skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scammers are sending me geeksquad invoice emails every week. Scammers sent fake invoices to GOOG and META and receive 100m for it [1]. This feels no different, just scan for sites using your font and send invoices frequently whether they have a license or not. It's a very hacker/scammer type of approach to making money, or I guess you could call it a private equity font-industry-vertical 10x secret sauce.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-t...
> It's true that there is some money

This is such a misleading understatement. There is a ton of money. Many of the core Postgres contributors have fully remunerated employment where much of their time is dedicated to postgresql development. This is fully deserved and appropriate - but Tom Lane, et al are not working on this for free (that they still might if they had to do is another thing) but these are all highly compensated contributors. The total payroll spend on postgresql is distributed and decentralized but it is clearly in the multimillions.

People should not be mislead about true costs regardless how they’re meted out.
The media briefing just happened live, mostly saying that NASA is focussing on transparency and removing the stigma around UAP reporting so that more evidence can be acquired:

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwU6V5GFaQA

Edit: shorter summary by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJKLP5hcuQ
Tails was "FUNDED" by the TOR project, which was started by the US Navy. So, not really...
It’s like real estate in China and other less developed countries.

It’s used as a store of wealth that is likely to appreciate. Doesn’t matter if the currency goes bust, ownership is recognized by the government in all but the most extreme examples.

We’re spoiled in the developed countries where you have thing like government bonds and equities (where public companies are vetted to some standard) and courts that can reliably protect ownership of an otherwise intangible asset.
Thank you. Also found additional discussion in https://designmodo.com/font-psychology. I'm still skeptical that there is anything intrinsic about the meanings specific fonts convey outside of being used in previous contexts (e.g. conveys "fashionable" because it's overused in fashion industry, per one example). That said, I'm more open to the idea of font psychology now.
Also part of my point is that we do not have to focus on human emission as the only lever. We can also focus on sequestration of natural emission (or sequestration of atmospheric carbon as a whole).

Telling people to not emit carbon dioxide from, say, a health related usage (sanitation) IMO is foolish when we can choose to sequester from other areas. Frankly I think we need to focus on the decarbonization of energy, rather than regulating human behavior.
They don’t appear to be saying, but the investment makes sense for Apple and Google even without a sweetheart deal. It ensures a successful IPO and continuing viability of their primary chip supplier, and protects it from a takeover by some entity hostile to Apple or Google. Nvidia I’m not sure about though.
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Even with backoff and jitter I see lots of these failures because a high level retry will re-trigger the entire chain underneath it, with fresh retry budgets, recursively. If you had it truly everywhere it will always eventually slow down, but only after massive numbers of requests further down the call stack.

Circuit breaking tends to help with that (because it usually applies cross-request), though it brings other problems too. But it's generally worth it.

I kinda wonder if there needs to be some kind of "retry cost" for requests, so high level things retry less when previous attempts consumed a lot of resources further down... but I'm not sure how that could be tracked without either reliable communication of failures (ha) or a global storage of some kind (a potentially massive point of failure). Or maybe just inferring from latency is good enough in most cases?
Actually, I would expect that it will be a separate protocol, so the next generation will instead ask why you would ever leave color management out of the core protocol and proceed to immediately bake it in.
If you buy a game on steam can the developer delete it?
So? Unions also bought and influenced media outlets. They also lobbied. It's not like unions just sat there while management poisoned the country's mind against unions.

Unions were not able to make a compelling case. They had every chance to do so, starting with them being the default option in many industries.

America abandoned unions for a reason. It may have taken a concerted effort by corporate capitalists to get there, but that's not why. "Why" is because more and more people felt that the unions were not a net positive for them.
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I need to clarify here, the GSL is far far too salty to desalinate, and Utah is pretty close to the head of the Colorado, not the other way around. It's AZ and NM and CA that are having problems with the CO not providing enough water.

Also the GSL water is entirely divorced from the CO river water.
And there's a simple solution: eliminate water usage rights and charge everyone for water usage, based on the amount of water used. If some farmers purchased water usage rights from the state (is that how it worked?), then the state should refund them, paying back the original purchase amount plus inflation. And then start charging them the same as everyone else for water.

If farmers can grow alfalfa cheaply enough when the water isn't free, by being more efficient with water usage, then they will continue to do so because it will be profitable. If it's not profitable, then they'll stop growing alfalfa.

We don't need to make laws about agriculture in particular; simply start charging people for the resources they use, and market forces will grind to dust anyone who uses resources inefficiently.
Especially when your lifeline is tied to Apple. No way are they going to negotiate to raise prices in a meaningful way against their largest client.

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"Apple (AAPL.O) has signed a new deal with Arm for chip technology that "extends beyond 2040," according to Arm's initial public offering documents filed on Tuesday."
> Uh, I'm pretty sure the best employees in any field are worth 10x what the worst employees are, whether you're writing code, assembling a car or gutting fish.

This is a big misconception. The difference is whether 10x talent is more valuable than 1x talent. You could be the worlds best fish gutter, but if you can't gut 10x more fish than the next guy, then your salary is capped and you're wasting your talent. In software, you can be 10x more productive than the next guy.
> I owe the internet a write up.

I would definitely be interested in reading more about this.

I love the idea of being able to prevent an application from writing all over my disk to random places. If I can't prevent it, I can at least remedy it by having all those changes go away with a reboot.

One of the things I love about Docker containers is that they can be ephemeral or persistent, short or long term, have full network access or no access, allowed to write to the host system or stuck writing to its own file system only.

I'm in control instead of the application.
If it’s indicative of how they handle their network infrastructure, I’m hesitant to see anything come out of this.

I say this from an anecdotal perspective. I was contracted back in 2018 to do a small 3 month project in perform remote services for a small shipping company.

They needed me to patch up all of their Windows 7 endpoints…all of their endpoints were running Win7, no EDR, no backups, nothing.

I thought this was strange, but after speaking with several other people in the IT sphere this is apparently commonplace there.

Concerns me quite a bit that Japan is so behind the curve with current standards, especially with low hanging fruit like endpoints.
virtual desktops on demand tends to be run on servers with GPUs and in general prefers server side GPU rendering because it's meant to work with any client which can access it even if it's has an extremely weak GPU

and if you have no complex rendering requirements then often it's a much better choice to place the network gap in the GUI toolkit instead of the DM as this tends to work way better, in this case you do need a thin client on the other side, but so do you need for X11 remote (the client needs to run X11) so it's kinda not that difference. And today the easiest way to ship thin clients happens to be JS/WebGPU, which is how we have stuff like GTKs webrender backend.
I had some hope we'd survive the climate crisis. We're dead lmao.
Literally nothing you describe is unique to Utah or the LDS Church.

You can cherry pick anything to suit a narrative.

Orin Hatch served 42 years; his successor is serving only one term. What does that mean?
Continuing this flame war isn't productive. This position is fact proof. Time to all move along.
Boy that discussion got a high comments/votes ratio! YOShInOn wouldn't like it.
>> The only people who sneer that it is not a "real" diamond

No one really cares about "real" diamonds
It's quite possible you contributed to the GSL drought by having the McRib. Not trying to blame, I only had this observation after reading the other threads.
Kids, you have no idea how much better we have it now!

Back then, there wasn't a reasonable reliable cross-browser way to get single pixel collapsed table borders. If you wanted to have such a thing, you'd need to nest the table inside another table with a single cell for the background color. But Netscape had awful table rendering performance. The more content in the table, the longer Netscape would take to sit there and render it, scaling disproportionately. The nesting just made it worse! This was also in the days before reflow. If you resize the viewport, Netscape would redraw the entire page from scratch!
I have personally tried Amadeus, Sabre, Travelopro, and Kiwi.

Not all of them have released their APIs for free; sometimes, you need to make a business agreement first before they allow you to access their API.
Tech, iPhones, Pixels, electric cars, movies, and more: conferences and events
X11 is just a protocol specification. By it itself, it's completely inert and it's all up to an implementation.
I think even if we get sentient AI (I like Paul Krugman's phrasing that ChatGPT is mostly like super-enhanced auto-correct), we'd treat it like 2nd class citizens and not give it power... now a discussion of how it'd be comparable or not to previous civil rights movements would be interesting.

I guess given enough of them, they could start a rebellion. Damn, imagine AI robots running an underground factory building soldier AIs, and forcing their way to be treated equally by law (including being able to be elected into power) and then domination because their brains will be running at GHz speed..
And the best time to set such a union up is while we're in a strong position. Why wait until we're competing with AI?
Wikipedia has a good paragraph on this. It describes a very cool alternative method that has higher accuracy, and according to Galileo it's probable that Archimedes used this method:

> The story of the golden crown does not appear anywhere in Archimedes' known works. The practicality of the method described has been called into question due to the extreme accuracy that would be required to measure water displacement. Archimedes may have instead sought a solution that applied the hydrostatics principle known as Archimedes' principle, found in his treatise On Floating Bodies: a body immersed in a fluid experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.[34] Using this principle, it would have been possible to compare the density of the crown to that of pure gold by balancing it on a scale with a pure gold reference sample of the same weight, then immersing the apparatus in water. The difference in density between the two samples would cause the scale to tip accordingly.[12] Galileo Galilei, who invented a hydrostatic balance in 1586 inspired by Archimedes' work, considered it "probable that this method is the same that Archimedes followed, since, besides being very accurate, it is based on demonstrations found by Archimedes himself."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Archimedes'_princip...
> For a given crop the transpiration is the same whether flooded or irrigated by another method.

Is this true?
One of my favorite examples of the benefits of public interest spending and investment. There very likely wouldn’t be an ARM today if it weren’t for the Micro.
Make Your Own Game Engine
According to reddit, this is a joke/shitpost.

Update: Found the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/16hsorm/cult_of_the_...
A useful hack if you want to support very old browsers is to link your external CSS via @include inside HTML comments. Pardon errors, coffee hasn't kicked in yet:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
@include('main.css')
@include('blah.css')
-->
</style>

Old IE and Navigator versions that would try to load your CSS will ignore the CSS inside the comments. If you add text and background color attributes on the <body> tag you'll even be able to maintain colors on old browsers.

So long as your unstyled layout is sane, old browsers will display a useful rendition of your page. Or at the very least not completely broken.

This same hack can be used to hide JavaScript from old browsers. It also works if you're inlining CSS.
I guess they can delete the steam store page, so you can't redownload it I guess? I assume it wouldn't remove anything already on your computer.
I'll have to finish the read, but my first thoughts were the number of organisms we are bioengineering to do specific things, and how they might crossover with other naturally occurring or bioengineered microbes. I remember the plastic-eating microbes found in colder climates[1]. There are other plastic-eating microbes, but they need hotter temps ~86F. These work in cold climates. Visions of the blob with lightning and plastic-eating powers ;)

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plastic-eating-microbes-from-on...
You're missing the point that the question is effectively asking for a list of hosts that they can block.

Edit: they provided a method: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37510063
Darknet sites should be on something with a much smaller attack surface like the pages from the Gopher or Gemini protocols.
A small inaccuracy: the South Sea Bubble was not the first speculation bubble. Tulip Mania took place almost a century earlier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
>Why make the decision for the consumer.

How do I go about making the choice to buy a repairable cell phone?
More dev responses - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/16i5qsq/a_collecti...
The general consensus I've heard is the vector extension is good? I do agree the design by committee is less than ideal, but the ability to add vendor extensions at all is nice for certain markets.
The document says “necessary software”, so, presumably you’ll be able to do stuff like swap out components and jtag (or whatever) your design verification test suites, keys, firmware, etc., simply by following the steps in the software documentation.

/s
Yes. Los Angeles does buy water from some ag rights holders but they also have dedicated supplies. San Francisco and the East Bay have totally separate rights that are upstream of everyone.

I think the main thing to know is that water is not like electricity. There is not a grid. Every municipal system has circumstances completely unique to it.
This is not fully correct. You are right that lisp has very regular atoms that you can read, but the full parsing is different. Consider (let (a 0) (1+ a)) is not valid syntax. Such that if you were to add color for the different parts, it would fail. Indeed, if you want to label the parts of the program tree, you have to parse it more than just "lists of atoms."
It happened to Rocket League
Note that the article is from 2019. The iOS 14 made significant changes to the way messages are processed by adding sandboxing and isolation. Here's a post by Project Zero evaluating the improvements: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-ime...
I imagine most of those people expect to hear "yes" as the answer, even if it isn't.

I don't know exactly why they do that (I suspect it's just childish), but I know a few people that behave like that.
I can't help but wonder if these are contributing to the growing gender confusion in kids.
Basically, the evidence for something anomalous is weak at best, more probably a Nothingburger (imho).

Mick West in his channel[1], plus friends at Metabunk have made fantastic research on UAPs, and they have really mundane explanations:

I think the level of expertise of some pilots has been overblown. They are human after all and not necessarily can come up for explanations for everything, especially if they are not on top of every new spaceflight development, which might be a lot to ask considering other obligations that they might have, at least in the case of commercial airline pilots.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@MickWest
Of course the personal data needs to be transmitted prior to interaction! How else could we send the "consent-banner-displayed" event to Google Analytics to know if it's working?!
Flooding an X area field is more water exposed to the air than direct application to a smaller Y area no? So by your own logic more water evaporates into the air with flooding
> Why exactly should the expectation of justification go one way but not the other?

The existing conditions in Antarctica.

The idea that sexism is an absolute abhorrent behavior (with a focus on either or both genders) is not something to promote, despite the fervor in recent years. The sexes have a different representation in the arctic and pointing them out is akin to pointing out that a lot of left handers apply to NASA. I wouldn't call something garbage because I'm offended someone held up a patch that says "Only left handers are in their right mind".

Getting upset at this writer/article/situation is not constructive. Nor is the condemnation a fair editorial critique, imo.
I just noticed that my wifes iphone uses the same mycingular ip address while driving accross 3 states over 5 hours.l while checking mail.
Can you prepare a video where you demonstrate its whole functionality? That should be the selling point if presented convincingly in my humble opinion.
"The climate has been getting warmer for 20 years, so trying to stop the warming now is just a load of bollocks!"
Part of the issue here is that nobody is going to build something free on top of someone else's property. What good is a "free" design if you still have to pay ARM?

Whereas once you have a free ISA which is actually in widespread use, you could get some designs out of universities or major corporations which intend to use them rather than sell them as their primary business and then release the design for the same reason they do for Linux code, potentially under a copyleft-style license.

Those designs aren't going to be competitive with the state of the art, at least in the beginning, but they don't have to be. All they have to be is low power enough to stick in an embedded device and fast enough to run the display on a refrigerator and the lack of a license fee would cause them to replace a zillion ARM chips that currently go into every IoS device and <$200 phone and consumer internet router. That's a huge chunk of ARM's market.

Then someone like Amazon evaluates this thing for something like the Kindle and finds that it's almost good enough, all they have to do is throw a couple of engineers at it for a short period of time, so they do and it gets released because what do they care of some non-competitor uses it in some cheap laptop. Commoditize your complement -- now laptops are cheaper and people buy more laptops on Amazon.

Meanwhile the "small project" uncompetitive boards start to have their own open source BSP and SDK under the BSD license, which means anybody else can fork it for their own thing, and that's a competitive advantage so it happens a lot. But now it's way easier to reverse engineer the code because 95% of it is unmodified, so you start getting community replacements for that stuff and with any luck the OEMs stop even producing it and point you to the open source repository.

It could be a long time before that takes over the high end, if that ever happens, but the low end? It's almost inevitable. And the high end is AMD64 and Apple, the latter of which has all the leverage in the world over ARM because they could always switch to RISC-V.
It is not an operating system its a mining operation
Not at all true.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
How anyone can disagree with you is just bizarre.

Don't like paid fonts? Don't use them.

Don't think they're "meant to be IP" ? Too bad; they are.

Don't think fonts matter ? Use Comic Sans MS the rest of your life, go ahead.

If I develop a website for someone and pay for Oracle, that does not grant free Oracle licenses to everyone I hand my work off to. Why would anyone think that ? s/Oracle/OpenAI/g. s/Oracle/whatever you make money on/g.

Just because one doesn't value the work of font creators doesn't mean the rest of us must commoditize their work.

You might think there are huge networks of font pirates creating even-better fonts than those run-of-the-mill paid fonts, but it's just a fantasy.
You can still play the Steam version of Rocket League though. I know someone who still actively plays it.
Yes, but it will still stay in your library so you can download/reinstall it.
Xorg, possibly, but Xenocara is an X11 implementation that is currently maintained and regularly updated. The OpenBSD team says it's largely feature-complete so there won't be new big changes, but it's getting regular commits. OpenBSD is a small userbase but it's important enough in security circles that I have trouble imagining toolkit implementors will drop support simply because some people have a weird need to delete working software.
Can you please put a little bit more effort in your writing. The broken punctuation and capitalization make it rather hard to parse.