skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm misreading your question, are you asking why they invest in fonts?

If so, the answer is that fonts are a major underpinning of how an organization or a product is presented to the world.

To make an analogy that the hn crowd might understand, the value of a typeface for a design system is like the value a cryptographic primitive or a library like openssl to a functioning security system.

Nobody (aside from designers and typographers) will think "oh wow that font is so great they must have invested a lot into it", but it underlies every written visual interaction between the brand/product/company and its audience.

That said, are there many other fonts available that fall into the appropriate style, usage, licensing terms, etc that GitHub need? Perhaps. But uniqueness is a value in itself, and having a decision about a set of fonts that the company uses is a pretty important thing.

It's like the 3 spaces or 4 spaces vs tabs discussion. Some people use one, other people use another. But in a company, having an approved typeface that is recognized internally as the typeface to use (of course, you can have different typefaces for different scenarios/uses) - is just as important as determining which one to use.
You didn’t read the articke, did you? According to the study cited in thr articlr People on average loose 4.5% a month:

> one longitudinal study of nearly seventy thousand Dutch retail investors. The findings back up the story of the current wasteland of retail traders over the last two years. Over six years, researchers found that retail investors who participated in options trading lost, on average, 4.5 percent monthly, more than halving their accounts within a year.
QUIC uses TLS1.3. You need a trusted CA on the ends but it doesn’t need to be one you pay for. That’s how any version of TLS works.
That money would get you a very robust prototype, but getting to scale requires building a lot of random other features that most users aren't aware of, plus being around long enough with half-decent community management to acquire users.

Companies like Twitter don't get big for no reason. Yes, there's obviously some bloat, but a lot of it's just random 'non-core' features that still need to get done.
Consomme technique.
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I don't believe it. It seems much more likely to me that this was the intent of some individual at KFC and they are blaming it on the automation. I'm sure they have automation, but this reeks of intentional sabotage to me.
This reminded me of a hack/cheat someone implemented for a video game called Rust (Rust is a multiplayer survival FPS where players can build bases). The game has code locks on doors, 0000-9999. What the person did was isolate the network packet sending one attempt at the code lock, and the using networking tools and a bit of automation, sent a stream of all possible permutations towards the server. Apparently people who were in the vicinity of a person employing this cheat heard a steady stream of beeps (each attempt did a short beep noise), and then inevitably the combination was found and the lock was cracked... if I recall correctly it took less than 6 minutes for it to go through all attempts and gain access to another player's base, and their treasures. After the developers heard of it, they implemented rate limiting and a small amount of 'shock' damage to the player to resolve the issue.
How do you verify that the removal is done correctly / accurately? Is that based on trust with the partner doing the removal?
Lidar obstacle detection algorithm from a Git repo leaked onto Tor
You are misinterpreting that report. The absolute risk of hospitalization in that population is tiny once you account for the huge number of infections.
This is about to kill what’s left of the advertising revenue.
"You, seed of an evil genius and precarious offspring of hard fortune, whose life is but for a day, why do you compel me to tell you those things of which it is better you should remain ignorant? For he lives with the least worry who knows not his misfortune; but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of nature's excellence; not to be is best, for both sexes. This should be our choice, if choice we have; and the next to this is, when we are born, to die as soon as we can." - Silenus

... and this my friend is how the best form of literature known to man kind was born! Out of despair. Because for them, there was no paradise, only Hades. Jesus wasn't around and they didn't believe life after death was something worth bothering with, it was dark, cold and muddy!

> Is there any research that goes into what is "purpose" and how to figure it out

Is there some sort of research that can prove with certainty that you're in love?

Logic was invented long time ago to solve a communication problem. The most powerful expression of logic is mathematics. But purpose is beyond logic's scope. Mathematics can tell you how to get from pointA to pointB, can't tell you _why_ you have to go from pointA to pointB.

The fact you're even asking this questions is commendable. Most ppl are not as courageous. However, no one can do the work for you, you have to figure that for yourself.
YouTube is a part of Google. It's not a separate "bet" like Waymo.
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I think the first part of your post is mostly true of most people who go to University.

But it's similar to IT, there are many IT and engineering jobs that pay well, but some of us simply don't get up in them for whatever reason. You could be a mining engineer working in the mines and get paid a staggering amount and not working any overtime.
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He has never recommended voting for a politician who doesn't believe in climate change. He once said that if you want a split congress you have to vote for the party not in control of congress but that's a very different thing than telling someone to vote for a politician who doesn't believe in climate change
> I'm not sure how I feel about it. I feel like it feels kind of hollow. Like there's a lot of energy in it, but the vocaloid part just feels so emotionless.

In Japan, the term is "denpa" (電波ソング). Denpa music is intentionally strange as it is catchy, and hypnotic as it is awkward. There are many producers creating high-BPM electronic vocaloid music that is chaotic for effect. It is a bit more twee than the western sounds, as you mentioned, but it can be quite enjoyable if you're in the right mood.

More on denpa music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denpa_song

Nanahira playlist, an example of a vocaloid character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHIyvhJadXM

Explaining Vocaloid in 3 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GODXMGAMpVc

Also, I think you'd enjoy the Song Exploder podcast. If you haven't heard it already, check out the episode where 100 gecs break down how Money Machine was created:

https://songexploder.net/100-gecs
My Dad told me a story from the dot-com bust:

To save money at the time he drove a van for a carpool service (he could use it for free as a result). A lot of the guys on his van were in tech.

When the first rounds of layoffs hit, guys would get on at the end of the day and they would talk about their severance. The first question in response to “I got laid off” was “What’s your severance?”

At one point deep into 2002, he remembered a change. Now guys were getting on the van with all their stuff in a box. He played the game, even though he wasn’t in tech, and asked one of the guys with a box, “What’s your severance?”

He just got a flat look in response.
I’m just guessing, but maybe Elon really loves Twitter. Building a new platform wouldn’t allow him to rescue the thing he loves. Seems more like an emotional decision than a logical one.
Are you referencing Tibanne?!
I'm a heavy user of playwright and I find it by far the best tool for all of three.
One could argue over semantics, but the overall analysis is largely correct in my view (as a British born-and-bred citizen). Is there something you particularly disagree with?
When I read the word title, I expected a search engine, which finds metaphors based on my text input. Too sad that there still isn’t anything like this :(
Ofcourse it is his company so he can do whatever he want but this man turned out to be kinda douchebag in last few years.
Excess deaths aren't entirely caused by Covid. People ceased getting medical care due to lockdowns, for instance. Furthermore, you're cherry-picking examples. As per your own source, the USA had an excess mortality of 1.2 million, out of a population of 330 million. There's 100 million reported infections, and with 70% or more cases being asymptomatic the actual infection rate is probably 300-400 million. Even if we're assuming every excess death was a Covid death, that's an infection fatality rate of 0.4 to 0.3% - not far off of the paper's estimate.
lolll cheerios??
He got busted with his hand in the cookiejar, that's what happened
You didn’t read the article, did you? They mentioned a study that people on average loose 4.5% a month, 50% a year:

> one longitudinal study of nearly seventy thousand Dutch retail investors. The findings back up the story of the current wasteland of retail traders over the last two years. Over six years, researchers found that retail investors who participated in options trading lost, on average, 4.5 percent monthly, more than halving their accounts within a year.
This is a drivable region mapping (obstacle detection) algorithm found in what appears to be a git repo leaked from an autonomous vehicle company in 2017. The repo was available through one or more Tor hidden services for several years.

The lidar code appears to be written for the Velodyne HDL-32E. It operates in a series of stages, each stage refining the output of the previous stage. This algorithm is in the second stage. It is the primary obstacle detection method, with the other methods making only small improvements.

The leaked code uses a column-major matrix of points and it explicitly handles NaNs (the no-return points). We've rewritten it to use a much more cache-efficient row-major matrix layout and a conditional that will ignore the NaN points without explicit testing.

This is an amazingly effective method of obstacle detection, considering its simplicity.
Then you would be shocked to learn how little software engineers are paid in the automotive industry vs me working on dumb VC money pit web apps.
> Any principal in your management account, by default, is able to assume the OrganizationAccountAccessRole in each and every one of the accounts created using the organizations:CreateAccount API.

This is an untrue statement. For a principal in the management account to assume OrganizationAccountAccessRole, they need to have a principal-based policy that gives sts:AssumeRole permissions for it. Otherwise, great article. We use this pattern at $DAYJOb
Getting paid doesn't change the fact that the employees are the ones actually making Twitter work. If Twitter were a car, it would have an owner.
This article is two days old. Over the past 48 hours, he's managed to get even worse at this by getting the entire remainder of the leadership team to resign.

And now he's under FTC investigation for forcing Twitter to violate it's decrees.

Reality is stranger than fiction.
Debatable. "The town square for the world" is a lofty enough goal.
> tying

I've often wondered if the infamous Google banners about "you should really be using Chrome for our websites" should be considered a form of this.

Suspecting that them only requesting it, rather than mandating it (in the message) might stop it crossing the threshold. Even though there (at least used to be) plenty of cases where (say) Firefox would outright not work properly with Gmail, so Chrome or a derivative had to be used.
You can write fixtures for those in Playwright.
- Time spent on making font: 3 hours
- Time spent on making website with cute CG robots to promote font: 5 months, $700,000 in graphic design and engineering labor
They're still workers. Unions aren't "for the poor".
This is just more straw-manning. The video either leaves an impression on you or it doesn't. It's really not possible to have a meaningful argument about the actions inferred from an ambiguous statement like "I might be considering tightening things up".

The video struck me as particularly brash given the current economic climate.
There is a surprising amount of luck involved. More than you suspected.

> being successful at building paypal

Musk never worked for a company called PayPal. The predecessor companies that merged to become PayPal forced Musk out around the time of the merger. Later the company changed its name to PayPal and when it went public, Musk had a big payday.
Who thinks that? I certainly don't and never said I did. Nevertheless there is no 'light autotune' filter on any of the major streaming services either.

There's a pretty interesting test[0] on themusiclab.org, that will test how good your microtonal perception is. See how you score - it might align with how well you're able to perceive autotune. Here's my score [1]. This was from my first attempt a few months ago, but I've done it a couple more times since and my score is pretty consistent - whether I like it or not.

[0] https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td
[1] https://imgur.com/a/5R3K43Z
Was it really stupid or was he outsmarted by his opponents? Seems to me the White House have outplayed him.
Disagree, a lot.

Most people underestimate two things, IMHO. One is obvious: the cost of convincing everyone that Muskitter is the place to go.

The second one? You could NOT build a twitter equivalent for a billion dollars. I'd be happy to take bets.

Corollary to number two: building it means actually two things: one, building it, and two, having a team that can start from the moment of finished building it, and continue developing and bug fixing and supporting the platform from T+1 onwards.
Elon reported on Nov 7 that Twitter usage was at an all time high. Do you believe that is dishonest? Or do you believe this uptick will be short-lived?
Musk was firing useless departments (DEI, Human Rights, Ethics, Communications) -- Mostly rent-seeking roles that has no place in startups.

Musk also fired Engineers who weren't productive in the past two months. Musk has enough software expertise to see through people who bullshit and people who know their shit.

That's why the best Car Designer, the best rocket engineer, the best AI expert were all working for Tesla/SpaceX.

Is Musk clueless about Social Media? absolutely.

Do you think he isn't spending every waking second to figure out the nuances and deliver something amazing in 2-3 years?

This is where HN/Reddit/Blind/Media are clueless about Musk. They look at current state of Musk and mock him (they mocked him for his rocket dream, his electric car dream, they mocked his tents)

True to form and cluelessness, they are currently mocking his lack of expertise in creator economy and other social aspects of social media.

Let's try 2 years from now. Musk is a fast learner and has always pivoted when data shows him where he is wrong.

He will make plenty of mistakes and clueless media will be there to highlight that because there is an audience of clueless people who are thirsty for Elon Musk thrashing articles to feel good about themselves.

At the end of the day, Twitter will be successful, Elon will be a Trillionaire (from all his ventures) and there will be salty HN/Redditers who will still be mocking him in 2030 because he probably would be doing some stupid thing in some new industry
> For Twitter, the vision Musk is selling is that "it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence". [1]

Musk seems like one of the people least capable on earth of having a debate in a healthy manner.
But since the cost of building those offices will be reflected in this quarter's earnings and destroy some executive bonuses, while the benefits won't be reflected in earnings for at least a full quarter and possibly longer, building individual workspaces is impossible.
> the US government built... a beige car dependent urban sprawl.

So I agree... BUT its survivor bias. A middle class American (say median income), would absolutely rather take suburban America in the most soulless subdevelopement over whatever a median income roman would live in.

The pretty things in Rome stayed 2000 years because people liked it. Think of everything that didn't make it. They also had hundreds of years more to build them than the US has had. The Empire State Building, much of DC, victorian homes in SF... there's plenty of lasting beauty in America. Many more cities with many more opportunities for lasting beauty. Just look at Boston, its a dynamic city with a mix of old and new... its an example of what the next Rome may look like 2000 years from now.
They are seeing a massive advertiser exodus, have apparently created potential new FTC/DOJ issues regarding the existing privacy consent decree with their desire to push-down responsibilty to facilitate velocity, are seeing policy churn that undermines trust, and their big revenue ideas are becoming a for-pay social network and payment processor with that trust deficit.
The press release contains a few errors and imprecisions. The abstract from the scientific article is more informative:

In this paper, we present BodyTrak, an intelligent sensing technology that can estimate full body poses on a wristband. It only requires one miniature RGB camera to capture the body silhouettes, which are learned by a customized deep learning model to estimate the 3D positions of 14 joints on arms, legs, torso, and head. We conducted a user study with 9 participants in which each participant performed 12 daily activities such as walking, sitting, or exercising, in varying scenarios (wearing different clothes, outdoors/indoors) with a different number of camera settings on the wrist. The results show that our system can infer the full body pose (3D positions of 14 joints) with an average error of 6.9 cm using only one miniature RGB camera (11.5mm x 9.5mm) on the wrist pointing towards the body [...].
To be honest the thing that worries me most about the dumb Las Vegas tunnel, is not that he had a bad idea. I have bad ideas all the time too. But my bad ideas don't turn into dumb tunnels because I have limited resources (he doesn't) and because I have feedback from the harsh reality.

The dumb tunnel makes me think Elon Musk is fully insulated from reality. Nobody around him dared to tell him the tunnel was dumb. And or he didn't listened.

Fast forward today where he decides on a whim that every engineer must stop working remotely and must instead work like crazy to satisfy his ego. And here again the feedback from reality seems minimal on him.

I think and I hope that the good engineers at Twitter are making plans to leave this terrible boss ASAP.
[Original finder here; I wrote that, I checked.]

See the docs:
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/f8d93888a8efd6c8142e74...

Relevant code:
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/f8d93888a8efd6c8142e74...
All I’m asking for is a drop in replacement for Univers with good licensing.
Interesting, but I feel like ven this is over built.

<script src="imaginary-script"># Hello World
On mobile atm so pardon the lack of linkage, but you may be thinking of blue griffon, possibly spelled with a y. Gryffon. There are a few others but if memory serves (which it may not!), that seemed to be one of, if not the only, maintained one out there anymore.
Wow, this is very serious - it pretty much turns every "left my phone on the bus" incident from "oh well" into "all your data was compromised". I don't know how Google couldn't take this seriously. Even after the poster physically demonstrated it they took months to fix it. For sensitive data with legal disclosure requirements this is a game changer.

Very disappointed with Google here - even though I lost a lot of trust in them in other areas, I still rated their security stance as excellent, especially on their own phones.
Would be wonderfully ironic if Elon saves downtown SF.
and frequently failing to get that the reason that other people aren't performing the scam is that they don't want to rip people off and don't want to suffer the consequences-- not because they couldn't figure out how.
That would help retrieve documents based on their contents. But you couldn’t query by a description of what kind of link it is.

So metaphor is able to translate the language of comments (“here are some thoughtful, technical blog posts about AI”) to the language of documents.

Disclaimer: I also work on a semantic search engine.
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ever the salesman
I'm not convinced Elon has actually considered all his options. He didn't have the company for any time at all before he start trying desperately to massively change things. Personally I feel like taking a minute or two to figure out the state of things before slashing and burning would be helpful for choosing the right path instead of making moves that get reverted the same day they are implemented.
Yep, it's a whole class of equating X thing with being "virtuous" (or similar). Your height, your sex, your weight, your hairline, your income/savings, etc. It's uncomfortable to talk about or admit but people regularly take controllable (or uncontrollable) traits and assign value to them even though it doesn't have any actual bearing.

"Oh that billionaire did something that seems odd/crazy to me? Well he must know something I don't else how would be be a billionaire!" - Yeah, that's not how things work. What's the line? "Past performance is not indicative of future results", paraphrasing it: "Past advantages are not indicative of future results". Very, very few "self-made million/billionaires" are anything of the sort. I'm not saying their lives have never been hard or that they have never worked hard at something but I think you'd find that, at scale, most people would succeed if put into that position (from birth, which is why this is near-impossible to prove).
The goal is for VR to become a dominant platform and their progress has been far from massive. Some technical advancements along the way are nice, but won't matter without large numbers of users.

How many people visit the metaverse multiple times per day?

What percent of the population spends hours per day in a VR headset?

The answer to those questions needs to be much better than "miniscule" for this project to be any sort of success.
On some systems without wget I have to alias wget to curl -o or whatever it is.
> It's horrifying how some cruel and scientifically ignorant school authorities inflicted collective punishment on schoolchildren with mask mandates.

Even if they did work, there is a cost / benefit that needed to be calculated that never was. All these “experts” myopically focused on one exact thing to the literal exclusion of everything else. And if you did raise objections or concerns you were (and still are) subject to a bunch of horrible retaliation.
> Present a case history of this.

Amazon versus Diapers.com

https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-be...
Hurt his feelings or impersonating him.
I've seen him replying to people insulting him and not suspending them.
Jack was privately talking the same to Elon. You can read more in the discovery documents (Elon's messages).

The gist was it that Jack believes Twitter should be not be a company and he believed Musk will take it there. Not sure I agree.
> If that were true, why would the person be on the plane in the first place? Couldn't they just watch a movie of their destination or zoom call the person they were visiting from home?

It can be the case that both:

* watching a video of the plane moving through the air is an effective way to mitigate some of the discomfort of flying

* meeting face to face with someone is valuable enough that it's worth taking the flight
The hushed tones of 'that is obviously bullshit'.