skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day the main problem of Firefox is that it fights against companies (ab)using their market power in one market to foster their browser on people.

- Google: Try to use anything made by them with another browser and without a blocker and see how long it takes until you get the "SURF BETTER WITH CHROME"-ads thrown into your face

- Microsoft: Edge is pre-bundled and you get little nags in the Google style noted above all the time. Various menus contain little "try out Edge, a browser made for Windows!"-ads

- Apple: Doesn't even allow other browsers on some of their platforms, deeply integrates the browser and the OS in others (i.e. exactly the behavior which got Microsoft in hot water in the 90s)

I don't think it's possible to fundamentally change the trend without intervention of government agencies that forbids Google, Microsoft and Apple from doing this and neither EU nor US show much interest in doing so. So, things will continue and at best Mozilla can hope for some stabilization at the bottom of the ladder.

Side note: Mozilla has done various things over time I'm not happy with, but all of these are at most accelerants. They didn't change the fundamental trajectory, so unlike other commentators I think they are not relevant to this topic, even though we could discuss day in or out if e.g. the pocket acquisition and all that came with it was a good thing.
> There is no real basis for this "crime wave" people keep talking about. That pressure is really just right wing propaganda.

Some "right wing propaganda" from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/briefing/crime-surge-homi...

And WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/21/homicide-ra...

And The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/28/san-francisc...
> at a time where the US government didn't have a standing army

Also at the time the government didn't have critical infrastructure
It's to shapy, eyes don't like it
Ah wow, interesting. Didn't expect that
Over a quarter of trade between the US and Canada goes between Detroit and Windsor, so the scale hasn't been overblown but there's a question as to why is blocking trade off the table? Seems like another case of things being ok if they impact humans but as soon as corporations are inconvenienced, the gloves have to come off and the humans treated as terrorists. If the humans would go back to their gated free speech zones, then everything would be good?
Maybe try fiverr, and try a few illustrators. When you find one you like, go back to them and ask for more in the same style.
I understand that many, many people are having fun, being kind, and are generally enjoying the party atmosphere. That does not discount the fact that people are being intimidated, put out of work, and assaulted every day since this has begun.
You could say that it’s optimized brute forcing. It seems to me that machine learning applied to combinatorial search problems of this nature cut down the search space massively by recognizing patterns of combinations that have a high probability of being good, and then traversing those paths, similar to AlphaGo. This is a completely naive take, I’d like to hear other thoughts on this.
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=.fr/&restrictSear...

Or
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query=.fr/&rest...

See restrictSearchableAttributes=url in
https://hn.algolia.com/api

Then maybe some JavaScript:

javascript:console.table(JSON.parse(document.body.innerText).hits.map(h => ({title: h.title, url: h.url, dt: h.created_at})))

The results aren't perfect. You could do more filtering on the client side.
> We’re not suspending the fundamental rights or overriding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, we are not limiting people’s freedom of speech, we are not limiting freedom of peaceful assembly (or) preventing people from exercising their right to protest legally

Pretending to express concern about charter rights with respect to towing some trucks away is quite the theatre.

Meanwhile, Canada spent the last two years stomping on charter rights: mobility (provincial borders closed, unjustified quarantine requirements even for vaccinated Canadians), free expression (court orders to silence anti-vaxxers), and free assembly (unvaccinated in Quebec are unable to attend weddings, funerals, religious services or pretty much anything with over 25 people) to name a few. Ironically, a lot of these are the things that actually caused the protests.

It’s been disappointing to see judges go along with it all (Canada has a big opt-out for charter rights, in that “reasonable limits” are allowed if they can be “demonstrably justified”), but quite ridiculous to see that statement in this context.
How the hell is True North even on here??! They are an Alex Jones-level conservative crisis actor resource that doesn't have the best track record of being accurate. Is there a better link out there? Flagging this post in the meantime...
Firstly, he has a timeline for removing most restrictions, so there should be progress there, and secondly, why should he have to promise that? In case conditions change, say a much more deadly form of COVID, those restrictions may be needed. That demand seems unreasonable.
> Defenders of affirmative action--and even some of its critics--frequently criticize Justice Lewis Powell's controlling opinion in the Bakke case on the ground that it rejected the most compelling justification for race-based affirmative action while validating a relatively weak justification. I'll offer a hesitant defense of Powell's position (which subsequently was adopted by a SCOTUS majority).

http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2017/08/a-tepid-defense-of-diversit...
If the protesters weren't blocking infrastructure with trucks, and were just gathering on parliament hill, it would be a different story.
How would web protocols allow for more privacy? If Safari implemented all the Chrome PWA APIs it would open up the user to far more browser fingerprinting while also increasing the attack surface.

Also every crappy website will think it’s okay to force download a huge PWA payload and fill the phone up with notification spam. No thanks.
I agree, I feel is unfair to pay me (hypothetically) less just because I live in a poorer country. I think the Basecamp way[1] is a better approach.

1- https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-people-at-basecamp/
Perhaps that's not how they ought to work, but that's definitely how they work - web standards are effectively determined (e.g. in WHATWG) by a consensus (or in some cases unilateral action) of makers of browsers with nontrivial market share; and that's how this has been happening for quite some time now. If you've got 20% market share, then your opinion (and your implementation choices) matters much more than that of the multiple <1% browsers.
Please stop it with the diatribes about ligatures.

If you don't like them, don't use them. It's that simple.

Other people do like them, and will continue to use and enjoy them.
Could you explain what advantages there are to having the software work better as opposed to just throwing more computational power at it?

I know this doesn't necessarily apply, but if the solution space for certain niche problems is so small that we can just drown the problem in compute, I couldn't care less that the algo was N^2 or whatever, or that the UI was less than ideal. Maybe I'm not thinking deeply enough about what you mean by "better software solutions".

If I run a batch job and it spits out 10,000 compounds that I can try to a certain affect, then it then becomes a filtering problem where I can apply humans and do more traditional science, and if it was feasible to just try everything in parallel that option is nice as well, feels like how you got to that 10,000 compounds doesn't matter much.

Looking forward to hearing just how wrong my simplistic view is.
Another good part about UIs of the 00s and earlier is that you know what every element does just by looking at it. Revolutionary, I know.
I didn't read every testimonial but I read a lot, and I have to say a lot of it resonated with me and reminded me of when I first came across Julia. Congrats on the 10 year journey, and I hope for more great progress in the future.
This is racial discrimination for the Right Reasons, apparently. As long as everyone agrees on when we can and cannot discriminate by race, it should go very well.
No, that is one the problems you have to solve before you can have a successful fork unless you happen to have a few million a year coming in to compete with the main branch.

I've been known to waste a weekend or two a year working on open source projects. These though generally are small things that scratch and itch for fix a bug. I don't work on projects where it takes a month+ of weekends just to get a working dev environment. I don't think that's unusual, you have to pay people to put up with that kind of pain.
Yes, algebraic effects. They are equivalent to the Common Lisp condition system, except they're formulated in a way that survives the static typing discipline that is not enforced by the compiler in dynamically-typed CL.
I use it almost exclusively on Linux. It was much worse just 9 months ago. I do close and reopen it every week or so, it reopens all my tabs per my config, and it never gets sluggish on me if I do that. I agree with commenter above. I prefer it, with its flaws, because of configurability. It's been 6 months since I ahve been forced to open a site in Chromium. It tends to be some bloated highly commercial (F500) site that requires that.
Someone else in this thread mentioned it was used to login with Level 2 access. I.e with Ethernet MAC address?
I use a Pi 4B as a dedicated web server and UPS controller.
I'm definitely curious to see when/if they release information on what the bannable transgressions actually are.
Was he really a BLM protestor or just an arsonist looking for an opening to burn something down?
> if you need permission to protest at all.

This isn't about protesting "at all" it's about protesting in a way that stings the government. You can protest in a legal way but then you're dismissed. The Truckers are protesting in a way that can't be dismissed. They've chosen to risk serious consequences because to them the status quo is worse. Protests like this are a sign of a failure of leadership and representation.
Attacking another user will get you banned here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Perhaps you don't feel you owe political opponents better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Not political violence, per the point being made upthread. Seems unproductive to litigate beyond that distinction.
Right. I can't shake off your condescending tone, so the only thing I'll contribute here at this point is this:

> Sources I can find have it topping out at 6th in 1995, which (aside from not being 5th) is quite a while ago.

You're right, it was 6th, not 5th, but it was that as of 2012 [0], which is less than a decade ago. I believe it kept the position for another year or 2 but I can't find the data to back that.

Everything else in your post is downplaying how much information on geopolitics a Brazilian ambassador might have relative to yourself, and clearly from your point of view you have the upper hand. I can't beat that.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/mar/06/brazil-econ...
Put the measures being protested directly up for a vote by the Canadian legislature (so they're not just executive actions), if they're not struck down the government should resign / do a no confidence vote, let people elect a new government. Let the people have their voice. If protests continue take actions that let them protest but reduce their ability to be disruptive.

With the current dynamics of the disease though, authoritarian medical requirements are making much less sense over time. Vaccination doesn't really help curb transmission much and omicron is considerably less dangerous than previous variants. SARS2 was originally pretty near the threshold where government might not need to do anything forced and the new variant and ineffectiveness of the vaccine against is is pushing it further lower.
Work with the city to park in a designated spot and then protest on foot in front of parliament. Not 'move-in' and set up hot tubs, saunas, and sleep in your truck on Wellington.
Not the GP but it seems like for most people their line is a full end to all the COVID restrictions, not just the vax mandates.

That sentiment was echoed in this podcast I listened to the other night: https://youtu.be/H-T_EGVdYwk

The guy being interviewed is just a dude, not a leader in the movement AFAIK. But he’s probably a good representation of what the average person attending the protests wants.
I'm not American, but I do know that libel laws in the US would prevent this.

They did not witness whatever event this was, they are relying on witnesses.

Publishing those witness statements would be negative to the witnesses, the accused, and to defcon.

Basically you want everyone to put themselves in a compromising situation to satisfy your curiosity.

They have told him why he is banned. If he wants to share that information with you or the general public, he is free to do so.
Obligatory link to “ What is algebraic about algebraic effects and handlers?” https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05923
> I’m not sure there’s a one true framework that is easy to learn, sticks to idealistic cs principals and is productive.

Svelte, the tutorial is short and runs directly in your browser: https://svelte.dev/tutorial/basics
Damage in Minneapolis was mostly confined to a singular street.

Singular.

At no point were fire and police “afraid” to go places in the city either, though I can imagine you may have been watching certain “news” coverage that may have claimed that.
On the other hand, the protestors are armed with thousands of cameras. Any violent act by the authorities will be quickly spread worldwide. They have to use kid gloves here or will quickly amplify the opposition to themselves. That the truckers won't get violent makes it even worse if the police do.
ens.domains just sounds like selling plots on the Moon, or names of distant stars. It only matters to those who buy in. Current system domains are cheap and work fine for most people. If your local government is oppressive and won't let you own a domain, you can't really solve that political problem technologically.

My understanding of smart contracts is that it's like a distributed virtual machine of consensus. A single program that runs on all the networked computers, all executing the same set of functions on the same set of data producing the same result. But it's slow and expensive, because it's "trustless", and it turns out that trust is very valuable and embedded in our traditional methods, and people get scammed left and right because they think trustless means they don't need to trust, but that's a lie.
As far as I can tell, OP's talking about the replacement of Mozilla Corporation CEO Brendan Eich, who had an engineering background[0] and was CTO but made a small but controversial donation to an anti gay marriage campaign, with Mitchell Barker, who came from a legal background and was formerly the president of the Mozilla Foundation.

At the time this was pretty divisive, because it was a candidate with objectionable social opinions but great technical chops getting ousted by a candidate who was uncontroversial but seen as more business-minded and more inclined to broad-spectrum activism outside the confines of Firefox's typical free software and online freedom work.

[0] he was the creator of javascript, among other things
What glitches?
Learning a little vim (i.e. how to open multiple buffers and tabbing between them) as well as learning a little tmux and a little htop has made my experience with ssh way more palatable.
My observations are hardly "vehement." In NPR's home country more physicians are non-government employed so it would make sense to establish that the person is commenting in alignment their employer's position even if they were not specifically authorized to speak. It is also typically disclosed if a protestor is protesting their own employer as it bolsters the case for their integrity.

Since both governments and nongovernmental actors use news media to advance their cases it is important to evaluate and understand the context of an interview especially if it doesn't make the assertions that the linking person claims it makes.

Also, I did not claim that the interviewee is a spokesperson, but that they articulate a position in such close alignment with their employer that they are essentially a spokesperson. It isn't that there is confusion about a person's role. It is that either NPR didn't disclose or the physician didn't disclose a conflict of interest and allow the reader to evaluate the interview with that in mind.
What do US polls have to do with Canadian protests? I mean aren't those just arm chair supporters in the USA?
False: 'got natural immunity which is superior'
It sounds like to are still forced to trust a third party exchange, and you now cannot accept payment from customers unless they pay in a cryptocurrency (USDC). Is that right? How is this better than a third party intermediary who takes dollars and sends you dollars?
BSODs are rare now, but only a few hours ago I got an "update" that broke the start button. Clicking or pressing "win" does nothing now.

I'm sure it's fixable, but it's not a reliable product by any stretch of imagination.
" I mean, faster than r or Python (for which I could write fast code but that'd mean I'd have to change the way it is written)"

You might benefit from numba. I've used it to speed my Python up enormously and completely painlessly just by adding decorators to critical functions. It's why I'm not considering moving to Julia.
Switch to Apple or, failing that, Windows if he hasn't already. The UIs of these two operating systems are engineered for accessibility, and there are excellent screenreaders and other assistive technologies available that just aren't there in sufficient quality on open source.

Apple in particular is the only major technology company left that truly prioritizes the end user, and that goes for disabled users as well. So moving entirely to the Apple ecosystem will be a win for accessibility -- iPhones are perfectly usable by blind users.
Why doesn't NATO counter-threaten, perhaps, taking Saint Petersburg?

Two can play the brinksmanship nonsense game, essentially.
I think there's difference in what "reasonable" means here, regardless of what the issue is and who is doing it. My argument is that there must be some form of protest that is always legal (even if not sanctioned by the government) and that minimal form of protest must be public. That no restrictions can be reasonable on this minimal form of protest.

All the people who are cheering this emergency powers move, have not made clear to me why this particular protest has surpassed that point outside of noise issues in private (and non-public) areas (which I do understand are difficult).
They're primarily lending to institutional customers (hedge funds, HFT's). If you look on DeFi markets borrowing a couple billion dollars is going to cost you a lot more than the 10% BlockFi is probably charging, due to how automated lending mechanisms work. The reason the yield is so high is because there's insufficient liquidity in ETH/BTC/stablecoins.

Notice also that these loans are undercollateralized. DeFi lending requires overcollateralization which often is not appealing to HFT's executing low-risk arbitrage trades that make a few bps of profit. They need big leverage to make decent money. In our normal financial system banks are willing to lend them money, but in DeFi nobody does undercollateralized loans.
You can move your ask up as bids get closer
> there are enough armed forces personnel to police the third or fourth largest country by land mass in the world (the United States)

If you count the standing paramilitary forces (“police") that work for the government and do this job already, plus all the other armed forces, that's not that much of a stretch.

> that every single armed forces personnel would unquestioningly obey what constitutes illegal orders (military deployment on American soil)

Military deployment on US soil is not illegal. (That would make defensive war, as well as suppression of armed rebellion, impossible.)

Military deployment to enforce domestic order isn't illegal, either, though for federal regular military troops there are procedural requirements for it under the Insurrection Act (mostly, a completely discretionary Presidential determination of one of several specific kinds of need—some of which involve a request from a state governor and some of which do not—and particular notifications to the civilian population and any potential insurgents before employment of the military for certain uses.) State forces not called in to federal service may have their own procedural rules for law enforcement deployments, but most state forces can also be activated federally under federal rules.
According to Wikipedia there was up to $2b in insured damages and 25 deaths during the 2020 riots. Now regarding the bridge closure; there will be costs for delays and those will be substantial, but it's not like they just throw $400m of goods in the river because the border is closed.
The backup rule of 3 worked out then, if accidentally.
Asians in America are more often rich (Indian, Japanese, Chinese immigrants, not Korean or Vietnamese refugees), in some markets more so than whites (e.g. Los Angeles), and have much more power and access than latinos and blacks. The system is broken and adding more Asians (broadly) does not make it better. There are sub-groups of Asians which are vastly more underprivileged than other Asian ethnicities (Japanese-Americans are ~10x more wealthy than Korean-Americans in L.A. [1]). Affirmative Action isn't intended to just give non-whites opportunities equally. It's intended to restore equity by giving greater opportunity to those historically disadvantaged, focusing on the most disadvantaged first (descendants of American slavery, refugees of war, etc).

Or, instead of focusing on first principles of justice and equity, we can continue to just hand-wave the difference of ability and struggle that exist between asian immigrants and flatten it all into "asian" giving benefits to the most privileged of them.

In my industry, European-Americans and Asian-Americans have teamed up (unwittingly or otherwise) to limit diversity because they make up the vast majority of the labor and take many opportunities that could go to blacks or latinos.

[1] https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/files/color-of-w...
I had the exact same style of Timberland Pro "Pit Boss" model boots (Brown instead of Tan) fail in the exact same way. Just threw them away last week! I my case, the boots were bought over 10 years ago and used weekly.

I replaced with them with the exact same model again, because the price was half the competition, they fit me perfectly, they were comfortable to wear, and I thought 10 years service keeping me safe while mowing the lawn on weekends was more than adequate for the money expended. Maybe industrial users should consider something other than the cheapest option available.
Part of the issue is that it's not attractive to volunteer for.

Simply put, why would I volunteer my free time to support a software project whose CEO makes somewhere in the ballpark of 70x the average American salary?

Mozilla likes to pretend that it's an egalitarian, collective endeavour; but it's really not so different than any other private software development company. It's not even all that unique in the licensing conditions that it places on its software.
Time to reread Cryptonomicon.
I'm on Kubuntu, Its not Ubunto Mono and I'm 99% sure its not Hack. You can select both those options and both look quite different.

I wish I was at home so I could post a screenshot.