skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Cantonese pronunciation ru often becomes jyu (in Jyutping), ri becomes jat, similarly for rang, rong, ran. I guess this same shift is likely reflected in mandarin pronunciations in some areas. This suggests that this is a general change.

I think the relevant wikipedia article might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Chinese_phonology, which should reflect the shift from the earlier Cantonese-like pronunciation (yu style) to modern Mandarin-like (ru style), but it's a bit beyond me. Maybe this "The class of EMC palatals is lost, with palatal sibilants becoming retroflex sibilants and the palatal nasal becoming a new phoneme /ɻ/." is relevant?

More discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/orf800/questio... and at https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?16,126118 which suggests "If a word is pronounced "y-" in Cantonese but "r-" in Mandarin, it's reconstructed as "gn", after Hokkien".
Per the one tweet in the article that says they only bought one of these appliances because of the HA plugin: the lesson is don't buy smart devices that have cloud control. Whether or not they have local automation plugins (like HA), or just that have apps/cloud services, expecting those capabilities to remain for the life of the device is a fool's errand. We have a host of examples of cloud services being killed and open integrations getting taken down, and none of the examples where this hasn't happened have existed long enough for us to say anything besides "so far".

If you want smart functionality, it had better run entirely locally, or else you should not care about or depend on that functionality.

-edit- I also had to learn this lesson (somewhat) painfully. I chose the EVSE that I did for 2 reasons: it was on the list of devices my power company would help pay for and it had an HA integration. less than 6 months after I bought it, the company killed the API that the HA integration relied on.

Luckily for me, the HA integration wasn't that big of a deal, more of "nice to have", but I learned my lesson to never use non-local cloud functionality as a selling point.
Furthermore, even as a website aiming to survive some momentary spike in performance - slowing everything down for everyone _can_ be part of a solution to serve more people but fewer things each. People might not normally be willing to wait for more than a second or two for a load; but when they expect or have a sign that things are slower than normal, they might have a little more patience (or just come back to that tab later).

I think people are a little too negative on queues. Sure, really naively implemented with entirely unbounded capacity they're an accident waiting to happen... but you don't have to do that.
I meant solving stalking and general violence level of the population with staircases :)
In order to put a slash there, you need to already know that tag can take a slash, so nothing is gained by putting it there.

Though something is allowed, it is unspecified, not required, does nothing. So why would you want to write markup that is not needed and does nothing? This makes no sense whatsoever and I only find such discussions on public forums such as this one.
Nobody really knows. It certainly suits them for everyone to believe there is some secular reason, some supply crunch, it even suits AMD and Intel.

Presumably all the chip supply issues regarding autos have been resolved, and yet prices have risen 30% in a decade, and there’s no reversal.
Nissan are notorious for bad battery management. As I already said, you will find an abundance of Leafs and Zoes on autotrader with poor ranges.

But, did they have poor ranges to begin with? The model you picked has a 24kWh battery which is pretty small. Let’s look at what it was originally:

https://ev-database.org/uk/car/1019/Nissan-Leaf-24-kWh

> Real Range: between 55 - 125 mi

Let’s call that 90. So not great to begin with. I would never have bought a Zoe or Leaf and I still wouldn’t. But my coworker had one exactly like this as a runaround. He recently traded it in… for another leaf. So clearly ok for some people.
>Where is the financial damage?

They offered API that they don't want people to use. Maintaining APIs and uptime costs, but they only wanted their API to be used by their apps that collect data about you.
For articulated armor, is it made-to-measure? I'd assume it would have to be?

Expect there's enough person-to-person variance in measurements to make one-size-fits-most unlikely with metal.
> Especially once Apple Vision Pro ignites the industry.

I may be repeating my own errors with the following as I said much the same for the iPhone and the Apple Watch when they were new, but…

The prices Apple are asking for seem excessive given what the products actually do, surely the cheaper alternatives are going to be what really matters?

(In this case, cheaper alternatives would include the Meta headsets).
> Because starting your own business is usually even more of a soul-crushing activity, with even less pay, for many years, if not forever.

According to the hustle porn version of startups, sure. But if you find a niche market, build a simple product, spread out the work with people you trust, and deliver consistently to your customers, you can own a large chunk of more revenue than you'll ever see renting your time out by the hour.

We all know "it doesn't have to be crazy at work", but starting a business doesn't have to be crazy either.
They mentioned extracts, so I'm imagining oil or powder in this scenario (also smoke is bad for you). 2.5G of oil or powder isn't a lot at all. The term "gram bag" is used for powder.
How close geographically are you and your parents – are you fed off the same electricity supply?
Yeah, a lot of it is ultimately offloaded to the cloud and the hardware is effectively just a license key that grants you access to those API endpoints. Googles Magic Eraser was originally a cloud service, but they eventually got it working on-device with the Pixel 8 series, but they simultaneously launched Magic Editor which the Pixel 8 still defers to the cloud.
My take on client-side hashing schemes is that they help with raising the floor -

- they ensure that the backend application never sees your password in plaintext , and prevent the worst case scenario of a plaintext data dump
- password hashing is CPU intensive by design, and pushing that work to the client means you can have them do the work and increase # of iterations far more aggressively

but fundamentally still leaves users vulnerable compared to other approaches. For example, client-side hashed passwords can still be phished, and are not domain-bound like Passkeys are.
I have not been able to find the original publication with details on the preservation. My guess is that it would have been somehow stored in a place that was completely lacking moisture and oxygen, like maybe a tightly sealed box buried deep in teh ground?
"The full impact of fruit destruction": How Halfbrick cultivated Super Fruit Ni
my daily driver is an i5 PC that I bought in 2012. Haven't even thought much about it. It had 12gb, I recently upgraded it to 24gb. No plans to really upgrade, it runs linux and get's the job done. My macbook is a 2012 too. computers have gotten great enough that we can probably run these for the next 10 yrs. The only reason I'm thinking of upgrading desktop is for GPU and likewise the macbook. Outside of GPU, I'll be fine. I'm still running the numbers to decide if I might just stick to cloud workload and if I do, these will chug on along for some more years.
Lots of people who do good work have done awful things.

I love Oscar Wilde's plays, but he was a paedophile sex tourist. Eric Gill created beautiful stuff, including typefaces most of us probably use or read fairly often, and he sexual abused his children and his dog.
Or, if state level actors are looking at your data they are buying from companies, the appearance of intentionally corrupted data could invite more scrutiny.
To this day I still don't know what I was shadowbanned for. It got randomly removed a few months later.

And it's ridiculous when you make a very high effort long post but then get the whole thing hidden because of the use of retard. Without any indication that it's happening.
A clearing house for open positions in said industries would be fantastic.

How to gather, collate, and publish ?
Depending on the altitude, they could keep these within class G airspace, which means VFR's job is to see and avoid. I think that's a pretty defensible solution as a pilot who spends all of his time in VFR operating in Class E/G airspace.
I know because I check often with what I already know, or official material/explanations written by humans.

Gpt helps me connect dots and uncover useful details I didn't previously have, and that official explanations didn't include. And just about every time I've double-checked, it's right, even when it didn't make sense to me (counter-intuitive/non-obvious due to my mistakes in reading comprehension or previously erroneous concepts in my mind).
Also absurd is arresting people for consuming marijuana
Interesting. I guess it must be a generational difference maybe.

I'm a kid of the 90's so I grew up with desktop PCs exclusively, so using a computer meant sitting at the computer desk, rather than using it anywhere else. So I guess this habit stuck to me as I rarely undock my laptop to use it anywhere else like kids who grew up with laptops.

But to me I see only benefits to this habit, hear me out:

- I get the best posture at the desk with ergonomic chair and external height adjustable monitor, versus in bed, couch or random table around the house where I need to hunch down at the small laptop screen. There's no way my neck can tolerate that posture for more than a couple of hours.

- more easily to mentally detach from work and digital entertainment, when the laptop is only at the desk and doesn't follow me around. As in, if I go to the park, or to the coffee shop, I go there to detach from "laptop usage" and unwind, like look out the window, read a book, chat up some people while enjoying the cappucino.

Due to these (personal) factors, I never understood the need for crazy battery life other than jobs that involve a lot of travelling, since most people I know seem to have similar computer usage habits to mine where they also leave their laptops at home.

Who knows, if I were to grow up with a laptop, I'd probably have different usage habits now.
We have been "making" nuclear waste that will "last" for eons, though.

Hopefully the constructions (both technical and social) where we store it, in the hope of a future generation that can rid of it, will last centuries too.

I'm convinced everything surrounding nuclear waste is where humans are putting the most effort in thinking and planning for ages. Or, I hope it is.

That said, someone once told me that e.g. castles "back then" where built for centuries, not decades. People thought much more in family-lines, generations and long lasting tribes, than individual, or families' lives.

And there too, nuclear waste is where current society had to think of the grandchildren of the grandchildren, rather than 'before I die'.
Philips Hue did run locally, and now they are rolling out updates where a cloud account is required.
For the good of humanity no doubt.
...rendering every competitor's massive investments worthless. Zuckerberg's thinking must be that Meta's competitors are more susceptible to disruption by broadly accessible AGI, and that if everyone has access to state-of-the-art AGI, then no one will be able to gain a new kind of competitive advantage from it.
I think you’ve been my interviewer at what.cd, ~ 2011. Glad to see you here!
In my opinion, HMD are clearly the future of display tech. VR is something you get for free, with an HMD.
> I just haven't solved the off-site data backup part of it, yet.

My solution to this is to partner up with a couple of good friends who also run their own servers. We all hold backups for each other.
Im with you! My brother and I grew up around a blacksmith father and made a few very very crude pieces of plate and reinforced hide haha, good times.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

I've got a friend's kid alive because of these newer immunotherapies. They're a great advancement in successful outcomes, and not having the misery of chemo is a very, very nice bonus.
His original letter to Hans is published here: https://ftp.mfek.org/Reiser/Letters/%E2%84%961%20Fred%E2%86%...
In the hundreds of people who interacted on that thread, I don’t think a single person insisted that the dev do anything.

It’s a dishonest characterization of the issue thread to imply that it was its nature. People shared discussed the problem with the tool’s behavior, shared examples and motivations.

Prettier’s (IMO wrong) decision was theirs to make but the response was also gratuitously smug.
> The M series processors were explicitly designed with extra instructions for commonly used JS functionality.

I think I know what you're thinking of and it's a little overblown. It's a single instruction - FJCVTZS - which performs a specific type of floating-point to integer conversion. It's a standard ARMv8.3 instruction, not an Apple extension.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/l/A64-Floati...
Reddit plans to launch IPO in March
git commit hooks & ci checks that ensure everything is formatted because that one coworker refuses to set it up to run on save and keeps forgetting causing merge conflicts down the line
> I understand where people don't trust the electronic ID card.

Me too, the reason I trust it is that I understand the (really cool) cryptography behind it, and most don't.
I'd say MBAs driving for quarterly numbers were unable to manage the business cycle is a better summary.
Seems like you just want a Pixel phone with all-Google apps.

Samsung's built in apps are not "cruft" by any means.

The Notes app has pen support for sketching and PDF import/annotate, which lets me use a printable calendar digitally. The Browser app has dark mode and adblock; good luck with that on Google Chrome. The Music app doesn't try to upsell me to a YouTube Music plan.

I also use Bixby routines to quickly set custom timers for exercise, cooking etc.
IANAL, but this sounds like bullshit intended at scaring people into compliance. An individual cannot afford legal fees against a corporation no matter what. The usual.
It is something I have also thought about. Most of the work I have done probably won't even outlast my retirement, let alone last 7 centuries.

https://successfulsoftware.net/2013/03/24/ephemeral/
Surprisingly well.

Strong adoption by the younger TikTok generation which is an area that Meta has been desperate to bring back into their fold.

Also the product is pretty impressive. The camera quality is really good and the AI features genuinely useful. Definitely caused many in the industry to wonder if that form factor could be the future of the AR industry in the short term as well as the long term.
>the supposedly good model called Ultra,

Good (as written), or God (at first glance)?
short/mid term profits
Not to mention the NGI is not a bunch of words, they have been funding many actionable projects including pretty much all the Fediverse.
I heard from on Oxide and Friends that Sun had a pretty strong patent incentive program back in the day. I wish I could remember it off the top of my head but I believe Bryan Cantrill mentioned he still had furniture in his home that was paid for by some patents :)
There is a science of accelerated aging for testing products, which speeds up the process a bit at the expense of accuracy.
I'm noticing that in Bash, when I complete on ~-1 without a trailing slash, nothing happens. When I use $c1 and hit tab, it adds the slash for me! So in that situation, $c1 saves a keystroke. Well, not a keystroke per se, but having to use a different character rather than repeated Tab.

Also, I can shorten these variables to one letter, like $p, $q, ...

Bash has an option so that tab completion will expand out the directory.

shopt -s direxpand

this is useful because variables like $c1 or syntax like ~-1 entered into the history is not useful for recall.

I know about M-x C-e to expand everything, but that is far too clumsy compared to just the tab completion doing it.

Here is something: the direxpand option is not working for ~-n/[Tab] completions. Only for variable names!
Yea.. there is so much ambiguity in stuff like this. Reasonable and probable mean different things to different people and its not like we have statistics to show that when a powder of a given texture of a given quantity in a given container is found, what percentage of the time is it drugs and what percentage of the time is it something innocent.
Critical Incident Review: Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX
At some point Google Cloud, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Apple, etc are going to make their own specialized chips (Google tried a bit with their tensors chip).

There is no value into the NVIDIA-part by itself, only the raw power is interesting.

If tomorrow this is AMD, or China-Town chip, it's perfectly fine.

I wouldn't miss the CUDA toolkit mess.
Everyone is building something, also Tesla is building FSD, I am not sure why journalists decide to give up their profession’s dignity and become CEOs extended PR department

Im building a planet
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Oh man if Elon had billions in H100s we might actually see that happen. And I’m no fan of Elon but I’m also no fan of cryptocurrency these days. Might be worth it just to watch the crypto world burn.
What a helpful post!
> Apple considers this worth a 30% commission, and 100% of developers on the App store agree, or they wouldn't be on there.

This is where you get it wrong.

If there were other stores for iOS apps and the difference was only Apple's vetting and developers were still choosing to pay Apple 30% vs. much less for some alternative, then you could say that what they're paying for is trust.

But everybody including Apple knows that isn't true in general. As soon as there were other viable stores and developers could put the same app there for a lower price, the large majority of customers would take the lower price over whatever "trust" Apple is ostensibly providing. Unless Apple were to charge substantially lower fees for it.

Which is the only reason they preclude the other stores. If customers actually wanted trust and it could only be provided by Apple then customers wouldn't have to be precluded from using alternative stores because they just wouldn't choose to.

And when that isn't possible, you can't say that people are choosing Apple's store because of trust, when there is no choosing happening because there is no alternative installation method to choose.
Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), OpenAI (Microsoft)

Microsoft name change incoming?
I'm often surprised when posters identify themselves as "European" which encompasses such a broad range of cultures, biotypes, and ecosystems that it makes any comparison of the US way vs the European way virtually impossible.

That said, when looking at the reasons for fire safety in the U.S., there are many factors to consider which may or may not apply in parts of Europe

-- Frequency of wildfires. They are not uncommon in my southwest corner, so fire safety is taken very seriously

-- Proximity of emergency services. It can't be assumed that the local fire department is a few minutes drive away

-- Building materials. Materials that are fire-proof are rarely earthquake proof.

Any of these may or may not apply in any particular case but "embafflement" seems pretty extreme.
I think you’re misunderstanding the metaphor.

Holmes was comparing “falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater” not to an example of false speech, but an example of inflammatory speech. Schenck wasn’t making false statements, he was encouraging resistance to the draft during wartime.
This is the answer to all American manufacturing woes. The dollar as a reserve currency gives the US a ton of global leverage but requires a trade deficit thus it comes at the expense of domestic industries.
That's most of the point of the employee-employer relationship. The company pays a flat rate and tries to maximize output reaping the extra output of over-achievers. In return the employee is relatively insulated from business risk (well except for layoffs to juice the stock price).
A slight change of subject but not too much.

An hour ago I walked into a Post Office somewhere in Scotland. I was immediately greeted with a screen hanging down from the ceiling.

Onn the left 75% portion of the screen a bunch of different camera feeds and on the right portion, running vertically - still photos of my face and other customers faces who were currently in the shop.

…And next to these still photos were things like:

Age: Middle aged male
Emotion: …
Glasses: No
Etc.

I asked the shop keeper why they were showing this, and I was met with arguments like ‘these are everywhere’, ‘airports have them too’.

I replied that an airport is understandably doing this, due to being a terrorism threat. But this was a small Post Office in a tiny village town in the countryside. So like comparing apples to toilet paper.

I asked why the camera was trying to guess my emotion. To which I was replied to ‘if you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about’.

Society has been so conditioned into the assumption that what we have today we will have tomorrow. Except in a world of potential Trumps, Xi Jinping, Putin and more… we are setting ourselves up for the complete unknown of tomorrow.

This 1984 Scotland is now a place I feel like the reason to live has been dwindled down to just pure existence. I don’t think I had ever felt quite like this before this trip to the Post Office today. Life doesn’t feel like ours anymore. It’s someone else’s. The people behind the surveillance and the conditioned people who normalise it.

Just because the technology exists, shouldn’t mean it needs to be used. When will people ever start respecting other’s privacy? And when will people ever give a damn about it.

If this is already where we’re at in 2024, where are we all going to be by 2030? Is life as full of the same point today than what it was 10 years ago. And will it be less full of point by 2030.

Edit: typos
You mean having 3 layers of management do a drive-by at developer desks in the space of a day, with conflicting asks is bad?

Or having the universe revolve around Jira, berating devs for lack of story progress in standup, and shouting about velocity in sprint ceremonies.. while also doing the above said verbal drive-bys? Who is causing all this churn?? Where is our focus? Where are people spending their time??

It's unknowable.
Fire deaths per 100k in 2019:

US .82

UK .38

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fire-death-rates
If that's the case, not sure if that's better than ads. I'd rather workout in an ads filled gym for free than paying for la fitness gym membership
Lol, ok.

Are they also working on world peace?