skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is wonderful article by John DeFrancis on the topic:

The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform (2006)

https://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp171_chinese_writing_re...

It is cited frequently.
Funny how it applies when someone wants to do something or have a good time, but not when something unpleasant happens eh?
> So, sitting here in a cow-paddock in rural Western Australia, I still have no legal way to watch the audio described version of an oscar-winning film over 40 years old.

Put a note up in the nearest local store, invite someone from the foodbank around and swap a meal for them describing what happens as you watch the film together.

FWiW I'm also currently living in wheatbelt W.Australia, my father (born 1935) makes a habit of helping out older people (Meals on Wheels, book reading, etc) in the local area that are struggling ..

You might have more legal options than you realise.
> I dont mean to offend anybody but IMO if you think that having a thinner laptop is more important than reducing electronic and plastic waste on the planet then yes, you are wrong.

My thinner essentially “unrepairable” laptop is now on its 6th year of use and I will probably get another 2 years out of it and has never required repair. The highly repairable all plastic laptop my company tried to provide me lasted 3 years and was repaired twice. I don’t mean to offend you…but if you are really worried about e-waste, you need to really think about longevity stats of the device as a whole within the brand and model. Even if you get a lemon that breaks and requires replacement because it cannot be repaired, that might be offset by a hundred or two that have lasted years.
I just checked the bus stop near my parents' place in Miami (I'm living in NYC now). The next bus arrives in 14 hours lol. Busses for that stop run hourly between 11am-4pm.

I don't get how they think anyone can depend on that. Not only is an hour between busses incredibly frustrating, if I needed to do anything past 4pm, (like I don't know... commute to work?) I would have no way back home until the next day.
People who lived through the time consistently report that PCs had to reach about 300MHz before they became as responsive as a 25MHz Amiga. Part of this is the design of the OS: Amiga gave user-input interrupts the absolute highest priority.
100%.

Even just loading files off the old spinning disks took ages. Loading screens for a game could take 5-10 minutes.

Even just booting into my Linux box took 3-5 minutes and optimizing the boot time was a whole thing you spent a lot of time on.

I remember the day I received my first SSD and installed it in my computer, it was like Christmas morning. Things are way faster now.
Take photos of them, or cut the binding and scan them all, and then feed the work out to mechanical turk?
Can 1 man really beat a battalion by himself
Why do so many people continuously make this mistake? How hard a job allegedly is is irrelevant. What matters is how hard it is to fill the positions. Given that we can require so many to hve masters and doctorates and still get average salary where it is tells you its easy to fill, therefore these guys are overpaid, if it was hard to fill we would hace a higher percentage as just bachelors and comp would be higher.
All those things seem to work and most don't even trick you in any way, you get the results immediately. Blackout curtains, exercise, less screen time — all very effective strategies. A sleep schedule is another one.

It may be less effective trying to become rich or healthier without improving one's sleep schedule. Besides, the article says:

> Americans with sleep disorders earn an average of $2,500 less each year than their well-rested peers.

And 2.5k gross per annum is not a large gap to bridge. Imagine getting a $1k promotion and spending $125 less on something each month — is your sleep automatically fixed? No, it's a ridiculous idea. There is much more control we have over our sleep schedules (most of the people, there are exceptions) than our economic situation does.

People just need to take responsibility for their own actions. Being economically not as well off as someone else is just a convenient scape-goat. There will always be people richer than any other given person. That doesn't mean this given person is now barred from having a healthy sleep schedule.

While the correlation may exist, and even some small degree of causation, it is ridiculous to think that $2.5k per year extra will somehow give anyone more sleep, unless that money (after tax) is specifically going towards sleep treatments. But I think maybe less than 1% of all Americans at any given point are saving up for sleep treatments which are kept just very barely out of reach by their income. And very few Americans are in other such contrived scenarios where they really need that $2.5k to sleep well.
OK, so it can appreciate with inflation. So it doesn't go up or down, it just stays the same.

This can be done by changing who is even allowed to own them, and what they're allowed to do with them. Make it unbelievably unattractive to have "investment properties" - massive taxes, extremely high interest rates, very restrictive rental laws, and all of them go up by an order of magnitude for each successive residential property owned.

So now suddenly nobody (especially not corporations) want to actually own residential property for the purpose of making money. It won't be a good place to put money, because it doesn't make money in the same way bonds or the stock market will. So now demand has gone WAAAAY down. And then prices come down, because the only people who really do want to buy residential property are people that need a place to live, not people (or companies) looking to make a profit from that property.

We wouldn't let a couple of private companies buy all the drinking water or air and then sell it back to us for the purpose of making a profit. Those are as essential to a good life as a place to live.

Obviously rich people, and people (and companies) making profit from residential property don't like this idea. But we need to provide people a place to live, not companies a way to make profit.
I agree, of course it's a horrible thing, and AI maybe makes it easier or more realistic, but not new.

It must be fairly shocking to have it happen to you, but surely you just point out that the images are AI fakes - so the real damage is the fact that you're being bullied in this way, not the 'nude' images themselves.

And if you want to try to draw something positive from this, it's also possible to deny any real nude images by claiming they are AI fakes.
Hardly anyone commenting, let alone policymakers with lifelong privilege and who are career incentivized to stay within a certain perspective, has significant if any experience taking the bus.

I took the urban bus to and from school for years: at least 1.5 hours each way. Often two, with at least one transfer.

Outside of the city center, reliance on buses is a massive poverty tax in terms of reduced quality of life.

Remove these bourgeoise policymakers and their unilateral fake goals. Work on real transportation improvements for the people, not to meet the myopic expectations of the ivory tower. That means making transportation maximally fast and low cost. That means cheaper and faster automotive transportation.

No one who actually cares about society will be working to make it mirror the patterns of poverty. Disagreement with that premise should always be held in high suspicion.
Booting itself was several minutes. And I had one machine where Word took multiple minutes to start, never knew why. Maybe if I defrag for the umpteenth time.

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And significantly less reliable.

Remember how common crashes were? (Including BSoD!)

Like, you can solve 90% of memory crashes by using a memory managed language but that is course has costs.
PowerSync Open Edition Release
> So, an extra car lane a mile long is about an extra half a train, give it take.

The problem with this math is the last mile.

With a road network you have highways with multiple lanes and a lot of traffic, and those branch out into streets with fewer lanes but more destinations.

You can run a train next to the highway and it will achieve much more throughput, but as soon as you get to the offramp, what now? Those 100 passengers all have different destinations that fork off in every direction. You can't run 100 train cars one for each passenger, that's even worse than the road cars. But you also can't just dump them all right there, miles away from where they want to be.

The reason this works in NYC is the density. You can actually get 100 people who are all going to the same place at the same time. Which is also the only way to make it work anywhere else: Build higher density housing. It cannot work in the suburbs because there isn't enough density to run high-occupancy mass transit at a viable frequency.

Whereas in that environment having the occasional four or eight lane highway increases carrying capacity along more than its own length. The single-lane surface streets that branch off in every direction have a vast amount of otherwise unused carrying capacity, which a highway lane unlocks by connecting low-density destinations together. And which you can't unlock with mass transit because those destinations don't have the density for mass transit, even if the path directly parallel to the highway does.

The problem isn't cars or highways, it's zoning density restrictions.
I think the argument is a little different. I’d say the best framing of it is that we have sacrificed every other method of transportation at the altar of personal cars. Building for cars is what has made every other option shitty.

So it’s not so much that just make driving cars shitty for no reason as it is that you _have_ to make driving shitty if you want to unshittify walking/biking/transit.
Elon Musk Lobbies on X for His $46.5B Tesla Pay Package
Was it sweeping layoffs or close to 100 people?
It's important while fasting. Your body needs electrolytes or you will have all sorts of health issues. Potassium is the most important one, followed by sodium. Every cell in your body has a sodium/potassium pump, which works to keep potassium inside your cells and sodium outside (creating a battery essentially). About 30% of all energy in your body is used just to maintain this pump.

Anyhow, potassium is the big one... many people don't get enough from their diet even while not fasting. And unfortunately supplements give very minuscule amounts of potassium (<=2% of RDI), supposedly because rapid absorption of large amounts of it can cause heart arrhythmias/attacks.
I find it humorous that 鷹 was described as a difficult character in the article. It’s like 3 radicals and the character for bird.

Perhaps it’s difficult to render in tiny Latin alphabet font, but if you have any Japanese or Chinese study under you, you could read and reproduce that nearly instantly on sight.
A city next to me (L.A. area) has some dedicated bus lanes and bike lanes. Unfortunately, they dont have one of the other benefits that you mention, like banning cars in some areas. There are also connections to the train to go farther, but the buses are still mostly empty except for students and laborers who live outside the city. The buses themselves are typically faster and decent, as I ride them a lot. Meanwhile, the other traffic lanes are jam packed during rush hours. It is the L.A. area, so there's just a ton of people/drivers anyway.

The last time I went through there driving, it took almost 20 mins to go 2-3 miles due to traffic (and stop lights), obviously during rush hour. The buses were still nearly empty (I wished I didnt have to drive that day). At a non-rush hour time, it takes me maybe 20 mins for my whole trip home which is about 9 miles.

My point, I guess, is it's not always just having a free bus lane. There are a lot of people that need convincing to take buses and alternative transportation. A few of my coworkers wish they could take the bus/train, but having kids in school and other things make it a bit harder for them.

Maybe one day...
> How does demand for public transit produce it?

Existing transit lines get pushed to their capacity, or reinvestment gradually helps snowball demand
> Policymakers could decide to implement laws to limit how much of an "investment" housing can be.

How, exactly?

> Obvious choices are limiting houses to only be owned by humans, limiting how many each human can have

These are great and I fully support such rules. They will not make houses depreciate though. They'll make more of them owned by regular people instead of rental conglomerates, which is a wonderful outcome. But it won't make them depreciate.

> penalties (tax or otherwise) for trying to "make money" from owning residential housing

You make money from owning housing merely by owning and living in it. How are you looking to punish homeowners?
Or, save and live off investments: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
The short answer is no. You will not get fusion without slump.

That being said, there are excellent, optically-clear, UV stable epoxies that are made for this problem. Hxtal is the go-to for most. https://www.lakesidepottery.com/HTML%20Text/Tips/Hxtal-NYL-i...

It is very thin, and will happily wick in and fill cracks. Often the join is completely invisible. The downside is that the cure time is on the order of 1-2 weeks. It does take a little practice to use effectively, and it's worth trying on less-important projects first, but it's straightforward enough that you can expect success if you follow the directions carefully.
Facts? Where we're going we don't need facts.
guys, high teacher salary is a failure measure, not a success measure. It means your district failed to contain costs (obviously this needs to be benchmarked against normalized student performance, but even in that form higher pay is a failure measure).
Non-native speakers who suggest that countries arbitrarily modernize or change their language remind me of non-musicians who come around with a new replacement for traditional sheet music. Even if it was a good idea, which in this case it's patently not, it's just not gonna happen.

It's a failure to recognize that languages (which I would rank music a kind of) evolve organically, and outside of some edge cases, like Esperanto, they're not artificially created in a vacuum.
But what would anyone want gold foil for?
Because China is not the only place where Chinese languages are spoken. There’s more than 10 million ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia alone. And it’s not only a mainland-centric view: it’s a mainland–Mandarin speaking centric view.
[TreeSheets](https://strlen.com/treesheets/) perhaps
Virtually everything in a modern development stack contributes to the problem. Buses are optimized for bandwidth at the cost of latency. CPUs are broadly optimized for throughput at the cost of latency. OS design is optimized for throughput and isolation, again at the cost of latency. Language runtimes are optimized for feature-richness, again at the cost of performance. Languages are optimized for quality of life features that carry hidden performance costs, like virtual functions and exception-based control flow. Developers compound this with dozens of layers of indirection and abstraction until finally, eventually there's a message on screen for the user.

There isn't a singular cause to brainstorm. It's everything in the entire stack optimizing just a bit in other directions that produces the end result of disappointing, sluggish computers despite their actual capabilities. This discussion isn't going to tread any new ground either. All of these things are known because there are people who can't afford modern computing, like the HFT firms that are all on FPGAs now and real-time embedded systems. It's not hard to do, it's just tedious and expensive the way development used to be for everyone.
>what’s the use case for this recall thing?

Surveillance, very obviously.

It'd be reasonable to see this as a waymark on a roadmap.

Which is why it makes little sense to users. Why it is counterintuitive in that it will drive people away instead of draw them to the product. And why it is being rammed out into the market regardless.

What's the waymark after this?
Services like Twitter which serve a very very large number of people have a responsibility to maintain a civil, clean platform.

If the trouble makers are a small minority, it should be easy to cut them off then.

And for those who will cry "freedom of speech", liberty does not mean everyone gets to do whatever they want. Everyone's freedoms are bounded by the freedoms of others
As expected, the replies to this comment are about the alleged speculated or anecdotal utility of "crypto" or "AI" to solve problems. However the replies fail to address the substance of the comment: money, the personal enrichment of a selected group of individuals. The motivation behind these "innovations" is money, not problem-solving. As the comment indicates, "AI" actually _creates_ (not solves) _real_ (not speculative) problems for which its proponents have no solutions. Both "crypto" and "AI" seem to evade cost versus benefit analysis because the costs are real while benefits are pure speculation. As their proponents enrich themselves on what amount to pre-payments for something that may never be delivered, the public is expected to believe that the benefits will arrive "real soon" and will convincingly exceed the enormous costs society is now paying and will continue to pay.
See https://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp171_chinese_writing_re...
I miss Hotline so much. Glad The Agency is still around.
In case anyone stumbles on this somehow -- have reached my limit! Will post again in a week. Thanks <3
The phrase you want to search is "constrained decoding".
Very interesting prompt regarding the boxer Eupolus of Thessaly. Gemini Advanced gets this wrong as well as Llama 3 70b (as run on groq.com).

However, if I start with: "What is the earliest record of cheating in the olympic games?" Then all models get the question right. It's surprising that GPT-4 gets it right on the first go.
Absolutely, but that’s not a problem intrinsic to bicycles like it is to motorcycles, so I don’t think this comparison is meaningful.
I tip at sit down restaurants, the coffee shop where I'm a regular, valets, and people who touch my body (hair stylist, massage therapist, waxing etc). That's it, that's the list.
Culver City?
Pay someone on Upwork or Fiver to transcribe them for you.
Gilding statues is very popular with gold foil [1], "books" of foil sheets are sold in volume in India for just that (and other uses).

There are glass blowers that love gold foil for picking up as surface decoration (although it's tricky to get right).

Jewellers use foil for surface finishes.

I could go on, but there's three common uses.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZEdVQQnIQ
So they're still rained on the Internet, just not only the public Internet anymore. What a clickbait title.
People pay for expert opinion all the time. The experts also have realistic sounding but wrong opinion all the time, to the point that seeking 2nd opinion is the norm. Emphasize "2nd" there -- we can afford to only pay two, or at most a handful number of experts.
This is likely the fastest and cheapest option. Pennies per page. Double- or triple- assign them when they show signs of large differences between expected grammar, word choice, or spelling patterns.
I question this belief for Lisp, because for instance SBCL says quite a lot of things at compile-time. See also the new Coalton (Haskell types), handy language features and the fast debug loop.
So stockpile actually medium term useful things and take everybody's gold and then be a gold kingpin in the post-nuclear Renaissance?
As someone who has never had a license and admittedly doesn’t know much about car costs, aren’t they expensive? Like how much is a car payment plus insurance every month? And then gas and maintenance? It seems like requiring car ownership to survive is also not great.

But yeah I’m sorry your commute was so bad. No one should need to spend two hours on a bus commuting to school, that sounds like a failure of local public transit.
You literally just did nothing but further my point.
Upon further thought, if fine-tuning involves adding layers, then the initial saturation should not matter. Let's say if an 8B model adds 0.8*2 = 1.6B of new layers for fine-tuning, then with some assumptions, a ballpark is that this could be good for 16 million articles for fine-tuning.
> Problem is we don't even have enough political capital to enforce this.

The problem is that you're proposing a new problem rather than a solution.

Suppose there are two car lanes and they're somewhat congested. You suggest converting one to a bus lane to encourage people to take the bus. The result is to make the remaining car lane disproportionately more congested, because the bus lane gets 10% of people to take the bus and the other car lane is now 105% over capacity instead of 15% over capacity.

Your theory is that this will cause enough people to take the bus to make this problem go away, but that theory only works if it doesn't. If people taking the bus relieves the congestion then the car lane is uncongested and there is no more reason to take the bus.

So let the car lane be interminably congested, you say. Force people to take the bus. Only the bus doesn't service all destinations, or doesn't run there often enough (because if it did it would be empty), so the bus is no option for those people no matter how bad the car traffic gets. At which point they're prepared to boil you alive for making the traffic worse without giving them any viable alternative to it.

You need to make their lives better, not worse, or you can't win.
What you're describing is a crime. I don't think it's fair to judge a platform for criminals abusing the platform.
The random art is too random for me, and I will never be able to identify mine from any other random ASCII art.
I half-joked on (then) Twitter about 15 years ago that if someone made AR that would help me sort my clothes by laundry temperature I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

Then a friend told me I could just wash everything in cold water. Crisis averted.
Defining class by income seems odd. It’s also household income, which feels off if there’s potential to be hiding large childcare costs for dual income houses. Disposable income seems like the better metric ideally to me.
That would be lovely, but it would give you “spooky action at a distance” where some large struct adding an impl for some trait would change the size of a data structure in another unrelated part of the program.

But it would be nice if there was some unification of the idea of an enum where every variant implements a trait and &dyn Trait. Basically, an enum made up of a set of named structs where each struct implements a specific trait could be a lovely concept.
It gives me hope and positive energy that no matter how bad governments ( all around the world ) and especially US given how something so simple is still missing and so broken, manage to move forward. I would imagine the hard part isn't even the MVP or defining MVP phase, but to get it started in the first place. The amount of politics involves.

And that is speaking as something who used to work inside government.
That the roads were added based on a request to make it quicker for existing commuters, not to get more commuters there in the same amount of time. And that if you’d used that time, space and money for a dedicated bus lane, a train, a tram or whatever, you might have done better on both adding to the number of people downtown and making it quicker to get there.
you should not tip, you are just rewarding those greedy owners

https://archive.is/NGD9M
We all have to grow up sometime. Draw a beautiful mandala. Then erase, start again!
Just heard this song for the first time like a month ago, thanks for the reminder!