skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or probably the first world was stealing their assets (natural resources) while exporting disgrace (weapons, drugs)?

You should read a bit more so you'd know for example what the opium wars have done to China and what the colonialism has done to India (both perpetrated by the same first world country)

Historically India and China were always the wealthiest (up to the second industrial revolution) regions out there (as in the concept of India and China as we know now are post world war II)

What we are actually seeing today is a rebalancing of wealth that is pretty much needed so that in the US a person would need to have just 1 vacation instead of 3, while in India someone can put some food in their table and allow their kids to go to college.
modern written chinese was designed and constructed as a lingua franca for hundreds of different cultures and languages within china, so the grammar is as minimal as it could be without being ambiguous. It is, in my opinion, the most ambitious conlang in history.

I believe esperanto to be a similar exercise but english is a far easier and more flexible language
I feel like I'm often quite bad at this...
Automating your contracts is a great way to ensure that you have a consistent and reliable way of handling the lifecycle of your contracts, while also ensuring that they are accurate.

Contract automation software helps you achieve this by allowing you to create standardized workflows for each type of contract you receive. With this, your legal department and other teams involved in the contract lifecycle can self-serve on contracts, allowing for more autonomy, independence, and productivity while ensuring risk is managed and that contracts maintain accuracy and compliance.
There is a lot more low hanging fruit in the developing world. Money spent their could potentially yield bigger savings.

Consider countries like Mongolia, where the dirtiest coal is used to heat homes. This is both an environmental and health crisis.
A fundamental limitation of RLAs is that they don't follow the ballot chain of custody, only the counting procedure. So if you have an old-fashioned political machine with dead people voting or people in nursing homes being scammed out of their votes it will not appear in RLAs.
it's also a bad metric? cleanup is nice but # of lines is still not a good measure of good code or even good.. anything. i went a month or more without writing any code because i was just writing docs
> I can't work out why it's contentious

Echolocation is contentious because people assume it's to do with timing.

Humans can't time the echo in a room.

Echolocation by humans is using the head as a dampener between the ears to get direction/distance by diffing the ears on noise not time.

Is my understanding.

You could see why people who think it's related to timing like the classic submarine would obviously think it doesn't work with humans. You learn about the speed of sound at a young age and people know the brain can't handle that.

They might assume in a dark room people are using ambient noise and ambient echo's, not echolocation. With people using echolocation who are visually impaired in most articles they are not 100% blind so you are not sure what mix is going on.

Most articles aren't explaining this well.
I was going to complain that a bug should be filed for this, but one of the blog comments says this issue could be fixed by [1].

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54766
Novelist as a Vocation
The main problem with modern bikes is the cost is way too high. Every time I buy a new bike (every 4-5 years), the cost goes up about $3K. I'll likely pay $10K for my next one.
The only colleague I’ve ever had who was supporting herself via work during her PhD was an international student. Everyone else was close to the experience you call “insta perfect”
> Syntax is constrained by prosody, which is also extremely unintuitive to Mandarin learners.

Definitely true, but I don't think your analysis holds. Prosody is an important part of determining when you need bisyllabic or monosyllabic words in Chinese which doesn't have an equivalent in English, but you don't fill it in with what are effectively nonsense words.

> you have to insert the meaningless 路 for the prosody to sound correct (you would say "我在走路" even if you weren't walking on a road at all!)

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.

> 们 is not always a pluralizer

It is generally a pluralizer with the constraint that it must be applied for people. That's why it sounds weird applied to cows. 李先生们 could actually mean "Mr. Lis" (i.e. a group of men all with that surname, or some slang usage of "Mr. Li" in the same way you might say "they're a bunch of Benedict Arnolds"). Indeed that was my first instinct when you wrote that phrase. I don't understand what you mean by "and company." That's not how I would understand 李先生们.

Also historically, 们 used to be an even more general people pluralizer that could be applied to demonstratives. E.g. in Song Dynasty Mandarin 那们 is perfectly acceptable and means "those people." It has become more restricted in modern usage.

> In fact, most of the time, plurals in Mandarin are actually completely implicit and you have to figure it out from context!

This is true.
Another useless thread of sellouts mocking non sellouts for not selling out. Toxic internet mob didn't spare this website.
Monday's Powerball lottery drawing has been delayed due to security protocols
Meanwhile, no action on this critical sharp edge for iPhone users which has been around for years, and new users get no warning of when signing up: https://community.signalusers.org/t/ios-backup-keeping-messa...
That sort of thing is everywhere, and has been a thing forever.
I remember when I was a teenager, my dad had a business importing consumer electronics from Asia and the difference in shipping cost between him paying the shipping company directly or getting a local agent to do it was often more than the cost of the products. It didn't matter if he used an established agent or some random person with zero connections, the price difference was due to him being European and had nothing to do with connections.
Blind man here. "for a few days"??? Seriously? This is like saying "If I only would wear a bra for a week, I could give birth to a child!"

I know blind people who wish their echolocation skills were better.

What I am trying to say: expect months or years for training, not days. Besides, it is not only blind people who have excellent directional hearing, conductors are forced by their trade to be able to point at the fiddle player they want to correct. So it is definitely a skill which can be picked up. But it takes some years to get to a level where it is useful.
Milwaukee is also pretty high end, and Fuel is their top tier gear. Definitely not needed for basic home repairs and work.

My recco to people is Ryobi from Direct Tools Outlet on sale, easy to find sales on Ryobi and it works well for the price.

If you break the tool, congrats, you can upgrade to the top tier model. But no need to start with Milwaukee Fuel.

Regardless, I agree that $200 for tools isn't that crazy, especially for specific use cases like bleeding hydraulic brakes.
This should've always been the case. If a verified person needs to change their name for some reason, they can get re-verified. There were problems with verified accounts impersonating famous people before Musk.
don't use official apps, and if that is not possible, use an ad blocker at the dns level, and give the app as little permissions as you can (be extra wary of giving it bluetooth, mic, location, and photos)
Less access to the one true leveraged instrument: home ownership.
That sounds like a you problem.
That is your choice. As long as people are paying more, there will be a supply of more expensive bikes.
In the end, a certain segment (and growing) will still say elections are rigged. “Transparency“ will be meaningless going forward; even after a code audit. The allegations: Someone intercepted the count in those few milliseconds after the voter submits; Someone siphoned votes away after the fact.
There's a great comic that characterises this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeC8E8RaEAAxMxi?format=jpg&name=...
While I disagree that hydraulic brakes are a significant hurdle for home mechanics having learned to bleed hydraulic car brakes at 12 years old, and the author is probably wrong about electronic shifting as well, the fact is all these technologies are purely optional. I ride several thousand miles a year on bikes, road and mountain, with rim brakes and mechanical shifting, and have never felt the need to "upgrade." Apart from the fork and seatpost on one of my road bikes, there's also no carbon fiber anywhere to be found. I don't ride competitively (and most competitive riders don't personally maintain their racing bikes), but in the groups I ride with my bikes are the "lowest tech" and always the oldest, usually by a decade or two, and I'm almost never the slowest in the group.

That being said, many people like the newest technology, be that bikes, cars, cell phones, whatever, and that's fine. This same article could have been written (and was, many times) about integrated index shifters when they came out over 30 years ago (Shimano STI in particular, as Campy Ergopowers, at least Record, are rebuildable, if you can find spare parts for your 25 year old Titanium Record 9 Speed shifters). One of my road bikes, with well over 10k miles on it, has the original Shimano 105 levers, still kicking. Yes, if they break, I will probably not be able to repair them, but I also can't repair a broken aluminum chainring, I just get a new one.

E-bikes are a bit of a different story, but that's largely because of ignorance and fear of electricity and how it works more than anything else. It may prove to deter some people from getting their hands dirty on their bike, which is a shame, but if you just look at the size of the e-scooter hacking community, that should put to rest the notion that it's an absolute barrier to entry.
If you die in this VR game, it will kill you
I remember in grade 8 my geography teacher noticing I wasn't paying attention and asking: "What did I just say?"

The sound of his last couple sentences were in my recent memory (timestamped?), but it seems I hadn't fully parsed them yet. When he asked, I took a brief moment to parse them, then to his disappointment I repeated them verbatim to him.

I'll never forget the way my brain processed delayed audio that day!
HTC made the best wince devices. The best thing about the platform was the built in handwriting recognition on every wince device regardless of manufacturer which was designed by the same develops who worked on the Apple Newton handwriting software. It was just more buried on some devices. Of course, Microsoft killed this with windows phone 7. Just a different era
Exactly, you can still get rim brakes if you want (I don't), mechanical shifting (I do) etc.
I submitted https://ifconfig.me/ a free option, But someone has changed the URL to https://ipinfo.io/ which seems to have a limited free tier. Not sure why someone would change the URL but not change the title (or) comment why the change was made.

I wonder whether if its a bot monitoring https://ifconfig.me/ submission.
A bit of online research suggests that hotel staff that were sexually harassed/assaulted at work and subsequently not taken seriously by their management, or not allowed to file a police report on 'company time', were primary originators of the push for this ordinance.

The rest of the law focuses on things like: any work over 10 hours in one day is voluntary. Hmm, I wonder why that is necessary?
Each of the examples I gave have direct origins in philosophy. It’s not even clear what the alternative would be for Hobbes and Popper; for Frege you could call him a mathematician instead, I suppose, if you ignore all of the other philosophy he did.
A double dose is recommended for the immunocompromised
Placing the blame on "the media" over the last five years is not really correct. People have been undermining basic election rights and processes for quite a while and while both parties engage in it the right is far more active and devious in gerrymandering, eroding legal protections, etc. Trust in government in general is low but elections have been quite fairly run and provably so to a reasonable doubter. But doubters have been given free rein to be unreasonable, hence they doubt the auditors, and the auditors of the auditors, all the way up. Losing fair and square is no longer something many people think is possible for their party.

The media has covered this with varying effect but we hardly conjured it into existence. In fact the media can barely keep the lights on, let alone fund the lawsuits, "grassroots" redistricting efforts, organized disinfo campaigns, etc that have shaped politics at the state level — including anti-media campaigns that paint the elite mainstream media as the authors of the present electoral crisis.
It s not just M. Russia's war for the past has brought forward an army of former soviet "experts" who have been dusted off to tell us that we are heading straight back to 1970s because that s all they know. alas history does not repeat
It's tragic how the relationship dynamics between Moh and Zhang almost resulted in the total write-off of Zhang and a loss of genius/talent, with nothing left but bitterness and animosity.

I'm glad Zhang was able to find success despite his initial setbacks and from what it seems like in his recent interviews also let go of his bitterness/resentment (holding something like that in your heart can only ever hold you back). And though the power dynamics here were clearly unequal, I don't think it's fair to blame Moh entirely for what happened at Purdue.

I think it's important to remember Moh is also human with all the complexity that comes along with that. In reading his published statement, even though there is no direct apology to Zhang, I sense that he does genuinely regret how things turned out.

Perhaps one day, Zhang and Moh will be able to meet again and resolve/rekindle their relationship.
Why fly or swim when you can jump? Ask the springtail
SF is full of these. Every restaurant bill will have some SF Healthcare Ordinance or something else on it. Now that would be a useful proposition: all visible prices must have local taxes and fees built-in. We all know everything is going to switch to the tip entry, though. A tip for directing you to the self-checkout, no doubt.
pinyin because remembering the exact stroke is a pain, plus pinyin is meant for rapid conversation.
Sounds cool, how did you finance the honeymoon? :)
Would you mind explaining more about what you mean regarding the recent Alaska election? The information I have found about it made it seem fairly reasonable and straightforward to me, but perhaps I am missing something.
Like other said the article mixes several different things and I don't agree that all of them make bike maintanance more difficult.

Take the electronic shifting. SRAM electronic components for example are super easy to swap, no cables, just remove chain and screw off the derailleur and it's in you hand.

Similarly getting disc brakes adjusted, can often mean to just loosen the bolts hold the brake and tighten, some of the former rim brakes were an absolute pain in comparison.

Bottom bracket standards he is right about, way too many manufacturers came up with their own, although I disagree that this is about pressfit (it's easy to make your own tools for fitting pressfit bbs).

The big one is internal cable routing especially with many new integrated cockpits. I think what we are see here is the limited engineering skill that exists at bike manufacturers. In contrast to automotive where a lot more thought would have gone into the design, they just put something "aero" together without thinking about the implications. Things therefore will take a number of iterations.
“We” don’t do anything of the sort. The meaning of life is a Douglas Adams joke; philosophy’s scope extends slightly further.
What if your legal name is Elon Musk. Can you pay the $8 to be verified? Will there only be one unique verified name and if so who gets to "own" it? If I get verified then someone has a hit song with my same name do I lose verification because they are now more important than me?

Musk seems unhinged as this point.
Interesting, thanks. Note that your URL does not work, searching for "46241-0003" gets the right category, though.

I do wonder how many of those accidents are related to cars overtaking others.
S2E8 ("Kiksyua") is superb. That episode alone makes a great epilogue to S1.
made my day. some good old (and new) ones in there.

where do they pop out in the GUI?

and why the hell are there 7000+ lines in one file?
There's no benefit to the "control" offered.

Yes, actually, there is benefit. Rick disagreeing, doesn't mean those benefits magically vanish.

The benefit is in the snow, on dirt roads, on windy, twisty paved roads.

The benefit exists on high end, but more so for the average car.

I grew up in Canada, live here, and cut my teeth delivering pizza, on manuals, in any weather. Warm suuny days, or -25C in a snow storm, pizza was delivered. On dirt, pavement, concrete, in freezing rain, pizza was delivered.

Try googling "lake effect snow". Try googling "ice bridge".

You know when you feather a clutch? When trying to ever so gently, get moving on ice or slick snow.

Normal torque of even the weakest car, will have you spinning, digging a hole.

You want to stop fast? On a rural, soft, dirt road? Like when a moose, or deer, appears in front of you?

Many non-porche cars do not have multi-piston breaking systems. Slamming the brakes on, and throwing the car into 1st, has, in a front wheel drive, the effect of you "digging in" to the dirt. Braking distance can drop to 1/5th in such a case.

No you won't destroy the tranny or clutch, for by the time you get it in first, and clutch, your foot floored on the brake has already dropped speed. Not to mention, do you want to burn a little clutch, or smash into a moose?

There are other scenarios too, but urban Californians, driving high end cars, won't run into the same ones.

I have no problem with someone disagreeing, and I agree with the 99% figure, but we aren't discussibg stunts, or track driving here.

I mean, is it common in California, to throw a couple of bags of sand, into the trunk of rear wheel drive cars, so that in the winter you have weight over the rear wheels?
Timothy Griffin of New York Killed Fighting Russians in Ukraine
Have a look at the links I shared above, particularly https://verifiedvoting.org/votingequipment/ for a quick summary; it gives some analysis of different voting equipment and concerns thereof.

In particular, purely-digital systems are widely regarded to be too vulnerable to hacking to be safe. What you're describing sounds like DRE with VVPAT, which isn't considered to be a secure option, though it's better than DRE without VPAT since as you note you can in principle audit it. (However, note that most jurisdictions don't yet do RLAs to randomly audit, so right now digitizing, even with VPAT, could weaken the system.)

I think the basic idea here is -- if paper is secure and will be your fallback, and digital is insecure, you should just build your process to be optimized for paper-first, rather than digital-first. Digitizing as you suggest doesn't really gain anything over paper (except perhaps reporting provisional results faster, but you'd still need to do a risk-limiting audit to verify that your digital votes didn't get hacked so this might be a wash), but it does add more attack surfaces along the chain of custody.

Ultimately, paper is a very robust solution to the problem of making the system hard to subvert at scale; you can think of it as a sort of "proof of work", where it would be extremely difficult for, say, Russia, or the DNC / RNC to tamper with large quantities of ballots across the nation. Compare that robustness with a digital system, where IF it works you have the same properties... but around here we all know that almost all digital systems can be owned by a persistent enough adversary.

If you're willing to relax some of the requirements around refutability, there are some interesting e-voting schemes, for example you can do some cool stuff with homomorphic encryption like https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard/. But there is something to be said for having a tallying algorithm like "count the pieces of paper" that doesn't require a PhD to understand.
Subway needs to use this guy in an ad.
I just spot checked a bike (Salsa Fargo). Was $1750 in 2012 and is $2650 now. I didn't compare the components to see if they are fancier than they used to be.

At a very cursory glance, looks like the price is up 50% in 10 years.
The voting machine source code repo:

https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite-complete-system

Like what they are doing? Give them a star.
64k a year is a lot better than I imagined. That makes me feel a little better about considering grad school in the near future!
Pay at big tech companies is well known, we were competitive with that.

No out-of-pocket healthcare costs actually. 14wk parental leave for both parents, unlimited sick days, 20 days PTO, something like 15 holidays etc. Not a scam.
You could use lines of docs too. These aren't bad metrics.
There is nothing stopping those now as you could just have someone do the same for mail in votes. Also, if someone is threatening you they could also be forcing you to pull money out of an ATM or commit murder for them. It sounds mostly like a strawman argument. Being able to verify your vote counted as intended is IMO way more important than the possibility that someone is blackmailing you and that has also stole a hash or digital signature to check your vote.
Believe it not there are a lot of people with the same name so allowing anyone to be verified makes verification useless.
where the fascist tyranny was instigated by racism

When has that happened, though? It's more often the opposite. Hitler magnified racism as a tool to gather power. Racism against African-descended people grew out of the institution of slavery, not the other way around.

Come to think of it: the fascists ideologues were probably certain of being "the good guys", themselves.

One of the most tragic facets of human psychology is that being abused a particular way makes you more likely to abuse others in that same way, not less likely.
Thank you!

Added to my /lisp/ directory for when I inevitably realise I've forgotten where I saw it :D
A Universal bleed kit from decathlon costs what, 30 euros? And another 20 for a big bottle of oil?

Personally I find it a lot easier than adjusting dérailleurs and stuff like that, you just push the bubbles out and job done
Adding #L7102 to the URL gets you straight to the quotes:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...
ROTFL. Enough for ten standup routines in there. "Take my Surface Pro 3, PLEASE!"

The only funny thing about that code is that someone took the time to type in hundreds of "funny" and "inspirational" quotes into the source code, gone to die in the depths of Notepad++.
c-baby’s suggestion wraps a non-promise in a promise, so I don’t see how that’s still able to return a non-promise.

Awaiting plain values can only be done inside an async function, which means it returns a promise, which means you have to wait for the event loop to get the value out of there.

Generally I’m not aware of any other (reasonably ergonomic) way to write a single code path that can work with both sync and async input without itself always giving async output.