skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my exact algorithm. Like GP said, it was jarring to read a bunch of conclusions that never entered my mind, and were a function of which examples they contrived.

My reasoning about pedestrians is that they didn't sign up for self-driving, the people in the car did.
In the case of the piano, it's very simple: anyone who is worried about catching Covid by listening to the piano is free to not listen to the piano. There's really nothing to balance.
“ I seriously got shocked by people telling me, they walk in shoes hurting them, but they did so because of style.”

Determining what to optimize for is basically what preference is. Some prefer attractiveness and aesthetics over comfort, and in most cases there is no option that optimizes all variables due to complex cross talk…

After you choose which subjective preference to optimize for, you can definitely employ the scientific method to try to parse that further, but that comes after the preference:)
Upper and lower codepoints are really way too obscure and can create issues you didn't even know you had.

I once had the very unpleasant experience of debugging a case where data saved with R on windows and loaded on macOS ended up with individually double-encoded codepoints.

Not fun.
> imagine handing a Unicode string to a human. They could without any knowledge look at the characters they see and produce the correct string reversal.

I really highly doubt it.

How do you reverse this?: مرحبًا ، هذه سلسلة.

Can you do it without any knowledge about whether what looks like one character is actually a special case joiner between two adjacent codepoints that only happens in one direction? Can you do it without knowing that this string appears wrongly in the HN textbbox due to an apparent RTL issue?

It's just not well-defined to reverse a string, and the reason we say it's not meaningful is that no User Story ever starts "as a visitor to this website I want to be able to see this string in opposite order, no not just that all the bytes are reversed, but you know what I mean."
it seems HN has lost the ability to detect sarcasm :-(
I haven't tried saliva. Usually I just end up with my mask way up my nose and my glasses moved down my nose. That works fine short term but I have to hold my head like a pompous asshole and that's tiring.
A good while back I looked at restrictors for training and my recollection is they didn't show any benefit in studies. Unclear why. They're a lot tougher than any respirator I've tried so I wouldn't expect the respirator to have any benefit that direction. Altitude tents apparently do work but are more trouble and risk than I'm comfortable with.
I made a job board that showcases the latest job postings that don’t use LeetCode interviews: https://www.nowhiteboard.org

Also, I just added a feature where you can see upfront what programming languages a job posting includes as well
How else is he going to access his black money pool after SWIFT shuts down?
On the challenge front, there are things like á which might be a single code point or two code points (a+´). Then there are the really challenging things like ᾷ where if the components are individual characters, the order of ͺ and ῀ are not guaranteed to be consistent.
Knowing the difference between async and sync is relevant to any JavaScript developer's daily tasks. If you are hiring a JavaScript developer it's 100% a fair question to ask. If you are hiring a generalist maybe not, but if they have JavaScript experience in the last 3 years listed on their resume, I again say it's fair to ask.

Asking about async/sync in JS is completely different from asking someone what obscure features like finalizers are in Java. One is used on an hourly basis when writing code, the other one is never used except in obscure legacy code.

If you do what you're proposing and just ask about projects I think you'll find it's easy for incompetent people who are floundering around and copy pasting from stackoverflow without understanding what they're copying to pass your bar. I copy from stack overflow all the time but I understand what I'm copying and why it works and when it doesn't work.
IIRC Unicode doesn't define country codes. It was a workaround for a political issue of which countries recognize which other countries.

It would have been difficult to get the CN delegation to sign off on a list that contained TW, although there are probably others.
> It never hurts to be [gorgeous]

I disagree. For example, if you're made up gorgeous and this leads a security checkpoint guard to notice you, and then they're checking you out and realize that your shoes are unusually fashionable, and then they notice that your badge lanyard is the wrong color and your badge looks a bit crinkly, now your cover is blown — all because you drew their eye.

That's not to say that there is no value in attractiveness — it's just not a guaranteed upside that can be taken for granted as harmless. This also shows up in spycraft, where "unmemorable" can be a very strong asset.
Definitely agree here that the complexity / benefits tradeoff is not totally clear cut in favour of this, and it could well be the reason nothing like this has been proposed (that I know of)!

That said, aside from the UX-y benefit of load time, under performance gains I would also include saving the processing and pushing around of all those bits at web scale. That's got to represent incredibly impactful absolute energy savings, and bandwidth cost savings.
I've used regexr for years. It has helped me build some really complex expressions.
Here are my thoughts: If we assume civilization doesn't collapse, the concept of radiation is likely to remain poignant enough to keep people from futzing around in a radioactive waste repository.

However, if we do assume civilization collapses and people forget about what radiation is, we can also safely assume that the future civilization will not be industrialized. If the waste is stored in some place extremely remote, inhospitable, or miles underground, the sheer cost of trying to reach the material would bankrupt any future civilization. We do have some precedence for this, one of the Great Pyramids was meant to be dismantled but it just proved too expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Menkaure
Being cut from international credit isn't something that creates inflation anyway. The situation is actually that Argentina is cut because of the same bad administration that got you the inflation.

Getting access to international credit also will not stop the inflation. It can help a competent administration to survive the change into low inflation, but credit by itself is not something good (it's actually a bit bad), it's only helpful when invested competently.
> Naturally, this move led to a huge outcry outside (and apparently inside) Google, and now, the company seems to be backing down from most of the harsher terms of the initial announcement.
[..]
> the company is surprised by how many people this change affected.

I would expect that this system is too complicated to simply run `select count(*) from users where status = 'legacy'` but I'm certain they knew exactly how many free-loading "businesses" would be affected.

Too late for me, already started my migration to Fastmail.

The article does address paid content, which is good, but my larger concern is still with my Cloud Identity. I've used my custom domain under Google as authentication on hundreds of third-party sites.

If i use this migration tool and move to @gmail.com, will third-party sites still recognize and honour my custom domain Google login credentials?
Aha, I see. If you’re in a race where every microsecond counts you would still care about there 10% after you’ve made sure that the 90% can’t be further optimized.
Perhaps modify it? Mentor under your own name, form a network on LinkedIn, some of your former students will follow you into your next venture. You'll have a pool of potential candidates ready when you are.
Unicode doesn't define any flags, really. That's up to the font rendering on systems/libraries.
Tell HN: Netflix UX Idea
That “starts in 5 seconds” thing, and that having to confirm that you’re still there thing - they can be annoying at times.

What about removing those two features, and implementing one new feature that achieves the same on your end, but which minimises the annoyance on our end, namely:

“Starts in 2 minutes” and “Press to skip”.

And I invite all UX-passionate HNers who think this is a terrible idea to please elucidate us.
For those who want to delve deeper into the subject of runes: A large research project coordinated by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen is compiling a database of findings all over northern and eastern Europe, which is available via https://www.runesdb.eu/project/
Sorry- in yourt terminology, not "enormous risk", but "enormous consequence".
So: low probability of problem, but prolem has large consequences -> small risk in your terminology. Fair enough.
Thanks for that interesting detail!

If such re-purposing continues, it might be easier to go straight to utf-32 for some use cases.
With that logic the one doing the wage theft is the goverment for causing the inflation in the first place and not allowing other currencies to be used.
(Disclosure: I work on Notion)

This is a really cool idea!

I think the challenging part of this project will be building intuitive and collaborative interfaces on top of the bare-bones data model. The challenge comes with two parts: (1) allowing blocks to compose, so I can nest a "task block" inside a "paragraph block", and (2) figuring out the collaboration model so multiple users can manipulate blocks at the same time, eg by typing characters. Both of these aspects are un(der)specified in the Block Protocol spec.

For an example of a challenge building composable blocks, consider the suggested architecture - the project imagines different block types implemented as sandboxed iframes, orchestrated by some editor that stitches them together into a document or dashboard. This would make certain interactions difficult/impossible to implement in the browser. For example, you can't start a text selection in one iframe, and end the text selection in the next iframe. This means that each layer will need to implement many of the standard blocks, just to provide tools that operate on the contents of more than one block at a time.

I'm left wondering if there will ever be "block protocol native" apps, or if this will be more of an interoperability/import/export format between otherwise monolithic platforms that have their own much richer internal data format.
Just thinking out loud... can't I just ask the google "Hey Google, in PERL, show me a regex to find the first occurrence of a semicolon to the next period."?
Typical progressive response. An order of double-down with a side of name calling.
Nowadays I think aircraft carriers are valuable tools in relatively asymetric warfare, the kind the US have been involved in since after WWII because the adversary has limited means of effective attack.

However, in a full scale conflict against a "developed" adversary any carrier showing up (e.g. near China) would be met with a barrage of modern missiles, torpedoes, and drones and I'm really wondering if it would survive long...

Now, I'm sure that they have extensive defensive systems but, on the other hand, a developed and sophisticated adversary is most likely also capable of attacking by firing 10-20 missiles at once, etc... Sinking an aircraft carrier is a major win, both operationally and for propaganda. So I'm thinking the sun has already set on aircraft carriers in such scenarios.
It’s fine to say with hindsight that vaccine predictions were wrong, but again, that was the official position of the CDC and Biden administration at the time as well, so it’s hugely dishonest to pretend like she’s some kind of extremist or disinformation artist for being on the same page as them.

It’s not really the reader’s responsibility to check everything else in the thread to see how you and/or the thread author are either lying or failing to remember very public facts about the pandemic.
Considering LC and other sites catalogue questions and places that do use LC, why not? How would you go about getting data? If you are working with companies directly, maybe ask them what screening they do go with (project based, etc).
Its always entertaining to see users claiming bad faith when they are engaging in bad faith themselves.

Please list the good reasons that are relevant for a fully publically accessible page of information that contains nothing that asks for usernames/passwords or whatever.
Official numbers say we have 10 active cases and 35 total for the year in my kids elementary school which has ~750 people on campus. My kid is one of those positive cases so he is quarantined for 10 days. Keeping my youngest home as well just to be sure he does not infect anyone, just assuming he is positive as well but no symptoms. They go to the same school. Prior to omicron I think they only had 5 positive cases at the school, no masks during delta either. At this point just assumed that if no one else is masking, there is no point and the kids are not going to keep them on if the teachers don't make them or wear them themselves. Assuming wife and I have it currently as well as we are not isolating from our kid but no symptoms. Wife and I are just working from home to avoid infecting anyone at work.
Not likely true.

Your post ignores the recent and not-recent history of the company:

- CEO equates musicians "doing well" with musicians creating a lot content quickly ..: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/spotify-ceo-rockers-respond/ - undermines music as an artform for the sake of high profit
- blocking a prominent musician in favor of a talk-show comedian / host. Talk Radio trumping Music.
- purportedly poor-quality recommendation engine
- purportedly large amount of ads per unit of content
It "should" suffice, but entities like banks and media companies are already going beyond this. As the parent points out, many financial and media apps on Android will just simply not work if the OS build is not signed by a manufacturer on Google's list. Build your own Android ROM (or even use a build of one of the popular alternative ROMs) and you lose access to all those apps.
I don't know the answer, I never invest in south america so I haven't really checked. So let's look together.

Inflation seems to have been a problem since around 2002. From 2006 to 2015 it was kind of stable but bad. The currency then dropped out.

GDP across that entire period seems collapsed. They constantly are dipping into recessions. Their manufacturing industry seems to be in decline since ~2012. Agriculture is suspiciously flat. Mining is in decline for that entire period. Seems to be whole economy collapse to me.

Labour participation rate is steady around 45% suggesting not much tinkering with employment numbers. Which looks also steady about 42%. Unemployment is pretty steady from about 2006 to present around 6-8%. So their productivity is poor. They'll very likely always be a second world country. What a sad outlook.

Central bank balance sheets are all the rave, they only go back to 2012. It looks as bad as any other country as of late.

Money supply is sky high. They probably have ~300-600% inflation locked in here. Holy.

Interest rates are in the 40-80% ranges? But real yields are negative for sure. You cant save a dime in this environment.

Balance of trade is good since 2019 or so, but that probably lines up well with collapse of their economy. Probably means poverty on the rise bigtime? Otherwise has been bad for years and has been in decline in scope.

Tourism died long before covid. Roughly in 2016 something happened to kill their tourism industry.

Government credit rating is trash. Yet government debt is rising.

Argentina's military spending had been bad since the 1990s.

No surprise to see their economic competitiveness is nearly lowest ranked in the world.

household debt to gdp? Argentina has no household debt? You cant get a mortgage at 40%+ interest rates. Therefore you cant have debt. Their people have no debt and they are sitll in collapse?

Corporate tax rate is recently down from an outrageous 35% to a slightly less outrageous 25%. Personal tax is 35%, Sales tax at 21%. So a total tax burden of easily well over 80%. Argentinian people work for the government at least 80% of the year. Does the government provide 80% back in services and goods? I highly doubt that very much.

Since the problem has been ongoing so long. Politically it can't be solved. I must admit I know nothing about their politicians but if I were to shoot from the hip, their current leadership is not ideologically aligned with fixing it.

So easy prediction without crystal ball? They have at least 3 more years of absolute collapse. We're talking probably 20% of people will enter poverty before this ends. It's going to be very bad for the argentinian folks.
Ohh I get it. It's basically Docker/shipping containers for content.
I love Cypress. there are definitely limitations though like iframe support or visiting two separate domains, tab support

https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/trade-offs#Permane...
Gotcha. Well, whatever the name of the theory is that says it's OK to just rack up a ginormous national debt, that's what I am against.
That seems unlikely. That foreman most probably belongs to a union. Unions in Argentina are very powerful and they negotiate at the National level. Whatever increase they negotiate, your friend's father-in-law will have to pay.
> People resist everything

Perhaps it causes a positive bias in the natural selection or is the side effect of something that causes a positive bias?
Once I got past 40, the only reason to own a "good" suit was to attend funerals.

So I would show up to job interviews in a basic black suit, and I liked the way I felt when I wore it. The old-school attitude about "Dress for Success" is just one more thing that's become retro and ironic these days.
WebDriver or Playwright. I switched from Spectron to selenium-webdriver.
Surely, it’d be written in a .txt file!
Dialyzer, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the cryptic error messages
That's not how orbital mechanics works. Objects move in elliptical orbits around the sun, not in straight lines.

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/45619
It's true that they didn't mandate detecting and blocking accesses from VPNs, if the user chooses to connect through one. However, they pretty clearly are saying that the application should be exposed to the public Internet, which is the opposite of what enriquto claimed[0] earlier in this thread:

> As I understand it, this sentence says that the application should be safe even if it was exposed to the public internet, not that it needs to be exposed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30103558
Nevada isn't largely populated outside of vegas, and then there's the fact that it has already been heavily irradiated from testing. No one is really going to want to build near there. That and it doesn't have sustainable water availability to build outside of vegas. It makes perfect sense to build the mine there.
Swift, for example, does what you're saying. I thought that the reason many languages don't do it that way is that part of the definition of an array (or at least expected-by-convention) is constant-time operations. If you treat a string as an array, then having to deal with variable-length units breaks that rule. That's why, when there is an API for dealing with grapheme clusters, it is usually a special case that duplicates an array-like API, instead of literally using an array.

I actually don't know how/why Python is apparently using code points, since they are variable length. That seems like a compromise between using code units and using grapheme clusters that gets you the worst of both worlds.

Edit: Maybe it uses UTF-32 under the hood when it's doing array operations on code points?
When I first realized that the skin tone emojis were a code-point + a color code-point modifier, I tried to see what other colors there were and if I could apply those to other emojis. The immature child in me looked to see if there was a red color code point and if so, could I use it to make a "blood poop" emoji. Turns out.... no.
I think you're still missing OP's point. Sure, using ftp/sftp or scp is pretty easy for a software engineer, or technology enthusiast. However, that doesn't mean a content creator is happy to learn it, since as OP said, they care about the content not the actual tech. If they have a choice between using something that requires scp and writing HTML versus a graphic environment that is WYSIWYG, then the choice will very likely be the latter.
> I don't mind hearing no's, I just hate feeling in limbo on the candidate side.

Haha, definitely agree on this and great idea on exposing a timeframe for different stages, will definitely look into getting this implemented.

It would also be really cool if it showed (instead of a timeframe set by the recruiter) the actual median time for that stage for others, but I'm not sure if recruiters would be comfortable not having "control" of that number.

But even a recruiter/company set timeframe would definitely help the candidate understand and I think would still help keep the recruiters honest.

Thanks for the feedback!
The CDC does. [0]. So does the Mayo Clinic [1]. So does the Cleveland Clinic [2]. So does Johns Hopkins [3]. So does the American Academy of Pediatrics [4].

And the WHO does suggest many children wear masks. [5]

If you don't trust even one of these institutions over your own judgement, you are failing to participate successfully in society.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-...

[1] https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/benefits-of-ki...

[2] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/files/org/employer...

[3] https://www.hopkinsallchildrens.org/ACH-News/General-News/Ki...

[4] https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...

[5] https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cor...
Ransomware-resistant backups with duplicity and AWS S3
Except reducing the fiscal deficit, seems like no goverment wants to try spending less than what they have.
This has to be a joke. Cannot tell anymore what is satire or real
There are countries with negligible risk of serious earthquakes and there are reactor type where we could split the long half time isotopes to much smaller halftime elements.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-countries-have-the-...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922100148.h...
Ha, happens to us all! Ironically my reply attracted downvotes, as it appears some felt the same way about my tone policing.
Unless I happen to have a mortgage, or other dollar denominated debt..
I'd generally agree with this mentality when individuals are trying to get something done, but definitely not when it's my government doing it.
Should it reverse a BOM as well or keep it first?
This is unlikely to be true for respiratory viruses. Compared to an ancestral environment, we have:

* Much less contact with bacteria, dirt, allergens, due to sterilization

* Much more contact with respiratory viruses, due to enclosed spaces and modern energy efficiency standards

The whole overactive immune system/hygiene hypothesis is much more likely linked to lack of exposure to the first group of pathogens and substances.
If you have children you know the answer to this question:

What are they protecting against: direct sneezing into someone else's face?

Yes. Coughing, sneezing, touching, hugging, biting, scratching, and not washing hands. If you want to get sick on a semi regular basis, children are the way to go.
I still wear my mask to slow the transmission of covid so that less vulnerable people die, and so that our hospitals can stop being overrun.

I also personally think of this as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/health/coronavirus-mask-p...

Masking may reduce the severity of your covid infection, which would be pretty sweet.

So it's not an all or nothing.