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In fact I use exclusively the A variants as far as possible, because anything else is really bad engineering, as I've explained. Even Microsoft has started to acknowledge this, and whereas the A variants had been implemented as wrappers around the W variants before, I heard they started to reverse that and started recommending the A functions.

See here for example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/globali...

If you browse around various documentation, you'll see contradicting statements which variants are recommended, which I take as another sign that the idea of making a distinction on the type level is simply a bad idea.

As to the macros, yes, if you give the A or W explicitly, you won't need the macro setting that translates the unspecific names to the A or W variants. And as said, the macros aren't a good idea anyway, as it's still extremely hard to properly abstract the distinction (the types are different sizes!!), so code is generally tied to a specific choice either way.

> Unicode cannot be treated as just a byte stream as soon as you want to do something to the content (or just for very narrow circumstances).

It can be stored as a byte stream. Whenever you work with the data, you might need to operate on transformed representations - 32-bit codepoints, or larger combinations, or even more complicated stuff like words, sentences, paragraphs, tags, whatever it needs to do the task as done. This is programming, you transform data to achieve things.

What I say is that it's stupid to make a distinction on the type level between things that are entirely the same thing in memory, and that are going to be used for the same things. It's stupid because it unnecessarily create incompatibilities between data and introduces unnecessary "conversions" / copies and requires more code.
Hmmm, maybe give them a change to look into it first?
Should be noted in the title that this is from 2005.
Completely new? If you look at how Transrapid trains "hug" the rail from both above and below (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid#/media/File:Transra...), the train in the picture is doing exactly the same. So I would be a bit skeptical about such claims...
wasn't it just a few years ago considered as being ahead of everybody in space industry?
I hear those complaints, but aside from a snarky "then spend your own money on <whatever> then", they fail mention:

- anyone can spend money on things, if enough sub-billionaires spend money on something the same amount can be raised - there's no reason a billionaire needs to do it. On the other hand, large focused projects like this are arguably harder to crowdfund from a management perspective.

- The governments is richer than Musk. Taxation brings in more money, and is a much fairer way to contribute to these problems.

- the government is more empowered to deal with social issues. There are some things a private corp/citizen cannot do, at least without government approval anyway. The issues being tackled here are mainly engineering, that is "free" to solve. The items that they would "better" to fix are highly political, with a heavy side of "damned if you do, damned if you don't".

- throwing money at something can make it worse. A pipedream has no metrics that could prove this, so they can always be optimistic. When a "clothe the poor" drive kills local tailoring businesses, for example.

- Billionaires pay taxes, usually more than most (generally, though they have more leverage to bargain for lower taxes. unfair? sure, but that's global free trade gets you). What remains is income - why should they fix the problems government could, but won't?

- A major component of this is envy/belittling effort (Musk looks too happy in PR pics, so he's "playing around") or belittling the goal (spaceflight is useless) - i.e. grievance from the ignorant. There are a bajillion "useless" pastimes and occupations relative to some rando's pet social cause, yet billionaires are easy individual targets when everyone is equally to blame - at least Musk probably works hard.
This stems from mixing "potential" and "current" worth of the idea.
Except if it has changed in the last 4 years I disagree, security is nowhere near what they make you go through for flying. It's not even at the level needed to take the Eurostar.
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I've actually always found it surprising how much _trouble_ China seems to have with this: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china...

~Everywhere has some form of eminent domain available for infrastructure projects; China does not seem to be notably effective in using it.

Also, this article is about a train. Like an actual train, not a train line. While a couple of somewhat slower maglev lines exist in China, this article isn't about them.
That's my understanding as well (although I have no idea what his opinion on "external reality" would be - probably that we can't test any theories about it as opposed to the world of human perception, so it isn't a useful idea).

I think the way some philosophers tend to phrase it is that we develop mathematics as a common language which we agree to use to communicate our theories, which we can attempt to verify via perception. Our choice of axioms etc is pretty free, but we tend to pick the ones which are both minimal and most useful for communication and making verifiable predictions.

I think that where the positivists and Quine differ is that the positivists say that once you have chosen axioms, you can make purely analytic statements, whose truth (within that system), only depends on reasoning according to those axioms, as opposed to statements whose truth does depend on our perceptions. Quine disagrees either that this is a useful distinction or that there is any difference at all, I'm not sure.
I don't think people should look at this based on current law, but what is right.

Copyright was established (much) after the printing press made copying so easy.

We now need protection against machine learning (learnright?) because the only way to not work for Microsoft for free now is to not release your source code... so not open source. Remember when people said that Microsoft changed its mind on open source?
I watched the launch live. Inspirational to say the least. I am also glad the 82 year old Wally got to experience this. It may seem like just a quick launch and return, but this event is a milestone.
And seems the HN people’s socialist party downvoted and flagged this story off the front page.
Yes, this is at the core of what we do - taking a document with 2000 sentences like an annual report and distilling it down to the 20-30 sentences that actually matter. We do have plans to process S-1 filings, and we are currently working on building abstractive summarization capabilities.
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Yeah, I guess the tension between pen/paper and concrete computer programming is elastic, somehow it depends on the person's willingness to have them growing or static.

I appreciate more about some theory when I've programmed mechanically for a while. And I also found writing some code to be relieving when I drank too much theoretical kool-aid.
Oh, didn't realise. Sorry about that.

Ironically, I'm the same way with "PostgreSQL". There used to be _so_ many weird mis-spellings of it. eg "postGreSQL" seemed to be popular for some unknown reason
It does? I'll admit it has been a few years, but I don't recall any security of note when I visited.
yea definitely, it will be super interesting to here the "why" behind their selections. Is it because they know its a big crowd pleaser, or do they like the piece for personal reasons. That will be fun to know.
That is very true. I’m interested to see how many will use that as a way to redirect responsibility away from the decisions that they made, and just saying hey it was not my fault. It will be difficult to tell who was groomed and who is just trying to minimize their own responsibility.
That's 2 hours at 600 km/h. A flight would take longer, because of security check, getting to-from airport, waiting for luggage, etc. Also, being on a plane sucks, in my personal opinion. If a train ride was 6 hours, and a plane ride 4, I'd take the train. If it were ~8 and 4, that's where I'd start considering taking a plane.

I'd love overnight trains to come back to Europe.
On the contrary, every study I know of shows substantial bias towards the corporate side in these sorts of disputes. That's why they're attractive to the corporation in the first place. This link explains how even a "fair" system (arbitrator chosen from a random list) is gamed:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-binding-arbitratio...

It's simple. The optimum situation from Amazon's point of view is a system that gives almost enough justice to avoid public outcry, and no more. The most outrageous cases should get paid a modest amount, average cases should get paid a tiny amount, and no stretch cases should get paid. Amazon anticipated that by paying for the arbitration process, they'd end up with a set of pro-Amazon arbitrators and that, in itself, would keep the number of cases filed to a minimum. What they didn't anticipate was enough people angry enough to file cases even in a biased system just to mess with the company.
The same principle applies to patents. Ideas are worthless, but execution is everything. Patents prevent other people from executing on an idea, meaning you are stuck with an obnoxious patent troll controlling the idea forever. We need to abolish patents.
Our product has two very distinct outputs 1) red flags and 2) a risk score. Our primary value-add is the red flags which are a qualitative input into an analysts process. We find the information you need to see without having to spend 3 hours reading nonsense. The two components get tested very differently. The red flags explain (sort of) the risk scores but not in a truly explainable fashion. The risk scores are optimized for precision and approximately 1 in 3 companies with a "fraud" score will end up with an SEC investigation or equivalent.

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I really hate the framing of ideas as worthless, because they're usually inextricably tangled with the creator's enthusiasm. The article acknowledges this at the end, but it's kinder to go straight to talking about how they plan to execute it. You don't need to call an idea worthless to the face of the person who came up with it, since their passion isn't worthless and they may not distinguish between the idea and their attachment to it.
These suborbitals flights to space require 20% of the velocity and 2-3% of the energy of an orbital flight.
Designers have gotten really carried away. This stuff looks nice when you click through it in Figma, because it's a slideshow. But when it's interactive it's a pain in the butt.

If you move through the page really slowly it sort of works, but real people in the real world scroll fast to scan the content of the page, and this page is a disaster to scan.
Also by building dedicated express and high speed train lines (such as we're doing in the UK with HS2) you enable the stopping services to be far more efficient and frequent, which means more people can use them.
This isn't actually that true. Yes, China is pretty efficient at getting people to move out, but there were many projects that had to be built around people that refused to move out. The laws may have changed since then, though.
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Yup, and except for a sleeker design, the two trains look pretty similar to me...
Journalists today are such hacks. The whole "So and so is saying.... How would you like to respond?" Is so weak.

As a journalist, do your research. If you have a question, ask YOUR question.
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>> We’ll split the credit 50/50.

More like 95/5 in their favor… :/
one can see this on twitch, as well. A couple of years ago the least tame streamers were working out or doing "Let's Dance" - but since January of this year the number of people in "hot tubs" and bikinis has gone up exponentially.

The primary issue (and one i have with it even if i am assuredly not a prude) is that Twitch is aimed at people under 20, their largest self-reported demographic is ages 13-19. Twitch (and let's be honest here, this is Amazon we're talking about) recently banned the top two female streamers for "showing hips in a suggestive way" or whatever. Both of these women have OF pages prominently advertised as well. Both are back now, and there's no indication that they've changed their overall model / operation on Twitch.

I imagine that Twitch telling the 4,000,000 'followers' to these two streamers that they didn't want their money anymore probably backfired. My understanding is that money transacted through amazon for twitch is split in two - that is, the streamer gets $2.50 for every subscription, Amazon gets the other $2.50. If the conversion for those 4 million followers is 1% subscriptions, Twitch taking a hit of $200,000 a month might seem insignificant, but that's just the conversion for those two streamers - not the overall loss of subscriptions by annoying 4 million people!
I was always under the impression a video with more comments does better in YouTube's algorithms, so those schemes seemed more about pumping up the comment count rather than attempting to artificially engage people.
Interesting. Potentially? How do we get in touch?
You're describing Brain Crack :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8
If one is thinking about these experiences as "right" or "wrong", they have certainly failed.

Uncomfortable, sure. Experiencing the dark night of the soul is not meant to be comfy. It can be rewarding though. Sometimes it is merely insight into our physical and psychological make up though.
I don't care what kind of adventures one gets into but if you start getting extreme with them, you're eventually going to experience some really sketchy, uncomfortable, and even life-threatening situations.
I would assume that ~all significant cities in China already have a train station or two...
They are not protecting you from bad thoughts. They are protecting themselves from lawsuits.
Moderating all this content is not free. If google was not under risk of losing money by not doing this, they would have done nothing.
Actually, 2.0.1 is already out with a small fix. But great news altogether, especially because Node 12+ (I use 14) makes for a more stable runtime.
I live in the UK, and I don't think energy has anything to do with it. We're producing less electricity because we're consuming less electrcity, which is mostly due to more energy efficient appliances and decreasing industrial usage isn't impacting lifestyles.

If you want to point to something, I'd look towards massively inflated house prices (almost 10x over 30 years in some places), and stagnating real wages.
> You might be afraid of someone stealing your idea. Don’t be. Remember, ideas are an abundant commodity–it’s time that is scarce

I wish more people understood this! 2/3 of the time someone asks me to hear their idea they want me to sign an NDA first.

As though I have time to build a dating app that matches people based on their favorite color!

But seriously, I think people would be surprised how much two ideas can diverge based on execution and in most circumstances sharing your idea is very low risk.
You can A/B test. Company A awards your firm wins in 50% of your arbitration cases. Company B awards you wins in 65% of your arbitration cases. Which contract should you renew next year?
I've started a job recently where device control using C# seems to be a big part, but was not aware of that during the interview process and I'm now looking to learn more. Are there any keywords, topics, books, etc. that you would recommended I search for with regards to device control? Thank you.
> The answer to my question heavily depends on how the electricity mix looks like.

Yes, but the electricity mix will continue to move towards more renewables. Air travel will continue to use fossil fuels.
How’s the petition coming along for Bezos to not return to earth?
Ahh, interesting. That may be why too!
It would be wayyyy faster than a plane Atlanta to Dallas. It would be a 2h30 minute journey from getting into the train station to leaving the train station. Compare that to the 3-4 hours it would take from getting into the airport to leaving the airport (with 2h10 flight).
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I wouldnt call it falling into a trap cause for most people Loss Aversion is pretty hardcoded behavior - https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/loss-aversion/ and there are a whole bunch of market forces that take advantage of it.
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> Why is it called Node-RED? The name was a light-hearted play on words sounding like 'Code Red'. It stuck and was a great improvement on whatever it was called in the first few days. The 'Node' part reflects both the flow/node programming model as well as the underlying Node.JS runtime. We never did come to a conclusion on what the 'RED' part stands for. "Rapid Event Developer" was one suggestion, but we've never felt compelled to formalise anything. We stick with 'Node-RED'.
What I found particularly interesting is how adverse this is to todays tech patents.

(Compare this recent EEVblog video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdRVtka0Jg)
Is there any more information available on which campaign was shut down or why they did it? Perhaps pre-settlement discussions on organizing the swarm? I'm really curious as to the backstory.
There are certainly rescue vehicles staged nearby. The potential landing area is actually pretty large (since it's coming down under parachutes and will be pushed by the wind), so it wouldn't be possible to preposition them exactly where the capsule is going to land. The rescue vehicles would have been rolled if they were needed.
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Lots of money is being burned to keep the platforms alive that still power the entire internet for strange reasons? Sure...
Yes, that gels with what I was saying - use e2e tests for "big picture" assurance that the system is correct. Use unit tests for super fain grained assurance of individual business rules, etc. All of the legacy projects I've ever inherited have lacked unit tests, and are theoretically functioning correctly, so the e2e tests make sense there.
Probably not if you factor in long term operating and maintenance costs.
But everyone loves FAANG

Where would you want to work?
Ya agreed, it is going to take some time but a good place to aim for :)

I'd like to see a shared believe that we are all human beings who are not that different in the grand scheme of things. And that everyone is worth a base level of respect. That seems like a good place to aim for.

And... still thinking on this one... but I think that the quickest way to lose that base level of respect is if you are someone who advocates that someone else is not worthy of that base level of respect. I am blown away by how many people define themselves by who they hate/dislike/don't-understand, and somehow that becomes a rally cry for their identity. It is a weird mentality.

The conflict between being in society and an individual is a hard one. I always like to imagine a global system where you opt into a legal system / social contract of your choice. I'll take Shite law, or I'll take the American society contract, or I'll take Chinese CCP contract, or Nordic contract....
Maybe a $100MM X-Prize for carbon removal?

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
Does your model flag NKLA? Nikola Motors, ostensibly a fuel cell vehicle company, famously reported $36,000 in "solar revenue" (they got a contract to put solar panels on someone's house) while simultaneously having a market cap of over $4 billion.

If so, can you comment on what your model considers red flags in Nikola's SEC filings?

https://hindenburgresearch.com/nikola/

https://sec.report/Document/0001731289-20-000012/
Probably...

It's named after Alan Shepard, the first US astronaut to fly in space.
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This is incredibly naïve. Social norms change, often quite quickly and in unexpected ways. You could have a near future where posting nudes is 100% normal, then 10 years after that it becomes quite taboo again. The problem is that the internet never forgets.

The harm caused is that an action you take that is socially normative, legal, and accepted today, may not be in the future, and if that action is documented online, it will inevitably be judged by an ever-changing set of standards and morals as time marches on.
And the evidence of ethnic cleansing is what exactly ?
And a link to me calling Modi a monster please.
Your comment reminded me of this video illustrating the travelling salesman algorithm on a US map (I love the music):

https://youtu.be/SC5CX8drAtU
> Patents prevent other people from executing on an idea, meaning you are stuck with an obnoxious patent troll controlling the idea forever.

Better than an obnoxious oligarch controlling all ideas forever, which could happen if you completely abolish patents. Do you have any more nuanced (i.e. realistic) suggestions for reform?
Yeah, I don't trust these startups handling my money. Not only that, but the bank that they have doing back-end services for them, Sutton Bank, seems like a tiny local bank. Guaranteed their own back-end services aren't in-house.

Just no all around to this product.
I guess at some point, starting a business will be equivalent to downloading the square business app.
In the West we've just had a year and a half of thinking like this though. Perhaps in some cases it's okay to care less about what individuals and businesses want if there is a clear societal good. I'm a property owner and I strongly believe in property rights, but the right (and legitimacy) of an individual owning and occupying land for their own personal interests when land is limited commodity which we all need access to is questionable to me.

Just saying because it sounds like you're framing this in a negative way, but I'm not sure it is. IMO the West probably respects the right an individual has to land a little too much.
Hum... Since the Apple trend is much more recent, the KDE developers should be very flattered.

Anyway, the Keverything is a copy of the Xeverything, and both are for practical reasons since they point to the requirements to run the software.
That is indeed the basic design of a maglev train. If you look closely, you will see that almost every maglev train "hugs" the tracks from above and below. This is necessary to prevent the train from derailing and everyone on board from dying. Some use different means of not derailling but surrounding the rail is the simplest.
So your don't feel sad about things you can't change, like when a loved one dies?

I tend to find that experiencing negative emotions like sadness heightens my later perception of positive emotions like gratitude.