skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The contents of your visual field exist precisely in your head and nowhere else. They are synthesized from limited sensory data. It so happens that your brain also generates the sensation of the content of your visual field being located in the world around you. These captured and resynthesized visual data happen to be mostly accurate but also wildly interpreted and altered, for instance the majestic and wondrous and inexplicable addition of the sensation of color.
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I don't understand how you would design an index to reduce manipulation by unregulated entities.
Are people still confused that the reason you wear a mask is not to protect yourself directly, but to protect others thereby indirectly protecting yourself? It seems so, because in the west people are still arguing about wearing masks, and doing these inane studies, while in Asia people wear masks and go about their business as usual.
Won't this break the UI of most sites because they (ab)use web fonts to add icons?

It's annoying to hit a page with a video player, and all the buttons are little boxes with numbers in them because the icon font didn't load...
It depends on a few factors; is the application pinning certificates? If not, can you load a CA onto the device. If not, can you issue a trusted cert to your MITM proxy?

Then you get into modifying the application itself by patching out checks, replacing embedded certs...

It's also very handy to have a rooted device or emulator to hand too for times when you might want to poke around in the private storage of an app.
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Art is important, artists are vital. I dispute this counts as either.
Does one not need to be infected to effectively transmit the virus? I.e. if you're infected your body is actively multiplying the virus. If you're not infected, then you're just passing on whatever virus you happen to be contaminated with. There's a massive difference between the two I should think.
Yes, it's just an Open Type file. The usual omitted stuff is subsetting a bigger font to include only certain glyphs you need, usually you don't mutilate font by removing rendering data from glyphs.
> improperly wearing a mask is worse than not wearing a mask

Please explain or link.
I find a gear or cog more conceptually engaging than the "hamburger".

Open it up and look at how it works inside, maybe tinker with it.

The three lines have no distinct relation to me that isn't artificial, as least the floppy icon is tied to something that might have a historic meaning. These days I'd probably have a checkmark and a broken checkmark to denote 'checked in' and 'not checked in'. Crucially it would probably need to be two checkmarks when fully checked in, and a single big checkmark in back with a smaller obviously broken one in front to denote an older version exists.
There cannot be "convincing evidence for mask wearing" for most thresholds of "convincing", can there? Since no clear difference in infections or mortality has been observed between places with different mask rules (and timings of their imposition), the effect must be either very small (in either direction) or none.
CDNs were the way to serve content fast not too long ago.
Looks like they make sense now when your users and your web server are on the opposite side of the planet.
The Eysturoy tunnel is an Y-shaped tunnel, connecting three islands of the Faroe. (Edit: Not entirely true, as two of the mouths are actually on different peninsulas of the same island Eysturoy.)

I guess they could have chosen to dig 2 different tunnels, but that would probably have been more expensive because of the increase in kilometers, seeing how long they dig under land at the mouths in order for the tunnel to be deep enough at the banks/shores.
I have run hostapd in a Docker container on a laptop for perform this kind of work. It's not extremely complicated, but hard enough that if you need to ask, it's worth trying an alternative approach (such as a VM with passthrough of a USB WiFi adapter).
I'm not sure why, but I'm in that camp too. I can only assume that there is some piece of shared past computer system experience I don't share with the hamburger menu people.

That icon has just never really been associated with 'menu' for me, so my eyesight just glides over it as if it's not there, and it just doesn't register as a UI component. (And that vertical ellipsis is even worse, doubly so if it repeated in multiple locations within a UI.
That's true. It's a verifiable "burn of electricity". The only upside to the burning is the verifiability. If there was some other way to generate this verifiable scarcity of something that we all agree on (electricity is kind of universal, that way), that would be better - obviously.
I've sped up sites before by using inline svg rather than icon fonts - downloading an entire icon font for a few icons is inefficient when the actual SVG needed for those icons is < 1Kb and is waaay faster as inline SVG.
I just read[1] that HBO Max is coming to Norway at the end of 2021.

Google translation: "A spokesperson for HBO Nordic confirms to Dagbladet that HBO Max is scheduled to roll out in Europe in the second half of 2021 and that it will replace HBO's European services."

Dagbladet is one of the larger newspapers here.

[1]: https://www.dinside.no/mobil/hbo-max-kommer-til-norge/731414...
This is all wrong. The purpose of Universities is to uphold, expand and disseminate human culture, not to prepare people for a career in the industry. Big tech should not be allowed to piggyback on the reputation of educational institutions to push their products and the latest fads at the expense of the fundamentals.
VS Code is very good at connecting to remote servers/wsls/etc being just a dumb client. I still use VS Code next to all my terminal apps because some stuff is unmatched in VS Code, eg Pythons Interactive Console paired with a Jupyter server (1000x better than any notebook).
Roger Penrose: Beauty above all

On the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winner, who has revolutionized our understanding of black holes

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Graham Farmelo is a Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is The Universe Speaks in Numbers (Faber)
This is MY experience. I have run 4k on my ThinkPad X1 Extreme with Linux. Its not been a good experience for me. I am getting old and having vision issues, so I decided to get the 4k screen because my old MacBookPro 2015 had the high res and worked well with my eyes, it just didn't have the 15" screen.

Display Managers:
When Linux boots in a 4k screen, the GRUB menu is impossible to read, so I have it memorized. I have tried many Display Managers, some recognize 4k and adapt with no issue, many do not. GDM and SDDM work well, XDM not so much, fonts are all over the place.

X11 (it has an NVIDIA card)
There are some apps which refuse to adapt to 4k if you are running GNOME (and yes I use the QT_SCALE_FACTOR). Then there are apps written in WXWIDGETS. Steam menus and items are unreadable to me. Some Window Managers barely support HiDPI displays (XFCE I am looking at you). It goes on and on, by the end of the day its a very frustrating experience. GNOME (and it's derivatives) do it the best so far, KDE has issues with icon sizes and the panel. XFCE has multiple issues, so much that I gave up on it quickly and can't remember them all (and it looked awful). i3 was a little tricky at first but it can be configured to work well, but you need to adapt all the apps and bars too.

Other OSes:
Even MS Windows has frequent problems with the screen magnification.
macOS just gets it right, and I never had ANY of these issues, except small fonts in the firmware screen.

For my next laptop I will go back to 1920x1080 and avoid all these problems and start using AMD GPU's so I dont have to turn off secure boot and stop using X11.
SDIO used to be quite common.

Back when PDAs didn't have WiFi as standard, SDIO was the only way to fit them.

In fact, if I recall correctly my GPD Pocket doodah has SDIO wifi.

The bus isn't unusual, at all.

As for weird broadcom stuff ... I'll give you that, as you're absolutely correct there ;)
Yeah. That's the first thing I noticed. I was curious whether the OP either returned back to Google Fonts since posting this or never did it in the first place!?
I think a closer "offline world" analogy would be if a magazine tried to enforce rules to what you can do with it after it was delivered.
Loads up fine for me, perhaps a transient outage?

You might want Reader Mode, to strip out the clutter. Annoyingly I found the page doesn't work with Firefox's Reader Mode, but Chromium's copes ok.

edit The article mentions beauty exactly twice. It doesn't really deliver on the title.
So true! So many sites use those icons/symbols in the nav etc so their sites end up broken without web fonts. Other than that, it feels so much better and faster blocking web fonts.
Except trains are so damn expensive in Europe. Insanely so. Where flights can be a lot cheaper.
Glad you found one! Though I am surprised by that, ANSI keyboards are everywhere in Germany. For example you can get one from Cherry itself [0], though it may very well be different in other countries.

[0] https://www.amazon.de/Cherry-G80-3920LWBDE-2-MX-Board-5-0/dp...
In case of infrequent synchronizations you reduce the number of conflicts by having separate files rather than a single big one.
I am astonished that no one mentions Bloom filtering in this context.

Unix has had spell checking since PDP-11 days, in 64kB data. The secret was a Bloom filter.
To this day the only way I associate "hamburger" with that icon is memorization through constant hammering.
No mention of an open Bios. I'm assuming this means it doesn't have an open Bios. Not even System76 could load open source bioses on these products appearantly, I imagine they at least tried and failed.
> consider a car accident; the ambulances have to get there in a hurry. Minutes might save lives here.

If that's the reason, why not build that tunnel in a big city, where there are a lot more accidents and lives to be saved ?
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That is not all they provide.
No it won’t, I manage gsuite accounts for non profits and I have multiple accounts which are inactive for two years and the data still remains.
Why is "motte, less demonstrated" that they are poorly researched badly written stereotype? At least when it comes to clothing, the blog author does indeed demonstrate that.

> 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"

There is no contradiction in two. It is completely absolutely valid to criticize research and clearly comment on the whole "nomad cultures are nothing like this" aspect of GoT as a super popular fiction - whose fans indeed do claim "it was like that".

"Cancelling" refers to censorship. You cant cry censorship just because someone politely criticized something. However, writing 3 part series on something being inaccurate or even completely shitty (which author did not done) is not cancelling.

Also, author criticized other aspects of GoT a lot previously - notably Jamie military activities. It is not just about Dothraki.
The first Macintosh did not have anything else than floppy disk to save to. No hard drive. It was an obvious metaphor.

Also, in those days computers were usually not networked. If you wanted to transfer a file, you saved it to removable media.
Commonly a floppy.

Your thought was "I need to save my file to this floppy here and give it to Jenny". It was a very obvious icon, top of mind, for people working with computers in those days.
Cambridge Z88 (1987)
Another simple bit-twiddling-hack (it has a proper name which I unfortunately forgot) is SIMD without SIMD instructions by masking out the top-level bits (which are essentially the carry-flags), e.g. doing eight 7-bit additions at once:

uint64_t a = ((a0 & 0x7F) | ((a1 & 0x7F)<<8) ...;
uint64_t b = ((b0 & 0x7F) | ((b1 & 0x7F)<<8) ...;
uint64_t c = (a + b) & 0x7F7F7F7F7F7F7F7F;
I seem to remember some consternation not long ago when Decentraleyes reducing the amount of caching they do because it could be used for fingerprinting...? Can't find any reference to this on Google though
This ^
Also, as someone else mentioned, use your own brain to think about how this particular method would work for you. Hell try it. Doesn't mean it works for everyone, or that someone else doesn't have another better method. But this is our area of interest as 'hackers' and hacking learning might be the format which better appeals to someone over another.
If you make "forever" claims in your ads I feel like you shouldn't be able to say later that "forever" was true five years ago, but today it retroactively means a finite timespan.
There were plenty of people from the Faroe Islands and Greenland when I lived in Copenhagen a few years ago, and I never got the impression that Danes are hostile towards any of them.

The Kingdom of Denmark is trying to keep itself in one piece though, and ensuring that people in the Faroe Islands and Greenland are happy being a part of the Kingdom is probably a good way of doing just that.

Otherwise, they might just say yes when some US president attempts to buy them.
>who many researchers in the West lauded in private

I've only heard universal condemnation from scientists, where can I learn more about this private support for him? Or am I going to take your word for it?
This is quite the headline. If have no further comment on this but you are still funny, America.
> Labeling anyone who disagrees with her a racist

Which she doesn't.

Most notably, people here have been raising concern about the discussion with Yann Lecun, but that was also just a civil, if tense, discussion.

You're better off not twisting the meaning of words to favor your argument, though. It'll just create more problems down the line
Caching was nice but nicer is not to have to download the fonts, not to mkdir public/fonts, not to copy the files to that dir, not to match the file location in the css file and to have a CDN included for sites which I didn't employ with a CDN.

Besides, one should load one or max two fonts, not more and I couldn't care less if that 150kb is cached or not.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6947e2-H.pdf isn't subtle. You can make the argument that it might not be the wearing of masks specifically that's responsible for the difference here, but the weaker argument - that it's worth being the sort of area that will introduce mask wearing because whatever is going on is correlated with it - still works.
The funny thing is that many sites today will serve their static assets via CDN so the article is basically saying switch from one CDN to another.
> Some people just seem to feel "smart" by wording things as convoluted as possible, using fancy words and references.

If nobody did this, we would not have political sciences :-)
> Meanwhile smoking has been controlled through tight regulation and negative PR.

"Legalise drugs" does not mean provide them for free to anyone who asks with no controls at all on their supply or use.

smoking hasn't been controlled through "tight regulation", it's been controlled through the public health measure of price increase.
What do you call the west? Here in Spain we are mandated by law to wear them, there’s no arguing (or freedom)
If one uses twitter and mobbing to do it, one will never reach them.
AI Ethicist, not researcher
I tried LocalCDN after seeing a recommendation for it here, but despite claiming to cache more libraries it was very clearly not catching as many requests as DecentralEyes, which I'm back using now
When I was doing a conversion from image based game banners (said how many people were in the server and shit) to a javascript solution that used a single json for all servers (as we got to 9 servers, loading at page start and refreshing these every n seconds was getting wasteful), I ran into this issue.

I wanted to keep the look and feel of the php/gd monospace font (could never find which font this used), but the normal defaultly included fonts i could find didn't have the same stylizing. Inconsolata on google fonts was however pretty close.

Only issue, there would be this ugliness for a half second when the page loaded while the font loaded, monospace has bigger size letters on the same font size, and its worse on firefox, so the banners would often wrap text that was suppose to be contained to one line while this loading happened. I couldn't preload the font, because cross-origin and doing the thing that is suppose to fix that didn't work in chrome.

So I just self hosted it, we already have cloudflare in front. Killed most of the delay, the preload tag killed the rest.

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>For every purchase of a Windows Holiday Sweater from the Xbox Gear Shop between December 1, 2020– December 23, while supplies last, Microsoft will donate $20.00 USD to Girls who Code.

Is it not possible to buy a simple sweater without engaging in the US culture war? Especially when it seems like it will raise the cost by these 20$. The sweaters look pretty cool but I'm reluctant to give extra money to support stuff like this because it reeks of discrimination.
One drawback you omitted is that you have to set it up and learn how to use it before you reach a point where it competes with other less sophisticated solutions.

I try to keep some notes.org file and use it regularly, but I'm just faster with unix tools and vim, so it's hard to make the upfront investment in learning emacs and start somewhat from scratch. I think there's also some kind of discoverability issue with org-mode features: I don't really know which features should I look into to improve my setup further and have something really nice instead of a glorified markdown.

One day I'll just read the manual from start to finish and try to start properly from there, one day.
Not only that, but back-projections of R0 across summer show a distinct upwards turn from below 1.0 at the start of August, exactly when EOtHO started.
I once had to count the number of set bits (the Hamming weight) for an assignment. It had to be done in under 40 bitwise ops, without loops and with constants of up to 8 bits. The naive approach took way too many ops! I was stumped until I found the linked page, in particular 'Counting bits set, in parallel'[1]. Parallelism at the bit level?! That is when I realized low level programming was completely badass.

[1]: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#CountBi...
We could fix it with better regulation of product information though.

No one seriously argues against weights and measures legislation. We've supposedly had an information revolution but I still can't really trust any source of product information online.
The Japanese have had more sensible traditions around (not) touching strangers I think. Wouldn't be the worst thing if those are adopted elsewhere. Hugging strangers like in the US or kissing when you meet people like in some places in the middle east is odd in comparison.
I think it's because the author of acoup interprets Gondor as a feudal state. As such, Aragorn would have little ability to set the tax policy, since he can only tax his vassals a small number of high ranking nobles who in turn set their own taxes on their vassals and so on until the lowest nobles set their taxes on the common people. Additionally since all of these nobles are running their fiefs as de-facto independent states there would be relatively few things Aragorn could even do with the taxes. Now I have read most of a coup and this is my interpretation of why the kings tax policy is a less important question. Of course I am not an expert in history and I may be incorrect.
There is the argument that they provide the app distribution, and the store, and all that, yes. But that's included in the paid developer subscription: free apps get all that and their devs pay nothing more.

I cited IAPs specifically because Apple is indeed only providing the payment system, there. There's no download or anything else (already paid for, via the developer program anyway).
The corollary would be that robots.txt exclusion for certain web crawlers should be removed.
> Display Managers: When Linux boots in a 4k screen, the GRUB menu is impossible to read, so I have it memorized.

weird, I have a 4k screen but the bios, grub, etc are just scaled across the screen. A bit blurry of course but definitely readable.
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On the other hand, I've seen well-managed organizations that allow a team of competent but not necessarily exceptional group of engineers to accomplish exceptional feats and also the opposite, where a team of exceptional individuals but without any coherent structure led to dismal results.
This is the equivalent of "use youtube-dl and run the result through Google Translate[1]:"

youtube-dl --sub-langs [DESIRED LANGUAGE]

[1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...
Given the hiring practices in FAANG where you are expected to present academic background rather than practical engineering skills, I'd say this is not a new phenomenon.
My uneducated perception is that the most effective factor seems to be the people's own adapted behaviour itself.

When the situation gets worse then not only the top smartest people but also larger masses begin to take it more seriously to protect themselves, keeping distance, and omitting trips and reducing contacts.

This obviously doesn't apply to careless people or "non-believers" but they wouldn't be much affected by regulations either. So there's always (hopefully) a minority of the population where the virus can spread more easily but once the majority successfully does react it will show positively in the growth curves within about 10 days.

Coincidentally this is also the same time where governments impose strong recommendations or even enforce counter measures. Mandatory shutdowns of cafes and restaurants might seem an effective ordinance but the truth is that by that time most people already refrain from going to crowded places such as cafes and restaurants. And usually there's at least a few points of empirical data from neighbouring countries that those same counter-measures alone won't help limiting the growth if the people themselves aren't in it. It only takes one mask-wearing country to not recover from infection growth in order to make it questionable whether masks help much at all.

Keeping distance seems much more effective than masks. In reality, I've seen that when masks became common place people partially reverted back to flocking together and not respecting a good radius of personal space anymore. Masks probably won't hurt if you need to be close to other people but it would be much, much better to keep the distance in the first place.
also Gondor was founded by the survivors of Numenor which also appears inspired by greco-roman tradition (especially its fall).
I do wonder how much of that is because Japan (and China, to a certain degree) had normalised mask wearing well before this year.
Thats what the helm appliance tries to do: https://www.thehelm.com/

If you search HN there is a quite interesting thread on it.
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