skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is an incredible public speaker.

The first time I heard him, almost 10 years ago, speaking to a journalist at E3, I was shocked. So much detail, but so well communicated. I can happily listen to him talk on almost any subject.
> Wish it had chrome style profiles

Could you explain what you mean by this? Firefox does have profiles, and more than one can be active at a time. (There's also the newer containers feature which allows further compartmentalization.)
Or at the very least, consistently not bad. The larger to group, the lower the common denominator. Pret gets the job done. Quickly and conveniently.

There's more to the decision than quality.
> This reminds me of people back in the day saying that homosexuality is a "disease" which is being spread by homosexuality.

You're just assuming that the hypothesis of contagion necessarily carries some negative connotation.

I generally tend to believe there's a strong contagion element to all kinds of behaviors. But that doesn't inherently make them wrong.

A lot of the born-this-way arguments for all kinds of phenomena arose simply in response to negativity. The point being "if I can't change it, you cannot judge me for it". Almost implying that it is indeed a bad thing.
I mean... Were they really suprised by this? An encrypted file sharing service, of course it's going to be used for sharing malware and illegal content.. I'm not sure what would've been the solution for this issue, but it was pretty clear that that was gonna happen...
To specify the port number explicitly:

python3 -m http.server 8080

(Listening on port 80 may require more privileges.)
I've never had any such problems in my life with FF... not even when opening over a thousand tabs (of course not all active at the same time, lol)...
sux they removed actually useful extention format, but otherwise it's great, even if it's only on google's and cloudflare's life support, pretty much...
Everyone does not deserve the chance to talk. Pick up a history book, I think you will find some good examples for why Nazis do not deserve a platform or space to talk about their political views in society.
> Until they're a practical alternative, I don't see an ethical problem using animal testing when it's a disease as serious as Parkinson's.

In this case, there is already a well developed alternative - electrical deep brain stimulation. That procedure took decades, and many macaque lives, and distressing human failures, to be refined through trial and error to its clinical status today as an imperfect, transient way to relieve symptoms in some patients who can afford repeated surgeries for the rest of their lives, until the disease or their age progresses so far that surgery is no longer an option.

What is to be gained by repeating that developmental journey just to get a second form of DBS up to the same level as the first?

Any form of DBS is not a resolution for PD, which is a degenerative loss of dopamine producing neurones in the substantia nigra.

Electrical DBS does not arrest the neuropathy. NIR DBS will not arrest the neuropathy, no matter how refined.

The only way to stop the suffering is to cure the disease.

Before any cure can be found for PD, scientists have to develop a better understanding of its aetiology. That requires still more basic cell biology research, and more funding, more lab work, and more time. Until there's a breakthrough, those patients who have the resources, and enough ounces of luck, already have the option of attempting to alleviate their symptoms with electrical DBS.

It's the same story with stem cell transplants. If you can get the stem cells into the substantia nigra in enough numbers, the patient's dopamine levels will rise and offer symptomatic relief for awhile, albeit with an increased risk of tumour formation. But the disease will still be there, and the neurones will keep dying off, and the dopamine performance will dwindle over time.

PD is just like that. One day, it will just disappear. But that won't be because someone put a powerful light inside of the human body. It will be because generations of dedicated scientists kept doing the fundamental research required to understand the complex biological systems that control dopamine production, for long enough to understand and defeat this cruel disease.
Just make ForgeFed a reality, and then it won't really matter where the project is hosted. :)

https://forgefed.peers.community/
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Mozilla's deal with Google is worth 500M per year. For Firefox to be independant of Google, you'd need around 4M people subscribing to Firefox, with your $10/mo suggestion.

Now, whether Firefox NEEDS 500M per year is a different matter, but the whole idea of 'some people want to pay for Firefox' seems rather naive as a suggestion for how Firefox can be viable without Google.
You might find this interesting too:

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali...

It shows how various subsystems improved as virtualization evolved at AWS.
That feels disturbingly close to a "just following orders" defense. Just because you're in the basement keeping the boiler running, it doesn't mean you can ignore what goes on upstairs. If what they're doing upstairs is unethical, it's unethical for you to keep the lights on for them.
I 100% agree with this. However, FreeCAD is also NOT awesome because it lacks the 'timeline' approach that Fusion 360 uses and so you end up with a million random intermediate objects cluttering up your project.

FreeCAD has all the parts to be awesome, it just needs to also work on the user interface, and especially the novice experience.

This is a universal feature of open source, where unless an individual contributor has an individual bee in their bonnet about beginner UI, any given user interface is just slightly less bad than is unusable and would force someone to fix it. Any 'rough edges for beginners' are ignored because by the time anyone cares enough to fix the rough edge, they're already an expert and have found the workaround.
No, to dismiss socialist movements.

Progressive movements can be distinct from socialist ones.
Years ago I kept having trouble with openscad - even relatively simple loops would seemingly hang or use massive amounts of memory or give wired errors. Changing some tiny thing in the file would suddenly fix it, only for it to break again with a totally unrelated change.

It was as if it uses some stochastic algorithm that sometimes doesn't converge...
Buy a snowboard. Get some exercise while you're at it :)
On August 11th, 2020 the Russian government announced the world's first release of a vaccine against COVID-19, referring to the vaccine as "Sputnik 5" (Gam-COVID-Vac) to reflect Russia's previous victories in the Space Race. ([1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korabl-Sputnik_5
It's a reflection on a great workplace culture to share like this. It's not the board for me, but nice you released it anyway. When those MAX232 chips came out many years ago they blew our minds having the charge pump for the negative voltage. Too bad we could never buy them at the time a the lead time was so long.
Multiple (horrible) events through history can provide the insight that as long as you partition each task enough, people will happily work and contribute to a horrible end goal and later claim they were only following orders and had no idea of the side effects of their individual actions.
Too bad. I really enjoyed using it while it was up. The code is open source, and they have docs on how to set it up for self hosting. I wonder if there is a chance some active forks might live on?

https://github.com/mozilla/send
https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/deployment....
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> The web is responsive by default, making it not friendly to screen readers/phones takes extra work

Oh, the irony of the iPhone. When it was launched, its unique proposition was that it was the only phone which could render normal webpages, while previously specially tuned XHTML code and handheld stylesheets were required. And what did we do with this? We started the era of specially crafted mobile sites and mobile first.
I'm not sure about any audits or anything they might have had, but they're not a random fly by night. Used pretty heavily by a lot of people involved in media production.

Keep in mind that if security is important, you can still self host Send.
Exactly. Most definitely bad actors would use this free encrypted file-sharing service. But I suspect that this wasn't even sustainable for Mozilla to begin with.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions here.
I don’t understand why “pre-made sandwiches” are a common occurrence. Occasionally necessary, sure.

On an average day, if I don’t have 5-10 minutes to wait for a freshly made sandwich, I’ve gone wrong.
AFAIK they don't have a "security" approach. Files are stored on their servers unencrypted. It's a completely different situation than Firefox Send was - you need to be encrypting the files yourself if keeping your files secure from WeTransfer is important to you.
Firefox gets 500M/year from Google (whether they _need_ that much is a different question). You'd need basically the entire current Firefox userbase to pay some amount monthly, or have a smaller subset donate massive amounts, to enable Firefox to operate independantly from Google. That seems wildly unrealistic to me.
Here’s an example of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Anchorage disrupting a synchronome clock near Seattle - http://leapsecond.com/pend/synchronome/quake.htm
(Not a fancy Shortt-Synchronome tho)
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And thats why you have to stay on your toes and migrate away if it starts to make sense.

It doesn't make much sense to migrate to k8s if you don't have an issue. And it doesn't make sense to wait for the next thing to happen when you have an issue you need to fix now.
Start low, first dose should probably be not over 100ug, if you have anxiety you should go for more like 75 (maybe 50). After having experience with that state of mind you can go higher. (Wait at least for 2 weeks between doses)
I'd say that's most corporate entities as a general rule of thumb.
> How are people so keen on asking private companies to behave like public institutions

It's ironic to see the same people turn around and say that the internet is a public utility and service providers shouldn't throttle content or filter content.

> people have come to actually TRUST big corps to be more morally responsive

That is a pretty outlandish statement to make without something to back it up. I'd love to see an actual poll if people trust Google and Facebook to police what is moral. Last time I checked there was a poll that said people are more afraid than ever to say what they feel in public.
https://www.cato.org/publications/survey-reports/poll-62-ame...

> would you like to see what concept of digital town square the UK or the US government would produce

This is a straw man. US Government struggles to build a basic website - they aren't going to build a "digital town square". On the other hand, I don't think it's unreasonable for the government to have clear policies on a person's legal rights to use large platforms to discuss what they want without fear of being de-platformed.
I don't think that's the case here, though. The parent admitted that they fell into the exact same trap: assuming that certain conversations didn't go on because they weren't a part of those conversations, but later learning that wasn't the case, and it was their attitude that kept them out of those conversations.

It's of course not universally true that's the case for everyone, but I think it's worth thinking about. If your attitude is dismissive of someone's lived experience, it's not likely that they're going to go out of their way to include you in conversations about it; on the contrary, I'd expect them to explicitly exclude you in order to protect themselves.
Hosting content is plainly supporting it. You are helping it move to the people that are attached to your hosting (which is not normally a thing but of course in the case of spotify is, they have a captive audience).

Edit: A lot of the rhetoric about "dissenting voices" fundamentally boils down to Nazis wanting to speak about Nazi shit and being given a platform. They do not deserve one, because the ideology quite simply cannot be trusted and should not exist.
I've always liked "Mens sana in corpore sano" and it's even better that they have almost the literal same saying Arabic (which I speak) that goes "العقل السليم في الجسم السليم"

Since Uni, I haven't changed this motto.
Pret sandwiches are airport food, it's incoherent to suggest they're comparable to the sandwich you can get in from bodega deli counter in New York.
Another member of the AlpineJS fanclub here, no more jQuery, and no longer feel like I need to invest days and days learning Vue (which I never quite get round to).

We use Alpine + https://tachyons.io/ for CSS (powered by Craft CMS) on almost all our projects now.
I don’t always want hot food for lunch. Sandwiches are great. Pret sandwiches, although pre-made, are quite fresh. Their bread is good and the ingredients are fine. It’s sort of a “just in time” pre-made sandwich.

Definitely overpriced but you’re paying for the convenience too. A burger here are there for lunch is nice too.
I used this service fairly often with clients to send me large files... pretty much drag and drop and send me the link to the file. I thought it was great.

I guess I'll check out some of the alternatives listed in the comments here now.
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable and practical
Maybe we should take all this "not science" software away from the scientists and see how much science they can do without it.

If you write code that allows science to be done that couldn't be done otherwise then that is science. As a high profile example, a large amount of specialist software was developed for the LHC to allow it to process all the events coming from the detectors.

It sounds like the refactoring here was not really that useful in the first place.
Interesting. In my opinion, this should also contain provisions for storing the private key password-encrypted on the IMAP server.
But is the guy wearing a mask?
Do puberty blockers fully delay puberty? Most people who go through puberty seem to behave in ways that is frowned upon if done by older individuals. If puberty blockers also block that, then won't this affect the social maturation of the person? Going through puberty in your 20s seems quite rough. Or does that not happen?
This seems like a feature, not a bug. People can send things privately to you. It's important, therefore, to verify who you're talking to. Maybe instead of blaming it on the lack of server-side malware scans (which are always easily defeated) they could blame it on lack of an appropriate way to build a framework of trust between endpoints?
This feels rather disjointed from the point of the article, somehow.
Check your extensions and privacy settings. Firefox is more aggressive in blocking trackers and that does break some authentication flows that involve trackers. You can always disable some of those protections to get the website to work, though I haven't had to do that in ages.

Other than that, Firefox on the Mac is consistently easier on the fans than Chrome, and unlike Chrome, I almost never get runaway processes.

Web pages are also as snappy as Chrome. If a page feels slow, I often open it in Chrome to compare, just out of curiosity. It used to be that Chrome would struggle less with these pages, but FF seems to have caught up in the past year or so.
At most as valuable. A Wiki without any code doesn't bring much value.
That story was the same for 3g and 4g. And why would they want to sell ‘IoT’ to ‘other companies’ while the poor consumers foot the bill? That’s just conspiracy theory.
If you don't know what a DAG is, it won't be common sense to use one when you should. It's a mix.
First time I reluctantly had one of their sandwiches I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it’s be bad being pre-made but it was fresh and well proportioned.
Also IceSL, which uses embedded Lua. https://icesl.loria.fr/
The concept of free speech is larger than the first amendment. They are not synonymous.
Originally this comment irritated me a little, but to be quite honest I think it is reasonable and desirable to retrain everyone to think this way. If some content is a big problem for you, then you can and should definitely stop consuming it - warning stickers aren't going to help you do that and will never cover the nuance of sensibility you have as a real human being anyway.
They do. For members of experimental Aircraft Association, www.eaa.org. And now that I know such a thing simply exists I’m completely fascinated with it!
In some cases perhaps it isn't, in others it is. Who are you to decide for them? Grow a little empathy and compassion, perhaps. No one is asking you to use particular pronouns in order to piss you off; they're doing it in order to feel comfortable in their own skin. It's petty, selfish, and inhuman to deny someone that.
Well yeah, it's not going to be cracked.
Joko Engineeringhelp (channel with a lot of FreeCAD tutorials) just posted a video answering questions like: should I learn FreeCAD, can it be used commercially, how does it compare to industry standard tools?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udIBhVIy5MI
Is it possible to use a VR headset as a daily-driver desktop environment? I'm interested in programming inside a VR desktop; not programming for VR, but putting on a VR headset and writing code in a text editor inside a VR environment. This is too nuanced for a search engine to return any meaningful results. I was never that interested in VR until this idea occurred to me, so I don't know if the technology is there yet. Surely somebody must have tried this already?
Tried self hosting the day it came out. Had no luck, but i'm sure its possible given the docs.
Has been shared a lot on hn and i always find it funny that it is simply not working for me. I can't even transfer files between tabs in a single browser nor between browsers on the same host.
There is also a Dockerfile - might make ad-hoc deployment easier, but have not tested it: https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/Dockerfile
> Hospitals should be able to run without computer systems

I suspect that they can -but- they're probably concerned about legal issues - if everything isn't logged in or authorised by the system and something goes wrong, someone (and I by no means mean to imply you here!) at some point will launch a legal claim over that mistake.

[Edit: Which is also not mean to defend the hospitals for taking this position - I think it's daft but I can understand there may be reasons for it.]
Its just what the devs used to collabbrate and then they published it in place rather than moving it, as reported in /r/rust.
The only thing I find annoying is the lack of screen sharing on zoom. Zoom claims they support wayland on arch, but unless I made a mistake or something, that's just not true.

Some wine things don't work properly too, which is somewhat annoying, but I only have one wine application I run very rarely, so it's not too onerous to boot back into i3 for that.
As I mentioned, I didn’t research this - it is things I came across accidentally in my reading. I assume these three are not the whole story.

I agree even 10 over 60 years is likely worth it to society as a whole. But ignoring this reality and saying “all vaccines are always safe and no vaccine ever caused anything bad” which many supposedly science people do is not good either.
Surely it is very easy to take the moral high ground on these issues. But if you're the one working over-hours to fix the resulting mess, you start to wonder why those knights in shining armor forgot to show you the same compassion.

Usually, when open source projects introduce a breaking backwards-incompatible change, they will first deprecate things and then wait some months to give people time to update. After this nomenclature had been in use for 10+ years, I can't help but wonder why there was no time to take the user-friendly path in this instance.

So to the people who are fixing the mess, it certainly feels more like you got kicked because someone else wanted to show off his/her moral superiority.

There existed a reasonable way to change the nomenclature, but it wasn't taken.
Default is 8000
Humans have known to regulate forest fuels for 1000's of years. This modern stubbornness is hubris based on ignorance of the real technology that has been developed, over tens of thousands of years, in forest management.
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I am afraid we'd have to clean up orbital debris first. Even after that, the system to negotiate orbital "corridors" is going to be maddeningly complex.
I really don't understand it.

- Content was used to spread malware/illegal content

- It was not profitable

How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?
Oh, he's improved over the years. You should watch his very first presentations, during the Quake era. I think he's taken some speaking lessons to diminish his "uhms". But yeah, he's fearless of the public, which removes his mental blocks. I used to stutter in front of the public, but the one thing that solved it for me was a course, where we had to improvise in front of a camera. At the end, the coach replayed every video back to us. Every participant felt so much cringe that it ironically solved the issue.
Firefox is really good, the only thing that holding me back to Chrome is it's instant page translation.
I think OpenSCAD is great compared to other options I've tried. My primary issue with OpenSCAD is that everything is a set of 4 sided polygons. If I want a sphere with decent resolution I need an absurd number of faces. It's slow to process/render, makes a large output file, and doesn't result in resolution I'm that happy with.
An Excel spreadsheet.
The problem is on the UK side. They simply don't know what they want. The EU obviously wants to keep its members.
Mind that "programming like a bunch of clowns" isn't about the programmer's convenience, but all about a replaceable work force. It allows tech companies to manage without owning any specific knowhow (it's all "in the stack") and allows them to hire a bunch of programmers to fiddle around a bit in the first year and then a totally unrelated bunch in the next year for finalizing things ("the app").
While on one hand yes, I understand that as a parent you want to guard your children against decisions that you feel might negatively impact them you have to keep in mind that there is a reason why a teenager goes to someone else with their problems. That reason starts with your behaviour as the parent, and not with an environmental factor.

That said, children are not your property. They are your responsibility. If you're doing your job right, they've at that point been educated about what it means when someone transitions and what sort of impact it has on their life. During that talk, I expect you would speak about why you think that shouldn't happen before they're done growing.

Out of respect for the emotional place this post most likely came from, I will refrain from addressing the frankly problematic sentence you put between hypotheses at the end of your post at length.
> So that is 150 times less energy per transaction.

I'm about a hundred percent certain that that's not at all how that works.
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the default one is port 8000 so permission should be no problem.
They actually do now. Not great TLD coverage is true though
>It's a mix.

That's exactly why I said "not only" instead of "not".