skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because

1) the Mac world has moved onto high-DPI screens mainly,

2) subpixel rendering provides virtually no benefit on high-DPI screens, and

3) subpixel rendering adds a ton of complications across the board (you can't scale anything, for starters), and was always hacky to begin with -- e.g. taking a screenshot and putting it on the internet gives it a rainbow halo effect on everyone else's screen

Honestly, these days with graphics cards that support Retina, the "right" way to do subpixel rendering on non-Retina screens wouldn't be with fonts at all. It would be to render everything internally normally at 3x resolution (3x horizontal by 1x vertical), and then apply subpixel rendering to the whole screen when downscaling for display. But with so few non-Retina screens being used by Mac users, why bother?
Crash reports usually yes (but how to prevent receiving personal data from stack dumps?), features selection probably not. The reason is that you don't get data from the people who disable telemetry and they could use different features. You must find them, poll them and merge the results with what telemetry gives you. If you don't do that, telemetry is detrimental to those people.
I tested with a 64MB, 124s long, 1152x720 .MOV video converted to .MP4 and here's what I saw:

modfy.video - 258 seconds
native ffmpeg - 23 seconds

This was using a 2020 MBP with a 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 processor & 32GB of RAM. My local ffmpeg version was v4.3.1.

So it looks like performance definitely takes a hit due to WASM, but I'm sure performance will improve, and this is technically a very impressive achievement. The UI is really nice, and the privacy benefits of remaining client side, whilst delivered through the Web are great (i.e. nothing to install locally).

I'm one of the co-founders @ Zamzar so really interested in this space. Congrats to @cryogenicplanet on this project - you've done a great job with it!
Thank you, I will sign up and explore more, I'm very interested because I feel the social responsibility to leave some legacy, I can educate 100 people before I retire as professional software developer.

RE: exactly, what you call the student metadata metrics and ways to detect who/what/when to reinforce.
The source that gave the material to the journalist is the one breaking the law, not the journalist who is given and disseminates the information.
I would hope Wikipedia concentrates being Wikipedia. Other "follow WIPO" activities should be left to other parties.
Focus on core with small money. That is the way to go.
It may not have an idea of a picture of a bear. But it certainly knows all kinds of words that would describe that bear. And it relates those to the bear and also to other things. So I would argue that there is some „idea“. It‘s just not a visual idea and there is not conscious reflection. As far as the first part is concerned, what about a blind person? I would argue they can have a very good idea, too.
This is a weird article. If the two systems the author described worked so well, how did the business ever decide to "bulldoze" it and replace it with something inferior? Even if you take the view that some non-technical person came in and demanded a particular technical change (??), any halfway-competent business is going to keep the old thing running while they build the new one so they can continue making money, and they'll notice that the new thing doesn't work as well as the old. Right?

I get the sense something is missing, and I get the sense the missing thing was that the replacements were actually better for the business. A couple of highly-talented people on a small team where the original developers owned production operations could run it as designed, and it was "really neat," but the business was limited in how they could use the system. Perhaps you couldn't easily add developers and make them work on new features. Perhaps you couldn't integrate OSS components that worked fine, and you were left behind your competitors. Perhaps the "one or two developers" who operated the system got married and started a family and weren't able to be on-call 24/7/365 any longer. Perhaps this system was one of dozens run by the business, and all the other ones were using crash-only containers, and this system continued to be the odd one out.

I'd like to hear from the other side of this - I'd like to hear the stories of the people who pushed the redesign away from the systems. Until then, this seems entirely too much like "We built this awesome prototype with a bunch of neat properties in theory." My suspicion is that the other side of these migrations were also driven by highly-talented technical people who have technical stories to tell, but their story is that they cleared out a bunch of technical debt and replaced it with a higher-reliability system.
Well, in my native language SM is something _very_ different. :)
It doesn't matter that Sanders wasn't poisoned, if it is true that the mechanisms of power made it impossible for him to win no matter the popular support his ideas had. The result is the same.

As for a constitutional amendment to keep Trump in office, it doesn't matter who is in office if a party with the same policies keeps seizing power without the popular vote. It is just as undemocratic.
Hi HN,

I have been web applications for a long time, and I would like to share with you the stack I chose for now to build my next side-projects.

Here's a small live demo (it's pretty simple, the interesting part is in the source code): https://taurus-client.alfon.io.

The chosen stack makes to write complex applications code easy, it made me very productive and I'm happy with the results. I hope you find it interesting.

BTW I'm tempted now to learn Relay [0] so maybe this isn't my final stack yet :)

[0] https://relay.dev
Sweden’s compliance and low population density looks very different from most countries.

Social distancing[edit]
On 16 March 2020, the agency recommended that people over 70 should limit close contact with other people, and avoid crowded areas such as stores, public transport and public spaces.[112] At the end of March, 93% of those older than 70 said that they were following the recommendations from the health service to some extent, with the majority having decreased their contacts with friends and family.[113] In May, the agency looked at easening the recommendations for the 'young elderly' of good health, but ultimately decided against it.

The US might be keeping school systems closed, but movie theaters for example are open across most of the country. Mask compliance for example tracks closely with where areas that are currently experiencing outbreaks in the US. That likely says more about overall compliance than the effectiveness of masks.

PS: It’s random mixing between groups that really spreads diseases. Individual classrooms where people see the same people every day may have outbreaks, but that’s all local transmission.
Try severely reducing the value of mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y in your Firefox about:config.
Bleach will also kill you if you drink a bottle, but it's legal OTC.

Prescriptions are for things that are dangerous under casual misuse, not intentional suicide or ignorant children.
FBReader runs fine on desktop as well (though it looks like the Windows version is pretty old). It is simple but works, and I have read a few books using it on desktop (now I use a Kobo).
I agree. It will keep getting better and I would much rather have these things available than not. It would be cool if the site provided the raw ffmpeg command line so that you could use it as a command builder and run it locally for large or batch jobs. Then you can choose between security and convenience or max performance.

The notes you mentioned sound like fundamental ffmpeg issues rather than problems with the implementation of this tool. It can usually trim without transcoding (much of) the file and encoding VP9 is notoriously slow.
Genocide is happening: Yemen. American weapons involved.

You'd better look this up.
Weren't the claims conveniently for the prosecution changed shortly before the trial this year, and the defense complained that they based their defense on that May 2019 document that you link?

https://shadowproof.com/2020/09/07/judge-railroads-assange-a...

"On June 24, [2020] the defense learned when a press release was published that Assange would soon face a third indictment. It was their belief that the indictment only added narrative details and expanded the timeline from 2010-2011 to 2010-2015.

The U.S. government served the indictment to the defense, but not the court, on July 2. Then, on August 12, a fresh extradition request based on the third indictment was issued. (It was dated July 17.)

Prosecutors notified the defense on August 21 that the third indictment does not include any additional charges, contrary to the defense’s understanding, the new details are not “mere narrative.” They “constitute the conduct upon which this court is entitled, and indeed must now determine [whether] an extradition offense is made out” under the relevant law.

Mark Summers, a lawyer for Assange, referred to two general allegations—Count 1, which involves an alleged conspiracy to release “national defense information,” and Count 2, which is an alleged conspiracy to commit computer intrusions under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

By adding new material, prosecutors believe they can extradite Assange, even if they do not convince the court that publishing disclosures from Pfc. Chelsea Manning was a criminal act."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_elec...

That doesn't sound too bad?
Last year FAANG created 98% of the S&P500 return. This means that the other 495 incumbents made a lost and are being disrupted.

Facebook > Users > Content > Advertisers

Apple > Developers > Apps > iPhones

Amazon > Sellers > Products > Buyers

Netflix > Creators > Video Content > Customers

Google > Websites >
Webpages > Advertisers
>Uhh. This article obsesses slightly about Journalist vs Not but they aren’t a class that gets special protection under the US Constitution. There is no category of privilege or freedom based on that status and they are not registered by any central authority that authorizes the benefits of its protection. The First Amendment protects any jerk with an opinion and a printing press, in the style of Thomas Paine, and any collaborators.

There has ALWAYS been the unwritten rule that media outlets are not charged under the espionage act, as they were doing their civic duty reporting on stuff the government doesn't want reported.

You can say about Assange what you want but it's undeniable he is only the PUBLISHER, and not the one who stole the docs.

The fact that he is charged for publishing is a line that the US Govt is crossing, and that's why it's significant.
So can a 45 year old. Why selectively target this one group instead of banning all gatherings regardless of age?
Neat. I am currently exploring using https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz which is another web stack built off next.js and Prisma.

Curious how this compares to it.
> What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

You mean ends don't justify means? That has proven to be a hardsell to ideologues. Principle moral failing of the modern man is adopting this 'universal moral and ethical waiver' as their guiding light (regardless of affected ideological garb).
Yeah, imagine if they were to improve our life even more!
But of course you’ll get down-voted into oblivion for having rationale thoughts that don’t align with mainstream ideologies today.
What "conspiracy theory" are you suggesting is being served here?
Secure Boot helps validate that the bootloader in which you are typing your disk encryption password is authentic and not a rootkit/keylogger.

Secure Boot shouldn't affect VirtualBox in any way. Are you sure your VirtualBox issue didn't have to do with Hyper-V?
Ka-Libre never occurred to me. "Calibre" is the same word the US spells "caliber", with the same pronunciation: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calibre
Anything you consume to the point of unconsciousness is likely to kill you.
Your world is full of intentional poisons (we use them to kill the things we don't like, germs and bugs) and dangerous things you aren't supposed to eat. The numbers don't matter.

Please don't end your life. Almost everyone who tries regrets it. Get help with your dark thoughts and keep on being a part to your communities.
Many wise people talk about the limits of knowledge, but I think these slackers just don't try hard enough.
I may be making many wrong assumptions, but I hope you can accept some tough love.

I left the Java group on LinkedIn years ago because of relentless spam, a major category of which was "programming tutorial" content that was in broken English, frequently full of errors -- what made it worst was that the authors were completely unresponsive to feedback. (Just because you are asking I know you're much better than that!)

Relentless spam like that poisons the well and chases away good content; so it is not just the 10 pieces of spam a day that hurt the world, but the 10 pieces of good content that might have been posted if people saw this was a worthwhile community.

I do not know what possesses such a person to make programming content in broken English. It is notorious that it is impossible to make advertising dollars (only pennies) with certain type of content such as anime images and programming blogs. The web is already overloaded with this sort of content -- I wonder if they'd have more success if they made programming content in their own language.

Like it or not you are a representative of the groups you are a member of. When a police officer commits an atrocity that has an effect on how people see all police officers.

In the late 1980s people in the US started talking to South Asians in call centers. Sometimes those call centers were excellent, sometimes less so. I never thought they were dishonest.

A few years ago the US was assaulted from a call center in Mumbai that gave people threatening and false information that claimed to be from the US tax authorities. I would pick up the phone and a south asian would try to to fool me into installing malware on my computer, etc. As a result I am all the more inclined to hang up the phone when it is a stranger with that kind of accent.

Is this "racism"? It is by a broad definition. But some yahoo yells at you today and throws a shoe at you because of something somebody "like you" in some ways did 30 years ago. So it is never to soon to model being a good person.

On a global forum such as the web where you have nearly unlimited reach you might ask yourself if is worth doing anything that isn't completely excellent, that people don't perceive as a tier higher than anything they've seen before.
Why does this link to techcrunch instead of the actual source / whitepaper?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/sidewalk/privacy_secu...
Even if it were found to be artificially created, how would that change what's necessary to control the virus? Are you saying that if proof were found it was created in a lab that people would suddenly start wearing masks happily?
Reminds me of the pareto principle.
https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmTZo9mVX6JwN4hgCF7Ers1jJ9A...
I've seen similar research indicating artificial origins, and one of the foremost experts in the relevant field came out and said there was no way this wasn't man made.
Some people understand that putting forward a position and calling it "fact checking" isn't something that only The Man is capable of. In fact, they know that certain "fact checking" sources have been spinning their take much longer than him.
So was Kubrick assassinated under orders from Prince Andrew? Was Robert Maxwell assassinated?
It's okay. There's more elections to come. :)
I’d be interested to see the number of people who know the risks of opiates and the people who know the risks of social media. I would guess the latter is a pretty small minority. And for both, I’d venture for the people who do know they’re dangerous there’s a great disparity between how dangerous they think they are and how dangerous they actually are (i.e. they’re worse in reality).

As for the cocaine part, that’s immaterial to the thought experiment I proposed. I was just trying to delineate between true physical addiction and whatever makes me people want to eat unhealthy food. Say it’s something else that causes physical addiction but isn’t illegal.
I suspect you are being downvoted because of this:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=WIPO
I don't think you're speaking in good faith if you don't think the grandparent is speaking from the point of view of an extremely mainstream belief in the dishonesty of "agenda-driven left-leaning organizations".
Yes! But where is he today? Working at Apple, barred from posting on the blog.
I have to disagree here. Not poisoning political opponents is a major democratic achievement.
It's a good question and the answer pushes the dichotomy of
1) do you prefer civilization law and order?
2) do you prefer to stay "deconstructed" and make your ego and personality to be molded by the trends of a global non-identity?

Which leads to another interesting question:

Which of these alternatives makes you to be the owner of your own destiny in this universe?
You can just scrape it if you wanted to; grab the src of all the <audio> elements and page through them all. Use the names/descriptions for proper naming.
Calibre is, bar none, one of the best tools I ever used. I acquired it originally for managing and converting my Kobo ebooks, but I was amazed at how robust its ebook viewer and especially ebook production tools were. I had an ebook that was clearly of dubious origin, as its Table of Contents page was completely broken (both the actual ToC page and the auto-generated navigation page). But all of the actual test was there. Once I opened the book up in the ebook editor, I was surprised at how quickly I was able to fix the ToC and change all the references to the correct chapter documents.

It's a fantastic tool, and one of the few examples where I think the "kitchen sink" approach really works, as opposed to a collection of UNIX-style tools (although it has those, too).
He exposed the wrong people of the wrong party during the wrong administration, hence the media turning its back on him. Simple as that.

Had he dumped a trove on Trump he would be feted by the media instead he is a pariah
As a data point I understood the same thing as imgabe from the "any connection with" bit.
Why, if you don't mind my asking?

Even if you paid anything for such an old product, your money wouldn't be going to MS anyway. Not sure what difference it makes, paying for an abandoned product.
Higher ground: the expert guide to making the perfect cup of coffee at home
Lojban is a good hybrid as a spoken conversational language that is logically precise enough to be parsable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
This is effectively how I use it now (through right click Open With on Windows), but it's pretty slow to "prepare book for first read" and such that feels like it's trying to do more central stuff than I asked for.
Yeah, I actually once worked at a place that was clean-rooming. They went to absurd lengths, even WITHOUT the old source code.

If you were designing the new app you couldn't even -look- at the existing UI; you could only get descriptions. Every term was checked by legal to make sure that it was a 'standard' industry term vs something that was specific to the existing software. They even used a different tech stack wherever they could.

I think the other company still tried to sue, IDK how it played out (I was gone by then) but I remember at least thinking they were in a pretty safe spot with how they handled it.
That’s not “deep”. That’s just following the motions to accomplish basic tasks.
1 year is less long then most people need to breath.

Bonus, in the US you can miss refills due to insurance squabbles leaving you with 0 medication unless you pay huge out of pocket.
If you have or are willing to create a gmail account, yes.
A friend of mine uses his PC only in the weekends (he uses the company's PC during the week) and hates Windows because every time it takes hours to download and install updates over his slow ADSL (I think there is no fast Internet there.) He has to remember to turn the PC on in the morning to use it in the afternoon. If he forgets, next weekend. Of course he could turn it on Friday night but the user experience is still really bad.
I think if there wasn't a media blackout on any unapproved theories about the virus, the media and the approved experts would be somewhat more trusted.
As someone who still appreciates the "art of trolling". This is indeed quite possibly one of the greatest trollings ever.
The Internet Treatment of Insomnia
Major Changes to Student Visa Rules Proposed
> For example, I've found that React + Enzyme + jsdom is a way to write frontend functional tests that are both fast and reliable

I found that tests using Enzyme/testing-library are actually more than 4x slower than unit tests, and give you far worse debugging & increased flakiness.
Is anyone surprised the Guardian is not going out of their way to help Assange?

Assange and Wikileaks dumped the entire set of files, without redactions, while the Guardian, Der Spiegel, NYTimes were spending time and resources trying to redact them, and releasing them as they were ready, and Assange went around and blamed it on the Guardian.

He exposed them to destruction of reputation and liability that would probably have crippled and ended them if he hadn't backed off those claims.

Also, non redaction of documents, actively encouraging leaking, and actively doctoring documents are all things that Wikileaks (specifically Assange, according to the other co founders) have done and would be a massive game ending problem for any news organization if they as an organization engaged in such activities.
What a great potential fictional character: enlighted & unpractial, free & lost. I suppose the real enlighted wouldn't ask himself (who?!). Maybe that's why they usually stay aside.

But seariously: many forget that the goal of spiritual practices is the ability to DO (instead of react)
When Vista came out I bought a new machine with AMD A6 4600+ and 2GB of RAM with Vista 64bit and it ran great. I had no driver issues or performance issue even with default install. You didn't need 4GB of RAM, you just needed new hardware. Limited RAM and drivers for the older hardware were the biggest problems, Microsoft drastically changed the driver DDK and many hardware venders had poor quality or no drivers which led to many of the problems people had. Kinda sad I got rid of this machine, it would be interesting to benchmark it to a Raspberry PI 4 in Linux.
> everybody pretty much just swallows what they're fed by the people they've chosen to trust, both left and right

This.
If you set up a popular Qanon or BLM or MAGA site you will make ok money from advertising.

Popular <==> controversy.

Meddling in elections is profitable for lots of people, not just the Russians. I'd stop fixating on them.

Maybe as a state actor they can do more than commerce, but that's quite a socialist point of view.

We seem to have forgotten the Macedonians - https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/
But civilizations where such people prevailed had an enormous impact on the world. It turns out that a society with enough of them ends up in a golden age.
There is a legalistic difference between asking someone to give you information if they already have the information (legal? I think?) and before they have the information (definitely illegal).

If the source doesn't have the information yet then you are asking them to steal government secrets, the crime for which is conspiracy to steal government secrets. That's traditionally what spies do, not journalists, which is why the crime exists.