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Unlisted startups’ valuations will adjust to falling share prices
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/convoy-protesters-break-through-surrey...

"At about 8 p.m., police said a large farm tractor and a semi-truck attempted to ram a police vehicle. The officer in the vehicle was able to reposition and avoid the collision."
https://globalnews.ca/news/8618494/alberta-coutts-border-pro...
> We can all appreciate the aesthetic beauty of rounded corners.

Can we? Much like that top 40 song that comes on the radio way too often, I have come to find all the rounded corners off-putting. They are usually a signal of form over function, and often used by information sparse sites.

Give me square corners like HackerNews, old Reddit, or Vanguard any day.
> But to force the people to go fully metric would take a genereration.

It's already taken more.
Depends if you are a reactionary libertarian, then the definition of racism changes.
Traditional GANs typically have a different problem called mode collapse, in which the generator learns one (or a few) outputs that the discriminator likes. Conditional GANs are given a condition as input and have more chance of overfitting, as the loss function is a combination of the GAN output and a supervised loss based on the condition.
The adjective critical though has been used very broadly during the pandemic. It's clear that it needs a very specific definition or such language could be used to make any protest illegal because it blocked access to a pizza place, etc.
I've always believed that people decide if they are attracted to each other very quickly, like in the first two weeks. If you don't feel some spark in that time you are at best going to be in the FriendZone™ for the rest of your life.

Now maybe you can decide you're going to live with a friend and have children anyway but if you let things go slow I'm afraid the passion won't ever be there.
He's a spoiled brat that has never been told 'no' in his life in any meaningful way. Now he's an adult in a position of power, learning far too late what it means to compromise, have a dialog, or even bother understanding what others want. It's something he should have learned in his tween years instead of while leading a large industrialized country.
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Locking bank accounts at all WITHOUT A TRIAL, seems dystopian. That's a lot of power for the state to have to be able to reach into some ones bank accounts with no due process.

Edit: changed AT ALL to without a trial because on second thought resized it's possible that there are some legit uses for freezing bank accounts.
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You are missing the point.

Presence of ligatures in a "font designed for developers" is neither a plus nor a selling point. It is a pointless embellishment that shows that fonts' authors don't grok the character-oriented nature of computer languages. So them parading ligatures as something desirable only serves to detract from the rest of the font design and to nick their credibility as coding font designers.
> Thing is the market is producing this without Mozilla. Brave and others are delivering real alternatives to Chrome, Safari and Edge.

And in the end, it's all WebKit derivatives under the hood. That is the danger. There used to be three major distinct engines (Firefox, IE/Trident, WebKit) plus a boatload of specialized ones (Opera)... and that competition bred improvements and features. These days it's all about walled gardens, which is what the "market" (aka a bunch of ultra rich companies) wants, and Firefox is the last truly independent fighter standing.

Sadly, Firefox has been mismanaged for almost a decade now.
I'm not convinced that our society has had that wider debate. I myself am not convinced that these "Right Reasons" are good and fair, even if they are so widespread.
You might work for much bigger companies than I have, but there is no 'bug fixing' vs. 'core' job categories. Instead it's like "Susan worked in that area once last year, the expert has left, so Susan can fix it, while the feature work she was on gets postponed a bit".
Wipe the storage drive from scratch (using the ATA Secure Erase command) and then installing my OS(es?) of choice.
That's correct. Saying BTC was lazy of me but I meant that basically the price of all things crypto need to be quartered due to the correlations.
Thank you! Now you're starting to get what people have been making such a fuss about in the U.S.! The moment you can unilaterally freeze bank accounts of your own citizens, you're basically putting fundamental restrictions on what they can and cannot do! If citizens can't even fund raise for their own protests, you have a problem.

...Now the fact a bunch of donors are American and not Canadian is... Fascinating...

I'm not sure what to do about that little chestnut... Sorry Canada. Welcome to politics by free trade I guess???
Because the policy that they be closed (where they are in fact closed) does not seem to be objective.

Schools are a net good for most people that attend them. Closing them means that not only do those kids lose the opportunity to learn and develop social skills, but also that their parents’ lives are disrupted to the point where they are likely to be completely unable to provide for their families.

This doesn’t mean that it’s never appropriate to close them; it means that they shouldn’t be closed without very good reason, and that they should be re-opened as soon as possible.

In short, I want schools open because closing them demonstrably hurts people.
Does DRM exist for typefaces?
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Peckford didn't really contribute to drafting the charter in its relevant portions here, though he had peripheral involvement in its contours as a premier of a province during the period it was negotiated and as part of the basis for the Kitchen Accord that led to s.33. His major position on the constitutional negotiations as a whole was mostly a losing position. So it's a little like arguing the anti-federalists had unique constitutional insight in the U.S. Especially given that the constitution was shortly relitigated vis-a-vis Meech Lake and Charlottetown and the heirs to Peckford's position... lost again!

After losing election in Newfoundland (thanks partially to betting the province's economic future on hydroponic cucumbers -- a little surprising that didn't work!) he left the province, and he's had no real involvement in politics since except to endorse the far-right political party in the last election and become a professional anti-vaxxer, as you note.

I think the appeal to authority here is odd. Whether Peckford has a legal point on the travel restrictions or not, it's not because he was ostensibly in the room when the finer points of the constitution were hammered out. The whole point of the Court Challenges Program and other measures was because everyone -- the legal profession, the provinces, the federal government, and interest groups -- believed that the charter required extensive jurisprudence to understand.

I doubt Peckford wins as the case works its way through; the dominant policy view on the Charter and the court is basically dialogue theory, that the court exists primarily to work affirmatively with the government and that even when the court strikes government policies it typically does so in a cooperative way. The court is largely deferent to state interests. This deference is built right into s.1, which is why charter rights are subject to s.1.

But even beyond that, the court has already circumscribed s.6(1) rights e.g. in Divito v. Canada (which held that, for example, citizens are not entitled to prison transfers to serve international sentences domestically; both because the state has an s.1 interest in limiting such rights and because s.6(1) isn't that expansive to begin with). The court has never held, e.g., that s.6(1) grants an affirmative right to fly, or an affirmative right to fly without ID, or even an affirmative right to get a passport without following instructions. The alternative argument is some kind of nonsense s.7 argument which would clearly crumble when applying s.1.

I suspect they would decline to rule in Peckford's favour here, they aren't in the business of whole cloth concocting these kinds of affirmative rights. The most likely vote would be 8-1 or 9-0, with maybe Brown dissenting?

Of course Peckford being legally incorrect doesn't mean he has no point from a moral or policy standpoint. Totally reasonable to say "I think Peckford's point is well taken." Just think the bizarre invocation of him as a legal authority doesn't hold up at all.
Blocking bridges with trucks to protest public health members seems dystopian.
Sounds a little silly to confiscate the assets of the people bringing the food to your table. That and the towies in the area are refusing to move any of the trucks.

Trudeau just looks weak at this point, and for a prime minister that got in because of his good looks and his dad's popularity it's not a good omen.
I don't think they were afraid. I think they were under orders not to interfere with the rioters.
I meant speed of light. Yes. That was a typo / brain glitch. Thank you for your explanation, helped a lot.
"It was loud the first week due to honking but even that's stopped. And even if there were honking, that's not violence."

Some trucks had train horns installed, significantly louder than regular horns. Trucks were honking continuously, all night. There is a line where too much noise can be considered violence. Certainly, if I was downtown and had a baby trying to sleep during that shit I'd be throwing rocks at trucks at 2am.
The vast majority people who use web browsers have literally zero knowledge, awareness, or interest in these things. What actually seems to have happened, is that a long time ago now, their techy friends recommended they use Firefox instead of IE. Then those techy friends recommended Chrome because it was even better. Now it's arguably the case that Chrome and Firefox are equivalent from a non-techy standpoint, but non-techies don't want to move browsers over and over. That large audience is largely lost to Firefox until there there are big enough practical downsides to Chrome or upsides to Firefox.

As it stands now, even if techy people, who might be put off by the things you mention, were to be made perfectly happy again, if they recommend Firefox without a significant practical justification, non-techy people simply will not change from Chrome back to Firefox again.

Importantly, more and more people have just grown up with Chrome, never having used Firefox or IE even once. Even if Firefox stays as good as Chrome, more and more people will start their web browsing experience never having considered Firefox and just always having organically used Chrome. This alone will lead to Firefox losing market share over time, even if all existing Firefox users keep using it and loving it.

In my mind, it's clear that the reasons Firefox lost market-share are technical/practical, and the way it might regain market-share is also technical/practical improvements. That will be hard though, especially given Firefox would probably need technical/practical dominance on Android as well as on traditional computers.
Thanks for the recommendation. Believe it or not I have a pair of exactly those but unfortunately I hate them because they rub my knees nearly raw when worn for prolonged periods. In the end I've bought an old skool rubber kneeler, which seems to work better, but of course you have to continually move it around, which isn't always convenient (or even possible).
No, they can't do that for protesting or giving people money. They can freeze accounts temporarily, that's true, they can't take your money.

They can take your car if you block the road and refuse to remove it, yes. That's called getting impounded, and it happens everyday.

They can fine you or imprison you for a blockade, yes. That's always been the law.

And yes, they can force companies to provide services during an emergency, this is also Canadian law.

I don't see how hiring a foreign company to provide a service in exchange for money is "foreign aid". I'm pretty sure he didn't ask any governor for permission, because he doesn't need to, it's perfectly normal for the federal government to hire companies from across the border.

Is this harsh? Sure. Is it martial law? No, not at all. In fact, the military isn't even getting deployed, it's all the RCMP.
Sorry, thanks for the reminder. I've had a tough time in my city over the past 3 weeks.
The only real measure of velocity is furlongs per fortnight.
Long form casual social e-mail have just about disappeared for me. The kind where someone writes you several paragraphs about their life or their thoughts for no particular purpose than to chat with you. I used to have a lot of people I kept up correspondence with for several years, but when social media became popular, those mostly stopped. Which is a shame, because social media is much worse for forming actual relationships, in my experience.
What's wrong with Firefox Containers?
Do you forget that many of these truckers and their many supporters have also been put out of work by COVID policies? The hypocrisy there is palpable.

If you're concerned about getting Canadians back to work, should you not also be concerned with the economic damage done by mandates and lockdowns with no end in sight?
He was never going to do that. The media immediately started on the "truckers are Nazis" line and took that option off the table.
For what it's worth I also have ligatures disabled but I do think it's fair for fonts to include them, particularly because it makes the fonts more versatile in settings where you want them.

In particular when doing presentations having fonts that are capable of producing ligatures in monospace contexts is quite useful.
According to wikipedia he now an "ardent" anti-masker for Covid and now people are trying to get him to step down from Brave browser. Does this guy just not learn?
More than 400k student loan borrowers will get debt relief from Navient
An obvious response to this, that doesn't involve blocking any roads, is for truckers to simply go on strike. Imagine if even a quarter of Canadian truckers just decided to sit at home and not move anything.
A lot of people use it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Installed_base

I mean nobody super exciting, but Steam uses it for their software, Adobe CSS uses some of it, etc.

It's more than an Apple thing.

[Edit]: Sorry, nobody outside Apple uses Safari, but a lot of people outside of Apple use WebKit, Safari's engine.
While lot of text about trivialities.
>If you can structure things so that teams can develop a rewarding emotional connection via an overall purpose and frequent feedback, they'll just do the right thing naturally.

I love the idea of connecting developers with users as a way to motivate. Not everyone's job provides motivation intrinsically, and a big part of the manager's job is to motivate people in a genuine way.
He was an arsehole in so many more ways than most people nowadays realise.
You might want to checkout Talon Voice.

I have used it in the past for hands free coding, there is a steep learning curve but once you get comfortable with it many things can be done faster by voice than with your hands.

Be aware, using your voice all day can be hard on the vocal cords.

- https://talonvoice.com/
As with anything, there is nuance. A noisy protest is merely annoying, a 140dB train horn less than ten meters away is assault.
Canada had a federal election in the middle of the pandemic restrictions last year. People chose this government. There is no greater vote possible.
There’s no reason at all to think that a complete and total default is unlikely.

It’s far from certain but it’s certainly plausible that the value of nearly all cryptocurrency’s will collapse to nothing at all.
Dang is a moderator of hackernews if you are not aware.
The problem is that the majority of so called programmers in the market cannot actually write code, and there's currently no other way to weed them out.

When I say they cannot write code, I mean that when presented with a simple problem such as toy robot or fizzbuzz which requires them to break down a problem into steps and implement those steps, they are unable to do so.

There doesn't seem to be any particular pattern to this. I've seen it across different companies, different languages, and different seniority levels. I am at a loss as to explain if these people know they are incompetent, don't care, or are just plain desperate for some kind of work to pay the rent. Nonetheless, until we find a better way to weed out the majority of applicants who can't actually write code, this is the best option we have.
Isn’t that what makes this important to study? The people aren’t going away, so understudying how drought affects us is valuable.
Clearly not everyone agrees that , what some consider medical tyranny, is a good thing.
Statcounter lists FF market share as sub-5%. I'm inclined to believe that, since a lot of people I know have switched to Chromium derivatives, or straight up grew up on Chrome. Heck, a person recently requested my assistance with moving to Chrome and named Firefox as the reason. And that's someone I put on Firefox many a year ago.

Firefox is getting unbearable for average users. It's getting unbearable for me, a geek who has infinite patience for FOSS as long as it serves my goals. Well, Firefox no longer serves my goals. I'll keep using it for as long as it remains usable, then I'm switching to Vivaldi. At least it cares about power user use cases.
I had hoped that I would exercise regularly given the saving in commuting time. I also thought I would be pursue side projects and hobbies aggressively. Instead, I put on 30lbs of weight and are in zoom meetings from 9-6 every day. Commuting kind of forces into a daily routine which is hard to replicate with WFH
Reimagined DeLorean teased with electric power
I'm going to be honest, that seems remarkably peaceful, even when compared to the BLM protests from 2 years ago or especially the FLQ crisis of Pierre Trudeau. I don't think the truckers should be going into residential neighborhoods and making noise at all hours - but it's hard to argue that it's violent.
I know you're saying this not the question being asked, but what's your source for their revenue growing anywhere near that rate, or indeed at all?

As far as I can see their revenue peaked around FY 2017 at $562 million. In 2018 that number was about $450 million and short of expenses, they were short of expenses again for 2019 but for a $338 million settlement from Yahoo/Verizon.

The most recent reported year, 2020, saw a slight drop in their search income but a sharper cut to expenses (mostly by cutting about $60 million in "software development" expenses), putting them back on track, in a way.

They've had a steady increase in subscription income, but it's still dwarfed by the current search deal (in 2020, just shy of $25 million in subscriptions vs. over $440 million from search).
Anyone knows a way to use vault cert auth with proxycommand or something like that? To use it transparently with emacs and other tools.
Blind person here, happy to answer any questions. I'm speaking from the perspective of someone born blind, so whatever ends up working well for me might not work as well for someone just losing their sight, though I tried to take that fact into account.

The most immediate suggestions that come to mind are:

1. Learn to use a screen reader. You don't need an expensive one. NVDA on Windows, Voice Over on the Mac and Orca on Linux are the way to go. NVDA is probably the least quirky and easiest to find resources for. I'd recommend against Orca, while it can be used, we all know how tricky Linux on the desktop can get, and throwing a screen reader into the mix doesn't help.

2. Forget about the mouse. Screen reader users use the keyboard exclusively. Try disabling the screen too, many sighted users who practice with a screen reader end up relying on what they can see, which makes things more difficult.

3. Accept that inaccessibility is a fact of life, and it has to be worked around. Not all tools are accessible, and some are more accessible than others. If you're looking for an accessible IDE, Vs Code is great and constantly improving. Emacspeak exists, but I don't actually know anyone who uses it, and I know quite a few blind people in tech. Some things that you're now doing through a GUI are best done via the command line, Git is a good example. Programming tools usually aren't the problem, it's everything else that causes issues. Slack and Zoom work great, for example, but many smaller collaboration tools don't.

4. Not all areas of programming are equally accessible. I can't imagine a blind dev working exclusively on the front end, where there's a lot of CSS involved, and where you have to look at Figma designs and debug issues solely based on screenshots. Backend stuff is much more accessible, same with lower-level systems programming. Dev Ops is very much a mixed bag.

I'm happy to answer any further questions either here or via email, my HN username at gmail dot com.
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My biggest problem with Mozilla is that I pay them a monthly donation and it is real hard to cancel it. They had no problem accepting it. It's just a bit too nasty.
You can have the best product and still receive little traction because the competitor is a megaCorp with huge marketing budgets and able use its size to make it harder for the little guy with the better product to compete. At that point, legal recourse tends to be the only action left. Googs isn't afraid of this, because they know Moz can't compete financially.
While I could certainly expound upon my political views in general, doing so wouldn’t contribute to this discussion, which is specifically about people who advocate that schools remain open.
"Algebraic Effects" is sort of a misnomer.

It's the name given to a specific idea being (re)explored in programming languages. Basically it's a try-catch except when you catch the error, you can do something, then return to where the exception was thrown and continue from there.

The second half of the article is similar to the idea of Algebraic Effects.

Here's another article explaining Algebraic Effects: https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/
This makes me want to build a Twitter Bot "Cursed Pocket Monsters"...
Yeah, they intend fully peaceful protests and bring long guns, body armor, large cache of ammunition...[0] and call for the overthrow of the democratic government.

This doesn't even resemble a spontaneous protest, it's organized and funded as part of the global push to fascism. The anti-vax component is a thin pretext.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/coutts-protest-blocka...
And yet Apple sell tracking devices that can be used to spy on people who've never used an Apple product.

Are they blind to the harm they're causing, or do they believe that only their own customers deserve to have privacy?
Motor vehicle theft is up, not down (even in your own data).

Infact from my own experience in Seattle area and the auto enthusiast groups I'm in, we've definitely seen an uptick in car prowling, smashed windows, cat thefts and outright vehicle/trailer thefts.
Not specifically about Firefox but: if nonprofits can’t pay for talent then you get what you pay for, crappy talent for important positions. That said many people have your mindset so that puts all nonprofits at a disadvantage against any for-profit initiative as far as getting talent goes. You shouldn’t need to martyr yourself to do something good.
About eight years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...