skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent observation. On my first visit, I thought it was broken because it wasn’t advancing. I didn’t realize that you needed to scroll until I read your post. I returned and was able to view the whole sequence by scrolling. Clearly, this isn’t the way most users expect it to work and not providing any instructions makes it all the mote mysterious. Even after so many years, web design is still subject to implementers trying what they think is cool or cutting edge not caring that it confuses the fuck out of their users.
> Mostly true if your main financial transactions are receiving bank deposits from your work & paying bills

I also own (and occasionally trade) securities, have loans (mortgage and auto), use credit cards, and own equity in private companies.

The only financial thing that I don't do is sell financial services, which is the industry that regulations were designed to reign in because they tend to be filled with grifters.

But you're correct, I am in the US.
I would say that I think you missed the part where I wrote "Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free?"

To recap, I would help a friend move, because he is.. well, my friend?
I have a guest... because I invited him and he is not going to take the food I prepared to sell it outside my house?
And you can of course promote your work, people have been doing that since ever, you can do that with also licenses where people can see but not sell

But yeah I think I didn't put enough emphasis at this point on "Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free?" where the important idea is "To make someone money"
Agreed, it takes two to converse. I usually will give people a few shots at engagement before I write them off, but eventually you just need to be a realist about it.

Please don't let those experiences discourage you from continuing to reach out though.
Note that Tether moving to the Caymans inspired the UK finregs to investigate the UK accounting company that’s now running Tether’s books, so I wouldn’t consider the Caymans to be a successful escape yet: https://www.ft.com/content/e86f8d72-918c-4a80-a4bf-de3110316...
More and more people are concerned about privacy and security, see the popularity of VPNs in recent years. So Mozilla should concentrate on making Firefox the most privacy enhanced browser along with being the most secure. Marketing should double down on getting that message across.

Additionally it looks like Web Assembly has a promising future, so Firefox should having the best support for that.
https://i.imgur.com/1TQctN0.gif
Firefox is already more customizable than Safari or Chrome. If Safari and Chrome were growing in userbase due to being more customizable than Firefox, it might make sense.
For sure. The theory of annual goals is you already know the most valuable ways to spend your time for the next year. But that's true only if nothing changes and nobody learns anything important. It's generally just fantasy.
Yes, I am. Noise pollution has the same effect on people regardless of the source.

You pretty much proved my point by diminishing the one particular source of noise that you personally don't consider "as bad".
> Also something like 0.5% of the population died [..]

Q: What % of the population would be expected to die in a "normal" (pre-Covid) year?

(I realise there is a discussion about excess deaths, but it's not quite as simple as being able to assign the excess to Covid, see https://www.health.org.uk/publications/long-reads/what-has-h... )
Basically nothing. I suppose I love having a paycheck (less than the US dev median) and benefits.
Does that actually happen, though? Do managers have enough time to go through git commits, chats, etc. Sounds like a full-time job on its own
I used it yesterday and really wished it supported dashed lines!
Putin is a dictator because he doesn't allow free, democratic elections. Asking for a citation that Russia is a democracy is ridiculous. You need to cite sources that it is a free democracy (if you even think that) because it's by far the more outlandish and fringy position of the two.
From your own link:

> Residents complained about another night of illegal fireworks, loud music and horn honking Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Loud music? Say it isn't so!
I've had a bad XPS experience, but I also have really good latitude 72xx and 74xx experiences.

I think that XPS build is just the wrong machine for Linux and like someone else said the wrong form factor for poor power performance management.
Russia has been carrying out the same military exercise on its Ukraine border for the last decade. But NATO flooding Ukraine with arms is new, I think.
A while back I spent a few weeks figuring out how to configure Firefox to work exactly how I want a browser to work, then months happily using it. Then a big update was released and everything broke. I never bothered to get it working again. And despite claims of performance improvements that came with the release, it still chugged slower than Chrome. I would love to use a browser that I can actually configure how I want without things breaking every week, even if it's slower in general. But if I can't configure reliably and it's slower -- what's the point?
Maybe any civilization it can create there is bound to become a competitor for the same resources.
Not the OP, but I consider it a soft crash every time I update Firefox in my OS, and it won't allow me to spawn new tabs until I restart Firefox. Annoying behavior they've included a couple years back.
An ancient geometry problem falls to new mathematical techniques - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30259170 - Feb 2022 (100 comments)
For a fun graphic from the 1950s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29309175

"What makes us Tick" was a high-quality cartoon that explained the theory of the stock market, and the benefits of captitalism in general. Of course, its a Cold War era propaganda cartoon, but its still a really clear and simple explanation.

The "Ticker Tape" may sound quaint, but "Market Makers" are really just those round-lot dealers that are discussed in the cartoon. The overall explanation remains valid for today's market, just with more automation / computers involved today rather than humans on a telephone.
They could do it if it was presented to them as a norm, "this is the way we like to do messaging around here." Not everyone spontaneously comes up with the best, most effective way to do things. Sometimes they need to be taught.
Investors seem to like the "product market fit" but that already exists for all these materials. The issue is always scaling up and what the costs and margins will look like. We're not lacking at all in solutions - just scale and efficiency.
For an average person, I think this argument is fine. But we're on HN where we can discuss something with a bit more nuance. There's two major things that I see that FF offers that Chrome doesn't, including chromium alternatives. 1) More privacy. Chrome tracks you substantially more than alternative browsers. In addition to that, is simply the chrome ecosystem, see next point. 2) Chrome's dominance defines the web. A decentralized service doesn't become centralized once one player takes 100% of the users. It happens long before because a big player can throw their weight around and force others to do what they want. Chrome already acts this way. We talk about this extensively several times a year here, so I'll let others state this argument better. But the short is that Google can define protocols, more tracking analytics, etc.

It really comes down to two things.

- Do you want to encourage more privacy across the web?

- Do you want the web to be more decentralized?

If you want more privacy and less centralization, you should use FF. I don't think it is just about the services that they offer. I think we can go deeper and talk about the future of the web in general and how our choices affect that.
Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord?
If anything, we want to see more in a given space, not less...
This looks really promising, nice work!
I hear ya... It was ok for me; 1 year 3 months. I just missed my workmates is all. I could do 99% of what I did before (had some minor hardware duties).
Money, stability, esteem, and I just really like coding.

However I dont like how most workplaces are still really inefficiently managed and full of politics and bad decisions.
Can't wait for the subtle, inadvertent emotional malady that is a generation raised on faceless (and legless!) bubble people cartoons.
I'd wager that Firefox's deal with Google prohibits them from doing this on any platform.
PlantUML offered more decade ago. Marmaid is a toy compared to it.

However, since its so powerful, its hard to write. Actually, any given diagram is not that hard, but to keep all those syntax rules in head is IMO almost impossible.
http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ has had ASCII-art-as-vector-image features for quite some time now. It's in need of a good editor, though.
One tiny past discussion:

Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6789485 - Nov 2013 (3 comments)
Nice sentiment but this is analogous to the concept of not throwing out food because there are starving people out there. The vaccine you're not taking isn't going to magically get reappropriated for use in the third world. Most likely, it will just go to waste.
That's been my experience as well. Fantastic hardware value, but not great software.

And not just "insecure" libraries etc, just... strange design decisions. For example, SwitchOS doesn't allow configuration of a default gateway on the management interface, instead it just returns the request on whatever interface/vlan it gets it from. It leads to some very very strange behaviour when setting up firewall rules...

It's a shame, because the hardware is absolutely brilliant. I just wish they would open enough of their bootloader/hardware platform to allow 3rd party firmware to run easily.
In my experience, the best antidote to something like imposter syndrome is some kind of objective metric that will help them figure out what they actually can and can't do. Employment or passing tests or the like often fails to be objective.

Though a feeling of not deserving it may not be imposter syndrome. It may be something else.
Their primary incentive is for it to be lucrative.
What does a broke person who will not be able to pay off their student loans for decades and who will never be able to afford a house care about being slightly less broke? Your life is a painful grind either way where you're just barely staying afloat. If you're stuck in poverty barring a risky long-shot hitting, then it's entirely logical and rational to take big risks with the little you do have.

The real problem isn't that stocks or crypto or any other financial tools exist, it's that so many Americans lack reasonable hope and opportunities for a better future outside of seeking out things that seem unthinkably risky to many people here.
Behaves like it's Chrome only? Gonna have to pass on that one.

Or maybe MacOS only? I dunno. Definitely doesn't feel snappy and certain things just don't work.
Chaos Ransomware v4
These sorts of games are incredibly fun to write in modern languages, especially if you are given a canvas and the ability to blit graphics around without much concern for memory usage or blit speed. I especially like the implementation of yours, and the code is nicely arranged and readable, and surprisingly, just a single file. The difficulty ramping could use a little tuning, it hews close to the relentless "you dead!" difficulty ramping of a 1980's console game. Maybe I've just gone soft in the intervening years. Overall, fun to play.

Obligatory self-promotion: https://justin-lloyd.com/ which is my C.V. site that includes a 1970's-era space invaders style game based on the portable Galaxy Invaders 1000 game.

https://github.com/JustinLloyd/invaders

"Invaders from 78" is written in Typescript, implements a small ECS framework, uses Pixi for canvas rendering, and is event driven. No audio because, well... it's a C.V. website. It also doesn't work on mobile because the audience numbers for mobile visitors to my C.V. website is near enough zero that it would be wasted effort. Please excuse any front-end sins I may have committed because I generally don't do front-end web dev.
So what happens if Russia doesn't invade Ukraine on Wednesday?
In general I agree, but there's just so much damn smoke.
The assumption is always that the deep sea bottom is a desert, but everywhere anybody looks, anywhere, they always find something living there.

That said, the amount of cabling is actually very small vs. the size of the ocean, which is bigger than anybody can really comprehend.
Thanks for the high-information post.
> "It is like John Cleese started the Monty Python party, got elected, and is now pushing for nuclear war."

Seems perfectly normal after Americans elected a reality TV host who bragged about the size of his nuclear button to Kim Jong-un on social media.
Could you please read and follow the site guidelines when posting here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note these:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Well this only took a few years! So happy to finally see it in.

They should really unlock this issue[0] and let people know.

[0] https://github.com/github/markup/issues/533
Jonathan here, one of the co-founders of Magniv. Let us know if you have any questions!
Damn, I loved Sinatra! Haven’t used it in ages, is it still under active development actually?
> Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything we want to see more in a given space, not less...

I think it increases readability. I need to read what I'm looking at, not a lot of things I'm not looking at.
hn at ycombinator dot com
Please apply what you've just said directly to contemporary Canadian governance and polity.
Seriously? The videos make it look like it's running on s proper 3d engine.
> The fix, honestly, is moving to 200% resolution screens (such as 4k 24" replacing everyone's 1080p 24", or 2880p 27" replacing everyone's 1440p 27"),

GNU/Linux is supposed to be usable even on old hardware so that is not a good solution. There are many ways to improve font rendering for low-dpi screens but maintainers are often unwilling to invest time in that because it makes the rendering algorithms more complex and they reason that most will get high-dpi screens eventually. There used to be a patchset called Infinality for FreeType and FontConfig that significantly improved subpixel rendering. It was discontinued as some (but not all) of its improvements were merged into FreeType.

On Windows you can tune the subpixel rendering parameters using a configuration tool. That's something I wish existed for Linux desktops because screens, peoples' tolerances for color fringing, and light settings are all different. Unfortunately FreeType's subpixel rendering parameters are hard-coded in the source and can't be configured.
Pragmata Pro is quite nice... but not for coding.

I like narrow fonts. Barlow is excellent. News Gothic is fantastic. Geo Grotesque is super beautiful. But it just doesn't work for me when a coding font is narrow. Fonts like Iosevka and Pragmata are harder to read than needed and for no clear benefit. Especially when used for projects based on C and derivatives. If you ever find yourself needing to cram more symbols per line onto your screen, it's a sign that there's a coding style problem! Lines simply should be short enough to not require horizontal compression.

Obviously, YMMV, to each their own, etc.
Take them out into the woods and show them all the seeds that landed where they cannot grow. Ask them if they're grateful to have landed somewhere they will be heartily encouraged to grow and supported in the endeavor. If not, ask them, would they really have preferred defeat?

I do wonder, do people with "imposter syndrome" realize how revolting they are needing affirmations of their self-worth in the face of their good fortunes?
I don't think it is literacy really, just sloppy engineering process.

Typically this happens when someone develops a service which is front facing without any proxy/ LB before it, goes to production and gets validated IP and other logs are great everyone moves on . Few months/years down to scale their service or improve security a LB or CF type proxy is put in front and no bothers to check the IP logs are still valid because no one actually uses IP for anything in their tooling( like filters/blocks or geomapping etc) so won't notice the break at all.
No it was a cross platform issue when I wrote the article. It's pretty fundamental to how most engines render text. That said, text rendering generally involves some amount of platform-specific APIs to get a "native" look and feel.

I still see it on the latest Firefox nightly on MacOS. I know Windows DirectWrite handles the issue (which is why Edge handles this issue so well), so if the that's being used more it would probably help.
The amount of people saying "listen to power users" in this thread seem to have read the questions as "what do I want Firefox to do"
Please do not cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong or ignorant someone else is or you feel they are. It's clear that you have legit reasons to feel strongly about this, but that doesn't make it ok to break the rules here (if it did, that alone would be sufficient to destroy this place, since many people have legit reasons for strong feelings on many topics). You've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30329197). That's not cool.

Also, it's not in your interests to post this way, because it discredits the position you're arguing for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: also, we've had to ask you not to do this in the past, long before the current topic became a thing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319713).
> The fact that Canadian hospitals haven't been overrun is testament to how well the situation is being handled. But one must remain vigilant. Even Germany had problems with their hospitals despite their best efforts.

Q1: Were Swedish hospitals overrun?

Q2: If not, why not?
They helpfully put numbers in that suggest that’s not at all what’s going on.
I'm curious what OS you're running. For me, on macOS Firefox performs the best out of all browsers I've tried, but on Linux it feels a bit sluggish.
> And you only get one profile active at a time.

This isn't true. As I'm writing this, I have three Firefox windows open, each in a different profile. What makes you think you can only have one profile active at a time?
Sorry. Yes, Card. Clearly I’m not an economist but I believe within the field is an emerging movement question the traditional iron clad belief in supply/demand being the explanation in labor economics.

One cannot always use the state system. For example, some elective surgeries can’t be done in the state system fast enough for the upper class and then there are those who want vanity cosmetic surgery. I don’t know what the data says but I’d be surprised if private cosmetic plastic surgeons make as much in France as they do in the U.S.

For the record I believe licensed doctors in, say, the EU should be able to practice medicine here without having to do a residency. Though there is a moral consideration in terms of draining the medical talent from countries like Greece, Romania, etc. I believe that med school in the U.S. should be free and that doctor’s salaries could correspondingly go down without decreasing the supply of people wanting to become doctors. It seems obvious to me that having $x in student loan debt is a factor in determining the required starting salary to attract enough talent. I don’t see how anyone can think otherwise. If the debt can’t be serviced easily enough while having a good enough standard of living then these talented people will do something else.

Of course, I could be wrong about everything. There are lots of “obvious” things that aren’t true.
I love the idea but the crowdsource quality seems perhaps problematic:

> The cables would repeatedly break, and had to be replaced every few months. Eventually the headphones stopped working in one ear.

At what point does self-repair get tagged as the culprit?

Anyway, I know this is a bit critical, presenting it in a problem-solving way.
The actual bug tickets etc are public. There is a report that's been published into what happened that goes into a lot of detail on each individual failure. In most cases they figured out what was wrong. The requirements for the system was kind of a programmers worst nightmare tbh - they needed a very complex and frequently changing database app to be usable offline, so they had to implement a lot of sync and conflict reconciliation logic that frequently turned out to be buggy or have race conditions.

They also had incredibly awkward bugs like "the touch screen hardware we deployed had a bad manufacturing batch that caused a subset to start submitting random button presses 12 months after deployment". It took them a while to realize that the actions weren't genuinely being made by the post masters, etc.

And yeah, iirc they lied to the court. Courts are supposed to anticipate this of course, but unfortunately defense teams near universally didn't push them on this or try to uncover their lies. Like I said, our culture has a severe problem with assuming experts are always honest and trustworthy. It's a totally flawed assumption and it resulted in hundreds of lives being destroyed in this case, but literally, nobody in the legal system including the defense really tried to probe whether the software really did work as the authors said it did. They just accepted the assurances made that it was perfect.
I have a pretty standard config and I got that the other day: https://twitter.com/tehwey/status/1483531515631919106
minority does not need to be defined by race sex or religion. What about people who had covid and reluctant about vaccines? All that word soup is irrelevant. Getting fired after having worked through the heights of epidemic is a serious "lived experience" and also "an ample evidence" of bureaucratic overreach. Anyway, bunch of provinces including Ontario already cancelled vaccine mandates and vaccine passports, only real holdouts are BC and Quebec. Trackers already won. The government can easily deescalate but choosing not to due fear and spite
I don't live in Ontario and don't have kids, so I don't have any personal experience. This section of Joël Lightbound speech stood out to me though. It is regarding the apparent quarantine measures in Quebec. I can't substantiate it, so maybe it is completely sensationalized.

>In Quebec in January 22, we've locked up kids aged 6 to 10 years old for up to ten days in windowless rooms. Kids who tested negative, who had no symptoms, who came in contact though, with someone who had the virus.

Starts at 3:48

https://youtu.be/xuASydTUatI?t=228