skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Garamond Guy, if you will, is irritatingly uptight, so certain of his own profundity that his words must be conveyed with the weight of a 500-year-old French typeface."

I think that statement is rather unfair and is says more about the author than Garamond users.

My opinion of Garamond is that it is a truly wonderful typeface and I have an old Adobe version on one of my PCs but I very rarely use it. In fact, the last time I recall using it in any serious way was several decades ago.

Thinking about it, I just don't do the kind of work that warrants it use. One associates Garamond with fine coffee table art books and I'm not in that game. That said, whenever I see it in such a publication I admire its use and think it's ideal for that application.

I reckon the article's criticism of Garamond's small x height is valid but only when it's adopted to areas where it's not fully suitable, PC screens and low resolution printers for instance.

I recall when I first put Adobe's Garamond on my PC that it came as a type-1 font and I did many experiments with it but I was never really happy with it for general use. In printing, I couldn't get it to look good under at least 1200 DPI and I reckon it's not optimal until it's printed to at 1600 DPI or higher. The reason is that its delicate serifs often don't hold sufficient ink to maintain the contrast and they become washed out. If you print darker with a
low resolution printer to try to overcome the problem the edges no longer look sharp, thus it's high resolution or use a different typeface (and the same problem applies to photocopies).

To me, Garamond is a typeface best suited to traditional letterpress where the ink pools in the corners, edges and serifs, this gives it an enhanced sharpness and the typeface truly sparkles. When letterpress is done just right and Garamond is used I reckon the results are spectacular. Garamond may be 500 years old but when used in the right place for the right job it's certainly not obsolete.

Incidentally, I became fascinated with Claude Garamond and those great early publishers such as Christophe Plantin and when I had the opportunity to do so I visited the Plantin Morteus Museum in Antwerp. Anyone who has a serious interest in traditional printing or the early history of of typefaces should try to visit there. BTW, it's a UNESCO World Heritage site:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantin-Moretus_Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-jTyb6xfQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbuFMAvHIH0
When you rewrite a joke because it's not funny in a different language, and the original writers approve, that's not actually censorship but they complain anyway.

More to the point, when you rewrite a romance game for women because what Japanese people think is sexy reads like being molested to Americans it does serve the creators' desires, which is for people to actually buy their products.

(The games getting blocked entirely are censoring the original creators, but also the original creators are pedophiles, so that's their problem.)
I think opt-in updates are fine. I want nothing to do with them myself, but have no problem with others making a different decision.
Why does your insurance have to cover all aspects and all cases? It can be as simple as insuring BTC storage only. No involvement of smart contracts or NFTs.
I was on AOL for a big stretch of that time, and those archaeologists wouldn’t be wrong. It was so pervasive that it was a thing of wonder and majesty on the actual www (eg the classic viral Web 1.0 post about getting a license plate starting with ASL).
So did I! My 2019 Subaru’s OS crashed so many times on Android auto was the reason I switched to iPhone at all.
Nexus Mtual and others focus on smart contracts on a protocol, rug pulls, and de-pegging risk
Our target: consumers buying and selling NFTs and crypto. When we launch I'll scared to death 24/7.
I looked for an option to specify a filelist (like ctags -L file) but didn't seem to find one. I'm assuming others are happy with using xargs or `cat file`, but it would seem like a useful feature.
I was searching for a way to describe how the meta is being marketed, and this is perfect.
People often save up especially for a Tesla (incorporating gas and maintenance savings in the price), including a lot of people who wouldn't be buying a BMW, so I'm not sure price would be the right metric there.
This bug was on the Solana blockchain. Solana has built in support for updating code.

Even on Ethereum, with it's mostly immutable contracts/programs, there is a super common pattern of a tiny shim contract that forwards all calls on to another contract that does all the work. By changing a storage variable which changes the contract the shim points to, you can effectively upgrade the code.
I find it helpful to use a range of descriptors. A "simple" task is easy and can be done quickly. A "straightforward" task is easy but may be larger in scope. A "tricky" task needs study to determine where it falls. A "hard" task has known complexity and is just plain hard.
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crime pays. who knew. someone would have to work 500-1000 years at google to make what this person did instantly
LMGTFY...

https://www.yahoo.com/now/defi-insurer-nexus-mutual-balks-08...

https://twitter.com/NexusMutual/status/1460313218430210058

https://medium.com/nexus-mutual/paying-claims-for-the-yearn-...
Idk why people are so worried about gc in general, just keep an object pool around and byte arrays if strings are immutable and never see a GC pause. Sure it'll look a lot like c, but that's besides the point.
Sure, but let's not pretend like bank regulations are perfect.

Micro: Right this second, one of my checking accounts at a "reputable" institution (efirstbank.com) is blocked from ACH transfers until April due to hitting an inactivity threshold they refuse to elaborate on. The only way I can move money out is by paying $50 per wire.

Macro: the BTC coinbase says it all: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
If anything Starlink is (along with SpaceX) the least hypey Musk project, it has some minor rough edges but seems to actually be doing a good job of fulfilling its goal. Comparing it to Hyperloop doesn't seem reasonable to me.
Then please stop bothering us with these specific to your kind non-issues (to us, at least)! I don't want to hear about them all day long as I stay away from this stinky pile and none of the hundreds of technologist I know wants to touch this with a ten-foot pole even or much less so - get involved in these scams and thefts. You have your own communities, so, please, stick to them and don't' pitch these Ponzi schemes to us everywhere! Well, obviously, nobody falls for them anymore, and there's no utility to sell them elsewhere, but, yeah, as any other pyramid scheme, you need a stable supply of stupid people to buy into the scheme. So, that's why you should be banned - otherwise, I would care less, but cut on the noise as it's really annoying and does not serve your self-serving, filthy, greedy goals! Do something meaningful with your lives! I know, there's no other way to buy child porn online except by using cryptos, but for any other earthly need, there are legit, faster, and cheaper payment methods!
An old font that is legible at small sizes is New Century Schoolbook (not the Microsoft MT version).

I am talking for print and/or high-dpi phone screens.

It has an old feel to it, but it really is quite surprisingly legible.

For lo-dpi screens, Verdana all day every day. I override all the web fonts to Verdana (and the size too) so I can actually read stuff. I just can't take anymore these days whatever weirdly-hinted tiny font the designer wanted to use.
are you positive?
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Nextdoor infinitely worse. It's such a toxic cesspool.
This is interesting. Perhaps if the breath reminds you to relax and stay on your chosen focus, though I would be doubtful that increased oxygen intake is directly a cause.

I'm not sure about increased comprehension directly, because I've heard that the best way is to more actively engage with the material (e.g. by asking yourself questions about what you read), but there may be a link to mindfulness.
I saw this post was marked dead/flagged. I "vouched" for it. Something i haven't done in so long I can only remember commenting about it. I hope it worked. I do agree with the other comments that a bit more writing on your end could have helped. However if we are having a good faith discussion, coupled with your reply to yuvalr, I do not see how your comment can be seen as bad faith.
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Early Facebook was wholesome as well, relatively speaking. It's the cycle of addiction. The early days of addiction are always nostalgic. It's only later that an addiction starts to produce anger as much as it produces relief. I see no safeguards preventing Tiktok from going down the same path, if not worse.
I don’t know.

I know of dozens of high profile hacks over the last year that left entire communities scrambling where some members and users had previously opened policies on one of the various insurance protocols and got paid out the same day as the hack. They were often recipients of the recovery path the communities took too.

There is more than just Nexus Mutual. You can ask in their respective communities if they have stats on that, or perhaps run a query on dune analytics to see what actions their associated smart contracts have taken, isolate a claim payout and tell the query to count

What I envision is the insurance choices being shown at the wallet level or opening policies is concatenated in other coverable smart contract transactions.
You think TikTok is facsimile of Facebook?
Or 387 calories a day! Presumably they were adding less sugar to their coffee.
One Punch Man originated as a very poorly drawn web comic (as in, the author had no training in arts whatsoever[0]). Its claim to fame is that it's a parody of the superhero genre, in which most characters worry about status, except the overpowered-but-low-key main character.

I'd argue the plot of one punch man is about as predictable as it gets, (it's basically a series of boss arcs where side characters struggle and Saitama saves the day but somehow doesn't get the credit). Notably, Saitama has just about zero character development throughout the series. What makes it interesting is the comical relief provided by the constant social commentary on the notion of "strength = recognition".

Interestingly, among superhero movie fans, it is often said that DC movies are worse than Marvel movies, because DC movies lack character development. Infinity war notoriously doesn't even have a happy ending. So I think saying that american superhero movies lack substance isn't necessarily accurate.

[0] https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/the-untold-truth-of-one-p...
I would add to the “at war” column: the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) grants membership to any US service members who have been stationed in South Korea.
Of the top of my head, people who are working on Android UX and the GNOME desktop environment.
None of these applications are going to take off until the XR hardware becomes a lot more seamless. It needs to be as easy as pulling out a phone or putting on a pair of sunglasses. The metaverse will not succeed as long as it is tied to clunky VR strap on headsets with bad FOVs and low resolution that make you look like a dork.
I’ve done developer relations at AWS and two unicorns, consulting rate is basically negative 10k/hour because I now meet founders for angel investing and that’s my avg check size :)

less facetiously i do wonder if i should do the proverbial patio11 move and Charge More (tm) but kinda dont want it to conflict with the day job.
Not having a central single governance is the whole point of the exercise, it's a trustless system driven by mathematical rules and decentralized consensus. You can't stop a transaction, you can't kick anyone out (good or bad), the rules can only be changed by decentralized consensus and certain rules are pretty much guaranteed to not change (for example, any Bitcoin chain that has more than 21M Bitcoin issued wouldn't be called BTC, it would be treated like a fork, etc).

> It's pretty wild cryptocurrencies are still legal in many parts of the world.

I think there's a few reasons for that, one is, it actually makes money (ex: Coinbase generating billions, tax money generated from all the capital gains, electricity paid for by miners, etc), capitalist systems won't ban money making machines. It's also impossible to ban, you can ban on/off-ramps, you can't ban Bitcoin from running and transacting, by banning on/off-ramps, you'd lose any visibility into what's actually happening on the pseudonymous network. And last but not least, if this ends up being the next big thing, nobody would want to be left behind, so there's some game theory mechanics as well.
When I was a child mouth-breather was an insult. I’ve also always thought one should breathe through one’s nose.
I think they're all the same, streams of pics/videos.
Isn't that a whataboutism?
I prefer vim, but some things VSCode has going for it:

* The plugin system seems fairly decent, and given it's popularity, there's usually a plugin for most things. There's a decent vim-mode plugin, linters that would take me a while to get working in my .vimrc, etc.

* It is fundamentally closer to a text editor than an IDE, so it'll do sane things like give you the option to use the system's python installation rather than some janky, ancient built-in version.

I dunno. I tutor for an intro programming class, getting them to install anything or work on the command line can be an uphill battle, VSCode is the best editor that will get widespread adoption in that kind of environment I think.
Discord is just another walled garden.
Weird. I put my deposit down in April 2021 and got my offer in December 2021, but I ended up declining it - no way to use it right now.

Maybe it’s related to your location. I’m in Vancouver.
The entire point of corporations is to shield liability from the people inside the corporation from civil damages.
You can see on this page on their site:

https://app.nexusmutual.io/claim-assessment
IRC’s UX never went away for the masses, people use IRC semantics all the time on Slack and Discord. The UX that never became mainstream once the internet was, is the same as it ever was: people by and large don’t value decentralization and don’t understand how to use it effectively. The closest it’s ever gotten was torrents, and even then most people didn’t branch out from TPB.
Agreed, and they also could have named this concept after something cooler than the metaverse from Ready Player One. It was a pretty bad book and movie IMO. They should have chosen the "Holodeck" and renamed themselves "Holo".
Drip coffee constant refills. Also, bottled water was yet to be a thing.
Amazing that this is run by a non-profit. Wish more of the internet was like this!
Got it, the trust level is pretty low when you the very basic due diligence.

I think Nexus Lexus is legit. They had to in order to get UK clearance. But I understand that they want to demutualize now and become a DAO. DAO is the gold standard for no corporate oversight.

Fake profiles on Twitter and Linkedin. Thousand of fake followers. Incorporated in banana countries. And if they are incorporated at all. If the plan is a rug pull, then bypass incorporation, of course.
If you’ll review my original comment, I never said new syntax. I said better syntax. If your language design leads to a lot of boilerplate in idiomatic use then it needs to be better. Adding new syntax is just putting a bandaid on the problem.
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That's a completely nonsensical answer to the question that was asked. It's frigging insurance--the whole damn point of buying insurance is to offload risk.

Insurance where you can't be certain the company will be around (or actually pay out) when the shit hits the fan is completely useless as insurance, and it's either naïve or disingenuous to suggest that the solution to that is to "complain". And suggesting launching a competitor is just an extra special kind of stupid: if you have enough capital to start an insurance company, you're obviously not in the market for buying insurance.
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Tencent wanted to buy Bytedance, the company who made TikTok. The founder of Bytedance refused. Surely he would refuse Facebook too.
I understand the first part, "There is a parameter passed in as part of a function call that basically says “here’s where you can find the function to validate the signature", but I'm having trouble understanding the second part, "The attacker was able to point that to a function they wrote instead of using the real one". In other words I (relatively) understand the 'what', but I don't understand how was the attacker able to do the redirect?
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I agree with this, and have also been accused of being a Tesla hater, but OTOH someone has to pave the way for the future in which none of /those/ people have to drive either, and our cities aren't taken over by surface parking for cars that move two or three times a day at most.

If we're not gonna switch to sane urban planning, may as well bring on the robo-taxis that can go anywhere
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The Asheron's Call emulators
Can you expand on the scary sides of modafinil you found?
When did the begin?

Coffee consumption begin 15th century

Tobacco 18th century

Oil: 347 AD

Social Networks: circa. 2002.
>But then you make the mistake of thinking because you're really smart and good at this thing you must be smart about something completely different, like oh I don't know the financial system. That's crypto.

That's definitely crypto, but you also just described half of HN.
I'm wondering how dumb ebook readers would compare vs paper.

I got a kindle last year. Since then I've been reading (mostly novels) for at least 45 mins every day. Some weekend days I read for like 2-3 hours. It's been wonderful. My iPad Pro has been collecting dust for months.
My fav was "Emacs Makes A Computer Slow" ... though, that was 20 years ago :-D
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Any financial ecosystem is a bug bounty.

Banks are bug bounties.

Stock market is a bug bounty.

...
I was hoping for Vibranium :)
I'm not sure about that. My mother was from a developing country and only tried soda for the first time when she tried it in a developed country as an adult, and fell in love with it immediately. She doesn't drink sugary sodas anymore but still loves sparkling water, champagne, and anything bubbly.
It's like saying that we can't know whether parachutes reduce injuries when falling from airplanes because we've never had a proper experiment to verify this and most likely won't ever run one.

We can know all kinds of things with a reasonable degree of certainty even if we can't or won't verify them experimentally.
An interesting app would pick up you cursing at the computer and give you a rating that way :)
I thought that many industry professionals didn't like blender's ui and thought it was confusing and needlessly complex?
Likewise. I'm still stuck using WhatsApp because it's the de-facto messaging standard over here, but I moved as many people as I could to Signal.
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This. People forget markets are forward looking. Forward guidance matters more than a beat/miss on estimates.

Zuck is also kind of saying that their slice of the pie is getting smaller due to competition like Tiktok. That just kills sentiment.

Hard to say if the metaverse will play out favorably or if it is going to just be hype. If I were to tell my past self 10 years ago that this is the world we live in now with EVs and cryptocurrencies etc being mainstream I would certainly not believe it nor would I have bet the farm on Elon or Bitcoin
I think you are confusing "Americans" with mega-corporations.
Yes, they were everywhere including cereal boxex. But who didn't repurpose these free 3.5" floppy disks to store their stuff back in the day anyway?
Another analogy would be the infamous Segway marketing failure. Here [1] is an article from 2015, drawing an analogy between the Segway failure and a different failed VR project (Google Glass).

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/01/well-didnt-work-segway-technol...
Another comment responded to that:

_"Do you also post Russian or North Korean responses when discussions involving these countries occur?"_

I'd extend that to America or basically any country. I can't imagine it being considered the start to a flame war if some one presents a report by a large organization with some level of reputation without providing the state's response.

If there is a report by Amnesty condemning a major issue like the amount of cronyism in all higher levels of the West and America. Or of how lobbying in the US is effectively legalized corruption. Or how [Super] PACs hurt the sanctity of democracy...for any of these things, the official US response or response from any high level of the US government is not that important.

I have a hard time imagining being told not including the official western state response is a great way to start a flame war.
Ah yes, the "every preference has a cost" philosophy which leads people into deciding things like that everyone on Earth is ok with a One True Colorscheme (Adwaita) and a One True Font (Cantarell). People who suffer from halation due to the contrast of the dark version of Adwaita and people who like fonts besides Cantarell don't exist.
(Disclaimer) I’m not fun at parties.

I don’t think this is fun at parties.
2e5 is enough for making a naive O(n^2) solution to get TLE.

This is likely due to the fact that in AlphaCode's solution the "inner O(n) loop" is actually a memmove(), which is optimized to be insanely fast.
Agree, lots of options. Nexus Mtual and others focus on smart contracts on a protocol, rug pulls, and de-pegging risk. Our target: consumers buying and selling NFTs and crypto. As I said when we launch I'll be scared to death 24/7.