skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Firefox with Ubuntu for over a decade and have never had any issues with the fonts the OP mentions. Maybe it's a problem with some other distros, but I thought Firefox followed your system's settings regardless.

Chromium, on the other hand, has never fully obeyed the default font settings. Even messing with the flags there are plenty of times the font hinting would be different on certain sites than what I've set it too (e.g. grayscale instead of RGB). Never got into troubleshooting it too much though, since I don't use it as my default.
Holy shit was this article all over the place. Some interesting theories, but it's pretty clear from reading this what the author's issue was--he's way too analytical and left-brained, especially for women in NYC. Glad it worked out for him, but he'd have been better off dating in the Bay Area.
The author of James Bond, Ian Flemming, worked as a commander for British Naval Intelligence, an officer for the 30 Assault Unit, whose task it was to gather intelligence behind enemy lines. His brother worked with "stay-behind" freedom fighter networks. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ruthless
Honestly what's wrong with that?
I mean, people are part of nature too no matter how much they try to escape it. It's entirely subjective as to whether the world should have more or less forests vs savannas vs apartment buildings.
That's my experience too. Both on mobile and mac.

The only reason I (and many I know) use Firefox mobile is because it can run uBlock Origin.

It is uncertain if the new mobile Firefox will support uBlock Origin so even there I might stop using it.

Which is sad since I'm all for diversity.
Cross Correlation on the Web (Client Side)
Elon Musk: Humanity Is a Kind of 'Biological Boot Loader' for AI
But there have been reasons given. They want to use standard tools to deal with the log. They want to see the scripts that manage the system and poke around in it, which has the implicit reason to learn about the system and being able to easily modify it.
I think all the fish I eat is farmed... Now I'm curious, because that's a partial counterpoint. Doesn't defeat the message, but it's certainly a gap.
Lol, I fixed the date issues :)
>I want to use the tools I like

>I want to call a script that does that. A script which I can look at and see what it does
It's not a red herring if we're discussing a global trend, and contributing factors to it. And we are discussing a global trend, or at least the article is a criticism against other sensationalist trends to make everything look like doom-and-gloom globally.

A global trend and a local trend contradicting with each other doesn't make the global trend a red herring, and putting forward the global trend to better understand the local trend in the context is not a bad thing. Nowhere in the article suggests we should stop doing things in Amazon.
This is about fighting indepentist movements and religious extremists.

Xinjiang has a border with Afghanistan and obviously the sort of religious extremism that we saw there can potentially spill into Xinjiang.

The threat for China is thus nationalist sentiment strengthened by religious extremism.
The pizzas that are ordered for a group in the US are generally 16-18 inches (40-45cm). They are usually not as thin-crusted as Italian-style pizzas are, and they usually have more cheese and toppings. Depending on toppings a complete pizza can be more than 4000 calories.
I think this is bullshit. It seems completely unrealistic to get everyone to reduce their meat consumption and cut down on e.g. holidays abroad.

I think it's much realistic to have people pay for their own negative externalities and use that money to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere. It should be the role of the government to tax all the shit we want less of, and use the revenue to remedy the situation.

In Norway the average person apparently has a carbon footprint of 9.27 tons per year. I'm carbon positive now after paying my way out, through the help of a local startup [0]. It's not that expensive, but it should be baked into the price of everything to drive changes in spending patterns.

An alternative would be to pay for reforestation. Off-setting 10 tons of carbon costs less than $100 per year [1].

Once we run out the incredibly low-hanging fruit (like paying to have coal plants shut down) and replacing forests that we previously cut down, we can start investigating more expensive technology.

[0] https://chooose.today/

[1] https://www.carbonfootprint.com/offset.aspx?o=10
What is Box ?
The fires and deforestation were actually way, way worse prior to 2003. I saw charts for the Amazon in the 80s and 90s and throughout those decades the forest fires were more than 5x greater than any point since 2003.
If only the order-pickers got a fair share of those pizzas!
Seems to be really sweet in regards to memory which is one thing that kills me about Logstash / ELK in general. I may have to further evaluate this one as a sane alternative. The one nice thing that ELK has is Kibana though. Wonder how I can generate decent dashboards for this. Would also love to see a database option that is a little smarter. If ElasticSearch crashes or anything it becomes inaccessible for a minute. We lost log data due to instability in ElasticSearch.
> I'm waiting for the day when I can pick up a cheap Tesla that "only" goes 200 miles and "doesn't even drive itself".

I just sold my first-generation 2016 Model X to a dealer at 80% of its original cost 3 years ago, which to me indicates a profound level of delusion in the marketplace about the long-term reliability of Tesla vehicles. Going through my own personal experiences and following stories of what Tesla owners have had to go through when they needed repairs, I've finally accepted what my friend said long ago about Tesla cars being repair-hostile:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11233898

Speaking as someone who has gone through 3 years of repairs with a brand new Tesla (fortunately all being under warranty), if your objective is to buy a car that will be reasonably reliable and easily and cheaply repaired as its aging parts break, an old used Tesla would be the absolute last car I'd ever consider.
Number of times I have had the problem of "email not working for some reason" since switching to gmail ~20 years ago: zero.

Number of times I had this problem when running my own mail server (and presumably would have today): non-zero.

There's your entire explanation as to why this is a losing battle. Just one incident of an email delivery problem probably outweighs any privacy risk wrt using a centralized provider wrt email. That prior could change if there is a privacy related incident with these providers, but so far their track record has been good.
Do you have a retina mbp? And if so, do you have the screen resolution set up to the"more space" configuration in your macos system settings?

Those two factors seem to make the problem worse for most users, since the power drain increases with your display resolution.
No and yes. No doctor will take the time to read through your original raw log full of narrative and commentary. But if you're recording instrumented values like daily blood glucose, blood pressure, temperature, etc, and you extract those into a dated table, that's different.

My primary care doc took a big interest in seeing my daily numbers when I mentioned that I'd (systematically) tracked a recent change to my health into a table of readings. If you create a graphical plot of a relevant metric, I bet that'd be of even greater interest to any competent health professional.

IMO, if your doc isn't interested in such data, get another doc.
> Stop clutching your pearls and start being responsible for yourself
Simplifying, this is what I get:

(1) A lightning strike creates a transient voltage on the grid.

(2) Some power generators remove themselves from the grid to prevent damage to themselves from the transient voltage.

(3) Now there is too much demand on the grid -- too many people using power and not enough generators to supply it. (The line frequency dropping indicates that supply and demand are not balanced.)

(4) So the grid operator begins to (deliberately) remove some people from the grid to keep the supply and demand balanced.

What's not clear to me is what would happen if you didn't do step #4.
For now, on a retina Mac, you can pick up significant power savings by having Firefox opt out of the OS wide window scaling when on a retina display.

Get info on the Firefox app and then check ”Open in Low Resolution” on the get info panel, then restart the app.

You can pick up more energy savings by telling Firefox to stop using transparent pixels.

Go to about:config, and set gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true.

Firefox has just been overloading the GPU by painting the entire window over and over and sending the output to the window compositor where it is slowed down even more by scaling and dealing with transparency.
This is one of my favorite features of Soylent and the like. If I drink 2-3 bottles a day, I know I can have one avg sized meal and/or snack and still be under a reasonable daily calorie ceiling.

though it definitely doesn't solve your limited menu point, I've always found getting 70% or so of my calories from soylent to be way more sustainable than eating the same regular foods every day.
I did not know that.

Fair swap, graham greene was also a spay[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene#Travel_and_espio...

[0] typo, but I rather like that one.
It is a myth.

The bigger mail providers (such as Gmail) are pretty strict on checking, and feedback is fairly limited. Thus, figuring out why you were flagged as spam is often difficult and frustrating.

There are so many subtle misconfigurations you can make with the way you have your DNS records set up, but really you need DMARC reports to figure out why your email is getting flagged.

It inspired me to build my startup :) We have successfully fixed dozens of email deliverability issues for our customers.
His assessment on how “Big Mail Corps” accept mail is plain wrong from my experience. When I ran my own mail server, I had SPF, DKIM, rDNS and strict DMARC setup correctly, and got 10/10’s on mail-tester.com.

Admittedly my main problems were with people on Microsoft hosted emails. They seem to run some kind of IP address based blacklist-by-default operation. My emails to Hotmail/Outlook.com users would randomly get either rejected or go straight to spam.

I went through countless online forms, Twitter conversations with clueless CSR’s who kept asking me what Outlook client settings I was using, and finding random people on LinkedIn I could message.

In the end the solution that seemed to work was to reach out separately to everyone I was sending an email to on Hotmail/Outlook.com and getting them to explicitly mark my email as not spam. After a while it seemed to take and stop rejecting/marking my emails.
Usually watching/talking [tackle] football at the local pub. It's a light hearted and can lead to bigger topics.
You don't believe Democrats because they compromised with Republicans to get a bill passed?

If you recall, Republicans used the filibuster in the Senate, which meant Democrats needed a 60 vote supermajority to get a healthcare bill passed. When they floated the idea of a Medicare-for-all bill, Republicans promised to filibuster in the Senate.

Democrats compromised with Republicans on policy that Republicans wrote themselves, and Republicans still filibustered and not a single one of them voted in favor of it.
Scrolling has been async for many years, both with WebRender and without it.
The Democrats didn’t have the power to pass it by themselves, hence needing to compromise.
Fixes are starting to land for the power consumption issues. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
Jdupes: Program for identifying and taking actions upon duplicate files
Reforestation does not replace conservation. Most trees are planted for commercial purposes, which usually means monoculture. These kinds of forest don't support the same species whose habitats have been destroyed. Tropical rainforests in particular are most likely irreplaceable.

Having said that, commercial tree planting is still very important to keep demand for wood away from natural forests.
Apple's New Repair Policy Makes Fixing Your iPhone Less of a Nightmare
That's what I expected to find when I clicked on "Details". But no, the screen only informs on the tracking being done. There's no option but to accept all cookies wholesale.
We can also improve coverage by building faster roads. How about a dedicated fast lane with a minimum speed of 120 mph and modern-car requirement? Add toll to reduce congestion.

It might improve emergency response, local commerce, far-away commute, tourism, and availability of all services, including healthcare.

Short of that, maybe next-gen VTOL aircraft (robotic octocopters) for transporting the ill at a fraction of the cost of a helicopter.

Here’s one for $200k with a 70 mile radius. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/307065
I’ve not opened it, but I’m willing to bet they’ve already cookies you by then as well.
Pretty sure a message to them stating your intended use will result in the block being lifted
And is he equally astonished by the cost of living / housing? Maybe not Detroit but certainly other major metro areas. The “profit” from employee perspective is probably similar
> A good rule of thumb is: If a name requires a comment, then it doesn’t reveal the intent.

This can actually be extended to whole functions as well. doProcessMessage() is terrible but sendMailIfNewAccount() is an improvement.

We have a rule that we don't write comments, instead we write log messages, and we try to write them after every branch corresponds with a business decision.
The easiest public data on this is now levels.fyi. For example, https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Google/SE/L5/ shows the locations and pay for L5 engineers at Google, which is not new grads, but also not "only the most senior engineers". The data reproduces the "engineers don't get paid well in London" story.

Fwiw, I have always found that startup pay (particularly equity) is incredibly slanted against employees. I'm curious if the higher "risk-free rate" from the various FAANG companies will mean that startups instead learn to push back against the VC status quo of small equity grants. It sounds sort of bizarre to me to instead attempt to match on salary / nearly-guaranteed compensation, instead you must meet the "not having to deplete savings" bar and then the rest are lottery tickets. Historically, with "1% of equity" (or so) those lotto tickets don't sound so attractive.
It passed with not one vote from Republicans, so there was no need to compromise. Will your fake news post be downvoted? Of course not.
Ejection Tie Club
If I listen carefully, I can tell the difference between 48 and 50hz using a sine generator (although it's very subtle), so I'd guess that you possibly could.
The ones that actually count - air vehicle rocket and air vehicle air-breathing, were set in 1967 and 1976.
I agree, the last thing I want is for the government to try to incentivize the desired behavior via the tax code unless it’s a revenue neutral carbon tax, alas that’s not what the bureaucrats want as it puts them out of work.
Focus on competitive coding/problem solving. They do not expect college graduates to have projects. Also, in general it is difficult to judge someone based on the project unless the project is already a hit but in that case why do you really want a job.

Puzzle/problem solving type questions are easy to help them "filter" people. It doesn't mean anything -- do not read too much into it. Its just an easy way to select few from some people.

So, prepare those puzzles, and you are good to go. Almost all of them will ask those.
> My main complaint about fresh Firefox installations is that it takes a lot of time to fine tune everything.

And a lot of it is barely documented and there's no easy way to set/test it. Took me quite a while to go through the different things for scrollwheel scrolling until I had found a style regarding speed, distance, acceleration etc that I feel good using.
> Massachusetts' "RomneyCare" that was passed by Republicans in that state

FYI RomneyCare was passed by a supermajority of Democrats in the MA state legislature. They negotiated some parts with Governor Romney but the reform was not a “republican idea”. ObamaCare in general was not a republican plan - it was a moderate Democrat plan.
Exactly, at my place we have about eight front-end developers. Guess how many (excluding me) use Firefox? None. When I started I found a tonne of little bugs just because no one thought to test in Firefox.
> A script which I can look at and see what it does. Like /etc/init.d/apache2. I do not want to execute some magic command like "service apache start" which I have to guess or look up and which gives me no clue about what it does.

Interesting. I feel the other way. Unix failed to provide a real service management system early on, so we have layers of historical cruft (Fork, close all descriptors, fork again, escape process group? Really?), and ended up with all kinds of absurdity in shell scripts to handle it.

The right way is to have a strong system contract on what constitutes a service, and have no wiggle room so that 'service apache start' does a fixed, known thing.

Sadly, systemd has to support all kinds of legacy hacks. A nice way to chart a way forward might be to define a simple contract and require someone to mark a unit file as "legacy" to enable the other possibilities.
> I think the biggest pain in hosting your own mail server is getting your outbound mail delivered into the mailboxes of the large providers without being marked as spam

Why do you think that?
The article mention exactly this could just be a myth that perpetuates because people repeat it without actually trying it.

In fact, I used to think exactly like you when I originally set up my personal mail server and opted for the hybrid setup you suggest.
However, when the third party service I used to send mail shut down a couple of years ago, I quiclky set up outbound mail on my own server. None of my emails are considered as spam, and I haven't touched the mail configuration since.
That’s when you end up with a cascading failure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure). The remaining generators are overloaded by the demand and shut down to protect themselves as well, which further decreases the supply and causes more stations to shut off, etc.

The Wikipedia article about the northeast US blackout of 2003 is a very interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
>The World Bank[1] says in 2018, US GDP per capita was over $62K while the EU was under $37K. That seems like a huge difference to me and I don't think anybody really understands why it exists

For one, the EU has dozens of ex Eastern Bloc communist countries (including areas of ex-USSR) which still play catch up and wages are still much lower.

Second, money is not everything. If the state, every day life, cost of living, etc is set up in a good way, you can get 2x or more the quality of life for half the money.
"The everage joe".
X11 can do all that. If all else fails you can use GLX to blend some textures together or animate them. The problem is more that there are to many different ways to achieve the same thing. A clean up would indeed be nice but Wayland is exactly the wrong answer.
> ...given the probability I really think it would be wise to stay protected.

"Probability"? Unless you live in Medellín or an active war zone, the probability is negligible.
Interesting, this is the only example given that I was able to confirm does not work. I'm glad this discussion is making you consider contacting the author. I feel like we've dug ourselves into an IE-shaped hole all over again and this kind of grassroots action is very important for getting out.

As an aside, immediately upon seeing the website, I had a split-second thought of the content reminding me of Don't Starve. Amusingly, the website turns out to be about Oxygen Not Included, another Klei game. :-)
I agree that the discretizing step is hard to get right. I agree that you don't have enough time in an engineering interview to get Vose's algorithm right (nevermind think of it in the first place). I was definitely imagining that you had a day to implement it and test it, not an hour and a whiteboard.
If not a single Republican voted for it that means the bill is entirely the responsibility of the Democrats. It is a bill created and passed exclusively by Democrats. The Democrats passed a Republican plan without one Republican vote. The Democrats had a filibuster proof supermajority, and they decided to pass Mitt Romney's healthcare plan. But it's all the Republicans fault. Obama didn't even try for a public option like he had promised during the campaign.
If you drill down into the graphs of those regions, you can see other proxies for fires since 2003. It is not clear that there wouldn't have been MODIS and VIIRS results much higher prior to 2012 had those measurements been available.

Even since 2012, this year is higher, but not remarkably so, given that during summer it increases about 10x over a fairly high fire baseline.

From all accounts, fires on the order of this magnitude have been annually occurring for decades in Brazil. It is hard to take the media criticisms seriously in the face of this data. It's also hard to believe that the Amazon is in imminent danger, given the duration of this "problem."
https://github.com/timberio/vector/pull/693
> but that battery in South Australia is only 100MW and the grid lost over 1400 MW

I hear this kind of misconception fairly often and so it is worth noting that you don't need 1400 MW of battery to protect from this event.

The initial 735 MW drop happened, as I read TFA, when a major generating source took itself offline as a result of the frequency disturbance. The later generator drops are cascades of the frequency disturbance earlier in time.

If a suitable battery had been present and reacting in milliseconds it could have stabilized the frequency enough, for just the very short period required, to avoid the whole generator trip in the first place. Thus you can use much smaller amounts of fast-response frequency support to avoid much bigger drops. This is how batteries can pay for themselves so quickly when placed in the right topologies w.r.t to the grid demand and generation resources.
On the plus side, those "follow you around" ads make low-profit content profitable because they can still serve profitable ads.

I know that, before ads followed you around like this, I only published content in high-profit industries (finance, telecom services) because otherwise it was unprofitable.
The world’s most advanced nanotube computer may keep Moore’s Law alive
At my last company entry level was 'Senior'. Only interns were in a level below.
Lately I've been having issues sending mail to Linux kernel mailing list, mail was just rejected and not sent through Gmail SMTP server.

After countless attempts to fix that or to understand why Google think I'm spamming I set up my own mail server on DigitalOcean Droplet.
I used mailinabox and the setup was a piece of cake. it works flawlessly now.
A Storm Expert’s View: Dorian’s Damage Remains Impossible to Predict
I’m honestly curious — what is the use case?

What benefit is provided by specifying the source port for this application?
And heavily subsidised by not having to pay a fair carbon price!
I run my own, but from time to time large blocks of IP space on Digital Ocean seems to get put into some blacklist.
My solution was to use a fallback delivery through SendGrid and their free tier (happens rare enough, and my volume is low).
Postfix handles this nicely for me.