skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, but in practice most of the systems I've dealt with that claims to support "UTF-16" really means they support UCS-2, and if you need to do anything outside the BMP you can help yourself by checking surrogate characters.

At least I haven't seen languages claim UTF-8 support by just giving you raw byte arrays.

Before the advent of emoji (which I'm personally grateful for), the vast majority of developers aren't even aware that UCS-2 is not UTF-16 and outside the BMP Javascript's String functions are totally broken and that you actually have to check surrogates yourself to properly decode strings.

And of course, it's not only Javascript... all systems/languages that mistakenly adopted UCS-2 ended up in similar places.
A lot of people have asked us why they can't host their own email. It's a great question!

Hosting your own email is about as easy as hosting your own website, or server. Basically, you would have to install an email server on your own computer, and then configure it so that it can send and receive email.

If you've ever tried to set up your own web server, you know what kind of a pain it can be. You'd have to install the right software, configure it, make sure it's secure, and do all kinds of other stuff that you probably don't want to do (unless you're one of those rare people who just loves doing stuff like that).

If you think about how much time and effort it takes to manage a single computer—let alone a network or an entire data center full of them—you'll see why we're in the business of helping people with hosting, instead of telling them to host their own stuff.
Show HN: Frequent Suffixes and Prefixes in HN Titles
I bet they'd send marines to recover him and his family if he asked. They'd get disappeared to a US black site and lost to history, but barring that, he's pretty much fenced in. The fog of war and chaos might provide him an opportunity to escape to Europe, and from there to Africa and maybe South America. Whatever regime replaces Putin might end up being friendly to the US and give up Snowden as a gesture. I don't envy Snowden's choices.

It could be his last opportunity to escape to someplace where he can raise his kid in peace.
What defines disinformation? If “provably true” is an aspect of information, “not provably true” should be a facet of disinformation. Therefore the lawful mechanisms that exist for cases of libel, slander, and other forms of disinformation could be accelerated for modern defenses against propaganda and incitement.
I believe that a real DMCA takedown (not the copyright notice used by youtube) needs the following two clauses:

"I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law."

and

"I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

This takedown does not seem to have been in good faith or accurate, if only because of the following:

> The notice also stated “the infringing website is not willing to remove our client's work”, which came as a surprise to us since, at no point in time prior to receiving this notice had we received any communications from HackerRank or WorthIT Solutions.

Are there any consequences against whomever at WorthIT signed the DMCA request? If not, how come?
Thanks! I just put my email there. I'm new at this.
I don't understand why Google has it so that articles from The Sun and DailyMail are interspersed with AP, Politico, Axios, etc. For a company that is so devoted to countering misinformation they certainly do their part to spread it.
Getting GPLv2 compliance from a Chinese company - in person
Report: Anything saying 90% of something is probably a fake report.
Superb VCS integration and really intuitive Dockerfile centric platform by https://northflank.com

Worth trying it out yourself, they’re dirt cheap atm.
Or more?

I find myself doing more queries as results change. And for me, it is generally worse. Some of that is about Google, but not all.

Discord, IRC, for example, are not searchable in the way forums and other public discussions are. Just one example. There are many others.

I search more chasing down what I want to know and am now getting questions from google. "Did you buy one of these and from whom?"

Or, "get this question added to the web... and qualified people to answer it"

Those could reduce search, but dramatically improve the sale of ads related to me should I answer.
Useful clarification!

Would also be interesting to see what your sales tail is like… are some of your books still selling decently several years after publishing?
And the cost of that table scan could have been reduced if the table they had to scan over didn't contain the large text column which has the contents of their files.
Whole-term-fixed rates are pretty uncommon in Europe. Fixes of 2, 5 sometimes 10 years are products most providers offer, but as the term increases, the rate shoots up, to offset rate uncertainty.

My question is: why would you fix for 30yr when you know you're paying multiple points to offset market uncertainty? Remortgaging every couple of years takes a bit of time, and shopping around, but is much cheaper.
Poor UX for medical systems is something that has always baffled me. I used to work for one of the major CT system manufacturers (although on the firmware end of things). I never understood why a hospital would willingly pay a seven figures price tag for a medical imaging system that comes with an early 90s GUI.

Ultimately, it is not the radiologists or technologists who make this decision. From a purely technical point of view, modern systems hardly differ from each other, at least as far as diagnosis is concerned. The fact that a better UX means new users need less training and the time between scan and diagnosis is reduced are hardly taken into account when making a purchase decision.
It is though cause once it is published you get the income passively. However the topics of these books are perishable, so, have a end date
Mine is currently 105% LTV, haha.

We will drop 0.4% once we get below 66% LTV or so. Also, ours is 20 years fixed. The variable or 5 year fixed was even lower still, around 1.5% at 100% LTV.

It's still ridiculously low, which is why we're happy to pay a bit more to get it fixed for 20 years.
You missed an important point, which is that Trump negotiated the deal. Therefore it's obviously the worst possible outcome out of all the outcomes that could have occurred.
PayPal shuttering its San Francisco office
The doc refers to S3 as an intermediary- it is then going to be loaded in a different DB where all these issues exist. The intermediary adds one more place where data could be leaked.
I know a lot of people on HN are not a fan of monetising with ads.

That said, an alternative to writing a whole book before seeing if people will pay, is to write a blog.

You’ll get validation in smaller chunks and can iterate.

Currently the display ads on my blog pay between $15 - $30 per thousand visitors, and many blogs earn a lot more than that.

If you’re writing a non fiction book in a technical niche, it’s fairly easy to get traffic from Google if you write in depth posts around 1,500 words each.
> We can't blame the developers to not support any oddity and particularity that exists

It isn't as innocent as you paint it.

systemd developers have other agendas when making decisions , you can hear it from horses mouth:

"Well, it is definitely our intention to gently push the distributions in
the same direction so that they stop supporting deviating solutions for
these things where there's really no point at all in doing so." [1]

And after watching systemd development for years I might argue they have a very liberal interpretation of what constitutes "senseless configuration differences
between the distros for the really basic stuff"

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-Se...
I think the teacher sometimes says and explains things to the whole class, and if what the teacher says, or homework s/he has prepared, applies only to 5 out of 25 kids, the others can get bored and unmotivated, sometimes even start disturbing the others.

And sometimes the kids talk with each other about the maths problems. But that won't work so well if they're in different books.

Simpler for both the teacher and students, if those in a class are at roughly the same level.

But I do think that what you say, would work in a group where everyone is pretty good at maths, enjoy it so much so "yes I got a new book" they think (when they get the next book). And dive into it, no matter if there's a teacher there or not.

That's not generally the case though is it
>Considering it avoided both a mass outbreak

Have you been following what is going on in Taiwan in terms of covid? There is a mass outbreak building up right now. Oh, and the contact tracing you are talking about -- are they going to start contact tracing the thousands of people who have covid now? How is that going to help?
Look at Japan Covid numbers before and after the Olympics. Japan was practically zero. And that was when Japan vaccination rates were below 10%. The vast majority of cases ( at fractions of what an American city has ) was in Tokyo, and Tokyo has 3-4x NYC’s population and atleast 3x the density , despite Cuomo’s constant “density” argument.

Japan never had lockdowns. They just stopped allowing alcohol after 8pm. And also strict enforcement of people into the country. I was one of the last few hundred people into the country before it was entirely closed to non residents in 2021.
Asia is not doing fine and not everyone agrees:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2022/04/19/in-...

The lockdowns are great for the privileged class that "works" via Zoom meetings and can afford to move to another country if the current one does not sufficiently serve its interests.
do they also block it in messenger? afaik they block any url pattern that people tend to share often
JavaSpecialists 300: Break in Switch with Pattern Matching
I am not sure whether or not you are aware that some might intepret your comment as survivor's bias. Not everybody is a sysadmin, and definitely not everybody wants to do those tedious tasks in /etc.

There are so many potential pitfalls of everything around init/initd, especially if downstream integration scripts have to keep up with upstream changes.

And I would argue that those should not be the burden of endusers, and also not be the burden of distro maintainers. Providing a settings file that can autolaunch your application in a failsafe manner for all distributions is where systemd shines at, like it or not.

While I agree that it isn't perfect and the debugging critiques are kind of valid, I also would argue that this can be solved with better (graphical) tools for the systemd ecosystem.

Also: if you assume that debugging a broken shell script (running as root) is easier than systemd, then your perspective is already biased, cause it's a skill set that requires lots of experience.

I mean, most shell scripts in /etc/init.d don't even set -e, let alone -u ... and should be considered a risk for system integrity.
The issue with timelines is actually a positive, becausw you can use local/federated to find new accounts and follow them, but its not the twitter workflow
I also went to Netherlands recently; no masks, crowded cities ...

And returning to Germany I had to quarantine for 10 days - sick with covid.
Note that Shanghai tried to ditch the zero covid policy and avoided taking action for ten days. So the infection grey large then central govt stepped in.

Other chinese cities had outbreaks, reacted quickly and got rid of the virus.

The Shanghai situation is atrocious but it isn’t representative of China’s policy or typical results.
The government is currently in the process of shortening it and gradually opening up now that dominant Covid variants are less virulent than they were last year.

https://taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2022/04/26/20037...
Perjury is a criminal offense, but to date, no one has been even charged or prosecuted[1] for perjury for abuse of the DMCA takedown process.

[1]: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/51541/has-anyone-bee...
Hmm this might be something like Facebook which people can register and start rolling. Anti-privacy environments are surprisingly popular already.
A more detailed "why" can be found in the interview I gave: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/build-your-summer-spotify-pla...

I think the initial version took me a week?
I would tag 1 + 3. The state has obligations to provide infrastructure and legislative boundaries but should otherwise not interfere with the content of education. In my country teachers actually are obligated to be neutral and are not allowed to advertise a specific party for example. This overall has a price and I think a regular review of these rules is useful. But the spirit of the law (sometimes more important than the letter of the law in my country) is still sensible in my opinion.

All these choices have an influence in one way or another of course.
Which they only did because they ran out of stuff to invest in (while still attracting so much other capital to invest at all), and the valuations of everything else was already stretched. not suggesting these firms were trying to do anyone favors by allowing people to afford homes the rest of the time, its more so that the math temporarily made sense with that much liquidity in the market so they jumped into real estate

(And yeah people would rather pay the government than invest in your startup so lets not pretend investing in main street was a real option)
Coffee, tea and nagging at Japan's anti-procrastination cafe
Wikipedia deletes entry for Hunter Biden investment firm
That's not fixed rates, that's just variable rate with a delay, it's impossible to get a 30 year loan with a fixed rate in Croatia.
So you cherry pick an article about Shanghai, and generalize it to Asia?

The West conveniently omits Taiwan’s and Japan’s continued success with Covid for 2 years while the West sacrificed millions. I’m living my life and commuting as normal. Commute hours are packed full shoulder to shoulder. I feel way safer than in New York. New Zealand is another pacific Island that received outsized acclaim from the West. Guess what’s the difference between New Zealand and those Asian countries?

There’s also Vietnam, which for a country much lower on the economic progression has done exceedingly well.

Ofcourse Westerners and the West will say these Asian countries have skewed data because the don’t have tests. It was nearly impossible to find a covid test within a 2 week time frame in my hometown American city with a population over a million and an NBA team. Even then, I had to use a bot to hog a spot, then pay $200. In Japan, you can receive a test on the day throughout the pandemic and it cost less than $30. 95% of businesses in Japan do temperature checks and require hand sanitizers throughout 2021.
One flake of pepper left in a niche over time develops into a cavity that is essentially tooth disease. Something like this can happen even with regular brushing.

The benefit of cleaning being preventative, both to inhibit the development of disease and early treatment to reduce negative impact, seem obvious.
This reminded me of my 2nd ever phone: Samsung C3322 (Not the exact model).

It had an in-built feature in which you could set and hotkey (long press down key) to get a fake call!

Instead of putting me in awkward situations, it has saved me from awkward situations, preachy people and was a perfect way to end a small talk.

I should find some way to do that in my Android!
Growth investors don't like piles of cash doing nothing either so much. Especially with inflation.
> The website is the one who decides which cookies to send in the first place.

I can't fault websites for making use of functions the browser offers them.

> Which cookies should the user "request to be stored"

Have a simple toggle button for "Save state for this website" and discard everything when that button isn't pressed. Most website I visit I don't care about and have no need to keep any state. The few that I need to log into, I can just press that button. Knit that together with the "Save Passwords" function and it might be pretty much automatic most of the time.

> Those popups exist because cookies were being abused

Those popups exist because browsers failed to do their job. If the users wants warning for cookies, that's something the browsers can do just fine by itself, yet few do (e.g. Lynx).

> Browser manufacturers did not build those tools for the sake of marketing companies.

I'd disagree on that. Google makes their money with ads, so of course they'll optimize both Chrome and Search for maximum ad friendliness. Meanwhile Firefox is also run on Google ad money, so they can't step to far out of line either. There aren't many browsers that are build for the user first. The "you are the product" quote applies to browsers just as much as it does to Facebook.
None of those things will solve the real problem: We're destroying our own biosphere. Our kids are going to live in an objectively shittier world, to say nothing of their children. That's not solvable with random acts of kindness, because cruelty isn't what's killing the planet. It's indifference.

It's not solvable by voting, because the generation you can vote into political power will never suffer the consequences of their own decisions. The timelines are too long. Couple that with the fact that political power is very temporal and political thinking is of necessity fairly short-term and you have to come to the conclusion that no politician will solve this for anyone.

If you have a meaningful way to solve this issue, I'd love to hear it. But pretending there are things we can do to solve it is not going to change anything.
I can't speak for WorthIT but I've heard countless stories surrounding YouTube takedowns which are overturned because they just don't apply however Iv'e never heard of any repercussions for those making the claim.

They do seem to be given the benefit of the doubt, which is fine, but if they're not pushed towards improving their automation its just going to stay a nightmare for everyone else.
Most tech content is bullshit (2020)
do they also DMCA strike replicated repositories hosted in other countries, like China/Russia or SEA countries?

I definitely won't tell you guys to copy the orignal HackerRank questions and solutions to other self-hosted git services once in a while
It can be more useful in some cases. E.g. my Fitbit does get me to move more when I notice I've done too few steps and tracking mood, productivity etc. is much more useful when you actually try things like nootropics to actually figure out if they seem to help you.
"On fire" and "ablaze" have several meanings.

1) Paludan literally set copies of the Koran on fire.

2) Paludan's actions triggered consequences that, among other things, led to setting a school on fire and greater distruction. This does not mean that Paludan directly set the school on fire.

We know this because we can look how others use the same phrase, like how Gavrilo Princip set the world on fire [1] when he killed Ferdinand, even though the only thing he fired was was two shots from a gun, or when "a young Tunisian fruit vendor named Mohamad Bouazizi set himself and the Arab world on fire, igniting the Arab Spring across North Africa, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. "[2]

3) "ablaze" can also mean "feeling or showing strong emotion, especially anger", quoting https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/ablaze . In this case, there are strong emotion both for and against the idea of a ban on burning religious texts.

BTW, you could use a text-mode browser or curl to get around the paywall - that's what I did.

[1] "Setting the World on Fire: The Start of World War I" - https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/educational-magazines/s...

[2] https://www.ozy.com/news-and-politics/the-spy-who-told-me-it...
If we REALLY want to reform DMCA there is relatevily simple way to do it:
Organize a massive simultaneous DMCA takedowns of congressmen web pages...
The reform will come in days.
Marketing cookies can be same-site or third-party.

The only entity that can specify whether a cookie is marketing-related or not is the website. No one else can.
Writing (from a quick skim check) at least 16 books over a period of 6 years, and earning money from that, is not exactly what I'd call "passive income". And given the topics are mostly (all?) about niches in current technologies they also won't continue to deliver passively forever.

A more appropriate title and angle might be "How I've earned $10k/book and manage to keep writing more while maintaining a day job". (Which is in itself impressive!)
Spam got significantly worse but this is also an chance to curb the federalization of mail by large companies. Of course they would like you to use a Microsoft or Google account to send mail.
I assure you having an opinion has nothing to do with competence.
Negative effects of restricted sleep on facial appearance and social appeal
I don't get the joke/smilely.

The NATO alphabet use "X-Ray", which https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet describes as "ECKS RAY".

I also pronounce "xargs" with a leading "ECKS".

I don't think I'm pronouncing it wrong. https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find... says 'The name xargs, pronounced EX-args, means “combine arguments.”'
Who is paying $2500 a month for rent on minimum wage?

In Australia (where that $43k is from), the median rent for a 2 bedroom unit is $436 a week - $1700 a month. Very affordable with housemates or a partner also on minimum wage. In cheaper suburbs or 1 bedroom units, this is cheaper again.
> My question is: why would you fix for 30yr when you know you're paying multiple points to offset market uncertainty?

To fix your monthly payment for the next 30 years.

Furthermore, with a fixed rate mortgage you can benefit from interest rate volatility since you can always buy back the debt at par. In practice this means you can:

1. Take out a fixed rate loan for $n at x%

2. If the rate doubles (to 2x%) you can refinance and you now only owe half ($n/2)

3. If the rate falls to x% again you can refinance again and now you owe the original amount ($n/2) at the original rate (x%)

This ignores the cost of refinancing the loan, so you’ll be paying some fixed sum for that (which is lost), but if rates moves sufficiently this is a huge benefit that you don’t get with a variable rate mortgage loan.

* This is based on how the Danish Realkredit mortgage works. I’m not certain, but I believe fixed rate mortgages work the same way in other countries.
Taiwan didn't have a lockdown. I was there from the very start of the pandemic until a couple of weeks ago and other than having to wear a mask in public, the impact was comparatively minor. Restaurants had a brief period of enforced distance between seats but never closed. Night clubs closed briefly last summer.

Local businesses in most other places of the world were hit far harder.
They're not uncommon, Europe is a big place.
The Shanghai lockdown is working as we speak. Daily cases are down from nearly 30k to under 10k. Parts of the city have no cases, and are starting to reopen.

Judging from the experience of Hong Kong, without a lockdown, Shanghai would have quickly reached hundreds of thousands of new cases a day, and half of the city would have been infected within weeks. The death toll would have been several tens of thousands. Instead, the death toll is a few hundred.

Ironically, Shanghai is in the situation it's in right now because the city's leadership refused to go into lockdown early on, and just looked on as cases climbed into the thousands before doing anything. Other cities that took action early (like Shenzhen and Gaunghzhou) were able to get back down to zero cases very quickly, without anywhere near as much societal disruption.