skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mandarin would form the foundation of the spoken standard (as had been the case for > 1000 years at this point)...

The Old Mandarin had its root from Jin (1115-1234) and Yuan (Mongol) dynasties [1], coming from “foreign ethnicity” 外族 (from a Han-centric view point). The history is less than 1000 years, less than the ancient poems (唐詩) that we are discussing.

One main reason for Mandarin to be the standard of Chinese is because of the influence of Mongolia (Yuan) and Manchurian (Qing), that is, non-Han ruling dynasties.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mandarin

> the idea that Cantonese is more faithful to Middle Chinese ... and therefore better for reading ancient poems also is suspect.

The tones (esp. 平仄) are better preserved in Cantonese than Mandarin, I don’t think this is disputed.
How can I be absolutely sure that my tea bags do not have plastic in them?

That's so gross. I like buying a lot of tea from Asia and small companies. I'm not that big of a fan of loose leaf just because it's less convenient to brew.
It seems to me that most of these animal experiments boil down to asking "do they have experiences like we have?" Of course they don't -- they're crows and we're humans. Duh. It's a philosophical problem, not a scientific one.

Nagel [1] says, "*
But no matter how the form may vary, the fact that an organism has conscious experience at all means, basically, that there is something it is like to be that organism."

Definitely read the whole article.

So when we're asking if corvids are self-aware, we can't help really* asking if their experience of self-awareness is the same as ours. And we cannot know that, as Nagel so elaborately demonstrates.

Consciousness (and intelligence) are not binary on/off choices. They're points in a multi-dimensional space.

[1] https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf
May I ask how you discovered those two profitable niches? Did you already have contacts working there that just told you about it or did you go about hunting it down somehow?
This is why I'm disappointed that Chivo seems to be a wasted opportunity - there's a lot of businesses in El Salvador that would really like a widely-accepted form of electronic money, and would like Chivo to actually work reliably, which it absolutely doesn't. I think a lot of them are the ones in that 9%, because they want electronic money that much.

In a country where only 30% of the population have bank accounts - and that's with a national ID card, and you can get a basic bank account for the asking with your ID - a government-backed electronic payment system that was reliable and trustworthy could have been a game-changer.

Instead, they got a dysfunctional system written by political cronies and plagued with fraud.

It is possible they'll fix Chivo. But that's the bit I talked about as a failure, 'cos it is. When your system is so bad that people start setting fire to stuff in the streets, I'd be hard put to call that a success.

(The headline was written by the editor, but I'd agree that bitcoin has failed with the populace. Anyone asserting "it's early days yet!" has to account for what's happened so far, and explain why this volatile nonsense would work as actual currency, and not just for the few local Chivo bitcoin day-traders.)
By the way, what was the last time we experienced such catastrophic bugs in Python/Erlang/Ruby/Go... libraries? I think simplicity is deeply interconnected with security. Perfection comes from simplicity, and the choice of programming language can and will affect the security of your platform. Although I have to admit, bad engineering and over usage of libraries could happen in every environment, but Java technologies are unnecessarily complex compare to others tech stacks.
Related: https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/9/11893002/google-ai-deepmin...
Archived: https://archive.md/RpHh3
The Consilience Project
You can say shit on the internet...
> I think it makes more sense to charge big companies but keep software free and libre for individuals.

I agree, but how do you distinguish between the two, and how do you make the source available yet compel large companies to pay?
> We still don't know

> are you trying to

Level 0 thinking, you do not even know the value of your cards. Such sophistry could only work on similar-leveled people. So if I engage, I'd be bluffing, and this is not a good idea to do with players who are basically no better or worse than random search.

Find all facts and circumstantial evidence for and against lab-leak and zoonosis. Then form your own opinion. That's my claim, and only that. That may even be an opinion worth engaging with, for as long as the "we still" in your world-view includes a couple of thousand Chinese internet trolls, and discredited conflicted scientists who despite this still seem to make it to the Lancet and NYT.
Speaking as an individual, of course you want to sit by the pool this weekend.

But as a professional representative of your org. surely you'll recognized the unsustainability of the situation and that it's far from ideal even in the pure self-interest of the company in question.
LPC Revised[0] is a a ElizaWy's rework of the OpenGameArt's Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC for short) pixel art asset kit.[1,2,3]

[0] https://github.com/ElizaWy/LPC

[1] https://lpc.opengameart.org/

[2] https://opengameart.org/content/liberated-pixel-cup-0

[3] https://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?field_art_tags_t...
Why Zillow’s iBuying Automated Valuation Models Aren’t Dead
> I don't care if someone was a felon or you think they're not informed enough (who decided that?).

I don't even care if somebody is currently in prison; I think every prison needs a polling place and facilities for on-site journalists/reporters who are covering what is going on inside.

If your elections could be significantly moved by the votes of prisoners, you live in a failed state.
Yes, and to think otherwise is extremely naive. I see this as another manifestation of the paradox of tolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

That doesn't mean that companies should be free from scrutiny or consequences if they overstep.
> Would questioning the validity of an election be an example of it?

If you can show solid evidence, or any evidence, supporting your claim, not.

If all the proofs of foul play that you show is a model of a smoking firegun made with cheetos and a lot of proven lies. Yes, Probably.
> if a television can [...] be modified to receive a signal–in this case, with a signal booster–then the owner of the television is obligated to pay the annual fee.

Is there an example of a television that cannot be modified to receive a signal? What makes a monitor not count as a television?
And it is missing any actual info where money was actually spend.

"Salaries and wages" without stating which project were funded is useless.

Who got paid? Programmers? Board? Fundraising team?
It makes it more versatile. For instance, if they wanted to transfer it to another company, say one they were being bought by or merged into, they could.

NFTization specifically, as opposed to portability, also makes it more interoperable. For example a corporation could show off its contributor NFTs on OpenSea, just by signing in with the account that holds the NFTs using MetaMask, and adding their corporate name to profile that OpenSea keeps for that account.
>what's happening today on the Internet is not free speech in any way or form. I'm pretty certain most of what's written on popular online forums today, such as political/news subreddits is propaganda or troll warfare.

How exactly do you define free speech?
IIRC, Visio Pro had some network crawling routines for just this sort of system map.

I had an app for this on my Macintosh(AppleTalk!)network, by a great bunch of folks at a company named Neon. (I believe that was the name of the company, or maybe the app.)

Basic reporting was a GUI front end for SNMP queries. It had a great packet sniffer, too.

We had a senior network manager who ran all of the Ethernet cable, and maintained all of that infrastructure. A really sharp fellow, really knew cabling and networking, routing topologies etc. At one point, he was trying to sort out a problem in network authorization that had been escalated to him from application support team, because it seemed to occur on a particular network segment. He had a lunchbox PC with some dedicated network hardware and an application, a turnkey system from somewhere, cost ten thousand bucks. He was working the problem, capturing the packets... I was able to use my damn Macintosh setup to identify the authorization packets in like five minutes.

We all went with Windows NT soon after that. It has fantastic monitoring capabilities, and I bought Visio before they were re-absorbed back into Microsoft. Network maps were fun to set up with a bit of Visual Basic.

I was a horrible, horrible programmer, but I loved network administration.
> often many syllabary characters that sound identical must be used in writing a word in Mandarin (very commonly mistaken for ideographic writing) cannot work for the other sinitic languages.

It can and has, even historically (see e.g. the Ming Dynasty Min novel Tale of the Lychee Mirror 荔鏡記). The reason it falls flat is the lack of political willpower to really go for it, not fundamental linguistics ones. This is why calling Chinese characters a simple syllabary is also wrong.

The relationship among different Sinitic varieties is more complex than simply different languages. I've talked about this in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16844074
Wait, what? The entire purpose of my previous comment was to clarify the role of liquidity pools, part of something in another reply that you asked about, and you are asking about wholly unrelated things I have no expertise about. Can you at least comment on whether that (IMHO honest and thorough) attempt to explain LPs addressed anything you asked about?

>Even though these are "fees" or "loans", the purpose is speculation. The whole web of connections in the flow of the money is rooted by people speculating to make money.

LPs don't have "fees", they just have regular fees, no need for scare quotes.

>These aren't loans that are made to acquire some intrinsic value, like buying a house, investing into growing a business and so on. People use this liquidity or take crypto loans to try to make more money elsewhere in crypto.

I don't have an special expertise on what the crypto loans on Gemini/Celsius are for, beyond what their literature says. However, everything you've said there applies just as well to (secured) margin loans that brokerages make. Do you have the same objections to those?
Silicon Valley companies should censor more content?

No - that's not what they're saying.

If you want to, go read the respective acceptance speeches, in their original form. Actually the only relevant one (for this thread) is Maria Ressa's speech; Dmitry Muratov's speech didn't mention technology or the internet at all, despite what may have been implied in the NPR article.

As to Ressa's speach -- it's quite clear she wasn't advocating censorship, per se. A fair reading of what she was saying is that these companies should stop using algorithms that structurally promote hateful and inflammatory simply because it is more "engaging" -- as they have been caught doing red-handed, basically.

But that is, strictly speaking, different from advocating outright censorship of that material. In my view, quite obviously so.
> none of these richly rewarded, supposedly brilliant experts at organizing engineers has gotten out in front of this

Indeed. Each of them has had to spend the last few days madly trying to fix this problem to avoid exposing exposing their infrastructure. Each has been, in some way, replicating the wheel to do so. I'm curious how many will actually submit their findings to the original OSS so others can learn from their experience?

There's always resources to put a fire but rarely enough to install a sprinkler system.
I'd like to add a few more if I may? Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Tim Cook.
I think I agree that there's no reason that the awards must reflect historical precedent or some original intent or spirit.

However, it's common to appeal to that sort of thing. How often do people belabor the absence of pedigree of the prize in economics?

Those who don't believe the award has a "spirit" shouldn't complain about it being violated.

If you don't have any expectations for the Nobel prizes, good for you!
In my scientific business in the 1990's I would select my fax machine according to the maximum length of paper it would send & receive. IIRC the best was about 8.5 x 39 inches or about a meter length of A4 width paper.

We still had research instruments using similar thermal paper rolls themselves which plotted real-time data and that could be a few feet of paper if you were printing for more than an hour or so.

Clients loved it when I could fax the whole thing, even if their poor fax machine broke it up into smaller pages.

Then about the time of W9x I would fax it from the fax machine to a PC's analog modem to get it into a single Windows file using the Windows faxing routine.

Interestingly, in the cargo business we had them much earlier when they were still called telecopiers. You would generally have a dedicated operator at each end (of the world, one of which was always likely to be called out after-hours for the "emergency" paperwork transmission) for the duration of the not-fully-reliable 300 baud session.

Once the technology became a bit more user-friendly then attorneys began to wish they could use it but since the legal paperwork itself physically was not actually issued by their office it was no go. Our clients pay well for expedited paperwork and agreed in advance to accept it. Once the attorneys got the name changed from telecopier to "facsimile" machine they were fine after that.
That’s a very bad thing for the animals. I assume they will be used for experiments.
Maybe it was only able to be profitable because of economies of scale.
My old cycle commute into Oxford took me along the riverside path following the River Thames. There are no particularly sharp turns, but it does meander, and you'd get pretty wet if you couldn't steer.

I once managed to cycle an entire 2-mile section along that path without touching the handlebars, so it definitely seems like it's possible to initiate steers just by shifting your body weight.
Google Voice is logging everyone's texts
Forgot an important one.

Learning how to identify the current bottleneck made it easier to focus on the most important thing.
For start, https://github.com/amoffat/sh seems to not even mention this problem.

No idea whether it would help but clearly staying exactly

> I've maintained for over 10 years. I don't recall ever receiving a donation. I am still maintaining it, but I just don't have time to add the improvements that it needs to keep up with the ecosystem (asyncio, for example). If organizations who use it got together and chipped in some non-negligible amount, I would be much more serious about keeping up with it, but $0, or $5-20/month, is just not realistic incentive to compete with other priorities in my life.

may be a good idea.

Even if that would not help this project then making people aware about problem in general would help.
You say this was “figured out” like you think it’s some kind of natural law that was discovered by scientists. It’s not. It’s a value judgement. It’s not at all clear the trade-off is worth it and the very quote you supplied argues for “intolerance of intolerance” as a kind of a last resort, once things turn violent.

Second, as a practical matter, it’s not at all clear what constitutes intolerance. If you think the state has standing to adjudicate intolerance, then I can’t imagine you’ve been paying attention to the kind of routine social errors that are labeled intolerance on social media. The notion that it’s a legitimate function of the state to weigh in on these banal disagreements is risible.
In case you are looking for introductions to the musical basics, here's one:

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/notes-and-scales/notes-and...
It is setup, what can be easily checked.
This here is the reason why the current obsession with storing everything configuration related, including secrets, in environment variables is a bad idea. This is without even touching on the fact that the environment is propagated to every child process every time.
ESR doesn't get to decide how it works; the revealed preferences of the participants do. And those revealed preferences are that everyone pretty much does what they want, and nobody owes anybody anything. And it seems to have clearly created a vibrant ecosystem.

If you're in it for money or the fame, you're going to end up very unhappy. If you prioritize OSS work above addressing your real life problems, you're going to end up unhappy. If you invest your ego into the success of the project, you'll probably end up unhappy Those aren't broken properties of the system; they're the consequences of transparently poor decisions by participants. Those people would be better served by simply not doing OSS instead of trying to convince everyone else to fund their coding adventures.

I am the sole maintainer of a project with almost 12k stars on GH and 2M weekly downloads from NPM. It would be a massive amount of work if I let it be. The entitlement and indifference of users would eat me alive if it were a real workplace. And the pay would be hilariously bad if I expected income from it. But none of those predicates are true.

No one asked me to make it, no one pays me for it, and no one controls what I spend my time on. Those mutual obligations are properties of jobs, exactly what I don't want out my hobby work. When I don't want to work on it, I just don't. When a bunch of people want a feature I have no wish to add, I don't add it and they're free to fork. When I write or merge a bug, I lose no sleep over it. When people "threaten" to use a "competing" library, I laugh: who cares? Building it is fun for me and it's apparently useful to others. What's the problem?

Since all that seems to work pretty well, the right answer is to keep doing it. Sure, you'll end up with occasional log4j RCEs, but it's not like anyone is going to look at that and say, "I guess I won't use OSS". It was always caveat emptor.
> We use Woken brand pods for a nespresso machine.

Not really comparable, as that requires an entire dedicated kitchen appliance to use.
DeepMind AI tackles one of chemistry’s most valuable techniques
Why do you think they're using log4j to any significant extent? I'd be a bit surprised if they ever did rather than rolling their own, because for something this simple the cost of writing your own is far cheaper than dealing with a dependency. We're not talking about Linux or Clang here...

In particular, from https://github.com/google/flogger#yet-another-logging-api:

> Flogger is now the sole recommended Java logging API within Google.
Gotta give the last President props for doing more than any President before him to try and turn the US into a banana republic.
Congratulations for first child and new job :)

(reached level 4, but I can do better)
That sounds like a noble goal. My (feeble) understanding of chemistry leads to me to suspect producing a plant-based or otherwise sustainable stand-in for plastic would be akin to reproducing the processes (and energy expenditures) of the fossil fuel reserves originally involved to produce plastic. Plastic is a very complicated compound with pretty rare properties.
it should be, but it is not the way it works. The same happens with the tomato.
What is Germany doing? And what did you not like about how the pandemic was handled by the government?
I would suggest turning that metal into public urinals.
Training wheels were known to be garbage in the 80s, likely earlier. Nothing beats learning on a bike with pedals, once you learn to balance you can then start propelling yourself.
Obsidian is largely associated with the "Zettlekasten" philosophy, which is inherently individualistic and doesn't ever encourage collaborative use since the entire idea is based around a personal knowledge base, not a community knowledge base.
You should take a look at the No BS Bike [0, 1]. It's a motorcycle with a second set of handlebars fixed to the frame. They don't connect to the forks; they don't rotate.

Riders are challenged to hold on to these bars and lean the bike as they're underway. At speeds faster than 20mph or so, leaning has a negligible effect on the bike's lean and direction. You can do some very limited steering this way, but the amount of effort you put into it for the meager return quickly convinces riders that handlebar input it the way to control bike direction.

When you were shifting your weight, were your arms attached to the handlebars? It's impossible to isolate your shifting of body weight from the related pushing or pulling on the bars if you're stabilizing your upper body through the handlebars.

[0] https://superbikeschool.com/about-us/machinery/no-b-s-machin...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA
I’m pretty sure satellite’s are already designed to renter the atmosphere (sell destruct) when they reach end of life.
By that standard, most Google and Facebook users aren't customers anyway. Nobody pays to use Google Search or Facebook.
Edited for clarity:

A WARNING means a funnel has been sighted or detected (e.g., by weather radar).

A WATCH means tornadic conditions are highly favourable.
Yeah that's the biggest problem, a complex web of dependencies on old legacy applications built using JDK 8/11, not so much any language changes. Sometimes there's just no options to upgrade e.g. companies stuck on Oracle 12, can only use Flyway 5.1.4 etc, so that counts out Spring 2.5.x and so on and so on. Many libraries will eventually drop support for older JREs, and then you're left with a big bang approach and having to upgrade everything to the latest version, and that may include changes in the servlet/REST/etc specs, which can be a bit overwhelming for large legacy codebases. Its why tools like Dependabot are so important imo, they keep you up-to-date in incremental steps if you're vigilant, rather than have the POM/build.gradle ossify over time.
The answer is, and while it might be taken as rude: just learn how to brew and enjoy tea.

Tea bags have nothing to do with tea. It's that simple.

Having said that, the plastic tea bags usually have better "tea" in them.
$70 pricing is coming to PC, starting with Square Enix’s next games
It proposes contextual ads, free from targeting, as the solution so we can have our future that’s free from manipulation.

In the 90s, ads weren’t targeted and they were still causing eating disorders. There was lively discussion about the effects this was having in society in many ways. It’s just so much worse now so the discussion has moved on, but it’s not like mass scale, industrialized, trillion dollar manipulation systems (ads) are a good thing.

We don’t even talk about consumerism any more because the ads created a culture of consumers who don’t even question it any more