skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people keep saying this when Mozilla is and has already been vocally fighting against Google's overreaching proposals?

There's new headlines about this every few months.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/privacy-analysi...

https://www.howtogeek.com/756338/mozilla-says-chromes-latest...

There's also this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/04/latest-firefox-roll...

https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185

And the top comment of the hacker news thread associated with that last link?

>My friend who works in an adtech company:

>"Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users"
There's tradeoffs for everything. We weren't all grandma killing fascists in the previous years for not locking ourselves in our homes and wearing masks and not going to large gatherings and shutting down businesses in response to influenza. Yet the flu killed many many people every year.

We're not hateful anti science bigots for daring to drive automobiles despite that statistically contributing to killing many many people.

There are safe and effective vaccines available and people can make up their own minds to use effective masks and isolate themselves, shut down their businesses, and take advantage of all the online and remote services that now pretty much means they never have to leave their house or see another living person if that is what they choose, and that's fine they can make that choice. That's not the responsibility of everybody else though. This strange collectivism where apparently I am responsible for the choices of others and that I must change my lifestyle to keep you safe is where things are going way off the rails, in my opinion. You keep you safe.
What are the signs that someone is a psychopath?
And yet: Steve Jobs wanted PWA's (or something similar) in the beginning and begrudgingly made an App Store.

Yes, I know the circumstances are different, but I do think it's ironic.
Understandable reaction. Although the underlying problem seems to be the uncertainty of not knowing for certain, and the confusing and contradictory information, and the question of culpability.

Fact is:

- It is quite clear how to protect oneself. Wear masks, get vaccinated, try to reduce contact, keep distance.

- Governments need to balance safety concerns with concerns for the economy and the health system. Not an easy tasks and it's different everywhere.

- The only context in which it is important where the virus came from is science, and perhaps the development of better vaccines and preventing future pandemics. For the individual it is irrelevant.

- The question whose "fault" it is is totally useless. The virus is here and we will all get it. The only question is how we get through this.
WHO lost all credibility since ~Jan 2020(If i recall correctly between 1 through 15) when they stated on couple occasions that Covid was a mere "nothingburger", when in fact western journalists have been expressing concerns since late November through December.I understand most people don't consume rolling news or independent reporting, but it is still not an argument. You can't seriously expect WHO to not have the information independent journalists or 'simple plebs' do.

When the genie was out of the bottle(as in containing the virus in China was not possible), they switched gears and went with the opposite narrative, even though not much was known about the severity of the virus besides it spreading very quickly and easily.This is not the scientific method, because if it was you wouldn't firstly claim it was nothing and then suddenly say it was so bad you need to half-ass shut down civilization.A scientific-method approach would have been: "we don't know" until "we do" , not to mention denying the claim it was a lab-leak (which is now the most probable thing).

As they say in politics & propaganda: "never let a good crisis go to waste".WHO and national institutions that were responsible for measures and actions governments should take are fully responsible, but nothing will happen.The fact people still debate about the origin of the virus should be indicative that facts don't matter, but twitter blue checkmarks and fact-checking labels on mainstream platforms do.
At least with TypeScript, they've been using the official language server for a while. Sadly they still fall back onto their own JS-esque 'guess what this could be' mode in some situations where vanilla TS would have just emitted an error that the respective module could not be found.

For C# Rider supports Roslyn analyzers and code fixers as well, though I don't know with what performance impact (as ReSharper isn't based on Roslyn this results in all analysis work being done twice, which can be noticeable).
> Two years isn’t an inconceivable time to build additional hospital capacity

The limiting factor is medical professionals, not adding buildings. You can't train a doctor in 2 years.

> preventing normal causes of medial and nursing school drop outs in order to bolster the number of adequately trained medical professionals

What's the drop-out rate? How would you "prevent" this? Do people drop out because they can't cope with the role, or some other reason? What would the overall effect of this policy be in terms of numbers? I suspect it would be minimal.
From they github page, Safari 13+ no longer supported.
FWIW, "pink slime" is extremely regulated and uses processes that are carefully controlled... you might consider it "gross", but that would really just be an aesthetics issues AFAIK: it isn't "unsafe" (unless you count "not very nutritious" as "unsafe" ;P).
Javascript was not fast until Google and others poured money into it because it was the only choice for the browser. Presumably Python would have had the same experience.
How about running heavy computations for somebody else for some $$?

"ROI"
i in fact do insist on them not understanding the mechanism. trying to force incoherent terminology is just the largest red flag signifying that lack of understanding. snide remarks is my bad, i definitely lost my patience, it's hard to argue with somebody saying that sky is pink because they've changed what pink means.
Over 800,000 people in Europe have lost a lot more than two years.

I understand that it's been a long time and you're frustrated, but this simply isn't over yet, and the consequences are real.
Speaking of libraries, does anyone know a minimalist amateur library software a hackerspace could use? We currently only have a few books, but the list could as well grow and it would be nice to have a webpage that would help us track who brought / borrowed what.
A checkbox (defaulted to disabled) during setup is the best option in my opinion.
The foot of the bridge over river Danube constructed by Apollodorus of Damascus at the request of roman emperor Trajan is still visible in the water.
AdGuard gets closest (https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html), but the Safari SDK doesn't allow for as fine-grained filtering as Firefox.

Here's some of the history: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158. If you want the best ad blocking, use Firefox and uBO. If you're really stuck using Safari on macOS (or iOS), strongly consider AdGuard.
> Even your dumbest college idiot that majored in Trombone or Art managed to accept the reality and went to a bootcamp, the literal king dumbasses - even they smartened up.

God damn, the hell is your problem? This is so blatantly rude and lacking in social awareness.

You know you don't have to say things just because you believe them to be true if it's a sensitive issue right? Otherwise you're just deliberately being mean to others.
> happy to be owned by others

> continue locking themselves inside their homes

This kind of melodramatic hyperbole makes it very hard to consider your argument seriously.
I was thinking about this and wondering how you can offer secure federated messaging.

Does one encryption scheme have to mandated as the standard scheme?
I receive all of Mozilla’s newsletters and I seethe whenever I see them demanding that more be done to sanitize online expression, which is all the time. That said, Chrome is hardly an alternative given Google’s approach to moderating YouTube.
Except that isn't how it has gone - we had 4 years where the US did not sit down and agree, and actually went backwards on climate agreements. This year, the world leadership has come back together for the first time in years.

I don't want to go down a political rabbit hole here, but we should at least get the facts straight.
Doctors? Morons.
Lawyers? Morons.
Scientists? Morons.
PhDs? Morons.

Only Faangers, agile scrum masters, and engineering managers are those who are paid optimally, with flexible work arrangements.

Does the world need another web dev project manager on adderral who went through a boot camp and took a job that will be the first to be cut in a downturn? And then what? We’ve got a class of people who expect 6 figures who have no tangible skills?

I feel like this attitude is born from one extreme or another: a blue collar community with a lot of people who picked on a smart kid, who then went on to optimize for money. Or an extremely out of touch upper class family who imparted such a toxic view of people on you because it was easier to justify that they aren’t people who deserve anything (or they’ve earned a shit life) so that your family felt good about paying them minimum wage.

Either way, I’d argue this is an unhealthy attitude and a bad way to judge intelligence… Literally everyone not in FAANG or tech is a moron. That discounts 99.999% of the world’s population as idiots who haven’t figured it out. If you can’t learn anything from that group of people, I feel bad for you.
The problem is: you will be selling a $199 product to a guy with a $3999 device, but the product will be used on a $399 device because the guy who bought your product is not the same using it.
Some thoughts on microservices
The famous problem with the N1 was plumbing all of those engines to the fuel tanks without leaks. But SpaceX uses a similar design (lots of small engines) - how have they solved the plumbing problem?
Same story pretty much everywhere -- wealthy property owners can't be bothered to allow the minimum amount of development that would let the workers they depend on find decent housing.
> I think it would be far less hostility if we as users got access to the information ourselves.

Go to about:telemetry

There are several pages detailing all of that information, and you can also get all of that data as the JSON payload if you want to munge and display it yourself.
Deaf football team falls short of state championship after undefeated season
But what does it matter to you? You can ignore it. It's a good browser and it doesn't insert political messages into websites.
Battery capacity != battery life.

I switched to a used iPhone and was bummed my 8+ had a "small" ~2400mah battery compared to my Android phone, which was 3100. Then I actually started using it. Even though the Android phone had an OLED screen, it would absolutely melt the battery.

I have so little "battery charge anxiety" now it's not even funny. I don't even bother to charge it above 80-85% most of the time...and the battery life estimator says the battery is down to 82% capacity.
When it comes to the "cancel culture" - let me clarify: I make no claims on Asperger as a person.

Even more, I distrust the very concept of heroes, examples, geniuses, role models, and any other flawless characters. This concept makes one prompt to idealize and whitewash these people, or condemn. There is no middle ground + often, we don't know all details.

If there is X's Syndrom/Theorem/Machine, X may turn out to be a wonderful person, a horrible person (by our current standards, or even by standards of their time & culture), or anything in between.

> The linked article claims single causes for most of the claimed observations, almost always rooted in a supposed (and incorrect) universal lack of empathy.

I hate when people equate or imply that autism has anything to do with the lack of empathy. I was on the receiving end (mostly in person) and saw it many times off
It felt the worst when I was deeply moved (or even more than others), but "failed" to show that in a neurotypical way.

The same - when people use "autism"/"autistic"/"aspie" etc, it is usually positive/neutral when they refer to the actual aspect of neurodivergence. I act when they use "autistic" as an insult (usually implying the lack of empathy), regardless if pointed at autistic people or not (usually the latter).

When I read the attached PDF (to the post, so - the full article), it didn't seem to me to be anything in the trope of "psychopathy" or even "egoism" (I was accused of it a lot). It felt that it knows the difference between "perceived empathy" and "empathy".
> We built Fleet to be a fast and lightweight text editor for when you need to quickly browse and edit your code. It starts up in seconds so you can begin working immediately...

An editor that takes multiple seconds to start up doesn't strike me as "fast and lightweight".
How LambdaMART works – optimizing product ranking goals
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/9v7i1w/tha...
> Here in Lithuania, flashing your warning lights (the four orange ones on the corners of the car) means thanks, for example if you let someone merge from one of the very short onramps.

There's a similar custom in South Korea, where the warning lights are often used as a "thank you" if somebody lets you cut in front of them.
You're talking about "putting a snapshot of the data somewhere" - the person you're replying to is replying to someone who says this sort of snapshot is pointless.
"Think of the children!" The first refuge of the scoundrel.
I enjoyed reading about the early exploits of rocketry.

As an American I grew up seeing Robert Goddard and his famous first liquid fuel rocket everywhere in various books on the history of rocketry.

As I got older and read more I became more impressed with the fledgling rocket club (Verein für Raumschiffahrt) that Werner von Braun was famously a member of in post-WWI Germany. You couldn't help but see parallels to closed vs. open collaboration as Goddard, always secretive, seemed to get stuck on developing the necessary fuel pump while von Braun and collaborators were able to move forward to develop the high-speed, one-shot turbine that ultimately delivered the goods.

I am not sure if it was Willy Ley's classic ("Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel") or maybe even Arthur C. Clarke's book ("The Promise of Space") where I got that sense. Both books are oldies but excellent.
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As China menaces Taiwan, island's friends aid its secretive submarine project
> and gotten an oxide layer

Aluminium has an oxide layer the second it comes into contact with air.
But this is here just about the software architecture design. This is kind of similar to the X Server and Client architecture. Or to games like Quake 3.

The server and client is by design separated, which potentially allows to run the server on some other host, and remotely connect to it.

But you can host your own server. And you can also just run it locally, and locally connect to it. You can even bundle it together.

I don't see how this is bad. Only if the server part would not be available to you, then yes, sure, this is bad. But otherwise, this is a very nice and flexible design.
Fads...

Let's be realistic everybody whois is in the information economy is trying to organize the chaotic stream of information that is flying there way 24x7. You've got everything from idea, to books you want to read, to slack messages, meeting notes, etc.etc. It's always interesting to see somebody say OMG let's try the "If it doesn't give you joy throw it out" as a method of organizing, but that's assuming one size fits everybody. Note-taking is not a one-size fits everybody, everybody has different strengths and weaknesses. Some people thrive on lists, some people thrive in chaos.

There are interesting challenges of how to create and collect information in a team environment that helps share a vision. On an individual basis, no one shoe is going to fit everybody and it's not going to fit you at different times in your life.

I realize this is a non-answer, but it's also looking at this with some perspective around the some of the original ideas of the web were just to solve this problem.
1) Not sure what you mean by "what was quoted downthread", but assuming it was the bit about [paraphrased] "take whatever anyone on the core team says with a large grain of salt": At best, that's just one member of the core team they've "impugned the reputation of" -- whoever did whatever it was. They're just not saying who that was, so you can't know whom on the core team to trust. Which means that unless and until you do, you need to mistrust what any or all of them say(s). As soon as one realises how this logic works, one realises that this is (at least not intentionally!) impugning anyone's reputation, but just an unfortunate consequence of their trying to protect the anonymity of the involved.

2) Why should they have to make a case for that? If the project as such has found it necessary or desirable to have a moderation team, then why on Earth shouldn't that go for the whole project; why should any one team be exempt? If a case needs to be made, then shouldn't it logically be for why the core team shouldn't need to be subject to the moderation team’s discipline?
At a guess, they're probably sticking with it because it enables Javascript/Typescript as an interfacing language for plugins which, given the language's popularity and cross-platform nature, is probably part of the reason the plugin catalogue is so large.
> I also never understood the massive hard-on that the technical user-base has against useful telemetry.

People don't want to be spied on. Yes, you can find positive uses for it, but you can find positive uses for many negative technologies. If anything some of the most pervasive negative technologies also have positive uses to sweeten the pill (or even give the impression that this is a sweet and not a pill you are swallowing).
I usually see the flashing headlights for "go ahead in front of me" around entrance ramps in busy traffic.

Not common, but maybe I see it 3 or 4 times a year.
Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics (1984) [video]
That links to Ward Cunningham's page. The actual link to Cunningham's Law is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham'...
Ask HN: To those who bought a 2021 M1 MacBook Pro, how do you like it so far?
The 2021 MacBook Pro models have been pretty much universally praised by the reviewers.

Some time has passed and I assume more people had a chance to work with them for a couple of weeks. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

How do you like them in your daily work? Do you see a big difference? Did you notice any problems?
> Relay

I started using Relay recently and it seems useful. I'll subscribe. I hope they can get a few hundred thousand paying users there...
> particularly knowing that Firefox is pretty much kept alive at Google's whim.

This is simply not so. Google pays to be the default search engine on Firefox because it is beneficial for them. Had they not, this place would be bought out by Bing or whoever else, and in the end Google will lose more.
How was damming the Bering straights going to help Pacific water get into the Arctic Sea? It sounds like it would have the opposite effect, which fits with the Dutch guy's proposal.
It's hard for me to understand why both you and I are getting downvoted for recognizing that people default to a subset of a language they have in common.

I suspect if we were talking about "standard Russian" this wouldn't be so contentious.

Every region has its own way of speaking, its own idioms and acceptable grammatical constructions. That doesn't mean the regions can't speak a unified generic version of the language.

That generic version will still have grammar rules to obey or break.
Wow, with one black spot I can buy caviar for the price of sugar at the market? - not so easy, you would have to find 2 commodities that differed by that one spot that was missing from the 'caviar' so adding it made it read as 'sugar'.
This is a very rare beast.
We know that shoplifters already create fake bar codes that stick over the existing bar code so the system thinks it is a cheaper item. Places like Costco and Home Depot have been robbed by label mongers, so the staff are now trained to read the added security code or the maker's name or other text to verify items for discrepancies. The thieves are aware of this, so they will steal - say an expensive power tool with a label for the same make power tool - but a cheaper one with the label trick.
Allow me to be cynical for a moment, for the sake of debate: if your business is profitable, why sell it for what Im assuming is going to be low multiple to a non-strategic buyer like Tiny?
Does this work with any real eink readers as a "store" and sync service? I checked it out but they only mention mobile apps, not devices
I would love to sync my Garmin to it :) They're pretty easy going but all app integrations are hand-approved.
This one is even weirder to me. If it is best effort then this means that it is okay if the work doesn't get done. If that is the case, then why can't it be done the next morning?

My team has an "oncall" shift like this where we assign a person to be responsible for triaging bugs and other non-urgent alerts just so we don't all stare at it and wait for somebody else (or inevitably me, the lead) to handle it but they are explicitly told that this responsibility does not extend beyond working hours.
GIMP.

This is one thing it does very well, it beats emacs hands down in history visualization (at least without undo-tree, I've never tried it).
What's wrong with promoting girls' freedom from forced marriages?
It is configured by jetbrains (I guess to not use as much memory as Java would default to)
> > happy to be owned by others

The poster I replied to made some weird "argument" about owning ourselves not helping anything.

> > continue locking themselves inside their homes

Not melodrama or hyperbole. Keep shutting yourself in if you are so petrified that you think everybody else must "wear masks and stay indoors if possible" in response to new covid variants as OP said. It's a great way to reduce contact and minimize your own risk.
Not exactly what you are asking for. But I have this project in my todo list.

The Very Slow Movie Player: https://debugger.medium.com/how-to-build-a-very-slow-movie-p...

It needs to be built/assembled yourself, however there aren't that many parts involved
Was just brainstorming out in the open about new decentralized governance structures. Would love to chat https://share.icloud.com/photos/0DikpCAyJPuUlTnKSAMlnauqg#Sa...

Contact info on the photo
You sound like someone who was born on third base and thinks they hit a triple.
On the subject of Apple making macOS a closed ecosystem, ala iOS, I have commented that they can't. They have to keep macOS a general purpose OS in order to write iOS apps. Someone else responded that they could move all iOS development to tools running in the clown, and this prospect makes me very nervous. I, too, like everything running locally, and have no desire for ANY of these remote tool ideas. It "solves" problems -- which I perceive -- relatively few of us have, but which companies would LOVE to corner the market on, and lock people into yet another walled garden.
Landlords being allowed to increase rent on existing tenants at will makes these shifts so fast. In Germany, you cant do that and therefor people with existing leases are not being displaced that easily.
>If they make it free, they could get a big chunk of the market

If they make it free they could get a big chunk of nothing.

I've never understood programmers willingness to devalue their own trade like this.