skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice to meet another fan of proportional fonts! I find them so much more readable than monospaced.

My current favorite is Trebuchet MS, or more specifically a version of it that I tweaked in FontForge and call Trebuchet++.

Trebuchet MS ticks a lot of the boxes for me "as is". It doesn't have ligatures, but does have easily distinguished 0/O, I/l, etc. And it renders beautifully on the high-DPI monitors I use with the largish font sizes I prefer. I do most of my coding on a 24" 4K monitor, so it's just shy of 200 DPI, and I run it with 200% scaling on Windows and Linux.

One thing I don't like in Trebuchet MS is the tilde. It is a scrawny little thing that is hard to distinguish from a hyphen. So I used FontForge to swap in a much better tilde.

Then I had some fun with underscores.

I don't like snake_case_names at all, but some coding standards mandate them. One problem with proportional fonts is that the underscore is much wider than the period, so you get this effect:

snake_case.snake_case.snake_case

If you look at the spacing between words here, "case.snake" is more tightly grouped than "snake_case" - the opposite of how it should be.

I fixed this by adding a bit of space on each side of the period, and narrowing the space occupied by the underscore.

At first I tried just making the underline itself shorter, but it was hard to tell from a period. So instead I kept most of the underline width and narrowed the character box instead. The underline tucks under the adjacent characters a bit, but it looks OK.

The net effect is subtle, but for my eyes it makes snake_case.snake_case a little easier to read and understand.

I have been meaning to find out if and how I could open source Trebuchet++ (since it's based on a Microsoft font), but in the meantime drop me a note if you would like a copy to try out - email is in my profile.
its really hard to ignore the persons character, but not addressing the argument (and instead talking about the persons character) is a logical fallacy.
“For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.” – Antarctic explorer, Sir Raymond Priestly
Google really seems to be declining (outside of DeepMind).
The top comment is from a legal expert basically saying that TPM's success in this lawsuit depends on avoiding Texas a jurisdiction, and the product in question is not possible without winning this lawsuit.

It's not that Texas is inconsequential. It's that the choice is "cut off Texas or risk the entire business in the other 49 states".
Btw, did you notice how quickly the page loaded?
>Sounds like they need to switch to Kubernetes?

Hah! Good one!
https://youtu.be/VjK8j1C3IR4

Note the “For how much?” question, which refers back to the previous one about Zip2.

(This was done by keeping a log of topics and injecting into the prompt, along with the new question.)
Best practices for writing faster SQL queries
Ok it's very simple.

If Facebook says "we're going to put Facebook on a different store", now the majority of americans use Facebook, so now install the second App Store. This App Store fails to maintain the security rules of the real App Store, and now users devices a compromised.

A core part of the security model of iOS is the App Store. The App Store makes sure that all applications have a sandbox, and that the sandbox entitlements are safe.

The reason one app can't build a list of your other apps is because the sandbox prevents it. The reason it can't read your address book is because it lacks the entitlements to do so without your permission.

As far as privacy: The reason Facebook, or any app, is required to ask for your permission before violating your privacy is because of App Store policy.

This legislation explicitly makes restrictions on collecting user data unlawful.
So great! This has been one of the most requested curl features for years. Without this feature, to send JSON, you had to craft a valid JSON string yourself or shell out to another utility that creates a valid JSON string.
This question about whether a consumer has a right to enjoy access to information or already paid for services without being advertised to is being tested in businesses everywhere.

Streaming services insert ads for other original content when you hit play.

The grocery store has audio and video advertisements for prepare meals playing on loop you can not avoid if you walk past the meat department.

The problem is a race to the bottom on the pricing consumers perceive, and then recovering that money by squeezing every possible touch point.

People have to have enough options to choose a company that doesn’t have to make these compromises.
But you can... which is what some engineers were thinking. In my experience they do this because:

A) they're afraid to ask for permission and would rather ask for forgiveness

B) management refused to provision extra infra to support the engineers need, but they needed to do this "one thing" anyways

C) security was lax and permissions were wide open so people just decided to take advantage of it to test a thing that then became a feature and so they kept it but "put it on the backlog" to refactor to something better later
A well operated implementation would probably be in the form of reduced taxes, not a check as the point is to help grow smaller competitors, not create zombie companies.
I love how people attack the character of anyone who says anything even remotely against the pharmaceutical industry and their narratives. They like to find some sort of evidence that they are one of those "anti-vaxxers" and think that discredits them. Now they don't have to debate anything.

How about you argue with the points made in the article? Do you disagree with anything in the article? Is their dreaded "misinformation" in it. If so point it out and ideally provide some evidence.

I am pro transparency especially when it comes to a global pandemic. I've always been that way. I'm not going to change my opinion because some other person has the same opinion. I don't give a rats ass who wrote the article. It could have been Santa Claus. I like to read articles and do my own research and form my own opinions. People like you who want to try to discredit people so you can silence debate are the biggest problem in this pandemic.

Oh, and you know who else got AIDS and HIV completely wrong? Dr. Fauci.
If you're a neophyte like me, take a look at the Odd Lots podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/search/?ocid=c1a7b213882c4e32964...

There's a ton of good info in there on what Libor is, why it needed to live, why it needed to die, and some attempts to replace it.
Why thank you :)

People may not know that Inconsolata is now a 2-axis variable font with a particularly wide width range: 0.5 to 2.0 of the nominal width.
The answer to the question you asked is unquestionably "Git", but the hosting provider for said git repository is open for debate.

I use GitHub and GitLab for clients. I use GitLab for my personal repos, because it's free offerings were better. I don't recommend one over the other, per se - both have advantages. GitLab's all inclusive CI is easier to use if you understand it well, but you need to have a tools guy who really understands the value of building your own and not building your own. GitHub as the defacto leader has more third party integrations - I would use Circle CI over GitHub Actions, because actions is very inflexible at the moment. It is planned to get better, and I believe it will.

ML support is not on any of their radar, and specifically for that, GitLab's ability to drop in your own runners would come in very handy, but data versioning support is not a first class feature - Though Git-LFS is as good there as elsewhere.
I loathe the constant riffing on <related and yet nothing indicates it is actually related/> topics.

Sadly it is happening here on HN too, < insert the next blurb about corporatism/>
> More fundamentally there should be a bill that affectively taxes the top 10% of companies in all industries and credits the bottom 25%. Call it an innovation bill. In addition the bottom 25% percent should get discounts on all licensing fees charged by the top.

No. How is this at all promoting innovation? The practical effect of this would be to allow crappy companies to stay alive as zombies, doing the opposite of promoting innovation. This would also encourage companies to split into a hojillion shell companies to qualify themselves as what you define "the bottom 25%."

This isn't even speculation. If you look at states' tax credit programs to "encourage innovation" in x industry, you see those tax credits are absorbed by the best of financial engineers.

The more levers, and thus complexity, you create in an economy, the more likely that it's the extreme wealthy who benefit.
Do you think it is possible to recreate a digital version of this by basically handcoding your own tool for thought organisation, but coding it yourself needs to be part of it? Like writing a cheatsheet being the main point, and you might not even look at it in the exam?
As someone who as also spent way more hours on LTE/5G modems than I want to, this post resonates with me. I also learned a few things, namely about the ECM. I will have to look into that. Thanks!

As for the firmware. It seems to just be how these companies do things, unfortunately. At work, we use modems from both Quectel and Simcom and the experience described in OP is very similar. For Simcom we have gotten access to a "secret-but-public" Onedrive share with documentation, drivers and firmware where they put up stuff sporadically. Sometimes the firmware updates even works!

I have a theory that Qualcomm who makes the chipsets used by Quectel and Simcom (at least for the 5G modems) imposes some kind of heavy NDA which prevents free distribution of firmware and documentation. Everything seems very "hush, hush" at least.

While I can't help answer your remaining questions, I can point to wiki I have found really helpful: http://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/wireless/modem
The article seems to cherry pick official statements to support the title.
"Studies have shown that even small amounts of alcohol can increase a person's risk of cardiovascular disease, including coronary disease, stroke, heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease), atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat), and aneurysm.
"To date, no reliable correlation has been found between moderate alcohol consumption and a lower risk of heart disease."
"Studies that claim otherwise are based on purely observational research, which fails to account for other factors, such as pre-existing conditions and a history of alcoholism in those considered to be 'abstinent'.

So they claim their research shows increased risk, not stating by how much - there is difference between 0.5% and 15% and 50%, across a broad range of conditions. The only counterpoint mentioned is that there is no reliable correlation between moderate (no mention of what that is) consumption and lower risk of heart disease - what about all the other conditions?
Finally there is a quote dismissing other research because it fails to account for other factor but there is hardly any mention on what factors have been accounted for in the current research.

The whole thing seems poorly written and seems to preach instead of document and explain.

Consumption of any substance in sufficient quantities will cause harm - you can drown by drinking too much water in too short of a period of time but no one is going to suggest that because of that there isn't any quantity of water is safe to consume.
Isn't the very definition of antitrust to target "a handful companies" and prevent them from running an entire industry?
Works great until some jerk uses `→` as a variable name...
In this case, it would be TPM banning Texas customers, since Texas is the favorable venue for AA.

That doesn't seem like as big a deal, since TPM doesn't have a giant corporate headquarters to relocate and can cutting Texas from the TAM isn't that big of a deal.
Well, typescript being a superset of JavaScript, you can use TypeScript compiler and just write plain JavaScript.

The only difference is that you’ll be warned when you write inconsistent (buggy) code. And that your IDE will autocomplete with only compatible values.

There is absolutely no way typescript slows down development, you’re just totally free to ignore any or all of it. But it will help you more than you imagine.

tbf, the only valid reason not to use ts today is if your code targets directly the browser without any build step and is referenced as is by your html.
Why do you believe that taking money from the top 10% and gifting it to the bottom would result in innovation?

Is is not possible that the bottom 25% is there for a reason, that they failed or their product is not viewed as innovative by the public?

I fail to see how this wealth redistribution scheme would be effective or produce the stated outcome. Like most wealth redistribution scheme it is lofty on the goal, but unclear on the results with no objective measurements and not real way to assess its value. It is more a "do it and assume it was successful" program like many government program are
It hasn't been a blur to me. I will admit the birthday thing is true for me, that's something I don't really track because after 21 it doesn't matter (until 59.5).
AWK was designed by Kernighan who is on the record as subscribing to the Unix Philosophy. For all I know Aho and Weinberger also subscribe to the philosophy. I think its safe to say that AWK and the Unix Philosophy are compatible. I have never seen anything that says otherwise.

Was "rigid dogmas" in reference to the Unix Philosophy? I haven't ever seen it described that way.
Maybe you have a different point in mind, but I am skeptical that there are any consumers of alcohol that are not aware that it is partially a depressant. This is both obvious to any consumer of it, and taught in every school that does any sort of substance (ab)use education.
Have you experimented with modemmanager/networkmanager to handle the configuration of the modem? For me that has worked quite reliably across a pretty large fleet of devices with a Quectel EG25 (qmi over usb).

Regarding FW updates, have you tried opening a support ticket with Quectel? For me they have been extremely responsive and helpful, providing extra documentation on special AT commands and stuff.
Why not? Any mistake or design flaw in the trials reduces their value, it doesn't completely eliminate it.

The mistake in the AZ trial is something I consider extremely embarassing and stupid (assuming the published information about it is correct). It's the kind of mistake nobody that actually works in a lab should make, and I really question the competency of the people involved here. But in the end this meant that a part of the study got a half-dose of the vaccine. That makes the interpretation a bit more difficult, but it does not invalidate the trial.
I've passed on the right and I've been passed on the right. You can certainly be too aggressive about it, but the vast majority of the time, and I mean 95%+, if you're being passed on the right you're the one in the wrong.
If firmware is your thing - you may want to look into Sierra Wireless EM7355, EM7455, etc series. They are linux compatible and have firmware, docs and SDK available from the Sierra site.
https://source.sierrawireless.com/devices/mc-series/mc7455/
It’s incredible how quickly pharmaceutical companies rehabbed their deservedly awful reputation by using the pandemic. Years from now, maybe decades, I’m sure we will find out there were very troubling results from the clinical trials that were swept under the rug.
Maybe it's not an easter egg!
Dude it's your fourth account in 5 minutes have some respect for yourself.
Predictions Favored Solar over Wind Power. What Happened?
> They really play no role at all now.

The (small) controlled trial data can be combined with the (large) uncontrolled mass-population data, e.g. one can look at the larger dataset for corroboration of weak signals in the smaller dataset.

New controlled trials can be started, where further evidence is needed.
A lot of studies on alcohol and mortality show a J curve where mortality actually drops, and then starts rising until it's back at baseline at 4 drinks / day. Now, I am not saying that it's safe to drink 4 drinks per day. That's a lot. What I am saying is that is the point where cardiovascular benefits seem to be outweighed by the increased cancer risks. Many studies have called the J curve into question due to the 'sick quitter' effect, but you have to realize that by trying to correct for that effect they are often just adding a fudge factor to the numbers. Alcohol is a very hard subject to study because it's always self reported, and thus almost always under reported.
There is a subplot about intelligence-enhanced cephalopods in Stephen Baxter's SF novel "Manifold: Time".
> Cool. What if it's misleading?

That question applies in literally every case and therefore doesn't change change the optimal strategy.

> What if it requires some domain expertise to detect a reasonable-sounding, but actually false claim?

That question applies just as much to links from "sciencebasedmedicine.org" as it does to the OP.
They're asking for advice and I'm giving it. They didn't mention getting professional help, so I did.
this stuff just smacks of iignorance and attempts to continue tompoliticize clear public health concerns.

i am sure there will be a red herring in all the data that will cash a small enough shadow.

but this jibbering is about dragging science down to the level of far right ignorance, which is the onlymplace concervatives can win.
You might want to look around the Pinephone and Pinephone Pro communities. Both phones use the EG25-G modem, chosen for better worldwide band availabilities, rather than splitting the Pinephone in "EU" and "NA" batches.

Users also are working on providing a mostly liberated firmware for the modem:

- https://github.com/Biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk
No, the goal was funding alternate approaches to reduce the need for policing. If police are getting paid more to do less, everyone loses.
Why doesn't he want to upstream the patches?
> Q: What is the sound of one hand clapping and how can it be monetized?

>A: One hand clapping is the sound of a startup that can't get funding.

LOL, that’s some serious zen insight right there, brilliant!
Emerging BERT Applications - whats next in embeddings
I am a co-founder of a Voice AI startup. We utilise BERT in our pipeline. i was wondering what new and emerging applications of BERT are folks thinking about. embeddings appear to me as an unlock technology
The three listed use git as their interface and back-end.

Now, they all lock you in their own issue and release tracker. I would go with github, just because it's pretty much the industry standard (some OSS projects moved to gitlab but keep a mirror on github just because there's so many users and it's where people expect to find the official repo).
> the type of company I'd want to work for!

I recommend watching the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
Making Concessions: A Tale of Capitalism, Control, and Snacks
no, it isn't. whenever you have more than one lane per direction on a limited access highway, the left lane is for passing only. it's not for people who find dealing with onramp traffic annoying.
I disagree with you. If companies split themselves into smaller companies that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. Without having described how exactly the money would be distributed or the specific criteria I'm not sure how you can confidently say it would create zombie companies.

In any case, the point of what I was saying was to help fund strong competitors. You could just as well transfer funds from the top 10% to the third and fourth deciles.
California considers accrued vacation time to be unpaid wages.
Now that you mention that, I do remember more than one occasion being in an OBE that got interrupted by my own sudden snoring hahahaa.

If is not that bad, it can be used as a trigger for the kind of questions that will raise lucidity: where I am? how did I got here? These logistics questions work because OBEs will always fail to deliver the continuum of the memory back to when it started because they all start somehow in hypnagogia.
Kubelt CMS: a physical approach to distributed semantic graphs
Thanks for that link! I ended up getting Inconsolata, which I quite like, but it probably won't be replacing Fira Code for me any time soon. The ligatures are just too damn pretty!
Other possible sources of bias: People who walk more live in more walkable neighborhoods and are likely more wealthy, live in places with less air pollution, have less traffic noise disturbing their sleep, and travel fewer miles in cars thereby reducing risk of car accidents.
Another very useful project is diag-parser at: https://github.com/moiji-mobile/diag-parser
It will pull low-level baseband (NAS, RRC) messages out into PCAP format.
That's why checklists were invented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preflight_checklist

A previous girlfriend literally "simulated" every event and created what she called a "flight plan" that she memorized and followed. That seemed to me as a very neat algorithmic solution. I'm a programmer with bad memory but that solution has helped me with some tasks and keeping my job at large companies.
What you say makes sense. I was obviously wishcasting. ;)
Yup. I'm not sure how many non anti vax people who comment in support of BMJ actually read the original article.

If you are them please reveal yourself and explain how you found nothing wrong with the original article. Most of these comments in the threads just seem like tired knee jerk anti big media / anti vax memes.
… in the hope of avoiding shallow comments like this.

Shallow? It’s profound.

Have you tried to respond to the question, in the human context?
I'd guess most healthcare services are more like a commodity than not. (Also, to the extent that there is important variation in quality of service, it's probably the nursing staff that matters for the vast majority of services. I can't remember the last time I interacted with an actual MD for more than a few useless minutes.)
I am Canadian and live in two major cities (split between Toronto / Vancouver). I have no idea what Ottawa's central library looks like... Why would I? Definitely should have photos. :)
My god, this community and the things we toil and labor over, then give freely to one another... is just... dang inspiring.

It makes life worth living.

Thank you kind, brave soul.
There is no such thing as a scarcity-free society of humans.

Who gets to be king? Who mates with who? Who is friends with who?

Who is the Biggest Fan of <celebrity>?

Social graphs have scarcity built-in. Time, attention, and influence are permanently scarce and valuable.
OP, I can't view this. Can you post a copy of the page to archive.xyzzy or whatever their current URL is?
> Do you disagree with anything in the article?

Absolutely, yes. I believe there to be an acute public health interest in not letting antivax nuts run wild on raw data like they do with VAERS, despite clear disclaimers not to do so. Additionally, as a participant in a couple of trials, I see a significant benefit to careful review before the release of data that might inadvertently reveal my identity, conditions, medical history, etc.
"In an alternate universe, maybe we'd have smallish bears as trusted companions :-)"

Some people have even in this universe, but not so many, because they are not easy to handle. And back then having pets, was not so much a hobby - but the dogs were useful for survival. (guarding and hunting)