skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me reword the article and the discussion to highlight what is happening, this time try to reuse existing terms.

1. Chinese (the official language) is an invention [1].

The article explains its title with the history and development of different language families and dialects in China.

2. The Han race (the identity) is an invention. The united Chinese history (the view point of uninterrupted dynastic civilization) is an invention [2].

> ... the Han race was really only constructed in the last 100 years, along with the national mythos of several millennia of uninterrupted dynastic civilization.

3. An ethnically integrated China (the identity and political system) is an invention. The Chinese nationalism (the ideology) is an invention.

> an ethnically integrated China is, in fact, a modern invention linked to the rise of nationalism at the end of the nineteenth century.

4. The invention of an integrated China is sensible, because history [3].

> This idea is a very sensible one in the context of China being forced to open up to the world.

5. The invention of an integrated China is NOT sensible, because history [4].

> Mao Zedong supported the Hunan self-government movement even as late as the 1920’s.

[1]: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/invention-chine... "The Invention of Chinese"

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529921

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29525040

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29525343

=====

Clear thinking of different concepts, and understanding what is being discussed, is needed for a fruitful discussion.

Calling unfamiliar concepts as “a debate of definition of words”, and not understanding what is being discussed, is not fruitful for discussion.

Note that throughout the discussion, we are using “invention”, “construction”, or “convention” as the same concept, and study their consequences to the society, to politics, and to history.

Here, we are talking about created languages (Chinese official language), identity (Han), history (national mythos, narratives), ideology (nationalism), and politics (integrated China).

This branch of social science, which studies created and accepted concepts, deals with “social constructs” [5].

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism "Social constructionism"
NFTs don’t have to be digital assets. They can represent ownership or a share of ownership of something unique, like a piece of real estate. All depends on what can be legally recognized as part of the contract.
I just read this piece, linked to from the list: https://van-magazine.com/mag/strange-dissonance/

Just...wow.
Apart from the Debian command what else you need to learn from Django? I'm writing python based web application development tutorial here https://rajasimon.io
Just started reading the maths book, and it looks amazing. Thanks so much for the reference.
If you want to try another sketchy service, I use iDrive which was $9.95 for 10TB for the first year.
> I will cast a hail of stones on the concept of copyright gone (even more) batshit insane with absolutely no hesitation.

I dislike DRM as much as the next guy, but DRM had pirates, and NFTs have right-clickers. The problem with DRM, particularly on games, is that it restricted access. Most NFTs are still just images and basic media and don't have any impediments to distribution. I think someone getting sued because they used someone's NFT as a twitter DP will probably happen. What comes of that will be interesting to say the least.

edit: oxymoron correction
Presentations on open-source firmware, which can be used to extend the lifespan of older motherboards and devices.

2020-2021: https://vimeo.com/user128699411

2019: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUVk2lv2h2VbP3Dx4k2axyA/vid...
I'll take my answer from the pretzel line; thanks.
Instead of the conveniences of modern technology, they had servants. They lived a life of full service, comparable to the most expensive modern hotels.

They had "running water" -- as in servants would run and fetch the water. There was nothing inconvenient about the king's access to water. It would be served to him. How do you get your water?
Bitcoin is decentralized, 13,000 nodes - mostly residiential nodes, not hosted.

You're assuming too much.
Yes, so good. I often listen to both the nocturnes and the preludes as a sequence.

I like a bunch of his other stuff, too, but if he only wrote the nocturnes and preludes, that would be enough for me.
> Wealthy business or person calls cops to report a crime: cops immediately act upon it

I guess Hertz doesn't count as a wealthy business, since they're going bankrupt?
Do most NFTs even actually claim to represent a legally actionable copyright transfer or license, or is that all implied? I was under the impression that it was the latter.
Your use of "YOU" is weird when I haven't even really decided what I think should be called tornado alley. I just wanted to point out that whatever method you're using is not "single definition: where tornadoes happen"; it's something more subjective.

Also to be clear I was using "Raleigh" as shorthand for "that orange cell right next to Raleigh", which is the same 11-15 color as St. Louis.
cats are not local species, except you live at their original region. cats are invade species, local animals do not evolve with them. cat can easy extinct most small animals in your region, local predators will not. please do not claim "they are same".
My experience has always been that "not supported" means anywhere from "physically impossible" (e.g. because there just isn't that many address bits) to "we won't help you because we haven't tested it".

Some quick searching shows that others have managed to get that CPU to use 32GB of RAM:

https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/p55-chipset-i5-75...

I thought he would go as far as patching the BIOS itself, which would make it a "permanent" fix. In fact one of the projects I haven't gotten around to finishing is to patch the memory init code for an old Atom processor embedded motherboard to make it recognise more combinations of RAM modules; analysis of the BIOS and leaked sources shows that it was stupidly written as "if(512MB in slot 1 and 512MB in slot 2) ... else if(1GB in slot 1 and empty slot 2) else if(1GB in slot 1 and 1GB in slot 2) ...", when the memory controller can actually be set up generally to work with many more different configurations.
Ditto, another anecdote.
Even after reading the Wikipedia article to find out who "Peppermint Patty" is, I don't quite understand the reference but get the impression that it may be slightly disrespectful?
Now why would you mention Maine? I guess then I would say Arkansas has the worst divorce rate (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/states-with... 2020). I assume that's the whole thing we're doing here?, blue state, red state?

I responded to your original comment because you said "and in my area the working class is very Catholic, black, or both. YMMV, not valid in California."
which you say is a joke. What's the joke? Now I don't want to accuse you of contributing to this because I have no way of knowing where your beliefs about CA came from by (I'm going to go off on a tangent here) but what I've seen when it comes to California is that people now use it as a negative example for almost every comparison, often without evidence. It's done so much that there's now there's a negative connotation to the state itself that certainly isn't valid in all cases. It's so insidious how a belief / stereotype can just appear out of no where if it's just causally spread out.
you are moving the goalpost here. good luck finding a job paying well that's not a trade or a technical job requiring a college degree.

grew up blue collar, still spend plenty of time with blue collar folks. just like there are fat unhealthy desk workers, there are beaten up tradesmen who didn't take care of their bodies. there are also healthy examples of both.

finally, these are required jobs that make our society function. hard to say they are oversold while most of the people on this forum make the proverbial fourteenth attempt at Uber for dogwalking. myself included.
Good to hear - I was using Putty and Pageant before openssh.exe on Windows became available. Works great - with WSL (1 _and_ 2), and with KeeAgent (KeePass Addon for SSH Keys). I enjoyed reading the post from simont, it resonated with my own observations (not that I contributed anything comparable like Putty to the open source movement). It is more that colleages (at university) expect me to fix/improve my oss as soon as they email me, and even get angry when I can't (due to time constraints etc.).
If the author is here, I'd be interested to hear why multiple-value-setq is used instead of the more idiomatic setf (values ...)
The GP was using a quote from the GGP:

> According to the 2020 census data linked below the percentage increases to around 24% for individuals who worked full time all year.

It said and implied nothing about people trying or not. GP attempted to cast this as "1/4 of people succeed, so it's easily achieveable"
A lifting a phone ban won't change the structures and incentives at play. This is an attempt to again shift responsibility to individuals.

Let's imagine how the scenario plays out if workers have access to weather alerts. Each worker has a choice to make: either bring it up to their sup, ignore it, or walk out. Maybe y'all have more experience working at amazon warehouses than me, but I don't believe for a second that warehouse management is going to let people off the job. Management's incentives simply don't align with that possibility. If they did, this wouldn't be an issue. The other options have even worse consequences for workers.
where is the code being executed ? hosted nodes or real peers in a "p2p" network?

why does it hard fork so much and make prior clients incompatible? why do they have a monetary policy? isn't that what fiat currency is?
That seems a much shorter span of time for civilizations to spring up. Egypt, Iraq, India and Europe has history which was already divergent at that point of time.
If you consider only the selection pressure from the mother’s side then yes that is the case.

However you must consider that the mother and the father are in an arms race with respect to the carrying capacity of the mother. The selection pressure from the father will always tend towards an offspring that is the maximum capacity at which the mother can bear.
Unsnackable
a small tantrum about obscure and limited edition snacks, beverages and fast food from around the world that I want but cannot have
That's not exactly true, it can be slower than the slowest individual pixel. It's not just running the same code for each pixel in parallel across many cores, a single core* actually runs pixels at once and therefore has to have the same program counter on all of those pixels. If two pixels diverge then the core has to alternate between the different PCs and toggle each lane on and off depending on which pixel is currently executing.

That means if you had a shader like:

if (pixelIndex % 2) {
longFunctionA();
} else {
longFunctionB();
}

It would actually take twice as long to run compared to every pixel calling the same function. Each core is executing a batch of pixels (a warp) that is evenly split between two completely different sections of code, so it has to alternate between each until they both finish.

* Core might not be the exact right term, Nvidia calls them SMs and other GPU vendors have different names.
> This analysis also ignores government transfers.

AFAIU, by dollar amount government transfers in the U.S. are roughly comparable to those in most European countries. However, a disproportionate amount of those transfers are spent on medical care, a consequence of the high cost of medical care in the U.S. Moreover, a disproportionate amount of government medical spending goes toward the elderly and small, high risk groups. IOW, even at comparable dollar amounts, government transfers in the U.S. simply don't provide the same sort of secure economic footing that people can use to get ahead in some other countries.
Fat lot of good that does when you die from a simple infection that penicillin can fix or keel over from a heart attack that is survivable in the modern age.
Duktig svenne
In Haskell you typically work around this by using newtype to wrap your type so that you can give the new type specific implementations of type classes.
They had a sample set of 2x 20 people. They were all healthcare workers. Though it might be an indicator this is not significant enough.
> I think this is true, but it’s still counterintuitive. Makes me think there’s something more useful we could make electric space heaters do with their energy and still produce the same amount of heat.

Indeed: people have experimented with mining during the winter to recoup electric heating costs, which makes sense but only if you ignore the (expensive and getting more expensive by the day) cost of procuring the original mining hardware (aka GPU).
You forgot the whole "lets walk around this can and look for scratches and pretend we've never seen this car in our life" thing. And that's before you even exit the lot. Then you do the same god damn dance when you get back.

Enterprise does this and I just find it completely unfathomable.

You did a thorough cataloging of the car when you received it from the last renter. Just give me that fucking report instead of acting like an oblivious idiot.
I'm not particularly worldly or knowlegable, but I occasionally read non-fiction books and Wikipedia to learn.

I find the news to be too event-oriented.

I use RSS to keep up to date with some tech fields.
Maybe one way around that would to be only allow users that with accounts created X+ months ago (and in good standing) to comment on those type of threads?
Disagree. The biggest transfer is cash through the EITC. If you're eligible for EITC, you're likely eligible for Medicaid which has near-zero out of pocket costs for medical care.

I keep hearing how the US has a "non-existant safety net" yet can help but notice safety net programs are more than half the federal budget.
NASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training, third of astronaut class
My impression is that it's just provable ownership. Although they could probably encode copyright semantics, I suspect it's largely all implied.
False. Energetic costs of distributing duplicate information is significantly more expensive than local computation. Eg: measuring joules spent for decompression vs transmission is orders of magnitude over the n duplication.
> Someone at Hertz is culpable for not taking steps to prevent this from happening.

It's far from clear that anybody at Hertz is criminally culpable, which is what was suggested upthread, with talk of people making false statements being arrested.
This reminds me of the much maligned anti-RISC-V website created ARM a little while back.
LOL this one got an audible chuckle out of me
Well afaik a pheromone is defined by its function, not its molecular structure.
Wonder if Barnes and Noble make more money from the affiliate commission than from selling the book? May be they're riding the coat-tails of Amazon's cheaper distribution and better negotiating power.
What always seems to happen is they say, “we want it for this much.” And you say, “that can’t be done… well, it could be done if we can assume all X are Y. Is that okay?” They agree because it means yes. Then a year later they realize that not all X are Y and they start renegotiating, like we’re just arguing about paint colors or bathroom fixtures instead of something foundational, like the footprint or number of floors or what city you built it in (we decided we don’t want to live in Detroit. Can we have it in St Louis instead?).

I have been wondering for a while if we should just never ask those sorts of questions, because they don’t know, we hear what we want to hear, they hear what they want to hear, and nobody has any idea what’s actually going on, and later we won’t look at how we got here.
> The dithered images are smaller (according to them), and I don't see why they would use more CPU per byte to decode than JPEG.

Just try substituting something else in that statement and see if it makes sense. “The lzma-compressed files are smaller than the raw test files, so opening them in an editor shouldn’t use more cpu” or “HEVC-compressed videos are smaller than DivX videos, so shouldn’t they be more efficient to decode and play (sans hardware acceleration)?”
> What would you prefer: a world where more or fewer people were able to amass that much wealth? To me, the obvious answer is more.

Fewer. That wealth represents the obligation of other people to labor on behalf of the owner or their heirs. A world with lots of rich people is a world where the poor are born into indentured servitude. Equality allows the newborn to enter life debt free.
And the page works fine without JavaScript (with an image fallback for the pipes).
Oof, severe research fail on my side. Flaming arrows accepted.
I agree with you that dynamically instantiating shader permutations is bad news. That said, I think the author is probably onto something regarding linking and closures. The existing "binding model" for shaders is incredibly tedious and low-level (not to mention frustratingly not-quite-portable), and I think it's likely that there's a better way to do it.
Time and materials works well, until the customer’s boss figures out they’ve been faffing about for a year and have nothing to show for it.
Note the denominator in this statement. The poor -> middle class transition is relevant for a huge amount of people, and the poor -> filthy rich is relevant to such a small number of people I don't even know a single soul alive who made that transition, despite billionaires being very public figures.
The controller also hooks into their switches, security gateways, etc to give you a single interface to control all the Ubiquiti gear on your network. If you just have their access points, the only reasons you might want to run it after getting the APs configured are checking the status of things and logging (for example, I can work out the schedule for a local wifi-enabled bus service by seeing when their access points were visible to my access points.)

Once your APs are configured, you can shut the controller down and they will hum along just fine. I imagine the phone app you used accomplishes much the same thing.
I think there are dark themes -- see 1:00 minute mark in this demo video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ircl1OVEdaM&t=365s
I was taking voice lessons, and I didn't yet know any of the standard Musical Theater Audition Songs (now I have A Wandering Minstrel, I or at least I had it at one point).

So I went to audition for Iolanthe with Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust. The director said "Are you really going to sing lied?"

I always kick myself for not answering, "Well, I'm not going to sing backup!"

I'll show myself out now.
There are literally thousands of dApps developed and governed by DAOs funded by ICOs which tens of millions of daily active users derive economic value from. Sure, lots of ICOs find vaporware. But so do the overwhelming majority of VC investments.
I’ve heard it said that Scrum only works if you assume half of XP. I don’t have a coherent counter argument to that statement.

> Deadlines and budgets are why bad requirements happen. Almost no one is able to write good requirements, it's simply too difficult in all but the most basic cases.

Because projects get cancelled if you tell the truth. Even if there’s an uglier truth that the company is screwed if we don’t finish this project.

One boss referred to this somewhat grotesquely as “getting them pregnant.” Once started, sunk cost fallacy makes them keep dumping more money on it until they get what they need or the pain gets too high. In a lot of ways Agile is a more humane way of getting the same results without the deception. You give them a taste of things to come and keep trickling it out a bit at a time.
Or maybe different populations of people value different things? If you value DUDE WEED over free speech, feel free to move to your Euro paradise.
> Just say NO to single-cloud porting

This reads more like a DARE slogan than a publication from a major technology company.
It seems in context that they're saying that you may or may not consider the fact that you worked hard and then were heartily rewarded to mean that you deserved the result. Especially in the context of many many other people working just as hard and not getting the same result.
The hosted version I'm thinking of is their Synology C2 personal it seems.

Currently I use it to back up my lossless music collection and nothing else.

Backblaze B2 was on the table too, however I think my asymetric internet connection is my biggest issue right now. Only 40-50Mbps upload won't do much for backing up multiple TBs of data. May need to consider pre-seeding drive option if I can justify the cost.

Other solution was a separate, lower spec Synology I can pre-seed and send to a friend's house who has a homelab.
This was a great article in that it was a decent example of how pop-science articles could be written.

- the claim made focuses only on the results of the chemical itself

- the explanations adequately state the limitations of the results themselves

- the follow up comments from in field individuals clearly states the relationship (or lack of it) to the study

- the article notes quite strongly that while babies emit the chemical, it’s unknown if the amounts emitted are enough to alter behavior.
Look, I'm not saying that everything was better in the medieval ages. But people who think that their own modern lifestyle is comparable to a medieval king are lying to themselves. They heard a dumbass meme and never thought about it critically.

Modern working class people in the wealthy nations do have better _medical care_ than medieval kings did. That doesn't justify broad statements about "lifestyle."
I think that’s true if you take a no dependencies approach but as soon as you tap into the ecosystem the argument is lost.
Culture / upbringing tend to be passed on to some extent from one generation to the next, unless every child is raised in state boarding schools. And on the innate side, whether one hits the genetic lottery is correlated with whether one's parents and grandparents hit the genetic lottery.
Makes for a good Jason Bourne movie...
>"This person lost their real estate license, so that thousands of other people can drive someone else's car while they're on vacation without having to buy the car with cash outright. Net win? Probably."

If said person get immediately compensated to full extent and a lot more on top. If any record of being criminally charged and any trace of arrest / interaction with police in regards to criminal matter gets wiped out. Then maybe.

Otherwise fuck those vacationers. They're free to go and buy car or vote for the system that does not jail people for hint of offence.
Also, after scrolling up, there is a 'settings' button (gear icon). Along with various options (including alternative shaders!), at the top there are 8 empty circles that are worth investigating...

I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so I'm obfuscating more specific hints:

# A good first step (very mild spoiler)
echo Q2hlY2sgdGhlIGNvbnNvbGUhCg== | base64 -d

# A direct hint about where to look
echo RmluZCB0aGUgaGlkZGVuIGFjaGlldmVtZW50cygpCg== | base64 -d

# A very spoilery JS statement that has side effects
echo YWNoaWV2ZW1lbnQoJ2NodHInKQo= | base64 -d
> But as is becoming increasing clear (again), society is worse off when relative wealth distinctions grow (at least, if they grow too large).

Why is it clear?
Try Krusader, it's not THIS flexible, but it's been my daily driver for over a decade.

A clone of an earlier version of DOpus, Worker, exists as well:
http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/index.html

I used this for a while before settling with Krusader, but I was not dissatisfied.