skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know of a good resource explaining how the compose key is supposed to work in general beyond the simple cases like those discussed in this article ?

I have an interest in some less spoken languages like Ancient Greek and Sanskrit and though there are specific keyboard layouts that mostly work there are still some less common combinations of diacritics used in writing Ancient Greek, for example, that don't seem to be covered.

Is there some way to use the compose key for entering general Unicode sequences for example, that would work for different applications ?

I'm a Linux user but I'd be interested in seeing a solid exposition on this topic even if it was for a different OS.
> Mexico gdp per capita, $10,000
USA: $70,000

Honest and direct question: how much drug trafficking adds to the GDP of a country? [1] I think we need a realpolitik/freakonomics approach to these discussion to get the whole picture and take decisions.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/24/do-mexica...
That argument wouldn't fly in a court of law in the EU/UK, but many many companies try it on anyway.
There's San Andreas, even. TIL there's a vast cellar below the army base...
> no reason they can't be sold off again

Just levy a fine. From the corporate death penalty to this stuff, it’s all just fines with financial engineering. Cut out the bankers and lawyers and just levy a bloody fine.

Every problem you think you’re solving by adding extra steps simply compounds the complexity of levying massive fines while distracting from them.
Dos before 3.0 used FAT12, limited to 16 MB, DOS 3.0 introduced FAT16 (though in a reduced 14 bit version) that extended size to 32 MB, DOS 4.0 had "real" 16 bit FAT16:

https://hardwaresecrets.com/hard-disk-drives-capacity-limits...

These were limits to the partition/volume size, however.
With the proper width and all?
I never have understood the push to emojify everything. But commit messages, options in menus, status outputs, you name it: I think we'd be better off leaving it in plain ASCII (or Unicode if your language needs that, just as long as you don't dip into the emoji).

Emoji are quite nice for messaging people and occasionally some of the more generic ones can be useful for status indicators (think the red and green circles), but I don't want to be presented with a little green worm every time somebody submits a bug fix on GitHub.
Read the title as “A Creepy Question We’ll All Have the Answer to Soon” and was immediately extremely intrigued. Then I read the title again and lost interest in even clicking through. Amazing what difference a word can make in a title.
works fine with Windows Terminal:

http://0x0.st/H_S1.png

but yes to be fair, the width on those ridiculous 5 codepoint emoji is off.
> But BBC also has stories with naked "America" in the title with no prefixes which is about the USA:

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=america

Including travelling the length of the Americas, and stories from South America.

The point being that the BBC and other countries only use the term after qualifying that they specifically mean the USofA or other parts of the Americas.

> Hawaii is in America even though it's in the Pacific Ocean instead of the American continent.

Who says that though?

I'm 60, well educated and would say that Hawaii is a state of the USofA, as I've done all my life and as the majority of people I know would do so.

> Likewise, why do people who mention "Asia" are talking about China/Japan/Taiwan and exclude Russia?!?

Depends upon the people and the context of the discussion - I was in the asian portion of Russia when I was ground truthing soviet era maps against the "new" global WGS84 datum.

Poltically Russia tends to be associatied with Europe | East Europe | other variations due to Moscow being the capital.

If you're in Vietnam you're often dealing with Russians out of Vladivostok on the edge of the sea of Japan.
There should really be a 'git pull --hard' option.
His new film, ‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’, will premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival.[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/movies/william-friedkin-v...
> US companies are also sued and fined in the US for breaking these laws.

Could you give me some examples?

Also, US suing EU companies for things happening in developing countries is a mind blowing overreach of US territorial jurisdiction.

> They are using the data in compliance with their ToS

A ToS isn't a law.

> which is decided post-facto to be in violation of the GDPR

No. GDPR was introduced and companies were given years to adapt and become compliant.

> The level of regulatory uncertainty there is far from the clear-cut

This is also wrong. You can simply ask the EU member country's national agency responsible for the enforcement of the GDPR proactively.

> The level of regulatory uncertainty there is far from the clear-cut “don’t bribe politicians.”

In countries that run on bribes this becomes less clear.
More efficient bulbs would be less hot, not more. The more energy gets converted to visible light instead of heat radiation, the more efficient the bulb is. So this argument only makes it more questionable, according to what you're saying modern bulbs should be lasting even longer than those old ones.
Unicode needed to include written-on-paper glyphs that existed in the world. That makes sense to most people. But a lot, lot, lot of communication these days happen digitally (digital first). You can't scribble things as freely in a textbox like this one. You can certainly make suggestive combinations like `:)`, but you are pretty limited. (How do you scribble "family of three: mom, father, daughter" without any emojis?)

How do you propose that Unicode include glyph innovations that are digital-first?
> Do we need to create machines that can suffer?

No.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk
I mean, this is ridiculous.

The people chanting “Death to America” didn’t mean Chile.

And I’m pretty sure they weren’t major consumers of American culture.

And Americans don’t commonly chant “America” any moment they get. They famously, and obnoxiously, chant U.S.A. every time they can.

The U.S. has been the most prominent nation in the region for generations, and most importantly, it’s the only country in the entire region that has the word America in it’s name.

People have reasons to talk about countries far more than continents, and reasons to talk about the USA more than most other countries.

The fact that America is commonly accepted as shorthand for the United States of America when there is no other country in the world with the word America is hardly cultural imperialism.

It’s an insult to people and nations that have actually suffered from imperialism to brand this as “cultural imperialism”.
DUPLICATE (LOL)
“which translated 36 to 45 pixels per degree (ppd) from 0.5 meters to 0.8 meters (typical monitor viewing distance), respectively. Factoring in the estimated FOV and resolutions, the Apple Vision Pro is between 35 and 40 ppd or about the same as a 1987 monitor.”

Doesn’t ppd have to be combined with distance to make sense whatsoever. You can’t compare 40 ppd at 1 meter with 40 ppd at ??? m?
Bun vs. Yarn: which one is faster?
It does when your display has micro motion :)
Four CFOs in the last six years at Tesla.
The tool is aimed more at developers/quality assurance specialists. So people who have a more technical view of the data. It is therefore not much about business cases.

Furthermore, the relationships do not have to be defined manually either. Rather, they are automatically recognized based on the database metadata. (However, manual entry is also possible).
- Monitor the web server itself using an uptime checker like https://onlineornot.com (biased here, I founded it)

- Something like Sentry or Logrocket for monitoring errors

- use a cron job to backup your db, and monitor your cronjob actually runs with a heartbeat monitor
I happen to have a client right now who is in the midst of a massive downturn in business but is also obligated to pay for our services at a rate negotiated more than a year ago when they were in the midst of a brisk upswing in business; an upswing that had been going on for several years with no obvious indication that it would ever change.

Our services, though immensely useful, are not absolutely necessary for their business to function and frankly are much more of a burden than a benefit for them at this point. Yet they cannot refuse to do business with us, and must pay for services that are unnecessary every month until either this obligation becomes part of what kills them, or their fortunes return to the state they were in a year ago.

I'm sorry, but your belief is simplistic, shallow and naieve to the realities of business and trade as they are actually practiced.
> How would you feel, if you were an author, and people openly advocated piracy, such that you were deprived of sales, and earning an honest living?

I'd feel frustrated, to say the least! That's why I think people who pirate should make an effort to buy the book if it's fairly recently published. It's usually not expensive.

However, for older books I think pirating is fine. Usually the authors have passed away.
I'm not in or from the UK, I have travelled in three quarters of the 190+ countries about the world.

> You don’t get to tell me how to speak. Sorry if that pains you.

Speak as you wish, it pains me not.

However, when you say 1+1=5 or that the rest of the world uses the same seppoisms that you do then I quite rightly regard you as more than a little ignorant.
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I think emojis in commit messages are very overrated.

But emojis are great in informal communication when you want to compensate for the fact that your words are completely divorced from inflection, tone, and body language.
> these fines need exponential escalation over time to work

It hasn’t even started accumulating. How are you declaring it won’t work?
Useless for Polish, but thankfully we already use US layout
There’s gotta be some financial engineering that ultimately results in deduction somehow.
I have had to make that Clustered RabbitMQ to Kafka move myself, as the failure modes from RabbitMQ we're very scary. The most scary thing in the entire infrastructure in that financial institution levels of scary. It's not that it failed much, but you don't need many middle of the night calls with no good SOP to get the cluster back to health before migrating is in the cards.

Kafka is not operationally cheap. You probably want a person or two that understands how JVMs works, which might be something you already have plenty of, or an unfortunate proposition. But it does what is on the tin. And when you are running fleets of 3+ digits worth of instances, very few things are more important.
Haaa yes the eternal emoji width problem when using monospaced fonts…
I added an explicit workaround for this in my logger lib, with an environment variable to be able to change the behavior.
https://github.com/xcode-actions/clt-logger/blob/12a5ebc1b00...
"And MacBook users don't choose MacOS either."

I don't see why. I really like macOS. More than any other environment it's uncluttered, well organised, it gets out of the way. It abstracts a lot of unnecessary technical detail but still allows diving into that, if I'm inclined. And most of all, I like well integrated system-wide features instead of palming it off to developers. Sure the hardware is good too, but I don't know where you get that idea from.
> or Unicode if your language needs that

Благодаря ти много, добър непознат.
>> If I am disrupted 5 times with 5 small things in an hour, that will slow me down significantly

But those 5 people who interrupted you are no longer blocked. If they had to schedule a call with you tomorrow or the next day then the overall productivity of the team could very well drop.

Companies care less about your individual productivity and more about the productivity of the entire organization.
White House Launches Efforts to Strengthen America’s K-12 Schools’ Cybersecurity
https://letsblock.it : it allows you to create your own content blocking rule list from a corpus or community-maintained templates. It allows you to hide pinterest and stackoverflow clones from search results, remove shorts and upcoming streams from youtube, and many more. The project is now two years old and sustaining a slow but steady growth with an active community.
So does KDE's Konsole for me.
That's not why it exists. It's why there are so many scams.
Indeed, it's not called "viral content" for nothing!
Don't Click Submit Twice
> relying on personal recommendations

Taking things off the net would be a huge step back for economy.

LLMs will cause a total collapse of trust online. This problem will be solved by a brand new online trust model (instead of the old one "has gained some followers by formulating text messages and forwarding gifs").

The trustees (bots/humans/orgs mixed) would probably need to sacrifice much more of their privacy. Not for the sake of orwellian Big Brother, but for re-establishing any trust whatsoever online.
> How do you scribble "family of three: mom, father, daughter" without any emojis?

How often do people need to do that; with that level of fidelity, right down to the composition of the family? My suspicion is not often. A short sentence does this description just as good and is much less ambiguous, as in written, concise communication that is "emoji-rich" is filled with so many details (such as the composition of the family and their skintone) it's often not clear which details are important for the message and which are not. In addition because emojis are rendered differently on different devices the meaning may be lost (e.g. when apple changed the gun emoji to a watergun, many messages took on different meanings depending on if a revolver was used or a watergun)
> how the standard could be extended for use for “European alphabets” (they could use the 5 values after Z and the one before A for additional letters)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#7-bit_codes

They not only could, they actually did. Now you know why C has trigraphs.
That's actually a pretty good idea! Refreshing to finally find a viable alternative (or addition?) to the usual "jail the high up people responsible for illegal activities". Not that there would be anything wrong with that, either.

Added to my list of things to do if I ever become a dictator by chance.
Are they glyphs or just vector graphics clip art?

Unicode doesn’t include ligature code points for every English word either. Somehow we manage to keep glyphs and words separate. Why couldn’t we do the same for inline graphics?

The copyright situation around emoji is actually worse now than if they’d been kept out of the standard. People expect emojis to look like on iPhone, but those specific graphics are owned by Apple, leaving everybody else scrambling for emojis that look close enough without infringing.

If emojis had originally been released as an open source library of SVG graphics together with some kind of standard shorthand way to refer to them without embedding an entire inline URL, we could have truly open clip art instead of this weird semi-proprietary mess.
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You didn't say whether that impact was positive or negative so I'll take a stab at Social Media in general and the negative impacts. Its more of a conceptual invention piggybacking off the internet. I keep seeing headlines indicating studies are showing teen girls mental health is severely declining when they are active in social media X hours per day. Then there are societal impacts of being an enabler for entities to push whatever propaganda (aka misinformation on purpose) fairly easily. Now with a surge in AI/ML advancements I suspect it will get worse.

In my opinion any positive impacts (are there any?) from social media are small in comparison and not worth it.
> a power user friendly user OS that never needs to pull up a CLI

ERROR: Does not compute.

A CLI is the pinacle of power user friendlyness.
"Big" and "small" are funny terms when you talk about computer graphics. A surface 10 units long is short if your character moves at 10 units per second. It's long if your character moves at 1 unit per second.

You can easily see the entire GTA map and it might seem small, but if you place the camera at street level I think it's clear the map is rather big.
My Mechanical Keyboard Endgame
Image-to-Story Generation
Generates fun stories by just providing a single image :D
I think it's because all advice is useless without personal context and that personal context is "knowing yourself".

If you know yourself, know that you're not wired to be a particularly ambitious person then this advice is useless.

On the other hand, if you are an ambitious person or a workaholic, then this is probably quite useful advice!
Fines should be proportional to the damage they deter and compensate for. Fixing fine to revenues means tech companies can make a mockery of the law, as penalties must be ruinous for every other industry or laughably low for tech’s margins.
> US companies are also sued and fined in the US for breaking these laws.

And European companies are also sued for breaking GDPR. Recently, the CNIL fined Criteo, a French adtech company, for 40M€. Multiple other fines in the 1M+€ range (Carrefour, Total, AG2R…) for French companies.

You can go on Enforcement Tracker, you will find a lot of small fines against EU entities, and few but heavy fines against US entities. I don't think this is protectionism, but rather that EU companies fare better than US companies in environments with historically strong privacy laws, precisely because they are subject to these regulations from day 1.

> They are using the data in compliance with their ToS, which is decided post-facto to be in violation of the GDPR.

A ToS is a contract, and contracts can violate the law. Nothing surprising here.
I think the logic of people not wanting their data/actions used for ad targeting being "free riders" is a step too far. Just target ads based on data I'm willing to be targeted on. Ask for it explicitly and I'll give the data (location, interests, whatever). But don't use the fact that I looked too long at a clip of a guitar on instagram to show me a targeted ad for a guitar in my facebook feed.
Is there a reason (apart from looking cool) to put the keys/player at the top, rather than have the keys at the bottom, with the strings going up?
True, although the ability of the US to impose its will on New Zealand is probably much higher than the ability of Norway to impose its will on the US.
IMO we should have left emojis out of everything that is rendered by convention with monospaced fonts. But of course I respect the desire for displaying rainbow farting unicorns even in consoles, so let's find a solution for this.
The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression
I've gotta say, I appreciated how you spent literally 75% of the video explaining all your safety precautions and how they all helped you avoid death, dismemberment, or disfigurement.
As Mexico develops their economy and skills specialize, then wages will go up (they can’t even refine their own oil right now). Low skill manufacturing will then push farther south. Overall a win for the western hemisphere.
But actually I think if the AI systems were to survive they would need to learn to cooperate and probably understand each others direction or have empathy.

Imagine 5 super intelligences that hated each other and just wanted to wipe each other out? They’d get nothing done…

If they had conflicting goals, they’d have to first stop one another from screwing up their plans…
> Solution: logs go into a data store that allows you to filter on this data.

You can get very far getting to know the operating system's remote logging machinery can get you very far on this. It's amazing how often people basically duplicate this and how often people just write logs to text files or database tables instead of hooking up to the tooling that comes with the OS.
My point such laws that regulate the act of scraping itself cannot work because you can easily scrape in a different country where that law doesn’t apply, and then transfer the data in - or indeed train your NN in a different country and transfer the model.

Only copyright can see through all of that, you would have to gut fair use in order to have an effective anti-scraping law.
> Erm, Itanium never had any kind of market leadership. It was a failure.

That's true. But part of the reason Itanium as a failure is because AMD came out with x86-64, which was so successful that Intel ended up being forced to adopt it (it didn't help that the first generation of Itanium chips was... underwhelming).
Anti-clickbait: The question is in the subheading "Do we need to create machines that can suffer?"
Honestly, seems like the problem with wcwidth's implementations. Most of them have been reporting almost all emojis as having width 1 (and some very non-invisible symbols as having with 0) for years, to this very day, for some unexplained reason despite regular web rants of how this is wrong. Check out this one: [0]. It's 8 years old! The problems are still there.

[0] https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/#comb...
This is tragic, because had the back of driver been paying attention they could've stopped in time.
What is the tradeoff there?
Kitty on macOS also works fine with all cases, including the correct width.
The typical argument is in a closed market everyone buys something produced locally by local labor. In an open market the lowest cost supplier wins. Which will mean when costs of production are asymmetric, the supplier in the more expensive market loses.

So while a single transaction has occurred, someone loses because of the trade agreement. This is because in a market that’s not theoretical there are actual people losing out. But this is the typical argument against free trade and protectionism - I assume it’s not new?

I’m sympathetic fwiw. But I think maximizing trade is generally good and don’t want to see a reversal. The real issue in my mind is trade allows for environmental, labor, and other regulatory arbitrage. If the benefits in pricing were just market based I’d be down with it no matter the pain. But that’s not really what’s going on. The regulatory arbitrage is a race to the bottom not just in wages or other spaces that in my belief stabilize over time, in irreversible spaces like destruction of the earth.