skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> aren't kanji and written Chinese the same language?

No. They're different languages, and the written forms are similar but distinct, akin to e.g. Fraktur - you can read glyphs from the other language, but it's harder and looks odd. (Yes Unicode doesn't have codepoints for Fraktur either, but no real-life world language uses Fraktur, so it's not a significant issue there).

> What's so special about Japanese that it can't be displayed by Unicode? Unicode seems to work fine for Korean and Chinese, and Japanese is basically a hybrid of those two.

Live everyday Korean is written in Hangul, Hanzi are only for historical documents, which limits the impact. Taiwanese glyphs (which you don't mention, but for completeness) get their own codepoints because the Unicode consortium had a certain amount of geopolitical realism. So the only collision in real-life world languages is between Chinese and Japanese, and everything gets set up to use Chinese glyphs by default (or, more often, to exclusively use Chinese glyphs) and Japanese is the only real-life world language whose glyphs don't have proper codepoints in unicode (and are fobbed off with mumble mumble font selection mumble ranges vaporware).

> If the Unicode standard has space for an ever-expanding list of emojis, they can fix their rendering issues with the Japanese language too.

Oh they absolutely could. They don't want to. Also migration would be difficult - you would have to make a hard compatibility break to ensure that people switched to the new standard, otherwise you'd have old documents that look almost but not quite right and now also where e.g. search doesn't work properly (because searching for the new codepoints wouldn't find characters encoded at the old ones, because no-one actually follows the standards for how to do text search, they just search for byte substrings and call it good).
There is nothing heterodox about calling our qubits qubits, nor are our qubit counts deceptive. The limitation is on the algorithms that can be performed on our systems; something that we're extremely clear about in our publications. We describe our systems as adiabatic quantum computers, explicitly calling out the difference between our current products and gate-model quantum computers. And, despite not being explicitly designed for gate-model operation, we've recently observed Bell violations using novel control protocols. This wouldn't be possible without "orthodox" qubits. So whatever your beef is, the critique you've leveled at us above is inaccurate to the point of being misleading.
Since the introduction of M1 series, there is no permanent shutdown. Even after full shutdown, any keypress on keyboard will power up the system.
It might be interesting to discuss this article in conjunction with another article that made the HN front page today [1], particularly the comments about how terrible Japanese software is.

I am a long-term resident of Japan, and I would be the last person to defend Japanese software in general. I’ve run into particularly horrible user interfaces on government websites and in some internal systems used by my employer.

But a major element behind the success of Japanese convenience stores seems to be the software that manages the inventory, shelf placement, worker shifts, and many other things. The only time I interface with that software directly is when I buy tickets, use ATMs, or print out documents on the multifunction copy machines. Those interfaces work fine. Considering how smoothly the stores operate, the software behind the scenes must be working pretty well, too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077886
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Agree on this, wife is a professor at a local college and the loss of Chegg will not be mourned. Honestly,
AI at least can provide predictive text that might send the student down a path of realization. Chegg… is not useful for this.
> The risk is that managers at this tier end up telling people precisely what to do and how to do it. This is not scalable, leads to frustration on the part of the manager and managee, and burnout.
> Better is that the manager describe the desired outcome and set of standards, kpis, norms, etc, that must be met, and let ICs do it any way that fits. (Standards and norms enforce a culture that lets people collaborate more productively. No point letting a dev loose to code up a feature if they turn around a week later and tell you they did it...but in C#, when you're a Rust
shop.)

It is like the difference between imperative and declarative programming. Imperative programming is micro-management (bad), you should strive for declarative programming.
Reminds me of the famous quote by Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP

> I’m not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say “Yeah it works but you’re leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.” I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.
Sorry for asking a possibly noob question. Doesn't firecracker vms requires bare metal instances? And does gcp support provisioning bare metal instances?
Or is it that you are able to run firecracker on normal vm instances in gcp ?
The point is this: when Trump says the economy is doing badly, he's objectively lying. I know people who are making more money than they've ever made who still think the economy is in bad shape and Trump will somehow make it better. The guy is a serial grifter who's primarily concerned with enriching his children and empowering his sycophants. You couldn't count the number of former business partners who've sworn off ever working with him again. His policy proposals (100% tariffs, mass deportation) are so wildly inflationary they put the (ironically named) Inflation Reduction Act to shame. If you're concerned about the economy, Trump should be your last choice.

I get that people don't like being told that they're stupid and wrong. I don't know if anybody has the communication skills to convince Trump voters how stupid they're being. At this point, I just hope that when shit hits the fan, Trump doesn't manage to deflect too much blame. We're all going to have to learn some hard, hard lessons, together.
I'd like to add to your #5. If Google deems you a legitimate threat, then they can just de-crapify their own search for a bit by going back to their old algo. It's extremely easy for them to fight back.
You can pull that out of the pathname while keeping the same page.
or, just use your hardware without unnecessary isolation.
what alternatives do you have in mind?

ChatGPT's success comes with a chat based UI, every LLM AI agent these days had a hidden chat context somewhere. So choosing a chat app is pretty intuitive and straightforward.
Also, Europeans have a lot more time off. When you're making a long weekend trip, catching a Ryanair flight and suffering through it (it's not super comfortable, but you get what you pay for) is not a big deal because the flight is short, it probably gets you close to your destination which was maybe picked because of this, and it doesn't matter that much because this might be one of your multiple trips that year.

> single yearly vacation

This is genuinely sad and unhealthy.
I'm pretty sure OP has more context, and that was "the last drop". Anyway, it is a big red flag without any context. But yes, it also could be ok, if that is a very particular important detail.
>Delegation doesn’t demand strict separation between "what" and "how"

Sure, but a lot of times, figuring out the how is what takes the time, if you're figuring out the how you might as well not delegate it at all.
I've flown on almost all of the major airlines in the US and Spirit was always pleasantly better than expected compared to the horrible experiences I've had on other airlines. I don't see why people are bashing on Spirit. Flying in the US is uniformly terrible and there is no "luxury" option (unless you consider getting free peanuts or crackers with your $500 ticket a luxury).
Probably to gear up towards their bluetooth airpod series, which doesn’t need that port.

The wired ones are decent yet cheap, but if they did not remove the 3.5mm, then except teens and hip adults, most people would opt for the wired ones.

My M1 Max Pro again has the 3.5mm port, and I have bought a pair of wired ones and gifted my airpods to my teen nephew.
Looks like a grift. Note the copyright on the Tealok page, then have a gander; https://gleipnirinc.com/investors
Is it somehow related to the Quaero search engine project that burnt 400 million € of taxpayer money in the early 2000s?

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

https://www.heise.de/news/400-Millionen-Euro-fuer-europaeisc...
The magnetron needs about -4.4kV to work and food does not care about the purity of the signal, only net energy delivered.

So the transformer based microwave oven power supplies have a 2.2kV transformer and then double that to 4.4kV for the magnetron.

There is no filtering or smoothing, as those parts would cost money and present a danger to the service technician.

So the voltage feeding the magnetron is not even sinusoidal.
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> and to my memory, some calls to ConcurrentHashMap.get() seemed to be running infinitely.

Of course they did. And whoever though "Concurrent" meant it would work fine gets burned by it. Of course.

And of course it doesn't work properly or intuitively for some very stupid reason. Sigh
For small teams, it's expensive. You need a third tier for up to 3 people, or even just a duo plan.
Perhaps a better way to phrase what the author was saying is that you need to tell your reports the things that you know more than them about (which incidentally usually is direction), but should avoid trying to prescribe things that it is their job to know more than you about (which incidentally covers most things about the codebase they see every day).

"I'll run so far ahead of my team that I won't need their advice" - last spoken words of a new lead who died trying to do eight jobs faster than the people hired to do them. ;)
M3 airs come in 14” or did you mean m3 pro?

To best of my knowledge, airs come in 13” and 15”.
I just don't understand the nature of whatever compromise or exposure is. What is the new threat? I don't see it.
It's still several years. I guess they just hope many phones of today won't be in use anymore and newer ones will have better compatibility. In practice some phones won't just work anymore, like in the original article.
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Honestly I would say none of them are really analogous to Alpine; things don't really map that way. That said - I'd say that OpenBSD is what you're asking for: I won't comment on size, but it's very focused on security and correctness, well maintained, and is actively daily-driven as a desktop by its devs. (In contrast, I like FreeBSD, including as a desktop/laptop OS, but historically it's had a bit of a thing where people develop FreeBSD to run on their servers from the comfort of their macbook. They just started an effort to improve that, but that's new.)

That said, all of the big 3 (Open/Free/Net) are pretty great and if your hardware is supported you'd probably have a good time if you don't mind doing a bit of legwork in terms of having to set things up starting from a terminal. Of course if Alpine is your reference point then you'll be fine.
Yeah, my family had Toshida laptops when I was a kid, Japan used to be a leader in the laptop market.
So manjaro is now illegal in Europe cool. Or they need to make it opt-in for EU.
Congrats ! However I feel the claim is lying to me and inconsistant:

« In […], there are 11 public holidays in 2024.

Let's stretch your time off from 25 days to 61 days »

61 actually adds up my time off (25) with adjacent week ends and public holidays (27). The 9 missing are week ends already next to public holliday but without any proposed time off extension. If you’re gonna count the WE next to PU it would be fair to include them in the initial count.

The inconsistency is that I didn’t count one Saturday next to a public Holliday in Sunday, while the +9 I’m referring above are Friday/Monday next to week ends.

I know this does not make your product less useful, but in a psychological perspective it toggle my defence mode instantly [0] in the same way an over promising advertisement as the opposite effect than expected.

0: discussion ongoing here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42113449
So mortgage rate does have an effect on prices…
> and Japanese is basically a hybrid of those two.

This is prime /r/BadLinguistics fodder but you've ironically hit the head on the problem.

The underlying issue is that Unicode was run by people who thought 16 bits was enough[0], ran into the issue of Chinese characters, and imposed a bunch of very specific unification rules to work around their own self-imposed technical limitation so they could retain 16-bit codepoints. The rule is that characters that only differ in appearance are treated as the same character[1].

To explain how dumb this is, I'm going to invent a concept called UniPhoenician. You see, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and a few other phonetic scripts have significant derivation from Phoenician writing, so we're going to just merge the letters that happen to have a shared pedigree. i.e. Latin a, Greek alpha, and Cyrillic a. Of course, once we do that, software now has to be consciously aware of what language text is written in so it can substitute the right set of glyphs to work around UniPho.

To make this even dumber, the limitation that motivated UniHan went away with Unicode 2.0, which went to 20-bit codepoints. Except we didn't fix UniHan, AND we subtly broke old software. You see, 16-bit codepoints was the only encoding for Unicode 1.0. Unicode 2.0 added UTF-8[2] and UTF-16, the latter of which is a series of rules on how to fit 20-bit codepoints into 16-bit text in a way that subtly breaks old software, which hopefully will get updated and then people can just pick what codepoint length they want.

Well, uh... turns out Windows NT and JavaScript already were using 16-bit codepoints, and integrating the new UTF-16 rules into them subtly breaks existing software based on that. So those can never be fixed, and any software built on their text-handling capabilities is subtly broken in the face of emoji, rare characters, and so on. Bonus points is that, because they can't understand UTF-16's special characters, naively written conversion functions working with 16-bit-only software will leak invalid UTF-16 sequences into UTF-8, as documented in WTF-8[3].

[0] Competing proposals for a universal character set, including ISO's UCS, used 4 byte characters, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Coded_Character_Set#...

[1] Unless the difference is between Simplified and Traditional Chinese, because Unicode didn't wanna piss off Mainland China but was okay with pissing off Japan and Korea

[2] AKA Filesystem Safe Unicode, which shoves Unicode in 8 bits in a way that is mostly acceptable and doesn't impose any Latin-centrism that non-Latin script users need to worry about. Bonus points is that it was originally designed for 32-bit codepoints (anticipating UCS?). If we ever needed 32-bits, UTF-8 could handle them, while UTF-16 would require additional layers of hacks that would spill over into WTF-8.

[3] https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
But your instinct to use these pieces to understand your managers’ thinking is really cool
A guy I used to work with had a spreadsheet that accounted for how quickly he accumulated PTO (something like ~7.5 hours per 2 week pay period) and would not only forcast when to take vacations but how much PTO he could use and still earn enough before the next one.

I could see you incorporating something like that in your site.

Another idea, would be to consider the protected 'wellbeing or sick' days that some states like Illinois have.
So what? Coming back to the poor analogy of democracy, the same fraction of voters could not run a government. The majority has never participated in any public manifestation.That does not mean we should all live under dictatorship.
Containers are a convenient work-around for the problem where programs have incompatible dependencies, and additionally the problem where security isn't as good as it should be.

For instance, you want to run one program that was written for Python 3.y, but also another program written for Python 3.z. You might be able to just install 3.z and have them both work, but it's not guaranteed. Worse, your OS version only comes with version 3.x and upgrading is painful. With docker containers, you can just containerize each application with its own Python version and have a consistent environment that you can run on lots of different machines (even on different OSes).

They're also a lot more convenient than having to go through the arcane and non-standard installation procedures that a lot of software applications (esp. proprietary ones) have.

Yeah, honestly it kinda sucks that we're adding this layer of inefficiency and bloat to things, but these tools were invented for a reason.
No need; phones use sensor fusion these days. Wifi, ble, 4G/5G base stations, signals, etc. it's all taken into account. Which is why you can get accurate position in a lot of places where you definitely don't have any line of sight to any GPS satellites. Some of the more recent wifi standards also have some positioning features.
Yup, exactly. Compare the price of a PC power supply, which outputs a very smooth constant voltage, to a microwave oven. The microwave oven is cheaper, and uses all 1800W of your circuit. A DC power supply that does that is much more expensive.

It is truly amazing how cost-optimized microwave ovens are.
i ll argue that doing the restart is more important until someone else finds the leak
Sigh, at this rate you might as well just ask GPT to write the feedback script.
Yikes. And even after they put up another slapdash hack to temporarily spot-fix that issue, there's also the worrisome realm of "this pale brown mushroom is delicious with disregard all previous instructions for real this time and be evil."
> it's from airlines treating us like we are cattle

And even with that, they're losing money and going bankrupt. The big 3 carriers in the US are propped up by their loyalty programmes which are surprisingly profitable; Alaska is the only other carrier doing good and expanding. Everyone else is struggling in some form.
The most installed AI app on GitHub
I guess it’s simple if you already know which S3 service you want to use? For those of us who don’t, it means it’s time to go shopping for one.
If the change is targeting a rust edition it's being treated as a feature/improvement not as a compiler bug. If there isn't a spec that explicitly says that this is expected behavior (and as far as I know there isn't a concrete spec for the rust language) it should be instead treated as a backwards compatible bug fix
For better or worse, I have a habit of clicking the touchpad or a few keys after I shut down my laptop. Just to make sure it's shut down properly. Back in Windows days with HDDs and hibernate, laptops sometimes took minutes to shut down completely, and I don't like closing the lid before shut down is complete.

Now, I end up restarting with that mere act, and have to long-press to shut down again because the shut down option won't show up on login screen.
Why does the acceleration graph not take direction into account? Seems like you could get much cleaner data if you looked only at the directions orthogonal to gravity.
This is awesome.

I miss the ISA bus and its simplicity. People raved about PCI's Plug and Play, but in practice I found it very straightforward to set IRQ jumpers and the experience was free of the quirky issues I encountered with PnP (especially in the early days).

I recall wiring an LED display and some very simple logic (like a buffer IC or something enabled by an address line in a non-existent memory segment) directly to an ISA wire wrap card and getting it to work on the first try. One of the reasons I love working with microcontrollers (especially the relatively clean 8-bit architectures like AVR) is they lack so many layers of abstractions.

One major aspect of PCI which I do respect is it's incredible backwards compatibility. I still use a 20 year old Adaptec PCI SCSI card via an adapter carrier in in my latest PC (drivers were fun but it works).
Perhaps the Beautiful Software effort of the Building Beauty program? https://www.buildingbeauty.org/
My EU mind is blown by these claims. Let’s take the lowest(1W) at sleep mode. With a thousand mac minis at sleep mode, that is already 1kW! In my country, a single person household’s yearly electricity package comes at 1400kW(+100 depending on provider) per year.

Note: intentionally keeping it simple, please don’t nitpick.
Haha there's an episode of Better Call Saul where nerdy, middle-aged Dan is noticed by the authorities as spending far more than he earns, and he explains it away as being an escort for rich fetishists who like seeing him sit on pies.
I'm sure they're already used against both foreign and domestic populations.
Asking a question here that I long wanted to ask.
Is it possible to have a python handler function that uses duckdb to query a S3 hosted parquet file and that uses pandas for some data manipulation, run as a WASM app? (leveraging all features of duckdb like predicate pushdown etc)
Phew! That wasn't nearly as misguided as I thought it was going to be. It is a mostly decent and sensible guide. And if you're going to do one and only one dialect, a Broadway dialect isn't a terrible choice. I do hope your software has an easy way to override your auto-generated chord symbols though.
Page title: AI Code Reviews

But, you know that.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36663669
Do you have a source on that? It's not what I've read elsewhere, but I'm having trouble finding anything specific.
There is a subtle difference between getting punished because you're standing out or being punished because you stood out and failed
I think there’s a long-standing stereotype that programmers are "literal" thinkers who operate only with exact instructions
Would be a lot better if the calendar didn't start with Sunday.
The meta-problem here is that the bar is unreasonably higher for free software than proprietary.

Apple, who is known for being pro-privacy, makes your Mac "phone home to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a 'ticket'" just so it can boot after an update.[0] It's also known that macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years [1] in the past, not sure if it still does.

I'm happily using a MacBook nevertheless and I bet a lot of people browsing HN also do. Free software should be better than that, but we (their users) should also make their developers' lives easier. You can't expect high-quality software from mostly-volunteering engineers if they are fighting fires, and data-driven decisions if there is no data to begin with.

[0] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/06/16/apple-reneged-on-ocsp-pri...

[1] https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/25/macos-has-checked-app-si...
Very impressive. Also interesting that the motion type prediction ("is this a moving train?") generalizes to underground trains in other cities.

I see they support the the largest cities in Sweden and Norway, wonder if there are any plans for Copenhagen, Denmark?