skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"but they’re probably not going to decide to murder the victim to minimize legal risk"

If someone "has sufficient social power" as you put it, to get away with such a crime, then why do you think they wouldn't be able to make a person "disappear"?

Say, we were talkingn about basically an organized crime figure who ended up running a corrupt state. If you were a victim, would you bet that nothing would happen to you if you made a criminal complaint, filed a lawsuit, or went to the media?

This scenario is not a "scary man who randomly breaks into your house" - that doesn't seem at all implicit in the parent comment.
It’s the amount of effort I see going into optimising for the best font I consider bikeshedding. It’s something you could devote unlimited time to for an unlimited amount of margin improvements.

> Take some time to appreciate the aesthetic value in the little things, you will get more out of life.

That’s a perfectly valid world view. A different and equally valid world view could be to not worry about small problems, and focus on things that give you the most satisfaction in life. I personally don’t care much about how my IDE looks, because writing (what I consider to be) good code is the bit I find most satisfying.
I really like the overall design of the font. I'm not used to such thin letters, but it looks very clean.

Not sure if I'll get used to the cursive part, but it seems like this is purely in the text editor's control, and in my case text is only displayed in cursive when it's marked up that way in .org files(EDIT: it turns out it's easy to make Vim display comments as cursive, luckily without affecting keywords: "highlight Comment cterm=italic gui=italic").

In my opinion this is fantastic work for a free font.
An Open Letter to U.S. Dollar Owners: Bitcoin Is a Threat to Your Savings
That was nearly 30 years ago, maybe that owner is long dead and it's not clear who the rightful heir is?
Show HN: Give text commands to Siri using Alfred
I'm all good with this. Nice to get straight answers to straight questions. Thanks.
I have a similar problem. I think I need external motivation, like a job or being a member of a team, to really be motivated to do something. Since I retired early, in my mid 30s, though, I don't have this kind of environment.

When I work alone, just a trickle of productivity comes out, unless I really push myself.

Once, I forced myself to work 4 hours a day for months to push a project out. I was able to accomplish this, but I was quite miserable when I was working.

Before I retired and was working for a company, I was able to push out 10 hours a day including a day on the weekend, and felt fine.

I keep thinking if there was only some way to create a team like environment I'd be able to accomplish a lot more, but I'm not sure how to do that. Reporting my results to others who aren't invested in what I'm doing doesn't seem to work. So, I don't know.
Quantum battery with zero environmental energy loss for long-term energy storage
Yes, but not economically. For an encore, the oceans contain plenty of gold too, a coupe of parts-per-trillion. It's yours for the taking.
I go to websites other than Hacker News.
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Pretty cheap to refer to comments older than yours in a comment like this.
Containerizing a Node.js API and Using Docker with Kubernetes and Minikube
Human as abstraction
Corporations are made of deep layers of abstractions between actual humans using their products/services and management in charge of making decisions (VP of products, VP of operations, etc.)

Humans are now seen by corporations like aggregates of particles in physics or compounds in chemistry. A set of them might evaporate, but you can add more. In a closed system (cf. an oligopoly) they can't go away, only move around.

To what extent are humans meaningful for corporations, when only their money, attention, and data is valuable for the business?
Company I used to work for had an elevated user they'd create on supported customer systems literally called "backdoor". Needless to say, that raised some eyebrows during the audits.
Yes and don't get me started on Dvorak!
>The people behind Go promote Go, and the people behind Dart promote Dart, and the people working on Tensorflow promote Tensorflow. That's what they're working on. This doesn't require consensus about languages, or even philosophies behind languages.

And I assumed that it did. This is not an unreasonable assumption given the fact that all of these languages / frameworks are not functional or use ADTs.

>So, pointing to Go and saying it contradicts some other language's philosophy? There is no contradiction. They are different people. And even the same person could agree that each language has different strengths.

Literally my main post was about how my assumption was incorrect. Either way, you can not pinpoint for sure that this culture does not exist unless you've worked for google and talked to those people. It probably does, and dex may just be an exception.

>(Also, "known to many Googlers" doesn't imply "known to all Googlers", so pointing out someone who didn't know something isn't a counterexample.)

Pointing to a leader who controls entire teams of people who is a language designer who doesn't know many things is supporting evidence. Leaders establish culture in a company, which can be described as a type of consensus within a diverse group of peoples.

>You use "antithesis" like there's a contradiction, but this dissolves because we are talking about different people.

I am talking about culture NOT people with differing opinions. Culture is a singular thing. Sort of like how google is a singular thing. An abstraction. I made an assumption about the culture and it surprised me when something contradicted that assumption. The problem in your universe is such assumptions should not ever be made. The assumption is reasonable because you haven't presented any information would prove such an assumption absurd to the point of no return.

Your arguments imply that abstractions don't exist, everything is made up of components and parts; and assumptions about abstract groupings of said components are all "unreasonable" because abstract grouping are made of components and components have the potential to be different. You imply that components can never be the same and thus an assumption to that fact is incorrect.

That is the essence of your argument and it is fundamentally wrong to the point of complete absurdity.
Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1
The repo says MIT: https://github.com/rubjo/victor-mono (although I'm not sure how/how well MIT works for fonts, so maybe worth an issue)
Some called it out at the time. Reginald Scot’s “Discoverie of Witchcraft” is quite readable today: skeptical, detailed, charitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discoverie_of_Witchcraft
> A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster

We get this is just plain fucking impossible right?

Out of the ball park impossible.

It will without a doubt be far far slower, or simply not work whatever it does. If it's just a lookup table for instance then we can make one faster classically.

In 100 years with advanced neural nets it'd still be a headline of lies since in 100 years NNs might do some cool things but even then they won't be able to jump so high at once.

The only question is who's lying, the media or the researchers or the person reading the article to themselves.
Can someone with more knowledge explain to me why it's so hard to reuse waste? Like if it is emitting enough energy to contaminate entire swaths of land, why can't you just build something to absorb all the radiation? I can't imagine it is that much less efficient than a solar cell if you just stick it in a box.
It's a higher number, but it's over a much larger area and time-span - all of Scotland, and 200 years. So it's expected there would be more cases.

> this is the first I'd heard of the Scottish witch craze.

That's not surprising - compared to everything else going on at the time, this seems worth little more than a footnote. During the same period, over 1 million people were enslaved in the course of the Barbary slave trade alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
(1) Do you have an objective metric of legibility? Can you measure it without running a large study?

(2) Can you decide for yourself whether a particular font is better for you? Do you need an objective metric to persuade you?

(3) Did you encounter projects that people do to scratch their own itch? Were any of them occasionally useful for a wider audience?
Even so, his point still stands. The upper range of developer salaries in Czech Republic, before taxes, is $3000 to $5000. The country is considered Central Europe.

If you go for Eastern Europe, Hungary/Poland/Ukraine, that's enough to afford the best people.
> The patent office re-rubber stamped the new stack of paper, and the judge disregarded it during the trial.

Not sure I understand this -- are you saying the judge took the PO rubber-stamp as proof that though the prior art might be related, it was not disqualifying?
What sort of CLI interface does XC have? Can I finally replace keepassc?
Uber for Uber for hitmen...
> Yeah, try enacting an infrastructure project at the implementation level via direct vote democracy. No evil quantifiable data needed.

It's almost like there are multiple methods of organizing democratic systems of governance and not all of them rely on direct democracy. Maybe, if we had some roughly representative system, wherein people elected people to represent their interests, then those elected officials would hold town-halls to hear their constituents complaints, worries, and get a general feel for their "feelings." That sure seems capable of addressing infrastructural needs.

> Who cares what you want?

I am generally pretty interested in that. Maybe in the above fictional system of governance we recently conjured, my elected official might even have some interest in what I want.

> You dislike the only practical method of achieving what you want

What do I even dislike again? I critiqued you defending monstrous humans for prioritizing dollar values above human lives. Is the Pinochet model really the only viable model in your opinion?

> I want an airplane made of gold

At this point, it seems you'd sooner have a solid gold helicopter.
Current McKinsey, not associated with this report but kind of close. Yes, this one is very fluffy. There’s a few high level things that are important though around Org. Lots of companies just don’t have a good strategy for org, and there’s a lot of low hanging fruit for things like talent, culture, etc.
Around 30 percent of children in the U.S. don't get enough sleep: study
My wife's company (large pharma in SSF starting with G) consulted with Mckinsey for "strategy and innovation". Mckinsey recommended

a) the company G move to Agile except that they didn't say how. So now every meeting/townhall/1:1 is filled with buzzwords. It is clear from the way she describes it, no one in the company understands what Agile means. Everybody talks about collaboration but they don't do any of the Agile rituals.

b) All of G's employees should move to an open office plan with non dedicated seats. You come in the morning and have to hunt around for a desk. If you have to go for a meeting in a conference room, you have to pack up all your stuff in your bag and go. When your meeting is over, it is time to start hunting again.

Morale amongst the rank-and-file is quite low.
That's not narrow, though. It's very similar to a proportional font, like the one right here on HN.

Which is why Victor is already in my notes under ‘try out,’ as I'm a bit tired of rather wide Anonymous Pro―like I get tired of wide Verdana or Gotham. But the too-geometric lines are off-putting.
>> As usual when preparing Tor Browser releases, we verified that the build is bit-for-bit reproducible. While we managed to get two matching builds, we found that in some occasions the builds differ (we found this happening on the Linux i686 and macOS bundles). We are still investigating the cause of this issue to fix it.

I find this quite fascinating. Does anyone have any ideas for how this could happen? My understanding was that if you run the same compiler on the same code, you get the same executables. What could be going on?
You seem to be under the assumption that rebalancing is always bad or ignorant. That techniques, such as SMOTE, are only used to produce better-looking results and pull the wool over someones eyes. This is simply not true. Rebalancing is not shoddy, but accepted practice. It is certainly fair to question it, but not to draw the conclusion of fraud or shoddy science (without making you look pretty silly).

Again, I do not think rebalancing data justifies the conclusion that the authors were cooking up their data to report better results. Take a step back and assume good faith: could there be any other reasons to resample data, other than wanting to commit fraud?

The Google scholar links includes 10+ cited and peer-reviewed papers on the Yuri Geller drama.

I don't know enough about hormone theory to say anything against or for their conclusion, just focusing on showing that working automated gaydars that perform better than average/random guessing exist and have been scientifically demonstrated. I can agree with you on that the connection is spurious, without dropping my point that this controversial technology actually works (rebalanced or no).
It should go without saying, but without context, a high conviction rate could be from convicting people who are not clearly guilty, or it could be because only people who are clearly guilty are prosecuted.
TAFE anecdote time!

In my TAFE class, I was asked to list two examples of operating systems.

I listed Linux and eComStation. The teacher had never heard of eComStation and marked me wrong.

Refused to correct my mark even when I proved him right. I'm still bitter about it a decade later.
I don't see the appeal of italics or ligatures, other than simple rice. I've been using DejaVu mono for the past 10 years, it's fine for me.
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Well, they could have done that proper security and their stock price would be just as good. I think long term the only thing that will take care of these excesses will be an American version of the GDPR or something to that effect.

Microsoft and Apple are already calling for this, it's a matter of time.
> Sounds almost like a plot from National Treasure (2004). Except it's Columbus letters instead of the Constitution

You are correct. National Treasure (2004) was about The Declaration of Independence, not The Constitution.
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You think the only reason people like aesthetics is to feel superior?
An episode of Numberphile from back in August¹ had a great interview with the creator. His enthusiasm is /still/ huge.

1. https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/neil-sloane
Loads fine with uBlock Origin, though, remains fast and eats next to no CPU.
During the interview, expect them to be fairly generous with accommodations; the disabled are a protected class and they're scrupulous about observing the rules.

In the workplace, it's kind of a double-edged situation. FAANGs and similar big companies will be really generous with equipment, accommodations, and so forth in general. On the other hand, if the disabled person isn't visibly (emphasis on visibly) as productive as others, well, they can become persona non grata very, very quickly. The disabled person is competing with non-disabled people who are smart, aggressive, and eager to get ahead (promotions and bonuses add up to big money), so expect no mercy beyond whatever little your friendships get you.
Why Does the Mind Wander?
DejaVu Sans Mono with ligatures from Fira Code is the best I could find so far.
Baloney. You are mixing up free and open internet with total and utter lawlessness. If someone posts CP as spam on the open web then I have reasonable surety the owners will swiftly deal with it because it is in their best interests to do so but on an onion site who cares. So I do have a reasonable belief I can't stumble accidentally on CP on the open web while I lack this belief with the Tor network.

Well moderated discourse is better than not because it filters out the trolls. It's not less free and open.
well the italics of regular fonts are fine. it's the cursive thing that's excessive.
I am not sure if this is relevant to you, but Krita is available from MS Store, so you could get automatic install and auto-updates.
I suspect you've devoted more effort to these posts than most people here have to picking fonts.
use transparency for non-changed parts of the image

In other words, similar to what video codecs do with "skipped macroblocks", except at a far more granular level. One wonders how efficient it would be if GIF was extended with things like motion vectors... but between the transparency/delta-enocding and the multi-palette "layering", you can sort of see the beginnings of a video codec.
Sorry, that isn't a reasonable litmus test.

I am a white, English-as-a-first-language Anglo-Saxon male. Have been my whole life. And it's been pretty damn nice.

If someone makes critical stereotypes about white Anglo-Saxon males, I don't tend to get offended. And yet I am aware that making critical stereotypes about any of the less privileged classes (women, people of color, etc) is simply not ok, and those on the other side of it have every right to be offended.

Likewise, I don't get bent out of shape that I'm not allowed to attend a "women's programmers meetup," nor that I can't start a "men's programmers meetup" group without coming off as a sexist pig.

If you don't understand why this is true, I don't know what to say.

This is the same thing. I don't think Jeff Bezos is going to get too hurt that he's being discriminated against for being a man. He'll be ok.
You would be amazed at the amount of inherently unmeasurable things The Big 4 can come up with pseudoscientific assessments for measuring.
This doesn't talk much at all about their business. I've heard through people in the industry their paid retention is extremely high. It's not like $2,000 exercise equipment has not existed before. I'm sure everyone knows someone with a bowflex, norditrack or even some of the upper price range equipment from a Walmart or Costco.

Being "Fit" and Healthy is always a moving target with most people and the work to result feedback loop is probably one that most people wouldn't have the discipline to follow through on. If you could stick a $ value on the feeling of being in a community, maybe a Peloton or Soulcycle membership is worth it.
Web extensions are not limited because of any inherent limitations in technology but because of policy.

If Firefox wanted they could have created a new extension system with XUL that would also have the same limitations the web extensions do. For fairly obvious reasons they decided to transition to Web tech based extensions and used that opportunity to tighten up security as well.
Well, yeah, I didn't check the original source, which might as well be right (or at least less wrong), but this article is definitely plain wrong. Typo? Maybe, but this is really simple math. I'd be ashamed to publish an article like this...
Maybe, one other thing where this would have to have a shortcircuited is when I initiate the contact, so that people responding would not get hit by this, even if their reply is the first e-mail from them sent to my server. So it should be fairly smart.
When all you have is a single user machine, and "gain root from my regular user" is all you want, su is enough.

Yes, sudo has a few more features, but just because you don't need them doesn't mean they are necessarily "unnecessary".

And if you look at the bug – that bug wouldn't have occurred in your setup. You could replicate the functionality where this bug occurs with sudo and pam, but I don't really think that's less "surface area", and I know the chance that I would muck up re-implementing sudo functionality that way with a greater chance than the sudo devs.
As someone who's studied fractals, written commercial fractal art software, given talks about fractals, etc... it amazes me how the topic is such a magnet for pseudoscientific types, the sort who would get a high score on the Baez crackpot index.

They come to you after the talk etc and excitedly say that whatever was in your talk proves their theory that, say, "time is a fractal", or "life is a fractal", ... of course never with any rigorous quantitative justification.
and then the punchline . . . .the author has something to sell (or get you to adopt) . . .
Perhaps by deciding whose claims are going to get paid, versus who gets shafted.
I only ask because the website says

"because there just wasn't any free or paid font that I found both readable, effective and elegant"

and I can think of several, including the ones I listed.

I'm not saying not to do projects like this! Scratching your own itch and sharing your solution is great. I'm just skeptical, as someone who has obsessively tried just about every programming font out there, when I read that a new font does something better than the handful of fonts I always end up returning to. What is that something?
I think once you have the rapid development and deployment process that a kubernetes cluster allows you’ll never want to go back.

It takes seconds for me to go from saving a code change to having it running on our dev cluster and just minutes to go from that to staging and prod — mostly from tests.

If you get skaffold running on kubernetes you’ll never want to go back to developing any other way.

To give an idea about how developers feel about it once they start using it, one of the developers we just onboarded to our cluster gave An internal talk evangelizing for it and subtitled it “A love story”
I'm not convinced that those are good reasons to use it locally. All of them seem like crutches that allow you to rely on magic that someone else got to work so that you can delay or avoid taking the time to understand what your software actually relies on.

In my experience, that kind of understanding is critically important, especially if you want to be the kind of engineer who can find the root cause a problem and fix it permanently, rather than the kind who just shrugs and blames a configuration error that they don't actually understand, and that might happen again tomorrow or next week.

If you actually need to deploy things to dozens of servers at once, then you might have a good reason for looking at these tools. But this should come after you understand what your software is doing, what it needs, how it works, what the dependencies need, etc.
Anyone here read any of the books in the list?

I read 'The Essence of Software Engineering'

Would love to hear recommendations actually for books related to the basics of Machine learning
Thank you for your diagnosis, but I can explain. Reports coming out now are indicating that shit's getting real faster than was modeled.

Models are educated guesses at realty; are the models guaranteed 100% accurate? No, and I'm (just) guessing that the inaccuracies are in the conservative realm.

I do not find it validating, I find it terrifying. I worry for my kids future.

Anybody who isn't worried about what's happening now is a fool.
It’s funny that people have this impression that Tor = you’ll be immersed in the dark web and illegal things will just appear on your screen.

It’s like any other browser. You open it and type in an address. Your data is just encrypted and obfuscated.
Same way as anything, use group policy or a login script that checks first.
Getting some deja vu here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_butterfly