skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ottawa police refused to do any enforcement.

They claimed they didn't have enough manpower and needed help from the provincial and federal governments.

Why they were so poorly prepared when the convoy was broadcasting its intentions in advance is a great question, but it also doesn't help now.

The Ottawa Police Service abandoned the people of the city for weeks and now can't resolve the problem on its own.

So I guess the answer to "why go straight to emergency powers without trying to clear people out the normal way?" is because the people whose job it was to handle this the normal way raised the white flag about 24 hours in and haven't done much about it since.
All 50 states require DNA samples at birth.

Some states destroy the blood spots after a year, 12 states store them for at least 21 years.

California has stored a DNA samples indefinitely and has collected from every baby born after 1983. They mainly sell the data to research companies.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/califo...
Utter BS.

There were no orders but recommendations only in regards to vaccines. I understand you realize the difference between the order and recommendation. Recommendation does not require compliance.

And the burden was caused by lockdowns and complete absence of vaccines in Canada for a big while
In fairness BLM was far more violent. Neighborhoods were burned to the ground, businesses were looted, people were injured, and several people were killed. Moreover, the BLM protests involved millions of people, so 14K arrests seems believable. Moreover, how many of the arrested were charged (getting arrested on its own isn’t that big of a deal).
Race walking is an Olympic sport. Not very common day to day, but I'm sure most people have at least seen videos of it at some point.
Subtitle is "They’re much stupider. Investing is like that."

Title is clickbait, but the author has a pretty clear and level headed take on what the whole thing is. Definitely not an optimistic pumper, its probably a worthwhile read if you want to remember a good explanation to send to non-technical people asking you about what NFTs are.
Yeah, IMHO Obsidian is in a class of its own for markdown-based PKM / TFT / devnotes. And the Excalidraw plugin for Obsidian is absolutely phenomenal.
> I spent so many hours fiddling with jlink and modules and so on.

Me too... Me too.
by mini-platform, I meant a saas who hosts other businesses who in turn have customers. (This may not be a good name for this). Example is shopify -- if shopify were buying a Q&A tool, for example, they would need it to be administered by the store owner and accessible by the store customers. (Also shopify is no longer mini)

zendesk is a great example. I looked at their 'multibrand' feature.

per this https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408829476378, an enterprise plan lets me have 300 sub-accounts with restricted roles. But: 1) it's not clear if each role gets an admin panel for their page, and 2) it costs $199 per month per agent. This isn't designed to be re-sold.

Freshdesk also has a 'forest' plan which supports unlimited 'products', per this https://support.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/376..., but it seems like the tickets all funnel to the same admin panel.

ah I didn't mean to say 'the market never provides', more like 'in some build vs buy decisions' there are good plugins on the market but none of them offer multitenancy.
Wix evacuates nearly 1k Ukrainian staff and families
The very same :)
It's really just a preference. We also tend to like things that are different from what we're bored of, so square/round corners can be a fad. I always felt that's why Microsoft changed their UI design back and forth.
Coinbase spending $16M on Superbowl ad and $0 to prevent website crash
The “This Week in Startups” podcast from last week, episode 1378, interviewed the CEO.

They are hiring their own drivers and building their own delivery hubs, meaning products you order are coming from their hubs, not from CVS or Walmart. They have more control over efficiency.

They even acquired BevMo and are converting those into hubs.
Some of us, many of us, rely on these machines to do their job. Perfection is pretty well required or you’re using substandard tools which may or may not affect your productivity.

And stating Apple is just okay next to the rest of those is completely disingenuous. Apple clearly had higher quality than all of these manufacturers.
What I am pointing out is that it’s weird to protest Canada for having policies that limit the employment of unvaccinated truckers when it’s the Americans who had the vaccine mandates first.
This actually serves an immediate need for us... we recently wrote a quite nice JavaFX desktop app to take care of some redundant data processing stuff and api pinging nonsense.

Second coming of JNLP it looks like
"round corners feel natural" is no better explanation than "round corners are smoother".
Also, Swing is just there, so for a simple app you don’t need to figure out dependencies or how to fit JavaFX into maven/gradle.
Cool! Ping me when you get around to it. I'm still trying to put together some more samples for the homepage if you're willing to let me post them there.
I don't believe in treating users like they're dumb.

There's a "keep me signed in" feature too. Or if this is a serious source of confusion, use local device storage to keep track.

In practice I don't consider anything for each app. If it's worked I used gsuite. If it's personal I used Apple. OAuth is the new "same password used everywhere" but now we click logos.
It would be nice for once if NYT/FOX wrote a positive story against their bias. It is not all __insert_the_worst_interpretation__.

I blame the big media for sowing so much division because they flatout refuse to write a positive story about the other side.
Dropbox is ending support for free teams on March 17, 2022
Here is a humourous example from today's front page. This person believes iOS offers something that Android does not with respect to turning off permissions. Total nonsense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30342336

The same sort of phony differentiation could be applied call and messaging surveillance. Apple and Google both collect similarly gargantuan amounts of user call and messaging data and store it in enormous datacenters.
Like seatbelt mandates, taxes on tobacco products, food safety regulation (preventing the importation of certain hazardous foods), environmental regulation, or any other sort of coercive action (either against individuals, against corporations, or against government itself) taken by government to protect people?

It’s obviously a rhetorical question. I’d suggest that in all cases whether such mandates are appropriate depends on their proportionality relative to the harms they prevent.
It's gone too far. These designs are annoying.

I'm so sick of these inoffensive, unremarkable, totally forgettable blob people that I'm going with an anthropomorphic kitsune as our corporate mascot.

https://fakeyou.com (3 pieces originally, with more I just had done for our upcoming storyteller.io virtual production tech: https://imgur.com/a/IPZgsoE )

You'd be surprised the amazing commercial artwork you can get done by just exploring Twitter.
Show HN: Das Bangen Froomverk
My mouse army is marching there as we speak
Article at [0] says "someone had made a proposal that, if passed, would let them mint tokens unilaterally... This proposal appeared to go unnoticed and passed on February 10."

Wha??? Anyone have details of how the governance of this DAO was structured? Was it possible for someone with a minority of coins to pass a proposal? Did "someone" simply amass a majority of coins by stealth?

[0] https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/134180/build-finance-dao...
Yes, that's the source I was using as well. And yes, your conclusion is correct, you are more likely to end up in the ICU if you are unvaccinated. Both these things are true at the same time: The vaccines work, and the majority of cases and hospitalizations are among the vaccinated.

But the strain on the healthcare system and the pandemic as a whole is driven by total numbers, not relative numbers. The majority of cases are among the vaccinated, therefore vaccine mandates won't end the pandemic. But people who argue for the mandates argue as if it was a "pandemic of the unvaccinated", and that's simply not true.
Similar applies for Canada and the US
That’s a lot of rhetoric but not a lot of substance. My position is an extremely milquetoast “people are allowed to be upset when upsetting things happen to them; this doesn’t make them elitist”.
> had nothing to do with me being an incredibly inspirational leader

Are you sure about that?
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All 50 states require DNA samples at birth.
Some states destroy the blood spots after a year, 12 states store them for at least 21 years.

California stores DNA samples indefinitely and has collected from every baby born after 1983. They mainly use the data for research but also sell it to private companies.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/califo...
If we break this down to basics, the selection pressure for a virus' survival is the host surviving long enough to spread the virus to another host, and ensuring enough hosts are available to continue this.
A new variant could kill every single last human and remain successful by infecting animal populations (SARS-COV-2 is doing the latter).

SARS-COV-2 and its descendants seem to me somewhat uniquely qualified to pull this off as they're one of the few viruses that are asymptomatically spread, meaning you can be infected, pass the virus on, then die for all it cares.

The above however, is not reason for us as a species to endlessly pursue locking down and pushing for restrictive measures when we see the situation clearing up and the above not being the case. When the time comes restrictions will be removed (this was already being discussed in a bunch of places) and hopefully we can just get back to the normal worries of the day such as impending climate disaster and war.
It absolutely is discrimination as not all whites are privileged. These days your skin color doesn't matter much, what really makes the difference is the wealth of your parents. A rich black guy is privileged compared to poor white guy.

Yes, MOST African Americans are poorer due to historical discrimination. But similarly some whites are also poorer due to historical reasons beyond their own control. The solution should be support to the poor to help them achieve better educational outcomes, regardless of their skin color.

Just raise taxes and build a system that helps all poor people achieve better educational outcomes instead of racist affirmative action. Scandinavian model provides a good example. Anything else is just nonsense and convenient to the rich elite.

Also, it's possible to make college/university admissions very much anti-discriminatory simply by making them exam-based, and preventing those who check the exams from knowging who did the exam. This is how the system should work.
Harassment. Have you not been paying attention?
I remember some time ago Firefox denied all the local access as a security issue - despite all the dialogs that asked for rights. Had to find some other ways to access simple txt file - via link.
As someone who was hardly threatened over the vaccines after the president who’s party had control of the legislator did everything they could to force it on everyone I think the US’ position is wrong.
I do use it voluntarily. I think more user choice is good.
there is dopamine vs. endorphins distinction: motivation (next fix) vs. pleasure (pain relief)—anticipating reward vs. reward itself.

A rat pressing a dopamine-stimulating lever is not happy it is just motivated to press it.
Glad to hear! Please share them when you post them. Looking for more samples for the homepage.

> Second coming of JNLP it looks like

Yeah. JNLP always still felt a bit second class to me. The move to native bundles was, all in all, a good step, but the process was always too cumbersome.
>(not sure all of those are still accurate, but sadly it's most likely)

I felt the need to fact-check these because I felt they were not accurate. Below are the results of about 2 minutes per bulletpoint.

> Highest incarceration rate in the world.

True

> Highest percentage of obese people.

US is #12

> Highest divorce rate.

US is #3

> Highest rate of illegal drug selling.

Might be true. Not super easy to get numbers on this.

> Most car thefts per year.

US is #11 per capita. Probably #1 in raw cases, but that data was not super easy to find.

> Highest amount of rapes per year.

True, but per capita like #12

> Highest amount of reported murders.

Per capita nowhere close to true. Raw numbers #6

> More police officers than anywhere else.

Not true at all per capita or raw.

> Spends more on healthcare than any other place in the world, which is completely bonkers considering what's offered.

Just true.

> More people taking drugs, for whatever reason, than anywhere else.

See above drug selling. I couldn't actually find stats that specifically distinguish the two.

> Student loan debt.

True

> The vast majority of all pornography comes from the US.

US does about a quarter of all pornography, but has a much higher gdp than other countries producing porn. UK produces about twice as much porn per gdp.

> Bad literacy rate.

US has a literacy rate of 99%. I would not call that bad.

> A military budget exceeding many countries combined.

True

> Over 90% of all media owned by a handful of people.

> A military-industrial complex paying politicians to invent lies for war.

Not sure how to fact check either of these

> 50% of private and public schools teach Abstinence instead of actual sex education.

It's hard to find hard numbers for this. Abstinence is taught as the most effective method of preventing pregnancies and STDs, but other sex ed is present (often in addition to abstinence) in at least 60% of schools.

So I would say this is not true because of the "instead"
My approach is I don’t have hundreds of people I need to contact regularly. It works very well. This very procedural method of communication reeks of compassion.

/s
I generally like to base my interview questions on the candidate's resume, asking questions of various levels of difficulty about the areas they claim to be skilled. I find it gives a better sense of their abilities than strictly asking about the tools/languages/algorithms being used on the hiring project. As such, each interview was already unique to an extent - and I might have noticed something like a person whiffing the easy questions but then getting an advanced one that didn't add up.

Also, the "architect" I inherited on the team seemed totally incompetent in a variety of ways, and insisted on using a fixed set of questions without deviation. To He kept flagging people through who seemed totally inept when I'd dive into their background, so they was also probably a tip off that they figured him out.
Dissolve the Mozilla Foundation and put everything into browser development. I got some weird email about how valentines day sucks(?) from Mozilla this morning that was somehow supposed to convince me to donate or something. I don’t understand how a software company’s software became an afterthought. I almost think Google is paying them to purposely mismanage Firefox.
Ah yeah so I was guessing here that we're talking about a subset that is solvable with the current methods -- as in within reach enough to be solvable by relatively naive methods
this reply articulates what I was trying to say.
Luckily Ottawa will be electing new leadership in the coming months.
My brain has come to associate rounded corners with software / websites that:

- present insufficient information on my screen and generally waste pixels

- do not have settings

- have poor performance, with every click taking 300+ms to do anything
The govt didn't coin that, the public did, by virtue that protesters are terrorizing the residents. Harassment, 100+db horns at night, vandalization, etc.
"Hey I just force pushed an old main branch, accidentally, did anyone do a pull earlier today so we can restore?"

Kids these days who have branch protection turned on won't get this joke.
What would a basic home Wi-Fi network with two access points, a router, and a switch look like? I attempted to figure this out since I wanted to set up a network with multiple VLANs to separate work machines, IOT devices, and trusted devices once I started working remote. I couldn't figure it out so just bought Ubiquity gear. They were the sweet spot for configurability with out spending weeks learning how to configure network equipment as far as I could tell.
I'm thinking about getting this. I really liked the side by side demo. Paying for my tools is worth it.
Availability Bias. You are assuming "almost all users" mirrors the users you know.

The engine is all that matters to me. Certain sites work differently on different engines. The only reason I leave Safari is for a different engine that often works better on less popular or more niche sites (PKI and some other issues). I can't do that on my iPhone. I wish I could.

I know many people, not technologically inclined, that just try different browsers on their computers when a website doesn't work. They don't know they are trying different engines, they just know it works on their computer. They also don't know that this methodology doesn't work on iOS. They still try.
You really don’t need to be omnipotent to know it. For months, Canada was hovering at an Rt just above 1.0. Very little more would have been required to tip the balance.
Thanks Shannah for the tool. I have always thought oracle was so uncool (and shooting in its
own foot) not investing in better and easier deployment tool...

I really will definitely try it out for my free-visit builder installer. If it works well like some have said, boy you saved my day ♥. Love
> no common language uses symbols beyond ASCII,

Ruby and scala allow using such characters, and there are libraries that use it. Julia actually has special characters in the standard library, although afaik they all have ascii aliases. The repl and many editor plugins support expanding tex style escapes to those special characters.
Then again you still miss conversations you weren’t tagged in.
How Can This University Charge Nothing for Tuition?
Hi guys, author here! Thanks for sharing, I'll be lurking in the comments!
Obligatory link to Pixel Dungeon: http://pixeldungeon.watabou.ru/
Eh, never mind. In retrospect my previous thoughts add nothing. I apologize for wasting your time.
It's a manipulation of language, and one that is becoming more obvious to more people by the day. Remember, the internet never forgets. Remember when the definition of vaccine was changed? The internet remembers. These tactics don't work anymore.
Just to avoid confusion: the date in the title was in an email I received from Dropbox today. For whatever reason, it's absent from the help center article.
Anyone who's remotely interested in trees, or literature, should read Richard Powers's fantastic Pulitzer-winning work of fiction, "Overstory: A Novel". I can't recommend it highly enough.
excellent write up for the whys..

If you all would like to move it offshore and keep it alive, I've been looking into ways to decentralize similar projects.

Would like to know what kind of servers are needed for the 400k mastodon accounts. Are we talking a couple of quad core processors and a few TB or hard drive space?

Curious what size the DB is too.
as much as I'd like to use this no browser really supports it aside from chrome. the brave team even specifically disabled it due to security issues.
this tends to not be an issue for work slacks, as the fear of being fired for what could be considered abusive chat or procrastination would stop most of the spam.
Laws in a democracy shouldn't be set by whatever minority decides to block streets with heavy equipments.

Giving in would set a terrible precedent and would undermine Canada's continued existence as a free society.
It’s a more recent development that’s materialized after iOS implemented it.

Google implements privacy protecting measures as a fast follower to iOS.
So basically, Trudeau admits in fact he is everything a bunch of blue collar truckers say he is.
> The govt didn't coin that

https://twitter.com/FrischReport/status/1493344853421436946

They are using terrorism financing laws to execute this.
So, the great army WAS TOLD when the attack would be, i.e. relies on the interested party's intelligence. That's not a strong army, that's a puppet mercenary.
Comparing civil disturbances with other civil disturbances is fair.

Martin Luther Kings March on Selma can be compared (very favorably) to the Night of Broken Glass.

The BLM protests involved a much larger number of people, and last much longer (so far).

It makes it easier to cherry lick bad examples.

It’s fair to say what we’re seeing in Canada is like the worst of the BLM condensed into a few weeks.

But I stayed away from the BLM protests, so I only saw them when they came to me.

Like so:

https://youtu.be/vSgI0vCoLMY

Edit: to be clear I was present when this happened
Trudeau is working overtime to create a boogeyman so they can take more rights away from people.

It's all so predictable it's laughable. First they start off with Right Wing Extremists. Then they move on to foreign actors trying to disrupt Canadian lives. Meanwhile it Joe6Pack from down the street who is out there because they are trying to prevent him from being able to live, work, shop, or exist. These folks who don't want to take the Vaccine are being subjugated to Trudeau's (Doug Ford too) discriminatory policy and there should be an organized effort to drag their corrupt asses in front of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Yes! That's it. “~ ctrl-z”
Thank you!
That is the dumbest thing I've ever read.
Or perhaps I authored the reply when the replies were heavily in favor. For someone with a history and karma to reflect it here, your cynicism and snark doesn't serve you well in this instance.
So, if iOS and Android both completely block Airbnb from actually using gps tracking… this is a complete non-issue it sounds like. I know iOS will auto block location services for any newly installed app, and I assume android does the same. So, someone would have to knowingly and manually give permission for Airbnb to track them. If someone wants to do that, that is up to them.
Neither of us are wrong. I looked at the number of donations, but yes you are correct the majority of the cash is from Canada.
Right, I've never walked by my computer at midnight to discover its awake and hammering the disk scanning everything that's installed on my machines like chrome does.
Other than added effort, it's also highly sensitive data. My barrier to showing an ID is far higher than jumping on a zoom call - even more so since it's so rare, the question would immediately raise suspicions.
(I work for Mozilla, but don't speak for them.)

You're both right.

It's a common story -- people use browser A, start noticing a variety of problems, switch to browser B and everything is so much better. After a while, they start noticing a variety of problems, switch to browser A, and once again everything is so much better.

Those people are not being stupid, that is their real experience.

Sometimes the problem is in a web site (an update starts leaking memory, for example) and whatever browser is running gets blamed.

Sometimes it's just natural human bias—we want to see patterns, and we want there to be a solution ("just switch browsers!"), so we get selective in what we notice and don't notice.

Sometimes it's because profile cruft piles up, and resetting would fix it.

Sometimes the problems really are in one browser and not the other. There are plenty of legitimate problems to be found, and things change pretty rapidly.