skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serif fonts have looked more or less the same since 1465. [1] Blackletter fonts didn’t last very long, because they were not very legible, and were quickly replaced.

Sans Serif (Grotesque) for formal printed material is newer, probably around 200 years old, but is also widely established. Regardless, on my personal website, I use serif lettering for most text, because while it’s slightly less readable at 75dpi, retina displays are common enough (e.g. pretty much any phone in use today has retina level resolution) that serif text makes more sense. [2] Also, the only open source font the great Matthew Carter (Verdana, Georgia) has made is a serif: Bitstream Charter and its derivative Charis SIL.

The English language is much more likely to change to the point today’s English can only be read by linguists and researchers before typefaces undergo any significant change.

[1] https://ilovetypography.com/2016/04/18/the-first-roman-fonts...

[2] Regardless, I have gone to a lot of effort to make my Charis SIL/Bitstream Charter derivative as readable as possible on a 75dpi display.
I love that it is easily printable from the browser, just CTRL+P.
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Maybe democracy is a luxury belief of rich countries, or at least of states that have gone through all the steps of state-building and there is substantial rule of law. One of the most stupid things in the history of this century was the belief that arbitrarily "imposing" democracy in countries that have never finished their state-building was possible (e.g. arab and middle east countries).

And after 30 years of post-communism there are too few successes to call the end of history a success.
Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
Hi, my Christmas is solitary this year, no family or friends. I'm not even having a Christmas dinner. I'm not sad about this, though. It's just the way it is. What I wanted to say is, if you are in the same situation, you are not alone. So have a virtual hug from me.
> Self rule, just like you'd think.

Is Vietnam in any way "more independent" today than if the north had lost? It makes sense if you claim to fight the Americans because they're evil capitalists but Vietnam turned around to adopt chinese-style reforms and is now mostly friendly towards the US.

> The CCP's primary claim to legitimacy is that they kicked out the Japanese.

The CCP is in power because they defeated the KMT, but decades later they adopted capitalism and today justify their rule through nationalism.

What's the point of a civil war if you eventually end up adopting most of the other side's policies?
I always give out 'hello@' or 'hi@' on for general contacting
I agree with Kino, but Butusov (NP) just throws random words together and calls that a song.
there would be lots of covid all over new zealand and therefore his everyday normal life would be worse than it might be now with minimal covid spread?
I’m curious about what dataset this uses for elevation data. Did you use NOAA LiDAR data? I’d guess not since it only seems to show shade from buildings and not trees.

Is there a more widespread dataset that only has buildings in some vector format?
> Honestly, the entire MIQ program is a gross violation of the bill of rights and several international treaties. So I don't think the rule of law goes very far in NZ as they seem to just handwave it away and most people in NZ couldn't care less because of the fear they have from living reasonably isolated for the past year and a half.

But, but the Cato Institute says it's the freest country in the world. And the Heritage foundation places it in the list of the most economically free. No way those ratings are bollocks.

P.S.: Interestingly, the latter puts Kazakhstan (where the president and his people shamelessly extort 40-60% share of every major business and enterprise) in the "mostly free" section. Makes one wonder about how those ratings are composed.

And the description of Kyrgyzstan shows its authors don't understand what they are writing at all:

> Former Prime Minister and ruling Social-Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan member Sooronbai Jeenbekov defeated former President Almazbek Atambayev in 2017 elections that were the most competitive in the country’s history.

It's equivalent to:

> Former Vice President and ruling US Democratic Party member Joe Biden defeated former President Barack Obama in 2020 elections that were the most competitive in the country’s history.
>> Stores had cigs, vodka, butter and milk and tubers (awesome!!)

Where do you get it from? Of course it depended on time and place, but you can buy a lot of stuff in Kyiv (for example) in 70's and 80's. Some things were 'deficit', but they were more of a luxury items. Also the quality was rather good, due to not having cost cutting.

>> a few scientists might have a summer dacha
Dachas were not exactly a sign of the elite. Cars, on the other hand...

>> science town in nowheresville
These things existed for some sort of top-secret military research, there were plenty of R&D labs in big cities for a more mundane subjects.

You just have an axe to bury with communism, don't you?
The real gripe I have with the film is how they managed to totally misunderstand and butcher Baudrillard’s concept of the simulacra, while saying that it was one of their inspirations. Baudrillard wasn’t saying that the problem with current postmodern society was that the copy (the simulation) masks the real and therefore the copy should be destroyed to reveal the original (basically a Platonial ideal), the fundamental problem is that the copy masks the fact that there is no “real”. Reality has already disappeared in the way of the hyperreal, and the old Platonic distinction between “real” and “fake” became obsolete. Baudrillard speaks about the Matrix that

“Yes, but already there have been other films that treat the growing indistinction between the real and the virtual: The Truman Show, Minority Report, or even Mulholland Drive, the masterpiece of David Lynch. The Matrix’s value is chiefly as a synthesis of all that. But there the set-up is cruder and does not truly evoke the problem. The actors are in the matrix, that is, in the digitized system of things; or, they are radically outside it, such as in Zion, the city of resistors. But what would be interesting is to show what happens when these two worlds collide. The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment. This is a serious flaw. The radical illusion of the world is a problem faced by all great cultures, which they have solved through art and symbolization. What we have invented, in order to support this suffering, is a simulated real, which henceforth supplants the real and is its final solution, a virtual universe from which everything dangerous and negative has been expelled. And The Matrix is undeniably part of that. Everything belonging to the order of dream, utopia and phantasm is given expression, “realized.” We are in the uncut transparency. The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.”

As a retaliation Lana Wakowski said,

“This is why, no one really mentions this, but everyone's like "'Simulacra' as in Baudrillard, you are referencing Baudrillard!", but the point of the reference is that the book is hollow! It is itself a Matrix! It is itself a construction, a projection, a tool for understanding the world, having a framework of meaning, that's what these things are, they are frameworks of meaning.
So what we were trying to do was, can you encourage audiences to interrogate their own framework of meaning, and then through that interrogation, extend it into the experience of watching a piece of art, and then try to find meaning into that piece of art, in the same way that Neo has to go through that journey ..."

which is some bullshit nonsense that not only undermines the effectiveness of their work, but vulgarly defaces the work of Baudrillard (along with misleading the public to think that postmodernism = “anything goes”, further leading to some weird reactionary figures to blurt against it)
This is interesting because it's based on a view of socialism/communism that Marx mocked and ridiculed socialists for holding.

Marx argued that those who wanted to create socialism or communism through altruism were fools - his argument was that socialism was only possible once a society was well developed enough that it was in the self interest of the working class to force distribution of wealth.

He repeatedly criticised attempts to argue for equality for the sake of it rather than redistribution that would benefit those demanding it.
> Communism would be great if people would actually be good.

That's a tautology: Anything would be great if people were actually good[1]. That you need to rely on some external force of good for Communism to look good says more about Communism than any propaganda machine ever could.

[1] Other -isms would work even better than Communism if people were good.
If you’re not getting blocked by somebody, than you’re just a part of the flock
Tools like semgrep allow catching injection-like issues like that. For instance, just among existing published rules:

- shell=True: https://semgrep.dev/r?q=python.lang.security.audit.subproces...

- system-like calls with a non-static argument: https://semgrep.dev/r?q=python.lang.security.audit.dangerous...

Custom rules can be written for additional patterns of concern (or specific/uncommon/private APIs) too.
I disagree. It crosses a line and it is one step closer to the rcmp just tracking everyone regardless of legality. Most Canadians are not aware their cell phone providers are selling their location as you say. We are unhappy about that too and would be just as unhappy it was used by anyone for any reason. It is very easy to deannonymise someone given that it would be trivial to see the home location a person is at most times then see where they go to. If they were doing this there should be a mechanism to opt out to avoid abuse of the system. With the Snowden leaks we already saw abuses happening. Workers tracking their lovers. It would be very trivial for someone to look at their girlfriends location simply by watching that location in which she lives and then following her signal even if it is anonymize. We were never told about this or how it would be safeguarded from abuse. This is bullshit despite what you and others here on HN are fighting against our disdain.
You’re really trying hard to draw equivalencies between two very different situations.

In the US police kill less than 1,000 per year. Most are white people, many justifiably. So let’s overestimate and say 25% of those are murder. (Clearly not, but work with me). So 250 per year in a country of 350M.

When the Kurds were gassed, a singular event, 3,000-5,000 people were killed. Random people, shelled by the Iraqi military for no reason other than living in the same place as rebellious Kurds. Iraq had a population of 16M at the time.

Those are clearly two VERY different situation you’re trying to draw a parallel between.
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> Seems the outrage should be directed at this MIQ system. The visa scheme seems to be an enormous benefit to NZ.

You are absolutely correct on both counts. If we didn’t have MIQ, this would be a non-issue to most kiwis.

The root of it is MIQ has prevented kiwis from traveling to/from NZ for the last 2 years. This has created massive strain on separated families and extended families. It has created stress on those in NZ who cannot leave because the govt won’t let them return without a MIQ slot.

Globally, the pandemic has moved on from elimination to coexistence. Vaccines, good hygiene, being sensible.

NZ’s continued use of MIQ/draconian restrictions on freedom of movement is counter to what needs to happen (return to business as usual).

At this current point in time, with over 90% of eligible people vaccinated, the trade off between lives saved by MIQ vs returning to normality does not, IMO and a lot of other kiwis, justify the continuation of MIQ.
Somewhat tangential to this post but I'm happy that OBS is open source and it's established. It's up there with blender as quality open source tools that are rapidly reaching mainstream acceptance.
Same. Also, I am not a US citizen that is not living in the USA. How can I affect US policy that is affecting me?
Carpentry!
They can pretend to be decentralized, but they can't emulate the lack of centralized authority.

People certainly care enough about centralization once it's consistently abused in ways that hurt them (which always happens eventually, given enough time). Our existing anti-monopoly laws came about like that.
Who are "they"?

Russia existed. It had nukes. Nobody were in a position to tell Russia it wasn't allowed to exist, and attempting to force it to split would have been a gross violation of international law.
The average programmer is already wasting most of their productive brain-time on standups, meetings and jiras. Many of my friends just want to write code but are instead forced to participate in this collective corporate waste of time. I'm sure delivering food is a great pastime, but management isn't going to make any friends among the technical folk.
No, low interest rates are a global phenomenon. It has to be, because otherwise massive arbitrage opportunities would exist.

interest saving accounts produce negative real returns, you cannot put enough money into one to generate the passive income you need to retire.

The whole retire early idea is predicated on substantial investment returns and the ability to outpace inflation. Savings accounts won't cut it.
There is something indescribably vulgar about auctioning off a letter a man wrote to his dead wife. I am quite sure that when Feynman penned that letter he had no idea it would eventually be sold by strangers for profit.
To quote a certain very upbeat clam: awesome idea in theory.

I tried the same with the food BTW.

Not the root cause it appears.
Very nice detailed cheatsheet thank you! Every programming language should have similar cheatsheet.
It’s really the same with Siri, it’s all nicely made but in a pretty large of instances it fails and there is no way to correct it.

If you for instance ask for directions to a street and it sounds like a name, as streets sometimes do, Siri will often insist on treating it as the name of a person and fail. And there really is no way to correct her. And it just fails too often to be convenient.
Probably luck or something about how you went that made you not interact with Americans. I met lots of Americans all over the world.

Also: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/ST.INT.DPRT/rank...

The European numbers are probably a bit inflated due to Schengen and their closeness.
>> young people were assigned jobs on finishing schooling

Could you provide evidence for this?
> I am under the impression the 4 traits do map fairly well to the 'big 5'

Of the four axes of types on MBTI, and ignoring weak correlations, two each have a strong correlation to a Big-5 axis, one has a moderate correlation to an Big-5 axes, and the other has moderate correlations (one somewhat stronger) to two Big-5 axes (the weaker of which is one of the ones another MBTI axes has a strong correlation with.)
I disagree that C++ makes expensive operations explicit; see the copy constructor and the copy assignment operators. C, maybe.
Your OnePlus 5T have an USB 2.0 with USB-C port which by default should be charging with minimum of 2.5W. A full charge from zero to full would take 6 hours. This is likely what you are seeing now.

Your old MB was likely charging at default USB-C port which "should" have a minimum of 7.5W charging, i.e 3x of what you are getting. My guess is that OnePlus is looking for USB-PD 1.0 but your newer Motherboard only support USB-PD 2.0 and 3.0. So it somehow dropped back to the minimum USB2.0 charging standard.

Again you should look at BIOS settings to see if there are any relevant options.
Communist systems are not that different from the standard democratic, US way of things. (I'm Romanian btw so used to be communist, now we're a democracy but the substance hasn't changed much).

1) US: has a two-party system, the "left" and the "right". Most democracies have the political power concentrated in just two parties - the "socialists" and the "conservatives", even though some minor contenders may exist on the scene and the main parties compete in bribing them so they can ensure majority.

The two parties hate each other's guts and compete for resources (how much they will divert to their own pocket) but both know very well that the show must go on, so don't count on anything but a shallow surface-level "competition" between them. If the system really is in danger of changing and they might lose their grip, they won't hesitate to leave aside their differences and unite in their common goal of ensuring long term self-preservation.

2) Communist system has a two-party system: the "party" and the "police". The communist party and the secret police mirror exactly the deep antagony between the two parties of the democratic two-party system and also their just as deep complicity when it comes to long term continuity.

It's just a matter of time until #2 realizes the only thing separating #1 from them is apparent legitimacy. Some level of oppressiveness is required for #2 and that's consuming resources, while #1 has the advantage that it frees those resources since they no longer have to force people in accepting the system but can tell them "you are free to make your own choice". So if and when those freely elected turn out to be the exact copy of the people they "replaced" you are free to f*k off and vote again next time, like that would change anything.
There should be no shared code and all projects should be totally isolated from eachother. If you need shared code, fork it and maintain it to your needs.
Earthquakes and landslides still can happen. I wonder if some of those could be still activated eventually in the middle of a different emergency
"bigger is better" is true in many cases, not just wind turbines. This can be because of economies of scale, for example a bus and a taxi need only one driver, so if you want to move many people, buses will be more efficient use of drivers.

But it can be just physics, usually some variation on the square cube law. For example a large container will generally be lighter per unit volume/mass. Similarly, if you want to prevent heat losses, the easiest way is to go big.

It is no wonder why engineers like it big, it is not just ego, it is efficiency. Of course, there is a limit, but progress is made by pushing these limits. The romans were right with their huge ships, as proof, today's ships are even bigger, it is just that they were at the limit of their technology.
Which is more than the population of Germany. These numbers must include Schegen movement otherwise the German are quite a touristy people. But including Schengen movements is like including inter-USA travel for Americans. I bet the US will rank much higher if we were to do that.
This is very true. China is no longer the old hardline communism of “throw dissidents up against the wall”.

You can criticize the government, as long it’s about something that doesn’t threaten their hold on power. That’s true about most “freedoms” in China. If it doesn’t threaten the CCP, you’ll likely be admonished at most, and if you acquiesce, left alone.

But I’d you cross the line (and you will be warned), you won’t be tolerated.

And for the vast majority this is fine as long as they can put food on the table and their children have a future.
We had less local restrictions than most other countries until delta hit 4 months ago - since then we've had a 3-month lockdown in our largest city and huge impact to small businesses, and we still have citizens locked out of the country. Deaths are comparatively low though.
Or, they could focus on actually doing quality journalism, picking their niche areas of expertise and producing interesting material, rather than trying to win at "most clicks first."

Then, importantly, set expectations for reach and profits appropriately and use relevant advertising to their services/topics which also has value, not stupid algorithm/'targeted' advertising.

It's not easy, but working to actually build trust and value is far better than joining the race to the bottom.
There is no way for us to know if the drug is a "revulotionary cancer drug" if we don't test it in a double blinded randomized controlled trial (RCT). Indeed it would be disappointing the later find out you were treated with the placebo, but so many drugs or other interventions have to potential to be revolutionary but fail to really change the clinical decision making later on.
> Because C stopped evolving long ago (...)

That excuse isn't credible. I mean, I asked about a libraries that handled that usecase, not a standard library. If there was demand for that use case, and that demand popped up so often that it justified the adoption of a de-facto standard, why isn't there any third-party library specialized in that usecase?
I mean, putting together a library takes far less work than presenting a proposal to the C standardization committee, which is open to proposals.

So, why isn't there one? Might it be that there is actually no relevant demand for it?
Scala 3
Second this, and add that a lot of interviews are with old timers in Appalachia.

I particularly like those ones.
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Was Tarkovsky, for example, cozy with the regime?

There were also a plenty of 'underground' artists, who had a day job of being a book illustrator, and did some stuff on the side, which they only would show to the close circle.
But hopefully the fire alarms are causing an evacuation and those using the other door will stop someone from going in
So what if it is a deterministic amount? You still need to have enough market demand to support the price. There's plenty of limited / fixed-supply resources (some of them in the crypto space) that nobody cares enough to buy or hold.

If the demand is driven by some common belief that it will keep going up which in turn drives the price up which supports that common belief which in turn... - I'm not an expert on market dynamics to predict when and how those things end; it could end very badly when the trend reverses and it can also make some people a lot of money in the meantime. But it's a speculative game in its nature, there isn't anything fundamental that says that Bitcoin needs to have any relation to money supply at all.
I was born in Tselinograd in 1987. All Russian people of older age who I knew remember USSR with fondness. That could be just nostalgic. Some older Kazakh people are different though, they like independence from Russia.
As a New Zealander, I am in favour of immigration policy being determined in a democratic fashion.
How about who had access to it? Did they watch their gf movements while she was out? Will we be seeing down the road that it was abused and a jealous lover tracked their partner? This whole thing has already been played out in history and we know this is a bad thing. I am shocked HN crowd is defending this behaviour this time. This is not something we should accept as a society.
Kino's music is amazing. Even though I cannot understand most of it, I still feel it gives me a tiny glimpse of what life was like over there during those times.

Your second link is a remake for the movie Лето though. Not as good as the famous original, that you can still hear in any protest in or near Russia to this day:

https://youtu.be/NKC8UfJ6CSE
How does the PM know better than devs about whether or not they’re bringing the right information and not inadvertently summarising something incorrectly that’s technically important? Gatekeepers are generally inefficient longer-term.