skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the outset Unicode's goal (more so than ISO 10646 though now they're one and the same) was to unify all existing character sets, so you'd only need one.

Necessarily then, there should not be other sets that encode things you can't in Unicode, since then you can't displace those with Unicode.

So, particularly in the early life of Unicode the goal was collect stuff that already exists and add it to Unicode. (These days we're finished with that and most new work is on adding things that weren't previously in any character set)

Two controversial things were done, at opposite ends of the spectrum, during this period of consolidation:

What you're seeing here is adding copies of the entire Latin alphabet, but with some particular property that Latin users would not really consider part of the character, such as "bold" or "italic" but which _was_ preserved in some character set being used somewhere. Without this choice, if we converted a text file encoded in a way that distinguished bold and italic characters, we'd lose that bold/ italic and it might be significant. This would be like when you get a black & white photocopy of a sheet that says

"Ignore any text below shown in red"

Um, but none of this text is red? Oh. Probably some of it was before it was photocopied. Oops.

At the far end of the spectrum, a process called CJK unification took place in which scholars of the languages using characters from the Han ("Chinese") writing system decided that although say, a Japanese character set and a Chinese character set both had a particular character, and the Chinese and Japanese would not draw this character the same way, actually in some linguistic sense it's the same character (and in many cases the visual differences are quite small) and so Unicode should not encode both separately.

There's a coherent technical argument for why both these types of decisions made sense, but they were nonetheless controversial.

You should not use weird characters like italic Latin letters in new documents, but you also should not transform these characters without warning when processing an existing document as you may lose important meaning.
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Interesting write up! Didn't know such a mechanism existed inside Linux kernel. What is cool is that it works for kernel modules as well.
> The big question, which I ask whenever someone harps on about portability, is does it even make sense?

Just one example, because I'm writing one right now. Protocol encoding/decoding. I just write it once, can share headers with struct definitions, and can compile it for both ends, be it x86_64 on one end and PIC on the other.
Often times instead of the list of US Sates, you actually want to list of US States and Territories:

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

For example when the intent is "list of place where the USPS ships" or "list of state-level political jurisdictions where US residents live"
> If you want to consider safety only, you or I or the Russians could come up with the trivial (and only correct) solution, which is to ban air travel.

This would be a safety failure. Banning air travel is overwhelmingly likely to increase transport fatalities. It would decrease air travel fatalities, but would not represent an increase in safety.

"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) supported the FAA's decision [to not require tickets for pax under 2 years old] based on current FAA and NHTSA studies that show a mandate could result in another 13 to 42 added family member fatalities over 10 years in highway accidents." - [0]

[0] - https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?conte...
"Clever girl"
Maybe Microsoft will be the first company that has to pay 4% of their global revenue to the EU under GDPR. Microsoft will have a hard time arguing against a government report
haha awesome. Good to hear the other side :)

I'm wondering why the downvotes though? Do we not understand that we inhabit bubbles?
That is not what the words small and limited imply to me but in Silly Valley I guess who knows?
Microsoft Translator Releases Next-Gen Neural Machine Translation Technology
Or put another way: Compilers are good att figuring out what a function _can_ do. But humans need to specify what it _should_ do.

Types aren’t always the right tool for that though. It would be interesting to see what could be done by integrating testing and typing, letting one inform the other.
If you check the wikipedia page, it seems that Philib Gibbs has contributed to this problem as well:

'''A computation by Philip Gibbs produced a shape indistinguishable from that of Gerver's sofa giving a value for the area equal to eight significant figures.[6] This is evidence that Gerver's sofa is indeed the best possible but it remains unproven. '''
In the sense that this person does not do maths as their full time job. Most folks writing papers and finding new proofs, etc, do.
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Hmm, Google got rid of their large coffee cups a few years ago...
That's what it seems, but I refused to believe it because then his mind process is totally impenetrable to me.
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Sorry, I meant the 3A+.

The questions stands; how would it PXE?
I've used Debian since 1994 and can't recall a single package installation or removal which exhibited any problem this discussion claims to be solving.
Okay, I've never sat in the cockpit of an aircraft, but the one thing I don't understand - if the nose of a plane suddenly drops, isn't the pilot's first instinct to pull back on the controls to raise it? From what I've read, in Boeing aircraft at least, the pilot's controls can always override the automatic systems.
There was another case recently with Indian enterprise customers which had me worrying.
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3065535/microsoft-...

At my work we are considering moving to the cloud with exchange and other services.
I will make sure these articles will certainly be topic at next meeting
They do ship features for their users all the time. Just look at the linked patent.
Who gets more done – office workers or telecommuters?
You're thinking of a grill, which is used to make the BBQ. As for how it differs from state, I think it's the recipes for the BBQ that differ (some places use vinegar, others use ketchup).
Maybe a functional society doesn't necessarily rely on jobs with below-living wages?
Point is, the question of whether you should pay living wages to every worker is basically equivalent to whether you should provide living income to every person, employed or not. When you enforce a living wage, some jobs would disappear and you have to answer question 2 to people who lost their jobs. I don't have an answer for question 2 but I think recognizing the theoretical equivalency here would make the discussion much more straightforward.
This is the problem with regarding intelligence as just a collection of externally-observable behaviors. We simply don't know, at this point, the extent to which the orangutans are choosing this pattern of behavior as a result of considering the possible outcomes of the alternatives.

As someone who spends a fair amount of time hiking in woodlands, I am familiar with the squeak of a chipmunk dashing for its burrow after spotting me, and I get the impression that they are silent if I have come close to them before they notice me. It is not difficult to posit how this pattern of behavior could arise from the interplay of a couple of related instinctive responses, and the same can be said for this orangutan behavior (though it does require the ability to remember a recent threat.) Whether there is more to it than that cannot be deduced from these observations.
I know that's something the think-they're-cool kids like to say, but how is it even relevant? In a tort context, it doesn't matter where the money comes from or whose money it is in abstract, and BTW it could just be made up out of thin air instead of being taken via taxes so even that part isn't accurate. All that matters is whether the plaintiff can be forced to pay. If it's the government then the answer is no. If it's a private party who doesn't have the money the answer is still no. The outcome doesn't change.

If a plaintiff who is providing an essential service is driven into bankruptcy then the government will either have to provide operating funds or take over entirely, and we're back to how they can be held accountable. "Their" money vs. "someone else's" money never comes into it. No matter whose money it is, nobody can force the government to do anything it reserves the right not to. As the entity controlling the courts and the enforcement of courts' decisions, they can simply nullify any decision ... until they're held accountable at the ballot box.

The idea that unlimited liability somehow creates accountability is absurd. All it would do is put more things in the hands of government.
Paul Frazee [00:11:59.05]:

> Yeah, so Mathias was working on that, while I was in the Secure Scuttlebut community… And then at one point I decided – well, Electron got to the point where I was like, you know what, _I think it’s actually possible to make a browser off of Electron_.

What a day we live in, making a browser with browser-code. Who knew?
This is how I would rationalize that point:

Clearly, the doctors did not intend for that specific message to appear specifically on my screen. Rather, their treatment will make my brain "fight back" against the delusion, and reality will start to creep in unexpectedly. Maybe someone will stop me on the street and tell me "you need to wake up". Maybe I'll hear a new song titled "you are in a coma". Maybe I'll find a hospital gown on my wardrobe. Or maybe a random string will appear on some repository.

Note: I also realize how much you can eff up someone's day by doing all of this. If you are one of those Youtube pranksters, don't do that.
Not OP but I wanted to chip in. I love the "pick up and play" aspect of older games and consoles. I don't have much time to game anymore so I just don't have time to sit in front of Steam waiting for GBs of updates before I can even start playing (there are a few franchises I'll make the effort for - the new DOOM, Wolfenstein and Deus Ex games to name a few).

The console I'm getting the most use out of at the minute is actually my old Dreamcast - I can hit the power button and be tearing around in Crazy Taxi in less than 2 minutes. Always good for a laugh when I have a spare 15-20 minutes to kill.
This displeased me recently with Office on the Mac. To even set the level of data to "basic", I had to fiddle with plists, and it's not even possible to switch it off completely. Luckily just finishing our migration to Libreoffice and ODF.
I'd assume them to at least vary it a little bit. If they can printf some text into my comatose brain, they can also make it dynamic where it shouldn't be.
Keep in mind that Craigslist may not be the best way to find an apartment. From what I've seen, smaller cities don't tend to use online services for things like apartment hunting. Things are still done the old way: word of mouth, posting signs on the apartment itself, newspaper classifieds.
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I live in a state without income tax and moderately high property taxes. This arrangement tends to favor the rich, inheritance owners over the working class. In a state income tax state, my taxes are dependent on me working, and a smaller percentage goes to property.

In a property tax state, my taxes are entirely dependent on the property market, regardless of how much or little I make. When there is a budget shortfall the bureaucrats juice the millage rate. Property re-assessments go up, rarely down. And if you owned property for a long while you pay less in taxes than someone younger and on a lower salary.
Amid calls for a Windows bug dashboard, Microsoft belatedly agrees to build one
Singapore's government is one of, more or less, benign authoritarianism. Should we expect privacy in such a place?
I understand charging for a code editor theme is not common practice. However, I don't see much difference between the work that goes into designing and developing a simple (Wordpress) web theme and a code editor theme. In the end a web theme is also a set of RGB values and other styling settings. And charging for that is acceptable.

I think it depends on what you think is trivial and what is not. I think designing a coherent theme is not trivial.
That data is encrypted in-flight
https://www.patreon.com/seriallos (number 17) is software. So is https://www.patreon.com/RaiderIO (number 99).
We are used from previous cases that aircrafts will get grounded until we are sure the airplane is not at fault.

To be clear: you're suggesting that grounding an entire type of aircraft, either worldwide or even just within US airspace, is a common response to accidents?

I ask because the last general grounding of a type was in 2013 to remedy the 787 battery issues. Prior to that, the last such grounding was the DC-10 in 1979.
One major problem is that in poor countries, opportunities are few, so a lot of effort is spent in you competing against your peers.

Until i arrived in the West, i didn't realize what's possible with the collaborative approach instead of competing against each other.

In west, average people were teaming up and achieving better result as a group than couple of sharp kids in my country where they spent a lot of effort killing competition.

This is my experience, excuse if it's full of bias.
Very interesting! Thank you. I didn't realize you can use <link> inside web component. But it makes sense!

I read some more, and I reaized that it's probably meant to be that every component has its own small piece of CSS independent of the rest, so that you can use :host, and all the other trickery and so that least amount of CSS per component needs to be parsed and processed.

So I ended up writing a small pre-processor, that converts sass files into a js file with a variables containing styles for each component (like BUTTON_CSS, DIALOG_CSS, SPLIT_LAYOUT_CSS). I just hope that there's some optimization in the browser, such that when the same <style> content is used in multiple instances of the component, it is parsed/processed only once and the results cached for the other instances.
Japan has been a power ( relatively speaking ) in the aerospace industry for very a long time and it was never a secret and they certainly weren't quiet about it. What they have been quiet about is that their aerospace industry is also used to maintain a quasi military/icbm capability. Just like japan's is open about it's nuclear industry but quiet about the fact that their nuclear industry is used to maintain their latent/defacto nuclear power status. But then again, all aerospace industries and all nuclear industries are also linked to the military everywhere.

Japan has been the 2nd or 3rd largest economy in the world for 50 years. JAXA, after NASA and ESA, is probably the most technical advanced, well funded and respected space agencies in the world. A nation can't have such a large economy for this long without being a "power" ( relatively speaking ) in most sectors. Japan, despite its pacifist constitution, also has one of the best funded militaries as well.
Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine
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This is a symptom of detailed metrics. When you're responsible for the "send an email" feature, you want to show you're doing your job. Getting more people to send email is an easy way to show progress without having to understand people's actual experience with the feature.
I don't know where you are getting your numbers from wrt ACM at least. Last time I checked it was ~£100 without DL access, and £200 for membership + full DL access. I think that is a pretty good deal. It costs money to run a digital library, and you have to remember ACM isn't really comparable to profit driven publishers such as Elsevier etc.
Heh, the "instant on" aspect of old hardware is a big part of the draw for me. Although I agree that there are some excellent modern "old style" games - Cuphead, Undertale, Two Point Hospital, and the recent Wonder Boy remake all spring to mind.
For those who aren't familiar with formal semantics:

Conversational implicature is when the cooperative principle is used to deduce facts that were not explicitly stated.

For example, let's say I show up at your doorstep and I say "my car ran out of gas".

You reply "there a gas station just down the road"

I deduce from your statement:

- It is the nearest gas station

- The station is open and has gas to sell

- The station sells cans

- It is not too far to walk.

You did not say any of these things, but I know that they are true because if any of them were not true, the cooperative principle would have led you to say something different.

And if any of them turn out not to be true, I will feel like you deceived me, even though you never said it, because you implied it by way of Grice's maxims.

Fun fact: the Supreme Court of the United States says that deception by way of conversational implicature doesn't count as a lie and can't be used against you in a purjury case. It is legal to imply things that are not true on the witness stand. Lawyers have to word their questions very carefully as a result, and make all of the implicatures explicit.

Famous example:

Court - Have you ever had a Swiss bank account?

Bronston - The company had an account there for about six months, in Zurich.

Implicature (which later turned out to be false): I don't have any other swiss bank accounts in any other cities

The follow-up question was never asked, the matter was settled, and Bronston squeaked away from his bankruptcy proceedings with his swiss assets in tact.
Exactly the reason why Communism/Socialism fails.

In these political/social systems, The Powers That Be are informal and no one can challenge them, leading to all sorts of distortion of the socioeconomic system.
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The base version of Windows 10, their flagship product (if not in terms of revenue, then mindshare) is stuffed full of adverts and defaults on about 6+ options related to telemetry the last time I installed a VM.

I think it would benefit large companies like Microsoft to realise that this sort of behaviour has knock-on effects. Every MS product is tainted by this because it ultimately has effects on trust.

If it's not making them, or can't be linked to, significant amounts of revenue, it would surely be beneficial in terms of customer numbers to stop doing this. Why?

I don't understand, or believe, that they're making significant amounts from this. It feels like bean-counter style decision making that doesn't take in to account the wider picture.

Anyone from MS willing to chime in?
Because most of them are completely irrelevant and there is very little informational benefit to warrant this privacy violation. I mean... risotto recipes?

After wikileaks published the material journalists did cover some of it. And even so, they partly regret that, in light of what we know now.
"In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education

Teachers are often unqualified, ignorant or absent; tablets show up and work"

I reached the article limit, so I could only read this, and I disagree.

I live in Brazil and my wife works in a big NGO focused on education. She visits schools in poor regions all over the country. Her current understanding is that she sees no evidence that technology helps at all. And the NGO piloted lots of tech initiatives on lots of schools.

"Teachers are often unqualified, ignorant or absent; tablets show up and work"

The first part is definitely true, the second one not so much.

What seems to make a difference is a prepared and motivated school principal.

EDIT:

I just read the whole article (thanks to ivm letting me know about Outline).

The title is kind of clickbaity. Big programs, with a lot good things going on, and they focus on the small part that use tablets and I don't think it is even an absolute necessity.

"The coach-and-tablet element is just one part. A curriculum based on synthetic phonics (widely used in developed-country schools) has been designed and 23m books distributed, along with detailed lesson plans to make life easier for teachers. But the technology is crucial to supporting them and providing their bosses with data about their performance."

It is "crucial" for a small part of the program with good results.

They at least acknowledge some high profile programs that did not work and go on to share a few other few and specific cases that are very interesting and explain how tech could indeed help.

I still think it overrates the tech part, but looks like the classic case where the journalist writes a more down to earth article and the editor adds a exagerated title.
WTH is AIUI pls?
These are soft concepts, so I don't think we can be totally right or wrong about them.
That said, I think there's more than opinion here. There's agenda too. When a browser or search engine wants to update your defaults, that's more agenda than opinion.

With a lot of modern software (FB is the big example) has an agenda. A list of stuff labeled KPI on a whiteboard.. stuff FB would like people to do.
Would it be overly cautious to avoid flights on Boeing 737 MAXs?

edit: of course with the downvotes for an honest question. this site can be ridiculous.
You don't carry it!

You dig a tunnel (Boring Company), you vacuum it (hyperloop), and you propulse a rocket (Space X) in it with electromagnets, and lots of batteries (Tesla).

Theorically, you can also come back from space the same way, but 1- you still need to slow down from orbit, 2- you need to be very precise to enter the tunnel. This would allow to reload the battery using electromagnetic braking. Unfortunately, you would need to reverse the orbital speed to come back the way you came from! This is the costly part. This is why Space X lands on sea platforms, not where they took off from.
Very happy with 2x LG 27MU67-B (there seems to be a slightly new model out: LG 27UD68P-B). Those are 27", 4k. I do programming, very little design, no gaming.

With macMini you probably want external speakers as well, the internal sound is no match to a macBook.
It is ubiquitous: jokes, puns, banter, poetry, the constant reinvention of slang...
This was the book, I suspect:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22155.Let_My_People_Go_S...

Powerful read that also happens to be interesting.

Recommended.
Yeah, I don't know. I have decided I don't like it when people drop Wikipedia links and leave, at least explain why you think that is.
Those with a particular "traditional" ethics standard. Which is getting muddier by the day.
From what I've been told, the reason for the abbreviation is that the number represents the number of characters between the two letters. The number is not pronounced. This is what initially confused the heck out of me - I knew what i18n was but didn't connect the dots. Only got raised when we were talking about Kubernetes being shorted to k8s :)
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Pulling back on the controls moves small control surfaces (elevators) on the horizontal stabilizer (the "tail wing"). The way the anti-stall measure works on the MAX (and many other planes, to be fair) is by adjusting the pitch trim. Adjusting the trim changes the angle of the entire horizontal stabilizer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilizer_(aeronautics)#/medi...

It's very possible for the effect of the extreme trim condition to be more than the elevators can overcome. The pilot can certainly override the trim setting, but the issue here is that they weren't expecting that to change, since they weren't trained on the fact that the plane might do it automatically (in those flight conditions).

Here's a good video explaining how trim works (in normal operation) on a (slightly older) 737:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l62NvkRWa5E