skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This monitor has a lot of pixels by decade-ago standards, but its pixel density leaves much to be desired by today standards. I have accidentally become accustomed to crisp, small fonts by a couple of years of using an old Retina Macbook. Bitmap fonts are better at this than scalable fonts, especially on screens with low pixel density.

IMO these are all the right reasons. I also suffer from a bad purchase: 27" FullHD Monitor, which means 82dpi (if I remember correctly). But even at more common resolutions like 90-100dpi, vector fonts totally suck at small sizes. So bitmap fonts it is for coding work.

However this font clearly suffers from being only 5x10 size. The characters look similar to vector fonts without antialiasing: Random disproportions -- the same line is 1px here, 2px over there.

What's not to like about the default font that comes with xterm (6x13 size)? http://jstimpfle.de/dateisalat/2016-10-xterm-screenshot/
Yup! It's definitely a niche typeface; I hope at least some people find it useful, but I suspect that most won't.
Expect nothing more than your standard initial phone call. In fact, the advantages of a coffee meet are way higher than a call. They are probably going to be equally awkward at the beginning, unless they have done such coffee sessions before, in which case they will simply lead you.
This is stupid. The claim is not that all SF tech companies are visionary. The claim may be that most visionary companies, today, are concentrated in or benefit from SF tech. From a simple market perspective, many tech companies are "visionary" by definition of the premium over current earnings. People may be "realizing their potential" in ways that are not obvious to you and me. The laundromat next door helps a lot of people, and does its part in increasing general quality of life – some of the "dumb" companies may do that tomorrow. That's what people putting their time and money on the line believe, at least.
>What about forcing this upon other less wealthy EU member states, just like they did with migrant quotas

This. If you can handle the economic fallout from doubling down on teslas, volts and leafs and legislating away everything else then good for you but don't make everyone else do it.
I'm not saying it's magic, I'm saying that securing a P2P network is more difficult because the threat surface is much larger and because you have much less control over your stack. At the very least, I (should) have physical security over my own servers, and the intra-DC data links.

You can't say that at all about a distributed P2P network, so you'll need to put in more elbow grease to address those vectors. For example, if I find a severe vulnerability, I can immediately patch my own servers. If the vulnerability is in the P2P client, it may be impossible to guarantee that every last client gets patched.

> And why is that?

Because there's obviously an inverse tradeoff between control and development speed. Managing distributed state is hard enough when it's on your machines, it's exponentially harder when it's random devices somewhere on the Internet. Your guarantees are much looser.

For example:

1. Your data is less local so there is less effective latency.

2. You're spending computation and bandwidth that other people are paying for

If I need to get some big batch job done quickly and the data is on my servers, then I just up a bunch of instances and get it done. If the data is on a bunch of smartphones somewhere, I can't suddenly grab a bunch more of their computational capacity and bandwidth without pissing off a bunch of users, can I?

And what if I need to change the protocol? We're back to the problem of patching all the clients.

I'm not saying these technical hurdles are insoluble. I'm saying they are real and to date nobody has actually solved them.
Interesting. But the video title is a bit mis-leading. It modifies minetest, a "free, open source voxel game engine" [1], not Minecraft.

- [1] http://www.minetest.net/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05917
Agreed, there is a lot I disagree with from the article, but this is the only one that my mind lashed out at as simply being WRONG. The only time I have seen numbers used on aliases in 10+ years is on self-joins. Even on self-joins I prefer to see something in the alias that identifies why that particular join is part of the query, but the reality is that such a descriptive name would often be so long that you're more likely to see a numeric suffix.
> Glean is released under version 3 of the GNU GPL, or any later version.

While I love the GPL (and commend you for using it on a non-software work) I would recommend that you add the font exception to the licence (allowing embedding of the font in documents without licencing the document under GPL).
I think you (and many others) have this relationship by the wrong end. Things which are valuable are frequently rare/unique, whereas there are many unique/rare things with no value whatsoever. As others in this thread have implied, the lack of ability to monetize is strongly correlated with a lack of real value.
SF is the hot potato economy.

Just take a company, hire lots of people that fit into the western "strategic genius" stereotype, create lots of hype, inflate the value by hiring lots of people and expanding, clone lots of technology that already exists, then when it's time to actually make revenue, sell it really expensively.

The value of something is relative. The entire idea is to inflate the value of a company as much as possible, then sell it, then repeat the cycle again and again.

Then, in some cases it might be fine to buy a company because of their intellectual property such as their patent portfolio, their franchises, branding, know-how... but if you buy a company because of its software, make sure you are not buying a communal pot of spaghetti. Send a tech person to make sure you are not getting scammed into a technical debt nightmare.
I find this font pretty hard to read, judging by the screenshots.

If you want bitmap fonts, I'd recommend taking a look at the Proggy set of fonts at http://upperbounds.net/index.php?menu=download
Primarily just that it's too tall - 13 vs 10 pixels means the difference between 100 lines and 130. And yep! It's really hard to get an even look at a size this small.
> Journalists certainly are

In the short term, anyway. The substitution of Twitter-trawling for actual journalism and research is doing immense damage in the long run.
You say they "get fed up with paying insane amount of taxes". All they have to do to stop paying so much in taxes is to stop accruing an insane amount or wealth.

The truth is more likely that their wealth has made them selfish and insensitive. As Leona Helmsley famously said "Only the little people pay taxes".

It might be interesting to know what percentage of thier offspring the wealthy are sending to fight and die in wars compared to everyone else.
I thought that Dark Matter and Dark Energy are simply placeholders for our lack of explanation of observed phenomenon?

In which case these types of discoveries are to be expected as we fill in the missing blanks.

If so then I am happy to see progress being made.

If I am wrong about my assumptions about Dark Matter and Dark Energy I wouldn't mind some starters :) Thanks!
what does .md stand for?
I feel like "goto" gets an unfair bad reputation. It really can be useful at times.
I love Detroit :D (btw Tilapia are illegal in Australia, they're extremely invasive, but there must be a local anlog)
ah yes, taxes do tangle time-shifting money quite a lot. The way I have seen people fund companies with labor is corp-to-corp contracting; your client pays your company instead of you, then you can (sortof) pay it out as payroll to other people or equipment that year. (for the ranges of money we're talking about here, there are often ways to write off your equipment the same year. Ask your accountant.) It is somewhat more complex than that, and it is harder to get corp-to-corp contracts than to get w2 contracts, and it still doesn't help much in carrying over money from one year to the next, but people do it, and it is a tax-efficient-ish way to get money from your labor into equipment or payroll for the business.
Yeah! I was actually using progsole before making this - I'm primarily interested in squeezing legible characters into pixels, and progsole is sliiiightly wider. Even the difference between 5 and 6 pixels can be substantial if you're trying to keep 6 files in your head at once.
exactly what I had in mind, as most of user's 'smart' phone capability are under-utilized, so it's not a problem of hardware / software / usability, it's more to make it appealing for user to adopt, which is the hard problem since forever :p
The only thing that is said to make Hugo better than other static site generators is that it compiles fast. This is probably because of Go. Now Go is so fast because it uses ALGOL's compiling methods...

I wonder how fast Hugo would be if it was written in Pascal instead.
> ...the discovery mechanisms are algorithmically biased...

That depends entirely on how you use Twitter.

Find people you know or have heard of other places and think are smart/interesting/important/etc. Follow people they retweet. Repeat. Meet Kevin Bacon.
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My only con against tarsnap is that it can take a long time to do a restore, even for a smallish (30G) backup. Last time I tested at least, I was looking at over three hours. The dev is aware of the issue and may have improved upon it in the meantime.

That is the _only_ reason I have for looking at something else.
You should absolutely build a public cloud competitor if you believe your numbers. By your numbers you'd make a minimum 100% margin and as much as 400%.
Naming conventions are pretty controversial I think.

The databases I deal with are mostly for storing time series data taken from measurement instruments (i.e Load Cells, Thermocouples, Flow transmitters, Pressure gauges etc). We seem to use prefixes to distinguish columns i.e.

MS_ (Mass in Tonnes, MS_KG_ etc. Is used If not stored as Tonnes)
VL_ (volume, in cubic meters)
RT_FL_ (is Flow rate in normal cubic meters per hour)
TP_ (is temperature in degrees Celsius)
PR_ (is gauge pressure in KPa)

I've seem some databases which didn't use a prefix convention and in my experience it was a real nightmare trying to keep track of units etc.

There is an ISO standard for naming conventions ISO:11179 - My work's databases are (apparently) configured based on this but I'm sure the DBA's extended it in a bunch of ways.
Not to mention all the worst speech-policing neo-Puritans that San Francisco has to offer.
When I was young, everyone wrote a text editor.

Today, everyone writes a framework.

2036 will be awesome.
For me everything boils down to: as an engineer, how well aware are you of your domain. If you are, then you know how to integrate tools and code together to produce the next invention. I've written a post for engineers on precisely that topic just last week:
https://my.caura.co/why-build-software-in-house-not-f3c9bc72...
I've argued this before, media shaming could be really effective here. Ivory dealers as incompetent villains. Pathetic ivory consumers. It's not an addiction, it's a status symbol. Destroy the status.

Superman vs the kkk was super effective.
Oh, so you're optimizing and not innovating.
Ethics in VC: How much confidentiality should founders expect?
My understanding is that the difference between observed and predicted galaxy rotation rates is real, and the thing that is thought to cause it is given the name of dark matter. But that doesn't make it a placeholder! Any more, for example, than when people detected the effects of Mercury or Neptune on the orbits of other planets in the solar system, before they could see those planets directly, they could give them a name without being able to see them: yet those weren't placeholders, rather their effects on orbits was evidence of their existence.

OTOH, maybe everything in science is a kind of a placeholder, but that sort of thing can get unpleasantly philosophical.
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To be clear, P is used for validating the asynchronous state machines used by the Windows USB drivers, and not for implementing the drivers, which are written in C.

And the USB driver stack implementation is same for both Windows 8 & and Windows 10, so the answer to your question is - yes.
Pushing Ice. It's a one-off and excellent taste test in case you don't want to commit to a series.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, racism and bigotry is well documented in Football (Soccer).

To compare any established football team's supporting crowd to a countries Democratic process is foolish.

We're not about to start comparing the social status of Britain to West Ham's Claret and Blue Army, are we? I'd suggest we do not follow the same in Turkey.
Interesting I'd not seen that map before.
Typical bonuses I've seen are $100-$500. Recruiters usually get ~20% of the first year salary.
Sort of, "dark matter" would just be matter that doesn't interact with photons. We're pretty dang sure dark matter isn't neutrinos but for reference neutrinos don't interact with photons either, so it's not like dark matter is actually all that exotic. We just can't constrain every thing about it.

What it comes down to, and this paper doesn't change this at all, is that either there's a bunch of matter we can't see or force carrying particles don't obey basic geometry (or the universe has much weirder geometry than we think). Most of us are a lot more comfortable with basically invisible matter.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACS_J0025.4-1222

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_44
Yeah, they're also hugely personal and there is tons of interest for a "real" military watch outside of militaries. Most accounts I've read say that people in the US military like G-Shocks and other cheap simple digital watches like this Casio. There are quite a few G-Shock fans around the world, and my personal favorite is the G-Shock G-056 since it's the thinnest G with solar and an atomic RX.
So why post anything at all?
Well at the top of the manual, the list of constraints[1] reads the same as the actor model[2] (it explicitly uses local state ('store') to model behaviour changes), with the word 'machine' substituted for 'actor'.

If anything it reads like the restricted form of the actor model produced by using only Erlang's gen_fsm or Akka's FSM mixin.

(to be clear, using a restricted form with more constraints is a great thing - even better here, where one of the domains they're serving seems to be fairly restricted execution environments)

[1]:

> Each operation either updates the local store, sends messages to other machines, or creates new machines.
> In P, a send operation is non-blocking; the message is simply enqueued into the input queue of the target machine.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Fundamental_concep...
Font Book says the dfont file fails "System Validation", whatever that means, and warns they might cause system disruption. Anyone know what this means? Ignorable?
This is great. Are there plans to add other data structures or are you taking pull requests to do so?
No, that isn't accurate. Predominance does not necessarily equate to exclusivity, as you seem to be hinting.
Neil Fraser wrote about getting a letter from a an inmate wanting to learn to program. He sent two books and a problem to solve.

CS Unplugged: Computer Science without a computer and Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers. I've also posed a problem for him to ponder:

"You have five fingers on your hand (usually -- a few people have more, many have fewer). Each finger can be either extended, or curled up. So a fist would be all fingers curled up, a high-five would be all fingers extended, and many other combinations exist (including the obscene middle-finger gesture, and probably a whole lot of gang signs). What is the total number of possible combinations that can be produced using five fingers? Can you do them all? What is the total number of possible combinations that can be produced using ten fingers? Can you figure out a pattern so that you could calculate how many possible combinations there would be if you had 16 fingers?"

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2015/04/13/
As someone who is outside of SF looking in, to me the whole startup culture there seems utterly insane. To me, it seems as though there is some kind of reality distortion field that convinces us all that no matter what we is being worked on or created, it is in some way world changing or "disruptive", despite how stupid it is, or how viable a market there is for what is being made.

The funny thing is, organizations that are actually trying to make the world a better place by helping the homeless, poor, disadvantaged etc I've never even heard of.

The way I see it is that VC's are all about world changing and making the world a better place, so long as in this better world they can still milk a market for every last penny.
>Twitter represents a very narrow sector of society.

As does most written text.
very impressive!
Actually no. I'm making the software that did not previously exist. Others down the road can then use it to produce better performing products.

Passive aggressive word games aside, you really can't compare "reducing the global need for oil" to "snapchat for cats".
> Good, I didn't know about the "take all" feature, taking note.

If you're serious about making a viable interactive fiction engine, you should get really familiar with the Infocom games, the Z-machine engine and its various ports, and the Inform compiler that a latter-day fan made for the Z-machine (and the fan-made games that use it). That's the standard by which your work will be judged.

If you're just fooling around, then do whatever you like. :) Some of your ideas are pretty neat, like tab completion.
US productivity growth has been slowing, though productivity itself is still more or less increasing and has roughly doubled from 1989. That's remarkable given the scale of the US economy.

See the "Max" timeline view here to see US productivity over time:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity
Or, y'know, just wait, also like people used to do. One won't die without frequent sips of water.

I remember once seeing a women in a church service with her mandatory stylish bottle of water. Now, it's certainly possible that she had an actual medical issue requiring frequent hydration, and it's certainly possible that she was also of a social class such that the stylish water bottle was the reasonable way to address her medical issue — but Ockham's Razor suggests not.

Water's great. Honestly, I like the idea of a water sommelier: having the opportunity to taste different waters sounds cool. I love the idea of drinking water thousands of years old (although I wonder how trustworthy the supplier are: it'd be a lot cheaper just to distil tapwater than to net chunks of iceberg). But the social signalling aspect is just weird.

We pay millions of dollars for good, clean drinking water. And it is — outside of hellholes like Flint, MI — pretty damned good stuff. Why buy it as a matter of course?
How could that be possible? Wouldn't that literally throw away everything but the distribution of colors in the image?
My adviser wants to use my code for a spin-off, but I want to use it myself
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How about putting a hardware switch on the device such that you can't write to the non-volatile memory when the switch is in the off state. For day-to-day use the switch can be left in the off state. For software updates, set the switch to on, boot the device, update the OS, set the switch to off and reboot the device.
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Until the time at which another developer must debug it and all previously gained value instantly disappears (at least in imperative languages)
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Microsoft Excel has stopped working.
The culture of Switzerland, particularly Zürich, is more South German than it is North Italian or East French.
What alternative system would you propose?
My comment about C-like languages was about their "own little language".
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> iteratively using LIFO queues or FIFO stacks.

Aren't queues FIFO and stacks LIFO? Or am I just confused and there is some FIFO stack thing I haven't heard of yet?
The issue is that ozone purification cleans the water at the source, but it's free to pick up contamination in the pipes as it makes its way to the tap; chlorination works right up until the water is drunk. The downside is that chlorinated water does not taste great.

If one has a good pipe system, the ozonated water is fine. If there's any worry, though, chlorinated is safer. I'm not surprised that a military base would choose the safer alternative: no-one ever got fired for ensuring that the water is safe to drink.
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It means it is easy to access. That is all.
Has anyone actually made a serious case that innovation has stopped? The closest I've ever seen are people asserting that things they feel are obvious in retrospect aren't innovations, but that's just a silly bias.
I ignored it and it works fine. It's even powerline patched!
Fivetran (YC W13) is hiring back-end engineers (remote ok)
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We've built a huge product with a small team by building our software in a disciplined, pragmatic way. Fivetran values engineering talent and we know how to help you be productive.

We're looking for people who are excited about solving a hard and highly valuable engineering problem. Bonus points if you have deep experience with Java, Jackson, and AWS.

Email george@fivetran.com with something cool you've built.
> The alternative when this house was built, was orange plush carpet, grotesque wallpaper, and huge stuffed sofas.

Hear hear. I also grew up in (mostly) "midcentury modern" interior design (thanks, Mom and Dad!) and I find that it... just looks nice.

I was trying to explain to someone why I wanted white gadgets (iPad, Kindle, etc.) and wound up realizing that they are closer to the Braun aesthetic than the black ones, which I associate with the black-on-black-with-black-and-did-we-mention-black design of the Panisonics, Technics, etc. stereo equipment of the 70's.
This seems to largely be prostitution (both rent and sex have established value), bartering is ancient.
I liked this style of font when I had an 800x600 laptop or even 1280x800 but with today's screens it's just to small. Making it large enough to look visible works better with a vector font.