skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems fishy. I would say that there is a non-zero percent chance that he is a cat.
ANSI X3.64-1979: Additional control characters for use with ASCII [pdf]
Free to the user, but these "free" apps were usually sponsored where the software developer paid Dell to include on all of their laptops
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/7332
> But to ambitious data scientists like Pocovi, who has worked with major political parties in Latin America in recent elections, Cambridge Analytica, which shut down in May, was behind the curve. Where it gauged people’s receptiveness to campaign messages by analyzing data they typed into Facebook, today’s “neuropolitical” consultants say they can peg voters’ feelings by observing their spontaneous responses: an electrical impulse from a key brain region, a split-­second grimace, or a moment’s hesitation as they ponder a question.
Totally agree and I'll go one further, I don't want to use RAID at all in a non professional context. Maybe I'm too simplistic but for my personal stuff I don't use RAID, LVM or anything beyond plain ext4 file systems on whole disks. For redundancy I use rsync at whatever frequency makes sense to another disk of the same size. I've run like this for 10 years and replaced many disks without losing data. The time I ran soft RAID I lost the whole array because one disk failed and a SATA error happened at the same time.
My Vim is indeed magic. I start typing in a name and it autocompletes, then adds includes for whatever the package the thing I just used is in. I also can't imagine going back to not having code search, with its turning every identifier into a link.
I think this[1] is a good compromise between excessively brutalist websites like the one you mentioned or Zain Amro's site[2] and blogs pretending to be SPAs built with stuff like Bootstrap or Gatsby. Yes, I think React as a static site generator is overkill. But I'm old, and I don't see why a personal website should "appeal to society at large". Society at large isn't paying for domain registration or hosting, and they certainly aren't maintaining the site.

[1] https://bestmotherfucking.website/

[2] https://zainamro.com/
Okay, while I feel bad for the guy because some half-baked software on his laptop made him look silly, it was legitimately delightful to see a cute kitten appearing before a judge. I hope the guy isn’t too embarrassed by this and sees the humor in the situation.
The deal was flawed from the start:

The news from the nuclear talks with Iran was already troubling. Iran was being granted the “right to enrich.” It would be allowed to retain and spin thousands of centrifuges. It could continue construction of the Arak plutonium reactor. Yet so thoroughly was Iran stonewalling International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors that just last Thursday the IAEA reported its concern “about the possible existence in Iran of undisclosed . . . development of a nuclear payload for a missile.”

Bad enough. Then it got worse: News leaked Monday of the elements of a “sunset clause.” President Obama had accepted the Iranian demand that any restrictions on its program be time-limited. After which, the mullahs can crank up their nuclear program at will and produce as much enriched uranium as they want.

Sanctions lifted. Restrictions gone. Nuclear development legitimized. Iran would reenter the international community, as Obama suggested in an interview in December, as “a very successful regional power.” A few years — probably around 10 — of good behavior and Iran would be home free.

The agreement thus would provide a predictable path to an Iranian bomb. Indeed, a flourishing path, with trade resumed, oil pumping and foreign investment pouring into a restored economy.

Meanwhile, Iran’s intercontinental ballistic missile program is subject to no restrictions at all. It’s not even part of these negotiations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fatal-flaw-in-th...

You negotiate with a hostile foreign power from a position of strength, not weakness. The deal gave Iran everything it wanted, removed the sanctions that were cratering its economy, and gave them the keys to the kingdom without so much as a slap on the hand. The US negotiated from a position of weakness. It handed over everything without getting anything in return, and it was the right move to withdraw from the deal and impose the sanctions, putting the US back into a position of power from which to negotiate from.
It's old software, it's not like there was much of a standard on how to apply filters and etc decades ago. Everything was a one off attempt to get the job done.

And even today everything about audio / video chat is wonky.

I'm always trying to figure out what application is using what audio or video device. Is the OS messing it up or the application or what is any given conference app choosing to use today ....

It's bad when Lego Star Wars is onto it:

https://youtu.be/dwNWTmN-x4s?t=191
Hard disagree, it's a very selective (and unnecessary) reasoning that completely ignores the dangerous mindset and harm to users that closed ecosystems promote.
Bitcoin transactions are worthless unless put into blocks, and blocks have a cap for transactions.
On an average day, bitcoin settles over $10 billion in transactions.
Even public packages have been hijacked. Pin all your dependencies (transitive included) and then use automation (e.g. dependabot) to update the pinned versions as needed.
Has anyone used the parent company's product (RapidAPI)? It seems like a proxy in front of APIs, most of which aren't actually integrated and need to be configured separately. I feel like I am missing something.

I hope Paw doesn't end up as poorly designed as this.
> Isn't this a massive copyright infringement on Apple's design?

I'm not a lawyer but I think Xerox had the same question back in '89 [1]. Given Apple's luck in pursuing infringement claims against Microsoft [2], I doubt a copyright suit would be fruitful in this case.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/15/business/company-news-xer...

[2] https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/blog/1988-apple-sues-micros...
Lightning removes any of the benefits of Bitcoin by being a traditional trusted payment system.
No it doesn't. You may have Barack Trump the friendly Clown as a costume and post different silent actors each week.
THIS is the main reason I wrote it.
Homebrew on macOS supports fonts through ‘cask’. I’m not sure about Linux but since they run on Linux these days, I’d not wonder if they have that covered as well.
Am I the only one having flashbacks to Rainbow's End (Vernor Vinge)?
> Video gaming has more environmental impact than bitcoin.

This seems dubious.
Using filters like this reminds me of the discussion in Infinite Jest, where people used masks and tiny dioramas to present a more attractive appearance over video calls before eventually abandoning it all and going back to audio-only.

Personally, I keep my webcam off at all times. Constantly mugging for the camera to show that I'm following along gets old.
My problem with these takes is that they're missing the forest through the trees. I don't believe you'll ever be able to solve climate change by shaming people based on their usage of electricity. The problem is not HOW people use electricity, it's how the electricity itself is generated. The electricity might be used to draw triangles on my screen, hash some value, keep me warm in my apartment, or make my car move; each of those things might be objectionable to someone.

Ever since humans learned to harness electricity our usage has increased, and with it our quality of life has also increased. That's not going to change. The only way to prevent electricity usage from causing climate change is to regulate emissions themselves (either through carbon taxes or outright bans: that's for regulators to decide) and invest in alternative forms for electricity generation (that includes nuclear).
No preview, but yeah, see issues about why it didn't cut it for me.
> Microsoft fought in court to force OEMs to not install this crap alongside Windows (reasonably since it was damaging their brand and making the machines less secure), but they lost.

This is only part of the story but functionally it was the same. Also 95/98/Me were woefully insecure. And they didn't take security seriously until it started getting really bad mid-2000s.
Seems like they're redirecting me from bbc.co.uk to bbc.com with history, so the back button only changes my country unless I hit it fast enough.
When retina came out, Jobs said that you needed 300ppi at 12 inches. Soneira said it was 477ppi.

1 inch at 12 inches is 4.76 degrees, so Jobs is 63 pixels per degree. Soneira is 100 pixels per degree.

Assuming a 16:9 display:

If you are at 1.5m/60 inch from a 50 inch display, to meet Jobs's criteria you need 1455 lines -- so 4k (2160 lines). You need 2309 lines for Soneira's criteria. You get 40 degree coverage which is the upper bounds of THX.

If you are at 1.7m/66" from a 50" display, to meet Jobs's criteria you need 1326 lines -- so 4k (2160 lines). You need 2104 lines for Soneira's criteria. You get 36 degree coverage width wise which is the "perfect" bounds of THX.

If you are at 2m/80" from a 50" display, to meet Jobs's criteria you need 1098 lines -- so 1080p is fine. You need 1742 lines for Soneira. You get 30 degree coverage.

If you are at 3m/120" from a 50" display, to meet Jobs's criteria you need 735 lines -- so 1080p is fine. You need 1166 lines for Soneira, so you're only just out of that criteria. You get 20 degree coverage.

If you are 30cm/12" from a 7.4" display, you need 1083 lines (Jobs) and 1719 (Soneira), and get 30 degree coverage.

My own TV is c. 3m and 42", which I don't think is abnormally small from what people really have for living room TVs. That's 17 degrees, and needs 981 lines for Soneira's requirement, which 1080p does just fine.

If you have a large screen or sit very close to it (so 30 degrees), and are looking for a better-than-retina display, then sure, 4k is for you. For a home theatre where you're aiming for 36 degrees then certainly you'll want 4k

For the average person with an average tv though, I don't see the extra pixels of 4k being that important compared with a good viewing position, good lighting, good setup of the screen

Like the megapixel wars in cameras a decade ago, we're at the point where more pixels doesn't necessarily mean better. 4k, sure, it wouldn't be my prime consideration, but as almost all new TVs of living room size are 4k it's a given. I'd rather a 1080 TV with 6 HDMI inputs than a 4k TV with two inputs though.

I had the misfortune of watching the final season of game of thrones on some streaming platform from Sky (UK), at about 4 or 5mbit. It was awful, and that was nothing to do with the resolution.
Mining through aka PoW at least does redistribution. PoS means that current owners just get more and more *coin.
Mass. residents who bring seniors to appointments can now get COVID shots
Chloe, the digital avatar on the menu of the video game Detroit: Becoming Human is sort of a sneak peak into what that might be like. (Potential spoilers! Chloe has her own story line, and if you want to experience that, don't watch the whole video.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNTUhKs_xwQ
Not to be confused with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_Analysis_Workstation
A plenty of 800x450 screens out there for the ilk of Raspberry Pi.
The mix of seller, buyer and “you” in the writing makes it hard to follow who’s who sometimes.
75% of those with free trials do not require a credit card up front. This was always my preference as a purchaser because I didn't have to bother my boss and get approval to try out a product.
fontmatrix has dis- and enabling fonts feature. good idea, I will consider this.
Apple Should Extend an Arm to Intel
https://github.com/evilneuro/FreeContributor gives 404
Many years ago, someone told me a little heuristic to determine if any new technology is likely to be successful. It doesn't always pick winners, but it rarely picks losers:

[_] Can this be used for porn?

I think we have a winner here.

(Other examples: 8mm film, VHS, the Internet, newsgroups, JPEG, streaming video, etc.)
Even if we accept this argument at face value, every Watt-hour of hydro or solar that goes to mining Bitcoin could have been used to reduce demand for power generated from fossil fuels.

Power generation isn't perfectly fungible, but it's enough so that this argument falls completely on its face. I wish people would stop making it. Bitcoin is an environmental disaster.
Yes why use this simple tool when you can:

1. add a limited set of fonts (requires sudo privileges)

2. pin those using an arbitrary number between two more arbitrary numbers, hope it doesn't break anything else. if it does break I'm sure there's a few pages of documentation you can sift through (also requires sudo privileges)

3. run another sudo command to update your local list of available packages

4. finally, use sudo to install your font
I like the idea of storing energy by stacking up blocks with
a big crane.
I know why, and I said as much in my original post. Bitcoin is purely for speculation at this point. It’s a money making scheme. These people don’t care about energy usage or transaction fees as long as they are getting incredible returns on their investment.
I'm curious if the person who recorded this is going to get fined $500 and a jail term of 180 days.

Speaking of which, does anyone know why the jail terms are always far more onerous than the fine? Even back when I worked at Target making $9 an hour, it'd take me maybe two weeks to come up with $500, why are the jail time sentences so disproportionately long compared to the maximum fine that can be levied? Is this because of inflation? Or to encourage you to pay the fine rather than serve jail time?
My work provides me with an iphone (which i only use for work). I like the hardware but the OS is super limiting.

I bought an ipad pro for art - mostly Procreate (is that sad?) but I also use a 16" wacom display tablet attached to my desktop when I'm not mobile. I also use it to play with music recording on mobile with a small midi keyboard and some synth apps. The ipad hardware is really nice. The OS is super limiting to the point of frustration. If there were alternate non-apple hardware of similar quality for what I do on ipad, I would likely switch. As it is the device is just for 'playing' creatively.

For a computer, I regularly run software with no mac ports and I'm not a big fan of the way apple is fundamentally anti consumer in its approach to product repair, OS design and controlling what software can be run on devices. I don't want to invite that sort of intrusive tech control over my life in the future by buying into now as a principle computing device when its more 'open' (even though apple is fundamentally not open) I've seen this kind of thing coming as apple gets more and more aggressive with its policies.

Apple's move to their own silicon only makes me think they walled garden will get an even more impenetrable wall, and I'm just not interested. (The hardware is good but the OS is limiting, and it seems likely to me that the longer apple makes their own silicon the less likely it will play nicely with anyone else. Apple wants you to buy their shit and they don't care if it doesn't work with anyone else's).
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Potentially habitable exoplanet candidate spotted around Alpha Centauri A
Nobody's invited me, which suits me just fine since I don't have an iPhone and liked the internet better when it was all text.
> Wait, what's your definition of variable?

With full formality, the definition of "variable" depends on context. In assembly language and C variables are names for storage locations in RAM, in Python they are name bindings in a dict data structure.

One distinction we could make is whether the names are compiled away or kept and used at runtime.

In any event, the important thing is to keep clear in one's mind the semantics of the language one is using. In Python you have values (objects of various types: ints, strings, tuples, lists, functions, classes, instances of classes, types, etc.) some of which are mutable and others are immutable, and you have namespaces: dicts that map strings to values. These namespaces have nothing to do with the location of the values in RAM.

So it doesn't really make sense in Python to speak of "mutate a variable", you can mutate (some) values, and rebind values to names (new or old).

> I'm not sure exactly why you mentioned objects that have names embedded in them. Is that relevant to the definition you're using?

Not really, it's just another little point that sometimes confuses some people when they are coming to grips with the idea that in Python values are not associated with names except by namespace bindings. There are some values (function and class objects) that do get associated with names.
I think we need less pakage managers, and more cooperation between them. I mean all the resources wasted, look at repology.org...
Hey,
I have to admit that I moderately appreciate being compared to the content marketing crowd but still appreciate the kind words :)

Yes, my ability to pay the rent is directly related to the number of books I sell.

That being said, I thought it was worth sharing because a lot of people think they can't make a living writing Open Source code. I hope to change their mind and give them ideas to take the leap.

Edit: rephrasing
Luxa CSS
> better presentations

> more exploration-based approaches

Do you know of any that you'd recommend?
Equity in this context... is equity in every context, that is equal outcomes for various groups. Equity for Marx was between classes, Equity for Mao was more social, equity from 1960s on is mostly intersectional grouping.

Equity is at odds with equality; they cannot exist together.

This is why CA fought (and lost) to revoke Prop 209 which guaranteed a certain racial equality. As seen in the recent SF school admission, the board would have prefered a neoracist admission standard, but couldn't do that overtly because Prop 209 still stands, so they changed it from test to lottery.

In this context (Math), everything is political, including (especially) math and the sciences. Everything is political because equity theorists say that everything, including math, is socially constructed. So the structural racism (axiom) that is present everywhere must be deconstructed in every classroom and every workplace.

It is all neoracist. It is the new, hip, way to achieve segregation and discrimination based on race.
It's a device for smuggling in a new concept (enforcement of equal outcomes) using a word that sounds similar enough to "equality", representing an older and unobjectionable concept (equal opportunity), that it should provoke minimal opposition.
In your estimation, how much Bitcoin is purchased in hopes of gaining freedom from the existing banking system, and how much Bitcoin is purchased in hopes of making money when it goes up?
Bitcoin: 6 GW

Avalanche: < 1 MW

Keep telling me how "securing the network isn't waste".
You have a point but let's no pretend this is new - there's been so much whitewashing of American history for instance. The way the jim crowe is just sort of skipped; most textbooks go from the civil war to voting rights and even then, there's more emphasis on the better moments. This is just another set of people getting the power over curriculum. It's not great either but it isn't new.
The badge designs themselves are modeled after the badges generated by Shields.io. However, when the Tangram team was putting together our CI pipeline, we realized that we couldn't use a Shields-like service because most of our repositories are private (no public pings, you know).

So, since we're a Rust-heavy organization, we decided to generate our own badges during CI. Seeing that current Rust-based offerings were lacking compared to something like Shields.io... we just made our own!
> Bitcoin is [...]

That's a purpose.
why can't you just keep using python2? surely some people out there are interested enough to keep updating and maintaining it?
I think the real value in Bitcoin is its immutability. I don't think there's any piece of information in the world as immutable as the first bitcoin block mined by satoshi.

This property is what powers amazing projects like OpenTimeStamps (https://opentimestamps.org/), this will become an essential tool for notaries all around the world, seriously!, and this has nothing to do with number of transactions, this scales to O(1) (you only need one transaction to prove as many things as there needs to be proved). Previous to bitcoin existence I don't think there was ever a distributed way of proving a piece of information existed previous to X, and even if there was, it was probably centralized or much much MUCH weaker than bitcoin. There's just no replacement, not even a million years as effective as bitcoin is for this, if I'm wrong please tell me! I want to know!

Most people here in favor of bitcoin argue about inflation, I understand the reasoning, and I'm from Venezuela, I pretty sure understand that value, but that's just missing the point, immutability >>> inflation protection.

And if we go into the smart-contracts terrain, that's a whole other world of very diverse possibilities of values to be uncovered
Many people have conflated Common Core (a set of objectives of what should be learned and by when, generally pretty good) with the materials that came out to support it from textbook publishers and others (pretty shitty).
It's tough to find two or more compatible and like minded people who can afford to make (effectively) zero money for an extended period of time. Having VC money makes it possible to support a bigger team from the outset with less financial risk to the founders. This may contribute to the bias towards single founders in bootstrapped companies.

I'm a solo SaaS founder and would absolutely love to have a partner but the few people I've discussed it with have not been able to tolerate the financial risk / lost opportunity cost.
Nothing. Facebook is better dead.
Automating Terraform is hard from a security perspective, mostly because almost everything Terraform manages requires very high privileges.

Traditional CI/CD platforms generally miss some of the security features we need, such as private networking to infrastructure, sufficiently robust storage of credentials, and change control of the job specifications.

We took some time to understand the security concerns for automating Terraform with popular CI/CD platforms on the market, and built on top of a managed solution, arriving at a solution which minimises attack surfaces created above the AWS environment underneath.
Since I don't see it mentioned, Embark uses a lot of Rust, and has started to create a community around Rust Games Development: https://www.embark.dev/ and their Discord: https://discord.com/invite/8TW9nfF
Sounds more like a legal problem than a problem with the model.
Those look like they'd be quite painful to trip over.
HN! I enjoy it but very oftem wate much time reading all those comments!
> Drivers are never an issue.

If you talk about system drivers it's not really fair. Having control of all system components makes driver support a joke compared to handling the constant avalanche for PCs. Try installing a hackintosh and you have a good chance of immediately running into Linuxesque driver issues.

If you talk about peripherals I've had plenty of issues on macOS.