skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. In a way, these new sequential UUIDs approach the fact that recent records are often accessed more frequently as something that can be exploited, not as an issue that needs to be ironed out by randomness.

For tables this is not such a problem because of reasonably good locality (rows inserted close in time will end up close in the file too), but for indexes that's very difference. In Postgres this is particularly painful for writes, because of the write amplification.

None of this really breaks sharding (IDs are still unique and can be hashed), so no new hotspots. It can't fix the "many rows with the same ID" issue, but neither can any other ID.
Name one writing system where you really need character composition. Even if there is one, these special cases should be handled outside of Unicode.
I misunderstood. I thought the award was for the vaccination, rather than the underlying technology. The technology is definitely worth an award.

I think that there is enough "noise" over COVID vaccine side-effects that we don't yet know whether long term it is safe. I also think that given the politicisation of COVID (for instance even discussion of the lab leak theory was gas-lit), I don't think politicians would admit to an issue even if there was one.
Sure it's not your life, but just because you didn't find fulfillment, or riches, or happiness, doesn't mean your children won't.

Like I said, don't have kids if you don't want to. Nobody should.

But the idea the world is doomed and your offspring are destine for a life of misery isn't really based on reality.
>it’s on the aviation industry to rethink its policies on how airlines can keep their airport slots without causing further damage to the planet

With insane regulations, like those that forced airlines to schedule tens of thousands of empty flights to keep their airport slots during Covid?

No, it’s on regulators, not on the industry

>Lufthansa said it ran 18,000 empty flights in the winter of 2021-2022 to ensure it didn’t lose lucrative deals that gave its planes spots at major airports.
Just a nitpick because the page says: "Unicode is a standard that aims to unify all human languages, both past and present, and make them work with computers." but of course unicode is only relevant to written languages as opposed to spoken languages (and signed languages)

I wish that was the only thing wrong with that page
per day, also very common in the Indian subcontinent. I sure think is addictive but symptoms attached to anxiety, suicidal etc - not so sure.
Well, none of these are “words to live by” so you’re not wrong.
They kind of have to don’t they? Otherwise we’ll become space-limited way too fast? Especially with how quickly new emojis are being made and all their variants.
> "no ticket sales were permitted for domestic passengers to board the plane from Melbourne to Adelaide"

Isn't that relatively normal? I mean I think there are plenty of circumstances where an airline is permitted to fly internationally to a country, but it not permitted to operate (i.e sell tickets for) internal routes.
It's a loophole, without any intent to encourage such behavior, if one of these rules was approved without anyone involved in the approval noticing that an existing rule allowed an exploitable workaround, or if it was assumed it would not be taken.

A great many security breaches and other errors come about this way, and one cannot automatically assume intent from it happening, though one can ask "what were you thinking?" if the possibility was noticed but dismissed.
I don't think it's your authority to say what should or shouldn't belong in a release you have no contribution to!
The tire is actually quite large and it appears the s3 (lowest end tesla) still weighs approx 500 more pounds than the Audi a3 (trims vary a lot it seems). This is probably why the smallest Tesla (the model 3) is using 235 and not 225 like the A3. All things considered, wear is going to increase with load.
It’s misleading and gives people
the wrong idea about plants?
With something as large as a end user language format for input, this is a change we ourselves cannot make, just as using another calendar for dates. Just because I want to use the year 2002023 calendar with 29.5 days per month, doesn't make it useful to others or myself really.
fair point. this is a matter of definition. i agree with the distinction, but this is not shared by everyone. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media so i find it useful to point it out.

case in point, in this wikipedia article wechat is clearly categorized as social media, even though it's messaging component is no different than whatsapp, telegram or signal, which are "maybe" social media.

in summary, some people call them social media, and some don't.
It's hard to evaluate it in "today's money" though because while things like consumer electronics and appliances were stupidly expensive when adjusted for inflation and compared to today, people's earning power in other respects was much better as a percentage of their income.

e.g. It was a stretch for my family to get a dishwasher or microwave and to buy me the VIC-20 I had, or a new TV or whatever. But my parents worked their butts off to get their mortgage paid out early (interest rates were stupid high) and were able to do so, and they were able to do renovations, build a new garage, fund their canoeing hobby, etc. My dad (machinist) was unemployed for many years, and money was tight for "luxuries"; we never had fancy steaks or vacations involving airflight, etc. but actual housing costs -- rents, mortgages, renovations, building costs, property taxes just seemed way lower as a proportion of costs vs today.

All this to say, those machines they were expensive for sure, but it's also not as simple as "$10k in today's money" because people I think had more headroom to save.

Also machines like that were something you'd buy with the mindset that you'd hopefully use them for years like a car. We didn't think in terms of the obsolescence cycle like today even though that's what happened. We knew about Moore's law and the progress of technology, but I think many of us users felt like our Atari or Commodore machines would be something we would be building on for quite a long time not a brief 1-3 year interest that then got replaced (which is what actually happened.) Things seemed to have a lot more "it's a brand new technically awesome thing, other people will see that too, and it will be awesome for years! look at all the potential!" vibe.
Intel and AMD have had a decade to provide similar tooling, instead of a crap OpenCL experience stuck in C.
German here. If it's digital, be extra critical, especially if the government is involved ;)
Anyone know what the story is behind the "Weird Emoji" around 140000 on the map?
There is a theorized “Eddington Limit” that stars can only grow to a certain mass before the power of their fusion reactions counterbalance gravity and they blow off additional matter instead of absorbing it. It’s approximately a few hundred solar masses.
I'm not addicted, I can quit any time I want. I just don't want to is all...
Wow a trifecta of organizations I don't trust that actively work to undermine our democracy and rights.
It's tracking every visitors' cursor and sharing it with every other visitor.

Why would a frontend developer demonstrate their ability to do frontend programming on their personal, not altogether super-serious blog? I meant that rhetorically but it's a flex. I agree, not the best design in the world if you're catering for particular needs, but simple and fun enough. You should check out dark mode.

In that vein, I think it's okay if we let people have fun. That might not work for everyone, but why should we let perfect be the worst enemy of fun?
That’s not what we’re saying though, all we’re saying is let’s get serious about alternatives to driving, the rest will follow. And yeah the die hards who will never give up their car, fine, but they better be prepared to pay the price for the externalities they generate, which isn’t the case currently. I also think it’s funny you think it’s us who are trying to force people to retreat from society. The single family house zoning and sprawl, everyone traveling everywhere alone in their automobile and lack of density, third places and opportunity for spontaneous social life that is the norm in the US has been proven to be devastating for society and individuals and bears no small part of the blame for the loneliness epidemic. You’re the ones who are actually forcing people to retreat from society.
Vaccination was never about "not getting it".
Need one for HTTP code 451...maybe a cat behind a 'no cats allowed' sign
JWST's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet
It's unnecessary complexity and a security nightmare. Have you ever tried to implement Unicode normalization? A single bug in your code and malformed text can crash your application or worse.
for scripting, yes...for big codebases, meh

the elephant in the room: semantic spaces...was an issue on day one...will be an issue the rest of its time
https://archive.ph/LtKk0
That isn’t debunked, how ridiculous. It’s true not all men were hunters, but that doesn’t mean that there was an equal share of women among the hunters. They travelled as a group and everyone gathered, but men went out to get the kill.
I never got the chance to use pnpm. I try to stick to “official” tools. But it sounds interesting, so I’ll check it
My wife's entire family are retail workers (mostly Walmart). Walmart has been very good to them, employing them despite almost zero knowledge of English. But Walmart's hours are brutal.

Nominally muslims, they would love to have a day - any day - guaranteed to be free for all of them to get together.
I agree that the mechanism for lockdowns helping is sound (less interaction -> less infection) but I still believe lockdowns were harmful overall (eg including aspects like additional deaths of despair - suicide and overdose, less healthy activities - exercise and socializing etc).

I must admit this belief mostly comes from the claim Sweden did better, and the fact that where I live had almost no lockdowns and did better than the rest of my country.

Do you know of any good evidence that lockdowns were effective, or are you calling bullshit based on intuition?
For regular Linux users you can do:

sudo touch /etc/udisks2/tcrypt.conf
sudo systemctl restart udisks2

and then any veracrypt volumes can be used in Nautilus or GNOME Disks similar to LUKS volumes.
> The simplest possible encoding for Unicode is UTF-32. It simply stores code points as 32-bit integers.

Skipping over UTF-32-BE and UTF-32-LE there...

(I mean, it might not be an issue if it's just being used as an internal representation, but still)
As now f-strings can contain any valid Python expression inside expression components, it is now possible to nest f-strings arbitrarily:

>>>
f"{f"{f"{f"{f"{f"{1+1}"}"}"}"}"}"

'2'

Is anyone aware of the change to the interpreter that allows for this?
The new generic typing seems intuitive - https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html#pep-695-type.... I've never run into its gross predecessor: https://peps.python.org/pep-0484/#generics. Nice change.
It's often a social event too so could be related to the "addiction" of hanging out with friends.
I hear windows 12 will require signing over your firstborn and DNA sample (for your safety of course)
This comes dangerously close to "shit-testing", making a difficult and unreasonable demand not because you care, but because you want to test the other's loyalty.

I think such strategies may be poisonous in the longer term. Now you've got to drink that damn orange juice, your business gets a reputation for obsession with rituals involving orange juice, and maybe even people start believing it - or start enjoying being difficult a little too much.
People are allowed to think things, and say what they think. Just as you did.
Imagine if e-ink displays were as advanced as our current luminous displays:

- Outdoor offices would be possible (weather permitting). Levels of Vitamin D deficiency, rates of burnout, and spread of airborne illness would all plummet.

- Entire hackathons could take place in a shaded orchard or on a breezy pool deck.

- Sleep would improve across the office-bound workforce

Downsides:

- sunburns

- insects

- rain

- the Bay Area would become even more crowded
> I don't find it weird at all that simpler languages are more popular/successful.

There are diminishing returns on programming features I guess. At a certain level of complexity the difficulty in learning the feature will kill adoption despite the usefulness of the feature - e.g. monads; after months I think I sort of get it ... sort of.

> Every time I use another language I'm reminded of how much time and energy I'm wasting.

Wasting writing Go or wasting writing in the other language? Sorry, just clarifying. I really can't tell which you meant.
From the paper,

"Milk tea has gained worldwide popularity in the recent years (Wu, 2020). It refers to an umbrella term encompassing all beverages sold in milk tea shops, such as milk tea, fruit tea, floral tea, bubble tea, and others."

So essentially "bubble tea" shops (but not limited to tapioca-based drinks).
There are many interesting use cases for `emacsclient' if you use it. Here's a quick shell script that turns your Emacs into the CLI tool `fzf'. Instead of fzf, you can use Emacs's advanced completion tools to do the filtering, and then return the selected matches to the shell. Around 20 lines of bash or so, plus a smattering of elisp:

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fuzzy-finding-emacs-i...
It should probably be “Default to boring tech”
MPC standard gives a hint:

The first MPC minimum standard, set in 1991, was:

16 MHz 386SX CPU
2 MB RAM
30 MB hard disk
256-color, 640×480 VGA video card
1× (single speed) CD-ROM drive using no more than 40% of CPU to read, with < 1 second seek time
Sound card (Creative Sound Blaster recommended as closest available to standard at the time[2]) outputting 22 kHz, 8-bit sound; and inputting 11 kHz, 8-bit sound
Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions.

Though for a CD game you really wanted something in range of DX4/100 with 16MB RAM, which surpasses MPC-II specs.

Also 4 incompatible CD interfaces on the sound cards doesn't bode well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mozart_16_(Oak_OTI60...
It's a gig worker problem but it's also a much larger societal problem, particularly in the Irish case. The kids who get involved in those attacks would look for other targets if there were no gig workers.

The roots behind that include poverty, stagnant residential areas with few prospects, and of course lots of other things like more general cultural deficiencies in the national psyche. I'm sure there are good social historians who can describe this far better than I can.

The GP's description of the behaviour as sadistic is pretty on point, I think, and makes it more despicable and worrying than when the cause is financial.
In this very moment, Penguin is getting quotes on getting "Nobel Prize Winning Author" stickers for the books.
Don't the freedoms of the air that disallow the foreign airline from taking passengers boarding from Melbourne to Adelaide also disallow cargo on the same route? It seems unlikely that there is that big a discrepancy between passengers and cargo to a specific international connecting destination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air#Eighth_fre...
According to Google, it's literally tea made with milk.
In Sweden it was notably higher initially.

What made a difference in Sweden was that vaccination rates were really high and they were administrated quickly.

Had the anti-vaccine ideas spread more Sweden would be much, much worse off.
To save other people the google: Tengwar is probably not in unicode because it is a fictional script from a book.
This seems like good feedback but it could really be phrased more constructively. I doubt the author “hates” any such thing and you know it too. “Didn’t design with such in mind”, sure. You can do better.
Causality. The only thing this survey demonstrates is that government orders have weak effects on actual population behavior.
I despise random politics injections as well, but this is rather tame and very much in line with the ironic spirit of how Python release notes are written. I don't think it's offensive to anybody who doesn't go out of their way to become offended by things.
Their seminal paper was desk rejected by nature - when thinking about this I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
I was referring to the last time this framework was posted. I'm glad to see that it's being taken apart much more thoroughly this time around.

If you consider keyed lists and reactivity mechanisms to be "enterprisey very professional corporate busywork", then I don't know what to say to you.
I wondered about how to do simple text centering / spacing justification given graphemes showing string lengths that don't match up human-perceived characters, like in 'Café' (python len('Café') returns 5, even though we see four letters).

Found this! good to know about. https://pypi.org/project/grapheme/ "A Python package for working with user perceived characters. "

(apparently the article talks about this however the blog post is largely unreadable due to dozens of animated arrow pointers jumping all over the screen)
(sarcasm)

It's revenge against anyone with certain kinds of visual impairments and/or concentration issues because the ex-spouse of the author which turned out to be a terrible person had such.

(sarcasm try 2)

It's revenge against anyone using JS on the net with the author trying to subtle hint that JS is bad.

(realistic)

It's probably on of:

- the website is a static view of some collaborative tool which has that functionality build in by default

- some form of well intended but not well working functionality add to the site as it was some form of school/study project, in that case I'm worried about the author suffering unexpected very much higher cost due to it ending up on HN ...
Normalization and the fact it is not forward-compatible.
Hehe interesting. The forwards reading was a bit of a stretch.
The same experience that you only get on Apple devices nowadays, or something like Raspberry Pi 400, an integrated vertical experience of hardware and software designed to work together, and the related ecosystem.

It felt that the computers had a soul, while the PC felt like a pile of hardware stuck together with duckt tape. that happened to work.
This is exactly what I do. I believe you have to click "set up for work or school" first before you get the domain join option, but it works fine for creating a local administrator account.
Elixir also gets the length correctly, not only Swift.
tough lesson, but i hope you use a password manager now.
What's their angle? They seem to heavily imply that milk tea causes those mental health issues rather than those mental health issues potentially encouraging sufferers to have at least something to enjoy in their day. The wording does not seem to acknowledge merely the correlation but implies causation. Food therapy, caffeine addiction, etc. is a well-known phenomenon, how is this any different?
We used Baby Signing Time after we discovered our child was deaf at 10 months old:

https://www.signingtime.com/baby-signingtime/

You can find their videos on YouTube too, but we love supporting the organization. When we started signing, everything was unlocked - not just communication, but also creativity, personality, and delayed fine and gross motor skills.
I had to look up what is milk tea. My only guess is this is parody or something related to casomorphins in milk tea?
Yeah this is a big problem for me right now trying to pick fonts and characters for CJK. I have a bunch of bugs to fix that will require sending the locale down to the text itemization code.
bubble tea is mostly tea + milk so I'd assume so.
For those that know more than I do, out of curiosity, why would this Nobel go to these two and not also Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin? The four of them shared earlier awards, and it was Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin's BioNTech that got the vaccine to market (after their decades of research).

The couple are billionaires, so I'm sure they're doing just fine, but that's gotta hurt to be overlooked for such a major prize when they did so much for that discovery and technology.
There were a few Amigas manufactured by Escom when they had the rights to the brand in the mid-90s.
Why Louisiana Stays Poor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

This video is about fossil fuel subsidies in just one zip code which makes it the richest and poorest zip code at the same time. $2857 per capita subsidies via Industrial Tax Exemption Program. National average is $291 per capita, Texas $89 per capita. Skip to 5:22 for the explanation.
Those slogans are pretty equal. The idea that climate change is going to “kill the world” is not true; organizations like the IPCC predict that the world will continue to function, albeit with significantly slowed economic growth and major problems for subsistence farmers.

But some people find it strategically useful to raise the stakes, so you get climate advocacy organizations insisting that humanity will literally go extinct if we do not adopt their preferred climate policies. I’ve even encountered people who horseshoe theory into science denial, claiming that the politicians force researchers and journalists to downplay things and you’ve gotta read blogs if you want to know how bad things will really be.
I just launched this newsletter review and discovery platform on Product Hunt - would love the community’s feedback!
These rules are called the Freedoms of the air if you want to read more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air
This is quite a good write up. An answer to one of the author's questions:

> Why does the ﬁ ligature even have its own code point? No idea.

On of the principles of Unicode is round trip compatibility. That is you should be able to read in a file encoded with some obsolete coding system and write it out again properly. Maybe frob it a bit with your unicode-based tools first. This is a good principle, though less useful today.

So the ﬁ ligature was in a legacy encoding system and thus must be in Unicode. That's also why things like digits with a circle around them exist: they were in some old Japanese character set. Nowadays we might compose them with some zwj or even just leave them to some higher level formatting (my preference).
> many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logograms that are written very differently get assigned the same code point

This leads to absolutely horrendous rendering of Chinese filenames in Windows if the system locale isn’t Chinese. The characters seem to be rendered in some variant of MS Gothic and it’s very obviously a mix of Chinese and Japanese glyphs (of somewhat different sizes and/or stroke widths IIRC). I think the Chinese locale avoids the issue by using Microsoft YaHei UI.
In the last year?! In England its not unusual to drink 6-11 cups in a day lol
milk has casomorphins which are opioids so I dunno not a stretch
It’s basically a cultural analogue to a Starbucks frappe, or Dunkin Coolata, an extremely sugary drink that’s heavily marketed towards kids.
> alias and type redefinitions are conceptually the same.

In Go, they are not. Aliases establish precise equivalence between types, type redefinitions establish new types altogether.
JavaScript has this with template strings. I use it often:

s = `something ${cond ? `(${v})` : ''} something`
Oh the focus is very interesting! I ditched yarn to get back to the official tool, but seems like npm does lag behind yarn and pnpm
Which one of the four named in the title are you leaving out?
Looks like OP copied and pasted the entire article from somewhere else. https://medium.com/@mbianchidev/2023-devops-is-terrible-ec88...
China also bats strikes along with homeruns. Lately, I’ve been seeing more of the latter.