skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool.

I know this is a tad off-topic, but, it's sort of related since it's about fonts.

I've been looking for a good "serial killer typewriter" typeface, similar to what's used in the credits of the TV show Supernatural, but I haven't found anything that looks particularly good. Does anybody have any recommendations? Free fonts would be preferred, but I'm willing to pay a bit for the right look.
Will Google Cloud follow up?
Do people buying the cars really care where it was made? I'm sure Tesla would have sold just as many if they were made in say, North Carolina.
> The reason we don't have vaccines against any coronaviruses

Coronaviruses affect animals too, and yet we haven't been able to develop vaccines against them. And yes, there are vaccines for many other infections for animals.
FontForge is awesome! Used it a couple of times
Given how infectious it is and how we can’t keep the economy closed for 18 months until we have a vaccine (we work in tech, we might be a bit distant but a quarter of my friends are unemployed right now), and how these job losses disproportionately affect the poor, the young, and minorities; reality is outside of maybe New Zealand; we are all going to herd immunity.

Or maybe not. Georgia reopened 3 weeks ago. Any jumps in cases? No.
Have traffic prices even moved in years? It’s such a blatant ripoff.
If I just purchased a few RIs 2 weeks ago, did I miss out on the savings, or are they somehow retroactive?
I believe the theory is that if a virus multiplies with some exponential rate, say doubling every 6 hours, and the immune system takes some fixed time to respond, say 5 days, then the highest virus population in a person is directly proportional to the starting dose.

Obviously the above is highly simplified, but are a model which would explain any sublinear effects, if they exist.
Ask HN: Any ideas how to approach intercepting my own IoT device SSL traffic?
I have a Jibo robot. Last year its cloud servers were shut down as the parent company bankrupted, and the robot lost ability to recognize speech (all recognition was happening in the cloud). Recently I decided to turn it on and realized that it suddenly started working again. No news from new owners. Perhaps it is nothing to worry about, but nevertheless I wanted to look into what it is sending and where. I was able to find out domains it uses - these looks legitimate, but I can't figure out how to peek into HTTPS traffic there. I already tried self-signed certificate in hopes it will accept it, no luck.

Any ideas if there are some vulnerabilities available from up to 2015-2017 in common SSL stack? I would expect it to run Linux, and probably with openssl, but I have no clue which version.
Father and adult daughter sue feds over confiscated life savings
My thinking is that the exemption allows for counties to have the opportunity to allow those businesses in critical infrastructure sectors to stay open. The order says that employees "may continue their work," and Tesla's lawsuit seems to interpret that to mean that Tesla must stay open.

I'm obviously not a lawyer, I'm just interested in if the argument in the complaint is likely to get them anywhere.
volatility always increases near halving events.
Getting Back to Work
You can’t even install a GUI without getting every web browser, mail client, office suite, and more under the sun.
Nop, it's not a standard layout, something like Apple Magic Keyboard (the big one) just without numpad. Or simply just a slim version of this layout: https://www.logitechg.com/en-roeu/products/gaming-keyboards/...
The comments about card counting are interesting, but not all that relevant to the story, which is a pretty stock bildungsroman-lite of a sort that by design says very little about anything or anyone beyond its author.

I really feel for people in that kind of situation. Say what you like about the wisdom or foolhardiness of deciding out of high school not to go to college and take on student debt, it did put me in the situation of having very quickly to work out whether and how I was going to be worth a damn - less flippantly, it put me in the position, at the beginning of my adult life, of deciding what I was going to do with my adult life, and how to go about accomplishing it.

I can't imagine what it must be like to hit your mid-20s with tens of thousands, if not these days six figures, of undischargeable debt, and then have to start figuring out what sort of worth you're going to have in the world. It's a hell of a racket to run on teenagers, and, just as in the casino business against which this writer chose to try herself, it seems like the house always wins in the end.
I made a home media server with plex when faced with the same question.
I grew up with Lem's works as a kid, teenager and young adult in West Germany in the 80's. Lem spoke German so he was involved with the translations and there wasn't anything he wrote that didn't get translated to German.
Not least because East Germany, together with Poland, was part of the Soviet block.

I read 'Eden' when I was in 3rd grade -- my dad left it laying on the table in our living room. It had the world 'alien' as part of the subtitle so I was hooked.

When my dad found out, about a year later, that I read and grokked the book he read my three years younger brother and me the 'The Invincible' as a bedtime story over many nights. My poor little brother. :)

I think it was 'Eden' that thus set the standard for my expectations of sci-fi (aka: hard sci-fi).

It was probably also the reason that I am forever disappointed by the pale vision of blockbuster and series sci-fi. Or most sci-fi in general, written or filmed.

And I often have deja-vus when I read contemporary sci-fi because of my exposure to Lem. When I e.g. read Watt's 'Blindsight' I couldn't help comparing it to Lem's 'Fiasko'.

I never understood the public's focus on 'Solaris' and even less how both movies missed the core theme of the book so badly.

And lastly: there is unfortunately a substantial body of shorter works from Lem that has still not been translated to English.
(Read this before TFA; after multiple minutes of staring:)

> auto count = (std::size_t(0) + ... + (pred(ts) ? 1 : 0));

Wait that's literal, non-metasyntacic elipses? What the actual fuck!?
To be honest I didn’t put a much thought into the original comment because it’s now 4am U.K. time and I was just trying to idle my brain into sleep. Unfortunately the insomnia is winning tonight. :(

Sorry for the inconvenience.
Why No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger
"His Master's Voice" is a gem. I found it really difficult to get through the first time, as a teenager. Part of that may be a function of the translation. I later read it a second time after spending significant amounts of time in academia, and loved it for its cynical but largely accurate portrayal of human behaviour.

I also really enjoyed "The Futurological Congress" (which is of Lem's easier-to-digest stories in my opinion) and "Fiasco".
Reach out to your account manager.
I have started by following "Discovering Godot"[1] video course on Udemy, I still think this is the best place to start.

After that I have watched "Top-down Tank Battle"[2], and I highly recommend it, absolutely brilliant series of tutorials(all of the tutorials on this channel are great). Really helped me to understand all the concepts much better.

For intermediate/advanced tutorials, watch GDQuest. They have a youtube channel[3] and excellent video courses[4]. They are planning to release courses on procedural generation and multiplayer too, I'm really looking forward to watching those.

Finally, a shameless plug - I'm making some tutorials on Godot(alongside with some general Digital Art and Houdini videos). I'm still just getting started, but people seem to like them. The most popular one I've made so far is "Creating Platformer Character Movement in Godot - Wall Jumping/Sliding, Double Jumping, Dashing"[5].

[1] https://www.udemy.com/course/godot/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsk-HSGFjnaFC8kEv6MaL...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxboW7x0jZqFdvMdCFKTMsQ

[4] https://gdquest.mavenseed.com/p/home

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8pC8n4s-_I
> Damore has the same choice.

You mean he had the choice between:

- not speak at all and let all the media portray him as a misogynist and generally horrible person

- or try to explain himself with whoever was willing to hear him, knowing that he would also be judged "by association" in a negative light?

Sorry but it seems like there was no good choice for Damore anyway in terms of reputation.
If you've got a forms application that can't export the data where you want it to, I can't shake the feeling that you're working on the wrong part of the problem.
AWS and EC2 is probably a pretty good deal for high CPU, hi IO within the cloud, but very low IO egress.

Monte Carlo simulations?
PDE computations?
Yes, you can sometimes find arbitrage opportunities between different bookies. I knew a person who did this for a while, but most online betting has checks against this. Doing it in person is pretty obvious and a great way to get banned.
Look for Heartbleed:

https://heartbleed.com/
Good for backups though.
"...men more into things that make a whirring noise."

You are proving my argument. Nonsense like this has prevented women from feeling like equal participants (and equally capable) in many fields for decades.
Working from home? Never show up as idle on Slack, Microsoft Teams or Zoom
Fair point. I’ve never done anything like heavy lifting so admittedly that is one scene that’s alien to me.
Relevant Talk by David Kriesel at CCC Congress(2015). Available in German and Volunteer live translation to English or with English Subtitles

The talk gives a lot of background about how he discovered the bug, how it works and the reaction by Xerox. It's a must have seen talk for anyone who cares about security.

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6558_-_de_-_saal_g_-_201412282...
Lem was a brilliant writer and I’d recommend his books to anyone, not just science fiction fans.

The author of this article seems to have an ideological axe to grind though. Lem himself was never so humorless and hamfisted. In fact his books are often very funny.
Wouldn't a lot of that stuff be better done on GPU instances, even at a higher per hour cost?
I've often wondered about "rigged" games. Wouldn't there be a predictable arbitrage effect? I guess it would depend how frequent the rigged outcomes are... but if they were frequent enough, you could probably develop an edge by assuming that the odds were a bit different than they actually are. I'd think a typical fix would be on an upset, so, for example, the 3:1 event is actually a bit likelier than you'd think given the available information. If that's often enough to counteract the house cut, you could make money. ...Alternatively, I'd think it's possible a NN might be able to spot patterns in the riggers strategies. Particularly if you did some clever data mining to try and get some information on extended social networks of competitors.
Actually, I do genuinely wonder if some day this will be seen as anticompetitive behavior (a form of lock-in via higher than reasonable egress fees).
Yeah, 200 lbs would be pretty dangerous to attempt with DIY solutions I’d imagine.
I actually wonder about such a person. Do they exist? I haven’t had enough time WFH to tell.
It's nice to see that the increasing amount of hyperbole here isn't impacting everyone.
Love your image. Have sent it to so many friends. The variants that popped up afterwards for Fintech and other verticals is very flattering to you.
I'm always amazed at how universally terrible graphic design was during the 90s, and I mean at the level of big-name corporations (not GeoCities laypeople). In-house Designers at these businesses (or contractors at the equally big-name firms they hired out to) were presumably well-educated and steeped in the history of the medium, but churned out nearly unintelligible, ugly garbage. Most of the design principles that have given us the mostly tasteful (if bland/inoffensive) modern web were solidified in print by the 1960s. I know the tooling wasn't there yet browser-wise to do anything crazy, but even the image-based graphical elements are just so foreign and weird, like the product of a generation so enamored with the capabilities of Photoshop that they didn't question unnecessary filters, drop shadows, and the placement of text.
Ask HN: What codebase metrics are important?
In a codebase, what metrics do you consider important and why? Lines of Code, Cyclomatic complexity, Code coverage, Code duplication...
New Music: Drake - Chicago Freestyle
WFH has been a proper disaster for me.

Went from working out 3 days a week to none. Went from 2 meals only a day to stopped counting. Productivity has gone out the window.

Man, I used to love my job. I can't wait to run back to my office and have both externally imposed structures and a physical separation of work and fun.
Absolutely! One org (cyber tractor) was even disqualified recently for match fixing.

Dota is unique in that the professional scene is subsidized by fans through Battle Pass, however the distribution of that resource was so lopsided, betting companies are starting to take a hold onto the smaller tournaments.
Probably because it has nothing to do with serotonin as far as science has been able to show. If I'm wrong, please provide a link because I've been looking for that link now for well over a decade.
Well, did you look up Laplace's Rule of Succession?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession

I'll try my hand at explaining:

Let's say there is a coin you have never seen flipped. You know it might be an unfair coin, but you don't know which side it favors. All you know is that there are two possibilities: heads or tails. Intuitively, we know at this point that the best information we have is gives us a 1 in 2 chance of flipping heads.

Laplace represents this intuition by representing what we know without having ever flipped the coin as pseudexperiments. In other words, we have two implied experiments, one in which heads was flipped, and one in which tails was flipped.

You flip the coin once, and get heads. But it would be extremely premature to assume at this point that you have a coin with a probability 1 of getting heads just because that's the result you've seen. Even a completely fair coin might have this result. Knowing that a fair coin might have this result, you can still include your pseudo experiments, and treat it as if we have 3 experiments: 1 pseudo experiment with result heads, 1 pseudo experiment with result tails, and 1 real experiment with result heads. So we now say the chances of flipping heads again are 2 in 3.

After 2 heads, we have HTHH, so we say 3 in 4.

After 3 heads, we have HTHHH, so we way, 4 in 5.

After 5 heads we have HTHHHHH, so we say 6 in 7.

And so on until 9 heads we say 10 in 11.

> Why is it 10/11? If we are to take the probability by induction (as the author points out shouldn't be done), it would be 9/9, no?

No. With a completely fair coin, there's a 1 in 512 chance that you would get heads 9 times in a row, so you can't completely discount that possibility.

The derivation proving that Laplace's method is equivalent to the sum of all the probabilities of having all the possible coins and flipping 9 heads with them is complicated, and I don't think I can do a better job of explaining that than the Wikipedia article did.
Hmm... what kind of stuff would you want? I’m not opposed to opening it up.
Whoops, yes. Too late to edit now
In my opinion you learn a ton about candidate in this stage. Firs and foremost, are the curious. Generic questions are fine, but specific questions that respond to the discussion show you’ve both been paying attention and are actually thinking about the job.

It may be a personal pet peeve, but I sometimes get ‘I asked all my questions in the other interviews’. So what, ask them again! The question will be the same, the answer will be different.
I've lived around California my whole life and overall I like the state but these criticisms are pretty much spot on. Californians, especially the ones from San Fransisco, are wildly egotistical (though San Fran is famous for it). I think a lot of our people view the state's wealth as some kind of affirmation of their ideals, they don't have any concept of how much of our wealth is due to markets that are mostly just geographic luck. In the same spirit, we constantly talk about living wages while making little effort to ensure that businesses which interface with illegal immigrants are held to the same payment standards we claim are a moral imperative for everyone else.

I do love the state, I think that outside of San Fransisco most Californians are pretty laid back. But it bothers new how often we seem to high road the other states for the sake of spite these days.
The naïve potrace output looks very 90s in a grunge typography sort of way. I donated the archives of Serif magazine to the Scripps College library a decade ago which included a large collection of 1990s type specimens but I'm pretty sure that there was a T-26 face that looked very much like the sample that they showed from potrace.
Let It Be was a year after Abbey Road, in 1970.

Very underrated album too.
I scrolled for a while and I couldn't find a design that I liked.

In my opinion this would work much better if designs were based on abstract or post-impressionist art.
Do you feel that it is a good place to start?
Try thinking outside of the box before criticizing an approach you don't even understand. There is no reason why the ad needs to be displayed next to the video content and no reason it can't be displayed in a content-agnostic fashion.

I don't want to go into the details of my revenue model but it's sound and has undergone multiple refinements. I don't need you to explain PR to me. I've done my research. I've read Crystalizing Public Opinion by the man himself, Edward Bernays. I am going to venture out and say that I know more about this subject than you and you should reverse your thrusters.
Hmm, given the uneven reductions between regions, I wonder if this is more of a move to balance (and increase) demand so that it more closely matches their supply. So then I guess the question is: why do they have excess supply?
Kids Developing Mysterious Disease
even in software development, even simple automation is very, very difficult. to automate a thing in the scenario that everything works is easy. to automate a thing in the more likely scenarios of everything not working is really challenging.
Thank you.

One thing people don't understand is that while Clorox might not want their ads next to a video about guns, they still want their ads to reach me. If 100% of my consumed content involves guns, there is a compromise in some capacity which Clorox is willing to make. The aim of the model is to make it such that this compromise is fair and clearly separates sponsored content and consumed content so that there is no connection between the two. This is accomplished in many ways.

If this is something that interests you, I'm happy to discuss my model in a private setting.
While I know the technical reasons(I've been in the industry and worked on exactly these kinds of games), I also have a certain other thought on it after getting time and distance from the trenches, which is that, on some basic first-principles level, the industry is trying too hard to market appealing falsehoods.

And online multiplayer constitutes one of the biggest falsehoods of all, since it has to pull some magic to synchronize an apparently similar, real-time experience across many computers, which leaves integral parts of the experience compromised. What's tested in competition, ordinarily, is your belief in your skills and likewise those of your opponent. When we play these games(and I still do play some of them), what's tested is more like a mixture of what you believe, what your opponents want to believe, and what the game code says you should believe.

The less authority you impose to regulate this belief - at any level, not just in the specific code for in-game results, but in terms of overall moderation, matchmaking, and QoS - the more flimsy the result is. What results from poor regulation is that player communities will behave dishonestly. Players left to their own devices are excellent at innovating new ways of gatekeeping, not just with cheating but with mutual agreements on playstyle and how to rank talent.

The industry isn't too concerned about this because, in the end, they have to make a product. I don't think it's the way to make sustainable products, though.
I'm holding out for a better price on GPU instances (for parallel processing).

My 'back of the napkin' calculations indicate it would take very little time for it to pay for itself by purchasing your own NVIDIA GPU(s) and running them from a colo.

Especially if your requirements are for the instance(s) to run 24x7.
Sometimes I think the first truly sentient computer program that will take over the world will begin its life as a C++ parser.

And it will want revenge.
County officials are elected in Alameda. There is the County Central Committee, County Council and the County Supervisors which all have elected members.

Another person elected is Elon Musk, elected by the board of Tesla and not their workers.

Which of these two are more aligned with the needs of the people of Alameda? Why should Tesla policy supersede this ever?

To your second point, Costco is an essential service. It’s not safe for them either.
Ligatures are missing :(

Look at the IE5 screenshot. The second last line has the word "finibus" and notice how the "f" and the "i" seem to be combined together. That's a ligature. In contrast in the body text of the website I don't see any. The word "file" in the paragraph right above the screenshot is missing that ligature.

Kerning is, well, also wrong. So wrong that I literally trouble reading the body text, but I have no trouble reading the text in the IE5 screenshot. (Bad kerning: once you see it you can't unsee it.)
What is a light mapper exactly. Is there a good resource to give a high level overview of how such a modern engine works?
Lego city isn't on earth... So requiring earth amounts of delta-v doesn't make sense...
Learning Japanese, Starting with Hiragana and Katakana
Competing cloud service providers gouging away at what used to be an AWS monopoly that unfortunately for Amazon, no longer exists.
One of the keys to the revenue model, a version of which I am test-driving with a sister product I'm actively developing, is that the venture must be non-profit and have a strong charter.
Terms are commonly used metaphorically to show the speaker considers a given situation to resemble that term qualitatively but not exactly. Very commonly. Like, it's practically fundamental to our communication.
Yes, but the voting is set up to need a super majority. Basically, nothing can pass without his votes.
There's only a predictable effect if you know what part is rigged. Normally bettors who have an "edge" don't just pick a team outright, they engage in point shaving or other assorted fuckery and don't make their large bets until the last minute. It's not going to be a referee being obvious, it's going to be a bought off official handing out a cheap penalty given late in the game to bring the score from 2 goals to one when the spread is 1.5.
> Of course, after a quick pump comes what?

Pregnancy.
You can coerce someone to be your customer.
Over time, computers get smaller and closer to our brains.
Lest we forget, Psychiatry isn’t a science and has its roots in the most appalling forms of pseudo scientifific babble since it’s beginning. 8 years of education or no.
I was going through the new-student induction at UTIAS and one researcher asked if we had any questions. Everyone else was silent, and I got the feeling the guy was feeling bad about it so I asked a question about his research.

I fumbled the question, he made me look like an idiot.

One anecdote isn’t everything, but “just force a question” is not a foolproof strategy.