skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just ignore the AI hype herd. People who are pulling predictions out of their ass, have never had to deal day to day with the bugs these systems produce. You will never see a single person who works on production AI(not toy ai or research ai) making predictions cuz they are too busy staring at exploding bug lists.
Then why are they doing this? Do you think the “good guy” narrative they’re pushing with it is truly good enough marketing to justify eating several % of their profit margin on originations?
> Is there such a thing as a royalty free font family that the popular browsers would all recognize by name?

Yes "Liberation Fonts" [0]

> [...] compatible with the most popular fonts on the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office software package (Monotype Corporation's Arial, Arial Narrow, Times New Roman and Courier New, respectively), for which Liberation is intended as a free substitute.

e.g The Debian package is here, which I you need to install to get sites to not look wonkey in the official Firefox package: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/fonts-liberation.

I suspect packaged linux browsers through snap, flatpak, and the windows/macos equivalents, also bundle liberation fonts to avoid MS license issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
I simply reject the premise that all problems a startup needs to solve are original problems. Your customers have lots of ordinary problems too, as do you. Sure, you can't justify spending months on building some custom GraphQL infrastructure or the perfect CI/CD deployment system, but your customers do care about things like "when I download and install this software it's not a corrupt build" and "the software's updater works" and "when I pay these people money for their software I get what I paid for and don't get double-billed". These are all unoriginal problems that are nontrivial - ideally your startup solves them with off-the-shelf solutions to save time, but you still spend engineer hours integrating those solutions.
I think this assumes people are more respectful to their own, at least overtly, than to guests, but this is an incomplete view. In cultures where hospitality is high, guests are treated with a hospitality and patience that is not extended to the locals. Furthermore, foreigners are more likely to be viewed as people unfamiliar with the conventions and customs of the region, and therefore some reasonable patience is shown, whereas locals are expected to be on top of such things.

What insane people get isn't dignity and true respect, but avoidance!
You can do that with a link. Just click the three dots then "Add to home screen".
This argument doesn't make any sense at all. The price of a base model iPhone is around €800. Saving $.10 on a USB-2 module wouldn't make any difference to a consumer spending €800, but it will translate into major savings for Apple. For the individual consumer, it means being stuck with a 10-year-old standard that is exceedingly slow for the modern age. So yes, it will help somebody, but that somebody is Apple, not the average consumer. Additionally, the cost of cables produced on a large scale is negligible compared to the cost of the phone. You've conjured up an imaginary consumer who wants to buy an expensive phone without paying a little more for a cable and better data transfer. This is a standard justification given by the Apple crowd to defend their actions, and frankly, there is no justification for including a USB-2 port in a phone that will be released in 2023.

Furthermore, all of this is notwithstanding the fact that the price of the iPhone is going to go up this year. So yes, you're getting less for more.
I agree with the sibling comment that this is probably too little evidence to make such a grand claim, however, I can concur that I do notice people around me using LLMs in their daily life, sometimes as chatting buddies or for research. For my circle, it seems to be rather widespread.
The biggest bragging right was the low cost of electricity, then chargers cost the same or more than gas, chargers are harder to find or broken and took 10x longer to refuel.

I know a few people who now own 2 cars, a ev daily driver, and the gas powered for the weekends and trips.

We are just in a period of time until EV's get longer range and better infrastructure. Tech will get better.

EV consumer trucks like the ford lightning can't really be used for towing with such low range, but who knows 10 years from now, tech and infrastructure will most likely be fixed.
I disabled all my extensions while trying to debug random logouts while I was away from the computer, and realized I didn't miss them. (Turns out the issue was a faulty hard drive)
So maybe then we should talk about and consider the wider phenomenon that is linked to suicidal ideation, and not just clinical depression
>Remix doesn't feel bloated to me.

This still fits into the "kitchen sink" type frameworks I try to avoid. SSR has its place, but a huge portion of SPAs are better served by the flexibility of not requiring an app server. And tightly coupling those two just seems like a bad idea for a UI framework to me.
Are you sure these videos and their targeting are still a thing? Your comment is the first I've heard about it in years, and looking now everything I'm finding is years old.
My experience with commercial fonts is not great: I have had PragmataPro in my wishlist for a decade. I then bought it, to discover, for some reason, KDE doesn't render it correctly and it's twice as bold as it should be. In GTK4 apps it is decent, but everywhere else it is not the same look of the official screenshots.

Same with Berkeley Mono, which I got the free trial version and it is a little blurry in Emacs, that kind of peculiar blurriness of fonts that have never been tested on other OSes. Most fonts are perfect on Linux, so those commercial ones might require some tweaks to be compatible with other engines, and I don't see any font designer taking the time to test on Linux.

So while I would want to support indie font designers, because of my "weird" environment, I should probably stick to the free ones that I can just swap out if they don't render correctly.

It sucks to have spent €150 for a font that doesn't render well. I don't want to ask for a refund because it might one day work on my system and ages ago I used the pirated version, which incidentally worked just fine on Linux at the time.

(Before anyone mentions my font stack is broken, I assure you it ain't, and it the closest to macOS': hidpi monitor, 2x scaling, grayscale aa, no hinting. Everything looks gorgeous, except those two commercial fonts)
We absolutely can and will in time, but for better or worse LLMs and large transformer models are highly effective and are entrenching themselves. Any competing hardware architecture that cannot port LLMs will have to do a lot of bootstrapping, and will have to have some extremely compelling reasons for people to choose it.

Cutting energy costs by an order of magnitude could be enough motivation, but you'll still need to demonstrate competitive model performance.
i know it is hard for the nazi safety officers out there, but nazis are not just political opponents, nazis are proponents of an explicitly genocidal ideology.
> opening up the iPad to physically disconnect the speakers

I've certainly seen some laptops where that would be the easiest non-software option, where the leads can simply be unsnapped and wrapped in some non-conductive tape before closing it up again.
This could just as easily mean that people who are happy have more kids, not that having kids makes you happy.
The Ubuntu font for example is definitely not shitty -- it was designed at Dalton Maag and it is a considered piece of work that a lot of typographers rather like.

It's definitely rather idiosyncratic, mind you.

So I don't personally use it on Linux. I use Google's Roboto, which is close enough to Apple's later San Francisco (which shares some common heritage and some common modern touches) that I don't go insane when switching between the two!

Roboto is again a considered bit of work by a highly competent designer.

I don't have problems with either. If I did, I could use the Fira suite, which is lovely.
For long text, sure.

but most font are used for decorative use
No worries, sorry if my reply was a bit short too. Sounds like we're both happy for what we use, and willing to do a bit of lighthearted teasing of people on the other side with no real ill-will. I think that's a pretty good state for the world to be in.
insane -> dignity, respect

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That old chestnut. C is nothing remotely like an assembly language, of any kind. It is a low-level programming language, but only compared to most languages. Disassemble some compiled C code sometime -- it's another world entirely.
There are plenty of excellent open source fonts with full glyph support and perfect kerning etc. But many are overused. If you use something like Raleway or other popular fonts, visitors will have a subconscious sense of familiarity and associations which you may or may not like. If you want something distinctive it's hard to avoid commercial fonts.
> But pretty much every economic indicator is positive. Even the indicators that pessimistic pundits like to complain about are largely from areas where wages have been stagnant, or inequality has been rising rather than genuine decline.

I am going to take issue with this one; because as standards rise, the more unachievable they can become.

Example: 100 years ago, it wasn’t nearly as hard to buy a house. Sure, they might have had leaky roofs or lacked electricity or lacked indoor plumbing, but that was pretty normal. Your wife wasn’t going to lose her mind if you told her the outhouse was the only option.

Now here we are. Sure, our homes are way better - and more unaffordable for everyone. Just saying it’s better than it was - so stop being so pessimistic ignores how comparatively out of reach life feels.

It would be like if the only computer you could buy in 2027 was $8000, and had the equivalent of a RTX 7090 in it. “Stop whining - it’s so much better than they used to be” is not my complaint.
While that kind of makes some sense, it doesn't necessarily mean that LCD clean rooms are therefore the best clean room tech in the world.

I mean, I'm not saying they aren't, I just don't know. And the explanation you're presenting as the likely reason doesn't really bear that out. So far anyway. :)
I'm not convinced most people disagree with these.
there you go! great idea! Is there a kickstarter project for this somewhere?
With regards to #2...

Maybe I am not smart enough for this, but can someone define "General Intelligence" for me?

"Practically speaking, the best way to become smarter is to learn a lot of stuff and cultivate a lot of skills. Since knowledge and skills are more specific than general intelligence, that may be less than we desire, but it still matters a lot."

Would "learning a lot of stuff and cultivating a lot of skills" not boost your general intelligence?
I work on camera systems, I know how a Bayer filter works, it doesn't make everything misaligned and fuzzy. Edge directed upscaling works great. I'm curious how the foveon looked different or if you had an example.

If you only mean for old digital cameras, then sure. But you're not seeing bayer artifacts in any modern camera. Rolling shutter artifacts, on the other hand..
Their latency requirements are such that they want as straight and short a line as possible because a larger round-trip eats up precious nanoseconds. The speed of light is not fast enough for these folks
AI has had several goalposts set and then moved in the last few years, starting with the Turning test and most recently TFA.

This conversation does not seem like an attempt to find common ground. And I've clarified my point ad nauseam.

Cheers! Signing off.
> Whats the point of 'standing behind' if the consequencz is being arrested and thrown in jail.

See the history of nonviolent protest, civil disobedience, US civil rights movement, etc.
Sports don’t need to exist either.

For programmers obsessed with speed and never ending optimization to get the extra edge, HFT is the ultimate sport.
I think Japan did this? set a max area for a vehicle? That's why we see a lot of boxy car designs in Japan
I don't imagine you would get over such a shock or love them even near as much as you used to. That's practically a traumatic event, and would lead you to distrust everything else in your reality.

We can look to people who have been adopted and how they feel about the situation as examples, a lot of people will continue to yearn for knowing who their biological parents are. It creates almost two forms of love, not lesser just different.

Unless we get replica births!
Yeah and that makes the entire concept meaningless. All it does is make it easier to bully people.
Meanwhile, Windows is still shipping MSVBVM6.dll and the IE-4-compatible OCX files for compatibility with apps made using mid-1990s APIs.
Cognitive distancing appears to enhance decision-making performance: new study
Some Linux users buy themselves whatever fonts they like, e.g. from one of the many on-line stores.

Most Linux users use only free fonts, some of which are metrically equivalent with the more popular Windows fonts, so they will substitute those in documents and Web pages.

Some Linux users, like also some of the users of other operating systems, may use unlicensed copies of some popular fonts.
Tell me, do you casually click 15-20 videos on your phone while You're taxing before takeoff to be entertained for the whole flight? Do you use a media player that lets you turn off the screen but continue to listen to your just released yt podcast while you work out? Do you watch live feeds on your phone without ads? Or do you run a yt-dl scripts from the CL 3-4 times per year to farm w comments?
I've never done something like it but I'd assume there are lots and lots of gotchas with plans to deploy zero maintenance devices.

It would make sense to me that nonzero, predictable, acceptable maintenance is better than a plan for zero maintenance which, if it fails, would leave you with more devices than you can possibly fix.
Raspberry Pi in my experience (4b) is less than ideal for audio playback duties.

Pops and clicks from buffer underruns have proven quite difficult to 100% eliminate.

I think it's primarily due to some devices being pinned to CPU0. You can run irqbalance, but not everything can be moved around.
My experience is very old. I went to one of the most highly rated county school systems in the US. The quality of math instruction was horrible. It was called new math back in the 60’s. I think we are on at least the third iteration, new new new math. In grad school I finally had a good teacher.
Some headlines absolutely must be ''editorialized'' to give context and clarity to HN readers. To wit:

https://www.alamy.com/woman-has-baby-satirical-magazine-priv...

The guidelines are sturdy enough while also being elastic as needed. Live and let live.
You only need to use the same Apple ID for wired. I was using DuetDisplay wired for years.
Creating an integrated business and technology strategy
...I kind of wish compilers supported nested block comments. So if there's a /* inside of a /*, it would take two */'s to end it.

Idk, maybe that would be a terrible idea in practice. But there are lots of instances where it would have saved me time.
zoning laws tho
Inline adverts can be blocked, as long as you're decoding layer-7 (which is effectively what this ad is doing).
> Children don’t learn languages faster than adults, but they do reach higher levels of mastery.

> adults simply plateau at a non-native level of ability, given continued practice.

If adults plateau and kids don't, kids do learn languages faster.
Sense of Belonging and Software Teams
shit like this is why anyone calling themselves a software engineer should have to get a license and formally sign and seal their code
I addressed all of that in advance of your posting. We live with the equivalent `null == null` in plenty of other contexts, and not only does it not blow up, it in fact works better and has fewer bugs. It isn't even as if math demands this; it is merely one choice and one that is observably a mistake.
I really hate this "markets are efficient" bullshit. The markets are too slow because they don't incorporate the true cost of stuff. The environment is going to shit and by the time the markets have incorporated that cost, it is too late.
What would they use?
I think most people agree with most of these; what they don’t agree with is the various ways in which they’re used to advance or justify repugnant normative claims (shaming people for being overweight, blindly asserting the market’s efficiency in all cases, insinuating that social racial assignments are a good predictor of intelligence, &c.)
Or you can just assume that distinctive letter shapes are not a problem you need to go out of your way to solve, and move on with your life, right?

I think it's good to remember that there is a species of online person call "the font nerd" (I know because I am one and have font nerd friends), and font nerds would very much like it to be important to select interesting type combinations, and many are not above rationalizing urgencies for that hobby. But I doubt anybody in the real world actually cares. Look at the site we're on!
For #2, the idea that the evidence is overwhelming is just made up. The idea that the “experts” agree with him is laughable. That’s not what the majority of cognitive scientists believe at this point except in a few niches that are largely ignored by actual members of the field. So he just cherry-picked his “experts”.

This is the problem with “rationalists”.. . They don’t actually use their brains, they defer to “authority”, arguing that anyone that doesn’t listen to authorities is arrogant, but then they pick who they deem to be authorities to match their pre-existing opinions.
Do you have any broken stuff around you could repair, if you don't already know hardware (Maybe not the safest if you don't already know about electricity but everyone starts somewhere!).

You could look at noncode things to learn. Make a game in a foreign language?

These days I pretty much don't start new DIY projects, I just work on existing FOSS.
Downloading and using fonts available on Fontesk can be a huge trap. Read it's “Licensing” page. It's simply not safe to use fonts downloaded there, one should really use it only for discovery, at best.
> because as standards rise, the more unachievable they can become

Why should "standards" be relevant in the measurement of long-term economic indicators? Doesn't the very stack that standards have risen prove the core point that life has gotten better?
Many of the scabbards in the article are so curved that it would be impossible to pull a blade of the same shape out of them. I'm sure that's what arthem was referring to.
>There are plenty of illiterate people in the US.

And I don't think you can produce a single example that was homeschooled. Public education is notoriously inconsistent and frequently produces children that haven't met minimum educational requirements precisely because it lacks the individual attention kids need.
This has never been a good strategy vs "evil" states or in resistance like circumstances, which as the poster said could happen unexpectedly in ways never imagined and quickly.
Iirc there are ways you can syncronize your zotero library if pdfs to one of these sorts of devices. It will be more like exposing your pile of pdfs than offering much zotero specific functionality though. Maybe thats fine though, since these devices are about reading and don’t offer much more out of that from their limits.
Every major brand is owned by a minority of multinational conglomerates. 90% of the money we spend in shops and online goes to a number of companies you could count on one hand. This issue is not restricted to fonts.
Most of those fonts donated by Microsoft are only among the fonts owned by Microsoft, e.g. Georgia and Verdana.

They have included only a few fonts licensed from Monotype, e.g. Arial.

Besides the fonts donated by Microsoft, there are many other free fonts that have been donated by big companies like Google, Adobe, Intel, URW, Bitstream, JetBrains and others.

There are also many free fonts donated by individual creators.
That’s odd because the only two professional artists I know use an iPad Pro.
> And many, including myself, would argue that nepotism as flawed as it is, is still superior to random selection.

That's an unsupported claim, not an argument. :-)

In any case, if people want to argue in favor of nepotism, then I don't want to hear another word about "meritocracy".
The i386 lacks both MMX and SSE2.

SSE2 is the endorsed floating point architecture for x86_64, although the 8087 extensions remain present.

It is reasonable to assert that i386 is an insufficient designation to describe these capabilities.
Excellent essay.

The problem of not being an NPC is that all the NPCs gang up on you. At least in GTA games you had to enter a cheat code; but out on the net they stick together and sometimes go hunting proactively for others to disagree with. Scripted to encourage emergent behavior, i guess.
I think he is referring to publicly traded markets, like stock exchanges.

The less liquidity, the more inefficiency there is...the environment being an extreme example...
It means life has gotten better for those that can keep up and afford it. It also means life sucks more, and is far more hopeless and depressing, for people who can’t.

Extreme example: LA.
So the remarkable 1 is the objectively better device?
I'm working on how to implement search (and filters) for classified ads and this was helpful.

For ad entry, it seems you can either constrain user's input (essentially forcing them to choose from a list of options - ad type, the thing, category, etc. Or let them do a more free form entry (just title, description, price) and then add tags to help people find their ad.

Which raises the issue of how to curate tags. After reading your comment, I am thinking of building a list of what tags people search for "jobs, tractors, ..." make that into a suggestion list after people have entered their free form ad.

The world is messy. For sale, resumes, wanted, car parts, used cars, car repair, cars for parts. Oh my.
Why wouldn't WP just adapt to whatever new thing comes up? For instance, is there mastadon plug-ins for wordpress?
The stock market provides an efficient medium for the allocation of capital. This means that corporations can more easily and safely raise capital from the public and that the public can participate in the positive-sum growth of publicly traded companies and the economy at large. Moreover, the stock market, like any market efficient enough to be worth its salt, provides a uniquely effective information aggregation mechanism via price discovery, facilitating more accurate and more precise forecasting and prediction for nearly any process which interacts with the greater economy.

Studies of high-frequency trading have yet to show benefits to these processes above and beyond those provided by a slower static tick rate, and in fact, more recent studies seem to suggest that HFT may even exist only to the detriment of these processes, all while wasting undue resources, both physical and intellectual, on an endless arms race over ever decreasing trading latency[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading