skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder how much of that is simply for short term political gains.

I think it has happened long enough ~150 years to prove it's not short term. Every single major immigration event in north america has benefitted us greatly.

New orleans and french culture is still there from 1700s immigration

1850 famines brought tons of irish to the east coast producing places like notre dame. Germans went to midwest producing the auto industry and general huge success of detroit.

filipino and jewish immigrants practically built the west coast in the 1930-1950s.

That's kind of the thing. In the short term the new immigrants are often living in poverty and are hated, but long term immigration is super beneficial.

In fact the arab spring was intentionally done to drive arabic immigrants to the developed world. We need them for the 2030 worker shortage.

>"Multi-Culturalism" is pretty new (and accompanied by increasingly out of control immigration quotas) and seems to be aimed at pandering to multiple ethnic enclaves.

Oh yes, north america has very bad identity politics since Obama. It has gone beyond pandering and leading into civil war for the usa. It's far worse in Canada because we actually removed our freedom of speech in place of 'hate speech'. So every politician now is a racist etc. Every single conservative leader has been called a racist or worse.

Though there's also a more hidden agenda of mitigating our 2030 worker shortage issue. Canada is essentially bringing in a province worth of people every year in an attempt to mitigate. This has to be done from countries that were affected by WW1 but not WW2.

>I mean not that long ago wasn't the official policy to discriminate against anyone not deemed Canadian enough (the French or Natives for instance)?

~10% of Canada's GDP is going toward building expensive housing. One of the highest in the world. Housing prices are skyrocketing because mortgages are being issued in illegitimate basis, but also because we're adding a province worth of people every year. That's a ton of housing being built.
It's as remote as VS Code is, meaning you can run it entirely locally or as a thin client to a server that's hosted in a VM, docker container, WSL, or a remote server.
> 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

So you're saying Indian drivers have developed echo-location.
"This whole thing is so bizarre"

Why? He's been a part-time CEO whose focus has clearly been on Square. Having a full-time CEO focused on a company with as high a profile as Twitter makes a lot of sense.
Try again, there's a redirect, and a very very slow download after.
This is great, after cycling and running then you can have a quick break to watch Netflix
I think the civil war was independent of the constitution and it would have occurred regardless of whatever the legal structure was.
Depression and anxiety are signs of intelligence to me.
> I at least have the possibility of diagnosing and fixing the problem myself, with or without the maintainer's cooperation.

In reality people do this with closed source software all the time, most especially visible in gaming where unofficial patches are often the only reason an older game will run on a modern OS.
Better. It blocks most ads and tracking, but actually allows well behaved ads, which I am happy to support. Better is built by an indy husband and wife team. I have no affiliation.

https://better.fyi

From their website:

>>Better is hand-crafted by Small Technology Foundation, a tiny two-person-and-one-husky not-for-profit striving for social justice in the digital network age. We curate our own unique blocking rules for Better based on the principles of Ethical Design.
> Coalition of Communities of Colour

They probably would recognize me too, but I would decline association to be honest, regardless if it is the US or British variant. Also racism to me has a very specific definition. To believe people to be inferior because of extrinsic properties or ethnicity. Not every form of prejudice is racism of course.

The only person I have ever met that though I was too brown was my dermatologist. Sure, others face racism, but it is also used to justify discrimination and I think that is moving backwards. The US has better understanding on multiculturalism but they changed course recently. It is progress as that is inevitable, but I don't see it improving anything.
I’d say that the teens having a different structure in English is also weirdly out of place, not that the German counting makes sense. Having a structure where you always count from highest to lowest, and in the order you would write down the number, just makes more sense. It’s always been weird to me that we have unique words for the tens numbers in English.
Download zip doesn't work for me, found a mirror here https://sizeofcat.ru/so.cl/1638195782/
Could One Shot Kill the Flu?
> Why not? Maybe it will encourage creativity and corporations will be forced to create new things.

Because Mickey Mouse is an icon, a mascot, a trademark, and one that is in active use in new media. So there is some sense in companies protecting that asset. Which is what is happening if these types of characters are covered under trademark law (I wasn't sure if that was the case when I made my earlier post).

I might dislike Disney as an org but I also don't think it's fair to say it's "creative" for other people to use that asset but not "creative" for Disney to reuse it. You're setting different standards for different people.

> Copyright's only base for existence is encouraging creating creative works after all.

Copyright is an English invention and the purpose of it has evolved multiple times over the years. Originally it was intended to prevent scandalous pamphlets rather than promoting creative works. Later it was used like patents where authors could recover the costs of publishing before those stories became free for the masses. It wasn't created to encourage creating creative works because people used to do that long before the printing press, eg by passing stories down by word of mouth.

> Note that you can't use elements still under copyright, e.g. his modern appearance won't be public domain once Steamboat Willie enters it.

Indeed. But I was responding to the OPs point about how they believed copyright should behave rather than how it currently does.
Another reason is actually security.

Remember that Apple doesn't allow other web browser engines in any application. Imagine if an Electron application on iOS just decided to ship with it's entire, own browser engine. We would have super-bloated apps like our desktops, and if a security flaw was found, good luck getting all those apps to update.

In a way, Apple knows that allowing other browser engines means:

1. Chromium-based browsers just increase their monopoly, Firefox continues stagnation by almost all odds

2. The Electron mess on our desktops will claim new territory on our phones and bring security problems with it

Not very appealing. Limiting competition? When your only realistic competition is Chrome with it's 80%+ dominance, I don't think a regulator would have a problem with that.
Winamp at this point in time is just a trademark that ended up at a Belgian company. And I think they want to use it to launch a music streaming service. The rest of Nullsoft went down with AOL. I wonder which party would even have the legal rights to move against such a source code leak.
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I am continuously appalled at the gall of calling that hatchway "airtight".
An article I want to see is: A broad overview of Chromium's governance and exactly how much control any one party has.

You're arguing "sole" control which is a Strawman and doesn't really address anyone's actual concerns. A better discussion is: Can Google make unilateral decisions on Chromium's direction/support/features in any circumstances?

What I'm about to say may upset people but if Chromium's governance model was good enough I could see Firefox joining it and turning Firefox into another Chromium based browser.

The problem with hegemony is governance and control, it isn't technological. Purely on a technical level hegemony is a good thing. But who controls the hegemony? If it is Google or any corp that is really, horrible.
Well they do have some effects. For example, I won't even think about flying, except if it is necessary because of my work.

Same as covid measures. I won't even think about participating in activities requiring me to have a green pass, except if it is necessary because of my work.

Tandem is operating just fine. The thing is that it is going to operate forever now and it is not going to be pretty.
I keep seeing discussions on a full IDE vs an editor like VSCode. People are claiming VSCode is poor with autocompletions and other features only a full IDE can accomplish.

I use Pycharm, Webstorm, and VSCode and I don’t see the huge difference. Is it more apparent on certain languages?

They stated in their blog https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/09/a-picture-of-java-in...

> In the web space it is understandable to use an editor as web developers are typically working with dynamic languages, and often use other tools like browser plugins to give them what they need. But in Java, especially professional Java, you really get a lot out of a good tool that has integration with the application server and you can really use the analysis and refactoring and everything.

> VS Code is growing which is concerning, not from a competitive point of view but actually from the point of view that there is clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you

So my main question is what do full blown IDEs do that an editor like VSCode cannot?
>I think it’s worth noting that (at least I believe) the reason apple limit the usage of other browser engines in iOS isn’t (mostly) about maintaining control and dominance. It’s about battery usage

Why would this be a believable excuse? you can install a Firefox skin of WebKit on iOS and this skin could maybe be terrible on battery usage. A good default browser like on laptops is good enough for battery, people who care about it will use Safari, the obvious reason Apple is doing this is to prevent competition, so if Apple fucks with WebGL then you can't have say a WebGL based mobile game that would go around the Apple Store.
It is flawless on my 4 years old $200 phone...
I think they did based on my reading of the 13th amendment “ Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Yeah it does make sense :)

Did you think about a race where you also _lose_ "distance points" when you travel faster than some speed? Like a malus for car use, great malus for plane, etc.

Would be best if it could refrain from removing points when using public transport (which could be somewhat doable giving a lot of public transport routes are public to some extent?)
And according to https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40538538, it always has been.

In the referenced book, the author details how the aluminum cartel was dismantled under the threat of WWII needs because of their failure to promptly address the needs of the United States.
> I really hate that right now the main obstacle to making a good movie/game/etc

I do not believe that is the main obstacle even by a far margin. It is at best the main obstacle to do that in an established universe.

The main obstacle, in my opinion, to making a good movie/game/etc. is that most people are not very good at making these.

Making a popular movie/game/etc. on the other hand...
Even on racetracks indicators and high-beams are used in their own way (that is: if the race car is equipped with such lights).

Hazard lights (both indicators): Used in yellow zone, both to confirm to the marshals that the driver has seen the yellow flag. For drivers behind it is extra indication that yellow zone is ahead.

Indicate to the right: Acknowledge the faster driver behind you, indicating it is safe to pass. Also to acknowledge to marshal that the blue flag was observed.

Indicate to the left: Indicate to car in front that you are faster, please let me pass (same as blue flag by marshal). Obviously not used in competitive racing, but very useful recreational for track driving.

High-beams are sometimes flashed to thank/acknowledge marshal on a flag signal.
Well, Google and Amazon are megalomaniac in progress. I doubt one has to be cynical to be disgusted by where all of this going. But yeah people had dreams and those were exciting at the time (when one did not know all the consequences of course).
Jack Dorsey 'set to step down' from Twitter
JetBrains makes money selling to corporate engineering orgs. In that context the incentives towards remote development environments are very strong. You can get a developer immediately productive (again) by restoring a golden image. Instead of paying engineers to optimize the build or write IDE plugins to index manageable subsets of the codebase, you can just throw power at it. Remote dev environments at my company have 96 cores. The monorepo builds in about a tenth of the time. Unfortunately I think it’s inevitable.

The only thing slowing it down was developer rejection of the austerity of vim and emacs. That’s changing now with VSCode’s in-browser and SSH Remote support. That’s the golden path now at my work. Although we still pay for JetBrains licenses, the JetBrains workflow is quietly and unofficially deprecated.

They have to do this to stay relevant. And I’m glad they’re doing it, because I want my JetBrains-level capabilities back. VSCode doesn’t come particularly close.
Shouldn’t consensus in policy be led by science rather than rigid dogma?

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” -Keynes

Science is about understanding the facts that inform policy.
Interesting as a historic document. If someone is willing to port it to newer systems or compilers, also maybe of some value. I really don't see much value considering there are already reasonable good, lightweight (I think) and multi-platform (like qmmp) which offer support to winamp skins.
Remember who started the civil war? We had the civil was because the writing was on the wall for slavery. The south seceded because it seemed highly likely that slavery would be abolished through legal means.
If they're going to be paying developers to do it they'd need an expectation of a stronger ROI than their other efforts. I wonder if the size of the macOS automation community is large enough to make much of an impact on their market share. Would you estimate they'd gain hundreds of users? Thousands? Tens-of-thousands?

If they're relying on volunteers then they'd need a few folks with the right set of skills and a motivation to scratch that itch. I would personally love to see better AppleScript support in Firefox, but I won't judge anyone else for not stepping up if I don't have the inclination to either.
>This is the last time I'll reply, your comments are admittedly going off the rails now.

It is your choice of course but please try to understand that I was not even trying to be on any rails there as I am questioning the logic and ideas behind the current laws because I observe inconsistency of current laws with initial idea of promoting progress in Science and Arts by giving exclusive Right to Authors and Inventors. Not some man-in-the-middle by the way. Authors and Inventors. Where ever I go I do not see copyright belonging to Authors, all I see is someone else who took all rights from those Authors and Inventors. Even if we accept such exclusive Right I do not see why such exclusive Right should be transferable as it is obviously would be abused and we observe that in reality.

>It's fairly cut and dry.

In the context I've described above while I am thankful to you without any irony for providing useful links to the current laws and definitions I am still more interested about ideas behind them rather then current implementations.

>You also take umbrage with the fact that "copy" is fairly ambiguous.

I would not use word 'umbrage' but when one questioning ideas behind certain definitions every term becomes open for interpretations and the current legal definition is just one of them.
CPU pinning is pretty useful for virtual machines, i.e. I've used it myself to improve performance on a VFIO setup, by limiting which cores where qemu runs on and thus improving cache locality.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#CP...

What are other real-world uses of CPU pinning?
I would be curious where the economic costs truly lie. Is Disney rent-seeking? Well, that would depend how many non-Disney entities are deploying Mickey Mouse and paying royalties for so doing (probably not common). Is there Mickey Mouse content sold by Disney that would command lesser prices if a competitor could ALSO generate Mickey Mouse content? Probably (in which case consumers pay higher prices, and competitors lose the opportunity to partake of that money trough).

However, the steel-manned argument for Disney is something like "look, you could always make some other character (e.g. Rowdy Rat), sell tons of them, and compete with us...what's so damned special about OURS apart from the creatives who build a world around him? If this were REALLY harming consumers, wouldn't there be all sorts of derivative works inviting lawsuits to determine what is and is not too close to the original?" The real question is whether Disney is so large and their litigiousness so frightening as to chill even that type of battle?
My memory is fuzzy on this but didn’t most consider Winamp 2.x the best. Winamp 3.x was considered bloated. So to help rectify the problems of 3.x, Winamp release version 5.x (the best of 2 + 3). Though I recall many still used version 2.x even after the 5.x release.

Question: so when you say folks are trying to keep the "last version" alive, which version are you referring too since later versions weren’t loved.
A large percentage of road deaths are pedestrians and cyclists. Especially in countries with fewer cars and more pedestrians. So it's more that as a Somali car owner, you have a 6.5% chance of killing somebody with your vehicle, annually.

Still the number seems incredibly high. Maybe the number of registered vehicles is underreported, with many vehicles just not getting officially registered?
CPU pinning can be particularly important if you're running virtual machines and/or hyperthreading-friendly workloads
I thought it was going to be some obfuscated JS or maybe the image reconstructed from a grid of subimages or some such thing.
Trojans, Spyware and Miners. Oh my.
Use Diffoscope in Packager Workflows
Really weird name for an editor…

I love IntelliJ and have paid for it for years now so I will probably check this out. VSCode has always felt too different.
There's a certain "buyer beware" quality to open-source stuff, and I think that's okay. You can see the sausage, after all. Maybe I just have low expectations, but I don't think there's a perpetual obligation on the part of creators to maintain the thing they released into the wild.
The rats applied for an internship
I can attribute this decline to various factors:

In my opinion the author missed a large one: Mozilla chose to chase after Chrome's market share instead of focusing on the reasons people liked Firefox. For years there were a ton of things that made Firefox objectively more powerful for a skilled user than Chrome. Mozilla has burned all of them to the ground.

They could have kept us, the ten percent. Instead they chased the 50% and they will end up with nothing at all. When they write the obituary for Firefox, it will begin with the day they decided if Chrome does something then they have to do it as well. Personally I'd peg the terminal diagnosis for June 21st 2011.

Mozilla should be comparing their user share to their user demographics. When Firefox had thirty percent of the market its users were talking about all the amazing things they could make Firefox do that other browsers couldn't. In 2021 Firefox users pretty much just talk about getting off on Google not knowing what they're up to. What's that get Mozilla? 3.29%. So why is Mozilla hell-bent on the same attitude and pattern of behavior that's been ruining them for a decade?
very cool! would love to try to play around with this within a web page's design. kind of like how one might use gradients but on a whole new level ...
For context, here's the new revamped(!) Winamp coming up soon: https://www.winamp.com/

It's just... the complete opposite of what Winamp was all about, and it's horrible and leaves a bad taste in your mouth (-100 points for the atrocious "modern" website which loads MBs of Javascript, screams BIG TEXT at you, hijacks your scroll wheel, and still tells you nothing about the actual software other than it will probably suck. Oh and another -100 points for that cookie popup.)
I didn't verify this but my guess is that with the lack of the MSE API on Safari iOS, YT has no other option but to serve the HLS manifest directly to the video element thus it's a whole lot easier to grab the HLS URL (after YT's player JS generated the signature). Would be a bit more tricky to do this on Chrome (or Firefox) where the video buffer is built in code (MSE).

On second thought, muxing mpeg2ts to mp4 containers would make it possible to play the same HLS stream on Chrome.
he's a POS shill, there's no point arguing with these kinds of people.
Proof of work will outlast all consensus protocols
Tried taking a picture of this, and using iOS 15's "Live Text" to recognize the characters and translate them. It translates this phrase as "Lightly believe tourists". Anyone care to comment on whether that's an accurate translation, and "lightly believe" is an idiom meaning "gullible"?
Constitutional amendments come to mind, but I feel like that would be difficult to pull off at this point
There is `renv` for that
https://www.dairiki.org/HammondWiki/KeyClick is a pretty good starting point
Please note that the JBR is a custom build that contains a number of important changes and fixes, and it's not recommended to replace this. For M1 support, it's much better to use an M1 compatible JVM and .NET runtime. Rider 2021.2 is an Intel build, because when it was released there was no M1 compatible .NET Runtime.

Rider 2021.3 has an M1 build, and makes a big difference. It's currently in preview (https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/nextversion/) but will be released in the next week or so.
For those who may be curious, Firefox still lists all their metapages [0], which makes exploring under the hood pretty easy.

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For some reason they are still treated like a trust-worthy authority despite continually getting things wrong. They are rainmakers -- if the results don't match their promises they just blame the people for angering the gods and demand more sacrifices.
How is it mean? They get all their needs provided for, two companions, no fear of predators, and every so often they get put out on a ball which dispenses candy when they run.
I've been suggesting someone starts maintaining a set of patches to Firefox and building based on them.

Start by fixing low-hanging frukt (the tab-strip api, make real customizability for the UI possible again) and build momentum from there.

I'm ready to pay a bit for what is one of my most important tools, and I think we all should think about it that way.

Just don't start growth hacking me or anything sleazy and I'm also your free billboard on HN and elsewhere.
>Flashing headlights is also "i see you trying to merge in front of me and i'll give you space."

I do this for the same reason - or more generalized - 'I see you are about to do _x_, and I acknowledge - go ahead'.