skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting fired for not getting vaccines was a line that I didn't agree with.

However, the vast majority of organizations that did this were private though, and it was the organization that implemented these policies. I'd hardly equate that with government overreach, and especially not the federal government if you're a nurse/healthcare worker, or worked in a local municipal government.

My point is that these protests don't have anything to do with vaccines, mandates or some perceived minority status that not following them bestows (which, again, is a choice..). If that was the case, they would not be in Ottawa. There might be some people paying lip service to these ideas, but the majority of the people protesting are self-labelling as minorities due to some perception of tyranny from the federal government that does not exist.

Unless you're a federal employee that was fired due to your position on vaccines (over 95% of federal employees are vaccinated) then protesting in Ottawa doesn't make any sense.
> Especially on mobile where the new fenix engine is still limited to a small whitelist of extensions

Fenix is bloody fantastic. I would double-down on this and really push the fact that (even with the limited extension list) it has uBlock Origin.
I love the music to Ice Cap Zone in S3. I had it as my ring tone at one point.
i see, i guess it's locale dependent then. Where I'm from the drunk tank is mostly a catch and release program where people spend the night so they're not a danger to others, but really aren't worth prosecuting.

What you said might work where you are though.
Fastest growing in what way?

Tesla is hardly growing profits or revenues at the rate of Google and Apple. And their profits are already 50-100x bigger...

It's only fastest growing in asset price.
All democracies aren’t quite a democracy, by your logic, which is certainly accurate enough. All democracies must protect against foreign interference (PsyOps) in domestic politics and protests, and such protection runs directly counter to the right of non-violent dissidence; thus, by abrogating individual rights to any degree whatsoever through laws, tolerances, and actions, every country can be said not be “not quite a democracy” on a long enough timescale. However, the degree to which each democracy tolerates and shields nonviolent dissidence versus the interests of the country itself varies wildly per country, both in degree and substance.

Canada is no exception, encoding its protections of that intersection into the CSIS act. If you’d like to learn more about CSIS, these links are a good first step towards understanding how Canada’s laws govern foreign interference and how and when they protect domestic rights:

https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corpo...

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-23/
It's simpler and a smaller download than the iStockPhoto of yester-decade.

Criticism would be more constructive however, if it included an example of something better.
It's a one of, a seriously screwed up one, but it's not the normal quarantine procedure. I have a lot of respect for Lightbound but his speech was a lot of measure dropping with no context and no alternative proposed. I do respect that we need to be united more though.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/in-jail-teenagers-spent-10-days-...
It's not about posterity but reading back what you just wrote a minute ago. That's not a very bold assumption.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30311679
Well, they don't seem to do what they are supposed to do then. I don't think such an organization should give away golden parachutes (fat executive bonuses, including on the way out), yet they did so a few times.

And yeah I know the Foundation and the Corporation are separate. Potato tomato. Point is, they should not act like a corporation. But they do, and they'll kill Firefox, that seems a very likely possibility at this point.
When's it coming out? I'd like to try it out
> Also with sled geometry fixed you can change the projectile without changing the coil timings.

I don't think this is true unless the mass of the projectile is negligible compared to the sled. if so, you are spending most of your energy moving something that does not deliver KE to the target.

or unless all your projectiles have about the same mass, which also seems like an inconvenient constraint.
Can someone clarify for me, if Snowden is an asylee in Russia, then why should I consider his opinion as neutral? Would he, under any circumstances, express the opposite view?
"Apple" and "open" don't belong in the same sentence.
> Figma has proved to be serious competition to rival Sketch which is a native desktop Mac-only app (with all the speed and functionality advantage of a native app.)

Hats off to the Figma dev team because it actually blows Sketch out of the water in performance, smoothness and stability. Really makes you question the supposed native app advantage when you have such a highly capable team.
I used to work at Mozilla, and here's my opinion.

There's no need to save Firefox. When Firefox came out, it was a breath of fresh air. Because of Mozilla, every browser is now really, really great. Even Microsoft's browser is standards compliant and open source! Yeah, I get the arguments that Webkit is too pervasive and Chrome is too tied to Google and all of that... but in my opinion, Mozilla wanted a world where every single consumer had the choice between numerous high-quality browsers, and that's the world we currently live in! Firefox is losing this current battle, but Mozilla won the war.

The problem now isn't the browser, but rather the websites. Too much tracking, too much fights over who owns your online persona, and not enough usability (I'm so sick of passwords).

Mozilla always had a unique skill... they were a non-profit that was great at taking complicated technical issues that plagued the internet, and packaging them in a way that was usable. They took hard problems and made it so nobody had to think about them.

I'd love to see Mozilla do the same for identity. I'd love to see them be the company that killed password, and made it so identity is simple, easy and safe.

First off, Google can't do it. Nor can the other big players. Why? Because identity and tracking so to tied to their core business model, they have to back off imposing it. Otherwise they'll be accused of making it so "you need a Google account to use the web". (Or in Apple's case, they've had to go so far the opposite way that nobody really uses it.)

There's a lot of money in this! Identity is very closely tied to payments (it's crazy how it's 2022 and in the browser I still am typing in my credit card number).

To me, identity online is tied to an email address. You can have an email address with your real name, a few throwaways, etc. Identity doesn't have to mean YOU specifically. I'd love to see Mozilla work with GMail/etc... but also spin up their own email servers. Since most people now access email from a client (Apple Mail, Superhuman, etc), having a headless email server would help both privacy and also put them in a great place to help own identity.

Lastly, Mozilla always was fighting two wars at the same time. They both wanted institutional changes for the Internet (aka standard compliant browsers) and also were building a really nice implementation of it (aka Firefox). I feel like this is how they should approach identity. Getting everyone to follow the same standards (i.e. I can still use my GMail account for anything listed above), while also building their own stellar implementation of it and giving their competition a reason to compete (their own mail server, including these identity features in Firefox, etc).
> The games didn't reward you much for secrets

I mean they did a bit - Sonic 2 you could become Super Sonic (invincible) pretty easily, and in Sonic 3 & Knuckles you had to find Giant Rings to be able to get to Super Sonic.
> There is often a complete lack of seeing things from the Russian perspective.

...you say after rephrasing the exact hegemonic sphere of influence argument described as the Russian goal in the post you are responding to.

Understanding why Putin wants Lebensraum doesn't make that desire a justification for invading and occupying neighbors anymore than understanding why Hitler wanted it did.

(And understanding that the US committed unjustified aggression in Iraq in 2003 doesn't justify Russian aggression against Ukraine because yada yada NATO yada yada in the same way that Iraq’s aggression in 1990 doesn't justify aggression against them directly, not merely someone connected by alliance, in 2003.)
So cool, incredibly fun to be such a simple game. Sounds are a big part.
Cardinal: Free and open-source modular synth plugin
Brilliant!

Nit: it's not clear where to put repair procedures if you're reporting something you've already fixed.
> My first question would be why such a civilization isn't just colonizing that galaxy.

Super advanced AI civilization spreads in all directions. Eventually the loyalty and purpose bits flip and the far-flung frontiers no longer share the same mission profile or allegiances.
Do people really care that much about editor fonts? I just use SF Mono and call it a day. I've never had a problem where the font, of all things, was the main cause of something not working for me.
I'm the Nevada City area.

There are quite a few large chestnut trees here. Last November, in my walks around the city, I gathered buckets or pockets full of the nuts and wound-up with 4-5 jars worth in my refrigerator. I still have half a jar left. They're tasty and easy to cook if you quarter them with a serrated knife and fry like potatoes.

Edit: I assume all the trees here were planted or spread from planted trees since this California. With each Chestnut tree group separate, the ability of blight to spread is somewhat limited (but not impossible, still I hope it doesn't).
I never said fraudulent. Just an unregistered security, which is potentially illegal because the Ethereum foundation that sold and profited off the initial premined tokens to the public without proper disclosure required of a legal security sale.

The result is that we now have no idea how much insider trading actually went on in that premine sale. For example, it could be the case that most Ethereum is secretly controlled by a tiny, tightly knit cabal of people who collude to pump up the price to a false valuation. If this were true, it would be incredibly problematic with their planned transition to proof of stake, because a tiny number of people would effectively have full control over the fate of the protocol and all the money outsiders hold in ETH.
That is ironic coming from a Canadian. Just recently, a lot of money poured in from Canada to support the farmer protest in India. Here is one example: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donatetofarmers

PS: Not that I support the current Canadian protests.

Edit: Some other examples:
1. https://globalnews.ca/news/7680005/farmers-india-protest-bil...
2. https://thewire.in/rights/justin-trudeau-farmers-protest-ind...
3. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/farmers-prot...
> there is no violence, and no obvious danger

A number of illegal weapons, high capacity magazines, and a large quantity of ammunition were seized in a blockade in Alberta. I would not be surprised if there are people with weapons in Ottawa as well, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8618494/alberta-coutts-border-pro...
This section of the article answers that:

> Williams was part of a team that published a similar study in 2020. At the time, they found the drought since 2000 was the second-worst after the late 1500s megadrought. With widespread heat and dryness over the past two years, the current drought has passed that extreme mark.

So when they first looked, it was the year 2020 and they looked at the period between year 2000 and 2020. And now they are looking at that plus the additional 2 years that has passed since last time they looked.
Once Google have a total monopoly there is nothing stopping them from making adblocking impossible and add even more user tracking/data gathering.

It's a stance.

And tbh I don't see much difference with Firefox when using Chrome
(besides all the data that I can see leaving my computer to go to google servers even when I'm not on any website)
> A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire.

What evidence is there that that was real? An allegation was made on Twitter, but only thing I've found that digs into the details looks like a complete debunking (see links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336974). It's from a biased source and I'm open to any factual refutation, but I've looked for contrary reporting that digs into the details, and haven't found any. Only a lot of repetition of the original allegation.
This is an interesting question.

As I understood it, Google doesn't really want Firefox out of the market since it keeps them out of anti-trust issues... which is why they pay Mozilla to be the default search engine. Without that money, Mozilla would fail. Mozilla obviously doesn't want to fail, so they keep taking the money from Google. I don't see anything about that flywheel which puts Mozilla/Firefox in the drivers seat of their fate. They exist as part of a cost-benefit analysis on the part of Google.

So to phrase this question in a different way, how does a fat-smoker lose weight and quit smoking? They just do. If Mozilla/Firefox wants to legitimately be competitive they're going to have to change the nature of their relationship with Google.

Now, if you were to ask me personally what I would do?
...I would probably try to strategically create an imbalance between the big tech firms by getting cozy with a specific firm, forcing other firms to compete in places where they don't want to. Facebook doesn't have a browser or a mobile offering... which is slowly hurting them (e.g. cookie apocalypse) they might make a decent ally. Amazon is similar, but they don't have an easy symbiosis, unless there was a way to create something between AWS or prime video. Samsung, Adobe, or maybe Salesfore are all bad fits, but if Mozilla created a product strategy to align and maybe have native support for adobe or Salesforce they might be able to make something happen.

In my opinion, I don't see anything like that happening in reality. Mozilla will probably slowly fade away, each CEO getting the comp that they can squeeze out while the business is still making money. Sometime 10-20 years from now we'll think of them like a sun microsystems or silicon graphics.

(*This was a quick throw together... I maybe incredibly off about the details of the Mozilla/Google relationship currently)
35 years of coding. Edit actually its 40 this year whew.

Making things nobody ever saw before (current role). Inventing a new kind of service nobody saw before that allows farmers to do things that were impossible.

Taking a boring, time consuming part of somebodies day and making it disappear so they can do more interesting things.

Occasionally hiding something fun in code that makes somebody smile.

Mastery over things. Knowing how to hook up devices and make them work together.

Not every day is great, but being able to create software is like being an actual wizard, especially if you are lucky enough to work where software and hardware hit the physical world.
at this point network effects of Chromium are so great that only antitrust procedures can do anything about Google's domination, just as they did with Microsoft a decade or two ago. (Remember that?)

The same argument can be made against Google now, since the browser has effectively become an OS.
I think what's getting increasingly difficult is identifying what a "tech" stock is. Companies like Uber and AirBnb blur the line as their innovations are mostly not the silicon and CS kind but are about economics and working around regulations. It's easy to call Google a "tech" stock, but what about Netflix? At this point streaming technology is mostly commodified. Is Netflix a tech company or an entertainment company? I think a strong argument could be made for the latter.

So saying that you should invest in "tech" stocks is increasingly ambiguous.
Oof, please no. Simple metrics like LoC, story points and number of commits are lazy ways to evaluate developers. And people will recognize this so the metric becomes the goal. Might as well replace managers with a bot. Good managers should be in touch with the full picture of their reports work and not rely on simple heuristics. That's what makes a really good manager.

edit: fixed autocorrects
Come to South Florida. The variety of delicious tropical fruits is dizzying.
There’s no guarantee that lightning will strike twice in this case.

When Firefox overtook IE6, Microsoft had been colossally mismanaging IE for years, which meant that IE had become a rusted husk of what it was in its glory days. This made for incredibly strong incentive for web developers to support an alternative, because having to develop for an utterly broken browser for an indefinite period of time was intensely unappealing. On the end user side of the equation, Firefox’s incredible speed, UX improvements, and robust support for extensions did a lot to win people over.

Fast forward to today. Google is infinitely more savvy with web developer relations than late-IE-era MS could’ve ever been — they keep devs “fed” well enough with a steady stream of new shiny features that it’s unlikely that they’d ever revolt. For users, the difference in speed and UX between Firefox is negligible or even works in Chrome’s favor (which is tilting further in Chrome’s direction with every site that’s developed and tested only against Chrome).

Additionally, the barrier to entry for new web engines is so high now that anybody trying to build a browser that is to Chrome what Firefox was to IE is almost certainly doomed to fail unless backed by a company with deep pockets and no expectation of return on investment for many years.
Cardinal is an implementation of VCV Rack 2, completely open-source and free, for use as a self-contained plugin in any DAW. Today is its first release. It's a little rough around the edges still, but very exciting and promising.
I use Firefox's container tabs all the time, which segment exactly the same way as profiles (albiet with the same extension pool). Personally I prefer having blended tabs in a single window, or having additional segregation; I keep Amazon punted out to it's own container, as well as social media. I know it won't stop all the cross-identificaiton, but it should at least help.
My goal, if I were CEO, would be to reduce organizational expenses (and increase other forms of revenue) to the point where the 100s of millions of dollars from Google ($562 million in 2017) was not required for covering the cost of firefox development and spend all those millions on advertising firefox until Google stopped giving it. I can't see where having such a large part of your finances coming from your biggest direct competitor could ever be a good thing, but at least spending it on increasing firefox's market share directly through advertising would have a certain irony associated with it. At least of the Alanis Morisette variety.
> #1 reason: Google has been spending millions of dollars on ads. 2010 many subway, buses, and TVs had ads about how fast Chrome was. Advertising works! Early adopters switched, followed by mainstream users.

Not to mention paying the likes of Adobe, Avast, AVG, and Oracle to have their installers auto-install Chrome using dark patterns.
I absolutely love this! I've been trying to get more into re-use of my existing possessions, and this is helpful for fixing whatever breaks.

I think it would be useful for answers/fixes to have a permanent vs temporary classification, because there are some problems where you can it permanently at a higher input or do a band-aid fix you re-apply later but that takes 1/100th the time. For example, I had a Razer Deathadder mouse where the scroll wheel would double-scroll and continue scrolling after I stopped scrolling. I temporarily fixed it by shooting some compressed air in the scroll wheel's housing, but this had to be repeated maybe 6-10mo later. I could have disassembled my mouse, maybe done something to the PCB or switches inside, and permanently fixed it but that's a lot more work and more outside materials.

Adding this to my bookmark bar, looking forward to consuming and contributing in the future :)
The main reason I left FF after trying it out for a couple of months last year is that after 21 years it still doesn't support multilingual spell checking properly.

For anyone writing in multiple languages daily this is a deal breaker.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687
I don't think much has changed, what has changed is we now have the Internet and technology, enabling the ideas and information to be heard.
Modern development practices — idioms, frameworks, libraries, traditions — make it difficult to test your backups. The priority on responsiveness means that you have to work extra hard when architecting the system to ensure that you can restore from backups without losing recent changes — which makes it impractical to confirm that your backups actually work.

Offering Continuous Restoration as a feature should theoretically be a way of differentiating a development tool in the software marketplace. But short-termers hold power in so many organizations that it's not clear to me whether it would actually win. Even if ransomware kills the company, executives still keep their money.
It starts with the simple ability to convert a blank page into something interactive, useful and helpful for somebody else.

And it continues with the possibility to apply knowledge and experience. Most important to see things from a higher level, realizing and thinking in systems and applying these methodical thinking on a daily basis - and passing the knowledge on to somebody else.
> If all that is left is chromium, then you can kiss what is left of web standards good bye.

Well, we've already done that. Google a) dominates the standards bodies and b) releases "standard" features that are only standard because Chrome says so
Considering my own issues, this system makes me envious, specifically because of how hard it is to ensure to call and talk or message etc.

That said, the system I guess shows dual-use case of CRM technology ;)
> My point is that his content is being censored to some degree.

To the degree that's it's no longer called censorship. Just like an author sells the rights of their books to a publisher. The publisher can publish or not, it's their choice. If you don't want to give someone that kind of control, write it into the contract that they give up the rights to anything not published within 1 week of creation for example. But it isn't censorship if you willingly sell the rights to your content and then are retroactively unhappy with their use (or non-use) of it. At that point it's the publisher's decision and it's just called content curation.

Rogan got $100M and in exchange he apparently gave up rights. He thought it was a fair deal at the time, maybe he still does. It's just business.
You literally called them a minority:

> A city is being held hostage by an extreme minority
Gaming requires a much faster input polling.

Also, Vita's batteries are much worse than the ones for smartphones.
DuckDuckGo's total revenue is less than 20% of Mozilla's.
I'd create a Chrome OS alternative (like CloudReady which was bought by Google) for old Intel Macs and other laptops that won't get official Win 11 support, and maybe partner with some productiviy SaaS to have a working GDocs and Office 365 alternative.

Open/Libre Office and their UX are too complicated for normal users like most Linux apps that are modeled after professional desktop applications.

Considering the amount of hardware that's out there and never will work on newer operating systems having a easy to install and use OS for web productivity tasks will very likely be a big driver for overall market share.