skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the same thing and went through the whole article looking for a representation of the old font vs. the new font. It's my understanding that the only changes where kerning and slight shape changes but a picture of them side-by-side would be nice.
Well, composers, conductors and improvisers (e.g. jazz, folk) need to have it, so that would put it to several hundred thousands, not "less than a thousand".
While I previously thought I might have aphantasia, I now tend to think that most people lack the ability to imagine face or other complex objects. HN threads tend to confirm this.

In other words, while I can't imagine my family members' faces, I also don't think many people can.

If not proven otherwise, I now assume that most people forget the visual memory of faces after a few seconds while preserving the ability to recognize people.

Obviously this excludes people with photographic memory.
This. Recruiting the candidates we want is much more difficult in a tight job market than screening for the technical skills to do the job is.

What’s actually difficult to screen for is attitude. The person who can find a way to consistently solve for that without insulting or playing mind games with candidates is going to be a gazillionaire.
Stuff I've tried and it worked for me:

1. Watch English movies with English subtitles (no dubbing) or Japanese Anime with English subtitles (or dubbing)

2. Sing English songs

3. Play English RPGs (I think I've learned +50% of my total English vocabulary thanks to Final Fantasy series in my teen times)

4. Take English lessons (I did it before exams in school).

Stuff I haven't tried but it might be worth:

5. Practice discussion with someone (e.g. via public video chat services with strangers or something)

6. Try audio-blogging (say something about topic you're interested in, best if it's related to your work), record yourself, listen, review yourself (what was good, what not), repeat.

Side notes from me:

- it takes time and practice (so also patience) to get really better in such stuff (like weeks/months, not days)

- practice using simple sentences/words while talking. If you're talking with someone remotely (e.g. via videochat) have a google translate opened so you can search quickly for the words you're trying to say but forget

- prepare before each meeting, write down some sentences/words that you think you often forget and keep it nearby to feel less stressed
> ... posed the query to RBI while hearing a PIL which claimed that GPay was acting as a payments system provider in violation of the Payments and Settlements Act as it has no valid authorisation from the central bank of the country to carry out such functions.

There are many systemic flaws in our country's democratic institutions, including our judiciary, like judges appointing judges, making it one of the most powerful judiciary in the democratic world. But then there are also commendable features, also unique to our judiciary, like "Public Interest Litigation" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_interest_litigation_i... ) that allow even a common citizen to take on the powerful.
This is so annoying. E.g. it's not unusual to surf the web with Laptop on mobile connection in Philippines but then you get all this CAPTCHAs on all Cloudflare sites with the standard configuration.

Actually this is the biggest reason I don't like Cloudflare. They are discriminating some second/third world countries and if you don't travel much and check websites you will never know.

Many websites owners are also not aware of this issue with Cloudflare.
Discriminating traffic like this should at least be an optional opt-in in Cloudflare and not standard.
That flagging puts me off HN most. People upvoted, commented.. No, no soup for you!

Can we vote to get rid of Flagging 'feature'?
> but yes, I have a calendar with people's birthdays in it.

Me too, it's called Facebook.

> I also send (gasp) paper birthday and Christmas cards to the people who mean a lot to me.

Same but for those people who haven't shared their addresses , a Facebook post and/or message suffices.
I’m interested in VoltDB. Anyone who can share their experiences working with this in production?
Google Maps and Google Cloud are essentially unrelated businesses, with entirely different business models and strategies. Lumping them all together because they share the name "Google" doesn't make sense.
The alternate name for Helvetica is "Neue Haas Grotesk".
Khronos publish GLSL spec and Vulkan Spec in several format, including HTML[0][1], so they definitly don't have anything against HTML/Plain text.

I don't know why OpenGL specs are still only available has PDFs, maybe because they first wrote it using a format that not easily convertible to HTML.

[0] https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/html/vkspe...

[1] https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/GLSLangSpec...
Ah awesome, looks like it's there on iOS too!
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I don't think it's fair to quote "2x to 7x slower". What's exciting about WASM is that is has a lot of potential to get close to native performance, a lot of the tricks just haven't been applied yet.

EDIT: just to support my claim, here is an example of a WASM runtime implementations that run 4x-6x faster than others: https://github.com/perlin-network/life#benchmarks
gee let me think:

1) increases the attack-surface[0] of the browser (arbitrary code execution in victims browser)

2) wasm shares some of the same vulnerability classes from native applications (thanks to code generation frameworks that allows you to spit out wasm in addition to say C - see Nim & others offering generation via llvm backend)

3) cryptographic verification of payloads is still not possible (afaik)

4) binary blobs from untrusted sources which isn't auditable in the way javascript is (raises the bar for security researchers to identify malicious payload, or really just anyone who want's to audit / poke around)

5) thanks to 1+2 wasm shares the same pitfalls as JavaScript when doing crypto in the browser.

6) all of the above works over plain HTTP links (hurray)

7) assumes that security/integrity can be derived from language subsets and a few rules to prevent specific type of behavior[1]

[0] https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Thu-August-9/us-18-Lukasiewicz-...

[1] https://webassembly.org/docs/security/

[2] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Basic&res...

edit: link to current CVE's
My issue with netlify is the lack of data or analytics about traffic. I cannot even see the number of visits ! That's why I use GitHub + cloudflare.
I'm curious, how do you plan on styling going forward?

Have you had a look at https://tailwindcss.com? I'm just finishing a large redesign project using tailwind on a Rails/Vue platform and the experience has been great. The idea is that all classes are small, focussed and do one thing only. The downside is that the markup starts to look like 1995 again. The upside is the speed at which you can style a site, and the lack of mysterious hard to track bugs. I really recommend trying it for a small project, but it's not for everyone.
Well......there is this $45 million insurance claim due to a single car spontaneously combusting:

https://jalopnik.com/how-one-suv-fire-destroyed-45-million-i...
> The In both typography- and computer-speak, a character is an individual letter or typographic mark. optimal width of a paragraph of text is anywhere from 50–80 characters per line,

So... Why does the blog format the main text body to be around 40 characters per line on my default window size? If you want to put the focus on this range of line lengths, you'll have to be more flexible with font sizes.
My biggest issue with it is that what is written in the specs often doesn't hold true when using lousy drivers ;) .
Previous discussions:

2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19603916 (49 comments)

6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19570880 (123 comments)
Is there anybody here who is deeply in the frontend rabbithole and can recommend a JS free CSS framework that we can use for a project where readability & UX matters a lot? Somebody recommended material.io but is it not JS free. I was wondering if there is a JS free CSS framework that looks great.
I think the discrimination against third-world countries are justified as that's the main source of clickspamming and like factories.
Summer of 2017 was dull and rainy, 2018 was scorching heat. So what? This isn't a direct indication of climate change, we have had varied seasons since forever. You didn't take the cool summer of 2017 as an example of debunked climate change either... silly article.
I suspect so too.

(for those wondering: we are being a tad facetious as everyone who has been in the industry a while is familiar with stories of Oracle being litigious, one case specifically being a large and long-running one against Google over Java and Android: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google...)
That makes sense, thanks. Might give it another try soon using this method.
If you feel guilty, try Rubber Duck Debugging first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

You'll be surprised how often you'll find the solution by yourself before annoying anyone else about it ;)
But dude... you have to drive a Camry now. Which is... well, you should test drive a Tesla to get what I mean.

I had a Camry. They are great cars. But you should test drive a Tesla.
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Perhaps this should link to the original interview at https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-intervie... rather than the current blogspam link.
Yes ... I didn't even think about the fact that "linked site" is ambiguous in this case. I wonder if you can play the "six degrees of separation" game (Kevin Bacon) with web-sites. How many links do you need to follow to get from any random site to any other? If the web is fully connected, then "linked site" is fully ambiguous!
Assume consent...for what, exactly? To note which links on their site you clicked, and which you ignored - OK, that may be reasonable. To share/sell that information to a multitude of other businesses, most of which you've never heard of? I'm not so sure. To follow your activity across the rest of the internet for the following month, and sell access to that data? No thanks.
A bit off topic, but I hope I'll find I'm not alone: my "mind" is color-blind to some degree.

It's very hard for me to remember colors, if someone cut their hair I'll notice it easily, but if they change color (e.g blonde to brown), I'll have an unsettling feeling but it's very hard for me to pinpoint what has changed.

When I'm asked to describe a person I'm extremely unlikely to give hair or skin color, and I can't even tell the color of the eyes of anyone of my family right now, I just don't know.

When I remember colors it's more like I remember a textual description. My eyes are green, I know because I remember it being written on my ID, not because I've seen them in the mirror this morning.
there are lots of other issues. AFAICT HTML is allowed inline in markdown but the flowing inline HTML is interpretted differently depending on implementation

some markdown text

<div>
some
**inline**
text
</div>

some more markdown text

some will take that as one block. some will process each line separately. some will convert the asterisks
...
Oh sorry, I thought you were comparing it to other alternatives, I didn't realize you meant WASM is worse than not running code at all. Yes, I agree.
Ok :- )
It's 339 bytes of CSS which loads 2.3k of font css which loads 21k of woff2. 23k requiring two round trips (three if the stylesheet is in a separate file, four including the initial HTML load), and to prevent FOUT, the browser won't show any text at all until all the round trips are completed (or it decides it's taking too long and shows the wrong font). Plus you're adding a dependency on Google for no good reason.

I mean, it's not exactly worse than other websites, it's maybe honestly worth it because Fira looks pretty good, it's just not really 339 bytes.
To apply robotic berry pickers you normally need to produce in a large scale (many tons of berries). So you will need to distribute them. If you don’t apply the externalities of transportation and preservation of the food it would seem that this kind of production makes sense but it doesn’t. It actually less effective if you count for the costs of transportation, packaging and freezing.

Environmentally this is also known as “mix vs sort” and is almost a physical rule. If your are very good in mixing (making things at large scale), your tend to be bad in sorting (distributing things).

Here is the book that talks about it in the 1930 https://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/0303critic/0303...
Times New Roman is fine - serif fonts are supposedly more readable - it's the line widths that kill me here - figuring out which line you're due to start on next really disrupts flow
I do have a copy of that HP font, it is very beautiful but cannot be used in anything as it 'screams HP' I have no idea though it I can share it without getting in trouble, no idea of the licencing status of that font.
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Actually, this is not true. Find me a program that can extract the scores from a complex piece of music and attribute the right notes to the right instrument/voice. I haven't found one yet. But maybe that's because I am not versed in the music analysis software available. Never needed it. Now I think of it, it would be really handy for my job though. If you know of one, please let me know. Especially one that can analyse the music live and then transposes it to midi notes/OSC without a hefty lag.
It's an idiotic argument. Only functions compose. Though fork is packaged as a function, it's really an operator with a big effect.

Booting a system doesn't compose; let's not have power-on reset and bootloaders.

Everything in this paper could have been cribbed from twenty year or older Usenet postings, mailing lists and other sources. Fork has been dissected ad nausem; anyone who is anyone in the Unix-like world knows this.

Oh, and threads have perpetually been the way to go on current hardware --- every damn year since 1988 and counting.
Excluding the use cases of tax avoidance and illegal utilities how is it more useful than EUR? They're all more volatile / less stable than EUR.
Less true than you might be aware yourself, actually.

Think of written Russian. Did you think of beautiful cursive Cyrillic as Pushkin would've written or some blocky reverse-R all caps propaganda text?

Wonder why literally everybody associates anything written in "German Gothic” (blackletter, actually, but I digress) is instantly associated with a guy with a Chaplin moustache but who isn't Chaplin?

Why Simplified Chinese was designed to look good with printed serifs which interfered with the Traditional script's typography?

And I'm not even a graphic designer or a “font nerd”...
While discord can do some of what forums do. I don't think it's any where close to the same. People would post much larger posts on a forum when creating a topic.
"Our final question: Why isn't everyone happy all the time?
I don't know. Overall, I'm a pretty happy person, and one of my theories in life is that people fundamentally want to be happy. So, if you ever find a moment when you aren't happy, you should just wait. Something is likely to change in the scenario. Someone else will change what they're doing, or you'll get motivated to change what you're doing, so the situation will change overall for the better."

Sort of in a slump and I don't have anything smart to say but this made me feel a little better. I feel like I have far more ability than my company utilizes but I cannot quit because I need this job. I don't have the balls to start a company because I don't have a great idea. I just write code. So I will wait. Something will give eventually.
CreateProcess requires an application to initialize from scratch. When you fork, you cheaply inherit the initialized state of the whole application image. Only a few pages that are mutated have to be subject to copy-on-write. Even that copy-on-write is cheaper than calculating the contents of those pages from scratch.
Furthermore, GFM* has fast become a defacto standard for newer implementations—still a bit of incompatibility, but improving.

* GFM = Github Flavoured Markdown, even if Gitlab have very cheekily taken on the same initialism for their (in fairness, highly compatible) flavour.
This comment gets posted on HN about every site that dares write about something with a small filesize and frankly it's getting a bit boring.
M.M. One of the worst CEO. Just lucky to be on right side of the fence
I don't see how this is an issue. The US follows the capitalistic model of considering its citizens as resources (workers), and thus uses immigration as a state policy to get the best human resource from the world. The american society has also been molded to accept that those who don't meet the requirements of employability or don't have some financial backup (thus still contributing) are dumped in age old homes, jail or on the streets (the homeless), and considered useless and treated as a burden on society, thus making space for more new immigrants.
Probably that once you do it, if the account holder had previously set it up so, you might end up triggering deletion of their account. A lesser caveat is that without a previously specified caretaker, the account will become totally locked down, whereas a caretaker can still change the photos or pin messages etc.
I don't know how Cloudflare can on one hand fight for net neutrality [1] and on the other hand play such an active role in creating a "two-class" Internet. I understand that spamming and DoS attacks are a real problem and that they provide a solution for this e.g. using CAPTCHAs, I just think their approach will lead to a world where your IP address (and thus often your country) decides more and more how easy or hard it is to browse large parts of the Internet. Not sure how to solve this in a better way but I really don't like what they're doing here considering their recent VPN/DNS efforts, which (IMHO) seem to be part of a long-term strategy to create a "fast-track" Cloudflare-powered Internet (for those who can afford it).

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/battleforthenet/
The website actually uses the default font for your browser. I've always changed this to a sans-serif font.
It does not mix, and does not obstruct my eyesight. I can read while 'seeing' the events in the book. It does not pass through the eyes, and it is as detailed and sharp as my sense of reality - obviously. It just does not come through the same channel and that's easy to notice.

As a side note, it can be really odd to read something like: 'She saw two doors in the room. She took the one on the left wall.' And my flow is broken and I have to stop and reimagine the room, because I saw the two doors on the wall ahead - what is the author going on about? Maybe they should not be so exact about a tiny detail.
That is for store stuff though, not Win32 itself and the vast majority of applications are not written for the store nor distributed through it (some do use it as a secondary means of distribution but from what i've heard the limitations are not worth it and the store itself is bad from a UX perspective).
This article was also discussed here 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559970 (145 comments)
Are people actually downvoting this comment just because it's not politically correct?

I mean, you could argue that it's not fair to discriminate entire countries because of the lax abuse policy of their ISPs, but the comment is correct: that's the reason those countries are discriminated against in this context.
I don't know where this account comes from (none is from that page), but it makes no sense. I grew up there and had friends whose parents and older siblings worked at Ford Milpitas and GM Fremont. UAW members (e.g. those cut from Richmond auto plants) had first dibs; shipyard workers wouldn't have any advantage over others off the street.

"Many communities were white only" is a crock; in fact, Milpitas in the 1970s had higher black propensity than did Fremont to the north or NE San Jose to the south. Both Milpitas and Ayer High schools had more black students than Piedmont Hills to the south. The foothills tended to be pricey and almost exclusively white and Jewish, but that was economic rather than code segregation.

By the 1970s, production at the plant spiraled downward, shifts were cut, abd there were always more workers than hours.
I would be far more willing to believe this if it happened in a discussion of Elon Musk or Jack Dorsey.

But I do not remember this point ever being made in discussions of those workaholics. Until a woman came along.

Also: the same user calls Mayer (and Holmes) „attention whores“ downthread. I rest my case.
maybe not exactly the same but it is aguable if the majority of people had to write check to pay their taxes instead of having their taxes auto-deducted by their employer they'd push much harder for lower taxes and less government spending

it's much harder to make $40k a year and write a check for $5k than to just get a net pay of $35k with the $5k never reaching your bank account. (note: No idea what income tax is at $40k)

PS: don't have an opinion if this would be a good or bad idea. can see it both ways
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It is not boring. It is sad.
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You can do frontend webdev and have a lot of fun.

First of all, stop using plain JS and move to Typescript. That'll fix most of your issues with the language itself.

Second, for what's fulfilling, it depends on what you're actually working on. If you're going to just make dynamic menus for a wordpress blog then yeah, your life is gonna be boring. But nowadays "frontend" can mean writing entire apps. My latest site (https://overframe.gg/) is a SPA in React+Typescript and I had a lot of fun writing it. The nitty-gritty of reverse engineering games, simulating calculations, etc; all these are still there.