skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument sounds a lot like "all you have to do is wipe the slate clean and start life over with a new identity in a foreign country with a new name and no social support".

Is that really what a person should be forced to do in this circumstance?
So in other words, playing a game to stop being bored will make you play the game for longer because it will stop your boredom...
The Great Disparity In Income surely has nothing to do with it. If the boss is making absurd multipliers of your income and barely paying you enough to get by, the last thing you wanna do is get your work done as fast as possible. Pad those hours, give yourself the raise the boss never will. Take stuff from work.
> no other browser has containers

I’m pretty sure Brave profiles are the equivalent or at least an analogue.
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Is burning the waste to CO2 worse than the methane from decay in a landfill?
The opening paragraphs are very frustrating for a software developer to read, because it assumes a very technologically ignorant perspective that might beg similar questions like "What IS a website" and having the asker be annoyed by having you describe the features of a website. At the end of the day, it is a series of electrical on and off switches stored in one or several computers.

Is the value of websites indistinguishable from a bunch of batteries just because its form can't be meaningfully distinguished from a battery to a drunk 12th century techno illiterate in a tavern?

To explain what a bitcoin actually is to people utterly ignorant and skeptical of how information stored on hardware works sounds like an exercise that can be left to the writer, they may have to spend the rest or their lives explaining every bit of tech to every layman.

What is a book after all? Dead trees stained with ink? What intrinsic value does that hold? If someone were to ask stubbornly the value of any book, I'd be similarly disinclined to spend the time explaining that as well.

Like with TVs and cell phones and plumbing, lay people will stop asking or caring about "What is bitcoin" once you can give a functional answer of "You can buy a house with it". Explaining what it actually is to people that obtuse will not get one any closer to that point anyway, so I'm not sure what the value is.

The cycle for the next wave of technology whose final purpose and form baffles the general public will continue on and on, this is just a season we're in, like all the ones before.
It may also not exclusively be anticompetitive behavior from Chrome, but just Mozilla's stewardship of Firefox. They constantly manage to generate shitstorms around updates (how does this never happen with Chrome?) and then the plain disregard/making fun of user feedback [1] is just a kick in the teeth. For me at least, that's in large part why I moved to Chrome.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200731211652/https://twitter.c...
It's bizarre but if you see the content they are watching and are fed it begins to make sense. They're never exposed to these places so they never have an opportunity to think for themselves.

Often times when I've gone to more rural/southern areas it's amazing how kind the people are - I think on both sides people just forget that there are just regular folk everywhere. The politics attempts to dehumanize.
I mostly agree with you.

However, it may not (always) be that simple. The media here in France reports that some industries, in particular restaurants, are having a hard time finding employees, with not enough people applying and even employees who were there before Covid hit leaving.

I don't know how actually true this is, but when they (the media) ask people why they won't go back, the main reason doesn't seem to be a preference for sitting on ass, but rather a realization that given the wages, those jobs were a terrible proposition. They claim instead to be looking at how they can improve their situation, like looking for work in other industries, going back to school, etc. Which I think is a good thing. How many random empty bars does a country really need?

Now maybe I'm being too optimistic, but I hope that that's true and that this will at least increase wages for those jobs.

But I can't help but think that all this soul-searching is helped by government aid and that, sooner or later, when that runs out, the people will have to get back to those jobs and then, whatever rise there might have been, will be swept away.
It makes no difference to the atmosphere whether you're burning oil or plastics made out of oil. It's better to not burn oil at all!
In my experience, Firefox uses a lot more memory on Windows than on Linux. It feels faster on Linux, too.
The reasons might rather complex, though.
One thing I’m always curious about is why we are so concerned with plastic waste.

My local grocery store recently switched to paper bags. So I got curious. Turns out you have to re-use a paper bag 43 times for the energy use to be the same as plastic grocery bags. This is impossible since they are made of paper. Aluminum and glass bottles require several hundred times more energy to produce as well (between 170-250x).

Then when you look at plastic pollution and see that for the most part North America is quite good at properly disposing of plastic you wonder why we are so obsessed with this as a problem.

Plastic waste really isn’t a big problem unless you’re talking about developing nations. North America is responsible for about 3% of mismanaged plastic waste. Asia and Africa account for 86% of it.

Don’t get me started on plastic straws. They make up 0.03% of plastic waste in the ocean.

If we want to make a difference here we should be helping developing nations to better manage their plastic waste so that it doesn’t end up in waterways.

The Yangtze and Ganges are releasing plastic into the ocean at a rate far greater than all of North America combined, and our response is to expend huge amounts of energy produced by fossil fuels trying to recycle our plastic instead of burying it in a landfill where it is unlikely to pose a major ecological threat.

Like many environmental initiatives I worry that we’re more concerned about making ourselves feel better than actually solving the problem.
I left Shopify late last year, so I don't know what the current internal stance is, nor do I speak for the company in any capacity.

But before I left, the strategy was to begin making inroads into typedness by attacking the most important places first (which in our case was often the inter-component abstraction boundaries). Teams were encouraged to add Sorbet annotations to their intra-component code where appropriate but it was not a blanket requirement.

Regarding JIT/CRuby/Sorbet compiler -- I don't think it's either/or. A company of Shopify's size can afford to fund work on multiple projects with overlapping goals.
Obviously, a private company can do what they want and they shouldn't be forced to make their code run on other platforms.
Oh come on. "Power users" are both negligible in market share _and_ do not contribute to spreading the software around. Nobody in your family is going to use Firefox because you tell them "Look, I can customise my UI to arrange my windows in the form of a poop emoji when my custom sideloaded extension detects I'm on a Google owned website". "Power users" however are very good at yelling loudly when their never-used-by-anyone-except-them feature is removed, because they're such power users they opt out of usage tracking and never contribute to anything except maybe a bug report sometimes.
It's always Chinese scientists lately. Things don't look so well for the West, honestly.
There's nothing simple about HTTP. It looks like it should be simple, but it isn't.
Taking the handouts is the most rational thing to do. Why would you expect people to do otherwise? Relying on unspoken normative rules is maybe possible in a society with well defined and perpetuated values, but in our current society, utility far outweighs values in decision making.
UX. Mozilla is being outpaced by all competitors here, especially on mobile.
This website is broken, not just the emoji
English has never been standardised because England didn't suffered an invasion (post 1066) or had a strong central authority the way other countries have had.

English isn't a "real" language. English started as old German (Angols and Saxons brought it over). Then the Norman invasion added a bunch of French words. And the grammar got massively simplified. Both these factors are to suit the invaders for instance cow is from the German Kuh, because peasants keep the cows. But Beef is from the French Boeuf because aristocrats eat the cows so they use the French word.

Over time we have added some Latin and Greek and basically any other language we could "borrow without asking" from.

The result is that every rule is at best a guideline. That the same sound is spelt differently in different words. And that different sounds and spelt the same in other words.

I'm a native English speaker and it must be a nightmare for anyone learning it. I speak ok German but I can spell most words in German effortlessly because German spelling makes sense. Because it was nice ver such a mess and it's regularly standardised.
So bookmarks but less organized and more risk of losing them all at any given moment. Suddenly I don't feel so bad about discovering the ":D" easter egg in mobile chrome.
So what's the damage for AMZN if it were split? The shareholders are going to be massively rewarded by that (including Bezos).
Anyone else click on this thinking it was John C? Heart almost stopped there for a moment.
They make $450 million a year. A premium Firefox would barely move the needle. Revenue is not the issue, but how it's allocated.
I’ve always been curious about how delineating “queens English” affected other dialects of English
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With most languages the spelling gives you enough information to figure out how to pronounce a word you've never heard before. Not with english. My last wrong guess: the writer Malcolm Lowry (/lauri/ instead of /louri/).
Danish, same problem.
Plastics don't decay into methane in significant quantities.
And, you know, gun culture. And a laissez-faire attitude towards other people death in general. I would expect someone to say that people have to take responsibility for their own lead intake, and "people make choices".
The "list" is self-organizing. When nobody listens to a purveyor of a poor theory, the proponent casts an ever-wider net.

Eventually, they have the bright idea to scrape the web pages of physics departments for emails. At least in my case, they started sending email within a few months of starting grad school.

The truly ambitious can decide to simply show up at the lab/building. A common refrain is, "here is my theory, tell me why it is wrong". No amount of countervailing evidence will be sufficient, usually because such a person will have critical misunderstandings of a fundamental concept or three and an intuitive sense that they are correct.

Don't invite them into your office and attempt to help them resolve said misunderstandings in a youthful desire to save them from wasting their time; they might not leave. Do, however, give them the references they might need in order to see the light.
Ok, I tried your benchmark in Tesseract 4.0.0-beta.1 in Ubuntu 18.04, and it gave me:

> EARTHQUAKE HOUSE

> ‘his building was erected around 1874 to provide a location for a seismometer of the British
Association. A seismometer is an instrument which is designed to record earthquarkes and the
‘one located in this building was only one of a series of such instruments located in the vicinity
‘earthquakes which had been, and continue to be, prevalent in the area.

> of Comrie to investigate

Clearly, Tesseract 4.0 has problems following the baseline of the text. But otherwise, it is much better than the output from the website and even got the title correct. Which makes me think they use an older version (?)

My commandline:

tesseract 1587043_dcd093c4.jpg output -l eng
It works well at keeping the populace from armed resistance to an authoritarian government.
DAO-Governed Coworking Space
Starting an ambitious experiment to create a digital-first global network of coworking/social spaces governed by a DAO. Simple premise is to get a critical mass of 100+ active members for each city and then create a physical coworking space for each respective city chapter (ie build_miami, build_austin, etc.)
>But if Firefox was genuinely better it could win via word of mouth

You reach one person every 5 days with your word of mouth. Google has a billion searches all advertising "a better browser" right in your face if you dare use anything else but Chrome.

>people having it on their work computers (because their IT mandates it) and wanting the same great browser at home.

When have you ever said "damn, IT actually installed great software, I sure want the same at home"? In real life, IT installs Internet Explorer 6 because that one ISO standard they paid a lot for to have mandates using it for their super special test website, and have an 11 year old pirated version of Acrobat Reader.
A counterpoint from France: media did report that for the first time in a very long time, home prices did slightly drop in Paris proper, while suburbs and "smaller cities" have seen a bigger rise than usual.

This means there must be more than just a handful of people leaving.

However, I do agree with GP's point about companies ending the WFH arrangements, especially given France's work culture. But then again, I've always found people around here to have a tendency of thinking fairly short-term.
Education, Global Justice and Global Democracy
This article fits perfectly with something Orwell wrote, about how the use of complex language gives bad ideas an heir of authority.

The example of the chair, where the author asserts that “functional definitions are wrong, only ‘structural’ definitions are correct” is a good test here. The author objects to the idea that “anything you sit on can be a chair” and then provides a definition of chair which does not include:
- folding chairs
- metal chairs
- plastic chairs
- any chair much bigger or smaller than a person (such as dollhouse furniture or some novelty item).

Does that make any sense? The moment you try to fix the problem with the author’s definition , you should come to the conclusion that functional definitions correspond more reliably to what people mean.

For example, how would this author define “food”?

Look at the extremely convoluted definition of money the author proposes:

> what is money?”, I would begin like this:

A vast network structure, at the centre of which lies three sets of issuers issuing out three chained layers of legal IOUs – in physical and digital form – which will later return to the issuers to be destroyed, but which in the interim entrench themselves as economic network access tokens that circulate around an interdependent web of people who cannot mobilise each other’s labour without them. These tokens are activated in the context of legal systems set within political systems set within social systems set within ecological systems, and this mesh structure underpins modern capitalism and is etched into the very fabric of our being.

If this is the definition of money, then it suggests people never used money at all until computers existed. Absurd.

This is someone trying to sell an idea (MMT) and claiming that it’s the result of “more rigorous thinking”.
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What’s your product/SaaS?
I switched to Opera because Firefox forces invasive updates that require a forced restart. For someone who likes to keep a web browser running for a long time and put their laptop to sleep rather than shutdown, that is not acceptable.

I use Linux so I could get around that by excluding the package from updates but I don't want to run an outdated web browser that might have security vulnerabilities.

I raised this a few times on their Reddit page, but it became so disturbing to my workflow that I just had to stop using it. Chrome is not a sane alternative, so I resorted to Opera. Good old Opera.
I remember when I first started my previous job in 2017, I opted for a MacBook Pro with a Dell D3100 docking station. When 10.13.4 dropped, I lost the ability to use some of my monitors. In the future, I won't buy from Apple simply because I'm not willing to replace all of my computer components for ones that are compatible with a walled garden.

https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/11880...
https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/18493...
I was thinking these days, that when I was a kid some 20 years ago, people were all the rage against paper, because you had to cut trees and whatnot, everything was switching to plastic so you could "save the trees"

I still wonder what that was about, all it did was screw the paper companies that had their own private forests, and cause the stupid plastic patch on the pacific ocean, and now everyone has to switch BACK to paper.
The oldest being 6, they don't have much agency. Are you trying hard to not understand?
What self-hosted option did you pick just out of curiosity? Looking to do the same thing.
As much as I dislike Chinas ruling party, their government is a model of efficiency when compared to the USA and it mostly gets out of peoples way. Contrast that with US government where taxes, vehicle registration, and judicial process is perhaps decades behind despite having more resources. There is something about complacency common to all democracies that never up well. The old refrain "at least Mussolini made the trains run on time" applies just as much today.
Not necessarily. In countries like Japan and Sweden, they claim that their waste to energy (trash burning) operations reduce greenhouse gases when all factors are considered. So much so that Sweden imports trash to burn. Landfills arent the best place either. For example, organic waste decomposing in landfills produces methane gas, which is way more potent than carbon dioxide. There is an argument to be made that burning organic waste is better than burying it.

Trash incinerations are too controversial in the US to expand much. I think because of a ill-informed public.
> By the way I think the term "flyover state" is probably a bit offensive to folks that happen to live outside of coastal cities.

It's not. It is, however, a certain way to get us to ignore anything you have to say.
Gross profit is profit before paying their employees, so saying they have a gross profit percentage of X is certainly not dispositive (and is close to meaningless) in terms of supporting whether they could pay their employees more than currently.

You need to look at an operating income figure to make such a conclusion. (Or another financial measure that’s “after” labor, but OI is probably the standard one.)
OTOH, if the person has bitcoin and dies it is considered a donation to other users.
> consider whether the reliance on comprehensive digital modelling might be in any way to blame for the delays?

Maybe. 3D models have been used to design and plan projects for over 20 years now (I've been in the industry in Aus for >15 years), and so the bulk of the models are not at fault here (because if these design models were the delay, the construction would also be delayed, but the article suggests it wasn't). But when you want to go to the next level (digital twin), and start modelling every individual light-bulb, tracking it and making it function as part of a "smart system", then things will take a lot longer.

But actually, the article says;

> Despite the huge amount of construction work that has already been completed, many aspects of Crossrail do not yet have an agreed-upon final design. That’s because the complexity and uncertainty involved in building large underground structures means that detailed “fit out” designs are begun only after it’s fairly clear how the space will look.

This boggles my mind. I don't see how it couldn't all be completed at the start. The physical design should have a few flexibilities baked in, so that if the tunnel ends up a meter out of place, or the rail centerline is 200mm off target, the design should be able to absorb it with minimal re-work.

But regardless of the physical layout, they could have mocked up a model beforehand that contains all the necessary "virtual" components. They would have known what rooms/etc were required, roughly how many entities were needed per space (eg, 4 chairs, 1 table, all with data tags). Then when you have a better idea on the physical layout, you can arrange the virtual components properly.

So yes it's possible that trying to be too fancy was a major factor in the delays. I haven't worked in a professional software engineering environment, but I get the impression that at a high-level, construction engineering has similar traps and pitfalls. Just like when coding, engineers/modellers do come across problems with their initial design, and then have to face the choice of implementing significant work-arounds, or "refactor" to something different.
>If two - three other Norwegians do the same that should start to look like an earthquake ;-)

That 5 people wrote to them?
Running the following code in the browser console gets rid of the emojis:

for(const p of document.querySelectorAll('p')) {
p.textContent = p.textContent.replace(/([\uE000-\uF8FF]|\uD83C[\uDF00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDDFF])/g, '')
}

Credits: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10999907
That would defeat the whole point of the post!

But microhttpd is fine is you want a minimal server; its way of handling POST bodies is weird though.
You can remove tombstones in a cleanup pass if you constrain behavior a bit.

For instance, if there’s just a single server, after 5 minutes of no active connections you could clean out tombstones. After that, if a client connects with some changes they had been holding onto but got DCed, you can reject the write and let the user’s client merge by some other means (perhaps even manual).
That is the thing that made me jump ship. The UI changes and Pocket and promoted favorites were a nuisance, but minor. But add-in’s? The web is just broken without ad blocking.
Project timelines and budgets for projects of that size have never been predictable. Look at software development, the industry has largely moved away from trying to predict large projects and now just builds the smallest increments possible. Building infrastructure in a city with 100,000 unknowns underground is far worse.

Seattle had the same hand wringing around our newish rail line back in the early 2000s, now no one even knows it was late.

Also - Now that Seattle is around 85% vaccinated, offices are re-opening and the trains are full again. London is being more conservative in their approach to reopening, but they are merely months behind.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, support for twitter lists is a planned feature.
When things don't work in Firefox I try Edge (Canary) and then Safari. Right now, Edge is about 10% of my web usage but it's growing.
> And it's already happening; nobody can stop it, no matter how many pearls you clutch.

Sure we can. It’s not an act of god. Nothing about technology is inevitable or emergent. If it happens, it will happen because people chose to make it so.

And there’s nothing binding us to that choice, even if it is “just a step further than what already exists”. We can choose something else.
Volatile organic waste yes, but most plastic waste doesn't decay into methane in significant quantities.
>Microsoft’s primary offense was illegally tying Internet Explorer and Windows. They refused to sell the two products separately, and instead required OEMs to buy the bundle.

Nope. That's what some people complained about, but it wasn't their legal issue (which is why today every OS vendor still does it).

The actual complaint, which is pasted below, shows it in much greater nuance, as it wasn't that they "required OEMs to buy the bundle" (in fact, there wasn't any buying, IE was free part of Windows).