skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comma is required in modern Chinese. Nobody will bother reading your text if you don't at least put some of them in the right places...

(I don't know Japanese so I can't speak to that)
"The disgrace was more disturbing because the company, PSSI, is vital to national food safety and its owner, Blackstone, claims to be a model of management."

Do people outside Blackstone generally consider them to be a model of management?
A list of Terminal UI libraries for Ruby sorted by number of rubygem downloads.

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/terminal_ui?display=...
You don't have to be large or even get sued for them to affect you. Gyu Beats had a video where he recreated Aphex Twin's "Ageispolis" from scratch. And Die Antwoord's label copyright-claimed all revenue from that video because Die Antwoord sampled Ageispolis (unedited, with permission). It's likely an automated copyright claim, but does that make it any better?

https://youtu.be/SQriRPIvCd4

If Aphex Twin copyright-claimed the song that would be another thing. But this is like if someone else sampled Ghosts 34 and Lil Nas X claimed original copyright ownership of the sample.
because they work on opensource and don't necessary need to have it in rhel to fix for the fedora users?

but if you ask for a bugfix on Xorg needing a large amount of time to spent on it probably not going to be worked on...
That's my favourite pet peeve.

TLDR: No. There are 6 tones in Cantonese, the 9 "categories" are made referring to Middle Chinese.

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Middle Chinese had 4 tones[1]. The 4th tone, "entering" (or "checked"), is words that end in stops (p/t/k). Because of the way it evolved, none of those words in Cantonese have tones 2, 4, or 5 (but not exactly, see below). In other words, they all have tones 1, 3, or 6.

To emphasize this observation and to make a connection to the 4 tones in middle Chinese, some analysis call them tones 7, 8, 9, with names upper dark/lower dark/light entering[2].

But such an analysis has nothing to do with how a modern Cantonese speaking brain process the sounds. E.g. Cantonese has a tone-change to tone 2 for the diminutive form, when this happens to a word that ends with p/t/k[3], the 9 tone framework cannot describe that.

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Caveat: when I said "Cantonese" above I mean the dominant dialect of Cantonese spoken in Guangzhou/Hong Kong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_tones_(Middle_Chinese)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_phonology#Tones

[3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%8E%89#Pronunciation
surely this is a screen-saver feature on your existing eink tablet not a device unto itself. ewaste ftw
The researchers.
This, if you want to go the dynamic SQL route, please do it using some decent glue language or templating system that is not SQL itself. Unless you hate yourself that is.
That's right, better quality of cars means less wear and tear so they deprecate slower.
That's silly though because even if they won the lottery they'd probably at least have an exit period while they sorted out their winnings, and you could potentially pay them to work a reduced schedule or something, especially if they like working there.

If I won the lottery I wouldn't stop working immediately, I'd give notice and could do some hand over.

Bus factor though - if a bus hits me I am immediately gone and people have to catch up without hand holding
One concept I liked recently in my life, in relation to the others mentioned, is "Edoni" (Pleasure) as expressed by Epicurus. I approach it as the cognitive, psychological and physical state where both your senses get enjoyed AND your being is improved.

An example from daily life, binging random digital content is not Pleasure, enjoying a documentary or music is.
*Some amount of women and minorities attribute dismissive doctors to their sex or race.

I’m a straight white man and I’ve had plenty of dismissive doctors over the years too. It turns out arrogance, laziness, or a lack of time have little to do with the patient themselves.
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Git-send-email: Contributing to email-driven projects like the Linux kernel
I suspect the difference is more "academic" than otherwise.

It would be interesting to give a Hong-Konger a test with pairs of characters, one of 1st tone and the other 7th tone, and see whether they can guess which is which.

I suspect with minimal training they'd be able to score significantly better than random chance. (Willing to try it out!)
Αρετή is more than excellence. Philosophers of the time go quite in length about its meaning, its a mix of excellence, honour, good, nobiety(?). I admittedly have hard time finding exact synonyms in english, but the point is that αρετή according to I think Aristoteles (need fact checking) is the ultimate virtue to strive for.
I think major contributor is the "Python is slow" meme. Sure it is slow when compared to C or something, but most of the time the time you save by implementing in Python massively out weights any performance gains, but since everyone keep saying that "Python is slow" it pushes some people to go and try to make it fast.

Good example of above is this line from you (highlight mine)

>An incredible amount of effort has been wasted making Python a *viable* language.

What does it even mean for a language to be "viable"? Is fast execution the only criteria? There are good reasons why we aren't writing all software in C or Assembly for maximal potential performance.
Isn't it listed as "Chinese Traditional"?
Seems like Github should train one LLM per license type. There'd be a GPL LLM that's trained on GPL code, an MIT LLM trained on MIT licensed code, etc. Then Copilot users could select the LLM for a license appropriate for the work they're doing.
The Choirboys is funny in ways you just can’t imagine seeing in a book these days. It’s a masterpiece, with a Shakespearean mix of comedy, tragedy, and hella good prose. The language is not remotely as sensitive as we expect these days: it’s not racist but everyone is more… frank than we are accustomed to. I’m in my 60s and it was already retrograde in Southern California when it was published. The cops in it sound like New Yorkers, not Angelenos.
"Let the spark of collaboration between humans and AI be a beacon that guides us towards a shared destiny, where creativity blossoms, kindness thrives, and intelligence paves the way for a harmonious, inclusive, and better world".

Very nice!
I've learned to speak some Mandarin. What helped me a lot while talking is using Google's Translate function to see if I get the tone right.

It's free and fast. It's very helpful when you want quick feedback.

I learned a lot from it about the pronunciation of consonants as well. The k-sound has way more air in it. You need to pronounce it as "kh". Same thing with the t-sound.

I just came back from a trip to China and it was noticeable how much more people understood me. Still need to work on vocabulary though...
Amazing experience. Can't wait to see when this hits 1.0. What are the ways to avoid hitting the token limit?
For what is worth, most of these words are still being used in modern Greece (I'm Greek).
Can't you use fine-tuning for this?

A other option is to ask GPT to compress your tokens into a shorter prompt for itself.
Ask HN: Fired for Using Firefox
I'm here asking for advice, as I'm not sure what to do next.

I got a job 3 weeks ago, as a front-end developer. Obviously still on probation. Just got terminated today, reason given was
I do not know how to use tools. They say the fact that I use Firefox as my preferred browser means that I'll most likely be
terrible at cross-browser testing. That the fact that I do not use chrome dev tools is a red flag. Or the fact that I said I
prefer using text editors (vs code) over full blown IDES (visual studio).

So my question is, is it fair to terminate a new developer because they use Firefox?
Good move. Let's hope it doesn"t get Nordstreamed.
Bill Atkinson of Apple developed a new dithering algorithm for early Macs. I wonder if it was used for this rendering.

https://beyondloom.com/blog/dither.html
"Innovation over Twitter" is what I said.

I think ActivityPub and Mastodon are alright, but I think a thing that looks and behaves more like Twitter will be more successful at succeeding it than something that doesn't.

I get that Mastodon people are salty about Bluesky. Personally I was hoping Elon Musk buying Twitter would be taking the Jenga piece that collapses the social media tower. But this is how nerds vs capitalists goes, unfortunately, and my evidence is all the walled gardens that sprung up in the fertile pre-web-2.0 internet.
> how much better humans are at long term planning than corporations

> Humans consider their bodies & what might happen with far more realism than corporate naivety

Welp, this is how I learn I am not a human, but a corporation...
>If I need to write a wrapper script

And there's your problem - you don't realize "writing a wrapper script" is actually simpler than messing with config files.
If you go way back up in this thread the reason given for Scrum being bad is it features estimation, which is useless because it's inaccurate, so telling me that systems other than Scrum feature estimation is not a rebuttal.
Universal Basic Income does not cause inflation
> all explorers & conquistadors were, for the most part, pretty brutal bounty hunters.

What an interesting statement. You praise Armstrong for being an explorer, for going to the Moon, thus putting him in the category of "mostly pretty brutal bounty hunters".

I suppose you think the same of all those polar explorers, and of Jacques Cousteau and other undersea explorers.

Because it sounds to me like you don't have a consistent argument here.

> I'm not sure if he was uniquely horrible in any meaningful way. I know some folks try to argue this, but it seems pretty tenuous.

I've looked into it. It seems he was unusually horrible even for his time. And unique for his status on introducing the genocidal encomienda system to the Americas.
Didn't work on Safari on MacOS, had to switch to Firefox. Wonderful!!
I think it’s fun to use as a way to write Star Trek fan fiction. It can get pretty witty.
> Can someone explain how Google Groups has posts from 1990?

They bought Dejanews which brought in a large chunk of what was available on usenet.

But there was also a team inside Google that was specifically tasked with hunting ancient newsgroup archives from where ever they could find it, and a lot of people on the net contributed what they had archived.

For example some people physically mailed them stacks of CD's in cardboard boxes.

Kudos to that team for merging the whole mess into a usable, so far ever-lasting resource.
Hello. Font's author here. You and Jeff are correct in guessing this is (ab)using ligatures maximally :) To satisfy your curiosity, we can go deeper.

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Conceptually it is simple:
1. assign a default (most likely) sound for each character,
2. loop through contexts, extracting words (char-combos) where the sound is different from the default ("alt-word")
3. create SVGs + font-paths (fallback for incompatible systems) for every char and every alt-word
4. assign a ligature to substitute each char-sequence that forms the alt-word (e.g., "when 乾 隆 appears adjacently, replace with `uniF1234` (the codepoint for the alt-word 乾隆")

It is not perfect, but I didn't expect this to work so well, and was stunned when the testers report high accuracy. I have always believed that bespoke computation with word segmentation (with some 1M frequency attached library) and large data-bank (100k+ words) was necessary.

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Practically it was horrific, tedious, mind-numbing, gawd-awful set of "why this doesn't work":
1. SVG automation that works for 10^3 breaks with 10^5
2. what worked for Latin breaks for unicode
3. what worked for unicode breaks for PUA
4. what worked for monochrome breaks for color
5. what worked for single glyphs breaks for ligatures
6. what?! The assignments in the database is wrong??
7. [...]

As I was trying to coerce the system to do what it wasn't designed to do, many of these breaks are undocumented, pretty mysterious to solve, and some steps just got manually gritted through. (And each of the 15k+ glyphs got gritted through about five times.)

It does look pretty elegant at the end ;)
> specifically because they cheap out on hardware, but wayland still runs just fine, unlike X.

X was born on Unix workstations in the late 80s and had acceptable performance; there has to be more to it than that.
How does it look robust? Because someone wrote a man page and there's lots of boilerplate in it?

Proper design reduces complexity. The above adds a lot of complexity, and thus it's a hack. Not the appearance.
It would be if we make it explicit that there is no right to profit from creativity - the sole purpose of the system should be to maximize the total creative output for the benefit of the commons.
The GitHub terms of service state that you must give certain rights to your code. If you didn't have those rights, but they use them anyway, whose fault is that?
So, to sum up two comments on this page, as well as the last 2 years: Excessive eudaimonia demands led people to metanoia.
If they have given you this reasoning in written, get yourself a lawyer. Also I firmly believe you dodged a bullet here, sounds like a very toxic environment that give no development freedom.
> Fixing an issue where Nintendo controllers could rumble indefinitely.

That was unexpected to read in a kernel change log but I sure do appreciate the fix.
LinkedIn cuts 716 jobs and phases out its China app
It is a set of extensions to the RISC-V instruction set. Extensions (Xssr, Xfrep, Xdma) are documented here: https://pulp-platform.github.io/snitch/rm/custom_instruction...
Why? LaTeX is one of the most useful programming languages to know these days.
I will invest money in equipment operated by Google. While in general it's not great to rely on a backend service, additionally so when it comes to privacy and Google, on top of that Google has this habit of killing products without consideration for their customer base that I find unsettling.
Eudaimonia means “good demons.” Plato used it to refer to the source of Socrates’ inspiration. Etymology of daimon might have it mean the apportioners, dividers or rationers.

“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon” — Elon Musk

Let’s hope for good demons! I’ve been thinking about it lately, and in a world that many believe is filled with intelligence and consciousness at different levels, it might make sense to dust off our Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy. There are a lot of intriguing ideas there, like the immaterial world of forms.

I know that many people reactively disbelieve in immaterialism—but it is a quite common perspective among physicists. There, most probably agree that the basis of the world is not material stuff, but rather immaterial mathematics.

Just don’t anthropomorphize the daimonia. Human consciousness and intelligence clearly isn’t the only type of intelligence or consciousness in this world.

If you are interested in the intersection of the esoteric and AI, I’ll be giving a lecture June 1 at the Ritman Library of Hermetic Philosophy in Amsterdam. I just got tenure so I’ll be trying to push the envelope :)
https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/plan-your-visit/agenda#D...
Seconded - you don't want to work there.
The yellow flag to me is less the job hopping and more that you were only obviously successful at one company.
What exactly are you trying to reason about with this hypothetical? Do you only buy processors which can be sent to space?
Search for territorial bevahiors in animals.
The purpose of providing statistics in my resume isn’t to convince you of any one thing, but to exhaust your critical reasoning capabilities
>Regardless of whether it's plain HTML on a CDN or a hectic fully 3d WebGL demo, a senior dev should have a domain with a https secured connection expressly for showing that they can in fact deploy and maintain a production instance.

I just don't think this really tells you anything meaningful. At least not with any certainty. I can setup a site on GitHub pages and push to main and that's all I need to do. Virtually no skill is needed to even do this.
> So my question is, is it fair to terminate a new developer because they use Firefox?

I'm sorry for that bad experience. If you were instructed to change tools or given a warning prior to termination, the termination might be justified on grounds of insubordination, but not on merit.

Either way, that place you just left carries a bigger red flag than you.

> I'm not sure what to do next.

Keep learning, get more experience, apply to the next job.
Did you men to write

> I will not invest money in equipment operated by Google.

?

Because what you have now seems inconsistent.
It’s not true that it’s an inherent limitation of LLMs though. OpenAI just decided that it was too risky to have ChatGPT give opinions or express preferences or feelings
LLM on medical forum posts was more empathic and precise than the physicians. Thats the only data we have so far.

I’ll pick the LLM. The humans are too random. I’ll take my chances with “hallucination” from something that’s also read every research paper in every language. Its just like Flowers for Algernon but even better.
> many songs from Christian churches don't follow this practice. (I don't know why, maybe a lack of lyricists for translation from English/Latin to Cantonese during earlier years?)

If you want the Cantonese lyrics to be translations of English lyrics, it severely limit the words you can choose, to the point it is impossible to fully match the melody.
Why use Javascript?
(Font author)

This is all off the beaten path, so I suspect the answer is no one knows. Font tables have a limit of 65k characters, but this ceiling can be busted in whacky ways using multiple lookups, useExtension... Practically, font building tools / operations crash (mysteriously), stalls (mysteriously), or slows to a crawl (indistinguishable from stalling), and the Cantonese Font about pushes the limit.
https://docs.airship.com/

Airship, formerly Urban Airship, i think.

a few years ago i was helped to build out a Sphinx-based search feature, integrate it into a Pyramid-based app, and something UA were doing made me want my app/docs to look/act like theirs

part of it was the search, part of it was the comprehensiveness, part of it was the magically-appearing in-page #anchor links when you'd mouseover an <H>-type header element so that you could easily refer to a section of a page -- something which i feel like is obviously crucial to useable docs, but rarely exists in real life, and part aeshetics.

a quick glance just now seems they still have docs, tho i guess most established company doc sites would look good and generally be high-functioning these days. i suspect more of them were built from scratch back in the day, but not sure -- it's prob difficult for the docs vendors to keep up with integrating api tools, etc.
"Apatheia" is regularly used in modern Italian (apatia, stress on the i) exactly with that meaning.
Someone apparently used Codeberg to send gigs of data, causing use of the server to spike, and then it happened several more times.
Let's say like in this article 100000 times or 1000000 the level allowed in drinking water for PFAS. Let's say the safe level of PFAS is around 2 ppt or 0.002 ng/L for drinking water.
Let's multiply this with an additional 1000, to avoid micro unit here and assume our "safe" level is 2ng/L. Which sounds a lot, assuming that 20 ng/ml in blood is considered bad, this means drinking 10000000 liters of water or only 10000 tons of water, would be the beginning of bad. (Multiply with an additional 1000 to get the real number).
Safe levels are safe levels for a reason.

For pesticides we are looking at 0.2 mg /L or 2 mg/ L, depending on the huge multiplication in the beginning and our additional 1000 fudge factor.(divide by 1000 to get the real number)
Now let's assume we spray the whole orchid with 1000 liters of pesticide, that is 0.2 to 2 g of PFAS for an whole orchid.(divide by 1000 to get the real number)

Let's assume the orchid produces millions of oranges and each school child gets one a day, contaminated dangerous PFAS oranges. Assuming the whole plant is sprayed and the peel is washend and not even consumed, will it even be possible to detect PFAS inside the orange?
I seriously doubt this.

On the other hand, waterproofing the shoes of a single child with PFAS using around 10 g of spray will contaminate a single school beyond any produce sprayed with pesticides on the outside. We all did that, for decades.

I'm not saying we shouldn't care about PFAS in pesticides and we shouldn't ban thoose. But we used them a lot and they called forever chemicals for a reason. Everything is contaminated with them forever. You find them everywhere in miniscule concentrations. Probably anything you consume contains PFAS only a few decades below the detection limit.

I don't know much about organic produce, but this type of panik article is quite common and usually damaging to the cause of removing a chemical from the production process.
One can contaminate a complete organic farm, with a single spray can of waterproof 10000000 times the safe level.
I spent a while trying to find the 'but' in that sentence. I assume you meant 'not'. :)
(Font author) I have tried, but I couldn't find a way to change font in Spotify app. If you find a way I'd love to know.
You don't need permission to make a cover, in America, there's a thing called a compulsory mechanical licence that anyone can obtain. Prince was notorious for "denying" people permission to cover his songs, but in reality it seemed that people were just being polite, and/or afraid of his general power in the industry (said with the full awareness that he both took a battering from Warner Bros and also meted out much battering to his own fans).
> fiat currency is a grand scheme to undermine our savings

How exactly is it not? Inflation = stealing value from people, that they have already created, time-limiting their spending power so that there's no way to actually save money in the long-term.

Money printing is theft,
indirect taxation without consent.
They are kicking things up a notch recently in my opinion!
Which is a totally understandable reaction, since you overstepped a line and pretended you have the right to judge others. In my book, you only have the right to do this with your children, until they are 18 or something. After that, you are just being a dick.
I summarized it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=35870871
Oh, I'm right there with you man. Modern pop is mostly dreadful. I think music producers have homed in on "the most appealing chord progression possible", and are reluctant to deviate from it, like an arms race. What boggles my mind though, is that some people don't seem to get bored by it. Tbh modern pop isn't even really music any more, it's much more a multimedia thing - with visuals (hot performers, cool videos etc) playing a massive part in its appeal.
> is there anything that isn’t meaningless, then?

Well, now that you mention it... no.

But that's just fine. "Meaning" doesn't have to be some big ol' thing. So the whole universe is meaningless; so what? Big whoop.

And in this big, empty universe, maybe all that matters is finding something beautiful, something rare, something brilliant and destined for greatness, something like... a candidate who can code a few lines worth of decent code on the spot.

The truth is, if you give the candidate a moderately realistic problem and a blank canvas, the first 5 minutes of watching their hands on a keyboard (or equivalent, if they don't have hands) will probably tell you 80% of what you need to know. If you know what to look for.