jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
4K at anything below 43 inch is unusable for text without scaling.

27 inch 2K or 43 inch 4K are the sweet spots.

Here's how you can check if your monitor needs scaling:

- Find out the DPI of your existing monitor and your desired monitor. For example, 24" 1080p is 91.79, and 27" 4K is 163.18

- Calculate the ratio: 91.79/163.18 = 0.5625 (this means that on the 27" 4K monitor everything is 56% of the size of the 1080p)

- Now take a screenshot of your monitor (at 100% scaling) and resize it to 1920x1080*0.5625 = 1080x607. View the resized image at 100%. That text will be the same physical size as on a 4K 27" monitor set to 100%.

Without scaling, most people would find text too small on both 27" at 32". You would need a display as big as 40" to get the same density as 1440p on 27" (~110 DPI). For most people, 27" requires 150% scaling and 32" requires 125%.
Children luckily are much more flexible and chop and change with the wind. It's the older folks once something is established it ends up becoming bedrock and super hard to change. Parents/Adults are busy if something 'works', there's a lot of resistance to changing it.
There is obviously a need here that is not met by current tools.

I believe that Conda is the closest thing to an answer to this need.

It works on Windows, Mac and Linux. It supports packaging arbitrary binaries. It lets you specify dependencies that can be arbitrary libraries for arbitrary languages. And it has a relatively simple package format, build process, and repository format.

It's not the best piece of software when it comes to user experience, and its niche is still very much data science. But it is a glimpse of what should be possible, but is not currently available.
There is a huge difference between saying "the winning campaign worked with a foreign government to spread disinformation" and "the votes were rigged. If you ignore the fraudulent ballots I won in a landslide."

There's also a long running argument in American politics about voter registration. Over the years both sides have had victories but after the elections no one claims the results of those elections were fraudulent.
How many people died at the protest that you were at? How many people were carrying tools for ad-hoc tribunals [0]? How many people were beaten by the police?

At some point, your own personal discomfort with the lived experiences of protestors must be contrasted with the real and materially-evidenced crimes of trespass upon and destruction of federal property, up to interference with federal operations and treason.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching
Per another source, the $2.5 billion mostly goes to other major corporations:

* 243.6 million fine

* $500 million into a fund for the families of passengers who were killed in the crashes

* $1.77 billion in compensation to airlines that were unable to use their Max jets while they were grounded

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/boeing-pay-25-bill...

For the most part, the U.S. Department of Justice saved some Fortune 500 companies from civil litigation costs.
I’ve wondered how extremely bright ancestors figured out the basics. Carrying water. The benefits of cooking food. How rocks or logs rolling could become a wheel. How you actually kill a large animal the first time. How to try berries in a new area. How did they figure bread out?
Look at what the press was saying about Lincoln before the war. Nothing new these days.
Your completely missing the point..

Honda sells commodities. Maserati sells status.

Motorola sells commodities. Apple sells status.

Computers are commodities, smart phones are commodities and at the end of day none of that stops people from buying from apple

Cars make a ton of sense for apple because it’s a product which a decent percentage of people will all pay a premium to get the cool version.
You post this every time this discussion comes up, even though it’s patently false and known to be false and you’ve been told it’s false multiple times here. Amazing.
My wife and are I live in a pretty small house (one story, 1,300 so ft) so we’re pretty much in sight if each other almost 24 hours a day.

I don’t really have much to offer beyond what you’re doing but spontaneity is nice. Today we both felt like shit with what went down in the capitol yesterday do we said fuck it, called out of work tmrw, and we’re currently in a hotel room on the coast drinking beer and eating pizza on the bed (well, we were, now it’s “friend phone time”).

Aside from that: working out together and drives out in the countryside.
Android Auto in the car should have access, the phone is just a data gateway. The entertainment system can read and send CAN bus signals. [1]

I never claimed the phone can connect to CAN.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
In Sweden, about 9% of my salary goes towards healthcare and I pay almost nothing extra for any of my healthcare needs. This 9% also covers things like elderly care and I don't lose this benefit if I lose my job.
I've heard this every single day since November 3.
Those guys in their 50s will typically have partners who are 'stakeholders' in their decisions affecting family income. Those partners are often even more conservative about job change and risk than the engineers themselves.
Completely agree, but they're playing a game with artists which is something like "How little can we pay them and still have enough material for the average consumer to pay $10-15/mo to believe they have all the music in the world?" and they're not going to start paying artists more of their own volition.

So what action does that leave?
The patent is more sophisticated than what the article implies - it's a single clock cycle method, which no compiler I've ever seen will do given the code presented in the article.

And it's from 1996.
They are simple, they're just disappointing.

It's definitely simpler to completely ignore accessibility. It's also a bad thing.

It's easier to not put a ramp at my shop, after all there aren't that many people in wheelchairs. It's easier to not add induction loops to help those with hearing aids, after all there aren't that many people with them.

We can keep going with this logic. Facial recognition only works with white faces? But most of my users are white, let's just keep it.

It's easier to exclude people. Across society, that ends up pretty poorly, particularly when it's the same groups that are excluded time and time again.

> What's the incentive?

It would be nice if making the content work for people with accessibility requirements was a reward in itself, but this is why we end up with laws, to make not doing these things a punishable offence so that in the end it's easier to actually do them.
But mutable string are not an issue when not shared, which can be checked statically in rust, right?
I guess the diffusion is a bit like a sub-pixel sized blur, but you can’t reduce reflections in software though.
You know, except for outcomes, research, etc.

Also good luck when Uncle Adolf comes to town.
> Do you ever hear about Huawei declining to work with the Chinese government because of its treatment of the Uighurs?

No, of course not, which is why we can feel somewhat proud of America as comparatively freer than China.
This is not how software security works.
> I don't see what I wrote as a willful misinterpretation.

You were acting exasperated that I mentioned race but the example I chose wasn't relevant to the discussion. Apologies for choosing a contentious subject but in my defence you did write.

> This seems to be the final argument nowadays when all else fails.

Where you are stating my points have all failed and I'm grasping at straws: RUDE.

> I don't really care about downvotes or upvotes or any other fake internet validation of my value.

Neither do I and you're missing the point if you interpret it as karma-whoring. The point isn't you and isn't me, its the impact on the readers, the lurkers, on the 80% (us that write comments are always a minority) and if spread broadly enough: society. Its an outcome that prizes public consensus of a view over its voracity and I think that's a poor guideline to have in the coffee shops of the modern era.
This usage of "a couple" is so common that it's far beyond some weird thing some people say, and telling a non-native speaker it's wrong is not doing them any favor - it's basically universally accepted usage. FWIW, if you have a reference to a styleguide that explicitly addresses it I'd be interested - I did a short search and didn't find anything, but I also don't have easy access to the full text of some major ones. But even then, disagreeing with some style guide doesn't make anyone "illiterate", or "needing english lessons" (which by the way explicitly teach people that meaning of couple, because you need it to understand English in practice).

(and I didn't flag your original post, because I don't think merely being wrong justifies flagging)
I'd be willing to pay for a little consulting time about how to set up everything.
Maybe what you are searching for is just a html page exported.
Was that Binney or Tice?
Thanks for pointing this out! Filed a bug:

https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg/issues/139

I said in another comment that we'd release 3.0 tomorrow, we'll probably hold up the release to investigate this.
Congrats! This post is awesome and really put a huge smile on my face. It reminded me of how enthusiastic I was about programming at your age and there aren't a lot of better places to start your career than at Google. Best of luck.
What's the difference between "racism" and "neoracism"?
If that were true, we'd be seeing fluctuations in how frequently blocks are being created depending on where the sun shines and where it's windy. Water power is more stable but not enough to explain the TWhs all disappearing into bitcoin every year.

No need to do a lot of work surveying miners to disprove these trolls, also they'll just come up with a new argument like that it's the payment method of the future and they don't want to miss out on that (that's what people threw at me on reddit in a similar thread earlier today)... just admit it, btc investors, you want to use the investment vessel and not feel bad about the enormous amount of pollution you cause in the process...
> This is not to suggest that corporations should be taxed on their revenue, or that we should dramatically increase corporate taxes.

Then you're missing an opportunity.
Aside from some industrial uses, gold really has no intrinsic value aside from cosmetic. And cosmetic use is really just shared appreciation. There's really no reason btc couldn't offer shared value as medium of exchange in the same way fiat currency serves. Just depends on enough people who agree to use it.
Odd framing. No one "trusts" nuclear weapons to the government as opposed to having control themselves. "Pithy accounts" (money) represent to a fairly large degree an individual's autonomy / freedom / independence. Is it so bad to find it appealing that one may wish to assert more control over this given the choice?

I say this as someone who finds crypto to look like almost a complete scam but I can't dispute the appeal of the concept.
> Batteries are indistinguishable components, cars aren't. It's the batteries that are commodities.

They're not though, that's the thing. There's absolutely nothing new about EV's themselves; they've existed for a century. The entire reason they're taking off now is battery technology. Being able to manufacture enough cells with enough energy density for a low enough cost is the actual secret sauce for any EV manufacturer.
I am speculating on Algorand after doing some research and listening to a talk by Biden's SEC chair Gary Gensler where he spoke positively about it. It is a cool project in the Proof of Stake space. Although there are several "Eth killers", Algo included, that could go nowhere.
Oh, thanks. It can be read either way -- that way could actually be plausible in certain cases.
Ive heard it multiple times. Mainly because there is a membership fee.

And I disagree about the chargeback process on visa/MasterCard. Ive only ever had to do it once. It took a very long time to open. The experience lasted close to 12 weeks and I had to appeal the finding a to a “manager” when the company I filed the chargeback with simply said “nah it’s valid” and visa attempted to find against it b

Even the initial call was a typical call center experience that took over an hour, and a couple long holds.

Amex has very good customer service. Ive never been on a hold for over 5 minutes that I can remember. And the few reports, fraud, chargebacks etc were very easy. They took everything up front and straight said “if you don’t hear back by x date, consider the matter settled”

I stopped shopping at costco for multiple reasons, mostly how other customers acted and how crowded chaotic it got. But then stopping Amex charges was the straw. I carry an alternative card just in case, but try to run all purchases through one so I have one bill to pay. I didn’t feel the need to chnage that process so I could buy bulk TP (which was mostly all we bought there). Even the gas lines are silly here.
Aww, thanks.

Doesn't mean I'd be a good fit over there; anyway, I've had enough experience with huge companies; don't want to do that again.
I could be wrong but I think cinder actually pre-dates openstack.
Here's a story with some more "meat" to it:

http://gizmodo.com/toyota-made-over-5-600-of-its-fuel-cell-p...
That is considered a "test" for such extraordinary claims? LoL seriously? wow... there really is no min. requirement for jounalism.
Do you have a thermometer in your car? I was surprised that the buses in north east china all have this (displayed up front), as if trying to tell us how much colder it was getting :) My only experience of making that trip is in the summer.

What is weird thing about china, however, is that both Changchun and Harbin are huge cities with millions of people. How could so many people live where it is so cold...the entire huge songhua river is completely frozen over. Surreal.
There are other interesting studies from WW2. "The Waddington Effect" describes the fact that the less maintenance was done on the airplanes, the less they broke: http://blog.aopa.org/opinionleaders/2014/01/14/the-waddingto...

Also, the analysis of failure modes in http://www.sportaviationonline.org/sportaviation/201001#pg94 is interesting. It turns out that most things do not work behave like the "If you chart failures over time, you will almost always see some form of bell-shaped curve" alluded to in the article. In particular, a discouragingly large fraction fail shortly after being put into service.
Why not use Signal?
Thank you. I was looking for an API only yesterday, and didn't find any that is as good as this one. Even the Princeton University one didn't fit into my workflow, because it is overly complex.
That's pretty much why I built this. It's a great resource, but geared towards lexicographers vs developers.
It probably won't be a problem. Don't be an evangelist, and be even-keeled about how you talk about your projects. Discuss what made them interesting and the technical challenges you had with them. There's not a lot of hate for Bitcoin the technology, just the die-hard advocates that it attracts (i.e. the kind that throws penny shavings at people via changetip and talks about how the blockchain will bring about a utopian anarcho-capitalist society, end-the-fed-ron-paul-2016)

As long as you keep it technical and keep the non-technical stuff to yourself, it will be beneficial (and you should really do that for any topic in a technical interview). As an ancedote, I certainly wouldn't have any problems hiring someone with Bitcoin work, and my post history shows that I'm pretty skeptical of Bitcoin.
Ya the screen wasn't that great and was awkward to look at. Seems like the photo taking is the best part of it -- for that you don't really need all the rest of the complexity. And too bad you also look like a douchbag wearing it, especially in SF where tech is stigmatized enough. Reminds me of a joke a comic said last night at an SF standup spot: "so I was on google last night... Do you guys know Google? It's this company making people homeless in SF"
"I started on [Lisp] during late summer when I was at IBM and I decided to write a program for differentiating algebraic expressions. What I noticed is that I could write conditional expressions, which I'd already used in those legal move routines for the chess program and that they could be used to embody the rules that were given in the calculus text, in an extremely direct form. Differentiation of algebraic expressions was the leading example that led to the functional form of Lisp programs."

I'm not very familiar with Lisp. Does anyone have a solid enough idea what he's talking about here to be able to give possible concrete examples?
This is awesome. I just had a message from Google the other day about an expiring card that they "automatically" updated, and was wondering how they did that!

Can the next thing on the list be a way to present Stripe Checkout with a customer ID, and have Stripe handle the rest (ie. cards stored, which card to use, updating expired cards)?

Currently, the "remember me" function causes extra friction and doesn't allow for services that already have the customers phone number registered - and Checkout is meant to be straight forward.

Appreciate this isn't a feature request thread, but as you're looking to make the process simpler for end users, helping sites handle repeat customers in a clean, simple way seems like a big win!
I would be interested to understand more about why WhatsApp made some of those decisions. The requirement to keep your phone connected to the Internet seems strange, perhaps it's using some encryption key that never leaves the device? Why do they need the Chrome-only filesystem API so much? Why has iOS been left out?
When that process is complete, and every tasks has been eliminated from those reflecting "real intelligence", we will be certain that we have created artificial intelligence by any measure that matters.
Or both! Trendy and handy are not inherently mutually exclusive.
Brian Eno makes a good argument[1] that it's already here.

[1] http://edge.org/responses/q2015
In what universe doctors communicate in terms you understand? They even write freeking diagnosis on Latin that nobody knows.

Coming out of doctor that explained things to you is once-in-life event.
This is backwards for a cook who tries to enhance the intrinsic taste, texture of some good ingredients.

But the industry wants a constant taste, texture on a massive scale. The only solution is to produce on one side the needed spices (easy to control the taste) an apply it on a relative tasteless substrate. It means that you do not need to adapt the recipe during production.

Source: wife worked a couple of years for Unilever, some of my customers are in the flagrance, food additives industry.
The fact that many PHP projects end up in unmaintainable spaghetti code is a mark against the programmer and not the language.

Take your average PHP programmer and force him/her to code in Ruby and the same mess will result.

The fact that PHP has so many "noob" programmer is indicative of its success in creating so many great projects and websites. We have made PHP so easy that even your grandmother can do it.

From the article:

If you are capable of making wise software design decisions, PHP is a great choice to build your web application with.
Extremely talented team as well as cool search engine technology. Unfortunately, they were not able to create a significant dent in the search engine market with their vertical search approach. Let's see if Blekko can carve out a niche for themselves.
I feel the same way. I have a 1982 Chevy C10 pickup, and the original owner had put "Flowmaster" pipes on it for a louder, but still natural, sound. With the original engine, it sounded impressive, perhaps more so than the engine actually was.

Not long after I got the truck, the original 305ci engine gave up the ghost (it had over 400,000 miles so it had had a great run) and I had a 350ci engine built for it and installed. None of the pipes were changed, and the exhaust manifold was a factory fit version for that new engine, not custom headers. Still, the sound difference was night and day. Now the truck positively thunders, where it merely growled before. While a lot of its sound can be attributed to the custom pipes and muffler, a lot of it is in the engine too.

To me, it's similar to the difference between a miked acoustic guitar and an acoustic-electric. Either way it's amplification, but the former sounds pure and natural, whereas the latter sounds forced and way too bright, and loses out on the nuances of left-hand technique and right-hand flourishes, as it only picks up the string vibrations themselves instead of the entire ambiance.
> the islands of Borneo, Java, and Sumatra

Those are some of the largest islands on earth. The problen for rhinos in the case of Java is that it's 100% farmed, not submerged land bridges.
You seem to labor under the delusion that inequity and the lack of dignity and fairness are easier systemic issues to solve than handing out a check. They are virtually impossible by comparison.
One one hand, we have a growing body of research saying that almost nothing anybody does is rational, and that most "rational explanations" that people deliver are post-hoc rationalizations of something they did on a whim. The popular interpretation is that this represents evidence against free will, but that may be a little overblown. On the other hand, there is a parallel cultural trend of people arguing that suicide is rational, and that many suicidal patients are that way because they sat down and added up the utility of the various options. I guess my point is, when obesity drops to zero on the day that everybody realizes that it isn't rational to be fat, I'll start considering the possibility that people could "decide" to kill themselves.
If anyone wondering https://github.com/ProZsolt/upc-keys
They're either separated, or it's simply not needed because cars can hardly get to their 50 km/h speed limit.
> And the interface is easy to sell to non-techies, especially compared to Signal.

Could you elaborate on this? I personally find that Signal's interface couldn't be simpler, and have on-boarded hundreds of "non-techies" without support or explanation beyond "download an app called Signal and message me on the same number, but on there".

> TBH Telegram makes the right kind of tradeoffs for me

Given those tradeoffs, Facebook Messenger or Whatsapp is probably a way better choice than Telegram.
Speculating, but based on context, probably "Cowboy coding" with heroic intent and success..
It’s terse, but sounds fine to me.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Won't you need internet access to submit your taxes?
You still get your tax figures in places that do that automagically. You just don't get the suffer it out for conservative agenda experience.
The one and only reason I want to stay permanently remote is because I can vacation and work at the same time. It's glorious. I can stay with family or friends for a week and work, or spend a week at a resort in Mexico and work, or stay in a cabin somewhere beautiful and work. Offices are fine, but they aren't usually next to beaches or trails or my loved ones.
How do you get any elements out of a neutron star ?