skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interested personally in the font stack point. The system font stacks listed focus on font styles more than individual typefaces. If I want say, Bookman, is there any harm to long-term use to use a font stack tailored to that font?
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> I mean, why would the USA get into it?

Wow, not the point. The ability to mass influence foreign markets is the topic of discussion, do stay on point.
I don't know if this was intentional, but I've never heard a better description of the current state of US foreign affairs.
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Just curious: apart from Wolfram language and C++, what is Mathematica built on?
> Either way, I'd like to hear some substantiation as to this "significant pull factor", please.

> now she’s making way more money writing over at Substack.

^

> she basically deserved it (or it was otherwise necessary)?

Deserved what? She quit.
The Cold War would count as peace per this exercise, though. Agreed re WW2 (and 1) though.
> I've heard the unsubstantiated claim that /r/india is covertly run by Pakistanis, which of course, would be a pretty big problem considering the relations between those countries-

Assuming that it's actually true (and that's a huge assumption since pretty much everyone with an unpopular opinion makes those kinds of accusations), is it really a big problem? The reddit solution would be for someone to create a new subreddit (/r/TrueIndia?) with more diverse moderators or at the very least a moderation style less likely to invite the accusation. Repeat as often as necessary until you get the community that you want. Name recognition/discoverability is a bit of a problem, but not an insurmountable one. There are thriving communities with names that have almost nothing to do with the topic (/trees being a perfect example).

When it comes to reddit at least, the biggest problem is the admins. They've demonstrated a willingness to ban things they don't like, their ban process is not transparent, and there's zero oversight or veto power in the hands of the users. If reddit admins target your message or your community you're only option is to rehome at a new site.
That would imply that water once heated and then cooled is different from water never heated - at least for a time. I wonder if there is any evidence for that.
Amazing, thank you, it had to be something like that. It makes much more sense as an encoding limitation than as something abstract as the "shortest possible program" via Kolmolgorov complexity. I was wondering whether KC may just be an inconsistently defined thought experiment compared to concrete ideas from information theory, and if it's not, how much in common it would necessarily have with the coding theorem, as how are they not talking about the same thing.
So you’re saying the government should provide them with food, shelter, safety and the other necessities of life just so long as they commit to not mingling with the rest of society?
How is installing rando native apps any more secure?
In my experience on Windows watching for file events, I’ve seen that it’s not very reliable. As the article notes, it’s possible that the operating system may drop events. Nevertheless, this solution should help improve performance and reduce disk scans. If you have any other applications dependent on watching for file system events, enabling this may hinder those (again, this is based on my experience with Windows).
It says in the article..

A more mundane explanation is that hot water evaporates faster than cold, decreasing its volume and thus the time it takes to freeze.

[Edit - Cannot delete my comment now. As 'ketzo' points out below my point is not same as OP's. OP points out that hot water is less dense. Maybe less dense liquid cools faster]
Username particularly appropriate
Well said and succinct. Prisons are an example - rules make it safe; people make it violent.
The style of our time is bland inoffensive crap
Ask HN: Forensic analysis for 50 year-old tape?
Im posting for a friend who moved recently. He found a magnetic tape that was written over 50 years ago. He says, if he recalls correctly, the tape would have contained 2 file, EBCDIC encoded, written by an IBM utility using a tape sub-system attached to a s/360 processor running MVS.

Assume the IBM guys have this setup in some dusty basement in upstate New York.

This is a 2 part question. What is the best method for attempting to read this mag tape? That’s the main question. Second, what is the probability of success here? Assume the tape was kept in a climate controlled home.
Employee benefits like company-provided cars were way more common as it was a more favorable tax situation.
>"Show me somebody who calls the IBM S/360 a RISC design, and I will show you somebody who works with the s390 instruction set today."

Could someone explain this quote to me? I don't know enough about the IBM S/360 to understand this.
And?I I don't believe it's common to elect ministers/department heads anywhere?
Interesting. This is why in my current job I developed our business logic to be completely self contained and agnostic to the outside world. There's a lot of needless translation that happens (DynamoDBClient -> MyCorpDynamoDbClient) but we could painlessly switch to a different provider by translating only the edge classes of our system.
Not finding out for years if at all is an open feedback cycle.

In a world where we are doing fast feedback iterations, that’s two to three orders of magnitude off from the rest of the organization.
Some newspaper provide subscribers with the PDF version of the printed edition. I subscribe to the WSJ and find reading the PDF instead of the website a more focused, tranquil way of consuming news. Awkward as PDF is on mobile devices, it allows having a "bird view" of today's headlines, by which you can pilot or dive in freely. If the newspaper of your choice doesn't provide such service, you may try access PressReader with your library card; lots of newspapers have digital replica hosted there.
It’s not about branding. It’s about a way to distinguish between (expensive but) authentic manufacturer-supplied pills and fake/cheap knock-offs. Before this ‘invention’ the difference was almost impossible to check.

There are really, really, outrageously expensive pills — to the effect of $ 20K per capsule — that makes fake-detection a viable goal. Look up Zokinvy or Zolensma.
Ebpf should be possible to use on newer linuxes also I believe.
We are supplied cold water which then goes through a hot water system. My understanding was that the new configuration required the use of check-valves to prevent backflow in such a way as to reduce the risk of cross-contamination between hot/cold. I'm guessing this is now irrelevant because hot water system standards have changed to reduce risk of corrosion / infections occurring, but there is also a chance I was getting mixed up with UK regulations [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42948046
>General IT community: https://community.spiceworks.com/

I dont see any forums there, just a company making money as a middle man? EIDT: found it hiding under "ACTIVE GROUPS THIS WEEK" somewhere at the bottom, terrible interface, but I see the utility.

Obvious ones:

IT stackexchange

electronics https://www.eevblog.com/forum/

hobby vintage computing https://www.vogons.org https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php https://eab.abime.net https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/

In general technical topics have a higher chance of having a dedicated community run old school forums, while less technical ones tend to concentrate around social media.
> Why is China an adversary of US?

The person that is punching you in the face can best be described as an "enemy" - even if they deny they are doing it.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/16/china-intellectual-prop...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/china-hacked-least-six...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/politics/chinese-hackers-brea...
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-exchange-hack-biden-chi...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/politics/china-hackers-econom...
Only MacOS and windows? Where’s the Linux support?
So build them on a VPS?
I would allocate some blame to a more lackadaisical approach by the police to solving crimes that happen in black communities in addition to your point.

The reason there is resistance to supporting the police is also because of the history of how police have continued to treat those communities.
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Shell scripting: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/shell-scripting-cheatsheet/

Markdown: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/markdown-cheatsheet/
You're most probably right.

$ time git status
real 0m0.324s
user 0m0.197s
sys 0m0.425s

That's on a working tree with 314,708 files and no watchman.
Somehow it is still much better than most hispter frameworks with their interpreted languages and monkey patching galore, or this Google worshipped language thanks its author's pedigree.
Calling it "memory" is a misleading way to think about the effect.

It could be better written as: exposing hot water to a large temperature gradient allows the water to change energy states in a way that it cannot do when that temperature gradient is small. Those fun new energy state changes allow the hot water to give up more energy faster and freeze sooner.

So no, the hot water in this case is not becoming cold water in the sense that you mean.
The broad answer is no, first of all because the narrow situations where masks are believed to help would not amount to a significant difference when considering the effect on an entire community. Secondly, I said "believed" because the evidence is actually rather limited and ambiguous, so the promotion of masks is based more on plausibility rather than firm proof. However, there does appear to be slight but consistent evidence for greater contagion rates in the general community when there is a mask mandate.
No dippuffin is going to cancel my most cromulent words.
Very cool, thank you! I am using the mimic3 cli and using --voices to get a list of voices, but after that I can't figure out how to find the list of speakers for that voice.

edit: Ah I see they are in speakers.txt in the git repo for the voice.
Can someone explain why Newton's Law of Cooling isn't a sufficient explanation? The temperature delta is clearly larger with hot water, do one would expect it to cool faster, no?
I totally agree, Nim is great but it really needs more traction. I'm developing a web framework for Nim with batteries included (an ORM, for one), Nexus: https://github.com/jfilby/nexus
I am skeptical myself. Even if people do not maintain large collections, there is clearly still a gigantic appetite for printed books. The author's experience may be colored by his focus on fine books. Cheap paperbacks still sell very well and make up most people's intake of books. I don't see how offset printing could have an aura while digital distribution does not.
Yes about like that. They won't go there intentionally because being a bum is motivated by absolute freedom and being able to ignore any and all rules. Prison is the inverse of it.
What saddens me is the amount of things that are moving so "fast" that they never get any good in-depth books written about them; to stay up to date or learn what's going on you really have to dedicate yourself to keeping up with current development.

Whereas if you want to learn TeX or C you can find amazing books that go into more detail then you'd ever practically want.
Ever heard of Japanese toy franchises? Sometimes foreign stuff sells better than domestic.
I hate usage of verbiage like "unable to" when it's very clearly "don't wish to".

Abusing language to make it seem like there is some hard barrier to you performing some task really annoys me.

They clearly are able (and in some jurisdictions will be compelled) to refund purchases, they are just expressing their desire for you to go fk yourself.
The social credit score is an interesting data point to gauge that how uninformed the west is about China. The credit score is not remotely about the everyday behaviors of its people, but about how credit-worthy a person which is the representative of a company, or even a local government entity. However, in the west, people are routinely joking about someone will lose credit score for whatever reason, even scholars like Piketty holds the same misinformed view. In the mean time, if you just have lived in China for one month, you know what is said in the west media is not true (you also know a lot of "evidence" of CCP documents from NYT are fake if know only remotely about how the party speaks and writes), and yet people in the west still believe in it, most of the time also with the belief that anyone likes China is either a bot/shill, or brainwashed person. My personal experience is that the level of uninformedness for both Chinese on US, and Amerian on China are not that different. What is different is the misplaced confidence in Americans about how informed they are about every topic in China. Chinese don't have that amount of confidence about knowledge of US.
I wish statements like "We are unable to provide refunds or exchanges for mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game" weren't legal.

It's obvious that they don't want to provide refunds, not that they can't, and that they're trying to mislead consumers into believing that it is some technical issue preventing them not avarice.
Wikipedia says Java: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica
We discovered severe thermal throttling with Apple's new M2 MacBook Pro
It's having the money PLUS not having the goods because of broken supply chains (China lockdowns and shipping through Port of L. A)

followed by doubling of fuel costs which were in part driven by huge surge in demand after lockdowns ended plus no new supply of oil refineries because, in part, the war on fossil fuels in the US and elsewhere

and all fed by our expectations of higher prices that allow the greedy corporations to raise prices with less fear.
It looks cross-platform enough to me.

After all these years of Windows-only or MacOS-only software, you guys deserve this.
I've used infracost and kubecost heavily in my last two positions and love it. Great way to let other developers and clients who aren't as familiar with the cloud's nonsense see which items are big spending points and where cost-optimizing makes more sense.
> I don't understand the fetishization of lawlessness among the tech crowd

I think most people just want technology to work for them instead of being used to constrain them. When technology doesn't do what we tell it to, and restrictions are put on us artificially that power often ends up getting abused, we become vulnerable to threats and issues we're not allowed to see or address, opportunities for research and development go away, etc.

When it comes to the internet some of it is simply practical. Laws don't fix much because no government can force other nations to comply. Attempts to restrict the freedoms of "bad people" also impact everyone else on the internet and "make the internet less useful and less powerful for everyone" is a hard sell.

That said, very few people want lawlessness either. We want ISPs to keep their networks from causing problems for the rest of us. We want them to take internet abuse issues seriously and things like BGP hijacking are very much frowned upon. When networks routinely misbehave we even build and share blacklists to exile them from our global community.

> perfectly anonymous systems also give the attackers an advantage.

Again, you can't restrict the anonymity of attackers without hurting every single user in the process. Putting everyone at risk and causing people to fall silent out of fear just to make things marginally more difficult for attackers doesn't make a lot of sense. That said, I've yet to see a perfectly anonymous system, if one did exist, I'm pretty sure we could choose to opt out of using it.
Yes, it cools faster at t=0, but it will take longer to cool down.
For some pills, detecting counterfeits doesn’t make sense indeed.

But, there are really expensive pills out there for which it might do. Look up Zokinvy or Zolensma.

BTW, you’ll like want the fake detection to be possible _before_ tasting it. And because of the often awful taste, people tend to swallow pills as quickly as possible.
Memory protection is nice to have because then you're likely to get crashes when you screw up pointer stuff. And crashes are easier to debug than writes to the wrong place.

Of course, you can do identity memory mapping and skip virtual vs physical questions (for x86, memory protection requires using virtual memory, because the protection information is in the page tables, and iiuc, amd64 also requires using virtual memory, but it's still a useful simplification to do identity mapping so the virtual address is the physical address). My toy OS only runs one process, so there was never going to be more than one memory map anyway.
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Ironic if it's better than wanktank.
Ask early on about the range and be enthusiastic about whatever it is. Then say something like "yeah it's a bit less than what I'm making now but I'm okay with that because..."
This was actually a controversy some twenty years+ ago on a science show in the Netherlands ('nationale wetenschaps kwis').
The wanted answer was that putting creamer in first was better as the resulting fluid had lower temperature and thus cooled slower. But a given answer was that the creamer made a top layer that made the coffee evaporate slower, hence keeping more of the warmth as well.
During the show this answer was counted wrong. But (theoretically, I don't think an actual experiment was made) this is a factor working towards the same answer (first creamer keeps the resulting fluid warmer compared to adding the creamer later) that may actually have a larger contribution. So afterwards the consensus was that this may actually have been a better answer.
I am pretty certain that I can prove any client as harmful. I have been on the receiving end of apps misbehaving plenty of times, no matter which platform (JS, iOS, Android). And these were official apps with dedicated development teams.

Endless loops which flood you with API calls are a common issue, managing state is hard. Rate-limiting does not completely solve this.
This is cool, but I imagine those sprinkles might easily fall off or be shifted. The packaging they put edibles in are often crazy strong, but just the act of prying at the packaging or solving the puzzle might put your sprinkles at risk. Maybe temperature changes too would cause trouble.

Why not just print a key on the packaging? Or have each one wrapped individually in paper or what have you with a key. Might make better sense for other drugs. A database like this would provide some interesting info.
That's great, but unfortunately it doesn't solve a huge issue: discord isn't indexed by search engines. It's awesome when you know exactly where to look for the forum, but you can't easily discover it.
Cooling faster and reaching sub zero temperatures faster are two different things. The hotter water will drop more degrees per minute/hour based on Newton, but at some point the two liquids will be the same temperature, and then you’re assigning some sort of thermal momentum that Newton doesn’t cover.
The title doesn't necessarily imply it's general. For one, the first word is "When". If the title was instead "Network is faster than browser cache" you'd have more of a point.
"acceptable quality" is very broad and subjective. I don't think you'll have much luck convincing a court a game is objectively bad. (unless the game actually crashed like where somebody mentioned in KOTOR)

If you take a game back to a major retailer like Target or Big W, they won't accept it with the seal broken unless you tell them there is something wrong with the physical disk or cartage. They won't accept a return if you just tell them you didn't like it. (in my experience - also not an expert on this either)
Adium was everything an IM client should be. I wish it would return to relevance, but with the dominance of closed messaging protocols that seems unlikely at best.
Sure it's already been done but I'm sure a similar thing could be made on Azure Functions well within the free tier per month. Can also host static web apps for free or even have GUIs served by the functions themselves. And as people stated before this seems a gross miss use of GitHub Actions. Whereas at least the above outlines a solution Microsoft actively encourages.
Read the article, apparently people are getting guns instead of shot.
Deserved what?

The bullying.
That’s not the same point, actually.

That quoted sentence says that hot water loses volume compared to cold water.

The person you’re replying to is saying that hot water simply takes up more space as well.
> every pill would look the same and branding/image are a huge part of pharmaceuticals.

Companies could work with different color palettes though, based on the corporate or product branding.

By smart placement of some colored dots, you could even show a logo surrounded by a random pattern.
That sounds fantastic! Thank you for replying; I'll definitely check back and give it another go.
Honestly I don't understand this at all. HTML is really, really simple. CSS is also pretty simple until you get to layout, then it can get a bit tricky. JS starts simple, but it can get as hard as you want it. Writing a compiler? I wouldn't even know where to start.
Not decentralized exchanges, like Uniswap and Sushi, where you can see everything in real-time.
Wow this is incredibly well done and highly engaging! Learning history with the additional context maps that have depth of information to them adds a lot to the learning experience.
We are fast approaching a time when all houses have pex. At this point we've been using it in new construction for decades, and most houses with original galvanized pipes are either already replaced with pex, or getting really close.
Belarus?! The puppet state of Putin is the model of some utopia?! You’re kidding right?

Does this logic track for other things as well? Nope.

Poverty: “just make it a felony”
Addiction: “just make it a felony”
Laziness: “just make it a felony”

You fail to understand the myriad of reasons of why someone might be homeless. Some might — in sound state or mind — choose it and others might be mentally unwell to “try as hard as possible to hold on to work, housing and their families”.

Greater investments in mental health, subsidized housing or building more affordable housing for the vulnerable — those who work one or more jobs on the verge of losing their housing and other such programs can help mitigate homelessness.
My Google home is pretty near 100%; I can count on one hand the number of times it hasn't "heard" me over the past year. That's my benchmark.
The tank is lined with glass, it shouldn't corrode unless that surface gets broken.
> when the EU screws up, it makes the news and everyone can read it

This entire article makes no mentions or allusions to obvious corruption and malice. As mentioned in other comments, the same person has previously been found to delete/tamper such evidence.

So I’m not sure what “reading about it” is supposed to do…
My point is just that their broad "we don't accept returns, ever" policy in the UK is not legal in some jurisdictions, and nothing about returning a game because you don't like it. How that's interpreted is, of course, a matter of convincing the courts but the language Nintendo uses in the UK is not applicable worldwide, as many other companies have been raked over the coals for trying to do the same. Note that the wording on the UK page definitely excludes things like KOTOR II from being returned!