skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that:

1. There are several languages which (sometimes) use the Arabic script, but are not Arabic, like Kurdish, Turkish up until a century ago, Javanese etc.

2. Farsi sort-uses the Arabic script, with some glyphs unique to it

... so things can be more complex than just deciding "Is it Arabic?" . But I like the website!

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Right-to-Left languages with non-Arabic script are also often similarly mis-rendered. I'd given the more popular scripts as an example, like N'Ko and Adlam, but almost nobody in the West bothers to print those, plus I'm not familiar enough with them; so - Hebrew:

In the disconnected-form script, here's Hello:

שלום עולם

(sounds like: shalom)

do you see the squarish glyph at the end of each of these words? That's the final-form Mem consonant. But in the beginning or the middle of the word, its glyph is מ. So if you see:

םולש

that means someone printed it in left-to-right order of glyphs instead of right-to-left.

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These issues come up a lot in our LibreOffice RTL languages user group on Telegram:

https://t.me/+GY3UwBnlDN9mY2M8

and if you're particularly interested in Arabic, there's the Arabic-issues-specific group:

https://t.me/LibreOffice_Arabic
I feel like noticing avocado toast is not a big deal. It's just a way to show you are not a weirdo, a sanity test. You are not offering to fuck right now and you can undestand some basic laws of conversation - a date material!
Exactly, this is because of the coupling with DAGShub as remote.
Full disclosure - I'm associated with iterative (DVC creators) - we have nothing to do with DAGShub I'm afraid. They don't consult or collaborate with us at all (to this date) about how to build or optimize their server or workflows for their "hub"
I can tell you a secret: it's ususlly not the optics that are failing. -||-
AWS Snowmobile: How Amazon uses 18-wheelers to transfer big data to the cloud
I was not able to write a proposal that was generally accepted by the community. We are still one break-through away from that happening.
I like the interface/features of Icones [0] better.

[0]: https://icones.js.org/
Suppose I said, "It's important to protect endangered species. There are 130 billion mammals on Earth."

It's plain English, but I picked the wrong measure to support my claim.
I remember! Baldur's Gate was a first "legit" game I bought for my pocket money that wasn't just "a game attached to a magazine".

And the localization was epic. It would be basically equivalent to all movie/TV star localization on the west. I still like the translated narrator better than the original.
FWIW, F# also has something similar to `let mut`.
Amazon Opens Up Solver at the Heart of Quantum Chip Effort
No there are ways to establish causation separate from correlation.

It's easy. Imagine, you observe someone with his hand on a switch. Every time he flips the switch the light turns on or off. This is correlative. You observe a correlation between switch flipping and lights going on and off. You can guess that the switch "causes" the light to go on.

However correlations do not indicate causation. It could be the switch doesn't do anything. The person is simply observing when the light goes on flipping the switch at the same time.

To do a causative experiment you have to become the flip switcher yourself. You have to randomly flip the switch and observe the lights reaction when it is flipped and when it is not flipped. Doing this more and more yourself as the experimenter gives you more and more confidence that the switch is causative to the light going on.

Essentially that is what a causative experiment requires. The experimenter must intervene with the subject itself in order to determine causation. Observational experiments are not enough to determine causation.

Judea pearl gets into this deeper with counterfactuals which actually imo is more technically correct but makes the whole thing harder to understand.

Anyway if you look at clinical trials this is exactly what they do to see if a certain medicine "causes" something.

Keep in mind that correlation and causation is sort of separate from the fact that science can't "prove" anything. Correlation is simply a probabilistic number and so is causation. Proof is something outside of this that exists in mathematics and logic.
Weird phrased title too! Leads every pack implies a multitemporal context, is then followed by “and then vanishes” which can only happen once.
The old versions of the books are not burned. They exist.
Older men who are not in gen z.
I'm wondering why the change of the architecture in the first place and not wait for next iteration of the platform. I guess maybe they wanted to keep the brand name ?
Tangentially, for those doing web development, CSS has a bunch of "logical" properties [1] that adapt to the locale of the user agent. For example, you can swap out `margin-left` and `margin-bottom` in your CSS with `margin-inline-start` and `margin-block-end` respectively. Similarly, `text-align` accepts start/end instead of left/right. Even if you're not targetting right-to-left or top-to-bottom locales, it's easy enough to switch to logical properties and get most of the work out of the way if you change your mind in the future.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Logical...
To put the above in perspective, the civil rights march was on August 28, 1963. Not talking about politics was a good strategy for white men, because the political environment favored them so much. Not talking about politics was not an option for people who still had to fight for equal rights.
Yep. And the browser vendor can make changes to DevTools, archive.ph is already privacy-unfriendly and blocked in some countries, it could disappear, 12ft.io could disappear, and so on.

The fact that seems least likely to change is that most "paywalls" rely on Javascript, CSS or some other "feature" of so-called "modern" web browsers.

I have lost count of how many times an HN comment alleges "paywalled" in a thread and I am reading the article just like any other because I am not using a graphical web browser. I would not even know there was a "paywall". Paywalls have dependencies.
Every physical activity has potential to damage some part of your body. Running, when done properly, doesn't damage the knees. Even more so research seems to suggest that it is good for the knees.
Signals are implicit GOTOs in the sense of INTERCAL's COMEFROM.

As for structured handling, instead of gotos all over the place, do inverted conditions for early returns similar to what Swift has done with guard statement, embrace functions for resource cleanup, if the cost of a jump brings cold sweat, have them inline and called alongside a return, most compilers will replace calls with jmp opcodes.
Fat, Sugar, Salt You’ve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong
I'm trying to understand how exactly do they know sometimes if there is central sleep apnea or obstructive sleep apnea happening with the tests. Is a CPAP or other machine helpful for central sleep apnea?
You would almost think what you described was our profession :-)
Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring
Any data source where events are created by intentional human action, including global social media platforms, have relatively trivial event rates even during bursts. It isn't the event rate that gets you, it is the rest of the workload processing and serving content. Just landing and storing the events can be easily handled by a single modern server with capacity to spare.

Machine sourced data, by comparison, has event rates that are orders of magnitude higher.
Yeah, this is sad. I even see apps which ask you 20€ per year OR 100€ for Lifetime. This is nonsense. I don't mind paying for a subscription if: there are major updates being delivered with a concrete roadmap and a service which i need to use everyday. Otherwise I'm not interested and i dont see the point of offering subs.

Apple plays a major role on this by motivating Developers to use subscriptions, now there are subscriptions for everything!
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You also wrote a really great article about it! In German: https://www.golem.de/news/sicherheitsluecke-in-druckern-uebe...
>if you’re a highly competitive mobile gamer, this could be the difference between successfully pulling off a headshot or your enemy firing the first bullet and wiping you out.

This is such a strange approach to mobile phone design. Maybe I'm old but I can't imagine playing gaming competitively on a mobile phone.
True Observer Pattern with Unsubscribe Mechanism Using Rust
There are so many, but this one is very recent:

Performance is not important, mentioned when a popular framework was proven slow

I recently learned that consciousness is negatively correlated with intelligence which may explain why so many seemingly intelligent people cannot make decisions or build things on their own.

Edit: my phone auto corrected conscientiousness to conscience.
This is a remarkable feat, no doubt. Without any prior knowledge about the project, however, it seems to be a geeky (and very fun) challenge rather than a real world problem. IOW it's a solution for a non-existent problem.

First of all, humans have already solved this problem successfully with the invention of oral traditions. If you combine a stubborn social practice with a sufficiently effective and fault tolerant stenography, you should have storage that can reach 50K years (Australian aboriginals boast 60K+ years of records). IOW a record keeping written language and a social practice (like a religion) would have the practical survivability of oral traditions but a much higher storage capacity.

Second, and perhaps this should be first, why are we assuming our knowledge is even remotely relevant to the distant futures? Absolutely none of Ancient Egyptian science exists as practice today, their entire cultural horizon is dead (a corpse in Nietzschean terms) and the only ones with a devoted interest are an elite few in a science of archeology that has only existed once in humankind to our knowledge. That the future cultures have the social or biologic capacity or motivation for archeology let alone science rest upon some rather huge and unfounded assumptions.

The only thing I can think of that should be transferred 1000 years into the future which they also have a high probability of caring about regardless of what motivates them would be e.g. where we store nuclear waste.
I think they’re copying digital ocean’s strategy. DO had great tutorials on hosting applications 3-5 years ago. This brought in SEO and social credibility.
As someone who also has lichen planus, I resonate so much. Its pathetic that most treatments are also very topical and don’t solve the underlying issue - which we don’t even know about. Recently I’ve been trying to experiment with my diet to see if its linked to the gut in some way…
I’m a member of an entrepreneurs forum where every so often someone will ask about improving their sleep. People are willing to try literally any pill they can source or rare Chinese medicine or vinegar diet or whatever, but what they are usually not willing to do is go and get a sleep study done and find out if they have sleep apnea.
It's very hard to know what creates value without more senior leadership experience.

Sometimes it's only '1 thing out of 10' but that '1 thing' is absolutley essential.

But honestly, I suggest the entire 'big data' movement is a bit outlandish, there really isn't a need for most of it. The 'saving grace' frankly is AI, because maybe-maybe-maybe we can make use of that data in some future alg because god knows we're really not making that much of use of it.

But it's hard.
How about getting a paid membership for certain higher education institutions’ libraries, which will give you access to not only books, but also a plethora of periodicals. And that will be fully legal and ethical.
Upgrading Ubuntu Jammy's Apt from Using HTTP to HTTPS
I don't quite understand why would Debian keep their own forks of software and don't even attempt to upstream the changes. Is it just security backports to ensure "stability" by not actually updating the packages, or do they have other reasons for the changes?
I can't think of any answer off hand but I'm not sure why your disappointed in that statement. A lot of it is matter of perspective. Knowledge is doubling at a much faster rate.

https://www.industrytap.com/knowledge-doubling-every-12-mont...

This is from 2013. Sometimes people use knowledge and intelligence interchangeably so it does come down to perspective. As far as we can currently know we humans are the only intelligence in the universe, and we're the ones amassing knowledge. That rate has been increasing at incredible rate.

So I'm not sure the source of your disappointment as this seems like a largely true statement. What makes me sad is we have a massive percentage of people who are mind numbed Snapchat narcissists who fail at, not just trying to be part of this amassing and utilization of knowledge, but don't even realize it's happening around them and it's what's enabled them carry the whole of human knowledge in a rectangle that to them is nothing more than selfie device to watch and record TikTok videos.
Maybe students are more shy and more careful because everyone around them has a video camera in their pocket.
a lot of the "infrastructure" within the legal community, including laws themselves, assume that the attorneys practicing the law are operating in good faith and with ethics in mind. It's clear these days that there are quite a few attorneys who are simply not operating in good faith.

The law also recognizes that attorneys work for their clients and with in many ways are obligated to do what the client wishes. that includes "fucking around" with the law, it seems. Legal ethics rules are supposed to prevent the worst of it, but because it happened so rarely prior to the current day, the legal system has developed no "antibodies" against this kind of behavior.

it is also becoming clear to attorneys that there is little or no punishment for malevolent behavior except in extremely egregious situations, so expect this trend to continue for a while until some remedy is developed.
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"people with different opinion" is some ideal that i found nice a decade ago. But today i think that the objective facts are pretty well known and most trouble are people who cant differentiate between a fact and their opinion. There are some things that we just cannot possibly know and people love to fill these voids with their imagination.
Colin Percival – great programmer, created both scrypt and tarsnap
Perhaps. But the other side of the coin is, a more health guts is also possible from such exchanges. I would imagine it's going to depend on who you associate with and their gut health.

For example, studies have shone that people who are married generally live longer*. Is that from companionship or the exchange of microbes?

Moi? I'm curious to know the affects of the pandemic isolation / lock downs on collective gut health. Did the attempts to prevent the spread of the virus help or hinder gut health? I suspect the latter, if only because the lock down violates evolution.

* People with dogs also live longer, which raises the same question.
I had it in my feed and watched it some hours before this was posted here.
> I recently learned that consciousness is negatively correlated with intelligence which may explain why so many seemingly intelligent people cannot make decisions or build things on their own.

Source?
I doubt this is how nature works - with the exception of octopuses, it seems. In most environments, you probably get eaten or starve to death before you have time to figure it all out yourself.
Well looking at this post comments the targets seems to be "people that don't care their shit isn't working"...
Based on the numbers from dating apps (only the top most attractive men being shown to and dated by women) it seems likely that it's women mostly having relations with those few men. And supposedly those men having simultaneous or just a rapid succession of relationships. This also seems to ring true to the experiences I've been told of by my male and female friends.
But isn't the crime and livability correlated such that low crime areas like Seattle are more desirable places to live. And, that's why housing is more expensive?

Baltimore is very high crime and as such inexpensive and as such low levels of homelessness.
Defining `MyType = 3 | "foo" | false` needs the language to allow arbitrary type changes of a variable, and while that's possible in JS it's generally not considered a good idea.

Rust forces you to define a single enum to represent this, and then you can implement the TryFrom trait to make it directly comparable to booleans, integers etc, but without having to deal with random `undefined` values popping up everywhere.

Is it less convenient? Yes, but so are seatbelts. Sometimes you need to build software where this tradeoff is worth it.
Cloud pricing is always terrible compared to "just a fucking machine somewhere in a rack" or even more traditional VM providers.
I taught a senior capstone group who were generating new Calvin and Hobbes cartoons using AI in 2019. They weren’t great, but I’m sure today the results would be 1000% better.

What they did was run sentiment analysis on the corpus of comics, and then categorized all the panels by a number of emotions (anger, joy, surprise, confusion, etc.) then they wrote some jokes, specified some constraints about the panels, and then the algorithm assembled a comic.

Today I imagine they could generate entirely new panels from the corpus, and maybe ChatGPT could be trained on the text to write jokes closer to the style of Calvin and Hobbes.
No news, I thought HN might be interested here as like Linus (git, Linux) or Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg, qemu) Colin's done a bunch of things a lot of us use every day (directly or not).
As if there are many )

Drives: Pioneer. Lite-On stopped manufacturing them, AFAIK.

Discs: M-Discs are made only by Verbatim/Milleniata factory. Quality of the usual BD-Rs varies. Sometimes you can get decent disks from CMC. But not LTH.
AI porn will never be sexy
I agree. We've had sex toys and prostitutes for thousands of years.

Blaming porn is a weak band-aid on a deeper cut.
This.

So many people underestimate the value of experience. Seeing patterns comes with seeing many different things over an extended period of time.
> You won't get competence in managing the budgeting, planning, and execution of a subway line without doing it a lot.

> So how do you break the cycle of inefficiencies leading to people scared to start enough projects necessary to build expertise?

I wonder if this could be something that's only possible when you're riding on fast exponential growth - fast enough that you can afford starting more and larger projects faster than population growth (or at least faster than competent people entering management work), with confidence that this "spending spree" is self-sustaining. Once you lose that confidence, you start worrying, lose velocity, and then lose capability.

This would explain why it seems that nations tend to rapidly industrialize and improve across the board, in a kind of push that lasts for couple decades, and then runs out of fuel, leaving the nation barely able to do any large project anymore.

An analogy in my mind is to a scramjet: an engine that allows you to achieve extremely high velocities, but which itself needs you moving very fast to even start it - and conversely, if you let your airspeed drop past the threshold, it will stop working.
> As you know, carbs are precisely we need when going the distance.

This is completely false. You deplete your carb stores after a few hours (depending on pace etc), and then YOU ARE RUNNING ON KETONES, whether you like it or not. You physically cannot eat and digest enough carbs to sustain your pace for any longer period of time.

Carb depletion can be a real shock for the first time. What happens is that your body is not accustomed to burning fat for energy, and so it just doesn't know what to do.

But if you prepare it will learn how to do it, and do it rather efficiently. Unless you are a pro athlete (in which case you have your own dietician anyway) you will benefit from going keto for long distance endurance sports. Yes, your sprints will be slower, but in exchange you will simply not be hungry, or feel loss of energy (actually, a marathon is not really that long distance, if you are fast enough you won't even deplete your carb stores!).

It takes a few days, maybe a week or two to switch to keto. You can speed up the process by fasting, it will not leave your body any doubt about what is going to happen :) You will feel very weak at first, but this will pass, and then you are in long distance nirvana. You just need to watch out for proper hydration (not too much, not too little) and mineral replenishment. You can even do your sport fasted, it won't make any difference! Highly recommended for those having digestive issues.

As a matter of fact, I'd rather say it is highly irresponsible of anyone doing endurance sports NOT on keto. But as many other things, this is not taught at school, and people have to experiment for themselves to find out what works for them.
> But that seems to suggests that all the respondents were aware that it’s a racist catchphrase

> Further, 72% of the total respondents responded in the affirmative- is the theory that these respondents were not aware of the racist connotation?

I... think you're answering your own question? Let's assume the simplest case, where everyone who thinks the phrase is innocent answers yes, and everyone who's aware of the context of the phrase answers no. In that case, if 28% of respondents are aware of the context, then the result is what you'd expect.

(In practice it'll be a bit messier than that; some will know the phrase and answer yes, some won't but will answer no anyway, and frankly some will be baffled by the question, which tends to increase poll noise.)

In general, this is absolutely incompetent poll design; you can't really get anything from it.
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Interesting poll.

So I guess the comparison of 60% single young males vs. 30% single young females would be even more one-sided if we discount those who are willingly single and wouldn't want to change that status.

Life is hard for young men these days.
> If you have sleep apnea, no amount of sleep gadgets, good habits, exercise, will help you

Probably not what you mean, but this is untrue as there can be different causes for sleep apnea. For instance obesity, which would be helped by exercise.
I had some interesting results by asking it to interview me as if it was a writing a book about me. Somehow it really got me to think about some things I hadn't thought about in a long long time.

I think it can be a very powerful tool for exploring our own mind.
If you come to the North of Norway between the end of December and the start of February, you'll usually see it if you stick around for more than a week. The biggest problem up North is really the weather. It's often cloudy, and for that reason the months prior December, and after February, aren't really good for spotting the Aurora. Also you'll want to camp out somewhere away from light pollution. I mean, I saw it often enough within the city limits of Tromsø, but you'll get a completely different experience if you go into the mountains, say at some research station, or to some remote fishing village by the sea. Add to this that January and February are usually the coldest months up there, with temps that can stretch below -20° Celsius / -4 Fahrenheit so bring warm clothing and a thermos with hot chocolate!
Sure, but what's edge? The world is big. Can't have servers everywhere (ok, maybe Cloudflare is close). It's possible due to routing decisions that you get sent to a "different edge" at different times.