skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had to suffer through a tethered 2G internet for a few months, and made an extension to disable web fonts[0] because they felt like a waste of bandwidth. Ever since, I've appreciated the "system-fonts" design ethos and tried to stick to that everywhere - most content on the internet doesn't need to choose it's own set of typefaces (almost inevitably from Google Fonts).

These days, I keep web fonts disabled using uBlock Origin, and enable them on a need-basis when sites decide to use web fonts as icons. My favorite glitch is Banggood which somehow fallbacks to show me icons for PHP, Java, and Firefox in the navbar [1] because the glyph matches the file-icons system font somehow.

[0]: github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/k0HG1i5
You are welcome! ZKSnarks are really mind-bending tech and are a lot of fun!
Check out https://www.moesif.com, if youre interested in analytics. If you're interested in the audit logging /security angle, also check out https://apptrail.com (Disclaimer: founder).
Yes, indeed. I'm not aware of any hardship when I go uphill full throttle. Going downhill is harder because I have to keep my foot in the air not to depress the gas pedal. In those cases though, I either rest my foot on the break pedal or put it down floor depending on the conditions. When the driver ahead slows down, I slow down using breaks.

I've driven for hours with and without cruise control. I've never felt any discomfort in my lower leg muscles because of using pedals.
Resurrecting an Old Plotter (2019)
You can find people that will do a job but not really question what they're doing even if it should be questioned. Developers make spyware and do all kinds of terrible things as long as they get paid they just kind of do what is asked and not ask too many questions.
They somewhat reduce it. Perhaps by 50%, against currently dominant variant (which is itself of course subject to change.)

Everything that helps to reduce prevalence helps kids stay in the classroom.

Here in the UK there's a huge subpandemic among 5-11 year old schoolchildren, a group which are not vaccinated. I have a child of this age, off twice with covid in the last few months. I wonder if it'd be more effective to vaccinate them or to just do away with self isolation rules for them. The problem is the spillover into parents, who will be at higher risk due to age and possobly at much higher risk if clinically vulnerable.

On this one I find it hard to form a strong opinion.
This scenario was actually pretty close when Andrew Wiles published his proof of the Last Fermat Theorem. The proof was huge, IIRC over 100 pages of maths, some of it pretty obscure, and verifying it took a lot of work of several people.

They even found a flaw in it, but Wiles was able to fix it after a year.
> Experimental for some is just a code word that the studies are not completed yet

Then that's equivocation with the word "experimental." It's chosen to evoke the idea that the vaccines are a highly risky uncertain proposition when in fact we have enormous volumes of real-world data. if they intended to communicate the uncertainty over how long immunity lasts then the word to choose isn't experimental. The choice of the word is dishonest and driven by some other motivation.
Meanwhile, I know a feller who got sentenced for 5 years. Growing and selling. Nothing spectacular - couple plants at a time I think.
The prevailing view is “he’s a natural.” Everyday, people are discouraged from becoming someone greater than their present self because we love the idea that biology is destiny
> > (removed because parent comment edited their comment substantially)

> I really didn’t.

This is a flat out lie. Please stop spreading disinformation.

> I just added some personal anecdotes in a subsequent paragraph to describe why I personally quit Facebook. The body of what you replied to was unchanged.

Your comment originally described unwanted political speech, but implied that the speech was actually fake news. I called you out on that, my comment was roughly "That is a good description of political speech. It is not a description of hate speech or fake news". Then you edited your comment to add in a description of fake news. Specifically, you added this: "And others claim that long term use of thermometers could be damaging to kids health, which completely misses the fact that such devices are entirely passive instruments." This anecdote is a good description of fake news. So now my comment appears as if I claimed that this fake news is not fake news. So you essentially edited your comment to make me appear like a conspiracy nut. And now you're lying about what you did.
Intelligence report gives more insight into Havana Syndrome
> all their ground stations are along Google fiber paths.

actually most of their earth stations are colocated near long haul dwdm regen huts from older, more traditional big telco players like what is now lumen (former qwest/centurylink), level3, zayo, etc. The fact that they can buy transport circuits from those huts to the nearest major cities to meet google is useful.

by no means does google really own/run/control most of the long haul dark fiber and dwdm networks in north america. or even a good portion of it. the predecessor entities that have now been rolled up into lumen or zayo do.
And yet they're paying Apple billions to also be on iOS.
> Human is a bad, constantly distracted driver. Technology is the only way to make our life safer.

And humans are infinitely worse when they have to look after a mostly-ok automation. We can’t pay attention to static things for a prolonged time.

But regarding less “clever” safety features, I agree with you.
settings are also a liability, a form of technical debt. When you add new settings you have to make sure it works with every (logical) combination of other settings. And you need to keep doing it in the future possibly forever because users hate settings being removed. So, your tests get bigger, adding new features and especially settings becomes costlier.I try to avoid it as much as I can
> Doesn't it have to land in a public repo before it can be patched?

No, they could have patched the contract before publishing the commit on GitHub. Granted, an attacker could watch the chain for such "contract upgrade" transactions and attempt to front-run it, but that would be a lot harder than just discovering undeployed security patches on GitHub.
People associate with the most toxic people, subscribe to the shadiest pages, and spend their day talking non-sense in dangerous groups, then complain they have a shitty Facebook feed.

People say that about YouTube as well. They'll complain about conspiration theories and fake news, when there are literally videos on practically any subject (physics, History, cooking, sports). It's is YouTube!

It's like people will ignore every delicious food on the planet, go directly to the sewers to feast on feces, and then accuse everyone else.

At some point, someone who likes to feed on shit ought to question their culinary choices and take responsibility.
Thanks for the clarifications. I wasn't aware the EPYC IOD was so severely sliced, and just assumed the NPS4 mode would be for isolating neighbour VMs and improving DRAM row buffer locality, both mostly by reducing channel interleaving and setting up somewhat-explicit NUMA.
I never really had issues with lack of sleep until I became father 1.5 years ago. Child has issues with sleep since the start and while it recently got a bit better, in those 1.5 years I can count the number of times I got 8 hours uninterrupted sleep on one, maybe two hands.

On the worst days I could eat double my normal food intake and was still hungry.
Working and concentration is quite hard, more coffee intake is the case. Complex thoughts are increasingly difficult (e.g. improving software architecture takes much more time than I was used to).

I do wonder what happens when sleep is back to normal. Are some effects staying or will eventually everything go back to how it used to be before?
There are niche solution for all such niches. Spotify has the best concert agenda for my town. There's two local publishers doing online presentation for businesses here (one is indebuurt).

Not surprising though. That small, focused, local niche solutions are more effective than a giant behemoth can ever be.

Yes, FB has all the data. But it needs to analyze that in tiny contexts before it can build a tailored solution for that context, first.
I reported a comment thread discussing which ethnicities needed to be put in camps, and got the same thing about it somehow not being against the community standards.

I did catch a 30 day ban for saying that 'men are trash; I'm going back to dating women' though.
> What features can you really add to Excel at this point?

The option to not guess the format of input data as calendar dates comes to mind.

Excel is a product so complex I doubt it will ever run out of things to improve.
Static site generator for making web mixtapes in 2022
> GWB won because he got more votes...

I am aware that there are various opinions on it, but once again, it's not so "clear cut" as to not have a debate. In fact, the sources I'm following, such as Wikipedia, say exactly the opposite about the media recounts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore#Recount_by_media_...

In 2001, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, sponsored by a consortium of major United States news organizations, conducted the Florida Ballot Project, a comprehensive review of 175,010 ballots that vote-counting machines had rejected from the entire state, not just the disputed counties that were recounted.[3] The project's goal was to determine the reliability and accuracy of the systems used in the voting process, including how different systems correlated with voter mistakes. The study was conducted over a period of 10 months. Based on the review, the media group concluded that if the disputes over the validity of all the ballots in question had been consistently resolved and any uniform standard applied, the electoral result would have been reversed and Gore would have won by 60 to 171 votes.[4] On the other hand, under scenarios involving review of limited sets of ballots uncounted by machines, Bush would have kept his lead. In one such scenario — Al Gore's request for recounts in four predominantly Democratic counties — Bush would have won by 225 votes.[a] In another scenario (if the remaining 64 Florida counties had carried out the hand recount of disputed ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court on December 8, applying the various standards that county election officials said they would have used), Bush would have emerged the victor by 493 votes.[b][81]

The emphasis above was added by me... far more media organizations, and a comprehensive analysis, and so forth. How much more extensive can you get, and the result is that Al Gore would have won under any uniform standard at all. And again ... this was all because of the outdated technology. Call it what you want, paper ballots, rejecting by voting machines that counted them, etc. The fact is, the election would have been a lot MORE reliable if it was done with Merkle Trees and private keys, as I said.

And no, I'm not a Blockchain Andy who's completely drunk the Kool-Aid. I often critique Blockchain right here on HN, I think Blockchain holds Web3 back. But the actual applications are very viable (if we move past blockchain as the technology on which they are built) and we'll all be voting from our phones in 10 years. Do you think that somehow voting is one application that won't make the switch from manual paper-based counting to technology, because people can't be "confident of the results" from their electronics?
Hopefully you sued your bank cause that is one benefit of banks is that in the event of a loss it is also much easier to sue those involved than someone difficult to find.
Writing notes, and reading noted are one thing, but reviewing and comparing notes is something else. This looks very interesting in thst regards
> It came from ETH owned by the bridge, essentially in a kind of escrow.

This thread is about where the now-stolen ETH will come from (to restore 1:1 backing of wETH to ETH). Not where the stolen ETH originally came from.
If you are building a truly distributed blockchain that is decentralized then very hard to do.

Building consensus to classify some trades as theft is hard to do in-band. Even if do build such a workflow in the chain, how do you get everyone to agree ? Distributed consensus will take lot more time than attacker quickly making trades and moving the coins across multiple chains etc.

If you centralize this action and have few people decide ( as has happened in some coins in the past) it is no longer a decentralized system.
Or use a service like Dropbox or OneDrive where you can share folders to select people (they don't need to be signed up- you just send them a link).

Of course this means you need their email or phone number... But using either of those is way better than a service like Facebook.
Also, just wanted to add a point. I find human culture to be garbage, and have found it to be garbage ever since experiencing an ongoing pattern of abuse as a child.

I experienced bullying and abuse as an adult as well: at work, hell, even on hn in past accounts.

Whether there are good people is irrelevant. There are shitty people everywhere. One can try to ignore them, but they are still part of this species. Primitive, babbling apes.

Again, death cannot come soon enough. I pray to God to please kill me in my sleep tonight. A prayer that has yet to be answered.
This just seems to push the results down one level - how did we do the experiments to determine that the analogues are accurate?
Just like with MySpace and Hi5.

We are now at yet another generation switch and newer one is somewhere else.
Yes teams sucks, but zoom web fails for me as well. After 10 minutes or so, my audio is disconnected with no way to turn it back on other than reloading the page.
Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitable
Book tip: "Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down" by J. E. Gordon.

As a layman, I greatly enjoyed this one as a primer.
The deposit is 99$, not 600. And it is refundable online at any time.
Most of the bad side effects don't show up ( for me at least ) in the first day of no, or next to no sleep.

Against the long-term effects ( and brain / nervous system in general ) I do a 1-month therapy every year of cerebrolysin ( peptide that helps neuro-regeneration ).

I've found that if I can function pretty well if I do a 8 - 9h of sleep every other day, too. It's especially great, because I've got me-time for a whole night, while everybody's asleep. Anybody else tried the "sleep well every other day" thing?
I get it but it keeps repeating the same content over and over.

"I'm not dating, but I'm also not working on myself, why can't I just be?"
loses loser users
I agree it may have been written like a blog.. but this was the best thing ive read on hackernews today. I hope I get a Soup Lovers ad some day.
One major change I experienced on becoming a father is instantly respecting every parent MUCH more than I previously had.
Lets please stop calling new phone devices smart if you have smarter reading comprehension on plain paper.
Dude will be awarded his countries highest civilian award for contribution to his motherland. /s
Like the euro tunnel
I've always seen Libhunt as a spammy SEO site. I've seen it in search results before and everytime it was useless. Their comparisons were clearly unoriginal based on some unknown algorithm trying to scrape data.
>What they have is a bunch of programmers who know 3D rendering and networking

Game companies haven't been stuck in the 2000s. Nowadays they are legitimate media businesses. Just look at what Riot did with Arcane, or Epic with Travis Scott's Fortnite concert. That actually felt metaverse-ish compared to the geriatric experience of Facebook's VR games.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYeFAlVC8qU)

If you look at China its even more clear that game companies are way beyond just making games. Moving into ads isn't that hard, delivering actual content and really understanding young people very much is.
NO thanks, I am not planning on using yet another service that is trying to psychologically milk every ounce of my attention. Reddit and Hackernews is bad enough. I am also not interested in looking at lewd teenagers dancing to the latest tune or whatever the kids are doing these days.
One such example might be accessibility settings. Such settings are likely only used by a small subset of users, but it might be critical for such users.

Many modern video games start by displaying such settings. The defaults probably suit most users just fine, but being able to easily scale UI text is probably very useful for people with poor vision.
Big no. Every such update should require a complete re-licensing/safety and crash tests and what-not before they can be pushed.

It is not a goddamn webpage where fking up the fonts will make it temporarily miss some icons.
Thank you for taking your time and writing this.

> Keep in mind you're earning a six figure salary doing over double what is expected at a "normal" 40h/week job. If you consider it as an hourly rate, is it worth sacrificing your health over?

Yeah, I'm well aware of that I'm putting more than 40h a week for my job. In 20/30 hours I can finish my tasks and attend meetings. On the other 50 hours most of the time I'm doing things that is not part of the sprint/my tasks in work, I'm doing them as a hobby, I enjoy coding. I agree that it is not worth sacrificing my health for it, that is why I'm looking for a way out in this situation.

> Not a rhetorical question, btw.

I'm sorry if it wasn't clear. English is my second language, even though I'm comfortable with discussing technical topics, having a conversation in colloquial English, I'm not very comfortable with turning my anxiety into a story.
I had to turn off uBlock.
It is theft, technical details are not relevant. Whether you jacked the car or you found it unlocked and keys inside it is still theft.

The owners/ custodians of the coins or of the program managing the coin did not intend for you to have the coins or actually transferred the coins to you.

Even if they had a bug in their program that automatically transferred their coin to you and you didn't return it the law still generally considers that also as theft.
Sounds like you have a solid hypothesis there with a convincing proposed method of action.
Showing ads in videos isn't exactly new. I think Youtube Premium is too expensive, particularly if you don't have any use for their subpar music feature. However the concept of paying for an ad-free experience doesn't seem alien to me. A more affordable plan that just removes the ads would be welcome (and I hear it's planned).
imo, as long as you combine "something you know" and "something you have," the effect is the same. So if you store your 2fa encrypted with a on your computer with a key only you know, it accomplishes the same thing.
Or "computer says x but you don't trust the hardware/software".

Or "computer says x but you don't agree the mathematical concept was correctly formalized into the proof engine language".
Maybe someday. It happened a week before a cross country move. I could have filed in small claims court, flown back and gotten a hotel, and maybe broken even.

Frankly after the piles of paperwork I saw from both the bank and e-bay essentially claiming I myself was the fraud, I felt like it was a losing battle and that their lawyers and legal teams were going to drown me with paperwork. I'm shocked the lengths they went to over $500. If it had been 4x as much money I certainly would have sued.

I'm just kind of meh on the banking system reversibility. The most common frauds I've seen in my friend circle are a few hundred dollars. When the bank can make you wait half a day on the phone just to dispute the charge and then over a month to go through the claim process, while fighting you tooth and nail every step and then suing is maybe break even if you win and lose hundreds if you lose. It starts to look like crypto is a real win in some areas. Being able to sue means little if it's a net loss.
My baby poodle is on the couch with me, fast asleep. Her little legs twitch. Sometimes she does little yips in her sleep. I wonder what she dreams about. I hope she feels love for me, close to what I feel for her.

Oh, allergies. Yeah they suck. Dogs are nice though.
Or now the "proof" of the abc conjecture with the inter-universal Teichmüller theory
If you have money you can live in a walkable city. I can afford rent in a walkable area but not a condo/house.
a Putnam winner

Only once. ;-)

and world class crypto expert

I've made significant contributions to a few areas but I wouldn't call myself a world class crypto expert. For most projects I could name a dozen experts I would consult before myself.
The replication crisis is not largely due to the math/stats used in studies.

It comes from trying to make inference from noisy and often confounded experiments from limited data.
Totally. Here was me thinking my 2c per SMS was cheap!
Chaotic Waterwheel
The article's linked article on social priming has a fun typo:

4.10 The “Lacy Macbeth Effect”
The difference is that you can’t be a pilot with even as little physical impairment as a crooked nose and it takes extensive years to get a license, while every rich 18 years old can sleep behind a tesla’s wheel…
I have definitely heard of more online relationships forming since the pandemic. IIRC I know of a relationship that has progressed to engagement since the pandemic that started as purely digital for the first year due to lockdowns and being in different countries.

Ultimately (as has always been true) the internet's greatest power has always been its reach. With free ubiquitous reliable video conferencing, you now have the ability to get to know someone anywhere in the world.

From a dating PoV you're basically getting a 2-3 order magnitude bump in potential partners. For many, I can see people giving up on the physical
(in the short term) to find an emotional match a worthwhile tradeoff!

YMMV - my own life now sprawls the whole globe, things like WhatsApp made maintaining global family ties so so so much easier in ways people really take for granted now. My parents used
to arrange by post a preset time for a 5 minute phonecall when they wanted to call their parents internationally. All trends point to remote connectivity getting more and more high fidelity.
Although most good developers will likely keep their jobs for the foreseeable future, the relative importance, and payoff, of different skills might change.

Lower-level coding could become more and more automated, raising the values and wages of complementary skills such as requirements elicitation and understanding of business impact from technological decisions. [1]

Some of these, however, can be done by businesspeople who know how to think and express their ideas precisely, such that a neural model can turn them into a decent draft of code. (These days, many more youths learn to code before going into other fields. They have training for thinking precisely.) There can be fewer job opportunities for some groups of developers.

Thus, a hedge against possible job loss is still required. Owning substantial equity in a company/startup and other assets would be one good strategy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_good
> I wasn't able to find dosages less than 1mg so I never experimented further.

I was like you, but I just roughly broke the pills in half or 1/3 and it worked even better.

Now I have this melatonin syrup drops, 150mcg per drop so it's easy, 2 drops for me.
who cares about facebook but zucky.
The only drugs Frank Zappa did were nicotine and caffeine.
The definitions (or rather, "goals") of most things from the cryptocurrency sphere appear to conveniently and arbitrarily change in adaptation to flaws being pointed out.
Twitter is a public bulletin board where you go to air your grievances and pick fights