skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting to 80% may be easy, but getting to 100% is close to an AGI problem.

Words like read (present vs. past tense) or Nice (the adjective vs. the French city) can be pronounced in two different ways. Same with an address / to address, a present / to present etc.

Determining which way to use is impossible without understanding the text. You can get pretty far by using some simple heuristics. For example, when the word read is preceded by "have", you almost always want to use the past tense pronunciation, but if it's preceded by "to", you want the present tense. At some point, though, you will hit the "time flies like an arrow" vs. "fruit flies like a banana" problem, and simple sentence analysis will not be enough.

Another issue with English is that it likes to mash words together, and most pronunciation rules are not ready for that. While "Black Lives Matter" might be easy to pronounce, #blacklivesmatter is not. Getting this wrong sometimes leads to hilarious results[1].

I'm blind and I use a speech synthesizer daily, so I'm familiar with most of these issues. I haven't found a single piece of software that actually solved them well. This is still much better than languages like Hebrew, though, as they require you to manually insert vowels in the appropriate places, a task modern computers are not ready for.

[1] https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-domain-names/?utm_source=go...
Thanks, didn't realize that you could pull commit history for a file.
138 PPI :-(

I’d love this format if it was a hidpi display.
Interesting. WSLG seems to do this as well, bundling Xwayland, Pulse Audio, and Weston into a single separate VM that serves all the user-installed WSL distros on a box. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wp-content/upload...
There are so many worker benefits European countries have that Americans (including me) are just not aware of. Thanks for sharing.
forgive me repeating myself: AWS Zones are not truly independent of each other.

Global services such as route53, Cognito, the default cloud console and Cloudfront are managed out of US-East-1.

If us-east-1 is unavailable, as is commonly the case, and you depend on those systems, you are also down.

it does not matter if you're in timbuktu-1, you are dead in the water.

it is a myth that amazon availability zones are truly independent.

please stop blaming the victim, because you can do everything right and still fail if you are not aware of this; and you are perpetuating that unawareness.
English speakers don't all agree on how to pronounce things.

The nature of vowels (as opposed to consonants) is that the vowels can be varied in length (in simple terms, anyway).
I also use a 21" 1600x1200 with a Samsung PVA panel as a second display, the vertical height lines up nicely with a 27" widescreen. It's kinda fascinating to see how the PVA panel, which is like 20 year old tech, has no issues keeping up with a modern IPS display, and even has lower viewing angle shift, no backlight bleed, far better contrast and hence deeper blacks. The only teeny tiny problem is that it's visibly slow, even for a 60 Hz TFT.
Most programmers I worked with where normal people with a wife or husband, children and pets. Some of us are rather good with people.

What hurts us are stupid stereotypes along the line of:

- we don’t get along with people
- we can’t communicate well

If you think this way, and you are having problems with a programmers, it is more likely that you and your preconceptions are the problem. Don’t get me wrong, we have some odd people, but they are the minority (like in most other profession).
I’ve seen at least half a dozen full region AWS issues in the past 8 months.

You really need multi-region and also not be relying on any AWS service that’s located only in us-east-1 (including everything from creating new S3 buckets to IAM’s STS).
> 'Even if this monitor is strictly for editing professionals, there are GoPros and Iphones that shoot @ 120 fps. So I still fail to see why this is not a more important selling point?'

While this may be true, almost no one is editing video in 120fps. At most, creators are editing and exporting at 60fps, but 24/30fps tend to be the standard.
None of the Cocoa / NS API stuff you're talking about here had much impact on Apple's tech stack as actually deployed in the field until at least 2005 or so. The iMac was successful with a modernized legacy Mac OS on it, and the first iPods shipped with their own embedded OS, not iOS as we know it.

Apple survived by becoming leaner and more lifestyle focused. Maybe your last point applies, and maybe Jobs learned this management lesson and others through his startup time at NeXT, I dunno.

But more than anything I think Apple's revival came through dramatically shrinking product lines, cutting fat, and focusing on just in time production. Unfortunately in the process a lot of interesting tech was also thrown away (Newton!)
1) Can you make your on prem infrastructure go down less than Amazon's?

It's now hard to say how frequently Amazon's infrastructure goes down. The incident rate seems to have accelerated.
To me, this more sounds like something easy to nitpick.

> The fact that people from different English speaking countries have issues communicating is already a big hint about how odd is English phonetically.

News to me. I've never met someone from Australia/UK/NZ not being able to understand someone from the US/Canada. Personally, I've also found native english speakers FAR more accommodating of non-native speakers. Try do anything in Spain/France/Germany/China/Russia/etc without knowing the language (or only knowing it basically) & it's like you're playing Russian roulette with people being rude.
Human capital side would disagree with that I think. You're assuming the organization which owns this small/medium web app has the personnel already on staff to handle such a thing.

If you're outsourcing that, you'd likely have to pay a boatload just for someone to be available for help, let alone the actual tasks themselves. Like you said, if you're on-prem and something goes down, you can do something. But you've gotta have the personnel to actually do something.

That said, I think you're spot-on as long as you have the skillset already.
> When I actually meet someone, It was always someone who is in their mid-20s to 30s without a job. In real life, everyone I've gone out with has had a decent job, due to another scary experience I don't go out with people who aren't working.

Overfitting is a modeling error in statistics that occurs when a function is too closely aligned to a limited set of data points. ... Thus, attempting to make the model conform too closely to slightly inaccurate data can infect the model with substantial errors and reduce its predictive power.
To my mind, among the more frustrating aspects to implementing protection against failure is that the mechanisms to be added can themselves cause failure.

It's turtles all the way down.
I just lost my IG account after having it for literally a decade. Short story: I thought my engagement was low, so I manually went through my not-very-large follower list (2400 or so) in the IG app, identified about 100 accounts that I thought were bots (accounts that were following 6000+ people), and then went to each one and removed them as a follower. I made it about 40 in when suddenly I got meaningless errors, logged out, and that was it. My account no longer exists.

All of the avenues to contact Instagram are meaningless and don’t lead anywhere. There are no actual humans anywhere that review these things. No one cares when their crap algorithm screws up and deletes your 1000 photos and memories and all the interactions you had with your friends.

The irony is I got kicked out for doing something that should be their job.
On the other hand, perhaps the large cloud providers bring a level of complexity that outweighs their skills at keeping everything up. What I mean is, a basic redundancy and failover setup with two data centers is kind of straightforward. Sure you need a person on call 24/7 to oversee it, but it's conceptually not that complicated. And if you're running bare metal, you get a surprising level of performance per dollar and rack unit. On the other hand, the big clouds are immensely complex with multiple layers of software defined networking, millions of tenants, thousands of employees, acres of floor space, org charts, etc. If you're running your own infra as one competent sysadmin, you know nobody else in another department will push a networking code change that will break your shit in the middle of the night. Maybe it's not right for everyone, but it's not unreasonable to go on prem in 2021 despite the popular opinions otherwise. Source: my company runs on prem and routinely has 100% uptime years. Most unplanned downtime occurs early on a Sunday morning following a planned action during a maintenance window.
Staged Windows updates are a pretty common source of behaviors that do require reboots.

Everything from HID devices not responding, task manager and utilities like Settings not opening, device drivers left in an unstable state, and more can happen. To their credit, it does usually fail in a way that allows users to close applications before they're compelled to restart.
Tinder is owned by Match which is a monopoly, yes. They own every dating site you've heard of.
> Or is it that most companies provide 4 or 5 weeks evenif the law mandates a lot less?

American law doesn’t mandate any vacation leave.
Amazon Linux Hotpatch for Apache Log4j Needs a Patch
So I suppose... No Linux support? I assume a significant share of their users are Linux users.
https://archive.md/At4rC

> In February 2019, an Israeli woman sat across from the son of Uganda’s president, and made an audacious pitch — would he want to secretly hack any phone in the world? [ ... ] for NSO, the Israeli company that created Pegasus, this dalliance into east Africa would prove to be the moment it crossed a red line, infuriating US diplomats and triggering a chain of events that would see it blacklisted by the commerce department, pursued by Apple, and driven to the verge of defaulting on its loans, according to interviews with US and Israeli officials, industry insiders and NSO employees.

Looks like Uganda tried to hack 11 US diplomats, which ended up giving away the game, and getting everyone upset — and for but a pittance in revenue.
Pre-pandemic, my social life made dating platforms unnecessary. Now? No house or dinner parties full of acquaintances, no clubs or festivals, everyone's clustered into inner-circle friend groups, my employer moved out of the enormous shared office we were in, and on like that. The dating platforms are more necessary than ever.

So, naturally, there's never been a better time than this for some bad-faith behavior and profiteering.
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 170 millions years. Homo appeared on earth ~3 millions years ago, it doesnt say that they wouldnt but probably not.

Intelligence and civilization is not the pinnacle of evolution considering all the species that lived, live and will live without developing it. It's rather an oddity in the story of life.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Current government introduced 500 PLN a month (about 25% of median net salary) for each kid younger than 18. It was promoted as a solution for demographic problems, but it barely helped, what it did instead is persuade people who don't care about politics to vote PIS. That and reversing the unpopular (but necessary) retirement reforms of previous government made PIS very popular and they used that popularity to unconstitutionally dismantle checks and balances and to take over every independent institution there is.

Basically they did the same as every wannabe authorithatian ever - pay people to love you and take over the country while they still do.
I find it amazing how so many people don't know that the IMF is an NGO made up of a few wealthy people.

I suspect the "Financial System" being referred to is the SWIFT system and chances are in the next few years it will be replaced by a new Sino-Russian system backed by Saudi oil.

No cyber attacks will be needed to bring SWIFT down, just a few too many sanctions being wielded like cudgels by over eager bureaucrats trying to impose their "Morality" on the rest of the world.

I suppose it is possible that is the point, they want to be prepared for the backlash sure to follow when the Greenback is no longer the reserve currency.
I also said:

> Similarly, the work OP is doing may be much less important than they think it is.
Raspberry Pi holds its own against low-cost ARM NAS
Nope. The `make dev` target does that, and the configuration is checked in. You might have missed it, since most of it is embedded in the "pyproject.toml" file.
I was saying it is not 100% wrong to ban people. The fact that the banned people are still paying and dont get their money back clearly look like fraud (even if this is more complex, as Tinder is very smart about how they communicate, they never make you pay to get matches, they make you pay to be able to like more).

But yeah Match group is a fraud company, I've wrote some posts on the topic in the past
Yes, once.
Why wouldn’t an editor want to view the final deliverable in 120fps, if that was an option?

I understand there’s no need for it, but have you seen the size of the latest F-150?

To quote Jack Nicholson playing Frank Costello in the Departed:

“I haven't needed the money since I took Archie's milk money in the third grade.

Tell you the truth, I don't need pussy any more either...but I like it.”
Curious what the algorithm would be to measure "desireableness". Computer vision on the photos (i.e. measure facial symmetry?) plus the number of other people who have expressed interest in you?
Why is that rule unfortunate? Why would someone date or hookup with someone they're not physically attracted to?
I've never, over 3 laptops, had it restart by itself. Not once. Not a single one of them on Home edition, so perhaps that's the issue.

Then again, the "home edition" is the edition that you should use when you are streaming live on twitch to 10,000 people!
EDIT: I misunderstood you were talking about power feeds, the normal case is the run "48% as if it's 100%" (because of power spikes, but also most types of transformers run more efficiently under specific levels of load (40-60).

Normally this is factored into the Rack you buy from a hardware provider, they will tell you that you have 10A or 16A on each feed, if you exceed that: it will work, but you are overloading their feed and they might complain about it.
* The person I was responding to claim it could be an alternative. OK, Bitcoin has been around a while and several countries have had currency problems. Notably, Bitcoin didn't save the day. Why? It has literally never happened, but people keep claiming it will.

* Claim was made that Bitcoin made this "cheaper and simpler". That isn't true.

* Which part of the public ledger exactly is anonymous? You say "pretty much all of it", I see "public" and say pretty much none of it.

The difference between us is that I haven't hinged my hopes of personal financial success on a Ponzi scheme, so we're probably not going to see eye to eye.
The Deck certainly is, it's sold out into 2023.
People want PC games on the go, Valve provides it in a now common form factor, at a reasonable price, with a trusted name.
I don't think that is true for England. Or do you have a link to more info?
It'd be like that if most of the bars where you lived were owned by the same company and all shared a ban list.
Just learn native flutter and dart. If you cant learn a new lang, you shouldn't be developing.
Also below 15% body fat and quite high income will help. Women expectations are completely unrealistic these days. Their desire went to the global sexual market. Their hypergamy and narcissism is stimulated to no end.
> Kids would be able to pickup CLI if that were the only way to start their favorite game

This is not merely hypothetical! Like many on HN, no doubt, I learned at least how to launch and close my favorite toy programs from the DOS command line before I went to kindergarten.
And these are all anecdotes. The unemployment rate has followed the national trend for Colorado, and there does not appear to be a shortage of remote work for software engineers.
Yeah, they specifically mention that at the bottom of the screen[1] when they ban you

[1] https://paulefou.com/cancel.jpg
AWS didn’t “go down”. They had an outage in one AZ, which is why there are multiple AZs in each region. If your app went down then you should be blaming your developers on this one, not AWS. Those having issues are discovering gaps in their HA designs.

Obviously it’s not good for an AZ to go down but it does happen and why any production workload should be architected to have seamless failover and recover to other AZs, typically by just dropping nodes in the down AZ.

People commenting that servers shouldn’t go down ect don’t understand how true HA architectures work. You should expect and build for stuff to fail like this. Otherwise it’s like complaining that you lost data because a disk failed. Disks fail… build architecture where that won’t take you down.
Strapi v4 setup with Docker Compose and MySQL
> what it originally was used for

This "guilt by association" type thinking makes no sense at all. Why would it matter who the earlier adopters of bitcoin were and what they were using it for? This is like saying TOR is bad because most people associate it with those same things (drugs, hitmen, etc.)
Rust macro that uses GPT3 codex to generate code at compiletime
What happens when the whole western world is on that?
Yes. This is the porn industry we are talking about. It's inseparable from sexism.
English spelling could be greatly improved by adding accent marks to indicate long vowels. This would fix some of the most ambiguous cases (words like "read" and "live" and "epitome"), and wouldn't alter the spelling for those who want to stick with ASCII.

The funny thing is, most English text today is written on operating systems controlled by just three entities: Google, Apple and Microsoft. A spelling reform would really need to convince just these companies to adopt it in their soft keyboards and spell checkers.
> or because BTC went from <1$ to 10k$+

I can give you a very good guess.
> Right I don't dispute any of that. However, you're just making the last guy's point about semantics.

No, I’m making the point that if “
a redefinition of the basic structure of inflation as to whether it includes any assets or not renders discussion meaningless because it invites semantics argument, then the “last guy” is wrong that is the effect of the 1983 change to exclude homeownership costs, because that ship had already sailed in 1953 when changes were made to include them in the first place.

> I'm no socialist, but I think a common interpretation of the american dream (or prosperity in general, really) is that a hard, reasonably intelligent & frugal worker can one day employ what they've earned to enable others to to meaningful work. I.E. they can own a small but meaningful part of the economy above and beyond what they require for sustenance.

Like, why is the “I’m no socialist” disclaimer even there when you go on to articulate exactly the standard, capitalist interpretation of the “American dream”: if I spend enough time on the treadmill of wage labor, I get to become a microcapitalist.

It's like saying “I’m no secularist, but I think people should be obliged to follow the Ten Commandments on pain of death”; the lead-in disclaimer is unnecessary.

Were you a socialist, you’d think people were entitled to a share of control ab initio as a worker, as a matter of right, not as a reward for slaving away at wage labor for a sufficient time for which they would sacrifice accumulated surplus wages, and that your entire statement was silly. (I know, I checked with a socialist.)

In any case, that has nothing to do with cost of living.

> The classes that rely on wages and salary are getting priced out of financial mobility.

To the extent that's true, it's a problem of fiscal not monetary policy. Monetary policy (at least, the levers Congress has chosen to provide the Fed to address it) is a too blunt instrument to be used effectively to control that well, that's the domain of the much wider array of economic tools that remain in Congress’ sole control, like the whole of taxing and spending policy.

> I'm not super familiar with programs outside the US, but our dual mandate of 'stable prices and max employment' seems to translate to 'keep the poors working as hard as they can, and make sure the basic feed (market basket of goods) is cheap'.

No, it doesn't really do either of those.

OTOH, the first part is the effect of a whole lot of downward relative tax burden shifts over the last four decades.

> Stuff like housing, cars, health care, and higher education (stuff that really matters) either isn't in the market basket

All of that in, in fact, in the market basket. (Used cars have actually been the largest component, IIRC, of the recent aggregate inflation increase.)

> or seems to under-measure an average person's lived reality

Claims about what things subjectively seem to do relative to subjective impressions are...slippery, at best. But the concrete effects you blame on inflation have much more clear policy sources, that are neither inflation nor monetary policy.

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To take it a step further, throw your phone away. I've been digital overseer/fear machine free for almost 2 years now, and can definitively say it's the best decision a person can make for their mental well being.
I don't know what happened in this situation, but generally refunding money for TOS violations is a bad idea. Let me explain why.

Imagine that Alice runs a service where you can send people greeting cards.

Bob decides he's going to use this service to cause trouble and instead of normal greeting cards, he sends people messages with hate speech, such as their race, their religion, says he hoped they get cancer, and so on.

Alice sees Bob is doing this and it violates her TOS on the service, so she cancels his account.

Should Bob get a refund?

If he does, then Bob will have used Alice's system to do bad things in a way that actually costs him nothing. He's costing Alice administrative fees and regular costs.

That's why ToS violations should generally not trigger a refund.
i feel like this should be in the title in order for the rest of humanity to quickly skip it. like an date tag "oh this is from 2010, nevermind".

then again, paywalled sites grml
what about web3? that seems to be thrown around as the solution for everything as of late. Couldn't decentralization actually help in this case?
Something to do with where he'd travelled I would guess.

I lost an account a few years ago at the same time I was geospoofing on my phone for something totally unrelated. I guess it flagged on Tinder's side and that was that account gone. Fortunately I didn't think there was any soulmate lost as a result but I could see that being painful if I'd been talking to someone for a while.

On the other hand Tinder is going to be a huge target for romance scammers and other dodgy types and people on it are vulnerable so they've got to have a robust defence mechanism.

It's the lack of recourse to fair adjudication that is the problem - online dating is one of the most common ways of meeting a partner these days and the many platforms are owned by a couple of companies so getting blacklisted by Tinder could also see you barred from Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge and PlentyOfFish - quite serious stuff if you're looking for a partner especially in the current climate.
I very much doubt a dating service would have this problem, as many people use dating services while traveling even if they wouldn't at home (either because of cheating or just knowing the scene better at home).
If only it had any basis in reality.
> which if I understand them correctly means that it's hard to meet people without it

It means it (Tinder) no longer works. I says nothing about difficulty of meeting people outside of Tinder.