skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously he's nuts and I don't think most people agree with him WRT the dumb replacement theory thing.

Pat King had 50,000 followers on social media and helped organize this convoy. Surely some of these thousands of followers agreed with his message, and surely many of those showed up, along with other white nationalist sympathizers.

I agree that most people are ignorant this aspect of the convoy, and most people on the ground would not agree with his racist views, but I want to highlight that the number of white supremacists showing up to a convoy organized by a white supremacist would not be a trivial number.

> No guns, no fires, no looting, no deaths

It has been fairly peaceful in terms of physical harm, but there has been one fire set in a residential building with fireworks, and the arsonists taped the front doors shut. There have been a few assault arrests as well. While I'm not sure anyone has been arrested for gun charges, I'd be willing to be money on long haul truckers keeping firearms nearby.

Hopefully things stay peaceful during the looming counter-protests.

> Yet they are being demonized as if they are literally attempting to overthrow the government.

The organizer of the original GoFundMe that got cancelled, Tamara Lich, was one of the original members of the Maverick party. This party is a proponent of breaking off western Canada into its own nation. Organizing a blockade at Canada's capitol while collecting millions of dollars lays good groundwork for future separatist plans.

This has bloodied the waters, and on a lighter note, the "Queen of Canada" has shown up to reaffirm that Justin's government isn't legitimate.

https://twitter.com/CarymaRules/status/1489326612139151369

While there's no way this person is going to actually overthrow the government, she kind of wants to, and so do the dozens of fringe supporters you hear cheering her on during her speech.

So I guess in summary while it isn't a Nazi rally, there be nazis, and while they aren't literally attempting to overthrow the government, there be overthrowers.
Which is an entirely pointless way to transact commerce for 99% of the population. I get my paycheck in USD and then buy goods and services with it. If it converts to BTC and then BTC back to USD then whats the point? It's just paying with a credit card with extra steps.

What's the use case here?
> If people here who cares about Mozilla would volunteer, and also use the browser, Mozilla would be in a much better shape.

> Want to fix Mozilla? Take an active part in it.

Why would I volunteer for an organization that pays its CEO something like 70x the average American salary?

It doesn't operate itself like a nonprofit. I don't want to put my free time into a project that exists to pay for someone's private villas.
Turning physical things into NFTs: a repeatable, scalable process
> I don't give a shit how nice the developers who made my web browser are

It sounds like you do give a shit that they care about "social justice" and you don't want to use their browser because of that?

Or are there specific features / functionality / performance / security issues that prevent you from using Firefox and are somehow caused by the worldview of the developers?
It has gotten far better in the past years, although it still has some pretty crippling bugs and tiny yet incredibly annoying UX issues (e.g. can't easily wipe the cookies for the site you're currently on, try opening a URL from your clipboard in incognito).

But Firefox has gotten sufficiently close that the overall experience of Firefox with an ad blocker beats Chrome with ads.
Please stop it with the "coding ligatures" already. They are not helpful and only serve to obscure the code being written.

This has got to be one of my least favourite trends in programming aesthetics these days. For a font claiming to "follow function" to devote so much effort to sacrificing function for the _vogue du jour_ is especially rich.
I'm eager to see passwords leaks as well as all the other personal info leaks for the last decade be exposed then. Remember the Desjardins leak a few years ago? Is that OK?

I fail to see why a leak is considered "public information" to you or why specifically it's ok for this case but not equifax, desjardins and all the others.
You beat me to it. :D
> so what is the differentiator that makes it compelling?

Is a focus on privacy and independence not enough?
> Is that really relevant?

I'd like to think so. Linus' conclusion was that Linux is inappropriate for any PC gaming, so I'd really like to hear his line of reasoning that has given him newfound hope in the platform if his own experiences were so rough.

> it boots directly to Steam and most users won't ever care what runs underneath.

Correct. It still uses DXVK though, and it's arguably even worse than desktop Linux for gaming since it's harder to tweak the files that might be necessary for smooth gameplay. We'll see how things turn out, but certain titles like Fallout 4 and the Battlefield games are borderline-unplayable on Linux without hacking a few INI files.
Well they live in large part on state money according to VivaFrei.
StaticCompiler.jl is making huge strides. 12 days ago a rewrite was merged (https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/46), and now the static compiler can allocate and use the runtime (https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/58). I would still be weary of using it too much, but hopefully optimistic of its near future.
CEO lets his employees? How generous.

CEO realised the game has changed, offers flexible working in order to retain talent.
Apple will probably implement this in the coming years. This feature will poison those Big Data datasets and will lower accuracy of user profiles, but so long as Apple can reliably distinguish fake location data, Apple will go for it. Then, I hope, Google will retaliate and do the same on Androids. Facebook will be out of luck, but who cares.
The world quickly needs to understand that physical goods being exchanged physically in person are the best shot we have at anonymous transactions.

It will be a multi polar world of different currencies like bullets and ramen, but that is the only way to ensure the middleman doesn't do something you didn't expect or accept.
WHAT!

People standing up for their rights!

Cue the media attack dog and smear campaign. We need some corporate approved misinformation to get ahead of this.

It's such an obvious formula at this point. Does anyone still not see through it?
I.e. Capitalism is beneficial until it becomes Feudalism. Big tech companies are collecting rents instead of profits.
Is that true? I thought that you couldn't buy Darling 58 because the petition to sell it to the public hadn't been approved by the government.
Sold few. One for crypto, few via escrow.com

Last time escrow had a problem depositing money to my bank account because "the account number you provided had too many zeros in front of it and our system cut it down".

So change your stupid system so it won't corrupt essential customer banking information!

Otherwise it went well.
Mistreatment of users is quickly eroding 3. for me, and I deeply care about 2. A family member already explicitly asked for assistance in migrating away from Firefox.
So cars are essential? What about grocery stores? Is gasoline essential?

And to be clear when you say essential you mean for everyone alive right?
1. Resistance genes are already in the genome, but they have so far proven inadequate. Experiments in interbreeding and crossbreeding have been going on for 60 years from the USDA, the American Chestnut Foundation, the American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation, etc - and none of them have declared "victory" yet. There's no reason to assume there'll be blight-resistant chestnut seedlings available anytime soon. Or anytime late, to be honest.

2. If you read the wikipedia article [1], it has an entire section on why it's controversial. It also has links to an article on genetic rescue[2], which I think is more relevant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_pollution#Controversy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_rescue
I'd also recommend https://www.evernote.design/categories/illustrations which besides illustrations it also has categories such as free icons, design systems, sounds, and so on.
May be OS-specific, or it may not happen when you've set Firefox to restore previous tabs when restarting, or there may be a way to turn it off.

I don't remember seeing many of these on my actual machine (I did get the color scheme nonsense if I remember correctly), but I'm constantly seeing these in dev/testing VMs where I just installed it for testing and occasionally keep it updated.
We already have (at least) one: Differential Equations and SciML.
On a related note, does anyone have suggestions for an engineer who will have to use his hands less and less over time?
Genuinely curious, if you're based in the US, why do you choose to spend your BTC as money? Why not spend your USD instead (for the computer parts that you mentioned in another comment)?
Allow donations that explicitly go towards Firefox dev (rather than umbrella Mozilla).
The end of free Google storage for education
I would consider someone a moron if... I'd be pretty pissed if ...

Sounds like you'd be a natural pick to run a company with 270,00 employees.
I never had Firefox crashes until Ubuntu 21.10 which I think made Firefox a snap, now I get crashes when it tries to load fonts. And I get that colour scheme thing now too.
Using google to limit the results by date, it looks like Airbnb was the second to use the text, a few days after "WeChalet"

https://www.google.com/search?q=before%3A2020-10-31+%22Geo-l...
I didn’t ask what the definition of essential was. I asked at what point something crosses over to being essential, and why being essential matters here specifically.
Oof. Yeah, I do love the squared capital D in the DIN family, but the "ft" in Mittelschrift is a car crash.
Only racists and misogynists object to the beatings, though.
Very true. bBddy of mine got rejected at dropbox two months before the pandemic because they didn't do remote and he didn't want to move to SF. Now they brag on linkedin how they support remote work.
It feels weird that the author is approaching this from the "the fee exceeds the actual cost to the business" angle. There's a much simpler and universal reason to hate fees: they distort the market by hiding information from consumers. Legislation in the US has forced airlines to quote a final price for their fares, which most travelers appreciate. On the flip side, travelers probably don't appreciate the "resort fees" that hotels charge them at check-in. I'm not sure what's the point in invoking some vague notion that software should be "at the service of the people that will use it".
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This economist contradicts himself several times. He alternately says cryptocurrencies are and are not a real currency. He also says economists aren't really qualified to analyze the space, which is interesting because he starts off by saying his role as a monetary theorist makes him uniquely qualified to do just that.
This simply isn't true.
I'm not a fan of any coercion. If their solution is good, people will use it voluntary, like all other social auth buttons.
Rare baby ghost shark found in ocean off the South Island
Julia currently has specific weaknesses that make it unsuitable for a large category of problems that a language like Fortran (or C) has handled seamlessly for decades.
> In the EU, it does seem like politicians have the upper hand, but in the US, neither of our two major political parties (Democrat and Republican)

I don't think in the EU the politicians have "the upper hand", they work exactly as in the US. The difference is that all those digital giants pay taxes (and employ people who do so) mostly in the US, so you can't touch em. EU politicians are free to impose restrictions since we don't have this industry on our side of the lawn.
Considering that the CHAZ was in Capitol Hill, I assume the people in that neighborhood were supportive. As for the rest of us in Seattle, most of us never even visited or saw the place (how often does someone who doesn't live in Capitol Hill visit Capitol Hill?), so it was just something we would see on CNN if we were bothering to watch the news at all (it was cool to see FoxNews have some of our buildings burning down even if it wasn't true, their media narrative was pretty messed up).
Dedollarization fixes this issue, can't rob the world to subsidize crops and x,y,z in the future.
Switch to Emacs immediately. Emacs speak is extremely useful, and since Emacs can do anything (email, web, usenet, chat, edit docs, etc. etc. etc.) once you learn the keystrokes for forward/back word/sentence/paragraph/page/chapter it makes life MUCH easier. I'm not blind, but was a member of a linux user group who got asked to help out. I ended up installing and configuring it for the user, who was a grad student at the local university.
Scala.js 1.9.0
My mom exploded a chestnut once. It sounded like an m-80, blew a few of its neighbors off the cookie sheet, and the inside of the oven was spattered with fluffy bits of flesh.
AI-synthesized faces are indistinguishable from real faces and more trustworthy
> I challenge you to find earplugs that can be worn 24h a day without any physical discomfort, provide 60dB of attenuation across a wide range of frequencies (these horns probably span low 100's of Hz to mid kHz), and are reasonably inexpensive.

> Even if you could find such beasts (which I don't think you can), then you have the problem that you effectively can't use your hearing. You thought that social interactions were hard with a mask? Imagine not being able to use your hearing at all.

> (yes, 60 dB is necessary because that's how much you'll need in order to sleep - the human ear has an incredibly large dynamic range and even 30 dB_SPL conversations are enough to keep some people awake for hours)

Per this (https://audiology-web.s3.amazonaws.com/migrated/NoiseChart_P...), 30 dB is rated as a "whisper." This (https://mynewmicrophone.com/what-are-decibels-the-ultimate-g...) calls 30 dB SPL a "Quiet bedroom at night."

It sounds like you're challenging me with overkill requirements meant to totally mute the horns almost like they're not there, when the realistic problem is to reduce the noise to the point where someone could sleep.

I kind of find it hard to believe that's not possible with and indoor location + silicone ear plugs (and maybe white noise if you're very sensitive).

> As it stands, many of the residents near these protests are being subjected to low-level sleep deprivation, which is literally torture (as in, used as such by organizations who actually want to extract information or confessions from people).

Again, calling it "literally torture" is ridiculous hyperbole, or at the very least invokes misleading associations. A noisy neighbor is being annoying to his neighbors, not torturing them.
Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act
Russia does not want to be encircled by foreign forces aka. NATO. I get that. The US wouldn't want that either. But Russia has not done much to assure its neighbours. Russia has invaded pretty much every one of its neighbours in the last hundred or so years; and so they have reason to seek the protection of NATO.

The US has lost a good deal of moral authority by its reckless invasion of Iraq for example. Now it asks Russia not to do the same thing.
Townscaper just got a wider release too from just being on PC for a long time, it's on iOS/Android and on Xbox Game Pass too. Wonderful fun.
Such twaddle.

As if Rogan's programs "pierce the veil of our own simplified reality".
Apple and Mozilla can't be compromised with. They want certain powerful features to just not exist. They don't trust users to choose for themselves. They are trying to ensure privacy at all costs by making tools that could be used to spy unavailable, no matter what the purpose.

If devs want to make something, Chrome wants to make it happen, and I want to use it, then I don't want Mozilla trying to block up the whole works.

Especially not to "protect my privacy" from a site I completely trust, that might even be an intranet site I built myself.

What's next, are you going to disable downloading executable files, probably the most dangerous browser feature of all?

There's no nice alternative, or sometimes no alternative at all besides making a native app for a bazillion different platforms.

Maybe WHATWG actually isn't just rubber stamping things because they're a google puppet, but at least partly because... it's what devs want.
Doing consulting as has been suggested sounds a good idea.

You could also write a book telling your story (if you're not a talented writer, there's ghost writers to assist) or do a Ph.D. with Ross Anderson and beccome a security researcher.
Jeez, this article is all wrong, this sounds like cattle hoarding...

I've worked with two good non-technical managers in my career.

First thing is that they keep their measurements to themselves. You know they're tracking how fast bugs are resolved and these kinds of things, but they don't talk to you about it.

Second is that they don't pressure you to finish things with stupid release cycles.

Third is that even though they don't know how to program themselves, they should at least be interested in the content of what's being produced and how. Cause programmers aren't all good at the same things, and knowing what to do means that you understand who needs to do what.

Fourth is they take the heat if shit's not in time or buggy.

Fifth is they take the tasks they can do to make people happier.

And Sixth is they can't micromanage cause they're not technical, so the whole premise of the article is moot, and in fact, they should micromanage as much as they're able to.
That's not how web standards work - or how they ought to work, for that matter.
My knowledge of CDNs is limited but I assume that Moore's law will make CDNs obsolete because you will be able to efficiently and cheaply host your own data but then again webmasters will want to outsource it so they don't have to manage and maintain it.
This tool generates most of my cities for my tabletop games (OSE [B/X]). He has a fully integrated system that can take you from territory to town level. It's really impressive stuff.

Also saves refs like myself hours of (very poorly done) sketching.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/watawatabou
Apps can make background requests.
Oh, forgot about that :/
Imposter syndrome is a very real condition that in many cases can stem from underlying mental health issues or feelings of inadequacy/internal conflict. So I think your take comes across as a little insensitive in this context.
DoorDash to Bump Up Its Fees on Slow McDonald’s Restaurants
Did you see Tylenol mentioned either?
So is this what Fredrik Pohl uses in his Heechee Saga? I always thought that was free fantasizing for the sake of science fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Blue_Event_Horizon
<opinion>They are not helpful and only serve to obscure...</opinion>

Personally -- after originally thinking like you -- I really enjoy ligatures in my code. I disable them for my terminal though.

The same font can work both with and without ligatures, so it's not a negative if a font supports them. You can choose whether to enable them.
Not to forget the big cookie banner
I'd probably do what the current Mozilla leadership is doing: stack those checks before the gravy-train comes to an end.

Firefox passed the point of no return long ago.
While we're on the subject of the fallacy of relative privation, you'll surely acknowledge that the closure of the Ambassador Bridge for a week is a couple orders of magnitude worse than the 2020 protests. After all, the appropriate measure of a protest is dollars lost, and hundreds of millions of dollars of goods cross the bridge every day.
My answer here _used_ to be the Ubiquity Edgerouter-X series, but unfortunately Ubiquity has killed that line of products and they don't seem to be in the prosumer grade affordable router market anymore.

I still enjoy my little Edgerouter-X SFP, it's fast, compact, power efficient and I can plug my fiber internet connection straight into the SFP slot. Management can be done via SSH. What's not to like?

Edit: and yes, I know the edgerouters are still listed in the ubnt shop, but they have been 'sold out' for the past 3 years now. I don't think they'll ever return.
> Also, I like how Lockwise on mobile is divorced from the browser, making it easy to use it to manage passwords across websites and apps.

I liked that too. That was before they decided to shut it down...
Which way of buying the print books is best for you? I've been meaning to pick both these up!
Racism definition: "a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others."

No, it isn't "by definition racist"
I used to use MikroTik pretty extensively in the past (15y ago). My experience has always be that they are super solid. I even miss the time managing MT based networks.
> Brazil was not too long ago the 5th economy in the world

When? Sources I can find have it topping out at 6th in 1995, which (aside from not being 5th) is quite a while ago.

> It's the largest military in Latin America.

And if we were discussing their ability to take Uruguay in a fight, that might be relevant.

> It's in good diplomatic terms with pretty much all countries in the globe.

Sure, few countries have any significant disputes with Brazil because Brazil isn't exactly deeply involved beyond its immediate region. That's great in a lot of ways for Brazil, but it's not exactly an endorsement of them being likely to be especially well informed of the prospects of war in Ukraine.

> The ambassador lives in Ukraine

Which would make him a very good source on whether there is active fighting in his immediate vicinity, but beyond that...?

> and is definitely much more aware of the real situation than any one of us getting fed Fox News, CNN, the BBC or The Guardian from our couches.

He’s probably reading the same communiques from the governments more directly involved and much of the same media coverage based on those communiques as everyone not in one of the involved countries is seeing.

> Brazilian intelligence/spy services are perhaps not at the same level as the US's or Russia's but they're far from useless.

Probably not, but also probably aren't really historically intensely focussed on the security situation in Eastern Europe.
I dunno, I think it's a bit of a herculean task to regulate the whole cryptocurrency market, especially with anonymous "coins" like Monero and Zcash.

I also have doubts about the strength of the US "physical" currency because of inflation.

It may become a multipolar world, but that's mostly because of the rise of China, India and Brazil as the US declined.
Wow I had no idea this exists! Thanks for sharing
The article claims Matterium solves four big problems in commerce, including being able to know if shoes will fit before receiving them, but provides absolutely nothing to validate any of them.
He also says: “The dollar is a stablecoin.”

It’s a very strange conversation.
Remote sensing technology reduces urban air pollution
Japanese CEO salaries are famously very low. The Toyota CEO makes about USD 3.5m. There are other C levels that make 3 times what the Toyota CEO earns in direct compensation.

Japanese CEO salaries in general seem to be below USD1m on average.
Ansi draw tool what can parse boxes and move them?
Emacs + Braille mode: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrailleMode

All the best for your friend's health!
Another thing that made 2008 worse was bank regulators napping for a few years. Those ratings on mortgage debt stunk and nobody cared.