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I'm really disappointed that Mozilla still hasn't open-sourced Pocket, like they said they would when they acquired Pocket in 2017 [0]. At this point, it seems like a broken promise.

Given this, I moved to Pinboard, which isn't open-source either, but is faster, easier to use, cheaper, and has taken no VC funding.

I'm interested to see if their increased focus on products that generate revenue, like Pocket, will mean that it'll finally be open-sourced... although it doesn't seem like something that will significantly increase revenue, so I doubt it's a priority.

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...
> The comment was that the students are at risk. Someone shows you that they're not at risk, and you pivot to danger to "townsfolk".

Assuming they're not stupid, evil, or politically conservative, the students are probably concerned about the risk of spreading the illness and the attendant harm that could cause, as well as what it could do to themselves.
How do you mean it is going alright? Almost 30 students tested positive last week.
Betterment means all of these. What it means to you means what you think is better. Anyway, why should a hobbiest be asked to subsidize your career progression?
Particle accelerator physics. They are used in the optimization of charged particle optics.
> "You will almost always get cheaper and faster internet (for both you and the company providing internet) over a cable to your house."

Not true for me, and I live 10 minutes walk from the financial centre of a major world city. Because there's no fibre installed to my building, unlimited ~300 Mbps 5G wireless internet is both cheaper and faster than any available fixed alternative. Even if fibre was available, the 5G would probably still be cheaper!
What I really want is a fun pay once and get everything structure. Free to play requires unnecessary grind that really isn’t that fun.

So please offer “IDGAF” $5 bundle or something like the original fieldrunners.

Other than, iOS or Steam please. Epic is horrible to use as a gamer. I’m probably never going to register on your site to pay you.

Mindustry is a good example of a simple, low cost game that runs through steam and iOS (and I imagine android).
Even if that's the case, it is rendered irrelevant by the fact that many people knew about the dangerous situation for years and it was heavily discussed over many official communiques. It's not like every time one of those conversations happened, they were resolved with "Oh, it's OK because the flammable stuff all gets filed together."

If we want to learn from this tragedy, what we really need to understand is, when the dangerous situation was so well known, why was nothing done?

The answer appears to be a combination of unclear spheres of accountability and lack of incentives.

We accept that sometimes, commercial actors will behave in wildly antisocial ways — such as the shipping company who owned the rotting, explosive-laden MV Rhosus abandoning it in Beirut harbor. We rely on government to protect us from such dangers — but sometimes it doesn't. Why?
Do the satellites in the photo have the new shades on them? I'd be interested to know how much the situation has improved with the improved anti-reflection.
What I Learned by Fixing One Line of CSS in an Open Source Project
I've been in something like this recently. It's real.
Yeah but if you're building a house, you need the bricks anyway. Why not make your walls a battery while at it?
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"this" is not just superfluous -- if you use it, you lose the referential transparency of the call. If you don't use "this" you can change where your call is implemented to any of these places without refactoring all the calls:

- In current class

- In a base class

- A static method in the current class

- A "static import"ed helper method from outside the class

In the past I'd say you could use it to be self-documenting, but these days you have semantic colorizing, tooltips, etc., for this sort of discovery if you want it.
If they seized it, couldn’t they just have sold it to get rid of it?
> if corporations wield enough power to be country-like [0], would it be fair to say they can only be democratic if the workers have the power to elect and replace the board of directors?

That seems like the wrong model. The power that we are worried about them exercising is over their users and the general public, not their workers. Your statement is like saying government workers should be able to vote who runs government because it is so powerful. The people we are worried about is the general public, not the workers.
Winning 'hearts and minds'.

You drop access to the internet as whole in places where the internet is suppressed or non-existent and the populace learns just how bad they have things then they might revolt on their own.

I wouldn't say I 100% advocate for the idea but thats the thought process behind it.
> serving you probably is probably a net-negative for us cost-wise

I never understood why businesses do things like this. In many industries there is often a class of customer that it is proclaimed "we don't make any money on them" and as such they provide a low quality of service. If you actually lose money why don't you raise prices on them? Why are you worried about losing a customer you claim not to want in the first place?
> Microsoft has better alignment with free web than Facebook or Google.

That would be precious: Microsoft taking Mozilla browser developers onboard, creating a browser, shipping it by default bundled with their OS, and being able to claim it's to prevent monopolies.

It would also be nice for those highly skilled developers who actually believed in the open web to be able to give the middle finger to those in middle and upper management for whom Mozilla is merely a stepping stone to some cozier job at a proprietary software house whilst running Mozilla into the ground.
> There’s a big time savings in giving the conclusion first, then backing through only the needed part of the explanation.

"Results may wary"

This is one of those things I've discovered has no right answer. Some people will appreciate you getting to the point first, and others will hate it. Sometimes it will save time, other times it makes things more protracted.

And some people are prone to dismiss the conclusion without hearing the rationale. Definitely don't start with the conclusion when discussing with them.

Whether the conversation is live vs asynchronous also makes a significant difference in this.
I get ~2 mbps in my rural area (Canada). This is a major upgrade for me. RIP Bell.
Nice narrative. Yes, poors are better in a materialistic way. Now, what about their freedom? Is that also getting better? You might recall the magic rectangle from Farenheit 451...
Twitter is a much more niche product in my experience.

Everyone and their literal grandmother is on Facebook.

Twitter is mostly restricted to news junkies and the tech crowd.
Her previous claims about 9/11 and the Pentagon are also interesting: https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/qanon-candidate-marjor...

She denounced her previous claims on Aug 13th, 2020.

154 people died in that portion of the 9/11 attacks, including many children, as can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIWT4f_3gDk&feature=emb_titl...

The ~4 minute video is well worth your time.

I would encourage you to ask yourself what government position/s she is qualified for, given her recent beliefs about the deaths of those people.
This reminds me of a comment I made a while ago on Facebook and the necessity of moderation:

"~Thought exercise~: Let's say you were the mayor of a large city. There are multiple areas in the city where you can shout whatever you want during certain hours. Would you let someone hook up an internet-connected megaphone in each area and pipe in hate speech everywhere simultaneously? And what if we were in a future where there were physical bots indistinguishable from humans that crowded into those public spaces, vociferously indicated their agreement, and cheered him on?

That future is now.

In reality, Facebook owns those public spaces. No one actually goes to that spot in the park anymore. Mark Zuckerberg is the mayor. Oh, and it's not just one city, he's everyone's mayor, everywhere. If you don't use Facebook but you're on Whatsapp, you're still in his jurisdiction. As for the "during certain hours" part? Nope, those internet-connected megaphones are blasting 24/7. Those bots are nodding their heads 24/7. Our mayor also collects megaphone usage fees for himself. He gives you dopamine points, likes, and social validation each time you come back for more. Freedom, yeah."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206155
Facebook takes aim at Apple following yesterday’s epic showdown with Fortnite
Latest C# versions added a lot of language and library features allowing efficient writing of high performance code. And if you want to go a step further, unity has shown how (burst compiler)
I think very few organisations could run AWS as successfully as Amazon.

Why do you think the U.S. government is one of them? They previously have shown no organizational aptitude for developing software far less complicated than AWS.
It was from an abandoned ship that sunk. The owner should be blamed first. I wonder if Lebanon will try to punish them or just focus on pointing fingers internally.
They've indicated that each satellite costs about $250K to build, and launch costs per satellite are about $500K. Each satellite lasts 5 years. Each satellite gets 50Gbps (25Gbps actual since you have to go up & down). They haven't released base station costs, but there are some estimates that it'll be about $2K per. The other big unknown is the utilization factor.

It's pretty hard to punch those numbers into a model and not show SpaceX making money hand over fist, but there are bears out there that have come up with some really contrived models.
I stand by my post. Been doing this for 40 years.
How cool!

Would you mind sharing your experience with 4G connectivity? Where do you get service? Is it good enough for video conferencing?
Once we can colonize Mars and set up astronomy observatories on Mars, Starlink satellites orbiting Earth won't get in the way of astronomy discoveries.
Do they plan to retrofit the coating on the +500 deployed?

Are there regulations that prevent future constellations from Amazon or Facebook, or any other giant, to implement albedo reduction on their constellations?
Why would the people who own the factories just give the output to people?

What could people possibly offer, when all the things they're capable of making can be produced at zero cost?

I'm not being snarky, this is something I genuinely worry about. I think Universal Basic Income is the only reasonable answer.
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One of the single greatest games for programmers ever written. Buy it.
And all this time one could have just used it as a free fertiliser subsidy to some farmers ...
The problem with these very long early access periods is that I was deeply bored with this game well before the final release. I can't imagine I'm the only one.
It isn't about consistency or style. People use "this." to start their intellisense autocomplete which brings up the most used methods depending on the context.
If the domains were written from left to right / highest to lower level (example: com.ycombinator.news/... or com/ycombinator/news/...), this (particular) phishing problem would go away and there would be no reason to do this.

Out of ignorance, any proposals were made to change the order of (writing) domains levels? Or to create an alternative one (if that is even possible)?
Right, so the prior round was too large, the company is not putting the investment to as effective use As a company that can turn it around quicker.
Nothing would stop them from tracking access based on location.
> Thread workers will hold the GIL in Python and prevent network I/O while they are doing CPU bound tasks.

Using cython:

with nogil:
# whatever you need to do, as long as it
# doesn't touch a python object

If you're doing heavy calculations from python you should at least be considering cython.
Pythagoros and Plato, while not making a direct proposal like Laplace, had some similar intuitions.
In terms of shaping public perceptions though, because the media feed from its trough it has oversized influence --I think bigger than facebook. Like, you don't hear about outrage mobs from Facebook as you do from Twitter.
I don't think Apple should be allowed to charge a cut from a subscription app for example. Just because I can watch Netflix on my iPhone doesn't mean it's wrong that I can download a $0 app, and then pay Netflix for the content without Apple seeing one cent from it.
We say we care about our data but our actions don't match
I believe my machinist friends call this the "safety squint". :P Their attitude appears to be that a little bit of flash from occasional welding isn't going to hurt you; it's the professional welders who're at it all day who need to take the most care.
This is what happens when in a spasm of pique you throw your 1000x engineer CEO in the rubbish and replace them with a lawyer.
The photographer has admitted that he used stacking to create the image.
The problem is that of understanding, and of finding cause and effect.

I know a few people who have been victims of identity theft. After hearing their stories, it was clear to me that it would not have happened if companies weren't tracking them and selling their personal data left and right.

But it's hard to make that connection. People seem to accept identity theft as "something that just happens sometimes", even though it makes them very angry, frustrated, anxious, and eats up a lot of time and sometimes money. I think they do this because it's hard to point to one culprit as the cause, and so it feels like an intractable problem.

If people could actually understand that their lack of privacy protections on the internet (and elsewhere) is one of the main factors in enabling things like identity theft, there would be more people who would affirmatively care about privacy.

I'm not sure how to get people to make that intuitive leap on a large enough scale for it to matter, though. You're very right that people mainly care about browser performance (I'd even argue they don't care about security that much, though certainly more than they care about privacy); I know several people who definitely know better and understand privacy issues on the internet, but still use Chrome because "Firefox is slow on macOS" or something.
I addressed this point precisely in the edit! :)
> diminutive

This is personal abuse based on the way he looks. Why are you doing that?
We've been using Tella for product demos. A huge upgrade from hacking together QuickTime recordings!
It looks like they claim about 20Wh in a reasonably-sized wall.

Not killowatt hours. Watt hours.

This is so far off from commercial densities that you are probably right, but it might be worth looking at some what-ifs for the next technology that starts out an order of magnitude or two higher.

Mass has its uses, and if we are looking at system efficiency we should look at cogeneration options for heavy solutions. In a home, thermal mass has its uses for efficient temperature regulation. A big clunky solution that sits in your basement and works as a heat storage device to dampen temperature cycling might still be practical, at least at some latitudes.
Chainrings will last for more than "a couple of chains". In the touring world, one is usually advised to replace the chain every 2500 km or so. A steel chainring, however, should easily give you 20,000 km of life.
If the results weren't so horrifically tragic this would seem like a set up for a Simpson's gag:

1. Store 2750 tons of an explosive in the port of a major city.

2. Store it next to some fireworks???!!!

3. Do a welding job on the building.

This is stunning incompetence.
Google? I know that sounds rude, but since it's well established, not some fringe theory, it's trivial to find out yourself. Wikipedia has a page on it with references you can dig into. Google also shows a Forbes article if you want lighter reading.
A modern legal system and an advanced country doesn't have or allow concentration style camps for immigrants or do its best to ruin the lives and rights of the original people. That rules out Australia.
Don't think for laypeople, think for yourself, you're an expert in computers, you know what is better. The laypeople will benefit from your expertise.

The laypeople are not idiots, they understand things, in particular referencing an item by ID.
Those won't be up forever. They're all in a decaying orbit. They will get replaced in about 5 years.
IMO, they’re not so socially undesireable as they’re hard physical work and parents/kids aren’t motivated to work that hard when an AC office awaits a liberal arts grad.

My father didn’t want me to follow grandpa and be farmer or carpenter because it was a hard life. Most hvac, plumber, electricians I’ve known were following in family footsteps because it was lucrative and they were raised in it. It’s non-trivial to break into, physically demanding and years of apprenticing before you can go your own way.

It can be done, and there are great opps for those who can stick with it for 5 years. And like all trades, your market is growing because all the old guys are getting old.

http://sfelectricaltraining.org/
I am Eastern European, if that matters.
Also:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyv4k/internal-usps-docu... (Vice: Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/post-office-vot... (Mother Jones: Michigan’s Postal Workers Say the Fix is In)
RethinkDB was always one of my favorites, and I still use it to this day to perform more complex ad-hoc queries on data since it's fairly easy to chain a query together in Javascript from the web console. I'm glad to see that it's still alive, even if progress is slow.
The visor satellites are supposed to be invisible to the naked eye. They're still orbit raising, so we don't have results yet.
The problem is you're basing your argument solely on the physical act of running cable/wires everywhere. When you look at the cost of just hiring a crew to dig the ground or string wire on a pole you are correct. It's significantly cheaper and more reliable.

However, add in the human factor, government. The mess of rules, regulations, and right-of-way make it considerably more expensive to run wires everywhere.
Take an interesting case like a subscription fee for content, not just an app cut.

No one is angry about cuts from app prices (or prices that are effectively upgrades of an app e.g. from trial to full).

What I'm angry about is when apple wants X% of the price of content whhen they don't produce the content, they don't process the transaction. All they do is host the store where the $0 client app sits. I don't think it makes sense.
Nope, we destroyed the earth already. Why should we worry about the sky?
A non-reflective coating on the satellites will not stop them from blocking the light from astronomical objects.
Or Pichai, or Cook. All control considerable swaths of public life. Pichai, arguably, controls a larger swath than Zuck, since he gets to control what results you see when you search on Google, and most people still haven't caught on that Google results are manipulated and therefore no longer authoritative.

But it's not odd at all. Zuck has been the only one to offer a tiniest bit of resistance to cultural Marxism and cancel culture. And he succeeded. The shadow cabal can't have that.
Sure. Microsoft is a pretty unpredictable company these days. They are supporting all kinds of weird and wonderful things. I’m sure there is some ruthless business reason behind all of it but I don’t care if it helps the projects.
Quickly summarized we use puppeteer headfull with docker to do a recording of the video. So you’re right, it’s playing it back, not faster than real time. I might write more about the specifics in the future. It’s mostly open source code, you can start here: https://github.com/Ventricule/html2screen
As has been stated many, many times, the satellites are in very low orbit and naturally degrade over time to burn up in the atmosphere. The ones in the first batches that do not have a shade will only be up for a few years (5 at most).
I mean I don't disagree with you that I should be able to look and see what entity actually served me the content in the same way I can see who signed the sites SSL cert but I'm still 100% in favor of having browsers present display the bundle's URL in the browser because that's the site your viewing.

A site that uses Cloudflare as a CDN isn't cloudflare.com/site/nyt.com. The whole point of these things is that if you have some vested interest in being a CDN for chunks of the web for your users you don't have to set up a partnership with them and proxy their site or have their certs you just download the bundle and go.

I detest AMP, but I'm very much looking forward to signed exchanges.
Apple users choose to get a system that does different things that restrict them in non-obvious ways. Those people are not going to complain much.

Chrome is the default option for browsers. People don't really choose it anymore.
> So, rust is great and all, but is mozilla really the org that needs to ground up create a new langage/ecosystem?

I would yes “yes”. The other browser-makers all steer an ecosystem.
This image was pretty thoroughly panned as being either ignorant or malicious - there’s as much light coming off planes in the sky, yet astronomers don’t complain about that. That’s not to say the satellite aren’t irritating, but astronomers have mitigation mechanisms.

SpaceX doing well is also a net good thing, because it’s getting cheaper to put the telescopes in orbit, which is where we really want them to be. Earth’s surface has light pollution from cities, planes and drones; is dark enough for astronomy only a fraction of the time; and has constant occlusion from birds and bees.
Thank you, that makes perfect sense. I hadn't considered optimizing for location. I just saw in the settings where I can choose a roaster, so I reduced the selection to those much nearer my location. And I did indeed receive an email about a replacement—very slick and very appreciated.
It's a mistaken belief that "non-profit organization" somehow get to spend less on employees. They have to at least pay market rates like everyone else, or people won't show up, but they can also waste money on employees. After all, when there's no profit, what's the profit motive?
>If you can't get that, then maybe a cell tower is better, if that doesn't work, then a land based beaming internet may be better, after that I'd look to space based internet.

It is cheaper for a company, to run fiber to your house than to build a cell tower that handles ALL the people within that region given a certain density of houses.

It doesn't mean it's cheaper for your building to do it.

In the context of space vs ground infrastructure. Ground (including cell tower) is much cheaper. And they'll add 5G to the financial centers of the world before they add it to Wyoming.

The reason companies don't "advertise" hostpots as an alternative to fiber/cable is bandwidth. It works great if you read HN, but if everyone did it, they'd start running more fiber, or cost of cell data would go way up.
You only know how good your welds are once you've seen them destructively tested. What looks good may not be all that good. A really good welder will be able lay bead after bead after bead with very consistent quality and material characteristics.