skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not what everyone else is saying, necessarily - it’s just that you think getting rid of FB et all will remove the need for content moderation, by forcing only one-to-one communication alternatives. None of that is reasonable or desirable by most humans.
When the rights are infringed upon just for the fuck of it without solid proof that it is to prevent endangering large amount of lives - maybe it is technically legal but I think it is crime.
“Must”

That’s now how that works, at all.

A soldier doesn’t need to be on a declared battlefield to get battlefield treatment.

Being a member of a military in uniform is enough.
That about sums it up, plus you can try to get sponsors, like a monster truck event. Do a spectacle, get people to pay to put their logo on it. Many will say it is all silly, and it is, but leveraging the madness of humans to do good (and bad) things is what moves history.
Since even a sourced and cited claim can be utterly bogus, it is actually worse. Because it looks authoritative at a glance when there are many citations next to a claim.

But some citations are nature.com, and some are People Magazine, and they all get the same superscript number.
Toyota does the same exact thing.
Few device manufacturers and platform ecosystems appear incentivized to bundle Firefox, perhaps because it doesn't provide much in the way of competitive moat-building opportunities in return for the partnership (there is the Google sponsorship, which is probably helpful in their unique case because it provides a defence against allegations of monopolistic behaviour).

The cost of bundling for Chrome and Safari is low, because it's software -- so they are included with a large number of devices, especially where commercial partnerships can be formed (generally on favourable terms to Google and Apple, respectively, I'd expect).

I don't think that the average user notices much difference in terms of behaviour and functionality between any of these browsers. I'll admit that there are probably rare exceptions like vendor-pushed codecs where one or other browser tends to have an advantage (again, typically leveraged by partnerships with streaming content providers).

So: I don't know, but it's something to do with getting Firefox on more devices by default -- and that's not something that happens easily when supply chains are easily influenced by a small number of upstream "ecosystem providers".
What a sad world it would be if Git were the end of the story, if no one ever built a more compelling version control system. :-)
It's a very nice selection but is there no RSS feed?
It seems pretty clear to me that the protests have everything to do with the vaccine mandates.

Why should only people who are fired be allowed to protest? Most of the truckers are vaccinated, but they are protesting for the right of those who aren't to be allowed to do their job.
We have sufficient laws, it’s the uneven enforcement that I have a problem with.
I would be shocked if this was not up to personal preference :)
I don't think GP was suggesting that there's anything specific wrong with GFM, but more that the way github encourages READMEs to be used (by auto-rendering all READMEs to HTML) creates an abstraction that shadows the readable-as-text goals of markdown.
If you are even slightly curious about the history of Pixar and the decision-making process behind their actions, then it is 100% worth it. It was written extremely well.

If you are trying to read it purely for business advice or anything of that nature, you might find it a bit eh.

It is very heavy on telling an interesting story, which should explain rather well why it might not be the best for the purpose of being an educational material. But if you want an interesting delivery of the story of Pixar, along with a look at behind the scenes in the industry (e.g., Steve Jobs was featured in there as one of the important personalities, given he was heavily involved with Pixar) and behind some of the decision-making/philosophy of Pixar as a company as it was growing, it is a great and entertaining read.
> - Identifying the common failure modes of product
- Collect fixes for common product failures

Are these features basically like iFixit for non-electronics?
While Firefox has many small imperfections compared to Chrome, the big point IMO is that Firefox is not preinstalled on any large consumer OS/device besides Linux.

It has many little details that aren't as good as Chrome but I don't know how much that affects adoption. Even if it does, that last bit of polish is very expensive to fix and they would need users or another mechanism to fund it.

I would focus heavily on getting Linux to be more mainstream. There is already growing momentum behind Linux and a lot of room for organizations (like Mozilla) that can typically execute on long multi year strategies better than the anarchy of FOSS. There's a lot of work to be done on all levels - partnerships, marketing, technical, finance etc. so people in all roles could contribute.

Maybe that would even play out outside Mozilla, like people leaving and joining other companies that push OSS ahead until it gains enough users for Mozilla to be relevant again.
As a counterpoint - it's not the same regardless of the source. This is happening in my old neighbourhood, and several of my friends still live in the area so I've heard firsthand accounts.

It's not just trucks blowing their air horns. That would have been annoying. A bunch of them installed train horns and during the first week were honking them 24/7. It was loud enough to cause hearing damage indoors. I'd be impressed if a dog could bark that loud.
Hey my $5/month VPS gets a /64. That’s not even a physical host but a virtual one.
My reaction to this was how would this ever be a common issue? When would you naturally have a line break in the middle of a ligature.

The screenshots show the answer: auto hyphenation. But at the point you're dropping a hyphen between the elements of a ligature, how do you not break up the ligature into two independent glyphs?
In the country I grew up in, trying and failing to commit crimes is still a crime. The act itself is the crime, not the success of it. Unfortunately these days it seems like the better determinant of whether something is a crime is someone's political affiliation.
I'm really at the point if I see another stupid popup from Mozilla about something I can 0% about when my Firefox updates I'm going to switch to something. I use Firefox because I'm trying to support the little guy but honestly when the little guy doesn't care about supporting me back then it's time to move on.
Designs with Unlimited Revisions and Requests for Startup Founders
How much smoke billows off Wall Street though? Didn't that particular garbage fire get re-lit surprisingly soon after the GFC?

I'm somewhat pro-crypto for it's anti-establishment roots (which are barely visible these days) and so I find it interesting that the standard it's held to is much higher than that for existing 'finance' - for which the bar is incredibly low, seemingly for the only reason that society has developed a callous against all that (g)rubbing.
> Perhaps one of the most irritating traits of the American left is that they've never come to terms with the fact that they are the establishment.

The list of US Presidents, Supreme Court judges, the Senate and Congress, local governments, etc. in my lifetime is pretty darn close to even with some small fluctuations from decade to decade.

> When you erroneously view yourself as a scrappy underdog instead of the vanguard of the establishment, you tend to get a little reckless in how you use your power.

Both the Left and Right willingly embrace the idea of being the suppressed victims of the other, regardless of their perceived or actual power.
My company provided Dell Precision 5750 i7-10875H 8core, 4K, is a beauty beast from the specs and looks.

However I HATE IT with a PASSION because there is no way to make it quiet as it is LOUD!?

In my opinion the whole thermal managing team should be fired as incompetent and I speak from my indepth knowledge of working for Intel in a central Arch team in the past. I even meet a number of Dell key people presenting them what is coming and shared best practices how to do each part of the design. They used to do decent job before, but now seems incompetence has won. I am sure there are still lots of good engineers and people there, but result-wise team that did thermal management on 5750 SUCKS TO HEAVEN!
In 5750 there is massive cooler, yet fans start going loud (mid-jet sound) when any audio conferencing or any ~5% CPU only load happens and CPU temperature is still well below 50C most of the time, yet this junk goes Wuuuhuhuuuuuusshshshshsss ALL OF THE TIME with rare bit quieter moments! I tried all setting such as Quiet in BIOS and in Dell Power Manager and no setting can help, just make it worse. CPU is 45W TDP one of a later gens.
On top of all of the misery with this laptop, in BIOS they locked control of voltages, so ThrottleStop can not work!!! So they can "protect us" from Plundervolt, how ironical. There is no known bypass :-( I also tried turning off different number of cores and turbo, etc, nothing worked well enough. The only point when it started be more quiet for longer periods is when I left it with 2 active cores, turned off turbo, but that makes this machine stupidly slow!

For god's sake, add if needed in BIOS option to disable dGPU and add "real Quiet" option that will make it lower TDP or whatever. Please ease off temperature thresholds as keeping it below 50C to start ramping fans to mid-jet-sound is RIDICULOUS, as with this massive cooler you can comfortably have thresholds ~70C or so and even allow undervolting.

I ended up using it as a "decoration" and still use my personal T460p which has 6th gen i7 45W TDP CPU + dGPU, but BIOS still allows ThrottleStop and even without it T460p is waaaay more quiet than 5750, but with ThrottleStop nice stable setting I got it to whisper quiet and even faster.

I contacted Dell on their forums but their arrogance seem not to allow them to do anything, but leave it as is! Sick situation and now I have to live with 5750 at my work next ~2.5y until next refresh and one thing is certain Dell NEVER AGAIN! I'll keep sharing this experience everywhere as this really made my life miserable. The only thing that can change that is that Dell either fixes this problem with public apology and/or fires the responsible team.
> Why is Firefox losing marketshare

Can we validate that it is in fact losing market share first?

It's possible there are other factors such as the increased privacy capabilities and integrated tracker blocking and tendency for Firefox users to value and use these features and plugins, or even useragent string spoofing... I do the later so I look like a chrome/windows user because some sites will block features from Firefox for no reason (and also it's nice to be less trivially uniquely identifiable).

Where are the stats you are using and how are they collected?
Surprisingly, despite "a willingness to use them against police", they didn't use them against police, so it's likelier than not that the story is made up or mischaracterized.
Lisp isn't lambda calculus for the main reason that lambda calculus doesn't have conses, lists, or symbols. It cannot quote a part of itself such that the quoted part becomes data operated on by lambda calculus.

Lisp is useful even when it wrongly implements lambda calculus, with all bindings being dynamically scoped so that it only relates to lambda calculus via the naming of the lambda symbol.
I hate, HAAAAAAATEEEE, C.

But his C is so clean. Is readable as far as is possible, imho.

Plus, exist some many implementations of this in as languages are, so you can go along (https://github.com/search?q=crafting+interpreters or using https://github.com/search?q=lox+interpreter).
From this perspective, the RPM from one of RedHat's derivatives would be the ideal answer - a long term support release.

As far as I know, such lengthy support terms do not exist for any Windows releases.

Firefox on RedHat 8 will stay as it is until 2029.
SOCK_RAW as others said as well as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_header
There are probably about 100 other reasons they can be banned from entry if they don't comply. Saying they are "banned" if they don't get a vaccination (even though of course it's not a ban, it's a "de facto" ban) is no more interesting than if they're "banned" if they won't submit to a search, or if they've filled their car with fruit.
Whether the protocol is federated or not (which is the topic of the article) doesn't say anything about the clients and how they're distributed. Even with respect to Signal, which is open-source, can be rebuilt from source and has several clients, including 3rd-party ones.

> It is far harder sneaking a backdoor into a F-droid app, with far bigger reputation risks, than doing it in Signal app

We'll have to agree to disagree.
> First, vaccines do inhibit transmission. They're not perfect, and the protection begins to wane after a few months, but to say that they don't inhibit transmission is false.

I was a little imprecise--I don't think the transmission inhibiting effect is literally zero, but I suspect it's marginal (based on US health officials remarks about 'everyone is going to get omicron' https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday...).

> Freedom has always been limited when it interferes with the rights of others, (in this case timely access to healthcare) and borders have always had stricter rules than normal life within a country.

I can't take this argument seriously while Canada tolerates so many other things that increase one's risk of consuming hospital resources (drinking, smoking, driving, etc) and fails to mandate other things which would similarly reduce load on hospitals (diet, exercise, etc). In these other cases, it's regarded as the responsibility of the government to provide enough healthcare to meet demand--not to infringe on the rights of citizens.

> We're in a gray area here, granted. Ideally ones' own health choices would not impact others, and hospitals would be back to normal, but the restrictions are not nonsense.

I think we left the gray area when it became clear that COVID would be endemic and vaccines don't do much to reduce transmission.
Handguns require a license to transport (ATT). Even if they were acquired legally (and that's a very big if because of RPAL), their presence at the border is very illegal.
> When exactly did "this saves 2 lines in the code!" become reason enough to introduce new syntactic elements?

My first thought is decorators. They were added in 2.4, back in 2003: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/

All they are is syntactic sugar for:

def decorate(func):
doStuff()
func()
return
myFunc = decorate(myFunc)

List comprehensions are just a syntactic sugar for a for loop with a single line that appends something.

There are plenty of syntactic elements that only exist to save a line or two of code. I much prefer the walrus operator over:

x = GetNextObject()
while x:
doStuff()
x = GetNextObject()
I've never seen Safari on an Android or Windows device. I would imagine this is on the list of things that is technically possible, but not a real world use case.

So that's why.
There is a cambrian explosion still occurring, but there are a few genealogies to keep up with and concepts to look for or to do yourself.

There is the Bitcoin and UTXO ecosystem. These exist in silos of each other and everything else.

There is the Cosmos/Tindermint ecosystem. These typically have some form of interoperability with each other.

There is the EVM ecosystem. These have high degrees of interoperability and where the most development occurs.

There are other niches that are mostly development dead ends, or possibly just completed. Won't name them as its not the point:

All of the above rely on low to medium performance hardware and internet infrastructure, and base the idea of consensus relying on reaching most of the other nodes that also have poor infrastructure.

Outside of that category there are a few that tweak the concept by raising the performance bar on all nodes.

Solana simply has extremely high performance requirements.

Radix follows that model while simply going multithreaded.

People often re-launch blockchains that follow one of the above concepts, with the purpose of having a different distribution of the cryptocurrency associated with it. For example, many people don't like that Ethereum or Solana have a large group of holders from prior investment pre-launch. So someone would just launch another one without the pre-allocation, hoping their new one gains traction.

Anyway, looking at just this sector does exclude many other potentially interesting ones. There isn't a good way to get a summary but fortunately lots of youtubers give summaries these days, so you can watch something once a week. The sad thing about that approach is that it is easy to tell what communities someone is in or influenced by, based on the crypto networks they talk about or have heard of.
100% of the movie they were working on ended up lost. The team working on the film was not Pixar, but another studio assigned the job while Pixar were holding up during negotiations.

Once those negotiations were over, Pixar started work on a sequel, and this version was never released.
I’m not very educated in this subject, but wouldn’t the West coast be the best place for some sort of “clean” desalination water plant?
Do you have any examples of non-crypto companies trying to spin a $100MM fine as "pioneering efforts in securing regulatory clarity"?

I know companies spin, but this is next level.
So, instead of "made of star dust", we're "made of black hole farts"?
As a user I'm a huge fan of it. It's how I use a lot of services these days without tying them to an email account.
That's fine, you have every right to your suspicions, but unless you feel you have better information about the incident than the police that investigated it, I'm not really sure what your comment adds. The GP made the claim that protestors in Ottawa tried to burn a condo down and a quote from the police chief proves this to be false.

This is one of several accounts I use because my personal identity is tied to my main account, and accusations like the above concern me when I know there are vigilantes out there who find joy in doxing people with different political leanings than them. Rest assured I've been a member of this community since 2014, I'm not one of the dreaded "alt-right trolls" some users are so comically paranoid of.

On that note, I'm not really sure what's alt-right about repeating a quote from an investigating officer, but then again, most people who use that phrase aren't being intellectually honest anyway.
C# is a well-regarded choice for the application layer in the engineering software world. You'd need a good reason not to choose it.
Do you only do this for vaccines? other medical treatment? food? water?

I don't know where to draw the line myself, so I wonder what kind of rules you set for yourself. This sounds like one of the most extreme examples I've heard.
As a counter argument: I live in a small NYC apartment with a washing machine but no dryer. I wash my clothes and then hang them in the bathroom to dry. It’s inconvenient but it works year-round and my clothes get dry.
Startups: Food-delivery profits remain elusive
Another one springs to mind...
You'd think that there are even qualified people who would do it for (almost) free, just for the chance of building a resume...
No. Different ones. I'd probably also look at non K-12 schools.
Browsers aren’t a product anymore. Browsers are a feature and a commodity. Every platform is expected to have one out of the box.

Most people use the default browsers on their mobile devices and I’d bet many of the people who don’t use the default browser on their PCs have downloaded Chrome because it can sync bookmarks with Chrome on their phones.

Using the non-default browser takes effort and most people don’t care enough to try. For Firefox to overcome that basic barrier, it needs to be a lot more attractive than the default browser. For most users, it’s just not.

Other companies that only make browsers don’t have high market share for the same reason Firefox doesn’t.
Gen X Marks the Spot
This is a known issue which hopefully should be fixed soon: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/6074
Someone visionary and humble like Sundar or Satya might work. Preferably an engineer or engineer-minded rather than a lawyer or MBA.
Even worse, it wasn't just truck horns. There were several trucks driving around with train horns installed. And plenty of the apartments in Centretown are right up against the street.

I don't think making 80+ decibels of noise 10 feet from people's windows is even an okay way to protest, no matter who you are or what your cause is.

I used to live in this neighbourhood, right by Somerset and Metcalfe. Protests happened all the time. Some of them were anti-government, even. And none of them launched this kind of sustained assault against innocent citizens. I get the sense a lot of them think they're sticking it to the liberal elite, or something like that. But really - Centretown is (or was when I lived there, at least) one of the more affordable parts of Ottawa.
Yes, it uses browser APIs (e.g. SVGGraphicsElement.getBBox()) to measure text, compute transformations, etc.

I had hoped to use Mermaid in a static site generator to create SVG diagrams at build time (to avoid requiring JavaScript), and this dependency was irritating enough that I abandoned Mermaid entirely and instead compiled Graphviz to WebAssembly (and honestly I prefer Graphviz's syntax, although it doesn't support nearly as many diagram types as Mermaid).
The wake from sleep issue on the XPS 15 is what killed Dell for me as a brand. I do not have this problem with any other brand. I chat with a lot of Dell XPS 15 owners and they all report the same issue.
> 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.

Try as I might, I cannot come up with a consistent good faith reading of your comments.

You're tired of hearing about something, yet not so tired that you won't create arguments about it by pulling in more distant topics? And when I try to connect with what seems to be your larger concern, you'll say you're just bored of the whole topic? All while ostensibly wanting to hear discussion of a related issue by reading this thread?

The best I can come up with is some kind of coping mechanism. If you're bored of the discussion, just stop responding. But perhaps next time, don't throw out the false dichotomy red herring.
Its a lot of work to verify age. What is actually happening is if you look old they discriminate based on assumption. People overestimate age of bald people like myself.
I feel like that is an understatement. This is not a few good old boys throwing a snowball. It's acts of arson, attempted murder, probably fits the definition of terrorism. And that's just the apartment building incident.

And of course the protests a year before were in no part better.
I love both Iosevka and Victor Mono, but ended using Victor Mono because it has script version for italics.