skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are very wrong, and I know not only because I learned some Japanese (C1 level) and some Chinese (A2), and experimented first hand how easy and helpful it's to transfer vocabulary, but also because I read a lot of the scientific literature on this exact subject. Japanese has 60-70% compound words using morphemes of Chinese origin, and about 60% percent have the same exact meaning in this two languages[1].

Learning vocabulary is also not "the easiest" part of learning a language either, it's one of the most fundamental step of learning a language, which take a massive amount of time. If time can be shelved here (and indeed is in-between Japanese-Chinese, Japanese-Korean, etc. even Vietnamese to Japanese) it can be reinvested elsewhere. Heck, I've seen a Taiwanese girl getting her JLPT N3 after one semester of Japanese study just thanks to the shared vocabulary and characters.

>Reading isn't even a part of knowing a language.

I thought trolling was against the rules here?

[1]松下達彦・陳夢夏・王雪竹・陳林柯（2020）「日中対照漢字語データベースの開発と応用」『日本語教育』177、pp.62-76.
Thanks for the kind comment. The dark mode is on the dev plan, I just didn’t have it ready for launch.
> Erm, the US and UK ? Their handling has been dire.

Strange how the idea the UK mishandled the crisis persists, but at least one report [1] suggests otherwise, maybe the UK could have done better but certainly didn't do much worse than it's peers:

United Kingdom excess mortality per 100000 people due to Covid: 128 (ratio of actual excess deaths compared to reported: 0.97) <- actually over reported deaths

France excess mortality per 100000 people due to Covid: 124 (ratio of actual excess deaths compared to reported: 1.28)

Spain excess mortality per 100000 people due to Covid: 186 (ratio of actual excess deaths compared to reported: 1.64)

Italy excess mortality per 100000 people due to Covid: 227 (ratio of actual excess deaths compared to reported: 1.89)

Poland excess mortality per 100000 people due to Covid: 297 (ratio of actual excess deaths compared to reported: 2.20)

1. https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2821... (PDF)
The article itself mentions this:

https://c9x.me/compile/
+1 on dedicated server. It's so much simpler & cost effective than the cloud.

10 big dedicated servers can probably handle the same load as 100s to 1000s of cloud nodes for a fraction of the cost. Configuration and general complexity might even be simpler without the cloud.

It's not as hard as people make it out to be to set up backup and redundancy/failover.
I know of several retailers and companies serving retailers that switched away from AWS around the time they bought Whole Foods. Before our company switched away, we had multiple retailers say that they would not use our services hosted by one of their biggest competitors.
> For example, placing the metadata block at the end of the file means you must download (or read from local storage) the entire song before you can play it. To avoid this, encoders tend to place it before the much larger multimedia stream block. The metadata block refers to absolute positions inside the multimedia stream block measured as an offset from the start of the file. You can’t make changes to the metadata (e.g. change the spelling of an artist’s name) without reassembling the entire file to recalculate the offsets.
What if the incompetence is maliciously decided upon? Hanlon's razor works for individuals, but falls apart for larger institutions.
In my experience a lot of difficultly with Azure arises because a business is probably already using Azure to manage it's IT infrastructure.

You then get into sticky situations where IT are unhappy handing over admin access to the Ops teams: for example refusing access to AAD because it is integrated with the _corporate_ domain.

This might seem fine on the surface, it's just a people issue, but it can become very tiresome when dealing with Azure resources their permissions.

Worse still is some Azure resources use AAD almost like a data store: such as b2b and b2c. If you have write back enabled on your AAD (as most companies would - otherwise users wouldn't be able to self service forgotten passwords) you will _apparently_ clog up the on-premise domain with foreign objects from your b2b configuration.

Of course you can get around all of this by having a separate tenant in Azure for SaaS teams/Ops only. But you introduce the headache of management (should both tenants be under a super enterprise tenant?) and single sign on (security might say there is only one user login for everything with RBAC & MFA managed from one place... now you have to join the tenants somehow...)
Except that Le Monde is not really quality journalism.

It is owned by the wealthiest French people, gets government subsidies, and has advertising on it.

All of these are fighting against the independence and objectivity of the content.

Mediapart, who doesn't have these problems, also has content in English, if you're desperate for a French point of view.

Le Monde will only serve you more liberal, globalist propaganda.

https://www.mediapart.fr/en/english
I'm curious - are there any features of System/360, that we don't have in modern operating systems, that would be worth implementing?
Mine is https://marclittlemore.com

I eventually settled on Eleventy as the site generator and it's hosted on Netlify. I'm an Engineering Manager so I write about intentional technical leadership, and interesting tech challenges.

Newsletter about tech leadership is here too - https://marclittlemore.com/newsletter
Worth reading inded if you believe in getting different perspectives to get a vague idea of what's really going on.

However, fair warning: Le Monde diplomatique is heavily biased reporting.
Having plans for what to do in case of a success disaster is good. Spending in expectation of having a success disaster can be disastrous.
Relatedly, my experience is that learning relational theory and SQL first makes it harder to learn Microsoft Access.

I'm afraid that the converse might be true too, so I consider this to be a negative point for Access.
Thanks for explaining. It seems our talking past each other stems from statements like:

>where region 3 is making decisions

>If region 3 causes someone to be late

>if region 3 is in charge

As you state, "this paragraph is only if region 3 is in charge." Central to my point is that Region 3 is not in charge like we generally think. Your perspective that the rational brain is in charge is common, but it's an error in understanding the way we make decisions. There's interesting research on this, but unfortunately not a lot of it because (for ethical reasons) it was previously required to find someone for damage to a specific portion of their brain. (Now they have other techniques). There are instances of people who have damage to their limbic system and literally take hours to make a decision with something as simple as where to get lunch. That should be a fairly easy decision if the rational Region 3 was in charge, right? But it's not; most of our decisions get initiated in Region 2 and then our Region 3 rationalizes an explanation. So someone will be late because Region 1/2 is scared and Region 3 comes up with a reason to justify their behavior like "I was afraid to meet you on my own."

Is it a good reason? No, but I was just laying context as to why it happens. To your point, we can learn to override it but often that is what results in a delayed decision because it takes time to reduce the cognitive dissonance. Hence being late.
Filter box for Android is one. No root necessary.
i wonder what part of that image caused the adult content warning.
From quick scan of v7 exec() implementation it seems that it has to be case as getxfile() would return ENOEXEC for files smaller than sizeof(u_exdata) (which is a.out header as C struct).
I've been subscribed to the paper version for a year now (French version), it's great, probably one of the best French newspaper to read.
https://youtu.be/F3hPvusB0ds

For those who are turned off by "cerebritiesh" (pronounced the way Taleb fan of Wolfie would, or perhaps Sean Connery if he had the chance to meet the old dog in person)

But who secretly indulge in Nobel laureate fanboyism

Here is a video of 't Hooft talking about cell autos & quanta. I don't understand it but boy am I happy to see properly labelled figures for self-styled adults.

Dutch prof has the homely charm of mashed potatoes which goes well with dreams of Illinois corn fields (near the Wolfie homebase) should you fall asleep
can we build an AI to detect that the AI goalposts keep getting moved?
The simple verification aspect of unit tests makes writing code easier and more purposeful in my opinion. At a most basic level it's kind of like a small informal proof. When the code base get's complex and larger in size this is invaluable if unit tests are written correctly. Tests have to make sense and be written well just like any other piece of code.

It also helps form thinking about test cases and logic before writing code. Before I used exhaustive unit tests I would just start writing code right away and often times this would result in constant refactoring as the code evolved or during debugging. But unit tests encouraged me to scaffold out abstract functions and write tests before implementing the code. It got me thinking about what the logic and workflows then implementing the functions meant having the tests pass as verification.
can you tell me more about how to get these “s3” keys
I bet there are some incredible taboo versions of foods out there. Middle-eastern recipes with pork, for example.
I believe that you may be significantly underestimating the incompetence of most organizations.
Me, too. I brush up my French (https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/), and I love when the paper is delivered.
Mark Kozelek beautifully expressed a more melancholic version of this sentiment in 24, the first track of Red House Painters’ first album: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=i0-FA_svTKg

In the song, he acknowledges his lack of accomplishments as he gets older. There’s ambiguity as to whether he’s more regretful that he never achieved the heights that his younger self envisioned – or if he’s coming to accept this. While he wrote the song in his early twenties, I guess this is a sentiment we can all relate to: there’s always some age-related milestone looming ahead of us.
> Drive is something we can choose and cultivate.

That sounds like hybris. I am not disagreeing that you can alter it to a degree, but it is certainly not something you choose. Just think about how you feel when you are ill and now think of people with allergies for example, that can always feel ill depending on circumstances.

These limits exist always and they are different from person to person and these limits are not always set by (obvious) illnesses, but by the body in general.

edit: limit => limits
https://vadimkravcenko.com

I write mostly about how I build digital agency into millions of revenue, advice for early stage startups and scaling development to 100s of devs.
You cleverly avoid the fact that many of us also don't pay cable tv providers the equivalent of what we pay our electric providers. Internet streaming providers on the other hand already charge us as much, or even more than what we pay for our internet service.
Don't worry, the worst thing they would do is just shoot me in the head or something (all over the world), the second worst thing is chemically castrate me (Turing) or electrocute me, the third worst thing is put me in solitary confinement (famous cases), the fourth worst thing is waterboard me or torture me physically (Guantanimo), and the fourth worst thing is apparently historically the German Stasi would subtlely try to ruin people's relationships with their family.

That is a small risk to pay in exchange for learning the answer to the question:

-> Are there any reasons not to defund the intelligence community? If so, what? It appears its members could just get other jobs, while this would increase freedom without any downsides. Are there any benefits to having an intelligence community, and if so what?

So that's why I don't mind posting it. You haven't listed any. Are there any reasons not to defund the intelligence community? If so, what? It appears its members could just get other jobs, while this would increase freedom without any downsides. Are there any benefits to having an intelligence community, and if so what?

If you know of any, please do list them.
I've developed teaching modules (for real-world stuff; not academia).

It's a huge amount of work, and needs to last a long time, because changing it is a bear.

Also, It. Cannot. Be. Wrong. Very often, the students I'm training are smarter and more experienced than I am. This tiny little corner of things is the only place that I have anything to tell them.

This means that keeping examples as small as possible, is to my advantage.

I usually consider any class I take, or give, as a "starting point." All I do, is plant the seed.

I think teaching good techniques and heuristics is more important than teaching rote.
Lambda is billed to the nearest 1ms and you can always lower your RAM and CPU requirements per function. Though at some point you hit the minimum.

To flip (because I'm generally pro lambda) the one call per instance also encourages global state (since you don't need to worry about two calls running in parallel using the same memory), which is pretty bad coding practice.
> Still, why not follow the goals you feel you should pursue?

I think that's the problem I tried to describe: I don't have any.

It seems everyone has goals that they put aside for one reason or another. I achieved the majority of the goals I had, dropped some that made no sense and now there's no path set out anymore. I don't feel I should pursue anything.
I think Apple is neither stupid nor incompetent, leaving the third option: they made a choice to do harm, if only by choosing to do nothing.
GCC isn't all that bad. I wrote this guide a while ago, but GCC hasn't changed too much since then: https://atgreen.github.io/ggx/
I have pretty much replaced my spreadsheets with postgres(sqlite would have worked as well, but... I really like postgres) simple calculations end up as views, more complicated ones end up as an external script. a postgres function would work, but I find external scripts easier to manage.

Once, as a sort of programing kata, I wanted to see if I could turn a simple spreadsheet I found on the internet into a view.

transformer calculator: https://ludens.cl/Electron/trafos/trafos.html

I was successful in that I was able to put the logic in what would have been a ten line program into, well, this 150 line monstrosity.

same transformer calculator as a view: https://pastebin.com/xyDeAV7R

Takeaway: the relational database works well to replace the spreadsheet when the spreadsheet is used as a data store, not so much when the spreadsheet is used as a programing language. but for that, the purpose built programing language is far superior.
https://james.brooks.page

I don't blog enough really, but it does serve as a nice mirror for my Laravel blog posts.

I also share what hardware and software I use at https://james.brooks.page/uses
> The entire site was a single C source file littered with embedded HTML, a few separate HTML files for things like an FAQ, and a directory of compressed user page data in some proprietary format (including images) that was decompressed on-the-fly. Served over Apache with some CGI magic.

I know that it is a very slender hope but it would be cool to see the source of this.
Wolfram is saying that the new multicomputational paradigm that, he is heavily intellectually invested in and paying for the R&D himself, MIGHT revolutionize physics biology economy and the rest. This blog post is about scaling up the efforts, by founding an institute, to see if this new paradigm can actually deliver.

So weird for the hackernews audience to hate on this mans idea's so much. Its worth a shot no?

Elon Musk is often hailed a hero for paradigm shifting to reusable rockets and wanting to use this to colonize mars. But try and do a paradigm shift in physics, out of pocket, and the haters come out in droves.

I say let the man have a go at it. We might learn something!
Yes, very obviously. There are L8s and L9s who have built their careers on just working with the Linux community, let alone running the whole thing.
I've bounced between AWS, Azure, and GCP. Once they get entrenched enough the credits stop but right now it's GCP with the best incentives.

Also, don't sleep on Oracle. Their cloud platform is stupidly competitive price-wise but limited feature-wise. If you're just looking for basic compute and storage they can't be beat, sans credits.
I was surprised at France's "international" (read: English) coverage of the Ukraine war from their state broadcasting France24.

https://www.youtube.com/c/FRANCE24English

They've been live and free since at least the start of the conflict: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3MuIUNCCzI

It's interesting to see France cater to anglophones when in Quebec we do the opposite and try to convert as many people to French as possible in order to "protect the French language". You'll never see a French Quebec broadcaster spin up an anglophone version..
Is it worth buying? I keep it in the steam wishlist and only know of the game because of the author's programming rants, but have no idea if it's actually enjoyable
Sure, I’ll concede that definition. But I’m referring to truth claims presented as facts.
No, it's mostly beef. And the part that isn't beef is mostly water and seasonings, not filler. The taco beef I make from scratch is even less beef by proportion. That whole fuss was so stupid, but their response was too. They should've just said "Ya, it's taco beef. Not beef. Go make it yourself and measure the proportions."
Who is this Rachel and why does she use HN as her personal blog outlet?
Moved a project with around 600k monthly users from Heroku / Google (split setup) to full AWS setup.

Whole process took around 3 months, that was from start of creating AWS account to finish when all production environments were running on AWS and Heroku was "shut down". There was some planning ahead of this as well, so actual time varies.

Heroku was heavily limiting platform (for example, they didn't and still don't support http2) and we needed more control over our infrastructure to support further growth without paying enormous costs (for example, redis prices in Heroku are just mind-blowing).

Also as we were about to open few new markets, Heroku would have required a lot of manual work to get everything working, something which is really, really simple with Kubernetes.

Our monthly costs did go up vs what we had at Heroku at that time, but we're getting a lot more control and bang out of the buck.

Regarding convincing stakeholders, you really need to have good reasons to do it. These kind of switches are not cheap nor easy and come with bunch of risks. The easiest thing to sell is always pricing, but in that case you have to show calculations (big guys like AWS and Google have pretty decent calculators you could use) which show the switch is worth it.

As I was moving from small player (Heroku) to a big player (AWS) I also had other good reasons (better CI, better logging, better performance overview, more control in general). So it really improved a lot of things for the developers, devops and users.
That is a valid and excellent point. Nuance is often discarded in favour of stirring trouble and it is very frustrating.
Have you thought about using a static generator? I believe it would work perfectly.
> Except tha le Monde is not really quality journalism.

Agreed, but the other source you mention (Mediapart) is not what I would call quality journalism either, their political bias is intense.

I'm likely naive, but in my book, quality journalism is supposed to report facts, as much as they can be established without tainting them with a selection bias and must steer clear of injecting one's opinion in the content produced unless it comes with a truly clear warning ("this is an opinion piece").

Mediapart is profoundly not that.
This gives me hope! I'm mid-thirties and getting older.
I was talking about reality: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/julia-joins-petaflop-cl...

Nothing overstated; just the circumstance in the real world that these four languages are the only ones used in the most demanding HPC.

C and Fortran are also not as fast as they could be if you use them incorrectly. Using concrete types is not “significant tweaking”.
There is a quote (written 20 years ago) about Wolfram that sums up why people feel that way towards him,

> There’s a tradition of scientists approaching senility to come up with grand, improbable theories. Wolfram is unusual in that he’s doing this in his 40s.
> It's not too late to find the truth.

What is the truth?
I wonder why they didn't have it previously. What large French news sources/agencies have an English version?
Kaj ĝi proponas esperantan version: https://eo.mondediplo.com/
>> Get unlimited access to Le Monde in English €2.49/month, cancel anytime

>> A Customer who wishes to terminate their contract must print out (or copy on plain paper) ...

So, cancel anytime by conveniently printing out and filling in a form then sending it by snail mail to their customer service dept. I think I'll pass. Too bad.

https://moncompte.lemonde.fr/cgv-en
Is MetricFlow what Transform (the product) uses under the hood?
It's mainly because of the history of VFX tools and pipelines. A lot of game studios adopted tools from ILM and Pixar. One of the first notable presentation on compositing must be from the 1984 SIGGRAPH held by Porter and Duff. They both went and implemented a node based workflow through the whole pipeline at ILM and later at Pixar. Visual Programming also is a lower barrier of entry, at VFX and Game Studios artist need to proficient in the underlying architecture to get optimal performance and visual fidelity it's easier to give them tools like node base shaders or blueprints instead of code. Most visual programming is also realtime which makes it a lot easier to understand for non programmers.

https://keithp.com/~keithp/porterduff/p253-porter.pdf
Apearantly MS thought that nothing would :) genius..
If only they had the foresight not release this type of stuff before running proper QA
Moved from Google Cloud -> Digital Ocean -> OVH.

Running our own stuff on high powered servers is very easy and less trouble than you think. Sorted out the deploy with a "git push" and build container(s) meant we could just "Set it and forget it".

We have a bit under a terabyte of Postgresql data. Any cloud is prohibitively expensive.

I think some people think that the cloud is as good a sliced bread. It does not really save any developer time.

But it's slower and more expensive than your own server by a huge margin. And I can always do my own stuff on my own iron. Really, I can't see a compelling reason to be in the cloud for the majority of mid-level workloads like ours.
I don't doubt the usefulness of unit tests.
I think people that were told that they were special and that they'd amount to something great as children are the ones that suffer most from this mentality.

The expectation of performance was artificially inflated which leads to difficulty dealing with failure and constant feelings of dissatisfaction.
Glad to see Julia is catching up. D language has beaten Fortran based BLAS library in the performance metrics for more than five years now [1].

[1] Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen:

http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
FAA, do your damn job
Probably some missing nuance. That said, it seems pretty indefensible that it’s taken the FAA more than a decade to reach a decision on an unleaded avgas alternative.