skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slight tangent: Does anyone know what software this project is using to design this? I couldn't easily tell from their file extensions.

Or rather, do people have general recommendations for good, open source, font designing software on a standard Linux machine?
If this doesn't exist it is probably a good opportunity for a startup. Ransomware seems to be increasing.
Because just like Postgres, there's a reason people don't use it for absolutely everything. Usually, purpose built tools will offer better features, performance, etc.

I am digging a company out of using Redis as a main database right now. They put everything in Redis, and the DB grew to be very large and they are paying a ton because they chose this. As far as the actual application logic it is using idiomatic redis, and it works but it is absolutely not optimal.

As far as I'm concerned the question is backwards, why would you want to use Redis for everything? Are you just trying to avoid SQL? SQL is basically the optimal solution (see the field of Relational Algebra) for querying relational data (and almost all data that matters is relational).

The boring "right" answer is use the right tool for the job. It's unlikely that RedisJSON is better (depends how you measure of course) than MongoDB/RethinkDB, RedisGraph better than Neo4J, RediSearch better than ElasticSearch/etc. If I wanted to pick a technology to go all in on, it definitely wouldn't be Redis -- it'd be Postgres (which has JSON support, Graph support, timeseries storage support, full text search built in), a fully open source product with a creator that hasn't left the project, with way more than one company offering tons of support and advanced behavior, etc.

BTW if you really like Redis, check out KeyDB[0]. KeyDB can fallback to FLASH storage so it might actually work in a large data case (I considered switching my client to it.

[0]: https://keydb.dev/
This is great! Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated since 2016 and isn't suitable for applications outside Terminal.app. But apparently someone else took up the mantle and rebuilt it to solve those issues and published it as creep2:

https://github.com/raymond-w-ko/creep2

> I love romeovs's creep font, but I think you could only use it well in Apple's Terminal.app because it has negative line and character width spacing, which the font requires to be spaced correctly. The root cause of this appears to be because some glyphs are bigger than the 5px by 11px bounding box, causing most terminals to think a much bigger box is necessary for the general ASCII glyphs.

> In order to fix this issue, I manually hand painted all the glyphs from the 'creep' font in fontforge.

Awesome! I just wish creep2 added some of those sweet demo photos that are in the creep README.
Fontforge [0] seems to be the one that I've heard about and even played with a bit in the past.

[0] https://fontforge.org/en-US/
Wherever one stands regarding the question, it's easy to see that preserving disappearing languages as spoken languages is futile. Young people are naturally not interested in speaking dying languages, it's the old folks who want to preserve them. Yes, they can teach the language in kindergartens and schools, but often they can't even find proper native speakers as teachers anymore when there simply aren't many left. It's a form of necromancy, languages evolve and die naturally, long term we can't do anything to prevent their deaths.
We need to preserve history like you say. But even historic records can be and have been re-written. Imo we should be most concerned with the cultures and attitudes that shape our current languages.
Also the survival rate is calculated based on a 5 year survival after diagnosis. Since detections are made earlier patients will survive well past 5 years even if the treatments don't improve. so it would appear that survival rates are also getting better.
> It would just be very nice to work in a mission-specific context with a very senior team.

It would be for EVERYBODY. This is why it's so hard to find such an opportunity - there are very few senior people who love to get stuck in a 9-5 cubicle job instead of doing crack projects :)
vortices Y_Y
> Pain is strictly a physical sensation.

Hard to tell that to those with lost limbs who suffer from ghost pain.
It’s an accelerating race to the bottom.
I wonder if there’s a way to integrate it with my own browser so it can mirror a website over days/weeks by using my regular behaviour to avoid suspicion.
Invalidating historical record highs is erasing history to sell a narrative.
Any sufficiently relational query... Try and generate dynamic reports on data, or an aggregation on an aggregation.

The model subtly breaks even on simple questions like "I want to know all users who are currently logged in and the contents of their feed right now, with the last 5 messages they sent". You basically have to do multiple requests, MULTI, or write a lua script to get all this to happen in a transaction (so the state of the world is consistent). Such a request is trivial in relational databases, though performance of the query may not be.
Perhaps, though you'd end up with the same 'nsmd', 'nsm-proxy', and 'nsm-proxy-gui' commands with the same 'NSM_URL' environmental variable. Ideally there'd be more separation, but then you do lose the drop in compatibility. For a longer lived fork it would make sense (IMO) to use the proposed symlinks, though initially it was basically the same exact software as upstream + a few modest patches.
Big Oil’s lies about climate change–a climate scientist’s take
And the US federal government was funding church run boarding schools of similar character in the US into the 1960s under the “Indian Civilization Act”, so only about a generation more distant.
Or maybe it's fact checking in the face of global hysteria.

A comment I left 11 days ago about how little we actually know for certain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27658488
You're arguing that journalists deserve to be physically threatened for their speech (whether it be fact or opinion).

Doesn't that open the door for anyone to attack anyone else for their speech? Why would you want to live in a society like that?
Yeah this wasn't a particularly bad example, I just noticed it that's all (it's not the first time either). The article was engaging, but it was jarring to look over and see the scrollbar not move.

I just don't like the idea that someone somewhere had decided that to increase "engagement" they need to lie to me about how far into the article I am. I get that they're probably fighting the recent trend of declining attention spans but I don't know if I like the solution being subtle manipulation.
It is a Medium post.
This is close to my ideal way of avoiding a runaway Ultron/Skynet-type AI scenario: airgap it and force the use of a physical mouse, monitor, and keyboard to interact with the outside world. At least once it reaches Twitter we can stop it before it destroys humanity one robotic keystroke at a time.
> Seen as biological robots, their cognition is essentially in service to this, and so must necessarily be algorithmic, and limited. All to say they are generally assumed to have lesser forms of consciousness.

This seems to define consciousness as measurable by algorithmic determinism and limitation, which seems a complete non-sequitur. Seeing something as a biological robot need not necessarily imply anything at all about consciousness.

> Perhaps consciousness doesn’t come in degrees at all.

If I consider my altering states of awareness (awake & alert vs foggy vs dreaming) as degrees of consciousness, then yes it does. (But perhaps the question is really one of semantics.)

> Some people may be unable to articulate their inner life, but is there any doubt they feel intense, recognizable emotions? Does not water for them taste as it does to us, does not touch reassure, does not heat burn and ice freeze, do not their emotions swell and slosh within them?

I do doubt this (eta: at least in regards to animals; for humans, see comment about states of awareness above), for I see no evidence that any earthly creatures other than humans can actually reflect on their own feelings and therefore create an emotional feedback loop that serves to intensify emotions. (Granted, without the ability to communicate, or behave in a way that human intelligence can recognize as intelligent (the metrics for which are another rabbit hole), I'm not sure what such evidence would consist of.)

Anyway, without a concrete definition of consciousness, does something necessarily even need a brain to be considered conscious? What's to stop every feedback loop in existence from being conscious? Or, for that matter, every atom in the universe?
The ones selling the narrative aren't the scientists with petabytes of accurate, digitally recorded data showing a global warming trend over decades highly correlated to human industrial activity who also agree the temperature in 1913 was recorded inaccurately, but rather those who would point to one record from 1913, or maybe 20 records from history, to show "global warming is a myth".
Nothing justifies threats. But in this case, the reasons that this would offend people -- that it makes untrue and unfair accusations about a real-world case-- are true. Or even worse than one would assume, even, in that it's not autobiographical and does the same about identifiable third parties.
That must be a new policy then, because I've previously used TOR without issues (besides being a bit of a pain having to complete one of those annoying image captchas on signup).
CMake is legitimately the worst software I've ever used.

cargo > Bazel > autotools > "the IDE" > handwritten Makefiles >>>>>> build.sh >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CMake
We can thank Google and the various other companies mapping out wireless IDs for this being an uphill battle.

Generally speaking, if you want wireless communication, you'll need some way of uniquely identifying each participant in the wireless space. Data aggregators can then drive around on the streets and associate device IDs with physical addresses.

A bluetooth communications setup (or future alternative) will want to be able to know what device IDs are around it. (You want to connect to your wireless toothbrush - not your neighbors). A malicious developer can then use that access to the ID list, compare it against databases of known ID locations, and get a really good guesstimate of your location.
Say that you prefer no Google or Facebook sign in, but do it without the snark. You are entitled to your opinion but don't discourage creators.
I did something like this with Dota2 where I'd have it monitor the opposing team to save their locations when they appeared on the minimap in a shaded color on a 2nd monitor on that 2nd computer. I used an HDMI splitter and HDMI capture card to send the input to the second computer. I did the CV stuff with opencv library. Taking it a step further as shown in the article could be done to do stuff like auto creep killing vs human and stuff like that.
disagree. have read many things handed to me by a lawyer, and typos and inconsistencies are something I have found regularly.
Some people are actually starting to think about that, especially in the context of insect "meat". For example, a cow makes ~250kg of meat, a cricket weight ~0.5g. If you believe all life to be equal, eating a cow is 500 000 times better than eating the equivalent in crickets. If you believe that insect are worth 10 000 times less than cows (arbitrary number), that's still 50 times worse. I think it's important that people come to term that there's no magic way to avoid all suffering, and that they start thinking about what their values are.
I have a wide screen. His left side smaller width articles are freaking annoying!! Inconvenient to read.
IIRC (anyone else in LAD-proper correct me) the insinuation came from using some standard boilerplate in a release announcement for the fork. The fork's release tagline outlined what open source was and how it is beneficial to users. Specifically there was mention of the fork not having any spyware/ads in it.

I agree with the posted article that saying "X doesn't have Y" from the fork implies that it is a differentiating factor, but it doesn't strike me as an intentionally malicious act. More of just not being familiar how such release blurbs would be read when applied to a forked project.
2.27 radians F
Im seeing a lot of news lately about record heat waves. Presumably this has been happening for a few years now though although I’m not sure where i could get accurate info on that. Did the media just start pushing this to the from because its now a hot button issue that is selling more clicks?

Not saying its bad if it helps us take more action against global warming its likely good. But I’m still curious.
How, exactly, does this observation “invalidate” anything? What narrative is being sold here?

Please support statements like this with objective facts or thoughtful analysis.
I’ll post it to HN when I put it all together.
There is no arguing with you people. The sort of things you miss out on if you're homeschooled are totally unimaginable to you so there isn't anything I can say that will change your stance unless you literally live through the experience. It has nothing to do with only comparing yourself to the median or upper quintile of public school socializers. The only way that position would seem reasonable to you is if you never met any homeschoolers or only talked to the parents, who obviously will be extremely hesitant to admit to mistakes because it makes them look bad.

There's also a huge and obvious problem with studying homeschooling. Part of the disadvantage is that each homeschool environment will be radically different because it's impossible to control for what a given home life is, the type of parent that would homeschool their child, and the sort of education they otherwise would have had if they weren't homeschooled. It's also really easy to track down all the homeschoolers that ended up going to college because that data is already gathered. It's a lot harder to track down all the homeschoolers that never left their parents basement or work the night shift at the 7/11 because they barely learned how to read, so you really can't say that "statistically" it's better or worse. Of course the data will be skewed so homeschoolers seem like higher performers.
Do you really think Canadians don't know that Europe is across the Atlantic?
Sounds like every New Yorker article. :)
Anti-cheat software bundled with games is prevalent, it is in the company's interest to overreach with its data collection and fingerprinting, and users give them sufficient permissions to do so.
Correcting poor data is the opposite of erasing history.
The Franks were not French, and the original Lingua Franca, as another commenter noted, was called Sabir, a pidgin language of the eastern Mediterranean from the 11th through the 19th centuries. [1]

Furthermore, English is our current lingua franca not because of its grammar or linguistic quirks, but rather because it has been the primary language of two consecutive world superpowers starting in the 18th century.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
Make Your WSL Environment Programmable
Needs a demo IMO. I don't want to create an account without the demo.
Alas I am apparently offline, Slate being able to inform me of such not withstanding.

I do not need JavaScript to read.
I think these are some of the highest recorded temps, like in Seattle and Portland ever. And it being July, if it is hitting record temps in California, Nevada and Arizona, then it might be a bit hotter than in years past.
They are arguing that the complexity is artificial and provides little value.
It’s not just a presumption and it isn’t media just “pushing this.”

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

> Nineteen of the warmest years have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998. The year 2020 tied with 2016 for the warmest year on record since record-keeping began in 1880 (source: NASA/GISS). This research is broadly consistent with similar constructions prepared by the Climatic Research Unit and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
I think it's currently impossible to detect. I think it would be possible to detect if you used some kind of player profile where you characterized how a player moved and then were able to determine through a replay whether the profiles matched. However then you could program the cheat AI to mimic the real player etc, etc. But this would take several evolutions where each tech would be ahead of the other.
Looks more like motorshack and probably cheapest only because of that.
Isn't there a villain, though? A creepy internet stalker writes a story about her stalkee's life, monetizes it and gets critical acclaim (and, again, a seven-figure advance for a collection of short stories that only had value due to that story) for it, causing her strife? I can't help but feel that there's a clear villain here, and a villain that's trying to paint herself as the victim at that.
BDXL holds 100 GB so if a few of those are enough to hold your backup that's what you should do. The cloud will look cheap once you see the price of LTO or Optical Disc Archive drives.

For business use, I think any backup/archive system that keeps multiple backups should be safe enough against ransomware since you can restore from the newest uncorrupted backup.
The Spleen font has, among other sizes, the 5x8, which is pretty similar. It's the default for OpenBSD drm console, although using a different size. It's constantly being updated.

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
And yet there truly are people who are far more (or far less) honest than other people in the same situations.
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The Linux-Audio-Announce mailing list is a moderated mailing list and has been for quite a few years (10+ IIRC). It had been several years since the original non-* projects had a release announcement there and within those years the standard format of release postings had shifted from a more casual "tell us about your software" tone into "just provide changelogs and links to resources" type emails. The change over the years had not been documented in written list policies, so the initial LAA email was rejected. To the best of my knowledge no LAA ban was implemented, just a rejection of the initial submission after it entered the moderation queue.

A ban did occur on the LAD mailing list, but to the best of my knowledge the ban occurred due to some off list emails with one of the list moderators.
I found using the editor confusing and not at all following my expectations for what an editor should do. (To start with, a displaying cursor or some sort of cue of where to start typing, would be nice.)

I would suggest spending more time polishing the writing experience because that matters a lot to writers and when it’s not there it can be an immediate turn-off. Look at tools like iA Writer or Gingko for ideas.
It's pure target transactional, so it would not keep intermediate files in that case.
Theatres in my city do this, it is fantastic. I paid normal prices to go watch Heat on the big screen in 2021 and it was worth every penny.

As someone who really didn't watch movies until recently, I have missed a lot of them. So being able to watch some of the iconic movies of yesterday in the theatre has been great.
Also SwiftKey.
Seems like the answer to this question is: a remote first company, where no one is at a disadvantage by being remote. How to transition companies that have a physical presence or product into one, that’s a much harder question and maybe not one this article answers.
I'm generally pretty cynical about the news being a lot of click-bait, histrionic garbage. But in this case, the trend in reporting record-breaking heat waves seems to be rooted in the actual occurrence of record-breaking heat waves.
Kinobi has launched its own Job Portal to help Gen Zs prep for their career
What do you think are essential features for a job portal?

We genuinely want to help the next generation of undergraduates or Job switchers to land into their dream job the most productive way possible. Do love to learn from the community! ((:
Its both last few years a lot of temperature records have been broken. It is also being talked about a lot more as western countries have been feeling the rise directly with the extreme heatwave in Europe 2-3 years ago, then Australia with the bush fires and now North America this year. Previously the sea water rise and global warming though they might have believed it was just a theory to most they had not felt the direct effects.
a) measurements haven't been reliable so we don't know if that is really the hottest ever, or not

b) reliable (they say) measurements go back only few decades, so could very well be "the hottest in last 50 years" which isn't noteworthy. where I live, recent summers were cooler than usual
The issue has nothing to do with creative fiction. Nobody is bothered by stories that might use real life as a basis of inspiration.

The issue is that these stories are latched onto as 'narrative basis' for some kind of populist ideal, which may frankly just be bigotry.

The story was not picked up upon because it was just 'great writing' - it created buzz because it engendered a kind of bigoted fantasy among those that wanted to buy into the potential truthiness of it all.

Like the 'Man Next Door Who Raped The White Girl' (i.e. Black man) from the 'Reader's Digest', 1952 etc.

It's an issue because people can do whatever they want under the guise of creative fiction, and then try to use it as some kind of scare mongering re: 'This could happen! This is happening!'

I'm Canadian, we had to read the Handmaid's Tale in school. Margaret Atwood is famous for saying 'all these things happened somewhere in history' - essentially she cherry picked the absolute worst bits of history and rolled them into a hyper-fascist theocracy. Which is 100% legitimate and interesting from a creative perspective ... but the TV series became a ridiculous point of reference for the fantastical ignorance of some populists who loved think of this as the interpretation of their political enemies. As a TV series it's great fun. But when it's used beyond that (or more poignantly, used by the studios to play into people's bigotry) then it's not good.

Edit: please see my above comment for reference as to how most of the media picked up on this piece as the basis for a narrative. It's not some corner case conspiracy - it was used by NPR, RollingStone, Wapo, Medium, The Guardian etc. etc..
Employees are even more motivated to just pocket the money.
Randomly trying hashes until you find one that starts with enough zeros? Sounds like there are some bitcoin-specific GPUs out there that have gotten disillusioned with crypto and are looking for something to do.
I think it takes time for new IPs to be labelled as Tor nodes. You get the same issue with Netflix and NordVPN. Some IPs are fine and the older ones get blocked.
It'll depend on how much data is being reported back. For some games where users are asked to make certain moral choices, I figure you can infer a lot about someone by analyzing those choices.

Imagine if games like Mass Effect phoned home about the choices you took. You can build up a pretty complete psychological profile of someone based on their gameplay.
I work more than I like,but have realized that I don't like not working.

I took time off for parental leave. The binding time was amazing, but I didn't do anything - even when I didn't have child care responsibilities.
I found the article misses a discussion of how workplaces are not just about making money but also power structures. I think managers are less worried about the company making less money but about losing control over their subordinates.
No mention of https://www.zerohedge.com/ where the sky has also been falling perpetually.
(October, 2020)
But won't you think of their profits?! /s