skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This piece highlights the underlying problem, about which the specifics are just symptoms: the attitudes of Mozilla people.

They have been outright dismissive, almost hostile - they think they know what's right, they think they "know better", they may even really believe they're doing pro-"privacy" stuff - but in the end, they're wearing blinders.

For example, there's no reason in the world to change things in a way that's actively hostile to those who don't want those changes, yet version after version requires non-trivial amounts of work to figure out how to simply not change.

Then they do things like aggregating all DNS for people in the US to one monopolistic company WITHOUT ASKING, because, they say, people don't know what's good for them. They only relented after lots of negative publicity, not after sitting and considering that not everyone trusts Cloudflare just because they say they're not evil.

So it's the attitude that comes from design-by-fiat that has turned me off completely, and I see no evidence that anything is changing in any way that's good. To the contrary - I see more examples of making decisions without the slightest concern for technical discussion.

I fear that declining market share will only strengthen their resolve to force things on their user base.
Re: Indian Point - containment buildings are pretty armoured by design. The Indian point containment vessel walls are several feet of high-grade steel reinforced concrete. You might be thinking of the skinny, low quality rebar used in common construction at this point - this isn’t that, the rebar here is 2.25 inches thick, made of good-quality steel, and spaced every fifteen inches or so. The containment building is also smaller than a 747, so you can’t transfer the entire plane’s energy to it like you could with a larger target like the towers.

The Indian Point engineers assert that theirs reactors and all other structures contains radioactive material could survive a 9/11 style impact.

http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20130108221220/http://www.nei....
So I suppose we should bring back prohibition as alcohol has killed more and is clear drag on public health. Maybe we should also extend this to everything, like drownings, stopping pedestrian traffic and so on...
Also using Firefox for years as my main browser. Can't complain. Never really considered switching, since there is no real alternative for me in today's browser market (especially in terms of privacy).
The statement about voting rights is particularly rich, given that the ACLU just won a lawsuit in Seattle to remove Charter Amendment 29 from the ballot for this fall's election. https://www.aclu-wa.org/news/transit-riders-union-seattlekin...

Charter Amendment 29 is (was?) a popular measure concerning homelessness that polls at around 60% in Seattle, with only 20% opposed. The ACLU sued to remove it from the ballot on legal technicalities: they say that it conflicts with state law. The core thrust of their legal arguments had no civil liberties basis to them. But in their filing they stated their core opposition to the bill in this way:

> While Plaintiffs agree with some of CA 29’s purported goals, these goals cannot be advanced by the local initiative process. Electioneering and soundbites are neither an appropriate nor a legal method for addressing a complex and evolving regional crisis. Moreover, allowing homelessness policy to be established by local initiative would open a floodgate to local initiative and referenda on homelessness, which could be used to further criminalize homelessness or derail action to address affordable housing and homelessness. (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21040873-20210811-1-...)

The ACLU sued to prevent the people from voting on a popular initiative to address the homeless crisis, because in their opinion the people might fall prey to "electioneering and soundbites" and vote for the wrong thing.

The lead council for the ACLU on this lawsuit, Knoll Lowney, uses local initiatives extensively in his own progressive advocacy. "Knoll has extensive experience in initiative law, and has authored dozens of statewide and local initiatives for the progressive community." https://www.smithandlowney.com/our-team

In a previous lawsuit where Lowney was in the opposite position -- defending a local initiative to keep it on the ballot -- he argued that "All doubts should be resolved in favor of letting the people vote”, and “any challenges the [opponent] wants to raise will be fully preserved for post-election review”. (Those quotes are found in this filing): https://sccinsight.com/2021/08/31/compassion-seattle-changes...

But that principle flipped this time, when he argued that the citizens of Seattle cannot be allowed to vote on a measure to address one of the region's most urgent crises.

So I don't find it particularly convincing when the ACLU claims they will stand up for voting rights. They will fight against your right to vote on measures they do not agree with.
England will be first country to require new homes to include EV chargers
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This is my experience as well. I use both Chrome and Firefox across Mac and Windows, and I find the experiences to be pretty much interchangeable. I'm usually someone who gets annoyed at minor differences, but this really is one area where I'm not bothered at all.

I use Firefox most of the time, out of a desire to support Mozilla and promote a non-Google browser. Admittedly, this is a political motivation, but it comes at pretty much zero practical cost. If you are interested in trying out Firefox, I think the only significant inconvenience is disabling Pocket.

Like the parent, I'll occasionally switch to Chrome for separate profiles, or if I need something specific in DevTools. Chrome has much better multi-profile support, in the sense that it has it at all, but again, the differences between the two are so minor that I don't have any qualms switching back and forth.
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C was also designed for single-pass compilation. Among many other things that people now dislike about C, this is why C requires forward declarations.

C compilers became slow because of the optimizations they accreted. Plus, I imagine it just wasn't a priority for the vendors in the way it was for Borland Pascal. I'm curious how the Borland C compiler compared in speed to their Pascal compiler and to other C compilers.
After trying to install and debug countless wifi/gpu drivers on debian distros during my university years, I jumped to the same boat as you and just continued using Windows. I pretty much gave up on linux desktop. However, last week (it has been 6 years after my graduation) after seeing many articles on Microsoft, Windows 11 and Manjaro Linux, I decided to give Manjaro a test from bootable usb drive on my new HP touch screen laptop. Everything works without opening terminal once! This is seamless enough for me.
Homosexuality is immoral, so it is logical to ask the state not to condone it.
Same here but with Edge. Microsoft lobbied us extremely to make it our standard browser.

But both are just fine. Never have issues with Firefox. But I do have issues with its UI. Too much wasted space, it's only useable in compact mode which they want to get rid of. And I hate that there's no clear visual separation between tabs anymore. Even Chrome and edge have this.
C had `malloc` and (real) pointers pretty much from day 1, and allows you to treat the result of `malloc` as an array.

Pascal's `new` did not let you do this, as I recall (it didn't even allow you to allocate a chunk of memory of arbitrary size... meaning that you can write `malloc` in C, but you can't write `new` in Pascal -- edit: before someone starts jumping on me with the claim that "Golly-Gee-Whiz Pascal '92" lets you do this, I am talking about Pascal, the language as designed by Niklaus Wirth, not about some bastardized non-standard extension. And yes, I fully concede that arbitrary pointers are dangerous, and are prone to producing nasty bugs. They also provide a whole lot of power).
Understanding Pickle in Python
You don't have to download windows from torrents. Just dowload it from Microsoft. You can get rid of the watermark by "registering" it with a fake registration server. No need to download and run anything. Just copy few simple lines found with google into admin console.

You are getting fully functional version with this. With updates and everything.
Not quite an answer to your question, but in the 60s and 70s hijackings were quite common (86 hijackings in 1969) and weren’t seen in the way they are now. The common understanding was that the hijackers wanted to re-route the plane somewhere else, and that everyone would end up alive but inconvenienced.

It’s also one reason why only the passengers in United 93 fought back; the idea of a plane as a missile wasn’t widely understood or considered until the planes hit the twin towers. Fighter jets were not even under consideration to be mobilized until United 93.
NAT has problems. It isn't the same as having an IP address.

IPV6 is the solution but has been in adoption forever.

I just don't understand what the government needs with all of those IP addresses and what kind of sneaky stuff it's doing behind the scenes.
Fair point, I didn't think of that since my primary wants for a x1 port has been low-power stuff.
Lifestyle changes are really really hard for people to make, though I agree that it would be great if someone figured out a way to turn that tide.

Luckily getting a shot is really really easy, so we do have a lot of influence over deaths from COVID.
Apparently you missed the whole TP 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0 and TPW 1.5 offerings.

And Turbo C 2.0 was quickly replaced by Turbo C++.
The ACLU is a finite organization that needs to chose which battles to fight. Suggesting their not doing enough because they don’t prioritize your issues generally means you should be funding some other organization.

https://www.eff.org/ for example may better fit your personal beliefs.
This is the exact type of propaganda "papers" without any evidence that the colonial types produce.

There is no distinction between the "aryan invaders" and the native harrappan peoples: https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2019/09/06/new-study-debun...

Sure, some tribes may have migrated. But these tribes were not the "white civilizers" of the "dark natives" as the European colonizers wanted to promote.

Too bad much of Indology is still persisting with the direction set by the English and Germans in the late 1800s.
I would think the government making laws banning folks from using certain bathrooms is very much a civil liberties issue.

But maybe it's common for US States to have laws telling men they are barred from women's toilets and vice versa, and everyone accepts those?

To me that sounds preposterous, but in such a society I could see the discussion arise.

TL;DR: if you substitute "trans" for "blacks" (or any other offensive term for a protected minority), does it become discrimination? If yes: it already was discrimination.
He may well have believed the whispers in his ear from the war hawks. There was a systematic process of presenting him with distorted information.
Or cold/hot showers. Although, a sauna is pleasant, cold/hot showers are not.
Did it stop progressing, or did the sauna reverse the scar tissue?
> be self-sufficient

Private communes invariably collapse when non-productive people join and start consuming resources unfairly, so the productive people leave.

The Big Island, Hawaii, has lots of alternative communities. Note that some are trust-fund babies, so not "self-sufficient."

And what you call like-minded, others might call shrill or self-righteous.
It isn't a lesson plan. It is raw archival material intended for teachers to use with whatever lesson plan they create.
I'm aware. What I'm asking is why multi master is required. You can have a read only slave that is promoted to the master. It's that little bit of downtime during failover in question? Doesn't pgpool make that possible without downtime?

If you use multi master and DNS failover you still have partial downtime for every session routed to the unhealthy master. That doesn't seem to solve the problem, just a little better.
Tesla's Model S Plaid Broke the Speed Record for an Unmodified EV
I understand your concern that discussing this incident will prevent anyone from talking or thinking about the abortion ban. But you'll be thrilled to hear that HN actually supports sharing and discussing more than one link! In fact, at any one time there are dozens and dozens of links being shared. On top of that, there are new ones everyday.

I hope that puts your concern to rest. Unless there's some other reason that you think discussing this topic binds everyone into a magical compact forbidding them from discussing the ban itself?
I don't think that was the only thing. There was also also the friendship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Monopoly laws care about marketshare and Apple's was tiny at that point, especially in the business market
Price and range, in addition to the security issues related to DMA others have brought up. Max cable length for the very high signaling rates is very short: https://superuser.com/questions/885232/what-is-the-maximum-l...
If enough people start doing this may become part of email culture.

Then we're looking at a point where CMOs all around the world are getting bombarded with the same shit they force down people's inboxes.
So child sacrifice to save the old and sick?
The page is terrible on iOS safari. Videos keep popping up and can’t close the thing.
Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
Can confirm, that's the most straightforward way.
Also weekends have had a quite long tradition of having more general interest subjects posted.
I believe a lot of the phenomena we see today, rampant conspiracies, misinformation, distrust in govt, political divisiveness, willingness to support a demagogue, rise in nationalism and domestic terrorism, can all be linked back to 9/11.

The goal of the attack was to strike fear into the hearts of Americans on a level that we simply couldn't comprehend, a lasting fear that fundamentally changes our society, a fear that individuals in the war-torn middle east had already lived with for decades up to that point. And I think it's clear that they accomplished their goal. Unfortunately, I also think it's clear we haven't seen the end of it.
Maybe it's because I'm tired. Maybe it's because I'm half reading this article while my 2yo is bathing/playing in the bath

But that looks like a really error prone syntax.. error prone like writing Brainfuck I mean.
Gradient: A command line tool for playing with color gradients
They are actively supporting civil non-liberties now though, in print.

They are not what they used to be.
Is it just me or are all the channels broken with just old-school TV static? Maybe the server is overloaded with the HN & reddit hug of death.
There’s a secret Turrell hidden above the Louis Vuitton store in Vegas. Free. 10/10 would recommend… bring some friends, super baller. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/akhob
>>To them, who are these people who would invade their right to bathroom privacy? Do their rights not matter?

Can you please tell us which rights are being violated here exactly, I'm super curious. Most people just go into a stall, close the door, do their business and leave - who cares if they are trans or not. Do you peek into people's pants when you go into a public bathroom??
It’s for cache coherency between the two sockets, in addition to remote device (eg, PCIe card local to the remote socket) and memory access.
Such laws are almost never enforced in the US.
OK I'll bite. From this article:

>The public learned about the NSA’s “PRISM” and “Upstream” programs, which involve [...] warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international communications on a massive scale.

The US executive branch engineered an automated, massive breach of the constitutional rights of US citizens and the rights of people abroad.

> The executive branch’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board found that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ call records had produced “little unique value”[.]

These programs have yielded almost no positive results in actually increasing security, which was their stated purpose. How much does this cost? What do we get in return? What is the chilling effect on society?

>The human toll of government surveillance is undeniable. It can have far-reaching consequences for people’s lives — particularly for communities of color, who are wrongly and disproportionately subject to surveillance.

Mass surveillance programs have been adapted to routine policing matters and have served to dramatically enhance existing biases in policing against marginalized communities. Over 75% of warrantless searches conducted by US police under the auspices of the Patriot Act were for drug related offenses [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/04/surveillance-s...
i thought about this as well, when i first learned about unification of forces, it seems like an obvious thing to try and reason about, so let's go!

[caveat - i'm not a physicist, but]

we know forces unify at higher temperatures/energies, and there is no limit to how high temperature can get (maybe? i guess temperature is the same as the mean velocity of the particles, so for particles with mass this cannot exceed c, right?) however the the high energy zone is inaccessible with current technology above a certain level.

but in the other direction, we hit a floor at zero kelvin. which we can access, and can therefore test. so we know that going right down to zero kelvin / electron-volts / joules / meteres per second does not split any of the known forces further. this is how we know that they are the fundamental forces, i think.
~40% of Americans live in states that have laws against wearing a mask in public spaces. Preventing people from protecting themselves is absolutely a live issue. http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/mcs/maskcodes.html
> So core userbase for these products becomes hostile towards the product growth by definition. In this environment, either the product stops growing and simply becomes a niche product for those set of users or it dies.

Except FF market percentage has been decreasing not growing. The technical foundation has gotten better, but it’s like Mozilla execs are completely out of sync with the market share they could have. They want a “shiny” app that in theory people should want, not the app people actually want.

I just hope some group of geeks decides to fork it and change it up.
I have semantic highlighting setup for Rust and I wouldn't give it up. Just way too comfy.

"moves focus from content to form", if data drives your code structure, especially easy with functional langs, these two start to become isomorphic.
Your argument is that iDevices like the iPod and iPhone require more stringent 'massive capacitor' power delivery with an inline battery over... more power demanding/complex devices like laptops? And other phones that had removable batteries?

Sounds like an attempt to handwave away bad design principles.
That's an applaudable move, even if their motives aren't completely pure. This is a nice outlier from the average.
My primary and only justification for using windows is games (the 30% from the article).

I do real work with Linux.

But again, I've purchased windows hundreds of times, many of those being forced "purchases" due to smoky-back-of-room deals with OEMs. Frankly, MS exhausted all of my goodwill ages ago, and I've yet to see a real change in those underlying tactics.
When the PCIe device is initialized, it starts up in x1 mode. The controller then negotiates the number of lanes with the device. So yeah it pretty much has to work in x1.
Drink wine while working at home? Accidental spill? Tips to remove carpet stains
In 2020, the U.S. population drank around 870 million gallons of wine, which shows they’re fanatics about it.
> While the critics are not wrong those critiques don’t apply to every single piece of software.

Conversely, many games are less broken on Linux than they are on Windows. Since Wine lets you emulate a virtual desktop, you can circumvent the dreaded "alt-tab" crash that plagued Bethesda games since Morrowind, and even enjoy games like Diablo 2 in their maxed-out glory without disabling your other monitors.
So heart disease and cancer don't take up ICU beds?
And that YLE article about a trend change is after there was a recent-ish trend to start building saunas in apartments. So older apartments don't have saunas unless retrofitted, and newer ones are starting to be less likely to have them.
Both Microsoft and Apple switched to C long before they became actual Unix (i.e., Apple with OS X) or even had a POSIX API (Microsoft).
Problem is you pay with data anyway now:

Microsoft and Google show you ads regardless of if you pay or not.

Seriously even my alarm clock app that I pay a monthly fee for tried to ask nicely if it was ok that they tracked me across web sites after Apple started enforcing their new rules.

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And: If anyone has a good alarm clock app for iPhone that makes sure I'm out of bed before it turns off, and that is a one time payment or a reasonable fee or even open source I'm all ears.
A couple of months ago I listened to the Air Traffic Control recordings of the morning of the attacks, really puts in perspective the confusion and chaos in the air that day.

It's really haunting, includes calls from inside one of the planes (I think the one who crashed?) so be warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBhgEm3j7A
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. What you’re saying is accurate. I don’t think the terrorists had the foresight to predict this kind of fallout from 9/11, but it has certainly happened none the less.
I seem to remember that that one more thing often turned out to be the thing that unravelled into solving the crime.
They found time to issue explicit statements of support for these measures
Firefox simply lost touch with its community.

Golden era was around 2005-2010 when Mozilla was running product innovation experiments such as Ubiquity or Tab Candy, "Design competitions", sending "Thank you" cards to beta testers, people like Aza Raskin having regular blog posts about development... My oh my, looking at those in archive.org and seeing treasure throve of comments, 100+ on each post, the excitement in the air with each new announcement feels just magical.

Roll forward 15 years and Mozilla Labs is about AR/VR(?), interaction with Firefox is through 3rd party sites like HN and real product innovation stagnates for years.

The real reason Firefox is losing market share is a simple fact that it is inferior to its competitors as a product, which is the direct result of this loss of connection with its userbase that it had and the passion for creating the world's best, most innovative, browser.
AFAIK, it is kind of cycle. Being mentally ill makes you more likely to be homeless. Being homeless makes all your mental health issues much much worst.