skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, have the Ł letter in my name, and yes, it is a sick joke that so many things even in a supposedly modern systems make an assumption that the world runs on ASCII.

In the case of the Windows operating system, the worst fact is that every single part of it behaves differently. Some parts display the path with a wrong encoding, but handle it correctly. A third-party app can display it correctly, but fails while trying to access any file. From what I remember, even the built-in PATH variable editor/manager goes through some arcane steps to display the letters in a wrong way, but getting them to work sometimes.

I can only imagine how much more pain it is for someone using any of the less widely-used writing systems or those with more advanced features compared to ASCII (Hebrew’s RTL, Arabic scripts mid- and final forms, etcetera).
You're using corporatism to argue against capitalism. They're not the same thing.
The analogy is that the hardware store represents framework, and the hammer represents a piece of functionality the framework is supposed to provide.

The point is that frameworks of the era rarely provided a simple, direct API for performing some task. Rather, there was often a whole bunch of "Abstract Factory Factory" patterns, which would require a bunch of ceremony before you actually had and object that did the work you needed to do.
I like using the web to create the web … & yes, always keeping an eye towards us continuing to make it the
“we”b ;-)
The book "1491" describes the Americas before Columbus, and is very interesting. In particular, the population density was much higher than generally realized.
Considering a port is really useful for exploitation, I wouldn't be surprised if the ports in some of those countries are working quite efficiently.
Ask HN: How do I effectively convey my skills that a degree doesn't reflect?
Hey HN,

I'm a senior at a big state university, studying Political Science with a minor in Computer Programming.

Through a series of obtuse events, I want to work as a software engineer, but have had trouble getting interviews due to my degree situation. My university only allows a certain number of CS matriculation per class, and I decided to pursue it after my window closed.

I have 2 internships under my belt doing SWE for large tech companies (not FAANG, fwiw), but that hasn't helped me nearly as much as I had hoped. I'm also the vice-president of our hacking club and do a fair amount of programming on my own time.

Any advice would be welcome, especially for crafting an elevator pitch for my degree situation, which seems to be the major roadblock for me at this time.
you know...like chinese is hard. And algebra is hard. Put them both together, it's double hard.
I briefly had an M1 Macbook Air and the thing I hated the most about it was the lack of Magsafe. I returned it (needed more RAM) and was overjoyed they brought Magsafe back with these and am looking forward to having it on my new 16"
You can also still charge through USB C if you don't care for Magsafe.
That issue is solved by not restricting enforcement to police.
Seems a bit sensational to complain about the TPM 2.0 requirement for a game on Windows 11 when it is in fact a requirement to run Windows 11.
It such a shame that Safari does not support SVG favicons. It's the only major browser which doesn't: https://caniuse.com/link-icon-svg

All current browsers support PNG.
I loved Empire Deluxe so much (by Baldwin & Bright) -- my favorite in the series -- that I once wrote my own private clone. in C and OpenGL. even drew all the bitmap icons and tile graphics myself. went nuts adding extra unit types. now gathering dust on a "disk" somewhere. Tell myself some rainy day I'll resurrect it...
I love it! Great job MSFT.
China could always shoot down some satellites if Starlink allowed access in China without approval. Yes, there are 1000's of Starlink satellites, but I doubt SpaceX wants to get into this kind of a fight.
Hello! Came here just to say thank you for my happy professional childhood. I used to closely follow D development since DMD was 0.48. It introduced me to some basic concepts: module system, cow, unit tests, invariant checks, which were somewhat foreign to C++ devs at the time.

I remember how all the mailing list waited for 1.0 finally after 0.99 and… oooow… “announcing DMD 0.100” :)

I was 17 at my first job ever, it was in gamedev, and I promised everyone that D would be the next thing after that clunky C++ in two (maybe three) years. That’s how we should make games \m/

Sadly, it didn’t come to that extent (marketing?). But I am glad to visit dlang.org from time to time and see it evolve, and Walter Bright still rocks, 20 years after.
R/highqualitygifs always references meta
yes! what can we do to make this happen?

anyone from @google that can guide us in banning pinterest from google image search results?
As much as IQ tests want to say they test raw intelligence, education plays a major role in how well you score. And we are better educated as a society than we were 100 years ago.
"Gifted programs" are not objectively perfect tests of gifted-ness. They select for some fairly specific mix of traits/skills that a school district has chosen to call "gifted"; then, if you don't pass this arbitrary test, well then you are considered "not gifted."

But this is wrong wrong wrong, so wrong that it's almost a trivial logical fallacy: just because most dogs have 4 legs, doesn't mean that all 4-legged animals are dogs, nor that a dog with 3 legs stops being a dog. Testing for "dog-ness" by counting 4 legs, is wrong. Likewise, just because a school district designs an arbitrary test of "gifted-ness", doesn't mean that all children who pass it are gifted, nor that children who don't pass it have no gifts. These tests cannot possibly capture the full range of human gifts.

You are arguing a strawman that the person you replied to never stated. Yes exceptional people exist, this was never under debate and that poster did not claim otherwise. But "gifted" programs do not perfectly identify all exceptional people across all dimensions of exceptionality with universal perfect accuracy. Replacing "gifted" programs with accelerated learning programs could achieve the same goal of offering advanced learning for SOME exceptional students, without going through the fundamentally flawed and oversimplified binary sorting process that inaccurately labels all students as either "gifted" or "not gifted".
I still didn't get their example about the 100Gb spaceship model - max RAM supported is 64Gb...
With AES widely available in free code, adding export controls today wouldn't seem to do much damage to symmetric crypto at least.

Maybe post-quantum schemes could be affected, but it's only a question of time until people agree on a standard, and if that one gets exported and doesn't get broken, controlling crypto exports won't prevent anyone from using secure ciphers.
I used a system where the maximum length on the "new password" field in the change password form was longer than the password field in the login form.

The symptom was that I could login if I used my password manager browser plugin, but not if I pasted it from my password manager.
We know that this kind of mentality will never apply to music performance. Merit is all in that department.

For those who interested who might not know about it, the 18th Chopin Competition is being held in Warsaw. Final result will be announced later this evening CET. Recordings on the site and on YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oU9R-Idzl4

https://chopin2020.pl/en/
why don't we teach some of the same things to everybody? it would do wonders if a gifted-like education was given to every student at a young age. especially the critical thinking and creativity parts. seems like everybody can grok that. instead of rote memorization of mundane stuff that bores children, a less defined education might inspire kids to grow, more than the generic education they're given. this is coming from somebody whose mother was a gifted educator and grew up in public schools.
It would certainly be an interesting game because if there is one thing the Jesuits are infamous for it’s their love for intrigues. They are often criticised for their use of casuistry. In english jesuitic can mean relating to the Jesuit order but also sophistic and contrived and even cunning and deceitful. François-Xavier d'Entrecolles, another Jesuit priest who went to China in the 18th century, is famous for stealing the secrets of porcelain production therefore becoming one of the first industrial spy.
Thank you for the feedback, Zestyping. If you wouldn't mind, can you tell me more about what makes the text hard to read? Is it the size, font-face, or color (or a combination of these)?

Pro tip: If you aren't happy with the search results offered in Brave Search, and would prefer Google instead, perform the same search but with !g added to the end
Thanks for the help! And what do you prefer for deployment Vercel or Netlify?
Clearly there's a middle ground here. It doesn't have to be all one way or the other. Unions and corporations can both be corrupt and fall into malaise. There are examples enough to give anyone ammunition to make whatever point they want.
Can you cite one of these sources? The archeological record doesn't seem to show a large aboriginal population in Newfoundland around 1000 C.E.

I don't think the Beothuk, for example, were ever very numerous, certainly not as numerous as other aboriginal people in Labrador and Greenland at the time.

It wasn't just the Norse that had a hard time living in Newfoundland at the time. It wasn't very hospitable to any humans.
Outside of super simple examples like your sum, I've come across multiple codebases written in C/C++ that look exactly like that with shorthand variables and function names, and it makes approaching the codebase nigh impossible without already having knowledge about the codebase.
Isn't that what calculus (the math course) is?

I mean, I don't recall the exact recipe for most calculus operations, even though I spent hours in college learning them. But I do know that I can build a taylor series* to approximate certain functions, and that it will be pretty quick and have a bounded error.

* Use Wolfram Alpha
This is anecdotal, but in one place where _this actually happened_ (NYC) things didn't work out exactly that way. There are more complications than just "money isn't flowing in":

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...
So a billion people shouldn’t be able to voluntary give $1 to a person, for whatever reason?

Maybe we should put a limit on charity giving? Or do you have an official list of Authorized Ways to spend money?
Many do, by eventually finding and hiring the right person.

There are a lot of confounding variables and luck involved. I’ve met some frankly terribly antisocial founders that happened to get the perfect niche, I’ve met some that worked their asses off and were doing everything right but still failed due to terrible timing and a market crash, and everything in between.
To follow-up from your first question: What do you think explains the unequal distribution of outcomes WITHIN races in terms of school performance?
Thanks for the tip! Blindsight: bought.

I consider Greg Egan and Ian M. Banks as hard sci-fi authors, even though their work is wildly creative. If you haven't read their work, I highly recommend it.
It’s one transaction to settle any number of in-channel transactions. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to talk about 7 transactions per second because every one of them can represent a billion value exchanges.

It is infinitely more important to preserve stability of foundation than it is to experiment with new features. Bitcoin runs in its current form for more than a decade and that stability is worth a lot.
> In New York City, it is not a problem of spite.

Sounds like it is, actually. Fast-and-loose claims of "systemic racism", absent any kind of constructive proposal aimed at actually addressing perceived prejudicial attitudes, are just the politics of envy writ large.
Windows has been forbidding screenshots for a long while now. If I remember it correctly, Windows 7 already did that.
Any evidence of these? What are these same-classroom alternatives? How are these worse for ungifted students? How do they not assess intellectual ability? Many of the gifted programs I've heard of do IQ testing, which isn't a perfect metric but is at least trying to assess intellectual ability. In any case, that's an argument for a better measure of intellectual ability not eliminating gifted programs.

What is the shiny new alternative?
A problem with this is that when a website breaks in one browser, but works in another, I imagine most people's reaction would be to blame the browser. This leads to a kind of race-to-the-bottom for browser compatibility. See for example the history of User-Agent strings.
All good, but what about the lead leaching into the ground and water at outdoor ranges? Is there any requirement to test if e.g. you shoot on private property?

In Canada you could be licenced to shoot outdoors on your own property (e.g. PAL + non-restricted firearm), but not be allowed to use the area habitually, or repeatedly as that would make it a shooting range. It seems like having a shooting gallery or plinking spot with persistent targets would fail the test.
Some Lycoming engines run fine on the right unleaded fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#UL94_(formerly_94UL)
What GP is describing sounds like impostor syndrome, it's not uncommon. When I worked in education we were specifically working with primarily gifted students (it wasn't, strictly, a gifted program but access to it was limited and pretty much only went to the top students around the state, which largely corresponded with students in the gifted category). We spent a good bit of time talking about impostor syndrome and how to identify it to try and get help to students in need.

This isn't something that impacts every student, and most students won't come out and say that they feel this way, especially not to their peers. It's like depression or anxiety. People don't often come out and say, "I feel depressed and have constant negative thoughts and suffer from suicidal ideation." They keep it to themselves for fear of how they will be perceived if they admit they don't belong or feel that they don't belong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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SpaceX will make Elon Musk the first trillionaire
You won't install a closed source rootkit, but you will install a closed source self-updating binary blob?

That's a weird hill to die on, but it is, of course, your choice.
I do not think this has been in serious dispute in the last 50 years. This paper just puts a more precise date on the settlement in Newfoundland that was already well known.
Creating ways for multiple players to win in one given match seems like it could be a way to balance out this issue. For example my team winning, top scoring, having the highest number of kills, the highest KD, scoring the most meta-XP or completing an achievement could all be different win conditions for different players. For example in Team Fortress 2 my team could lose and I could be bottom of the scoreboard and still feel like I won after getting a couple market gardener kills.
Ah got what you mean. Yes you're right. I'll think about a solution for that. Maybe some setting for the user to choose either a 24-hour or 12-hour system. It'll be challenging with the letter though, but I'll give it a shot.
A fascinating writeup! It's a small thing, but I love the UI here for choosing images where the caption above the image tells you what you get if you click. Very user-friendly.
> "The Proble"

Typolice: I'm pretty sure you meant "The Probe"
You just need a dozen pro Trump pages on FB sharing the video to get those amount of dislikes

The 2 groups follow very different pages, and pro Trump are motivated to show their disapproval

In general people have no reason to share or like these videos, they're not very interesting, from any president or any country

Who the heck would be following, wasting time watching the full video, saying "this is really good", and like it? Not me
A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger, Launches 3/9lb sandwich
The dynamics is crystal clear. On the other hand, there are 4 billion Asians in Asia, and they are not sitting on their hands. We can handicap US education all day long, in the long run it's a sure way to lose the global talent competition. The consequences are also crystal clear: the winners get to design the next iPhone, the losers get to assemble said iPhone in sweatshops.
And what is also important is that there is no reason to remove the choice from parents
No centralized processors, all channels are permissionless and lightning nodes cannot monitor or censor any traffic.
“California” didn’t decide that. Bentonville, Arkansas did. This isn’t about Republican vs. Democrat, it’s about billionaires vs. everyone else.
Do you really believe port automation is at the stage where it can be fully automated with no port workers? Even at “automated” ports, I assure you there are still port workers to deal with anomalies. And yeah they should be paid more than $0.
I absolutely do not want VS Code to be an iOS or Android app, since that means giving up all the massive progress they have made towards fully open web-based development and bowing down to the gated App Store model. If that means a less than perfect experience on iOS devices then so be it. VS Code as it exists today wouldn't even be allowed in the App Store under existing rules.
For reasons mentioned below, my question was a bit of a facetious throwaway, I would have framed it more precisely had I taken a second or so longer to think about it. Anyway, the question should have been:

Is the total time taken for a neutron to fully complete its decay longer but still comparable to the time taken for the W- boson to decay into an electron and antineutrino or is the latter's decay time much, much shorter than the overall process? That is, is the following statement true or otherwise?

[time (total) for n0 → (p+) + (e-) + (-ve)] >> [time W- → (e-) + (-ve)]

...and if so, then do we know by how much; if not then what is it? Alternatively, if the Feynman diagram for neutron beta decay shown in the following link were to actual scale then what would the scale on the vertical (time) axis be? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_neutron_decay

I'm not really trying to be deliberately pedantic or dispute orthodoxy here but my question was in response to these and similar recent stories:

https://scitechdaily.com/zeptoseconds-new-world-record-in-sh...

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-tunnel-shows-particle...

If the info therein is all or in part factual, or if similar measurement methodologies were applicable to other particles, then the ballgame may change, hence the initial reason for my question (similarly so for my first/initial post).

The second (Quanta magazine) link was the subject of a HN story going on about a year ago and it generated many comments (they resolved nothing but many were interesting nonetheless); unfortunately the time for comments was up before discussion had finished (my last, rather prolix comment was still in draft and missed the deadline). In my opinion, controversial topics like this should sometimes be left open to give one time to dwell upon them.
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... and wrote an interesting technical article about it, that even someone like me, who doesn't do web development, enjoys reading. Definitely why I come to HN (no sarcasm, it is).
Good feedback, thanks!
It’s not surprising at all. If you assume naively that development rate of a novel disease is proportional to population, then the World, which had a 6:1 greater population would have 6 times as many communicable diseases. Similar argument if you base it off of land mass, number of wild animals, number of domesticated animals, etc.

(Actually, I do think the New World peoples were particularly prolific when it came to domesticating plants… they punched way above their population size in terms of number of today’s staple foods they domesticated… plus chocolate, vanilla, etc…)
It's sad that Americans are so bad at math that they couldn't figure out that 1/4 was smaller than 1/3.
This poster is arguing from the Labor Theory of Value. You can read about this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value, including many criticisms.

In my opinion the Labor Theory of Value is a tautology.
No. Keywords are ASCII everywhere (no, APL's are not words). Mixing English in keywords and non-English in identifiers feels odd.

Algol-68 supported localized sets of keywords; fortunately this language is gone.

You can #define non-ASCII stuff in modern C++. It's your best chance to "localize" a mainstream language.

Same would work for Clojure, but Lisp uses a lot of quirky abbreviations like `cdr` or `setq` that give awkward translations.
“It's neither inflation nor deflation.”

True, it is speculation.
Especially in Aztec cities
Something called universal sure passed rather quickly.
Elimination of the G&T program won't fix the underlying systemic racism that is causing the racial disparity you see.
MoltenVK is Vulkan's official translation layer to Metal, and doesn't have too much overhead. Combine with dxvk or d3vkd to translate from DirectX—DirectX before 12 is generally faster with DXVK that Windows' native support.
Well, I'd guess that most people here are not interested in a discussion that involves working backwards from an already chosen solution rather than figuring out what the solution is without any ideas being forbidden from the start. (myself included) Good luck!
Yup, the backend IR is shared between JVM, JS (beta) and Native. The new frontend IR, I realize on second thought, will come later[1] with the K2 compiler frontend.

The old Kotlin/JS compiler is definitely closer than the new one to what might be called transpiler.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/10/the-road-to-the-k2...
Yes! Though Sonda was the early 80’s no?

Sonda definitely had little oversight and no screenwriting, but it was very honest and well intentioned in that old school Polish-Socialist Politechnika Engineer sort of way. Definitely a breath of fresh air, even today. Makes one wonder if this was the same in other Socialist Republics or was unique to Poland.
Would "bring[ing] the tech industry innovation to hearing aids through natural progression of headphones technology" mean that hearing aids would now need to be coupled to a smart device?

If so, then hard-of-hearing people who work in secure areas where they can't bring their phones will be very unhappy...
Linden Lab uses the term "buy" in promotional material, but it's really software as a service, hosted at AWS-West-2, and there's an ongoing monthly charge.

Second Life Main Grid size as of 17 Oct 2021 is 1786.64 square kilometers.[1] The area of Greater London is 1,572 square kilometers.[2] The number of regions changes slightly from day to day, but not by much.

[1] http://gridsurvey.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London
That said, x86_64 images that require QEMU are much buggier than pure arm64 images. Terraform's x86_64 image, for example, will run into random network hangups that the ARM image doesn't experience. It was bad enough for me to maintain my own set of arm64 Terraform images.
Correct. And after getting that attention they didn’t get funded. Because Michael was likely right and the world doesn’t need yet another urban exploration app. It seems to me that this creates a fun blog post and some long term personal growth but shouting about your niece doesn’t seem like the winning strategy when it comes to VC funding.
I also went through a gifted program. It was at one of the most poorly funded schools, and I had to take a 1.5 hour bus ride to get there. It was definitely not the most convenient option, and it was not the best school available by far.