skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even when Google Translate got pretty good I was not really able to effectively translate Chinese or Japanese text about Go (the game). I had similar issues to the ones mentioned in this post. Many Chinese and Japanese words (e.g., "ko") have a very specific meaning in the context of Go, but they also have regular meanings (e.g., "robbery") in more normal contexts, so Google Translate would translate text in a generic way, which made everything unintelligible. With modern LLMs, I can now preface my translation requests with instructions such as "I am going to ask you to translate some Chinese text accompanying weiqi diagrams. Your translations should be idiomatic and not shy away from Go jargon. For example, 拆 = extension, 夹 = pincer, 刺 and 觑 = peep.", and it does a fantastic job, enough for me to basically read anything I want. It was lucky for me that evidently enough Go material already existed in the training set that I didn't have to do anything more special.

(Some chess corrections, in case the author is reading: the moves at the start of chess games are called openings in English, not openers; there are not distinct white-piece and black-piece openings, although of course an individual player will probably study a given opening from the point of view of one side or the other; their study is considered fundamental all the way up to the highest level, in fact more so as you increase in skill; and the Sicilian variation in question is the Najdorf, not Najdork.)
> You might even convince yourself that these questions are “privacy preserving,” since no human police officer would ever rummage through your papers, and law enforcement would only learn the answer if you were (probably) doing something illegal.

Something I've started to see happen but never mentioned is the effect automated detection has on systems: As detection becomes more automated (previously authored algorithms, now with large AI models), there's less cash available for individual case workers, and more trust at the managerial level on automatic detection. This leads to false positives turning into major frustrations since it's hard to get in touch with a person to resolve the issue. When dealing with businesses it's frustrating, but as these get more used in law enforcement, this could be life ruining.

For instance - I got flagged as illegal reviews on Amazon years ago and spent months trying to make my case to a human. Every year or so I try to raise the issue again to leave reviews, but it gets nowhere. Imagine this happening for a serious criminal issue, with the years long back log on some courts, this could ruin someones life.

More automatic detection can work (and honestly, it's inevitable) but it's got to acknowledge that false positives will happen and allocate enough people to resolve those issues. As it stands right now, these detection systems get built and immediately human case workers get laid off, there's this assumption that detection systems REPLACE humans, but it should be that they augment and focus human case workers so you can do more with less - the human aspect needs to be included in the budgeting.

But the incentives aren't there, and the people making the decisions aren't the ones working the actual cases so they aren't confronted with the problem. For them, the question is why save $1m when you could save $2m? With large AI models making it easier and more effective to build automated detection I expect this problem to get significantly worse over the next years.
Failure of an entirely new, previously thought to be impossible combination of technologies.

This is like complaining that your first attempt at new programming language paradigm resulted in a compiler that is slow and sometimes has internal errors!
Good riddance, do the other social networks next!
I just released a demo here https://ip-vote.com/ui/geolocation
That's because there was malware that spread via autorun, which is rather harder to do with read-only media, even if it's emulated.
The comment does not read like made up, so my guess: first or second hand information.
A boycott is a form of protest.
So, am I the only one who finds it kinda amusing that right after a game about avoiding dark patterns, we get a Substack email sign up that seems like it's subtly trying to manipulate you into using it (the bouncing arrow, obvious border/highlight/etc)?

But as far as the game itself goes, it's good, but kinda confusing in its design. Sometimes it seems like you're meant to show you won't fall for the tricks by clicking the right option, whereas sometimes you're forced to do the wrong thing first so the game can explain why it's the wrong choice. It'd be better if you just had to do what was needed without clicking the wrong/misleading option, since it'd be a better test of your ability to recognise online manipulation.

Also the delay between each puzzle felt really arbitrary, not gonna lie. Don't know why I'm forced to wait 5 seconds between rounds.
To be fair, most people understand that risk. It’s just it is very convenient in a lot of scenarios and some businesses might have not even started without it. Privacy is not that big of a concern for a big chunk of people. And they’re basically voting with their wallets.
This sounds super cool where can I get/buy this data? Would be a fun dataset to mess around with

Any idea why it is unidirectional? If the data is openly available why can't the Russians track US/Ukrainian agents the same way?
https://studiohub.com/
> nor build houses made from firewood in an area prone to wildfires.

The alternative is to build quadruple-the-price houses out of brick in an area prone to earthquakes.

It's much easier to repair/replace the former. And theoretically would be easier to avoid, if the fed would clean up the brush wood in their land (or give it back to the state, so they can manage it).
By which point, Russia was already in the hands of a dictator. Too late and too little, as they say. But yes, obviously, every country deserves a large share of blame for its own situation.

Either way - even if I concede this, my point stands that starving nations and denying them development isn't a great long term strategy for peace.
A new species of supergiant Bathynomus
I'm adding a live instrument to my gear, a beat up intro strat that I've owned since new and never practiced haha, will be posting again, I'm on Bandlab. The thing with bandlab is that I love it, its the best blend of social media and collaborative musicianship I've found, not perfect but really interesting. I've done a few collabs but nothing successful so I thought I'd hunker down and learn my gear better. Bandlab has an online daw with some version and collab features but my use of firefox there is getting dodgy so will migrate to chrome. On my local computer I sort of plod along with lmms and whatever version of audacity that happens to run to some degree.

I also took ardour for a spin and it is one nice piece of work but being broke I would have to settle for an old version as its build process is over my head, plus its development just moves too fast for me whereas lmms was installed on my studio linux with tons of plugins so it was worth it to learn. I'm on ubuntu studio 20.something so there's an upgrade to be made there too.
When I worked on it, the USB controller was just a pci bus device that once set up, the incoming data, from a USB ADC, streamed the data in blocks directly to memory. Maybe they took all that back out.
This is less like "well, I could get the $10 pants and have to replace them in a few months, or the $70 pants and have them last a decade" sort of cheap, and more the "well, I've been saving a mortgage down-payment for 15 years in the top 30% of individual wage earners, and this is the best built house I can afford" kind.

The options are either pay more for this one thing than literally any other possession you or anyone you know will ever own, or live in a tent or worse.

I feel like criticizing people for pragmatism in the face of (literally) existential threats is some kind of next-level privilege.
Oh, I feel this. Here’s a junior with a quick question, there’s a strategy meeting, oh hey the CI pipeline broke for some reason, and why are the workers slow currently? Did you answer my email yet? Nine notifications on Teams, better go check. Fuck, the engineering management call started two minutes ago.
CDMA: Unpacking Signals
Uhh... that's kind of how these algorithms work. I presume you interact (i.e. don't scroll past) with a lot of the English posts. It's going to index on that and show you more English content. When I'm abroad, I might see a few posts in their native language but the algorithm will revert to showing English posts about the city/country once it realizes I'm not really jiving with Portuguese posts, for example.
HN discussion (post was flagged):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725057

[flagged] No Billionares at FOSDEM (drewdevault.com)

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The issue is that it's not possible to separate feeds from items. Even if some feeds are largely unread, I subscribed to them because I liked something they posted on a specific topic, and I still want to get updates whenever there is another feed item related to that specific topic. Ultimately the "feed" is the mechanism of delivery, but I don't think it should be the primary mode of categorizing item consumption.

I've worked on this issue a little in a different context, where you can follow posts from people on Bluesky related to specific topics, and this is ideally what I would like to be able to do more of with RSS.[1]

[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/lgug2z.com/post/3lc47yru7vc2k
They're not building new, though—the post is about renting a cage in a datacenter.
I visited a lunch spot popular with Nokia R&D employees. It was extremely common for people to have a prototype phone in a fabric bag at the lunch table, so you couldn't see what they were putting to the test of daily use. Lots of very funky phones were glimpsed, only few of them later became commercial products with definite model numbers.
>oh, the current social network bashing is just the same doom and gloom reaction to more communication, it will pass

One might ask if it wasn't just down hill from the tabloids to social media in our current time. I tend to think that the development from tabloids to radio, television and social media is actually a consistent and logical development. The aim has always been to generate as many readers / listeners / viewers and engagement as possible, and the possibilities have become increasingly effective and efficient thanks to digital information processing. However, the side effects that each new medium introduces are becoming more extreme.
A Power from the High Beyond moved the Zone boundaries, leaving us trapped in the Slow Zone
People are not flocking to other more Chinese apps. A handful of people are. You're not seeing new signups to Instagram or YouTube because a lot of people who are on TikTok already had accounts on those platforms.
This sounds like the technique shown by 3D Printing Nerd on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHPrnYMdLow There they called it computed axial lithography.
That description of heavy lead shielding of a power plant on Mir surprises me since photos show it as having solar arrays. Wikipedia also gives the power source as solar with no mention of lead components. Can you add further details of this?
People forget that you don't have to modify a McMansion to whatever requirements you're adding - you can build something entirely different.

"Earthships" or other hobbit-hole like houses are almost completely fireproof as long as the entries are handled correctly - anything that can start a fire through three feet of earth is probably a volcano anyway.
There would be a certain beauty in releasing Mario Kart 8 for the third console in a row.
They had both! This one looks like a tamer variant of their cuff design. The cuff that got more attention was called Morph.
> Yet people are arguing that we should allow the people who did that to continue to install apps on millions of Americans phones

Who are "the people who did that" - Byte Dance or China as a whole? If it's the latter, I'm afraid there are still plenty of apps made by Chinese companies like, DJI, Lenovo, and thousands of IoT apps to control random geegaws via WiFi or BT.
Yeah, was aware of that possibility; I guess I should have made a point about the disctinction between symbols vs "possible sound combinations" (my words). And even "possible sound combinations" can be further limited to "actually used sound combinations" as mentioned in the answer on that SO link.

So, in terms of "possible sound combinations" I think Japanese would likely be on the lower side given that the number of sounds are also pretty low. Alright, thank you for that reply; the point in the original post I replied to makes more sense to me now.
chuckle that's true :) But it only happens when somebody borrows money, and somebody only borrows money if they think they can use that money to make even more money---i.e. improve their productivity.

E.g. somebody might borrow money to buy a McDonald's franchise. Now the nation can produce more burgers. It's really weird how banks do that, but it's not magic.
Robotics and ROS 2 Essentials
1. The countercurrent heat exchanger achieves exactly that: exhaust gases are cooled while the inflowing fuel mixture is heated up.

2. Thermophotovoltaics in general can operate with any heat source, though this device is clearly optimized for combustion. However, the efficiency is far too low to compete in the large-scale power generation segment. This is almost certainly aimed at light aviation, heavy drones, military applications, etc., where there are not a lot of alternatives that combine small size, high power density and good efficiency.
It helps with availability of materials if people don't expect to have like 500sqft per person. But that's not how modern houses are built in US, at least not in my neck of the woods (Seattle suburbs). As for the quality of housing, I'm from ex-Soviet satellite state and lived in a prefab apartment block - yeah, it was a bit dated but no major problems with quality that I could tell. The main nuisance was lack of acoustic insulation.
No, it's likely running at a loss.
lol @ the edit could not be more specific and factual than this I thought HN was about facts

if any false equivalences were made or scales underestimated prove it with data to further the conversation not some hand wavy righteous comment that's for Reddit as they say :D
> They hacked all of our major telco's

Can I see the evidence?
No, Protoss is just 토스, which is just hangulization of "Toss" aka Protoss.
L.A. Fires: We Can't Let Insurance Companies Exploit the Disaster
The danger of the areas has not been properly accounted for, and now that we have a better understanding, nobody wants to pay what it actually costs (either in increased insurance, which apparently CA has limited, or building design changes - knock down the flammable one and build something impervious, or even abandoning untenable locations - perhaps after disaster, perhaps before).

Everyone's talking about fire insurance, but the earthquake insurance question is even bigger and basically untenable in a worst-case scenario. So in that case, CA wised up and the state is much more earthquake resilient than it was 30 years ago.
It's not like cold fusion, the lightcell is based on well-understood physics. The author may be too optimistic with efficiency claim, but those are relatively easy to verify independently.
This is, of course, because both USA political parties run their own propaganda machines
wtf does that have to do with Curiosity program? All of these are 2+ decades old.

Besides, you make it as if SpaceX couldn't learn from nasa mistakes, not to mention core team of SpaceX are ex-nasa already.

what kind of elon musk logic is that?
Not just about data harvesting though.
Please give an example of something that someone would be ashamed of or blackmailed by that goes through their TikTok?
Take econ 101 again. "some goods are inelastic" isn't even a coherent sentence. You are out of your depth.
I believe LOX is injected into the engine as a liquid, it gets atomised rather than boiled?

And you can have fires where both fuel and oxidiser are solid: thermite reactions.

"Fire point" seems to be more of a factor for conventional fire concerns, albeit I'm judging a phrase I've not heard before by a stub-sized Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_point
I certainly wasn't going to offer any app recommendations. Honestly, I don't use any apps either. Other than a very strict calendar overall. I don't bullet journal explicitly, but I do something similar. I use built-in notes that sync to the cloud, nothing special. A paper notebook would work equally well.
Blanket content bans are the stuff of dictatorships, but restricting access to demographics that could be most harmed by it (children for example) is a good idea, and I wish the US would look into it.
This one lets you play the bass on the left hand of a keyboard and the square waves (should really be PWM) on the right hand:

https://aframe.itch.io/famikondo
> "Apple $3463 - no chance."

Owning their own fabs would save them whatever hefty premium they are paying TSMC, the exact same way that moving off of x86 saved them whatever premium they were paying to Intel.

> "Microsoft $3213 - Plausible."

They're not a hardware company at heart and would crater Intel just as surely as they cratered Nokia. Same goes for Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
It's only true for a single junction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...

Multi-junction cells beat that limit, but they're still horribly expensive to manufacture which confines them to niche uses like spacecraft.
Most new houses built like that in a lot of places in Europe. Prefab reinforced concrete load-bearing walls + pourous concrete for the rest. It's either stucco or one layer of brick on the outside to give character to the building.
> 2) the confluence of meteorological circumstances needed to generate a lot of tornadoes (and therefore a larger population of very destructive tornadoes) just aren't present anywhere else in the world.

This is in fact a huge part of our tornado risk in the US. The long north-south region of mountainous/high elevation (i.e. the rockies) going into a large low elevation flat region, helps create the 'layering' of different air temperatures that cause tornadoes once the current changes enough for the top/bottom layer to turn into a column.
What brand of servers was used?
Najdork is now headcanon.
> It would be nice to have a lot more detail

I'm going to save this for when I'm asked to cut the three paras on power circuit types.

Re: standardising layout at the rack level; we do now! we only figured this out after site #2. It makes everything so much easier to verify. And yeah, validation is hard - manually doing it thus far; want to play around with scraping LLDP data but our switch software stack has a bug :/. It's an evolving process, the more we work with different contractors, the more edge cases we unearth and account for. The biggest improvement is that we have built a internal DCIM that templates a rack design and exports a interactive "cabling explorer" for the site techs - including detailed annotated diagrams of equipment showing port names, etc... The screenshot of the elevation is a screenshot of part of that tool.

> What does your metal->boot stack look like?

We've hacked together something on top of https://github.com/danderson/netboot/tree/main/pixiecore that serves a debian netboot + preseed file. We have some custom temporal workers to connect to Redfish APIs on the BMCs to puppeteer the contraption. Then a custom host agent to provision QEMU VMs and advertise assigned IPs via BGP (using FRR) from the host.

Re: new DCs for failure scenarios, yeah we've already blown breakers etc... testing stuff (that's how we figured out our phase balancing was off). Went in with a thermal camera on another. A site in AMS is coming up next week and the goal for that is to see how far we can push a fully loaded switch fabric.
in case of earthquakes: to not to die.
Most of the environments are empty planes with a 1-2 trees I think they needed to use a lot of tricks to have more than that. It might have also been an ai pathing issue
> No one's talking about availability in Russia except you.

That's the other side of the coin. Why do you expect one country to be totally open and allow the other to be totally closed? How is that a standard that makes any sense?

> "The reason you can is that very few people actually do."

I don't see what consumption habits have to do with anything. This is also contradicting what you just said, that people in the US don't have access to this content.

> As the Tik Tok affair shows, the moment the US suspects it might have some real competitor in controlling the narrative, it shuts them down.

Who is the "US" here? The U.S. government? A specific company? Without specifics you aren't really saying anything at all, just implying some greater unfalsifiable conspiracy.
The easier answer is ”This is really eating into Meta’s revenues”
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> Yet people are arguing that we should allow the people who did that to continue to install apps on millions of Americans phones

Who are "the people who did that" - Byte Dance or China as a whole? If it's the latter, I'm afraid there are still plenty of apps made by Chinese companies like, DJI, Lenovo, and thousands of IoT apps to control random geegaws via WiFi or BT.

It's not hard to see the pattern: any Chinese tech champion that does as well as, or better than American companies will find itself in legal peril. Huawei didn't get in trouble after hacking Nortel, but they got sanctioned much later, when their 5G base equipment was well-received by the markets. TikTok had the best ML-based recommendation systems when it burst in the scene, Google and Meta still haven't quite caught up yet.
I think it was Arriva. Defineitely one that operated in Manchester st the time. Cannot find a link.
You know, you can just look these things up. This isn't some piece of obscure trivia.

> Which defects?

Ashkenazi Jews are prone to a whole host of genetic defects that affect the brain, of which the most famous is Tay-Sachs.

> What reasons?

A lifestyle focused on commerce as opposed to foraging or agriculture.

> Who is assuming?

Everyone, basically.

In the case of the Ashkenazi Jews, as far as we can tell they've been like that for as long as records of the group have existed. But the French Canadian specialization in commerce postdates the discovery of North America.
As far as I understand, many of those brokers are specific to Russia, and get their data specifically from Russian sources which Ukrainians are unlikely to be involved with.

Russian officials / employees are easier to bribe, so there are brokers selling access to car ownership / license plate records, cell phone location records and call logs, passport records etc.

There's a good Bellingcat article on this at https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...