skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So I can't actualy prove that the lies of said idiots were deliberate on the part the UC.

I started having to deal with Unicode back around 2001. Even back then the distinctions between code unit, codepoint, character, and glyph, were all well-delineated. Very little has changed since then, really, just more scripts, some bug fixes, and -yes- the addition of emoji,

> Kanji are monochrome and can be written with physical writing implents such as pencils. Emoji aren't and can't; a chunk of graphite can't make green and purple marks for a image (not character) of a eggplant.

I mean, cave paintings were color and kinda ideographic, and you do know that you can use colored crayons/pencils/pens/paint/printers to make colored text, yes? :-)

I'm sure you can make a monochrome emoji font. In a few thousand years we might evolve today's emoji to look like today's Han/Kanji -- that's what happened to those, after all!

Seriously, I can't see how color is enough to make emoji not text. Kids nowadays write sentences in Romance languages and English using mostly emoji sometimes. It can be like a word game. In fact, writing in Japanese can be a bit like a word game.

Animation begins to really push it though, because that can't be printed.

> And to extent that that's the case, we should, where possible, be talking about the characters, not the implement details of representing them.

And we do. We talk about LATIN SMALL LETTER A and so on. Yes, U+0061 is easier sometimes.

> No idea, but I'm not inclined to pretend something isn't bad just because I can't do anything about it.

Fair. Myself I think of Unicode as... mostly faithful to the actual features of human written language scripts, with a few unfortunate things, mostly just Han unification, UCS-2, and UTF-16. Honestly, considering how long the project has been ongoing, I think it's surprisingly well-done -- surprisingly not-fucked-up. So I'm inclined to see the glass as half-full.

Let's put it this way: there are a lot of mistakes to fix once we get the time machine working. Mistakes in Unicode are very, very far down the priority list.
The EPA tests are interesting. They do simulate stop and go driving, and that’s why on a gas car the city number is worse, but the steadier highway test shows better numbers. One of the weird things with an EV is that the highway numbers are actually worse (as other posters have commented).

The tests definitely trade off realism for consistent reproducibility though. This article describes it in detail, it’s really interesting: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15388892/the-truth-ab...
The original 'series of tubes'!

I've commented on HN before that Ted Stevens attended engineering school in the heyday of pneumatic machines.
"Urine fortified with LSD and stored in amber glass or nontransparent polyethylene containers showed no change in concentration under any light conditions. Stability of LSD in transparent containers under light was dependent on the distance between the light source and the samples, the wavelength of light, exposure time, and the intensity of light. After prolonged exposure to heat in alkaline pH conditions, 10 to 15% of the parent LSD epimerized to iso-LSD. Under acidic conditions, less than 5% of the LSD was converted to iso-LSD. We also demonstrated that trace amounts of metal ions in buffer or urine could catalyze the decomposition of LSD and that this process can be avoided by the addition of EDTA. This study demonstrates the importance of proper storage conditions of LSD in urine in order to insure proper analytical testing results over time."

https://www.erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?ID=8647

As to the transdermal activity IIRC Hofmann himself said that it isn't really active and his own trip was probably caused by him getting some on his hands and then rubbing it into a mucous membrane (eyes, nose, mouth).
Yes, that kinda HSMish model of non-extractable keys is a very nice touch. I really wish they would add Argon2 though. PBKDF2 is still a valid choice but there are a lot of HW optimized solvers out there for it.
Well they tested it right? So the LSD was on it somehow. Maybe it wasn’t from the 60s, but it makes for an amusing story regardless.
In other words, they'll gladly accept heaps of additional application fee money while padding the "hardest college to get into" stats
And with scheduled charging you don't even have to manually do this, it just does it based on your departure time. My Model 3 is always warm and toasty by 8:30 AM M-F all winter. As someone with an unheated detached garage this is very nice. At least it was before I quit driving anywhere.
This is as Orwellian as it gets. Can't even imagine how nightmarish it must feel to live like that, being surveilled with face recognition software and spied on by neighbors and police 24/7. China has really surpassed any realistic dystopia I could have imagined.
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you are _very_ ignorant. liquid lsd will work just fine being dropped in your hand. research what the family members had to go through in order to handle crystal and lay sheets. they had to go through what they did because of the extremely high chance you'd be tripping just from working with it.
I have no idea how long LSD would last on a surface, but I do know transdermal absorption is a thing. A friend of mine in college had it happen, but but he was handling sheets with several hundred doses on them. It's also possible some transferred to his fingers and made its way to his mouth.

If there were an accidental dosing, I suspect the original dosage would have been quite high.

Anecdotally, I can say that taking a thin sheet smaller than the end of a pencil eraser I tripped for a solid 4-5 hours. LSD dosage and purity varies greatly, but where it used to be cheap and strong from what I understand it's quite difficult to find "good" LSD now.
>What I’m really hoping for is the emergence of extremely “hackable,” resolutely non-monolithic DBs that provide a plugin interface for highly use-case-specific data types,

Isn't this basically what FoundationDB is?
Sometimes you had. Timezones, encryption for sensitive places, zillions of European standards (one PER language), and so on.
he was cleaning it off using solvents and no gloves. that’s exactly how you get things through your skin.
Python implementation of the Socket.IO realtime client and server
I want to know current position and I still sometimes grab scrollbar and drag because it sometimes comfortable than scrolling a wheel.
I know a guy that works at a company where the CEO will sell something to customers not knowing anything about the technical details, and then come back to the business and "make them do it".
they use the threat of separation as a tool...when they stop doing that people can start straw manning in their defense. Until then, it doesn't sound like people lying to them is what they care about.
The hardest part for me to believe isn't the transdermal application. I've definitely known of people who who handled LSD and learned to wear gloves the hard way. What is difficult to understand is how a molecule that unstable was able to survive for... over half a century?
> Apple killed Shake, which was an industry standard at one point.

Sure, and this might be skewed by hindsight because they did make new releases for a handful of years, but it was an acquahire to develop Aperture and other color tools for Final Cut Pro. Small shops use After Effects on Windows, medium shops used Shake on Windows, and large shops used Shake in Linux. Because of hardware costs you'll be very hard-pressed to get medium or large shops to use macOS.

I also don't see Apple investing/competing with the big transitions that happened in CG over the next 5 years; 64bit, 4k/8k, and stereo. Apple had special deals where they offered Shake's source code when it was discontinued and a few studios clung on and tried valiantly to accommodate [1]

[1] https://www.studiodaily.com/2008/07/delivering-8k-vfx-shots-...
Printing money until the next big capital expense comes up it and it briefly looks like it’s burning money, that is
What info's given away by giving Android apps access to files, folder and media?
A lot of apps ask for this permission. Does this mean that they can basically read (and potentially view) all my phone data?
It sounded like he encountered a massive amount of pure crystals. If he touched it then touched his nose or ate something with his hand, then he could have gotten a huge dose.
Someone sharing an opinion on this hardly makes them "_very_ ignorant." Relax
The article mentions that there are "30,000 people banned from the profession by state regulators".

I wonder how many more have committed similar offenses without getting sanctioned.
> Companies make "political" decisions every single day, in literally everything they do.

That's incorrect.

The vast majority of companies are small and medium sized enterprises who just try to make it through. Does the launderette in the high street make political decisions? The car dealership? The scrap metal yard?
You had the video plugin, x-mplayerplug-in, with either mplayer, vlc or mozplugger.
You made me dig up some articles on this:

Harvard did win the bias lawsuit last year (october 2019):
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/01/harvard-ruli...

The organization challenging this is still there: https://studentsforfairadmissions.org/

Here's their latest complaint (march 2020): http://samv91khoyt2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...

Their latest update links to this paper (april 2020): http://samv91khoyt2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...
Have you heard of Lottie?

https://airbnb.io/lottie/
What makes you think it's unstable? UV light, heat, chlorine, (and perhaps some other things) degrade the molecule. In the absence of those it should be stable for a long time, in salt form (as it's usually made).
> If somebody creates a book like The Jungle, it would become a success anyway and more people would fund the author through consistent or one-time donations.

But you need something to actually get this going in the first place. It's worth noting that Dwarf Fortress only started getting a financially stable stream of donations because an alpha was bootstrapped. You can't really bootstrap a book based on investigative journalism, there aren't really stretch goals that a book can hit, etc. It works for small tidbits on a regular cadence like a podcast, but this isn't how a book works.

Books are also different from games, in that generally speaking when it comes to community funded games the creator and the patrons are broadly aligned. This is not a good dynamic for book publishing, because then people won't write content that for all its truths may just piss off their existing patrons and leave them destitute.
the forensic toxicologist and biochemist sitting next to me, who also has at least as much experience with LSD as any of you lot, sees nothing at all improbable about the events described.
The website for that car points out that it can get from San Francisco to LA on one tank but that's blatantly false unless you start and finish at the edges of those metroplexes while driving extremely efficiently, with no detours or a/c.
LSD is one of, if not the, most potent drugs known to humans. Not many other drugs have threshold doses in the micrograms.
"Nobody is going to buy this thing. I commute 250 miles each way to my job, in my pickup truck. Call me back when Tesla makes a real car with real range. Anybody who buys these now is a sucker."

Because people keep saying shit like that. Tesla's range increases are a giant experiment to find out at exactly what point opposition to electric collapses.
> Politics is the process of making a decision

That seems to be based on an invalid definition:

Politics: (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities')
This is a very interesting overview, thanks for sharing
What might be needed is something like voice-packet across voice-network tracing/logging... sort of like, given a voice connection ID, tag packets going through it in a certain way, when routers or forwarding equipment en route see this tag, then send back an "I received the packet at <timestamp>" message, or something like that.

If something like that already exists, then T-Mobile should know exactly where the network is failing, and why.

If not, then maybe it, or something like it would be good to have...

I have learned from many years of software engineering that a working system is NOT proof that the system will continue to work into the future, that good logging/tracing of all system components is a necessity not a nicety, and that if you can't tell exactly when/where/why/how your system failed within 5 minutes of looking at log files -- you need to revamp your logging system so that that becomes possible.

If it takes T-Mobile more than 5 minutes to accurately diagnose the root cause of this by looking at log files, then that is proof (to me, as an Engineer) that their logging system ranges from suboptimal to non-existent, and that fixing that so that this never happens again (via fixing their logging system) -- should be their absolute first corporate priority -- after whatever is causing this is fixed.

Just one man's opinion.

I will now entertain disagreements and flames...
Thanks for the feedback. I submitted the direct app for Show HN few days ago and didn't make it well. I thought a write-up would help clarify the intent, and wrote this one up.

I'm planning to have a "demo" version up an running by this week end so as users can try before signing up.
Have you tried grab site [1]?

[1] https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site
I think any reference to an authority is enough for people. Something like what you mention in your reply would be good to work in to the marketing material somewhere.
I don’t know. Pneumatics involve a lot more friction than a digital system would. That regular maintenance would probably involve replacing things as they were worn down.
I recommend to enable colors on Window Title Bar. It really improves visibility of foreground window.
While extremely unethical, there is something to this as a social strategy. We know that exposure to psychedelic drugs alters one of the “Big Five” personality traits, openness to new experience, permanently.

A large group of people doses by LSD without their knowledge would actually emerge from the experience markedly different than they went in. Also, probably more than a little freaked out or pissed off.
Or is it arguing the brown M&M provision - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/ ?

> The M&Ms provision was included in Van Halen’s contracts not as an act of caprice, but because it served a practical purpose: to provide a simple way of determining whether the technical specifications of the contract had been thoroughly read and complied with.

Or is it arguing the canary in the coal mine (a sentinel species which is affected by too-high carbon monoxide levels before humans are, giving miners a warning signal)?

Personally, I don't think the BWT analogy is the right one given how BWT is so strongly coupled to funding the police - even in its original non-zero tolerance version - and the well-known racism in its real-world application in NYC. You can see from your quote the lack of consideration of non-policing methods to target vandalism, public drinking and fare evasion.

Eg, pay for more sanitation and cleaning crews to fix vandalism, change the laws to keep cops from being the subsidized security force for abandoned buildings, restore public health services to help the homeless (one I've read about is to create supervised "flop house", that is, very cheap and basic housing where addicts and drunks have safer place to drink), and support mechanisms like raised minimum wages, increased unionization, or basic income which help people have the money to pay for the subway fare and an increased desire to maintain the current social system.
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you can also find alternatives on https://hackerspad.net
I suspect that LSD and other psychedelics will be the next area in the drug legalization war, now that weed is basically down to rearguard actions.
I very much appreciate the offer but I’m already a bit in over my head with one company so I don’t think I can manage a second. Anyone who is interested can definitely count me as a customer though :)
Taps are passive they wouldn't effect traffic.
Facebook itself was up but messaging was unavailable, same with Instagram messaging.
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Coincidental timing?
So in the end , they lied, tired to be cheap, caught doing it

Yet consumers dont get a refund/replaced product

They are not forced to correctly label SMR on drives

No one fired or arrested in WD

and no ones offered other drive brands/makers as an replacement

Maybe RAID/ZFS needs to be limited to SAS only and not retail drives at this stage
Advocate switching over to something Microsoft Authenticator or Yubico. SMS is unreliable and not transmitted in an encrypted fashion.
This is impressive. Almost 650 Km. Conservatively, let's say 600 Km, it's very very impressive.

My daily commute is 30 KM, I can go 20 days without charging. Back of the napkin suggests that if I charge overnight in my garage, I can go without super charger charging for more than a month and a half. This is no small feat.
> without being overly opinionated

My take is Postgres is extremely opinionated, but in such a way that it is beneficial for the long run.

PG adheres to the SQL standard far stricter than MySQL (i.e. select w/o order, ACID). From 2000-2010, it severely slowed the progress of features compared to MySQL (clustering was big topic for a while).

But the problems of hacks, speed and probably a significant one, management/owners, caught up with MySQL.

Feels like tortoise & the hare.
IRS programming mystery continues
That’s really weird. Is it normal to blend in sport modes? Do you have a link to more info?
I don't think you mean gregarious. Not sure what other word would fit; nefarious doesn't quite. Victorious? Voracious? Sagacious? Rapacious? Vexatious?
Some of the OG psychologists working with LSD wanted to mail samples to world leaders so they would achieve world peace.
Thanks, I'm glad I took it.
Certainly if you are connecting through T-Mobile hardware either as a customer or as a customer of a provider who contracted with T-Mobile on your behalf.

Even if you weren't connecting through T-Mobile managed hardware, if the T-Mobile customer base found or was provisioned with alternative connection mechanisms then they could have been competing with you for bandwidth.

The direct answer is no, network outages don't effect services but if you can't access them the experience is though they were out. Consider a friend you want to call. They may be alive and well (or even besides you) but if your phone can't reach theirs you still can't talk to them on your phones.
It’s already easy enough to acquire relative to the low frequency with which people want to use it. As an entirely non-habit-forming drug, you’re unlikely to find a population of people motivated to get easy access to it.
> This is generally fine and has worked out well for the language, but there are plenty of use cases where more advanced trait objects could reduce code size and compile times with very small impact on performance, while also enabling some interesting new patterns

To elaborate a bit on the part about new patterns, I've encountered issues where trait objects allow me to define APIs that otherwise wouldn't be possible. One example is when developing something like a database driver, you might define a trait EventHandler with the methods `handle_start_event` and `handle_completion_event`, where users can pass in values of types that implement EventHandler, and you call their handling methods whenever you start or complete an operation. The most straightforward way to specify this would be to have your client type have an internal vector of EventHandlers that you can iterate over and call the corresponding event handling methods whenever needed. If you use generics for this, then your client type will need to be generic over the type of EventHandler it can contain, which means you can't specify EventHandlers with different concrete types. The best way to get around this is to use something like `Vec<Box<dyn EventHandler>>`.

I understand the sentiment behind favoring generics over trait objects in the Rust ecosystem, as strongly preferring compile time costs to runtime costs when there's a choice between them is one of the more fundamental guiding principles to the Rust ecosystem (and is one of the things I really like about Rust), but there are patterns that trait objects allow that just can't be expressed with generics, and when you need to use one of them, it can be frustrated to hit some of those sharp edges you mentioned.
Exactly, I was asking about authoring tools.
Disclaimer: I didn't go to Harvard, but I did go to a private elementary school many moons ago that I mostly don't remember apart from the Apple IIe's and the mandatory shout-singing of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

This will be slightly off-topic. When my parents were shopping for private schools in the early 1980's, they said they came across a couple of schools that were still requiring pictures like Harvard and other universities did in the past. And we should all should know what that means: passive-aggressive discrimination against non-WASPs in "enlightened" 1982 Santa Clara county, California.

Actually-enlightened admissions would blind the name, address, and appearance of the candidate until after they've seen what they've done, what they've written, and what they plan to do. Anything else, regardless if they drop the SAT or ACT: that reduces to bribery, legacy, appearances, connections, and/or pedigree is just social club pickiness in-order to keep "those other people" out.

Someone let me know when America becomes a meritocracy based on capabilities, accomplishments, and potential rather than the folks paying lip-service to it by and claim it is already from people who have every advantage.
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I thought it was going to be that baked beans meme but no, they literally brought some random repair guy over to "fix" a computer Full of Beans
The SAT has always generally been a test showing how well you prepared for the SAT. For top schools all viable candidates had very good scores so it wasn’t much use.

It was just one of those things everyone did because everyone did it. With more opting out that momentum goes away and increasingly now people are asking “so why did we use this test again?”

Likely won’t be long until the SAT just disappears entirely and replaced with nothing, or subject tests or some other exams more practically linked to placement in certain programs.
I know a girl who goes to caltech. She says that they don't require you to take a compilers class to get a computer science degree. Sounds like a joke.
I've had tabs of acid sitting in a fridge which is naturally light and heat controlled, in a sealed container (within the fridge) be absolutely benign when consumed after being left for over a few months. The only way I've managed to keep LSD protected/improve shelf life is to keep it in it's liquid form and store it in a dropper.

I don't doubt that LSD could survive for some period of time on a natural surface but to provide a big "trip" after it was on a surface like a Synth seems a stretch.

I'd love to find out the half life of LSD in an open atmosphere like a Synth, I imagine it wouldn't be very long at all.