skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cancel culture comes to browsers.

I never thought I'd type this in my lifetime.
Mozilla has been absolutely full of corporate doublespeak for a long time.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-privacy...

"we develop products and advocate for best practices that put users in control of their data and online experiences."

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/celebrating-cho...

"We put people in control of their online experience"

The page description for the Firefox main page used to say "Firefox is created by a global non-profit dedicated to putting individuals in control online", and before that, instead of "individuals" it said "users". I've quipped before that the change was because they really meant "people working at Mozilla" by "individuals". Now it's something vague about "respecting your privacy" (just like what Facebook and Google claim to do too...)
We use Plectica[1] for this type of stuff at work. Once you enable comments and attributes add-ons, it can be pretty great.

[1]: https://beta.plectica.com
These communities are wealthy and influential. Places like Buffalo will go bankrupt keeping places like NYC above water.
If that were the case you should give people a generous amount of leave and make it expire if unused, 30 days on the first of the year?
physical sensations: Yes. I often feel like a going on a journey. I've stood at the top of an endless drain pipe, holding hands with my brain, before jumping in.

colorful emotions: Yes. I've gone inside a rainbow and swam in a lake of my own feelings

The biggest thing you do is disconnect from your self. I've become the particles I'm made of and often lose the sense of what it is to be human or if I am human or not.
> Unless you haven't been paying attention, the most recent IPCC report basically says, "We're fucked, its gonna happen now no matter what."

Yes, the IPCC is finally coming around to using the words irreversible and abrupt in their assessments.

> You can play with the current IPCC model, change where the clouds form, and get an ice age.

I don't recall seeing any mention of a potential pathway to an ice age in any IPCC report or any recent paper from a peer reviewed journal. Are you saying that there is at least one IPCC contributor who will admit that the models are so uncertain that we don't know whether to expect an ice age instead of catastrophic warming?

> weaponize anxiety to encourage action

A reasonable way to encourage action when nothing has been working. People are going even further than attempting to appeal to emotion, they're actually blocking streets and engaging in civil disobedience. That's because people still believe there's hope for themselves and / or their children and they care to attempt to push for the best outcome possible.

> "Being scared" and "being anxious" isn't productive

It absolutely can be. Sometimes you need a good amount of fear or anxiety to kick you in the ass and cause you to act. That's how most of my writing in high school got done as I didn't do anything until the panic set in. It's not ideal, but again...nothing else has been working.

> what I see as fear mongering headlines and articles trying to steer resources to one and only one cause

How many causes are as important as the preservation of habitat for homo sapiens? I don't think very many people share your "No big deal, ... look forward to seeing what the new apex predator looks like" point of view.
> No burger cooking at all. And if you've seen how they do the burgers at WC [2], that's no small task for a robot yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYlFMylrWI&t=1m14s

From the video, it actually seems as though White Castle burgers are even more optimized for process automation as their preparation doesn't even require flipping (TIL).
I swear late stage capitalism has killed any shred of caring for your customers.
Apple Health is not a walled product though. Any 3rd party app can pull and push data.
The original pi/spigot work was done by Rabinowitz & Wagon [1]. See also the very readable works by Jeremy Gibbons [2] [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spigot_algorithm

[2] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/s...

[3] https://seminar-materials.iijlab.net/iijlab-seminar/iijlab-s...
Sugically implanted headphones are literally "in-ear" (2013)
They’re working on it

You can follow along here

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222382
Everyone using (the same) social network sites is a common misconception of those who use (those) social network sites.

For example, Facebook popularity in Russia is maybe 1/10th of Instagram popularity in Russia, and Vkontakte is used 5× more that that.
Almost all of the 50-100,000 civilians killed as a consequence of the Gulf War were killed by Saddam Hussein putting down an insurgency. (Direct civilian losses by the hands of the invading force were less than 4,000.) That the U.S. gave the impression they would support an insurgency and then left those people to be slaughtered by Hussein became a not insignificant piece of moral propaganda used by Dick Cheney, Ahmed Chalabi (leader of the pseudo-government in exile), and others to justify the Iraq War.

IOW, the talking point that those deaths were the fault of the U.S. invasion was ultimately used to have another go, resulting in even more deaths. We should be really careful about making moral equivalencies. Yes, in a very real sense the Gulf War was a but-for cause, and being mindful of how such campaigns can upset regional stability to the detriment (in absolute terms) of civilian life is important, but that's definitely not the same thing as having killed those people directly.

EDIT: If you were referring to the carcinogenic effects of depleted uranium, the evidence has been extremely equivocal even to this day. Unsurprising given the insane confounders, such as all the other unchecked chemicals used in the environment in such areas, not to mention the after effects of actual physical violence of a particular war, as well as ongoing violence populations typically suffer under autocratic regimes (including actual chemical weapons repeatedly deployed by Hussein). Plus there's the general anti-nuclear hysteria one must account for, which creates a selection bias in whom and what is studied by those with an axe to grind. All of which is to suggest a very small epidemiological effect at best. In violence ravaged areas the least of anybody's worries, and certainly nothing that could even remotely rise to the same level of concern as unleashing a military on a population, using any kind of weaponry. Anybody seriously concerned about depleted uranium in Iraq should probably steer clear of Ukrainian agricultural products for quite awhile given the nasty chemicals being currently dispersed across Ukrainian fields from weaponry and fires. But we both know that's a mostly irrational (i.e. disproportionate) concern even if theoretically plausible.
How truly different are the destinations? Some might see that sameness of destination meaning "ending at someplace different", which is superficially similar. Or that it starts and ends at home, however one defines home, and the trip may take longer than expected.

I interpreted it as, nomatter what choices and decisions we make, we're all in this same shared reality (even if our perspectives on it differ). We're on a shared journey moving through time.
I'll happily skirt the line of the "slower traffic keep right" if it means inconveniencing the self-entitled, aggressive drivers that are willing to break the speed limit but are too lazy to actually try to take action to get that speed limit raised.
As a more generic term, kinesis just means "movement"/"motion", in Greek,
A nice improvement! An unfortunate side-effect of it is that it introduces some jitter during macOS's smooth scrolling in Firefox at time of first render, though.
Developer-centric payment management API service
Hi,
I'm working on a developer-centric payment management API service.
Integration is either as a wrapper around existing services (stripe etc) or as standalone.
I'd love to get some feedback...
Thanks!
Side note, minimal APIs are not an abstraction of MVC. In fact it bypasses MVC which is the reason why it’s faster.

File scoped namespaces remove an entire useless indentation in most codebases.
And what if someone needs a 31st day?

That’s the challenge this aims to solve. There’s nothing wrong with either approach, and “shaming people into not taking vacation” works either way.
In order to get around some of the issues here we try to have lots of micro-PRs rather than large ones. Often this means doing small refactors in their own PRs, letting them be reviewed separately, and using them as the basis for the actual change (which will, again, sit in its own PR).
(2019) fyi

...

I tried doing a search to see if Virgin Media fixed the error of their ways over the last two and a half years, but instead it looks like they've doubled-down on their ineptness (five days ago):

> the ISP's email account policy wouldn't allow him to set a password longer than 10 characters; nor would it allow him to add two-factor authentication (2FA); the first character had to be a letter; and non-alphanumeric characters weren't allowed.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/virgin_media_email_pa...
Good article. not necessarily right about everything.

I agree with the Angular vs React part. I have dealt with several codebases of both. I do not consider myself a frontend dev, but do understand when a codebase is thriving and when it's struggling. Most react projects that don't have a frontend guru on board are seriously troubled. Most frontend developers are not competent enough to make the right decision. And by no means this is an insult to them: staying on top of the current trends in frontend development ecosystem demands a smart lifelong learner geek. Most of the reasons the normal developers have for choosing react over Angular does not apply to them and their projects. The main exception is the absolute minimum size, and none of the projects I'm talking about ended up with a small enough download size for this difference to matter.

So in short, react can give you some benefit in certain situations, but will harm productivity in most realistic ones (my anecdote, of course).
A few years back, I noticed a morbid topic in their forums about a user requesting a feature but a few years later getting diagnosed with a terminal illness before Strava delivering on the feature[0].

I posted it on HN but got flagged[1]. I still find it eye opening, a reminder that the code we write are products impacting the finite life of other people. Maybe we should have more modular, more open software as a standard so that other people can work on and deliver experiences that the original creators fail to deliver.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200601152323/https://support.s...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14935487
Mozilla supports the "current thing"!

How can any Firefox user feel safe that they won't be on the wrong side of the next current thing?
Checking it out...thanks,
Legacy Plans Deprecation
Anecdata is a poor choice of source for any kind of decision making. But here's my datapoint: while nobody was at home we got one of the windows cracked by what looked like a gunshot. That happened in West Seattle. I heard from the repair company, that it is common. Note, this happened 1 time in 15 years. We had no other issues otherwise.
Because we have unreasonable expectations. Making things work well is hard, and thus expensive.

Take a chair, for example. Anyone can make a chair: just get a bucket, turn it over, and sit on it. Boom; backless chair. Want a backrest, arms? Get a 2x4, a saw, a drill, and some bolts. An hour later: Boom; chair.

You want a chair that works well? How do you even define works well for a chair? Do you need cushioning? Do you need to swivel? Do you need ergonomics? Do you need to sit in it for 15 hours? Do you need it to cost less than $1,000?
Whoever you were talking to back then were probably just pretty closed minded and set in the ways of their industry. I think if you were to have these discussions today there would be a lot more people biting since there are some examples already of automated restaurants. Customers will pay extra for this novelty and you can even continue to price your item at a premium point while reaping the savings on real estate and labor:

https://sprinkles.com/
As the person working on PWA stuff on Discourse I can assure we will be adding push support in iOS as soon as it's ready. It's a shame this is taking so long on iOS devices...
> Congrats, you sold some data that says I'm fat, out of shape, and don't like riding my bike on busy roads.

I can only imagine anyone buying the data does so only if they believe they can make more using the data. I don't think I know of anyone doing this now (not sure if there is regulation preventing this), but its not hard to imagine a eventuality where your health data/work out information can be used by your health insurance provider.

Imagine a scenario, your bmi is higher than normal and is trending higher in the past few months, so that increases your risk for x and hence your insurance premiums go up. Would you care then?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Aw...
It's not profitable.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_White_Suit
You've never seen a thorough design proposal?

Typical commercial pre-wireframe research and proposal: https://web.stanford.edu/~eadolfo/cis-redesign/attachments/p...

More common in FOSS:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/759
https://github.com/stashapp/stash/issues/1549
https://github.com/newrelic/nr1-groundskeeper/issues/3
https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io...
https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/1823

(from google searching for things like site:github.com "wireframes" "design" "proposal")

> a) They have, b) it's definitely not rare, and c) it is an enormous time-drain and source of frustration for maintainers in the FOSS community.

I can't claim to be omniscient but I've been a constant open source contributor for 10 odd years and heavy user for nearly 25 and I've never seen that, or even heard people complain about it, let alone enough to be an enormous problem. I've seen ill-conceived gripe lists, superficial 'lets make this look cool,' and 'this font sucks' type issues periodically. None of those are serious design proposals any more than "make everything faster" or "I hate when your program does x" or "I think we should get rid of this and make it in react" are serious development proposals.

I'll happily put together a guide on cutting through bullshit UI change proposals if I could evaluate some issues/PRs for open source repos that constantly experience this problem.
Solves the question of who gets Ukraine..
That's an extraordinary video and deserves more coverage than the sign, which was clearly intended to draw attention to this.
Right, an embassy or equivalent (if you are an American in Taiwan there is no "embassy" because that would annoy the nearby PRC but it's pretty obvious the "American Institute" is in practice an embassy) is where to start. If you are an EU citizen any embassy for an EU member state will do in a pinch, this can be important if you're a citizen of a smaller or younger nation with few embassies of its own, a different EU embassy may not speak your language but should be able to secure a translator and work with your home country's relevant government agencies.
... or things that work at all? (eg humidifiers, at various price points, maybe 40% of which are even functional when first unboxed)
I would disagree. Tyranny of the majority means even your friends and neighbors and family could be against you.
It doesn't have to be fully specific to the error type, you can have a "must use" attribute that can be applied to any type, and then support for that in the compiler. This allows it to be used for other things like Option as well, and anything else that should cause an error if ignored.
Just gunning for the enterprise.

Who cares about DR, and having 3x copies of your data 100mi apart from each other? Small startups, or Enterprises? Enterprises can just push those costs to their DR budget.
>I think the DoD and CIA put out a white paper a few years back re: how they think that's gonna become more common due to climate change.

Do you have a link to this? I'd be interested.
If he had any purchase history, address, real name (combined with govt ID), or phone number in their account history perhaps those would be means of authentication? Authenticating the true owner of a hijacked account is hardly impossible or even very hard. Google knows who people are without them even having to log into an account from their relentless hoovering of data.
It’s within the testflight app, there’s a share button and you can copy the link. Borrow was an incorrect term, the link is still valid for anyone afaik.
I can dig it, but still.
I meant they made an effort to abstract out MVC so it's possible to bypass it with host builder.

File scoped namespaces are better IMO but they are not deprecating the old approach or even pushing you towards it - so not really opinionated.
It's fascinating to me that the search results page on mobile is often three-ish screens of non-website links. Instead, it's ads, answers, images, and other random stuff. These things are either monetized or scraped from someone's website.
Does full-fat ublock origin work without leaking the sites you are browsing to its developers?
27” 2.5K actually (should’ve specified). It was a mid-2011 iMac. The 21” was a 2009 (belonged to a sibling).
>"ok to install a pro-US government in Ukraine" is a complete mischaracterisation

So you didn't listen to the leaked phone call with Victoria Nuland handpicking who they wanted to take power? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
Safari is ahead in implementing things like :has() and the new Viewport Units.
Also with docker-compose there is a remote option to deploy local containers via ssh.
Call your elected representatives and tell them to make it illegal.
I built one for myself, sqlite + apache superset. I basically did that because over the years I had switched devices from different companies and I used to use endomondo which was shut down. I wanted to have all my data in once place. It does require me to export data from device and use my import script once a while, however works for me.
> Apple likes to trot out Facebook as a privacy boogeyman when it comes to defending their App Store business model, but when their business model necessitates that Facebook has invasive native apps, suddenly they're silent.

Are you joking? https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/03/facebook-10-billion-in-...
The highest point in the Netherlands is 322 meters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaalserberg), so even the mighty Dutch might have a problem with a 500m rise in sea level.
Downside is if an employee "breaks down" you can just call the next person on your call sheet, if a flippy breaks down, then what? You close? You have to have 50% more for resiliency?

There's been plenty of innovations that have failed because while the initial price tag looks like a saving, the long term maintenance has changed the calculation.

I'll be interested to see if places like White Castle are still using them after a year or two.
Not sure about your usage model, but if you have a defined retention for customer data (e.g. 1 year), then you can start pushing new data to a different tier/cloud provider, as the old data drops off, and a year later, you're completely "migrated", without having to stage a stop the world migration between services.
Amazon raised salaries: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/what-amazons-big-pay-increase-...
Nice, being able to mix them is new to me. I thought SHELL could only be set once.
Well, you could mostly solve it by having a compiler target whatever level of indirection required. No need to chain through them all.
I don't understand what a bunch of random companies have to do with facebook. In fact this problem predates the WWW...and predates the Internet!
The frog has been slowly boiling for a while. Remember this? https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
Do it!

These days you can get an enormous 300gb 15krpm LVD drive off eBay for less than $100.

Then use https://github.com/unxmaal/booterizer to install IRIX 6.5.30 in a half hour.
Awesome, I wish you the best of luck with it. I may put actions to my words on this one myself - it would make such a difference here.
> Wanted to add another option to ushakov's comment: KNative (which is actually what CloudRun is built on).

And GCF v2 is running on KNative on Cloud Run... turtles all the way down.
Polar circle, with surface temperatures 30 degrees above the long-term average
I think there's a reason why that's a comedy film instead of a serious take on modern consumerism.

We have plenty of "indestructible" tools today. Cast Iron skillets, hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, ladders. Most furniture qualifies as well (though MDF-board crap exists, they still have a use. Its more efficient for a college-student to get disposable MDF-based crap for their dorms with a lifespan of ~4 years or less, rather than buy actually quality furniture).

These are called the "durable goods market", and plenty of them can be bought and work for years, decades even.

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Everything wears out given enough time. But my roof is expected to last 50 years and has a wind rating far in excess of any 50-year storm in my area (Florida roofs are famously shingled with the cheapest crap, because hurricanes hit them so often it doesn't make sense to invest into the roof... no roof can possibly survive a Cat3, Cat4, or Cat5 storm).

Because my area doesn't have tornadoes or hurricanes (at least, no notable ones in the past century), it makes sense for me to invest into my roof.
I consider Siri like some mold from iOS that has spread and polluted OSX, rather than a fundamental part of OSX.
A lot more comfortable than if they were winging it based on their potentially incomplete or outdated knowledge.

(If the issue is one of time sensitivity then the test should have an aggressive time limit)
Stop working on ad tech, don't take unethical jobs.
Mitsubishi joins movement to ship carbon dioxide from emission sites to storage
I believe it. Anyone making it a long term profession needs to be really good and also really aggressive about their pricing, otherwise it just wouldn't be a livable income.
I used Vercel to spin up a static React Storybook, last deployed 460 days ago.

With this update, they are now asking $20/member to keep your team slug, even if you have no deployments/projects whatsoever.
what option exists to have that functionality on a computer?
From what I see on here, I feel car insurance is crazy expensive in the US. I don't know why, maybe same reason as lack of public healthcare?
I'm 2 for 2 on humidifiers (1 ultrasonic, 1 wick evaporative).

What fails on them?
Spitballing a little, is it fair to say that something like emergence[1] affects information systems, and generally not in a good way?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
Unfortunately Apple has crippled PWAs compared to the exact same code running in the browser on multiple occasions. Up until just about a year and a half or so ago you couldn't access a WebRTC stream from a PWA. The main use-case I needed this for was for a barcode scanner (which uses WebRTC under the hood) so my options were "deal with browser chrome" or "repackage into an app", I ended up doing the second (and to be fair that was my ultimate goal) but I would have preferred to skip dealing with that until later (prototyping is still faster on web for me, even with live dev builds on mobile).
TypeScriptle – Wordle in TypeScript's type system
> Why is it hard to buy things that work well?

Asks someone that posts a giant wall of unreadable text.
An upgrade to port knocking is Single Packet Authorization [1]. It doesn’t suffer from the observability, and other, problems of port knocking.

[1] https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/