skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer rendering with strict grid-fitting, with crisp stems but antialiased arcs. Unfortunately, in current Linux, it does not work even with full hinting enabled by standard fontconfig settings, one have to set magic variable FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 .
Indeed. I am much happier developing with Ruby on Rails than I was with say, PHP, but I do find it hilarious how back in the day deployment just meant uploading a couple of PHP files to a server and how now I need a full CI pipeline.
A couple years ago, a very funny experiment was published on "Cell", that used conjugation of DNA strands to TCR transmembrane chains to quantitate in terms of base matches the energy required to elicit ZAP70 cascades. Pretty awesome!
The reason that industry hubs form and exist is because not all work can be remote, and there are economies of scale and efficiencies in grouping related and essential services and capabilities in one place. This is most pronounced, ironically, in the least material sectors: cinema, television, music, publishing, banking, and software are all activities in which the end result can literally be wired arond the world in an instant, but each has very strong primary locus hubs: Hollywood, New York, Nashville, and Silicon Valley, in these cases.

Yes, there are regional centres: regulation, language, and culture can create the necessity for localised services, so that film also has national traditions (Bollywood, China, Japan, small local productions in the UK and continental Europe, and a few smaller hubs), banking (London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Shanghai), etc. But to the extant a single hub can dominate, it often does.

It's the support sectors especially which create anchors. For film, casting departments, carpenters, electricians, caterers, props, lighting, riggers, and a whole host of services and suppliers are best met within central hubs. Software operates similarly -- VC, training, presentations, networking services, and the like, tend to focus on major cities such as San Francisco-San Jose, Seattle, New York, and a number of also-rans. Trying to get highly-qualified services outside those areas is difficult at best.

And even if you do manage to allow software and design folks to work remotely, it's the other staff, often far less-well paid, who still have to show up at the office. And who pay the eye-bleeding rents.

Remote work isn't the solution.

Rents, as a claim to all consumer surplus, can be ameliorated through a land value tax. That's the solution which is badly needed.
I'm confused, is this not a website for hackers and entrepreneurs whose response to unemployment is starting your own business? Or am I in the wrong place?
Perhaps, I just thought it was an odd thing for the head of WhatsApp to say: You don't have to take our word on this - just do this thing that we prohibit in our terms of service.
“500 megapixel, 5 times the resolution of human eyes”: wrong. The resolution of human eyes is around 576 megapixels.
https://curiosity.com/topics/how-many-megapixels-is-the-huma...
How are Microsoft bad? The topic is about a change Microsoft made to benefit their online services. This isn't a great development by any stretch, for sure. And yet when compared with companies that collect and traffic in personal data Microsoft is in my opinion relatively(!) benign.
Yes - fonts looked too thin and rather ugly when the color space "bug" was fixed in early Qt 5 (on Linux / more precisely, with FreeType glyph rendering) versions. The fix was reverted to fix the look of text.
Just started using keypirinha a couple of weeks ago. Love it
I don't understand the JSON obsession. JSON as any other file format should be a small detail in any application and require very little plumbing code.

In every application, any dependency to JSON should be minimized, contained and preferably eliminated.
Wait is this why the alt-right hates Greta Thunberg so much, they already had their own bizarro version?
Kernel Lockdown Patch Merged (after 7 years of work)
This is a step in their progression toward self driving. No one should expect this to be flawless from the start, similar to Waymo's self driving work.

Tesla getting this out now should allow for the feature to begin improving at a quicker pace due to more data.

A lot of naysayers will certainly harp on the number of wonky videos to hit the web, but this will quickly decrease once the newness of the feature wears off and improves.
Money is just a representation of time spent on some productive work that the market sees value in. We have money to make trade more granular, and to have fewer exchange rates.

Furthermore, this article isn't at all about finding "a way out of Capitalism". It just shows that to a certain degree, people value not being burdened with guilt.

Does that mean a society would work without money, and with people just "doing the right thing" so as not to be burdened with the guilt of not having done the right thing?

No. History has shown — over and over — that this just does not work.
My gf had grade III brain cancer. She had chemo two times. As chemos go, the one for brain cancer is fairly bening. The only side effect was nausea on initial chemo dose. Easily countered by antiemetic given only before first few initial doses, later withdrawn. The only other side effect was low blood cell counts that didn't manifest any symptoms but caused chemo to be delayed by a week till it recovered. Steroids given for brain swelling had more effect as they increased her appetite and kept water in her body causing her face to swell a bit. Ask your doctor for medication that amplifies urine production if you are given steroids. That helped when she was given it for the second time. Also after steroids were stopped her skin needed few weeks to recover from being prone to acne.

Possibly the only drug that might have felt like it was killing her was the morphine, as it can depress respiratory system, but at this stage there were so many things that might have been killing her that it wasn't important.
You would probably get quite far just abolishing patents and copyright. Seems to me a lot of the stranglehold on the market to get away with all this relies on exclusive control of the tech and the content. With this out of the way I’m pretty sure the cicvil society would come up with acceptable infrastructure pretty quickly.
The Nazis' Desperate Attempts to Curve a Bullet
If you haven't already, I highly recommend you read We by Zamyatin [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29
> You'll see that except for old targets (or highly proprietary ones like fpga) [...]

Your overall point is stronger than you think: Xilinx's FPGA toolchain [1] has official Linux support, and their embedded software toolchain (based on yocto and gcc) actually depends on Linux!

[1] Xilinx is the market leader for general purpose and high-performance FPGAs. The situation is slightly different for space-grade and very low-power FPGAs, although Microsemi has been supporting Linux for many years as well.
Own a TM3, unless Tesla can make "smart" summon work the idea they will ever have full autonomous driving down is just a pipe dream. What the car can do on a long drive is nothing short of amazing compared to any other brand but treat it like your kid with their new driving license, you watch over it like a hawk.

At most I use it to slide out of a space where someone got too close, usually on purpose, or as a party trick. Let it drive out of my sight, oh, hell no.
Wifi is also generally on a card.. For Lenovo thinkpad, Dell and à few others.

Unfortunately not the sp4:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+4+Tear...
Used to be that you shouldn't install Windows online to prevent getting exploited by malware before you had a chance to patch.

Now it looks like one has to install offline to prevent getting adware and all kinds of other things, what amazing progress.

As somebody still stuck on Win7 I'm dreading the change, sadly Linux is not really an option because I like my PC gaming.

Any good resources on what to look out for when installing Win10, what to turn off and when to stay offline when setting what things up? I keep seeing/picking up small tips all over the place, but I have yet to find something comprehensive.
A confession from one redditor:

I was sentenced to 3 years with 2 suspended at the North Dakota State Penitentiary. I sold a quarter pound of ganja to an undercover after an informant introduced me to him. Mind you now, think of a quarter pounder cheeseburger patty. It's not THAT much. I was in my third year of college at UND for pre-health sciences. I went to prison and it threw a wrench in the machine that is my life. Now let me tell you the best way I can: Some guys are gay for the stay as they say. For the most part, RAPE is very rare. Unless your in a federal prison. Then duct tape your buttcheeks. I compare prison to being in detention. Except in this detention, imagine the WORST, I mean the BIGGEST problem child from your memories in school. Now, briefly imagine the number of schools in your state. Imagine that number of problem people. Now, the detention lasts 24/7. And they are all in a cage together. Like a problem child / man zoo. I thought I'd go to prison meeting good guys who made bad choices like me. What I learned is that there are an obnoxious amount of BAD MEN. They are chronic liars and they are VERY selfish. They are bad because they care nothing for anyone but themselves, and yet they all feel sorry for themselves. I hope none of you fine folks have to find out what the experience is like.
> TLDR; don’t be ridiculous. Smart people do this stuff professionally and then you come along and think you’re some hot shot who can do it in a few minutes?

Basically, yes. Mainly because I do this professionally too.

Just because I haven’t been assigned to do it this time does not mean I can’t.

How about you are generous and interpret my comment as if I know what I’m talking about, then I won’t be an ass and nuance my previous statement a bit.

Something can (and probably should) take a month the first time around. Then, if you’ve actually fulfilled your promise as ‘devops’ any second time you are doing this thing it should take significantly less time. Maybe you’ve not automated all parts, but certainly the most common ones.

I think we’re now at iteration 20+, and it still takes a month for every new environment (dev, sqa, prod) of the same application.

Now it’s definitely possible there is a reasonable explanation for that, but it’s starting to get a bit suspect. Enough so that I’ll make a frustrated comment about it on HN when the subject comes up.
Very much so, the build quality is amazing. I sold my late dad's 1983/4 DX7 MK1 in 2014 to someone who is now a pal - it was gigged for something like 20 year, more than once a week and all it needed was a new battery.
Does anyone write C++ and not care about performance?
It probably depends on the OS. I assume screenshots in the article are on Linux. On Windows it looks different still: https://i.imgur.com/ri2yUrR.png
Stereotypes don’t come from nowhere.. in the case of nerds, i don’t know of any sociology studies performed by researchers on a nationwide scale, so i guess personal experiences is all i can provide. They do mostly confirm the sterotypes.
I just remembered an incident; My grandfather had to call his sister who lived in a different country.

The middle class and the poor did not have access to International Direct Dialling because the central telecom commission had not accepted the demand for more international connectivity. There were no private telecom companies only state owned because we were good socialists. And International Direct Dialling was a luxury reserved for the political elites and the rich industrialists.

No what we had to do was book a "person-to-person" call. They would give you a 2-3 hour time slot in which the call might be connected and you would have to wait by the phone. And when it was connected the operator could hear everything.

This is mid-1980's I am talking about haha
I'm also very curious about oncolytic toxicity.

personal sad story: uncle diagnosed with stage4 (mets) in late dec, got rounds of chemo 4 months after the diagnosis during which time the tumors didn't grow (based on the few bits we could read in his file). But after the 3rd round his health dropped to the floor, didn't last long after that. I believe the toll on his system was just too high. And I'm curious what are the mechanisms at play.
How to get app like Zomato? facts about Zomato funding
It doesn't take you back to square one in languages which enforce named parameters, which I thought we were talking about.
People are biased towards github repos with recent commits in github as opposed to projects that are stabilized and frozen. This is a loss considering the man-hours spent on creating a stable library.
Our agency uses Sketch for web projects, but for print Adobe is still king.
Amazon Alexa Will Recognize When You’re Frustrated
Sounds like school in the USA (as well as many other countries). Tech is just making that aspect more explicit.

Supposedly public schools in the states were created during the industrial revolution to train up obedient factory workers. Private schools before that were founded to train up a nobility steeped in hierarchy.
Sacked academic is suing Cambridge University
This is a critical part of the overall full self driving equation. Any vendor working on this problem will be spending inordinate amounts of resources on this as parking lots are one of the more challenging environments.

In certain locations (especially in winter) this will be a very nice feature. This is especially true to anyone with disabilities or extreme laziness. ;-).
For the last year I have been logged into Windows as my son (complete with getting weekly screentime reports about myself) because I once tried to set up a network game of Minecraft and somehow this associated a Microsoft account with my previously offline user account. There is no way to undo this without creating a new account from scratch and deleting the old one.
If you read your second reference, you will find that it states that the decline in homicides is not due to Bolsonaro (it started before he got into office) - in fact, it states that certain types of murder have had increased rates.
It's funny how expectations being set differently can lead to such massively different reactions.

Chrome OS or Android devices require Google accounts? No problem.

Windows requires a Microsoft account? So angry!

I think there's also something to be said for the ubiquity and usefulness of these accounts outside of the OS setup. I don't really feel that I need a Microsoft account in my life and I can't say for certain whether I have one or not. I definitely have a Google account which I use many times per day.
> 100% faster.

So, twice as fast - it parses the dataset in half the time?
Note that they have a quantum computer that can solve a very specific type of problem. (But it solves them exponentially faster than a classical computer). They don't have a general purpose quantum computer, in particular, they can't run Shor's algorithm to factorize numbers and break a big part of encryption methods.

For a more detailed and better explanation than mine, you can read post of Scott Aaronson https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317 (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053405 (595 points, 5 days ago, 207 comments))
You haven't seen it coming with Windows 8 ?
Citation requested.

Counterpoint, definition 2:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cartel
I’ve started my career very early on on the age of 16 as a system admin. Heart and soul was on pure engineering and less on what people label these things on CVs.

A few years later I moved up the stack into a full time programmer and been doing that ever since 20 years down the line.

I have built systems from the ground up literally, loading the van with the equipment, installing the racks, the servers, the EMC’s ...

Having seen it from all perspectives, sys admin, DBA, Ops and all it’s variants and a programmer. I’d like to think of my self as an engineer who solve problems or build things to solve problems.

The tools that you use does not define you. I have seen and still seeing loads of people Devs who don’t understand or willing to understand how ops work Or how the crap they produce runs and get maintained.

And ops who write hacky code in the name of infra as code.

I wish we can just be Engineers and stop labelling and define people by the tools they use. Things will be better IMO
As a lazy developer I enjoy DevOps principles. First time I don't have infrastructure issues. My code builds and deploys automagically and sys-admins can focus on important stuff.

I'd also like to describe it as just another tool in my toolbox. Created by admins for developers. I don't mind YAML at all. It's better than JSON or XML and it's a first class citizen in Go, Python, JS and other languages.
There’s more than one field here, it’s just not discussed in the post. The title is a separate form field that is validated and updates live on every change event. `phx-change` gives me the whole form state, which is what I wanted.
If the key is in the HSM, then what's protecting your data is the trust in the boot chain not being broken, and the OS login not not being compromised (theoretically).

Booting an alternate OS, or removing the media will result in the HSM not giving up the key, and rendering the drive unusable for all attackers except those able to physically probe the HSM chips and extract keys. (theoretically)
Date/Time Printing Can Be Elegant Too
Shameless plug eh!
In the US, college is very much about being taught - everyone following the professor's lectures through the syllabus step by step, with exercises, quizzes, and tests for course after course. It's my impression that in other countries the student is given broader direction, studies more on their own, attends lectures or not, meets with tutors, and is assessed at the end of the semester. This seems sort of half way between the US college and the US online approaches.

The fully online approach seems good only for those who are natural autodidacts or as a fallback for those who simply can't get through some of the non-CS required college courses.
>>> if they don't toe the line and follow whatever arbitrary rules someone in power has designed for them, they get in trouble.

this

As a parent I struggle horribly not to make up arbitrary rules and then come down on them for it - it should not be part of the school bestoractise
Several people here have talked about “hacks” like what happened to ypur son, and I'm of course not saying they're wrong. I don't quite get the idea what it's supposed to get such hackers, though, so I think you shouldn't rule out sheer incompetence: Maybe someone else has a family member with the same or a similar name and was trying to add rhem, and a search threw up your son's name and they added him by mistake?

Shouldn't be able to happen, of course, but given it's Microsoft we're talking about, who would swear it couldn't?
The article has Safari and Edge screenshots through, so I would assume Windows was used
I keep hearing about this. This is what’s keeping me from upgrading to 1903, as I find disabling Bing Search absolutely essential.

So, have you followed the advice in the support document? Did it help?
Not a significant difference, but China does have more land area than US:

China: 9.32 million km^2 of land

US: 9.14 million km^2 of land

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
As others have mentioned, it’s parameterization all the way down. If the teacher was using JavaScript to do this, should we blame their web stack as being complicit and enabling?
I'm seeing a similar headline about once per year...
You can smoke and get away with it.

It's stupid anyway.
Hmm... You seem to be triggered by my dismissal of Dalrymple. And yes, i have read the article (and a even better excerpt in The Guardian earlier).

The problem i have is that, he is too far removed from that time and too much inclined to keep things "nice" rather than calling a spade a spade. You cannot look at the actions of the EIC from a purely mercantile viewpoint. You have to acknowledge the inherent racism and rampant thievery with a complete absence of ethics/morals which were disguised under the garb of "Trade" and "Civilization". There is a reason for the existence of the phrase "Perfidious Albion" to describe British treachery over the ages.

William McCullagh Torrens was an enlightened Irish Politician of the 19th century when India was still suffering under Colonialism. He wrote in detail about how the Indian Kings/Nawabs were lied to, duped and fleeced of their wealth and power via promises made but never kept. There was absolutely no regard for the common man's life. He writes (page 7);

"Our duty is not to judge others, but ourselves; to beware of covetousness and of being betrayed into passive complicity by unpardonable laziness to seek, or still more despicable cowardice to own, the truth ... We are accountable, as a free-speaking and freely represented people, for all that may hereafter be done in our name; and if upon investigation, which with honour and in conscience we are not at liberty to elude, we are convinced ... that a great debt of reparation is due to India by this country, we are bound to use every just and fair occasion to press for restitution..."

In this age of expediency, no British Historian/Journalist would ever utter such a thing. I highly recommend going through the Torrens book.
> Synthetic bold: paint every glyph multiple times with a slight offset in your text-direction.

Designers forgetting to include a bold version of their web fonts is one of my biggest bug bears. It always stands out, especially on Safari on iOS as you zoom in and out.
Ampere (ex-APM), Marvell, Cavium (now also under Marvell), HiSilicon (Huawei), Amazon (Annapurna Labs), Fujitsu…

Ampere, Cavium, HiSilicon, Fujitsu are the ones with actually custom cores.
You're confusing Android with Google Services?
"if my kid was having some kind of problem where they were cutting class by taking excessive bathroom breaks?"

This app presumably just leaves the ball in the parents court? If there were a problem I'd expect the teacher to be proactively dealing with it, and/or discussing it with me.

"Context and content matters a lot"

Agreed, half the problem is that this loses context.

toilet break -1

Where's the context there? Is that a problem? Normal?

I don't have a problem with gold stars and stuff, this is just depersonalising and not helpful.
The Internet Is Overrun with Images of Child Sexual Abuse
Yeah, Microsoft accounts have always been a horrible mess...
If you use C++ for CPU-intensive tasks, then yes, in this case. E.g. reading 1kb of input, churning numbers for 10 minutes and outputting an h5 file. If you use C++ for IO-intensive tasks, then your tradeoff is probably different and you would optimise your IO for speed and not readability.
This is against a Heroku hobby server. Latency is very low, as I’m on the East coast where I believe this server is.

Using LiveView, of course, requires taking round trip latency for your users into account. It currently won’t work well for some use cases where optimistic UI updates may help hide some latency. I think I read something about there being some optimistic updating in the works for LiveView, though, long-term, but I’m not sure how it’ll be done.
One of the crucial factors in getting SpaceX going and becoming profitable was and is the funding from that budget you're talking about. NASA and SpaceX are not in competition, they have different goals; getting the private industry to produce cheaper rockets so that NASA can spend more on the actual space exploration (69 ongoing missions!) is one they are achieving with these bets on SpaceX.
With the right nudge, India can become the next Silicon Valley
For the same reason you wouldn't expect young children to lift heavy weights. Adults have much stronger muscles than children, including bladder muscles.
The burglar won't have your face?