skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their FAQ says that they don't (currently) use cookies, but it also includes the sentence "Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure", so they could still do some IP-based analytics.

More importantly though, it gives Google accurate insight into web traffic (many users block Google Analytics, but almost everyone loads web fonts), and it allows them to crawl websites more easily – before web fonts, many websites used pre-rendered PNGs to show web-unsafe fonts, which made crawling impossible.

Google has poured a lot of money into this, the fonts are free and open source, and the users aren't the product. Overall, I think it's a rare win-win story in this age of dystopian adtech.
It's fairly par for the course though, The Democrats are a party with a strong population of millionaires and billionaires just like their opponents.
And it doubly makes no sense coming from _his lawyer_. To what end would they jeopardize his freedom by making such statements? I smell fake news.
"red iss"
I wouldn't disagree with that. I was just remarking on the irony of that particular smaller exchange.
How much data traffic could google save if it would just bundle all fonts with chrome?
Sounds like a really boring, less threatening, version of of a strange quark.

It seems like it would be more likely they'd consume themselves if they're able to consume matter so indiscriminately... The amount of matter inside two or three of them waiting to be digested would be game for any of the other little shits to devour.

It also can be see in an episode of Futurama where Bender multiplies turning all the liquid on earth into booze, and then consuming it all. Which is probably about as close to real as this idea will ever be...
A friend used to work as an engineer at the Seattle plant 15 or so years ago and he always told stories of how meticulous they were about avoiding FOD, how management completely supported the effort and how a FOD discovery, no matter how small the object, always led to a "five whys" style investigation.

I would guess the NC plant was commissioned without much, if any involvement from the Seattle people, if there culture was that radically different.
Got a source for that, or did you just make it up? Doing some very quick estimation I can't see it being more than $40-60 million, and that is using retail pricing.
I did not call your arguments pathological, I called my own examples pathological to clarify that I am not trying to strawman you: I appreciate that my own examples are almost certainly not what people have in mind when they talk about email security.

The pseudonymity is precisely one of the reasons e-mail does not work well. One of the features of secure messaging as it is commonly understood is participant privacy: hiding who participates and ideally when. This is the metadata leakage problem described in the post.

You're restating your argument of "bitcoin is public and yet it is secure and so it is possible to have secure systems that are public". I understand that, but you don't appear to have engaged with my counterargument: "secure" is not a universal term, and things that are fine bitcoin transactions are not necessarily fine for secure messaging.

Protonmail does not seem like "tech similar to Signal" to me at all. I'm all for implementing stuff like MTA-STS, and I appreciate e-mail isn't going to die any time soon. I think that trying to add E2E-style encryption to e-mail is fundamentally doomed, signing for e-mail is mostly doomed, and yes, private conversations belong on something like Signal.
You know, I strongly disagree with Bloomberg, having lived through his reign of terror in NYC personally. But I just don't see the point in focusing on this kind of attack.

The Democratic party is really not required to have any sort of fair process for deciding their candidate for president. It can be as transparently crooked and disgusting as this and really that's just how he chose to operate within the legal frameworks established by folks like him.

Sure, there's the huge personality flaws that Bloomberg displays by taking this strategy, but those don't seem to be of major concern to most American voters. Our current president is a daily salient reminder of this fact.

If we want to focus on Bloomberg's personality, why not start with all the horrific policies he enacted as mayor? There are far more visible character flaws in those decisions than this decision to buy his way towards the Democratic party.

If you supported his policies, after all, you'd have no problem with this strategy being undertaken - right?
Is it?

Seems like countering it might be a use-case only important to specialty buyers who want to get around this kind of protection. Even if it wasn't that difficult to counter, there might not be enough incentive for most off-the-shelf mics and specifically Alexa/phone/etc to do so.
His source may not have been Russia but that source may have gotten them from Russia.
I haven't used it myself, but I wonder if Idyll comes close? https://idyll-lang.org/
Ask HN: Share some of your easy code 'wins'?
Hi HN,

I am reading so many horror stories about spagetthi code and errors that take down whole commercial websites, I thought it was a good idea to share some of you positive easy coding win stories?
When were you assigned a (on the surface) hard task to just google, copy paste and be done with it? I am very curious. :)
As Matt Levine would say, this is probably securities fraud.
It’s true, the libs were owned. And owned hard. It’s all that matters to a lot of them. I wouldn’t be surprised if some are cheering on this Bloomberg phenomenon because of the potential damage it could do to the credibility of the Democratic Party, setting up the libs to get owned yet again in November.
The article (as many others) fails to address the single most important question in the palm oil debate.

What alternatives are there if we are to avoid palm oil? How are they more environmentally friendly?
Huge file size, poor color support, no video controls. Gifs have no place on the web.
Upwork is a dumpster-fire. I have used it (to hire specifically-skilled software professionals) several times in the past six years and these are the problems: 1) too many people bid on your project even if they clearly do not have the desired experience. 2) "firms" that bid on your projects, again, without the experience. 3) vendors "having trouble with upwork...can we just switch to paypal?" 4) Upwork suddenly stopping vendors "for violating our terms of service" (almost certainly due to #3).

I hope to never use Upwork again to hire. The last three times i clearly put in the job posting: "Once you begin work: all work and payment will and must contine with the original upwork account! We will not switch accounts, we will not switch to paypal."

There MUST be better services!
Rent control is a short-term band-aid, and yet people seem to put it in place as a long-term solution. It's not. The long-term solution is to build more. Rent control just distorts the market, makes it hard for people to move if they want to, and makes non-rent-controlled units more expensive.

Rent control can help stop the bleeding while building catches up with demand, but it's ultimately a negative over the long term.
It's not an IT thing.

Google was a superpower in 2001. I started working in Enterprise IT then and people thought that I had miraculous powers.

Today, it's a crutch and almost anywhere you look, people are searching for random stuff to throw on the wall to see what sticks.
> font file across websites with an extremely long TTL.

Caches are no longer shared across domains because doing so leads to privacy leaks: https://www.jefftk.com/p/shared-cache-is-going-away
This administration has shown to be more concerned with optics than court arguments
True, but the 'story' is that he didn't 'raise' this money, it's his own. Meaning it has pretty big implications for campaign finance.

The precedent for having consecutive 'billionaires' as president is a little troubling. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with billionaires, but it sets the bar oddly high for a democratic republic.
Will Overlaid Text on Facebook and Instagram Image Ads Matter?
In Canada the carbon tax revenue is given back to the taxpayers as a credit. If you pollute less than average you end up richer and if you pollute more than average you end up poorer.
>Lambda School is free, but with an asterisk: To attend, you sign a contract that says that if you get a tech job paying $50K or more, you have to pay 17 percent of your pre-tax income to Lambda School for two years, or until you pay back $30K, whichever comes first.

30k? Seriously? my trade tech certification was only $2900 for two years. Is Lambda School a 4 year program or a college of some sort? Is room and board of some kind included? I mean I get that STEM pays a lot...but the cost here seems a little steep.

There are only 4 STEM related courses on the site. my trade-tech school had nearly 20 by the time I graduated.
There were obvious and appreciable difference between the two candidates of those two teams, between their campaign promises and between their political and personal histories. Even if you didn't "like" either, you can still think about these differences and decide which one you think is more fit to serve as president.

Even if you're unwilling to do that, then practically speaking, there were more than 2 teams. If a party receives 5% of the popular vote, they qualify for federal funding in the next election. It might not necessarily get them on the debate stage, but we're talking about a lot of money to get their messages out there one way or another. Libertarians got 3.28% of the popular vote in 2016. It might be naive to think that they or the Green party could have reached 5%, but I'm not one to take the defeatist attitude that voting for a 3rd party is throwing your vote away.
> Your friend and the tax law are clearly doing what they are clearly designed to do, which benefits not just him but us all.

As we know the mortgage interest tax deduction was intended to promote home ownership. A lot of people who would have bought a home anyway then go out and take a bigger home loan in order to use the money they would have put down as principal to e.g. buy a car. The tax provision clearly wasn't intended to promote car ownership, so all of those people should be in jail, right?

> However, if your friend's "weird trick" is something like a double Irish [1], then it's not at all clear that the applicable tax laws are intended to be used that way or that your friend's choice to use that loophole is good for anyone but your friend.

Being not at all clear is the circumstance where you most have to look at the details, not where you get to ignore them based on whether you like the accused.

Money is fungible. International profit doesn't have a clearly defined jurisdiction. This isn't trivial. "Do what I meant not what I said" is a cop out. If you want better tax laws, change them instead of pretending the existing ones aren't what they are.

But governments don't actually want to do that, because if you had clear tax laws that caused international corporations to pay more tax for operating in your jurisdiction, that would give them a major financial incentive to move somewhere else. Everybody wants to eat their cake and have it too. Pass laws that let corporations avoid your high nominal tax rates which makes them stay in your country, then get offended when they use them.
No, some people still stand by ethical principles, and appreciate the irony of the process taken by the "Democratic" party
I interpreted the GP as saying that the AI could try to infer what the DCT coefficients had been prior to quantization.

I don't know enough about JPEG or about AI to know whether that would be doable.
Not just that, the old plates were stamped with raised lettering. The new ones are just printed.
This will be a private jet, and they are pretty expensive. Apparently flying in a Bombardier Learjet costs something like $7000/hour [1], while a first-class ticket is more like $1000/hour.

[1] https://www.aircharterserviceusa.com/about-us/news-features/...
I don't know about in the US, but that's not the case here. Generally the trends that the appointments are following here are not political so much as "business", and I use the term loosely (thus the quotes) - it's not generally things that are all that popular in businesses but more "business bureaucracy". So we wind up with a Deputy Vice Chancellor for the Leveraging of Core Competences (I exaggerate, but only slightly).

Your comment may be true specifically in a few places but frankly it sounds like cartoonish "torn from the headlines" right-wing sour grapes more than an accurate depiction of what's going on in academia.
On a recent flight I decided to check what movies were available, and out of curiosity I selected the "Audio Description" option for Avengers.

It basically means the movie's audio track is kept as is, while an additional voice is added. The voice explains the scene, what the characters do, and the general gist of what's happening. These guys have to be really creative and it impressed me quite a bit.

In fact, it turns out the voice actor for Avengers is Christian Simpson and he's also known for running his own YouTube show about retro computing called Perifractic's Retro Recipes. Worth checking out if you're into that kind of thing.
I wouldn't say its an attack on Bloomberg, it was the DNC who choose to changed their policy to allow him on their debate stage. They didn't have to do that.
I'm surprised that Linux is the most popular client for this.
That's all well and good, but those are powers that have never been used since they've been granted, and that article is just a bunch of "Trump is so scary, look at all this stuff he could do!" tripe.
I'm pretty sure Tinder would not have a problem advertising in the NY Times. There are plenty of people on Tinder explicitly seeking hookups, open relationships, or group sex.
"The Democratic party is really not required to have any sort of fair process for deciding their candidate for president. It can be as transparently crooked and disgusting as this and really that's just how he chose to operate within the legal frameworks established by folks like him."

So what though? What point is this rebutting? If a process is crooked and disgusting then damn straight you're gonna have people complaining about it and demanding they do better, as you see here.
Well, risk being the next Equifax, not necessarily BE the next Equifax.

If taking on that risk gives someone a 90% chance at a massive comp boost and a 10% chance at a more negative outcome where they're likely still well compensated, many execs would consider that.
No special reason, just an example of a large pretty dense city.
What a fascinating choice between two New York billionaires. A populist carnival barker vs. a man who built his own personal tech/media empire.

I'd bet dollars to donuts Mike's got a tech team in place right now that is running rings around the DNC's haphazard patronage party.
The results are even clunkier than when Correct The Record began. Those were obvious and a little insulting. So far, Bloomberg's shills are staggering about like 1950s robots, emitting electoral noises on some kind of shrill, buzzing loop.
I recently replaced a bunch of bulbs in my recording studio with LED and it was a huge mistake. They are basically RFI cannons. I removed them after realizing what was going on. I spent a couple of days hunting down a really nasty rogue noise and it ended up being a LIFX bulb I had forgotten about. Now I have to find a huge pile of black market incandescent bulbs...
Speaking of good UIs, I recently used not one, but two task management websites that had no tutorial (OK, no problem there) and... no tooltips for any of the textless icons.

How in the world am I supposed to know what does what without clicking on them? Even then I'd forget. They were pretty unique icons, too :/

Please don't do that. Tooltips save lives :)
Anyone know what's up with "Slabo 27px"? Looks like its recent usage is much lower than other fonts with similar totals (it's at 800m views in the last 7 days while the fonts above and below it are all ~4b). Also the only font I haven't heard of in the top 20, though maybe I just happened to miss it every time.
Yes

https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q5
Is "western imperialism" even capable of /not/ existing under those definitions? If they shun the third world entirely they are restricting their growth. If they trade they are shaping their economy to their own ends. Even if they did the unprecedented and gave away enough of their resources to even out the nations in power it would be massive interference.

Given that only way to avoid it is a horrifying and insane asshole genie answer of genocide (if one or both parties are all dead then any ongoing imperialism is impossible) it is safe to call it useless as a term and move onto actual matters of ethics and least harm.
What happens when you run out of ammo?
Based on approval polls, Bernie Sanders is one of the best-liked politicians in America. He has often literally been number 1 in these polls. So I think he does have broad appeal, just not to rich and influential people (who make up a small minority, despite their outsized ability to have their voices heard).
> Shared Unix systems are rife with prank opportunities

My favorite was `cat /dev/dsp > ssh otherbox 'cat > /dev/dsp'`

I could talk into my laptop's microphone and it would play over the speakers on my classmate's workstation.
3D-Printed Rocket Engine for Microlaunchers Consumes 30% Less Fuel
I hate to tell you this, but all money that exists in the money supply is invested in products, services, and jobs - unless it's stuffed in a mattress somewhere.

Wealthy people do 'hoard wealth like a dragon', by definition - otherwise they would not be wealthy.
Was this created in order to track users across different sites or because google wanted to make the world a better place? :)
It hasn't always been allowed within our rules, and indeed isn't allowed by the rules of most other functioning democracies.
You do have a point, but I think your analogy does not hold.

US schools do have educational system focused on presenting how US election system is supposed to work under ideal circumstances. By default, citizen should know wtf they are voting for. It may be a system issue, but that is a separate conversation.

Apps, otoh, are relatively new. There is no class out there on avoiding scams ( though there probably should be ).

I also disagree with unethical part. He is spending his own money. How is that unethical?
I have three weighty Philips bulbs mentioned in the teardown as carriage lights on the exterior of my house. They've been on 24/7 for maybe seven years now.
Together: The Merb Story
Isn't him being on the debate stage evidence he is actively participating in the so called "competitive process"?

This seems like a rather weak point of contention...
how much space would packing all those fonts take up?
What? Web farms are automatically expensive? A web farm can literally be two Raspberry Pis behind a simple load balancer. What if this isn't "my company"? What if I run a web farm at home for fun?

Besides, your argument could be used to justify any price hike! "If you can afford X, then you can afford Y!"
"The president barely knows Dana Rohrabacher"

That old chestnut, again.
Or just cat core dumps to /dev/audio. Actually, don't do that. Most of the time you'd get a panic. :/
This was an awesome read. Thanks for writing this.
That's probably because Android isn't listed separately.
Maybe it doesn't benefit American software developers very much, since they would prefer less supply in their industry and higher pay.

Non-Americans are still people, and they benefit a lot from this. And they often become Americans, so America benefits by gaining skilled and hardworking people who otherwise would be stuck producing less value in some worse place.
If you shorten the JFK-LHR flight to around 3 hours, something along the lines of 6pm departure into 2am arrival becomes viable, after which you get a half-night of sleep in an actual bed before work the next day.
I'm not sure that would preclude Trump from making the offer - it's entirely possible he didn't know Assange had done this and/or wanted him to re-amplify the claim.

There's also some wonky stuff in the original dispute from Assange and Craig Murray:

> Assange said: "We’re unhappy that we felt that we needed to even say that it wasn’t a state party. Normally, we say nothing at all.

So ... why did they do it then? Seems like there would be an explanation.

> “If what the CIA are saying is true, and the CIA’s statement refers to people who are known to be linked to the Russian state, they would have arrested someone if it was someone inside the United States.

They did eventually indict Russians, of course, and Roger Stone's involvement has been a separate news item this week.

edit: It is really interesting to see the downvoted comments here, many of which seem to be reasonable.
Moore's Law Is Not Ending Soon and the Reason May Surprise You
The Cree LED bulbs I had years ago had a major buzzing problem. Do you feel like that's still an issue?
as an aside, I don't understand how people can fly several hours on a commercial airline and then just start their day as if it didn't happen. I need at least a full 24hr cycle involving sleep in a real bed to get back to 100%.
True, but we need more people aware of that + less complacency. The fact that something became a norm doesn't mean that it's good.
> I couldn't even switch to a different TTY to kill the processes

An interesting technique i've heard is to do:
```
while true; do sleep 10m &; done
```
The goal is to exhaust the PID space, which will cause forking to fail and eventually bring the system back under control.
It's long past time for p2p networks to make this number meaningless / unknowable!
Gitea is amazing. It's exactly what I want and need for a Git server, though I know without CI or 'gists' it's not for everyone. But previously I just had a git server on a barebones Linux server (SSH/cli only). Gitea gave me a decent web front end and easy hooks for mirroring. Overhead for the server isn't THAT much more than bare git. I love gitea!
my-ass-que-ell is the way to go
It's been a while now, but at one point there were some numbers that came in that showed that a much higher fraction of user agents arrive at a web site with a completely empty cache [than you might expect].

Enough so that if you rely on caching for user experience, your average user is not going to have a good time.
MDMA has a very measurable effect but what is interesting if it can be combined with therapy. I saw a short youtube-video about one of those trials and the that patient they interviewed seemed positive (yes, I know n=1) because MDMA at that dosage was like she was just her best self and had the best day which made talking about her difficult experience with the therapist so much easier.

Time will tell if it works long term and that those types of therapy sessions are positive but considering the type of drug (you only take it during therapy) and the dosages it seems pretty harmless.
You and me both, my friend.

Apparently I've been using S-Q-L-ite, not S-Q-Lite.

All these years I've been using "Engine-X", not "en-jinx", and didn't know it.. https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/community/faq/
Opposite.
Most LED lights use the UV+phosphor technique as its cheaper than doing RGB (If the LED is yellowish when switched off, its using this technique).

The best flicker-free lights are ones that have low ripple constant current power supplies (somewhat expensive). LED lamps intended for use around rotating machinery used to all be this way until someone figured out that if the PWM frequency was wildly unstable it would prevent the problems with strobe lights around spinning things at a fraction of the cost.