skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if the backend people didn't deal properly

You are right. It's not a frontend/backend issue. It's a "for human" vs "not for human" issues. Personal names must be treated in an international-friendly manner.

>> There are plenty of software realms where ASCII not only is enough, but it actually MUST be enough.
>
> Name one

Joel himself described an example:

> It would be convenient if you could put the Content-Type of the HTML file right in the HTML file itself, using some kind of special tag. Of course this drove purists crazy… how can you read the HTML file until you know what encoding it’s in?! Luckily, almost every encoding in common use does the same thing with characters between 32 and 127, so you can always get this far on the HTML page without starting to use funny letters:

The content of a webpage is required to be expressed in every supported language, but the HTTP protocol must not. And it would make no sense at all to add internationalization to intra-machines protocol, where ASCII is enough and has been enough for decades.

And if someone complains that ASCII only supports English, well... suck it up! I'm Italian and work in French, still I hate when a colleague sneaks in a comment not in English. Professional software development happens in English.
Spending $5 on coffee is an economic transaction that lets that business use money to pay their employees, service their infrastructure, or re-invest in a new brewer; business to business transactions.

Holding that $5 prevents any business to business transactions and possibly causes the company to constrict employees economy mobility or requires laying people off.

By making the 1% richer through reduced taxation is actually economically harmful in the long run and reduces economic mobility. Same as politicians supporting budget cuts.
My point is its a minor inconvenience compared to a lot the working environments people operate in.
Looks like CloudFlare (1.1.1.1) is giving the wrong answers for the DNS lookup.
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Remote: Yes

Willing to Locate: Yes

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email: rtabrizi@berkeley.edu

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That's maybe the essence of a growth mindset. I want to play. Winning is secondary.
Hobnobbing with the children of rich families is easier on a college campus compared to moving to Manhattan and trying to climb the social ladder from scratch. The earlier you can get into these circles the better. That's why private schools like Trinity or Andover are so coveted. Even certain daycares are becoming "elite."
> Windows users [...] for those wanting to ensure their online privacy.

There's a bigger problem, right there.

Tor Browser running on especially untrustworthy platforms should warn the user.
It seems as if all these tech companies's CEOs colluded and decided to do this at about the same time. I guess we can't call it conspiracy, if they haven't all flown to some remote island to play golf, and came back with this idea. But they can plausibly just watch and copy without others' behavior without actually coordinating with each other.

Real estate investment and the idea that large corporate share owners also invest in office real estate has been mentioned as the reason. But to me it mostly feels like a “soft layoff” tactic.

There were waves of layoffs already, but it wasn't enough, so they all noticed that RTC can be another kind of a layoff, and they don't have to worry about severance or inventing performance improvement plans and so on.

It's fascinating that they do it and have to lie why they are doing it. Nobody can say it out-loud. Not a single line in the internal chat or emails, especially no comment publicly. But everyone can read very well between the lines.
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Yes... I agree. I'm not sure what your point is?
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No, that's wrong. VeraCrypt uses AES-NI when available. It seems the source of the issue is the IO design of the driver, which causes unnecessary context switches when operating on a raw device.
Do you need special tools to do this though? Or just one rock that's harder than the other one?

That said I used to make "tools" out of sticks and rocks as a child playing outdoors. Why do we think people didn't have tools or the capacity to invent them 12000 years ago?
I'm ready to believe that remote work can be more productive overall, and definitely more cost effective, but I always have a really hard time with the "I'm just as productive, if not more productive remotely" data and argument. It's really easy to believe that folks with an existing network of colleagues and relationship, as well as a decent amount of company of industry know how can be more productive remotely. Fewer distractions, more flexibility, etc. It all makes sense.

But that doesn't solve for the folks behind us on the ladder; how effective are we being at mentoring and growing those people, how easily are they learning the small nuances that we picked up in hallway conversations, serendipitous meetings, and so on. For the company, this is a real concern, but it's harder to measure. To better advocate for remote work, I think we really need to pour more time and energy into this and call out techniques that can be more effective here. For example: having leaders write a weekly newsletter, or getting into the "Why's" much more intentionally when people are remote.
>Having any information, specifically time information, leaking from your systems may or may not have unanticipated security or business implications. (e.g. knowing when session tokens or accounts are created).

I don't think this is really true? These are not serially incrementing, they just indicate the time it happened. If you have an ID that you know exists, having the ability to know _when_ it was created is very rarely meaningful.

What could present more of a risk is being able to predict a large part of IDs that will be created. Even then though, you shouldn't depend on your IDs for secrecy - best to ensure the IDs are never used as protection by themselves (ie treat them like they're just a simple autoincrementing number, even if they're not)
Which is not surprising. Even the article posits that this is not an issue with any one person, but with the hacker community and culture as a whole. Shrugging your shoulders and saying "Well, users flagged it" is very much in line with the kind of behavior he's criticizing.
What's the best open source text to speech? Eleven Labs and others are interesting but closed source. I want to use them mainly for audiobooks as I have a lot of ePubs and I'm just using the basic Google text to speech voices on my Android, via Moon+ Reader. It works fine but it's still more robotic than state of the art.
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That again sounds like a problem with your company's knowledge sharing culture, not with the industry at large. Silos exist even when every butt is in an office seat, that's a well-known issue that far pre-dates pandemic remote work moves. The answer isn't "make everyone defenseless to random interrupts from other people" but "learn how to actually document things so you're not a company full of points of failure".

It seems like what you really want is for others to treat your emergencies as theirs. They're not, they're yours. If you can't wait 15 minutes for a ping back without being completely stuck, you aren't planning your work correctly. That's nobody else's fault.
My brother was 100% remote for 13 years before the pandemic. I was 100% remote way back in 2001. It took the pandemic and WFH to remind me how much better it is, from every conceivable angle.

I'm never going back, and have shut down plenty of recruiters and headhunters with one simple phrase: "100% remote."
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Some current open roles:

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I think you missed the point here. They were not talking about _making the choice_ to return to the office, but rather about _accepting the ultimatum_. There’s nothing wrong with deciding you want to work from the office, it’s the ultimatum part that’s important IMO.
It's not hypocrisy to believe no one should have subsidies including oneself. It just means you want a level playing field, not a distorted one. And taking a subsidy when you don't believe in them, is reasonable too, because you don't really have other options.
Facebook could have 4.9B dead users by 2100, study finds
There is elitism in hiring within Europe as well.

The difference is that most European countries didn't have private universities.

And if you go to Western US states, you'll see similar recruiting elitism from top public schools like UCB, UCLA, and UT Austin.
> productive [...] ways of measuring

I always point out that most "productivity" numbers assume the costs of commuting hours/fuel are $0, because it measures from the perspective of employer costs, and it assumes the employer has used their bargaining-position to force all those variable-costs entirely onto the employees.

So we've got (A) a misleading "productivity boost" sometimes being used to rationalize (B) one-sided policies which are (C) probably not sustainable in the long-term anyway.
Multiplanetary species that has merged with AI thanks to neuralink-esque tech discovers a bug in the brains of 5% of the population. Turns out the bug is due to Python 3.12 which was used to write the natural language understanding (NLU) engine of the brain chips.
Simply saying "people will know" is a deflection that doesn't really help this point.

If you (royal you - anybody who wants to make this claim) really want to claim that many people are measurably more productive at the office, we'll need studies to counter those done which show WFH is more productive than working from the office.
Baja has a great point, but I think another one beyond the transit time is relative size.

Unless there's a jovian planet with life out there your best bet at measuring a regular sized planet is around a small stars. Dwarfs.

When we had our massive planet surveys measuring transits we found a shit ton of jovian's around stars and some earth sized planets around smaller stars.

Time to measure transit and relative size are king.
> Each pixel? Why?

I use the Zarr format (for climate science data rather than microscope data), and I think this is just poor wording in the article. In the Zarr specification the metadata is stored separately from the actual chunks of compressed array data. So the metadata applies at the array level, not the pixel level.

> Wait - are there optical microscopes that can create 3D images?

I think so - they do it by scanning lots of images at different focal lengths to create a 3D section (I think?). There are whole projects just for visualizing the multi-TeraByte 3D image files produced - Napari is an open-source image viewer which opens OME-Zarr data.
Given that $12,000 per person would come out to $84B, and the entire FY24 budget for Massachusetts is $56B, you’re full of shit
Thanks for this list. I uncovered a couple of Desktop FF Forks I didn't know existed : Pulse Browser and Mercury (not including Floorp, this submission). A couple of months ago it was Mullvad.

I'm really happy to see developers taking an active interest in modifying/forking FF. I was beginning to believe that interest in FF was dying out and so I'm finding this submission, as well as this list - extremely exciting!
:/ [tell me about it...](https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/svs/)
Imagine being an Amazon delivery driver. Monitoring to the extreme. Constant boring shit all day. Running up apartment stairs.

Then imagine an office worker...

It's a world of difference and puts things in perspective.

People take things for granted too easily.
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We are a couple of academics who run a popular Olympiad-style competition for high schoolers nation-wide. Our current software system for administering this competition is quite old and idiosyncratic, and we want to do a rewrite.

The administration of the test itself is not handled by our software (it's done on paper), but all of the organizing around it is handled by the software. This is all pretty standard CRUD stuff: there should be a user system that distinguishes at least three kinds of roles (admins, who need to create competitions and publish standard text-based content like announcements; proctors, who need to be able to be associated with competitions and dates they'll be administering tests and the students who'll take it; students, who need to be able to register for tests at certain times and locations).

We have a lump sum of $30,000 for this work, but it needs to be disbursed by the end of this year or else it disappears, so this project needs to get done on a tight timeline. Also, we should be upfront and tell you that you'll be getting paid through university bureaucracy, which is not difficult per se, but does involve a decent amount of paperwork. We think this is a great opportunity for a senior web developer who has done a lot CRUD stuff like this before. We do not have any requirements about use of any particular tech stack, though all else being equal, we'd mildly prefer Django in Python.

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The idea of being as productive at home is also bullshit. It's too bad that to keep WFH we have to fight for it like it's the best option. A balance is needed but as a society we can't have nice things.
No, changing a work policy isn't an "asshole move", no matter how much you like it or not. If you want to prevent that sort of thing, unionise. But usually, tech workers have an easy enough time finding a different job.

There's enough other things that tech companies do that are morally wrong, such as exploiting all our data or manipulate us through dark patterns. This is not one of them.
The E0000-E007F block is the "Tags" block, which is used for flag emojis.

But there is not a code for each flag. Instead there is a code for each ASCII character.
A flag sequence is formed from U+1F3F4 (Black Flag), followed by at least two tags that form a country/region code, and then U+E007F (End tag).

So, yes this is weird, because the emoji is dependent on the decoder. It was made this way to keep Unicode independent of geopolitics.

Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block)>
The Bay Area techies who faked an NYC restaurant and got away with it
David Graeber: Oh, absolutely. After all, the alter-globalization movement grew out of a broad
global reaction to the Washington consensus, which was never any sort of consensus,
but rather, a vision of the world forcibly imposed on the global South through the third
world debt crisis. I was involved in “drop the debt” campaigns of various sorts since at
least 2000. What got me interested in some of the philosophical issues I ended up ex-
ploring in the book was the peculiar moral power of the notion of debts. So many oth-
erwise sympathetic people, even when told of the terrible, almost unimaginably inhu-
man suffering inflicted on people in the global South because of the depredations of
the IMF, would still respond, “well, that’s terrible that so many children died slow and
painful deaths, but still—surely one has to pay one’s debts!

https://davidgraeber.org/wp-content/uploads/debts-history-im...
11th gen intel processors or higher have AV1 decoding on top of all the other hardware accelerated codecs. This means that watching multimedia for the foreseeable future will be a lag free experience.
It expands the discussion to a very relevant area. Speaking as someone highly opposed to China on this front, I did not interpret it as a defense of China.
You think they'd be raking in less money under this proposal? Why?
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After hopping onto VPN and getting it to work I discovered that pointing my DNS to CloudFlare appears to be an issue.

Reasonable answers:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
okra.ng. 60 IN A 13.225.63.61
okra.ng. 60 IN A 13.225.63.113
okra.ng. 60 IN A 13.225.63.21
okra.ng. 60 IN A 13.225.63.37

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
okra.ng. 211 IN NS ns-1302.awsdns-34.org.
okra.ng. 211 IN NS ns-1628.awsdns-11.co.uk.
okra.ng. 211 IN NS ns-644.awsdns-16.net.
okra.ng. 211 IN NS ns67.domaincontrol.com.

Answers via 1.1.1.1:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
okra.ng. 60 IN A 52.85.247.56
okra.ng. 60 IN A 52.85.247.35
okra.ng. 60 IN A 52.85.247.69
okra.ng. 60 IN A 52.85.247.124

Not sure what to make of the lack of an authority section.

`dig @1.1.1.1 okra.ng` should allow you to reproduce (or perhaps my computer is simply hallucinating).
Here's a link to the original announcement:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p0922-disease-modeli...

> While some entities monitor factors like viruses detected in waste water, others scoop up data from health insurance companies, healthcare providers, local health departments, and some even gather data from individual search histories, personal communications, social media posts, and health records.

I don't see any mention of waste water monitoring in either the announcement or on the CDC's details page, though I assume that would be part of any national disease monitoring program.

I also don't see any mention of the CDC monitoring your personal communications and search histories, and I assume that would NOT be part of any national disease monitoring program.

This whole article feels like FUD about a (in my opinion) much-needed and valuable federal program.