skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose that theory is possible. A proxy for developer availability might be to check the primary mailing list of xorg for the full month of march: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2021-March/thread.ht.... There wasn't much directly related to xorg-xserver itself. As a point of comparison, here is March for QEMU: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/thr...
Read aloud! That’s how poetry is supposed to be read.
It also allowed Adobe to wipe out competition that was targeted towards the home market (why would you pay $99 for Paint Shop Pro when you could pirate Photoshop for free?)
I think Firefox's shortcomings are overstated. Often they're actually Mozilla's rather than Firefox's.

There are other things I consider superior about Firefox that Chrome has yet to implement:

- Multi-account containers is a killer feature IMO. I have different containers for banking, Facebook, a container for every email, a container for every Google/YouTube account, and so forth.

- The option to enable canvas permission prompts and canvas obfuscation. (though there are some arguments that those make you *more* trackable)

- Autoplay blocking and permission prompt

- Pop-out videos (aka picture-in-picture) are awesome and make it easy to keep videos on screen while browsing other tabs and apps.

- Built-in anti-fingerprinting

- Blocks tracking cookies by default

I simply won't use a browser that doesn't have these things.
I looked at the date instantly for April 1st, but nope, it is April 7th.
The tech platforms have a meekness problem. Rogan's payday secures his family's future for the next few generations because he did some funny fancy talking to some weirdos on the internet, so good for him. On the censorship issue, meh, there's nothing to add, it's not a discussion or rational discourse. We can only hope the alternative is entertaining.
Coping some files with a ne2k card on linux, pentium 133mhz caused mp3 playing to go bonkers from being overload. Switching to a better card fixed it.

Was it the hw, or the driver? Shrug, I don't know. But the experience sucked.
Yeah I never really got the appeal of Firefox. Chrome worked very well for me for years.
We might actually be close to it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology)
Sunlight Inactivates Coronavirus 8 Times Faster Than Predicted
No, do you?

If there's an implicit argument in that question I'm not able to discern it.
I don't think another way is possible at least under the current system.

Politicians are able to shove responsibility (like healthcare) on the private sector as a way to address their ineffective programs and social need derived from policy blunders at the govt level. Employer based care can be directly traced to such an instance, for example.

So it seems like the natural state of systems is for politicians to demand the most successful sector (usually private) to intervene, by the way of passing regulations, and thus, given enough time and enough blunders, eventually they will require such sector to own a bunch of competencies they were not really designed for (for example, employers shopping for worker healthcare coverage).
Hacking at its finest! Nice
Joe should get on to LBRY / Odysee. It would be the tipping point in moving to decentralised platforms. He'd probably make a killing too as LBRY makes it really easy to tip content creators.
Except that when you get the device in your hands, the kernel version advertised is in the very best case one year old. So irrelevant.
"The perception of the US middle class in the mid-20th century is idealized to the point of mythology and has no real basis in reality."

Right the baby boomers who could work flipping burgers and put themselves through college and buy a house at 22 really did poorly, and if we all just give a LITTLE MORE to the global economy so it can function "more smoothly" we'll all be better off.

We're producing more shit - and getting less of the pie as workers.

If we have to sacrifice the American middle class to bring up the standard of living in Wherever, I think it's a bad trade. I could not care less if it comes at a cost to us.

"The economy isn't "hollowed out", the US is a booming & dynamic economy."

"But the stock market is great!" - for the top 10% of us with stocks, awesome. We left a shitload of people in the dust. Millennials have what 1/3 of the wealth boomers did by the same age?

But if we all gave more... Trust us it's better...
This. Content producers have more freedom now than at any point in history. Previously you had to find a radio/tv station to publish your show. Now you can record it and broadcast it on YouTube or any podcast platform. (Repeat for "newspaper=>blog,twitter,substack", etc.)

The story here is that Rogan took his show off YouTube and onto Spotify as part of a huge licensing deal. Nothing was stopping him from controlling his work prior to that deal.
Teaching a Robot Dog to Pee Beer [video]
> Just don't style buttons as links.

My designers keep doing this, sadly.

I mean, they don't _realize_ they're doing this. But they will have an element on the page where a user clicks on it to do some action (not navigate to another page), and they will style it to match the site's links. It unfortunately seems to be a very popular pattern.
The desktop experience of clicking the drop down is not fantastic: no tooltips and no real explanation of what clicking the empty boxes does.
A nitpick, you cannot (easily) restore files deleted with Shift+Delete, but yeah I agree with the rest.
All of those questions are really irrelevant. The point with Wayland is to make something that's more secure than the systems it aims to replace, not to make exactly the same thing. If you want to help, maybe show a way this can be done without poking a huge security hole?

Regarding pissed off users, in my experience most computer users are used to Microsoft Windows and get pissed off when things don't work exactly like that, so unless you work for Microsoft then it's a lost cause trying to please them all.
These people have never seen Network.
I wonder the number of PCBs designed with Altium ($$$$), Eagle ($$), and KiCAD ($0).
> but it heavily depends on the specifics of the plan

> Amazon's plans have networks so broad that this is unlikely to happen

I mean, this doesn't sound reassuring you know. "unlikely" and "depends on the specifics". That's kind of the problem. No one knows what is covered and what is not. Billing in the US is this labyrinthine thing where hospitals, doctors, and insurance all seem to be making it up as they go along in conjunction with whatever they feel are the laws and whatever they feel like they can get away with. Leaving it up to the patient to appeal after appeal after appeal on a flood of bills they will receive, depending on their operation or service.

You can't even get a detailed bill out of some of these places. The doctors vanish and you're literally stuck talking to one of those robocalling bill collector agencies, which probably has a PO Box in fucking Alaska. It's shady as hell. All of it.
I just checked, no RMS donation.
So people contributing to western business culture don't act exactly like Mark Zuckerberg? There's a lot of this stuff in "the west" too.
Install Firefox focus, go to Safari settings, add Firefox focus as Content Blocker and Firefox ( Not Focus, the real one) will show no ads anymore. Works, because Firefox on iOS is mandated to use the Safari engine
The election is required in our laws: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/159

Why it came to be that? I speculate that both existing unions and non-unionized businesses preferred the election accompanying single representative system, since it entrenches both. It preserves the status quo mostly, and gives power to existing unions that can run expensive election campaigns over a simple group of workers bargaining.
By the time you're in a position to buy 100M of anything, the way you extract and calculate value fundamentally changes. Spotify is a public company with a market cap of ~$50 billion so even a 1% movement in stock price can mean hundreds of millions of dollars of extra capital through stock sales or credit lines and easier recruiting. It can mean meeting contractual obligations on existing credit lines or stock heavy acquisitions that make or break other, more important deals. It can mean that one big media story they need every quarter to maintain brand awareness and maintain an intangible mote or keeping a well respected exec around longer by scratching their ego, delaying the possible depression in the stock price when they leave. Hell, their original content department might be really good at their job and so they had to fill a 100M hole in their budget so their budget grows instead of shrinks the year after.

Usually though, it means empire building and millions in bonuses for executives who won't be held accountable for the long term effects of the move.
Macaque plays MindPong with Neuralink implant
> would pay for a no-bullshit internet

The money is in selling you ads, on a revolving basis. Not in you ponying up a subscription fee to not see those ads.

If it's not the ads, it's the usual FBI or whatever government surveillance program tracking you.

You are right on the solution however. Some ads and tracking are so pervasive (e.g smart TVs) that the only truly effective way to mitigate against them is to cut down on or eliminate your exposure to these devices.
Again, depends what for. If someone told me laughter was genuinely therapeutic for clinical depression, I… ok, I would still be surprised, but I could be convinced.

If they told me it would cure Alzheimer’s, I’d make a mental note to ignore their opinions in future.

“Alternative medicine” is so often snake oil, that anything calling itself that is something I hold in the same regard as Star Trek Voyager’s plot devices. Indeed, one such “alternative medicine” is what my mother used religiously to stave off old age memory problems — she got Alzheimer’s about 16 years younger than her mother, who didn’t use them.
Whom does Spotify try to aquisice here?

Their users? Their content creators? Or rather their staff?

All 3 groups could be possible reasons. But given how little median content creators matter to the organization, users and staff are more likely.

But if it were the users, then why buy Joe Rogan's users at all? Especially at a record braking price?

This makes me believe it's more likely staff.

If that is the case one has to wonder: is this generally the sad mental state of tech workers? Or is it rather a few employees who, emboldened by cancel-culture, will toss their political agenda around the office while other employees, intimidated by cancel-culture, shy away from calling out the obvious BS?
I don’t use Spotify and frankly >= 80% of the content on Spotify is for morons. In any case I do respect your commitment to freedom of speech and liberalism.
That may be true, but we're also witnessing one of those periods of consolidation of control right now. We could resign ourselves to history, or we could try to do something about it
And some people tell the truth. Just because some people do it, doesn't necessarily mean that its likely in this case.
Widowhood Effect
> I would bet that it is not the case that there is a single special statement with a fixed meaning which all consistent systems are incapable of proving.

A typical example -- now that I think about it, the only example I have seen -- is the statement "this statement cannot be proved".

Technically, it is not a single statement, because for different axiomatic systems A1, A2... you get different statements "this statement cannot be proved in A1", "this statement cannot be proved in A2" etc.

For any given axiomatic system A, if the system can prove "this statement cannot be proved in A", it contains a contradiction: it just proved something that is not true. But if the system cannot prove "this statement cannot be proved in A", we have an example of a statement that is true but unprovable (in A).

Gödel's trick was inventing a way how a statement can talk about itself. Like, if you say "it is forbidden for a statement to talk about itself", Gödel asks "but surely it is okay for a statement to talk about another statement that it can define unambiguously?" and then creates a statement that sounds like "the statement you get by unpacking the binary string 7461287618276312876873 is not provable in A", but when you actually unpack "7461287618276312876873", you get "the statement you get by unpacking the binary string 7461287618276312876873 is not provable in A" again. So it talks about itself without actually using the words "this statement".

What exactly this all means... I wish I would grok, but I don't. But I am pretty sure it means none of the usual "human brain has mystical magical quantum powers beyond mere computation".
What I found deeply troubling was that many healthcare workers who weren’t in on the “noble lie” jumped on the “masks don’t work” bandwagon. They mocked and belittled mask-wearers on social media. They turned into anti-masking fanatics. It was a frightening display of of zealousness from the semi-informed. They just as quickly became pro-mask and ignored their previous stance.
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Well Adobe products in reality interoperate very badly. It's very apparent Indesign, Illustrator, AE used to be made by different companies and they have different codebases.

For example if you want to import some vector shape from Illu to either Indesign or AE... its pretty complicated. Especially if you need to be able to make edits after the import (like animate the shape or change colors). Or if you want to copy text boxes? Forget it.

This is obvious when you compare it to Affinity suite where not only you can copy anything around but you can instantly switch from one app to other inside the apps. Switching is then more like "vector mode", "pixel mode" and "layout mode". It all works much better and faster.
An alternative hypothesis does not rule out the other possibilities, even if it provides a better explanation. What matters is what actually happened, not what provides the neatest explanation.
Actually a lot of virologists are also critical of GOF.

Just look at public health people, epidemiologists. Folks like Andrea Sant, Michael Osterholm, David Topham, etc.

These folks criticize GOF all the time, and are a big part of the group that helps write regulations to make Virology research safe.

But you know what these same virologists also don't believe? That SARS-COV-2 was cooked up in a lab.

That should tell you something.

Science is adversarial, and virology is no exception.

That's why when consensus exists about something, you should respect it. There is quite a large consensus about this one.
So I can't log my own keystrokes on Wayland? Anti feature.
Can I interest you in a slightly used Tumblr?
> These are executed as aws lambdas

These are executed. Lambda is just a brand name. We did this 15 years ago on hardware load balancers, proxy servers, cache servers etc
I would be so embarrassed to have to send that email. But clearly the person needs some education on open source software because otherwise they would have opened with something like "Sorry for the formality here but could you help me out and send this to me so we can use curl..."
Ah, I didn't know that. I always phone in, and only use the computer audio as a failover.
Needs more paragraphs. None of them talk about how their kids are doing in school.
The fact that you state that your article won a "best of r/science 2020" award is a bit like stating you came in first at the special olympics.
Why would he do that when Spotify gave him $100M and he isn't upset that they're doing this?
Strong agree on multi account containers. Keep in mind though if you disable them they drop all settings, unlike every other add-on ... ever. Bug is three years old but maybe we can push it over the top: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...
Latest Firefox really does a good job supporting MULTIPLE video frames.
- Something that I have yet to see on Chrome.
Given that Americans are generally warm and approachable, it is quite surprising just how hostile their border officials.
Humanlike AI: Can Computers Think?
What a fascinating story.

I think of success as having infinite patience for doing a few boring things repeatedly.

Some other parts are having a higher mission to embrace the grind;Some call this purpose.

Something else I have observed by studying other engineers is the theme of not depending on your technical skills alone. One needs to market/show their work to the right audience, own equity in businesses/business.

"As a technical person in your career, you must not rely on your technical brilliance or rest on your laurels. You must acquire some financial education. There is a tendency for technical people to think that they are the best; That they will always be on top; That will be always be creative; That their inventions won’t be usurped quickly by newer inventions. However, history says otherwise. Life was quite unpleasant to Tesla; He died alone and poor depending on handouts from former associates. A tragic end for one the most creative minds of the early twentieth century."

https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/dont-hinge-your-care...
We don’t know how much there is beyond the observable universe really.
Can you find it on Youtube?
Quite often what happens in these cases is that people get paralyzed looking at the list of open things, and rather than just digging in and doing something to chip away at the pile, there are meetings and discussions and noise which generates a lot of heat and sound and stress, but doesn't actually make any positive progress towards resolving the issues.

An meanwhile things keep getting thrown on the pile.
I think a lot of folks, myself included, see what you are pointing at and think, "That's not novel. That's the way media works, and has worked, for generations."

What makes Spotify different from, for example, radio stations deciding which music I should listen to in the 50s? Or TV stations deciding which shows I should see in the 80s?

Media companies have always cared and deliberately curated the ideologies they present -- whether that's a political ideology or a marketing one. (I know that a whole lot of the TV shows of my childhood were aimed at selling me toys, for instance.)
I've heard these called the German or Russian style integral sign. I don't know the actual history. I have seen this question [1] on the tex/latex stackexchange about making this integral sign.

I would expect a journal to not use a different font integral sign, however. Or rather, I would expect the "house style" to include font choices for integral signs as well. I'm not aware of any journal that uses this type of integral now, but I suppose I should also note that I mostly read papers from the arxiv now anyway.

[1]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/170028/integral-sign...
Death of Prince Philip – too much coverage on BBC TV
I just recently (few months ago) switched over to FF from Chrom(e|ium). What pushed me was Google, on short notice, revoking all Sync API keys from all Linux distros, and I'll be damned if I'm going to use software that's as important as my browser from a source like the AUR. The AUR is great mind you, and for a small number of things I accept the risks and burdens that come with using it (auditing the PKGBUILDs on updates etc), but for browser software I just won't on principle. I want that from my distro's packagers.

It's been fine so far. The biggest annoyance is that Firefox on iOS struggles a lot with form autofilling, and I don't think credit card autofill is allowed at all. You'd think this would be a minor annoyance (don't most sites save your payments methods?) but it's honestly been a big issue. So many sites are so broken on mobile that I actually can't create an account from mobile, and barely function well enough to get through the guest checkout flow.

Examples: Jersey Mike's (sub sandwich shop), and another local deli place that's too local for me to name without letting everyone know I live in a cornfield.
Look on the bright side: people are talking about (and thinking about) topics they might not normally be exposed to. The blame for lack of critical thought skills might fall more upon our parents and educators than Joe Rogan.
"2021, when most laptops have at least 16-32 gigs of memory"

Oh man, I'd love to live in the wonderland where you posted this comment from.
Yes, Firefox is pretty much unbeatable in performance per tab. I just installed the tab counter addon and it reports that I currently have >1500 tabs open in Firefox. I know from experience that if I run just a tenth of that in Chromium the whole system will basically lock up. And as pretty much every other more conventional browser is based on Chromium nowadays there's no alternative really unless I get a RAM upgrade.
How did they change your mind?
Pico-8 is a lot of fun, I made a ray-casting FPS thing in there a few years ago.

That said, Pico-8 is (purposefully) limited pretty substantially. You can only have like 32kb of RAM, you are really limited in your sprite size, and I think the built-in editor is kind of annoying.

Flash was fun because it was super easy to get into, but it kind of felt like a "big kid" programming environment. While I know the performance wasn't great, outside of that I never felt limited by Flash.
If someone won't tell you where the money comes from, it's a scam.

If someone is happy to talk for hours about their low latency machine learning AI block chain black swan delta hedged arbitrage manifold engine people throw money at them.
As long as you can fit it in your 1MB zip file, for viewer-request events.

For origin-requests you get 50MB. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
This is clearly theater

Worse, it's probably actively harmful. If people are going to get hassled for not wearing a mask outside, then they're more likely to substitute indoor activities which are much more dangerous whether masked or not.

My town "requires" masks at all times outdoors, but I haven't seen any enforcement. (While I have seen police officers talking to each other without masks). An increasing number of people will take them off when not around anyone, and half-heartedly reapply them when passing within 10 feet of others.
Premium podcasts already exist in the wild, but there's no way in hell Apple could just shut down a market as big as free podcasts. The next player to arise will be Google who is going to press their products for programmatic advertising.
The culinary replacement (mostly) is asafoetida, which is not something I would think of as perfume.

My personal description is "somewhere between sulpher, skunk and death." It's not really that bad, but it is pungent and will not leave your nose.
What vital work they do
My comment was flagged because people on hackernews doesn't know what is the definition of a JIT'd language?

Or because i am spot on and some people got offended?
Yes, people have a limited amount of focus so it's very important to focus on the right things.

Unnecessary cleaning guidelines really do cause problems. I've seen a huge spike in public-facing device RMAs due to cleaning with improper chemicals. General human exposure is likely up significantly as well.

We would all be better off if we focused on airflow and proper air purification.