skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes it does burn, but it also doesn't lose it's structural integrity when heated:

It does, and by a lot. This is why wooden houses collapse during fires, and bury people trapped in them in a fiery grave.
Super interesting read. Think that a fair amount of inspiration can be taken from dense university and college campuses that essentially can be dubbed as sub-30 minute neighborhoods.

Looking at UBC in Vancouver, B.C. is a solid example, it is outside of the heart of Vancouver on the Western shore, yet has created a neighborhood that could be considered a 15-minute neighborhood.
"Cheyenne Cunningham speaks the down-river dialect of hən̓q̓əmín̓əm̓, a language she's been piecing together since she was seven.

Not a single person in her Katzie community, east of Vancouver, is fluent, but she's been picking it up since taking hən̓q̓əmín̓əm̓ classes at her community school when she was a child.

Cunningham was taught by two teachers who learned from the last two remaining hən̓q̓əmín̓əm̓ speakers, and she is now considered a language keeper in her community."

Someone expects huge modifications for a language with three speakers?

This "preserving indigenous languages" thing has reached the point of absurdity. As a hobby or a historical study, fine. As a communications tool, there's no one to talk to.
You're only supposed to have novel outages. If you can train a machine to summarize outages, you might be doing it wrong.
SQLite is beautiful. Almost a perfect database for all single-user and simple multi-user projects. I just wish it had some built-in (not as an extension) encryption, native (non-DIY) date-time and UUID types - it would actually be perfect then.
Get Snorting
Can a mod change the title to:

Woman's request to register business in her Indigenous language denied by B.C. government
I believe the article ought not be written at all, since there's barely any signal. But if you have to write it, communicating the level of certainty in the title would be a virtue. At any rate, this article is marketing, not communication.
I don't understand the outrage here by Windi CSS. What more are they looking for? Tailwind credited them. And Windi is _based on Tailwinds API_.
My initial thought is they must not be using Unicode, but then I wondered if Unicode has the characters for hən̓q̓əmín̓əm̓. I did a quick search, but didn’t find an answer. Does anyone know if there is a definitive list of all languages that are supported by Unicode?
Oh man, this videos is partly why I got so into functional programming (though it actually took around eight more years to get into Clojure). Here were two really smart people talking about functional programming concepts in a really clear, concise way, which was interesting enough for me to look up functional programming techniques, which in turn led me to Scala and Haskell.

I will be watching this video again...thanks for linking it!
...and also due to a legal requirement:

> The language rule is enshrined in law in B.C.'s Business Corporation Act, which states: "A company or extraprovincial company must display its name ... in legible English or French characters."

Most jurisdictions have official languages. There's room for discussion about colonialist and discriminatory causes and effects, of course. But it's not necessarily obvious that governments ought to accommodate n languages, or to what degree.
Multilingual legal registries are hard. (See: the EU.) The simplest answer is to devolve some business-registration powers to an authority that speaks the language. Having a registry administered by someone who does not know the language, let alone character set, is an invitation to fraudsters to create lookalikes and errors to go undetected.
Reminds me of a documentary called "Medicating Normal". Try being self-compassionate when you have unholy side effects of benzos, anti-depressants, and anti-psychotics prescribed to you.

Normal by "western" standards is unhealthy. We need a renaissance of self-compassion but it has to be protected from the systems that be.
Neat! One production ready python library I love to use in this space is https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/ It is quite mature and can handle a good amount of data well!
It offers topic modeling too and can b helpful to find similar documents also.
Also inability to reply to specific text messages.

I find this to be a very useful feature that you only get with "smart" messaging apps like WhatsApp.
You make an interesting point. I suspect the post is downvoted only because of the second-to-last sentence.
Personally, I took to heart at an early age the idea of not looking for something you love, but instead finding something you can tolerate. Work - almost by definition - "sucks" in some very subjective way, otherwise it wouldn't be called work. But at the same time, one person's pain is another's gain.

Thinking about work in terms of objective drudgery that one doesn't mind doing (or even better, that one enjoys doing) is one way to avoid the mental dichotomy of drudgery-vs-reward since then the work itself is either its own reward, or it just doesn't tip the scales negatively, philosophically speaking. In a way, it's a form of taking pleasure in small things, like feeling accomplished after cleaning the kitchen even though cleaning a kitchen is almost universally considered drudgery.
The RMS Open Letter says the guidelines are "still transphobic": https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix#i18n-dropdown-but...
I'm generally not in favor of preserving any sort of non-computing history, but in this particular case:

> she discovered B.C.'s registry doesn't permit characters that are not part of the Roman alphabet.

It makes sense. There's no reason not to allow Unicode characters, and Unicode already allows that alphabet to be used.
Some do, although many deep workers circadian rhythms naturally skew later. There's plenty of research on this you can find.
If you want to understand what the fall of the USSR really resulted in, watch Bald and Bankrupt's youtube channel. He's a British guy who travels former Soviet countries and documents his everyday interactions: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCxDZs_ltFFvn0FDHT6kmoXA
What is this absurdity, why are you on a mission to create an appearence that private and confidential dealings of Facebook and just as transparent as public documents subject to multiple levels of scruitiny by elected officials?

there is no 'spesifically your contribution', you know exactly how much was spent on each road if you bother to look, and you do not have an idea of what facebook has and to whom it was sold because this information is not public.
lol, and just to nit pick. Musk is probably the least innovative on this list. He did not found Tesla, he took it over. And SpaceX is using designs that had existed for decades. His main "innovation" was betting large sums of money on existing technologies on the hopes that the market was finally ready for them. I will give him credit for starlink and autopilot, but it is too early to judge the impact of either of those yet.

Bezos on the other hand radically transformed the entire retail sector. The logistics required to operate at that scale required healthy amounts of innovation. And AWS is a relatively original and transformative product.

And whatever you think about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, they were both instrumental in defining the shift to personal computing, among many other impacts. Billions of people have been impacted by their work.
Yeah, I made this mistake in trust-dns. Went back and thought better on it, and replaced all unwraps with proper checks. After that no more random crashes, but you're correct that it's easy even in Rust to say, "I'm sure this is never None in this case", and be very wrong.

The Rust linter (clippy) does perform a bunch of checks on unwrap usage now. For example, a common mistake before TryFrom was added to the stdlib was to implement From between two types and do an unwrap on conversion (think String -> enum variant), and clippy will now suggest TryFrom as a replacement since the unwrap is hiding a fallible case.

The fact that folks use unwrap so much in tests and examples can also mislead people new to the language that this is a common practice.
Yeah, and the reason it exists is so stagehands get paid even if they don't have to do any work.

Sorry it didn't work out for them that time.
Apple’s new Find My feature could let you know if you’re the one being tracked
"I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup" and "Meditations on Moloch" by Scott Alexander (on his previous blog Slate Star Codex)
I don't fully get it -- this is an SQlite implementation in JavaScript, which is different from what you'd use in a native app. Unless you store it to localStorage or cookies, all variables disappear when you navigate away from the page.

Can you write an offline HTML5 webapp with any of these libraries such that it can cerealize the entire database into a string and then store that to localStorage and reload the next time?

It's an honest question and not sure why people are downvoting without giving reasons.
Realistically the government just needs to support Unicode which has been around since the early 90s.
Not that i'm aware. Many shops i need are in large, industrial areas, far away by foot. And 20 minute walks everywhere simply eats up my day. I hate using the buses, driving is far, far easier and faster.
This should not be shocking to anybody that has worked on or with government software. One group of my collegues is working on migrating a mainframe cobol application to a new stack. A year in and they are still trudging through requirements gathering.
The thought that devs believe javascript would ever be fast enough to make sqlite actually need to run in parallel makes me giggle.
this is a complex issues for sure, now the questionis what are these cases about?

if its stuff like parking tickets, broken tail lights, low-grade speeding then i totally agree woth the judge

if its drunk driving or driving while under the influence or things where you put others in danger then... why is the driver doing those things if their livelihoods depend on it?

Just food for thought
I agree in general, a language of three individuals should maybe not be accustomed to officially by the government. But in this case it seems that the effect is a bit larger than that, as everything not in the Roman alphabet is blocked. I thought we programmers already knew how to handle more alphabets, so we should just change systems for humans to work with everyones alphabet already.
According to the article, they only support the Roman alphabet. I assume that means they only support ASCII and not Unicode.
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley. Three American students are sent to three of the smartest countries (based on PISA scores): Finland, Poland, and Korea. The same was done vice versa. It was fascinating to learn how these three leading countries are able to perform so well with dramatically different policies. And it provides interesting insights as to why America is struggling to compete.
> Your work will never set boundaries for you as they benefit from you working harder and longer.

Some workplaces do set boundaries, and it is not universally true that "harder and longer" working brings benefits.
I wasn't criticizing DSLs in general, they're great, but in the specific case of web development I prefer React's approach over using a DSL like most other frameworks.
All my servers have an alarm when disk space goes above 70%. It sends an email every hour once the disk usage goes above 70%. Never had a server go down because of disk space issue after adopting this practise.

Also one of the main reasons server disks go full is generally log files. Always remember to "logrotate" your log files and you will not have this issue that much.

Yes one more thing, for all user uploaded files use external storage like NFS or S3.
When I wake up I put my phone on Do Not Disturb.
No. Careful partitioning is the solution to this problem. Monitor the growth of your partitions and make sure nothing on rootfs or other sensitive partitions grow significantly.
If it wasn't in Unicode it's highly unlikely your computer could render it to you in your own comment. The Canadian system very likely doesn't support Unicode, or intentionally limits the supported character set.
We used it for architectural discussions and exploring ideas. I'd be hard pressed to think of something that was better for that.
Our creation and use of the substance is creating a negative feedback loop, causing a reduction in future population.
Looks very similar to what Transmeta did. Hard to know if there are any real gains without hands on the actual hardware. 4 instructions per clock as 2.8GHz is not exactly earth shattering performance by modern standards.
This is something that could've easily been done back in the days of pen and paper, why shouldn't it be possible now? Technology is supposed to make things easier, not harder.
I did! Thank you for the correction. Editted.
> or maybe even custom compilers

Like for autodiff or GPUs.
Why is it ridiculous to try to keep your culture and heritage alive? Just because your country spent over 100 years trying to eradicate indigenous culture with residential schools, doesn't mean you should move on.
“This text has since been updated, but is still transphobic.16 The main page on his web site includes the statement that “‘They’ is plural — for singular antecedents, use singular gender-neutral pronouns.”17”

For what it’s worth, I don’t understand why this is transphobic, but I would be curious to find out.
Are those the original characters or a modern representation? Just anglocise a little more and move on. Skookum biz name!
Probably some broadcaster employee who saved some tapes from destruction a decade or two later. See also: r/DataHoarder. Aren't we all lucky?
tune2fs -m not good enough?
I prefer Android's XML mechanism for declaring UI over XAML.
If it can be rendered in UTF-8, doesn't that mean it's part of Unicode by definition?
Linus Torvalds disagrees about line lengths for what it's worth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23356607
This is maddening. Related: Did you know in California, your name can't have accents? You know, like the ´ and ˜ in Spanish. Good thing there aren't any Hispanic folks there. /s

People, design your systems to conform to reality. Don't make other people bend to fit your lazy design. Yes, it will be more complicated. Yes, it will be more work. Tough noogies. That's what you signed up for.
I remember a discussion here about a dude who did this with memory in game development. People didn't like the idea very much.

To me it has a taste of domain squatting or GPU scalping, but you don't do it with strangers, but your team.
When your technical debt becomes a human rights complaint...
I have a pretty good setup for MPD on Android. It's not perfect, but quite nice.

https://www.joram.io/blog/android-streaming-mpd/
There was also a browser extension [1] that locally reimplemented parts of the Google Reader interface. It has since been removed from the Chrome Web Store.

[1]: https://crxcavator.io/report/cemddjmmnfebpkpkonmbkdmakilpkci...
High taxes, but surprisingly low cost of living.

"hard to be a consumer but easier to be a human" was what I've heard about the city.
How about:

B.C. gov can't register business with indigenous-language name because it contains non-Latin characters
Thats not really something that needs fixing.
Surely there is some canonical ASCII representation they could use that is equivalent to the Doing Business As. Seems like a reasonable compromise while the ultimate problem is handled by a Unicode migration.
I may have to look into it since python is deprecating the cgi module, to my great annoyance.

Or maybe not. I seem to have gotten out of the web business at the right time. It's gone in a direction that makes me grind my teeth.
Problem is FTS5 isn't included in the most default installation through package managers [I use Fedora]. And recompiling from source breaks a lot of things, as sqlite libraries are generally linked with all apps that use it.
The next Apple TV is rumored to be game focused.
Exactly this! I much rather like to watch a video of someone who is better than me, but reachable than someone off the charts and beyond my capabilities.

Also Adam is really good at making videos.

edit: typo
Civil forfeiture has a bad track record because it's used on poor and lower class people 99.999% of the time. I imagine if it was only used on rich people it'd have a stellar reputation.
Don't confuse agile with 'agile', the headline uses the latter.

Agile (the real thing, no pretend-lookalike) provides speed, or not, depending on how you measure. It often provides something quickly, and you get to choose whether that's a speedup. If you want to write a report emphasising your own success, agile development provided a working simulator/airplane/whatever with great speed, if you want to write a report denigrating your rival, agile didn't finish the ticklist in the specification any quicker than one imagines that waterfall might have done.

But the F35 wasn't agile, it was 'agile', the worst of both worlds.
Rethinking ‘rehost, replatform, rearchitect’: Cloud migration for the real world
Society Is Changing [video]
> This text has since been updated, but is still transphobic.

The archived link [1] they provide to backup this claim already contains lines like the following:

> Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity.

So I have to say the fact that the authors of this letter just put this out there while linking sources that are in contradiction to what they claim is...pretty concerning.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210325014959/https://www.gnu.o...
I probably wouldn't have time to do this for next few years, but I wish they'd release regular Notepad as open source. There's a part of me that sort of wants to do some kind of masochistic feature-by-feature port of Notepad into a functional language, just to pay homage to the first editor I ever used.

I know that I could obviously just create my own text editor, but I think it would be kind of fun to specifically recreate notepad of all things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26584664
The stadium seems to be about 160 m from the closest part of JILA. Assuming that 100000 people arrive in a 2000 kg car each, the gravitational redshift would be around 1E-21. This is about 1000 smaller than the stability of the best JILA optical clocks.
Contra:

> The idea that someone who does enough "good work" earns a pass for inappropriate behaviour is pervasive, and fosters environments where abusers can prosper. People who hold this belief shouldn't be involved in running organisations.

* https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1374093150101200896

Other folks who did a lot of philanthropy: Jeffrey Epstein, David Koch, the Sackler family (of opioid epidemic noterietay), Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, Michael Pearson, Raj Rajaratnam, Bernard Madoff, Ken Lay (of Enron).

* https://www.worth.com/the-10-most-toxic-philanthropists/

* https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/harvey-weinstei...
So it is probably a legal instead of a technical issue.

What happens when two laws come into conflict with each other? United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) vs the language rule
Is there a package I can install to set this up?
Yet the system already exists.

Yes, it was either badly designed or designed before the relevant technology was available (e.g. UTF-8).

Yes, replacing it with a system that works properly is an important long-term project.

What are you going to do, sue the state to divert funding from important social programs so they can accommodate accents in their database?
Bitcoin fans have now donated nearly $1M to Satoshi since they disappeared
Yes. Reach out if you'd like more information. scott[at]tinacms.org
Yeah. I Agree with you.

Also been thinking about a similar concept for a while. For the negative effects some have mentioned, one could also argue the possibility of a positive effect to make things more open and result in better quality / funded / open projects.

As an idea an addition to this could be a community trust score where users also get to vote on a few aspects of a project, like ‘is it well maintained?’, ‘do you understand changes in version updates?’ etc. maybe bad examples, but a few simple metrics which can give a project a good or bad rep based on what the maintainers does as presented by the community - not just nit-picked twitter quotes. Yes, these will need to be crafted carefully so that maintainer cannot game them but the result could be projects getting paid well for doing things that builds trust and makes the project more accessible.

Of course I could just look at the PR history and issues etc before I use a new package, but I would trust community feedback more than my 30 min deep dive.

Today we only have very vague metrics like npm popularity or github stars, which is very hard to accurately judge what package to choose or not.
I think the author's POV still stands just perhaps needs some massaging the framing.

> When people acquire skills, and that makes some tasks easier compared to untrained people, that difference categorically is not subjectivity. It is not subjectivity because we can reproduce the training effect in person after person, and even measure it with some kind of numbers that we can plot on nice graphs and see things like that similar "learning curves" are consistently reproduced in different people.

It sounds like you're referring to convention. Adhering to conventions a reader is familiar with definitely improves readability, but _any_ style can be improved by adherence to convention, so we want to ask, what is the most readable style before we start layering on conventions?
US had a plan in the 1960s to blast an alternative Suez Canal
Thanks for feedback!
Caching... it took me time to get my head around it. With Vercel it works more or less the way I imagined. It surprised me that Cloudflare has a different approach. But once I got it, it started making sense and I like it :)

Good luck with your project!
> Someone expects huge modifications for a language with three speakers?

"You just about wiped us out, the least you can do is let us use our language."

I'd suspect more widely used languages in Canada also benefit from Unicode support.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language indicates there are 449 people learning the language as of 2018, too, in an attempt to prevent its extinction.
FLAGGED: I read the paper - article is completely wrong
To contrast, I'll take your comment and change a few words to reflect what many in our world today hold to be true - those to whom internet communication is the vast majority or the entirety of their socialization/hobbies/entertainment/news. I would argue this has never been more of a reality for more people than during the past year.

They might say something like:

There is no 'online life'. There's just life, and technology is a huge part of it. Often, the most important part.
> why is this even for debate. he wouldn't last a day as CxO or board member on any fortune-500 company.

I'm not altogether certain that the ability to fit in or operate well in either of those circumstances is a rubric worth ascribing to.