skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case Gov.UK PaaS has a single vendor, AWS. I am in favour of multiple options, multiple vendors. The certification can be done by Gov UK agency that guarantees vendors up to spec. The current model "Forestry Commission" still needs to build, develop, define spec, buy and pay Gov.UK PaaS.
> the moral decision was made long before the scenario was entered.

The company manufacturing the car needs to make this decision when writing the software. At that time, it's a decision being made by moral agents.
Why is getting yourself funded is such a depressing idea? And what is an alternative?
(One of the BP maintainers here)

If you’d be open to exploring this in the context of Notion we’d love to chat: david@hash.ai
Stuff they don't teach at bootcamps: Algorithmic complexity. "Don't roll out your own data structures" and "just use a library" works until it doesn't. Operating System fundamentals is another one.

It seems a lot of bootcamps teach with rote, rather than by looking at the underlying concepts. My favorite example is git. I've seen bootcamp grads claim they can use git, but what it really meant is that they memorized a few git commands and as long as they don't stray too fart from those they can sort of work using git. But cherry-picking, rebase, proper branching forget it.

I'm extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA's at Lambda (the most famous one) are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students[0]. I guess that counts toward their "placement" stats!

Not only that, but Lambda seems so desperate that they will offer a fresh grad at no cost to any company for a 4 week trial period. [1]

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25138610
Fox guarding the henhouse
"You want to go still greener? Great. But this winter, people still want to be warm, and if your answer is "create more renewable energy in five years", that's not going to cut it. "

It looks like you are fighting straw men. No one here pledged for abolishment of gas or coal as of today. It is a general discussion of where we are heading.

So yes, how could we still be warm in 5 years. 10. 20.

Oh and the general question of whether our choices today will lead too much warmth in general.
I can still hear them chanting "Cambio, cambio, cambio" and it's been a few years. ATMs give hardly anything and charge a large fee per transaction as well, so it's no surprise people go to arbolitos.
Regression and Other Stories [pdf]
From Big Government to Big Tech
As far as I understood it, Node.js is needed for building, but the package runs on different JS environments.
First of all, are you sure there isn't a way to improve the ergonomics of one without harming the other?

Second of all, to the extent that there is a tradeoff, this is essentially a solved problem in every other kind of daemon (from web servers to databases). Make the simple case secure and simple, while making the complicated case (which will require a lot of custom configuration and reading the documentation anyway, not matter what you do) as straightforward as possible.
From Wikipedia:

> A separate mechanism (emoji tag sequences) is used for regional flags, such as England 󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Scotland 󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Wales 󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Texas 󠁵󠁳󠁴󠁸󠁿 or California 󠁵󠁳󠁣󠁡󠁿. It uses U+1F3F4 WAVING BLACK FLAG and formatting tag characters instead of regional indicator symbols. It is based on ISO 3166-2 regions with hyphen removed and lowercase, e.g. GB-ENG → gbeng, terminating with U+E007F CANCEL TAG. Flag of England is therefore represented by a sequence U+1F3F4, U+E0067, U+E0062, U+E0065, U+E006E, U+E0067, U+E007F.
I hadn't heard this before, but it reminds me a lot of "Spill the Wine" which was from 2 years later.
General observation from reading the comments - the folks on HN must not have many friends working in medicine for if they had they'd realize those friends are swamped and burned-out. They'd also know that pretty much the only condition we're treating nowadays is Covid. Surgeries are continuing to be postponed - including surgeries that can lead to worse problems down the road such as removing cancerous tumors.

And it gets worse. My daughter is in pre-med. Apparently people are dropping out like flies and not just because of the course load. They're watching how medical professionals are being treated and saying screw it! This should concern us all because we've had a marked uptick of medical professionals retiring/resigning since the pandemic started and now the pipeline is thinning out.

We're walking headlong into a disaster and nobody seems to care. And that's not even dealing with the problem of Global Climate Change which, guess what? Still hasn't gone away and there doesn't seem to be much interest in caring about that either, not that there ever was.

You can see what our child-bearing aged children think of all this - they're not having kids. I don't think this is a short-term aberration. We're a population literally in decline.
I'm sure Mr Young knew that this would be the end result and that it would be a hit to his pocketbook in taking the stand he did. I respect his integrity for doing so and hope other artists do the same.
Don't get me wrong, what I mean by this is like I took AP Calc AB in 11th grade instead of AP Calc BC. I still was in accelerated math classes. It was more so that my parents both tried the top most advanced math in their education, and both did poorly, so it was a pitfall they warned me about.
Do you wake up groggy? Website that tells you when to fall asleep
Not sure of Spotify’s angle here. Artists don’t get enough money from Spotify to be loyal… could Lead to a mass exodus. I hope it does. Rogan gets to metaphorically drive drunk around town free from consequences it seems.
Some fraction of rockets explodes during launch. Also dropping things into the sun costs a lot of energy because you have do decelerate it from earths orbital speed (30 km/s) or whatever you are trying to drop will just orbit around the sun.
Worse. For a “session” (connection from a client to a server with corresponding IDs — the IDs serve a purpose somewhere between a username and a TCP port), there is some state that is used to recover potentially lost messages if the session drops and reconnects. If a session is down, someone tries to connect and restore that session, and the login fails, then the replay state will get out of sync on both ends and a subsequent valid reconnection will either fail or lose messages.
Uruguay is said to be better -- true? Not true?
UTF-8 reverse string has been a thing for a long time in most/all programming languages. It may not work perfectly in 100% of the cases, but that doesn't mean reversing a string is no longer possible.
Normally, you have plenty of warning if you're near a situation like the ones described here, even if you're speeding. Provided you can pay a small amount of attention to many many things at once, which humans can't. (Neither can existing self-driving cars, but a self-driving car that works must be able to.)
I sincerely hope we will never care. That in the US, our mentality gets past this infantile fetish for powertools and convenience. It's a vestige of high modernism, an adolescent ideology that life must be mediated by technology. Scraping food of a plate in the trash beget flushing food down the drain through a garbage disposer. Athletics beget motorsports. It crystalized in the 50s, oddly a decade where adults began to watch cartoons like the Jetsons, like children.

Jetpacks are the perfect example. It conflates the ability to fly anywhere anytime with freedom. It is a toddler fantasy. Similar to how cars for personal transport have not increased freedom, but instead delivered obesity, fossil fuel dependence, and a polluted, and threatening public realm.

The aspirational city life of the future will be one of sophistication and maturity. It will be the an improved version of the city life of the pre-industrial age. Where the only sound is the chatter of passerbys and their footsteps. At night, it is quiet. Everything degenerate (human waste, cars, metros, ...) will be pushed underground. The sky will be as pristine as in the wilderness.

In other words, it will be an environment where flying a jetpack is sociopathic.

This is not a personal fantasy. This kind of urban environment is where people with means are moving to _today_. It is the main program of every European city. The US is slow to shake these destructive 50s ideals of transportation. But it is happening. Hopeful to see it in my lifetime still.
This is good news for spotify. They haven't been able to make any inroads into podcasts, video segments despite penning deals worth millions of dollars with the likes of rogan.

They need series of controversies like this for people to even know that they now have content other than music. I haven't listened to rogan in years but now i am curious to give it a try.
Same for me. I never took notes in classes. It interferes with listening. It's usually quite unnecessary, since the information is in the textbook, or other readily accessible references.

The one time this policy was challenging was for a numerical analysis course I took where there was no textbook. So I had to go off to the library to find books that covered the topics discussed (this was back before the internet). This actually teaches you more than taking notes.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30093354
I read that he actually doesn't own the rights to his music catalog any more, so technically Spotify could ignore his demands. Although if that's true, it's surprising the article doesn't mention it.
Open Rights Group, a UK-based organisation focussed on privacy and free speech run blocked.org.uk, does something like this for UK ISPs. They provide Raspberry Pis which people run from their networks. The devices perform regular requests to various sites to check if any are blocked.
Looks like the title was munged by HN's filter that strips out numbers at the beginning. (82 Percent)
Area man completely and totally uninterested in NFTs discovers additional level of uninterest he wasn’t aware he even had.
Posting like you did in this thread will get you banned on HN. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: your previous comment a month ago was just as bad (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685132). I don't want to ban you, but we really need you to abide by the site guidelines if you want to keep posting here. You've been breaking them in other places as well. Not cool.
We see a strong adoption of Playwright. It’s the default we recommend to users now. We also support Puppeteer, but its development is lagging.

Having said that, I would love to support Cypress if I had infinite time and focus.

Side note: Selenium is not on the menu, even with its large install base.

We are aiming for where the puck is going and it’s going to Playwright.

Full disclaimer: I’m CTO at Checkly.
Does this mean I could use something like the Cloudflare email routing beta

https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/

& use my old custom domain like before + have a catchall on that domain, while also maintaining my existing mail archive & google purchases?
82%, in case anyone else was curious about the number.
I work at big companies. It's basically impossible. You have to transfer them to Milton's basement office and pray their inflated self-evaluations make them look for a new job.
As I understand it, there is no two-letter ISO code for the USSR because when they update the standard they remove countries that no longer exist. In at least one case they have reused a code point: CS has been both "Czechoslovakia" and "Serbia and Montenegro", neither of which currently exist.

As a result, two-letter ISO codes are useless for many potential applications, such as, for example, recording which country a book was published in, unless you supplement them with a reference to a particular version of the standard.

Is there a way of getting the Czechoslovakian flag as an emoji? And did Serbia and Montenegro get round to making a flag?
By "proper ID" you mean the right kind of country ID, I assume?

Cause I've been denied by two banks, the third bank even had two countries blacklisted.. that's right, on their official website they wrote: "we are currently unable to accept government issued IDs from X and Y" or something along those lines.
Thanks! I updated the link on the blog post and on my support page to point to my Canadian paypal account which is more accessible while I am overseas than my Austrian paypal account.

I think the issues funding open-source are very similar to the issues funding writing.
Poor Joe. He just wanted to keep on rocking in the free world.
I suspect you’re right. I organize conferences, and about 5 years we ran into similar situations. A speaker would propose a talk and they would put an example that would assume the audience’ familiarity with jQuery. We’d have to explain to the speaker that half of our audience started doing web development 2-3 years before, and there was a very high chance they started with React and never wrote or read any jQuery-based code. Many talk proposals would almost completely broke down because of that.
>The idea is to reduce the spread of the virus in order to protect everyone from a lack of hospital beds and exhausted medical staff.

People keep saying this, but if hospital capacity was actually the "real" bottleneck in treating covid then why haven't we seen massive campaigns to expand that capacity? "Do this thing that is marginally beneficial for adults and potentially actively harmful long term for children to possibly impact hospital capacity elsewhere" is not something that makes sense to me. If this was just another bottleneck in some system and not related to the pandemic you'd address the real problem, right?
maybe there really wasn't anything to approve because nuclear is already dead and it's time to say it.

In a setting with a very high share of renewable energy, the need for sluggish power plants such as nuclear power plants declines while the need for grid scale energy storage systems increases
Loss of pressure at 30k is deadly. In recent history a mechanic forgot to reset 'oxygen' to 'auto' after some debugging session. The two pilots missed it on their checklist.

While they were climnbing they gradually lost consciousness. One of the non flight crew ended up being the only conscious person on board. When his air ran out, he lost consciousness.

The flight ended when all kerosine was used, by flying into a hillside.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
Furthermore, Chernobyl isn't something for Europeans that was far far away or a long time ago.

Germany spends (and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future) millions each year to compensate for losses of hunters and farmers due to radioactive contamination which accumulates in wild boars and mushrooms which have to undergo inspection before being sold. Everything above 600Bq needs to be discarded as contaminated waste.
Nasty Fascist Tokens?
> Challenge: How would you go about writing a function that reverses a string while leaving symbols encoded as sequences of code points intact? Can you do it from scratch? Is there a package available in your language that can do it for you? How did that package solve the problem?

So are there any good libraries that can deal with code points that are merged together into a single pictographic and reverse them "as expected"?
Here Mr. Peckford discusses his motivation for the lawsuit, as well as its ramifications for the Canadian parliamentary process, in long form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhFuMDLBDM
why not mars? didn't falcon heavy do that with a car?
Trusting what politicians say at face value is so naive I don't even know how to respond to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP_Uuj_ABew
wouldn't be surprised people miss the SQL question. Full stack devs are rather rare nowadays, and it's a bit obscure SQL trivia considering the answer is dependent on which SQL db you're using.
> Why are you ignoring the multiple times I've talked about the effects that aren't directly related to the children? They're carriers too, and that matters, on top of everything else.

How is posting that exact thing—so, agreeing with you—more explicitly ("to protect other people in and connected to schools and students, to reduce community rates of infection") than you have until this very post (it's at best implied in all your other posts, from what I can tell, and I just re-read them to be sure—but maybe you had that on your mind and it just didn't come across strongly?) ignoring that point? It's far and away the strongest argument for masking in schools.

> And the institutions I trust do not agree with you that we're "rapidly approaching" any such loss of value from masking in schools. That's just straight up wrong.

We better be, because I'm pretty sure they're going away before long no matter what either of us want (again, barring a large change in course for the pandemic). Shit, around here they already did drop them for a couple weeks right before the Omicron surge and schools had to scramble to bring them back to avoid having to shut down completely (again: man, I hate the insistence on removing safety measures ASAP, it's been proven a stupid idea every single time it's happened so far in my city, yet people, including e.g. school administrators, keep going "OK looks better this week, we should start removing our safety measures"). Our city-wide mandates are currently gone and were being largely ignored for about a month before they were removed. It borders on miraculous that schools have been successful at keeping mandates in place as long and consistently as they have—and if not for the fact that they'd have ended up horrendously under-staffed and had to shut down without them, I absolutely don't think they'd have worked as hard at it as they have. Admin hates pissing off parents, even if it's only a few of them, and the anti-maskers have been the angriest and most-active participants in these goings-on. From what I can see the (very credible) threat of mass teacher resignations and walk-outs (plus, you know, just the risk of too many of them being sick at once) are the only reason mask mandates in schools persisted for any amount of time at all (and, again, I'm glad they have!) outside maybe the "bluest" of "blue" strongholds, but I don't think that pressure's gonna keep up much longer.
I think it will, still. But it is just a belief.
He just sold a 50% interest in his catalog for an estimated $150m.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/business/neil-young-rights-de...
Well he does have a Heart of Gold. That must be worth something based on the average weight of an adult human heart and price per ounce of gold.
Appointed by the Federal Government.
There is no evidence that I am aware of which would indicate places with strict mandates (Boston or LA) did significantly better or worse than places that made such mandates illegal (Texas).

The outbreak curves and percentages are basically the same, especially when you account for the population differences in age, obeasity, diabetes, etc.

A red state might do worse at times, but is also more easily explained as a result of a more vulnerable population.

Be scientific about it rather than political. There are a lot of ways to analyze the data.
Also, salty seawater will eat through any metal at about the rate of a Windows 95 install process indicator. At that point, the nuclear gunk will disperse in the water, enter the food chain, and soon be part of your romantic lobster dinner. Enjoy!
I swear there was a green text where people on 4-chan wanted to connect Bored Apes with Nazism to get the price down and ruin them because they thought it was stupid. I can't seem to find the text, but it's weird to see it actually happening...
Agreed, it most likely is.

Its unstated premise being of course - that they were "forced" to keep the GEACPS running at all costs.
> Try taking a 6 hour flight with a 2 year old that's required to keep his mask on the entire flight, and when he takes it off (because he's 2, of course he's going to take it off) the flight attendants threaten to turn the plane around and ban you permanently.

Never heard about this, source? Toddlers tend to be somewhat exempt from mask mandates because they're toddlers and everyone understands when they don't comply.
The black and white squares are in the older Unicode "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrrows" block so I guess they're allowed. Several things like that are sort of "retroactively" emoji... there's a "display as emoji" or "display as text" character you can put after them.

What HN does and doesn't allow seems somewhat arbitrary, things like the star emoji are in that same block and yet are not allowed as far as I can tell.
In my hometown the city code said the garbage disposer was a measure against rats.
One of the two compilers discussed in the article is Turbofan because the code in question is being invoked from JavaScript, so I'm not sure how you think JavaScript isn't relevant. We live in an age where not everything, including cryptography, needs to traverse C or C++ to reach machine code (see: Java, Go, etc).

Plenty of JavaScript and WASM exists for cryptography purposes, for what it's worth, because Node isn't the only runtime and "native" code isn't easily portable.
Out of curiosity, what are some things that are not more important than property rights in your opinion?
Meanwhile I'm switching my family's subscription over to Tidal instead of Spotify. Don't need to be contributing to that kind of thing.
This is great! It would be wonderful if this kind of thing would be added to the open textbook movement so people can mix, match, and update the content. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

Us societal rejects would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks! You’re right that this is targeted at people that are doing quick casual photo editing :)
> Only two brands produced samples that were pure and nonoxidized. Those were Chosen Foods and Marianne’s Avocado Oil, both refined avocado oils made in Mexico. Among the virgin grades, CalPure produced in California was pure and fresher than the other samples in the same grade.

What is the difference between "pure and nonoxidized" and "pure and fresher"?
Sounds like we need a different economic system that doesn't have these types of incentives
Bats use different inner ear structures to help navigate the world through sound
Imagine sitting on a huge carousel spinning fast, like 100 times the speed of sound fast. Now imagine jumping off and trying to get to the center of it.

Yes, gravity is holding us back from yeeting of into space but to get closer to the sun you need to slow down. A lot. It takes way less rocket fuel to speed up enough to leave the solar system than to get to the sun.
True, but Unicode explicitly defines "SU" as a deprecated combination, regardless of flags. Seems like they omit everything from the list of "no longer used" country codes, with some exceptions. I would think they would have no reason not to allow historical regions.
People want to ascribe some kind of agency to the self-driving car, like it is a thinking mind. It's not. It is a vehicle whose prime directive is the safety of its occupants, and secondarily the safety of others.

It is not making judgement about pedestrians with canes, who are pregnant or veterans, or who are an underrepresented class. To do so is to design the wrong machine.

The correct design is to either safely swerve to avoid hitting anything, or to hit the brakes. There's nothing else. As soon as you start doing "something else" you open a horrible, horrible can of worms. The even more correct design is to drive safely so that you never encounter this failure mode in the first place.

So, this website is a critique of a system that does not and should not exist.