skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I have no idea how Canada's legal system works but I would not trust the american executive branch with this power without the authorization of a judge. Even then it feels too easily abused, but you can already do a lot worse with a judge's sign off and there are certainly cases where the power makes sense.

Is this something that has precedent in Canada?
You can simply disable them.
> "Protesting is not and will not be illegal."

The trick is to categorize the protest as something else.
That's funny, because I've had the same experience as you—but in the opposite direction.

In my experience, Chrome has problems with memory, performance, rendering and battery drainage. Every now and then I try to use Chrome (or a derivative) as secondary browser and I give up because it has noticeably higher latency for simple web page loads, and more likely to suffer irritating repaint flashes.
Most thefts (robbery, etc) are not reported now because people know police don't care. You also need to adjust your numbers for decreased activity (people stopped going out during COVID!). Restaurant reservations are down by 50% or more in SF [1] even despite reopening. If you use restaurant reservations as a proxy for foot traffic in general, all your metrics are strongly up when you adjust for foot traffic.

The idea that larceny (petty) theft doesn't matter is also a big reason why you think there's no crime wave. Petty theft is the crime most often encountered by everyday citizens. People don't like having their property stolen. I don't know why you refuse to acknowledge that.

[1]: https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry
I will continue using Firefox because of tab containers, and the Temporary Containers extension. Nothing in Chrome comes close to that, even with extensions like it. It's not total privacy, but it's something every browser should support. I think Chrome has the ability to run separate user profiles from the command line, which is something I hope Firefox can do. I'd love to run "default settings" as one user profile, and my own settings as "here's this paranoid dude". Usually I jump to Chrome or Edge when my privacy extensions get in the way of using a banking website, and I don't want to tune umatrix.

There are 3 things I think Firefox needs to support: CEF, Rust, Dev Tools

Something that gets brought up over-and-over is the Chrome Embedding Framework (CEF?) or the API designed to embed Chrome. Firefox isn't as easy to embed as Chrome, and would benefit greatly if it could be oriented to interface with this API. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework Firefox needs to support being a fast and light applet. Forgive me for saying the words we do not use.

The 2nd is Rust. Rust was the best thing Mozilla could have supported, but instead they axed the dev team and gave it to the Linux Foundation. That's probably a good thing in the long-run. Rust is a really innovative paradigm shift in language design, and it will be so much bigger than Firefox. However, the development of Firefox technologies with Rust should have continued. We were so looking forward to Servo. Chrome is perceptibly faster, but we were on track to wipe the board with memory safety. I personally would use a "correct" browser over a fast one.

The 3rd is dev tools. People develop with Chrome for amazing dev tools. As an easy example, if you look in the Firefox Network dev tool/tab you can add a column to show the value returned with a common response header. In Firefox you can only choose to show these 6-8 headers. In Chrome you can add additional (custom) response headers, for things like X-Application-Whatever. It's very nice to show your application's custom headers in the dev tool window like that. I've been asking for it for a while on Mozilla's bugtracker. I don't know where to jump in and add it myself.
I like this idea, with the refresher email (bonus points for the interval and options being tuned per product category) starting by asking

- still using, works

- no longer need (did its job), works (could still do the job)

- no longer need (did its job), spent

- still need, replaced (broken or worn/torn)

- didn't end up using it much, works (?)

and prioritizing contact especially around the issue spikes in the timeline for said product
What if the city doesn't want to work with the protesters? Do the protesters have to prove that they tried to work with the city? What if the protest is against the city itself?

I have issues with asking permission to protest, even if it's an issue I don't support.
> At no point were fire and police “afraid” to go places in the city either

They completely abandoned a police precinct which was promptly burned down [0]. Pretty safe to say they were afraid to stay at their own building!

0: https://www.twincities.com/2020/05/28/minneapolis-police-aba...
Seizing funds from criminals to restrict their ability to perpetrate and profit from crime is a tool used by law enforcement in essentially every country, and has been happening for a long time.

There’s plenty of areas of this that are misused (see things like civil asset forfeiture), but the overarching strategy of freezing bank accounts isn’t novel or dystopian.

Edit: it’s a bit sneaky to change “AT ALL” to “WITHOUT A TRIAL” without calling out the change.
It looks like it's just something the app developer can turn on, and it will be enabled without having to ask the user for permission.

But you can turn it off:

https://www.asurion.com/connect/tech-tips/conserve-phone-dat...
The credit card one makes sense if you are dealing with a completely untrusted third party with no intermediary, although in practice it probably just means you are using a crypto-based intermediary instead of a conventional one (PayPal, Venmo, etc.).

I’m not sure what you would be doing where that would make sense that’s not an illegal/illicit transaction.
> there's not really "smaller than an ounce" that is commonly agreed upon, so milliliters for liquids and milligrams for solids wins out by default.

Milligrams? Grams are already quite a bit smaller than an ounce. A millilitre of water weighs one gram.
I mean ultimately, all characters are "ligatures", in the sense they are arbitrary squiggles to which we apply meaning.

You seem to have done it well enough with at least 64 of them; maybe closer to 70 since you use _, ., , and ".

Don't let a few more ruin your day. A few more, I might add, that you don't even have to use.
I've been wanting something like this for a long time. Our society talks way too much about success, growth, and positivity. Even reading reviews failure patterns are hard to spot, they get buried by reviews of day old products.
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> Who said "everyone" or "one day"?

We're a couple layers deep now but the question that started the chain was:

> I’m curious why this isn’t a more popular setup?

If we're no longer talking about that but saying general security implementations and requirements will be tighter at some point in the future then sure, full agree. If we're talking about VM based browsing and why people aren't using it today then I'm not sure how any of this applies outside a tiny fraction of a percentage of machines browsed from.
> This is a pretty bad argument, because it conveniently omits that antitrust regulation is also extremely open-ended.

What exactly are you disagreeing with in the parent post? Why would "omitting" your unrelated point from their argument be convenient?
> It is a pointless embellishment

That's like your opinion man.

> So them parading ligatures as something desirable

Others desire them, so they include them. I thank that.

> shows that fonts' authors don't grok the character-oriented nature of computer languages

Nonsense, just an empty insult. I don't think you grok ligatures.

> only serves to detract from the rest of the font design

Your opinion, I believe it enhances the font design.

> to nick their credibility as coding font designers

Another empty insult. Including a feature that people like doesn't hurt their credibility.

See also:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/subjective

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/opinion

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/aesthetic
Ask HN: Is the pandemic responsible for recent interest in the metaverse?
Clonezilla backup before i even bootup the laptop. This way if I need to return the laptop or i screw something up later i have a 100% factory copy of the HDD.
And how many of those are competitor's bots trying to devalue the other party's goods?
So is mine. (And you can replace "object" with "find questionable or needing justification".)
Also scroll on the mousewheel to increase/decrease the radius of points to warp.

And also check out the Style menu! I like some of the alternative colour schemes.

The level of detail in this is impressive.
> Canada has a big opt-out for charter rights, in that “reasonable limits” are allowed if they can be “demonstrably justified”

Indeed, and there is ample case law from the Supreme Court of Canada that provides guidance to judges as to how to apply that section of the Charter.

R v. Oakes was one of the seminal cases in that regard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Oakes
> The adjective critical though has been used very broadly

Access to most of Ottawa was been cut off, including one of the biggest border crossings in Canada, not a "pizza place". Deploying hyperbole like this isn't helping your case. Surely if the Ambassador Bridge doesn't qualify as critical infrastructure, nothing does.
Very neat, I'll have to give this a go. `watch` is one I use daily at work for various reasons. Diff and history are the perfect natural progression here.
Once Mac OS (and OSX) followed the ulititarian design from Brawn.

Now you have "material" (Bauhaus) design... done TOTALLY wrong.

The form doesn't follow usability at all. Just a posh design trying to
mimic a static format as if the computer screen was a flat magazine cover or
an information panel on a building. Zero usability.

We need the System 7, Be/Haiku, Windows 9x... design back. Now.
This is really cool, but the mobile UX is confusing. There’s no UI, just the generated map. I tried reloading for a new city but that doesn’t work because the URL is updated to include the generation parameters (which is not obvious on mobile).

Using iOS 15 mobile Safari on iPhone Mini 12

EDIT: now seeing a menu button that wasn’t there before, that helps
As usual, the devil is in the details. I would agree that the bridge is critical, and that forceful removal was justified. I’m less convinced that Wellington St. is critical, and I would be concerned that only the broadest brushes will be used to determine which accounts will be frozen and why.
There is no loss of mandate, if the opinion polls are anything to go by. Besides, the Canadian people chose the government in the middle of the pandemic last year. Is there a more comprehensive definition of a "mandate" than a federal election?

Whether the response is authoritarian depends on how it is enforced. The police have basically failed to enforce any law on the occupiers on parliament hill (I live here). If the local enforcement had happened preemptively and as per the law, the situation wouldn't have escalated as far as it has done.
Of the three hosts, only Marco makes an iOS app.
>a pedestrian in the UK can cross the road anywhere and I believe cars have to stop and make way.

Speaking as a UK driver (and pedestrian) - no, that's not really the case. At least not that pedestrians have right of way. I mean cars will hit the brakes to avoid killing you but I wouldn't recommend relying on that. The only place they changed the right of way recently is at turnings with 'give way' markings as shown in your link.
What enterprise? It's not rocket science, they are building a web browser. They are supposed to have just enough layers of management to be a thin wrapper between Firefox developers and the outside world. Collect donations, make sure developers are working on Firefox and get paid on time each month. That's all the community needs and that's all the community is asking for.
This is exactly right, and as you’ll see from the long tail of answers, there isn’t one that actually applies to normal people.

It used to be that IE etc was actually quite bad, and Firefox was substantially faster while adding important features like tabs. That’s when the nerds installed Firefox on their parents computers. Then FF languished, Chrome came out and was much faster and used less resources. So the nerds replaced everyone’s browsers with Chrome.

Now everyone is using their default browser from their phones, or apps, or inline system browsers in apps. All the browsers are roughly equivalent now, so the nerds don’t have a lot of reason to go around and change their parents browsers. Plus you don’t have any real advantage to changing the mobile browser from Chrome (Android) or Safari (iOS). Thus the market has shifted away from desktops, FF lost there, hasn’t regained, and has made almost no inroads on mobile.

They need a reason for the nerds en masse to go and change everything, while inertia and incompatible built-in password managers will make this painful.
I've spent more than a decade living in Minneapolis, I wasn't confused by crazy news sources.

>At no point were fire and police “afraid” to go places in the city either

The police abandoned the 3rd precinct station which was burned down later that night. How's that for being afraid to be in a place?

There were plenty of stories of fire trucks not going places for security reasons, and eventually firemen had national guard escorts. I don't know what that is besides "being afraid" to go places in the city.

>>“We were faced with these fail fail fail options,” Mr. Frey (Minneapolis mayor) said. “We were literally having to choose between preventing additional looting, protecting a precinct and providing escorts to firefighters to put out fires. There was no way we could do all three.”

>Damage in Minneapolis was mostly confined to a singular street.

A main street which crossed the cities, miles long. And damage wasn't at all confined there. There were several hot spots around the cities.

>I can imagine you may have been watching certain “news” coverage that may have claimed that.

Well, here's the New York Times backing up my claims.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/minneapolis-government...
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.

You get to make your point heard to anyone who cares - both to the government and other people - but they don't have to care. If it turns out that general public does not want to hear and support your protest, then you simply wait until elections, and either get what you request or watch your candidate lose and peacefully accept that your requests are simply not going to be met. You don't get to stop the rest of the society until your demands are met, they don't owe you that. If the other voters disagree with your opinion and don't want to listen to it, you don't get to make them listen.
Good luck in this thread - and probably on the front page. Thanks for doing such a good job moderating this website.
> fonts' authors don't grok the character-oriented nature of computer languages.

Hogwash. They provided all the characters (which ligatures are also, but you seem bizarrely "against" but "for" the ASCII ones), and ligature-less versions as well. So they grok it at least that far.
Wait till you hear about civil forfeiture in the United States.
I always thought that if I don't have someone constantly looking over my shoulder or checking what I do, I might be able to come up with much better long-term solutions and use idle times efficiently for that. Turns out 100% home office is just highly demotivating for me. I think flexible 20% office time per week would be ideal. Also having to take care of 2+ meals a day myself is more work than I thought
Deadlines, lack of resources due to slim margins, marketing drives every decision, huge spikes of traffic/load around holidays where you usually want to spend time with family.

Some companies can do it right, but most don’t.

Perfect e-commerce business would be for a product that isn’t tied to holiday sales, has huge margins, and can scale predictably from pre-sale all the way to shipping/delivery.
Good, blocking critical infrastructure and affecting hundreds of thousands of bottom lines is a crime.
TUI applied to GUIs.
they thought they were ahead of the game by adding the anti-stalk features at all, because no one in the tracker industry does it… but it ended up causing the streisand effect
If Google shut all the doors making ad blockers on Chrome virtually impossible that'd be interesting. Ad blocker use is pretty high and might be as high as 40% and if those people all defected that'd do it. Probably why Google can't do that though even though they clearly want to.
:O

My bad, I completely forgot that the beta has been opened only to French speaking countries, but I can correct that.

In the meantime, you can test it with the webapp if you want: if you are satisfied, your account will be synced across all your devices so you will not lose anything.

(Obviously, if you test with an anonymous account, you will have to "upgrade" it to an "identified" account to be able to connect to it on another device)

Feel free to share feedback!
Why fixate on murders? That is only a small aspect of what "the crime rate" really captures.
I would concede your point if these folks were trying to sell you a used car.

You don't need to take their word or rely on their credibility for anything. There's a demo right there of the font for you to decide if it's for you or not.
We don’t have a constitution. We have a loophole ridden document that allows each Premier in the nation to disregard Charter Rights via the Notwithstanding Clause.

It’s time for Canada to rewrite the Constitution and to enshrine some inalienable rights and freedoms.
At the position FF/Mozilla is in, even finding such a person is a challenge:

Ideally, FF would need a developer or another seasoned IT person at the helm, but let's be real most of our profession find management borderline disgusting at best.

The MBA/beancounter/finance-type execs have no fucking idea about the business or the spirit behind a project like FF, all they care about is financial numbers - and the ones you might want from that group can earn ten times the compensation outside of the NGO sector.

And the NGO execs... most of them have absolutely no experience leading a project as large and international as FF and the ones that do (e.g. Greenpeace) don't have any idea about technology either.
Victor mono is definitely not my thing, but thanks for pointing it out. I am quite fickle with typefaces so maybe one day this one will be the one I use for a few months.
So you want every markdown parser to support building diagrams as well? That seems much more difficult than offloading it to an open source library. Why waste effort that already has gone into building an easy to read diagraming language?
As a fully vaccinated person who understands that the point of every law in a democratic society is for the benefit of everybody (including myself) at the expense of my own liberty, I am proud that my name is not on that list.

When you increase community immunity, you can reduce a pandemic to an endemic (a disease that causes only a few hospitalizations each year and doesn't threaten rationing care). This means businesses can open up, people can remove masks, and everything can go back to normal. People's livelihoods will no longer be at stake. My freedom to choose whether to vaccinate might be restricted, but I benefit overall.

When you implement laws against burning fields and barbecuing on days with poor air circulation, you let everybody breathe easier without masks and without suffering breathing problems. My freedom to barbecue might be restricted, but I benefit overall.
> But is Firefox an inferior browser?

Several APIs that make powerful web applications possible are missing (e.g. WebUSB, various filesystem access APIs) and Firefox generally tends to lag behind Chrome when it comes to new APIs/web features.

The lower market share means that many web sites don't support it properly. For example, I need to keep a Chrome profile around for Zoom since the button doesn't even show up on Firefox, and when I tried to join a Teams meeting with Firefox, it failed in some non-obvious way, causing me to be late to a job interview (may have been due to some extension misbehaving or some config issue). I don't know if that's just because the sites don't test and do user agent sniffing, or whether Firefox is actually missing some APIs that would be required, but from a user perspective, it doesn't really matter, I can't use the browser for things I can do with Chrome.

I also still have occasional crashes.
The video linked in their Twitter feed is merely a Canadian gov't Press Conference. The link here on HN links to the Twitter feed.

Are you supposing that this outlet that "doesn't have the best track record of being accurate" is actually spoofing or modify the press conference footage (or should be considered likely to do so)?

Earnest question.
Well, I don't think it's mere "narrative". I'm sure Git has its merits--performance, for example--but I seriously doubt this factored into most orgs' calculus considering most orgs probably wouldn't have hit any serious performance issues with hg. I strongly suspect that Git's popularity has a lot more to do with GitHub (and to a lesser extent, the popularity of the Linux kernel) than it did to any actual merit, but I don't think there's any evidence one way or another.
Maybe so, but your enemy is risking jail time to do it.
The dead bodies lying around are being counted, and the count went up.

According to the SFPD link above, homicides in SF rose from 48 to 56 over the entire year 2021 vs 2020.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2022-02-...
Not for murder, which has increased in rates in some locales, but possibly for theft.
What I mean by "everyone says that" is that I often read that big tech should be regulated but I don't know what specific end they are trying to achieve.

Tech (big and small) is regulated today and there are rules on the books which protect at least some of the individual privacy points you highlighted. [1] You, and many others, have stated that you find those rules insufficient and would like new/different rules in place.

Can you provide specific goals that address the issues that you think exist, and that law makers could use to draft new policy?

[1] https://www.rocketlawyer.com/business-and-contracts/business...
and
https://www.rocketlawyer.com/business-and-contracts/business...
Where do you see $2 billion? Wikipedia seems to clearly state $500 million