skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They offer web optimized versions. The full variable font in woff2 comes in at 523kb, and then there are subsets available from there (reduced character set, reduced customizability), and you can even build your own font with only what is needed.
VDSL requires that the owner of the copper wires gives a damn about maintaining them.
Awesome reference to Excalibur. I think there are probably a surprising number of other "long tail" attempts at better BBS graphics.

One I used as a kid was OMNI BBS (sometimes written O-M-N-I BBS) which ran on windows:
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/IBM/WINDOWS/OMNIBBS/

Only a few of my friends ever dialed in but it was a next generation replacement to a custom qbasic bbs that I had written.

The OMNI BBS admin interface seemed to borrow heavily from Visual Basic and even included Basic scripting features so that you could program entire games and experiences. Unfortunately it was very buggy and combined with my amateur coding skills I didn't get very far with anything beyond the basic built-in features of email, message board and file repository.
I do agree that the combined revenue from Ads+Awards+Premium subscription of Reddit would be nothing to boast off, but still making users pay for fake Internet awards is very impressive. Of all the karma based platforms, I don't know any other who has pulled this off.
I mean, that may be true to a point in the long run/true outside of webdev.

But the dev who intimately knows Spring & Java/Kotlin is gonna be far ahead of you for the first 9 months, given that there's so much out of the box functionality. They'll be going through a nice paint by numbers scenario for most of the heavy lifting whilst you have to expound effort in creating what's done.
http://archive.is/ps8xv
The top command positions in the military mostly require the same skills as other top positions in large organizations and that's interpersonal and leadership skills not on the ground tactical skills.
Repeat rates are VERY high in burglary. And a person who hasn't burgled is relative unlikely to commit a home burglary even if the opportunity presents. Some neighborhoods without repeaters here all leave their doors unlocked. I grew up in an area like this, never had a house key until I moved away, we would go on months long vacations without locking up the house. Literally EVERY neighbor could have walked in anytime (house was totally dark). It never happened.

Car thefts as well, I lived in a tough neighborhood, same guys checking cars all the time. If these guys were around just roll down windows and leave car unlocked. Still had my car stolen which was annoying.
The big problem with these hacks is that they completely break on screen readers. IIUC the software either skips them entirely or reads each letter out like "bold script t, bold script h, hold script e..."
Your entire point is relative, perhaps to your individual views or your society's norms. "Properly expressed anger" can be a stern talk in one culture and violence in another. Perhaps it's best to keep in mind that there is never a universal solution, only different options that have different effectiveness based on a particular situation
> used to display a dolphin

Ah, the retired fail whale

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...
I have been wondering why Facebook has become the only platform that tolerates right-wing speech. The other platforms took the convenient route and kicked out right-wing voices.

Why exactly is Facebook risking both bad press and a revolt from its overwhelmingly progressive employees?
"Requiring everyone to discuss this every few years seems like a surefire strategy to exhaust people"

The older generation may get exhausted, but fortunately there's Eternal September at play, where newer generations constantly arrive, start to become politically aware, and have fresh energy.

In order to continue to effect change we need to continually educate and re-educate people on what's going on and why.

"Feinstein seems to be a perpetual supporter of this kind of thing. But she keeps getting voted in by CA of all places."

Yeah, I really don't get California Democrats' unwavering support for Feinstein.. but then again, they've elected quite a few Republican governors as well, which I also don't understand.

On the other hand, contrary to popular belief, California is not an overwhelmingly Democratic state... there are a fair number of Republicans in office and even when Republicans lose they often manage to get 40% or more of the vote... not the 0% or 10% that's probably in the popular imagination of what California is like.
It is noa names, like eg. bear or how characters in HP speak about Voldemort. An old superstitious concept.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa-name
This is more about bonds fraying due to quarantine induced isolation. Urban dwellers tend to not know their physically proximate neighbors, whereas suburban dwellers do, so given this imposition, urban dwellers feel more isolated and alone than their suburban counterparts which is somewhat counterintuitive given people’s preconception that suburban dwellers live in isolation from each other.
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Those concepts of "truth" and "fact" may feel like absolutes but are a product of the observer. When people with similar beliefs/cultures/backgrounds/goals observe the same thing then it's easy to agree on what's true and what's not true. In general I think it's not a good look to tell somebody that the world they perceive is untrue, and that's why I support free speech as basic a human right :)
Nationalize it and get taxpayer money
There's a lovely analogy I like: driving fast.

New technology is like putting more weight on the gas pedal. Until we learn to handle the current problems, accelerating isn't a guaranteed solution. We may be able to swerve out of the oncoming problem, but now we're going event faster.

We now have technology that can end human civilization (aka "existential risk"). What is the harm in going slower? Especially compared to the harm of going faster.
Ender's Game will come soon enough I suppose.
If you feel it necessary to block Tor nodes in some way, I think it's better to only block non-safe methods.

Personally, I don't do it, but I understand why it's appealing. I see it as a personal decision (its your website after all) and not morally wrong as some see it.

I once talked to someone working security for a Canadian government agency. They considered it against their charter and/or illegal to block tor nodes, because it could be blocking legitimate access for Canadian citizens potentially in distress, much to the chagrin of their downstream customers (other agencies). I thought that was pretty interesting.
Yeah, that's my point. Anonymity to me implies that you can not determine my true identity. That property still holds here. What doesn't hold is that you can not determine that I am the same person in multiple locations - a very significant issue, but a much less serious one.
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WeChat doesn't have a problem deciding policy, it just has to enforce the policies required by the government.
Just ... wow. This is an egregious abuse of monopoly power and is exactly the kind of thing that antitrust laws are supposed to address.

I was certainly naive when I heard about other big retailers who would refuse to allow any subcontractors to use AWS. "Surely Amazon has a Chinese wall" to prevent that kind of data sharing, I thought. Never underestimate the lack of morals in business is the right answer I guess.
This looks pretty neat. One thing that would be really cool would be support for event logging of protobuf messages. Some way to provide squizy a protobuf bin file that describes all of my messages or something and then a way to generically send you a bunch of protos and have your api serialzie and allow queries and notifications based on these messages.

One thing we have at work is something that's like this:

message Event {
enum type {
UserLoginFailed login_failed
SpecificApiRequestMade api_request
....
}
}

Right now we're turning these protos into json and serializing it into a mongodb for easy queries. This way we can do things like "COUNT(*) GROUPED BY login_failed.username" and find accoutns that are being targeted by bots, for example.
It took him 9 years of collecting a fat paycheck and enabling Facebook to find his moral compass.

Is it wrong to be skeptical of these millionaire developers who ride off into the sunset to retire but leave a final "oh btw, lots of problematic stuff at my former employer" message?
Thanks for the feedback, we're still really early so this datapoint is really helpful.

Sidekick works really well for teams that need to be always communicating real-time. This isn't all remote teams, but the subset that needs this is underserved and we're trying to help with Sidekick.
> to get access to the features currently gated off.

Such as? I had no idea verified users have more features other than the blue checkmark.
I'm not a Twitter user so pardon my ignorance, but do people actually use Twitter DM for personal/sensitive conversations on a regular basis?

I was always under the impression that the majority of people use text, whatsapp/telegram, or facebook for those kinds of discussions.
>Critics also accuse China of keeping high-quality squid for domestic consumption, exporting lower-quality products at higher prices.

Always thought I tasted a difference. This explains a lot.
The question isn't whether it's problematic in some generic sense, but whether it's hate speech or a call to violence. I'm extraordinarily skeptical that anyone sees a red triangle and thinks "ah, I understand, the triangle is telling me I should go engage in political violence".
Central Jersey - 40 miles away from NYC.

No Fios available :(
> If employees have an ethical issue with working there, why don't they quit?

$ > Ethics
> Millions of people are desperate to receive $600-1600 from the government this month because they are unable to work. Millions are putting on shitty facemasks and still showing up to work at grocery stores and warehouses and wherever, risking disease because they have no other choice. Meanwhile you can't be bothered to work at home on your laptop more than one day a week, because the build system and tech debt makes you sad?

I'm always impressed at how much American culture promotes labor vs. labor infighting instead of recognizing that the issue is not the 1%. It's the top 0.1% (and 0.01%) that's causing this problem.

https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017/article/never...
The steel-man argument is that the President's statements practically amount to an indirect call for violence. There's no other way for the state to enforce laws except to use the messy apparatus of the police, which may result in collateral damage/violence.
Sell all stock, save enough to cover taxes, then buy a tiny plot of land with access to water and electricity. I will build and live in a yurt while I plan my next move.
I have tried - and though I still push, I still call out the craziness, it truly isn't worth the effort.

It's like politics, but at least political change and civil rights are worth some mental exhaustion.
I guess I have old school compunctions against discussing it, probably comes from generations of folks not talking about it and considering it impolite.

I also have seen how people react when they realize there might be a huge pay variation for same titles - it's not good for anyone. I avoid conflict as much as possible nowadays, so it makes me more reticent. I pretty much redirect direct questions even from family because of that. None other than me and my wife knows how much I make - that's the max comfort level I'd ever get to I suppose.
> Just saying, only ~1/3 of the population votes.

It's a little over 1/2 for presidential elections (over 2/3 in some states). Midterm elections are what's around 1/3.

http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout...
From the article, it appears urban and suburbans are roughly equally likely to know their neighbors (56% -> 47% for urbanites and 48% -> 52% for suburbanites). It's rural people that know their neighbors better.
"If a man is not a Socialist at 20 be has no heart, but if he remains one at 30 he has no head." I don't know who said this, but this is a great example of how our minds mature.

The probably unintentional ageism in tech has a major, quite literally civilization changing consequence.

We are creating power centers which have too many young people who haven't really thought a lot of things through, certainly not the unintended economic consequences, and who glibly dismiss people who disagree with their premises as some kind of "ism".
Well, no. I also explain why.
I have seen RIPscrip used on the internet, although I had no software to render it so I just got the text based display instead, which nevertheless is fine.
The way I see it, being "always on" is one of the worst things about office work. Always on is a constant distraction from doing good concentrated work. I think off by default is a far better paradigm for remote communication tools.
I don't think it's painfully missing the point, it's just studiously ignoring that they've let the cat out of the bag and focusing on ways to mitigate the problem.

Social media is a natural consequence of increased communication of larger groups, and as an emergent phenomenon based on everything else you aren't going to get rid of it. So instead we focus on how to mitigate the problems and live with it, because even if you shut down every single social network today, there would be new popular ones used by almost everyone a year from now.
> Reset bugs suck.

Indeed they do. And even if you have working chips you get the next stage: board level reset bugs. A MC68K board I helped develop didn't want to boot, some nasty side effect of a reset line that didn't stay at the same level long enough stopped the CPU from resetting reliably when everything else did just fine. That took a while to debug.
Right, I think the big confounding factor is that single childless people tend to be urban apartment dwellers...
FWIW, I agree with you completely.

I think the conversation gets muddled when we start introducing value-laden words like "truth." The crux of the matter for me is, am I lying in order that someone will behave in a way that they wouldn't behave if I told the truth. There are, I believe, good reasons to do this, and undoubtedly, moralities that believe there are never good reasons to do this.

But it is clear (to me anyway) that it is definitely deception, regardless of the justification.

If I'm not trying to get someone to act differently, then there is no deception (and perhaps this is what the other commenter is referring to), though it's hard to imagine a situation where you'd lie without intending to affect someone's behavior, even trivially, like to avoid a conversation with a passerby in the street...
I'm always reminded of this quote from Larry Wall, the creator of Perl:

"The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol."

It's tough to get all this right. Humans are ok at dealing with one another in person most of the time, but being behind a screen really doesn't happen in many cases.

I have no idea what the solution is... it's a people problem, so probably not a strictly technological solution.

HN works fairly well because of the hard work of the moderators.

FB is kind of maddening to me. You can't just put it in a 'good' or 'bad' bucket.

Some things I get a lot of value out of:

* Being able to keep track of acquaintances from all the places I've lived. There are a lot of friends and family I have in Italy that I can't see often, and I do enjoy hearing what they're up to.

* As a tool for organizing it's been a very handy, low-friction way to get people involved in some political issues where I live in Oregon.

On the other hand, lately it has also been a source of stress. The sheer amount of anti-science, poorly thought out political comments and plain hatred is really depressing at a time when a lot of things are not going well.
You ever work with an FPGA? The programming model and the tooling are a huge part of the problem.

Verilog and VHDL have basically nothing in common with any language you've ever used.

Compilation can take multiple days. This means that debugging happens in simulation, at maybe 1/10000th of the desired speed of the circuit.

If you try to make something too big, it just plain won't fit. There is no graceful degradation in performance; an inefficient design will just not function, come Hell or high water.

The existing compilers will happily build you the wrong thing if you write something ill-defined. There are a ton of things expressible in a hardware description language that don't actually map onto a real circuit (at least not one that can be automatically derived). In any normal language anything you can express is well-defined and can be compiled and executed. Not so in hardware.

Timing problems are a nightmare. Every single logic element acts like its own processor, writing directly into the registers of its neighbours, with no primitives for coordination. Imagine if you had to worry about race conditions inside of a single instruction!

Maybe if all these problems are solved FPGAs still wouldn't catch on, but let's not pretend the programming model isn't a problem. Hardware is fundamentally hard to design and the tooling is all 50 years out of date.
They are a big Clojure shop. They hire Plataformatec as a consulting company. This podcast has more info: https://changelog.com/podcast/402
Why does low voter participation de-legitimize the election?

Separately, if you're in a city, and are a D, why vote? Similarly in rural for an R?
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I had always thought it was to fend off DOJ and regulatory action from the Trump administration.
100% agree that it's not easy, but it's almost certainly easier than the fight for collective bargaining during the industrial revolution. The idea that people just have too much to lose by fighting for it just underscores the point about negotiation leverage.
Not the person you're replying to, but my guess is this: "The media," one or two outlets in particular, has been very strenuously playing up the "astounding lawlessness" and "terrible conditions" that are supposedly "ravaging" cities.

Living in one that's been the subject of thousands of minutes of talking-head coverage...this is surprising to me. I have friends who live elsewhere who partake of news from those outlets and they are absolutely convinced that I am living in a doomed hellscape from which there is no relief. No amount of my telling them that I look out my window and my city has not completely burned to the ground disabuses them of this belief. (There is absolutely nowhere in my city that I cannot or do not feel comfortable going.)

A lot of media reports are also linking this with COVID response and implying, though not stating, that the virus is far more rampant inside cities, even though where I live is doing better, per-capita, than any of our suburban neighbors both on case rates and testing throughput.

Receiving this constant drumbeat of "cities are absolutely fucked, here's some stock footage of people breaking windows" is bound to influence poll results.
Love this and currently testing it for deployment at my company. Thanks for making it, it feels 1000x more straightforward than Vault, etc.

I'd love to hear an official stance on it from Bitwarden to know their take and whether they're considering supporting this important use case in an official capacity (e.g., sponsoringor providing some kind of support for the project). Seems like it could be a big differentiator over other password managers.
Just earlier this week, I was talking with a colleague about all the hidden jobs that no longer exist because of software. And these are not jobs that dramatically went away all at once, like a team of longshoremen being cut in the movies.

Think of all the teams of bookkeepers (yes, actual people who penciled numbers in books) who were obsoleted by Excel being able to let a store owner do a calculation/scenario by himself that would take accountants a week to do.

Think of all the secretaries whose work disappeared (or were no longer needed in proportion to the growing economy) as soon as personal calendar software and meeting invites became common.

Graphic designers / publication layout experts you would pay because you didn't have desktop publishing software.

There are more jobs lost silently to these kinds of developments than any factory being shut down dramatically. (for the US at least)
The stuff that I want to keep a list of, in order to avoid losing it.
Lately all I see are tech ads and a few tweets from some people I follow who really should get back to work. There are a few that have a good signal to noise ratio, but it seems like the algorithms hide them. I'm not sure why.

I've switched over to some private blogs and better curated news feeds. It's just becoming dominated by the haters.
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We have plan to migrate to click house for collect metric

For information in that post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/hwej0w/squzy_new_op...
It is because you assumed it to be the case. What is the basis for the equation where you considered tactive + (1-t)passive = market gain? When are passive and active gains not equal with your definition?
Are they Children's Online Privacy Protection Act compliant? And if they are compliant, are you saying their product is unusable if you refuse consent?

I would think their design mimicking Twitter would put them under COPPA.
>They are illustrating that "go out and vote if you want to make things better" is useless advice

That strikes me as naive and juvenile. It's not useless advice, it just need to be properly contextualized. You're a sharing a nation with hundreds of millions of people, so you cannot expect that your fellow citizens all want the same thing you want. Yes voting is a method of change, but the effect of a singular vote is very small, especially for influencing federal policies.

At the local community or neighborhood level, a single dedicated person can actually make a big difference, but that also requires work, because changing minds takes time and effort.

This is also why federalism should be embraced by everyone. Limit the federal government as much as you can and leave the consequential decisions to states and communities. But local issues aren't sexy enough for many.
Thanks for the feedback! Agree that for a portion of the remote work force, asynchronous communication is probably effective.

Teams that love Sidekick need to be always talking as if they're in the same room. To these teams, it's not a distraction but critical for getting their job done.
Turning this into a nationalistic slur and personal attack is no way to make your case. It also breaks the site guidelines and will get you banned here, so please don't go that route.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wow. I understand you do this as a throwaway but if true this is very bad stuff and it would be nice to have a lot more substantiation so that it could be verified.
You replied to my comment but you didn’t even read the bill.

Read the amendments, they specifically outline that the scope of this bill will not impact encryption laws (which they added specifically because of all the fear-mongering brought by the companies that stand to lose from this bill).
this speaks to an enormous amount of faith in both the security services and the press - the report seems to suggest that the security services are somehow inept and have let their guard down, and yet they should also be handed more power and control. let alone that their activity, by its nature, would be unmonitored and unaccountable