skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that Han unification was an unfortunate design decision, but I'd argue that the consortium is following a consistent approach to the Han unification with emoji. For example, they treat "regional" vendor variations in emoji as a font issue. If you get a message with the gun emoji, unless you have out-of-band information regarding which vendor variant is intended, there's no way in software to know if it should be displayed as a water gun (Apple "regional" variant) or a weapon (other vendor variants). Which is not that different from a common problem stemming from Han unification.
In Illinois, wife teaches 2-3 yr olds. Masks are mandatory, all day long. Any pulldown gets pulled up. Nothing much goes on in the classroom anymore besides mask compliance and handwashing. It is INSANE.

We have two children. Both masked for 7 hours a day. Every day. Both schools are VERY STRICT. Everybody is vaxxed and boosted. Doesn't matter.
Bob Harper is known (among my circles, anyway) as taking pretty hard stances in favor of first-principles approaches, and he's also one of the foremost researchers in advanced type theory.

Python is about as far away from his interests as you can possibly get, I'd imagine.

> Academic functional languages don't have most of those, and academia has no right to complain given that they've done little to rectify this.

On this note, I'll have to (hopefully politely) ask you to learn a bit more about what you're going to talk about before offering such opinions.

Most (maybe all?) modern languages were developed primarily as direct results of academic involvement. And in those areas in which the influence is not direct, advances are usually still due to the efforts of those in PL academia. I don't say this to be obnoxious, but you can pretty well trace the developments through conference proceedings over the past few decades.

As for what we refer to as academic languages: they are not meant to be useful to the general programmer. They don't need powerful standard libraries or flexibility. They're meant for exploration and experimentation. Haskell (for example) was never supposed to catch on in the mainstream. It was designed to answer questions like "What does programming in a lazy language look like?" and "Is such a language useful?" and "In what ways is it not useful?" This is detailed in the phenomenal paper "A History of Haskell: Being Lazy with Class" from I think HOPL 3.
This is a cool project, but I wanted to tell you that your evaluate_guess function is wrong.

evaluate_guess(answer="crest", guess="erase")
"MYNYM"

Many people misunderstand this but it's not how the rules actually work. Correct here would be MYNYN, because there is only one E in the correct answer. There must be a 1-1 correspondence between any 'M' letter in the guess and the letter in the answer. This is similar to the rules for the game "Mastermind".
Is this just a knee-jerk thing to say because it seems like it must be true, and it's fashionable to take an alarmist position about any big company? Is there any critical thought behind such a statement?

Apple has not (in my recollection) sought to exert control over content of what is being said or shared among users. In fact, they seem to keep quite a distance from wanting to know or be responsible for that.

And you're claiming that iMessage is the "primary medium of communication of the citizens"? That is just a little overblown, don't you think?

I would argue, if you have that position, maybe you should spend your energy or concern on cable TV news and other media outlets, who do far worse, with far less share of their markets.
I actually want to hear good reasons for avoiding vaccinations, because many people care a lot about that.

I can understand immuno-compromised people, an underlying medical condition, for whom a vaccine may not work or may be dangerous. Undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer? Got it: vaccines won't help you (or anyone else) until you can get past the cancer.

I don't agree with an argument from stand-my-ground, my-body-my-choice principles. I could agree with such a line of reasoning, if a personal choice did not present an immediate danger to anyone else.

This is a very infectious disease with severe health consequences. No one has control over the outcome, if they choose to infect another person. Maybe it's no big deal for them. Or maybe it wrecks their life, long after the vaccine objector has left the scene.

What are some other reasons for avoiding vaccination?
While I don't disagree so you have specific things to read on this topic?
This could be a stupid question, but could we not literally fire this stuff into the sun? My science be bad, forgive me.
It has been previously found constitutional in Canada to force people to be vaccinate (as in, with force). This won't do anything. Also, the Canadian constitution is a bit more of a suggestion than others.
The web should proceed as a series of prime numbers, so web 5.0 follows web 3.0
I'm on the second page of google searches for a relevant search, but I doubt anyone is searching those terms since I kind of made the concept (Or I'm at least an early adopter).
Indeed. I'm way too young but I would have loved to be one of the people who, back in the day, thought "there's no way that $1mil of fiat value would exist in the blockchain because SHA256 must be fuckable in some way, if that kind of money was in it".
The disclaimer on the linked page agrees with me.

"This project is proof-of-concept and a research platform. It is NOT meant for a daily usage. The cryptography implementations are not resistent against side-channel attacks."
1. If your Grandpa chose to not get vaccinated and gets COVID, thats his problem.

2. The idea that anyone who wants in person learning is a "screaming Karen" is fucking stupid. There is lots of evidence that remote learning has all kinds of negative outcomes for kids, and your (frankly sexist) dismissiveness is the reason this conversation never goes anywhere.
Most likely GeoIP information is used as one of many inputs to a neural net that decides whether you can log on or not (see tons of "Google locked me out" examples).
> revenue streams based on information coming from Apple devices.

Indeed. There is no evidence of them abusing streams of user information.
>Also, how does that stack up against the death toll due to fossil fuels ("well we want to switch to renewables eventually"

Took about ~4 years to build hornsea. Will end up being about ~20 to build hinkley point. For 2-3x the cost you get 80% load capacity factor rather than 60%.

If you're in a hurry... that huge pile of money used to ~~keep nuclear skills and industry accessible to countries with nuclear arsenals~~ save the planet might be put to better use elsewhere.
I was never really a good mask wearer. Ideally I keep a distance but at this point of the pandemic I've just started taking the mask off or leaving it at home. There is a mask mandate where I live if you go to the store and so on, but I haven't had any complaints yet. I'm just drawing a line in the sand at this point.
Commercial aviation gets to pick from the cream of the crop and fully professionalizes it’s pilots - it’s all they do, all the time. That means staying current (keeping habits fresh, remembering key details, etc) happen easier.

Considering how low the frequency is for your your typical GA pilot, it’s honestly a wonder it works as well as it does.
We aren't talking about that though, we are talking about whether someone who falla for a scam bears any responsibility for that, at least in this thread started by the parent comment. When you walk into a building with a big sign above it that says "warning: scams ahead" can we really say "blaming the people that walked in here is unequivocally wrong"?
Some people made a bunch of money on dogecoin and it got enough attention to spark a wave of scamcoins
Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III unearthed at Luxor
The answer is usually "well, I happen to own cryptocurrencies, but not those other things you're suggesting"
> You know, I see snarky little comments like this becoming more and more common on this site, and I'd just like to point out that they are not helpful in any way.

It just represents a general fatigue that a lot of people have with the anti vaxxers. That we have hard numbers that vaccines actually work seems to be irrelevant to them, so maybe they would be convinced by snark and sarcasm instead?

> In my opinion, that line is the equivalent of saying "gosh, maybe black people should just stop committing crimes if they don't want to go to jail" or "gosh, maybe gay people should just stop having unprotected sex if they don't want HIV."

You are comparing getting a couple of free shots at the pharmacy to much more complicated lifestyle circumstances.
Nobody uses Facebook anymore. Apple is doomed. Google search results are terrible. Amazon is terrible.

And every cycle of quarterly results there’s surprise on HN.
GA is actually less safe than driving. It's about as safe as riding a motorcycle: https://inspire.eaa.org/2017/05/11/how-safe-is-it/

GA aircraft crash every day in the US. They don't make the news outside of aviation circles because only 1-2 people are affected. Often the occupants survive.
University mandates sensitivity course that uses redacted slurs
The risk is not through digging, it's through geological processes happening over 100 k years that break up the storage site.
Good luck to them. In Germany the national storage facility had nuclear waste stored in it for a decade or so and it “unexpectedly” started leaking and resurfacing. The project was subsequently abandoned about a decade ago and all existing waste had to be dug out again.

Mark me as skeptic as to whether this is feasible. 100k years is all marketing in any case and can’t realistically be designed for.
> In fact, anyone who would do that wouldn't be smart at all, would be pretty stupid

Can you expound on why this would be "stupid"?

Holding dollars to exchange for later incurs a 7% (current dollar purchasing power loss rate) loss on top of exchange fees. The can of tuna retains its food value exactly as-is for years, with no currency exchange costs. Seems to me that the tuna beats holding dollars handily.
> Under §2 of the Sherman Act 1890 every "person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize ... any part of the trade or commerce among the several States" commits an offence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Mo...

IANAL, and I'm assuming USA since that's where Apple has 90% market share on the young, but this seems to imply that monopoly in and on itself is illegal.
> My only issue with Mastadon is that regular busy working people with families to raise on depressingly low wages cannot justify the effort to participate. If if can’t work for all of our society, it can’t work for our society. Period.

That's assuming it doesn't get simpler and cheaper over time. I don't think being hard to use is inherent rather it is because the technology is not yet mature.
What is the advantage of this over investing in GME? Both backed by strength of a meme, both highly speculative, except at least converting GME to actual money doesn't require you to burn energy equivalent to the average US household's monthly consumption.
Well, they decided all of their phones are going to analyze your locally-stored photographs for child photography, and upload questionable photos to the cloud for human review...

They also block apps that involve politically controversial content, or content that they disagree with (e.g. pornography).
No, but once the exploit is discovered they could use client posture information to prevent unpatched clients from logging on.
Apple is the ‘Personal IBM’: a premium systems integrator where ‘you never blame yourself for buying Apple’ in the era when everyone has a handheld computer.

Edit - just to add that IBM dominated computing for a long time with this model. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Apple has become so big in what is a much bigger market.
They did remove Parler from the App Store, then reinstated it months later.
Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail (1984) [pdf]
Masterclass on mathematical thinking
There's a book roughly on that topic called "How to Invent Everything" that I enjoyed, but I'm not sure I remember enough of it now to be of any good, so I'm going to be sure to grab it before going back in time.

Also along the same lines is "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm", which I also enjoyed and keep a copy around just in case.
Edge is chromium though.
There would be a lot to inline:

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Not actually a user; I've mostly kept tech and flying separate so far. I'll take a look though!
Let’s not miss the forest for the trees. China will continue to grow and get very close to the size of the American economy.

China is already the worlds largest economy in terms of raw output (PPP terms).

China is already the worlds largest consumer market.

There’s a reasonable chance it exceeds USA in nominal GDP it if it grows at 5+% till 2030. This year they grew at 8.5 %
This sounds like the beginning of an Indiana Jones knockoff! He will dig after reading this, for sure!
Apple's cut is 15% for all developers making up to $1m/year.

And if you think the App Store is a burden you should try implementing customer acquisition and go-to market strategies which is what the store gives you for free.
Both, depending on country/time period.

I've lived in Orwell's country (communist dictatorship) when I was young, now I live in Brave New World.
Dude in a Room, who usually produces One Piece content on the Grand Line Review channel, has a number of videos on the business side of Youtube you may be interested in[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOqmgDDSmH6SW9nQAiwKRag
Not really. Tax collection from the Argentine goverment grows higher than the inflation rate year by year.

The problem is over spending.
I guarantee you half the people who attack crypto for having scams argue the solution is banning it, using the same arguments to ban the internet.
You don't need to predict anything. It's already been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_...
Interventions work differently for different diseases. Influenza is significantly hampered by social distancing, surgical masks, and elbow coughs.

Covid 19 is a different virus and the interventions of a flu pandemic are not going to yield the same results.

Infection is a binary status. You are either infected or not. There is no such thing as half infected or slightly infected. The probability of infection goes up when the air is more and more saturated with airborne virus... When air in a poorly ventilated space is fully saturated with virus, it simply does not matter if you wear a surgical mask or not as these interventions are doing nothing of significance for you in that situation.
Nobody here is advocating for avoiding vaccinations so your entire point is moot.
The anti-anti-crypto sentiment is more outspoken here. No need to wonder their agenda (hint: it involves personal gains).

Anyways, negative press floats up and stirs the pot. So here we go
Numerically, most of the scams are rug pulls. "Get in on the ground floor of our hot new web3 token issue that will be the next BAYC or whatever". There are enough such things out there that do make money (a lot of it) that people are willing to bet on them anyway.

Then the owners take the $2M they got in early financing or seed money or reservations or whatever it's called and disappear with it.
Seems like your lede is “why not victim blame, honestly? Should we really ignore what she was wearing when she walked down that back alley?”

This isn’t an argument that I think is particularly worth entertaining. People should exercise due caution at all times appropriate to their surroundings. However if a criminal robs them it’s the criminals fault.
I guess I am the only one here who has the whole box at home
What's old is new again-- this very much resembles Angular.js (ie Angular 1)'s strategy (not to say this isn't a valid approach given the constraints). Any notable differences you'd like to emphasize?
Toolchains are powerful, but I agree that not having to set anything up is really nice for people without those systems already installed.

I had it as one file and agree it is nice, but it is easier to edit with things separated. I might offer that option as well.
Interesting, I haven't noticed any of that. Maybe my country has a different mentality. I do see some people not having the masks cover their nose, but definitely nowhere near 50%, more like 5% at worst.
I depend on WhatsApp for contacting family, college classes (teachers use it to communicate, and also for group projects), as well as contacting local businesses like pharmacies if I need something delivered.

How is that not a bigger monopoly?
That clearly went nowhere, because it would have needed to be rounded instead.
Correct. But you do need to pass legislation to do it, and passing any nontrivial legislation is next to impossible. The Senate is balanced 50-50, and since the people of Nevada don't want nuclear waste in their back yard, they will always vote against it.
Well, factually incorrect. (although they didn't do a great job of explaining it). They are said to analyze the fingerprint of photos that have been stored in iCloud, and flag if any match the fingerprints of known suspected criminal child porn photos. Photos are not being "taken" from you and uploaded without your consent, or being looked at by other people. Anyway, side point.

And on the 2nd point, they like any company, have to obey the laws of the countries they operate in. Whether they should operate in countries that call for them to censor political content, that's a different question. I'm sure you would say that companies have to follow the local laws.
> I've mostly kept tech and flying separate so far.

Don't you upload your tracks to something like xcontest or similar to analyse your flights?
The question is how effective masks are w.r.t. Covid. For this the test really needs to be seroprevalence, not just symptoms. Symptoms can be caused by many non-Covid causes like allergies or the common cold.

The researchers state:

> We selected the WHO case definition of COVID-19
for its sensitivity, though its limited specificity may imply that the impact of masks on symptoms comes partly from non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infections
It is very relevant, it wouldn't be if I was arguing that this will revolutionize everything, but you specifically said it has no real world business utility whatsoever, and the fact that people are using it, in business, right now, so much so that they pay outrageous prices to do so, that is very relevant.

Built on crypto? By definition you can't name a single business that isn't an exchange built on it. That's like naming a business built on stock trading that isn't a stock exchange or investment fund. But ones that use crypto in some way? I can name a few, not counting black market businesses, overstock.com is one.
False equivalence - try again ;)

I don't watch John Oliver's show, but I don't need to... I can pretty confidently say things like:

* John Oliver hasn't told anyone that ivermectin is 99% effective but big pharma doesn't want you to know about it.

* John Oliver hasn't told young people that "I wouldn't get vaccinated"

* John Oliver hasn't blamed a white nationalist rally on the "feds"

* John Oliver didn't have a psychologist on his show to talk about how "there's no such thing as climate"

It has a lot to do with your comment... it's not an appeal to authority when the guy himself says he's a moron and no one should follow his advice. When he says something like that it leaves no choice but to listen to authority because he's clearly stated that he is not authoritative.

We're not talking a single authority here either... hundreds of doctors, including epidemiologists, have complained about Rogan's covid rhetoric... a subject he quite literally has no knowledge about.

You can't waive away all authority as a logical fallacy, often it refers to a false authority or a lack or corroboration. This isn't one of those subjects.
I'm starting to learn reverse engineering and while doing that I have had to read a bunch of assembly but also write a small amount too. I don't use NASM and am only writing a few instructions at a time, mainly either updating an existing instruction or replacing an instruction with one or more that are the same size
You somehow manage to be condescending against all parties here.

Calling mothers who want their children to receive an in-person education "screaming Karens" is terribly out of touch.

I have young children, and my position is simple: the hospital load, the vaccination status of the elderly, the burn out of the teachers -- it's not my child's burden. It's the adults' burden.

You are free to wear a mask for the rest of your life for all I care. I find it pathetic, but I really don't care. But you and people like you do not deserve power over my children, and if you don't see the reckoning coming you are not paying close enough attention.
Here you go https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55454146
When we had no containment measures or vaccines the CDC estimated the infection fatality rate at about 0.6%.
I’m talking about myriad software bugs.
Why was Selenium off the menu?
Unlikely. The specific energy of jet fuel is more than 40 times that of batteries, and I don't see batteries improving by an order of magnitude. A jetpack would need 40 times more battery mass than fuel to produce the same thrust for the same duration. Of course, the additional weight of the batteries necessitate even more thrust...
1: Bad.

2: Could be terrible or totally reasonable... how much of that was "fixed cost of any push to prod regardless of complexity"? I've worked at very few places where I could get a change from my editor to production in less than 10 minutes, except in emergencies. Even at my one person freelancing shop a push to prod took at least a few minutes to go through the pre-flight checklist.

3: Bad but not insanely bad, depending on what's needed for the role. Definitely something they should learn, but not catastrophic especially if they are a huge value add in other parts of the stack.
My understanding is there was no way to support full 56k between two analog modems, so one side needed to be digital. In reality, I never saw a 56k connection even in that configuration. It was always ~52k or lower, but maybe we just had crappy phone lines around here.