skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I am trying to tell you is that 1:1 font rendering on macOS is simply not very good. This caused Apple to be the ass of jokes for a while. If you think that 1:1 rendering of common kanji is good, well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. As for downsampling for fractional scale... I was only ever trying to demonstrate that it is not ideal, and not everyone wants it. I still (as I had said early in the thread) find it to be an acceptable tradeoff.

And yeah, UI toolkits could switch off hinting and subpixel AA at 2x. I acknowledge that this would be logical anyways, since subpixel AA is not very useful at 2x.

But honestly, as far as Apple typography goes, it’s all beside the point. This was in a thread where I was initially trying to demonstrate that doing it in Linux is hard for historical reasons. I believe I made that point. As for will it ever be done? Well, like I said, it has been done. Wayland supports what you are describing and more just fine, right now, and it works very well. (Full disclosure that most programs will actually just use fractional scale, but you can also round up to the next integral and the compositor will downsample as you would hope.) The actual hard problem is getting Wayland working for everyone, on their hardware and with their software. Progress is being made every year, but it’s been a long road. Until then, I just think it would make more sense for Elementary OS to work on more tractable problems with the Linux desktop.
Coverage is good in all us metro areas. directpage has good coverage maps as there's basically only two networks these days
Great post, last updated 2016. Might be helpful context on discussed architectures and processors.
Microsoft adding promotional material for Edge above the search results for "Google Chrome" in Edge also further reinforces this.
Worse. If you show that it's trivially insecure, you are now the suspect/perpetrator.

Never break these illusions. Keep your mouth shut.
The same idea crossed my mind. Those embassies are chock full of magical equipment, US embassies sometimes have radio-transparent walls for unspecified reasons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_... )
Even if you compress it, you need it in client memory which can also be a dealbreaker. Some people might need it for some projects, I know I did.
With that in mind, why are they using the elevator at all? The fact that there is a difference between using and operating is very convenient.
We only started eating vegetables 85,000 years ago. For the 2M years before that it was all meat diet:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-2-million-years-humans-ate...
17 of BBC's 90 “strictly necessary cookies” are for “tracking” users
This might not be directly related to the article, but I was wondering if other self-driving companies also made overoptimistic claims.

As an example, Honda doesn't seem to make too many over-hyped promises [0].

[0]: https://www.honda.co.jp/news/2021/4210304-legend.html
Considering we could not get people to wear masks to curb far more immediate problems, I find it difficult to take the initiative.
Industrial agriculture is depleting the soil, abusing animals, polluting our water and significantly contributing to planet-destroying climate change. How about we start tackling the problem by ending subsidies and requiring meat producers to pay for what are currently treated as externalities. If meat eaters had to pay the real cost of their food, I suspect overall consumption would decrease far more than any campaign for behavioural changes.
Why not reduce government subsidies on meat and add tax based on the pollution generated? Existing meat alternatives that are cheap to produce and create less pollution would then have a fair chance to compete?

I can't see how meat alternatives are ever going to be able to compete otherwise. We already have a ton of good cow milk alternatives to choose from and people aren't rapidly switching to them so I don't expect e.g. lab meat to change much unless it was an order of magnitude cheaper.
I don't argue they are qualified to be called a software company. They make money from software after all (at least partly). But they are not a software company in the sense that they don't build technology. Their specialty is buying and selling software and investing in software companies (check one of their 10-K filings). For me personally they are not a software company since building software is not their core business. They operate the same way pure investors operate, with the difference they often buy an entire company rather than just owning a subset of the company (but they do both).

Update: I see my original comment is getting downvoted. I knew I'm going to upset some sensitive Salesforce employees here :)
I know, it is an imperfect analogy. But thank you for noticing and explaining my shortcut to other readers.

Cancers are very patient-specific, and the main threat with immunotherapy is that the targeted cancer adapts quickly enough to escape the immune system again.
Thats not going to happen as long as people keep electing politicians whose largest donors are Facebook co-founders.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/elec-o22.html
> Are not all white people Anglo Saxon?

Are not all black people Yoruba? (Well, of course they aren't...)
Climate change gonna hit us by 2030
> You will get very biased opinions [with 3 testers]

Your anecdote is atypical.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-w...
from gp:

> "...they currently like Pipe...something"

probably pipedrive. it's pretty good for small sales (and some marketing) groups to manage their pipelines. easy to get up and running and fairly flexible for what it is. it's not going to replace salesforce though.

hubspot is a mid-market marketing automation product, sitting between little pipedrive and huge salesforce. it's also pretty decent for what it is, helping medium-size marketing (and some sales) departments coordinate across various channels. it also won't replace salesforce, but is appropriate for a mid-tier company (maybe ~$20-200MM in revenue).

salesforce is a huge sales channel management platform with at least a couple marketing automation products bolted onto it, along with all sorts of other semi-related stuff, like SCM (supply chain mgmt). this is because they want to own the totality of "marketing", which encompasses all of product, price, promotion, and distribution.

(i've done some consulting in this area and have helped clients pick and set up these things)
So it's Django?
Very nice. It would be awesome if this were standard.
skaffold and minikube (which runs a simple Kubernetes cluster on your local dev computer) are great - the developer just types “skaffold dev” in their terminal and skaffold handles the entire process of building and deploying code into minikube, with instant live updates whenever files change.

https://skaffold.dev/

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/
It really is, for all AWS-AWS traffic barring Beijing and Ningxia. src: I worked in AWS networking for 2.5 years

here's DUB->SYD:

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They could - but up until recently no one cared enough, both for R&D spend and to get or mandate enough shots for it to work at it’s stated goals.

We’ve had people even recently refusing to give their kids polio, tetanus, or measles vaccines - and even 5 minutes of honest research or questions to a doctor will make quite clear how bad an idea THAT is. Getting 100+ flu vaccines, all which would have to go through a pipeline taking nearly a decade, when ‘nothing bad has happened’ on that topic for a hundred years?

Ain’t nobody going to pay for that.

We’ll see how the calculus is different soon. I for one would rather my tax dollars go towards figuring something like never having the flu again than blowing up some random middle eastern country a couple more times.
> you need it in client memory which can also be a dealbreaker

Most workstations have GBs of available memory. If not you can dump it in indexeddb as a raw data store.

I never disputed that it would be useful for some use cases. I only said it would be unusable with high latency links. If you have a low latency link and aren’t running very complex queries with lots of random seeks, then this should work fine for you.
Tight and Loose Cultures: A Conversation with Michele Gelfand (2019)
Full* Self*-Driving (terms and conditions apply)
> I have beginner-level lockpicking skills.

Pretty irrelevant "argumentum ad verecundiam", but for the sake of argument, you are not "average" anymore. Being able to pick Schlage and Kwikset already puts you in the probably 0.1%.

Anyhow, back on track, the average customer does not refill their cartridges. I doubt the idea of doing so has even sparked in their head. (and yes, the average consumer is dumb).
Good thing it's easy to swap the pickups in my guitar, so I can test things like that easily :)
> You can't run a trial if there aren't any people getting infected.

Corona viruses have been with us for a few thousand (millions?) of years. It is estimated 25% or so of colds are caused by corona viruses. And not surprisingly, they can also cause really, really bad outcomes in the sick and elderly -- in fact, there is some speculation that before they became endemic, they were as virulent as sars-cov-2.

And there definitely have been attempts; not as focused, of course, but nevertheless over many years. The most focused attempts were at SARS-Cov-1 and MERS - and both burned out quickly - but also all failed spectacularly at the animal testing stage.

> This isn't a mechanistic explanation of how you've arrived at a stronger level of comfort with earlier safety trials, unless your evaluation criteria is literally just that they took longer.

(a) animal testing (skipped entirely in this case, which would have shown perhaps that targeting the spike protein may be an issue, and

(b) yes, more time. some signals take time to surface - do read the pandermix papers I linked to. Whatever is happening now is just too close for comfort, and I sincerely hope it will end better.

What more can you ask for, when I show you a horrible experiment from 2009, which matches in almost every possible way except we're now using now technology? With articles from science and the BMJ? Is there anything that can satisfy your request for reasonable doubt?
I’ve tried some ML plant ID apps and they were all totally off. What’s this good one called, if you don’t mind saying?
Is it heavy JS load on the client side, or slow processing on server side that causes this sluggishness?
Physicians Letter to Universities: Allow Students Back Without Vaccine Mandate
Same thing in The Netherlands. Organic matter (brown or green bin) is free, but the bin that ends up on a landfill costs a few € to empty. I like it.

Also we have separate collections for glass, paper, plastic etc. So if you put in some effort, you can go a full year without having to empty your black (landfill) bin.
I have used that app for 3 minutes and lost interest. What is your impression, is the app growing, useage-wise & feature-wise?
Without video it isn't clear how convenient/easy it is.

Here's another approach: https://youtu.be/pZaTbCBvcOI?t=39
(it's in Russian, but the mechanics is very simple)
Just use Privacy's virtual cards to sign up for services. If a service doesn't let you cancel, just cancel the card itself. That's what I've been doing.

Of course, it's a different story if you signed some kind of contract, but for the pay-montly kind of things, it's a no brainer. You also keep your real cards number private in case the service gets hacked and Privacy doesn't seem to check the name, so you can give a fake name to the service.
It's the principle: other people's tags get to commandeer resources from 'my phone' without me giving permission. Unless somewhere in the iPhone fine print it say something like "by using an iPhone, you are implicitly agreeing to become part of Apple's Global BLE Network" --- well, if not that, I'm not sure how Apple gets away with this.
Another trick for straight holes is to put something on the bit (like a washer or something that moves freely) and it should stay in the same spot. If it slides forward/backward the bit isn’t level. This probably isn’t a good technique for drilling pilot holes for a neck but it works well for things where a Good Enough™ tolerance is acceptable.
I think your assessment is more or less spot on, we've faced down civilizational threats before.

I want to add that there's a statistical trend to have less offspring once quality of life improves, as well.

That being said, civilizations have come and gone before. I believe we must not fall into "tech religion", and wait for magical solutions when we can and should address many things politically rather than technologically.

I am also happy we're reaching for the solar system, because a backup mankind seems prudent.
If you ask them why they say its because it'll often dissolve the pipes before the blockage. Most of the trades people I talk to aren't looking to maximize their work. I've had them turn down jobs for being too gross and I don't blame them.

They'll generally use a snake/auger. Home Depot sells a basic one for $15. The beefier, further reaching ones cost more. Or, for smaller jobs, there are single-use plastic snakes.
Dogecoin, indirectly, without interest
There is no fixing some people.
They want to believe that a single narrow interpretation of something is right, by their own experience. You cannot change their mind. eg There is no multiple inheritance in Java so you aren't going to use Java.
I'm not sure what is your point. Nobody is trying to convince you to follow Judaism. In fact, it is customary to strongly discourage anybody who wants to convert. If it doesn't make sense to you, it's ok, it's not supposed to. I'm just trying to explain how those who follow it see it. If you're not interested, well, you're welcome to not being educated.
I think at least some of this comes from the new environmental movement, which tends to be much more anti-human than pro-fixes.

It's just another way of pulling up the ladder after climbing it, the same as people like to accuse homeowners of doing when they don't want to be crowded out of their neighborhoods. You can even find both in the same neighborhood/person -- you'll be looked at funny if you don't have a Prius parked in front of your multi-million dollar house right next to a protected forest that only you can access because there is no train and no parking.
And there was I thinking that the main problem with What3Words was a total lack of error detection/correction.
Pop open the network pane in the browser tools and try running this SQL query for a demo of how clever this is:

select country_code, long_name from wdi_country
order by rowid desc limit 100

It fetches just 54.2KB of new data (across 49 small HTTP requests) to return 100 results - from a statically hosted database file that's 668.8MB!

I have an animated GIF demo of this here: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1388933800445452290
yea, sqlite FTS5 has been pretty amazing for quick search solutions (but I use english only)
I was actually thinking of underwater welders when I wrote that. Not all oil industry jobs pay well but that one really can, and it carries the cachet to boot. It's definitely manual labor royalty - dangerous, highly skilled and pays up to $300k.

Truckers are not doing so well these days, and where they do make a lot it's typically because of backbreaking labor and/or taking on financial risks. This still only gets you into lower/mid tier software dev wages.
The model is working as intended.
I just did some NAS upgrades a month ago and feel as if I dodged a bullet.

I'm curious what you ended up paying. I bought drives on sale, and got nine 16TB external drives to shuck (one is a spare) for ~$2250 USD taxed and shipped.

I will warn you though that burn-in testing is going to take a while. I did a very exhaustive test[1]... and two drives at a time over USB3 it took about twelve calendar days to test them all before I put them into service.

-- ----- ----- ----- -----

[1] Write out block pattern, read back. 2 hour break. Head thrash random writes/reads for 2 hours. 2 hour break. Head thrash random writes/reads for 2 hours.
I used to do SAR. Lost persons do a terrible job of communicating because they are afraid and often emotionally and physically drained. But if you have them on a radio or a cell phone, you can generally locate them without the persons direct assistance.

One of the many things that really annoys me about W3W is that it sucks for actual navigation. If I am at waffle.tire.sigh is that north or south of keys.sad.tree? Am I heading in the right direction?
Ooh that one is easier than mine. Would have been outside the scope for this project though (likely needs custom connectors).

Takes 30 seconds-ish to swap mine, you pull it out, unplug the jack, plug the jack into the next one, slide it in. Not "on stage" easy, but definitely "messing around in my garage" easy.
I'll note that Docker only does this on the virtual machine infrastructure wrapper needed to run a minimal Linux VM to run Docker on non native platforms.

If you run Docker on Linux, which it was designed for, it is totally open source and free.

If you are on a Mac it is assumed you like paying for GUIs on top of things that are otherwise free. That checks out.
> Let’s all be heroes: Eat less (including meat and cheese), buy less, save money, improve your health, create less waste, drive less, walk more, save water and use less energy. And be a role model for the next generation.

Yes, let’s all be heroes but at the same time let’s acknowledge the fact that as long as the incentives of the system remain the same, the trend will continue. This rhetoric reminds me of the rhetoric around plastic consumption; the big producers of plastic push the message that it’s on all of us to reuse, recycle, and so on. Let’s instead capture the cost of the externalities in the actual prices of meat production and consumption — prices then should be higher and demand at that price point will be less. Let’s make it easier to be heroes by changing the system.
This is a great question to ask via arbitration or a class action (if you opted out of arbitration when you bought the vehicle). I also expect a securities fraud suit, as Tesla has been recognizing revenue in self selected milestones for FSD.

Disclosure: Tesla S/X owner (EAP, no FSD), party to the class action regarding S/X premature suspension failures.
Ask HN: Is LinkedIn bringing you any value?
I have just finished reading 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport and in one of the chapters the author discusses social networks and gives some tips how to choose if the particular social network fits your bigger goal. If it does, you can still use it - otherwise you will be better off if you drop it.

This leads me to the main question: is linkedin bringing you any value? Do you feel it's worth to post there valuable content (from time to time) so that people can notice your profile, follow you there and this may create some business opportunities in the future.

What is your experience?
I don't think that's accurate today. I recently cancelled my NYT subscription from their website, didn't even need to call them.

How long ago was your experience?
I think noucermane is correct. Your point that there wasn't any software DRM does not mean that they did not intend it as DRM. I expect that they did a cost benefit analysis of additional electronics for SW DRM vs revenue lost due to hackers like this one for this version of their product, and found the tradeoff acceptable. This does not mean that if this hack became easily available and widely used, that they would not implement SW DRM on a later revision. Who knows, maybe the current version is already ready for SW DRM, it's just that they haven't felt the need to release the DRM version of the cartridge yet.
Not just the website, but the old.reddit version. The new Reddit design is a disaster in terms of usability.

I also disable all custom subreddit styles, because so many of them are horrible.
The air tag just broadcasts location, the ‘with you’ state is generated within Find My iPhone, recognizing that the airbag is in the same location as your phone. That, and signal strength for locating the device.
If that's true that is real scummy. Someone should investigate with a VPN.
I have a simple search engine for them here: https://til.simonwillison.net/tils/search?q=debugger

I haven't put a great deal of thought into the https://til.simonwillison.net/ page design!
Clubhouse scraping all your phone numbers to find someone on the app is dark.
> The goal of alchemy was to convert lead into gold in a way that made the discoverer rich

That definitely needs a citation. The Wikipedia page mentions no such motivation, and describes Alchemy as a proto-scientific endeavor aimed at understanding the natural world.
There were animal studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449230/

I was just asking to understand your reasoning, I wasn't asking you to convince me it was correct, and I'm not trying to convince you it isn't correct.
I’m confused…

If organic compounds break down in a landfill, they release greenhouse gasses. But the same happens when they break down as compost - something the website forgot to mention.

I support composting because I think it’s good for the planet to save space in landfills for things that need to be buried. But I don’t see how either approach actually helps climate change.

And, in fact, without much study, it seems like landfills are actually sequestering lots of carbon. So if our only focus is on climate change (and it shouldn’t be, to be clear) wouldn’t that be the winning option?

Regarding more potent greenhouse gasses from landfills - I believe most landfills in the US burn (or sell) their waste methane, which just turns it into plain ol’ carbon dioxide.
Cult membership dues.
As a matter of pedantry (maybe), I’m inclined to point out that a Teensy 4 is not an Arduino, and not a microcontroller in its own right. It’s a module that runs an NXP chip.

That said, I agree, this is really cool. Emulating the chip calls onboard is really neat.
>How can we fix that?

There are a great many people who would like to know the answer to that question but, for the most part, almost no one has. (Almost because there are a few global brands, especially those that provide financial reporting, that are doing OK but most aren't.

There are a lot of reasons, not least of all that the Internet broke the newspaper bundle that forced people advertising in the classifieds for roommates or the local car dealership advertising a sale to effectively subsidize the paper's prestige foreign bureaus and investigative journalism because where else were they going to advertise?

Plus, you don't need a subscription to SI any longer to keep up with whatever is going on in the world of sports.
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