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> And Firefox has this weird issue that now and then a newly opened tab doesn't focus the address bar, forcing me to use the mouse to select it.

I'm not sure I have this issue, but ctrl-L (or equivalently, ctrl-K) focuses the address bar. Less mouse usage.
Man in 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt during Capitol riot identified
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Fan assisted ovens are also called "convection ovens." They certainly exist in the US, but I think they are more high end? I personally have one, it also has a self-clean function. The stove part is gas but I think (?) the oven is electric.
keep those SSNs coming.
I'm working in a kind of internal startup of a big German company and we operate "SV-like" as described in the article. My job title is Software Developer but most of the time I'm convincing other developer teams to share code to speed up development, inventing simple solutions to complicated sounding wishes of product management, helping project management to prioritize low effort features and trying to find out what the customers really need.

The only problem is that there is no leverage or scale because the software is coupled to physical goods, which means no big profits to pay above average salary and no career progression.

And that is the point where I don't agree with the article. I don't see the correlation between salary and autonomy.
I think they mean cut+paste to move a file.
At this point they need to go build your own modern internet.
Or maybe, you only notice that one because it's obvious, but most of the time when you see a JPG which you think has finished loading, it's actually still not done but it looks like it's done, as in the example above.

I honestly could not tell it was still going after the 2nd progressive layer.
Yet Galileo was indefinitely imprisoned for denying a geocentric model of the universe, which Everyone Knew to be True. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

The point is that the majority is often wrong, and consensus does not confer virtue.

(I am deliberately making no remark on this instance; I am speaking purely of the underlying principle.)
I was just pointing out that these very powerful companies, some are claimed to be monopolies are acting in unison which can be argued seems like cartel behavior.
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
The citation is in the 2nd link you posted, which lists closed source software that also uses pylance.

And in both instances I mean free as in beer.

Microsoft hasn’t held itself up to any standard. It said it would contribute to open source, where did it say they would open source everything?

Just because a company releases something open source doesn’t mean that other free software they release has to have open source licensing and all code available. It also doesn’t mean that they suddenly hate open source.

Are Mongo, Kafka and Android are open source? Do their parent companies all hate open source?
Well, let's all search for Signal and waste Facebook's ad money
That one really really really pissed me off because it’s a task I expect to do tens of times a day. Also it has some serious focus loss issues in that space where you’ll have to tab or click something again.

I must have installed a Linux distribution 100 times with the intent of using it as a desktop and lasted less than a day every time. I’ve been doing it since 1998. Literally something that horrible punches me in the face every time.

I refer back to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25678434

I bought a Mac now. I’m too old for the fight.

Everything I do server side is on Linux but the desktop is vile and I want no part of it any more.
It's funny, if it weren't that sneaky and scuzzy and very much in line with what FB excels at: web scale deceit.
Seems like a really bad way to learn.

But gotta love goggins, dude likes taking the hardest path to success.
I know virtually nothing about control theory, but when I was into RC quadcopters back around 2011 I know Kalman filters got name dropped a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
It's becoming obvious that the capital was stormed by crazies largely organized on the platform. It's coordinated in a way by companies realizing it's an enormous legal and political liability to have a relationship to them
It's common practice in Google Adwords to book your competitors' keywords.

It's also common to book political ads in newspapers that will be placed next to articles discussing that topic.

Whoever pays most, gets that screen/paper space.
Deep down, I hope this has nothing to do with a "marketing decision", and is just a hail-mark "Fuck, look at all the people fleeing WhatsApp since we announced the privacy changes? We have to do _something!_ What're we gonna tell Zuck?".

(Sadly, in spite of the noise in my personal social bubble, I suspect the number of users departing WhatsApp over that is so small it's completely indiscernible from regular churn...)
Are you aware of what "double standards" means? The fact that they are not the same thing is the point.

Furthermore, please review the HN guidelines for posting. Your comment is not substantive nor constructive.
I am skeptical that more oil would have taken out the burnt odor/flavor next time I used it, but I didn't try, for sure.
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The FBI, Google, Facebook, ... are working with congress to change Signal, and other apps. They want a backdoor.

See Christopher Wray's testimony in Jan 2020. I'm sure this will be accelerated.
Are these really the same?

The idiomatic Python 3 version uses generators to compose the computation and to avoid unnecessary memory allocations. Does funct.Array also do this?

- https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#map
- https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#filter
Set it further towards the “rarely” setting, and this is less likely.
Ok. I mean... they had the presidncy and apparently that wasn't enough. One thing you have to reckon with is the fact that the people leading this movement have everything and are still trying to overthrow the government. There is barely a person on earth who is materially more comfortable than DT. It didn't stop him doing this. So I don't really see why the idea of fascists having nothing would be more scary than well resourced fascists.

Donald Trump with no resources is 'old man yells at cloud' rather than '5 dead at the capitol'.
> Is global network culture still possible?

I'm thinking the next constellation of LEO satellites will cover the planet with high-latency (e.g.: 90 minutes) and high-bandwidth connections. If someone can fulfill your request in your footprint, you'll have low-latency bandwidth for a few minutes. Otherwise, someone else in the shell will send it up later once the satellite is in your footprint and get it down to you later once you're back in the footprint.

All you need to do is send a request to someone else in your shell and they'll upload it the next time the satellite passes.

Probably some centralized or decentralized crypto payment to make it all happen. Still need cheaper phased-beam arrays though.
How is this different from previous voice assistant projects designed for the raspberry pi. Projects such as: Rhaspy, Mycroft, and Jasper?
Parler may have just ended its own business, I think. They should have pivoted to be a free speech alternative to sensible conservatives, with sensible moderation, and market their product as such. As it is, no one wants to do business with a company that openly allows neo-nazis, anti-semites, and lately, criminals, on their platform, and no one with a brain would even want to be on such a platform.

I'm open to a Twitter alternative that is lenient on conservative views, as long as it has the right sort of moderation. And I really hope this alternative learns from Parler's mistakes.
> Parler could simply move their servers elsewhere

They can, and they probably will. Gonna take time. Pretty sure they did not expect a coordinated attack from Amazon, Apple and Google at the same time.

> nothing forces people to use Google, Facebook or Twitter.

You’re commenting on hacker news. This means you’re using a PC, or maybe a phone or tablet. Some (likely private) company is selling you electricity you use to power these devices.

Would you be happy if that company cuts your electricity because they don’t like your political views?

If no, what do you think is the key difference from Google, Facebook or Twitter doing their censorship?
Yes. They really would do this.

They use a probability factor to identify similarity with other users. If the similarities match high, they internally identify it as a probable identical profile.

But for this to happen successfully, they would have to use the first profile that didn’t agree to new terms and compare it to new profile that did agree to new terms.

Btw, somewhere in Facebook land they are trying to workaround this hack. Which means FTC should be all over this.
The answer is gaming
"our lawyers all ditched us"
That pretty much should tell you this is not a free speech issue... your service is just a shit business no one wants to be associated with. BYEE
In general I think we all should be free to associate or do business with whoever we choose. That should be the default position. There may have to be some exceptions where available options are limited for crucial services. I’m trying to avoid using the word Monopoly because it’s bandied about so much inappropriately, but some services are so essential and providers are so limited that we should probably expect them to be provided to anyone making a legal request for access.

Those are specific circumstances though and I don’t think any of these - law firms, internet hosting, etc reach that threshold.
It is impossible. Especially for the far right and far left. Go into subreddits just to see the difference. I used to think like that too, and then seeing the actual reality its just disappointing. When Trump said that he can shoot someone at 5th avenue and his supporters will support him, that's real.

Thankfully majority of people are not far left far right, but center.
If you use Google, you can find predictions of just about anything.
What’s a save panel? You mean a save dialog?

Note that on windows there are at least 3 generations of save dialogs. Which one you see depends on which generation of the api is used.

The most common one is the more modern which is basically just an explorer window. Dragging a file into an explorer window works that same regardless of whether it’s an open/save dialog or not. It’s a move/copy operation (depending on e.g modifier keys).

I didn’t quite get the point of dragging a file to a save dialog at all though? (Assuming that’s what you meant by panel) is it that you wanted to use it for navigate+set-name? That to me as a windows user seems alien. I expect it to work as an explorer window! Expectations are everything. The principle of least surprise doesn’t really work cross platform I guess.
Cut-and-paste on Finder works perfectly fine too. It's Cmd-C and then Option-Cmd-V on the destination instead of Cmd-V.

Alternatively hold Option when opening the Edit menu.
The screenshot from the article is very low resolution, so it's quite hard to see if you don't know what you're looking for, but it does have a unique thumbnail against each filename.

The underlying complaint is that people want this to be bigger.
The contempt for user experience displayed at Gnome, over such a long period, is breathtaking, in its way, but Gnome are certainly far from alone. Apple presents the same experience, to me, except involving different details. Windows, too. KDE, too. Maybe one or other get icon-view in file pickers right, but there is a lot else to be got right, and they don't. More importantly, they neither want to get it right, nor want to enable you to get it right.

The commonality is not the details, which differ, but the attitude. "This is our thing, not your thing, so we will do what we like, not what you like." This is most evident in cases when a shiny new release, with hundreds of new singing, dancing penguins, breaks a thing that used to work.

"The old release was better." "But look, dancing penguins!" "Dancing penguins do nothing for me." "But look, dancing penguins!" "I want a way to switch back." "NO. Dancing Penguins!"

Apple's great achievement is getting their customers to believe that they always and only ever cared about the dancing penguins, and to forget instantly about each thing that had once worked, once it is gone. Gnome aspires to that, but lacks Apple's reality distortion field, so must make do with contempt.
This is so interesting
Flipdish (HQ in Ireland with a distributed tech team) is one.

Full disclosure - I’m the technical co-founder.
Fox News have a website. Fox News have servers, why doesn't Fox News host him?
I wonder why not using a chat based on BitTorrent protocol?
Sure. I can help with this. I was actually discussing this earlier.

The economy has been shit for middle class Americans for quite a while. Rent and home prices have been increasing far faster than wages. Furthermore, lots more nickel and diming has led to more debt and misery for the average middle american. The situation is even worse for people lower than that. However, especially for lower middle class white Americans, they aren't too far removed from a time when that was enough to have an OK life. So they remember or have heard about it. And they are unhappy.

And for a while we were working on fixing that unhappiness. But then some people came along and said something different. They said that those other people over there are the reason for your unhappiness. If it weren't for them things would be better. They are your enemy. And they've been doing this for decades now.

And things were getting more tense. Then (probably with a little outside help) someone else came along and really encouraged ramping up that anger. And said all the right things. And said if we just take over, we'll be able to make it right this time. And so many people believed this that they didn't really stop what that actually meant.

This may seem like I'm just BSing here, but I'm not. It's the same technique used by gangs, cults, and neo-nazi's. They target the young, naive, and emotionally frail. And they promise companionship and strength. And for people that feel alone and left behind, that is enough. They don't need to be dumb or evil. Just a little broken. And then the evil ones come in and take advantage.

But if you haven't ever seen how difficult it is to help someone recover from being in a cult or a neo-nazi gang... then you wouldn't realize how hard it is to deal with these groups.
So what's the next step, free speech absolutists? Force private businesses to host them? Does 1a overrule 13a?
I definitely agree with you, but I don't think that's sufficient. I think at larger companies it would be helpful to spend a day or two every quarter having a scrum increment meeting. The SI would let scrum lords and scrum masters plan what experiments would occur during the next quarter.
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When several vendors drop the same customer at the same time, and there are no state attorneys general bringing legal actions (and thus no grounds to assert illegal activity), then it seems like conspiracy to destroy a business, and a likely cause of action for tortious interference and possibly a RICO violation.
I don't think the average person is at risk of starting riots with white supremacists. Parler should be treated the same way as Al Queda. Totally radioactive
https://web.archive.org/web/20200313022845/https://personal....
Most of the old /. tropes would probably earn some kind of moderation penalty here for being too similar to a low-effort Reddit-style comment.

I also miss those days.
> searing to seal the juices inside

Searing does not seal anything inside. It does provide a pleasing texture and usually flavor, though.

Cooking chicken legs starting in a cold pan produces wonderful results.
So much complication. As a long-time happy and healthy vegetarian "cook", here is my utterly simple heuristic that never goes wrong: assuming you have a good-quality non-stick pan: on medium heat olive oil you can toss in any and all vegetables, a source of protien, ginger, garlic, and some freshly ground black -- or mixed -- peppers and salt. You're set. (Also assuming no allergies to said basic ingredients.)

E.g. tonight (I'm in CET) I made this simple veggie delicacy; happens to be vegan too:

1. toss in some freshly chopped ginger and garlic in some olive oil on medium heat

2. add a couple of finely chopped shallots (or even a plain white onion is fine)

3. sprinkle some cumin seeds, salt, and freshly ground black pepper

4. next up: two chopped green courgettes

5. then, toss in two chopped, medium-sized portobello mushrooms

6. finally, add some precooked chickpeas (but if you have the discipline for it, the best chickpeas are dried peas that you soak overnight for 10 hours, and boil the next morning for 30 minutes; no contest).

Stir-fry it all for 10 minutes or so, and you'll intuitively know it when it is ready. You can have this with any kind of carbs -- couscous, tortilla wraps, rice, some variants of pasta, bulgar, you name it.

Rinse, repeat with many other vegetables and protien combination (flavoured tofu, seitan, et al). No need to go wild over following a recipe to the dot, or on heat transfer mechanics.
Nice. Upvoted by me, because that's an interesting word I haven't seen before, it's interesting to see people argue for and against it, and I think your point of view is a reasonable thing to argue for even though I think it's weakly argued because it doesn't appear to weigh up consequences of alternatives.

Put in eumemics terms, the argument I've presented in this subthread is that you can't avoid it, you can only pretend to avoid it and/or decide not to be deliberate about it, thereby having the effect of eumemics anyway but with different parameters.

That might be the better decision, to commit to not being one of the actors significantly influencing global dialogue, but there's no point pretending it isn't a decision or that it doesn't have consequences, or that the outcome is neutral, or that the outcome is what most people actually want. (Or that it isn't a paradox.)

One way or another there are powerful actors in the system, and if there weren't it would create them. I suppose if you commit to the underlying principle of respect for people in a democratic manner, you might want to be neutral about which consequences "the people" can pursue, for example if they want war than war it is, if they want peace then peace it is. However by and large what most people say they want at large, and what they actually get as a result of their actions, are quite disconnected due to very complex chains of consequences. This is well known and people complain about it all the time.

As a result, even if trying to be neutral and respectful towards all people with regard to what the people want, it is not clear (to me anyway) that neutral communications platforms lead to what people actually want (collectively, democratically) any better than non-neutral platforms. Perheps we should build things that are designed to find out what people actually want, in a robust and evolvable manner (collectively, democratically) and choose the biases that then provide it.

A well known example is moderation: Unmoderated platforms end up causing many people to leave them or to avoid speaking up, with the result that any unmoderated platform is dominated by highly unrepresentative viewpoints of the collective of people.

Moderated platforms are accused of censorship, "view-promoting" platforms are accused of censorship in your meaning of it (as long term bias), yet unmoderated and un-promoting platforms are also censorship by that meaning because they also quiet so many voices in a systematically biased fashion. There is simply no escape from this dilemma and no honesty in pretending it doesn't exist.
The rule was advisory in any case; there are multiple points at which St. Benedict advises that the abbot modify things if they had a better way of doing things; the rule of St. Benedict itself is based on several rules that predate it (which are obviously not identical to it).
A totalitarian control of information is not going to lead to good faith discussions. First, the totalitarians won't control the information in good faith. Second, even if you found good faith people to control the information, the malicious actors who argue in bad faith won't go away just because you control the information that they can argue about.
I spent some time discerning as a Trappist, and now have a family. I’ve found the lack of silence to be the biggest challenge. How is your prayer life as a parent?
But the communication infrastructure is owned by the government, not a private company.

If they want they always can do peer to peer, mesh network style.
Those rules help the Church preserve the ancient knowledge until Gutenberg. As a Catholic, I'm devout of St. Benedict because the creation of monasteries have a huge impact of the human knowledge.
Great anecdote. The outrage in its comment section indicates the author struck a nerve.
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Sorry for the confusion, the cookie notice was a fast implementation. Now, cookies will only be stored once you click the accept button. "No" will hide it for the on the current page.
I've used the nixos/nix image from Docker Hub[1] to run some CI scripts using Nix to build my projects.

As far as I understand it, it's basically Alpine Linux with the Nix package manager and tools preinstalled, but it worked pretty well for me.

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/nixos/nix/
What verification do you need beyond firsthand accounts of multiple journalists who tried to join and were banned? Like that seems about as good as it gets in terms of verification.

Do you think random reporters were conspiring and posting nudity to make Parler look ideologically driven when it banned them (there's irony there too, which we'll ignore for now).
That is a brilliant take on middle management!
Ads are pretty clearly highlighted as such at the top. If your SEO is good then you will still be at the top, just below the ads.

I do agree that a lot of these companies do have the ability to use advertising to crush their competition, but I’m not sure what the solution is to that.
You asked if I could look at this in a different part of this comment thread.

What you say seems more or less correct to me. I think if you approach cast iron that way, you will have good results.

Basically, you don't want the pan to look "not-oiled", and how much effort you need to put into that depends on how much you are removing the existing oil during the cooking process.

I think the "looks oily" test is the proper determinant for if the cast iron is in good shape. Trying to develop a "seasoning" layer is likely to just cause frustration.
It apparently affects all of the USB-C models with ports on both sides, it’s kind of surprising to me that the workaround isn’t more well-known, and even more surprising that it’s gone so many generations without a fix (although honestly I have no idea how involved the fix would be, and it’s probably moot with Mx around the corner).