skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> nearly adopted pinyin as the national alphabet

Some years ago I saw street-signs in China that had both Mandarin characters and also alphabetical versions, and I couldn't understand why they would go so far and then omit the accent marks.

I wonder if it's been fixed since.
I stand corrected, it is not a lazy shitshow.

You’re right, fake sudo prompts is how people get exploited all day long. I’ve witnessed it on MacOS.

For UAC, the user still has to learn that the darkening on the screen and the prompt is “serious business.” I think that when a password is present and has been willfully supplied, prompting the user for the password guards against automatic/accidental acceptance (button-only user confirmation prompts). I understand that many users have a joke password that might as well not be something that’s not really any more secure than a click on a button.

I see that Sudo for Windows has been restricted to Desktop only. https://hudsonvalleyhost.com/blog/microsoft-officially-exclu...

From the design article you linked, I know it’s 2006 era:

> You hide the real mouse cursor and show a fake one some number of pixels offset to the real one

I think MacOS only in the recent years has “Full Desktop Control” as an accessibility-category permission (a confusing category to boot) it enforces on apps to prevent faking the cursor.
In some ways, it seems surprising that avoiding open/read/write syscalls and caching in user space is only 35% faster.
I once drove from SF to NYC. If you drive 8 hours per day it takes over a week. I stayed in at least 4-5 hotels (I pushed the driving to 12 hrs/day)
wonder how much that coin is worth now vs how much it was worth in 300 Bc
"I saw the rhino live in the zoo"

Might also mean; "Noted native-American zoologist 'I Saw The Rhino' lives at the zoo"
Actually, a lot of people use Lemmy, and there's pretty decent content on it in the communities. I post Linux stuff mostly and my threads get a lot of comments. Or I'll ask questions like "What are everybody's cool not so well known websites" and get a ton of feedback. Accounts are accessible via Mastodon as well, it isn't ideal, but, it's some kind of start.

So, lots of people use it, actually. I haven't noticed any bots replying to each other like what Reddit is now adays reposting content and reposting top comments.
That seems like a very cynical take. Is it a stated goal or expectation of the author that more than what you deem "nobody" will use this over a centralized wiki? Is that what you're criticizing, or is it just handwaving the project away the same way one could say Linux distributions (see: year of the linux desktop) and other things "nobody uses" don't matter and are disjointed from reality?
I don't think we have conclusive evidence, but everything that I see from myself it makes sense to categorize like that. It is either a quick intuitive guess or feel or alternatively I have to hash it out. It just fits perfectly to me.

I do think they are systems in a sense that one is optimsed to be a quick system and the other one requires time, but can solve tougher problems, create something new.

It seems fundamental to me that it is how things would get organized.
Lemmy is also pretty big now. I like it better than mastodon.
You could implement something pretty easily with a relay or contactor and an ESP32 and a way to monitor the spot price, or just buy a system with that feature already built in.
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It's have to be deflation for them to be worth more. The only thing here that would be the equivalent would be the value of the silver. I'm _guessing_ that the silver is worth like 1% of the valuation (from looking at the photos). Doesn't seem like it's 2500 kilos of silver (~$1100 per kg at current prices)!
Really? They are the attacking party? For a year? Prove it.
Right, so, the Silicon Valley workplace is in fact a forum for political perspectives, as long as they're in line with the imperatives of the MIC and the profits to be made from selling to it.
Seems like youtube-dl doesn't work anymore. I had to use a fork yt-dlp. Always makes me nervous hopping from one project to another like that, but seems like it's commonly used at least.
Maybe take a look at scaleway, they have Unlimited bandwidth plans.
> If you have any language where it is "semantially correct" to execute it with a simple interpetter, than all optimizations in that language are not semantically important by definition, right?

Technically, yes. :)

But I think this should perhaps be treated as a bug in how we define/design languages, rather than as an immutable truth.

- We already have time-based versioning for languages.
- We also have "tiers" of support for different platforms in language implementations (e.g. rarer architectures might have Tier 2 or Tier 3 support where the debugging tooling might not quite work)

One idea would be to introduce "tiers" into a language's definition. A smaller implementation could implement the language at Tier 1 (perhaps this would even be within reach for a university course project). An industrial-strength implementation could implement the language at Tier 3.

(Yes, this would also introduce more complications, such as making sure that the dynamic semantics at different tiers are equivalent. At that point, it becomes a matter of tradeoffs -- does introducing tiers help reduce complexity overall?)
beware of bureaucrats. case closed
> Ekranoplane

I don’t think any of those ever really “took off,” so to speak.

I think they had a lot of trouble, with even slightly rough weather.

There’s a reason that every photo you see of them, has them zipping over a calm, smooth body of water, on a clear day.
I don't know the laws personally, but different nations often have different laws.
> If I hear a word, I can write it.

Not if you account for variations of pronunciation in dialects. Not even the most phonetically accurate accent, the Hanoian Northern accent which I am a native speaker of, is perfect.

For example, you could hear Northern Vietnamese people say "dổ", "dá" instead of "rổ", "rá". Morning dew is pronounced "xương" but is written as "sương". These characters are pronounced with greater clarity in the Central and Southern regions, but they have their own peculiarities too. Til' this day I still find it iffy they call someone named "Diễm" as "Yỉm". Unless you have seen the correct way to spell those words before, you can't say for sure. Even now as a working adult I find myself referring to the dictionary to make sure my accent doesn't embarrass me in official emails.

In a perfect world, we can have one single Vietnamese accent that aims to pronoun all these words true to the intended way of the alphabet, but it isn't practical. That being said, one can get pretty far in Vietnamese when encountering new words.
That’s what I’m getting at - how correlated with life expectancy do you think food safety is?

And can you think of the measurement of life expectancy might differ between countries making comparison challenging?
>Money comes and goes without accounting meeting financial standards. That does not strictly mean that the money has been embezzled

Coincidentally, the Liberal Democrat Party in Japan just lost their majority (and subsequently very likely the government) today due to widespread embezzlement and tax evasion.

Always argue for absolute transparency of public monies, there is no justifiable reason public monies have to be kept secret.
I take the train several times a month to different cities in the US
Europe using Civilized to refer to themselves only sure has some /really/ ugly history.
I use Lemmy a lot. I don't touch nostr. Another poster here mentioned the reasons, about its founder.

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41965497
You do not want to be heading towards Immigration, just after one of those puppies lands.
> I'm not sure if there was some specific part of the blog post that made you think I'm against automatic query planning altogether; if there was, please share that so that I can tweak the wording to remove that implication.

The quote from another article (which I didn't read) starting with "I dislike query planners".

"Against ... altogether" is mildly stronger than I took away from this, more like "generally of the opinion that the tradeoff nearly everyone is making with sql isn't worth it".

Judging by the lack of upvotes other people didn't react as strongly to this quote as I did, so take it as you will.
That gives you the right to be an artist and not charge for your own products, not the right to steal from other artists who have differing beliefs.
I know a lot of people hate on the recommendations homepage on YouTube, but I discover a lot of content I like watching there. However, I can't watch all of it and what to save what I see there and otherwise find and search for in a playlist, but the watch later playlist is not user friendly. Does Freetube improve playlist management too? That would be a big plus.
> The rule also outlines required privacy protections for personal financial data, specifying that third parties can only use data for a requested product or service.

Can banks trivially violate this by making you agree to something in their fine print or terms of service?

> The rule prohibits data providers from making consumer data available to third parties through screen scraping and it requires that businesses delete consumer data when a person revokes access.

They should be forced to delete it and also from any vendors, contractors, partners, customers, etc (like data brokers they sell to.

> "Enabling secure transfer or sharing of financial data will incentivize financial companies to compete for customers by providing better interest rates and customer service.

They’ll find other ways to make it hard to leave. For example by tying their products together with minor conveniences or pricing. Such bundling is a common anticompetitive tactic.
How do you know that people don't change their voting intentions much? The only way you could know what people intend to do is by... umm... polling.

Anyway, the polls haven't actually been swinging much this year, I don't know where you're getting that from. The only significant movement was when Biden withdrew from the race, which you would expect to make a big difference.
Even less of a difference. There's no equivalent character, so it's clearly 烹 written with an extra stroke. It's more like the difference between writing "deceive" and decieve."
The Chinese cycle will come for everything. Unless the western world goes hard on industrial automation right now it’s game over. That’s because the China cycle is not going to end when their labor gets more expensive because they’re already massively automating their plants and they already manufacture most of the stuff so it’s an easier change to make.
> Privacy nightmare

The current system doesn't do this somehow? You're taking _public_ transport. Presuming privacy from the operator to be a thing is odd.

> and disenfranchises those with no paperwork.

Then if they want free public transport they should get free papers. I'm not sure the goal of an "identityless public society filled with free rides" is at all worthwhile or even agreed upon to be good.
That's good advice in that context and speaks to the difference in standards of evidence between normal expository or persuasive writing in school and scientific writing. In a scientific paper if you assert something it's important to flag to the reader what kind of claim this is, eg something demonstrated by other research, something that directly follows from your evidence, or something that could possibly be true given prior knowledge and your evidence.
Diablo felt like work the time I played it
Walmart alone employs 1.6 million people: https://corporate.walmart.com/about/location-facts
You need seat reservations for most trains per my understanding. They're cheap and flexible so you're mostly right, but it's a little more involved than "get on whenever you want" unfortunately
Yes, obviously it's legal in England, or the coins wouldn't have been found, reported, and ultimately sold, as per the article. It's also legal in Ireland.

There are prohibitions and licensing requirements in both countries for search of heritage sites, national monuments, and other protected sites, and reporting requirements for unintentional "heritage" finds.
Discussion started here:

NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer (27.10.2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41963932
I'm using something similar to Heisig, and I can already tell that while I can list all of the radicals and components in a character, I have no memory of their relative positions. I'm also not trying to learn them and I only using a pinyin input method, but I can't imagine really needing to be able to write by hand ever.
Freezing doesn’t always work for me while I’m at the dentist.

Does that help me build resistance to physical torture?
I'd live Embraer to do it. Their E195 is really class. Better comfort than a 737 despite being much smaller.
It doesn't account for quantum computing? Cracking passwords seems like one of those things that should get an exponential speedup with quantum computing.
I understand rarity and all, but it's still strange that there are US pennies worth far more than these coins. It makes sense, but instinctively feels wrong.
Sure. It's definitely a tradeoff which definitely hurts on rare occasion. I agree that the lack of fallback in most databases is a bit strange. Altogether though the productivity benefits have proven larger than the drawbacks of not defaulting to a query planner.
Also, are there video games with ML-powered opponents or NPCs that'll act more like humans instead of the old-fashioned decision tree AIs? Seems about time. I know there are research projects that tried this for things like Starcraft 2.

Also saw Facebook's experimental Diplomacy AI. Wish that were usable the time we lost a player.
Even more compelling reasons to block ads online and in public.
I think I agree with all of that.

My point is that if in the course of discovering common patterns you find that the optimizer must do a heroic optimization with a 10x upside when it hits and weird flakiness about when it hits, then that’s a good indication that maybe a language feature that lets you skip the optimization and let the programmer sort of dictate the outcome is a good idea.

By the way, avoiding GC is not the same thing as having value types. Avoiding GC altogether is super hard. But value types aren’t that hard and aren’t about entirely avoiding GC - just avoiding it in specific cases.
That’s true, but if it’s a matter of just laying some under sea cables, we’re already really good at that.
Oh! Reasonable trade-off indeed. Thank you for clarifying.
That's better, thanks!
Aside from propaganda, what if the roof only lasts 25 years?

And doesn’t mounting panels on top of a roof increase possibilities for leaks?

I really would like solar to work. But have seen too many crazy storms and even a minor tornado in the past 5 years to make me wonder about 20+ year longevity.
About 50% of their sponsors are gambling websites. So sad.
Interesting!

Is there a reason that consumer solar can’t be accounted for as smaller stable nodes in the system (sounds like they are still considered volatile and not a reliable source of inflow power)? For instance, maybe a rooftop solar array can easily be sucked up if the home decides to do a few loads of laundry that day, and therefore since there aren’t enough homes with solar arrays, it’s harder to predict an average influx per day from consumer solar to power the grid?

Are there any goals to shut down larger plants or not build larger solar fields by instead subsidizing distributed solar on peoples’ property?

Utilities are so interesting. The other afternoon I was looking out at the hills as the trees change, and said to my friend, “what a beautiful view… besides all these power lines! Although, I’d rather have the infrastructure than an unmolested view…”
Claude sentiment scale
We can look at the past to get a sense. Personally, I don't think there will be an extreme difference between now and then. A programmer or team of programmers will need to sit at a computer and put together a software app from start to finish. We won't be able to talk to a computer and have it build it for us. I do see a SWE having to have a stronger role in designing the software. Eventually, we will have tools that automate more of the process to write bigger programs with less effort. This is the way software has been advancing from the beginning. The idea that AI will take over is overblown at least in the near future.

What surprises me is that we don't have software that amateur programmers can program and customize at will. I think at some point when it's easier to program apps, professional programmers will be able to provide that functionality so we will be seeing more of that since the cost of a line of code will diminish. It will be more cost-effective to provide features that are too costly to provide now.
Binder is upstreamed into Linux.

But I feel I don't know much about binder/kernel/IPC: maybe I overestimate what that means?
Yet monopolized enough that this decentralization does not prevent deplatforming.
Olympus CEO Exits After Allegation He Bought Illegal Drugs
I agree w/ the first part: this is distinctly Chopin and beautiful.

Not sure why a critique of the NYT is needed; they wrote a great article and had a great performer perform it. Other "cultural organizations" can do what they wish and will not be harmed by this article (and indeed, may be helped, due to the word getting out).
I think it's one of those things where people love US pennies because it's what they know and or grew up with (and possibly got them into collecting) - at least in the US. I always got the impression that collecting ancient coins like this was much less mainstream than people collecting the coins of the country that they currently live in.
If this is AI generated, we are in for some real treats in the coming years. I want Beethoven's tenth!
I wasn't saying anything from my point of view. I was simply explaining the misinterpretation in the comment above, though I should have said biomarker instead of genetic marker.
it doesn't really scale in the traditional sense, it just pushes the 'damage' out to the entire net.

freenet overall is one of the most bandwidth and storage intensive platforms out there. I understand why -- but I say this as a means to say that it doesn't really deserve direct comparison to the open web. it's not the same thing, even if the work overlaps -- it's a lot more work.
I keep seeing in reviews that people get woken up no matter what hour of night and have to present their documents for border checking, despite going between Schengen countries. Is that a guarantee whenever you cross a border or is this review bias? (Where annoyed customers are more likely to seek out where to leave a review, I mean.) Apparently you can't just leave the documents with the conductor because they need to check in the cabin for stowaways and match faces to pictures. I've only ever taken a Nightjet within Germany so I haven't experienced one myself
Except for the fact that performance optimization frequently does change the behaviour of the program.
I thought those relied on ground effect to achieve the required lift, which would prevent them from flying above the ground or water beyond the altitude at which ground effects exist?
"ough" has at least 9 different possible pronunciations, how is that phonetic?
I'm sure there are portion of us for whom this treasure trove recalls fond childhood memories of reading Dahl's short story The Mildenhall Treasure, a creative account of real events in 1942 surrounding the controversial finding of a huge cache of 4th century Roman silverware - one of the other great historical hoards dug up in modern Britain.
Prices in Ancient Greece in Athens in the 5th century BC

1 loaf of bread 1 obolos

The standard rate for a prostitute 3 oboloi

6 oboloi are 1 drahma, about 4 drahmai to the shekel. That coin is 1/16 shekel, so about 1.5 loaves
Good luck finding a sleeper from either Portland or Seattle. They are booked 6 months out. In any other business, that would mean adding another few sleeper cars. But Amtrak doesn’t seem to care…
That's not quite true. There are many letters that sounds mostly/exactly the same, especially in everyday pronunciation. For example, "gia đình" vs "da đình", or "lý trí" vs "lí trí", or "xổ số" vs "sổ số", etc. If you don't know the word beforehand you wouldn't be able to write it down after hearing it.
It does work very well for certain parts of the world, like the Gulf carriers (hence why Emirates has so many). For the US and inter-Europe, totally uneconomical but not everywhere.

With newer engines and a slightly redesigned wing (if I recall correctly it was designed a bit oversized than what was needed for the -800, to be able to accommodate a stretch variant which was never introduced) it could probably be made to have 15% lower fuel burn per passenger which would make it work even better for those specific kind of routes, but it's not economical for Airbus to do that when only Emirates and a very small handful of other customers would buy it...
If all the other charges in the universe are fixed, then mattashii is right.

The trick to undestand the Cyclotron is in the graphic: chttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron#/media/File:Cyclotro...

It has two semicircular parts A an B, that act like a big capacitor. The electrons travel in circles, sometime it's inside A and sometimes is in B.

If the voltage between A and B is constant, it accelerates and the decelerates and then accelerates and the decelerates and then accelerates and the decelerates and then ... that is quite boring.

The trick is that when it's inside A you make A negative and B positive, so it accelerates going from A to B. While the electron is inside B you switch the voltages and now B negative and A positive, so it accelerates going from B to A. Now, While the electron is inside A you switch the voltages and now A negative and B positive, so it accelerates going from A to B. ...

So the trick to gain energy in both directions is to change the voltages of the semicircular parts. This change cost energy, so there is no magic creation of energy.

Probably the article in Wikipedia explains it better.
Lemire himself also worked on a C++ CSV parser with Geoff Langdale that uses SIMD to accelerate the parsing. [1].

Also the fastest library in TFAs benchmark is Sep [2], which makes use of SIMD.

[1] https://github.com/geofflangdale/simdcsv

[2] https://github.com/nietras/Sep
>But I'm probably an outlier because I spend most of my time on websites, even on phone and tablet.

Meanwhile our users are clamoring for app version of our web app, even though it's just a web wrapper. I guess some people just have a "there's an app for that" mentality.
Writing is expensive. I always wonder if this is why you don't see zero expressed as often. Why bother? Once writing is cheap, you can explicitly enumerate the zeroes, not because they convey useful information, but because they add a check that you can now afford. "I didn't forget to count sheep. I counted and there were actually none."
New York to San Francisco is roughly 3000 miles (4800 km). At 250km/h, that’s a 19 hour trip.

A 19 hour plane trip from New York gets you to Singapore.

Fast trains are great for journeys up to about 600km. For crossing continents, planes win, whether rail enthusiasts like it or not, and a future of transport that involves “just don’t fly” as the only solution to climate change is an absolute nonstarter in most of the world.
If we stopped exporting our pollution to them, then their economies would collapse (because the pollution is caused by export-producing industries).

So isn't the North already paying the South for this pollution?
Yet another site that requires JS enabled to view.
I would personally never mount panels on the roof in a context like this one, a house in the middle of nowhere. They should just be on a pole, mast, or frame. Anywhere but the roof.