skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. I get the impression of a very saturated off-white yellow.

But any more saturation and it would go all mustard-electric on me.

That's an interesting observation on variation of saturation response. Feels like useful knowledge for ... web site designers. Or any color crafter.
There needs to be a separate mechanism for disagreement versus quality (affecting ranking). Both of these should be separate from flagging for moderation.
In the same millisecond, in the same database system, having rolled the same 74 bit (~22 digit) number?
> they were in some old Japanese character set

This implies that they're obsolete, but they're not -- they're still in very common use today. You can type them in Japanese by typing まる (maru, circle) and the number, then pick it out of the IME menu. Some IMEs will bring them up if you just type the number and go to the menu, too. :)
Not sure why but separation of concers was hammered so hard for a while that I cannot accept any inlined javascript or css at all. For me the reason is clear, I do not need to scan the html to know what a particular piece of code is doing and will just assume these ids are somewhere out there.

The first example of the site would become:

<div>
<h2>You clicked {count} times!</h2>
<button id='decrement'>Decrement</button>
<button id='increment'>Increment</button>

<script>
count = 0
$('button#increment').on('click', () => { count++ })
$('button#decrement').on('click', () => { count-- })
</script>
</div>
How does this explain surrogate pairs?
This is one aspect of the RTO discussion that's sometimes missed: there are plenty of people in the tech sphere (myself included) who've been comfortably remote for much longer than those who were pushed into remote work by lockdowns and pandemic response. We're not about to give up a whole lifestyle we've built over (in some cases) decades, on the whim of whichever executive we happen to be serving under at the present time.

Props to the author for highlighting this.
There was no string.length in Swift for a while. Then they added one that just does what the user expects, get the number of grapheme clusters. If a user figures out that this isn't what they want, they can go use the other length method.
I dont mind getting in a plane these days (aside from all the bullshit you have to deal with on either end of the trip). I would be a little hesitant to be strapped into Flyer I or even Flyer II. I wonder if there was stigma for that position back then? Maybe if it had the right marketing budget.
Oh my god, is there ever anything simple about unicode
A form of interaction?
Absolutely. Becoming world class at anything, especially anything competitive, also involves failing about a million times on the way up. In coaching chess one of the first things one tends to ask is what the student wants to achieve. And the typical response has something to do with winning. But they don't need you for that. If they just want to win, then they but need to never play anybody better than themselves!

Improving involves blood, sweat, tears, and defeat. Only to come back ever stronger.
I can 2nd this as an American who now resides in Europe. My first laptop I brought with me, and was defaulted to en_US, but my replacement is en_GB (Apple doesn't have en_NL, for good reason).

I don't find it "unusable", though. I could change it back to en_US, but it has actually been interesting to see all of my American spellings flagged by autocorrect. Each time I write authorize instead of authorise it is an act of stubborn group affinity!
The classic arm for ChromeOS is terrible, mostly because they cheaped out on CPU extensions and storage, and memory bandwidth. They mostly repurposed those cheap Android tablet designs that die after a year.
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You can fail or have success on many dimensions. There is probably some skill you are good innately, or better than a large chunk of population. On that dimension you will have probably have built a pretty good self-esteem over the years, but you know that you can still improve (hence comparing yourself with who got 4 medals if you have 2) but fear of failing will not completely block you, only stress you more to raise the bar.
On the other hand, in domains where you are not so good by default, if you are a perfectionist you can totally risk being paralyzed until you think you are "good enough for it".
tbh this is how I feel about most tech.

I was in front-end dev for many years and a lot of the framework features felt like that. Now I'm doing back-end devops stuff and Helm/K8s/Terraform really feel like that. Everywhere you look, it's nothing but hammer factory factory factories.
I'm 100% part of the group taking blurry pictures, but that's because I don't care at all about posting. I don't use Instagram or Facebook, all the pictures I take are for browsing my photo library later.
> An extended grapheme cluster is largely defined on "this visually displays as a single unit", which isn't necessarily correct for things like "display size in a monospace font" or "thing that gets deleted when you hit backspace."

I'm sorry, but I fail to see how "This visually displays as a single unit" could ever differ from "Display size in a monospace font" or "Thing that gets deleted when you hit backspace".
Thanks! A CLI tool is an interesting idea. I originally built something similar [as a python package](https://github.com/ryderdamen/fromchaos) to basically force LLMs to return data in a specific format, so I could probably easily adapt something.

What I like about the extension is that I can use it on any content that I can see, like that behind a login page.
I’m not saying it didn’t reduce your symptoms - it probably did. But there were plenty of people that caught COVID unvaccinated and had the same experience as you.

On the other hand, I had the wonderful experience of catching the first virus and the delta variant. I should have been more protected than with the vaccine by itself as the data clearly showed at the time but it still hit me, a 34 year old decently fit person, almost equally as hard. I had 2-3 weeks of incredibly high fever along with a bunch of other nasty symptoms.

We’re all different. My retirement age mom has never been vaccinated (even though I wish she would have) and she’s either never caught it, which I doubt, or it was so mild she didn’t realize it.
The opposite, I've left, traveled all over, lived in hostels, lived in poverty, lived on the street. That's why I'm not fantasizing about those experiences as if they would be thrilling solely on the basis of the poorness of the accommodations.
But then you'd have to live in Missouri, is what I expect people would say to that. At the end of the day, places with many jobs (as many are RTO now) will be more expensive than places with few.
What? Can you provide a citation of such in the apple.com domain?
It's Linux and not limited in any tangible way.
Get a math or CS textbook and try solving some of the exercises.
Wow. From asking for a movie recommendation to a wholesale pigeonholing 'people who drift through life, letting life happen to them instead of deciding what they want from life' is not a leap any reasonable person would make. It's downright silly, bordering on deliberately malicious.

How about, they go to the movies a lot, enjoy many genres, and would like a firsthand on-the-ground opinion on which would be worth their while?

Anyway, that stuck out as a hurtful characterization. I don't know what else the OP was going on about; I didn't get past that startling statement.
>“Everything” doesn’t mean equal amounts of every thing.

Yes, it does in this case. The universe is infinite.
You named it yourself at the end. The difference is that the people took that photo. What's important is not the image itself, the arrangement of pixels, but what it means: for some people means achievign the dream of travel to Paris, for some other people it means "I was here, I see it live", etc. People don't take pictures because they are beautiful or well composed (well, most people), but because the meaning in their lives about that particular event.

That's why I don't think people would like IA to improve their photos of their weddings, or so on. People don't make a wedding to have the perfect photo at sunset, but to have a nice event with people they love, and the photos are to capture that and nothing else. People's favourite photos (and not only from weddigns) are blurry, caught with friends, etc., because those pictures capture the feeling of a good moment.
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Depends what you think the skill of a wedding photographer is.

When I have seen an excellent wedding photographer, the skill seems to be 20% photography and 80% people management. Great wedding photographers seem to be some sort of strange combination of entertainer, project-manager and therapist (who also takes photos).
It could be that I'm the wrong audience for this but I can't help but feel this is massively disappointing even for budget options. The minimum criteria is no way acceptable for 2023, especially given there's a lot of development happening around LLMs that can be run on-device. Given the current state of AI, I feel like the baseline specs is all the more important for general consumers also to play with these and to interface with them.

Then again, Google's (and Microsoft's) vision is all about locking access behind their cloud empires.
The difference is actually copying the data vs. copy-on-write. With the latter, you can make infinite copies without worrying about how much space you're using or the time it takes to make a copy, thus making it feasible to start with a fresh copy of the prod DB before you do literally anything. Have CI/CD create a fresh copy before every test. Have every feature branch start with a clean copy of prod and give people a button to do it again if they mess up a migration.

COW unlocks a ton of interesting use cases. It's easy to do on AWS Aurora but unfortunately their minimum instance size is way bigger than the regular RDS instances.
I'm starting to become a fan of your motivation (although count = 0 is still not ES6 classes variables). Good luck scaling it! Are you creating this framework out of your own necessity or just because it can be done? Any medium/large app using it to showcase?
...badly.
Wonder if he tried zstd --long=31

Or, given that he's basically mentions FCM/PPM, zpaq.
Now that is really funny.

Future _improvement_ idea: the mouse cursors are shared, so the light switch should be, too! Let me play with the light with everyone
Round here it seems like Quickbooks is the default. They even advertise on TV.
They can be better be proxies for the USG's "Total information awareness"?
> be able to actually figure out what data to send libraries without actually reading their source code

Just reading this sent a chill down my spine. I have horrible memories of having to read the code to figure out what something was doing (in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc), due to the disaster of an anti-feature called dynamic typing having been used.
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It should fall into an OpenCV module, and include an API standard for generic controller firmware.

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Look at where that graph started.
So then we're making this about freedom as the central moral aspect. Then what about the freedom of the Python maintainers to post what they want? Why the selective defense?
Ok back to point two - I agree that it appears in scripture, I made it sound like individuals don't follow the religion which is true, but also I believe there are denominations of Christianity that don't push it.

It is one thing to hear go do this constantly from the pulpit (hence my reference to fundamentalist Christianity which often does this) and decide as an individual not to go do it, it is another thing to never hear it pushed from the pulpit, read it in the book, and not care.

This goes back to my statement

> I certainly believe fundamentalist Christians are into this thing but not sure what percentage of each set [Christian, Muslim] has this as a core tenet.

by core tenet I do not mean something written in your text and agreed that this is an important part, but something that is hammered on all the time.

What does "is hammered on all the time" mean?

If a priest spends lots of time saying that people should go out and have children and find other Christians to marry to make a Christian nation I would consider that really hammering the issue.

IF they don't then that church doesn't care.

If pretty much none of the leaders of that denomination do so then I would say it is not a core tenet of the denomination.

So the question is if it is a core tenet of Muslim denominations? Which I don't know how many there are of that, I get the feeling they are in some ways much less fractured but perhaps in other ways it might be they are more fractured in belief systems than the large set of peoples normally called "Christian"

If however it is a core tenet then my belief is that core tenets do not change in a single generation, I would think several generations would need to happen before the religious leaders were not saying it all the time and the followers were thus not feeling obligated to follow. Sure in three generations I would expect alignment with other groups, by and large.

This belief of mine is however only a belief as I am not aware of any kind of large scale study in memetics or (perhaps to get away from a loaded term) idea transmission in multi-generational hierarchical organizations which is what a religion would be.

I am also willing to believe I am totally wrong here - for example if one found a religion that went from salvation by works to salvation by faith alone in one generation among a large Christian denomination then I would say - huh, I am definitely wrong and it means large scale hierarchical organizations / religions can be changed in one generation (although I would expect to see charismatic leadership involved now that I am considering the idea)
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en-GB is also a good choice
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Looks like Georgian
Hardware manufacturers can’t all go out of business. We need hardware at some point. Some might, but what I’m proposing would drive up costs for everyone. Most likely, prices will just go up a little bit.

Allowing hardware manufacturers to ship their own software, even if that software must be free, even if the hardware specs must be released, will still allow them to ship crappy hardware interfaces and compensate that with bloated software. I’m also afraid some manufacturer would try to game the system, with, say, tweaking the instruction set of every new GPU so third party drivers can’t really keep up.
Unlike the other two, this needs clicking the links to view the images.
I took the opposite approach and used the pandemic as a great way to save. No eating out, no going out for drinks, zero travel... I saved a lot, and paid a lot of debt down. I'm continuing some of these trends still. I do not eat out as much as I did pre-pandemic, I haven't traveled much, etc.
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Horrible title, sorry. The gist is: The Wikipedia Library provides free access to research materials to anyone who has made more than 500 Wikipedia edits and has an account more than 6 months old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Librar...

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/search/?q=
Thanks! You can import code on a top- level script tag. Will provide examples.
My jurisdiction rolled out millions of Time of Use smart meters only to find that residential users really didn’t change their behaviour much. Demand shifting was something like a couple percent and faaaar less than predicted.

It turns out when you run surveys, it’s the people that like to think about answers to questions that respond to them, which isn’t representative.

45pg pdf government report: https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports... which starts getting good at page 5.

Understated costs and exaggerated benefits. Peak reduction targets ended up with increases in peak demand.

As hard as it is for the HNer to believe, the vast majority of people will just do whatever they want whenever they want.

I see this everywhere: “why would anyone go to this expensive supermarket that sells the same crap as the cheap one I go to? Why would anyone go to that gas station, their price is always higher than the others in the surrounding area. Why would anyone buy that car, it has a terrible TCO, and on and on”
This is not only about before pandemic remote workers. Once people enjoyed the flexibility they aren't going back.
Genuinely curious how phone cameras not having physical shutters is a travesty. Wouldn’t it take up a lot of space? Either making the camera bump even bigger or shrinking the lens elements.

Shutterless shooting has its faults that necessitate a physical shutter when shooting professionally on dedicated cameras. Outside of those circumstances shooting shutterless on modern mirrorless ‘pro’ cameras has few drawbacks.

I could see flickering with some light sources being annoying at times but if you’re running into it as annoyance often a dedicated camera is always an option. Even 10 year old digital cameras wipe the floor of any phone
I was asked to "find reasons" to get the teams under me back in the office.
This post both says "I was most important at the company" And "I was easily dismissed". Can a CEO really be that disconnected from their company?
Unlike emissive display technologies, E-ink maintains contrast in well lit environments.

On a sunny day, my Kindles and ReMarkable are a joy to use outside, while my Pixel needs it's OLED cranked up all the way to be visible.

In low light environments things reverse. OLED emits light per pixel and cannot be beat, while E-ink backlights are kinda fuzzy (reminds me of the old LCD clock/watch backlights). That being said, for reading static text it's perfectly adequate, and I tend to prefer the distraction-free nature of the Kindle.
Have you been maxing it out for an hour or two at a time?
Id argue a counterpoint to this, and its that replacing things like software are expensive, and time consuming. Take for example a CNC machine. The whole hog is a pricey piece, and you cant swap it out to some competitor without a lot of work, usually (in this case) in the way of all the program files that have to be retranslated, operators retrained, etc. AND THEN you add to that the software itself. Some of these machines have a "more modern" (read: at least from 1990) computer. Which while great in some aspects, the software still cannot be upgraded, due to compatibility. And so, these machines continue to put thousands of operating hours on the clock. The thing is, the software is usually pretty bad. Operators have just gotten used to the bad, and work around it. And its only gotten worse as time goes on. Some ancient windows os, needing to connect to a newer version as the rest of the business modernized. And worse, that ancient os, still having some network connectivity in some cases.

Its not that the tech is great, its that its become so engrained into the business that replacing it would be harder than starting a new business with the new tech. And so, it continues to operate well beyond its lifetime, and thats how you end up having cobol and fortran being actively used in industries in 2023.

And.. lets talk about the modern standards *cough* USB, but wait did i mean USB 2.0, or maybe 3.1, but maybe i meant 3.2+superspeed, but wait theres also USB 4.1! Old standards havent been entirely great, and that's why we have iterations (my usb example was really a rant more than example), but we have unfortunately built a lot of bad standards, that we still very heavily rely on, and wont easily get away from. The overhead of TCP for example, or how about IPv4?

I blame business though, we have much higher velocities in modern development than we did 50 years ago. Having years to plan a thing vs two weeks it seems to be today. If given a good time frame, software and standards can be more concretely designed, leading to less shitty new tech, but im a dreamer and it will never happen except in small scale areas.
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This is a lot more than the minimum that every software dev must know about Unicode. Even if you only do web frontends, you will do fine not knowing most of this. Still a nice read, though.