skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, among the alternatives, there is no mention of `unicode`, a standard-ish command line tool that does more or less the same thing and is available in common Linux distros since ~2005.

Example output (the CLI's output is colored):

$ unicode €
U+20AC EURO SIGN
UTF-8: e2 82 ac UTF-16BE: 20ac Decimal: &#8364; Octal: \020254
€
Category: Sc (Symbol, Currency)
Bidi: ET (European Number Terminator)

$ unicode
U+1F30D EARTH GLOBE EUROPE-AFRICA
UTF-8: f0 9f 8c 8d UTF-16BE: d83cdf0d Decimal: &#127757; Octal: \0371415

Category: So (Symbol, Other)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)

U+1F3E4 EUROPEAN POST OFFICE
UTF-8: f0 9f 8f a4 UTF-16BE: d83cdfe4 Decimal: &#127972; Octal: \0371744

Category: So (Symbol, Other)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)

I am not being sarcastic here. I am just noticing that the software landscape is vast, and that it is often hard to know what exists out there. Even old glories are forgotten.

There should be an interdisciplinary stackoverflow where you can ask: "does this already exist?"
It really sounds like Son of Anthon from the last season of Silicon Valley.
The question as I, not a mathematician, read it is

> For a given number, can using the operations 3n+1 and n/2 make it converge to a value of 2^i

Because that's what you need. If you can get on the 2^i branch, you've won.
Things I Learnt Moving from Agile Coaching into Product Management
As a hard rule no sane parent would drive if I don't feel safe to (and that includes their ability to concentrate) because they'd be risking their children's lives too. So we're not talking about people who are "endangering other people's lives just to get somewhere a bit faster".

The point about kids is just an illustration of a distraction you might not be able to control and which might be timed badly. It could also be a dog in the car which barks at the wrong moment or countless other things.

It's also a little optimistic to assume that it's as easy as "pulling over until they stop" in the cases where kids are generally being loud. There are as many examples of why that might not be practical as there are occasions when it's good advice. From experience I can tell you that no parent wants to drive while kids are screaming in the back and will readily pull over if that's likely to help. Sometimes though, it's not safe to do so or pulling over wouldn't make any difference to their behaviour (eg when they're hungry and there is no food in the car). But no decent person would ever want to put their family nor other pedestrians at risk so I can assure you it's really not the case of drivers endangering other people's lives out of a selfish desire just to get somewhere a bit faster.
An engineer who is using logic, reason, and observation to find the root of the problem instead of just patch it once?
What is the success rate of IVF? ARTbaby
http://www.artbaby.in/
Gota: DataFrames and Data Wrangling in Go
Vans make sense if you have a toddler in a state without an occasional trip exception but with a transit van exception. Try getting a kid to an airport...sheesh. The bus is often the only option.
Isn't it basically just matter that isn't detectable but has to exist because the known laws of nature told us it does? Instead some mystery goo that hides from our sight?

Yes, I am sure the mystery goo theories would get much more exposure. The pitfalls of pop-sci probably. I mean wich kid will get out of bed for a boring pulsar these days?

> "I was pretty excited, because I knew the implications were very big—it meant that the dark matter explanation was back on the table"

I don't understand this. Isn't this basically feeding? Doesn't this just say we know less than we thought? Were we in danger of knowing everything?
There are some shenanigans happening with media takedowns against “tech” and new media companies. Looks to me like a concerted effort to subvert the power they are gaining over the old media based structures. That’s got the old publishing companies. Fox should never have been allowed to merge. They should have been forced to license their catalog.

I think FB is actively harmful to the internet but all we have to do to weaken it is prevent any further acquisitions. Much of the reign them in stuff is misguided.
What would happen if all animals were as smart as us?
My bad. I thought Roma had won.
Because I only have one life to live. Writing comments on internet forums and contributing to open source is roughly equivalent to pissing into a sea of piss.
I have a feeling they will disable 3rd party apps soon. That will be the day I stop using Reddit.
I love this type of thing! In today's age of digital impermanence, to think simple birch bark can preserve a message from so long ago.

But one thing that stood out from the beginning of the article and wasn't satisfactorily addressed was the fact that breathing on such a fragile object could wreck the entire operation...why didn't they just wear surgical masks?

I mean, they went through all the trouble of pre-humidifying the scroll, laying special little glass paper-weights and even spraying each bit when necessary. But a single unexpected cough or sneeze could have made everyone have a very bad day!
Friedrich Nietzsche: Why Life Isn’t Meaningless
Americans Are Fast to Judge Social Class
Ubuntu is a Linux, but Linux is not only Ubuntu. I have loads of x86 boxes - Debian, Puppy Linux, whatever. (Win10 has a 32-bit option? Whoa. #TIL)
Feathers on a dinosaur make them a lot less scary IMO, even the one in the artist impression is kind of cute, but I know (if I was around) seeing a very toothy bird-like creature live and in person might make me change my mind.
How is perfect insurance different from everybody paying their own losses directly? If I correctly understand what you said, then perfect insurance would lead to nobody buying it, so they could avoid paying the useless additional “small premium.”
As I mentioned before, Apache is The Best Web Server in the world. Period.

If you want simplest non-bloated and secure - OpenBSD's httpd is absolute king.

But for many generations of IT people Apache had (and still has) that nice homey feeling.

One of Best things that happened to IT world.

Edit: s/https/httpd :-) bloody phones and their "smart" keyboards
I've never understood the "imagine them naked" thing. That would be more awkward.
Not sure how well that would work for installing things that aren't in the release ISOs...
What's the Difference Between Manet and Monet?
So if for example health insurance is based on genetic screening and only those with certain genetic markers get a huge premium would you consider that a step towards perfection?
I think they went exactly in the wrong direction. Given that they have a very small market share it is understandable.

However, what if the latest Firefox or Chrome would just have a user string
"Chrome/80.0 (Windows 10; Win64; x64)"?

And if you run into a problem you get a button that reverts to the old horrible piece of junk.

Now that robots.txt is established and security.txt is almost there, the next thing we need is a contact.txt that browsers can use to offer a button that will allow sending bug reports to webmasters without having to search the site for the contact address.
You can try to set it up using a fork of mpd. I've tried it a few years ago but it didn't work that well.
Dynamically Scoped Variables in Golang
Yes, thank you! I've been travelling so much lately I forgot I had it!
Reality Distortion Field, by Andy Hertzfeld (1981)
I'm a senior in the UK with about two decades of programming for money and I make less than a junior on the west coast of the US.

Even in London that would possibly be the case, it's just the way the market is.
Thanks for bringing up these points as they are some of the biggest barriers to developing a modern payments system. The technical issues are complex but the legal and regulatory ones are even more complex.

Shameless plug, we are working on Interledger[1]. Which is designed to be an open-clearing system based on packetised payments. It works really well for low value, low-friction payments. Our initial use-case is targeting web monetisation which doesn't work on existing payment rails due to the costs.

Part of the work coming up this year will to be going after the retail payments space and I think the challenges you mentioned are definitely going to be the ones we are going to have to solve next.

1. www.interledger.org
Right, but that still doesn't solve the problem of actually distributing the library in the first place.

As a library author you basically have to wait for distributions to start shipping it, or make users manually install dependencies (and then make the build work with libraries installed into /usr/local).
Entertainment. I guarantee anybody in your average household is a fan of something Disney outright bought the rights to. Whether its Marvel (if I hear about another reboot of X-Men or another Avengers movie imma pull my hair, OTOH I did like Guardians... Yikes even I am falling for it!) then theres Star Wars which has a huge following of people from all ages. The typical Disney public domain rip offs as well. The insane amount of music they own the rights to.

Here in Florida its scary how much power Disney has. They also own the media to a point and you find it hard to see anybody speak badly of them within the media. The amount of things I see covered up that never winds up in the media genuinely scares me. How is it possible the media keeps specific things quiet for Disney.
If you're talking RPi1, perhaps. That's 2012, however...and one of the first things to get better in every further model.
Thankfully Arduino uses C++, there are no training wheels beyond taking advantage of C++ improvements over C, and a beginners friendly IDE.
Not a mathematician but that is too close to mesenne primes to make a quite fun possible connection. Since messene you have points that 3n cannot hit.
It's basically "no insurance, plus a credit to pay for the losses". Except that you start paying the rate before you incur the loss itself.

I still think this form of "perfect insurance" is bad - part of what I like about the insurance is exactly the dispersion of cost in the larger population. Should a chronically-ill person pay a very high insurance, or should the society cover the costs? I'm in the second camp, even though I'm not chronically-ill. It's part of the benefits of having an actual society - we don't need to stand alone.
It feels like more being lazy not to learn the proper way of doing it.
This must be heavily field-dependent. I've honestly never seen that among economists. It's no doubt most common that someone in a PhD program will want to get an academic job, but places like Amazon and the Federal Reserve hire tons of PhD's.

I had a student request to work with me because he thought that gave him the best chance of getting a nonacademic job, and I didn't see that as unusual. I have a student at this very moment going through the interview process with one of the big SV companies. For that matter, I would be happy to talk if a nonacademic employer were interested in me.

Edit: Take a look at Paul Romer's bio. He worked his way up to full professor at Stanford, quit to start a business, and last year won the Nobel for his early academic work.
The benefit of iMessage is the encryption. Which SMS doesnt compare to that level of encryption used by Apple. Would rather iMessage be a paid for Android app. I woulda bought it but I might just switch phones altogether. Sick of Googles spying and political regime insanity (see Project Veritas).
This would be very unfortunate for them since their own inner search system is very rough around the edges. I almost always have to search for a Reddit post via Google instead.
no thanks. I have had the terrible experience of being forced to upgrade software purely because a newer version of macOS does not support the old version of my music software. I am looking at going completely hardware now for music production so I don't have to deal with unnecessary upgrade treadmill that is entrenched in computer culture.

EDIT: forced into paying for upgrade
Microsoft: Redesigning over 100 icons with new colors, materials, and finishes
It worked for me on quora, but that will be the last time.
"header only" is more like "I don't want to learn"-speak in regards to deal with native language toolchains.
Facebook Scraping: Still a Privacy Disaster
https://xkcd.com/1104/
Give me a dark matter detector and I will tell you.
That's not what the previous person was saying - they thought it was strange you had new grads as RnD engineers.

And I know all about v high end RnD I worked on campus Cranfield Uni at BHRA in the Math modeling and Nuke section

Though I was a technician, who of course you need to remind the "engineers" how ohms law works :-)
> dank matter
Or an Engineer who likes ice cream!
You've totally misunderstood the OP's story.

Their app does not have any kind of dependency on iOS 13 and should work on iOS 11. It's just that there's a correlation between an iOS 11 UA and the app not working. The hypothesis is that there is something wrong with some devices that both a) caused them to not be upgraded, b) causes their app to fail.

This kind of misreading is a prime example of just how toxic any discussions about version number detection are. Rather than give the OP any benefit of the doubt and maybe re-read what they wrote, you've just decided they must be incompetent or lazy and castigate them over it.
Great journalism isn't free.
You never have to pay a large lump sum. So it’s similar to having savings and always covering your own losses. But with the added benefits of covering you even if you have not had time to save sufficiently to cover your losses (or lack the discipline to do so), or are unlucky and suffer multiple large losses in closer proximity than your savings and income can absorb.
LAN Messenger Alternative
>I have never seen them say it was meant to be the replacement

Well they rarely pre-announce anything.

>What makes it redundant?

It will be squeezed by the iMac from below and the Mac Pro from above.

It looks to me like they planned for the iMac Pro to be the replacement for the Mac Pro but after the outcry from power users they changed tack. I'd put money on it disappearing from the range in a year or two.
Or use a data provider that doesn't allow opt-out and has no publicly available interface.
Even though I dislike C, I have my share of years coding in C, from all the issues I have with it, lack of rapid prototype was never one of them.
We tried Flutter and here's what we think about it (tl;dr: engineers are happy)
Why do you think he came back four times in a row? Not everyone has a complete and accurate physical model of their car in their head.
R.I.P. not that there was much left to save
Swiss :-) . Cryptosphere Systems.
If the information is gone, it is gone.

I'm sure you could devise a "machine learning algorithm" that'll shove some random numbers in there, though.
If we talk about gender equality why take into consideration only part of the picture not a whole? Is it fair?
Troy Hunt has a great write-up about one such product from easily this year: https://www.troyhunt.com/how-to-track-your-kids-and-other-pe...
If the story is to be believed then a smart engineer took several days to figure it out while it only took you a minute. I suspect there are other factors than simply being an 'engineer' that will help you arrive at the solution. I personally would never have guessed that store layout would be a factor. However, one question I had immediately was "how do you get home if your car doesn't start?" and if the reply was "I wait and eventually the car starts" then I would probably have closed in on the answer after that.
The Collatz conjecture predates GEB by many years. Renaming it to something else by the author of GEB was a way to misappropriate someone else's work.
I refer often to this poster from the Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit:

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b25f31e420c078114a2abee62...

More here: https://github.com/alphagov/accessibility-community-notes-an...
Someone should create a list of all the smart devices which respect privacy and security. The list would be short.
It seems more like being lazy not to create an RPM/DEB/MSI/PKG/DEPOT,... to me.

Or even plain old tarball with any sort of build script.

And vcpkg, cargo are already good options for those that need cross-os package manager.
Good. That imposes a cost on whoever wants to look at someone's house and provides a disincentive to do it without a good reason.
That was my thought as well. I read a good post, then my dominant thought was changed to a negative slant because of an entirely unecessary -- and probably very inaccurate -- note of paranoid self-defense.
It's not useless. You pay premium for the privilege of never having to pay catastrophically large amounts. And that's exactly the difference and the point of insurance: limiting the maximum loss.
I feel like the Touch Bar was done after the designers were water boarded or something.
Polarizing being good for dating doesn't necessarily mean it's good for influencers. In dating you want one person to like you a lot. So if you make the majority dislike a bit and the minority like you more that's great. But in influencing you want a lot of people to like you a little.
Intel significantly delays it’s entire server roadmap
For some definition of "worked" ... sure, you signed up. Then what?

I already had an account when Quora did it, and that made me use it less (wasn't always signed in, wasn't always willing to sign in - e.g. incognito sessions). For a long while, I started going back less and less - was only brought back occasionally by their emails which were still pretty good.

Recently the emails got so bad that I unsubscribed (I kinda expect to stop visiting the site completely). So I'm guessing I'm not alone in reducing my engagement - the quality of the whole site seems to have gone dramatically down.
Mozilla removes site specific user-agent override option from Firefox 71
Oh, I see. It's about creating the set of numbers that do end up at 1 by starting at 1 and applying the operations in reverse order. That is neat. They should have explained that in the article.
Mosaic was the first browser to support inline images and the <img> tag.
Other than not being able to use pseudo-modules in C, using a gigantic header file instead.
Perhaps the ironic, unintended result that you describe is part of the reason for her experience?
Just one anecdote - 10,000s of insurance staff work on software that’s been in maintenance mode since Windows 3.1. There are massive insurance companies that have been attempting to replace such software for more than 20 years.
adding more people to a project will most of the time make things worst, I'd rather work with 2 very competent people than having a team of 20 mediocre ones.
Unfortunately the way things are going I can see them getting rid of old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com, at which point I think I'll also stop visiting the website (the mobile website is atrocious and I'm not going to install a dedicated app in order to read a forum).
Patent grants.

Its a butchered Amazon Software License:
https://aws.amazon.com/asl/
But it's 3n+1, so you're always getting an even number 50% of the time.

And for every number you hit along the way, assuming you make it down to 1, you can stop your iteration if you've previously seen the number
This is why you should be cautious working on open source when you're under an employment contract or in school. It may not be your code despite what seems fair.
How does configuration works? Is it just configurable through the webinterface or can I update/set workflows with some external script?

Is configuration saved in textfiles which I can put under versioncontrol and backup, or is it some unaccesable binay blob?

How much does it break with each update? And how often does it receive bigger and smaller updates?

How does this compare to something like home assistant or node-red, if you know this software.

Anything you consider missing or lacking on some area?
I understood the rule used. What I question is the:

- usefulness of animation

- the non obviousness of the numbers that are displayed, v.s. all other remaining in the observed range.

At least, non animated version of end frame allows better comprehension of what is shown.
Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
I've been a cyclist for 30 years and have had my fair share of accidents too. So I've seen both sides of the argument. However as a motorist I have never ever hit another driver, cyclist nor pedestrian; anything in fact. In fact the vast majority of motorists haven't despite the fact that literally every driver will have made a minor traffic offence on a semi-regular basis (even if that's just forgetting to indicate when changing lane on a motorway).

I also don't agree it's exclusively a matter of luck whether human error results in an accident. It's usually experience and good reactions whether you're able to recover from human error fast and safely enough to prevent an accident. Much like how cyclists have to learn to read the road and pedestrians have to learn how to safely cross busy roads, motorists should learn how to handle shitty situations. Please remember that sometimes those situations happen for reasons outside of the motorists control such as jaywalkers, animals in the road, other motorists making mistakes or even cyclists not following the rules of the road. This absolutely means motorists have a significant responsibility to drive safely but also means that it's not just a matter of luck whether someone forgetting to indicate results in fatality; that's simply not the reality of things.

I agree there is a possibility but it's not even common likelihood (for the reasons I described above). I also agree (as I've also said above) that drivers do have a significantly greater responsibility to drive safely and I'm absolutely in favour of penalising people who have caused accidents....however penalising everyone for every minor mishap doesn't help improve road safety. It effectively just becomes another road tax. If you want to penalise bad drivers then go after bad drivers; but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
> Getting a better risk estimate doesn't get you closer to "not having insurance", but rather closer to "perfect insurance" where everyone gets a distribution that exactly matches their risk profile.

You say "Quite the opposite", and proceed to rephrase the same thing as GP said, except for the conclusion, which also is the same thing, yet you claim it isn't.

Not having insurance IS "perfect insurance", in that you pay exactly your own costs, with the added benefit of having no overhead. Most of us don't want that though, in the same way as we don't want children to have to pay their own healthcare, or chronically debilitated people to die to darwinism (whether we succeed here is another point). But a perfect "risk estimate" also happens to be the same thing as prescience, and if we had that we wouldn't need insurance for other reasons.

Not having insurance = paying for yourself = distribution by exact risk profile.
That is indeed part of what people call insurance these days, but in fact it isn't one. It's just a social solidarity scheme, and no one has the balls to call it that way, so it gets mingled into insurance. Without getting into whether it's good or bad, it's just not the true meaning of the term "insurance."