skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not really. 路 still has some semantic content. E.g. if you're walking about indoors in your house it sounds weird to say "走路." I do agree that a bisyllabic word sounds better there. Other context and emphasis could also make 我在走 work (I am walking for example), but often times that ties back to prosody as you say.

That’s a good point, and I think if you wanted to talk about walking indoors the prosody requirements make it even more difficult (我在我家里走来走去？)

> I don't understand what you mean by "and company." That's not how I would understand 李先生们.

I’ve definitely seen writings like “毛泽东先生们” but perhaps the usage is a little more archaic than I thought! I do think you’re right in that the usage really is just a pluralizer for people rather than my wackier definition.
Real estate is not super expensive in Bangalore - It is expensive in Mumbai though
Zhang evidently doesn't care about money at all. The same is true for many professonal mathematicians. Caring about money makes it difficult (not impossible) to do anything deep.
The joke is indeed the false syllogism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism#Syllogistic_fallacie...

Well deduced!
I added #L7102-L7368, but it disappeared automatically after I clicked submit.
The following wchar_t* wtf[] has an interesting tail string too.
you need git installed
I do. And I am a nerd myself. This does not absolve me (or "us") from being self-critical.

I generally do not enjoy social media that much, but if there is one interesting thing about it, then it is being able to read and discuss about topics with a broader spectrum of society. I do not want to talk to people who will only echo my own thoughts and believes.
Perhaps the clickers used in dog training.
Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?
A very small team may also count.

Excellent = usability/utility or the quality of code.
Well, you can trot out the green pens and all, but I think there is more to electricity and its role in "audio" that is unknown than is known. Thanks for sharing your point of view. My experience differs. So it goes, cheers.
Something something "like dissecting a frog."
It's curious to see how these quotes add over time and how they progress from dad jokes to more sophisticated, event statements

Empty your memory, with a free(), like a pointer.\nIf you cast a pointer to a integer, it becomes the integer.\nIf you cast a pointer to a struct, it becomes the struct.\nThe pointer can crash, and can overflow.\nBe a pointer my friend."

or

Freedom of expression is like the air we breathe, we don't feel it, until people take it away from us.\n\nFor this reason, Je suis Charlie, not because I endorse everything they published, but because I cherish the right to speak out freely without risk even when it offends others.\nAnd no, you cannot just take someone's life for whatever he/she expressed.\n\nHence this \"Je suis Charlie\" edition.\n
Which country with “authoritarian vengeful regime” are you speaking of? Pick one

- China
- Germany
- UK
- India
- USA
- All the above
Often in math papers there is a series of constants appearing in estimates, each of which depends, sometimes in nonobvious ways, on those appearing earlier. Some authors like to give these constants genuine numerical values in order to help keep track of the dependencies between them and, in particular, to make sure that they aren't accidentally treating two different C's as the same. In delicate analytic proofs this sort of thing is particularly important - subtle missed dependencies are one of the places where serious proof attempts can go wrong in hard to find ways. I'm not saying this is what Zhang is doing, but it's one possibility.
Have you done all those things in vim simply because you couldn’t find how to exit from vim?
A little while back I felt this way about 'stickers'. It seemed like a completely unnecessary feature I've never used and designed to achieve parity.

Last week I spoke to my 20-something sister and learned that it's basically a must-have for her friend group, who sometimes have entire conversations just with stickers shared in her group.

Had no idea, but in hindsight realized I'm no longer tuned in enough to know how people just 10 years younger communicate, let alone from different cultures.

My point is: 100% agree. Glad it's not in my face and not caring is the way to go. Being cynical about these features is probably ignorance
You could just build off a metronome, no?
https://simplex.chat/ is iterating on this. There’s a lot of pros and cons to any design of private group chats from the perspective of privacy, performance and single points of failure.
Completely agree. My childhood nightmare from maintaining my cheap commuter bike was the old crank-arm attachment system with wedges (or "cotters", I just learned [0]). I used a mallet to get them out, and with my low level of control it took a bit of luck to not bend the thread.

Also, back then there was no ways to get parts: I could go to the local bikeshop, but the selection was small and the markup on spares was insane. Replacing a drivetrain (as I now do every second year) would probably cost more than a new bike. These days I can order parts and tools at incredible prices and have them delivered the next day.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotter_(pin)
>"Je mange donc je chie."

Roughly : "I eat therefore I shit"

I never understood devs that do this, it reflects very poorly on them and it doesn't bring anything to the table. Way to show your immaturity.

I write code since 2006, 99% of it is private and is mostly read by me and I still don't do this.
I cannot verify or convince myself of the believability of an election. Therefore, it is reasonable for conservatives to not be able to convince themselves of the believability of an election. Therefore, while I believe that the conservative effort to deny elections is done in bad faith, there is a good faith argument to be made that there is a very serious problem with our elections.

The moral hazard is that because conservatives are bad faith, I can't imagine a good faith effort to improve election integrity.

> What has you concerned by the integrity of the elections?

What has me concerned is that our elections are complex beyond a layman's ability to communicate a meaningful story about how elections are conducted and why they are to be trusted. A layman is left with only one option: trust.

"Trust us" is not a good foundation to build a democracy upon. Especially if "us" is someone who has declared themselves an enemy, if not in words, definitely in action.

If that's not enough, the highest office in our land, literally called an election official on tape and asked for votes, and there has been no consequences. A system incapable of producing consequences for bad actors cannot maintain integrity.

The end result of that saga was a person making the ethical choice, but what prevented the secretary of state from finding those votes? I don't know what would have prevented it or what safeguards there were. Even if he "found" those votes, and even if it were caught, there would have been chaos, and that chaos would have been used as a ladder. History is always written by the winners as they say, so history will always report elections as legitimate, regardless of how chaos was used as a tool to shift outcomes.

Do you think Americans decided the outcome of the 2000 election, or do you think the judicial branch did?

What do you think happened to Raffensperger after he chose to do the right thing and deny trump his request to corrupt the election? The state voted to remove him (the secretary of state position itself) from the state election board chair.

As one last final note, there has been considerable effort to attack elections, the whole DeJoy thing alone should be worrying. "I trust our elections" liberals are going to look awfully silly when the conservative assault on election integrity starts showing fruit. Gerrymandering and limited polling locations alone are an assault on election integrity without being a "direct" attack on integrity. If that can be done consequence free, what makes you feel so secure?
You’re gonna get the same result each time you compile. But if you change _anything_ the results can be completely different. So, I can agree that it’s not a very useful predictability.
Am I in the minority to think bird mode would have been the best choice!
Esbuild (it’s open source but much of the work is done by one person)
Not if you want it to scale, remain private/hidden, and have no single point of failure.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. UK has been under Tory rule for most of the last few decades. Its hard to see why they shouldn't be held responsible for UK's fortunes
Is there really, though? One is making your own decision then re-using that cached result, the other is following the herd. (Unless, of course, following the herd is your carefully considered shortcut to shedding cognitive load… which might have some merit!)
Grounded Supertanker Could Take a Month to Free
I’m a business-hours Windows user who drifted into Apple for all my personal devices, aside from a Windows box for amateur radio stuff, and an ever-changing fleet of Linux VMs at Hetzner.

It’s about time for a new phone, but the selection of suitable (that is, small) Android devices is dire, and I don’t think I want to get sucked further into Google’s ecosystem, either.

So I’ll buy myself what might be one last iPhone 13 mini, and start copying my iCloud photo collection off onto my still-capable 2013 MacBook Pro, and then my NAS, a month at a time.

That should give me a couple years to figure out what comes next.
... and if you need to see a doctor you'll have to anticipate what he will do so that you can pick the right hospital for it. Easy peasy!
Getting closer to the territory where 32-bit signed integer overflow becomes more likely. Do they ever project the new jackpot if no one wins in advance of the drawing?
It doesn't work that well in practice. While real estate is overinflated for buying, rental yields reflect the market. They are under 2-4% of the property value in most places.

India is also expanding vertically in cities so new housing is often built in different area and older infrastructure is not maintained in the long run.

A significant portion of real estate is built on under the table money. You often pay 30-50% of the value in black money.

So, real estate is a very illiquid investment unless commercial in India.

There are also cultural reasons for artificially inflating real estate and Indian property developers are under huge loans similar to China. It won't be sustainable.
Damn! I wonder who would subject themselves to this other than in dystopic sci-fi movies.
50% load factor would be incredibly low for any hash table. Go uses 6.5/8 per bucket right now I believe, or 81% if you want to be crass about it.
This was noted in an earlier post here[1]. Naturally I imagine that not only are social media outlets flooded with "righthink", but I suspect, but can't prove, that traditional media have also recieved their marching orders on ensuring the "correct narrative" is pushed on the war.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32745602
The first one is based on a Bruce Lee quote :)

> Empty your mind.
Be formless, shapeless, like water.
You put water into a cup; it becomes the cup.
You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot.
You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle.
Now water can flow, or it can crash!
Be water, my friend.
Sounds like you’ve got other issues, you shouldn’t need to replace pads or make adjustments that often.
Ask HN: How long were you on Mastodon before being attacked?
I had tried Mastodon years ago when it came out. Didn't think much of it. I don't use "social" media anyway, never have.

Given all that's going on, I made a new account. In two days I found most of my interests had now active accounts on Mastodon. Software, News, interesting people, even a bunch I knew personally. I just wrote an anonymous profile with a short introduction ( and no details about gender, politics, or anything else with, shall we say, "sides" to be taken ) and was wondering if actually I should make a proper account and engage.

But 48 hours is also the time it took for an extremely hurtful and personal attack from a perfect stranger, for no apparent reason, and a host of cheerleaders to renew the attack when I blocked this person.

I could report, but then, I do not have the time or strength to moderate or report every attack, everyday, from now on. Account deleted, and back to my usual, peaceful, no-drama internet use.

Twitter, Mastodon, no difference. It's all people after all. The same people.
Well, we'll have to rely on the superior race - Chinese - to do work in those areas. Average East Asian IQ, 105, remember.
Currently only in the United States.
Hmm... Maybe an auditor showed up that wasn't on their payroll?
They figured out how to do secure stories and crypto payments but not how to store an encrypted file like all other messengers?

C'mon, don't bs us :)
> Since when is the use of the word “guys” a micro aggression?

As a serious answer, Douglas Hofstadter (of Gödel, Escher, Bach fame) wrote in 1982 about the problems of using "guys", which has a "default assumption" of maleness. This isn't a new issue, but something people have been discussing for 40 years.

See "Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness" in the book Metamagical Themas: https://archive.org/details/MetamagicalThemas/page/n143/mode...
> WhatsApp adopting Signal's protocol

Is there any solid evidence for this or are we just believing what Facebook says?

WhatsApp's APK files have obfuscated code. A few years ago they forgot to obfuscate a file and they got exposed.

Not to mention so many severe vulnerabilities discovered in WhatsApp every now and then.

People who really think WhatsApp's claims about E2EE are true and it's making them safer or private, are trusting Facebook too much.
Even in the 1940s, while the Chinese were bogged down in the middle of their own Civil War, the Chinese fought the Japanese to a standstill for over eight years.

Imagine how the Japanese would fare against the much larger and China of today. It would be like a five-year-old against King Kong.
Tip: Use "shift + scroll" to read long quotes.
Maybe. Economics also has quite bad terms for many things. Like discrimination here, or "rational". It's like maths and programming, you can find useful things in category theory but it's not necessarily useful to adopt it as a framework in your communication.
This guy seems to be as exhausting as the last U.S. president, I guess.
Lots of important pieces still missing!
Everything you said about CS PhDs also applies to a lesser (but not insignificant) extent to postgraduate and undergraduate degrees.

You don't need degrees to make it into the tech world. Yes some companies might ignore you in the very beginning of your career if you don't have a degree but there is so much demand out there for tech workers that you will find a job for sure and after one or two years nobody will care that you don't have a degree. By the time your peers graduate you will have multiple years of experience in the field and that's what everyone cares about.

Oh, and doing a CS degree you hardly learn anything about programming and most professors teaching you have never coded anything longer than 50 lines.
> What’s more, this spring in Germany, fears of energy blackouts were deemed to be a far-right conspiracy theory,

Not only in Germany, unfortunately. Radio Free Europe (a US-government supported media institution) was saying just that on its Romanian website [1], together with accusations of fake news, around a year ago.

[1] https://romania.europalibera.org/a/pana-de-curent-fake/31543...
Some 3 million Australians and 10+ million in the US went hungry at least once over last year. You sure can be worse than that, but that's pretty bad already.
Yes! We have docs for this (both with and without hasura)
It's honestly incredible the progress being made by Andreas.. all while also working on an OS.
Not only that but the quality of work is incredible too.

Really really inspiring.
ESR's mirror has updated footnotes: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
I've had a generally positive experience using the search feature in Confluence. Roughly speaking, how many documents do you think your org has, if you don't mind my asking? Mine probably has an eclectic collection of somewhere between 300-400. We use it for KBs, QRGs, how to's, etc.

The main downside to Confluence I've seen has been more around making it obvious when something is public vs private facing. I had to lock things down a bit to ensure nothing internal was getting out, and have a specific tag I add when I want something visible to the client.

It's also INCREDIBLY frustrating that if I make a numbered list, then want to have a break with a picture or whatever, when I go back to the list, it starts back at 1. I don't always want to use a bullet point, but having the numbers be off makes things very hard to understand at a glance, and basically forces me to set things up in a way that shoves all screenshots or graphics at the very end. I absolutely hate it. It's such a stupid little thing. Just let me put in #.(space) and pick up where I left off!!
What's daunting about it? On a motorcycle at least you can do it with some 3/16" hose, scissors or a knife, wrench, plenty of paper tower, and a waste container (soda bottle).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twgmmQ7Livw

The specialized tools just make it faster/easier.
I absolutely understand where you’re coming from, but I have a somewhat different perspective in our company.

Most people are deskbound and use their provided external monitor via the also provided TB3 dock. So charging is a non issue.

With our industry currently being extremely strained (industrial manufacturer in Germany), I think it’s fairly worrying that people spend money on a 2500€ upgrade that’s not justified by any productivity gains, but that’s also approved by the supervisor.
> I've not heard of Go maps being very high load factors, so they probably resize around 50% or so full.

Go uses a load factor of 6.5 (expressed as average load of a bucket; where buckets have a maximum load of 8; i.e. 81% full) (ref: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.19.3/src/runtime/map.g... )

> I’ll assume … doubling on resize

Indeed (ref: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.19.3/src/runtime/map.g...)
Sometimes it's OK to let loose and be a little immature. Life is short.
Missing from the article is the benefit of choosing the default. We make thousands of decisions per day, and being good at not thinking about them drastically reduces stress.
For those of you who don't watch many movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzC1Dgh17A
i think my critique is more about the idea the process differences have led to materially different outcomes between chinese and american building projects. i've seen some projects in my neighborhood being made with cheap materials and relatively unskilled labor, that lead to water issues too. i spent 9 months with habitat for humanity building an apartment complex and was surprised at how tolerant the process was to completely inexperienced volunteers showing up for a couple hours and doing all kinds of shoddy work.

when i visited beijing about 10 years ago, i was astonished at how much construction was going on, and i could see that the sheer amount of construction happening would make it seem like there were more issues than here in the US. without more concrete data, i'd be skeptical of that kind of anecdote simply playing into our own biases.
Binance’s CZ and FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Trade Barbs over Twitter
Note that those figures vary wildly by field and institution.

The lowest salary offer I got on my faculty job search, with an apology re: salary bias against folks without clinical degrees, was half again what's quoted there.
One person's immaturity is another persons humor.

Not sure about the author, but programming is most often a lonely exercise with alternating bouts of creativity and tedium. Comments like these bring out the humanity.

I love these comments. It would really make my day if I found those when trying to fix a bug a few years later.
That is so cool. If those images could morph into each other, you'd have generative music videos.
Facebook forcing employees to “fall in love” with metaverse
Kibble Balance
Unfortunately, you come across as soft. The only way to deal with heartless people is being equally violent.
Dunno why they're doing it that way. As long as the devices are physically in the EU, they can just ship them tax-free to any EU country.

Is printing a few different keycaps that hard? Just grab the German keyboard and swap Z and Y and It'd be good enough for a Nordic layout :D
Indeed. dsr said it well here: https://blog.randomstring.org/2017/12/21/a-most-important-jo...

“Your company probably needs a librarian. Maybe more than one.”
But you're not the hosting provider of the VPS, I meant ofc https://hostup.se
Matrix is a protocol, not an App
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you know those buzzkill people who say "you rise in love,not fall in it", eh.
[archive.ph/VFp4P](https://archive.ph/VFp4P)
I know Cloudron supports backups, but I don't know if it's per service and if it includes the config or not. But then, yes!
Sure, let's justify a modern disaster by a past one.

First world's wealth of the 20th century had nothing to do with India's or China's misfortunes of yesteryear, European/US de-industrialization and poverty is 100% globalization-inflicted.
I’ve been using Kagi ($10/month user-oriented search engine) for a few months now and it’s what finally scratched my Googling itch. The quality of results is almost like Google a few years ago, plus you can buff, nerf or even block certain sites! Goodbye Quora, Pinterest, Yahoo Answers and other crap, hello Wikipedia and StackOverflow results always at the top. And of course, no ads.
Cite evidence...?
I know a number of first generation grad students who get really mad at the "unlivable poverty wages" rhetoric when they're making more than anyone in their family does.
In groups you do the same: send a photo message to every group member
What a stupid design. If the consortium had just one member having the competence of knowing some competing design and using his brain for five minutes, this disaster could have been avoided.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624429
A bank transfer would exclude the intermediaries: Visa, Mastercard, Apple, Stripe etc.
But isn't "don't reinvent the wheel" also sort of a default effect? We also call it the "not invented here" syndrome. Which shows that the user "defaults" to use the things he already knows instead of going out and find that (unknown to him) standard.
The biggest misconception is that the statute of limitations means all you need to do is run down the clock. nope. as soon as there is enough evidence to open an investigation there is no expiration unless the investigation is closed and this is all done in secrecy. Rather, the deadline is from when the crime last occurred to when the investigation is opened. For example, the investigation into the identify of the 2011 geezer bandit is still ongoing despite the most recent robbery being a decade ago. Regarding the bank robber, it's not a secret because the feds are looking for leads from the public who have be able to identify him by appearance, but in the case of the hacker it does no good to put up wanted posters.