skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a holy war topic.

Some people, myself included, prefer how Windows render fonts. Others prefer MacOS.

From what I recall the last time this came up on HN, MacOS tries to render true to the font as if in a professional work flow that ends with a physical product. Windows aims for on screen legibility as it's primary goal.

Also remember that most Windows machines have a much lower DPI screen that what comes with or is hooked up to a Mac, so what is being optimized for there is also different.

Honestly hooked up to my large 1440p screen, MacOS's font rendering isn't /that/ nice, it becomes a wash vs Windows, and on a 1080p laptop I'll take Windows don't rendering.
Should we store the exhaust used to transport your food, clothes, etc. in your house also? Seems unfair to punish the delivery man for your consumption.
Some truth in everything though. Different is different everywhere. My fave quote 'All generalizations are BS including this one'.
The point is that all of those bad things you cite are already the case for "the poorest communities". To the people who live there, the police are worse than useless - not only do they manifestly fail to prevent crime, but more people die when they turn up. That is where "defund the police" comes from.
The internet was "for" military communications and academic research sharing, not cat videos or ecommerce. A great many things are used for things other than what they were intended for.
> the movie is really about the negatives of extreme, prolonged toxic masculinity

Chuck Palahniuk, the author of the book the movie is based on would disagree with you. For one, he has said he doesn't believe in the term toxic masculinity. He has said that Fight Club is "about empowering the individual and allowing the individual to make what they see as the best choice" and "about the terror that you were going to live or die without understanding anything important about yourself".

He has also remarked about how few cultural narratives there are for young men today, "I feel a little frustrated that our culture hasn’t given these men a wider selection of narratives to choose from. Really, the only narratives they go to are The Matrix and Fight Club".

As for the snowflake term being co-opted, he says, "once that material passes on to an audience, the audience adopts it. It will become the child of the audience and will serve whatever purpose the audience has for it. It would be insane to think that the author could control every iteration or every interpretation of their work."

For me, Fight Club was a very nihilistic (Chuck Palahniuk admits to being somewhat of a nihilist) and also very hopeful book (and movie), which is a tough combination to pull off.
I live in France where you need zillions of documents to go pee. You can imagine what happens when you want to take over a bank account...

There is very low risk for someone having access to my bank account to actually do something with it.

So am my important information is on google docs, shared with the people I trust.

By far (very much far) I want to be sure that the information is available without the need for physical access and up to date.
>just liquid protein.

Almond and coconut milk have very limited amounts of protein.
Oh, heh, if you were expecting a defense of the "UNIX philosophy" of doing one thing well from me, you're not going to get it. I think one small step by one small step that has been abandoned over time, and because it was so incremental there's no one place to point at where it went over the line and it's easy for people to miss it because there is no such point, but cross the line it has.

Now, at least GNU ls doesn't send or receive email or something. A quick scan of its man page doesn't show many any features grossly out of line with its primary task. But yeah, it has a lot of features for sure, many of which nominally overlap with tasks that could be done by other tools (sort, ignoring backups, -D ("generate output designed for Emacs' dired mode", lol), quoting styles...).

I feel much the same way about Python. Very little of its philosophy expressed back around 2000 or so is in effect today. And there's no one release you can point at and say, "this is it, this is when it stopped being simple", yet, clearly, today it is no longer simple.
'Between the Folds' is an independent documentary about origami, far more captivating than it sounds. As people become artists, there's a tension between developing technique versus exploring expression. Relevant to HN, the younger artists use complex software to model geometry -- older artists want the sensibilities of origami as an art form to serve as a lesson when there's pressure to pursue technicality.
I meant that it can change your world view on the nature of forgiveness, not of prison psychology. Surely I was influenced seeing it at 14 years old. Das Experiment is for a much finer palate!
NASA to remove offensive names from planets and other heavenly bodies
John Carpenter is so under rated in general, Escape from New York is amazing as is The Thing.
The reasons that make me not articulate things in an obvious manner in my comment are pretty much the same reasons that caused my comment in the first place - thought processes are a very personal and intimate thing to me.
So which company is the most open-source friendly provider of FPGA chips these days?
>- CMD click it to see a breadcrumb menu showing where it is and navigate to the folder

Similarly you can right click the window title (click with two fingers on the touchpad) for this functionality. It's very useful to navigating up in the folder hierarchy in Finder without adding any new icons to the toolbar.
Henrik I believe you are being overly suspicious. A simple call to KI or wherever he stated he worked would have brought an end to that.
I plan on using HA for everything but the alarm system eventually. But I don’t know of a monitored system controlled by HA, do you?
Consequences are in line with what happened, not the least charitable possibility of what that class of error can be.

Google absolutely has the technical ability to auto-update my phone to send deepfaked porn of me to all my contacts, but it's pretty reasonable for me to expect them not to.
> A Star Went Supernova in 1987

It didn't go supernova in 1987. It happened around 168,000 years before that, but it took the light from the event that long to reach us. A better title might be "A supernova was observed in 1987".
I don't think they're signaling intelligence as much as they're signaling a specific subculture of East-Coast WASPy humanities-focused aristocrats that the most "prestigious" papers are steeped in. For example, the famous blind animus that that memeplex has towards tech certainly isn't rooted in looking down on the _intelligence_ of those steeped in Californian tech culture, but rather their will and ability to signal social class effectively.

It's a weird inversion, since the signals being defended are deeply illiberal: they exclude individualism, weirdness, inclusiveness, systems striving to be built on merit, etc etc.

I'm pretty familiar with this tendency because I come from a family who's pretty steeped in this kind of subculture. Growing up in CA and moving to the Bay as a teen, I absorbed the tech/Burning Man/CA memeplex of humanism and inherent equality and individualism way too deeply not to overwhelm my upbringing, but there are certain class markers I haven't shed, and un-self-conscious use of dense prose is one of them[1]. I actually did try to make my speech more casual when I became aware of these class markers during a period of teen rebellion, but changing how you communicate is a pretty complicated uphill battle, so I ended up with a weird hybrid of big words and idiomatic expressions (and lots of cursing, in verbal communication -_-)

[1] I want to emphasize again that this isn't quite an intelligence thing: my best friend is definitely smarter than me, and he speaks significantly more casually/colloquially than me because of his family's background.
Unfortunately there aren't a lot of mature anime which are recent, because the trends in anime seem to be skewing towards isekai that caters to otaku and shonen.

- Spirited Away

- Grave of the Fireflies

- Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex

- Psycho Pass (first season only)

- Tatami Galaxy

- Perfect Blue

- Paranoia Agent

- Serial Experiments Lain

- Eden of the East
We need to move from income to VAT, and maybe land value tax. Then we'll have a much stronger baseline to pay for UBI and single payer.

VAT would collect sales tax from everybody including immigrants, so nobody can claim they're mooching. Could make VAT more for non-citizens.
> I am not a materials scientist or engineer, just a person who likes to wildly speculate on the internet when I don't get enough sleep.

I remember a series of science fiction stories where the protagonist would have some problem to solve, get wildly drunk and... the next morning there would be some weird device in his living room. It was the solution, but he would have to untangle what his drunk self came up with.

EDIT: Robots Have No Tails by Henry Kuttner
> For the folks who think your devices aren’t listening try an experiment:

1. Which devices: iOS or Android?

2. Are any apps that have been given the microphone permission in the foreground (for iOS) while the conversation is going on (but the app isn't in an explicit recording mode triggered by the user)?

3. Are any voice assistants enabled to always listen for the activation command words (like "Hey Siri" or "Ok, Google")?

I have my iOS device set only to get typed text input for Siri (no voice activation). I rarely give any app microphone permissions unless the main purpose of the app is to record audio (or video and audio). I've never encountered targeted ads on topics I talk about.
If it's in the DSP it may not need to be an app that runs the exploit. Sounds like any malicious audio or video file could do it. Could be something delivered via a streaming site, email, audio embedded in a webpage, etc. This sounds like it could be a very big deal.

It's great that Qualcomm has a fix, but most of the susceptible devices will likely never get it in an update from their manufacturers. And I wonder if there will be a performance or battery life hit like the awful performance hit in the Intel chips. That one cost me a 30% hit on my servers and resulted in 6 figures of unplanned spending to replace that lost capacity.
It's been a while. I'll rewatch it and see if I can take your view of it. Yes, humans have been driven to refine systems and tools since day one.
Godard's Pierrot Le Fou kind of changed my life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot_le_Fou
Thanks for the answer and explaining the difference between the two.
I guess there's no reason for a difference between .Length and .Count that I can think of.

I guess you could make IEnumerable's Count() into a property and enjoy the same syntax but I am not sure it's a good idea, because Count() needs to enumerate and is therefore O(n), and property syntax may coax you into writing with the expectation that it is O(1).

Then suddenly (it's been years since I did c#) I recall that Count() is added to the interface as an extension method with the "this" keyword. Is it possible to have an extension property? I do not think so but again it's been a while.
From there, you can use the arrow keys to navigate to the menu option you'd like.
My camera isn’t part of the alarm system (not sure I really want an alarm going off because of a camera). They are triggered by it, though.
What's your point?

I was pointing out that it is fallacious to conflate/equate regulatory standards and quality, not arguing that regulatory standards are useless.
I'm not American, but when I think of America, that is what comes to my mind: the optimism of creative thinkers. The way that folks at Apple thought about computer is beautiful: they could be much more than tools for technical people.

I now someone may polarize what I said with some whataboutims, but I think it's good to focus on the positive once in a while.
You can only jump by word, forwards and back, by holding the option key while using the arrow left and right.

Backspacing however can be done by word by using c-w to delete back by word. Unfortunately this hotkey only works in terminal I think, so you'd have to do option+backspace in chrome, etc.
FWIW, I used a MacBook Pro for work (2018) and the wrist rejection was bad enough to make it unusable. Whenever I typed, it would constantly move the cursor around, usually with a click that would change where my text was going, no matter what settings I adjusted.

It was less of an issue with the older MacBook airs, but the Pros now have a giant oversized trackpad that you have to touch when typing unless you hover.
So, this says 'how to work with me' but not 'how can I work with you?'

This kind of document is all about validating inputs instead of reflecting on output. It's 'how can you help me?' as opposed to 'how can I help you?', and if you need this kind of document in a leadership position I think you've already failed.

Set boundaries and stuff by all means, but don't delegate that responsibility to a document that nobody will read and/or remember, and then making other people responsible for your own abject laziness.
Probably Lattice, although considering the field that's not saying much. But they at least removed a license term on their software that some of the FOSS toolchain developers complained about.
Gattaca is one of my favorite movies
What content is it missing.

It has the entire article text and hyperlinks that I can tell.
Calling 200+ infections "a few dozen" seems intentionally misleading. And that was just with a single outbreak in November. Whose cause is still not known.
Maybe this is more than what people usually understand when they hear the term "class struggle" but this is actually exactly what Marx is talking about when he describes the "system" of capitalism and how all of the classes are dependent on it even though they are in conflict. This is related to the "inherent contradictions" built into the system which he also discusses.

One word you mention though -- "Hypernormalisation" -- reminds me of a film that made me see the world differently. I don't know if you intentionally used that term, but the Adam Curtis film Hypernormalisation is, I believe, an absolute must watch, probing for some clarification on the logic of the last 40-50 years of history in our capitalist/neoliberal society.
Work on SQLite 4 has concluded: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648280
Repo Man is the perfect balance of punk and sci-fi, truly unique in that regard.
Golang / go mods.

It uses Minimum Version Selection to avoid lockfiles and is part of getting to 100% reproducible builds. The code base for mods is impressive too, so much thought around security.
Cmd + Enter opens the containing folder too - no clicking required!
What they're afraid of might be depression. Therapy really only teaches you conscious, rational self-regulation strategies. When you lose the ability to apply those, you might not be fun to hang out with anymore.

Personally I think self-control is what makes a person trustworthy.
There doesn't need to be a food shortage - the question is what percent of income do the poor spend on food, and would they spend less if they could?
Admiring obituary for the founder of National Bolshevism.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/eduard-limonov-obituary

They're a propaganda piece, not a news outlet. Just a propoganda piece promoting murderous ideology, and it's even named after murderers who teamed up with slave owners.
Except they aren't saying "no", they're trying to have it both ways by violating both the spirit and letter of their agreements. The subtitle of the story points out that the Chinese were the ones doing the actual patent filing in this case.

And this story of western development as some kind of capital-hoarding process is completely off. A country is developed and wealthy if and only if it has skilled labor producing so much wealth constantly. In the US it was $20T last year, and it will be another $20T the next year (ok maybe a bit less this year). You could be nothing but hired guns producing for contract, and become the richest country in the world. I'm no fan of IP, but its a sideshow here. And if anything I'd say it's far worse for developed countries than developing ones.
How does this compare to just letting the mask sit for several days?
The question isn't the quantity of food, but the cost of food. There can be food aplenty, but if poor people need to spend a large amount of their income to acquire it, there will be a benefit to having a wider sourcing of cheaper food.
I think Vioxx is a great case study in why people are growing skeptical of not just vaccines, but pharma solutions to daily problems in general.

I find it hard to be too critical with people who are skeptical of modern medical science, given we know the Replication Crisis [0] has yet to be resolved. Between the human brain's chronic inability to parse statistics properly and the incredible amount of money to be made in solutions that make chronic conditions or deadly diseases go away, I do my best to be tolerant.

Ironically, another post that's currently sitting on the HNews frontpage has some fun ads from the 60s encouraging women to slam sugar before lunch so they don't eat as much. I'm sure this advice was being peddled alongside physicians who not only smoked in their patient rooms, but encouraged smoking for it's weight loss side-effect.

Separating the human from science is unfathomably difficult. Humans are cruel, selfish and misguided about many things. Assuming because something was published in JAMA or NEJM by someone who spent 6 years in a PhD program at an accredited university, that it's the gospel truth should be discouraged. People should ask questions and think for themselves. And as a result, some people will make horrible decisions and some may even die directly from those decisions or from the long term consequences. But then again, there were probably plenty of doctors in the 60s who had a gut feeling about the safety of smoking and ended up dying of some horrible and preventable cancer. But what the hell, they had a medical degree, so they probably knew better than everyone else.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Edited to add missing link
In Sweden it's historically fairly normal to drink that much milk at least once day, in coffee or otherwise.
I'm also wondering, IIRC rice cookers rely on the temperature of the pot not exceeding 100C until all the water has evaporated (which is why getting the correct rice/water amount is important). Without any water in the container I would expect the pot to quickly exceed 100C and shut off.

Mine certainly seems to provide no way to maintain such a temperature, I'd guess it'd just switch to "keep warm" and AFAIK that's nowhere near 100C (maybe 60~70).
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019925
I didn't see any normal people getting screwed in the movie.
Befunge: An Esoteric Story (2019)
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> It's kind of broken, but it took zero effort.

What does "zero effort" mean? I'd be surprised if you told me that Tupac's voice was recreated without using any copyrighted material.
Swimming to Cambodia[0] because it was both highly insightful and stylistically unique - it’s a monologue by a single person(Spalding Gray [1]) and Lauri Anderson’s excellent soundtrack adds just enough you visualize much of what he describes. At least I did but that might have been the LSD.

Rest in piece Spalding Gray.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_to_Cambodia
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding_Gray
This is my top discovery this year, been using it for a few months now.
How covert is staring at someone’s shoes trying to identify slight variations?
Ask HN: Where do you pay for mentoring from experts?
I want to convert an old docker-compose based project into a kubernetes project. I keep starting and stopping with kubernetes and feel like I would benefit from having an expert guide me. I'm willing to pay for this help.

I think this is different than finding someone where I hand the job over to them with a strict set of requirements. I want to pay to learn and do with them.

Are there any sites that can connect me to these types of experts?

Or, should I just go into the right chat room and ask there?
> “it can’t do local speech recognition”

Yeah, I'm surprised about it too. ~13 years ago, I've been running my own completely off-line speech recognition system on a cheap PC to control music in my room. With a microphone mounted on a wardrobe. With very little pre-training, it worked pretty much flawlessly, and it could recognize commands over very loud music. And I built it in few afternoons using MS Speech API, which was included with the OS.

That's why I don't buy "you need the cloud for speech recognition" arguments in general. And in context of this discussion, it means you could absolutely snoop on people through local speech-to-text on low-powered devices - particularly if you limit yourself to a set of keywords (vs. free-form dictation). And for usual profiling&advertising, a set of keywords (that can be updated over time) is more than enough - you could learn from it e.g. whether people talk about product X or politician Y in the household.
Well they might do it with AI, there are however some issues, constantly running sounds through ML models is power hungry which is as far as i know why devices such as these optimize a lot for commands prompts such as "OK google" which is when the ML loop actually starts.

On the other smoke alarm sound is very easy to detect with classical methods so might be extremely cheap to run it without any ML.
If you need 5V compatibility, or large sizes for cheap, search eBay for [altera university]. Since these boards were mandatory for many classes there are pretty easy to find for under $50, and include lots of peripherals, buttons, LEDs, connectors, etc. The cheap ones are old, of course, but still useful.
I recently made the switch from Mac to Windows and have been using MacType - https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype to ease the transition.
Chinese government-paid scientists plead guilty to stealing research
I’d you liked Stalker I also recommend the book it was based on (“Roadside Picnic”). The book is very different from the movie in terms of tone, but I feel like the book gives a bit more context to the movie. It’s a case of the book/film being complimentary to each other in a really nice way.
Previously shared on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571756
I really don't have a problem with these things. I don't have a problem killing animals for food, even baby cows. I also don't have a problem killing animals that can't be properly cared for (hello PETA).

What I _do_ care about is how those animals are treated before they are killed. I am aware of the process for keeping dairy cows productive. I also am uncertain if the separation of calves and cows causes distress. I find it just as likely that assuming so is to anthropomorphize them. However, the reason I don't know the answer to that is because the treatment of farm animals in factory farms is far more concerning to me.

The biggest disconnect between vegans and non-vegans seems to be the assertion that animals can't be raised ethically for food. Instead of focusing on areas of commonality between each other, a distaste for the unnecessary suffering of animals, each party focuses on the disagreements and can't get anything done together.

Also, as an aside, the process you describe makes the cow's milk "made for humans" as much as anything is. Humans manipulate the cow's biology to produce milk for humans.
I don't understand the wild leap of logic other comments in this thread are making where "Company X does fraud" becomes "Japanese work culture leads to fraud". You could easily make similar shoddy arguments with any country but it seems HN seems intent on only wheeling out the "tHeIR cUlTuRe Is bAd" argument when nobody from that culture is around to defend it.