skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got it, I missed that part of it. Totally agree that just because you can build a Dyson sphere doesn't imply you're going to travel a lot.
Minimum wage is, sure, not the cause of deindustrialization. Rather, it's what people tend to advocate as a cure for a large underclass stuck in poverty, but it's not addressing the core issue. We have a larger underclass stuck in poverty, because the kinds of jobs that historically allowed them a way out of it were sent to places with even poorer people, and the change that allowed that was a change in government policy (tariffs, etc.). So a minimum wage, like a blood transfusion, might help out for a bit, but it's not addressing the underlying issue, which was a (major, sustained) change in government policy.
I bow to your superior knowledge
> you are oversimplifying to the point of inaccuracy

No, what I wrote is an accurate reflection of Unicode.

It does not matter what Jean Dupont and Hong Gildong think, but what we agreed on as a standard.

> They do not exist as standalone code points in the binary form of the encoded text

This terminology is confused/conceptually wrong.

The binary form of encoded text consists of bytes. Decoded text consists of characters/grapheme clusters. A code point is the number corresponding to a character in the repertoire tables. By definition a code point cannot exist in encoded text.

The correct way to determine whether sœur contains œ or o is to use a standard compliant implementation. Perl has always been nothing short of excellent, so:

$ perl -Mutf8 -E'say "sœur" =~ "œ" ? "yes" : "no"'
yes
$ perl -Mutf8 -E'say "sœur" =~ "o" ? "yes" : "no"'
no

> don't let that anger control you

I'm not angry. Projecting much?
Heck, back in the mid-80s we wrote a stripped down awk as part of a 2nd year CS course. Can't do that with Perl.
That would be more of a problem with the legal system, not this search page.
> I wouldn't want anything to be added by default

This line of reasoning works really well for those who understand (and want to understand) how git works. I know plenty of people who don't care about their development tools (e.g. scientists), and for them the index is a chore in the way of more important problems.
Not officially, no. But that's not the only possible interpretation.
Wages are a key inflation driver; IAMW would be a perpetual motion inflation engine.

Long term, if you have MW as a key minimum support measure, you want it to keep pace or better with inflation, but over the short term you want it to be countercyclical with inflation, rising most rapidly when inflation is low, and least when it is high.

And this leaves out discussion of the problems of a minimum wage as a basic support mechanism, which are also significant.
Learn GDScript from Zero
Four Mexican cokes sounds as much like kicking a caffeine habit as it does a pretty bad sugar habit. Good job sticking to it.
> People dying in auto accidents costs the government money in lost economic activity as well as things like medical care.

I'm astounded to read this. Do you believe we are the property of the government? That we live for the benefit of the government? That we are kept alive to serve the government?

> I have a really hard time seeing how a helmet law, which if violated would result in what, a citation?, can be construed as overwhelmingly oppressive. This is pretty weak.

Washington State just repealed the bicycle helmet law, on the grounds that it was racist.
Wasn't there a module in the early 2000s that set its license to something like:

"GPL\0 with the following exceptions ..."

So when the kernel pieces that enforced GPL_ONLY did a strcmp on the license, it came up as GPL.

I forget who it was who tried that.

This came up in a Google search:

https://lwn.net/Articles/220349/

https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/233

https://lwn.net/Articles/118269/
i can't understand how anyone would trust the sole copy of their data to any of the big-tech platforms
German-Americans were shipped off to internment camps in both World War I and II.
A constant stable performance drag is going to show up in your load tests, capacity planning, etc. rather than in surprising intermittent degradations.

Also our log collector agents run in containers like everything else, so there is some amount of resource isolation (not perfect of course).
>Those people cost money to exist and show up for work. How are those costs being paid?

Same way farmers get paid. Why don't we worry about the price of corn going to $0 a bushel and nobody wanting to plant corn? The market will find a price point where supply meets demand.
I use protonmail for email I care about.
Yes. I started to back up all my gmail emails, years ago, after reading about such horror stories.

Eventually, I just switched to fastmail and gave up Google altogether.
Technically no but it makes a difference if you have all that information available easily through the internet vs having to put some effort into obtaining the records one by one. Same goes for surveillance: technically you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public spaces but once it becomes feasible that somebody can plaster a whole state/country with cameras and can analyze the data automatically it gets a little scary. I think a lot of privacy rules need to be revised in the context of current and future technological capabilities.
I have been backing up my email since I was a young teenager.

These days, I grab my Google Takeout every year or so and also have a Fastmail account that pulls in every other email I receive.
I love it. The glaciation in the highlands of Scotland, the Amazon basin nestled by the Andes, the east coast of the US, Central America, the Indian plate smashing into the Himalayas -- all super clearly visualized. Great work.
Rust doesn't need top tier programmers. It just needs competent programmers.

The C in use today wasn't written by experts either. And if it was, we can leave it alone for now, or at least until said experts get tired of maintaining it.
For most services (certainly for Google) the cost of long-term storage isn't the main issue — it's the cost of supporting an appeals process when you have to deal with bad actors and legal complexities. We have to overcome the economics and legalities and make it feasible to provide download of the archived materials even after an account gets banned.

Brainstorming an interface, I can imaging "archive your original source materials" as an upsell alongside the YouTube upload, with an option to archive the actual video file as well. This would actually be enabled if you were to subscribe to the archival service, which would be paid in advance. Perhaps we can argue that such files should be considered private materials rather than redistributed works, so not subject to copyright takedowns.
>I'm not sure how much of someone's personality you can determine from a pre-recorded, scripted monologue to the camera.

You can determine a lot because what they decide to post/record says a LOT about them. Like, waaay more than just choosing whatever random photos of them.
this is excellent with super fast results.

What is the tech stack?
It kind of is. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, then we can effectively treat it like a duck, even if it denies it in the legalese.
The more interesting question is how long until people recognise these generated faces because they are "too real", and how long until AI starts deliberately making faces imperfect?
Very true. We have to rethink a lot of the rules around privacy considering the scale technology has made mass surveillance possible. .
It's important to distinguish between "trustworthiness can be determined from headshots" which is essentially phrenology and "perceived trustworthiness can be determined from headshots" which is a very, very different scientific question.

People do perceive others as more or less trustworthy, smart, reliable, etc, etc based on simply how you look, even in cases where there is no correlation - while they may be mistaken, that's how people feel and act, this is a reasonably established fact.

Like, we might be sad that in 2022 the general public believes that trustworthiness can be judged by nothing more than a headshot, but that - just as all other kinds of preconceptions and prejudices - is an actual, real attribute of society and people and deserves to be properly scientifically studied and published, without any allusions that the topic is taboo or pseudoscience just because we don't like the factual observations.
FreeConferenceCall[.com] allows to participate in meetings by phone and SMS.

That's beside of typical video/chat conferencing capabilities.

Client is pretty small ~20 Mb monolithic (a.k.a. portable) executable that can be loaded in seconds even on low bandwidth networks.

If someone is interested, here
https://terrainformatica.com/2022/02/19/freeconferencecall-a... I've explained how it was done (in 9 months).
The algorithm myth: why the bots won’t take over
You don't need to be the government's property for the government to optimize laws in order to reduce loss of life and medical expenses (the latter is important because in practice if someone badly wounded shows up in the ER, they get treated and someone has to pay for it, and that might not be the injured person or an insurance company)
I’m not sure I understand how you can have a git compatible data store, but not have git compatible feature branches?
I fully approve of the underlying idea that education is a good and valuable thing and that encouraging people / children to seek knowledge themselves is the only sensible way.

But come on. We do not run chemistry undergraduate courses by letting the students in the building and just leaving them there. A chemistry set is not enough. Teachers, mentors, peers and all the rest are part of both shaping and accelerating learning.

A child given chemicals who then "stupidly" poisons themselves is not solely to blame. They are expected to be supervised. If we as a society cannot afford enough teachers we should not say "let's hand out chemistry sets - we will get a few industrial chemists at the cost of a few poisonings". That is not trade off to be discussed - we should talk about why is chemistry not taught better at every primary and secondary school?
It even manages to capture the subtle depression that was Tulare Lake.[1] Well done.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake
I gave up caffeine for several
months starting around October 2020. It was seriously aggravating my politics and COVID anxiety at that time. I did eventually go back to it last summer. I just like coffee and the kick that comes with it. I usually only drink one cup, sometimes two which strikes a good balance for me.
I agree. People quickly jump to "you're not paying for it so what did you expect" but without a warning in big red letters saying "we could fuck you over any day" this has the same vibe as a drug dealer giving you you first hit for free.

I lost access to my Yahoo mail address from teenage days and consecutively the YouTube account associated with it. The videos are still up and it's just random shenanigans, but still. Learned my lesson with big tech companies.
> They shouldn't be so dogmatic pt 2. Services were one-per-team, instead of one-per-subject.

Where the heck did this come from? AIUI, the ideal is supposed to be one-team-per-service, not one-service-per-team.
Good to see all these references in one place.
Having worked with a few people that went from testing->upgraded to dev.. there are some large gaps in software composition, design, and stances. It's not imposible to go from testing to dev.. but it really depends on the person's effort into doing so.
> If your car runs out of gasoline and you manage to walk to a gas station, you cannot buy gasoline in anything other than an government approved container.

Approved gas cans are easy to come by and not particularly expensive. And keep in mind that gasoline is very flammable, turns into a moderately nasty pollutant when evaporated, is a moderately nasty pollutant when spilled, and can dissolve an inappropriate container. Additionally, the government has a very compelling interest in keeping roads open, and preventing transportation related fires seems entirely sensible.

No one has stopped you from buying gasoline, and, sadly, no one stops you from burning it in highly polluting devices in populated areas.
Ken Grimwood - Replay

It’s a fun story where the main character gets to relive part of his life. Even though I can’t replay in my own life, the story still gave me a lot to think about and helps me live happily (and prevent too much existential dread from creeping in).
> There are no benefits and only costs associated with going ipv6 or dual stack.

There are growing costs with IPv4:

* https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales
This is all interesting but I fail to see that the risk for fraud is significantly elevated due to deep fakes. It has always been easy enough to make plausible material that "proves" something. To avoid fraud you need to be wary of the source and weight the new information based on previous interactions with the source by you or by people that you trust. Nothing is really new in this context right?
You’re suggesting that 3 out of 3 Japanese Americans, 100%, when given the opportunity to help Japan over American, and chose Japan, is not significant? If 4 out of 4 had, would that have been significant? 100 out of 100? Just curious where your threshold is. Also curious at which point you would indicate that it’s no longer racist to cite the incidents? Also curious, at which point should we stop suppressing the information in our museums,
> writing the software and integrating it into their products

That's distribution, not use. (Except for when they're testing it or running local instances, and GPL doesn't get in the way of those things.)

> Not to say GPL is bad, just that the VAT-style "only the last user counts" view of things is playing with semantics.

By my understanding VAT doesn't work that way. Once a user pays VAT and starts using something, that's it. The taxes are done with, and VAT doesn't pass on to later users.
Most testers at the companies I’ve been at have had dormant CS degrees. They don’t bother keeping their CS skills up because there’s no chance for them to be promoted.

Nevertheless, they often know the product extremely well and work hard. If there was a known pipeline for them to follow, I’m certain they’d follow it.
$250/mo is about what I pay driving a paid off beater 100mi/day. And I pay "you have a dick and live in a shitty zip code" insurance rates.

A payment on a random economy subcompact that gets 40mpg would probably be cheaper because I only get ~22mpg.

>That's way more than any transit pass I know of

You are unaware of the cost of the various commuter rail passes that anyone not already living in the "inner ring" well served by bus any or subway needs to use to get into that inner ring.

It would cost me $380/mo to commute via rail (and take longer too). I used to pay it when I worked downtown. The prices don't go down that much for living farther in.
I've known probably at least a dozen Valve employees and most of them quit to work somewhere else. The studio's culture problems create a real emotional toll on staff and are also somewhat evident in their production and release schedules.

The ones I know who are still there got a pay raise when starting, not a pay cut.
Hunger complicates it.
Linux is licensed under GPLv2 with an additional permission (or exception):

> NOTE! This copyright does not cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does not fall under the heading of "derived work".

All the contributors license their work under this license with this additional permission. So in that sense it's not really Linus interpreting the GPL, and I don't think there's a risk of a contributor revoking this permission.

But maybe this doesn't apply to kernel modules and doesn't address the GPL_ONLY symbols thing.
The usual answer to this type of question is to strace your program to get an idea of where it is spending all of that time. All the other details are irrelevant; the answer is always to measure the performance.
> the GPL and like licenses are the most permissive licenses

This is a deliberately confusing statement. It's fine to prefer the GPL over MIT/BSD-style licenses, but the term "permissive" is well-understood in reference to non-copyleft licenses. Misapplying that term just muddles the issue unnecessarily.

See also: [the wikipedia page on permissive licenses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license).
From what I understand, the Internet Archive does store some YouTube videos using a special setup, for an example archived video with working playback see: http://web.archive.org/web/20210716000952/https://www.youtub.... The files can be downloaded from the archive using https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.arch....
Cool, I guess. I'm not really a fan of anything that can be used to further persecute people who have already paid their debts to society. I know this is public information, but the information itself has been relatively opaque for generations.

Beyond mild curiosity, the only paying customers for a service like this will be groups like employers, schools, creditors, landlords etc. It removes the pain around paid background checks, and it includes data that was already legally expunged.

The fact that it includes data that was legally expunged actually makes this service more valuable than traditional background checks to certain types of people.
> git clients won't know what to do with the conflicted files

This seems kind of similar to pushing git files with conflicts with the git client? Maybe the Jujutsu formatting is slightly different, but the concept is the same.
But implementing ipv6 doesn’t save you any of that cost until you can go ipv6 only. Especially if you’re a server, why care?
>> These are all things that apply to every major city. SF is no different.

7 square miles. Water on 3 sides.
So far:

The Malazan Book of the Fallen

Shadows of the Apt

Murderbot

Imperial Radch

Youjo Senki
> I miss a small "guide" on how to complete the task. There are a lot of them where I have zero clue on what I should do.

I have the same problem too. A lot of research in perspective.
GitHub accepts any sub domain, because that used to be the place for GitHub pages to go, try https://takeda.github.com/ ;)
I worked on some 6502 based stuff in the early 80s, thanks to a college internship. As I learned from my mentor, the original 6502 was NMOS and had some dynamic registers, i.e., their contents needed to be refreshed, thus limiting how slow the machine could run. But the 65C02 was CMOS with all static registers and could be slowed down to zero through appropriate control of the clock.

The thing we were building for my internship used a very low clock speed to conserve battery power, since CMOS draws current only during transitions.
What word do you think is appropriate when someone prohibits people from doing what they want in a way that doesn't threaten (or even inconvenience) anyone else?

Also, it seems like it might be a struggle to raise great chemists when access to chemicals becomes restricted for young people. Hopefully we've discovered all of chemistry and there is nothing important left to find in that field, otherwise this might be doing net harm to the next generation.
>14. Valis, basically almost every book by Phil Dick.

I can't tell if you mean all of PKD not otherwise mentioned goes in that spot, or if VALIS is every PKD book. Or both.
Vint was a trophy for the Google founders; they could, so they did. Zuckerberg no doubt got a similar thrill out of having purchased Carmack's employment.
From a Russian perspective:

1/ Fabricating evidence to invade Ukraine is exactly what the US have done in Iraq.

2/ Taking apart Crimea and some eastern parts from Ukraine in the name of the majority of their population is exactly what the USA and a large part of European countries have done with Kosovo.

I'm 100% hostile to Putin but we have skewed the very same international laws in the past.

I am very afraid for Ukrainians.
So the issue is Google often takes down accounts with illegal content using the same process as here. Imagine the very real scenario that Google found CSAM on an account: They aren't going to let you access it or download it again for any amount of money.

And that's the problem here: With no humans in the process, YouTube treats ordinary users and predators exactly the same way, because ultimately, algorithms are stupid and don't make good moderators.
It seems to me there has been a significant shift to thinking about problems sociologically rather than individually - perhaps combined with only doing the easy half of the sociology.

Individually, it's pretty reasonable to include something like "The chemistry set is recommended for ages 12 and over; chemicals A, B, and C are poisonous if ingested; chemicals D and E are flammable" with the chemistry set. Some of the warnings should probably go on the outer packaging so parents can make informed decisions about buying it. In general, 12 "is old enough to know better" when it comes to tasting the poison and playing with fire.

Sociologically, we know that some 12 year olds will taste the poison and set their houses on fire. It's usually not hard to count roughly how many. We have decided the question is something like "how many kids should we let die so that the rest can play with chemistry sets?" and concluded the answer is few to none. Of course, as the article alludes to, there's a lot more benefit to experimenting with a chemistry set than mere entertainment. It's hard to measure though, and saying that there's an acceptable number of poisoned kids is not a winning move for politicians.
We basically needed ipv5 what would have been literally ipv4 but with 128 bit address-safe.
> You don't need to be

Yeah, you do. It goes hand in hand with being the property of the government. For an example, the Soviet Union believed that if they funded your education, you owe the government a lifetime of service for it.
My personal pet theory for this has always been that the United States was founded by lawyers. Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton were all attorneys.

Of course this doesn’t speak to the rise of lawsuits as an industry in the 70’s and 80’s. I’m not sure of the reasons for that, but as the author notes it had a huge upswing at that time.
If you land on exactly newssnips.fyi then the website redirects you to a preset slider value.
I think warning labels produce a number populace and produce nothing of value. And that's by design. If you put lengthy labels on everything the effect is the same as no labels at all. Nobody reads them and you just use the item as best as you can figure out. In CA they put cancer warning stickers on almost everything. Either you stop buying anything or you ignore them.
I've heard of stablecoins but aren't you at the mercy of a dodgey third party if you're using e.g. tether? I haven't followed it recently but I remember stuff about them trying to prove they had reserves, the whole thing seemed much less trustworthy than most sovereigns or banks (even if none of them are really trustworthy)

Re the second layer, I'll have to learn more, I previously thought it basically implied some kind of centralization. In any event, there is so much corruption and scamming obscured by technical jargon right now that I'd have a hard time feeling as comfortable as with fiat.
That is baloney ... The fact is Unicode could have provided extra codepoints so that at the least the possibility of correctly processing a mainly French document that includes passages in Turkish at least existed.

The current state of affairs categorically rules that out it contrary to the situation with any other language.
There's a few thousand years of domestication difference between the 2 species though.