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#1) it's good to see alternative viewpoints on global warming, Michael is excellent for sharpening yourself on it
#2) reading michael is an exercise in the limits of the slippery slope: he will show the Amazon isn't the "lungs of the earth", in that he will show why eliminating it doesn't mean we'll run out of oxygen, but he won't show that it is meaningless
#3) after swimming around his arguments for a few months, your focus may (or may not!) turn to "well, even if we can say each part is overwrought, the whole effect and trend line is a major problem - swallowing a 5 degree celsius increase in temperature is, rather intuitively, a problem, particularly when we still have the _3rd_ derivative increasing"
Yeah its a problem too that not all cars are driven the same. Sports cars will have more accidents than family cars as they're driven more agressively. Cars with 4WD in the snow probably crash more often than 2WD ones in the sun belt, but you can't say they're more dangerous.
Can anyone comment on how this compares to Ferdi?
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Or the One Android App That Does Not Suck: Termux?
Agreed. I think the more you push yourself to learn and pursue things that seem abstract to you, the better. As you do so in various fields that interest you (the arts, maths, whatever) you start to draw a lot of patterns around seemingly unrelated things, and I think it teaches you a lot about yourself.
Linux is successful because of: "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE". It is Linus policy and work with community that made it most popular OS.
I try to look at the camera when I'm speaking rather than the screen, but you're right -- that's not real eye contact.
That's what she writes in the article.
It hijacks focus at new tab open. It has ugly looking shadow when focused over bookmark bar. It removed "arrow down" button. It replaced history for static top sites in the drop down. It enlarges text font on focus making it harder to quickly select parts. And the last but not least - they had months of beta testing and then still enforced popout animation with ability to disable it, despite negative feedback of multiple users.

PS: I'm not disabling it on principle for now just to see like some people say if get used to it. So far it still annoys me after weeks of usage. It is just bad design and bad decision and FF team can't accept own mistakes, like small children.
No, they aren't committed one way or another. Why do you believe so?

Thinking that the Eurozone governments is one block that votes as one and therefore get larger influence is also wrong. Often there's a larger division between north and south Europe than it is between Euro and non-Euro countries.

Yes, the Euro could work with much more transfers between the countries, including shared social security. But I have a hard time believing that German voters ever will vote for a government that allows their savings help paying Greek or Spanish social security. But maybe I am wrong there.

The US is such a crappy example right now. It was not long ago that their president suggested that the states that couldn't handle the economic hardship of the pandemic just simply declared bankruptcy.
What does that have to do with your original assertion, that it's totally fine for a judge to sentence a woman to 496 days in jail for unpaid traffic tickets because she's suspected of being an unfit mother? What do those two things have to do with each other? And why would we accept a justice system where it's okay for judges to convict people of unrelated crimes? What about that is just?
Thanks for the kind words. Kitemaker looks great. I love it when I can embed Figma designs into a tracking tool.

I am sure you have checked out Linear.App? - launched today on HN. Their Command+K feature seems good.
I’d like to think it is true. But who do I ask? Who do I believe? Combatant environmentalists who look at vegetarians with hate? Climate change deniers? Institutions who have vested interests? Scientists with conflicting views?

We’re so deep into a world where “truth” is merely an instrument of debate, bent and shaped into whatever point is trying to make, that I don’t know where to start...
I don't understand why a judge would have a website. That's so crazy to me. They're not supposed to be appealing to anyone. They're supposed to interpret the law as it's written. They're technocrats.

What would you like to see on a judge's website? Their opinions on things? They shouldn't have any personal opinions!
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I'm interested to see how they handle the Facebook messenger bridge since FB seems to rather aggressive about the bridge from logging in.

I've been running Tulir's bridge [0] for a few months now and my Facebook account gets locked out every week or so (requiring unlocking and a new password).

EDIT: Looking at the code, they use Tulir's bridge as well. I'd be..cautious about claming production level support with it due to the afore mentioned logout issue. Which is a shame since all of Tulir's bridges are high quality.

The bridgebox repo appears to be a bunch of bridges in docker containers. I wonder if it's really worth running the bridgebox and not a homeserver, versus using matrix-docker-ansible-deploy [1]. You already need the VPS space.

[0]: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-facebook

[1]: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
And the very first reason they state is to speed up loading by using hidden portals, and then activating them on demand.

When you first stated use case is a hack around what the spec really is supposed to provide, you have an issue.

If you want to speed up rendering of links, create a spec designed and optimised to speed up rendering of links. Not something that will clutter the DOM, then need additional CSS rules to hide what your new element is supposed to do altogether. All of that to sort of arrive to your primary use case.
But cities designed for cars encourage people to go farther. The distances that people go are not a fixed quantity.
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Uber/Lyft's business model is fine. Both earn money on providing rides and Lyft will probably become profitable this year.

Even if their model is not profitable, public transportation in my city is subsidized to the tune of half a billion a year. So there's plenty of room for subsidizing.

And even if we end up spending more money it's worth it for a system that people actually want to use. With a viable alternative to car ownership more people will give up their cars and use public transport. That will spur demand and maybe make a train system justifiable in the future.
All of your examples are things initiated directly by the user. There's no reason that preserving user-initiated "paste" needs to mean letting an app take what it wants.
> They're actually not integrated. I guess I'd use the word cooperative

I should clarify that I was speaking informally in terms of the culture, not in terms of technology or formal infrastructure. Likewise with "Perl without CPAN is unthinkable" - I didn't mean it was impossible to be productive in Perl without CPAN so much as it's hard to envision Perl as a technology without it.

My overall point is that CPAN is nearly as old as Perl itself, and almost everyone who has ever written in Perl has used it extensively. This is very different from JavaScript, which was one of the world's most popular languages years before Node.js. I think this (along with general 21st century trends) is a major reason why NPM is so much of a disaster compared to CPAN.
> What are people voting for them based on?

Their qualifications, history, and biases. I mean it isn't like most judges are getting the position without having a law degree, so the majority of them are in fact qualified for the position. So how else do you fill a public position when you have multiple qualified people and a single position. The argument for election is so to reduce nepotism and cronyism.
For starters people are intrinsically motivated to accomplish video-game tasks while most people are only extrinsically motivated to accomplish work tasks. I'm having trouble believing you aren't being disingenuous.
- Optimize your images. If you're gonna go down the tedious "hero image" road, DON'T make visitors download 10-meg background images.

- Build it with simple HTML & CSS. JS should not be necessary.
Fair enough, point well made. I don't think regulation is in the long-term public interest here. But that's a debate worth having.
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He ran for governor of California a bit ago. His career has been built around selling books.
I see from the list of issues that "about:blank cannot host a portal"[0] (and in fact the parent page has to be served over HTTP/HTTPS). Does that mean that it's impossible to have a bookmarklet with a data URI that defines a page with a portal in it?

It would be really nice if the trick described in [1] could be combined with portals to allow a user to bookmark a fixed bundle of code for a web app, to defend against a malicious server sending different JavaScript on different visits or to different visitors.

This would probably also require that the SRI spec be extended to work with portals, so that the contents of a portal could be guaranteed to match a specified hash. Are there any plans for that?

[0] https://github.com/WICG/portals/issues/214#issuecomment-6477...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776456
NovaChat lists WeChat in the "Coming Soon" section. Out of curiosity is it even possible to write a 3rd party client for WeChat? Last time I checked their APIs are extremely limited.
Is Modelica used for economic modeling as well?
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Rendered view: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#portals
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Absolutely. I moved to Vietnam from San Francisco. Spent 4 years there. Got reliably food sick off and on solid for a year and then it eventually just stopped. I could eat anything and not get sick. Hardly got any 'colds' while I was there.

Came back to the US end of January (terrible timing considering the way things are going) and ended up getting sick with flu (not covid thankfully) and lots of digestive issues again. Now, heading into July... I haven't gotten sick again (likely from the isolation) and the digestive issues went away.

Our bodies are complex beings.
Where's the love for Android, though?
The karma ticking up and down is very distracting. Maybe it would be great to have an option to turn its visibilty off?
> Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels.

Can someone help me with this? I just moved and have both a fireplace and natural gas furnace. I had intended to supplement the furnace with wood heat in the winter. In what ways is wood worse than natural gas?

I can imagine a few but I’m not sure they are right:

Wood disadvantages:

Local air quality

Removal of trees

Wood advantages:

Renewable

Neutral greenhouse gas emissions (?)

Abundant (in my area)

Natural gas disadvantages:

Finite resource

Greenhouse gas emissions(?)

Natural gas advantages:

Better local air quality than wood(?)
Bootloader unlock is under user control by definition - it won't happen unless you're physically interacting with the device. The legitimate case for safety net is platform lockdown for things like financial apps. Banks and other financial services like to provide some form of insurance to users wrt. losing money in a security breach, and they can't do this unless the app really is being run on a pristine, locked-down platform. Unfortunately it also impacts sillier things like media streaming and online video games. But the best way to cope with that is simply not to use those.
Is that really true? If two big cars hit each other there’s a lot more energy in the collision than two small cars.
Agree - some of these really, really need some sources - e.g. humans are not causing a "sixth mass extinction"? Is he arguing that there's not a threat of mass extinction, or that it's not human caused? Either way I'd love to see the reassuring evidence.

Some of these seem true(ish) but misleading - isn't habitat loss often driven by climate change? And as far as I know no one is advocating a switch from fossil fuels to wood fuels; the fact that wood is worse is orthogonal to the fact that fossil fuels are problematic and nuclear, wind, and/or solar are often a better solution.
I get the impression that this guy is primarily out to sell his book, which he spends quite a bit of time talking about how great it is. As for the points he mentions, some are clearly false.

> The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska

With global population trends, even if average meat consumption is starting to decrease, the amount of livestock raised will still increase. I actually found it difficult to find a good measurement, but this site seemed to be credible https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

> Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003

This seems to be untrue, at least in the US - https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

> Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change

> Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”

Which is it? Are we not causing any issues, or are we destroying native habitats?

In the end, I don't really know who this guy is, but for all the fundraising he did as a teenager, I don't think he's doing environmentalists any favors anymore.
> I'm firmly convinced the MVP culture of launching as soon as you've built a UI with Bootstrap and thrown it up on Heroku is bonkers

So totally agree with this. All of your growth experiments fail if your product doesn't have the basic stuff right.

It works well though when you are building a tool that lets you do something you cannot otherwise - if that works, even a minimal UI release can get you users. Eg. Stripe (when it released).
> NovaChat is a paid app with a monthly fee of $10 (price may go up after beta period)

Wow $10/mo?! Pidgin was the multi-network chat tool, and was free! I'd understand $10 one-time, but not per month. And the price may go up? No thanks
Well I think it's mainly because nobody has done AR well yet for the mainstream. The only one I can think of is the Vuzix Blade but that isn't really AR. It doesn't recognise you environment, it just projects a picture in your eye in the same spot wherever you look.

I played with the Hololens 2 last year and I certainly can see the benefits. Especially when communicating with someone else.

However for $6000 that device is not going to happen for me ;) AR needs an "Oculus Quest" approach to be useful to consumers first.

I do love VR as well but I do think there is a big usecase for AR once it becomes good and affordable at the same time.
is not being based on Matrix a good thing? :D
> This isn't really true on it's own

How is this not true? Genuinely curious.

> In an America where rural Asian-ethnicity people are facing discrimination because of covid being called "Chinese Virus…"

That's because of the specific context of who is saying "Chinese Virus," who their audience is, and why they're saying it.

This context is different. Nobody on Hacker News who encounters the phrase "Chinese hacker" is going to suddenly start discriminating against Chinese people, any more than we discriminate against Nigerians despite the fact that "Nigerian scammer" is a cliche in tech circles.
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> biases

They should leave them at home if they're a freaking judge!!
> These aren't "public transit". They are private bus lines. The right comparison is how easy it is to get around the US using private transit like Uber.

I agree they aren't public transit in the classic/ US sense, but comparing them to Uber/ Lyft isn't right either since the cost difference is an order of magnitude different. Uber and Lyft very wasteful compared to a busy bus line. Bus transportation in Quibi is $0.25-0.50 by comparison, an affordable amount even where incomes are much lower. If Uber was $1-2, then it would be more comparable.

For lower income workers, the $5.80/ trip minimum Uber fair is simply not an option for daily transportation.
Microsoft has pushed it, but it costs too much for Pokemon Go.

Everyone remembers the "glasshole" problem with Google Glass.
Thing is we already have fairly good VR but acceptable AR is yet to be seen.
> I would argue the reason for all of these inventions is the increasing number of educated people (not only physicists) in the world. So maybe investing this money into education is better.

This is an alarming statement. I'm not sure on what basis you make it. Education seems to very much be a "you-get-what-you-pay-for" type deal. I'll assume that you know the comparative histories of educational policies in China, Russia, U.S.A, East Africa, so instead of rehashing those, let me give you a comparable sentence to yours:

"I would argue that the reason for all these life-saving surgeries is the increasing number of educated people (not only surgeons) in the world. So maybe investing this money into education is better."

fwiw. Having read Dr. Hossenfleder's book and others, I believe she is correct that we don't need another accelerator because the benefit for the cost just isn't there. Fundamental physics has stagnated. Other avenues of fundamental physics should be funded instead of being crowded out, urgently.
Interesting.

I don't see anything about it in the Release Notes,

but Help > About Firefox would normally offer the latest update.

Mine is saying 77.0.1 is up to date.
The Bay Area could host the entire population of the United States with ~850 sq ft of land area per person.

As it is, we currently allocate ~29,500 sq ft of land area per person.

Surely we can find a middle ground somewhere in the name of access to opportunity and in the name resolving our severe housing shortage.
Is there a site that lets you run performance profiles in browser developer tools and share the results? I could imagine that being really useful internally for devs troubleshooting and working with support.

It'd be harder to pull off as a way to shame poor performance because of the need to compare like with like, but I think it's needed to get the attention of folks.

Accessibility checkers are often rudimentary, but they are available to non-technical folks in companies and can be very effective at getting a conversation started.
Everybody obviously pays for copyright enforcement already through general taxation. Look at orphan works for a prime example of how this is less than ideal.
cough blood and soil cough
I would expect no less from police, however, these days some "news" seems to be taking select information with no context, or out of context, and then using it to push a certain narrative. I think the point being that we should seek the truth (maybe the wrong word here..) no matter what the source.
> Technically it's not military occupation by definition, but if China had a military base in one of its ally's territories, would you try to claim that it is occupation? And is it only not occupation if the US does it?

Exactly! China has 3 military bases. India has 6 military bases. Those don't count as occupation if the country has requested for it or there is a deal between the two Nations. Neither should US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan count as occupation. When you "occupy" something you actually end up controlling everything within that territory. Okay you can say that US occupies a military base in Iraq/Afghanistan. But that is all that its occupation is restricted to. Never the entire country!
There’s a relatively new web-based version.
I think the biggest problem is the social cost. They weren't called glassholes for nothing. Maybe the stigma will be over with better use cases, like filming the police when in public.
That's not The Simpsons. That's some sort of surrogate that was snuck into the same time slot many years ago. Some viewers didn't notice. B'oh.
"Lawful orders to disperse" is there such a thing? You don't hear about "lawful orders to stop speaking" or "lawful orders to stop practicing a religion "
And just because a" clear verbal warming " was issued, doesn't mean it had to be followed, nor does it mean excessive force woukd be used.
While I agree that some instances of "peaceful protestors" aren't actually peacful, many are. And in some of the cases where the protestors aren't peaceful, the show off force is exessive.
Destroying CPU in some configurations....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1wAfrMg5I is ~10% of 1 cpu on my desktop using chrome.

OTOH, I know what your talking about, my linux machine hates youtube, but that's because even with the chromium freeworld fork with some codec acceleration its still burning CPU like crazy.

So, a big part of this isn't a hardware problem so much as a software one combined with the constant fights over who's codec is the one true choice. AKA its a youtube and !windows/android+chrome problem.
>> selective censorship by the platforms, which is their right as a private org

So, just because they are not government they are allowed to lie and manipulate? Because "selective censorship" is just this: manipulation.
The bridge was a replacement, and the tunnel is a decade late and still not complete. Both are way over budget. China build 16,000 miles of fully connected high speed rail in the same period of time. I'm going to stand by my statement that the future is not in San Francisco.
you are self-hosted, which is different from cloud.
Building a primitive shelter doesn't take a lot of labor, can be done in weeks to months of time. Given that, it's absurd how hard housing is to come by.
I guess people don't like hearing / learning that there are falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims in the data set.

Do you know of any data sets that don't have bad data?

Or maybe down votes because this is not the comment I thought I attached this too... hmm, let me see if I can at least fix that
> They're not supposed to be appealing to anyone.

Like... voters?

> What would you like to see on a judge's website?

Qualifications, what ideals are important to them, how they handled complex cases, etc

> They shouldn't have any personal opinions!

Unfortunately they are human, so they do have personal opinions. They are allowed to have personal opinions. They just aren't allowed to have party affiliations. But if you look at the supreme court this is clearly also an absurd notion to expect them to not have leanings.
> Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”

Just from skimming about the Holocene extinction[1], with mountains of documented evidences from every continent, denying its existence seems untenable. I'm not even sure why the author started with this line, because it instantly cuts his reliability by 90%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
My understanding is that the particulates caused by wood fires are terrible for our lungs, especially inside houses: https://samharris.org/the-fireplace-delusion/