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When I heard about all these shenanigans over at Firefox, I switched to Vivaldi, and I am enjoying the experience so far
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> As far as this monopoly is concerned, all these forks are still Firefox.

Not in the website statistics I guess, unless the forks present themselves as Firefox, which I doubt.
Doug the ugly New Zealand potato could be world’s biggest
Maybe sometimes, but you would just be the reason some random person said "Dammit my machine blue screened again." or "Why is my machine using so much ram?" The C2 machines would detect this node offline and use a different one. On the plus side, maybe a percentage of those people would re-image their machines and patch them.
Then perhaps building even more is what's needed to keep up with the demand. If you keep building at a fast enough pace, then at some point, there will be more housing units than prospective renters, landlords start having trouble finding tenants, and that's when prices will inevitably fall. If demand is rising, then housing needs to be built at an even faster rate. Rising demand can be very hard to keep up with, and I believe that's what we're experiencing right now.

I don't live in the UK, so I'm not too familiar with the specifics there, but what seems to be happening worldwide is that young people are flocking to cities. I'm fairly young myself and I don't know anyone my age who would like to live in a small town in the middle of nowhere - everyone I know was either born in a larger city or moved to one.

In the past, if you were born in a small town, maybe there was a factory nearby and you'd end up working there. Only a few would move out.

These days the factory has most likely closed, and the jobs were shipped off to China. Even if, by some miracle, it happened to still be open, most young people wouldn't want to work there anyway. Young people tend to be more educated and want jobs where they can make use of their education. These jobs tend to be located in big cities.

There are only two ways out of this mess:

The first one is to satisfy the demand -- that means building more, a lot more. No Western country is currently building enough. The demand is so huge that the only way to satisfy it would be very high-density housing. I'm talking 30+ stories apartment buildings everywhere like you see in East Asia. This would have to be accompanied by enough public transport because at that population density, you'd need super wide highways everywhere to support people driving cars. I don't think allowing such construction is politically feasible, however, as it would completely change the character of existing cities.

The other one is to embrace remote work and revitalize small towns. Remote work is not enough since people still demand the amenities cities provide. These are lacking precisely because so many young people have left, causing a negative feedback loop. We need trendy cafes and restaurants, we need WeWork locations, and for young families, we need high-quality school/preschool/daycare. If small towns "gentrify" with such amenities causing young remote-workers to start moving there, this may significantly ease the demand pressure on city housing.

The best solution is probably a combination of the above two.
I’m not sure if your trolling or not. You do realize many on HN would claim just the opposite?
There are also many folks who believe the US or Singapore or Hong Kong have a strong claim to that, libertarians especially.

What sort of evidence do you have to prove such an extraordinary assertion?
This project has been my full-time for the past six months or so (coming up on a
year since I joined the Great Resignation and decided to try my hand at
self-employment). I release somewhere between 2 and 10 times per week.

I set out to build something that I could use as a game master at the table
without having to put the game on hold as I navigated through menus and
bookmarks for the various references and generators I use. My general design
principle is that everything in the app should be available at any time, with no
need to navigate menus on one extreme, or read documentation on the other.

The core is written entirely in Rust with a couple of hundred lines of JS glue.
I was running it as a command-line app for the first month of development, and
it still works as such. However, since I added autocomplete to the web
interface, the web version is now more feature-complete than the command line. I
don't see much value in the extra work of backporting features to the command
line at this point. (Turns out Rust was the wrong choice for this particular
project, but the die is cast for the moment, and it has been fun.)

I've barely scratched the surface of the feature that I'm most excited by,
namely context. Soon it will be possible to tell the app where the party is and
what they're doing, and the demographics of suggestions (and ultimately music,
lighting, and other integrations) will be updated accordingly. In a seedy bar in
the docks district? You're more likely to run into sailors down on their luck.
Pick a fight? Cue the epic music. Sun sets? Dim the lights.

More details are available on my blog:

https://mikkel.ca/blog/introducing-initiative-sh/

I do have plans to monetize this project in the future, charging for the
server-side features (integrations and cloud sync) while keeping the client-side
features free. Everything that is currently implemented will always be free.
Not true in my experience. My 2-year old is addicted to the screen itself.

It can be videos of cartoons of course, but also videos of trains, trucks, animals, sometimes she finds a programming-related conference I'm watching interesting (less interesting than a cartoon, but interesting enough to pay attention).
This is what happens when most people follow societal norms but some exploit those norms for their own advantage. It happens a lot. People take advantage of people's general desire to be nice. And so we get things like this.

I guess each and every thing we do could be codified (pretty horrific) but every day we get closer to that tyranny because libertinage.
Google, Microsoft, Apple and Brave, are some of the corporations who fund Chromium/WebKit-based browsers. The ones who fund Firefox (Gecko)-based browsers do not have nearly enough money to dedicate to their own fork.
> each theme needs to be implemented separately for every mode

I am not sure whether you're trolling or just completely clueless about Emacs (despite your claims of using it for many years).
you're misusing the term precision to apply to size. Precision doesn't mean anything in bacteria.
Can Raft scale to 100s of nodes? It doesn't seem likely, or at least, I'm not seeing people trying to.

I suppose one can have a subset of a cluster participating in Raft, but then the "raft group membership" itself is a consensus problem isn't it?

It's all turtles...
That's a simple example. Things quickly get out of hand once you have a more complex problem like recognising a valid URL [1]:

`r"(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s`

Regex has a reputation for being "write once read never". It's primarily because it doesn't have any structure or "modularity". Functional programs also tend to pack many variables or operations in the same line without delimitation. For example Haskell's argument syntax.

[1] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-check-url-string/
If it's the choice between this with no windows or one that's much further away or costs more, the choice isn't to do with the windows, but putting up with the lack of them.
I tried that but the jug had a weird smell. I don't know if those filters that go on the tap directly are better, I keep meaning to try them. Have you?
Certainly - let me try to share succinct version germane to my day-to-day

- We regularly perform group/segment level risk roll-ups. Involves running computationally expensive (by insurance standards) in-house and third-party models that estimate loss from hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. A lot of our insurance data is unsurprisingly stored in disparate systems that don't talk to each other, and in some cases, don't have any useful interface that someone like me can query/view. Things are changing, but still quite a lot of history to overcome

- We also have lots of stuff from outside underwriting parties in form of Excel, CSV, MDF files.

- We have to bring all that together to make sense of the portfolio, so we use Trek to do a lot of the various involved tasks like running the models, processing CSV data, processing Excel data, attaching databases, creating dashboards in PowerBI (tangent: hate it)

- Sample pipeline: query portfolio data from one DB, read CSV file from another third-party, pull both into risk model, kick off analysis, then execute a script to pull together results in the model's databases or elsewhere.

Happy to expand or answer other q's as you have them.

As for your other comment about R - it's just a matter of the install. Someone has to install R so that Trek can use it. Not a major problem. Pointed this out as a contrast in our org that is probably smaller and has many fewer devs compared to what I'm reading in the post where "bank python" sort of feels like the platform in which everything happens / everything is configured.
Wondering how likely it is that a big-time narcissist will be reading Psychology Today.
Emacs fits so nicely into my workflow. I can use it, feature-rich, from terminal, within tmux, and easily switching from the editor (where I write code) to other terminal panes (where I run the code). I can also use Emacs without any mouse input at all, have a rich set of keyboard shortcuts, and where I find myself doing something repetitive, I can easily automate it. While I'm at it, I can use the very same environment for a ton of other things - note-taking, editing more file types than I could care about etc.

I can see that with different priorities, perhaps VS Code might be a better fit. But does it work in the terminal? Can I edit LaTeX and have equations rendered in-place? Can I easily switch layouts from having 3/4 panes of code and nothing else on the screen, to having various other bits around? Does C&P trivially support multiple "buffers" (registers in Emacs lingo; can copy & paste persistently to different places). Can I easily record rich keyboard macros - ones that, dunno, search second and third word on a line, replace first instance of second word with third word, then return to the starting point?

I suspect the answer is yes to some of these questions, but no to most. And this is barely scratching the surface of what Emacs can do.
> A 5MB bundle would take 50s or so to run

I deal with very large-scale Angular systems that handle this sort of stuff day in, day out ... can you give me an example of a 5 MB Angular payload that takes 50 seconds to execute?

Clearly this is on the developer.
> The options should be perfect, good and bad.

Certainly. The problem comes when you present something that is bad as something that is good or perfect.
https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/
If you find emacs hard to extend then i hope you never use eclipse, more on that later.

Part of the problem you raise kinda comes from the newfound popularity of emacs, people started more projects on top of emacs and now we have a paradox of choice.

That said emacs core is pretty stable, even though there an acceleration in new ideas there too, it's not breakage inducing.

About ease of extension, in emacs you can add functions, menus, buttons, libs in 15 seconds. That's less time than it takes Eclipse to "create" an empty plugin project.

emacs is not the easiest (or the neatest or any -est) but relatively speaking, it's still a good thing.
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Had a GMail account with 2FA enabled - Google Authenticator App(GAA). GAA was on my mobile.
Lost my mobile and access to my Gmail account last month since I couldn't authenticate without that phone. Stay away.
The paper indicates that Tajik infants are hardly neglected: they are attended to quickly if they cry, and are considered a very important part of the family and overall community and are interacted with accordingly.
You want to have a file specifying your dependencies, and a file specifying your currently locked set - e.g. Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock, or Gemfile and Gemfile.lock, or pyproject.toml and poetry.lock

You'll then want tooling to periodically update your locked dependencies, so that you pick up fixes to security vulnerabilties. That wants to go through your CI.
I find this very interesting...

'I get paid a lot, and they treat me well, so who cares about anything else'

Pull your head out of the sand and realize that when people talk about Facebook, they are talking about each and everyone of you. You are a representation of your company and your company is a representation of you.
It's downright evil.
I'm not thrilled with every decision Mozilla has ever made but I think people have gotten so used to the unlimited resources that Apple, Microsoft, and Google are able to pour into their unprofitable ecosystem moats that they've lost sight of what running a self sustaining business in this space would even look like.
That is still O(N^3) in my opinion. If you scale up the media in all directions, your data scales like the cubic. The charge level makes it maybe 3.1 dimensions, but it isn't really scalable.

Now if you could add arbitrary voltage levels without losing precision, that would be 4D.
I do care about all those things but after that response I might keep ignoring Tox for a while.
Again, this is not my experience at all. The screen (interactive or just the TV) is a powerful attractor of my 2-year old and she will be glued to it almost regardless of the actual content.

I do agree a tablet and the TV are similar in this regard.
Money in the terms of resources. Browsers are huge and complex codebases so maintaining one (even if "just" a fork) is quite expensive.

> How are the many forks/variants of Chromium and WebKit not affected by this "money" factor in the same way

They are, but the main Webkit/Chromium forks are either large companies (microsoft) or companies trying to make money off of their forks (Brave, Vivaldi).

This here is trying to do the exact opposite. Vivaldi has ~50 employees, Brave has 150 and tens of millions in investments. Even if not all of them work on the fork management, that's a lot more resources than a dozen peeps doing that in their spare time.
One reason is that there's a ton of social pressure not to fork, for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106440

Another is that doing so, and sustaining the effort, is a non-trivial amount of work. Throwing up a web page and a single release is one thing. Keeping up with the release cadence of an org like Mozilla, and the demands and expectations of a browser user base is something entirely different.

Also, "Libre" is a terrible moniker.
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If you come home and find a handwritten sign on your bedroom door, you sleep in that lounge area. Aside from that, you either work out an arrangement or everybody gets comfortable with one roommate and their partner having sex as quietly as possible under the covers while the other tries to sleep.
> my suggestion came across like a cute self-invented gimmick rather than a fundamental concept in programming

Maybe the official handbook could
help convince them this isn't the case: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/narrowing.htm...
Probably a fair bit of pent up demand from Covid. Also, the economy is strong at the moment, even in Europe.

Of course, were the other patrons tourists?
I have a feeling politicians won't end it. It will end when enough people stop caring about it and go back on their own.
There is unbelievable competition in Amsterdam right now for grocery delivery. The big markets all offer it, then there are specialized delivery apps like Picnic (cheap), Crisp (quality) and Peter Pot (all reusable packaging). Then, in the past year, the VC funded fast delivery apps showed up: Gorrilas, Flink, Zapp and Getir.

Driving to buy groceries may be necessary today, but maybe not tomorrow.
per capita isn't a useful metric. Imagine if you are China and your population is declining, but your GDP is still going up so your per-capita CO2 is going up. That's not fair for them.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...

At the same time, if you are a developing country and your GDP is going up, then your absolute emissions will also go up. That's not fair, either.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.KT?location...

So you look at emissions per dollar of GDP to measure how efficiently you are producing. This is why China's own CO2 commitments are expressed as Kg per GDP. This is what they are targeting to decline, it's what they set policy around, and it's how they publicly measure their own progress. So let's use their own preferred metric:

China's CO2 per GDP is ~.47 and dropping

For the US it's .24 and also dropping

India is .27 -- almost the same as the U.S.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD?locat...
> If it’s actually a good design, it should stand up to scrutiny like any other building design does.

Well, define scrutiny?

There's technical criticism from the standpoint of safety, for example. If it's not possible to evacuate this building in the event of a fire, that's an overriding concern.

There's also criticism from the standpoint of tradition or aesthetic. If the building is ugly or nontraditional, then that's a social problem. The university will need to choose between the taste of the donor and its own aesthetic.

The "natural light is necessary for mental health" argument is somewhere in between. A lot of the reaction seems to be a knee-jerk one about tradition and imagining life in a light-free (not just window-free) room, or rooms with poor ventilation. On the other hand, the article here at least alludes to studies on the matter.

> By exempting a design from review and revision

I think you're over-reading things? As I understand it, the building isn't exempt from review and revision, but Munger retains co-final approval with the university. It's not a one-shot "build these exact blueprints or nothing" deal.

To reflect on your earlier example, Frank Gehry gets design-reviewed, but if the clients want him to do something unacceptable he can still walk away.
Maintaining a successful project takes A LOT of work. For something this size it’s not a side projects amount of work.

How do the people working on it get money to cover their bills? If they don’t have this they will work on something that does that.

A financial model is usually the blocker.

Consider this, a lot of the people who work on Linux or many other projects are corporate backed. The companies pay the developers.
The two podcasts I consistently listen to at the moment are:

* Power Corrupts - An in-depth look at the darker side of humanity, particularly corrupt national leaders, the ways they hold on to power, and how to prevent that.

* The Electronic Wireless Show - A weekly podcast from Rock Paper Shotgun, ostensibly about PC gaming, but I'm there more for the fantastic dynamic between the three hosts.

Honorable mention goes out to the now concluded 13 Minutes to the Moon from the BBC World Service, the first series focuses on the final 13 minute descent from Apollo 11 to the surface of the moon, concluding with an unedited playback of the audio loop from mission control which at that point you've got enough context to understand. The second series runs through the events of Apollo 13's mission, and how they managed to get the crew back to Earth.
Funny that in the alternative section they dont talk about VR alternatives, who is what facebook (or meta if you prefer) is going for...

About metaverse i often see people here talk about vrc (vrchat) here but there also some open-source like the fork of High Fidelity (Vircadia) that who are more near of what facebook is doing. But there is not much community on it last time i checked, i need to check it again tho. Today iv stop and move around NeosVR who is already proposing many thing that facebook whant to do and yes i know its not open source.

Also i didnt do much research on open-source VR alternative so if you know some more i will happy to know them.
Sure, but I think your example goes way too far in the other direction. URLs are quite complex in comparison to a lot of pattern matching problems.

Also, what would be the procedural equivalent of the regex you linked? My guess is that if such a solution existed in procedural code, that this symbol soup you linked would be considered simple and elegant in comparison.
> articles that talk about how young millennials are "choosing" to live in pod houses/tiny homes when in reality they can't afford anything better. They are forced to live in these conditions

"conditions"? 1 in 20 UC students is homeless [1] and they want to a build a 5,000 single occupancy rooms for 1.5 Billion. But somehow everyone and their mother finds a reason to veto new development.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-02/what-crit...
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that windows and manageable debt levels can coexist.

This design isn't because students can't afford buildings with windows, it's because a billionaire has a fantasy that it's the optimal design for such a building, thinks architects who disagree are "ignorant", and is making his donation contingent on it.
Availability, cost. We live in a housing shortage and an era of housing exploitation.

I don't live in the US and don't know the local market, but a quick google says you need at least $2000 a month to get a basic apartment in Santa Barbara: https://www.apartments.com/santa-barbara-ca/. Who has that kind of money, especially combined with a full time education?

Your elitism is showing.
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> Brave

Company trying to make money off of its fork.

> Vivaldi

Company trying to ???

> Edge

Microsoft, who found that maintaining a chrome fork would be less expensive than playing catch-up with their own in-house browser.
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Its not free or open software, so using it is a step back.
Out of curiosity, why do you think "libre" is a terrible moniker?
Ah. I keep forgetting that. Yea I should do that :)