skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DeepL gives you the following for "There's mud all over the shop":

"Der ganze Laden ist voller Schlamm." (German)

But if you place the cursor on "Laden" ("shop") it'll offer you alternatives including "Ort" ("place", i.e.: "There is mud all over the place"). The problem here is that what's meant depends on context: if you are a shopkeeper speaking after a downpour, your entire shop might indeed be full of mud your customers have dragged in. (Moreover, "der ganze Laden" can be used in German in much the same way as "all over the shop" in English, i.e. referring to any sort of building or establishment.)

More to the point perhaps, here is the output DeepL produces for the Portuguese phrases quoted in the table of "Phrase examples":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke#Phrase...

1. "Walls have ears. Alternatives: The walls have ears. Walls do have ears." (1:0 for DeepL.)

2. "He rides pussycats. Alternatives: Walk with pussycats. Come on, pussycat. He's got pussy." (1:1. BIG FAIL.)

3. "Is the road safe? Alternatives: How safe is the road? Is the road safe ? Is the road safe for you? (2:1 for DeepL.)

4. "He can ride a horse. Alternatives: He knows how to ride a horse. You can ride a horse. You know how to ride a horse. (3:1 for DeepL. Note that the Portuguese can indeed mean either "you" or "he".)

5. "He who remains silent consents. Alternatives: He who is silent is consenting. He who is silent is consented. Those who keep silent consent." (4:1 for DeepL.)

6. "What does he do? Alternatives: What is he doing? What's he doing? What does it do?" (5:1 for DeepL.)

7. "I feel like vomiting." Alternatives: I feel like throwing up. I feel like puking." (6:1 for DeepL.)

8. "This lake looks pretty fishy to me. Let's go fishing for fun." (Not brilliant. 6:2.)

9. "The servant ploughed the royal ground." (Acceptable. "Earth", "land", "soil" etc. offered as alternatives when you click on "ground". 7:2.)

10. "I know what I should do or what is incumbent upon me." (Acceptable. Offers "what is my responsibility" when you click on "incumbent". 8:2 for DeepL.)

11. "I earned more than thirty thousand réis. Alternatives: I earned over thirty thousand réis. I won more than thirty thousand réis. I won over thirty thousand réis." (Perfect. 9:2 for DeepL.)

12. "Did you understand or did you understand what I said? Alternatives: Did you understand what I said? Did you understand me? (Perfect. 10:2 for DeepL. Note that the repeition is there in the Portuguese: it ask the same thing twice, in two past tense forms that aren't distinguished in English (formal/informal forms).)

13. "He's a good sport, as far as I can see. Look how I've tamed him." (I don't think the translation in Wikipedia is all that brilliant. "From what I see, he kicks"?? Alternatives offered by DeepL when clicking on "good sport" include: "He's got balls from what I can see. Look how I've tamed him." Inconclusive. Let's call it 10.5 : 2.5.)

So, not perfect, but a lot less funny than "English as She Is Spoke".
The vast majority of this country has a distrust of the media (both TV and print) [1] and it's not because their reporting is high quality and evenhanded. In fact, given the partisan divide here (Independents and Republicans historically low trust, Democrats almost even with historic highs), I really think you should reconsider your knee-jerk dismissal. There aren't a lot of ways to square this circle if you eliminate all possibility of influence of partisan bias.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/403166/americans-trust-media-re...
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https://github.com/type-challenges/type-challenges

The type challenges are a great thing to learn with. Admittedly, they're a bit intense but it's a great way to "expand your awareness".

As a shameless self plug, I'm participating in a 140-day long project to do them all (complete with video explanations) that just started yesterday, if you wanna follow along: https://github.com/type-challenges/type-challenges/issues/21...
I think a lot of things actually became easier lately. Deployment? Docker, k8s and cheap virtualization made it much easier than before. Exchanging data and interoperation? Finally people are starting to use comprehensible things like REST and GRPC, instead of trying to invent some byzantine "Enterprise Solution". C/Assembly is no longer the only option if you want performance. Sure, there are more tools around now, but I think the tools themselves are getting somewhat better and more sane.
That’s not an accurate paraphrasing; many social programs actually cost less than the alternative.

Sounds like you live in the UK, so maybe you take the NHS for granted. It would be a vast improvement from what we have in the US, where we have amongst the most expensive health care system in the world with far from the best outcomes. Group insurance is generally negotiated by employers; access to affordable healthcare is a huge obstacle to pursuing anything other than a traditional job.

Even loftier goals like ending homelessness don’t turn out to require the financial tradeoffs you’re talking about. Study after study, we’ve seen that simply giving people homes is costs less than shelters, police raids and a Kafkaesque system of requirements to prevent people who Don’t Deserve Help from getting it.

Consider that US workers are taxed in order to subsidize the dreams of the second wealthiest man in the world, for not one but two of his businesses. Would SpaceX or Tesla have succeeded without government handouts? We’re never asked to question that, but as soon as we suggest that people be able to make art without worrying about medical bankruptcy or homelessness, people start looking at the balance sheet with a magnifying glass.
This one is my favourite, along similar lines:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11907
All universities in the UK operate under the same conditions. The choice of the student makes little difference.

Other countries may differ
Yeah, and I also like your idea of every class being pass/fail. I'm sure I've heard of some colleges doing it but I haven't looked into whether it's considered to be an improvement. Also I wonder what the results would be in terms of norm-setting if this was done at Harvard or something next?
So, I made a raspberry pi into a smart thermostat with remote sensors all over my house which allowed me to do all kinds of targetted heating, averages, etc. Turns out that Ecobee makes one, and it's quite good. Been happily using them ever since.
I really like the compromise taken by Ecto (in Elixir): higher level than writing SQL directly, but without lazy loading, callbacks, and other features that make it difficult to see what a piece of code is really doing.
- Bitcoin passes $50k and continues rising through $100k shortly before the next halvening in March 2024

- One of Biden, Trump or Putin dies of natural causes. Approximately 50% of people do not believe the official story.

- A NATO base is hit with a Russian missile, leading to increased saber rattling but ultimately not to any full-scale war

- There is no peace agreement in Ukraine but there is a temporary cease-fire which is eventually broken by a rogue faction of the Ukrainian military

- Excess deaths continue above pre-2021 levels

- China does not invade Taiwan, but there are large scale protests in one of Taiwan or Hong Kong.

- TikTok is not banned

- Twitter does not crash. By the end of the year there is news that Musk is shopping around to take it public again.

- Civil unrest in Egypt is violently oppressed but there is no change in power

- There is a tragic accident in the Space travel industry

- Zuckerberg steps down as CEO of Meta

- Jack Dorsey returns as CEO of Twitter

- At least one major VPN provider is found to be operated or sponsored by a US intelligence agency

- A new social network becomes popular after introducing an alternative means of consuming news stories
This is also encouraged by vendors. Old-school "boring" solutions (that you can't rent-seek over) are shunned in favour of proprietary reinventions of the wheel that do the same but poorly or more expensive. This in turn incentivises "engineers" to do resume-driven-development and implement those suboptimal products/services at their own company, and the cycle repeats.
Amusing and yet I worry it's a straw-man for the contemporary issue of automation replacing human workers more generally (which I find decidedly less amusing).
Scylla also uses a shared-nothing sharding approach, they have an open-source "asynchronous I/O engine" toolkit that is used inside of ScyllaDB called Seastar

They have some good reading on this approach in the Seastar docs if you're curious, it's a great general introduction to Shared Nothing:

https://seastar.io/shared-nothing/#:~:text=The%20Seastar%20M....

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/under-the-hood-of-a...

This is usually generalized to some variation of "Physical-OS-thread-per-CPU-core" architecture, where each CPU core gets it's own dedicated chunk of data. You use hashing or some other mechanism to route requests for data to the right core.

Each CPU core can have user-land concurrency or "virtual threads" (fibers/coroutines/etc) as well, so you're not limited to sequential code necessarily.

A combination of thread-per-core x userland-coroutines-per-thread is how modern query processing approaches like "Morsel-Driven Parallelism" work.

CPU-1-OS-THREAD-1
COROUTINE_1
COROUTINE_2
CPU-2-OS-THREAD-2
COROUTINE_35
...
COROUTINE_102

https://db.in.tum.de/~leis/papers/morsels.pdf
But, conversely, how many more people got easy access to music in form of "canned music", where previously they had none at all because they couldn't afford to regularly hire live players?
wait, standing against someone who wants to give the state the rights to kill me (a heretic by their definition) is xenophobia now?
The Idiotisms and Proverbs section is one of the more hilarious and I wonder how many of them can be mapped back to originals. The only one I could trace is A horse baared don't look him the tooth, which presumably maps back to Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Probably quite a few of them are no longer common in English either by now, which makes computing the inverse harder.
What exactly are you even saying? What is "rubbish" and what do you mean by "certain sounds"?

People have been paying for live performances of music, i.e., "certain sounds", throughout all of recorded history. So it's the opposite of an aberration. "Paying to hear certain sounds" is a time-honored human tradition. If we broaden our definition of "paying" to include barter, I would guess it goes back to the invention of musical instruments.
True. Which also means the expected reliability of a 3rd party password manager also goes down

Maybe we can just ditch passwords for most services
There’s actually new functionality that has been specifically designed with no GUI on purpose. Do a google of split brain DNS. The only way to set it up is by creating additional DNS zones and creating DNS query filters. Can only be done in posh. There are other examples of that too, but I’ve had to implement split brain before so I know that one for a fact.
"Context now that the editorialised title has changed, this is a core Bitcoin developer."

I don't know this person, I am not involved in any way in the bitcoin ecosystem ... but I have thought about it a fair amount, specifically wrt opsec and security practices, self custody, etc.

One of the conclusions I have always come to was:

If I was known to have a lot of bitcoin, for any reason, I would work hard to make it public knowledge that all that bitcoin was gone.
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Would you happen to know where I can find such companies?
I've worked that way for 20 years. The product group I lead, e.g., from 2006 through 2014 was a total of 150 or so people, located in 4 up to 8 campus facilities on 3 different continents, and at least 40 or so individuals whose only office was at home. If you looked at all the individual "deliverable" teams in that group, I don't think there were any that didn't have key contributors who were not co-located. So they all functioned essentially as everyone remote, all the time.

(The downside to that arrangement for me, since I was responsible for the entire group, was that a work day spanned the entirety of the hours I was will to be awake. One soon learned to be brutal about blocking out non-work hours during your local usual business hours so you could accomodate the 5 and 6:00 AM calls that required people from Eastern and Western Europe, and the 8 and 9:00PM calls that got Asia, Singapore and Australia on board. We tried to keep individual teams from being constituted from more than 2 continents just to keep some sanity in people's lives).
Yes we exclusively use google meet. It's very nice. I feel pain every time I have to use anything else.
I know all that. But you didn't address my point: if management has thrown all good practices to the wind, how am I to blame for the horrendous outcomes?
My comments were limited to the question as to why we might want to do this in preference to EVs. In the case of EVs, the energy source is cheaper, but there is a much higher capital expense as those poor folks who are just scraping by will have to go out and buy new cars.
I'm going to be working on a personal itch problem. I first spotted the problem about 20 years ago. I solved it as a brute force manual screen scrape 15 and 10 years ago. I tried to solve it programatically 5 years ago, learnt lots but ultimately went round in circles on scaling an approach.

I'm now excited to be playing with Arquero [1] and Uber H3 [2] and hopefully I'll scratch the itch and release something!

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Microsoft’s $200 Surface Earbuds have seemingly been abandoned
In my fantasies the central controller can learn how much to open each vent until each room heats up at about the same rate. Presumably that would end up with one or more vents fully open, and the more insulated rooms progressively more closed.
There is no way that whoever this person got in contact with has the power to act on a criminal act that many layers removed from anything support agents can have input into.

Instead of badgering the powerless CS agent I'd go to the police. Cops do not usually respond to a simple "it's in there because my AirTags say so".... but the poster has images of tons of stolen luggage in the dumpster outside. That's easy probable cause and the kind of stuff cops just love to go full cowboy mode over.
I really don't think this is a productive question or will produce productive answers that aren't tribal and arbitrary.

Some folks will blame "the system" or "the man", others will claim it's not hard and you just need to RTFM, still others will explain how much harder it was "back in their day", and some folks will question the question (like me).

But nobody is going to drop some single piece of information or knowledge that'll "answer" the question; "In 2004 Linus Torvalds declared that all backend systems must contain three additional technologies than the currently mandated two." If only it were that simple.

Things are hard until they aren't, complex until they're simple, convoluted until they're straightforward as can be. The line is different for everyone, so nobody knows what your line is, which means nobody's going to answer the question in a way that will satisfy you, and if they do, it'll only be helpful to a few folks (your folks) and possibly actively harmful to others.

Maybe if you had a specific question that illuminated where you're coming from, folks could provide better answers...
You're oversimplifying the problem and/or not viewing the problem for the organization. Maybe for an individual developer it's easier to create a Dyno or a Beanstalk deployment, but it's not necessarily easier for the organization.

IMO, Kubernetes solves a lot of issues for both camps but most of the Kubernetes detractors I've met are only hostile to it because of ignorance, not any reasonable criticisms. "It's different, it's hard or it's something I don't know" aren't valid excuses.
I know.

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

That's why I worded it with "ABIs". ;-)
Sarcasm: Fire services are socialism.
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People probably have, but now it seems to be getting some backing by statistics.

This isn't me just saying something random, it's something I've read about recently and had come out of studies of changes in music over the last 60 years.
"Pictures are clearly personally identifiable data, so storing them violates the GDPR if you don't have permission to do so."

Wouldn't a Creative Commons license express this permission?
Replace "corporate profit" with "social good", which is what it generally comes from, and then is it still sad?

You seem to imply there's something wrong with corporate profit. We as society want and encourage corporate profit because we want the social good that corporations provide and the profit incentivizes them to do it. Profit is a rough measure of how much good they do for people.

Profit is like salary for investors. Salary is fine for doctors and teachers, isn't it? It's also fine for investors which do the useful and difficult job of deciding which companies are doing the most good, then encouraging them to do more of it by investing money.
> So exceptions are more expensive to throw than return values, but completely free when not thrown unlike return values

Is that true though? Placing exception handlers in the stack, so examining every stack frame for one, is equivalent to testing the sum type to see if it is in error state, surely?

My disclaimer: I know very little about compilers, so this is an actual question.
May I take advantage of your (presumed) typo, to henceforth refer to myself as a JavaScript Devil?

That's good enough for a business card/avatar tag/equivalent, IMO--yeah, I love it!
That was because Linkedin added a no-scraping clause to their ToS and also put up a login wall for viewing profiles in the first place.

If you scraped from a web page without actually signing up for an account you wouldn't be accepting the terms and would thus be legally in the clear.
>JUST STOP MASS BLOCKING. You literally have no reason to. The only reason would be if you have an agenda to stop people from anonymously accessing information.

You are not entitled to access a website and the website doesn't know if you're a "good" or "bad" person automatically.

Put another way, if 9/10 of all phone calls/text messages sent to you are antagonistic at all hours of the day with NO filtering, would you accept that?

If so please post your unfiltered phone number that you will always answer, or your email address that has no spam filtering on it.

When most of the traffic on the internet is junk, some level of filtering is required.

How does a website determine if you're a "good" person, or a hacker who will destroy them otherwise?
Yeah it’s great!

A couple seconds before yours, he has an index card with the title “Directing Learning 371.3”

A quick search yields the title: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7389387W/Directing_learning

But I was unable to find a physical or digital copy available. Good luck!
I think it interesting to look at the responses but since the VC test is designed to illicit a physiological response and the chatgpt responses read like wikipedia I would say it does not and cannot pass the test.
Californian agriculture is 80% of water usage. That agriculture is largely shipped out of state, internationally, and supplying the rest of the US half of its produce outside staple grains: fruits, nuts, vegetables, berries, etc.
Is there any URL we can switch the top link to, that contains some of this information but doesn't do an automatic file download as https://gbatemp.net/download/gba-and-ds-rom-hacking-guide.33... does? (Those make annoying links for frontpage submissions, even when the content is good.)
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> To be fair, gamifcation of reviews is a very real problem.

I wonder if "tipping" could improve things.

A new platform like airbnb could have an expected tip built in to the platform. Hosts are expected to provide good service and get a tip.

Customers are encouraged to tip at the end of their stay (with a lower base price than airbnb to account for that).

Hosts can see the average, median, max, and min tips of potential customers (along with distribution, and percentage calculations) and use that to determine whether to accept them as a guest.

Customers can see the average tip a listing received, and use that to determine if they'd want to stay there. Of course, they would sometimes leave $0 or a low number as a tip, but they'd be incentivized to also provide good tips for good service, because a low tip average would reflect poorly on them and make them less likely to be hosted.

I suspect tying things to real value for the customer and host would lead to better service and a more honest indication of host/customer quality.

But perhaps it would just lead to hosts literally bribing customers for good tips.
unmodified windows results in a broken system sooner or later, since windows 8.
1.5M people in UK work for the National Health Service, I doubt these are all over-stretched doctors and nurses. Bureaucracy and inefficiency must be rampant over there.
Probably, UBI is the best first solution. In the sense that it acts as a collective bargaining system for all citizens who are forced to trade their time for income.
I've found the TRV-less radiator is usually in the hallway as that's historically where a thermostat would live (ground floor, no windows, cool) and you don't want them to battle each other. You also want it to be sufficiently far from the boiler so the return water cools enough and you stay in/near the sweet spot for a modern condensing boiler.

TRVs are often avoided in bathrooms since those rooms have another source of heating (bath/shower) that will screw up what it's trying to do. Also, some smart TRVs don't have sufficient IP rating for such a moist environment. That said, you could install one in a bathroom and people do. Not sure why though, maybe they get carried away with their smart setup.
Can Airbnb make you pay anything after the fact? What if you simply refuse? Surely they would need to sue?
Feed this into ChatGPT