skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general it is true that the central government agreed that in the interim pinyin was not to replace characters. However, they explicitly made clear that this was a plan only for the initial task at hand, and not any final conclusion about the future of a phonetic script. The sentences preceding my quote from the committee head make this clear:

> 至于汉字的前途问题：它是永远不变还是要变呢？它是在汉字固有的形体范围内变化，还是被拼音文字所代替呢？它是为拉丁字母式的拼音文字所代替，还是为别的形式的拼音文字所代替呢？这些问题我们现在还可以不忙去作结论。我们认为：汉字总是要变的，拿汉字过去的变化就可以证明，将来总是要走世界共同的拼音方向。而且可以说，世界各个民族的语言和文字，将来总有一天会逐渐接近和统一。但是这些都不属于当前文字改革的任务的范围，因此我们今天还不必加以讨论。

> As for the question of the future of Chinese characters: will they never change or will they change? Will the change be restricted to the scope of their current form, or will they be replaced by a phonetic script? Will they be replaced by a phonetic script based on Latin characters, or will they be replaced by another form of phonetic script? For now, we will not rush to any conclusions on this topic. We believe: Chinese characters inevitably must change. We can use the changes in Chinese characters of the past to prove that in the future, this must follow the global trend of phonetic spelling. Moreover it can be said, the languages and scripts of all the people in the world will one day come together and unify as one. But these are not within the scope of our current reform tasks and as such today we have no need to discuss them further.

The committee head's pronouncement was in fact essentially paraphrasing and nearly copying large parts of Zhou Enlai's speech. So I would not characterize his speech as closing the door on a phonetic script, only setting it aside for now and leaving the door open for a future date. From Zhou Enlai's speech:

> 至于汉字的前途，它是不是千秋万岁永远不变呢？还是要变呢？它是向着汉字自己的形体变化呢？还是被拼音文字代替呢？它是为拉丁字母式的拼音文字所代替，还是为另一种形式的拼音文字所代替呢？这个问题我们现在还不忙作出结论。但是文字总是要变化的，拿汉字过去的变化就可以证明。将来总要变化的。而且可以说，世界各个民族的文字形式将来总有一天会逐渐统一，甚至语言最后也会逐渐统一。人类的语言文字发展的最后趋势是逐渐接近，到最后也许就没有多大区别了。

> As for the future of Chinese characters, will they not change across the eons time? Or will they change? Will they trend towards changes based on the shapes of characters themselves? Or will they be replaced by phonetic script? Will they be replaced by a Latin character-based phonetic script, or will they be replaced by some other form of phonetic script? As of now, we are not yet in a rush to make conclusions. But writing must change. The past changes of Chinese character can prove this. In the future, there must be change. Moreover it can be said, the scripts of all the peoples of the world will one day unify as one, indeed language itself will gradually unify. Humanity's language and script development's ultimate trend is to gradually become closer. In the end there may not be much of any difference [among different languages].

And as we can see that rhetoric about a fully fledged phonetic script would indeed come back once the initial reform plans were finished.

Only with the failure of the second wave of simplification does it seem that future plans for a phonetic script finally disappeared from the conversation.
Looks like a great opportunity for a community driven patch to provide period accurate pig renderings... wait that didn't come out right =)
This post says the Simula One has Wi-Fi 6.

The store[1] and these older posts[2][3] say it has Wi-Fi 6E.

The CPU also seems downgraded in this post from i7-1265U to i7-1165U.

[1] https://shop.simulavr.com/

[2] https://simulavr.com/blog/upgrading-to-alder-lake/

[3] https://simulavr.com/blog/32gb-ram-upgrade/
Virtualized, yes. For most purposes, an M1/M2 Mac is an excellent platform for developing stuff for Windows ARM64.
Ah, guess I missed that. It's still sadly vague, same as how most other companies choose to write their terms/AUP.
Which metric improved by 70%? Time to show the skeleton? I agree the skeleton is quite good. I see it takes about 350ms to show the skeleton and about 1s to show my content.
> A citation for what? And even if it wasn't most of the world...

Your response immediately after the question indicates that you understood what the citation request was for. I was asking for a citation that schools in most of the world were open during Covid.

> Western Europe and Canada did not close schools...

So now we are down to a minority of the world population, incidentally in a political environment very different from the US, where basic pandemic precautions like masks and later vaccines were highly politicized.

> closing schools for years is not a normal, necessary consequence of a pandemic.

Just like frustrated commenters in the rest of the threads, you are continually moving goalposts to prove your preconceived point.

The reality is that there is no normal consequence of a pandemic, and yes, the US is completely different from the rest of the world in terms of how stuff works here. And no, schools were not "closed", teachers worked in the midst of a pandemic to try to deliver remote education with minimal training about how to do it. It is unsurprising that some problems would result.
Gnome 43 and macOS now look like clones from each other:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/setti...
You're implying there's time past 2038-01-19T03:14:07? That's ridiculous.
> [reasoned debate and outrageous hyperbole] mean the same thing in this context;

Then with all respect, I think your strategy for debate is fundamentally broken, not unlike your understanding of the epoll facility or ability to read its man page, so I take my leave.
VS .NET workload is advertised to be working already.
>From what I've read, life before agriculture was decent.

I've read arguments in both directions and I'm extremely suspicious that they are almost all basically politically-driven. It goes like this:

If hunter-gatherers are predisposed to more or less gender or economic equality, or certain social structures, then that should perhaps inform how we construct our own modern societies.

In order to escape the clear appeal to nature fallacy, it then becomes necessary to argue that not only were prehistoric societies constructed in a certain way, but they were also extremely well-off. Therefore we clearly must "reject modernity, retvrn to monke", and embrace True Human Nature embodied by some cultural tradition or ideology.

The exact inverse would obviously imply that we must embrace a certain idea of technological or social progress in order to escape the "natural state of humanity" as fast as we can.

However, was the human hunter-gatherer experience was ever all that stable or predictable such that we can obviously draw out either of those major conclusions? I think a decent null hypothesis might be that all the extremes of human experience and social structure had to have occurred to some degree and that the overall average and distribution would fluctuate quite a bit over time according to weather, migration patterns, and accidents of cultural evolution that humanity at any level had basically no control over.

I find it really hard to believe that we can possibly have enough evidence in any relevant discipline to rule this out.
The simple "punch" sound is even more obvious example of movie sound design tropes. I remember getting into a fight as a child and being surprised at how quiet hitting a dude was.
It is the same problem with Facebook: does Mark Zuckerberg leave FB before it crashes (or accepts that The Metaverse is a complete failure).

Does Jeff Bezos change direction and drop the "everything store" strategy by realizing that most of everything is trash and he is destroying the Amazon brand?

To misquote him: your garbage is my opportunity.

He enables competition to use brands as a strategy: we make sure everything we sell is the best. If you shop at our place, you will not be wasting your time.
We're reading the responses to that stack exchange question pretty differently if your last line is your takeaway...in my opinion it would be extremely unlikely for a court to rule against "Big Tech" in this case.
Good points. But a low-duty-cycle laser pointer eyeball could be more useful than a low-duty-cycle pacemaker.

You could use the 2μW to charge up a capacitor for 24 hours and then have a minute and a half of 2mW, which is enough for a visible laser pointer reaching a few meters. 2mW light output is quite a bit brighter than that but requires more like 20mW power input.

A 220 μF cap at 48 volts would hold 35 hours of 2μW, and there are ceramic caps that big that would easily fit into your eyeball.
> Then, at the end of the demo, you could actually see him, closing the Director show. The rest of the demos did not have the eye candy.

Showing a video of a demo is in itself not a bad thing - that's often done when you want to show early builds or even a patchwork of work across multiple builds.

Depending on when you saw the Longhorn demo, it might be inaccurate to say that Longhorn became Vista. I worked at Microsoft (not on Windows) back then and saw some flashy demos of eye-candy UI in the 2003 timeframe that never launched, except as a beta build that was given out to external developers late 2003 at the PDC (conference). The original Longhorn, demo-ed at PDC 2003, was abandoned in mid-2004 and was pivoted to the Windows 2003 codebase. A lot of the features originally planned / demo-ed for Longhorn (new filesystem, XAML-based UI etc) never shipped.
Are you sure? I don't want to go the anecdote route here but I know plenty of people who use Mac minis as daily driver desktop machines.
Yes... and no. The Windows Store works way better now than it used to, back in 2015. Now it's finally serviceable, but it's still loaded with junk that makes the iOS App Store look well-maintained. Discoverability is still poor (better than it used to be), and the number of people actually using it also remains low. So... it works, but it was hardly the future of app distribution on Windows.

As for the Desktop Converter, it's in the same boat. For the first few years, all it was, was a pile of PowerShell scripts. No GUI, mediocre documentation, run a pile of scripts to package your app for a Store almost nobody uses. Also the command to package the app requires Windows 10 Pro and, like, 30 command-line arguments that had to be perfect in order to work. Now it has a GUI, and more people use the Store than before, but the Store has abandoned the need to use it and now allows just directly downloading unpackaged Exes, rendering it mostly pointless.
Dear Operator With a Vision,

Please do more of the same thing that used to make me money and less of the thing that is risky.

Sincerely,
Know-nothing Investor
if you have to live off selling articles that only Tuscan municipality staff care about, you're going to be eating a lot of beans and rice.
Most old food is going to be inaccurate. Everything has been selectively bred since then, and it's easy to forget how many plants were only found in the Americas.
Injecting extracellular vesicles from young to old mice reduces signs of aging
A bit more than half the speed of an M1 according to a benchmark I found (sorry, the link below is in German), but with 32 GB RAM instead of the maximum 16 GB in a Mini.

Now the interesting question is if this box is locked to booting Windows or if one could also boot an alternative OS...

https://www.notebookcheck.com/Benchmark-Leak-Der-Qualcomm-Sn...
Correct, it makes as much sense to complain that Hobbits like potatoes.
with the amount of heat my tiny little pocket flashlight generates, this terrifies me
From the Investopedia article on Capitalism:

"Another drawback of capitalism is that it often leads to a host of negative externalities, such as air and noise pollution. Negative externalities are costs paid for by society and not the producer of the externality. A factory dumping waste into a river or emitting smoke into the air is a problem shouldered by the communities that the factory is in, and not the business itself."
I'm also a software engineer, though I've had the unofficial title "data engineer" applied to me for quite some time now.

The more I work with tools like Spark, the more dissatisfied I become with the data engineering world. Spark is a hot mess of fiddling with configuration - I've lost more productivity to dealing with memory limit, executor count, and other configuration than I think is reasonable.

Pandas is another one. It was good enough to make quick processing concise that it got significant uptake and became de facto. The API is a pain, though, and processing is slow. Now, couple Pandas and Spark in your day-to-day job and you get what I see from my data science colleagues: "I'll hack together some processing in Pandas until my machine can't handle any more data, at which point I'll throw it into Spark and provision a bunch of nodes to do that work for me." I don't mean that to sound pejorative, as they're generally just trying to be productive, but there's so little attention paid to real efficiency in the frameworks and infrastructure that we're blowing through compute, memory, and person-hours unnecessarily (IMHO).
There’s little point to such a feature for the intended use case, which is just to run some VMs to test builds on. At $600 with 32gb of ram multi-gig is asking a little much.
knowing the gaming and mod community, it would just be 3D models of Blizzard execs
It continues to suck how African countries are excluded from these product launches and from many products in general.

Microsoft has enough partners and regional offices because Office365 and Azure are the only worthy products for us in "shithole countries".

If Microsoft isn't intending on selling a lot of these devices, the cost of adding 1 or 2 African countries would be relatively small compared to the revenue they make from our regions.

I mean, expensive Macs came out, costing twice the shitty HP/Lenovo/Dell enterprise offerings with poor thermals and battery life. We bought them.

I would buy this device if it was for sale in my market, I see a benefit in testing my work on Windows ARM64.
IMHO the 2nd sentence is still pretty vague and maybe misleading.

IIUC, they took a model of earth's magnetic field over the past 100,000 years, fed it into (some magic box that the article doesn't explain), and turned it into a public art exhibit.
There's a lot more use-cases though, of both systems.

If you want a "good" small computer and you already have a screen (or want to buy cheap ones) then these systems are fantastic.

Performance is completely fine for moderate-to-heavy workloads (assuming the heavy workloads are bursty) for the Mac mini, and hopefully this.

Both systems are what you would get if you didn't need a display or keyboard already, they're desktop replacements with a small footprint, and fantastic for the majority of computer workloads including a lot of development ones.
Just to clarify: we produced no documents or testimony to Meta at all. We basically negotiated on some very pedantic things (deadline extensions and so forth), and they ended up dropping the subpoena altogether.

In Meta's defense, we found their legal team to be cordial and respectful.
DNS resolvers can be slow, ya know.
There's no conflict? It's a good daily driver for some, and a good second machine for others.
Typo. We'll fix it

i7-1265U and Wi-Fi 6E is correct.
As someone who knows nothing about this stuff, I'm looking at the "Data Mart" wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mart. Ok, so the entire diagram here is labelled "Data Warehouse", and within that there's a "Data Warehouse" block which seems to be solely comprised of a "Data Vault". Do you need a special data key to get into the data vault in the data warehouse? Okay, naturally the data marts are divided into normal marts and strategic marts - seems smart. But all the arrows between everything are labelled "ETL". Seems redundant. What does it mean anyway? Ok apparently it's just... moving data.

Now I look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing. What's that? First sentence: "is an approach to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA)". I click through to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional_analysis ... MDA "is a data analysis process that groups data into two categories: data dimensions and measurements". What the fuck? Who wrote this? Alright, back on the OLAP wiki page... "The measures are placed at the intersections of the hypercube, which is spanned by the dimensions as a vector space." Ah yes, the intersections... why not keep math out of it if you have no idea how to talk about it? Also, there's no actual mention of why this is considered "online" in the first place. I feel like I'm in a nightmare where the pandas documentation was rewritten in MBA-speak.
This looks like a really good deal for folks using WSL2 and VS Code for development.
I assume that target audience would be somebody who is going to use this as one of the services in their stack. Like E-commerce site, video streaming etc.

We've built something similar long time ago and ability to control filters from client (as they are part of URL) is very powerful. E.g. clients with different native resolution, or ah hoc overlays are all under the frontend control and nicely cachable.
Bad biased article written by supporters of the grifters pretending this lawsuit has a snowball's chance in hell, shouldn't be on HN
It looks like a macmini
I don't see how those are conspiracy theories.
Speed of light in fiber is not c, but about 2/3 c.
But less and less is launched per pound of space-produced product as time goes on, until only rare complex (small) components such as microprocessors come from earth. There will be an industrial chain taking aluminum from lunar regolith that's catapulted out to a Lagrange point and then the raw aluminum or printed products will be lowered to more suitable orbits by ion engines that spit out ions from lunar soil.

Hate to be the one to mention it, but the military may well be paying most of the freight to set most of this up (covertly or not) since space based you-name-it including hypersonic projectiles are going to be more and more useful as the decades pass.
For reference, the global internet bandwidth has been estimated at just shy of 1 Pbit/s

The entire Internet is using the same as 1 million residential 1 gigabit connections could max out? I don't know why, but that sounds far below what I would have expected.
If we’re expanding the definition of bullying to include teasing and being mean, sure, that’s going to be a thing everywhere. But I’m very confident nobody in my school was getting beat up or robbed. If people had been, it likely would have been my social circle if nothing else. There was, in general, very little drama and people were free to be who they wanted to be.
What you are experiencing is not normal development culture. It is common, yes, but normal or healthy.

It sounds like you're working with a bunch of workaholics who don't mind working outside normal hours and built a company culture around that expectation.

I work with colleagues around the world and we stay disciplined within good parts of the day and using async communication for everything else. It's not hard to do at all, but it does mean the workaholic upper management folks need to exercise self restraint and patience when scheduling meetings.

You can try setting more strict boundaries for your work hours. It may or may not work. You might be seen as lazy or not a team player. In that case, the honest truth is that you're in a toxic workplace.
I was talking about the verilog code.
Why would I respond to you when you ignored my central question and then misrepresented what I said? I said you can't quarantine old people and then act as if everything is business as usual in the outside world - the disease will get in.
Well, if you remove one element from an uncountable set, then...
You clearly don't understand what I'm saying. I like Docker, and use it every day. However, it's not the tool you use to learn how self-hosting works (or how your containerized software functions). Running the Dockerized version of a program turns it into a pushbutton component, which is both convenient and abstracts over anything interesting or worth learning. Docker is a compositional layer that only works effectively when you understand what it's doing inside the container.
What's wrong with using a Mac Mini as a daily driver?
I assume people didn't have mills at home for the same reason most people of today don't have full blown data centers at home. People did have mortars though like today's people have PCs and smartphones.

I think you're wrong to assume that of two things that co-evolved, one thing had to cause the other.
10000 years is not that long in evolutionary terms either.
> You just picked some random sentence from that article.

It's literally the bolded conclusion to the section named "How much do rich countries contribute to plastic pollution through their exported waste?". Given that the parent comment was talking about banning plastic exports, I think that's very relevant to this discussion. Saying that it was a "random" sentence is an extremely unfair characterization.

>I can pick some other sentences from that article and give another picture: "Most of the plastic that enters the oceans from land comes from rivers in Asia.1 More than 80% of it.

>Only a small amount comes from rivers across Europe and North America. Together, these regions contribute just 5% of the global total. This would suggest that the world’s richest countries don’t contribute much to the problem of plastic pollution.

>But, these numbers only look at the plastic that is emitted domestically. They don’t consider the fact that many countries export plastic waste overseas."

>Overall I would say that article contradicts itself and makes no sense.

What exactly is contradictory here?
Yeah. I like the simula one concept and the VR "Desktop Environment" appeals to me, but I would much prefer to decouple the display from the compute, because the hardware is at different levels of maturity and because the heavy bits don't have to sit on your head - You can stick a lot more compute and battery in a backpack form factor, and even with my Vive I ended up strapping the cords to my back for cable management reasons.

If I had to buy a backpack laptop from them (And I would kinda love to have a backpack laptop + weird goggles, be kinda like the "Gargoyles" from Snow Crash) to get their display, happy to do so.
Charlie can be a billionaire and own his own private street, but neither alice or bob can walk into charlie private street, they need to deliver their tapes to charlie and charlie will have to physically transport those packages to the other end of the street to be delivered from alice to bob.. and that is what charlie is refusing to do because he find alice an asshole..

Now alice and bob are not being prevented from meeting in person somewhere else.. hell alice can even build her own street all the way to bob house if she can afford it..
Microsoft was there first, but handled it so poorly it got memory holed.

edit: I forgot about the A in ARM.
> unless you can also prove that every single white supremacist also knew it was a joke, it kind of became a white supremacist hand sign.

4chan is an anonymous imageboard, anyone can post anything, anyone can "meme" anything into being a "hate symbol".

it doesn't seem like a very good idea to allow 4chan trolls to literally dictate societal norms, especially the creation of "hate symbols". at some point one must realize that such "hate symbols" literally only have as much power as you're willing to grant them—so why grant them any?