skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a related habit - when I start a new book on an e-reader, I mess around with the font settings until I get the right feel for that book. Sometimes it's just a basic match: a 19th-century novel will need a heavier serif, while recent sci-fi will have a modern non-serif. But you can mess with the weight, spacing, margins, add new fonts for variety, all sorts of things. It helps each book feel more like a book instead of just a long text document.
Though blatant, obvious advertising isn’t the only form of advertising. And I’m not so sure that it’s the worst. You’re just pitching a platform that only launders ads through content because you only ban the detectable and perhaps even the most honest ads.

It’s just not that easy.
So your tools get stolen and you take down possibly critical infrastructure for huge numbers of people? Terrorism.

Imagine someone did that to America in response to the NSA hacking them (read, most of the world's population all the time since the Bush administration).

We celebrate that when it's done to official enemies.
> eating ready meals,

I've been trying to find this for year. What are some of the good choices here?
Hack Roulette
Pink Dot SG exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Dot_SG
The biggest problem I have with CGI is that the speed of motion does not match what is physically possible - especially in superhero movies. It's like the motion you get when watching "Family Guy" stunts.

One interesting comparison, I would like to read about, would be between "Blade Runner" and "Blade Runner 2049". The original used models and moved cameras around the models for effect, whereas the sequel, I'm sure, used CGI but to good effect. I'm a fan of both movies.

Cheers
>However, if lockdowns have a notable effect, we should see this effect regardless of the timing, and we should identify this effect more correctly by excluding studies that exclusively analyze timing

This seems like a really weird take. The entire concept of a lockdown is solely about timing, since the whole purpose of the exercise is to reduce the R value in order to buy time for healthcare services.
The amount of overhead it takes to encrypt a full tunnel on an endpoint device is absolutely not worth it compared to GRE.
If it codes what people actually ask for, they will be very, very dissatisfied.
yes, I was going to say the same thing as a general response to the article in the OP. Even apart from the suspension of disbelief thing, CGI is very constraining in terms of the shots you can make, it all has to fit on a soundstage. It's paradoxical but while you can make a fantastic setting, it is also very constraining on the cinematography itself.

Sadly, I think most people don't really care about any of this, they just want to switch off for an hour and a half. I always feel isolated about this among my friends and family, I already get lots of time mindlessly staring at a screen reading some HN article or Reddit or clicking aimlessly through wikipedia, if I'm gonna watch TV or a movie then I want it to be something highbrow, not the latest MCU trash or whatever. If I'm gonna sit on the couch and scroll through my phone, I'd rather be scrolling on my PC instead, thanks.
Keep in mind Canada has two parallel media spheres. One of them is completely controlled by the state and the other the private sector. Of course the government funded journalists working for the government approved and funded broadcaster are going to side with… the government! That shouldn’t surprise anyone.

What I find interesting are all the sighting of these “radical” protesters with Nazi and confederate flags that are fueling the narrative that this demonstration really is led by the alt right. All of them are masked and there has been very little progress in identifying them but they sure were amply photographed and used as evidence by the state media. How weird is it that nobody can ID most of them?

In the 1970’s the state media and government similarly tried to pin mailbox bombings to a group called the FLQ… until an RCMP agent was caught literally red-handed (with severe burns and a torn off fingers) planting bombs in a mailbox to pin it on the FLQ! [0] The feds then confessed to more than 400 illegal search and seizures, criminal trespass, breaking and entering and arson incidents and the bomb planter admitted he “had done much worse for the feds”.

Who was prime minister during that time? You guessed it, Justin Trudeau’s father. What a coincidence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
This is extremely impressive, but I do think it’s worth noting that these two things were provided:

- a very well defined problem. (One of the things I like about competitive programming and the like is just getting to implement a clearly articulated problem, not something I experience on most days.)
- existing test data.

This is definitely a great accomplishment, but I think those two features of competitive programming are notably different than my experience of daily programming. I don’t mean to suggest these will always be limitations of this kind of technology, though.
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Just finished that episode yesterday. The internet is spooky sometimes lol
So if the reds start parachuting down over your community you should just sit pretty lest you interfere with your military’s operations?

The equivalence is not a false one in my eyes because a cyberattack against a US national’s systems should be seen as an attack on a US national’s property.
I hope you are right, but just to answer the question: all those other AI winters.
Ah interesting. I didn't know that, but it does make sense.

> I guess our parents had all had it, so there was no risk of getting it again.

This is not the case with COVID though. Everyone is getting infected for the first time, and we're still unsure how long and how strong immunity-through-exposure is. In fact, there are multiple reports of people catching it multiple times (I know of a person who had it 5 times :-o ).
It's intrinsically linked to "free speech" exemptions through being violent, because violence doesn't have to be physical, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's opening paragraph on violence[1]:

> Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened[4] or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation."[5]

There's no doubt that hate speech _does_ commit psychological harm, for example, but the article contains way more nuance than I have time for in this post so I implore you to read the article -- "violence" is just not as simple and limited as physical harm.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence
This seems very pedantic, and doesn't change what i said at all.

I'm happy to change it to "wifi helps with a bunch of features they have". AGPS is not even the only one. Wifi scanning is happening in the phone anyway to know when to switch networks, etc, so they are saving power when it is used instead of cell phone.
It would still sink as water has a density of 1, depending. I think your lookup for wood's density gave you a number belonging to a hardwood.
Nothing in my comment disagreed with your point. I agree, the practical effects in much of Alien are great, and better than CG for those things.
Thanks for info. Thats expected. Just wanted to check and be sure. I know dealing with the latent HIV has been a big challenge.
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Interesting answer there in the thread:

> Fighting the urge to write an alternative to ES in Rust

There is one. But it’s not open source. Or maybe it’s vapourware, don’t know. Supposed to have my hands on it some weeks ago.
Read Section 3.4 "Short Selling and Covering Short Positions". It describes the short covering that took place. Look at the chart of short interest on page 27. It shows the short interest dropping precipitously, meaning the majority of short positions were closed.

It is honestly baffling how many GME conspiracists are apparently illiterate and unable to understand that "X didn't have as much of an effect as Y" doesn't mean "X did not happen". Especially when it is surrounded by multiple paragraphs explicitly talking about the X that was happening.
I was on the side of modern music against autotune critics in the last thread, and find myself against the pro-CGI "modern movies are fine" narrative in this one, interesting.

For me it feels like visual effects set the bar higher for greater spectacle. It's more easily to be jaded by spectacular effects and to become accustomed to them. (I'm also pickier towards films, often imagining how imagery could have looked better or the story could have been told different.) It also feels like we're in an era where many Hollywood films can easily have access to great cinematography, stunning aerial shots of natural vista, etc.- and then it just ends up looking like Mac wallpapers. So many films can have that National Geographic documentary look, even arthouse pictures like say The Green Knight. Is it just easier to film on location than it used to be?
Schools here had already been closed for two weeks before a stay-at-home order was issued, but I get your point.

That said, in April 2020 I assure you that economic activity in restaurants and non-essential businesses would have been severely disrupted regardless of government action. Most were already closed or take-out only.
Is CGI considered an automation that reduces overall production cost?

I am not sure whether it is or not, but I wonder if it has become much cheaper over time. I remember a time when CGI in movies was a thing of wonder, at least it was to me in the 90's.

Nowadays I definitely see the Blah-ness of it. But that said I find action movies extremely boring and unrealistic, so I'm out of the loop.
Hi Yannick. Good to see so much collaboration in the FM world.
Modern Pis have effectively zero (pun intended) relationship to the original ones. The kernel issues were fixed, and as long as you keep them cool, you can go a long way even on SD cards.
Right to bear digital arm to fight foreign digital empire … seems fit the spirit. Not sure about the law and 3 letter people. Best of luck. Brave soul to fight N Korea. How about China.
> I don't know if it was just me or the theater I was in but I felt like some of the effects in Dune were second rate.

Your comment starts with a statement that seem to imply that you doubt your own assessment. The list of awards is a strong signal that the effects were not "second rate". Thus my comment confirming that seems to be an unpopular opinion.
That was built by Heroku engineers. We had hoped to build a general purpose FaaS platform but instead we were forced to build that pile of Apex. Expect to see only these kind of products coming out of Heroku.

When I said "spin down Heroku" I probably should've said, "spin down the Heroku brand". Maybe that doesn't mean much to you, but I know a lot of Heroku customers probably wouldn't want to use a PaaS if it had only Salesforce branding—despite Salesforce running Heroku for the past 12 years.

It probably makes sense at this point for Salesforce to go this direction, but they're not being honest with their general purpose Heroku customers about where the platform is headed. I wish they would be.
Except both the comments you reply to are talking about a specific problem and context.
If you are saying that you are just claiming "in general, cynicism is warranted", that seems like a generalized opinion that doesn't really add anything interesting to anything.

It'd be much more interesting if you would engage with the actual conversation being had.
Yes! I remember a Game Of Thrones CGI breakdown reel, can't find it now, which showed the Lannister camp and it was very interesting how much of it was actually real but at the same time how much was augmented by CGI. You absolutely couldn't tell.
That's the public information available. There are many ways of hiding short positions like with ETFs. Look at the XRT (an ETF holding GME). Note, I have GME in my portfolio, there's more to GME than the squeeze.
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sort of. There's only been one instance for me that this has caused any issues... I ended up just writing my own version of the missing tool. Deno has almost parity with node at the moment though https://deno.land/std@0.123.0/node.
I'm confused why it would take any time at all to find a match. Sounds fun and weird and a little awkward, just how the internet should be. But I can't seem to be matched with anyone.
Fast-tracking the search for energy-efficient materials
If it's stronger & lighter than steel and produces less CO2 than steel manufacturing...
It is a mistake to paint all writers with the same brush. To the degree that 'guardrails' are needed, they're not needed by all writers for the reasons the author needs them. Likewise, not all writers are affected by choice of writing-font in the same way or to the same degree. The way in which the GP is affected is to be overwhelmed by choice and the degree to which this occurs is high. We have no reasons to believe which particular font iA Writer uses has any effect on GP at all. This is not the case for the article's author, who claims to be strongly affected by font choice.

Even if it could be proven that all writers are subtly affected by choice of writing-font, using the same font for everything all the time might dampen this effect to the degree that such a font is a blank slate as far as the mind is concerned.

This certainly seems to be the case for me. I find many fonts off-putting when writing (poetry, prose, or code) to the degree that they break my focus; but otherwise they don't really seem to influence me. However, I typically use only a handful of 'not ugly' fonts and don't really 'see' these fonts at all. The degree to which they might influence my writing is tiny, at best. No one could look at two pieces of my writing and guess which font I used or even if I used a different font between them.

I think, likely, the way in which people write has a huge influence on how affected they are about any particular variable, including fonts. I write in a way that feels like I'm constructing a building; structure first, then decoration. Others make paintings. Still others, who knows. It is a strong claim to make that all these writers are thinking, feeling, and experiencing the same thing with regard to any particular variable.
I would actually argue the programmers job has never been 100% writing the code, it’s always been interpreting, fixing and decoding the ideas of others.
Reposting flagged comments like this is doing an end run around moderation. That's abusive. Please don't do that again.

Btw, upvotes are one factor in the system here. They are not the only factor. Indignation, sensationalism, flamewar, and other bad-for-HN things routinely get tons of upvotes. It's not a reliable signal of goodness, which is why countervailing mechanisms like flags and moderation are also necessary.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
You're right, but it is close. Add some air bubbles and it would be buoyant.
Having seen that movie and a bunch of similar movies with well-done effects a lot of color work, the quality of the theater is extremely important. It, like Mad Max, shines on high-quality projectors with lots of illumination, and both fall flat if you can't have the contrast levels high enough. In theaters with modern digital projectors, it's a feast.
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Anything directly involving Salesforce like that will definitely be maintained and probably improved, so you're safe. I wouldn't be surprised if the branding changes though.
The font that's already installed on your computer called "Garamond" is not the only Garamond, and frankly not the best looking IMO.

The original Garamond is of course from centuries ago. Now there are now multiple digital versions of Garamond from different font foundries.

If you get the chance, I recommend instead "ITC Garamond Std" or "Adobe Garamond Pro" (both from Adobe Font Folio), especially the former. I especially enjoy the little curve on the serif at the top left of letters such as "r" or "n" which I found to be especially charming, but sadly missing from many Garamond implementations.

A screenshot of a few Garamonds: https://imgur.com/a/dxWHsh0
How do you setup a separate VLAN and SSID?
None of the "pro-sumer" wifi mesh setups under $500 support VLANs
Cool concept, but I don't really understand the value here. I have to pay to view articles that could likely be found online for free or have close alternatives?

I think it's cool that you were able to find a community, build a knowledge base of content for, and create an app for. That's impressive itself.

I just don't think I'd ever use it. I have more than enough resources already to figure out the dad thing, this is just another one to remember and one i'd probably not trust as much as a book, close relatives/friends, vetted articles on the internet.
That would be a great outcome for the EU. It means that EU companies have a home market that is shielded from their biggest competitors, while being free to compete on the world wide market.

If the EU would do that intentionally there would quickly be a complaint at the WTO.

In reality, as long as Google, Facebook, etc can make money in the EU, they are not going to leave.
Canada recently had the 150th anniversary of it’s confederacy, an effort that was lead by John A. MacDonald, the architect of the genocide against native Americans.

Are Canadians generally proud of their founding father?
I second this approach. My home automation is 98% HomeKit (via homebridge) and 2% Node-RED (for a few custom MQTT message translations and a dinky little dashboard with metrics).
If you want to stay in the news, cost the Israeli army money on Iron Dome rockets, rattle Israeli nerves but not watch Gaza get steamrolled yet again, you send the rockets on a clear day when Iron Dome can intercept them with ease.

If you do want yet another IDF counterassault, then yes, launch in foggy weather.

Hamas mostly takes the first option.
Note that this paper was published by economists (as opposed to epidemiologists) and does not appear to have undergone peer-review.
That doesn't help if it expands differently from the rebar and concrete. One of the advantages of rebar is that it has a similar coefficient of thermal expansion so when there are temperature changes the concrete and rebar expand and contract in sync and don't have stresses from that.
Forgot the most important part, is it cheaper than steel?
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I'm sorry that you're going through this situation and I'm glad that you've reached out for support long ago. I hope things settle down soon for you and your kid.

Thanks for sharing these details about Italy. I had no idea. Is it the same for moms there?
"Please reconsider" is the wrong tone. One might as well ask an abuser to "please reconsider" abuse. Closer to the point might be, "Your actions are unethical, illegal, and I will gladly join the class action that results from this."
I run it in a VM and don't mind it; it's got the updater, it feels pretty self contained.

I even do USB passthrough to give it access to my z-wave stick.
> For all of its many other issues, one thing clear is that Singapore is one of the few countries where being a public servant is a reputable and highly regarded career.

Singaporean here. It's mostly "reputable and highly regarded" if one gets a top-tier government scholarship [1], since that leads to civil service postings with more exposure and chances to take credit.

Everyone else is just a "farmer" [2][3]. :)

[1] https://www.quora.com/Are-scholarship-holders-more-likely-to...

[2] https://www.mycarforum.com/forums/topic/2675951-lousy-schola...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7p5unh/degree_ho...
I know that at least one vehicle in this[1] car chase scene does not exist, but only because I've heard a director's commentary. I'm guessing most people wouldn't spot it either. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if there were others. I don't think it's a problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ARFyrM6gVs
I'm down with the right to own botnets under the 2A.
I think anybody can make it with adhesive tape and a piece of graphite, or so the Nobel prize led me to believe.

Making it in large sizes is more difficult.

https://www.abitape.com/an-unlikely-hero-how-sticky-tape-led...
> I'm having a real hard time believing that anything user-beneficial will come of this, unless you're willing to sell out your smarthome and privacy to big tech.

At this level, the way data is handled is vendor agnostic.

I see Matter as more akin to USB, or indeed, the internet, as the idea is that devices are supposed to be able to communicate via IP, not just by ZigBee.
For comparison, I used to be a very average, but pretty regular user about 5 years ago. I could reliably solve easiest 2 out of 5 problems, 3 in my lucky days.

My rating is 1562.
I have ESP32 cameras that (mostly) work with HomeKit (there are a few memory issues on the ESP32 side), and a full blown HomeKit camera that "just works".
The navigation room star map sequence was magical, though.
If there aren't enough simultaneous users, consider running chats on-the-hour or the ability to schedule.
> but I honestly don't understand why a list of rewards is a counterpoint to my personal opinion

Because it's an opinion from people that supposedly understand the subject matter more than anyone, so caries more weight.
Open source supports businesses' impact on climate change
yeah its the point of the book, but it didn't FEEL like it in this movie, at least not to me. There was little grit and dirt.