skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English language dominance is usually downplayed, and accepted as "normal" - because of convenience and also, because frankly, what would be the alternative?

But because of convenience and lack of alternatives, we tend to forget that English dominance is not without deep political, psychological and economic consequences for all the others. Those things are usually downplayed, and it's problematic.

First of all, learning English is a cost, and not an insignificant one. Research has also shown that mastery of English follows class cleavages in many contexts.

Another example is gatekeeping in publications: in academia, sometimes I see some political visions or takes are de facto marginalized or ignored because they don't quite fit the politics in the "Anglosphere", and the "Anglosphere" or Anglo trained people de facto control the publishing market. The Anglosphere is not the west, but quite a weird subset of the west.

Also many quirks of the Anglo political debate or categories to analyze the world tend to get global - but they are ill fit in other contexts. I think about the whole idea of the "5 races", with so many weird categories such as "Asian" or, worse "Latino".
You can assume that most trending content on the web is intentionally well timed and trying to peddle something to you. Doesn't matter though; still fun.
Azure Blockchain followed suit, shutting down in September 2021. [1]

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsoft-quietly-closing-dow...
Please let me know the ways this does not do the right thing. Thanks.

https://www.godbolt.org/z/Y3z8rhzrq
I found a 2007 quote on the french equivalent of bash.org [0], and the only source on wiktionary is a post on the Dofus forum from 2016 [1].

[0]: https://danstonchat.com/5948.html

[1]: https://www.dofus.com/fr/forum/1003-divers/2178644-avis-sabr...
And you believed it?
Romanian:

My dick hurts.

My dick fractures.

My ass hurts.

Or, more euphemistically:

It pains me someplace.

It fractures mine.

My elbow hurts.
As an italian from (near) Rome, I feel offended we're not getting the recognition we deserve for this!

The expression for variations of "who cares" would be "Sticazzi" (~= "these dicks") and is a particularly important expression in roman culture! "Not caring" is core to our being, in most bad and good ways :)

There's even a short story whose origin I can't recall:

When God finished making the world, God was looking at his creation and some people showed up:

- Lord, we'd like to ask for Power
- Let it be granted - said the Lord, and those became the Kings and Queens and Emperors

Then some more people showed up:

- Lord, we'd like to ask for Power
- The Powerful already have that
- Well, we'd like to ask for the Wealth then
- Let it be granted - said the Lord, and those became the rich people.

Then God saw the Romans walk by and yelled at them

- Hey folks, I'm sorry, there's neither Power nor Wealth left!

The romans looked at each other in confusion, and replied "sticazzi?"

God thought about it a bit:

- Let it be granted!
What about other people working on the same code base? Can you make them give you run-down of how things are structured?
"reet" means ass.

It shall rust to my ass.
Very concise critique. I would answer that engineers are way too stupid to even comprehend the critique to any extend. But this would already give them too much credit, since not comprehending it might have positive effects on their income.

Truly an article from better times.
> Still, personally, I find the question of "when do I decide to consider using a blockchain as an implementation choice?" a difficult one to answer.

Luckily, there's a helpful guide available, if you hit Learn More on the first "most probably NO." [1] It's based on this paper. [2]

[1] http://doyouneedablockchain.com

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/375.pdf
Sifted’s Founder Rich List 2021
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention phases or the idea of projective Hilbert spaces. The QM formulation it gives is well known ambiguous: the condition <φ|φ>=1 does not determine φ, because it's also satisfied by any other state ψ=exp(iλ)φ with λ real. So, the state of a physical system is really described by the ray (equivalent class) of all state vectors differing by a phase.

I wonder if this has any consequence on their reasoning and conclusions.
I think Hungarian (not present on the list) is also nice:

_Leszarom_

> Meaning: I shit on it.

Another one is:

_Baszok rá_

> Meaning: I fuck on it (which makes no sense in English)
That's the most relevant comment. Analyzing code by reading is probably the worse way to understand it. Using preprocessed information in the form of a human being* is much faster and less error prone...
As a European, I've never really understood how Americans could actually not be utterly exhausted with two weeks of paid vacations. Or are working hours shorter? Or is it that most companies provide 4 or 5 weeks evenif the law mandates a lot less?

I've been told by American friends that it wasn't as bad in practice since 'their companies gave them 3 weeks, and quite quickly 4, and it was actually pretty common' but it wasn't clear to me that it wasn't purely anecdotal/branch specific.

If anyone knows, I'm quite interested!
While theoretically that would be the best solution but I don't imagine it working in practice. No one was sentenced to jail for manslaughter or homicide for the Boeing 737 MAX failures. Company gets fined -> lower level less wealthy employees get laid off -> execs retain wealth & start a new company
This is a rather academic question (which is ok). But we have to understand that at the same time it is far removed from the realities of human society and the modus-operandi how state and inter-state relationships function, and how subjects respond to the applied "force-field". There is another option to solving the question, let everyone have a gun (assured mutual-annihilation on local and state scale). Of cause, while several philosophers argued for this point, it remains in the same stratospheric realm as "no guns for anyone". However, I would submit an opinion that a third option exists, creating a global village (no states), then there is no need for inter-state violence. This, I hope in some very distant future will happen, similar to a single living body made of various organs, a global civilization will emerge, having local culture and information exchange, as well as a global means of communication (single universal language and protocols). I suppose, this is also somewhere in the stratosphere.
No, remediating such issues (only predicting the maximum likelihood class in the dataset) is a problem of _machine learning and optimization_ research, not ethics research. There is nothing an ethicist can do to solve this problem. It is easy to point out problems with existing AI and write a bunch of papers to get yourself tenure. It is very hard to fundamentally advance our understanding of deep learning models past a fancy maximum likelihood estimation problem.
Rtl8156 is one of few NCM USB cards which got mainstream.

NCM protocol is very lightweight, but has support for DMA, and some offloading
You get a few extra weeks between jobs when you quit or are fired ;D
As an Italian, never heard the alleged Italian version about talking to a horse. "Ne parlo col mio cavallo"? WTF?
When $snallstartup I was an employee at got acquired by $hugemultinational, all we got was a big fat juicy 1000$ „bonus“, an attaboy, and those who had been grossly underpaid for years were brought up to market pay. And that’s it.
You will probably consider these as "financial schemes", but having worked in finance for many years my impression is there are a number of problems in financial infrastructure that are extremely annoying and costly at the moment which could be much better addressed with blockchain based solutions. Blockchain is not the only way you could solve them, it just has the potential to be much better.

One example: Trade reconciliations. Lots of things (eg swaps contracts) that trade "over the counter" (not on an exchange) start off crazy bespoke but over time end up being largely standardized. So these days if you trade a swap, the contract is a standard contract called an "ISDA Master" with essentially a one-pager referencing the isda master filling in the blanks in the standard contract - what the legs and key numbers are, who is long vs short the legs etc. 10s of thousands of these are traded every day.

In order to settle these so can people actually start paying each other money, there needs to be a reconciliation (ie I need to agree with you on the contents of the one-pager so we both know exactly what we are both holding). Because the two sides don't trust each other (they are adversaries in the market), both will have entered the details of the trade in their own systems as they understood them and there will be errors and breaks and things are hard. Armies of people and systems are employed to solve this problem. If there was just a central database it would all be so much easier[1] and this whole reconciliation problem would go away, but how do things get into the central database in the first place and how do the participants trust that the record there is good? Well, you can see you would still have the same reconciliation problem.

Blockchain could resolve this by having a single definitive contract record stored in a trustless fashion. You could make it so if both sides put in the same details the trade is matched and otherwise both sides get the trade rejected until they can resolve. It becomes trivial because you have a database that can be shared without trusting any central party. There are trusted central parties (eg clearing houses) in these systems by the way, but they behave as another counterparty so they don't solve the matching and reconciliation problem described above. You still have to match the two potentially-conflicting versions of the real contract for the clearing house to novate (step into) it.

Now are there other ways to address this problem? Of course - they are doing that now. They just suck.

I'm sure other industries have similar issues around reconciliation between parties etc that would work the same - I'm just not personally familiar with them.

[1] It would also be far easier to report these trades to the CFTC btw so that's another pile of cost that could get taken out by such a solution.
You may have a point, but giving the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they were just targeting the headline to people who understand what "perfectly preserved" realistically means in the context of dinosaur fossils. I certainly didn't consider upon reading it that they'd discovered a viable dinosaur embryo.
Or dive into AWK-style selectors all the way:

aftertext
The fox jumped the dog
/^The/ italics
15,18 italics
> And normally, that's harmless - as you said, you'd expect to see an AI finding pictures of houses in the region/culture you are searching it.

I am not actually; I am searching for “huis”, not “Nederlands huis”; I'd expect the result I obtain from the former with the latter.

I'd actually expect “house” and “huis” to reveal similar results from a good search engine. Obviously this is not easily possible with how it is trained with corpora in a specific language, but from usability I think this is undesirable, if I specifically want Dutch houses I can always add that term as a specification; there is no way to simply search for houses, wherever they might be, in Dutch, or English, or Thai, or any other language.

That is to say, I'm not arguing that there is no problem; I'm arguing that the problem is highly dependent upon location, and that he article should not take such a U.S.A.-centric stance and act as though the reset of the world not exist.
Amazing and bad reputation are not mutually exclusive. Electron is an impressive engineering accomplishment, but it also has some dimensions that not everyone likes. Electron is great if you're a developer who wants to write apps in javascript+HTML+CSS and put developer preferences over preferences of users. Not everyone agrees that the decisions behind Electron and using it are good decisions.
There are tons of ways to use debuggers, even in places that might seem one needs to contend themselves with printf debugging, what many miss is learning what is actually available.

So you end up with legions of Linus hatting on debuggers and proud themselves of never having to use one, some kind of macho thing I guess.
Before I quit my crappy goverment job, for a period of about two months, I would get sick every Friday afternoon with a high fever for like 12 hours and could not get out of bed until Saturday evening. Around 8 PM Saturday I would be perfectly well.
Given that this is DeepMind and not some more open AI organization, I assume you cannot.
The first thing I actually thought of was "mam wyjebane", which is absolutely untranslateable literally.
Possibly means anarchy in the game theory sense. Rules are not enforced by a superior authority.
Skilling and Knuth have some interesting papers on the subject:

The Symmetrical Foundation of Measure, Probability, and Quantum Theories
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/andp.201800...

The ABC of Physics
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9984/3/1/9/htm
Honestly (as a native speaker) I find the mistakes of native speakers like you describe much more jarring. When I read "to" instead of "too" my brain gets stuck because I "heard" the wrong length of vowel. When an ESL speaker uses an incorrect construction it's much less annoying for a reason I can't really explain - even if it's actually harder to understand. Although I'm hesitant to say it, maybe it's just because they're trying harder.

Sometimes I can even tell what their native language is based on the mistakes when I also speak that language, and it makes me chuckle (e.g. unorthodox commas by German speakers).
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The dutch one is better translated as “I’ll let it rust my crack” (as in buttcrack) rather than anus.

It comes from the fact that we also used to use the word crack for “railtrack embedded in the pavement” as used by trams (streetcars). To let the crack oxidize is to not do proper upkeep on that section of the track.

Though no one uses crack to refer to railway track anymore. So the translation is definitely the connotation that modern day dutch speakers would hear.
Being Italian, I find queer that I never heard anything even similar to the two cited sayings:

>I will talk about it with my horse (Italian)

>I don’t give a cabbage (Italy)

EDIT: Ok, correction, the second one, as "I don't care a cabbage" is fine.
I know about "Het zal me aan mijn reet roesten", but I usually use "het zal me een worst wezen" which is similar to what they say in Germany.
At the earlier ages stuff doesn't even come close to being useful for a year. I remember going to a local charity shop and buying a sackful of baby-clothes. I paid €10 for a huge bag and I remember that some of the same stuff got donated back a few months later - having never been worn.

Babies can grow so quickly that buying clothes used and sharing stuff amongst other local parents is the only sensible thing to do.
“Fun” is subjective.

I found much of this material not interesting or fun.

Im just replying to you whilst walking my dog, hoping to trigger a raucous debate for the sake of it.
The answer would probably be yes if that subgroup wasn't a large percentage of the dataset used for training and testing. Or if that subgroup wasn't a large percentage of the user base.

Come on, if you've worked at any large company using ML you know model performance is literally just taking the average accuracy/ROC/precision/etc over your training dataset plus some hold out sets. Then you track proxy metrics like engagement to see if your model actually works in production. At no point does race come into the equation. Naturally, if your choice of subgroup happens to not be a large proportion of either the dataset or the userbase then you don't see the poor performance on that subgroup show up in your metrics so you don't care to fix it.
Argue with nerds on the internet and someone will always claim a 100% tax is both legal and just.
I've typically seen most 10gig kit to need a lot of cooling (either heatsinks or active fans), not something I'd be too happy about dealing with. Also there's like only the homelab enthusiast that needs 10gig. The rest of user can potter along fine on 1/2.5gig as we're not slinging ZFS snapshots about the place.

Tl;Dr 1/2.5gig works for consumers needs, 10gig is not price competitive for our needs.
> Take the existing legal system in the US – laws are interpreted by courts/judges/etc, who AFAICT generally choose to interpret laws by their letter rather than their spirit.

The US legal system is based on English Common Law, where precedent and interpretation by a judge have force of law. This is in contrast with Civil Law where the law must be executed as written and judges have very little room for interpretation. Note that in North America, both Quebec and to an extent Louisiana continue to follow the Napoleonic code.
Check out https://shrugs.app, but development appears to have stalled according to the blog.
Yeah that's what you get for working at a large company.

The good thing: they pay is pretty good, and you can reasonably get away with doing absolutely nothing and get paid awesomely.

The bad thing: nothing gets done and there are 4 layers of management, and you will end up frustrated.

The job market for IT is great now. You won't "change the company from the inside". You won't be "a startup within an org". This will only get worse.

Look at what you are doing, and if you don't like it now, and can afford the instability of a start-up, leave.
>I suspect that - had you lived under German occupation in 39-45 - you would have a very different take on things.

What does this mean exactly? I don't think I would want to live through a Nazi regime that could inspect all transactions by scraping the block chain.
I do the same just not for programming.
We live in the same society. Don't even pretend that it is possible to live outside it, especially as a technologist. The point I was trying to make is the unknown of it. At least today we have a pretty good idea of who is unfathomably rich. Merit has nothing to do it with those people too.
VSCode uses ripgrep under the hood [1]

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-ripgrep
Exactly. I really don't mind paying for apps in general, but with macOS even those tiny trivial utils are mostly not open source / free. I'm talking stuff like changing mouse acceleration, add a "new xxx file" right click menu to finder or closing apps in mission control. Compared to Linux (and even Windows) I really miss some sort of open source movement.
Roman Empire acquired almost every piece of land in Europe, so that story is not quite accurate about the power and wealth ;) But it's entertaining, of course - thanks!
There are ways to share state over RPC.
I'm not sure I follow. The struct type wouldn't need to exist in the resulting code. A struct instance could just be a normal associative array, with each field mapped recursively. (Or is there some gotcha with C# structs I am not aware of?)

Any type information required at runtime can be encoded into a string.

Javascript is Turing-complete and therefore, fundamentally, any valid C# program has at least one JS representation.

(I'm not saying any of this will be efficient, a great idea or experience; just that it's possible)
Is it inevitable that given enough time, the dominant life form in a sufficiently hospitable environment will develop higher intelligence and civilization? I'm not sure we know whether that's the case or not.
It sounds like you have an objection with the term “perfectly preserved”?

Words can have different meanings in different contexts.

In the context of dinosaurs “perfectly preserved” means that even fine details can be discerned in the fossils. And yes fossils are rocks. Someone who knows the minimal amount about dinos will know this, and even if it’s the first time you encounter the concept the article explains it nicely.

Titles are titles. They are short and thus they can’t provide a treatrise on the sum of all human knowledge. You need common sense to parse them.
Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150k Stolen from Users in NFT Scam
The last one sounds like "send it".
There are just a lot of different ways to say it, and although this one isn't very popular most people would still get the meaning fine and it does have some attested use, so I think it has its place in such a list.

My own personal favorite would be (it's very inelegantly translated) it touches one [of my testicles] without making the other move (maybe invented by former president Chirac, at least made popular by him). It's well known and understood and has the advantage to be vulgar enough without actually making an explicit reference to testicles.
NFT's are pretty dumb IMO. But I think there is something interesting in this question.

What's the Constitution? It is a piece of paper with ink on it. The paper and ink aren't that valuable, actually I have many better pieces of paper and some better ink. So that isn't where the real value is.

I could also buy a modern copy of the Constitution which would be, practically, much better than the original (in the sense that it would be made of modern materials and more durable as a result), so the value must not be there either.

I guess it could be in the investment value of the Constitution. I mean, I bet if I had the Constitution and held onto it for a couple decades, I could sell it to some collector for more that I bought it for. But that's not really a satisfying answer -- clearly the investment value is derived from some other underlying belief that the thing is important.

Anyway, if I was really good at writing I could string you along indefinitely and keep cutting away aspects of the Constitution that clearly don't provide the value, but I'm just a programmer so let's get to the point: I think the value of the Constitution is actually completely divorced from the physical thing itself. It comes from the history that it represents -- which is actually an intangible idea.

So, if someone were to mint an NFT of the Constitution and we decided that it also represented that idea, I guess it would be just as valuable? Good luck convincing other people! But I don't really see why the physical piece of paper is fundamentally a better representation of the idea, other than that's just the way we've always done it. Maybe you can mint an NFT of the Constitution for yourself, and convince yourself it represents the idea better than the piece of paper did. I think this would be a pretty silly thing to do, but no more so than trying to own the paper representation.

These are all just ways of satisfying our irrational desire to own part of an idea, the problem comes from our belief that ideas are ownable, not the shape of the token.
One could make a list comparable to that by simply focusing on Russian variants. We have a pretty rich variety of ways to not give it. As you may have guessed, many of them refer to having diverse sex or other obscene acts (feel free to fantasize) with a subject in different ways, to not having a desire to do that, or a subject being claimed as not really fitting this purpose.
When did 'paid' get replaced with 'payed'? I rarely saw this error before a couple of years ago and now I see it constantly. I thought it had to be some kind of generational in-joke or pop culture reference but so far I haven't been able to find any proof of that. It seems that a large segment of the population suddenly decided one day to start paying for things by handing out rope.
Also worth considering that humans became the dominant species after developing civilization or maybe by developing civilization.
It is a bit of an oxymoron though, since this "not caring" is pretty explicitly communicated.