skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The example given is “resurrection” from Latin via Old French, and “resurrect” formed much later directly from the English noun. It’s a little confusing because it seems like, at least in the “resurrect” case, it also follows the rules of Latin

Not really; if the verb were taken from Latin it would be "resurge", not "resurrect".

Compare "surge", which is not "surrect". "Translate" has a similar problem where if you took it from Latin it would be "transfer". Though in that case translate appears to have been a verb independent of transfer already in French.

> We erroneously included the Arabic word “al” (meaning “the”) in a bunch of nouns: algorithm

Algorithm is just someone's name. It seems no more erroneous to include the al- part of his name than it is to include the "van der" in the "van der Waals force"
It was enforced for businesses. I don’t think it’s enforced for private users anywhere.
You're giving away the differentiator right in your comment. You've never heard anyone talk about "oversmoking" because there's no such thing as "the right amount of smoking" (or rather, that amount is zero. No smoking is the _correct_ amount of smoking).

I agree that obesity is terrible. I even agree that the "oversugaring" is probably a large portion of the cause side of the obesity problem. I'm just pointing out that when you compare it to smoking, you sound full of yourself. I'm of normal weight but consume way too much sugar (I'm working on it). When you tell me that I'm as bad as smokers I don't hear someone telling me the hard truths. I hear someone erecting a pedestal they can put themselves on.
Why do you give them the benefit of the doubt? There are countless examples of this kind of behavior in top companies.

The difference when it comes to other industries (e.g. food) is that the regulation has had time to develop, and most legislators understand the concepts. So it's harder to cheat.

Forgetting someones opt-out preferences by mistake doesn't ring as severe as using light carcinogens in your food mix.
When I saw "tipping in advance" I thought of Starbucks, though I'm not sure how much that is opportunism and how much it is now an expectation just like a restaurant.
True, but you can make the same case for the addition operator which might have a type annotation somewhere, but it's certainly not visible to most programmers.

Simply put, in many languages there is no addition operator which does mathematically correct addition and that is a sad state of affairs.
Strict vegan diets, in communities that are studied scientifically, were pretty rare until recently.

We'll have good data in a decade or so.
Maybe fear of law. e.g. recording a movie from theatre is a criminal offence.
Japan confronts the problem of ‘mega solar’
Companies not paying their workers normal wages should be considered criminal. They're just trying to avoid having to pay additional taxes and social security, by paying workers lower salaries. Companies expecting workers to be paid by tips should be fined, and customers should not agree as they're complicit in tax evation if they do.
Yes, exactly, binary search is full of traps. And you may have missed one:

(left + right) // 2

is better written 'left + ((right - left) // 2)'. At least on some languages, I don't know which type Python will use there.

'Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken':

https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
Who does that? I have specific apps to run, the choice is to deploy them bare or in containers.
You rename more than you open files and folders? Not sure why, but I find this concept hilarious.

As someone that uses Windows, Linux (many flavors), and am now using a Mac as my primary daily due to M1 superiority, cut and paste is uniform in how it operates everywhere except mac.

Lots of senseless operations that seem to me amount to being different for the hell of it, because users think they are better and refuse to change. Very basic processes, like manually inputting file paths in Finder, turn into an annoying exercise of remembering instead of intuitive derivation. Everything in a modern OS UX in this day & age should have fundamental design in intuition without muscle memory, as opposed to traditional comforts.

MacOS largely fails in this regard, even though I am highly proficient with it now and greatly appreciate the fact that almost everything “just works”.

I like to so an exercise with software where I imagine I am a little kid or an animal trying to accomplish a task without any prior knowledge. What would be my steps? I think that users should be able to use physical intuition to operate tech, but maybe I am a minority.
Having people rely on some unwritten custom where the rich are expected to give a handout as part of their meal feels much more like treating people as slaves than simply paying people a fair wage and charging what that costs to make workable.

I know it's just a different culture and I try to give a decent tip when I'm in the states as my lack of understanding will not improve the situation but it's still fubar.
Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code
You really think a missing translation is going to protect anything? I'm not from Russia, but close enough. We've seen a lot of unofficially translated software (and games) back in the 90s. Some of those translations were really good. And you don't need source code to do it.
If you're changing money, you don't have to be a rich person to get money by courier if you have a Citibank account.

Citi's World Wallet program delivers money by courier or FedEx, depending on where in the world you happen to be when you order.

At least it did before COVID. Considering how Citi has cut branches and services since 2019, it might be different now.
>I think anyone looking at flash now is romanticising the past. It was the least enjoyable thing about web browsing in the 00-s

The least enjoyable thing about web browsing in the 00-s was javascript. Pop-up windows, window resizing, stealing focus. Now javascript is still the reason web sucks. And security has not improved much.
Zorin 16 is based on Ubuntu 20.04.3, so everything you are used to is still there. The only difference is in the UI, with 'Windowish' looking widgets and a focus on usability for non-technical folks.

There are some more extra bells and whistles, as well as service support, in the pro version but I haven't used those in my family computers so I can't comment on that.

I don't want to be dismissive, Zorin is a massive effort but it is mostly a DE change, but it's a DE where they actually thought of the typical non-technical user and cater brilliantly to that.
If you don't understand the difference between WW2 and today... Even worse not understanding the difference between Iraq and Ukraine.

Do you not realize we live in a global economy and Russia is being cut off? There was no global economy during WW2. The U.S. was not cut off for invading Iraq. The Russian economy is in shambles they cannot fight a long war in their current state.

I suggest you delete your account and stop posting the dumbest shit ive read on here in the last few weeks over and over again.
And a cornered rat may bite.
99% time I use YouTube the following way: I download the videos for archival, extract the audio tracks and listen to the in an audiobook app (which is good at adjusting the speed up to 3x and remembering positions I pause at in every track I listen) while commuting or doing chores. I think would consume up to 98% less content if I couldn't do it this way.

It is also important to mention that the YouTube website itself (I don't mean the videos - only the HTML&JS part) is among the slowest websites on the internet, painfully slow to use on Raspberry Pi and old computers.
I "paint" text as well.
The US should legalize pirating Kaspersky Antivirus.

/s
Great comment! This brought back so many similar memories - spending hours configuring Enlightenment and tweaking my desktop with transparency and flames (I hope Rasterman is still out there coding somewhere), everything2, audioscrobbler and last.fm.

You're so right that the internet seemed so full of possibilities.
Yeah I got one of those „high end“ systems and some albums are just not made for quality speakers. Bands like metallica are sounding very bad on those speakers
oh my! Apple just don't seem to appreciate classical music in any way!!!!
Most countries go after distribution which has been somewhat successful.
Also, it should be "pharaoh".
That is me as well in 40s. Infinite scroll doesn't capture me. So I dont understand how people could mindlessly scroll through instagram. My brain is constantly looking for new signals, not noise. And signals are very very rare. Especially once you know enough about a subject, it seems the only thing left are discussions in professional settings or you dig yourself into books.

I think most people dont scroll through social media to seek knowledge at all. They do it for leisure. Which is really switching much of their brain off, and that is normal. Unfortunately my brain is constantly thinking about many things. How? Why?

And as far as my life has gone, I am really abnormal.
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Even that wasn't really OpenGL anymore, even though some internal registers matched OpenGL directly.

The only HW that was truly OpenGL was Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations. IrisGL was released as open standard with some minor changed with the name OpenGL.
> Maybe you should reconsider your logic? Ukraine wasn't attacked because it's a NATO member, it was attacked because (among other things) it wanted to become NATO member.

IOW, it was attacked because it wasn't yet a NATO member. You seem to interpret that as "Better never try!", whereas a far more reasonable conclusion AFAICS is "Get it done ASAP!" Of all the countries Putler has so far invaded, exactly zero have so far been NATO members. Never trying to join NATO leaves a country indefinitely belonging to the high-risk group.

If the fricking NATO had got off its butt and accepted Ukraine ASAP after the last time it applied (2008 IIRC), then Ukraine -- including Crimea! -- could have been a member well before 2014. You really think they'd be where they are now if they were a NATO member?
One of the most efficient ways (that I know of) is to create a trie [0] from your corpus, then incorporate the levenshtein algo into the tree traversal algo to give you a levenshtein automata over a trie. Since a trie is a binary tree, if it's properly balanced, this timing of this operation is O(log(n)).

A less efficient way is to traverse the trie and calculate the Levenshtein distance for each word you encounter.

An even less efficient solution might be to sort all strings in your corpus by length and calculate distance for all of them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
Re: fructose. I was reading recently some interesting theories about fructose possibly being obesogenic, I'm about to leave so I can't do a proper Google search and link the studies. The theory makes sense evolutionarily: fruits were mostly available for a couple months a year, so the body tries to store fruit sugar as fat, for the long cold winter days, instead of using them immediately as short term energy in the form of glycogen.
I have long wanted a layered, hierarchical, curated aggregator for the most the most important news articles.

It should be be browsable by region (world - continent - country), by timeframe (year - month - day), by topic (economy, politics, ...) and should group multiple articles for the same event.

Right now it's very hard to find info for questions like "what happened in Africa last month", "what changed in Taiwan last year", etc.

Unfortunately that would probably require a lot of human curation for now.
Not gonna help, they'll go back to using unofficial translations. There were a lot of those back in the 90s when Western software companies ignored ex-Soviet markets because there wasn't any money to be made there.

I've used a lot of them personally, especially games. Some of those translations were pretty good, and some were so bad they were actually hilarious, and have become a meme (like "wasted → потрачено" in GTA San Andreas)
Compare apples with oranges. Flash is a program, safari is an operating system.
The lang team is very careful in designing new features, and I agree that they don't introduce accidental complexity lightly. Rust is an impressive achievement and a step forward over C++.
People also survive without access to warm water. I think the discussion if external or family care is preferable is answered for both parties in favor of external care.

If one family member stays at home, such care would be possible, but this reality becomes much rarer today. Otherwise you indeed would almost certainly have to quit your job since care is an almost full time occupation you cannot do on the side in many cases.
Let's rename the language then. From now on, the people in Russia are proud about their language, North East Estonian.
Yes. For the matter, many EU countries used extensively this right to deny boats leaving their harbour 2 years ago (because Covid). Specifically Portugal, Spain and France (among others) have been infamous.
That is a nice reasoning and you are right: Russia is able to commit atrocities.

Where you go wrong is that the comment you were replying to was not talking about their ability but their options. The grand parent comment said: (paraphrasing) “Hey, what can Russia do, if no one licences them software?” To which the comment you responded said (again paraphrasing) “They have the option to stop the war”.

You are not disputing that Russia has the option to retreat, you are just talking about how they are strong and nobody can force them. Which might be true, might be false but certainly is a complete non sequitur in the context of this conversation.
This seems like an excellent idea. How easy would it be for, e.g. MS to implement. Are there any potential downsides?
Utilizing unintuitive patterns due entirely to tradition does not justify the practice.
“Enter” both logically and functionally has an intuitive context of “run” or “enter into this object highlighted on screen” within the confines of a file explorer. It is among the largest buttons on the keyboard and its function should be associated with such a presence.

“Rename” is not a rational function bind in any sense — so it is understandable that tradition is the reasoning.

Given how “brave” Apple is to redefine things, like removing a headphone jack or not including chargers, I find it surprising that bravery doesn’t translate to intuitive OS controls contrary to long-held tradition.
Are you sure you are not referring to a theory of direct derivation - which would be quite an irrelevant matter?

Because evidence is that the Sanskrit terminology is massively present in this modern language and defines it; hence, awareness of Sanskrit is fundamental for awareness of the current language - which is the important thing. You could say that if they were unrelated, it would be the most extraordinary coincidence, and if their relation is not of «descende[nce]» that has much more relevance for historians than for language users, kind of mandated to know said language in depth.

In fact,

> pseudoscience

with all that scindere, do not forget the point which is that of understanding phenomena to better know them, activity more of needles than of scissors (don't overcut, the purpose is different).
I thought they would have given up on deploying updates while the bus is driving (opposed to only when it’s being serviced / stationed), but it appears like their whole business proposition didn’t work as intended.

To be honest, I’m usually fairly skeptical to all those “we’re doing the same as X, but we’ll use data to make better decisions!” startups. It’s incredibly difficult to validate, as you usually don’t actually have the data until you’ve reached a certain critical mass, so you’ll end up having to sell the dream instead.
Can I browse the stream of all update notifications? Can I establish filters to the full stream of changes? It was absolutely fantastic and addictive to do that in Freshmeat -- with so many projects to find and explore. And despite the volume, it could be filtered down to what could (barely) be consumed.
Ukraine's gypsy refugees recount discrimination on route to safety
And this comment has been downvoted. This is quite telling ...
I'm not opposed to this. I'm opposed to the West imposing its IP regime on the world. I'm supportive of Western copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets in the US and Western Europe. However, the concept of IP ownership -- let alone specifics of how its structured -- are a cultural and human construct.

Other countries should be free to figure out other ways of doing this.

Very little of this existed prior to around 1700. It's a relatively recent construct too (although there are some historical parallels).

I'm not at all convinced we'll make much progress as society if we impose our values on everyone, and expect everyone to behave the same way. There are fundamentals and externalities -- the war on Ukraine is wrong, and we should intervene. However, on something like having IP law, let alone breaking it up into copyrights/patents/trademarks, let alone stating durations and contexts of all of those, this just seems like overreach.

I feel like this is one of those places where corporate lobbyists managed to change people's values in a way which is quite unfortunate. People learn about IP theft in elementary school, it gets integrated into UN human rights documents, and something which is really culturally-dependent is viewed as universal. It wasn't viewed this way when I was a child.

Even little things make a big difference. We've gone from "copyright infringement" to words like stealing and theft. They're fundamentally different concepts which were intentionally mixed up. If I steal from you, you no longer have what I've stolen. If I copy your software, you still have it; I might just have deprived you of profits (if I had otherwise bought the software).

I'm not arguing against the IP regime in the US/EU, or for breaking IP laws. I'm just arguing we shouldn't force our IP regime on everyone else.
Qt4 is already too tough for me!
Python: Use Ray to run functions in parallel
Codeine isn't designed or intended to kill you, so I'm not sure we can say anything about the effectiveness of the medication in this case.
My least favorite Finder behavior is by default having no scroll bars and allowing files to exist off to the side where they are not displayed and you have zero indication they exist. Like why is this even remotely the default? Why would I even want files to not wrap to the size of the Finder window?

Oh and when Finder won't open a new Finder window because one of those useless "Finder" drag app to Applications folder windows is open despite the fact you can't really find anything with those...
https://www.radioswissclassic.ch/en
Some nice thoughts on human values and technology rooted in the
Greeks. I've bookmarked Luke Smith's site.

As a Digital Vegan [1] who is also a computer scientist I do have to
reconcile my "love of technology for its own sake" within the poetic
lifestyle. Creativity can itself become a distraction and
vanity. Coding can be an indulgence. But then "all is vanity" :)

A missing disposition on Luke's list is Epicureanism. In a world
where we are _forced_ to use technology against our better judgements
(I a have grown tired to the pit of my soul with "hackers" who
proclaim everything "inevitable", "ubiquitous", "inescapable" and see
no vision of a positive future without abject surrender to
technological domination), one must pick the best of all
technologies. A few of only the finest things.

That means not using Google, Microsoft and Facebook because they are
low quality from a humanist perspective.. Searching with Google is
dining at the McDonalds of information. Maybe that makes me a
"techno-snob" or elitist, a badge I'll wear with immense pride.

Anyway, variations on this Greek interpretation of values is found in
many religions and philosophies from Vedic texts to William Blake. At
root it is the struggle between love/life and death, Eros and
Thanatos. To me "convenience and efficiency" are just modern twists
on the darkness of "death and forgetfulness" that any technological
society must go through and overcome on the road to humane technology
[2]

[1] https://digitalvegan.net

[2] https://www.humanetech.com/
People forget that the US did this in several instances in our past. Some of them were in fact during our Colony days.

Like it or not Russia during Putin's rise in the 1990s and the rise of criminal elements in the Russian government declared a war on the West. This time Putin just is saying loudly out-loud via military actions.
Sorry, thanks for the correction!
So you're admitting Putler will use pretty much anything and everything as a pretext... And still advocating caving in to him on every pretext he can come up with?
That's why you never attach the chain to the wheel, but to the triangle made from the frame.
That's not possible during the winter in countries in northern climates.

But preferred when it is possible.
I would love this kind of law.

"All digital content must be made available in country X at the lowest price available in any other jurisdiction. If this condition is not met, said digital content can be freely accessed by any other means."

Unfortunately, most EU & other countries signed up to the draconian "life+130years" copyright agreements...
Any state ultimately derives its power from the people. There are countless examples of this, from peaceful protests to civil disobedience, violent revolutions and military coups.

Or from a different perspective: if the opinion of the citizens doesn't matter, then why is Putin shutting down independent journalism and turning up the propaganda in his own country? That only makes sense if he cares what the public thinks.
I wouldn't worry too much about manufacturing right now. Just build prototypes for now, you're likely to go through many iterations anyway at first. You can sell and market prototypes just fine, people are surprisingly willing to put up with a lot if it solves a real problem for them.

Once you're at the point you can't fulfill all your orders just with prototypes, you can start thinking about scaling. At this point you will have much more experience.
It's also possible to outsource quite a bit of the whole design. It's quite possible to mostly do software despite selling hardware.
It's not "vs", that course is based on the book. I can see that you've posted a few threads like this one in the past week - in that time you could have made some progress in your learning instead of repeatedly asking where to start.
It may be able to reverse global warming, if the Pastafarians are right.
Here in the Netherlands only bikes that are used for leisure 'racing' have quick release levers. But these have no locks at all, because you only use them on biking trips, not to go into the city, go to work, school, or visit some friends. I have never owned a bike with quick release levers and I have been riding a bike more than fifthy years.
That's even more sinister than what I had thought. So you could take two job openings in two towns and two good candidates in those two towns and get 2x the bribe just by doing the inefficient thing and sending them to the wrong post.

Now these two people are out a lot of money and in their mind they have to recoup that money somehow and the cycle of bribes continues. :/
The site caters to those who self-selected to start their day with the news. I believe that is implied.