skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Quarantine != "barred". Perhaps inconvenient to the point of rethinking the trip, yes,

The original quote was "de facto barred". If something is "inconvenient to the point that it makes the trip infeasible" it's pretty much as good as barring entry.

> And even that inconvenience can be removed with a free, safe shot that takes 30 seconds to get for those that aren't prevented by some other health condition.

I'm vaxxed and boosted, but at this point it doesn't seem like vaccines inhibit transmission and thus it's purely a matter of bodily autonomy. "yield your right to bodily autonomy and you may enter" is some authoritarian nonsense.
That’s a shame because EVM is technological trash, a hurriedly designed code base full of security holes and other problems. It gives me heartburn that so much financial value is being built on top of it.
Have you looked into auditing decentralized finance (defi) protocols? There is currently a huge demand and very low supply of good auditors. I believe there also are very many "anon" auditors in the space, so your past would not be a big problem I don't think.
Well, come hang out on MeatballWiki. I reopened it during the pandemic for us lost digital souls.
Patreon is a bay area startup with loads of VC funding. Their engineering team is well paid and people hold them to a higher standard.

GiveSendGo has amateurish security because it's an amateurish company.

Think of it this way. Patreon's security failure made bay area techies look bad because it turned out that you couldn't just hire a bunch of them and expect things to go well. GiveSendGo's security failure makes bay area techies look bad because it turns out cloud security isn't as easy as they'd like to think.

Also taking down small sites that provide services to the out group of the bay area is unacceptable in a democracy. It invites legislative reprisal.
It's almost assuredly not done by someone who was directly 'annoyed' by the protests, that's a relatively small area, and hackers with skills are not that common.

The protests are an ideological touchstone, there are surely a lot of hackers in this world keen on 'exposing terrible people' (in their purview) and my money is on just some random 'hacker'.

I'm doubtful that it would be a government action, because those secrets are hard to keep and if it was leaked, the current political situation would collapse immediately. Trudeau & Co. would be gone for good. The details wouldn't really matter that much. I mean, he survived Blackface but he won't survive that kind of scandal.

That said, I'm pretty sure there was a de-facto systematic collusion between gov. offisials and GoFundMe etc. to shut down funding. The gov. can show GFM 'police reports' etc. and that can be used as a basis for cancellation. This is a bit problematic because all protests of a certain size have 'unlawful activity' and as soon as something is on the books, it's hard to put in context. This gives systems like GFM (or Apple, or Google or Amazon or VISA) the legitimate 'cover' to do kind of whatever.

I don't support the truckers, I see their TikTok's and they are rather uninformed antivaxxers, however, I kind of have to accept their right to protest.

Protesters in Portland literally took city blocks by force, threatened violence with serious weapons, two people died, there was tons of avoidable crime, police and rescue not allowed to enter etc. and they didn't seem to get quite the disdain that the truckers are, rather the press kind of just seemed to 'avoid them'. I understand every situation is different ... but still.

Truckers are dug in in Ottawa and Police are wary of confrontation, there's hints that the rank and file of Ott Police and RCMP are a bit sympathetic, and the Tow Trucker drivers are as well and don't want to face blowback. There is 'just enough empathy' among the Canadian public that it could 'tip in their favour' if we saw the firehoses or CS gas break out. It's definitely a very delicate political situation.

But in the end - Occam's Razor: some guy did this and leaked it, that's that.

They will eventually go home.
Things aren't back to normal because of politics. There have been places where things have been normal for over a year now.
The first novel is different than all of the others because of the psychological intensity and claustrophobia. (e.g. it's a story of a civilization at the breaking point, not after it was broken or facing permanent expansion.)

The other ones are ahead of their time in terms of the idea of "downloading".
Do you think they would not otherwise store names if they weren't accepting credit card donations? If they were using Bitcoin, I'd bet that the only difference might be the lack of a billing address — it seems exceedingly unlikely that the crowdsourcing site or people running the campaign weren't planning to be able to contact their supporters and in many cases they need that for accounting or tax purposes, too.
It was mentioned here in a comment[1] the other day on an an article about another attempt to recreate the aurochs and reintroduce it in Europe.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30327583

I figure, somebody saw that and read a bit more about it (as I did) and decided to share.
I believe you, but I haven't. Though I haven't done much large sized tech company work other than the Nasdaq gig I mentioned, which was background checked.

I think the overall point doesn't really change. Apply. Let other people dismiss.
Smartphones are extremely useful tools we have in our pockets. The problem is when we cross the line and instead of tools in our benefit, we become the tools at the hands of the technology. Self control is something that not many of us have or something that many cave in easily at the hands of abusive corporations.
One thing missed when talking about Firefox's market share is desktop versus mobile market share.

If you look at Wikimedia's metrics, Firefox still has ~10% market share of the desktop browser market[0], not too bad considering Firefox is not the default browser on any platform outside of linux systems for the most part, and that Mozilla is much smaller entity than competing browser vendors. Still down from the ~30%[0] desktop share they had, but now they have 2 large competing entities offering default browsers so the decline is somewhat expected.

Also, contrast this with Firefox's ~0.7% share on mobile[0] where Mozilla has never been able to get a good foothold.

As long as Firefox isn't available as a default on mobile and as the share of mobile device web browsing increases, Firefox will keep losing total market share as a percentage.

Strategy wise, refocusing efforts on retaining that 10% desktop share might be a good idea. From there, work on building up more of the desktop share and then try marketing the mobile browser to the desktop browser community to build up mobile browser share.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_market_share#Summary_t...
I literally said “de facto”. A 14 day quarantine when one has 10 days vacation a year is de facto a bar.

Nor did I argue, or am interested in arguing, the merits of banning the unvaccinated. I just stated that they are effectively banned from entry.
I think these 200 IQ tech CEOs have lost their minds and don't realize that their power is like that of an ant next to a lion when compared to the power of the 89 IQ politicians that run governments. Except for Satya Nadella they are all headed for a massive beatdown.
A lot of smartphone users have IoT devices plugged in at home that, for better or for worse, have a persistent connection to the internet. It would be feasible and useful for these devices to act as personal servers for certain kinds of services. In fact I believe Apple already does this with HomeKit, where users’ AppleTVs or HomePods can act as a “hub” to facilitate communication with devices at home from outside the local network.
I only start FF when I get a customer report about an issue on FF. I guess I start it seldom enough to always trigger some sort of watchdog?

Anyway, here's my 2 cents. I only open FireFox when a customer reports an issue, and I'm always barraged by a deluge of unwanted info, which doesn't encourage me to open FF more often.
can we just eat the execs?

on a more serious note, what if mozilla fires ALL execs? will it just crumble under its own weight or will that "industry linked remuneration" be replaced with more money for actual developers who get things done and are not in for the quick buck like address bar ads?
What he said was: get rid of the people who are not interested in making the Firefox browser better. Get rid of the distractions. Focus on the browser.
This eliminates the pre-funding requirement, but doesn't the USPS needs to fund these retirements somehow? This means either

1. Retired mail carriers aren't going to get benefits

2. This kicks the can down the road and they have to pay it all at a later date plus the lost time value of money

3. The US taxpayer is bent over the barrel to make up the difference

The article doesn't make it clear. None of those three options seem very good. What am I missing?
Follow Brave's lead. I was a Firefox-only user for 10+ years until Brave Browser delivered what Firefox had been promising.
And we should allow that to continue?
Not claiming, that your experience isn't true, but: Firefox hasn't crashed for me in years! And I am a real tab hoarder. 400 tabs and more are not so uncommon for me. Then again I don't allow arbitrary websites to run all sorts of shit scripts. It might or might not be your hardware, or it might be the websites you visit.
It's very much a problem with the orgs and the typical culture at these types of orgs. It's not a problem with the tech.

Someone mentioned Unity. I'm really curious as to what typical C# Unity codebase looks like since I imagine a Unity game dev shop would culturally be very, very, different from a big enterprise .NET shop.
I love seeing well-organized code in a single HTML file - very easy to read and comprehend. Kudos!
The real (and often downvoted) answer is that Mozilla compromised on their core values. A "death by a thousand cuts", as it were.

For me, it started back when "sponsored tiles" were first announced in 2014. On the surface it was obviously advertisements, but many defenders tried to argue that it was a "good thing"

Then there was the proprietary Pocket extension baked into the browser with no easy removal. Again, many defenders tried to argue it was a "good thing"

Then the "studies" channel was used to push a Mr Robot ad. It's unclear how it was aligned with the values, but defenders tried to argue it was a "good thing".

They partnered with Cliqz to collect data and make recommendations. Again, defenders tried to argue it was a "good thing"

They partnered with Booking.com to push advertisements, going so far as to argue that they didn't receive any monetary compensation and that it was just a "social experiment". Again, defenders tried to argue it was a "good thing"

This is just a sampling of the events in the last 8 years (sponsored tiles was 2014). Every single time, they may have received some sort of benefit, but a number of users who bought into firefox for the security and privacy aspects ... felt betrayed and left. Because if it isn't about the privacy, what is the USP of firefox? "Not google" is only a small part of the user base.
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Not just censorship. A lot of people think the media, the government AND the opposition, are actively malicious towards them. Not just in America, in many western countries.

I think in the 90s a lot of people thought the goverment was misguided, or stealing, or even had some shady branches. But not actively malicious and harmful as a whole.
I think it might be very simple. It only takes a couple of votes for a story to hit the front page. Those votes could have come from people like you who are on both sites. Once something hits the front page here, people seem to take it more seriously, which is a bit of a shame since so many quality submissions just slide off the new page because they fail to get the 2 or 3 necessary upvotes.
> who would be fine in recyclable coveralls

What's stopping you?
I am in disagreement with the statement that exams provides proof that the student has learned the topic.

In my opinion, exams show which students have figured out how to beat the exam.

There might be some that do this by learning the topic, but in my experience the path of least resistance to a good grade has been to study the exam - not the topic of the course that it's based on.

As an example, I was one of the three people (out of 250 students) in my physical chemistry class that got the highest possible grade. I gained no understanding of the topic at all during that time - what I learned was to recognise which formula to use for specific problems on the test. I don't know what any of the results meant or what said result could be used for, simply that it was correct.

This correlates well with the observations made by Google and other large companies that analyse how to identify valuable hires. Turns out that there's no correlation between grades and workplace performance.

So if the exam result offers no information of the students ability to do a job in "real life" and at the same time introduce incentives that conflict with actually learning a topic, then I think it's better to significantly limit their importance or outright get rid of them.

I haven't been able to find any positive gains from having exams, but if someone has some resources on this, I'd be very curious to see it :-)
> Nobody ever accused Microsoft or Sony of "getting to decide what games were allowed to be made" because they strictly controlled what works are allowed on their platforms. There are always other platforms one can publish on.

Yeah because you could publish a game on tons of different platforms. There was competition. Sega, Nintendo, Atari, Sony, and that was just consoles, they too competed with Microsoft PC, then Microsoft XBox which was the same company but introduced additional competition nonetheless, and on top of all that, you could publish a game for Mac. And then there were the arcades, and gaming moreover competed with games that were electric but analog, like pinball and bowling. And that's excluding gambling. Another popular form of video games that didn't involve the companies I mentioned was watching a single viewer play a video game using a telephone as a controller and watching on a local TV channel, with thousands others watching the kid play, there were more platforms right there.

There was competition, and it was culturally accepted that if you wanted to show something to the world, there were many ways to go about it, but you had to go through a publisher, or a distributor, something.
Take a look at tree-style tabs. I started using them in FF and have looked several times at chromium-based add-ins and absolutely nothing comes close.

Edge vertical tabs is your best choice if you must use a chromium browser, however it is a weak imitation of TST.
> Most HVACs do not set temperature that accurately enough in a room anyway for 0.5C adjustments to actually be useful.

The radiator thermostats I use have a 0.5 °C gradation. A 1 °C gradation would be too coarse as far as I’m concerned. That doesn’t mean that I’d prefer Fahrenheit, but 1° C is actually a quite significant step subjectively for environmental temperature.
>You want to know what happens whenever the US pulls back? Ukraine gets invaded.

America hasn't even pulled back and we still can't stop Ukraine from getting invaded. Besides, preventing Ukraine from getting invaded isn't worth a whole lot of money as an American. We can not and should not try to be the world's police.
Also, "the state" seems to tacitly support the protests. Others have rightly pointed out, that had this been a left-wing protest, "the state" response would have been brutal and decisive. So it's kind of hard to see why they'd do it this way rather than taking a much more direct approach.

I have no doubts that the true culprits for this hack will be found and the punishment will be orders of magnitude worse than anything the truckers will receive.
>Always shocking to see the lack of recognition for disasters caused by the USSR regime, such as the Holodomor

This is the case with all socialist-led events like this, they tend to get downplayed in the mainstream for some reason..
Again, send you evidence to the mods.
I think it's a fine illustration of the concept of calendar?
Perceptions are pretty much 100% of the reason people pick a browser.
Surprisingly perceptive and useful tips, I think peer-review is something that's both underused and hard to get right. We all love to self-manage but SW development can be a bit insular and some feedback from peers, if they are respected, can really help.
I'd never heard of this and spent a few minutes searching. I was expecting something like a 10-foot stick but it's more like 4-feet. (paywall but I used Safari's reader mode) https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/reference/polic...
What prevents corporations from applying this to all employees?

Non-competes used to be for high level executives. Now they are forced on people making sandwiches at Jimmy John's.
Googs just gave them $400m which means they have soooo much more than $400m. FF has to pay all of its budget with that, so hiring lawyers to take on Googs with that same bucket of money will never work. Googs will continue to give Moz $400m, but then turn right around and spend $401m on their lawyers to fight off whatever Moz can afford.
I'm not a conservative mind you, but if your goal is to eventually get elected, you probably want to win on topics that will actually gain you votes vs. those that take them away.

This is a wedge issue, and as such they're casting their votes to alienate a huge (likely majority) of voters away from your platform before the leader has even been selected.

Secondly, this protest has been a huge news vacuum attracting non-stop coverage. This is bad for a party that needs to drum up any support for a leadership race to carry them more seats in the next election. By the time this plays out, the conservatives could be half way through their election and most Canadians may not even know the candidates.
It's a strong indictment to the extent that this person actually "runs the show" and his views about race represent the majority of protesters' views. Which is to say "yes, it's a weak indictment".
Blocking bridges with trucks and no guns is a military tactic? I believe that is an example of civil disobedience. Words matter.
Related threads. Others?

The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441593 - March 2021 (85 comments)

The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26363660 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Scientists are close to bringing it back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846891 - Dec 2019 (2 comments)

American chestnut poised for return to America's forests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855137 - March 2017 (1 comment)

American chestnut trees are “technically extinct” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13478910 - Jan 2017 (120 comments)
Or, just open `about:profiles` and press buttons.
This is basically my vision of how to bring self-hosting to the masses.

Upcycle an old Android phone. Install apps for Nextcloud, Jellyfin, etc. Do a quick OAuth2 flow with your domain name provider to tunnel a subdomain directly to the app, and you have an end-to-end encrypted private cloud.

For this to work we need:

* Simpler domain name providers targeted at consumers instead of IT professionals. You shouldn't need to understand DNS records to use a domain.

* An open protocol for setting up tunnels[0].

* Nextcloud et al need to implement the protocol on their end. For open source projects 3rd parties can make wrappers.

[0]: https://forum.indiebits.io/t/toward-an-open-tunneling-protoc...
Flash for general websites and for navigation was hellish. But Flash for games? It was a boon. I really enjoyed the early/mid era of Flash games, Kongregate and the like.

I'm not arguing for Flash games now, I think there are much better tools today. But back then it was a boon to indie/experimental game developers (and animation artists) and enabled them to develop relatively cheap games and reach a wide audience.
> The commonality there is Intel. My XPS doesn't even have a recent driver package for its integrated Vega GPU because Intel refused to support it.

Intel website shows their most recent Vega M release is 1/27/22. If Dell isn't keeping their drivers up to date, that's their problem, but the Vega M drivers are out there, Dell probably just isn't putting out releases.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19269/radeo...

anyway, more broadly, this is, unfortunately, just AMD's driver support model. For the longest time they would not even put out iGPU driver updates for their own processors, instead offloading this responsibility to the laptop vendors themselves (who, of course, did not give a shit). i.e. exactly what's happening with your dell.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Better-late-than-never-Radeon-...

And I don't know what people really expect here - Intel is dependent on AMD for drivers, they absolutely cannot write and support a whole new driver stack for an AMD product, if AMD sandbags (like they did previously to OEMs) then Intel is pretty much stuck. AMD got shamed into supporting their own products, finally, but they're absolutely not going to give Intel an inch more than they are contractually obligated to. It's in their financial interest to make your experience as shitty as they can.

Of course, it was probably a mistake for Intel to attempt to collaborate with their largest competitor, and they definitely should have made sure the contract was airtight. But there's really no good reason for these not to be supported by mainstream Adrenalin drivers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/coutts-protest-blocka...

Mounties said in a release Monday that they became aware of a small organized group within the larger protest at Coutts.

They say they had information that the group had access to a cache of firearms and ammunition. Officers seized long guns, handguns, multiple sets of body armour, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition and high-capacity firearm magazines.
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I use concentrated beef flavoring in some sauces. It's like liquid bouillon. Doesn't need refrigeration, much the same as bouillon I suppose. And all the salt in it helps too!
Here's my perspective on this - Chrome has established itself as the baseline. The baseline is no longer the W3C standard, it's Chrome due to all of the experimental future W3C spec items being in Chrome. Chrome leads the spec, and with its 70% market share developers allow it to.

Firefox will always be playing catchup because of this, regardless of their market share. This leaves three main reasons for using Firefox:

1.) decoupling from Google / ad privacy

2.) promoting browser ecosystem health

3.) familiarity / history of use

Unfortunately, these three items lead to a very narrow TAM, especially when talking purely about new users. The gap will continue to grow as sites that work in Chrome but don't work in Firefox, despite the site using things not in the W3C spec, will be seen as Firefox issues by non-technical users. These users will eventually default to Chrome.
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I use firefox on android. Its frustrating at times. It doesn't integrate well with android stuff like opening up in apps I think. It takes me to the app store or doesnt even open in apps. Google stuff like looking at reviews doesn't work in firefox.
New EU legislation makes it mandatory to add a prominent button to cancel your subscription! It‘s not allowed to force you to give a call or, in Germany, even login.

https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/211006-new-two-click...