skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the cost. Licensing of fonts can be quite expensive. For example, if you are a big multinational and you get a site license for a font for marketing, you're looking at a couple million a year minimum. On the other side, if you hire a firm to design a font, it's a one time payment of a couple hundred thousand, plus you own the rights in perpetuity. It makes a lot of sense to just take the time and make a font that works for you and to which you own the rights when you look at the economics.
[https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/#why-go-custom]
While I'm not at all surprised that foreign students could easily get sucked into this kind of scheme what really surprises me is that an American CS grad would not have much better options, especially with all the hype about "lack of workers".
Hmm, I'm afraid I'm a bit biased against anything "explore", because I always associate it with Microsoft (internet explorer and file explorer).
Aye, Facebook Marketplace is basically the only reasonable place to look for second hand goods, where I live.
Running locally is great but I would already be happy if I could step through a CICD pipeline with a debugger. This includes stepping though the services the pipeline calls. Also include breakpoints.
So imposter syndrome is justified sometimes is what you're saying?
A Link to the Past Online – ALttPO
Speculative fiction magazines are doing relatively well because the standing of speculative fiction in literary circles has risen so much.

50 years ago, it was largely considered pulp and not real literature (though I would argue that plenty of "real literature" was being written in the genre, it just wasn't widely accepted as such by contemporaries). Even the few works that were accepted, people often claimed that it wasn't really SF.

More recently, it is increasingly being accepted that being SF doesn't inherently reduce something's literary value, so SF magazines have had more room to grow.

Even with that, a lot of the traditional leaders among SF magazines have been struggling. What's doing well are the newer online-first magazines, most notably Tor.com, which has boatloads of money to throw around (by short fiction standards) and doesn't need to be financially self-sustaining because it is effectively a loss-leader for their novels.
Can someone please explain exactly what data is the issue here? Is Facebook being targeted just because of their scale or is anyone who runs an online service expected to keep any data from their European users on EU servers? Is there a TLDR of the laws applying to transatlantic data transfers anywhere?
This was not just fake news, this was deliberate misinformation. A title saying 'FB threatens to leave EU' means something very different from 'FB lists EU regulation as a potential threat to business in SEC filings'
I detect nothing simplistic or hyperbolic, these are clear facts backed by history.
Unable to login to twitter just now.
Very nice. I agree with keeping track of which letters were guessed, maybe giving users the ability to set flags on them to keep track of their deductions in place of auto-eliminating them.

My first real program (age 8) was an implementation of mastermind written in gwbasic. IIRC it worked surprisingly well.

Request - cursor keys, overtyping, delete, etc should work better. Right now there are a few glitches in the cells.
Yes

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That actually explains this whole situation perfectly. I’m making a huge assumption here, but if the people who had no trouble picking up this information, are the same people who end up becoming the professors, they probably teach in a way that does not cater to students who need the instruction and feedback of a professor.
Load something on the app that isn't cached, its not working either.
Couldn't agree more. It's baffling that we seem to be slowly moving away from email addresses as primary account identifiers, and less slowly from using them as the default 2FA reset channel.

- I can own my email address; I cannot meaningfully own a phone number.

- Email is international. Phone numbers aren't. (Edit: Often, not all countries/dial codes are accepted by sign-up forms, and it's usually not feasible to keep a phone number when moving internationally.)

- Email works with or without a cell signal/via mobile data.

- Many email providers offer 2FA, and domain name port-out prevention seems relatively robust these days. SIM swaps and port-out attacks still seem way too easy to pull off.
(somehow post got cut off, too late to edit)

…part of my original point was that Zram will resolve the SSD endurance problems.
How do you know those meals weren't already being made before you got there?
Good riddance. ;)
I have worked in consulting, and internally, the above was pretty-much our definition of "senior" that we used to determine who was billed out at "senior rates:" The engineers who also had customer-facing skills and coördination skills and understanding the customer's byzantine constraints skills and so forth.

Those who focused on just coding were billed out for less than those who spent time in meetings and writing words.
Have two of these labor of love, don't really care if it takes off types of projects right now.

First is Sonic Postcards - a digital postcard and playlist of my favorite music for the week. Pretty much doing it as an excuse to find new music, learn about the artists, and keep a writing habit going.

https://www.sonicpostcards.io/

Second is Streamster. OSS lib designed to make working with natural resource related APIs easier. Main goal being to provide an easier way to get the data and have it returned in a more consistent format. Allow devs to leverage the data and not spend all their mental bandwidth wrangling with it.

https://github.com/streamster/streamster
I live in Mexico and have several friends in different EU countries. Would it be possible for me to follow them , read their feeds and interact normally if I was in the US and Facebook blocked data transfers between EU/US?
Is the purpose of the data transfer necessary transparent and proportionate? If so, no problem and your far flung relatives can communicate without issue. These principles frustrate the surreptitious core purposes of Facebook however and so it doesn’t make sense for them to facilitate in those terms. If you’re not paying for a service you are the product.
I think game like Factorio shows that level of automation is kind of quantized.

First there is no automation, then one resource is automated but others are not, then several are automatized, but combining them is not. There are gaps where building the next thing doesn't make sense even if it makes sense when you have little bit more resources.

I think this is true in business as well. It's hard to tell when you have crossed the threshold where building the next level makes sense.

You tend to use a lot of time and money to build the next level of automation and only then you can measure if it was worth it or not.
It's interesting that for some people, the pursuit of real-life activities is a fair opportunity cost of spending time on a computer (I won't claim I'm not one of them). Has there ever in history been a diversion that is able to keep people inside their homes for months on end?
While this is true, if this is going to be the future, it may as well be provided as a feature with the proper precautions. While this doesn’t fully sandbox code, it does at least seem to provide some decent baseline security features. If I needed to import code from a web address for some reason, this is certainly the way to go, and whether ideal or not, sometimes that is a need that crops up.

That said, proper sandboxing and/or at least optional integrity checking would certainly be nice.
Yes, I did. I have both shots and a booster. That said, this all started before the vaccines. The day before I got COVID I returned from a 30 mile trip with my buddy. I had COVID in January, and vaccines were available until months later, so I don't think it's really vaccine related.
I grow concerned with the increase in addiction research among technology companies. The language is disguised as user retention, engagement, social, gamification, etc.

I do not have a solution to this problem and it is a problem that I myself would contribute to if I was trying to design an app that people would use. Greater addiction mechanisms trend toward wider market adoption which leads to a higher value for shareholders. The current system of incentives to a company makes this focus inevitable.
My understanding was that it's about where the data resides. That assumption may or may not be true. But if it is it's feasible for EU data to be stored in the EU and US users request that data from the EU server. Again, my understanding was that this would be a valid way to handle that data but I might be wrong.
That would cost money!!!

Google, as a company, has still not figured out customer support. It is evident in their Google Suite products, GCP and Pixel phones.
Your comment and the OP kind of have parallels to a Malcom Gladwell discussion titled "Why You Shouldn't Go to Harvard [for STEM]"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J-wCHDJYmo

If I recall the TLDR was if you want to graduate with a STEM degree go to a strong second tier school and be the absolute best there instead.
I know at least a handful of people who graduated out of my CS program at a very reputed university but probably couldn't do fizzbuzz. And even otherwise, in recent years companies have massively cut down on new grad hiring because they don't want to spend time and money training them. Much easier to poach an experienced engineer from a competitor instead.
Yep, entirely down for me in the UK on the iOS app.
Some truth here, but some of what she describes (e.g. no example problems with worked solutions to learn from) are not sensible if you want people to learn. Imagine if programmers had only the definition of what a function does, but example code using it was banned from all documentation (and no Stack Overflow). Especially in a math class intended for non-majors, it's an odd policy.
That's ... something of an improvement, but domain transfers and loss are in fact A Thing.
Dupe of topic 1 minute earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30304442
People are definitely tired of hearing or caring about Meta.
Can you direct me to the evidence suggesting that Facebook/Meta operates in China? My understanding is that the only FAANG corporation that deals with the CCP is Apple, who has gone beyond siloing content and straight-up relocated a portion of their servers to the country.
Computer science is programming the same way structural engineering is construction.

The goal is to be able to efficiently solve non trivial problems.
Whew!

I was reporting tweets that violate their safety policies right before the auth failures started happening. I thought Twitter suspended me in retribution for bringing their attention to violations.
The article links to this tool:

https://github.com/kristiandupont/schemalint
And if it went away it would be inconvenient for a couple of weeks as people move to Matrix :)
I'm going to risk the downvote wrath but geerlingguy's rate of self-posting has annoyed me in the past. I did notice that the rate had dropped recently and am glad dang took proactive steps to communicate with geerlingguy to that end. That being said I am sorry you had to go through this recent experience and certainly never thought you should be banned.
The feeling when you get coal setup for the first time...
It won't be the people at the top leading the revolt. It never is. They'll have creamed enough off to be safe whatever happens. It'll be the people at the bottom. They might not have large individual "investments", but it is large to them, and when one day all of that disappears, they won't be happy. And there will be a lot of them, the 99.999% who own a tiny percentage of the total wealth. Remember - strength in numbers...
Evernote notebooks? Discontinued but the software might still work
https://www.designboom.com/technology/moleskine-smart-notebo...
> Most users barely log in, maybe once or twice a month to check their direct messages and waste a few minutes on the feed.

This is clearly wrong.

> Facebook led the way, where Americans spent an average 58 minutes a day on the app.

> Instagram was the second most used service, and it remained most popular among Gen-Z users, who spent almost 53 minutes per day, or 297 hours year;

With DAU of >2b people, I think you're drastically underestimating the scope of damage from a FB withdrawal from the EU.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2021/06/24/americans...
I’ve heard crazier ideas.
Maybe. Consider for example Hossack (2020) Knowledge and Philosophy of Number. He indeed lays out a framework in which negative "numbers" aren't considered numbers, precisely because negative numbers combine a magnitude with a direction.
What portion of student's would you estimate ask you or the TA about exercises?
Yeah its down
I'm interested in finance and analytics. So I like to monitor and occasionally write bots to trade crypto currencies on decentralized exchanges in a real world environment. Could I do algo trading without blockchain? I guess but the transparency and tooling of EVM is unmatched, and I don't know the tax and legal consequences of doing it in proper exchanges. Blockchain is the wild west and for someone who is curious and likes to tinker, it's the environment I prefer.

What's the self-hosted lambda alternative for what I want to do?

> [edit] Ah, I see the answer to my question is regulatory arbitrage. Gotcha. Along with crime and grift, regulatory arbitrage is one of the three big pillars of blockchain.

Can we stop with the moral panic? If I live in a state where its a crime to gamble (except for heavily advertised state run lottery that targets poor people), and I am of sound body and mind and want to legally gamble and learn something about probability, psychology and technology in the meantime, why is this a bad thing? Give me a break
The Mars backup plan seems kinda dumb to me because Mars is worse as is than all but the very worst post-apocalyptic Earth scenarios.

Just build bunkers here and staff them in shifts. Much cheaper.

Your remaining threats for which Mars would be better than "ruined" Earth are something like a grey goo event, or an asteroid so large that it liquefies much of the crust (killing everyone in all your bunkers). So, a fair bit bigger than the one that killed the Dinosaurs.

I am very interested in watching people try to colonize Mars, but find the "backup for Earth" argument ridiculous, especially if presented as something urgent.
when there is a “but” in a sentence, the part before it automatically gets assigned as false.
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
In Singapore both the app and web is down
Universal Viewer
web is not working,
login is not working,
lists are not working,
cant send/reply.
mobile feed works and shows only old tweets
Well then do you prefer the term: "mostly peaceful"?

The entire world has been watching closely for the entire protest.
Yes I also thought this, but being a dev my first choice was to check console and find the error and also the network tab
as you unlock more technologies, it becomes increasingly easy to refactor/maintain a large factory. ex: bots are a major inflection point in the game. you could scale up petroleum processing and red circuits before getting bots (you need these two things to make them), but that involves a lot of manual effort. it's usually better to do a barely sufficient (but tileable!) petroleum and rc setup, then immediately fix it after making a few construction bots.

more general tip: clean interfaces are more important than massive capacity up front. in the long run, you will always need more steel/circuits/etc than you can serve with a single production line. but even if the internal layout is a mess, a functional unit with a clean interface can be scaled horizontally forever.
This is actually an interesting case study of who is spreading and consuming fake news.

This fake news reached the top of reddit and trended on Twitter. Both are dominated by users who think of themselves as smarter than the fake news consuming boomers on Facebook.

In my country it was reported by both the tabloids and mainstream media. Only the publicly owned Danmarks Radio (Danish BBC) didn't spread this fake news.
I just don't get this. I feel like people back port their learning experiences to games that have a similar enough structure. A nice observation, but you can't go in the reverse direction by playing Factorio to learn something tangible. Factorio doesn't have the same failure granularity as the real world and so the usefulness of the analogy/mindset just doesn't do it for me.

Plus my skill can be replaced by roughly how well I can memorize other peoples' factory patterns.

Don't get me wrong though, it's a great game, and probably had the same impact for its genre as Doom had for FPS games.
Tweetdeck is working for me:

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
Savour with a side of H-1B visa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
Fun fact: The typeface Courier (New) we know today from PCs (esp. Windows) is the most enduring of the fonts designed for IBM typewriters that were named after agent nouns related to communication: Adjutant, Advocate, Artisan, Courier, Delegate, Orator, Scribe.
I don’t think I made that argument, in fact, my comment was made specifically without the qualifier of it being legal vs. illegal. Manipulation (which let’s face it, social engineering is a fancy way of saying) is a pretty solid example of an unethical behavior depending on your ethical world view. Utilitarian? Great, you must also think torture is acceptable so long as it saves lives. Deontological ethical world views might have something different to say, speaking of Germans (e.g., Kant).

Regardless, I think contriving scenarios where you think someone may act corruptly just to catch them doing so is equally as unethical as a police officer encouraging someone to commit a terrorist act then arresting them once they do.

It is manipulative, may not have happened otherwise if not for the original actor, and is akin to saying “I hope you don’t behave like I’d expect a human to instinctually behave if put in a corner”.
> A lot of "math" as talked here, is not part of what make a programmer competent FOR programming.

Basic algebra is quite useful. It's reasonable to expect most programmers to be able to do simple algebra when it comes up. There's a whole lot of reasons:

- Analysis of algorithms and work done generally involves manipulating algebraic expressions and factoring.

- Reordering numeric expressions in code means understanding the composition of operations and invertibility.

- A whole lot of work can often be avoided by being able to derive an equivalent expression.

Yes, continuous math isn't "CS math" but it's a reasonable thing to expect a programmer to be competent in.
/F/FreeAsInFreedom
The problem is particularly common in China, where almost all services require a mobile number to register an account per the regulation.

Recently, a service has been established in some cities that allow a mobile number owner to delete the accounts related to the number at multiple services. [1]

1. https://www.ithome.com/0/600/098.htm (Chinese)
The opposite is also true. I have a Google Voice number that originally came from a cell phone, so many sites that otherwise block VoIP numbers let me use it.

Really the only place that gives me issues is Chase Bank.
Is 9292's data open? The parent commenters' project sounds more similar to http://www.openov.nl/.
I will turn 67 on Valentine's day so I am in the 4th quarter of my life. As I look back on my life I have enjoyed a lot of successes (two retirements) and some significant setbacks(bad marriage). That is the nature of life. There will be ups and downs. You just need to learn how to handle the downs so that you end up in a positive posture when get to your 4th quarter. Don't give up or get disillusioned anywhere along life's journey because you can always make a comeback no matter how far you are down at any given point. Life is a great and rewarding experience. Don't let negative thoughts or feelings spoil it.
I'm not allowed to look at code on Fridays.
Try searching on archive.org. They have thousands of manuals, books, magazines. and even software for vintage computers. They even have emulators to run the software in a web browser.
If you are sending a message to a person in another country, you are consenting to that communication traveling to the location of that person. See article 6:

1. Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

(a) the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

(b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract

[.. other permissible purposes snipped ..]

Generally, the GDPR issues with sending to another country boil down to whether the EU accepts that the other country's government will allow the company protect the data in ways compatible with the GDPR. When sending that data to another company happens for reasons incidental to the permissible purpose of your data (eg EU-to-EU data processed in the US) this becomes an issue, as you've not consented to that risk. If you are specifically requesting that your data be sent to, say, the US, however, then processing that data in the US becomes necessary and thus much more justified.

From a technical perspective, you can certainly silo your data and transfer only as needed. This is however way more complicated, as you need to now deal with the fact that you're potentially performing joins across high-latency datastores, where you might need to be careful about what query data you're sending across the wire, and where your different silos need to apply access controls against each other. If you didn't engineer for this from the start, it's a big shift in architecture.
Also seeing it here in Japan and has been reported by my coworkers across multiple continents. The twitter.com site is also broken; not accepting cookied sessions nor logins.
Yes its because of some font which is not allowed from the twitter domain
I intend to write a personal take on this topic as well. I am not a CS grad, but I definitely know CS grads who struggled to find work after college. One went to a bootcamp and still couldn't find a job. In my view, we tend to focus on the people that make it easily than those who struggle to get close.
What Schaum's Outlines would be relevant here?
I can read and like tweets, but can't send new ones.
I'm not seeing the value. Basically foreign civilians would be a couple of hours late to know about a foreign war?