skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So much is lost when translating from Chinese.

I don’t think this common, glib aphorism has to be true. It all depends on how your mind works, or what statement you have.

Do you require ambiguity, and inferentialness to be explicitly clothed as such, as in Chinese, or can you take the words themselves, that can be concrete meanings, and use them as a jumping point to infer on your own? As in English.

There's also a very strong way in which this statement is not true, because if we assume that the text contains transcendental universal truths, saying that it can only be accurately expressed in Chinese, is suggesting either that it's a uniquely Chinese truth, so it's not universal, or that Chinese has some greater expressive quality than other languages, which is arrogant bullshit and not true.

So I think rather than thinking of a translation, think instead of what statement do you have of the truths reflected in a particular form in that original Chinese text. What statement do you have of those truths in whatever material you're working with, be it a language or something else?

And it's funny to talk about much being lost, because the text itself readily and repeatedly admits that the truths it talks about cannot be accurately expressed. In fact, it highlights the limitations of language, of the original Chinese it was written in, to accurately and fully convey what it is talking about.

So I think it's nonsense to say that, “oh, so much is lost when translating from Chinese”, and it's entirely the wrong way to talk about it, and kind of a lazy worshipfulness that's unworthy of that, I think, in this context entirely.

So liberated from those constraints, I think you can be free to consider, well, what is it talking about? And also to think about that and come up with your own translation.

So back to the original point, I don't think you have to lose something when you're putting it in English. Here's my attempt:

The path that can be walked is not the AllPath. The word that can be said is not the AllWord.

Btw, What does your regular Chinese person think about this book? I know it’s very popular in the west. Is it popular in Chinese speaking regions as well? What do people think about it?
Performance in the report is defined by how fast you can make a change to production, and how fast you can restore service.

That’s fine I guess.

What’s not taken into account is the time wasted on incidental complexity with devops tools.

For example a highly competent engineer I know is burning hours trying to get ssl working on k8s/gcp with a specific configuration.

Conceptually ssl is all straightforward, but there’s some arcane knowledge that’s been designed into k8s and gcp. Because they were designed for way more complex use cases… but they’ve also pushed out simpler tools.
I like DevOps, I don't like being on call 24x7 so I tell my clients I am a software developer not an ops. DevOps was sold as a way to avoid dev and ops teams blaming each other for not shipping software. It was at the time true that devs did not understand hardware and networking and ops did not particularly understand software. We got nice things like Docker and k8s, but the core issues have not gone away, devs don't understand hardware and networking and ops are an almost extinct species. We are re-learning the hard way that certain performance problems are not solved by throwing more hardware at them and that devs will always write Helm charts for convenience and not security. We are also learning that the complexity of networking and backed designs has not gone away we just got more modern tools to describe it. One other unintended negative consequence of misunderstanding DevOps is the proliferation of "full-stack engineers", which is basically an ops, a DBA, a secops, a backend dev, a frontend dev, and a website designer rolled into one. What we have today is a situation pretty much the same as it was before the arrival of DevOps... devs thinking ops are useless, ops thinking dev are no good and ... both thinking the others have no sense of style.
Yep. It's a brand style thing probably so they can trademark it.

PS: I had the pleasure of having eusocial Danish neighbors growing up. The guy worked for Spectra-Physics as a laser technician and drove a Wankel '81 Mazda RX-7 that I could hear revving away towards work every morning.
Doesn't matter, we can just agree the first century had 99 years, and be done with it.

We have special rules for leap years, that would just be a single leap-back century.

At the scale of centuries, starting 2nd century at 100 as opposed to 101 is just an 1% error, so we can live with it. For the kind of uses we use centuries for (not to do math, but to talk roughly about historical eras) it's inconsequential anyway.
"The past is a foreign country," and it's good to watch media from foreign countries because the truth lies somewhere between their ideological bent and our own.
TSID (db-index-friendly unique id)
Another one would be a password change attack. TOTP in 1pw protects you against almost all of the things TOTP normally would, except an attacker somehow gaining access to your vault. But in order to gain access to your vault, they would almost certainly need access to one of your unlocked devices, thanks to the 1pw secret key, which is required in addition to your master pw to unlock the vault on a new device. And if they have that, thrn they would have your second factor even if it were in a separate app.
Perhaps were pronouncing them as a hyphenated possession rather than a plural.
Sure, gp misspoke in saying "copyright" but correctly linked to a relevant article about trademarks and was correct in the sentiment that owners of widely used brand names need to be vigilant about their intellectual property.
Using ULID has probably the best ROI among all the architectural decisions I've made. Generating IDs on the server before insert is helpful, and not just for distributed system issues.

If I don't want to leak the timestamp, I just use an auto generated integer along with it.
It's s bit questionable to buy a Str Wrs knockoff lego set instead of an actual Star Wars lego set imo. If they cut legal corners like that, I would have my doubts about the chemical composition of the blocks themselves. They might contain chemicals or heavy metals in unsafe amounts.
Will Wright has a lifelong obsession with ants, which he expressed in the classic 1991 Maxis game "SimAnt", that lets players role play as "Ant Jesus", who can sacrifice his life so that others may live.

In this 1991 sim game, you played as Ant Jesus:

https://www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-simant/

>SimAnt really is the weirdest simulation. For starters, you literally play as an ant. One ant. A single, solitary ant. Only not! You're really more like the God of the Ants, with powers that would be amazing and world-changing and beyond belief, if not for the unfortunate fact that... well, you're just an ant. You can die and be reborn for instance, like Ant Jesus, only with a larval stage. You have effective omnicognisance, with the ability to see the world and understand the human residents who dwell within it. Your charismatic power allows you to draw armies of fellow ants and lead them into battle against the foul humans, spiders, and other things that stalk the back garden. Too bad the whole "being an ant" thing means it doesn't usually go so well. If only you had some proper weapons. Like the Holy Hand Grenade of Sim Antioch.

Schneier on Security: The Security Mindset

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...

>Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants. My friend expressed surprise that you could get ants sent to you in the mail.

>I replied: “What’s really interesting is that these people will send a tube of live ants to anyone you tell them to.”

In 2011, Will Wright's "Stupid Fun Club" studio partnered with Milton Levine's "Uncle Milton Industries", who developed the original "Uncle Milton's Ant Farm" in 1956, to develop a creepily unique cult classic toy product, "Ant Farm Revolution", in which ants live and dig their tunnels in a green translucent nutrient gel developed by NASA, through which an LED light and lens projects frightening shadows of enormous ants crawling around on the ceiling!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Levine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formicarium

https://sfvbj.com/retail/uncle-milton-industries-inc/

>Most recently, Uncle Milton partnered with Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, on a multi-year licensing agreement for Ant Farm Revolution, the newest product under the Ant Farm brand. The most recent version of the toy includes a cylindrical gel-filled case, allowing consumers to watch ants create their own 3-D habitat. The product also features an integrated LED light and projecting lens that illuminates from within and projects ant shadows on walls and ceilings. It sells for $39.99.

Benjamin Taylor: Uncle Milton - Ant Farm Revolution:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/18480457/Uncle-Milton-Ant-Fa...

Uncle Milton: Ant Farm Revolution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3homHfkqaY

Uncle Milton Ant Farm Revolution Hands on Review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcYY7iwPS0c
To be fair, the announcement I linked was published 2 hours after your comment. It was just perfect timing.
Game design and programming are largely orthogonal skills, and procrastinating working on the former in service of the latter is perhaps the most common game development mistake of all time.
Numbering should start at zero [pdf]
So I just added a 2.4GB iso and other than taking longer nothing happened. Push and clone also seem to work.
MF LEGO, all caps
Hence why the parent wrote "Whether that year actually existed or not is irrelevant".

They might or might not have a point, but they already addressed yours.
You can change the world if you make it easier to meet a need enough people have. Persuading everyone they're holding it wrong is not that.
That is different. For example “Lidls” is actually “Lidl’s”, which is not plural and grammatically correct. Same as saying “I’m going to the doctor’s”.
The fee is being investigated by the EU now, so they may not get away with it entirely.
Interestingly the 常 was originally 恒, meaning “constant,” in the oldest manuscripts. It got changed to 常 because it was taboo to write any character appearing in the given name of an Enperor, and Emperor Wen of Han had the given name 恒.
> If you look down there on page 11.

There's only 8 pages in the linked PDF.
I'm curious how you're using the word "eusocial" here, because I've only heard it used to describe the structure of bee or ant (or naked mole rat) colonies.
Pick your battles. Is this easier or harder to win on than de-gendering romance languages?

How about Americans stop with dropping the "and" in nineteen hundred AND twenty?
> There’s no good way to refer to 2000-2009, sorry.

"Noughty", Naughty!
There's a recently released kungfu movie whose story happened in the Kowloon walled city. The government is planning to relocate the movie set to the original address for exhibition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZmmTut7Ak
If I were to hazard a guess, 95% of shoplifting is to subsidize a substance abuse problem, 3% is alternative criminal enterprise, and 1% each for survival and kleptomania.

Growing up, a friend's sister struggled with kleptomania. Not because it was cool or for a rush, but she had to steal shit similar to the compulsions associated with OCD.
Right. Sainsbury's was the leading supermarket of most of the 20th century and probably influenced the way we refer to all of them

(It's Sainsbury's because it was John Sainsbury's shop)
I'd agree to the extent that it sounds kind of twee and affected, but what would you use in its place?
That third party app stores are subject to review by apple is a problem in itself.
Also, you can buy used ones, reuse plastics already out in this world. We bought for our small kids literal few big shopping bags full of them for maybe 50$. Not in original packages but who cares.

The guy selling them also mentioned he had big trains & tracks bag, another 50$ and we are all set. Duplo bricks are relatively huge but for 2-4 year old they are perfect, and I dont see a reason for a change for a couple of years. I myself prefer them to small ones, much easier to build bigger stuff, small pieces of regular lego are very easy to scatter all across home.

The plastics on original are very durable, 0 degradation compared to new ones, all pieces hold very well together. I dont expect them to sell for less once the time comes. All have lego logo (ehm) on those connecting circles, not sure if original or not but who cares.
Really social, never bothered by anything, absurdly friendly, and cool peeps. And, of course, Scandinavian furniture and always smoking weed. :o)

Stipulative definitions since meanings of words vary from person-to-person:

"Eusocial" to me means "prone to socializing".

"Prosocial" to me means "aware of the interests of the group and seeks to positive contributions to the groups and individuals."

"Asocial" to me means "neural or indifferent towards others."

"Antisocial" to me has multiple meanings either "avoids people", "doesn't get along with people", or "is indifferent to or against the interests of others".
if i lose all my devices can i still recover 2fa accounts? I can do it in Authy with email and mobile verification.
> who doesn't say Meijers and Krogers, despite neither having an S in their name

Those aren't pluralizations with an s though. They're possessives with an apostrophe s.

LEFOs is a pluralization. Like Kleenexes instead of "Kleenex tissues."
Here in Sweden, we have this genre of songs called nubbe-visor, which sometimes incorporate a brief pause for you to drink a small glass of spiced booze (other songs you drink at the end).

The songs are often witty, funny, and romantic about alcohol.

I swear they work better than my sertralin prescription against melancholy!
Oh nonono. The quote may be true for some people but engineers are paid to understand. It’s that they are also paid for solving customers’ - read employers - problems and not for warning about ethics.

You want ethics to be a factor - you must introduce regulation so it becomes a non-zero weight in the solution space search engineers do.
I'm able to reproduce this on vanilla Linux Mint, FF version 127.0.2.
You don't need to observe people around you to know when a storm is coming. Instead you look at barometers, winds, and satellite photos. If a storm is coming and people around you are arguing about how much they should be paid for closing the shops, it doesn't mean the storm isn't coming. It just means someone will end up with broken windows.
Mineral winds down: 'We will no longer be an Alphabet company'
curious, why SMS is insecure? It's not like a hacker can simply clone your sim.
That wouldn't work for integration scenarios where the other system need to store the ID so it can refer to it later. How would you provide IDs for integration purposes?
I've found placebos work really well on me even when I know they're placebos.
Paid by the token I think might be more correct.
The reason is spelled out in the article: "Lego sets are easy to resell, hard to trace, and fetch close to the original retail price."

Shoplifters love stealing Tide bottles, and a stolen one's worth maybe ten bucks. A Lego set can cost $500-$1000 and is worth nearly retail price on eBay? And it's in a low security toy store? And it's untraceable? It's an obvious choice for a burglar. The worst part is finding a buyer, and if you're desperate for cash you can just mark it down 25% and it'll be gone in an hour.
I'm not surprised. Most luxury items in the $1000+ price range (such as laptops, bicycles) have unique serial numbers to discourage theft. Lego sells in the same price range but with no security features at all.

I think the adjacent discussion is much more interesting: What does it say about our society that a touring bicycle with 10 years of warranty has the same price as 400g of plastic with a Star Wars license?
I think you want LoLRa - it's a way to transmit LoRa radio packets using nothing but IO pins https://github.com/cnlohr/lolra
It's not open source at the moment. I did a lot of cowboy coding and I am ashamed to publish it :D
> there seems to be an acceptance at the company that potential customers will want to be able to speak to someone

No.

I want it all done through the app and automatically. I really don't want to speak to anyone.

Every human in the line is one more who wants their fee, can make a mistake, or delay the whole process.

Especially for lower value mortgages (ie. 50% of property value), no inspection should even be needed - merely the fact that every other house on the street is valued at €X and you are giving me €X/2 secured on a property probably worth ~€X should be security enough.
To me, agile is simply

People over process

Results over bluster

Flexibility over rigidity
>- Eavesdropping on you, doesn't happen because you use the password manager's autofill

Not necessarily always, I could also copy paste from the password manager (e.g. for some app that doesn't support the autofill), write it from memory at some point, and so on.

Password manager just means "place to store passwords safely", it doesn't mandate the passwords are generated by it, that autofill and browser extensions are used, and so on.

>- Hacking service X, TOTP doesn't matter. They'll have the TOTP shared secret, but who cares anyway, they have access to your whole account.

They can (and often do) hack and get the passwords, but not at the same time have access to the account data. E.g. just hack the auth, or have the password file/db leak, etc.

>- Using the same password across sites -> shouldn't happen either, this is why you are using a password manager.

Doesn't matter, can still happen anyway. Not all passwords were created with the password manager, and some someone might not have bothered to change once he added them there.

>- Phishing: while they cannot access your TOTP secret, they can just ask you a TOTP code while phishing as well and log onto your account.

That's still about them not having and needing your TOTP.

>So what is this scenario where an attacker knows your password, needs your TOTP, but doesn't have it?

For starters, the case where they "ask you a TOTP code while phishing" and you don't give it to them.

It's not mandatory that you're prone to their phishing.
If the key and encryption mechanism are ever leaked, those opaque external IDs can be converted easily back to sequence numbers, and vice versa, which might pose a risk for you or your users. You won't be able to rotate the encryption key without breaking anything external that tracks those encrypted IDs... third party services, SEO, user bookmarks, etc.
Eh, maybe it's related to expected selling but the exchange rate between Bitcoin and Dollars is very volatile. Moves like that happen every other week.

So let's see whether that's a sustainable drop. Sustainable as in "miners waste less energy" sustainable.
That's not the same.

That's a possessive s, so it's Tesco's. As in "we're going to Tesco's" or "I'm just nipping down to Aldi's". Not Tescos or Aldis.

We effectively drop the word 'store'. So it's a shortened form of "I'm nipping to the Tesco's store". The 's indicates that Tesco owns the store.

We use the same phrases when going to someone's house, as in "I'm going to Sarah's" which is a shortened form of "I'm going to Sarah's house".

We don't use an s in Lego, so we use Lego like Europe, not Legos.

Edit: My partner just pointed out there are some exceptions (and weird ones). Asda is a store like Aldi or Tesco, but we say "I'm going to Asda". But that could be an artifact of their marketing jingles or perhaps because it is originally an abbreviation of Associated Diaries which already has an s. We also have a pharmacy chain called Boots, and it's "we going to Boots" not 'we're going to Boots' ".
Heaven forfend we should not throw baskets of money at LEGO and Disney!

> I would have my doubts about the chemical composition of the blocks themselves

The real ones don't have midi-chlorians either.
> It’s been a while now, and at least in my experience so far Go and Rusts choice of not having special constructors really simplifies a lot.

This take makes no sense. Think about it: you're saying that not having the compiler do any work for you "really simplifies things a lot". Cool, so you have to explicitly declare and define all constructors. That's ok. But think about it, doesn't C++ already offer you that option from the very start? I mean, you are talking about a feature in C++ that is not mandatory or required, and was added just to prevent those programmers who really really wanted to avoid writing boilerplate code to lean on the compiler in and only in very specific corner cases. If for any reason you want the compiler to do that work for you, you need to be mindful of the specific conditions where you can omit your own member functions. For the rest of the world, they can simply live a normal life and just add them.

How is this complicated?

Complaining that special member functions make obvious things less simple is like complaining that English is not simple jus because you can find complicated words in a dictionary. Yes, you can make it complicated if that's what you want, but there is nothing forcing you to overcomplicate things, is there?
Say, I want to go the extra mile of not storing them together. What would I have to do?

- Both in same password manager is obviously storing together.

- Both on same phone, but different apps. There are the subvariants of: password manager and dedicated OTP app or two different password managers. Also there is the consideration where the apps really store the secret data, e.g. system provided vault

- OTP on a separate device

I think the middle option has too many ifs and buts and you could argue that as long as its the same device it's not really separate.

So dedicated OTP token. What should I use?

Cheap mobile phone? Does it need a SIM? Are there dedicated devices? Can they store multiple keys?
And all the apps in the third party store too.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40888461#40888774
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Cats ARE incredibly cute, so toxoplasmosis actually helps you perceive reality more accurately.
Yubikeys support OTPs, you can configure and read them using the Yubico Authenticator application on desktop/mobile.
Either a couple of FIDO keys, if your website supports them, or one of these:

https://www.token2.com/shop/category/classic-tokens

https://www.token2.com/shop/category/c301-tokens

https://www.token2.com/shop/category/multi-profile-programma...

Other vendors probably have something like that, I link to what I've personally used.
Of all the fusion approaches muon-catalyzed has always seemed to be the most promising one for me, mostly because needed improvements are so clear: make muons cheaper to produce and/or make them catalyze more fusions.

All the other ones seem much harder to achieve. Well, maybe that weird approach Helion is trying will pay off, who knows.
Well, they're not that kind of knockoffs. They are fully legal (some are EU based), and one of those companies even have the Star Trek license, which is great.

Really, take a look around, it isn't like that at all.
I know I'm being a bit negative with regards to ESLint, but I'd just go with BiomeJS these days. It's faster and more sensible with its default lints.

And to boot it comes with a very sensible (and Prettier compatible) formatter!
Microsoft365 apps now support OpenDocument Format 1.4 (LibreOffice Format)
Until that director comes

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