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Andale Mono since 1993 -- it's on your Mac, and in Windows "Core Fonts for the Web", try it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalé_Mono

Author criteria was free. This has been free, and even without MacOS, can still be legally gotten free:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web

// Lucida Console is not the same.
It's not a genuine attempt at legislation by christo-fascists, it's a way to push the overton window, and is also a failure that they can then bring back to their tribe to shout about how they're fighting the good fight against the heathens - so give them money / vote for them. Sometimes it's used to trade political capital. They submit lots of bills like this, the party leadership keeps refusing to support it, the christo-fascists threaten to take their voters and donations away, party leadership gives them some concession by pushing some other bill to lean further in their direction.
They have my interest piqued with “Aggressive new cloud egress pricing”

Fingers crossed but so often these don’t pan out
I don't particularly see Linode as a valuable brand, more one to avoid.
Rails is still the king of productivity. The no-JS-framework-needed approach to front-end that it is championing in version 7 is refreshingly simple to work with
Excited to not see this go anywhere either. I mean, I hope it does, but Google doesn't have a good track record with this sort of thing.

Mountain View Wi-Fi, Loon, Google Fiber, I'm sure a bunch that I don't know about.
Ask HN: Direct Server Response is a cure for DDoS. Why is it not used?
From the Google handbook:

>If user requests are small and replies are large (e.g., most HTTP requests), DSR provides tremendous savings, because only a small fraction of traffic need traverse the load balancer. Even better, DSR does not require us to keep state on the load balancer device.
See https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-frontend/

Seems too good to be true. How can I implement DSR? Can I do so on EC2 / DigitalOcean, perhaps with floating ip addreses? Or, do I need physical hardware? Tried Googling, but there's very little info on how to actually implement DSR.
99.999% is what we used in our 156.25mm x 156.25mm polycrystalline cells when I did solar manufacturing. 21% efficiency was easily obtained, allowing ~300w in a 60-cell panel.
> These sorts of bills are nowhere near mainstream positions.

I don't think being mainstream matters much, most Americans support abortion rights, for example.
Take a screen shot. On iPad/iPhone you can save the screenshot of a webpage as a full PDF of the page. Make sure you are in Safari.
Should we just show hardcore porn everywhere? In schools? On the kiosks at McDonalds?
As an outsider, this feels absurd. Linode had so much good-will and brand recognition built up through their sponsorships and reps.
> Typically if a gas station isn't accepting payment, I can drive to the one next door.

You can do the same in Europe with EVs. Europe standardised on CCS Type 2 Combo for EV charging so you're not locked into one charging network. All brands of DC fast charger can charge all brands of EV, exactly as it should be.
IMO Ruby on Rails remains the "uncomplicated" standard for building full-stack apps. Especially notion-like CRUD apps. It's fast, uncomplicated (convention over configuration), and enjoyable to write apps in once you understand the basics. I still think Ruby is an incredibly fun language to write in.

You mention that you get frustrated by modern web dev - I assume you mean the insane world of javascript frameworks. You can build entire rails apps without ever really worrying about JS these days.[^1] Hotwired lets you build fairly complex UIs and add a ton of interactivity without JS. But if you ever want to do more with JS on the frontend it's very easy to adapt rails to just about any frontend JS framework, including React and Svelte.

That said, there's comparable full-stack frameworks in many languages, and if you just want to hit the ground running you might as well use what you know. Ruby - Rails. Java - Spring. Python - Django. PHP - Laravel. You can use whatever frontend you want with any of those frameworks.

Stick with Postgres or Mysql/Maria for the database. They're tried-and-true and scale to whatever size you will ever need.

[^1]: https://hotwired.dev/
I had the same reaction. Wow, what a thing to put together. I wonder how many people could produce such a doc, and how long it would take them.
>the 1st Amendment protects the right to engage in hateful speech.

It's worth going further to point out that the First Amendment (and Free Speech protections in general) exists specifically to protect and guarantee speech that someone sometime somewhere might or will find objectional for any or no reason.

Non-objectional speech doesn't need Free Speech protections because there's nobody to censor non-objectional speech in the first place.
As a new hire there is a line to walk between on one hand, using your outside/fresh perspective to provide valuable insight to the org, and on the other, complaining (or appearing to complain) about decisions where you don’t have full context.

Many of the examples in the OP are probably closer to the former, but my general advice here is to keep lots of notes about what seems broken, and revisit in a month or two. Sometimes you gained context that explains why something is actually sensible. If it still seems crazy with context, you can now bubble up the feedback with confidence, and also having hopefully built some respect and trust from the team to make the message land better.
People said the same thing about cloud computing and machine learning. When the cost per compute approached commodity status for both, those opinions quickly changed.
> We're clearly talking about emergency powers here, whatever you want to call them.

Emergency powers end after some time period. The draft IHR amendments are not time limited and affect 196 countries.

> WHO/IHR and all similar organizations don't have any ability to enforce their edicts themselves, they represent the collective agreements and actions of their sovereign members. The members have to do the work.

Yes, the 196 countries voting in May 2023 for the IHR amendments.

So the options are:

1) Countries implement totalitarian policy after voting YES, to comply with IHR-23.
2) Some countries vote YES, then refuse to implement IHR-23.
3) Some countries vote NO, IHR-23 passes by majority, they withdraw from IHR.
> Is that an FTC commissioner’s role ?

They are political appointees, I believe. So ask the party bosses?
The typical perceived use case is FHE in cloud providers providing highly sensitive compute in a multi tenant platform. In something like that full on hardware acceleration is key
What I did was stop paying them because they kept trying to shove podcasts down my throat.

And I told them why I unsubscribed.

Pretty sure that’s better still.
As a former Twitter employee, I am super glad I do not work there anymore.
https://www.google.com/search?q=web+to+pdf
If you want to build a business: Just use Django (or Rails). Avoid all the other more complicated things.

If you care about performance and being productive: Go

If you want to play with new tech: Rust
If I had to guess why you were accused of being ChatGPT, its probably because of your tendency to write longer form answers which tends to be the style ChatGPT uses.
First off, name a single auto company that hasn't had a recall in its history. I think it's a bit unfair to point at a recall and imply that the systems they employ are bad because of it.

Secondly, more to your point, I'm certainly not trying to defend the whole system or even imply that it's effective at accomplishing its stated goals. I'm merely saying that the concept of encouraging employees working with/creating/designing a product to point out flaws and making a point of digging into where defects are introduced is a good idea. I definitely can't speak to how well that philosophy is applied at Toyota but I think that's moot regardless.
i'd love to try to turn a server on every 30s for like 2s then turn it off again. rtcwake could be used for this. dont spin up your platter drives each time though or you might wear em out fast.

the tricky part is that a consumer would have to catch you at just this time. a mdns broadcast being a signal- contact me now- would work, but what apps are going to have that kind of timing built in?

it'd be interesting to see which kinds of protocols would be ok with servers that just keep disappearing. webdav might be fine. smb/cifs would probably throw a fit.

or... ideally the nic could be some kind of smartnic that could stay on & buffer some traffic, keep connections open. i wonder if cxl gear, with multi-host capabilities, might enable this sort of thing.
Ruby on rails is still good and getting better. It has almost every answer/guide possible already on the internet. Otherwise if you prefer better typing, I'm poking https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky from time to time... It looks interesting, but doesn't have a large user base yet.

For the front-end, I found Vuejs quite nice to add exactly where it's needed. Otherwise I can leave 99% of the site a plain html template.
I like the website layout. Knowing little about Web development. Is this custom made or using some kind of framework/template?
I tried Pocket Paint and looks better, thanks. I like "janky" UI for such application.
^this

Even if we are attracted by new libraries (Svelte) or think of going with the most popular choice (React), Rails is still one of (if not THE) most comfortable fullstack frameworks for building web apps.
Understanding is a form of compression, but not all compression is understanding, at least in the way I would describe it. Given an arbitrary function, you could simply compress some number of inputs and outputs, giving a lossy mapping between the two. Maybe you would interpolate between the two closest points in the range for unknown values.

Or, you could store the function itself.

To see the difference, compare for yourself what would happen for very large or very small inputs in both types of “understanding”.
I don't know if there's anything wrong with Sheildsup (other than my recollection of it being a pretty run of the mill tool for reporting open ports), but the guy who makes Shieldsup is, in my opinion, basically a charlatan. He writes loads and loads of technical-sounding blather on his website that is very transparently designed to make him look like an expert on security to people who don't know any better. He's made a career out of selling tools people don't need but which are hyped up to make them sound critically important.

Here's an example of some hype I just found about a device he "invented" that is supposed to really put home routers through their paces, because he's the only one looking out for us. [1] Of course, it maybe doesn't exist, and his claims of what it's going to do sound far-fetched and misguided, but it sure does seem aimed to make him sound like a real security expert. Not sure if he ever made any claims about having evaluated any routers with it.

[1] https://www.grc.com/r&d/assimilator.htm
I won't even say RIP because I've already moved on to greener pastures.

I didn't move on because of the acquisition, that never directly bothered me in any imminent way. Instead, I've moved on for price.

Hetzner Cloud is less than half the price for the shared 4 vCPU 8 GB RAM system that I needed.
I definitely just start saying things or hammering out words and then figuring out midway that I need to reword the paragraph at some point or at least choose to sacrifice legibility for my own laziness. It reminds me of improvised music or comedy. You just gotta roll with it and build a structure out of what you’ve already said. Like 60s amphetamine beat poetry epics.
Off topic but I’d really love an electric truck that does away with the drunk and moves that space to the rear, pushing the passenger cabin forward, like the old Japanese “trucks”. I’m a Ram owner and I think it’s ridiculous 1/3 is wasted on the engine up front, 1/3 on passengers in the middle, and only 1/3 remaining for actual utility.

Also, while we’re at it, the way the old Japanese trucks allowed you to fold down all the sides around the bed to turn them into flat beds… chef’s kiss
i like overcast
> The Bas-Rhin fire service says that the SBG2 data center had no automatic fire extinguishing system and no general electrical cut-off switch. The facility also had a wooden ceiling rated to resist fire for only one hour, and a free-cooling design that created "chimneys" that increased the fire's ferocity.

I recall seeing headlines here about the fires, but I didn't know their construction was this bad.
This is a potent argument for some interpretations of the "Chinese room experiment"
Well you're just a jumble of electrons and protons interacting with each other. That's a 100% true interpretation is it not?

It's also a view that misses the point that you are a molecular intelligence made of DNA that continually mutates and reconstructs it's physical form with generational copies to increase fitness in an ever changing environment.

But that viewpoint also misses the point that you're a human with wants, needs, desires and capability of understanding the world around you.

All viewpoints are valid. But Depending on the context one viewpoint is more valid then others. For example, in my day to day life do I go around treating everyone as if they're useless jumbles of molecules and atoms? Do I treat them like biological natural selection entities? Or do I treat them like humans?

What I'm complaining about is the fact that a lot of people are taking the most simplest viewpoint when looking at these LLMs. They ARE MORE then statistical word generators and it's OBVIOUS this is the case when you talk to it in-depth. Why are people denying the obvious? Why are people choosing not to look at LLMs for what they are?

Because of fear. Because of bias.
Are there any image file formats that support a concept of image diffs? Your edits can be overlays of rasters with an alpha layer?
That’s a good idea but I’m guessing that using it for query expansion will only lead to marginal improvements as you are still limited by the main search engine.
I've never had that happen. I only use the mobile app, though.

I've read complaints of people getting YouTube recommendations in their YTM. When I first got it, I created a second account/channel in YouTube (same login, just click on your profile pic and add an account) and I used that for YTM so they don't cross contaminate. They really should tell you this.

I turned off video in the YTM app settings, because I'm listening not watching. But it still will let you listen to a video with no visuals. This is the best part of YTM; if you listen to a lot of unpublished stuff it won't be on Spotify, but there's almost always a YouTube version. It treats it like any other track, and you can add it to playlists, etc. I've never had it show a YouTube video as the first hit if there is a published version of the song. The videos are near the bottom of the results in a separate section unless it's the only result.
ChatGPT has been blowing every single translation task I've thrown it out of the water, even compared to other modern systems. I have no idea why more people aren't talking about that aspect of it either, other than the Anglosphere in general is kind of oblivious to things that aren't English.
Typescript. I love how flexible the type system is and the ability of share logic in frontend and backend.

For backend dotnet core is also nice. Fast and batteries included. I would avoid their Entity framework though. I still prefer TS.
That’s assuming we would still have pots or a need for them with this tech.
I have a few hobby projects which use Google Sheets as a backend. It's great.

Google Forms is a great frontend for Sheets if you just need a way to collect data.
Django if you already know python. Rails if you are getting started or already know js
> The holy grail for this technology is a Far-UVC Diode.

Right. Currently, 222nm lamps are gas-discharge tubes, and they cost far too much. There are fake 222nm LED lamps available online. There are also units that produce what Naomi Wu calls "homeopathic levels" of UV. Beware of scams.

If this is to go anywhere, a low-cost tester is needed. You can get a hand held UV spectrograph for about $3000, but that's more of a lab instrument. Something like a detector on a stick that lights up green for enough 222nm UV to be useful, and red for too much UV in dangerous parts of the spectrum.

One idea is to have a unit up near the ceiling that emits UV in a horizontal plane, so that air that makes it up to the ceiling gets sterilized. Convection, maybe with ceiling fan help, can move air through that region. But humans aren't up near the ceiling much, so they don't look into a UV source.
this is seriously cool!
Hetzner been solid for me.
> Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.

They misjudged commitment to the podcaster, the way XM radio did. Howard Stern and Joe Rohan are now pale echoes of the cultural forces they were before they let for pay middlemen in between them and their listeners.
The US has expansive freight rail networks, but they are in poor repair as the operators, such as Norfolk Southern and CSX, cut costs even if it impacts safety. This has been a major complaint of rail works for decades, but little has been done.

There was a bill to help prevent just the type of accident that happened in Ohio by requiring electronically controlled brakes on cars carrying toxic / volatile chemicals, but it was repealed by the Trump administration.
Ask HN: What are your biggest career regrets?
IMO, all stacks have their complications.

I generally liked working with NodeJS, and plain JavaScript both on the server and browser side. It shines for applications where things are kept extremely simple.

If things are going to get a little complicated, swapping in Typescript will bring in the compiler to check things for you. This will be useful if your codebase gets large enough to refactor, and benefit from a statically checked compiler.

Remember that plain JavaScript in the browser is a thing, and if your needs are simple, you can do a lot with it.

Also: I really like Blazor and C#. It's a completely different stack, and much more complicated. But it's much more powerful, and the straightforward, templated HTML via razor is a real joy to work with.

Edit: One nice advantage of server-side Blazor is that you don't need to write an API to do AJAX. (IE, you can mix database queries in your UI code.) This "keep it simple" has it's place in some situations. (Of course, you can do in-browser Blazor with a proper API and separate layers if needed.)
Python/flask with server side rendering.
Individuals, generations, and societies develop ideas and need to test them out for themselves. Over the second half of the twentieth century, in the shadow of a society that waged two world wars, annihilated cities with fire bombings and nuclear weapons, and staged a globally existential Cold War between "good" and "evil", the "peace and love" hypothesis felt really enticing: maybe we could all just be nice to each other and make sure everybody had what they needed and everything would be better. Gen X and Millenial kids learned it from our parents, got support from hippie and urban boomers in institutionalizing it through politics, science, and medicine and embedded that idea deeply in the children that came behind us.

Now, we're working through the experiment. We'll see how it goes. It's not a sure thing.
Someone maybe, and maybe they'll pay if they want to keep working in Turkey, but...
many of the builders were given amnesty for violating construction rules, and then arrested after the earthquake. There's video of Erdogan boasting about how much more housing was put in from the amnesty. So maybe Reinsurers claim most of those buildings aren't covered, because of building violations? That's what they'd do in Florida.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156512284/turkey-earthquake-...
I despise Oracle with every bone in my body... but I must admit their Always-Free tier is the best deal in the game. 4 ARM cores to divvy up among 24gb of memory however you please... oh, and you get 2 extra 1c1gb x86 servers for whatever else you need. You want that on AWS, it will run you at least $40/month. Plus you get a better management interface with Oracle to boot. For any cash-strapped devs trying to make a simple build server or setup a remote dev environment, this seems like the best option to me.

I depreciated like $15/month of Vultr VPSes last weekend by switching to their offerings. It's not the fastest but damn, it makes me wish it wasn't an apology for their crimes against FOSSmanity.
There's something to be said for a set of technologies you can continue using for a couple decades.

I don't use MySQL anymore but otherwise this is my favorite stack. Nowadays, I use sqlite, flat json files, or google sheets.
Seems like it's more than ready to start a political career.

Come to think of it, the world is/was in a curious place when 4 out of the 5 members of the UN Security Council were run by... [Hey ChatGPT, what's a diplomatic word for "lying morons"?].

Trump, Xi, Putin and Boris. (Anyone have an opinions about Macron?). At least Truss was dumber than cabbage.
Do you mean localization?

"Nationalizing an industry" means a country's government coming to own and operate said industry. See, for example, railroads of ye olde days.
It's clearly early technology, so it's not perfect. But what it is able to get right is clear proof it's more then what you think:

https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

Read to the end. The beginning and middle doesn't show off anything too impressive. It's the very end where chatGPT displays a sort of self awareness.

Also here's a scientific paper showing that LLMs are more then a chinese room: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382
Show HN: We are building developer-first open-source CLI for alerting
Although it is still in its early stages, we believe it would be beneficial to receive feedback on our project.

The project aims to provide the following use cases:

1. Declarative alerting that can be managed in your version control and service repository.

2. Alerting from multiple data sources, allowing for more context and enrichments.

3. Elimination of vendor lock-in, making it easier to transition from one observability tool to another.

Additional features we plan to include are:

- Integration with CI/CD processes to facilitate alerts maintenance and coverage.

- Scoring to evaluate the alert's actionability and contextual information.

- Slack integration to track alerts channels over time.

- More providers, conditions, etc
> WebAssembly is similar to a Docker container

In what sense?

Maybe I'm thinking too much about the implementation, rather than the use cases, but to me, WebAssembly is a VM/execution environment (in the sense of the JVM, not VirtualBox), whereas Docker is a containerization solution (i.e. a way to isolate userspace environments, for both security and dependency management), and decidedly also not a VM at all.

I can see how they can be used for similar goals, in any case: "Run my binary efficiently on your generic computer without having to trust it".
“The Mysteries” by Bill Watterson, Illustrated by John Kascht
I do not understand the bearing of African turf wars on the topic at hand. This would in effect be a justification to never do anything about anything because there are “worse” problems in the world.
1. All of my email addresses from different providers are in one location

2. I have a local backup of all my emails