skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people wanted features, why was Opera always so niche? It used to be so far ahead in features. I guess Brave today has quite a few features. Maybe Vivaldi.. I haven't looked really.

I think the real issue is that the vast majority of users don't really care about browser features beyond a certain point, a point which all modern browsers have easily covered. You could sit a person in front of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari and they'd barely notice. If there's attachment to a certain brand, it's mostly emotional. Arguing that people should use X over Y is like arguing that they should drink Pepsi over Coca Cola..

It's hard to differentiate a browser in such a market. It's just a window to the web, with tabs and bookmarks and a handful of features. And an adblocker extension, for some 30% of users. Beyond that, it just needs to work and be fast.
Your original comment relayed anecdotal evidence. Are you now saying it doesn't prove anything?

Violence does occur in cities, and it will continue to. I've seen no evidence protestors or attendees are violent or even aggressive, and livestreamers passing police and asking them impromptu specifically this confirms it.

There's bouncy castles for kids to play on, multi-ethnic groups dancing together and holding native ceremonies or prayer, people giving out free food, public handing dollars directly to truckers because of the frozen funds - every weekend it's packed with families, smiles and good vibes. And then the "news" comes on and says it's an "insurrection" (yeah, don't they just always have bouncy castles) and Trudeau says they're all racist transphobes.

It's laughable.

If more violence/crime is occurring, a more likely explanation may be the friendly and busy atmosphere his driven drunks/addicts/homeless out of the city centre, and these people are now committing crimes they would ordinarily commit in the city centre in surrounding areas instead.

That would suck for those affected, but all of this could be over in hours if Trudeau would simply remove the mandates and the passport. (Which are the Ottawa's protest organisers only demands, as they've reiterated multiple times.)

The mandates clearly don't work for their intended purpose of coercing people, and instead just motivate people to fight back yet stronger, in this case harming the economy and causing inconvenience to some. That's squarely on Trudeau's governance, nowhere else.

The passport is a completely silly idea given the facts regarding transmission, as many other countries have realised and since dropped.

It's a no brainer on Trudeau's part to simply drop both things. But instead he's chosen to humiliate himself spreading nonsense lies about the truckers and the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Canadians who support them.

If the disruption is causing you grief, maybe write to him or your local Liberal representative and suggest he/they drop those things? They're demonstrably no good anyway, so it'd be a pretty simple win-win for everybody.
"Fallacy of relative privation (also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as") – dismissing an argument or complaint due to what are perceived to be more important problems."

I have not dismissed the issue. Do you have a source to back up your claim? Also, can you quote where I say this protest is not an issue or not worthy of being addressed?

Again, this was mostly about bias in reporting.

"Delayed revenue is lost revenue."

Here's a fallacy - false equivalent. Delaying revenue does not mean that revenue is lost. Demand and orders do not cease to exist simply because production temporarily halts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
The last time he removed the restrictions, he managed to create the worst Covid in Canada and had to apologize.
>> "needing affirmations of their self-worth"

I do not think it is commonplace for those who experience Imposter Syndrome feelings to freely discuss it with almost anyone, because it is essentially a fear of being "found out."

But I can really only speak for myself.
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I have encountered this command lately. Maybe I should just google it, but if you could share some of those various reasons I would be grateful
If you want to argue about the popular vote, the NDP + Liberals combined got 48% of the vote. Electoral reform is only going to reflect Canada's desire to move further left - it would actually make it harder for the conservatives to win.
> Annually, ~1.6 billion phones are shipped vs 275 million PCs.

This is most likely because people do not have to buy a PC every 3 years. Phones are treated as disposable items, whereas with a desktop, you can open it, clean it, change parts etc. I can even change the CPU in my laptop if I wanted to.
Bunch of discussion about this ended up over here a day or so ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30318208
I believe there are good losers who are winners, but Brady is not a good loser.
Because Trudeau could have ignored that again.

This is the action of people who are not being heard. Trudeau could have de-escalated by meeting with the protesters, but he instead essentially said they should shut up and go back to driving.
Canadian here. To my knowledge the federal government did not intimidate children, and people who were forced to stop working were compensated.

People do feel irritation when we have done so much collectively, only for a small minority to pee in the pool.

It's a war against the health system. It's on the verge of collapsing in many provinces because of Covid, and folks like Maxime Bernier want it privatized. Ideological and manipulative greed.
The conservative party forced a vote today to drop the mandates by the end of the month. It failed 151 to 185, with MPs voting along party lines (Conservatives and Bloc Québécois in favour; Liberals, NDP, and Green opposed) with a couple of abstentions.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/live-vote?voteId=234
In the paraphrased words of Hackers... View Source - the only crime is curiosity.

https://www.cyberdelianyc.com/posts/view-source-the-only-cri...
Because we are free individuals and can make medical decisions for ourselves and our abilities to feed our families should not depend on upon our willingness to take a medication that does not appear to stop the spread of Omicron COVID. The mandates also make no exception for natural immunity which DOES appear to at least slow the spread of Omicron COVID.
Lack of high-quality free editors was a massive problem with xml, particularly when xsd was involved.
If you really want to know why I oppose them honest to God?

Because whenever the government does something, or is given the ability to do something, whether de jure, or de facto, I ask myself "Would I feel comfortable with my worst political enemy having the power to do this?"

EDIT: The answer I was responding to edited his answer before I finished posting, so the original question was just. "Why do you opposse vax mandates?" My answer still stands.
Not exactly what I was expecting, given the term "engineer" but I understand it's an entirely separate (and ongoing) discussion about what "engineer[ing]" means.
Migrating from Solr to Elasticsearch, and their differences
1. They weren't wrong nationally. They just didn't get the state by state breakdown correct.

You have to remember that polls show a numerical outcome, not necessarily how it will filter through the various rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...

2. Even those that were off were off by just a few percentage points. This is a 2 to 1 ratio.
Not sure how the protocols themselves help, but at least for now, we still have things like content blockers and extensions for mobile web browsers.

Native apps have more freedom to do whatever they want, and they do it more opaquely. I guess the only thing that comes close to a web browser content blocker for iOS native apps is piping your traffic through one of those ad-blocker VPN apps like Lockdown, which sucks.

Of course, nothing compares to the amount of insight you have into websites on a desktop web browser where you can open a networking tab in the dev tools.
> Doctors are allowed to be Covid positive and treat patients in BC and QC.

That's because hospitals were slammed. And because viral debris shows up as positive on PCR tests long after people are no longer contagious and that has been well-known since mid-2020. A doctor who is no longer symptomatic but is positive on a PCR is better than no doctor for the patient.
- Finding a framework or language that you truly love, and then getting to work in that platform as your day job, is pure excellence.

- Discovering new tools and adding them to your tool chain, but also understanding how to use them effortlessly because you have so much experience.

- Being able to build just about anything in a ridiculously quick amount of time (all things considered) because you've done so much already.

- Rather egotistically, being better than everybody else at something is pretty satisfying (at least to me).

These are the things that I find satisfying.
Is downloading from techspot illegal now? Is using Freeware software morally bad? Version uploaded to Techspot was listed as Freeware and identifying itself as Freeware, how much more Freeware do you need it to be?
For sure. You may get a ticket the first couple times, then they'll take you to jail (where you cannot drive). If you insist on continuing to drive, that means you have to resist going to jail. Resisting going to jail is an excellent way to have force used on you, up to and including guns.

Heck, if the right country wants you in jail for the right reasons, you could flee somewhere else and have the _Air Force_ used against you.
> sandboxed web installs sans taxation.

This is exactly what Android supports. APKs can be and are distributed on the web.
you don't think that the new Surface looks good in its own way at least?

I'm sure that it does despite being far from being my aesthetic

I mean I know as soon as I use it it's all disappointment but every time I look at the new Surface I actually want to buy one Windows 11 and all (if I could combine the talent and the means I'd r restore W2K look and feel immediately as by bid for the Nobel economic fake prize award for getting that many people back to working.
> It's easier if you don't go out drinking etc. with your employees. Keep your relationship at a professional level.

This topic is interesting to discuss, the book The Culture Map goes into detail about how different cultures handle relationship with colleagues differently. Apart from that, agree with you.
... or maybe I am reading "engineer" where I shouldn't.
I believe there are more appropriate sanctions than freezing one's bank account.
No, but you'll get detained and then you'll like your freedom back so you'll try to walk away, but they won't let you. If you insist, you'll eventually get shot.
Also The Economist: https://archive.fo/78rGz

Later edit: This chart [1] taken from said article maybe will clarify some of the ongoing discussions.

[1] https://archive.fo/78rGz/270f56724e7a40242b6639537e4183aea3b...
90% of truckers are vaccinated. [0]

This isn't "truckers" protesting, this is the radical fringe.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/28/canada-truck...
Afaik the only way they could do this without explicit permission is by tracking the IP you are connecting from and determining your approximate location from that, which isn't going to be all that accurate.
> All government mandates are enforced at the barrel of a gun.

So is enforcement of contracts between private parties. Are you against private property as well?
You lost me at "closer to an insurrection".
One can also use Airpods with ear sensing disabled to spy/listen for private conversations on people (within Bluetooth range), even people who have never used an Apple product. And, you know, some MacBooks are heavy enough to be able to cause physical harm if you'd hit someone on the head.

The wonders of humanity is that humans are creative and imaginative (not me, the examples I thought of are stupid and silly), so if they have a certain task in mind they can solve it through whatever technologies available, even if those technologies weren't designed for it...
>which was an American political issue, not a Canadian one

need I even bother digging up trudeau's statements of support re: american floyd protests?

come on, you know this is a feeble distinction.

other countries (like my own) never needed or implemented these crude, tyrannical vaccine mandates. trudeau is an international laughing stock.
All protests cause economic harm. How many businesses were closed and looted during the protests for BLM?

What is the correct amount of economic harm in your view? What are the terms under which a protest should be allowed by a government?
delete Windows, short and sweet first step.
"Last poll I saw (Ipsos) said 1 out of 3 Canadians support the protest"

That grossly misrepresented poll asked only if respondents sympathize with their cause. If you agree that mandates need to go. Note that when asked directly, 60-70% of Canada are over mandates, and just being asked to show sympathy already lost 50% of those people.

But this doesn't mean that those people support this protest. Indeed, in subsequent polls, over 60% of the country wants the protesters jailed.
Inequality and Skin in the Game (2016)
It seems difficult for something like that to accidentally happen, seeing as background location tracking requires explicit permission requested through APIs provided by the OS.
There's a third option: "What is that?"

When I'm reading fiction, I generally don't mind ligatures. I find them oppressively obscurantist in any situation where I want to know clearly and distinctly what each character is -- i.e. code and science/math/engineering.
Are you as outraged by this as that?
> Rounded corners also make effective content containers. This is because the rounded corners point inward towards the center of the rectangle. This puts the focus on the contents inside the rectangle. It also makes it easy to see which side belongs to which rectangle when two rectangles are next to each other.

Personally, as a non designer and someone with close to zero natural aesthetic abilities, this single point is the one that resonates. There are some forum tools that used to choose to separate content threads by rectangles. When scrolling through a page quickly it was easy to miss where one thread started and the other finished. After the switch to rounded corners the distinction when moving fast became a lot easier to see.
JDeploy – Deploy desktop Java apps as native bundles on Mac, Linux, and Windows
Did you have the same attitude towards the summer 2020 protests in the US?
Thanks, that looks interesting. I'll try it out.
For airplanes, we round the window corners so the plane doesn't fall out of the sky like some Cthulhoid horror mysteriously tore it apart one day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20435793
You can't do that because 5000 people have blocked essential roads with big trucks. That's tyranny man.

Just because you support the end of restrictions doesn't mean you should support people getting what they want through illegal methods. This is supposed to be a democracy.

Canada just had an election, and the people pro-vaccine and pro-mandates were elected.

Yes, durect democracy and being allowed to all vote on all issues is a nice dream, but for now the system is a representative democracy. And it's not okay to force things through keeping people hostage.

Would you be similarly supportive if 5000 people blocked essential infrastructure with big trucks everytime they want something?

In my opinion, if we were to see a really large gathering, of the kind that BLM saw, then if say, ok, it does seem there's a lot of people who really care about this so maybe have a direct referendum, but this one hasn't met the threshold in my opinion.
Are we really going to make the case that Garageband and iMovie allow for "precise editing or manipulation of content"? Last time I used either, they were like watered-down versions of real software that railroaded you through different pre-made templates.

Wanna make music? Press the chord buttons to play a tone on the synthesizer preset that you can't modify!

Wanna edit video? Drag your clips into this timeline with 3 transition effects and a half-dozen compositing themes!
When I speak in a classroom or auditorium, I always expect to see people's faces.
Paul Harvey – Our Lives Our Fortunes Our Sacred Honor [video]
The protestors on the first weekend going to the Shepherds of Good Hope homeless shelter and taking food (and being violent with staff) was extremely well documented.

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-homeless-shelter-receives-7...

You mean surveillance footage like this, of a protestor trying to lock the doors to an apartmnent building and start a fire?

https://globalnews.ca/news/8600592/trucker-convoy-police-inv...

The cops have barely done anything and they've acknowledged there is violence and lawlessness:

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-police-report-a-night-of-di...

Lots more videos here:

https://www.instagram.com/ottawaconvoyreport/

I literally heard honking today. The only reason there is less honking is because there is a legal injuction and truckers who honk can now be sued civilly. But they still persist.
(Abstract) algebra is essentially the approach of 'what can I do with this?' (as opposed to, for example, 'what is this made of?', etc.). The nice thing about algebraic constructions is that they can be re-used in many different situations, as long as we can 'do the things' that it relies on.

In high-school algebra, the variables 'x', 'y', etc. are mostly assumed to stand for numbers; but we still solve problems by chaining-together some basic 'things we can do'. For example, if we're given 'a + b = 2 × b' and we want to find an expression for 'a', we can do the following:

a + b = 2 × b (given)
(a + b) - b = (2 × b) - b (subtracting from both sides preserves equality)
a + (b - b) = (2 × b) - b (re-group + and -)
a + 0 = (2 × b) - b (replace 'x - x' with '0')
a = (2 × b) - b (replace 'x + 0' with 'x')
a = (b + b) - b ('2 × x' with 'x + x')
a = b + (b - b) (regroup again)
a = b + 0 (another 'x - x')
a = b (another 'x + 0')

Note that the above doesn't actually rely on 'a' and 'b' being numbers, or +/-/× being numeric addition/subtraction/multiplication; they can be anything, as long as they satisfy 'x - x = 0', 'x + 0 = x', etc.

"Interfaces", as found in Java, PHP, StandardML, etc. are algebras: as long as our value implements some interface Foo, we don't care what the implementation actually is. In fact, OOP was originally described in terms of "mini algebras" (what we would now call a "public interface", or "API").

The idea behind Algebraic Effects is that side-effects, like printing out strings, or sending network requests, can be treated in terms of 'what they do' (like an interface), rather than having to care about the implementation. A good example is code which has an input-reading effect: to run it, we must provide some implementation of 'input reading'; but the code will work the same regardless of whether we implement that effect by e.g. reading from the process's stdin handle, or from a GUI text box, or from a hard-coded string, or whatever.
Precisely what? If the PBM gets money then that's not the customer. Being paid for marking something as preferred is a kickback.

If the PBM buys something themselves and gets money back, that wouldn't be a kickback.

Just like a customer buying something and getting money back.

But when you have a buyer on one side, and a separate entity getting the money back, that's probably a kickback.
This is a passion project of mine to make it easier to deploy Java desktop apps. I'm very happy with the result, as IMO, the process is orders of magnitudes simpler than what we had before. Some features include:

- Native installers for Mac, Windows, and Linux

- Build native bundles for all platforms from any platform (e.g. You don't need Mac to make a Mac app. You don't need Windows to make a Windows app, etc..)

- Auto updates. Your users automatically get the latest version on each launch

- Small installer bundle size (3mb compressed)

- No need to futz with Mac codesigning/notarization

- Instant download page so your users can download your app as soon as its published.

- Free, open source

Please take it for a spin, and let me know what you think.
>You get to make your point in a protest, but the society has the right - and should have the practical ability - to ignore your protest if they wish to do so.

I dare say, if you've got things escalating to the point where people from all over your country plop themselves on the Federal government's front door
.. do you not realize how much that actually takes?

If one is so eager to dismiss the minority, then pray tell, how does anyone propose getting any change done? Further, why are you blaming the protesters for making your life more inconvenient when the only person who has been harmed already is...wait for it...them?

Because until that road got blocked, nobody gave a care 1.

That is successful protest. That is the consequence of Statecraft failure.
I can believe that. I am confident though that Jewish students benefit heavily more with legacy. Asian Americans don't have 3-5 generations of Harvard and Ivy league students to benefit from. It's all a moot point though because private institutions will never release this information, and we will always have an "elite" white cohort consequently.
It's a waste of screen space. If they want rounded corners, they can add them in software. The average user will have no way of telling the difference.
+1
The straight line diagram is easier to read for me as well. While I sometimes enjoy curved lines for diagrams, I think the ones the author chose were too curvy for my taste.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216452/

This is a nice article about immunization requirements in Canada a decade before Covid hit.

In 2011, only 3 provinces had mandates for students and also had plenty of exceptions.

And this is for vaccines with decades of use and highly effective at preventing transmission and disease.
I think you should be able to run `fc-match monospace` to find what it is resolving it to.
Entire towns can run off one narrow band FM channel. Paging is efficient simply because of the low bandwidth.
Did you read the article? The quotes from the person bragging about burning down the police station was a BB from Texas who drove 1,200 miles to Minneapolis to foment unrest.

> According to the criminal complaint against Hunter, on 26 May, as intense protests broke out in Minneapolis over the killing of George Floyd by a city police officer, a “Boogaloo Boi” based in Minnesota posted a public Facebook message: “I need a headcount.”

> Hunter, a resident of Boerne, Texas, which is roughly 1,200 miles away, responded: “72 hours out. Another “Boogaloo Boi”, based in North Carolina, posted a public message the same day: “Lock and load boys,” he wrote, adding, “the national network is going off.”

> Prosecutors say that Hunter would later describe himself to Austin police officers as “the leader of the Boogaloo Bois in south Texas”.

> By 28 May, during a night of the most intense unrest and destruction in the city, Hunter was in Minneapolis, just as the 3rd precinct police station, known locally as a “playground for renegade cops”, was being set on fire.