skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cam into this scene pretty late(early 2000's) but I loved playing around with payphones. I have a great memory of calling random 1800 numbers until I found one that gave me back a dial tone! I was so excited I called a friend of mine. He didn't care at all lol.

The PLA phonebook was a blast too. For one of my birthday parties my friends and I huddled around a phone and called elevators, bowling alleys around the country, and prank called a few embassies.

Does anyone have a lead on a download link for the PLA BBS? I would love to play around with it again, maybe host my own version.
about:config

Search for mstone (browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone) and set it to "ignore" (without the quotes) am not sure why this has to be done this way and I don't have it disabled since I want to know what's new, but hope it helps.

Oh and browser.disableResetPrompt and set it to true. Create it if it doesn't exist
Did Spotify at any point try to become a record label? I guess for the money they spent on Joe Rogan they could have signed some less controversial and still pretty popular artists.
But maybe the record companies that own shares in Spotify prevent them from doing it.
A quick lookup shows that there are approximately 78M wallets in the Bitcoin network. That's still roughly a 2:1 ratio at that point of users in favor of dryers having a better consumption to use metric.

Even that's generous because households often consist of multiple people with separate financial systems, so they'd be sharing the dryer metrics, but multiplying the Bitcoin wallet metric. That could make the ratio already much higher at 3:1 or 4:1

That's not even getting into peak hour timings. A financial network needs to run all day, you can incentivize people to run dryers at off peak hours quite easily.

Lastly, either way it's just whataboutism. We should be reducing all energy waste, including dryer usage, not pointing to it and saying "well why don't you care about that, therefore mine is fine"

All waste is bad.
Those payment networks are another relic that needs to be gotten rid of.
> only 1%

I think you are even now overestimating that number.
Yeah when I wound up homeless, I started applying for lots of wage labor. I quickly found out they had no interest in hiring a college educated white-collar worker. I may or may not have discovered* that if I were to have changed my resume to all shit / labor jobs (while keeping everything else the same so I could remember the companies well), they would employ me. I would have been able to dig myself out of my rut and get stable employment in a factory until I could get back into tech.

After working in factory few months, I was able to get apartment. With apartment, I was able to get myself nice looking and clean and tech job.

My process from day labor/ homeless (save up enough for airbnb/hotel) -> wage job (save up for apartment) -> professional job at this point is pretty much a well oiled machine. Sadly the first two steps basically require dishonesty. I've only been through this a couple times in my life and hope not to again.

*This is all fiction, of course.
Not just western. You cannot get an anonymous sim card in any Asian country.
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Are you able to speak to how your startup plays a role in cleaning up the ecosystem? It seems like there are a bunch of different types of things that need cleanup, everything from the likes of BlockFi and lending products to outright scams that are trying to steal your wallet credentials or steal your funds. I'd welcome any type of cleanup
This doesn't apply here. One-to-one platforms exist and are popular. Also, I very much doubt that this conversation is required or in any way helps your career. There are alternatives, you chose to come on this site and participate in the comments.

Your stated view isn't that many-to-many moderated social media website should do better, it is that many-to-many moderated social media websites shouldn't exist. Because this is a recreational activity, and because the alternatives you suggested are massively popular, 'Yet you participate in society. Curious!' does not apply.
Pedestrians inherently move a lot slower and are more predictable even when they're not perfectly following the law.

Since vehicles are moving so much faster, with more limited reaction speed and with massively higher kinetic energy they should be held to a higher standard.

And I've been driving for near 35 years and never once come close to hitting a pedestrian, no matter what kinds of mistakes the pedestrians have made.

Walking is a necessity, driving is a privilege.
Payment is easy, you can use regular old webviews to handle payment. You don't need native payment providers to be supported at all. The Dutch iDeal system easily integrates into apps as well through banking apps. Callback URLs are well supported and any app can register protocol handlers for them to receive confirmation of payment (which the app then must verify through a backend API call, to prevent abuse, of course). This is all quite trivial to implement, and requires no work from Apple at all.

The specificity is because of the nature of the lawsuit. A bunch of dating apps decided to join forces and sue Apple in the Netherlands. The judge ruled against Apple, so Apple has to allow the dating apps (and probably the entire dating category) to use alternate payment options.

Sure, going by the law Apple should probably allow all apps in Europe to use alternate payment options, but Apple is making more money than the noncompliance fines. They're trying to bleed anyone enforcing the law dry by pretending to do what was asked but in the most detestable, childish, and stubborn way possible.

I hope the judge will add a couple of zeroes to these fines because another fifty million is nothing but the cost of business for a company like Apple.
So incompetent they couldn't access an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket that was known to be insecure for some time? It sounds to me like GiveSendGo is simply incompetent with respect to security and some unskilled "hacker" took advantage of their incompetence.
Ask HN: Tech talk on power vs. utility in software?
I saw an informative tech talk / presentation on Youtube some time ago where the discussion was around power vs utility in software. The gist was that the power generic and powerful you make software, the less "useful" it is (given a certain definition of utility). The more specific and tailored software is to specific cases the more "useful" it is despite being less powerful.

The talk may have used a term other than "power" but I can't remember
True, but at this point it doesn't feel to me that the community has that much to lose. If we're truly sub-5% like Statcounter says, then as long as we minimally muzzle this particular paperclip maximiser (say, the browser engine must remain Gecko or an in-house project and cannot be Blink, user privacy must be no worse than currently, selling data or "partnering with" third parties is disallowed) and let it run for a couple of years, at least we'll get a viable browser out of it.
On mobiles.

On laptops, they are the minority but somewhat common i think. I'd guess trackpads are still way more common.

On desktops it is mouse and keyboard.

And CSS still seems to be unable to differentiate between these three - or even just between mobile/tablet and laptop/desktop (though there are cases where a 27" desktop monitor is not the same as a 14" laptop monitor), which is one of the reasons things are so awful. So people use hacks like minimum width or whatever as shown here:

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp

Now it might be w3schools being bad and there is a better way but every single site i see out there that uses responsive design (what a name) does that. Assuming they bother with desktop at all.

Not to mention that they assume that all people use browsers in a maximized state. I have a huge monitor so i always keep browsers at around 1000px or less, which often triggers the "oh you are on a mobile, lemme bloat up everything for you" style.
King is literally a founding convoy organizer who calls the shots and has a massive following and influence on the convoy members. His videos get 100's of thousands of views and he influenced the convoy 'manifesto' that they created to try to overthrow the government. Your comment shows you have done zero research into the matter. He's a vocal white supremacist who believes Islam has taken over the government to kill white bloodlines. You can find many videos of him saying this to be broadcast to his following.
Ignoring the fact they're preying on children, all in the name of half a billion in revenue.
My point is that iOS didn’t come with the earth - people moved to it and adopted it vs palm and windows mobile.

Can you imagine people complaining for regulation on windows mobile rather than just moving to something that does what you want lol.
When you say “The issue is being able to get around Apple's sandboxing”, what do you mean exactly? Any examples?
I don't think you fully understood my point. What I'm saying is that when any comm happens between network endpoints, it's essentially identical to a uart stream.

The fact that a tuple (my IP, my socket, your ip, your socket, protocol) is used instead of COM4 is just a detail.
Professional stuff maybe. But for casual ones, you can edit in the phone and upload. I'm thinking there's a lot more of that going on than professional productions.
That sounds more like prepping than staving off environmental disaster - I'm learning how to grow vegetables on the off chance civilization collapses and I'm left to provide for my family on my own, but... no, you're right, I'm not willing to live that way permanently until I have no other choice.
Another tab hoarder and for me the only times Firefox has crashed is when I have upgraded Firefox but not yet restarted it.
To clarify, the truckers have not been affected by the vaccine mandate until now. They were given two years to get an innocuous jab.
Out of curiosity, since you homeschool, why do you want schools to be opened?
What's wrong with this message? Are you against ads revealing who's paying for them and who's targeted? Against transparency of algorithms? What exactly is the issue?

I don't see any reason to leave after reading this.
The lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record
For simply keeping files synced between two computers, I thought Dropbox was the best.

Microsoft OneDrive is fuckin' awful in how long it takes for a file on one system to be synced to another, even when both systems are online at the same time. It also has a habit of completely pausing syncing entirely if it reaches a file it can't read (such as a lock file).

Google Drive works well, but I find its desktop client to be resource-heavy, especially on startup. I like its integration with my Android, though.
Probably a joke. Unlike most other mentioned version control systems, Git doesn't
seem like it's going anywhere any time soon. But neither is Git eternal, heh.
They're general purpose from a technical perspective (although really only from a hardware perspective - the software not so much), but they're not sold or marketed as general purpose devices. People purchasing an Xbox are primarily doing so to play games.
Just updated the link again - much faster now (inference down to 0.5s from 9s) Queue will move a lot quicker now.
I am a big fan of hugging face, but whenever these examples come up, they always seem to be half baked and don’t quite work well, and are not compelling. I think it would behoove them to polish these a little more, in my opinion.
Absolutely agree - I thought you were making a stronger claim than you were.
That's nice and interesting, but I'm not sure what any of that has to do with the point that the author is making in TFA, nor the comments that I've made.
It appears this was the result of terrible security at GiveSendGo. I'd agree it could be state sponsored, but I am certain there are enough people with the skills to do this on their own downtown Ottawa (even if it turned out they work for the gov't).

That said, I am thoroughly disappointed the Federal gov't and much of the media coverage. They have done nothing but make the situation worse. I think it is intentional (I assume some political end game), but their actions are fueling even more outlandish conspiracy theories.

The most insane was that all layers of government did nothing to stop the noise (truck horns), but it ended when a 21 year old who simply filed a court injunction and the protesters complied.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/injunction-ottawa-granted-1...

I've watched the Toronto Police Service play their A game through this entire debacle. They shut down the protests hard and were clearly visible throughout the city with heavy trucks and busses to block roads and maintain control of the situation.

https://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=2376560

The idea that Justin Trudeau needs martial law to deal with parked trucks is outrageous. This isn't an insurrection (reference to an MOU was removed from their website and I agree with the assertion that it was a poorly thought out idea, not a threat), there is no violence, and no obvious danger. The last person to use martial law was Trudeau's father (Pierre) for an actual terrorist attack and kidnapping (the diplomat was later murdered). Get some proper police on the job and drop mandates for ineffective measures and let's move on with our lives.
Trivial example: you want to avoid the exterior of the laptop getting hot enough to be uncomfortable for the user. If you support adaptive policies, you can read the skin temperature sensor and then only throttle the CPU if that's above a certain temperature. If you want to get more fancy, you can make that temperature conditional on whether there's a dock attached or not (if the machine's sitting on the desk then the bottom temperature can go higher than it could otherwise).

More complex example: the wifi chipset also produces heat. The platform designer should take into account what the effect of CPU thermal output is on the wifi chipset, and expose that information in a way that the OS can make a decision about whether the appropriate response is to throttle the CPU or allow the wifi chipset to throttle itself. Making that decision is going to depend on the current workload, so you don't want to try to implement this in firmware.

If you don't support adaptive policies, then you just restrict the CPU such that even under worst case scenarios, the components can never exceed the desired temperature. Of course, this means that you're (generally) running slower than necessary.
I’d agree with you if it weren’t advertised as locked down.

Take this site for example - it doesn’t display Reddit posts or work with your Reddit account.

It’s not worth energy complaining to the administrators saying that it should work with your Reddit account.

The same relationship exists with iMessage and signal
Only if it also mentioned SCCS, heh.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/s...
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The problem with this kind of article is the dry, abstract, formal presentation, which feels devoid of content. A lot of us don't quite know how to operationalize it, and often the users of such language don't either. It feels like religious doctrine that everyone pays lip service to but doesn't really affect life in any meaningful way.

The manager-bureaucrat many of us are familiar with does not understand or care how to put these ideas to work, and reduces "OKRs" to forms to be filled and boxes to be checked.

We need context, examples, and explanations that show us when these ideas are working and when they aren't. We need them in plainer, more candid and more relatable language. And they need to be relevant to the problems developers and managers actually face. We need the why - why is it helpful to think in terms of OKRs rather than some other more familiar or simpler way?

Bottom line: the secret missing ingredient is often "actually use your brain when doing all these things".
Because of the pivot from XUL and forgoing of the firefox extension model for a copy that is exclusively Chromium's.
First, we're talking about "Transitioning an existing C codebase to checked C". If you're just adding new checked C code, then you're not doing that.

Second, you can't just add checked C to a codebase, because you have to actually interop with the unchecked C code, which uses different pointer types.

My argument is that it may be easier to do an automatic migration to unsafe Rust, and then incrementally convert to safe Rust, than it would be to leave the codebase as C and try to incrementally convert it to checked C, because the "incremental conversion to checked C" is extremely difficult.
Are you sure you want a typical job? To me, you look like an accomplished professional ready to run his own gig either by himself or by employing a handful of people. Find a market niche, work on your personal brand, advertise and get to work! I have no doubt your personal satisfaction will be equal or even greater than working for somebody else via a regular job.
There is ample evidence of the Canadian government breaking the law for their own benefit and there is ample evidence for these occurrences being “significant”.

And that’s not even taking into account that once trust is broken there are likely many more instances that aren’t known.
I'm currently reading the The Overstory and that plot point is why I clicked the link!
> Where do you think that hypocrisy comes from?

Me and my brother watched the Super Bowl last night, me rooting for he Rams and him for the Bengals. We saw the same play happen live, resulting in the Bengals getting a penalty for holding and the Rams being awarded free yards.

He saw it as "fucked up" and I saw it as "just".

When the Rams were called for a penalty, the roles were reversed and I felt like the refs were in the pocket of the Bengals for calling such a stupid penalty.

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All that to say: when _my_ team does stuff, it's okay. When _their_ team does stuff, it's bad. This is the same line of reasoning that is being played out with the above hypocrisy.
I fail to see how you addressed any of what I said. The comment that I wrote this in reply to literally made the same point as your comment.
Why did this happen in the United States - California in particular - and not Europe?
Well, I quit using it/supporting it because of their politics. So maybe get out of politics and focus on software?
Yes, it's dangerous to depend in income from Google. No, it does not at all explain why Firefox is losing marketshare.
Azure Devops wikis have excellent (although not full support) for mermaid diagrams. One power user feature I like is the ability to add a hyperlink to graph nodes like so:

click NodeName “URL”
Right now, Google pays more than Bing or DuckDuckGo.

Perhaps Google just has mountains of spare cash, which DDG doesn't. Perhaps Google gets extra value as FF both provides search traffic, and keeps competition regulators off their back. Perhaps Bing thinks if FF changed the default search engine away from Google, 95% users would change it right back.

But if Bing is only willing to pay 70% of what Google pays - could Mozilla survive losing that much income? Or would it trigger a death spiral, with less money meaning less development meaning lower market share?
I love how people keep discovering mermaid because i remember when i did many many years ago and it still brings me happiness today.
> Why is Firefox losing marketshare?

For myself, I am moving off of Firefox right now (I don't yet know to what though, recommendations welcome) for one reason: they keep changing the UI in ways that I find irritating and then deprecating the methods to change it back. For me it's really that simple. There are other issues I have with FF but that's the one that got me to the point where I'm ready to abandon FF entirely.

> What would you do if you were in charge of Mozilla?

Concentrate on docs, standards, and libraries. Be the "one-stop shop" for all the information and software one needs to do things with the Internet.

> How would you save Firefox?

First you have to answer the question, why save Firefox?

What's so bad about having fewer browsers? (I know most of the arguments, I'm not asking you to repeat them I'm asking you to revisit them.)

Rather than saving one particular browser, I would make it easy for anyone to create a custom web browser.

If you really want to save FF you have to discover or create something about it that beats the competition: speed, reliability, ...? Those are "table stakes" these days, so what is the differentiator that makes it compelling?
Yep, super easy to sell, I've sold/bought at least 20 premium domains, just like anything with a short legal contract, one page, and then using escrow.com to facilitate the hand over.
Really? I don't see that behavior when I last did socket programming, or testing with netcat?
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Set more languages from your profile or account settings.
I put it to English, I live in a small euro country and 80% of the content is American to be honest. And at least football related content has various people from all over the world who speak in English in their videos. That comes from top of my head but I don't keep track of it obviously.

I only wanted English content but you can add more languages.
Like pikchr.org? I love it. Now I have to see if I can get pikchr support added to Mermaid, and we'll be off to the races!
> There is something profoundly weird with text rendering in Firefox.

Font rendering differs between OSes. Are you on Windows? That's the OS with the most Firefox font rendering options. On Windows Firefox, I generally clear the list of fonts rendered in GDI rendering mode. IIRC you can set font rendering mode 0 and disable enhanced contrast to match Chrome closer.

> Also if you have an input box in html with a size value set to the number of chars you need, that value will be always too short in Firefox

Ouch if true.
>I'm pretty sure there was a de-facto systematic collusion between gov. offisials and GoFundMe etc. to shut down funding

No need to collude or conspire when everyone is already happy with each other's actions and everyone knows what the others want and which actions will step on their toes and which will be neutral or build good will.

Real collusion/conspiracy where there is actual communication between big actors like these is vanishingly rare. Behavior like "we set out price same as our competition's because why undercut each other" is dirt common.
> DuckDuckGo already proved there is an appetite for something like this.

An appetite, yes. But not a major one. A privacy-focused, ad-free approach would be hugely appealing to the HN crowd. But I’m less convinced about the public at large.
I believe this was made by a community member, huggingface allows people to publish to their model repository to foster more open sharing of work in the ML space. You should look at this as in progress research and not a polished thing, and we should be grateful the space is so open.

Edit: Double checking it looks like they are affiliated with HF but it still is more of an open side project and anyone can contribute to the repository so quality will vary.
Podcast about CNCF Sandbox project called Curiefense
As an American I'd love if we all stayed out of each other's politics, but that's not how the world works, sorry.

That being said, a lot of Americans want freedom everywhere, especially for their neighbors in the north, what's so hard to understand about that?

Btw, your insurrection claim is played out and laughable, there is no violence, use words properly.

I look forward to seeing your comments about our 2022 midterm elections or our 2024 presidential election.
That Brian Kernighan guy is really ahead of his time. He invented Go before writing the book on C!
Haha yeah. Well, I did say *should*, but I actually meant it as a joke. Definitely not something I take for granted :)