skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For water, get it from your tap, and carry it with you in a glass or metal container. If you have good, scientifically reasons to believe your tap water is not so hot, use a high-tech filter. In the extreme, buy water in mass from a company that purifies it, and store it at home. All these solutions will be better for the environment, and as an added benefit much cheaper.

As for soft drinks, they are bad for your health, so just stop drinking them.
Well, because it's not an F, and how would you deal with this: 𓃓 I mean it's a bull symbol.
Child abuse climbs after Friday report cards, study says
Perfect I can get banned from HN for spamming ascii dragons just like the AOL days.
I have to run STIGs all the time on 450+ linux systems being a Linux Admin and all. STIGs are a good starting point, however the word guidance is in their acronym for a reason. Other security has to be considered.

At our facility we have a "check box" security department. The entity above us is so concerned about STIG findings and if they are checked of of the list, other vulnerabilities are left to the wayside.

I once got in an argument about outdated embedded versions of java in applications we use. some were up to 7 years old. I advised that we contact vendors, but being an systems admin that was up to the individual application administrators. I was told it didn't show up on scans and to shut up and color (OK they were a little nicer to me than that, same message though).

I can see how places might be lacking in security if they have the same mentality as here.
I'd kind of expect screen readers to be able to apply Unicode compatibility decomposition http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Canon_Compat_Equivalence since there are many characters that are just visual variants. Ligatures like ﬄ or the like are at least somewhat common e.g. in PDFs. On the other hand, maybe that breaks other stuff and only whitelisted characters are converted.

Maybe a HN reader using a screen reader can describe how theirs handles these characters.
The difference here is the accleration of climate change, estimated to be 10-50x faster than previous transitions from cooler periods[1]. One study finds that this accelerated warming could lead the extiction of 1 in 6 species[2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
[2] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6234/571
> “This idea that people should eat less and exercise more — if only it were so simple,” Dr. Hall said.

For the majority of people, it is that simple. That doesn't mean it's easy. To give most folks a hall pass on their poor eating habits with bariatric surgery or a special pill (which are for extreme outliers) is dishonest at best and harmful or dangerous at worst.
They remove public reviews because they can't have their million-dollar properties soiled by negative reviews. To be fair, sometimes the reviews (like Yelp reviews) are not about the show/movie itself, but about how the company is bad because they stopped carrying "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" on some markets. The nature of Netflix attracts that kind of audience.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18679715
If this is a PR Article, it works. This school seems kind of cool
I'm just seeing black boxes with X marks inside. Can't read a thing. This is on chrome on my Moto G4.
I understand. This is one of primary feature we targeting to suppose in the next quarter. Can you tell me what type of clustering support do you use? Example: Percona, Galera cluster, Vitess ?
Google Will Spend $1B for New York City Campus on Hudson River
Name coming from this post IIRC: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1091116
> What makes his idea different from everyone else's

Depth and coverage.

Case in point: Knuth's coverage of Quicksort doesn't calculate the Big-O. It calculates the precise average running time. He literally counts the assembly-language statements. You might say "But arrays might be randomly sorted", and yeah, Knuth averages the runtime across all possible ways that an array can be sorted. Its a beautiful work of math.

There's almost no room for questions once Knuth finishes a subject. Its so exhaustively covered that I can't even imagine questions I have on any subject after he's done writing about it.

The few questions I do have are the "Difficulty 40+" questions that Knuth puts at the end of each section, which would serve as excellent questions for Masters Thesis or a PH.D Thesis. IE: There's no answer to those questions yet.

Anyway, while most textbooks hand-wave the idea of "Quicksort is faster than Mergesort, even both are O(n*log(n))". Knuth is pretty simple, he says: Look at these two precise numbers I've calculated (and proved). Quicksort is faster (or at least, the Assembly-language version of Quicksort he wrote on his imaginary computer is faster)

Basically, Knuth got "to the bottom of it", there's no hand-waving involved in the explanation. He just tackles the hard questions head on and solves it more precisely than everyone else.

----------

Some of the older chapters are going out of date, which is natural for a work so complete. There is so much material out there that Knuth has to make a decision on whether to revise older stuff (which he does occasionally) or to write about subjects which don't have a major unifying work yet (ie: Constraint Programming has some textbooks here and there, but most of its ideas are only in academic journals, and haven't really been unified into a singular work yet IMO. Even the textbooks on the subjects are mostly introductions + references to papers)

And sometimes, Knuth gets lucky. Knuth's Book3 "Searching and Sorting" includes a HUGE table of sorting methods applied to tape drives.

But today's RAM is now faster sequentially rather than random-access. So Knuth's calculations on Tape-Drive sorts actually applies to modern DDR4 RAM better than any other treatment on the subject. No one else calculated the cost of "internal movements" (aka: cache on modern systems, but it was RAM on older computers) + "external movements" (which was Tape Drives in Knuth TAOCP / Book 3, but is really DDR4 RAM on today's machines).

So yeah, Book 3 is out of date and focuses a huge amount of time on external sorting methods. But... it just so happens that if you know a bit about the sequential nature of modern DDR4 RAM, it is actually super-relevant to today's computers.
This looks like nothing so much as the old determinist's "how can you be morally culpable when the outcome was predetermined by natural laws?" dusted off and dressed up with some psychology jargon.
When weights are tuned you are technically left with a different behavior of an algorithm than when it started. When this tuning happened automatically, it's not really a misunderstanding.
I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols.

I develop web sites with screen readers in mind, and I would be very surprised if they could handle this sort of thing consistently.

Google spent billions of dollars learning how to search and interpret the web. Screen reading companies don't have that kind of scratch.

Also, it's important to remember that screen readers are about more than just the blind. There are screen readers that help people learn a new language, or translate text into simplified forms for people with low education, or low attention (think of the Mac's built-in text summarizing service).

For people who have a hard time reading custom fonts because of limited sight, or limited attention, they often override custom CSS fonts with something easier to read. This sort of thing will make the page unusable.
Not necessarily.

At any reasonable size, you have to be able to run builds and tests for features in parallel. And at that point, throughput and scale throughout the day is rather important.
Here's a blogpost written by the author

https://medium.com/mito-ai/gintonic-199f7992715
Yes, I just mean to say, if you were creating a screen reader, it wouldn't be that hard to take this sort of thing into account. So, maybe they do.
Either way, I'll add a little warning to the site.
You mean RISC-V or MIPS?

There's a reason why I said SIMD/vector extension, since RISC-V first started down the SIMD route, but then they took a step back and decided that a vector extension might work better, so from what I can tell more work has been going into the vector extension than SIMD. But neither SIMD nor the vector extension are finalized yet.

I'm unaware of a MIPS vector extension, it seems to just have standard packed SIMD instructions, though I'm not that familiar with MIPS.
Their Chief Compliance Officer isn't an attorney. That's a major red flag.
I've had success getting in shape by tracking what I eat and following a weight training routine (PPL). Counting macros gives you a flexible diet. Buy a food scale and eat enough food to hit your macro goals to be at a daily 250-500 calorie deficit.

That means you'll lose 0.5 - 1 pound per week. Once you're lean, eat at a slight surplus to gain some lean body mass.

Sorry everyone, there's no magic pill that burns all of your fat. There's steroids, but you'll still have to eat enough and go to the gym.

People want to get fit but don't put in the time nor effort.
What do you think the general development budget for a screen reader is compared to the development budget for Google Search services?
What? Apple does NOT have to make phones in China. It is a big world. They chose to as they chose to give the China government their user data.

"Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud users"

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...

Versus Google picked up and left China in 2010 and walked away from billions.
The ICU [1] transliterator does this. Here is an example showing how to use it:

icu::ErrorCode status;
auto t = icu::Transliterator::createInstance("Any-Latin; NFKD", UTRANS_FORWARD, status);
t->transliterate("unicode string");

[1] http://site.icu-project.org/
I am partial to using Unicode Emoji to add graphics/icons to applications that don't support those. Surprisingly, almost no software removes emoji symbol range (HN does, wisely). But this seems more annoying than clever. I mean, it's still text, except barely readable and bound to break some common-sense UI interactions.
not sure if it's been mentioned already but https://tell.wtf offers a similar service to this along with a rather intelligent unicode pallete and the ability to draw characters to try and match characters you're looking for. also, since z̼͖̺̠̰͇̙̓͛ͮͩͦ̎ͦ̑ͅa̘̫͈̭͌͛͌̇̇̍l͕͖͉̭̰ͬ̍ͤ͆̊ͨg͎͚̥͎͔͕ͥ̿o͎̜̓̇ͫ̉͊ͨ͊ was mentioned, https://eeemo.net ftw
Russia social media influence efforts ongoing, report says
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Our ancestors definitely did, at least until puberty.
No. You must have your own wallet, because transactions take time.
'Ripe for an Outbreak': Vaccine Exemptions Are on the Rise
There are container plugins. There is a Facebook one and a Google one, but I'm using a generic one that lets you create containers for any website you want.
Anyone have recommendations for learning material in regards to building elixir bindings for existing C code? After coming across this technique, it makes sense why certain libraries meant for Nerves all seem to look the same haha.
It’s actually worse than you think. Amazon often stores their “sold directly by Amazon” inventory with “fulfilled by Amazon” product sold by third party sellers. This would make getting a knockoff just a matter of bad luck, even if you order from Amazon themselves.

I haven’t ordered from Amazon since I learned this months ago, with two exceptions for birthday presents.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/be-careful-amazon-...
“The availability of immersive learning environments like virtual-augmented-mixed reality afforded by commercial off-the-shelf technology fosters has the potential to create the paradigm shift necessary to deliver the most ready force ever known,” said Lt. Col. Matthew Strohmeyer.

Ya know what else will create the paradigm shift to deliver the most ready force ever known? Fire this asshat and promote someone who can speak meaningful sentences. After a decade in the Marine Corps, I continue to be amazed by the non-speak these officers use to cover their incompetence.
I'll buy that it's the top seller, but are the majority of bottled drinks water? Because when I go to a convenience store there is usually one fridge for bottled water and several for all the other stuff (soda, tea, juice, Gatorade etc).

I don't think all of that really matters anyway, because the point I'm making is: anything that's bad about a plastic bottle filled with water surely must be just as bad for a plastic bottle filled with water and a little bit of sugar and coloring. Nobody has really addressed this, and I just think it's strange.

I'm fine with the idea that we should address this by drinking tap water instead of bottled water. All I'm saying is that surely the same goes for other bottled drinks as well.
>that stuff keeps me stuffed for hours and hours

But.. you’re not 400 pounds with requirement to lose half your body weight, and keep it off for the rest of your life?

And this is a requirement that these patients have obviously never been successful at.

And they’ve probably done, and failed, long term, at most diets.
I think mapping common lookalikes to their corresponding Latin-1 glyphs would be a broad improvement, and with websites like this collecting them it may not even be all that much work.

Although, like you say, it would be nice if screenreaders could produce verbal descriptions of iconographic symbols. That would be a lot of work but it would be helpful.
He's definately chewbacca.
Why do you need the site? I played around with the site, and it doesn't look like it makes a difference if you cook it sous-vide for 20 minutes or 2 hours? (I've never cooked anything sous-vide)
Sam Harris deletes patreon account after platform boots conservatives
𓃓 = 𝕓𝕦𝕝𝕝
[̲̅b̲̅][̲̅e̲̅][̲̅w̲̅][̲̅a̲̅][̲̅r̲̅][̲̅e̲̅] for ｈｏｒｇａｓｈ is coming
Things like screen readers can still try the Unicode decomposition techniques to try to make sense of the nonsense. The Fraktur F does decompose to "F", in this particular example. A better example is something like Lowercase Greek Letter Alpha which does not decompose to Latin "a", despite the readable similarity to most Latin character form audiences.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+03B1

Though there too, there are patterns screen readers can attempt to find to figure out when alpha is pretending to be Latin a.

That said, it's still not a great idea to use them for text anywhere. It puts a lot of burden on the reader's pattern matching skills. Not just screen readers, but human readers too; everyone reads them a bit slower, and that's before you consider the usual human skill/ability modifiers such as dyslexia that make these things so much worse, too.
Algo supports Wireguard these days so you can algo your way to both.
Are you talking about TLS encryption for connection url? If so, it is supported for Elasticseach. The others ones are not there yet. Though it might be possible using the available configuration options.

We are also looking to modifying the snapshot option to store encrypted snapshots in future releases.
Tesla sells luxury cars with margins big enough to accommodate safety engineering. I have read reports that they can't compete on price with the Bolts and Leafs which is why we haven't seen a base model 3.
Alot of Pixel anger here. I have a 3 and love it. That is all.
I did also just find https://liltinkerer.surge.sh/noscript.html as well. I thought most of the controversies have been the commercialisation/hostile takeovers of the various (ad|u)block (pro)? extensions, but seems not.
quick rundown from my experience:

NVDA: oss, people have hacked in normalization that they can flip on when they hear something that sounds like nonsense, and then flip back off after reading that particular part.

JAWS: people have to listen to a bunch of crap if there's no alttext and will not be able to understand your content

VoiceOver OSX: people have to listen to a bunch of crap if there's no alttext and will not be able to understand your content
It's absolutely true. I sell screen printed t-shirts that I design and print myself, as a hobby, and as such I spend some time trying to improve my sales. The facebook group I'm part of is lousy with people trying to sell these same cheap watches, jewelry, etc., complaining that they can get lots of traffic via Instagram but no sales. I would wager 50% of them at least will never make a single sale. The rest might make a few sales but never come close to a positive ROI.
I believe that was PonziCoin
Wireguard is a great VPN protocol. At this point in time it is a lousy VPN solution for all but the most basic uses. Given time the necessary infrastructure to make it a great VPN solution will develop.
There are Firefox plugins for that.
ʇı ǝʌol llıʍ ǝldoǝd 'ʎɐʍ ou
Yes and no. I just tested again... 4K is considerably crisper than HD, even when resizing down ~25% and up to ~60% of original size. The main problem is actually the size... 4K is just too large of a screen area to be viewed without having to pick up the controllers to move the virtual screen around. Anything past the bottom or right half is more or less off-limits, meaning you have to move those windows (e.g. builds)... or just resize the editor to the upper-left corner.

The best setup I could manage was to put the bottom of the virtual screen a bit in the floor, then you are looking straight on so that you can see the upper-left corner and still get to the menus and see at least the first ~25 lines of code (Consolas size 10).

I should note I'm using the built-in Desktop which you can insert via Steam VR Home. I just dropped it into the default home and moved it around/resized until I found it workable. There may be better tools for running virtual desktops in VR, I haven't explored this space at all since reading anything in any VR app for more than a few minutes makes me dizzy... speaking of which, no more VR for today! ;)
A little late don't you think?
Whenever Fraktur comes up I feel compelled to link to one of my favorite Wikipedia articles, about a German ideological debate centered around two font faces, Antiqua and Fraktur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_disput...
𝒞ℯ𝒸𝒾 𝓃'ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝒶𝓈 𝓊𝓃 𝒻ℴ𝓃𝓉
I agree, but it has non-abuse uses that I did not realise I missed. For example just a simple smoke test has more nuaances than expected ...

𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝔼𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕟𝕠𝕟-𝕒𝕤𝕔𝕚𝕚 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕠 𝕚𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕒𝕟 𝔼𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕓𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕗𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕨𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕧𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕤𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕞𝕤 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕒 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕤.
ኾᥱΛ᜶ұ, you don't?
Roboto does have these glyphs, but only if you have a relatively recent Android version.
You mean Unicode?
All that does is attach a ritual to the fasting process. People start to think that it's the ritual doing the work, but really it's the calorie restriction. Again and again, study after study proves that restricting calories to 700 calories reverses diabetes in obese people and in fact cures their obesity, too.

It's no surprise that people who put on 100+ pounds of extra weight once would tend to put on 100+ pounds of extra weight a second time. But it's silly to claim that there is an underlying medical reason it's happening.

The body gets used to whatever conditions you face. Human beings have thrived in the Arctic Circle, the North African deserts, and everywhere in between. Obese people have accustomed themselves to an obese lifestyle. If they can make a permanent break and embrace the lifestyle of a person with normal weight then they can stay skinny forever. In the end, most people just don't want to exercise 2+ times per day and limit their portion sizes. So they don't.
It's not actually a fancy font but different Unicode codepoints. "a" is not "𝖆" as far as Unicode is concerned. The Latin alphabet is mapped into Unicode for different uses.

In the end abuse of these characters will lead to even more variants being created covering the accented letters too. You can't leave out all the languages that have an extended alphabet, can you?

https://xkcd.com/1726/
The Nine-Factors of a well tuned IoT network
Woohoo?
You threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Due to falling battery prices, in another 5 years or so electric buses will cost about the same as diesel ones. Given that they have much lower operating costs, it is expected that all the transport companies will on their own switch their purchasing electric buses. Still, it is nice to have the California government publically set this out as a goal.

The big problem for the US is it is looking like most of those buses will be built by Chinese companies, and the Trump administration seems to be doing little to promote EV bus manufacturing in this country.
All types of regulation are important and good, for the reason stated in first sentence. It's just tragic that so many people in the tech industry fight tooth and nail against any sort of regulation, like during the GDPR discussion.
Well, then there has never been an efficient market that also had the quality of existence...
Except sometimes you aren't home and are thirsty.

I remember as a child I would get so thirsty on family trips and gas stations only sold soda-pop. It sucked.
I'd be shocked if RH can eventually launch this product in any form. People on HN seem to think its a marketing issue, but it isn't. The problem with the product is much deeper.

The core issue is that there is no way right now to provide savers with a 3% risk free interest rate. 1 year treasuries for e.g are at a 2.7% yield and that assumes you lock up your money for a year. Basically, their "novel" idea was to supplement the rate they would theoretically be getting from investing your money in t-bills with interchange revenue. But the interchange revenue wouldn't be a sure thing. It depends on the behavior of the customer. This in turn means that they would have to just pay depositors out from their VC money until they attract that type of customer that could support their interchange revenue assumptions.

There is a good reason that ideas like this are strictly regulated. If I could just set up a company and promise main street investors a guaranteed return based on my rosy view of the world, a lot of people could end up hurt. I'd be shocked if the product, after they finally launch it, offers any of the features that attracted people to the offering in the first place.
If I had water that was proven to be unsafe, I wouldn't trust many "consumer grade" filters, and I'd want to do regular water testing to prove that any treatment that I do hasn't silently failed to work.
"of someone" is the qualifier, which is unambiguously specific to the person.
I recently found a similar solution, Outline [1]. Works pretty good, fast, open source.

[1] https://getoutline.org/
My initial selling point is the lower price, since my operating expenses are fairly low at this point. The idea is to hire people and scale as the number of managed PCs/Servers increases.
Compared to the marginal cost of implementing this small additional input sanitization, both budgets are infinite.
Knuth himself puts it this way: https://i.imgur.com/1czRNCK.png
Interesting. This made me wonder about small caps. Aᴘᴘᴀʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ Gᴏᴏɢʟᴇ ᴅᴏᴇsɴ'ᴛ sᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ ᴛʜᴏsᴇ.
𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕒, 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕠𝕝! 𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜𝕤
Someone using a screen reader to learn a new language.
MIPS was on its way to irrelevance, first as ARM slowly ate its remaining marketshare, then quickly when Imagination Technology went under and sold it off for a pittance to a relatively obscure "AI" company.

RISC-V may have hastened its demise, but the writing was on the wall for a long time.