skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is only a slightly more exaggerated version of what's going on in Canada:

>Cabinet would appoint a chief censor, called the Digital Safety Commissioner, to provide “advice on content moderation” and issue compliance orders on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other service providers under threat of $25 million fines.

>Censored content was not defined but anonymous complainants could trigger an investigation over websites deemed to “distort the free exchange of ideas by discrediting or silencing targeted voices” or “threaten national security, the rule of law and democratic institutions,” wrote staff.

>The Safety Commissioner would be empowered to block websites or “make the content inaccessible” in Canada.

Their justification for this? It might hurt the feelings of public officials:

>“We have seen too many examples of public officials retreating from public service due to the hateful online content targeted towards themselves or even their families,” said Guilbeault.

>“I have seen firsthand alongside other Canadians the damaging effects harmful content has on our families, our values and our institutions.”

>Guilbeault in January 29 testimony at the Commons heritage committee went further in suggesting prohibited content should include hurtful criticism of federal institutions.

>“Canada has a world-renowned public service and it’s integral that we don’t attack them,” he said.

It's an alarming attack on freedom of expression that obviously isn't unique to Canada. We may be in for some dark times as we rediscover why democracy cannot work without free speech.
There is a theory that the term 'conspiracy theory' and the stigma around it was invented by government agencies to discredit unsavoury leaked information and to discredit whistleblowers. This category allows information to be mixed in with obvious misinformation to taint the reputation of the whole category so that status-oriented people would be primed to distrust the entire category.

A similar approach can be used to discredit anything.
Chrome is not better because you witness some pages to render better in Chrome. It is actually the opposite: pages are more and more built for and with Chrome in mind.

And that omnipresence of Chrome allows Google to force their own moves as de facto standards, which is dangerous overall.

Firefox is better because it follows standards and it is open-source and it is not tied to a behemoth like Google.

The authors of pages you see perform better in Chrome are indeed not building for the web but rather building for Chrome.
FF has not done anything to push me away yet. I am open to change and not always happy with their decisions, but their product remains usable and favorable to me.
Air – Live reload when developing with Go
No you missed its point : even in Android, nobody it’s going to change browser if your site is broken. Users will just assume your site is broken. And to be fair, it’s the same thing on desktop browsers.

So, like it or not, even if iOS allowed other rendering engines on browsers, you would probably be stuck with supporting Safari anyway.
I have used Firefox for about a decade now and I can't think of a single page that did not work. I'm not saying it's impossible, but incredibly rare. I'd be more inclined to just give up on the site than install Chrome.
Not OP, but you'll run into issues with write throughout at some point, usually. Inverted indexes are nice, but writes are expensive.
They even push Chrome when you dare to use their services with another Chrome based browser that isn't theirs like Edge Chrome.
I love knobs (rotary encoders mostly). I wish they were in everything where you need to adjust some range like brightness, contrast, volume, color warmth.

For some time I really wanted a battery powered wireless rotary encoder that I can listen to in Home Assistant and hook it to whatever I want but I couldn’t find anything like that.
The government is, to a certain extend, chosen by the people.
If the market goes up, you’d still have that increase in value rented or not, but you wouldn’t have the recurring income if you don’t rent. You’re still forfeiting that by keeping it vacant.
But that harmony is not fitting to human nature, poisons innovation, thus weakens the harmony wisher, allowing for non-harmonious entitys to take over. It's a self defeating concept that serves as proof of work only the nostalgia for a medieval past.
This is a confusing take. Which states dropped the ball on Covid and let it run rampant? Which ones have handled it near-flawlessly?
By 'red-state equivalents' do you mean the ones with Liberal Premiers? If so that would seem like an inaccurate oversimplification.
You need to rely on the fact that I am able to maintain the security of my public accounts and that if one of my accounts was compromised I would have detected it and published a notice on another channel (twitter for example)
For English it states 90 GB uncompressed, doesn't say compressed size but that doesn't sound much larger than a large game. In the context I don't see it as a barrier.
This evidence is inadmissible in general public. You can't go on Twitter, say that the writing style of that and this person is 98% similar per the state of the art SGERT model and convince the public with that. It's also trivial to for a doxing target to dismiss this evidence as another flaky piece of software that's confusing writing styles. This kind of software is useful, but for more specialized purposes: forensics, intelligence.
Making it a crime to kill people with your car would be a start. If you're sober you can pretty much kill people with no fear of meaningful consequences.
I fear it will. I use it daily because it is the best at protecting my privacy, no other browser has containers, but it seems too few people care. At least as long as mobile Safari exist, Chrome isn't able to swallow everything and resistance is not yet futile.
To what use would you put mature-age beginner programmers?
I'm teaching a 10-week, 4-hour-per-week Python programming class at the moment, and the target audience is mature-age career changers. At the end of the course, there is a state-sponsored "apprenticeship" program where most (but not quite all) of the students' salaries will be paid for 6 months; after which the employer can choose to keep them on or not as they want.

If you were a potential employer, what would you hire them to do, and what skills would you want from them?

My thoughts so far:
- I think it's necessary for students to understand ticketing (e.g. Jira) and how to commit code to git, what branches are and so on. I can't imagine a job where this isn't a required job skill.
- An option: I can include Selenium in the course, so they could be employed in QA/test.
- Or, maybe I could teach them about the imortance of unit tests and the like; then they could be employed writing all those tests that you code-base doesn't have, but should have.
- Should I double down on (for example) Django?
- I won't have time to do a full machine learning course, but I could teach pandas and guide students towards data analytics roles in the sorts of organisations that do data analytics in Python (rather than Tableau or other BI tools).

What would help your job hiring pipeline?
Instead of reworking the UI they should have just added an ad blocker out of the box (preinstall uBlock Origin for example).

The main reason Brave is used and recommended is because a lot of people don't want to bother installing plugins. At least 90% of recommendations for that browser I've seen mention this as reason. Meanwhile most people either don't like the new Firefox UI or just don't care.

And I agree, FF Send was great. It was really convenient to transfer a big file in a pinch without having to setup some cloud sync app with registration etc.
This sounds awesome!

How does messaging work between processes? What sort of overhead is involved?
They've been chasing Google's tail for a while now. They keep making decisions that make little sense. Given the drop in user count I'd say those decisions aren't even paying off. Every time I update FF, I actively dread to see what they ruined this time.

Sadly, creating a new browser is impossible these days, unless you're sitting on a very considerably sized pile of cash. There's over a thousand W3C specs, and you'll need to implement most of them in order to have a functional browser.

It's maddening that the steward of the best browser codebase is doing such a shitty job. They fired a whole bunch of people last year, even though they seem to sitting on plenty of cash, they don't seem to give a crap about what their users actually want. But, sadly, there is no alternative, and there won't be.
"until they pancake someone" - even that's not enough, really.
The Mozilla corporation has to contend with a substantial portion of their community that thinks a $1,000 donation (an unrelated donation, no less) weighs similarly on the scales as something like 20 years in service vigorously supporting the open internet and a long history of technical success.

They're going to struggle to focus on their mission with friends like that.
Full Spectrum Dominance
There were no web apps when I started into computing.

Reverse engineering minified JavaScript isn't the only path to learning.
Next up: personalized HN/<insert forum here> outreach as a service.
probably banned in Thailand but a great background:

https://secretsiam.news/p/the-palace-and-the-pandemic
I’m guessing a huge percentage of the lost users switched to Brave since it had 25 million as of February and is affiliated with Brendan Eich.

https://brave.com/25m-mau/
I used to commute from Flatbush to Chelsea in NYC via bike. Other than tourists chilling in the bike lane, no problem. The rattiest cab and National Guard hummer deferred to my ratty little bike. Now in SoCal, I don’t even feel comfortable walking my kid in a stroller on the left side of the road without some shithead roaring round the corner honking at me cause god bless America roads exist for your Expedition.
I'm curious. I'm not "frontend", but I do write code that runs in the browser, and write parts of the visualization UI for our products. I do get to determine how we build our products. I've gone with vue/typescript, and that hasn't caused any problem so far. A part of our software has to be able to run everywhere, and that unfortunately still includes IE11, so there I do take care of using a minimal feature set, but I can't remember the last time Safari caused me a problem. What problems does Safari cause?
Do you really believe that? That there are millions, possibly tens of millions, of Americans who oppose entrance exams with the knowing and deliberate intention of harming an undeniably disadvantaged group?

There's an argument to be made that there's a vengeful element behind the movement, but the vengeance is targeted against a (largely fictionalized) class of privileged people. And of course the vengefulness has a self-serving, performative function for many who support the movement.

I suppose there also seems to be a strong anti-Asian undercurrent within the movement. Like most forms of contemporary racism the majority of people tend to be in denial about it, though I grant you the anti-Asian hostility is often so palpable that it's indistinguishable from historical expressions of racist sentiment. But in any event we're playing word games with the lede as it should be clear "hurting minorities" refers to Black and Latino communities.
I guess the AI caught COVID-19.
After reading the Elixir implementation of X-Plane MMO backend (which appeared here yesterday, 1), I came across this: https://github.com/lumen/lumen. It is an alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly. I am personally learning Rust and I find it interesting that there are multiple BEAM (Erlang runtime) inspired implementations in Rust gaining traction.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27998323
First line of the README "opne-source" :)
I dont worry. I have seen these cycles with IBM and Microsoft. And they all blow up eventually because the unintended consequences keep increasing.

So Google has got itself locked into that same trajectory for a long time now. "Features" are total bullshit. Its all about making sure every small thing is in the cloud or eventually gets pushed into it.

That vision is as dumb as moving the DNA in every cell in your body into a nearby lake and visiting the lake everytime you want to read 1 bit. With a Google toll booth at the lake entrance. Its doomed to fail.

Just look at the consequences. If you have a webpage on your local hard drive and want to use the browsers javascript to access it to make it look better, the Google Chrome team will come running like well programmed alert robots to call it a security violation and disable api access to your own disk.

This is how empires fall.
Let's see, off the top of my head...

Turn on red while the pedestrians get the signal to walk.

Drunk driving is very common.

Driver licensing requirements are extremely low (you have a pulse) and driver education is ridiculous compared to any other developed nation.

Road and intersection design is deadly wrong just about everywhere, traffic moving while people crossing, etc.

You could look at how other countries are improving this (look at Sweden) but let's be real - the US will never learn from other countries, that would obviously be a sign of some sort of weakness - redesigning roadways, nah, it's cheaper for people to die.
New Zealand is in exactly the same boat as Australia.

Being a conservative government has nothing to do with the slow Vax rollout. Over-reliance on AstraZeneca is to blame with no plan B.

NZ planned to use Australia’s AstraZeneca vaccines too, and has since dumped that plan altogether, has been scrapping together whatever Pfizer it can get and recently found a supply of the US’s unwanted J&J vaccines.
While visiting family at the beach in New Jersey this summer, I was glad to see bicycle lanes had been painted and were being maintained. Then came the first bike — going the wrong way. Keep in mind, these routes consist of parallel, block-separated one-way roads (one each for north and south), so there's only one way for bikes to go on either road. This is a problem because, typically, drivers only look in one direction when turning onto said one-way roads. Often, they'll briefly check the other way for pedestrians, but bikes may come up fast.

Anecdotally, I've noticed an uptick in bikes in the area, and I've witnessed many drivers (including myself) get into close calls. While the other comments about urban planning and properly designing "bike friendly" streets are correct, bikers must share some responsibility and avoid making bad decisions.

Also, on the topic of pedestrians: there are unfortunately many people who hold a "car first" mentality, and simply won't stop for walkers. Fatalities among pedestrians and bicyclists in the US have a significant cultural component that mustn't be overlooked. Perhaps better pedestrian infrastructure would encourage better behavior.
The Cloudflare Startup Enterprise Plan: helping new startups bootstrap
Sounds more like bouncing ideas off others before having fully thought them through. That’s not trolling in my opinion.
WebAssmebly is not web specific. And it's not assembly.

I think the best way to think of it is that "WebAssembly" is a great marketing name, but what it does is be a modern-day JVM: a byte code language that can run anywhere.
Lumen: Alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly
ML today is what a website backed by a database was in the mid-nineties. This kind of CRUD website is considered boring today, but making one used to be taught in an MIT course (https://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/one-term-web)

There will soon be ML frameworks that are as easy to get started with as a basic web app, and most people will be using one of them.
Actually I am here for the brilliant community, comments and the content. Not even 1% of me cares about startups.
Drawing to Reality
NotJustBikes did a great video on how safe streets are amazing for a child's freedom. Sadly I know of no location in the US I'd let my child cycle to school.

https://youtu.be/ul_xzyCDT98
I have a old Gmail account from years ago I don't use as my main account anymore. It's amazing how much spam messages it gets. I swear my main account with Fastmail receives a tiny fraction of the spam despite the address for that account being available in plain text in mailing list archives and the like.
On those days Apple market share was still of a company struggling to get out of insolvency, and they never had any significant market share outside North America during the last century.

Yes, on the server it would have been differently, however Linux distributions might have still killed the other UNIX vendors with their CPUs alongside, as it happened.
I can’t say for sure what the problem is in your case, but it’s definitely not a problem in Lunar.

All the app does is call a macOS function called IOAVServiceWriteI2C to send a standard DDC message to the monitor (something like “set brightness to 30”)

In your case, either the dongle or the monitor reacts unexpectedly to that message. What should happen is that the dongle should simply forward that message as it is to the monitor and the monitor should have firmware logic to interpret it correctly and either set the brightness to the sent value, or not do anything.

That’s why Apple will never implement native brightness changing using DDC.

They can’t risk having users come with problems like this one in the press, because the monitor or hub/dock does something funny with the DDC message and crashes.

Lunar can also function in software mode using gamma by following the instructions here: https://lunar.fyi/faq#bad-ddc

That mode will never crash a monitor because it doesn’t send any data to it.
I think cell phones usage are causing distracted drivers. Ie the brain has harder to focus.
For what it's worth I was with you up until your last sentence - I found the tone unnecessarily condescending.

We don't need people to admit they were wrong - we need people to keep an open mind and understand that top researchers and institutions in the world are finding evidence that mRNA vaccines in their current form may be subtly working against us in complex ways [1]. I'm talking about second and third order evolutionary dynamics that are not explainable in terms of simple rhetoric.

To support my statements, see these relevant peer-reviewed publications:

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (April 2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[2] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not? (2017)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[3] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (2015)
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...

[4] The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests (2015)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

[5] The phylogenomics of evolving virus virulence (2018)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-018-0055-5

[6] Monitor for COVID-19 vaccine resistance evolution during clinical trials (Nov 2020)
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
In Australia, the recently listed company https://hipagesgroup.com.au/ is a homeowner-contractor 2 sided marketplace business. Home owners offer work, tradies* bid for that work. Seems a similar business already validated Down Under.

* "Tradie" is Australian slang for someone who's gone to trade school and is now qualified as a plumber, carpenter, electrician, etc.
It’s still one of the most inefficient and expensive ways to store energy.

Just look at the price per kWh storage and the energy density compared to other technologies.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
I'm sort of used to it by now, but I also don't see it as a real reason to stop using Firefox. Chrome also changes. So how big of a factor would UI changes be in this user loss? I'm suspecting there are more trivial and indirect causes too, such as people changing machines: Firefox isn't pre-installed, and then they just pick whatever that also works.
I used to and it was nice, even got some business referrals, but then I had someone get mad at me on here and try to come after my business. The lesson of the 40 years of the web is that we can't have nice things because the 1% that are assholes ruin it for everybody.
> Sure, lots of languages are like Erlang. Actors and CSP are pretty fundamental patterns.

Actors do not an Erlang make. What makes an Erlang:

- Isolation. A crash in an actor cannot bring down other actors. Cannot bring down the runtime

In Go `panic` crashes the program. In Erlang "panic" crashes an actor, and... that's it.

- Monitoring. The above makes an important property of the system: a process can be monitored, and when it dies you can be guaranteed to receive a message that it died, and why

This lets you build things like supervision trees that are impossible/hard/ineffecient(chose two) in other languages.

- Everything in the VM is aware of processes, concurrency and parallelism

Every process gets its fair share of time: each process gets X "reductions". A reduction is a function call, or a message pass. Each function call or message pass reduces the counter. Once it reaches zero, the process is put on hold, and the next process is run.

This means that almost everything in the system, including the VM itself is re-entrant. Even Erlang's regexp implementation is re-entrant. You never even have to think about "wait, if I call this function, and the process is put on hold, what happens". The process will be re-awakened and continued.

----

The first two are what makes Erlang special. The rest is gravy, and there is quite a lot of it on top.
Then your question about “bystanders” is irrelevant to the topic at hand. The article claims people were selected to be killed on very flimsy evidence, yet always classified as enemies killed in action. These are not “bystanders.”

You will now perhaps attempt to argue that this does not constitute “intentional” killing of innocents, which has a similar problem with relevance. Indiscriminate killing is highly immoral.
Smallpox vaccination is mandatory at least in a few European countries I lived in.

In fact, national vaccination programs mandate vaccines for about a dozen diseases starting right from birth.

These national vaccination programs are also pretty clear in stating that the goal of these vaccines is to either make people immune or mitigate the impact of an infection.
So,70 years later, project ORCON in reverse? Sweet.
How is your vacuuming done automatically? You mean with a Roomba robot?

Have you found those working? All my friends that have one just end up storing them somewhere never to be used again.
Websites can be translated automatically using:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
> That's what they're supposed to do, though, according to Tesla[1]. The firefighters are there to pour water on the fire to cool it down and wait for the battery to burn and release its energy. This is what Tesla's manuals[1] say:

No that's not what they say. They say to keep it cool to prevent it from burning. You're misinterpreting those instructions.
It's still worse than any human should put up with
It's corrupt, maybe sometimes regionalist (which I'm not sure I agree with) but not racist. Like someone is not treated differently because his skin is dark for example. They are generally not polite with anybody regardless of their "race".
Good to know. Just to be clear, I was not endorsing the article. As mentioned, I have doubts about using a graph structure of pointers for related reasons, most of all because I think handling relational paths will amount to more overhead than any ECS structure.

Nevertheless, I wanted to highlight that the quoted article clearly states that the proposal is not an ECS and is in fact superior to it.