skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mickey Mouse is just a character. Font faces can be considered critical technical components in the printing process.

If you are using a typeface to print a metric ton of publications, I'm pretty sure you would want it to be engineered to be fit for that purpose. And that the typeface definitions retains its' quality. I would not trust an open source process to maintain a standard of quality. Hence, you need an institution to maintain the quality. Which needs funding.

What is the "correct" price for the font foundries services is of course a different matter altogether.
It's such a mess. We might be better off just translating the damn names (like they did in the remote past)...
We shall not forget the Cincinnati Turkey Tragedy...
Notch is not for FaceID, wtf. It's because they need space to put the frontal camera and the proximity sensor.
>I can't imagine how one can believe that sexual discrimination in any form is bad and at the same time discriminate against applicants on the basis of their gender.

Read the SCOTUS cases on point, in particular read the University of Michigan cases. The issues you raise are discussed at length, especially in reference to past harms and studies on what it would take to correct these past harms. All such affirmative action cases I am aware of, if upheld (and not all are upheld), the courts acknowledge these are temporary measures to address historical discrimination to level the playing field.

In other words if a certain race, religion or sex has been historically and systematically discriminated against, the effects of that discrimination are not cured by removing the discriminatory laws on its own. I don’t necessarily wholly agree with all these studies but I also can’t say playing fields are self leveling.
Six4Three court brief on handing Facebook's data to UK parliamentary committee [pdf]
> There is no implicit license. This is an oft-circulated but fallacious rationalization

There is implicit copyright, I assume that’s what the parent comment was referring to. In the US, it is automatically illegal to copy something and redistribute it under copyright law [1]. The same is true in the EU [2]. While copyrights are not licenses, the parent comment is correct in the sense that one does not have a license to distribute copied content until one is granted that license explicitly by the copyright holder.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register

https://euipo.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/docum...
Could you email me (using either the address in my profile or the one on the web page) more specific information about these groups, so that I can contact them?
In fact, gdisk even says so after the Main partition table CRC mismatch :

Loaded backup partition table instead of main partition table!

And there's no "backup partition table CRC mismatch".

This tool can be very cryptic to decode the messages, though.
I ripped through around 15 or 20 of these one summer holiday (and slightly beyond) back in the late 70's or early 80's - I think I was around 11-12 years old. They were certainly more prevalent on Scottish holiday shop book stands than The Hardy Boys (which I never got around to reading - by the time school went back in I'd moved onto James Herbert horrors which scared the bejesus out of me :) ).

The Three Investigators were truly immersive and fun to read. You'd hardly get a peep from me once I got stuck into one. I think I was reading almost one a day and would burn all my holiday pocket money on them. I didn't read them in any particular order and just grabbed them whenever I found a new copy I hadn't read before.

I reckon there must be a box of these somewhere in my dad's attic, it'd be fun recover them to see how they stand up.
Yes, this is "discrimination against men" in the strict sense of discrimination. And I want to know what they hope to achieve by pointing out this very obvious truth. We see exactly this sort of comment all the time, and I want to know what the motivations for it are.
I'm fuzzy on the details, but there's legal precedent for suing someone for reproducing your code even if they haven't copied any of it.
Businesses are just groups of humans. We in the US have constitutional protections around freedom of association and assembly, of which a business is but one example. We extend other constitutional rights to businesses, because to remove them from businesses would be to remove them from the people associating under those businesses, and would thus be a limit to free assembly.

Also, we definitely do not have a constitutional right to privacy in the public sphere for services that we elect to use.
I'm a little confused by this comment- I was under the impression that the title is pretty accurate to drastic decrease in insect population recorded in multiple studies. Apocalyptic wouldn't be an exaggeration given the studies I've read (>=75% insect loss). If 75% or more of the human population declined over 30 years, I'd be pretty confident that it'd be catastrophic to human society.
It's called the Black Swan fallacy. Ironically, it's what happened with the recession and housing crisis in 2008, except back then it was "the housing market isn't a bubble, people will never default on their mortgages en masse".
Simpler times.

This mainboard's UEFI even has a built-in GUI for filing tech support tickets, for the case things are broken to the extent that you cannot boot.

(This feature is highlighted in the manual, "if you are having trouble with your PC".)
An audacious new plan will make all science free. Can it work?
This isn't really about some kind of caricature of functionalism that HN commenters subscribe to. It's clear that many tech companies have been commissioning fonts they don't really need, and those fonts are often very similar.

See this tweet and the responses:
https://twitter.com/kodform/status/996447044100386816?s=19

Digital fonts changed the economics of typeface production. There's a glut of independent typeface designers now, creating fonts that I suppose count as valid self-expression. Far more typefaces are being created than are actually needed. It's as if creating a typeface is like performing music; it was one thing for many performers each to play live to a small audience, it's something totally different when all their recordings are available in the same marketplace. The best performances will obviously get a large share of the market, and recordings that take a lot of resources to produce (like a corporate typeface) will exist in a different category to the homemade ones.

As I see it, most of these corporate typefaces lack authenticity. They're typically not a meaningful part of corporate design strategy. It is a cosmetic activity. The exception is those which cover larger that unusual chunks of Unicode.
Yep, been using it on iOS for years and have never paid a single cent.
The person in question isn't some random dude who just makes demands, but a visible volunteer. Otherwise the tweet would have no voice, and Rich Hickey wouldn't feel like spending the time to tell someone how they weren't worth the time.
Is it not possible to breed insects to try and replace some portion of the natural base population? Obviously other changes causing the population loss would also have to occur (e.g more responsible use of insecticides, less reliance on monoculture agriculture) - but insects are pretty good at reproducing so I'd think this is at least something we could try and ameliorate.
They're not good at it, and even if they were, there's not as much profit in it. And GM's approach of making a dozen cars that fill the same ecological niche stopped making sense many years ago.
Plausibly one of the Horsemen of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction .

Edit: Actually, I regret being flippant with this. I find this development gravely troubling.
Widely used open source software contained Bitcoin-stealing backdoor
I've felt the impact. When I was a kid going up North for the summers meant hiding out from the blackfly swarms, battling horse flies, catching pollywogs, and watching out for moose. There are no pollywogs anymore, I haven't seen a horse fly in years and frogs are pretty rare to see. You can find polar bears digging in the trash where you'd never see them before.

I don't know if changing our eating habits will help regenerate biodiversity or at least slow down the reduction of it but there are some easy things we can do, that if we all do them, that could have a big impact on the world in a positive way:

1. Go veggie. Or at least try going veggie one or two days a week. Many commodity crops are grown for cattle feed which leads to deforestation and reduction in biodiversity and is a factor in anthropological climate change.

2. Reduce your reliance on biofuels and fuels in general. Palm and canola oil lead to deforestation, monocrops, pesticides, herbicides, etc. The economic incentives and numbers of scale have decimated entire ecosystems for these crops. If able and it makes sense try asking about remote working, use car sharing, demand transportation and cycling infrastructure. Check the provenance of your chocolate, beauty products, for canola, palm, etc oils and buy alternatives without those ingredients.

3. Support philanthropic efforts to protect and restore wildlife and land. Support indigenous rights: there are plenty of corporations exploiting indigenous land and betting on the local governments and people turning a blind eye.
The Times is really going hard on the gloom and doom lately

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com
Googlers are openly asking bosses to cancel the censored search engine for China
At least they had parachutes. Fish just get thrown off the plane - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/10/aerial-fish-stocki...
Online Gaming, E-sports and Educational Research
downsides: can't move really far when plugged into stationary device, breaks a lot (at least for me it's almost always the plug or cable that breaks), cable picks up random noise

upsides: my very old thingamajig with a broken display doesn't support anything else
No. Apple is not bound by their own license.
There is not one mention of glyphosate (or Roundup) in this article. Why?

If I had to bet on one overriding cause of this, it's glyphosate.
Nope, they were caused by those leaders refusing to deal oil with USD, just like Iraq.
> The artistic aspects deserve respect and attention not just from the practitioners but also from their users.

As a developer and sysadmin: Let me know how that works for you. End users will rarely if ever recognize your contributions; will only really notice your contribution when it doesn't work.

Sorry.
Niger will use drones to protect almost extinct addax antelopes
Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End to China Search Project
Newspapers have been writing attention-getting headlines since there were newspapers. The problem with clickbait is when the article doesn’t support the headline. Arguably, in this case, the headline is true.
"Since the early days of node/npm, sharing commit access/publish rights, with other contributors was a widespread community practice. https://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html open source is driven by sharing! It's great!"

Yes, but, quoting from his post he cites:

"So should you really do this for all pull requests? Probably not. While I've given a large amount of users access to various projects of mine, I'm still looking for:

"Github profile: Does this user stand to lose a reputation by doing something stupid?

"Skill: Based on the patch, do I think the user could be a good developer?

"Usefulness: Is this patch solving a valid problem?"
Thanks for this - the writeups on Monroe's Motivated Sequence help me understand why this deck works, and this deck helps me understand Monroe's sequence (without this deck, it I came across most of the writeups on the the sequence, I would have ignored them because they illustrate it so poorly)
The state of WiFi vs. mobile network experience [pdf]
How do you know you're not just complaining about reality?
Interesting, I have seen a surge of Laravel + Vue.js in recent projects. And many companies wanted to move back to PHP / Laravel from Ruby Rails / Django.
Yup that looks like it.
What made you decide that? I've personally also written them off after I bought a mobo from them with two non-functioning RAM slots a few years ago, but I'm curious what others have seen. So far the only ones I have not had problem with were Gigabyte, but I suspect they have their occasional issues as well..

Edit: Before you ask, yes the RAM was listed in the compatibility list. Same RAM, same CPU, same chipset on a Gigabyte mobo works just fine.
What do non-crypto holders think of Bitcoin?
Making sense of the Bitcoin price
Would be interesting to check to what degree that was true for LLVM, Swift or other high impact projects while they were still in their infancy.
People from the future will look back at us and ask:

"Didn't people see the value that cheaper/more electric power will give them back than ?"
That's a quote from one of the relevant agencies, not my opinion.
What is it with modern journalism that everything has to start with two screens of personal stories?

The article stands on its own without the story of a boy, and his father, and their ancestors, and personal experiences.
About the example given with teh number 3, I prefer this even more absurd form: if the number 3 is not the number 3 then the number 3 is the number 3. It's true!
> This isn't really about some kind of caricature of functionalism that HN commenters subscribe to. It's clear that many tech companies have been commissioning fonts they don't really need, and those fonts are often very similar.

*And often functionally inferior to the standard fonts they're aesthetically derivative of, because they were hinted poorly to save development costs.
the internet is full of these types of download sites.

meh.

dude really shouldn't have doxxed him though. we dont even know if the guy in the whois is really the guy behind the site, since you can put anything in there.
Argument in Apple v. Pepper [pdf]
Typography is awesome and I like how this article conveys the functional aspect of it. Does anyone know of any good readings about typefaces (specifically about ratios that letters should adhere to?)
Except that there is no such thing as the (global) "insect society."
Use reader view, much nicer that way.
I love that 90% of the top comments on hn are people complaining about website design. Extremely relevant and not at all boring.
So you're asking someone else to do that work for you. Look, the user has a few choices:

1) find a work-around (maybe unwind his or her own mess)
2) manage a fork
3) work with the existing process

I've worked around people doing all three of these options but what I've regularly found was that taking a look at unwinding your own mess is the right approach for the vast majority of cases.
I forget where I was reading about this but it was a trucker commenting on this. He had been driving trucks since the 70's supposedly and everyone was saying how there are no bugs on the windshields. He said he noticed that it came in waves. Some years, tons of bugs, others none. Now I know this is some unverified person on the internet that I can't find the source to, but it was interesting to hear if true.
While that may be true in many cases the example of Iraq and WMDs is more nuanced than most realize. The CIA was not reaching the conclusions that the Bush administration wanted and so Bush and co. created the Office of Special plans in order to deliberately stovepipe (misinterpret) the intelligence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans
It didn't failed for Social Reason, it failed because it was an inferior product for the mass. Facebook succeeded because its concept is simple enough for even your GrandMa and Dad to understand.

Google+ was designed by geeks for geeks.
All I see in 3.30 is "Update "MdeModulePkg" module to improve M.2 RAID compatibility." I'd be thrilled if IOMMU support got better, but how can I tell from that? Eg, why do you say IOMMU support will improve? Are there more detailed release notes hidden someplace?

FWIW, I'm typing this on chrome running in a bhyve VM, and I pass a USB controller through via PCI-passthru (using IOMMU) for webcam and U2F dongle use by chrome.. The FreeBSD IOMMU driver whines a bit, but I just assumed that was buggy FreeBSD IOMMU support. Eg: "ivhd0: Error: completion failed tail:0x7e0, head:0x0."
The organization of the Incan Empire was really incredible. There really was nothing quite like it until modern times. The state storehouses alluded to in the article can still be seen all over on mountainsides in Peru (they were always built off the valley floor where humidity is lower). These stored so much grain that the Incan empire really didn't have famines. After conquest, the Spanish enslaved the Quechua and generally had them mine instead of grow food. The grain in the silos fed them for several years.

I have to think that quipus can encode non-numeric information to make something like that possible.
Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool
> just to avoid scraping up my bumper on the dips on my commute home on the residential streets

That sounds like you're saying we also need a significant amount more investment in infrastructure in America.
> Is it not possible to breed insects to try and replace some portion of the natural base population

It is possible. If you recreate habitats necessary for breeding of each of the hundreds of thousands of insect species.
I hope all the anti-regulation people (libertarians) will be able to kill these laws. GDPR (and similar laws in debate) have way too broad of power, and really, privacy should be solved at the individual/company contract level.

The real root of the problem is that EULAs and privacy terms aren’t usually clear, and many users are uneducated about how contracts work and what they actually mean. Plus, it’s too easy for users to click through a EULA without knowing that they’re signing their privacy away.

I think people really underestimate how much progress in software has been indirectly funded by these ‘free’ services. And, we all know that few people want to actually ‘pay’ for their internet usage. The indirect subsidies by the adtech industry pay most of our salaries, although many try to deny it.
It's like they are getting ideas from recipes. Want to know how to make muffins? My grandmother died and left me the recipe. She was a nice old lady, etc etc.
Yeah, but that's not like a huge badge of honor. I can build a site and make it hit beyond a 200k alexa within a few months with minimal effort.
Simulation: The Bedrock of AI
That's pretty amazing, though the fact that fingerprints are much less symmetrical would be an issue for how it works, so my guess is no.
Beta testers needed for Devserver 19
One example that I feel most devs can appreciate is the elimination of "boilerplate" code. How often in your non-macro language do you find yourself repeating the same lines of code with minute differences?

Think about JavaScript before and after destructuring was implemented. How many lines of code and mental effort are saved!

In Common Lisp this is just a macro, DESTRUCTURING-BIND (http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_dest...). Not a fan of the syntax? Just write a macro to modify how you use it.

Macros allow you the programmer to do similar things, but with anything you want. You don't have to wait for a language committee to agree on something, and then a third party to write a convoluted pre-processing system to 'transpile' the code to work. It's built into the language.
You need to cater for both nowadays, I think.

I recently upgraded from a 26" 16:10 1920×1200 display to a similarly-sized 16:9 4K display. I ran them side-by-side for a few days to compare. The difference in text quality was night and day. After using the 4K for a week the quality of the old display looked terrible: blurry and unreadable. Like going back to 800×600! I sold it; I saw no value in it as a secondary display. If I do ever need a second, it will be another 4K. Or 8K when it's available and affordable. If you're developing, writing or reading all day long, the improved legibility makes such a difference for ease of reading, eyestrain and headaches that it makes little sense to retain the old.

We clearly need to support low DPI displays for some time to come; the installed base is huge. However, high DPI displays are the future, and it's going to be increasingly a requirement that they are also properly catered for.

I'm not a particularly big fan of the trend by Microsoft (for example) to use very thin fonts with Windows 10. Just because you can to show off the technology, doesn't mean you should. I'd prefer bolder, more easily legible text even with a hi-DPI display, even if the thin ones are fashionable for some reason.
Thats why you dont word it like that

But you can do it compliantly, like some of the examples in the article did
I'm curious if there are any lawsuits based on basically tracing & duplicating fonts? Does adding the slightest accent to the letter "a" allow you to trace the other 99%.

Also many of these look like they just adjusted the weight ever so slightly. With variable fonts, I'm curious how this come into play when considering copyrights.
The spec actually says that software should prompt for confirmation and report that it performed changes (see elsewhere in this thread).

`wipefs -a` is a good recommendation, but perhaps it can delete too much? In my case, I used `sgdisk --zap` to delete specifically the GPT bytes without deleting other data.
There is, however, a global insect ecosystem. And other ecosystems are dependent on it, including ours.
I'd always thought the Insect Apocalypse would be a little different. You know, like Evolution or Killer Bees or basically any scenario where we're the ones dying.
Not surprising. I'm sure it gets the clicks and the ad eyeballs, plus as a bonus it supports their political agenda.
First they had to make the swords before they could turn them into ploughshares.
Thanks - I'm subbed to that ticket. Will most likely switch over when it's done since a I vastly prefer a single binary rather than having to install python + deps.
I often felt that ‘Goosebumps’ must have done a similar thing. I never thought even as a kid that ‘R.L. Stine’ was a real person.

Edit: I’m shocked to find out from the Wiki article that it seems as though he really did write them!
Inside Sellafield's death zone with the nuclear clean-up robots
thats the premise of the next big sci-fi hit.
>Most people in China who is a somebody

Most people who is a somebody? So then, would that not be a description of the upper classes and the bourgeoisie?
Maybe The New Yorker could follow up with an article about the rape of Nanking. I think baby-kebabs would attract more viewers anyway.
All official first-party Apple cables have a 1-year warranty. You can just take it into an Apple Store and they'll just replace it.
I'd agree that most are but if you move into scientific computing startups the problem domain is much different and
CI is a nice to have. It's much more about R&D.
Indeed; work with tools you CAN master. Often you have to make the decision between managed services, PaaS and IaaS, each rung involving a lot more specialized knowledge you need to know. Each one also having more potential savings - because managed services (Firebase, DynamoDB, things like that) trade cost for ease of use / lack of setup / maintenance.
Glyphosate is a herbicide. Why blame it when there are dozens of insecticides used in agriculture?
Which political agenda is that?
Clear containers (now called kata containers) did this more than three years ago, with similar performance numbers (sub 200 ms boot times). It is frustrating, but not surprising, to see the same regurgitated solution receive this much excitement. The firecracker documentation also does not mention the similarity with prior work, oh well.

[Not affiliated with Intel in any way---just a long-time proponent of the clear containers approach.]