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> Apparently the Xinhua decided to render "Trump" as 特朗普/Te Lang Pu (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/25/china-d...), instead of doing the American/English thing of "You don't know their language? Well f-you then. No help from us."

Consider a rather unusual (but real nevertheless) Polish surname: «Brzęczyszczykiewicz». Most native English speakers, who are not well known for their patience with long and unusually looking non-native surnames, will instantly give up and shorten it to a mere «B». The most daring and adventurous ones will persevere and will likely arrive at something akin to «Brenshistishkevich», which is neither correct nor easily pronounceable for an English speaker anyway. The few English speakers who are acquainted with Polish, would render and pronounce «Brzęczyszczykiewicz» as «Bzhenchishchikyevich» which is closer to truth, yet it will confuse everyone else who will stick with «Brenshistishkevich» anyway.

Or consider an Icelandic surname of «Þórðarson». We would have «Thordarson» (as a naïve take) or «Thortharson» (somewhat closer to the actual Icelandic version).

Bonus point: Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, a Welsh surname, with the «colloquial» vocalisation of «Lanfarpwilgwingle» vs «Hlan-fair-pool-gwin-gith» (a more truthful rendition).

In all cases, with Brenshistishkevich, Thordarson and Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, we have arrived at the English equivalent of Te Lang Pu (Trump). In fact, there is no need to look at more extreme cases, it will suffice to consider a simple Vietnamese name of «Huy», which most English speakers will pronounce as «Hughey» whereas it is actually «Hwee» – it is still the case of the English Te Lang Pu.

In the case of Mandarin Chinese, the problem is exacerbated by the fact that the Chinese writing script is logographic and can't encode single consonants (single sounds in general, although there are Chinese characters that encode vowelled words, usually exclamations). Secondly (or firstly, in fact), all Chinese languages have a strict rule of a phoneme having the CV(C) structure (Consonant-Vowel(maybe another Consonant)), which makes the CCVCC (i.e. Trump) compound impossible and is completely against the phonetic rules of the language. And many, very many in fact, Chinese speakers neither know pinyin nor speak English. The same is true for many other non-Chinese languages.

It gets a bit better, e.g., in Japanese that, other than the logographic script, has two syllabaries that make it possible to represent Trump as something probably more like Tu-ru-mpu.

> I used to work with a man who's last name was Cao whose name was mispronounced "Cow" […]

Since you also earlier called out «[…] (e.g. do not use "c" for "ts", use the closest approximate for sounds that do no exist in English) instead of maximal fidelity to the foreign language», spelling Cao as Tsao (which is what they do in Taiwan but not in the mainland) is not going help as nearly all English speakers will drop the «t» and pronounce it as «Sao». And, since «ts» is one sound and not two, «Sao» is also the English Te Lang Pu.
Why wouldn't there be psychopaths in the workplace?

The way I see it there's a selection bias at play here. The kind of psychopaths who are repeat offenders are the ones who get caught, so of course we notice them.

We don't notice the ones who don't get caught.

That doesn't mean that they're any less ruthless and destructive to society -- they're just lucky / more functional.

In my mind I view white collar crime to be the greatest evil in society because it is the thing that enables all of the petty/violent crime that we abhor. Part of the reason that it's so evil to me is for that very reason, and that the perpetrators of it are able to pass themselves off as functional individuals who participate in society like you and I do, and are able to use the system against itself to perpetuate their crimes.
That's for design purposes only . If you know chess , those are popular openings for white and black (designed to replicate the stockmarket) . The arrows indicate the popularity increase / decrease . The games will take place on chess.com or lichess
Couldn’t this be engineered away? Put half the battery on top and another on the bottom
found this supplemental:

Bias against left-handed people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl...
Klimt is obviously most famous for his paintings incorporating gold but when I saw a huge collection of his work in Vienna I was absolutely blown away by some of his pastels. They are superlative, better than Degas IMO.
The idea behind nationalization is that it takes Google out of the market economy and the profit motive. It's then possible to rationally design supports for new ideas, and removes one of the biggest reasons for fighting new ideas.
> But more than this I would come to learn that that I'd fallen into a trap of my own making.

I'd blame the medical doctor. In similar cases, they use misleading remarks and partial information to guide the patient in the path they prefer.
"Please consider my plugins hosted on wordpress.org to be abandoned."
If the WordPress Foundation is controlled by Matt, Automattic is controlled by Matt and WordPress.org is controlled by Matt, how can there be independent decision making? As Matt has demonstrated by blurring the lines between WordPress.org and Automattic by introducing the ban on WP Engine "affiliates" accessing WordPress.org because of the lawsuit against Automattic, there's no distinction.

Matt has tweeted about his final approval over WordCamp events despite members of the volunteer groups operating under the belief they had the final say, which undermines any attempt to claim these volunteer groups have any control (only the illusion of control): https://x.com/ryancduff/status/1841834672059199590

Automattic just poached Jason Bahl from WPEngine to bring WPGraphQL into core WordPress, demonstrating very clearly that Automattic have control over WordPress core: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/wpgraphql/

Matt has shared that he owns WordPress.org personally but that Automattic employs hundreds of people to work on it and spends millions of dollars financing it.

Ultimately, you work for Automattic and report to Matt so you're obligated to share his version of the world, but the version of the world you're describing only exists in Matt's head. There's no way to frame what is happening as independent of Automattic. I know that it doesn't matter to you personally, this is just a job, and once you leave Automattic you'll look back and laugh at the absurdity of this situation. I guess the point of my comment is to say: we all know that you know this is nonsense, you're convincing nobody. If you actually believe this nonsense (which I doubt, you're not an idiot) then you need to do a much better job of convincing people.
It's the same for Google Maps. It was just a C++ demo when acquired, nothing at all like what we see today.
Huh? It sounds like it's a reason to re-design the guard rails. EVs aren't going away short of the discovery of some miracle fuel that doesn't generate greenhouse gasses. Even with a 100% hybrid fleet, the emissions will still continue to exacerbate climate change. We either figure out how to stop burning oil, or mother nature will take care of the problem (us) herself.
> Stopping where?

Where OS provides guarantees. If OS provides guarantee that libc will be there, do not ship libc. If OS provides guarantees that python will be there, do not ship python. If you do ship python, hide it very well, so I'd never even know about it, unless I go out of my way. And it'll never be shared by anything.

Those questions are easy and solved by every commercial software. They need to make those choices and they do make it.
This. I've been fighting AT&T for awhile because they told the FCC (via their broadband maps [0]) that they supply fiber to my condo, so I bought it expecting to get fiber. Well when I finally go to set up internet service, they only offer 50/5 DSL service. Fortunately I can get cable that has usable down speeds but the up is substantially less than 50 with garbage routing.

I'm not very happy.

[0]: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/
Welcome! Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

There are three an oficial threads for jobs (and perhaps internships) You can take a look at the last edition https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
There are also ways to abstract the files on disk such that it appears every module has its own copy of “foo.so” but they’re all the same bytes on disk. Using content hashes for example. I believe this is how pnpm works.

I don’t buy the shared libraries solve problems argument either. Lots of software are pinned to a specific version anyway so just because some security update has come out for a shared lib doesn’t mean it will work with all your other software.
But don't you use nail scissors with both hands, cutting the nails on the hand that's not using the scissors?
I really think that's a training issue, though? Not that training is ever easy to separate from "intelligence", but "dumb" people can learn to think before they speak... Anyway, I'm so sorry, growing up with her must have been rough.
Out of curiosity I edited the page to put a textarea on it, so I could see what happens when you're typing a sentence and happen to use Shift 3 times: It breaks the button.

If the cursor is in the textarea, tapping Shift without any other keys will add 1 circle, but if that wasn't the 3rd one, any additional Shift will remove all the circles and they don't come back. You have to click outside the textarea and hit Shift 4 times to trigger it (the first one doesn't register any circles).

It seems like they tried to prevent accidental triggers (if you have 1 or 2 circles and hit anything except Shift they all disappear, and if you hold Shift while hitting another key you don't get any in the first place), but got something slightly wrong.
Breaking crypto, unless that falls too. Not all crypto, I'm skeptical on Grover's. Mostly elliptic curve and integer factorization stuff.
I can’t seem to say no to a bit of gulab jamun. And saag, with or without paneer. How healthy is saag? I tell myself it’s mostly spinach but I know there is milk and milk fat in there usually I think and maybe butter?
I'm also on HIBP over 10x. What are we supposed to do? Create a new email address for every service we sign up for?

I don't know what the best practice is for keeping our personal data safe anymore.
The test seems to be sending the EV into the guardrail at a 45 degree angle, moving straight ahead. Is this common for guardrail collisions?

Granted, it’s ideal if they can withstand that angle of impact, but I’m trying to understand the real world impact to safety this has.
Yeah, it's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792500
> meant extra material required to make it easy to change the battery.

it doesn't need to be easy, nor user-replacible. It just needs to be _replacible_ by a professional, with readily available equipment that you'd expect a repair shop to have. Make the parts available for purchase, or have the specs be open for third-party production.

But companies, such as apple, deliberately make their parts incompatible, even if salvaged from a different phone. It's to thwart repairs specifically, and they cite theft prevention as the reason (which i claim is bs - they could allow repairs by having the owner authorize secondary sale of old phones as parts, which still prevents thefts).
Guardrail Damage Ahead
It showed a Tesla crashing at a high rate of speed and steep angle. Didn't show a comparable ice car. I am distracted by the TV. Did I miss it?
The Hollow Man
one piece of this was noticing EVs weigh 20 to 30% more than their gas-powered counterparts.

...which isn't much on the absolute scale; the difference in weight between a small sedan and a larger one, or an SUV or truck. If EVs weren't being stopped by guardrails, neither were the latter.
Jia Tan, is that you?!
Tcl is basically a sloppier Perl with a GUI.
Or make guardrails better. The EV center of gravity is a plus in lots of other situations.
Yeah, they have ignored everyone's concerns about the email thing.
https://github.com/internetarchive/iaux/issues/892
Be outcome oriented
I’d love to hear more stories of people using Effect in production codebases.

It looks very similar in its ideas to fp-ts (in the “let’s bring monads, algebraic types etc to typescript” sense).

But I did hear from teams that embraced fp-ts that things kinda ground to a halt for them. And those were category theory enthusiasts that were very good scala devs so I’m sure they knew what they were doing with fp-ts.

What happened was that the typescript compile time just shot into minutes, for a moderately sized micro-service, without anything externally heavy being introduced like you could on the frontend.

It just turned out that Typescript compiler was not so great at tracking all the inferred types throughout the codebase.

So wonder if things have improved or effect uses types more intelligently so that this is not an issue.
American Idiot also had it's 20th anniversary, I ordered the CD/bluray box set that comes out later this month.
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Shockingly apt timing.
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Not that Gboard it seems
Where do you think the electricity to power EVs comes from?
These type of solutions don’t scale to large ISPs, and gets costly to deploy at the edge. It’s also not just about throughput in Gbps, but Mpps.

Also, this doesn’t take into account that the congestion/queueing issue might be at an upstream. I could have 100g from the customers local co to my core routers, but if the route is going over a 20g link to a local IX that’s saturated it probably won’t help to have fq/codel at the edge to the customer.
Me too (Oracle Park), and I also relate to the not feeling old for a couple of hours - except the few times when I saw parents bring their kids to this show, and the kids were definitely not older than like, nine or ten, and were (!) mouthing the words to songs from Dookie.
My point is that advertisers still "win". Even if they might be paying less if the market were more competitive or transparent.
If they were at risk of going out of business, but the unions had a monopoly on labor contracts and preventing automation, they would still pass on the costs because they couldn’t cut them otherwise. You are basically setting a solid high floor on pricing because they can’t compete on efficiency.
they also had plenty of time to make arrangements, consider the cost of childcare vs pay, and negotiate their salary accordingly.

in some places childcare arrangements can only be made once a year, in others they have waiting lists going back years.

i can't imagine most people be able to make long term arrangements over a weekend
True penetration testing.
Out of curiosity, do you use a unique email address for every single service?
> anonymous freedom of speech. Block bots, not people.

As we're hearing more and more from the large tech companies, this is a hard line to walk. How do you identify what's a bot as they become more indistinguishable from humans? Apparently identity verification and/or remote attestation, both of erode the idea of anonymous freedom of speech.

Whether one believes them is another question.
> it seems to suggest some of these people weren't really working full time

Only if you think it's impossible for people to work while their children are home.
Shift key is widely used in Eastern Asian input methods to switch between English and Asian scripts. Pressing Shift while holding Alt is the way to cycle through different input methods on windows systems.
Using shift key is a decent idea for Latin script users, but is terrible for Asian script users.
Upgrading all guardrails isn’t terribly difficult - it just takes long. Guardrails usually last 20-30 years, and governments will not replace them until they fail.

Also, this experiment also means that BEVs can inflict bigger damages to other hard objects (e.g. buildings), and drivers would get injured more seriously during collision. So I think we should get a safer design that kills the kinetic energy on collision.
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Originally the idea was you would vote for people who would do the actual voting. A nice idea, but obviously not workable for many reasons, especially since communication rapidly improved so that candidates could be known widely enough that the actual voters could be somewhat informed. (However, I believe the electors still can change their vote from what they promised, but forget ever doing anything in politics again.)
> or just vim if on the computer

I use Firefox + Tridactyl + the native extension, so with the cursor in any text field I can hit Ctrl+i and it pops up a gvim window with the contents of that text field. When you save+quit, it copies the contents back into the field.

So glad someone figured out how to do this again once Vimperator died.
Reaching and publishing "conclusions" like this is not.
The punishment for incitation of crime is either a fine or imprisonment for up to 6 months. If they're commiting that crime, then fine or arrest them. Don't mess with their thoughts though. As far as I'm concerned, they are and should be free to think and say whatever they want, even if they think violence should be promoted. Democracy is not justified in defending itself until the very second somebody picks up a weapon and tries to put an end to it.

If we start censoring people who "call for violence" as part of their politics, oh boy, do I have a huge list of malefactors for these judges. Plenty of openly violent communist revolutionaries in this country, after all. I'm sure this supreme court would do nothing about them even if presented with such a list, though. After all there is a communist judge among them. This is a country where nazis go straight to jail but where socialists and communists walk the soil completely unpunished.

That's my biggest issue with decisions like these: the selectivity. Why is it that only one side gets to be extreme? This is just wrongthink.
So if you are _not_ someone with an antisocial personality disorder and you go to therapy like couples therapy you basically learn that you need to be kind and thoughtful even if your partner is not and compliment them and it basically rubs off on them. It's also the way you make friends etc...

It's the basic psychological principle that you need to give to the world what you wish to receive. It is counterintuitive.

I'd guess that this would be the treatment program for APDs as well except that the APD may short circuit the reciprocal reward program.
I'm surprised it took this long to figure it out. I would have thought every new model of car would be subjected to guardrail crash tests, starting with the earliest EVs and hybrids from several decades ago (Prius in late 1990s, Tesla in mid-2000s). Or maybe the media is just slow on the uptake?
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Habox is a file storage and sharing tool which is secure, fast, and cross-device with real-time chat.
Google has it, though I think you need the paid Workspace version? I’m paying around $15/month now ever since google killed the free tier for custom domains.
I write it in play.rust-lang.org, then indent using the vim keybindings. I do this even for not rust code.
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Makes no sense. pick up trucks in the US are way larger and heavier than regular EVs and they don't seem to raise an alert on that.
I feel your pain, I haven't been in ML world directly for a few years now but I've done the same exercise multiple times.

The worst part is that block compression actually does not help if it doesn't do a significantly good job of compression AND decompression. My use case had to immediately deploy the models across a few nodes in a live environment at customer sites. Cloud wasn't an option for us and fiber was also unavailable many times.

The fastest transport protocol was someone's car and a workday of wages.
Nuclear and Solar, at least for ours.
Do you think children of all ages need constant and undivided attention such that the parent is incapable of performing their paid job?
Residential rooftop solar in the US already produces enough energy to cover the charging of every EV currently on the road, and we're adding capacity each year faster than new EVs are consuming it, so that'll continue to be true.
Can also browse particular user comments from oldest to newest. For example: https://hn.garglet.com/user/pg/comments?sortby=time&order=as...
you assume likely with excellent results. perhaps his results weren't excellent?
That's only about 38 racks of storage, at a cost of ~$3.5M for the hard drives (redundancy included). Not that big, in the grand scheme of things.
Right, but in some cases volume doesn’t make up for the price drop. Or the source materials are the bottleneck. Even if the societal benefit was greater.
Google used to directly fund the dude who was the FTC chair for a while. Joshua Wright likely is why these cases are happening in 2024 and not 2014. (The DoJ and FTC end up sort of splitting antitrust cases.)
Rosetta was clunky and not even David Baker would endorse it
Dietary restriction impacts health and lifespan of genetically diverse mice
> Sure, you could “just” murder your database with table-scanning queries that join every single table and hope that you’ve provisioned a beefy enough machine to handle the load “for now”. Just like your plumber could “just” fix a pipe leaking on the floor by shoving a bucket under it and telling you to empty it every week.

This is the actual solution in the vast majority of circumstances. If after x days you realize you've made a terrible mistake, that's a nice problem to have.
"to accuse people of lacking empathy" is basic projection. If you actually had empathy you'd feel for someone lacking in empathy.
Eh, or to avoid public backlash for longer and minimize the odds of legislation targeting them.
Where do you think gasoline comes from?

Even if you collected 100% of tailpipe emissions EV’s would still be cleaner in the US.
Well deserved! My only qualm is it should've been awarded to the team, vs individuals

It needed Oriol as well doing IC work
Yes, anyone who’s ever been trapped in a conversation with someone yakked to the gills can tell you all about singleminded focus as an effect of cocaine.
Yeah, it was a tough job and glad I got out. Minimum 65 calls per day is not easy, especially when you know, like you said, most are going to be hang-ups and no's.

The other aspect that was really hard was working your ass off all month to hit your quota, then the first of the month? You get to start all over again. The constant stress and roller coaster of whether you make your numbers every month probably took like 3 years off of my life.

I also worked at places where guys had everything wired. They had their client list and when they ordered and it was a walk in the park every month to hit their numbers, get to President's Club and get that free Hawaiian vacation.

I honestly don't miss anything about it.