skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great news! Especially that the observed performance of the test program based on FuturesUnordered, even though it stopped being quadratic, it was still considerably slower than the task::unconstrained one, which suggests there's room for improvement. Probably due to the fact that you still pay with a constant number of polls (32) each time you go out of budget.
US doesn't seem to have access to UK criminal records as I've travelled to NY without declaring convictions and been OK. No idea if just lucky or there's no data sharing.
Why life is faster but depression is lower in bigger cities
I see the issue as 'how do we get resources to OSS contributors'. Micropayments will never be more than a pittance as long as it has to compete with "free"
Who’s paying double?
This isn't a consequence of using UTF-16 as such - Java, .NET etc could totally have an API around UTF-16 strings that handles surrogate pairs. The problem, rather, is that those languages introduced a 16-bit type that they called "character", even though it wasn't even a Unicode codepoint. And then used that type throughout all string APIs, including strings themselves (indexing etc).

In .NET land you're now supposed to use https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.rune instead. It transparently handles surrogate pairs, so the app needn't be aware of anything - and yet the internal encoding is still UTF-16.
Yeah this nice raise many of us got hopping jobs is evaporating quickly
Fun little rabbit-hole for you to dive into: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycentric_law
I've done some work on barcode scanning, so I've spent quite a bit of time taking images of reference patterns and comparing them in minute detail.

In my experience, the current iPhone SE produces very slightly more detail than a m4/3 Lumix DMC-GX80. Which is crazy, because the iPhone's lens and sensor are tiny compared to the m4/3 camera.
I understood the parent post to suggest dual licensing where the commercial license also gives you paid support. I.e. if you expect support pay up by buying a commercial license. Though I see no reason to conflate the two things. I would suggest in this case not even having a public issue tracker, and make your open source offering a take it or leave it proposition.
Where is the go-to place to put blogs these days? It's been probably 15 years since I blogged, and I didn't do much of it then. On blogspot, I think.
It's pretty weird to put any configuration-languages in a relational database in general. Large variable-length objects is not what relational databases are good at. You're mostly getting the drawbacks, and very few of the benefits in that use case. Even a filesystem is probably more suitable.
Emoji modifiers, both for gender and skintone, do not produce that many extra code points. Combinations are made in the same way ¨ + e can combine into ë: a code point, followed by a combination code point, followed by a modifier. During text rendering, these code points are converted back into a single glyph.

All UTF-8 codepoints in use today can be encoded with four bytes. Theoretically the Unicode system can be used to create 6 byte code points if that ever becomes necessary, but it won't be for a while. Crossing the 4 byte boundary would also introduce compatibility issues with UTF-16, so I'm sure the Unicode Consortium will do their best to prevent this from happening as long as they can.
Activists petition roads near new PRC Embassy in London to be renamed
Background: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/employee-representative-board-... (“Honeycomb Adds Employee Representative to Board of Directors”)
The good news is that the used vehicle market will almost certainly crash around 2022/2023 as new vehicle production catches up with demand. Currently, my 2020 used car with 30K miles can be sold for more than the MSRP for the 2022 model with identical trim. And it can even be sold for slightly more than actual quotes I've gotten for the 2022 model from dealers. There's obviously a supply shortage going on that will subside.

The bad news is that the new vehicle and food price increases are almost certainly sticky.

Energy is the big tricky question mark. The big worry post-pandemic was about US shale production never returning, but it's starting to look like we'll hit the 2019 highs in US domestic production some time in the next year or so. I suspect we're past the peak in terms of rate of growth, but it's hard to say if the new prices are sticky or if we'll see a meaningful decline in the next year or two.

(I've started to build a strategy for selling off my energy holdings and I'm still on the fence about what to do with Ford and GM.)
> Over the past few weeks the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), Interpol, and other international law enforcement agencies have worked together to incarcerate and indict ransomware threat actors. Through this effort, millions of dollars in ransom payments have been recovered.

yet still, cryptocurrency gets blamed for all the ransomware. nevermind that clearly the law is able to find some course to take, or the unsolved cases unrelated unrelated crypto or any of the myriad of studies about why crime exists. no, the mere existence of monero is why we have international criminal syndicates. never happened with drug cartels or insider trading rings. heck even warlords are bitcoins fault.

odd rant, I know, but the argument that "all that crypto does is encourage criminals" is willfully ignorant. tale as old as time.

"what did they do before crypto then smartie pants"

cash.

and before that: gold. probably shiny rocks before that.

we could try defeat these actors but honestly I am unable to believe it's just human nature. we suck sometimes
I found this by way of the page on the near infrared instrument's filter wheel.

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-camera/nircam...

Most people don't realize space images they see (made for publication) are generally composites of single exposures taken with different filters. Things move so slowly in space that you can do a long exposure with red, green, and blue, and get more information out of it than if you used the Bayer filters on commercial sensors where you get one exposure with a balance of colors over each photosite based on target market. Usually with an over-emphasis on green or blue.
Unfortunately staying at home forever does more than zero. But that's just not a reasonable option.

Not to repeat this as infinitum but R0 is a useful number to inform. It's not something you should be seeking to directly change.

Killing cities of people to contain outbreaks achieve a lower R0, but frankly at this stage we're so far off topic of mask efficacy or reliability.
Retailers dropped his products

He has a defamation lawsuit of 1,3 billion

Are you even sure he made more sales/revenue?

History shows (as far as I'm aware) that a company leaning towards a political opinion normally loses sales. Eg. Look at the Trump hotels losing business and trying to remove his brand.
Planetside 2 comes to mind. Although the performance in big fights is usually terrible.
Best to be used with mysqli_real_escape_string ;-)
https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.real-escape-string.php
What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2k years ago rather than 200?
What's in a Good Error Message?
The purpose of Unions is a check on corporate and government power.

Just like the US has three branches of government there are really four fundamental organizations in society: government, corporations, religion and unions.

They work best by keeping each other in check. Right now unions have been decimated and corporations have bought out the government and religion.

Unions aren't optional, we're just slowly and corrosively finding out why, despite their flaws, they need to exist (and they don't work if people aren't involved in them).
Thank you for sharing this. I agree with what you said, I think one problem with the current social-media-driven public discourse is that it brings the tendency to "put a label on people" to an extreme. But as you say, if you spend time and have a real conversation with a person you will often find that reality is different from stereotypes.
There's been some good research into the history of legal systems. See David Friedman's book Legal Systems Very Different From Ours [1]. There's a small section about prisoners. But a new chapter could definitely be written about cyber-criminals!

[1] http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo...
Renaming your phone also triggered the Log4Shell vuln at one point.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22832552/iphone-tesla-sm...
You think it’s irrational for employees to object to a reduction in pay? That seems rational to me
I have a lot of those white ones, and they work great for years now. They're a steal.
Just to clarify your point there: Charging batteries as pairs is what kills the rechargeable batteries. There is no way for the charger to keep track of both batteries at the same time so it just charges until both should be done.

If one of them is bad, the charger will kill the other one too. If they are differently charged, it will kill one of the batteries and next time it will kill the other battery. (Kill as in make worse and worse until it finaly doesn't charge at all.)

I have mostly stopped using rechargeable AA and AAA batteries because of the bad quality of the last ones I bought. They took 3-5 charges before dying with a good charger that does all batteries separately.
That article was discussed at length already, the current linked page is the conclusion from Apple (not mentioned on the article from GP).
Looks down at the FRAM chip on his project

Oh. Okay.
Unrelated but regarding SCSS/SASS: I am curious, why did we invent a new syntax for scss instead of writing a library in Python or Go that maps data-objects to CSS classes? You have full access to a proper programming language instead of this new DSL we need to learn. I tried searching for it but no luck, any reason why we don't do this?
This is the same story with Siri...
Best practice: A-class product launch campaign in 2022?
I'm looking for best practices in building a launch campaign for a new b2c saas product.

Things like Clubhouse' invite-only strategy that were very successful in distribution.

Can you share anything or any links you have in mind? I'm happy to make a sheet/collection with everything. Here also a good one I found
Collection of other examples https://growthmodels.co/growth-studies/
> This can be implemented basically with a fixed value of resistance, but because of the way resistance interacts with voltage, it’s actually very gentle on the battery. As the battery voltage falls, the current falls accordingly, so the delivered power falls even further. For modern appliances, this type of loading is not common.

Dumb question - is it at all possible to design a modern device which operates this way? (As battery voltage falls, device performance also falls? It's been a really really long time since my EE classes - are transistors just unable to operate this way?)
In December my lease renewal offer included a 35% rent increase. I attempted to bargain them down to a lower increase, but the leasing office never even got back to me. At least according to the subreddit for my area, most apartment buildings here seem to be trying to increase rent 20-40%.
Pikchr is really great. The syntax looks strange at first, but the learning curve is actually low. Within 5 minutes of looking at the pikchr source of some SQLite diagrams, you'll get it. I use it to produce railroad syntax diagrams in the same style as the ones in the SQLite docs. I don't use the Markdown integration; I just generate SVGs using PikchrShow[0] and treat them as images in my HTML-based docs.

[0] https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow
We have a calorimeter - it should count volume of hot water times the temperature difference. I heard it's not very precise.
This is going to sound odd, but I think the QR code still carries the same level of 'unrecognizable' that a long string of alphanumeric text does. My brain can't really parse or recognize a QR code from memory. As such, I have a sense of unease. However, I am able to roughly recite my credit card number because it is 4 sets of 4 digit numbers.

But you're right that you can offload addresses to browser or app memory just like with credit cards and get rid of some of the trepidation that way.
Substack and Medium are the common platforms if you’re interested in writing something.

JAMstack if you’d prefer to tinker with the blogging system.
If you're not permitted to publish a copy, you can keep it private and/or link to a version at an institution, such as archive.org, that is allowed to keep a public copy.
Self Hosted Email vs. Gmail
Depends on the city/country, but there's also an argument affecting tourists is just not worth it.

Money isn't the goal, money + little trouble is the goal. If a city is a big tourist destination, the bad press, the potential involvement of foreign nations, the outcry from the tourism industry, etc are all good reasons for local law enforcement to strike back hard.

Especially if overwhelmed, it's very possible local law enforcement wont give the same weight to an investigation involving only locals and one involving a foreigner, especially if the eyes of, say, Germany are staring at you.
> why they had to create a different encoding (the utf8mb4) instead of just extending the existing utf8 encoding, since 4-byte UTF-8 is obviously backward-compatible with 3-byte UTF-8

Because CHAR and VARCHAR columns have max length specified, and this translates to the corresponding amount being reserved in storage. For a variable-length encoding, this is normally computed assuming the largest possible value for every codepoint.
Link to GitHub project: https://github.com/neuml/txtai
Producer likely to change depending on who does them cheapest at the time.
I don't see where he said that. He said basically that it's questionable to try to prove one entity is "aligned financially and operationally" with a bad actor by citing another entity that is "aligned financially and operationally" with a different bad actor. If they are so obviously bad, your case would be better made by not citing a source that is an unabashed and uncritical mouthpiece for a particular government.
There's also org mode in emacs.

https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter

I'm not a great fan of notebooks though, I keep using the REPL with X forwarding for matplotlib, sided with a code editor.
Cuba is completely free to trade with the other 85% of the world economy that is not the United States, and indeed they've done so since the Soviet Union collapsed. They do quite a bit of trade with various European countries, and in particular Spain.

Interestingly, they're not even 100% cut off from the US- agricultural exports are exempt, and so Cuba imports quite a bit of US foodstuffs like poultry, soybeans and corn. (Farmers generally drive US economic policy!)
Posthog! You can host the analytics yourself or let them host it for you.
How much did they go down or not grow the last two years?
what sort of 100 bucks prevents a death?
You've got to be joking. Now you're describing a country.
> For instance, the most I hear the word "practical" is to justify doing something inefficient but safe, ie use a microsoft product or service and accept it's limitations and cost, or some other safe inefficient choice like vmware before azure was a thing, etc.

Sure, I hear you and I've experienced this too. I've been on nightmare ASP.net spaghetti code projects that would be good fodder for programming sites. VB projects that are a stitched-together set of tools with a frontend full of a million buttons, etc.

But on the flip side, have you never worked at a company full of Ruby/PHP/Python engineers that have trouble getting their software to build and run correctly? People with billions of dollars who find the prospect of putting something on a web page—for a business model that has existed for a century—challenging? I have many times, and it's a reflection of how insular that segment of the industry is that they don't find anything weird about this.

In contrast, there's an army of JVM engineers out there that don't spend any time on HN because the JVM solved the problems HN talks about 20 years ago. They don't need to talk about it or consider it "news" because it isn't. For instance, the technical level of InfoQ is whole echelons higher than here. This is not to disparage the very real benefits that the "Hacker" mentality has provided to the world. SV are accomplished business and product people, and they've managed to impress the world with the type of organizational scale they can deliver. But technical it ain't.
I think this is the point. A television show should have at least 9 times as many viewers as cast and crew. A newspaper has far more readers than it has editors and writers.

If anything, modern "everyone is a content creator" platforms have already brought this too far even letting 1% of people create the content. On the one hand, this sort of democratization means you can find diamonds in the rough who'd have never had a chance otherwise, avoiding the whole "how many Einstein's died at age 8 while toiling for a family farm" problem. On the other hand, you get a combinatorial explosion of trash content not worth reading. For every Einstein, you get 999 George McCready Prices.

I hope this doesn't come off too elitist, but it relates to the other front page item right now about the guy who doesn't have a blog. Everyone in there is giving reasons he should go ahead and publish a blog. Well, what happens if every single person on the planet publishes a blog? How are you supposed to find the ones worth reading? Someone else mentioned HOAs. What is the point if your HOA board is just every person in the neighborhood? If you completely decentralize literally everything, we lose all of the economies of scale that come along with specialization and division of labor and suddenly everyone needs to be a writer and an editor in addition to everything else they already do.
Cities have a bad rep. But they're actually the healthiest, greenest, safest, most opportunity filled, most social places to live.
In 10 lines of code you can import a transformer and embed your phrase/word. Then you can do prediction or similarity search really easy. It's a superpower, true.
My rent didn't go down.
> But in this situation, the offer you're getting is going to be no better than what the other company offers, so if your current company can't match, you don't lose anything

What a strange comment?! Perceived high achievers and high potential talents receive well above company average salaries or salary rises all the time in competitive industries like software, without waiting to see whether that person starts interviewing at other companies and what that offer is! They can't receive well above company average pay offers if the company's collective bargaining arrangement doesn't allow them to offer anything other than the standard union-agreed pay rate even the below average workers get. So they earn less.

If a company is willing to pay a person more than they're willing to pay their average and below average staff, but a union rule forces them to pay everyone with that job description the same, that person is obviously earning less money, not more money. I'm genuinely amazed a concept so simple can generate so many objections
Finally someone can actually implement the 1 million robotaxis we have been waiting for as Elon "promised".
Man, I remember running Cyberpunk on release. Single digit framerates and kernel panics, on a 5700 XT. It became playable within a couple of weeks.
pour a drink, sit back and have a read
If anyone wants to keep up with Tom Lane's prolific mailing list contributions without subscribing to the pgsql-hackers firehose, I wrote a Twitter bot that tweets the last sentence (according to some mostly-working regex heuristics) from his e-mails: https://twitter.com/regardstomlane

Postgres is a fantastic community.
Mysterious car lock block caused by 'system' fault in shopping centre
Right, but isn't it a bit of a shame that I search "http" in crates.io, the site that theoretically should be serving the "find a crate" use case, and I don't get suggestions that are useful?
There’s a book I really enjoyed called Narconomics.

It helps explain all aspects of the drug trade through the lens of business.

One of the most fascinating takeaways was how they handle “contract enforcement” in the absence of a legal system or courts (hint: Violence)

I recall an anecdote that Mexican cartels would hire Mexicans —- and not Dutch —- in order to serve as drug mules smuggling product into Amsterdam. Dutch mules would get caught less often, but Mexicans were much less likely to steal the drugs entirely. Because when you sign up to be a mule they take down the names and addresses of your entire family (nearby), and will kill them if you steal the product. Contract enforcement.
BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) is hiring a head of growth
And the administration wants to spend $1.75 trillion more dollars? Give me a break.
New vehicle prices are almost certainly not sticky. Competition between dealers and OEMs is normally fierce, and will revert to normal once we exit this supply-constrained environment.

Food price is also highly cyclical and related to supply constraints of pure commodities which always correct.
Selling any sort of change to any company is usually very hard. It has nothing to do with proprietary versus open source. Open Source is a major selling point, and the Open Source community can/needs to do better explaining the value proposition of Open Source. That is why companies that wish to sell change employ salespeople.
You’ve picked the one that probably has the highest death toll worldwide!
You're literally asking them to break the SQL standard. The meaning of N in CHAR(N) is the number of characters.
It’s possible (and IMO enjoyable) to write UIKit apps with ComposableArchitecture, a purely value-typed approach. I’ve also mostly used MVVM with UIKit since 2015, and found my apps to be stabler and easier to maintain than standard MVC apps.

In projects I lead I’ve been discouraging inheritance because I’ve found it highly detrimental to maintainability. “Base” classes invite bloat and overgeneralization, especially with inexperienced devs.
How much of the nice raise came from companies realizing they finally had some pricing power?
Precisely. They're using their success in one space to prevent others from being successful in a different space.
> We don’t necessarily need unions

But we do.

I'd argue that if you hop into other threads about how everyone is worried about financial/societal collapse in the US that it is the end result of decimating unions in the 80s.

You just don't notice right away that you need unions when you lose them, corrosively much later you notice that society has gone off the rails.
Are there any examples of widespread ransomware that demanded payment in cash, gold, or shiny rocks?
Awesome! Looked at what you do. Will be in touch. Thanks for being generous.
Used car buyers.
You're right. Replace UTF-16 with UCS-2 and the comment sounds at least slightly more correct.
Euclid's Elements (300 BC)
Brevity is not the only goal in writing. If the author had not provided an analogue in another field, it would not have been engaging.
Northern Virginia area.
Interview: Five Questions with James Pethokoukis
Crystal City (based on your comment history)?

35% does seem steep, but it doesn't seem fair to compare against last year's rent when it was likely heavily discounted due to COVID.
How is spending by the US government related to energy prices?

If anything the subsidies for renewable energy (build out and research) would give fossil fuels more competition.