skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not talking about Arabic speakers, he's talking about people who can read (to some extent) the Arabic script. This would include speakers of Urdu, Western Punjabi, Pashto, Dari, Farsi and many other (smaller) languages. He may also be talking about Muslims who can sound out the Arabic text of the Koran, even if they don't understand it--a skill which, from what I understand, is valued among Muslims.
Not just a RDBMSs. Any modern DB, document store, or kv store will use a buffer cache.
Yes it's a completely ridiculous theory that the biolab that works on bat borne coronaviruses might have had something to do with the bad borne coronavirus that sprang up a mile away.

It's just a theory. Totally crackpot.

I mean come on they totally found the animal that came from to support the zoonotic origin theory.

Oh wait, they have yet to identify a spillover animal.

Anyone with common sense notice the lab leak is the most likely scenario here. But sure go ahead and continue to defend the honor of the CCP, an organization that is shortly going to be sending lethal weaponry including suicide drones to Vladimir Putin so he can murder Ukrainian civilians with impunity.
At my previous job, one of the accountants asked me on my first week if I could solve a spreadsheet problem they had involving payroll for it's ~250 employee's. As a 20 year database developer, manager and analyst, I was really hesitant, but after she showed me the amount of time it was taking her to do this every 2 weeks, I sort of felt obliged.

All of the data was from several flat files, it consisted of each employee's hours for the period, accrued sick time, vacation time, comp time, etc. She had to manually copy and paste this data into Excel, fix formatting issues, then use it to calculate several totals. It was then fed into another system (that would only accept Excel files for input), that would print the pay checks with all this data summarized.

This was clearly critical for the organization, and it was taking her a couple days to do manually. I begged her, and my supervisor, to let me do the whole thing in SQL Server or MySQL, but she wouldn't have it, because it HAD to be something she could adjust manually. I explained I could make it look and feel like Excel, but she wouldn't have it.

I realize to anyone in databases (including me), I should have fought harder to do it right. However, as a new employee it was more important to gain trust than show off new technologies. So I compromised.

I setup a system that imported all of the data into SQL Server, cleaned it up, then exported it to Excel. The tricky part was working with VBA, and creating recursive expressions in Excel during the export. It took me about a week of time, mostly because I hadn't used VBA in a decade. The end product, from her point of view, looked exactly like her original spreadsheet. She could then still manually fix any issues that came about before importing it into the paycheck printer.

In the end, it saved her 2 days a week, or 8 days a month or 96 days a year. I became her new best friend. I was always the first to get my paycheck, and never had any issues when I needed support from finance. Probably the smartest move I made early in that job. ;)
I don't think the intent is to fix every issue, but rather to tell you if you are using busted translation tools. The thing about left-to-right/right-to-left is something that a non-native Arabic speaker may not even know to look out for, even though it is a core aspect of the way the language is written.
If only that were actually true.
Splits refers to the amount of time passed over a measured distance. A miler would be interested in their 400m split (the time they run through 1/4 of their race), and a marathoner would be more concerned with their mile/km split.

Holistically, pacers are just experienced runners that provide even splits over their distance. In a marathon context, running in a group can be quite pleasant and motivating, but there is definitely nothing stopping anyone from just using a GPS watch.
Are there any courts capable of enforcing these rights and overturning laws that violate them?
Startups Are Like Plants
This is just my mindset for 2 months of indie hacking.

Starting a startup is like growing a plant:

- you need to select the right seed (idea)

- provide it with enough light (marketing)

- make sure you don't drown it with too much water (features)

Additionally, you must be consistent and patient, and with enough perseverance, you'll eventually see the fruits of your labor.

I want to encourage all indie hackers out there, and wish everyone success until the day their flowers bloom.
Well as the Persian and Arabic alphabet are nearly identical, unicode doesn't appear to store two distinct copies, instead just storing one plus the additional characters for Persian.

Oddly though, it stores several copies of identical chinese characters. Traditional, simplified, and the Japanese loaned characters kanji.
I'm struggling to see where the harm or injury is here.
What about farsi and other languages that use arabic script but not arabic at all? I can write (with effort lol) indonesian or javanese in arabic script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawi_script.
They opened another airport instead, but it's in suburbia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_%C3%81ngeles_Internatio...
But the Arabic language is not the only one using Arabic script. Not sure if you can get to 2 billion with Persian et al., but it would definitely increase your count
It’s interesting that some people see freedom of speech as a weapon to commit crime, and others see freedom of speech as a weapon to prevent crime.
Yes and no.

In theory, you can pace yourself with a watch and a map. “Splits” are (distance, time) pairs that correspond to a targeted finish time. For example, if you were targeting a 4:00 finish at an even pace, you’d want to be crossing the halfway point at 2:00.

In practice, it’s mentally much easier to pace yourself off another person. The implicit peer pressure to stay with the pack helps when you might otherwise start to lag behind and helps you resist the temptation to blow up your plan because “you’re feeling good” and want to go for broke.
That can't be fixed. You just have to know if you're in a locale that wants one or another rule for that. Well, I suppose the UC could still introduce new codepoints for I and i that specifically for Turkish, but it wouldn't be convenient for users of Turkish.
I agree.

On reflection, I'd also add that I do design systems "data first" however to me this doesn't mean "database first". It's important to think about how data flows through the system, how it gets transformed, and what parts of the system "own" which data.

All of this requires understanding of the boundaries of the various systems that make up the whole, which I think is exactly your point.
C) Trapping foreign citizens in their country would have caused an international incident when very little was yet known.
Keygen music is another similar relic. They are chiptunes included in cracked software. Their names were often just whatever software they were cracking. I like Adobe Create Suite 4 here https://youtube.com/watch?v=FVX6t-ivMfE&feature=share
I personally am willing to wait and hear out alternatives. I think the "smoking gun" evidence is long destroyed if it ever existed. But maybe the truth is out there.

On the other hand, it seems like there are people who not only insist the Lab Leak Theory could be wrong, they don't WANT it to be right. Why is that? Why are they so concerned the theory might be true and what is the implication?
Divide your project into independent modules:

- So after you build a module, you only have to remember the interface to the module: what does it input? What does it output? You can forget about the implementation details.

- If you need to later fix a problem in that module, you only need to remember the interface to other modules it interacts with.

- Good self-documenting names and comments will help.

- It's like when you use 3rd party modules: you just need to understand the API it exposes, not the underlying implementation details.
That's always the risk with someone else holding your money. The brilliance (the curse and the blessing) of crypto is that you can be your bank that way, self custody.
You could bio-engineer a virus without gain of function, I presume. My point was that a lab leak does not also mean bio-engineering.
There is also a six percent power savings drafting the pacer in running.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35834628/

That translates to a 3-6 minute benefit in a marathon.
I just finished playing completely through L.A. Noire for the first time. It was great on the deck.

My wife broke her leg and our existence has been more miserable than typical. To keep my sanity this weekend, I've been working on getting a reliable stream setup from my desktop. One day I'll start playing through Red Dead Redemption 2.

Steam Remote Play works fine when the deck is the server, but it seems rather buggy as the client. "Hardware decoding" freezes up, and "software decoding" has messed up color on the preview release. Software decoding works on stable, but even then it's choppy and has lots of artifacts.

Yesterday I set up sunshine on my desktop, and today I got moonlight set up on the deck. Out of the box it seems to work very well. It looks better than Remote Play, and it seems to be better latency too. The only problem I've encountered is an inability to unlock my screen from the steam deck over moonlight; I type in the password, but my desktop rejects it for some reason, then after a few tries locks me out for 10 minutes. Thanks Arch Linux!

Since I'm incoherently rambling, I also tried to launch linux-native Tomb Raider yesterday, as I have successfully for several years. It didn't work because that would bring me too much joy. I switched to proton and it worked, but didn't have my progress saved. Okay, I am a software engineer with multiple computer science degrees. Missing libssl.so.1.0.0. An hour later, 10 minutes of compiling half a dozen random libraries, and a 200 character LD_LIBRARY_PATH override spanning four directories, it works again. How did it ever work?! According to the internet this problem happened to everyone else in 2017. Also a joke that's not a joke, windows has become linux's most stable ABI.
I just wish Unihertz had better ROMs or made it easier to flash alternatives like LineageOS. I've got a Titan and the software ruins an otherwise-wonderful piece of hardware.
Have you read The Twitter Files?
>I suspect that sites don't know when CloudFlare is false-positive blocking legitimate visitors and costing them customers

So let them know. Put a value on it too. Then maybe they’ll be more careful in dismissing “false positives” as a business cost (especially for someone like GitLab competing for business).
>whatever is the current "woke" / "social justice" viewpoint du jour

The verbiage in this bit is exactly what I was talking about. Your objection was not simply that there are forbidden topics, you are specifically complaining about what topics are forbidden.

And to be clear, the "cancelling" of people existed before either social media or the internet. Yes, the internet and social media can act as a multiplier on this behavior, like they do for all sorts of other human behavior, but they didn't create it.
Funny enough there are many Muslims who can read Arabic but have almost no idea what they are reading as they don't speak it. The Quran is interpreted into many languages but prayer is read in Arabic no matter what their native language is. Reading the Quran is also preferrably done in Arabic, as translation is open to the interpretation of the translator, so the only truly immutable word is read in Arabic.
I would recommend avoiding making contributions on GitHub. If you want an account for search and whatnot fine, but I had an account with hundreds of stars killed. They said it was because I created a second account. I said they could delete the second account, or I would do it. They refused to accept this suggestion and are keeping both banned.

What's worse is they also kill every single issue, PR and comment you've ever posted. It's quite cruel and unnecessary.
The flavor is just a brand signature.

It’s a savvy one for a (inter)national brand because it lets them mask inconsistency, and a savvy one when selling lots of latte-like drinks because it lets their signature carry through to those as well.

No, it’s not subtle and delicate and classy, but those characteristics run counter to the McDonald’s-scale business that Starbuck’s pursued.

They needed varying inputs to all taste roughly the same, in some menu of products that remixed a small core repertoire of ingredients in different ways.

Subway sandwiches taste different and more bland than the ones from your local butcher counter because Subway needs to make a billion sandwiches that all taste similarly bland every day, every where, forever.

Starbucks faces the same calculus. It’s nearly a 100 year old business model, it’s exhaustively documented, and it seems to work. If you don’t enjoy their flavor, you don’t need to. But neither convoluted personal theories nor taste snobbery aren’t necessary.
To identify a dog whistle you must merely learn its characteristics and recognize them.
Yes, but now it's also really trendy to complain about woke social justice cancel culture while spewing fascist tropes.

When did the internet become garbage? I'd say Facebook and Gamergate, but news groups were really cool until they got trashed by trolls, or was it when you needed to set up a special eggdrop to protect your irc, and that was a long time ago.

Is Ham radio cool again?
Meditation timer this post is about you!
Well under oath in court, DeSantis General Counsel Ryan Newman defined woke as: “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them”

[0] https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article269675...

What do you think is wrong with the belief that there are systemic injustices in American society that should be addressed?
Since we have essentially unlimited computing capacity, but limited AI researcher capacity, our best strategy for achieving AGI may be to architect it as problems that can be solved by computing, without requiring human guidance.

At any rate, we will certainly come to new perspectives about our own intelligence as we evaluate what we accomplish along the way.
Indigo gets Shopify help restoring some online shopping after weeks-old outage
Leverage Google Voice maybe?
> It's a bit like saying "if you have a paragraph in 'English' and it has no e's in it, it's probably not English."

This is true. You should also be able to see the word "the" in several places in English text, and if it is rendered as "ehT" or something like that, the ligature code may have a bug -- similar with reversing the ال (read as "al") pattern.

> I can't read Arabic but I can recognize that pattern. I went to https://www.bbc.com/arabic and could find numerous occurrences.

Really? I only ever learned to read just enough Arabic to read parts of the Quor'an and am by no means fluent, but I couldn't see any mistakes on that website myself.
I'm no expert in this area. Trying to co- relate. Industrial revolution, though replaced many manual labour jobs- ended up generating new jobs. Job of creating machines.

Will something of that sort not happen with AI? There could be new professions created all together

Like prompt engineering we see today, didn't exist few years ago
That wasn’t even Dijkstra’s title. It was Niklaus Wirth who edited the title in. I mention that in Street Coder.
VanillaJS: Fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework for JavaScript apps
but those notices are posted in a conspicuous place, and there is no notice posted for those repos, at least according to others that have had the time to look.

What makes you think this is DMCA when no notice is posted, and the posts on the discussion forum from the maintainers show it was for breach of TOS which hasn't been elaborated on by GitHub staff 9 days later...
Getting Teletype working properly again is one of our tangible goals for Pulsar - which is of course entirely open source. The question is of hosting so hopefully we can make it really easy to host your own instance or go peer to peer rather than just relying on a server.
I’m pretty sure they were using a high cost LLM to summarize, and for embeddings you only need Ada, which is orders pf magnitude cheaper.
Yes actually... i'm using a similar model right now to model bubbles dynamics (though my model is somewhat more complicated, and oh yes... it's in 3d)
Touché, maybe the wrong word choice by me. The point was that moral fabric changing doesn't actually harm society.
I heard that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had inserted furin cleavage sites into random types of viruses in the past and that SARS-CoV-2 is unique among coronaviruses for having a furin cleavage site, but this[0] says otherwise:

```
Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.
```

0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33340798/
Okay, I will if you in turn listen to Jacqueline Breger, deal?
Yeah, the new satellites being announced here have about 100Gbps apiece. They want a constellation of 30,000, have been approved for around 7000 so far IIRC, so they’d have 700Tbps total (less than that usefully as most will be over water). But they plan on another big upgrade by about a factor of 3 with Starship, which should bring aggregate capacity to 2Pbps. This will be most useful for places like Hawaii as the satellites will otherwise be idle, so will have lots of space capacity.

There are also competitors like OneWeb (smaller, but still useful) and Kuiper (not yet running, but potentially a comparably sized project, a project of Amazon’s), so this is just getting started.
Yeah, this is how the fake news can lie with facts.

"Most likely" might be technically true - in the sense that there might be a 2% chance it was that, but there's a hundred other possibilities each with lesser probability, so that one is on top. But it's not really likely at all. So writing the headline that way is absolutely designed to give you a false perception if you don't stop to think about that, which nobody will.

(don't focus on the actual number, that's just for illustration.)
ah but you see, my conviction on one letter == one visual glyph context be damned is not hypocrisy nor is it cultural chauvinism. i for one am perfectly consistent. capitalization ought be abolished, tradition is not justification. language is about the encoding of information. capitalization is wasted code space. tradition is dead men telling you how to live. and after that, simplify the letters down into combinations of the same handful of strokes and curves. do ve really need letters vith tvice the horizontal space as the others? vhv not do avav vith all the letters that reach under the botton line? oet rid of bointu diaoonal lines too! eueru thino can and should be uniforn. doun uith the excebdions, consisdencu breuails! see hou nuch nicer this loohs. the uau it rebeats the sane feu elenets ouer and ouer uet is still leoible. it flous snooth lihe budder. uho needs all those letters anuvay?
They haven’t launched yet. Will launch tomorrow.
A) It's an example of hate speech, which is the subject of the post I'm responding to, and
B) Yes, that's not what I'm saying.
In your defense, it was probably wise to skip on the Lamborghini.
"language and text is always paired as the first communication interface in Universse"
Chesterton's fence always rearing up its ugly head.

Hard to find a reform the next generation wants that hasn't been written or conceived by our ancestors, yet so many people are naïve to the point they think they're part of something novel.
Can someone please explain, why the department of energy is dealing in genetic research?

I thought they are mainly dealing in nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. What is the overlap between things nuclear and genetic research? The USA doesn't have a biological weapons program since 1972, says wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_weapo...
My partner has a Win11 laptop that is connected to her Microsoft account.

Is it possible to convert that to a local login?
Yes, of course the state is balancing interests, where did I imply otherwise?
I pay $5/month for 5G on my Apple Watch and leave my phone at home. The watch is good enough for phone calls, especially with a pair of AirPods.

If that sounds too scary for you, consider leaving your phone in your car while you hang with your friends.

[1] https://taylor.town/leave-your-phone-at-home

You can also disable notifications. My phone only notifies me when I receive phone calls. I manually check it for everything else.

[2] https://taylor.town/extinguish-all-notifications
You just said get off social media but somehow hn is ok until it's taken over by AI generated content?
> the 10-day counterclaim response window is required by law.

Punitive towards individuals and small businesses.

From what I can see, it seems to be a curated list of IPTV sources [1]

Which puts it in search engine activity territory.

I'm reminded that Github stood up to the UK's City of London Police who issued a DMCA for the PirateBay Proxy on GitHub. [2]

However Law can be used to resource burn entities where no compensation for failed legal attempts exist as the City of London Police demonstrated with their actions.

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0Ku53I...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34659768
Another interesting analysis: https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning
From the article,

> Meet directors pay him
It has given a head-start on understanding the way certain viruses spread and change, and provided a basis for developing treatments and vaccines. If Sars-COV-2 really spread because of a lab leak, the irony of ironies is that treatments and vaccines could be developed so fast precisely because this type of virus had been studied.
We're actually going to do that!!
And you hit the struggle right there. Absolute is not the goal, even for free-speech absolutionists. What you define regular speech to be is different to what other people define, and while that might be okay, there is no consensus among any majority or even significant plurality of people about where the actual line between protected and non-protected speech should be.
"How many people do you know who are fluent in Delphi?" reads like, "I know I'm a 4 at best, but I'm holding out for my perfect 10. Willing to compromise a bit, but definitely no lower than a 9."

If is-already-fluent-in-unsexy-niche is a hiring requirement, then your hiring is totally broken. (To be honest, it's broken even when you broaden it outside "unsexy niche"...)

> finding people for these types of job is probably not easy[...] not as easy as finding a Python developer

Damn, goalpost, you sure do get around.
I strongly agree re "Only accessing secondary sources of information" being a pitfall. Examples abound, here is one:

Headline: China’s Xi threatens ‘catastrophic consequences’ if China confronted

What Xi actually said: ""Our world today is far from being tranquil; rhetorics that stoke hatred and prejudice abound. Acts of containment, suppression or confrontation arising thereof do all harm, not the least good, to world peace and security. History has proved time and again that confrontation does not solve problems; it only invites catastrophic consequences. Protectionism and unilateralism can protect no one; they ultimately hurt the interests of others as well as one’s own."

From https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/01/chinas-xi-threatens...
The comment was that they found numerous cases of ال, not ل ا.
There is a project called Parachute https://devzendo.github.io/parachute/ which has the goal of transputer emulation and running a forth dialect on top of it! Scratches many of my itches so I am watching patiently.
Would you rather get fired or serve time in prison?