skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just sampled a repo on the list: https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/Xi-Yuyan

I find it interesting that the Chinese government wants to take down such a repo, because it is very much harmless.

Some observations:

- The repo is still accessible, but the README.md was cleared at a commit [1] on 23 Jan 2021, one day after the take down request on 22 Jan 2021 (see its complete history [2]).

- The repo appears to be a political message against Xi, as a markdown file (README.md [1]) and an image (xiyuyan.png [3]).

- The repo invents a new programming language, 习语言 XI YU YAN (The Xi Language), whose example README.md is loaded with political messages [1]:

WHILE-LOOP keyword is “re-elected”, as Xi is “re-elected” repeatedly;

VARIABLE-DECLARATION keyword is “I-declare”;

RETURN keyword is “going backward”, probably to before the reform and opening of China by Deng Xiaoping;

and other political references (One Belt One Road, etc.).

This is easily be protected by free speech in other countries.

Regardless, the fact that the Chinese government thinks this need to be taken down speaks quite a lot of their insecurity.

[1]: https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/Xi-Yuyan/commit/d98c5fe3... "Commit to clear the README.md after the takedown request"

[2]: https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/Xi-Yuyan/commits/master/... "History of README.md"

[3]: https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/Xi-Yuyan/blob/master/xiy... "Xi Yu Yan -- The Xi Language"
thats how you get PIPed
Something I tell training partners when they start competing: “Competing in a sport is a skill independent of the skills of the sport itself.”

What I mean is that through training, you learn how to do the sport. That’s table stakes. In order to compete well, you need to learn the skill of competing in that sport. That’s hard, as the practice is competition itself. And it’s a different skill set.
ScyllaDB: Porting Database Drivers to Async Rust
To clarify, you seem to be saying:

1. Your intent was indeed to attack me.

2. Your attack is motivated by my perceived affiliation with a group to which you consider yourself superior; indeed, a group you despise.

3. If this angers me, you consider that a very desirable result.

4. You intend to keep attacking me every time you see me posting a 5-digit year, because you interpret that as a sign of affiliation with the group toward which your antipathy is directed.

5. There is nothing I, or anybody else, can do to change your mind.

Am I interpreting you correctly? It's possible there's something I've misunderstood, so please correct me if that is the case.

If that is correct, you are expressing an intention to convert HN into an open sewer. I will say again: please immediately desist from this contemptible misconduct.
Not British but here’s something I noticed when we acquired a company with an office in the Bay and in the UK (London, if it matters).

At the US office you just parked in the first available spot. In the UK office there were assigned parking spots for anyone with a management position closest to the door, roughly sorted by tittle. And the accents sounded a little bit different (for the British employees) between engineering and management and sales.
You’re not wrong, this is well-trodden ground.

However, The Hacker News user base has generally been interested in intellectual property as it relates to a smaller creator or entrepreneur.
Check the CT logs for bandits!
> Are there not places to charge on the slopes?

Unfortunately, I only know of two ski areas that have them. One ski area with a charger is about a mile away from a supercharger, and that supercharger happens to be next to an awesome restaurant. The other one is the place that I mentioned where they didn't have snow at the parking lot with the charger because it was early season.
Martin mentioned it during the last few minutes of Coding Over Cocktails as one reason why you might want to support his Patreon page:

https://www.torocloud.com/podcast/designing-data-intensive-a...

https://www.patreon.com/martinkl
It does reload the image in Firefox at least. I just tried it.
Does this apply to Apple?
If only google would bother to explain why their AI banned someone, and gave reasonable methods to appeal
Blockchain tech–not the metaverse–was the talk of this year's DICE
The biggest indicator of a monopoly is when they can treat customers like garbage and keep doing business anyway.

Google suspended the Ads account of our largest agency client ($20,000 per day) with no explanation other than a vague “policy violation”. They steadfastly refused to explain how the policy was violated or what we could do to come into compliance.

We contacted attorneys, wrote letters to Google executives, begged, pleaded. In the end our client fired us and they went back to their old agency.

Later we learned their old agency paid off a Google insider to flag our client’s account resulting in suspension.

Of course, we could never speak to a human being at Google and explain this. One day, the truth about Google Ads (and Facebook) will come out, which is that it is all 85% fraud anyway. Save your money.

Today, we no longer do business with Google Ads or Facebook. Given these companies make up 95% of digital ad spending, it’s fair to say we are no longer a digital ad agency. We’ve adapted to market around big tech, whether they like it or not.

With “partners” like Google and Facebook, who needs enemies?
> given that the marginal utility of a font is just so low.

Then... don't buy it? I mean, it's not like there aren't hundreds of other fonts to choose from, many of which are free.
If us old farts got by with it as kids... she'll be fine. Though I wouldn't pass by an opportunity to make things better if possible.
That's a very naive take. They weren't russian colonies but they were within its sphere of influence. Just like cuba, canada and the entire western hemisphere is within our sphere of influence. Do you know what would have lead to an invasion of canada? Canada's request to join the soviet union. Every major power has its sphere of influence and limits. The only shame is that we don't get to feel the pain of our actions. It will be ukrainians and eventually taiwanese who will feel the pain of our meddling. Just like in iraq, iran, syria, libya, etc. Hopefully that comes to an end sooner than later so we'll stop causing trouble everywhere in the world. When you actually look all the wars and death and suffering in the past few decades, we've had a hand in practically all of them.
Yandex Provides Update on Impact of Current Developments
Steam Deck too “open” for Fortnite: Linux OS prohibits kernel-level anti-cheat
This is unhelpful. Nobody gets total control of their time in employment, and some people get a lot less control than others.
Also (in bold) "The Only Currently Viable Explanation:

"While the early VKS failure to establish air superiority could be explained by lack of early warning, coordination capacity and sufficient planning time, the continued pattern of activity suggests a more significant conclusion: that the VKS lacks the institutional capacity to plan, brief and fly complex air operations at scale. There is significant circumstantial evidence to support this, admittedly tentative, explanation."
I don't care who's in charge. I care if suggestions/mandates fit the data. As of today, daily new cases in California are 2x-4x and deaths around 2x what they were in November. If in a week they are 1x then ok, open. But before then? Further, I guess it remains to be seen but I'd suspect lifting the restrictions will just rebound the numbers. Happy if I'm wrong though. I certainly would like to go to meetups, bars, etc...
Having studied a lot of Arabic back in the day, I was fascinated by how many similarities there are in Swahili. I wonder if this influence is conquest based or occurred prior to Islam or if Swahili influences migrated northward. Interesting.
> 1. The driver (occupant?) will be liable. OR,

> 2. The manufacturer will be liable.

We already have big corporations that will risk huge liabilities for fatal vehicle accidents; they're called insurance companies.

So there's precedent for big corporations risking huge liabilities. Just instead of collecting an annual "insurance premium" they'll be collecting an annual "self-driving service subscription"
- Capability

- Motivation

- Linguistics

- Physical location

This is the most robust consilience of evidence of Satoshi anywhere on the internet.
"98% of all canvases use a Canvas2D rendering context" ō_ô
Sawdust is fairly heavy (13 lb/ft³) and messy to be used as a general packing material. Foam peanut by comparison are about 0.2 lb/ft³.
Typo:

> You can do two things with carbon: you can capture it, or you can use it. Both are hard, but the latter is harder, mainly because carbon dioxide is so small.

You can either store (CCS: "Carbon Capture and Storage") or/and use (CCU: "Carbon Capture and Utilization") it.

Fixing the typo:

> You can do two things with carbon: you can store it, or you can use it. Both are hard, but the latter is harder, mainly because carbon dioxide is so small.

Also, probably wouldn't say that it's hard because CO2 is small. Instead, probably just say because [it's got a low enthalpy](https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/30089/why-is-th... ). Otherwise, it'd be like saying that water's hard-to-use because H2O is small, or that gold's hard-to-use because Au is small.
Everything is luck. You ability to learn, acquire and utilize knowledge, physical ability, not getting struck by lightning, being able to play basketball at the level of Lebron James, etc. None if it was earned - some dice were rolled when you were born and that's it.

> You could be the best [whatever] in the world, but if you're on your couch and disconnected, nobody will ever notice.

That is entirely based on luck. Were you born with the correct genetics and environment to get you off your couch or not?

> You can be among the best and be at every conference and active on every forum, and do well in every competition, and be first to launch with every idea, and get funded every time, and still lose badly, repeatedly

There's no difference between getting struck by lightning or being born with the right genetics that give you determination, intelligence, work ethic, etc. All luck.

I don't get this fixation with acknowledging how lucky one is when all of it is luck. We should be concerned with optimizing society so that we get to a point where no human has to struggle any more.
Ukraine want to punish Russia in whatever way it can, which is totally understandable, but it will leave Russians with only internal propaganda, which will make them even easier to control for the regime. Not sure how is it strange?
The advertising ASN does not share any upstream peers. So it might not be a hijack, but it is an interesting event and could be related to the conflict.

Untangling ISPs that have operated in both countries or with subsidiaries is going to get messy while infrastructure is also getting destroyed.
I think this is a great idea. The only way to deal with power is to amass sufficient counter power of your own that ignoring you becomes more costly than dialogue.
E-mail, DNS, and HTTP validation are all vulnerable (so, all the methods besides ACME). As for DNS validation, DNSSEC is opt-in; if one of the 350 different Certificate Authorities doesn't do mandatory stub validation, then the hijack still works on them.

There's actually multiple attacks using BGP. You can either hijack the DNS or E-mail server's IP and spoof records, or you can hijack the IP of the target host and spoof an HTTP response. Or you could try all 3 to maximize your chances.
It gives you sybil resistance with arbitrarily low probability of failure, so you might as well say "proof".
Just wanted to say thank you. Been using ProtonDB extensively lately to find more titles which may be a great fit for my recent migration from Windows towards Linux. Hope I can contribute one day either with the list of games or in any way with the site.

Keep up the good work
Thanks for working on ProtonDB, it's such an invaluable resource. Here's their Patreon if anybody is interested in supporting the project: https://www.patreon.com/protondb
Hmm. If I understand correctly, the website is a play to get money from Wolt by getting other people to sign up via OPs referral code. Seems kind of arbitragey - OP is not actually selling something, and Google would probably rather get the advertising $ from Wolt directly. So I see where Google's coming from, and think it can reasonably be classified as "Engaging in practices that circumvent or interfere with Google's advertising systems and processes, or attempts to do so" - the examples given are non-exhaustive. Why OPs and not other promo / coupon sites? Who knows - maybe the others add some more value, or maybe G will come for them eventually. (Edit - corrected assumption of OPs gender)
I’m kind of surprised we haven’t read about this kind of thing happen to something like a public school or hospital (surely they exist?) relying on Google services.
Well, the publisher paid people for their writing (or content), and then hosts it for revenue.

The publisher didn't pay them in order to give it away for free.

If you start using digital lockpicks to pick their digital lock, and consume their content without paying, they have lost the revenue haven't they?

(Cue "they're not entitled to revenue for intangible goods", and other libertarian arguments that are internally cohesive but not accepted by the public)
wait how? CA workflows should still work and be able to break this?
I wonder what you call the southern half of Quebec. Quebec goes way up north. Southern half of Quebec would exclude almost the entire population of Quebec.

But let's assume you meant stuff close to the US and Ontario border vs. Quebec City. I had to find something where Weathernetwork had data and for some reason the border crossing town of Lacolle, which is about as far south as Quebec goes showed no data but Hemmingford is the same height, just a bit to the west:

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/monthly/quebec/hemmingf...

Now you are right in that -40 is not a temperature that will be had for a long time, that is relegated to the prairies. It also does not happen every year. It's seldom that it dips that low. But here some close enough for my taste examples:

Jan 24: -33.3C
Jan 26: -34.1C
Jan 27: -34.1C
Jan 28: -32.7C
Jan 29: -33.1C

And then if you look at the Laurentians, which is a popular ski and overall winter destination for the millions of people living in and around Montreal and both of these are basically just going "straight up north" (as in highway direction, not map direction) from Lacolle, these temperatures become more frequent and it's more likely to dip that low more often. And all of these are way south of Quebec City. Climate change is not helping, i.e. more historical data would be better. Weather network doesn't seem to have that.

I definitely know more people that have experienced -40C in their life than ones that don't. I have and I do not live in the prairies.
I think what you mean is that "people who moved outside the bay area got more house for their money", but the reason they got paid so much in the first place is because housing is more expensive.
State of Kentucky's Teachers Retirement was the 2nd-largest Sberbank shareholder
Yep, freedom of movement and where (and when) I'm allowed to work is worth probably an additional $20-30k a year to me. So, startups, pay attention.
Maybe but having no mechanism for recourse is pretty unusual. Even Heath insurance companies, which are one step above bloodsucking parasites, have phone support that can actually do stuff.
Thank you for your hard work David! Do I understand correctly that the source of energy for the conversion is (mostly) the hydrogen?

I've been interested in if we could use large bodies of water (like lakes or ponds) to both get a lot of interaction with CO2 from the air, and get energy from the sun to capture carbon. Do you think fermentation could work outside, or would we need a more resilient organism like algae or even seaweed?

My idea is to float a dark membrane on top of the water, with a thin layer of water on top. The dark membrane heats the water, sustaining the algae, and then the algae get robotically harvested. Could that work for your organism?
> you won’t even be aware of the jobs you’ll be looked over for because you didn’t go to the right school, and those “right schools” pre-select based on background.

I didn't believe in class until I met rich people and got to know them quite well.

For Dutch people, all I say is: go to Delft for university. The UvA sucks, the VU sucks, Eindhoven sucks, Twente is irrelevant. Tilburg? No. Groningen? What? Rotterdam: only if you're doing Economics. Leiden? Too close to Delft.

I know how it sounds, but a recruiter also only looks 10 seconds at your resume. It shouldn't be this way, especially because uni's in The Netherlands are quite close in quality. But when it comes to recruiting, prestige signaling allows you to get the foot in the door and apparently Delft has the prestige.

It was painful seeing/hearing this and experiencing it second hand as someone who graduated from both universities of Amsterdam (VU and UvA).

Class was invisible to me in The Netherlands, and then I met rich people. I wish I hadn't. Though the people are awesome, so I am really happy knowing them. So on a personal level I wish I had, but in terms of outlook on Dutch society: I don't want to know (what I consider to be) the truth. It's depressing information and I don't know what I can do about it other than knowing that if I ever get kids they'll probably get a massive advantage in learning educational things really young.

Definition of rich: at least fat FIRE.
> makes me wonder "why now?"

Today's episode of the Scientific American's podcast "COVID Quickly" (https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-push-...) had an interview with Flu pandemic historian John Barry. (The interview is the second half of the episode.)

They asked him how he'd define when a pandemic is over, and he said there's a science aspect to it, but it's largely when "people stop paying attention to it".

They also said the 1918 flu pandemic had 4 waves, and most of the US put restrictions in for wave 2. For wave 3, some areas did and some didn't. By wave 4, which was approximately as severe, NO cities put restrictions in place. Some histories of the flu pandemic don't even mention the 4th wave.

We seem to be following a very similar pattern now. Maybe 2 years (and/or 4 waves) is roughly society's attention span for a pandemic.
There is also the argument that a staff of engineers wants real data to back up decisions and policy. "because mangers like to look over your shoulder" isn't a good reason
> Class identities are much weaker in the US

I think that they are weaker in the US, but also stronger than Americans think they are. Which can lead to confusion.
You understand that US is the principle architect of neo-containment since the iron curtain fell, since the 90s right.

So of course US would want Ukraine to join.
even Thinkpads fell to the chicklet keyboard movement.
I liked some of veritasium's older stuff but it seems to be getting more and more clickbait as time goes on (which is reasonable as it's clear that YT is his job, and YT promotes clickbait above everything else).

A few people said that they "knew" it would be veritasium, but I had guessed it would be Mill computer folk :D
Does anybody take content on Twitter seriously though? I assume if it's published on Twitter, it's garbage. Maybe an internal bias, but it holds true more often than not.

If you're a PhD pushing content on Twitter why would you expect to be taken seriously?
Swahili was born as a language of communication between the Arab merchants, from Oman, and the local Bantu population. That was in Zanzibar, which was an Arabian merchant outpost, much safer than the African mainland. So it has a Bantu grammar substrate and lots of Arabic loanwords.
Join a union
Aw geez I didn't even realize that was a concern! Really thought proton was an above board implementation. That would definitely be disappointing.
You're not wrong with your point, even if your example is. Go has made many breaking changes that still kept compiling, and compiling seems to be the thing they care about the most. Cribbing from a previous comment I've made... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29763324

1. go 1.9 adding monotonic clock readings in a breaking way, i.e. this program changed output from 1.8 to 1.9: https://go.dev/play/p/Mi6cGCPd0rS

2. net/http started defaulting to http/2 for the same methods, an obviously breaking change

3. go1.17 switched to silently truncating a lot of query strings https://go.dev/play/p/azODBvkb-zK

4. Check out 'PreferServerCipherSuites' on tls.Config. https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/tls#Config ; of course that was a breaking change.

There's a few other things like this littered throughout the go stdlib, and I've personally hit far more breaking changes in Go's stdlib than the "go 1 compatibility promise" would have you expect.
Occupy Kyiv?
The second paragraph is so common that you can safely skim/skip it without loss.
#Summle #7: 3/5
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This did not come naturally for me. Spent about 30 mins on it. After a long time, I opened my calc app and worked backwords. From there it only took a few mins..

EDIT: hints might be nice to make it more wordle like
I've yet to see sources on those alleged multiple Russian aircraft losses. There is only 1 that I think has been proven and it happened today.
One downside of futurefonts.xyz is that each font comes with a different license. Bit of a headache to keep track of the individual Terms & Conditions as a typical user who might want to use a couple of fonts in a project. Really wish that fonts were sold under more standardized commercial licenses.

At least with many open & free fonts, the SIL Open Font License is practically the standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License
NATO radars queueing Ukrainian air defence onto Russian planes without them having to turn on their radar.

NATO provides eyes, and Ukrainian air defence provides the missile launch without revealing its position.

By the time the Russian pilot hears the first beep, an Ukrainian SAM would already been travking know of his flight path few minutes prior.
You seem to have omitted the link.
Because the people in charge built their careers by ingratiating themselves in an office culture and can’t wait to get back to their comfort zone.
YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results
Nice! I make emoji games too!

Here's minesweeper https://letter-press.netlify.app/scooper
I would give one more potential explanation: In-fighting and a lack of unity.

If I were in charge of the air force, and Putin ordered large-scale air superiority attacks against Ukrainians, I wouldn't want to do that. Putin might not have the power to order his air force to launch strikes of aggression.

Dictatorships give the impression of being all-powerful, but dictators need to keep constituents appeased, but that's kind of an illusion. Key constituencies -- quite often the generals -- need to remain appeased.

I expect if this were the case, Russia wouldn't advertise this externally. There is every incentive to maintain a united external front.
No we basically begged nato to take us under protection. There are many things people don't like in Eastern Europe about America but no one doubt Russia is the greater evil. Only Americans can afford self reflection and self criticism. There is no such thing in Russia and no one wants to live under baron robber regime, its objective reality. Some countries have been born to wrong geopolitical location and don't have much choice.
New Zealand Covid rates are rapidly increasing [graph]
The book published after the CIA-financed Ukrainian coup of 2014? Easy to predict a response from Russia after a pro-western coup has taken place right? Doesn't make him a prophet. It's like predicting a US response in Afghanistan after 9/11..