skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since most of the comments are negative, I will say I noticed the new font yesterday and loved it on my Windows computer in Chrome.

I switch between Mac for work and Windows for pleasure and Windows font rendering can be hit and miss.

I notice fonts on websites a lot and get frustrated when they're bad but this was one of the most pleasant ones I've experienced, to the point I went and looked it up. I didn't realize it was a modified Grilli Type, I've always enjoyed their fonts so not much surprise I liked it.
How Chinese factory-workers express their views on life
China has entered the chat..
Indeed. We've traded cheaper better widgets for political and economic regression.

Mobile phones are the pinnacle of tech - and also a superb tool for mass surveillance.
CBM had 5 byte floats I think you meant--edit: maybe it was 6. 5 byte mantissa and 1 byte exponent??

CBM BASIC was a Microsoft product and I think more or less what all the Microsoft BASICs did was convert everything to floats internally--even when not really needed. For example the index in a FOR I=1 to 10 was dealt with internally (and slowly) as a float--including the operation to increment it by 1 or the STEP value.

If Atari BASIC didn't do that it would have made things faster in many situations. Apple's Integer BASIC was faster because it didn't support floats at all, if you could deal with the almost C-style strings IIRC.
You couldn't Express any more clearly your utter ignorance about vietnam even if you wanted to
It’s essentially an entire continent unto itself that stays completely geographically insulated as long as a single power doesn’t coopt all of Eurasia.

The territorial ambitions are slightly different to a colonial maritime power within spitting distance of no fewer than 3 other maritime powers, or one in control of the Mediterranean with a very large front door open to the North European Plain.
> But then they have lied to the police.

Yes. Companies misuse the violence of the state for their own ends all the time (see: Union busting).
Google is developing a superintelligent multipurpose AI
I used to have a friend who, whenever he was going to say something incredibly rude to people, would preface his remarks with the statement "I don't mean to be rude but..."
I don't think that's what he said at all...
Didn't it do something weird with strings where you had to periodically LIST and reload your program to prevent crashes?
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I always thought it would be cool if the line numbers were floating point. You could always insert a line between any existing ones then.
Xiaomi clones the iPad Pro for half the price: $386
I wonder how it compares to normal police detective work. In theory if a human is there to verify things, these types of mistakes wouldn't happen.
This is factually wrong. They are doing it based on the principles of equality and freedom. This is exactly what those terms mean. Your freedom is only limited if its execution limits the freedom of others. In this case he was free to browser the documents, but he was also impeding on the freedom of that corporation. Same with equality, it seems immoral when the rich always win. But morality is just a WAY OF DEALING with the contradictions of that are inherent to our economic system. People need to understand that freedom and equality can only be enforced by the state and people actually WANT the state to have the monopoly on the use of force. Separation of power and being democratic can be deduced from that too.
> 1) Printers still suck. By that I mean, mainly, reliability.

Laser printers are a step forward even if they leave a lot to be desired. Also, somewhat anecdotally, the amount of times I need to use a printer has significantly fallen since 2005.
The selling point of IoT is the data. It's the reason for the heavy investment in big data/neural networks/nvidia/etc. Preparing for the IoT world where there isn't much privacy but lots and lots of data.
> The excuse was that a standard needs to have multiple implementations otherwise we are standardising implementation details and bugs.

And yet we're are now at a point where Chrome rams its own APIs through standards bodies, and there are no (and often won't be) any independent competing implementations.
A curated list of Django libraries, software and resources
Balena Etcher (the same software that runs on the Balena Etcher Pro) is an Electron app that can be used on standard computers.

If you use Etcher as a way of switching the same installation drive to install a different OS by re-burning the install image, then Ventoy totally makes sense.
I can't imagine anyone is surprised by this.
The refund thing is odd... but I benefit from their mobile UI.
I guess the difference between an overthinker and having foresight is the rate of false positives?
Unfortunately, from the main page it's clear everybody does anyway.
So you'll let me deposit $5 with you and you'll cover $5000000 in withdrawals over the next 6 months? There's $6000000 coming your way, I swear.

Also known as kiting.
NY Times Lawyers Accidentally Send Private Strategy Memo to Staff Union
This was inevitable. Better to let it happen now than continue to waste resources on a hopeless conflict.

A great example of the failure of modern war. The inability of the military to effectively execute total war because of public palatability leads to these outcomes - zombie wars that can never be won, because no one has the stomach to do/say what actually needs to be done.

It's hard not to think about the military industrial complex in all of this - a long term war wasting millions on equipment, supplies, energy, with relatively minimal cost to lives compared to total war, is an ideal money maker.
What would "no gerrymandering" even look like? A pure split of 50/50 outcomes in each district? Equal amounts of party split districts but then wins for metro districts for the state in each election? Exact equal amounts of each demographic split in each district across all features? Would this need to be redone continuously?

The urban/rural divide is a tale as old as Rome and unless the desired outcomes and side effects for "fair" districting are clearly stated it's just a way for the socially accepted (pushed by the media) team to gain an advantage while seeming "fair" (aka our team wins).
Integer variables were written I%. I%=I%+1 was certainly faster than I=I+1, but I am not sure if that extended to FOR loops.
Well you did say that

> almost everyone seems to believe that real incomes have totally stagnated.

suggesting that this is a false belief. I think this can easily be interpreted as you saying "inflation is fine" (even though that may not have been your intention).
Go to a store. Buy a chocolate bar for $0.50c, checkout, pay. Store intended to sell bar for $5.00 but made a mistake. Is that theft? That's exactly what happened with poly. They are fools, made a lousy contract that permitted things contrary to their intent, someone used that contract as permitted on chain. Regret ensues but not theft.
Falcon 1 also included 3rd party equipment and software. IMO, that’s fairly analogous to using 3rd party libraries. I am specifically talking about elements they where designing and building in house which where directly copied from earlier designs.

Take say all those identical looking highway overpasses. Even if one of those projects started with a blank file, applying standard solutions to standard problems isn’t starting from scratch.
If we're really going to play this contrived example out. Let's say there's a camera watching the wallet, so Jack gets in trouble if he's caught doing this.

The debate being had is whether the sign was sufficiently well written ("It's the code's fault") vs. whether the sign system is just a terrible idea regardless of sign quality and you should use normal societal systems to transfer the wallet.
>stop reading American news.

Can you recommend good sources of non-american news? I always see this suggestion and truly despise american media in general, but as an american I don't even know where to look.
It’s the same people who make sure that scamware doesn’t show up in the App Store. Apple does a good job with that, don’t they?
The others are also experimental. The more traditional is Novavax. I'll be waiting for that one

In the UK chicken pox vaccine is not included in national vaccine schedule. So no
A princess raced to escape Dubai’s ruler. Then her phone appeared on the list
Authoritarianism doesn't only swing in the liberal direction. Until the last generation most authoritarian policies were of the conservative sort.

And with regards to this specific debate, being tough on crime and (largely unnecessary conspiracy level) fear over pedophilia are both conservative darlings.

The 2nd amendment has typically been the only love of conservatives.

Where were they when the police illegally searched us in dozens of ways, or when free speech was limited to easy to ignore "free speech zones"?

They've only clamoured to defend free speech once the right to freely abuse weaker social classes was at risk of being taken away.
Many large studios, I specifically think of Blizzard and Jagex, have a reputation for wielding legal successfully against third party clients, phishing, trademark/branding abuse, botting, and similar activities. Further there are severe legal consequences in China and elsewhere for cheating in video games.

Even if there isn't decisive legal consequences they can carpet ban whoever they want whenever they want. Which is likely the reputation which causes the landing page of this service to be plastered with "don't worry you won't get banned" all over the place.
Huh - I guess it ended last year...But I seem to recall when Howard announced the forthcoming end of schlock that he had other stories in mind..

edit: He mentions more stories in the q & a here:

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/2020-there-will-be-an-...
> "Unfortunately, I don't think the paper provides any information on how training in different academic subjects correlates with vaccine hesitancy—a PhD can be in molecular biology just as much as it can be in comparative linguistics."

Assuming the survey results valid, this is what I latched onto. The act of getting a PhD may inflate ones sense of intellect and reasoning universally while actual knowledge and valid expertise is very domain dependent, leading to a more self-assured and intransigent decision making regime.
Thanks for the suggestion. And yes, it likely is an old thing. Using my own X-Date header was an option I tossed around, but unfortunately, this issue was not discovered and fully understood until the feature had been out for a couple months. The issue is so infrequent due to the timing/latency involved that most customers didn't realize there was an issue. It was only after a high volume customer pinged me about the occasional (but frequent with high volume) 'invalid' signatures that the issue started to surface.

Ultimately, since I have customers relying on the standard Date header within the signed data, and they're in a variety of environments (some not easily updated), I'm unwilling to introduce a breaking change like this simply to keep CF enabled. I ultimately had to disable CF to resolve the issue, and am looking to fully migrate away from the platform soon.

Honestly, it just seems like odd behavior for CF to even do this and I thought I'd give others a heads up. I know startups like Cognito [0] follow that signature spec too, so this could effect other startups as well which implement HTTP response signatures. Especially if it eventually becomes standardized...

[0]: https://cognitohq.com/docs/authenticating/
There are several excellent reasons why dd is also called the "disk destroyer". I lost data once, because it was the wrong /dev/sd* in the command line, where Balena Etcher makes it harder to mistake the target devices. Besides, a progress indicator is always nice even if it doesn't speed anything up just by being present.
if you could enable WAL without a drop in performance, you might be able to use something like litestream to sync to the backend

this may be the most performant/secure/cheapest b2b saas stack ever

every customer gets own sqlite database, downloads it to their browser on first load, each db gets synced to s3

everything is served statically from s3 as well
Yeah, famous bugs. Atari BASIC source is fully documented in this book:

https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-the-atari-basic-sourc...

See appendix B, memmove() was broken.
Personally, I find Australian censorship and UK surveillance have already crossed the line. I'm not convinced that censorship ever has benefits, so any cost seems too much. Surveillance helps catch more criminals, but the US hardly has a problem finding people to put behind bars.

I don't hate Australian gun control- it is a little overzealous but within reason imo. I'm not someone who values gun ownership, so others might disagree. In the UK, however, https://twitter.com/mayoroflondon/status/982906526334668800 is a line crossed for me.

Even if there is a slippery slope that just ends at those levels, I think we should be fighting it. And it's not clear to me whether the slope does actually stop there, and that the UK and Australia aren't still sliding.
"apparently"
The title reminded me of an intro to one of packt's books.

"At Packt, we take the protection of our copyright and licenses very seriously. If you come across any illegal copies of our works in any form on the internet, please provide us with the location address or website name immediately so that we can pursue a remedy."

They want their readers to be the their personal snitches online. What a crazy world we are headed towards.
You'd think the creator would have thought of something like that, but nah, he wanted to leave it to the coolest teen. Or, in the movie version, the teen most able to identify weirdly personal details from the author's private life.
the vacccine is distributed as concentrate and diluted with NaCl prior to injection. the nurse allegedly filled NaCl only.

(German instruction video for vaccination sites) https://youtu.be/nuwkPPmB630

i got vaccinated at a doctor's office: jabs and documentation papers all over the place, every step done ad-hoc by the person who happened to be nearby.

i wasn't surprised.
Isn't there a max of 4 downvotes per comment? How is that a barrage?
At this juncture it is very difficult to see because we are seeing a broad realignment and resurgence of non-interventionism. For example, it is quite clear that the GOP war hawks are no longer popular, and nation building has become anathema in that party, whereas it used to be more accepted. On the other hand, I personally believe the opposite force is happening within the democratic party, but I'm guessing that'll be an unpopular sentiment around here.

EDIT: if you're going to downvote, at least engage.
The distances between electrons in this lattice are enormous compared to the electron, even bigger than the typcial distances between atoms in a lattice, so being essentially dead still in the overall lattice structure doesn't imply much about the certainty of the position of the electron at the scale the uncertainty principle implies.
Local politicians are addicted to this money, nothing will be done to prevent it. Look at Toronto and Vancouver.
Can I ask for your resolution + monitor size?

I'm on Windows, and in Chrome and Firefox this new font is a pain to read.

( 1080p / 24" here )
Everything about you is beautiful. I can't even.
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That works really well in parts of Spain and around the Mediterranean where dry seasons exist and coincide with higher temperatures. “It’s a dry heat” is a real thing, and you can even put together things like swamp coolers that save the day if there isn’t enough shade.

Britain gets humid though. France gets humid, Germany gets humid etc

Hottest place I’ve ever been was a jungle.
The pain and anguish of using IndexedDB: problems, bugs and oddities
not at all, i'm simply pointing out the irony of you recommending people not use software that has telemetry on a platform that has the same telemetry.
i've personally refused to use etcher for a while, sticking with dd, then i got tired of slow speeds and downloaded it, blocked all its home-ringing with LittleSnitch and haven't had a problem since. There are ways around any spying, i'm just glad it doesn't install any bloatware like 90% of the "free" apps out there.
I was going to post basically this. There are tons of people saying "you are underthinking this", but they almost never use those exact words. (BTW, to the point where my spellchecker flags "underthinking" as a word that does not exist)
No it's not, it has a terrible API. Not sure why people here are still defending that mess imposed by Mozilla when developers could have had something better, websql.

Another spec that failed from a practical perspective because of Mozilla's reluctance to implement key aspects of it is web components.
I'll fallen back to a Todoist board (any Kanban board will work) with 4 columns.

* Now

* Today

* Next Week

* The future

Anything more complex is a waste of time as it assumes I can predict how and why I need to work on something.
Hosts file: What is it, why is it useful and how to edit it?
> Also...it's an opinion piece from....a university....in San Francisco...the two most notoriously political places in the entire universe and you're saying I'm convinced by MY MEDIA.

It's... a medical school. An elite one, no less, doing public outreach. Effectively that link is a review paper written for non-experts, it's certainly not "opinion journalism". I mean, it links to studies throughout the piece. It absolutely represents (and I don't understand why you think this is controversial) virtually uniformly held scientific consensus on this topic.

I mean, I don't know what to say. If you don't trust doctors about medical issues, preferring to read pieces from (literal) Swiss conspiracy theory sites and citing isolated single Vietnamese studies, then I guess I can't help you.

But yes: SWPRS and sites like that are LYING TO YOU. Very effectively, since now you trust them more than you do one of the best med schools in the country.
`pkill -USR1 dd` may also work
No one can afford a house in or close to the town anymore. So actually life quality for most people went down south.
I like Tor, but is just too slow. I use wireguard/proxies instead, a subpar alternative security wise but with better performance.
> As a software engineer it's hard to shake the feeling that we're now just a patch release away from misuse, where as last year we were a major update away.

I don't agree. Putting aside the "NeuralHash" algorithm that Apple made to try and match CSAM, scanning the files on a device is remarkably simple, and something Apple already does as part of your device's standard functioning (indexing files, attaching labels to pictures based on content detected by AI models, etc).

Apple could have already implemented a secret image tag for "terrorist material" or "drug material" that is attached automatically to images, hidden from the user, and phoned home / reported to FBI when a threshold is met. How would you know this system doesn't already exist? Literally all the components for this system were already in place.
The uncertainty principle says something different than the common understanding.

It says that if you have an ensemble of identically prepared systems, the product of variances of non-commuting observables obtained by measuring different instances in this ensemble will have a lower bound.
It's too far from my area to be sure, but let's guess ...

Perhaps it similar to the Cooper pair effect. In this effect, it looks like electrons inside a conductor attract each other. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_pair

> Although Cooper pairing is a quantum effect, the reason for the pairing can be seen from a simplified classical explanation. An electron in a metal normally behaves as a free particle. The electron is repelled from other electrons due to their negative charge, but it also attracts the positive ions that make up the rigid lattice of the metal. This attraction distorts the ion lattice, moving the ions slightly toward the electron, increasing the positive charge density of the lattice in the vicinity. This positive charge can attract other electrons. At long distances, this attraction between electrons due to the displaced ions can overcome the electrons' repulsion due to their negative charge, and cause them to pair up. The rigorous quantum mechanical explanation shows that the effect is due to electron–phonon interactions, with the phonon being the collective motion of the positively-charged lattice.

This attraction is too small and is only important when the temperature is very low, and is the explanation of low temperature superconductivity.

<guess> So perhaps there is a Cooper-pair-like effect here, that creates the illusion that the electrons attract each other. They are using semiconductors, so perhaps it's caused not by the movement of the nuclei, but the movement of the holes in the other semiconductor.</guess>
True - this article presents a nice overview with more details on that https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/technology/facial-recogni...
Right, by and large the women of Afghanistan supported and enabled the Taliban, along with the men of Afghanistan. The Taliban enjoys little opposition and lots of support.

Look... Afghanis have had more than a decade to organize for the eventuality of TAliban take over. They could have done reasonable things while having a democratically elected government, like arming all citizens, forming organized militias, etc. This would have lead to a citizenry actually able to fight. That they did not and that the citizenry is doing nothing to stop the Taliban indicates that the Taliban are more popular than the government.

From my perspective as a Westerner, that is very sad. But it's not my country.
How is 9P not a "real" filesystem API? Asking for a friend.

Fuse and, indeed 9P2000.u are both indeed complicated as hell, but appear to require it as their underlying FS is posix^Wlinux-based and thus a higgledy-piggledy API nightmare.
Does anyone know much about Authentic Brands? They own all these stagnant or struggling brands like Brooks Brothers, Barney's, Sports Illustrated, Lucky Brand, Prince, etc., but I can't tell what they actually do with the IP or existing business?
> Here's a paper that says cloth mask usage increases rate of infection.

> https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

Using cloth masks only, increased rate of infection in relation to the control group. And the control group: "In the control arm, 170/458 (37%) used medical masks, 38/458 (8%) used cloth masks, and 245/458 (53%) used a combination of both medical and cloth masks during the study period."

So we can conclude that the medical masks, used in the control arm, worked better than cloth masks.

If you were trying to coyly imply that the study said that cloth masks increased infections compared to using no mask at all, you were being dishonest.
Non citizens should not be able to own property they never personally occupy.
Everything you ever not wanted to know about elevators.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do...
I don't believe in Tether. I use other stablecoins (mainly DAI and USDC). And also, that's why you diversify your portfolio: All assets have risks.
I never suggested that.

Shitty UI design is irrelevant of OS.
Why do smart contracts require a total ordering of unrelated transactions?
Original Django project is back online