skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey no need to twist words - I think the use of bluetooth controls for desktop browser media playback is an edgecase. On windows at least, most people use the website directly, not via media buttons - I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone use the buttons like that, chrome user or not. Still, it's a nice feature - sure! Shame the extension doesn't work.

As to a feature being something that should not have required an extension in the first place - I don't agree with this. It's not just that the feature may or may not be attractive to a small slice of users, it's that we're quibbling not over the functionality, but over how it's delivered. Not every project needs to increase its scope to cover every possible use-case, even if they're valuable; that's kind of the point of add-ons.

As to mutation events - https://caniuse.com/#feat=mutation-events that's deprecated, so not exactly surprising to see a stagnant debugging support. Or perhaps you meant its replacement https://caniuse.com/#feat=mutationobserver? Is this an issue of insufficient backwards compatibility (event's replacing observers are around 8 years old), or an issue in the newer api?

In any case; I'm not begrudging you personal bad experience with FF - it's your experience after all. But as you say, it's a shame there isn't more competition and diversity; so I'm curious as to what the root cause is for it's lack of competitiveness.
I think it will not harm. Usually, because people who cannot pay - will not. People/companies who need high quality products and/or have expensive labour will choose a paid plan.

For Example, Elasticsearch. So popular, fully open-sourced. Still, Elastic sells fully managed clusters. And, many companies choose Enterprise license.

If you want smaller example. 2 month prior the beta launch of NewsCatcherAPI (https://newscatcherapi.com) I decided to open source some code we've done (https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher). We ended up having 300 people fro beta sign-up. Then, 700 pre-launch.

So, I attracted lots of developers who already liked the field via open-sourcing

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Failure to police can weaken trademark. For famous trademarks (like Apple) there is additional legal concept called "trademark dilution" where trademark owner can forbid use of the trademark in unrelated products and services.

Big brands take even the weakest cases just to be sure. For example, if you want to start robotics company with 'droid' in the name, you get letter from Disney lawyers.
The main reason it’s being banned by Trump is very likely because it has been an extremely effective platform for sharing videos of police and military brutality against the protesting population of America and of cause pro-science/anti Trumpism content telling people to wear masks and social distance.

This isn’t just a silly app being banned. This is a major blow against freedom of speech being pushed forwards with a silly cover excuse of “national security” all happening up to an election.
A traditional solution for youth who see little future has been emigration.
But IMO sitting with everyone you already know is boring, one of the interesting thing about weddings is meeting new people...
Without reading the article,is the answer “Donald Trump”?
I agree with the underlying conclusion but there is one thing you said but did not properly reason about:

> On the other hand, van life and tiny houses are logistically prohibitive to having children.

This is just not true. Only here in the wealthy west people think they need a big house to have children. In the rest of the world you will see whole families living in one tiny room together.

Also there is a lot of valid reasons not to put children into this world without being part of some lifestyle romance.
I just installed Oracle DB to help my mum with managing her recipes. It's really improved her TTT (Time to table).
I think 'lifestyle magazine' would have been better but It didn't come to my mind.
I remember visiting Auschwitz (1) on a beautiful summer day. It's actually quite pretty. (That's assuming you filter out the gates, the wires, the interiors.) Hell is what was done there, not a cinematic filter.

Birkenau (Auschwitz 2), on the hand, was purpose built (Auschwitz 1 was a repurposed barracks) and that really does look like Hell, even on a nice day. Every last part of it screams "this was designed for obscene purposes".
"Hit the ground running" is fairly common in startups as they don't have the resources to train.

I shortlisted a candidate once who clearly was an experienced developer, but because he didn't have any JavaScript experience, the CTO discarded his application. Very shortsighted but his argument was "We don't have time train people and JavaScript is a very popular language"
I only kind of wanted kids. at 38, I sort of gave up on the idea. Wife was still gungho...so rounds 7, 8, and 9 of invitro fertilization it was. That got us our two sons (following MANY miscarriages).

Honestly the whole thing was much harder/worse for my wife. I'm a bit autistic so, was a bit unemotional/logical about it all. She was a mess the whole time.

I wasn't sure about being a dad. Now, I'd kill anyone who tried to take it away from me. I never realized the full gamet of life experience being a dad brought. How much love you can have for these little critters. I'm 40 now. My oldest is 3 and youngest 1.5. I've had a lot of depression in my life, and a lot of things I've regretted. My kids will never be one of those.

Knowing what I know, and never having them, definitely would be the biggest regret ever. Sure, some people aren't meant for parenthood, I see it all the time. We have relatives who neglect their kids, or let them ride a 4-wheeler without a helmet (to the point where one is in a wheel chair and is mentally challenged... I used to play video games w/ him when he was 11, now its hard to keep a conversation going). So, if you think you would be neglectful and not a good parent then don't be one. The world has enough shitty ones.

But if you think for a moment you could be a good dad, then you'll never realize the amount of growing you'll go through once you become one, the perspective you'll gain. It's truly life changing.
>Did ULA actually do anything to deserve this

Yes, they put in a winning bid on the contract. I imagine some of the things that put them ahead of the competition would be-

Vertical integration. I don't think oMeGa or BO are capable of doing this. Neither is SpaceX. Horizontal integration complicates certain missions

More complicated orbits. ULA has demonstrated in the past that they can inject direct to GEO. I don't think any of the other bidders have, and I'm not sure if they claimed they'll be capable of doing so.

Precision. Depending on who you ask, ULA is the best when it comes to actually hitting their desired orbits. This can add life to the payload. For a billion dollar satellite, an extra year of fuel can totally justify $20 million more in launch costs (or whatever the difference happens to be)

Other than SpaceX (since F9 and F9H already exist) I think they're the closest to actually building the rockets that they put in their bid. The second stage draws heavily from existing designs.
Hi. We open sourced our feature flagging product https://github.com/BulletTrainHQ not long ago and would love any feedback from HN.

I still have concerns with deploying production upgrades behind flags due to the inherent issues surrounding things like database schema mismatches, terraform/infra upgrades that are not compatible bidirectionally etc. Has anyone worked on ways to manage these with feature flags?
See 2 sentence and I know its not for you.

I have been waiting fot this for years.

I want to use voice to control browser. Like I am doing something and say " hey firefoxy / googley open reddit on the side".

You got to broaden your thinking. Other people like other shit.
Pretty neat, now if it could do Grafana dashboards I'd be perfect.
A bit of an edge case, but I recently managed to move all my important conversations with friends to Discord - except for one friend who didn't use it. Since he also works in tech, we just made a Slack workspace for the two of us. I actually find it quite nice to have different channels for each topic that we're mutually interested in.

Slack and Discord are my two favorite chat platforms right now so I'm very happy with the way this all worked out.
In my late teen years, I had a transcendental experience at a youth rally and became a devoted ('born again') Christian and remained this for several decades. There is nobody who questioned my faith more than I myself. In the end science won. I believe that Sean Carroll gives a rather convincing argument why there is no 'spiritual' dimension, that there is no life after death and no super natural dimension, because if they would have existed, they would have been found by now. Joscha Bach presents an interesting view in his 'The Ghost in the Machine' talk about our experience of what is reality. This makes every 'convincing' experience of human reactions less reliable than the scientific facts derived from experiments with respect to elementary particles and elementary forces.
Haha wow. Got a good chuckle out of this
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“We really wanted to accurately represent what someone would see from the ground where they were standing, we didn’t want to misrepresent what would be in the sky above you.” -- strange that shots with trailing stars are allowed in this case, you don't see them with a naked eye.

Here's an interesting blog post that explains how our new phones can now take pretty good night sky photos: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/experimental-nighttime-pho...
As mentioned by other people, this is a call for proposals to initiate a pilot project (https://transitinnovation.org/challenge/covid) with various transit entities in NY state. The phrase "proof of concept" on the page refers to determining how the prototype or product would be implemented with each transit partner.

There is a demo day with judges, however this is for startups or teams that have a prototype or later stage, not for validating an idea or discerning product-market fit (which is normally where an early stage incubator or accelerator would fit). They did have an accelerator program - but the deadline for that was Dec 19 2019 (https://transitinnovation.org/lab).

As with anything legal, have your own lawyer review it prior to signing.

If you meet the criteria and have been invited to apply, contact them and set up a meeting to ask them detailed questions. Best of luck!
You might enjoy Ashley's blog posts, he does dive into some of the design decisions:
https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2
Summary: They are letting the state set the rule instead.

Important quote:

They acknowledge that the hunting rule change may not threaten Alaska’s overall populations of bears and wolves, but they express concern that it undermines the National Park Service’s mission to preserve and protect nature—not just in Alaska, but possibly throughout the U.S.

“This [rule] sets a dangerous precedent,” Ripple says. “It has implications for the potential exploitation of wildlife in federal protected areas of the lower 48 states.”
The functionality of menu extras hidden in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras

Also, show files / packages on Logic Pro projects which are packed as a file.
Rather lawsuit by Alaska. The article does not mention the result of the lawsuit, but the change in rule is described as a reaction to it. (Basically the Federal government gave up and agreed to let the State set the rules. Perhaps they figured they would lose, or maybe they did lose, wish the article included that detail.)
I must admit that 'business as a lifestyle' is somewhat alien concept to me, so the relatively unsubstantial business bantering for entertainment seems strange.
Implementing TCP in Rust (part 1) [video]
They probably aren't that effective at stopping bullets coming straight on, but they will protect against ricochets, shrapnel, falling debris, and so on.
std:: Atomic from Bottom Up
Forty percent of people with coronavirus infections have no symptoms
It is an absolute disgrace that decisions like these are made by politicians.
I’m pretty sure that at least for some time, the system of “Soziale Marktwirtschaft” (social market-economy) in Germany nailed that balance quite well. It’s totally not my area of expertise, though.

Still, my gut feeling is that if someone capable would check the numbers, the result would be that from the 1950s to at least the 1990s, the personal economic situation for most Germans improved dramatically, while German companies were extremely competitive and successful in comparison to the rest of the world at the same time. Like, no need to exploit the former or sacrifice the latter; it worked hand-in-hand.
Yes. Its not clear cut. But they are all being counted as coronavirus.

The statistics are gamed to prove the case.
The vast majority of the energy in the food chain of a body of water comes from the sun so the bigger it becomes, the more volume of water there is relative to the surface area exposed to the sun. You can try to multiple the number of fish by the number of aquariums that would fit into a lake but the vast majority of those fish would starve competing for the limited amount of energy coming hitting the surface.
Thank you for acknowledging this. I worked at a place like that and it put me off security to the point where I didn't want to ever deny any person or app or service permission to anything and was just happy with securing the edge nodes of our network. I got over it and now I'm in a position where my neck is on the line if there is a security breach I feel differently but I can still relate to myself back then and understand the need to be pragmatic and massage people into following the process rather than forcing them.
What constitutes proof of debt, legally?
Ok, to not spam this post anymore, here's a SPARQL query that returns some people Wikidata knows about that _both_ have a "computer related" profession and more than 2 professions.

https://w.wiki/Z8E

Took me a while to come up with something that wouldn't timeout... not sure why I spent so much time with this
This is not a fair way to compare them. Every country has some form of uncertainty. Countries like US and Japan have extreme debt. Europe has low economic growth and poor fertility rates making things worse. China and India have overpopulation and wealth inequality. Korea is in a similar position to Israel - strong tech but also nearly at war.

You can stamp the "uncertainty" label on everyone. The idea is to do it in a proper manner and be transparent about it.
It is straightforward to prove this through mere syllogism, but perhaps the discrepancy arises because you interpret "do not believe in a higher power" as "do not believe in a singular higher power"? In English, "X does not believe in a higher power" translates to the logical statement "For any higher power H, X does not believe in H", and is equivalent to the English statement "X does not believe in any higher power".

To go from there to ((English ("X does not believe in a higher power")) logically implies (English ("X does not believe in God"))) is trivial. And that is the definition of a subset A of B: \forall x \in A, x \in B
Uhh, yeah my first “internet application” was a chatbot that integrated with a Gopher server.

My first time learning about optimizing a program was trying to store as much data in the 1st page of memory because reading and writing from it took one less clock cycle on a 65C02 in assembly.

But what has Google done since then? 90% of their profit it still ad based.

I used Google for the first time in years on mobile without an ad blocker and it was about as bad as goto.com back in the day.
Oh look, someone that does drugs in 2020 and casually mentioned it.
What do you mean by ideology? I think I have a response, but I would like to know this first.
I find that his alleged realism is mostly a fixation with the trivial (there are exceptions, but they tend to be drowned out). Besides often reading like the compiled research material of someone doing research on historical inflation rates, the structure of his works suffered from his large output.
are you in your 20's? at some time in the next few years your girlfriend may change her mind.
Hacker Noon leaks unfinished drafts to Google
Google search has been indexing Hacker Noon's unfinished drafts.
All of this with a dying browser. Closest competitor over market share: "Samsung Internet"

- https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-backpedals-after-mr-robot-...

- https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/09/mozilla-responds-to-firef...

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/09/08/firefox-a...
Speech-to-text is relatively easy (not to discount the decades of work that went into it, lots of which was done by Dragon), but extracting intent and sending the user to the correct place is what is really difficult. IMO it is essentially an unsolved problem.
Thanks for pointing that out. Moving away from skyscrapers you could still successfully scale in 2 dimensions? Which I assume is what fish farming is primarily about, right? Depth brings more limitations like pressure, behavior of gases etc.
You sound a bit like me, a little more in my depressed days though.

I'm a lib socialist, so worker coops are my jazz.

I want to start a virtual union/commune that say everyone pays $100/month.

We use that to buy real estate rentals, eventually we launch all types of businesses from gas stations to grocery stores to a full amazon + aws competitor.

All union-owned. All workers are union members, and anyone who wants to join just joins. Maybe every hour and $ spent/invested = 1 share in the union. Each share = 1 vote and is used to calculate payouts for UBI (if we get to that point).

Initially all the cash our businesses bring in would go into a fund for healthcare. Our own single-payer plan if you will. We can create our own insurance companies as well in most states, maybe eventually we take over medicaid/medicare and buy up some hospitals and drug companies so we own the whole health supply chain. We could lobby congress for funds as well to up our health fund, and free up our cash on hand to pay out UBI.

Could also have some sort of credit card account with reward points, that you could use at sub-union companies... Say a union member starts a worker-coop, and decides to pay a 10% tax to the union, it'd be a sub-union company. Maybe union members would also get discounts at the shop if it was ecommerce or something, and be encouraged to shop there or help them promote their business.

The key is creating something that benefits all, encourages each other to help each other, and is ran somewhat democratically, and of course is self-sufficient. Also CEO caps for all companies under the umbrella.
>The ones I tried out and confirmed were Nexus 4/5P (not 5X!)

Why not the 5X? I have flashed AOSP Roms on my old 5x lots of times.
I respectfully disagree with your thought process, especially when you say "because if they would have existed, they would have been found by now". If this is true then how is it possible that science still hasn't uncovered the mysteries around dark matter? Something is driving space to expand at an ever increasing rate, called dark energy...why? Why are we still mortal? Why haven't we yet solved cancer? etc. etc. Science may very well find answers to these questions at some point, and I hope it does.

My point here is that faith & science is not at crossroads, it's one and the same. Science is there to uncover the mysteries of the Creator/God/Allah/Bhagwan and the spiritual dimension of life. Everything is magic until you know how it works. Same goes with faith & religion. Science and humans will always play catch-up and that's what makes life exciting. :)
Can you think of another mainstream video calling software that’s as good as Zoom, for consumers?

FaceTime, circa 2010.

Styluses to capacitive touch. Taxis to Ubers. Torrents to Netflix. MP3s to Spotify

Since when were torrents, MP3s, and styluses anything to do with business software?

The trend of business adoption of “consumer” tech had basically one standout example, which was the shift from Microsoft to Apple products in mobile. People wanted iPhones for themselves and their IT departments didn’t have a clue how to handle that at first. You could maybe point to adoption of GPUs for ML as another clear example of a current wave of consumer tech to business adoption.

These trends ebb and flow over time. People have used business software for personal reasons since forever. See: the abuse of spreadsheets over the past 40 years.
That's frankly a pathetic list when you consider not only the sum total of available extensions, but the list of Recommended Extensions alone. There's a Github issue for this with one particularly interesting reply: [1]

>Let it be put this way. I have extensions which I can already test while tethered using web-ext. They work. I know they work. But for some reason, Mozilla seems adamantly opposed to letting me test these extensions while not tethered to my computer.

That's from an extension developer who's struggling to test his own extensions.

Based on liuche's comments in that issue, the Fenix team's current stance seems to be, "The latest version disables some of the WebExtension APIs and adds some new ones which may break some extensions, so we're manually testing and approving every extension by ourselves, starting with the Recommended list. Sideloading unapproved extensions will probably never be allowed because of security and performance implications, except maybe on Nightly release."

I'm sure you can guess how well that's going to work out, given that only nine extensions are currently approved after 2+ months.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/11308#issueco...
As a fun exercise, if you want to, type "media keys" in Google and look at the autosuggestions coming up :) Must be an edge case also.

I was talking about MutationObserver. I didn't have the urge to self-injure even more, so I didn't dive deeper into why FF is buggy there as well. I accepted it and moved on. By now, I am sure you will be able to find a way of arguing for FF regardless how buggy it is, so peace out bro – let's not spin this further :)

Just one last opinion: As to the root cause for its lack of competitiveness: My opinion is, as you may have guessed, that FF's codebase is pretty rotten and their product ownership is incapable of prioritizing correctly, both tactically and strategically. But of course, I won't be able to prove that. And you won't be able to disprove it. So let's leave it there.

FF's global desktop market share is at 8.6% [1] as we speak. Safari (macOS) is about to overtake it. When looking at global browser market share overall, it's at about 4.2% [2]. Safari has now double the market share of FF.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...

[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
Once you decide to "fire a customer", it may not be easy to get thru that process. It can be tricky if the cancellation started on the side of the software provider.

We run an enterprise saas business and at one point decided we can't work with a particular customer anymore. We informed the customer that we will terminate his service and cancel all his outstanding (unpaid) invoices.

Soon after that, the customer started to take legal action against our company. It was quite an ordeal for about 12 months. At least it helped us improve our contracts and legal processes going forward.

However, since than we are careful to vet new potential customers before we offer our software. If we feel the software isn't a good fit, we will tell the customer and work thru our concerns before signing a contract. Even if we may lose some potential customers in the process, it builds a more healthy and sustainable business.

"Avoid toxic customers." Is now part of our handbook.