skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I just turned it on and off, and I still get "antialised font rendering" but without taking advantage of sub-pixel rendering. You have to tune it based on your LCD screen geometry
i have never found anything at bbb that wasn't already 20% cheaper on amazon/other site
I don’t have a single Mac app that assumes anything about 96 dpi...

Yeah, this is the point where I was like: I'm sorry, but this seems so wrong that it casts the whole article into doubt for me. Anything written in the OS X era doesn't have any assumptions about DPI baked into it -- and if any application in the "classic" MacOS era baked in an assumption about DPI, it would have been 72, not 96, because Apple stuck with a "1 pixel = 1 point" mantra in the (very) early years. One of the entire points of OS X's Quartz rendering system, which was basically "Display PDF," was to be effectively device-independent. There were no enforced assumptions about resolution.

There are arguments to be made that ClearType is a better technology for rendering text on displays than Quartz, but it's folly to pretend that there's not subjectivity to it. Personally, I've long preferred Quartz's rendering approach in nearly all cases; the text is arguably softer, but particularly on non-HiDPI displays, the letter spacing with ClearType often seems subtly off in ways that I find more distracting.
Wow, so you are saying you will go to jail if given the choice between that and not updating your warrant canary? Brava, but talk is cheap.
Depends on what we're debating. Are we debating whether or not humans need sleep? Or simply that beings with similar brain "design" need sleep? Perhaps due to a flaw in our (Animals) common ancestors we developed sleep to overcome other negative traits. Which is to say that sleep is simply one flaw to compensate for another flaw.

Given the path evolution takes it seems a stretch to ever consider it best, perfect, good or anything other than "it worked just enough at the time". Just enough being the key. All we know is that sleep didn't disrupt animals enough to entirely fail the evolutionary test. However plenty of garbage features go along with more powerful features. One in isolation is not proof of it's perfection, I would think.
They scan the stuff sent to "YOU OR CURRENT RESIDENT". I think they don't scan the stuff that is dropped off in a giant stack with orders to deliver to every box in a zip code.
I ended up with Warby Parker after decent experiences with Zenni. Warby Parker offers a home try-on service for free, where they ship you a pack of frames for you to try on (without prescription lenses). They also have a few retail stores.

They still came out to be cheaper than Luxottica, and for something that I use for years, it ended up being worth it.
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"Do a controlled reading speed experiment against Windows."

Nobody will do this.
quite interesting idea, it's on my todolist for Aktu, a rss reader / news aggregator i built (https://aktu.io/about).
For now Aktu groups together articles in your feeds that are about the same stories, to you can easily check other sources perspectives. But it misses the summary/facts.
I use Medium. Their posts are viewable without JS but you do have to have it on to submit.

You can also use Gatsby + Netlify.

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog
Font rendering is one of a handful of things that keep my Mac as my daily driver, and my PC is just for gaming (and occasional experiments with Windows dev, just to learn new things).
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I'm not sure if America's Best is part of Luxxotica (I heard they were owned by Walmart but I never checked)
$59.99 glasses turn into $349. Special exams, coatings, plastic lenses, 'Contact lens' fees, 'Contact lens club', scammers just waiting to prey on people that walk in.
Zenni is the main online company in the US selling eyeglasses for actually reasonably prices. Downside is that you don't get to try them on before you buy them, and I'm not a huge fan of their styles.
Gonna be really hard for devs to find tutorials[1] or other related things on this, given the name ( 'Kraken' ) is already a well-established crypto exchange.

Same is the case with 'Discourse'. Almost impossible to find relevant content cos any search for 'discourse + keyword' invariably shows content related to "online discourse (conversation)"

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=kraken+docs
> then you're no more or less getting "ripped off"

You are being ripped off. Look at how much of the industry they own. The only reason this hasn't been acted on yet is because people see their various brands as being separate.
I've always followed the normal route--I have employer provided vision insurance, I would get myself tested every two years by a optometrist that my insurance covered, and I would buy glass using the prescription from the optometrist or a glasses store supported by my insurance. I don't have anything special in my glasses--single focal, no tinting or light sensitivity, and my glasses weren't remotely stylish, and I'd pay ~$50-70 after insurance.

I recently lost my glasses in a pond filled with alligators, so I wasn't going to try to retrieve them. I figured I needed cheap glasses until my insurance would cover me again. I had an old prescription but it was over a year old. I looked at Warby Parker, but they seem to require an actual prescription. So I tried Zenni Optical because all they need are the correction figures for each lens, they don't require an actual doctor signed document. Something I've always felt was weird--its not like prescription drugs, and I can decide if the glasses don't work, and a 18 month old prescription is better than no glasses.

So $35 shipped for glasses and frames, and they had a lot that were cheaper. The seem to be very good quality, they seem to work better than lost pair (the prescription didn't have a pupillary distance, so I had to measure it. My eyes are pretty wide, and a lot of lenses can't accommodate my PD, so I wonder if the optometrist just figured close enough for lenses with a lower max PD.) Before this I had no idea how much markup was in the cost of a pair of glasses. Now I'll still get my eyes checked locally, but $30 glasses is better than what I can get locally even after my insurance.
I just recently (2 weeks ago) made my first online purchase of prescription glasses.

I entered my measurements and prescription from a 2 year-old check-up and got 2 pairs of glasses for < $50 and they are PERFECT.

Honestly NEVER buying glasses from any optometrist or even costco again.

Also, not an ad, just a recommendation, but checkout eyebuydirect.com
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I'm a big fan of Jins (https://www.jins.com/us/) in SF. They make your glasses on-site in ~30m. Price (lens + frame) is comparable to Warby Parker.
My big question about this is Why?

Why is Windows such a mess about this and how did Apple manage to pull it off with virtually no fanfare?

For a while was connecting a Retina MBP to two non-Retina monitors. Sometimes, when dragging a window from the laptop display to a non-Retina monitor I'd see a flash of everything scaled up. Other than that, I've seen none of the problems that seem to still plague Windows 10.

I'm sure the answer has to do with the history of Windows - I'd love to see someone like Raymond Chen dig deep into this.
Assuming you're referring to Debian, you've missed the mark. Debian is more committed to open source, in the RMS 'free software' sense, than any other distro I'm aware of... it's the foundation of the distro. Any Debian user can absolutely rebuild from source any[1] part of the system.

The problem that reproducible builds is attempting to solve is that my build, while being 100% functional, might not be bit identical to yours or what shipped with the distro for any number of valid reasons.[2] The problem this creates given the current world of increasingly sophisticated malware is that I can't prove a given build is identical to what was intended based on the binaries. So it's an issue of 'we've always been giving you the source, now we're going to ensure that it's possible to create bit-identical binaries' rather than 'we were giving you free binaries, now we're giving you the source'.

If your argument is that one should always build from source, reproducible builds is part of getting to the same effective result without the overhead and headache that the vast majority of users are not willing to deal with.

[1] In the cases when this turned out not to be possible, holy hell tends to get raised... see things like the Chromium BLOB issues (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909) etc. These issues tend to have a lot of noise made and get resolved very quickly since it goes against the very core of what Debian is intended to be. In cases where you have things that are binary-only such as proprietary GPU drivers, these get segregated into a separate repo with the general advice from Debian of 'you shouldn't use these'. This doesn't tend to be realistic advice for many users given the state of many of the open source drivers... but they've tried their best to steer people away while not making the distro unusable for those who insist on using them.

[2] A trivial example would be baking the build date/machine name into the binary... there's no expectation that one would ever reproduce that build again even on the same machine.
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It seems like a big difference but it occurred very early on in the evolution of life, so it's a disadvantage shared by all animals.

How about another example: mammalian females giving birth through their pelvises. This caused the deaths of countless women and children throughout human history. It's not as much of a problem for other mammals but it's a huge problem for humans. We've had to advance modern medicine to the point where we can safely perform major surgery (caesarian section) in order to mitigate it.
That "it works on my machine" is quite possibly the most useless, middlebrow-dismissal comment that could be made when discussing problems. It working for you doesn't make it work for the other guy.
He seems like he means well, though. Posting all of his notes free of charge.
An optician mentors an apprentice on how to sell glasses.

"You look in client's eyes and say 'That'll be 100 bucks'."

"If he doesn't blink you continue '... for the eye frame. The glasses will cost another hundred bucks'"

"If you see that he still doesn't panic, you conclude: '... a piece'".
> Love it when Americans make decisions for Chinese people and presume to know what they'd want.

This is a discussion about Google (an American company) employees talking about one of Google's projects (as directed by the American company's leadership), but it happens to be about a product for another country.

> Living in China, you know your search engine will be censored. But still, wouldn't you want the best censored search engine that you can get?

As many folks in China use VPNs to get around the Great Firewall, it seems like they would like an uncensored internet.
This is a very interesting visualization of GAN capabilities. This seems a part of a larger group of collaborative projects between the MET, MIT and MS - https://www.microsoft.com/inculture/arts/met-microsoft-mit-a...
There are other interesting applications e.g one that would presumably take an instagram feed and substitute images with "similar art" - https://www.microsoft.com/inculture/uploads/prod/2019/02/myl...
I am of the same opinion as the author of the article. Mac fonts look blurry compared to ClearType. I usually use bitmapped fonts in Emacs and xterm, however, to sidestep the issue altogether. Fontconfig is always an option if needed. On the other hand, I really can’t tell the difference on an HiDPI display, even though I don’t use one (or want one, for that matter).

Whatever the defaults are in Firefox on OpenBSD look superb on my monitor.
My subjective take on font rendering, based on tweaking and hinting web fonts, is that MacOS has the best font rendering (since their laptops have been using retina displays, with the exception of the Macbook Air; even here the font rendering may look a little blurry but the fonts look quite good and are readable); Linux has quite good font rendering (they may make the letters look bigger on low resolution displays, but things are nice and readable); and Windows font rendering is very uneven.

Most browsers have their own take of Clear type font rendering when rendering web fonts. While some make web fonts look quite good (Firefox, Internet Explorer/Edge), Chrome has had issues with using settings which make fonts harder to read; I had to increase the weight of the font I use some to compensate for this. Clear Type, on the default settings Chrome used for a long time, is really great, if you’re rendering a Windows font like Calibri or Cambria. For anything else, the results are uneven. (I think Chrome finally started tweaking things in Windows to look better)

In terms of the linked webpage, his comparison is unfair: He is comparing how Arial, a Microsoft font, looks in Linux compared to how it looks in Windows. Liberation Sans has the same metrics as Arial, so is not a good comparison font; he should had used something more OS-agnostic, such as Bitstream Vera Sans (DejaVu Sans if you want more languages).
SPR absolutely gives me eyestrain, though I can't blind test it because on a 1920x1200 display I can easily see the fringing.
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That’s a ton for lots of families. My family couldn’t afford to help with my education, retirement, or home ownership. Even still, I have more expendable income than I ever dreamt, and I can even give a decent amount away. This is why this article seems really out-of-touch to me—it you’re making six figures and struggling I think you just need to discipline and a budget. Who really needs a $400K house on a San Diego beach? Fantastic that her parents helped her out, but that’s a really out-of-touch definition of “struggling”.
A lot of folks are failing to read the article. They're intentionally holding each connection open for 1 whole second. This is a whole different ballgame than benchmarks where each connection is allowed to terminate as rapidly as it can send back a plain text response.
It's articles like this that make me wonder how much of our middle class burden comes from hidden rent seeking parasites like this.

I honestly don't know. I'm not trying to imply any particular thing. I honestly wonder. These sorts of things can stack up through the layers of companies that make things.

And where does this money go? What does it end up doing?
‘Catching up’ on sleep on the weekend doesn’t work
Yes, and when `const cls = require('cls-hooked')` is written at the top of the file it's pretty clear that the file is using CLS. Nothing invisible about it.
> Uhm I cannot reliably use windows with any sort of scaling. It's not as bad as linux, but it's still very bad.

That seems like a massive overexaggeration. While there are still rough edges, running Windows on my MacBooks retina screen has been just fine for majority of popular apps. Including mixed HiDPI/normal DPI use cases.
"I think it depends on one's requirements."

Computers are tools, endpoints these days. I have been happy with Linux but then again my needs are not super-complex.

I have a recent freetype with a defaultish configuration and the results on my small by today's standards monitors are readable.
oh yeah, you're right. I reversed the two in my head somehow.
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just wondering what subreddits do you subscribe to? I enjoy talking about politics but r/politics is insufferable, I've found r/news to have much better discussions, but it all depends on the post and which type of people a specific headline will attract.
Also see "Microsoft Visual TrueType"

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/tools/vtt/index
The book you’re looking for is “Seeing Like A State”
Seems that (at least one) related bug got fixed in WebKit (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149054#c17), but I haven't tested with the latest iOS betas
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"in production" can mean different things to different people and it's about marketing yourself. Build a side project, find the cheapest method to running kunbernetes, run it there for a while. Try to itterate. Do the CI/CD thing. If it's publicly accessible, it's in production. Check out k3s for a minimal experience.
That's measuring reqs/s, and as you said, if conns/s is an order of magnitude or two less, that's 700k, or 70k conns/s, which is right around what this post finds.
Marriott, Equifax CEOs Called to Testify to Congress About Data Breaches
Just swung around to this. You are killing it :P

(good job!)
In India there is Lenskart, who even have physical stores where you can try out frames, and then they ship the glasses to you. Last time I tried I got two numbers of specs, with the top of the line optics available with them for something like 65$.
> OS X objectively has the absolute worst font rendering. It does not use hinting at all and relies only on grayscale anti-aliasing. This makes everything appear very bold and blurry.

This almost reads like satire.

It's well-known that Windows prefers to distort letterforms for the sake of crispness, while Macs preserve letterforms for the sake of fidelity.

Saying that one is better than the other is entirely subjective -- there are many, many articles on the subject. There's absolutely nothing objective about it.

If it were so "objective", then it seems quite odd that Macs would be the predominant choice of graphic designs and type designers, who would be expected to care about this the most...
> It sounds like they are saying it is not by design, but a mistake that they allowed you to sign up when your location isn't yet meeting the requirements.

Yeah, IIRC they don't support this feature for PO boxes, but I managed to accidentally get it for mine when I filed a change of address form.

I regularly see notifications for mail really indented for a few other PO boxes. It's pretty clear that their automated sorting equipment is not perfect, and that they're relying on the postman to do a final quality-control check.

This is actually an improvement from several years ago, when I'd actually sometimes get the mis-sorted mail in my box. Now that hardly ever happens.
Cities: Skylines is an outstanding successor, but it lacks much of the charm of the SimCity series and feels more like a sandbox than a simulation. It's too bad Maxis decided to take the series in a simplified direction before killing it off.

If anyone knows of any other city-building simulators worth mentioning, please let me know.
One thing that gets me excited about reproducible build systems in general, which has less to do with trust and verifiability, is cacheability/content addressable storage of build artifacts.
This is very cool. They feel so alive.
Now I'm annoyed that a high quality beefy 1.6kw ebike battery costs $900 shipped.
I worked in the industry until a little over a decade ago, putting myself through an engineering degree. The company I started with was bought by LensCrafters, but before it was we pretty much knew the wholesale prices on everything. After LC, LC just distributed stock to us so we didn't follow pricing.

I was always amazed at the markup. A pair of Sola lens blanks for FT28 bifocals was about $3.50. A typical name brand frame out of the Frames catalog was less than $10.00 (ie: Perry Ellis). Dies for UV and tint were several dollars a bottle and would last a few days to a week depending on sales volume. Basically one tint and uv job would pay for most of the dies and UV.

Now, most of those places were in malls, so the rent there is astronomical, that's one thing to consider.

I wouldn't say people are getting "ripped off", but there's definitely quite a bit of markup. A single vision pair with an Rx such that I could use finished lenses, I could edge, uv, light tint and assemble in about 10 - 15 minutes. You'd be paying a couple hundred for that (depending on brand), but I could do it while you wait. And if I did it, you'd be happy (no scratches, gaps, etc). I always take pride in what I do (even now with coding).

So, what's the convenience worth? Depends on you I guess.
BlackBerry Not Becoming a ‘Patent Troll,’ Says CEO
Considering the problems... were you actually trying to run Linux on a MacBook, which is pretty much a full proprietary, non-documented platform with bunch of Apple proprietary and undocumented power management controllers?
Fedora includes fonts to cover most every common Unicode glyph. If you visit my HN profile page, I see few boxes on Fedora, compared to Android or Debian.

Additionally, their font hinting looks good out of the box and it can be configured in GNOME Tweak Tool.

I’m impressed at the Fedora team’s attention to visual detail.
This is outright bribery. We've become so inured to this kind of thing lately that it doesn't seem to register anymore.

From T-Mobile's perspective:
I pay (inflated prices) for hotel stays in a very visible way (bright magenta suits!), you help secure a desired policy outcome.
It's as if they are versioning web design for marketing purposes to show how "forward thinking" they are.
I agree that better social programs, decreased inequality, and drug decriminalization would be a much better approach to preventing gun violence than more people having guns.
I've been using 4k displays on my laptop and desktop for years, and they look fantastic.

It can be annoying to tweak scaling in Windows at first, but once you get the right setting, you never have to change it again. It takes about 10 min of setup (if it takes any setup at all).
I had to disable this because of the sheer volume of email I started getting from USPS.
I wonder how much work it would be to integrate with Owntracks. It looks like Tile38 supports MQTT.
Where do I get my Elderly Tech Worker discount card??
You’re being downvoted because you chose to regurgitate alt-right theology to lay history’s problems at the doorstep of “liberal guilt”

This is just spin doctoring and propaganda. Otherwise, your "logic" would make this man "Alt-Right." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell

There is an empirical basis to question the effects of “liberal guilt.”

https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-o...
> I prefer Mac to Windows. This is a subjective thing. Mac and Windows are optimized towards different use cases. Mac is optimized towards WYSIWYG display for desktop publishing. OS X displays fonts exactly as they'd appear on a page. Windows makes adjustments to character positions to align them to the pixel grid. This results in clearer text, but at the expense of things being slightly off as they'd appear in print.

I strongly prefer Windows to Mac for font rendering. As you say, it's subjective. However, in today's world, the overwhelming majority of my computer use is screen-oriented. Printing accounts for a vanishingly small set of use cases for me, easily lower than 1%. And if the fonts were a few pixels off when printed, would I even notice? No. I'm not doing typesetting when I print; I'm merely creating a hardcopy of something so that I can read it when I'm not at a computer or printing a legal document to sign.

In 2019, it seems odd to prioritize print layout at the expense of screen legibility. When I use a Mac (on a normal ~100 dpi screen), the text looks softened with bad anti-aliasing and I feel like I've stepped through a time machine to the amazing year 2000.

On high-DPI displays the difference is less notable. But even there I think Windows does a better job at legibility; I find text more readable on-screen on a modern Surface than a comparable Mac laptop.
I bought a pair of Zennis after reading good things in another HN thread on this subject, and have been quite happy with the results for $32.90 shipped.