skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
adding one more to it, I can make stuff that can be potentially consumed by millions. up until turn of the century you'd need resources of a king or a industrialist to be able to touch that many people.
Doesn't an employer need your consent to run a background check on you?
A machete may be considered a weapon in certain contexts, but that's not a unique law. The US also reclassifies things as weapons once they are used as weapons (in that instance.) Attack someone with a machete and it suddenly becomes a deadly weapon.
"Capable of succeeding" meaning what? If you switch to a normal manager and suddenly save the company 2 million a year, and they stop making the current trend of decisions, that sounds like a win-win. CEOs aren't magical rarities.
They don't have to be a good steward. They can simply be a good-enough steward until they kill off all remaining competition (of which - hey, only Firefox is left!), then they can coast on minimum effort for as long as it takes for the web to die off and for the app-ification process of everything to complete. Then they can move on to greater, bolder things.
I would instead argue that Firefox's Gecko engine is beyond saving and that any money invested in it now would be better donated to other community projects because there isn't enough resource to catch up. Sticking with Gecko will eventually lead to the dismise of Firefox the organization.

Microsoft, with their resource and their ability to bundle Microsoft Edge in with Windows, couldn't get any appreciable amount of marketshare. Firefox, with less resource than Microsoft, won't fare any better.

Rebuilding Firefox with Chronium would salvage whatever the mindshare/marketshare left. Then Firefox could still wield some influence with their marketshare and the threat of forking Chronium.
Commodities are bad long term bets…

Commodities are a stabilizer for portfolios… they let you take more risk in other parts of your portfolio because they are easily marketable, non-productive assets.

Equities on the other hand have unknown amounts and timing for cash flows. Hence people bid the value of stocks up, down, and all around.
Boy are we going to look stupid when a non-scam crypto use comes out! Total egg on our collective faces! One of these days! I mean obviously not today, but soon, right?
It's absolutely torture. I don't live in Ottawa, but I was eating at a restaurant near the trucker protest that sprung up in my city two weeks ago, and I nearly lost my mind just hearing the horns blaring for an hour straight. I can't even imagine what the poor people in Ottawa are going through.
Russia wants war. They're the ones provoking this. They can just... not attack.
Questions to Ask to Have Influence over People
Front loader washing machines seem to be nearly unrepairable when the main bearing goes out.

We were quoted $400 labor plus around $800 for a complete new drum assembly when the bearing went out in our 7 year old machine. When asked if we could replace just the bearing, they said labor would be around $600 and $75 for the bearing, but they wouldn't warranty the work unless we replaced the entire assembly.

In theory, I could have replaced the bearing on my own, but getting help to move it to the garage, spending a day or two disassembling the entire machine to replace the bearing and then hoping I could get it all put back together was a much bigger repair than I was willing to do on my own.

I ended up paying $900 to replace the whole machine with a newer, more energy efficient model.
> And they're absolutely right. But it begs the first-principals question-- why code using a monospace font? Today, every major editor that isn't terminal-based supports proportional width fonts beautifully.

There was a whole "coding font" family designed around the idea that we should be using proportional fonts for this, and it makes a great case...

https://input.djr.com/info/

...except that just about every time I've tried this, I've quickly run into places where trying to use a proportional font creates visual fails. Here's a simple one:

/**
* Render a given template
*
* @param string $_template
* @param array $_args
* @return string
*/

Put that in a non-proportional font, and the asterisks on the first line probably won't line up with the rest. Now think of someone doing visual alignment of assignment operators in a block of code like you often see in Ruby, or any code following the indentation standard where you line up parameters in a multi-line function header with the character after the open parenthesis like you often see in Python. Speaking of parentheses, can you imagine what will happen with proportional fonts and Lisp indentation? It'd drive the hardiest Emacs user to drink in short order.

Proportional fonts in editors are a good idea whose time probably just hasn't yet come. We'd need (a) to have editors that support "elastic" or variable tabs to keep things aligned in a truly sane fashion, (b) to re-teach a generation or two of programmers that indenting with the tab character is good, actually, and (c) to develop a few new conventions for what makes code look neat and pretty.
Yeah, having Revise.jl be able to redefine types would be delightful.
Because I consider websites with obnoxious ads and a bunch of tracking "broken" Firefox gives people a lot of reason to switch, but unless they try it for themselves they have no idea what they're missing or how the pages they visit would look and be improved without all that junk.
Microsoft was forced to allow browser choice in the EU. I don't see why Apple and Google shouldn't be subject to the same, with the added condition that browser rendering engine diversity gets preferential treatment.

Give users a 60% chance to see Firefox as the first option, then show them the multitude of Chrome/Safari-based browsers.
I described what needs to happen in
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/40399, but so far nobody has had the time to implement it.
In this case, if you were an animator, you could still create models/animations, but you wouldn't be able to sync up with the rest of team on a daily basis. Perhaps a little frustrating, but with decent communication it would have been manageable.
> Your issue is conflating management with superiority...

Your issue is not realizing that many managers feel this way. They think that being a manager puts them above the people they are managing, and that their job as a manager is to boss people around (thus the genesis of that term).

Edit: I'll see your Phil Jackson and raise you Bobby Knight.
It kind of does. Some of the digs at Boomers seemed accurate, though. So did the "amnesiac Eternal Present" bit. I laughed at those, just like I laugh when my daughter says "OK Boomer" just to troll me (she knows I'm GenX). But other parts of the author's depiction of post-X generations don't match anyone I've known among my coworkers or daughter's cohort, and the anti-woke vibe almost ruins the whole thing. Maybe some of the too-many Joe Rogan fans around here will appreciate it more.
Mozilla is not IBM. They may compete against the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Apple, yet they are not those companies either. The scope of their business interests are minuscule in comparison. Heck, their share of the markets that they do compete with those companies in pales in comparison. So yes, there is an element of arrogance in her claim.
Every public figure has been called names. It comes with the territory and usually it's not worth mentioning. It's part of the deal and shouldn't be surprising to anyone who has decided to step into the public square. Some people fixate on that so they can get their 15 seconds of fame in the culture war game, others return the focus to the cause they are fighting for.

> Thanks for telling me what I should do, without knowing what I've been doing.

I can't read your mind. So far it's all emotions and no content, so hopefully you have been doing something more than that.
Yes, a typo from me and too late to change/edit now without help from one of the mods
Even though many Anglo left-wing groups are sympathetic to, and act in solidarity with the First Nations, is it accurate to label indigenous protesters as left-wing protesters? How united was the left when the Mohawks stood in the way of Quebecois nationalism? Perhaps it is imprecise to conflate incipient nationalist groups within Canada with "left-wing."
My objection to this is someone's contribution is a factor of culture / role / assignments and person. You could have a great person who's had to do some low-impact work (someone has to fix those bugs!), finds themselves in the 80% and then realises it (they will), and self-selects out of the company. You don't want to lose such people.

The trick is to bring out the best talent in everyone in my opinion.
Citizen resistance against a modern military is largely a LARP fantasy.
I've heard this spin multiple times.

Fun fact - people who live or have lived in disease-plagued areas of the world are far more likely to willingly adhere to guidelines on masks, isolation, and the like, because they've seen, firsthand, the devastating effect of pandemics and epidemics.

Let's not pretend for one moment that your average antivaxxer in the US or Canada is in any way on some sort of moral crusade for the third world.

It's just a "better" reason than "because I'm selfish".
Yeah but that $10 / hour doesn't compare to the $60+ / hour I make from software. What a joke.
A striking amount of responses here make me think “we all should invest more time in non-work friends.”
Depends on what region we're talking about. 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) have taken any concrete steps to regulate the tech giants despite a bunch of rhetoric. There are several reasons:

- A non-trivial number of lawmakers are holding stock investments in tech

- Good luck getting re-elected if said regulation affects growth and crashes the economy

- Good luck getting re-elected if you get on the wrong side of the largest advertising companies in the world. What are they going to do, run campaign ads in the newspaper?
My employer paid for ISDN in 1999 and I thought I’d reached nirvana. It wasn’t dramatically faster than modem, but an always-on connection directly to the corporate network was quite handy when getting paged at 3am.
If you're willing to pay scalper prices, there's a relatively consistent availability. If you're looking for closer to MSRP, they're in short supply and your choices are either waiting lists or racing other people for online restocks. I got a 3080 a month ago only after waiting on EVGA's wait list for just over a year.

Why do you need a 3070/3080 specifically? If it's to run something like Tensorflow or CUDA code more generally, could you do it with an older card, or the more available 3060s?
> Who are we to decide what Apple charges for Apple services?

The EU will create an investigation team to decide this, just like they did for VISA and Mastercard when they capped card transaction feed.

> Why is it any of our collective concern what apple over/under charges for?

Because unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
These are mostly used as Ipad apps, and even then, they nowhere provide the tools that are available on a standard PC. Sure, you can use them to do cool things, but I can also create paintings with just ketchup and fries. That's not what 99% of people who have fries in their hands do/should do.
If Russia does this every year then there is nothing to be concerned about. The US media isn't going to push the US into a preemptive strike.

...but it is not at all normal for the US to evacuate the embassy in Ukraine.
> Life expectancy differs by race

Are you implying direct causality there? Do you have evidence of causality? Race does affect access to the things that result in greater life expectancy, such as healthcare, money, and education.

You may not intend it this way, but the claim is similar to a well-used bit of prejudiced sophistry which turns causality on its head: They say, 'X doesn't have greater life expectancy because of minorities' (again, not your words). That's ambiguous about the causality (as sophistry would be), but let's unpack it: It implies that minorities have worse health, pulling down the average, which implies that being a member of a 'minority' (a term without physiological basis or even clear definition) somehow causes you to have worse health. The reality is that being a member of a minority reduces your access, in our society, to the things that provide good health (see above).

> states differ in racial makeup and average educational level

Are you implying that 1) there is a correlation in the data between those factors and life expectancy, and 2) those (or even other demographics) are the only or primary factors (and aren't we forgetting likely the leading demographic factor, wealth)?

I would have to see some data for the first; I don't see it based on my rough knowledge of state demographics. Also I strongly doubt #2: For example of another factor, many top-of-the-list states have long invested more in the health and education of their citizens (as the critics of such policies will agree - they continually criticize taxpayers in those states for funding such things, mocking the tax rates and all government programs).

To try an example that maybe we can cite without research, remember the Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare'): IIRC many bottom-of-the-list states minimized their participation in it (while those at the top participated without hesitation), and their elected officials worked to disable it at all levels. Not only does that reduce available health care, but arguably it reflects that health care is a lower priority in those states, which may reduce healthcare's availability in many ways. Coronavirus response was similar: Which states had support for measures to protect health (though the data in the is pre-pandemic)?

In fact, arguably there is a strong correlation between the political party controlling state government and life expectancy. That could be expected because the conservative party spends less on health care, education and other social needs, a policy they prioritize and loudly advocate. And that would undermine causality between minorities, who overwhelmingly vote for the liberal party, and reduced life expectancy.

> I doubt my life expectancy would change much if I move to Mississippi.

It may depend on your use of government services, which in part depends on how much wealth you have. Mississippi is a much different place than Boston. Also, even with wealth, in Boston, you have access to the best hospitals and doctors in the world - not coincidentally in a place that values healthcare and education highly.
Gaslighting Asian Americans About College Admissions
The bit about skateboarding is hilarious because skateboarding was at its absolute peak of popularity in the early 2000s, right when Gen Xers would have been too old. And it almost died out entirely in the 90s.
When major employers have cry closets and we constantly tell people to supplant normal human emotions with pharmaceuticals, I'm going to roll the dice and say the trajectory is decidedly downward. At least, for a short while.
Legislation is the answer for privacy. The tech ship has long sailed to the point that invasive stalking is 'too cheap to meter'.
I recorded a brief video showing how the product works - https://www.loom.com/share/da9861a4526b424f90a08e54aa6e5fea

(Pretending that Stripe is using Fogbender for customer support)
I have 20 yrs now in mainly c# but also js,ts,sql,ruby,etc,etc,..... I really love the way how programming fits into my head and how I can remember quite every code I wrote though the years.
What I hate is that I don't learn anything new, no matter how much I try to explore new concepts. Everything is a remix...
But hey, now I have much more time to learn cyber security and piano :)
Btw, I looooove the HN community spirit and diversity.
Martian Colors: What Does A Colorblind Synesthete See? (2007)
Please tell your friend to report it. If it survived and is still producing seeds, then that has a good chance of having blight resistant genes! There are a lot of people working really hard on bringing the species back, and the benefits could be enormous!
I never even considered people bought fonts for local dev use. Sounds pretty steep.
Calling it a "billionaire space race" always makes me laugh.

If orbit is a marathon, two billionaires have made it to about the 10 mile mark, while the third one has run 112 successful marathons in a row.
Apple was at one point in recent history a small company run out of a garage by a group of friends. At what point exactly did it lose the rights it was entitled to then? If 3 dudes in a basement are entitled to sell goods/services on their own terms, then Apple should be as well. Where is the line? Apple is still a private company, not a public service, and the case I'm making is explicitly against socializing its services simply because it is big,

Instead I'm advocating that, in the interest of long-term (say 50-100 year) public good, we maintain the relatively unregulated environment that allowed Apple to succeed in the first place, and tolerate the relatively small inefficiency that environment produces.
That seems like another shot in the foot though. Apple and google are gatekeepers of notifications. Email is still the most robust choice for infrequent notifications. I wish email had been extended to implement temporary notifications
For unix tools, I assume you mean command line tools? In which case how do you ameliorate the long startup time on each invocation?
"We received multiple CoC violation reports about a DEF CON Village leader, Chris Hadnagy of the SE Village," organizers said in a post on the conference's transparency report, referring to Code of Conduct violations. "After conversations with the reporting parties and Chris, we are confident the severity of the transgressions merits a ban from DEF CON."

The "transparency report" fails to disclose what the alleged incident was, or what evidence was found. They embarrass themselves.
My opinion is that Google deliberately "killed" Mozilla by giving them almost infinite cash.

Mozilla can’t go anywhere because as a business, they have no incentive nor any culture needed to survive. They are spoiled by Google whatever they do.

They are like someone so rich that they don’t have any more goals in life. They are still there but they goes nowhere.

Ofc I’m talking about the company, not the employees that did put hard work into the great product that Firefox still is.

It’s too bad because the web have a great need of a Mozilla-like company/foundation.

Mozilla could have been the anti-Google and they could make tons of money by just providing some cloud services (mail, calendar, storage,…) but they just can’t see it because anything will be harder to monetize than their deal with Google.
I'm guessing this is just whatever the default monospace font is rather than being a font called Monospace.
If I cared badly enough about the mission and it wasn't a for-profit enterprise, I'd take the pay cut. The non-monetary part of my compensation (the feel-good factor and the actual good done in the world that I can't get in a for-profit enterprise) would more than make up for it, at least for a couple of years.
Simply put, IAP is the business model and has been since long before Roblox became successful (or criticized).

I can only think of two potential alternatives. 1) Advertising, but that would be even more fraught than IAP. 2) Subscription fees, but those would severely limit the reach of the platform.

Reach is somewhat important here. A vast swathe of Roblox players have extremely low-end devices. Roblox provides low end games to match, AND a community composed of the same sorts of players (mostly kids 5-12 or so). These players don't pay and aren't involved in buying or selling anything (just like free games in general, the paying % is very low). The rare items you're reading about in this article are only relevant for a very tiny percentage of users.

The interesting and concerning thing about Roblox is completely unmentioned in this article. That is: the Roblox IAP model is significantly different than the wider mobile game industry model. In mobile games, typically whales are the most important audience; those are the very tiny percentage of users who spend unhealthy amounts on games. On Roblox, whales by and large don't exist, and the early breakout successes on the platform had a very low spending cap, one that perhaps even a skeptical person such as yourself might be OK with. A user might pay $5 - $10 for their favorite game -- and then be unable to pay any more. But more recently (in the past 1-2 years) a number of developers on the platform have become MUCH more predatory, and seem to be gunning to create whales. If Roblox doesn't find ways to curtail them, that's going to become a major problem for the platform.

I wouldn't rely on Vice to report on that, though. This article largely exists because Facebook bad, therefore all related businesses bad.
It re-enables third-party scripts that were disabled when mikrotik updated the authentication algorithm with routerOS 6.45.1 (August 2019).

A1. From a cryptography perspective it's a little bonkers but nothing is glaringly wrong.

A2. This doesn't relate to any secure boot chains (if they exist -- i don't think they do)
How is me taking some bitcoin and purchasing something online instantly with near zero fees a scam? Please explain with precise language how that is a scam. That's a use case. Now tell me how it's a scam.
Hackers upload videos of victim kids crying to Youtube. And commenters think this is funny. Jesus.
SpaceX sells three more flights to billionaire Jared Isaacman
Website is literally unreadable without an ad blocker.
I don't understand how they can advertise this font being "wider" than other ones. I skipped all those modern Programming Fonts because none of them is as condensed and readable as "TheSans Mono Condensed".

That font is terrible because its basically still ASCII only, but I use it everywhere. I would pay good money for a Unicode version.
just bought one with a PC from falcon northwest. Not sure about buying it standalone but they sell them with their PCs
If they didn't have the 27%, I would basically set up a business for a US app and boost my revenue 40% simply by cutting out Apple.
I can reflect on like past few years (like 1.5 year ago i was disappointed by julia lack of progres but a lot have changed).

Julia is getting usable even in "normal" applications not only academic stuff, as person who come back after 1.5/2 years to julia i feel like i can use it again in my job cause it is a lot more stable at have a lot of new neat futures + CUDA.jl is amazing.

I hope Julia team will still explore a bit more static type inference and full AOT compilation if language got full support for AOT it'll be a perfect deal for me :).
Where do you get your research for new tokens?
I'm pretty sure the default "monospace" font in KDE is mapped to Hack: https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
In corporate leadership, homophobia is not a "personal view," it is a matter of governance and directly impacts talent acquisition. Further, Brave browser is a Chromium browser that does little to stop the browser engine monopoly at risk here—it does nothing meaningful for browser diversity. Not one comprehensible point is made here besides, I suppose, treating Eich's firing as a political issue.
Yeah but Mozilla has been subverted, since the current CEO got on they are a lightning rod for Google against browser monopoly legal attention, while trying everything possible to neuter them from being a real threat.

Thus she cut the thing most likely to provide a real threat to chrome.
> because I simply can't (couldn't) find a 3070/80 anywhere

This is false.

You can easily find thousands of brand new Nvidia 3070/3080 GPUs online.

The problem is, you wish to pay MSRP. Supply and demand doesn’t work in your favor here.