skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a dev who constantly switches out fonts / themes & also pays for them, a few things to note:

- I mainly test for clarity, how HD something is on my IDE from 12 to 16px. I paid for Monolisa (which I like a lot) but other open source fonts actually have higher fidelity(Luculent, Fairfax HD, Hermit, Agave) - this gives me pause on purchase of license.
- No ligatures isn’t a deal breaker, but many open source fonts have them Day 1 & are implementing them well. My work place has lambdas & operators all over code base - some fonts make it easier to parse around.
- Price is not bad overall, as I feel paid fonts are Quality of Life coder tools, like mechanical keyboards (pro surfers don’t use surfboards from Walmart).
- Summary is that I’m on the verge to take the plunge but really need a day or 2 in the trenches with it to see how I flow with it. Trial version should exist like others say. Similarities to JetBrains Mono are there even if unintentionally so.
- I support indie mono fonts, keep iterating!
This is also the plot of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six.
Also, finance departments exist primarily to complain about the time it takes to reconcile your credit card charges, and to push as much as possible for said purchases to go through the B2B "on account" purchase process, and in 99.99% of non tech companies the head of finance will have more clout in the board room than anyone in your management chain - or you report to them, because tech is so obviously a finance function, in which case just give hope now*

(* Actually, it can be fine, finance directors are often perfectly nice people, with that deeply soothing habit of just rounding up to the nearest $10k/100k/1M.. but really can we get this stuff of your credit card, Clair complains every week about chasing you for receipts)
The main problem here is the view that the FBI is a guardian. What in the history of the FBI supports the position that agency is a guardian
1. That regulator already has the power, so this in no way increases their ability to do something like that.

2. Yes, manufacturers making deals with builders is one reason people end up with Internet Of Shit devices, but not the only one. Sometimes people buy them because they weren't properly informed, or locks are added in a software update, or it's simply the best all-round product so the person makes a compromise, or the local shops don't even sell anything without these anti-features.

Either way, the existence of such an anti-feature is unacceptable. Why should we have to fix every single situation where people end up with these, when it's far more effective to just outlaw them?

(And please don't mention any freedom of the manufacturer, corporations don't have rights. They should serve the people and people alone.)
This is an extreme position, and IMO unrealistic.
The key term here is "a moral-less dumb pipe."

I'm not sure it's even realistic to expect "dumb pipes" to me morally neutral, but that doesn't matter because Spotify is not trying to be a dumb pipe.

This is about podcasting, so let's stick with that. We already have/had a dumb pipe for podcasting. RSS. Podcasting is more free than most online media specifically for this reason. It uses an open protocol instead of a corporate platform. Notice how there is no post about RSS' policy regarding this war.

Spotify is, currently, trying to obtain exclusivity over top podcasts... taking podcasts off the "dumb pipe." The goal is to eventually dominate podcasting as they do streaming music. That's the opposite of platform neutrality, dumb pipes, decentralized moral choices, etc.

If you want dumb pipes, that idea is not really compatible with corporate fiefdoms in 2022 practice.
> As an R. Kelly fan...

You mean Robert Sylvester Kelly, who was found guilty of one count of racketeering and 7 counts of violation of the Mann Act after a jury trial?

The same R Kelly that illegally married 15 year old Aaliyah in 1994?

The same R Kelly that is now facing further federal charges of child pornography and obstruction?

How is he or his cases in any way relevant to censorship or "cancel culture"?

The guy is a convicted child molester and has been a sleazy person for 25+ years.
Over here in The Netherlands it was also definitely part of our physics course, I believe taught around the age of 14 or 15.
It's not just a marketing problem! With three minute headway, you can turn up a train that can carry up to ~2000 people (under BART's definition of crush load) and have another train there three minutes later. The largest AC Transit transbay bus holds 78 passengers, which means to provide an equivalent service you'd need 25 of them leaving every three minutes, or a double decker coach leaving the Salesforce terminal every 8 seconds. This is, given the infrastructure that exists, obviously impossible. Even given a world where instead of building the transbay tube we built another bridge devoted to buses, it wouldn't be possible without demolishing a bunch more of downtown to build a much larger bus terminal (or, alternatively, building it underground instead, and then we're really getting into a position where the economic benefits of buses are much less compelling)

I'm a big fan of high quality long-distance bus transit, and I've used it a bunch whenever I'm in Seattle. But it's really not obvious to me that experiences of buses in San Francisco give a great deal of information about how viable they as an alternative to genuine rail rapid transit systems.
USB-C connector is good for a change. Does it support DisplayPort output?
To clarify a bit, you are talking about classifed network design. That isn't what this document is about.

The author of this document, Information Assurance Directorate (www.iad.gov) is focused on helping domestic government, their contractors, and private industry secure networks and devices against intrusion from hostile actors.
I’m not convinced by the bioweapon debunking either for that matter.

But I can see how legitimate research can be made to look like weapons research and vice versa, so I have no idea how one would go about with either proving or disproving it.
Stop using windows. Stop accepting microsoft software at work.
Thanks, I've just started using it and it fits all my needs.
It's hard to trust a conclusion if three quarters of the argument offered in support are inaccurate. At least, it should invite a healthy dose of skepticism.

Calling the author of the article "some bored duded that wrote an article" is not a really strong argument against considering the points it made.
Neither of these should be mandatory (for #2 at least not yet)
That's basically what I quoted.
> Don't know why anyone expects a corporation to take the moral high ground.

Because corporations belong to the biggest and most powerful entities on the planet and not holding them to high moral standards seems to many of us like a sure way into a dystopian future.

If a corporation is viewed as some sort of mega-organism that lives long, evolves, changes it's environment, etc. who else then humans shall try to keep these from turning the world into a bad place? Even staunch believers into the invisible hand of the market think that it is individuals who will guide the corporations into behaving in such ways that they benefit all of us.
Chinese government would crackdown on this discussion whether true or not.
The traditional way has been to organise a panel of bureaucrats and a large diplomatic/informant network spread over multiple countries, where individuals often have multiple decades of experience in their area of the globe. Which still throws up some pretty terrible misjudgements; but that is the baseline for a serious try.

Any group who's state of the art information gathering includes having "a PR department" and reading the news shouldn't be trying to make moral judgements in countries half a world away. They're going to get it wrong, regularly, and start sanctioning people who shouldn't be sanctioned. The news is not reliable enough to make snap commercial decisions.

The only strategy that works in practice at scale is providing a dumb service. These companies are not up to the job of international politics, it is too fraught. If they think they can dip a toe in safely they're just taking on risk for no real gain. At best they can maybe blindly support the US position, which is the more morally questionable side a fair chunk of the time. Ukraine is unusual for me in that a country is being invaded and the US troops aren't explicitly involved.
>polling shows that Putin’s approval had increased to 70%

Or else!
true, the heavy restriction on the free flow of information is new, people had time to form an opinion with access to different sources beforehand.
These outlets have been sanctioned by, at least, the EU. I think it’s safer to block them everywhere.

Said that, they are part of the propaganda machine of a criminal regime, something akin to Der Stürmer. As far as I’m concerned, they shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
This is the same generative model used for optimal Wordle prediction.
You put they keys in the owner's hands with a method of changing them that can only he done with physical access.
Having grown up in a non bagel rich country, I've been puzzled ever since I first encountered them. What's the point of the weird shape? What's wrong with a square or even circular piece of bread without an inconvenient hole in the middle?

For an outside viewer, it looks like someone went out of their way to create a shape that makes it as difficult to deal with as possible, and then mass psychosis took over and everyone went all Hail bagel shape! for no good reason.

What am missing?
Bagel topology experiments preferred over human topology ones.
> most of what used to be desktop applications 15 years ago are now web applications.

and that was a choice
I don't think it is counter intuitive (maybe if you hold a strong opinion, it is.) There's a growing body of evidence that brains, to some degree, learn by removing connections, and in some cases, add connections elsewhere.

I think part of learning is, that we have some general idea about something, but it turns out to be inaccurate, so we need to specialize it (and get rid off the old connection.) I'm speculating though.

I'm a bit confused by the "replanted in others" part though. I'd assume, overall, there is a net loss of synapses when learning (and hence learning becomes more difficult as we age - there just isn't enough entropy to prune away.)

See also https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/why-do-we-forget-new...

And Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29940435

The article also has some older references - the idea isn't new.
While quantum decoherence explains appearance of classical objects in simple models, predicting the results of real experiments still not possible. And given this has not changed much as far as I know for the last 20 years, I started to suspect that decoherence alone may not be enough.
According to HN commenters, opposing Russia in any way is wrong because censorship, slippery slope, dissidents, etc. take your pick of why their horse is higher than yours.
> Shouldn't we at least consider what's their view on this instead of painting everything as big power rivalry?

Sure, but these aren't mutually exclusive topics. A terrible blunder on Russia's part may have been the sole catalyst, but that doesn't mean it's not a prime geopolitical opportunity for the US.
This is great. I am an amateur astrophotographer, just as a hobby.

When I'm planning for shooting a specific celestial body I can easily fast forward to night and see when and how long is the most suitable way to plan a shot (shooting deep space objects take total of many hours of exposures, "locked" to the same point in space using a tracker). Also know when moon and sun will rise/set which is crucial as even a tiny amount of sunlight or moonlight ruins the already-super-faint data.

Also has the mobile app, which is equally useful. Definitely recommended if you're getting into astrophotography, or just to see how time and Earth's rotation affects what is seen in the sky.
Yeah, and the local High School mascot could be the 'Vector'

>> http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/7/richland-wash...
Thanks I will check it through
Information Operations – Twitter Transparency Center (2021)
Those are state-run polling agencies, there is no recent independent polls as far as I am aware.
Perhaps someone could respond instead of downvoting me.
That sounds like a question for them, not me, I made no such claims. In fact I'd be quite interested in any evidence as well, although I wouldn't be surprised if they were using some kind of ML model in postprocessing which ended up adding some extra stars here and there (more charitably, you could think of it as converting noise into stars, when it was really just noise all along). But I'm certainly no expert on how smartphones process their photos.

> Post processing is a normal part of astrophotography, even with a DSLR.

Yes as someone interested in low light photography I'm well aware of this and it's why I'd be quite curious to see any evidence (assuming it exists) of smartphones doing weird things to their low light photos.
isn't HFT very math heavy and the actual solutions are done by essentially galaxy brain physicists/mathematicians?

seems like a very different skill than big tech coders.
So that's a no to being opposed to the indiscriminate bombing of civilians then.
Would make a good bar room hussle.
Will simply receiving the message unsolicited have a likelihood of getting people into trouble? Then I do see your point. But if the trouble you are worried about is more because average Russians might get it into their mind to take action and start protesting against their government despite the dangers, well, that's the point, isn't it? An analogy comes to mind. Was it wrong for the West to broadcast radio and television signals into the Eastern bloc during the Communist era? Learning things about their repressive governments absolutely inspired people to take action and get into serious trouble for it.
It's funny how people here on HN are always on about "it's a solution looking for a problem", etc. And then others try explain the use-cases, and they just try to refute it with all kinds of stupid arguments.

Now it's pretty clear how crypto can have a use case (as some of us already knew and were hammering on about it for a long time).

So can we set a new baseline here, and agree that crypto has a use-case? Or are you anti-crypto people still as short sighted as before?

I think we made some progress here on HN, and some of the "anti-crypto" people are now moving into "not pro crypto" space.
I own a content business. We publish "sponsored" posts on other sites. They contain original photos, unique information written by an expert, are always 100% relevant to the site's audience, and are always marked as guest posts. So sponsored/guest posts aren't always bad ;)

We find sites that are looking for good content for their audience and are not looking to get paid (but will pay a small editorial fee if asked). The types of sites that will accept any sponsored post are not the types you even want a sponsored post on
Abusing tightly regulated communications infrastructure to incite foreigners to overthrow their heads of state sounds like a quick way to get in a lot of trouble. I would not recommend it.
I assume that by 'you can never measure the exact position of an electron (or anything else)', they meant 'you can never measure the exact position of an electron (or the exact position of anything other than an electron)', not 'you can never measure the exact position of an electron (or any other property of an electron)'.
Came here to see if anyone else mentioned this.
Starship Troopers (1997) is an interesting movie that is basically a “war propaganda” movie seen from the viewpoint of a fascistic government. The whole point of the movie is to make the enemy seem like “the other” , and in this case these are actual alien bugs in the movie. All of the human characters in the movie are beautiful and everything on “our” side as we view it is shiny and “the good side”

Paul Verhoeven also deliberately made the first scene shot for shot similar to a german Nazi propaganda film.

The whole movie is to make you root for “our side” and demonize the other. I personally didn’t realize this fully when I watched it, which makes the process so insidious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers
You've obviously thought about this a lot and these are obviously far from trivial optimization problems to select between. The problem with the 2,000 person train calculation is that the train is already full by the time it hits downtown, by virtue of the nature of the route it travels which was defined in 1960. It's not able to pick up anywhere near 2,000 people at the downtown stops during rush hour, so that 78 passenger bus with a route designed to start where and when it is needed ends up being far more competitive with the nominally more load carrying train than the simple calculation suggests.
I can see where this could spur a market for replacement firmware or entire electronics packages for home appliances. Appliance repair technicians would be paid to install or "upgrade".
I strongly agree with you. Somewhat counter-intuitively to their naming, complex numbers make DSP much simpler. And they’re really not very complex.
It’s worth saying that there are great quality prosumer compact cameras, but the price point is much higher for this (>$600) than the old school cheap $100 point and shoot used to be.

It’s the bottom end of the market that’s been completely made obsolete, and as the quality gap shrinks there are also less people that want to carry / spend money on two devices.
80-100k for 6-10 years of experience sounds about right. I have even seen cases of people earning around 80k at 3-4 YOE.
Original content URL:

https://bizwest.com/2022/02/15/boulder-aerospace-venture-pio...
What case?

> the emphasise is on "parents blame Putin".

Definitely not the emphasis in the link I provided.

You appear to be making up your own narrative.
the uniform shape helps ensure even heat transfer for when they are cooked in boiling water (to which is added baking soda), and baked evenly in an oven.

(in case you are wondering why they are boiled, it's to develop a chewy crust)
Ukrainians also fall into the "sad to see people that have nothing to do with this situation", even more so I would argue.

The sad truth is that Russians cannot escape their shared responsibility.
Read the books they want to ban. Thanks for the heads up.
I still don't understand:

1. How you would prove this?
2. That it matters until you can prove it happened

Lab safety does matter though.

Signed -> Me a lab scientist.
I don’t believe it either. I mean I know it’s a thing but it seems so isolated to a few engineers at very few companies in a very small area. I’m in Europe, have 15 years experience and an “architect” type role since 10. I make around $80k/yr (Europe caveats apply - I’d want at least 50% more in the US) I still think these FAANG salaries are just people from certain universities having bidding wars for alumni from the same schools while measuring quality with whiteboard coding.

I’d be very happy to work remotely as a $150k emgineer, but I doubt that’s possible. I can see around zero job ads e.g on StackOverflow careers that approach FAANG figures.
Yeah, those approval ratings are as reliable and accurate as the polling numbers on election day for Putin.
As far as media and general public are concerned, maybe. Everyone that watched one of the pandemic films of the 90s, or spend more then 5 minutes thinking about this stuff, figured that out long ago.
I write vanilla JS too, but I'm not this naive. JavaScript, HTML and CSS are a framework as well, and they have the same litany of issues the article uses to dismiss the usual overweight culprits and the transpiled alternatives. Presenting otherwise seems like a major category error.

The only effective salve for your JS-is-a-broken-ecosystem nightmares is to reduce scripting in the client-side environment to the absolute minimum.
Lift's new lightweight eFoil promises newcomers a smoother ride
We have transitioned over to Dramatiq.

It has its own set of problems (mostly from starting at the set of "we will remove all of Celery features" and then going from there), in particular its logging policies are extremely frustrating and we have had to work around them. But the code is so simple in general that we get good compensation for that.

I personally would have liked to use dq instead but that's mostly an aesthetics thing.
Russia-Ukraine War: What Happened March 5
Can you trust a legal system which allows entrapment? I'm not saying any legal system is perfect, for example, can a defendant get a fair trial if the prison service make sure the prisoner is not fit to take the stand through poor diet and lack of sleep or simply being in a highly stressful environment?

Likewise, when reporting stuff to the police, its advisable to have a lawyer with you as the Police may decide to go for the easy route and prosecute whoever is reporting stuff as its low hanging fruit.

Likewise, the legal system ignores the health of the defendant which could explain their actions, and it often doesnt take into account their past. I know here in the UK, when talking to people, we are still seeing the knock on effects of WW2, Brexit is the most obvious example as there is a lot of prejudice towards the Germans & Austrians and a general low level xenophobia even towards people not from these areas, as highlighted by the BBC trolling the public with their comedy sketch show The League of Gentlemen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006vm6j
or Little Britain
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2zd

Is there much difference between a religious follower, like a muslim on jihad or a law enforcement professional? They both follow the written word, so then whose written is write? One has stood the test of time for thousands of years but ignores the changes in society today and the other is often changed to reflect changes in modern society but not stood the test of time as prison populations amply demonstrates.

In other words who is most righteous?
His close circle of oligarchs and military chiefs are not Putin groupies they 're just getting massively greased. When the tide changes the calculations change. They signed up for a kleptocracy not to get sanctioned and their assets seized.
I think he's got a solid point when it comes to monitor resolutions.

For a 27" monitor the perfect resolution seems to be about 5K and just aren't really any other options on the market for a 27" 5K screen other than an iMac right now.

If you want a decent screen for text work it's probably not a bad idea to buy a used iMac and work out how to display text on it but it's not a clean solution.

e.g. I could personally use tmux running on the iMac or something but it's messy.

It seems to a shame to needlessly generate eWaste when there's not really a better screen on the market new.

I don't get his height adjustment argument. It's a pain in the arse but you can pretty easily buy a VESA adapter for an iMac and a height adjustable arm off the shelf.
I love using the android version, really smooth and beautiful. Kudos to the devs