skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the first chunk of code in https://forums.adobe.com/message/1785905#1785905 has what I used to make it cycle between multiple copies of each letter.

The "programmatically generate a lot of ligature pairs with random choices as to which variant" is clever, but I feel like it's gonna be pretty obvious - you'd get the same ligas a lot in common words like 'the' and the eye would pick that out very quickly!

(also man this font I was working on has some crazy ideas in it, I really like the 'switch to italic glyphs by putting a slash at the front of the word' idea. No faffing around with a separate font. Very weird but very useful for the case of "lettering my comics".)

One major difference in how I approached this problem was to work from an existing corpus of letters drawn with the natural rhythms of handwriting, too. I took a bunch of hand-lettering I'd done and worked from that instead of drawing each letter in a little box for a program to parse...
In the UK at least the answer was government fiat.

Faster Payments is the unimaginative name for the rule that allows most UK bank account holders to move money the same day (typically in reality instantly) at zero cost to them. The date for Faster Payments becoming possible was set, and banks are just obliged to provide it. Some were earlier, most were not.

The banks did not actually implement the underlying backend transfers in time, but customers don't care. Rick Smith, father to an 18 year old daughter who seemingly always needs another few hundred quid for something wants to send Beth £750 right now, and Beth wants to be able to spend that money when she receives it from her father. Neither of them cares that Rick's and Beth's banks are running different versions of some 1970s COBOL application or are struggling to ensure a backend funds transfer matching the Rick-> Beth transaction happens in a timely fashion.

So the banks just faked the UX. This technically means if Rick's bank fails after Rick sent the money, but before the backend catches up in a day or two, Beth's bank (but not Beth or Rick) could lose the value of the transaction because the underlying money actually didn't go anywhere yet, just the two account balances were updated. But regulators reasoned that banks being more likely to freak out and report if they suspect their competitors are struggling and likely to fail imminently is a good thing so let them take that risk.

Maybe they have subsequently fixed their backends, maybe they didn't, as an end user I needn't care so I paid no further attention.
All methods of communication would suddenly disappear if Facebook goes away.
The EO imposes a prohibition on financial transactions between US citizens (and probably also residents?) and ByteDance, so they wouldn't be able to pay their lawyers even if registered. So it's essentially a ban on having lawyers
In other words: Paying inflated prices for ULA launches is cheaper in the long run than SpaceX having a monopoly.
The context of my comment was not reading the qz.com link. So now it seems redundant.

But now that I have read it, I'm confused even more about the responses.

Blocking people on Twitter is arguably (because the courts are saying so) a violation of the constitution. For an elected official at least.

If someone wants to regulate speech, and they have tried and been prevented from doing so on first amendment grounds, it seems likely motivation to search for a legal alternative method to achieve their goals.

Is AOC against Facebook regulating content then?

I don't think I see the motivation/goal attributed to her as illegitimate. Maybe everyone is taking for granted that it's a "loophole".
I'm Canadian and I still drink it as an adult. It's good with desserts.
Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using vscode?
PLTalk: Edwin Brady on Idris
I already made it

Twiktwok.github.io
The Amiga was great. Nothing today comes close in terms of sheer joy.
Pressure from equity holders, which happen to be Chinese logos. Someone shared an example on HN yesterday of Tencent, the largest gaming company. Chinese-owned, and owns major stakes in nearly a dozen of the largest game publishers and storefronts. Everything from Epic Games to Activision Blizzard, from Ubisoft France to the studio behind PUBG and the studio behind League of Legends. Path of Exile, Clash of Clans, Call of Duty Online... a Chinese mega-conglomerate has significant investments in all of them.
Black Scheme
OJ I’m not surprised about at all but milk is way worse than what I thought it’d be!
Mars 2020 required vertical integration of the payload which SpaceX still doesn't do.

EDIT: Also another thing I thought of is that SpaceX may not be certified to launch nuclear payloads (given their infrequency it probably doesn't make sense for them to bother).
It’s still there. Just hasn’t been updated in awhile.
I thought the opposite --- the 6502's instruction encoding is the odd one because it's constrained by what a single PLA can do, while the 8086 and its predecessors (including the Z80 and going back to the 8008) have a pretty consistent octal-based encoding:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13045558

http://www.z80.info/decoding.htm
Just jump in, meet new people. Try something, fail, let it go, try again. Granted, it’s much harder in covid cause it’s all virtual, but the world is big with lots of ppl to meet, and if you make a bad impression with one person, then learn from it and make a new first impression with someone else. Like with most things, it’s just practice. Failure and struggles are just part of the process like most skills.
I suspect it might be something mentioned in https://github.com/masukomi/arc90-readability. I believe it's what powers "readability" view in modern browsers (firefox https://github.com/mozilla/readability, safari).
I think the answer to that question is yes.
George Hotz needs blue check pls sign
Bekchy WAF provides full-time protection for your websites and applications
May I ask, why do you say "flip-flip"? I thought the name of that footwear is "flip-flop"?
The engineered food products were Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow. Soylent Green, as we all know, is made of people.
The short term gain for many will be enormous, but the long term effect might be devastating on American society.
The worst case outcome is that you lose but ALSO become responsible for paying Apple's legal bills.

I think that's incredibly unlikely, (in the US legal system there isn't a lot of cost shifting for trademark suits) but if you assume that the person responding to the lawsuit doesn't know what they're doing, then I can't rule it out.
You can search the USPTO database https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Apple%20Inc.%20%20

Edit: found the prosecution history here https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87315348&caseType=SERIAL_...
This does not seem to be supported in iTerm, if anyone else is wondering.
Even worse. The name isn't even "Pear" - it's "Prepear", which is clearly just some wordplay.

Apple is opposing a company in the food industry using a logo resembling a piece of fruit. It can't get any crazier than this.
I don't think they are similar. It is like comparing apples with oranges.
Volunteer somewhere that involves interaction with people.

Host or participate in meetups for something you're really into.

Don't worry about what others think of you or making someome happy. Just listen to people and help without expecting anything in return.
It's nice to see this sort of thing here. FWIW in computer music parlance this is usually called an envelope follower.

Here's an example of a realtime implementation: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Courses/220b:1998/220b-98-0...
I'm wondering why do people need the "performant phone". All the Android phones that I've had or seen in the last few years run the OS and apps with no issues. The amount of RAM might limit the multi-tasking, but otherwise I can't imagine a real-life use-case where I may want a "performant phone".

Can you maybe shed some light on this for me, please?
I like how this whole yield paper and model is based on the results of a 3'x3' trial area...

"With artificial lighting increasing the intensity and duration of light beyond what can be captured from the sun in a field, the short indoor growth cycle produced mean grain yields of 14 ± 0.8 t/ha per harvest at 11% grain moisture based on a 1-m2 edge-protected experimental area"

How tf can you say your yields are going to extrapolate from that tiny space to a hectare scale facility? It's ridiculous. We have a huge problem achieving lab-theoretical yields on working farms, outside of the super optimized and most destructive conventional agriculture methods. They didn't even do a full greenhouse trial. Come on guys, you can say it's promising but to say you can get 1000+t/ha out of a vertical farm because of this is fantasy.
Any reason you can think of it never had a more open source following in terms of compatibility/retrocomputing?
It's rather that WriteFileGather is the Windows version of writev on Unix. According to https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/writev.2.html#CONFORMI... writev exists since 4.2BSD, which according to Wikipedia is older than even Windows 1.0 (which probably didn't have WriteFileGather yet, I don't think 16-bit Windows had OVERLAPPED).

Also, looking at the documentation for WriteFileGather, it seems more limited than writev. WriteFileGather seems to require that all buffers are page-sized and page-aligned, while writev can gather arbitrary-sized and arbitrary-aligned buffers.
There's a finite budget in any company, even those flush with cash. Tech companies still have all the same politics as the size increases.
We already have wire transfers, but due to high costs they are really only used for high value transactions.
The most toxic and the dumbest social network merged together.

What could go wrong?
What do you mean vertical integration?
Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
So... working as expected?
Interesting part: discussing about Taler.
You can even have it automatically open on an iPad to annotate on– I cannot overstate how useful this is when you're trying to write instructions for something.
Burn the heretics!
What IPC method would you recommend?
So is the Federal Reserve, so is the SEC, so is the IRS, so are all the financial reporting laws that require transactions to be reported to the US government for audit and regulation. I fail to see how NPCI is any different. The solutions won't be any different either: the government has laws restricting unregulated access to data and developers will implement access controls to enforce these laws.

The financial system in practically every country is already fully controlled by a central authority, and for good reason: finance is critical to national security and financial decisions are inherently political, therefore finance is controlled by political authorities.
Just the intro had me drawn in. Anyone know when #Volume5 drops? I’m hearing maybe as soon as Tuesday. Interesting times, to be sure.

> On July 24, 2020, I issued a statement to the American public providing an unclassified overview of foreign threats to the 2020 election and offering basic steps to mitigate some of these threats. At that time, I pledged that the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) would continue to update the American public and other key stakeholders on the evolving election threat landscape, while also safeguarding our intelligence sources and methods.

> Today, we are making good on that promise by sharing additional information with the public on the intentions and activities of our adversaries with respect to the 2020 election. This information is being released for the purpose of better informing Americans so they can play a critical role in safeguarding our election. Below is the latest public update:
There are differences in the ULA and SpaceX launch options. There is far more to spacelaunch than cost per kilo to orbit.

One of the big issues is that SpaceX doesn't do vertical payload integration. It's upper stage options are also very different than those of ULA. For many sats that isn't an issue, for some military sats it is a very big deal. When the payload is worth many times as much as the rocket, with incalculable trickledown impacts should its launch not go perfectly, your choice of rocket has to tick absolutely every box.
Fair enough.

What's the software requirement side look like? Intel's website[1; under Legacy Devices] says Quartus II v9.0 was the latest release that could target FLEX 10K devices. Doesn't look like you can download that release anymore, and liable to run into compatibility issues just installing on modern OSs without a VM.

[1] https://fpgasoftware.intel.com/devices/
> It's very slightly rude

Irrelevant. It wouldn't matter if you were being rude or not, nor did I claim it was rude. Your comment is an ad hominem as a consequence of what what the definition of ad hominem is—not because of the tone or tenor of what you're saying. You shifted the focus from the argument towards extraneous remarks (untrue or not; could be true, even—doesn't matter) about the person you're responding to. That's ad hominem.

> telling someone that you only used the word "seems" to soften to blow of telling them they are 'objectively' wrong, and you didn't actually mean "seems"

The problem now is that you're making things up.

Once again, my actual comment about softening the message was a direct response to my use of "OP seems [...]" being called into question. It's so far the opposite of a personal attack. It's the consequence of having been proactively conscious about the way the message would read to the point of having tried to spare someone's feelings (even when it shouldn't have been necessary).
We had a lockdown and a quarantine. The quarantine breach occurred after lockdown had reduced transmission. We are now again in stage 4 lockdowns with curfews and quarantine and the numbers are falling again.

But you really don’t seem particularly interested in facts.
139 successful launches with a 100% success rate.

Yeah, gee, if only they'd do something.

I'm all for competition bringing down ULA's prices, however to pretend they haven't done anything to deserve contracts, is obscene.
Honestly this "report" is similarly devoid of any substantive content despite being the original source. At some point they discuss the dictionary meaning of DSP.

Your best bet for any details is apparently this DEF CON presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrLJ29quZY8
Ugh. I cannot stand names based on ancient things or myths. They remind me of the early days of programming when systems were named Neptune, Iapetos, or Cronus in order to make themselves sound bigger or larger than life.
Don't forget the Boysenberry.
Relying on perimeter security like this means you are as vulnerable as your weakest nodes. SWIFT can be and has been hacked via its less sophisticated participant banks.
Is Tik-Tok considered an election factor?
The article briefly mentions this, although it might not be super clear from the short description - "We regularly review issues reported through other avenues, such as our bug bounty program, to ensure that we correct any false negatives." We rely on these mechanisms to find places where we're missing taint coverage and write sources and sinks as necessary. As of right now, all the annotations are manual.

I hadn't looked too deeply into the literature there, the paper looks really interesting! We don't have any concrete plans to implement such a system, but I don't think there's any fundamental reason we wouldn't want automatic taint model generation. I'll give the paper a read on Monday to learn more :)
The alarming thing about this is that there are millions of people for whom an extra $600/week is “flush.”
It would be bad optics to remove all the "progressive" activists now.
"Theft" implies that the victim loses something valuable to them. The more close analogy would be 'picking up someone decided to throw away'.
Oh this is a live saver that I have been looking for since forever.

Thank you so much.
There's an open-source project that attempts to limit what things like Google home and Alexa hear using a pi.

https://github.com/bjoernkarmann/project_alias

I'd never want an always on mic in my home but if I had to have it I'd be using this.
Question is whether the oven / dryer / dishwasher damages the mask's filter.
This is an extremely bitter take. I'm sorry you apparently have had one or more negative experiences. Speaking as an ex-lawyer who left the profession, there are definitely myriad things wrong with it.

However, your statement is a dangerous one. It's a ludicrous thought to try to run a company of any size/complexity without at least occasional legal support. As expensive as lawyers can be, trying to navigate legal obligations & requirements without counsel can be disastrously more expensive.

As with anything, it comes down to who you hire and for what purpose. With your mention of motions and such it seems you're mostly talking about litigation. Yeah, litigation can be extremely expensive and there are absolutely firms that appear to want to drag out cases to charge more fees. A lot of this is a problem more with our civil legal system here in the US (civil as in civil vs. criminal, not civil vs. common law). Litigation has become nearly pay-to-win -- but a lot of the fault for that can be laid at the feet of megacorps and tort """reform""".

So yes, litigation can be eye-wateringly expensive. But the best way to avoid litigation is to judiciously use the services of legal professionals. This may shock you, but the vast majority of lawyers are in it for nothing more than a 9-5 career and out of the satisfaction of navigating tricky situations, and the vast majority of lawyers in the US make significantly under six figures -- which doesn't go very far when paired with shocking student loan burdens.

So by all means, avoid keeping megafirms on retainer. They certainly have motivations to find work for themselves.

But luckily, there's a fairly good alternative -- in-house counsel. If your lawyer is on your payroll, they have zero incentive to do anything extraneous. Furthermore, you can rely upon them to keep an eye on any additional outside counsel you may need -- to tip you off if they think you're being charged for make-work. If you can't afford the payroll hit of in-house (which does not have to be enormous, we're talking in the 70k - 110k range for a good, experienced counsel), then seek out recs for smaller firms with track records of representing small businesses.

I know this comment has come across as defensive, but trust me, I have nothing to be defensive over. I left the profession for good reasons and have nothing positive to say (and plenty negative) about what we call biglaw. I guess it's just the vestigial shell of a lawyer still living inside of me that cringes whenever I see someone strongly recommending businesses avoid legal representation. It's just asking for disaster.
Those images are much more commonplace these days
Whats special here? Apple similarly had full remote kernel takeovers from vulnerabilities in e.g. a Broadcom WiFi chip.

This isn't even making anything close to that claim, it seems more like a privilege escalation situation.
I've seen this problem discussed multiple times. People want ‘handwritten’ fonts for one reason or another, but then once you notice identical letters you can't unsee them.

The thing about ligatures is that they don't permit true randomness, but you can cycle through a set of glyphs for a letter—if I understand correctly, you don't even need neighboring letters for that. However, people stop after adding just a few variations, and that still looks mechanical because the same letters occur many times in a paragraph. For good results, you should just keep throwing more variations in—like a couple dozens I think (maybe depending on the frequency of a letter, but then if you come upon ‘QQQQQQQ Inc.’, the effect will be ruined).

Also, invariably people tune kenning in ‘handwritten’ fonts. Why? Pretty sure they don't do that with actual writing, do they? If anything, I'd add some subtle sloppiness to the font generator's output.
Yep, you have no right to HBO, you only have the permission. If you are unsatisfied with your available options, I guess that's your problem not theirs.

The only sad thing here is that most people in the US don't have the possibility of choosing a different ISP/Cable provider because they are all monopolies.
This is sad to hear, if true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Maybe because "i" is right next to "o" on qwerty?
Wow this is amazing
actually, the article says apple didn't lose but withdrew, for now: "Since an official judgment was never passed, however, Apple retains the legal right to renew its infringement appeal."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case
Anyone else find it amusing one of the biggest “things” going on at the moment is not a global pandemic, racial injustice/social activism, but the country banning a silly social media platform? :)
I can't figure out which account you're worried about here.

Your bank presumably knows a bit more about you than... nothing like a free Gitlab user and the account is valuable to both of you. So they can "just" do old fashioned manual account recovery as they would have in 1820 or 1920.

If I lose my phone and all backup authenticators, maybe in a house fire or something, I can live with the fact that maybe I need to go in person to a big stone building and talk to a human face-to-face about account recovery. My home just burned down, I think I can make a little time for essentials like that.
Personally I no longer support the concept of IP. Reason being that if it was enforced to the letter nobody except largest corps can't make a single thing now without breaking some patent and sued to the oblivion. As for software patents, this is just cherry on a cake of insult.

I bet there is not a single software product out there that does not break some patent.
> the same logic that communists used in USSR

I dont think it's the same, at least not to what I understand.

You have plenty of means to travel freely inside China. As long as you don't engage obvious news reporting activities. That can be proved from numerous videos on Youtube.

Second, you are again making the associative thinking, which I painstakingly trying to point out. Of cuz context matters, and time changes; even today, the concentration camp is less brutal than it was a few years ago. And again, Chinese government has not been actually caught on spying foreign citizens. It certainly spy on its own citizens, which is bad. But you cannot just say that because they might be doing that, then they must be doing that...

Should you be worried that your Tiktok usage data be spyed by Chinese government? Of cuz, I dont use any of bytedance apps, I dont use any FB apps, I never discuss sensitive information on Wechat.

But does that warrant that we can ban the company without legal process? No...
This only became an issue a few months ago, and it's really annoying if you need older software. Intel/Altera's site used to let you download older releases; it now redirects to a discontinuation notice.
I'm prone to consider "conspiracy theories" because something terrible happened to me that is adamantly denied by those in power.

The terrible thing that happened to me does not feel like "secret knowledge" or a "conspiracy theory" at all. It is very real and the consequences I deal with are relevant to every minute of every day of my life.

I don't feel depressed. My life is fulfilling and I find a tremendous amount of meaning in the work I do. I know many others who are prone to considering "conspiracy theories" who are the same.
The reasons turn out to be decently boring here. Zoncolan [0] and Pyre [1], which Pysa shares core libraries with, are also written in OCaml, and the language made sense to use from the perspective of both sharing code and having people who are proficient and comfortable writing in OCaml working on the project.

[0]: https://engineering.fb.com/security/zoncolan/

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check