skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What next, enforce a communist uniform on everyone and strictly control their freedom to express their thoughts? Do you realise how ludicrous you sound?

You're making leaps in logic that don't make sense to me. You're the one being ludicrous, as far as I can tell.

>I note you're French and your religious expressions laws are not made in the name of secularism, rather specifically intended to discriminate against a sizeable minority.

At the time those laws were made, the absolute majority of the country was made of church-going Catholics. That at the present day they're mostly invoked in relation to a religious minority doesn't make any difference.

> Presumably your also include a Christian Cross necklace?

Sure.

> What about a symmetric cross that's visibly a cross but not a traditional cross? A cross at an angle?

Is it a token of belonging to a religious organization ? If so, keep it private. I don't see what's complex about that.

> You're entitled to express your point of view, of course, but please be more convincing and informed than a nationalistically ideological charlatan (how ironic).

I'm informed about the political and religious history of my own country, and as such transversely familiar with the framework Atatürk tried to put in place in Turkey. I'm less familiar with the ways it started breaking down. And frankly, you're not in any position to demand better argumentation on my part if you're not doing as much yourself.
I think it’s clear that there is nothing to support your claim that there is any ‘international law’ that establishes that Taiwan is part of the mainland.

It is literally only a position of the CCP and nothing more.

As I have pointed out, your account was created three years ago, but was silent until a couple of hours ago, when you have used it only to support the claim that Taiwan is part of mainland China, never commenting on anything else.
You can easily create as many wallets as you'd like, and keep your funds isolated from a wallet you use as an identity, if you wanted. There are multi-key wallets out there as well to retain control of your wallet in the event that one of the keys are compromised. I haven't used any of those personally myself so I can't really elaborate more on those types of wallets, but it feels like being able to lower risk is a solvable problem.
The Saturn was a powerhouse for sprite based games, it's a console I'll keep playing as long as I'm able to buy the capacitors to repair them!
Doesn't the fact that someone claimed the prize within 23 hours of the contest just prove that people do actually read their contracts?
It's more like a turntable skipping. You always end up back where you started.
Pachalafaka!
There are a few languages I won't touch without an IDE: Java and C#. For Java I use IntelliJ and I don't write C# at all anymore. Otherwise, I use Vim. VSCode is a complete non-starter for me. I glanced at it a long while back and quickly concluded it wasn't going to give me an editor experience I would enjoy. In particular around "windows" to view files/sections of a file. Something that IntelliJ also doesn't do a good job of, but it does provide a huge advantage for Java code.
uBlock is supported on Firefox on Android.

I'll mirror the parent's sentiment. It blows my mind every time i see someone else use YouTube and see ads.
Late here. I read tons of fiction, some standounts:

Piranesi - Susanna Clark

This feels like a lightweight version of House of Leaves, which is probably a double complement. It's got gorgeous prose, and a completely ethereal, mysterious feel the whole way. Themes of memory, life and death, reality, mental illness, etc.

Notes From the Burning Age - Claire North

Solarpunk thriller set upon a backdrop of Overstory-like prose that praises and exalts natural beauty. Its a neat concept, though slow and very tense. Some content warnings.

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno Garcia

A modern approach to gothic horror, where gaslighting is part of the horror, but the character knows that some of the gaslighting isn't gaslighting, it's mysterious things happening. Really tense also.

The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich

This year's Pulizer, historical fiction based on the Turtle Mountain Native American tribe's attempt to maintain their status as an independent nation in the 1950s, magical realism and a story of community and persistence.

Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse

Medium fantasy set in a really neat mixed Native Central/North American setting. The characters are fantastic, and this book was tense enough that I had to put it down because I was worried about two of the characters I really liked.

Middlegame - Seanan McGuire

This was really fantastic sort of situational horror. It very clearly horror, but mostly not gore-y. There's bits of implied stuff, but its mostly just like the horror of controlling the lives of a pair of magical soulmates in cruel ways, and also their journey of discovery of what they are and what they can do (which is also horrifying!). I also felt that this book had perhaps the best use of pre-chapter quotes that I've ever seen in a novel, and it invents a whole fake early 20th century childrens book as part of the worldbuilding. That book, "Over the Woodward Wall" has also been published, although I haven't read it.

I also read tons of Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin, and I can't recommend them enough (especially reading Butler and then Jemisin, as their writings are thematically similar, but approach similar topics from different directions). As well as tons of stuff by Anne Leckie, Becky Chambers, and Martha Wells, which are all great if you want space operas.
That is a substantial misinterpretation of the data.
Very cool insight, I also came to a similar conclusion after my short stints.

Can you update the link for rent robin? A quick google search points to a property management company from Kansas.
Would you also be of the opinion that, due to the widespread availability of healthy food options and Richard Simmons exercise videos it's acceptable to turn away the overweight to preserve hospital capacity?
Yes, this is a fair point. I was referring primarily to the fact that the UN doesn’t recognize Taiwan as a separate entity and doesn’t give it a seat independently from the mainland - e.g. The WHO has been blocked from doing so by the CCP.

But, you are right, this is not the same at all as an ‘international law’ establishing that Taiwan is not a sovereign country.
I would love to be able to work with the people of China and Russia as you’re suggesting, I think the great mass of people in all these countries would, but you’re blurring the populations of the countries and the strategic plotting of the national leaders. I wonder if you might be making the terrible mistake that almost all of us seem to make, of seeing your country from the intimate perspective of family, friends and ordinary people living their lives, and others through the words and actions of national politicians. I think the leaders of all of these countries are threats to the world, and not because they necessarily have plans of expanding their empire across the globe, but because their primary goal is to hold power in their own country which requires theatre to the populace and flows of wealth to their core supporters. China doesn’t need to retake Taiwan, there are already Chinese people there doing just fine, Russia doesn’t need to threaten Ukraine, US doesn’t need its military practically everywhere, but the leaders in each of those countries can’t back down on any of those things or their person hold on power is over
I totaly get what you say about notifications. I also get anoyed by beeping or buzzing which robs me of my focus.

Here is how i handle it: I just set all my devices to be silent. I set things up such that I won’t even see the notifications. Periodically as I finish something, or need to take a brake I emerge from concentration and do a scan of my queued up notifications. And just then I answer them.

I’m not a first responder. If someone is going to literally die unless they hear from me immediately they better call the emergency numbers anyway.

Friends, family, coworkers all know and respect that they will get an answer but perhaps not immediately. In return when I get around it I make sure to respond in a usefull and thoughtfull way to the best of my abilities. People seems to be fine with it, and it prevents me from drowning in a constant barrage of pings.
There is too much data out there for any human to manage.

There is no algorithm that will be able to show the "correct" data
(#) to any subset of people, whoever defines correct.

So tommy simple mind we need automated help, and so need all data producers
to make data available under common protocols.

My pipe dreams are harder now there are no pipes anymore

(#) this is a side fallacy of "management" - the idea that somehow
senior management can wait for people to come to them with problems and they can
decide on policy. You can't decide unless you are deep in the data. You cannot decide

it's why we need experts and to trust decentralised decision making because we can trust the incentives.

It's also why you should never trust any industry that has a weird business model (filmmaking, hedge funds, airlines) because we cannot correctly see the incentives from the outside. It's why regulators should have a one paragraph description of how the industry they regulate makes its money, posted at the top of all its stationary and web sites etc. It is I think the regulatory holy grail because it will freak everyone out.
Would be interesting to know if Tesla counts lane departure prevention caused by driver-distracted-by-touchscreen across the fleet to showcase the safety of its car, while in reality it's the lack of safety introduced by the touchscreen which caused the issue in the first place?

btw: I had the exact same experience with another brand (rental car) where the touchscreen was so ill placed, that basically any interaction with it messed with the steering.
The 3-4 days of symptoms were better than the body aches from the vaccine. Those sucked, a lot. I was bedridden for 24 hours straight after both doses of the vaccine.

I would gladly go through shitty body aches for 24 hours to never lose my sense of smell again. That was depressing and a-whole-nother level of shit.

Not quite sure why your response has the tone it does, unless I’m misunderstanding it (as is common for non verbal communication)
See the FAQ. All of it is copyright and Scientology are a aggressive at defending that.

https://sacred-texts.com/faq.htm

" Funny story actually.... I was actually contacted by a very testy lawyer from the Scientologists at one point. She was more than a bit bothered that I refused to post anything about them, until I pointed out that they had sued everyone aggressively for posting proprietary material about them for years, and now they expected me to cover them? She finally admitted that I had a point there..."
It pays the landlord if they sue you and win. That's why they require it commonly.

Some landlords even require tenants to cover them with your insurance as additional insured (I think this is stupid). Though it is common for business leases I believe.
Is #92 missing?
I think it has been pretty clear for a very long time that covid is something we will all get, and that it might even become something bot unlike the seasonal flu.

The message has to my ears been "less contact = less infection = better access to healthcare for those who really need it".

What would you suggest instead? I am all for discussing the losses contra gains of lockdowns, but I dont think any options have sounded much better.
What about an unmanned mission to fix it? And maybe to refuel it.
I use LinkedIn to passively trawl offers from recruiters and ask for references. Most offers aren't particularly good but a few random recruiting recruiting connections I made ended up being important. The data I give LinkedIn effectively matches my resume which I have to be comfortable to send to random people in the first place, so I'm not particularly worried about the data provided. I do not browse the feed or post anything publically. I only privately message people I'm connected with, or those who provided a job posting I was willing to apply to.

The more socially competent you are, the less useful this probably is. Many people probably have some useful network of friends they built in college. I have little to draw on aside from a handful of people I worked with which I had professional rapport with which I never developed a personal connection. So thus, I am stuck on LinkedIn on the off chance I need a new job and a reference.
Writing code and what comes with it is the one potentially resource intensive thing I do at work. It's not like I'd be gaming at the same time. I don't really care if my programming environment takes up a few gigabytes of my 16 or 32 gigs of available memory. That's why I have it, no? Perhaps that "1%" difference is something that makes my daily work a lot nicer?
I‘d argue that one should not compare editors to IDEs as they are not comparable. I was using VIM professionally (i.e. at work) for many years until CLion showed up. Sure enough I could get around in VIM using many LLVM tools such as clang-rename, clang-format, clang-analyzer etc. but an IDE is doing much more (of rather is capable of) than editing text efficiently.
I've never owned a smart phone, for fear of becoming addicted to it. It seems that was a well founded notion. The two things I think they are useful for are Google Maps (for the Traffic, I know where I'm going), and getting phone numbers to place carry out orders.

I don't constantly check email, I don't have a stream of interruptions when I'm away from the computer. Now all I have is the almost daily non-disable-able "amber alerts" that jar me out of my life, and the occasional junk call.

When I do consume sites, I try very hard to avoid letting their algorithm decide what I see. With Facebook, for example you can append ?sk=h_chr to the site name, and it will show you thinks in reverse chronological order. I use subscriptions on Youtube, and only use "Home" when I'm bored and want to veg. I curate my sources as best I can.
This is why Google is so bad at customer service. Because of "human ops". They think it's more humane to make a machine do the moderating and replies on email than actual humans.

To the tech giants bad customer service is just a sign of teething troubles that will be fixed than an actual tech failure or policy mistake.

And there is some sense here. And there is some nonsense.

Expect more and more less human responses, more false positives or negatives and also better mental health of employees from these cooperations.
Ask HN: What would make a next-gen search engine?
With new search engines like you.com popping up and Google facing regulatory scrutiny, it's an interesting time to consider what a next-gen search engine would look like.

What unsolved problems would a next-gen search engine potentially address?

What if you could have a conversation with a search engine, asking follow-up questions within the context of the previous ones?
As a 34-year-old with a negative net-worth, I’m guessing this ship has sailed for me…

Well, thankfully I like my current job.
"to transparently convey what the original scriptures say"

All translations are lossy. So why not read the original? Granted, Sanskrit is not easy. But it's not insurmountably difficult either especially for a person of Indian origin. And the language of the epics (of which the Gita is a part) is generally a lot simpler than in e.g. kavyas or technical shastras. A few months is long enough to pick up enough understanding of grammar and along with a dictionary you should be able to work through the relatively short Gita quite quickly. Yes, this is still much slower than reading a translation but if you're goal is avoiding commentorial bias this is the only rational way to go.
> So I think it's useful to hide my identity and make throw away account to just reflect a point.

You made the throwaway account 3 years ago, and only started to use it two hours ago.

> Otherwise, people would start associate my comments to certain ideology allegence.

I think the converse is true. If your account had a history of points of view on different topics people would be far less likely to see it as being driven by ideological allegiance.

> I am just come to provide CCP's view on hot issues.

Thank you for being clear about what you are doing here. That is much appreciated.
My email is still the free/legacy version of Gsuite, from before it was called Gsuite and it was just a way to have your own domain but serviced by Gmail.

It's kind of a pain, because it's both not really a Google account, but also not a real Gsuite setup, and Google keeps quietly removing features from the legacy version of Gsuite. (You used to be able to use an external SMTP server to send as a different domain, but Google removed the UI to configure that in the free version)

I've been really hesitant to upgrade to modern Gsuite, because I'm worried about upgrading and having something go wrong in the process - Google support doesn't have the greatest reputation.
My house is insured if a natural object (e.g. meteorite) falls on it, but not artificial objects (this includes satellites).
For learning Latin the book Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans Ørberg is wonderful.

https://youtu.be/_Zt19wzsW-c

Felicem natalem Christi
That’s simply not true. CEOs can and do argue for value based decision making in plenty of companies. Plenty of boards support them in this. Values alignment, “knowing your why”, acting with integrity - these are the qualities that help your company still be around in 100 years time.

Even if you want to make the most money possible, you usually won’t get there by screwing over your employees and customers.
The debugging and profiling features are excellent, too. Love the thread visualizer on PyCharm.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_fiberboard
Reading through the discussions about those system font stacks, a couple of observations I have made myself:

* Linux desktop fonts are a mess. Two examples: “Helvetica” on Linux often times points to a Ghostscript font with vertical alignment problems when used in a browser, and the “Roboto” font for Android can use Linux rendering problems as the GitHub team discovered.

* Chrome has had significant font rendering issues. GitHub’s designer mentions subtle kerning issues with the San Francisco font in Chrome on MacOS; I’ve seen some pretty serious font rendering issues with Chrome in Windows, where fonts end up being about 10-20% lighter.

* Very little consideration has been given to how the system font stacks look on Android phones, who are about 40% of the web browsing public.

By hosting the fonts on the web page [1], we eliminate these problems. The Linux and Android font rendering mess is resolved by just providing our own fonts [2]; I have dealt with the Chrome rendering mess by very carefully testing the fonts in Windows on a low-resolution 75dpi display until they looked as good as possible on this “lowest common denominator” display [3], while looking good in other browsers and on higher resolution displays. MacOS, nicely enough, always renders the fonts nicely, even on older Macbook Airs and external 75dpi displays.

Another thing: All of the fonts are OFL open source fonts, and, as a matter of principle, I prefer that no proprietary fonts are used to display my web page.

[1] Yes, 114kb is huge for late 1990s web designers who had to push everything over a dialup link, but it’s a drop in the bucket these days, even with cell phones with 3gb/month on low end plans. I went to a lot of effort with Zopfli and very aggressive subsetting to make the font CSS file as small as possible.

[2] There’s an issue with the % on Linux, since Linux insists on using its own hinting, resulting in one of the bowls being taller than the other bowl. Besides that, the font looks great in Linux.

[3] I spent days tweaking ttfautohunt settings for the font with Chrome/Windows as my reference, and made the font a little thicker by using Charis SIL for body text instead of the smaller in size but thinner Bitstream Charter.
Striking that the major stories that occurred this year weren't mentioned anywhere in any of the top voted comments, or where mentioned in exactly the wrong way:

ordered by my subjective level of importance:

- Increased spread of covid variants right until the end of 2021 (along with prolonging of lockdown measures).

- Official recognition by the Fed that inflation is no longer transitory

- State Capitol attack.

- Increased confrontation with Russia.

- Taliban taking over Afghanistan in a blink of an eye.

- Stock market smashing all time high after all time high.

- Evergrande collapse.

- Lira collapse

- The Great Resignation

- web3, nft and metaverse dominating tech discussion.
As it stands, I’m going to say The Mountain Goats: Dark in Here
Honestly, I don't like it even after people that are dead. (Apache Kafka, for example.)
There's a variety of factors that make language easier or harder to learn. Broadly speaking, you can divide them into writing, grammar, vocabulary, and phonology.

So there's languages that are hard to read and write. People love to talk about how poor English is when it comes to correspondence between written letters and sounds, but honestly, it's not close to the head of the pact. There are some Southeast Asian languages today where the gap between written word and speech is very much akin to writing Latin but speaking French. Japanese kanji is a moderately different level of burden, as every kanji has multiple different pronunciations, and it's at the point where--even for native speakers--it's not particularly expected that you can read someone's name and know how to pronounce it. Of course, for those of who use Latin scripts, any language that also uses Latin script is going to be easier to learn than one that doesn't.

Phonology can be a challenging aspect, because several languages don't have the same phonotactics as English does (or insert whatever native language here). There are multiple Slavic or Chinese sounds that my ears would process as "sh" and yet would be considered different consonants. Some phonemes are legitimately more difficult to pronounce--pronouncing click consonants literally scars your vocal tract. Some languages demand that you pay attention to tones, creakiness, breathiness, or aspiration, none of which is phonologically relevant to English or most Indo-European language.

Grammar and vocabulary are, as you imply, pretty mild concerns at the end of the day. They're not difficult enough to impede language acquisition, but there is actually some evidence to suggest that a language that becomes a major second language in the process goes through stronger grammatical simplification than their closest linguistic relatives--consider how much simpler English, Swahili, Malay, or Persian are compared to "normal" languages in their respective families.
> And you would be surprised, how many sites sell email addresses to others, and I know it as every one gets its own email address.

So much this. I've actually contacted companies to tell them they've been compromised because I started getting phishing emails. I quit after the third time of reporting it and being told "we haven't been hacked, someone in your friends group has and you just can't read email headers".. right because someone in my friends group emails "mylocalgym.com@mypersonaldomain.com" to schedule group activities.. then six to twelve months later I get an email from HIBP telling me said website was hacked and my email was compromised.