skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>, but if you could fork the latest release, remove all Pocket, VPN, whatnot stuff and just give me that as a build, I would be totally fine with it.

You've overlooked the main idea of the parent post. Let me try to restate it another way...

You can't just fork a web browser's source code and be done with it. A web browser needs constant ongoing new programming coding to keep up with the ongoing changes in the web ecosystem.

Already, we've seen the complexity of new web standards make Opera give up on their Presto web rendering engine and Microsoft abandon their Trident engine for Internet Explorer. Both companies switched to Chromium source as a base to save money and resources.

So no, you eventually would "not be totally fine with it" -- because your forked browser would eventually be useless without a big team of programmers to maintain it.

As examples of web browsers quickly becoming obsolete, I tried Opera 12.18 (last old 2016 version with Presto engine) and here are many problems I encountered:

- Google Maps -- Zooming in and out makes everything blurry. Street View hangs the browser. Opera is missing WebGL acceleration that today's browsers have

- godbolt.org -- compiler explorer online C++ website is broken with a blank screen and doesn't show any code panels

- chase.com -- that bank doesn't allow sign in with old Opera browser

- reuters.com -- images on news stories are blurry and don't load correctly

- various websites with newer TLS encryption protocols break because they don't exist in Opera

Nobody wants to take a fork of the Presto engine and expend 1000 man-hours to fix all those problems. Same would happen with a hypothetical fork of Mozilla Firefox. You still need an active programming community to keep up with evolving web technologies. Again, if Opera and Microsoft (with its billions) gave up, it should give an idea of how daunting it is.
For the last 10 years that I own smart devices somehow I managed to not cause a water damage in any of them.

I also have to mention that Pebble watches exposed to me planned obsolesce. I purchased Pebble Time in 2015. Yes, the battery is also sealed, because the way is water proof (well, they said it is water resistant, but people were swimming with them). After 5 years of use it every day the battery did degrade, but it still lasts longer than Apple Watch.

It is so sad that the company went out of business.
Scrabble – A Love Letter in the Form of a Military Lecture
Oh wow, how crude. Thanks, you all.
Is that a team of 10 without the communication overhead?

In all seriousness, is it time to get rid of the 10x meme? People have strengths and weaknesses; people have areas they've experienced before and things they've never done. Some people are going to work faster than other people on certain tasks - that's life.
>clearly the "aggressor"

China was the 5th out of 6th claimants to weaponize their holdings on the SCS. The last being Brunei who has nothing. China was merely responding, not initiating SCS weaponization (but mostly in response to US pivot to Asia and increased US basing in the area to contain China - same reason Russia took Crimea in response to NATO encroachment led by US). The difference being China reclaiming land with 2% of Chinese GDP will vastly outscope Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines or Taiwan. The irony is US pushing Philippines for PCA case against China using a dispute system China opted out during her UNCLOS ratification while US not being signatory to UNCLOS. Or US not recognizing features of other claimants that was also invalidated by PCA ruling which applied uniformly to other parties in the SCS.
It should be noted that the author also has a series of articles on visualization for colorblind people in the same blog:

- https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part1/

- https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part2/

- https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part3/
Strange but True: Turning a Wobbly Table Will Make It Steady
No, you need the original proof of purchase for Apple to unlock a device for you, and it has to be in your name. I run repair shops and we have had this conversation hundreds of times from customers. People buy iCloud locked devices from Craigslist, FB Marketplace, and eBay constantly. Apple will not help in these cases, and if they paid cash or used an app without purchase protection, they got screwed.

We have even had people who have presented death certificates to Apple to get devices unlocked from someone who died, and that is hit or miss. It’s incredibly frustrating.
The point I'm after tends toward the latter, networked structure.

The higher the center of gravity of the bureaucratic/aristocratic structure, and look at what the US has become in the last century, the greater the Tower of Babel risk.

The losers of the last Presidential election have declared a soft civil war.

Streamlined, simpler systems with higher-frequency, term-limited office-holders, can move toward Nirvana: redistributing power, not wealth.
> "100% free transportation. Buses, highways, rails, subways. Everything free all the time."

that sounds like a great way to externalize a lot of negative consequences to counter one known corruption problem.

just stop subsidizing oil & gas, including through regulatory capture, and price travel explicitly accounting for comprehensive cost. price in the externalities through multiple measures, like a carbon tax, a use tax, etc., and use those proceeds to counteract the negative externalities.
While I agree with you on principle I think we (the general we) need to be clearer on classification. Hong Kong isn’t really a territorial dispute as there is no real dispute on the territory. Legally HK is a part of China, I don’t think that’s in question. The issue here is with human rights and complying with the terms and timelines of the handover back to China.

True territorial disputes can invoke different measures. Grouping HK and other human rights topics like Xinjiang with territorial disputes I think muddies the waters.
As a parent, there are so many things like "my child is hunching during breastfeeding, what does that mean?" or "why is baby choking during sleep" that you will find absolutely nothing on PubMed for.
This conveniently ignores the existing huge volumes of secondhand Apple devices which were obtained legally for the refurbishing market, which will always be larger than the volume of devices from theft.
For a single motor, you get:
a height axis, and
ability for long prints, and
multiple unmanned prints.

Looks stiffer too.
PSA: /etc/hosts does not work on Firefox unless you turn off the "DNS over HTTPS" setting [0]. Spent a good hour trying to figure out why Firefox was ignoring my /etc/hosts file one day.

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
They gain credibility against rivals such as Best Buy, Walmart or others...
Congress hasn't bothered with Constitutionality in a very long time. Positivism currently rules the floor.
Which is why people specialize and work in teams. Sometimes even being made aware of the challenges can allow someone to realize they should ask for help and not produce crap-tastic work without realizing it.
The allegations against Biden have almost no water at all. Unless they are waiting to use Reade as an October surprise they wasted it.

She made an allegation, and more specifically said she filed a complaint. The Biden team tried to publicly confirm its existence (i.e. they don't think it does), but the senate cannot publish it without Reade's permission. She later said she actually didn't publish a complaint.

I would be inclined to believe her if she could keep her story straight and generally not seem a bit unreliable.
Yes and I have a Dell E6500 laptop that was my work laptop in 2010.

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/dell-latitude-e6500-review/

It was my Plex server until earlier this year. It’s thick, it weighs over six pounds, it runs hot and even with a new battery it wouldn’t last more than a couple of hours.

What’s the point?
Edit: I also treat email like a to-do list, but it defers to my knowledge management system (linked in my parent comment) which tries to be complete like the OP suggests, but is AGPL, and has a similar but broader vision (not all features present yet, but hoping, and I use it every day). In it, every bit of knowledge is treated like the real-life "thing" that it is, and linked with everything else desired.
My job is stable and my portfolio is up for the year. This is a pretty common situation among most of the STEM people I know.

So does that mean we're all rich?

I mean, objectively we are in most senses of the word.

But that's generally not what people mean when they say "the rich"
I think I would like to see mozilla do is act as a micropayments service provider to websites based on aggregated browsing history, and take a small service fee for it.

I already use firefox. There's no other company right now I would trust more with some knowledge of my browsing history. I believe I would pay for a subscription service to support both mozilla and the news websites I visit.

And they're already working on something like that it seems: https://www.fastcompany.com/90403645/mozilla-and-creative-co...

There's a question of "what extra do you get for that payment" - maybe an NPR or PBS style pledge drive gift is a possible answer, not sure.
even miles/km per kwh input should work fine enough
American Affairs Journal – The China Model’s Challenge to Democratic Capitalism
I've played with belt systems similar to this.

It's great for high-volume small quick-to-print pieces. I would have loved to have used such a system when I was printing first-response medical protective gear early on during the pandemic; I needed high volume and the pieces were small.

It sucks for large pieces that require good bed adhesion.

A bit of background: A common problem with certain materials, like PETG, is that the nozzle tends to weep. If that's the case, during a large print there may be a buildup of plastic that offsets the nozzle a small amount. At the top layers of the print, where leverage is the highest, if that offset on the nozzle makes contact with the print, it's probably game-over. The nozzle+offset will probably knock the print off of the bed, destroying the part.

I experienced two problems with a belt-bed system like this.

For one, bed adhesion is generally lower, so events like described above are basically never survived, whereas with a steel insert bed like a Prusa, the part stays bonded to the work surface, but the offset may cause damage to the top of the part, or the offset may contact it and be pushed aside, allowing a healthy print or a negligibly damaged print, rather than a total failure.

Secondly : if you print anything complex, requiring thin or small support structures or brims -- it's a good chance the brim or support material is going to stay on the belt for the ride til the next lap. The system I used had a brush that contacted the bed, but it wasn't enough. PETG brims would work their way back up to the printing area, and be printed on top of. In most cases, that's actually ok -- rarely is the bottom of a print important aesthetically -- but if the work surface is offset by the thickness of the brim, then it increases the likeliness that we'll experience the ooze/weep offset described above, given that there is less clearance now for the nozzle to stay away from it.

I think belt systems are the way forward, but I think they need to 1) offer better and more consistent bed adherence; the system I used had 2 or 3 slick spots that we avoided because things didn't like to stick, and 2) offer absolute rigidity -- the belt system I got to play with felt like it'd likely stretch over time and enough part removals.
But doesn’t the belt give you those things? Why also print at an angle?
The scarey corollary is that all fake user-generated content is becoming harder to spot, from Yelp reviews, Youtube comments, Tinder profiles, News stories, Facebook posts, etc. And this is before the wide adoption of deep fakes by these outfits.
Someone has a fork that gets it working with later versions of macOS, but it still has some worts. Very sad cause it's a brilliant little tool.

https://github.com/PBMacDev/ControlPlane/tree/mojave
https://github.com/dustinrue/ControlPlane/issues/501
This is not true.

https://youtu.be/ZcDUttzlKLU?t=110

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/talking-pay-tv.ht...
OT, but The Bose brand does exactly the opposite for me. I bought a pair of 700 headphones, started having problems THEN read the forums. Ooh boy do they need to work harder on the firmware. They can’t mute anything on Windows. This is after the version that temporarily bricked thousands of headphones for several months. Also support was abysmal.

I guess the brand advantage is that at least you know what you’re getting.
This is published in Scientific Reports. Not in "The Nature".

Scientific Reports is low quality online mega journal with increasingly bad reputation. Their peer review is a joke and they publish junk science.

Here is Derek Lowe's opinion: More on Scientific Reports, And on Faked Papers
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/06/15/mo...
Maybe that too, we will never know it. Or maybe you just can write good crypto if your on LSD, just look at the best OS and where it was ~developed...Berkeley :)
Data vis is like cryptography:

It looks hard, but not so hard that you will let the experts do it, so everyone makes the same cliched mistakes, even some of the experts.

This author does not demonstrate a K shaped graph and as near as I can tell there are none in the links either. Frustratingly, one of the first graphs would be a K-shaped graph if they had plotted Group A vs everyone else, but they did not.

You have every right to be confused.
Should be marked as (2019) and while interesting, Onavo was shut down in Feb 2019 [1]

" Since the acquisition, Onavo was frequently classified as being spyware, as the VPN was used to monetize application usage data collected within an allegedly privacy-focused environment. In August 2018, Facebook pulled Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store due to violations of Apple's policy forbidding apps from collecting data on the usage of other apps. In February 2019, in response to criticism over a Facebook market research program employing similar techniques (including, in particular, being targeted towards teens), Onavo announced that it would sunset the Android version of Protect as well. "

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
So with that logic, why not just make it free for everyone?

If there are rules, enforce them. Don't make the law abiding pay and look the other way for the ones breaking the rules.
Network Tokenization (Apple Pay/Google Pay) exchange a token unique to {card, device, merchant}. This token is sent from device, to merchant, to acquirer, to card network, and to issuer without the need to resolve token to PAN in the middle (unlike PCI tokenization most payment gateway provides).

AFAIK, three parties that are aware of a purchase history of tokenized cards are: Token Service Provider who provides the token, Token Requester who offer the tokenized service (Apple/Google in this case) and a card issuer. Apple Pay for example, uses First Data as its Token Service Provider. (I'm pretty sure Google Pay does as well)
Programming is fairly difficult (beyond some very basic exercises) without internet access at this point, even just for reference material.
Compare this to how it was pre-web: Just in time for the post-war baby boom, Dr. Benjamin Spock's "Baby and Child Care" was new parents' single go-to source of information for decades; selling over 50 million copies, it is one of the most popular books ever. His name recognition was exceedingly high; he'd regularly be mentioned on news and political shows, as well as in jokes on Laugh-In etc.

The point being, you're certainly demonstrating an example of the recent trend where "voice of authority" is giving way to "the very notion of an expert is an elitist concept." Then again, maybe Spock is the explanation of all that ails us boomers?
And how is the rogue actor narrative intact vis a vis the riots?
Two apps he didn’t include that I like:

Levelator (free): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-levelator/id1493326487?mt=...

LaunchBar (alternative to Alfred, free trial): https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
This is exactly what Brave [1] does already, founded by one of the original cofounders of Mozilla.

[1] https://brave.com/
> I just can't understand how macOS dev feels Finder would work like that for 20 years without much change

I do a lot of stuff on the commandline, I don't really need an advanced graphical file manager. If necessary, I open an additional Finder window for more complex manoeuvres.

I wonder if there are people who, like me, come from Desktop Linux to macOS and kept working like that.
If you use multiple monitors, and you're frustrated with the cmd-tab app switcher only appearing on the last monitor you touched the dock, this will make it show up on all monitors.

defaults write com.apple.Dock appswitcher-all-displays -bool true
killall Dock
Per your reply, from TFA:

"Tesla has a habit of rolling out improvements to its vehicles as soon as they are available. The latest Teslas are therefore expected to have the best tech that the company has to offer at the time of their production."

Realizing that Tesla's slipstreaming improvements, completely ignoring model years, was the 3rd or 4th "Oh, this is different." aha moment I've had. And why I think their ridiculous valuation might be semi-rational.

Another aha, per Conways' Law, was learning that Tesla didn't honor the traditional organization structure. Permitting them to create the octovalve and omni heater. (Sorry, I keep forgetting the names given for those parts.)

Right now I can't imagine any other automobile manufacturer shaking their ant farms the same way, allowing organizational blank slate resets. Such is the benefit of no legacy.
Habitica... straight to what I got from it:

1) girlfriend (she said 'Write: "met my gf there, 10/10 recommend" :derpy:')

2) a plenty of productive work done

3) friends!

Habitica is awesome used in collaboration with other people. It helps one's motivation drastically to have people for accountability, which gamifies whatever one has got to do.

I suggest you create or join a party that focuses on challenges and encourages cooperation. It has to have a handy medium for communication, like Discord.

For example, we once held a challenge with several teams in a D&D-like game. To make a move, you had to get two hours of work done(in pomodoros). It looked like this: https://imgur.com/a/VA9vrmN

It motivated everyone to get lots of work done. I remember I slept only a few hours on the day of the launch, and that day had managed to do a few moves!

Oh, the fun I had when I had stolen Zephyr Cape! It had increased my movement speed considerably, and as I had it, I had to use the power to its fullest, and was motivated to work more and more.

Right now I am looking for another group to have a similar experience. If you are interested, or you've a group where we could benefit from each other, hit me up, nickname's Kelamir.
> What’s the point?

That it was still useful to you until it was ten years old, and it should be the same for phones.
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and IFR, Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana
Definitely. We don't buy any off-brand cookware any more, for example, and are now extending that out to other categories. I'd sooner trust walmart's discount brands (eg mainstays) than most chinese brands.
Graphical designers vs UI designers...
Rooting and activation unlocking are NOT the same. Activation-locked Apple devices are essentially soft-bricked, as anything related to iCloud cannot be used. Apple controls activation on the server-side and you CANNOT circumvent it as a user.
The distinction is irrelevant if you just consider that authorization (authZ) always happens after authentication (authN) but it is important when you realize that different components/systems/protocols might be used in each.

At that point, the separation is more about capabilities/responsibilities than "does it happen?"

(This is what I do in my day job.)
A loooooong time ago, I worked in convenience stores, and late at night we were required to keep less than 40 dollars in the register. If someone needed more change or bills that we didn't have, we could "buy" it out of the change safe, but that would only dispense 10-20 dollars every 30 minutes.

The point here is that doesn't really require much money to be a target.
I can’t believe we’ve gotten to the point where there is even an argument about this! Every single consumer electronics device in my home that has batteries makes it easy to replace them—except my cell phones. Everything from remote controls, UPS backups, alarm system, smoke detectors, computers, toys, even my car. They are all end user serviceable. This is how it’s supposed to be! I shouldn’t need to take anything to a business in order to replace a battery. How did this become a weird point of view?
What isn’t public health related by that measure? Should everything be subject to government mandate?
I believe the parent is presuming a higher base level of rationality in GP's "gut" than that of the population-at-large. While I'm not a parent, I'm certain that my "gut" would tell me that vaccinating my child is the opposite of wrong, however unpleasant for the child it might seem at the time.

Of course, having watched friends become parents it's also quite clear that becoming a parent changes one's brain in some fundamental ways so it's possible you have a point ;)
Here's the author of this article (Ralf Jung) writing about padding bytes in the context of Rust (but I suppose it mostly applies to C and C++, since Rust inherited their memory model)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61114026/does-stdptrwrit...

Also, he wrote a follow up article to deal just with uninitialized memory

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html

edit: the "other kind of byte" that is the padding byte is just uninitialized memory - so perhaps not another kind?
Homebrew maintainer here. Care to elaborate? We have lots of happy users but it’s equally important for me to learn how Homebrew hurts people.
Raph, I think some of the order-independent transparency folks (Bavoil, Wyman, Lefohn, Salvi, etc.) have had to do this bounded k-stack plus overflow thing. Might be a good "hmm, how did they do it" for comparison.
THIS IS SDPARTA ! Easter Egg in Firefox WebRTC Implementation
Not sure that the US would spank China in a conventional war. Offshore, maybe (I'm not even sure of that one). Air war, maybe (not sure about that one either). But China's not going to invade the US, and the US isn't going to invade China. That leaves a conventional war a standoff on the bottom line.
We also suppressed knowledge of it early on due to the war. That’s literally why it’s called the Spanish Flu, as a non-belligerent they were the only ones willing to report about it.
It's not guaranteed that keeping businesses operating would stop them going out of business either. It's possible that a better strategy is to force everyone to shut down and get it over with quickly, so that customers can feel comfortable going out and spending money again.
Stand out figures are an IFR of over 1.5% which is pretty scary, but fits with the recalculated Diamond Princess IFR of 2%.

If the IFR is 0.6% that would make it 50* more fatal than the 2009 flu pandemic.