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I don't agree in witch-hunts

The portrayal of this situation as a "witch-hunt" or being "dealt with by the mob" is a good demonstration of how you personally are contributing to this problem.

I'll say it again – it's easy to portray something as a "witch-hunt" when you personally have nothing at stake. I'm sure it seems pretty abstract, to be honest – a nice and easy thought-experiment about how we should all have respect for everybody else's views and all that.

On the flip-side, we're talking about a situation in which somebody was happy to campaign to prevent a number of their own employees and other people in the wider community from gaining a set of rights. Eich was an active participant in trying to disadvantage me, personally. This is something that I would consider unacceptable for an organisation I would support, and others feel the same way. They are entitled, and should be encouraged, to express that view.

We will each draw our own lines in terms of what we consider to be acceptable behaviour from public figures. Most people would probably object if Mozilla were to appoint a CEO that promoted some other controversial cause – say, mandatory deportation of all non-white Americans. I doubt you'd cast objecting to that appointment as a "witch-hunt".

Personally, I consider funding a campaign against same-sex marriage to be behaviour I'm not willing to accept. And you consider this to be behaviour that you are willing to accept – that is, in this case the benefits of appointing a particular CEO outweigh any concern about the views they hold. It would be way easier for you to be honest about that than to pretend this is anything other that a group of people who don't agree with you.
They mention possible future uses both for power production on space missions, and terrestrial power production. Is there likely to be a gap where it makes sense for the first, but not the second? E.g. is producing a deuterium-loaded metal an energy intensive undertaking, which could cause a process overall to be net negative, but still useful to put on a satellite?
> "What are you personally doing to encourage diversity?"

What? Are you serious? After browsing through the comments, this here is what really ticks me off and solidifies that mozilla/firefox is in a rotting place right now. sad.
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Is the underlying text collection available for bulk download or api query?
Why this Product Manager loves n8n
This happened to my grandmother. One week she was sharp as a tack. Next week, lit her house on fire to clear a paper jam...

Doctor's claimed dementia, turned out to be a tooth infection.
> Did we run out of masks during H1N1, Avian Flu, Ebola, SARS, or any other pandemic before COVID19 ?

Yes.

Every single year when the wildfires torch California N95 masks become unobtainable for a couple of weeks. Having a larger supply and/or back stock available would make a difference. It's clear that planning is needed, but production also needs to increase to allow for stockpiling.

You also talk about a "black-swan event" for something that was foreseeable and somewhat predictable. Just like flooding and earthquakes, pandemics come in cycles and we were due for one any time. It also means it'll happen again, so maybe we should be ready.
I don't think this is the best place to ask. HN has a strong individualistic perspective. I'd reach out to local mental health/employment non-profits to see if they have ideas. They're experts in these types of scenarios.
Hmm, can't find it! Is there a misspelling?
Thanks for editing!
I'm pretty sure that's Aspyr Media's (https://www.aspyr.com/about) business model. At least, I know they're the ones who ported Fireaxis' Civilization games to OSX and Linux.
Well worth your time, Dekker!

Our H-alpha filter was a "quartz birefringent monochrometer" -- it used a stack of calcite & quartz polarizing filters to get 2 or 3 angstrom bandwidth. Had to be temperature controlled and treated with white gloves. But oh what views of prominences!

ps - we used to call the entrance pupil on a spectroscope a "dekker" because you could choose different slit-widths. I remember being praised by a real astronomer (Helmut Abt) for knowing what this was...
You think CNN and Fox are the same? I mean sure, CNN didn't exactly report critically on any of the Iraq wars, and I'm sure there's lots of pro-gov and pro-corporate stuff like that. But Fox is literally a propaganda channel for one of the two political parties, only barely masquerading as news.
> Finding an alternative source for revenue like that is just really incredibly hard. Mozilla's been trying for a long time.

What alternate revenue sources have they tried? Outside of their recent VPN offering, I haven't seen anything that they've tried to monetize. They didn't even try and monetize Firefox Send, even though the developers had a monetization strategy from the start.
DOJ asks Congress to weaken “liability shield”
I had a roommate with a stutter, but never when telling a joke, talking to the dog, or singing. We are way more complicated than we understand!
yeah an offsite backup would be nice addition. right now, it's backed up to NAS and NAS upload those to google drive.

it could be better.
But why, why all these complexity issues are not applicable to China which literally floods the world with masks?
They're definitely more suited to headless operations, I have two old Atom netbooks and both were much better running Ubuntu Server. One of them -- one of the earlier Atoms that only had hyperthreading and originally ran Windows XP -- was a print server for several years. (Until the fan became grindy and the keyboard stopped registering input due to 24/7 operation with the lid closed)

With Windows -- either XP Home or 7 Starter -- they both barely chugged along, not to mention battery life.
The real key here is knowingly. Large banks have had a slew of "scandals" whereby they've been caught moving many billions of dollars for evil organizations the rest of us would go to prison for donating to. How many times do these organizations have to get caught for it to be handled in a fashion comparable to mere mortals?

I say "scandals" because by some miracle it never seems to be a particularly big deal in the media.
Everyone is doing it is the excuse
> Who are the real crooks?

> terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderers

At some point, unless you want everyone making their own personal moral judgements (including people who e.g. don't think women should have rights?), it should be permissible to deal neutrally with everyone who wants to do business with you. Let the law enforcers enforce the law, let the bankers bank.

Edit: clarity.
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> the atmosphere of Venus is the only place outside of Earth where humans could walk outside with just a simple oxygen mask

The clouds of sulfuric acid might sting a bit.

> floating cities on Venus are not as cool as "normal" cities on Mars.

Literally!
Do microorganisms spend their entire lives in Earth's atmosphere, or are they simply found there? It doesn't seem surprising that some would find their way up there, but I have a hard time imagining how microorganisms could maintain a certain altitude. On land, they can anchor themselves to hospitable environments to breed, but in the atmosphere, how could they find one another?
Maybe they're talking about his support for Prop 8 in 2014 which resulted in him leaving Mozilla. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CE...
Because GP was discussing a socially sensitive topic, but the other person asked for an explanation about an easily googleable concept. This is intentional noodle-braining, explanation on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/ixp19i/did...
This one went nearly 3 years before it had a problem, but as soon as one key started acting up the rest of the row quickly followed. I'll trade up for the latest model (with the touch bar, which I actually like, and physical escape key) the next time I can afford to be unproductive for a couple days.
> In the first place ( incidentally a phrase that originates in mnemonics) [...]

Do you have a source for that or is it a gut feeling? In a quick Google search I couldn't find anything about the history of this idiom.
The good thing with technical debt is inflation in some way. The code will likely get rewritten every few years with new features in mind, or will change significantly anyway so it's almost as if it's inflation. If technical debt allows you to get great gains in short time through product (just like any useful debt), technical debt is warranted.

I spent 6.5 years in google and seen an sdk get rewritten 2 times, 3rd was about to happen after I left but product director asked me if it was warranted, I said it sounds more like all these problems you are mentioning are monitoring/detection/testing problems and rewriting it won't make sense. The code did have technical debt, but it didn't matter
Well as another comment points out, they're being paid so generously in order to be fair to the CEO's family.
Of course, this is great for people on the outside trying to break in, but less so for people already in the industry. I can honestly see both sides of this. The fact is, once you've earned credentials, you would like to see them respected, rather than having to prove yourself again and again. Furthermore, it is widely acknowledged that these coding puzzles have little to do with the actual work. I'm sure your medical doctor friends would change their tune if they were forced to answer undergraduate organic chemistry questions (or whatever) every time they wanted to change jobs.
Yes, that's why they brand some of the top SKUs Pentium and Celeron. But these are for embedded uses where branding is less important than actual features/performance.
> But unregistered voters and those seeking to update addresses or request absentee ballots in time for the Nov. 3 election are currently unable to access the portal until Wednesday, Sept. 23 at midnight, according to a statement on the otherwise inaccessible website.

This is the text of the article as of now. Though I see now it's 21 days, not 20.
What is most scary to me about all the recent talk about Joe Rogan is that many commenters against him as a human being obviously don't know much or anything about him, but that they wish to censor him for some reason. I also question like the article, "Why?"

Are you threatened by Joe Rogan being a kind man and having his own podcast? Why is there so much modern wish to censor someone's good time and speech if you don't agree with them, and to get so enraged about nothing?

Joe Rogan deserves what he has accomplished, if you don't like him don't listen to him. Don't comment about him if you haven't listened to 100+ hours of his podcasts as you don't even know what you're talking about. You do not even understand what you are arguing about at that point, you just decided to at a whim take a harmful stance. The world needs more love, and the world absolutely needs more good people like Joe Rogan.

There are many guests who may be deemed controversial and not everyone will agree with everyone. It used to be that if you didn't like someone, you may say you don't and you move on. The entire pitchfork party campaign aimed at people you vaguely don't like, or even strongly dislike is a new thing in my eyes signaling a larger problem of too much hate and absent love. It's very sad that someone would even take several hours total of their time to constantly put others down they disagree with at all. It's not your fight. Go do something you like and let others have enjoyment. If you wish to be successful and lift yourself up at any point in your life, stop being someone putting out so much negative energy towards others. Be well.

Joe Rogan isn't harming you. Go do what you like. Listen to who you like, but be very careful to have an open mind and listen to all sides of these arguments.This is how we form our own opinions. The world would not be a nice place if everyone had to have the same ideals and opinions. The negatives I see constantly driven towards Joe always sound like they're teeming with unhealthy hatred and a wish for censorship.
I'd love to do this with my VR game, but it contains at least a dozen thirdparty paid assets -- some of which contain heavy modifications. I'd have to withhold these assets from a release, making it unbuildable, unless someone could prove with invoices that they also own them.

Kind of bums me out, because there aren't really any released projects from commercially successful Unity games. And then there is the legal ramifications of having your source out there. What's stopping a bad actor from trying to find something trivial they could sue you over because of vague patents?
I think the pi's are great for learning Linux, ARM, and to and extent embedded hardware. I had a cluster of them running in role-based configurations for various services at home (pi-hole for DNS, plex server, bastion host, LibreNMS for monitoring, etc).

I recently migrated everything to a single ESXi host because I wanted to dabble in virtualization (and have a tidy server rack) - but I am forever grateful for how easy and enjoyable they made learning.
Trying to read this post with third party scripts and frames blocked you get: You are not authorized to access this page.

How ironic.
Haha it does a bit, I am wary of that. But I think if we look at some of the biggest potentials to fundamentally move humans forward, a lot of them are around his companies. Not the only ones of course!
It's not either or, you don't have to have individual ownership for properties. A landlord can be replaced by a neighborhood cooperative that redirects the value produced from the building back into the community (schools, public service funding, etc.)

Private ownership and rent contracts is only one way of many to solve the problem of granting access to space without outright purchase.

Also, providing a service and extracting value from others work aren't mutually exclusive. Consider this: a foreign organization extracts natural resources, refines them, sells the new product back to the localsy (and other outside communities) for large profits that are mostly redirected outside of the native community.

I would clearly call that extraction, the fact that they also provide a service to the community doesn't negate that.
The ISS is primarily a jobs program, and secondarily a way to maintain our manned spaceflight infrastructure in case we ever decide to leave LEO again. The scientific research is barely an afterthought.
> they looked at the market and felt like they were being underpaid.

I also suspect Firefox engineers are underpaid relative to Google SWEs working on Chrome.
For anyone with experience in nuclear physics/fusion - how big a deal is this? I know that hard-tech findings tend to get, well, "selectively" presented to the public (I see at all the time in biotech), so I'm curious if this is actually a big deal? As in, does this phenomena (perhaps not in this form, but using this as a starting point) actually have the potential that people think of when they think "cold fusion" or "easy fusion power?" Or is there something missing in the reporting?
They keep renaming it, until they get enough social distance from cold fusion.
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Any self-respecting drug cartel and terrorist organization has been using modern encryption at all levels, from street to the top, for more than a decade now. What criminals would not be using an e2e chat app nowadays? Truly the lowest hanging fruit, and no fruit above that. The barrier of entry to using a level of encryption that's beyond the capabilities of most law enforcement agencies to snoop on was equivalent to finding a decent software/IT guy in 2010. It's non-existent in 2020. Just open the app store.

This pretty much solves a very serious problem for all illicit activity - secure communications. It's strange to argue that this ought to have no impact on the ability of law enforcement to combat organized crime or terrorism because they should just compensate elsewhere. That's waiving a problem away instead of facing up to it. Of course it's having a big impact, and telling them 'just be better elsewhere' is not gonna work, they'll still push for stupid legislation.
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Right. No mention in the context of this post though, unless I'm missing something.
It's probably all a matter of degree but, yes, likely something like that if masks are properly fitted and used.

That said, at least where I live in a very blue state, people are quite good--I haven't seen any exceptions--about wearing masks indoors and (mostly) covering mouth and nose.

But all that talk early on about not touching face and mask etc.? Pretty much everyone pops a mask on their face as they go to enter a building and take it off as they leave. I'm skeptical most people would use N95 masks even if they were available for free.
CEOs prior to being hired have little direct power - their power comes from low supply of qualified candidates and they can negotiate extremely favorable terms.

If everyone could be CEO like anyone could be a laborer, they would not get paid well.
It's not working for me either, I guess we killed it :)
I couldn't find a cache link neither...
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vikramkr says:>Easier said than done.<

FTFY
But prefer (55).foo() as you shouldn't expect your reader to have memorized the Python grammar.
SOMA was my favorite. Amnesia launched the genre and is more famous, but SOMA not only scratched my hard(ish) sci-fi itch, it elevated its own horror by doing so.

Sci-fi horror usually focuses on relatively silly premises like "what if the monster gets out" or "what if we open a portal to hell." SOMA really rises above those tropes. It's legitimately unsettling to have a game confront you with troublesome implications of future technology that you had been subconsciously avoiding.
The saying is twisted, because it already assumes privacy is a privilege, which it is not. It's a basic right, written to the constitution
EU proposes to ditch refugee quotas for member states
Suppress? Is there something I'm missing? What's being suppressed?
Play Breakout with the GitHub contributions graph
Physicists Just Discovered a Brand New Type of Superconductor
It's a fantastic educational project, as well as a fun way for more experienced programmers to scratch the "low-level coding" itch. I've used older versions of Octo with after-school groups, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that other educators have made use of it in their own curricula[0].

There's a colorful history to how and why a number of mutual incompatibilities crept into CHIP-8 specs and programs over the decades. In addition to a range of "quirks mode" flags to adapt to differences in behavior, Octo recently gained a tracing linter (Toolbox -> Binary Tools -> Linter Mode) which can flag the use of features which differ between VIP CHIP-8 and SCHIP.

[0]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338558857_Aplicacio...
On the other hand, it could be a form of price anchoring for their more expensive chips. In which case, a slightly tarnished reputation is actually a plus.
For another incredible case of retrogade amnesia, check the story of Clive Wearing, the men with a few seconds of memory.

Short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Y

Extended documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_P7Y0-wgos

I learned of him through neuroscience classes. That was plenty of years ago, and I still think of his condition every now and then.

One thing that amazes me is that he keeps stacks of diaries where he keeps erasing the previous entry, adding the current date and time, and writing "first entry I made consciously" (https://youtu.be/k_P7Y0-wgos?t=1113). But also, it seems that over time he does learn something new, somehow. For example, he can now reliably "predict" the ending of movies he has seen a great amount of times after the amnesia started, without remembering of having ever seen the movie. And, of course, it's touching to see the relationship with the wife.
> All this is just a gentle slap on the wrist for programming in your build system

That's an awfully polite way of saying Yes, the CMake scripting language is indeed terrible.

It's meant to be used for complex package-detection logic. CMake Find modules can run hundreds of lines. It's not unreasonable to expect proper support for arrays, proper functions that can return values, a sane syntax, etc.
I would interpret the situation differently. Instead of reading it as most people bring a bunch of rubes who will click anything on a dialog box to make it go away, I see people who feel their agency has been robbed by technology attempting to put them in straitjackets and their best option is to accept what they’re dealt. I imagine this is the kind of experience (feeling completely powerless against the machine which runs your life) can feel extremely stressful and have unhealthy but silent health consequences.

It’s a chicken and egg problem, but I see it as a pattern of learned helplessness, only encouraged by the paternalistic (dark) patterns in user interfaces for contemporary products — because (cynically) nobody cares about educating users to make them more capable.
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If you want to restore the old layout of Facebook on desktop, just download the User-Agent Switcher browser extension and set the User Agent to Firefox 52 for www.facebook.com, e.g.:

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I think that even extends to rapping. Im not neuroscientist, but it seems the singing and musical expression must originate from different parts of the brain. I dont have a stutter, but social anxiety is something I struggle with. From hearing what a stutterer goes through they seem related. There is a stress about getting words out and for me its definitely related to sleep and stress level. If Im well rested I can be "on" for a while in a social situation, if not I just want to not speak...
Who does this? Maybe Bill Gates or others who have their own foundations. If this were true no charity would be able to find ceos.
I wouldn't trust my government with these keys.
Since the only way to use Firefox search instead of Google search on main screen is to replace the launcher, I discovered Microsoft Launcher for Android. Simple & quick.

A nice gem: hidden apps. One can hide most Google & device forced apps which are never used.
That doesn't make any sense. If you want to represent an ideal circle, calculus doesn't help, best you can do is pick an epsilon and add zillions of points to create an approximate circle. Even then most computational geometry algorithms won't work for that DS. If you're applying algebraic operations to that circle (let's say shear) you'll have to modify each and every single point (inefficient). What you want to do is to preserve a list of ideal (Platonic) shapes, apply transformations to them, and then convert this geometry to a list of vertices, edges and faces. Source: I've been a researcher on making parametric CAD tools that deal with problems like this for years.
It’s been a while but I read Edwin Land’s biography — he was the inventor of Polaroid and considered the Steve Jobs of the mid-twentieth century — and the War effort was given a lot of credit for establishing their dominance. It didn’t seem like that in the short term, but after the War ended, if I recall correctly, they benefited greatly from having scaled up to meet its demands, and from incentives.