skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the point is that if the open, portable solution gets a sufficiently large userbase, then the platform owners will be highly motivated to provide/implement efficient support for the open standard.
I expect this would be the case with alpha compositing at least...

Afaict subpixel rendering is supersampling width with multiples of 3, then modulo via the horizontal coordinate into rgb triplets and divide by supersampling factor. I guess if kerning and position are also subpixel it might become more tricky to cache results efficiently.
Okay, I'll take a stab at this:

Safari - either Google Chrome or Chromium (depending on how open you like things) can keep pace with Safari in terms of general usability and extension ecosystem. At worst I think you'd find the experience on par, but when I owned a Mac, I found Google Chrome to be more performant than Safari on the regular, and its Linux build is just as quick. A lot of Linux folks recommend Firefox as well but I still am not convinced it beats Chrome in terms of out-of-the-box magical "Just Works" factor.

Discord - The client may be alpha, but this works just fine honestly. I've never had a problem. This is largely because the desktop app is Electron based, so it's running on a web browser anyway; it's very, very cross platform friendly. Slack too, if that's your thing.

iTerm - There are MANY good terminal clients for Linux. I personally use Terminator, which I find has a good balance of power features and stability. I particularly enjoy its terminal broadcasting implementation, but I'm in the unusual position of working on many parallel servers in tandem during my day job, so this feature is very important to me.

iTunes - If it's just for movie watching, I've found VLC to be perfectly servicable. mPlayer is also quite popular and there are many frontends.

Messages, Outlook - Here you've got a fair point. Outlook in particular is a pain point; there are workarounds to get it working in Thunderbird and Evolution, but they're just that - workarounds. Anything beyond basic email will need the web app; fortunately the web app isn't _terrible_, but yeah. Fair complaint.

Xcode - If your goal is to build Mac / iOS apps, there is no substitute thanks to Apple's EULA. For everything else, pick your poison; there are more code editors and IDEs on Linux than one can count, many of them excellent. Personally I'm happy with Sublime Text (paid, worth every penny) and a Terminator window, but I hear VSCode is also excellent, which is odd considering that's a Microsoft endeavor. (Now if we could just get them to port Outlook...)
> "One story that I wish was a myth is how ice cream used to be made from pig fat in the UK."

That's actually pretty neat. Did it taste good?
Oh gee we didn't realise it was haaaaard.
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There will always be exceptions but more or less everyone with enough points gets in unless you have some official data which says otherwise.
> but it is still a huge improvement over the jagged over-hinted font rendering you get without ClearType.

There is no font smoothing at all (the jagged fonts), and then there is grayscale font smoothing, and then there is coloured font smoothing. Apple is switching from coloured to gray-scale, which like OP, is great for me personally as I can see all the colours in the other approach.
I had a real, personal blog, with plenty of loyal readers. In mid-2012 it just stopped being a happening thing. I no longer had the reliable interaction from repeat visitors.

That, not consequently, is the same time as Facebook became the dominant way for many people to share and consume links on the web.
That must be personal, but I always preferred grayscale AA.
Safari and iTunes?!
Mojave beta installed, and the fonts look equally atrocious. They are blurry, indistinct...and just bad. One of the reasons I bought a 5K iMac (three of them, actually) was to have great fonts. I am beyond angry that I will now have to sell them.
Yes, the lack of reusable controls in hrml is utterly crazy!
Oh, I am not saying there are no problems. And I don't deny a certain emotional appeal to having safety features provided by the language.

However, great (quality) is delivered with those kinds of features and without, and crap software is delivered with those kinds of features and without. And more importantly, I have seen little to no evidence that having those sorts of features actually substantially changes the statistical distribution of crap/quality software, no matter what we feel should be the case.

People can use these safety features or not, and they can use them well or not. Just like they can use non-linguistic safety mechanism, such as really good test-suites...or not.

Elsewhere, he writes:

> This is where I stop understanding how the rest of the world can work at all. And so you probably need to upgrade your understanding.

If the world doesn't conform to your understanding of it, the thing that's lacking is almost certainly your understanding of the world. Because it does work.
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You missed this part: "I don't actually have a smartphone for this reason)."
It’s been a good amount of time for me seeing custom mouse cursors (maybe since the days of MySpace). Very fitting. Thanks for taking me back, amigalove.com
True, and I don't think you can use Tinder without a Facebook account. :)
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I can speak only for myself, but it feels like the "rules" were still more lax in the 90s. So much of my time was spent toying around with the original Half-Life: making sprays, importing custom models, playing half-finished maps, exploring whatever bizarre mods were trending on Fileplanet. And everyone else was doing the same thing! There might be tons of zany games out there today, but that comfortable feeling of loose, collective exploration is missing. (Well, maybe the Minecraft kids have similar experiences.) Even the user-generated content is overly polished and unsurprising.

I miss existing in that collective weird space.
They had a booth at the 1999 Game Developers Conference with scantily dressed young women in skunk costumes. They tried to convince me that The Sims should support smell, because the iSmell would enrich the user experience of all those blue puddles of piss on the floor, stopped up toilets in the bathroom, and plates of rotting food with flies buzzing around on the dining room table.
Yes, this should have been noticed during the mandatory code review that every extension has to undergo.
And it’s totally original, not some derivative knock of designed to evoke thoughts of some other creation.
First time I heard about Deepin. Looked at a few vids and it looks good.

Another sign that a lot of innovation comes from China currently... The Matebook Pro X looks great also.
Dgraph is awesome but lacking some serious basic features such as backups and automatic file format update on new versions. I hate to export it all, update, re-import...

But love it, and love the team at Dgraph/Badger.
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Classic Marc Canter interview. I'm surprised they could smell the output of the iSmell USB device over the pungent bouquet from all the joints he was smoking.

https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/

"You know, I don't think the transition from wood smoke to bananas worked very well." -Marc Canter

You're right that iThings were a huge craze in 1999.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExgxtJjRS8
IMO this is a failing of Android that should be dealt with immediately. iOS has had a big red bar across the top of the screen for years when location or microphone is being accessed.
JS is used on client and server-side, in mobile and desktop application development, and for IoT/embedded systems also. 69% vs 30% might be accurate. Which one is more popular as a server-side tool only is an interesting question though. Consider the number of packages on npm vs composer for example.
After more reading, it is horrible. Even if the answers seem to be (0) no (1) maybe (2) yes, the main point of interest for researchers is that they will become publishers slaves, or else they have to not publish (anything which might result in a copyright filter). Give not publish, or be a slave.
Sorry for the rant, but given the price of the JetBrains Toolbox, it infuriates me that they've been giving us HDPI users the middle finger for a couple of years now.

First of all, switching to grayscale helps A LOT. mojave does this system wide, but the JVM (or IntelliJ, I don't really remember) has its own font rendering system, so you need to change that in IntelliJ directly.

I was hurt terribly by this issue. My problems have been solved by three things:
- IDEA update that reworks the statusbar undertermined progress bar, which maxed my cpu just for a dumb anymation
- Going from an iGPU to dGPU mac (you seem to have one, so congrats, it would be way worse with only your iGPU)
- Using an experimental JVM from this thread: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-144261

That said, JetBrains messed up with their 2018.1 release again. I'm mostly using Android studio, which lags behind IntelliJ's versions. 3.1 merged the stupid progressbar fix, but I'm not looking forward when 3.2 hits stable, with 2018.1 merged in.

Bottom line is that there are multiple factors in JetBrain's custom OpenGL UI inefficiencies combined with Oracle's JVM bugs/inefficiencies that takes down the whole system, but it's ultimately not only a font smoothing issue.

JetBrains doesn't really care, or at least doesn't show that they care. They first said "we don't notice that", and then released some JVM patches in the comments of an issue.

Of course, Oracle also shares part of the blame: none of this would have happened had they kept Apple's JVM Quartz support.
Ah, all of the VoIP fees are just fees for gaining access to the PSTN network from the outside (not necessarily through the VoIP). All of the taxes relate to any use of telephone services.

Thus, it's just the price of the service your are purchasing, none being related to how it is delivered.
If it's greyscale, it's not subpixel antialiasing.
Discussed yesterday...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17465068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17467790
Incentivizing number of comments puts flame wars and chain letters at the top.
There is no such thing as strawberry taste. What you feel is actually strawberry smell. Also apple banana cola etc. These are smells that you feel by eating. Try eating something while holding your nose shut with your hand. According to Wikipedia we have only five tastes:

The sensation of taste includes five established basic tastes: sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and savoriness.
This kind of bad news fatigue is a very real (and frequent) phenomenon. And it's really, really scary when you think about it. We are so accustomed to having less and less privacy (among many other things) that moving downward at the usual speed of the last decade is just the new normal.

Even worse, knowing about this phenomenon seems to do very little to stop it. At least that's what I'm feeling.
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> Which framework should I stick with?

When starting out it's best just using vanilla JS, otherwise you are dependent on frameworks to do the grunt work, and you will often wish a framework had a certain feature (you are best cooking up your own methods in vanilla JS). As for what frameworks to 'stick' with, I would go with something like Vue or jQuery, but more often than not you will not need them (Using Vue as an early entry to learning JS is like bringing a gun to a knife fight).
Asciinema is not gif. The text be zoomed in and is still super crisp and you can select the text.
That's basically what onion addresses v3 are.
Having actually been in the graphics industry before LCDs were prevalent, we did sub-pixel rendering. It just wasn't built in as a standard feature in OS font rendering until LCDs made it necessary.
I think he’s simply saying that a subset are not able to even understand that there is a choice to be made, and that the logic then would be that you can eat people from that subset.
Look at your screen with a magnifying glass. Then look at your phone's screen. And your TV screen.
Churn at the top doesn't mean there's upward mobility.
The equivalent of a post-it note stuck on the side of the monitor with the pass written on it
No, they were hardware related (coil whine, firmware upgrade rendering the laptop inoperable, TB15... Too long to list but also hw).
Greyscale anti-aliasing is far inferior to sub-pixel. The fonts look much worse.

BTW, I did install Mojave beta and the fonts look just terrible even on a Retina display. Shockingly bad. I can't believe Apple is doing this. I just bought a new 5K iMac a few months ago. I wish it were still in the return period...but in other news, I am now selling all of my Apple equipment as it's pointless to have it. Without the great fonts I purchased it for, it's so much junk to me.
This is why I'm growing into a bit of a fan of the hashicorp suite at the moment. It allows for a gradual, problem-driven extension of an infrastructure, instead of requiring you to start over. At our place we did a couple of iterations:

- First off we went from manually managed servers to chef managing servers. That was good progress, because it allowed us to scale a growing application on a cloud provider due to a large new contract.

- Then we added vault in order to simplify secret generation, management and rotation in chef. It's cool, because now we have a secure secret storage. We can give our devs access specific access to the secrets of clusters they manage but not other clusters. We can script a lot of stuff around vault.

- Then we added terraform to manage VMs easier. We should have done that earlier, I suppose, but hindsight.

- And now our devs are having large issues with their docker-based test setups, so we can open up the consul cluster and deploy nomad for this use case. We'll probably migrate some other services into that nomad cluster so we can get them loadbalanced with little effort. We'll probably shuffle some annoying things in chef around and use consul-template there.

I like that approach, because it is problem-driven and converges to simplify existing problems. For example, we have an elastic stack, and we won't move the elasticsearch cluster or the influxdbs around it away from chef on bare metal. It's a solid and stable setup, why change it.
> Subpixel antialiasing is obnoxious to implement

Totally, but

> there's no denying that subpixel-AA text looks better on 1x displays.

I get that it's hard, but at the end of the day what users are going to notice is, when they dock their laptop at work, their display is going to look like fuzzy crap. Maybe most people won't notice? It's hard to tell without seeing a side-by-side comparison.
Thousands of patients still wake up on the operating table every year
I'm having a hard time figuring out what you're saying, because it seems like a rant bordering on conspiracy theory (e.g. preservatives causing ADHD, which I'm sure isn't based on any real science; or insinuating that ice cream van drivers are pedophiles). My take is that you simply don't like ice cream, and don't like other people enjoying it.
Yep.

Provable correctness can be useful iff you have a formal specification, and iff that formal specification is more likely to be a correct reflection of the requirements than the code + some tests.

While there are times when that's the case, those are rare.
hmmm, I worked at google when they were doing a drive upgrade. They couldn't erase 100,000 hard drives (it would take years of time in the eraser machines) so they had to destroy them, which I assume meant melting them and eventually extracting the gold.
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You can use saga if it feeds your ego, sure. Redux is a simple tool and thunk is a simple library, and they both do their job.
working with react makes me feel like working with PHP. mix everything on the same page/component
Có được xét tuyển ĐH khi bị liệt hay không? – Trường Cao đẳng Y Dược Pasteur
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Errata: The expression

E[(Y - f(X))]^2

of course, and as later in the derivation, should read

E[(Y - f(X))^2]

I'll have to advise my typist to do better in the future!!!
What programs do you use? Can they make annotations with math typesetting, markup, links and images?
>My debt was the result, in equal measure, of a chain of rotten luck and a system that is an abject failure by design.

Bad luck and the "system"? No. The author and his parents are also responsible. They should have sat down and discussed majors, schools, and how to pay for them. NYU is not the only school with English Literature programs; so, he could have chosen a cheaper school. They could have discussed what sort of job he wanted. If he wanted to study English Literature because he liked it, make it a minor and/or study it throughout your life.

You can blame luck and the system all you want; but, you bear some of the responsibility yourself.
No one cares about the hit Facebook takes from having social media blocked. In fact, I'd rather have them crash and burn.

The problem is that the citizens get access to all social media taken away through taxes that most would avoid. Social media is also Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, WeChat, Weibo, QQ, ...

It is not suddenly okay to block free speech by limiting/removing access to social media, just because one of these social media are known to censor content in other ways. One crime does not justify the next.
How is that different from a smartphone or laptop or any other device with a microphone?
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I can imagine a file-hosting blockchain platform that pays out people who host, and charges people who request files. The tokens to participate in the service then get sold on the usual exchanges.
> I don't understand why so many tech-literate people have an issue with that.

Or at least: the ones with a smartphone. What makes this different?
With your background it's unclear if you want to statistics or mathematical statistics style book.

These are two very different approaches. Mathematical statistics goes trough measure theoretic probability, it connects statistics and mathematic and unifies the discrete and the continuous cases into a coherent whole.

Examples of both

- All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference by Wasserman

- Mathematical Methods of Statistics by Cramer
I tried the beta when it came out and immediately downgraded because of the font, it looked worse even on the 5k iMac display.
In other news, how is Linux's sub-pixel anti-aliasing lately? I haven't used it in years, and never on a 4K or above display.

Since I will now be switching off Mac, Linux is looking likely again. It will probably be two 27" 4K monitors.
Eh? Before Yosemite was released in 2014, one window could span between a 1x and 2x monitor. I forget if it was always rendered at 1x, or if it was rendered at 2x and scaled for the 1x, but yeah it looked like crap on one or the other. Actually I think it switched depending on which monitor had more of the window?

But they only eliminated windows spanning across multiple monitors when they made spaces per-display.
No idea, unfortunately; that Mastodon page is all I know of it. I'm keeping an eye on it though, just in case. I agree that that would definitely be cool.

Edit: Some more info at these links:

- https://medium.com/we-distribute/prismo-is-a-decentralized-l...

- https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100289732805767260

- https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100237371462435727

> Individual instances might be able to choose between representing themselves as one big subreddit, or as a collection of multiple subreddits.
That's the first step in trying out the projects public demo, where they host an instance on their servers and give you a subdomain. Setting up your own server does not give them your personal information.
Reflecting on your last phrase: I was watching Esports the other day, the player was talking with a very loose mouth and I wondered if he was avoiding being lip-read.

I imagine a lip reading AI would get wide usage. Managers will be wearing face masks to hide their lips. (It's probably doable now to listen with a spy-mic, but it's obvious in a way that using a normal video camera isn't).
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The parent poster said "11.9% of U.S. men aged 25-55 have been jobless for over 12 months." It's very possible that ~4% of those people don't want to work, or don't work for various reasons (stay-at-home-dad?).
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It's not Bitcoin itself, it's just that most people on Hacker News hate fraudsters and charlatans perpetrating get-rich-quick pyramid schemes.
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It is important to understand where the internet fits in this metaphor.

That different services cost different things with different taxes is not a problem.

However, with a beer analogy, it would be a special tax on transportation of beer (including bringing it home from the store), which seem a lot less sensible than just pricing beer and bread differently.

After all, the internet is an information transport, and it was a tax on using the internet for certain things (social media).
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I guess Apple just wants everyone to buy retina displays, and don't care about people using what they believe is "legacy" hardware.
Discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/8utcaa/the_amiga_150...
It has to be said, though, that sometimes the public does not know WHAT they want, before they actually see a working efficient product. I mean, just look at the VR devices picture in the article. If the only info execs ever had was that, VRs would have never arrived to the market.

The critical question is obviously: can you make such a good product that the public actually changes its mind?!
In the cast of Bitcoin, I think they should call it "proof of waste".
Does Fuchsia use Rust at all? Because if not, it should. It seems like a wasted opportunity not to preempt tens of thousands of future memory corruption bugs over the next few days for a brand new OS by not using Rust.
Sugar is a drug. Thats what happened...
Thank you.

As a caution against tenanting the deployment tools in-band, I'm reminded of an incident I witnessed about five years back. Company was moving their compute from on-prem to colo datacenters. Pretty good, mature setup: Almost entirely virtualized, 10Gb iSCSI SAN, credentials managed via a dedicated COTS tool, etc. They got most things over-the-wire to the DC. But the final migration had to be done cold - Shut the last bits down that were keeping everything running, move them to the DC and power back on.

Everything went very well until the SAN wouldn't come up. To get into the SAN and troubleshoot they needed the domain, which wasn't available. They had a local account on the SAN, the key for that was safely stored in the password manager. Which was a virtual machine. On the hyper visors. That wouldn't come up until the SAN was booted. Oops!

OK, that's a very obvious foot-in-mouth, in hindsight. As a more likely example, how about the Amazon S3 outage a few years back that wasn't reported on the status page, because the images for the status page were stored on... S3 :D

>you need to assure the glue systems are very simple and well built -- and preferably they need to be much smaller than the system you're protecting.

Absolutely agree.
I recently switched my primary machine to Linux and was pleasantly surprised to learn that 1Password has a web version (which does require a subscription) and the 1Password X extension for Chrome and Firefox to go with that.
Could be this a measure to combat hackintosh installed base?