skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, and I understood the word was used for dramatic effect only.

From my POV I too find it frustrating at times, but I'd say much of that comes quite unnecessarily not from JS use, but its abuse, eg. fails to display text unless JS is enabled. HTML is pretty good at that!

There's no point me boring you with all the plusses of not using js (just ask) but speed... once a connection is made this http://antirez.com/latest/0 is pretty much instantaneous.

(thanks for your reply)
Font designers publish poor quality fonts to promote their products? That isn't supposed to work.
This is a right-wing "back to normal" meme and can therefore not be expected to come with coherent explanations.
MacOS makes text blurry. You need a high resolution monitor for macOS font rendering to be acceptable.
Unity acquires the open source MLAPI networking library
Your comment reminds me of something Andy Matuschak wrote:

> But most people who write about note-taking don’t seem particularly accomplished in their own fields, whatever those may be. In fact, most such writers aren’t applying their notes to some exogenous creative problem: their primary creative work is writing about productivity. These writers offer advice on note-taking to help scientists and executives with the challenges of their work, but the advice was developed in a context disconnected from those external realities.

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zUMFE66dxeweppDvgbNAb5hukXzX...

Essentially, be wary of taking advice about reading, research, writing, or anything else from people whose primary contribution to the world is telling people how to read, research, and write. Instead, listen to people who have used these techniques to make a substantial contribution to a field of knowledge.

The problem is that those people are far more interested in doing research and writing than teaching other people how to do it.
Just when we finally got SRI together as a thing, now we can't have crossdomain caching. Great.
so, one side is blind to the raw performance and experience the other party is experiencing.

the other side is blind to the morality and ethics of the corporate decisions being perpetrated with support from their own dollar by the company they support -- or worse, they recognize and support morally grey business practices knowingly.

So, in other words, yes I can imagine that comparison.

It truly is a candles versus flashlights contrast present between the M1 and the Pangolin, and it's a contrast highlighted by more than just the performance and user experience of the machines.

I'd lean towards the Pangolin.
“No web fonts for elements containing multiple characters” would be a great ublock rule, now I think about it...
This is the motte. "It's just historical inaccuracy. Surely you cannot object to correcting the record can you?"

Now defend that the historical inaccuracy is a demeaning stereotype.
House passes ‘Tiger King’ bill to ban private ownership of big cats
Intelligent Fetching and Caching with SWR
That's a surprising specific definition of the term you've come up with there.
So why not force the opening of the walled garden in law then? The EU has PSD2 now which forces all banks to have open APIs. We have multiple Plaid-like competitors providing the platform on top of those APIs. But it wouldn't have happened without regulation.

Generally innovating through regulation is bad and I don't support it. But I think the aversion to it in the US is what creates these monopolies in the first place and in this specific use case, I think it's a faster way to solve the problem.

This is an example of what becomes possible (no card details and low fees):

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/truelayers-payments-api-le...
In a similar vein to what you described, I recently evaluated multiple deep learning based image synthesis techniques for their viability for filling in parts of real-time games. Turns out, it's just not useful. GPUs are just fine with rendering mind-boggling amounts of geometry, as long as overdraw is low. In other words, using deep learning is using up exactly the resource that's rare already.

Also kind of related, the new UE5 game engine is introducing a novel in-GPU compression method which will allow them to handle more geometry. Not only for games, but also for photogrammetry, memory tends to be one of the scarcest resources.

In summary, unless the AI uses relatively few memory and unless it's relatively few layers, it won't stand a chance against traditional ways of handling geometry.

That said, the promise that I see with NeRF and related methods is their ability to make up plausible things. For everyday objects, these techniques can learn to predict how an apple would look like if you would rotate it reasonably well. That is valuable for robotics, where you need to make sure that you still recognize your environment even after you drive around a corner.
Super Mario Bros Defying the Law of Inertia
remember to backup your customizations!
Google Employees Say Scientist's Ouster Was 'Unprecedented Research Censorship'
I don't follow local politics much, so I'm not 100% sure about the following. But my impression is that it's financed by loans, paid for with tolls for using the tunnels. And I think the project is being dug by Norwegians.

Denmark does pay a yearly subsidy to the Faroe Islands of ~105M USD to help with general upkeep, but that's not earmarked.
That was the purpose of universities when the student populations were smaller, wealthier, and more focused on actually learning about the world. But decades ago the US culture shifted to "everyone must go to college as a prerequisite for getting a job", so now the focus of most programs had damn well better be preparing students to actually get a job or else the absurd cost and student debt incurred is simply not worth it.
Rare to see a BYONDer on HN!
Who would breed a bull to be harder to handle?
Your link is from a bad source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_(website)
I would give it another shot. I was a Vim zealot that converted over with Spacemacs, but I ditched Spacemacs once I knew the names of the packages I used the most. The package `evil` is enough to satisfy your modal editing needs (perhaps you already knew about it). Anything that doesn't fit your workflow can be changed to fit into that same modal editing paradigm. It just takes time but it's worth it in my humble opinion.

Just remember: Emacs' main strength comes from how malleable and extensible it can be. Give it time; don't jump ship after a few bumps. Patch it up with some Elisp and keep sailing.
the link is wrong - should be https://pingcap.com/blog/why-we-switched-from-bcc-tools-to-l... (the current one points to a WeBank's case study about TiDB)
Deathstalker
What an awesome insight, thanks for sharing. I love hearing these kinds of "unobvious" solutions. Simple and elegant but all too easily missed!
Another possibilities:
Cultural - having a single child to join estates
Biological - Longevity comes at a price.
You could, the script is a bit tailored to me right now but very slightly. It just exports a Zola site and I used the Gitbook theme, but you should be able to easily swap in any theme you want.
That’s just an adjustable crop. Outpainting means generating extra imagery that wasn’t part of the original capture.
Right, you can’t even consider it, just mandate that race and gender factor into the candidates interviewed for every open position, make the diversity of your workforce a performance goal for executives and report the racial and gender makeup of your workforce in quarterly company updates. But no, can’t take it into consideration when hiring, of course not.
On Trusting Macintosh Hardware
Are there any books that stand out (to you personally) as must-reads out of these ~300?

I've come to a similar conclusion (Sturgeon's law) consuming CS/SE-books, and want to minimize repeating myself pursuing other non-fiction subjects.
Like the one that comes with my laptop or is sold by apple?

I think macOS will always be optimised for the best experience. Even if that means sub par XP if you don’t go all in on money.

I’d actually be interested in learning more about the rendering vs say windows if you have a source.
Tip: install Pop!_OS - Nvidia edition. I also have a (1st gen) Thinkpad X1 Extreme with a 4K screen. In addition to that, I have 3 external 4K screens connected to it (so 4x 4K screens in total), and it runs smoothly without having needed any additonal config/customization.
I don't remember any of those things except for the silver box thing. Does that make me old? Or is it because I stopped using FB and Twitter years ago?
At my last job interview I had to implement popcount and explain how to optimise it (amongst other things).

I was able to jot down a naïve implementation and the obvious optimisation based on a lookup tables. I only vaguely remembered the Bit Twiddling treatment of the subject but, with a bit of nudging from the interviewer, I managed to implement and explain the variant that runs in O(set bits) (“Brian Kernighan's way”). I got the job.

Now, it’s fashionable to deride this this kind of code interview as unrealistic and unhelpful. But in my first week on the job, by sheer coincidence, I had to use the function. Obviously there are existing, efficient implementations, including intrinsics. But knowing how to derive an efficient implementation certainly didn’t harm. My job has since evolved into different responsibilities but low-level algorithmic knowledge is still important. I’m not sure testing for it in job interviews is generally a good idea, and designing good job interviews is certainly a big topic. But in my particular case it happened to be a relevant, fair test of my abilities.
What if you had a declaration like

@font-face { font-signature: somehash }

And the browser just checks to see if it already has the font. If you release a webfont you can share it with signatures or just generate signatures if the author hasn't done it for you.

This way if you're self-hosting Lato and the user already has Lato, they don't need to download it again.
Why are you so fearful?
Have you ever wondered what makes you so fearful when it comes to your life? Well, You are fearful because you have developed a subconscious program of fear since your childhood. Actually speaking, you are conditioned for a fear based society. When you are fearful, you are in a very low bandwidth of consciousness, which makes you a loser in your life as it stops you from achieving your true self. So what? Stop being fearful. There's no need for you to be fearful anymore. Fear is generated when you give extra focus on the circumstances you have. What you have to do, instead, is give focus on you, taking your fear away. https://bit.ly/36HhTNP
You're spot on, as an Israeli I wanted to thank you for highlighting this. There are individuals in every country who perform illegal acts, that should not reflect on the country as a whole. Shukran ya habibi.

In Israel we have a lot of love for the UAE. Together, we're already sharing agra-tech, water-tech, and finance. Israel is looking forward to learning about some of the construction methods being pioneered in building up the desert. This is an unbelievably warm peace.
Strategy for efficiently publishing data to Google Pub/Sub with lua-Nginx
Advertisements are harmful to every layer of society, mostly because they prey on you to instill desires that you probably wouldn't have had on your own (it being the case that this is their entire added value proposition). They should not be tolerated, and the fact that they ever were is a travesty.

That being the case, any argument founded on "but advertisements" does not hold water.
To summarize the paper:

The authors compute a sophisticated average of German cities and compare the weighted number of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests to the city of Jena for a timespan of one month starting just before masks became obligatory there (6th April). Masks did not become obligatory elsewhere and roughly around the mask obligation new positive cases drastically reduced in Jena whereas the weighted average shows no such effect.

EDIT: moved my doubts in the study into extra comment.

If you think the summary is wrong, please leave a comment pointing out in which way, after downvoting.
You're spot on. My alma mater has had Google and the likes come to the campus for over a decade now.

Also, I see nothing wrong with that, at the same time there was plenty of room for "pure research" into even the most obscure corners of theoretical CS and maths.
Sounds like we need a way to encode arbitrary data into video that can survive lossy compression. Youtube filesystem?
Basic income should truly solve this issue because majority of people are stuck in the endless loop of anxiety of how to earn enough money to buy food and pay rent. It's hard to think about 'creating' when you are so anxious.
NASA buying Moon dust for $1
How is 25% a "minority interest"? I get it is't no controlling, but that is a lot.
> 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.

Can you please point to pages where opposite things are stated? If it is cherry picked, surely you can quote.

> "The Dothraki were based on demeaning stereotypes as evidenced by their clothing choices" is unconvincing

This article is about clothing. Next installment will be about culture.

> 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

Are there way in which they are similar? It is cherry picking only if you ignore opposing evidence. I am sure you can provide some?

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

I literally did not. Cancelling is literally used in that context and is supposed to be bad.
They should focus on hardware or software - not both!
My assumption has always been that a clean phone in airplane mode but with WiFi enabled would not use the cellular radios at all. In that mode would a cell tower still be in communication with the phone at some level?
No, because robots.txt is a friendly request and not a demand. It can never be a demand.
People are putting their routers in jail to protect themselves from Wi-Fi
I'm with you.
I mean, already the title perspires arrogance. I'm not going to click on it, even though there might be good advice there. I probably have already heard it and probably will heard it again from someone without that attitude.
We all saw that crap apparently so it was a somewhat effective attempt at viral marketing.

And now that includes being on the front page of HN. Not sure if we should celebrate that or fix it but it happened.
The governments in the US have broadly lost the ability to build.
That kind of content addressable naming based on hashes would be awesome for the web in general.

Think of all the big JS frameworks.
If they were all referenced by hash, their size would become pretty much irrelevant, as they would be amortised across potentially thousands of requests.

But the web chose to go with unified resource LOCATORS for everything, and I don't think it'll be easy to change that mindset.

It's the reason why people do crazy things like register DOI (a location based URL, that is hosted with a single point of trust/failure) to reference git hashes (a content addressed URN). They don't know better, and they want readable names.

A different issue with this kind of caching tho is that it is a potential side channel for privacy sensitive information.

For example if my script requests the pornHub logo, or something else that might even be more specific, like videos themselves. I can use a timing side-channel to figure out wether or not that particular item was in the users cache, and thus visited previously.

Imho they applied the wrong solution to that issue: domain separated caches. You loose the timing channel, but also loose all the caching advantages.

A much better solution would have been to close that timing side channel. If every browser ran TypeScript this could actually be a monad, where a "low resolution timer"-monad is strictly separating timing sensitive portions from high resolution timers.
When you trust your doctor or lawyer, you're also appealing to authority. It's not wrong for a person on the ground to look to various national/international institutions as signal (evidence) for a hypothesis, and to adjust as their life experience guides them.
In case you're unaware, Wonder Woman came out of Marston's repressed S&M fantasies and belief in feminine superiority. The costumes and weapons (a lasso/rope...) reflect that specifically.
I don't mean dismiss simulation, but I see now how it could be read that way. The key is the second part of the and-clause: quantum stuff being a side effect of a lazy simulator. That's what doesn't hold water.
Germany does not have any strict shutdown. National mobility isn’t limited and all shops are open. The gathering of people is kinda limited, but nobody controls it.
HN needs more of this.
I would be highly interested in Moving Wikipedia to Markdown in sphinx with own repo in git.
But this poses issue to people who want to use a WYIWYG Editor and not git it away.
Students today have become quite reliant on Google Docs essentially putting almost all of their classwork out on the web. What if it were to fail? That’s different than it used to be when each student needed to handwrite or type up a paper without SAAS that could break, and those students aren’t prepping to work for Google.
Toolbox Strategy: How to Become Valuable
This is actually valid. Without third party to ensure the neutrality of the resource, this would be a unregulated cookie.

A better trap would be if the browser downloads the resource on the second request as well and compares the hashes. If they differ, the resource is considered uncachable.
Dead code elimination is incredibly important for (statically linked) libraries though, usually you don't use the entire feature set of a library, and you also don't want to have the unused features end up in the executable. Traditionally this was done by building libraries from many tiny object files (e.g. one source- and object-file per function: https://github.com/ifduyue/musl/tree/master/src/stdio) since linkers would only work on 'object file granularity' and libraries are simply a container for object files, but the more recent and more flexible DCE strategies allow the same optimzation without splitting the library source code into hundreds of small files.
Yes, it's just a container for the exact same data that an OpenType font holds.

On the other hand, it's possible that in the course of deployment, various things may be dropped from the original font resource: not just subsetting (reducing the repertoire of supported characters), but in some cases also OpenType features (e.g. ligatures or contextual forms), and in some cases hinting is stripped.

If that is done, the webfont version may indeed appear differently than the original "desktop" font, depending on local font-rendering settings.
Alan Kay said that you need to read bad books to know a good book. You need the context to know what makes something good and thus no reading is truly wasted.
Until recently, men outnumbered women by 10:1 in CS programs. That went on for 30 years or so.
I’ve always found it odd when people say there are no design patterns in FP. The same patterns do not translate, but different patterns exist, no?
URxvt is fast, but still has a mean input latency of 18.3 ms. Try Xterm it only adds 1.7 ms to the stack. I find the difference very noticeable. I switched from URxvt to Xterm a few years back, although I had to give up on proper UTF-8 glyph rendering.

Low latency is important for me, because I use Vim inside Tmux inside Xterm inside Xorg and latencies add up.

https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
Worth noting, exporting Apple Notes in bulk loses any hyperlinked URLS. It also doesn't copy hyperlinks when copy-pasting out of Notes. Terrible for portability.
As a counterpoint to the sibling replies, I speak fluent Japanese and was still refused entry to a local izakaya in Hakodate. It wasn't about the language, I made plenty clear that I could speak it well. They just didn't like foreigners. Racism and discrimination is definitely a thing here, and I certainly wouldn't go back to that restaurant.

However it's only happened once in a year of living here and never in Tokyo, only a ruralish city, so I don't take it as an indictment on Japanese people. I'm sure there are plenty of bars in rural America or Australia (where I'm from) that would have been equally unfriendly to someone of Asian ethnicity. At the end of the day you just have to decide not to let it ruin your day that there are some bad eggs in the bunch, no matter which country it is.

*Caveat though that I've heard it is much worse here for people from China than it is for white foreigners such as myself. If it made up a significant portion of my experience it would be hard to live here comfortably.
Nah, Plaid's UI handles it natively. If it's required, Plaid will prompt you during the connection process with the same steps and any questions you'd encounter doing it directly on Schwab's website - "do you want a text or call" and then "enter the code" steps.
'Cozy'? They're snugging it under the table during meetings. They eat lunch together in Big Tech's office and lock the door. This relationship is like a 30 year nonstop honeymoon in the interstices of decency.
New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt
I did an experiment a few months ago where I just switched of font overrides and set my default font to Comic Sans, at a pretty large default size (and I tend to zoom in a lot, too).

It actually was quite pleasant and readable, despite the particular font choice.
Possibly, but to fair I don't think there is a reason. The shire is similarly inexplicitly underpopulated when hobbits have been peacefully having large families there for 1400 years!
You’re underestimating how much work and skill it takes to make a good font, even for a great designer, so type foundries like to lock good fonts up behind rent-seeking license agreements.
Even $1,500,000 now
Yes, Many of Us Are Stress-Eating and Gaining Weight in the Pandemic
The number of of actively infected non-quarantined people is relevant. Take a look at RKI-dashboard for Jena. This Jena paper is a serious fake.

I think mask measures are not working correctly - all the masks are way too dirty - effects are most likely going in the wrong direction.

Getting good data to evaluate measures currently isn't easy. Some curves using "reporting date" look seriously different than curves using "date of death".

NRW is a big region of Germany and still has some good data. The RKI numbers and date of death numbers fit, RKI is lagging only a few days.
https://www.lzg.nrw.de/inf_schutz/corona_meldelage/index.htm...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19-Pandemie_in_Deutschla...

If you look at death 7-day averages NRW has an awful bend upwards - exactly where the new effects of masking/lockdowns should be.

Positive trend-changes of the first mask mandate are non-existent - there's only a small move in the wrong direction (date of death 26.Mai).
Hewlett Packard is moving away from Silicon Valley