skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is phonetic, period. It is not 1:1 symbol to sound, but it is all sounds. Hence phonetic.

This is in contrast to logographic symbol sets, that do not correspond to sound encodings. Think emoji.

Advanced grammar is a trap in all languages.
Conservatives? In Portland? How exactly did they manage to throw wrenches there? And also in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and other deep blue cities? Maybe we need to give some tin foil hats to the managers of those, to shield them from the evil conservative influence?
I think that's what default value achieves. If it's not provided, it generates one, if it is provided, it's used.
I didn't realize that Kerr was still alive and well! Similar to the feeling when I discovered that David Deutsch was on Twitter. Really incredible when names in physics textbooks are still around.
Testing to see if we can play Doom?
Shoes are the one thing I’ll go to a store for. It’s a real struggle to find a good fit, and there’s some manufacturing variance, even with the same model
> is a privilege

Why are you watering down the word "privilege"? Historically privilege was an exemption from taxes due to the fact that one of your ancestors helped some king in a war.

How exactly is education a privilege? At least in the US, everyone has access to public education. My kids go to public school, and while I can't say their education is perfect, it's not that bad either. You could probably say that private education is a privilege, but education in general? Why?
I buy a lot of used books and I can never bring myself to pick up one of those. I'd have to be desperate.
There's no difference in the tasks you you described. I'm not saying it's not possible to do bad work over SSH, I'm saying it's in fact more punishing. If something is 500 keystrokes to do in Linux, you're incentized to do it in an automated fashion to avoid repetitive cli shenanigans. If the same thing is 2 clicks over RDP, who's going to bother scripting that? I'm not opposed to easy, I'm in favor of reproducibility and self documenting scripts.

There's no such incentive with windows because it's so "easy" and things like powershell's double hop and other similar quirks can actually make certian things more difficult to automate.

My point is, at least you can easily translate random CLI poking into scripts. more often than not, an RDP session doesn't lend itself to scripting.
Bunnings & Ikea recently stopped selling this product.
My guess is Bunnings probably wanted to stop competition.
So they probably lobbied the government for the full ban.
After all, you can't have the competition selling a popular product that they don't.
(Bunnings is like Australia's Home Depot or Lowe's)
I'll give this book a strong second. It is outrageously funny. The narrator/protagonist is such an insufferable wimp. I swear it's good, though.

I didn't know there was an audio book though. That might be worth a look.
Exactly. The poster himself points out that he got these views after reading so many highly-voted comments here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634213#38635045

Let's face it: HN is a hotbed of libertarian dogma such as this, so while the OP may or may not be trolling, the people on this site need to own this. Heck, one of the very founders of this site was a staunch libertarian, so the OP's post really isn't abnormal here at all.
> Although his style would seem off putting

That's one way of putting it. He claims to receive political counsel from his dead dog through a medium.

> Whatever happens, hope the outcome is positive for Argentinians.

So do I. I have family and friends who live or are from there. I like the country and its people.

That said, I doubt anything actually good will come out of this. Unfortunately, it wasn't very likely to be great if he had lost either though, so who knows...
Direct would be a manufacturing brand selling to an end-consumer without an intermediary.

Buying an iPhone from Apple: direct

Buying an iPhone from Amazon/Walmart/Target/BestBuy: not direct.
Yeah this is something I've also tried to grapple with.

I think you have a point with the rats - they're clearly very intelligent creatures, which is unfortunately also makes them so valuable for this kind of research. So it comes down to a trade off between improving human lives at the cost of another less intelligent but nonetheless very much aware creature.

While norms will likely shift over time, I don't think it's really possible to establish consensus view on this sort of thing - everyone will have the own level of comfort, just like eating meat.

Making absolute statements about the sanctity of life I think I'm a little more comfortable making a concrete statement on. If you embrace an absolutely view sanctity of life, just existing basically becomes impossible - how do you deal with the insects you accidentally kill when you walk on grass? What about the bacteria that your body kills during an infection? It's just not workable.

As for experimenting on people on death row, my gut is that to the extent that Capital Punishment Exists (something I'm against for what it's worth), it cannot have any external utility derived from the process. Rather it needs to exist purely as part of the justice system.

If there's an exogenous utility being derived from Capital Punishment, I think there's an unacceptably high risk that the motivations for capital punishment will become twisted. To put forward a hypothetical, but not infeasible scenario:

- We allow scientific experimentation on death row inmates
- Then, a lobby group points out that we could save even more innocent lives by using the inmate's organs for donation rather than experimentation. It's the same fundamental thing, just a different use.
- Then, there's a small but meaningful pressure on the justice system to find more people guilty in order to keep the flow of life saving organs strong. (We already know what the justice system is susceptible to this sort of pressure, see forced labour)

As a flow on effect, this makes it much harder to roll back capital punishment in the future if a society decide it's harmful, because there's a flow on effect of loss aversion towards that exogenous utility. I've seen this happen in my own state (Victoria, Australia) when it comes to gambling - we broadly acknowledge slot machines are extremely harmful, but the government struggles to curtail their use even slightly, because the tax revenue generated from them is used to fund important services. The harm is greater than the gain, but the loss aversion of those services is too powerful.
Even with an account (though I'm also not in the US, but in the UK) I've recently (many months) found the Twitter site to be about as unreliable as the old, early fail whale days (except instead of a cute whale, I just get the page refreshing back to the top of my timeline, or a tweet loading then replies failing to load).

I used to hardly ever see spam, except when looking at replies to famous huge accounts, now I get 2-5 follows/likes/mentions a day from fake accounts mostly of semi-naked girls with a link to a website.

And any reasonably active thread of replies to a tweet now surfaces the idiotic nonsense of blue tick subscribers to the top, rather than ranking by tweet quality/relevance.
It's not falsifiable.

Some things, e.g. id/ego/super-ego seem truish, but only because they package up already accepted things. It's like a "theory" in the Arts: a way of thinking, of analysing, a framework. It's neither true nor false, but may be convenient terminology.
All of these are established brand names though.

On the one hand, going over the top of big box allows you to establish a direct customer relationship and keep profits.

On the other hand, it removes the quality imprimatur that being stocked in a big box confers.

Ceteris paribus, why take a risk on one of 1,000 new internet brands, when you know better what you're getting with a megabrand?

Which is probably why you see internet brands succeed best in the disposable space (e.g. fast fashion), where quality is not a differentiator.
> Unlike WASI, WALI does not prescribe capability-based security for filesystem and sockets. Instead, the relaxed security model of WALI allows existing APIs
(e.g. WASI) to be implemented over it (Fig. 6).

Oh no.... I was worried someone was going to do this. You might as well skip WASM altogether if you start down that road.

If you give away file system access by default, what's the difference between WASM and running native code? The key advantage of WASM is the capability based security model. This throws that away.
He did not have to reapply. Caltech's stance is once you're admitted, you are welcome to come back and keep trying. I know one who came back multiple times. Your credits don't expire, either, like they do other places. It's one of the great things about Caltech. The administration was just made up of nice people.

I can only speak for the process that was in place when I applied back in the 70s. I sent them a letter asking for an application, which they sent to me. I filled it out, and sent it in with a check for the application fee. Nobody helped me with it, nor was I coached.

They had some specific requirements, like you had to graduate from high school, but I knew one person they waived that for.

What they looked for was a triad:

1. high school success
2. high SAT scores
3. evidence you're a highly motivated person

You had to have all three. And it worked for Caltech - being around smart people can be fun, being around motivated people can be fun, being around smart and motivated people means you're going to have more fun than you ever thought possible.

Caltech wasn't a place where you talked about football. If you wanted to have Carl Sagan drop by the dorm and talk about silicon giraffes, that was what was fun. If your room was next to Hal Finney's, that was fun. If a couple doors down was a guy who designed and built a working computer out of NAND gates, that was fun. If the guy 4 doors down built a powerful amplifier, and set up a giant set of speakers at the nodes of the hall and hooked it to a signal generator to emit sound below the hearing range, but was at the resonant frequency of the building, so it soon would start to go whump whump whump ... hahaha I was never bored for 4 years. Never.

I'd be a bit careful about optimizing for it. You really have to want to go there, and for the people who thrive there, it just is who they are. Caltech just wanted to be sure that the ones they admitted would be a natural fit, not an optimized fit. If you're not a natural fit, you won't be happy there, and will drop out. Nobody wants that.

I was told years later that they were skeptical about my application, and so sent someone out to interview me. He couldn't get a word in edgewise as I went off on all the projects I was working on, showed him diagrams of them, etc. He told the committee he thought I was worth taking a chance on.

I was rejected by MIT, Harvard, and Stanford, despite being legacy for MIT and Harvard.

> Thanks for making D, by the way!

You're welcome! Working on D is a great pleasure of mine. The way Caltech was run is how I've tried to run the D Language Foundation. In many ways the DLF community is our very own Caltech :-)
For a benchtop? Sounds like one dropped pan away from disaster
The company I worked for had three "core" child companies. A consumer online store, brick and mortar stores, and a "we don't respond to your emails unless you're talking six figures per transaction". Even the at-scale business was running sticker prices that make it hard to do business if you're not growing something with a marijuana-level return.
This must be amazing. There is no Costco within 20 minutes in a car near me.
Makes sense. More and more clothing brands, for instance, have a growing number of "online only" items. And stores that used to have an entire wall piled high with many hundreds of pairs of jeans, now carry maybe 50 pairs -- enough combinations to see what each style is and figure out your size, but for your exact style and size combination, you'll probably need to order online.

15 years ago I'd be annoyed when a store was out of my size. Now I literally don't even care -- I'll grab it online and that's one less bag to have to carry home.
Amazing, glad you were able to find it. I also just learned about what a "Dala" is :)
In this context, change in nominal profit is not a relevant number, but the change in profit margin could be. Which is up from 1.5% to 2.5% since 2010. Which is not earth shattering, but the slow and steady increase does indicate they are on the right track for operational efficiencies and offering a competitive product relative to its price.
When you're rebuilding a road (so the old asphalt is dug out and new one put in place), laying an additional small pipe and running fiber through is actually very cheap. Here in my small country in europe the municipalites lay fiber along the road repair works and then rent it out to ISPs in rural areas. In some areas als private ISPs can apply to put their own fiber if they want.
I'd love to hear about these. I joined that startup because I wanted to be a part of the alt-ag world, I left because I found out I was just part of the stoner world.
We’ve got a costco and an Aldi in the same parking lot. Between the two we rarely have to go elsewhere. To the point of the OP, I think Aldi by itself is bringing down the average size of stores. Great European quality stuff at ridiculously low prices
It was ON by default in my personal, paid Dropbox Plus account (in Canada).

https://i.imgur.com/qUKdMcB.png

I'm incensed about this. I guarantee I never activated this setting or anything remotely like it, or ever used any features that would justify it. This really crosses a line for me.
Isn't the problem with concrete that it's porous?
Vancouver, Canada!
I see it as pretty light. I installed via docker and it works great. The machine has a i7-1165G7
A better explainer: https://www.clever-cloud.com/blog/engineering/2021/04/12/int...
tell me more. are you just getting a discount at the normal rental places, or do they have their own? i was not aware of the rental option.
Portland is not a good test case to decide on one specific policy. It's like testing a cold drug on a person with several cancers - the test can't show any improvement because everything else is so hopelessly broken. I mean, I'm sure their drug policy is broken too, but one should not conclude from this that in a sane city legalize could never work, because Portland is not a sane city.
Yeah, it’s always funny to explain it to outsiders, but I wish it was ubiquitous everywhere. Every time I think about moving away one of the things that pops up in my head is — “ah, but I will miss dt Costco!”.
One of the primary reason I love Costco is fewer SKUs.

I don’t have to decide between 20 items of same kind, say white bread. There’s usually 1 or 2 of a kind, generally of great quality. You buy it and move on.

We rely on Costco buyers to do the quality due diligence for us.

Also, even if their price is not the best for an item, I trust it’s good enough. Couple that with their return policy, most purchases become a simpler exercise.
I am wondering why it would price them in characters but not tokens? Are they processing characters directly as tokens without tokenizer?
San Francisco has one close to the mission and SoMA area.
This isn't worth the cost or effort. Shopify already has an internal tool with this functionality that they are planning to publicize.
The offline attenuation concept is really cool. I wonder how many chained attenuations you could perform before you start to run into practical limitations with storing them attenuated token in cookies, etc.
Would it be less of a downside if you knew that a lot of the variety and options available at other stores are the same product just reskinned?
I buy literally everything I can at Costco. All my groceries, paper products, detergents, batteries, light bulbs, tires, appliances, and even many electronics. I even booked a vacation to Saint Lucia through Costco Travel and it was flawless. I have an executive membership, which is $120/year, but also gives me 2% back on all purchases. I spend enough there every year that it completely covers the cost of membership.

I currently spend the same there every month as I did 5 years ago. Inflation has barely touched it except for a few items like beef and fish, which have recently come back down in price.

I don’t understand the complaint some people have that it’s hard to shop there because quantities are too large. I use everything before expiration and end up throwing away very little. For short expiration item like meat, just use your freezer.
I have Starlink and live an hour from town in a national forest. If I did not have Starlink I would have no choice but to move. It is the only option for rural internet when you need bandwidth and data plans that permit daily video meetings and regular dowloading.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I wouldn't be happy to hear someone calling something I worked on "dogshit" to be honest. I learned from his work today and appreciate his approach. It doesn't hurt to be kind.
Funny - I was just thinking* about some of what you've described. In my book, a great deal of what a certain group of predators and naive individuals consider "capitalism" is hollowed of its core. Hollowed of aspects those who truly understand and have faith and respect for capitalism - well-founded faith and respect - generally consider essential.

People like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are / were far closer to sound / faithful capitalists than most seem to be, lately:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/warren-buffett-c...

But, one can go further, IMO:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-020-04521-5

Those who stress the idea that "greed is good" set themselves (and, unfortunately, the rest of us, as well) up for misery and the kinds of instability / inequality / tightrope walk that may culminate in events like the Reign of Terror (one example that always comes to my mind, at least - a la Les Misérables, for example [but, so much more than 'just' that theatrical version of events]).

* ~3 hours ago - and, not a common thought at all for me (though thinking about economics in general is common)
The installation steps include the following instructions. Are these safe?

```
sudo wget -O /usr/bin/ape https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/ape-$(uname -m).elf
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ape
sudo sh -c "echo ':APE:M::MZqFpD::/usr/bin/ape:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"
sudo sh -c "echo ':APE-jart:M::jartsr::/usr/bin/ape:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"
```
Probably a better link: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/13/did-google-just-defeat-...
Well, your two comments set a standard for relevance that is not easily attained by others.
There’s got to be ways to cut stone that don’t involve people sweeping up the dust with a broom. Water jets, wet saws, or even just a water mister and a wet/dry vac with a filter is going to be much better than just going about the same process with a different stone that they hope won’t be as bad on their lungs.
To me personally, the use case for ?: is selecting a value for a const:

const value = cond ? a : b;

Using an if instead would mean you can't make it const, and is usually more convoluted to read.

For pretty much all other use cases, I agree that ifs are better.
Just upgraded the storage and put in a few fixes so it's working a bit faster now. Working on caching some responses locally as we speak. Great idea.
Sources needed as to whether they were the brightest people in their home towns / countries when they left or if they became brighter through hard work and learning after arriving to the Bay Area.

Even if they were the brightest, are the thousands of people working at Bay Area companies the brightest from back home? Having worked with quite a few of them, I assure you that there are plenty of brighter people where they come from.
I've read some long and convoluted fiction, but I keep getting stuck on Moby Dick. It just seems to go nowhere for the longest time.
I'd like to see a citation on the "imminent" domain comment as well. It seems far-fetched to me that the Federal government would take away local control from counties and municipal governments to issue permits and inspect their right-of-ways, just because a utility company was awarded a grant.
It's almost as if schemas and static types were a good idea/expression of a fundamental reality.
Citation please. With numbers.
The bulk goods tend to be cheaper at Costco than my local stores whenever I've price shopped them. Bounty Paper Towels are about 5-15% cheaper. Kirkland butter is 10-20% cheaper than my local white-label. Kirkland unsalted nuts is 30% cheaper than white-label. I'm sure not everything has that much of an effective discount. Fresh fruit is roughly the same price. It can make sense to purchase bulk nonperishable products and food items you know you'll use before they go bad.
Well - for one - I don't see at all how the well-written, fairly detailed response supports that initial claim.

I feel like my four-word rebuttal has as much support as did his initial statement.
> Imagine those systems required no government bureaucracy, couldn’t be revoked, proved you were a human, etc. Wouldn’t that be a benefit?

That describes CAPTCHAs. While there are practical implementation issues, the goal of proving you're human is reasonable.

ID systems however go further and, for instance, prevent you from protecting your privacy by making throwaway accounts. I prefer the balance we currently have, where such verification is plausible for important things (buying a house) but not so convenient that it'd be used by every website.
It was pushed by the trade unions, who currently install and work with both products.