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I'm perfectly happy with Firefox, both desktop and mobile. It works very well and I never have problems with it. It blocks ads on mobile and chrome doesn't.

As far as I have seen, it's fast. I don't notice a difference on the rare occasion I open chromium to check and see that some application will look the same for a client as it does for me.

But I guess it's always true: people go out of their way to complain, but not to compliment.

I should write a "I'm perfectly happy with Firefox, happier than I would be with any other browser" blog post and see if it gets any attention.
I disagree. My main bank allows several high-risk actions to be performed when logged in from a web browser, which are entirely impossible from the mobile banking app.

It's completely ridiculous that I can't use my mobile banking app for day to day low risk, low volume transactions if my phone is rooted, yet I can do anything and everything with high values of cash and credit from a Linux machine running any web browser I wish, as root.

The reality is, the mobile app development is outsourced to incompetent teams for presumably the lowest price who "ensure security" by just saying, "lets chuck a library in that prevents running if the device is detected as being rooted, and call it a day".

These are protections any reasonably technical user can circumvent with the likes of Magisk and still, all to do far, far less damage than is possible than if they were to use a web browser.
It’s not really about the dollar amounts. It’s the fact that my employer is using an information asymmetry to arbitrage my labor.

Here’s an analogy. Say I wait tables at a restaurant. If I discover my boss has been skimming off my tips, I’m going to be upset — even if I was perfectly happy with my pay before I learned that.
Dr. Pierre Kory was one of the main dudes promoting ivermectin -- he references the meta-analysis study on ivermectin that was later redacted. Of course when this interview was released (june 22), the study was not yet redacted (july 14) so it looked like the drug worked far better all the drugs including steroids & antibody treatment.
I take exception with your analogy because Ivermectin is an incredibly safe and well tolerated drug and has been used in humans for decades. If you used Tic Tacs or something it would be a lot more accurate.

While I understand and appreciate skepticism around someone using IvM for COVID as much as anyone, what is shocking is the the outright lies that have been spread by media, including a recent viral story from Rolling Stone that went on to be retweeted by many prominent journalists including Rachel Maddow, all creating millions of impressions based on a complete fabrication.

The whole thing was made up, the Doctor they got the quote from didn't even work there anymore, nor were any of the claims true. What's creating incurable division right now in society are stories like these, many people are getting scared because the media is forcing a single narrative with outright outrageous lies that they clearly want to push.

[0]https://news.yahoo.com/oklahomas-ers-backed-people-overdosin...
I'm sure you already know, but setting up your own myname@mydomain.tld and then setting that up in Gmail[1][2] means that in a catastrophic scenario (your Gmail is closed) you don't lose your email address.

In addition to that, you should frequently take a backup of your Gmail emails[3], then in case your account is locked you can use the exported mbox[4] archive, and import it in Thunderbird, this works reasonably[5] well, e.g. recently I had to find an airline ticket from 10 years ago which I had originally received in Gmail, and it took just a few seconds to find it in Thunderbird.

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en&co=GENIE....

[2] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox

[5] Thunderbird's search is not as good as Gmail's, but not bad either, I find it does the job for me.
Yep. Also, sheet music. I have a Boox Max Lumi which is the same size.
The dust was a serious problem in Apollo and they were landing in isolated areas. It obscures landing sites and approaches that just let dust billow disturb the local regolith, meaning you kick up more dust than you might otherwise have during your mission. Future missions are almost surely going to involve landing near to existing equipment that must work for longer than the 3 days and change of Apollo 17's surface excursion, making dust management that much more important.

You could, theoretically, always make your landings happen away from equipment but at 1/6th gravity with no atmosphere those sites would need to be quite far away to avoid kicking the seriously, seriously sharp dust into your equipment. But if you take that you also have to solve a hard transportation issue.
Unfortunately, this is what actual Mozilla developers think about posts like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200731211652/https://www.twitt...

It's sad.
more clickbait -> more views -> more ad impressions -> more money -> more marketing -> more market share -> more clickbait

it's a competitive advantage.
If you removed the a feature of trying to get other people to sign up from FB would it still be facebook? I think it very much could be....

and consider other feathers that you could remove, such as "likes" (or karma) and posting (ie, user submitted content and comment threads). I feel like if you removed those two features, neither HN/Reddit nor Facebook would be the "same" service.
Bluetooth is terrible for music streaming.

- Your phone has to be connected the entire time

- Quality is flaky

- It has to stay in range

- You have to manually disconnect/reconnect it every time

- You can't take calls while playing music

- Only one person/phone can connect to the speaker at a time

- It drains battery

Having the speaker stream directly from the internet while having your phone (or multiple phones, or web browser, or voice etc.) acting as a remote is a game changer.
I used to go sit on the roof of my yeshiva with my chavrusa instead of studying. We were in the old city of Jerusalem so we could watch the Palestinians rioting and getting tear gassed on the Temple Mount. Then he got kicked out of yeshiva, and I got paired with another guy who would read secular philosophy with me.

It’s what you make of it I guess.
I've worked with hundreds of average (professional) developers over the years, and I've only met 1 person who was a 3x developer. I've met several 2x developers and lots of 1.5x developers. I assume a 5x developer exists, but I doubt a 10x does.
As others, comments determine for me if the article is worth my time. (Thanks to all that read the articles in the first place!)

But at the same time, I've gotten so much value out of the comments, a lot more than the actual articles, whether is book recommendations, related tools to the article, meeting people or whatnot... I def come here for the comments!
Boundless optimism seems inappropriate anywhere outside of religion, but ridiculous mind-blowing optimism, at least, seems to me and many others warranted by recent advances in biotech.
People need to directly interact with each cow at different times. Bio reactors however aren’t inherently limited to the size of cows and the 770lb version mentioned provides about 75% more meat than the average cow (440lb meat + skin, bones, etc)

But even that’s really just the first attempt, breweries are a reasonable comparison long term and batch sizes get huge.
Interesting, I use OnePlus phones, where can I read more about this?
To me the best sales pitches is around the overall health of the framework, suitability to a set of problems, and the level of support you, the seller, will provide to me, the customer. This means:

- dev mindshare: hiring for the skills and getting help. You can quantify these trends via job listings and stackoverflow question volume.

- supply chain risk: with open source, what’s the risk of the project going dormant leaving no maintainers behind. How open are they to contributions? How well maintained is the code? Does a major company (or Google) back if? When was the last commit date?

- problem suitability: what class of problems is the project suitable for. Improve your pitch by saying what it’s NOT for.

Finally, if you want adoption you need to engage these other groups as customers. Up to the level of it being the main measure of your teams success. You need to setup support, training, documentation, and evangelism. You also need to work hand in hand ON the customer projects in a short-term, consummating capacity to increase adoption and understand the gaps in the tech. Otherwise you risk being seen as too “ivory tower” divorced from real problems.

Most of these are not technical problems, they are, like you say about “human ops” etc
Corn doesn't fall from the sky into pigs mouth.

The land that grows corn to feed pigs could grow things that humans can eat, so it is in direct competition with human food supply.

Or it could be bio-diverse land or forest where we have owls, foxes, deers and thousands of other animals, not just bugs.
Google Workspace has incredible phone, email, and chat support. I've used them multiple times over the years and I live in a tiny country in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

The "gOoGle pRoVIDeS nO sUPPoRt" narrative is only about their free offerings. Paying customers get stellar support, at least in my experience.
Oh they love their customers and are quite solicitous as to their needs.

People using search, gmail, drive etc aren’t the customers.
I don't do Apple development as much anymore, but I used to write in AppCode a lot and used Xcode only to build.
Which computer are you using? If it's a desktop, have you considered using a USB-to-floppy drive?

[1] https://www.plrelectronics.com/floppy-to-usb/
The 60fps rainbow works as a fun stress test demo, but really you should not be pushing events down the wire every 16ms to animate something on the client :)

That said, you are right that SVG charts/maps are a surprisingly fantastic fit for LiveView. You could actually render a fully interactive and dynamically updating chart by only sending SVGs – and it will probably send less data than hydrating the same client-side chart with JSON! Check out the Context Chart lib for some examples. They have some links running LiveView examples if you scroll down:
https://contex-charts.org

> What’s the story in Phoenix and Elixir land for handling external shell processes from web requests

Great story here thru erlang ports. I'm a big fan of the Porcelain library which wraps ports with some nice features on top:
https://github.com/alco/porcelain
You’re forgetting that the US exports beef, and also turns it into other products such as dog food. You also need to feed people all over again next year, and it’s not like we’re all eating <1 year old cows.
Government programs need to be able to negotiate drug prices to get a fair deal before subsidising them.

Whenever a trade deal comes up between the US and Australia, they always want to kill our PBS system that negotiates lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies.
Love this idea, and the execution of it. Props to the team
> Do you have any tips for structuring Phoenix projects or approaching these kinds of codebases?

Ignore the "View" modules. Put nothing in them. You can also eschew the "Context" modules for your database stuff, and just use Ecto functions directly, though, if you do get into the habit of using Context modules, it will make your life easier to have a unified point of view that abstracts away, e.g. caching, or, if you decide to go full CQRS/event-driven, if you need to send a copy of your data to a datalake, etc, etc.

Actually LiveView tends to have less module-indirection than "deadview"s.

If you prefer to have simple apis, you can just drop phoenix altogether and just stick to Plug. This will give you a ruby/sinatra-style experience that may be more your style, and, IMO, a good way to learn elixir. I did this for a long time before finally giving in and learning phoenix. I turned out OK.
It's text, even the best DRM would be foiled by OCR. It's definitely illegal in the US though.
Trade secrets don't prevent someone else from independently developing the same thing, or reverse-engineering the solution. Very few things can be successfully kept as trade secrets for an extended time. Moreover, patents do not preclude trade secrets and in most cases can only make things worse: If one expects to be able to maintain a trade secret for at least the duration of a patent, without independent rediscovery, then one would choose secrecy over the patent since there is no built-in time limit. Patents are thus only viable for those things which would not be expected to remain secret. Having the discovery or invention documented in a patent (which you will be advised not to read due to the risk of a willful infringement penalty) but being prohibited from using it by law is strictly worse than having the knowledge hidden at first but potentially (re)discoverable and free to use once known.
Sway and i3 are absolutely spectacular tools. If Sway just added a Start menu and a settings UI panel for usability, I would advise anyone to use it over any other desktop manager. It would be awesome if someone created something like Sway for Windows (I've tried all the options out there, PowerToys Tiles comes close).
A lot of the points here seem to revolve around the physiology of animal cells. All the "extra" energy that's supposedly being saved by lab-grown meat is what's used in real animals to do things like drive the immune system, maintain boundaries around cells that lack walls, regulate growth and toxin removal, pump oxygen, etc. An "efficient" approach is impractical to scale with animal cells, because of the unrealistic cleanliness and nutrient purity requirements of growing animal cells without any of these things.

I think the article's main point is that a breakthrough is unlikely to come from the usual culprits when it comes to economies of scale (larger tanks, greater nutrient production, etc.). Indeed the smaller scale operations are the only ones that seem likely to be able to sell meat at realistic prices in the near future. Something would most likely have to be done at the level of animal cell physiology, and we have no real idea of how to do that while still making what we're growing "meat." And none of the companies involved seem anywhere close to an idea that should work--not even a promising approach that hasn't been tested yet. It's essentially further from reality than something like energy positive fusion is, something that gets treated with great skepticism every time there's an article about a breakthrough posted to HN and which depends on government and university funding for grants--yet we're treating it as though it's imminent or inevitable technology, and investment funds are pouring billions of dollars into these companies as though they're expecting to see returns on investment relatively soon.
You don't invest your life savings, just enough to where you can let it sit. Convert small increments to fiat when it's high, or purchase using crypto directly.
I dove down this road and was going to build something like this to pair Spotify Connect with my new Focal Solo6 Be's, but ended up settling on a Cambridge Audio CXNv2 network streamer instead.

Cool project! I might venture down here again in the future, is a great thing to write about.
Rumor has it that it’s even free!
Is there any more context to this? Because the tweet is vague and assuming it's about posts like this seems like a bit of a jump unless you've got further info about it
I disable tabbed browsing altogether and rely on multiple workspaces + auto tiling WMs.

Then alt-tab on Windows or something like rofi finds your browser windows by name.
You have to go into really fringe circles to find support for lab grown meat. I mean really fringe -- like people who think vegans are too conventional. Most people are absolutely disgusted by the idea[1], and so you are not going to get a lot of popular support for subsidizing this industry via the taxpayer.

At the same time, VCs are supposed to be unconventional. This is perfect for VCs, so that is the appropriate funding route for the lab meat and bug meat industries.

[1] https://theconversation.com/would-you-eat-meat-from-a-lab-co...
This thread is about decoupling efficacy from safety, not releasing potentially fatal treatments. The whole point of Scott's article is that we can keep basic safety requirements but the efficacy requirements for FDA approval are much stricter and should be decoupled. The FDA can give a lower level of approval to treatments like this Alzheimer one that has controversial/borderline efficacy evidence instead of making a black & white choice between "not allowed at all" and "fully endorsed and must be covered by Medicare & insurance".

No one is arguing to get rid of safety requirements or the FDA. The FDA will still be empowered to give a recommendation based on efficacy, but the lack of an efficacy recommendation should not prevent people from getting a treatment. The FDA is necessarily conservative, slow, and sometimes makes mistakes. That has a real cost if it acts as the sole gatekeeper for efficacy, a prime example being early COVID-19 test kits.
Which is why it seems like there should at least be an RFC for OTP communication - if there's a small group that wants to communicate securely together, it may be worth their time and effort to share that pad securely. Right now, there's no official standard for that.
I believe a lot of the internet has social aspects. Is it possible that the "social" aspects of this media operate on a sliding scale?

I understand the point that literally any website could be thought of as "user generated"... I've personally made quite a few websites. But the level of interaction and the modalities of how I and a lot of folks use things isn't as interactive as, say, twitter.

So, perhaps for some user populations a Wiki is a social experience, especially for the folks who edit them. Though from my perspective, it feels entirely possible to use it without engaging in that social aspect.

I don't feel the same about Hackernews and/or reddit in general.
Ask HN: Who wants to exchange project feedback? (September 2021)
This is a monthly thread to give and get feedback on side projects.

Post a comment with instructions on how we can try your project. Return the favor when someone demos your project.
We figured mentioning it in the docs under dependencies was enough (https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops). We will add it to the website instructions as well then to make things more clear.
That's a bit harsh. Every point they raised is valid: the UX changes have been weird and inconsistent, the lack of history searching is frustrating etc

I still use ff, I certainly won't be using Chrome as I appreciate my add-ons too much.
The way things are going, Firefox will have to drop their rendering engine for Webkit. What they're doing now is unsustainable.
I am starting work at a DAO (distributed autonomous organization).

Governance is done with a token and all votes are on the block chain. "Departments" ask the token holders for a budget and must get buy-in to get their proposal approved.

Everything is public because there is no legal entity to hold anything private. All payments to any address's are visible on the chain and can be easily traced.

As an engineering group we recently sat down to discuss what budget we would like to request which required us to specify how much each person would be receiving from the treasury each month we found that everyone preferred the transparency of knowing how much each person or position was making and people felt that their pay was more fair when they knew that it meant how it matched up with other engineers.
I have no issue with it at all. As with my desktop Firefox instances I have an embarrassing number of tabs, and have no complaints whatsoever.
Here is some context: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/i8nuyb/firefox_de...
I had a local offline copy of wikipedia for many years due to bad internet and thanks to the kiwix project. It had a neat configurable random article option. Could be setup to return articles related to a subject (using wikidata). So I set it up to return Artists. And made the link my homescreen, so everytime I opened the browser I got a bio of someone famous from some random part of the world. Its was really quite interesting. Realized people are just people dealing with all kinds of never ending bullshit, yet somehow in the middle of it all, make time to create beauty. Reading all those life stories really helped me get through some tough times.
Most americans would not meet suggested exercise levels for "relatively active" even if that was at the 30 min. per day level.

16% is 60% more than 10%. Most americans are consuming meat for at least 2 meals a day, possibly 3 for those who are eating sausage or bacon for breakfast.

The general point is that americans consume way more meat than what they actually need. This has been promoted heavily in the high protein diet fads recently. Educating people on what they actually need for a healthy diet would go a long way and cost a lot less than alternatives like lab-grown meat.
I'd say more they want to be able to hire a ton more people at their distribution warehouses (without being excluded for insurance, drug testing, liability, etc)
Being able to share common code/interfaces between frontend/backend is really convenient
According to the article there are no economics of scale. A ten times larger facility would cost more than ten times as much to run. This is apparently a very difficult problem: "But the truth is this: For cultured meat to move the needle on climate, a sequence of as-yet-unforeseen breakthroughs will still be necessary. We’ll need to train cells to behave in ways that no cells have behaved before. We’ll need to engineer bioreactors that defy widely accepted principles of chemistry and physics. We’ll need to build an entirely new nutrient supply chain using sustainable agricultural practices, inventing forms of bulk amino acid production that are cheap, precise, and safe. Investors will need to care less about money. Germs will have to more or less behave. It will be work worthy of many Nobel prizes—certainly for science, possibly for peace. And this expensive, fragile, infinitely complex puzzle will need to come together in the next 10 years."
I work for a smaller tech company and we do large scale events periodically with our customers. We do lots of perf testing and ensure our servics can handle these sustained bursts of usage which can reach upto ~500k users concurrent.

Google flagged our main event site as a phishing site during a large event that was lasting multiple weeks. No matter how many load tests you do, always have contingency for Google.

TDLR: Even if you DONT USE GOOGLE as YOUR CLOUD provider, always be aware of its impacts on your customers/busisness!
VRChat's informal economy: An estimated 350 make real money from it
If you are in the US you may not know but years ago Pandora closed down in most other countries, so I wouldn't be surprised if their API are geographically locked as well.
I really want to believe that. How does it taste? I can't find reviews. Their homepage[1] claims they've broken the "$5 cost barrier" but doesn't say whether that's per pound or chickenoid nugget.

[1] https://future-meat.com/
> moribund

1. Approaching death, about to die.

2. Reaching obsolescence.

I learned a new word today, thank you.
I'm wondering how this framework handles user feedback for network errors and delays?

It seems like your changes aren't really committed until they hit the database, but there are a lot of intermediate states.