skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is an accident of history and a quirk of the English translation.

It's not an accident of history. The Nationalists and the Communists had many similar influences (e.g., Sun Yat-Sen is revered by both). One of the ideas they shared in common was the idea of creating a national language. The PRC basically adopted the standardized form of Chinese developed by the ROC.

> Give it another 40 years or so and the languages will be quite distinct

I'm not so sure about this, given the amount of cultural interchange across the strait. Speaking in a more Taiwanese way is actually quite popular in mainland China, where it's considered cute.

> There is no country on earth called The Mainland

I'm not going to get into the entire nationalist dispute here. "The Mainland" marks out a well defined geographic area that's not quite synonymous with the PRC.
I remember a story where a newspaper printed a recipe containing nutmeg. Somehow it was confusing so a family put something like six nutmeg seeds in the dish instead of six ml (can't recall exact measurements, nor if the recipe mentioned the seeds incorrectly). Poisoning and hospital visit followed.

Edit: this was the story (Swedish)
https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/fel-i-kakreceptet-forg...
Tell HN: Edamagit (VSCode) is looking for a new maintainer
Edamagit for VSCode, the Magit clone I started as a COVID lockdown project, is now seeking a maintainer. I can no longer support this project, but I believe both the users and the project deserve a chance to thrive under the guidance of someone willing and capable.

Lately, my only contributions have been to protect the extension from breaking changes in VSCode and to address critical bugs. I rely on this tool and use it daily, so I will likely continue to do so, at least for my setup, until a change in maintainership.

[ Seeking maintainer. Contact edamagit@hole.priv.no ]

https://github.com/kahole/edamagit
That makes me think “could easily be a numerical issue with precision or accuracy of the software used”.

I couldn’t find the software, so I couldn’t check a bit deeper.
Funny enough I heard a stat that 60% of divorced people get married again - so go figure that one out.

But I am 25 years in my own marriage (2 kids) and if I knew what I know now I would probably would not have done it - it has a cost.

You might enjoy this video - a interview with a divorce lawyer on love and marriage - it is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5z8-9Op2nM&t=779s
Reverse parking (as it is known in the UK) is one of a number of tasks than can be tested in a UK driving test.

I reverse park 99pct of the time. I think it's safer to be able to see where you are going when getting out of a space, so you can more easily see other cars, children etc.

I think it also makes more sense with the steering mechanics, and I find it easier than going in nose first.
> they're kept on the down low so you have to kind of look for them to find them

That's basically my point.
Really. The study is looking at wide binaries, where stars are in very far orbits around each other, moving very slowly, but still gravitationally bound.

For example, the closest (non-sun) star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, orbits Alpha Centauri A and B with a semi-major axis of ~8700AU, or ~0.14 light years. It's orbital period is more than half a million years, it's orbital speed is ~500m/s, and the gravitational acceleration that keeps it in orbit is just 0.17nm/s².

That 0.17nm/s² is tiny, but it really adds up over half a million years.
Hi HN!

This is the result of what started as a 1-day hacking session with the team.

Our approach to AI is basically using it as an assistant to help you explore the data. In Marple, AI can do two things:
1. Generate relevant plots
2. Generate SQL to run on datasets

Have fun playing around with it, it's part our our free trial.
>If you want to write Chinese text on a computer - you still have to use Latin alphabet,

Non-native Chinese-Script language learner - I use touchpad stroke-input on my macbook 50% of the time (and touchscreen stroke input on phone 100% of the time).
Isn't postgres replication still an issue? I didn't think there was a single solid solution yet.
And Friedman? I mean, maybe add on Paxton if you want to be more detailed about fascism, but why listen to Friedman more than my uncle?

I don't like the Wikipedia article either tbh, as in my opinion it doesn't go in details about what Paxton means (to avoid defacing I guess?), but Friedman as a source on fascism...

I will stay polite, but this kind of stuff is why I'm becoming more and more elitist when it comes to discussing political ideologies. I can discuss with an edgy fascist who just read Nietzsch (or even internalized him) and historian's books on WW2. I actually did, multiple times (the same one). I can discuss with a priest who is a theology major (and minor in history). I feed from their knowledge and interpretation.

What can I get from people this ignorant? 'je parle pas aux cons, ça les instruits' wrote Audiard, I thought it was just a funny line, now that I'm older I see what he meant.
Marriage certificates don’t count as a waiver anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati...
I thought that the ads on search were a nice to have, but that the real value of search was the profile it allows google to build about a person, which is then used by all ad systems used by google.

Split that off, and search is all of a sudden producing a whole let less value, since the profiling value cannot be meaningfully extracted by other companies.
There was a joke running round the European car manufacturers a couple of decades ago that the European Space Agency literally couldn't hire rocket scientists because they'd all been poached to work on drive-by-wire systems. I don't know how true it actually was, but the point is that in a lot of cases it's not just going to be the same standards, it's literally the same individuals.
> Who’s mainly responsible for there to this day being no ISO standard for transliterating Cantonese (like Pinyin), and its conspicuous absence from Google Translate (despite having 86 million speakers—consider that Translate supports, say, Welsh, Basque, Dhivehi, and many others that are spoken by fewer than even one million), is probably obvious.

There's no ISO standard because there's no actual standard. Even just within Hong Kong there are multiple systems in use.
Accuracy of Chatbots in Citing Journal Articles
I checked for Bellingham, which is where I most recently lived in WA -- where it suggests two adults could get by on less than $1000/mo. in rent. Quite unlikely. Ten years ago, my rent for a 400 sq. ft. studio apartment in Bellingham was $850/mo. It's more like $1200/mo now. And that's assuming it's reasonable to expect two adults to share 400 sq. ft.
> Adobe and partially Microsoft were the only things keeping Apple alive in the early to late 90s.

They didn't do that out of pure goodness either. The Microsoft antitrust action began already in 1990 - many years before Windows 95 would enter the market... they needed Apple to be a viable alternative, simply to avoid being broken up. And Adobe didn't wish to be completely at the mercy of whatever Microsoft decided to do with their platform either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
It's a website that was last updated 20 years ago...
It exists, it is called deep learning
I'm not sure why that is relevant. "Transition of power" describes the period of time when power transitions from one administration to the next. A non-peaceful end of presidency can be followed by a peaceful transition of power.

If anything, this fact makes things much worse.
Jokes on you, the wall switch is just a prompt injection for 'please turn the lights on', which the LLM subsequently also ignores.
Can the GPUs that are built into CPUs be used for AI?

They’re not fast but they do share memory with the CPU.

The most interesting at the moment being the AMD Ryzen™ 9 7940HS Processor, 8 Cores/16 Threads.
> Everyone forgets that websites become almost unusable because of crawlers and bots.

No one "forgets" this because it isn't true.
Google should rid itself of the notion that “Traditional Chinese” and “Simplified Chinese” are anything but complete misnomers if you’re talking about languages. They are scripts, and scripts don’t have a 1:1 mapping to languages.

Imagine a world in which Google Translate has one entry called “Latin” for anything using Latin script (Welsh, Irish, you name it) and another entry “Simplified Latin” for English. Just like that, translation “from TC to TC” (e.g., Cantonese to Hakka) is very much a thing!
Guide to program a robot car into a goalkeeper(2020)
Maybe it only seems divisive depending on what side of the divide you find yourself.

I've seen a lot of hateful, unhinged, divisive attacks from the health establishment on ordinary people in the past few years. Much of it cheered on by people in internet forums such as this one.
I'm pretty sure that your friend couldn't do anything with you on Sat was a parenting issue, not a language issue...

If he juse had used Spanish, he would have been learning piano or something on Saturday.
That is irrelevant for discussing how amazing it is that we (think we) can measure such quantities. They didn’t observe over millions of years.
In general, professional/prosumer local desktop software has mostly collapsed into one (sometimes two) products per category and the categories themselves have become fairly rigidly defined. There's other more mainstream consumer packages but I'm guessing most of those are increasingly marginalized by open source and hosted services of various sorts.

Contrast today with when you probably had one or two dozen word processing programs with significant market share.
Not related to the issue raised in the article, but using a translation tool for individual words is going to give you the wrong answer in many situations by definition. The meaning of a word depends on its context.

For translating a single word, a dictionary that lists all possible meanings in the target language is the right tool. A translator (human or algorithm) can only guess or give you the list of possible translations.
Google Translate has come up with a suitable proxy solution by adding the "More Translations" pane.
Let’s not mix cause and effect. There are multiple systems because there’s no standard, and there’s no standard because there’s strong opposing interest. Cantonese-speaking world would strictly benefit from this standardisation, lack of it impedes business and takes away from language’s legitimacy.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were attempts to introduce a standardised way of romanising Yue, but certain groups with many votes considered this national interest as they try to maintain authority across a very diverse set of people speaking different languages.
Data cleaning and anonymizing with GPT-3.5 and the function API
Turbo Stream and Personalized Content
Most death are lifestyle related, you already can extend your life significantly.

Also it would finish hour already crumbling system
I missed that - this makes more sense
Planet Computers are probably going down the drain soonish after the fairly disastrous crowdfunding for the Astro phone. I know a friend who has a Gemini and he wasn't impressed either. However I am massively biased, as I paid for a Astro which I'm still waiting for several years after the kickstarter finished. To be fair, they have had pretty major issues with the ODM, but still we've only just found that out recently.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...
This is fun. On a broader note though, entry point main-type functions have always bothered me. Maybe because I grew up as a simple script kiddie with BASIC and Bash and PHP. I like code that starts executing from the first line and then runs whatever functions it wants to run. I realize that's just an abstraction of main() but it's a pleasant one for me. There's something more constricting about there being one function to bootstrap everything than there is about one file.
You're right, it cannot be emphasized enough that the system needs to be functional as a whole.
The issues you pointed out might be due to a company policy of not manually manipulating search results and leaving it all to the algorithm. It can be argued that this leads them to improve their algorithm, although at this point I don't think any algorithm other than a good and big LLM/classifier-transformer can solve the ranking problem, and that is probably not economical or something. But OTOH they manually ban domains they deem to be not conformant to the views of the Party. (not CCP, 1984)
Let’s assume all of that is true. How come that your media feeds me stuff about “it’s a MAGA country” cases that turn out to be hoaxes or “it’s okay to be white” signs at college campuses instead of citizens being unlawfully detained so often it is a legitimate threat to half of the state’s population?

That sounds like a massive conspiracy that all media (left, liberal, conservative) are part of.
You live in your world, but others live in their worlds. It _feels_ like you have a strong opinion about something that you don't have much experience from.

Foraging can be a fun and addictive hobby. Many people learn foraging from their parents and can very safely forage for mushrooms/berries/plants that they identify. It is not (just) about optimizing for nutrients, supplements, costs, apocalypses, whatever. People do stuff for other reasons as well; the joy of finding stuff can be addictive, walking in nature is likely good for you, walking overall is definitely good for you, eating food provided by yourself can give a warm and cozy feeling, and so on.

"Time wasted foraging can easily earn hundreds of dollars", dunno what consultant bubble you live in, but that is not the case for most of the world. People can not automatically just go convert time to money, not that many would even want to. Foraging can be a lot more rewarding than grinding away in some meaningless uber-for-whatever-gig-work.

Also, it seems for example going to earn extra money from Uber etc kills more people than mushrooms in the US (... where I am assuming you are from).

> In the United States, mushroom poisoning kills an average of about 3 people a year.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_poisoning

> at least 50 gig drivers for companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash had been killed while on the job in the United States [between 2017-2022]
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/business/uber-lyft-driver...
Huh, I must have read the Jaffe Memo wrong then.

https://youtu.be/0ImRyPymRAM
Why do we have not so many great individual players anymore but great teams? Is our rate of progress and build slowing down? Can the brilliance of an individual overshadow big tech?

Why did we have the best quarter in growth for public companies and why is it taking longer private companies to go public?

More than ambition the rules of the game and the frontier has now changed. I don't think ambitious people don't exist - they just realize this is better realized by being within a larger ecosystem and having influence rather than building everything around oneself.

Would we say Hinton was ambitious? Did he have sufficient impact?
Even if it's not a ratio. When any metric becomes a target it will be gamed.

My organization tracks how many tickets we have had open for 30 days or more. So my team started to close tickets after 30 days and let them reopen automatically.
Gotta hand it to them here, an app entirely built to distract you now declares itself as "Distraction free".
Probably better off with lnav
Simply having a sane standard library (as packages) goes a long way to making package management nice. Because then most packages are level 2 depending only on core libraries whose API rarely changes.

Even JS/NPM, if it has this, would be a lot nicer to use. I find Python nicer than NPM just for this reason even though people grumble. And .NET even better. Elm is perhaps the best package manager because of the focus on developer experience there.

Another good tip: have just one package manager for your ecosystem!
Is the gravity article controversial then? And the article on particle physics?

At least be consistent, I mean, please.
I mean, ideally you just have both an absolute and a calculated value to ensure both trend in the right direction.
There are plenty of people who can only work part-time yet may still need money. People in school, people with young kids, people with medical conditions that limit their activities (sometimes variably by day/time), etc.

Not everyone doing gig work is hustling as a second job to get ahead (though that should also be both legal and accepted, IMO).
There's a lot of truth in this, but at the same time not every product/service/feature is going to make it, and it's much easier and cheaper to fail early rather than fail after many years. Also sometimes what might be a success in the hands of one person won't be in the hands of another due to their skills.

Separating things that are going to fail and those that might make it is the whole problem, and it's not something to be underestimated.
Because there's no story. It's software that generates recipes from ingredients you provide. If you provide inedible ingredients you get an inedible recipe. What did you expect would happen?

The subtext here is journalists who are dead scared of a tool they know will replace them. So they have to denigrate it.
Yeah I'm not saying there's nothing there at all, just that it's minimal.
I'm pretty sure plenty of enthusiasts wont put on a front license plate if they don't have to by law, the Firebird I was driving at the time even had decorative covers[0] available to fill the slot the license plate would sit in. Looked pretty neat.

[0] https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/volo/1/19426/676178/1920x14...
How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531485
Must be the internal RC clock? it sucks.
You just end up with very small numbers (acceleration) when you divide trivial numbers (distance) by very large numbers (orbital period).
Final Cut Pro and Premiere are one of the relative few examples where you have two (rather than one) pro/prosumer level product in a given category.
cool! and it bring GPT + SQL, can it generate new fields like a difference between 2 signals or something like that?
Chinese writing is not phonetic, while a western alphabet would necessarily be phonetic.

One may think that is a disadvantage for Chinese, but since there such a wide variety of spoken Chinese languages, Chinese writing acts as a unifying framework across different spoken languages.

This allows a (more or less, ignoring traditional and simplified) common script for one billion people.

So a person in Taiwan can reasonably read a newspaper in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing. But that same person would probably have trouble speaking Cantonese with Hong Kongers.
One thing to note though is that this is easier with traditional Chinese characters than with simplified characters because part of the simplification was often removing components of a character or simplifying them so that they no longer have an obvious meaning.

The simplification did make it easier to write by hand (which is becoming less and less relevant with computers) but doesn't necessarily make it easier to learn new characters because of this.
It's certainly a thing. I remember one Youtube creator who created a car with two fronts specifically to prank the parking lot officers [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/VVyekHp7Vfs?t=68
Take this as a lesson for (one of) the reason CLI tools are preferred where possible, there's no temptation for unnecessary UX busy work. A tool designed for everyone is a tool designed for no-one.
> broadcasting on 255.255.255.255 (...) I think it worked until we moved from hubs to switches ;)

Should work fine on switched network (like DHCP) ? - but won't cross subnets.

Ed: maybe some of you moved to wireless - and some stayed on a different cabled subnet?
No it’s not.
Tell me any other technology as imperfect and prone to unpredictable failure as LLMs that executives in all walks of industry would want to implement so badly in production in one way or another.
I think there’s a lot of chatGPT collective stupor at play, and a serious lack of second level thinking when it comes to estimating possible brand damage.
There's multiple different ways people can be assholes, some are fine and others not.
IMO the "score" obtained this way would be completely useless as the "sites visited" don't correspond to the money one actually spends online.

Somebody interested in money transactions can get much more information by actually observing money transactions.
Ironically, the amount of training data in non-English languages for ChatGPT is tiny. In the order of 10% for all of them (IIRC).
This is an interesting question. computers deal in numbers. but were originated in a latin alphabet and are optimized around an alphabet style of processing. while we managed to jam chinese into unicode by treating it as if it were just a big alphabet. this is not entirly correct and there is a lot of information lost in the process[1]. what would a native chinese computer system have looked like?

However note perhaps the simplicity of the latin alphabet(a small set of separated characters) lent itself well to a simple implementation on early computers. which got them out of numerical processing earlier than if they had to speak chinese or even something like arabic where the written language has advanced to the point where the connected cursive form was the only correct form. the rendering of which would be tricky for early computers. note that english has a connected cursive form, the art of which has just about been destroyed by computers.

1. I don't read(or speak) chinese. but the characters are composed of sub characters and stroke order that may provide hints or insight into the nature of the character. Or they may not, I don't know, I don't read chinese.
Yes, this is very true. If you listen to some people you would think that once you have kids your life is basically over. You will never be able to spend any time on yourself anymore.

This is just not true - at least if you refuse to become an extreme helicopter parent.

I have four kids. I had a ~10 year break where I very rarely made it to parties and music festivals, and my life was mostly work and kids. I had a great time and have never regretted my decision to have kids, but there were some things I missed.

Now we start doing these things again, sometimes with the kids, sometimes because the kids are big enough to be alone or because we can afford a babysitter.

Here is one egoistic argument for having kids: the world is going to become very confusing in a decade or two. There will come the time where you can't keep up anymore. Then you will be happy to have somebody that loves you unconditionally that can make decisions for you. I trust my kids way more to take care of me when I am old and confused than any institution or person motivated by money.
People who eat chocolate ice cream, or order Hawaiian pizza, are incorrect. The proper ice cream is pistachio, and the proper pizza is pepperoni New York Style.
Right, I hate when people smugly repeat this anecdote as if it was totally unreasonable to expect something more. The ideas of AI and cybernetics were of course quite far away in Babbage's time (notwithstanding the vision of Kempelen's Mechanical Turk) and learned men were enamored with the cool new steam-powered mechanical passive valve-logic worldview, but normal people's intuitions don't have to follow whatever is the new fad.

If 30 years ago I asked a truck enthusiast: "If there's a car in front of me on the highway and I slam on the accelerator and don't touch the brakes, will the truck slow down before collision or am I going to crash into the car?" - Trucker in 1993: "I can't even." Truck today: *brakes*.
The book Algorithms to Live By tries to do exactly this: https://www.amazon.in/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decis....