skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I have 5 nieces and nephews and friends with kids that live and around Hamilton. Tell me what they're going through that's insane.

Don't just drop comments like this without backing up your assertions, because it's false. Is it ideal for the kids right now? Fuck no. None of us want this. But to sell the narrative that there's a whole class of parents/teachers/administrators who are not trying their goddamned hardest to make this as easy on kids as possible, while stradling the line of what's responsible during a pandemic, is just belittling all of the effort being done for no discernable purpose at all.
Only 2000–3000 but they're so strongly correlated you could practically diversify just as much with less than 20–30, for 1/100 of the transaction costs.
As long as Chromium accepts pull requests, what's the problem with browser monoculture?

For example, Chromium won't be accepting pull requests to un-break the extension API (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...).
This reminds me of employees who think their employer will collapse when they leave. It's rarely true.

The world would be fine without Facebook, other people will step in to fill the void.
If you're making remote employees feel like they are not part of the team that is your failure.
Also been using FF for 2 decades, but can corroborate the experience you cannot.

I have seen all those things he complained about. Diversity initiatives, new features, etc. For me it appears as a new tab on restart that I have to close, and it does feel like it's every single time I update, and sometimes between updates.
You're so on the money and it's so far out the Overton window the sibling replies can't even comprehend what you clearly wrote. It's wild.
Given your skills, I would recommend a startup or a consultancy (anything self-employed). This way you shield yourself from having to worry about disclosing your past to others, worrying about background checks, or the self-taught part (which should be irrelevant but oh well). Plus you grow in whatever direction you wish.

If you want the job route then you need to apply to as many things as possible and find a story version that wont scare people off. Don't lie, just give them a well packaged insight into what happened in the past. You also have humility which is a great start.

Good luck!
I see this as well and I can't watch them at the moment.

The local Swiss news are more cautious as to what they say and there is also a feeling of that there is still hope of preventing this war.

Like all conflicts this is an extremely complex situation and the US painting it black and white is neither right nor a way to find a peaceful solution.
The only article I could find about "kids eating outside in the cold" is this one, which clarifies that "no, we won't be sending kids outside in the cold"[1]. If you can find one, let me know. I am a parent in Ontario and I've not heard a single anecdote about this from anyone.

Regarding "as of today, there is no end in sight for these rules": there has been a plan in place for months outlining the key dates when mandates will be relaxed. Just hours before OPs comment, the Ontario government announced they will be accelerating that schedule by 4 days, and the vaccine passport will be retired in just 2 weeks.[2]

Your comments re: new accounts are fair, but given the above I don't believe there is any truth to OPs comment, so I personally believe the account is intentionally created to spread FUD about the pandemic response in Canada and to create sympathy towards the convoy and its arguments.

[1] https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/furey-school-board-ni...

[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/8617879/ontario-covid-restriction...
org-mode and org-babel already do this
what is wrong with listening to "minorities". Doesnt BLM represent a minority, especially in Canada? Also, a couple of confederate and nazi flags do not define these protests.
Yeah, I think there are measures I could take to help the situation but it's a little low on my priority queue at the moment. The crashes are rare and not really a big issue for me.
I've heard them a few times and it's definitely hair-raising. Smilodon and friends were up to 6 times more massive, which is a very sobering thought. By comparison, cougars are cute little kitty friends.
It's beneficial to your manager in that they can tell you exactly what to write on your "personal goals list" and then string you up with those words come review time when they weren't met due to things out of your control and they will feel like the onus is on you for not delivering.
It is, in fact, Safari. As another commentor noted, it's an instance of Safari Webview, not just webkit. The only thing you control when developing third-party apps is the UI/UX.
You know… you don't have to wait for the company to collapse.
In politics inconvenient truths are generally ignored. Russia would prefer Ukraine to be easily crushed even if they don’t actually invade it’s useful for them to be surrounded by weaker countries.

What they say is largely just for public consumption not political talks.
> BlockFi had to agree to stop doing all that illegal stuff

Have they though?

From Blockfi:

"As part of the resolution, existing U.S. BlockFi Interest Account (BIA) clients will maintain their accounts and receive interest as they always have, but cannot add new assets to their accounts as of today, February 14, 2022. Further, U.S. persons will not be able to open new BIAs. Following completion of the SEC registration process for BlockFi Yield, BIAs of U.S. clients will be exchanged for BlockFi Yield, unless a client instructs BlockFi otherwise. BIAs of BlockFi clients outside of the U.S. are not subject to today’s resolution."

Sounds like existing accounts can continue to function and accrue interest but no addition new users or assets can be deposited until they get SEC approval.
If Firefox dies, the open web dies. It's that simple. For the open web to remain open, there needs to be at least one more truly independent source of authority regarding how a rendering engine should work. Everyone else has thrown in the towel and abdicated that authority to Google by embedding Blink.

Google is either actively malicious to the open web, or doesn't care about it other than as something they can strip-mine as a revenue source. They sufficiently diversified into mobile and Android that the death of the open web would be but a blip to them.

IMO, Firefox should consciously be that alternate source of authority. How they accomplish that organisationally is irrelevant, what is relevant that their browser as a whole is competitive and focused enough that it stops haemorrhaging market share, and can start to slowly rebuild it as people look for a way out of Google's ecosystem.
Darling 58 in your polyculture orchard folks,
maybe the US can catch up to Chinese chestnut production by the 23rd century.
Heh, ok. Instead of calling them a "fucking liar", you're saying they're "full of shit". Still seems hostile :-)
I don't think they're comparable. Peaceful protests are a good thing and blackface (by an authoritarian no less) is a bad thing.
How do you manage your computers and displays?
Hello HN, stupid question time possibly...

Like many people here, I run a handful of devices. 5 specifically:

Work Laptop (TB3),
Macbook Pro (TB3),
Desktop PC 1,
Desktop PC 2,
Games Console

While I may look to replacing one of the desktops with a VM at some stage, for now I'd like to share all of these with 1 mouse, 1 keyboard and a (monitor with HDMI x1 and DP x1). I was looking into a sort of USB-C switch, possibly, but they seem very uncommon.

I rarely have more than two on at any time, and a 5 port KVM seems like overkill (If they even exist). Is there a "one button switch" solution to this?
There was far, FAR worse versions out there. The one that most stands out in my mind created an explosion of new pages, all of them loading the same sexualized images, at which point a WAV autoplays: "Hey, everyone! Look at ME! I'm looking at GAY PORN!!!!"

I'm sure that was real popular in the office.
> Before mobile, I absolutely could not get any designer to grok that browser windows were flexible things, and most users were not looking at the web on full-screen browsers on desktop displays.

Except, before mobile almost everyone was looking at the web on full-screen browsers.

Hell, now its hard to convince people that you don't want to download an app to use a webservice.

> we were still looking down the barrel of an eternity of MSIE 6 support until iOS Safari became important.

It was Chrome that really dislodged MSIE. And, frankly, at least MSIE believed in keeping legacy features available. Whatever else the issues were (and they are legion), MS hated bitrot.
Is it better than Chrome + uBlock Origin/Privacy Badger/Ghostery?
Agreed; this is an annoying inconsistency. If you want to embed and render a non-Markdown file in Markdown, there's already another, far better syntax for that which is more in-line with the spirit of Markdown's "just text" philosophy:

![Chart](./charts/chart-file.mermaid)
No, I really don't. Here:

Imagine someone keeps making this odd squawking noise in some language you do not understand, every time there is a discussion where something remotely negative is discussed. You don't have to really care about what that noise means, or its opposite, to not want to hear it anymore. That's all. "Capitalism has failed" is that squawk, because who knows what will be put in its place but just the sheer amount of hearing it all the time is irritating. That's what I mean by mentioning how shallow it is as a critique, it's just this sound people keep making.
Game hangs within 5 seconds from the start.

Oh no, it's my own fault. I hit space to shoot and it pauses. I didn't realize it autoshoots.
Fair question.

If apple charged for the actual costs it would be a non issue.

Instead they charge 10x the industry fees for credit card transactions and gives the rest for "free". And that puts any app that has considerable running costs at disadvantage.

And gives competitive disadvantage to Apple's own products that get to pay for the actual costs.
Looks like a significant announcement but it really would be useful if there was an English translation of the whole speech.
Superfun, nice sound design. Maybe try to scale the number of bullets with number of enemies? The levels are super hard and luck-based the first 10 seconds and then drags on a bit.

lvl 7 on first try, mobile.
Since it's a central element to the storytelling here, I'm going to comment on the data visualisation and its time-progress mechanism.

About 2/3 of the way through the article there's a graphic showing lightning strikes observed over time. And I'll admit that the presentation is in fact impressive.

The mechanic is, however, badly broken, a fad that's persisted for some time, and ultimately one that should be strongly discouraged.

We have a UI metaphor for time-based graphic elements. It's called video, and it's best presented by a play/pause/reset control, perhaps also with a speed control. If examining specific points in time is useful, then a horizontal progress slider, displayed as part of the graphic itself is appropriate.

This is familiar, intuitive, useful, and does not interfere with the more general task of, you know, reading and scrolling through an article.

Instead what the reader here is presented with is not clearly a time-based element, scrolling may or may not advance the page or the visualisation depending on where your browser, Internet obstructor, hamsters, and various other major and minor deities are alligned in bringing forth the presumably ordained order. A reader attempting to scroll up or down past the graphic is thwarted. The horizontal time indicator is not itself a time control. And on touch-based devices, the usual difficulties of registration, response, click-vs-drag, and other frustrations all apply.

All this is fascinating UI but dismal UX.

Reuter's UI/UX team are clearly clever and capable. They are not wisely guided.
I was just reading a blog complaining about commenters not reading the article, and the next comment I read on a completely different article did not RTFQ.

> got some kind of shallow, automated message like this?

Jakob describes how after he is reminded of the person in the morning, he researches what has happened to them since he last spoke and finds some genuine content/connection to send to that person.
very cool! it passes the 1IilL0Oo test. I'll give it a try.
There’s more than one way to interpret that. As people who have made significant investments in the platform, they want it to stay strong and fear that Apple’s inflexibility will ultimately hurt the platform. They are thinking about years into the future rather than the next quarter or two.

They were fans of Apple before they ever started building in the ecosystem.
So sort of a Consumer Reports for social media?
Visual explanations of geometry, trig, and calculus made sense.

But as a kid I never got the multiplication thing. Even now as an adult I understand what they are trying to do, but it isn't "obvious" to me.

Then again I am one of those people who doesn't read comic books because all the pictures get in the way of the words. Heck as a kid I read illustrated books and didn't realize until I had finished the book that it even had pictures.
On the topic of fonts: If your font of choice has it, try using the medium weight as the "normal" weight in your editor — I've found I prefer it to the regular weight with most fonts. I started doing this after noticing that the default Xcode font is SF Mono Medium.
Not much media coverage? I saw coverage of it all the time. It was covered as if it was the end of civilization and it continues to push the narrative today that BLM protests were burning cities to the ground across the country.

I'm not sure where you're getting this whole idea that there wasn't much media coverage on it. A quick google search shows literally thousands of news stories about it.
I could try to explain the history but I am not an expert in it, I would for sure hurt some feelings and obtain nothing from it.

Sorry I won't reveal the actual reason and just tell you a reason that is not it.

My point is that you can't blame GDPR or some "regulation" for the reason an european FB did not popped and rapidly increased 10 years ago. This is a lame excused used by anti-regulation dudes.
Western megadrought is worst in 1,200 years, intensified by climate change
I think some people add a lot of that negativity themselves as they read.

Anyway, this article is not about somebody buying a yacht, so it would have been odd to bring that up.
such a deeply deeply Safari thing to invent. 100% the same feels.
I agree other ways are more difficult if you aren't used to them. And some other ways may be more difficult for you personally. But I disagree you can universalize your feelings here.

I've been part of in-person pair programming teams that had frequent pair rotation. We only rarely had meetings, and never had any formal design meetings with pitching and persuasion and whatnot. All our communications were synchronous and high bandwidth, but our design choices happened gradually and over time. It worked fine. Better, really.
There are news hast currently talking about implementing sanctions already. Russia has not yet invaded but they are talking about imposing sanctions as of they did.

At this point it probably doesn't even mater if Russia invades, according to these news channels Russia will be sanctioned.

How do you find diplomatic solutions like that?
Based on the names of drone ships like "Yes, I Still Love You" or whatever they are called, I could see Musk calling the moonbase "That's no moon" instead of Deathstar.
>What is one single reason to use Firefox?

I want to use a browser that does not sabotage my ability to make it work how I want in order to protect the main business of its parent corporation.

Not a snazzy headline I know.
Why is it important that a convicted child abuser be free to take care of children once their punishment is over? There are plenty of other fields in which they could find employment.
They typically researched you somehow, they know the company you're at, and likely previous ones. They tend to approach you as a conversation about what you want to do, and what the company needs and try to find common ground that's good for both of you.

It's not just a bullet list of requirements and benefits.
To me, I think it's impossible to evaluate those statements in a vacuum and not consider the obvious second-order effects that result from it. Advertising transparency is of course a good thing, but what happens in a culture where perfect transparency exists and one side is repeatedly targeted by activists in Tech, Media, and Finance for deplatforming? Suddenly every advertiser that goes against a narrative can be targeted for elimination. What sounds like a bright and positive message is suddenly a tool for personally going after your political enemies and probably creates even more divisiveness and conflict.

There's a lot wrong with what she said, but especially her opinion that tools should amplify "factual voices" by default. There is no central source of accurate human knowledge to even attempt to do this with and we know that what's considered true and accurate can change. This alone is a disgusting and disqualifying opinion and anybody who espouses this viewpoint should be considered a propagandist and tyrant in waiting and certainly unable to head an organization dedicated to an open Internet.
#1, Listen to the users, even if it makes the developers lives harder and the code base uglier. (although the firefox build system is just sad, and is a symptom of the entire project, "make" should actually build a working browser)

Stop fsking with the UI and using creative non native looking stuff just to be cool like chrome, and instead focus on making the rendering/JS/developer tools engine best in class. Along with, stop breaking shit. Hiding shit in about:config and then silently removing the option doesn't make users happy, if they spent the time to figure out how to disable search in the address bar because they are tired of accidentally telling google/etc where they are browsing than actually honor that setting, or better yet, give them that option in the config UI rather than pretending they are all idiots and don't understand how computers work.

There are too many chrome only web sites, so make the developers happy with tools that make their jobs easier. About:memory is better these days, but its still a far cry from what it could be, and AFAIK its still doesn't have something similar for CPU or networking outside of the network and cpu tracing functions in the developer tools. I want to be able to manage my browser with similar functionality to my OS (aka what tab is sending/reading all this data, then drill into what/where its sending it along with better whitelist/blacklist functionality/etc)

Then for users, you will gain their appreciation if it feels faster than chrome, which far to often is still false (despite it too getting better). And yes, for tabs, menus and the like using the native widgets not only will make people happier when they change their system color schemes and firefox isn't doing its own thing, but the system components are frequently far far faster to render than firefox's. And yes, sometimes the code to have multiple UI toolkits is ugly, as is the code to support optimizing some JS path, deal with it, thats the job.

I could go on, but others have said some of my other points.
Or if you want to get life sentence in UK at 14, you can go this way
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/02...
Ah yes, I never really bother to install Chrome on any of my linux machines, but my main one is still Windows and that's where I noticed it.

Why should something like font rendering differ between OSes, that makes no sense. A browser should render the exact same image on all platforms. But then again I forget we don't live in a world where anything makes sense.

> Ouch if true.

Yeah see here: https://i.imgur.com/p6sALTq.png

Input field, size specified as 6. Now that I'm looking at it again I suppose it's clear that Firefox ignores the arrow box width while making it visible all the time...? Not entirely font related but it's still rather atrocious.
It's possible to make the case that you need to drive to get somewhere. Recreation is an entirely different matter. You don't need to read the New York Times. You don't need to read or post on Hacker News, either. You could go your entire life without these things at very little personal cost. In fact, it costs your attention to be doing these.

The fact that you supposedly hold such a strong position as saying 'this platform shouldn't exist' when the cost to you for not using this platform is minimal makes very little sense to me. For the example of a phone, it's not entirely incongruent for someone who's already bought an iPhone to be upset with Apple, and if they generally wish to use a phone, other companies might not be much better. But if somehow they get the notion that phones or smartphones shouldn't exist at all and continued using them, that doesn't make sense. I know people who get around fine without smartphones. If somebody really thought smartphones shouldn't exist yet continued using them, I question the strength of their convictions, and am more inclined to believe they hold their position more for the value of controversy than genuine belief.
Sorry I meant GiveSendGone. Butter fingers!
Hey Nathan, I see you don’t live in Canada! You simply don’t have a clue what’s going on here if you think it’s just a party.

Multiple organizers have openly made those exact statements. You are misinformed.
Looking through your recent comments, there are multiple examples of you commenting on American politics and monetary policy...
I think the parent comment is just saying that multiple vulns have been found recently. There's a good chance there's more.
This is not convincing, source 1 reads like a hit piece, and ultimately only lists 12 people with zero authority out of thousands of other participants. Organizers have questionable sway in any case. Everything else is an aside, except for source 3, which indicates to me that it was probably a product of internal pressure. I came to that conclusion independently, and upon looking:

"It has come to the attention of Canada Unity that the Memorandum Of Understanding (herein referred to as MOU) does not reflect the spirit and intent of the Freedom Convoy Movement 2022"
Thank you, I will email dang. Is the address dang at ycombinator dot com ?
Can you actually buy these? I've wanted to plant them for a while, but as far as I can tell they're not actually publicly available in any way.
Besides political discussion, has anyone noticed the lisp-y smart contract language in there?
The majority of the donors were Canadian, so presumably you're in favor of the multiple millions of dollars flowing to the group from Canadians?