skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is, how do you define these representations in the first place? For one thing, some characters have multiple different forms… like a/ɑ, or g/ɡ [0]. Then you have characters which differ only minutely — like Thai ช/ซ, or Ethiopic ሀ/ህ, or Cherokee Ꭺ/Ꭿ. And, worse, those characters can also look entirely different between fonts (see e.g. [1] for Thai). So by the time you’ve finished working through all those choices, and created a format which can distinguish them all, you’ve effectively created yet another font — just in a very lossy vectorised format.

Or if you go the opposite direction, and expect each individual character to make its own individual choices in this regard — well, that basically has the same problems as PDFs: it may look good, but it’s totally impossible to process programmatically, since it overspecifies the visual details at the expense of semantics. And although that might be fine and even desirable for certain usecases, it does limit the places where this format could be used.

That being said, I can certainly see possibilities and places where this could be useful to me. Perhaps I’ll have a go at implementing this someday.

[0] In case those look the same in your font, here they are again:

a/ɑ g/ɡ

And in case those look the same too, then… well, have a look at the codepoints in the Unicode reference charts, I guess!

[1] https://wrdingham.co.uk/thai/tellthai_preface.htm
Yeah I know Indian devs getting paid that much.
It’s a bit different. The business pricing is 24 dollars a month, so with 150 employees you’re looking at 270,000 dollars a year for a MacOS desktop application.

Nobody seriously cares about docker hub. Nobody cares about the SSO, or the access management, or SCIM. Nobody uses anything but the app that makes it simple to run stuff in MacOS. That’s not worth 270k a year.
I was diangosed with syncope on standing shortly after getting Covid (the first time).

I'd never experienced anything like this before in my life, but suddenly the world would fade to black if I stood up too soon from a reclined position. I also experienced intense brain fog. I actually scheduled a doctors appointment specifically for "brain fog" at the time and they were confused as to what I was explaining. All I could say is that it felt like I was thinking through "mud" and lost my ability to focus. I wasn't even thinking of Covid when I booked that appointment, but looking back it makes sense.

This has gotten better with time, but I have no doubt that Covid had something to do with this. The timing was just far too coincidental. The fact that it has strong binding affinity to ACE-2, which can cause cardiovascular issues, only lends credence to this theory.
Very little of Sergey's wealth is legal, we just suck at enforcing the law against people who grease the right pockets. Google is currently embroiled in multiple dozens of legal procedures about their various not legal behaviors, all of which entail things that have been illegal longer than Google has been doing them.
I feel like an in-terminal plotting tool would be a great fit for nushell (https://www.nushell.sh), because they already have the philosophy that tools where possible should return structured data rather than just text.
Very understandable how this developed in the era of over the board play. You can't have two queens when they don't physically exist!

I always use an upside down rook, somehow there's always one available by then.
We have social solutions for that too... When the risk and reward go to different places, someone offers to pay the other... "I'll pay you $200 extra to go do this risky thing for my benefit".
I think the issue here is an obvious conflict of interest and general hypocrisy. It also is an pretty good counterexample to the whole idea of freedom of speech absolutism. Someone is always going to decide what speech is preferable and that person is always going to be subject to their own biases.
That is indeed a purpose of courts. Hence why it is wrong to skip the courts and denounce everything as fraud to millions of people and encourage them to reject the democratic process before you have gone through a judicial process.
> As far as I can tell, everyone is going to get COVID

This is a common feeling, but remember: You can greatly affect the probability of an infection through precautions. And if unlucky, you can greatly affect the number of times you get infected through precautions. Fewer infections, fewer rolls of the dice.

As far as I'm aware, I'm still infection free and hope to remain so. I am in a much better situation than most readers though, so good luck and try not to be defeatist and lose the war before the 2nd or 3rd battle has begun.
if you add up the subsidies (even if you don't include building and maintaining the damn roads) it's still much more subsidized than it is taxed
It's not a personal choice thing most of the time, it's just the way our infrastructure was designed. I couldn't walk to the grocery store even if I wanted to.
Masada was crushed in a brutal invasion. The 21st-century US Military is phenomenal at invading countries (look at the rapid falls of Iraq, Afghanistan, and ISIS, we are substantially worse at occupation but that’s besides the point). If we wanted to crush Cuba we would have done it the second communism fell.

The reason we still have an embargo on Cuba is because pro-embargo Cuban-American refugees are a huge minority of a swing state, and sending a child away from his abusive father to Cuba literally cost the Democrats the 2000 election (incidentally leading to at least 2 of those 3 invasions). Arguably, a stupid technicality like that is worse than if it was a Masada-type situation, but what can you do
Ouch that's a really serious and painful setback to your training! Sorry to hear about your struggles. Are you back to normal now? Any lingering issues eg cardio/breathing
Those roads and their economic merit predate the state's involvement. The might be lower quality in some places without the state subsidy but those roads would still exist.

See also: railroads
Your comment is funny because of the loads of irony behind it.

Empirically incorrect? The 'index fund strategy' stated under another name is essentially the same as efficient markets theory, which multiple economists have won Nobel Prizes for. This is
mainstream economic theory today.

But even worse - to my knowledge even skeptics of efficient markets theory don't deny that few people beat the index. They think they can pick them of course - but they never claim that most people outperform the market (the same thesis, restated).

So your comment is, bluntly stated, empirically incorrect, because no serious academic (to my knowledge) denies that very few people beat the index. The reason incidentally is because index funds have zero fees, and active investors have nonzero fees, and long term they converge - so the zero fee lower cost basis strategy wins out. And if you're claiming that average investors with "zero fees" generally outperform the market... that is empirically, provably, incorrect.

Stated with unbelievable confidence... yes, the confidence that the papers that the economists who won those Nobel Prizes instilled, which has now become economic orthodoxy, which also helped spur the creation of index funds in the first place.

There is a strong connection between efficient markets theory & those funds very existence: because if active investors underperform the market, then the best strategy is just to hold the market, a strategy which got repackaged and named as 'index funds.'

A good book on the topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Trillions-Renegades-Invented-Changed-...
You said, space in our universe is not Euclidean and that is why the paradox does not prevent us from moving or reaching the goal, correct? This implies that the paradox assumes Euclidean space, otherwise it would not matter whether or not our universe is Euclidean, correct? So finally, if space being Euclidean is what separates being able to move in our universe but not in the one portrait by the paradox, would this then not imply that either you can not move or reach the goal in Euclidean space or that there must be another reason that prevents the consequences of the paradox from applying to Euclidean space?
Did you really delete your downvoted comment from another post in this thread and affix it here? Gee, thanks, I'm flattered.

Edit: My mistake, you posted a nearly identical comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34376436

So sorry for the confusion! Thank you for ensuring the mark of anm89 is uniformly applied.
I don't think anyone would really disagree with you, including Republicans. They are very anti-government, and quite proud of it. They'd brag about keeping the government out of our lives.
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

Transportation is something like 15% of total emissions. It’s bikeshedding to suggest that limiting car use is going to meaningfully solve anything relative to how difficult implementing such an approach would be.
Seven years ago they voted no on a nonbinding resolution that was doomed to fail. I doubt they care.
Release a version that is also "cracked" and distribute it widely.
Make sure this version breaks after 10 days (so user doesn't suspect) and inserts garbage into whatever it produces after this time.
Ensure your accepted EULA states that if it isn't purchased you can do this of course.
When users also complain of a bug specific to this cracked version, in order to help, ask for their contact details, email and product registration details (in that order). Use provided details if necessary for legal enforcement of licence.
Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it
I do the same, even if I know the metadata is removed before the image is shown to other users (e.g. Discord).

When on mobile, I use Imagepipe for this, it can be found on F-droid.
I was playing in our company chess tournament one year and played en passant against an opponent who entered but didn't play much chess.

I swear he thought I was cheating. I had to explain the term and have him Google it.
It really depends on which experiment you look at, but the one that I know best which was the one done in Chile managed to capture a fair few demographic categories. You can be as granular as you want it really depends if you have the means to do it, and if you think about this from the state-perspective, you would most definitely be able to capture as much granularity as you wanted.

Generally, I would say though, capturing major demographic categories (age, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status) tends to be enough to produce very good outcomes. Specially when it comes to socioeconomic status which is definitely one of the biggest concerns with oligarchic politics. I mean, think about how much money and time it actually costs to run for congressman or senator.
> This is why D (in one of its more controversial choices) sets uninitialized floating point values to NaN rather than the more conventional choice of 0.0.

This is definitely something I like about D, but I'd much prefer a compiler error. double x; double y = x+1.5; is less than optimal.
Hm. Is it really a "static" website if you have some JS constantly listening for updates?
You’re absolutely right
Well, your behavior differs from mine, then.

When I quit and reopen the app, or choose one of my custom lists and then tap home, it switches to For You.
I found this part of the readme amusing:

> Warning: This code is fucking awful.

> Do not expect the code to be stable under any modifications, but you can try if you want I guess. Also there are barely any comments sorry. I am in Electrical Engineering and I like writing shitty code to piss off my Computer Science friends.
I recently got an old (56 years, no cat, carb'd) car running after years of sitting. within about 10 seconds my nose rankled up, and after about 30 seconds my CO2 meter, which I had totally forgot I placed in the shop because it never went off years ago - I did this because I had propane heaters - went of like nuts for an hour! So I was glad to know that it worked, and clearly the car was running far too rich!
Why can’t they just make the point about air quality without covering it in layer after layer of woke nonsense? It makes me suspicious of the entire thing and is detrimental to the likely good ideas proposed.

Why do they have to speak like this? Why is everything a social justice activist cause? It’s very weird, like it’s a new age replacement religion for midwits.
I felt that they offered a helpful correction
I work in finance since ~15 years, essentially in quant hedge funds. I have some friends that work or worked in family offices, and I was proposed to work at some.

The term is very vague and encompass very different entities. At its core, a family office is a kind of "prop shop" (a company trading with its own money, not client's money) where the original funds are from a single very high net worth person, or family.

There's a lot of them in Asia, as VHNW families/individuals are common (especially in mainland China). It's a little bit less common in US/EU, where people usually employ "wealth managers".

> How could I work for a family office if I had experience in business/management/finance/real estate/etc.?

It really depends on the kind of office. I would say most of the time it would go through connections and networking, but some people will be recruited directly on the job market for rank & file positions.

In the case of the proposition I had, it was a guy whose family is VHNW. The guy was a professor of econometrics at a top US university, so he convinced his family to let him start a shop to manage their money. I was presented to him through connections. I ended up declining, and he ended up hiring 3/4 people through a mix of friend connections & recommendations, and a student he supervised the PhD of.

> Honest question, where do I find these jobs?

In all honesty, family offices are rarely the most interesting jobs. It can pay really well, but you often end up in some small microcosm of politics subject to the desires of the King owner. Would not recommend 90% of them.
I'm a little different... I love programming and am "okay" with software engineering. But my first several years coding were in Lisp, so I developed an idiosyncratic style, and have to "tone down the lispiness" when coding with other people. I enjoy working w/ other people, but would love it if there were more people who's brains were twisted the same way mine is.
We actually looked into this, and not only has he never lived in any hot spots he's never visited one.
Sure, they need to be honest about it and lying about it is wrong. I would definitely tell one of my direct reports not to do it again. If they persisted I’d put them on a PIP and if they failed to correct I’d fire them. I have let people go for this.

The issue that I have here is that it sounds like the company is set up for failure. Rigidly monitoring your employees is a great way to burn them out and kills loyalty. If you want people to work hard, offering a little trust goes a long way.

It’s always worth asking what you could have done better as a leader and starting with an assumption that they’re not just criminals.
Fantastic! I was involved in the freemyipod project back when the 4G was still a current product. In fact, the freemyipod.org wiki ran from a server I kept downstairs in my parent's home. My favorite memory was when we all built robots to brute force a return address (https://freemyipod.org/wiki/Nanotron_3000). Glad to see the project is still alive!
Out of sight? He talks about it publicly and constantly (at lease he used to. Before Tesla and then Twitter started occupying more of his attention).

Shareholders can be told that they are aiming at Mars, full stop. As long as they don't control the voting and were told that before they bought the shares, it's fine.
"It's pointless trying to reduce greenhouse gases by a few percentage points, if you contradict that..."

Right. I've never understood why the debate over climate change was (and still is) separated from the population argument.

It's just hypocrisy to me. I've seen estimates that a human being eats between 70 and 100 tons of food across a lifetime let alone all the other resources he/she consumes—housing, cars, fuel, goods of every kind. As it stands, the arguments simply don't equate.

I wish someone would provide data and equations that would authenticate the figures one way or other.

It seems to me the human race is
presently engaged in the greatest instance of the Emperor's new clothes ever witnessed.

The politics of not mentioning population in the same breath as climate change has to be one of the defining events of our age.
Idk man sounds like they’re just taking a phrase and phrasing it slightly differently so that it applies to more people. You’re the one who was offended by that
These don't even cover the cost of roads, much less all the negative externalities.
This is how I incorporated ChatGPT into my day-to-day and I gain insane productivity boost. I don’t just blindly c&p everything it generates and it helps me to deliver better results.
Not sure what `Promise.race(Promise.all(promises), loop());` is supposed to be doing. Promise.race only takes one arg, no? Also not sure what partialUpdate is supposed to be doing. Is that assuming some React-like diff reconciliation?

Personally, I'd go with something like this:

async function showChapters(chapterURLs) {
return Promise.all(
chapterURLs
.map((url) => fetch(url).then(r => r.json()))
.map((p, i) => p.then(data => appendChapter(data, i), e => displayError(e, i)))
);
}

With this, you can control exactly where and how list items are rendered, regardless of order of promise resolution, and things are rendered as soon as they are available, instead of getting stuck behind slow requests.
JS isn’t listening for updates, but simply pulling in a static html file filled with comments.

document.getElementById('commentlist').innerHTML = xhr.responseText
It's almost like there's a barrage of "mildly anti-vaxx" news lately (where "anti-vaxx" is defined as anything short of asserting that the COVID shots are an unalloyed good and perfectly safe medical procedure which should be taken every 9 months by everyone 6 months of age or older).

I mean, the positive results of the manufacturers' clinical trials for the shots and Paxlovid yielded threads with hundreds of thousands of upvotes. Is the CDC coming out and saying "we may have a stroke signal for the bivalent boosters from our pharmacovigilance system" not also newsworthy?
It's good to clean some content of your collections regularly. But I think tab zero is impossible. As you said that "Sometimes it ends with me adding 50 more links to the text file.", I have this experience too. For me, I just give it up as my limited energy. The endless urls on the Internet shouldn't be a burden for my life.

If my energy only supports me one hour every day on the Internet. I won't browser the Internet more than one hour. Reading some content over my limited energy is tired.
It’s twice that in the US:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

There isn’t going to be “one weird trick” to solve this problem. Instead it’s going to be like optimizing a mature program: 5% here, 7% there, etc. Making better choices about transportation or beef consumption isn’t going to halt climate change but it’s something anyone can do right now and the more they do the more time it buys us for the harder problems.
Great tool!

I believe the original author is still very active on ExifTool's forum and helps people day in day out.
I remember jailbreaking my 4th Gen U2 version nearly 2 decades ago. I think it was the first time I even herd of the term "jailbreaking". Previous to that it was "Modding" or "Mod Chipping" or "Chipping" for game consoles, but those did require a steady had to solder a chip on the console.

I also remember photo friends buying them just to break out the 1.8 inch drives to use for cameras because it was cheaper to rip a 20gb drive out an iPod than buy them from a supplier.

Lol, I also remember iTunes on Windows being decent, then at some point absolutely wrecking my music folder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic#U2_Special_Editio...
> Well why don’t they just lower it to zero?? As usual, no consideration given to the costs/downsides.

For the same reason we haven't dropped fossil fuel use overnight: It's not practical. You can't just wave a magic regulatory wand to elimination all air pollution without expecting (severe) economic impacts.
Where are you are sanitizing the comments? You have literally provided a perfect SQL injection mechanism here and allowed arbitrary HTML to be inserted onto your page.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. (You get to decide whether this refers to the US or Cuba or both.)
> Whatever outcome is going to happen is more or less already certainly happening, there aren’t many levers or much that can be changed. Fossil fuels being mostly replaced is inevitable, climate effects good and bad from all the carbon added are likewise inevitable.

This is basically climate illiterate.c

Ebikes have saved more carbon emissions that all EV vehicles combined.
All you need is to. make cities suitable for cycling, and habd out free ebikes, and you would save about a degree of planet-wide heating. Thats the difference between having a global famine and avoiding one.
> That dissonance kills more people than anything...

I agree with the majority of what you said. That said, I'd proposes that a fair number of these deaths aren't accidents. They're suicides.

One of the things that you don't hear often - because it doesn't fit the media and societal narrative - is that 50-60% of gun deaths are suicide.

The point being, when it comes to such things convenience matters. Combustion engine exhaust is easy to access, and it's also less painful / violent than fire arms. Certainly, it's not all. But it's certainly some and like guns more than we care to admit.
I think there might ve been a court scene in Bicentennial Man. i never saw that movie though, only the trailer. I haven't seen Black Mirror either.
Right, and because we live in an area that is about as good as you get for the united states (east coast, between NY and DC) for public transit, she is able to get around somewhat. Mostly it's just me ferrying her around though, like a concierge! Think about how much of a non starter that is for someone in Oklahoma? I know many hackernews readers are on either coast, well, statically most americans are, but for large parts of the country - driving is an absolute requirement. If we lived in Oklahoma, she probably would have found a doctor willing to overlook Epilepsy as a risk because, without a license she would have been destitute
When I read the title I was curious what definition of “engineering” would be in play. I wouldn’t call the process around programming and problem solving “engineering”. I’d just call that “process”, or “overhead”, or (when feeling like speaking plainly, “inefficiency”). Who loves that? It’s necessary, but loving it certainly isn’t necessary (or even good?).

I’d call the problem solving that balances technical, human, economic factors and produces great code “engineering”. Knocking out code on a whim less so.

My message is just be careful who you’re speaking to when saying you don’t want to engineer — I’m my book you do.
No one is talking about running a business. We're talking about code bureaucracy. I don't like front end, still happy to do it though, the issue is mandatory meetings, code reviews, design docs, and tests to make a simple UI change.

Run a business, talk to stakeholders, make sales, but don't make programming so unpalatable that it moves at a glacial pace. Tell me what to do then let me do the thing you pay me to, and that is to puke out high quality code.

All of the code bureaucracy features have their place but I don't think they're needed for every change.
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