skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I almost agree with you, but the truth is even with almost minimum brightness, I still prefer that background color get slightly darker than pure white (and same in black backgrounds: the text should not be perfect white).
It's not exactly an easy thing to fix. Between the bystander effect of having millions of shareholders, and the mere consequence of markets allocating assets to people who can extract the most amount of value from them, I don't know if there is any high-level way to stop it. At best, we can hope the legal system steps up its game and does better with whack-a-moling unethical corporate behavior.
I think you misread the poster(which is really easy I did several times too).

> In the US, we have a ban on re-importing cheaper drugs which our companies produce

> We do not admit competitive medications from other first world countries without full FDA approval.

This second sentence doesn't refer to the first sentence. But a separate practice of requiring full FDA approval for a drug like Tianeptine which has a long history of being an antidepressant in Europe.

But to the point that you made I think it's fair to argue that when you have a monopolistic seller having oligopsonistic buyers is probably closer to a competitive market than just a monopolistic seller.
It goes further than just things developed by GDS themselves, all government projects for which GDS is responsible (i.e. they conduct audits and assessments at alpha, beta and live) are also open source. Here's one I worked on: https://github.com/dvsa/mot

Things generally don't have to be open source until you get to your beta assessment, as the alpha assessment is really just checking that you have a clear plan for getting to beta and they agree with your approach, so you don't fail for not being open source at this stage. The project I'm working on currently (an app to let companies wishing to perform road works see all road works being performed across the country, hopefully preventing things like two different companies digging up and resurfacing the road in a short space of time, etc.) is about to hit beta so will be open-sourced shortly
There are two problems with that reasoning. First: it is clearly contradicted by the inclusion of Source Sans Pro and Merriweather, both licensed under the SIL OFL and developed by third parties, in the USWDS list of components. Second: creating another font that isn't in operating systems and WWW browsers does not solve the latter problem.

* https://github.com/uswds/uswds-for-designers#fonts

* https://designsystem.digital.gov/components/typography/

* https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro

* https://github.com/SorkinType/Merriweather/blob/master/READM...
> Many people say growth is the only important metric, and that’s actually wrong. The reason is simple—only 5% or fewer of startups are growing so fast that efficiency doesn’t really matter.

I'm confused. Isn't the whole point of VC to try and find that 5%? And to be comfortable writing off the remaining 95% as acceptable loss? Isn't that why VCs encourage startups to irresponsibly increase their burn?

I mean, it makes sense if the author wants to offer startups some weight in the battle against that pressure - after all, the VC has 30 other investments and the founders have all their eggs in one basket. But that's not the perspective of this article - it's very much written from an investment perspective. If I talk to my investors about capital efficiency, they tell me they think we should pour more money into everything to try and grow faster, runway be damned.
Heh, oh yeah, tons of that, usually the ones most relevant to narrowing the search beyond "everything on the Web". Thanks, Google.

So then I do the quotes thing, especially quoting phrases that 100% for sure must exist on some web pages, along with all my other keywords and pretty soon I'm at "no pages found". Pull back just a little, and it's page after page of entirely unrelated-to-what-I-want blogspam.
Thank you for that link. The whole discussion was in my eyes (apart from the occasional derailment into vaccines) quite a good example of how to deliver criticism without resorting to personal attacks on anybody.

The background for this seems to be that the maintainer decided to stop shipping security updates for certain packages. One of the people in the discussion put in some work to help rectify these and other packaging problems only have their changes reverted by the lead maintainer.

The project then proceeded to host their downloads with an insecure Wordpress blog. After serving malware, the response was to remove the malware and return to normal. When downloads were compromised a second time, however "briefly", the above discussion happened. In the light of that the discussion is a lot more civil than could be expected.

> I still overwhelmingly consider it the best distro for converting friends and family away from Windows or OSX

Unless the situation has improved significantly in those three years, perhaps you are not doing them a service moving them to more sparse security updates. It's 2019 now and security is not optional.

Entitled users exist, and can be a problem, but the situation here seems to be a lot more complicated than what the author wants to believe.
> People are still resentful about the National Energy Program and that ended 30+ years ago. Its kind of a mess.

As someone from Ontario, I wouldn't even care about it being federalized as long as it was better "provincialized":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Trust...

At the very least only payout dividends on a portion of the returns on investment from the fund:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
I've seen reports of correlation for many years. The problem is working out the chain - there are many other correlations that have been noted for years that don't seem to mean anything though.

I floss: it might not help, but so far nobody has suggested how it can hurt.
and more importantly, removal of the ability to facilitate dissent in the public sphere. it's far easier to brand your opponents as reactionaries and pedophiles when they can only voice counter opinions in free speech ghettos that are already deemed unsavory.
This article is really interesting and I love the insight provided about pigment layering to achieve remarkable effects, however I think what the title says is totally wrong.

Paints are technically coatings and comprise a large and diverse industry of products for wide-ranging applications. Wall paint is very different than artist paint, which is very different than car paint, which is very different than the type of paint you might apply to pipes to prevent corrosion, etc..

Glue is an adhesive, and while the resins used to make adhesives may sometimes be the same resins used to make coatings (Gorilla glue is epoxy-based, and many floor coatings you walk over all day and never think about are epoxy-based as well), the actual products being used -- the can of paint or the stick of glue you buy at the store -- are formulated with resins, pigments, additives, binders, chain-extenders, fillers etc etc, that are specific to the product's unique application.

So basically, paint is not glue. Paints are coatings and glues are adhesives. Sure, paints have to adhere to their substrates, and adhesives must adhere to their sometimes very different substrates as well, but paint and glue are really totally different things. You could say that coatings and adhesives are both formulated polymeric systems, but you miss out on a lot of interesting subtlety that entire industries are based on when you say "paint is glue."
I’m using Dr Tung’s which uses bee’s and other vegetable oil derived waxes. The flavoring is also naturally derived.

It’s not as smooth as others (but smoothness = less effective at removing plaque), so it may take some getting used to (esp if the tooth gaps are small).
They make so much money in the U.S. this would probably be more effective at raising world drug prices than lowering U.S. drug prices.
profits before common sense
Vigilante justice. Jk?
> max-width: 38rem

> supporting 600px displays at a minimum seems reasonable.

Max-width is just that: maximum width. That CSS is not "supporting 600px displays at a minimum".
Yep! System board part number 38HRF and equivalents -- if I never see another one of those doggone things, it'll be too soon!
This is good advice - thankyou! I have definitely used this kind of approach before, it requires some creativity. It feels like there are possibly dozens of ways of approaching this - and obviously unlimited kinds of 'seeds' (as you say) for the search. I'm definitely looking for a guide that might encompass this kind of strategy.
Corporations are just a reflection of their owners/management. There are some of them in the hands of good people (e.g. Patagonia). It's hard for them not to become profit-maximizers, but not necessary.
And even if they don't rape, they usually marry a lot in the conquered/liberated/whatever country they are victors in(just lookup war brides).
The IPv6,IPSec and PKI together may be interesting to authenticate and encrypt traffic without any entity managing the traffic.

It could eliminate the client/server by activating the authentication and encryption with exchange of certificates by using a PKI.

It may provides a full p2p encryption in the network layer without logging your traffic somewhere or third parties. open-sourced would be awesome.
Yep, I think the priorities should be <html> and <body>. Here's mine, which centers the content both horizontally and vertically via flexbox:

html {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
min-height: 100%;
}

@media screen {
body {
max-width: 40rem;
margin: 1rem;
}
}

It's not perfect, but it works well for simple websites (e.g. https://colorclock.hashbase.io/).
> It's sometimes okay—and even preferable—for a company to make less money deliberately, when the alternative would be to do things that are inappropriate or illegal.

Or, to make it more personal: it's sometimes okay for you to make less money. Sure, Facebook might pay more than anyone else, but you need to balance that with the fact that you might be paying with your ethics…
Agree completely that having to scan for hidden bugs and cameras is a massive inconvenience. A relative just cancelled a month-long stay in an AirB&B after finding unnoticed cameras (and the rapidly increasing number of stories about this is pretty much putting me off the concept).

>>"...and then re-connect everything when you leave"
It seems to me that if I did use one, and found & disconnected some bugs, the last thing I'd do is reconnect them. I'd have no way to ensure that I reconnected everything properly, and they can fix their own damn setup. (TBH, I'd be more likely to take them and toss in the nearest trash bin -- what are they going to do, try and charge me for stealing their illegal bugging devices? I'm just taking out the trash.)
You don’t have to write that code yourself, you can just use libfaketime https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime
Thanks for sharing the images, I get it now :)

This is an interesting layout, but I'm not sure it's for me; the main monitor looks to be too high up for me, and the perspective on the tilted monitor would irk me (I just tested this out with my laptop).
Thank you! I've indeed sunk a surprising amount of effort and time to make this. I have like, 5 directories of past iterations that didn't "feel like the one" spanning a bit more than a year.
A MIT Crash Course on Hacker Tools
> Particularly federal murder is applied to the murder of federal officials everywhere.

Yes, kind of; there is a separate provision for that, 18 USC § 1114, which applies the punishments in 18 USC § 1111 (for murder), 18 USC § 1112 (for manslaughter), and 18 USC § 1113 (for attempts at either murder or manslaughter) to such acts committee against federal officials independent of the jursidictional limitations in those statutes.

> Item 5 of this list states that the federal crime of bank robbery can be promoted to federal murder under the same section I listed.

Insofar as robbery is a qualifying offense under 18 USC 1111(a), that would appear to be technically correct if the jurisdictional requirements in 18 USC 1111(b) were met, but is not actually the general felony murder rule, which does not exist in federal law, but an analog covering only enumerated offenses written directly into the 18 USC 1111(a) definition of murder and still only applicable where 18 USC 1111(b) or some other statute provides a federal punishment for murder. More importantly, for killings in the course of bank robbery more generally, there is a separate provisions making that a capital offense without reference to 18 USC § 1111, within the bank robbery law (18 USC § 2113), the killing (and hostage taking) provision is subsection (e); that's mostly how felony-murder like rules are applied in federal criminal law, by specific punishment for killing accompanying the predicate offense.
Indeed #555 for text is ridiculous.
Have you tried straightening with Measure Tool? Just create a line along the horizon, then press "Straighten" and voila. Another option is corrective rotation with Guides set to "Number of lines" with a sufficiently large number.
And, likewise, made no less urgent because a man doesn't have it.
Really? The epub support was the only good feature of Edge.
Switching to Public Sans solves none of the problems you're pointing out.

According to the Public Sans's Github page, "Source Sans Pro" was the USWDS default, which is a SIL font (so no licensing issues) and is also not in the OS/browser font stack.
We use vastly more stone today than in the paleolithic// neolithic.

The phrase is vague to the point of meaninglessness.
Ask HN: Recommend a software release process for a small, agile team?
Hi everyone,

We are discussing a complete rewrite of company's medium-sized legacy system - a web app used by a relatively small number of customers - in new technologies (Java BE + Vue or React FE). Let's say we will have around a year to do so, while the old system will still be working, so we're initially talking about mostly internal releases of the new system. Current assumption is that features will be copied 1:1, so the domain is well known. We will have a dedicated tester or two as well.

I'm looking for a lightweight process to run this project with around 3-4 other developers. Specifically I want to use existing tools: Atlassian JIRA, Stash and Bamboo. I'm interested about different options and approaches to organize the releases with help of the mentioned tools and how to build a CI/CID pipeline to facilitate these releases.

Thanks in advance!
> Is Sans Serif Fonts the department where the US government can really make a difference

Isn't this a pretty basic "appeal to worse problems" fallacy?
Not the same. You don't use up the iron you mine in the mining process. That's what EROEI < 1 is, unless you get the energy input from some other source.

And since anything that's in petroleum can be synthesized from simple molecules like water and CO2, given enough energy...
Just installed it as my system UI font under Linux (previously I was using B612, and before that CMU Sans). Took me by surprise how readable it is even at small sizes.

I just wish there was a monospaced variant/equivalent so I can run it in my terminal/Emacs windows.
YaCy – Decentralized Web Search
Is there a way to search for images or videos, e.g. &iax=images&ia=images ? I looked through the documentation and don't seem to see any.
Some of the results presented aren't what I'd call a significant majority, aside from the three in the middle of the article.

Edit: It seems the article title has been updated.
US taxpayers also have a high chance of benefiting from the work of non-US taxpayers who use this to reduce their expenses. Much like I benefit from workplaces that aren't mine offering sick days - fewer sick people working in the world means _I_ get sick less. Fewer people spending money recreating open work means they can spend that money elsewhere (or reduce the costs of what they do) and those network effects might well give me a benefit.
AUR package for easy install on Arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-public-sans/
Well, since 90% of cases are settled out of court, we may never have the chance. You're right that we don't have many facts here, but sometimes that's all you'll ever get. External judgments are then made based on the frequency of claims and other factors.
I don't know if this article is the right entrypoint for this discussion, but I think a conversation we need to have is how to teach people that they deserve to be treated well by their software.

If you'll permit me a (perhaps inappropriately severe) analogy to relationships, victims in abusive relationships often stay in the relationship because they think their partner's behavior is excusable. Sometimes, this is because they haven't seen good, healthy relationships modeled for them before. "This is just how relationships are," they might think.

While I think the term "abuse" is likely too strong for corporate software's relationship with their users, I do think we can leverage this same approach. By developing and maintaining "shining stars" of the open-source world, we can provide concrete examples to people that it's possible for their software to have a purposefully healthy relationship with them.

The article calls out examples like Emacs, Perl, and Python, but the proportion of people who use software and have used (and liked) these tools is vanishingly small. What's a more appropriate shining star, our new beacon to show everyone how Software Ought To Be?

The first example that comes to my mind is Firefox - but that was perhaps more applicable in a pre-Chrome world.
Well yes, but that's not enough to prevent plaque buildup, especially in hard to reach areas of your mouth. Apparently floss isn't either, so I'm wondering what is.
There are many case studies of AWS Lambda's scaling power and its constraints are well documented. The newcomer in the serverless architecture is AWS API Gateway Websockets, and I personally have not performed any tests using this service within a variety of use-cases at significant scale (it's still a new service).

When it comes to migration, it depends on your use-case. A few suggestions which may be helpful:

* Consider your data strategy (much lock-in happens at this level). Most serverless architectures leverage DynamoDB because its design pairs well with stateless compute like AWS Lambda. You can use DynamoDB within all types of architectures.

* Don't use AWS API Gateway specific URLs in your application. Use custom domains. This will enable you to easily swap out your websockets endpoint. Fortunately, there is only 1 endpoint in this architecture, so there is little surface area to refactor.

* Make sure you understand the cost of these serverless technologies at scale before building with them. But don't forget to factor in the reduced labor costs of using serverless technologies.
From what I read, it's doing search & clustering on AST based feature vectors. I'm a bit lost on the learning part, how does the system improve over time?
10k, so...a couple weeks of a single professional engineer?
Dockerized Ethereum Private Environment Compatible with MetaMask and Remix
A Remarkable Rail Journey into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future
Seems like this could be a useful feature for Github, BitBucket, etc.
> Copyright claims are super easy to make at scale, but the platforms themselves cannot investigate at scale, meaning the small guy suffers.

They don't have to investigate. They could simply follow the procedure given in the DMCA.

1. Rights holder sends a notice claiming infringement and meeting the various requirements for such a notice given in the DMCA.

2. The service provider removes the material and promptly notifies the user who put the material up.

3. The user can file a counter notice, disputing that the material infringes.

4. The service provider passes the counter notice back to the rights holder. If the rights holder does not file an infringement lawsuit against the user within 14 days, the service provider puts the material back up.

If they do this, this gets the service provider off the hook for liability to the rights holder if it turns out that the work infringes, and it gets them off the hook for any liability to the user if it turns out that the work does not infringe.

A rights holder could send notices for ridiculous things, like things that are obviously fair use, but unless they are willing to actually go to court they will just get counter notices for most and the material will go back up.

The sites that have implemented their own systems that take down upon any claim and make it hard or impossible for the poster to dispute this are going way beyond what the law requires them to do.
Never had any problems with sites being hard to read. But I also don't really visit overstyled sites.

Not to mention that you actually have to do the effort to make it incompatible :)
At more than one point in the video he says that the spread of this kind of automatically generated content was not YouTubes fault, but in a way I think it is.
It seems likely that the methods of manipulation shown in the video aim more at getting such a piece of content going and less at sustaining it.
If "the algorithms" goal is to maximize viewer retention and this kind of autogenerated content keeps some people glued to the screen, watching ads and writing comments, it's really doing an excellent job, it's just the goal itself that is unethical.

Edit: Typo
Oh of course, I plan on having that attitude once I have all the meat I desire.
Came here to say the same thing. The kerning looks wrong somehow.
Yes, we're looking at providing a great solution for this.

In the interim, check out this Component (which is used by this project) which provides a simple webockets backend and can be used for that use-case - https://github.com/serverless-components/Socket
I don't understand your second point. Public Sans isn't in OS/browser font stacks, either. What makes its inclusion more likely than, say, a 15 year-old open source font like DejaVu Sans?
There is all other problem in many webbrowser too and I wrote a document how to better.

Better is design (anything!) by UNIX philosophy, which is: you have enough ropes to hang yourself, and also a few more just in case.
I would if I were trying to sell something in a market where the murder of customers was a common (or even merely widely reported) phenomenon. Because the risk of making someone think about it who hasn't before, is lower, and the benefit of potentially reaching someone with that message who was already wondering about it, is higher.
Maybe we can also only allow taxpayers to walk on sidewalks or drive on roads /s
Visualizing Recurrent Neural Networks
How long until this starts to seriously hurt big tech companies? It can't be too much longer now.

The dream is that the market will see this and can solve this problem without need of government intervention. Do you all think that this is feasible? Or do we need more legislation?
For clarity, the platform here is Amazon Web Services. We're just providing tooling to help you build and manage serverless architectures on AWS easily.
There's also a thread on Hacker News by the creators of this MIT series here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19078281
It's a huge issue that I work with an international team on. It's also almost politically impossible to address in the us. Technology (for safe isolation of waste) is not the problem. Democracy is. So, it collects in aging leaky dams around each plant because it can not be moved and can not be centrally disposed of.