skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The founding of the US is absolutely a remarkable achievement. A group of colonies successfully broke from global imperial power to successfully establish a society heavily influenced by the best enlightenment thinking and classical civil philosophy. It's really something. Looking at some populist reactionary movements that happened in the early 19th century, one wonders if the outcome could have been as good as the US constitution even 30 years later.

That said:

* it existed in a historic and cultural context of states that had already made significant movements in that direction -- it was a big leap, but it wasn't simple 0-1. More like a 0.4 with a lot of the relevant ideals and institutions (elections, representation, courts, legislative bodies, executive authority, rule of law , etc) fairly well developed and demonstrated in various ways pulled together into a coherent 0.75 and woven in with enlightenment ideals as expressed in documents like the declaration of independence.

* There is at least a partial linear dependence between civil rights and democracy. The franchise relationship is where it's strongest. Democracy is effective, principled, & honored ballot access. Without any effective franchise what you have instead is an opinion poll. And mere fractional access to the franchise walks elections & representation down from "1" -- it is literally the coefficient you have to multiple a "1" democracy by in order to arrive at its effective democratic nature.

That's just the start, though. It's a bit like that old Churchill/Shaw/Twain/whoever story where Clever Guy™ is having a conversation with a woman:

“Would you sleep with a stranger if he paid you £1,000,000?”

“Yes.”

“And if he paid you £5?”

“£5? What do you think I am?”

“We’ve already established that, now we're just haggling over the price.”

Ha-ha! A country without a universal franchise has already established that some people don't get a democratic say, it's just haggling over who those people are. And that means it can haggle over whether you get to be one of those people. And even eventually over whether anyone gets to be one of those people, over whether it is democratic at all.

This generalizes to other rights. In order to have them guaranteed to anyone, they must be guaranteed to everyone. It's why constitutional guarantees tend to be features of constitutional representative democracies since the enlightenment, imperfect leap though the US is.

The big question is if the US (among others) can finish climbing the ladder when the political headwinds seem to be against "guaranteed to everyone."
Because "we" don't have a functioning democracy. Only the illusion of one.
All the demos I've seen are from people who say things like "it was really uncomfortable, and didn't have any of the hardware connected to actually make it a self-contained headset, and also rather than any of the real software, it was just running a video demo on the display". Has anything actually come out to the contrary?
I suppose you could take your phone to a cafe to do all your software stuff
I worked at a startup that was building almost exactly this product. It didn’t work, but not for product reasons. The CEO was more interested in swag t-shirt designs than the actual software. I wish you the best of luck, may you succeed where I didn’t.
I'm not suggesting that the UK attempts to make all the parts that are made in partner countries, merely that they have access to the information required to do so.

If that's the case they maybe they would be able to help the other partner countries develop the parts that they would otherwise require America to make.
I would always pronounce it as in Scottish Loch, but I guess that is natural if you are German.
love it

especially the sense of humor... like on gif
There is just no way they count every individual.
I live in California and was visiting someone in the central valley. For fun I drove some back dirt roads into some hills and there was a small corrugated sheet metal building style settlement with 20ish people hanging around it a ways back in. It really made me wonder how many people are tucked away. Not like a 24 year old kid who gets a college degree and intentionally lives off grid, but poor/uneducated people who eke out a living somewhere off the beaten path.
I’ve actually looked into this for a few developing countries, and dam resettlement figures are very likely to be inflated.

There’s no actual combination of outsiders going around to every household in every village for even a dozen days of the year to plausibly provide a third party confirmation of claimed residence for each individual.

It’s effectively villagers certifying each other that they really live there as a primary residence.
I have never heard anyone say "regex" with an /eɪ/ sound like "RAY". It's /ɛ/ like in "meh", or indeed the first syllable in "regular". (though "regex" has a "soft g" /dʒ/, not a "hard g" /g/ like in "regular").
No, it's something like Patreon, not a currency infrastructure.
They broke the law indeed. It was a legally untested tax structure that was found to be illegal all along. This also is not the first time the European courts have told member states to stop preferential treatment in tax deals.

It's funny that you say it was well known to everyone and also wasn't an issue. It was well known because precisely because it was an issue.

If a company and country are dishonest about the tax deals they illegally make it's pretty dishonest to call it dishonest to demand the taxes are back payed.

This ruling applies to all the illegal tax schemes European countries have been using. So there are definitely other companies getting the bill as well.
I prefer o/c.
In my experience most people that say regex a lot tend to pronounce it "rezh-eks". The softening drop from g to j to zh is a fascinating one in this context, and I think makes it easier to pronounce a lot. I'm not one to argue that it is the "right" pronunciation in general, but it is the "feels right" pronunciation to me.
Well, first of all LaTeX is derived from TeX. And the X isn't an x but the Greek letter X whose pronunciation seems to depend on Greek epoch and also geographic preferences. The final say would have Donald Knuth. I think he said it's like the Ch in (Happy) Chanukka ...
Yea, and this story should instead have the headline "Karen get hilarious description of himself from ChatGPT, takes it too seriously." to help build a public culture of accepting they can be wrong.
Can we get a discussion going on where other parents are finding high quality media for kids to consume? YouTube Kids is a definite no. YT Kids feels like it's intentionally made to brainwash your child and having unsuspecting parents let their guard down with the "Kids" in the app name. From my experimentation it is far worse than regular YouTube.

YouTube, need to watch them carefully and catch the YT algorithm trying to insert bad videos.

I have been mainly relying on Epic & PBS Kids - but feel an expansion is needed.
From Minix to the Cloud: Tracing the Enduring Legacy of Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I had a boss who did that many many years ago and it was like nails on a chalkboard. I'm glad you have corrected yourself. :)
Yes, that's the point: the numbers are used as both indices and offsets. To any musician or music student, moving from G to B is "going up a (major) third", even though it's obviously going up by 2 notes. The name of that offset ("interval" in music speak) is "third", even though it has a distance of 2 notes.

My point (more generally) is that even though it looks reasonable to make indices start from 1 and offsets from 0, in practice these things can get mixed together. It's not reasonable to get people to use two different numbers for what they see as the same thing (because their use got mixed).
RDP also supports streaming regions, including the entire desktop, as hardware-encoded video. It was introduced 9 years ago[1].

As for performance, I've been playing full-screen games over it. Latency sucked when I was literally on the opposite side of the earth but if the bandwidth was there it worked fine.

From work to home RDP is typically indistinguishable from being local for me.

[1]: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-...
how do you say "SIEM" or its less popular but apparently equivalent form, "SEIM"?
I don't care what the creators say, I will die on the hill of it being gif with a hard G! :P
Your use case doesn’t benefit from your own data. There’s nothing you can do that doesn’t require a direct interaction from the server.

I write an audio recording app, and in my app, users have most to gain from their own data. For most people, syncing is basically an afterthought. In this use case, the ability of having your recordings in your phone is the most important thing.

The difference here lies that in my app, the user generates all the valuable data themselves. In your app, nothing valuable can happen without communication with the airline.
I remember encountering this file in Red Hat Linux circa 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg. It sounds much clearer nowadays, but still to my ear it's roughly halfway between lih-nucks and lee-noox.
The real problem with the Touch Bar was that they never made an external keyboard with it. So I could never actually build it into my habits, since it was only actually available to me half the time.

(I'm demonstrably willing to spend money on fancy Apple external peripherals! I have the touchID keyboard, and think the convenience of it was worth the kinda silly price. I'd absolutely have wound up getting an external Touch Bar keyboard...)
Matlab, Fortran, Julia, R, SAS, SPSS, Mathematica, and the whole field of mathematics. F*ck off all mathematicians, what do they know about counting?
Yes, not so much because I'm trying to anthropomorphize it or interact with it like a human, but because I view such things as conversational signals that may influence the direction of the model.

- "Please" = Call to action for the model to perform a task that I either just described or am about to describe within this prompt. In other words, this conversational turn is not just about feeding more context to it, but I've given it everything I think it needs and it should go ahead and start.

- "Thank you" = I am satisfied with the results that it provided for that task and want to move on to something else now, where the new thing is contextually related to the recent task. (If I wanted an entirely unrelated task, I'd just start a new conversation with a fresh context.)
That’s one controversy that shouldn’t be. Quoth Knuth (The TeXbook, chapter 1, “The name of the game”):

> Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.
If you're inside AWS, have a fully containerized workflow and/or can run some tasks in Lambda, Step Functions is probably ok? I personally prefer Airflow, but I wouldn't say is the 'simplest data orchestration tool'.
ng'inx
The first sector this happens is defence industry, one of the US of A's biggest exports. EU already decided that weapons will need to be at least 65% manufactured in Europe: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-freeze-us-multi-billion-d...
That will fall to pieces executing basic maneuvers?
"Seem" mostly, but I also hear "semm" quite a lot.
I take issue with the options of "RAY-ghex" and "RAY-jeks." In my experience you can say either "REH-ghex" or "REH-jeks."
I'd add that several of the wars and coups the U.S. took part in, especially during the Cold War, can be better understood in light of Soviet expansionism - after all, the USSR was effectively invading other nations. For example, when people say “the U.S. created the Taliban,” it was primarily about countering Soviet forces in yet another country they were encroaching upon.
Are there people actually out there saying "S-Q-L-ite"?
I used to hear "seem" but lately its all "sim"
Blockedchain
Your comment before you edited it was

> USA can makeup whatever laws it wants and apply them retroactively too

Which shows how little understanding you have of this topic. This isn't a new law, at all. The tax has always been owed, because state aid / state subsidy has always been illegal in the EU. No new law is being applied retroactively here.

A debt needs to be paid.
I worked with a guy who pronounced vi as "six".
It's also less agro
> Is it a tax, i.e. a fee charged by a government? Yes.

That isn't the commonly-held definition of a tax. The key thing about taxes is that they are compulsory. Transit fares are purely usage-based, and therefore optional, as you aren't forced to use transit. Fares are not commonly considered to be "taxes" in anything I've ever read.
I said “Freznul” for Fresnel in front of a lighting designer. He said “ah! So you’ve been reading!”

I remember that now when someone pronounces something as it’s spelled. They’ve likely been studying by actually reading something, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I read it as tupple.
I kinda wonder how that design would play nowadays, after the Apple Silicon transition. They were stuck because of Intel's thermals, but their own chips seem to be a lot better in terms of performance/watt...
No Whois. I said that wrong for a long time. It's WhoIs. Two words.
complete with solutions, beautiful, thank you for sharing!

I'd be interested in more of these pen and paper exercises, if there is such a term, for other topics.
From the article:

> “How you going, Bingo? I can feel my sausages burning,” Bandit implores. Bingo replies, “I started just doing a wee, and now it turned into poo.”

> “I’d never seen a children’s show talk about real life like that,” says Kay. “I thought, ‘This is charming, funny and real.’”

From https://theonion.com/next-episode-of-girls-to-feature-lena-d... Next Episode Of 'Girls' To Feature Lena Dunham Shitting Herself During Gyno Exam While Eating A Burrito

> “When a naked Hannah dribbled hot sauce all over herself in front of the doctor, shit in every corner of the office, cried, became angry with the doctor, had sex with the doctor, finished her burrito, had sex with the doctor again, shit herself again, and then realized who she was really angry at and sexually attracted to was Adam, I just closed my eyes and said, ‘Thank you.’ These are real girls with real bodies doing things that real girls do.”
You may be only one. Because businesses that deal in pure software/vaporware have been priced much higher for long time compare to businesses that deal with lot of people / physical products.
I think there's a lot of things that's hurting the job market for tech workers right now (the large influx of code camp and sci-comp graduates being a big one), but in my opinion the main thing is this:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/255146/number-of-interne...

The number of people from poorer countries who are now on the internet has grown at an astounding rate of the last few years. Many of these people have been acquiring IT skills in recent years and they're now competing with Western tech workers.

Most tech jobs are just digital IO and the pandemic proved to us that you don't need to find tech workers from the local area to get things done. In theory tech jobs should be far easier to outsource than manufacturing job since you don't need build factories abroad, nor do you need to ship products around the world And since most processes are digital so there's little to no friction in outsourcing.

Economists largely agree that well paid manufacturing jobs going abroad where wages were "more competitive" was good for Western economies because we got cheaper products. Presumably they'll say the same about todays well paid digital jobs. Going forward it's going to be much cheaper for companies build apps and websites if they use foreign labour.

Personally I suspect that economists are wrong and their theories only work when you assume labour competition is happening within an even playing field, but I guess we'll find out.

AI and SaaS products are also eroding the demand for tech workers to some degree. It's become relatively easier for someone with limited tech skills to create websites, mobile apps and launch ecommerce stores than it used to be. Again, I hear this is also going to be good for workers somehow. It's certainly good for Shopify anyway.

Imo tech workers should look to reskill ASAP. It's fairly obvious where this is going and I'd bet on the Western tech job market entering a sustained secular decline. I see no reason to believe there's any alternative.

My family are poor and from a ex-industrial town. If you think anyone here is better off today because all the factories have closed and have replaced with restaurants and flats then you're kidding yourself. The only people who have won in recent decades are those whose jobs avoided outsourcing (mainly upper-middle class people with university degrees, many of whom work in tech) and it seems to me that even this cohort is about to get hit by outsourcing and AI now.

I'm not going to spin you a positive narrative because you can't help people by lying about reality. I think if you're struggling to make ends meet you need to start to consider a different career. I'm sorry.
It's quite old, I'm surprised you're only seeing it now
The Philosophy of ConsciousInsights:Leveraging LLMs to understand your happiness
I don't agree that the worker's interest is or should be in minimizing company profit - this is a very zero sum approach that doesn't really cover companies that aren't stagnant or dying.

I agree with your general point that a business CAN increase profit by reducing costs, including by reducing employee compensation (and there are lots of shortsighted, greedy people out there) but increasing revenue instead is often much more significant and, in theory, can increase both employee take home and company profit.

A business is a mechanism to turn labor and other resources into revenue and often aligns with paying for more expensive talent in order to provide more valuable revenue. Businesses that are failing or stagnant can't grow revenue anymore and have to cut costs instead.

I don't think the imbalance between workers and companies is in a zero sum, adversarial relationship. I think the imbalance is in who gets to decide what to grow and what to cut (which is one place where collective bargaining helps a great deal).
He also hated Lisp
A website mapped Tesla owners and their personal info amid a wave of attacks
SQ-Lite
It's not a retroactive law. It's a law not being followed. If you decide to not file your taxes properly and need to pay all the tax you owe after getting found out the law did not change.
This discussion and post from yesterday has some good perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413
or Postgre-S-Q-L instead of Postgres-Q-L
Russia also used to launch french guiana.

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

Was nice having world peace from a NATO's point of view in 2011-2013.

Russian launches continued till third wave of Ukraine territory conflicts in 2022, says wikipedia.
I used to work for an automation company that produced a product called ActiveBatch. It was such an amazing tool for just drag and drop automation. Its focus was on full fledged workflow automation and not just data orchestration.

What I loved was its simplicity + its out of the box features. To set it up just took a simple MS SQL DB + An Installer. Bam you are up and running an absolute rock solid scheduler(i've seen million+ jobs running on it without it breaking a sweat). Then you could install (or use it to deploy) execution agents to all the servers you wanted as workers.

It also installed a robust Desktop GUI that had so many services built in ready to go (anything from executing scripts all the way to performing direct actions against countless products a company would have or against various cloud services).

There were so many pre built actions where all you had to do was input credentials and it would enumerate the appropriate properties from that service automatically. Then you could connect things together (ie, pull something from the cloud, process it on some other server, store it, pass it along to another service, whatever you wanted)

Only problem was this is very much a B2B application and their sales is really only interested in selling to enterprises and not end users. I really wish we had something like this that regular people could download.

Everything ive seen listed here requires extensive setup,requires coding, or does not have a robust desktop GUI but instead some half baked web gui which might require dropping back down to scripts/coding. You could set up hundreds/thousands of automated steps in ActiveBatch without writing a single line of code. I miss that product.
> Also sea hash turned out to be sea sharp.

This irked me when I learned it as I'm into both tech and music, but it never once occurred to me to apply the music convention to a tech name.
I take care of that one with Mises Pieces /g
Back in the BBS days I used to pronounce "warez" like "juarez", growing up in a spanish speaking community, and not knowing it was short for "softwares".
It's quite old, I'm surprised you're only seeing it now

Insert that xkcd comic
Humans are more adaptable than you think:

- echolocation in blind humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation

- sight through signals sent on tongue https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind...

In the latter case, I recall reading the people involved ended up perceiving these signals as a "first order" sense (not consciously treated information, but on an intuitive level like hearing or vision).
How does that help? A patent troll doesn't really have any reputation to protect.
WIRED Magazine crawling out of the pits of being a glorified collection of advertisements to having quality journalism pieces about tech related news was not something I was expecting for these times, but I'm happy to have been pleasantly surprised.
Because the text isn't displaying directly on the headset screen. It's being displayed as a 3d pane within the virtual desktop: https://roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...

So the actual number of pixels used to display the pane containing your text is maybe 10-20% of the headset display's resolution.

I suppose you could display text directly on the headset display. But then you only have 2,560x2,560 pixels per eye, fewer pixels than a 4k display.
Nope, i don't think they should or need to be able to.

These exercises are useful for mathematical maturity which results in intuition needed to develop novel algorithms or low level optimizations.

Not needed to use existing train and deploy ML algorithms in general.
"Ecks-eff-see-ee" (Xfce), not "x-face" (sadly, got this myth debunked just now lol)
Not true in my experience being on both sides of the equation
What did Russia/USSR pick Kazakhstan at the launching point? Was it the closest they can get to the equator?
Python already has the best design (fewest tradeoffs) in this small area.

You're proposing to break the expectations of millions and break offset math while you're at it. Not very compelling if you ask me.
Getting a better answer or not, Roko teaches us that being polite to AI may just spare our souls.