skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know what you mean. We're doing a few things in terms of pricing that (I think) are unusual for support tools:

- Unlimited read access to everyone at your company (because customer support conversations should be accessible to all team members). Say you have 15 people, but only 3 are customer-facing certified - if we charged $15/month, it would be $45/month for 15 people. (This also means unlimited write access in internal rooms - think of it as free Slack;)

- No charge for two customer-facing agents, which would cover most bootstrapped or pre-seed startups;

- Off-the-bat SSO; not a part of enterprise plan.
Only somewhat related: I was provided a Latitude 5520 from my work, as they wanted everything to be done on company-owned hardware. I've had it nearly two years now, and it _still_ has two major issues.

The first is it cannot hibernate; if it goes to hibernation, the CPU will run full throttle until the battery is dead. Sleep is fine at least, so I get by with just disabling hibernation. Not a huge deal as 95% of the time it is on my desk and plugged in.

The second: you cannot unplug a USB keyboard while it is running or else the machine will hard-freeze and requiring a hard-reboot to recover. I originally set up a KVM switch for my mouse/keyboard to switch between my personal machine and work machine without having to plug/unplug a bunch of stuff, but it will automatically switch over if it detects one machine is active while the other is not, and that would usually end up freezing the Dell every night.

Absolutely inexcusable all around for these kind of issues to go on this long. I have to imagine it's either solely warranty/service contracts, or simply sheer naivete on alternatives from large businesses, keeping Dell in business.
Don't forget that 2 years of stress, angst, fear, new rules, normal hate of rules, etc. will make almost anyone stressed out and angry no matter how much they believe in the purpose behind it all, or how important it is.

Which when it's society wide, makes society stressed out and angry.

Stressed out and angry people do dumb and counter productive things. Sometimes even to the point of severe self harm.

Society when it is stressed out and angry tends to fragment and be less cohesive. Sometimes even to the point of severe self harm.

Wondering which side (or which sides there are, or why there even are 'sides') is doing the MOST dumb and counter productive thing is mostly part of the problem, not actually a solution, in the same way as a tired angry person trying to figure out who to yell at/blame, instead of getting some sleep or whatever.

Society wide, we need to do some serious self-care and calming the hell down - which would be nice, but good luck. So I expect we'll get a lot more fighting.
Updates are probably more frequent on the Beta/Aurora/Whatever channel?
It would be best to create a kubernetes cluster of phones (reliability, scalability,...).
To run containers on Android you currently need to build a custom kernel (1), I hope this feature removes this need.

(1)https://gist.github.com/FreddieOliveira/efe850df7ff3951cb62d...
I have an XPS 15 9560, something like 4 or 5 years old. It's not great, not terrible, bug getting more and more annoying. 1 or 2 years ago, a mandatory major Windows 10 upgrade broke the USB3 port (except 1 time every 10 connection attempts if you are lucky), and also the Wifi does not always resume when waking up, in which case a reboot is needed to recover.

The thermal design and CPU freq selection is also far from perfect given it often throttles during ~10s every few minutes under constant load (sign the CPU freq under load is too high and/or the thermal dissipation is too weak)

The general mechanical hardware quality is also inferior to a MBP. The keyboard marked the screen a little (still tolerable though).

Given the XPS are supposed to be kind of flagships for Dell, I do not recommend Dell if you want a laptop that works and that is not a toy you intend to trash after 2 or 3 years. I wished reviewers talked about typical medium/long-term experience of brands and product ranges.
Since you donated money to them, you probably would like to know that the manifesto of the organizers who setup the GoFundMe and started the convoy explicitly wanted the Governor General and Senate to meet with the organizers and form a committee to replace the federal government. [1] They only recently stepped back from the manifesto a few days ago. [2]

1. https://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk-1010/audio/podcasts/the-...
2. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/protest-organizer-no-...
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/states.txt

At least one of those is mentioned there. But a lot of it depends on the implementation by the OEM, ultimately.
It's also that requirements often change in ways the original design hadn't foreseen. And usually there's no time for a decent redesign, so things get hacked together and slowly degrade hack by hack
Engr.blog – Hacker News for technical blog
engr.blog is somewhat like hacker news. But Instead of users posting random links, it only has links to blog posts from a curated list of technical blogs by tech or non-tech companies/organizations/entities.
> If an opinion involves factual information it can be proven or disproven. Facts and opinions are not mutually exclusive.

Facts and opinions are indeed mutually exclusive.

A fact is a statement that can be supported to be true or false by data or evidence. An opinion is a personal expression of a person’s feelings or thoughts that may or may not be based in data.

> An "opinion" that is clearly in opposition to a fact certainly has very little value, and I would consider it invalid.

Opinions cannot be wrong/right as they are personal to everyone. Opinions can indeed have value, but that again would be your opinion of their opinion. It's not your fact of their opinion. Now if they are claiming something that can or can't be proven such as "the world is flat" that isn't an opinion, that is them trying to claim a fact, and that's a personal failing to not differentiate.

> I personally feel we're accelerating towards a future where little thought, time, effort, or trust is given to anything factual and opinion somehow is the holy grail (especially the tragic idea that all opinions are somehow on equal footing) and I think we'll be worse off for it

I think we are worse off for judging opinions as facts as well. But here's the thing.... that's my opinion not my fact. I can't myself produce measurable data that says we are or aren't worse off, so it's an opinion. Personally I also think that news media / trusted sources for information should properly label opinion vs fact and be able to back up their facts with data.
Honestly for me, I can't see any difference between 1440p and 4k on my 13 inch laptop.
Mycoremediation
Any relation to what is now sold as "OXO"?
Web Browser Engineering: Scheduling tasks and threads
> Many sites seem designed for two kinds of devices: huge 29" screens, or small 5" screens.

I don't know about the 5" screens since I rarely browse the web on my phone, but it's pretty clear to me that most sites are not designed for huge screens.

I have a 4K 32" screen, and I've lost count of the number of sites that will expand to take up all the available width and show absurdly long lines of text. And since I'm using a tiling window manager, the window is basically full-screen.

One such example: TFA.
You think pointing out that there’s far-right extremists managing this whole show is a “weak indictment” when one of the stated goals of said protest is to overturn a democratically elected government?
Mermaid is fantastic. Aside from mermaid, I've recently been introduced to nomnoml (https://nomnoml.com/) and it is fantastic as well.

My wish is for Mermaid and nomnoml to become universally supported among Markdown web renderers (I'm looking first and foremost at Github of course).
Yeah, but how much can that capacitor do?

I had a dash cam years ago that had a capacitor, and all it really was for was to make sure the camera could finish a write operation and close the video file gracefully to avoid corrupting the last segment. Cameras with batteries often can support recording even while the car is off without draining the car's battery.

IMO, the solution to the battery-in-a-hot-car problem is to have the battery be an in-line part of the power cable that can be placed in the glove box, outside the direct sunlight, rather than building it into the camera itself.
Here’s a video of Samy recounting the same event: https://youtu.be/DtnuaHl378M

Personally not sure if I’d take an internet ban over jail time if I had his passion+acumen for cybersec…
Why not use the firefox profiles?

I also use multiple profiles. My setup is as fallows.

firefox -ProfileManager

Create 2 profiles work and private.

Change the theme of work to orange and private to black.

Create two .desktop files and append to the Exec line -P work (or private) and the Name to include (work)

I have work on desktop 5 and private on desktop 8 and 9.

Works like a charme for me. Additional bonus. Use container to add additional seperation.
> They swapped many models to a shitty wifi card that caused bsod.

I assume you mean the Killer card. If you bug their support about this, they'll often agree to replace yours with an Intel one.
I agree, the challenge is seeing that it would be Apple that saw the gains moreso than 3Com, Nokia, LG, and others. There were tons of companies which were obvious plays at the time, several of which no longer exist.
I think so-called ASCII-art is more in the spirit of Markdown.

The nice thing about the original Markdown (modulo bugs) is that things are written the way one would write plaintext documents which are supposed to be easily read in a text editor. So you don’t write bullet lists like this:

- Bullet 1 - Bullet 2 - Bullet 3

And hope that some post-processing will add linebreaks for you. You write it like this:

- Bullet 1

- Bullet 2

- Bullet 3

Similarily there have been many tools that let you add so-called ASCII-art diagrams to Markdown documents.

The spirit behind the kind of thing in the OP, on the other hand, is that one should get nicely formatted HTML from Markdown for the purpose of online consumption. Which is a very different goal.

So if I were to judge the syntax itself (since that is what matters most to the original spirit of Markdown.pl) I would say that it seems pretty decent. Not as “declarative” (!) as ASCII-art, but most probably much easier to edit.
If tomorrow everyone switched to email for all their communication needs, the day after tomorrow we would hear moral panic over CSAM in emails, and the day after that, every email provider that doesn't already do so will implement content moderation.
> For example, a disproportionate number of IM (XMPP, etc.) clients for, say, Android, appear to rely on a central server operated by the software maker, with some proprietary protocol between the client and that server, rather than simply implementing the protocol directly.

Of note is that old Nokia devices used to allow this (i.e. arbitrary TCP connections including long-lived instant messaging ones) and they reached longer battery lives than any Android device I ever had.

They traditionally claim that you just can't have multiple long-lived TCP connections due to the keepalives keeping the radio powered on constantly, as well as the reconnect traffic (due to e.g. roaming) being significant. However, both things are fixed by coealescing all keepalives. Probably this doesn't scale to thousands of connections, but it does definitely scale to a couple tens.
Switter, the Twitter for Sex Workers, Is Shutting Down
That presumes Google is paying Mozilla primarily to secure the search market. But if they're paying primarily to secure staying out of anti-trust court, Firefox culling ads doesn't affect whether big G keeps their wallet open.
You can also use goals as a shield. Since the company agreed it is high priority other work should not interfere with it. Of course if you manager thinks otherwise one can mutually change the list (which ppl only will do if the new thing is reeeaally important).
has anyone had success using mermaid diagrams for real-time collaboration? Seems you should be able to use this to draw pictures while chatting with someone, akin to a white-boarding experience.
imo our government is probably lawless enough, but I doubt that it is competent enough to pull something off like that. The CSIS pays bad wages, their employees are mostly there for the cushy 9 to 5.
I left because of woke messaging from their CEO.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
This reads like an elaborate humble-brag. You'll have no problem finding a senior position in cyber security if that's what you want. Like others have mentioned, sounds like you could probably do a lot of good (for the public and yourself) hunting bug bounties.
If the goal is to plow all available resources into Firefox, then cutting down on expenses that don't directly or indirectly support the existence of Firefox seems key.
Switched to System76 after I was given one at an old workplace and loved it, never had any problems with Linux on one. Had to deal with their support too once after I spilled beer on the keyboard during a late night hacking session. It was easy, low friction, talked to a real human, quick, and they even offered to replace it for free but I paid for it anyway.
>I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that a commonly agreed upon legal fiction has “rights”.

He's not describing how things ought to be, just how it is right now, given the current laws. If you really want to boil things down, the "rights" you have (guaranteed by the constitution or whatever) are a "legal fiction" as well. The ultimate arbiters of what you can and can't do are the Men With Guns working for the government. They can go away the next day if there's a coup.
they can go get the safe, effective vaccine for free so they don't have to quarantine
This mirrors my experience. Setting goals for what you will accomplish when you aren't in charge of what you are tasked with doing is classic responsibility without authority. It mostly feels to me that it's management trying to deligate out performance management to their reports.
They could pivot to compete with the Big Tech conglomerates in general.

Provide their own suite of integrated tools, search engines, communication platforms, and so on. But with a privacy-focused and ad-free approach.

DuckDuckGo already proved there is an appetite for something like this.

They could go further, and remain relevant and viable in the way that DDG is, even if they never again are the most popular browser.
There's plenty of techies in Ottawa with the means, motives and opportunities to perform this action. People over there are quite annoyed at the truckers, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's someone related who's annoyed at the whole situation. No need for state sponsorship to find poorly secured data.
Errordle: Guess the words in a Java error message
An Unclaimed Reef Adds a Wrinkle to the Dispute over Diego Garcia
That's almost exactly how Tether (USDT) works. Except instead of Elbonia we have the Caymans
Vouched because of the good conversations going on downthread. Parent is pretty crude. I can live with crudeneess and bring the quality of the conversation up.

Anyways, I've wholeheartedly recommended lying in certain situations on employment. (Don't lie about certified/licensed/bonded jobs, dont like to the state/feds, dont lie about stuff you cant do.)

A while back (2009), I was in a very bad run. Got laid off. Didn't have a job for 1.5y . And it's hard to get back in work without already having a job... You get the side-eyes of "why werent you working this time???" crap.

So, I started lying on my resumes. I found a company that went bankrupt 2 towns over, and put them as employed in a role I'm easily capable of. Am I lying? Absolutely. Can I do the role? Absolutely.

I got the job, unsurprisingly enough. And I was there for 1y, enough to get a better work history to get out of the rut I was in. And I hopped from there to a better position, all the while slowly cleaning up the fakeness from my resume all the while generating a valid work history.

It sucks, sure, that there's no good way to break in the work-world if you've been ejected. (Que entry-level jobs that require 5y experience...) Frankly, vs starvation, homelessness, destitution - you damn straight I'll lie. And if I have to, I will definitely do it again. Capitalism is stone-cold and heartless. And if that's what I have to be to survive in the work-world to make money, so be it.
I believe there are even online banking applications which reserve the right, in their terms, to detect if a device is “rooted” and refuse to operate on them.

This drives me nuts. I want to improve my security posture and user experience by owning and controlling my own phone and breaking its link to the vendor, removing shitty bloatware to reduce the attack surface, etc.

I'm happy to take responsibility for applying my own updates / patches. Samsung and Google don't have a monopoly on being competent to secure a device, and as the device ages they do an increasingly shittier job of that than other options out there.
> That sounds suspiciously like the "true communism has never been tried!" bit I have heard so often.

Then you need to read my comment more deeply. Yes, it's adjacent to that no-true-Scotsman. The difference is I'm pointing out the inevitably of such, cf Goodhart's law. Just like implementing communism inevitably results in a concrete model that differs from the ideal, which will then be optimized for, the same thing is happening to capitalism. The objective difference is that it has taken capitalism longer to precess, but that's not particularly exceptional given the lasting power of say monarchy.

> I don't particularly care about capitalism

By your comments, you effectively do. You can't make an argument and then feign nihilism.

> the endless shallow attempts to tie whatever woe is being discussed to it is terribly reminiscent of how I used to hear about problems being the inevitable result of our nation turning away from Christ or whatever

Sure, there is always much groupthink and false attribution. Still, specific arguments need to be judged on their own merits. Reflexively opposing the prevailing groupthink is just another type of following.
> The reason that the "yet you participate in society" argument works in the original comic you're quoting is that the peasant with sticks on his back is saying "we should improve society somewhat" and the peasant isn't allowed to choose whether they participate in a society.

If we're gonna cite the comic, three out of the four panels of the comic do not rely on this, and are precisely about using something by choice even while saying they should be different. The last panel is even more extreme because it's funnier that way, presumably, but the core point does not rely on lack of choice.

The other two examples are: posting from an iPhone that Apple ought to treat its workers better, and buying a car without seatbelts while saying cars ought to have seatbelts.

> but you don't actually believe that.

Nice mind reading. Shall I baselessly speculate about your posts while accusing you of being a bad actor, too? No, no I shall not.
While I have learned to be mostly competent when it comes to git day-to-day tasks, I still miss hg for it's clean interface design and simplified workflow.
> There is no satisfying solution to stop this because of course we generally want businesses to be capable of responding to public pressure

Do we?

The public pressure generally comes from a small but very motivated minority, that rarely reflects the opinions of the broader population.
What use is a war machine that is mostly idle? /sarcasm.
From the press conference:

> Menon: Since there is not an airlock on Crew Dragon, the whole crew will be exposed to the vacuum of space for the EVA. [1]

> Gillis: For Polaris, "the suit that we're going to be designing will be a single suit that we would launch and then similarly use for the EVA." [2]

Sounds to me like one crew member will wear the EVA suit for launch and for the EVA, and the other three will wear flight suits for launch and while the capsule is depressurised. So only one EVA suit, no changing suits in space, no airlock.

[1] https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/14932770189680066...

[2] https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/14932739072516218...
Ff on mobile with uBlock origin is IMO awesome.

I switched angrily to Chrome on mobile ca. 4y ago, but came back ca. 2y to give it a 2nd chance and I'm not missing Chrome.
Past related threads. Others?

Distributing Dating Apps in the Netherlands - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30206559 - Feb 2022 (17 comments)

Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204604 - Feb 2022 (878 comments)

Apple's Plan for Third-Party In-App Payments Insufficient, Says Dutch Regulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30058113 - Jan 2022 (6 comments)

Apple complies with Dutch ruling, lets dating apps use other payment systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29945797 - Jan 2022 (61 comments)

Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28785349 - Oct 2021 (236 comments)

More distantly related:

Netherlands ACM launches investigation into abuse by Apple in its App Store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19664584 - April 2019 (117 comments)

Apple in Dutch antitrust spotlight for allegedly promoting own apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19640924 - April 2019 (7 comments)
Plenty of people may not want jab mandates, may not be authoritarians, but are in earshot/irritation reach of the protests. And considering how badly the information was secured, pretty much anyone who knows anything about an S3 bucket seems like they could have done it. Not even really hacking.
I think that the point of the GP is not necessarily about money, but to have the structure focus on Firefox. ie that it should be the source and the objective of the funding to have all the attention that it needs.
A large number of donors for BLM weren't from the US. Do you also support doxing them?
This is interesting, but I personally really like that markdown is almost as legible as plain text as when rendered, which things like this sort of break.

So I think I'd prefer ASCII art diagrams for this sort of thing. (In fact there was recently an ASCII diagram drawing tool on the HN front page, https://asciiflow.com/ )
I think you're interpreting the point too narrowly? It's true that the "eth" gets mixed, but the identity of the owner gets tracked because the tokens have lifetimes too. If I buy a Walmart gift certificate and then use it to buy a Switch game, Walmart doesn't know the exact dollars that were used to buy the game, but they know it was me. Same principle.

Broadly: if what you think is true is true, then WETH is a trivial evasion of money laundering statutes, in a way that no one has figured out how to exploit. People are smarter than that. Please don't use this to launder, assuming it's anonymous, you'll end up in jail.
Do you think the government should mandate anything or would you prefer a free for all? Personally, I don't think we should have 25 mph speed limits in residential areas or near schools. If people want to opt into that, by all means go for it! But if I want to pretend I'm dominic toretto in fast and the furious while I'm driving where your kids are playing, I don't think the government should be able to tell me I can't