skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a lot of people would have liked to see Mozilla double-down on Firefox to the exclusion of all else.

Personally I would have leaned towards the opposite approach to meet their stated mission of ensuring an open internet. Historically, Firefox has been the means by which Mozilla earned a seat at the table, but I would have liked to see them diversify their portfolio a bit rather than relying entirely on a single browser. If I had been in charge, I would:

Focus on developing Rust, Servo/Gecko, SpiderMonkey. Keep projects like Firefox and Thunderbird as reference implementations but encourage Microsoft, Brave, Opera, and open-source forks to build their own products based on Mozilla technologies. Assemble a broad coalition of companies that base their web browsers, email clients, feature phones, smart TVs, consoles, etc on Mozilla technologies. Explore using licensing and corporate memberships to offset decreases in advertising revenue. The end-goal being to ensure that Mozilla-based browsers capture enough of the market that they have a seat at the table with Apple and Google and then use that leverage to push for web standards that are beneficial to end-users.

Of course, that ship has sailed now that Safari and Firefox are the only browsers with a non-negligible market-share that are not built on top of chromium. Given Firefox's trajectory, Apple is realistically the only player left who can prevent Google from dictating the direction of the web. If Apple decides to throw in the towel or let Google drive, webpages essentially become Chrome-pages.
Solid utilitarian laptops seem hard to come by these days, what with the S3 removal fiasco and the desire for making an aesthetic statement over function. My work Dell Latitude (came from the factory with Ubuntu) isn't particularly stable. The machine will randomly power off (under light workloads or heavy - no obvious difference) with full battery and will not power on again until it's connected to the power brick. Once it's powered on I can disconnect the power cable again and be good for a few days to weeks. It's not an obvious thermal issue because I regularly run 100% all-core workloads and it's fine (thermal throttles, but fine). It also burns through a full battery after a weekend of sleep.

On a whim I upgraded an old hand-me-down ThinkPad T430s to the classic 7-row keyboard since I had one lying around, and I'm finding myself using that machine more and more. Planning to upgrade its screen soon. Not all older laptops are good, of course, but the T430s with the upgrade feels like... a computer fit for getting things done. Everything gets out of the way. Full of utilitarian touches. For example, the lid's profile conforms to the palmrest's downward curve, giving it a functional sunshade.
Yeah. War is going to happen and Russia is the one who wanted it and made it happen. The question is whether against Ukraine or Ukraine+someone.
Yeah. Well, No.

A physician who harms his patients through negligence or malice gets struck-off.

A lawyer who steals his clients' money gets disbarred.

A banker who mismanages his clients' funds loses his banking licence.

If any of those was found guilty of using information from their clients to blackmail them, they'd have no future in their chosen trade - ever.
You're pushing a rock up hill--many markdown renderers natively support mermaid, plantUML, etc. using fenced code blocks.

If you explicitly want source code rendering don't add the mermaid tag to the block. There could be an argument that now you don't get syntax highlighting, but remember syntax highlighting itself is not part of any markdown spec and it differs wildly between implementations--there is no common grammar or spec for it even.

In all cases these are still valid markdown files and will pass through markdown processing, rendering, etc. systems without breaking them.
Thanks, Bain and Company.
A couple caveats: the 1200 figure (which is only for Starship) includes liquid oxygen. So the actual methane capacity is about 265 tons as roughly 78% of the propellant is liquid oxygen by mass. But the super heavy booster carries about 800 tons of methane.
You can say no all you want, but it doesn't matter when your "no" gets overridden by your manager's "yes". You can even quit over it, but there's a whole line of people waiting to replace you (yes, everyone, even you, is replaceable). Lazy developers have nothing on greedy managers.
> That right there is the best advice. If you want to get rich quick, you're going to have to make some calculated bets with higher return and thus higher risk. However, if those bets work out and you do become rich, don't fool yourself into thinking you're some kind of super genius that can consistently beat the market.

Don't fool yourself into that, but as the Kelly criterion advises, do play harder with house money.
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Positively Must Know
FYI. Anchor is almost out of money to pay that yield.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/anchor-protocol-reserves-s...
I know I used the whole chip on my shoulder underdog mentality for awhile. It mostly led to decent outcomes, but included one hidden outcome - bitterness. It’s almost like it becomes you. The me against the world mentality can often make it hard to manage relationships, because, you know … fuck everyone.
At what point does something pass over from "essential" to non-essential? And why does being essential matter?
GPS and live traffic data are both "route me to X". I don't think people really have another use case for either, although in some cases the "route me to X" may include "X is a close gas station" or "best route is to wait 45 minutes before leaving".

Do people really choose new restaurants while out (unless on a road trip)? I can see using Yelp while planning to go somewhere with friends, but once you're actually outside the house? In other words, I don't see a use case for Yelp outside the computer, with the exception of a road trip.
Quite. Mobile is not some shiny new tech that deserves a special dispensation. It's now critical public infrastructure.

The mobile duopoly is like having a duopoly on printing or paper manufacture.

It would be crippling for businesses to have to pay a Paper Tax for all paper use, with a special surcharge for check or invoice printing, over and above the purchase cost of printer hardware.

Mobile payments and app ecosystems are no different. There might be a case if Apple was far more careful about app quality, curation, and security than it pretends to be.

But realistically it's just not doing a good enough job with any of them to justify its cut.
Nice. 1st and 3rd points are gold. I would say that for read only, at least allow internal team members to comment/note on customer issues and consider that read only as well. That way, we can have more team members be involved in internal notes etc for a customer but only charge if we are replying ? Or may be add role for agents as "commenter vs customer facing" . We ourselves offer SSO with our lower plans and that is very popular. The whole old school model of "SSO only available with Enterprise" needs to die soon.
I hope they support the full suite of mermaid diagrams, not just a small subset like they do in Azure DevOps. Which is quite frustrating. My team has to take pngs and keep the source code at the bottom of wiki pages.
God, I would love for there to be a standardization of package management and project structure in python from the top down.
I don't think ITAR is the issue. There was a Japanese billionaire who wanted to do something similar with the SpaceX Starship. The passenger doesn't need to know how the ITAR restricted technology functions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56261574
Unless there's some crazy school board out there, there's no way they have kids eating outside when it's -20. Most school boards won't even have outdoor recess on days like that.

I have 11 nieces and nephews in 5 different school boards in Ontario, and not one of them has these restrictions. They eat indoors, they can take their masks off at lunch, and during gym class. Their teachers regularly post videos for students to watch, with their masks off, so that they can have that level of interaction with their students.

We still do play dates with kids too. And birthday parties, where we can opt to go maskless if everyone is tested and comfortable with it.
>So you think it's acceptable for citizens in one country to fund political movements in other countries? Would you feel the same way about oligarchs in Russia or China funding political organizations in the US?

Please don't be so quick to put words into other's mouths and then go after them for something they never said.

Someone asked why another user might want to donate to political causes in another country. I responded, clarified I wasn't OP, then - and this is key - further clarified that my post "shouldn't be considered an endorsement of their donation/views", and then simply posited why someone might want to. See how I said that you shouldn't see my comment as an endorsement of their donation?

Discussing why someone might want to do something is different from arguing whether or not it is right to do so. At no point have I engaged in the latter. They can be lumped into the same conversation, but I haven't done that in this comment chain.
I don't often relaunch my apps but I relaunched firefox just now to see what would happen to test this.

Here's what I was greeted with - an ad for pocket: https://i.imgur.com/hYYZYE3.png
You're quite employable, regardless of past. You goofed up as a teen (who hasn't) and most folks can look beyond that, esp in infosec.
> B2C support tools don’t work for B2B

yes this -- so many build-vs-buy decisions that end up at 'build' because the market doesn't provide multitenant products

b2b2b / b2b2c is a bet on a software future of many mini platforms
"What is one single reason to use Firefox?"

Better ad blocking.
Protip to anyone using Mermaid.js

Don't.

It's a sea shanty of XSS vulns.

https://snyk.io/vuln/npm%3Amermaid
To be fair civil disobedience can be a military tactic if it´s employed to achieve a military/political goal.

And this isn't to pass judgment on any of the groups, I don't live in Canada, I'm not a Joe Rogan listener or Spotify user, I really don't care.
Conflating anything related to crypto as a scam is just lazy and anti-intellectual. This is one of HN's weakest traits IMO. I find great value in following topics and threads on HN, but it's unrelenting hate for crypto and crypto adjacent topics is unfounded.
Maybe you should have asked him how many friends he has.

When MSN Messenger existed, I pushed hard to get people on XMPP. "It's no problem, there are multiplatform, multiprotocol clients anyway". I had more than 200 contacts on MSN Messenger. Most or all of them, people I met in real life.

On XMPP? Maybe like... 10? Out of which perhaps only 2 I met in real life, and the rest I met on Linux forums. I was really aggressive on getting people to XMPP to the point I eventually closed my account and told people to reach me on XMPP. Nobody gave a fuck, of course they didn't. The world doesn't revolve around me.

Look, we get it. It's sad that corporations are realising they can hold users hostage for profit, but unfortunately that's the tradeoff with ease of use.

Oh, and Discord does so much more than IRC. It has voice chats "well just use Mumble", yeah but... why? Discord already has it. Or desktop sharing "use Jitsi", again, Discord already does it. Or large file sharing "roll your own FTP server", uhhh... no? Discord does it?

And a web UI if you don't want to chat online. And reliable mobile notifications. And two factor authentication. And in-game overlays.

FOSS fanatics struggle to admit commercial tools are so frickin' easy to use. I used to be like that, I understand. And then I got a job :P
Copyright?

How does copyright work for something like this?
Whenever I'm presented with a problem that I don't have enough information to meaningfully estimate, a "helpful" manager suggests "breaking it down into subtasks". I usually end up breaking it down into tasks something like:

1) Figure out what's going on
2) Fix it
Novoloop says it’s worked out how to upcycle plastic waste, raises $11M Series A
> Can I also claim that my loud college neighbors are torturing me when they stay up too late on the weekend? Of course I can, but it sure is disingenuous to anyone who has actually been tortured.

If they did it for a week straight after you'd lodged several noise complaints and had the police go nowhere, yeah, I think that would qualify. It's certainly not the most severe type of torture but intentionally depriving a person of sleep and attempting to damage their eardrums qualifies.

If your loud college neighbours were setting off a train horn outside your building, repeatedly, I think you'd expect them to be handled by the police (if not arrested) pretty immediately.

If your loud college neighbours were assaulting people in the streets, shouting death and rape threats at you, you'd probably consider them violent.[1] Another post of mine has many more links if you're interested.

I'm not sure how much actual violence is required for a protest to become violent. Is it just that nobody's been killed yet? That seems to be what everyone is waiting for and I sincerely hope we don't get there (thankfully it looks like things may be defusing today).

[1]: https://globalnews.ca/news/8594809/covid-freedom-convoy-otta...
I love seeing these completely unsubstantiated conspiracy theories posted here over and over.
> When unvaccinated COVID patients flood the hospitals [..]

In our part of the world, despite eye-watering infection rates over the last few weeks, hospitals are absolutely nowhere near capacity (and that's putting it mildly).

Were younger and fitter people really flooding hospitals if they got Covid? Thought the data on age and comorbidities is pretty clear and has been for a while now.[0][1]

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...
[1] https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/75/11/222...
Came here to post that, great minds think alike!
What I like most about this font is that it has a completely different aesthetic from my favorite monospace, JetBrains mono. It has more of the humanist flavor of a Frutiger versus the DIN-like rationalism most monospace fonts adopt.
> this sort of verbal escalation is not objective

Objectively, the sonic onslaught of their constantly blaring truck horns is equal in effect to well-known psychological warfare tactics. It is fair and accurate to call it torture in this context.
Looks like a genuine reaction to this travesty. Folks don't like being disenfranchised (removal of dislike counts).
Apply for the jobs you want. Be honest about your background and circumstances, let them rule you out, don’t rule yourself out before even giving yourself a chance.
It's rendering style, not execution.
Ukraine has been “informed” that it will be “attacked” by Russia on Feb 16
I heard that guns bring good profits.
Fair point. It seems even when it comes to the ruling elite, there is some notion of afterlife that is at play.
There are official constellations, and then there are other shapes/patterns known as asterisms. This article will be able to explain way better than I could in a reply here.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/constellations-ast...
I just assumed this was because Android ignores your default browser setting for special cases. Is this an FF problem or an Android problem?
Your friend should report the location to the American Chestnut Foundation. They can monitor the tree, get it gene sequenced, learn more about it.

Every survivor is another set of genes that maybe lead to the revival of the species.
Maybe they can’t colonize it due to multi-year gestation periods? Thus they can’t grow the population fast enough.
Why is this ranking up so much? I see a number of mistakes in the assumptions and claims from the posts in the original link (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PFSFF4...), for what it's worth.

That claim that the xps13 is also being throttled, for example.

Product Name: XPS 13 9310

minimum CPU frequency - maximum CPU frequency - governor

CPU 0 400000 kHz ( 8 %) - 4700000 kHz (100 %) - performance

CPU 1 400000 kHz ( 8 %) - 4700000 kHz (100 %) - performance

CPU 2 400000 kHz ( 8 %) - 4700000 kHz (100 %) - performance

CPU 3 400000 kHz ( 8 %) - 4700000 kHz (100 %) - performance

CPU 4 400000 kHz ( 8 %) - 4700000 kHz (100 %) - performance

CPU 5 400000 kHz ( 8 %) - 4700000 kHz (100 %) - performance

CPU 6 400000 kHz ( 8 %) - 4700000 kHz (100 %) - performance

CPU 7 400000 kHz ( 8 %) - 4700000 kHz (100 %) - performance

3.83 GHz

580 MHz

3.12 GHz

1.68 GHz

3.63 GHz

3.13 GHz

2.82 GHz

875 MHz

These posts are showing up too quick for people to even consider the situation at hand. Instead, just eager to air their own grievance and jump on the bandwagon. Not to say that I don't have my own negative experiences with them in the past. Nevertheless, it's a fascinating development to see in real-time (more or less).

I'm not seeing any posts in any of the community threads. Not sure what the reason is, although we could always speculate with more or less reasonable certainty. Might as well just sit back and wait :shrug: rather than jumping to conclusion right away.

Maybe I'm just too cynical when it comes to trusting mob mentality.
This seems to be incorrect, the current version has no CVEs according to that tracker.
They're merged, and if you're running a current version of Thermal Daemon then things /should/ be better than they were. But most policies don't actually explicitly modify the throttling temperature MSR, and Windows definitely defaults to a different value there when compared to Linux, so there's something more going on.
The Dilemma of Brilliant Jerks
>A city is being held hostage by an extreme minority and, even in OPs post they mention that the Toronto police handled it properly, but question the admonition levied against the Ottawa police.

>The Ottawa police are complicit in this now as well as city council. They sat on their hands while allowing this to spiral out of control, and now want to play the victim or blame others (e.g. blaming counter protesters today).

>It doesn't matter if you side with the protest or not. The sheer fact that they've been allowed to have large impact on the city and it's residents, for this long, is proof that the so-called lack of freedom that they're fighting for is simply not the bogeyman they've made it out to be. Especially if you're white.

This is really not much different than how Portland handled the BLM protests in 2020. 100 straight nights of extreme protests with violence against police and federal buildings. Only difference is this is during the night and many neighborhoods were terrorized as it moved from downtown. Not much media coverage of this other than conservative journalist Andy Ngo who has himself been violently targeted for simply recording and publishing video of what is happening.
As he was granted Asylum by Russia I wouldn't consider him any sort of trusted source on this subject.
I am one of those using this font for ~1 year now, very happy with it. As a designer/developer with penchant for typography I am the perfect target customer I guess.
Ransomware author releases decryption keys, says goodbye forever
Web Serial API would also mean one could create an Atari-style paddle controller to go with this game, kind of like this project: https://github.com/drohen/paddle-game
In retrospect, Tesla was undervalued, but this wasn't a guarantee. Elon is a loose cannon with a history of overpromising to the extent of borderline lying. This got him in trouble with the SEC (funding secured), and he lost his board chair position and could have been ousted as CEO. In hindsight, the SEC obviously wouldn't screw over the fastest growing American company for a dumb meme tweet, but this isn't something people knew at the time.
And 40 years of declining interest rates.

Almost none of the posts talk about what investing traditionally has been for-- buying future cash flows at a current discount. Sign of the times....
Buy a TomTom? GPS is already built in to most cars (although they may be phasing it out if they think everyone can just use their phone.) But I know people who have dedicated GPS units (TomTom, Garmin, etc.) in their cars. They do provide better directions than GoogleMaps/AppleMaps.

I think the browser on candybars was annoying, but it also was sufficient. Not for daily browsing, but for occasional lookups.
Definition, martial law: Martial law is the temporary imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to a temporary emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory. [1]

The key phrases are "imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions" and "suspension of civil law by a government".

The Canadian Emergencies Act, which was invoked by the Liberal government today, specifically states the following: "For greater certainty, nothing in this Act derogates from the authority of the Government of Canada to deal with emergencies on any property, territory or area in respect of which the Parliament of Canada has jurisdiction" [2].

I'd do a deeper reading but I'm a bit lazy, but my understanding is that the EA does not allow, in any way, a shift in governance that could be described as "martial law" - where the military is in control of civil functions and can create or remove laws as military leadership desires. Even with the EA invoked, the federal government still controls the Canadian military (but can be assisted in enforcing civil law _by_ the military).

I'm no fan of Trudeau either, but we should seek to be precise when discussing hot situations like this. People can get very inflamed off of internet posts and the idea that we're under "martial law" is riling people up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law

[2] https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/page-1.html
I thought this was gonna be yet another monospace font I wouldn't be able to tell from all the others, but fuck me as soon as the page loaded this one just spoke to me. Grabbing this for sure, well done!
Video from Office of the President of Ukraine.

"We do not encroach on others, but we will not give up our own. We have a wonderful army. Our guys have a unique combat experience and modern weapons.

This is an army many times stronger than eight years ago. We are told that February 16 will be the day of the attack.

We will make it the Day of Unity. The relevant decree has already been signed. On this day, we will hoist national flags, put on blue and yellow ribbons and show the world our unity.

We all want to live happily, and happiness loves the strong. We have never been able to give up and we are not going to learn that, ”

Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Ukrainians.
Yeah, at my company we spent a ton of R&D time adding first class git support in conjunction with drag and drop UI, WITHOUT introducing a DSL. Non-trivial problem but it can be done.
we slaughtered religion, so people need some fountain of self-righteousness to drink from. The nebulous "Consensus" we're supposed to hold holy now is thin and unsatisfying gruel so more fevered flavor is needed to mask the essential blandness.

we used to be able to say "you're wrong about $X, but we can still work together on $Y in agreement." That's unfashionable now. We demand inhuman purity from our idols, de-idolizing them or de-historizing their imperfections as necessary to the dictates of the moment. We expect ideological harmony from our peers, or at the very least meek acceptance of our views without any backtalk. You can think differently, as long as you're quiet about it. and don't let anyone see evidence of your deviance.