skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man. I remember back in the 1990's, there was a company that you could fill in a grid with all the letters in your handwriting (block letters only), mail it to them, and for something like $50 they'd mail you back a floppy disk with a TrueType font of your handwriting a few weeks later.

These days, it occurs to me that with some kind of deep learning, you could probably take a couple dozen pages of someone's cursive, and turn it into a font with thousands of ligatures and variants that would be virtually entirely convincing.
> If you want to webrtc screen share there is no way to automatically select a screen or tab, not even CLI flags. So you can’t automate testing it. And you can’t even click the dialog in the chrome remote debugger.

I've recorded a tab automatically before with Chrome [0]. Basically I have --auto-select-desktop-capture-source set to pick a tab then named my tab something it could find, you can probably get close with entire screen too.

> Simulcasting is ghetto

Agreed, but in my recent server side project I just realized if I ignore the ssrcs and use the rids from the rtp packets, my sfu did what I want. I found while working with Chrome, upping the log visibility really helped me understand why, based on estimated bitrate sent by the server, my highest simulcast stream wasn't being sent (since then I adhere to remb needs).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/chrome-screen-rec-poc/blob/master/a...
Democrats cities always make cost of living high. The highest in the nation.
I once did small project for Android (basically created a library that would receive stream of data over BlueTooth from some device). Setting up the development environment (I've created full system backup prior to installation) and then using it made me hope that it is the first and last time I touch this pile of s... .
HE/FHE is a good building block for software obfuscation. It is kind of game changing in a subtle but powerful way.

You gut instinct is right. The power comes from its close relation to the theory of computation. And this is the thing that drives our lives today.

The drawback is that HE imposes performance degradation. So its practical usage is somewhat limited, but still it promises immense returns for software publishers / consumers as the technology progresses.
JFK kept coconut shell in Oval Office as memento of WWII rescue (2017)
I’m seeing a world where Google Fonts has a ton of crappy fonts.
Article is missing the title's leading "How"
That's still way smaller than your average iOS app.
Well, how well did the peaceful protest and Kaepernick kneeling work out in affecting change and getting noticed? Companies that wouldn’t go near BLM with a ten foot pole are actively supporting it.

I have White friends who were mostly silent before but are now actively publicly supporting racial justice causes. I’m not saying they were anti Black justice causes before they just weren’t aware of how bad it was. It didn’t hit them viscerally, their only Black friends were the few high income households that lived in their neighborhoods and in their social circles.

Just like I was never as an adult against LGBTQ rights. I just didn’t care either way. It just wasn’t on my radar until a few years ago.
And then pretty soon the plugins are in one or more scripting languages (probably JavaScript) and your scripting subsystem is 100x the size of all of dwm.
> Do you guys really need to keep throwing blogs at something which isn't going away and is useful to users?

Do you really want the answer to that...

There are people who would loudly insist that there should be nothing but a kernel and Stallman's FAQ.
Honestly, unless you’re able to find a way to exploit the downturn related to the global pandemic, in a way that you’re able to maintain growth post pandemic, my advice would be to pick a new industry, since this is one of the industries that is in my opinion well know for killing countless startups.

If I had to give a singular piece of advice, I would suggest contacting large enterprises that still book hotel rooms, find the person who has the most control over bookings, and ask them, as it relates to the pandemic, if there’s service they feel is missing. B2B business has a much longer time to revenue, but the revenue is much more predictable. This would also solve the issue of Google, since they’re focusing to my knowledge on consumer market.

Lastly, this is a very regulated industries, I would suggest getting off the record advice from attorneys on potential legal issues based on any model you do find a product market fit for.
>> when there's food, family time, and other technologies that could also use that same attention.

Because unlike food and family, helium is a finite resource. Once it is released into the air, it is gone. It will float up and literally into space. By protecting and conserving it now we won't have to panic once it becomes truly rare.

(Not kidding about into space. The helium in those party balloons really does leave the planet.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape
Oops. How did they not notice the noise while installing it?
> militantly minimal

Thanks for a new phrase of the day, that describes the phenomenon well. At some point it can go beyond being a practical matter, and crosses over into fashion and dogma.

> the primary problem with software today..is churn

> stability..is lacking greatly in the open source world

This makes me think, there's a difference between minimalism and simplicity. Software that's stable, backward compatible, with a small and well-defined interface - there are rare gems out there that achieve this simplicity, where it can be used every day for years and just works like a champ.
I worked at a hedge fund that also used nomad. The problem, however, is not how well it scales or whatever, but the fact that all the accompanying deployment info and literature is for kubernetes, and k8s has far more features.

I like the quality of products from HashiCorp, but k8s is far, far, ahead of where nomad is.

What I really want is better integration for Terraform and kubernetes. The current TF k8s support leaves much to be desired, too many things are missing or broken and I find there are several bugs that result in deployment flapping (i.e., constantly re-deploying the same thing when there are no changes).
Then snaps could be the solution for proprietary software, not for regular software.
The way dwm works, you have a main window and you have a stack. It is normal to have windows you are not using in the stack. The small window is indeed not very useful, but it is still more than the icon used in other places.
I don't think that's true. This is what the author wants. Or rather, demands:

> Why doesn’t Android Studio / Gradle / Whatever just go “Mate – you’ve used compile here – that won’t work. Want me to automatically update the syntax? It’ll probably be fine.”

But the machine can't make the decision, since it doesn't know the intent. The informed human in charge of the project does. What if there's automation, and tool ends up making the wrong decision? I bet that the author would be complaining about that instead.

Reading the Twitter threads that the author links to are quite illuminating, and it's surprising to me he feels it's showing him in a good light. It's an amazing display of both entitlement and intentional ignorance.
Wonder how this will affect housing prices? That is if it's there to stay...
At a lower starting price, you get people bidding. And then you fraudulently raise it. The legit bidders think they have a now have a "vested interest" in it and will bid up "just a little more".

It's the same thing with the penny auction sites like DealDash which is part of their terribleness.
Interesting, what distro did you move to?
Super users should be using Debian. Not being snarky.
Some believe that stock market investors are not rational. Some believe that all trades necessarily involve an adversary called "Greater Fool" and that both parties believe the other is this fool.

I think the reality is that many investors sell when they think they hear bad news and buy when they think they hear good news. It does not matter anymore (if it ever did) what the net present value of all future profits is.
And I want:

- a user-space install option

- rollback functionality (!)

- being able to install multiple versions at the same time and switch between them

- if I really need to: being able to install the latest version (and even an unstable release); if that means that apt-get has to download and compile stuff, then I'm ok with that.
My feedback, product looks great, packaging looks great. I would not want to buy the Beef & Cheddar. Compare the label of Beef & Cheddar to Turkey & Cinnamon. Turkey & Cinnamon have four simple ingredients, Turkey, Yogurt Powder, Whole Wheat Flour, Cinnamon. Compare that to Beef & Cheddar, there are so many things in that ingredient list by comparison. When I think of food that is 'good for you' I want to see simple ingredients that I can pronounce, no food dyes or additives.
the people who designed it were probably nowhere near the people who installed it
And Flatpak is that much more than snap is !
As everything gets automated and jobs become scarce, one of the few remaining ways to make money is to create intellectual property.

So I think there should be more IP, not less.
>and the ability to encrypt chosen plaintext values

Isn't this a big assumption? The way I envision it is

1. client encrypts data with their key

2. server computes on data without decrypting and without needing the key

3. client decrypts computation output with their key.

Or is it always required at step 2 that the server also has the key needed for encryption (but not decryption obviously)?
This sounds so beautiful and desolate, reminding me of a combination of the first two tracks from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol 2, disc 2, in particular "Blue Calx" and "Parallel Stripes" starting from 40 seconds. [0]

Thank you for sharing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXBAU8HsAqk
the numbers of cells your eye perceives movement with it limited. you brain interpolates like crazy (did you know that most of the stuff you see, you actually don’t see? it’s a result of heavy editing done by the brain). so now the question: are you sure that the movement of an object is continuous?
How do you support police reform? The majority of the people aren’t affected by police misconduct. It mostly affects minorities. If a politician goes against the police, not only will they be seen as “weak on crime”, they piss off a quasi-military force that is known to harass and threaten politicians who go against them. A large part of the population see the police as their protection against those “thugs” in the inner city.
That should be "sixelgd", of course. And there is the classic "dumb" terminal, that plots to any text terminal, optionally using ansi escape codes for color.
Yes, in English

It also says that bus is pronounced ˈbəs, but it's a contraction of French omnibus, that comes from Latin omnibus, which is pronounced ɔmnibus (both in French and Latin), like goose, but with a much shorter oo sound.

Anyway the point was is English language that stole words from other languages and changed their pronunciation, not the other way around.
My astrology charts app for android [1] brings me about 5€/month. I earned more by doing some consulting with the technology I use for this app (Pybridge [2]) than with the app itself.

My web app [3] earned only 50€ since 2016. My other projects (ex: mockrest.com [4]) don’t make me any money at all. I have to use other strategy.. :/

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flatangle....

[2] https://github.com/joaoventura/pybridge

[3] http://elements.flatangle.com/

[4] http://mockrest.com/
It's like discussing space-exploration while residing within an air-filled room.
It quite litteraly is a way around tax in the UK at least. Corporate tax on profits earnt through patents is less (10%) than ordinary corporation tax (19%).
Sounds like the song from Devs.
Every engineer, not just the ones building bridges. I was required to take an Engineering Ethics course that covered Tacoma Narrows as well as other incidents, such as the famous Hyatt Regency walkway.
Any further pointer on the "illegal" aspect? Thanks.
Yes. Some people think this is a gimmick. But it is actually quite a bit useful. Especially, when in the middle of a session, I often do not want to move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse to close windows that plotting tools open, or move my gaze. It's not often that I work like this, but I like it that I can for the times I need to.

Having inline plots in the terminal - especially things like histograms which just work - is often quite handy. And it just works over an ssh connection.

Also, recently, Julia changed its sparse matrix display to show a picture of the sparse matrix (spy plot) using braille characters!

julia> a = sprand(20,20,0.2)
20×20 SparseMatrixCSC{Float64,Int64} with 67 stored entries:
⠀⠀⠁⠐⠄⠋⠡⠀⠐⡀
⢳⠁⠡⠈⠂⠀⠀⠁⢡⠑
⡠⠋⢠⡀⢄⢀⢀⠄⠈⠈
⠩⠄⠐⠨⠈⠀⠆⠂⠨⠤
⠄⠄⢀⢂⠠⢀⠀⠂⠆⠂
Yes, sometimes the vagaries of the stock market can be confounding. But the in addition to expectations already mentioned, investors often compare the potential return from stocks vs. other investments primarily interest bearing such as bonds. If interest rates are very low, then stocks will be more attractive. Right now, the Federal Reserve is maintaining a very low interest rate to help combat a possible recession due to the covid19 crisis. I think the low interest rates is also one major factor (although there are a lot of others).
> Special Fish is a place for exploring logs and lists. You could think of Special Fish as a public word processor. Usually rtf/txt files just sit on a users computer. Special makes those documents into a social network.

Can you elaborate more on this? What do you mean by making text files on my computer into a social network? Is that just a metaphor or are you actually doing something like that?
<<The amount of DNS requests made silently in the background is astonishing across all devices.

I still remember seeing the log for the first time. It is very radizalizing.
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Yeah, I am currently working on building a landing page with info & screenshots - for now this (https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/jott) page is acting as the landing page.

And the notes are local - the submit form & sign-in is to enable you to backup your notes and sync them between devices.

Although you bring up a good point - maybe I should only require sign-in when a user wants to use save & sync.
I think snap versus apt is a question of taste, in the spectrum black box just works vs hard to use but fully at the hand of the user. I'm currently having the same choice with python between pip and conda. At the end, Ubuntu was a very nice bridge between a use system that's just work, and server os for production (db, backend..). I hope snap won't make that old.
Good Farmers are great examples of these people. Just because random things break (mechanical) that they need to fix. Build buildings, inventing creative solutions to problems, manage a business, sometimes a large family, and animal care too.
Sincere question—how do you handle legal, especially with consumables?
Also London's "Wobbly Bridge", which closed after its first day due to resonance that caused severe swaying. Two years of remedial work, installing dozens of energy-absorbing dampeners, solved the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London
Exactly. I love this and sometimes think of the running birds in my garden as little velociraptors (or should I now say Deinonychus?)
Counterarguments: tailored clothing, or at least the right fit, made of fabrics which don't scratch or itch, while being sturdy, breathable and not disintegrating during the first wash.

Using a bicycle fitting for your body with good components instead of some shabby and abused rental, which makes you sweat, so you could have jogged instead, and been as fast.

Using a swiss knife, or some other multitool for anything, while more fit for the purpose tools exist. (how often?)

Using camping cutlery instead of proper knife, fork and spoon.

Using (duct)tape to temporarliy fix installations, while avoiding/delaying a true repair.

So much more...

Anyways, happy treadmilling...
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I built https://markdownbin.com/ because a friend was complaining something like this doesn't exist.

Nobody uses it and probably that's why it doesn't exist.
> It's reviled because proponents are reliably racist idiots

It's reviled because it's inherently immoral. Its proponents are indeed usually racist idiots, but even if they had the best of intentions, it would still be immoral.
I don't typically talk about my side projects, but I made a simple Montessori materials website for use while teachers/students have been stuck at home the past few months: https://montessori.tools

It has grown organically to 1,000 visits per day and ~$1,000/month. I have a couple of additional materials in the pipeline. Of course, I've already seen everything from the site shamelessly copied and posted elsewhere. That's fine; I never built it for the money (I built it for my wife, who is a teacher).
What you'd want to google is "parser combinators" or "parsec tutorial" I think. The idea is that parsers are "just" functions and can therefore be combined with higher order functions in various ways to produce "bigger" parsers. For example, an element in the Redis replication stream can be either an Array, a BulkString, an Integer, an Error or a SimpleString and you can express that with the `choice` function:

parseRedisValue = choice [ parseRedisArray, parseRedisBulkString, parseRedisInteger, parseRedisError, parseRedisSimpleString]

Each of the underlying parsers (ie `parseRedisArray` etc) are also built up out of smaller parsers, all the way down to parsers that just detect a single character. It seems like it should be slow, but in my experience the results have not diappointed yet. If you're interested, I wrote a longer example on my blog, at http://www.wjwh.eu/posts/2019-01-01-parsing-infinite-streams...
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Right on!

Quick followup to share: https://typefoundry.directory
I second that. As a mechanical engineer, we needed to learn about public works and prior disasters that has happened when there is lack of rigor or otherwise oversight, including Tacoma bridge and Hyatt Regency walkway.
My prediction (95% confidence): Snaps will become installable from Windows (via WSL) and Microsoft will buy Ubuntu and try to take over the installers for other Linux distros by having them use Snap as the main repo. This will be Microsoft´s long term app installer strategy
I don't think SF residents are as thrilled. It's overwhelmingly loud.
I'm just glad they identified the source of the hum, many people are impacted for years by unexplainable sounds, and it is maddening.

It took me and my neighbours a month to find the source of a hum that was resonating with our windows. It was torture, with midnight walks and lurking around potential sources, mapping nearby industrial sites, and questioning our sanity, while our windows were vibrating without a stop. We were very lucky to track it down to a badly installed air conditioning vent 200 m away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
Inject arbitrary code ("instrumentation") at arbitrary locations in the target program.

This can be used to build tools for profiling, measuring code coverage, tracing memory accesses, counting instructions, etc.

Some examples: I think vtune uses Pin (linked from the readme) to inject profiling instrumentation, and valgrind is a heavy instrumentation framework that's used to build tools like memcheck and cachegrind.
You're right; thanks for the fair call-out. I apologize, especially to the developers of VOTEism!
This has been the bread and butter of PHP for two decades

And many other things too, but someone had to be first. I doubt it was IBM but there would have been some elapsed time between TBL inventing HTML and the first time someone dynamically generated it from an RDBMS. That’s the person who could claim prior art.
I'm a super user but the last time I tried to use Debian as a desktop OS the experience was so disappointing that I reformatted to Ubuntu. I gave a shot to KDE and reformatted again to Gnome after a couple of weeks. That was 2014. I removed Debian as a possibility, KDE maybe someday. On a server Debian is OK.
And another question: How can the Fed/Treasury pump Trillions of dollars into the economy with apparently zero concern for inflation? My grade school understanding is that every dollar "printed" devalues all the money by that amount. I buy silver shares thinking it will go up with all this increased money supply. But no.
Why not just get a Mac?
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You should use a better font. OP said flargnle but you tried installing flargnie (note the difference in the second-to-last letter; you may need to copy-and-pasts this text into Microsoft Word and change the font to MS Comic Sans to see the difference, but one is an ell and the other is an aye). That should take care of it!
“Super users” in this case is relative, as in the super users of Ubuntu’s community are the users to most likely have an issue with this and willing to leave to another distro if needed.

Beyond that, increasingly common to see Ubuntu used in enterprise and the dev tasked with dealing with the issue may not have the authority to decide to use Ubuntu or not.
There are parallels with the Gnome team's stance that "we know what's best for you", and that turns off a lot of linux users. There is a tension between those who wish to turn linux into Mac OS or Windows, and those who want fine-grained control over the workings of their computer. The arrogance of the gnome team and the snap apologists is a huge red flag to me. I don't use Ubuntu or Gnome, and I'm glad linux provides me that choice.
I met the marketing guy through a business brunch that the DC (a club for online marketers) was organizing every 2 weeks in Saigon back in 2015.

What he did was mostly to reply to whatsapp messages and to grant free bikinis to Instagram influencers.

One particularly good angle was yoga teachers. They'd usually be doing retreats at exotic locations and posting inspirational photos multiple times per day. Plus the yoga teachers that are popular on Instagram tend to be extremely attractive girls doing slightly suggestive poses. So that was a great fit for my bikinis.

And you'd be surprised how cheap Instagram influencers are. There's so many people who want to be famous that it's 100% a buyer's market.
What's the point you're trying to make?
Lisbon also has a bridge that you can hear from miles away: one lane in each direction has a surface made of metal grating which makes a loud hum when cars drive over it.

People who live nearby don't notice it (strange looks if you point it out) but I think it's sad that it's impossible to escape the constant noise in certain places.
Especially lovely now when one might want to use clang and some CFLAG you set breaks a bad check. It's also very annoying to correctly pass PIC and PIE flags when the makefile builds both libraries and executables. I loathe automake.
Appreciate your insight! Will seriously consider that.
No, actually it's like discussing how space exploration will cause the downfall of civilization from inside a spaceship bound for the moon.
I agree with this view. The statement "you are not that smart" is true and blunt in the case of everyone without exception, but it is useless. A gentle feedback sugarcoating some of the flaws might help the listener.