skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that it does to be honest. I think author does not understand typography, he did some Googling and tinkering with font software and that's about it.

The real story is more complicated. Yes there is no 'em size' as a physical constraint in digital world. Yet the concept that the 'em size' represents is very important for a font. Font is more than the collection of glyphs (shapes of letters). Things like em size and default line height may seem arbitrary but they are important decisions made by font designer that should be respected by users of the font.
Which is the fault of the person treating it as a password.

If I said

"can I have a loan, my name is John Smith from 123 Main Street"

And the bank gave me money and stuck it on John Smith's account, people (John Smith) wouldn't stand for it.

In an ideal world SSNs would be published in a global lookup list, getting rid of the entire idea in the average person's head that SSNs are secret information when they aren't.
oh I bet many are going to find the opportunity provided by the equipment gives them a lot of flexibility with work but also to communicate with friends and family. Many had never considered using zoom, their ipads, and other means, to keep in touch. The visual aspect may finally lead to where people will desire phones calls are both audio and visual.

maybe the video phone will become an actual reality instead of something most people only see on TV and in movies
To be fair most systems in the EU is exactly the same.
Why would you give up on freedom and live in a society as rigid (not in a derogatory sense) as Japan's? I'm also European, but I would rather live in US than in Japan. I believe opinions on US differ in Europe, you should have said that it's your personal opinion, if you dislike US that doesn't mean that it has any correlation with the fact thay you are European.
Belt and Road. Containers already take a week on rail via Kazakhstan to Germany, instead of a month at sea.
> but 80's and 90's corporate American business culture decided it was better to shut down all that manufacturing and move it overseas for more short-term profit

This is a very non-confrontational way to say, "Greedy ass Boomers who were given practically everything by the events surrounding the end of World War II - manufacturing destroyed across all of Europe, Asiatic nations still mostly third-world places, second world at best, managed to fuck up so badly due to greed and incompetence while growing up in a world with, literally, no competition, sold their children and their grandchildren down the river so they wouldn't have to be even slightly uncomfortable in retirement, unlike their parents."

This just furthers my belief that if you couldn't make an above-average life for yourself as a Boomer, you were just a pathetic fuck-up who would have probably starved to death 100-200 years ago.
The new logo & mascot is refreshing. I am sure many pople would find joy in that change.
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I wouldn't say that. We were sent home to protect us and our community. I don't think WFH execution at Google has been better than anywhere else. My experience on a team that did embedded/hardware work is I suppose an outlier, but Google has policies like "no source code on laptops" and the like that make remote work tricky in many circumstances -- none of that changed. I am however much happier now that I've transferred into a more traditional cloud-based org.

Myself, I am looking forward to a return to the office, 3/5 days a week, despite me having a long commute and driving giving me back pain: because this last year and a bit has not been pleasant at all.
Impressive.

Do you mind sharing the technologies you are using?

Let me think here for a moment:

If I were to build a service like that, first thing to think about is the connectors, are there open source database connectors?, I guess maybe at this point there is a lot of them. But then you have a lot of other parts to do. The SQL cells (as you call them), how everything talks to one another, the charts, the tables, the comments. Well done, man.

I have two more questions: did you have an experience working on something similar before? and what is the chart lib are you using?

I completely understand if you don't like to share these info.
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I mean, even the ones that were not just blockaded, but genocidally invaded, still turned from really bad feudal peasant states into modern industrial nations faster than any previous countries.
Others gave some very good reasons in replies. I'd just add one more - when you pay off smallest loan, you should take the money for its monthly payment and direct it towards the next smallest loan. That way you'll pay off that one much faster! Then you take that amount and direct it towards the next one etc. Trust me, debts are falling down very quickly this way!
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Twitter hasn't captured the market, but has become only slightly profitable compared to its industry peers. Meanwhile Doordash or Deliveroo or Uber could capture entire markets, but that would rapidly make them prone to regulation or outright bans.
it's an equity trap as one does not own the land the 'house' is on and you own any right to live in the house through land ownership and thus can be forced out at anytime
Love the new logo.
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It's the same as the EU but with way more federal power and way less local democracy.
You can probably get around this by starting at. community college and then transferring to the school of your choice. Most schools have stricter admmissions standards for new freshmen than they do for older students transferring over.
I think the way Rust took with Generics should be the next step for Java, it for sure can boost the Java apps performance. In Rust you have both types erasure and C++ style templates which don't erasure the types.
Ripped off from Harry Harrison's "bil the galactic hero". 1965
> we all do know that a hundred consecutive heads is possible, still you are not going to bet your week pay on it, even if you were promised 2^100 weeks of pay in return

The expected reward is just one-week's pay --- you have to offer better than that with all the uncertainty ;)

What if the reward is potentially infinite amount of money? If the investigation proved our current understanding of physics wrong, that could lead to historic breakthroughs in natural science.

Better yet, we don't know what the odd is. It might only need 32 consecutive heads.
We've accidentally conducted the experiment multiple times-- heading from northern Marin into SF with visitors in another car and failed to tell them to ignore the google 'faster route' -- they arrive much later after detouring through the east bay and getting stuck in traffic coming down to the bay bridge or inside SF.

I have no idea how Maps estimation works, but it's easy to imagine that it could make a decision based on a brief delay that will likely have cleared before you arrived, while the path it suggested congested ahead of you.

Even if they even managed to accurately give a solution that was correct in the expectation, a much longer route is almost always going to have a much higher 95th percentile time (unless the shorter route has a train or drawbridge or similar).

If given a choice between of an alternative that would be 1 minute faster on average but never more than 2 minutes faster and 5% of the time you're advised to use it it's actually >30 minutes slower-- which would you take?

But I doubt they're particularly accurate in terms of the expectation in any case-- at least not relative to traffic driven 1 minute differences.

Aside, I drive a stick, so I don't especially love stop and go-- but Maps has done far worse to me in an effort to avoid some stop and go on an arterial road, e.g. sending me off onto extremely hilly residential streets clogged with other drivers, leaving me chirping the tires to avoid rolling into the bumpers behind me in the Maps congo line.

It's better to be in congestion on a road that was designed for it than to still be in congestion on some detour in an area where the roads weren't designed for heavy through traffic.
> The percentage of people who're not in a political party in Japan is 94.4%, with the closest European countries being Denmark (94.7%) and Germany (93.5%). The US is the country with the lowest percentage of non-party members at 49.9%. I think it's pretty clear who's the odd one out here.

It feels like they're comparing different things though. In the US, they use voter registration / party identification as "membership", while they use actual membership in other countries. My grandmother always used to vote for the Social Democrats in Germany, certainly identified with them, but was never a member. She wouldn't show up as a party member here, but she would if she did the same in the US. It seems "true believers" would be the better metric to compare to the US party affiliation.

Also, it's amazing how bad that website is built. Thanks for the bread crumbs to follow.
> E.g. you can take a break to run a personal errand in the middle of a work day,

No cummute is saving me a workday of time a week. When I was home 1830ish the usual errand places are closed where I live.

I don't even remember how I did errands while commuting. I guess I didn't.
You might find the following two books helpful;

1. Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael Scott.

2. Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi.
> The professional tools are licensed at 100k-200k/year per seat each, there is no way around them if you want to actually tape out the chip.

Unless you talk about countries where people simply don't pay for software no matter what.

Some companies are just fine with 10 years old pirated Virtuosos in places like China.

It was a big surprise to me that even software which probably has less than 100 licensees globally is still getting warezed.
Not if done properly. https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/housing/2019/09/housi...
> Mobile homes are made cheaply at present because they are aimed at the bottom of the housing market, but there's no reason they couldn't be made as high-quality as you like.

See also: "tiny homes".

But yeah, prefabricated housing definitely gets a bad rap. I'm pretty gung-ho about the idea of more buildings built from TEU-sized or FEU-sized building blocks - i.e. not necessarily converted intermodal containers (though container homes are cool, too), but blocks built to those dimensions and designed to be pieced together side-by-side or stacked together. Modular construction is one of the three "legs", I think, of driving down housing costs (the others being zoning reform - i.e. getting rid of artificial constraints against housing density or residential/commercial/industrial colocation - and the use of a land value tax to penalize land hoarding/speculation and incentivize denser development).
Sorry to nitpick on what seems an eminently practical scheme, but don't the jets of black holes and neutron stars move away from the object?
It only happens in periodic dramas made for 15-year olds
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I was going to find a side hustle, but instead I just found a better paying software job.
April Fool’s is here again, I see.
About time they came up with an open source alternative to https://unity-chan.com/
The expected price reductions will have been part of the financial modelling for products. Big customers of TSMC is Apple which traditionally build the best products with the best inputs and then sells them for quite some time benefiting from lower input costs.
Is antivirus censorship?
That's a really interesting point. Do you think that pattern applies to other genres too?
And more specific: with car audio and on a busy road
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I'm pretty sure the amount of energy you can harvest that way is a couple of orders of magnitude too small to be useful.
I'm sure this is no surprise to any professional physicists anywhere.
There is a nice experiment that shows light can move:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1X8mPJziA
"Please identify yourself" doesn't mean "give me a random name" but "prove who you are". It is a mess but To ID is to authenticate who you are.
Surely the size of a piece of paper at the same distance as the viewing distance from the monitor would end up having the same dimensions as the paper on the monitor?
Moving from property tax to land value tax would readily address that last point. This would incentivize turning unused land into tiny/mobile home parks - and would further incentivize residents cooperatively owning that land in order to reduce overhead to a bare minimum.
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It's been a couple of years since I watched it, but I don't recall the GBLA being mentioned in the film.

For anyone interested, the film we're talking about is the 2015 documentary "Bitter Lake" by Adam Curtis which tells the story of how an agreement signed on the Great Bitter Lake back in 1945 could have had an unexpectedly huge impact on how the modern world developed through the next 60+ years.

It's long, but entertaining and as always has a great soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84P4dzow1Bw
It was giving some Onion vibes the whole time!!
The 14% gap in US population coverage is from Illinois, Nevada, Arizona, North and South Dakota, Maryland, and Kansas not providing data to this registry. Canada is only at 76.5% of their population included. If you're going with the premise that people in the US present with higher stage cancers like other posters in this thread, then it paints US cancer care in an even better light that they are able to have comparable 5 year survival despite their average cancer presenting later and having a worse prognosis.

I have trouble seeing the reason for your argument about mortality. This is one paper that looks at 5 year survival across many countries. The authors may have chosen this outcome measure because it is the easiest and most objective outcome measure we have. Other papers can look at disability adjusted life years or quality adjusted life years. Those measures just were not used in this paper.
I wan unclear. No it does not require it and I would be happy to import that part alone. But that part alone is not enough to make me favor the Japanese school system that comes with a lot of issues IMO.
Indeed, coincidentally just watched this a week before the Ever Given blockage. It's relevant to this thread. The soundtrack, the archival footage and the pairing between them makes for fantastic viewing, although I personally found this not as intellectually interesting and even more 'tenuous' than Hypernormalisation or Can't Get You Out of My Head.
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What would you put them in? Everyone wants the latest and greatest Playstation or Xbox with the fastest chips.
> What they are probably referring too are cooperative taxis. Those are cars or smaller buses that are driving a certain route, like a bus.

It's also funny that the ride share concept has been huge throughout the west, with a couple of unicorns profiting from it, but once the same concept is applied to Cuba... Well, suddenly "deteriorating public transport" becomes a key point.
I "audited" the generated c++ code (looked at it for 10 seconds) and immediately noticed that the decode functions all create a copy of the input buffer..
I had a good result by using the text version and running it through LaTex for formatting and then converted it into an ebook format. I think it involved a Perl script for marking sections.
The new logo is cute, I'd actually be alright with such a rebranding.
Disagree. A navigational aid such as Google Maps is only good as long as you know your exact destination in advance. If for some reason you can't, or you need to orient yourself in an area, or even understand the route you're on, or - God forbid - plan a trip involving multiple destinations - Google Maps is incredibly hard to use.
that is a stupid comment. the techies inside unversities are horrendously underfunded. m365 at least will bring consistency and will probably also make your date more secure to third party actors.

it also comes with a5 licenses with a special and cheap deal so it's basically ridicolous that all other customers are paying for this.

> but today we already have some Universities that don't even have their own datacenter anymore, everything is hosted elsewhere and maintained by contractors. Students access SaaS via a Browser. Walled gardens everywhere

tons of software was already from external contractors.
I'm not sure but some people like you are living in bubbles.

of course it would be possible to have everything open source. BUT with our current governement M365 is the best solution. the cdu sleeped for over 20 years to have a great open source solution. so it would be impossible to have something integrated ready within a short window, it would also blow a huge budget.
the only thing you can be mad about is our government, the m365 is the best thing that could happen.

btw. I hate the strange bashing against american companies, as if german companies are any better (they are not).

btw. I'm german and everytime I see something like that I'm mad, we do everything to even have a SaaS vendor, with ridiculous data privacy (only if you are an american company, for german company's the authoritis are looking away or making special rules) and than our governement fucks every citizen by making rules that don't even work together with the privacy rules.
time to relocate. everything starts to be stupid and the wrong questions are asked.
I agree that technically you can have two non-orthogonal values and would actual satisfy some of the problems of users when switching fonts. Like a checkbox 'preserve x-height when changing fonts' would make those changes less drastic.

Yet the article argues that font size is broken, my point is that author does not understands it's intended usage.

Fonts are a very specific instrument with a long tradition of knowledge associated with it, yet there is context of a more 'consumer' setting, like using a code editor, here maybe there is a clash between professional usage (designers should be fine that different fonts have different size) and more of personal usage.

Fonts were not meant for personal usage generally, and there is a certain learning curve on how to use them correctly, but there is no 'interface' currently for a general type of user who just want the text to look good.
I don't know where this 14 days came from. I don't think I'm leaking anything serious by saying: I didn't see it in the internal comms.
I'm familiar with the US federal system, but as far as I know, the individual state IDs still have the same problem. In particular, they're apparently difficult to obtain for poor or disadvantaged people, so there are enough people without an ID to let the insecure ad-hoc systems exist in parallel. So something like knowing the SSN, or displaying an utility bill (trivially faked) exists as a parallel ID form.

European government-issued IDs don't work well just because they are accepted, they work well because no other ID is accepted, and that's only possible when 99% or more of the population has such an ID (and the rest can be handled in a somewhat more convoluted but uncommon procedure).

Of course I have no good insight into how feasible it is for a US state / federal government to ensure that everyone (for sufficiently large values of everyone) in the state / country has an ID, without disadvantaging anyone.
Completely pie-in-the-sky. Chips aren't fungible.
Thanks, that's kind of what I am looking for. Do you know an intro text which is a bit more concise?
> He wanted the differentiation point of his company to be the product and only product. This is a pretty risky strategy to follow. Usually you want to differentiate yourself in several areas.

What ways can you differentiate yourself? I mean he admits that Asana was VC funded and started with a crappy product that later became fleshed out to be better than his by hiring better devs, better designers, etc. While he was focusing on marketing and whatnot, Asana was burning VC money for marketing and hiring a better team. So yeah, honest question, did I miss out on any other factors?
> How are we supposed to work on something no one knows how to pronounce?

Hasn't stopped decades of work on LaTeX :)
Displaying terminal output nowadays is more complex than 30 years ago.

Today you want to be able to render high dpi text on a 4k display, possibly on multiple monitors in multiple terminals at the same time.

And you better have more than
240 FPS (terminal render updates per second), because some displays run at 240hz or higher and you don't want your terminal to produce flicker on your screen.
I was skeptical, but then I saw the new logo and immediately fell in love.

Long live Godot waifu
We do have guidelines provided by the US Preventative Services Task Force - https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme... - and other specialty organizations may have their own. All medical students in the US are expected to know all of these screening guidelines and generally learn them during their Family Medicine rotation.

Here are the cancer screening guidelines - https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/topic_s... - You can see that many of these carry the D recommendation, meaning they should not be done because the harm outweighs the benefit of the screening. Screening only makes sense if the cost of the test is low, the test is very accurate, and the benefit of the treatment you're going to undertake after a positive screen is large.
What do you suppose we do in the meantime then?

I have a hard time coming up with an alternative that isn't just playing the ball into the hands of Google so that they can kill ad blocking right away?
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See, this is the problem with US politics. Your experts and your press are absolutely convinced that those US Covid-19 deaths are the fault of Trump and that if the idiot population had voted for someone they liked more those people wouldn't have died, even though this has no basis in actual reality. The US Covid-19 deaths are completely and utterly average for a Western country. (The worst death toll currently is the Czech Republic, which everyone was pointing to as the European success story that showed everyone else should be able to do better less than a year ago. This could well change again, of course, just like it did before. A lot of this seems to be luck. Though the current US vaccination rates make it much less likely to rise up the list again.)

Also, all the information about what supposedly worked was distorted by politics too. For example, all of the countries like Taiwan which managed to keep it out relied heavily on imposing border restrictions early, but borders and travel restrictions were seen as evil, Trumpian things - a "prophetic" piece of fiction where President Trump responded to a pandemic by imposing increasingly futile border closures did the rounds on social media early on - so they were completely omitted from US media narratives about how those countries had succeed. Instead they focused on stuff like Covid testing, because of another equally bogus narrative that Trump had sabotaged that. (The US actually had a really ambitious testing program... right up until the tests arrived at labs and were defective. Apparently it turned out some career CDC employee hid the fact they were contaminated and let them roll out to labs, but this was missed by almost all the media coverage, probably because it had nothing to do with Trump.)