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> Displaying one nominal glyph per Unicode character does not result in readable text for many languages

Completely unreadable, even to people with a basic understanding of the inner workings of Unicode and some practice with the font, or just not matching the norms of correctness?

Decipherable but clearly not correct would mark the sweet spot between being just as bad as placeholders and being so good that it undermines efforts for having a proper font for a given language.
So with a click baitey title, can we get a TLDR?
And I don't disagree with that. There's a whole outrage culture that social media certainly contributes to (as does click-driven "journalism"). Every intemperate or ill-advised--or seen as inappropriate by some segment of the internet--remark gets endlessly repeated and amplified.
For cargo yes. Trucks arrival times are predictable within a few hours, trains are within days.
Well, I'm using Tivo just to refer to any timeshifting device, there are plenty. I thought the others were available in some form in EU, but I could be wrong.
> I am a minority but never found myself misplaced in the USA

> in Europe I've been victim of physical abuse just because I am not white and the immigration path is also completely broken

I'm not contesting you actually had these experiences but yours must be an exceptional story. It contradicts the reality of a lot of people.

But you make one big confusion that makes me question your experience with the systems. The US is a country with relatively uniform legislation. Europe is a continent where not only are the cultures vastly different between countries, the laws (like immigration) can be very different, a lot more so than between US states. And not all European countries are in the European Union. So the blanket statement "the immigration path is also completely broken", especially when comparing to the US, gives away some (uninformed) bias.

A person coming from Syria can get permanent resident status and/or citizenship after just a few years under perfectly acceptable conditions (like learning the language and having a job). So I don't really see a broken or particularly difficult path especially compared to the US.
"Every approach has downsides" does not mean one approach isnt objectively worse than others...
> The main benefit of FPTP, for third parties, is that they can hijack elections by acting as "anti-tiebreaker" (Threatening to turn their nearest ally into a lose by joining the election, unless that nearest ally adopts their platform). This is why third parties generally (and openly) advocate for FPTP.

This isn’t true in the U.K., the only country where a third party recently tried electoral reform in a country with FPTP. The Liberal Democrats wanted to get rid of FPTP.
Tesla appears to have huge logistical issues in Europe and else where. From the mess with the delivery of Rich's [1] Model X or one German Youtubers[2] Model 3. Here is a video of Tesla's pilling up in a mall parking garage [3]

At this rate the company will not exist very long even if they make the best car. Why is Tesla so incompetent when it comes to logistics when others do not have these issues? Who is in charge?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxSQuGeoug8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS5Q6iiQRgA

[3] https://twitter.com/gupamf/status/1113283728640368646
It's actually not that easy for most books, because most books aren't popular enough to sustain a torrent. A PDF of a book is usually tens or hundreds of megabytes, which is too big to get through most mail servers. Mass-sharing an ebook takes just enough work that it won't happen for anything that's not a best-seller.
This won't do well on a forum where all Americans are in the top 10% of social class.

Also, don't forget that Europe as a whole is poorer than the US. Sure, it's better to be poor in the EU than in the US but the top class can go much, much higher. A €80k salary is really on the higher end here in Europe, while Americans in IT seems to sometimes start on it.

Even though his points regarding GMO are too extreme, I think food quality and health might be the only 2 things the US is worse at than the EU. But again, you don't notice this if you're in rich in the US.
Thanks for the correction, I didn't know the count was including applications which presumably could be enabled/disabled.

Do you have any idea how many lines of elisp/c the core is? And how gnarly it is? I've read some stories.
Ideally, any archive respects the wishes of copyright holders and we don't need to rely on legislation. I certainly want control over my data, and thankfully most legal systems are on my side. My rights over my data trump other peoples need to preserve absolutely everything, no matter how trivial. Like the collection of personal letters my grandparents wanted destroyed after their death, which did not end up in a library vault and the historical significance of which is lost to time.

I pity future historians who will need to wade through the petabytes of crap like so much landfill because we outsourced curating it to the future. Because just maybe the rubbish I spout on my personal blog will be of interest to future generations (hint, it isn't, and I'll be spinning in my grave from embarrassment if it is). I doubt they will wade through it, since we have the ability to leave future generations actual historic records and not force them to learn about us from fragments decoded by archaeologists.
Great comments and very, very true. I've worked overseas for a number of years and can vouch for what you say.

Americans are too driven. They don't know how to relax. Most Americans don't even take their full holiday time.

What I've done to combat the BS with employers is to set the bar at the interview. I tell them they will get a solid 8 hours of work from me, M-F, 730-430 or 8-5. I don't waver on this, as I have a family. I don't work nights or weekends. I don't accept calls after hours unless it's something that is dramatically critical. Don't call me to bitch about the email server being slow. The shit's in the cloud and I have no control over it anyway. It can wait.

I firmly, yet nicely "demand" an hourly wage in lieu of salary to ensure that I get paid for every second I work. Should I have to work overtime in an emergency, I should be compensated. This all sounds like some harsh demands on my part, but if I don't do it for myself, who will? I have a union mentality towards work because I know that no employer has my best interests at heart.

I tell people all the time to negotiate their own employment. HR departments are willing to work with you within reason, but you have to ask. One way of almost forcing companies to work your way is asking for an hourly salary. Quite a few will comply. No one wants to pay overtime. It's costly. I don't want to work overtime. It's a kind of let's check each other. If I cannot accomplish something in 8 hours, there is always tomorrow. I don't check email after work. In fact, I refuse to put my work email on my personal devices unless you pay a stipend. My device is mine, not yours. You have to pay to play. Yet no one stands up for themselves. Almost no one. You get what you are willing to fight for. And before someone says, well, you deserve to get fired or not hired... why? Because I'm willing to be my own union and "demand" my own terms? It's possible. Not always, but unless one tries, one gets what one gets. I tell the people all the time here, "stop taking your laptop home at night. Are you being paid overtime? If you're not, don't work overtime. Negotiate better pay and working conditions."
My mistake virality in both cases, although virility in some sense could also make sense.
Those systems viciously enforced a centralized vision of what each person should do. This is not that, this is true autonomy.
I think the fact that the journalist is pushing the warring tribes narrative is part of the problem. I should have listed that among its flaws.

The journalist here is egging the two sides on, deliberately setting up confrontations, and rooting for blood. It's interesting read because it stimulates your lizard brain, but it's not good journalism.
I'm not talking about big companies. The question is about poetry vs side projects which in the US bloom into startups.

So again, 1) there are more regulatory barriers to making the side project => startup jump, and 2) finding both people who are okay with working early stage company hours and finding work arounds to fairly compensate them is much harder.
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According to demographics, the market share of people watching broadcast television vs people watching "alternative media" (read streaming) was less than 50% as of the end of last year, I believe, according to some studies (though they were surveys, so it's hard to say exactly how accurate they are, but the pendulum is definitely swinging)

EDIT:

In an American survey, but this did include YouTube as a form of streaming media
I do both, but for cost - often there are specials. www.informit.com often has 2 for 1s or 50% off on black friday etc where I have loaded up. I still prefer books, but have run out of space at home.
In the article it's stipulated it's because of gravity. But it's also mentioned in passing that swimmers hold their breath. I wonder, is there any effect in being able to hold your breath for long when it comes to cardio? As in, I can hold my breath for 4:58, does that offer me any advantage?

Or what about training with a bigger lack of oxygen, as in waiting longer between strokes to breathe or holding your breath while running, does it do any good?
I've heard this argument made a thousand times and I still don't believe it because there are plenty of vinyl DJs who don't interact and lots of laptop DJs who are pulling all sorts of stunts on stage to entertain the crowds.

What matters more than the medium is the individual who's playing from them.

I've performed a lot, both from a laptop and from vinyl (and a fair few times with both too) and anecdotally I can say using a laptop has never defined how much of a spectacle I choose to make of myself. The amount I've slept beforehand or whisky I've drank has a much bigger effect ;)
Probably more than the number of people who feel deeply motivated under the current setup.
this is a non-US problem - in India, we typically have a dozen candidates in every election constituency. IRV is not very practical.
The problem is that you can easily exceed the aircraft flight specifications if you enable unlimited control. If you pull the stick back at max power you can seriously risk the creation of a stall, which is why MCAS exists in the first place.

That's manifestly wrong.

MCAS was introduced because of the design decision to place the larger and more powerfull power plants further in front and higher up.

The reason for this was that Boeing wanted to grandfather the 737 certification into this model and wanted to avoid pilot retraining in the simulator, which was an important sales argument.

The problem with this redesign was that the airframe tended to point the nose up, since its aerodynamical characteristics changed due to the redesign.

MCAS was introduced in order to simulate the same behavioral characteristics of the older 737s.

This is proven by the fact that the system was neither documented nor was it part of the scenarios in the 737 MAX simulator. The idea was that the functionality is completely transparent to the pilots so that the could fly the new plane after a minimal presentation on an iPad, which was less thank one hour if they were already 737 certified.

The problem was not pilots pulling the nose too high. The problem, which MCAS tried to correct was the tendency of the plane to pull the nose high and correct for it.

Boeing tried to cram a 50 year old airframe into a new plane with engines too big to fit that airframe and wanted to avoid recertification and retraining.

That's the whole issue we're discussing here.

edit: clarification
That's funny, cause I was about to post starting with "Is it just me..."

No only the things you said, but it's written like it's targeted at a middle-schooler. I could barely make myself skim the 2nd half of it. I did, cause, you know, Linus.
The only reason Uber/Lyft exist is because transport in the US is mostly terrible.
Can one even accurately know what plane they will be on until mere hours before? Does flightradar help with this?
> You also can't possibly know all error codes to handle for a function if it calls other functions returning error codes

You aren't using error codes or documenting correctly. You get a choice whether the error propogates upstream
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I usually marked them up ahead of time, but it doesn't take very long to add a loop point on the fly. I'd usually have maybe 40 or 50 songs ready to go for a 2 hour set and play maybe a third of them? It was very very rare that I'd add in another song, usually from a request. When you're djing a lot you don't tend to change your live set that much. So doing prep work is like moving around a dozen songs between sets maybe.
It doesn’t work because the entire system above it takes massive amounts of private money, which influence downballot races.

The parties spend a lot of money to raise the profile of a few candidates in a state (people can only remember a few names anyway), then leverage their popularity to endorse candidates in downballot races.

In practice, whatever local candidates supported by the largest party-sponsored get-out-the-vote operation wins. In NYC, that means a figurehead celebrity mayor and most of the lower positions filled by a political machine.
> As far as I know, countries that were shattered in World War 2, like Japan and Germany, are less violent on average

Mainland Japan did not see any ground fighting, only firebombing and the two atomic bombs. Therefore, one would not expect the locals to have been exposed to the results of infantry firing thousands and thousands of bullets.
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Mods: Suspecting the fragment part of the URL wasn't meant to be submitted here? It jumps to some nonsensical part of the page...
> presume that, despite not being able to know all exceptions to handle in advance, you somehow have knowledge of all error conditions in the event that you're using error codes?

I guess that it is indeed the case. If you call one function, you can read the documentation of said function and read about its return values, including error codes. This specification cannot not change if one of the libraries nested deep within this function is replaced. However, with exceptions, if you use a new implementation of a deeply nested function it may raise a new exception that nobody was aware of at the time of writing the outermost functions.
It already has.
Usually documentation tends to have this, or you can look at the function and immediately know what it will return, whereas with exceptions any passthrough errors are transparent.
Already discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19400691
It's also a problem when people use words with strong, defined meanings like addiction where they aren't appropriate. Often this kind of thing is then turned into bad legislation because 'addiction' carrys such strong connotations.
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Truckers gridlocked at U.S.-Mexico line as border agents moved
100% Except its not a spoiled rich kid, it's a man with "20 years of experience in technology" who is most certainly not a poor american.
Ask HN: What’s one quirky habit that adds a lot of value to you?
Ah, so it is the same symbols as with birds.

So that means that the female will have ZW, but it would double its Z_1 and give its offspring Z_1Z_1?
It was recoverable in a similar situation. That does not mean it was recoverable in both situations.

Any incident like this is a chain of events (which in this case started back with the original design decisions). Many links in that chain aren't obvious, and no two chains are identical. Just because the chain was broken in one case doesn't mean it was reasonable to expect it to be broken in all of them.
Ask HN: Best web server/language/framework for embedded?
My current company is thinking of rewriting from the ground-up an embedded software, which is currently accessed through a simple wsgi server.

My initial suggestion was to use something like Flask + lighttpd, which would serve our purposes, but the team wants to go with Node.JS, as this would be somewhat better for their careers later on.

I do have a lot of experience with Python/Django, and the other developers have some C#/Java/React experience.

Anyone have any experience doing embedded web development? How would go in this situation?
> social mobility -- as depressingly low as it is in the modern US -- is (and has been) MUCH worse in Europe.

This doesnt match the reporting I've seen. (Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility )

Of course, this may be twisted statistics - what are you basing your claim on?
What app do you use for this?
Art!?

ROFL!!!!
I think it's aimed at e.g. browser or OS builders who can fall back to this font for single missing characters if need be.
workloads > RAM ≈ 0 ∴ benchmark = premature optimization # ;)
> I've never gotten the same emotional connection with CDJs nor Ableton. However the audience wouldn't experience that.

>They will if you're good at your craft.

This - 100%. I can't agree more. When you feel what you're doing, the audience should feel it also. That's what keeps me doing it now after 20+ years (when I don't really have to, in order to pay the bills anymore!). It's that moment, of a connection, and the spine tingling chill/buzz you get when you pull off a great mix in the moment and the audience feel it too.
Bring back the good old days before the eternal September began. I liked the internet then.
This article might do better by actually explaining what a monad is in layman’s terms, rather than deferring the reader to Wikipedia via a footnote. I read 1/3 of the article hoping to gain an understanding but gave up and didn’t read further :(
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It’s business insider
Well, yeah, parts of it were expected. The part about accelerating the shipping of cars to China because of soft demand was a little out of the blue, though.
Ask HN: How to Prepare for Competitive Programming?
With ~24 hours until another round of Google Hash code, I was wondering - how would HN prepare for a competitive programming competition if they only had 24 hours until the competition.
You better have some good redundancy on those SD cards because I've run Pi clusters before and most of those cards go corrupt pretty quickly with any frequent number of writes.
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I agree. I think he's a genius. But I think it's easy to look at what he's doing and think that the turntable part is the genius part and it's really like 10% of it, but it's a huge barrier to get started.
I enjoyed reading this article immensely. I'm a nobody bedroom producer but the description of the feathering and blending out tracks, and his interaction with the audience and how he's using layers to tell a story from his mind and not just appeasing the crowd really spoke to why I do what I do the way I do it, made me respect the man all the more for his integrity, and it's something that is increasingly difficult to do - be an artist above being a slightly randomising musical xerox. There's a message there for producers and DJs that there's a soul or spirit that's always at risk, and we have the ability to uphold it.

Reading Jeff's description of the mental process not just the mechanical process... I was sad the article seemed to just touch on those areas and would love to see deeper into the artistic process. When he's imagining approaching a planet, or being in the forest, and how that translates to music for him.

What a legendary DJ. I'd love to see / hear him do a modern set mixing old school hits records like he described. And now I'm falling down a youtube hole back into the 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejSvyXlin_s
The problem is, it's not a tool for communication, but a tool for selling ads. And it is bad for the average user. It makes people depressed.
> The dark side of that is discrimination when "someone they enjoy working with" is based on more than a friendly attitude and hard work.

In my experience friendly or not, people tend to be quite honest when vouching or generally asked an opinion on someone.

Referring a bad candidate (or an incompetent one) will damage your reputation/credibility, and most people don't want that.
"I personally have lower taxes, high quality healthcare, and live in an awesome location, and I got all of that through an education and training. That is available to almost every American if they just put in the work."

So, not trying to be antagonistic but this is pretty much a perfect example of survivorship bias: "this worked for me/X so it could work for everyone."

It's also part of what the author is referencing: this idea that you can always point, post hoc, to ways in which someone could have worked harder.

It also ignores rampant structural problems. There are plenty of people with marketable skills, or who are capable of doing such work, but who are walled out of opportunities because of implicit or explicit rules that actually have nothing to do with ability to do the work at hand. So we, for example, assume that task X can only be done by someone with a score on some proxy standardized test A, or with specific degree B, or who come from a certain type of school C; or who have experience working with specific platform D.

These types of arguments always seem to devolve into extremes, which is frustrating to me. It's possible to say "the US can be a better place to be for more people by changing X, Y, or Z."

The irony is that if I could change things the way I'd like a lot of the changes would involve pretty extreme deregulation in some areas mixed with certain select areas where I would increase taxes and provide more things publicly through the government. But these kind of mixed solutions tend not to get anywhere in today's political climate.
Model 3 isn't back ordered. When I was ordering mine last week everything showed a 2-week delivery date(mid-range, long range, performance). After ordering I picked mine up two days later. Later after reading the Tesla forums, I could have called up Tesla and got a discount on the car if they had it sitting in inventory since they are trying to move inventory.
In America it does.
Volunteering is one possibility. People are just going to replace their jobs with doing free work? If not, what else will they do? According to you, crocheting, knitting, bingo, and dancing.
That's 137 million people, far more than any European country ;-)
Volunteering is one possibility. People are just going to replace their jobs with doing free work entirely? If not, what else will they do? According to you, crocheting, knitting, bingo, and dancing.
They started delivery of the Model 3 in Europe in February. But Tesla's cars are quite a bit too bulky for many European countries, where Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe dominate sales.