skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Unicode bidi algorithm isn't failing here, it's working as designed. The source code snippet has base direction LTR, but has mixed-direction content because of the Hebrew text. Punctuation marks have weak directionality, so the period shows up at the end of the RTL run. Since the base direction is LTR, the 'end' of the RTL run means the right side.

If you want to force mixed-direction content to render correctly, you often need to insert bidirectional control characters to specify where a certain directional run begins/ends. That doesn't make sense to add in this case, though, because it would mess up the rendering in the actual input example.
Is the only way to buy "real food", to buy it in chunks of 3000+ EUR paper money?

That sounds pretty expensive and a lot of "real food" for the average person.

And if it is a business transaction sounds like a suspicious business transaction.
YC discount for conscious leadership group founder coaching program
Hey all - I was W15 (Worklife - acquired by Cisco). I've been coaching founders for the last 15 years and am now launching a group founder coaching program, starting 9/5. I'm happy to offer a 20% discount to YC founders. Reach out if I can support you in any other way as well...
>They have a long reputation of good research.

They had good writers at one time, but that time has long passed.
Pentagon Orders Target Drone That Mimics Enemy Stealth Fighters
This should be the operating systems problem to solve not developers of every website ever. Same with spellchecking, emojis, copy/paste etc.
Didn't mention, but start as early as possible. once kids are older, they will resist any sudden attempt at non-english.

Also, don't worry about "speech development" (i.e late talking). Your kids may be slightly behind peers in speech, but they will catch up by age 2-3. Kids are like sponges, they learn everything quickly.
Everyone Involved Was Following the Law
Ask HN: Successful Startup founders. Do they have families?
It's my intuition that most successful startup founders do their startups before they have families of their own. Is this intuition correct, incorrect, or irrelevant to the success of a startup?

The obvious examples that support my contention are Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, but it's not obvious that those are actually representative of the huge diversity of startups. The problem is that I can't come up with any counterexamples.
Netlify Firewall Traffic Rules: IP and Geo Restrictions for WAF SEC
My Tesla Model Y works great. As an "appliance" I am super happy with it.

Most other smart appliances I've used, however, have not created joy in my life, and I try to buy the oldest and dumbest appliances I can. For our new oven last year, we specifically looked for something with real knobs and an LED display, zero smart features. (Viking is the last company that makes these afaict.)

Turns out software is hard, if you're gonna make a smart appliance you have to build an entire software company. Tesla managed to do that but not other companies have.
Who the hell pays rent in cash? I doubt that’s even an option with any rental company except for shady / illegal slumlords, who will ignore this law anyway.

Also, what kind of illegal immigrant rents a >€3000/month home?
TBH if we could boil software metrics down to a immediately gratifying metrics like lap time or race position, it would make things a lot easier to figure out what simple means.
he was mostly using euros per the article. Also the article mentions he mostly traveled by train... The article mentions he usually took the money back in dolars.
How to fine-tune GPT-3.5-turbo in four steps
Which one is getting actual adoption? What framework are AWS using for their Rust services? Any other big companies?
PSA: Assume dir="auto" if none provided in browsers you develop.
Many of them aren't even transporting the money thanks to the hawala network around the world. Where I'm from otherwise legit exchange offices have been caught doing this and acting as a sort of bank for criminals, holding millions in safes.

Getting around the limitations of cash is no problem for those on the inside. Just like tax havens are only an option for the super wealthy who wouldn't really need them in the first place.
> Phones weren't "general-purpose computing platforms" for the most part of those 30 years (Gordon Gecko's phone didn't have apps). Nor where they considered as such.

We're all well aware of that, but so what? There's nothing inherent to smartphones that requires vendor-locked stores, and indeed some other smartphone platforms allow various levels of so-called "sideloading".

> And there were tons of capable of "general purpose computing" popular devices in those 30 years with closed markets or even restricted acccess to the SDKs themselves, almost all game consoles for example.

I used the term "general-purpose computing platforms" specifically to contrast with platforms such as game consoles, which are by their very name single-purpose.

By the way, I don't accept that vendor lockdown of game consoles is ok either, especially at present. My understanding is that the original motivation was that game consoles were sold at a loss to encourage adoption (which I don't think is true anymore), and thus a cut of the game revenue was required to make the consoles viable. So the console developers and the game developers had a kind of mutual interest in that. In contrast, iPhone was never sold at a loss, always at a massive profit for Apple. 3rd party app developers never needed to sacrifice their revenue to encourage iPhone adoption.

It should also be said that Apple itself considered "sideloading" on iPhone before the App Store was introduced, as shown by the emails from the Epic Games trial. Scott Forstall even said that they implemented sideloading in an internal iOS build, which he discussed in an email to Steve Jobs. AFAIK it hasn't been revealed why Apple decided against it ultimately. https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21043913-2008-may-...
Prominent statistician CR Rao passes away
Texture Tiling and Swizzling (2011)
Maui residents who disobeyed barricades survived fires
I belong to a religion that's really strong in western U.S. and less prevelant as you go east. Congregations are assigned based on geography and sometimes language.

I prefer the congregations out east that cover half a city because you interact with more doverse people across a lot more socio-economic classes just due to the wider geographic area.

I wish there were good incentives to build combined/intermingled housing to have more mixed neighborhoods.
You are ignoring the tens of thousands of hours pre-built builders put into streamlining designs that can be put on almost any plot of land.

No they aren't. This thread was started by someone saying "The idea of planning a house without taking into account the site where it will sit will never produce a good house.".

Both of you (and everyone) is saying this isn't true.
A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet
> if in the united states we refer to our prisons as 'correctional' facilities, what quantitative correction could require nearly a century of internment?

It's only punishment, there is no correction at all.

> if by any study it costs nearly 40,000 dollars to house a prisoner for one (1) year, was the night watchmans life truly worth 3.2 million dollars of Connecticut taxpayers money?

Can we please not value people's life in money? Because if we can then slavery would be justified.

> what meaningful value was extracted from his slave labor? was it enough to offset even a fraction of the internment cost?

Ditto.
Ask HN: Looking for Opinions on Positive Input Ventilation (PIV) Systems
Hi all!
I live in quite a humid location (>70% relative humidity, in the winter it's mostly >90%), and I've been reading about Positive Input Ventilation (PIV) systems as a way to retrofit my house and tackle the humidity.
Anyone has experience with these devices, and can recommend them?
The Internet of Shit is all around us

https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Rust is good for writing performant code, incorporates a lot of the latest programming language research, and gives great error messages.

You don't need it. But if you prefer using it, it's nice to have a web development framework.
Anecdotes != data. Your one example is the exception that proves the rule.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/snap-is-effective-and-efficien...
Ok thank you! This is good news
Just wanted to thank everyone for the responses. lots of good ideas.

As a follow up a question. Many of you said you pursue your interests and passions, exploring them in personal projects. Feels weird to ask but, how do you identify/kindle these interests? I feel like early in my career they came fast and easily, but now my interests often take me away from the computer screen.
having an address and ID is not so much a problem, it is keeping your address and ID valid once a few dozen people in authority can live for years by charging money for lots of reasons to renew them, and perhaps also problems for you if you do not behave.

This is as old as countries themselves. You must be intellectually dishonest to ignore these historically crucial patterns.
Uh.

If I search for textarea and BiDi text, in pretty much all variations I can think of https://www.w3.org/International/talks/1602-oman is one of the top links.

And right in there, the "What if you don't know the direction in advance" section, https://www.w3.org/International/talks/1602-oman/#advance

I assume the problem is that the author doesn't really know the space, and so didn't even know that "BiDi" is the right search term here. (For "bi-directional text", since you don't want to specify a writing direction)

I don't even fault them for thinking "the results are wrong" - they aren't, if you search for RTL they're the right answer. But you won't know that until you know the space a bit better. This highlights a problem with relying on the Internet for answers - it doesn't know what you don't know. Sit down with anybody who's dealt with BiDi for a while, and one of their first questions will be "Do you mean RTL or BiDi"?

So, if you can, ask people, not software. Especially if you don't know the space.
there is a real problem with the elderly in american prisons, they sentenced so many people to absurdly high sentences in the 80s/90s that they basically ended up with nursing homes for the elderly except they are prisoners.

https://www.aclu.org/report/americas-expense-mass-incarcerat...

Its just the punitive culture that is deeply rooted in american society. Its one of the more depressing subjects in sociology when you learn about the culture of Scandinavian people and their emphasis on rehabilitation, reintegration, and addressing the root causes of criminal behavior.
Well, it is dangerous. In classic right wing fashion, it starts off talking about economic elites, but pretty quickly starts running off into welfare abusers and people who don't know how to properly feed themselves using benefits, as if this is any significant fraction of the ills plaguing our society. Half the song is about resentment towards other poor/working class people.
Just under 10. Granted there’s a lot of health issues that have made it more difficult for me.
That’s flat out unacceptable. It’s your money. If you walk into a bank and ask for all of it, they should have enough on hand to give it all to you for a normal individuals account. It’s not the bank’s money or the governments money to decide where it gets stored or how it gets spent. You worked hours of your life to earn that money, years of your life that you traded for cash that the government says you can’t be trusted with because there’s a chance you might be a criminal. That is in no way, shape, or form the sign of a well-functioning, citizen-focused government. That’s a government that wants to track its citizen’s payments more closely.
You’ve got it backwards. You need a reason to restrict freedom, not to improve it. So, the questions are which problem is this solving, is there any other way to solve it, and is it worth it. In most places, this is done without real discussion and people don’t care because they “don’t use cash”. “Lol terrorism” is not the most convincing argument.
My pet theory is that programmers are exposed to many business areas during their career, either directly or hearing it from other programmers. This desacralizes these jobs, and since we spend most of our days working though complexity (requirements, bugs, ...), you end up with "what's so hard about X?" statements.
Curious to what people think is actual innovation - hardware, software, anything.
That's much clearer. Aviate > Navigate. Thanks!
The envelope on your house is the least complex part of it. How are you going to insulate? Where are vapor and air barriers? How will your framing interface to your foundation? What will your foundation design look like depending on soil conditions, moisture, frost heave, etc? What kind of plumbing, mechanical, and electrical components and infrastructure are required according to local code?

The frame of the house is easy. The rest is not.
The shenanigans are thought to be around M&A and alternatives. A company like Vanguard can use market power to juice its more profitable products by depressing prices.
What do you mean the person I gave my car to for a PayPal payment used a stolen card?!
But it's harder to spend.
If I see "thiel truth" without other context, it means that any dodgy character with enough money can take down an entire web publishing enterprise.
This is a lobbying piece written by a VP of one of the affected companies 8 months before the final version of the bill passed.
> And you are seriously suggesting that it is other people who are uninformed about these matters?

Not at all! Like I said, the common story has a kernel of truth, it's not an outright lie, but it's not the whole truth. Some people dig further, others have plenty enough other things going on in their lives to deal with digging deeper. The very same people dig at different rates at different times in their life. For example, I was a kid when Vietnam was going on. Didn't exactly dig deep into what we were doing there and what we were hoping to achieve. To be honest, I didn't dig too deep into the Gulf War or the Iraq War either - at least not at the time.
You can get a functioning bank account usually in less than 30 minutes by downloading an app as long as you have a valid ID (no verified address is needed)

But yeah, if you’re not a citizen and don’t live in the EU it might be tricky (then again AFAIK bringing large amounts of cash from a third country is not that straightforward either).

What does this have to do with Dutch farmers, though?
Doesn't even have to be rural America. I bought my car for $6000 cash off Craigslist, and I'm in the bay area
EU is working towards requiring banks to provide homeless EU citizens with a bank account. Some countries have already implemented this. https://koronapay.com/transfers/europe/en/blog/how-to-open-a...

For paper mails some shelters allow for picking up post and in some countries you can get the mail as "Poste Restante" (i.e. pick up at post office).
> - paying a team of day labour workers

It's illegal to pay minimum wage in cash, due to employers abusing and underpaying vulnerable people. (Any amount over the minimum wage can be paid cash, but there has to be a bank payment made for at least the minimum wage.)

Source: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/aanpak-schijnconstr...

> - hay / feed delivery

> - combine/equipment rental

> - livestock

> - farm vehicle sales / repair

B2B transactions like that are done by billing. The other side wouldn't normally be very receptive to a cash payment.
Love & recommend Roboflow. Thanks for releasing this yall!
> rehabilitation ... That's politically pretty unappealing

Here in the USA, yes. Some EU countries take this quite a bit more seriously, to good effect.
Farming is under attack all throughout the EU, especially the Netherlands.
I can change my bicycle, I can't change the road design
> It seems pretty undeniable that both Russia and NATO would be more willing to countenance a direct confrontation.

The only reason Russia is willing to engage in a direct conflict with Ukraine is their nuclear weapons make them feel secure that that won’t evolve into a direct conflict with NATO, which, without nuclear weapons, would be immediate ruin for Russia.

Nuclear weapons enable direct aggression by nuclear powers against anyone except other nuclear powers.
Might be time for China to reconsider its role with Russia in future manned moon missions. Any prestige the Russian program once had has long since faded, even ground operations at Baikonur are now at risk with equipment being impounded by bailiffs from Kazakhstan to service billions in debt.
Maybe you can think about starting a non-teck business?
Invest your time/energy into something else than tech?
If you're financially secured, maybe not the best idea to stay and feeling empty because of doing nothing.
What do you think a money order is?
You wouldn't be able to receive a salary without a bank account.
Not only is software hard, but software is disposable, i.e. we don't set out to maintain it long term, instead we throw it away.
Taiwan Little League Worlds two-way phenom Fan Chen-Jun drawing Ohtani airs
So what, now you need to pay 2% every single time?
assuming the remote batteries are standard AAA or AA batteries, get a set of rechargeable batteries and stop worrying about it? I have a bunch of equipment that runs on standard rechargeable AA and AAA and I feel like its not a big deal.

Can't really help you about your controller turning off the wrong device. Normally the fancy remotes these days have a device selection near the top, but sometimes its just buggy garbage.
RLHF vs. Rlaif
This is a time to ask for advice from people who can help you decide what YOU need, not what worked for someone else. A therapist or someone who can give you spiritual help, whatever is most comfortable for you.

It's time for you to discover what gives you joy.
I was under the same impression until a user of enso (a psychologist, not a dev) sent me a feature request with a code snippet.

I suspect he had some experience in reporting this category of bugs.
Like taxes are fair... You have the freelancers and small business struggling badly in my country, yet the goverment spends millions on nonsensical programs.
Been using it for a couple months, and Jordi keeps improving on it at a steady clip. It's great!!
> Will bad people abuse it and do things you don't like? Yeah. That's the risk that comes with it and we have a legal system to identify and deal with those bad actors.

The problem is that things like cryptocurrency are largely designed to circumvent the financial and legal system entirely, which becomes a threat to regulated markets once fraudulent actors become large enough to inevitably become a burden to the legal system (see FTX). The government is spending a lot of money cleaning up the FTX mess and they have an interest in ensuring that it doesn’t happen again.
I don't like this. I recently sold some networking equipment to somebody for a bit more than this amount and asked for cash. Made the whole transaction simple. Things like this just keep taking power from the people and moving it into the government and private companies.
"Fuel budget", "mass budget", "payload budget", even "delta-v budget" are common terms in spaceflight and refer to how much of a valuable thing a spacecraft can carry given some pesky laws of physics [1], nothing to do with money (except insofar as more money would let you build a bigger spacecraft…)

[1] https://www.kallmorris.com/columns/tyranny-of-the-rocket-equ...
I'll buy your site for $1,000.
It can simply be seized.

Whether a conviction occurs in court is largely irrelevant, because it's in excess of the 3000 limit that this law actually puts in place, and therefore de jure illegal.

In the U.S., no conviction of the owner is even necessary, since the conviction is of the cash itself. This is likely coming to EU as well because it's a easy way for the enforcement state to increase its coffers and, in theory, stop money laundering.
It's still very common here in Germany to make large payments by cash because people feel that it's "safer"
It would probably be quite abysmal, considering the deflationary nature of most cryptocurrencies. Which stablecoin provider do you trust to secure your wealth at this point? After the downfall of FTX, Tether, Luna, Celsius, etc., who in the space can anyone trust? Which is the real sleight of hand of the entire "trustless" Crypto ecosystem...
> That's what I really like about the Elixir ecosystem; Phoenix is the automatic no-brainer choice. Just crack on with building your idea.

Yes cohesion is great!
For C# we have ASP.NET dominance (and Java has Spring?).

At the end of the day our job is to deliver value.
> Infinisil has over 600 commits in the Nixpkgs repo alone, and is also active in other codebases in the ecosystem.

> people in the community recognize his username from his contributions

> He's a longtime, highly active contributor in the Nix ecosystem who cares about projects he's involved in and other efforts related to them.

> You don't have to agree with his take but this is disrespectful and lame.

Without doubling down on my viewpoint that you already think is lame and disrespectful, you don't think any of these achievements are probably mildly unhealthy/obsession level?
That's essentially what I designed for myself, to reduce budget while (IMO) still looking pretty and historic. It's a 30x38 foot box. I've wrote a bit about it:

https://map.simonsarris.com/p/designing-a-new-old-home-begin...

But what you decide for the interior plan, to be ideal for you, is very much up to how you plan to use your house.
> but we'd have to spend a lot more tax dollars on prisoners to actually rehabilitate anything. That's politically pretty unappealing

I don't have a source for this but I thought the opposite was true? That the general consensus was we'd end up spending less because the recidivism rate would go down?
Yeah, I mean Elton John's accent sounds exactly the same when he talks and sings too...
> we'd have to spend a lot more tax dollars on prisoners to actually rehabilitate anything

Not necessarily. Recidivism costs a lot, too. Norway spends over $100k/inmate, to the US's $25k/inmate (https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2022/10/25/what-can-we-learn-from-t...), but only 20% reoffend versus 2/3 of American inmates. (Resulting in 70/100k incarcerated versus the US's 700/100k; that $100k/year starts to look like $10k/year now.)

Here in NY, there was a big political fuss over free community college for prisoners a few years back (pre-pandemic); Cuomo wound up killing it. I suspect helping inmates get associates degrees to use when they got out would've wound up saving money, but that's not how it played in the PR realm.
> The embedded world is crying out for people experienced in modern software teams.

The embedded world requires VERY specialized skills, and pays significantly less than enterprise webshit (let alone FAANG webshit).

I'd LOVE to get into embedded, but I can't afford to make 2/3 to half of what I make now.
On the other hand, on MacOS there is out-of-the-box solution for cmd vs ctrl in terminal.
From what I remember in Snowball, it's true. He really doesn't like unusual food and sticks to the familiar, which generally means burgers and soda.
In a sense, yes. That has been a common observation in the industry for years. Java will probably remain the dominant language for business applications for several more decades at least. It probably won't be displaced until the next major disruptive innovation in hardware platforms, to quantum computing or whatever comes next.
One of the fastest, lowest latency websites I use is HN, and it’s entirely server rendered. It’s also a massively popular website with probably thousands of hits per minute. Anyone who tells you server side rendering is too slow, probably has no idea what they’re talking about.
How high can you go with this?