skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the biggest things we could do as a community is normalize local installs of major font libraries (say, top 50 of Google Fonts, for instance). It's relatively easy to do, and easy to automate, and could be done with OS or browser updates.

The chicken/egg problem though is that we don't want to encourage individual users to install fonts because that becomes a privacy deanonimization vector (existing trackers in the wild will request random Google Fonts and time roughly how long it takes for them to paint in an offscreen canvas) and it really needs to be a OS-wide or browser-wide initiative (like the original web safe fonts initiative that gave us Georgia/Verdana/Comic Sans MS/et al "everywhere").

(Though if an individual wants to do it, Skyfonts is an easy to find app that has a "download the Top X Google Fonts" option that's a quick choose your X and go and can make your browser experience noticeably faster/better without so much bandwidth spent on fonts.)
Music is, to some degree, fungible. Sure we all have our favourite bands, but as far as a pub is concerned, there are tens of thousands of good enough bands that can provide atmosphere.

Whereas with football, supply of watchable players is highly constrained. Nobody is coming to your pub to watch the local five aside on the TV. Plus there's the gambling aspect...
Those stories are dead. Most people think Disney came up with all of their ideas and have no idea that most of them stem from ancient stories--some existed before writing as we know it.

They will probably dig up these stories from Sumeria (tablets in UK) or other yet un-studied texts some day and rehash them completely anew...starting the cycle again.

Heck, the bible has a lot of good stuff if you can shed the religious/Christian connotations.
Are you implying there is a negative correlation or no correlation?

Unfortunately “being good at interviews” is generally what gets people jobs everywhere, so I’m not sure what point you’re making to begin with.
> There was a dating site that matched people based on their music preferences and playlists, and that was one of the best hypoethesis I've seen tested in a product. I don't think it dominated the way one might have expected it to.

Hilariously, it's because women just don't care about this. [1]

Excerpt from a study:

> Men were more strongly attracted to women with whom they shared musical tastes than to women with whom they did not. The sharing of musical tastes had only a negligible effect on women's attraction to men, however.

Many men place a huge emphasis on musical compatibility, but very few women do, and IIRC it's a fairly poor indicator for relationship compatibility. Young single men would probably be better off letting this one go.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/009365089016002...
I think you are the path to where I am. Which is society is pay an very steep price so that upper managers can live where they want and force everyone else to come to them.
I've responded about this already, but nobody is really forced to move to the city. They can get jobs, just not the job they want. You have to provide a service to your local economy, and in small towns, that means mending fences and cooking barbecue and working on cars. Thankfully the low density also means you can afford to pay your bills doing jobs like that.

Some people want to do something they consider more rewarding and meaningful, its like the age old trope of the small town girl moving to Los Angeles to be a movie star. They move to the city because it's a trade off, their priorities tell them that living in a more densely packed environment will make their life better.

But at the end of the day, it is always a choice.
This isn't really a space where anyone is attempting to beat the already competitive price point of the Raspberry Pi.

Most similar boards are created with their own vision such as faster storage or more networking but at different price points. These include the PINE A64-LTS, Orange Pi 4B, or BeagleBone.

This market also includes many carrier boards for the Raspberry Pi compute module (3 or 4). For example the Turing Pi V2 mini-ITX cluster board with four Raspberry Pi CM4 modules!
Seems to me to be trivial to do. Maybe you could link the ticket to a NFT and put the data on the blockchain for extra hype? I could actually really dig having a wallet with some kind of digital memorabilia of tickets and concerts as well.
That’s not what I said either. I said batteries that last as long as the user wants to use the device before they replace it are good enough. Not that they actually die by then.

My AirPods are almost two years old, I use them every day and they are still going fine.
They have a reverse tunnel that you can enable for remote access, but you can disable it.

https://kb.synology.com/en-global/SRM/help/SRM/NetworkCenter...

I personally like that because I can safely remotely access the routers I've deployed for others if I ever have a reason to. They just need to check a box to turn it on or off in the GUI.

They also have an "experience improvement" program that sends home telemetry that can also be disabled. As far as I know there's no "phone home" that you can't turn off if you don't want it.
Sorry, trips with friends were all in Serbia, I guess that’s not what you have in mind. EU based bookings were for family trips. Point still stands, if you want exact micro-location Booking.com gives it, while airbnb doesn’t. Are there any other EU booking sites comparable to Booking, meaning all kinds of properties, hotels, private apartments, etc, not limited to single region?
On the other hand, this nearly identical program in Haskell runs just fine on my system in interpreted mode with a maximum resident size of about 160M, and less than 15M when compiled:

{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
module Main where

type ChurchNum = forall x. (x -> x) -> x -> x

zero :: ChurchNum
zero = \f x -> x

succ' :: ChurchNum -> ChurchNum
succ' g = \f x -> f (g f x)

add :: ChurchNum -> ChurchNum -> ChurchNum
add g h = \f x -> h f (g f x)

numeral :: Int -> ChurchNum
numeral 0 = zero
numeral n = succ' (numeral (n - 1))

realize :: ChurchNum -> Int
realize g = g (+1) 0

main :: IO ()
main = do
let x = add (numeral 100000) (numeral 100000)
putStrLn ("x = " <> show (realize x))

I must conclude that there is something wrong with either the Swift compiler or your environment for this to fail with "Bad Access" on such small inputs. The Haskell version works on sums up to at least 20M, though the memory requirements become somewhat alarming (1.3 GiB).
Viral vector vaccines have not been widely used either.

Several Chinese and Indian vaccines are traditional vaccines that have been widely used.

Tens of thousands of people received a viral vector Ebola vaccine.
I think it's about decentralisation and the blockchain together. Because there is plenty of decentralised success stories, they are not hard to find.
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Facebook and Google control demand. If a newspaper doesn't let them post their content the aggregators will just grab an article that is nominally the same from a different publisher that does provide them access.
The one that you sold… what made you decide to sell, if it was a money maker for you?
The pandemic has affected the poor's ability to socialize far, far more than the wealthy. Your examples are each of choices you make that poor people do not have.

The stats aren't mixed, they're "u shaped" according to your link. Again, the difference is that the wealthy are lonely by choice; the poor by lack of options.
Great OS. If only it had a decent text editor.
yup, I got that too
Please don't mistake my including that quote as asserting that Thatcher single-handedly lowered social trust. I used it as an example that sums up a broader ideological goal of a larger group of people. We both agree on the implications of such a change. Maybe you agree that some people pushed for systems which resulted in this conclusion and some occurred by other factors?
Hasn't that always been the case? Even before the internet, I remember seeing copies of the NYT or WSJ on newsstands everywhere. I believe you could subscribe and it would get delivered to your door.
This reminds me of https://shakespearelang.com/
> Hoping that the enemy runs out of $30 bullets before you run out of $1000+ drones is... a bad bet I think

If the prize is a multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier it might not be.

More to the point, you're talking about cannons that fire at 4500 rounds per minute, and while this is outside my area of expertise, the fire control computer's strategy is absolutely not going to be to fire a single round and wait to see whether the target disappears. It's going to fire some minimum number of rounds, and it only takes a fraction of a second to burn through $1000 of 20mm ammo.

If it is a feasible option, it's pretty easy to imagine a conflict where keeping the cannons occupied with garbage $1000 decoy targets for a while is a cost-effective strategy. (it seems like the sort of thing you'd do during an attack alongside real anti-ship missiles, though, to improve the effectiveness of those weapons)
I remember that, specifically Python dot com. (was NSFW back in the day, enter at your own risk).
I use those shortcuts as well, and often change things in 5% or 10% jumps. This is a really deep topic though, and some of the issues are from cumulative rounding errors, which can happen if you stack lots of layers or stack layer effects. It’ll also depend if you’re just moving sliders around until things look good (which is great!), or if you’re doing something that require exact values (building LUTs to process map tiles etc).

My main concern is that information is being thrown out at the input UI. As far as I can tell, Illustrator stores opacity as 8bit values internally. This can be tested by using the blend tool on objects with similar opacities.

I just want our tools to be better.
Scala is super readable

users.find(_.name.contains(str))
Don't conflate "music" with "music business." GP is talking about the latter.

As a musician who has toured and recorded, and someone who has worked for multiple concert promoters and streaming services, I think GP frames it extremely well. it's not a nihilistic view, simply a realistic one. If you love music, don't get involved with the music business! At some level it becomes unavoidable, but they are separable things.
> Unfortunately for me, the intuitive part of Kalman filters is easy, but I don't have nearly the kind of grasp of Linear algebra I would need to implement one (I think).

This is me, anyone got a good linear algebra resource to recommend? Ideally one that addresses 'I took linear algebra ages ago in uni but it didn't really stick'.
For most uses, I consider all of these unwanted at best and potential disasters at worst. If you use them, make sure you understand exactly what each of these do. If you just follow a dictum you found on HN blindly and just copy-paste them, you're in for a world of hurt.

Example for set -e: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
Technically, there are already regulations. SLA lies are fraud.

But I'm leery of any business who's so dishonest they fear any outside oversight that brings repercussions for said dishonesty.

"If not happy, switch" is silly - it's not the customer's problem. And if you're a large customer and have invested heavily in getting staff trained on AWS, you can't just move.
Can Virtual Reality Fix the Workplace?
Possibly relevant video: https://youtu.be/--DKkzWVh-E
Just want to mention that his email is on his blog, and he's surprisingly responsive for having such a big following. I once wrote him with some unrelated questions and he gave me a detailed response, which I really appreciated!
> Having 10k steps to control the opacity of an 8-bit overlay is wasting a minimum of 5 bits.

It’s a user interface. The highest priority is how it helps the user understand what they are doing, not how many bits of data it takes. For example, if you want to express 1/3rd opacity in percent, you want to be able to type 33.33% and have it stay that way. It would be very frustrating if it was rounded to whatever the closest “actual” value was.

I also seem to recall that Figma supports typing mathematical expressions rather than literal values in many fields, which makes it even more important that the value of the expression isn’t rounded destructively.
"So only every place where it matters then.

Not having restrictions on 20 story buildings in farm country where nobody has any incentive to build 20 story buildings is irrelevant."

This brings us to the root of the issue - job location and density. There's no reason companies can't move to existing small cities or towns. They don't have to cluster together in places like SF. It's tough to influence those choices, just like the preference of people to want low density housing. Some of it occurs naturally, at least for the worst offenders, like CA to TX in recent years.

"You do it at the state level instead of the town level and now there are a lot of people willing to remove zoning restrictions in the places they want to move to."

Are there though? I haven't really seen this. It also ignore local concerns. Maybe in low density places they don't care about higher density housing going in because the setbacks are naturally large. This changes if you go to a medium density area.
See, I'm wondering why they didn't go that route and have these NFTs work across games. Haven't dove deep into crypto so bear with me.

In my head how this would work is you go into the game store and pay $15 in Ubi-bucks to get one of these NFTs. That gets you some pRNG seed value, and any supporting game can read that seed off the blockchain and procedurally generate some piece of gear. It might use that to generate a unique item based on preset patterns, it might just be an existing item off a drop table (maybe with a serial number stamped on like the article states). For some games the item is crap, for others it's awesome. Players can browse through already made items, (they're all on the chain after all) and trade through some cross platform auction house, where Ubisoft takes a modest 7% on each transaction.

Numbered helmets seem kind of bland in comparison.
Browsers will not just use cached fonts but also locally installed fonts if they have them. base64 data URL seems like a waste of bandwidth to me for fonts.
My understanding is that all government vendors must be listed on the GSA - getting onto that is a start. Or, buy a company already listed and then start fighting for procurement contracts.
Unregulated exchanges might be worse for the society overall. NYSE and other centralised exchanges have alot of guard rails built to protect retail investors. For ex - a circuit breaker if the price jumps/crashes too suddenly to ease panic.

Nothing similar exists on Uniswap, it's cool for people who know what they're doing, it's terrible for everyone else.
So many of the things in this comment section are things that were solved by Zune very well (e.g. the social features were great, if you knew anyone else who used Zune - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune_Social)

Zune had the Channels concept - essentially what Spotify-owned playlists are nowadays - but they partnered with radio stations and Billboard (among others) to provide content.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUU3R-Y21I

(Notice how 10 years later that UI is still largely fresh and modern; I miss Zune)
This difficulty is part of why their software is so bad.
Time to rename it from "Practical Engineering" to "Popular Engineering"? To me, the Practical handle is significant, so taking a few seconds to explain why soil compaction tests are vital makes practical sense.
I think you're misreading the incentives of homeowners; in general, they want to maintain or improve their quality of life, property values are a secondary concern (this idea that everyone would be happy with a shitty neighborhood and a giant bank account is absurd.) The big problem with increasing the density of a previously low-density area is that it adds load to the public services which make the quality of life high, without the commensurate increase in property tax per resident. And future residents generally choose places to live based on quality of life and afforability; so a place which has lots of great public services due to historically high property tax collection, where new high-density housing is built, is very attractive, for a while, because you get the best of both worlds, until the public services eventually decline to the level commensurate with the average property tax receipt per resident.
I'm always a sad enlightenment(1) doesn't seem to get any notice anymore...
I used to run E everywhere - Thanks Raster!

But I have to admit, lately - I run KDE

1) https://www.enlightenment.org/
> A backstreet pub can easily shell out £2200/month (almost $3000) for football (that's soccer for you across the pond), but will pinch pennies when it comes to paying for music. It is indeed kind of weird how music is so highly valued, and gives rise to such feelings on one end, and is yet so commoditized and valued so low in eg bars and shops.

You can't treat information products like fungible commodity goods. Thinking that way leads to all sorts of nonsensical results.

A backstreet pub isn't paying for "football" in some general sense of "video products of football matches". They are paying for *the specific currently-occurring matches that the patrons want to watch". That is a very rare product that commands a high price. If you put on "Australian footie highlights from 1987", you aren't going to have a full bar.

Sports games are almost completely non-commodity and non-fungible and the pricing reflects that.

Music is semi-fungible. Patrons have strong associations with particular songs and love to hear them. But there are generally enough songs that meet that criteria, and enough patrons that don't really care, that a bar just needs a bit mostly-interchangeable bucket of songs. The price reflects that.
the average HN poster: I run things on a box under my desk and you cannot teach me why thats bad!!!
imdb seems down too and returning 503. Is it related? Here is the output. Kind of funny.

D'oh!

Error 503

We're sorry, something went wrong.

Please try again...wait...wait...yep, try reload/refresh now.

But if you are seeing this again, please report it here.

Please explain which page you were at and where on it that you clicked

Thank you!
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The software support for all other SBC's is universally terrible. They're Linux support is always questionable, incomplete, out of date, poorly documented etc etc.

If software matters then the only real choice is Raspberry Pi.
Maybe when the error rate hits 100% they’ll say “error rate now stable”.
This is a complete FAILURE to enforce property rights. If by stealing your car, I automatically own it, that means there are no property rights whatsoever.
So if Goldman Sachs ran an AMM for stock trading then that would make it all legitimate?
The art of code is such a good talk. I've watched it a few times and enjoy it every single time.
RDS - Aurora/Postgres flavor - small instance.
Entire AWS bill was < $100/month to support 10k users
- app load balancer

- WAF rules

- EC2 instance

- RDS

- Cloudfront

I use fargate when deploying now to get out of box management
Nice to see people rediscovering this language from time to time. I wrote an interpreter for an early version several years ago, just for fun. Possibly my favourite esoteric language. I particularly love the philosophy of "if you write even a single line of Rockstar, then you can consider yourself a full-fledged Rockstar programmer" (I'm paraphrasing, but I remember something like that in some official documentation).
(if you are reading this, you were quick -- bound to be downvoted)

mr. bostrom fails to mention the phoenix in the room.. meaning the incessant conception & birthing habit of humans.

so, is the brilliant idea here that more (and more... AND MORE!!)
..is "better", or what?
smh

quite aside from the strawman bit of immortality somehow being comparable to flight..

rofl

ok geniuses, press the downvote button, quick! and go back to your delusions of grandeur.
It’s a promotion run by Airbnb. Not sure why this post is on the front page as it’s clearly not a scam. They’ve run similar promotions in the past and the poster simply didn’t get a booking in time.
Web3 Native Podcasting Platform
It makes me sad to think music composition will one day be a novelty. Something like doing long division instead of using a calculator. I'm not sure most artists are aware the tech is 95% of the way there. AI compositions aren't yet better than humans but it's getting extremely close.
Incredible, I'm glad I asked - TIL. Thank you!
> Most movies make most of their money week one.

Sure, under the current system.

The question is how many people that would have bought the media would just wait out the copyright. Once you're into these short lengths of time, it's a lot.
> with benefits

Again, a trade off. Why are benefits sacrosanct when we talk about this? Why is anything?

If a rural town doesn't have enough business to go around to support it's population, it shrinks. It becomes more rural. People make trade offs. Cities get denser. When it has enough business to support a larger population, it grows. When a city becomes unable to support it's population, it decays. People move away. There's an ebb and flow. But it is important to understand that nobody is being forced to do anything here, they're moving where their priorities are, no place is perfect, it's all about what you're willing to live with to get the benefits of where you live.
Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company to Launch In-Game NFTs
Have you considered moving to Starlette a la carte? I use marshmallow for schemas and a few other minimal deps and it's been a breeze.