skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I groan whenever I see a Firefox post on the front page.

-"X moved Y pixels making Firefox UNUSABLE! So now I use Brave."

-"Mozilla is run by a bunch of SJW idiots because they ran their CEO off. So now I run Brave." (I had to look into this, as I wasn't paying attention at the time. They picked a new CEO who cared so passionately about removing the right of gay people to get married he even donated his own money to the cause. That was a dumb hill to die on. Now he's an anti-masker who actually runs Brave.)

-"My precious browser workflow was completely dependent on the interaction of 156 distinct XUL extensions so now I use Brave."

-"something, something, Mr. Robot." (that, like everything, you can turn off)

-"Ads in the address bar!" (that, like everything, you can turn off)

-"They take money from Google!" (Hey, free money, since everyone either switches to DGG or were going to use Google anyway.)

There are real criticisms you can make of Firefox/Mozilla. But on the whole, for the general user, none of them are grounds for moving to a Chromium based browser out of spite.
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If you think the smoked or salted meat of our ancestors is "processed" in a way that is similar to modern industrial food I think you should dig a bit more.

> I don’t know what else it could mean.

I guess thats the issue then. Preservatives, colorants, added sugars/salts, melting salts, texturants, fake cheeses, and all kind of additives, &c.

Do you ever wonder why more and more people develop food related addictions and health issues ? Why half of the US is obese ? Why diabetes is skyrocketing ?

https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2019/01/03/banned...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211014102038.h...

https://thecounter.org/bpi-pink-slime-ground-beef-usda-recla...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318630#refined-car...
100%. If not for the good PR Tesla has, there would be a huge amount of upset if say, Ford did exactly the same.

> My solution is to have paid trained drivers to test this stuff

Why bother when you have people that will sacrifice themselves to QA for them. And pay them for the privilege to do so.

We need some new laws...
I found it the opposite. Zillow and OpenDoor bought really weird houses that were either unsightly or had issues and they were unable to sell them. They probably flipped a lot but most of the ones I noticed sat for almost a year unsold. I was shocked at how they would be able to pay mortgages for 10-12 months and sell below what they bought it for.
And continuously rising construction costs. Parking minimums are under-discussed here, as the apartment block I used to live in in Los Angeles was probably more underground car park than apartment if you looked at the balance sheet. And yet the parking lot was never more than 20% full.
> Apple did the Apple thing, they overhyped a product that they then designed according to their own rules, expecting everybody to just eat their crap and smile as usual.

> But it turns out people liking classic SF books are not your average fanboy, and they don't like being lied to.

It’s a bit silly to imply that the intended market was people who like or have even heard of SF classics like the Foundation series. The intended audience is pretty clearly everyone who watches stuff. It’s one of many shows trying to spend their way into cultural ubiquity after the immense success of Game of Thrones. Even if previous Asimov fans were disappointed it would have been totally fine if the show took off (this was the case for many George R. R. Martin fans and the Game of Thrones TV series).
I switched to Firefox from Chrome on mobile because Chrome forced me to use tab groups which I do not wish to use.
> It wasn't long ago that we were reading how Zillow et al were going to buy up all the housing stock and keep millenials and Zoomers homeless forever.

I think you're making a significant error there: the narrative you're criticizing wasn't focused exclusively on Zillow, but rather "big investors" buying up single family homes and pushing actual single families out of that market. This news does nothing to repudiate that narrative, from the OP:

> The company is seeking roughly $2.8 billion for the houses, which are being pitched to institutional investors, according to people familiar with the matter. Zillow will likely sell the properties to a multitude of buyers rather than packaging them in a single transaction, said the people, who asked not to be named because the matter is private.
I recommend having “Startup: Restore previous session” checked in your settings.
Is there a dearth of skilled labor for building houses?

As a "youth", I don't have any insight into this as I'm a renter for the foreseeable future, but my parents' and their friends complain about how difficult it is to get anybody to do any sort of construction / home upgrades, e.g. my parents putting in a heat pump.

Given how much the "you're a loser if you don't go to college" narrative has propelled people who may have been happy and skilled at carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, etc, into soulless corporate jobs, this seems like something that the US could take a page out of Germany or Switzerland's book, i.e. much more emphasis on non-uni career tracks starting in high school.
Personally, I can’t abide my software being used to harm others. My definition of “harm” will certainly differ from that of others, but for important software, I’d be happy to append a “not for military use” clause to the OSS license, which would beat keeping the software closed source and entirely proprietary.
There's a library for toys in Ithaca, NY
I've used Qubes at home and at work for about a year now. I like it.

It definitely requires thinking differently and sometimes simple things are less simple, but overall I feel it's worth it. It's rewarding to feel that you're in control.

Some things I like:

- Having password manager in a Qube(/VM) that cannot access the internet (and the VMs that can, are of course isolated from the password VM).

- Logging out of your bank, and when they tell you to "clear your cache and cookies", you do one better and actually destroy the whole OS, because you opened the browser in a disposable VM.

- Needing to attach the microphone (or camera) to a VM before it can be used.

- Ability to have specific VMs' network go through a VPN/Tor.

edit: oh yeah, and consider trying Qubes 4.1 release candidate, which could possibly have better hardware compatibility.
Where do you live that it takes "months upon months" to close a sale? Usually the complaint is that the market moves so fast people have to make risky snap purchasing decisions.
The stakes of those pickup football games were pretty low (for most people).
If nutrition is as well understood as you claim when you criticise vegan diets (I don’t know, not my field), then we must also know how to create a vegan food item that can replace meat and dairy, and the question is then one of taste and cost.
In the span of ten minutes they restore the artificial gravity on a derelict spacecraft then they walk into a room on that same ship that has large open vats of some dangerous liquid that people fall into and die.
That works perfectly fine for German. For languages with latin-style alphabets it depends on how used people are to work with unaccented text. For some languages (for example Vietnamese[0]), the ASCII fallback modes are quite clumsy. Languages with non-latin alphabets might completely lack a standardized, widely used romanization system that works in ASCII.

For Chinese and Japanese, using a romanization is not really an option. Most romanization systems are intended for academic study, as pronunciation aids and for input methods. Most varieties of Chinese have a huge number of homophones, and the romanization of such texts can be difficult to read unambiguously.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_Quoted-Readable
> It serves as bad inspiration for too many people going to college these days just because they want to. And not because of a reason

Self-fulfillment is a reason.
For anybody who needs clarification, this is opt-in only at the moment. From the second link:

> As always, we believe people should be in control of their web experience, so Firefox Suggest will be a customizable feature.

> We’ll begin offering smarter contextual suggestions to a percentage of people in the U.S. as an opt-in experience.
That finally explains it. Thanks.
>> Tolerance, right up to the limit where it actually starts hurting, is the best strategy for a peaceful and prosperous society.

> It really is not. Unbounded tolerance is how free and open societies commit suicide and succumb to authoritarian regimes where intolerance is the norm.

This is a non sequitur. GP placed a bound on tolerance.

> You're just asserting that refusing to help out authoritarian and outright xenophobic political movements further their goals "is the wrong approach" without any rationale or insight or argument at all.

GP can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he has asserted anything of the kind. In fact, I suspect he's somewhat opposed to the same, since he's opposed to "illiberal political beliefs" which are themselves quite aligned with "xenophobic political movements".

In any case, I think you've entirely missed the pragmatic points of the GP's post, which is that such illiberal policies are, throughout history, used against the marginalized peoples they are ostensibly intended to protect. Given your previous statement about unbounded tolerance, it feels like you should be in agreement with the GP on this point; unless you're saying we should just skip the tolerance and go straight to intolerance.
Both Gecko and KHTML were already in the hands of neutral, nonprofit third parties from the start. But Apple wanted control to be entirely in their hands, so they forked WebKit from KHTML, and Google wanted control in their hands, so they forked Blink from WebKit.
I don’t follow, what do you mean?
I'm surprised I've not seen Spack mentioned here. Spack especially is great for home installs. It's aimed mostly at HPC cluster users, who by default need multiple versions of compiler toolchains, programming languages, libraries, but works well on Mac too.

I hate it, but Anaconda might work too, so long as it's not a corporate laptop where you need a license.
Hmmm. Harry Potter movies ? ~Lord of the rings ? Dune (even though I didn't enjoy it) ?
I think the problem I had was that they told me it was defined as no visualization. Its discoraging and most people think that is what it means, zero.

Do you not have the ability to think of what shape a laptop is? I used peptides to change my brain, cerebrolysin for instance may really help, but you need to do more to visualize since its like a muscle.
Theoretically no, but the court is more likely to side with you if your lawyer can go down the list checking off each reason this lawsuit is like the last one that you won.
Have you used both?
Wheelbarrows of Money
What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth
> It turns out, people can get along in real life, not because we’re exposed to many different ideas and ways of life, but in spite of this fact.

My family's pretty conservative. In 2018, my brother's best friend from high school ran for political office as a democrat and won.

Every Christmas, my mom bakes cookies and takes them to family friends. She had to look past all the headlines, politics, political disagreements, and that guy is everything FOX News told her to hate, to remember she likes the guy and his family.

It's hard enough to look past disagreements normally; it's even harder when your people are telling you that should you hate this guy you've known for 20 years.

On one hand, I'm very encouraged that, when faced with this choice, people can cut through the divisions and look at the person. On the other hand, this doesn't scale, and he's still dead to my dad.
> I don't have much recall on upstart. What was it bad at?

The author of systemd addresses this question in the original blog post which announced the systemd project (look under the heading “On Upstart”):

http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/systemd
In my experience, friends were often the first ones picked to be on a team. And if a person was known for leaving midgame, they'd be one of the last ones picked.
Gilgamesh is meant to be heard, not read. It comes from an oral tradition of storytelling that was thousands of years old before it was ever written down. I just finished watching an incredible performance of it by Abed Azrié, highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ARRP5i2nw8
Yes, agreed. Someone asked if there can be a progress bar on Homebrew. Instantly shutdown the thread.

Homebrew is old and it needs to be replaced. It has served its time.
Why is there so much argument among power users about a default setting that you can easily change?
Anecdotal evidence doesn’t trump actual research…
in the US the transfers you describe are not capital gains (either short of long term). The first, payment for services, is just income of $1k. The second, swapping BUSD for USD, is not income, nor cap gains, so has no tax applied.
There are quite a few open-source X11 implementations, but they are either much more basic, or targeting historical platforms.
This is where trust between Product and Engineering is critical. Engineering must be given some "out of band" capacity as you put it, which is locked down and kept available for Engineering to perform maintenance _as they see fit_.

> But that's really hard to maintain in most orgs.

For engineering teams with an embedded Product Owner, this is where a good PO can really shine. Show, don't tell, the value of all your maintenance work. Yes, it's hard to show to a nontechnical audience, and yes, it's supposed to be a "safe zone" for engineers to have discretion. But you will lose your maintenance capacity if you don't show nontechnical people the value they're getting out of it.

Business leaders understand productivity trends, feature cost, time to deliver, support ticket counts, and aesthetic improvements. Use this to your advantage to communicate in the language they understand, and keep your maintenance capacity.
No one who knows anything about baseball would think that Japan, or Cuba, or Taiwan, or Korea, or anywhere else would have a chance against the MLB champs. Those teams are decent; that's all, and their best players want to move to the MLB.
I think there's more going on here than simply RE speculation. Most importantly, Zillow is building capability. Capability to buy & sell quickly through processes, tooling, networking, and brand recognition. There is a long play here. Zillow's goal has always been to fully disrupt the real estate market. Why should this stop with brokerages and agents? Shouldn't investors also be on the list?
chan sites, gab, some forums on tor... I'm honestly not sure if they're trying to hurt conservatives or if the continual embedding into conservative social platforms is an attempt to cling to relevancy?

I don't think all conservatives are nazis by any means, but I'm not a fan of the "any vote we can get" tactics that are hesitant to admonish white supremacy
Probably will not start. It requires a working clock chip to turn on and the battery is way past its expiration date.

There are plenty of tutorials on where to dig into the epoxy and add a cr2032 battery holder to fix it permanently.

Same deal with various SPARC machines (those will at least power on)
This has nothing to do with open source. I think that is the issue.
True they are not majority by being over 1/2 population but they are majority in the sense of greater quantity or share.

Population by Country
China 18.47%
India 17.70%
USA 4.25%

I could take your argument and use it to say that Christians are not the majority even though they are 31.11% if looking at the religious population size.

By mostly my point was to highlight that you can spin and manipulate the CoC however you want, thus leaving the CoC Steering Committee either over worked trying to enforce the CoC of using selective enforcement where they only go after "bad" people.

Also:
>(Do Not)Use ml5.js to build tools to disingenuously manipulate public opinion

Would ingenuous manipulation be acceptable?
https://www.wordnik.com/words/ingenuous
adjective Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is fairness and justice I fear.
Just because it is not valued currently does not mean it is not important.
I think the sweet spot would be for minor updates that fix security issues, but for MAJOR version updates, no tell me what you're doing. How sure are you that I didn't intentionally install an older version to figure out a bug on an older variant of the browser.
I’ll take anyone that doesn’t create extra work for me, you can be an asshole no problem.

The easier you make doing my job (eg, I can get my work done without you adding bullshit code that I need to make my way around), the more I’m willing to forgive almost anything.

Just be invisible to my work plans for the day, and we’re all good.
It depends on the person.

There are a lot of people in the world who make $18/hour. This would cover their expenses. On the other hand someone like Bill Gates or Jeffrey Bezos have much higher expenses to you.
I agree.

I don't care about the books and stopped watching mid season. The production impressed me for the first episode and then it was very bland and boring. There is no drama, nothing that caught my attention. It feels like watching a boring documentary.
Sure, you could use cgroups for that.
French officials vent fury over Australian leak of Macron text message
It's nice at first if someone is friendly but eventually it wears off if they aren't competent.

For that reason I suspect that this is one of those idealistic things that works out differently in practice.
Lets see it replicate on something other than a small group of MBA students before we lend it too much credence.
Tips for Your Performance Reviews
Tangentially related, it always seems that for me if I read the book first, I like it more than the movie/series.

And vice-versa. Every time.
Like the other responder, I don't think the 00s and this cycle have much to do with each other. 00s was lots of people who couldn't afford a home being provided mortgages by banks, and it falling.

This is presumably a number of well-financed institutions buying up property to hold or rent.

Now, perhaps you're correct that it isn't as bad as it seemed, since Zillow is selling the homes rather than getting into the rental business, but even the header of the article says they are seeking "institutional investors".

I also agree that cities should be for those who live in them, and that land is a different type of asset from most others (again, like another responder mentioned).

The more I type the more I think we're on the same page, but you seem to think everyone is focused "just on Zillow" while I am thinking more about the long-term opportunities for trillion-dollar megafunds to gain a monopoly on living space and destroying the ability of families to own property in America's cities.
Prometheus Stack
This looks like a really awful solution. Does homebrew not ask the users on each run whether they want update something and warns them about the dangers? Like a responsible software?
> Do companies not open source internal projects? Do companies not hire people to work on open source projects?

Unfortunately they do not for the most part. Obviously there are exceptions but they are fairly rare.
$ tar cf - foo bar | ssh user@host tar -C baz -xvf -
I'm not so sure: At current rates, assuming excellent credit, that's about $1700/month. If you're anywhere near the suburbs of a city, you can add another $500 to $1500/month in property taxes, and sometimes another $100 to $400/month in HOA fees. on that for a total pre-utility rate of ~$2400-$3600/month or roughly $30k to $43/ year.

I live in the higher end of that range even though I'm in a modest home in a lower-middle class town, in an area where the median household income is about $50k. before taxes.

$400k on a house is simply impossible for many millennials, especially those born towards the end of the millennial generation that haven't had more time to establish themselves and work up the salary scale a bit.
One problem is that cannabis is still not legal at the federal level. One can't buy legal cannabis product anonymously in CA at any of the legal stores and they keep track of what you buy as far as I know. So, feds can easily get a court order to get all transactions, then charge/arrest all customers.
I wanted to try some in pill or tincture form for health reasons, but decided not to because of this.
I understand that one needs to prove one's age at the door, not sure why they need to track whether and what one purchased. If I buy alcohol at the store, I don't get asked for ID (I am more than 42 years old) or if when I see peopled asked for ID, the store does not record the name and so forth. Also, think about potential identity theft if all of the front one one's ID is copied...
It’s not fun when there’s too much disbelief that needs suspending.
pretty sure this is just called “culture”
Microsoft Loop brings back Google Wave?
Depends on what your incentives are. If you own the business, I bet the factors you care about look a lot different.

If you're just working the 9-5, and aren't in the blast radius of your coworker, of course you'll care a lot more about sociable traits than quality of work.

As a manager, it's a lot easier and more enjoyable to work with higher competency people, that's for sure. Though I will say, that I'd trade a certain level of competency for general attitude/friendliness. Some people are quite good but difficult to manage.

Don't think these results should be surprising.
What I think is irrelevant, I can echo my disgust here out of frustration, but I know that in the grand scheme of things it will amount to nought.

Bad faith or just plain stupidity, you cannot escape the fact that Firefox is on a fast slippery slope to obivlion and that Mozilla personnel have done nothing to arrest the process in recent years.

Why not? What's driving them to continually implement features and policies that clearly turn users off using Firefox?

"Don't assume bad faith in everybody who doesn't think the same way that you do."

I usually don't, in fact I always welcome a solid debate but there comes a time when things go so wrong or turn so bizarre that one has to look to offtrack ideas for an explanation.

If you've a better rational reason (or perhaps inside knowledge) for why Mozilla continually shoots itself in the foot then many of us would like to hear it.

Edit: I usually use the Firefox fork Palemoon to get around many of Firefox's most egregious features but I'd prefer not to do that as it increases my vulnerability to browser fingerprinting,etc., as such, I have to take additional remedial action such as spoofing the user agent for a more common one - and frankly it's a damn pain having to do so.

You ought to be able to at least understand why many of us are so annoyed when essentially the last independent browser manufacturer is seemingly (willingly) attempting suicide .
> There's little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate, who will often get too many passes and second chances (because they're well liked) before being terminated.

This reminds of people who try to defend someone accused of incompetence: "but s/he's so nice!"
Thanks! That’s what I thought. It’s been a minute since law school and my in-house brain has been steadily leaking for some years.
Yeah, search the preferences for the word “Sponsored” and uncheck anything you don’t want to see.
A highlight of one of the things going on

> “The inconsistency can produce negative object velocity detections when other vehicles are present, which in turn can lead to false [forward-collision warnings] and [automatic emergency braking] events.”

So essentially brake checking cars behind you. Glad I get to become a QA engineer against my will for Tesla.