skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would highly suggest that your friend contact the National Federation of the Blind. They have a Computer Science Council, and a mailing list at https://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org which is full of Blidn technologists who have been able to be effective at work and in life through the use of assistive technology of various stripes. This is a great place to find information.

I have two very close friends who are Blind, one is an SRE and the other is a data scientist, both use different types of assistive technology but have found that Linux and MacOS tend to work better than Windows, partly due to the availability and usefulness of the command line which is a better UI for a Blind user than a GUI. There are now fantastic screen readers which are free and/or open source available on these OSes.
I can choose for each app: contacts, calendar, reminder, photos (whole gallery or choose pictures), Bluetooth, local network, UBW, microphone, speech recognition, camera, health, (sensors?, Never seen that before), Homekit, media, files, movement and focus.

And location of course (never, ask next time, when using and always) with a toggle to set it to "approximated position"
One of my all time favorite fantasy map generator: https://rawgit.com/wlievens/scallywag/master/index.html

(source is here: https://github.com/wlievens/scallywag)
Once you achieve those, you have no companies to begin with. See EU.
OBS Studio 27.2
Richard Steenbergen regularly gave/gives a presentation called "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical" at NANOG:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKeZaNwPKPo

This is fibre optics in general. For long distance stuff (>40km) you want to do a search for "coherent optics". A lot of these long distance fibres have multiple signals going down one glass using different colours ("lambdas") which are (de)muxed; see Dense Wave Division Multiplexing:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dum8UXtbN3o
What is effective policing meant to look like in circumstances like this?

This is an unarguably large amount of people practicing civil disobedience. How many police does Ottawa have on hand to deal with it?

All the tactics I can think of to truly control a crowd this size are rather…harsh (lines of riot police and water cannons etc). So if you don’t take that option you’re left with tactical deployment of officers.

Seems like a hard problem to get right. Just because they’re not perfect doesn’t mean they’re not effective.

The fact that they’re seizing weapons caches before any particularly heinous outbreaks of violence makes me think they’re prioritising their resources somewhat effectively?
The history of Jewish admissions at Harvard* (and Princeton, etc) is sort of 'required reading' to understand the Asian admissions issue.

If I recall correctly large numbers of Jewish students, at least into the 1960s, who applied to the Ivies just had stellar grades. Harvard and others implemented 'character tests' as a result, as they worried the overrepresentation of Jews on campus would scare off Christian parents.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota
And these are what is holding Firefox back?
Thanks for sharing! Have you tried any other options, like using puppeteer or similar tools? I'm curious about the performance (time, CPU) of the library you chose, as I had issues with weasyprint and great results with puppeteer.
A good time to remind everyone that when you donate to "Mozilla", you're donating to the Mozilla Foundation, which is the social justice part, not the Mozilla Corporation, which is the browser part.
Except for Denmark. I don't even make that much and I'm already at top taxes (49 percent!)
Podcast: Mohamed El Erian: The End of Easy Money
> I don't think Firefox needs saving. Those who use it are active and committed to it.

Don't be so sure. I stuck to Android though thick and thin since 2.1 or 2.2, but my next phone will be an iPhone, because I bloody had enough of their nonsense.

Firefox is harder to replace, if only because it's the only counter to Google's browser monopoly (so I consider it a moral imperative to keep using it), but if they keep reducing openness and end user control, I will eventually snap and abandon them. And if I'm nearing this point, then many have already passed it because I have a remarkable tolerance for shitty FOSS software. A family member already requested I throw out Firefox and install Chrome, and I complied because honestly, I can't fault them.
They're text messages. They are the very epitome of shallow interaction. I agree with your sentiment completely.
Full disclosure: I'm trying to find a way to use development insights to help us develop software better, together.

I tried a lot and I mean a lot of ways to see if we could use git commits to help us better understand productivity, but I've found commits by themselves lacks a lot of context. Especially since some commits may never be merged.

What I've personally found so far, is that using pull requests is a very good way to help us understand development effort. By looking at pull requests, like the following for cockroach:

https://oss.gitsense.com/insights/github?t=crc-insights&tb=a...

it is much easier to grok what everybody is working on or has worked on. Having studied a lot of open source projects, it is kind of shocking how some developers can move and manage so much.

As a side note, if you are wondering what the lightning bolt icon is for, it means another pull request is modifying a similar file. The left arrow means the pull request has a file that is not up to date with the target branch.
Information wants to be free but sometimes it needs some help in finding freedom.
Thanks, I appreciate the recognition. When I was doing my masters in Civil/Structural (with a big side of FEA), I was somewhat obsessed with understanding bike wheels, as far as I could. Even spent a couple weeks while procrastinating on my project doing basically nothing but looking at old books (Theory of Elastic Stability, Timeshenko and Gere) and writing FEA model generators for wheels. Between that, a basic understanding from rec.bicycles.tech (including Brandt), his book, and wheel builds, I think I got there.
I'm curious what makes you consider it clean? I'm specifically not claiming otherwise; I just don't know what that claim means.
Except in this case the major private Canadian media all participated in taking something like $600 million Canadian dollars in subsidies from the government. Justin Trudeau even had the audacity to joke about having bribed the media. [0]

I think it is reasonable to consider the possibility that these handouts may have biased the media to the point where they may be reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them.

[0] https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/justin-trudeau-60...
>> You don’t manage people [...] You manage problems and projects and enable people to do their jobs well.

> This is, like, the definition of managing people. Let's call a spade a spade.

That's not like. The definition of managing people. A project is some stakeholders (including the people you 'manage'), some wants, some resources (including the people you 'manage' as well as yourself) and some constraints. People are people.

>> People are not robots you control.

> Control is not management.

What does this even mean? If control is not management, therefore people are not robots you (not) manage, so, are they robots you do manage? I think GP was sort of leaning towards the 'people are not robots' part of that.

>> they think their reports are their subjects to lord over.

> Bossing someone around is not management.

It can be. If you're a shit manager. This 'is not management' thing feels very similar to 'is not Agile'.
I'd like to know as well. The Distributed Denial of Secrets [1] page states that "Due to PII in the dataset, the dataset is only being offered to journalists and researchers."

Edit: Here [2], captured by the Internet Archive

[1] - https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/GiveSendGo_Freedom_Convoy_donor_...

[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20220214031301/https://givesendg...
"Millennial-and-below generations have had their brains so warped by Internet time, they live in an amnesiac Eternal Present"

I don't know that I like the big generational over generalization there, but I do like that "brains so warped by Internet time, they live in an amnesiac Eternal Present"

I think that gem can be applied to many folks, regardless of their age or generation.
> Quite on the contrary, even a team of 1000 won't be sufficient to maintain compatibility if your marketshare is so low that website and webapp builders ignore your concerns.

As a browser maker your "concerns" should really be web/internet standards. If websites and webapp builders aren't complying with standards and are building their stuff to only work in non-standard compliant browsers that's a separate problem that no web browser can solve.
>even assholes have a basic right to exist

>I don't give a shit how nice the developers who made my web browser are.

I dont either, but do their coworkers care? If so, they should be disciplined or fired depending on behavior.
I think this post assumes that Firefox is an inferior browser, and that the cause is mismanagement.

But is Firefox an inferior browser? I think it used to be, but over the last couple years, it has made massive improvements in features and performance. I use it in both desktop and mobile, and I prefer it over Chrome.

As a software engineer, I rely heavily on my browser for work. For me, the multi-account containers in Firefox are the must-have feature. No other browser can offer the ease of separating multiple test accounts, and multiple gmail/gsuite accounts for multiple enterprises separate.

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.

Maybe the problem with Mozilla, then, is marketing. Maybe not enough people know that Firefox is much, much better than it used to be. Or maybe the general sentiment is echoed in your post. People don't feel that Mozilla is focused on writing good software, so they don't expect Firefox to be good.

Personally, I think the biggest cause for the loss of market share is simple:
Safari is the default on iOS and Chrome is the default on Android, and population of mobile devices is exploding, and there are no mainstream mobile devices that are carrying Firefox with it.
That route has a pithier name: "disruption"
I always find it funny when my local TV news station reports that according to sewage sampling research drug usage has increased year over year.
> or create giant backdoors.

Using memory safe languages is a big step towards this goal.
The problem is that even when that choice is given, every Google search pushes Chrome, Microsoft constantly pushes you to switch to Edge. I'm not sure how much Apple pushes Safari, but last I heard it actually gives superior battery life on Mac OS so there's a real technical reason to not use Firefox.
$ brew tap-info "homebrew/cask-fonts" --json | jq -r '.[].cask_tokens[]' | rg victor
homebrew/cask-fonts/font-victor-mono-nerd-font
homebrew/cask-fonts/font-victor-mono
Mozilla didn't really invent Rust, and its looking quite likely that Rust is going to be just as significant of a contribution to the world as Firefox was (long term).
I strongly disagree with that, they're about as clear and unintrusive as I can imagine, what else would you do?

Personally _I_ even sometimes use them when markdown isn't available, as in won't be rendered.
> You can't turn off IP-based geolocation.

Thats about 99% of the reason my phone is always using a VPN.

Sure, geolocate my IP. I'm in Melbourne. Accurate to an almost 1000km CEP...
Funny thing. Or not. But Google results page displays different short texts for every page. Is it just me or that changed? I remember that every page result should display same briefing
Just to add what I see as a positive move, there is progress regarding multiple mic selection in webrtc. This is the kind of thing that practically matters to me, and there is work being done as far as I can tell. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238038
Interesting point about the why markets are not good at pricing complicated geo political events with bi modal potential outcomes https://youtu.be/_keYxwUXmuc?t=649

Detailed mechanics of how Quantitative Easing affects equities prices: https://youtu.be/_keYxwUXmuc?t=706

Interesting example of a specific example of a large market participant making a trade which only makes sense given an extremely short term incentive structure: https://youtu.be/_keYxwUXmuc?t=1450

What Mohamed considers to be the three phases of an inflation cycle: https://youtu.be/_keYxwUXmuc?t=1739
I'm not arguing there's not some possible influence, I don't know if you can say that with any media in any country, I was just taking exception to the blatantly false "state owned and operated".
Just comply and the regime will not threaten you is not really how a free person thinks.
This same story has come up a couple of times and each time there is the chorus of “how inhumane etc..”, personally I’m sympathetic that his loved one was ill, and I know the difficulties with that situation, but, I am entirely unsympathetic to his work situation.

The person was making $300k a year and you don’t make that kind of scratch without really high performance expectations and stress being placed on you. He took the job after his wife was sick, he was given opportunity to take leave to handle his personal business and mental health and chose not to do it. He could have used STD and LTD if he opted and appears he didn’t. At every stage this person appears to have made the “maximize money” decision instead of alternatives which could result in less job stress, but maximizing the focus on his family’s and his health.

Was he given a shitty personal row to hoe, absolutely. Did he make it worse for himself…I think that’s a yes too.
Element really is not motivated to centralise. We're busy building P2P Matrix so that everyone can run their own server without thinking (by putting it in their app) - and matrix.org meanwhile is a huge cost which we ideally want to turn off (and will be able to once P2P lands).
> Furthermore, it can be effectively argued that forcing workers to get vaccinated or lose their jobs is inherently discriminatory and perhaps even anti-freedom.

From my understanding, this is only the case for truckers crossing the border. Most of the vaccination mandates I have heard of have been at the provincial or municipal levels and only affect employees of the government or publicly controlled institutions (health, education, police). Even then, it is typically on unpaid leave. Relatively few mandates have come from Ottawa, simply because it isn't their jurisdiction. They aren't leaving much room for human rights complaints, particularly since I believe employers were already within their rights to demand certain vaccinations. I very much doubt that it would even qualify as discriminatory, since it does not affect protected classes.
A lot nicer when everyone is one or the other though. A mix seems to be annoying for people.
I've seen code test in recruitment process for a tiny company. Candidates who had really amazing CVs (multiple projects, leading roles) who were applying for a position of PHP developer when actually sat down in front of a computer with google, text editor and PHP couldn't write the simplest programs. And I'm not talking about reversing binary tree whatever that is or even fizzbuzz. They couldn't reserve a string! Or use any other basic features of PHP language that were all painfully easy to google. One manged to copy paste a solution to a single problem not showing any original thought anywhere. And that was the best candidate. Most of them just crumled and ran away when they saw that they actually are expected to write a bit of code.

If they were hired on the CV alone they would be fired on the first week, possibly first day.
dont join faang.
It's been a while since I've seen this name! They also authored a roguelike titled pixel dungeon [1] which I've sunk countless hours into when I was in high school. I suppose city generation not too dissimilar to dungeon generation

[1]: https://watabou.itch.io/pixel-dungeon
WRONG THREAD:

Reddit has been having traffic drops for the last week.

Yesterday and the previous were the worst:

and what is WEIRD is that when Reddit would go down, I would lose my wifi...

This is 100000% speculation ; but I find it weird (and I have been on reddit daily for ~15 years! (2006 my account was created) and I have never experienced this behaviour.

It goes down like a FLAPPING maybe 15 mins between but only lasts ~1-2 mins... and comes back.

I run a constant ping -t to goog from my machine to determine my link health...

I havent seen this before.

Also - I am running this from the flagship HPE Omen gaming laptop (I have two of them) and this last ~week is the first time I have seen this from reddit... and other sites are unaffected - but I do lose wifi momentarily when this happens...

Anyone want to tell me how this can happen?

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My netsec theory is a MASSIVE silent user scan.

Total speculation:

What if an entity got access lists from a hack on reddit and they are scanning the shit out of all clients who are connecting to reddit and mapping out the network of connections to reddit by the user-base?

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Conspiracy level comment: China invested a lot in reddit. With global sabre-rattling ; who's to say that TenCent isnt now mapping all users from reddit? The Ban-Hammer came down hard on reddit users recently..

There are some really interesting thoughts I have seen on the Ban Hammer --> narrative driving --> Bot manipulation on Reddit.

I really hope that we may see some thoughts from Reddit on what is happening in the future, sans that ; that we can at least hope that Reddit is talking to other entities about whats happening? What about the recent drop of any sort of spam filter on gmail?

That one started slow, then ramped up, now its every email I get daily is spam to inbox. Why? What happened to the filtering to other buckets in gmail (spam, promotions, etc)?
I assume of course that you’re equally vehement that any protestor who is employed by the government or military also makes sure to point out that they’re a government employee and that they’re speaking against their government’s policies as an individual, just so we don’t confuse them for spokespeople too, yes?

We would not want confusion and ambiguity there either, after all.
Can we stop with "github" narrative? I remember choosing git vs hg back when github wasn't a thing yet. We chose git on its own merits - it was much faster and had much better support for editing commits (it mattered for our code review processs). I am sure our org was not the only one.

(FWIW, I think hg may have caught up in those areas.. But this is too late now.)
The font is used on the web page itself. You can trivially yoink it out of there and install it on your system if you really like it. I doubt anyone ever pays for fonts for personal use.
> your best friend visiting can seem like a horrific chore

100% for me. Holidays, with non-immediate family coming over, are a nightmare. I would be happy to meet at a restaurant or bar. Prepping the house and a menu of meals, snacks, drinks, etc. is not somthing I ever enjoy. It's stress from beginning to end. I've been known to feign illness to avoid these visits.
Why would a college team need to preselect players if it's all about the management? Couldn't they just pick random players?

Thinking about this more, I find it hilarious to imagine that you would expect the same results from A and B given the same set of performant managers:

A - team of highly unmotivated, undisciplined players

B - team of highly motivated, disciplined players
Are we in the same reality?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-pleads-guilty-minne...
I'm getting the same error.
"watabou" is already famous for Pixel Dungeon, one of the best Rogue-like games for mobile. It's inspired many forks as well.

This project looks to be on the way to another interesting contribution to OSS.
Advertising and media? Robots bid on the ads that billions see every day, and decide what videos billions of people watch.
I don’t see how you could replicate blocking all network access with a website. Websites inherently communicate with a remote server which limits privacy guarantees.
Yet another reminder to install as few apps as possible. I know it can be a little trite, but I do mean it earnestly. People say they care about privacy, but then they install applications which collect this sort of data. Not using the AirBnB app hardly counts as a hardship.
Agreed. Also, Russia has been attacked 3 times in its history already: Napoleon, Wilhelm II + Hitler, despite there being buffer zones back then. And peace is never eternal.
But then developers also know how to use devtools in their browser.
>Wouldn't you just put that in your privacy policy so when some bug makes it in

Well by that reasoning, all legal agreements should just say, "we are not responsible for anything, we take what we want don't, you can't sue us".
The free software people care about your privacy, AWS and Microsoft don't.

They're not forcing you to do anything, just giving you advice.
What are you talking about exactly?
Is this an extension for FF?
Police will not attack their own citizens. Sometimes it happens...shocker. Usually when the government is out of line with the sentiment of the people.
So now they will try to send in the RCMP to the dirty work.
This is a tactic often used by dictators.
Send in out of town people to suppress the locals.
My layman assumption is that some other universe collapsed and then new one emerged.
First step: ditch the CxO-suite payroll; Mozilla has turned into a giant C-suite sucking sound on its finance and has gone blind to its original tenet.

2. Revert to Redhat pre-IPO corporate model (and stay there)

3. Restart and fill up PAID development team

4. Massive support team in response to user-support/feature-request

5. ???

6. Profit!
Out of interest, what hardware do you have? I had a Samsung S7, and the difference between Chrome and FF was minimal (Chrome was slightly faster, but only just). That's quite an old device, but I wonder if somehow it being a high-end device when it was new still counts for something...?
A different comment on this post provided some sources of prior buildups:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30337335
I shipped my first commercial project at age 11, in May of 1978. 44 years later, writing code every day, I'm still trucking, and I don't think I have ever worked a day in my life. There have been days where it has been tough, there have been days where they've tried to micromanage me, there have been days when I was bored, and there have been days where the pay wasn't so great, and if those times lasted more than an acceptable amount, I went and found something else to do for someone else. I get paid money to play. What I have studiously avoided is getting pigeon holed or type cast into a singularly defining role that prevents me from exploring.

I will note I've burned out once or twice for a few weeks, until I woke up and realized I was in a horribly toxic environment. And then I simply moved on and found some other exciting project to work on.
Pumping excessive amounts of groundwater for agriculture lowers the water table and may be a bigger driver for tree die-off:

https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-enviro...