skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's 2020, we can make rockets land on self-driven barges, and somehow we're still forced to use xrandr manually...? This is the sort of thing that keeps me from going back to the Linux desktop.
That is why I prefer the static tiling approach compared to the
common dynamic tiling window managers. The important difference
is that a static window manager never reorders or resizes
windows unless you tell it to, and this leads to the same
flexibility but without being forced into a predetermined
layout.

I like it a lot but it's rare, the only one I've used is
stumpwm.
Arecibo (Carbon Based Lifeforms)
I don't think it's necessarily that people affiliate themselves with a specific team, like some do with xBox vs Playstation for example. Team names have been more popular lately due to the comeback of AMD, where a lot of people were rooting for "team red" so that the CPU market wouldn't be as stagnant. However most people still just buy the product with the most performance per dollar, or support for their software.
And you don't name any sources for your claims that their claims are dubious.
Tolkien was a linguist who created a fantastical medieval world as a place to toy with imaginary languages, then turned fantasy author writing a classical "epic poetry" (word is no longer used in that way) As such Tolkien writes fiction - and can just say "Aragon became king and ruled wise and good" and leave the rest to the imagination.

Now GRRM wants his medieval saga to be more cynical - there can be no "wise and good king" - the very concept is foreign to GRRM - everything must have tragic downsides, be a metaphor for a real world thingy and ultimately be about wealth, power, status and sex.

Over-analyzing Tolkien looking for such motifs is not wrong, just a bit stupid, because it favors quick and wrong conclusions that miss the obvious - the genre. And GRRM knows perfectly well that parts of the community are anal and take things like this far to serious, while being blind for the obvious.

GRRM seems to ask fans to over-analyze Tolkien for "bad aspects" and also immediately jumps from taxes to orc genocide. The whole thing looks like an attempt to smear a business rival, an attempt to describe himself as the better author for having a more "cyncial/realisic" style.

(look at the original interview, the question was about power and his characters wielding power badly - and GRRM goes "whatabout aragon")
That's completely false.

People are not surgeons. The goal is not to maintain a sterile environment. The masks people generally use are not even rated for that.

The situation is simple. With airborn virus, people will get contaminated when they come into contact with droplets containing virus. Given the typical viral load of people having Covid-19, the issue will mostly be with large droplets. These droplets are stoped by masks. Of course, you are going to emit droplets when you are drinking or eating but far less than than you would have not wearing a mask at all.

The point is not to gain protection. It's to limit your chance of contaminating other people if you are asymptomatic.
Has anybody used the flash card feature of the Kindle readers to good effect? I keep wanting to use them, but I only occasionally remember to highlight things in the books I read.
The Moronavirus is not a hoax...been here for a while.
That is really awesome, this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow.

> I also had an idea to make a site where you could take notes and have them be auto-published (like the above, but as a service), to create a community of random knowledge dumps. Think of a Wikipedia, but made of personal sites and not as rigorous, with a very "personal Web 1.0 website" feel, but talking to a few friends it didn't seem like they saw much point in it.

Alongside this idea, would you use a browser plugin that shares your bookmarks as a stream? Almost like a cross of the github "X starred Y" stream and Twitter (with none of the social-y features). I favorite a lot of things from day to day and would love to know what others are favoriting/finding as well.

Also, somewhat unrelated to that, would you pay for encrypted offsite joplin sync target/backups?

I'd love to make it possible to also share-from-joplin for single notes but that feature isn't there yet. The only way to make it happen otherwise would be synchronizing somewhere unencrypted (!) and then asking that somewhere to "publish" your notes. Unfortunately, since joplin doesn't have multiple "profiles" or any way to separate encryption keys or which notes are and aren't encrypted... it's hard to do that as well..
> when implemented incorrectly, they massively slow down initial text paint

What are you thinking of in terms of "implemented incorrectly", do you happen to have an example?
Toward more efficient and inclusive work with asynchronous communication
“Thundersnow” Hits Edinburgh
> "In the past, when I was interviewing myself, I would come across large numbers of really smart candidates all the time. Once in a while, though, I'd find someone exceptional who could approach problems differently, and those people would always turn out to be the best hires. They would have been filtered out by these systems."

This reminded me of a quote I once heard (on Slashdot if I'm not mistaken).

"There is often a mentality in the workplace that with sufficiently detailed protocols and procedures, the village idiot can perform theoretical physics just as well as Einstein.

In fact, no amount of procedure will make that happen; quite the contrary, all that procedure ensures is that if you ever do hire Einstein, their output will closely resemble that of the village idiot."
Conan was always railing against the softening effects of effete civilization in a way that I always envied, but found impractical: if I were to backhand an annoying, scheming cleric, for instance, I would not be able to shrug off the consequences as Conan could.

There seems to me a bit of motte and bailey going on with this essay.

The motte, unobjectionable part is that such representations are historically inaccurate, people may develop an inaccurate understanding of history and since "it is a collection of unmitigated pedantry, after all" let's dig deep and nit-pick all the details. Great!

The bailey, less demonstrated part is that the Dothraki is a problematic, demeaning, poorly researched, badly written stereotype that deserves nothing but scorn. "We’re not here to ‘cancel’ ASOIF..." but let's write a 3 part series wherein it "is going to become increasingly apparent that at least effective research was not done" where he will "... treat Martin’s words much more charitably than they probably deserve"

The essay author makes a big deal out of this off-hand comment on GRRM's blog: "The Dothraki were actually fashioned as an amalgam of a number of steppe and plains cultures... Mongols and Huns, certainly, but also Alans, Sioux, Cheyenne, and various other Amerindian tribes... seasoned with a dash of pure fantasy."

But the actual quote on his blog goes on, which contradicts the central thesis of the article:

"... So any resemblance to Arabs or Turks is coincidental. Well, except to the extent that the Turks were also originally horsemen of the steppes, not unlike the Alans, Huns, and the rest.

In general, though, while I do draw inspiration from history, I try to avoid direct one-for-one transplants, whether of individuals or of entire cultures. Just as it not correct to say that Robert was Henry VIII or Edward IV, it would not be correct to say that the Dothraki are Mongols."[1]

[1]: https://grrm.livejournal.com/263800.html?thread=15364984#t15...

Edit: switched motte and bailey
The cleaner look is because most designers use macOS which renders most fonts in a way that makes them all look good (let’s not get into technical details). On Windows the same fonts might look like shit (for example some parts of a character are thicker than the rest for no apparent reason)
Thank you, I totally clicked on this thinking how could Google Loon have anything to do with this
> there’re surprisingly large number of folks who claim 5-10 years of experience and several companies under their belt but aren’t able to code a simple for-loop in their language of choice

No. This indicates a failure in the interview technique.
They are. And it is noticeable on old/slow computers. For example comparing bootstrap 2 (which uses image icons) to bootstrap 3.

On the other hand, android has only one system font, Roboto, which kind of necessitates using external fonts
Carta was eShares: https://techcrunch.com/tag/eshares/
Very happy Joplin user -- switched earlier this year and am extremely happy with it.
But both are Intel/nVidia.
Doesn’t have the beautiful Display Postscript/LeX-esque typography that I want, and less said about Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses the better, but even 1980s tech was doing it better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

I think there are lessons to be had from the likes of Smalltalk and Logo too. Highly expressive without insane levels of cryptic inconsistent punctuation rules and UX man-traps.
1. The document you linked to is about domestic, not foreign policy. If that isn't clear from the nature of the document itself, see in particular these quotes:

> The document is critical of "extremely malicious" ideals spreading in the Chinese society, such as ideas of (Western) constitutional democracy, civil society, universal values (freedom, democracy, and human rights), neo-liberalism, and freedom of the press (described as the "Western news values").[1][2][13] The document warns that such subjects undermine the Chinese Communist Party's control over Chinese society.[2]

> According to news analysis by a reporter at The New York Times, the emphasis on political discipline is intended to forestall leftist, or Maoist, opposition to needed economic reforms avoiding the split which resulted in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev's reform efforts when media freedom resulted in publishing of a great deal of critical historical material and alienation of the mass of party workers.[7]

The document shows that China's leaders were worried that the spread of western values within Chinese society could turn China into the next Soviet Union and were acting to prevent that from happening. I don't see how this could be read as proving any claim about their foreign policy aims, much less the extremely strong claim that China aims to usurp or replace the US.

2. I agree Taiwan "feels that way [i.e. like a sovereign country]": they have their own elections, passports, currency, … But I'm not seeing how the question about Taiwan bears on the claim (to the extent that clear empirical meaning can be attached to it) that China "explicitly set out" to usurp US's place.
I wonder about the practicality of metal and leather heavy costumes of the Amazonians in Wonder Women as well. It's just made to make them look attractive more than realistic.
The convenience is the major factor. When self hosting, you have to manually take into account stuff like font format, fallbacks for older browsers, preloading considerations, hinting or no hinting, variable or not variable, and manage the (often long) CSS yourself, and keep it updated as browser compatibility and technology changes. Google does all this for you with the inclusion of a single line. But yes, the drawbacks are loss of privacy and potential for stalling if the domain serving the CSS (googleapis) is blocked or slow for some reason.
There is such a thing as viral load [1]

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/88692
Quit Social Media (2016)
That simply means more people value watching at home over the theater experience and are choosing to vote with their wallets this way.
I think we're increasingly losing the art of making and taking ownership of technical decisions that correspond to the level of the position and the job title. When the author says that "technical skills have definitely sharpened up by practicing Hackerrank-style questions", I would actually say that senior engineers practising online problems would have added value no more than getting better at Sudoku. I've been frustrated by senior software engineers who have strong opinions and can talk hours about the choice of text editors but then magically disappear when it comes to making project-critical decisions with millions of dollars on the line.

I think this is reflected in the hiring process also - no one wants to be responsible for bad hire so it becomes a group-think exercise where each applicant has to get thumbs up from half-a-dozen interviewers. This will inevitably drive mediocrity and I'm sure this also structurally weeds out any candidate who can become a threat.
Generating Realtime weather data in Python
You should also have called it a “human right” for improved virtue signalling.
Wow my pretentious-o-meter just went off the scale on this site.
I'm wondering about commercial CDNs for font serving such as by Adobe and Monotype. Last I checked, these require hosting on their properties, or alternatively pinging their counter so that they can enforce their volume licensing. Only last year, there were still type foundries left that would license on a trust base; but these have gone away/bought by Monotype such as URW+ who once created free fonts for F/OSS operating systems (in my home town even). But isn't the practice of pinging or pulling from a third-party domain before presenting a consent dialog a GDPR violation?
Lombok for ORM
ObjectiveSQL is an ORM framework in Java based on ActiveRecord pattern, which encourages rapid development and clean, codes with the least, and convention over configuration.

Features

1) With one annotation your Class has fully featured capabilities of SQL programming

2) Easy to relational(has_one, has_many, beglongs_to) querying and paged querying

3) Java expressions(arithmetic, comparison and logical) can be converted into SQL expression directly
my hovercraft is full of eels.
No, and conveniently they say they can't confirm or deny it was them because the original monolith was installed illegally.

But it seems like the site is more of a community. Not really a team doing these stunts. So anyone can do a stunt, join the community and then claim it was this community which did it.

I'm sceptical though, because the other stunts on that site are very in your face stunts. That monolith was very much not that since it was installed in 2016 based on satellite imagery, and discovered in 2020. Perhaps the artist joined this community recently so they can imply responsibility under this group. Or perhaps they are just trying to make a quick buck.
github: https://github.com/braisdom/ObjectiveSql
What I have already feels crisp enough and since I do a lot of programming I'd rather see more lines of code than increase scaling for no real benefits. As a matter of fact one of the 2 4K monitors on my desk is in portrait mode just for that.
I use webpack and fonts packaged in NPM. It takes exactly two lines, one in the package.json and one import.
If we’re talking about governance failures, I’d argue that absolute monarchies also generally ended up failing at delivering results. There aren’t very many left for a reason.
Would highly recommend switching from nvm to asdf :)

Your config is kinda similar looing to mine: github.com/radiosilence/dotfiles
Why hasn’t w3c taken on some way to avoid the unnecessary complexity?

(Simplified font definition and usage standard.)
Yes, it sounds like they reimplemented 1% of vimwiki...
thx. didn't know about this option.
uBlock Origin is just great!
> And given government advice around the world, it seems pretty clear that masks are understood to do more good than harm.

That's an appeal to authority. It also doesn't mean it's incorrect but it's not evidence of anything.
We use bit twiddling a lot to reduce conditional jumps.
This website is a great starting point if you need to learn it. Highly recommend.
How the Allies Cracked the Enigma Code
So desperate to try to prove a point when science says repeatedly shown improperly wearing a mask is worse than not wearing a mask and everyone I see in the public is in violation of MOPP
I have often setup similar devices for R&D at work, using Hostapd to create an AP using Pis internal WiFi and ethernet uplink. I find though that it's usually better to use an external WiFi device such as an Alfa.

This should be fairly simple too so long as there's no arbitrary restriction on requiring wlan devices preventing you from using WiFi+Ethernet rather than Wifi+Wifi.
Good catch, dfxm12!
Just checked out Sway's intro video, this looks promising! Would you mind to elaborate if Sway is ready for being a daily driver + how is multi-monitor support (all monitors same dpi and also with different dpi levels).
From what I can see in the graphs on GitHub it seems really computationally intensive, only a few thousand 30-bit elements per second (for decoding if I understand it correctly).

So I guess that is the catch which makes it impractical for more widespread use. Or am I wrong, is there an alternative speed wise?
The curve flattens naturally at some point, always after “something” has been done. That does not mean these two things are related to any significant degree.
rubs hands
This was a trend in 2002. PSP (PLSQL Server Pages), just like ASP and PHP. https://oracle-base.com/articles/9i/plsql-server-pages-9i

Many large Banks (including Bank of New York where I worked in) and ERPs have stored procedures as their life and blood, have invested and built huge tooling over it – namespacing, dependency tracing of who's using what, monitoring, etc. It's excellent at having a tightly integrated, closed system where the Database is the source for authorization, module ownership, etc.

But there were reasons why it was not successful:

* Severe vendor restrictions. e.g. For a long time, Oracle could not do distributed compile-time PL/SQL checks. If you changed a function definition, other procedures that depended on it would break. But if you change a procedure's definition, it wouldn't tell you anything until you deploy it at runtime and something somewhere will fail, or recompile every other procedure. I don't know if it's fixed yet.

* Testing, or the severe lack of tooling that we have taken for granted – code coverage, easy local machine unit tests, etc

* Lack of modules (availability of an ecosystem or community of modules to solve recurring problems), and the subsequent dependency management and versioning overhead that comes with it

* Debugging, i.e. putting breakpoints, remote debugging, logging, good exception handling, etc

* Change management, graceful rollouts, rollbacks, etc. There is no so-called "Router" for stored procedures, they're all tightly coupled with each other, so there is no easy way to rollout and rollback new versions quickly without recompiling each time

* Connection limits. There is a tradeoff on a database being good at all the above – and how many concurrent connections it can support. It was impossible to simply "pass through" entire web traffic over to the underlying connection, without investing in quite heavy tooling

Overall, if you already have put all your eggs and tooling into one giant, well designed, well governed database – then PSPs are a natural evolution forward.
Wonder no more!

"The open source fonts in the Google Fonts catalog are published under licenses that allow you to use them on any website, whether it’s commercial or personal."

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq

This would be the opportunity for them to tell us that applies only to fonts delivered via CDN. On the contrary, they later recommend self-hosting.
> this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow.

Agreed, I looked for a plugin but unfortunately found none.

> Alongside this idea, would you use a browser plugin that shares your bookmarks as a stream?

I don't really use bookmarks, whenever I come across an interesting page I put it in https://historio.us, but they're too few to make a stream out of...

> Also, somewhat unrelated to that, would you pay for encrypted offsite joplin sync target/backups?

I don't think so, I prefer doing my own hosting and NextCloud/WebDAV works quite well, so I wouldn't want yet another account to manage.

> Unfortunately, since joplin doesn't have multiple "profiles"

Yeah, I ran into this problem with my script as well, where I wanted some notes to be private. For those, I just created a notebook that has "private" in the name and put them all there, the script skips them. Tags might work as well.
I love this. I always preferred a “Wicked”-like retelling of LOTR, where Sauron’s side is one of technology and progress. We’re supposed to dislike orcs because they live in dense cities and are black? Because they chop down trees and fight against eco-terrorists?
How This China-Based NASDAQ-Listed Company Used Fake Sales, EV Hype to Nab $160 Million From U.S. Investors
As a guy who does this blocking pretty ruthlessly (edit: inc. cookies), I'd like to understand why - I don't take offence at 'sneer', ISWYM but I'd like to understand the other side of the fence. TIA
Review 38: Portfolios and New Ideas – ElefDoesCode
The law doesn't say you can hire the best person if they are abroad though.

It effectively says you can't hire a better person from abroad if there is a person who is good-enough domestically.

(I'm only saying what the law says, not what is best for Facebook, the USA, or even what is morally right)
Thanks. That makes sense from a literary standpoint. Taking the historical angle I thought the acoup link might have been implying there's something about taxes in feudalism that should have made GRRM's question redundant.
This article isn't advocating saying goodbye to Google Fonts. It advocates not delivering them via CDN, but self-hosting them.
They would still need to enable the Audio hardware. That would be noticed.
and thats a market
I use a combination of nextcloud deck + all its other addons. I've installed it on a rasberry pi and a simple zerotier setup so that my notes are accessible over the internet.

Has been working for me for years now.
>For someone moving from a "workstation"-class laptop, the M1's value is significant.

Em NO, the M1's are not comparable with a workstation class laptops (not cpu wise nor ram...and especially not GPU wise)
Can anyone have a look at the graphs in this article below and point out why and how mask were effective?

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/these-12-graphs-show-ma...

EDIT: I would appreciate a proper rebuttal instead of what I can only interpret as downvotes for wrongthink.
Wondering if let's say I am Cloudflare, Fastly or another popular CDN provider. I'm already acting as a reverse proxy to the host. Would it make sense to rewrite calls to my own CDN so that requests could be done in parallel from browser side and then I could cache all Google Fonts, JS libraries, etc? Surely would need to be an optional feature that could be on/off by customers. But if we know performance is negatively impacted by third party loading of popular libraries, would cloning them and rewriting make sense?
I don’t know about you but I suck the most when coding in a <textarea> HTML element instead of my editor and with a gun to my head.
I have abbrev mode i Emacs for that. No more "teh" instead of the. I found most of them went away when I switched to Dvorak, since most of my errors like that are when the letters are in one hand. "teh" however became the all time high. 4000 corrections this year according to abbrev mode. And English isn't even the language I write the most.
I've thought of a variation on that, if you're spell checking a large text file. Create an index of all the unique words in the file, along with how many each appears. Any unique words with a count of 1 are likely to be misspelled.
If the device is rooted, tcpdump is also an option.
Why Thread network matters in smart home and building designs
This site will make your live easier to dl and host the font yourself: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts