skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've previously written a model that generates sets of non-transitive dice using MiniZinc. It can be seen in this Gist: https://gist.github.com/zayenz/4fa2d5ca8f96f7ce939275be25bdd...
Why? What are the odds of me going to jail if I violate an open-source license in a small company? I think we are past societal norms at this point, and definitely post-shame.

This is relevant because we are talking about Trump, who I see as a termite of civilization, ignoring un-enforced rules and norms. "Who is going to stop me?"
It can still do that. Write a small comment before writing CSS and see it go!
FDA banned OTC NAC sales after it found out it might help with COVID [1]. Can't have that. And yeah, I know you're suggesting it for something else, but it's hard to get now.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649937/
I build a Hadoop cluster with 5 Raspberry Pi-2B in 2015.

It works, but the ratio of power consumption to compute performance was worse compared to using a standard PC.

edit: with the huge increase in performance, Pi-4 models may now be competitive.
I miss the images before and after
Honestly, only kernel updates should require host restarts. Linux and BSD have had this for ages. Maybe have a flag that security updates use to flag any process using a vulnerable DLL as needing an eventual restart, and then have an administrative setting for restarting vulnerable processes after a certain period of time, at a convenient hour.
This is why Taiwan is still at great risk of being invaded by the cpp. Even when the US says it will offer "protection".
How can evolution know it has advantage. Do you see Human beings's actions or predicts?
And how can evolution know how it will change genetic code?
Unfortunately this (and linked) article only represents Japanese issues. If you blindly apply these suggestions Chinese or Korean users may have issues. I'll list Korean issues below primarily because I'm Korean, but you may want to interview actual CJK users (one of each, not a single user) for testing.

> Line breaking rules

This should link to W3C Requirements for CJK Text Layout [1]. The Wikipedia article alone doesn't fully describe the complexity of CJK typography.

CJK languages are common in that they all have classes of punctuations that can't be separated by a newline. But there is one more thing to consider for Korean: both word-based breaking and character-based breaking is possible depending on the context. The general rule is to use word-based breaking for larger texts and character-based breaking for smaller texts, but there is no clear threshold so you really want to consult Korean users for testing.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/clreq/ (Chinese), https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/ (Japanese), https://www.w3.org/TR/klreq/ (Korean)

> Messaging Apps: Do not directly hook to the Enter key to submit messages

This advice is also problematic. In pretty much all Japanese and most Chinese IMEs they should go through candidate windows so pressing Enter should not submit messages, but in some Chinese and virtually all Korean IMEs there is no automatic candidate window and pressing Enter should submit messages.

In the ideal world detecting a newline as suggested by the article should have solved this issue, but that got complicated by clueless pan-CJK IME implementations. They generally assume candidate windows even for Korean, so they do not commit texts on Enter and that's very inconvenient for Korean users. Therefore it is rather recommended to detect a newline by default, but also have an option to submit messages on Enter.
Totally agree. Co-pilot is just stressing more our roles as code reviewers. It’s not even a new idea - people working in program synthesis have done this for a while now. I’ve written about this a couple of years ago: https://medium.com/@marceloabsousa/the-software-shift-toward...
Chrysanthemum Throne newlyweds lambaste Japanese fake news before fleeing to US
https://www.thedailybeast.com/princess-mako-torches-japans-media-in-furious-statement-hours-after-marrying-commoner-sweetheart?source=articles&via=rss

Daily Beast title: Princess Unleashes on Japan’s Media in Furious Statement Hours After Marrying Commoner Sweetheart
But the poachers would rather breed for elephants with tusks, that's the whole point of their poaching after all.

I feel like I don't really know enough about the specifics of natural selection or evolution to have a strong opinion on this.

The poaching is definitely not natural, so it feels like this is not natural selection.

On the other hand, no one is deliberately breeding for this in any way, it's purely a side effect of these circumstances, which does feel more natural.

You could just view the poachers as an environmental hazard to tusked elephants, in which case this would be a perfect example of natural selection.
Tort law is one thing. The US Code is another.
How language shapes gender
What style encoding does it use?
> I've been looking for a good source, but not for something that requires serious commitment.

What are you looking to do in particular? You can easily host a simple JS script that serves raster tiles.

Take a look at http://maps.stamen.com. The OSM wiki also has a lot of good advice https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiles.

> The last quote raises questions for me: How much investment in software and time is that?

Not much at all as long as you're just interested in hosting a script that serves a community tile set. You can make it more interactive by using Leaflet.js. Also look at https://github.com/visgl/deck.gl.

It gets a lot more complicated once you start creating your own tile sets, making interactive applications, or just in general working with large amounts of spatial data.

Source: I work in academia and use a fair amount of ESA satellite data for social research.
I am not sarcastic. I don't like Unicode.
Well, because it's not a question.
I have a new PC with a NVMe drive and Windows 10. Everything is fast on it, but a ~300MB monthly Windows update can easily take 2-3 minutes, plus a reboot.
Usually a software install of this size would take no more than 20 seconds.

This has been my experience with Windows updates for the last 10 years or so, on different PCs and different Windows versions. It's just slow (and it's definitely the installation phase, not the downloading).
Aren't the modern text display APIs of the most popular OSes all Unicode-based now? It seems likely that they will convert to Unicode when told to display a string in a different codepage and replace the locale info with the default Unicode behavior (of basing it on the user locale)
The reason why is that Unicode was originally 16-bit, and there was no way they could fit everything into 16 bits without CJK unification. Of course later it turned out there was no way they could fit everything into 16 bits anyway, and so they were forced to expand it, and so we now both have a larger Unicode (with all the messes that's caused) but also still have CJK unification...
Yes, that's really all to it. Compute the delta from the current revision to the base and keep that delta on the user's computer.

It seems that because they haven't done that until now (keeping the delta to the base locally) they distributed these same otherwise locally computable deltas to every Windows computer in the world with every update!

If I understood it correctly they patented that "approach" and wrote this much (or more) to make it appear more clever and worth of a patent?

"1] The approach described above was filed on 03/12/2021 as U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/160,284 “REVERSE UPDATE DATA GENERATION”"
Best practices to make switching cloud providers less painful
>Might be taken the wrong way.

My wife might be offended if I implied being her humble and obedient servant was only an etc.
Agree. Though you wouldn’t be able to read comments on hackernews.
as i said i think that Julia is an exciting project in the scientific computing space. my statements were not directed against julia or any other language. i just happen to think that common lisp also has great potential for scientific computing, one that can appeal to scientists who want to be software engineers also. for those that just want to crunch numbers right now python is a first reference then julia, imho. however, i sincerely hope that julia overtakes python

having the ability to be self hosted is definitely not ideological. [* here is a hypothetical question that can be asked: would a julia programmer be more powerful if llvm was written in julia? i think the answer is clear that they would be *]

common lisp is a language specification. it does not have an official implementation, although by far the most popular one is sbcl. in fact there is an implementation CLASP[0] that is hosted on llvm

[0] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp

[*...*] enclosed part added to the response subsequently to initial posting
I suppose there are many examples like this. Once I've copied a piece of code from SO but IntellijIDEA was warning me that the semicolon at the end of the line is not correct.

Upon further investigation(I think IntelljIDEA reported Unicode value) I've found out that the 'semicolon' I copied is a Greek character that looks exactly like semicolon.

I wonder how people on vim/emacs deal with situation like this.
> how about we reduce the need for so much international shipping in the first place

While there are a lot of negative aspects of international shipping, one major benefit of interinternational economic integration is that it serves as a deterrent to physical warfare.
The Han unification was done because at that time they hoped that the size of Unicode characters will be limited to 16 bits.

Separate sets of Han characters cannot be encoded in the 16-bit space, but they could have been easily encoded in the current 32-bit space.

Nevertheless, I have never found this to be a problem in practice, because I have always taken care to have good separate typefaces for Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

In documents that I create or modify, I apply styles with the appropriate typeface.

The only possible problems are with Web pages, but the good browsers allow you to configure typefaces for each language and I always configure the correct typefaces.

If the Web page does not specify correctly the language, it might be displayed wrongly, but this is only one of the many stupid things that can be done by a Web page designer that can make that page look ugly when rendered on other computers.
File System with metadata in your database ?
I notice them because I intentionally open Windows Update and install the available ones.
Curious to see almost no maintainers, and very little empathy in the 2018 comments.

Hopefully that'll change in this posting.
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Stroth cobber, this too bloody gud!
Electrical vehicle charging in the city: problems and possible solutions
> Aren’t CNN, FoxNews etc. doing the same? Society could use some whistleblowers from those companies as well ;)

Alex Jones whistleblower: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/magazine/alex-jones-infow...

The worst of it is that there's a toxic cycle between the social media companies and the old media companies, especially talk radio. The old media companies produce outrage articles which circulate on social media to stir the culture war, producing fodder for more outrage articles.

There's no solution to the hate speech and incitement to violence problem that doesn't involve banning some conservative pundits, so this goes round and round.

(Have a look at which traditional media sources have been cited in mass shooter manifestoes, for example)
Why not both? Vaccination isn't a silver bullet.
It could kind of work. I'm looking into Apache Tika to parse text from document and Apache Lucene to index contents for full text search support.
Priscilla Zuckerberg-Chan launders couples' image, defends “Thoughtful” Mark
https://nypost.com/2021/10/27/mark-zuckerbergs-wife-tries-to-clean-up-his-image-good-luck-with-that/

NY Post title: Mark Zuckerberg’s wife tries to clean up his image — good luck with that
Parent's comment will not cease to amaze me: We are going through a pandemic that has cost more lives in the US than the Spanish flu (absolute numbers) and there are still folks running around proclaiming that

> Remember - COVID is a mild disease for the vast majority.

If you had told me in 2019 that we will experience something like it in our lifetime I would not have believed you.
Which is why the current US-Russia antagonism is an anachronism, facilitated by anachronistic leadership, especially, but not only, in Russia. The fall of Communism/Warsaw Pact should have led to a great rapprochement between the two northern hemisphere powers.
They could have had it, yet the Windows team with their C++/COM über alles, as the article mentions regarding Longhorn, they have an anti-NET agenda so instead of working for the good of the platform, it was for their own stuff.

Well now they lost even those of us that were hard advocates for the platform reboot moving away from Win32.
It's a really complicated issue, because whether the character is different or not is debatable. In English writing, we consider a serif A to be the same character as a sans-serif A, even though the glyph is obviously different, and neither do we distinguish between a "French" A and a "German" A.

So what do we do with 国 and 國? The first of those is always used in simplified Chinese and usually in Japanese, while the second is used in traditional Chinese and sometimes in Japanese (eg. names). Is this one, two or three characters?

More on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
thats true, i just kept meeting personal who told me otherwise, they weren't conspiracy theorist either, this was before all that started. i actually dated one nurse for a bit she was super bored at work half the time. not saying thats a bad thing, i just would watch tv, hear one thing and then experience something entirely different but you've been around it and saw something different so i just might have been there during weird times or something idk
How the rich are driving climate change
The rust compiler warns when it encounters confusable symbols like that. Not sure about other languages.
As someone who does home dev on Linux, used to use Windows at work and for the past 2 years has used MacOS at work I honestly don't see the problems that people describe.

I can only assume that they have literally bought hardware with weird cheaped out Chinese unsupported chips and then complain that an OS that was never claimed to be supported, isn't supported.

The dev work on Linux has been much simpler to set up, especially since both Mac and Windows spend their time installing extra stuff to run Linux to run all the dev tools in the background anyway.
From my reading of where neuroscience is at the moment, it is a tenable hypothesis that the posterior neocortex (a major functional component of human cognition) is essentially a statistical inference machine.

There are a number of facts suggestive of this viewpoint:

For one, the apparent generality of the algorithms, resulting in a great deal of neuroplasticity and data-agnosticism. For example, you can wire visual input into auditory cortex and that auditory cortex will learn to see. [1]

For two, the similarity of Gabor filters learned automatically by statistical inference algorithms and the response properties of visual neurons. [2]

For three, the fantastic success, relative to other techniques at least, of such algorithms on natural language tasks such as machine translation.

Even its deficits are suggestive, such as the fact that the neocortex, like most statistical inference algorithms, can't easily do one-shot learning — for that you need a hippocampus.

Present-day machines obviously lack many abilities which humans have. Until we have a fully-functional AGI, it's hard to know for sure that there isn't a major missing piece which is nothing like the algorithms now under development. However, I'm not aware of any other algorithmic hypotheses of how the mind works which seem to so naturally fit the neuroscientific facts.

[1] Sur et al (1988). Experimentally Induced Visual Projections into Auditory Thalamus and Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.2462279

[2] Olshausen and Field (1996). Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images. https://doi.org/10.1038/381607a0
Seem like the solution is simple: pay truck drivers to do the work that needs to be done.
If you move money from one stock market position to an other do you realize your gains? If not, then said investors can simply dump their gains into small new companies that are on the stock market. (Plus see SPACs.)
Did you just compare crystal meth with SSRIs?
As someone not familiar with this project, and looking at the landing page, I have no idea what this does. I understand it has something to do with telemetry, but for what? And what would it help me with? How would I use it.

I see a telescope. Is it space related? Telemetry of satellites?

Just my two cents as someone not familiar with the project, and has no idea how to use it or how it would solve a problem I have.
> hardware support

Did you buy Windows hardware that doesn't support Linux and then grumble that it doesn't support Linux?
There are many restrictions on consumer choice when it comes to vehicle safety.
While I'll agree that it's pronounceable, is JAMAA a word?
Wonder how Delta RPMs do this, I am a Fedora user.

This must be how delta rpms work right? Because why would they contain backwards data? They only contain new data, and the diff between old and new data.
Full-width characters are relics from multiple legacy character sets. For example JIS X 0208, the primary Japanese two-byte character set, has a set of alphanumeric characters in the row 0x23, but their widths are not specified and it is totally possible to map them into half-width characters when no other character sets are in use. However it is most commonly paired with JIS X 0201 which is a single-byte character set with their own alphanumeric characters, so anything from JIS X 0201 is made half width and anything from JIS X 0208 is made full width to simplify implementations. This practice got stuck and subsequently followed by Unicode. Same for other languages.
I, for one, hate how disregarded the system makes me feel. The experience is much closer to a remotely managed computer, like the workstation I have at my day job, than to using a personal computer.

This applies to how the updates are handled, the telemetry stuff in general, the way the Control Panel and other settings are arranged, and so on. It's hard to pinpoint one specific thing, because the whole system is steered in this direction.
YAML is garbage. Everyone knows.

If you have a choice of anything else, use any of the many extended JSON versions.

Everyone says the same stuff every time this comes up.

None of the discussion usually matters as you are forced to use YAML whenever the thing you are using chooses to only accept YAML.
Sort of, the strong and weak nuclear forces don't.
Avoid or illegally avoid obviously not. Optimise, of course. Who wouldn't.

Now the question about "fairness" that rich people can structure to pay less tax than others - they don't -

The top 1 percent in America earn 20 percent of the income but pay 40 percent of the tax.
They both appear Japanese for me on mobile Safari. But Japanese is my second preferred language on the device (after English), so that’s probably why.
I switched from MiniHack to "HACK for Hacker News" created by Pranoy Chowdhury and haven't looked back!
Personal anecdote: all major search engines seem to have lost the ability to find esoteric content and terms are now dominated by popular events.

I only chalk up this partly to ‘helpful’ AI (millions of others are looking for this, so maybe this is actually what you meant. - A bit like how autocorrect will sometimes change your correctly spelled words to alternatives.)

I suspect it’s also partly due to the great [online] pivot during covid. There is arguably a large change in how we use the web since covid (work from home, isolated boredom, etc.) and that might have had a training effect on the algorithms.
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This is a good approximation, but it is still incorrect if, say, you are showing Japanese user names from a view for Chinese users.
Where Is Politics? (2011)
Thought I would share this perspective, or theory, on how or where we locate politics and our political engagement, because, hacknews has an odd aversion to political discussion and news—unless it is framed in liberal or conservative context...mostly anyways.
Dr. Farid Jalali has been talking about the Serotonin link to covid, and had been recommending antiserotonergic drug Cyproheptadine for its treatment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wetdq9vX__c
Why can't we just use TCP over AX.25?

This "problem" (TCP over HF/VHF) has been solved around 1979(sic!).

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_(TNC)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio
Looking at a notch, it is easy to imagine it not being there. So easy for someone ignoring why its there to complain.

But do you really think people would rather forgo the camera and other features to remove the notch?

Alternately, do you really think people would prefer a notch-high bezel at the top of their phones instead of more screen with a notch?
I have my doubts about how little this scum fears death when it's really imminent eg death row; how intrinsically lucky they are to escalate and escalate, always win and never lose; and how fearlessly they react when faced with a man who hasn't crossed the law trains his gun on them, for a legitimate reason.
1. Hurricanes are powered by heat, so you just make it stronger

2. The heat energy used by a hurricane is roughly equivalent to one Hiroshima per second, which at least reduces the impact of 1., but tells you how large the scale difference is

3. Explosions produce shockwaves which only change instantaneous pressure, and are totally ineffective at changing barometric pressure, the one thing you want to increase, because barometric pressure is the weight of all the air above the ground

4. The storm is now radioactive
Can confirm, I’m British and often use “cheers” to mean “thank you”.
The fact that you have to take such care is exactly the problem.
> You could just view the poachers as an environmental hazard to tusked elephants, in which case this would be a perfect example of natural selection.

Yes okay you can say this...

But if you are saying that poachers/humans are part of nature, then nothing in the world is "unnatural" anymore. I think this line of reasoning, while valid, is less precise and less interesting.
It is ironic that "bloated" Swing apps are now a much better performance alternative than Web and Electron apps.
Vaccinated people still get sick and die from covid. It isn't the end all be all. We still need effective treatments.
Money will shift from capital gains to other investments. Same with buybacks. I mean, that's why company's do buybacks today, they are tax advantaged.

And I don't get why you'd tax stock buyback. That's a key way company's control their equity. Take $10B to buy $10B of their own stock and you'd make them pay $2B in taxes? Really?
It’s worth noting this kind of distinction did used to exist in the Latin alphabet as well. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, German letters were different, as part of a debate about whether German text should be written in blackletter or Latin/Antiqua/what-other-Europeans-use script.
Just be careful of the accessibility doing this. You need to apply the correct role attributes at every level so it is understood by assistive technology to be a table.

Screen readers give special treatment to tables to help users understand what is being presented. They also offer special commands to help navigating in a row or columnar fashion.

You lose this all of this if you use non semantic elements. I believe semantics can even be lost if you change the css display property of an actual <table> element. Make sure to test whatever you do!