skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's unclear what the intended use of this project is. Is it to somehow add facial gesture recognition to websites? Or is it for children to have some fun in a Scratch-like programming environment? Why does the name have "Midi" in it when it has nothing to do with MIDI controllers (which was my first guess when I read the title)?
Enjoy eating asbestos burgers and lead laced cola.

Insider trading and whole hull house of exploits that are now barely held back by regulations.

You must be blind to not see how current system is currently exploiting democracy and technology information era, I dread what would happen if they were to run free and unchecked.

Imagine for a second scenario, you got jumped on the street and stabbed you are bleeding and need help fast. You call ambulance, street cameras see you are bleeding... Yes sir we can be there in 3min it will be $50,000 for ambulance, without it you will die. You call another ambulance company, they say same thing. Of course they are in the syndicate fixing prices its not illegal. Tell me how in a pure libertarian society this wouldn't end up being the case.
For me it's the scale. As in proper big screen.

There's only three theaters in town I really enjoy visiting and then only their main auditoriums (~700-900 seats). My favorite has (or at least until recently had) the largest THX certified auditorium[1].

If I can't get the proper big screen then indeed it's better to just watch at home.

That said, it helps that the audience here is for the most part quiet and sitting still.

[1]: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/23154
I think the <textarea> problem can be solved if the interviewer gives enough information so that the interviewee can have their IDE working correctly by the time they get started.

The pressure problem can be solved by giving more time than what would be expected in a work setting. If you expect a task to be completed in 1h, just give 2h. Of course that implies that you don't give a task which would take an expected 6h to complete.

Of course these are things to consider from the company side, if they think they want to hire people who can program under high pressure, they should probably keep that as part of the interview, for both the company's and interviewee's sake.
I would agree with that, acoup's focus is exactly on over-analyzing fictional settings.
While I have substantial agreement with your point of view, when web content is substantially ad-funded, automated scraping effectively bypasses the “payment”.

I say this as someone who runs an adblocker, installs them for family, and doesn’t derive income from hosting ads, so I’m not pro-ad; I just realize that while it’s not a crime for me to dump the whole bowl of waiting room candies into my backpack, that’s going to be frowned upon.
> which I'm not sure I understand to be honest

Uh yeah, I lack sleep. I meant type-centric (such as a newspaper).
Many software jobs barely involve programming. Just look around in this thread, you will find people who argue that the job barely requires writing any code at all and mostly involves talking to customers or managers. That kind of experience doesn't make you a better coder, it makes you a better product manager, so technical interviews filtering them out is intended.
I haven't written a sorting method in years and couldn't remember it on the spot in 10 minutes, despite having analyzed the big ones 6 years ago. Yet, I have no problem creating a giant, modular, cookie-cutter enterprise structure, which is generally more sought after and something many hardcore leets seem to struggle with, especially once it comes down to doing more than just a fancy UML graph.

We really don't need True Scotsmans on this site.
Well, good is relative. MacOS renders fonts in a weight-and-form-correct way which makes them look blurry however. Windows renders fonts in a weight-and-form-incorrect way, which however makes them sharper and easier to read on screens, especially with resolutions below 200dpi.

Now if you use a high-resolution monitor and print-optimized fonts, MacOS will look better. If you use a low-resolution monitor and screen-optimized fonts, Windows will look better. Problem is, most designers come from print and use expensive Mac gear, so they are designing for a minority, their peers, not their users.
Bitcoin is traded, even is we forget for a moment about wash trading. In each transaction we generate only a small margin, which adds to the value of traded assets. Only 2-5 billion dollars of bitcoins were from mining in 2020. Tethers are printed out of thin air and sold fully, from 0$ to 1$ (in equivalent), margin is 100%. So 15 billion of new tethers printed this summer had much more influence on the market than even greater amount of Bitcoin trades.
It depends on the business and the top-level organization you are thinking of, but it is worth looking for someone with experience in accounting / legal, instead of leaving considerations like that for when the company is larger. Someone with experience as HR director / senior legal counsel / startup CFO / etc; i.e., demonstrated ability to take responsibility for keeping the company out of legal and ethical trouble.

I have worked at two small startups that started out by outsourcing all HR/legal/accounting stuff to staffing agencies or independent contractors, and it resulted in missing paychecks, minor lawsuits, severely botched contracts, and can lead to serious problems with company ethics and employee retention.
> May I ask what alternative title do you suggest

Easy, the original title of TFA, "Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling".

Editorializing breaks site guidelines.
for me personally, I've only noticed this problem once, but I can't remember which site that was (must be one I don't visit often), but obviously your browsing habits are different to mine.

I don't see any disadvantages to giving it a try yourself for a while tho' - it's just a single checkbox setting.
These look great! Thank you for creating these.

Please note that you do have a link to creative commons, but I could not find the specific license these are released under.
The name SWAR is sometimes used (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR).

Indeed, even 8-bit fields can be added in parallel, using the fact that ^ is like a + that does not produce a carry:

uint64_t signmask = 0x8080808080808080;
uint64_t sum_without_sign_bits = ((x & ~signmask) + (y & ~signmask));
uint64_t sum_of_sign_bits = (x ^ y) & signmask;
return sum_without_sign_bits ^ sum_of_sign_bits;
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> while in Asia people wear masks and go about their business as usual.

I'd be curious to see if mask wearing Asian countries had less incidence of the flu than western countries.
The author is expressing an opinion using cherry-picked details: an excerpt from an offhand LiveJournal comment and 2 sparse descriptions from the book. That plus loads of speculation presented as fact. "The Dothraki were based on demeaning stereotypes as evidenced by their clothing choices" is unconvincing

Historically inaccurate: sure. Granted. Motte.

Demeaning stereotype: Let's take an offhand comment, load it with unsupported meaning, link it with Historical Inaccuracy, call it demeaning. Boom. Bailey.

Edit: responding to your edits

> * "nomad cultures are nothing like this" *

He cherry-picked ways that the Dothraki are different from horse-riding, raiding cultures and labeled this demeaning. Did he talk about ways that Dothraki culture is similar to horse-riding, raiding cultures? No, he did not. It's All Wrong and Bad

> * Cancelling" refers to censorship. You cant cry censorship ... *

You literally just redefined a word that I used and argued against this new, less defensible, dumb position. Don't do that.

> * Also, author criticized other aspects of GoT a lot previously ... *

Not sure what that has to do with this article being a motte and bailey. I'm sure his other articles are marvelous.
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I can't recall without looking into it, but there's a lot of gotchas when implementing web fonts. You have to ensure it's using fallbacks, that it can use them before the target fonts have loaded, that the fallbacks are close to the web font in style, and there's a bunch of CSS tricks you can use so that a repaint doesn't end up reflowing everything.
I don't know what textbooks you had but mine were generally enormous, hugely expensive, with average quality noted and explanations. The one that comes to mind immediately is https://www.pearson.com/uk/educators/higher-education-educat...

Meanwhile, sites like Paul's Math Notes and Khan academy are easier to digest, clearer explained, and much more available.
Well, its a misnomer anyways. "Monolith" means "single stone". It is a large structure formed from a single stone, which was significant in former times because there was no concrete to create large artificial stones. If it is metal, it isn't a monolith. If it is welded, which I suspect it is, it isn't a monolith.
Yeah right, let's all live like unemotional robots.
Nowhere in the account of the story from the other party anything is specified as "conditional" nor whoever issued the initial approval is mentioned at all. More weirdly, in her account of the story, the "back-and-forth" came from, tada... HR department, which is super weird.

Look, I am not necessarily picking her side in the more general story, but it is apparent this paper submission story in isolation is super weird. It seems feasible that she was in the queue for getting the axe having engaged in prior fights with the company (some mention of threat of lawsuit, etc). I also acknowledge the account of story from her side was quite cherry-picked and actively strategic, if not deceitful, and it does not even seem that Jeff was a direct player in this saga. Looks the highest level person in the loop was Megan, not Jeff, and Jeff is simply dragged into the mix for the opportunity to throw a punch at his reputation. That, however, does not minimize the weirdness of putting the whole thing on this two-week paper submission policy.
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Exactly. It's hard to see how masks themselves could have a negative effect. If they have a positive effect caused by people being more conscious of the current situation and keeping a greater distance, or not going out at all because having to wear a mask is a burden, so what? Worst case is they are neutral all things considered.
If in Gnome, fractional scaling is possible but not enabled by default. I use 125% and it has been fine. I did it via Gnome-tweak, or you can manually enable it [1].

[1] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-enable-hidpi-fr...
This uses the confluence API and does not simulate the web-ui right ? Our admins disabled API access to confluence sadly.
This article has photographs of the roundabout itself being decorated by a local artist:

https://portal.fo/dagur-36150/myndir-listaverkid-hja-trondi-...
I felt the same way reading it, but I also admire the ability to self-brand, even though personally I’ve given up on that, having gained weight and worn boxers to work most days recently. I could brand that, but it wouldn’t be original.

Organization and motivation are important, though.
The average age of those killed by COVID-19 is 83 years old.
I can’t use pen and paper because I’m surrounded by nosy people who don’t know to respect my privacy. And if I put some kind of lock on a physical diary or something, they complain that I am hiding something.
There's another benefit in self-hosting, which is that Google will stop tracking your users on the web!
This is orthogonal to the purpose of scraping.

If I run a search engine which potentially links real human eyes back to you, then should I pay the "ad" toll as well?

I don't believe so.

I do believe there is an agreeable middle-ground, but Google walked away from that conversation years ago.
Big tech is already choosing most of what you watch on your screens.

For example if Google decides that something doesn't exist, 90+% of connected people won't see it.

This is scary.
> "All I did was make a popup to share the labor notice Google has to share with its workers"

Does not mean rewriting the content of webpages, or having "root at google.com". It's better if you'd stop such speculation.

The reality is much more pedestrian than what you describe: the person that was retaliated against only wrote simple, inert, strings of plain text.

That text was not injected anywhere, and there was no arbitrary code involved.

In fact, everything was safe, and went through the usual security controls.

The only "danger" in having that, is that people can read it.

Ultimately, it's laughable how you think that informing other coworkers about the NLRB is some kind of politically extreme agenda. It's clear that you have an axe to grind
There's a lot wrapped up in that icon:

- rendering a physical embodiment of the digital work
- more specifically, making a thing you can hand to another person so they can use it
- also specifically making a thing you can physically store somewhere "safe"
- a distinction between temporary and permanent versions of the digital content

Today we don't use physical media for any of these things. Display, exchange and long-term storage can all be accomplished without going to the physical realm.

How else might we represent this graphically?
Yes! I do this and love it. Works locally or via SSH with no difference at all.
I used 'understood' because it is what I believe the scientific consensus to be. Since I do not use this for anything else, there is no 'appeal to authority' in my original comment.

That said, let me double down and state that I wholeheartedly recommend using the scientific consensus as a prior for your opinion on any given topic. :)
That's awesome, really love what you've built here! I guess one of the most exciting use case would be for people with a disability. Did you already think about that? What's your thoughts on this?
I guess you are tired of intrusive ads?

I run a blog myself and the money that keeps it running comes exclusively from my pocket. All the content is free and fully accessible (no paywalls, reading quota, etc.). I build the website and write the articles during nights and weekends.

I share your discontent with the current state of things. However, I plan on having a small piece of real estate on the page with an ad banner as long as it's privacy-focused, non intrusive and doesn't hurt performance.
And logistics, Tolkien has armies moving with logistics in mind ie if the armies described could be supported with supplies,
acoup just gives a very tongue in cheek quip: "if GRRM knew more about medieval times + lotr, he could answer that question for himself"

In some way i agree with that: part of the idea behind ideal heroes is that one should answer for oneselve what a good and wise kings tax policy would be like, but that is not what acoup said.
I wonder why can't they confirm the fact. Even if it is illegal, noone will go in jail for that, some fine and thats it. Plus given that it is a tourist atttraction now, the fine would likely not be that high. Bad excuse, I guess.
For a humorous take on this perspective, I recommend this spoof commentary on the trilogy by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-...

CHOMSKY: But without the pipe-weed, Middle Earth would fall apart. Saruman is trying to break up Gandalf’s pipe-weed ring. He’s trying to divert it.

ZINN: Well, you know, it would be manifestly difficult to believe in magic rings unless everyone was high on pipe-weed. So it is in Gandalf’s interest to keep Middle Earth hooked.
For those that care about numbers: Loom targets ~ 200b memory overhead per virtual thread. And ~ 100ns per context switch between virtual threads.
That is a horribly wrong view point. Information required for business purposes, e.g. to write invoices or file taxes is considered user information you are fine to retain.

It's not about not having information, it's about having consent before acquiring it.
Back to School?
Has anyone on HN gone back to school full-time?

I've had a very successful career in tech, but would like to finish my degree. I consider myself a life-long learner and have always dreamed of having the time and space to finish a degree in Computer Science.

Long story short, I started a startup and college at the same time. My startup was acqui-hired, college was put on hold, and well, that was around 2008. I have since continued to work at startups and big-tech. The last decade kind of just flew past.

But, I do have doubts and I question if it is time for me to finish my degree.
Revolutionized our understanding? Before Penrose there was no understanding to revolutionize.
What brought me to do something similar in a former job was, that I realized it only hurts my coworkers when I do more than the average.

The management would say to everyone with performance below average something like: "How can we help you to improve your performance? What do you plan to improve your performance?"

The result was that most people stopped working once they reached their goals because otherwise they would only increase the average^^

I read a lot during this job xD
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You should add "Ask HN:" to your title as it's usually done here.
Nobody ever used the IBM PC with a cassette tape recorder
ARM UEFI systems exist. There are now the norm on servers along with ACPI. Even some embedded devices use UEFI. There are other standards to address those various points.

This post is so outdated, that ARM servers' companies had the time to have everything, then still die (most of them). And then revive with the AWS Graviton2 and other Neoverse chips.
beside:

Germany did not wear masks on the first shutdown in spring (same as Danmark and Sweden) - the were not available and they came as the spread already went down heading summer.

As for the headline, Germany has a strict shutdown at the moment.
If it's your knitting blog then maybe it doesn't matter. It really depends on the content. If you're selling software then it matters. They purchase software licenses like everyone else - so you're losing clients. If it's a code related thing then software developers in China will also look at it just because there is never enough programming resources for obscure issues. They just might not post issues and "engage".

My perennial annoyance was how StackOverflow was always subtly broken in China b/c they refuse to host some of their JS. On my own website I noticed that the default MathJAX CDN was also impossibly slow. Fortunately you can just forked a copy on github and use that - which was much snappier. Github-as-CDN
> Why hasn’t w3c taken on some way to avoid the unnecessary complexity?

They did. Your browser will use the fall back when you use "font-family" selector.

But that's just the best the CSS spec can offer. Why?

Because the problem isn't a browser problem. It's a system level problem.

Operating systems only come with a handful of fonts. And those packs of fonts may differ per OS. Moreover, most fonts are protected by intellectual property rights. Helvetica isn't a free-to-use font. It's IP is currently owned by a company called Monotype Imaging. It was originally licensed to Apple, Xerox and Adobe for use. That's why Microsoft came up with Arial. [1]

> It was created to be metrically identical to the popular typeface Helvetica, with all character widths identical, so that a document designed in Helvetica could be displayed and printed correctly without having to pay for a Helvetica license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial

If you want to use a font that isn't part of your OS, you basically have two options. Either you download a font published under a copyleft license; or you buy a license if it's a commercial font.

Suppose you want to use a commercial font in your website, simply adding it through font-face could be a violation of the IP license. You really want to read the fine print of the fonts you buy. Yes, companies and people do find themselves in protracted lawsuits over illegal font use. [2]

[2] https://www.quora.com/Do-companies-get-sued-for-using-fonts-...

Before Google Fonts, adding a font via font-face was a protracted effort because of all this. You had to mess with font-face, and finding a nice, free-to-use font across various font foundries was hard and laborious.

The big boon of Google Fonts is that it provides (a) a set of free-to-use fonts which are (b) quite well designed and widely used everywhere after a decade. (Just like Arial, Google's Roboto is widely popular.) [3] and (c) extremely convenient to use since it's just a single line of CSS.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboto

However, Google Fonts dominance on the Web only masks the underlying complexity of font management [4] and the legal issues of using and distributing commercial fonts that aren't designed by Google.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_management_software

So, the performance and privacy issues related to using Google Fonts are mainly a trade off people are willing to accept in order to not having to deal with this complexity.

The old alternative is to use "web safe fonts" or "generic font families" which are presumably already available on the vast majority of machines via the operating system. Needless to say, this dramatically reduces the number of fonts designers can choose from. [5]

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_typography#Web-safe_fonts

The other alternative is what the blogpost proposes: Download and host any font you use yourself. Provided that you do your own due diligence regarding rights management.
Nothing beats the flexibility of pen and paper for unstructured information.

Of course, for work we also use shared digital docs, but what goes in there has first been through my ugly scribbles on paper.
> Faroe Islands

> Big city

Choose one. Though being serious, it takes about five minutes to drive to the hospital from any point in the capital if you have sirens going.
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