skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A mob of thugs"? Really? Type ottawa livestream into youtube, filter by Live and watch. You won't see "a mob of thugs" or even the remotest resemblance, even if you watch for hours. These are ordinary people and their kids.
Oh dear, yeah, that's totally wrong. I got Chris Beard's MBA confused with Mitchell Baker's law degree.
Sorry to contradict you, but your claims are the complete opposite of what I've experienced first-hand.
My impression is that Mozilla is too focused on basically everything that isn't Firefox - to me, it's axiomatic that Firefox wouldn't be in such a horrifying shape if they were focused on it. They are lacking for attention, and not money, which is why they should jettison everything that isn't Firefox or doesn't serve Firefox. Anyone else can do funny extensions or VPN or what have you got, but browser-making is Mozilla's core competency that no one in the FOSS ecosystem has mastered to the extent they did.

It seems evident to me that if they made Firefox into a power user browser again, somehow, then power users would flock to it again and bring in some of their peers and family, putting it back in a safe 10-15% range of market share where it can't be picked off or ignored by Google. And I know that power users are leaving en masse - I stuck with them through thick and thin for nearly 15 years, and I'm finally getting ready to leave if the situation doesn't improve.

> I think there is every reason to believe that a healthy Mozilla has Firefox at the center

Neither Mozilla not Firefox are healthy, in my assessment. And this is exactly because they are getting sidetracked instead of centering on Firefox.
That wild Ask a Manager story
A small but mighty fix: https://github.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org/pull/1527
> It appears this was the result of terrible security at GiveSendGo.

Don't victim blame, and call a spade a spade. It was the result of targeted black hat hacking and identity theft, probably made easier by poor security at GiveSendGo.
At least in Canada, strikers cannot block access to the facility either.

https://www.go2hr.ca/legal/strikes-lockouts-picketing-and-re...
Also, here's the HackerNews thread from 2012 that answers a bunch of additional questions too...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972798
Technically it's possible: House Moving. But perhaps not worth in most cases.
> 1 out of 3 colonists supported the American revolution.

Obviously, there isn't good polling data for support for the revolution, but the information I can find puts estimates at 40-45%, with support for the Crown at between 15-20%. I wouldn't put too much weight on even that, though.

The popular 1/3 each for, against, and indifferent to the Revolution seems to be based on misinterpreting an 1815 letter from John Adams to James Lloyd recounting his estimate of support in America for France and the French Revolution in the US ca. 1797 (with the strong anti- side being supporters of England and opponents of the Revolution, and the neutrals being indifferent between England and France that would attach to one or the other side based on transient circumstances.)
yea.... That's not something to be proud of.
That's a gross simplification I think.

By service, I think you mean company, now I have to trust said company, also I need to check NFT is minted by company I trust, and that I trust the identifier of said company on the NFT. Now if it turns out the company wasn't doing a good job, what happens then, do the NFT's get revoked, by whom, what are the remedies and the compensation process?

All this gets bumped off chain fairly quickly with a hand wave whenever discussed, which quickly puts the block chain solution into question. If the NFT only works when minted and managed by trusted party, then is what we really need is data interoperability rather than blockchain. And even there, NFT's don't actually contain any on-chain or off-chain data expressing what the semantics of the NFT is.
Trudeau is calling the whole protest illegal. Last week they arrested an old man for merely honking his horn to show support. So, anyone attending a protest is joining an illegal activity...and can have their accounts frozen.

There's no guarantee of due process in Canada's constitution?
Sure. Bullet point #1: Funding.

Next?
The shapes of a font cannot be copyrighted, trademarked or patented. The name can be trademarked. The code itself for the font is copyrighted.
> $7.9mm of $8mm total donations came from the U.S. and Canada. Please don't say things that are flatly untrue.

Where is your evidence of that?
I am not the OP, but hold a similar stance, primarily for the reason that the mandates represent a "the last 20% takes 80% of the time" inefficiency in what should be a global effort to dampen the pandemic, and the massive resources invested in first world countries to claw every last hundredth of a percent of the population to get vaccinated could be invested to see much greater effect in second & third world countries.
So many rules have been dubious and nonsensical. I don't recall the specifics, but it seems like at one time in Alberta you could get together with 20 people, but you could only have ten people get together for a funeral.

The point of allowing a person to do X is based on the safety of them doing X. If we are preventing X due to fear of covid, then it makes sense to prevent people from doing X if they have covid, regardless of their vaccination status, and allowing them to do it if they do not have covid, regardless of their vaccination status.

Some of the rules appear to be punitive towards people who have chosen not to be vaccinated, and not designed to curb the spread of the disease; that is why hypocrisy is being called out.
For what it's worth, Trudeau lost the popular vote last year.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

> surviving a previous infection now provided greater protection against the subsequent infection than vaccination

> Protection against Delta was highest, however, among people who were both vaccinated and had survived a previous COVID infection

So natural immunity is better than only being vaxed, but getting a vaccine increases your protection in both cases.

In order of protection:

1. cleared infection + vax
2. cleared infection
3. vax
US is foreign money
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It's nice that the government gave them permission to protest for a week, sure. For comparison, though, the Tiananmen Square protests lasted over a month before Beijing invoked their equivalent of the Emergencies Act. According to the Wikipedia article:

> The protests started on 15 April and were forcibly suppressed on 4 June when the government declared martial law and sent the People's Liberation Army to occupy parts of central Beijing.
Basically, npm should do the house keeping on this one
How is the US not a foreign country?
OK, yeah, that would have been another approach. Perhaps the emotion of the moment motivated us to get the machine back on-prem as soon as possible.
Yes. It's a risk to the ruling party to enact these measures and the next election will determine whether it was the right call or not.

Regardless of the outcome of this situation, the current few weeks _will_ be taught in Canadian schools for the next decades.
It’s not like Trudeau is exactly a paragon of egalitarianism or racial sensitivity.
Is this sarcasm? The NYT is quite liberal.
Serious question- how many rights are ok to trample, and how much economic harm is ok for a government to inflict upon its people? I can't take the claims of economic harm from the protests seriously when the govt itself inflicted unnecessary measures that destroyed lives that far outweigh the economic costs of these protests. Besides, the govt can end this issue as well, just end the mandates. The vaccines don't work against Omicron anyways.
SmartShepherd

https://www.smartshepherd.com.au
1000% agreed. I see this all the time on HN. Tunnel vision is real.
His father used the War Measures Act. This act was enacted to chisel down the powers of the WMA and has never been used since it was enacted.
What does being accosted entail?

If it's a matter of being heckled or laughed at, surely one has to be able to deal with that and not scream bloody murder.

(We haven't had mask mandates here in Sweden, so your situation with masks seems peculiar and a bit weird from here)
FPTP is really quite common in the western world. Going so far as to say it makes the government “barely legitimate” is a strong claim. Without other evidence, this claim relies entirely on how much we trust your sense of proportion.

Your comparison to North Korea casts doubt on your sense of proportion.
Lets see who profits from this
"Liberal" can mean both "pro police" and "anti police" at the same time. It really depends on what police behavior you are against.
Lawvere theories are also relevant. Bartosz Milewski has a nice description at https://bartoszmilewski.com/2017/08/26/lawvere-theories/
A Review of Shader Languages
I wanted to try this. I can never get scrapers to work for me. EVER. I once wasted a whole day trying to get one to work and the support was a complete waste. I finally just gave upon the idea of ever being able to get the data I needed by myself without overpaying. This type of stuff helps. His pricing model was great pay for what you use and it gave you a chance to try it cheaply without risking a monthly charge. I think the biggest problem is that techie really don't get how non-techie a lot of their proposed customers are...so you build overly complicated plinko machines...that never seem to work correctly and get upset when we won't even try them. "Once burned, Twice Shy."
> Volume doesn't mean shit though, that's the trick.

Based on having studied lots and lots of open source projects, I can say volume has a very strong correlation with experience. The more people contribute, the more likely they have been contributing for a long time. A novice contributing a lot to me, can be a sign they are extremely good or they are trying to game the system or they don't know what they are doing and are constantly fixing previous mistakes.
The Schwarzschild radius is the defining boundary of a black hole which Schwarzschild first calculated.

A question worthy of asking is why did Schwarzschild beat Einstein in calculating the Schwarzschild radius first?
Are we talking about "first order enforcement" or not?

If we are, neither private contracts nor vaccine mandates are directly enforced at the barrel of a gun - the RCMP aren't busting down people's doors to shoot them for failing to get vaccinated, just as people aren't immediately killed by the feds for violating legal contracts.

If we're talking about how they're ultimately enforced, if all else fails...well, they're both enforced the same way.
So you're saying that, in your region, it's possible to have a warrant (say, for failure to appear at your unpaid-ticket trial) and avoid jail by... running away? Indefinitely?

They won't arrest you the next chance they get (say, when your plate shows up on a scanner)?

I'd propose that avoiding jail indefinitely will eventually lead to violence in any halfway-organized jurisdiction. And if you start shooting, eventually the government will shoot back.

All over a driving misdemeanor. We just assume that reasonable people won't let these things escalate that far, but yes: Every law written is ultimately enforced by a man (or woman) with a gun.
"currently unavailable for Safari" shouldn't stop anyone
I love the tips on what to write. I make a Personal CRM called Queue (https://queue.community) and the biggest reason people stop using it is that they just don't know what to say when it's time to reach out. The truth is people on the receiving end of catch up requests are almost always happy to chat, and it's often enough just to say hi.
Moldy oldie bit of character assassination worthy of Frank Magazine.
I'm not the parent but you have posed a funny question.

> in an alternate reality where the vaccine is super effective at reducing transmission of Omicron, and where Omicron is super deadly

If either of these were true then mandates would be far less required because people would be far more willing to take them voluntarily.

Instinctively though I do want to answer yes, I would support mandates more under higher risk scenarios. In an ideal world though I would probably prefer if communities could self select by risk tolerance i.e it's possible to live/work/party somewhere nearby with like minded people.
Talon is great. I'm personally also using Serenade.

https://serenade.ai/
Regardless of his comments on the Floyd protests (which I do not have in front of me), the Canadian situation is comparable only to other Canadian protests. We are not America, and we are a country that has its own way of doing things.

Using the phrase "tyrannical vaccine mandates" is not a great way to ensure a productive discussion, however.
You claimed that the survey showed that they "support" the protests. The question asked only if people "sympathize" with the "frustration" of the convoy. That is a very low barrier, easy yes, given that a strong majority of Canada is tired of mandates. Indeed, the question went so far as adding "may not support the protest" to specifically delimit.

Canadians are very against this protest. If they simply parked some trucks and hung some signs, whatever. Once they were blasting horns 24/7, and then when that didn't work (given that the overwhelming majority of "truckers" are not with their cause and continued working) blocking international borders, the Canadian public turned dramatically against this petulant outrage. Having a bunch of Americans cheering it on, financing it, and even trying to join in has made it a cause that most Canadians find outright treasonous now.
No idea about Dropbox paper, but those tools are hard to make accessible, so I wouldn't be hopeful.

Google Docs works, there are two accessibility modes, none of which is enabled by default. The old, standard mode hides all content from screen readers and uses a built-in micro screen-reader that outputs whatever is needed to a live region, which your screen reader then reads. The newer one, called braille mode, actually shows you the content, only relying on ARIA when absolutely necessary. Both have their pros and cons, but I'd recommend using Braille Mode for most things, unless you run into use cases that the legacy mode handles better.

I've heard people say that some really advanced docs features have accessibility issues, but I haven't used it that extensively to confirm that.

As always, Etherpad, the open source / non-proprietary / privacy-friendly alternative boasts about being accessible but has so many a11y bugs that it's basically unusable. As always, markdown over git works better than any web-based solution ever could.
The situation in Canada right now in insane.

Police and government officials are actually trying to convince the public that "trucks blocking streets is an act of violence".

That's the most non-violent form of protest I can imagine.

While at the same time they are restricting the truckers gasoline that would allow them to both keep warm in these ridiculously cold temperatures and move their trucks out of the streets.

And painting people trying to support the protesters as racists and terrorists.

Goodbye, Canada.

Hello, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
That could be applied to making any law. We're talking about a specific law. This specific law lets Canada transition to endemic Covid, where there is enough community immunity that its public health system isn't overwhelmed and rationed. Without it, Canadians either have to wait through prolonged mitigations until community immunity is built up naturally or Paxlovid supply becomes sufficient, suffering the economic consequences of those mitigations, or rip the mitigation band-aid off and let care be rationed (and divert taxes to pay for all the hospitalizations) until natural immunity takes care of the problem. If my worst political enemy likewise justified their policies in my interest, I would happily let them implement those policies. If my best political friend did not justify a policy in my interest, I would oppose it. Each policy should be evaluated on its merits.

Your appraisal is an example of the slippery slope fallacy. The only slippery slope is encouraging people to evaluate policies by who is proposing them rather than whether the policy is beneficial. Then the person who is proposing policy can get away with policies that are more and more in their interest and less in mine. As long as the standard of evaluating policy by whether it is beneficial is upheld, there is no slippery slope.
I assume you are a big opponent of capital punishment and nuclear weapons, then.
>Just think of the logistics and cost of replacing every road sign, including "mile markers", exit number signs, distances on all US government roads (BLM, USDA, Forestry), overpass signs, speed limit signs and road paint - i don't see that happening any time soon.

This is pretty much why British roads still use miles and yards, the cost to the taxpayer of switching over would be horrendous. We do have dual measurements on heights and widths though, feet/inches and metres because many HGV drivers from the Continent aren't familiar with feet and there was concerns about them driving into bridges and so on.
Looks like a government is taking action after their citizens overwhelmingly are opposed to domestic terrorists ruining the lives of residents in the area.
Other cool generators from other creators also (in addition to those already posted, copied from [1]):

- Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator: https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

- Oskar Stalberg's City Generator: https://www.oskarstalberg.com/game/CityGenerator/

- donjon's Fantasy World Generator: https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/

- Myth Weavers Dungeon Generator: https://www.myth-weavers.com/generate_dungeon.php

[1] https://www.fiction.tools/#worldbuilding-map-generators
Show HN: StealthDrop – Anonymous crypto airdrops using zero-knowledge proofs
Hi HN,

We (myself, Adhyyan1252 and yush_g) are undergrad students that hacked out this side project last month during Hack Lodge[1] (the ideas and many of the underlying circuits for which came from the 0xPARC community[2])! We’re extremely excited to share this new primitive.

Besides the technical challenges building this project that folks here would find interesting (fixing the ZK proof compiler, modifying nodeJS V8 params etc.), we think this is a very novel use case for ZK tech, and ECDSA inside ZK-SNARKs is a starting point that unlocks many other ideas! :D

A summarized version of our README, with more thoughts on why you would want to enable this in the first place, is also in this Twitter thread[3]!

[1]: https://hacklodge.org

[2]: https://0xparc.org

[3]: https://twitter.com/0xparc/status/1493363943036923912
The thing is, if you don't disrupt the chain, status quo is maintained.

...This is also why JIT logistics is incredibly fragile. Our economic sects have been shirking the inherent risk of long tail disruptive events for the better part of my life.

There is a certain schadenfreude to seeing the come-uppances.
I don't think you should be worried about undersea cables. Fishing is the problem.
This sounds scary, but is it a bad thing?

It depends on the mandate but the gun barrel is generally at the end of a long chain of escalating non-cooperation that starts with a sternly worded letter.

Some governments are more trigger-happy than others, but at least in gentler societies, to get to the point where you're looking at a gun barrel, you'd probably have to respond somewhere along that chain with significant violence yourself.

In societies where you are allowed to carry a gun, the government having an even bigger gun is rather implied by the word enforced, because a mandate couldn't be called enforced if the police could only hand sternly-worded letters to you while you ignore it and shot at them.
@giantg2

The fallacy is claiming that one is not as bad because the other exists. You seem to be defending your comments from absolute privation. I refer to the first comment I replied to,

>That says a lot if that's what a violent protest looks like in Canada when the "peaceful" ones in the US involve millions of dollars in property damage and numerous injuries or deaths.

Isn't pedantry fun?
Please tell me more about how no vaccinated persons oppose vaccine mandates.
Just want to make sure everyone has the correct piece of data to think about this.

The mandate says that non-Canadian truckers need to be vaccinated to enter the country.

The mandate says that Canadian truckers, if they are not vaccinated, are not going to be exempt from the normal border entry measures, which is that they'd need to quarantine on entry unless they are vaccinated.

The US has a similar mandate for Canadian truckers, they're not allowed to enter the US without being vaccinated.

It's a little strange, because it effectively means that a trucker, either US or Canadian, who want to cross the boarder and then come back needs to be vaccinated because the other country forces them to do so.

Each respective country doesn't force their own citizens Trucker to be vaccinated, but Canada does force them to quarantine on entry if not. That said, this doesn't really matter because to enter the other country they'll have to be vaccinated anyways.

> I mean I am vaxxed and oppose vax mandates.

How do you feel about paying for healthcare of people who are not vaccinated and need care to treat COVID?
Indexed db stores file blobs as is.

Really, what you're asking for is just more metadata about a file and some arbitrary organization around folders.
Thank you for asking. :)

I think I technically make the most of you buy it from Amazon, but I'm not picky. You can also call your local bookstore and ask them to order a copy. I won't make quite as much, but you support a local business, which is always good.
There have been regular anti-vax protests throughout the pandemic. They are afforded time to disrupt traffic with a procession that usually ends in parking at a central district and legitimately ends that day. No cities have blocked their rights to protest within the legal construct they've been afforded. If this is too authoritarian for balancing the rights of protestors and the rights of everyone else, I recommend finding a new place to live. This is a sad but necessary limit of protest to distinguish protest from occupation. Even "occupy NY" largely allowed people to live their lives without significant burdens (though I'm sure some were unfortunately affected).
All that matters is that - generally - the politicians and media opposed to these protests supported the 2020 protests and encouraged people to violate stay-at-home measures at the then-height of the pandemic - pre-vaccine - because they claimed that cause overrode the Covid exposure risk.

And they wonder why large swathes of the public find it difficult to trust them.
And of course Russian intelligence are too stupid to open a Canadian bank account.
> When next the liberals want to protest something - an oil pipeline for instance (economic disruption) - would that also be called violence?

Just so it's clear, there were environmental protests that _were_ cleared out for the same economic disruption reasons. There were concerns that it was not the right thing to do and too aggressive at the time, but I believe in retrospect that many consider it to have been the right course of action.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/what-you-need-to-know-about-th...