skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will need a "special" font to visualise the text but depending on the writing system it may be enough for someone to simply make one new glyph for each of the characters in your system and add it to a general purpose "everything" font. For some writing systems you need more powerful technology because e.g. the system has complicated rules about how shapes fit together and are transformed by adjacent shapes.

For practical purposes there isn't "something else". We're well past the point where Unicode was adding things that worked fine on a specially modified edition of Microsoft Windows for the specific language (like Dungan, which needs extra characters not normally used in Cyrillic) or whatever, these are now often _really obscure_ writing systems where previously you'd only put them "on a computer" by uploading a picture of the writing. Now the computer can handle them as text because they're in Unicode.

For all the historical writing systems, and some of the minority systems that have very few users many of whom know another language that is more widely used and thus more useful to them in practice (imagine going on a forum to ask a question about maintaining the motor sledge you use, you know Russian and also Dungan - obviously you will ask in Russian, because that's a LOT more people who might answer) - in practice the new scripts in Unicode will only be used by academics to transcribe stuff. It still makes that easier, because they can use Unicode everywhere, not just in specialist tools that maybe another researcher built for the language they care about.
Having a PhD in math, I must say this is really wicked. Parsing through it, it looks legit to me. Proper typesetting, proper definition, theorem, proof structure. The usual phrases like "it is well known, that..." are used, the sentences make sense at a first glance. The only thing which looks suspicious are the formulas. They are too heavy and make no sense, as no explanation of the symbols are given. But kudos, this is really really good. Wouldn't be surprised if you can trick yourself in some low-tier journal using such a paper as template.
>I thought it was great, but I know it's not a book for snowflakes. When I hear someone say "this is right" or "this is wrong", I am able to effortlessly interpret this as "I believe this is right/wrong". It's just being efficient with language.

Or, as we used to call it: "It's all about having had a few conversations with actual people in the actual world".
> You could eat 1500 calories for every meal and be very lithe - if you slept 23 hours a day.

Not sure if this statement is sound, for the average person.

If you ate 4500 per day, spread across 3, 20 minute meals, and spent the remaining 23 hours sleeping... your energy expenditure would be minimal, whilst your energy intake large. The average person would gain weight rapidly. (300lb athletes perhaps not, but these are outliers).
My little town has a traditional taxi service that now also has an app. Not nearly as polished as Uber but... who cares, it gets the job done (getting me a taxi).

The only thing Uber has is a nice network, so that when I travel, odds are I’ll land somewhere with Uber and not have to think about taxis.

I think the ultimate end solution might be something like Uber but offered to any willing/interested taxi company, akin to Amazon and its marketplace. Join it, you get a free user base + a modern app that handles a ton of stuff for you, but at the end of the day, you’re still your own taxi company and not locked into anything.

Or, alternatively, sell “Uber app as a service” to all taxi companies so that they won’t even have to think about building one. It doesn’t get the same network benefits but it would move things forward for smaller taxi firms.
UK cash system ‘on the verge of collapse’
Yank configuration values from .Net Core apps and store them in Azure and AWS
That's fine though. On Linux distributions care is usually taken to ensure fonts that cover all languages in common use today, but there is no need to cover every glyph in the standard right from the start. Some Unicode blocks eventually get a default font, some are so specialistic that you have to install a special font, but that's perfectly doable.

Newer versions of distributions tend to come with updated versions of the fonts installed, so eventually support will increase.
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Did you just compare a dog with roses and vegan food in terms of annoyance?

I think we can all agree that dogs are obnoxious, take space, smell ,make noises, attack etc. Probably a factor a 1000 in annoyance

And for the record, I would not bring roses at work if it annoys one of my colleagues. Seriously those things are not even comparable though.

And for the record, you represent perfectly the dog owner that we all hate, that cannot understand that some of us are anxious around dogs. You think as if your dog must have all the rights and be treated as someone special
I loved the book, but I know so many functional adults living their entire life underslept, that I think it must miss compensating mechanisms.
The two times a year when you find out which new tests were written to use local time instead of UTC.
Please, in the future use "UTC" and not "GMT". GMT is defined by UTC, but not the other way around ;-)
They literally have a product for this use case, it's called Stripe Connect.
VISA is the brand of a credit card company. A visa is a permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited (from Latin "charta visa", a piece of paper which has been seen).
The opera is absolutely epic. I saw it recently at the Coliseum in London. Looks like it's last night is tomorrow if anyone wants to catch it:

https://www.eno.org/whats-on/akhnaten/

Binoculars were handy because the Pharaoh costumes were amazing.

You don't have to be an opera buff - Glass is is great if you like electronica. It's an opera that could justify having a dance floor for throwing some shapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEYPaZeLhLg
Something of a secondary effect really, but the two things that immediately come to mind are "nonwhite people are less likely to afford cars" and "nonwhite people are more subject to discriminatory traffic stops that (in the US) sometimes escalate to lethal violence".
Most reverse engineering done nowadays is not for derivative works
I'm using VPN Secure. It shows 2 dangerous Permission. One of the permissions they are asking is android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - Why on earth would they want that permission :(

I'm going to write them an email for clarification.

Thanks for sharing this research.
> Cars are less likely to stop when people of color step into intersections, a study says.

https://www.npr.org/2017/02/15/515336658/researchers-examine...
The choice is - don't see it or see it in a slightly less than optimal way. It's an amazing fountain, it's different than anything at home for many visitors, and it's super easy to get to.
If you look further down in the thread you can see how someone asks whether he saw any actual photos and his reply (which is what I posted).

https://twitter.com/wothadei/status/1102570006330597381
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Distributing software that is intended to steal money from people is not freedom of speech.
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I would think that adding two dictionaries will make people think of the established cases for other collections, rather than the less related case of numbers.
No. This is clear apophenia. Ghidra is a reference to the Japanese video game boss of the same name, which was supposed to be called Hydra, but due to mis-translation, came as Ghidra

In Sanskrit, a vulture is vocally spoken aloud like [Giddh], emphasis on the end.

> Ra is the acoustic root of fire

Any source for that?
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There are numerous great Lisp books by knowledgeable authors which have none of that attitude. Life is too short to read printouts of Usenet rants.
That's a very important question that should be answered, but your implicit assumption that sleeping shortens waking life should at least be verified. It looks like chronic lack of sleep shortens life expectancy.
"Apart from the fact that DOS wasn't a multitasking operating system, concurrent execution of multiple tasks would have been easy"?

(Eventually people retrofitted a sort of multitasking with TSR programs, but that's not really the same thing.)
Variants. There is a lot of differences in the form of characters given time and place and writing. Scholars want to be able to reproduce text with fidelity so the current standard is insuffisant for them (I heard that from a scholar in that field). In a way it is similar to the issue created by Unihan. Abstractly the unified characters are 'the same' but people still want to see them displayed with a given shape.
I'm not familiar with the Swiss referendum, but Brexit was a case of asking a lot of ill-informed people for their vote and then blindly doing what they said.

I don't think that was the case here; the survey just informed policy, rather than dictate it.
Ask HN: Any Ways to Disable Karma?
I was wondering if there is a way to disable karma and its visual effects (greyed downvoted posts, karma count displayed).

I don't care much about it but I find it strangely addictive. I'd like to be able to discuss opinions without being influenced by arbitrary numbers, especially since it often interferes with discussions (nobody replies to heavily downvoted comments, even though it's often the ones which needs to get exposed to other point of views).

Maybe a browser plugin ? custom CSS ?
What's the relevance of this? It's certainly not the case that the presence of one person with an embarrassingly obvious craving for adulation in the conversation means that other people with distended egos of their own will stay away. The opposite is nearer true.
Well... I suppose you could argue that it would make sense for them to add a secret trojan, encrypted alongside a message along the lines of "we'd like to talk to you about an interesting employment offer, give us a call on 00000" ;)
Tinkering with clocks can't actually extend the length of the day, so it comes down to whether people prefer an extra hour of daylight in the morning, or in the evening.

Personally, I'd much prefer the later. Hopefully, the UK will decide to stay permanently on summer time from 2021.
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> people saying "we'll discover new oilfields or technology will unlock previously inaccessible ones."

To be fair, it's what has been happening so far. Of course it'll stop one day. Also I think oil major are aware of the fact, that's why some of them are investing in renewables (like bio-fuels).
> It's always been on my Python wish list that dicts would subclass sets, as dicts are essentially sets with values attached.

> There's no reason you shouldn't have always been able to say d | d2, same as sets.

I don't agree with this view, mainly because merging a dict is not associative, while unionizing a set is.

The actual operation for "a + b" is "add everything from b set to a", and + more closely resembles that than |.
What is the purpose of parents when they are eventually surpassed by their kids?

The purpose of humanity is to build the machines, teach them what we know about the world, and make sure they don't destroy themselves in the process.
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Being able to compare all values was useful. I miss it.

None being less than everything is particularly useful.
A distinction you may be having trouble with, because it's kind of hidden from the user, is the difference between a shell and a "pty" (pseudo teletype). You certainly can spawn a shell and send it commands, but because it doesn't have a pty the input is treated very differently.

That's what you get setup for you by running tmux, screen, expect, xterm, ssh etc.

(Bonus: https://askubuntu.com/questions/481906/what-does-tty-stand-f... )
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And remember that spinach has a lot of iron, butter is good for you in 1940, bad for you in 1970, good for you in 2010.

Margarine is good for you in 1970, bad for you in 2010.

Good luck.
I knew someone that briefly turned on a laser engraver with their arm in it. Not sure of the wavelength, but she claimed to feel it go through and could smell burned flesh. It was fairly new tech at the time and the doctor couldn't tell her much. She had some mild tingling afterwards, but nothing major.

She didn't tell her boss because she had disabled the safety switch, for some reason that seemed good at the time.
From what I get from skimming the paper he suggests that America's focus on cars might be related to the end of segregation, with cars allowing white people to just decide to live in a neighborhood with few black people. Effectively the policy shift towards cars enabled a new form of segregation.

Additionally "Experiments have found that motorists yield less often for people of color." (page 27).

But those are minor tangents in a 100 page rant about laws and enforcement (as well as victim blaming in traffic accidents)
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I bought two pairs of prescription glasses including frames and nice little cases + one them was photocromatic.

The total cost was 47$ for both.

This was in Sofia.
I dunno, by wildly extrapolating current trends, by 2050 a typical text-based message will already consume several MB of bloat, Javascript, subliminal advertisements, superliminal advertisements, JSONs encoding XML encoding JSONs encoding base64 encodings of..., 128-bit float variable font settings, prayers to the Packet Gnomes, and more Javascript.

In comparison, a few extra kb won't seem so bad.
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Ah yes, Pandora is better (tried it over a VPN once), but I live in India, so was speaking from that perspective. Spotify comes second for me personally. I've tried them all.
How is it different from other animals being able to be creative and ingenious? That has never been traits exlusive to humans, or something defining the purpose of humanity, whatever that could mean.

Human evolution pushed creativity and ingenuity way further than other species, but those traits aren’t unique to us.
Might depend on the specifics. I'm using Brave -> Lion Icon -> toggle Scripts Allowed to All Scripts Blocked. As an aside it also saves those settings per site making it quite convenient!
I kind of had the same point. West should help tip Russians over the edge.
Lets say they encourage Russian money laundering I think at some point even the weakest will say enough is enough like in 1917.

Me myself being of Russian decent i can tell that Russia either has to become a bunch of different countries (Dagestan, Chechnya, Altai and etc) or it can only function under Communist regime. Its just that human nature and culture is weird, selfish and with no empathy. Look at their religious leaders for example its disgusting
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Poisoning The World From the U.S.A - The Devil we…: https://youtu.be/84glf6F3b-Y
Just used it to solve the 2015 flare-on challenge #1. Rudimentary, but I am blown away. The interface feels better than IDA, I was able to write a python script straight away! 10/10 recommended.

The python interpreter attached with it is aware of the state. Where is my cursor, what memory module I have selected etc. Easy to write scripts for
That’s not really for you to say, is it? Even assuming they’d agree with your cynical characterization, which is doubtful.
They're looking at it from the point of one to a few coders and you're looking at it from an industrial view with larger teams. I think it probably shines more in the former. If macros aren't overused, it's probably not all that different from other dynamic languages like Python that work fine with larger teams.
FDA Commissioner abruptly resigns after proposing e-cigarette regulations
Of course I know this is two different committees. I'm not talking about that level of separation but splitting Unicode in Unicode proper and the emoji in another standard. Emoji standardisation is orthogonal to encoding present and past writing systems once the set of existing Japanese emoji were encoded. So it became a shit show as soon as the standard created previously non-exiting characters as emoji. In comparison, if you create your own alphabet it won't be included, so newly created emoji should be treated in the same way: being excluded of the standard.
>A century ago, captains of industry and their allies in government

>launched a social experiment in urban America:

>the abandonment of mass transit in favor of a new personal technology, the private automobile.

Way to start with a false premise. Before the automobile took over, overwhelming majority of traffic - both personal and commercial - was either by foot, on horseback, or on a horse drawn carriage. There's a reason "horseless carriage" is how the early cars were used, perceived, and legislated.

"Mass transit" was a limited thing mostly between cities - train and horse carriages, and in very limited numbers as inner city trams and metro. Going both by historical accounts, and by period photos, a tram or metro were not the default commute mode for most of workers.

If anything, the mass transit - tram and bus - exploded in range and popularity thanks to the availability of cheap technologies popularized by the car.
Only the oldest. The youngest would prefer to come out of bed at 5:30. 7 is the most important number for a child to learn to recognise.
One common method is to secure the hardware key with a PIN. The key will only do its work (e. g. sign things) if the correct PIN is entered. It will also destroy the secrets it keeps (or even itself) after a given number of failed attempts.

If this is not feasible for some reason, you need to change or revoke your secrets as soon as you know the key is stolen.
Maybe you don't, but it really messes with your biological rhythm to get up before dark. If you get up, go to work and start your job all while it's dark outside, it is really hard to get going and not getting depressed in the long term.

Maybe not for you, but for many it will be.

The only daylight people will experience is when they leave their job. That's rough.
Ok - Thought perhaps I was missing something. The analogy probably isn't a good fit for luxury watches, which is a truly weird industry. Rolex, with their near-mythological status could probably shut down all advertisement and still sell their watches.

But your original point might still be true, regardless.
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Please let me know how to convert images to HTML & how adblockers know what part of it is an ad.

That cannot be done reliably without machine learning.
So now you're ok with UTC+2? That's permanent summertime.
>> It might seem curmudgeonly to take issue with what is mostly harmless fun, but Rue Crémieux is not the sort of place that can be all things to all people.

Well, what's harmless fun when one person does it becomes an ecological catastrophe when ten thousand people get wind of it and want a piece of the fun, too.

I get that people want to get to a nice place. So do I. But when we get there, and find another ten thousand people who had exactly the same idea, it's not a nice place anymore. So why does everyone insist on going where everyone else goes?

I'm Greek and I've seen this first hand in our islands, that are tourist magnets. I once made the mistake of going for a couple days to Santorini in the middle of the summer. Never again. Such were the throngs of people trying to get to town that it took us half an hour to advance, shuffling and bumping on warm human bodies, a distance of a hundred meters or so. I learned to spend my summers in Athens, where it was calm and quiet with everyone gone. You could set up a nice game of football in any of the main traffic arteries if you were so inclined.

Even Athens city, one of the ugliest places on earth, becomes almost pleasant when you have it all to yourself.
I was implying that this was not complicated because I did not find it complicated. I have since learned that this was a lack of empathy on my part.
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There is a "download PDF" button. The author spends ~95 pages arguing that the interaction of various laws (or their (lack of) enforcement) create bad second-order effects. I doubt anyone will be able to summarize that in the space of a comment.
I can imagine. In my country the electricity meters only deal with winter time (UTC+2). Most suppliers have different rates for day and night, so in winter night rates start at 12am and in summer they start at 11pm (or is it the other way around?) so nothing needs to be changed on the meter.
This is actually the standardised, Europe-wide definition of summer time, which is followed by all EU nations. Prior to 2002, the UK had various different start and end dates over the years.
https://github.com/IDArlingTeam/IDArling/
I haven’t, but my brother probably has.

I blame him for contaminating my mind with all of these concepts.
Quite ironically for the GP, that's exactly what has happened in this case: a taxpayer-funded governmental organisation (NSA) has produced and released a public good for free consumption. They literally saw the toll bridge (IDA Pro), said ‘nope’ for whatever internal reason, built a new one downstream, drove their vehicles across it, and then said “hey folks, this over here is for you to use for free whenever you want”.
They used to be included because the Japanese had them in their encoding systems, but the situation now is far more fuzzy. Which is odd for a standard.
I'd be interested in this as well. I hate the concept of voting on comments. I'll always upvote anything gray I see, even if it's something I disagree with.
I don't know anything about this team, but the ideal procedure would be minimal disturbance of this site, with minimal removal of artifacts from the site. Organic material for carbon dating, great.

There are several principles that one mist follow. Archeology is a destructive science: you can't dig the same pit twice, you can't remove artifacts a second time. So the first principle is: document everything, and destroy as little as you can. The second principle is that you must proceed with respect for the living Maya, who may well regard this adventure as a violation of a holy site of their ancestors.
I think it's somewhat telling that the thing I imagine being laundered when I hear or see the word Laundromat, is money.
>is basically the first real competitor to IDA Pro

What do you think of BAP[1]?

[1] https://github.com/BinaryAnalysisPlatform/bap
This article is a perfect example of the plague afflicting tech journalism today. It manages to ask vague unanswerable questions (and subsequently not answer them), haphazardly reference dozens of famous people (Picasso, Plato, Shakespeare, and Einstein, to name a few), and include contemporary buzzwords like "embracing failure". It does all of this while not actually making any point.
A Climate Change Paper So Depressing It's Sending People to Therapy
Do you say that out of experience? That is certainly not my _experience_. Lisp codebases tend to be easily "appropiable"
U+2800 etc. is for Braille, which is an alphabet. Nothing to do with bitmaps.
> ...and People of color pay the steepest price
WTF?
lock down device so idiots can't screw up, hackers and tech savvy influencer folk move onto a platform they can modify coz it's cool, general public follows

wash, rinse, repeat.
but here's the thing, in winter I still have to go to work in the dark
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> "If “daylight savings” time is so great, why not keep it all year round?"

This is exactly what many countries are proposing. Rather than abolish summer time, just make it permanent.