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Mystery-Machine··on Client harassed by The Type founders for using Proxima Nova font on website
No, it is not. It is clearly not.

"needs to have the fknt installed to edit your design" is referring to use the font on a computer, through some app. There's no mention of a client using the font on their website.

Mystery-Machine··on Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
What?
Mystery-Machine··on Discovery of spherules of likely extrasolar composition in the Pacific Ocean [pdf]
Thanks for pointing that out! What are your thoughts on the latest UFO congressional hearing? Do you think these people just turned their careers and image to shambles because they just wanted some sensationalism or do you give people any benefit of the doubt?
Mystery-Machine··on Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
There are tons of problems with GitHub or Google only. What if you use ProtonMail and GitLab? (or any other of 20+ email / code repo providers)
Mystery-Machine··on Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
Syncing and publishing what? What's so difficult about `git push` which pushes to GitHub and automatically deploys to Vercel? This doesn't look cool, but those two features are not going to be the ones I'll seek after.
Mystery-Machine··on Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing
Disclaimer: I hate Facebook. I despise them.

In this instance, if I understand correctly, Facebook is supposed to pay news companies whenever someone posts a link to their news site. That's ridiculous. Hacker News also falls under this law, so does X, Reddit, Mastodon,... Since when it became ok to charge for your users sharing links on your "link sharing" website?

Mystery-Machine··on Cellphone Radiation Is Harmful, but Few Want to Believe It
Your statement, that after all these years since the smartphones have been invented, you'd like to hear something about smartphones radiation, very much like, pardon, just speaks for itself. You don't want to very much hear about smartphone radiation. Because if you did want, you would've already read something about it.
Mystery-Machine··on StableCode
Average and big-O notation don't go together... Yes, it works 99% of the time, but parent explained to you why you won't get that 1% of the offers. That, plus taking offence by his comment, which makes you not pass behavioral part of the interview.
Mystery-Machine··on Llama 2
Why? You wouldn't let it design _and build_ reactor and turn it on immediately. You'd first test that it works. And if it works better than any reactor that humans designed, why would you strip the world of that possibility? It doesn't even have to be a whole reactor. It could be a better design of one part of it.
Mystery-Machine··on Llama 2
It's incredibly irresponsible of you to make such a claim that in-a-way justifies ban. How does that make any sense? I also don't see how this could be used in funeral industry.

There are numerous (countless) ways how you can use this technology in a reasonable manner in any industry. Let's try nuclear industry: - new fusion technology research (LLMs are already used for protein folding) - energy production estimation - energy consumption estimation - any kind of analytics or data out of those -...

Mystery-Machine··on No cyber resilience without open source sustainability
Like...80% of big companies? You really should have heard of this practice by this age...
Mystery-Machine··on Ask HN: Who's the current “Don't Be Evil” corporation?
OpenAI
Mystery-Machine··on Dublin Airport airbrige collapsed, damaging American Airlines Boeing 787
Ummmm, yes? How often does such incident happen? Seems like not that often. I don't remember ever hearing of such incident.
Mystery-Machine··on The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city
So is alcohol.
Mystery-Machine··on Disabled at 22 million commits
GitHub is very much able to handle one person doing this. Doesn't matter if you had bad intentions or you were just ignorant to bad side effects.
Mystery-Machine··on Disabled at 22 million commits
So doing a DoS attacks from a single machine is fine, because "your servers can handle that"? Really? Of course GitHub can handle this, but if the sole purpose is to see where's the limit, you're stressing our servers and wasting our resources for nothing. I'd ban you no questions asked. Go test perf/scalability issues on someone else's live site.
Mystery-Machine··on Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
Yes, they do: https://www.homedepot.com/b/Appliances-Refrigerators/Special...

Here's a $1098 refrigerator: https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-25-3-cu-ft-Side-by-Side-Refri...

Mystery-Machine··on Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
What turned out badly? They were stopped, but it didn't turn out bad for them, it just stopped being good. They stopped making money, but they kept all the money from the users. It's a typical crypto rug pull.
Mystery-Machine··on Fast
The language specification should have a directive similar to "use strict" (the JS doctype kinda thing), something like: "use es23"
Mystery-Machine··on Fast
The short answer is: yes. If you do

<script scr=...>

And in the .js file: var x = 5. That x is global.

Mystery-Machine··on Fast
It works great for you because you haven't seen better. Which other languages do you have more than 1 year of professional experience with? May I answer that for you? None. Just because you've just discovered a knife, doesn't mean it's the best tool to eat the soup with.
Mystery-Machine··on Fast
Just because "it's a journey" and we invested tremendous effort, doesn't mean it's suddenly great. It's a terrible language with many illnesses, even today's modern version, because it's kept its diseases from the past. It surely is lightyears better than what it used to be, but it's still a pile of turd IMO (I work with JS every day).
Mystery-Machine··on Microsoft workers protest 'landmark year' CEO memo following pay freeze
Pay is usually based on the least amount of money a company can pay you to work for them.

I call this "business as usual". Whenever I need to choose between prioritizing myself vs prioritizing my employer, I try to use the "business as usual" philosophy in which I understand that the employer would fire me if they had to choose to save money (rather than for example cutting CEO's salary or in any other way looking at employee's interests). So I prioritize myself. I learned this lesson when I was contracting for a client and the client told me, on Friday afternoon that starting from next week he doesn't need my services anymore. Basically he fired me on the spot. Next week I noticed that someone was still making programming changes to the site. Seems like he hired a bunch of inexperienced inexpensive developers to do the work. Needless to say, a year later he asked me to jump back in, and I did for double the price. He, in his true "business as usual" style, didn't even blink. He needed the job done and was willing to pay the price I offered. Business as usual. Great life lesson.

Mystery-Machine··on Forgotten tragedy of Italian war detainees (2020)
The joke part is obviously the "no bathtub" and similar, not the "starvation". That and especially "some" / "mountain" of evidence is really a strawman. I think we agree that there's evidence, no need to be picky about the choice of words. Some can refer to any quantity less than "all".
Mystery-Machine··on Disabled at 22 million commits
Someone potentially taking the service down for everyone, you know, just out of curiosity. Which part of this curiosity you need GitHub for? I'm curious how well GitHub handles DDoS attacks, what's their limit. Let's DDoS and find out, it will be fun!
Mystery-Machine··on Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules
Can someone please change the title? It's not present tense, but future tense, with a big IF. The rules are no in place yet and it's not 100% that the rules will be put in place.
Mystery-Machine··on Github.com is down
Because a healthcheck ping every X seconds is too difficult to implement for a GitHub sized company? There they have it now. Useless status page...
Mystery-Machine··on In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea
Thank you! This should be the actual link, not this WP disgrace.
Mystery-Machine··on Proton Pass end-to-end encrypted password manager is here and free for everyone
I feel like it's not true that their services are end-to-end encrypted. I mean, they are, but they have the encryption keys so it's the same as if they are not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29103056 https://encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-facts-about-protonmail/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17775326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28057433

Mystery-Machine··on Proton Pass end-to-end encrypted password manager is here and free for everyone
Both Google domains and Cloudflare Email routing have wildcard/catch-all email forwarding. You probably can't reply from those email addresses, but you can receive/have email forwarded to those addresses. I have had this setup with Google domains, I now have it setup with Cloudflare email routing. In both cases it's free, but you need to have the domain on Google domains for 1) or add site to Cloudflare (and use their name servers for 2).
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