skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My illustration practice relies on a ton of transparency, and I get by fine with a much lower-precision control of it.

Illustrator lets me set up keyboard shortcuts to 0/10/20/30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100% opacity and this is how I assign the vast majority of my opacity levels. Effectively I'm "losing" a lot more steps than just the difference between 100 and 255.

I'm also usually using some kind of blur on my shading, possibly filling them with a gradient that has different opacity levels on its stops, so there's a lot of subtler opacity happening in my work. Sometimes there's an additional modifier created by changing the opacity level of a group of translucent shapes, or an entire layer. Or a complex appearance stack of multiple fills and strokes applied to single paths, each of which has their own opacity level (and mode!) that's modified by the path's overall opacity. But in terms of my interaction with the whole system it's largely just eleven levels spread out across 0%-100%.

More precision would be nice now and then I suppose, I wouldn't complain if it existed, but in practice it's something I rarely need. Bjango does a bunch of super-fiddly UI work so maybe they need it more, I dunno.
It wouldn't. If a music studio needs to wait 4 years to not have to pay any royalties at all, then the song would be recorded (copyright created) and the music groups would just wait 4 years and then start playing it on radio stations.

It needs to be something like 12 + 12 or 20 + 20, or even 20 + infinitely continuable for a gradually increasing cost. It still has the potential issue of waiting out that 24 to 40 years; but companies are less likely to do that, when a few years is basically nothing.

It's been 2 years since covid started, for example.
I can't, but at least the article did add a paragraph claiming designers can:
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Does it matter? Quite often, shadows are incredibly sensitive to opacity changes, and many shadows use values from around 5% to 20%. That means there’s only 15 or so steps in the usable range, and single step jumps can be quite noticeable. This is not the most pressing issue in the design tools we use, but it is a real problem.
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It doesn't show errors with Lambda and we clearly do experience them.
Or John's work is in frontline production use and Sally's and Mike's is not, so there's different exposure.
I can’t turn on my lights… the future is weird
I had to log in to say, that one of my favorite quotes of all time I found in Calculus on Manifolds.

He says that any good theorem is worth generalizing, and I've generalized that to any life rule.
Disney does not own the stories but it owns its films and all associated IP. If you sell a Cinderella T shirt that looks like their Cinderella, you will probably get something in writing from a lawyer before long.
Lot of good reasons above. Another is that if code has solid tests, it makes code review a lot easier / faster, especially if somebody else is modifying your code.
John’s team might also be taking more calculated risks and running circles around Sally and Mike’s teams with respect to innovation and execution. If your organization categorically punishes failures/outages, you end up with timid managers that are only playing defense, probably the opposite of what the leadership team wants.
I have one at the 6€/mo level, with 498 days of uptime as of today.
I love the aesthetics of this, I must have one. I didn't notice a link to the schematics in the post, is there one?

EDIT: Oh, apparently this author used the original panels and didn't make his own. Good enough for me!
> Since there were no details provided about such «information» and where to find it AND Tor is unable to comply

Is there a source to this? It reads like something too ridiculous to be true with no additional crucial details. Doesn't RKN have a public registry for "blocked" information, that everyone is supposed to pull from?

I now wonder how the Tor Project had reacted to similar precedents (probably didn't at all?)
For this reason I've setup a OpnSense VM on my dedicated Hetzner server where all inbound and outbound IPv4/IPv6 traffic has to go through, it acts as a gateway for the host itself and my other VMs. OpnSense itself is a pretty powerful firewall with tons of other features.

Of course you'll lose access to your server if the OpnSense VM breaks or doesn't boot up for whatever reasons after an update or so, but after 2 years I haven't had any problems. But in case something goes wrong Hetzner offers some nice recovery options, even if you don't have internet access to you server you can access your volumes in some kind of VM and get access to it via a VNC like interface (I had to use this feature a few times during the initial setup which consisted of a lot of trial and error I locked myself out a few times).

I wouldn't run this setup for anything mission critical of course, it's way too hacky and an official firewall solution would be better, but for my personal purposes as a "home lab" like setup it works perfectly fine so far.
(Author here) I’m kind of cruel to my hardware lol (they’re all frankenservers hacked together with random parts from eBay). I’m not doing anything fancy to protect from dust and whatnot, but it’s pretty much always chilly in the garage (and I’m using low power parts) so heating hasn’t been an issue.
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Oh you're here hooray!!!

Yes please please please put these disclosures at the top. Find some way to celebrate it even. Pinephone is an incredible project from a development standpoint and because of its potential to someday be a consumer phone.

But it is still YEARS away from being a daily driver. You are not helping anyone by implying the phone is ready for a daily driver. And unless I'm misunderstanding your audience, 99% of people who read this will say "oh neat, Linux phone, I'll try that".

I did that with Pinephone. I'm reasonable with copy pasting command line stuff, but overall I wanted a phone that works as a daily driver. I resold my Pinephone within 24 hours on eBay.

Pinephone is NOT ready as a daily driver. That is the exception rather than the rule, anyone who says they can use it as a daily driver in my experience means as a feature phone (makes calls, sends texts). I highly doubt any of the other options on your list are better.

Here's my situation. I WANT there to be open source options for phones. And I'm fine that the option doesn't exist today, that's okay, I can wait. But to get where I need it to be, Linux phones need tons more development, developers, enthusiasts, and enthusiasm.

People like me coming in and potentially buying one and then saying "oh it sucks" does NOT help the cause. It kills enthusiasm.

Please help stir up enthusiasm in the right place. Help non-enthusiasts get excited too and understand their role. Maybe include a paragraph for "people excited about linux phones who aren't linux wizards", and tell them that this exciting phone option is in the works for them, baking in the oven, you can even smell it -- and it will be ready in a year or two, which is sooooooo cool.

What about the title "The best phones for Linux wizards to mess around with"?

I would also disclose in the article which phones you've actually tested and how you tested them. One might presume that you've simply read online about all these options.

Hat tip to HN for being the type of place I can talk to the author of this article :)
Cool. Now let's have a race to see who can triple their capacity the fastest. (Note: I don't use AWS, so I can actually do it)
This seems like an absolutely horrid way of working or doing 'office politics'.
Congrats to the Django team! Adding support for a Redis cache instead of only memcached is awesome.
Intel will take its Mobileye automotive unit public in 2022
Then you're not patching it?
The future of the $447B space industry in 15 pictures
is it just 'ceremony' to be called out on those things? (even if it is actually a positive sum total)
The concept is fabulous. I hope to be able to attend this if I'm ever in New York one day!
Exactly. It's like he assumes that everything he does is brilliant, when in reality most people think Mathematica kind of sucks and cellular automata are flat out useless. Probably related to being a child prodigy and always being told how smart he is.
I'd actually love to see CW win this case, because it would prove definitively that bitcoin cannot be regulated.
My experience working at tech companies is that the tech lead, or anybody at the company, can post in an internal message board or slack to ask "what's up with this weird clause in our ToS" and expect an explanation.

It's nice that eastdakota responded here, but he had two weeks since the original tweet thread from Fastly's VP of Eng calling out the problems with their benchmarking. They didn't respond or retract the blog post in those two weeks.

As a cloudflare shareholder (and a fastly shareholder), I want Cloudflare to act ethically and either retract the blog post or issue a correction.
> Did you read my comment? AMM's were impossible without blockchain.

I did. Let's see:

Me: "no one can provide even a single one that... isn't relying on circular references"

--- start quote ---

The most basic to me is the Automatic Market Maker system. For example Uniswap is a system with only a few (relatively speaking) lines of a code at its core and a team of a couple of dozen.

--- end quote ---

Oh, look. A thing that only exists to perpetuate the never ending circle of speculation and scamming using the fictional tokens, and useless for anything else. Circular references abound. But sure, it can give you an instant price between two fictional tokens. Wow. Innovation.

--- start quote ---

The system does billions of dollars worth of trades every day. If anybody can point out to me a broker that does similar volumes that would allow me to make million-dollar trades with a few lines of code

--- end quote ---

1. It does't do billions of dollars every day. It exchanges some mythical tokens for some fantasy tokens that are completely entirely useless outside their own systems of reference (a.k.a. almost entirely exclusively speculation and scams)

2. This is the description of algorithmic trading and HFT. Except, it's not high-frequency, and it's not trading.

3. The moment those "few lines of code" execute an erroneous trade (because, you know, code), these "multi-million traders" will immediately cry foul, and ask for reverts, regulations, hard forks and all that.

> As always all great projects are easy to dismiss until one can no longer do it.

There are very few great projects that are easy to dismiss, and there are many shitty ones that are all too easy to dismiss. Somehow every single crypto project views itself as the great one.
Where does this mindset end? Do I lack due diligence by choosing to accept that the cpu microcode on the system I’m deploying to works correctly?
When I worked for AMZN (2012-2015, Prime Video & Outbound Fulfillment), attempting to sweep issues under the rug was a clear path to termination. The Correction-Of-Error (COE) process can work wonders in a healthy, data-driven, growth-mindset culture. I wonder if the ex-Amazonian you're referring to did not leave AMZN by their own accord?

Blame deflection is a recipe for repeat outages and unhappy customers.
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Stellantis launches $23B software push
Quill was never going to work to begin with. This is an easy way for the VCs to get some kind of return. Just another day in silicon valley insider dealing.
The difference isn't as much as it used to be in terms of file-size optimization as woff2 is pretty much supported by all browsers and you don't have to serve anything else now. Except for CJK and Arabic fonts, which have to be split or their woff2 size would be a few MB - this is Progressive Font Enrichment [1].

However, once distinction is font hinting data [2]. Google Fonts serve different files based for Windows vs Mac. The windows variations have hinting included.

[1]: https://rwt.io/typography-tips/progressive-font-enrichment-r...
[2]: https://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting
A few interesting takes here including:

> Inscribed in the code of bitcoin is the following phrase, “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” Both crypto and the anti-monopoly movement are reactions to the destruction wrought by neoliberalism.

> Both financial crisis reformers and bitcoin proponents believe that the existing financial order is a collusive arrangement between large banks who are supported by government power. Money laundering, tax evasion, criminal activity, and fraud are fine as long as you are an insider in this system, and the Federal Reserve and various other government institutions will not only not stop corrupt insiders, but will subsidize and bail them out if necessary. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to live with foreclosures, high interest rates on credit cards, and high fees for middlemen in every aspect of the economy. Indeed, it’s hard to see how our social contract is legitimate or fair.
Ask HN: Blockchain success stories that did need to be decentralised?
The HN crowd seems to be pretty down on the utility of blockchain, beyond the obvious making money through speculation. So am I, but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.

With all the activity, you'd think by now there would be some famous, impressive solutions to real-world problems that could not have been solved "the old way" (i.e. trusting a central body).

NFTs are obviously hugely successful, in some way, but that seems to be largely a variation on the same old speculation game.

I realise there are serious uses of cryptocurrency beyond speculation, such as international money transfer or bypassing unstable fiat currencies, but I am more interested in the revolution in distributed apps and online services that we are supposed to be seeing.

Where is it? Do I just not know where to look?
We were charged $10k for the first month of use and immediately reverted the implementation. CF was kind enough to refund us since we're still an early stage co. It would be great if pricing was more reasonable
> is more than enough for all of your VMs/containers on the box

> you end up needing Proxy NDP for your traffic to reach other subnets smaller than a /64 (e.g. a /80) if you have the /64 on your wan interface and carve it out

It sounds like we are in full agreement.
Thanks.. seems to be about as accurate as the regular AWS status board is..
"5. Lack of dynamic resizing, only 20 “variants” allowed"

Best practice when it comes to images on the web is to use a fixed number of sizes. Why they limited it to 20 I do not know though. You should never allow dynamic image resizing since it is commonly used in various attacks.
You are right, this was likely an insider deal.
Armenia defeated Azerbeidzjan in the early 90s, whom then spent 30 years building up their military forces with oil money and get revenge.
The outcome was never in question.

It's perhaps not all that dissimilar a story with China's PLA.
If the node is yours there's a good chance the standard list of adversaries know that you run it.
Tech IPOs have been a bad bet in 2021 – all but one are in bear market territory
Three years is probably too short, but certainly something less than 30 years. That gives people plenty of time to enjoy the profits from their work (basically their entire adult lives) while allowing it into the public domain while it is still somewhat useful.

I don't think the system would function without transferable copyrights. A movie might have 10,000 people who've contributed to it. Managing the copyrights without some kind of legal agreement would be a nightmare. I get the spirit of the comment (to prevent generations of people from owning and profiting from the works of people they never knew), but eliminating copyright transfership probably doesn't solve that.
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Why is that hard to believe?

Firstly, they didn't blow it up. If the Chinese story is true, they surgically disabled it. Either way, no American blood was shed.

Secondly, the modus operandi of the contemporary Pentagon is walking a fine line between a) inflating foreign threats to secure Congressional funding and b) deflating any challenges to the perception of American military supremacy. Defending Americans from actual threats is a distant follower.
See my comment up thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29475492

There are significant differences!

The primary one being for theft to be a part of the discussion there must also be someone who is denied property.

A copy does not deny anyone property. And the word for that is infringement.

(whether it's OK to do is another discussion, and an important one that I'm not speaking to right now, just the basic difference)
I think he means discovery of people in a social media sense, not as in discovery of music
I'm not sure how you get a total global outage in a distributed system. Lets say a major transit provider (Century link for example) advertises traffic as a "go via me", but then drops the traffic, lets also assume it drops the costs of routes to pretty much zero. That would certainly have a major effect, until their customers/peers stop their peers.

That might be tricky if they are remote and not on the same AS as their router access points and have no completely out of band access, but you're still talking hours at most.
It's a metaphor, the mapping will never be perfect. Nobody calls Aesop's sour grapes fable silly because real foxes don't eat grapes. Say the dragon demands elderly sacrifices instead of allowing a choice - problem solved. I'm sure you can find other flaws, but points like that are pulling at the fringes instead of engaging with the core concept.

If you're in favor of life extension, I don't understand why you're bitter about other people who support it. I admit it's a... fairly self-righteous community, but for projects like this the more traction the better.
Huh. A movie studio. Yes, my proposal also has a nice side effect of filtering out those who are in it for the money, not self-expression. The world would become a better place if there were no "entertainment industry".
>the entire world is moving towards carbon neutrality in electricity generation

Yes, and increasing energy demand for crypto is slowing down that move towards carbon neutrality. If you have more demand, you need more carbon neutral energy generation until you can be fully neutral.
It's a 'local proxy' - meaning it runs entirely on your device, and filters network traffic. Beyond this, there are a wide variety of client-side filtering techniques that we use; we mix and match these based on the specific implementation of each publication (they're all pretty different in practice).
>Well, hosting a blog from home is probably not a great idea from a practical perspective.

I'm not a hater, but maybe he perceives it as not practical here because of all the fun unnecessary complexity. Keeping something like this going for more than a couple years would require complex sysadmin maintainence for updates (which is fun till it isn't).

But if you just install nginx from your system repositories, have your hugo generated .html and media files in your www dir, and forward a port 80 on your router to your server LAN IP:80, it's going to work until your distro stops working without input and without security issues. For most people, for most of the time, it works great. And it's okay if it doesn't work some of the time.

Hosting your blog from home, in whatever room, is a great idea and very practical.
There are a few worrying cases. One person, for example, got his house raided for calling a politician a dick on Twitter [0]. There are also a few far-reaching laws, such as the NetzDG [1], which is being pretty harshly criticized. That being said, Germany has never been as pro-free speech as the US (holocaust denial, for example, is illegal for a long time already) and you can still state your opinion pretty openly, as long as you're not an extremist.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/pimmelgate-hausdurchsuchung-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act#Critic...
Vanguard has been slow all day. I'm going to guess Vanguard has a depencency on US-east-1
Well, the design requirements for the Seawolf class were actually probably something like this!

Basically the Navy wanted a monster that go deep behind Soviet lines and tear things up before they made it out of the backyard.

"[Seawolf's] emphasis on fast tactical search speeds and a massive torpedo magazine were reflections of its design mission, which was to independently search for and kill Soviet submarines in the relatively confined and target rich northern waters of the Soviet Arctic littoral." [1]

[1] https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
This advice applies mostly to pop music that involves outside songwriters, marketing, and publishing music, etc. and I agree, the music industry has a tight grip on that sort of “music”. But there is plenty of room for niche products for bands that actually write their own music (ya know, real musicians not dancing, lip syncing performers). Any band can find a producer to work with without a record label and there are plenty of examples of highly successful bands releasing their own albums.
That actually makes the article make more sense to me. He didn't win shit, this is optics spin.
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Three years is too short. The people who need these protections the most are not marketing powerhouses that can achieve instant successes.

I feel like a two or three year copyright could be even worse that current state — large publishers would probably just wait out artists and steal their work.

“Nice album kid, bet it’ll sell great 3 years from now”
To me, the point of "blameless" PM is not to hide the identity of the person who was closest to the failure point. You can't understand what happened unless you know who did what, when.

"Blameless" to me means you acknowledge that the ultimate problem isn't that someone made a mistake that caused an outage. The problem is that you had a system in place where someone could make a single mistake and cause an outage.

If someone fat-fingers a SQL query and drops your database, the problem isn't that they need typing lessons! If you put a DBA in a position where they have to be typing SQL directly at a production DB to do their job, THAT is the cause of the outage, the actual DBA's error is almost irrelevant because it would have happened eventually to someone.