skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel similarly about environment variables. Envvar issues are a pain to debug in cloud VMs and CI pipelines.

Oftentimes, changing the envvar value doesn’t propagate without a container restart anyway.

I wish that instead of all these vaults and similar tools, cloud providers would let me pipe in a flat text file and read config from there.

Anything that requires a more complex setup should live with the code.

In many scenarios, the increased cognitive burden that comes with these hierarchical config files, DSLs, and rule engines is just not worth the yield. Redeploying isn’t hard unless we’re talking about a multi-region, globally distributed system.
"someone owns the land"

In England, only the King owns the land, and Parliament can deploy any resources in the UK it wishes by simple Act of Parliament.

The only other thing there is is human labour, and that can similarly be deployed if we choose to.

As we discover every time we go to war.

So no there is no cabal of hoarders preventing anything, and no shortage of stuff or money. All that is preventing regeneration is the political will to do so.

In reality Gary is a member of the Outer Party, and he wants to take money off the Inner Party and give it to his mates so they can all play at looking after the Proles while value signalling to one another.
That sounds like wishful thinking. Body that doesn't move just wastes away. People are imagining perfect bodies peacefully lying down but it would be more like a something between neurology ward and hospice.
> Python values are typed.

So are Tcl values.
One of the things that made me interested in fonts was many years ago when I looked up the difference between Arial and Helvetica, and ever since I did that I react every time I see Arial used in print or signage because some of the letters are really awful in comparison. The most obvious difference is probably the capital R which to me looks terrible in Arial.

Here's an image showing some overlay examples: https://i.imgur.com/1sdXiNY.jpeg
Few years ago a lot of packages were marked as gifts.

EU simply wants to collect taxes.
Business was good in those days if you had an audience and could distribute your game to your customers more or less direct. Retail was very expensive, but if you were selling shareware your distribution costs were really low and you weren't giving anybody 30-50% of your take. Titles may not have sold i.e. 10 million copies back then, but you could make good money off a single game, and it was cheaper & faster to develop a game. The 'if's I just listed are pretty significant, of course.

For one example, Ultima 1 was developed by a couple people, sold for ~$40 USD, and eventually sold over 1.5m copies according to https://www.newspapers.com/article/austin-american-statesman... and other sources. So that alone probably made everyone involved in the game's development millionaires, even if the publisher took a huge cut.
Since around 2020, you've been able to pay Swedish VAT when you purchase from Ali Express etc. The resistors increase from $1 to $1.25, with the $0.25 going to the Swedish treasury.

Do you not have electronics shops in Sweden? Copenhagen has ElEkstra: https://www.elextra.dk/en-gb/components/modstande/smd-modsta...
I think it was not implied that there is something wrong with it. It’s just that, that requires having access to it and being available to take it.
> this is a joke

it is reality in most.of the world. Humans turned the ecosystem in a world of invasive species.
This is neat, thanks.

Reminds me of how fira code (my favourite font for code) can be adjusted to match the preferences.
Observational bias is interesting. For example, if you judge by the stars visible to the naked eye, you get a very different sense of the distribution of stellar masses than if you use a telescope, because no class M main sequence stars will be included (the brightest has apparent magnitude 6.7). The intrinsically brightest stars, including many of the famously named ones, are visible to great distances and so are very overrepresented.

The most spectacular form of observational bias could be the presence of life. The planet we are on will always have life (because, we are here and we are life) regardless of how uncommon life actually is in the universe.
By the way, why _do_ llms work with tokens and not letters? Is that some kind of optimization, or is there a more fundamental reason for it?
The two typefaces couldn't look more different. Look at the stroke cuts on the ascenders of the 'd', 'l', the stroke cuts on the 'a', 'e', and 's'.
You’re giving them too much credit for being clueless. Especially the Trump administration. Look at the people on that team: evangelicals hoping for the end of the world so their Savior can return, self-made billionaires pushing personal agendas, crypto grifters treating policy like a pump-and-dump scheme… This wasn’t just random chaos — they knew exactly what they were doing.

But I agree with you: The Covid pandemic seems to genuinely have overwhelmed governments worldwide.
Non-US-based alternatives to popular services
It seems that you have included mostly old fonts as examples. And what is your opinion about free fonts like Roboto, Open Sans or Noto?
I think machine learning research is more like engineering, where you do need some math, but you don't need a physics degree. You don't need to understand everything first to discover that some engineering solutions work and others don't. And most abstract theories likely wouldn't have helped you anyway because they are not sufficiently concrete to apply to what you are doing in practice.
Please reread my comment, slowly.

And perhaps Google about hedge funds a bit to understand how they make money. Of course most are down now...

The whole point is not all hedge funds are supposed to outperform SPY, hence the name "hedge." They make money on fees.
If you want standardized professional places to stay while you travel, why not just stay in a hotel? When I go to a hotel (and we travel a lot), I know I’m getting a standard level of service and if not - especially with a chain hotel like one franchised by Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott etc - I can complain to someone at corporate and get a refund and book somewhere else, usually it doesn’t even tags that. Just talk to the front desk. They don’t care if you get a refund - it’s not their money.

Airbnb “hosts” treat it like their “home” and are emotionally invested in what should be a business transaction.

This isn’t to mention how many hosts are running an illegal AirBnb.
That seems like a lot of marketing effort for “we took an existing font and stretched some bits”?
> which part of the above is wrong?

Rust Belt isn't the entire US economy. Blaming where the US is today on globalization is probably 30 years too late.

The US economy has created enormous wealth. Domestic policies on how to spread around the prosperity to all citizens is where the US failed. Think more of what Sanders and AOC talk about, not bringing back factories that will be 99% automated anyway. For one example, how can the most prosperous country in the world have a majority of its bankruptcies tied to medical debt? And somehow people want to blame China or globalization or some other boogie man?
Are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?
Offering more detailed timeouts for other stages of the request would be great, too.

For example with HAProxy you can configure separate timeouts for just about everything. The time a request is queued (if you exceed the max connections), the time for the connection to establish, the time for the request to be recived, inactivity timeout for the client or server, inactivity timeout for websocket connections... The list goes on: https://docs.haproxy.org/3.1/configuration.html#4-timeout%20...

Slowloris is more than just the header timeout. What if the headers are received and the request body is sent, or response consumed very slowly? And even if this is handled with a "safe" default, it must be configurable to cater to a wide range of applications.
Why do we feel retro-computing nostalgia?
In addition this is maybe a good option (haven't looked into it) for people (like me, actually) who are just not interested in the formal aspects. I profesionally have nothing to do with electronics whatsoever, but am still naturally interested in it. Learning stuff with formal literature takes away all that natural interest for me and makes it work, so I would eventually stop doing it. Learning it in a practical way though would work way better and keep me interested and motivated.
Europe buys oil and gas from Russia. But EU has set maximum prices what screws russia.
First, for clarification, V developers can not control who writes books on the language. To say otherwise, looks to be about projection, as to what competitors have done or plan to do.

The first book written about V (5 years ago), looks to have been a total surprise to the community and its creator, because it was written in Japanese[1]. The 2nd book written about V has clearly sold well and received very good reviews[2]. It's author had no connection with V development and there are interviews about him. A 3rd book[3], which was for academic circles, is not primarily about V. It, however, uses the programming language for random number generation and explanations on the subject.

The point I'm getting at, is marketing one's self on HN or podcasts as a viable alternative versus being an actual viable alternative used by the general public. It's one thing to act like or say your popular, it's another thing to be popular. There is a qualitative difference, that is even picked up on by Wikipedia, which is arguably why Odin or C3 don't have a page or the numbers on GitHub.

Despite any misdirected anger or envy, that problem has nothing to do with other languages like V or even Zig. It's up to fans and interested third parties of that language to show and report widespread usage.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BKJDRFR (Book about V (Vlang) in 2020 and in Japanese)

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FKK3JL7 (Book about V (Vlang) in 2021, highly rated, and sold well)

[3] https://doi.org/10.52305%2FCVCN5241 (Book is part of an academic series, 2023, and uses V (Vlang))
Lesotho is a landlocked enclave. The US would have to chew through South Africa, first.

Also, would MAGA want a new US state from Africa?
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> Coolify unfortunately didn't click with me, and I had a bad experience with a Redis database, so I stopped using it.

I tried using coolify and I gave up due to every ~third redis connection failing to connect.

No idea what was up with that, ended up going with CapRover.
These suggestions are... not based in reality. Lesotho has a GDP per capita of something like $1000 per year.

How do you expect them to magic higher salaries?
Any Argentines here who might want to comment on this? How does it feel in reality?
Sine you already know frontend, I would recommend starting with burpsuit and web exploitation. The issue with cybersec is that there are just too many things you can/need to learn, so the best thing would be to start with the area you already know something about.

https://portswigger.net/web-security is a great resource to get you started.

Good luck!
https://archive.ph/FqauO
The Rest of the World Is Bracing for a Flood of Cheap Chinese Goods
Point and context completely missed ... and this is a radical misrepresentation of the process.
Ever tried pasting text from Word into your website or CMS and ended up with 100 lines of junk HTML?

I built a small tool to solve that exact problem.

It removes unnecessary tags, inline styles (like `mso-`), empty spans, and more – leaving you with clean, semantic HTML you can actually use.

Works right in your browser, no install, and it's free:

https://4html.net
Would love feedback or suggestions!
In this case I would suggest that is Credit Suisse that is the problem - UBS were forced to take it over when problems were found.
Tried this but ended up building our own competitor: Hypership.dev

We're solving slightly more than what Coolify are by providing Auth, analytics, event tracking, an admin dashboard and more.
Something About Us is the odd track on the album that does not use any known samples. The backing music is likely inspired by Oliver Cheatham's "Get Down Saturday Night", which Daft Punk has sampled in two other songs (Voyager and the intro to their 1997 BBC1 Essential Mix).
Ah the eternal debate between open source and Open Source.
I love old, well-written technical books, like these. There is something about the language, directness, innocence (for lack of a better term) and careful arguments that I find incredibly satisfying. They are not afraid to go technical and deep, when needed. They have humor and feel personal.

Somehow, I rarely find this in modern technical books, but it is hard for me to figure out why. Maybe something is lost in the "pedagogy" of many modern textbooks.

I'll read such books about pretty much any topic just for pleasure. An all-time favorite is "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewiesche, although a very different topic, obviously.
Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer who gave a talk called (something to the effect of) “why do we need so many typefaces”. At one point, Erik simply shows a slide with “this is why”, in what is clearly the Marlboro font.

Fonts have different metrics which affect recognisability, legibility, and understanding. There are fonts which evoke a feeling (think heavy metal band), others which are practical (exaggerated letter forms to help dyslexia), and many many many bad fonts too, such as ones with bad kerning which make words like “therapists” read “the rapists” or “morn” read “mom”.

The fonts you have on your computer are all different and have their own strengths and weaknesses which affect you and your perception of what you read, even if you’re unaware of it.
I remember reading comments like these before I was a millionaire.
This doesn't really work because the big firms that consumers boycott have political leverage and magically become too big to fail.

It also presupposes that unregulated capitalism is the best kind of market. But "unregulated market" only means unregulated in ways that benefit people.

BI and UBI are better ways to ensure that the people that governments actually represent are supported when they need it. They are more direct and have quicker market benefits.

What really gets me is that UBI would be great for everyone, even the rich and the big business. It allows more consumers to buy more, ensures only productive, motivated and properly rewarded workers are in the workforce, lets artists create fine art rather than doing meaningless busy work so that they can eat, and even lowers the cost and inefficiencies of social safety nets.

Conservatives can't see how anything can be anything other than a zero sum game. They are always trying to maximise their wealth, they assume that everyone else is too, but really, most of us are just trying to find enough to eat, have a home and stay alive.

They are scared of losing what they have because they want to take what anyone else has. They hide that by saying it's unearned or whatever, but they mostly haven't earned what they have. They have at best grown what they were given. They don't know what it's actually like to have nothing.
Some places relied on other ways to make money (here in Australia it was comodoties). A lot is just social change to two income households, and it's main contributor to living costs was housings. Two people bringing in money ,means that households can pay more for a mortgage or rent, driving up costs.
Will this cause people to switch to cheaper Chinese brands? Or is the Apple brand so deeply entrenched in status-conscious US American minds that they will spend that much money for a phone? ;-)
I believe this stuff is going on all over the developed world. Where people would be better of financially if they became a tradie or a machine specialist rather than getting an academic degree.
> you might just not be a member of the intended audience

There’s no relationship between people who would appreciate the history the author was trying to communicate, and people who aren’t distracted by prefixing a pointless zero before the date.

Unless you really meant that as a snide comment calling GP an idiot.

Either way, maybe the zero prefixing thing is just stupid and not the hill to die on you seem to think it is.
How does this compare against marker[1]?

1: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker
This is so helpful, congrats!
> reasonable chance you'd be better off on your own.

Sure, yes, if you know what you're doing and have a valid reasons for going off the beaten path.

In this case I was trying to explain to a developer why their token was horrifically insecure despite superficial appearances.

This was an off-the-cuff sort of thing: I was simply scrolling through some code talking about something else and I saw "encrypt" in the middle of it... and sigh...

I talked for well over an hour just listing the security vulnerabilities in just three lines of code.

"Static keys used in encryption can be cracked by obtaining many ciphertext samples. You actually wanted keyed signing, not encryption."

"The scope isn't included and you're sharing the same key everywhere. That means dev/tst/prd tokens are interchangeable."

"Also... let's just keyword search for this 'random' (not) key in the Git repos... and oh... ohh... it's everywhere. Oh god. Unrelated apps too!"

"There's no dates in there. That means tokens last forever."

"The name is separated from the role with an ASCII symbol that's a valid user-name character. So if I call myself Bobby Tables#Admin, then I am. Fun!"

"Tokens last for a long time and can only be encrypted and decrypted with a single key, which means you can't rotate keys without logging out all users all at once."

Etc...

Hence losing my voice for a bit.

Also, a little bit of my sanity.
I'm the same age as the author. I've been feeling exactly the same. I feel like in the past there was something magical about travelling. It was like seeing a different world for the first time. Everything was exciting and I noticed every little aspect of the place such as license plates, trash bins, road signs. I still notice those things but I can't help but notice that that feeling of awe is gone. I've been attributing this to age, but who knows, maybe the world is becoming less diverse?
It's important to recognize other cultures and realize that while Americans enjoy tipping (and often rely on tips as their source of income), not every country, especially in Asia, accepts or appreciates tips, and some treat it as an offense.
I just randomly looked at hotels.com for hotels in Cairo and I saw name brand hotels from American brands like Hilton for around $120 a night. Even high end hotels like the Waldorf are $284 a night (I don’t care about fancy hotels personally). Why would I stay in a dirty Airbnb?

Not that I would ever use a third party booking site like hotels.com either…

I want the place I stay at to be run professionally and it to be I give them money and they give me a clean place to stay without having to worry about my ratings, discrimination, etc.

Especially in another country where I don’t know the language and after taking a long flight. I wouldn’t want to take the chance on an AirBnb.
This ventilation shut down like when they put someone with weak lungs on opiates onto a ventilator? I heard of that.
Thanks. I will re-look.
Insurers aren't there to help you. I've never met a person in all my years who was happy with health insurance. And that includes before the "cadillac" insurance packages were done away with.

People don't want or choose this system (unless they work for insurers), but their voice doesn't matter. No politicians can afford to oppose the health care industry. We need campaign finance regulation, investment in education, and public election platforms to shift away from this unhealthy way of life.
It's more about overall look and feel, which in large part comes from the glyph proportions (the x-height), spacing and weights - https://i.imgur.com/mygqn3H.png

Glyph proportions between Whitney and Nebula are almost identical. As are their weights. Source Sans is substantially heavier and more dense looking.

While individual glyphs may be closer between Nebula and Source Sans, but the overall feel of Nebula is that of Whitney.
This youtube channel has a whole pile of sampling recreations.

Daft Punk: Discovery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AqHSvR9bqs

Daft Punk: One More Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QwOpRh-IfI

Mos Def: Mathematics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--A_89lTuiA

Pogo: Alice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au7RYxqaO10

Fatboy Slim: Rockafeller Skank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBsRzyQ-TfM

And this 30 minute compilation that spans four decades is utterly mesmerizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpaoCUEhZJM
Thanks for posting and commenting. The choice of font is a great way to add aesthetics to text - designers so use this opportunity a lot more IMHO.
I'm somewhat the same way as parent, getting bored once I figured out the mechanics. While I haven't tried League of Legends, I have tried Valorant, and generally the type of games that is more about mastery of a skill rather than discovery, exploration, story or problem-solving, gets boring fast for me at least.
Ok I see. Making it work in a browser sure is a benefit
Is there some online tool for comparing fonts that way?
I did not miss any point and that's an ad hominem charge. He misrepresented the facts and based an argument on that misrepresentation and I pointed that out.

"In retrospect, Google dismissed him because he was acting in a strange and destructive way."

No, they dismissed him because he had released Google internal product information, "In retrospect" or otherwise.
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The Precariat are sick of being required to maintain continuous connectivity and looking for an excuse to swap "smart" phones for dumb ones. This could be just the stimulus that nascent movement needs to get off the ground.
Actually good comparison in the video: https://i.imgur.com/jSTJixC.png

Sadly to me Wittney feels clean yet coherent, Nebula Sans feels characterless like a UI thrown together without any real font choice made yet.
Curious if there are plans to update this. Seems interesting.
Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
If you have something to say, just say it directly and clearly.

And the poster clearly did not mean what you say he "may have meant".
I sometimes want to save a useful python script, or a function in github, but don't want to create a whole repository with README, name, description and so on. This model would be nice for that. But then, the access control system (e.g. private/public repos) would be completely different. Perhaps you could have groups of users, and give group access to individual objects (classes/functions) in your repo. But giving access to each object one by one would probably be tedious, so you need some kind of modules, or other way of grouping objects (maybe tags?).
I also thought of tags on one of my jobs as DevOps. We had a lot of types of repos, that we needed to organize, and enforce access control:
- code repos like backend and frontend
- infrastructure repos with k8s manifests, helm charts etc.
- also a lot of microservice/microfrontend repos
The team lead was trying to come up with a hierarchy for all this, but struggled. If github allowed for a flat namespace of repos, and tags-based access control, we could create tags like 'frontend', 'devops', 'backend', give the tags to people and repos.
Imagine what this would sound like for Another Green World