skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would this be a good font to use on a small (2.8 inch) screen? I’ve got a little hobby hardware project I’m working on and am a total typography dunce.
I've had lots of periods of stagnation in wages. You will reach plateaus in wages. And a quick back of the envelope shows that my wage growth has averaged out to about 5% a year. Without changing what I do or where I live (and having higher cost of living for the latter), I don't expect my salary to increase significantly in what remains of my career.
Do you mean solution looking for a problem?
> n you have the same politicians colluding to basically go pirate and surprise fine the same business a billion for some semi-arbitrary violation out of nowhere.

I work for an online retailer that's not Amazon, we took GDPR very seriously and have as a result stopped collecting a lot of data and spent months implementing compliance. It seems Amazon has done next to nothing compared to what we did and chose instead to ignore the issue. It's absolutely no surprise what's happening to them, it's precisely what our legal department warned us about. Are you saying that Amazon should be above the law?
Can anybody explain why there is an injustice here? Almost every comment I see here in his favour gives no reason why this is unjust.

I am far from an unbiased source on this – I'm personally aghast that anybody would take Craig Murray seriously.

But trying to be a little objective, I expect that this effect is primarily because of an instinct we all have to ignore the flaws in people who are saying things we think are important.

Murray is popular here for his commentary on the Assange trial. He is virtually certain to be correct in some of his accusations about Assange's treatment, and in a community that values freedom of speech and the rights of whistleblowers that is a stance that attracts attention and support. Given this, it could be tempting for some to assume that his imprisonment was a deliberate action to silence a troublemaker – particularly when the defendant himself makes that argument.

On the other hand, it's also totally feasible that someone with views you support is also entirely seperately capable of doing dumb things and getting themselves arrested.

I paid quite a bit of attention to the case in question. His level of obfuscation was a bawhair away from 'cartoon rat Ricky Raus', and he requested everyone read "very, very carefully indeed. Between the lines." It seemed quite obvious to me what he was trying to do, and a subsequent conviction isn't really surprising – nor does it require thinking about it in terms of a conspiracy theory. It just seems strange to me to assume a state-motivated conspiracy when there's a much simpler answer right there – regardless of whether or not you agree with the particular details of the case, or his views in general!

I guess maybe it's sometimes hard to separate out the views that we agree with from the harsh realities of flawed individuals.
> Not to mention the patent hell around eink display technology itself, which thankfully has also slowly gotten some competition.

I work in the display industry. I've never heard about a "patent hell around eink display technology" from colleagues, coworkers or even gossip at conferences. I've only seen it on HN, which then got picked up by Boing Boing and then blogs and then comments on HN which referenced those blogs. Surely, if this patent hell was true we would have heard about it. Could you elaborate on your claim and if you experienced this patent hell and which patent or patents you are referring to? Please see my comment history to see why I keep asking about this. Hopefully this time I can get a positive data point where I can learn something unlike what I got the last time I tried to ask about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27980391
Ugh. Like most fonts this one does not appear to have been tested on Windows. On my 1440p monitor in Chrome the “inter bold sample” text all has noticeably jaggy edges.

I swear modern graphics designers only test their designs on high-DPI mac laptops and smartphones.
It's a quite long and sordid affair, but I'll do my best to summarize:

Craig has been a thorn in the side of the government for some time, first for exposing corruption in the Scottish seats of power, the too-cozy relationships between the judicial and executive branches, and the biased and tainted prosecutions of anyone who gets in their way (including MPs).

The accusations against him hinge on the "jigsaw identification" theory, whereby people could piece together persons from the material he published. The problem is that it's so vague that it could be used against *anyone* who publishes *anything* about a case such as this (and in fact many publications DID publish information that could easily lead to the identification of the accuser, but they were given a pass). This is why he's calling it retribution.

Furthermore, he's been reporting on the Assange case, and that has angered the British government, which is why his appeal was rejected, and why he was not allowed to travel to Spain to give testimony in a case where the Americans were spying on Assange and his lawyer via UC Global.

At this point, Craig's only remaining option is to appeal to the EU court of human rights, but that's gonna be a tough one because he's pissed off the Americans too much with the Assange case.
But you're kind of doing it now. You could be right, but currently the reference point of our comments is the political aspect to the case rather than whether he committed a crime or not.
Who are "almost everyone?" Who are examples of prominent academics, for example, who say equity is equality of outcome? I'm not talking about randos on twitter.

I'm also curious to what your own personal definitions of equity and equality are,
No idea why you got downvoted so much. This is very much so a reason people are untrusting.

One method a Black pastor and I came up with for our county and surrounding ones was to bring the parishioners to a county vax clinic with white folks also present, and let them point in the pan of pre-drawn needles for which one they wanted, so they didn’t have to fear they were getting a “Black” vaccine
> A much more interesting question is whether the space of binary streams is compact, but that is another story.

I don't know very much about topology, so I'm having some trouble understanding what his means. How are open sets defined in the space of binary streams? What would be the implications of this space being compact?
How? Please outline in detail how she should disappear so that I may share this information with the person who needs it.
Many of the cityscape ones I don't believe are slowed down, at least the ones I have seen. If you watch the movement of traffic it appears to be moving at normal speeds. Even the orbital ones appear to be real-time.

The otherworldliness of the video seems to come more from the smoothness of the motion and the uncommon perspective. Because many of the scenes are captured with drones instead of helicopters or airplanes they have a literal bird's perspective in terms of velocity and altitude.
Yeah that's not how GDPR is written, there's no provision for notices, that's the law and it's available to everyone to read.

All of Amazon's competitors, including my employer, have spent a lot of money and energy to comply. Why Amazon decided to just ignore what everyone else knew was a big deal is beyond me.
> Or, perhaps he just never should have made the movie in the first place... but that seems wrong, doesn't it? Creatives get inspiration from all sorts of odd places, and I don't want to limit them!

I thing the point of this article is no, that's not wrong. The story was clearly based on Amanda Knox, and making this movie perpetuates the harm that has been done to her. This isn't an exercise of creative freedom, it's an exploitive cash grab.
"Your comments are classic NIMBY - you want these things but in someone elses back yard."

No, I want them in reasonable distance from villages and cities. Say, 1 and more km. I do not want to push them into anyone's backyard.

And that is actually entirely possible, unlike with, say, highways or railways that fundamentally connect human habitation with another human habitation. Even Europe has a lot of empty corners.
I can remember during the hiring process a couple jobs back when we were looking to expand our team saying during the post-interview meeting that the person we were rejecting would be someone we'd hire if they were the 10th candidate we interviewed instead of the 2nd.
We could broaden the conversation and also ask who are the people who got harmed to the tune of $1B, and how they will be redressed for that harm

The point is not the legal matter at hand but the nature of the law itself and how it came to be. As much as i like that we don't get spam calls anymore in the EU, the problem was pushed under the rug, not solved (all the spam calls are now from UK numbers). The bigger problem is that while the legislators legislate for putting restrictions on eu businesses, they have not legislated an equal amount that would be conductive to business in the eu.
As a homeowner for 8+ years, this is a HUGE problem. Like really huge. Companies like thumbtack, home advisor, angie's list, craigslist etc are mostly not useful (I have tried them all). I hope you guys succeed.

The issue is however not just about price or cost. It is mostly about finding reliable, knowledge and honest contractors which for some reason is not that easy.

The great contractors are usually very busy already. They don't have a "need to generate leads" problem. The best way to find them is word of mouth. If someone can figure out a way to collect this information (for example we have people asking on nextdoor and facebook local groups), it will be a gold mine.
I got a distinction for my masters thesis, but my exam results where such that I was 1-2% off from a distinction overall. I was not happy that day!
Also, no "we" in SSI.. only people, Individuals all. "We" is a literary concept that doesn't exist in nature, regardless of legal abstractions, lazy thinking, and data aggregation. I realize EU brains struggle with that.
https://www.electronjs.org/

Problem with projects made using this. They're too slow!
Just a few days ago there was a Twitter trending item insisting that people who have recovered from infection should still get vaccinated. My brother-in-law's doctors told him he was actually at higher risk because of his prior infection and vaccination was even more important for him. I'm disgusted by the level of disinformation that's being used to push these shots.

Here's a question: If subsequent vaccine doses reduce humoral and cellular immunity, which are the primary source of long-term protection in the Covid recovered, AND if the vaccines don't actually prevent infection, then are people who get boosters for each new variant just going to be tanking their own long-term immunity regardless of how many times they get infected and recover?
In a Li-ion battery, the oxidation state of Li never changes, so its electronegativity is not terribly important. What's being oxidized/reduced are elements in the electrodes, like iron.
This evidence is far from iron-clad, though. Especially its real meaning.

It is like seeing a red spot on a table. Is it strawberry jam? Is it blood? Is it result of someone injecting insulin? Is it the only evidence of a murder?
Do you mean the emails that were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the US State Department as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request and that wikileaks made searchable? That is a different case: https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=&mfrom=Hillary+Clint...
FWIW, both New Coke and Coke "Classic" (aka new coke 1.1) both use high fructose corn syrup, which is substantially cheaper in the USA in industrial quantities due to huge tax-funded agricultural subsidies for corn (maize) farmers. These remain in place today (which is why everything in the US is sweetened with corn syrup instead of sugar).

"Old coke", as well as what is now known as "mexican coke" in the USA, used/use sugar.

New coke was the flag day for switching to a cheaper sweetener in the US market. When they switched "back" to coke "classic", they kept the new sweetener.
i do system design in my head while in the shower, so that means some percentage of my remote work is also done in the shower.
There are different risks.

Yes, at home storage is more at risk for a targeted attack. However, cloud storage is more at risk for a general attack.

It's dead simple for a waiter to steal your CC#. Yet that's likely not going to happen as they'd lose their job and run major risks at getting caught by the police.

On the flip side, a big company like target, even though they have a wealth of experts hired to prevent it, has lost millions of CC#s. That's because they are a nice juicy target.

It really just comes down to which risks are more or less likely for you the individual.

I trust my cluster of retail hardware because the effort for a hacker to pull data from it is a lot higher than the actual value of the data stored there.
What metals would those runner-up medals be made of?
Absolutely yes that would make sense (or more likely the modern "derivatives" like J & K)
I happened to write a comment giving my understanding of technical debt 27 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27720078

FTA:

Debt repayment has one vital characteristic: it is easy to understand. Debt repayment has three properties that are straightforward to grasp — principal amount, interest rate, and term (i.e., length of time to repay).

I think the author is making an argument that it isn't really debt based on a failure to understand debt.

Actual debt isn't really somehow magically simpler and more straight forward than technical debt. It's kind of a bet that taking this hit now will pay off enough that it will be worth it.

It's a context based decision that compares a hypothetical path over time and guesses what will get the greatest overall benefit.

There is a saying in the military: Sometimes, a 90 percent solution now is better than a 100 percent solution later.

Life is a series of bets always based on partial information where we try to navigate our way through this one-way time travel adventure where we all move inexorably into the future minute by minute without knowing exactly what will happen. Choose poorly and things can really go to hell. Choose wisely and you can see life get better.

There's always some luck or randomness involved. Whether it's a good decision or a bad one will depend in part on if the future takes the direction you think it will.

Actual financial debt is no less complicated than technical debt. Someone who is more programming literate than I am could probably come up with some equivalent mental model for how technical debt gets repaid: "There are three components to repaying technical debt..."

The real issue in both cases is the question "Is it good debt or bad?" In other words, (for technical debt) did this decision to do something quick and dirty provide more value than it will cost to clean up later?

For money, it's theoretically easy to put numbers to the road not taken. In practice, it's a lot harder.

It's relatively easy when it's a hypothetical model. Real life has other factors that get hard to fully account for, especially if you have to justify it to someone else whose views of what is pertinent may differ dramatically from yours.
What whistle did he blow?
We're already past the testing period. The phase 3 trials of multiple vaccines are concluded and analyzed.

The issue isn't people that didn't want early untested vaccines, it's people that ignore the test results to continue to not want them.

Hopefully full FDA approval helps, as the process gets through the bureaucracy.
Yeah. That’s what optimization is. It turns out that when I sit for work, then lift for health, then walk in nature for enjoyment I get a lot more out of each of these than when I try to get one thing to meet all these needs.

Like, this is the most normal thing that it works this way.

This naturalistic fallacy nonsense is so tiresome. “Oh wasn’t it great that we lived in nature and got eaten by bears”. No. It sucked.
> (Company not paying their bills in time is grounds for bankruptcy).

Same here in Norway from what I hear:

Even if you can prove that you have the money tomorrow if your taxes are due today and you don't pay they make you bankrupt.

Simple as that, they rather take the loss and know that no one "forgets".
In the 1200s the vast majority of Europe's population was composed of subsistence farmers barely making ends meet due to not having enough productive land on which to farm. At the same time vast tracts of land were sitting unproductive. Wages were low, population growth stagnated and quality of life was growing steadily worse.

Why didn't the landlords have peasants clear more land so that they could be more productive? Why did they pass on it? Because labor was cheap and the status quo was making them money. Employers don't care about productivity, they care about margin.

Eventually though, the Black Death comes around. An immense fraction of the population is gone, practically overnight. With fewer workers around, wages naturally rise. Once these wages were higher, suddenly it mattered that land was being used efficiently. Despite the lower demand for agricultural products, there is extensive land clearance across Europe as Landlords make the investments necessary to get the most out of their resources. This productivity improvement leads to much higher quality of life, an increase in social mobility, and a substantial growth in the urban merchant classes which would all contribute to the transition to the modern period.

When a resource is cheap and abundant, there is no incentive to use it efficiently. The ROI for developing tools and techniques that reduce your usage of that resource is low. There may be substantial opportunity costs, but no one sends you a bill in the mail for money you don't realize you're leaving on the table.

Maybe not everyone on earth has what it takes to be a rocket scientist or a neurosurgeon, but the fact is the overwhelming majority of skilled labor can be done by any idiot who has been properly trained and has adequate equipment. The higher the base wage level, the easier it is to justify this investment in training and equipment.
This article notes that it is only for Android Gingerbread and lower. Gingerbread launched in December 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Gingerbread), so this would be 11 years past that date. It seems reasonable to block logins from such old OS if for security reasons. The article notes you can still access various Google-owned websites via a browser, so this is just for the phone's login and apps.
The problem is none of this ever appears impartial even if we assume they are trying.

One person can say exactly the same thing as another and only one of them is banned. So judgement is not applied equally. It is the same issue across all social media.

We never elected them to be our moral arbiters.
> Do you know what the phrase "throw the book at them" means.

It's perfectly reasonable to throw the book at them, because unlike their competitors they don't seem to have made even a token effort to begin compliance.

If they didn't have the book thrown at them, people would complain that the law is toothless.

I've worked for two companies that had to implement GDPR, in both cases the legal departments were extremely serious about it and we had to do a lot of work to comply. Why should Amazon get a pass?
The article explains this, that Tom McCarthy mentioned her in a Vanity Fair promotional interview. Nobody said they put it on posters or anything.
Sorry I'm not the one to defend Daily Mail.
This reminds me of the situation with Takedown / Track Down[1]. That movie was riddled with factual inaccuracies, especially ones slanted towards making Kevin Mitnick look bad and ones meant to glorify Tsutomu Shimomura. As I recall, there was a scene that featured a chase through the streets of Seattle between the two men, it may have even featured a physical tussle between them, but my memory is a bit fuzzy now. Anyway, in reality, at the point in time depicted there, the two had never even met, much less participated in a foot chase / scuffle on the streets of Seattle.

I think Mitnick ultimately sued and got a settlement of some sort, FWIW.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_Down
I disagree, innocent until proven guilty. Not guilty implies guilt has not been proven, therefore remaining innocent.
Isn't this just a perpetual motion machine? How can it change, while absorbing no energy from a laser, forever?
If it's a perpetual motion machine, how can that be?
It's actually just slowing down the audio the second time you click it. I assume so that you can hear the pronunciation a bit better.
> At this point, Craig's only remaining option is to appeal to the EU court of human rights, but that's gonna be a tough one because he's pissed off the Americans too much with the Assange case

Does the EU Court of Human Rights care whar Americans think about him?
Perhaps the key point is the era of design.

The P4 was built with an enormous pipeline (~20 stage?) in the hopes of reaching a 10ghz goal that was never going to happen.

The Itanium was designed a decade before, programmed for parallelism that was also never going to happen.

The M1 is not an esoteric machine, and if Apple had bundled an Itanium of equal computational ability, all of those NOPs would burn a hole through the casing.

ARM's 64-bit implementation is obviously something special, esoteric or not it is more powerful than anything produced by Intel in several measures.
>but on iOS you can't use anything else

This is a good thing, you need a monopoly(iOS) to fight against a monopoly(Chrome).
> So the truck doesn't exist in any manner in which they claim, be it speed, hauling capacity, range or price. But what they claim also isn't "fake"?

Where did all those come from? You just said range and price before, and range is easy to fix.

And if a product costs more than expected to build, it still exists.

> shareholders/astroturfers

Shove off.

> solar shingles

They installed a couple dozen roofs, didn't they? Based on my existing knowledge I'd call it garbage but not fake. How long was this demo before those installations, and did any of the parts work?
So cool, I'm totally gonna try this. I have a little guy on my finger.
(freddy-m: first-up, thanks for your work on ptio)

I hope the process around software-suggestions gets clearer with this move; the backlog has been growing steadily for over a year [0] with developers left hanging without any follow-up (for ex, a suggestion I submitted hasn't been looked at in over 6 months).

[0] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/labels/%F0%9...
Everyone says this until they go work for Oracle and their tune changes immediately. It's... interesting.
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Docker can be as much work as having to reinstall your servers.

Do your infrastructure work up front or later can both be a valid decision that can be different for each project depending on a lot of factors.
We Have Only Eight Years Left
I feel similarly, but I think working on a product that is used like this game is might be enough for folks like us. There are probably lots of features requests and bugs to focus motivation and the human usage driving emotional meaning of the work.
Good or bad.. The mandate clearly addresses the concern, correct?