skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of the dev needs take a look at bemyeyes.com, it allows a person with vision problems to video call a volunteer to help answer questions. I've helped people read labels, sort boxes of chocolate for Christmas presents and help a person find the login dialog after they lost track ofwhere it was. Each call only took a minute or two. Highly recommended to volunteer, only takes a minute to help and you don't have to answer the call if you are unavailable, it just hops to another volunteer.
The 3-2-1 Backup Rule - https://www.veeam.com/blog/321-backup-rule.html
Which shows what a joke Wikipedia is - a series of fiefdoms controlled by heavily biased editors ... the Talk page for that article is hilarious. It (correctly) points out that "ardent" is used nowhere in either source linked - one of which is a tweet, the second a NYT article that itself references a tweet. The dialogue is purposely crafted to encourage the reader to form a prejudiced opinion. Why would this even be relevant to his bio?

The guy literally invented Javascript and cofounded Mozilla. So he made a few political contributions that the Twitter mob didn't like. Maybe if Mozilla focused its efforts more on fixing actual bugs instead of countless UI/UX changes and seemingly purging their ranks of wrong-think, maybe more people would use their browser and we wouldn't be asking these questions.

I personally despise that we have a browser monoculture, but there are few legitimate reasons to use Firefox on platforms that support Chromium.
It wasn't supposed to be an argument against space flight in general, but against Musk's specific arguments about "making humanity multi planetary to avoid existential risk" being one of the major things we need to be doing right now. It's no good having a few thousand people on Mars if climate collapse causes critical destabilisation of our society.

The tech bro thing isn't really about personality and more about ideology. The hyperloop and the boring company stuff is pretty dumb and clearly based on a disregard for public transit and publicly funded infrastructure, but I'm still glad he's investing in solar power and electric cars. The neuralink monkey stuff is pretty sickening too, but overall he's one of the less-bad billionaires.
Rounded corners look more sturdy and robust.

Objects with sharp angles are easier to break. External corners are easily damaged. Metal corner guards for cabinets are often rounded, and that makes them not only safer for people but also rugged.

Internal corners concentrate stresses, making it easier to start a crack and break the object.

Sharp corners are easy to produce, requiring less tooling, and so look cheap.
Oh come now. We’re not talking about things that have happened. We’re talking about provoking world war 3. No matter what you think of the US media, they aren’t capable of provoking the US into starting a world war.
I'm assuming you're referring to Seattle's zone, which was an American political issue, not a Canadian one.

It would be more apt to compare to the recent environmental occupations in _Canada_ over the last few years, as we are not the United States.
I’m not sure any of those things matter?

- Plenty of vaccinated people against vaccine mandates and other restrictions. Doctors are allowed to be Covid positive and treat patients in BC and QC. But apparently truckers who are Covid negative are a problem?

- Foreign money influence is a problem, sure, but businesses? They can’t support a protest?

- Last poll I saw (Ipsos) said 1 out of 3 Canadians support the protest. 1 out of 3. That’s HUGE.
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Surprisingly, I still have food on my table even though none of these people have worked in 3 weeks. If you're going to have a strike, you need to actually have an impact.

Heavy equipment tow operators have recieved threats of violence, which is why at least some of them have not helped.
So you can still connect to a device if it doesn’t have an IP? That’s pretty cool.

Then out of curiosity, do I understand correctly that these types of packets are bridged, not routed, and as such doesn’t work if you’re not in the same subnet?
Was it even ever honking 24/7?
If you told me "I'm like a rating agency" I'd double my scrutiny of you, if I didn't simply walk away.

The agencies played a large role enabling the mortgage bubble that popped in 2008. They were essentially selling ratings to bond issuers without any real attention to the quality of the loans underlying the bonds.
All government mandates are enforced at the barrel of a gun.
LibreOffice is the dominant OpenOffice fork and the main alternative to Microsoft Office, unless you count Google Docs. LO seems much healthier when compared to Firefox, if anything.
Because other companies that offer similar services offer this feature, and thats why people use it and trust it. Paypal is very buyer focused as opposed to seller focused. Eg. if you buy something on ebay and you don't get the product or its defective or its fraud, paypal reverses the tx and puts the onus on the seller to prove you wrong.

This doesn't matter so much when sending money to friends, but an expected use case people imagine for facebook based p2p tx is fb marketplace, where you can buy things from random people online. A lot of fraud and sketchy behavior already happens there (eg. buying stolen products). Not being able to have easy reversion of such tx is bad for buyers (and good for fraudulent sellers).

Not sure if you're in the USA, but for US users, banks are pretty hands off this sort of behavior and will only reverse TX in serious fraud issues, but require the loser to pass a high bar to prove its fraud. Normal bank to bank tx is a "pull" model, so middle men services typically offer protection for the buyer to stop a "pull" in the case of fraud. Thats why the US has created many p2p services that are "push" based (eg. venmo, cash app), and why credit cards companies offer protections like charge reversal and take on that risk (you agree that you'll return money in a charge-back as a condition of VISA/etc letting you use the network).
"for the sake of collecting evidence" is your interpretation. I said: "Ubiquitous cameras and wifi that can easily track everyone by their appearance, gait, heartbeat and other signatures etc. become commonplace."
A) Trudeau still has a minority government, so oversteps could be correct almost immediately.

B) throwing 1000’s of people out of work as collateral damage is pretty selfish. These people aren’t involved in what they’re protesting.

C) The original item of the protest was based on a us action. Can’t enter the us unvaccinated per their regs. Perhaps they protested the wrong people/places?

D) the national defence act enables the military to be involved if requested by the appropriate premier. This has not been invoked.

E) most of the mandates are imposed and controlled at the provincial level. Train, air and entry to Canada along with the federal workforce is under federal mandate.
> If we had ranked choice you'd have a Liberal/NDP supermajority.

That's unlikely to be true, because there would be way more viable parties. Maybe you would indeed have a supermajority of left-of-center parties but you can't conclude that they'd all have the same Covid restriction policies as the current ones.
I was referring to the use of the emergency act for the first time ever on protesters which is a decision by Trudeau.

This is in conflict with the message he gave to Indian farmers.

Canada has lost a virtue leg to stand on.
Yes, I agree with several of the points made in the article.
A small minority has decided to infringe on everyone's right to liberty by occupying their city with heavy machinery.

The pro-liberty move is to get rid of the occupiers.
To be fair, most human technology is vulnerable to these. The nice thing about a distributed ledger is that as long as one copy remains it can be bootstrapped back to full form. One Pi sitting in Africa could do it. Try that with your banks SQL db backups, which all tapes disks and ssds were erased in the solar storm.
Serious question though, which applies to both the Canadian truckers case and the Minneapolis example above - does a right to protest an issue also include a right to inflict economic harm (on broader society, in poorly-targeted fashion) in order to raise awareness? Is the amount of economic harm (say, %GDP of the town, region, or country) or how broadly it's targeted ("random retail stores"? "Anything that relies on ground-based trade between Canada and the US"?) a factor in how allowable it is? Where does one draw a line of reasonability here?
I can see why you used a throwaway. No need to godwin this up. It’s already clearly been stated the military will not be used. This is about enforcing laws which have been flouted for weeks, to the significant harm of citizens and industry.
The vast majority of truckers understand the benefits of masks and vaccines to society as a whole.

The ones protesting are either uber-libertarians (and possibly also "sovereign citizens"), dis-educated, or have some sort of mental/emotional shortcoming where they will resist any sort of directive given to them even if it goes in their in their interest.

Sometimes people will lash out anyone who gives a helpful order because they feel like they're losing control.
'Natural Immunity Superior to Vaccines Against Delta Variant, CDC study finds' ... Associated Press article, January 22, 2022.
There is a significant Indian diaspora that wants to split India living in Canada and the US. :) they were probably sponsoring his elections yester years.
You still have to trust the exchanges.

Governments can absolutely still imprison you or seize your other property until you pay your taxes.

The value fluctuates wildly and can collapse at any instant. Unlike gold or many other assets, it has zero intrinsic value.
>Vaccines work, they work extremely well. You are literally making it up.

If it so then why there have been so many breakthrough infections ? (30-40% of the new infections for delta at the 60-70% vaccination rate and 80% for omicron at 80% vaccination rate, and that is as reported which is given lighter symptoms means severe undercounting) While the vaccines failure to control the infectious spread has been obvious from the publicly available numbers at least since the Spring of 2021, that is bona-fide scientific result which naturally took several months (
it is about delta, and with omicron situation is significantly worse)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

" A person who was fully vaccinated and then had a ‘breakthrough’ Delta infection was almost twice as likely to pass on the virus as someone who was infected with Alpha."

"Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus."
graphviz is much better. It does not need javascript and can render images as jpg and svg.
because Jobs wanted everything to be zen so badly he put every window in a chord... I'll show myself out now...
I run a tech company and have not used any proprietary apps in several years, not had a cell carrier in well over a year, and a few months ago I ditched my phone entirely.

These incremental weaning steps taught me you can live in the modern world comfortably without subscribing to app culture.

Restaurants dig out paper menus for me, banks find alternative ways to verify me, etc. There always exists a sometimes undocumented path to engage with most entities with a webapp and without a cell phone carrier, though I do have a VoIP number which I can use from a laptop or DECT phones.

Life without a smartphone and apps works pretty much just like it did in the 90s . The privacy and mental health wins are huge. My mind feels like mine again.
IBM, I think. They still have an iron grip on the office ecosystem.
Everyone or hundreds of residents ?
"And I also want it to be free from a cacophony of noise."

That is an invalid self-contradictory idea.

You can't have curated un-curated.
I'm not sure what it is about this style of drawing ( which does look great ), but when I see it, it feels too "corporate" or too "marketing" oriented and I don't really relate to it. It tends to trigger my "bullshit" detector. Probably because it's far too abused.
Only 22% say that the protesters should stay. 3/4 say "go home" [$]:

https://angusreid.org/trudeau-convoy-trucker-protest-vaccine...

[$] the survey option was "go home now, they have made their point"
Your browser sets those.
Elon's sale arguably brought down the price of Tesla considerably. He pretty much announced the sale at the peak - it's down almost 40% from that - when the s&p isn't even down 20%.

But, anyway, a wealth manager investing billions would do the same thing in reverse to buy.

And, still, it would drive up the price unless done over a long period of time - and since timing is important - this isn't really an option.

Thus, why it is harder to invest $10Bn than $1M.
> There's no "loss of mandate"

https://angusreid.org/trudeau-tracker/

"A new Angus Reid poll showed that 54% of Canadians support an immediate halt to all pandemic restrictions, a stark contrast to the 56% who said as recently as in December they would have supported another round of lockdowns over Omicron."

https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2022/02/13/2662060/half-o...
Strange really - I've never figured what that's all about, speaking as a driver who has no problem with cyclists.
> The upside to USA is to distract from problems at home such as: soaring food prices,

War would exacerbate that.

> energy prices 5 year highs,

War would really exacerbate that
and it's the single strongest economic force, historically, against the party of the sitting President.

> ridiculous levels of govt debt,

While the GOP wants to make that a narrative (as they usually do when out of power, despite running it up when in power), it doesn't really seem to be working, so I don't think anyone cares about distracting from it. (And certainly not the GOP.)

> Pres polls in toilet with midterm elections approaching.

Yes, I’m sure that’s why leading members of the GOP in Congress and GOP-aligned media are pushing for a firm stand and that “Congress must do more” on Russia, they are desperately worried to get the attention off the President’s sagging approval numbers.

If this was the runup to the NATO-Yugoslavia war in the 1990s, the wag-the-dog domestic politics argument would at least make some sense, and be consistent with the domestic alignment of views, but for that to work in this case you have to think that both the major parties want—enough to start a war— to get people's minds off a bunch of things that (1) are very good for one of those parties, (2) about half of which would be intensified by war.

And that, in pursuit of getting this US-involved war of distraction started, they are carefully pulling US civilians and troops out of Ukraine so that there is no excuse for the US to get involved even if a war does start there, while deploying US troops in numbers FAR too small to meaningfully intervene in Ukraine, but far too large for the message to be missed by Russia, to neighboring NATO countries to deter any action beyond Ukraine that would oblige US involvement under the terms of the Washington Treaty.
> Evidence suggests that funding for this protest is in large part foreign (IE not from canada)

Your sources indicate that the majority of the funding is from Canada. The second largest source is from the US (which doesn't seem out of place, given that cross-border trucking restrictions affect both American and Canadian truckers):

> A review of the data shows that some $4.3 million came from Canada, while another $3.6 million originated in the United States, though the United States accounted for the most individual donations. Small donations from dozens of other countries made up a fraction of the total amount raised.

> and that most canadian donations are from wealthy business owners, not workers

This is true for most causes. Workers don't have much money to donate, and rely on wealthier people sympathetic to their cause.
This might apply to the argument of cursive over print writing style
Such a pity to have a hodgepodge of markdown plus custom extensions.
1 out of 3 colonists supported the American revolution. It's not wise to stomp on such a large and vocal portion of your population.
I’ll get shot if I drive without a license and insurance? Damn….
Perhaps, but prior to Galileo (or perhaps Avicenna?), Aristotelian physics dominated and motion was explained by 'impetus' (this didn't originate from Aristotle, but instead came long after him). Aristotle distinguished between 'natural' motion, which is the motion of falling objects and 'violent' or 'unnatural' motion, which is caused by some agent (a human throwing a stone, for instance). In the theory of impetus, the agent imbues an object with some impetus, and this impetus is only ever temporary, the object stopping once its impetus is exhausted.

Today, sure, we know that friction is a force that acts against the momentum of a moving object, but these were alien concepts a thousand years ago.
In the same vein as the GP comment, one of my favorites is The Guardian "Everyone needs to relax, it's just a rise in murders, not a rise in crime". Whew! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/30/us-crime-rat...
If you want to talk about people whose lives have been taken away - there are far more Ottawa residents in the streets defying the police than there are truckers. This occupation has galvanized a small segment of the population, but there's a much larger group that was not politically active before and now they hate anti-vaxxers.

There was nothing to debate - the convoy does not have a cohesive message. Some of them are sovereign citizens. Some of them want the government to be dissolved. Some of them want some weird QAnon stuff. The only thing that unites them is shitting in the streets and driving around waving flags and honking.
This is actually 100$+.
Do you have experience with Google docs? I’ve heard that it is more accessible than Dropbox Paper and am interested to know if that’s been your experience.

We have a heavy documentation culture at Stripe so as a developer these tools matter a lot.
I wonder if you could scrape some of these price matching sites, or even integrate with them. That way you could get a lot of product names and run a whitelist of products in stead of relying on people adding 100% correct and unique names.

Would love to see common failure modes before deciding to buy something. Of course this could become an attack vector for the competitors.
I can respect this view on cryptocurrency. I don't agree with it (I <3 representative democracy), but I can absolutely respect it. Giving up centralization and trust is expensive from an efficiency standpoint. If you look at Bitcoin for every day transactions it lags fiat in almost every functional dimension: latency, user experience, power usage, scalability, etc.

But! Bitcoin does have one completely novel trick! It can operate without State backing. No authorities. No trust between parties (whether miner<->miner, node<->miner, or node<->node). Centralization seems somewhat questionable these days, but I think "decentralized enough" is a fair assessment.

None of this is something I look for in a currency, but I can appreciate how cryptocurrencies fill that niche for those who do.
This seems callous.

Even if he could have avoided it in this specific instance, no doubt he's suffering now.
Recent news shows that Japan's immigration is quite bad for illegal stay non-white foreigners. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220118/p2a/00m/0na/00...
Vivaldi is the best option! I have been using it as my daily driver, and I don't have any moment of regret.
Ah, but internal sharp angles are pretty good. Get a nice V to defend against attackers from 2 sides…
Unproductive though it may be, consider the (extreme) hypothetical of a government arresting someone and forcing a needle into their arm, administering a biological agent against the recipient's will. I believe that would satisfy a literal (if unconventional) definition of "political violence".

So, what's left to litigate is whether the threat/coercion of "you will lose your job unless you let us do this to you" makes the definition no longer apply.

I would say that (hypothetical) refugees fleeing a government-orchestrated pogrom are still victims of "political violence" even though they had the "choice" of leaving the country (and their job); but perhaps some would argue they are merely choosing to avoid a mandate passed by their democratic government.
With less than 32% of the popular support last election
And yet somehow there is regular turnover of the governing party approximately every 10 years, and the dominant parties have almost to a one been centrist. Not a terrible system.
It is moments like this where the differences between Canada and the US are brought into sharper relief.
Are you opposed to all vaccine mandates? Including for diseases like measles?
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https://youtube.com/c/Ottawalks Hours of footage here
Why do you say it's peaceful?

The only reason for the act is because of the illegal blockades which is affecting essential services, goods and livelihood of local business and citizens.

A peaceful protest cannot hold people hostage by blocking their access to essential services and goods, and trapping them in.

If the protest stopped doing that, then it's fine to continue as long as it wants.

You can't have a very small minority get its way by simply holding others hostage to their services and goods. The point of a protest is to be heard and get people to consider your cause, not to consider your demands through extraction.
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In Canada, when the military is used domestically it falls under civilian jurisdiction, like in the October Crisis.

At most it would be extra sets of hands to arrest people and deal with the truck blockades.

And there is no plan to use the military.
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Are they consistent in their strategy when it comes to buying a used car right now? i.e. No point in waiting -- if you want a used car rush out there and buy one at this moment, because they might go up in price even further?

And if it's not good advice for used cars, why is it good advice for a house?

After all, there's a fixed supply of platinum (for catalytic converters) and they're not making any more of it!
$7.9mm of ~ $8mm total donations came from the U.S. and Canada. Please don't say things that are flatly untrue.
Mozilla Foundation is all about fattening the C-suite payroll (including board members) and whatever payola they can get and not about the corporate lifeline they are supposedly to dutifully protect which is Firefox.
Most of these comments focus on things like 'features'.

Chrome wins mostly because it has 'distribution'.

'WordPerfect' may have been better than 'MS Word' but it doesn't matter if every version of Windows comes with a link to 'MS Word'.

Google uses its dominance in Search to dominate adjacent spaces.

Firefox is simply not 'that much better' enough to convince consumers to switch, and/or they don't have the marketing budget to communicate that to the world.

It's a bit of a commodity product, and Google has significant leverage.

FF would have to work with a lot of partners to convince them to focus on FF for the thoughtful reasons we want them to, even then, it could be hard.
$50/ton is not a realistic carbon tax in 2022.
That's the marketing department's job. It's nothing the product people need to bother with.