skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was fascinated to learn there are more Mongolians living in China than in Mongolia.

They still learn the traditional Mongolian script.

There was some uproar a few years back when the government required core classes like math and science to be taught in Chinese, but the rest is still taught in Mongolian.

Mongolian script is also printed on Chinese currency, in addition to Tibetan, Uyghur, and Zhuang.
But Windows had none of the sandboxing and white-listing oriented capabilities iOS has.
> > enforced by law in some countries

"Enforced by law"...if you want to eat in the privacy of your home that's between yourself and Allah.

And besides...lockdowns were also enforced by law, but the law will never have enough men to police all the population, it would require a 1:1 ratio or thereabout.

That's why the physical world is important as opposed to the virtual world where the ratio can be reduced drastically, that's also why I never understood the fixation with the 2nd amendment beyond a certain treshold more stuff and provisions are only a waste of money.
> Sony let North Korea censor what US audiences saw, for a while

Source?
I'd say the difference is if there is some regularity to it.

Intermittent fasting can be fasting Monday to Friday and only eating in the weekends like how I think one HN-er described his 5/2 diet.

It can be OMAD (one meal a day) or something else. The main thing is you fast and stop fasting repeatedly.

None-intermittent fasting is when you just skip food for a day like I did last week or for a few days like I did as a teenager.
Sorry, but soldiers crying about the COVID vaccine while they get vaxxed against things like ANTHRAX and other non standard stuff is peak comedy to me.

Talk about a bunch of special snowflakes if you draw the line at the COVID shots.
It's just that land isn't a flat 2D plain, and plots aren't quadrangles. It's more complicated than driving stakes into the ground at the corners. Then there's the matter of the ground shifting and weather affecting the beacons. I agree that redundancy is good, but if terrestrial nav grids with ~4cm resolution were operationally easy we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Kazakh, Kyrgyz and many other languages are written with Cyrillic due to Soviet and Russian colonization efforts.
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First of all, from a purely legal perspective, the first ammendment has nothing to say on whether a private company can or can't censor speech.

Secondly, the article is saying that tech companies are starting to censor speech in the USA that dictators in China or authoritarian leaders in India don't like.

It is positing a slippery slope where you may one day soon be banned from Twitter globally for posting an image of Winnie the Pooh, which would be done in order for Twitter to gain and maintain access to the Chinese market.
That's a favorite trope but they haven't had a continuous unbroken culture. The last dynasty wasn't even Han.
XRP initially looks to be focused on moving work upstream into the kernel not devices.

But absolutely, once you start shipping ebpf into the kernel, people do quickly start asking, "how can we hardware accelerate that?". Having standards would be helpful.
The reason we outsource monitoring to Datadog is so we don’t have to worry about monitoring while the rest of our revenue-generating infrastructure is having a bad day.

My team absolutely could do this in-house, but it would be a distraction day-to-day and potentially a disaster when dealing with a crisis.
If it doesn't have profiling, it's not an alternative to Datadog or New Relic.
I agree that if you measure outcomes by life expectancy or activity level, being obese is objectively bad. But we give people agency to make their own decisions, and obesity is a choice. It's both a personal choice, i.e. people choose their lifestyle and diet, and a societal choice, i.e. society chooses not to discourage unhealthy eating habits.

Plenty of choices lead to objectively worse outcomes, but that doesn't mean those choices are unsustainable. It just means they're less than ideal.
Long distance trucks?
The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
Apple really set themselves up as a "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory", spending a lot of time presenting marvels (both helpful and useless) to hide the dirty secrets under the surface. Near slavery conditions in manufacturing, arbitrarily applied clauses and rules, and technically enabled limitations to even repair their "Intellectual Property". For years you had to accept the rules of the factory or get shoved down an egg chute, while fanboys laugh at you all the way down.

Times have changed though, Willy Wonka is gone now, phones are nearly identical in specs across the board, and there aren't that many more marvels to distract with.
Same thing happened to me - told my boss on a Friday that I had received a job offer with a 55% pay raise and was probably going to take it, so we should think about off-boarding. Later that day my admin rights to the gitlab org were removed, was told that "it was a mistake", and was fired the following Monday.

They also took my $20k bonus that I was supposed to receive months earlier and used it as a carrot on a stick to get me to sign a bunch of legal paperwork releasing all my rights. At least I got the much needed money. I was really underpaid there.

I also lost my best friend who also worked there that decided to side with my boss and the company. lol It was a bad time.
After years of working exclusively on Windows, I took a job that required me to build file management, except now, on macOS and Linux (along with Windows).

All I can say is, this article is the tip of the ice berg on Windows I/O weirdness. You really don't realize how strange it is until you are actively comparing it to an equivalent implementation on the two other competing operating systems day-to-day.

Each of them has their quirks, but I think Windows takes the cake for "out there" hacks you can do to get things running. I sometimes like to ponder what the business case behind all of them was, then I Google it and find the real reasons are wilder than most ideas I can imagine.

Fun stuff!
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We did see a lot of that scam artistry with regards to the Internet. That was the Dot Com bubble.

The two necessary components seem to be novelty/hype and inscrutable inner workings.
Don't car batteries also have very high current requirements? Turning over an engine takes an enormous amount of power.
A lower-level, more security oriented look at some of the same issues: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-definitiv...
"Only" Portland store is kind of a non-sequitur. Technically correct, but the metro has three other stores within about 15 miles. It was a nice downtown location though with the draw being a multitude of shops in a small area. The biggest loss will be the downtown population, tourist foot-traffic (though it is a ways from 'downtown'), and NE-Portland/Vancouver access to their stores will be reduced.

Probably also have to consider the relative cost of the property there in the Pearl district. This was a large store, two levels, with a big open (wasted) space on the second floor, plus a rock climbing tower eating a corner. They also have 3 floors of the parking structure next-door available to customers.

Along with the labor concerns mentioned in other comments. Break-ins were probably a pretty small part of the consideration, and something that could've been mitigated if the store were otherwise worth keeping open.
Tech bosses in the US are also letting the US government, 3-letter agencies, and "activists" also sensor what americans see.
I’m doing wrap up now, and I’ve only just started job hunting. You don’t have to tell them that’s what you’re doing.
The description of this live stream:

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SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launchpad in South Texas at 9:33 a.m. ET Thursday but exploded midair before stage separation.

Thursday’s launch marked the vehicle’s historic first test flight. “As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation,” SpaceX tweeted.

The massive Super Heavy rocket booster, which houses 33 engines, lifted off and sent a massive boom across the coastal landscape as it fired to life. The Starship spacecraft, riding atop the booster, soared out over the Gulf of Mexico.

About 2½ minutes after takeoff, the Super Heavy rocket booster was scheduled to expend most of its fuel and separate from the Starship spacecraft, leaving the booster to be discarded in the ocean. The Starship was meant to use its own engines, blazing for more than six minutes, to propel itself to nearly orbital speeds.

The flight reached its highest point 24.2 miles (39 kilometers) above the ground, and the explosion occurred about four minutes after liftoff, according to SpaceX.

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Does this mean it wasn't a FTS explosion?

EDIT: I was confused by the YT channel. This is not any 'offical' channel. Apologies!
UP is one of the few modern games that I've wanted to play more than once.
Figma also went to great lengths to make it perform as well as it does. Doing something similar for Inkscape seems unlikely but who knows.

https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to....
Nonprofits pay with purpose as much as cash. You can work on a widget or do something meaningful with your life.
What does it matter? My startup is simply a vehicle to move money from your pension fund's investment account into my personal account.

It doesn't matter whether the idea is viable, it only matters if you can attract VC investment. And while viable ideas attract VC investment, there are plenty of stupid ideas that get more than their fair share of dosh these days.

A viable business idea has the downside that it will be obvious it's viable to many different teams and thus attract competition.

A better standard is "plausible, but not necessarily viable." This will scare away the competition yet retain the early investors.

So the question you should be asking is "how PLAUSIBLE is your ML/LLM idea?"
As a related anecdote, you NEVER want to put whitespace in filepaths. Ever. Tons of programs will just break, even in 2023, even Microsoft ones (looking at you Powershell), and i'd imagine forevermore.

Your life will end up as a series of awful MYPATH~1\ kludges. You have been warned.

EDIT: There seems to be different camps here and perhaps a generational divide. Maybe the kids haven't (or never will be) burned with this one, but i've seen too much, wasted too many hours, wrote too many workarounds, and will forever remain #TeamNoWhiteSpace.
Alternatively, if you allow a legislative environment where bad behavior is rewarded, then—shocker!—bad behavior will be common.

Most people and companies engaging in bad behavior aren't doing it because they're evil, they're doing it because they don't care about good/evil as much as they care about money. If you just change the rules for how to make money (and not end up in jail), they will change their behavior in an instant.

Changing laws may be difficult, but your proposed solution involves changing the brains of a large number of people. Harder, not easier.
This is a great article and really illustrates just how hard Windows works to be backwards compatible.

Lots of these (eg: the COM/LPT stuff) could be dropped and wouldn't affect most people either way, but for those things depending on it, it would be a profoundly breaking change.
One argument for this position is that this policy essentially gets people to trust iOS software more, and to buy more of it (sideloading will certainly increase at least the absolute amount of malware out there, or apps that don't meet Apple's criteria). This position is somewhat supported by the fact that iOS users spend MUCH more per user on software and in-app purchases than Android users even of similarly expensive phones.
> electric cars can be extreme noise pollutants

walk, bike and horse are better solutions for noise, not ICE cars. Ban all cars?
I have new neighbors who are Muslim, how would I wish them happy Eid Mubarak? Like a card or something?

I barely know them they’re new, but want them to feel welcome, think they might be the only Muslim neighbors
Fundamentally? No.

Sure, it might seem stupid over something trivial as schoolwork, but consider the same situation widely exists in the real world.

You won't say it's stupid when you need to send business documents and there's money on the line if there are incompatibility issues. Suddenly Windows, Office, and Adobe make a ton of practical, industrial sense.
This is what i find most interesting about this whole debate.

Read the comments on the article itself, it is just full of "i dont want to do this".. so great, don't sideload apps (no one is forcing them to), but why are they so keen on preventing others from doing it as well?
Certain groups? I think everyone in government, in all parties, would oppose that education - because their own propaganda would become less effective too. Do you think those in power would ever go out of their way to help people learn about gerrymandering, ranked choice voting, or the pitfalls of a two-party system?
Upvoted because I see your point, although I think you’re being too harsh.

I don’t have kids, but surely you see the design flaw at play here:

I’d want to give my future kid a phone so I may connect with them at will, but at the same time a phone allows others to connect with them (giving them addictive content to serve ads for example)

An iPhone has pretty good parental controls, but when it’s time for the child to connect with their peers, the same place they connect with peers is the same place designed to exploit them, with little to no alternative.

It’s like we’ve transported our 11 year olds into digital pool halls where parent supervision is banned and the pool hall owner keeps serving them drinks

I won’t be giving my future child a phone before 13 but I have no illusions that they’ll be normal peer after not having the same access to such things.

It’s like the McDonald’s play pens all over again, but worse!
No coverage of this nonsense would be complete without also mentioning that CON, AUX and PRN and a couple of others are verboten as filenames in Win. Although apparently you can defeat this via e.g. \\?\C:\con
The Copilot VSCode extension does 10 drafts
Mm not sure that bound applies because neurons are neither of fixed size nor fixed energy. But on the other hand one starts to stretch the definition of neuron.
They’re talking about the movie The Dictator and the North Korea hack of Sony.
When the West does it, it's called NGOs. When the East does it, it's called malign influence. Maybe it's time the West retire the free word from its world. It's two worlds at odds. And none of them is free (though in one you do definitively have a bit more rights and a semi-functional legal system).
I once quit a job by saying "I don't want to work here anymore" and then walking out the front door. 2 weeks' notice is just a custom.
Thanks, now my day is going to be wasted.
The Commander X16 [1]?

[1]: https://www.commanderx16.com/
It's true but only valid for a language you're proficient in.
Lots of this stuff we just find out while working various deep MS cases, and then the info just leaks out.
Please no, whilst Blender has gotten better recently...

A: It's still far from as intuitive as other 3d programs

B: Blender is a full featured 3d suite with animation,etc so modes makes sense, Inkscape is more of a single-use tool.

Been a while since I used Inkscape but from memory accidental selection does ring a bell, might be more focused ways to make usage smoother (many tools will go back to a selection via an undo, does Inkscape do this?).
metareviews & literature reviews can serve the same functions

it's quite reasonable to have a policy not to cite an original source without a literature review attached
I don't think it was pointless. It's probably made them a good bit of money, and since they got ahead of the narrative anyway (as the article concludes) it really seems like fighting it tooth and nail was a great option for them.
Regulation is just codified PR
Efficiency is important, but I'd bet the diesel electric design was mostly about simplification of the drivetrain and performance. An electric motor develops maximum torque at zero RPM and is very easy to modulate the amount of torque applied. A reciprocating engine has a minimum speed, so getting an extremely heavy train moving from a dead stop is tricky. Remember how old steam locomotives tend to spin the wheels regularly as they get up to speed.
I don't understand that ruling. It's a pretty clear cut case of first amendment. You can't sue a bookstore because you don't like what they sell, you go after the publisher of the book. He's the one liable for defamation.

> in an unrelated matter involving the publication of hyperlinks

That case was very much related. It said links to content isn't the same as posting the content itself.

"The Supreme Court of Canada ruled this morning that the online posting of a hyperlink does not constitute a publication of a defamatory statement. This unanimous decision in Crookes v. Newton, 2011 SCC 47 upholds online free speech rights, maintaining that an online link will only be defamatory if it actually repeats defamatory material." [0]

> What recourse does Google offer if false, defamatory information is found in their search results?

Nothing. What the man had to do was go against the host and author of the webpage.

> What would stop an organized cyber crime group from creating websites with false, defamatory information about people and blackmailing them for payment in order to take down the false, defamatory information?

Getting a hosting company/getting the hosting company to stay in business (Money has to come in to pay for servers).

[0] https://cippic.ca/en/crookes_v_newton
I find the various regulators tend to set a good example. e.g. the ICO in the UK https://ico.org.uk/
I think of it many times a year, how lucky I am to no longer need to showel manure or move wet grass using a pitchfork to earn a fraction of what I do today.

And even back then I was lucky.
> Owing to continuing exploration, identified lithium resources have increased substantially...

Emphasis added from your [3].

Ever think maybe your 88,000,000,000 Kilograms number isn't actually all the lithium on the planet, and maybe there's more undiscovered under the ground? Or do you think all the lithium on the planet was discovered in 2023, and now there won't be any more reserves found?

Strange how this maximum amount of lithium reserves keeps magically growing year over year over year over year. I wonder how it magically appears.
Buzzfeed News _was_ tabloid journalism. They published demonstrably fake news, most notably the infamous Steele Dossier. Buzzfeed News claimed the document was "unverified," when in reality it was verifiably false. Every other major media outlet had access to this document and refused to publish it because its claims were unsubstantiated. But not Buzzfeed News -- skepticism of this outlet's seriousness was completely warranted.
I wonder why, Muslims only make up 5% of Germany's population, fiscally this wouldn't make much sense given that they would have to make a second exam paper & provide more labour
And yet, people from those countries openly supporting various US candidates have not been similarly charged - I believe this is GP's point.
Have you met "clients"? They might not want to jump ship but I can already hear "Why isn't our app in app store X as well‽". Dealing with 2 stores is already a pain, adding 2-3 more would drive me nuts. Both as a solo dev and for my company.
I believe you are correct, thanks for pointing that out. clock_gettime gives us ns and I multiply it by 1000 which gives us ps. Not sure how I initially got it to be fs. Updated it now.
The (second-)worst offense I'm aware of here is that alternate data stream names can have otherwise special characters in them, like backslashes. So if you (for example) want to strip off the last path component, you technically cannot do this by just stripping everything after the last backslash.

In fact this probably isn't the worst thing - it's even worse than this. Because you first need to strip off the prefix that represent the volume (like C:\) before you can look for a colon. But the prefix can be something like \\.\C:\ or \\.\HarddiskVolume2\, or even \\?\GLOBALROOT\DosDevices\HarddiskVolume2\. Or it can be any mount point inside another volume! (Remember that feature inside Disk Management?)

Moreover you can't even assume the colon and alternate data streams are even a thing on the file system - it's an NTFS feature. So you gotta query the file system name first. And if the file system is something else with its own special syntax you don't know, then in general you can't find the file name and strip the last component at all.

All of which I think means it's impossible to figure out the prefix length without performing syscalls on the target system, and that the answer might vary if the mounts change at run time.
The battle is lost already in many ways... We have let many companies become so embedded that if they backed out there would be no other options for the services and infrastructure they provide (this even includes news services, and especially includes social media services).

Right now ELon Musk is applying dangerously dictatorial tactics in turning Twitter from a free service into a paid service.. Years after the entire world has become invested into it as a new and communication tool... Many will say it's his right to do whatever he wants, but those are the same people too short sighted to understand how Nestle controls water in foreign countries... We are all plagued by that short sightedness and greed, while there are far better answers to things like this while still operating in a capitalistic system.

We all give far too much credit to the authoritarian elitist crowd. If you are born into so much money that you can fail multiple times and simply rebuild, you're NOT a genius. We need to stop deluding everyone with this supremacy narrative, because it's just fueling monopolies and inequality and destroying opportunity in our world.

Just being aware about how news is being manipulated, and scanning multiple sources to determine truth isn't enough... We need to place proper expectations on government to reign in companies and tax the wealthy properly, while also reducing lower and middle class tax rates, otherwise, this is all a new version of covert mental control and opportunistic indentured labor. Get rid of "bosses" that ideal is far too outdated for progress, Not even the president is properly respected by congress anyway, so we need to update our business models to a more democratic leadership ecosystem.
> is because academics are assessed on their achievements based on how many articles they have published in prestigious journals

Why have these companies been so successful at curating prestigious journals?

I hate our academic publishing model. But I'm careful dismissing the journals as pure rent seekers. Their is a source to their staying power beyond merely habit.