skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s especially ironic when Japan is the embodiment of what the average tech person in the West purports to be ideologically offended by: nationalism ( celebration of war criminals, denialism of crimes in Pacific Theater as a hoax ) , racism ( and a racial superiority complex ), sexism ( top medical school recently found to set lower bar for male candidates ), sexual assault not being pursued by criminal justice system , animal rights, pollution ( Japan is one of the top recyclers, but everything is individually wrapped and wasteful ), cultural appropriation, classicism with remnants of feudalism, worshipping and upholding white male privilege, xenophobia ( Japan’s borders was once closed for hundreds of years. The border being restricted over the past 2 years is not surprising ), stubbornness to adapt to new technology, mega corporations controlling the narrative on “factory towns” ( visit Nagasaki and you will see the mainstream museums praise Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for its part in the industrialization of Japan, but mention of forced laborers was absent. Their lobbyist even admitted the local Japanese residents found it uncomfortable that industrialists were applying for UNESCO heritage ), hierarchy/authoritarianism, and general intolerance ( people with tattoos are not allowed into public baths. Customers will leave reviews about “dirty tattoos” if chefs accidentally didn’t cover up fully. I’ve even seen a particularly intolerant Buddhist temples that prohibited people who have tattoos or wear skirts )
Cycling is essentially the only mode of transportation that I use but I never carry any spare parts or tools with me. Not even a pump. The only tool I carry is some cash and a credit card.
“the performance of the underlying hardware has increased so much in the last decade that the simplicity of SQLite has become a more important tradeoff”

Thanks for articulating this so clearly! It's going to be interesting also to see how much simplicity is realized from new thread-per-core designs leveraging io_uring to get rid of multithreading, locks and memory barriers scattered throughout the control plane. The performance dynamics are all changing and it's easier than ever to be writing simple, fast systems, that hit the 90% sweet spot.

You've probably also seen McSherry et. al's “Scalability! But at what COST?” [1]

[1] http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...
In another top-level response, Cyberdog asks, “Why is an article like this on the front page of HN?” That’s a very reasonable question.

But now that the article is there, let me make a few comments about dakuten, handakuten, and hiragana in general.

I grew up in the U.S., but I have been living in Japan, and mostly in Japanese, for nearly forty years. Thirty years ago, I watched my two daughters acquire Japanese as their first language, and now I am enjoying watching my two-year-old grandson grow up with the language as well. (He is also picking up some English from me.)

What has struck me both times is how beneficial hiragana is to the acquisition of first-language literacy. Because there is nearly a one-to-one correspondence between symbol and pronunciation, many children learn to recognize hiragana words that they know very early—before age three, in the case of both my daughters and my grandson.

I suspect that is much less common with English, because of the poor correspondence between symbols and phonemes.

The full written Japanese language, especially kanji, is much more complex and irregular, of course. But that head-start in reading hiragana may help many children get interested in reading at an earlier age than with English.

In the last week or so, my daughter and I have noticed that my grandson has started to read dakuten characters correctly. He now (usually) recognizes that since た is ta then だ is da and that since き is ki then ぎ is gi, that is, the cases in which the ゛(dakuten) indicates that the initial consonant becomes voiced. He doesn’t yet understand, though, how はひふへほ ha hi hu (fu) he ho becomes ばびぶべぼ ba bi bu be bo and ぱぴぷぺぽ pa pi pu pe po, because the difference between h and b/p is not just a simple voiceless-to-voiced change.

According to a Japanese book on children’s language acquisition [1], many children learning Japanese as a first language have the same problem with the は series hiragana.

[1] https://www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b281696.html
There's been concrete expirements looking for dark matter (not yet found). That advances science, even if unfruitful.

I don't think there have been any expirements re: strings? So it advances philosophy, but not really science yet.
i don't understand how they expect anyone to trust them and rely on these cat paws if they could be EOL at any moment in favor of some other easter egg
Haha, indeed. The wife is never wrong.
Link for lazy people: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22joey+tribbiani%22
The lack of 5 ghz wifi and micro usb are slightly annoying, but overall, I love it.
Synthetic “forever chemical” linked to liver cancer
The example (Twitter) does not use a web view - it uses SFSafariViewController.

This is the system browser as a modal over an app, a compromise for apps being able to retain navigational control (by having the user return to twitter when they hit 'Done') while not having the privacy, security and usability drawbacks of a webview.
Yes, the World Is Burning, but There's Reasons for Optimism
I switched from a Kindle to a Kobo, and now back to a Kindle.

My experience was that the Kindle's responsiveness to changes (next/previous/moving around in the OS) was better, just significant enough to be bothering me when I was using the Kobo.
Free market health care is far cheaper than socialized health care.
Yeah, that's how corporate America works, buddy. You give up on finding fulfillment at work or striking it rich, and just do what they tell you without thinking too much about it. In return, you get to clock out at 5 and take a nice vacation every year.
Record Death Valley flooding ‘a once-in-1k-year event’
I'm curious about the cost of hosting if you're using plain ol' VMs instead of lambdas (EC2, etc.). What are those functions written in? Unless you're going to say C/C++/Rust or a similar language, I'm not sure there will be any significant variance.
Seeing the old Google bleed through is depressing sometimes.
Kublet: Mini Monitors for Your Desk
I mean Japan has a much lower crime rate than the US, and no massive opioid epidemic, huge homeless camps in the middle of major cities or elderly Asian people being randomly assaulted on the streets like the US does, so I don't know why it should follow in the footsteps of the US. The US should set an example that others want to follow.
A death sentence? Very few middle class people are at death's door and require constant medical intervention.
Where exclusive distribution exists there is little or no competition on price, service or quality. Why bother - they own the content, if you want to watch, you will put up with whatever.

I still put up with listening to Joe Buck call the World Series because Fox has exclusive rights to the broadcast. I would pay money to hear just about anyone else call it, including an ML powered Vin Scullybot (RIP).

Alas, I cannot, for a lack of FRAND licensing.
Sometimes it's also better to lose a battle in order to win a war. For example, I once thought a certain feature was useless and not worth the effort to implement. I knew however that if I chose that hill to die on, it would lead to a lot of resentment -- "if only we had built that feature, we would have X". I decided to concede as this was not a big feature but, like I predicted, the feature was useless. This now put me in a better position for the future where I could draw on this as a lesson for when it truly mattered. Whenever we would be at risk of getting distracted by some much bigger useless feature, I was able to point back to that experience to bolster my dissent with more credibility in a way I might not have been able to if I didn't pick my battles.
> First, it is not your job to make that kind of technology decision. You can offer advice, but it is your manager's job.

Err, no: "A manager came to me asking if we should rewrite the checkout of our E-Commerce platform using React [...]"

> You wanted to frame the entire conversation around, "Does this checkout form have a concrete problem that needs fixing?" Your manager's thinking is going to be about very different looking questions.

This is literally their first question: "Is our checkout page not performing well?". The manager should have simply said "the problem is not performance, but X" instead of assuming that the developer is rejecting their idea.

> You may dismiss them as bullshit, but they are not.

It is interesting that you, like the manager, assume that they dismissed the idea.

> And that AGAIN puts you in the wrong.

I disagree. If the manager is not able to clarify the specifics of their question (remember, it was a question of whether they should do X) they are in the wrong.
For just a few minutes. Typically, owners of kids have them for longer than that. If you had kids of your own, you'd understand why.
Kindle can be significantly cheaper and easier to obtain. You can still use Calibre with Kindle, that’s what I do.
Sony's love affair with propriety formats (Betamax, MiniDisc (and ATRAC), Media Stick, UMD) doesn't do them any favors.
Another day, another hyperbolical title. 100 years ago, knowledge of perception was in its infancy. We still don't know much, but we do know that all attempts at a simple, mathematical description of perceptual processes {*} have failed. They're interesting, can serve as an introduction to a problem, may help you to build a better web app, etc., but come nowhere near the complexity of an actual brain. It takes a pretty large neural net to decypher phonemes even in clear speech. Viewing color perception as an independent function mapping one space onto another is already flawed, as the chessboard illusion already shows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion).

{*} This is not limited to perception. Attempts to described even small parts of reasoning, language and memory with simple models failed too, but that seems less surprising, since perception is closer to the physical reality.
> You're using "Northern California" and "Southern California" differently from everyone else; in normal use, Northern California is the Bay Area, not the north of the state.

No, norcal is north of LA, not just the bay area. I’ve never heard of anybody referring to the bay area as norcal, it’s always “bay area”
I wonder what it would be like to independently adjust the leverage ratio on each crank? Maybe if you had one leg stronger than the other? Or you could maintain two gearings for different scenarios — left leg power, right leg torque?

A silly idea, for sure, but fun to think about and a unique feature of a two sided drive.
Mond doesn't need that to explain early galaxies. When the matter is sparse gravitational contributions are weak and thus overwhelmingly in the O(1/r) regime and not the O(1/r^2) -- this makes gravity "seem stronger", and so stuff clumps together faster.
I have met 10x engineers. They solve a problem in an hour that takes me all day and which someone else might never be able to solve. They identify and solve problems I couldn't even begin to tackle. In that sense, they're not really 10x but qualitatively superior.
Some more stories about more impossible bugs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2p6qy5/4_impossible_...
I confused you with the person I originally replied to.

Still, my solution still allows to have a passwordless bootloader if you choose to not set a password, so I really don't get what would be wrong with it.
I downloaded send to kindle this weekend trying to upload file bigger than 25mb tgat I can’t send by gmail. It didn’t accept ePub. I ended by using calibre to send it as email
I had this happen as well and ran the epub through Calibre, converting epub to epub. That actually fixed it and the Kindle accepted the new file.
relying on a catspaw is probably documented as "don't do that" from the book of cons, long con, "the sting" and "paper moon"

the LAST THING YOU ARE MEANT TO DO is rely on the catspaw. you just became the mark.
Huh. It didn't really answer the question for me, but, anyway, now I'm more wondering about how comes that this question never occured to me in my entire life. This seems like the most obvious thing to ask, but I don't remember ever wondering about it.
Call it whatever you want but by and large people prefer to live around other people with whom they share the same culture and language. Even in countries with large amounts of immigration people self-segregate to be around people like themselves.
I'm sure the people who do the competing enjoy it, but I can't imagine it being something any large group of people would enjoy watching.
So you collecting candidates details in a google doc. What next?
It depends of the degree of autism.
The less autistic one will need proof to accept the true.
The hard autistic one will not accept any evidence until his way of think.
adds jrochkind1 to watchlist
Under whose leadership did this state of affairs come to be? Pathetic!!
I mean, I assume there's a vaguely-defined line between San Francisco and Los Angeles that notionally separates the north from the south. It doesn't make any more sense to say Southern California is nothing but LA than it does to say Northern California is nothing but the Bay Area.

But my point is that the region to the north of, say, Berkeley, is not part of "Northern California". It's too far north for that.
Yes, but lots of primate species also conduct a lot of rape and bullying. The best distinction I have between humans and other primates is that humans can change what they have believed to was their nature. Until somewhat recently, on this planet, all primates lived in a jungle.

I'm not saying it'd be easy.
The thing about the autistic masking causing trauma thing is that I haven’t really seen high quality evidence for the theory. It just sounds intuitively correct.
There were manufactures and dealer rebates before. My coworker bought Odyssey years ago for $6k off MSRP. I am not in the market for a minivan, so I don't know what rebates were year ago.
Yeah, it's odd that it's mandatory. I guess they're maximising business cases by making a phone appropriate for children as well as a detox phone.
A Twitter thread on WeChat from a western political/defence/strategy perspective
keep on dreaming
Huge hobby projects are notorious for sucking the life out of the hobbyist. It usually starts with a strong emotional connection in the form of conviction, vision, and probably way too much patience with oneself.

Then the patience goes, the vision needs adjustment, and finally the conviction is in doubt...

So good job hanging in there.

Here are things that help me:

- I encourage myself to b*tch about it, especially if I am passionate about it. Never did this before but it's just a fun alternative to being too serious...and still being annoyed. And if you have even the tiniest amount of bad == good reverse psychology, this will be giving yourself energy by definition. "I hate this piece of sh*t hobby! God what a waste of--" (suki no uchi dazo)

- I use micro-passions instead of micro-visions. I put it aside until the next wave comes. If I'm afraid the next wave won't come, I rank the micro-passions. Like break it down to 5-10 components (at least) that you like, and then rank them by how much you like doing them. (Not how much you like completing them) From there it becomes a question of surfing the waves as they come.

- Human psychology is really, really primitive in terms of its use of interest-symbols as pointers to deeper insights, so you can sometimes take advantage of it. Study what the specific hobby-topic says about your life, and what it's suggesting. This can help you be less serious about a hobby, even if you're still interested in it (== better able to commit steady, patient interest to it over time). IOW you might realize "I'm building and painting model cars because my mind is hitting me with a clue-bat, suggesting I can maybe design an enjoyable life where I'm in control of the wheel and actively going somewhere" is a surprisingly a) good fit to one's subjective reality sometimes and b) disturbingly funny insight into where you're at. You can start with a dream dictionary since those are really just symbol dictionaries.

- Document your progress, this is huge. If you lose clarity on your next step (of say, 2-5 minutes length) it's easy to get derailed. If you lose track of your personal method because you never documented it, ditto. Nobody wants to re-figure-out that stuff. I make sure there's a how-to component and a logging component as well.

One other big one:

- Keep a list of your interests. What happens is, you'll discover that you're always in the mood for _something_ so if you like lots of things, you'll effectively never be able to lose touch with your passions. And this feels damn good. "Ah damn, my hobby nuclear reactor isn't feeling interesting today, good thing I have been needing to put in some time on my donut-critic hobby!"

Hang in there, and may your visions come true in ways that force a good cackle.
Ask HN: How to best present to semi tech/quant-savvy audience?
Recently I have found myself presenting to senior management at a bank. I have found these presentations go one of three ways.

1) Fairly well but without a deep audience understanding
2) Fairly well with the audience hyper-fixated on the wrong detail
3) Fairly well with the audience hyper-fixated on the right detail
4) Fairly poorly with a few pity questions asked at the end

Because I keep getting asked back I'm sure I am on to something. But I really want to take these to the next level and put myself in buckets 1, 2 and 3 while avoiding bucket 4. I know due to natural variation in outcomes that there will be some 4's even for the best presenters.

Obviously this is context-dependent but I want to hear from the community.
It wouldn’t be much of a disability if autistic people could just learn to stop being disabled.
At least author title and cover is kept - I’ve sent few books few days ago. There was a period when it didn’t handle them well when sent via email, but they fixed it few months ago
> And I have to say, I would be pretty irritated if every site demanded to open in my main browser. Many if not most links I tap are quick one and dones I’d prefer to not clutter up my tabs.

Sure, but why does that have to imply that you get "per-app cookies, storage, etc"? What I want is a Safari tab as a modal temporarily overlaying the app. It is a tab of my regular web browser, with access to my regular web-browsing profile, and without the app having access to it any more than the app would have access to a tab it caused to open in regular Safari — except that 1. it doesn't show up in Safari's tabs, only as a window "stuck on top of" the particular app; and 2. the window knows what it's displaying is ephemeral, so it's easy to close it and return to the app by just swiping it away. (A lot like the Safari long-press preview modal, actually.)

Basically, SFSafariViewController should work less like an isolated browsing session, and more like the way OS file-pickers work in desktop OSes — where the UI-as-client makes a synchronous request to another app-as-IPC-server to pop a window, and then blocks until that window goes away.
The binary tree benchmark is made to stress test the GC algorithm, and Java beats out every single managed language by a huge degree. Low-level languages don’t do the same thing for this test, so I don’t really see the point of comparing C vs Java on this test - unless using raw memory buffers would be allowed for java as well.
First assignment: find header and footer settings in the ribbon.
Epicycles aren't wrong, they're not even wrong. You could model an orbit that looks like homer Simpson's face with epicycles, but the ancients weren't sophisticated enough to understand that. The problem is that the technique of epicycles this has diminishing explanatory power, as you add more free variables (how many epicycles you are "allowed" to have.

The reason why LCDM gets called epicycles is that there is charitably one free parameter per galaxy (dm: bm ratio -- but actually more, because it's an arbitrary distribution)... So the fact that it has high explanatory power is unsurprising. And what's should be dismaying is the number of things it can't explain, given just how many free parameters you're allowed to have in a DM model.
What are you even saying here?

> And weirdly those people all get paid to write op-eds in right wing tabloids.

Oh, spreading hate. Got it.
why not xterm?
xterm respect most of standard, maybe one of the closest to all standards.
SQLite-based APIs, you ship your code as an SQLite extension and users interact with it via a virtual table.
Wireless will always be worse than proper fiber.

In a perfect world, we would all have active optical fiber from the backbone to our home routers. But 5G and satellite internet is cheaper...
> Login.gov will be implementing enhancements to our internal caching infrastructure to improve reliability and performance.

> Interruptions in service will occur within this maintenance window with an expected total downtime of under 60 minutes.

I appreciated that they were open about what was happening (internal caching infrastructure), but it's annoying to have the central login functionality for a government down
>More likely is you go out and encounter someone with a $600 ship and you lose $60. This is so much more insidious than pay to win games. This is paying to steal other people's money, and is going to be quickly optimized by anyone if there's actual profit volume to be captured.

EVE Online already sort of worked like this a decade ago. It wasn't blockchain, but in-game currency was heavily laundered for RMT (real-money trading) purposes, and eventually became real money—largely via way of sales to casual players looking for a leg up.

What you'd end up with is these elaborate power structures, with elite players at the top who would fly ships worth thousands each (supercapitals). These ships would typically comprise their own fleet elements, with separate comms, intel and command structure. A single Titan used to be worth about $10,000 USD, but by the time B-R5RB happened, that was no longer the case.

"Total forces involved 7,548 participants. Damages amounted to an approximate real-currency value of $300,000-330,000 USD." [0]

All of this was for control of territory called soverign nullsec space or 0.0, which would reap massive amounts of profit for whoever controlled it. These profits owed to the mining of rare elements on planetary moons that were later sold, which in turn drove a large portion of the game's economy.

Leaders of these power blocs had crazy opportunities laid before them to turn their in-game wealth into real wealth. External gambling sites using in-game currency were huge for a while, and were probably central to some laundering operations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB
I think you meant, “This guy FAANGs”.
Huh, didn’t know about the animation thing. I’m not a big fan of “memojis” if they’re called that but just my opinion.
Didn’t know “MAC = Man And Computer” if that’s true, cool nugget.

Was rebooting an iPhone last night and when the Apple logo appeared started thinking what the _purpose_ of displaying it is. Guess it is something to show the device has turned on properly but probably more. It’d be more cool to me if users could configure the symbol/logo off on startupbut that’s also just a personal preference.
Sure, let the regulator decide. Either way seems like an OTA update would address it.
TIL there's a sequel to this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp2-EUKQAI
There is but it's 2606:4700:4700::1111...