skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of this and I've made a conscious decision to use the lazy pronunciation. I'm actually thinking of switching to lazy pronunciation as the standard pronunciation for a lot of words, the same as what some authors have done. It's more difficult and weird to teach people a pronunciation that not many people are using. At this point the lazy pronunciation has pretty much dominated the normal language development.

我都打詠春。喺學院，我師傅同埋我哋都話"lim". 如果你話"nim"會係好奇怪。我推介你試吓明粵卷唔使係一百%啱。如果係八十到九十%啱同大部分人明你講乜嘢，我覺得OK。學生可以繼續學廣東話。越來越好。
The fog of propaganda is pretty deep to write those word to defend a man who did exactly that: tried to extend his power through illegal means. He failed last time, he is far more likely to succeed now. And yes his means are again illegal, we don’t elect kings, there are still rules to follow.
They are still around. I noticed a couple that were posted recently since I have been looking myself. I think most places are just operating with alternative stacks

Searching for PHP jobs is usually tricky anyways. "Php" will commonly appear in job listings simply because the listings are hosted by some PHP application online
They're not giving up on Bitcoin. In fact, it's likely that they'll use the loan to buy more Bitcoin.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/el-salvadors-bitc...
HK has a currency pegged to the USD via a currency board, that is (similar to a stable coin) backed one-to-one with USD denominated short-dated treasuries. That is within the HK exchange fund operated by the HK Monetary Authority.

The exchange fund also (and somewhat controversially) runs additional portfolios (with foreign shares and bonds, and private equity, real estate etc.) in the manner of a sovereign wealth fund.
Who controls the .me tld?

Montenegro.
There is a book called "Talking to your daughter about Economics", where the author explains one of the problems with bitcoin is, you cant print more of it in a crisis. Maybe thats what happened here.
You’ll get those when they release the UFOs.
Aviation still uses AM radio which is more susceptible to noise than FM or digital modes but it does so for two very important reasons.

The first is that, with AM, if two or more people are transmitting on the same frequency at the same time, they can all still be heard. With FM, the strongest signal will suppress any weaker signals and only one signal will be heard.

The second is that even very weak AM signals have the chance to be received and understood. The human ear is very good at picking out human voices from noise. Weak FM signals just drop out completely.
Put me on record as being in the "nothing ever happens" camp: Oswald done it, the grassy knoll is just a particularly grassy knoll, and the remaining 1% or whatever unreleased files contain a fat nothingburger.
Sure, translations work better for bland, unpleasant, and redundant text, regardless of purposes.

So if business emails gets creative and dramatic, there will be heightened need for resources and risk for mistranslations, or if a novel would be written like law text, there will be less ambiguity or processing cost. Or if were to be written relying on English-centric LLM, it'll do worse in languages other than en_AI.
They don't want to be effective. They want to punish and humiliate anyone they don't like, and lie about it because claiming "efficiency" is an easy way to get overly credulous American moderates to look the other way.
I want to down-vote you, but I seemingly cannot.

This is incredibly dangerous. A select few, having such control over so many millions? Are you nuts?! This is a serious question, as a new member of this community, is this a normal type of comment I can expect on HN?
The article says "92% of Salvadorans did not use bitcoin in their transactions in 2024". Which means that 8% did use it in their transactions.
Phil Salvador and The Video Game History Foundation do great work (simultaneously serious and fun) and excellent research and compelling writing!

In his quest to deeply research the evidence, perform interviews with the people involved with Maxis's Business Simulations Division, and document the history of Maxis's long lost SimRefinery, Phil was able to pull off the astronomically unlikely miracle of actually finding someone who had an extremely rare readable floppy disk of it! The articles he wrote tell an amazing story.

A close look at SimRefinery:

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-analysis/

>Two nights ago, a reader on the tech news site Ars Technica named postbebop uploaded a copy of SimRefinery to the Internet Archive. This is incredibly exciting news, and it’s given us our first chance to take a closer look at the game. SimRefinery was not fully completed by Maxis, and we can learn a lot about the game from the state it was left in. Based on my research, I want to add some context and explain what some of the peculiarities the game might say about its development.

Ep. 11: SimRefinery Simulated by a Refined Phil Salvador:

https://gamehistory.org/ep-11-simrefinery-simulated-by-a-ref...

>Today’s episode features the bizarre origins of SimRefinery as well as other Sim titles which never came to be. Phil Salvador joins the Video Game History Hour to discuss a branch of Maxis, Business Simulations Division, which gives us a glimpse into a path-not-taken, alternate reality where Maxis might have only made a name for themselves in the world of business. A world where powerhouse franchises like SimCity and The Sims never existed. But alas, perhaps we could have had, but now never will have, SimArby’s. </3

SimRefinery Recovered (obscuritory.com):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23425041

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/

>Never say never! Thanks to a reader on Ars Technica and an anonymous chemical engineer, a working copy of SimRefinery has been successfully recovered.

>Two weeks ago, I published my long-in-the-works article about Maxis Business Simulations, a division of SimCity developer Maxis that made simulation games for businesses. It was the culmination of four years of research, and I’m very proud to share their story.

>One of the games they produced was SimRefinery, an oil refinery simulation for Chevron. Very little was widely known about the game until now, and the article kicked off a wave of interest in SimRefinery that seems to have reached beyond gaming circles. Shortly after the article was published, it was picked up by the tech news site Ars Technica, where one reader, postbebop, reported that they knew a retired chemical engineer who worked at Chevron, who confirmed that he owned a copy of the game. postbebop walked the engineer through the process of reading the data from the original floppy disk, and he was able to create a digital copy.
Increased prosperity, intelligent leadership and lawful order? I'll take it!
Yes - This is an underrated point.

The circle of Elon, Thiel, Andersson, etc conceptually orbit Balaji. Balaji, The Network State author, explicitly advocates for a techno-libertarian exit because they perceive the US and especially "team blue" as getting in the way and slowing down their vision.
> Go on Twitter or any other site that doesn't ban a certain flavor of discourse.

I just don't understand where people even get this idea. Is it the repetition and perpetuation of it that makes so many people believe it? We are and have always been allowed to have whatever opinions we wanted on any of the regular platforms, so long as it doesn't affect the rights of others (so there's a line at racism, calling for violence, and advertising for scams for example). There has never been a "flavor ban" unless one's flavor is KKK
Imagine if the amount of ingenuity that went into building the elaborate speculative digital game that is crypto was actually used to lift underdeveloped countries from their misery. Fighting corruption, enabling healthier local economies, reducing the siphoning of wealth to offshore centers, improving financial literacy etc. etc.

Solving real problems is hard. Being distracted by snake oil salesmen, whether they sell digital scarcity or AGI only makes things worse.
I’m confused so when the president says something I’m supposed to not take it seriously? So when he said he would pardon all J6 defendants, and all his sycophants including his VP said - well of course not the violent ones - we should or should not take him at his word? Is there some sort of magic decoder ring I’m missing?
People don't get rich holding currency. They spend it to invest in businesses, stocks, real estate, bonds, etc.
Hi, are these open to North Americans, or only looking for Brits?
Did the value of their holdings drop over the past few years?
In context, that question would not about the present, but the future:

> It might be bad as well, but at least the news will be interesting.

Of course this doesn't mean "this might suck for me, but at least it will be interesting news for others". Why pretend otherwise?

> Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lhcyirig6k...

You don't receive such aid, correct? So why care. Just a bunch of dudes soaking up highly sensitive information to do whatever with.

Trump spoke plenty of times of his desire of purging all sorts of things including the "deep state". It's amazing to me that all it takes is to tack on some vague claims about "efficiency" from a guy who lies like a child about the dumbest things, for some Americans to say "but what IF it saves a bit of money?" and just ignore the whole "using a very flimsy excuse to purge political opposition" thing.
> obviously HK is a bit of a special case

Reminds me of the old macro economist joke: There are 4 types of economies, developed economy, developing economy, Japan, and Argentina. Maybe HK should be added to that joke...
does buying drugs count?
Doing much shopping with gold coins lately? Even big things. Bought a car with a bar?
Look, this is not some Fox News, this is The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/dnc-mee...

I'm no Trump fan, but losing to Trump required some serious efforts :-(
Remember May 31, 2020?

"Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker on Friday night as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades.

"Trump spent nearly an hour in the bunker, which was designed for use in emergencies like terrorist attacks, according to a Republican close to the White House who was not authorized to publicly discuss private matters and spoke on condition of anonymity. The account was confirmed by an administration official who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

"The abrupt decision by the agents underscored the rattled mood inside the White House, where the chants from protesters in Lafayette Park could be heard all weekend and Secret Service agents and law enforcement officers struggled to contain the crowds."

As near as I can find, some 6 people were arrested for this violent protest by the Secret Service, and some 16 by DC police. Is is vanishingly difficult to find if anyone was subsequently charged and convicted for this event, which was without parallel, at least in my lifetime. This followed the events of May 30, 2020, when the Church of St. John's Episcopal In Lafayette Square, across from the White House, was sent on fire. To date it seems that no one has been arrested or charged for this destruction.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-george-f...
Sure but the USD has two order of magnitude more total value, and probably more than that in day to day usage.

So there's an implicit question there which apparently you and everyone else missed.
Apple's Q1 FY2025 Earnings
In our conspiracy theory riddled world?

The first thing that comes to mind is Sandy Hook. Those poor parents being harassed by people accusing them of being “false flag” actors and all that nonsense. If you were a key witness in the JFK assassination you can bet nutjobs hell bent on some conspiracy theory or another are going to track you down and harass you.

Not to mention the way more vanilla stuff: people whose testimony incriminated friends, family members etc etc
The post you're replying to is about Bitcoin being "used", not specifically "used for everyday transactions". Bitcoin has so far been a decent asset to hold as a store of value if you don't want to or can't store your money in the traditional financial system. Lots of everyday people in countries with high inflation or strict controls or how people can store money hold Bitcoin (or perhaps more commonly, stablecoins) for a very practical purpose other than speculation.

Bitcoin has only failed so far as a replacement for Visa and Mastercard. So no, nobody's using it to buy coffee.
As others have said, it depends on the cause of the itch.

I have an alpha-galactose allergy. This is sort of a food allergy: beef and lamb, probably venison and to a lesser extent pork, trigger it. But unlike other food allergies, this doesn't hit me at the time, but maybe six or eight hours later. While I can get hives whenever I eat too much of that kind of meat (which of course I try to avoid), the best guarantee that it will happen after such a meal is heat on my skin. Initially, this happened several times when I stopped running after an hour or so, and my body was no longer cooled by the breeze and by breathing hard; but I've also gotten hives when taking a hot shower hours after eating beef, or sleeping under more blankets than I really need.

BTW, the alpha-gal allergy is transmitted by bites of the Lone Star Tick. You don't get hives from the bite, but it somehow makes you allergic to beef. And I'm not making this up--it is well documented: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syn... see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise-induced_anaphylaxis on the link between exercise and hives.
Good question. I have actually and was recently playing around with that. The problem isn't necessarily the recordings (since I've accepted that I'm willing to record all the possible Cantonese sounds for all the words myself - I'm not a fan of AI and I don't use it in my personal life if I can avoid it), but more because of the nature of the project. I haven't figured out a way to be able to get the base directory of the site so that I can load all of the audio files from a specific directory, specially when being used in offline mode. If I was only running this project from a webserver, it's easy to get the website root and just append the audio location, but if you download the project for offline use, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to access the base dir from the file:// protocol perspective. I have some ideas but I'll need to experiment with that over time. As a stop gap measure I've added the "Core Audio Reference" page which is my recordings of all of the tones, initials, and finals. But it's still not the best experience.

Once I figure out the base dir thing I'll be able to easily just make every automatic romanization that you see an a href which points to the mp3.
location: DC/VA area
remote: yes
relocate:depends where
tecnologies: ios. swift, .net mvc
Been working on some apps. one is a video network, the other a chat app
Also a Website in . Net is a social board, one part twitter one part messageboard: https://www.asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
email:markamaro1@yahoo.com
And who stated a reason?
This was never going to work.

To me, Bitcoin seems way more like an asset class, rather than a currency. (Despite the name which is a HUGE misnomer for the average layperson.)

Nobody invested in Bitcoin believes you should be ordering pizzas or using it as an actual currency. Bitcoin is a long-term play.

You can't make a currency out of something that's fluctuating by more than 10,000 USD in a 24-hour period.
> Their claims to "fame" were being interns or working on tightly scoped greenfield projects.

And there's that one guy whose entire work history is as a summer camp counselor.
I think it's safe to read that as "relatively stable." USD is a relatively stable currency, and especially compared to BTC.
Agree, but when you staff an entire agency with his supporters, the echo chamber effect can result in it becoming a hive of far-left types.

The same would apply to the right too, except that the right tends to shut down agencies, not create them.
Have you tried telling them straight up that their behaviour is unacceptable? That they need to stop feeling sorry for themselves and complaining or no one will want to be around them?

I found out this lesson the hard way. I was a miserable kid. I don't know how it figured it out, but feeling sorry for yourself accomplishes nothing. Maybe life is shit. Maybe you're over-exaggerating. Doesn't matter, you're not going to get out of that situation by 'woowoo'ing.

Sometimes folks just need to reflect. One core memory I have was when I was really young. I was crying over something. My older brother's friend said to me "Why are you crying? You just want attention!" and that shut me right up. I thought about it, realized he was right, and realized I didn't need to cry.
>built the most morally reprehensible weapon in history

That’s obviously arguable. Did the weapon and its usage cause more or fewer deaths and destruction than without it?
Ironically part of the long-term problem was El Salvador's dollarization, also preventing them from printing in a crisis (that crisis being the COVID pandemic).
Indeed, I can't imagine these will still be around in Egypt in 5000 years time as the HN post title currently suggests.
The very first IMF loan ever given was to France for reconstruction. One of the terms for the condition was to remove the only elected communist in their government from their position.

IMF loans have ALWAYS been political
And eventually the math will be solved and every bitcoin will be worth zero.
Nobody is “picking up” a feral cat unless they like bites and deep scratches. If you can approach and pick up a cat, it’s a pet. Leave it be and it will go home when it wants to.
> IMO its more like choosing a lesser known evil, because the new ones already demonstrated not being better.

First, I would disagree re: the 2nd part. Rust has obviously demonstrated itself, specifically in kernel space, but also almost everywhere else systems programming matters. I don't know what more it needs to do.

Second, why must we choose? I (and I think the R4L folks would agree) don't think it's necessary for us to choose between C and Rust, if you're simply writing drivers in Rust. The reason this seems like such a fit by Mr. Hellwig is that this is obviously premature. Why don't we see how it works first, before screaming about how it will never work.

> This whole Rust in Kernel will not end well.

Third, I think you may discount how important the Rust energy/mindshare is. If it's not Linux, it will be FreeBSD or some other kernel, and that will be where all the interesting kernel development will be happening in 10 years. FWIW, I'd much rather have arbitrary Linux binaries work on my Rust-y kernel 10 years from now, I'd much rather my cutting edge driver code works on a system we can use now, etc.

I hope this will usher in an era of less rudimentary kernel systems, because of how hard complex things in C are to get correct. For instance, OSS filesystem development has mostly stood still since ZFS. That is -- years later, bcachefs and btrfs are still chasing ZFS. Can you imagine a new filesystem, built for NVME and async IO, with ZFS feature parity, and additional wild features only available on enterprise storage (3D RAID anyone?, clustering, distributed filesystems...), which ships and becomes stable in years not decades?

Instead Linux users who prefer stability prefer to drive an antique, the equivalent of Porsche 356. Okay for its time, and for certain workloads fast, but only because it still lacks so much.
Not referenced in the README, here's a great video demonstration of this type of AVSR network running in real time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDO8OYnmkNY&t=120s
I come to these threads expecting criticism about bitcoin being funny internet money run by a small group of shady characters.

But most of the comments are about how stable currency and stores of wealth are actually bad! It kind of sounds like we think bitcoin is working.

If USD is inflating and Gold is staying still, is gold “deflating”?
> For better or for worse, the amendment does not make any exceptions for denying citizenship to persons born of late term pregnant women who just arrived on the shores.

"and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" could easily be read to exclude those who are born to people present unlawfully and/or in violation of their visa. I think it's pretty plausible that the Supreme Court might overturn Wong Kim Ark.

> Marking lawful citizens as enemy combatants for simply being born in the US sounds like a very bad idea to me, and should be to you too. Why would I not be a potential enemy combatant for making this comment on hacker news right now?

Welcome to how it's always been for anyone who didn't have citizenship. The "enemy combatant" concept is some tinpot dictator bullshit, but at this point it's been well established in the US and supported by both sides of the aisle, the Dems wouldn't have a leg to stand on in campaigning against it. Talking about applying it to "lawful citizens" is purely circular logic - Trump will take the position that they aren't and were never lawful citizens.
Go Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Package Exploits Go Module Proxy Caching For
I didn’t think any of your suggestions were worth evaluating on their merits.
And it was $92k just less than 24 hours ago. That’s why it’s bad for currencies because people can’t make meaningful plans more than a few hours out, and it’s terrible for the economy if you incentivize everyone to reduce spending in the hopes that speculators will make you rich later.

Real currencies circulate so the same dollar is spent by many people, benefiting each of them while you’re still holding onto your Bitcoin hoping it’ll reach $110k next. You do not want to live in a country where people are staying out of the local economy.
Because he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and has personally seen the island
Military Might ( and hopes and prayers)
Musk usually elevates technical and capable people, and gives them more power, not less.

I suspect 18F would have been adopted by USDS, if it had been less overtly partisan in its hiring practices.
You got your rhetoric as (not) requested.
I think civil servants underestimate how many are cheering on the incursion. A large portion if the populace that educated professional class rarely mix with view much of the federal government as paper pushers who declare shoe laces as machine guns, arrest people for improperly packaged lobsters, stop the import of favored trucks like the Hilux, and roll into towns like Waco and pose in pictures of the rubble of children burned alive.

The reasoning musk provides may be untruthful, but it's incredibly persuasive to a winning segment of voters. These articles are meant to be alarm bells, but they end up as delightful entertainment.
Yep! That's why I said it _sounds like_ a conspiracy theory. Just hope it can be halted in time.
So cool! I wonder if I can find the EGM issue where my envelope art was printed? Or should I hold on to that memory, because it may have never even happened!

Also can recommend for anyone that finds themselves in Frisco, Texas:
https://nvmusa.org/
I used to pay my dish network bill with it before they stopped accepting it. I've also used it to send money to friends and family, and to donate to open source projects and other things.

If the fees were lower I'd use it for plenty of other things too.
Not rare, not strange

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36243455

T43.616A ( Underdosing of caffeine, initial encounter)