skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, reading the title I thought this was going to be someone losing all their tabs because "clear history" on mobile Safari apparently does that: https://twitter.com/SaraSoueidan/status/1457307545815732233

> Oh dear God.. Clearing history on Safari iOS closes all currently-opened tabs?! Why is there nothing that warns you of that?! Why does clearing history on mobile work differently from the way it does on mac? I had 60+ important tabs open and now they're gone!!

> I had so many notes, bookmarks, and links I needed to use in my course + so many pages unrelated to work, all open for later reference. And no I don't have a backup to restore from. What the heck, Apple?!
system76 isnt alone, openbsd devs and packagers regularly also dont share with upstream too. they even got caught so they change their policy on sharing https://marc.info/?t=160764244000001&r=1&w=2
My editor (vim) will warn me with a loud visual red block for any non ascii char outside a string literal. But I do not think that is enough. Compiler and interpreter must be more strict.
Fandom Actor Migration Case Study
> O/0 and I/1/l are confusable characters within ASCII

Which is why the first thing I make sure of when looking at programming fonts is how well they differentiate these characters
This is the best joke i've ever seen.
Yes, that is the point the GP was making.
The winner is special interest groups that can go ahead with their special interests because mass-bases groups on the left and right are neutralized and off the agenda.
Except that ATM’s are also slowly being removed more and more.
Dynabook E10-S: MS's First Windows 11 SE Device Focused on Cloud-Based Education
Same here. Quite a long time ago I got a take-home assignment. It's about setting up a router on a linux-based machine. I was going with a design that focused on maintenance and understanding, so I decided not to use iptables directly. After a few days I gave up, because there was an issue with the upstream distribution that I was not aware of. I actually had a very good setup after the _deadline_, but it's too late.

I would never do take-home assignment again =))
> The relevant Unicode specification [1] even provides a guideline to limit ZWJ and ZWNJ strictly to the context where they do affect the rendering.

Which is exactly what I am suggesting by saying non-ASCII characters should be banned from being used as identifiers, not from being present in the code-file all together or in the form of strings, etc.

If the formatting of your output in your applications (as seen by the user) depends on the names you've declared your variables with, then you are doing something horribly wrong.
I’d hope police chiefs have thicker skin enough to make the right choice despite the (agenda pushing) flak they might receive. At the end of the day, it’s hurt feelings vs hurt people. The mission must come first!

That said, this is a position that requires a willingness to expose oneself to the pain and suffering of condemnation, in which the average person’s conviction would very quickly waver and capitulate to whichever wind the “public” opinion (read: corporate media mogul’s opinion) might blow. Haaarrddd stuff to expect.
I wonder how recharging the net from a plugged in e-car would affect the lifetime/resale-value of that car, if that concept would be in general use. And how the grid then would develop, regarding overall capacity.

NIMBY as in NOT IN MY BATTERY! :-)
I have a Panasonic CCTV that looks exactly the same as this one. It was $27 plus shipping on eBay this year. It uses BNC connectors instead of the later consumer-standard yellow RCA.
I wish I had a hash of a 50 year old computer
It's about privacy. That metadata is extremly valuable is something that not only the NSA discovered but also Google, Facebook, and many more.
Would hate to think of how much worse crypto would be If power was free.

Mining for materials, waste products, waste heat, noise.

Already have regular extended family complaining about the huge number of noisy shipping containers in their communities. These are middle of nowhere towns.
Fire the sound guy who thought this was a good idea. Just what I want in silent technical demonstration video - heavy guitar and drums. I guess they thought it was underwhelming and needed the help.
You think Apple introduced low energy cpus for fun? I think they work on AR mixed reality glasses and in 10 years it will be standard. Carmack said that currently they are limited by thermals to make nice device.
No more $ cd to/where/was/it/now/again?; use bookmarks in zsh or bash
zsh and bash plugin to bookmark directories to cd. This is a fork with added functionality!

Yesterday:

$ cd some/really/long/path/to/project2

Today:

$ g proj2

Set up by simply saving a bookmark with an easy to type name:

some/really/long/path/to/project2 $ s proj2
So you propose to power all of Germany from the North Sea area? In theory it's possible, the North Sea is big enough. But transport costs maybe become an issue.
Your assumption is that storage is expensive. Where expensive is unspecified. That's long term simply wrong and even short term, electricity companies are already some relatively expensive options to save money relative to using gas/coal powered peaker plants. Because it saves them money. So, never mind nuclear here: this is cheaper than gas powered plants already.

But again, a simple question of expressing the requirement in $/kwh. It's a good measure of cost for batteries too. You pay for MWH of storage and GW delivery capacity. Lithium Ion hits the sweet spot of lots of capacity (GW) with modest amounts of storage (GWH). Other storage options store more but are less able to deliver quickly. There's a nice tradeoff here. Combining the different options gives you the best of both worlds. E.g. thermal mass is dirt cheap, because it can literally be made of dirt (well sand or rocks). Takes relatively long to charge but it can deliver power for weeks or months. Lithium ION is the opposite but it only lasts a few hours.

The dirty little secret with base load is that a few hours is all that is needed mostly to deal with, again, the typically unspecified intermittency.

It's a simple matter of how much GWH you need to mitigate against e.g. a few clouds or windless days. There are many solutions and it all boils down to $/kwh. I'd say long term fractions of a penny is exactly what this will be. And by long term I mean less than the lifetime of the nuclear plants that we're debating here that have yet to be planned and built; and possibly even their construction phase (this could take decades).
The article was published Nov. 4, days before the infrastructure bill passed. Not yesterday. You can easily find this in the header of the article.
I live in an area where hot water heating is common. Hot water heaters have secondary loops through the main oil-fired boiler and these could easily be made electric.

A missing link is indeed a cinder block energy storage pile that could be set to preheat water going into the hot water boiler, or to cycle through water going into heating.
I think apple will have a difficult time justifying the same level commission if it is providing fewer services than it was before (payment processing). They can do it, of course, but I would expect that to invite additional lawsuits.
> This is interesting to me as Safari is _correct_ in their implementation (that the underscore character isn't valid in domains), but again an instance of FF+Chrome working where Safari doesn't

It's IE/Netscape all over again; a big driver of bugs back in the day was the one of them (usually but not always IE) was overly tolerant of some sort of bad behaviour).
I'm not sure parent blamed cyclists, but rather their working conditions.

Where I live we have no cyclist lanes so all food delivery gig workers use motorbikes. I personally see a traffic accident involving these people almost every week.

I think if construction work didn't have strict health and safety regulations we would see/hear about construction accidents every day.

This (new) industry should be regulated in the same way.
I don't see anything stating apple can't require apple payments to be an option.
That is where we interviewed as an industry 10 years ago. Then people noticed a few holes (what, they don't know fundamental $x!?) and those were filled. List vs map, complexity, tests, trees and traversal, http api stuffs, unixy things, and then into networking fundamentals, distributed systems stuff, etc.

10 years ago, nearly no candidate pulled a distributed queue solution in a design interview and now it is a standard answer in their pocket.
> I would like an edit access over that tweet

I’d like that on my own tweets, to start.
Pair of PS5 hacks could be first step towards jailbreaking Sony’s latest console
> As dumb as it was, IE was providing free VMs preloaded with IE versions for developers.

Not in 2006 no. MS started providing free VMs for browser testing circa 2013, after the release of IE10.
Not if we keep attracting it by being a desirable place to live (at least relative to others). The "American Century" was largely built on brain drain from totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and the USSR.

If China threatens Taiwan it would be idiotic if the USA did not offer open work visas and fast path citizenship for any Taiwanese refugees that want to leave. This would be the best non-military option for dealing with that, and would help us benefit from brain drain.
Here’s my latest browser issue that drove me crazy: In Safari the TextMetrics.actualBoundingBoxRight returned from CanvasRenderingContext2D.measureText() includes dangling spaces, and Chrome does not. So you’ll get different text measurements if the text has a space on the end, which broke my app’s logic of rendering multiline rich text in Chrome. Ugh.
Netflix Reveals the Return of Season 2 of Centaurworld
Seems to me that someone who is deeply conservative and cares about Constitution, Rule of Law etc. would be very concerned that Trump on Jan. 5 tried to push his VP to throw an election and also concerned that the President of the US would lie so flagrantly in his attempts to stay in office.

Seems to me that people who actually cared about Social Justice would contemplate the complexity and nuance in all of this policing, that much of the issues are general/social issues not policing, that reducing policing is risky and has apparently caused a lot of harm to vulnerable communities, and that working class White people, who have been 'at the bottom' and basically serfs for their entire family history, should be objects of sympathy not hatred. And, that even if we respect power imbalances, bigotry can be had by 'all sides', and a lot of the rhetoric from supposed 'anti racists' seem quite bigoted.

I think that these warring tribes are not actually political in the classical sense, I think there is something else going on, and those are the camps/flags that they ended up under, and that classical political orientation actually doesn't really describe what is going on.

Liberals are not Liberals or even Left, they seem to have a kind of post-modern, intellectual, ideological kind of anger. Trumpers are neither Conservative nor conservative, more like angry loud nationalists.

I think both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney represent more or less traditional notions of Left/Right (roughly of course).

But Clintons/Obamas are at war with the far left (you can see this infighting between camps at NY Times), and the right is at war with itself vis-a-vis traditional Republicans and The Trumpers.

If you use the Wayback Machine to look at CNN from 2001 you'll notice that it seems downright tame. And since 2016, they've become even worse for editorializing. The entire press landscape has become tilted, I don't even trust PBS/NPR anymore, and I also think social media and the internet has really inflamed a lot of people.

Since Trump is gone and COVID is passing a little bit, I do wonder if things will settle down maybe a little bit.
Those are part of what is probably a huge scam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A
For just the supermarkets, yes. But S-group and Kesko are huge. They own restaurants, banks, hotels, gas stations, home improvement stores, department stores, car dealerships, and a bunch of specialty stores.
The entrepreneurship world is awash with startup equity calculating advice from smart, educated, successful, well-meaning people. Some of these people have distilled their wisdom into online apps that will help you and your team calculate equity for the cofounders. A number of them are even supported with research projects with input from hundreds or even thousands of real actual founders. There is only one problem: they are all wrong (except one).
That sort of problem is about the right level of complexity for a candidate to show they can think about a problem, provide an implementation, and discuss alternatives. Something they should be able to do without ever studying or grinding LeetCode.

However, there's always room for the interviewer to muck things up.

For the anagram problem, there are a range of solutions, including elegant & inefficient, clever & efficient, and robust & efficient. Do you dock someone depending on which they reach for first?

There's limited time, and a candidate may assume you're mostly interested in "how they think" and thus focus on the algorithm alone. After the interview, do you run the candidate's solution against test cases that you never mentioned, docking them for "missing" matters of casing or non-alphabetic characters? If the candidate themselves wrote unit tests, do you dock them for missing test cases you felt should have been included?

Do you dock them for not checking for invalid inputs, even though the candidate might normally work in a type checked variant of the language that wouldn't have permitted that anyway?

So many possible hidden assumptions. I know I've been rejected for similar unstated expectations in the past, and in retrospect, I know I've been guilty of doing the same to others.
Helion has been "pitching" for a long time now. Which is fine! But its not really worth believing their estimates until they have something. Their schedule, like all fusion schedules before them, is definitely not working as advertised. From 2014:

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2014/08/nextbigfuture-intervie...

> The breakeven machine will need about $35 million in funding (2015-2016) and the target is to develop it in 2016.

> If all proceeds on schedule then a Helion Energy machine that that proves commercial energy gain would be a 50 Megawatt system built in 2019. $200 million will be needed for the commercial pilot plant. The plan would be to start building commercial systems by 2022.
Can’t you block a router to block all torrents?
Agreed - this is literally the first thing I check when selecting the editor's font
> I only use it through the web, incognito mode, no desktop clients, never check 'remember password', and this is one of the few accounts that are not stored in my password manager.

What's the reason for that?
When I worked at the radar company we would have to go to a Unix machine on a different network and do our time cards. It was Firefox.

Then the time card website upgrade, which only worked in ie.

So now log onto Unix, use a VPN (Citrix) to log onto a windows NT machine, then use IE. It had to be done daily and wasn’t fun.
No, but they still have to hear or see those serious crimes to pursue them.

No matter how you frame it, where the cops put their boots will necessarily increase crime reporting much like increasing a good's price necessitates a drop in demand.
Those 500 minutes don’t last forever. Below 20 minutes per month of use pay phones end up cheaper.
I'm a noob regarding radio: do I understand it correctly that low frequency radio signals can more easily be used with more solid carriers while higher frequencies allow more/faster bandwidth? (I'm totally oversimplifying here)
On the contrary, I see gmaps having map and satellite data that has been and still is out of date for years now. OSM has much more detailed data and is up to date here.

So I really don't see what's so impressive about gmaps. The only major advantage they have is the ability to scoop up data from users, as well as the network effects that lead to people posting their photos and other stuff on Google.

As always, I'd rather have all map data be free & open. It's not cool that all this effort is concentrated in the hands of one company who can do whatever they want and prevent you from doing cool & useful things with the data. Crowdsourced data should belong to the crowd.
The Chip That Could Transform Computing
That would close this particular attack (but not the BIDI one the article mentions). But there is probably already too much code out there with π=3.14 in it to be feasible to do this.
My point was that GEOS worked... on less than 64K of usable memory and a ~2mhz 8-bit in-order CPU. I do remember painting, writing, and using a (300 baud!) modem with it as a kid. It was highly constrained but basically usable and it always stuck with me later as impressive for the resource constraints.

LUnix is another impressive C64 project, a Unix in the same tiny memory/CPU footprint!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix

We got highly useful very good GUIs on computers with hundreds of kilobytes of RAM and 8-16mhz 16-bit and 32-bit CPUs. Windows 3, OS/2, macOS Classic, and X11/Motif were a lot more useful and usable than GEOS.

Today's computers are hundreds to thousands of times more powerful. They should be a lot faster than they are.
Physical documents I take a photo and then use syncthing to transfer. Then I either batch them up into a zip file or just drag and drop that one photo.
Yup, enabling new ways to force people to watch ads </dread>
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power which include a description of the device you mention, among other ideas to extract the power from sea waves.
> you shouldn't need non-ASCII idents anyway

Yes, we do. People from all over the world write software too. They should be able to use the words they know in code.

Also, it's totally cool to have mathematical symbols in code. λ, for example. Much more readable than the word lambda. The only reason these symbols are hard to type is our keyboards suck. They can be made easy to type with editor support though.
I don't understand where the expectation/conception comes from that simply throwing money at a problem should help. Development aid has been provided in many countries for years in the billions, but little or nothing changes. This is rather a structural problem that money is only paid out to the leading class or only they benefit from it thanks to corruption and bad leadership.
Hey, Form views were made available with 0.11.42 (5 weeks ago). It can be customised with fields you need.
On the contrary, most of the city has pretty good bike lanes set up.

It's just that they don't get enough time to do the commute safely, or at least safety is gravely disincentivized with extra pay.
You mean they got "caught" breaking their own policy, which they imposed on themselves, and they didn't break any copyrights?
You seem to think those formatting characters as something that should be in the higher-level protocol like HTML. They are not. They are used when two consecutive abstract characters can be combined in two or more different ways. And those different renderings frequently have different meanings. That's why they can't be simply removed when normalized; doing so will destroy the text.
Yellow pages has us all by the balls. As a small business owner, in my particular market, I can't survive without their services, even though they suck and I hate them, and their entire company.

My business can be destroyed by Yellow pages on a whim at a moment's notice. How did it get to be so bad?
> Yes, there was data to decide that, you should ask them nicely on the proper channel if you want more info.

I'm all for asking politely if you're going to ask at all, but... why should asking even be necessary? Why not just post the justifying data by default? That seems like less work than "data available upon request if you ask nicely."
I think AR + new input device is ulimate game. VR is good test bed.
You should really look into the nerves platform.
> 31.1% more people said they would buy in one experiment

As has been shown countless times in both theory and practice, this metric is useless. People are very liberal in saying the would buy things, support causes, etc. The actual number of people who do buy is completely unrelated to this say-they-would-buy metric. Similarly, having people who say they would buy your startup's product is worth nil. The only customers that count are the actual customers, the ones that do buy.
Outsiders and opportunists like to believe people in high crime areas want crime.

They hate crime as much as anyone else. There is a love hate relationship when some of your relations engage in low level crime and get caught in the fight against crime for the 20th time. “Why did they have to come for Gary again, he never hurt anybody”. But Gary didn’t want to go back in for robbery, so he ran and got shot. But when mrs Jensen has her house broken into she’s upset this happened to her, not realizing her son Gary while not “dangerous” is part of the atmosphere of crime that allows her house to get broken into.

One of the ways to combat that is to do what Giuliani did in New York and attack all crime including quality of life and other low level in addition to organized crime and gangs.

The other way is to do it the Soviet way and have neighbor rat on neighbor and ship the baddies off to the gulags (often they did worse than that).

What doesn’t seem to work is being nice to crime and suggest crime to go away. It needs persistent pushback whether in the US, Albania, China, Belize, etc.

One thing which would help is to have better funnels away from crime to divert people at high risk of joining crime into regular sustainable jobs. But this takes culture. If all your friends are making "good" money stealing catalytic converters and they constantly nag you to join them, it's hard to not get involved.
Reminds me of the recent theory that a comet airburst destroyed a city in the middle-east 3600 years ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
The over the top levels of positivity but without substance that is common in America. It kind of goes hand in hand with a culture where saying things directly is looked down on. It is considered socially unacceptable to say things directly in America, so one should always try to fluff everything over with vague, feel good terms and code words.

Anyway, I shouldn't have called it a 'problem' as Americans are completely fine with that, and they like it that way. My only point is the behavior the author of the article is talking about only happens in America.
I was and still am entirely serious. I don’t know you and doubt that you and I have ever said three words to each other. What’s your basis for your claim to clearly know my intent?

The article author works for a company that has 54 open positions. Thousands of capable developers will or have already read his article. Why can he not talk about how great it is to be a developer at his company? Seems like a missed opportunity to me.

Also, if you are an engineer that can save your company millions of dollars in real life, that’s worth something, isn’t it? You won’t get paid for it unless you have the courage to ask hard questions.

Your experience will obviously be different than mine. But please don’t pretend that you know me, or what I’m thinking when I offer a comment. It would be much better to show up with curiosity rather than condescension.

I wish you well.
Yeah, I used "retail sector" quite carefully there. The breadth of the conglomerates here is vast. It's sort of surreal to me, even by American standards, that this level of market capture is even allowed.