skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The #1 most important one is "whatever politicians and ideologies are holding us back or even slowing us down". Pragmatically speaking in America today that means anyone to the right of Bernie, and the ideological/zealous-religious-belief that the govt can't solve problems, that they must be solved via individual consumer choices in a market. This also includes the ideology of "centrism", which is simply the american word for conservatism. If nothing can be done until it is bipartisan, then that simply gives the side that doesn't want to do anything a veto over everything.

I could keep going with 2, 3, 4, etc but its incredibly rare for anyone to get past #1. In 2016 you could point to Bernie's climate plan and Hillary's and they were off by nearly a full order of magnitude. "Centrist" and "moderate" dems chose Hillary instead. In 2020 we had a very similar choice between Bernie's plan and Biden's. The "centrist/moderate" crew chose the guy with the weaker plan, and then a year later destroyed that too.

So it really is this simple. If we're ever going to truly address the problem, we need to elect the people proposing to actually do it. We consistently do not because everyone has their <pet political issues> that they will prioritize over a collapsing biosphere.
There’s one reaction to this, my initial reaction: “that’s just common sense”.

But I think it’s a valuable post nonetheless: it’s succinct, it’s a punchy reminder of something we should all try to remember, and as a colleague of mine says: “common sense is not always common practice.”

Trying to fortify some system against some failure mode overwhelmingly often makes it more vulnerable to some other one. This is what keeps terrorists in business.

EV[failure] = P(failure) * cost-of-failure.
It sounds like they did threaten to move troops to both places you listed, but it didn't get much of a reaction: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/589595-russia-suggests-mi...

They did have an intelligence base in Cuba until 2002, and I don't believe anyone particularly cared.
You should make difference between political freedom and economical freedom.
OH MY GOD! That must be why they're forcing that. They want separate reviews for the apps with their own payment system.
A "protest" that prevents people from crossing a border or shuts down a city isn't a protest. It is hostage-taking.

The US First amendment has some good language on this: the people have a right to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Imposing a blockade does not qualify. If they just sit in front of Parliament and hold up signs and shout, but don't impede anyone going about their business, then they have a right to make their voices heard.

But what about (some other protest)? Civil rights protesters are usually ordered to disperse after a short time and get arrested if they don't. Sometimes they engage in civil disobedience, but they can be arrested if they do that.
Bodily autonomy is important but everybody dies and worms crawl through their bones and then whether they took to the stupid vaccine or not or wore the stupid mask or not does not matter. They can't resist the worms.

The worst effect of the covid pandemic has been whipping up opposing mass hysterias.

Both sides are wrong. Take the shot or don't if you want to. Suffer or enjoy the consequences of your decision. Nothing in life is justified now. Nothing in life was justified ever. Nothing in life needs to be justified.

The whole universe doesn't even need to exist. Instead there could just be nothing. But we worry about our stupid vaccine fears and mask fears while the feral human is increasingly domesticated into docile livestock.
Eh, not really. It's pretty obvious that there's racial discrimination in plenty of other areas, and the GOP just plays the "well hold on now" card ad infinitum. Like, they might acknowledge the occasional study showing discrimination in, say, policing, or hiring preferences. But they virtually never propose to actually do anything about it; their usual rhetoric on the issue is just to criticize whatever Democrats propose.

Nothing wrong with critiquing Democrat proposals, obviously, it's just that they never seem to have a credible, serious alternative.
Six Questions for Derek Thompson
https://youtu.be/Ea-7RKpRNIk

Man arrested for honking
Yeah this is biting us at the moment.
:-) I just noticed that we posted almost the same thing, at almost the same time.
Couldn't they theoretically be forced to work with the emergency act? AFAIK it could be argued that they are providing essential services
The Ottawa Police have refused to enforce the law for 3 weeks. They've been letting this go on unchecked. The mayor is a former Conservative MPP who is not running for re-election, so he's completely checked out. The police chief is a retired former deputy who got passed over to lead Toronto's police force and came out of retirement to try and burnish his reputation so he can get into politics.

The province is governed by a right-winger who will not do anything to upset his base. They've been pointing fingers at the municipal police, and vice-versa, and refusing to act.

The truckers are a very small group with no cohesive messaging. It's a bunch of dudes having a party and yelling about how they want to overthrow the government and install JFK Jr or whatever. There is no dialogue that would de-escalate them, it would only legitimize them.

The people of Canada have overwhelmingly stated that they want the occupation to end. They're sick of seeing people desecrate monuments, steal from the homeless, harass vulnerable people, shit in the streets, and make noise 24/7. The truckers have started taking their flags down when they're driving in town because everyone hates them and they don't want to be seen outside the red zone.
The Clever Engineering of NASA's Cryogenic Nano-Actuators [video]
I would do a better job with two things:
Keep better state of unused tabs without sucking up a ton of memory.
Allow users to click "back" without reloading the page or jumping me to a different section of the page where the link that was just clicked on is no where to be found.
Is Kraken another exception? They also trade USDT and comply with KYC, and they undergo semiannual third party audits.
The unions of long haul truckers came out against the protest. 99% of them are there, on the road, doing their job. 90% of them are vaccinated, just like the rest of us.

The truckers that have their own truck to bring there and block infrastructure are the privileged few who manage to be owners-operators. They represent the working man and woman about as well as the average IT contractor - and they're almost certainly even wealthier on average.
I don't see how that is comparable. With SAT/ACT once the test taker steps out of the hall there is literally no way to face any consequences. In this case you have to actually show up to work and prove that you are fit for the job you interviewed for or you will quickly be fired.
The amount of time a miner is economically viable for should be increasing as "Moore's Law" for ASICs slows down. Just the same laptops are usable for more years nowadays than they were in the early 2000's.

Also - if you have free electricity, which is a thing in certain settings, where prices can and do go negative, mining hardware will be viable for "a long time".
and that's coercion.
I've tried using a screen reader and the best way I can describe it is that it is like using a computer through a telephone menu. You hear things described to you at a pretty quick pace and you need to mentally build a model of what you are doing. I would routinely lose mental focus of where I "was" and would be completely lost.

I'm sure this isn't as difficult for people who use these tools day-in and day-out. But it was an eye opening experience for sure.
> Their stated demands are the dissolution of the current democratically elected government

“Dissolution of the government” has innocuous meaning in a parliamentary system, where “the government” refers to the executive authority of the current party or coalition in power in parliament: https://sencanada.ca/en/sencaplus/how-why/what-is-dissolutio.... It’s about as dramatic as a recall election in certain American states. Maybe even less so because dissolution of the government technically happens after every Parliamentary election

You’re deliberately using unfamiliarity with the term to suggest the truckers are calling for overthrow of the governing institutions of the country—what Americans mean when they refer to “the government.”
Netgate[0] (pfSense) is what I use, for edge routing at least. They had a big and long-awaited release today.

[0] https://netgate.com
It seems to me both pro-choice advocates and Canadian truckers are saying, “Get your laws off my body.” The idea that a person belongs to herself or himself is fundamental to both arguments.
Society will feel more free if more criminals are caught and punished and thus more potential criminals are deterred.
https://altwork.com/

https://people.com/home/zero-gravity-desk-boost-focus-7600/
My, thank you!
I was going to say the same thing, but with deteriorating vision they may be already past the point of seeing meaningfully-clear view of the world.
You seem to have read the western propaganda that has misrepresented the situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...
My post was written from direct experience of having run and being on multiple interviews over the last decade. It's not a one-off thing. It's a depressing majority of applicants.

In the spirit of constructive discussion, I have several thoughts about why other people may not see this. One, it's quite possible this is a very locale specific phenomena.

Secondly, I have tended to work in - and therefore interview people for - very mainstream languages, I suspect the experience of someone who works in/interviews for Haskell would be very different.

Finally, it's entirely possible that most of the applicants are by definition, the ones who find it difficult to get and/or hold on to a job, and that throws out the experience of the recruiting process, and that means they make up a disproportionate number of applicants, despite being a minority of programmers in the workplace.
Fights in Science – Scientists are human
That article is from last year and it just says black canadians are right to be wary because healthcare is racist. It doesn't say most truckers or occupiers are black (or indian?).

The truckers are overwhelming white men. I'm in Ottawa. I was at the protest yesterday that stopped a convoy of trucks, all driven by white men. The people who I see driving around with giant flags, yelling at pedestrians are all white men. The people at the LCBO fighting security without masks on - white men. People at the grocery store harassing actual essential workers - white men.
i tend to find that asci art usually looks like a broken mess.

if i was to have a graph view thats equally readable when not rendered, id want the barebones bits of graph viz's dot syntax
Atleast there are no quotas in grad school.
Marco Arment has repeated time and time again that he doesn't care about changing his payment system. He wants Apple to see the regulatory Armageddon it is facing.
Facebook will attempt to fix it like their life depends on it. It's about tracking users, so Facebook will be willing to pay an inordinate amount of money to figure out how to track users like they did before Apple's change.
Can anyone tell me an example where Softbank has been spectacularly correct in the past few years?

We all know the failures - are there any major success in their portfolio? Or is it all meh?
> but the strain and cost to the public healthcare system.

In Ontario, today, over half the ICU cases are vaccinated.

In Ontario, today, almost 75% of the hospital cases are vaccinated.

In Ontario, today, 70% of reported cases are among the vaccinated.

The idea that the unvaccinated are somehow driving, causing, or are to blame for the pandemic is completely wrong. For most of January, in Ontario, the rate of infection was higher among the vaccinated than among he unvaccinated!

The case for vaccine mandates or vaccine passes make absolutely no sense when you look at the actual data, actual reality. Even if you could magically force-vaccinate everyone today, you would only reduce the strain on the healthcare system a tiny amount. And yet people support governments forcing people to get vaccinated?

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data
Not familiar with either of those acronyms.

It’s mentioned in Pierre Poliveres speech in parliament, here’s a link: https://youtu.be/cGbnjF3OdNQ
Investigators to explore Nike's racial discrimination against Russians
The entirety of the Bloc just voted yea on the motion with the conservatives for the government to propose a concrete plan to end covid mandates today, along with 1 Liberal that Joel guy who dissented from his party.
One thing that you have to consider is touch typing is easy when it's just home-row keys and general typing, but even doing brackets vs curly braces forces me to look down at my keyboard. Also, modifier keys are tougher. Meta is trying to solve this with tracking keyboards with either overlays that have to be re-calibrated on move or with a special Logitech keyboard. These two videos explain the issue with working in VR in more detail.

Why aren't we all Programming in VR? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dHBC-tOnh4

Using a VR Keyboard? - Immersed vs Logitech K830 vs Horizon Workrooms - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diIA9oFI3XM
If people blockade an important international crossing or trying to deny access to government buildings I expect that the authorities will promptly clear it, even if they are doing it in the name of a cause I support.

Yes, BLM sometimes blocked roads. In every case they were promptly removed if they did not disperse when ordered to.
The measure of the Supreme Court is not how well it drives "progressive progress". That's not the Supreme Court's job.
What's very interesting to me is that the Byzantine, multi-day, "we can't afford to make a mistake" hiring practises are so normal in the US, most of which allows easy firing without cause. It's a truly bizarre combination.
The written word is (kind of) the impressive part. The spelling rules of English are not easy to master, and blind people have much fewer reading opportunities than the sighted. You don't see labels on the products you buy, you don't see the billboards from a passing car, you often don't even read books or articles, as listening to synthesized speech is much faster, cheaper and more comfortable than reading Braille.

The only reason my spelling is as good as it is is the fact that I used to listen to English text with a Polish speech synthesizer for most of my life, as I was too lazy to switch languages. Polish is (almost) phonetically perfect, so I was hearing things almost exactly as they were written. This made my spelling much better than that of most blind Americans. Words like cystom (system), keybored or even polotission (politician) can sometimes be seen in the blind community.
Its a letter of the law versus spirit of the law. I am of the later. Investigating one crime does not inherently give permission to use data from that crime to start trying to solve other crimes unless they are directly connected, i.e. tying a bunch of murders together with similarities because it may be a serial killer instead of one off murders.
Ah, perfect, the corporations are free to do the govt bidding without explicit pressure from the govt. They'll work hand in hand though. This feels like they are just making what GoFundMe did, legal after the fact.
I guess there is going to be a run on Canadian banks... and who would trust their money in banks where it could be frozen without prior cause?

It is not clear to me how deep the support for this cause is among Canadians, but if this group chooses to act by pulling their money out, this would cause even more headaches for Trudeau and his ilk.
this is the idea behind barefoot running I believe
I think at some level most people know this, certainly Trudeau. But it's much easier to get what you want by pushing the narrative that these are racist, conspiracy theorists who think that vaccines have microchips or whatever other stuff gullible canadians actually believe people think.

In my province, we have to show our "vaccine pass" to go to the liquor store, the hardware store, I don't know what else, I dont go to stores anymore (I have all 3 vaccine shots). We have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, and that has just emboldened "leaders" to push even tighter restrictions. The protests are about the horrible place our country has become, they have nothing to do with belief or disbelief in vaccines as a concept.

And I have to add, if there was ever a vaccine to disbelieve in, it is this one, I mean honestly, it "prevents severe infection" - sure, is that justification for state compelled vaccination?
I was having crazy neck pain until I switched to a much lower seat. I no longer look slightly downward and it's made a huge difference.
There are all sorts of chairs you can look into from the one that's basically an inflatable ball to one where you straddle the seat. But whatever you do, change positions.
rac·ism

/ˈrāˌsizəm/

noun

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
Their most prominently stated demand is ending all state-backed mandates and lockdowns. Where did you see anything about the dissolution of their elected government? Or, are you referring to the parliamentary system?
> Relying on npm seems a bit awkward.

1. npm solves a few problems here. By publishing to npm, the app is instantly available to be downloaded and installed by users.

2. Auto updating. The launcher will automatically check for updates on launch, and download them if any are found so that users are always working with your latest version.

I may add support for other CDNs - and originally I just had it so you self host. But npm removes a lot fo complexity. It only takes a minute to create an account, and then you can publish.

> I might suggest using native packages, especially on mac; something like a DMG or .package.
> Relying on npm seems a bit awkward.

1. npm solves a few problems here. By publishing to npm, the app is instantly available to be downloaded and installed by users.

2. Auto updating. The launcher will automatically check for updates on launch, and download them if any are found so that users are always working with your latest version.

I may add support for other CDNs - and originally I just had it so you self host. But npm removes a lot fo complexity. It only takes a minute to create an account, and then you can publish.

> I might suggest using native packages, especially on mac; something like a DMG or .package

The trouble with DMG and .pkg is that they need to be codesigned and notarized individually - which means you need a Mac and an Apple Developer account. Using jDeploy you don't need a Mac, and you don't need to worry about codesigning. This is because the installer is already signed and notarized. This probably the biggest pain point that I wanted to solve with jDeploy.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
Two things to consider: first, is this is Canada’s imperfect democratic system and I do wish for reform, but it’s what we have. The second is that it isn’t a fair comparison to look at just the Liberals and not consider the other parties mandate stances:

“The People's Party was the only party opposing vaccine passports, mask mandates and lockdowns”

The PPC received 4.94% of the vote, which implies more than 90% of voters chose a party which in some way supported mandates.

The majority of vaccine mandates are provincial. The federal government has only issued them for workers in federally regulated industries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_Canada...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_mandates_...
Because Apple did it. Rounded corners is 50s design and was considered kitsch, but once it became associated with the privilege of owning an idevice it became ubiquitous and impossible to quit. I am one of those who has gotten sick of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG_G6rZHp1A

Neil McCauley : how do you get this information?

Kelso : It comes to you, this stuff just flies through the air, they send this information "beamed" out over the fucking place, you just got to know how to grab it, see, I know how to grab it.
I don't really understand what this is offering. Maybe someone could explain..

Can't you already do this with jpackage or graalvm to create native bundles?

At least with jpackage you already get an installer, versioning and upgradeability. I haven't tried graalvm'd native compiler but it should be possible as well.
Do those statistics account for the selection effect?
I have yet to see any data that supports the assertion that Canadians are still happy with masks and other restrictions. The few polls in the news tend to be small sample sizes, and tend to be from biased pools of respondents. Basically it’s not good data it’s just politically manipulated numbers to support their policy.
Are you being a weasel about the word "ban"? Do you place users in a special status where their comments are hidden by default and they are subject to strict rate limits based on things they say? Yes, of course. And I can't link people to examples, because HN hides the comments in question from everyone but me. You know that.
Given that people shed plenty of blood for our liberties, no, preventing all rapes/murder is not worth surrendering all our liberties.

I.e. I'm not willing to trade away all my liberty for security. A certain level of background crime is acceptable. Just like I accept a certain level of risk every time I get in a car, eat a steak, go jogging, etc.
I don't think dicarive is a word?

And it absolutely can.

School with less funding often don't have the same access to technology. This school required a laptop purchase from each student, and there's probably a correlation between income and computer literacy.
Define unsafe
Another developer of interesting generators in this vein is Martin O'Leary (twitter.com/mewo2).

Metropologeny: https://twitter.com/metropologeny
Uncharted Atlas: https://twitter.com/unchartedatlas

https://mewo2.com
> by issuing a fine to those who refused vaccination.

...of five dollars back then, which would be ~$160 today.

The difference between a $160 fine and being fired from your job is enormous, but you just ignored that part to make your argument.
If this wasn't a discussion about monospace fonts, I might be inclined to agree with you. However, I kinda agree with the detractors here; ligatures objectively defeat the purpose of equally-spaced characters. The purpose of monospace fonts is to provide definitive clarity where sans and serif fonts fail to do so. In the world of programming, maintaining that consistency is essential. Having one symbol span several spaces undermines that clarity, you may as well be reading your code with Helvetica at that point. I understand that programming is a career path filled with creature comforts and obscure little things that make you happy; I even enjoy the warp cursor (gasp!) in VS Code, which definitely doesn't contribute to clarity. Let's stop treating ligatures like a direct upgrade over normally printed monospace, though. It's an option, one that shouldn't come enabled by default but one that should be available for people who want them for whatever reason.