skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a British perspective, this argument seems utterly absurd. We generate almost twice as much of our electricity using renewable sources, but our population density is eight times higher. If we can find the land to accommodate wind turbines, so can you. There are a heck of a lot of rooftops that don't currently have solar panels on them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
Upcycling an old homebrewing project with IoT
"The sad state of <minor desktop feature> on Linux"

Linux on the desktop is death by a thousand cuts.
> how to ensure you can stay employed to shit out JavaScript and bloated styles.
Define what's even toxic?

If you look into what is being removed from youtube, twitter, patreon, etc. It's not people calling for genocide that are being removed. Nobody would argue over those.

The 'toxicity' being removed seems to be political views.

Patreon is a perfect example of the system working correctly however. They started banning people over politics. The right-wing left patreon and went to subscriber-star. Patreon is now in money problems.

“Patreon needs to build new businesses and new services and new revenue lines in order to build a sustainable business,” said Patreon CEO Jack Conte.
I was just wondering if a whistleblower program that rewards credible whisteblowing with a portion of the fine exists and it does!

https://www.whistleblowersinternational.com/what-is-whistleb...

There aren't many famously-rewarded whistleblowers, and of them, banking seems to be a rarity (except for Deutsche Bank), but it's certainly an interesting concept. Effective? Time will tell.
There's obviously some amount of truth to this considering we recently discussed [1] the largest county in the USA (San Bernardino) restricting large-scale solar and wind farm projects.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19277653
> Energy is a matter of national security primarily because our energy sources and distribution are destroying our own country.

Really?

Then how come Saudi's are "nice good guys" and Iranians are "scary bad guys",
when neither is an 'enlightened' western-style democracy?

truth is a bit more complicated i'm afraid.

see also: Clash, The. "Rock the Casbah", CBS Records, 1982.
s/font rendering/wifi

s/font rendering/bluetooth

s/font rendering/sleep mode

s/font rendering/battery life

I've been using Linux for 15 years now (started on Mandrake), but those issues haven't been fixed in a decade.

I really want to support free software, so I keep using it, reporting bugs and donating again and again. Many do. We hope that like with Firefox, if we support it consistently, it will eventually overcome the situation.

But damn it's hard sometimes.
I use Blogger but I don't create my content on Blogger. This is probably a dumb workflow, but I write in Markdown, and use pandoc to convert to HTML, then paste the generated HTML into Blogger posts. The idea is that I can also use the same Markdown source to create a PDF or turn it into something like an OpenOffice document that I can format better for print. I haven't come up with a good way to easily generate a book manuscript I'm really satisfied with, though. Various difficulties especially managing indexing and tables of contents and pagination are making this hard. Wish I had a better answer.
These are all points that society has to think about, I am playing the devil's advocate to ensure people don't jump on their soap box without considering some of the real impacts it can have to you and your society in the long run simply because they are thinking from a single perspective. I will now respond to your comments:

If your business doesn't take part in it, someone else or another country will. They will then have more resources and revenue to potentially become leaders in that area and in the long run, purchase the company from your country or outbid them in most environments. Also, if you have skin in the game, you may have more power to change their actions and get these actors to follow some of the rules and beliefs your country has.

It is very tough to find where to draw the line, it is also true that lines are constantly moving depending on the beliefs of society and other nations.

Your third paragraph looks great and is on point.

You have made a good point regarding (7), I think it is worth adding that today we may talk about bribe, tomorrow there will be another unethical proponent and so on. At some point you may have so many laws and regulations (it already happens in some areas) that it becomes near impossible to take certain types of risks without breaching another law that even your lawyers are not aware of. For someone in management position, why would you take the next step in your career if it comes with 10x more risks to your life, including imprisonment?
"Go somewhere else" ignores the reality that essentially every company prioritizes profit over ethics. If you want to change the output of the tech industry, you have to actually push back and demand that change. Just moving doesn't fix anything.
Yeah, I think my point was more: If you're being price conscious and aren't willing to have a more non-traditional (e.g. no/minimal flowers) wedding in June, your best bet is to have your large traditional wedding in November.

Truthfully, the part the guests largely enjoy is the reception (which is often indoors anyway), so it's really not a bad idea at all.
If you look closely, all three examples have standard navigation (top menu). The main difference is that elements can overlap in the presentation layer (i.e. body) while still benefiting from a grid system. People have seen this type of layout in print for decades, so Jacob's Law isn't broken.
> In fact the lack of accountability in the online world lets people get away with MORE toxicity than they would in the physical world.

Yes, that's a big part of it.

You guys are making me feel old today, citing Usenet and IRC, but here's another one from the past that makes a lot of sense:

"The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol." -- Larry Wall.

That's why this is in the guidelines:

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

I humbly think that "don't write what you wouldn't say to someone's face" bit should be called Welton's Rule or something like that :-)
Comparing Kotlin to Scala
Why was this downvoted? This paragraph was one of the worst in the article.

> Since Windows never had the font rendering problems that Apple did

Uhm I cannot reliably use windows with any sort of scaling. It's not as bad as linux, but it's still very bad.

> Software maintainers too didn’t buy into the idea of massive code rewrites and UI tinkering to support DPIs other than 96

(on Windows)
Show HN: Fake 3D orthogonal grip map in JavaScript with mouse interaction
Seems like maybe the best way to disrupt weddings, then, is to have some lower-cost venues that are close to on par with the current ones - kind of like the way the PC disrupted the minicomputer market. They weren't as good, but they were good enough, and a lot less money.
You could try github pages + markdown(they suggest Jekyll, but I'm sure there's a number of options).
Well, if "Linux's [non-]design sucks" is the problem, there is no solution. The Linux community is simply not interested in design, design reviews, reviewing interface designs, and so on. They are not setup for it and don't want to be. They are only interested in code.

So you get things like epoll.

On the other hand, Linux won. Maybe because of this, or maybe in spite of this.
> Really?

Yes, really.

> Then how come Saudi's are "nice good guys"

I have never heard that in my life. Saudi is one of the scariest places on Earth to me, I don't see anything nice or good there, and neither does anyone I know. What do you mean?

> Iranians are "scary bad guys"

I've never heard this either??

What on Earth does any of this have to do with my post?
It sounds like they changed it then since I moved only 6 months ago.
Formal as in Formal Mathematics -- a specification with a precise definition that can be verified by a model checker to have the desired safety and, if necessary, liveness guarantees.
You're black and white on this. The entire nation of people doesn't need to be brainwashed. The world is gray. The dynamics of the election was changed. Did Putin elect Trump? It's impossible to say. Did Putin help elect Trump? Yes.
Please accept all of my upvotes, this is the first time I am learning about “The Noncentral Fallacy.”

Thank you.
Yeah, interestingly by far the least toxic place for me are Facebook and a personal Discord server where I know everyone in real life and I can curate who the people are.
I've gigged as a pianist and it's really not worth it, financially speaking - I only do it for the fun/joy of making music. Have you considered the cost of gear, the rehearsals, transit, tear down/setup, down-time without music, and dealing with shitty clients who expect more than the verbal agreement? When you deal with all of that, the money is not good, it's just about bringing joy with my piano music, having an audience that is often very complimentary and provides meaning to the 1000's of practice hours I have put in.

Financially, I make the same in a single 8 h day of coding that I do in my average "2 h" gigs, which really take 5 hours or so all inclusive, and which only occur 5-10 times per year. If I quit my full time position and tried to get more gigs, I'd get maybe 2 or 3 times more, and my income would go down about by 50k or around 75%.
I think what superkuh means is that it's the opinion of many that there's no problem to solve. Okay, there may be toxic comments/content, but that's a feature of the Internet, not a bug. Any solution to rid the Internet of toxicity would be worse than the disease itself. If you want a clean information age, go back to your public library.
> The traditional way of [installing the Windows core Web fonts] is through installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer or msttcorefonts. The msttcorefonts package looks like some Shenzhen basement knockoff that renders poorly and doesn’t support Unicode. I suspect that these fonts have gone through multiple iterations in every Windows release and that the versions available through the repositories must be from around Windows 95 days.

That does seem to be the case. Per Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web):

> The latest font-versions that were available from Microsoft's Core fonts for the Web project were 2.x (e.g. 2.82 for Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New for MS Windows), published in 2000. Later versions (such as version 3 or version 5 with many new characters) were not available from this project. A Microsoft spokesman declared in 2002 that members of the open source community "will have to find different sources for updated fonts."

So while Windows and MacOS both have up-to-date versions of these fonts (Windows because Microsoft owns them, and MacOS because Apple licenses them from MS), the best Linux distributors can do is to package the last versions released before the 2002 re-licensing. (Or at least, that's the best they can do without paying Microsoft.)
This is like aws marketplace where vendors can make images instead of digital ocean making images
Well, there is. Silicon Valley companies are or act as far-left.

Facebook and Twitter in particular are known to censor conservatives.

I actually don't know if they do it because these companies are in traditionally left-wing California, or because of fear of activists.
If anything SimCity, makes transit heavy options seem really easy to build. Building a new subway in the game is easier (and not very expensive) than re-doing a grid of roads in an area that's already developed.
Exactly. And I think nearly everyone in tech is able to re-enter the workforce within < 6 months.
I don't think a lot of people go and read all the stories about a topic, then decide that although the TechCrunch story isn't the best one, they'll submit that because bias.

Rather, a lot of people subscribe to TechCrunch and when they see something interesting they submit it without researching into other possible sources.

HN prefers primary sources. TC publishes both primary reporting and rewrites. If you see a HN story that's a rewrite (TC or not), please add a comment with a link to a better source and a sentence about why it's better. The mods can change the main link if the new source is significantly better.
If you think that Russia is: a) the only one doing this and b) the most effective actor doing this, then you're the one being obtuse.

What Russia supposedly "did" to us did not even register as a blip. Russia's biggest crime in this case was coming from a place that Americans are remarkably naive and ignorant about.
TPU v1 was inference only, Cloud TPUs (v2 and v3) do both.
NSA Phone Data Collection Program Shut Down, Aide Says
This is a very good question, saying this as some one who just took a job with a high churn rate
> Do you want to preserve the look of the font? Do you want to smash it into the grid? Do you want colors on the fringes? With Linux I can choose.

I have no idea. I want it to look good. With macOS I don't have to choose.
On Firefox, the details button does not do anything. I.e create droplet -> images -> marketplace -> app details
what's the problem downvotes? too much reality for you?
Shouldn't you then question if treating syphilis with penicillin encourages risky habits? Or be concerned about the condom and contraceptive pill? People are always going to want to have sex. Safe sex and condoms aren't foolproof. People get drunk or horny.

The trouble with that apparently innocent concern over the increased risk of other STDs, is the victim blaming it leads to. "Well if only they'd not taken risks", eventually becomes "it's your own fault" and "you shouldn't wear a short skirt".

It was well over a year after my brother died that his widow got the letter admitting liability from the hospital. Until then, I have no doubt that of those who knew he was HIV+ (and that she wasn't) more than a few had doubts. That he had obviously been unfaithful, or was gay and in denial, and had brought it on himself, maybe even deserved it etc. Along with all the extremes of not wanting to breathe the same air, touch, catch it from a seat sat in an hour ago or visit such a dangerous hospital ward.

It was ugly, undeserved and whether gay or not, the popular mood was more of the dark ages than the 20th century. We haven't evolved as far as we like to think.
Caffe Pioneer and AI Infrastructure Director Leaves Facebook
Will you be offering the ability for the vendors to build on a recurring basis? Thanks!
Knowing people in real life is huge because it's a big disincentive to being a jerk to them even if you disagree.

One of the things I kind of enjoy about local politics where I live is that it's a "repeated game". It's a small enough town that the other actors are people you'll encounter day to day and have to get along with, so even if you vehemently disagree with them, you need to keep it civil.
At a very general level, there are people making that exact argument:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674006713&co...
It’s not eliminated, it’s bicameral. Dolphins do sleep, they just do so one half of their brain at a time, which is... so cool.
I think their templates section provide a better example of practical uses and design: https://nicepage.com/templates
I want to see the world: The North - a bike trip [2014]
Font configuration is user solvable with configuration. Some of the options were literally forbidden from being distributed by parents but could be installed by the user.

Google infinality. Exact advice depends on distro.

Sleep is legitimately a pain.
Well, Travel Books (I think--it was close to Penn Station) closed a few years ago because the owners had reached the age that they wanted to retire. I don't know how hard, if at all, they looked for a buyer.

I do hope that the Landmark Commission will get it through its collective head that the true landmark at The Strand is the all those shelves, and that literate and helpful staff.
Got it. Just to clarify, I didn't mean to implement the filters using ebpf inside the kernel but rather use ebpf's engine as a lib at the application layer.
Musicians generally want to make money but, like most market participants, they're not short-term income maximisers.

Musicians are concerned with their reputation. They want to tour (though some don't) but not burn out and also need time to work on new material and recording. They want to play the best possible gig. That means sell-out performances with the most devoted fans, not the richest ones. It means venue matched to the type of music.

Venues and promoters are in similar positions. Auctioning tickets to the highest bidder could be short-term profitable but in the long term it's a disaster.
Spotify’s grand plan for podcasts is taking shape
When I got my 2015 Windows laptop, sleep mode and wifi worked much better on Linux than Windows, where they were basically broken. It seems simply incorrect to say these things are broken in any real general way in Linux. It just depends.
>Same with the borrowed Chinese characters in Japanese and Korean. A native Chinese speaker would have little problem reading those, although the pronounciations might be a little different

The Japanese pronunciation of Chinese characters is absolutely nothing like the Chinese pronunciation of them, and the meaning is sometimes different too. (The Kanji for "letter" (as in a piece of paper you write a letter on) means "toilet paper" in Chinese.)

https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/cj-false-friends.html
I also really appreciated "How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)" by Ross Duffin.
The expected change for the next hundred years is only a few degrees, it will not make the region uninhabitable this century. People doesn't care too much about the price of the property in a few centuries.
I hadn't seen these sources, thanks. Guess I'll have to update my priors a bit.
No, sometimes evolution gets stuck in local extrema. Two examples:

1. The vertebrate retina [1] (cf. the cephalopod retina).

2. The recurrent laryngeal nerve [2], especially in the giraffe [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina#Inverted_versus_non-inv...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve

[3] http://blog.eternalvigilance.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/g...
Actually, sleep would have been evolutionarily beneficial to us since we can't see well at night and it would keep us out of way of predators at night. Sleep wouldn't be a drawback, it would be a benefit to our survival.

It's why hamsters are nocturnal. Their predators hunt during the day, so they sleep during the day and play at night.

Evolutionary theory would say the hamsters that like to play during the day got eaten so that only those who slept during the day got to mate and pass on their genes, etc.

If you think sleep is a drawback for humans, trying visiting a forest at night without a flashlight.
A lot of the debate in this thread seems to be conflating UI redesigns with UX redesigns.

A pure UI redesign inherently should not change the overall user experience. So yes, one could argue it _is_ a waste of time, because it has no impact on the user's experience of the product.

UI is superficial, by design (heh).
I think it's up to the customer to decide how the use the purchased product or service, since when do you owe an explanation to a vendor where or how their product will be used? If they add wedding-markup for no other reason (like increased quality control or something) nobody should feel bad about lying to them.
Yes, my recollection was that Apple was the first to market with vector fonts, hinting, and sub-pixel-rendering, and not by a small margin. I had to interact with their lowish-level C API that drew this stuff in the early 2000s -- it was definitely doing sub pixel rendering at a time when the competition was, uh, Windows XP.

Retina officially happened in 2013, not 2015, and I distinctly remember playing with scale factors in 2008 and being frustrated by a search for competitive panels on non-Apple laptops in 2009, so they've been pushing high resolution panels far earlier than 2015, which is exactly what you would expect from a company in the premium niche.

So yeah, OP is doing some sketchy revisionist history to dunk on Apple, but if Apple thought it was OK to release dark themes without updating SPR, hinting, etc to work on non-white backgrounds (which I suspect is the real issue here) then they do need a wakeup call.
> The admins have very little direct impact on it outside of the standard enforcement of spam blocking and illegal content.

/r/fatpeoplehate and /r/incels are admin-banned subs that weren't spam or illegal.
IMO there's very little on the internet that's significantly more toxic than Hollywood movies and pop music. Porn, I guess.

If you do find it: congrats, you must be pretty inventive.

On the extremist content: those people are not well versed. If you reaaaally want to you can let it brainwash you, but at that point a book could do the job as well.

And: internet extremists don't have significant attention spans and can barely act in the world. If they learned how to read, well... they'd soon know better.

Are "book extremists" still a thing?
Right - Apple even made a selling point out of the Quartz display rendering engine using PDF-compatible models internally (in much of a similar way that NeXT used Postscript-compatible models). It was designed specifically to enable true display-to-paper printing. No other platform comes remotely close to that yet.
The [systemd] Boot Loader Specification
We agree! That's why I brought up the comparison in my original post.
They've been doing that sort of thing for a long long time. And so have we, and so does China, every state or corporation with the capability will do things like that. If your democracy can be subverted by some Facebook ads and twitter bots you have far more fundamental problems. I'd be more concerned about actual election tampering, for example a news media corporation giving debate questions to a candidate before the debate.
This guy has some pretty weird opinions. Not only do I much prefer macOS's accurate font rendering aesthetically, the entire issue of sub pixel aliasing is moot with high-DPI screens anyway.
Wifi and Bluetooth seem largely solved to me, at least on Intel chipsets. Sleep mode has been rock-solid on every Intel chipset I've had in the last decade.

Battery life has been a consistent problem, historically. However, I've moved to Thinkpads again and my T480, with the big external battery, gets a solid nine hours when working (running dev stuff in Docker, VSCode, a browser with a ton of tabs, etc.). It get maybe ten and a half or eleven hours doing similar on Windows, and that delta isn't perfect but it's not that bad anymore.
I meant "to quote".
Ask HN: Is There an AWS/Paperspace Equivalent for Scientific Computing?
Preferably one that comes with easy install, preinstalled libraries including ML libraries, safe math, etc
>Finally, the connections per second rate reaches 99k, with network latency and available CPU resources contributing to the next bottleneck.

Can someone educate me on what they might talking about here ?
CPU is ~45% in their final graph. I don't know what network latency means in this context though. Roundtrip for a TCP handshake ? That seems unlikely.
Unfortunately reality doesn't work that way, unless you don't mind destroying the local economy and you'd rather force rich countries to subsidize economically backward countries.

To put the money into perspective, $50/day, which might seem like a pittance to most people on HN, is almost 4-5 times the amount that most employees make at some of the better Indian outsourcing companies.