skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if Paris vs. Seattle is a good comparison. The former is the crown jewel of France and a historic world-class city. The latter is one of the smaller cities on America's West Coast and is fairly unremarkable.

If anything, I'm stunned that the price for square foot in Paris is only 180% of that in Seattle.
https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
I think this list misses the biggest reason of them all. Europe is very culturally different from the US. There is no European dream and Europeans do not, as a rule, desire to move beyond their station in life. The culture is obsessed with appearing rich, but does not value actually having money. Money is somthing you are born into, not something you try to make. The aristocracy still quietly runs the show and the technocrats know better than the dirty populists. The culture does not value the kind of bullshit that makes hype cycles and gold rushes. Moonshots are the kind of high risk endeavors best left to the people who actually went there.

The flip side of this is that instead of being obsessed with success , dreams and money, Europeans focus on the human and how best to live, which explains all the attempts to legislate a better world rather than build it.

Live in Europe, invest in America.
Forces you to shower in order to use a watch

Nice feature
Huh I never knew about the Han Unification project -- seeing as I only know simplified/traditional Chinese, I'm lucky enough to not have noticed any incorrect rendering in my daily usage.

What's the intended solution for encoding text that uses Chinese and Japanese at the same time? For example, in an article discussing the differences between said texts? Is there some kind of hacky workaround, emoji colour selection style, or are you doomed to using pictures?

This also reminds me a lot of the early "auto-detect encoding" tools long ago that tried to guess the encoding based on frequency distributions. There's a good reason to not do that to unified codepoints for CJK, but I wonder if there's a more sophisticated backwards-compatible solution here.

Edit: looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Chinese_characters , some of these differences are really splitting hairs; if you gave me a text with some of the simplified characters swapped out with some of these variants, I would honestly not be able to tell the difference. There's probably more variation in the Chinese fonts out there than I can gleam from the article. I'm not convinced that some of these characters have a non-artistic difference that a fellow Chinese on the street will be able to tell apart.
https://nitter.net/saurabhambry/status/1734243246140735493
The current answer is "use ideographic variation selectors [1] and hope that softwares catch up soon".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_form_(Unicode)
> It's pretty much indistinguishable from TSA

It has never been, is not, and will never be, different. Instead of paying fees to TSA SFO pays slightly more to the contractor doing the job. It's the same. Same rules, same procedure, same equipment. Same, same, same. The only difference is the patches on the shirts.

Everyone in here has cultural amnesia about air travel in the 90s.

The current system is TEN BILLION TIMES better than post-lockerbie.
Even the normal 3% overhead for credit card payment flow charged without these monopolistic practices isn’t reasonable. Even 0.1% allows the bloodsucking rentseekers a gigantic margin, as their marginal costs are approximately ZERO.

15% is pure “you have no other options” robbery, expanding on the same thing pioneered by Visa/MC/AmEx.

All of the expenses you listed are a) trivial and b) already paid for by iPhone purchasers. Apple is a hardware company with the highest margins in the industry.

They’re double dipping, and gouging whilst they do so.

The storage and bandwidth costs of the App Store are the size of a rounding error at this scale. Furthermore, the App Store is a marketing tool and value add for the iPhone, and benefits them directly. To expect app developers to pay for it is insane.
But our society rewards your societal contributions via monetary rewards which results in you paying taxes. Sure, the money you get does not necessarily reflect the value of you contributions fairly in most cases, but I think I can count on one hand the number of people I have met in my life that pay no taxes and are still a net benefit to society.

And not paying taxed can be because they have no job and make no money, or are so rich as to be able to write off all their income because they think they don’t owe anyone anything.
It both bemuses and worries me that someone so arrogantly destructive is the world’s wealthiest human (on record, anyway).

In a world where financial might trumps societal needs it is clear that, as a civilisation, we are in a downward spiral and it probably won’t stop anytime soon.

His wealth is comical and could be used to generate so much positivity but, instead, it appears every waking moment of his is dedicated to exuding negativity and division.

Such a sad, sad state of affairs.
Im sorry where are the exploited tech workers in the US?

Then there is this gem from the article:

> In many European countries, running a limited liability construct into insolvency effectively bans you from running another one in the foreseeable future. The mentality of "start a company in your 20s, and if you fail, you can either try again or get a job" wasn't a thing. So we are operating from a risk-averse base, due to a labor market with then-sluggish job creation and strong incumbent effects.
> I don't think you really have a "right" or entitlement to just access everyone. You're not entitled to use someone else's business, even if it's a good one.

And yet you can literally pick up a phone, dial some numbers, and reach everyone else who has a phone number.
I feel like this is a roundabout form of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
The US has seen decreasing social mobility in past decades. So this isn't just the US vs European countries, it's the US vs itself.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
I've been a senior leader at a CPG shopper marketing and retail technology company out of Bentonville, AR, primarily supporting Walmart, but also working on Target, Amazon, and a few dozen other regional grocery stores, and can confidently tell you that you are not crazy, there is no unified solution, and if you stay in this industry you will be chasing the dream of a simpler and less painful solution forever. :P

You mention retailer web portals being the only source you can get some of the data you need and that it's very manual. Historically Walmart has had the same situation with their Retail Link application that vendors can download sales data from (this has finally changed recently with the release of Walmart Luminate). No API. Just an antiquated UI that you can create scheduled reports that export excel files. To that end, for the last 20+ years there has been a vibrant industry in Northwest Arkansas (where Walmart is based) of startups creating web crawler based systems that create, schedule, and download reports from Retail Link and then ingest them into a system that is more conducive to powering the analytics demands of vendors. This niche industry of web crawler based data and analytics companies has created a market (just taking some broad but somewhat confident guesses here) of dozens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of capital over the last 20 years. You asked if there's "an opportunity here to solve these problems", there certainly is and has been for a while, but unfortunately it's a painful path.

I feel pretty confident in stating that the "data strategy" in the CPG realm has been, is currently, and for the foreseeable future will be: persistence, resilience, and creativity. Keep trying to build something better despite the constraints, don't give up when it feels like an uphill battle, and never accept the apparent constraints of the technical environment. I've reverse engineered so many things that we would eventually turn into a product to provide value to our customers. Nothing feels better than telling someone you figured out a way around something that they were told was not possible.

Be creative. Be persistent. If I'm being completely honest, get weird. The solutions you'll need will likely not fit perfectly into best practices. You'll definitely help the company you work for today, but you'll also likely help your own career in the long run (if you choose to stay in the retail industry). It may feel like a pain in the ass today, but if you apply your persistence and knowledge to it, these challenges will be the thing that make you super valuable and versatile engineer that people want to hire in the future.
Sure, they can buy an Android phone, and then have to re-buy all those apps again, probably at considerable expense.

And yeah, Google taking 30% as well also sucks. Just because Google does it, it doesn't mean it's fine Apple does too.
You clearly meant redneck in a derogatory way. Your response clarifies that. It's not really necessary to use prejudice to make your point. This is an opportunity to examine your own bias.
I bought an Apple Watch, I also don’t use it because of the charging.

The sleep data would be the only thing really valuable to me, so taking it off at night would defeat the purpose, and travel too often to keep any sort of permanent setup.

I don’t know that there is a good solution.
CJK project is just a joke
One plausible argument is that Apple is afraid of other parties competing unfairly; if apps can ship outside the App Store - and, critically, if they can thereby bypass some of the restrictions Apple imposes through their review process - then ex. Google and Facebook could ship apps that do bad things (probably privacy related) and abuse their own market positions to coerce people into using such apps. Given that this doesn't happen on Android, it might well not be a problem, but Google already does anything they want on Android and arguably the restrictions that companies would want to bypass just don't exist there so it may or may not be a useful point of comparison.

A different angle is: If a user wants a 3rd party app store, why did they buy an iOS device?

(To be clear, I'm not really convinced either way at this point; I'm throwing out what I think are reasonable arguments but that doesn't mean I'm convinced there aren't good counterarguments to them)
very interesting; I'm a bit stymied by this statement: "The effect of the poisonous vapors is such that the arteries which feed blood to the brain become paralyzed almost immediately." What in the world does it mean to have arteries become paralyzed? I thought paralysis was a skeletal muscle phenomenon. Arteries have a bit of smooth muscle for vasodilation and vasoconstriction. But what does paralysis mean here? I would think dilation, which would be the inactive state since constriction would require active energy exertion to effect.
I don’t see why it has to be one way or the other: either no enforcement or sending kids caught with a joint to prison. For people who have clear drug problems, they need to go into rehab, voluntarily or not.
A financial news site uses AI to copy competitors – wholesale
Yeah, I work as a Functional Safety Engineer in the process and machinery sector and 90%+ of effort is in planning, considering all the possibilities outside of intended operation and traceability.

I have worked on projects where in retrospect the LOC generated per day, if spread out across the whole project, were between 1 and 3.

But typically, writing of the code does not even commence in the first year, sometimes two.

Then there is the test cases and test coverage etc etc.

This is the difference between engineering code and just producing it - all the effort that goes into understanding all the unwanted code behaviour that may occur and how to detect, manage and/or avoid it.

Implicit state is the enemy, therefore the best code has all states explicitly defined.
you could update the wiki too!
>For Zhuangzi, the concept of Wu Wei was not just a way of acting, but a way of BEING.

Snoop said something similar:

~It's not just a dance, it's a way a' living.
Now if ya C-Walking, ya best to "see" Crippin'~

Great minds…
if we (America) ever actually finish migrating to metric that might actually happen, but 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" just doesn't roll off the tongue.
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This is interesting; I've written how I set it up here; https://christiaanse.ca/posts/running_llm/
This is such a neat discovery, I'm having fun just thinking about all the amazing things you could do with this. Imagine in many years being able to inject, or deposit in some more elegant way, ceramic (or other abrasion resistant) medium into a worn bone joint and print it as cartilage tissue replacement.
If only the article you're replying to had some example of characters that use the same code points for the same characters in Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
People used to actively demolish beaver dams right? What was considered the downside back then?
That's like saying Linux is insecure because sudo exists.
Thanks for the shout-out -- in case someone wants to check it out, the code for Lightweight Fault Isolation is available here: https://github.com/zyedidia/lfi.
Part of Epic's argument was that they wanted Apple and Google to distribute Epic Games Store, which makes your argument valid. However, the commenter you were replying to likely isn't aware of this and does not care about how they install EGS, only that they are able to do so if they do not want to deal with Apple or Google.

The sneaky part of Apple's counterargument is that they try to apply your argument not to their own App Store, but to the entire OS. This is a land grab - the App Store is their service, but I own the phone, so the OS should respect my decision to circumvent Apple's curation if I so choose. If I'm not allowed to sell in Target or Walmart, I'm allowed to open my own store and people can circumvent Target to go to me directly. This is how it works for every other form of computer except phones and tablets.
This doesn’t contradict anything I wrote above. It was possible to get much better bang for buck than the absolute most expensive option but I can believe the above story that you could spend someone else’s $6k to splurge on the most expensive PC you could find.
Yep, they implement kernel level security, rather than obsessing over language.
Former Portland native here: it hasn’t worked. I was back just a year or two ago and 5th ave near the waterfront was overrun with homeless openly shooting up and accosting folks.

All the food carts across from the building where I used to work left, the Indian buffet restaurant closed, walking up around 10th near the Target to check out other restaurants I loved many I saw many barricaded former businesses.

The city used to be beautiful. It used to be vibrant and bustling with people and tourists and working professionals but when I was there last retracing my steps as if I was working and living there again it was not the Portland I remember. It’s disheartening.

That’s not to say I’m blaming the homeless or those addicted to substances or dealing with mental
Health problems. I’m not. I believe in helping people when they can’t help themselves. But allowing open drug use, camping in front of businesses, etc., doesn’t do much for said businesses and people to invest in your city leaving you with less tax revenue to help these very same folks with.
Cigarettes kill 7x as many as fentanyl every hour, day, week, month, and year.

One is available without prescription on every streetcorner, with use allowed in public in proximity to others, and the other is a public health epidemic.
Did Unicode consider using semantic language markers? Those could even help unify some latin alphabets and save you even more codepoints, e.g., you could have the same codepoints for Greek and English:

start Greek, codepoint 'a' .... end Greek: 'a' wold be 'α'
start English, codepoint 'a' ... end English: 'a' would be 'a'

Could even have the same codepoint for Cyrillic alphabets
Sometimes I'm posting from my phone, and it autocorrects it wrongly. I know the difference between it's and its, but I'm not going to go back and clean up simple typos that don't prevent understanding of what I was trying to say.
It isn't. The problem used to be default installed macOS with language set to English put Japanese first (as in CJK) in the language preferences list so they display Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese without lang tag wrong.

It looks like now Apple flipped the default to Simplified Chinese first maybe.
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So which do you prefer to tack on the end of that: "...except for the disabled" or "...and to hell with the disabled"? Both are widely used.
I tend to agree. But for the sake of fleshing it out,

> I want to live for free too and not have to work and do drugs whenever I want.

Here's the rub: When you get to the point of needing free housing, you are usually more or less already at the, shal we say, 'mature' phase of your addiction where there is hardly an ounce of joy left to be had from it. The daily grind of figuring out how to get high is basically just your hellish normal, and the best rush you might get here and there in your average month is akin to eating a nice meal, having a good (but not great) conversation, or a satisfying workout.

Compared to good sex? Get out of here. That phase of drug use is long gone. If you want that back even for a fleeting moment you have to go through the hell of withdrawal first. Even doses that put you dangerously close to OD don't really reach that anymore unless you risk them after a period of abstinence (which is where most opiate addicts used to die, back before fentanyl was the norm).

However, with all that said, I'd argue a functional addict is better equipped to deal with the stuff you mention above better than a severe addict who is trying to get sober after years of active addiction. Obviously acute withdrawal is an absolute bastard, but so are the following months of post acute withdrawal (aka your brain and body re-learning how to function at a completely new level of physiology). If we were doing it right, sobriety would be a hard requirement up front, followed by a good deal of support during the transition back into housing.

True, it's much easier to get sober in stable housing. But you know what's even easier still? Continuing to use in a more comfortable and secure environment. Or worse yet, when free housing is still pretty scarce, using your pad as a commodity to score perks from your friends who are still homeless, or worse, using it as a safer and more secure place to stash and deal quantities of drugs to support your addiction directly. Anyone in active addiction will consider these possibilities the moment the lock is turned and they are alone in their new home (not all will act on it, of course). Housing yes, but probably not 'housing first.'

You don't take a patient with a gunshot wound and make sure they have a long term care bed to lie in comfortably while they bleed. You get their ass to the ER and fix the bleed before worrying about the long term stuff.
Plus, Netflix isn’t even Apple’s customer. It’s actually kinda the other way around: Apple’s customers are what Netflix wants access to, as a source of potential Netflix customers.
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You know what thread we're in, right? You know what circumstances I'm referring to..
This is a really interesting comment. I never considered that people would see the removal of cars from dense CBD areas as a sort of slippery slope towards removing them everywhere, and that context helps explain why they believe in the 15 minute city conspiracy.

As an Australian it seems obviously ridiculous to remove all cars, given that huge areas of the country are necessarily unreachable by anything else, but it would actually be pretty feasible to remove privately owned passenger vehicles from the inner suburbs[0] and make public transport free. I'm not even sure it's a bad idea.

[0] This is a dialect-specific phrase and "suburb" in Australian English means roughly what "neighbourhood" means in American English, but I'm not sure what the American word for "somewhat dense ring around the very dense centre of a city" would be
This sounds suspiciously similar to the “evil maid” attack: all bets on security are off when you’ve got physical access to the device. This is a well known weakness in all platforms. Some platforms manage short term protections against this, but nothing ever withstands it in the long run.
>In France, initiatives are very often top-down - bureaucrats invent a project and try to rally organizations. Even when it works, it’s almost alway useless

If you do this in the us you get Shockley -> Fairchild -> Intel OR Engineering Research Associates/Univac -> Control Data Corporation -> Cray Research

If you put a bunch of smart people together, and manage them like shit, they will go start their own company in the US.
Maybe they just need to follow carefully written instructions created by more technical people?
They did! Nice! Those definitely weren't there earlier today!
On a related note, is it possible to get transparent silicone and won't that be better for some applications than trying to develop flexible glass-like substances using wood?
At some point we have to say it takes too much. If it takes 20 college-educated social workers, medical professionals, etc. just to enable one junkie to eek out a miserable existence doing drugs and sleeping on the street, it's too much. Their lifestyle is untenable. On some level, we have to accept that one can fuck up one's own life, and fuck it up so badly that others can't fix or maintain it for you.
Epic's angle was to get discovery so they could embarrass the shit out of regulatory agencies and legislators by pointing out how they were sleeping on an obvious, decades old antitrust case. It worked. The DMA wouldn't have been a thing without Epic suing.
Agreed. I will add that we’ve come full circle on psychiatric hospitals, which is essentially what you’re describing in different words. Budget cuts and deinstitutionalization meant many of those were closed down 50 years ago.
If you're interested in old Venice: Ioanna Iordanou has a book "Venice's secret service: Organising intelligence in the renaissance".

Also a paper "The Professionalization of Cryptology in Sixteenth Century Venice".
The City & the City by China Miéville - Instantly one of my favourite books. A hard boiled noire set in two city-states that occupy the same space in the same way light is both a wave and a particle. If you liked Disco Elysium, you will love this book.

Similarly, if you live in Montreal (particularly if you're an Anglo or Allophone), you might relate to this premise on a deep level as I have.
I’m not sure who is volunteering for the benchy calibration print, but god bless them.
Initially there was a desire to use only 16 bits for all of Unicode. This would allow for only 65K characters - so space was at quite a premium.

The jump from 8 bits to 16 bits effectively doubled memory costs and still wasn't enough to achieve its goal.
It seems you can convert them to formats compatible with the Quest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH96y2QjCGw
It wasn't designed for modern computers, inefficiencies also show as processing overhead, not just storage overhead, and in general software bloat can overcome any hardware progress
not to mention it wont get approval for driving on many roads around the world (so far) like Australia. due to the danger it poses to whatever it hits.
Jesus, that's the exact kind of reasoning that happens in Catch 22. When did reality become more farsical than parody?

I'd laugh, if it wasn't a situation with so much real harm to real people.
The Professionalization of Cryptology in Sixteenth-Century Venice (2018) [pdf]