skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some users even disable all ClearType rendering and anti-aliasing, claiming that it reduces eyestrain and that anti-aliasing damages eyesight. It’s kind of like anti-vaxxing (hello from 2019 if you are reading this in the future).

I hope the anti-vaxxing comparison is only for the "eyesight damage" part, otherwise this paragraph is bullshit in its entirety. From my own personal experience, i vastly prefer antialising disabled, assuming that there fonts used have hinting available that support it. Or even better, bitmap fonts made to be clean and crisp (as opposed to just being rasterized versions of vector fonts). Of course if you try to use fonts that disregard hinting and aren't compatible (or even tested at all) with antialiasing disabled, like the font the author's site uses which looks like total crap on my PC, then, yeah, compared to that i prefer AA with CT.

I find annoying that you need to mess with the registry to disable antialiasing in Windows 10, but at least the option is still there.
I like how you interpreted "very little" as none, thanks. Nothing of any value was lost anyways as both of those subs were shitty toxic places. And I am pretty sure they were banned for their mods supporting the subs being used to harass people, which violates TOS.
Because normal people don't want to frequent toxic environments. It's unpleasant.
Yea, evolution is just a good enough result based on current stimuli. Even if the output is great and near perfect, the "perfect" is still based on the requirements of the environment.
Also as a sibling comment mentioned it's not priority number one. People were happy they didn't have to compile the whole damn thing anymore.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19311708
I’m not taking issue with influencing the system or any particular economic policy; I’m taking issue with arguments that don’t make basic economic sense. It’s one thing to identify an economic inefficiency in Walmart’s model that could be remedied by paying employees more; it’s quite a different thing to argue that Walmart should raise their wages without explaining where that money will come from.
^ Didn't get the joke.

I'm aware you have to register; I've been registered for 6 months. My comment is based off of 6 months of these daily emails.
Just watched "NOVA: Inside Einstein's Mind" on Netflix and found it to be better than expected. Especially liked the description of these thought experiments which actually do lead to the theories. Also liked the tip to a Feynman diagram in the intro sequence which is my archetype for thought experimenter.
They use economy of scale. They have a large crew so that they can get more moves done in a single day. Keep in mind most people in Japan live within the same metro region, so there's a larger economy of scale.
Ethical is nonstandard between people. It isn't so clearcut. Barring the whole 'investors, stockholders, etc. Fiduciary responsobolities'
Its less about tech and more about business ethics needing a cleanup via legislation.
> everything displayed perfectly

But what do you consider 'perfect' font rendering? Maybe it's a lower bar than the author.
It's also one of the best ways to get the vaunted Bed Bath and Beyond 20% off your entire purchase coupon. Depending on how much stuff you're buying after you move, that can be worth a little junk mail
Amazon's Algorithms Curated a Dystopian Bookstore
There is an astronomical difference between vestigial organs/nerves/what have you, and a required biological function which renders the individual totally incapacitates and utterly vulnerable for 6-10 hours. Especially considering the "natural" state of things where even giving the benefit of the doubt you will avoid predators which can kill humans, you may be sleeping under a rock or a tree and susceptible to bugs, rodents, germs, etc. I don't feel that your rebuttal really, well, rebutted his point.
Yeah that doesn't align with my experience. All of my spam is scanned and shown in my daily preview
So, why would sleep be benefitial to non-nocturnal animals? That is, I think the parent is saying that sleep must be very important because almost all animals sleep. If sleep wasn’t very important, a lot more animals wouldn’t sleep.
Exactly, and this is what the broadband and cable industry was hoping for. However, for the moment, Jio's launch remains successful, and the major difference between then and now being data and the new ways to monetise it.

I do not hope for Jio's demise (not that it matters), but certainly hope that regulation is at least fair to all players and doesn't conveniently pave the path for its dominance over Indian industries like many people aware of the matter (spokespersons from telco infra providers like Ciena, RAD, CISCO, HUAWEI, etc.) have been saying.
"Fashion accessory prices don't reflect supply cost" is hardly news or something to "gratify one's intellectual curiosity" as per the site guidelines.

If you buy a fashion brand of glasses frames then you're no more or less getting "ripped off" than you are when buying a Gucci hoodie.

Sure, all the brands are owned by the same company, but that affects a lot of things not just eyewear.
Does mobile phone technology reduce agricultural price distortions? Evidence
ah - didn't see it
The CPU graph peaks near 97% (teal line) at the time when connections-per-second are highest. Are you looking at the red? That's the version without the two patches.
On, dev, local, staging, live, and where else?

If you have to manually access all of the databases and run queries on them, then that defeats the purpose of a ci/cd migration tool.

Of course, the migrations that this method is purporting to replace handles that.
The idea is that "look good" is subjective, case in point: you apparently think the font rendering on macOS looks good, whereas the author of the linked article thinks that font rendering on macOS looks bad and instead likes the font rendering on Windows 7.
Regarding the VNC point in your post, I’ve experimented with this a whole lot in recent times getting a good remote desktop solution going. TigerVNC server, using its embedded X server, plus the TigerVNC viewer, work absolutely perfectly. Even including the viewer supporting proper dual head, resizing, switching and all.

Of course, if you want to use your existing X server it might not work as well, I haven’t tried it.

For most of the rest of your complaints, I use web apps for everything, even on OS X / Windows. Sad at the state of native apps on both Windows and Linux.
I live in a rural area on a plot of land that has two houses
and a total of three housing units on it.

We get our mail in one mailbox.

When I signed up for Informed Delivery I was told that I couldn't get it because I was an improperly coded housing
complex.

I asked my postmistress about it and she told me that that was because we get the mail in one box and that we could have it coded correctly if we got three boxes.

The system worked in my case.
Yes, but on how many different systems and dev setups do you have to run that?
Japan has an excellent number of second hand stores for many household and personal items.
Like the others, jumping around shooting "it's fine" is not going to help.

I'm writting this from an Ubuntu 16.04 on an XPS 13. Sometime it wakes up from sleep modes with no wifi or bluetooth, and I have to force a reboot. Bluetooth doesn't work out of the box, I have to use blueman just to have a working mouse. But even with these, headphones won't work.

I had a XPS 15 before. It was not better.
Even buying a Costco membership for the sole purpose of buying glasses will likely save you money vs LensCrafters or independent eyewear stores.

My dad's last two pair of glasses (reading & normal) cost him $2100. That's criminal
I'm trying to tell you that for each of your criticisms of the study you ignored their definitions and evidence and applied your own based on your feelings. For another example, 'Health and Survival' was not based on if women lived longer than men but "an estimate of the number of years that women and men can expect to live in good health by taking into account the years lost to violence, disease, malnutrition and other relevant factor." This was defined in the paper but you either chose to ignore it or didn't bother to read how they defined it.
Yeah I'd agree with this. Especially given that the author talks about employees' "purported values" which is a bit of a weasily way to suggest that they're just "virtue signalling" or something (or otherwise don't hold their values sincerely), I don't believe the author is actually arguing in good faith.

Nevertheless, industrial action has had a long history of bringing about meaningful reform so I can't say I agree with the author even on practical grounds.
I mentioned that; but it's effectively me making a decision for someone else to have images of their mail disseminated electronically via an insecure route.
Not sure if you mean `build` or `bill`.

Build: Yup, this is a self service approach where vendors can resubmit images whenever and we can quickly approve.

Bill: Can't confirm any details yet but made sure to note down the request.
In the oil industry whenever someone says we'll run out of supply, they're shot down by people saying "we'll discover new oilfields or technology will unlock previously inaccessible ones."

Funny how that blind faith in "market prices will figure it out" never applies to renewables.
Sure. You want businesses you deal with to make profit, otherwise they won't be around to do business with in the future.

In industrial supply chain, if you have two suppliers who are each charging the same price and you know that one is making higher profit margins, go with the one with higher margins - they're more likely to be stable.
Why would Versace, Chanel, Burberry etc which are considered luxury brands, all of the sudden sell discounted frames? They have extensive markups on all of their clothing, handbags etc.
They are targeting a different, and I would imagine dwindling, market.

There are plenty of options online and offline for cheaper frames.
Ask HN: Options and 2018 Taxes
Does anyone have any experience with the new tax law and start up options? Can you share your experiences? Specifically, I want to know your experience if you left a start-up, purchased your options and had to include them on your 2018 taxes.
True, I live in an apartment with a roommate. I also see his incoming mails
I'll have to keep an eye out, thanks!
Ask HN: With all the compute in the world, can we brute force AGI with DL
This is what firejail tries to do?

https://github.com/netblue30/firejail

Anything beyond that, and I think you need qubes-os:

https://www.qubes-os.org/
> according to the unicode spec

Does the Unicode specification cover how glyphs should look and what colour they should be?
I love this service for the parcel data, for pretty much the same reasons as the UPS and FedEx equivalents. It means I actually know what parcels are headed my way, regardless of whether or not someone explicitly gave me a tracking number. Makes it much easier to know when I'm getting something.
"Why do sounds have shapes?"

Does my asking this mean that I am a synesthete? Of course not. I've merely collected data that allows me to formulate the question.
No, I'm saying that the h1b numbers are minimums for the person.

The ranges show that they're often higher than the minimum for the role.
But the anti-anti-vax line is "everyone should be required to get all immunizations under penalty of law".
I look forward to the day when I can drop in a high-DPI screen to my home office setup that works just like my current non high-DPI screen, but with a higher pixel density.

(5K ultrawides to replace my 34" monitor simply don't exist yet, and the current 12" MacBook can't drive a regular 5K monitor.)
How are you different from Jenkins X?
#s 1 and 2 are hardware. I genuinely haven't had those problems in ~4 thinkpads I've used over the years that have been linux-only.

Linux is a lot easier on g-suite enterprises than in exchange/office ones. Considering how much of the latter's going online now, maybe it won't matter at all later.
Personally, the font rendering in a Windows terminal looks abysmal to me. I hugely prefer my linux terminals (out of the box).

Just my 2c
A World and Web Divided
Nonsense. If what you're saying about language was true then the people of France and most of Spain would be speaking a Celtic language, Gaulish or Celto-Iberian.

Instead they speak direct descendants of the language of the common tongue of Roman citizens, 'vulgar' Latin. The pre-Roman languages of most of Roman occupied Europe were extinguished. Apart from Greek, which was kind of the second language of Rome (and later the only language, once the west collapsed) and Palestine/Syria, it's only in Britain where pre-Roman languages survived -- that is until the Anglo-Saxons wiped most of it out, excepting Wales and Cornwall.
I'm surprised there was hardly any mention of pixel grid fitting, or even just accuracy. My favorite article on font rendering is one from Antigrain Geometry[1] that goes a fair bit further in improving subpixel rendering imo.

Nonetheless their use of the word objective is very annoying since I greatly prefer grayscale with no hinting even on Linux at 96 DPI. It's a bit blurry, but it consistently looks right. No kerning issues.

Also, it is laughable to suggest that Windows never had issues with font rendering. Just look at Microsoft Word struggling to balance between accurately displaying documents and rendering the fonts with Cleartype as shown in the AGG article.

[1]: http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/
Really interesting read on how fonts render on different systems. However a huge reason why I went from Win to macOS are the incredibly frustrating scaling issues. At work I gave up and just set my laptop display to 100% since I’d rather deal with the occasional tiny text than always having incredibly blurry fonts in certain crucial apps like Outlook.

I do agree that macOS fonts are nearly unreadable without a Retina/4K display. However I’ve never noticed any scaling issues on macOS.
Show HN: Afroic – The African Reddit
Sorry for your loss :(
It reminds me of when Bill Watterson was allowed full control of the Sunday strip layouts and he started to break free from the grid: https://imgur.com/a/wjcnuXh

I would argue it isn't just "artistic", but it conveys they ideas better in this case.
Hmm, that still doesn't disable the Touch Bar escape on my 2018 MBP. Any advice?
> How’s that?

Someone already explained much of it to you 13 hours ago, in a reply to another comment of yours expressing the similar ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19308149
I can empathize with your situation and it must be very painful to be there. I hope you had awesome times with him and that you have a great life moving forward.
It's not the fake news reports that were the effective tactic. That was one of many they used in the attack (if you will).

This article is from within days of the one you posted:

https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-elect...

It covers the other tactics used and how they were successful—namely false identities.

The US intelligence community saw it as enough of a threat going forward they acted for the 2018 midterm elections:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/disrupted-russian-tro...

The identities used were things like sockpuppet accounts and fake communities set up to look as if there was more virulent discord already organically occurring and dragging legitimate online communities and identities into the same discord.

Here in Canada CSIS has put out warnings for Canadians leading up to the federal election later this year about that very thing. They said it would happen, and now Canadian online communities are devolving into trolling and anger and vitriol like there never was.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/twitter-troll-pipeline-immigr...

https://globalnews.ca/news/4518563/canada-target-russian-tro...

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Then I guess you have a roadmap for the 1.x and 2.x releases ? Better make that public ;-)
How do you feel you compare to the similar features in Gitlab’s product?
There is no url summing the details unfortunately.

The work in some unknown state is at https://code.google.com/archive/p/coev/

Without the business logic (which was in django IIRC) and deployment details, obviously. Very outdated and some later patches might be missing. No one was interested, you see.

I'd be surprised if there were problems with network, and if there were, that should have been obvious in the metrics.

Maybe the metrics were inadequate
> Fonts are _never_ scaled "linearly."

Correct, but when printed on paper (using movable type for example), the width of left-aligned text set in the same font at a continuously increasing point size typically has a nice 'linear' slope on the ragged right edge. Cleartype does not have this. Cleartype changes the text width drastically between point sizes close in magnitude

The author criticized freetype for having a non-linear apparent font weight as the font point size is increased linearly. The author said this was bad without much justification, while simultaneously claiming cleartype is better, despite having the same issue of font metrics being discontinuous over a continuous point size.

> It makes fonts look "more correcct" on many types of displays. Are you saying it's better not to have that option available at all?

Not at all. Options are great. However, saying something is objectively better when in fact there are multiple use cases for which it is better and many for which it is worse is disingenuous, and that is what the author is doing.
Stripe's Internationalization Hiccup
macOS had subpixel rendering until the most recent version (Mojave), where it's disabled by default.
It's even further remote than saying English and German are a variation of Latin, as at least the Germanic languages are in the same family of Indo-European languages. Japanese and Chinese are not related in any way we know of.

It'd be more like saying Finnish or Hungarian are a variation of Latin or German. Some small amount of shared vocabulary (and maybe phonetics) due to proximity, but no more.
>>an attempt to “self-investigate” claims that the restaurant’s basement was a dungeon full of kidnapped children. Comet Ping Pong does not have a basement.

Ah, but did you look for the secret passage under the prep station? The recent JRE episode with AJ was talking about how we have this mix of people on the Internet having fun with ideas, sometimes just to get a laugh, sometimes because they are just wondering out loud, and then this subpop of genuinely mentally disturbed people who take it all very literally and too seriously. That there's no filter between these groups is one of the dangers of the Internet, I guess.
I'm not sure what "more correct" means in this context. Coming from a MacOS background, it is my opinion that ClearType makes fonts look worse.

Regardless of my personal opinion, it's clear that other people share this opinon. For instance, Word doesn't use ClearType; they had problems with text on different colored backgrounds.[0][1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType#cite_note-Word-3

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2014/05/31/crisp-te...
The article says you set the lookup to only work for friends. That means that no one that is not a friend can find you based on a phone number. Can someone explain why everyone is getting worked up?

All the comments refer to being findable to strangers and stalkers by phone number but that’s not the case.
Absolutely, the trade-off is a no-brainer to me. As a software engineer I would hate to be stuck on windows and see my productivity suffer.

I think windows is not inherently worse though, it is probably great for how some programmers work or think, but to me Linux distros feel like a better match
Someone said Musk tweeted a while back that future batteries would be cobalt free.
There are various places to easily list and sell if you don't want to create a proper listing. Facebook, nextdoor, letItGo, and many more.

And for a phone, you are looking at $7 to ship it anywhere in the USPS and 15% fees. You will make out, much better than an apple trade in.

But then, if you want convenience, you will still make out better with something like gazelle or eBay's buyback program.
I have a friend who runs a chain of prescription eye glass stores.

For the generics/non name brand, he only spends a few dollars a frame with the lens costing more.

And then marks them up to $200-300
I use every chance I get to tell people about ZenniOptical.com because they are so great.

A full pair of glasses (yes, frames and lenses) start at $6.95 total. Even with some upgrades for scratch resistance & to prevent glare I don't think I've spent more than $50 on a pair of glasses since I found Zenni.

There's also the added bonus of the expensive glasses/sunglasses paradox: the more money I spend on glasses & sunglasses the more prone I seem to breaking or misplacing them. Needless to say at $7/pair I've got quite the collection of Zenni frames going since I've yet to lose a set.
I can't use web apps. My org doesn't allow any proprietary data to exist on the cloud.
I highly doubt you were able to do 100k connections/sec 10 years ago with the same hardware, you must be confused between requests/sec and connections/sec very different things.
Why, there's not much money in those anymore unless you invest a ton of time on huge amounts of automation/infrastructure and at that point you couldve built a much more reliable SaaS business and playing RS isnt fun anymore.

source: invested a ton of time in that during HS when the getting was good ($5/m)
What are some good online companies that are fighting this status quo?
Reproducible builds allows for better auditing which makes it more difficult for malicious maintainers to plug backdoors into systems.

What's the relevance of knowing when something was built if you can check the source version and rebuild it yourself in the exact same way? If the build is reproducible it's merely a cache. You could potentially recompile it every time you try to execute the command and you'd get the exact same thing.
I totally agree. Just the other day I was chatting with a friend about how I was considering getting a higher-resolution display for my PC because text rendering looks so terrible next to my iMac. He told me not to bother, because he has a higher-res PC display and it still looks bad on his desk next to his Mac.
Anti-Grain Geometry: Texts Rasterization Exposures (2007)
You aren't going to change USPS policy by telling a low-level customer support agent that the policy is wrong. They aren't paid for that.
Goodyear shows Aero concept tire/turbine for flying cars
That's really exciting! As someone who dropped out of .NET entirely around the time ASP.Net MVC2 came out, where do you recommend I start looking into aspnet core / .net core? Do you still write core .net in visual studio? or can you use vscode?
I sent you an email as well. Interested in the same type of switch. Thanks for posting.
> So pick your hardware with doing some research first.

The big linux fallacy.

Firstly there is no hardware that can guaranty that everything will work. None. No dell. No system76. There are just some that have less problems than others.

I've many friends saying they never have any problems. I also know they lie, because I come to their home, and I see them using workarounds every time for issues they don't even see anymore as they became part of their workflow.

Secondly, there is no hardware that is guaranty that everything will keep working. Each update may break your machine in some imaginative way. The last time it did, I lost ethernet support on thunderbolt. It's like a personnal chaos monkey, checking my work ethic is resilient to random havock.

And lastly "This has nothing to do with Linux, but with WiFi makers who can't make drivers" is not true anymore, with most phones using linux and having a wifi chip. The problem comes back with different chip anyway.