skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and people are exeggerating the usage of horns more than it actually is.

> there's absolutely no need

But one use of horn that I found useful in India was to overtake on 2-lane hilly road. Now theoretically you should be able to see, may be hundred metres, ahead of you before you start the overtake or if you are not too keen to reach your destination, not overtake at all till you reach straight road with longer view. In practice though, trucks are slow moving and roads sometimes don't provide clear view of the road with twists and turns so it helps if you let the truck ahead of you know of your presence. Then truck dirver signals you with his hand when it is safe to overtake with his longer FOV. Apart from that, truck driver knowing of your presence can help him slow down his vehicle in case oncoming vehicle is cutting it too close for you to overtake the truck.

Is there a better way of doing this? Probably, by just avoiding any risky overtake by road markings etc. but as I said above, that could mean following the truck for few hours in the worst case. And does that mean you honk everytime you are behind a truck? Not at all.
...Which would just perpetuate the PC-bucket monoculture.

At our software company we used to use PlayStation 3 as a development server running YellowDog Linux. Just testing our RPM .spec files was a gargantuan eye opener as to how many things we got wrong when we'd try rpmbuild --rebuild on YellowDog, and just because we'd write the .spec file on a PC-bucket server running CentOS. Monoculture is an extremely toxic, blinding thing, and it breeds ignorance.
That doesn't help families who want to stay in the area at all. If they don't want to leave, the increased value of their homes is worthless.

It's worse because their kids can't afford to buy a home now and they have to leave.
Even if possible, such an initiative could only be successful if Mozilla supports it otherwise the “new” code will quickly go out of sync with the Firefox codebase.
No web developer old enough will ever forget, I promise you that.
While I might agree with the part that you said they act against other Italians as well, I can not agree with your 1st statement after 11 years of living here in Italy as a foreigner of non EU origin.
Carbon Pricing Efficacy: Cross-Country Evidence (2020)
It’s ok. You can say “black supremacist anti semite” instead of “said person.” Try it. Omicron.
That's a real missed opportunity. Firefox would have made a fantastic embedded webview, and could have plausibly become the core of Electron. Back when webviews were IE, with atrocious Javascript support and all the usual IE quirks, Firefox was a superior product and interconnecting with other software is very in line with the open source ethos.
> So does Google really control us that much?

Yes. Contributing code to something doesn't mean that you suddenly control the direction of that thing. Google still makes the big decisions about what gets to enter the codebase: which web features to support, which ones to deprecate, how to interpret standards, and how to slowly align the web with their own financial incentives.
I found it shocking at first in India.

But then I spent a month riding a motorcycle in Vietnam, where they have the same practice, maybe not quite as intense.

I realised it is more like a radar system so you know what is around you.

Also the larger vehicles have right of way.

Once you realise this the system starts to make more sense.

After I remember riding a motorcycle in Thailand and getting the shock of my life as a big jeep zoomed past me without beeping.

I really missed that extra auditory information source once it was gone.
https://antarctic-logistics.com/about-ale/our-company/

Looks like they’re self regulated by the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators http://www.iaato.org/

Some governments might place further restrictions on what their citizens can do on Antarctica.
Who Was ZYZZ?
I believe they laid off the Servo development team?

Also they moved way to slowly with Servo, starting it as a research project was correct. But they should have gone all in on it years ago.

I know they have taken parts of it and folded them into Firefox, but it should have been the the other way round. Take the bits of Firefox they could and combine them into something new with Servo.
Wasn't lot of servo team fired? Or was that some other team? I remember reading about lot of rust people being let go.
I've always observed that in India honking the horn is not just about overtaking - it's an acoustic indicator of your position, making it possible for those in front of you to plot your presence without taking their eyes off the road in front (which usually requires their absolute and undivied attention). Additionally, as the article points out, many vehicles don't possess funtional rear-view mirrors, and are therefore dependent on acoustic signals to know what's going on around them.
It is profound. Just not in the way they’re thinking.
WASM can already access the DOM by calling out into Javascript. AFAIK interface types wouldn't change that approach much, except that the mapping between numeric ids and Javascript object references doesn't need to be handled by the JS shim anymore.

So the answer to the question "Can WASM access the DOM?" is both yes and no, always has been, and probably always will be ;)
(2) is not a problem, it is to prevent problems. If you think (2) is a problem you are probably doing something very stupid.
This is not accurate and seems to be a rumor generated by a list of defendants in a previous civil case against Epstein’s “The 1953 Trust.” There were nearly 40 named defendants including Kanye West and The Disney Corporation. This case was thrown out as frivolous because the plaintiff’s timeline of events didn’t match up with reality.

It took me about 5 minutes to search and find this information, but if you have conflicting sources I would be interested.
I'm very much deep in crypto, "have skin in the game" big time. But are you being honest there?

A majority of coins are owned by corporations. Some coins already have governance through staked amount of coins. ETH2.0 and PoS will centralize the power to the majority holders of ETHs.

When that happens, corporate/"whale" investors will decide the future implementations. Either through governance voting, or just by basically clogging the execution & blockchain through a strike.
> A reminder that pretty much no lorry driver in india knows English.

They live in India -- why would they need to know English exactly?
In mid-2000 this exact cave was also used for some LARP (Live Action RPG) games. One of bigger polish LARPs events called Orkon, was organised nearby. I did actually play Alien vs. Predator themed game there, in the middle of the night, where Stajnia cave was the Alien-Egg base. I remember it as a respawn point, after getting killed by Marines, Spec-Naz or Predator.
English is my second language and my knowledge of it is far from perfect.

Still after decades of development my brain simply refuses to understand any IDE or anything development related for that matter in any language other than the English.

And it's been that way even when I did not understand nearly any English.
They managed to sell in the past a C# plugin for Visual Studio, so people paid money on Visual Studio and this company convinced them to pay more and buy a plugin for a Microsoft language and a Microsoft IDE, people paid because it is a great product (for their projects). IMO they for sure can improve on VS Code, I bet they could sell you plugins better then MS can create and I think this is because when you are closer to your user you focus on the important stuff and no dude with a vision pushes things into a shitty direction.

From my daily experience I can oopen a file and see what parts of the code were created in VS Studio or other basic editors, they have linting errors all over the place, I am not sure if the defaults are shit or if the linters are shit but I can confirm I can tell what (JavaScript)code was not made with a good IDE.

I worked in Visual Stduio, Eclipse ,Intellij, QtCreator, and VS Code , and I am paying for Intellij because it makes me more productive , this might not apply on your specific project or your personal workflow.

P.S. I still use my terminal tools like cat,tail,grep, diff so I am not a guy that needs pretty GUIs and I run an old Kubuntu LTS so I am not the person that looks at software at some identity badge.
maybe somebody returned the hardware but kept the license?
Pi's original CPU was designed for set-top boxes. No set-top box I've ever experienced puts a priority on boot time.
> ...hate power users because they limit the ability to sell customizations or pro service engagements.

Never ascribe to malice... Having sat on the product side before with some of my clients, I can describe it from their point of view. Power users typically consume a disproportionate share of support engineering and development engineering hours per account compared to their normal user calls from an accounting perspective. The holistic, value-adding way to approach this is to work more closely with the individual power users to find out what they are doing in detail for each of their industries, find commonalities, and push product capabilities in those directions.

The reflexive accounting response is invariably "make the power users stop using support services so much". Engineering then gets asked, "how do we stop these kinds of questions?", and the holistic response is shut down because "that costs too much, I want another option". You can see where this is leading...the features power users leverage get sunset, and finance/accounting is happy when they become responsible for a KPI improvement.

...while ignoring that any of them would give their eye teeth for the kind of profit lock-in Excel delivers, and under their KPI regime, Excel power users would have been stillborn.

Never ascribe to malice, that which is adequately explained by incentive structuring.

BTW, I usually clarify with leadership what they envision in these situations in a behind-closed-doors meeting that doesn't challenge them. Most of them honestly do not want Excel-like lock-in via power users. They feel it is too fraught a road and that they can achieve lock-in in other ways. Fair enough, and my due diligence advising them is discharged (I might not agree, but there comes a time to help the organization put all its wood behind a single arrow).
Whenever you got an establishment claiming authority from authority you are going to get this response the only thing surprising is why supposedly competent and intelligent politicians and propagandists keeps getting caught out by this extremely rational behaviour.

The problem here is as that "The Science" is being claimed as a source of authority with the same blind reverence that the church used to claim God or "The Bible" rather then being presented in all it's messy and inconclusive glory.
> This is precisely what Servo is

Great example - because Mozilla binned Servo!

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1295771633320448001
Maybe we should better ask the question why a browser dupoly is bad and what we expect from a competing browser.

I think the core goal is influence: The ability to meaningfully change the web ecosystem or counteract changes that would be harmful.

Of course market share is necessary for influence, but I don't think it's sufficient: If Firefox gained a larger market share but at the cost permanently catching up to Chrome, I don't think a lot would be won.
this guy said it best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYT2se94eU0&t=1414s
Iain M. Banks. One of the overarching themes of his Culture novels is the tension between human and artificial intelligences, which are considered citizens in their own right.
> For this reason, among others, I rate this as among my top 5 sets ever. The only reason I can't rate it #1 is that all 5 are so good.

I wonder which are the other 4 sets.
These are all fair points that lay bare some of the major issues the world will have to deal with sooner or later.
Mine would be to start somewhere, anywhere, and get momentum behind it. Fix at least one company (ideally more), fix the people who benefit from the current system, and fix the system itself. It's a ton of work, but since it's one of the biggest global issues right now, I'm sure we can resource it.
Is it using electron like vscode?
> “Companies are not required to seek CMA approval before they complete an acquisition but, if they decide to go ahead with a merger, we can stop the companies from integrating further if we think consumers might be affected and an investigation is needed.”

> He added: “We warned Facebook that its refusal to provide us with important information was a breach of the order but, even after losing its appeal in two separate courts, Facebook continued to disregard its legal obligations. This should serve as a warning to any company that thinks it is above the law.”
> Firefox is compromised by the fact it’s core active users are also its largest liability. It’s the innovators dilemma. They want it to (more or less) stay the same

How much of the users are actually technical?

The Firefox user share is frequently seen through the lens of technical features, however, I have the suspicion that the vast majority of the audience is regular users who have no idea of anything technical.
They don't, but it seems like relevant context on an article about an English phrase that's ubiquitous there.
Didn't change anything here.
Yes, stopping such research is important.

But it has nothing to do with COVID-19.
It is either "Blow Horn" or "Horn Please" and it is a signal for request for overtaking. Acknowledgment is usually a sign by hand from a driver's window. Nowadays it is a blink of a turn signal.

BTW, hill are drivers in India and Nepal are much more skilled and civilized, especially Nepalese.
>What is 'global standard English'?

I don't think it's formally defined, but there are some phrases that are widely accepted as "normal" by English speakers regardless of geography and others that are peculiar to a certain dialect.

I'd be very surprised to hear someone outside of Australia say they were "fanging for a dart", for example.
I found out last week that remarkable runs everything (including the main UI) as root. Was quite surprising to find a modern linux device built this way.
I live in the southeastern United States. It's common for conveying the size of a group, for instance. If a lot of people showed up to an event but not on the scale of hundreds, it's common to hear "scores of people."

It's not common in my job to talk about scores as a metric because 20 isn't a natural unit for my work product, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear it like that, either. We still use "dozen" and "gross" for other non-decimal groupings much more commonly, e.g. "a dozen doughnuts."
I switched to firefox already and happy with it.
I recently switched back to Firefox after using Chrome and Edge as my main browsers for the past couple of years. So far:

* Performance feels better. Both in terms of being more lean in everyday use, and in not having random issues where CPU/Memory spikes for seemingly no reason.

* I'm sure there are websites that don't work with Firefox, but I haven't found any yet.

* I don't like that tabs in the tab bar are roundrects instead of "connecting" to the content, but it's no big deal I guess.

* Other than that I've basically not noticed that I'm using a different browser, which I mean in the best way possible.

I'm going to continue using it for as long as possible, because while I think Mozilla has made some bad decisions in the past I strongly believe in their mission overall.
I like the idea that this wasn't even a finished, elaborate object. This was just someone doodling around on a piece of ivory, seeing what interesting shapes they could make. And we're treating it as the highest possible artistic output of their entire culture and analysing it with our incredible space-age tech.

I like to think their reaction would be embarrassment, like "please, I was just experimenting with that, I didn't even know how to do the drilling properly back then, there's so many better pieces being done by other people. Find one of them and analyse that, please. This is so embarrassing"
English is one of only two recognized official languages (in addition to Hindi) of the Republic of India [the federation]. It is widely used when native languages can't bridge the gap between two Indians.

edit: s/Indian state/Republic of India
> All they did for the last 30-40 years was selling extra horse power.

This was not my impression at all while cross-shopping the S-class, A8 and 7er. They’re all on fairly equal footing, I went with the 7 because it was put together significantly better than the Audi and had better tech than the S-class.

Now the brand new S-class might have shifted that balance a bit by adding rear wheel steering, but I’m not too sure about the touch screen monstrosity.
I get what you're saying but what do you think about Mutual Assured Destruction then? Your reasoning goes against this doctrine. That is the leadership of a nuclear country must not retaliate to preserve humanity.
This is changing. Browser has 0 friction distribution and security advantage other mediums don't have
"developer & tech people started to install Chrome on family computers instead of Firefox..."

I'm not so certain those numbers compare with the 10s of millions of people(100s?) who's default browser was hijacked by nefarious bundles in every 3rd party installer under the sun back in the 2000s and early 2010s.. Those people knew no better and have been conditioned(or just don't care) to continue whatever gets them interneting.
The day Firefox disables my one-line UI is the day I leave Firefox permanently, containers are cool and all but I'll live with it.
Code With Me is amazing except when it doesn’t completely work it doesn’t work at all.

Command + click doesn’t always work if there’s a lot of latency, many times the „follow other developer“ feature turns off randomly, often the search breaks or doesn’t work at all, the video & audio inside the IDE causes lag and massive amounts of load (so much that many of our devs switched to discord).

For what it’s worth it works mostly great when the developers pairing together are in the same country, but it’s pretty bad when i.e. a developer from
Berlin, Germany pairs with one from Columbus, Ohio. So I guess it’s a latency problem.
Is there any kind of index of software inefficiency? Something like "number of operations required by the software stack to display a sentence on screen", with a trend over time.
I wrote a very simple Python/OpenCV based surveillance video app that plays about 10 fps and saves a new video file every few minutes. I write video surveillance software, and seeing if the RPi400 could handle the processing load was my goal. It can.
> “the age for a woman to get married is 21”

Worth adding here, that this phrase was meant to make families wait to get their girls married, aka "as opposed to 15" and not as in the current day, where this would be taken as implying that they should get married at such a young age.
George Doriot and the History of Venture Capital (2009)
More effective would be to send the board and the CEO links to this and the other thread to show how long-gone the days of "develop with pleasure!" really are.
No need for copy-pasting, just doing "Command+L, Command+Return" will duplicate your current tab. Works on Chrome and Safari.
I run it with recommend options + Show video controls and Stop autoplay and I have no issues other than occasional glitches because those two advanced options. What problems do you have?
I can only urge you to consider an upgrade from punched media to the new-fangled latest in magnetic drum storage, even if only in order to build a fuller appreciation for The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer [1]

[1] http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
That's all true. At the same time people on HN of all places still seriously advertise Chrome clones as if they were a complete alternatives for a Google monopoly. I've lost hope and count the days until either Gecko/Quantum will go down or biggest websites will stop supporting it. I'm already encountering at least one not working website every few months, one of them was my bank portal (BNP subsidiary, not some out of the woods small bank).
PiP works perfectly everywhere else so I assumed this is like when Google breaks Firefox and slacks on fixing it, where it might not have started as a deliberate attempt but someone intentionally keeps fixing it off of the development schedule.
What are you expecting to have happened? The town to get together and everyone refuses to sell?

Like I said it wasn't an ultimatum people were given to sell or keep their town, it didn't just spring on them one day in a town meeting where they could vote to gentrify or not.

Some people are going to sell because they're moving on, some people die and their estate sells, it's just going to happen. Over time more of them get sold to holidaymakers and investors, and you can start to pick up on what's happening, but it's not like you have personal agency over the problem anymore. You could refuse to sell, but your neighbor might not. Prices are going up, the town is changing whether you like it or not.
Prompt Learning in Natural Language Processing
If you think the content is shitty, why would extend effort to circumvent the revenue model to access it anyway?
But then it's the same people who wanted to "own their town" who are raising the prices for their neighbors, not some alien invaders pushing the poor locals away.
Global standard English is the English that a mixed international group of non-native but competent English speakers defaults to in an important meeting.

I.e. a simpler subset of grammar: only 3 basic tenses, minimal and explicit use of conditionals to differentiate hypotheticals from reality/expectations, avoiding idiomatic or slang expressions, preferring regular and frequent conjugations over irregular / infrequent ones, preferring simple verbs over phrasal verbs, minimal reliance on definite/indefinite Articles as modifiers/counters, etc

It’s still a subject-verb-object language that includes the Be-copula though.
Despite all the gloom I am still just a rat playing Doom
in January 2020, nobody, including you thought this was going to go as far and as fast as it did. By then, very likely the cat was already out of the bag and a worldwide travel ban would have helped but would not have prevented the pandemic outright. Was this a mistake? Yes, because that decision violates the cautionary principle when dealing with novel diseases. The WHO was concerned with being found to be 'alarmist' but this time around that would have been the right position to take. Ironically had they done so and prevented the pandemic from spreading you would now be berating them for being such idiots that they caused us all to stop traveling for nothing in 2020, on account of the prevention paradox. And that makes you part of the problem: there is nothing that the WHO could have done that in your eyes would have been a proportional response, and when you are dealing with a novel pathogen mistakes are inevitable.

A bit of restraint and some more thinking about this on your part would go a long way towards a more reasonable stance. But those that see the UN and the WHO as the root of all evil tend to do everything they can to avoid seeing reason, instead everything gets bent to the 'UN bad' talking point.
Designing Search System at LinkedIn
輕信游客 means ‘gullible tourists’. That’s funny.
To read the phrase "Horn OK Please" perhaps?
Another thing that helps is a predictable, reliable undo function. If the user believes that any action is easy to undo, unknown actions won't be so scary. Of course, this is sort of a chicken-and-egg problem, because other than ctrl-z in certain desktop environments (in which environments undo is not always either predictable or reliable), there is no well-known idiom for undo.