skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even "small" farms have a number of practices that the average person would find appalling if they became aware of them. There's a place for graphic descriptions of these activities intended to upset and dismay "non-vegans" but I don't think that place is a tech board. If you are curious as to what these practices are, looking up videos/practices related to modern dairy production that are popular even on small dairy farms or male chick culling might be a decent start, PETA also has plenty of resources available. (I'm sure there are some really tiny family-owned farms that don't employ these practices.)

Aside from this, farms, like all industries, follow the "tendency towards monopoly" where ever larger players will consolidate, merge, and buyout their competition to maximize their collective control of the market share. I think as long as there is a market for animal products, that market will be overwhelmingly captured by large industrialized farms. It's precisely the most upsetting practices on factory farms that keep costs low enough to make products accessible to working class Americans.
Yes, I saw git is integrated. The problem is that I am not sure how to use it. Any docs? Probably there were but my visit was some time ago.

It would rock to have native GUI. Also, if I could know how to draw graphics... That would be very nice also, because having an interactive environment for graphics is the most awesome stuff that Pharo can offer (me).
They do, to an extent (though I very rarely drink coke). I tried a chai-based and cocao-based coffee alternative which had slightly more caffeine than decaf coffee, and it still gave me the same symptoms after a second cup. I guess my body just metabolizes caffeine differently than it did.
ha, a classic prisoner's dilemma.

in my case I was waiting for disgruntled shareholders to sell because an aggregate stance was not taken by management or other shareholders, and then when sold it goes to people more or less apathetic.

in your case you want people to buy the shares at any price but likely a premium, in order to exercise a goal, which I frankly think is absurd.

so guess the market has priced everything in well enough, as an aggregate opinion on its own.
They could have added a great deal more on-board data storage with negligible risk. As it is, they need to dump twice a day or lose observations.
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> but besides that then I can't think of anything terrible

How about stuff getting removed from the right-click / context menu, e.g. "page information" or "site information" (or whatever it used to be called in English)? How about no longer being able to remove specific (i.e. single) cookies? How about no longer being able to install arbitrary extensions?

I've been using Firefox for almost two decades now and have generally liked it a lot but GP has a point: The fact that the Mozilla devs have repeatedly removed (or at least hidden) more advanced features really is annoying.
The only reason Mozilla exists is due to the money they take from Google, so making compromises is built into the company's DNA.
This is even worse, it doesn't satisfy the constraints at all! If libBar needs features added to libFoo 1.1, it will crash with NoSuchMethodError, even though they declared their dependency correctly. That's madness.
2022 and still no native IPFS?
Either I own it or I don't. If you don't want me to tamper with it, then you can't sell it to me. You can give me use of it under some other kind of agreement, but then you can't misrepresent that as a "sale".
Thanks for the questions and ideas. We do support tags, which you can add inline using the format `#tagname`. This will create a Labels section in your sidebar which will show a list of all pages tagged with that. We've had many feature requests to make this more granular – to show blocks tagged with the labels – which we've been working on but haven't shipped yet. As for Surfaces on Daily Notes: I typically create a new Surface inline from Daily Notes by typing `[[Page Name`. This gives me a clean Surface to work on without messing with everything else going on in my day. It also generates a backlink for you from that Surface back to any days linking to it. Would love to hear if this helps your use cases at all. Thanks!
i've begun to believe that customers have no power in first place. The most recent example being how youtube just came in and removed the dislike count, and no one could do anything, not only that i bet youtube usage hasn't gone down. These big companies are so entrenched in our minds at this point that they could essentially do whatever and get away with it.
This would only work in isolation, but there are other fingerprintable bits such as the IP address (which you can't hide).

IP address alone is already a very good identifier unless you share it with other people. If you do share it, then user-agent and browser fingerprint becomes the next thing. If other users on the same IP use Safari and you're the only one using Firefox then you are trivial to identify.
If I can block the 5 word soup gpt2 fake support sites that make up the top 20 results for obscure debugging messages from my own personal account, then my signal to noise ratio went from 0 to some number above 0. This is an infinite improvement for the first page.

Noone ever wants to go to xypdf.com for any reason unless they want to feel like they just had a stroke, how is (was? it made me stop using google except as a last resort in 2019) it often 3 of the top 5 results?

I wish I could just invert their SEO quality metric (there was a golden window around 2018 where you could just type -best into search engines that still respected subtraction to get only good reviews but sadly quality sites have fallen into line with the duck speak). I feel it's a pretty reliable indicator of garbage.
you confuse democracy with capitalism
I can believe the Earth is flat if I avoid the evidence and don't care about congruence - especially if financially motivated.
> When I read 'Self-Replicating Programs' [sic] it I immediately thought "Worms"

You are not wrong at all. At its base, any virus is a quine. Well, both computer viruses and biological viruses are quines. Life itself would not be possible without quines.
There are very few teams in the typical organization that can unilaterally veto a purchase. Security is one of them, and the easiest to get to reject the free version by restricting security features.

In your model, the enterprise version is a marginal cost. Customers get 3/4 of the product for free, and decide whether they want they want to pay for the other quarter. A lot of people won't, or they'll write a batch script to replicate the single feature they want, or etc.

In the "restricted security features" model, customers either get 0 features because security won't let them deploy it, or they get all the features.

It also encourages startups to use the product since it's free... for now. A 3 person startup doesn't really need SSO or RBAC. They eventually will, as they grow, and they'll already be locked in.
What is a crime depends on local legislation. Being homosexual is a crime in many countries, hence there is still nothing wrong with 'criminals' performing forced labour?
The modern, western world still had slavery as recently as 150 years ago, so that too is not really a marker to differentiate between our era and antiquity.

Not to mention all the wars and genocides of the last two centuries, unprecedented in scale and ferocity, which make it hard to pretend we are morally better than any previous generation.
Is wikipedia inaccurate? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest#...

Your personal experience may be less relevant than actual incidents in which people were shot.
I have several google minis, and a couple of google hubs (first gen). You need to group the devices and then tell google to play the songs in that group... it has worked really well for me - so I'm hoping I won't lose that functionality. If they are too close together the speakers struggle to figure out which one is closer to me . For instance, I used to have one in the living room and one in the kitchen (rooms that are close together without a separating wall) and often they will both answer my question. I ended up turning off the mic in one of them.

Every now and then I use it as an intercom but with mixed results.

My take on the google products is that they are far from perfect, but I really don't see anything better out there. I own several Apple products, but when it comes to smart home they have very little to offer, and Siri is far behind the google assistant.
Thanks for the response. I understand your reasoning for failing the KN95s, but then what about the Lutema mask, which uses a proprietary standard? Lutema includes some lab test documents [0] but I can't find any technical information about what results exactly is required to qualify as an "M series" mask. They mostly seem to compare with with KN95 masks, but without really saying what makes them different [1] (note that the testing info on that page are for their surgical mask).

It seems like the "M series" designation is mostly a branding effort to make their masks stand out from the competition, and less about specific technical improvements.

I did look to see if you had a video on this mask but there doesn't seem to be one, would love to hear your take on this unusual designation.

And regarding the Boncare (et al) masks, I suspect the omission is at least partially motivated by style; it makes the mask less conspicuous for mainstream use. The labeling on most (passing) masks tends to be rather obtrusive.

0: https://lutema.com/collections/made-in-usa-masks/products/ad...

1: https://lutema.com/pages/m95-vs-kn95-masks
Is the patent 'controlling speakers as a group' or the detailed mechanism that makes it possible?

In the former case, it's not a patent, but just a feature. Patents need to be about how you accomplish features, and need to be non-obvious.
I'm skeptical of some of Mozilla's focus, but Firefox is over 20 years old and over 20MM lines of code. They've been putting a lot of attention to it for a long time (and some incredible work has come from it, including within the past five years).

I'd love to see them pour more resources into it, but it's a huge project, so I think moving the needle likely is never as simple as "a bit" more attention.

It would be neat if Mozilla added a "where do you want your money to go to" option in donations. The bulk of their funding would likely continue be from partnerships, but it would make it so much more tangible that the users really care about browser development. We're not just noisy people in the HN comments--we'll put money into it given the option.
My position is that they could do far more if they cared - simply blocking spam domains like it’s the previous century would make my experience better – but that they have made a business decision not to devote more resources to the problem.
I like proton. THe menus are easy to scan. I don't have to learn a bunch of icon-function associations, I just scan the short titles. It's clean, but it doesn't diminish usability. It got rid of a bunch of clunky design choices.
> As a side note, the first author on this paper is the CEO of InstaDeep. I see it as a red flag that the CEO of a 150+ person company would put themselves as first author on this paper. Perhaps I'm unfairly judging and the CEO really was the lead contributor to the study.

Authors on scientific papers are ordered by name, so whoever's name is first is pure coincidence.
I think the biggest problem with authoritarian thinking about math is that math is not a discovered set of authoritarian principles, but rather a colossal project to make up weird relationships that satisfy the rules of the weird relationships that were already made up.

Approaching imaginary numbers as:

> "Eventually, mathematicians got sick of not being able to achieve a negative result through multiplication, so Rafael Bombelli finally made up imaginary numbers using the work of other Italians and even some Greeks. Unfortunately for him, most people thought his idea and rule set was stupid until about two hundred years later. We will now learn what sorts of nonsense he made up--those of you who are interested in electricity had better listen close--"

will inevitably lead to a different mindset about math than:

> "Today's lesson is that the square root of negative one is i. Write that down, because it WILL be on the test."
Nobody knows what these things are or why they need them. The only thing that makes companies care about security is when it can be used to close more deals, or comply with regulations. That means you're either targeting MM+ customers or are MM+ yourself. Until then, if a company can jettison audit logs to save $20/seat, they will. And providing them that option may be exactly the mental gymnastics you need to close the deal.

I also don't agree it's a dark pattern. Implementing and storing audit logs takes up time and space, so it makes sense to charge more for them. Having your engineers spend time on meta-features like SSO rather than the next product roadmap feature has an opportunity cost so you should get some cash out of it to balance things.

I'm just thinking of a standard B2B SaaS context. If you're in the security field selling to security professionals then maybe these features are table stakes?
Librefox is a drop in replacement without the antifeatures.

https://github.com/intika/Librefox

Edit: I meant Librewolf, not fox.
Love ExtensionPay, so easy to use! I spent a while looking for ways to accept payments and most importantly handle subscriptions for Chrome Extensions, and everything felt like too much work. Super glad I came across your product, was very quick to integrate too and easy to check if a subscription is active or not. Been using it for my Carden extension, sadly no sales just yet :P
Hey, I think it's a lot more clear now :)
What it was like to cover a uncrowded CES during a pandemic
Looks like you skipped their revised statement.

I would also ignore or mildly chuckle at any government that thinks they can force me to have an opinion. Ignore for small market, mildly chuckle at big market.

If they want me to color an island on a map the same color as another landmass, or make a statement about my extended supply chain, I will do so and not pretend like it's any different just because some of my friends happen to respect one country slightly more all because they repeated a creepy chant every day as children in grade school.
Does Chrome?
These are not real security features, they are implementation features that only the largest customers will demand, so they really are differentiation: SSO (enterprise kind, not log in with Google), Role based access control (i.e. custom roles, not the usual admins, managers and users), Log auditing.

MFA should be the default. Because one day, Bob in sales is gonna click that link and enter his password that 850 other sites use.
I think it's complete BS that when I search for something like Basecamp, they show the paid advertisement before the organic result, even though they're the same.

Feels so slimy. The organic result would have sufficed.

Nothing but a glorified 1997 Yahoo Index at this point.

I never click the advert. I know I'm probably in the minority, but I won't give them the infinitesimal revenue.
Thanks for suggestion, I added Tooltip to Story titles, I forgot to add that previously. Also note, if you want to scroll the entire section you can shift + wheel scroll to horizontal scroll, or middle mouse button drag to horizontal scroll if you want to see more titles at same time
> Pharo 10 will use a native GUI backend.

Will this mean HIDPI support too?
Nuclear reactors are just bigger pains than even the coal plants they might replace.

Especially to replace enough fossil fuel one would have to scale up the problems with mining, waste disposal, and risks of accidents or malicious interference. I know this isn't a popular idea here, but there also lots of physicists who don't believe in nuclear fission as a mid-term or near-long-term solution.
It's a demonstration plant. Testing small proof of concept first, I guess.
I don't blame Firefox here though I do believe this was a change to perhaps the strictness or level of introspection. I've observed two websites with similar issues.

Either way, I'm a-ok with these types of changes even at the expense of my time in remembering the cause and the solution.
I didn't - existing users stayed at the cheaper price, some ended up churning (as the direction the product was going in was different to their expectations), new users only ever saw the new price.
I think I could devise scenarios where that would fail compilation when `else` is used as a macro argument, but other than that it seems quite solid. :)
https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9618605,-2.4075562,3a,75y,18...

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9631304,-2.4105157,3a,75y,34...

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.964952,-2.4163361,3a,75y,51....
Pharo is bootstrapped, and its building process starts with a really minimal image (even the compiler is not included). It is possible to build custom images of any size. You need to take care of packages and dependencies, of course.

Pharo can make applications with a native look & feel - https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec-Gtk.

Current Pharo has a very solid and powerful FFI, so using C libraries is easy.
Yup. I've noticed recently that when I search for a public figure (whether it be a politican or businessperson or celebrity), their Wikipedia is now at the bottom of page 1, or not at all anymore. Never used to be the case 5 years ago.
I seriously doubt that courts would side with someone who tricks people into downloading code with a different license.

Especially since changing the license of a project from MIT to AGPL doesn't suddenly revoke your rights that you had under the MIT license -- only new code would be affected by the license change.
yup, same. started at like 16 and just never found a replacement for writing web apps that was as easy to pick up with lots of built in power. the documentation has always been _extremely_ helpful too, shout outs to the php.net team for making it so easy to learn.
Whoa, I didn't even know there was a Windows LTSC.
FYI the animations for your signup and "where ideas grow" are killing my browser performance. Beefy desktop, Google Chrome. I'd get rid of them personally or use standard CSS animations when the elements come into view.
Another thing not mentioned is the fun in finding media itself.

I went out with a girl I met at a record store once, and I’ve met several musicians when I’m out buying music.

When you can get everything beamed directly to your house, you miss out on so many adventures. I imagine many marriages originated from chance encounters at Blockbuster.

Instead of some cool college student suggesting an old 80’s film, Netflix tells you to watch it’s new 50 million dollar movie. While I love the internet , the world feels less fun now. So many multi billion dollar companies nudging me in this direction or that direction…
SSO also costs many companies a few hundred thousand dollars to implement.

Not everyone is using AWS cognito or auth0, and thus has to add on SSO to an existing authentication method.

Even if you are using Cognito or Auth0, its still annoying to implement in their systems, and THEY charge you additional for it as well.

Add on to that its a clear segment of customers, it really makes sense to charge more for it.
Ask HN: Split 10 days timeline between design, code and test for a feature
Just curious to understand where do people prefer spend most of their time. Do you prefer a near perfect architecture before moving on to code, or do you start code with a bare-bones design. Do you write tests as you code or do you write tests after the code it done.
Yes. Clover is a widely used name and we _are_ exploring ways to differentiate that to help our findability. I like the “Clover Notes” suggestion!
Doesn't regular volume slider controls multiple remote speakers in case of connected Bluetooth headphones?
One reason could be that active users of the browser are annoyed at the constant useless UI changes that break their workflow.

My reason is that I don't like Mozilla's false-advertising as a privacy-protecting browser which is absolutely not the case and gives a false sense of security to less savvy users that aren't aware that they need to change many settings and install specific third-party extensions to reach a semblance of privacy.
I wonder what the author's thoughts are on "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt. It mentions many clear refutes backed up by history to the idea of how bad it is for humans to be "addicted to righteousness".

For example, individuals have not and do not live by themselves in a vacuum as only selfish. We are also very group-ish, and it is the righteousness or norms of those groups that allow for things to get done. People have evolved to agree to social and group norms because those groups always trust each other more, thereby getting more done.

On how efficient secular societies are, Haidt claims: "We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).”

If you support secularization and the ideas of "addictions to righteousness" you have to at the very least be worried about how low birth rates are for people who believe those ideals.
That isn’t quality. That’s like saying a crappy textbook full of errors that ships prime same day is better than a good textbook that takes a week to arrive.
IME async "context switches" are indeed vastly less costly, and I don't see why it wouldn't be. And I think calling it context switch is reading too much into it, when it's really just the program continuing on to operate on different data.
Demo and pilot plants tend to be small because they are intended to prove the technology to be feasible and economic. The next step would be a commercial scale plant.
Not sure where it came from, but there is a popular notion that scientists are somehow more moral than everyone else. Obviously that's not true. A lot of terrible things were made and many terrible acts committed by scientists. They can be just as depraved as the rest of us.
Slightly tangential but since it appears near the start of the article:

As an American I recall being very surprised the first time I traveled to England and realized that “pence” is literally the same as “pennies” - just a different way of pluralizing it. As a kid I just thought it was some obscure division of numbers like “fortnight” or “score.”

I imagined it worked something like “four farthings to a pence and twelve pence to a pound” or something. :)
> AS A SOBER ADDICT...

I wish we would drop this terminology and self-consciousness. While I understand the term is intended as a self-reminder that it's easy to slip back into addictive patterns of behavior, the perpetual self-description of "addict" surely cannot be healthy for the person or society.

The addict-for-life mentality is similar to the seed of cancel culture. Once you do $BAD_THING, you're a ${BAD_THING}er your whole life. There's no forgetting, no ultimate forgiveness, only eternal sorrow and penance.
I agree that it's kind of a mess, but it's getting better with simpler APIs (like asyncio.to_thread()), and in practice you can just use the primitives you want and ignore the rest.

I haven't read the post in detail though, thanks for the link! Seems interesting.