skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want the lowest possible memory usage, Alacritty will likely never be for you. Initializing the OpenGL drivers alone ramps up the memory usage to more than what some other terminal emulators operate at, making it impossible for Alacritty to match that.

However, there are other advantages that I personally am really fond of (after all I myself joined the project long after it was started).

For many the incredible throughput is probably a big plus. And I have to admit it's just fun to play around with. Using ascii to play videos at almost HD quality.

But the reason why I use it myself is much more subtle, it's mainly about the little things. So it's hard to put a finger on 'the one thing' why I enjoy it.

It has sane defaults and is much simpler to configure than something like URxvt. It is lighter than VTE and doesn't pull in as many dependencies. It has all the right features that I value which is often much more a preference than something easily objectifyable. It's also easy for me to hack on because even before I joined upstream was very cooperative.

In general I think it really depends on what you value so my personal opinion might be of little value to you or anyone else. So really the only way I see to tell if you are a fan of it or not is to just give it a shot.
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Like that youtube influencer who felt cheated and took revenge by shooting up their campus?
I think the point is that, aside from max-width, this does very little that the browser's default stylesheet doesn't already provide.
People need a radical threat to act, otherwise it's like a human in a slowly warming atmosphere?
Back in my heady grad school days I was working on the old "Texas" concepts proposal for C++. We published this paper:

https://parasol.tamu.edu/~jarvi/papers/gpce07.pdf

Which used the 'concept map' feature to lower a flood-fill onto the Boost Graph library (BGL). What went unpublished was that we then lowered the PBGL (parallel BGL) onto a Fortran BLAS implementation. Then we ran image algorithms (usual spectral analysis stuff) on BGL on Fortran BLAS. It was lightning fast. In fact, the results were so good, we didn't publish them because it was too much work to explain how — with all the abstraction layers — it could be so fast. Good times.
there is no internet there is only the bitcoinstream.

The early internet was "opensource like" as in not monetized.
it was a very different time in the 80s and early 90s.

Grassroots BBs and FTPs were the fodder.
websites were made to convey information, many of them made for the love of it.

i think no FOSS would have allowed the current state of the internet to occur much more rapidly.
many more people would have experienced the net/web as a service, extended to you on the terms of the service provider.
I can totally buy some low-level Secret Service agent with little tech knowledge plugging it into a machine without thinking twice.
W3schools’ quality has really improved. I don’t get the hate for it
Yeah, taking a kid with a high fever to the ER in Toronto is a total no-brainer since it's 100% covered by OHIP. Now living in SF, and I've found myself mentally doing risk probability calculations, and concluding I'd be better off skipping the ER and instead following the instructions from off-the-shelf motrin because the ER visit is likely not worth the cost.

My wife firmly believes the US healthcare system is a giant scam where insurance companies leech off people without actually providing any value.
Because ~no users curate their fonts, and making your site look better for the ~all users who don't curate their own fonts is the better more pragmatic choice by such a large margin that it isn't really worth much thought.

Does this negatively affect your experience? Can't you override fonts if you want to?

Edit: note, I'm not the person the question was directed at, and have no connection to the federalist project at all.
Nothing appeals more than working for a company that specialises in censorship (catbox.moe, Daily Stormer, Archive.today). What a great option for a VPN provider.
If you don't do something, comparing tax rates between countries is meaningless when you get different things for those tax dollars.

I think the developed world (minus us here in the US, of course) has finally realized that access to health care is a basic human right and should be included.
I wish I could upvote this comment twice.

At this point in 2019 intelligence gathering and government/corporate security vulnerabilities are much more in the digital realm than physical. Wifi enabled cameras/microphones, cell phones, servers, consumer computers, usb devices, iot devices are all used to that end.

We need to hold the flame to OS vendors to handle basic security precautions. It's not like the US government doesn't have contract negotiations with them large enough to force the issue.

It's also unacceptable to have security around the most protected person on the planet be ignorant to common attack vectors and procedures.
This is easier with a minimalistic (syntactically) language like Lisp. Check this out, the editor refuses to let you write code that won’t compile: http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.ht...
You would only need the password-auth to bootstrap your primary keyboard. If you already have a keyboard you can just accept the prompt.
The keyboard trick is quite a hack, but creative. At the same time afaik most barcode scanners also act as keyboards, you scan a number, it "types in" those numbers.

I can't see how the filesystem hack would work, if the OS has the drive mounted, it would cache files in memory, and not notice the file contents changing. You can't even modify the metadata, because most of that might also be in memory.
People made huge sacrifices in World War II to stop an imminent threat. They stopped driving. They stopped leaving the lights on. They cut back on everything.

We don't have to do anything that extreme now, but give it another twenty years and we'll have to do a whole lot more than that.
This is actually a huge lever of control for the federal government, and I think has contributed greatly to increase of federal power over the states. The reason being that states can tap into that large federal stream... If they meet the federal criteria. This kind of carrot system is actually how many federal laws that seem to effect the states work. For instance, no state was ever mandated to implement the No Child Left Behind act. They just wouldn't get federal education funding if they didn't... Transportation is another area where this is pretty common.
This only applies to apps signed using Developer ID.
Phishing and Security Keys
nice it doesn't work.
Just use 1rem everywhere. There is no reason for the hideously large 2rem margin. Another person said it's just opinion, but I'm sure 9 out of 10 users would tell you 1rem is the better looking option overall.
One possibility is that Google hasn't gotten worse, but the spammers have come up with new techniques that Google hasn't adapted to.
Check out the Digital Services Act, a current bill going through congress to throw some gas on efforts like this: https://www.wired.com/story/kamala-harris-digital-services-a...
Looks like we're performing a DDoS against https://api.scraperapi.com (the underlying data source) at this point.
That was me :-) It puzzled me that there was no public comment about it.
“…for all software.”

It’s very vague as usual.

I guess the current work arounds will still apply (right click open, for instance)

But we'll probably have to wait for WWDC for a definitive answer
shrug

People are good at being inconsistent. News at 11.
If a license is granted to a work and the US government accepts that license and then publishes derivatives of that work, the US government releases its derivatives into the public domain without regard for the original licensing, as they have complied with the terms of the license to them and have no legal right to encumber their fork with any restrictions. Licenses depend on copyright, without which they are unenforceable, and the government is prohibited from copyrighting any work. The license clause should, therefore, be invalid and unenforceable upon any derivatives of this work, regardless of the accidental inclusion of it.

My idea is being hashed out on their GitHub, though sadly I suspect they’ll need lawyers to advise them rather than HN commenters such as I: https://github.com/uswds/public-sans/issues/30
Why do we believe Americans spend too much money on coffee and avocado toast?
It's hard to explain.

I guess we thought that the world was infinite.

You just had the idea that, well, it'd blow away in the wind, and that would be that.

It's obvious now that this isn't the case.

Much like, I imagine, smoking was obviously fine, until it wasn't.
This is likely not enough to secure a system against a sufficiently skilled adversary. An OS has limited control over many of the side-channels available to the USB stick once it is inserted into the system (e.g., fluctuations in the voltage rails that give away what the processor is doing).

If you are thinking in terms of "if it identifies itself as...," then there is a good chance that something lower in the stack may be compromised.

This gets even more troublesome once we consider that people sometimes forget that seemingly "dumb" dongles such as display adapters can be very similar to USB sticks from an implementation and vulnerability point of view (e.g., "Thunderclap").

I think the overhead of hardening systems for each of these scenarios would be immense.
People Behind ByteDance’s App Factory
> Who cares about the deductible? It’s still a ripoff.

You should care about the deductible, cause you entered the contract, silly.

Get private insurance in Germany, there's also a deductible, unless you want to pay more.

> We went to an eye doctor and paid 25 Euro cash including an ointment. The US is just horribly expensive and very unpredictable.

That's because of price fixing (GOÄ). It's all they can charge. And they were probably happy about it because had you been insured they would've only gotten maybe half that.
Backwards compatibility.. /s
Prom: A flexible, Prolog based make tool [pdf]
GitHub – Obecebo/Templenes: NES Emulator for TempleOS
Yep. Usually the rule of thumb is:

* Potentially life-threatening emergency: ER

* Something like a broken bone or fever that needs to be fixed asap, but not life-threatening: Urgent Care

* Everything else that can wait a bit: regular doctor appt
"That was the first 1-bomb I've dropped on a seller since using Ebay, and I've been using Ebay for a long time."

If the software was described as "working, tested" then the item is "not as described" and is eligible for a full refund under eBay Buyer Protection, seller's desires be damned; they'll actually take the money back from the seller in that case.
They can continue to use advertising to fund their services without being opaque about what exactly they're collecting and when. The two aren't mutually exclusive and keeping services free isn't a compelling argument for breaches of privacy.

Many people were surprised to find out Google was still tracking them even when location services were turned off, but only because they buried the option within the legal and TOS menu of their phone app instead of the separate privacy and location section[0]. These dark patterns are what surprise people.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/google-location-tracking-turn-of...
yes, that is awesome. Now imagine connecting that to a machine-learning backend and letting it slowly train itself on how to write software. yes, I know ML doesn't need this vim-type language specifically, but it should help by only feeding it valid productions.
I agree with you in principle, but calling people you've never met from another country and culture "unfriendly armed crazy people" is a big, sad reason why we even need militaries in the first place. I imagine many of those "crazy people" in Afghanistan consider the US military to be invaders who won't leave them alone.

It's of course all not that simple, but... why the need for unnecessary name-calling? It just perpetuates the "us vs. them" mentality that seems to be at the root of many of society's ills.
Well Usenet provider Giganews has 10 years of Usenet, but I don't know if they kept it from 1990 or... just threw it away.
Yes, there are corner cases (another commenter mentioned a temperature sensor, and I this is also common among barcode scanners). These corner cases are not hard to work out; just prompt the user and require them to confirm that the device is, in fact, allowed to act like a keyboard.

(Which would mean you can still have malware-download-command-typers pretending to be barcode-scanners pretending to be keyboards, but you can't have malware-download-command-typers pretending to be storage devices pretending to be keyboards, because the "Allow typing with this keyboard?" dialog will give it away.)
Buggy drivers are a problem, but if you control the hardware, it's your responsibility to vet what you plug into it. It's like with door locks: if you need protection from advanced thieves you'll need to go through some extra hoops anyway.

You could petition OS manufacturers to focus more on physical security, but there's limits to what you can do without piles of abstractions (ala smart phone security)
My 6yo son went to the ER with blue lips and we ended up with a $1400 bill for a glorified strep test.
I wonder how they measured "need for cognition" in individuals.
Or the USBNinja that crams that functionality into a cable identical to major vendors, and is triggerable up to 100m away via Bluetooth....
https://lab401.com/products/usbninja
Apple Services
Is that really relevant though? That should never cost anywhere near that much.
A 20 Year Old Doom Record Was Finally Broken
This particular set of contradictory views is very consistently held among a large group of people, though.
Russia is tricking GPS to protect Putin
I disagree with the author.

Google is the old web, no wonder The similarities between Hoolie and Google.

(hooli is a fictional company in the HBO series Sillicon Valley)
US currency is largely accepted because of it's history. US dollar was here 100 years ago and there's a good chance it will be here in 100 years.

Euro can eventually become a good alternative, but it has to build some "credit history".
> Although the existence of the US military probably helps. As long as they don't do anything.

But the US has one of the largest all-volunteer armies in the world, with some of the most advanced technology, so it makes sense that it costs more. My comment is not a justification for America's military power, it is simply an observation that American tax payers pay for something the rest of the world gets to enjoy for free -- the threat that if another country attempts to upset the balance of power from which many countries profit (namely many of those in Western Europe), the United States (and only or mainly the United States) will stage an intervention.

For example, regardless of Norway's foreign policy, they benefit from American warfare (or threat of warfare) in the middle east which ultimately does lower the supply of oil. Same with Saudi Arabia. None of these countries contribute, which is why it makes sense that the american tax payer pays more.
I think the original comment only really mentioned taxes in passing and then the discussion went off down a rabbit hole; but a wonderful rabbit hole in which each subsequent comment added more interesting and relevant information.
Just another reason to build and use a Hackintosh, if you want to be free to choose your own software. Apple is slowly moving towards an iPhone model with macOS.
> Security from?

Security from currency instability via the use of the dollar as a reserve currency?
> Instagram isn't something that "matters", though. Is it?

I think that depends on what you count as important. It's pretty safe to assume that this sort of thing happens in every social media where people can monetize. Social media requires a certain amount of social trust to thrive, so if the health of social media generally is important to to you, this matters even if you don't use Instagram specifically.

Personally, this sort of thing is one of the (but certainly not the biggest) reasons why I avoid all social media like the plague.
CFIUS is forcing a health startup that took Chinese money into a fire sale
Yes, my son keeps asking me Lua programming questions. I don't know Lua, yet.
Yes, this is the same as in NZ - the thing is if there are not queues for expensive resources (be they surgeons, MRIs etc) then there must be expensive resources sitting idle.

Queues are a good thing in that regard, they indicate efficiency of use, what we mostly argue about in countries with socialised medicine is "how long the queues should be?".

Ideally they are on average just long enough so that they never become empty when the usual various peaks/troughs of demand occur, plus have the capacity to handle all the life threatening cases on an urgent basis
Death of meritocracy? I think something has to exist before it can die.
I wonder if 10 thousand is a lot for undergraduate education to a German, or Austrian, or French person?

EDIT:

Doh! Just checked the cost of undergrad in some of those nations.

Umm, Yeah.

I guess if I were a German or French guy, I'd likely find tuition levels in the US a bit outrageous.
Roblox reaches 90M monthly active users
Emulate a MTP device (often used by cameras) and mount with a fuse driver. Since the content on the remote device can change the driver shouldn't be caching it.
No worries! There's always room for improvement. Though my site now automatically swaps in [0] the correct typographic quotes (thanks again!), I still have to manually add <section>s and the HTML for the sidenotes, instead of using some kind of Markdown conceit that gets automatically translated when the site is compiled. :)

[0] https://github.com/Eiriksmal/lawler-dot-io/commit/593d3471e6...
(sorry for delayed reply, the comment brought back quite a few things).

Yes. Having the conversation before really helps. Not only is it said to put less stress on those close to oneself, but it put things in a bit larger perspective. A 2nd+ opinion is also critical, and who know what one would have said in our case. I strongly hope that the medical science is today better than 30 years ago so that the advice the doctors gives are today more accurate.

For myself I have thought a few times about what I would want, but have not reached a decision. The article is a strong reminder how badly it can and in many cases will happen when someone demand full treatment.
Ironically Articles like this immediate allievate everyday anxieties for me because it immediately puts into perspective how small the things I sometimes worry about really are.
That text area is way too narrow. It inhibits scanning to be unable to see very much of the text at once, because it forces you to scroll see more than about a paragraph at a time.

Readability isn't the concern. Show me a book with margins that gigantic.
..will be required by default..

Just change the setting if the default doesn’t suit you.
Snapp a.k.a. Iran's Uber hits 2M rides per day
Ideally, yes. Realistically, it’s not worth the cost.
Kernel extensions will also need to be notarized, so Hackintosh doesn't seem very likely.
The Edge team has repeatedly said that Performance/Battery Life has always been important to them. One of the reasons they've mentioned for why they are going Chromium-based is that it gives them more time to focus on Performance/Battery rather than web platform bugs, and they've definitely listed Performance/Battery as a continued "Focus Area" for the team.
I don't support CO2 pollution, but yes, the period of the Younger Dryas experienced global shift of 2.5 degrees celsius within hundreds, or perhaps possible singles of years, of presumed natural causes.

> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/07/revisi...
It doesn't have to be an intervention.

Not so long ago it was nice to have a couple of tank divisions located in West Germany doing nothing. Doing nothing. Just looking at their Soviet colleagues stationed across the border.
> This is likely not enough to secure a system against a sufficiently skilled adversary.

That statement is not helpful, because it remains true for any security measure.

The GP suggestions can make everyone's computers more secure now, at what would seem to be a low cost...
Interesting. Also, a Lambda employee's comment on upgrading the rig to more equivalent hardware for an additional $2k is cool.

That said, does any dedicated deep learning rig really need more than 2 CPU cores per GPU? Seems a missed opportunity for saving some $$$.
> How does this help global security?

Because, in general, maintaining the status quo (regardless of whether the status quo is good or bad) is good for perceptions of stability and security. Saying that American military might preserves the status quo of Western European / American global hegemony is not particularly controversial. Neither is pointing out that many many countries benefit from maintaining the status quo while contributing nothing to the force that maintains it.

This is not a justification of American military maneuvering, but simply an observation that many countries, individuals, and businesses benefit from it, while contributing nothing.

Your evil specter of big business is ultimately a distraction from the issue, because many non-American companies also got pretty good paychecks from American military involvement, despite them or their employees contributing anything to the United States's actions that gave them that money.

I'm unsure how an argument that attacks the ethics or morality of US action can at all counter an argument that US action maintains a status quo that benefits many people who do not pay for it.
Writing a Polymorphic Engine
Because safari will sooner or later become another Edge. Apple doesn't invest enough into safari and now it's a browser which is most behind in terms of technologies.
>>Guess what, private insurance companies will also negotiate prices.

They negotiate prices based on the size of the pool. This is why if you are a small business the rates you will get will be worse than if you were a large enterprise.

With socialized healthcare, the pool is the entire citizenry, which is what gives the government substantial leverage when negotiating.
Look, I hate Trump as much as the next guy(or gal) but do we really have to make EVERYTHING about trump.?
Umm... you can use a raspberry pi as a sandbox. My nephew carries around such equipment. Why wouldn’t the secret service?
The SS trust fund is an accounting fiction. The vast majority of it is held as treasury securities and the cash has long since been spent. Thus the federal government has offsetting liabilities for all of those assets. Once SS starts spending more than it takes in, the feds will have to raise capital to cover the shortfall, same as if the trust fund did not exist.
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who are the "wrong people" that massive social programs enrich? Can you give an example? Most of federal spending is medicare, medicaid and social security; which are immensely popular with voters of all kind.
I'm not saying we should allow pseudoscience. I mean the individuals should be treated with respect and their maladies should be treated seriously. That's independent of taking their claims as truth.