skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes down to it I find it rare that a custom font sparks any joy in me. I love typography and I started my career in design, so I don’t think I’m some old man yelling at clouds here.

They often seem to be the result of inexperienced design or design by committee. An unnecessary and distracting effort at differentiation or branding. In the worst cases you might even see a FOUT or have to endure downloading 5mb of zillions of characters of some fonts your browser will never draw.

I know there are cases where it’s tasteful and well executed. I love that. It just isn’t common in my experience.

On my team at work we created a sort of pros and cons list and for our use case (instantdomainsearch.com) it made virtually no sense to incorporate a custom font into our design. When it was all laid out and considered it really drove home for me how unnecessary it is.

The designs looked really nice and it seemed compelling, but in real life on the internet I just want things to 1) load very quickly 2) draw and become interactive very quickly 3) look and feel familiar in the right ways such that I can I intuitively use the software. Custom fonts put a stick in the spokes of each of those points.
Except for the "oops, due to an unexpected bug in our code, every image, document, and message on your device was being continuously scanned" mea culpa we will see a few months after this goes live.

Only images that match the hashes of the database of CSAM held by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that are uploaded to iCloud Photos are checked.

Based on their technical documents, it's not even possible for anything else to be checked; even if they could, they learn nothing from documents that aren't CSAM.
It’s frankly exhausting to have discussions when both sides live in their own worlds.

It is indeed.

You sound arrogant, “only one side is correct and it’s my side”

I have very little patience for dishonesty. If that makes me seem "arrogant" to peddlers of disinformation, so be it.

BLM and Antifa caused billions in damages

Sure. That was terrible and uncalled for. Lots of bad ideas and movements come from the grassroots left, like "Defund the Police" and "All Cops are Bastards". I don't recall this being sanctioned or incited by Joe Biden or the Democratic Party, and it wasn't a coup d'etat.

in some places this is leading to the reintroduction of segregation

I didn't see where your source made a connection between these events. Either way, if you think that a racist principal imposing segregation in their school somehow vindicates right-wing insurrectionists, I don't know what to tell you.

FBI spied on trump on Clinton and Obama’s behalf. Utilizing a known fabricated document

This is an article about two British citizens independently making a decision to attempt to influence our election in a small way. I find that objectionable for the same reason as Russia's larger-scale election interference, but I don't see how it relates to the conspiracy theory of Obama spying on Trump.

election laws were changed last minute, broken among other things to effect a coup and they brag about it

Can you be more specific? All I'm seeing from an initial pass is that an effort was made to respond to right-wing voter suppression efforts and disinformation leading up to the election.

more people voted in 2020 than were registered in 2016 or 2018. With a 93% then out rate.

That was pretty cool. I'm not sure what you're suggesting it has to do with right-wing beliefs.

here’s a couple video explaining some of their concerns about the election

Sure, I'm aware that Trump and his allies claim to have concerns. That's what we're discussing here. Do you have more specific points and sources that aren't videos?
I have no doubt that Jonas told the truth that that's the feedback he got. I was never aware of Jonas or anyone else involved at Mozilla having some kind of "anti-SQL" prejudice.

WebDatabase, with or without a spec, boiled down to shipping SQLite. We didn't want the Web to depend on that. It might even have required shipping a specific version of SQLite to make sure that query planning matches other browsers.

It seems that IndexedDB has turned out poorly for various reasons but one of those reasons is that Chrome has botched their implementation and that's not Mozilla's fault.
> Falling behind just few weeks leads to a broken system.

Not really. Arch is rock stable, Even if you update only one every two months.
How to Build AI-Based Personal Financial Assistant App?
Pretty much why there are almost no wolves in EU.

I live in one area where there are still wolfs. We are sort of proud we still have them.
But people and wolfs don't mix. And they can be scary as fuck. A lot of people just think of them as wild dogs. But if you ever seen one in person you know that's not true.
This article is contradicting you and specifically linking to this other article in the first paragraph as proof: https://jalopnik.com/consumer-reports-shows-how-easy-it-is-t...
I live in Poland but I am mostly working contracts outside Poland or for foreign companies.

When I receive negotiated contract for signing it is usual to expect the contract has already been at the very least initialed on every page by the other party. And I always initial every page of the contract whether the other party did it or not.

Signing every page is not required for the contract to be enforceable but is standard practice.
You're thinking it's ridiculous, but this is exactly what happened to Weev.

He found URLs that were not 'supposed' to be exposed, which apparently constitutes unauthorized access... You know like typing in a URL to the browser instead of clicking a link.
And with the margins gone almost to negative numbers, now we are back to those pre-IBM PC form factors.
I hate reddit with a passion though I still visit it. Largely a consequence of despite having clicked a thousand times on the greyed-out 'continue in browser' button I still get the "see reddit in" dialog take up half my screen every damn day I visit.
Disagreed, this is a dangerous line of thinking that leads to using technologies like gwt, Vaadin, Blazor, Flutter or others that try to turn the browser into something that it's not suited to.

Sure, there could be cases where you have absolutely no alternatives to do something really specific, but in those cases I'd first invite you to reconsider whether what you're attempting to do actually needs to be a web app. Of course, people's thoughts will probably be split there.

However, the bottom line is still this - large sites load slower and cost more to load, they consume more battery and CPU, which on lower end devices could lead to system instability. If users don't outright leave your bloated solution (i.e. if they're forced to use it because of network effect) then in the case of any non-optional conditions (slow or unstable networks, low end devices, expensive data) their experience will be miserable.

Maybe have your IM client be a downloadable app instead? Better yet, why not have it be a native app instead of a bundled browser app, for excellent file size, small attack surface and great performance, while conforming to the OS look and feel?

Alternatively, why not make your IM client have a lightweight browser version that doesn't try to do everything under the sun? Personally, i feel like the answer is not to make browsers do more, but to try to do less yourself.

To that end, utilize server side rendering and pre-rendering with hydration when needed. Split some bundles and shake some trees. Compress as much as possible and use boring, common fonts while preferring local versions if available. Avoid videos in most cases and use smaller images, or vector graphics. The web can be a simple, beautiful and fast place if we make it one.
Mic in tracks, file sharing, and accidental fame (2009)
No need for explicit ostracism, you just can't operate in the modern society without using popular technologies.
Don't forget that it says, "shall allow" not "allow". What is unsaid here is that the state was sued to enforce this law, because it hadn't yet created a wolf hunt.

That law also says, "(5) Seasons; zones. (a) The department shall establish a single annual open season for both hunting and trapping wolves that begins on October 15th of each year and ends on the last day of February of the following year."
Apple could easily decode messages for a 3rd party if they wanted to.

They don't have the keys, so how exactly would they decrypt these messages?
No you don't, you're massively exaggerating. The standard library already has at least basic if not strong exception-safety all over it. And RAII is pretty darn standard practice and guarantees basic exception safety in your own code too. You don't need strong exception safety here, just basic is sufficient for most such cases.

Go try this with std::sort (or std::adjacent_find or whatever) and tell me which of their implementations you had to modify.
Where I'm from we have similar sayings:

- Don't dive head first into water.

- Measure nine times, cut once.

And a random saying I just remembered: "Autumn has the eyes of a summer and the teeth of a wolf."

Edit:formatting
I once saw a guy playing the flute while he was driving in Austin, presumably with his knees. Couldn't believe it.
I think the worst part is how things are silently removed. On many sites you get a message saying 'your content has been removed for violating rule x'. On reddit you almost always get nothing. Often you don't even get a ban message and will just be added to a shadow ban list so you end up wasting your time commenting but no one can see it.

There is a site that shows you your deleted comments[1] and its pretty shocking. I found out every single one of my comments in one sub had been auto deleted with the reason being I did not have any link karma (because I only comment). What a waste of time and it turns me off from the platform.

[1] www.reveddit.com
Don't forget the invasive data mining they get from the app and location tracking.
Distilled water is available at any grocery store for less than a dollar a gallon.
I wonder, why do you see this as a necessary disclosure?
Yea, he was so "not credible" that for anything he said, the opposite has to be the "real" truth. /s
> Arch is great and probably very rarely breaks but if it does, there is very few ways to recover the situation other than instructing users to reinstall the OS.

What are you talking about? Whenever things break in Arch, I fix them in my own install, either by downgrading a package that may be causing problems, or worst case with a USB stick which can enable me to chroot in the system again. Never had to reinstall anything from scratch.

On top of that, Valve will use its own repositories and you can be sure that for a SINGLE device, they will test things and make sure they don't break when they roll things out. That's a non-issue from the get go.
Nerd in 2021 is equivalent to "not casual/mainstream". If you consider sideloading OS's you are in fact a nerd.
They would be able to decrypt messages after the point of interception, not retroactively.
It's not about Elixir
Motorola sold their phone business to Google, Nokia sold there’s to Microsoft, Nokia then sold their name to a Chinese phone company and are just involved in telecommunication equipment these days, so is Motorola it seems.
> the department shall allow the hunting and trapping

“Shall allow” is the operative phrase here. This is legal direction from the legislature on what actions the executive will undertake.
yeah I'm not sure I do know it's a separate step to move photo from whatsapp to "general" photo access. I would guess it is roped off or they wouldn't need that step.
China is thorough, and Pakistan is of great interest to them.
I do feel compelled to point out that the slippery slope argument is in fact a type of fallacy. Like, if you look up a list of fallacies there it is, the "slippery slope argument".
The Next Generation Service Gateway
That's what classes are for. (Which this also reinvents.)
> but the claim is that it is set to only detect people who are actually building a collection of CSAM

From what I read the threshold is for a different purpose, ,the false positives are too many so to reduce the number of reports the threshold workaround is introduced, so is a hack to workaround the false positives and not a threshold to catch people with big collections.
It looks like infected vaccinated people can transmit the disease just as much as unvaccinated people, so yes.
I can vouch for this TUI interface for git: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
It is stsrting to threaten the wolves survival as a species.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It makes discussion shallower, more tedious, and nastier.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28163326.
Some things I think are objectively bad design -

1. Images open by default on my feed and videos and gifs autoplay as I scroll. It's a massive distraction. I'm trying to find content I might be interested in, but here I'm forced to scan pretty much every post out there.

2. On similar lines, showing a (cropped) summary for text posts. Again a distraction when you're trying to find content. The cropping makes it worse since you have to change the page after reading halfway through.

3. Having to click on view discussion to open the comments each time. This is a forum. The only reason I go there is to discuss.

4. Lack of borders for comments. It looks like one continuous feed and reduces grouping between individual comments.

5. Large avatars, icons on the reply bar compete for attention on every single comment. The reply bar on old reddit is so nicely blended away into the background. You don't see it unless you want to reply.

6. Hover popups on the large icons trigger unintentionally all the time. Very rarely do I need to see somebody's karma. What's the point of this feature even?

This is basis design considerations for a discussion forum. I completely understand where they are coming from though. They are not interested in this being a discussion forum. They want to optimize for post views. The more views a post gets, the more they will be able to monetize. Engaging in discussion is time consuming and that time could be better spent in viewing more posts.
Microsoft says NSA needs to undo its $10B cloud computing contract with Amazon
Luckily in Germany masks are still mandatory indoors.
Also Istael has reinstated the indoor mask requirement after the number of infections increased dramatically even with many vaccinated people
Overthinking is when the Law of Diminishing Returns kicks in. You can see it happening every day in the meeting rooms while planning new features/releases, we don't really get any new information but it's comforting to just talk about it.
> I have never heard someone telling their employee or friend "you're underthinking this".

"We need to think about it more" definitely exists. "We need to turn it into proper plan first" exists too.
Maybe I should say the government is playing the role of the mafia!
Crying wolf?

They've done this before and the population recovered to even greater heights:

https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/sites/default/files/topic/images/2...

https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/hunt/documents/WolfReport.pdf

Hence the increased quota.
The other thing that pushed me towards Framework was the trivially user-replaceable parts, including the battery.

My MBP's battery failed (swelled up) twice while under warranty, but it was a pain to deal with each time: wipe the SSD (because it's soldered on), hand it over to Apple, wait several days for repair, and then restore from backup. And now it's no longer under AppleCare coverage anyway.

In contrast, Framework designed their motherboard so we can even use it as a standalone PC once we're done using it as part of a laptop. That's such a difference in terms of user reparability.
Because poor people didn't exist back then?
Early in the pandemic some people recommended gargling with antiseptic solutions. From what I've heard that is generally not a good idea because it kills the natural bacterial flora too and that plays a role in the defense against infections.
My anecdata is the opposite.

I track calories/food quality, weight, plicometry, and exercise (although not all of them all the time). With precise and systematic measuments, I find easily that it's a matter of food quality, quantity, and exercise.

I'm convinced that there are several external factors that make people over 30 gain weight, more than metabolism: work, children, stable relationships and independence.

I also used to think that teenagers are fit without any effort, but if I look at them, this is generally not true. I will start believe people who claim that it's a matter of metabolism when they'll start to track food, weight and plicometry, and will go on a sports (not walking) regime. But not before.
Because the comment is exactly what Tesla argues you have to do but then the unnamed called it morally wrong. Yet, when other systems are found vulnerable to driver hacking, the unnamed falls back to the same argument that Tesla uses, namely driver responsibility.

Go ahead and flag this comment as well if you want Hacker News.

Tesla

“While using Autopilot, it is your responsibility to stay alert, keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times and maintain control of your car.”

Unnamed regarding Tesla Autopilot

“Morally wrong”, “intentionally misleading”

Unnamed regarding this report about other car makers

“ the responsibility clearly lies with the driver. If you "cheat" or ignore the system and there is any type of negative outcome, it is the driver's fault”

Furthermore, when another comment points out that other automakers have similar naming to Autopilot, said unnamed says it is just marketing pressure.

1+1=2, not 3 as per guidelines
Apple is not using PhotoDNA, but in any event - this is a good article but they misconstrued the '1 in a trillion' quote, as is canvassed in the comments for the article itself. According to apple there is a 1 in a trillion chance of wrongly flagging an account, not a 1 in a trillion false positive rate for individual images, and we know that step to banning include:
- multiple flagged images; and
- human review

The details for those processes hasn't been fully disclosed, and it isn't possible to say whether 1 in a trillion is a reasonable estimate or otherwise.
Okay allow me to revise my comment: Imagine having to register with a certificate authority run by the Linux Foundation just to submit a patch.
I downvoted this comment because it's hyperbole.

There are plenty of over very real concerns with this. For example, say some activist intern at Apple decides they don't like your politics and hits the report button, next thing you know, the police show up to your door and are confiscating all your devices. Just one of many potential abuses.
Reddit is already packed to the brim with product shilling and yet it keeps getting bigger. I doubt the majority of users will be turned off from this. The reddit user base has changed as well. Most users of reddit probably never used the old design at this point.
Microsoft coped the DRI CP/M model. Sell the OS to PC Makers and make it a standard.

IBM used off the shelf parts for the IBM PC, so others were able to copy it easily. When IBM made the PS/2 series with Microchannel it was supposed to be a clone killer.

Ironic that IBM does not make PCs anymore, and sold that IP to Lenovo.
I know the project is probably for some fun. Since you already have a sample lisp code to test, why not write tests for it.
>The nuclear family benefits people who can outsource what were traditional tasks of the family

Women entering the workforce is one of the main drivers behind this.

>There's also a racial component with marginalized peoples often suffering strongest from the fragility that is the result of the loss of larger family structures.

Not with Latinos or Asians. They heavily rely on extended families.
Or you change jobs to one that gives you free snacks. Back when people worked in offices...
This is false. Nuclear families have been a primary arrangement in England since the 13th century as an example.
There are significant wolves populations in NW Spain, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe. They are being reintroduced in other countries as well. There are ~600 wolves in France, they were reintroduced in 1990.
Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
You're not wrong, in the sense that an M1 Mac would have better performance and battery life than the laptop I have on order. But to me, the tradeoffs (not only in terms of privacy, but also user-repairability) are worth it. (And my new Intel-based Framework laptop will still be much faster than the laptop I've been using for the last several years.)
You can see this happening here in Iceland where we’re going through a surge in cases thanks to Delta but almost the entire adult population is vaccinated:

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/08/12/janssen-group-most-at-ri...

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/08/12/people-told-vaccinate-to...

> “Diagnosis of infection is three-times more likely in the non-vaccinated than the vaccinated, the likelihood of hospital admission is some four-times higher, and the frequency of intensive care is five times more common in the non-vaccinated than the vaccinated. So, we are seeing that vaccination is protecting against infection and especially against serious illness, which should be a spur to everyone to get vaccinated who has not been vaccinated so far,” Þórólfur said.

Anecdotally having had COVID before isn’t necessarily protection either. I’ve a relative who has now had both one of the original strains and the Delta variant.
Wait does anyone actually use Kelvin anywhere other than lab environment?