jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Computer Modern was a Herculean effort by Knuth, but in my opinion, it’s wholly lacking in many departments. It’s spindly, clinical, and vapid.

I strongly agree, I hate how Computer Modern looks, especially because of what you describe as being "spindly" - it's exceptionally light. If you use any other font for body text then the contrast is overwhelming, when the maths and text ought to just flow together. You can use it for body text too but then the whole page looks a mess.

> ... make a beautiful typeface for mathematics that is not gimmicky.

My favourite text/maths combinations:

* Palatino for text and Pazo [1] for maths. I am a big fan of Palatino, and Pazo is derived from it - I'm not sure what the exact relationship is but to me they look like basically the same font. For me, this is the direct answer to your question of a "beautiful typeface for mathematics". Perhaps not every symbol in the TeX package was hand-designed for the font, but I haven't noticed any real clash. The only problem is that it's such a radical departure from traditional TeX fonts that it might be a bit ubrupt for some people. My PhD supervisor certainly didn't like me using it (he thought I had used totally different typesetting software and told me to "just use TeX like everybody else").

\usepackage[slantedGreek]{mathpazo}
\usepackage{upgreek} % Euler upright Greek; matches Palatino quite well

* This is a very unfashionable opinion but I actually think Times is a very readable font and works well with mathematics. I used the times [4] package (although I note it now says you should load the font a different way) with the commercial but very affordable mtpro2 [5]

* I often used Utopia for both text and maths [3]. This is more of a compromise as it looks a tiny bit like Computer Modern (to its discredit) but is more like more conventional fonts and definitely doesn't have CM's weight problem. It's actually somewhat similar to Microsoft's Cambria and Cambria Math.

\usepackage[utopia,greekuppercase=italicized]{mathdesign} % for math
\usepackage{esint} % make integrals look less silly
\newcommand{\mathbold}[1]{\boldsymbol{#1}}

* I found people (maybe just my supervisor!) still had a problem with using Utopia as the text font so I settled on the super-compromise of Times text with Utopia math for my thesis; I'd have prefered the fonts to be identical but these go fairly well and certainly their weights don't clash (unlike CM with anything else).

* For presentations I think it's best to use a san-serif font. The most complete combination I've been able to find is CM Bright for text/math [6] and esstixbb for blackboard bold (with beramono for fixed-width)

\usepackage[slantedGreek]{cmbright}
\usepackage{esstixbb}
\usepackage[scaled]{beramono}

[1] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mathpazo?lang=en

[2] https://ctan.org/pkg/upgreek?lang=en

[3] https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/utopia-mathdesign/

[4] https://ctan.org/pkg/times?lang=en

[5] https://www.pctex.com/mtpro2.html

[6] https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/computermodernbright/
I understand what you mean. There's an incredible amount of tactile information in the real world, and I can't help feeling that there's probably almost as much information flowing in as audio or visual (that we as humans can process at any one instant), but I have been unable to find anything to back up my wild hypothesis.
I think the author misses the obvious advantage of having ARM macs: it gives Apple even more vertical integration by moving the chip design in-house. They could in theory iterate faster on core design changes quicker than Intel could and would no longer have to pay what little markup they already to pay for Intel chips.
Yes it seems they have 100 on one dosage, 100 one a different dosage and 100 in a placebo group.

According to the register, the study execution time should be "2020-01-31 To 2020-02-29"

But nobody seems to have any insight on the final results. But I would recommend this article with comments of the study leader (Dr Zhang Zhan). The article also explains how they initially discovered the efficiency of the drug by just noticing there were no lupus patients (who were under chronic treatment of hydroxichloroquine) infected with covid19.

https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...
I remember a paper that found that its worse to run near roads than to run at all, with huge amounts of absorption of contaminants into the body. Contaminants being "recorded" in the runner's hair.

Out of the blue I found this paper finding a relationship between worse performance and pollution in marathons.[1]

[1] https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/79473/1/MPRA_paper_79473.pdf
Criticism on study design during an emergency is fine, but still, we are not talking about some marginal level of efficacy here:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.16.20037135v...

> The proportion of patients that had negative PCR results in nasopharyngeal samples significantly differed between treated patients and controls at days 3-4-5 and 6 post-inclusion (Table 2). At day6 post-inclusion, 70% of hydroxychloroquine-treated patients were virologicaly cured comparing with 12.5% in the control group (p= 0.001).

The effect size is huge, even considering the potential biases.
Yes, a million times yes. Mostly in engineering-focused teams, it is very common (even when they have designers on the team).

It's a sad state of affairs, but it is pretty common for the designer to just "push pixels" on engineer command - the engineer conceives (horribly) the UI in his head, sketches, and then tells the designer to make it pretty. The designer is merely a decorator. I saw it happen a lot in a telco, but it happens almost anywhere where the engineering skills are considered the core.
It ran out of hydraulic fluid and could not control itself properly.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553963793056030721
It's definitely very optional here (at SE). Some people just grab a plate of food and go back to their office/desk/secluded corner to enjoy it by themselves or with a smaller group.
Too bad it is Torch. Working in the lua environment is not enjoyable at all. Every error becomes a long procedure of looking deep into the source of the framework since there is no type information or stack traces to go off whatsoever. You are constantly guessing about the shape of the data or what parameters are supposed to look like.
LLC's are ripoffs. Use an S-Corp instead. They are far cheaper and easier, are FAR more flexible, and you get the same tax benefits.

LLC's are for people who don't know any better (and this includes myself, several times now in the past, having only been fully educated in this area fairly recently).
Not a link, but I do know that discharging a bunch of hot water into a stream that is typically cold can wreak havoc with the local fishies that might be adapted to a certain environmental regime.

Like anything, though, a little bit of dumping is just fine, it's when we scale to the size of human civilization that it becomes a problem.
There are specific issues mentioned in the post that I wouldn't expect to be present in just any version.

http://chemicaloliver.net/linux/ubuntu-unity-on-eeepc/ and http://www.greenhughes.com/content/samsung-nb30-touchscreen-... look quite different.
Just a note: In the high desert, "evaporative cooling" (all those water jets, fans, and filters) are refered to as "swamp coolers". Much more poetic.
Agreed. I'm one of them too. Yes, I can change it for a while if needed ... but I'm at my best when I embrace it.
> What a bizarre article. Lisp can't represent XML?

This was the point where I thought "This can't be serious." I always found SXML a perfect example of where data and code meet.
It's possible to run a Bitcoin laundromat; you control addresses A and D, laundromat controls B and C. Send money from A to B, receive from C to D. As long as the laundromat doesn't recycle addresses and moves a lot of cheddar, it'll be difficult to establish a linkage.
Isaac, good to see you here too.

Thanks for the kind words, yep I really try my best to spread the word about Buffer.

You are absolutely right I think, there is always a bad ring to it when you hear that. And I tried to state clearly that my intention of course is to drive traffic.

Yet, I also don't want to deny the fact that you meet a lot of great people and have great chats, which genuinely turn out to be helpful. Maybe it really comes down to what you do about each and every situation. If you take the human element as serious as the traffic building part, it is a good combination. Not sure what you think about that, let me know :)
It's because the single video on the account was taken down. The counter might eventually catch up with the fact that the video was reinstated.
No other verb in the American language behaves that way. Even in the arcane, deprecated predecessor of American (English), no verb behaves that way.

Wait, what? American language? Deprecated predecessor? Somebody really seems to hate the English people. The name of the language is still English. American English. Just as the language they speak in Australia is Australian English.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Countries_in_o...
I don't think the point is to "shit on this guy". The point is to learn and hopefully have a better experience next time.

As for the woman, the odds are not looking good in such a situation.
Seconded. Being home for supper w/ wife and two-year-old son is the highlight of my day.

Read a different way "Last night there were at least 400 people eating dinner at 8:00PM" means that there were at least 400 people who either don't have families or for whatever reason felt it was better to stay at the office than to be at home w/ their families. The novelty of eating in a company cafeteria wears off, the long-term grind of working for a company where there is pressure to put the company ahead of your personal life does not.
didn't see this the last 3 times but might be just what I need!
What are the great products to come out of Google? Search, of course. Google Maps, and with it, AJAX: pretty impressive. GMail too.

But Google Earth was an acquisition. So was YouTube, despite the effort they put into Google Video. So was Google Docs word processor, although the spreadsheet was home grown.

Google has, what, 20,000 engineers? That's a LOT of effort for what they have to show for it.
Yeah, he was probably a lot more excited about this project than the other side. Doesn't mean that nothing could have come from it, but they probably didn't consider it 24/7, just at a lower priority. It almost sounds as if the OP felt he was Apple's savior.
Yes, it's hard to argue against that. I didn't focus on it because the privacy harm of leaking to third parties seems greater than that caused by the URL going into browser history or server logfiles (the most relevant concerns I see.)

This doesn't excuse them, but it's interesting to consider that probably tens of thousands of sensitive Google, etc. searches per day go into query strings. I guess the difference is that Google doesn't know if your freeform search is sensitive, whereas a "Pregnant?" checkbox is known to be sensitive. But maybe general search engines should not be using query strings either, just in case.
> Your point is irrelevant to the discussion

Right. If it was relevant, it might call your closely-held stereotypes into question. That seems ironic.

Also: John Rock, co-inventor of the Pill, along with Pincus and Chang. Interesting, and unfortunately Quixotic, character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rock_(American_scientist) My apologies, I should have said "co-inventor."
Having low latency, no frames dropped running natively is hard. Exceptionally hard. One of the biggest issues is actually drivers and the near infinite number of hardware permutations. It's still a major issue with the SDK. Now let's add a super heavy, bloated web browser in between the OS and pixels. I've yet to play any decent WebGL demo that didn't have minor hitches or dropped frames. VR is merciless. You need to make your frame 100% of the time or it's a majorly jarring issue.
I wonder what sort of metals this process would work with effectively and whether surfaces can be reprocessed over time.
It happens on a regular basis around abortion clinics (the latest victim was Dr Tiller just a few years ago).

I am tempted to say that the horrors that Mother Teresa inflicted in her clinics would also qualify as terrorism, but that's probably more open to interpretation (well, the horrors are not open to interpretation, whether it should be called terrorism can arguably be).
I think there is already nothing to prevent that. A single 4chan insider -- every insurance company probably has at least one -- could wreck your rates. They could probably also figure out how to send forged police reports to the insurance companies if they wished.
I laughed at the name, but how will someone justify that line item in their engineering budget at a larger company? Catchy though, I'll definitely remember it.
I think the Economist is describing a different wave than YC. The poster child for its wave is Groupon, which has lately stole the press cycle by turning down the $6B acquisition offer from Google. (Which was a masterful PR move, BTW - we don't even know if there was an acquisition offer, yet by leaking that they turned it down, Groupon has become the new hotness in every media outlet's eyes.)

YC seems to invest much more in B2SmallB startups, which are less visible from a media perspective and require more technical savvy. Reddit's their most famous success because it was one of the few that is purely consumer web, but their other investments have included Wufoo, Heroku, ClickFacts, Auctomactic, FrogMetrics, and RescueTime, all of which are aimed at small businesses.
The other predictors may not feel fair, but they're much more difficult to abuse or misuse than this scheme.

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who uses this app should probably have their insurance raised much more than any individual drivers who are reported.
Yeah I've submitted bug reports about the tab-clicking thing, but their response has always been "but how else would the user drag the window!?!". Stupid. I'd love to see the metrics on how often users drag a full-screen window vs. how often they click a tab.
I don't get why people care about space exploration. And, a space arms race is only going to see how best to create satellite weapons. There isn't much point to go out further than that, unless we want to drop the moon on someone.

Much better is sea exploration: 70% of the earth and much more material for living.
I suspect this app will cause more bad driving than it solves. That's right. You. Put down that cell phone and watch the road.
This comment seems strained. A history book would neither back up the claim about unfettered travel, nor the claim about corruption.

The parent comment actually seems reasonable to me. It really wouldn’t take much escalation for a trade war to turn into a shooting war between, at least China and America.
Impressive, I had no idea that it is that old. Not quite fossa carolina old ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossa_Carolina ) but compared to the canal du midi with all its impressive locks that one was just a series of ponds connected by slides.
Only if the exam is cheap (not easy) and number of medallions is unlimited. (I got your joke, don't worry)
You can also use a lower frame rate for the foveal input.

What peripheral vision losses in spatial resolution, it wins back in time.
Are you literally shilling your referral link here..?
Cool idea! If I may ask: how do you plan on monetizing this?
> In the context of this discussion (blocking at enterprises), I doubt any sysadmin is going to be able to convince the leadership that blocking all google services is an acceptable trade-off.

If that was the case, here was the original comment.

> Apple servers are whitelisted in adblocking and firewall APIs

What exactly did you disagree with?
All advertising is a non-necessary evil, with ONE exception only:

I’m IN a store, show me ads with spec sheets for items IN your store only. I save time. You sell more, more easily.
Isn't that even possibly illegal? I mean contacting someone on a personal channel for unsolicited B2B sales?
I am not sure we should add privacy protection to software license.

Debian Free software guideline does not allow discriminate against using debian for evil.
Can't wait for the improved JSON version:

{"path": {"d": ["M", 10, 10, "H", 90, "V", 90, "H", 10, "L", 10, 10]}}
Yes. This is also the case for just about every other computer out there, as chances are most PCs will end up writing to UEFI variables on every boot for something or other anyway, and those are stored in Flash memory too, which has a finite endurance. That should be NOR flash, which should have higher endurance than the NAND in SSDs - but we also don't have any numbers on Apple's SSD endurance, so it would be premature to speculate that this is going to be a real problem in non-pathological use cases, and that the machine won't in practice die first of other causes.

Strictly speaking, the things can boot off of DFU (USB device mode) too, but to make that useful for regular boot you need to ask Apple, as currently you cannot boot a normal OS like that as far as I know, only their signed restore bundles (which is how you fix an M1 Mac if you wipe the SSD).
Western democracy wouldn't exist without citizens who were armed to the teeth.

Do you think the monarchys would have happily and peacefully turned over their power because of the power of love?

Because someone said please sir?
A previous discussion (different article) on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9074473
I wonder whether they will be able to archive deleted tweets. [1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/kfile-neera-tanden-d...
> The principal under which Escalante's program flourished (Henry Gradillas) was a big contributor to the success, but even so, he wasn't invited back after a sabbatical, and it's reasonable to speculate that he'd run afoul of the community which employed him when he'd prioritized academics over athletics.

That's even more heartbreaking to hear. Everyone's opinion seemed to have matter, except that of the students, whose careers and educations were at stake.
Do you think folks who are just getting started in the Erlang ecosystem would be better to learn Elixir before Erlang?
If Kotlin's only improvement over Java were its scope functions, that alone would be an overwhelmingly good reason to migrate. Scope functions are awesome, cannot stress that enough.

Kotlin syntax makes writing functional code beautiful and simple... map and fold and filter are so much easier to write than in any other language that also have the same functions, such as JS. Again, that alone would be enough to migrate.

But there are still so many more simple, but incredibly useful functions like SubstringAfterLast which takes a nasty, ugly Split function into a beautiful, precise line of code. Just one example of many.
If they are "working with what they have", then they should not speak from a position of authority.

Authority is derived from something being something that everyone has. In the past, achieving that goal practically guaranteed authenticity to within a comfortable enough quanta for everyone to work with.

With more advanced remote sensing equipment, the decreased cost to publish, reach one can attain for relatively little cost nowadays, that is no longer a luxury we can all afford to continue to entertain. We must all see with our own eyes. In the case that is frustrated or made impossible, it should not a surprise that the world acts as badly as it does.

This is why the collective lie is the most powerful weapon fielded by modern civilization, and why there is such a jockeying for control of what the definition of allowable evidence is. Perception management is a weapon of mass destruction, and should be called out for what it is.
Soy and corn are the largest and most destructive monoculture crops in America, though a large amount is used as animal feed.

Nonetheless, "veganism" does not imply good agricultural practices or less money or power — likely the opposite. Do not think of veganism as your local farmers market. Think of it as mostly destructive monoculture farming.

Healthy ecosystems require ruminants and other animals and plants to thrive. Modern agriculture is usually split up — barren feed lots, barren corn fields, etc. Regenerative agriculture like what the Savory Institute espouses is what's needed.

Vegans are also a great target market and quite lucrative. People who can afford to be vegan will pay higher prices for lower cost goods. I wouldn't be surprised to see lobbying from vegan food companies.
Seriously? The "nutrition" industry is absolutely huge and banks off of the fact that we don't really know anything about diet, except that trans fats are bad, lots of refined sugar is bad, and folic acid is important for pregnant women. They point the finger at all manner of foods from red meats to fruits and everything in between, in order to sell supplements, fad diets, overpriced holistic/integrative medicine sessions, etc.
I’ve had tinnitus my entire life and think my case is genetic. There was a brief period in my life where I started reading about it and got pretty stressed I could hear it while trying to sleep. That compounded in on itself and it had me worried for a while. Eventually started meditating, stopped really caring, and never think about it anymore. Every now and then I’ll hear it, but I can focus on my breathing and just get back to life. If I focus, sure, it’s always there, but why bother?

From what I understand some people can get very loud cases. I’m not sure how I’d deal with that.

Daily user of airpods for years, and no changes to my tinnitus.
Wired headphones use an electromagnet to move the speaker too, they create EMFs just as powerful...
That’s true of most airplanes’ doors for humans, but the cargo door on a 75 opens outward. It’s too big to be a plug.

https://kawakaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Kawak-A...
My partner and I did the same thing 10 years ago on $1 per day bicycles. There are numerous large and impressive ruins scattered all over Siem Reap and you get then all to yourself.

I really miss travel too.
Hah!

You reminded me of the Half Life 2 Tech Demo at E3 2003.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ddJ1OKV63Q

The legendary moment starting at 3:14 :-)
Because most people accessed the internet on their clamshell phones and not through a PC/laptop. So most websites were designed to be mostly text and easily browsed from clamshell-phone internet browsers. Now that smartphones have become ubiquitous more sites are finally being designed to look nice on smartphones - sometimes still at the consequence of desktop use. It took a few years after the iPhone release (aka: for it to get widespread market adoption) for JP websites to start "catching up" with Western web design.

There are some other reasons too - but I'd wager the above is the #1 reason and others are more of an "in addition to that" type thing.

More info: https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-differe...
I use their Arch Linux repository. Everything is simple and just works.
Probably an automated ban. You can't have people distributing patches to game binaries on the official forums. Too much potential for malware, and the company ends up being liable (if not legally then at least PR wise).
usually businesses use auditing tables to track this, usually by setting up triggers to insert a row into the auditing table
any time a delete, update or insert occurs on the original
Sure. But no doubt the courts and your opinion don’t always align?

Before it ever gets to court, how would you know a law is unconstitutional? Or are you willing to make that call yourself?

If you’re willing to make that call yourself, what happens when the courts disagree? Do you then change your mind? Or do you continue to hold your belief?

I’m trying to understand how your approach works in the real world.