skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UTF-16 is great for lots of East Asian languages, which billions of people use. In UTF-8, most of those languages require 3 bytes to encode a 32-bit codepoint, in UTF-16 they only ever need 2. This ends up being a huge savings.

Not really. That's just an excuse to be contrarian.

Any significant length of text will be compressed and/or have lots of latin characters.

> you definitely can't store UTF-8 in something expecting ASCII

That's not true.
I don’t understand your comment. What is “it”? Can you explain how BTree or each of the above use-cases relate to array-of-structs and struct-of-arrays concepts?
If north america is any example, "considered by elected legislatures" is about the least useful way of getting a result. Limited technical knowledge, staggeringly short-term approach and, um, err, easy virtues just isn't helpful.
They can have backends too, not just stuff rendered for the client

You can also have those discreet compute instances as well, Netlify I think just recently introduced this, not sure how recent

To my knowledge the only thing missing is a persistent storage solution, so you still need a database elsewhere but your api can read and write to it

I personally dont do system design that way with my “web3” sites, as these are basically frontends to smart contracts, so I’m essentially using nearby nodes as compute instances and users pay to update the state of the compute instances and what the client therefore displays. Surprisingly economical for developers, I see that model attracting more devs very quickly as the stack and deployment is less complicated and cheaper and customers are already there.
Thanks for clarifying. I assume the reason you implemented at this level is because it was a better match for Haiku's graphical APIs? And if you don't have xcb, does that limit what applications can run with this library? I think I remember seeing programs that depended on XCB directly.
Even if ground crews reliably checked and fixed AOAs, we probably would never have heard of it.

But ultimately MCAS was a symptom of a failure of process, with people whose entire job was to check and veto designs failing to veto designs, apparently for fear of management pressure. To be clear, the failure was in management. It sucks that people had to die to get us to notice ordinary management failure.
I sometimes wonder how many technology companies don't end up using their own products like this.

A company I worked for produced, among many other products, performance monitoring software for alerting on poor perf of internal apps/databases and could tell you where/why it was slow. Yet, our engineering group mostly depended on users telling us when our internal apps were slow because the company didn't actually roll out its own product internally.
> including ASCII suddenly having UTF-8 bytes

People have been dealing with 8-bit ASCII extensions for longer than Unicode has been around. It isn't overwhelmingly difficult to have 8-bit clean text handling without any awareness of the encoding.
It’s not a money issue. The US government has plenty of money. It’s a perception of corruption issue. The government can’t have high paying jobs because voters will punish politicians if they do.
If you downvoted me you don’t realize we are on the same side. Did you think I wish the US as a whole was more like NK?
Read a book on discrete mathematics or information theory. Yes both of these are maths categories. Yes I'm certain.
most folks own very little stock

I'm not sure that matters. If I make $60,000 per year and have $5,000 in equity (after saving for 5 years), whether it goes up or down matters a lot to me. That fact that some rich person owns 100x that amount is irrelevant to my well being.

Then add on top those with pension plans, 401ks, etc. And the older you get the more equity you hold. Again, holding $100,000 in equity at 60 isn't much in the grand scheme, but that's the person's retirement fund. It matters a lot to them.
Inspired by the piece on entropy, I tried “Entropy is difficult to explain” and received back “Because of the description”.
Yep, definitely disappointed that Pulumi was not mentioned.
https://go.dev/doc/faq#generics_comparison
It took me a while to enjoy the mountain goats, if you play a song for someone the immediate reaction is dislike due to Darnielle’s delivery. But then you start listening to the lyrics and adjust to his voice and you warm up. That’s not unique to Darnielle, Bob Dylan has the same problem and he won a Nobel for his lyrics.
I've recorded video presentations with OBS Studio. It might not be for post editing, but it worked for my needs. It was in my Linux distro's repositories too.
Being a hedge fund that makes money is significantly more difficult than you think
Openshot. FOSS with GPL v3 license. Really simple to use. You add video tracks, audio tracks, picture, text and them mix them together. Don't think it runs on the browser though.
Japanese porn booklets used to be smuggled in back in the days [1], so I'm not surprised they are jail breaking devices to access forbidden media now :p

[1] https://imgur.com/a/FUq2shz (SFW)
the "god particle" was actually the "goddamn particle"
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-higgs-is-called-the-...
In this case, yes the OPs argument is "small" gvt is less efficient.
Except what the OP considers small government isn't actually small government.
As far as efficiency goes. It depends. If you are a business you can do something in house or outsource it. Which is more efficient? If what needs to be done is a one of thing and neither party has the expertise then out sourcing is less efficient. As the amount of work that needs to be done is the same plus there is the additional overhead of the contract. The thing is, there was other variables that come into play, so it is difficult to say which way is better.

But small vs big government isn't really about the number of employees but rather what the government does.
ASCII has NUL too. You can't put it in a filename either way.
This feels less like UTF-16 being a bad format and more like JS being a bad language.
The RAV4 is a behemoth, having sold over 10 million over the years.

Yes, the RAV4 is a benchmark to compare the Telluride to, but they ARE in both different cost brackets and categories. Pilot seems to be a better benchmark.

Another useful benchmark is that for 2021, Toyota global sales were almost 9.6M, Kia was almost 2.8M.

Honda Pilot is a Midsize Crossover SUV, like the Telluride, and had 2021 sales of 143K in the US. Honda global sales were 4.5M in 2021.

So the Telluride can still be a success for Kia, while selling a fraction of the units of the RAV4
Just pick whatever timeframe is convenient for your cause

Ive lost faith in people’s ability to perceive that so might as well make them your flock
You could use a browser emulation tool to complete the oauth flow but it would be a pain and ultimately brittle to the smallest changes
M&M Mars. People buy M&MS instead of more expensive chocolate. Similar to the Kraft Index.
People today who brush regularly still have way more rotted-out teeth than people who didn't eat significant quantities of carbohydrates. They are dangerous even if you brush.
One place I worked, was a Big Company providing overpriced services to other Big Companies. There were loads of low skilled IT workers, taking too long, making mistakes. Adding a BA and/or PM to drive every project when a competent dev could've done it solo a few years ago. But when you keep getting issues, you keep adding process and now every job is 1000+ hours.

But eventually the work got done and we kept getting work because Big Companies buy from other Big Companies. You're not going to risk tendering to a 3 man office who gets it done faster, cheaper, better because if it doesn't happen questions will be asked. Unfortunately there are a lot of talented small businesses out there but they just don't get the work due to this.
Ring galaxies finally explained
Generating Examples from CLI Usage: Can Transformers Help?
Thanks. I have implemented more detailed lab testing and coronary calcium scoring based on the risk level and metabolic disease. Unfortunately unless we look deep and harder we can miss it especially in south Asians which tend to die very young due to coronary disease.
A "meme"? Using this as a template, what is not a "meme"?
It all seems kind of obvious and dull.

Of course he's broken that part of the agreement. Do you think people are seriously denying it or excusing it? Is the sky going to fall on him because someone noticed?

I'd rather read what Matt Levine wrote about it today, although that's also pretty obvious:

"Usually the way it works is that if the buyer wants to issue an inflammatory press release, it goes to the seller for permission, and the seller says “what, no,” and the buyer realizes that it didn’t actually want to issue an inflammatory press release, and, you know, that’s why they have this section.

But here they also have Elon Musk, and when he wants to Tweet he Tweets. Of course he spent last night tweeting disparaging things about Twitter and its employees. What are they gonna do, sue?"

"...there is no similar provision allowing Twitter to tweet freely about the deal; I suppose that was considered unnecessary because no one on Twitter’s board or executive team uses the product. Except founder and board member Jack Dorsey, who has tweeted some nice things about Musk and the deal."
Few-Shot Head Swapping in the Wild
Agree completely. I've never known a software engineer who didn't love designing new systems on paper and starting the initial development. It's when it comes time to stabilize and turn a system into a usable product minds quickly wander to designing the next system that fixes the flaws of the last system.
You might want to browse over the definition of authoritarian. That's not facetious. You are being hyperbolic, but it seems that people leaning progressive and liberal are capable of amazing contortions when it comes to the meaning of words.
> we should apply the law equally to everyone

What is the law, and what is equal? There's a law saying you have to pay taxes, so do you object to the fact that this law is applied unequally to rich people who have to pay more? And the crime of not paying taxes is also punished with a fine that is proportional to the amount unpaid.

Your viewpoint makes absolutely no sense, so yes. I don't get it. Arguing against proportional measures for deterrance is equivalent to saying you're okay with rich people committing crimes and paying a minuscule fine for it (unless you have a totally different framework of punishment in mind).
Git allows empty commits, but a fun hack might be hooking up the Vim undo/redo tree to git commits + reverts
Why do you think that is relevant to this article about an unrelated topic?

Read his wikipedia page if you want a discography
Plausible!
Bayes' Rule is a basic mathematical theorem in probability. Everyone agrees that the theorem is true and useful, but people disagree on its practical scope. The more fundamental and broadly applicable you think it is to practical real-world problems, the more Bayesian you are.
Like the great Von Neuman once quipped, “ Why don't you call it entropy”, von Neumann suggested. “In the first place, a mathematical development very much like yours already exists in Boltzmann's statistical mechanics, and in the second place, no one understands entropy very well, so in any discussion you will be in a position of advantage.”
> Thanks for clarifying. I assume the reason you implemented at this level is because it was a better match for Haiku's graphical APIs?

It's possible to integrate with the rest of the system much more smoothly than a full server will allow. GTK apps, for instance, feel like second-class citizens on basically anything except maybe GNOME (but do they even feel "at home" there...?) so it just didn't seem worth the effort to write a full GTK port vs. writing this, instead.

I discussed more of the "why" on the forum posts introducing this last winter: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/xlibe-an-xlib-x11-compatibili...

> And if you don't have xcb, does that limit what applications can run with this library? I think I remember seeing programs that depended on XCB directly.

There are a few (I believe Qt on Linux now uses XCB instead of Xlib), but not enough that it really matters (we have a native Qt port on Haiku already, anyway, e.g.)
If the new owner became owner to get rid of the skeletons, that. I doubt Musk did it for purely financial reasons.
You can configure samba to look for ZFS snapshots:

vfs objects = shadow_copy2
shadow:snapdir = .zfs/snapshot
shadow:sort = desc
shadow:format = zfs-auto-snap_frequent-%Y-%m-%d-%H%M
> Will people pay more for stability and reliability?

Given that the USA pays higher-than-average prices for poorer-than-average outcomes, I'd say this is a spurious hypothetical, mostly useful for helping to demarcate the point where economics ceases to be an empirical, scientific pursuit and instead becomes a sort of low-rigor offshoot of moral philosophy.

But, back in the realm of epiricism, we know that this is one of those situations where closer government regulation can produce higher quality of service at lower cost, because the rest of the developed world has figured out multiple successful formulae for doing so. The only clear downside, if you can call it that, is that their hospital administrators don't seem to have quite such large collections of luxury watches.
Why not just fork and merge them? If someone else is maintaining a fork, people will likely start moving over there.

If you have the time to write a song, why not just do the work to publish the package in a new namespace?
It could be damaging to people who used to work for the company before Musk came in.
Or have a friendly foreign nation collect the data, and then share it with you. Naturally, you'd do the same for them.
I wonder what the results would be when using skilled human translators instead...
He literally explained how the windows get hot:

> that's just the effect of the sun on the plane.
He himself said he couldn’t associate with people who were lower than his IQ

That's not really what he said at all. He said he fit in somewhat better with his intellectual peers than with his age cohort. There's nothing really controversial about that at all. Most people prefer the company of those with whom they share common intellectual pursuits and viewpoint over those for whom their only common factor is age. Often physical and mental age councide but when they don't, it doesn't seem unreasonable that common mentality would be a stronger bond.

And even if the sentiment were elitist (which I dispute) I don't think I'm the context of this discussion, it deserves a hostile response. I appreciate the individual sharing his personal experience, even if I wouldn't qualify as the type of person he'd share a beer with.
The obvious #3 is "nurses are doing too much non-nurse stuff" which relates to both #1 (job is annoying and not what I want to do) and #2 in a way (they are not hiring non-nurses and/or investing in equipment, tools, etc).
> The way modern society is going, a LOT of power is going to be required

What do you mean by "modern society"? According to the IEA, "energy demand per capita is likely to remain at current levels for the next 25 years. In other [words], peak per capita energy consumption may have already arrived".[0]

Most "modern societies" have less than replacement fertility levels, so energy use is only increasing because the population is living longer, and because of immigration. To give some aggregate numbers for a set of modern societies: "The EU-27’s population is projected to increase from 446.8 million in 2019 and peak to 449.3 million in 2026 (+0.6 %), then gradually decrease to 441.2 million in 2050".[1]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/bernstein-says-peak-energy-p...

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
From what I understand, queueing theory would say a backlog that doesn't go away but also doesn't keep growing means you're staffed to just barely keep up on average.
(b) e.g. optimize away humans.
http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.h...
Awhile ago, my hobby Heroku site was shut down for vauge "violation of policy" reasons. Turns out it was an automated bot.

When they brought it back up they kept breaking this and that... I kept having to re-open tickets.

I'd really like a free alternative. (Or maybe I should figure out how to host from my NAS.)
I wonder how much of this is a problem with Boeing in particular.

If someone squinted at Airbus with the same scrutiny, would they find similar problems?
For those interested in a deeper dive into heart disease, the Peter Attia Drive podcast from last week has a great summary of root causes, tests, and prevention.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama34/
Relatedly, Khan Güyük likely already understood the basic tenets of Christianity as Christianity had existed among the Mongols as a substantial minority religion for at least one or two centuries at that point. I think Khan Güyük actually had Christian relatives, though he himself was shamanist. It was even the Mongols who reintroduced Christianity to China, after it had been earlier wiped out.

Europeans were completely oblivious to all of this, however.
> The only entity with any real power to decide which cookies the website uses is the website itself.

I have JS locked down and third-party cookies disabled. This site only managed to set one cookie for me because of my power to decide. Despite that, all content was readable.
I've been self hosting email for 10 years now, don't have an issue with spam/blacklisting, I would say claims of self hosting emails death have been greatly exaggerated.

The main thing is to have a regular TLD, not something like .biz or .xyz etc, use DKIM/SPF, >> ensure your PTR record is setup << (critical) to match the domain name you're hosting your mail server on and you should be good to go.
The US also isn’t buying its own citizens guns, but Afghanistan is awash in automatic rifles purchased by the US taxpayer.

What’s your point?
Sometimes that can be a good idea. But many times, you are also getting riskier, out of date treatment for less. For example, root canals and crowns are kind of the cheaper and less effective way to treat a bad tooth. The gold standard is usually extraction and a new implant.

And considering that you can find a dentist to do a root canal for $300 without too much trouble, I'm surprised anyone would be able to fly to Croatia and get treated for that little.
It's really more about maintainable playlists, tbh. How are you going to scale your playlist management if you can't properly review changes and see history to avoid repeating mistakes of the past?
Pretty much every new car on the market is difficult to buy...
I think the point might be that you load it into something that is touch screen. This is quite weird of an announcement in general though, so I won't totally rule out that they're gonna make something real in this realm.
There are Falcon 9 launches carrying humans on crewed Dragon launches. SpaceX carries people to orbit and to the ISS.
Statistical mechanics is one way of representing entropy but you don’t need it. The second law of thermodynamics can be expressed in other much more general terms. Also it requires that the system be isolated not “thermally isolated”. There’s other types of interactions such as gravitational and electromagnetic.
Considering their full lifetime, it works out to basically you can own these devices for less than a dollar a day. I appreciate that I am not getting gauged by the manufacturer just so I can stay in the ecosystem. Doubt I would say the same about other companies.
It’s funny how people with no understanding of X always thinks X is easy. And the more people understand X the more they know it isn’t.
> It's a design decision to use proprietary batteries that are difficult to change by consumers and can't be easily manufactured by third parties.

I’m honestly curious… has this ever been proven? It’s decent -and common assertion/speculation.

But I’m curious if there has ever been a high level ex engineer, or court document, or something that just states clearly “yes, a primary/convincing motivation to move to internal batteries was because of increased lock in revenue”?
> IT systems that they have to use were designed by people who have not talked with the workers who use them.

I wonder if you are talking about Eclipse software which seems to be universally frustrating for doctors and nurses across many countries.
Does this give credence to cryptoeconomics?
Well, if you can find a VPN that's more trustworthy than your ISP. Some of them are pretty sketchy too.

I think disabling third-party cookies helps a lot. If each site can only see its own cookies, it's harder to coordinate. Also, browsers have started experimenting with separate cookie jars for each top-level domain. https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/24/mozilla-beefs-up-anti-cros...
Density-Preserving Deep Point Cloud Compression
My insurances do a good job of covering things that are related to my oral health. If I want a cosmetic improvement over a covered service, I dont have a problem paying for it. I’d rather the occasional outlay than my dental insurance being prohibitively expensive to account for a possible expensive covered cosmetic change.
Every exam is proctored:

- A live human proctor watches your screen and webcam the whole time.

- You need to show a 360 degree view of your room, walls, ceiling, table, floor, ears, scratch paper, etc.

- You must use an external webcam elevated on a stand that can see both you and your screen at all times.

- You must show your face and your passport or ID card before each exam.

- You can’t talk, stand up, get out of view, or take a break during the exam.

Although I’m sure some people could find a way to cheat, they make it extremely difficult. I have taken over 30 online proctored exams from WGU, Study.com, Sophia.org, Saylor.org, TOEFL, and Georgia Tech’s OMSCS, and I can confidently say that WGU’s proctoring process was by far the strictest.
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I dunno about why. But it was set at least in the late 90s. I took the California High School Proficiency Exam back then because it had a lower age requirement (and I was in California).
It rather reminds me of a zinger I read in an article about the plight of people trying to find good jobs after leaving the US military, written at the height of support for the War on Terrorism and consequent fashion for publicly, vocally "saluting our men (sic) in uniform":

The American people will do anything for their veterans except take them seriously.
This is a poor choice of title as electric heaters are one category of devices and electrically driven heat pumps are another, far more efficient category utilizing refrigerants.
For EM analysis, it actually helps to be “on grid” as the gridded solvers have a lot more dynamic range than gridless, like 100 dB more. Analyzing structures such as filters require high dynamic range, so adding a bunch of curved artwork will introduce errors in the simulation, or take much more resources. I do all my PCB layouts on a 0.1 mm grid and try to keep things snapped. I’ll even round footprints to the nearest 25 um or larger.

Also, the GDSII format for IC does not handle curves well. Unlike DXF, it can’t handle a circle, so has to decimate it into a polygon.

When doing signal integrity analysis on PCB, the tools can break those long runs of straight, parallel lines into closed form models (i.e. coupled transmission lines) which greatly speeds up the analysis. With a bunch of curves, you can’t do that, and it has to break those out for EM analysis.

If one could easily make square via holes in PCB, those would be preferable for situations like grounding vias as they better terminate the EM wave.