skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the 2 paragraph of this comment. In the case of a frequent traveler there is got to be a bank which cares about such case. With some time some banks will be better at this when more people will travel which is unlikely after COVID.

On a tech side: it’s very hard to create, support and sustain a super flexible system which wouldn’t be perfect for everybody.

People don’t spend their time configuring 100 settings in their Zoom profile and struggle finding invite link.

And at the same time in some place of this world a person lost a bank card and smartphone being in a foreign country… rare case but turns life into hell quickly.
Updated the code to slightly correct this :) https://github.com/adamfuhrer/glitch-image
Sure, it works. I've done it.

You'll wish you were in a car the whole time you're doing it though.
Rip rc files, no colored terminals anymore :(
I mean, sure. We should always know the stack down to the electrons. Not only should we learn to code on paper, but build our own adders from primitive boolean logic gates. But this doesn't really follow (most of) us out of our BS computer science program (or perhaps until we have to do programming interviews).
People often overlook that Japan has had fewer than 2 million infected people. If you don’t get infected, you don’t get sick

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Not for us common folk, I don't think so.

Sure, they can listen in on you all they want, but what good is any of that if they can't use it against you in a court of law?
I can talk only about Germany. If there are sidewalks, pedestrians have to use them, also if there are special assigned bike paths, they have to be used too. But where those features are missing, both pedestrians and bicyclists have to use the road - unless it is marked as a motor way. And of course a road can only be marked as a motor way, if there are alternative ways to reach the same destination for the prohibited vehicles.
Wind farms can’t plan to make 100 MW or 150 MW or 50 MW on Tuesday next week if there is no wind.

Nuclear can.

I agree nuclear isn’t dispatchable, natural gas is. But wind is not dispatchable nor is it baseload so making a comparison to nuclear and pretending there is firm energy out of a wind farm on a given day is false to me.
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If I am not in the house or I am asleep it is a waste of energy to heat it.

I find it weird that you get indignant at the idea of a little more automation than a timer.

>How do you think thermostats worked before the internet?

Either wasting money heating an empty home when I went out or I came home to a cold house and then turned on the heating. I remember.

I also remember thermostats which didnt understand the concept of weekends, etc.
This is something I've wondered about myself. Like, if I was going to be building a foundry in North America that is supposed to operate 24/7 producing silicon for potentially many decades and required billions of dollars of ongoing investment, I'd probably try to pick somewhere in the upper Midwest like Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, or even Missouri. You might potentially get a little lake weather depending on where you pick, but the big risks like drought, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes would be much less likely, there's not exactly a shortage of space, and there's a number of mid-sized cities and some elite universities in the region that could both help attract and keep talent happy. Are the tax credits in AZ really that much more attractive?
Yes. But they are already there and established, so why then this 'Ask HN'?
"through government funding" contains the answer. The test is cheaper in the US than it is in France without it and about the same price as the subsidized price in France.
OCaml benefits from not looking like operator stew.
In India it's become quite common to fake an RTPCR test by changing the dates on an existing one. All you have to show here is a pdf copy of your test as you get off your flight and no one checks the feasibility of the test via the given qr code, they just check the date and that's it.
Seems like it could be a textbook case of first-mover advantage.
I don't need that. I can just set up an SFTP server and rsync my files to it.
Video of Tesla on Autopilot Crashing into Stopped Truck at 75mph
I recently gained entry to an NBA game out of state (away from home and without access to any valid paperwork) by using devtools to edit the results page of a test I had last year, to make it valid for that day, and then printing the page. The clinic in question is all over the state and partnered with a major regional hospital, and they use a very basic means to print the page; just some media css.

For every burden of proof, enterprising people are going to find a way around it. There's now a vast market of spoofed, lookalike QR code destinations on the web that your average Joe isn't going to be able to spot the difference for in a quick glance. WRT gaining entry to the NBA game, the person inspecting paperwork didn't spend more than a half second looking at what I presented. I could have simple printed "negative" on a piece of paper with a bunch of Lorem Ipsum. It was complete theater.
Important thing to understand is that psychedelics can be used at most as an easy incentive for people to see if they interested in this direction of experience. There are reasons why most profound mystics don't value substances much and rather focus on developing people's own perception. Yes it takes time but results come above all expectations.

From my experience it's much healthier to realize I can go into states of bliss and ecstasy completely by myself without any external help.
Isn't this what happened with some european "digital covid certificates"? Not really unlikely.
Wijn.

Oude wijn in nieuwe zakken
> Pretty sure you're the best thing to happen to ST since Will joined the team :)

Thanks, that means a lot :)

> What's your test suite like? Whenever something is regressed in a dev build, do you try to cover it with tests? Or are the UI side of things not tested in an automated fashion?

The UI toolkit as a whole and platform integrations don't have tests, but the core parts like file encodings, data structures, syntax highlighting, etc. are pretty well tested using both integration, unit and manual fuzz tests. We also make heavy use of debug asserts and asan to catch bugs during development.

> like the one whereby all syntaxes can inject themselves into Markdown fenced code blocks etc?

I can't say when, but something like this is certainly on my radar. It seems like a clear incremental improvement on the existing syntax highlighting functionality.

> It'd be great to see some better SQL syntax highlighting support - I saw a community effort on the Packages repo aiming to address this. Will there be a way to switch "active" sql dialect? Or configure it per project?

This one is a lot more tricky as there are various tradeoffs to make. It's in my backlog of things that need to be discussed with other package repository contributors.
This occurs regularly you know? And to most of the people involved she's just another prisoner.
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I've been working on a project for 3 years straight. The hardest part of continuing the project is that 90% of the project gets done in the first year, then the 10% takes so much time it's very discouraging.

For me, it's the feeling of accomplishment and pride that keeps me going. Regardless of the projects success, I'm proud that I've worked on something for so long and seeing it improve everyday is satisfying. There's nothing really else out there that gives me the feeling. If you ignore the success of the project (whether that's monetization or popularity.) and focus on the fun and beauty of improving something every day, it lets you go pretty far and long.

At the end of the day, you always have that project that you worked on and improved on every day. You can look back at it, show it to people, etc, and it almost seems bigger than you.
Middle school you might have even wanted you to go to school, to see some other people than your close family.

(Most children of schoolage I knew in germany, after long lockdowns, think like that. Poor children, they have it so bad, they even want to go to school again..)
It should be noted for clarity that unicode in code is orthogonal to this, which is display only.
Same. Busy and slow, and I will never understand why it is the default these days.
Just, wow!

A supposed trained Epidemiologies agrees to let her own kids be test subjects to FDA trails that don't even follow the FDA's own rules and this without the ADULT Phase 3 even being close to done (2023-2024) and already seeing VAERS indicating 10-20x higher adverse reaction and death rates than ANY OTHER VACCINE IN HISTORY.

She needs to have her children taken and and face child abuse criminal charges! She's grossly irresponsible!
A democratic state is elected by the majority, as such, the state should share the same definition as the majority. That's the deal we're taking when we decide to live in a democracy: that we will abide by the law of the majority. This doesn't mean we have to agree: it means we have to convince the majority if we want a change.

But a state that can't defend the majority because of an open letter signed by a hundred crypto anarchists seems pretty bad to have indeed!
There's some subtlety here. Colors are percepts- phenomena that happen in the brain. Wavelengths and radiation describe natural electromagnetic phenomena, not percepts.

Example: Infrared has no "color". It's possible to induce the illusion of colors in the absence of light altogether. I appreciate that the article took care with this language, as it's a deep and fascinating topic.
did you read the article?
I think assistive tech is awesome but we should so use it to learn. Instead of slowly looking up stuff in API docs and typing it out, running the compiler slowly to let it tell me I have a typo in a long method name I have an IDE with completion and it tells me right away if I did mistype something I didn't autocomplete.

But I should use this to learn too. Learning by doing. Autocomplete to find the method that I need and next time I remember the name already and I don't have to find it in an autocomplete list I type the unique part and autocomplete the rest. I just gained efficiency and I would also be able to program without the assistive tech when needed.

Like making use of the fact that I could walk to the grocers or bike and use that to work out naturally while getting fresh air. But if it rains I'll take the car. No need to pay a fitness studio.
The balance of your bank account is similarly “information”. But since everyone places value on that information, it’s valuable.

And these days, they way society is using traditional currency is become less tangible all the time. It’s is 100% possible to live life with never touching physical currency. Get paid via direct deposit, credit cards for your daily expenses, ACH your housing bill and credit card expenses. All just information flowing around.

Crypto is certainly overhyped and overvalued days, but it’s seems that at the core, crypto and modern banking are accomplishing the same thing: managing numbers(information) that people value.
"We should be striving for designing cryptographic systems which allow for governments to be conditionally able to decrypt messages."

No, we really shouldn't.
I'll offer a possibly valid use case for Unicode identifiers: mathematical notation. C# allows Unicode for variable names, and I wrote some code using θ (theta) as a variable for a geometric angle. I really liked having a struct for cylindrical coordinates to name the values as (r, h, θ), which flowed quite well visually, better than writing out "theta" or "angle". And since it was a member of a struct, once I had the symbol in the editor once, the Intellisense code completion would just show the θ in the picker dropdown.

(It was for a personal project and I'm not sure I'd do that in a team environment, but I'd at least ask the other developers if they'd like it. And of course one use of Unicode being good doesn't mean that all uses of Unicode are good.)
Sup HN? I needed a last-minute gift for my dad, who has never set up an ETH wallet before, and couldn’t find an easy way to send an NFT as a surprise gift. In case any other NFT-holders here are looking for a way to send an NFT gift, here’s something I hacked together last weekend. Happy Holidays yall <3
I am looking for syncthing but with an iOS app.
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> I used to be a "wait and see" person until I actually took a hard and critical look at a lot of things in the crypto space. It seems evident now that most of it is just poor reinventions of existing financial services, and in some cases (NFTs) just abject scams.

It's pretty obvious that "crypto" (e.g. blockchain stuff) is just clever technology in search of a problem to solve. Its touts keep inventing problems for it, but of out all of them, the only one that's actually stuck is "speculative investment to throw cash at."

I don't think they'll ever succeed, because the problems they identify are already solved by existing technologies and their solutions make worse tradeoffs.
E2E encrypted Dropbox is a Dropbox with EncFS:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS

Also, mega.nz
It may not remain untracked, hopefully types for algebraic effects will land in the future.
I see two types of comments on this thread. Either they hate it and want them banned or comments like your own saying that they have no other option. I think the solution would be for your government to allow younger folks to drive in the countryside.
"evidence is encrypted running around in the same streets as your children?"

What?
>There are many recent examples that run counter to your claim.

Poster was saying we shouldn't impose our own principles on China. I was pointing out these are China's government's stated principles too, they just choose to thoroughly betray them.
Why would you be arrested for taking drugs? Because you're driving on drugs perhaps?

The "think of the children" argument is based on personal experience, mind you, I sincerely hope for you that you will never understand the relation, ever.
Obviously that is an example of incredible corporate dysfunction. But perhaps you would know, because it always blew my mind: Is there any reason the Nexus Q couldn't have been adapted to at least... be a Chromecast? The Nexus Q's function in YouTube and such was directly replaced by the Chromecast function... and I presume processing power wasn't an issue...

It feels like if there wasn't an insurmountable incompatibility issue, the Nexus Q could've/should've been able to run alongside Chromecast as a high-end version... and probably still work today if a single "convert to Chromecast" sort of update had been developed for it.

I still have it somewhere... easily the nicest piece of hardware I ever owned, and disappointingly, the one that lasted the shortest time.
I’d like to say more than “me too,” but you’ve nailed why I love ligature fonts so much.

It’s strange to me how the OP is so laser focused on ligatures being “bad” because they violate Unicode. Coding up novel solutions is a stalwart of what it means to be a capital ‘H’ Hacker! I’m almost offended on a cultural level that they couldn’t at the very least appreciate the spirit of ligatures in programmer fonts.

Personally, I’ve never experienced a situation where Fira Code was the cause of of an ambiguous syntax or Unicode issues. But if they have, why not come up with a solution instead of being a hater?
Do you have any resources on how you learned to create such loaders? I hacked together a custom loading animation for some tools I've built just using images & css transforms, but would love to learn to make things even slicker.
I agree with Rust and sqlx. Haven't used actix-web myself though. I'm currently in the process of porting a warp application to axum and enjoying it a lot so far :)
Well, for traditional Linux desktop apps, the distribution audits the code + ships the binaries.

For app store based distribution, the developers can set up a deterministic build, and end users can verify the checksum of the package matches the developer’s published source code (signal supports this).
> Especially when programming, but also at most other times, I want a 1 to 1, unambiguous correspondence between the symbol I entered and the display on the screen.

Ligatures don't necessarily stand in the way of this. It's a matter between the font and the syntax.
Ligatures in programming look cute, and maybe if you want to showcase a snippet of some particularly clever and elegant code, print it on some expensive paper with tasteful palette (and none of your CMYK nonsense! Only pure pigments!), frame it, and hang it on the wall, I can see its appeal.

At work, I've tried it. I've tried hard to like it. I had to stop because Fira Code (and ligatured Iosevka) took the principle of the least astonishment, threw it on the concrete floor and kept beating it down till it stopped breathing, and then some.

I found myself spending time wondering "what characters is this made of?", and "how do I type THAT?" when viewing some existing code, and "WTF is this?" when a ligature that would have likely made sense in Ruby or Haskell (or in APL?) made it into my Perl code.

Also, "is this a ligature or some Unicode glyph?" was a question I found myself asking. In a better world, I shouldn't be wondering about it while fixing some integration with one of Intuit's molochs or somesuch. But here I was.

Switching to non-ligatured text shed a lot of cognitive burden off me. At least I can tell which thing is ASCII and how I type it. And my code doesn't look as a Guillome Apollinaire's calligramme.
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Agree. When I worked at AWS, each of the service teams (e.g. Route53, VPC) would monitor their dependencies ruthlessly. Response time, error rate, etc As a service owner, you keep other teams on the hook, ensuring they are performing as expected.
Actually OCaml has more operator stew than Haskell. Haskell's use of typeclasses/HKT avoids a lot of operator/function-name noise in the code.

Where OCaml wins is that it does not hate mutation. This makes the code more impure but simpler. Sometimes just incrementing a mutable variable makes more sense than introducing a state monad!
Just by virtue of providing the possibility of keys to the "Proverbial kingdom" and centralizing location of those keys gives far greater incentive for hackers or state actors to find new ways to gain access to these tools for decryption.
"They were both designed by Anders Hejlsberg."

Is there really more to say than that?
> I would imagine the investment would make a nuclear plant look cheap.

The disaster of Flamanville is projected to cost 13 billion euros. Even TSMCs biggest projects are smaller than that in numbers.

> Whatever this European company is, they'd likely need to sell at a massive loss for a generation or 2, just to prove they can do it, and then hope to win some of the profitable contracts from an Apple or Samsung or Nvidia.

Samsung, NVIDIA and AMD are currently blocked by the limitations of TSMC which is mostly caused by Apple paying upfront to reserve all of TSMCs 3nm output [1]. If Europe were to say "okay, we're putting up a 3nm fab and we will not sell to Apple at all" you can bet they would instantly join in to the collaboration, alone to have an alternative to a bidding war with Apple's unfathomably large war chest.

[1]: https://www.heise.de/news/Bericht-Apple-schnappt-sich-komple...
Thank you for mentioning us. My name is Jeff, one of the co-founders of Metrist. We think a lot about this problem and have been building the solution for the past few months. We are still in beta, currently focused on AWS and Azure, but we do have a number of other services supported, and a few more we can enable for anyone that wants to be an early beta user.

We have a big vision beyond our functional checks, and would welcome any feedback.
My impression was that codepoints for ligatures are there for backwards compatibility reasons. In that case they wouldn’t add codepoints for brand new ligatures. So I don’t really get the point that he’s making (if I’m correct).
There's the standard Hacker News response I was looking for
So, how does this compare to a solution like Bittorrent Sync?

And, perhaps more interestingly, why would this become popular where BT Sync failed to live up to the hype?

Furthermore, storage can be paid for by crypto. Does this mean the storage is linked to some kind of cryptocurrency, or is there some kind of central payment system that converts crypto into actual value in the system?
Almost any 32 bytes long string is basically a valid private key.
The article is probably written to irritate, whether intentionally or not. While it's easy to accept that ligatures in public code is bad, he still goes on to say:

> “What do you mean, it’s not a matter of taste? I like using ligatures when I code.” Great! In so many ways, I don’t care what you do in private. Although I predict you will eventually burn yourself on this hot mess...

Also note the ending line:

> If you don’t believe me, try it for 10 or 15 years."

Well, ligatures has soon been in ten years or more in programming fonts.

In many ways, the article has a good point, don't use ligatures in public code.

It has second point too, which I think is not true: If you use ligatures, you may write logical bugs by twisted semantics. This is a statement, which would require statistical study on programmers who use ligatures and who doesn't. Do they write more bugs or not?

I find some ligatures very helpful for readability, and thus they actually reduce bugs, but it's all in the eye of the reader.
> The US is on the opposite side of the Earth.

Guess its my job to remind someone that the Earth is round. ;-)

Go to Japan on your favourite map website, zoom out, and take a look to the right.