skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely does matter how difficult a language is to gain the status of a lingua franca. The written word of Chinese is beyond exceptionally difficult to learn. Saying English has such a bizzaro spelling system it might as well be pictograms just indicates to me you’ve never seriously given learning written Chinese a fair shake.

What does a learner of English need to be able to learn to write a word? 26 * 2 symbols, and a fair understanding of the most basic spelling rules to give any word a basic attempt at spelling. If you didn’t know the spelling of president, you could very reasonably guess your way through it (begins with a ‘p’, ‘z’s are pretty rare and I’d know if it had one, etc.) Contrast this with the modern state of China where actual teenagers have difficulties writing Chinese without the use of a computer because the written word is THAT vast.

I don’t see what your other examples have to do with anything…those are all languages that use an alphabet?
> The faculty is so sick that they don't have enough people to run the school.

This depends on how you define "so sick". Tested positive? Yes. Hospitalized? I bet not all (or > 1.8% [1]) of them. I notice when verbiage sensationalizes COVID. The OP, I believe, is also sensitive to this.

> Honestly, do people think children just exist in isolation?

This is the primary argument. Your two viewpoints are not mutually exclusive. He can believe that the kids are overly scared based on the statistics because, well, they are not at that much risk while at the same time recognizing that individuals not at risk put other people who are at risk in danger.

This is why we fail to have beneficial conversation, we talk around each other.

[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/omicron-...
The parent was suggesting causal inference from general statistical evidence to particulars is impossible.

You seem to be suggesting there can be no causal inference where there are no control groups.

Both positions are wrong.
In cosmic first, scientists observe red supergiant just before it explodes
Interesting. A much more controlled/limited environment than cars, but pretty high safety stakes when you're pulling a chisel plow.
Brother laser jet printer + scan snap will get you where you want to go
You are aware film cameras use a rolling shutter, too?
exactly. This was my first thought too. Perhaps they envisoned it that way to sell more copies of their product.
I'm also from Aegentina and a climate doomer. I will keep burning resources for personal profit, my own personal contribution will not move the needle that much anyway.
That was true at the beginning of the pandemic, but we're long past that now. The recent variant is literally popping up all over the place. Despite the masks and the testing. And this latest variant seems to be extremely mild as in a three day cold - just like you said. So why are we making scaring the kids like this? Protect the kids with existing conditions, we know which ones are at the most risk, which are very few in that age group.
"Canada's health care system knows its mediocre at the best of times" sorry what? you seen south of the border? 50,000 people die a year because they don't have access to health care... they have 3rd world disease spreading...they have what looks like 3rd world humanitarian efforts where doctors/dentist etc go to parts of the USA to provide basic healthcare... its a joke for one of the richest countries in the world.

https://youtu.be/JHDkALRz5Rk?t=1454 people need to see this when they push for privatization

mean while Saskatchewan moved to privatize MRI because they said it "would increase capacity and be cheaper" and what happened when money got involved? now rich people skip the line and guess what? it got more expensive and the wait times doubled for the regular people... Canadian system is not perfect we don't have universal pharmacare yet but hopefully we will soon, but thinking we should go the route of America is crazy.
Is this still a commonplace practice? I remember (in the US) this being the case when I was a young teen, with a call time quota too (accidentally made a $400 USD phone bill once...), but now in my mid 20s, all the phone plans I'm aware of have unlimited local + "long distance" calling and unlimited SMS/MMS.

International calls still cost per minute, and IP bandwidth is metered, but I honestly thought metered calls/texts were mostly a thing of the past. Is this a regional thing?
Yes, they are making themselves vulnerable to disruption in the mid-term. Short-term, they are still golden.
Ah, sounds like they used the ATECC508A too. :(
I don't know what to tell you at this point. From the wikipedia article:

> Most people come to the conclusion that switching does not matter because there are two unopened doors and one car and that it is a 50/50 choice. This would be true if the host opens a door randomly, but that is not the case; the door opened depends on the player's initial choice, so the assumption of independence does not hold.

Random means there's a possibility the host opens the door containing the prize. The Monty Hall problem specifies that that is not a possible scenario, and that the host does not choose randomly.

> If the host doesn't know where the prize but still, by chance, "opens one door without a prize", then, in this situation the contestant's information remains the same and the odds remain the same.

The host cannon open a door by chance if there's no chance of opening the door with a prize behind it.
My experience was so much worse. I was born in 1967. My son was born in 2009. We both have 61.53737504% of our expected lifespan remaining.

We used different browsers, but the same machine.
iMessage is the best SMS application. Nothing compares. If you haven an iPhone, the native integrations with everything is incomparable to anything like Messenger, etc.
Same here, 40 years old (single, no kids) but I do keep clued on what kids are doing these days (via my niece and nephew) - never heard them issue come up either, I hazard to guess the whole status of owning an iPhone and iMessage has more to do with the socio-economic circles one moves in. With that being said, in New Zealand 53.94% use Android and 44.52% use iOS with most kids either using FB Messenger or WhatsApp which is probably why so few care about bubble colours.
Post it on elixirforum (elixirforum.com).... Did a quick search and couldn't find it there.
I didn't know that! I got it from my mum who presumably got it from her British mum.
Well, lack of skeletal animation is a showstopper. Every 3D game needs that no matter what.
As a climatologist by education and a dabbler in politics, I think you are radically misjudging the ability of most people to have rational discussions about unwelcome statistics. If you say severe weather will increase by 20% due to climate change, people will hear that there’s an 80% chance weather will stay the same. And they say I’m just being alarmist.

When I say that this storm may have been enhanced by climate change, but it could also could have happened anyway, statistically: people hear natural variability, and that I don’t know for sure that climate change impacted their daily lives. And if I don’t know for sure, there must not be much of a case for climate change.

Most of the world is not HN, where nuanced discussions work. Most of the world does not give a shit about climate change unless they will personally suffer in some way. So I lie. So that even if this storm or that hurricane didn’t hurt them, they will have empathy for those who did suffer from a climate-enhanced storm. Because if we wait for everyone to feel the impact in earnest, it will be far too late.
Be that as it may, the DoF is unavoidable unless every shot is insanely tight.
It seems like you (and a whole lot of people in this thread) don't understand how iMessage and texting works. Let me take a stab at this:

To text with non-Apple phones, iMessage uses SMS over the cellular network. This is pre-smartphone technology. A few years ago, SMS was upgraded to RCS (still over the cell network though). Lots of features were added. But Apple refuses to update their old SMS implementation in iMessage.

Now on the other hand, to text with other iMessage users, iMessage uses Apple's own proprietary iMessage protocols over the IP network (the internet); Just like Telegram and WhatsApp does. Apple refuses to bring iMessage to other devices and doesn't let other messengers implement it's proprietary iMessage protocols.

I hope you realize, the reason you have a substandard experience communicating with Android users is because Apple wants you to.
Everyone is the center of their own universe. It's time to stop putting up with infringements on our freedom, which we've had two years to show they do nothing anyways.
Just about any basic physical system. If you zoom into our universe enough, down to the quantum level, you’ll find completely unpredictable chaos and complexity. But just because the quantum world is pretty much unpredictable doesn’t mean the macro world is unpredictable.

A climate model can’t you whether or not is going to rain in exactly 300 years time, but it can tell you how much rain will fall during an entire year, 300 years from now.

Climate modelling is macro scale modelling to weathers quantum scale modelling. You’re operating at entirely different scales, and further you zoom out, the more you can ignore the minutia and still produce useful predictions.

Additionally taking about absolute time periods is the wrong approach. The real question is now many time steps can your model take before it starts to significantly diverge from reality. A car collision simulation will be operating with time steps measured in milliseconds to nanoseconds, a climate model in time steps measured in days to weeks. Both of these models will probably be predicting a similar number of time steps into the future, and both will have a similar number of quantised simulation areas. For the car you’re simplifying cubes measured in millimetres, for climate, zones measured in km.

Again, climate models have been measured, tested and repeatedly proven their predictive power. If empirical results aren’t enough to convince you, then what is?
For the sake of correctness, Tranquility Base is not where the museum is built upon in Futurama S01E02; you must be misremembering. In fact, the moon landing site is considered lost at the beginning of that episode.

When it's later found in the episode, it's found with the lunar ascent module still attached. Because the astronauts ascended in this module, only the descent modules should be there, so you might at first think that this is a blatant mistake on the part of the writing staff and you might hope someone was fired for that blunder[1]. However, if you pay close attention, there's a plaque behind Leela while she's in the ascent module that states "Lander returned to this site by the Historical Stickler's Society."[2]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxw5nQX7SA
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/futurama/comments/91kssj/i_didnt_wa...
Looks to me Sabine made a fairly elementary mistake towards the end. She mentions 3 probability distribution curves, 2 model produced (blue and red) and one empirical (green). She forgot to mention a fourth one, the empirical-preindustrial. In any case, you'd like to be able to measure the ratio of empirical distributions, but let's say that's difficult because of data retention.
So, instead of having the actual ratio x/y you have a ratio of proxies, x'/y'. This ratio could be both higher and lower than x/y. She claimed it can only be lower, and that's not quite true.
> When a virus is endemic, it means everyone will get it

No, it means that it tends to be maintained at some (whether very high or very low or other) stable baseline level in a region in the absence of external inputs or interventions.

> Which means most of these precautions are ultimately worthless

No, it doesn't, and wouldn't even if “endemic” did mean everyone would get it, since the control measures are not intended to prevent people from eventually getting COVID in the absence of a fundamental change in available countermeasures, but to reduce the speed of particular outbreaks and mitigate acute impacts to health systems (which affects ability to treat anyone needing the system) from caseload and to other essential social services from temporary incapacitation of key staff.

> But oh, how long have we been "flattening the curve" now

Rarely for more than a couple weeks in a row, on a local basis, in response to particular sharp outbreaks, and invariably with much weaker measures than were taken for the same purpose earlier on in the pandemic, despite outbreaks that are much worse by every measure (in part, because the ultimate goal is much more limited and temporary, and in part because the political faction that deliberately avoided fighting the pandemic in the hopes of blaming the effects on political opponents has turned avoiding control measures into a quasi-religious doctrine to avoid accountability for their earlier malfeasance.)
I’m hearing a very similar thing from my high school aged nephews from the inner suburbs of NYC. I work for a NYC university and they are making some serious mistakes as well
Better there than while driving
This sentiment is so frustrating to read. Fundamental science is hard. Working with extremely complex systems is hard. Putting them together is extremely hard.

That does not mean you cannot do it accurately. It means you have to continually refine and improve and throw out and restart and refine and....

Scientists as a group are by far the most honest group of people you can point at. No other profession comes even close. Alluding to some dishonesty in the work behind climate change is straight up denialism. Yes some of the science has not panned out. That's how science works. It's part of the bones.
The perfect app I found for this (on HN) is Daylio. It captures info at the right level of detail. Even has a place for a bit of writing or a photo each day.
I am saying it is better to have control groups than not. Hopefully that is non-controversial.
Brother is a great choice. My wife had a black-and-white for years, and I bought a color a few years ago, replacing an HP PageWide that had been nothing but problems. Both have been fantastic.
They'd say things like "I promise I'll come back for you", and "I can't leave XXX" ad infinitum.

They'd also do the usual plot device of splitting up and wandering around alone, for the sole purpose of getting into a fix so everyone else can rescue them.

Although sabre tooth tigers and dire wolves regularly eat the red shirts, the rest never think of arming themselves.

I watched the show out of incredulousness. And because I enjoy snarking on bad shows :-)
I have an iPhone but all of my messages are green: I have disabled the iMessage features because they tend to mess up certain types of links which I have to sometimes exchange with my coworkers[1].

Unlike what the heading suggests, the colour of the bubble doesn't tell you what phone one owns.

[1] those are links generated using Firebase Dynamic Links service. When sent over Twilio (vanilla SMS) they work but when forwarded from iPhone to iPhone they will break unless you turn off iMessage.
We also used SMS before smartphones, but only for a bit, because most people paid per message. Some, like me, did figure out mobile data and did use ICQ (via JIMM and, in my case, NatICQ) and VKontakte (via Opera Mini) from their phones. Either way, messaging services tied to a single device have never caught on very much in the first place around me, and so stuff like WhatsApp is a tough sell. iMessage is an absolute non-starter because the only world in which everyone uses an iPhone is the fantasy one dreamed up by Apple.

Today, 99% of my SMS messages are various notifications and login codes.
"Hosting a server is firmly a very rare decision that users take, yet the whole system depends entirely on that minority of rare individuals. "

No, not for most systems.

Using 'Web 1' tech, anyone can run a server today, they always could, it's not that hard.

Web 1 provide the basis for most of the kinds of decentralization that Web 3 proponents seem to think will come from some new approach.

It's not perfect, but it's still probably better than most Web 3 approaches such as blockchain etc..
And the irony is in the Asia, using an iPhone pretty much guarantees that you'll be considered "old" / "unable to handle tech" / "unable to express individuality" :-)
> I have a theory that for a long time now Australia has been "too rich" in the sense that government inefficiency and waste effectively aren't perceived as important and is simply being ignored.

I think it exposes the stupidity of those in Govt, they view their waste "pet projects" as GDP enhancing but they dont realise they could have simply given the money to someone on the street and got a better return on investment and a greater boost to GDP over the long term. The flip side is its stealth repression using authority.
I do appreciate your condescension, but no one said it had to do with something about Russia being for or against proliferation.
I think the article is based on a fallacy: it tries to prove the stuff in quadrant 4 should be done because ... they are actually important; that puts them in quadrant 2; in that case, the original matrix is good.
> Remote attestation has been possible since TPMs started shipping over two decades ago.

The difference now is that Microsoft are saying they will only support machines which have these TPMs, and therefore they can credibly argue in a few years that the only secure PCs (and thus the only PCs that ISPs should allow online) are ones which can produce a remote attestation to prove they are running the latest OS updates (from an OS vendor that is approved by the government).

> If Microsoft wanted to prevent users from being able to run arbitrary applications, they could just ship an update to Windows that enforced signing requirements.

The trap hasn't been sprung yet, but those are the teeth, yes. Then say goodbye to Tor, E2E encrypted messengers, unapproved VPN apps, and bittorrent clients that don't check a Content ID database.
This line of thinking goes, it's like feeding crack to an addict to keep them enslaved. A huge portion of the historical debt was acquired during the dictatorship that killed 30k people, directly installed by the western intelligence services.
The host doesn't know exactly where the prize is, but he knows that the door he's opening is a dud; that's the information that he has and the audience doesn't.
My bad. I do remember the issue re the assent module, and the sign, but forgot that they escaped into the lander after leaving the dome.
Don Norman has a rather good example in his book The Design of Everyday Things. He presents a two player game. Each player alternately chooses a number from 1 to 9. Each number can only be chosen at most once. The first player to pick three numbers that add up to exactly 15 wins.

Even writing things down with paper and pencil, this game is hard. However, Don Norman shows how, if you put the numbers into a Tic Tac Toe grid, the game becomes trivial.

This person has a description of the same game plus the tic tac toe grid:
http://www.andreweifler.com/which-game-are-you-playing-pick1...

Like the original article, I mention in my classes Roman numerals vs Arabic numerals as a good example of how notation can influence things.

The whole field of information visualization is also a great example of how to leverage the power of human vision to easily see patterns and understand data, which overlaps a lot with notation.
*extra middle man
Snapchat is pretty popular amongst kids and early 20s in NZ too.
Wrong way around.

The charter systems all filter--that generally gives them a huge advantage against the public systems in both motivation (the parents are significantly more engaged even if that sometimes brings its own downsides) and cost (the lowest performing students take the most resource to teach).

If you force the local charter schools to take the same demographic by lottery as the local public school, the advantage that the charter schools exhibit almost always disappears.

One problem with education "solutions" is that they rarely define "success". Everybody want to move the "average", right? Well, the way to do that is to deallocate some resource from the average and overallocate it to the worst. The "measured average" is pretty insensitive to resource allocation, but the worst are quite sensitive to it. Alternatively, you just boot the lowest 10% from your school (generally easy enough since they have various "disciplinary" problems--Houston ISD got caught doing this).

These are ways to move the "measured average". They're terrible ideas but are not uncommon when you tie people's jobs and school funding to a "measured average".

What needs to be defined is probably closer to "effectiveness." If you start at achievement point X, how much better is your achievement point Y in 3 years, 5 years, 10 years. However, if you start defining things like that, the inequity in the system becomes stark, the monetary outlay required on the lowest performers becomes obvious, and the political will completely evaporates.
With the LED they'd only need to go look at the screen when there's a question. Actually, if you put the laptop in the middle of the front row, set the font size large, and used a clicker to go through them, the teacher could probably read the questions from anywhere at the front of the class. It'd still be an issue if you wanted to move about the back of the class while giving a lesson; but that's a hassle anyway, since the students' desks face the front, so IME it's rarely done.
"a fire this year" is a really vague and imprecise way to measure things, and leads to trying to conclude weird things like whether or not a quiet fire season was caused by climate change. that's why scientists don't measure things that way.

the more precise way to measure would be to increase the sample size by counting a precise metric like total acres burned per season, and measuring it over a longer period of time to determine whether or not forest fires are generally getting worse or not. and if they're getting worse, how much are they getting worse by, and how much of that trend can be attributed to climate change.
I said using, but generating.
Agreed.

I’ve been at a friends with all the streaming subscriptions. The most used is HBO (been watching Silicon Valley and they got tons of movies), Amazon is second (terrible ads at the beginning, sells movies as well), then Disney+.
The problem with Linux has always been lack of support for newest hardware. I keep going back to Windows because I just want all the cool features of the hardware like webcam, fingerprint reader, and reliable sleep/hibernation.

Linux always runs well on HW that is a few years old. or HW that was specifically certified for Linux, such as Thinkpads.
The file was probably https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...
A lot more than Ireland now; that was years ago. It now uses more electricity than Argentina (about 6 Irelands).
Check _BuildSpace, Pointer.gg and ThirdWeb all of them focused on web3 tutorials. I believe BuildSpace has all of them:
- NFTs
- DAOs
- dApps
"Using the John Deere Operations Center mobile app..."

So now your tractor is controlled via their network? If their server goes down, can you still farm? What if your John Deere Operations Center account has been been terminated or suspended? Here are their terms.[1] "In its sole discretion, Deere may restrict the Site or restricted areas of the Site to selected users."

Farmers have been fighting for the right to repair Deere tractors. So this is Deere's response. They now claim the right to prevent tractor owners from using them.

[1] https://www.deere.com/en/privacy-and-data/terms/