skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MacOS is beautiful and while it may be possible I do not believe anyone, except maybe a tiny percentage of tech users who used windows 9x or old school Mac as their first interface, objectively looks at it and thinks it’s ugly while the old beige UI was the last truly beautiful interface.

That is some bizarro world stuff. Even Windows 10 is actually fairly pretty in its interface even if it is super bloated.
Super dumb question: As far as I see, SPACs are usually smaller than the companies they acquire. What keeps a company from just paying out some profit to the founders, them setting up a SPAC themselves from that money, IPO it and then reverse merging the company?

Is it time to market? Conflict of interest? Are there limitations to the size difference?

I'm just thinking that since the "vehicle" seems to be useful, shouldn't there a race to the bottom be going on in terms of sponsor margins? As in essence, the value any of them provide seems to be pretty replaceable to me. Or what else do they bring to the table than an empty hull?
Lukashenko 'fan shop' opens in Minsk
> The most prominent example would be evil mode but there is also viper and several newer implementations of modal editing and features first dreamed up for vim.

Similar to != compatible. Evil-mode is inspired by vim, but you can't use it on vim. Elisp isn't written to be as compatible as vimscript as possible. They are two distinct projects.

GNOME wants to become its own distinct project, not because of superiority or dislike about other DEs, but because they want to go for strict conventions and exotic ideas which are often at odds with other DEs philosophies. I am still waiting to hear why this is so bad. I don't hear anyone hating ElementaryOS for trying to do the same.
Red Hat donates $10k to OBS Studio, their Flatpak to be official for Linux
There is a light hearted talk from Freeman Dyson that touches on these, I'm not sure how accurate the overall talk is but found it very entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLT6omWrvIw
Networking for people who hate networking
- There is a both a three-finger-click action and a "hard" click action on the touchpad, both of these can't be set to do a "middle click". You have to buy an app in order to be able to middle click with your mouse! (To open links in new tab or close tabs)
- Trying to tweak small problems like the one above often leads to things that look like a great solution but 9 out of 10 are github repos that have not been updated in 10 years and don't work anymore
- The recommended way of using only your external display (if you still want to use the keyboard and touchpad) is to mirror the displays and then set the screen brightness to zero

But when I was on Windows I was even more unhappy. I wish Linux had first-class support by more apps.
I think you misunderstood what parent was saying. There is no evidence the real numbers are based in physical reality. As parent was saying, it doesn't make sense to be able to store infinite information in a single number, or even, say, store all of human knowledge in a single number. Generations of physicists have come to the same conclusion [1] and most professional physicists agree.

It's just that (a) the real numbers work incredibly well as a "tool" or "model", with negligible shortcomings, and it's (b) extremely tedious to think of alternative number systems that are remotely as convenient as the real numbers. So it's not clear if alternative approaches are a waste of time, but that does not mean the reals are real!

If you want to learn more, check out the references in [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18256455
Every time I tried to write an app in multiple stacks, I ended up reverting to good ole' C++ for the whole thing. It allows as much (or even more, how many languages have generics over values) abstraction and high-level specification as more recent languages and has a wealth of libraries. Even for web apps, today I just make them in Qt and cross-compile as WASM.
"Just for clarification: We're not going to discontinue the PPA, and it will continue to be maintained for the foreseeable future. The Flatpak will however serve as our officially supported first-party distribution for all other distros."
In Macedonian we say "ne me boli kur" or the more prevalent "me boli kur" which mean "my dick does not hurt" or the latter more ironic version "my dick hurts".
More specifically, in this context, "huevo" translates to "ball" as in "testicle", not as in "tennis ball"; and certainly not literally as "egg".

In Uruguayan there's also "me chupa un huevo", "it sucks me a ball", which doesn't make much sense but sounds violent enough :)
Of course they are related to what we call AI, because what we call AI is primarily dependent on the quality of the business processes behind data selection and testing. If there is a strong trend of business processes to create systematic errors in the results the technology generates (an AI trained in China sucking at recognising white people wouldn't be a counter example of this phenomenon, it would be the same issue) it's an underlying weakness of the technology, and the utility of the technology needs to be viewed in the context that it's likely compromised by biases in the business processes of its developers.

Black women or other groups not viewed as the mainstream target for an AI solution aren't going to form a tangible proportion of revenue generating users if the software doesn't function properly for them. And a lot of the use cases for AI analysis don't involve the unrepresented-in-corpus minority group being the consumer anyway, they involve it being used to screen them by a third party who's been sold the tool on the false premise that it's free from human bias.
The fact that multiple countries that had removed most restrictions seem to desperately be putting them back in place makes me think they’ve seen data that is making them very worried. This seems to fit the bill.
Place names are notorious for this in English. Family names too, sometimes.

Honestly though, mispronouncing words is a rite of passage for ordinary native English speakers too, especially ones who acquired a large chunk of their vocabulary from reading.
Discord has come a very very very long way since then.

Human condition, not so much.
Show HN: Don't buy snake oil – How we made an app to analyze supplement reviews
A fun exercise in refactoring a traditional Christmas song, with some personal take-aways on the benefits of Clean, Object Oriented code.
That’s very thought-through and rational. /s
I always thought the french had a flowery yet descriptive language, but the greeks seem to top it all...
Finnbin [1] is a company that sold Finnish style baby boxes in the US up until July 2021. Oddly enough, they appear to have suspended operations due to a US Consumer Product Safety Commission ruling that effectively bans baby boxes.

[1]: https://www.finnbin.com/

[2]: https://www.finnbin.com/blogs/news/finnbin-suspends-operatio...
If you want to play around with it: https://huggingface.co/spaces/spacy/healthsea-demo
Yup. Something a grown-up could safely say around the family or relatives.

«На хую вертел» is one of the multiple creative ways to express «don't give a flying fig about something».
Some expressions used in European Portuguese:

- "Caguei e andei." (I shat and walked)

- "É igual ao litro" (It's equal to the litre)

- "É para o lado que durmo melhor" (It's the side that I sleep best)
My biggest tip is to not watch movies and series dubbed. I know from looking at menus that English is very commonly dubbed to Italian. I'm Swedish, and don't have that luxury, which has forced me to become better at listening.
I've never heard about the frostbitten onion before and I am Romanian as well - maybe it's particular to some regions?

"It hurts in my dick" is just a more vulgar way of saying "it hurts in my ass" (the ass would be a place you wouldn't care if you hurt or not); more vulgar because "pula" (erect penis) is more vulgar than ass.

The next level of not giving a fuck after that is "it doesn't even hurt in my ass" which I find amusing - to which someone can reply "well, when it's gonna hurt you'll realise how bad it is" in the sense that "you will wake up someday and regret it".

The least vulgar variant is "it hurts in my elbow" - elbows being usually bumped into things and not hurting much (unless you hit that special spot where the nerve lies)
"Je m'en fous" is the short version. Using a longer version is obviously done for fun, and to tell at great lengths how much you don't care. Usually people will spice it up with a version of their own to add to the comical effect.
We can go down a bit more, "estou cagando e andando"
Yes, the (very nice) game you described gives a separation between classical and quantum mechanics. However, there is a strategy in real quantum mechanics which also achieves a 100% winrate for the players (you just need higher dimensional Hilbert spaces for each player).

Instead of preparing |+++> + |–-->, you prepare the state (|+++>|x> + |–-->|x>) Here, |x> = |000>-|011>-|101>-|110>, and one qubit is sent to each player.

That is, you give each of Alice, Bob and Charlie an extra qubit. They can now measure in the computational basis on both qubits. And in the betrayal round two of the players can perform the orthogonal transformation id \otimes J, (controlled on having |->) where J = {{0,-1},{1,0}}. You can check that whenever exactly two players perform this operation on their systems you get back the state (|+++>-|--->)|x>, and thus your previous strategy works.

This simulation strategy for any full multipartite causal structure is described in arXiv:0810.1923. What OP has shown (roughly) is that three players connected as in A <-> B <-> C (where <-> is some shared randomness or quantum state) then this simulation breaks, and indeed there is a gap between what you can achieve in real and complex quantum mechanics.
Photos of Comet Leonard in Australian and NZ Skies
Ah, he mixed them up with the other Swedes.
Shelling out or RPC calls to a running process
Thank you for this! I absolutely love old US military / government services produced teaching and learning material like this. Sometimes it feels like the quality peaked long before.
I can't believe some of the tweets they post. Things like "web3 is the first time you can own a piece of the internet" (I'm paraphrasing) are so bluntly wrong I don't understand why people fall for this.
The problem for me is Google Meet falls apart on Firefox when presenting your screen to a group of over 4 people.

Google Docs and Sheets falls apart pretty quickly too.
I'm not a native speaker, but the phrase that came to mind for me was "A faszom tudja" ("My dick knows"/"I have no fucking clue")

It's a little bit different, but I feel like I've heard other similar phrases too.
"Horseradish" is a euphemism for "dick." Whatever translation tool he was using didn't pick up on it ;/
People say that but I have yet to see a C++/Qt app take more time to develop than an Electron app. Case in point: ripcord, a discord AND slack client, developed by a single person in this stack. In the mean time Slack has rewritten their Electron app from scratch, what, three times for the performance problems it has ?
>yes double ee is a long e, still in "beer" (Dutch for bear) you say the "i" sound, more like "bir"

That's your issue then, we in the south pronounce it properly ;)

What annoys me most about Dutch are the stupid doubling of consonants and removing of vowel rules. Why is it boom/bomen, bom/bommen? Just remove both rules and write boom/boomen, bom/bomen.
"Most powerful" is quite a stretch. Human computers were far better and more universal.
Thank you.

I see the pictures of fish etc on the provided link. Again, I don't understand how this could be preserved on the surface of a rock, or on mud, etc.

In your experience, have ever seen some biological matter rest somewhere, without decaying? Have you ever dug into the ground or mud and found a bone there? The closest I come to that is when I step in mud, and a stick is underneath... but this would be frail and degraded. In all my experience biological matter is broken down very quickly.
Back in 2017 there was a superstorm over the UK and France. Here in London the lightning was basically continuous. It was really bizarre because it looked like someone had put stadium lights on so the whole sky was lit up continuously.

Apparently there was something in the region of 120,000 lightning strikes over 12 hours, which is 10,000 per hour. That was, of course, spread over a large region, but still...

https://metro.co.uk/2017/07/19/londons-epic-thunder-and-ligh...

https://strangesounds.org/2017/05/120000-lightning-strikes-e...
It doesn't appear so, at least according to Wiktionary. The word supposedly comes from some kind of past tense of "rijten" meaning "to rip, tear". "Reet" comes from "rete" which means "split". This is the furthest back the Wiktionary entry goes: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...

As for English "rut", that word comes from Middle French "route", ultimately leading back to a Romanic origin which funnily enough also has a meaning related to "to break, tear" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...).

So, although the two are not directly related, their origins are surprisingly close to each other.
> jebie mnie to = it fucks me

There's also rather polite: wali mnie to which would be "it bangs me"
I interpreted it as "Romans" being the (contemporary) inhabitants of Rome, (presumably) considered to be dicks by other Italians. They said "dicks!" referring to the people who got wealth and power, God said "granted", and turned them into dicks.
Lithuanian here.

The situation in our country is very strange. I haven't seen so much chaos. This pro-USA anti-CCP propaganda is hurting us practically a lot.

Current situation in Lithuania:

-We have a big real-estate price boom, because people are putting all of their savings to real-estate, because money is losing value due to USA recently printing ludicrous amounts of money. Housing market is getting crazy.

-Prices of imported products are also going up because of the supply shortages in the market. Let's face it - Europe is dependent on China. A lot. And if only Lithuania take a stance against it, only we are going to take the hits.

-wages are increasing, but not as much as prices are going up.

For me it seems that the only ones that are getting the benefits for these anti-CCP stunts are the politicians and their groupies, who are getting patted on the back by USA, other ideologists and pro-"Lansbergis" (our foreign ministers grandfathers cult) people.

Me and my dad have a small business importing high-quality electrical products from China (yes China sells good products too. We tested them in laboratories). This political tension is not good. We are considering options to import not to Lithuania, but to Poland instead
Having worked for years in large companies including in the public sector, your comment made my day. Everyone having experienced this kind of environment and not forced to drink the company kool-aid to advance their career knows the actual reason things take ages are far less positive especially when the request comes for a recently acquired team. Also bypassing process is the only way to truly achieve anything at very large corporations but doing it properly take skills.

Unless you are stuck there for reasons linked to your compensation or find you now want to work a lot less, provided you are good at building things in a startup environment, my advice is to leave as fast as you can.
"Fossil" is more general than rock. It would still be a fossil if it was preserved in amber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil
People here are quite caught up in why things are this way and whether it's right. But I 5hink that is irrelevant to OPs question.

OP cannot change the organisation he is part of. He lacks the authority and even if he had authority (was say CEO) changing organisation culture is really hard.

So OP must either put up or leave.

Whether, How and When to leave are the questions.

These depend on OPs circumstances:

* What other opportunities does OP have? Are there interesting startups hiring in his area (geography and expertise)? Could he start his own business? Would the mega corp let him start a separate business unit with some autonomy?

* What are ops finance's like? Can he afford to quit without another job, go to an insecure job, become an entrepreneur? Will he get a nice big bonus or stock vestment if he stays another X months?

* Does OP really care?
Brace for a $600 bln Chinese escape from New York
I think they meant (Strunk and) White Supremacy.
- Definitely use an IDE like IntelliJ

- Familiarizing yourself with vim is great and one of the best timesaving skills I decided to pick up randomly. You can install vim plugins for most IDEs

- Pick a small feature that you are curious how it works, and focus entirely on how it was implemented. The simpler the better really. Use git history to see the commit that the feature was introduced, and look how that engineer implemented it. It's quite easier for me to learn how something works by just focusing on seeing the Pull Request for the implementation. Just focus on looking how various things were implemented, and you'll (hopefully) see a pattern in code practices & design patterns.

- If you have questions, you should feel free to ask other engineers that work on the project. I was in a pretty senior position at my last job and we had quite a large codebase, and I personally never minded helping out junior and new engineers ever when they were coming up to speed on a new codebase. I always took the viewpoint that it's always in my best interests to help out the newer team members get up to speed quicker and have a better understanding of the product so they are able to effectively contribute. Hopefully engineers on the project you are working on think similarly.

- Absolutely learn how to perform proper debugging if you are not familiar already. Learn how to hook the browser to your IDE, how to troubleshoot things on the backend if you get to the point where you're doing fullstack work. Effective debugging is an incredibly important skill to pick up.

- Learn how to use IDE / other editor tooling such as jump to definition, refactor, inspect, find all occurrences. If this is a react project learn how to use browser extensions like devtools to help with debugging and understanding document structure.
While you may be entirely right here I feel you’re taking liberties when using the word trivial
Europe has a large population who have been taught English to a decent degree. Outside of Europe that's not always the case. I struggle to understand people who can't make an effort to speak clearly and consider following basic rules of grammar an optional extra. I was recently in a meeting where a lot of confusion was caused by the attendees' inability to pronounce words "know", "now", and "no". It took them a good 10 minutes to agree on what they meant and move on. The solution here is to accept the fact that learning any foreign language is a lifelong pursuit. I still remember the moment when I began thinking in English and from then on I became more extrovert.
I love watching military-esque movies (e.g. SEAL Team, SWAT) and this site has for long helped me in identifying the numerous guns I see when watching.
> Serem na to = I'm pooping on it

Read as it is in Polish, would mean "with cheese on it" lol
When I had a girlfriend who didn't speak English as a first language, she asked me not to simplify my English so she could improve her understanding. She'd get annoyed if she felt I was "dumbing down" to make things easier for her.
Well, quantum computers are just fast but limited classical computers. So there is nothing actually very interesting to be gained by assuming that the brain could be a quantum computer isntead of a classical computer - at best, it would explain why the brain is more efficient at certain computations, but it can't explain how intelligence works.

To be clear, any quantum computation can be simulated on a classical computer, but it takes exponentially many steps. This is proven mathematically already, with the single exception that it's not proven that a better classical algorithm couldn't remote the exponential difference.
Some are, Monero for example.

I’m not here to shill. But defi and private digital money have value.

Increasingly so when you look at government incompetence globally.
That sounds beautifully poetic, compared to versions from other languages (mine included). I can see how Monty Python came up with "I fart in your general direction" :)
I often see people using their screens while walking their dogs. It bothers me a lot. Isn't this something that is supposed to be done together? The dogs look like they have the feeling that they are a nuisance to their owners, as if the owner is trying to communicate to them that he is forced to walk them.

Then there are those owners who interact a lot with their (and other) dogs during the walks, and those dogs have a happy attitude on them, they seem to be more awake.
> when just using these OSs was unintuitive to anyone but a tech enthusiast

That's very far from my experience. I know a fair amount of people who had no trouble going from DOS -> win 3.1 -> 95, 98, XP, but starting from Vista using their computer became much harder and much more external assistance started to be required. I know no one who is learning how to use computers as easily with, say, Win 10 or the latest Macs, than people 15 years ago ; when I give classes most non-CS college students are more computer illiterate than people around me when I was in junior high.
I'm Flemish and I use it a lot, actually. "Dat kan mijn reet roesten.", it has a great ring to it.
That's starting from a point almost at the finish line, with intelligent social dexterous tool-using fire-making apes. Really it took our species about 4 billion years. Every other living species has had just as long, and hasn't developed civilisation. There's every reason to think that the extinct dinosaurs, given 66 million more years, would be like every other non-human species.
It's not just Japan, we've seen this pattern in various countries in many phases of the pandemic, like the Delta wave in spring India and the recent Omicron wave in South Africa which seems to have peaked. For some reason, we see waves that appear to crash and recede long before the majority of the population is no longer succeptible (either through vaccination or infection).

I believe the reason(s) are still largely unknown. There are multiple plausible explanatory factors, but nothing be really validated. And especially structural explanations (local age distribution, underlying comobidities, population genetics) seem inadequate to account for the huge time variation in cases/deaths. To the point, nobody can confidently predict if Japan, India or South Africa won't have another huge wave 3 or 6 months from now.
Sort of reminds me how we constructed ham radio during socialism in 1980ties. Access to integrated circuits was restricted, we had to solder thousands of discrete parts, salvaged from old TVs and radios.
Nitter is an alternative frontend to twitter, this is a twitter thread in disguise. Much more readable in my opinion.

I only know a variation of the Dutch one, "het kan me de reet niet roesten", which is the exact inverse. I guess we have our own "I could care less/I couldn't care less", how fun!
"drauf geschissen" comes close to "zero fucks given"