skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but very few as far as I know.

There are also names which have no written form.

Also as far as I remember there are cases where there are multiple "forms" of the same character which theoretically should be purely cosmetic but over time the same name with some of it's characters in different forms has developed different "meanings" which for countries in which the "meaning" of a name matters is a relevant difference.

But as they normally don't mean anything different they have the same code point in unicode and (had when I read about it) no modifier to denote the differences either.

So while this names can somewhat be written they would have to be written in a form which can be seen as degraded by the person having the name and as such forcing them to do so might be seen as mean, impolite maybe even slightly insulting.

Sadly I don't have a reference to the article anymore. Also I don't remember the languages this appeared in but I think it was related to mandarin but I'm not completely sure.

Still the technical overhead of supporting non-unicode is massive and in general not worth it for nearly any application. Exceptions include historical use-cases cases and government use-cases. Also unicode strives to cover "all there is" so it might be "fixed" by now in some form or another.
I wrote what I believe is my best piece of name handling last year.

It had three fields legal_name, interpersonal_name, alias.

When the user was signing up, they were prompted with three questions:

---

Your legal name that must appear on documents such as invoices and contracts: <signed xxx>

The alias you would like us to use in our interface and emails, that only you see: <hi xxx>

The name we should show other people when referring to you in our interface: <request from xxx>

---

The page had live examples alongside, and checkboxes for 'as above'. I was worried I had overcomplicated it, but a lot of my early feedback called out that they liked it without prompting.

It is worth saying the system is never expected to scale past a few thousand users, these users are professionally motivated and pay or get paid for the service - as such I could say "anything goes" in the content of the fields without abuse being likely. Conflicting names are discovered through distance measurements and flagged up to an admin to determine whether they should be resolved.
> what about the epigenetic traits, aquired traits like sickness etc?

No different than getting some drug that improves your organ's health without replacing them. Perhaps via gene therapy, stem cell manipulation or whatever.

> Brain/mind main property is that it's dynamic, and this dynamism is brought through by the rest of the body, and the environment it lives in and senses and adapts.

It does that whether you transplant organs or not. Your tomorrow's self will not be quite identical to today's self either way. Replacing body parts only changes the trajectory in a similar way a change of environment would. Perhaps a drastic change, but still a decision that people could consciously make.
The growth-optimality justification for using logarithmic utility is not new. It goes back at least to the 1950's and was discussed by prominent economists. See for example http://finance.martinsewell.com/money-management/Markowitz19...
More accurate would be to say that NFTs are additional fuel for the ecological disaster that is ETH.
Your analogy makes little sense in this context.

Mining hardware will always run at 100% capacity, regardless of the amount of transactions, unless mining becomes unprofitable.

The issue is, while the energy used by mining is not directly dependent on the amount of transactions, it is dependent on the amount of people and money invested into the network, which raises the price, which causes an expansion of mining effort. With more people investing, the amount of transactions also increases.

If NFTs were to become a popular thing, mining will obviously increase at an even faster rate
Which country is this country?
Build advanced automation at Volta Labs, Inc. (YC W19) as a software engineer
NASA's new Mars rover hits dusty red road, first trip 21 feet
Could you point to one example where a problem is solved and their solution is not equivalent to the choice of an utility function?
They didn't, though. Look at von Neumann and Morganstern's "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior". There's nothing in there about time-series averages. It's a theory of games that you might play only once.
Scanning through the doc, I don't see mention of setting a room to "each message needs approval". Have I missed it?
You have a bunch of nerve tissue around your body, which contain information.

Your brain is also calibrated to your organs.

Your brain may notice you need to release X amount of adrenaline, and sends out a signal. Then your new body releases a different amount, because your new adrenal glands are used to a slightly different signal intensity.

And the body contains an enormous amount of complicated metabolical processes which are tightly coupled together.

Imagine the chaos, if everything starts to work a little differently, because “there is a new boss”.

I have no formal education in this yopic and my comment is only speculation, but it seems logical.
FFMPEG's API is perfect for what it aims to provide. Not every program is built for every use-case. It's trivial to create helper scripts to provide a simpler API for simple tasks, in fact this is probably how FFMPEG and ImageMagick are most often used; in image, video editing programs and servers.
I can see use cases for this in the future applying to real world items to prove authenticity such as unique cars, expensive shoes, pet ownership, antiques and plots of land.

Digital artwork seems to be an easy go to item at this infancy stage of NFTs.
Ask HN: Calendar Scraping/Sync Tools?
Hi HN. Long story short: my girlfriend is a massage therapist being
squeezed for big commissions by a marketing service (treatwell.com)
that has shut down its API for bi-directionally syncing its calendar
with hers, probably as a deliberate lock-in tactic. Treatwell reads
her google calendar to avoid clashes, but writes only to its own when
someone books through treatwell. With her clientele increasing through
independent referrals, she's investigating alternatives including
self-hosting, but assuming it's not worth ditching treatwell entirely,
what tools would you recommend for scraping her treatwell calendar to
keep her google calendar in sync?
Even that isn't new. There are hundreds of experiments that point out the limitations of EU. If you're looking for a reason to reject EU, you didn't need to wait until now. Allais published his paradox in 1953.

If Peters wants to propose an alternate theory, he needs to explain all of this existing evidence. For example, he needs to explain why historically the return on stocks is so high. If people only cared about the logarithm of wealth, they would hold almost entirely stocks and very little bonds. They would take their weekly paycheck and deposit it directly into their Robinhood account. (And everyone would have a brokerage account.)
As Rust is getting more and more adoption, it's slowly starting to move away from “hype language” to “boring language used by normies”, like every other successful languages once did. That's a pretty good sign actually.
Well economics has never been working. 50% of all maths models in economics fail basic sensitivity analysis tests (read: they can not be correct). It's also refered to as the "dismal science".

Ole Peters work is at least a step in the right direction.
I read this in high school (mid 80's) and it has helped me ever since.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-That-Frog-Important-Things/dp/1...

The advice is essentially; do the hardest thing on your todo list first and the rest is a breeze.

It's no magic bullet, and it still takes willpower. But if you persevere and it becomes as habit, you'll find yourself procrastinating less.
Do you really think the people involved in this 13 year survey are so stupid they didn't think of the issue you could identify in a good 5 seconds of thinking before writing your comment?
Hello, thanks for taking the time to reply. Isn't the matrix.org homeserver already a backend HTTP server? I'm unfamiliar with the matrix protocol, but isn't there a way to POST to homeserver directly so that it can authenticate and confirm with the user they intend to post this message?
This is neat! It doesn't seem the same though. The coloured pictures on the site are animated if you click.
Reminds me of that time, 30 years ago, that me and a friend were on a trip to Italy, and wanted to send a postcard to our friend back in Jerusalem.

We did not have her exact street address, so we just wrote a postcard address to : "<her full name> building is opposite of the Menora garden".

Postcard was delivered to her.
The default is to renew when less than 30 days remain, and to check that every day or every week.
> The movies served as means to make couples talk about their own relationship.

Sure. The next one should be titled Taylor Swift lyrics decrease divorce rate by 45% but Nicki Minaj lyrics don't.

I'm sure the methodology will hold up equally well.

Marriage ad the strongest legally recognised relationship outside blood relations - needs interventions so that couples can talk. Is this an approximation of the problem statement?

If it is, either no one really knows the problem or it is known but won't be touched with a 100ft pole since doing so will lead down the rabbit hole of disillusionment.
No WordPress plugin?
It wasn't until the 1980s that a passenger side door mirror became mandatory.
I think that these will be replaced with camera. A camera is cheaper than a car mirror at this point. It'll make the car slightly more aerodynamic.

Eventually a car maker will produce an economy car without a rear window. Glass is expensive. People just end up using the camera system anyway. It'll do better in a roll-over test, without the rear glass.
@kgwgk Ahh misread for a second there. Prospect theory is a good example. When calculated using Ole Peters method Prospect theory does not exist.
Reactions/rebuttals by economists here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/kcmtce/guy_wi...
I use Plausible, it's very nice and completely painless to get started with. Transfers 701 bytes(!) to load the js on a page, which is super impressive.
We can expand on this analysis a bit.

IntelliJ runs its language plugins in-process, using object oriented APIs. VS Code runs language plugins out-of-process with an RPC protocol to the backend.

The latter has some advantages if you want to re-use the language's "native" compiler, assuming there is one. However, this isn't quite as useful as it sounds. Compilers parse text into ASTs and do transformations on them, yes, but, they are not IDEs and the needs of an interactive "presentation compiler" are very different to the needs of a batch-oriented normal compiler. The OP's article overlooks this: it just blithely assumes that building an IDE on top of the regular compiler is always better than writing a dedicated IDE support from scratch. The truth is more nuanced.

Meanwhile, the costs of going out-of-process with RPC are enormous. Beyond the obvious performance, bandwidth, memory overhead and latency problems, the Language Server Protocol spec is 100 pages long and still growing. Despite being a protocol and thus theoretically language neutral, in reality it's a JS/TypeScript API. In fact the protocol is so much a JavaScript API that there's no direct way to represent it in a conventionally typed language: for example the Response.result field is totally dynamically typed and can be anything at all.

Worse, because LSP is just a protocol, there's no platform to help you implement it. IntelliJ platform is full of classes you can compose, subclass or use to simplify the task of writing plugins. VSCode is not like that.
Usql v0.8.2
That's not correct.

"Multi-period Expected Utility Theory Predicts Zero Risk Aversion in Copenhagen Experiment, Same as Ergodicity Economics."

https://medium.com/@aa_goldstein/multi-period-expected-utili...
It seems more ironic to me, that the parent likes talking about how much they hate talking about it.
> People can look at images of the Mona Lisa all day long without compensating you, because you simply own the original trophy, not the idea…

Your ownership isn't stamped or an inhenrant part of the Mona Lisa, your ownership comes from the certificate and trust in the certificate, history of sales and its legacy. NFTs are simply digifying this.

> [Creators will] become promoters of digital tokens more than they are creators. Because that’s the only reason that someone is likely to buy one–like a stock, they hope it will go up in value

Since this is such a new idea and market speculation is rampant but the comparison and suggestion is still unfair. Money may be one driving factor in buying stocks, but it often isn't the only factor. NFTs don't change much for physical artists but non fungiblility did not exist for digital art until now.

> NFTs aren’t usually aesthetically beautiful on their own, they simply represent something that is.

In both cases the certificate is a representation of the art. The certificate or idea that you own the Mona Lisa isn't what's beautiful, the piece of art your ownership represents is.

> BUYERS of NFTs may be blind to the fact that there’s no limit on the supply. In the case of baseball cards, there are only so many rookies a year.

Creating a new token is easy, just as doing a scribble and calling it art. There's still implicit trust that the creator won't make a duplicate token with the same representation just as there's implicit trust an artist won't certify identical paintings as originals.

The benifit for collectables is that the minting and supply is public. You can verify that your NFT is 1 out of X, and only X.

> THE REST OF US are going to pay for NFTs for a very long time. They use an astonishing amount of electricity to create and trade. Together, they are already using more than is consumed by some states in the US. Imagine building a giant new power plant just to make Christie’s or the Basel Art Fair function. And the amount of power wasted will go up commensurate with their popularity and value. And keep going up. The details are here. The short version is that for the foreseeable future, the method that’s used to verify the blockchain and to create new digital coins is deliberately energy-intensive and inefficient. That’s on purpose. And as they get more valuable, the energy used will go up, not down.

The energy costs of the NFTs are currently pretty high, but to claim it'll only go up is disingenuous. In the foreseeable future Bitcoin will be the only energy intensive blockchain as others move to proof of stake. Ethereum has begun to make this transition and most other large platforms have already made this transition.

Since blockchain is digital and public the ease to produce a concrete estimate of energy paints an easy target. Measuring energy from other recreational activities is much harder and fuzzy. Gaming is a similar target but is much harder to discredit.
I think there is a huge business opportunity here: Design and produce appliances that are durable. Design them repairable and timeless. Any spare part can be bought separately.

Brand name 'one'. You'll only need one. Also we only have one world. Emphasise the sustainability of timeless and repairable design.

Start with a single appliance beta program. Iterate with user feedback until perfect. Then start second appliance.
Or a trait...
It's not a panacea, but enum_dispatch seems to help a lot: https://docs.rs/enum_dispatch/0.3.5/enum_dispatch/
I’m less familiar with ETH than BTC but my understanding is that this is true:

1. Minting an NFT costs ETH in the form of “gas”

2. The miner who mines a block gets that ETH

Assuming both of these are true, each NFT minted on the ETH blockchain increases the amount they can profitability spend on energy in economic equilibrium.
A long overdue release. General bug fixes, \d* commands, new database support, and a native Oracle driver.
Same in 2016 with D https://maikklein.github.io/soa-d/
I just set it up using the recommended docker machine way and it was like a breeze. You might want to give it another try - that said, it's really cheap, comparable to self hosting
The web desperately needs a good comment system which is easy to onboard to, easy for casual commenters, and non-pathological in terms of advertising/data-gathering/advertising. I really hope one comes along.
I teach my children: "Nothing that is real is perfect and nothing that is perfect is real." Then I do Plato's Allegory of the Cave to explain Realism vs Idealism.

IT systems exist to be practical, so "good enough for a given purpose" is sufficient, they do not need to perfectly caputure every aspect of reality. For the same reason, it does not make sense to expect "Data Quality" of any IT system to be perfect or even "good enough" when you the data is transferred to another system (or is to be used for a different purpose) where other aspects of the data determine if the data is "good enough".

This even applies to the metadata. Ontology and Semantics will depend on what the purpose of an IT system is, as well as what data is available. If the same data is to be used for another purpose, you may need to apply different metadata to it.
Is there a field that is similar to economics but is empirical and about building working systems rather than just theories, and incorporates recent high tech advances, and accounts for sustainability by incorporating things like finite resource tracking?

Personally I think almost all of it is outdated and have no respect for economists. To back systems that perpetuate such gross inequity it seems most must have a very dated and reductionist Social Darwinist mindset.

The first thing we need is to start to incorporate technology into society, such as by comprehensively tracking resources. Things like distributed technologies are the best starting point for this. Then when we use point systems for distributing control over resources (money) that should be a high tech system that is integrated with resource tracking and regulation.

The way the current system works is kind of like if someone built an MMORPG and only included one stat --- money. Then, instead of server code for managing things, the powerful Economic Cult characters estimated what was happening and tried to regulate everything by controlling the spawn of gold coins.
/boot is not the same as the efi system partition (ESP), sure you need to copy the signed kernel blob into the ESP but I still wouldn't recommend mounting ESP as /boot if your linux distro allows it.

The reason for this are many fold including that Linux assumes /boot is managed by it but the ESP isn't managed by Linux and might contain other EFI compatible programs. Another reason is that you want to make sure only the signed blob is in the ESP and nothing else, but depending on your distro and packages all kind of thinks might be put into /boot. Another reason is the dir structure. /boot is flat but ESP isn't meant to be flat e.g. in my case it's /EFI/<osname>/<efifiles>

E.g. my /boot partition contains "initramfs-linux.img", "intel-ucode.img" and "vmlinuz-linux" but my /esp contains only linux-signed.efi which packs the necessary image files, linux kernel, kernel parameters, boot splash screen etc.

Still what you can do (with reasonable effort) depends a bit on the Linux Distro you run.

Also in many default setups you have a /boot parition and a ESP partition, in your case you just folded both into one. In my case I don't have a boot parition and could as far as I know tweak my system not not have a /boot folder at all as it's not really used, it's just not worth the effort to do so.
While that *is* impressive, the bigger performance cost is usually in the DNS resolve time.
enum_dispatch to the rescue! (or at least that is what it says on the tin: https://docs.rs/enum_dispatch/0.3.5/enum_dispatch/ )
Sports Are the Internet’s Key
You could also do this with the C-preprocessor or CMake config files.

But a common, well-defined source language (here: yaml) should make it easy to add new backends and to adhere to language quirks (e.g., number literal formats)
I didn't know about light mode. I'll definitely try it out.
An extern declaration is needed.
https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html
https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html

C (or even C++) functions can be called directly from D. There is no need for wrapper functions, argument swizzling, and the C functions do not need to be put into a separate DLL.

I think Walter Bright achieved this via implementing a full-blown C++ parser in the dlang compiler. A [God-Tier] achievement.
It's beautiful irony that the most capitalist place on earth has Boudin as DA. I don't have anything against him for hs background or the fact that he is proud of it. None of that precludes him from doing a good job. In fact it could indeed be beneficial because he has awareness of issues from a perspective few do. That said the proof is in the pudding and it is unconscionable that the city that is the engine room for creating new wealth suffers from the problems described so often here. What's going on? It makes no sense from the outside. It just looks like a social version of asset stripping.
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It might be controversial, but are you sure the current way is wrong?

If you did not have to consider financial viability of a project, then more people would make more random stuff, which of course would produce more useful stuff, because the sample size increases, but there would also be more useless garbage.

The question is whether and in what direction/magnitude the signal to noise ratio would change in the UBI scenario.
Escaping noise pollution, having an empty calendar and removing the phone are 3 things that help me.
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Facebook’s new AI teaches itself to see with less human help
Animals certainly appreciate beauty among each other[0] probably also in the environment[1].

AI can be trained to recognise and prefer beauty as well.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150511-why-are-animals-so-b...

[1] https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/sir-david-attenboro...
It cant be artifial scarcity when there is endless supply.
> Hard no. I have no interest, whatsoever, in punishing anyone for the accident of their birth and life.

So is everyone going to get exactly the same things? Because that’s the implication here. If you let the rich keep all the great things they get from the accident of being born rich and then take away any negatives they incurred from other accidents of birth you are punishing everyone else for the accident of not being born rich.

This is either full on communism or it is horribly regressive.
Yes, but they will be dealing with a currency that has mathematical guarantees - which changes things entirely. Imagine a scenario in which self driving cars are not only the norm, but they've achieved a perfect safety record due to an open source, formally verified, code-base. In that scenario, do you think the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration still needs 600 employees and a 900 million dollar budget? I have no doubt that it would still exist, but it would be addressing an infinitely simpler problem - and the reduction in resource requirements would cut it down to a skeleton crew that would operate much like stubcode in the wake of a refactor.