skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is effectively the third try at making something like this work. Arguably the first "variable" font was Metafont which was limited by its programmatic interface which made most type designers reject it as a useful tool. The roughly contemporaneous development of PostScript and the subsequent opening up of the Type 1 format to non-Adobe font development was sufficient to end any possibility of MF being a viable type development system. Still, its fully programmable nature meant that it was possible to have parameterized typefaces and opened the possibility for something like this to appear elsewhere.

Take two was Adobe's Multiple Master extension to Type 1. Technically this is still used by Adobe Acrobat to handle fallbacks for missing fonts, but as an end-user technology it was a failure, largely because of difficulties in being able to use the interpolated fonts—few applications allowed direct selection of interpolated designs and users had to generate them in ATM instead.

So now we have the third attempt, with better application support, which has some hope of success. For text type users, the appeal is the ability to finally regain optical scaling for type designs. Traditionally, as a type design was created at a smaller size, it would become relatively darker with less contrast. Perhaps the most dramatic example of this in everyday use is to compare the spindly appearance of "fake" small caps with the more robust appearance of properly designed small caps. So this is one case where, yes, we really do want this ability.
Doesn't the article say that's not what they did, instead lending out copies that were sitting at partner libraries that weren't being lended out because they were closed? If that's the case, we're they not still lending out with each digital copy corresponding to a digital copy?
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I can't get any work done with my kid around either. But the difference is not that I'm home instead of at the office. The difference is that she's at home instead of at school.
MTK anyone?
I agree: “Can opinions be wrong?” is an unresolved philosophical question. I am of the opinion that they can, and you may disagree with my. Under my philosophical framework your disagreement is not wrong.

However I don’t see the statement “Women have rights to their bodies” as an unresolved political question. I see it as a pretty clear truth, as true as “slavery is wrong and should be illegal”. I have my reasons to believe this is so (which I won’t go into because we are debating whether “everything is political”, not abortion rights). So under my philosophical framework anti-abortion is a wrong opinion to have. And I am certainly not the only person to believe this.
Simple it is money . It is hard to make money on patents twenty years after initial filing or invention . It is considerably easier to do so with copyright.
I think saying they're offloading those costs is somewhat unfair since almost all of those things you would be buying anyway even if you went into the office. When I started working from home the only cost that changed for me was buying more coffee, and that's maybe 10 bucks a week.
Mostly have a hope of having a bootloader process that doesn't hinge on binaries. I mean at some level I may have to, but it's really annoying I can't move an image from machine to machine even though the arch is all the same.
I’m shocked that the fourth guy with 300 kids is alive today and living in Utah.
If that fits the rest of the family. Moving around is easier if you are alone.
Orbital dynamics means that literally anything in orbit could be an anti satellite weapon.
Yep. The people who optimized for space at the cost of a longer commute are the winners here. Those of us who prioritized a short commute with the expectation of not being home every day for months on end are losing.
Tens of years, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1

"the Ministry of the Defence Industry and its primary design bureau, OKB-1, were assigned the task of building the satellite"

"The R-7 rocket was initially designed as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by OKB-1"
The thing is, how many of those politicians receive throwbacks from industry to support this vs actually care about and believe in these laws?

Addressing rampant corporate government bribery(lobbying) would go a long way to preventing these kind of laws from passing.

On a more immediately achievable and realistic level, I think the idea really needs to drilled down into the general public that encryption is your computer and phone's equivalent of a 'front door lock'. I know this is simplistic and not necessarily 100% accurate, but it might as well be as important as one these days for any personal information and these kinds of simplistic, easily understandable metaphors tend to work a lot better than drilling over the details as to why encryption matters.
That's a plausible explanation, but so is "enough people reported me that I got autobanned".

For an equivalent, there are some subreddits that auto remove/lock threads if they get reported enough.
Much of this momentum was negative though, meetings and rituals were built around everyone being in the office and being face to face. Remote work relies on much more async text based communication and many companies are still building momentum to work well remotely.
Whenever anyone asks for evidence I start to wonder why they need the proof. Why did you need this link? Do you have a business relationship with Amazon?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/amazon...
The bulk of deaths in the US were due to forcing sick into nursing homes. That mistake is unlikely to be made again. Risk of death has thus been significantly reduced and still on the downswing.
That's great feedback. Honestly, we haven't set up a team larger than 5 at this point.

However, I also believe that 3-5 is roughly the amount of people who you actually work really closely with. These units are probably the right grouping for who is in one room.

There is no actual max number, but I do think the design and the use case would fall apart right now. But there's some things we're thinking about like separate channels that might help with this.
> And all this is to say that these "replace human activity" approaches wind-up with the problem of doing an "90%" of the activity right and then foundering on corner cases - like self-driving cars that are easy-yet-impossible AI tasks.

I think this is the crux of the issue.
Abbott Labs FP rate was stated as 0.02%

https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/15/fda-says-abbotts-5-minut...
I believe anti trust is triggered when it negatively affects consumers, with Amazon’s aggressive competition consumers usually win. At least short term...
When not traveling, I've been remote for quite a while. I do tend to take some sort of mid-day break. But I don't typically do a lot for lunch as a meal. (Unless I occasionally drive out and get takeout and have a lighter dinner.)
IRLRosie is another one:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0osV_nf2b0sIbm4Wiw4RQ

Does wacky voices (she's a voice actor) and sometimes she livestreams the calls to scammers.
No, Stripe is not a direct competitor here. Also, Shopify Payment is built on top of Stripe
Why do we have all of this historical evidence about military purchasing and yet continued belief that current projects are all sensibly intended and operated?
Intel 10nm is broadly comparable to TMSC 7nm, but this is really bad optics for Intel.
This hasn't been irrelevant for years on mobile.
Interesting. I'd love to follow this series of posts, but I couldn't find an RSS feed, so there is zero chance I'll ever remember to revisit this site. Pity.
> I'm astonished and dismayed by all the comments calling for capitulation. It's very clear that the publishers in this case are bullies, plain and simple.

That's not clear to me at all.

Here are IA's words:

"as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. ... During the waitlist suspension, users will be able to borrow books from the National Emergency Library without joining a waitlist"[1]

That's pretty open and flagrant copyright violation, even if you believe that controlled digital lending is legal, which isn't clear. Piracy isn't a criminal offense - it's a tort. The way to halt and recover from the damages of a tort is to file suit.

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1. https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-em...
I did this very often for a long time.
In my case it helped to have physical zone which I was "at work" in. It allowed me to figure out what was work related and not. If I wanted to talk to them outside of that mental barrier, not about work, then I liked THEM, vs having to be paid to talk to them.
Will that still be true if there is no office, or if nobody is in the office regularly?
> People assume it's true because it should be true. I don't think it is true.

It makes sense that bargain-bin providers would offer inferior reliability, but there are providers out there other than the big 3 cloud providers and the bargain-bin VPS providers.

GitHub for instance is apparently [0] hosted by Carpathia [1].

[0] https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553

[1] http://www.carpathia.com/ (they should really fix https://www.carpathia.com )
Platform war phenomenon (like Xbox vs Playstation) emerge from winner-take-most effects with a high upfront investment, so you want to make sure you pick a winner and then once invested you want to help them win. A good example of what happens when you lose is the Nintendo Wii U which had like 8 games made for it.
True, hence my follow-up sentence on this point being mitigated in a world where we felt more free to work in alternative work spaces.

It's not like I don't get out to run, go to the park, or even occasionally meet a friend for a drink on a spacious patio. So my comment was somewhat hyperbole. But sharing the same space for work and sleep is still driving me a bit batty.

We all have different needs of course. I recognize I don't share the same needs as many. Hence I'd never advocate for a workplace that didn't accommodate those that did prefer to work remote.
The premise is false. Musk doesn't need to ruin ground based telescopes in order to make Starlink a reality. This issue could be resolved by going slower, Musk just doesn't want to wait.
I only mention python because people were asking about it. There are really two unrelated questions here:

1) How does a computer start executing your code?
2) What kind of abstractions does a programming language provide?

Having anything other than a function as a top level most likely implies an abstraction. The second question is pretty much irrelevant when you are talking about interpreted languages. These aren't programs at all from the perspective of the CPU.

JIT is a different story, and one that I know very little about on a technical level. What happens when pypy generates some native code? Does it generate a function and call it? Does it have some other convention? I have no idea.
More specifically they want people to search on Google and stay there. Pretty much everyone starts their search on Google.
This is a cool project, but I’ve given up on KVMs over IP because they are laggy and offer you a screen shot of the remote system at best. You can’t copy/paste or easily log the output of a KVM.

Most modern x86 systems support boot input/output via serial, as does grub/grub2, the linux kernel and the userspace. It takes some trial and error to get the serial console set up for all steps in the boot sequence, but once that’s done you’ve got out of band access in a standard terminal with output history, copy, paste, etc.

Pair this with a switched PDU or “smart” outlet and you’ve got a full remote managed server on a shoestring budget. Any adjacent or spare computer with a usb port can host a $5 usb serial adapter and play the role of the console server.
Beautiful. Use the claim recursively on itself to destroy it. (And I suspect that all "there is no truth" positions are vulnerable to the same argument.)
Misdirected blame to preserve ego does not excuse the fact that the founders are the ones with the biggest impact on their own success. Access to a network incentivized to provide resources, fundraising, introductions, hiring, etc, can only bolster success probability.
You’re technically correct, but I doubt deterrence is higher on SpaceX’s priority list than the USAF’s.
Please make a show HN when you launch it. I’m currently a Sendy user but would love to find alternatives especially if they are not in PHP.
Yeah, not too different. No user submitted links though and no comment system (at least when I first make it live). To be honest, I'll probably be the only user!
I sincerely don't know what you think politics would be except for morals put into law.
I don't see the average consumer caring whether the model for their perfume commercial is flesh and blood or CGI. They already don't care what the quality of life is like for the test animals for those same cosmetics. Plus, it's easy enough to create fake personal social media profiles to pretend like the persona has a real history.
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Agree. It may happen soon, but GPT-3 isn’t it. One of the biggest problems is that it doesn’t have any idea when it is wrong. This is a big problem, even in the human domain, but especially with AI

https://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.h...
So bizarre that this is being floated. Company has no idea what my cost of living is, regardless of where I live.

i.e. 1. Employee moved back in with parents, not paying rent. Should company start paying them less because they need less?

2. Employee works remote from Arkansas, has 2 kids in college and is sending checks home to support mom. Company pays them less because... Arkansas?

How about the number we agreed on is the number we agreed on.
> this book reminded me what a time saver a good book is compared to lots of googling and blog posts

I had the same reaction! The information density is perfect. If anybody else loved this book and has similar recommendations, please share.
Could OP be referring to https://d2l.ai/
I tried manipulating small datasets (overclocking results by CPU), under 500 rows, and the performance was abysmal.

Maybe not performance, but responsiveness ? The UI was lagging.

It was in Firefox, a few years ago, and I never went back to it.

MS Office 2010 is much snappier.
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ARM 64 has a bit of a wider adoption that DEC Alpha ;)

I really wish Intel was doing better, and I hope they come back, somehow. The chip world needs good competition.
They were at 75% in 2014. They might be closer to 100% now. Ever since I learned about IKEA's CGI work, I always take more time to browse their catalogs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141230115206/http://www.cgsoci...
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People who can afford to live there and enjoy the variety of cultural attractions and outside dining.

The number of such people may not be enough to sustain the cities, though.
They could easily deny access, but there is no compelling reason for them to unless forced to by the government. Other countries denying starlink access to their own citizens is a much more likely outcome.

I don't understand how starlink is a predatory capture of resources. It's not like they are saturating LEO and no other satellites are allowed to be launched. There are multiple companies planning high speed satellite based internet, including one backed by the richest person in the world.
This is not supposed to be a "Show HN" post, right? I remember that in the guidelines this tag is meant for something that we can see the inner workings and hack with. This is a mere product promotion post.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/306978-intel-expects-t...

Back in March they said

> Intel CEO Bob Swann has stated that 7nm CPUs will ship in Q4 2021.

And now they are on 2022/2023...
>However it's also true that the CEO of a company is in some cases him/herself a political figure

That's certainly the case. And, at some level, a political figure doesn't get to have a private life beyond some constraints. In principle, this doesn't apply to lower-level employees--although in many cases those employees are public faces to the company as well. And companies will much more quickly dismiss individuals who become a headache for whatever reason than they will their CEO.
I am pretty sure that engineers of a country that has sent first man to orbit, built first space station, got first pictures from lunar and venus surfaces, those engineers knew very well that “sudden orbit changes via aerodynamic surfaces” can’t be done in a vacuum.

They have seen some dangers like sattelite theft and others, so they have built a vehicle with similar capacity just because you have to match the opponent, even if the idea doesn’t really work and there are more efficient ways of achieving same results.
- Extreme individualism.

- Heavy militarism.

- Strong national chauvinism that is exploited by all major parties.

- A commitment to policing / hegemony, destroying, destabilizing countries while convincing themselves that it's "for democracy", etc. The bar for destroying another country is very low and usually based on lies, but the forces leading to it are never questioned.

- A 90% commitment to laissez-faire economics with token controls thrown in to prevent the economic system from destroying itself every ten years.

- The moralization of poverty: the poor deserve it in some sense.

- A conviction that problems are solved through the "marketplace of ideas", not class conflict or a return to former glory, tradition, etc.

- A hard ideological divide between civil liberties and economic inequities.

- The equation of laissez-faire with freedom.

- The cultural acceptance of white supremacy as the norm, even to the extent that it's frequently unnoticed.

etc etc
The team I work in has done more in a month while wfh than we have ever achieved before. I guess we will be able to prove this for sure soon since it doesn't look like things are changing this year.
For a long time intel had the best manufacturing capabilities. That was a competitive advantage. Just because you are trailing doesn't mean you will trail forever. They might not catch up, but they could catch up as well.
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It may help to consider the opposite of fear, which is courage or daring, or even foolishness.

You can be described as courageous by staying at home, sure, but you also might be fearful. Are there more dangers at home? Is the risk & reward both higher and the ratio higher? I think those are the questions that ultimately determine the answer.

Given that there may be a huge negative to taking action however instead of inaction seems to suggest that it is fear by that criteria.
But that's not an ARM issue is it? PI has strange boot by GPU but issue is SoC implementation I think not CPU architecture.
Sounds like they should've sent them "please take me back" bouquets with a stack of cash instead of fruit.
It absolutely is on phones.
That doesn't make any sense. We can imagine a world in which going out to eat wasn't a thing, and there was no business for the pandemic to destroy. Same with haircuts and anything else that people are doing for themselves now.

There's no amount of pain that's conserved. It's caused by the fact that people changed behavior that others were relying on, but that's a contingent feature of actual history.
I sincerely wish you luck on this. I suspect I won't be using this, but that's more of an issue of workflow, as opposed to a judgement of the device. I don't like being interrupted while I work. I don't run Slack continuously, like many do. Also I'm a hired gun. I don't have a constant gig, and 90% of my work is alone.

I think a device approach is reasonable. People like a device. They tend to not like a bunch of devices, which is why smartphones became so popular. But since this is something that would basically be a desk accessory, it might work.

One thing to be careful of, though, is that C-suite folks will often project their workflows onto their employees. What I see particularly hard-hit, is respect for "The Flow." This is that "magic productivity sauce" that comes from uninterrupted working time. Managers and executives have very little of this, but it is vital -vital- for engineers and creatives (I was a manager for a very long time, and the most valuable thing I did, was act as a buffer between sources of interruption, and my team).

Nowadays, the absolute worst thing that can happen, is I get a phone call or messaging interruption, while I'm chasing down a bug, or learning a new technique. It makes me blow my top. I tend to be rather abrupt, when answering those calls. Especially since the vast majority are robocalls, and I plonk them immediately (even that little interruption is painful).

I'd say that maybe having some published "best practices" to accompany it, might help. Maybe a blog -vlog?- that is accessible from these devices, could be nice.

Of course, it goes without saying that responsiveness (less than 500ms latency) and frictionless infrastructure is also vital for everyone, but I assume that is already there.
The company does consider it so; the people involved might not.
Are some of them making belt CPUs?
That only works as long as the company is able to hire someone with your skillset at your new LocalRate.
I'd prefer we stop all sexual exploitation, not just online and not just of children.

That said, all new legislation must weigh what is lost against what we anticipate to gain.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Everything you produce once you are punchy, you will have to re-do tomorrow morning during your productive hours, at which point you have to keep working later to get done what you had planned for today, and now you're in a never-ending loop of reworking your code.

It's a milder version of the Red Queen Problem.
IA does NOT own the books. IA is only referencing that they own some of the books to distract readers. The vast majority of books IA is “lending” come from the purported “endorsement” from 130 libraries. Yet there is no explanation if the endorsement means a general “Hey we love IA” or “a contractual relationship that allows IA to lend out copyrighted works licensed by the endorsing library”
Speed yes, although much is thru the convenience of bypassing browser sandboxing/restrictions rather than reduced CPU utilization.

Revenue, monetization of PII and other user data is the primary purpose. That's why some sites are so aggressive about pushing them on you, to the point of making the web app substantially worse than it should be. Yelp and reddit, from the top of my mind.

Sure, there are apps that benefit from more direct hardware access (games, art?) but they are often able to charge a fee.
Looks like their backups were mishandled. Any listing of best practices for backups includes their being stored offline.
So now it's a weapon simply because it's owned by the Air Force? Are you saying there should be no military satellites?
Presumably that phased array ground station will be attached to a cell tower, it's not like people are gonna connect their phones with Ethernet.
This is exactly it. Every conservative I speak with thinks I'm Joseph Stalin, and every liberal thinks I'm Adolf Hitler. I've stopped talking to people about these things.

What's amazing about it is you can voice disagreement in just one place, and you're either a liberal snowflake or a Trump-supporting racist. It doesn't seem to matter which place you disagree, or whether your disagreement falls on the other side of the political spectrum.