skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 5:05 p.m.

> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he has invoked the Emergencies Act as a “last resort” to bolster the police response to convoy demonstrators and to “bring the situation fully under control.”

I really feel like there were a number of "resorts" that could've been taken before this "last" one.

Engaging in dialogue with the truckers and not inflaming the situation by calling the truckers names are at the top of my list.

Engaging in dialogue with Canadians would be next on my list.

Using the powers granted to Ontario in their state of emergency would be on my list well before declaring a nation-wide emergency.
They should stick to burning down police stations in minneapolis or whatever.
Hell no!

Comparing privileged truckers to Canadian indigenous people is chalk and cheese.
The NYPD’s Surveillance Machine
You didn't actually link to an article on Angus Reid. Here's one:

> As the country rolls into another week of uncertainty, nearly three-quarters of Canadians (72%) say the time has come for protesters to “go home, they have made their point.”

https://angusreid.org/trudeau-convoy-trucker-protest-vaccine...
For the record, I disagree with the assessment that they should be building an Electron email client. Most users are already using a paid/monetised Electron email client, a soon to become Electron client (like is supposedly planned for Microsoft Outlook), or a webmail interface.

Electron clients cannot compete on deep technically obscure feature sets, simply because they didn't have 20 years to accumulate them. They cannot compete on latency. Thunderbird should remain native.
> Would I feel comfortable with my worst political enemy having the power to do this?

Why would that be any different than your preferred political party/politician telling you to get vaccinated?

Just because you don't agree with someone on some (many?) topics, doesn't mean you can't ever agree with them.

We're talking about well established scientifically backed public health advice. It doesn't matter who most recently repeated the advice, it's the advice itself that's important.
Insightful thread on how (worst case) this might escalate: https://twitter.com/man_integrated/status/149329779603169281...

I'm guessing the more likely option is that the trucker community become "conscientious objectors" and refuse to work, in the hope that their number will cripple services. Does sitting at home still count as terrorism? Because I'd happily fund that
When I was a kid the news seemed to buzz with stories of political
prisoners, dissidents or hostages. The media, perhaps in concert with
groups like Amnesty International performed a function of keeping a
spotlight on these people, often regardless of their political
leaning. I can recall names like Nelson Madella, Steve Biko, Terry
Waite, Bobby Sands, around whose fate world history seemed to pivot.

Today there feels a cold, indifferent silence around the fate of
unlawfully and arbitrarily detained people around the world. I think
this is one of the most profound changes/failings of today's (social)
media and justice systems. And I think to some degree it's systematic
and deliberate - to disempower martyrs and figureheads. It applies at
home too, as there are many political prisoners in the USA [1] and the
UK treatment of Julian Assange is been shameful.

I think MLK nailed the climate today eben better than the 1960s; "In
the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends"

[1] https://afgj.org/politicalprisonersusa
Then let's hope for serious consequences so that the message is loud and clear, minority positions can't and shouldn't be allowed to overrule the majority in a democracy. Their voice is heard through their elected representatives.

Sometimes that means you don't get your way. Right now in my country the government in power acts in ways I really don't agree with but unfortunately they won fair and square and clearly have the support of the majority. For me that is disappointing and somewhat embarassing but I wouldn't dream of claiming that elections were fraudulent (USA) or simply ignoring mandate and consensus and trying to blackmail the government (CA).
How do you feel about paying for other people's healthcare who need treatment for getting Covid and have taken no measures of their own to avoid catching it or being severely ill from it?
FWIW, you also sometimes see

```math
-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac} \over {2a}
```

So to some extent the rendering is advanced syntax highlighting. I wonder where you would draw the monospace text vs rendered line on this spectrum?

JavaScript ; poem ; ’90s email ; OP ; latex math ; ditaa

I guess you’d put it at the end with nothing being rendered?
It's always funny reading the different discussions kicked off by articles here; the privacy/confidentiality-oriented folks are in here talking about the relentless pressure to install apps which rummage around your private life inappropriately.

On the threads kicked off by someone whining about Apple protecting customer privacy from app authors, people rage that Apple should have no power to stop people loading terrible applications just like this.
A strike is a bunch of people refusing to work, not a bunch of people blocking access to unrelated essential services. They do things like overwhelm the 911 service with spurious calls and circling their trucks around schools. This is not a strike, this is outright terrorism. Someone will die (or already has) because they don’t have access to an essential service.
>You need clothes

This kind of lunacy, where nothing has meaning, since everything is "just like everything else" has got to stop. There's a big difference between the accepted norm of wearing clothing and being forced to inject your body with drugs. Expecting people to explain it to you is a bad faith attempt to let them say enough words so that you can argue semantics endlessly with them.
Unprecedented? What?

How do you think we eradicated Smallpox?
I just realised that I better not say how exactly but the ability to draw anything on the screen really does centre so many excellent ways of showing you the boundaries you want highlighted... which is your clue and solution right there what to do
Interesting. Was the domain equal to your full name, first name, some other combination? (e.g., johnsmith.example, smith.example, john.smith.example, smith.john.example)

If it's the first case (johnsmith.example), isn't it tricky to discern between "hey that domain is a concatenation of my name and surname!" VS "no, you're not right, the domain is a concatenation of the strings 'jo' and 'hnsmith'. 'jo' is my nickname, 'hnsmith' is the name of my company/club/whatever)
It is not, simply due to convenience. People sympathetic to the cause can bother to click few clicks on their computer to support them, but to go all the way with physical goods? Only a tiny percentage would do that.
SCCS was real??? I thought it was just something parents told their kids at night to scare them!
>In the Islamic world, the Caliph (who, at the time, was identical with the Ottoman Sultan) banned the use of the printing press by Muslims in 1485. (Unbelievers could print whatever they wanted in their languages and for their exclusive consumption.)

[...]

>If you look at the entire history of suppressing misinformation, you will see that:

>a) in the long run, freer societes did better,

Quite.

As a result, 10,000 books have been translated into Arabic in the past 1,000 years. That is fewer than the number translated in Spain in one year. <https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3e2xho/til_t...>
Did those happen in Canada? We are not part of the United States and you cannot compare an event in one country with another.

A better and valid comparison would be the Wet'suwet'en protests at Coastal GasLink, or the G20 protests from the 2000s.
Heh, yeah. I think that falls under "lose everything you invested". If you invested more than you have, well, you lose more than you have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Let's see where your data comes from. Ah, COVID-19 Monitor, which gets it from Vox Pop Labs. [1]

>The data presented herein are derived from survey data produced using Vox Pop Labs' online public affairs panel

So, it's useless... their primary method of polling is journalists interviewing people that they select? The people that do not support mandates generally do not support journalists, making this survey utterly useless and biased from the start.

If you look at a reputable pollster, and not a couple of ideologues sitting in a room, you'll find large swathes of populations that are very skeptical of mandates, even in very liberal Europe. [2] In Germany, a whopping 62% are against it. While in France, it's 75% against.

[1] https://covid19monitor.org/

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/02/03/as-pandemic-co...
That's a great question, seriously. In a world where Omicron is as deadly as, say, SARS or Ebola, and the vaccine is super effective, you would not have to institute mandates to get people vaxxed. They would gladly get it or they would perish. This is where the trouble with the COVID vax lies: many of us look around and we don't see people dying like flies. We don't have dead friends or relatives. We do, however, see vaxxed people sick with COVID, and we a government doing its best to suppress information about COVID that it perceived as harmful to the vax effort, regardless of its veracity.
The totality of all of this makes many of us very distrustful of our government and foments resistance where there used to be none.
I think it’s more a Mozilla’s losing mindshare problem. There’s a lot of upside at other places for the same skills Mozilla is looking for.
There is. For instance, you can look at other sources, such as insurance claims; people file them to get paid, they dont care if the party responsible is prosecuted.

People trying to hype up the crime thing deliberately ignore these sources because, as you can see, it allows them to make up as much crime as they can imagine and base their argument on that.
...actually, that is exactly what Assembling is. Gathering in one place in an organized manner.

Bonus points because said heavy machinery was assembled into a complex device whose purpose was "area denial".

So technically both senses are satisfied.
The military is explicitly not being used in this measure.
I do tables, but I will admit to having them auto-formatted on save. That is, I type a pipe separated list manually, and auto-space it on save.
Chemical synthesis is much more than just retrosynthesis. Even if it was, you can not just plug in the novel previously unsynthesized molecule and expect any reasonable results. Furthermore, the tool is based on Reaxys which in turn uses already established reaction routes and conditions from literature and patents. Good luck optimizing yields for something you don't know even how to synthesize, let alone what conditions to use.
Yes, you have to ask yourself why everyone is using V8 as their JavaScript runtime and not Mozilla’s equivalent or why every alternative browser is using Chrome as a foundation.

Or XUL wasn’t packaged as cross platform GUI framework.

And then of course the Firefox mobile fiasco.

My guess is that the engineering and management don’t interact. Two different companies within the same company, no coherent vision.
Humans have an amazing ability to over-imagine the impact of the impressive (running <100 1m-wide cables across the ocean) and under-imagine the impact of the mundane (thousands of cargo ships absolutely making life miserable for whales)

It's just how our imperfect brains work.
Yes, but the reason it's losing market share is because people are stop using it, including technical people. I personally find it superior to Chrome.
>> in an alternate reality where the vaccine is super effective at reducing transmission of Omicron, and where Omicron is super deadly

> If either of these were true then mandates would be far less required because people would be far more willing to take them voluntarily.

I don't know whether that would necessarily be the case. We have seen how easily people are manipulated via misinformation campaigns.
This is all fantastic! Thank you so much!!
>That said, this doesn't really matter because to enter the other country they'll have to be vaccinated anyways.

Obviously an unvaccinated trucker from Canada cannot enter the US and return until both the Canadian and US restrictions are lifted. It doesn’t matter in which order they are lifted, but both need to be. Since they are Canadian citizens obviously they are protesting the Canadian component of the travel restriction.

On a side note: How does it make sense that an unvaccinated trucker in Canada can legally deliver goods in Canada, and an unvaccinated trucker in the US can legally deliver goods in the USA, but they cannot deliver goods between the US and Canada. What is the science behind this exactly?
So not a blog, but one blog post?

That's certainly no indication that Firefox is first and foremost a social justice blog.
Not a great answer: if you use evil-mode for emacs (eg with doom-emacs or spacemacs) you get picture-mode which can make ascii art a bit easier, and artist-mode which gives you point-and-click (or move-and-press-enter) ascii art drawing.
I'm personally not sending my kid to any school that doesn't require the standard vaccines: here it is Hepatitis B, DTaP, IPV, MMR and Varicella. It is weird that vaccines mandates didn't gather as much resistance for the last century, but I guess things are just way more political now.
> How do you feel about paying for healthcare of people who are not vaccinated and need care to treat COVID?

The same way I feel for them paying for my care the day I drove drunk and crashed, or when despite vaccines, I still got Covid Delta.

Because I was obese, vaccines didn't help much. I had a lot more problems, and for several months longer than I would have had, had I : lost 35 Kg/75 lbs, lowered my blood sugar level (no diabetes but consistently high), eaten less meat, and had a regular life rythm to lower my blood pressure, as my family doctor implored me to do last three and a half years.

Now I learned my lesson in really being responsible first of myself, and then acting according to principles of solidarity (as you imply the unvaccinated don't do).

I now walk 10+ km a day, see a nutritionist and go to the gym three times a week. I also pay attention to my vitamin intake, and take blood samples every three months.
This seems incredible peaceful for it's scale then? Pretty much every major protest I've seen over this COVID period had significant looting, vandalism, and actually setting fire to stuff. This seems just well insignificant compared to the scale of the protest.

I don't feel like that's the point you're trying to make but with such minimal activities you can link too and even less with confirmed links it really feels like you're stretching.
Not necessarily. I do think that UX redesigns, and social and political advocacy were definitely mistakes, though.
For anyone looking for more depth for their TTRPG games I highly suggest exploring https://eigengrausgenerator.com/. It will lazily generate beautiful, varied details on a town, it's locations, it's buildings, it's denizens, their relations, provide story hooks, and more. Like a good game master it gives just enough surface detail to maintain the immersion, but will generate more detail as you (or your players) interact with whatever catches your (their) fancy.
I’ve actually been using an almost identical filter for GraphViz markup in my university papers for the last year, except I added a leading exclamation point to the language tag to distinguish between included source and included markup:

```!dot
(Markup)
```

I wish they’d adopted something like that instead - I have no idea how you’d include highlighted Mermaid source in a GH markdown file.
Did you mean unlike Duke Nukem 3D engine?

Duke used portals, and even supported slopes, albeit quite surprisingly slope calculations performed floating point math making Duke 3D the first game requiring FPU for smooth play (5 months before Quake). Any time you see slope on the screen in Duke 3D on an FPUless system your FPS will tank. NexGen Nx586 is the best example, a 90MHz Pentium level CPU dropping down to 10fps on first level of the game (roof with sloped vents).
So, a strike? That was always allowed. Given they’re not supported by the actual unions and are a pretty small fraction of truckers anyway, good luck to them.
This seems to be a failure in applying tech. If it's known that the restaurant is slow pickups should be scheduled later, and delivery estimates when ordering should be longer.

Seems to be a bean-counter's solution rather than an innovator's.
You should listen to the one-third, but you also should listen to the two-thirds and weigh their opinion appropriately more heavily.
>The Canadian people are overwhelmingly vaccinated and don't mind wearing masks. 90+% of truckers are fully vaccinated.

Then why require the mandate? I haven't seen any answer to that question besides the implied: "because we demand full compliance."
Yup, a lot of people tend to refer to any non-zero-sum game as a "prisoners' dilemma", which is frequently wrong, so it's good to point out that that's not correct. This taxonomy is perhaps doing a little too much; I think that most of the time you really just need Prisoners' Dilemma, Stag Hunt, and Chicken (anti-coordination) as your three main examples for comparing other things to...
(UK) At some point it started to feel like stirring division for its own sake, since everyone will be exposed to the virus regardless of whether we get another 0.1% vaccinated. Luckily it seems to be calming down now.
BI System in Slack
Agreed. I was forced to get the vax due to my company's business dealings with the federal gov't. One of my developers, meanwhile, refused to get vaccinated, and so far the threat from my employer has just kind of stalled as different state and federal lawsuits have been going through the courts, while he walks on eggshells about his employment status and future career. My team works remote 99% of the time, btw. Engineers rarely deal with the customers either.

Regardless, I think he's been treated poorly by the company as we explicitly denied him the ability to join us at a few on-site meetings and outings. I'm not sure anyone can credibly assert anymore that his un-vaccinated status puts anyone other than himself at increased risk. At this point, it's a form of psychological warfare against him for refusing to conform, and that's WRONG.

I don't know if I would have gotten a vaccination without the threat of termination. I probably would have, but being forced has left me feeling anger towards both my employer and the gov't. And I've been with my employer for 8 years or so - I've enjoyed my time there.
Many continuous restoration / HA systems are surprisingly vulnerable to hacks because the level of management / coordination is pretty high. They work well if datacenter 1 goes down and you want to get to datacenter 2. They work less well (in my view) if someone gets root. A fair number of public victims you read about actually DID have continuous backups / dr setups.
True, but the problem, at least in Canada, isn't the spread from/to the remaining 20%, but the strain and cost to the public healthcare system. The spread from them is a small part of it too, but not the primary factor.

Canada is kind of in a difficult place, because refusing medical treatment is an even bigger taboo then forcing vaccination. But the publicly funded medical system is having to pay a high price both in cost and in capacity due to that remaining 20%.

This is why people are looking for ways to reduce that. Refusing medical care is not currently seen as a viable option, thus vaccine incentives are being explored, like restricting what someone can do if unvaccinated.
If the defendant is ordered to pay damages and refuses, then the government does step in eventually, doesn't it? A continued refusal to comply eventually leads to arrest. That does not necessarily involve a gun, but presumably parent commenter is using the phrase for rhetorical effect.

Ultimately, enforcing (almost) any law does come down to use of force if the guilty party is intransigent enough. Exceptions are when some thing can be "snatched" away and held truly inaccessible to the guilty party, such that they cannot possibly retrieve it.
You wish that Trudeau opened debate with people who demanded that his government be deposed and replaced by the protest organisers?
The power controllers for US refrigerator interior lights are designed to fail shortly after the warranty runs out. It costs more than $100 for a replacement.

(What, the light in the fridge needs a power controller? Evidently.) It has two surface-mounted resistors that are too small, under-rated, and burn out. They can be replaced with higher-wattage resistors, which sometimes works.

Of course the better solution would be to toss out the power controller, and jump the input voltage straight to the light. But connectors, voltages, yada yada.
> 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated

That's irrelevant. The protest is not against vaccines.

I'm fully vaccinated and have voluntarily received my booster shot, and I would support the convoy if I was Canadian. I also support vaccination and want the highest amount of people to be vaccinated. There's no contradiction there. I want people to get vaccinated, I just don't want people to be forced to get vaccinated.

> Evidence suggests that funding for this protest is in large part foreign

The news has spread to the world and it's currently the most notable example of government vs. anti-mandate disputes.

> most canadian donations are from wealthy business owners,

Most donations, in general, are almost always from wealthy people, for the very obvious reason that they have more money to donate.
Serious (if goofy:) ) question: How do I not use them?

My understanding is that if the font has ligatures then the way to not use them is to use a different font (which is fine - there's a lot of fonts out there :) ).

Is that the only way, or is there a way to disable ligatures but keep the rest of the font? Can you disable only some of the ligatures?

TIA!
Canada just made at least 20% of it's population into "terrorists". Terrorists with bouncy castles. Guys this is it. I'm sick of it and a hell of a lot of us are too. We are not going to allow the whole world to become a totalitarian state to continue enriching a few hundred men. Everyone I know who read the book 1984 is now in complete agreement with it. You all lost the plot. You'd kill 20% of the population over a disease that maybe kills 2 percent of us?
I'm pretty sure we did not eradicate smallpox by firing people for not getting the vaccine...
One relevant example of the Canadian gov breaking the law and lying about it until they were caught was the 2007 Security and Prosperity Partnership protests in Montebello Quebec. In that case the government used agent provocateurs (provoking agents) who were dressed as protesters while initiating violence to paint the protesters in a bad light. The linked Wikipedia article lists several other examples. [0]

That said, I don't think the state was the responsible party for this attack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur#Canada
So how did he win?
> But if you try to force your political will through force [...] you have crossed a line and need to be reigned in

Like forcing people out of their job for refusing a vaccine?

Disclaimer: I'm vaccinated and I encourage everyone to do it. But no one should have to under threat to their livelihood, especially given the absurd logical inconsistencies of the mandate rules.
And of course that would fail because these people represent a tiny fraction of truckers, nowhere near a quarter. That’s why they’re throwing a temper tantrum.