skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would look a lot like UTF-8 with some of the legacy parts removed (e.g. drop the non-combining characters which duplicate combining character combinations). One thing to remember is that there are a LOT of edge cases in the world and you're looking at a lot of permutations when there are characters combining multiple access, or things like Emoji where they use skin tone modifiers to avoid needing to specify every permutation. I'm not sure if that would fit in a 32-bit code point, but I would also consider what that would do to file and network sizes — there are real costs to making almost every document substantially larger and while we have more headroom than we used to, I'd be still be surprised if that didn't result in noticeable performance regressions.

Where I would make the change isn't Unicode itself but the APIs. All of the problems you're talking about basically come down to legacy language design where people think they're working with grapheme clusters but they're really working with code points. Making that more explicit in the tools would be good, similar to how Python 3 forced you to think about whether you wanted encoded binary data or a decoded string but there's so much history around that making it hard to do without getting a lot of griping from people who don't want to update decades of habit.
I know this is HN, but never ever write this without explaining exactly what it does.

The chances that that one guy who's never come across it will try it to see what it does is extremely low, but definitely non-zero.
I was never a fan of the Register's IMO smug, smart-alec English IT guy "voice".
It can just be limiting in terms of ergonomics. Like I've implemented a couple of ECS's and what you want to do is dispatch a bunch of threads over big swaths of structured memory. One of the main things the borrow checker doesn't want you to do is use the same memory on multiple threads. You can do that in rust, and people have, but you have to put a lot of effort into convincing the borrow checker that what you're doing is ok, or else find ways to side-step the borrow checker.

So basically rust imposes a lot of limitations on how you can structure your program relative to something like Zig or C.
No I don't think it would. Republicans always say they are for law and order and democrats aren't. Democrats usually say that they are for some form of light reform to prisons or justice, but often vote for more aggressive policies to not be called "lawless" or some nonesense.

The difference is, republicans have always been lying about being the party of law and order. Whether through Nixon, or Iran-Contra, or everything that happened with trump (which most republicans just pretend didn't happen), they've always said that the law should apply, and then ignored it for their own.
You might think, yes, humans have enough intelligence to at least formulate and conceive of any particular topic. Intelligence is a threshold property and we have enough to do anything in thoughtspace. It might be hard, but its possible in principle.

This is obviously wrong to me. thoughtspace is a construct of our experience, our brains are just holodecks and there is no reason to assume any experience is constructible.

Anytime you grok, that is just a constructed feeling. You can simultaneously feel grok, but be mistaken. There is no reason to believe every state of knowing true facts can be experienced.

Its not even reasonable to think that all of experience-space is reachable. And not reasonable to think experience-space covers state-space. And not reasonable to think parts of inaccessible state-space wouldn't be meaningful if encoded as an experience.

We are billiard balls on a table. There is no use wondering what it would be like if we were being juggled instead. It would simply be like it.
Depends on the hike. There can be a safety issue with getting too far apart. There can also be the opportunity for further friction: on a dayhike if the fast person gets to the end or the turnaround point and then is or feels compelled to wait. As said elsewhere, setting expectations would be the key.
The Foundation also gets paid by the Corporation for the right to use the Firefox brand.

You can't donate to the Corporation to fund Firefox development, and even if you could, any 'excess' profits the Corporation made would get siphoned out to the Foundation anyway.
Cancer death rates are going down [1], which to me means we are probably better at treating cancer but also probably finding it more often even when not life threatening and might have gone on unnoticed in an earlier time.

Also we are getting better at treating other diseases and living longer, leading to being more likely to get cancer since if you live long enough you will almost certainly get some form of it.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-de...
I've always been told to listen to my gut... so here's to some more tasty fries!
> And shortly after that, said boss's boss said that our team had succeeded so well that there was no need for us.

This is infuriating. The boss’s boss knew this wasn’t true. You knew it wasn’t true. Why lie? Especially with such an obvious and unconvincing lie? Twitter is so addicted to misinformation they’re even spreading it internally and off-platform.
How do you sell that to voters?
Internet sales is a low-touch, low-margin business. It made sense because the internet sales manager could move higher volume and still make the dealership money. Now that supply is constrained and the dealership has people beating down the doors to buy every can they can get their hands on, they don’t have much reason to play ball. It’s a waste of inventory.
I recently started two small web projects (one personal, one work) using ViteJs, Html, Vanilla Typescript, CSS, and a .Net Core Web API. It has been a great dev experience compared to React and Angular, IMHO. Of course I have this sense of guilt that I should be using a framework. And if these web apps were to suddenly explode with unexpected screens and features, then it would get complex. But right now, it is a fast and pleasurable development experience.
> What's SAP

Nothin' much, how bout you?
Yes but companies who overly rely on carbon offsets are shooting themselves in the foot. With emission targets gradually lowering and regulations becoming more and more ambitious, offsets will become more expensive.

Not investing into meaningfully reducing emissions now is a glaring lack of forward planning and due diligence. I fully expect some companies to tank in the next twenty years because of their current failure to adapt.
I agree so hard. But it's like Georgism. There's a clear path forward in economic theory, but the truth is that there is a divergence between Stated and Revealed Preferences. The former say "We are worried about Anthropogenic Climate Change". The latter say "We will fire you if you act like we care about Anthropogenic Climate Change to the extent that it causes discomfort".

This is, in many ways, the ideal for most people. One can say "Climate Change is really important" while blaming "The Corporations" for what they're doing and simultaneously blaming the President for "raising the price of gas".

That way you can appear virtuous while not sacrificing anything.
I'm not into Facebook, but I could see this gaining a lot of traction. Extremely impressive.
You are a legit hero. Our society focuses exclusively on contributions that involve some dramatic moment, and doesn’t recognize those who show up for what’s right every day.

Thank you, seriously.
DuckDuckGo is Bing.
I suspect the author hasn't even read Meditations. A couple quotes from Aurelius that would indicate as much:

> "Whenever you have trouble getting up in the morning, remind yourself that you've been made by nature for the purpose of working with others..."

> "Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing."
A ‘Virtual Rapper’ Was Fired. Questions About Art and Tech Remain
I had a front row seat to Kodak's demise, and I can tell you that the depth of their denial internally was far, far greater than Meta's today. Not to say that Meta isn't in trouble, but I wouldn't count them out just yet. They are at least trying to keep up. Kodak only embraced the digital world grudgingly, and they sabotaged all their most promising initiatives because they threatened the (incredibly) lucrative film gravy train that they couldn't bring themselves to accept was ending. I'm sure all the decision makers who presided over that downfall took comfortable early retirement offers and didn't suffer for their mistakes.
Not necessarily true.

There are a few other notable sets of subsidies:

- Irrigation water in the US is artificially cheap for farmers

- The US offers several Export Credit Guarantee programs (the WTO has specifically found to be illegal internationally): https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/export-credit-guarantee-pr...

- There are amply funded Conservation programs - which can often involve payments to do nothing with certain pieces of land: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-...

- And bigger than anything, over half of all direct payments to farms are from Commodity programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_programs https://farm.ewg.org/region.php
Unfortunately this doesn’t really work in a democracy. It’s just going to end up being too unpopular. The next president is just going to run on “I will cancel the carbon credits!” And then win the election in a landslide and cancel them.
[More than Happiness](https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Happiness-Buddhist-Sceptica...) looks at this question a little. Good read.
Wait, financialization isn't the solution to every problem? Shocker
I sometimes use an even closer to vanilla option based on just the Lit templating engine: https://benoitessiambre.com/vanilla.html
Theft is a crime. It warrants the same response as an assault.
Indeed you will re-invent React/Vue/Svelte.
"The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the United States and significant accidents in other modes of transportation — highway, marine, pipeline , and railroad."

The reason airplanes are safe is because the government is doing its job to regulate the space.
It’s incredible to think that since the homemade catsups were home fermented they were rich in probiotics and digestive enzymes and naturally safe from food related pathogens. They were replaced with a product that, while safe is produced correctly, is more vulnerable to pathogens that are very deadly (c. botulinum). It really seems like a huge loss for public health.
California won't. Just like they won't ever complete that $100bn high speed rail.
Yes, but my point is that "transferring money to someone" is not a true crime. It doesn't have a victim. And yes, our governments should use military/diplomatic channels to fight terrorism directly - that's what they're for.
havent checked, but otoh there are similar things. printf %q and ${var@Q} come to mind.
> I know I should hate google for some reason

I've come around a bit, after getting asked at an interview: "So, why no apply at Google?". Google doesn't align with my personal values. They contribute a great deal to our industry, they provide good jobs to a large number of people and they have a number of good products, like GCP.

My problem with Google is they reliance on ads. It's not a model I wish to support. It damages they primary product, search (well, I mean, their primary product is ads now), and damages their credibility and overall brand. We haven't been able to trust product like Chrome or Android for years.. That is they choice, but I don't have support it, or help them build these products. Not that I think they'd hire me.

But I don't hate Google, they're just not particular relevant to me anymore. Other search engines provide just as good searches. DuckDuckGo happens to be a little better and have a better interface than Bing or Ecosia, even if they're all "just Bing".
What is that number for you? (and others)

For me it's pretty dang high. Like on the order of 5-20 million USD in the bank. At some point I'm going to stop working. Rent and life expenses where I live currently are probably $100k a year (yes I could live on less or move, but that's part of the point).

Let's say I stop working at 65 and I live to 85. That means I need at least 2 million dollars in the bank to keep spending $100k a year and it assumes I die at 85. If I happen to live to 95 or 105 I'd be S.O.L. Also add in escalting medical expenses, inflation, other issues and 5 million in the bank is IMO the minimum I'd need to feel I could discard other money and stop worrying about it.

And that assumes I stop working at 65. If I was trying to stop earlier that would go up. I get at some I could theoretically live off the interest.

My point is, at least for me

> a certain amount of money to cover life expenses + recreation, additional money has diminishing returns.

Is generally false. It's usually part of the "if you make $75k a year, more won't make you happier" but IMO that's not true because I'm screwed if that $75k a year stops.

Also, source of that point is often misquoted. It says happiness doesn't increase with more money. But life satisfaction does increase forever with more money. Here's an article pointing out the original study did say satisfaction increased as well as a new study that says happiness increase too.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2021/02/07/new-study...

If I had even more money I'd angel invest. I think that would be pretty fulfilling. If I had even more money there's all kinds of projects I'd like to fund. I expect I'd be pretty proud to fund them.
It's funny you say that when a rustacean just posted below that it is irresponsible to use unsafe languages.

Instead of focusing on tradeoffs they chose to call others irresponsible.
How would the WSJ journalists (who are probably in the 20%) know what to write? Is the dog whistle message conveyed from the owners to the editors to the journalists?
I'm pretty sure that a Product Manager made the final call on the name of the device. Some DS nerds might have given a list of names that could be used and presented some stats on the accuracy of the device recognizing the name, but the PM probably made the final call.
SAP sucks for custom stuff like uniforms and clotes.

I developed a custom engine for things like aluminium rails, and thermal sensors, to generate a new product with the production tree in SAP, so it would be able to decrease the right ammount of raw materials from the warehouse.
> try getting their records in lossless FLAC when they can just go onto Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube

Apple Music has lossless now.
Spoken like someone who has never built a non-trivial web application using vanilla JS or jQuery.
No large hosts is by design. Too many digital eggs in one digital basket is everything that's wrong with SaaS these days.
> when it comes to SALT, the real winners are the wealthy, not the poor.

Right, which is why it happened parallel to the wealthy tax cuts. This "protected" that constituency from the effects of removing SALT (plenty of high earners in CA still ended up ahead if I recall correctly), went largely to offset other tax cuts (meaning no meaningful "programs benefits"), and thus ironically enough arguably negatively affected the middle class beneficiaries the most -- the kind of people that would have most benefited during specific rare events, for example when selling their home.
Generative AI models generate AI hype
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literally no one with power has seriously proposed anything like this — quite the opposite in fact, the previous US president suggested that windmills cause cancer
Except the notion of patenting genes that infect natural seeds farmers must plant for next year's crop.

If the courts cannot see the distinction between farmers and plants violating patents, then the Congress may amend the law to oblige them to see it.
> This is also an incredibly stupid thing to be pushing right before a pivotal election

Maybe for the democratic party as a whole, but it might be beneficial to the bill sponsor(s) if this wins votes in their own district. The main sponsor's district is Portland, OR so I suspect it's locally savvy for them.

So my questions was motivated by trying to understand if the bill is an actual attempt to pass legislation or just a few people scoring some green votes before an election by floating a bill they know is doomed.
If you say "This pace isn't working for me, do you mind if I just go on ahead?", I've met very few hikers who would say no -- except of course cases where that would be dangerous. If you just blitz ahead without saying anything, that's going to bother people at a minimum.
I can empathize with you, having been in your exact position almost to the T. The one thing I'd caution against is being overly critical of your bad habits.

Life is this amazing playground. We can choose our own values and work towards achieving those values, often to great success if we work hard. But, at the end of the day, what's most important is that we enjoy the moments along the way, and that's hard when you have a loud inner critic shouting at you.
Security and privacy are not the same thing.

Look up the difference. Metadata is not a matter of security, it is a matter of privacy.
I've wanted to get a mechanical keyboard for a long time but I haven't because pages like this are completely overwhelming for me.
>As compared, for example, to the 1960s and 1970s, where bombing was a much more common tool of the left.

I'm a youngin, can you provide examples you are thinking of when you say this?
Plenty of computing power 15 years ago for bootstrapping (simulation-based estimation of uncertainty for an analytically estimated model), today plenty for the entire model itself (Bayesian MCMC, frequentist optimization-based methods)
Some of the very best websites I've had the pleasure of visiting and interacting with use vanilla (like https://ciechanow.ski/ for example). Using React for every frontend solution is like using K8s for every cloud solution. Great if you know it, but a huge complexity headache for literally everyone else.
Predictive-Maintenance Tech Is Taking Off as Manufacturers Seek More Efficiency
The popularity of the name cratered after launch. That doesn’t signify anything to you?

That anecdote is nice but honestly it sounds like you survived a less frequent and more temporary somewhat similar but much milder version so now you’re stating everyone else needs to get over themselves?
Fair!

I'm pretty confident in my ability to pick up new tools and tech (I'm probably too far into the "bleeding edge" side of the "how comfortable are you supporting new tech in prod?" scale), so I'm not overly worried about getting left behind.

I just recently had to explicitly build a "raw" JS/HTML/CSS app for work, and found myself missing the organization React overlayed on top of JS, is all.

Besides, my bread and butter is backend, so I can always throw my hands up and shove the work onto some web dev's plate if I ever do get left behind! :D
Hmm, I just launched it on Edge and it does seem a lot faster than the desktop application. Hoping performance improvements are coming sooner rather than later.
Knowing how to mouth platitudes and shibboleths is an important life skill.
jpeg/heic or png?
> over half of all direct payments to farms are from Commodity programs

As you can see in your second link, the direct payments ended under Obama. All of the remaining programs for commodity producers are insurance-based.

Perhaps what you are trying to say is that there are time travellers coming to us from the past to tell us about how things used to be (from our perspective)? But why would anyone listen to them?
I like Serverless on aws. It's super cheap (free tier), and even the database in RDS has a free version for Postgres. Front end I like to deploy using Next.js and Vercel or Netlify.

I haven't had a problem scaling because its all lambda so it scales nicely and is all self contained for functions.

I've used DynamoDB with is even simpler but if you think you'd ever want something relational or more familiar I would definitely go with Postgres RDS
Is there a source on this? My understanding is that current trends were lower now than what they were in the past as far as promiscuity goes
Next generation of hearing aids could read lips through masks
New payroll taxes would fund NY, PA long-term care proposals that mirror WA's
> are doing their due diligence

Well they actually are doing due diligence, the problem is they have a different objective: find the most carbon credits to buy for the least money. It's not like they actually care about being neutral, if they did they'd cut emissions instead of pushing it onto others. It's all PR and complying with government regulations.

Unfortunately the legit sources aren't gonna be a good choice for that goal.
Which ones aside from HPV?
JWST detects carbon dioxide in atmosphere of exoplanet for first time
> I too often was slowed down by this kind of stuff when wanting to use anything on top of glib, like dbus for instance. These things want your program to be written in a certain way, rather than your program being able to call the library as it sees fit. In particular, you need to bent to the glib's event loop, and good luck if your program does not quite work like this. There are ways, but there are not very well documented.

To me, that's where it crosses the line from library to framework.
Alas. Well, the phone-call story alone makes me a fan of the queen.
This is called prop drilling. It technically works for any size or complexity of app if you're willing to make every intermediate component have knowledge about every possible piece of state that might be wanted by a component lower in the tree. It's extremely cumbersome though.
The freedom to talk about something you spent a significant part of your life on?
You've been downvoted because simply selling a product to make money is considered absurd in this industry. What a horrible state of affairs.
The more I think about this poison thing the less sense it makes, if you tell someone not to eat poison because it will hurt them you either need to tell them what things are poison or you really aren't telling them anything except that you don't want them to hurt themselves (whatever hurting yourself means) and that there are things out there that will hurt you that you call poison.
>"Obviously, the burden of support isn't applied to people expressing warm thoughts about the queen, because virtually none of them are barbs. They're called "bromides" for a reason!"

Let me just cut to the chase and say that I fundamentally disagree with this. One version of what you're saying is that controversial agreement needs a lower standard of proof than controversial disagreement. I see absolutely no reason for that. Western thought is built from Plato on the idea knowledge is arrived at only through dialectical criticism - not the asymmetrical favouring of agreement.

But, maybe that's not what you meant. Perhaps you meant that disagreement is more liable to be a 'barb' - to be 'provocative', as you later say - than disagreement. From a functional view of managing HN to minimise conflict, the less provocations the better. First of all, what is and is not provocative is relative to the person. Deifying the Queen is provocative to me and, evidently, many other people in the thread. My provocation, if you want to call it that, was not the first in the chain. Yet it was singled out. The other thing is that if you take this conclusion to its logical conclusion it will simply end up enforcing and consolidating the opinion of the majority, against any dissenting minority. Again, to go back to basics, Socrates was put to death exactly because he called into question the settled views of Athenian society.
The Telegraph is nothing like Fox News, except insofar as it is a center-right publication. The tone, quality, and perspective are utterly different.