skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be the issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6276 for reproducible builds with Maven. I'm not sure what the current status is given that all the issue links are closed.

Go in and vote for it anyway. I'm sure some of the Debian packages are written in Java. ;-)
I quite like the fonts on linux with my 4k monitors, subpixel smoothing, and slight hinting. Mac and Windows are also fine on a ~200 dpi monitor. Believe this is a solved problem for those who do not obsess about fonts.
If you follow that train of thought to its logical (if perverse) conclusion, we can soon expect ads as the subject matter of captcha.

Instead of selecting three pictures that have a given "thing" in them, we'll be picking the ones showing a given brand among otherwise generic signs.
The GP means "Trump Derangement Syndrome"
> I for one, am glad the majority can't just decide what the taxes are.

The majority are those who work and create wealth. The minority are the heirs who expropriate surplus labor time from those who work. It is an old idea, James Madison wrote the initial draft of the US Constitution and said it was meant "to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority".

Hand outs and taking people's money at the point of a gun is what the heirs do from those who work and create wealth. Larry Page talks about how the police encircled the auto plant his hammer-armed grandfather was on strike at.

"By the time your (sic) 30, it's mostly what you did in life that got you there" - sure like Trump and his small million dollar loan from his dad, W. Bush and his drinking and failed businesses before a government deal for a sports stadium. We see these self made by 30 men as our recent presidents.

We have income earned by labor, and "income" expropriated as a Rentier - rent, interest, profit. We know this as workers pay higher taxes on their earned income than heirs do for their unearned income.

The parasitism is by the heirs who do not work upon us who do work. It has not much to do with money or material - it is a relationship - the expropriation by the heir of the surplus labor time of the worker.
>I have to say: if Japan wasn’t already the most neurotically clean country I’ve ever been to

I wonder if he's been to Singapore though? I felt like Japan was very clean, but Singapora was on a whole different level. And not just the "they banned gum" comments, but that I saw at 11:00pm people disappear and the cleaning crews come out pressure washing sidewalks and anywhere people might have been. Tokyo especially felt a LOT like NYC to me, except with much wider alleys, and cleaner. Singapore in contrast didn't feel 'real' at all, like if Disney made a whole country.

Had a long layover in Japan, tried to stay in a Love Hotel as all we needed was 6 hours, but it wasn't $82, more like $120 and turned out we found a cheaper rate at a 'normal' hotel. Next time though!
Luminary has $100M and a mission to pay for podcasts. Can it pull it off?
This is trivial on funtoo/gentoo you just make a private tree of ebuild files containing only the packages that you care about modifying with the patches located in the same directory tree and applied by adding the patch to the ebuild.

You can also host this somewhere so others can run/test your modified version easily. No real special infrastructure required they can sync this directory via git.

There are of course downsides. The annoyance of building updates and discovering bugs not discovered by others by some unique set of patches / build time options.
I believe the GP's point is that regulation geared toward limiting supply circumvents natural market forces.
I'm not a designer but it made me sad when I got to the end to realize this was the opinion of a web design company trying to justify itself and not a true/honest look into the future of web design. From the comments here from actual designers it seems like "3.0" is not a real thing, just a term they created to try and position themselves ahead of website design companies that doing well today when in reality they are simply one option among many that optimizes for different things. The 2 axis graph at the end felt particularly disingenuous, as did things like a screenshot for the search "design is dead", which isn't really a good formal argument for something existing. It felt far too much like creating an answer and then making up a justification to get there.
This article is a lighthearted and doesn't talk about the underlying models behind simcity. Would recommend also reading:

https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/ - which talks about simcity's inspiration from Jay Forrester's 'Urban Dynamics" and it's flaws.

Also, https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/ , which is something I've been meaning to read & contrast alongside Geoffrey West's works ( https://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_... ).

There's also a recent interview between an urban planner in portland (the citybeautiful youtube channel) and a developer at cities:skylines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c5pSCgbZ84
simonswords82 in this discussion claims that the side project SaaS passive income is now a thing of the past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19164389

you could turn it into a demo to show during interviews.

That is my plan.
> For people downvoting this, consider that it can (and should IMHO) be possible for citilife to live in a system where this is the case, and for you to live in a system that meets your needs as well. I don't understand why so many people are convinced that a giant state imposing one-size-fits-all on a hugely diverse population is a good idea. The United States particularly was founded on the idea of a tiny federal government where most things were decided by States, so people could freely move to the government that best fit their needs.

I totally agree with this BTW. That's in part why I made my comment in the first place. I don't want to see massive taxes federally and I actually left California because of the crazy laws / taxes.
> It's mainly mined from the "Democratic Republic" of the Congo, which is a violent country that uses unethical practices in its mining industry.

That's a euphemism for child slave workforce.
I love this service, though it has a sometimes disappointingly high number of pieces of mail for which no picture is available.

Anyway, as I'm currently out of the country I can view the mail sent to my family's address which now serves as my US mail address, though I definitely understand how this would be a privacy concern if you have multiple "households" at the same address.
As a person wearing ~$55 Zenni rimless atm, I'll disagree.

Have had these glasses for more than a few years, have sat on them, dropped them on concrete, etc. Still going strong.
Git hashes can be inserted in reproducible builds, they are deterministic.
of COURSE the Beeb isn't taking comments upon this article. I built a "super-adobe" or "earthbag" house, here in Portugal. It was utterly destroyed by the bush fires of 2017, and I do not recommend this technique for multiple reasons:

1)no structural integrity to the actual fill of the bags, unless you add cement, in which case why are you building with earth bags?

2) poly bags are very un-eco, as I'm still cleaning up the remains of my house. It degrades under UV light and many bags burst before being rendered even, and had to be replaced.
Contributing to Classiness (In Django)
A tip for anyone measuring their own PD in the mirror, shine a bright light in your eyes so your pupils constrict. That will make finding the center a bit easier.
> The land, on the other hand, costs more than that alone in major cities.

You can build apartment buildings 5, 10, 20 or even 80 floors high. The cost of land per apartment can be made quite small by building higher.
By essential, I don't mean that we depend on it, but that it is evolutionary unavoidable. It may be physically possible for a given process to be performed during wake, yet we are only able to perform it during sleep, because we had already evolved to sleep and thus the process could be optimised in such a way as to become dependent on it.

If we're trying to answer the question of why complex animals evolved to sleep in the first place, then we'd have to find processes which depend inherently on sleep (or at least are enhanced by it).
But who cares about that when you’re using a computer screen and it all looks like a blurry mess?
These polling questions don't typically distinguish between federal and state governments. They ask whether some policy is approved of (usually with the implicit understanding that it will be free to the voter). The author's proposition that if 2/3 of the voters want something, they should get it is the road to chaos, because "it" is never precisely defined, and the concrete consequences are never made clear. Democracy is good for picking representatives, and not great at that but better than a monarchy.
Me neither. But I think it's at least one part of the cultural ritual of wedding. I mean, a rule like "the diamond should cost at least such and such" is not even conceivable outside this type of framework (consider that artificial diamonds are also a perfect substitute- and as perfectly useless as the "real" ones).

I don't have good references here, it's just observation. But think about it: all the process of the proposal, the engagement, the long planning, the event itself, the dozens of relatives and friends invited, the food and the party... it's heavily ritualized and designed as a public and expensive event. Of course, you can deviate from the script as much as you want. If anything (also pure observation, I might be wrong) it seems to become less extreme in cultures that value more careful planning against spontaneity and of, course, tradition: for example weddings in India are an incredibly expensive affair that can last for several days and have thousands of guests.[1]

Somehow the practice reminds me a bit of that of the potlatch [2], a ritualized exchange and destruction of goods that was meant as a display of wealth in some tribal societies (possibly also ancient Greece).

[1] https://medium.com/@rubychandu/the-nonsense-that-is-indian-w...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch
I'd say the gulf between monolithic and microservice architectures is much wider than between ECS and non-ECS in games. The cost of microservices is much higher than that of ECS.

While building a game using some inheritance based approach, one will quickly hit limits even with a single engineer, whereas a monolithic web app can scale to a team of a couple dozen engineers easily.
"Fifty states, fifty laboratories" falls over when the foolish ones come with their hand out. See Kansas and their Sam Brownback disaster.

This is, ultimately, why I expect that most federal systems beyond a certain scale will fail: because the federated, without counterbalancing factors like "national unity" or "the barest sense of shame," will use, and then abuse, the federal safety net at the expense of everybody else. (See yesterday's arguments of "well, why should SALT be deductible?"--where states more impacted by SALT deductible reductions generally pay in more despite their increased state and local taxes.)

At that point, I expect that the collapse of the federated will necessitate federal and state conglomeration. I don't have a good idea on what timeline we will collectively realize this, though.
In more ways than one. Lets say one wolf is kind of smart and realizes it's a multi-round game, and that after they eat the sheep there won't anything else for them to eat except each other. What does that wolf do then? And what if it occurs to him that he can't be sure that the other wolf hasn't realized this too?
Not defending Windows, but I find the common latex font clumsy and hard to read.
I've been wondering as well! The suburbs are filled with 4-5 bedroom McMansions— smaller 2-3 bedroom homes are hardly being built at all (except in the form of a townhouse, maybe).

So one can't even just "move to the 'burbs" to save money instead of living right in town. It's all the same price.
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Good analogy. A wolf majority results in sheep being eaten with or without democracy because the wolves are more powerful. A sheep majority can save the sheep from the wolves only in a democratic system where the wolves respect majority rule.

By the way, rich people are wolves, not sheep.
you should petition your local DMV to procure military surplus lens grinding machines - voila, the $12 pair of BCGs on demand
Most of the dollars go as profit for the multi nationals. The remaining (very minimal) goes to the contract manufacturers.
Everything else is one wolf eating two sheep.
re: the examples under "Web Design 3.0 is about the designer's freedom"...

In 1997, I was tasked with making 'layout designs' like these in to 'webpages'. "Designers" have always had freedom of position/layout, even (especially?) when it was a PITA to achieve.
You're not wrong, but I'm trying hard to place this comment. The commenter you responded to said nothing about philanthropy. In fact, some interpretations of 'live and let live' would explicitly bar philanthropy.
progressive lenses are expensive.
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Zerodium offering big bucks for cloud zero-days
that is who produces most of it today, but it is widely distributed, being found wherever copper and nickel are. Among the top producers after DRC and Russia are Australia and Canada - so there's not going to be some cobalt catastrophe.
ZenniOptical - I've only used their glasses aside from my very first pair. They've been fine, and if someone were to step on my glasses, I'd angrily retrieve spare # 3 from my desk and/or spare # 2 from my car since each pair is ~30-70 USD.

Not an ad
The designer behind sim city (in the early 2010's) discusses how they just ignored parking because it makes cities ugly.
https://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-pa...
>$62/kWh by 2030

I seem to remember reading that $100/kWh is the point where electric cars are cheaper to manufacture than traditional ICE cars.
I thought I'd seen this discussed elsewhere, but my search-fu is failing me. All I can find is these discussion-less submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309475

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19307935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19303710

Has it been discussed?
Of course there is the fine point that taxation is not voluntary, and that 'ideally' means 'never happens'. The presumption that the government will be 'more ideal' than a philanthropist is silly.
> but those issues haven't been fixed in a decade.

This is far too broad of a statement to make, hence why you get all the "works on my machine" posts. Your post is just as anecdotal as others', with no actual numbers or anything to back up the claim.

Anecdata - I own a Lenovo y50-70 running arch with an Intel igpu, hidpi display, and Intel wifi. Everything worked flawlessly from day one. Surprisingly, the hidpi display worked far better than on Windows and I could leave behind the telemetry, updates, and poor input latency.
Precision 5520 (similar to XPS 15), 18.04.2, everything working perfectly.
> And one can not forget the days of giant images in Photoshop spliced apart to make a web page.

"Forget"? Are they gone?
Wait a minute:

> The twin boy and girl were found to have 100 per cent of their mother's DNA in common, but were only 78 per cent identical in the paternal DNA they carry.

78% identical seems like a lot more than the expected 50%. How likely is it for two sperm to be 78% identical?

Also:

> Because of the odd combination of DNA picked up from the two sperm, doctors have been concerned that the twins might be vulnerable to cancer of the reproductive organs.

> "It turned out that the girl just had some changes in her ovary that people weren't comfortable with, so unfortunately she had to have her ovaries out," Gabbett said. "The boy is continuing to have his testes monitored" with ultrasound.

> "Otherwise," Gabbett said, "the two twins are beautiful kids, well and healthy."

So gee, other than the fact that they're (probably) both sterile, they're well and healthy. How reassuring.
I've heard people dump on Warby Parker for being cheaply made, but honestly their stuff doesn't seem any worse then what my insurance covered at my optometrist.

Also as a side note, my first pair from Warby Parker had the lenses go bad (they looked like they had dried water blotches on them, but it would never wash out. I assume some coating went bad) and they sent me a new pair for free. That was maybe 2 years ago and I still use the pair.
In the cybersecurity arms race, humans will replace computers in the crosshairs
It also used to be a pretty popular Node.js express suite

http://krakenjs.com/
In a word corruption.

Building a machine to automate an eye exam seems obvious. But, the industry pushes back vs anything that would lower costs.
We were in one of the South Asian country not too long ago (family of four). Bought 2 pairs of glasses each, everything you name it, is included. Cost? <$50 for all. It would have cost us at least $1000 in US. And you cannot tell we wear cheap glasses. They are perfectly fine. Of course they are not original Ray Ban but who cares as long as prescription is right. The eyewear industry in US is totally out of control.
eyebuydirect.com
> We have income earned by labor, and "income" expropriated as a Rentier - rent, interest, profit. We know this as workers pay higher taxes on their earned income than heirs do for their unearned income.

It is incredibly difficult to interpret this as a critique of what the commenter wrote, when he explicitly called for a flat tax rate.
I don’t think literal direct democracy is a good system for nations. That’s why there are so many parliamentary systems or republics.

So it’s ok to not “like democracy.”

Democratic principles are a different story. I like representation and justice.
There's no conspiracy needed, the push towards stealing roads from people and horses and taking them for cars is pretty well documented. Once we decided it was ok to tell kids they couldn't play in the street, our cities were lost.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2012/04/invention-jay...
That's a valid complaint (I too wish it were simpler) but am not sure how feasible that is given the myriad of ways upstream packages are managed and the varying degrees to which they do or don't support distros in general, let alone a specific one like Debian. I think that's part of the reason Debian has become such a popular upstream distro: it converts an incoming Tower of Babel collection of source repos into a reasonably coherent and standardized set of packages.
I had expected this would be a retelling of how Kurt Gödel (of Incompleteness Theorems fame) claimed to have found a logical flaw in the U.S. Constitution and was dissuaded from brining it up at his naturalisation interview. I was pleasantly surprised it was nothing of the sort.

https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/morgenstern.html
> By 30 it's entirely possible making minimum wage to attend college or to take risks.

This is a mighty big leap ... many minimum wage jobs have erratic schedules that make attending classes difficult, let alone barely paying you enough to eat and have housing. God help you if you start a family.
The GP said "I also regularly give to my community, by choice."
Shameless plug: I built something similar[0] a while ago, maybe it's useful for you.

By default it does fuzzy tab search, (multi) selection and closing. The new advanced mode[1] turns it into something more like Quicksilver, with object->action->optional-param command sequences.

It's only on the Chrome extension marketplace, although it should be mostly compatible with Firefox.

[0] https://github.com/brumm/tabulous

[1] https://i.imgur.com/IaksQ9m.gifv
Which is part of why the USA is a representative republic.
I’ve been messing around with an idea of starting something like failedfounders.com. Basically an online repo of stories, learnings and the like. It’s too taboo to talk about and I wish that’d change. 99.99% (made up, don’t quote me) of people don’t hit it big on the first thing they do. Or second. Some people just start earlier. Aka build programs and sell them in HS vs at 28. If you find forward thinking execs they usually will love talking to you and consider hiring you. I’ve found most everyone in TA/Recruiting to be unable to process how you could have skills across multiple disciplines and this doesn’t score well on their interview sheet. Relationships end up helping a ton here.
In Brazil these things are known as "motels". I still have to think twice when I see a reference to the word in its original context, like "Bates Motel" in Psycho.
Very excited to see Segment launch their Developer Center in conjunction with this Growth Stack overview. Our company (ClearBrain) was one of the early technology partners to build into their Development Center, and it's been a transformative impact on our business.

As an analytics company, one of the first hurdles to getting a customer successful is onboarding their data. Every customer has heteregenous schemas and then you need to wait weeks to collect enough data to find reasonable results. Segment made this dead simple by providing an API spec with a standardized schema that just took a couple days for us to integrate with. Once integrated, you gain access to 1000s of mutual companies using Segment, who can stream you their data in exactly the same format (a huge win for analytics efforts and data normalization).

Highly recommend other companies to consider integrating with Segment. The ease of integration and access to a platform serving thousands of customers is especially helpful for startups.
Rent seeking is a large part of the pharmaceutical industry, which is 4% of the economy. And also a good chunk of the rest of the health care industry, which is 18% of the economy.
> One man's loophole is another man's incentive. If you are struck by catastrophic medical issues and pay more than 10% of your AGI in medical bills, you can deduct the cost. Is this a loophole?

No, it's just badly broken, arbitrary, unnecessary complication. Deductions are sensible for essential costs, but healthcare doesn't magically become essentially when it crosses the 10% AGI threshold; it makes sense for healthcare costs to be deductible period.
But a 30-story apartment building will block my view of the river!
Well the shadow of a tall building covers sunshine in a large area. This limits its applicability.
It's probably easy to do with Java / C# and Go, they're using a 36 cores machine to achieve that with fast CPU, meaning that you need 3000conn/sec per core, very doable with recent frameworks.
Zenni Optical does, as well as several other online retailers.

There have been a few good HN threads on the topic previously. Here are a couple I had bookmarked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091936

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373992
Exactly this.

Many times people have assumed that Tor is only for 'dark web' and other things that there is no legitimate business using.

But as you say, escaping NAT is a perfect use-case. It's particularly good for escaping CGNAT, as to be honest there aren't many other ways to escape CGNAT and still have a 'listening' server, rather than just an always-open tunnel.

Edit: The Tor Project website has a useful section on how IT professionals use Tor, which covers some more interesting ones: https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en#itprofessi...