skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
self-criticism can cause self-hatred (appropriate or not)

milk can cause a sour stomach

milk is not a sour stomach
It's about making war too costly to China. Not about preventing China from taking control of TSMC.

Destruction of TSMC would make such conflict very very inconvenient for large part of the world. And China wouldn't want to upset literally everybody. It's probably close to usage of a strategic nuclear weapon.
It's possible both events happened. The downward trend line character certainly seems like something people might have wanted.
They are relevant because Unicode had to define the bidirectional rendering and not every rendering can be automatically inferred from logical (abstract) characters. Unicode has no reason to define the general text rendering including subscripts and superscripts, so there is no reason for Unicode to define control characters for them.
To ask permission from the State Department to go to North Korea and then to go anyway is pretty foolish. Agree or disagree with US policy towards NK, he shouldn’t be entirely surprised that there were consequences, given that he asked in advance whether he could go and they said no.
China doesn't necessarily want TSMC, they want the Island. TSMC would just be icing on the cake. Even if you destroy the TSMC facilities, you can't evacuate the thousands that work(ed) there over night, China would find them, round them up and force them to rebuild.
And this is why my city only owns the fibers under the streets and lets private companies rent them to provide TV and Internet. That means all building owners can deicide whuch ISP to use snd if one starts sucking they can switch.
We are nowhere close to running out of code points. Unicode as currently defined has 1.1 million, but even that could be increased if there was a need. There isn't, since only 114 thousand are defined.

There are not separate code points for all combinations of genders and skin colors; the characters are made as combinations.
Compliance and audit driven organizations are more likely to do these things. They want consistency and control across the org. What they fail to realize is how that same consistency and low level control can be used against them. And, more importantly, the scale of the abuse will be as efficient as the scale of management.

It's sort of like building an encryption backdoor (only for law enforcement) and then to be shocked and surprised when criminals use it against you. Security technologists who know better are not consulted and/or their advice to isolate and diversify is not taken.
The forum singularity will be reached when the GPT-3 generated responses themselves include accusations of writing comments via GPT3.
Agreed. For China TSMC will surely be a great bonus if they get it with the territory, but it is West that probably cares more about their services.

Also, a strategic timing of an invasion and the threatened TSMC destruction may even boost the Chinese semiconductor industry: In a post-TSMC world, their less-advanced chips will suddenly be selling like hotcakes.
I like to define intelligence as knowing data, but knowing data only creates idiot savants. What is lacking in AI today is artificial comprehension. What we're calling "artificial intelligence" lacks comprehension. Until the concepts handled by AI are composable, forming virtual operating logical mechanisms, and an AI comprehends by trial combinations of concepts (virtual operating logical mechanisms) we are only creating idiot savants incapable of comprehending what they do.
Well, there are degrees. All the software I've written within recent memory (last 5-6 years or so) has software that was written by some commercial entity in its dependency graph. Usually as a direct dependency. Of course it varies how expensive it would be for me to replace that software. In some cases I'm sure I could find free alternatives, but it may not be as high quality, performant, correct or convenient to use. Which is another way of saying: it'd cost me more effort.

I can tell myself that I run my software on a free OS, but I know full well that much (if not most) of the heavy lifting on Linux was paid for by companies. Even in cases where the company isn't explicitly credited (as has been the case in several companies I've worked for that had people getting paid to contribute to the Linux kernel).

I'm sure I have written more trivial things in the past 5-6 years that has no external dependencies paid for by companies. Of course, if you ignore that the compiler, standard library, most of the toolchain and the IDE I use to write that software is all being developed by companies.

I bet that if you really were to look at what's between the pixels on your screen and the CPU, you'd probably find that most of the software you think of as written by individuals for free, results in code paths that spend a lot of time in code that was developed on some company's dime.

I'm also interested in what you mean by "most corporations take way more than they give back". Do you mean that monetizing free software is taking something away from free software?

As a thought experiment: imagine that no for-profit company were to use open source software at all. Do you see where I'm going? You do understand that there is a symbiotic relationship here, right?
Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread
Awesome work! First time I played I got 50/55, generally I look for signs on the street, apart from the architecture of the place, how the people look and what language they speak. Naturally the US seems to be overrepresented, but on 4 of the questions I got wrong I was undecided between two american counties.
"If you are looking at energy purchases from Russia, I would suggest that your attention should be focused on Europe," Jaishankar said at the presser with secretary of state Antony Blinken in Washington, DC, following the 2+2 India-US ministerial of the foreign and defence ministers of the two sides early on Tuesday. "We do buy some energy which is necessary for our energy security, but I suspect, looking at the figures, that our total purchases in a month are less than what Europe buys in an af ..

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/jaishankar-e...
We're Not in a Recession
Quantum computing ecosystem expands in all directions
They're not building jet engines yet either.

The higher up the value chain, the more difficult things are. And that pole keeps getting higher every year. So it's not a matter of 'catching up' - it's 'catching up and then getting ahead and staying ahead'.

And, that pathway is quite some time.

I'm not sure the factories themselves are hugely relevant, because with all of he talent, supply chain and operational issues and know-how scrambled up, it'd take them forever to get it back up.

Those fabs would be a bit of a write off no matter what.
Conway died last april from Covid. I had the pleasure of attending a lecture of him once.

He used an old-fashioned overhead projector, the type where a strong light shines through a plastic sheet. The plastic sheet was filled with formulas and stuff but on top of that was a sheet of paper. Initially the screen was dark, but as the lecture progressed he would tear-off bits and pieces of the paper to reveal more and more of the slide underneath. Entertaining and literally illuminating his topic.
https://codesigning.guide/

I'd recommend automating it with Fastlane (https://fastlane.tools).
Blockdiag – simple block-diagram image generator
Without any real experience in either field myself I would guess your main USP would be applying the skills you have in developing AI behavior and maybe natural environment generation? Not sure what the other overlapping areas can be.

Isn't it easier to do some hobby game development first, before making the switch?
When we have anough compute or the models get much smaller. At this point it seems wasteful to utilize gaming level GPU to decode audio stream.
This would be super incredible inside a vr headset like quest. But i think the video resolution must be scaled a lot like 4k at least, 8k preferably for it be meaningful.

I actually did have an app that was kind of similar and it used to make you exercise in streets of paris, etc in first-person pov but the video resolution was so bad it just didn't work. But i am sure there will be a huge demand for this in vr as it gets more popular.
I would've thought they'd have a table of every icon and a description or something, maybe at the time it was never taken very seriously or likely to take off as it did, so people didn't bother. Like IPv4...
It’s in their interest if other people copy their trades because the asset values will go up
Can't you just switch currency on your bank card, avoiding conversion?
I've got to agree with Spivak that this feels a bit like fearmongering. Assuming this person transitioned in the 1990s based on age, the standards of care were... problematic.

This probably would have been the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care, 1990 edition[0], which I will link, but I can't really stomach trying to read/summarize.

The fact is the regret rate for gender affirming surgeries less than 2% [1]. Absolutely heartbreaking for those it happens to, but hip replacements have a significantly higher regret rate.

As to this article in particular, I will note:

* Most of the health risks associated with taking supplemental estrogen are specific to the oral route. Transdermal (gel or patches), injected, or subcutaneous pellet implants avoid the risks of blood clots and stroke.

* There is likely nothing stopping the author from taking supplemental testosterone in addition to, or instead of, estrogen.

For context, I'm a transgender non-binary person in my 30s. I started transitioning a few years ago, and had non-conforming gender affirming surgery this past September. If anyone is interested in details, I've written about it elsewhere[2]. To my knowledge, I am the only person publicly out about having had that particular procedure done.

Under the medical standards of care prior to WPATH v7 (2012)[3], I would have been denied care unless I did a lot of lying and performative gender things that I would have found distressing at best. There are still major issues with the standards of care, but they've definitely improved.

While I've had some post op complications that I'm not happy about (which aren't my surgeon's fault), I have every reason to believe that they're fixable, and if I had to make the choice over again, I'd have still done it.

My HRT includes a combination of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. I've largely been able pick which primary and secondary sexual characteristics I want for my body. My appearance these days frequently leaves people unsure of my gender, which I find affirming.

0. http://www.genderpsychology.org/transsexual/hbsoc_1990.html

1. https://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/2021/03000/regret_af...

2. https://rya.nc/private/transition.html

3. https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v7/SOC%20V7_...
Is that the part of your flowchart where everything converges on "US bad"?

US offers to station troops in a country -> US bad, imperialism

US doesn't offer to station troops in a country -> US bad for not protecting

X and NATO talk over membership -> NATO bad, aggressive, imperialistic, threatens Russia

NATO doesn't let X join -> NATO bad for not protecting against Russia
So we can ignore that cancer used to be a guaranteed death sentence, polio was a thing, children got rickets, a septic wound could kill you, an ulcer wasn't a course of pills to get rid of, tuberculosis was rife.

The gilded age was no paradise and rose tinted views of the era just don't hold up to scrutiny.
Tom's really mastered his skill of casual misleading, he adds these "wait, what?" moments to every video. A more notorious example will be his explanation of how optical reflection works, check out his "30 Weird Chess Algorithms" (https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA) around 10:20.

Edit: spelling.
I don't claim to have the evidence, I claim to have made an observation. If the parent wanted to make a counterargument they could do, it wouldn't have to be concretely evidence based because I'm not holding a forum conversation to the epistemological standard of a formal paper or proof. Just a good example or argument would be more compelling than just calling my opinion a kneejerk reaction.
That's a cop out. You could equally say that new emojis shouldn't be added because you should use inline images for those. Or RTL markers shouldn't be added because you should use dedicated text styling for that.

There are a ton of places that don't support superscript markup.
The recents conflicts in Afghanistan show that many different kinds of governing systems are willing to make irrational decisions. Except monarchies maybe? No monarchy has tried to invade Afghanistan recently.
The whole financial sector in the U.S. is a bubble that will burst at some point. Have already lived through one of those just 14 years ago. And now we're getting elevated inflation, multiple international currencies experiencing hyperinflation, etc.

Crypto is at least transparent and fully auditable. Loans stay solvent as they are over collateralized and automatically liquidated when they become close to under collateralization. As a result, the crypto space has and will go through many mini bubbles that resolve themselves very quickly.

Crypto and blockchain are fundamentally transformative technologies. The U.S. government will make moves to co-opt it, via stable coin regulation, but they won't be able to fully control the space. It is truly international in scope, and runs on math and cryptography. They can scarcely ban seed phrases, or blockchain in general, as it is fundamentally a form of speech.
For example air conditioning prevents heat exhaustion.
If we assume a signed int for available space

Note that as it is currently defined, the Unicode codespace ranges from U+0000 to U+10FFFF, with some reserved codepoints (eg to encode surrogate pairs), yielding a total number of 1,112,064 assignable code points.
So You Want to Learn Physics (2021)
Not yet. Even the 2021 request [1] to remove Klingon from the Not The Roadmap list [2] is in hiatus.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/not-the-roadmap/

[2] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21155-klingon-req.pdf
Did it? It was proposed a few times; did the last proposal actually land?
Cop Admits to Playing Copyrighted Music to Keep Videos Off YouTube
Nothing in crypto is fairly distributed. Not when the majority of supply is distributed in just a few years, or, much worse yet, all at launch in the hands of the founders plus whoever they decided to handout tokens to by whatever publicly unverifiable way.
You could give jq a go: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
We can't assume a signed int, as character encodings limit the number of codepoints: "Excluding surrogates and noncharacters leaves 1,111,998 code points available for use." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#:~:text=Excluding%20su...
That's the nice thing about statistics, we will always have outliers to cherry pick. One can play with the graph at will, but also US men life expectancy at 5yo increased from 55 to 80 in the last 150 years: https://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/US/US39-01.html. That's without infant mortality.
It would be a deterrent to a China’s invasion as long as China is still lacking in semiconductor manufacturing. It allows Taiwan and the West to buy time. 10 years? 20 years? Who knows what will happen during that time — Xi may have died, the West will have diversified the semiconductor industry, a new generation of Chinese can grow past nationalism and recognize Taiwanese people’s will for independence.
> A classic example is something like generateInlinedVersionOfFunction<someInt, someFloat>() that generates a class or function with some particular values inlined for efficiency.

This smells very bad. Seems like a better choice is a macro, and I understand that in C++ the macros are awful and worth avoiding, but Rust has decent declarative macros for this type of work.

Do you have some real world examples?
> Getting advanced machines to destroy themselves through intentionally bad settings doesn't seem very difficult.

This is how Stuxnet worked on destroying the Iranian centrifuges for the nuclear program.
Imagine you you had a magic button that suddenly increased demand for a volatile security any time you pressed it. That would be a fairly valuable thing for some people.
Yes, you're quite right.

For future reference the GitHub manifest page seems to be the better choice:

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
Adding JpegXL to discussion. For still images it's about the same as AVIF, for high-compression samples AVIF have upper hand, for high-quality samples JpegXL feels better. Also, JpegXL is much faster, simpler, allows progressive encoding
That's exactly how I did it yes. DX4/100, and a dedicated DOS player that could play one song at a time.

Of course back then, much of my collection was in XM format.
Insider trading prevents information from being available to all parties by definition. That argument essentially essentially means that a certain amount of people should be allowed be defrauded to find the correct market price.

Real estate is an especially bad example too because when selling a house you have to disclose any information about the property that may affect it's future value or risk legal action - but still real estate fraud continues.
I had a cabinet at the colo data center that was formerly Enron's data center - super thick pipe to the public Internet, in a data center built to survive nuclear war. I had 17 servers and a Federal Reserve quality hardware firewall, total cost of hardware was about $55K, the colo expense of $600 a month, and my team of two spent perhaps a day a month on maintenance. This was in contrast to $96K per month for the same setup at Amazon.
TSMC's chip fab is so complex that to do 7nm chip lithography they had to invent new mirrors for the light they etch the silicon with.
It'd probably only take 15 minutes and a hammer to do serious long term damage inside a chip fab plant it's such precise form of manufacturing.
If things were radically different would I describe Twitter differently? Yes.

Is Twitter currently generating twice the profit of Facebook? No. Pretty straightforward.
I think education is the key here. Scams will always be there just as they are with fiat money. Crypto makes it easier for scammers, sure, but regulation can only make it a bit harder.

The only way to stop getting caught in schemes is to be educated about how crypto and economics work in the first place.

I'm not talking about EVM-bytecode level or keccak256 implementations of course, but a general understanding of what is what.
Should we also have slanted, bold, semi-bold, light and underlined versions of every code point? Versions with/without serifs? For monospaced text? Those are all presentational matters. That we have super/subscripts in Unicode in the first place seems to have been just a hack to help terminal emulator software deal with obsolete encodings like ISO-8859-1: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00159-ucsterminal.txt
When discussing these in Python, you need to be careful to differentiate between "mocking" and "monkey patching", especially so because both of those are provided by Python's standard library "mock" module.

Mocking, and specifically mocking with Python mock module, is a quick approach to construct faked objects that simply do not fail and which log any method execution on them. Dependency injection is usually done with more complete fakes, ideally with tested fakes (fakes which pass the same sets of tests as the original, "production" implementation does).

Monkey-patching is what allows Python developers to avoid dependency injection altogether. It has its own set of risks (basically, it might affect things you are unaware of), though you can reduce those by patching exactly at the import place of your dependency (eg. patch("mymodule.utc_now") vs patch("datetime.datetime.utc_now") — if you are not doing that today, start now! :).

Still, I consider readability the main concern when programming, with testability being second (no surprise they are closely related, as tests will document behaviour precisely). With Python's monkey-patching and mocking, you are at a large risk of producing illegible gibberish, both in tests and code.

If you can at all avoid it, you should! Simple dependency injection by passing dependencies directly in (functions or classes) makes everything explicit and trivial to comprehend (and test).

Unfortunately, the biggest problem is that the world of Python libraries is completely filled with magic side effects, so you sometimes can't effectively avoid doing either of those (it would be too costly).
I'd love to see if DALL-E can generate cross-stitch patterns. Would be nice to be able to input a size and a theme and have something unique be generated.
How PNG works and what is Quite OK image format (QOI)?
It is sad but true that everybody tries to look "busy" just to avoid scorn or extra work from a manager...

Which is weird: after all, if someone through cunning and guile or sheer skill, was able to complete a task faster, should we not reward that instead of punish?

Also, the adage "If you want something done, give the task to someone who's busy" is also still holding up. Maybe that is because someone who's busy is in fact making himself look busy and really waiting for a new "real" assignment?
Unicode had to define the bidirectional rendering

Why? They could have left this for a higher layer to handle.
Installing an entire operating system to manage your dotfiles....seems reasonable
I feel like news like this is just here to normalize the thought of a China/Taiwan conflict.

Like with the Russia/Ukraine conflict (which is horrible and there is no way to justify it), the US has a lot of benefits from this (EU no longer snugly with Russia, we restrict the flow of gas, etc). The parallels are clear: Isolation of a power (first Russia, soon China) that endangers the US empire and its ambitions, like the Dollar based world economy. The US has a lot of debt in China, right?

I just can't read news like this in isolation anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I think both regimes are pretty bad (although the US also had it's moment, just read Confessions of an Economic Hitman), but we have to think what the alternatives are, and we have to consider letting our culture of "more personal freedom" leak into these countries instead of forcing it upon them, or forcing them out if it, as we're doing with Russia.

Not saying I have all the answers, but war? And all this talk about "destruction" (broken nest), that can't be the best way.

Edit: Imagine living in Taiwan and the US army tells you to adopt a "scorched earth policy" in case of invasion. Pretty terrifying. Would be nice if they said something like "were committed to resolving this peacefully". I mean, sure they are the army but still...
At some people they will have to. They have a lot of resources, but not infinite. If cracking down becomes exponentially harder due to network effects and technical reasons, they simply can't go that way.
> It does nobody any favours to just dismiss advanced features Rust doesn't support as dangerous and unnecessary just because most Rust programmers haven't come across a use-case.

I think requiring decidable equality for const generics is a fine approach for a limited MVP like what Rust is going with at present. Sure there are more general settings but they would need dependent types and the user would have to write proofs of type equality/apartness anytime the issue came up in a compile. Seems like a bit of a non-starter for now, even though it's effectively what enables non-trivial logical features like homotopy types.
Tesla Model 3 stops itself to avoid potentially disastrous accident
APL and other array programming languages are this.

The loops are obviously there deep down the the language that they are implemented in but you never explicitly use them.