skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Popcon in Debian and Ubuntu is opt-in. They ask you at install time whether or not you'd like to participate.
DONT INSTALL THIS.

If you use consolas with cmd.exe on Windows this new font will break it. the
font is stuck in italic mode in the console. for anyone foolish enough to
install this font, first delete all Consolas fonts from Control panel. then
gather correct fonts using virtual machine:

copy C:\Windows\Fonts\consola.ttf .
copy C:\Windows\Fonts\consolab.ttf .
copy C:\Windows\Fonts\consolai.ttf .
copy C:\Windows\Fonts\consolaz.ttf .

https://github.com/PiotrGrochowski/Consolas/issues/2
Do you know if I can reliably use a compatible usb WiFi adapter with a vm?
to me maybe the most important is everybody trying to implement their UI widgets from scratch

I see stopping efforts to roll one's own UI components unnecessarily as a rite of passage for a developer.
It’s tough (speaking as a consultant at a smaller company). Large company procurement/legal basically limits the viable pool of competing consulting firms to those with sunk capital in their own big legal/procurement. And the big 4 management consulting firms have all perfected getting that large company’s client relationship and landing contract after contract.

It’s the same reason the same big 4-5 federal contractors win most of the work. The sunk cost in needed bureaucracy is large, it’s hard for a small player to compete.

The root issue is big co procurement has taken accountability away from the people who actually use and understand the services. So in my company’s case it’s common to start a relationship with a counterpart at a firm very willing to invest in our services. Sadly the procurement bureaucracy really gets in the way of progress making everything more expensive for both sides. If you’re Accenture and McKinsey you just (unethically in my opinion) sink the cost but then milk the relationship for all it’s worth.
So, instead of a fort that you can defend until you run out of food and water (say, after a few months), you favor a fort where you won’t run out of food, but that you cannot defend against contemporary guns, because it will fall after, say, a week?
Why arent supposed copyright holders required to prove their copyright in order to affect the takedown?

Why then arent we seeing rampant copy claims against huge channels.
Mystery of Chessboxing came out in the 70s, although might not be quite what you're looking for. It was an inspiration for the Wu Tang Clan, who have done a lot to promote chess and even chessboxing. I always thought it'd be fun to give it a shot but I'm bad at chess and boxing
If AT&T can rebrand LTE as 5GE then I’m sure this could be true.
>learning TWO languages

Oh! The horror!
You're probably right. I just have a hard time wrapping my head around that level of wilful ignorance. It's worse than programmers who think they can "hack" the law.
The rise and fall of rocket mail
The New York Times justifying intervention in foreign countries? Can't be.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-...

https://www.newsweek.com/2016/06/17/silicon-valley-takeover-...

https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/why-im-leaving-silicon-...

https://getlighthouse.com/blog/silicon-valley-bad-managers/

https://www.philanthropy.com/article/A-Star-Performer-Create...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/internati...

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/emily-chang-brotopia-silicon-v...

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/297481

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/03/11/bro-culture-poison...

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-culture-in-the-Silicon-Valley-b...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/ellen-pao-memoir-sil...

https://www.recode.net/2018/2/5/16972096/emily-chang-brotopi...

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Silicon-Valley-Community-F...

https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-hates-silicon-valley-ex...

https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/silicon-valley...

https://yourstory.com/2017/07/silicon-valley-bro-culture/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-quiet-efforts-to-battle-sil...

https://thebolditalic.com/a-source-of-sorrow-in-silicon-vall...

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/01/25/is-...

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/silicon-valley-become-next-...

https://builttoadapt.io/so-you-want-to-build-a-silicon-valle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3-bMDaMhLg

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/01/silicon-valley...

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/07/silicon-valley-actress-ali...!

https://www.theneweconomy.com/technology/silicons-sexist-bro...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051800

https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/schools/210-sch...
> you have to put so many gitignore exceptions and I'm not even talking about the gigs of data all the chromium derivatives put into that folder

Yeah but chrome devs half-assing the trivial xdg spec doesn't mean that xdg sucks - its just not implemented properly.
Rejecting the terms of service(at the medicine cabinet)

Getting to work - which would have been more impactful if I did not make it the first ending I reached
There is a program for windows that does this if I recall correctly. It records every file and registry entry created during installation and allows you to compare snapshots of "before" and "after" installation.
Most people like to separatly store data and executables for good reasons.
I see a lot of people asking for this in TS, but i'd much rather it be in plain JS and let TS add anything on top of it that is needed.

Pattern matching would work SO WELL in javascript, especially considering how frequently switch is currently poorly used as a replacement in things like Redux.
MIT Robot Combines Vision and Touch to Learn the Game of Jenga
ah ok, then I've misunderstood your comment :)
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They legally have to. Always amazes me to see airlines boast of their 24 hour refund policy that they don't actually have any choice over.
"the 55+ autonomous regions in the US where only the richest get to afford their rights in a Federal appeal's court."

What are you talking about???
Perhaps you can use it on your own machine, but you can't redistribute it and you can't publish any works that use the font. A font is next to worthless if you can't publish anything you typed with it.
Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
Maybe the dude knows he can get away with a pretty comfy sweater t-shirt jeans combo, so he does.
Why do you say that "nobody denies it" when that is exactly what this blog post is doing?

You are claiming to remember all ads seen over decades. Even people with eidetic memory cannot do this, and in my experience people who claim to never see a perfect ad are the most susceptible to advertising. Influence is a lot more complicated than a simple banner ad that you think you've foiled by not clicking.

And I've explained several times why every ad impression is not perfect relevancy for you. What ads you see are a highly complex mix of the platform, running campaigns, targeting chosen by advertisers, optimizations in play, predictive analytics and propensity to action, pricing models, 3rd party data providers, inventory supply chains, creative formats, and many other factors. Trying to take trillions of ad impressions and derive the state of tech from it is both inaccurate and nonsensical.
In the US by LAW you have 24 hours to cancel a non-refundable flight penalty free...not sure why you'd freak out in that case if you accidentally booked the wrong flight or date.
> Everything about his clothes screams “down to earth,” “humble,” “stoic,” “thoughtful,” etc.

It's a jean and a hoodie. I think you are reading bit much into it
Sorry, it too me a while to get around to reviewing the suggestions here. I just watched [1] and found Kate's style quite impressing. For instance, I loved the analogies she used (the weird complicated statue, the simple metal ball, the legos) to convey what she means by simplicity], as opposed to what people would normally think "simple code" would mean. I think this is not too different from how great presenters sometimes use cultural references, even memes, to tell a mini-story about their ideas.

Thanks for mentioning her - I'll definitely watch more of her talks.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Ak6xtVXno
Not a misunderstanding, I'm sure they understand birth dates. But that the date picker selects the current time by default, and doesn't make that visible to the user.
You don't need to share your bookmarks file here.
>they aren't very accessible to JavaScript developers

I wonder how Rust is more “accessible” to JS developers than C or even C++. If you find C too hard to comprehend, you’re definitely not ready for Rust...
What would the appropriate attire be?
It's ill advised to synchronize game saves by default. Quite a few popular games generate gigabytes of saves.

My witcher saves were 10GB, until I realize that problem and deleted them, no wounder backups were slow. Skyrim is not that far off.

Pretty sure backup is already integrated in steam for these two games.
Of course you’re correct that test prep can skew the results, but SAT scores are still one of the best measures available at scale, hence why they are so widely used despite the obvious flaws. Other than a DNA test for IQ, you can prep for any known test, whether it’s the SAT, the WPPSI, the WISC-IV, a Rorschach, or the New York Times crossword. As user wycs hinted at elsewhere, a polygenetic spit test for raw IQ potential - the Gattica scenario - is likely not as far off as we believe; when that hits, it’s a whole new world (from pre-conception.)
I was on a US nuclear attack submarine in the 1980's. There were many fine officers who were very capable and well respected, deservedly so. There were also a very few whose heads were so far up their asses that they could see their own tonsils. My suspicion is that for years the most capable and competent officers were needed in the US war efforts, and in general the less competent remnants were put in charge of things like this to keep them safely out of the way where they could cause the least damage.
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman and it's sequel for fun. The Feynman Lectures if you're interested in Physics. There are also some very interesting and fun lectures on Youtube.
Looking at the whole account and Wikipedia edits, I'd guess that it's either a troll, a child or a person with some mental illness thinking they do good.
> The firm initially terminated its 401(k) plan for employees in 2010, a step that permitted them to roll the savings into traditional IRAs. Then, employees took advantage of a rule change that year allowing affluent Americans to convert their traditional IRAs into Roths. The following year, Renaissance applied for clearance from the U.S. Labor Department for employees to invest the accounts in Medallion, which the agency granted and made effective in January 2012.

This is entirely convoluted. A Roth 401K would have achieved the same thing, 10X higher annual contribution limits, and allows cheap liquidity from borrowing 50% of it at 2 points above fed funds rate. The conversion opportunity was nice but has very little to do with what has happened since 2010 for anyone that invested later.

Many Reg D offerings also allow for 25-30% of the fund to be held by tax-deferred accounts. US Department of Labor wasn't necessary here.

> In turn, the IRA money -- held by about 250 employees -- grew to more than 4 percent of Medallion’s gross assets from about 1 percent five years earlier.

So what's the US Department of Labor for again? I'm missing something..... this must come down to the fund's structure. In any case it is nice they pulled it off.

My approach to letting 401K/IRA/Tax-Deferred accounts make a ton of money is to give them a separate share class. That share class gets some outside attention and liquidity preferences sometimes. It was inspired by Bain Capital's approach, when that was in the news during Romney's presidential run and it became 'controversial' regarding how they circumvented tax liability. I didn't confirm thats what Bain Capital actually did but thats what I came up with and its passed.
Wernher von Braun on how to reach the Moon (1955) [video]
But as a consumer, you understand why this is so powerful. Anytime a customer has to get into a he said she said with a company, the company usually wins, especially if there is money involved. It’s nice to use PayPal and not have to worry about convincing vendors like you that x, y, or z happened.
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake
Apple just wants to sell you AppleCare I think. Joke's on them, though, my ThinkPad X1 is still going strong after 4 years of heavy use. I'm otherwise in the Apple ecosystem, I have the latest iPad Pro, iPhone 8 and Apple Watch 4. But $3K for a laptop that doesn't have esc key and craps out if I drop a bredcrumb on it or _open the hinge_? Give me a break.
It's also worth noting that .sfd files can be created by importing .ttf files.
When you make the laws, is becoming a criminal ever a fear?
No, for the most part I don’t think the comments here are particularly good.

Plenty of people who think because they’re paid a lot of money to be computer programmers that they can instantly have genius insights into completely unrelated fields. A good amount of “well actually” when any social issue is discussed. Surprising volume of apologizing for discrimination/racism/sexism/etc. under the guise of “free speech”.
If he wants to make any progress understanding Oumuamua, he will need to talk to a plasma physicist. Then he will need to stop talking about it, because there is no more reliable way to get ostracized in astronomy than to start talking about that.
I loved that talk, particularly his delivery and his use of humor. I may not agree with all the arguments he made on that particular topic (maybe because I read [1] a few weeks back...), but I'm quite sure this talk would've persuaded me to accept his arguments wholesale if I wasn't loosely familiar with the topic :)

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/773976/
You can try. I mount .cache as tmpfs. You need at least 500mb for your browser alone.

Browsers tend to work fine. Some apps just fail badly like rofi (command history stored there oof)

For what it's worth I also tmpfs+asd .nvm, .npm, and */node_modules, without any major headaches. I did have to fix a couple minor pathing dramas but nothing too drastic.
Guessing from context in the document, I'd say circa 1982.

> "Some five years ago, Jim Simons ... persuaded me to come down and consult for a day in March 1977."

Also, the latest figures for reported returns in the document are dated April 1981–March 1982, so that's consistent.
It’s not just stacking charges, it’s picking worse ones when lesser charges might suffice.

A common one in VA... Resisting arrest is a misdemeanor, but if you happen to bump into a polic officer while resisting, it’s a near automatic “assaulting a police officer” felony charge. You don’t have to knowingly/willingly assault them in the laymen’s sense, just bump them in a way that they could be injuries (actual injury not required). That felony has a minimum sentence of six months in jail, up to 5 years.
Just take my upvote.

Call me a bastion against the ungaming heathens here
I don't think this is willful ignorance -- comes off to me more as a child or mentally ill person who means well but doesn't understand what they're doing. Did you see the screenshot of the Microsoft support conversation that they posted as proof it was open source? https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png
It would be an awful waste of talent if it's just busy work.
Show HN: The New Organs – an archive of stories about creepy targeted ads
The states and territories have to be treated separately, they are all structured completely differently, have completely different checks and balances of different efficacy and have as many civil rights nuances as any separate country.

The luxury of the Federal umbrella isn't accessible to the vast majority of the population that becomes ensnared in the whims of any particular state.
Perhaps sophisticated was the wrong word, but a lot of people who will never use yelp use google daily. That is what I was trying to express.
I've seen this one before here: https://github.com/kvakvs/ErlangRT
Is anyone else weirded out by how the AirAsia twitter account is responding to the comments? It looks like automated responses but then signs with an employee name.
If only everyone would just put it in the `.config` dir and be done with it. Predictable. Simple. And without shrapnel in home.
Doesn't really solve the problem, there are many ways of bypassing that, from having a small screen in front of the lens playing fake video, to hacking the firmware.
Reading too much into it: public figures have rationalization for what they wear, and a lot more insignificant things. But yes, I’m not saying this guy in particular. I’m not reading into him. It’s about the wide-spread trend. He’s just following the trend.

He’s just being comfortable: a $4000 bespoke silk suit is a lot more comfortable. And trust me this guy probably owns a few garments in that category.

What should he wear: I’m not saying this guy is horrible for choosing to wear this exact garment. He’s following a negative trend, and my comment is about the trend. “God do I hate the fashion of SV,” please read stuff before replying.
I’m a merchant and I once won a PayPal chargeback.

I sell a software product. Customer generates a key to unlock the code. Once a key is generated, that key will unlock the product forever; it cannot be revoked, thus no refund at that point.

In the dispute form, I wrote “It’s like buying a DVD from Walmart — once the cellophane is torn open...”

PayPal judged in my favor and refused the chargeback of $349.

I’ve had 2 or 3 chargebacks from Visa and never won those.
Like many people, though, you never have an issue till you have an issue. And then you're screwed. https://jakeseliger.com/2011/12/09/december-2011-links-paypa.... And you will then write a piece bemoaning about how awful Paypal actually is, and you'll be confronted by other people shrugging and saying, "Never had a problem myself."
Imagine applying that to the right to free speech instead of the right to due process for a moment.

"Hey, we can make this a little easier for everyone, you can stop advocating for <favorite political cause, say, doing away with plea deals> and we will reduce your prison sentence".

A fundamental part of rights is that the government can't coerce you into giving them up.

If you really want to go down this path, what would almost pass muster in my point of view is having non indigent defendants who are found guilty have to pay for the extra court resources they used. Even then I think it's a pretty clear violation of their rights, but at least it has some rational basis behind it.
They could fall back to the legally required process (DMCA takedowns). There is no law requiring Google to take down channels because of reports on a few videos, or requiring Google to keep content down after the uploader has re-affirmed it is not breaking copyright law (called a DMCA counter-notice).
My kids are variously vegan / flex, and since I only put milk in coffee, it wasn't worth keeping milk in the fridge for, so switched to one of their alternatives. Soy curdles, so almond it was, until I learned that it takes ~5 litres (1.1 US gallons) of water to produce a single almond!

The Oatly post here a few days ago may have been a shill, but it was enough for me to try it. Far closer to the taste of cows milk than Almond milk IMH(non Vegan)O.
Since typescript is compiled anyway it feels somewhat silly not to have the compiler do this work. I wonder how hard it would be to make the desugaring extensible, maybe with a rewrite engine like what Hermit does in haskell.
Great question. My own reactions over the past months have been something along the lines of (1) "Not the best execution, but maybe we'll see some positive change..." -> (2) "Cool, looks like things may actually change!" -> (3) "Wait a minute, I don't trust that this is real... so what's the end game??"
They are consulting on other projects that are equally shitty and immoral, whether it be how to structure some financial instrument to screw someone over, or how to implement software to variably price some product based on protected factors, or how to price pharmaceuticals to maximize subscriber copays, or how to design a product with better obsolescence, etc. etc. etc.

Saying that McKinsey is uniquely shitty is perhaps a case study in missing the forest for the tree.

If they could be found criminally liable for all these things that they help their customers
Scooby Doo physics: as long as the ending state is valid, the intermediate states don't really matter.

Or, as long as the plot and characterization are good, the actual details don't matter.
- Four months is short trip tourism.

- Japanese people aren't ignorant. They don't want cream cheese on their sushi, or gobs of mayonnaise or whatever else you are accustomed to. The california rolls you enjoy are not the same as Japanese cuisine eaten by Japanese people living in Japan.

- Aldi supermarkets aren't really representative of Western European tastes. You can find American food anywhere in Europe if you look for it.
But nowadays, lots of applications seem to think it's OK to put normal files in my home folder without asking first. This is just outright barbarism.

If every desktop application that needed to store cross-invocation state asked for permission we'd probably say it was an invasion of bad-design huns.
Trabajo de chofer de famosos
That interpretation looks like legalistic wishful thinking rather than a proper analysis of law. For starters, it's relying on 20-30 year old cases as the most recent guidance.

Vernor v. Autodesk (decided by the Ninth Circuit in 2010) held that it is possible for companies to license you software in lieu of selling it, which pretty much is the exact opposite of the contention here. And when you're a licensee, not an owner, well, §107 doesn't apply here at all.
I used to believe everything you’ve stated until I dove into the twin studies, and more recently the GWAS data from Europe. Read the literature yourself with an open mind and you may be surprised. Ironically, as society has become more environmentally equal, ie the decline of lead, pollution, and clinical malnourishment, Nature has pulled even further ahead of Nurture, because it’s much easier to remove IQ points than to add them.
Das Experiment
I wonder if SF will get bad enough that it's simply not worth the commute for anyone who's not a techie to live there. No more fast-food workers. Nobody to clean the toilets. Nobody who isn't a software zillionaire in a perfect, shining Galt's Gulch on the ocean.
Just because many ads do not use precise targeting does not mean that precise targeting does not work. That is the fundamental problem with this post.

Netflix recommendations are not the same as ad selection. You cannot generalize across such vastly different scenarios, datasets, and incentives, especially because relevance scoring is just a small part of what ad actually gets chosen.

I don't understand what you're saying about point 6 since this is not about Google vs smaller players, but there is definitely a monopoly problem with a single company having all the data.

Butthurt? I'm not 5 years old so no, however I do have more than a decade of experience in the industry, know the CEOs of all the major ad networks and publishers, personally presented to senators on increasing regulation, wrote about adblocking and built one to discover alternative payments, worked on finding and eliminating adfraud, helped build several successful marketing companies, and am willing to have open discussions with hundreds of comments right here on HN. Do you have some questions you would like to ask instead?