skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Umm is the USA a democracy

Fortunately the USA and Russia aren't the only two countries (or models of "democracy") out there, but in any case, the USA managed to have a change of presidency and ruling political party after a competitive election, and Trump didn't try to send Biden (or Hillary) to any gulag.
I have maintained an open source project for many years now called Gofakeit. Not too long ago I released a website for it so that everyone else can use it. I really dont know where I am going with it but it's one of those things that I personally use and right now thats enough for me.

github.com/brianvoe/gofakeit
gofakeit.com
The excitement between successful compilation and running a program -- only to find out that it emits a stream of nonsense to the console instead of the answer you expect: but that's no problem, ctrl-c and back to the code.

The satisfaction of opening a perfectly-tuned merge request with a minimal diff and glowing momentarily to yourself as tests all begin to pass (before realizing that there's an embarrassing typo in the title text).

The feel-good factor from optimizing runtime and energy usage for your most prized simulation library (despite the fact that it's only used by yourself and perhaps one other egg avatar who starred your repository).

The endless mental battle against an onslaught of awful, awful code and technology decisions from employers and the Internet, yet paired with evident continued emergence of more reliable, higher quality and more freely available and equitable tools over time. And being able to participate in all that in a small way.
Honestly, I gave-up on editing about:config.

As soon as I do it, the non-dismissable "let's reset your profile" message pops up again. There's no point.
As a professional that gets offers like this ("it will be good for your portfolio") I hate this comment.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Speaking as a tiktok-using millennial nerd, it only took about a week or so for my feed to exclusively send me content on D&D, tech advice, science fiction skits, history lessons, and the occasional book review.

The content is there, but sometimes you do have to help the algorithm a little by using the search feature and liking the sort of videos that you actually want to see.
There's a weird type of logic going on where almost everyone who would be willing to do it for almost free is probably not qualified for the job. Would you really stake the future of your foundation on someone who still needs to build their resume?
A Primer on Sales-Driven Planning
The movement has to brand it as human rights issue (which they possibly have) and the political activity problem flies out of the window.
It's complicated, unfortunately. :(

Many places actively hide the problem in various ways, or ship folks off to 're-education camps' from which they may not come back, or classify it so it doesn't show up so much.

America seems to be pretty unique in that it lets it all hang out, front and center, and has a bunch of social activists groups running around publicizing the issue without gov't or society telling them to sit down and shut up.

It also has a much worse problem, also due to the socioeconomics of how the country exists (imo), and the legal structures and social disconnectedness of it's various urban and rural areas.
The professionals that work in those nonprofits do. If you want a capable manager or SEO, you need to pay a correct market price.
wttr.in: `curl wttr.in` check weather in terminal
Incorporating in another country wouldn't do them much good either to be honest, unless they also intend to stop selling in the US and Europe.
Here's something you can do without being in charge - https://donate.mozilla.org/
The point is that many other countries should adopt rights similar to the 2nd Amendment, because it has been proven to increase civil liberties with very few downsides. Canadians who refuse to do so are more likely to be trampled by big government.
> On Windows you can tune the subpixel rendering parameters using a configuration tool.

Hasn't worked for me for a long time. At least insofar as choosing the grayscale results consistently until the tool shows only grayscale doesn't actually result in grayscale text elsewhere. Also, if you rotate your screen, it still keeps the original bgr vs rgb setting. Subpixel rendering is generally a bit broken everywhere. It's especially pleasant when it's used and then scaled-up by the OS, making the fringing no longer subpixel.
The technical reason is obvious. App development occurs on top of a massively bloated and ineffecient UI toolkit where you can dev most of your UI in xml. I would be absolutely shocked if ps vita used anything like that. They're using opengl or similar and coding the UI is going to require more coding expertise but the performance is going to be great. You could do the same on a smartphone of course, and get maybe even better perf compared to a vita, but no one does (unless its a game).
It's a lot harder to graft the simple/mundane solution, and you don't get high priced consultants going around wining and dining the decision makers for it either.
Media coverage of these protests is vastly negative. I remember only a few years ago (2020) when protests were undoubtedly violent across the United States. Video evidence of this violence as well as mass crowd driven theft was widely documented and distributed. I have yet to see video evidence of any violence from freedom convoys, and the ground based video evidence I have seen appears vastly peaceful. This does not mean there isn’t violence. Indeed, blockading roads could be construed as violence based on an argument for different definitions of the word. Yet, from my personal observations, it seems that the protests are essentially peaceful, citizens living in these cities are in support in large numbers, and this is running counter to the narrative being espoused in mainstream media sources, with the possible exception of Fox News. More or less it seems as though media sources are mischaracterizing these protests overall. Furthermore, it can be effectively argued that forcing workers to get vaccinated or lose their jobs is inherently discriminatory and perhaps even anti-freedom. But these are only my personal observations and conclusions, be what they are, a single individuals insight into the times occurring around him, debate as you will.
I love the DIN family but haven't been able to find a monospaced variant for coding/terminal use. I'd add Abstract Fonts[1] to the list, though you have to watch the license (many are only free for personal/non-commercial use).

[1] https://www.abstractfonts.com/
I'm a total moderate, I try very hard not to view these things through a partisan lens. As a free thinking human I feel no need to have my opinions dictated by any group of people. I think your comment is one that has some merit WRT the police's actions and what they might be able to do better, but it is framed in such a hostile, inflammatory, extremely partisan way. You criticize this website for being bent on some partisan streak that you don't like and needlessly bring race into the conversation when this entire thing has nothing to do with race whatsoever.

> is proof that the so-called lack of freedom that they're fighting for is simply not the bogeyman they've made it out to be

It's disingenuous to equate the lack of freedom that they are talking about with the lack of freedom to protest. They are not the same thing, the protesters are talking about vaccine mandates specifically.
BLM is based in the United States, so that reference would not make sense unless you are talking about funding crossing state lines.

> It's a Canada policy, but is specific to crossing the border from the US.

Up until the blockade of the border, it was an internal matter entirely, but you are correct here. If the border situation escalates, then the OAS needs to get involved to mediate a ceasefire and ensure that free and fair elections can take place.
An important UX difference is that Firefox's default "New Tab" keyboard shortcut doesn't respect the container of the current tab. I've found that it's really easy to accidentally switch back to the main container.
Is this part about terminals actually true? Or a tad exaggerated for marketing?

> MonoLisa uses open forms and terminals (starting and ending points) that are pointing towards the neighboring letters to let the eye follow the line of text fluently.

Regardless, I like the font overall. My go-to is Fira Code but this might be worth a try.
I’m really using this font everyday since about two years. I remember setting the font in vscode and testing comic sans ms for fun, just to see. To my surprise it wasn’t that bad for me but of course not monospaced. So I looked at monospaced fonts inspired by comic sans ms, you have a few free ones on GitHub, and I ended up with comic code relatively quick.
As has been pointed out, you can visit relatives in Canada. What you can't do is zip back and forth across the border willy nilly during this pandemic, while refusing to take the preventative measures 4/5ths of your (eligible) countrymen have taken, namely vaccination.

I'm an American living in Canada. Like you I chose to live across an international border from my family. Guess what? Living abroad inconvenient from time to time! During a pandemic when one country (USA) chooses to behave idiotically, the result being a 3x per capita death rate compared to Canada, it's even more inconvenient. Ironically, people like you (who can't be bothered to do anything to prevent virus spread) are the reason we have to have all these damned restrictions.

Despite the inconvenience to me (didn't see family for over a year) I support the border closures and restrictions fully. I am very proud of Canada's success in keeping death and hospitalization rates down compared to USA, and proud of Canadians' civic spirit and collective solidarity. That civic spirit is a big part of why I prefer living here.

If you never want to be inconvenienced in your travels to and within Canada: move back home. You are opting into a certain amount of inconvenience by living abroad, that is your choice.
The tweet is deleted. Regardless, I am sure not "all" protesters are looking for violence, but the ones who brought weapons and ammo certainly did. And I am sure not all of them have been found and arrested.
> The MD also claims "I would say that a huge 18-wheeler is not a peaceful thing to have in the middle of your city" which is weird since large trucks are a primary and pervasive mode of transporting goods nearly everywhere.

I must have missed where large trucks sit for days on end, engine running, horns blaring endlessly as part of their "useful public utility".

> The story also does not disclose that the interviewee is an Ontario public employee, essentially a spokesperson for the government position, which is in opposition to the protestors.

This is blatant bias on your part. Doctors employed by the state to provide healthcare are not government spokespeople, however you're trying to spin it here.
Good question. I have 10 years of professional experience under my belt now. 10 years before that, from the age of 10 I was spending 100% of my free time playing with and learning programming languages.

I think an important piece to this puzzle lies in not getting attached to one specific field of application.

Worked for about 3 years in a regular run-of-the-mill agency / website shop. Not very interesting, but good experience and skills gained.

Worked for about 2-3 years in ecommerce. EXCRUCIATING. Left with little to no appreciation left for the craft, fell into a crisis of meaning. Allowed myself to be unemployed for a while and found appreciation again.

Worked for about 1-2 years freelance. Very cool projects, but I couldnt take the constant stress of dealing with clients and managing moneyflow. Stopped.

Now I've been building a venture with a business partner of mine for about one year, which has somehow completely evolved and changed into effectively managing the technical side of a quantitative analysis firm that runs a NYSE-listed Hedgefond. INCREDIBLE. Every day feels like christmas, noone to answer to, 100% decision force on anything, and not even involved with the regular operations, just dreaming up cool new algorithms and ideas for our internal system all day. But this, too, I might leave some day.

I truly believe that a programmer is not a static definition especially given the insane influx of data and new concepts we process every day, and that the only way to truly find ourselves in it is to not get attached to anything.

The zen programmer, so to speak. Code is not limited to anything. Become the code, not the job description
>>I don’t think it’s the same if you have kids from what I’ve seen.

The endless list of housework expands when the kids are quite young, but perhaps the biggest difference for most parents is the motivation.
If I wanted to start a media hosting service for me and my community (_local, only within an N-block radius of my hosting device_), who would you expect to be held liable if the hard drives associated with that device held something illegal in those N-blocks?
Most hand guns are prohibited[0] weapons in Canada. You need explicit authorization to transport [2] prohibited weapons. There are pretty strict rules[3] for how they're to be transported, too. You're not just allowed to drive around with handguns rattling around in the car, this isn't the US. Large capacity magazines are illegal in almost all cases [1]. Even that machete might be illegal given the context [4].

[0] https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/firearms/classes-firearms

[1] https://www.grc-rcmp.gc.ca/en/firearms/maximum-permitted-mag...

[2] https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/firearms/authorization-transpo...

[3] https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/firearms/storing-transporting-...

[4] https://cubetoronto.com/canada/are-machetes-illegal-in-canad...
It's also possible management didn't know what all you did. Or, you were running around like a headless chicken-not aligned with the company goals.
Big hands, you need.
What? I kind of get that some censorship can be illegal. But if I privately choose to think that the views of X are idiotic, and kick them away from me because of that, that's my call. That's not censorship, that's me choosing.

As someone else implied, the private company can do as it please (within the law), and if getting chucked off the platform is a problem, then there is a monopoly problem to be dealt with, not a censorship problem.
If you like symbols and fancy terminal stuff, I'd also like to recommend any of the Nerd Fonts - all free.

https://www.nerdfonts.com/
I can make stuff that has never existed before.

I can make stuff that changes businesses.

I can make stuff that changes lives.

I do this with my mind, with no raw materials.

My ideas and time are the only limits.

How could someone with creative fire not love this?
Also, it only shows 3-4 items on the screen at once, so you aren't overwhelmed with content, unlike hn. :)
Is anyone surprised? A lot of the large tech companies that have been saying it's ok to work from home have almost as much invested in real estate as they do in their own technology.

Sustained WFH would reduce the value of this real estate greatly so it's in their best interest to do an about turn as soon as it's "safe".

I don't think Microsoft is any different.
To be fair, I'm not sure "offline readability" is an actual problem anymore. VS Code and (presumably) other IDEs offer a very simple live-preview window for viewing and editing markdown files.
"and cars need to not be treated fairly."

Depends on your definition. They don't need to be treated equally, but if the system isn't "fair" then what's the point of anything? Nobody will follow a system they don't believe in and that doesn't make sense. Cars aren't treated equally, and are held to a higher standard.

"And I live in Seattle where we get a lot of people jaywalking indiscriminately who one way or another don't seem to care about their own safety and I've never come close to hitting any of them either."

If the police enforced the law, then perhaps we could protect those people from themselves. That's the way the system is designed - to have all parties be alert and responsible so as to reduce the probability of two irresponsible parties meeting, resulting in an accident.

"And I don't see where you've offered any evidence that we have an issue with pedestrians being irrational and you seem to be very transparently trying to flip the blame without any evidence."

Do you have any evidence of me flipping blame, or are you just attacking me now? I'm not trying to "flip" blame. You can look up contributory negligence if you'd like. You can look up just about any city you want and you will see a significant number of accidents show at least partial fault on the part of the pedestrian. Now, we could look at redesigning infrastructure to be safer, but as it stands pedestrians not following the law account for a large part of the problem under the current system. Simply changing the system to shift the blame around, as you propose, is not going to result in a safer system (you've shown no proof). Link at bottom

"You don't have the default position here, the default position needs to be that car drivers need to change."

There is no "default position" here, and to assume one is uncharitable and detracts from the discussion.

My position is that we need stricter testing for drivers. It's also in opposition to assuming a driver is guilty of manslaughter - I believe in innocent until proven guilty.

In an effort to explore your position, I've repeatedly asked for what proof would absolve a driver under your proposed system of guilty until proven innocent, yet you haven't provided any. We need criteria.

I've given examples of when pedestrians could be at fault by breaking the law. It appears you are the one engaging in whataboutism since my statements are backed up by law and fact, yet you have provided neither.

https://www.treehugger.com/why-are-percent-fatal-accidents-f...
I've always been attracted and antagonized by the recurring theme of irrationality just below the surface of all of this. I've never thought of myself as a "coder" but as someone who engineers how people think about problems. I just end up coding because I guess I love sideshows and amateur burlesque. My father was a shrink. He was fond of (among other books) _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mechanics_. Are you seeing how this is going? I took out a display ad in the back of (print) _Computer World_ which said "VAX Hacker for Hire", in 1984.
Same at my company, biggest pile of shit waste of time.
Actually I did RTFA (not sure what your Q means) as indicated by my direct reference of groups A-D, but stopped once I saw the JQL style query as that really sealed the deal for me.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220214133025/https://www.nytim...
Comments I've read say the file has over 100k names, postal codes, and email addresses of people who have donated. Now, they've likely been radicalized by being doxed, and they can find each other both online, and by postal code.

By releasing this data, these hackers have provided probably the most valuable organizing, fundraising, and sales pipeline list for conservative causes and businesses ever created in the country, and it is that quality of forethought that I think makes this a Canadian state backed operation. The wisdom behind this was truly exemplary.
I see your "supposedly" and I'm done with you.
are those 89 IQ politicians incorruptible?
Yeah, it's hard to believe at first. In case you're curious, here's the source code https://git.do.srb2.org/KartKrew/Kart-Public
14-16hrs? Seems a bit weak.

How about 24hrs? Now that's torture, or as we Americans like to claim "enhanced interrogation"... [Enemy combatants were exposed to sensory deprivation which included 24hrs of American heavy metal music and 24hrs of flood spotlights to prevent sleeping.]

I get it, after living peacefully before these protests started it might appear as torture, however it is again just annoying behavior not torture. As mentioned by other comments, ear plugs are a thing, sleeping pills could help, glass of warm milk perhaps.

You have options in this scenario, unlike when you are being physically tortured, you have no options but to endure.
>had this been a left-wing protest, "the state" response would have been brutal and decisive

Recent history does not support this view.

When left-wing railway blockades shut down the entire CN rail network, there was no "brutal and decisive" response. It took the better part of a year to resolve, and the OPP didn't enforce the court ordered injunction CN got, and the Liberal government was meeting frequently with the protestors.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/marc-miller-path-forward-pr...
I know I'm not particularly unique in having that sort of past, but it's comforting to hear someone else share these thoughts. Thank you.
is it still 20% of the people doing 80% the work in software projects?

if so finding those 20% and rewarding them accordingly. give them a raise, assign them stock options, make them feel appreciated and financially tied with the company.

this should be more effective than micro-management.

in my book, management is basically trying to use the least money to get the most out of employees, if instead reward people based on their measurable finished items(e.g. work got done on time), most of the management tricks go away on its own, they will manage themselves better than you can ever do.
This reminded me of something I believe I saw on here some time ago: https://github.com/monicahq/monica

EDIT: Yeah, I saw it here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270001).
A blockade of the border is a matter of international concern, the occupation of Ottawa is not unless the stability of the regime is in question, which would be of interest to the State Department.
3 is hardly a sea shanty of vulnerabilities for a 7 year old library. I think you're conflating releases with vulns.
In modern genomics, you are seeing more and more use of BAMs (Binary versions of SAM files which themselves are Sequence Alignment Files) even for unaligned data that FASTQ was normally used for. Not only are they smaller in size, but they themselves have a compressed format called CRAM which can use lossy or lossless compression depending on the use case.

Interestingly almost all of the petabyte scale and beyond processing of genomes (whole or exome) is done on the JVM as the library and toolkit ecosystem is extremely mature and it is significantly more performant than just scripting things in Perl. Having access to the big data ecosystem that runs on the JVM is also another reason why languages like Java and Scala are found in the high performance areas of genomics.
Apparently you get monkeys if you pay millions too...
thats a lot of mental gymnastics you're doing there to avoid that cognitive dissonance
I think it's the opposite. A lot of the HN demographic has in fact mulled this over time and time again, and has no patience for those who don't account for the possibility that one day, the monopolist will stop being a nice guy when there is every incentive to do that.

I would rather educate than downvote, but downvoting has gotten to be more emotional than based on the site guidelines, so not everyone sticks to that.
How is this a moat for BlockFi? Why can't a competitor do exactly the same thing as BlockFi without paying the $100M fine? Asking this question earnestly because I actually want to know more.
I wouldn't doubt that for the train horns, especially outdoors. ~80db inside an apartment is what I heard personally from someone I trust who lives there still, so that's usually what I go with.