skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, most Chinese characters are phono-semantic compounds.[0] However, this makes most sense in the original Old Chinese[1] phonology, where the forms were taking place.

For example,

偒 was pronounced /*l̥ʰaːŋʔ/ and 陽 was pronounced /*laŋ/, but the modern pronunciations are tǎng (/tʰɑŋ²¹⁴/) and yáng (/jɑŋ³⁵/) respectively. So the phonetic part 昜 /*laŋ/ no longer consistently represents that sound, although in this case the final -aŋ is still present.

And as for sounds that were present in Old Chinese but not in Middle Chinese and Mandarin, like [2] 巽 was pronounced /*sqʰuːns/, now xùn (/ɕyn⁵¹/), they underwent a series of regular sound shifts that make them sound quite different when used in characters in Mandarin.

Also, Old Chinese was not a tonal language, tones first appeared in Middle Chinese, which the modern system derives from (with changes). Tones never had a chance to appear in writing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinese

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B7%BD
Really simple explanation is that for inference, feed forward networks are threshold circuits and by their nature ANNs are binary output, outputting true and false (same as being a threshold circuit)

So if you train your models with that in mind you're weighs can be reduced to -1,0,1 reducing the space complexity.

I don't think the costs in expressiveness are captured quite yet, but as perplexity doesn't care about correctness, if that is the metric that is important for you it will probably reduce memory requirements for inference.
I’m interested in self hosting this. What’s the recommendation here for state persistence and self healing? Wish there was a guide for a small team who wants to self host before trying managed cloud
Super excited for this! We made this because of how hard it was to track how things were breaking downstream and hopefully it makes some data person's life easier/more manageable
Somehow this isn't a problem with Cargo.toml, however. What's cmake missing?
Not exactly what you describe, but there's Yuka for processed products (food and cosmetics). You scan a barcode and it gives you a score based on the product composition, it's quite helpful: https://yuka.io/en/
That's not good. Microsoft is too important as a layer for a lot of computation and access at many firms. I love Microsoft technology, very powerful platform...but at this point it may be time to recommend to all firms that they rely on more open stack alternatives for things and be cloud-native as much as possible in case needing to decouple at a moment's notice.
I'm pretty sure that the US tries to control entry of drugs like fentanyl. They would be more successful if China clamped down on the exports.
I think the article gets it wrong when it says nationalism is the biggest issue the UBI movement currently faces. Our current waves of nationalism have populist roots, and therefore is not inherently incompatible with UBI policies. However, as stated in the article, the current UBI movement is generally left-of-center; and there is a lot of reactionary opposition (atleast in the USA) to anything that comes from the other side.

I think the bigger issue is that there is a common, albeit misguided notion that UBI would create inflationary pressure. This fear was made worse by the current inflationary environment. Covid relief was made the boogeyman for inflation out of political expediency.

On the plus side, the advancement of AI, and the threat of widespread job loss creates a positive talking point that can possibly help counteract that.
The disconnect here is that insurance companies don't price in the full risk to kill or injure someone. The price in the risk up to the policy limits, which by law, are only required to be a paltry sum.

There aren't any insurance companies that will even write you a car insurance policy that will cover the potential costs for a very serious injury. It is too risky for them. Heck, the maximum coverage you can even voluntarily buy in the US is lower than the minimum requirements in some other countries. Some countries require millions or tens of millions in coverage, some require unlimited liability. In most of the US many insurers won't even let you voluntarily buy more than $250k/person, and are only required a tenth of that.
So what I was picturing was more of where the client directly pushes to all the backend nodes simultaneously. That way the client right away knows if it was a success or a failure or a partial success. The whole problem with any of this is that you can have writes be a partial success and what that means cannot be correctly interpreted by the database cluster alone in the general case. Like it’s bad when it happens but is catastrophic or can it be recovered from really depends on what the data is and it should be up to the application to decide that. Instead we are trying to treat databases like it’s always success or failure with maaaaybe some eventual consistency semantics and when a partition happens or a node is simply down the application doesn’t really know if any given piece of data is actually fully durably committed or just partially committed.
For the same reason MacBooks have lots of compromises: you just happen to agree with them. You cannot get higher than 60Hz in the air. No oled. Medium screen resolution. Okay-ish webcam only. Everything soldered. Heavier and bulkier than competition. No cuda, limited external screens,...
Rather common question on Academia StackExchange for exactly the scary reasons mentioned. Almost every time, the rational is something close to "my professor will ruin my life if I don't do what they say."

My own research is creepy and I want to leave (except my professor will ruin me): https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/67897/i-dont-wa...

My professor is using us to rig the IEEE elections (except afraid of losing scholarship and grad courses): https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/69486/what-shou...

My professor is rigging nanotechnology data and plagiarizing (except I don't stand a chance against him): https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/31265/my-profes...
Embracing Modularity with Meson (2020)
from TFA:

> Health plans covered the full cost of about 82% of claims, according to the Peterson-KFF analysis. Patients who shared the cost paid $25 on average.

I would be very curious to know if my insurance is paying for the useless messages that my doctor's office sends. I sure hope not — they are next to worthless!
Many have probably been hassled by all the unleashed dogs running around. Then they see a human with a dog and think you're coming back for more, so it sets them off.
> my gut feeling says separating the drawing state from windows as in MS Windows is the better choice, but I also think having separate entities called “windows” and “controls” as on the Mac is the better choice.

I like to sum up the difference between Mac and Windows thusly. Probably glossing over a bunch of stuff but still:

* Steve Jobs toured Xerox and came away with an idea, and a fairly shallow one -- the windowed, mouse-driven, document-centric interface. This is what he then had his team implement in the Lisa and Mac. As implementations go, it was really good and it looked good, but it was really procedural Pascal code beneath. (You had to handle window moving and resizing yourself in early Mac OS. There were library functions to help, but you had to code all that into your application's main loop.)

* Microsoft, at right about the same time, was hiring guys out of Xerox PARC itself -- guys like Charles Simonyi -- and they brought with them a whole passel of ideas, not just concerning interfaces but also software design, things like objects and message-passing. That's why Windows could do things like handle the move and resize drag actions, and then just post WM_MOVE or WM_RESIZE to the target window. Windows were objects -- members of classes, even, and could receive messages.

Granted, Windows couldn't run in 128K -- and Jobs would pivot completely with NeXT and deliver an object-oriented desktop based on Smalltalk grafted onto C (Objective-C), but initially it seems Apple were trying to build a cheaper, more user friendly Xerox Star and Microsoft were trying to get as much of the Smalltalk environment as would fit in a PC without requiring devs to learn a new language.
The doctors are just cogs in a machine. The problem is that if your compensation is $200k-$1000k why would really want to tackle the issue.

Specialists make so much money they can hire a personal assistants to handle all the annoying things.

I know several pharmacists, one is highly intelligent and she is the only one who wants to get out of the field because healthcare in the US is toxic and profit driven.
There's a really interesting clip in the documentary "What The Health" where the interviewer attempts an interview with one of the doctors and gets rejected by the hospital PR person:

Transcript:
actually i understand that doctor said that you could film here today but
51:04
unfortunately that's not going to be able to happen i know that he advocates for patients changing their diets but the
51:10
hospital makes money off these surgeries and the reality is he does too so we can't do anything that's gonna
51:16
negatively impact the hospital so unfortunately you're not gonna be able to film here today

https://youtu.be/obx7cJtk3fE?t=3064
> you will start to realize that you can't think of a reason why you made an excuse

this may not always be true by the way. such constant observation of yourself, constantly asking yourself what such and such a thing means or came from - may eventually lead you to notice the cognitive jump you take - the experience you had all those years ago plus the new thought pattern you started to let yourself believe - which became compressed and hidden by the familiarity and comfort of having no problems due to the resulting dissociation. Before you let yourself believe there was no reason, consider deferring belief permanently until you remember what impression you had which caused 'what is'. Far along that path lies deep self-knowledge and therefore deep knowledge of the world. Most people aren't as interested in seeing the truth as they believe so they give up when they feel more comfortable. It's explained, then, that as a result of not being awakened to what is, their karma inside themselves can still conquer their destiny [1]. Whereas someone who actually respects the truth is going to think more seriously about controlling their karma, at the very least so as not to damage the truth more.

1. What is Destiny?- https://tathagata.netlify.app/page/destiny
I agree, I have not really understood the purpose of having multiple aliases for the same thing. It just bloats the language for me.

Also, the following can be written even shorter:

[1,2,3,4,5].select { |num| num.even? }

Like this:

[1,2,3,4,5].select(:even?)
He's right, though.

I moved to Canada recently and caught a flu that I didn't take care of and, in turn, developed into pneumonia. It took me FIVE days to be able sit down with a doctor and get an antibiotic prescribed even thought it was more than evident I needed immediate care. I could have died if I waited another day. But was it free? ... ehrm ... yeah.

In Mexico, doctors are as free market as it can get, downsides and upsides of that considered; with cash in hand you can get any kind of attention you need in the exact moment you need it. And it's not even that expensive, after converting MXN <-> USD. I could've dropped by with any of the 1,000s doctors that are available, many of which don't even require appointments. I would've got the attention I needed and the antibiotic prescription in 2-3 hours. That would had cost me ~60 USD.
Airbnb's Devastating Effect on Canadian Housing
A controversial take from this is that, aside from the health benefits, you will also accrue personal and professional benefits from not being fat.

I remember interviewing when I was chubbier post-COVID thinking that the only evidence the interviewer has of my self-control and drive is that I have none. Best case scenario, you are interviewing a temporarily embarrassed skinny person.

Noble prize winner James Watson, famous bluntly tell it like it is-er, said he didn't hire fat people for this reason.

(This has since been rectified by reinstating strength training and dietary controls, which I recommend.)
I did a Boeing factory tour back in the day.

At the end of the tour they made everyone say “I ain’t going, if it’s not Boeing” as a way to celebrate their superior plane.

Ironically the mantra now is

“If it’s Boeing, it ain’t going”

Oh how times have changed.
For sure! It would be great to have this as a feature, but for now, I'm focusing on the other way around.

Thanks for the feedback :)
>If the people on the factory floor have to show up for work every day why should you get to stay home?

Different jobs, different pros and cons?
Incorrect and incorrect. This is just mindlessly repeated propaganda.

Management has to act in shareholders' best interest. Management decisions cannot be self-serving at the expense of shareholders. Shareholders are a diverse bunch and can be interested in things besides pure profit, and companies can choose to maximize on those alternative dimensions.

The Supreme Court said as recently as 2016: "Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not."[1]

From that same article, there's more:

"More to the point, corporate directors are protected from most interference when it comes to running their business by a doctrine known as the business judgment rule. It says, in brief, that so long as a board of directors is not tainted by personal conflicts of interest and makes a reasonable effort to stay informed, courts will not second-guess the board’s decisions about what is best for the company — even when those decisions predictably reduce profits or share price."

1. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
There's a lot to unpack here, but in the US healthcare is delivered in a fee-for-service model very much like any other service you use. Unless and until we change that model, why do you expect doctors to give up income they could receive from seeing patients in-person in order to read and respond to your emails for free?
I'm in agreement that healthcare is sorely lacking many individualist incentives, including market ones [0], but can we not pigeonhole anything we don't like as "socialism" ? It just makes for a terrible time talking past one another.

[0] hint: receiving bills for charges you never assented to is not a foundation of a working market, and should obviously be illegal.
Sounds like a nightmare for your energy bills. At least with interior ductwork the losses go to heating/cooling your home instead of your attic, which even with insulation is going to act like a giant heatsink that you get nothing out of.
Book Review: San Fransicko (2022)
>when you have greater self-control you are less prone to get "bullied" by other managers into doing work for them and you can stand up more for your team

Umm... You are confusing self control with confidence and self esteem. They aren't the same thing. Though I can see how becoming more disciplined can lead to more confidence and self esteem.
Really like superlative.tools

Are you the maker?
But startups are created with big dreams. Almost zero chance of success, of course, but that is the nature of the startup founder.

When those dreams are illegal, startups don't get created and the founders simply choose to get a cushy job at some FAANG.

Just compare how few talented people in EU choose to build startups instead of working for the bureaucracy. The more regulation we have, the more founders-to-be say "why bother?!"
Typically one would not do that. You'd shop around ahead of time, sign up for a plan and then if/when the emergency came it would already be taken care of.
Yes, there's a reason all the tallest trees recorded are a bit more than 100m high.

That's basically the upper limit to get water to the leaves up top
Yeah, and typically when you do the same with a doctor the fee you pay has been negotiated with your insurance provider. This is no worse than anything else billing-related in healthcare.
One of my favourite spaces and presentation in readme is clear and immediately told me what it is and most of the key information that I usually complain is missing.

However I am still missing a section on why this is different than any of the other existing and more mature solutions. What led you to develop this over existing options and what different tradeoffs did you make? Extra points if you can concisely tell me what you do badly that your 'competitors' do well because I don't believe there is a one best solution in this space, it is all tradeoffs
> Everyone of a certain age knows at least one of their schoolmates or college friends that died in the war.

What age? As I said, I was 19 at the time. For Americans, we're looking at ~2500 for Afghanistan and another ~5000 for Iraq. That's several times fewer than the number of high schools.

A lot more were wounded. There's a good chance most people knew someone wounded in one of the wars. But "someone I know was killed" is true with or without the wars.

If the number of fatal car accidents increased by 5%, would you say this was a major change to our day to day life? That would take about three years to exceed the total US deaths from both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars over their entire many-year time span.
Eh, even Europeans appear to getting larger vehicles. SUV's hit 51% of all new European car sales in 2023. Granted though it's mostly compact and sub compact CUV's.

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/suvs-surge-new-milest...
Yeah - Old EBay server equipment can be had for like $200/node and will burn at least that much in electricity every year :-/
Also, the noise is hellacious!

Old laptops / desktops can be better - especially since you can get newer/more power efficient units without all the noise. But I started moving to even smaller SBC based stuff (0)

0: https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h3
That's what we have now. I hope you're conscious enough to tell the ambulance driver which hospital to drive to.
I'd probably fall more in the spectrum of dumb programmer vs smart one, but I like clean code/consistently enforced patterns because it reduces the amount of mental overhead required to get code state into your brain. I'd rather focus on actually solving the problem at hand vs wrangling with messy, overly clever code.

That's one of the reason I like Go so much. The language is simple and easy to read with common, idiomatic patterns to the point it just gets out of your way and you can actually focus on what you're trying to do instead of spinning your wheels with a million clever ways to write the same code.
We Must Resist AI's Soft Mind Control
We can run it forever but it’s rarely useful. Usually, all operations have an associated expiration time so if it’s impossible to succeed it will eventually abort.
Hah, in MyChart, my provider has started having an MA answer your emails, and then "I'll forward this to the provider". Waiting to see if I get billed for the MA's "effort".
I don't understand what the use case is here at all. It saves prompt parameters as JSON? Is that it?
fantastic layout and execution, even the chapter text overlay on the time bar is a great feature.

at first I thought the canned newsy dialogue would be too robotic but it truly helps with retention and surprisingly not too dissimilar to actual talking heads. I think biases will always be smuggled in by the LLM and the origin publisher. There was a good AI news product from earlier in the week https://newscord.org/ which heavily noted all the glaring omissions between each source so you could quickly see that some sources are deliberately vague. So you'd have to track agenda serving omissions before you can say bias is corrected for.

It's probably about time someone made an awesome-ai-speaker-podcasts list on github.
> How can be sure that it matches the MicroPython speed? well, indeed it is not a perfect match, so I added “x=1” statements to delay it a bit to kinda match the pitch that looked correct.

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“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”

- St Augustine
Because Obamacare legislation ended up as a terrible version of socialism/pork-barrel spending/crony-capitalism in order to get the required support to pass.

The democrats wanted to get subsidized healthcare for low income people and people with existing health issues that would guarantee they would be uneconomical to insure. The healthcare providers, insurance companies and pharma companies wanted to remain viable, profitable businesses.

The compromise was to essentially guarantee profits to healthcare companies by crafting legislation that overcharges young people, healthy people, male people, middle class and affluent people to subsidize costs for other groups, while giving a consistent profit margin regardless of costs to insurance companies.

There is nothing about American healthcare that resembles functioning markets or capitalism. It's a very heavily regulated industry where the government exerts extreme control, while choosing to legislate in a way that maintains a consistent flow of money to influential lobbying groups and political donors.
Or to get a copy of the signal from the camera, as I assume it is less secure than cloudflare's datacentres.
Isn't this basically, "how to structure a large project". The bits that are C-specific are small. This could easily be changed to JavaScript, Rust, Java or any language with only small modifications.
US farmers are turning to solar power as a buffer against volatile crop prices
Maybe my example wasn't the best since Uber is practically in all countries. It has however competitors which also are available in many countries and could be available as apps in this EU only store

Let's get to a more down to earth example then: you break your phone while abroad, you can't buy a new one and reinstall old apps anymore.

Or another one: you forgot to install an application available only on this alternative store before leaving (it's not that crazy, see F-Droid on Android where apps are not always available on the Play Store), you can't install it anymore since you aren't physically in the EU anymore.
It is perfect example of crony-capitalism... Under socialism basic care would come from one pot. And state would tell what everything can costs.
> 90s apps used these Windows handle controls and it was not a performance problem.

For a while there, at least on Windows 3.1 and before, possibly some Windows 9x versions -- you had a GDI heap and USER heap of 64k each (one 16-bit x86 segment). If you allocated too many HANDLEs, you could blow one of these heaps. So it still made sense to be judicious about how many windows you created. Most Web browsers and word processors, for instance, drew their documents in the client area and did not use subwindows to position text elements.
Or, TikTok has been banned in India since 2020, and all the chhapri/pullingo content moved to IG and YT Shorts as a result

India's been Instagram's (and Meta in general) largest market for years now and 75% of Indians on the Internet use IG [0], and every month an additional million users in India seem to join based on MAU stats.

[0] - https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/instagram-users-by-country
Why do you feel that way? What books would you recommend instead?
This could maybe be added to devhint https://devhints.io/rails