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helbon 600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias

The "app", mentioned in the article, but not linked, is hosted here (until Friday), if you want to try it out: https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/

Apparently i'm either an insurance agent (in a grey t-shirt) or a surgeon (in a red hoodie).

helbon Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

These are called "ligatures".

My long-time favorite font, Iosevka, does 'em too: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka#ligations

Another coding font thread from 2017 with some other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15255523

helbon Electric version of Renault's low-cost Kwid

Even with coal, the pollution is much easier to filter and control at the one big ass stationary plant chimney than at thousands of separate moving car exhaust. And modern filters (both electrostatic and mechanical/pulse-jet) are pretty good.

helbon Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

The website/blog (https://sourcehut.org) is static, the Sourcehut app itself (https://sr.ht) is Python-based.

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht

helbon Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

> Where is this?

> £40/week

Sounds like UK…

helbon Blender 2.80

2.8 release page with news & screenshots: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

helbon We built a SaaS company to make email better

> There are so many places to find information (“Was that in an email? Slack? Trello? Basecamp?)

How is your tool going to solve that? Looks like adding one more place to me. Most companies can't/won't move completely to Gmelius (or some other all-in-one tool).

Granted, i didn't read much further because the fake chat notification (https://i.vgy.me/QINgMY.gif) made me close the tab.

helbon Carbon calculator: taking one flight emits as much as many people do in a year

> Emissions data for flight connections was sourced from atmosfair.de

They probably just copied part of data over. The calculator on Atmosfair's site seems to be more detailed – more airports (RDU works, and you can even input multi flight trips), selectable plane model & class.

https://www.atmosfair.de/en/offset/flight

helbon Show HN: Phishar – Security Expert in Your Pocket

How does it cope with non-ASCII characters and various fonts? Suppose you had "ɡoogle.com" instead of "gooble.com" in that demo video (the first "g" is not a regular "g", but " U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G")… Browsers tend to show IDN names in the "xn--…" punycode format, but not always.

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

https://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp?a=google&r=...

https://ma.ttias.be/show-idn-punycode-firefox-avoid-phishing...

helbon Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide

No, but he's got a self-signed certificate there, so you'll get that warning when trying to access via https (the link posted to HN is just http).

helbon Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete

Somewhat related: turing complete (Open)TTD.

segment display: https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=37902 (2008)

digital clock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQBGJeh12U (2011)

binary adder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwWo9fL-GZs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyEzm1ghAsU (2015)

helbon Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete

It runs on Linux natively. Works well for me (installed via Steam).

helbon Show HN: Extension Monitor to detect high-risk browser extensions

The website seems a bit broken (in Firefox 67):

- "Log in" link does nothing

- this green link(?) also does nothing https://i.vgy.me/D0oGjd.png

- the Pricing page is empty https://i.vgy.me/17yhiD.png (it works in Chrome though)

- the newsletter form layout is broken https://i.vgy.me/P4qtHn.png (seems okay in Chrome too)

helbon Firefox 68.0

Eventually… https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479781

You can enable/disable webrender in about:config if you want to try it out (gfx.webrender.all). I've switched to it on my laptop (HD Graphics 620, Gentoo Linux). So far so good.

helbon Atlantropa

> that Europe will be a united country which is a major oversight

It might not look like an oversight in 1930s Germany…

> Sörgel's 1938 book Die Drei Grossen A has a quote from Hitler on the flyleaf, demonstrating that the concept was not inconsistent with Nazi ideology. (from the Wikipedia article)

helbon Meli email client, pre-alpha release

Geary looks great, i wanted to switch to it years ago (from Thunderbird), but it had no support for PGP – https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/6 :(

helbon Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

They don't seem to use CF's nameservers, but try the www. subdomain:

    $ kdig +short www.namecheap.com
    www.namecheap.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.
    104.16.99.56
    104.16.100.56

helbon Show HN: I found an example of Instagram image classification, underneath photos

It's on Facebook, too. First noticed it a few months ago on a slow mobile connection. https://i.vgy.me/98RIOV.png

helbon Show HN: Remod, like chmod but for human beings

I've never felt the need for chmod UI, especially with ZSH's Tab completion (https://asciinema.org/a/249373), but… well, why not.

How does it handle multiple files?

edit: oh

    $ remod tmp/*
    Unexpected arguments!

helbon Firefox 67.0 Released

> Firefox will now detect if your computer’s memory is running low, which we define as lower than 400MB, and suspend unused tabs that you haven’t used or looked at in a while.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/21/latest-firefox-rele...

helbon Show HN: Instant Social Media Videos

Some random notes and thoughts from the first try:

Front page:

- I really like the simple layout & design

- It loads 45 MB of GIFs. Maybe using actual <video>s or just JPG/WEBP photos in a slideshow would be better for webpage use – smaller size and better image quality.

- What do the Dell/Uber/… logos mean in this context?

- Which nonprofits do you donate to?

Video creator itself:

- Another huge GIF

- You're trying to load something from `HTTP://zeus.instantvideos.org/` on a HTTPS page, which produces a warning in some browsers, and is blocked altogether in some others (like my FF 66)

- When selecting photos to use, clicking the selection marker circle does nothing. Clicking the image outside the circle selects it, but i kinda expected the circles to behave like checkboxes

- The "check" button in the coupon form is hidden behind "back" and "purchase" buttons in wider viewports (and scroll does not work in that container): https://i.vgy.me/utX2Fx.png

- When i tried importing from my instagram account, nothing apparent happened. After poking around in browser devtools, it got HTTP 500 from us-central1-awesome-video-maker.cloudfunctions.net/instagram with a "user page has only 15 posts" message. Maybe it could print that to the form somewhere…

- Some free demo (max. five photos with your watermark?) would be nice

- /favicon.ico returns the HTML page itself for some reason (ah, it seems that all 404s are redirected to index.html)

helbon Show HN: SingleFileZ – Save a web page in a HTML file which is also a zip file

MHTML is around for ~20 years (since IE 5.0) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML

helbon OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor

Just fill in anything. The form just gives you download button after submitting, without even verifying e-mail…

helbon Show HN: Graphite V2 – Cross protocol decentralized productivity suite

If you just want to see what it looks like: https://www.graphitedocs.com/img/docs.gif

helbon Show HN: Spase.io – A new kind of planner

Looks pretty (not really smooth in Firefox, but still). I'll stick with 2D, though.

If you like the time-distance mapping idea, this 1D calendar might be worth trying: http://www.oneviewcalendar.com/ (i'm not affiliated in any way, just used it for a while). Some old threads on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=oneviewcalendar.com

helbon Show HN: Spase.io – A new kind of planner

There are several 3D file managers, like this pretty old one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager) (featured in Jurrasic Park)

Oh, and MS Bob. Not really 3D, but maybe a bit closer to the house/room/desk analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

helbon Show HN: Don't Hold Your Pee Anymore (NY Edition)

Damn, my nearest restroom seems to be about 6600 km away.

If you decide to go global, it's easy to get locations (and sometimes other data, like wheelchair access or even opening hours) from OSM:

- tag: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=toilets

- example query with Overpass API: http://overpass-turbo.eu/?template=key-value&key=amenity&val...

But this approach (all data in a single huge array) could be pretty slow with a lot of restrooms: https://restroomfinder.co/data.js

helbon Show HN: Spammed – A social experiment

> What happens when you don't set any restrictions or spam controls but allow free posting?

XSS, apparently :)

helbon Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

Animation Policy extension from Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/animation-policy/n...

helbon Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

You can disallow it in about:config:

    media.autoplay.allow-muted    false

…and even disable GIF animations:

    image.animation_mode    normal

…but if these became the default, people would come with arcane ways to bypass it.