skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody wants to be responsible for introducing the security/performance nightmare that is SVG fonts into their codebase. SVG is too big and too unwieldy and does too much to make a good performant font rendering impl. Crucially, OpenType fonts already have their own custom vector format that authoring tools and renderers are used to working with, so this is a form of colored font support that builds on existing font principles instead of stapling an entire SVG renderer inside of it.
Wonder what a from-scratch B-52 equivalent would look like nowadays. I don't think they could resist the urge to give it a gimmick. Who wants to design a bomb truck?!?
How to get started with Haskell in 2022 (the straightforward way)
imagine reloading the page during a cliffhanger and losing the video you were watching
This just _isn't_ anti-white racism though. In this case, Twilio are doing the right thing by making sure those groups who are usually disproportionally hit by layoffs _aren't._

That's literally the definition of being anti-racist.
Who generally identifies these conflicts of interest? Is it reliant on self-reporting?
At least in civilian aviation, it is a very relevant and practical question, and a major contributor to the Boeing 737-MAX fiasco.

There is a thing called "type rating", that is qualification pilots need to have in order to fly a specific type of plane. For example, pilots need a type rating for the Boeing 737 in order to fly a Boeing 737.

Manufacturers try to do everything they can not to require another type rating when they make changes to an existing aircraft, because type ratings require expensive and time-consuming training that pilots and their companies would rather avoid, and it influences purchase decisions. One of the root causes of the B737-MAX crashes is that Boeing tweaked some settings in order to make the B737-MAX behave like the original B737 when it was, in fact, a different plane, and they did it wrong.
> Most people, even kids, aren’t constantly watching Disney

May I present to you, the kids of America.
Oh fantastic, just after I thought we were done with ugly gradients everywhere, we've re-invented Microsoft WordArt.
Pornhub doesnt hide the upload date like youtube does
And it’s okay for bootstrap to use p- or m- etc? Is it just because it’s w3?
Someone I know has recommended YunoJuno. Edit: It looks like it's UK only.
Buran system was very, very different from US' STS, and honestly multiple groups combined under one umbrella to get what they wanted in Buran project. Some bits of Buran were a "me too" (the visual look of the orbiter, for political reasons), but Soviet space program has combined multiple previous tracks that existed independent of what Americans were doing.

Among various tracks that combined together, there was

1. Super Heavy Launcher - a long term dream since the failure of N1, realised in Energia

2. Reusable crewed orbiter - Buran orbiter

3. Mir-2, the successor to Mir space station - was supposed to use (1) for construction and (2) for crew

4. Fully reusable launch vehicle - was proposed continuation of Energia project

5. various missions requiring super heavy launchers (either Energia, or prospective Vulkan which added extra energia core stage on top) - including mars missions that were on slow boil since end of moon program

6. Soviet Space Forces - anti-SDI systems, orbital warfare unmanned cruisers (Polyot) etc. - dependant on (1).

7. Reduction of space construction and launch costs - nuclear-powered orbital tug launched by Energia which would be responsible for moving objects from low LEO to target orbit, including GEO

1,2,4, and 7 were all included directly in the scope of Buran, with Polyot (6) being in progress as well (the other Energia launch was launch of Polyot test unit).

Note that Buran orbiter, the one part that resembled Shuttle, is independent of other tasks though considered beneficial for the space station goals - if the orbiter project failed, it would still provide data for Reusable Energia variant, and Energia would still mean a working 100t-to-LEO system they could use for whatever - unlike Shuttle which was one specific vehicle. This also meant that Buran's orbiter had much lower cargo capacity - because it didn't need to have higher one as space station modules and the like could just use Energia.
It seems a lot of the layoffs are from over-hiring in 2020-21 ?
Despite the well-known HN sentiment, it is worth repeating that no significant financial investment should be judged by 1 years worth of data.
Rationally, I understand what you're saying, speaking as someone who was intrigued by Bitcoin in 2012 and possibly made a little money off it while I was interested in it.

Humanistically, I gotta say, perceptions matter. I left crypto because it just started "tasting gross", regardless of the technological interest I had. Clearly, I wasn't in a minority with that.
India's Byju's fiscal 2021 loss swells to $574M, pushes listing plans
The real problem in my mind is that it's difficult for employees to judge whether a company is making disciplined hires in the first place.

The ballpark method I've been using has been to ask for the ARR and divide that number by the employee count. I don't know that this is a real business indicator, but it seems to me that the closer that number is to a workable salary, the better.

Maybe all tech startups are all using VC funds, but they're not all created equal in terms of management quality. There are a handful of startups that boast never holding a formal layoff.
Not really.

There are (and always will be) people who see no good in the Internet. I played a small part in its growth in the early 90s and even I have pangs of regret over what it has become. AND there was a lot of grift and lawlessness in the early Internet -- that is what paid the bills at first.

However, at the time I was able to articulate all the ways moving X, Y and Z to the Internet would make things better -- for hours on end -- and I would 'win' those arguments. OTOH, all my crypto crazed associates have trouble doing that same thing today. For years, the argument ended up being "I got in early and now my 'investment' is worth X amount." It has been an end justifies the means proposition.

In the end, the Internet was judged by its exponential growth and adoption. There was a mad rush of, arguably, useful activity going on... for years. Everything I wished for and pushed for back in the day has come true -- monkey paw curse and all. Bitcoin's use has actually gone down afaict, the market value of it is the only metric people care about.
Excellent point. Upon further investigation, I suspect what I was seeing was that Chrome with the Inspector open was evicting cache aggressively. Closed it up and no longer saw this issue. Definitely worth remembering for the future that the render loop is more complicated than I assumed!
sad that it is not available on iOS
Focusing Twilio more and reducing our size
I frantically smash the Shazam button over and over again while I loop a certain part in a live DJ set on SoundCloud. When the DJ is overlaying 2 tracks at a faster bpm, adding their own basslines and AFX, Shazam rarely works. But when it does it's like finding a diamond in the rough. Then I listen to the EP it's on A and B sides, listen to other EPs from the DJ and listen to other releases on that label. Combination of SoundCloud, discogs, mixesdb.com, bandcamp and YouTube.

Lots of times the first comment will be a partial track list or I'll look up the tracklisting on mixesdb.

In the 90s to discover music it was you had to attend shows and crate dig or even call up the record label (long distance number!) and listen to the latest release over POTS.
> It seems obvious that Tesla would have to create special builds or settings for crash testing.

Isn't obvious that you turn off the "crash avoidance" stuff if you want to test the car body only? Sure maybe the regular driver can't turn it off but I am expecting a Tesla mechanic can turn it off, rather then 10 engineers creating new software builds, deploy them on the cars and then ensure that when is the time to test the "Crash avoidence" you use the car with the correct build.
TrueType already has a Turing-complete bytecode.
Yup, compare this to the awesome "New and noteworthy" posts that Eclipse publishes for each new version: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.25/jdt.php

This is also probably a reflection that NetBeans is a project on fast path to extinction.
”National” meaning US, yet again.
The 11% layoff is making me sad because Twilio seems to be offering such a cool service. An API to put together your own automated phone service in your programming language of choosing, covering many countries around the world.

Man, does this letter give a long laundry list of justifications:

> including, among other things:

> adverse changes in general economic or market conditions, including labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, a downturn, recession and inflation;

> changes in the market for communications;

> the impact of COVID-19 on the Company and its customers and partners;

> the Company’s ability to adapt its products to meet evolving market and customer demands and rapid technological change;

> the Company’s ability to comply with modified or new industry standards, laws and regulations applying to its business;

> the Company’s ability to generate sufficient revenues to achieve or sustain profitability;

> general economic conditions, including a downturn or recession and rising inflation, that may adversely affect a prospective customer’s ability or willingness to adopt our products, delay a prospective customer’s adoption decision, reduce the revenue that we generate from the use of our products or affect customer retention;

> retention of customer data platforms like the Company’s by organizations in times of macroeconomic uncertainty;

> the Company’s ability to effectively manage its growth and increase gross margins;

> the Company’s ability to compete effectively in an intensely competitive market;

> the Company’s ability to attract and retain qualified employees;

> the technical reliability of the Company’s products and platform;

> the Company’s ability to successfully integrate its acquisitions and risks that the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions and partnerships and investments may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected;

> the Company’s ability to close the transactions associated with such partnerships and investments; the impact of recent and future privacy changes on certain third party platforms on the Company and its customers;

> and the Company’s ability to manage changes in network service provider fees that it pays in connection with the delivery of communications on its platform and the impact of those fees on gross margin.
As the product of a reproductive therapy that certain people at one time would have banned, I can sympathize.

To me the big difference is whether they're "I should not be vaccinated" or "Everyone should not be vaccinated." The former doesn't always mean belief in the latter.

So I look at someone being unvaccinated more like choosing to wear a spinning propeller hat to work every day... it's weird, and it makes me judge you, but it doesn't necessarily impact your work.
The man who ran so fast he nearly died
Ask HN: How do I write a Linux driver for my 15 year old photo printer?
I'm interested in writing a x86_64 Linux driver for my 15 year old photo printer.

It looks like someone out there maintains 32 bit drivers for this printer, but I'd like low-hassle native support for my 64-bit install.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1324015/how-to-install-print...

Where do I get started with this? What's the toolchain for sniffing USB data and that sort of thing?
What are the good platforms?

Emailing the CEO of small, local software companies with your experience and your rate.

Also, posting your info on the monthly HN Who's Hiring Freelancers post.
I listen to Maed in India podcast [1] and also subscribed to Telegram channel called Chuck & Berty's Song A Day [2]

[1] https://open.spotify.com/show/0QhzjA2zKdKgIQsd2ltHtp

[2] https://t.me/chuckberty
They definitely updated the content of the site. But they left the look (color scheme, etc) largely unchanged from the 2000s, so opening the site probably reminds some people of the bad old days.
I literally had to C-f to find TikTok. I've found several artists there that I really enjoy. If you like music, I would be surprised if your FYP didn't surface artists to you on a pretty regular basis.

eta: Granted. Once I find them on TikTok, I listen to them on Spotify. I just don't really like Spotify's discovery features. I'm not always looking for things that are completely similar to what I've listened to in the past.
There would probably be a need for a mechanism to ensure objectivity. E.g., if Reviewer A rejects Reviewer B, there may be a higher chance Reviewer B will reject Review A's future work, just out of spite.
"Full throttle will either solve the problem or end the suspense."
Law of course always depend on minutiae of jurisdictions involved, but generally procedure for "found" stuff is roughly "give it police and you may be eligible for bounty"
You definitely need to watch it. Torrent it if you have to, it’s the ultimate commentary on how stupid modern society is getting.
Then why is Google still appealing the fine from 5 years ago?
"How quickly can I build 50 different tiny demos that each show one thing"? Small size means you can focus on one thing at a time, before you hit #50 you'll probably already be building off of what you've learned in past demos and combining them as you try new things.
Maybe some lawyer would take it on a percentage contingency?
I mostly do embedded C and my favorite use of bazel not mentioned in the article is the near-seamless swapping of toolchains. It makes unit testing very pleasant.

See this example:
https://github.com/driftregion/bazel-c-rust-x86_linux-armv7_...
Or maybe a photoshop filter
curious what % are software devs compared to sales/hr etc..
Around the World in Seven Years (and One Rowboat)
And it will be just fine
A guy that is stuck in a liver donation loop for stealing fire, but he stole wood instead?

If you have to describe your project as "some other project but like this" you're already doing it wrong. Do you think Bing markets its maps by saying "Think Google Maps But Microsoft"?
*Taxpayer funded childcare for all.
From Google. Here's my EIN, and the Quickbooks entry where I paid my self-employment and other taxes for it.
I thought you were going to say 30 years later. Amiga had color fonts
> Pre-registration actually might have nipped him in the bud

Yup. It has almost nothing to do with research quality, as Ray Hyman figured out in the 1980s. Modern ESP studies are high quality studies. It's literally only the lack of preregistration, which leads to things like publication bias and optional stopping.

This article profoundly misses the mark.
Another company carelessly overhiring. OR maybe using opportunity to do some trimming?

edit: Where does one check hiring metrics for company before accepting contract?
If no one watches ads that would be pointless. It’s like bragging about stealing food and saying don’t worry, I’ll tell me friends about the grocery store and also telling them to take anything they like.
To a certain extent, isn't this all a moot point? The sanctioned ETH addresses associated with the Ronin hack didn't use the immutable TC contract, they used the proxy contract[0][1] which can be updated from the Governance address (which is controlled by the Tornado Cash DAO). It appears that the transactions happened after the Treasury Dept. published the sanctions list.

To use your metaphor, a person who it would be a crime to sell anything to went to a gun vending machine to buy a gun. Given the nature of gun vending machines, it would be difficult, but not impossible for the vending machine company to prevent this scenario. However, in terms of assessing whether a legal violation occurred, it doesn't matter that the item the person bought was a gun, if the gun was then used to commit a crime, or if the item was instead a rubber band or a brown paper bag, or if the gun vending machine company designed the gun/band/bag or produced the gun/band/bag.

[0] Proxy contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0xd90e2f925da726b50c4ed8d0fb90a...

[1] sanctioned address using Proxy contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0x4bf2c2956942b2dd40517bce42391...
Rationale: https://about.netflix.com/en/news/new-netflix-tv-experience-...

tl;dr is that they found it helps people more reliably evaluate whether a show/movie is for them, esp. given the increase in unknown IP.
I like it for the criminal options it facilitates. I don’t personally agree with being unable to import affordable medicine (non-domestic brand generics which weren’t produced in an FDA-approved facility) from India/Turkey/etc and I use bitcoin to facilitate buying the medicines I need from pharmacies which don’t require doctors prescriptions. It saves me a boatload of money and helps me greatly in managing my health. Or to get around the current widespread pharmaceutical shortages which continue since Hurricane Maria destroyed a lot of pharmaceutical production infrastructure in Puerto Rico (e.g. bacteriostatic water).

I also am largely okay with people using it for personal quantities of controlled substances, even though I do not use it for that personally. Sometimes these are for legitimate medicinal purposes as well (for example, schedule 2 TRT and HRT drugs)
Niche job board Japan-Dev finds traction
My car is registered to the state. They require regular inspections or it becomes illegal for me to drive it. I must report title transfers if I sell it or if I buy a new car. We very closely monitor car ownership and use. And that's for a technology whose use is not criminal the huge majority of the time.
It is trivial to derive control power from actuation power - at least enough for a few can-busses that run from each wheel to up-to-12 independent sensors on the brake pedal.
The policy only ever made a little sense. What El Salvador desperately wants is a currency it can inflate to pay for the stuff it can not afford. In this regard, it is no different than any other country.

What it had was a currency it does not print (US dollar) and for which there is an ongoing international shortage.

What El Salvador got with Bitcoin was yet another currency it does not print and for which there is currently an international surplus.

The thing the article does not mention, and the only reason the policy made any sense, is that ~50% of Salvadorans live abroad. So there is a substantial remittance market in El Salvador relative to GDP. Allowing remittances to flow through bitcoin cuts out companies like Western Union who scoop from the top.

Even so, this scheme only makes a little sense. A better approach might have been for the government to have set up a USD-based remittance program of its own.
https://github.com/driftregion/bazel-c-rust-x86_linux-armv7_...
But it can’t be income if he has to give it back, which is the starting assumption here.
But what happens if they do fire based on need and performance and that group leans for heavily towards a minority class? How do they know it’s not some other influence (presumably races aren’t perfectly evenly distributed across the company).

And if they find such an imbalance do they just pick random majority class people and fire them instead?

If so how do they choose people?
Your suggestion is like stealing records from Walmart and rationalizing that by saying you send money to the artists.
Actual source:

https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-companies-call-for-vote/
You should have seen the search input when it initially launched on the samsung tv app. The alphabet was spread on a single horizontal. So if you wanted Zorro or Zootopia, you're pressing right to get to Z 25 times. They've since updated to the better numberpad-ish style input that netflix/others uses though.
I have nothing to hide.
If government wants to lock me up for viewing interracial porn, so be it.
I subscribe to Youtube TV and I feel like they have been doing this in there already. It was a great service and now not only do I have to pay $65 a month for the service but also have to watch 3 3-minute advertisement blocks during a 30-min episode of Family Guy. It's starting to make cable more attractive.
$2B to Grow the Bioeconomy
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There are no platforms, or no good ones anyway.

You have to network on your own.

As a fallback, you can approach a larger agency and see if you can subcontract through them on some of their projects.
Contracting platforms are a race to the bottom.

Successful freelancing requires a lot of outreach. Start with your network and then move on to cold outreach to companies that might need your services.

Hint: If a company has full-time job postings for your work domain, it means they need your services. You can pitch them on contract work and offer to augment their teams on a contractual basis while they search for a full-time hire.
If you come home and find an envelope of money slipped under your door which shouldn’t have been given to you and bring it to the police, you will never be taxed on it.

Anyway the correct analogy here would be incorrectly receiving from someone you know payment in cash which should have been given to someone else. You realise the mistake when you are back home so you bring it back later. You obviously didn’t owe taxes while you were merely storing the money which wasn’t yours in the first place.
As a non airforce/aeroengineer, can someone explain why the smaller dual engine nacelles haven't been replaced with a larger turbofan engine?

surely its more efficient and lower maintenance?

is it that it would alter the centre of drag/gravity/thrust too much and would require too much engineering?
What is more likely is that you would wake up in a world where Bitcoin may not exist, but is completely dominated by crypto nonetheless. Within a generation or two, I predict that all asset ownership will be crypto-backed. Property. Automobiles. Artwork. Securities. And of course, currency. Fiat itself will become a cryptocurrency once more millennials are in charge.

I reserve judgement as to whether or not this will be a net benefit for society. I suspect not, but our present ignorance is far too great to make such a prediction - I just think it's gonna happen whether we want it to or not, so get used to the idea of crypto-everything.
You don’t need to go in to make an account on fidelity. There are other online only banks as well.
The grifters will go back to pushing day-trading schemes

Crypto can keep them, it's nice to not have to deal with the noise
I get deposits from Google over that amount quite frequently and nothing bad happens. I do pay taxes on my income of course, but it’s not that anything over $10K is automatically a problem. In this case, yes they will need to pay taxes on it if they keep it. That’s not imminent and I imagine this will get cleared up well before then. It’s amusing that they filed a support request, though, and are only going to get it resolved due to publicizing it on Twitter. We really need a better way to get help from these companies.
I don’t have the money to hire a lawyer for this, unless I’m able to pay the lawyer out of the 250k.
I don’t like ads, especially not irrelevant and excessive ones (I pay for YouTube premium), but the amount of people bragging about getting around ads is just sad.

I assume most of us here have jobs. Are we ok with working for free? Many people on YouTube do it full time, with ad revenue and exposure being their primary source of income.

Somehow some people have it in their heads that if the job is entertainment then it’s not worth paying for, but is simultaneously worth consuming.