skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad calls this “punishing the masses for the indiscretions of the few”. Like airport security theater.
I’ve been using Reddit since the beginning, and I still use and like it, but your ban for saying “using php is stupid” comment resonates. One of my biggest Reddit pet peeves is downvoting or punitive mod action in response to subjective opinions.

It’s not a new problem, and it’s one that can happen in any forum with downvoting, but it drives me nuts. The downvote is not a disagree button!
Context for non-Canadians: there was a federal election five months ago.
Founders personally selling

Can't outsource this or even hire for it in the early days

Has to be the founders
No? It seems a recipe for a perfect government. Whenever X% of the population wants that much to throw down the government, that's probably a good time for a remodel.

Might not be as effective as a dictatorship or a oligarchy, sure, must a much better government to live under.
The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable. Activists take that discomfort w/the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes…To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable…that’s the point.
You could describe MLK’s protests as disruptive, causing gridlock, damaging to businesses, etc.

BLM protestors danced on and destroyed statues as well.

The whole point of protest is to be disruptive. Being anti-vax is super stupid but protesting government mandates (or systemic racism, or anything) should be allowed.
Not for 2fa. There are standards for that and they don't need smartphones. Also: I would trust the security of a computer owned by someone without a phone more than that of the average smartphone at this point.
There are vaccinated people there too.

Don't fall for the "team sport" false dichotomy - there are many who are rational enough to get vaccinated but still largely side with the "less / less broad restrictions" side of the debate.

(For instance, I am vaxxed, extremely pro-vax, and quite anti-restriction. Give everyone a chance to get vaxxed, even make it free - but then let them manage their risk from there.

Even the most effective restrictions, from a case load perspective, such as here in Australia, just left us completely naive when Omicron arrived. Shortly thereafter we had world record cases per capita.)
I feel that's either an external or minority opinion.

Not everybody outside of Canada may realize we just HAD an election. I personally don't think it was necessary or useful; in fact I think it was a colossal waste of money; but we did. And Canada tends to have relatively stable governments, our period between elections tends to be reasonably lengthy. Some people may not LIKE the result of elections, but there's nothing that indicates government does not have support of majority of Canadians. Polls tend to indicate most people are Canadians about covid. And elections tend (not always) to be about majority.

Second, many outsiders and even many inside Canada don't seem to realize vast vast majority of public health policy and restrictions is done on provincial level. That includes virtually all restrictions that impact majority of citizens. Further, many if not most are done by conservative governments - Alberta and Ontario as obvious examples, as well as conservative municipal governments like Toronto.

So I never understand on any level why anybody feels "federal government to resign" is an "obvious solution", let alone what, exactly, is it meant to accomplish when it comes to covid response.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html
I got banned from countless subreddits becuase I dared arguing with covide deniers on r/NoNewNormal. I didn't even agree with them and was always critical but that apperently doesn't matter
That is quite some time away.
Sure. I mean, she's 6. The point is that she contributed to it, the point is she collaborated with dad to make a website, just like my 4 year old daughter contributes in the kitchen, 'helping'. Its 'helping' because its helping in spirit. It would be more productive if she didn't help, but then she wouldn't learn from it. Which is the point of this: learning by doing (and its good for the dad-daughter connection). I love the concept (before result), I also love the end result. Well done, daughter & dad. Inspiring (not that I'm into web design, so perhaps rather: encouraging) <3

To draw a parallel: I got skates for my birthday. I got nothing with skating, I will probably dislike it. I haven't used them yet. But I will. And then my daughter will see how I learn it, and guess what? We already bought her skates as well. If she's anything like me (and she is, given she was late walker and finds playground scary), she's gonna find it difficult. But if she overcomes it, she's gonna love it (like I had with running, hiking, swimming). We'll also go to the swimming pool together. We already got 3 bicycles for different stages in her life, also for her brother (she used the walking one already). Its just that she's occupied with a different goal right now (just turned 4, getting out of diapers, going to school, plus we had the Covid pandemic), so I was & am procrastinating.
It might be at the individual level, but the scale completely changes the nature of the deal, in my opinion.
We weren't allowed out for a year, remember?!

If you lose the ability to protest, what barrier remains for crooked politicians to draw up whatever legislation they like? What the Nazi's did was legal you know - they wrote the laws!
If you think Facebook is bad, just go to the reddit comment section on any post on ANY sub to see massive amounts of groupthink and suppression of any opposing ideas via downvotes.

Forming any attachment to a Reddit account is useless because the post/comment you make will be either suppressed or accepted based on the popular opinion that exists within the subreddit to which you are posting.

The issues outlined in this thread are exactly why I wipe my comment history every 2-3 months, export my subscriptions, delete my account, create new account & re-import my subscriptions.

It’s tough though because people will call you a shill if you have a new account. But then again, people will claim you sold your account to a viral marketing company if you have an older account. It’s messy all around.

Just wait until reddit acquires a ubiquitous hold on popular culture once Instagram finally dies off in 5-7 years. The problems discussed in this thread will amplify exponentially.
I was so disappointed when I realized it didn't say “AI-synthesized feces”.
Presumably with more people stuck at home and working/schooling from home there would have been more people browsing. That however misses the forest for the trees.

The real problem is not Firefox. Google basically pays to keep Firefox alive.

The real problem is the larger Mozilla Corporation. It wanders aimlessly through a sea of failed side projects looking for something to do to justify it's existence.

In my opinion their entire problem is leadership and statement like this:

"Baker wants Mozilla to remain a “technical powerhouse of the internet activist movement,” yet she also acknowledges that the organization as a whole must also focus on economics and work on creating sustainable business models"

So which is it?
That’s a seductively simple idea. Using the Emergencies Act to bring to an end of the protests was unprecedented. Without having thought too deeply about it the suggestion to then call for elections seems like a brilliant one. I almost think it should be written into the act. At the surface it makes sense that if the redress of grievances is so disruptive that the Act must be invoked then the cost of invoking it is to call for elections and let the people decide.
Most tooling and test sites are in practice at least slightly broken.
Steam uses CEF aka *Chromium* Embedded Framework. If the current version is still WebKit then its only because they haven't updated to Blink yet.

It is also primarily there to render Steam and steampowered.com so not very relevant to keeping web standards in check.
In general, if you want people to be able to use cryptographic signatures to prove their identity, they are going to have to know what those things are and how they work. Since this is an entirely new thing in the world there is no existing culture to map it to. The problem is not specific to any particular technology.

This would be an excellent topic for new curriculum for the schools. Some ideas need to be generally known to be beneficial.
at this point it's user friendly because it has 100x more random snippets and google results... if you give someone only official docs I swear...
>According to https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html, ~43% of eligible Canadians have a booster/3rd dose.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/28/ontario-has-been...

https://www.narcity.com/toronto/ontarians-that-have-been-ful...

I actually go back to when I got my first shot. Nobody under 40 unless they had a morbidity qualified to get the shot. Yet 70% of canadians had the first shot already? It's impossible and they were fudging the numbers from the getgo.

>Most people have realized the covid shots are worthless. How did you come to this conclusion?

Lets unpack a little.

1. Efficacy of vaccine for omicron is well known for being worthless. Im sure I dont have to prove this.

2. Much more important factor. We found out the shots were misrepresented. It's not a vaccine. A vaccine prevents infection. The authorities clearly said 'if you get the vaccine, you dont get covid' but that's not at all how it is. You still get sick and contagious, it just reduces symptoms.

>As far as I'm aware, Canada is stepping down restrictions as cases drop/ICU beds free up. Can you share where restrictions are being increased?

The convoy ishappening because vaccination became mandatory for some truckers in January. That was a new restriction.
I had a website that was up when I was 6 that an adult had never touched. It was shit, but it existed, and I understood the difference between 'designing' for paper (I also liked drawing) and a website.

I thought it was interesting because when I was 6, it was 1994 and the Web was very different from analogue information, presentation wise, and so I never really tried combining my artistic skills and my Web skills, but now the Web is full of images + videos and everybody knows that using neon text/backgrounds aren't a great idea just because we're not using ink.

So a kid's conception of what can go on a website now is completely different and I thought that was neat. Makes me wonder what a 6 year old designing a website will look like in 2052.
I was quite young and things seemed shinier when I was young, so take this with a grain of salt. But I remember google differently. Gmail invites were a big deal, even amongst less technical people. Adding that sense of exclusivity to something they would use to advertise to us was remarkably smart.
IMO, numba loses pretty much all of the advantages of python. The code is fast, but you lose the ability to organize your data the way you would in regular python, and most of the python ecosystem can't be called from within numba functions. If I wanted that developer experience, I would just use C.
Sure, and no line is completely straight, but that doesn't mean your floors aren't level enough to live on.
Are you using your truck to block the economy of Canada right now? Have you participated in the protests with your actual body in any way? Do you even live in Canada or do you represent the interests of another country entirely?
That recent hack gave light to only 29% of total donations coming from Canadians, they are not widely supported no matter what the HN Libertarian slant wants you to believe.
I don’t think it is okay. I think protests and elections are great ways to register discontent with a state of affairs.

But should the powers of protests go so far that small groups can shut down large parts of an economy? It is my understanding that the convoy is hundreds of trucks. This is already disproportionate power for few people but what if dozens could shut down an economy peacefully?

It seems to me that a line has to be drawn somewhere for a society to function.
Belgium approves four-day week
How would that even work? Moderators don't have access to any lists of users that have subscribed to their subreddits.
Name a single “liberal democracy” where any group would be permitted to occupy a capital city for three weeks uncontested. People really aren’t grasping how weak it makes Canada look that it allowed its own capital to be held in a chokehold so easily.

There are people on the streets (and in this thread) demanding that elected officials resign while a strong majority of Canadians disagree with the “protest”.
If you don't know yet, check out https://hn.algolia.com for searches like this (not affiliated). The thread linked above is the top hit when searching for "blind".
They're protesting the quarentine when re-entering the country. That's why so many Americans are involved as well. My girlfriend lives there but I can't visit her because of this.
> incredibly painful

Now, now… calling extra security steps for online purchases ‘extremely painful’ and ‘economically detrimental’ seems a bit excessive.

In fact, I think these steps may be there just to make people feel more secure about buying online (this would totally work with my mom, who after many years of visiting me in the USA is still afraid of giving her card to the waiter in a restaurant to pay for dinner).
I think the biggest misconception is that there ever was a time where this ("build it and they will come") ever worked, digital or not.
> Apple can charge whatever they feel is appropriate.

I think you are answering a slightly different question than I’m asking. You might think they should be allowed to run their platform however they want but the reality is that because of their size and power, they can’t. Regulators will at least force them to allow alternate payment providers and if Apple keeps pushing back, they will eventually be forced to allow side loading or alternate app stores (which I would think would be a disaster).

So given the regulatory environment they exist in, they only way their current strategy is smart is if they can defeat the EU. I don’t think they can and I think we will all be worse off in a few years because of Apple’s petulance.
> Reddit allows the creation of multiple usernames using the same email address

Interesting, didn't know that. But the E-mail addresses are different.

My previous account was initially shadowbanned without notice (all posts auto-filtered, and if I remember it correctly, it was a global shadowban on all subreddits) so I had stopping using that account. Weeks later I checked again and it became permanently banned explicitly. The system said,

> Your account has been permanently suspended for breaking the rules. This account has been permanently closed. To continue using Reddit, please log out and create a new account (the username [REDACTED] cannot be reused). This is an automated message; responses will not be received by Reddit admins.

My current account in question was temporarily shadowbanned. I was able to post in a subreddit without problems, and one day I was suddenly shadowbanned. But it was not a global one because I was able to post in another subreddit, so I suspect it was just an Auto-Moderation filter. After I sent a message to the mod of that subreddit (not Reddit admins) and stopped logging in via Tor, the account went back to normal again. But I never actually received a reply from the mod, I'm not sure how exactly I got unbanned - automatically due to a "good" IP, or manually by a mod.
This would encourages minorities to try and block governments all the time, to force new elections.

Why not have the second chamber of parliament made of randomly picked citizen [0] with the responsibility to approve the work of the first chamber (of elected representatives), with the power to cast motions of no confidence?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy#Selection_b...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence
The discovery of a radio galaxy of at least 5 Mpc
How I use (and abuse) macOS
Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow
Yeah, but if I remember correctly, actual farm operations were profitable, right? The marketing is just extra, or what it evolved into.

Don't get me wrong - small farms are a lot of work. For the most part, at least one member of the family has to have an outside job with benefits just due to healthcare costs. But it can make some money.

I hope to have a small farm as a "retirement" plan. It would mostly be an apiary for the commercial portion, maybe with some log and block grown mushrooms. Then the rest would likely be for personal use. Obviously the major costs like the initial land and health insurance would come from savings, so it would be mostly supplemental income to an already solid retirement plan. I don't think it will happen though.

I assume the biggest draw is the lifestyle ideals. It seems a common dream on this community. Maybe because we're tired of building some intangible thing or some app that nobody really needs, and want to have a physical job with meaningful produce.
Superior marketing.
This is true, and leads to how perception impacts performance reviews internally. If you are nice and get a small handful of wins then you can excel.

When you look externally companies look at the small list of accomplishments and don’t value you as highly.
high energy physics (HEP) shameless plug: https://github.com/tamasgal/UnROOT.jl

indeed, the grants (in the millions $) given to rewrite C++ or Python just to handle array (because for loop sucks) and ends up making monorepo blobs is jaw dropping -- while it's almost free in Julia, with 1/100 of the line of code and more flexibility we can match and beat even C++ code...
“The internet was small compared to your real life, which was something that happened offline.”

Perhaps the author is more extroverted than me (almost certainly, actually), but I find this interesting. What attracted me to the internet as a kid in the early 2000s was just how huge it was even then.

Sure, you had to go looking for stuff rather than having it shovelled in front of you en masse, but there was such an enormous world of weird little creations that had nowhere else to exist. Stuff to see and people to speak to that I simply never would be able to otherwise.
… because POP3 isn’t able to leave messages on the server, it’s such a coarse instrument.

You can instruct IMAP fetches to delete too, and that’ll avoid this problem. Better would be to move emails into a new mailbox after fetching them, so that you don’t need to see them again but they’re still there, but I don’t know if anything supports that concept.
>Once your account is flagged as spam by the system, it would be global shadowbanned automacially. At this stage, your account is essentially finished, it's basically impossible to talk to someone and get your account unblocked.

FWIW I had that happen to me a year or two ago and was able to get the ban overturned.
I guess the assumption is that working AWK programs will typecheck.
The majority of the money was foreign.
edit: and is not being funneled to the actual protestors. The people recently arrested tried to get some to use for legal fees. No bueno.
yeah, yeah, no citation. Pretty hard to cite facebook posts that were removed because of subject matter.
Dolt – marries two familiar concepts, Git and MySQL
I assumed this would trigger a on-site service call unnecessarily so didn't want to open that can of worms..
It's a usual joke, based on the fact that "always be closing" is horrible advice.
Indeed the premise of "private industry always better" is ideology more than fact. There are many cases were private industry is better at developing technology, like cell phones, but areas where it would be a fail miserably, like proving the existence of the higgs boson. Each approach (private-led or government-led) has strengths and weaknesses. As for space exploration, especially in the early stages when it didn't have an obvious path to profit because who knew how much it would cost to get things working, the government approach was key to rapid development.
> "SLS... its just not going to be a significant player in the future in space..."

> Boeing’s Starliner... continues to be delayed.

Man, is 'old space' good for anything? Over breakfast this morning I read the article below about problems from consolidation in defense. After a certain point, aren't these companies supposed to make money building things? Isn't there some will to succeed in the management above the engineers? How much longer will government bureaucrats allow the farce to continue?

https://www.ft.com/content/c408c7bd-466a-496b-9889-9f83cc85e...
“Do what we say or we will make your lives miserable.”

This seems to be the tacit mantra of governments in the era of COVID. Alongside a willingness to entrench at the slightest pushback, in my humble opinion governments across the world have gone too far.

I completely support the right of the truckers to protest, and it would seem that the protest is upsetting the very people that it is meant to upset. I Sympathize with the people of Ottawa, and hope maybe they will come together with the truckers, but I doubt it.

The government cannot budge, the government cannot back down. Like the American government, the Canadian government knows it must fight any question to its authority because if it doesn’t, it runs the risk of losing that authority.

The truckers are going to have to break the Canadian government to win, and frankly I hope they do.
> I think the problem boils down to a violation of separation of concerns. Defensive code inevitably concerns itself with ensuring guarantees about state that is the concern of other modules.

This is something of a straw man argument. If someone is doing this, they are simply doing it wrong. It is certainly possible to write validations that only check for constraints that must hold within the code they are gatekeeping for.
A friend of mine had a similar problem with her Spotify account after she canceled her facebook account. Self-made Spotify playlists usually can have quite a bit of a sentimental value. I can only image what services the OP would have lost access to in case he/she used social login for all signups.
Lifting the restrictions? The ones which are (at least in name, I am not qualified to discuss further than that) about protecting the health of the population? That seems contrary to the best interests of a nation.

And I’m expressly not saying the Canadian government picked the right response here — I don’t know if they did or didn’t — but what you’re suggesting is way too far in the other direction.

Making it the norm to resign in response to protests makes it very easy for any political opponent on any issue to do a soapbox equivalent of filibustering.
> Okay, pull requests alone are not enough, but the objections y'all are raising seem like they could all be answered by forking, no? If Google upsets their users then a different browser has a chance to gain users:

Forking is an uphill battle starting at 0% market share, which is less than Firefox has now.
No ABC thread is complete without this joke from my grade 8 science teacher.

What did one AAA battery say to the other?? Always be celling.
Damn, I've been through this too and I have even forgotten about it. 5 users, no cost, gone. I've even used zoho for a while after that, but that's gone too.
My current solution is to use custom domain with icloud and forwarding emails around.
X is how much? 0.1%?