skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, body text in browsers now tends to be set in larger than the long-held default of 16px mostly because so many people have not only larger screens but denser screens than we did twenty years ago. I tend to land around 18 or 19px for body type, although that depends on the typeface and use case. (A lot of what I'm "typesetting" for the web is long-form fiction and it turns out that going a little bit bigger than "standard" often increases readability, although just a little.)

But I don't know that this is really a "trend"; Apple.com's body font size, for instance, appears to be 17px. If you actually look around the Goldman Sachs Design web site, they're actually using a surprising amount of 14px text as body text -- if anything, I think their design standards are for text that's too small, not too large.

(And, no, I really don't think Hacker News's default 12px body font is reasonable; I view this site zoomed to 115% or 125% normally.)
Doctors were once upon a time not very highly trained, medicine was a crapshoot, now things have changed. I'm sure it was a tremendous upheaval at the time. That it's a lot of work doesn't mean it can't be done.

A more interesting argument against doing this is considering the tradeoffs if implemented:

* e.g. the AMA has pretty successfully restricted the supply of doctors and driven the prices of medicine up,

* people are so paranoid about giving medical or legal advice they have to say things like "I'm not a doctor but... I'm not a lawyer but..."

etc.
Yes HN is weird like that. Every time salaries are discussed people jump out with comments like : " 100k yearly after tax? That would merely serve you to live in a rented room and eating just ramen every-day".Then you go check and that kind of income is like top 3% , so either they are bullshitting or capitalist societies are in a dramatic state.
What many UNIX fans that abandoned their Linux and BSD distributions for OS X fail to understand is that Apple culture was never about CLI, shell scripts and daemons.

Mac OS was never like that, A/UX was a failed attempt into UNIX market while keeping the Mac OS spirit, and for NeXT is was a way to embrace UNIX workstation market and extend it with NeXTSTEP Objective-C frameworks.

Steve's opinion regarding UNIX is well known.

And then there was BeOS on the race or the failed Copland project, both without any major UNIX story.
Why anyone who isn't employed at Goldman Sachs would ever use this is beyond me, and yet they offer it up for public download. The license forbids creating or even modifying derivative works with it, or bundling/embedding it.

There are so many good, free typefaces out there. I really can't be bothered with yet another license-crippled vanity project from another huge corporation that had a marketing budget left to spend. IBM did the same thing with "Plex", which is arguably even worse quality-wise, but at least has an open license (SIL).
Black people encountering police at a much higher rate than white people could be taken itself as evidence of systemic bias in policing.

A study found that white police are no more likely to shoot minorities than non-white police, but that is dismissed as flawed reasoning. [1]

Another study examining lethal and non-lethal interactions with police;

> In the raw data, blacks are 21.3 percent more likely to be involved in an interaction with police in which at least a weapon is drawn than whites and the difference is statistically significant. Adding our full set of controls reduces the racial difference to 19.4 percent.

> In stark contrast to non-lethal uses of force, we find no racial differences in officer-involved shootings on either the extensive or intensive margins. Using data from Houston, Texas – where
we have both officer-involved shootings and a randomly chosen set of potential interactions with police where lethal force may have been justified – we find, in the raw data, that blacks are 23.8 percent less likely to be shot at by police relative to whites. [2]

I think at this point the statistics can be used to argue both ways.

I think what’s left behind is the undeniable fact that certain inner cities are more like war zones than civilian population centers with the number of daily shooting and killings. Chicago just saw 18 murders in 24 hours, or nearly ~4,500 shootings per year. [3]

According to the Washington Post last year there were 9 fatal shootings of unarmed black people by police (19 of white people). Fatal police shootings in total were about 1,000 and ~25% were black, a number that under-represents black people relative to the rate of violent crime.

Compare to what the Atlantic describes as the “homicide plague afflicting black America“ of black on black civilian violence, which claims nearly 100,000 lives per decade. This is not whataboutism, this is flip sides of the same coin, because while “defunding” police can reduce the total number of armed and unarmed black people killed by police a maximum of ~2,500 per decade, what will it do to the 100,000 killed per decade in inner city gang wars?

In my estimation, the vilification of police as racist, declarations of “ACAB” and “Fuck 12”, and calling to abolish or defund the police is more likely to result in significantly more dangerous environments where the majority of black homicides are occurring.

[1] - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/study-claims-white-p...

[2] - https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/workshop/leo/l...

[3] - https://www.chicagotribune.com/data/ct-shooting-victims-map-...
I visited Newgrange on a whim several years ago while staying in Dublin. I liked it so much I stayed a few days and explored the surrounding areas. Newgrange is the largest but there are numerous smaller tombs in the area, including Knowth and Dowth.

If you are able definitely take more than a day and experience the area on a deeper level. It's one of the most peaceful places I have ever been.
The restriction isn't on receiving donations. It's on soliciting donations from the public.
Do you have aggregate numbers on how that compares to getting similar treatment from criminals?
Its not dead, i use from git for years.

https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git
It has never been good practice to check before open - open first, then check. And if you're creating a file, use exclusive mode, don't check first.

You're opening yourself up to a lot of race conditions otherwise, and this has been the source of many security vulnerabilities
But once again, the only "iOS-ing" that has happened so far is the theme. Yes, the theme looks more iOS-like, but that's about it. There are almost no technical differences whatsoever underneath since Catalina and almost no security changes.
NT wasn't bought.
Last-mile logistics in bikeable and walkable cities would be accomplished with zero-emission vehicles like electric cargo bicycles. They're already being used in cities that support them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andriacheng/2019/12/04/amid-rec...
It's not simply being called names (though that can cause some level of psychological distress). The big concern is economic consequences. People are losing their jobs, losing access to the platforms their customers are using, being canceled by payment services, etc.

There's also some level of physical safety concerns as well, but (as of yet) that's not as big of a concern.
I'm on Ubuntu Gnome with touchegg and use three finger up/down for workspaces and three finger left/right for the history in browser and Nautilus. There's even a gesture to toggle tabs in Firefox like ctrl-tab.
It's not as smooth as a Mac, but still better than Windows :)
The creator of Linux does not see the Raspberry Pi as an option for developers
Agree in general that speaking is good for your career and developing your presentation mojo. As is writing/blogging. But watch out for the food and alcohol. I gained 50 pounds on the speaking circuit.

That said there is a value disconnect in being a speaker. The conference organizer gets tons of content to fill its agenda and typically pays the speakers in "exposure."
Figure out when you should transition to being a paid speaker. Until COVID that was my primary source of income. If you are a big name author you can command $20K+. Experts tend to get anywhere from $6k to $15K. Travel, including a car to pick you up at the airport, is usually included.
Well, both of the previous answers prove my point

US is a a dangerous country and the police is not doing a good job at all

If there are so many homicides, who should prevent them?

If after killing a hundred people a month (by shooting at them, I presented only the numbers of those killed by a police shooting) they can't even make a dent on the (horrible) numbers, it means they are doing a very bad job.

Tertium non datur

The mob kills less people here.

And we have at least two of the main five criminal organizations in the entire world.
> it's all telling people solutions to problems they don't have yet

This is why I think really getting started on an activity is so important. Those imagined problems become real problems.

Traditional education tries to take a stab at this with “project based learning”. But the huge problem is actually trying to apply the skills you learned in a class will probably just show you how terrible the class is. So the projects get all twisted up or dropped.
GitHub what have you done?

I feel GitHub is making a lot of changes in a short amount of time and as someone mentioned earlier, it really leads to additional friction in our workflow. When we get used to one layout and then they change it, there is time and effort required to get used to the new layout. It's fine if there is some clear benefit, but I don't see any such benefit in this case...
Nothing there for repos without releases. That's pretty implicit.
Exactly this, in fact we did such a good job, that people who were sick for other reasons didn't seek medical help and health care professionals have been laid off

https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/05/health-car...
Oh ok, I understand. That sounds like a toxic environment management has created. This advice may sound tone deaf considering our current economic environment but maybe you should start looking for a new job.

Putting energy into a job search may alleviate some of the anxiety around competing with the interns. At the very least you will have made some progress on building a pipeline of new companies so if you do lose your job you will not be starting from scratch.
His data clearly shows most "sponsors" only sponsor him to view his webcasts. Is it really right to call that a sponsorship, as opposed to a subscription? What are the legal implications? (and yes, I'm aware that this is how most of patreon works too)
Critical Atlas of the Internet
Thanks for taking the time to answer. Sounds like it's been mostly a medium for finding desirable FTE positions for you. I think I just have the wrong idea of consulting. I've thought of it as guiding clients towards a specific tech stack and not so much writing code, but doesn't seem like that's a realistic view of it judging by what you've told me.
Sure, I think that would be reasonable. I have two points though. Someone else doesn't have to do the right thing for us to do it. While it would be better if other countries reciprocated, it doesn't have to stop us from doing the right thing. Secondly, from a practical point of view the demand for people to emmigrate from the US and work in a country with lower wages is not nearly as high as the demand the other way.
I think his comment is pretty obvious. He's basically checksumming Arch-ISOs as we speak. Welcome to Linux. The Arch to freedom, I suppose. Now you can soon say "I used macs by the way," which is quite an Archievement. Welcome to the sane world gentlemen. Arch leads the way. All the way.
Apple swaps around stuff for seemingly no reason pretty much every update. Making any compiler or debugger writers life a pain.
I think a lot of this is especially bad right now because we're trying to unwind a lot of the bad system architecture that was imposed by X. A lot of maintainers are finding that they need to do things themselves that X used to do for them.

There are other issues on the horizon - if input preferences are no longer held in X (because that's not libinput's job and it shouldn't be) but are pushed up to gtk/glib/qt/kde, does that mean that whenever I use a kde app in gnome that it uses some random key-shortcut defaults rather than what's in my gsettings? That seems to be the case right now.

Also, I owned a multitude of MBPs through the years, from the first Intel Al-books around 2005 through to my last MBP, a 2015 model. I was heavily invested in the platform because it seemed like that manager you describe had the same sense of taste and the same engineering intuitions as I do. Well, that all ended with the butterfly-switch keyboard. It was a sad, angry, bitter divorce, but I left Apple and will probably never buy another MBP. The butterfly switches are gone, but I know now that that manager lacks the integrity and professionalism to manage the platform. It was more important to fluff Johnny Ive's ego.

That opinionated manager can giveth, and she can taketh away.
> how a certain reporter ruined my life just so he could get the "scoop"

The point though, is that this hasn't actually happened yet. There is still a possibility that the reporter will back out, and not publish the name.

At which point, the author wins, and isn't doxed.

By not attacking the reporter, yet it still leaves open the possibility that everyone can back down.
Almost everyone in southern states visibly carry guns. That is not an excuse to ignore or forgive an absence of data or accountability.
Right, and more to the point the point of a carbon tax is to incentive the private sector to decarbonize which will require capital investments in clean tech. The problem isn't going to be solved by everyone reducing their carbon footprint by 10%. Everyone has to reduce their carbon footprint to zero and then we most likely still need to be pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere.
They have their own kernel as can be seen here:

https://i.imgur.com/jP6Pdvq.png

Also if you look at the diffstat you can see that there were a number of changes here:

https://i.imgur.com/J2em78v.png

It may be align with the majority of the kernel, but these patches exist in every version of the kernel that is released by Arch.

What else could that be called aside from maintaining your own kernel?

These changes are extremely small within scope which is the nature of Arch, but they still exist. A more hands-on distro will see many more changes than Arch, naturally. However, as evidenced from the above you can see that Arch does have it's own kernel and I cited Arch as an example because it strives so hard to maintain 1:1 with upstream.

Btw, I use Arch.
I wondered this too - it’s Syncfusion Diagrams with Angular.
Please stop spreading nonsense.

For one, this person is not prominent by any definition of the word prominent.

Also, you can see the full bodycam footage and UK peoples take on this stop at https://old.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/hbbhkb/a_calm_col...

Bear in mind she was stopped because the car she was in had (potentially illegally) tinted front windows.

All in all, she seems like someone who is ingesting too much American culture, most noticable in her saying: "You are killing black people" - what??
In terms of sheer numbers, I would guess that at least a plurality of websites are running old versions of PHP and are released via FTP. But I don't think that's really meaningful or interesting to worry about, since those services aren't even considering the tooling decisions we're talking about.
You also can not "sell (by itself or with any other item or software), sublicense, bundle, or embed copies"
I believe your chronology is correct, but I don't see how it differs from the (primarily hierarchal) family tree given in the article.
We also have to fight the Covid-19 “infodemic”
How Our Engineering Team Adapted to the Covid-19 Era
Why would anything change?
Did we miss a memo where Apple suddenly changed their target demographic and corporate goals?

I don't think they did.

The comment seems like an emotional nostalgic conclusion they have after watching the WWDC, without any mentions why they think future will be worse than what we have now or what we had in the past.
Firefox natively suspends unused tabs which dramatically improved my memory usage and battery life.

Chrome has a similar extension but it's nice having it built in to the browser natively.

If anything you could argue that FF is behind Chrome security-wise with their more limited sandboxing and some other memory protections. But performance is largely a non-issue.
Flatten the curve was meant to spread the infections across time to decrease stress on the healthcare system. Our lockdown was ineffectual because of lax enforcement and the public's apathy. So it achieved none of its goals. Places like Italy, Spain, New Zealand have "won" against the virus using lockdowns and are now on track to be back to normal. In NZs case they are already back to normal. Without another lockdown it's almost assured at this point that we will reach the breaking point of our healthcare system. It's inevitable unless a miracle vaccine arrives very soon.
I believe that it on their TODO list.
"Don't be snarky."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Eschew flamebait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: What password manager do you use?
What password manager do you use?
Really makes me think of all the examples of things that CAN'T clearly be *-as-a-service, like farming or charity work, but who knows! I imagine if you can find a way to measure and/or control some aspect of an operation, you can operate it as-a-service.
I know Apple fairly well. They have...control issues. They want as much control as they can get, over every aspect of the experience.

It can get stifling, but I actually support it, and it's one of the reasons that I have always had faith in the company.

The HIG (Human Interface Group) used to be nicknamed "The Blue Meanies" in the 1980s.
America on the Path to Lysenkoism?
Maybe people are only just now starting to see Apple's intentions of locking down their system. I remember it being a bad omen a few releases back when i found i could no longer (easily) delete the Chess.app.
10.15, you mean?
सबसे रोमांचक चीजें Apple ने अपने आभासी WWDC 2020 में घोषित की
This is an odd position to take given that, as a nation, we have failed spectacularly to address climate change in any way whatsoever. Will Amazon paying more in taxes substantially change the political economy of climate legislation somehow?
Actually LTS does break ABI, but gregkh is working with Android to make a partially ABI-stable LTS (I assume it would be a fork of the real LTS though?).

I know they are also working with RH and Suse, but I don't know if RH and Suse will only share the tools, or will also have the same LTS source tree.

When I say "partially-ABI" stable, their goal is to list acceptable symbols and automatically verify that vendor modules use those symbols, and only those accceptable symbols are ABI-stable.
Chaim Gingold (one of the developers of Spore) made "Earth: A Primer", a cool interactive educational simulation science book. It's a live earth simulation sandbox that teaches about plate tectonics, volcanos, erosion, hydrology, water cycles, climatology, rain shadows, and other cool stuff, and was inspired by Neil Stephenson's young lady's illustrated primer, but on a somewhat different physical scale:

Earth Primer

https://www.earthprimer.com/

Experimental Gameplay Workshop 2015: Earth Primer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtsf3nRFfwk

>As part of the Experimental Gameplay Workshop for GDC 2015, Chaim Gingold presents Earth Primer, an app that's a 'science book for playful people.' As the description of the experience from the ex-Spore programmer explains: "Visit volcanoes, glaciers, sand dunes. Play with them, look inside, and see how they work. The forces of nature are at your fingertips."

The 'Sandbox' on the Earth Primer app fosters creativity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8lqOj_JMU4

>I took this video of myself fiddling with the differing features of the 'Sandbox' on the Earth Primer app. 'Sandbox' ultimately fosters creativity in students as they create their own, completely unique, landscapes using the technical capabilities that they have developed throughout the initial stages of the app.
I recommend the book or the blog posts of JL Collin. His posts are all about how to achieve financial independence

https://jlcollinsnh.com/
This specific implementation won't easily work on the GPU, it's mostly the grid based ones that are easy to parallelize. You could even stick to common fragment shaders if you wanted to port that to the GPU.

Diamond square should be good enough for initial terrain, but I'd keep it smooth; let the erosion take care of the details.
Superhuman and apps like it aren't designed for every American. It's for people whose job is to basically email all day, like investors, managers, recruiters, etc. For them it is absolutely worth it. It's like asking why a specialized tool is so expensive for those who need it. It's precisely because they need and would use it so much that the tool is worth it.
How is your way different from the current way it's done and what benefits would there be to your way?
afaik not true; google for "epidemic overshoot"
I would love to use the new UI everywhere with the exception of the projects page, too much whitespace and bad alignments and also all the right column is wasted for info that previously you could see just in one row.

Who is going to create a chrome extension to bring back the old Github UI?
Thank you for expressing this. As much as I like Apple and the wonderful approach they have to design, something felt amiss. This is what I wanted to express.
Please see my revised position in a comment to 'rachelshu.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611133

That said: I don't understand how I'm repeating a mistake here. "Cancel culture" has become a problem because people get fired from their day jobs (or suffer other consequences) for opinions not pertaining to their day jobs, which are expressed outside their work hours.

In contrast, the NYT writer engaged in crappy professional conduct.

I agree that the writer is not the root problem. I've changed my mind about whether firing should happen; other solutions addressing journalistic incentives, or this journalist's team, or whatever, would probably go further.
I do similar thing, but I just call it just "Keywords".

Then I have separate section, Recent Skills, where I list buzzwords which I have decent experience with.
PasswordGorilla: https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki
I always find these benchmarks superficial. unless you're doing some serious number crunching, it doesn't make sense. people need to start bench marking languages on speed of development, developer ergonomics, error reporting, ease to deploy etc.
Even ripping off requires time/money. Font design isn't a trivial activity that most people deem it to be.

I suggest downloading FontForge and try to make your own ripoff. You'll be amazed at the complexity and the skill required to design a typeface. Adjusting kerning pairs alone will take weeks of meticulous work.
I saw the blurry picture of Obama and my brain thought "I think that's Obama". When it was 'enhanced' it became a (white) person that I would never recognize as Obama. In fact I did not recognize them at all. The image may have been a more probable person overall, but clearly not a more probably famous person.

Which makes me wonder, can we train a model on only famous people, weighted by their relative famousness?