skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone may be genuinely interested in feedback. In such cases, you want to be polite and respectful while still communicating that "This is my first thought." It gives both parties room to maneuver and save face. That framing makes it possible for them to reject the feedback without suggesting anything negative about you (like "No, you're the idiot here!").

You may be genuinely trying to understand it yourself, in which case it's going to be easier to comprehend what's going on if you can relate it to the existing framing in your mind without offending them. It takes a lot of time and energy to mentally move from "My first thought is X" to "How do I say this in a way that elicits information without me sounding like I'm judging...etc?" There isn't enough time and energy in the day for every single social interaction to meet the standards for some kind of international diplomatic mission, but you also don't want to just excuse outright rude behavior. It's reasonable to explore your options if you as an individual run into a particular social thing repeatedly so you can handle it not horribly without being at the top of your diplomatic game every nanosecond of the freaking day.

Last, if you have enough education/experience related to X, you may actually have a better answer at first glance. They might actually be interested in improving it and open to your suggestions -- again, if you can share that information without unduly stepping on toes.

Sometimes trying too hard to be polite and respectful and perfect is actually antithetical to any kind of meaningful communication. Good social practices have to be tolerant of a little friction while seeking to lubricate it so it doesn't rub people the wrong way to an aggravating and problematic degree.

This is counter-intuitive. To genuinely connect socially/intellectually, there will be some friction. If there isn't any friction, you aren't actually connecting with people. But you don't want it to be excessively rough because that's counterproductive.
Yes. This is horrible behavior from Facebook. I had a similar problem finding a working extension that blocks fbclk id. Well, I found one, but I am not sure I would want to share it, because the facebook engineering team may go after it as well.

This also renders nil the argument about "don't use the product if you don't like their (ad) practices". Tracking across websites without consent is illegal in most of Europe, yet they do it extensively.
in philosophy we say:

"Standardly, XYZ, but if I understand you, you're saying ABC, are you not? What motivates this difference?"

Key points:

-identify that you are making an explicit formal comparison to a usual solution

-convey a charitable attempt at understanding ("the Principle of Charity"), and how far it took you

- attempt to comprehend the problem being solved
Interesting. So does all text in the browser go through the same problem space? Canvas, SVG, and HTML?

(also a question to the siblings here! I'm not totally clear on HN etiquette when one wants a "reply all"...)
Can you give some specific examples of places with no contact alternatives? Not really grokking this point. Do you mean they (the business) can't be contacted any other way, and facebook is their only presence?
I would just say "why can't you just use xxx". If they are moderately competent, they will instantly say "xxx doesn't work for this because the abc can't be compiled on this hardware", they'll have thought of it too, because it's probably not just obvious for you, and now they have helped you get up to speed on this complex problem.

I don't think you can use magic phrases, or avoid magic phrases, to manipulate people into feeling one way or another about you. You aren't insulting them by asking obvious questions, you need to hear the answer. If it took them 2 weeks to get stuck and ask for help, it's going to take you at least a few days to figure out why this is actually a harder problem than it seems. Avoiding the 'obvious question' because you think your colleague is too fragile to answer it and think nothing more of it is far more condescending.

What if they didn't think of it? Either they are very inexperienced, so they shouldn't be insulted by an expert providing expertise, or they are experienced and will slap themselves on the head and laugh about it, or they are an intolerable jerk, and who cares what jerks think of you?
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"Is it possible to use something like sshd"?

"Would it also work if we used sshd"?

"Have you tried using sshd"?
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At some point the JS->C++ FFI was just slow in most browsers, but I guess this has seen improvements lately?
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Dropbox is a wrapper on rsync.. amazing.
The answer is to deprecate and obsolete UTF-16, then remove the artificial 21 bit limit on UTF-8. Or remove the artificial 21 bit limit on UTF-8 and let UTF-16 just die. Or... see below.

There's an essential, very necessary ingredient: a sense of urgency at MSFT and various JavaScript implementors (and others) to ditch UTF-16.

Yet legacy is forever, so I wouldn't expect UTF-16 to die.

Most likely, when we run out of codespace we'll see UC assign a "UTF-16 SUX, JUST UPGRADE TO UTF-8 ALREADY" codepoint that newer codepoints can be mapped to when converting to UTF-16, then lift the 21 bit limit on UTF-8.
This might be just because most web apps never had a bottleneck on JS->DOM changes.
One doesn't need to spawn a shell.
Years ago I've posted support material [1] for Hangul filler mentioned in the article, reproduced below:

---

U+3164 HANGUL FILLER is one of the stupidest choices made by character sets. Hangul is noted for its algorithmic construction and Hangul charsets should ideally be following that. Unfortunately, the predominant method for multibyte encoding was ISO 2022 and EUC and both required a rather small repetoire of 94 × 94 = 8,836 characters [0] which are much less than required 19 × 21 × 28 = 11,172 modern syllables.

The initial KS X 1001 charset, therefore, only contained 2,350 frequent syllables (plus 4,888 Chinese characters with some duplicates, themselves becoming another Unicode headache). Notwithstanding the fact that remaining syllables are not supported, this resulted in a significant complexity burden for every Hangul-supporting software and there were confusion and contention between KS X 1001 and less interoperable "compositional" (johab) encodings before Unicode. The standardization committee has later acknowledged the charset's shortcoming, but only by adding four-letter (thus eight-byte) ad-hoc combinations for all remaining syllables! The Hangul filler is a designator for such combinations, e.g. `<fliler>ㄱㅏ<filler>` denotes `가` and `<filler>ㅂㅞㄺ` denotes `뷁` (not in KS X 1001 per se).

Hangul filler was too late in the scene that it had virtually no support from software industry. Sadly, the filler was there and Unicode had to accept it; technically it can be used to designate a letter (even though Unicode does not support the combinations) so the filler itself should be considered as a letter as well. What, the, hell.

[0] It is technically possible to use 94 × 94 × 94 = 830,584 characters with three-byte encoding, but as far as I know there is no known example of such charset designed (thus no real support too).

---

I should also mention that early Mozilla (and thus Firefox) had once supported ad-hoc combinations for KS X 1001, got interoperability problems and dropped the support later. Nowadays we treat KS X 1001 as an alias of Windows code page 949 for the sake of compatibility [2].

[1] https://github.com/Wisdom/Awesome-Unicode/issues/4

[2] https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#index-euc-kr
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They shouldnt occur in blob as they would be designated just for this. All other characters can occur in real world, those two could get there only by mistake.
Similarly, the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen-Million Merits" is sometimes described as being about some kind of possible future, but I'm pretty damn sure it's just depicting now (or, "now" when it was made a few years ago, anyway) through the lens of a kind of heightened sci-fi allegory.
Also, you win. I changed the color scheme.
USA has 12.21 gun-related deaths per 100,000 population per year. It's 10th highest in the world, and all the countries higher up aren't considered developed.

19th highest in the world is Argentina and it has less than half the deaths US has.

In top 30 there are countries with less than 1/4th the deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
There's a lot of interesting trivia related to this. For instance, the sequence of perfect squares {1,4,9,...} contains 3-term subsequences that are in arithmetic progression (e.g., {1,25,49}). However, it does not contain any 4-term such subsequences. And if you consider the sequence of nth powers, for n > 2, it does not contain any arithmetic progressions at all. This claim turns out to be very similar to Fermat's Last Theorem and can be established with similar techniques. (See https://math.berkeley.edu/~ribet/Articles/acta.pdf, with alpha = 1. Note that this is the same Ribet of Ribet's theorem, which established the link between modularity of elliptic curves and FLT, setting the stage for Wiles.)
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The proposed UCS-G-8 encoding [1] does exactly that. And in case UTF-16 never dies, the website also proposes extensions to UTF-16 (and UTF-32) as well.

[1] http://ucsx.org/g8
And they did initially, but OCaml.NET had its own set of issues regarding interoperability with .NET code.
I dunno. I think it's whatever society will tolerate. It used to be pretty common in America to drink on the job. Plenty of folks worked/work and do cocaine. Heck, Freud was a huge cocaine addict, and he's still widely celebrated for his stim-induced work!
Note that in the U.S., district attorneys are normally the prosecutors at the state court level. At the Federal level, most prosecutors are "U.S. attorneys" or "assistant U.S. attorneys".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_attorney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney
"Why can't you just" is a huge pet peeve of mine.

"Why can't you just" is particular frustrating when someone interrupts a deep conversation. What they're really saying is "can you please stop your conversation and focus your full attaching on catching me up to all the issues you discussed 2 hours ago?"

Here's an alternative:

"Can you tell me about your problem?" Then shut up and listen.

And here's a slightly longer form:

"You've thought about this way more than me. I'd love to brainstorm with you. But I'll need to catch up. <Listen. Listen more.> So why doesn't sshd work? Ok, and why can't you foo? Oh damn. What happens if you bar? Dang. I don't have an answer yet, but I am starting to understand your problem".

Odds are decent that someone will solve their own hard problem by using you as a rubber duck. Odds are very, very low that you'll solve someone else's hard problem by offering up the very first thing that comes to mind.
Note from the wider HN crowd: physicists exchanging job search tips in this thread? very cool.
Thanks. I find this topic fascinating, even though I know nothing about it. Do you have any recommendations for reading material to learn more?
You’re doing it now.
Oh, I see - although this is a relatively old issue on the imgui repo, seems like it's the bottom line (and expresses the same ideas mentioned here): https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1228#issuecomment-31...
Those have a compatibility story though
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the problems with Purdue/oxycontin was their false and extreme marketing that falsely claim lower/tiny addiction rates, bribing doctors to prescribe, claiming 12 hour relief when many users got 8 hours, and the list goes on. perhaps a misleading shorter half-life could be 'more addictive' in that users took more than prescribed to keep effect going.
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But is not as good anymore as it used to be
Definitely. Confluence is fine for some use cases, but personally I'm strongly in favor of a version-controlled approach.
Why not just "ch"?
I'm surprised Microsoft didn't "invent" their own version of Go yet. Actually I'd use it in a heartbeat over Google's if they add generics to it. Just call it "Micro".
This is one of the more important regulations big tech should be subjected to in my opinion.

Let me pay for the services I use, with believable guarantees that my data is not used or sold in any way by the service provider. And regulate the cost to be a reasonable margin over production costs of these services. Hosting my hosting my posts and photos should not be that expensive.
My money's on No, because of a slightly related psychological concept: conservation.

Conservation is the cognitive understanding of whether or not the amount of a given (inert) solid or liquid will change despite its presentation. For example, human toddlers don't grasp conservation, and will erroneously believe that pouring water from a tall glass into a wide bowl makes more water, since it "looks" bigger in the wider container (e.g. it takes up more visual space in a wider vessel, and therefore must be "more"). No other animals possess this skill either (thank you Wikipedia [0]).

Combine that with the nebulous nature of gas - it's not intuitive to understand that an empty glass is, in fact, full of air - and understanding phase changes become that much more difficult.

It's kind of like how most people won't intuitively understand how discrete phases can break down at higher temperatures and pressures, or the differences between different lattice configurations of the same substance. If it's not something we encounter every day, or aren't taught at an early age, the intuition simply won't be there.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_(psychology)
Now? Emoji were animated even before they were added to Unicode https://emojipedia.org/softbank/2006/
I wrote a greasemonkey script that runs every 250ms and blocks these. It might be hard with CSS but it's (almost) trivial with a spot of JS
Moderation software idea: globally replace lede/lead with led in any discussion about lede vs lead. Would bury the led once and for all.
What if I want to put them in a comment like this, to discuss them? Well, you might say I shouldn't do it and should just refer to their code points, but basically that's a form of escaping as well.
I guess my opinion comes mostly from my own experience (friends/family on coke/meth have lead to problems in my life). I’d be glad (but surprised) if that was not most peoples experience
but what if you need to send a word document containing an explanation about how to use the blob characters?

Turtles all the way down....
It is pretty slow though. The most comfortable thing I've found is buying a China Unicom or China Mobile SIM card in Hong Kong which lets you access full speed, uncensored internet in mainland China.
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It is happening because it is unfortunately the case that there will be repeated attempts to get the same bloody bill passed because the once and done nature of our lawmaking makes this type of behavior desirable. They only have to pass it once, and then heaven and earth must be moved for a repeal to take place.

I'm horrified the women/medical practitioners of Ohio have to even fight this poorly informed piece of legislation; but only they can keep this from happening in that state. Letter to the rep,and a visit to their office if you really want to get the message across.

I know you're raising awareness here, but you may want to take it to a more Ohio centric platform. If I hear about anything like this at a Federal level, a letter to my Reps would most certainly be on the way. Good luck, and godspeed. Hate seeing people having to suffer from terrible lawmaking.
By the way, if you're viewing them on the unicodepowersymbol.com website, they show up because of a web font included on the page. So here they are on a site without the font:
⏻⏼⭘⏽⏾

Also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_symbol#Unicode
I am opposed to depleted uranium armaments, and while they have been shown to have significant health effects (especially on the populations stuck living in the areas where the amunition was used), it has been ruled out as a likely cause of gulf war syndrome which is linked to the use of non-nuclear toxic chemics.

Indeed, while I don't have specific numbers to prove this, I highly suspect that the health risks of non-nuclear toxic waste (by products from chemical plants and manufacturing) outweigh those of toxic nuclear waste and the release of these chemicals are often far less regulated than nuclear waste.

In terms of nuclear waste disasters, the Marshall Islands is the most significant example (that I know of) of a nuclear waste problem that the US needs to step up and address. [0]

[0] https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-te...

I not saying that nuclear is the future, but it is a important amd relativly safe source that we can use as stop gap to limit our use of more dangerous power sources while we fight global warming and find safer and cleaner sources of energy. We need to consider all of the risks of our power sources and not spread misinformation and fear.
> I mean one look at the website kind of tells you why.

Yep, that's horrific. I'd immediately back out of that if I landed on the page.
I have a much better experience of Facebook since a few weeks by adding #stream_pagelet{ display: None } in Stylus for the homepage.

No news feed. No passive content consumption. Still got pages, events, groups, messages etc. Can still use the website in an active/socializing way (looking for specific things, seeing relevant friends' notifications and invitations) but without being caught by the feed each time I come to check my notifications. Think I'll do the same with pretty much every social network. Content feeds are the worst.
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Oh please don't do built-in wifi.
It's ok to have the adapter inside, but you should put the antennas outside. Include them in the design, if you wish.
> lacking features that are needed by other people/companies.

Funny how nobody seems to give pile on Google for how it handles Go here...
I would have tried sshd. What's the catch?
> So I made a tiny CLI app that scans the source for TODO and FIXME lines and presents a menu of files, containing the number of items to work on in each. Then I type in which file I want to work on and it instantly reports all relevant lines, plus successive comment lines. All I have to do is punch in the line number and start working.

Isn't this exactly like how cscope works?
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While that's true, this particular company doesn't seem to be targeting anything that would improve containers (OS optimizations, new CPU). So I think the OP was correct in that simply changing the BMC or making it more secure on boot won't affect containers.
None. Current hardware is way to small and noisy to run any known useful algorithm.
My real use case involves transferring that event loop from existing thread to another spawned pthread, thus, having a "scheduler" / "executor" is easier.

I think async.h is very similar to Protothreads, both are very lightweight and not as opinionated.
Works for me :P
What kind of thing and store was it?
There's some friction there, but in practice it's easy to work around most of the time. I'm not sure extending the type system there is worth the weight.
Just add a `\` /s
I disagree. Grapheme clusters are locale-dependent, much like string collation is locale-dependent. What Unicode gives you by default, the (extended) grapheme cluster, is as useful as the DUCET (Default Unicode Collation Element Table); while you can live with them, you would be unsatisfied. In fact there are tons of Unicode bugs that can't be corrected due to the compatibility reason, and can only be fixed via tailored locale-dependent schemes.

I would like to avoid locales in the language core. It would be great to have locale stuffs in the standard library, but without locale information you can't treat strings as (human) texts.
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“Why” is inherently accusatory and should be avoided. The question seems insulting because of “why” and “just”.

Try saying “what is preventing us from us Hong sshd?”. It is less accusatory and more inclusive.
For various reasons, it's going to be difficult to notice if you aren't on the receiving end of it. The vast majority of it is not intentionally malicious behavior, which is why words like misogyny and sexism are actively problematic in trying to address the systemic issues that get in the way of so many women.

But I honestly don't know what else to call it. My experience has been that getting too creative in an effort to distance myself from baggage associated with standard language for a particular problem space often ends up failing to actually communicate at all.

Thank you for posting a good faith question about the matter and following up in good faith.
> claimed to be as bad as opiate withdrawal.

Benzo withdrawal can be much much worse than opiate withdrawal.

Opioid withdrawal is comparatively benign.

Compare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_use_disorder

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_withdrawal_synd...
Some countries do have a wealth tax. But in practice it hasn't worked nearly as well as it should in theory, and a lot of European countries ended up canning their wealth taxes.
This so much! Go would be a great language if it had generics and no "interface {}". I'd use that over any flavor of Rust any day.
This whole thing seems so absurd to me.

The article quotes a rate of 300 items per hour.

If it were 100 items per hour, you'd still be talking about ten cents per item of labour cost.

No-one would care if their items cost that much more.
what do you mean by "rationals"? infinite precision? because finite precision rationals are not associative and much worse than floats in many senses.
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Was sshd considered?
>Every teenager thinks "I know the real truth unlike the rest of the sheeple!" Usually they grow out of it.

And the ones who don’t are the ones who actually move the needle. ;)
D-Wave has never demonstrated quantum speedup. Many doubt that their approach can be useful, even in theory.
You missed that they have new heatmaps of office occupancy, which somehow mean that they are developing competencies in “AI.”

At least the layoffs will be humane!
"Could sshd have solved this?"

The phrasings listed seem to bring in the other person's choice and thereby create an oppositional/contrastive/comparative dynamic in to the statements.

I write this having struggled with this sort of thing.