skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think of Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) or Rust? Do you think they were a mistake?
Easier to correct than installing tires backwards. Still hafta visit a service center but at least there's no disassembly needed.
If Firefox doesn't want to fire their uncapable CEO, then it should die. Simple as that.
I'd settle for the ATF just learning to not shoot puppies.
It’s not the backup, it’s the -restoration-.

TheBadGuy changes the encryption key used to make the backups, then waits %long enough%, you’re still boned.
I cannot remember exactly when I discovered Julia or where. But I remember I got intrigued early on and wrote a blogpost about 9 years ago on Tumblr, which is still there comparing Julia to Ruby of all things: https://assoc.tumblr.com/post/70484963303/getting-comfortabl...

The normal thing today is comparing Julia to R, Matlab and Python. But my intro to Julia was actually trying to convert code examples in the O'Reilly book: "Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby: Learning About Everyday Things" to Julia.

I thought that worked quite nicely and that the Julia code looked a lot nicer than the Ruby code. It made me write a follow up blog post a few days later: https://assoc.tumblr.com/post/71454527084/cool-things-you-ca...

Unlike your typical Julia user I was always into programming because I wanted to make computer games. I liked playing with Game engine architectures and those exposed me to the problem of handling collision between objects of different types. Multiple-dispatch solves that problem very elegantly. Traditional object-oriented languages are pretty bad at it.

From the perspective of writing clean and expressive code, this really won me over to Julia early on before I had done much serious work with it.

It became my goto language for writing Unix tools, replacing Go, Ruby and Python.
> I find it interesting that the standard it's held to is much higher than that for existing 'finance'

It isn't though. It's has all the worst aspects of Wall Street, more wolves and a few unique problems, without the redeeming feature of it facilitating massive amounts of real world activity, and you'll still find more people on here defending even crypto's most blatant scams than you'll find arguing that securitising subprime mortgages is the future of homebuying but just had a few teething problems.
> "drop mandates"

That little throw away at the end, where we just give in to people making demands outside of democratic methods says it all, I think.
Proportional fonts break code navigation, moving vertically is much more important in code than normal text. Also it's harder to line things up, and alignment is a good cue when scanning code.
There is a font on my KDE desktop called just "Monospace" and its a great font.

I can't find a font file called Monospace. Does anybody know what the font is? I would love to have it on my windows machine.
> What is one single reason to use Firefox?

Security, privacy, and customization are why I use it. It takes a lot of work to do it, but you can lock down firefox very effectively and you have more freedom to decide what your browser is and isn't allowed to do with firefox than anyone else.

In the end, what we're missing in browsers is a browser that works for you instead of exploiting you to make money. Out of the box, firefox doesn't hit that mark today, but at least it can be beaten into submission. No other browser gives users that kind of control.
I think the other thing that makes it less relevant is that Safari is using WebKit and at this point its just a WebKit derivative. Part of the value that Firefox provides for better or worse is alternate components that force things to actually try and meet standards.
Also, how many people who regularly browse HN have seen a headline like "[Font Name] - A font designed for developers"? As a mild font nerd, I love that people keep making more fonts. But also:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Why are we still using super-greenhouse gases in our home air conditioners?
Superb. Love this font.
I had never considered using variable width fonts for programming. I can see some minor issues, like vim users(on an environment that support variable-width fonts) now have no consistency on where their cursor will land when using j/k to move up and down lines, but I think I will still try it out.
> The protest is super unpopular in canada.

Given the unfair media coverage, is it any wonder?

There seems to be, including in your own post, a lot of ad hominem attacks ("one person had a confederate flag! some people in the US support the cause too! this means it's totally evil") rather than addressing the human rights the protestors are fighting for, and it's a shame. But it's no surprise given the opposite media coverage for the opposite type of protest (violent riots) two summers ago.
No, it's not the equivalent to martial law. Every civil law still applies, parliament and the courts are still operating normally with their full powers. It's closer to sending the national guard.
Haha yeah I also got one and haven't used it yet. My interest in micro controller programming comes and goes and if I have to wait for shipping before I can start my project, I'll be over it before the thing arrives. Breakout does sound like the perfect game for it though.
Oh yes, I didn't mean to imply kids = less housework. It is definitely the opposite--they have much more work that could always be done. What I meant was that parents get two things from the in-office life by default:

1. A forced schedule, because you have to bring kids to school, cook dinner, deal with homework etc etc. I think this helps you prioritize at work a bit better, because the time limitation is very clear.

2. A heavy baseline social life, because your family is around frequently

This isn't to say that their lives are easier (again, I think it's the opposite), but I think it helps explain some of differences in preferences right now for remote vs. in office.
I was first hand witness to some stuff that I doubt would withstand prodding but I'm not at liberty to talk about it.
Amazon sends a bill rather than having it be part of the "you're making money, we're taking a bit of it."

https://smarthomestarter.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-create...

> The determining factor of the pricing structure for creating Skills depends primarily on their complexity.

> In other words, the more complicated the request being processed (and therefore, more cloud services required), the more it will cost to publish the Skill.

With that model, free skills cost their developers money.

... Though, I'm still going to point out - https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/in-skill-purch...

> Amazon pays developers 70% of the marketplace list price for all sales.

So, not only do you pay to have AWS crunch your data, but if you're charing for that with some in skill purchase, Amazon is taking a 30% cut.
An anonymous tip alone is very likely insufficient probable cause for any judge to sign off on a warrant to execute a guns blazing search inside a home.
Same here. This was at GE, the goal and review structure is elaborate, shifting, and based on a slew of cultural and corporate factors and cult bullshit. A real mess. You better have a cool manager that knows how to deal with it in an optimal way or it is a very very painful waste of time. My manager was brand new and by the book...greatly hastening my exit.

On top of all that it actually did influence your ability to progress (I just told them I had no aspirations of advancement beyond my current position...again, further hastening my exit lol).
No, it's not binary as you make it out be.

There is a wide spectrum of CEOs skills and compensation. A SVP, VP, or even director level person at Apple (and the like) could be CEO of Mozilla (and would be happy to take a CEO title and steer their own ship).

I'd bet there are couple internal people at Mozilla that could be promoted to CEO and be happy with CEO pay and be successful too.
Well it's the market rate, right?
I think many people miss this point. I'm good at conversation, but horrible at keeping in touch because I don't really perceive time in relationship. Maybe I need to develop a habit of going through my contact list, but that is very fragmented due to various platform - call, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. So setting a common contact book, then adding reminders can be a nice way to maintain relationship.
This seems very appropriate and relevant:

“By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/848294-by-the-time-i-was-fo...
It might be that they need to pay that amount to attract top CEO talent. But then again, I'm not sure if Mozilla should be large enough to need a top CEO. I mean effectively reducing it to just the Firefox team would be fine with me. And then it's maybe 80 people to manage in total. So that's one regular office building and you're done. It doesn't sound like the CEO will be critical for anything in this company.
> ... and it was the organization that implemented these policies ...

That may not be true. It is common for governments to implement the really unpleasant policies by using businesses as an enforcement arm (eg, surveillance via banks and telecom companies). It bears asking why companies have all, in coordination, picked up a set of policies that are both ineffective and divisive - it is entirely on the table that it is because of government pressure in the form of OH&S guidelines.

Firing unvaccinated people barely does anything w.r.t. changing the odds that people get COVID eventually. We've seen ample evidence that being vaccinated doesn't change the transmissible situation. So why are companies doing this? Their employees are still going to turn up and transmit COVID. By this point, the anti-vaccine types have probably caught COVID and gained natural immunity anyway so these policies would represent companies shooting themselves in the foot. It is possible they'd do that of their own initiative but it is nevertheless a bit weird.

> My point is that these protests don't have anything to do with vaccines, mandates or some perceived minority status...

Why do you think these protests have just mushroomed up? Have trucker protests been an ongoing thing in Canada for many decades?
> Markdown was meant to be rendered, not left as plaintext (for viewing, at least as a primary use-case). [...] meant to be a lightweight way […]

No, that was not the primary design goal.

> The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
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How does this happen "by accident" ?

There is a modal window that forces you to type the name of your repository. One would need to accidently:

- click on make private
- type "httpie/httpie"
- click "i understand the consequences"
One of my favorite shell aliases is "alias weather=curl wttr.in/<City>"
I love Mermaid! I used to use that bitch all the time in college to make beautiful flowcharts and my friends would always ask me how I made them so nice looking. Another awesome thing about Mermaid is since it’s grounded in the HTML/CSS/JS web stack you can easily modify certain things in diagrams to do any custom tricks you need for your specific diagram. Aka Mermaid is hackable and I love software that is designed to give you that freedom.
Thanks for your comment, it's enlightened and motivational. Unfortunately so much management isn't like this.
Upstream in this thread we have "it's not torture because no-one is making those residents who live in the area stay" - because of course, they all can afford the time and effort to go stay in a hotel out of the area for a few weeks...

Here we have "oh, well, it might as well be a ban, if you're going to inconvenience someone for a few weeks".
I haven't thought about this before. I would assess what Mozilla's current goals are and where Firefox market share fits into that.
It's weird that Russia even bothers. Any human with an iq over 80 knows what Russia is planning at this point.
Might be fun to flip this on its head and make an electromagnetic rocket of some kind.

The simplest idea wouldn't be a real rocket but a pair of coils, some optical sensors, a supercapacitor, and control electronics. It would launch from a rod made of alternating plastic and metal pieces like a stomp rocket.

The more ambitious idea would be to try to build something very small that fires maybe 2mm spheres as propellant. I kindof doubt it's workable.
"a fish rots from the head"
I use Firefox because I believe its important for there to be more than one browser implementation (rendering engine) in the world. If you believe the same, go and download and use Firefox, even if it inconveniences you to do so. Now, about Skia...
No, much of Kroger is not unionized. This is about The Kroger Company, which owns many chains besides Kroger.

Remember, the title says “Kroger-Owned Grocery Stores”, and the first paragraph mentions Fred Meyer.
I didn't see (nonfringe) calls for martial law. I saw calls for the military to tow the trucks because the actual truck towing companies the police normally subcontracted to were unwillingness to piss off their customer base/risk of violence from truckers/agreement with the protests. And, of the various government agencies, only the military had access to the heavy vehicle movers that were needed.

> I think it is intentional (I assume some political end game)

Most media doesn't have a political endgame. They have a bias for sensationalism and clickbait.
A clarification for those watching the video dominance is generally defined in terms of biomass not numbers. The American Chestnut could grow quite large, which changes some of these comparisons.
Yes and the way it's supposed to go is that a competitor creates their own devices that entice users away from Apple, just like Apple did with RIM. Why 5%? why not 4? Why not 6? Who are we to decide what Apple charges for Apple services? How do you know what it costs Apple to maintain the review process and to continue to innovate in mobile space? Why is it any of our collective concern what apple over/under charges for?
> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Literally the first paragraph from your link. I'm having trouble reconciling that first paragraph with the idea that it wasn't meant to be rendered as HTML.
Yep, I completely agree with you on that. Making the client in Electron is somewhat understandable given the effort it would take to maintain a client for every platform, but synapse is really heavy. Synapse's heavy resource usage is one of the many issues the second-generation server - Dendrite - is intended to solve, but it seems like it's still likely a year or so out from being production ready.
I started using Julia in 2017, and as a physics student who saw Python, Mathematica, and Matlab as a series of tools that I had to pull out sometimes to solve specific problems, it came as a great shock to me that I was suddenly interested in Julia for it's own sake.

It's not an overstatement to say that this language totally changed my relationship with computers and programming.
You can be assured that all the known public information is reflected in a stock's price at a given point in time. Which doesn't mean that profits can't be made in the market.
yoink!

I saved the EULA in case your interpretation is accurate and the EULA changes.
>fortunately we've been experiencing a bull market

Exactly. Tell me how you did in 2008, not how you're doing in a bull market.
I always assume people stoking these fake intergenerational conflicts are hoping to profit off it somehow.

It's so nonsensical and silly.

(Well, there are also the people who waste their lives exercising their sense of aggrievement who do it too, but they'll latch on to anything.)
As a matter of principle I agree with you, however there is also a large Indian diaspora in Canada and it's quite possible most of that money was donated by Indians; it doesn't make a lot of sense for a Canadian living in the US to donate the money from a US account though.
I really want revise to be able to be able to redefine structs as well. It would make package development a lot easier.
Permissions creep is rampant in the industry, apps all start with a pretty user friendly set of permissions and over time the ToS/ToUs and permissions get increasingly offensive. The other similar pattern to this is decreasing "SLAs" like how Uber and Lyft are now often misrepresenting the wait time to get a ride (driver is 3 minutes out = at least 7 minutes), and if they had started that way they'd never have gained such widepread adoption in the first place.
This entire article exists as a setup and resolution for:

“Victim misses” had become “victim Mrs.”!
Market rates don't matter all that much if the person setting them has a significant influence on what they are. It's like a child determining their allowance based on which one of their friends was able to grab the most money from their mom's purse.
Hg in itself is alive and well. Interacting with git repositories works well with hg-git.

But it is true that, for the mindset of the general public (or younger developers), it might well be nonexistent.

It is a shame, since life with mercurial is still so easier.
Somewhat related, SFMTA Muni is retiring its current bus stop displays because of AT&T 3G decommissioning. Probably not worth the effort, but presumably sufficiently motivated people could spoof legacy 3G and feed it any data they wish.

https://www.masstransitmag.com/technology/passenger-info/sig...
Sure. Did they give money to US politicians?
Yeah, DDG can even give better results at time than google does. Google search has gone from being exceptional to becoming ad filled trash. Every other major search engine (directly or indirectly) gets their results in part from Google, but since most spammers are focused on Google the father from google you get the better results can be.
The theme switcher (coloured dots, top right) switching between a variety of common editor themes is a nice touch.
This is fantastic. Some random suggestions:

- Searching for a product should be the primary action on the home page, not hidden behind a "browse" button.

- It's weird that the highlight example front and center of your home page isn't even a real listing.

- I'm not sure what the relation between the website and subreddit is. If someone posts something on Reddit, you probably don't have the right to republish it on your site.

- Probably too late for this feedback, but if the purpose of this site is to build a repair catalog then associating it with the word "fail" is probably too negative. You are simply inviting people to complain about crappy things they bought.
One doesn't have to look too far. Bring Jamie back! :)
As an Indian, this double standard was the most amusing thing for me in all these. When farmers in India protested, Canadian PM himself supported them (probably because he wanted the Sikh community votes?).

Indian government only used police officers with batons and were sometimes chased away by the protesters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1qFKUtfvMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7so5TwIMyM

Then yesterday I saw videos of heavily armed RCMP officers deployed to remove some of the blockades!
Yes I agree - but the whole idea of "liberty" and the US declaration as originally intended does. Indeed most of the world is content with a high degree of authority/tyranny. That doesn't invalidate the concerns of those who wish to be free.
I'm saying that I don't think "file storage service for locals" is even in the same product category as what Facebook does, even putting scale aside. They're an ad-supported publisher with extremely lax standards. A file storage, or even file sharing, service, isn't necessarily that, and it would take several steps to bridge that gap and travel from "not at all comparable to Facebook", through "grey area", and into "OK, now we're talking about something pretty similar to Facebook (and to Twitter, et c.)".
You can look at the data - there were around twice as many foreign donations than Canadian ones.
If prices were in terms of money, then a company should want to undercut its competitors. This would overall be a net-win for it, as customers would move more to use its services than the competition. This would force the competition to ALSO find ways to reduce costs.

The end winner is the consumer in such a scenario as prices keep dropping.

But here, the price we pay is ads, and it's hard to even evaluate where you saw more ads. People don't pick a social network by the number of ads (short of there being so many it gets in the way), they pick social networks by where their friends already are. The bigger a network is, the more likely someone is to use it.

Facebook's economics exploit this network effect. They don't need to make the 'price' better (ads) because that isn't what drives consumers to it.
Seriously. Arguing people from other generations aren't like you and thus bad entirely because you like Joe Rogan is weird. And like, gag me with a spoon uncool.
Engineering is to math as ideal lines between points are to sharpie marks, superficially they cover the same concepts but they're not the same. Engineers worth with safety margins (in this case: 40 to 60%), mathematicians work with ideals.

Engineers will use math to get to their solutions, and will then back off from that 'perfect' solution to give them a safety margin to take into account excursions into borderline overload, material defects and so on all balanced against costs.
This set of policies would spell the end of Mozilla, and the end of Firefox unless the community (or another org) picked it up. Mozilla is mostly funded by search engine companies, the largest being Google, and any direct attempt to compete with Chrome would probably end a significant chunk of that funding.

Like it or not, unless Mozilla does what Google sees as acceptable, Firefox can't continue. The only way to turn Firefox around and continue development would be to find an alternative benefactor.
There has been a very nice CCC talk on this topic… but I don't have the link :/
My rule of thumb is that any time a CoC-related ban can't be explained, it's unjustified.
Microsoft to Start Bringing Employees Back to the Office
And Trump has never, and will never be the Canadian Prime Minister, yet we see plenty of Trump flags at these protests.

And confederate flags too, for that matter.