without disrupting the code that uses the objects. It is a fairly well understood mechanism for preventing unwanted side effects.

The interface is type checked, and the appropriate way set the type rules is to bundle them with the interface (and thus the object), not with the user code.
Linus on Line Breaks (2020)
This type of pandering to Xi and China is exactly what helped them escape accountability. I feel the virus should have continued to be referred to as the “Wuhan virus” or “China virus” alongside other names because the virus’s origin DOES bear relevance. I feel the reason these phrases were banned was simply to attack Trump as xenophobic and use it as a political tool in a contentious election year. But by black holing the location on the grounds it might offend or stigmatize, news media and the general public have turned a blind eye to China not reporting the outbreak to the rest of the world, not shutting down their ports, arresting journalists who reported on it, preventing a site visit for over a year, deleting data/records of their research, not upholding safety standards at WIV, and more.

Lastly, this notion that things that offend must not be spoken even if there is a rational reason for them (like just being the next in the alphabet) is a dangerous precedent. The political left will probably welcome it, because much of their social justice causes are built on this type of sentiment. But seeing trusted institutions practice the same ideology is creepy and a dystopian distortion of reality.
I didn't say anything about New Zealand being ugly or whatever, I did say that (from my perspective) the freedom of movement of its citizens across the border was severely limited, hence the "prison" term.

Yes, I know that (most probably) New Zealanders were perfectly free to go out to another country had they wished to do so, but once there they couldn't have come back (unless they were a multi-billionaire like the Google guy), I regard that as a prison-like system, because it majorly forces you to remain put (most probably your family, your job, your everything are located in New Zealand, you don't want to give them away). Yes, it is a system that saved lives, but nevertheless it is a system that restricted the freedom of movement of its citizens for almost two years now.
Only in Romanized Chinese; which is an English-approximate spelling of how it would be pronounced. (sort of).

Spelling is different in Chinese, of course, which has fuck-all to do with the Greek letter, or how it would be pronounced in English.

People bringing up the Chinese leader pronounced name's English spelling, to confuse it with a Greek letter, are really reaching hard.
yes they regulate both I was mostly talking about the other daos that exist which dont attempt to do anything in meat space
Elon Musk was the only person willing to build out a whole charging network and that was the biggest factor in the adoption of EVs. That IMO did change the world.

Its possible to love something for its good qualities and accept the bad.

"With historic reliability concerns but an intensely loyal following, Tesla took the top spot for overall owner satisfaction among the 27 brands mentioned in survey responses."[0]

[0]https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...
That's great for cardio, but the main muscles it works are the quads. Hamstrings aren't emphasized, and upper body is lacking.
Reminds me of port knocking. Is there a name for these, info on how they're designed?
Nowhere in any of my posts did I say juniors are too stupid to learn. Much like your previous comment, you are filling in your own blanks.

Every thing has an associated cost. An ORM in a familiar language, like sqlalchemy in Python, is easier to learn than learning SQL from scratch, and it provides guardrails like schema enforcement that SQL does not. That means anyone, not just a junior, can drop into a codebase using it and be able to quickly use it

You seem to be under the impression that an ORM has to have a significant performance penalty. While there's of course going to be some, for the vast majority of tasks that I use it for, it is negligible versus the rest of the IO happening. If there is a significant penalty in some edge cases, I can still use direct SQL queries. Again, like my original post, I know when and where to use an ORM and as I've tried to explain to you multiple times, I know it's not a silver bullet solution.

In your previous comment you simply went off the rails talking about branching and CI without tying it into your argument. If your argument is that CI will catch the issues, CI can only catch some issues. It too isn't a silver bullet, and relies on code review to catch some other issues. Why not just use an ORM to add that security up front? It doesn't replace CI or code review, but it greatly reduces the risk of each stage failing.

> they should all be developed using the principles I’ve described

Okay, you do you. You've dissalowed any reply of situational pragmatism for your own fastidious absolutism.
I miss Futurama.
Viruses simply diversify through mutation. They can be more or less infectious, more or less deadly, etc in any combination and selection pressure over the long term tends to lead to less deadly more infectious variants dominating. In the mean time more dangerous variants can do a lot of damage.

What the Spanish Flu, most deaths occurred in the second and third waves from more virulent and deadly variants.
Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79
Does Remarkable support Adobe DRM? If not, then the vast majority of places you can get ePubs either (a) won't be compatible, or (b) won't have the ebooks you care about (because publishers only sell them with DRM).

So no, unless you're going out of your way to use a workflow that's unsupported and of questionable legality (DRM stripping), you probably can't read ebooks you care about on this device.
>The piece doesn’t go deep into detail but it shows that the entertainment industry lawyer doesn’t regret going after the site and its founders, despite the mixed result.

That lawyer is probably the person who has made the most money off of TPB. Of course they don't regret it.
Interestingly enough, as the ledgers are all public by nature, there would be nothing stopping states from forking blockchains into centralized solutions, outcompeting miners by reducing transaction costs to zero. Crypto-anarchists would lose their minds, but most consumers would probably pick whatever's cheapest and which "just works".

Don't get me wrong, I love the politics of decentralization. But it's worth remembering that decentralization tends to be a cost-center, not a profit-center, from the standpoint of efficiency and performance; and decentralized tech is no guarantee of decentralized results (see Amazon/Facebook/Google, who have quasi-monopolies in their niches, despite being delivered over open and federated web protocols).
Honestly, none that I can think of.
Cool story! On the topic of Coronavirus, have you heard about the "quarantine camps" in Australia. Pretty crazy stuff isn't it: https://imgur.com/a/3JfgfyF

edit: Google Maps link: https://www.google.com/maps/place/12°29'25.7"S+131°01'30.2"E
CppCast is awesome, even if you're not a C++ developer: https://cppcast.com/

"Algorithms + Data structures = programs": https://adspthepodcast.com/

Crypto Critics' Corner may be my favorite podcast: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/

Anything from microbe.tv: https://www.microbe.tv/science-shows/.
They have podcasts covering evolution, microbiology, neuroscience, parasitism, virology, urban agriculture, and more. Lot of stuff to dig into, you can try and see which one you like.

Not technical, but I like to listen to Startup Therapy, I like how they openly talk about failures and mistakes: https://adspthepodcast.com/
Really like this, not normally my thing but really like the 80s feel while being modern at the same time. Great work!
Except that the photos of injury they showed were damage to the duck's feet - i.e. not part of the digestive tract, and very much part of the body that's submerged in water the entire time the bird floats on a lake.
It’s hard to quantify exactly how common it is. Common enough that you’d need to deliberately search for jobs that don’t have it, but not so common that you won’t find any.

I’ve never heard of spot bonuses per issue, although I imagine it would create a perverse incentive to have noisy alerting that files a lot of issues. Flat bonuses per oncall shift exist (and I think they’re a great idea) but they’re relatively rare.
In the Tom Scott video linked upthread, they cover this. The pit is being used as a hydraulic control device-collecting all the badness from a ridiculously vast (~10,000 miles) network of tunnels into one huge dilute volume. Then, they pipe it out to a water treatment plant and then back to the pit. They’ve been able to raise the pH from mid-2 to mid-4 this way.
> In reality, this only works if you have e-pub books

There is soooooooooooo much content available in PDF
Was there really a strong likelihood that people were going to confuse Delta the variant with Delta the airline, to the point where it distracted from the global response? I don’t think so, and Delta seems to have suffered no specific harm from it.

It’s not about whether the names can be linked to a real world entity. That’s going to be true for all of these in some way. But about what causes severe enough confusion or controversy to hamper things.
Faraday Future delays Q3 filing to look into claims of inaccurate disclosures
And that mad scientist could just as easilly be from Earth as from Mars.

Once you have the ability for individuals to launch multi ton payloads on escape velocity, you have the ability for individuals to launch multi ton payloads at earth. While such an individual could target Mars and Earth, the implication of the technology level of a self sustaining mars base is that mankind will be spread throughout the solarsystem (at least the asteroids, venus clouds, mars, moon and earth), and at that stage wiping out the species becomes even harder.
The Navy is testing a GPS-like device that doesn’t require satellites
> Chinese (and derivatives) basically just count like English, but without the inconsistencies.

Not really. "One thousand five" is 1,005 in English, but it's 1500 in Mandarin. For 1005 you'd need to say "one thousand zero five".
Strongly agree. I am seriously impressed with the ocr engine in iOS 15, and it’s ability to successfully ocr any images or photos in my photo roll, even my poor handwriting.

My only complaint is that the Apple Notes app doesn’t seem to OCR content added to notes; hopefully in the future it might, I submitted a feature request.
>In the meantime I handled a handful of business critical situations, developed my ability to keep cool during crisis and put my skills to the test.

That's great, but you could still have done all those things if you were being compensated appropriately for the extra time you were putting in.

It's like unpaid internships. I'm sure unpaid interns often do learn useful skills and make useful connections. But the practice is still exploitative.
Yeah, there are a few core features that can really make or break a notetaking workflow. I'm on an iPad (I need full color pan/zoom for my core workflow) and I want to love ZoomNotes so badly, but the OCR search is slow. It's a silly problem -- it goes one document at a time every time, so probably OCR caching is janked out or something -- but it's core enough that I am willing to cut out all of its considerable feature library from my workflow and use a much simpler app, GoodNotes, instead. It barely meets the core subset of features that I absolutely need, but none of those features are broken, and that makes it a winner.
Xie is number 23
frankly, this topic has already been discussed in half a dozen threads (in other posts), and those have overwhelmingly been stupid & obvious memes and anti-china insinuations. the whole thing should just be flagged instead.
I think the price/performance ratio depends on whether your use case works with with the 8/256 or 8/512 configurations. The moment you need to go 16/512 or more, the price difference to 14" is not that large, especially considering the better display - with the first improvement in resolution since October 2012, so over 9 years.
I knew it! This Greek Bioweapon will continue to be used with impunity!
Ask HN: Any interesting forks of TypeScript (or languages inspired by it)?
What would TypeScript look like if it were freed from the shackles of JavaScript? Could it be a first class language compiled to machine code, .NET IL, or wasm, with runtime type checking, and cleaner and less bloated?

Are there any forks of Typescript (or TypeScript-like languages) exploring these ideas?

Rationale for Question:
After using TypeScript for some years, I find C#, as good a language as it is, fairly clunky. C# lacks many things that make TypeScript so expressive: straightforward first-class functions and union types, for example. I think my ideal language would be something that marries the best parts of C# and TypeScript.
Thanks for the tip, I'd read some material of his from the 1980s that helped me to start understanding bayesian networks, it inspired me to revisit my university statistics course which was fruitful. I am a sucker for pop sci!
That’s an Ontario law, but it looks like several other provinces have something similar.
I must not understand what transformers are. I thought they were a type of RNN where order of input matters?

Any suggestions on how to learn about transformers? Or a few sentences to get me started on the right path?
Macroquad is great, it does make that virtually effortless. Nice work!
Good catch, so they are probably ‘cooked’ from both ends topologically.
that's a pretty selective quote. you skipped over:

> If an organization thinks their systems should be available 24x7 they should staff people 24x7.

One way to achieve 24x7 coverage without anyone being structurally on-call outside of standard office hours could be "follow the sun" support -- have offices in multiple timezones around the world and run 3 x 8 hour shifts each day of support working their local office hours to provide 24/7 coverage. Still need enough staff at each site to handle rotation for covering weekends and for people to go on holiday and get sick or quit for new jobs etc.

I can understand why many companies would prefer not to pay for that if they can get away with cheaper alternatives, and why they might prefer to understaff and push the burden onto employees, but that's the company's problem, not the problem of the individual worker who trades their life by the hour in exchange for money.
I don’t think there’s questionable legality of stripping DRM to read books you have a license to on your own device.
Note that I meant a strictly monotonic sequence number PER PRIVATE KEY.

This only means that each holder of a private key must have some sort of synchronization mechanism (if they use several agents/clients), but it doesn't centralize the whole network.
Based on…? I’ve been on 4 Delta flights in the last 3 months and the flight attendants were militant about masks. They told a woman in front of me on one flight that if they had to tell her to keep it above her nose a third time she was going to be banned from future delta flights.
Completely random. It picks a hue value (0-360) and then adds or subtracts a second random value from this for each layer. The maximum value of this increment is relatively small, so the colors are usually similar within the same image.
There's quite a few variants that either sound like Xi, or look very similar. Even if the exact word "Xi" wasn't a common surname, it's a well known one, and will only fuel the ongoing hatred and racism.
In one of his videos he explained his process with videos. He wants to rule out the possibility of deceptive editing, so he only includes takes done in a single shot (at least for the portion where he demonstrates the technique). As a result, he keeps things short, as that reduces the chance of misspeaking and having to reshoot.
> A change in the handling of URL schemes was deployed a couple of days ago

This was deployed Thanksgiving week? I realize Github isn't a consumer company, so it doesn't face the same pressures as Amazon, but I'm surprised there wasn't a code freeze so people can have a quiet holiday weekend.
Is there any society of, say, 1mil+ people that 1) doesn't have a strong government that strictly controls information, and 2) has a population that doesn't have this "major [problem] in public discourse"? Has anybody ever pulled this off?
It's only backwards for the last 2-digit numbers. Once you go into the hundreds and beyond, it's read from left to right. I think most Germans probably don't even realize it. They just recall all 2-digit numbers from memory.

In French, to an outsider, quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (99) literally sounds like 4 * 20 + 10 + 9... But most french people will think of 'quatre-vingt-dix' as a single word (90) not thinking of quatre (4), vingt (20) and dix (10) as 3 different words. This is especially true because a lot of French words and names have a hyphen in them so French people see the hyphen more as an integral part of the word rather than a separator.
Perhaps too many words can conflate Mars only being a small step toward us "Contact"ing who we are to become: https://youtu.be/sRPUO6gGSh8 ?
What about Web6?
There are multiple names mapping to the Latin letters Xi, two of them in the top 300. With the population levels of china this can easily be more people then the most common name in <insert many countries here>.

Like some ad-hoc research at least >700,000+ people (in China), potentially more.

This is more people in place 20+ in the list of most common US names (in the US).

It's roughly as many people as the most common German surename (in Germany).
Interesting, I have the opposite issue :)

I cannot just sit and listen without doing anything, I need to be doing something with my body to be able to stay focus on an audio feed. I mean, I can do it but I won't be able to keep my attention on the audio content. When I bike, walk, or do laundry, no problem at all!
You could already select from sqlite_master
Whether or not it makes sense for a HN post notwithstanding, these kinds of reviews are good because if you are similar to the author then you’ll likely have the same feelings.

It’s the same with movie critics, knowing a movie with 84% on Rotten Tomatoes or something isn’t half as useful as the opinion of your twin flame critic.
Won’t stop them from trying. The DRM folks have plenty of help from the evangelical “moral police” who want to wipe out obscenity online, even where there is no victim.
We already had a system that didn't need satellites, it was deemed redundant and shut down.
Why didn’t they say “chi”?
My bad. Seems that a number of browsers block saving canvas elements as a security precaution. For now, I can only recommend trying a different browser as a workaround.
The Ethereum DAO event wasn't a rug pull. It was a bug.

There was a fork, which is a wonderful feature of blockchains. The original fork with the DAO hack still in place still exists: https://ethereumclassic.org/

Use that if you like. But clearly the community as a whole decided to repair the damage and move on. A fork like that would be too costly to pull off today. In addition, the maturity and growth of audit firms such as OpenZeppelin, have led to more secure DAOs, etc.

But by all means, use ETC if purism matters to you. Crypto is a free, open source movement.
The WHO doesn't decide what it can call country that is done by the united nations, mostly lead by the USA which follows the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy .
Why?

In short, lawmakers are creating numerous anti-BDS laws attempting to defend freedom;-) as long they align with their own ideological positions.

I was actually asked whether "Israel had a right to exist" during an interview.
I was astonished. I answered that no country has a "right to exist" and that
individuals have a right to self-determination (among other human rights).
I still got the job.