skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I work and communicate, mixing 2, 3, and sometimes 4 writing systems is pretty normal; I have 3 keyboard layouts on my phone (Latin that covers English and occasional Spanish, Cyrillic, and Japanese).

In any case, there are emoji which are expected to be a part of text.

On one hand, it would be great to separate areas of different encodings inside a string. But character codes are already such separators.

Two things need to go though: the assumption of linear-time index-based access to characters in a string, and the custom to compare strings as byte arrays.

The first us already gone from several advanced string implementations. The second is harder: e.g. Linux filesystems support Unicode by being encoding-agnostic and handling names as byte sequences. Reworking that would be hard if practical at all.
It's a thing with the new generation suave hipster frat boys apparently.
Sounds way more complex than a traditional sign up? What am I missing?
It's not exactly photorealistic. most of those in the linked article are <2000 (monochrome) pixels total. Better than totally blind, but still legally blind.
There was a short-lived fork _years_ ago that used the Linux kernel instead of Haiku's kernel. I don't even think the fork was made publicly available due to the community backlash.
Communication skills.
So a big no to use Telegram? I thought Telegram claimed to provide private communication, so now it will send contents to Google for translation? Hmmm...
No, you are just better then the app and engineers that design it to be addictive. Everyone thinks tech is supposed to be complicated, it isn't. Feedback loops, dopamine spikes and network effects were keen to human survival for millenniums.

Now they're being exploited to profit off you. Why stay in that cage? Be free, delete the apps and see what's really left in the world.
“People” don’t want first-party authentication and accounts. With OAuth2 (or rather OpenID Connect) it’s ridiculously trivial to get started with third-party auth (not really third-party but “auth as a service”). This isn’t about portability at all.

Sure you’ll regret it later as new requirements regarding auth as requirements about the flow and page design and whatnot keep coming. However, you have to admit that it’s very tempting. Ready-to-use OIDC/OAuth2 adapters exist for just about anything. Decision-makers and customers can rarely grasp the consequences, but they certainly see the immediate cost-savings.
Heh, well of course, if you have enough IPv4, there's not much IPv6 does for you.

However if your a normal consumer with a single network visible IP (if that), it's REALLY useful. I've got a /60 (16 /64s'), and I have one per port on my router and it's quite nice to be able to get to anything inside my home network from anywhere on the internet. Filesharing, monitoring home automation, opening/closing my garage door, etc.
You can write a string with words from multiple languages, you just can't easily modify it with operations like case conversion. But sorting shouldn't depend on the origin language anyway, it depends on the language of the reader. All words in an English dictionary are sorted in "English" order
They had 1000 community cases today https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...
> Numbers uses a proprietary, compressed binary format to store its tables. This format is comprised of a zip file containing images, as well as Snappy-compressed Protobuf .iwa files containing metadata, text, and all other definitions used in the spreadsheet.

I've seen this elsewhere in the wild. E.g. HDFS namenode file system image. But it seems like such a strange choice for a spreadsheet. Why not throw it into sqlite?
If you want to check how careless they are: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/hr7s35/rcn_privat...
I'm assuming your friend is in one of the "forward" castes?
I would hope that it is a good sign if goals are regularly slightly missed. Otherwise they are perhaps not ambitious enough on the margin.
Heh, I'd argue that ZFS would be better if they went with 64 bits, especially since it's 2^128 blocks, not bytes, or bits.

I did the math and it was something like a decade of the worlds production of disks, in a single filesystem. I could somewhat understand if it was a distributed filesystem, but it's not.
I've tried Clearview and it's more sizzle than steak. The images available were like a crippled duckduckgo search. There were photos available you didn't expect or find elsewhere. Primarily headshots. Shots with enough clarity are required which removes most poor quality facebook / myspace / instagram photos as the facial features are not clear enough and the resolution is poor.

It doesn't connect someone to a single identity and gather different social aliases and build a social graph.

It's another tool that simplifies a basic search. Honestly it's disappointing. I'd be worried about what acxiom is building. They can identity you anywhere online and connect you to other sites you visit.
RCN private Class A subnet leak
This is demagoguery at its worst, what if we started going through English surnames and seeing who is Protestant and Catholic in Exec Boards.

None of these leaders became who they are because of their caste, but only merit

It's a nonsense article designed that is designed to instigate gutter level politics.
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Or the freezing temperatures allows it to survive outside. For example your spit outside the shelter, you go outside 17 weeks later and then come back and remove the snow on your boots which are now covered in contaminated water.
It is very tricky. There is a lot of coded language around childhood neighborhood, school, profession of the parents, diet, and other things that westerners are not aware of. It often requires local knowledge. When two Indian people in the US are getting to know each other they may ask each other these questions to suss it out. It can be difficult, even for people that grew up in India, particularly if they are meeting someone from a different region that they are not familiar with.
I’m not talking about caps lock. I can get my head around case sensitivity, I can use it, it’s worse, I don’t want to have to use it anymore than I want to use filesystem permissions in octal even though I can. Having tools take chmod u+r is easier and doesn’t change the filesystem at all.
Not OP but I do/am. Its actually part of my new years resolution. There seems to be so much racism/race fetishization now. It was not like that growing up for me and I am only a millennial. I don’t have an opinion on the Indian caste system since I don’t know much about it, but this crazy race obsession has to stop IMO.
How odd, I find the opposite with most developers having close to zero tolerance for buggy tools.

Trying to keep jumping to the new hotness is simply a survival strategy.
So basically less than 5 Indians in a lawsuit is a representative sample of the more than 4 million in the US. That's basically the reason I called out the bigotry.
Hi Tom! I'm glad you liked the post even if I thought it was not of general interest.
> if a doctor suggests that you have surgery and it's not an immediate need, you should seek the opinion of several other professionals to see if you really need the surgery or if the doctor just likes doing that one.

In France too, that is absolutely what I recommend. Never undergo a non-emergency potentially life-altering medical procedure without getting the opinion of at least another specialist. And also that if you go see a surgeon, their recommendation would almost always be a surgery, even if there are others, less invasive path of treatments.
Nearly all of the Roma that were vaguely integrated into European societies were genocided in the holocaust. And that makes a pretty good argument to the rest that becoming more integrated is not worth attempting.
It is very poor journalism with an intent to make a political point and bring up the caste system
I know that there was some work on reviving sandstorm after Kenton Varda joined Cloudflare, see e.g. https://sandstorm.io/news/2020-02-03-reviving-sandstorm, but it is very possible it never got anywhere. Sad but understandable.
Ask HN: Keeping Track of Your Writing
I write a lot; stories, articles etc. and use Google documents, as a writing interface it's ok, but I have a hard time keeping track of everything. I would like something online but other than that I don't have any particular requirements - I just know that things feel especially inefficient with what I have. Any suggestions.
I learned from my uncle, on a recent trip, that my grandfather had obtained a student loan that was subsequently waived by the king (under British Raj) at the time. That got our family on the ladder of economic growth. He could then afford to send his sons to better schools and his children sent theirs to even better schools and colleges. That first step of the ladder was only ever available to Brahmins.
It’s totally not reasonable to have a variable number of things and to store them in a fixed length array. That’s how you get vulnerabilities.

At least check if is going to fit and crash otherwise.
Looks like this article is overly focused on public tech firms. The author totally missed the merchant and trader castes from India (many from Gujarat and Kerala) founding and running large firms in the US (chains of restaurants, gas stations, convenience stores, motels etc.).

I'm sure there are many keralites in the middle east running similar large firms, most of which might not be publicly traded.
Someone will reinvent cable by bundling services together and charging people for content in which they aren't interested.

It'll happen as soon as the fragmentation is worse enough for people to loose interest and willingness to pay for them separately.
NordLocks are excellent - I was told about them by a very experienced racecar engineer who helped me work on my racecars - he couldn't say enough good about them, and recommended them for anything close to critical importance (or that you just wanted to stay fastened). Another engineer friend had a biz providing racecar component kits (think brakes, suspension, etc.), and also enthusiastically all his kits with NordLocks. I've had less experience but never seem them fail. Good stuff
It's very wooly, the article has a more hidden agenda
Pretty sure you're supposed to indicate that it's a parody when do you something that, taken seriously, breaks the law.
At my day job we run our own OIDC setup. Even though we own everything it's still a nightmare.
>>You will certainly live an uneventful, forgettable life with that attitude.

That is the dream, and desire. I want a uneventful, drama free, peaceful existence. Nor do I have the desire to leave a "legacy" or be remembered in anyway, I can not understand the desire for celebrity.

>>It is clear that you add very little value in the future of humanity overall. That in itself isn't condemnable.

lol, yes I am sure your contributions will change the world. Narcissism much?

>>What is however is your blatant disregard for others with your selfish statements.

My statements are realist. My statements are based on the reality of the world, I am not sure why you believe my statements are a "disregard for others" in my acknowledgement of the fact that in my situation the FBI is more of a threat to me than CCP, where as the CCP is more of a threat to a Chinese national than the FBI.

That is a statement of fact, your denial of this fact does not change reality

>>I hope to never encounter you again on HN as your world view is very limited. Period.

Feel free to ignore reality at your own peril
Nope, compact disc.

It’s really annoying since none of my computers have one and even a PlayStation can’t open pdfs.

But these are recipient problems.

And yeah, they even do it for 4mb files. Sometimes even with a custom sticker label. And they send me emails to say they’ve sent the records in the mail.

Though recorded/certified delivery is a good idea too.
You may have misunderstood, we're not using it as a postgres replacement. I agree with this take, hence my original assertion that it isn't a drop in replacement for a DB server.

We are using it as a replacement for RocksDB - we need a richer way to store data than a simple key value store. It still runs on a server though, and therefore it would be useful to be able to read data remotely, even if that isn't the primary purpose.
The point of the article is that Antarctica's research stations--some of the most remote and isolated places on the planet--are now suffering COVID-19 outbreaks. This isn't some article trying to massage public opinion or make people feel better about ignoring the pandemic. It's an interesting look at how even places that think they are doing everything correctly to avoid infection are... not avoiding infection.
> While you're correct that a 4chan-like mechanism would provide a means of authentication, the hash would not be human-recognizable easily (basically, not meaningful)

This part can be addressed easily with avatars such as those Gravatar makes. Using a blockchain instead seems like a huge overkill, and also brings 'login' back into the equation, albeit with a different connotation than traditional login.
Thanks for sharing this, but is a comedy skit from almost two decades ago - or any time period - really a valid method of debunking potential scientific progress made within that same time period? It reminds me of when people post SNL skits as proof of why [insert person inaccurately being made fun of either in a biased or exaggerated manner for the purpose of humor] is Actually A Bad Person. I mean yeah, the technology at face value is hilarious to think about, and goofy, but so are a lot of things that actually work pretty well.

I’m curious why you think mm accuracy and non-foe detection would be terribly difficult in 2021. Going off your example, I’m pretty sure a mosquito would appear rather different to any detection system than a human, or in the case of a field, a bee or something like that.
Please call this “fume events”, as the risk is desperately concentrated on a few flights in a dozen years, and fume events are not yet recognized as events (“just renew the air and no-one will see” - while we have amateur testimonials that people get conditions for life after such events).
What prevents someone in India who happens to have an unfortunate caste association to switch caste? Assuming family names are easy to change, what else is it that ties you to the caste?
Or are family names what underpins the system so the whole system relies on that you can’t simply file some paperwork and switch to some middle-caste name if you were born unlucky?
That's pretty much it. Tech debt makes it progressively harder to change a system. As it accumulates, making a change approaches 'impossible' while the work required to do it approaches 'infinite'.

Throwing one more metaphor at it:
If you don't scrub the barnacles off a ship, the ship will progressively become more difficult to steer. In fact it will eventually make sense to simply scrap the ship altogether. In software we call it a 'legacy application'.
I think where we're headed is a blend of Web 2 and Web 3 (Web 666). In this, Web 2 continues to live on in its current form, because it works quite well. However, there are some issues with Web 2 that Web 2 can't easily solve that are solved by Web 3. One of the biggest ones is decentralized identity which Handshake solves beautifully.

With signed strings tied to the keys associated with the handshake name, every action taken on a Web 2 website can now benefit from being verifiable [1]. You don't need the blockchain outside of the identity.

Secondly, the more I've been working with this technology, the more I've truly begun to understand how important it is to own one's name. There shouldn't be two afro88s. Imagine if there is an afro88 on reddit and this person starts acting a certain way -- and then someone comes here and they see your username and apply bias due to actions that were not your own?

Web 666 is a silly name for blending the "stacks" if you can call them that, together, but then again... [2]

[1] A reddit admin edited a user's comments. Imagine if that user was suddenly prosecuted on said "evidence?" What a shame, and cryptographic signatures really empower people on the internet, especially in a Web 2 world.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(cipher)
Show HN: Truly Secure, Anonymous Secret Sharing
> their agency was making most of their money

Allowing body shops to sponsor H1B visas is ridiculous and directly leads to this kind of exploitation. Requiring the place where the person actually works to sponsor instead would make so much more sense.

Of course simple reforms like this can never happen because the current debate on immigration in the US is 100% closed borders vs. 100% open borders so the broken status quo continues on.
Thats over the last 21 days. There was 47 community cases yesterday.
Have to agree. It's also usually only about 10 lines of code to support both insensitive and sensitive searching for those who can't read English that way.
The article presents some numbers stating that the upper castes are overrepresented in the highest echelons of the business world, there must be some mechanism in place that causes this. At some stage, filtering is happening.
In 2021 IP6 is still 'new' to you?
I have a /60 and it's been working great, had it for some years. Seems like the leader for ISPs in the USA.
> Arrest their directors, employees and investors upon entry into Canada.

or sanction them. eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions#Person...
If you mean sleeping the display and not the whole computer, I ended up defining a hot corner to do it in the Displays preference pane in System Preferences. Then I can just swipe the mouse/trackpad to that corner without worrying about overshooting, works every time. I used to use the keyboard shortcut until I got a Mac without the power/eject keys.
I realized that while I can do people management/TL etc successfully, at this moment (I'm going 40) I don't want to do it. So I'm going as an individual contributor to the new for me area where, ideally and if I'll succeed, I can work till the end of my career (database engine internals).

On personal front - spend more time with my daugther (she's 2 in February) and go outside camping/overlanding much more. Also lose weight.
Not mentioned on that page, but you can make one out of two ordinary wrenches, which is both practical and may impress your friends! All I found online describing this was a video: https://youtu.be/5DShRItYxLA
No graphics acceleration yet though.
Good points, but a launch when international tensions are high is too obvious. It's a good way to deliver a sneak attack or fake a terrorist nuke going off in their own hands.
Both the consumer and the manufacturer are responsible -- on an abstract, ethical level.

But in practical terms the manufacturer has infinitely more leverage over the situation.
While Chernobyl was a disaster , “ ~30,000 people died as a result of Chernobyl.” is just ridiculous.
> To be fair, anything you can do in C++ can be done in Rust.

Technically, all programming languages are Turing-complete. Practically, various things can affect development cost by a factor of magnitude. The OP acknowledges that, they wrote "Rewriting Rune just for my tiny use case was out of the question".

Just because something can be done doesn't mean it's a good idea to do that. Programming is not science, it's engineering, it's all about various tradeoffs.

> The language just steers you away

Such steering caused unique performance issues missing from both safer garbage collected languages, and unsafe C++.

Note the OP was lucky to be able to workaround by cloning the data. If that context or unit objects would use a gigabyte of RAM, that workaround probably wouldn't work, too much RAM overhead.
Vast social networks, family, friends of friends. Your identity is tied to who you are and very many people who you know in your town either knows your family or knows someone who knows your family. Indians have very extensive social ties
With a minuscule fatality rate at this point, all these measures seem like a massive waste of energy and resources. Masks, vaccines, dividers, hand sanitizer… none of it actually stops transmission. Spare everyone from this godawful ceremony.
There's a weak link somewhere--I wonder if it's flight crews in this case. If the pilot and other crew for the leg from South Africa to Antarctica weren't also isolating 10 days and tested at the same time, then there's your infection vector.
> Medical treatments and equipments in the US are the best in the world (discounting super small countries).

Not really. They're fine. In line with OECD. And further, America has a number of blemishes such as among the highest maternal mortality and infant rate in the entire OECD. [1]

...the U.S. ranks 33 out of 36 Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations. In 2018, while infant mortality reached an all-time low in the U.S., at 5.9 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, still more than 21,000 infants died. Compared to countries with a similar GDP, the U.S. infant mortality rate is much higher. France and the U.K., for example, have 3.8 deaths per 1,000 live births.

The only area the US really excels is in cancer 5-year survival rates - not because the mortality rate is lower, however, it's about the same as everywhere else. The US just biases towards earlier screenings that do not extend life or reduce mortality.

> Americans have the highest life expectancy in the world (discounting homicides and transit deaths).

Are you sure about that? It doesn't look like that on this chart. [2] Not to mention the US spends dramatically more to achieve that much lower life expectancy than anyone else does.

> Americans can get treatments fast while people in Canada or the UK have to wait for months because the government is rationing treatments.

This is a straight-up lie peddled by the US medical insurance industry. Here's an admission and an apology by a Cigna executive tasked with doing so. [3]

"Our industry PR and lobbying group, AHIP, supplied my colleagues and me with cherry-picked data and anecdotes to make people think Canadians wait endlessly for their care. It's a lie. And I'll always regret the disservice I did to folks on both sides of the border."

They pulled the same thing when Canada instituted single-payer healthcare in 1962. [4]

> American companies carry the world on medical innovation.

Not really. There are as many European as there are American medical companies in the top R&D spenders worldwide. That's before we factor in government expenditures worldwide.

> And, finally, Americans just earn more than people in other countries. GDP per capita is 60k in the US, 40k in other developed countries.

Now imagine what they could do with an extra $5K per person per year - the difference between what the US and Canadian medical systems cost per capita.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2021/08/01/us-mater...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/27/884307565/after-pushing-lies-...

[4] https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-birth-of-med...
"non-biologist warns pigs could fly" - weasel word titles are meaningless and the article isn't news, it's speculation.
Because in that moment it’ll have a great amount of relevance
> This part can be addressed easily with avatars such as those Gravatar makes. Using a blockchain instead seems like a huge overkill, and also brings 'login' back into the equation because most websites will use something like Metamask, which you have to log into.

A gravatar is great for a profile photo, but in the end, there's no guarantee that the message viewed by a user was actually written by the poster. A site admin could simply inject posts as that user.

With signed messages, only those who possess the key could have created the signature for the signed message. Even a site admin cannot edit the message and get away with it (since the signature wouldn't validate).