skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your reply elsewhere saying that unions are full of nepotism etc is a portrayal. A distributed portrayal is still a portrayal.

That said, it begs the question, why is the 'grass roots' discourse so consistently negative in America, while European and Canadian discourse on the issue seems significantly different? Would you believe there's no intentional messaging?

Oh wait it's not. The very idea that 'the grass roots hates unions' is itself a false portrayal: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/03/majorities-...

The States has a VERY long history of union busting, and media is very much involved. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02685662

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-p...

And so on.
> publically announces

That’s how RfCs work—they’re public by nature, so that people can comment. It’s hardly feasible not to then promulgate the outcome.

> they stop accepting certain forms of donations

They haven’t. This is a proposal through an RfC. The foundation may or may not accept it.

> organization isn't particularly starving for donations

Well it isn’t, so that’s a good thing. People should stop donating to the foundation for a while. Hopefully the bureaucracy will be slashed.
It's demographics. Russia have a big demographic issue, worse than any other countries in Europe. If you only take into account ethnic Russians, it is even worse.
Never heard about this before and it seems I'm on the 0 side of the spectrum!
> I have heard of "MP3 players", but not "AAC" players.

Because the latter are called "MP4 players" and the files are meant to have ".m4a" extension. Also because dedicated media player devices stopped being something ordinary people need (because smartphones) sooner than MP4 became a thing.
I'd love to see a modern equivalent to PHP. Something for all those quick and dirty web jobs but without the language deficiencies of PHP.
These unicode characters feel like they were given to us from an alien species or something.

How did it we end up with so many characters of unknown origin?

I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project. (I still have no idea, nor can supply an example of the symbol in use.) […] it is the case that ISO 9573-13 existed long before either AFII or the STIX project were formed. […] I once asked Charles Goldfarb what the source of these entities was, but remember that he didn’t have a definitive answer.
Thanks for the clarifications. I misread the title and assumed that the RFC had been passed.
Yes you're right, it works really really well.
I think he would have typed things left to right. He only wrote in mirror because it was more ergonomic for him, but there's no such issue with a keyboard.
Security Comic: CI/CD Compromises
What does that have to do with illegal immigration and drug trafficking?

I’m personally impacted by the shipment delays. I currently await more than $250,000 worth of product ordered from Mexico, so questioning my motives with false equivalencies isn’t going to get anywhere.
As an aside, those same low-level remote management tools are used by cyber actors (criminals and governments) to compromise entire organizations with ransomware and other malware. That's the real reason ransomware is such an issue today.

If corporate systems were stand-alone/isolated, we probably would not have this problem to the extent that we do.
This is a blatant, completely shameless and very aggressive character assassination campaign

And yet all of the specific details are presented with decent context and are easily verifiable, something I'm sure you are very much in favour of.

If it's damming and objectively true, maybe the problem is not that the words are being said.

On another note, the ease at which VCs have inserted themselves into, and have been accepted as part of, the crypto scene and supposed future is both amusing and scary to me. They might not be a Govt entity, but they also play by a set of less formal rules that do not benefit anyone but the closed group they choose said rules to benefit.
Yeah have a look at https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/commands
I don't understand, why Unicode must (should?) contain superscript and subscript glyphes at all. Declared goal of Unicode is to have encoding of all characters used by all languages, past and modern. Subscript and superscript are not used by any language as separate characters, it is typesetting property. It should be solved by other means, not by character/glyph encoding.
Should Unicode include ALL characters strike-out? Underlined? Double-underlined? Small-caps variant for all letters for languages where small-caps are used in typography tradition?

And, BTW, what do you mean by "all letters"? Should Unicode contain sub/superscript variants of Hangul or Devanagari or letters from hundreds other non-latin-alphabae languages? So, Unicode must be approximately tripled, bar hieroglyphic part (and why hieroglyphics should not be sub/superscripted?)?
> "new" in 3.8, oh nice

You can have them in earlier versions with the typing-extensions library. [0]

> For static type checking

Protocols can be used for runtime checks as well. [1]

[0] https://pypi.org/project/typing-extensions/

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/typing.html#typing.runti...
Or is it political grandstanding to repeal title 42?
While it probably is a good option, there is a critical point here that is missed in the framing. The US military does not in any way have Taiwan's best interests at heart.

The US military's track record of promoting peace and prosperity in foreign countries is not great.
It doesn't look like it, no. But what about that is actually using blockchains to solve a problem? They mention Web3 but I don't know if it's a requirement of some feature or an opportunity for a marketing buzzword.

I don't deny that there are some companies that are trying to do real things with blockchain tech - but most of the money and effort appears to be going into speculation and/or scamming. Which isn't very productive.
Swedish mealplanning and shoppinglist generator – Reciprepp
You act like it is some grave faux pas when developers show us software they are charging money for without labeling it with warnings that it isn't free. I'm sorry, but that's terribly bad form when you are on a forum that largely consists of people making a living writing software.

By labeling people as "elitist" when they point out that this leaves you somewhat wanting in the professional courtesy department you only make my point for me.

Try not to feel so entitled to other people's work.
Maybe I didn’t read closely enough but I believe the article only showed correlation for “all” movies and movies with <20 million budget. It doesn’t show blockbusters or anything like that. It’s worth mentioning, too, what is considered “high correlation” should be quite different from the stock market and should be carefully debated. 0 correlation isn’t just 0 correlation; it would imply these people are aliens with different sensory inputs.
They tried to sell my company on their cloud offering but once we described our current deployments scale they backed away since it was larger then they had the capability to support.
I'm not looking at outcomes, I'm looking at actions, my actions to be specific. What you do is up to you. In the first scenario I'm contributing to a bad thing, in the next I'm not. It really is as simple as that.

There is one thing I have control over in this life, and that is what I choose to do. Consequently, that is also what is what I opt to judge.
> It's a signal that the organization isn't particularly starving for donations.

That's not a conclusion that came to my mind. Despite all the hype, Bitcoin is still a niche payment system and basically everyone can use a more established payment method instead.
A friend told me this was her dream car maybe 7 or 8 years ago for this reason ("hose it out"). I do know she eventually got one. My response at the time was, "who cares, still ugly."
Interesting hypothesis, and if true, I have the utmost empathy for the engineering teams that have to figure this out a way to kludge all the right data together. The thought of extracting the lost data from the sharded backups, and then merging it into a possibly a shard with good, newer customer data makes my skin crawl.
Deep-learning-based compression techniques may one day be able to get speech down to several hundred bits per second, and non-speech audio in not much more. (They share the computational expensiveness problem though; even more so.) Google's Lyra seems to perform similarly to Opus for speech, at less than half the bitrate: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/lyra-new-very-low-bitrate-...
The RfC is passed but the effect of that is to make a request. Imagine you and I were to form a committee to discuss, e.g., landscaping in municipal gardens: we might pass a motion to suggest planting different flowers, but that would amount only to a request to the gardeners/the competent authority.
Mine was an 03, hatchback model. Very fun to drive and the stick shift was on the dashboard basically.

I only wish I had spent more time driving it more interesting places, instead of to work in that wretched city.
The name itself sounds like it should be a graph of a downward trend line on a graph.

I’m guessing the person who implemented it got this exact requirement wording in the Unicode definition and nothing else, didn’t make the logical connection, and just implemented it as close to literally as they could.
I think the words examples provide insight into how the image generation works at several levels.

You can clearly see [1] how the glyphs are created by approximately merging several letters in one place to create a new symbol, while maintaining the overall structure of words and paragraphs within a well-composed layout in the page. The periodic table [2] seems to be doing the same, where the layout is the structure of colored boxes and two sizes of letters within them.

Image composition seems to be doing something similar, learning to associate concepts with their visual representations at the right level, and merging already-seen examples in the right proportions to create a novel image. Cats and vampires are represented by their distinctive features, arms and legs are correctly positioned as parts of the body according to the action they perform, and instructions of style (either by artists like "Pieter Brueghel", art styles like "digital" or "mosaic", or even camera settings like ISO exposure [3]) are translated into lower level pixel representations of color, shapes and shadowing.

My hypothesis is that if you included examples where the letters are taught one by one, like in kindergarten primers, it may be able to learn those concepts as well and generate better painted text (although I'm not sure it could make the jump to "understanding" the relation between their role as input instructions and as output image text).

[1] https://39669.cdn.cke-cs.com/rQvD3VnunXZu34m86e5f/images/855...

[2] https://39669.cdn.cke-cs.com/rQvD3VnunXZu34m86e5f/images/157...

[3] https://www.bramadams.dev/projects/dalle-tricks#let-there-be...
Curly braces and semicolons? Wait, that's actually C.

The README showcases some opcodes. Maybe they borrowed PHP's bytecode format or the VM design? If true, that would actually be a pretty neat thing to borrow, since PHP has made a lot of improvement in VM performance and memory management lately.
Indeed, either water towers or pumps. And definitely no 'air' in the waterlines, possibly GP was thinking of sewers?
I think of the Game of Life as not-quite-right excitable reaction-diffusion systems. The advantage of the latter is that they have a mathematical representation as a parabolic partial differential equation. They can exhibit such patterns as spirals and diffraction effects.
Don't forget nethack! The interface makes it playable with a screen reader.
> that'd be one less reason to invade

China has cared about Taiwan for longer than semiconductors have been in existence. Whatever reasons China has, semiconductors is not one of them.

Furthermore China prefers peaceful solutions where it can, so as long as China believes it can build its own advanced semiconductor industry it won't use military means to do so.
My biggest takeaway is you can never really “insist on getting it fixed” without the damage to the relationship. You can state how it is important to you, explain why, and hope that the partner initiates the change to themselves. There is a subtle difference between the two; “push” vs “pull”, if you will.
The problem is not the technology. If you want to use crypto for normal daily stuff you need to spread it among poeple. And the more you spread it among people, the more people will want to regulate it(normal people, users). Because they will not want to lose money or get caught in some stupid crypto schemes
Okay to clarify, I meant the excesses of the age. It was also a time of expansion driven by the inventions and discoveries of the industrial revolution and the discovery of oil. But when people make the argument that libertarian policy would lead to the market moderating companies' and entrepreneurs' worst instincts, I think the Gilded Age shows otherwise.
Designed for wading usually means it keeps water out. It doesn’t always mean water proof. If the windshield is removable I would think the inside would be more water proof than a vehicle that can wade, like a Wranger (water resistant inside) vs my Grand Cherokee (multiple seals to keep water out).
>>And yet all of the specific details are presented with decent context and are easily verifiable, something I'm sure you a very much in favour of.

That doesn't detract from the fact that the headline, which is the only part of the article many will read, is inflammatory and misleading.

>>They might not be a Govt entity, but they also play by a set of less formal rules that do not benefit anyone but the closed group they choose said rules to be edit.

VCs took center stage in the crypto space because the SEC entered it and prohibited programmatic crowdsales whereby the public could participate in initial funding rounds.

There is literally no other legal avenue by which people can raise funds for cryptocurrency projects, and those methods being explored as possible alternatives, like NFT sales, are already being eyed by the SEC with a mind to ban them. And if Congress gives the SEC the power to do so, they will.

Ethereum, had it conducted its capital raising after 2018, would have had to rely on venture capital firms, instead of a public crowdsale like it conducted in 2014 that provided it with wide distribution of token holders.
>These unicode characters feel like they were given to us from an alien species or something.

I worked at a large media company that had lots of differing icon sets in play across different media.

These icons were in SVG and they had been optimized pretty intensely. In some cases due to a bug in one of the optimizing tools some types of bezier curves got weird, so instead of say the round headed person with their hand held up to say stop it was the star headed monstrosity pointing to doom from the heavens. Because of how the icons were used and not used these optimized errors were actually sitting around so long that nobody had examples of the original icons although one could guess because in some cases we had similar ones in other projects that had not been optimized.

So maybe a similar thing would be the source of these weird alien entities.
The environment variables count towards the argument limit. To a casual shell user, this is non-obvious and typical error messages are bad and don't even mention it.
They say "Argument list too long" even when the argument list (argv) isn't too long, the environment list (envp) is.

So the author went through an investigation to figure out what was happening, and decided to write down her findings.

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On a personal note, reading this caused me to look at fish's error message in this case. It mentioned "environment list", but tbh that's still too jargony and non-obvious.

So the next version of fish will now explicitly mention "environment variables" in the error message here, and it will print a hint if the environment variables account for over half the limit.
> How do you measure it - just frequency response and power draw?

Same way you measure any other high end consumer good: price
Good luck running a pig through a pipe that has another tube for fiber spliced into it.
> I'm not looking at outcomes, I'm looking at actions, my actions to be specific. What you do is up to you. In the first scenario I'm contributing to a bad thing, in the next I'm not. It really is as simple as that.

Okay, based on this clarification it appears that we agree on the subject matter, you just didn't like the terminology I used to describe it. Your description is exactly what I mean when I say motivated by ideological purity. As you said, you're not looking at outcomes. You just want to avoid associating yourself with what you consider to be a "bad thing" - regardless of whether your choice makes the world better, worse, or has no impact at all.
But you see, even if I did agree that that was the case that all exchanges are rotten, you originally said any crypto business. You think the various businesses that focus on staking, or cold wallet businesses for example, that focus on consolidation and/or security are 'rooted in scams, greater fool schemes, or ponzi'? How?
eth is moving to proof of stake imminently
There's already U+1F4C9 for that though.
... well, what about using sewer or storm water lines?

I mean, besides making it a biohazard to repair.
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That's exactly how they would have to do it, and it wouldn't just be the fiber but a pipe to contain the fiber.
And it's not necessarily even forced either.

The West underestimates the overlap between Chinese and Taiwanese families, professionals, and other ties. This is not like North and South Korea where there's been generations with no contact so almost all ties are lost.

These are two societies which are largely open to each other in every aspect of life as long as you don't bring up one specific aspect of politics. Taiwan would look much more like Hong Kong than the West likes to think.
The current arrangement is being a de facto sovereign democratic state. A status quo that is very much not something China prefers in the long term. At some point in the future Taiwan is either acknowledged as a sovereign nation (with embassies and no foreign claims on their territory) or it will get assimilated as the 'lost province' China considers it to be.

If China didn't want to invade/assimilate/peacefully-reunite-with-a-gun-against-your-head Taiwan, it wouldn't object to it presenting itself as an independent nation, and it wouldn't have its 'One China' policy which means that other countries have to choose between them and Taiwan. If China didn't have designs on taking over Taiwan, it wouldn't impose sanctions on Lithuania for opening a Taiwanese Representative Office.

Thinking that China with its Nine Dash Line (as close to an invasion as you can get) does not have designs on Taiwan is naive.
I remember back in the day we used to find publicly exposed Windows FTP servers, create new folders using some messed up unicode characters and upload pirated games and movies there to share with each other. The only way to open those directories was to specifically type the exact path in unicode, simply double clicking on the folder in filezilla or windows explorer resulted in a error. Sometimes the admins themselves couldn't delete them and just left them there. Good times.
Might we run out of Unicode code points, like we (seem to) be running out of IPv4 addresses?

As another comment mentions, once you add all these snowmen, with/without snow, male female and gender-neutral, in a few skin colour options (plus neutral)... it adds up. Plus, exponential growth once you consider family of snowmen (different number/genders/races of "parents", different number/gender/races of "children" and so on...).
Often these are the types of companies that let numerous consulting companies run roughshod over their organization. You end up with a dozen different proprietary systems created by a dozen different consultants/contractors implementing the latest fad.
As another poster noted, the Feds funded a lot of the cost of electrification. There is starting to be some action on the internet front. But...

Here are the economics for a fiber optics deployment in 2021 for a rural town of ~800 premises, where about 60% got service. They charge customers about $100/month for symmetric 75/75mbps internet plus phone.

It costs about $40K per mile to run the fiber down the road on existing utility poles. It costs between $2K and $4K to run the drop from the utility pole to the home.

Those two numbers (miles of road, number of premises) get you in the ballpark of the cost of deployment in a town/county. More premises per mile obviously decreases the cost per premise - that's why utilities prefer dense areas (cities).
$15k worth of battery weighs at least 453kg(1000lbs). Might as well just steal the entire car.
If you are triggered by anything it is something you need to ask yourself why. And why you are with that person then, if they are triggering you.

With some (minor) exceptions, what people are getting in their relationships is at least 50% result of their own choices, and not owning that only prolongs the effects.
Depends where you are. Somewhere like Germany you just receive a €300 bill in the mail every time you torrent something, this has a definite chilling effect on torrenting. For crypto, with all transactions being publicly available, I see this being even easier to implement.
please don't !!
There's some prior art for the ping-based storage: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs , but the tetris storage is amazing.
Yeah it doesn't make any sense, the whole point of DI is to work around Java's static type system to enable mocking for testing, which is a problem you don't have outside of static typing.

But the "why" around these design patterns have been long lost, and people will argue to death that the patterns should always be used in every language/runtime and come up with ever more vague and circular reasons until you can't argue against it.
Okay. I'm not familiar with Wikipedia politics so it seems I used incorrect term again.
I'm OK with that. Free opening this thing and guess what will happen. Rule 34, child pornography and murder scenes will explode all over internet. Want your own free movie with your favorite non-porn actress doing scat scenes? Guess what, it will be over in next millisecond once you explain it to DALL-E. No thank you, some thing are better kept under tight security and shitload of money.

But here is the kicker, as the technology progresses this will become just normal part of your device you carry. I pity our grand-kids and the world they'll live in.
The update under the article has an explanation of where the name probably came from:

> I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project.

If I understand this correctly in the context, this person named the glyph based on what it looked like. So it wasn't the other way around.
>That's a huge price to pay for a largely symbolic imperial gain.

The recent conflict in Ukraine shows that dictatorships are willing to make irrational decisions.
I was going to propose the same thing with code:

class MyDep:
def do_foo(self):
print("fooo!")

class Fooser:
def __init__(self, foo_dooer: MyDep):
self.foo_dooer = foo_dooer

def act(self):
self.foo_dooer.do_foo()

class FakeDep(MyDep):
def do_foo(self):
print("booo!")

# With the grand unveiling:
fooser = Fooser(MyDep())

Seems a lot simpler than 100 lines they brag about, yet this includes the business logic implementation for the code as well (dependency injection takes a couple of lines total; if you add interface handling or defaults, you'll add a few lines).
Which, out of all foreign alliances to ever exist, were based on unconditional love?