skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blogpost makes some good points, but it's extremely selective in choosing examples to support the author's thesis.

Mainly in that it ignores many examples of orthographic ligatures that don't fit the author's narrative. A (further deep-)linked blogpost on ligatures in general states:

> Ligatures were invented to solve a practical typesetting problem. In the days of metal fonts, certain characters had features that physically collided with other characters. To fix this, font foundries cast ligatures fonts [0]

But that's not true. That is why ligatures are used by many foundries more recently, but it's not why they were invented, and it doesn't cover all traditional uses of ligatures. German and French orthography in particular contain a lot of examples that are closer to programming operators in use than the author's "fi" example.

[0] https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures.html
I find ttf fonts generally smudge the letters together and can make things hard to see. proggy[1] is quite good if misc-fixed[2] is not available.

[1] https://proggyfonts.net/download/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_%28typeface%29
Maybe Social Media Isn’t Making Teens Depressed and Here’s What Likely Is
Yes, there is nothing like the flash IDE available today.

I had a manager in the late 2000's who was giddy with the possibilities of HTML5 "It can do everything we do with flash!" Whilst that may be technically true, in practice bloated libraries like D3 are required for even the most basic vector manipulation and coding every tiny detail of an animation feels like groping in the dark when there used to be a source of illumination.

I'm not sad about the demise of Flash, but I think there is a gap in the market for a more graphical keyframe based approach, where things can be rapidly prototyped, resulting in clean code.
Consider this: when you initially submitted your data, the NN said you’re fine, and so you forget about it. Later on, the NN is tweaked and would say you actually probably have cancer, but you don’t know because you never bother checking again. The insurance companies get their hands on those results. You’re not committing fraud (because you don’t know), but now the insurance companies are more reluctant to sell you insurance.

(To be fair, I don’t think the insurance companies are allowed to discriminate against you using only that data. They probably need an official, recognized diagnosis from a real human doctor.)
was useful to read, tnx. Agree with the opinion that building an automated quality assurance and testing process is the cornerstone of a successful, scalable product.I have found 10 qa engineer questions here https://fortegrp.com/10-questions-you-were-afraid-to-ask-abo... about qa work. This arcticle could be useful for beginners too.
Kind of a great history of our lovely shopping malls, from the "ominous, amorphous, boxy shape" to the brand new "Lifestyle Center". Didn't knew this was all envisioned by an Austrian, named Victor Gruen.
For me, I just selectively use _some_ ligatures. There are a few I like (like a lambda symbol instead of `fn` in Clojure), and the rest I just don't use.
> I've grown up in a period when pop culture didn't care much about cultural sensitivity.

Same, and as unpopular it may be, i firmly believe it's kind of better to not care. Because the opposite is precisely what happens here, which is caring only about a specific set of 'aspects' that are currently fashionable in the society, while failing to cover for the large majority of inequalities that are not "visible".

It's the exact same than positive discrimination, you end up only caring about women or color people in the name of "equal opportunity" and no one care anymore about economic inequalities that are largely the main factor of inequality at birth. In the end it's still the same rich people from the same parents but they just look more diverse, and no one care of young people from trailer parks & getthos.

I don't blame prejudiced people fighting agaisnt their prejudices tho, imo it's more a consequence lazy politics and politician trying to get votes instead of taking on more complex and deeper problems.
> No one takes the Simpsons Movie as representative of real history, though

True, Assassin's Creed is certainly marketed as having more attention to realism than the Simpsons Movie. It's more like a Dan Brown book though: people might find the stock goodies and baddies narrative, historic/mythologic references and attention to detail with symbols and places all too believable but it's certainly possible to overanalyse design decisions which amount to stereotypical heroes in stereotyped historical settings sell better.

If one actually wanted to produce a nuanced representation of that historical timeline, it would be difficult to do so as a game based on killing large numbers of NPCs
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oh wow surprised to find this on frontpage. I definitely submitted this more than 24 hours ago but yet it says I submitted 5hrs ago. mysterious second chance pool strikes again! and yes I thought it was very entertainingly written. no relation to the author.
I think it’s just short for computation rather than being ‘nouning’.
I meant agency in regard to the conclusions you draw from playing, not that the degrees of freedom within a game are unlimited. You played it perhaps (I did not) and thought that the game forces you to identify with characters mocking something or someone. I haven't played many games that didn't depict such mockery in a negative light if the player has no influence on it anyway.

Some games allow you to have a choice in it, but doing so is not synonymous with holding that view.

> trappings that have been appropriated by neo-nazis.

Don't make the mistake in handing such symbols to neo-nazis. They will turn it around on you. For them Vikings might depict an ideal but they probably aren't interested in a deeper cultural analysis anyway.
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Software is trying to change your habits
> The insight should thus to be very careful about stock market bubbles

Can you provide some actionable pointers for how to achieve that? For example, how do you suggest to identify/quantify a bubble before it pops?
Named arguments is a HUGE thing for ergonomics. It makes code many times more readable, since it automatically documents intent much more clearly. The code linked here is nowhere near representative of regular Swift code.

As a very basic made-up example, the real value of named arguments is code like this:

FileManager.copy(path1, path2)

What does that do? There is no way to tell which file is copied to which. In Swift, this is written as:

FileManager.copy(from: path1, to: path2)

Suddenly, there is no need to look up the function to figure out what it does. It is perfectly clear.
To be fair the title of this website is a collection of unmitigated pedantry, so in this particular case I can sort of understand why such things are explored and discussed.

On this topic in general though, as a "POC" (as I am told this is the category to which I belong), I find the obsession with race and representation in video games, movies, TV, etc. to be quite disturbing and reminiscent of the worldview put forward by identitarian organizations of the past. It comes across as tokenism primarily.

As far as marketability is concerned, I can't relate to someone who will use this as a criteria for buying/not buying a game. I have never met a person like this in my life who wasn't otherwise mentally troubled.
Personally, I use the narrow version of the Anka Coder font. I'm having trouble reading very small fonts, but this narrow font makes up for it.

https://fontlibrary.org/th/font/anka-coder-narrow#Anka/
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"Typical noisy OOP java code base", without a single class in the whole file, only value types. As for automated tools, I think you're giving Xcode too much credit. It'll help you a bit, but not much.
Call of Duty is even more egregious because they took something which has been called a US war crime (Highway of Death) and used a fictionalized version of it in the game but made the Russians do it instead of the Americans.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-28-call-of-duty-m...
Note: I've explicitly said: "NTFS on Windows" and "NTFS and the whole infrastructure connected to it". Also: "NTFS was slower than FAT" was true for years. I have no experience with BTRFS, but that doesn't prove anything without knowing more details (the overhead introduced to make it work). So... it's both NTFS and the Windows "subsystems."
Economists Explain Their 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Linux/Unix just trust that if you want something persisted with certainty you'll do an fsync, if you do it will absolutely guarantee you're not losing that. It will absolutely make sure that your filesystem doesn't get corrupted by a power loss but if you didn't fsync your write you had no place believing it was persisted.

Doing that IMHO matches real world use much better.
If I do a compile and get a power outage I don't care
if some object files get lost. If I do an INSERT in a DB I do care a lot but the DB knows that and will fsync before
telling me it succeeded. So making sync explicit
gives you both great performance and flexibility.
Are you browsing without an ad-blocker? I can't see any kind of popup, but maybe that's because i'm using quite strict defaults with ublock+umatrix in whitelist mode (eg blocking everything non html/css/image by default). In any case, when i do see such popups i usually either click on any button that closes (including "accept all"), since i'm blocking everything downstream (why should i trust any of their opt-out anyway), or more brutally i just "zap" the popup with ublock (it auto-creates a rule that will blacklist the given dom element). This last method is particularly useful against the retorse "please login to continue" popup from youtube.
My initial response was a fairly kneejerk reaction to the snark. The following is a rewrite. Please don't; if you really think so little of me, rather don't reply than reply unpleasantly.

> Deep neural nets do not learn only from examples! They encode strong inductive biases in their carefully hand-engineered and hand-tuned architectures

“Solomonoff Induction does not learn only from evidence! It encodes strong inductive biases in its construction and choice of Turing machine...”

but it doesn't matter. Our universe is not a random soup of maximal entropy.

The tasks I am talking about solving are overtly not impossible.

You talk about ML methods like the success of, say, image recognition comes from image-recognition-specific architectures. You mention ‘hand-engineered’ or ‘hand-tuned’. And yet, to throw your snark back at you, if you were up to date with the literature, you would know this is not true.

Consider ViT as an example. The same Transformer, the same minimal inductive biases, work as well for language modelling as for image segmentation as for proof search—the only difference perhaps that ViT works on patches for efficiency, though the paper shows that probably hurts performance in the limit. All it takes is an appropriate quantity of data to learn the appropriate task-specific adaptations the network needs. Heck, even cross-domain works; it's all one architecture, so it's all one inductive bias.

To my mind, this is what it means to learn from examples. There is no way that an architecture designed for language translation could also encode task-specific priors for these different tasks.

For sure, one might call this ‘strong inductive biases’, in that the program is not random bytes (as a truly bias-free algorithm must be), but please at least admit that this is a complete different conceptual plane to the sort of biases you give Louise. Louise's biases aren't merely task specific, they're problem-specific. It would be one thing if Louise's biases were a handwritten web of a million BK rules: fine, whatever, as long as it solves the task that is obviously possible to solve. But they're not, they're tuned per example.

ML people call that data leakage.

> I don't understand what you mean. Yes, Louise can check for arbitrary programs. I can give it zero BK and metarules and ask it to generate all Prolog programs, say.

Louise can perhaps generate all Prolog programs. Louise cannot search the space of Prolog programs.
University lecturers in particular are a deluded bunch. They mistake their role for one of power and forget that the students are their employers. Source: 100 years as a University lecturer.
> I'm a bit lost what the author wants to tell us

He wants to tell you this: "I conjecture, modern science arose in the 17th century, in the course of the so-called Scientiﬁc Revolution, precisely because it stumbled upon the extraordinary motivating power of ‘only empirical evidence counts’ – a story I tell in my book The Knowledge Machine (2020)."

It's a book ad.
Anything that's GTK and Qt based will definitely be Wayland native and thus not have the XWayland issue with fractional scaling. So Libreoffice works fine and so does gnome-terminal. I use those daily. If you have problems with those there's something else wrong.

For the other examples it's probably XWayland scaling at 1x and then being scaled up instead of 2x and down. The patches to fix that exist but I'm not sure where they're already merged in. All those apps except Emacs should go Wayland native in the next few months though.
A Tax for Working from Home?
the great thing about zfs is you don't have to care, at all

as long as it writes and reads back (most of the time): ZFS will deal with it
Unfortunately in 2020 it looks like even acknowladging the existance of things like slavery is somehow equated with approval of those things. There was a case where someone got upset(on twitter, of course) that there is a character in Valhalla who is described as "disfigured" - apparently that's ableism. So Ubisoft apologized, don't know if that description got changed or not in the end, but even if such small things end up getting the company to apologize, how could you even contemplate adding a topic like slavery in?
It's missing DejaVu Sans (Code) :(
Sounds like the internet when it was younger, and things like geocities allowed anyone to have a free website. People put up anything and everything, niche interests to fan sites, complete with animated skulls or torches or mailboxes, scrolling text, music players, and visitor counters.
> How do “woke politics” prevent you from doing your job well?

I’m a hiring manager and where I work we have an unwritten “understanding” that if your candidate recommendations don’t include any women you are a sexist.

I just make sure I include a few female candidates even if none in the recruitment pool are capable because it’s not worth the trouble.

However, I imagine that for many “by the book” hiring managers this causes significant anxiety and stress.
That's why I said "almost always", because almost always I don't search for acronyms.
Let me try to put it this way.
If you let things run its own course with no external forces, this would lead to a team with people from similar backgrounds and from similar geographies. Because not all people has the same starting point, not all people have access to the education and privilege.

But remote work can be most useful for people from emerging economies. It can bring them better salary, better living conditions and this has huge implications in long term.
We are trying to do our part in accelerating that.
Edit: To clarify I love working with women. They are smart, compassionate and bring a different view point to work. But hiring solely based on gender is such a sexist and oppressing thing to do for other deserving candidates.

VC: What's your differentiation factor or moat from the other 10k job board sites?

Herjobs: We play the women card, the race card and will call you sexist if you don't use our product.
How well known is James Dyson in the US?

The reason I ask is that in the UK he is quite a polarising figure, with many people hating on him because he is a Brexiteer with all of his manufacturing now moved out of the UK to the Far East. Plus the products are not liked by all with some daring to say his vacuum cleaners are heavy, expensive and lacking in durability. Others insist on a Dyson product and won't settle for anything less.

Therefore, in the UK, winning an award with his name on it is not going to universally impress people. Plus the prize money is not that great in business terms.

So, how is James Dyson regarded internationally?
My favorite recent font discovery is Simplex Roman. Designed in 1967 for early CRT vector displays by Dr. A. V. Hershey (for the US Naval Weapons Laboratory!), and released into the public domain.

Incredibly pleasant looking even today: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/

OpenType conversions: https://github.com/scruss/AVHershey-OTF/tree/master/otf

Reminds me of vector arcade games like Asteroids and Tempest... By the way, another cool public domain font is the one used on all US interstates — 1948! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic
> While the M1 is impressive, everybody avoid the Elephant in the room which is: they dropped Windows bootcamp support which make it DOA for me. (and no a VM is not a replacement).

I'm not quite sure if it's even a mouse in the room. While it certainly is a problem for you and a niche group of like-minded users, the vast majority of Mac users, including me, simply don't care about Windows support.

Plus, there is good hardware to be found on the Windows side as well, so it isn't the end of the world in my opinion.
Rather than spending a lot of time building a router table, I recommend making a Samurai Carpenter's router jig [1] which is far simpler to make, and more useful in most woodworking joinery tasks. I spent many evenings making a nice router table, and I've used it maybe a dozen times. The Samurai jig, on the other hand, I use all the time. Mostly cutting half lap joints in two-by material, but also for notching and general routing. It is much easier to use a router when you can the bit cutting. With a router table you have to rely on the fence for making accurate cuts. (A good fence is a mandatory accessory for a functional router table)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9Cb_-Axos
You are not nonwhite so please dont speak for nonwhite people.
I think it's pretty rich for anyone to be complaining about the video game industry not pandering enough to left-wing social justice theories enough these days. It practically all you see. This game in itself is an example of it! (As noted sort-of by the writer)

Most developers don't care about this stuff anyway, the industry needs to go back to the time when developers just made the games they liked, the games were better then, and it shows.
> context switching from UI to backend development is taxing enough, at least the language and some of the tooling could remain the same.

I wish I had understood this sooner. Thank you for your comment!
I was talking in the labour market perspective, there simply aren't so many experienced journalists that new-age media startups can afford.

Plus, I have difficulty in understanding whether an elderly's 'experience' would have a significant addition to quality of coverage in a field so unstable and ever-changing as politics apart from what standard critical writing already achieves. Aren't politics and related dynamics drastically different today, in the internet age, than those the senior, experienced editors are used to living in?
Yep, Triplicate and is far and away my favorite programming font as well, closely followed by Operator Mono. You need to pay for both, but it was easily worth it for me.
I really like typescript and I have used it fondly when developing Angular projects because it is one of the defaults.

In most other frameworks there seem to be some arcane incantations required to include typescript into the build system. I have not looked into this recently - is there a straightforward way of including Typescript into a Rails, Gatsby, Hugo, Laravel, Wordpress, etc. project?

I feel like Typescript popularity would explode if the above level of friction became near-zero.
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You want to find someone is believes in the technology but that does not want to go it get more adoption. You know that you are asking for an impossible argument, right?

If I tell you that thanks to Bitcoin I could move money between three different countries without paying conversion fees or that it was my work on Blockchain technology that has paid my bills for the past two years, would you start looking into it?

If I tell you that my current project can help, I don't know, people in Lebanon to escape their disastrous monetary policy and be in control of their own assets, would you give it a chance?

If I tell you that I switched my browser from Firefox to another that is using blockchain to build an alternative that can fight Surveillance Capitalism, would you take seriously only those who don't hold any of the token or would you prefer to listen to someone who has skin in the game?

By your standard, every source will be "biased". The question is then if there any point on the scales you see yourself that can actually make it tip over.
Feel free not to use them then.

It's usually more along the lines of product owners preferring features over speed though

Especially if the product owner is the developer itself, as features are way more fun to produce then fighting through some native docs which sometimes don't even work anymore.
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Is there a font you can recommend for the terminal? I am currently using cascadia code and I am satisfied
Yes, and with that attitude they and the people that write for them to match the agenda aren't different from the producer of "Ancient Aliens" who has a very specific agenda: to train the viewers to not believe the science (1) and "look for God", in his own words:

"It’s really a show about looking for God. Science would have you believe we are the result of nothing more than a chance assemblage of matter. The real truth is we don’t know."

It's one thing to positively promote your beliefs, what's from a humanistic point very wrong is intentionally sowing confusion and spreading doubt in what is already known (and demotivating people to even attempt to learn something right). Time and again we see how the people eventually suffer from such actions.

Also, "If Life Were Only Like This" (2) I wish I could pull Thomas Kuhn to every writer who mentions him around just to promote his own agenda: "I heard what you're saying, you know nothing of my work, how you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing."

1) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/style/ancient-aliens.html

2) https://www.openculture.com/2017/05/woody-allen-gets-marshal...
It's $19 if you just pick the regular weight desktop version.
I like the idea, though it does feel a little like two forms, without the ability to see much else.

Sadly, not quite at the point of hiring full time employees yet (short term contractors mostly at the moment), but will keep it in mind to be part of the mix when I am.
For me the reason to modify: My wife enjoys both and it makes it easier to just cook once (and celery is often in a Bloody Mary ;)
Fraud happened. I suggest you go find those published affidavits for the current courts cases pending. I bet you didn't read ANY of those affidavits before you come to the conclusion of "he can't accept lost". Read it and then conclude he lost or maybe just maybe you have been in the bubble? Another confirmed news that don't trend in your usual news outlets are the servers retrieved from Germany. I let you do some home work rather than I dish you all the proves. You need to learn how to research and not just what FB or CCN tells you.