skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is taiji a combat sport - this fighter claims it is, although it looks a lot like sanda to me

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGrzPU0zDY&pp=ygUQdGFpIGNoaSB...

I think taiji gets a bad rap. Although I haven't done explicitly taiji, when I did some shaolin quan which included baduanjin I was very impressed with how holistic the training was (with the exception of combat application). I think the training was "boring" but has the necessary ingredients for preparing the body to be conditioned for very fluid movement which turns out is very good for long term health and preservation of your MSK system. I came away impressed that we've had so much of this figured out for so long well before we had the science to explain it. Baduanjin was actually designed to be accessible regardless of age or prior skill level.

> The truth is that barehanded fighting has been obsolete since the invention of rocks.

So with a rock or even a rock weapon like an axe or whatever you are telling me you think you could take on Khabib? That rocks have completely obsoleted physicality and skill so now you will win.

> If you want to see what works, expect to see a lot of strikes that break the opponent's knee, and wrestlers putting their opponent's eyes out.

This quora post captures exactly what I think is about the search for truth in martial arts - there's so much "theory" that struggles to hold up in practice where a bouncer/martial artist reflects on how knee breaks are a low percentage high risk technique when trying to execute in real life.
https://www.quora.com/Are-knee-destructions-illegal-in-MMA

I think non practitioners routinely underestimate the difficulty in executing these kinds of techniques under duress. I mean, a proper liver strike is a 1 hit KO and karate teaches the liver kick where you strike the liver with the ball of your foot. How often do you see that technique used? It's like the mma equivalent of the football bicycle kick.

IIRC Jon Jones used knee kicks and they werent so effective that they were banned or changed the face of the sport.

Eye gouging is weird, I'm unsure how it would change MMA and we'll never find out. If they're good as a strike people will stop engaging and resort to kick range but kicks can make you more liable to take downs which then brings you into gouging range in wrestling.

If anything UFC rules has shown that physicality kind of trumps skill unless the skill gap is very large. Which is a frustrating outcome but a truth nonetheless - martial arts is only useful if you're also strong
> but modern English is almost completely uninflected

That really depends what you're counting; if you ask which words in a sentence must be inflected, English still looks highly inflected. If you compare it to other inflected languages, the number of distinct forms for any given word is low, but this doesn't do much to help learners coming from languages that don't observe the same distinctions that require inflection in English. They don't do a lot better choosing between the fivish forms of an English verb than between the dozens of forms of a Latin verb.

> dual has been lost in most IE languages

This is a good tangential example; the dual persists, in reduced form, in modern English! We don't inflect verbs for it. But we do inflect determiners; we scrupulously distinguish both from all in a manner that most people in the world find confusing.
Neither have asked for it
> you can still think of an entity as "inheriting from" the various components its built from.

If it's based on components, wouldn't that mean you would think of it as being... _composed_? I typically don't hear "it's made of many components" and think of inheritance
The 3270 terminal family had a numberpad-like matrix on the right side of the keyboard which was PF1–PF12 with the PF1–3 on the top row. It was a bit confusing for people who used ASCII terminals with a numeric keypad muxed in to access IBM mainframes as occasionally software would assume the 3270 arrangement of keys but the mapping for ASCII terminals used the keypad with the keypad’s 1–0 corresponding to PF1–PF10 and . and + (if I remember right) corresponding to PF11 and PF12 and there would be seemingly irrational arrangements of commands with up and down reversed.
> This seems overblown to me, since if you think the server may be malicious, then downloading programs from that server also seems risky.

I heed the risk with the reasoning that even a benevolent server may be compromised, and that detecting pipe to bash is a potential way for that to go unnoticed.
That’s a strong assertion. There’s plenty of status codes that indicate something bad happened at the HTTP level but don’t convey information about the RPC.

- 404 might mean the URL was wrong

- 405 might mean swapping POST with PUT
Shrinking happens automatically, because every iteration takes the actually meaningful width of the previous iteration.
> I don't think India has ghost cities in the way you mean.

"Ghost city" in this context almost always means "ghost district" or a bunch of ghost projects located in close proximity. I'm not sure about India, but in China, this is mostly the pattern (e.g. the new-town Kangbashi district of Ordos, or Tianjin's Yujiapu). We are not talking about actual ghost cities (Ordos and Tianjin would not qualify as such).
I recently heard this explained () in the following way: three is the smallest number where you can set up an expectation (with the first two) and then break it. This is why three is such a common number, not just in jokes but in all sorts of story-telling.

() In a lecture by the mathematician & author Sarah Hart.
> ProSupport gets you competent and US-based tech support engineers with the power to solve tech problems and ordering (e.g. spare parts) quickly.

10 years ago I bought a refurb alienware tower really cheap. It, however, came with some "premium" alienware warranty plan. I really can't remember the details anymore, but I encountered a bug in the drivers/software for something on the machine. When I called them about it, I ended up getting US support and they made a ticket for the engineering department. They fixed the issue and called me a week later to thank me for the info and make sure I'd installed the new version of their stuff.

I was blown away that they had that level of support for not-enterprise hardware lol.

Their normal support is indeed terrible though. Some time later I bought my brother a refurb all-in-one and the DVD drive died after a few months. When I called about that I got somebody who refused to help me because the bios self-test software didn't give me any error codes - because it didn't generate any - because the dvd drive wasn't found at all.
A recent study (made it to HN) used a novel sensor to count microplastics in bottled water. The numbers were 10x higher than expected, but the real surprise was that 50% were shed from the plant filtration system.

I’m guessing RO is similarly bad (the membrane is made from one of the plastics in question).
Considering that they had real security people before it went private, and it strongly reflects the owner's demands, it's going to be on the hardcore owner. However, everybody does know it's his by now.
I thought it was Sony that had a partnership with Discord...

> But it’s possible that people were sharing Nintendo’s cryptographic keys, firmware, or even entire pirated games in these servers despite those commitments. At the end of the day, most people seeking out a Nintendo Switch emulator are looking to play Nintendo games on it.

Emulators are legal, but running unlicensed games is usually the killer app, especially for more recent consoles.

But is sharing cryptographic keys illegal, especially if they are widely known already and are no longer "secret?"
It's a form of communism/marxism but it's hard to explain in short (by design). It's basically an ideology that has substituted class struggle with race and identity struggle. There are oppressors and there are oppressed, and the oppressed need a voice and people to fight on their behalf. The oppressed also get elevated and receive special treatment (hence the capital proper noun), and at the same time this is all done in a subversive way in order to smuggle it or shoehorn it into the culture. Additionally, if you question it or point it out you are accused of siding with the oppressors and called names like bigot, racist, etc.
My previous team argued with me when i said to avoid using terraform with vault with our state in S3.

I eventually got my way after 18 months and found out it was really bad - hard coded s3 access keys were floating around that could read any bucket and they had used terraform with vault and that had pulled all sorts of root level creds into the plain text state files.

Lots of other ways to control this risk but I removed vault from TF.
I had dots throughout the house back in 2017/2018. One day I had an issue and asked Alexa to put me in contact with customer support. She read off a definition of customer support from the dictionary. I asked a few more times until I realized customer support would not be available via Alexa. I unplugged them all and threw them in a bin...where they remain.
Yes I agree with you but people anyways skip ads.
As a lifelong nerd, programming gets a bad rap, and no respect, for the right reasons.

Programming is to engineering as math is to science. Namely, it's made up. Less basis in physical reality.

Same reason learning Elvish isn't as respectable as learning Spanish. One guy made it up, and it hasn't been proven by centuries of actual use.

Programming carries the same odor of "fantasy". Maybe in 300 years, when we're all living in holodecks on spaceships, it'll have a patina of authenticity. For now, we're Mr Robot and Silicon Valley
In a similar vein, my favorite wacky name is the contest winner for the waste management department rebranding in Austin: The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts

https://www.npr.org/2011/02/06/133526729/those-are-crappy-na...
I remember Larry Niven's science fiction talked about wireheads, who lived with "drouds" wired into their brains' pleasure centers.

But after deleting addicting games/apps for my own good I now realize that reality is not only very complex, but also just as simple as niven's idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)

also: https://news.ycombinator.com :)
The government head auditor covering up for her bank got life sentence, the auditor’s bosses (2 of them) got 11-year sentence.
A side note: the page does not declare utf-8 encoding. I have manually change it to resolve some of garbled text.
It could have also been score settling, and her corruption (because they are all corrupt) was magnified to slaughter a chicken to scare the monkeys, so to speak.
I thought the discussion was extending beyond Microsoft and applying to any software. But if you are asking if it’s possible for Microsoft Azure to be the hosting provider for very important systems ie government, medical, then yes, these could impact a high degree of quality of life for people, even now or in the future.
What media are you consuming there in Europe, that parrots far right talking points from the US?
Maybe they should log the origin IP of created accounts.. this would still be possible but would raise the bar a bit.
MediaTemple Nameservers Have Vanished
MediaTemple Nameservers have vanished
Bitcoin =/= blockchain as a technology. It is the exception that proves the rule.
Google has been doing this for a long time. I received one of those emails circa 2010
Willing servants of their censorship overlords.
Neat, but from the title I'd have expected somebody running an actual DNS resolver somewhere deep in the Wikipedia: or Talk: namespace (over which one could then of course run IP over DNS in networks that only zero-rate Wikipedia) :)
I recently had a discussion with my partner about this and it was quite insightful as we fall on different ends of this spectrum. I do like the Scandinavian model of all life is precious and reforming criminals rather than punishing them. But she’s from india and the moral calculus is very different.

There are people who commit incredibly atrocious crimes, and then get away with a slap in the wrist. India _has_ the death penalty but it is very rarely enforces it. And according to her, the existence of it keeps people at least a little bit in check, as if they do something massively bad (killing swaths of people for example) they could face real punishment. Cause people with money can get away/live in comfort in prison quite successfully.

Also, poverty is so prevalent that there are plenty of people for whom prison would be a step up in comfort and living conditions from where they are.

As you’ve so eloquently put, we didn’t change each other’s positions but at least I understand much better now how some parts of the world could justify it.
Well, that just about wraps up Discord’s “not evil” era.
Reminds me of my Director of Engineering gig where I was asked how quickly we could deliver a new feature that the CTO had thought of. After giving three different estimates on the spot and being told each was “unrealistic” and told to “try again” in a meeting with senior leadership present, I finally said “Just tell me what date you want to hear so we can pretend I said that.”

I was chastised for being unprofessional and embarrassing the department. Didn’t care then; no regrets now.
Discord or the judge who wrote the court order?
We need better open source and decentralized technologies that cannot be blocked in this manner. The walled garden model, which Discord also uses, is always going to be susceptible to this type of takedown. Expect more of this as they gear up to go public, in a bid to look “legitimate” just like Reddit.
Given the prose in the README I don’t get the impression the author has much interest in that.
Centralizing communications in the servers of a proprietary for-profit entity will end in unfair censorship every single time.

If you advertise your community on Discord, especially if you are working on something open source, you are part of the problem.

Use Matrix, Jabber, or even IRC before giving companies like Discord money. The cute icons are not worth it.
> None of which are associated with success in college

How much of college is associated with success at software development? Especially if you're essentially full-time employed in the industry (at an ISP) during high school?
What's the best way to ignore a court order without incurring some sort of penalty?
Copyright maximalists managed to circumvent the law by inventing a generic "law" that allows them to ban legal things. I.e. DMCA 1201. As long as they claim it's "circumventing protection measures" they can claim it doesn't matter that it's not infringing anything - it's still forbidden.

That's why this garbage "law" should be complete repealed.
The more I use ChatGPT, the useless I realize it is.

It looks impressive at first, until you realize it is like a trick pony. Don't get it to haul your luggage.

It gives apparently good summaries of sometimes complex topics. But then you ask it to explain things in more detail...welcome to a special hell of circular reasoning, inherent contradictions, and surprising about-faces that occur even when you ask a complementary question (complementary as in congruent not admiring).

ChatGPT: <long verbose answer...>

Me: Oh so your saying X implies Y but not Z? (which previous answer did)

ChatGPT: Apologies for causing confusion, I misspoke.... (go on to give a worse response now)

Me: But your first response was OK, I just wanted to clarify XYZ...

ChatGPT: <now gives a response with directly conflicting statements>

How many times have you seen this?
This is kind of funny. Half tempted to run one with an advertisement background and see who'll rent some pixels.
Comments on 2600 Millipede by 3 coin-op engineers, 1/23/84
I always thought a deduplicating squashfs might be really cool for a read-only MAME system. Since most of the rom files seem to be variants of each other, instead of having zip archives for each game, just put all the raw files in a directory and create a deduplicated squashfs-type filesystem with all of them.
The userspace stuff of the Linux kernel doesn’t change all that much, and iproute2 (the ip command) has been around for a while. The only difference is that it’s a little easier to write Go programs now, and you don’t need to mess around with $GOPATH.
Days are often wasted because you do that. That is at best, I'm now up to 4 different implementations of a complex protocol (at months each to build and debug) because nobody asked a question.

sure you shouldn't just ask for every problem, but don't struggle too long when someone knows the answer.
It's instructive to know where corporations make their money. Because that's often the only place they innovate. For Google it's web/ads. For Apple it's hardware.
It's a ridiculous feature anyway. And a bastardization of the blue checkmark that Twitter popularized as an internet standard.
This is an amazing story! Thanks for sharing and hope you have less stress in life.
Mattermost is not hard to host, and it's a damn sight nicer to use these days than discord is. Hard to break the "I don't want to use another new system" barrier though.
>> Some commentaries are heavily biased and borderline conspiratorial.

yeah, just want to echo what NhanH said above. Please factcheck or ask for citations. Some comments are borderline conspiracies.
Oh. I had hoped this was about https://ryelang.org/.
Like matrix/element chat? https://matrix.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dxjr6rvFXE

The most interesting secondary information I got from this vid is that there are dozens of mammoth sites in North America that have not been excavated because they are considered too old to be potential human cultural sites, or because no interesting stone tools were found.

The next was that the butchers of this mammoth lacked the sophisticated stone tool technology later migrations brought in. Thus, not finding stone tools does not disqualify a site as cultural. Apparently the stone tool technology was not known to the south Asian maritime population that first settled the Americas, but was brought in by the Siberian overland population.
Like IRC, but not. Something modern with better authentication, better persistence, and better UX.
> Props to Alephnerd and others

Be careful with some of the comments, and commenters, here. Just yesterday Alephnerd was confidently proclaiming there are no tuk-tuks in Thailand anymore. This is just.. completely, easily provably false and it's baffling why anyone would make such a claim. Source: me, who lives there. Fact-gathering methodology: looking out my window.

I would take anything from these commenters with astounding tales of the "inside scoop" with more than a pinch of salt. When there's a story with a bunch of mostly unverifiable claims, and the part that is verifiable turns out to be total nonsense, it makes me more than a little suspicious about the rest of it.
Is it established that numbers are a circumvention technology or tool banned by 1201?
same. For those unfamiliar, Rye is an open-source Rebol-like scripting language.
We need to separate the storage format (Postgres and MySQL both have a bigint serial for primary key and it should stay that way)

for display, you have various ways to encode that number into something easier for humans, what I prefer:

- short word
- no offensive words
- with a checksum (so we easily spot any copy paste mistake)
- not sequential
- can be put in a url without extra encoding

this is our implementation of that (base32 and luhn code)

https://github.com/tttp/dxid
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They can easily claim that. Since keys are numbers anyway.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Flag

But as easily as they can claim it, as easily it can be defeated if everyone massively ignores it and shares it everywhere, which can highlight absurdity and stupidity of this "law".
> Most doctors are not spending solid 4hr blocks in flow focusing on a highly complex problem

I'm sorry but this is exactly what I meant by my original post. You don't realize that 4hr blocks in flow is an enviable luxury.

Granted my time was in a high acuity setting but let me cast it in more relatable terms.

Software 1 is brought to you with a complaint of the billing system dropping occasional transactions over the last 4 months. Now it is dropping 1 in 100 transactions. They use the Stripe API. It's your job in the next 15 minutes to debug and determine if there will be a complete service outage occurring within the next couple hours. If there will be an outage, you are expected to push a temporary fix to prod immediately and refer for continued review. If not, you must determine which parts of the billing system require referral for revision. Mind you that every decision you make can be reviewed years after the fact and can be litigated as they please.

Your assistsnt comes over with softwares 2 through 5 that were just submitted for your review. Software 2 has issues with a simple deadlock that could have been handled by someone other than you, but now it's your problem to deal with. Software 5 has been inexplicably ported from Delphi to Angular, and they've seen 2 others before you about why some of their native functionality broke, but now it's a big problem and they need you to look at it. There were some patches made by other devs but the stakeholders don't have access to them right now.

As you are looking into software 4,the assistant tells you "Dr zenzero, devops is on line 1 for you". They tell you that software 1 has more problems than described and it looks like it needs to be refactored in multiple areas. Software 3 keeps complaining to your assistant that you're ignoring them.

So no,
"Most doctors are not spending solid 4hr blocks in flow focusing on a highly complex problem"
because they don't get that luxury.

I get to do that now and it's bliss.
Have you seen: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/
Orbit Acquired by Postman
Amazon was not seen as a thought leader in AI in the same way Google and Meta are. Probably, this move is mostly to fix these optics.
> RRS Sir David Attenborough

Cowards. I'm not a fan of the formulaic silly naming conventions that internet tends to gravitate to, but if you're going to run a contest, you should honor the result.
Most of the above are not true, or just outright conspiracies.

- There is no clear separation of North and South. Samsung, BYD, Apple etc all have factories in the North. These factories are labor-hungry and workers get better wages than let's say Nike's factories. Btw Nike has 155 factories all across Vietnam.

- Ms Lan & SCB case isn't that uncommon in Vietnam. It happened in the past with other banks at a smaller scale. Regulations for financial institutions are not strong here. Rich bank owners use bank as a facade to collect money from a lot of people to invest in usually real estate development projects. All is good until the market crashes and people find it hard to withdraw money. It's when state banks come in to take over, together with investigations. It happened to Ocean Bank, Phuong Nam Bank and others.

- The economy is bad right now. Vietnam economy is quite integrated to the global economy, and as factory country, it relies on mass orders from richer countries. When the West stop spending, people here lose their jobs.

- Real estate market bubble bursted last year. Many top developers are going under, including Van Thinh Phat (Ms Lan's company), Novaland, and potentially VinGroup if they don't course-correct it.

- War on corruption is real. 2 presidents (one of the four most important figures of the Pary) had to step down in the last couple of years . Several ministers, vice prime ministers, several Generals, and other members of the Pulitburo stepped down in the last several years as well.

Btw I'm a Vietnamese, and I'm not a member of the Communist Party :)