skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think esotericn is classifying that as the "enthusiast market". "More enjoyable to drive" matters, sure. But for most of us, it's not the primary driver of the buying decision - practicality is.
Something they did to the scrolling on their landing page is so crazy and irritating.
If someone can read this and finds it to be an interesting question, please repost it so that it could be answered to:

I'm curious about naming conventions in different languages and cultures, so I naturally want to be accommodating, but how do I handle the UX problem of collecting all the metadata about names in order for the program to correctly reason about them? I can imagine that while users probably want their name to be rendered correctly, they would have little patience with complicated forms to do what would be just a simple text field when dealing with any local office where they know how to interpret it. Not to mention when you have to deal with different scripts being understandable by different people, and when adaption is needed, whether you want a cognate, a standard transliteration or an ad-hoc transliteration as a stand-in.

And then on the receiving end, you might be using an application in English because it hasn't been translated into your language, but do you want to see the names of your countrymen in your native script, or do you want to see it rendered with Latin characters? And what if you don't understand the script?
Well, it is very hard or near impossible to make a sofisticated language/compiler such as Rust and not expose quite a bit of that complexity to the programmer. I've been reading the 2018 docs and I agree to every deliberate decision they made. But they can be and mostly are a drag during development. But once one grows accostumed to it, it flows really well. The compiler forces you to be careful with your architecture and code decisions and thats really good; A problem is that, when you're reading code made by proficient rust coders and you're just getting started you most likely won't understand quite a bit of it. Which is not true for most other languages.
Most manufacturers have already figured out how to game the chicken tax. For example, Ford installs seats that are removed and destroyed after each Transit Connect reaches the US [0]. I've heard other stories about Subaru doing something similar so that their CAFE metrics weren't screwed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Transit_Connect#Tariff_ci....
Google's open source destools VisBug: The Basics
I think intuition goes downhill as your system increases in complexity. It's harder to develop deep experience or regularity in distributed systems than it is in your monolith that you know inside and out. Feedback can get less immediate, too.
I don't think even the human brain can consistently figure out what's going to be available in Ruby.

Oftentimes, the only way to know is to set a breakpoint, run the code, and inspect it at runtime. This is why the tooling sucks even more for Ruby than most dynamic languages, and the code completion and static analysis will almost certainly always be worse than the equivalent tooling in a statically typed language where more things are knowable.

If you feel so strongly about tooling, I recommend learning Kotlin, Go, or C#, all of which offer incredibly strong tooling with essentially perfect code completion, jump to definition, and real time code analysis.
UTF-7 is "fun" because encoding libraries tend to support it, but since nobody cares about it, edge cases in the implementation may go undiscovered for a while.

Back on Python 2.7.5, the UTF-7 decoder didn't do range checking, so this script [1] produced a "Unicode string" containing the codepoint U+DEADBEEF. (The maximum valid codepoint is U+10FFFF.) This string would crash regexes, corrupt databases, etc., so that allowed denial-of-service attacks against any function that let you specify an arbitrary encoding.

(This is fixed in all extant versions of Python.)

[1] https://gist.github.com/rspeer/7559750
> Believe it or not, sometimes products are unloaded on one coast, transported by rail, then loaded on a ship on the other coast.

That is surprising, since shipping by water is dramatically cheaper than any other form of surface shipping, even factoring the extra distance to sail down to the Panama Canal. What's the point of adding the land leg?
Is this to purposefully increase likelihood of getting caught in a spam/phishing filter? So they claim they've reached out while also (probably correctly) claiming it's not their fault if customers didn't get it.
One legitimate concern I know of for email is that you could still get Japanese mobile phones as late as 2008 that didn't support UTF-8. People setting their mail filters to autotrash UTF-8 has also definitely happened (pro tip: never attempt to filter by charset; if you really want to, filter by script instead).

I believe another major issue is that a fair amount of software sets language environment for things such as fonts based on charset. Charsets such as ISO-2022-JP, GBK, and Big5 give you a clear clue as to what the underlying language is, but UTF-8 just tells you "here is CJK ideographs, good luck!" On the other hand, I've never really heard of any opposition to Unicode from Chinese or Korean locales, so I suspect a large part of it is just stubborn tech entrenchment in Japan as opposed to strong technical reasons.
It may actually be criminal.
Psychology's Replication Crisis Is Real
Yes! I got this bonus disc as a pre-order bonus for wind-waker. The "harder" version of Ocarina was a new triple A game all by itself and is still included in the Nintendo virtual console versions of the game on Switch and Gameboy from what I understand.
I live in what most would consider rural America. Most people are buying the midsized SUVs, not necessarily the full size. Once you leave the city things change... things aren't on top of each other when you leave the city, so driving a big vehicle isn't as frustrating. we have big parking lots(parking spaces are bigger and not full, making it easier to park further out), no underground parking(height isn't an issue), real estate isn't as expensive so developers leave more parking and wider driveways, etc.

I dread taking my truck into the city, but for average day to day life its much better then what id choose as a daily drive if i lived in the city full time. About the only thing a small car has an advantage on is parking and getting into and out of tight places, and MPG.
Why not? They're great as test points and you can pull them off and place a resistor or capacitor in their place.
I tried this a while back, and I am so confused by the rebasing part I figured I'd find something else. As someone who knows some git, but only has to used it every once in a while, this website does not help me..
Also, if you have an elaborate squiggle, and you write it fast, it makes it very difficult to copy since the forger needs to write it quickly as well to get the same pen stroke results.
That's fair, but I want to highlight the world of difference between "dubious behavior" and "it would be nice if we had your data to check your conclusions." I'm not with Mozilla, but when I've been in a similar position, it's deeply frustrating to read stuff like this on the internet. (So the healthy thing is really to just stop reading it, which is a shame.)
Traditional diets include lots of carbs. Bodybuilders realized early that protein is good for muscle growth. So they started eating tons of protein, and reducing other macronutrients. They realized after a while that carbs can actually be cut out totally and indefinitely (which is not true of protein and fat). They discovered this because nobody else had a reason to try to eat such a strange, protein-focused diet.

At least in modern societies. Of course the Inuit and other far-north peoples have known forever that one can live healthily off essentially nothing but meat.
I’m so glad there are people doing this kind of thing.

I have a sweet spot for classic Mac OS, something about its simplicity hasn’t been match since, but I can’t imagine the motivation for doing this beyond pure fun.
Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to E-mail Like a Machine
But can you find a culture that sincerely uses one of those exact naming conventions?

I agree with the base premise of the linked article, but I think such hyperbole just detracts from the point.
After reading the article, this is a perfect summary.
In my limited experience with (3) people who do this, they never really scale/graduate. They just seem to have some different kind of hustle going on, often this is seasonal. When watermelons are in season they'll drive to the next state and buy a truck load of watermelons wholesale from a farmer. Then they sell the watermelons on the side of the road. Same thing with pumpkins near Halloween. Same thing with flowers near Valetine's. Sometimes they'll buy a couple cars and flip them. I think they just enjoy constantly doing something a little different.
Plus while UTF-32 is currently defined as equivalent UCS-4, the surrogate pairs tricks of UTF-8/UTF-16 are still theoretically possible even if they don't currently encode anything. Not that we have a reason today to expect there to be a plane bigger than the Astral Plane, but in the 90s no one expected the Astral Plane to open up. Anyone picking UCS-4 today and pretending its UTF-32 but not prepared to handle surrogate pairs for the Currently Imaginary Plane beyond, is potentially making the exact same mistakes of UCS-2 early adopters and will have the same UTF-16/WTF-16 headaches should that day arrive.
E Ink creates JustWrite technology for drawing with no latency
Charter spectrum predates time Warner's take over. It wasn't a merger, twc is taking over charter. Just like the time they did that with AOL.
Selection bias? You need to have a certain amount of ruthlessness to become a CEO or a serious director.
A handful of years ago, Paul Ohm wrote about a concept he called the "Database of Ruin" [0]. I think about it every time one of these pieces of news breaks.

"Once we have created this database, it is unlikely we will ever be able to tear it apart."

[0] https://hbr.org/2012/08/dont-build-a-database-of-ruin
EU has software patents. The same applications that are filed and issued in the US get filed and issued in the EU too.

Also, there is no such thing as a software patent.
Did you read what I wrote?

> Also, the Saraswati is not described as having a confluence with the Ganga/Yamuna at Prayag in the Rig Veda - this is a later legend which does not seem to have any basis.

See https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/The-story-of-Tri...

The article is wrong on two counts - (a) that the Saraswati is mythical, and (b) that Prayag is a confluence of 3 rivers - it is a confluence of 2 rivers, the Ganga and the Yamuna.
I'm almost certainly in the database.

So I have to get a new passport, get a new phone number, get a new credit card, change my email address... in the US, can I sue in small claims court to recover the costs of doing these things?
>To them, it is like a game. Its not about getting another yacht, its about beating the other guy.

This is presumably what might inspire a billionaire to sue Forbes over their position in Forbes published rich list - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-saudi-billionaire...

Money is entirely ego-points for people like that.
I don't think it is necessary that everyone does things Stallman's way; the fact that rms knows what his principles are, articulates them clearly, and lives according to them consistently provides an informative example from which the rest of us can borrow whichever elements we find useful. We don't all need to live like Stallman does for his ideas to have value, because he's already doing that for us. He is essentially a modern secular prophet.
> you are now transferring voting rights from the share owner, who cares about the long term performance of the company, to share renters, who generally just care about the short term, which is counterproductive.

This logic is backwards; index fund holders are more likely to hold their shares for a longer period of time, compared to day traders. The whole point of index fund investing is to avoid short holds.
I actually think it is okay to repost if previous posts happened 'long' ago.

There will always be new users discovering it, or old ones who missed it or don't remember it.

I surely won't look at posts made a few years before I joined.

Most importantly, it was an interesting read ;)
Apparently there were other ways to get it but I only knew of the NP one

https://zelda.gamepedia.com/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Collector%2...

>In the United Kingdom, the Collector's Edition was available to GameCube owners who mailed Nintendo proof of purchase of one of several selected GameCube games, including The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, 1080° Avalanche, Mario Party 5, and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Consumers could also send proof of purchase of two titles from the Player's Choice range to receive the game
That million number gets thrown around but from what I’ve read, it’s just a guess.

For perspective, the US has about 2.3 million in “rehabilitation centers” so a million doesn’t seem outlandish I suppose.
I am on mobile and I don't have a root source for the below paragraph, maybe someone can dig it up.

> The statistics for dieters who lose weight rapidly, according to Wellsphere, a website sponsored by Stanford University, is worse. Only 5 percent of people who lose weight on a crash diet will keep the weight off. Crash diets include any unhealthy diet, from severe calorie-restriction diets to diets that consist of only a few kinds of foods.

Another study showing 5% looks like it was an old study from 1959.

Anyway, there are more modern studies proving the point. And that people gain even more weight back than they started with.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Dieting-Does-Not-Work-UCLA...

>Several studies indicate that dieting is actually a consistent predictor of future weight gain,” said Janet Tomiyama, a UCLA graduate student of psychology and co-author of the study. One study found that both men and women who participated in formal weight-loss programs gained significantly more weight over a two-year period than those who had not participated in a weight-loss program, she said.

>Another study, which examined a variety of lifestyle factors and their relationship to changes in weight in more than 19,000 healthy older men over a four-year period, found that “one of the best predictors of weight gain over the four years was having lost weight on a diet at some point during the years before the study started,” Tomiyama said. In several studies, people in control groups who did not diet were not that much worse off — and in many cases were better off — than those who did diet, she said.
Another anti-inflammatory (there are many) that may play well in this case is diet cranberry juice. Added bonus of some hydration.
Think of it as an "epsilon ohm resistor".
Umm, no. If you're eating 1.5 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight (which is on the high end) and you weigh 200 pounds, that's about 1200 calories from protein, out of diet that's likely 3000 - 3500 calories. A common recommendation I see is for about 20-25% to come from fat, and the remaining from carbs, preferably complex carbs.
Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude
I'm not saying it's a mystery I'm saying it's the fault of the food industry and they should be the ones forced to change.
Advent of Code 2018 starts today
There is also I2P which is just like Tor but unlike it is designed to withstand the traffic from bittorrent clients (useful for people living in dorms on in America) and can also tunnel UDP (unlike Tor which can only tunnel TCP).

That being said, I really like the new onion-v3 protocol that Tor added as it moves from the outdated 1024-bit rsa + sha1 addresses with 1024-bit DH and AES-128 to the state-of-the-art ed25519 for addresses and handshake as well as chacha20-poly1305 for encryption.
Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Russian project
ProBeat: Twitter’s biggest mistake was giving Donald Trump a pass
That's all well and good, but the process of invalidating the patent is long and expensive.
I wish that the ceiling and walls were painted the same color. I feel like it would've been more valuable with contrived models instead of a real apartment.
I imagine the GP was talking about easiness to drive. Low cars are more stable and lighter cars accelerate better (not only on speed-ups, but while breaking too).

Overall, driving a truck is much more stressing than a car.
If they're anything like domain name squatters they'll now wait until you're worth more, and then try to make you pay to license the patent. The fee they demand will be slightly less than it would cost you to fight them and repudiate the patent. You'll be in a quandary: pay more to fight for justice, or save money and let the terrorists win. Patent trolls are professionals, they know exactly what they're doing.
> Is it sustainable? Is it gratifying? Is it scalable?

Why does Western Society have a fixation on only doing things that make sense for the rest of your life?

Who cares how long it will last. Who cares about The rest of your life. Do something that's interesting NOW.

Let him enjoy it for however long he wants. When he doesn't enjoy it, or it doesn't work anymore, he'll find something else to do that he finds interesting. That's great for him! Maybe it's not the life you want, but that's not what we're talking about.
My mother suffered Type-2 diabetes for almost 20 years. I put her on an extremely strict raw food diet three months ago and stopped injecting insulin. Her fasting blood sugar level is now in the 90-110 mg/dL range. I now give her some steamed potatoes also.

I too follow the same diet to give her company.

Elimination of oil, sugar and dairy has helped, I believe. She is a vegetarian, so flesh was never in the picture. I do not have to restrict calories with raw food. Eat as much as you can.

No juicing, however. That is a totally not allowed.
In the Netherlands reverse engineering is legal for quite a few reasons.

It's written down in the Auteurswet (Dutch): https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001886/2009-01-01#HoofdstukV...
Wholesale usually requires you buy so many units, and it becomes hard to manage your inventory. Even if this guy couldn't sell half of these, he could return them all to his closest Walmart for only the loss of his travel. Also hot items are usually either exclusives or something you could not be a retailer of. I know there are people that buy things up on Alibaba in bulk then sell them here on Amazon and eBay...the problem is that helps counterfeiters.
One problem afflicting us now is that people eat too much, consequently weigh too much, damage their health, and balloon healthcare expenses society-wide. If a pill can make people eat less, why reject it? If a medication solves a problem, it solves a problem. You can't say "X doesn't work" when X does, in fact, work, and then expect people to take you seriously.

You're adopting a moralizing stance here, one that says that gain without pain is illegitimate. This approach has broad appeal, but it just doesn't work. For decades people have been making the same argument you're making, and it hasn't worked. It's time we try something else.
I referenced some things in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18571376
"Oh but our senior engineers would _never_ make such a selfish choice to make themselves look better at the expense of the company, everyone here _believes_ in the mission."
Ah, but now he can get into the business of selling how-to guides on the subject.
> Everyone knows Atom uses a lot of memory. At some point in the very near future, it will no longer be important.
My five-year-old Mac has 16 gigs of RAM. I won’t buy another that has less than 32 gigs.

As a counterpoint, my 3 year old laptop has 8GBs if memory, my server 12gb and none of them are maxed.

My next unit won’t have more than 16gbs, because that would be an absolute waste.

Maybe use less Chrome and Chromium/Electron based shit, and you’ll find out how insanely much ram 8GBs actually is?
Let's try the substitution test

"before some stupid black girl tries to be a hero"

It's usually best to not pair gender and race with a pejorative.
Neither of those consist almost entirely of carbs.
It *Should* Be Freakin’ Hard to Be in Media
It could also be that Americans are bigger.

(I'm not referring to height)
Although his video does have 130k views and I'm sure he picked up a ton of subscribers too...... So he's making money there too.
It's available as a book (TeX: The Program, volume B of Computers and Typesetting), and Knuth considers the book as the canonical thing to read. You almost surely don't have a PDF of the entire book, but it's easily available in good libraries: http://www.worldcat.org/title/tex-the-program/oclc/826569131 (or you can buy it: as I was typing this comment I just finally bought a used copy from Amazon for $9 which is pretty good for a hardcover book).

If you have a typical TeX distribution installed, you can see an approximation by running `texdoc tex`, which brings up the PDF that is also available online e.g. here: http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/tex/tex.pdf -- but it is a bit hard to make sense of if you're not familiar with the conventions of WEB (the book starts with a "How to read a WEB") -- as a workaround maybe you can read webman (http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/web/webman.pd...) though that's meant for the programmer (working with the raw .web files) rather than the reader (working with the typeset output).

And it helps to be familiar with Pascal, and the typical conventions of programming style in the 1970s (e.g. that of the P4 (Pascal) Compiler and Interpreter, also published as a book and also available online: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/pascal/ )

I've been reading the TeX program in bits and pieces for over a year now, and only now do I have a rough sense of it all :-)
I question whether the Kona will become universally available. Last time I looked into this it sounded like Kia and Hyundai really have no intention of bringing their next lines of EVs out to anywhere but CARB and incentive states. And since Ontario recently dropped off that list (because of the mini-Trump up here), I doubt we'll ever see it sold here.
Didn't he try to have five people killed only after they went after him?
NY Attorney General Opens Investigation into Massive Marriott Hack
> (even though the particulars on how it's possible to not be zero-sum still escape me and hurt my head).

If I have a hamburger patty and a hot dog bun, and you have a hot dog bun and a hamburger patty, we both win if we trade (it's not zero-sum).

You can generalize this across more than one party and more than two goods pretty easily.
Goldman Takes Another 1MDB Blow as Fed Steps Up Probe
The idea that AMO shouldn't be curated is baffling. Browser extensions are the biggest malware vector since email attachments named `importantstuff.txt.exe`. The title saying that Mozilla "pulled" this extension is not merely incorrect, it is blatant misinformation.
The company I work for pays for Ag-Grid, which makes me sad. Overall I find it has been fairly difficult to work with, and there are a lot of breaking changes when upgrading from older versions. I think we could get away with something like Tabulator for most of our use cases. I'm definitely going to try to sell it to the team
Demand exceeds supply and they lose several thousand dollars on each of them? If only there was some sort of market driven mechanism to solve this issue.
I find it ironic that China, the only major country left that is nominally communist, is the site of what seems to be the most alienated, abusive form of capitalism on earth.
Interestingly, the chairman of Xinjiang is Shohrat Zakir, an ethnic Muslim Uighur who was sent to a re-education camp back in the 1970s.
Just publish a white paper.