skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Squiggles" is my preferred word here. There are a bunch of technical terms like Glyph and Codepoint and Grapheme, but I find squiggles are often what somebody wanted when they used something that works on "characters" and are disappointed with the results.

Advice elsewhere is correct. You almost certainly don't want anything in your high level language other than strings. No "array of characters" no slicing, all that stuff is probably smell. They're like the API in many crypto libraries for doing ECB symmetric encryption. 99% of people using it would have been better off if the Stack Overflow answer they're about to read is explaining what they should be doing instead.
I'm not sure if I'd consider it extreme weather, but it was a very late String for Minnesota this year. Cold through most of February with lots of rain. My brother crop dusts, and figures he is likely around 20% behind the number of acres he would spray in a season. The early season crops will be poor this year.

I'm glad there was not major flooding. With a very late fast thaw, there is a real potential for flooding this year. Was not near as bad as I was expecting it be.
I am pretty sure the A-series is not an ARM supplied core these days.
Loom has better scalability. Most transactions can happen on a sidechain.

https://medium.com/loom-network/everything-you-need-to-know-...

Ethereum 2.0 will have sharding. That should speed up transactions but sidechains will probably always be cheaper and sometimes no fee.
Jeep doesn’t allow me to install my own apps on Uconnect. I guess they are a monopoly. Sirius, Apple, and Android are 3rd party products that are allowed on Uconnect but not my own.
And yet again you've missed the point... So I don't understand how the ownership and transfer of ownership of vehicles works in the US (where, BTW, I do not live, and have no need to understand).

Let me say it again so it's really obvious:

It has to do with transferring ownership information of an asset with intrinsic value.

Stop arguing the specifics of the admittedly flawed example that I came up with between starting to type, and ending typing the sentence.
'Encryption' is not spelled correctly on the homepage.
How come the total percentage > 100?
I think pharma do work with phages but it’s not very public. Maybe due to limited use, so far.
And it works in the cloud - HA and high throughput. On Spotify's Hadoop workload, we got 1.6 million file system ops/secs, highly available over 3 availability zones. On GCE.
It's a multiple choice question. I use VS Code and IntelliJ for example.
White text on black background....really...
The news reflects what we're interested in. Most deaths aren't interesting.
This article was about causes of death. They perfectly reproduced the causes of death versus the reports.

The interpretation that we should not discuss certain causes of death as much was only added in this thread. The only implication discussed in the article seemed to be "Perhaps we should provide more context".

I would say that people dying from outlier events is newsworthy because they are outliers, not that we should cover events in the proportion of their occurance in real life. That'd be awfully dull.
Mark Zuckerberg's personal security chief accused of harassment, racist remarks
Fair enough. Any thoughts on how your trustless relay setup compares to the Gas Station Network Alliance?

https://blog.zeppelinos.org/gas-station-network-alliance/

https://github.com/tabookey/tabookey-gasless
news is mainly for entertainment.
Good to see Scheme/rkt at work.
Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
> Connections to your infrastructure and non-public properties (hosted CIs, admin interfaces, databases etc.) should only be accessible through a bounce host (in a VPC, behind a bastion host or VPN, etc.).

How valuable is this?

I see articles for [1] and against [2] this practice.

And not a lot of interest in the subject from security SE. [3]

[1] https://cloudacademy.com/blog/aws-bastion-host-nat-instances...

[2] https://medium.com/@henriksylvesterpedersen/you-dont-need-th...

[3] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/194024/should-i...
Add-ons are a solution, though. Have you tried the FVD Speed Dial extension?
do you have any ideas for cracking down on drunk driving that wouldn't inconvenience and intimidate law-abiding citizens? the only methods I can think of are checkpoints and large-scale surveillance, both of which I would oppose.
I think he mainly implied more enforcement.

either more cops at night, or an AI/radar camera to alert cops when it sees a car driving erratically.
This is my take:

Since China has had US military bases in its backyard for the past 70 years it finally feels that it’s big enough to flax some muscle in Pacific. Hence they’re doing that shit in South China Sea. US empire naturally sees this as a threat to its colonies and interests in Pacific. In order to seam like it’s doing something about it is pushing the anti China propaganda to its population by imposing the tariffs and in turn it is filling its coffers which are somewhat lighter since it gave the tax cuts to big business. Of course it has positioned the tariffs as if China is giving them that extra 25% instead of letting the American consumer realise that they’re the ones who will eventually foot that bill through higher prices. There won’t be any war. Neither country can afford it. And China won’t do much about it. They just want to seam like they’re retaliating in front of their population.
And it only works like that because of the current financial system. Flattr exists because of the lack of a solution in the current financial system: Cryptocurrency (eg ETH with Web3) would allow sites to build a Flattr-like system without the middleman, and cut down on the overhead of actually building a company around it.
One thing I’ll give Bing. They don’t tend to editorialize or curate searches to sanitize politics, news and causes.

Now of course they do try their best to keep illegal things from getting indexed. Not talking about that.
When will it support windows?
Ah how come? It's being great to me so far! Back before the Chrome days, '00s and early '10s, every geek like me used to use Nightly, so I went with that.
Mercury Vortex in a Magnetic Field
I'm amused that in the blowup of New York State, Canajoharie is called out.

I lived in upstate New York for about 15 years and would not have been able to identify the town -- until a few years ago when They Might Be Giants wrote a song with that title.

http://tmbw.net/wiki/Canajoharie
I'd be interested to hear as much about your set up as you can divulge. How many concurrent writing users you have, you use a cache, etc.

> In terms of management, SQLite absolutely cannot be beaten. It is literally as easy as copying any other file when performing backups or restores.

This - I have a lot of respect to DBAs, enough to know that I am not one.
Per wikipedia, "the smallest unit of a writing system of any given language" is a grapheme. Note that this has nothing to do with Unicode. It's just the nature of human text. English folk typically use the word "character" to refer to the same concept.

Unicode models this concept with grapheme clusters. Per that model, GCs should in principle be the fundamental tokenizing unit that feeds into general purpose text parsing software.

But pragmatics may determine otherwise. Just as some tokenizing tools/functions constrain themselves to ASCII bytes, but then break when processing non-ASCII, so too other tokenizing tools/functions constrain themselves to codepoints, but then break if their input contains graphemes that are multi-codepoint graphemes, eg a huge quantity of the text written online in 2019.
see: https://worldwidevitalpr.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/learn-the-...

Nicholas Cage is definitely more famous than Anna Kendrick, for differing reasons.
A thought before you go?

If you weren't seeking help why are you here telling us? Perhaps you would like help but don't know how to ask for it, or are ashamed, or have another dumb reason.

Talk to someone, you obviously have something to say. Even if it does nothing at least someone will hear your story.
No, _we_ don't have to align on this and people can have more than one choice. Brave is open source and is trying to fix the web.
You didn't miss much. Literally only "he said" and "she said" followed by her going home and some mention of human trafficking.
> That’s like complaining that IKEA has a monopoly within IKEA stores.

I feel like the fact that only Apple makes iOS devices is what's confusing people.

Suppose that Tesla is the only company that makes electric cars and also the only company that has any electric car charging ports. (This is a hypothetical; in practice other companies offer both electric cars and charging ports.)

They don't have a monopoly on cars -- you can go buy a Volkswagen diesel if you like, and "electric cars" isn't necessarily a separate market than "cars" at the time of purchase. But once you have an electric car, they do have a monopoly on charging ports, which is a separate market because you can't run your electric car on petroleum.

This is easier to see if you add another electric car company but not another electric car charging company. So you go buy your Nissan Leaf but you still have to use a Tesla charging port with it. Clearly a monopoly on charging ports. But still the exact same charging port monopoly when they're the only company making electric cars.

You can have a monopoly on iOS app stores even if you're the only company that makes iOS devices. Having fewer competitors in the other market doesn't make you less of a monopoly. Even the fact that they compete there at all -- if Amazon was the only company with an iOS app store, they would have a monopoly on iOS app distribution even if they don't even make iOS devices.
Huh? That’s still not a monopoly. Argue that they’re violating anti-consumers laws to have access to device you purchased, sure, but what you’re describing is in no way a monopoly.
> you might process a message twice because the process might die in between completing processing and deleting the row

The very handy thing about the setup described, is that your data tables are part of the same MVCC world-state as your message queue. So you do all the work for the job, in the context of the same MVCC transaction that is holding the job locked; and anything that causes the job to fail, will fail the entire transaction, and thus rollback any changes that the job's operation made to the data.
The Tesla crowd: yeah, but how many times would you have steered into oncoming traffic on your own?
Fake White Truffles Have Flooded the Italian Food Scene – Eater
Yeah, this is not the consensus among actual owners who voted with their money.
Acompanhantes Maceió Eros Guia
True, but at some point, it's just exhausting. Every conversation is an exercise in pushing back.
Congratulations on the launch. Recommend you add a 1-2 minute overview video on the landing page.

- Do you have to install an application locally like Zoom?
- Does it work with any editor?
- Do you record paring sessions?
I would love to read a full translation of these remarks - along with a color commentary regarding the cultural expectations of what a proper Chinese CEO is expected to say vis-a-vis what a proper American CEO is expected to say.
This highlights a very specific cross-section of the programming community that isn’t necessarily representative. Users of minority programming languages and tools such as editors are going to be significantly underrepresented due to network effects.

The results very well follow the “developer evangelist”/cargo-culting and “underpaid enterprise code monkey” groups, however.
Boy GM is really raking it in from UConnect. Everyone's complaining about their monopolistic practices.

Last checking GM's share price it was barely a composition of their revenue.
How does the tab-to-search feature in Chrome negatively affect how you use the address bar? Are you entering URLs with tabs in them?
I can't get into details, but basically I agree with you. The Storm...was a product of many compromises. But it's only the start of a series of decisions that...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230988
> As many people who have gone through fasting-based diets have discovered, there's a difference between "I'm hungry" and "I need calories..."

This is so true and it absolutely blew my mind to discover. Like a scifi plot where the air is "poison", you go outside, and... nothing happens.

It was uncomfortable at first, but it's mostly mental. So much of the "hunger" signal is conditioning that, once you decondition it, it just goes away.

Even when I'm fasted to the point where I'm mentally and physically sluggish, there are still no hunger pangs as severe as the ones I used to have between lunch and dinner when I never went more than 8 hours between meals.

I can't recommend it enough. I don't enjoy any particular clarity boosts or lightness like some purport to have, but I do enjoy spending less money, dealing with fewer errands, and being less fat.

I try to not eat after ~8PM, and to go for as long as I can without eating after waking up. In practice, this is usually ~1130 but sometimes as late as ~230. Then I just eat smaller meals, 50-70% of normal size. In this way, I can eat basically whatever I want, on the same schedule as anyone else.
Just leaving a point of view and something for the digital archaeologists to dig up down the road. Truly I hate being alive and I hate this species. I suspect many hikikomori feel the same way
You don’t think they are involved in IP ah liberation. Benefit from the need a mainland partner to work in the mainland policy?
This entire thread is filled with people comparing browser results on a site that breaks down underlying fingerprint techniques, while asking questions like, "is there a way for me to disable WebGL?", and "I wonder if they block localhost port scanning?".

I understand what the original posted link is talking about, but the specific thread you're currently on is very clearly talking about more than whether or not Panoptoclick's tracking script is blocked. They're talking about how well different browsers can resist the techniques it uses[0]. Why else would anyone be comparing their results to Tor?

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting
You guys might be interested in this [0] classic study where a guy fasted for 382 days. He only took multi-vitamins during this period. His weight decreased from 456 to 180 lbs (0.72 lbs/day).

[0] https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf
So which would you prefer:

upper([1,2]) (so `upper` is a static builtin) or being unclear on whether its "".len or "".length or "".size or "".size()

Like I said, there is consistency: interfaces are given top level things (builtin functions, operators, language features/keywords), while object methods don't.

To give a recent anecdote, Rust's `x.await`, which is more "consistent", but everyone is complaining because in most languages async interfaces are exposed via something like `await x` instead of an attribute/method-y thing.
> I'm wondering how Firefox for Android manages on ChromeOS

I've done this before, it works pretty well, but Firefox for Android doesn't have a great extension experience as far as I've seen, though it could have improved since last I tried.
According to “Interview Pass Rates,” it looks like there needs to be an Emacs proficiency test as part of preliminary interviewing, because Emacs users are the most likely (by far) to pass interviews!

(The article is probably right that most Emacs users are more experienced, better programmers than users of other editors, because there’s practically no bandwagon to hop onto)
It's based on what wikipedia pages exist. Several neighborhoods in my city are on this map, but nearby incorporated cites are not.
You can disable JS with uBlock Origin. No need for NoScript.
The problem you have with Weko and those newer filesystems is that the tooling hasn't caught up. They are trying to get their APIs upstreamed into TensorFlow. But what about Spark, Pandas, Arrow, etc? It's not enough to have just the training part of the pipeline - you need to be the filesyste for the whole pipeline. That's what we provide with HopsFS.
Copyediting your headline a bit with the latest trends in linkbaiting:

Cure burnout by eating this disgusting thing.

Or...

You never thought eating dirt would be a cure for this.

And etc. The linkbaity headline should convey a riddle to be truly effective webtrash.
For Apple, it has branding value. It means they are known to legions of parents as a company that won't expose their children to porn.
They can diverge from Chromium around the edges but they are dependent on Google for long-term Blink evolution. That includes not just the internals but also APIs. E.g. if/when Google removes powerful content-blocking APIs from Chromium, Microsoft is would struggle to maintain their own different API. Especially for APIs that have architectural implications ... converting something from sync to async or vice versa. Significant architectural divergence would get expensive pretty fast.

Then again, they would face the same issues had they adopted Gecko. Maybe less so because Mozilla could be more easily influenced than Google (in some ways). The main argument for adopting Gecko would have been that giving Google complete control over Web evolution is a threat to Microsoft and that adopting Gecko would reduce that threat. I'm a big Mozilla fan but I think it would have been a weak argument.
Serious follow-up: I've always been fairly apathetic towards companies tracking me because I don't see too many plausible situations that would end up truly affecting me negatively. Do you have any examples (preferably that have happened in the past, but hypothetical are okay too) of what can go wrong if the tracking information falls in the wrong hands? Sure, street addresses, SSN's, credit card numbers would be bad, but why should I care if someone finds out that I'm a male aged 24 interested in backpacking, Apple products, and programming?
https://tuple.app/ is another new entrant to this space.
>Unfortunately, this film is not available for distribution in your country. It is currently only available in the USA.

I am in the USA :/
Welcome to Facebook Co. Where a clique of Silicon Valley exec yuppies now decide what is right and what is wrong for us to see.

It's a very slippery slope. Cannot wait for the next elections where any candidates with politically "wrong" ideas will see their pages silently being discarded or randomly hidden from timelines without warnings.
A gun style nuclear bomb isn't that complicated. If terrorists were able to get enriched uranium, then they could probably make one. If there were no counter-terrorism efforts at all, then there is a reasonable chance that they would be able to get enriched uranium.
So do I. There are things like text replacement, download progress indication on file icons, and other Cocoa-esque things that don't work on Firefox, but outside a probably very small segment of users who would even notice these things, and a smaller yet segment who would actually care, Firefox feels at home enough in macOS.

What I think damages Firefox's user-friendliness more is how easy it is to get to setting screens that look scary to the average user. For example Firefox recently started recommending an extension called "Enhancer for YouTube" when a user visits YouTube after upgrading to some new version of Firefox. Upon installing the extension, you get taken to the extension's settings screen which has a design that would definitely throw off my non-techie family members [1]. Also, take a look at the Firefox release notes for iOS [2] – sure it's "nice" for us devs to have access to raw GitHub issue labels or whatever those are – but for non-techie users they might be interpreted as conveying a certain messaging that Firefox is not really designed for them.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/8TIetRA.png
[2] https://i.imgur.com/QoUG1ZF.png
If they are big enough then yes it can be a monopoly too.
> Jeep doesn’t allow me to install my own apps on Uconnect. I guess they are a monopoly.

Why wouldn't they be? Does someone else compete with them for distributing apps on Uconnect? Can you install Ford Sync apps on your Jeep?
Because of AI, the value of a CS degree will “diminish over time” -Mark Cuban
White Nationalist Groups Banned by Facebook Are Still on the Platform
The Future of Adobe Air
I heard the exact opposite - that no amount of environmentalist pressure helped, and the problem fixed itself as soon as synthetic lubricants became good and cheap enough. Unfortunately I don't have any source for that; I read it somewhere and remembered as an interesting tidbit.
> So you may be on the west end of one town, and the post office that's closest to you is in another town (or is just named after another town, the name of the post office can be arbitrary as well). That's your address.

it isn't even that consistent. when living in a rural area, the city in my address was the (very nearby) city. my post office was located in a rural area on the other side of that city, and its address had the name of a small town that maybe legally it was in, but wasn't thought of as being near there.
I know one person who works in that team. Said he was driving to lunch and heard the news that Apple and Qualcomm had reached a deal. So he buys a few Qualcomm shares (he sold them at peak!), gets back to work and then this e-mail shows up saying Intel is getting out of the 5G modem business. I'm paraphrasing here: "The sight of a whole floor of heads popping up from their cubes at the same time... what an experience!"

So everyone there is hoping that Apple buys them out.
Amazon “solution” to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording
Because it will use the incredible technology known as hyperlinks.

The point is to collate publically available information into an accessible single location that will allow easy discovery of hidden agendas and conflicts of interest. You don’t have to trust the site for anything, it’s simply a jumping off point.
Damn... I was using some fingerprint to prevent sensitive accounts to be stolen or misused, now moz guys is taking away my cake.
I think the rules say sign-up pages like this can't be Show HN's.
Good point, and I agree. Sunk cost fallacy and all that. I wouldn't consider those "objective", but I don't think it's worth arguing over the definition of that word when I think we otherwise agree.

I also would agree that sometimes time has been wasted creating too many tests. Perhaps that time could have been spent to greater effect.

I also think that even if, in retrospec, a test is very tightly coupled and specific to one implementation, that test still might have revealed bugs and may have helped the original author. If that test is now a burden, throw it away.
Go Expression Evaluation Comparison
That word is used in different ways. This level of nitpicking breaks the site guidelines, which ask:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can confirm, it's rare for me to be able to get at the audio captcha. Occasionally I'll find that tabbing onto the the button allows it load when clicking directly on it won't. I assume if Google is observing behavior that makes them think you're sighted, they'll block access.

I kind of wonder if it would be possible to force the issue legally as an accessibility problem, but other people than me would need to do it, and in any case it feels a kind of dirty to me to use blind accessibility as a tool in the fight for privacy.

On the other hand, it also feels dirty to me that being blind would mean you're not allowed to do as much on the web to protect your privacy. Blind people should be able to use Tor.
Independence from whom? Taiwan writes its own laws, the only influence other countries have on that process is via pressure. Nobody else can legislate for them.