skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer who's been working intimately with user-facing strings for years, I have to disagree in the strongest possible terms. Unicode is one of the borderline zero standards that is almost angelic in its purity, with only an extremely few things I think might have served better if done differently.
There is way more than enough wacky stuff introduced by Unicode. Having dozens of letters A, for example. And giving a Japanese Kanji character the same code as a Chinese one that usually looks similar.
> Wow, that sounds like a great problem to have. Note the aggressive rhetoric ... 'spill', 'uncontrolled','pushing', 'bedrock', 'solar smashes utility finance'. Well-crafted FUD from ABC's Mercer, if he wrote it all.

Hmmm, it must be a dog whistle. I read it. Those terms had me cheering the rooftop solar roll out on. You are saying that wasn't the intended effect?

And the article did say what the solution was - pour resources into storage and wind. I'll grant you it was at the end, but there was no mention of stopping the solar roof top rollout. That continuing seemed like a forgone conclusion, and more to the point - how could they stop it?

Mind you, I didn't quite understand the problem with "lots of output on cool spring days". The solar inverters are required by law to protect the grid. As the output rises above consumption the grid voltage rises. When the voltage crosses a threshold every solar inverter is required to disconnect itself from the grid. The effect is very well known among root top solar owners, and is the topic of a hot conspiracy theories. (The conspiracy is when the major supplies aren't making enough money, they mistakingly/on-purpose let the voltage rise for a small time.)

Interestingly they didn't mention the obvious solution - more gas generators. I guess the gas people didn't pay for it.
seems to me radiated heat should indicate internal done-ness. Maybe a heat feedback somehow.
That was solved years ago by IDN/Punycode (implemented by any browser worth their salt).
Agreed. Normal "text" operations tend to work quite well.

And the other forms are accessible, e.g. if you write a text-based parser (XML, JSON, etc.), you'll probably want String.unicodeScalars.
Neil Postman wrote about this at length in _Amusing Ourselves to Death_. There's a classic comic strip based on it: https://highexistence.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-huxley-...
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You're rarely presented with more than 2-3 of a tweet thread at once, wouldn't really call it right in your face.
Nice example. For those who do not understand why it is so long, a denominator multiplied by a period must be all-nines. E.g. 1/7 = 0.(142857), because 142857x7 = 999999, so that 0.(142857)x7 = 0.(999999) = 1 back again. For some simple numbers N their nearest 999...999/N integer counterpart is enormously huge.
>The potential threat is for someone at Candidate_1's campaign taking selfies with the app, that then uploads them to Russian servers where the Russian government can see them and can also see what's in the background (sensitive documents?)

good old days just less than 20 years ago back at Sun when we were strictly instructed that the computer monitors must be off when the photos would be taken. How times and basic norms of opsec have changed - these days you just tweet the straight photo of the classified monitor screen https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/755994591/president-trump-twe...
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I hadn't heard of StandardNotes before so I just went to the StandardNotes website. The explanation there is decent, but why no screenshot(s)? I had to go to Google Images to see what it actually looks like.
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For UK, it's the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/3A with things like, among other things, "A person is guilty of an offence if he supplies or offers to supply any article believing that it is likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under [section 1, 3 or 3ZA]." and "(4)In this section “article” includes any program or data held in electronic form." so it is quite explicitly about tool making - with the quoted criteria about the belief/intent separating whether it's a crime or not.

Though it seems that I made a mistake about the age of that law - it seems that this particular section of the "1990" law was actually inserted in 2006 with the amendments introduced by the Police and Justice Act 2006 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/48/section/37 so it's old but not that old.
I just tried this search myself; and what I think you're after is the 2nd, 3rd(ish) and 4th result. https://imgur.com/HSnq77P.png
Agree. All of these floating point quirks are not actually problems if you think of them as being finite precision approximations to real numbers, not in any particular base. Just like physical measurements of continuous quantities. You wouldn't be surprised to find an error in the 15th significant figure of some measurement or attempt to compare them for equality or whatever. So don't do it with floating point numbers either and everything will work perfectly.

Yes, there are some exceptions where you can reliably compare equality or get exact decimal values or whatever, but those are kind of hacks that you can only take advantage of by breaking the abstraction.
"elm dict":

- Google - first hit

- Yandex - first hit

- DDG - Not on first page

- Bing - Not on first page
Conversely, I'd love to read a Vox editorial that looks for opportunites for government deregulation/step-back.
your website returns a 404
> Some benzos have muscle relaxant properties but I've never heard of them prescribed for pain.

Back pain is thought to be mostly psychological, so it makes sense. Also, if you have minor tears or congenital defects in tissue around your spinal cord then anxiety can cause inflammation, which can then cause your spinal fluid to push against your actual spinal cord and cause all sorts of problems. (Or something like this, I'm not a doctor but that's the basic idea.)
Oh, Thanksgiving. The most important time of year for Americans not to bring up politics or old hurts.
Yup, I actually got to the end of reading the code and noticed you do things like that. You have to read slowly to get all the nuances, so it was totally worth the effort.

The weirdest DOS "shortcut" I ever did was to remap INT 21h onto INT 3, giving me a single-byte INT 21h with a debug-killing side effect. Of course you have to have enough INT 21h's to convert to make that worthwhile, but it is a neat trick to have about if you have a lot of the same INT repeated throughout.

sub ax,ax
mov ds,ax
mov es,ax
mov si,21h*4
mov di,3*4
movsw
movsw

Of course if you aim it just right, you don't need the sub ax,ax. For that matter, it's an ideal place to use cx if you just exited a loop. And even then, you could probably find other short methods to make similar change. You don't even need to cli/sti because the chances of an INT 3 happening in the middle of the change is of no consequence, and all your INT 3 calls will only happen after this part runs.
I read both books one after the other a while ago to compare them. I think there are aspects of both that are becoming reality (or have been reality for some time), but can absolutely say that Huxley was closer to predicting the future (at least in the West).

The rise of mass media (hollywood, netflix), pornography, the pill (and other forms of contraception), large expendable incomes, smart phones, pharmaceuticals - the world now is basically Huxley's + a bit of a Orwellian propaganda sprinkled on top to keep you in Huxley's world.
Static Version: https://wisdom.engineering/awesome-unicode/amp/
Digital Geometry and Mathematical Morphology (2004) [pdf]
This is a solved problem.

Simply hook your control logic to measures of radiant heat, rather than time.

http://automaticbeyondbelief.org/

Thankfully, I inherited my grandmother's 1960s Sunbeam toaster [1], which still makes perfect toast to this day.

It's nice to have things from before we unlearned how to make them.

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Android: for people who want the freedom to do anything.
Just as an aside, that quote is likely apocryphal. No one has ever been able to find actual evidence that he said this, and those close to him have rejected it as a false attribution. It was being recognized as a myth way back in the 1970s.

Even if he had said it, it was a very accurate statement at the time. Gordon Bell has noted that at the time he is claimed to have made that statement, it would have held essentially true for a decade. As something that would have likely been said (if said at all) in discussions around IBM's near-future business plans, or a sort of market analysis of the conditions at the time, it makes perfect sense.
You can self host SN.
Current-gen devices provide an advertising id. It's unique to the device but can be reset to a new random value by the owner in the OS settings.
Now I want to watch your video on this. What game?
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The frequency with which google chooses to leave out critical keywords is insane. A huge amount of my experience now with google is: search, search again with quotes because I know what I want, thanks google. Get the results, they are full of garbage.
I'm not sure where I stated they have no credibility, only that the situation was deeply humorous
A lot of good sci-fi is predicting the present. Lilliput was a criticism of religious disputes at the time: how to break eggs.
Are we overreacting a little? Drug addiction is a serious problem, as it has been for many decades, but it’s not on the verge of collapsing US society. The vast majority of people aren’t addicted to opiates and aren’t going to become addicted to opiates, and of those they are... well, most of them would otherwise be addicted to something else anyway.
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Hi,

I am writing to just collect some ideas around some boy's names that come from technology.

I have got some beautiful names for girls:

Ivy - An Angular rendering pipeline

Jasmine - A frontend testing framework

But I have not got any ideas for boys. I truely do not want to name my boy as "Javascript", "Angular" or "React".

So please leave a comment if you have a cool name for boys?

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And if you let the fuel salt cool off enough, the radioactivity in it makes fluorine gas. Yum!
This is from MSR, which mostly functions independently of MS the company.
I have been learning flask for development.
Can someone describe advantages of using Django over flask?
Not if privacy is your end goal.
On the other hand, think of how much good has been done by the legitimate medical use of those drugs.
I use Duck Duck Go and I actually find it better than Google Search (better in the sense that there's something refreshing about the results I get as opposed to the stuff I see on Google Search, I can't comment on accuracy). I never read any documentation or a blog on how to use it. Just downloaded it and started typing
Better than wheels when in mud.
Companies where vacation time is close to zero will also say they have "unlimited." Always ask the interviewers how much vacation time they took specifically. In my experience they'll try to tell you how "someone" took 4 months of vacation but then omit the fact that no one else has taken more than 4 days and median is 0.
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I think that's only true if the thickness and heat transfer rate of all things inserted into the toaster is uniform, which may not be the case.
I wonder if this Japan-only advantage nudged Softbank to overestimate their global advantage.
I don't think the UX needn't be complicated. If you really wanted that you can use .rtf, but whitespace and at least grayscale separation are already possible in plaintext of course. Want a cute header? How about:

##########

Header

##########

Smaller plain text files + folders are great for separating, categorizing, and interacting with information. Got another file type relevant to that note? throw it in a folder with a matching filename.txt describing it all. Have aliases or shortcuts to make these appear in any configuration you want all over your OS.

MacOS also lets you put tags on any file leading to further customization. Throw in Calendar into the mix for reminders (not proprietary Reminders) mail for communication and sending yourself notes when you don't have your laptop, and MacOS has all the features baked into the OS that most notetaking apps drip feed through a poorly optimized app on a subscription and with proprietary formats.

This system works on any computer built in the last 40 years and will probably work on all computers built in the next 40. Lets see a company like evernote last for that long.
The language and word-choice actually reminded me of Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad, in which Trurl doesn't challenge Klapaucius to building a better toaster, but should have.
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> If you have to "know how to search" in DDG, e.g. do something different than your intuition (which Google handles very well), then it's simply a worse search engine.

I'd have to disagree here. Search can be a great example of a power tool. Sure you may have to learn a bit of search knowledge, but the added flexibility can make you a much more efficient searcher.
Trains with locomotives that push are rather common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push%E2%80%93pull_train
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I mean isn't law enforcement using that data the threat model? It is just if your own government is doing it vs a hostile state actor. So while our gov doesn't see the former as hostile (they're the ones doing the actions, so who would admit hostility) they do see the latter as hostile. You can call this hypocritical (which seems to be the common argument here in HN), but hypocrisy doesn't nullify the hostility.
Also there's a very important difference: Soma is described as non-addictive, no hangover. It's a way to control society but keeping it productive at the same time. Any drug that causes "epidemics" that result in death or defeating from work would be useless. You can argue that it's enough that most people keep working though, even if a fraction gets trashed.

Edit: if anything, social media or other addictive distractions are more like soma.
Turning Farm Workers into Farmers
Agreed. It's smaller than a boot sector, yet does a whole lot more.
none of these will exist as your boy gets older, you better think twice about this
The face picture is not really the problem. The app slurps other data from the device, such as log files, cookies, identifiers, etc. Of course, this app is probably not dissimilar to many of the other 2.5 million Android, 1.8 million Apple, 0.7 million Windows, and 0.5 million Amazon apps. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-av...
Not during an election year, at a point in time that sees _much_ heavier use of these apps than even 4 years ago, no.
Haha, smoked him out.

Off with his head!

A four-bit microcontroller, or physical integrator, can evaluate radiative doneness much more reliably than a camera.
I'm really only commenting on the idea that wpf doesn't have one way binding. People saying dumb stuff on the internet makes me mad. Personal failing. Like that was added in 2006. That feature was coreleased with Windows Vista and IE7. Google had just bought YouTube for $1.65bn and people were incredulous about such a stupid decision on Google's part. One way binding in wpf was released to the public three months after jQuery. It's a year older than silverlight, which is significant because silverlight just took everything that wpf was and said, "what if we could make web pages this way?" Arguably without silverlight the react folks never ask, "what if silverlight wasn't completely shitty?"

I'm not really qualified to compare wpf to react or moxie.

Second, liberally copying the best parts of other things and leaving the crappy parts behind is bringing something new to the table. Don't sell yourself short.
I develop accounting software for banks, brokerage houses and likes.

Currency, taxes, rebates, etc. handling is NEVER done with floating point.

Whatever you do with money you need predictable, reproducible results. It is norm that calculations are checked by software at two companies on both sides of transaction. Any discrepancies are alarms, bug reports, unhappy customers.

Every significant operation is exactly specified with rounding rules, etc.

For card payments and especially on terminals usually BCD is used.

For everything else usually some kind of arbitrary length decimal library (BigInteger, BigDecimal).
+1 Well done. (Pun intended)

Edit:

I think this points out the challenges of "Just make me a simple X" that business and product folks always initiate with, hoping to get the cheapest solution.

Then they wonder why it fails in every way except the ones they explicitly said during design/coding and why there is a long tail of updates that often exceed the MVP...