skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are great links. I am not sure we are necessarily glossing over these details. The logistics of war/major construction/other big projects are actually heavily studied, and I'd dare say are interesting to the general public - see this book for example: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great. I'd call it history inspired fiction, but the author goes into a lot of detail about what it could have taken to motivate various peoples to join you for war, what goes into feeding said people etc.

I do agree that for some reason this information is more difficult to obtain - I want to blame popular movie directors who are obsessed with the lone genius trope, that however doesn't reflect reality well.

Interesting discussion/poem though - perhaps if we did a better job at reflecting the importance of all the moving pieces of the machine we'd have a better a priori idea of what it takes to create something big.

Edit: Here is something I watched recently about what it takes to feed 6000 miners somewhere in Mongolia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Vvw3Cy_Rw
Clicking on a link I'm sure is feedback.
What evidence would motivate such a distinction that doesn't ultimately reduce to special pleading?
> It’s his call to make…

Of course! In his own ecosystem. That’s what I am talking about. Privately owned ecosystems (or owned in some sense by private or wall street investors).

That is the Web2 model and we see where it leads. Whatever Zuck or Moxie decided, that’s what we got. We were locked in, due to the network effect. If you leave, you have to reconstruct your whole network, connections, assets elsewhere. And no one was really motivated to make it extremely interoperable.

Protocols are way more interoperable. And yes, the Web moved from http protocol to http/2, and also https, not too much more slowly than Signal
The central cylindrical space in what was the Scottish Nuclear headquarters was designed to be the same size as an AGR reactor (each AGR plant having two reactors) - which I thought was rather cool.
FTA: "Repairability is a selling point for the Surface Laptop SE in particular because the laptop is being marketed to schools, where laptops can be dropped, spilled on, or otherwise abused by kids who may or may not know better."

This should read: "... where laptops will be dropped, spilled on, and abused by kids who know better."

Besides, many kids enjoy learning by way of repairing. Especially if it works afterword.
This is an interesting article. While it seems to be set up to elicit emotions either on behalf or against each side of the mis-match - its hitting on a very real element of todays labor market.

Even in high paid technical talent or those with advanced degrees, there is almost always an information gap that make the hiring process less efficient and slower. One of the reasons that hiring through referrals or your network is so effective is by definition the contact is likely to know more about what you are looking for and what the company is like. Companies that have been able to attract top talent through great brands, pay or reputation are having to figure out ways to convey why exactly they are a great place to work in new ways.

One of the reasons we built Kiter https://www.kiter.app/ was to arm job seekers with as much readily available information as possible and an effective platform to use it. Having talked to applicants at all levels and stages of a job hunt I do not think this is a phenomenon isolated to folks wanting to work from home with extended weekends.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-exces...
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To add my anecdote to yours, I've been with Firefox for some time and I weathered the changes fine. I might not be crazy about Web in general, but Firefox has been good to me and I have not found the choices they make to break my workflows. I guess I fall within the target audience of their changes.
There should in general be repair friendly editions of devices design for easy repair, ram upgrade and ssd upgrade. Open boot loader, open source driver and open hardware manuals.
Oh? What do you think is inaccurate?
which now has nothing to do with Intel or its extended supply chain.
The page has changed.
Just yesterday someone commented on the google's union efforts with the following:

> Imputing altruistic morals to profit-seeking entities and then continually being surprised and offended when companies act shady puts employees in a pointlessly weak position.[1]

The discussion whether it's true or not is less important at this point than the fact that Governments is responsible for making sure that there are rules to be followed. The main problem here is that most governments themselves are also run by the same profit-seeking entities/people. The whole situation right now is based on the fact that everyone moved their production to china with complete disregard for everything but short term gain.

Amazons Bezos is in fact not wrong when he says that he's not going to pay tax out of some altruistic ideas, but that it is in fact up to governments to make proper legislation. It's just that governments are busy doing nothing but talking for the most part(or at least have learned to do nothing over the past decades). I actually had a social democrat party member tell me a couple years ago, that the politicians have a really hard job travelling around talking, and having to read consultant written legislation. This is in effect not that different from tech ceo's scheduling 4 hours of meetings every day and calling it work.

Most people don't actually want to change the status quo, they just want to put blame on someone.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876934
Well, every social media network tries to capture and monetize this, of course.

But yes, it would be nice to have this in a less proprietary way. But I fear it's either going to be a privacy issue (because the person you trust has to publish every page they like and dislike), or it's going to be anonymous and therefore easily gamed by bad actors.
The title here is imprecise and misleading. "Droplets that contain the Covid virus" would presumably be a bit more precise. Also the paper is a preprint, so one should be particularly careful with strong statements.
I don’t know why, but this makes me feel a bit optimistic about the future, at least in western societies. Our current worries about inflation, the degradation of the middle class, and stagnant wages seems to be more a product of moving to the Information Age, rather than inherently pet of our society; with long term reforms, these can be fixed.

But, it also suggests that problems like wealth inequality are here to stay, or least somewhat natural.
Depends on whether you consider a pair of bluetooth headphones as a single device or multiple devices.

I'm unaware of many devices that output audio to multiple distinct bluetooth targets simultaneously. Bose have that feature as part of their app, but I don't think it's a standard thing as a rule.
>Not necessarily. We have evolved features that are beneficial to us as well as those that just happened and wasn’t too detrimental nor useful. We are not the “perfect creature”.

Nobody made an argument for being the perfect creature. I made an argument for the fact we were designed to eat meat and veggies.

>While being able to digest meat is likely beneficial (though actually it is very easy to consume meat, especially cooked one compared to raw vegetables — just look at a cow’s digestive track), it doesn’t mean that we are made for that.

You have enzymes in your body or arrangement of atoms that are targeted towards specifically digesting and breaking down meat. Sure you can put ethanol in a car designed for gasoline but my point remains the same, we were designed to eat meat.

If you want to get pedantic here I can reword it into a stuffy/wordy sentence and avoid utilizing the word "design.":

We have evolved for millions of years to have bodies that happen to be extremely efficient at digesting and breaking down meat.
I think Firefox is great. Running it here on FreeBSD, Mac, Windows. It works well.

Only thing I mind a bit is the hidden compact theme which makes me worried it'll disappear completely at some point. The standard mode is too big imo. But the way it is now in about:config is fine

But the browser works well, renders well and I love the E2E encrypted sync. I don't use any other browser anymore. No problems with crashes or sites not working.

Just wanted to say that because people who are satisfied tend to be less vocal :)
Shareholders haven't resolved that Intel must or must not use slave labour.

And a court isn't going to second-guess the management if they judge the cost savings of using slave labour don't outweigh the potential for reputational damage.

As such, management are free to act either way.
> It just appears to have been changed for the sake of changing things

Unfortunately it just seems to be the way things work now. People joke all the time about UI/UX designers needing to justify their salary, I guess it's not too far from the truth.
Personally, I hear the arguments about "how you do segmentation". My personal opinion is that that is a lazy cop-out that is only successful in an environment where no one is being held accountable for security or privacy violations.

There are other ways to do segmentation, but they require actually understanding your customer and what they need in order to develop a value proposition.

People will complain about how hard it is to implement. And that's a thing. We as an industry are to blame for that. Tools like Rails, Django, etc. should be setup to support SSO/SAML/OIDC/RBAC/Audit Logs/MFA by default--rather than the default always being 'start with a user table and shit password management'-- so that the cost of those implementations goes down, and so that the "best practices", such that they are, are implemented from the very beginning.

Not at least supporting MFA and audit logs, at this point, should be considered an ethical lapse.

Here's a list of things you could charge extra for:

- White-glove support.
- Higher quotas and usage.
- Dedicated capacity.
- Value-added services.
- Dedicated/isolated instances.
- Multi-instance configurations (Likely only a feature requested by actual enterprises or resellers)
- On-prem installs.
- Access to greater customizability.
- Access to escrowed source code.
- White-labeling or branding

There are so many other things you can charge an enterprise extra for. Safety, security, and peace-of-mind in using your service shouldn't ever be a question.
People get addicted to controversy and seeing someone else who is "wrong and proud". And when this happens, they start to make up their own controversy and become more radical in order to feed their addiction.

You can believe that you're "good" and define certain things as "bad" without being "self-righteous". Heck, you can pretty much be wrong about what's good and bad and still not be self-righteous.

The problem arises when your opinion becomes rigid and you stop accepting any debate, then when you broaden your opinion so that it becomes more radical, because you want to be "right" and see others be "wrong" so bad. And this can turn even the most reasonable opinion into something extreme, e.g. "black people deserve to live" turning into "white people don't deserve to live [because they endanger black people]"
Pretty sure Mozilla's CEO isn't particularly well liked. She has a wage in the millions, which she insists is only fair for some family related reason, while Firefox' userbase has tanked.
The building in Michigan is in the same style but not as extreme. From what I remember, it has worse ratings than other dorms, and the complaints are about the lack of light.
Or its about preventing MITM attacks, which is a much more likely, much less tin foil explanation.
Unlike most open source code that's published online, it's damn near impossible to just go an re-implement your own browser if all available ones are not to your liking. Up until somewhat recently, Firefox has been the best browser for tech minded and privacy focused people, but it seems like Mozilla has lost their focus and are implementing features that their user base find questionable. I'll admit that some other features are very welcome, like containers and the like. But I do understand that their core userbase feel disappointed and whenever they see their best choice in browsers move all the more closer to the other subpar choices.

Specifically, people feel it was a let down to throw away the layout engine that was rewritten in Rust and drop the efforts to modernize other components too. There's a lot of people who feel let down with the deprecation and removal of support for older, more powerful plugin APIs.

And as for writing a browser on your own, lots of competent developers might implement an HTML renderer. I don't think a single person could implement a browser that's capable running youtube, banking websites, amazon, a fully features javascript VM, all the modern sandboxing and various web APIs (that now even include Bluetooth and USB).

I don't think bringing pitchforks to Mozilla will make them write better software or listen to users more, but I don't want to de-legitimize the concerns that some of their core audience might have. IMO, Firefox is still the best browser to use. Chrome and it's derivatives, please go.
Wasn't that a design patent, which is closer to a trademark than an actual patent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
But you COULD go private. What if you couldn't? It's obviously not perfect, but that idea that health care is a privilege is pretty anti-social.
I just finished installing OS/2 Warp 4.52 on my Archlinux Virtualbox. Netscape Navigator 4.61 is perfect - won't connect to any HTTPS sites, other than Google and Duckduckgo.
Just understand that we have a "No Oddjob" rule :)
Tesla record sales in China, stock up
If it were me and I didn't want to rip the thing apart to start diagnosing at the hardware layer, I would start by:

- Verify the BIOS is up to date. Newer windows updates can conflict with older BIOS. They should be kept up to date together.

- Disable any devices in the BIOS that are not actually used.

- If that doesn't help, disable any "AI" overclocking or other overclocking especially if the laptop does not have an unlocked CPU that officially supports overclocking.

- If that does not help then I would suspect either power supply going bad or something got into the vents of the laptop and is periodically shorting something. Compressed air or "canned air" can help. Remove the batteries AND then hold down the power button for 20 seconds. If you can and use compressed air to clean out the laptop. Keep the can upright and adjust the position of the laptop, not the can. Blowing dust bunnies out often is good to do regardless.

Some newer laptops maybe yours counts can start acting weird if they don't get a motherboard reset from time to time which requires holding the power button for 20 seconds to turn it on and holding it for 20 seconds to turn it off at least every once in a while. Sounds silly I know but the Lenovo's from that period are notorious for this and I would not be surprised if other vendors had the same issue. No idea what if any shared components exist between an Alienware and a Lenovo.
Private Network Access in Chrome: introducing preflights
Definitely, 6-7 bits might be enough to identify you. But Chrome allows for plenty of fingerprinting methods of its own. You can't just install add ons that disable the features or feed bogus data. Then you are the one guy who uses fingerprinting. Your only chance is to use software that is at least commonly used, and not enable options that are most of the time disabled.
If by not booting you mean not powering up, next time it happens unplug the power, take the back off, and disconnect the battery, then hold the power button down for 20 seconds to clear it, then put it all back together. This seems to be an occasional thing with Dells. We have over 2000 laptops here and every other month or so we have to do this.
There is an issue on Nixpkgs to package this absolute (but beautiful) monster of a package.[0]

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/131492
It's still possible to install SingleFile [1] on Firefox Nightly but you will need, for example, another browser to display saved pages [2].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/single-file/

[2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7546
I get that people have lots of issues with the power that large corporations have over public discourse, but

> a shell company with almost no presence filing a DMCA 512(h) subpoena to Twitter seeking the identity of the person behind the @CallMeMoneyBags account, that has a history of mocking wealthy private equity bros. The subpoena came from an operation called Bayside Advisory, which registered the copyrights for a few images that MoneyBags had posted to the Twitter account, all typical social media photos, showing a young woman. The MoneyBags account implied that the woman in the photos was the mistress of a billionaire, Brian Sheth.

> (the account stopped posting back in October).

The fact that individuals with massive amounts of wealth can successfully intimidate individuals on the internet is particularly disgusting to me. Big tech might be an abomination, but at least they are answerable to the court of public opinion and their shareholders and employees. Whoever is intimidating this twitter user is answerable to nobody.
editions? Why not make products repair-friendly by default?
I already write async Python on embedded for my pet projects. It actually makes a lot of sense -- with events from GPIO etc.
Remembering Aaron Swartz, who died on this day, a victim of the copyright system
I help companies with their technical recruiting. They're always trying to get more candidates in to interview. However, they're not looking to source candidates externally. They simply want help digging through all the candidates in their applicant tracking system (ATS). They already have so many applications, even ones that are years old, that they've built up a massive resume database that they can sort through. So they have no need for applications, LinkedIn outreach, etc.
Google's customers want access to the product, this would be denying them that access.
Who Runs the Internet? Furries
Distinguish "allowed" from "able". It's unsafe to drive around with the brake light bulbs removed, but this doesn't mean that auto manufacturers shouldn't let you change your own brake lights.

Right. And maybe even more key is that the manufacturer "allowing" that does not alleviate you from liability for any bad thing that happens as a result of you choosing to drive around without brake lights.

There are other ways to cultivate safety, besides manufacturers locking things down and making them an unmodifiable black-box.
Also: Consider delaying discussing, liking or re-sharing an article until you've read it.
A123 has not been acquired by Tesla. A123 is owned by Wanxiang America.
> So is the position of Intel that slave labour in concentration camps is an acceptable means of production?

It would be very important to have some movement to avoid and boycott products made with slave labour from prisions, including the hundreds of thousands of slave labour from US prisions. This would be an important movement to end remaining slavery.
The return of big government sparks questions for Europe
I always think of pence as 1/100 of a £, but pennies as multiple penny (1p) coins.

I’m not sure whether it’s just me.
People want money, in my experience. Cut their money flow and they get upset. Any effort to rebuild manufacturing in the USA will require corporations - major blue-chip outfits that pension funds invest heavily in - to spend billions of dollars building new factories and hiring employees at wages a good deal higher than what it costs in mainland China, Indonesia, Mexico, etc. This will cut dividend payouts to pension funds. Boomers riding their 401Ks off into the cruise ship sunset will get upset about that I imagine.
Firefox is important for the web. Mozilla is severely mismanaged, and that fact is ruining Firefox.

As an example, they keep asking for donations which they are not spending on Firefox development. It is that kind of stuff that people such as me are tired of. This has nothing to do with your experience releasing GPL code.
So re aircraft age: does EASA have different rules?

The car analogy only works so far - planes are vastly more expensive, and thus must have a longer lifespan (not to mention they're also designed and maintained to this end).
> the power is in their hands, not management

Management absolutely has a say.
Aaron Swartz: The Wunderkind of the Free Culture Movement
https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2022-01-11#...
To be fair to Sonos if I want to use their app (that has terrible user experience) I think it would work 99% of the time. I didn't buy Sonos for their music software - I bought it to use Spotify over my speaker system. I don't use Sonos for music (and never will) I use Spotify (Not Spotify embedded in Sonos app) and its a constant cluster of a time to get it working on more than one speaker. Core functionality to their arguably largest user base.
i feel the same way about spotify. it's great having access to everything, but it ultimately kinda destroyed my music hobby.

the version of me from 10 or 20 years ago would be ashamed of what i listen to now... but that could also just be the natural effects of aging.
Upgrade to a refurbished T450s or T460 and you get a very nice FHD IPS display.
A letter to all the bosses I’ve begged for a job
A Guardian comic from the perspective of a person unemployed during the pandemic addressing the employers they applied to for jobs.
I was also under the incorrect impression that git:// was just an alias for ssh. It's amazing how long you can use something and still not understand how it works.
I think it's more realistic to build a bunch of 10-20 story buildings in Davis than a single 72 story one. The engineering is much easier.
Unless we get serious about exploring the outer planets, then fusion will be a must have.
I've had BlueSound wireless hifi speakers for some time. Originally the control app was also capable of adjusting speaker volume with the volume buttons on your phone, which I quite enjoyed. It was deprecated (along with the ability to play your iPhone's music library over wifi.. à la airplay) several years ago, presumably due to patent/licensing issues.
This is a good point. SeaMonkey is still maintained to this day, and it's basically that: Firefox, but it doesn't really change.
I'm not joking and it's not supposed to bu funny. It's supposed to be confrontating.

Example: Someone saw some bad PHP code once in their lives and think all PHP code is bad. They saw someone say bad things about PHP so they think all PHP is bad. Or they think PHP is bad because they don't like how it looks.
> What other respiratory virus in human history has caused chronic long term effects to the young and healthy?

Pneumonia.
Both, white and black mulberries are Asian trees, so be aware that you are replacing a Chinese pear by two Asian species of mulberry. The red mulberry is the one from US. The Texas mulberry is also from US but not so common in the market (probably).

White has a cultivar named Morus alba 'Fruitless' that is often used in cities. You can ask for it if you want a tree that will not stain the pavement.

The normal tree with fruits is a birds magneto but is a medium-big tree. Use it if you can provide the space necessary.