skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not every business you need to contact is something you are doing business with

While this is true, it's not an argument for a blanket regulation that requires all businesses to provide human phone support. The cases you describe (a business unwittingly publishes contact information that you have kept private, or a credit reporting agency that has incorrect information about you) are specific types of situations with legal implications, not just a general "I want something from this business that it's not giving me".

> there is no way to know in advance that you will have a problem that requires a phone call

There is no way to know in advance lots of things. That's why we all need to be prepared to accept tradeoffs. For example, that if you want a product or service that a particular business provides, and they don't offer human phone support, you have to decide whether you're willing to use the product or service with that limitation.
One of the most hardworking people I know, who is academically accomplished and had an extraordinarily high amount of research experience as an undergraduate, spent most of his free time on mindless reality TV.

He told me that the idea was to 'shut his brain off' from his day-to-day work, while other more intensive hobbies would drain him further.
> Asking them to "Install" stuff is great if they're nostalgic geeks like us ; but real people learned long ago that anything asking the right to "install" on their computer is malware from a shaddy gambling website.

Or just the limitations of permissions. A business team can adopt a SaaS unilaterally. Anything installed involves IT.
Sounds like some kind of amnesia. You need to talk to a doctor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia
You could always have been donating already then. This is for people who may need these features and so start paying money when they weren't before.
This is a case of the tail wagging the dog. That is, the author writes as though the legitimacy of free speech in academia is dependent on whether Oxford Union debate can be shown to be legitimate. Rather, let free speech be deemed an axiomatic truth with the propriety of Oxford Union debate a simple corrollary issuing from that.
About the Authors page: https://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_89.html
My company sells gift cards. Until we were purchased by a very large company, we had customer support agents from day one. They worked in the same office as me, and I was one the team that helped build tools for them to do their job.

The cool thing about having real, talented human beings doing that job instead of some undertrained call center? We treated them as part of our Fraud department. Someone calls in and tries to illicitly get access to cards they don't own, and the support agent had the training and knowledge to often be able to spot that and prevent it.

We didn't charge customers a cent for this privilege.
Level 20, but wish there were more. The fun ones were trying to skip most of the course from the tee. Throw a leaderboard on there and no one's going to be working.

Great work, awesome orchestration of cross platform libs.
Probably not very often.

Next time you're flying across the pond, try coding (without bothering to subscribe to onboard wifi).

Also, it can be useful in places where steady internet is sketchy, which is a lot of places.

The folks at 100 rabbits [1] would be happy.

[1] https://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html
I really quite like both the idea and the website.

Suggestion: on the EN version of the website, you could consider linking to EN App Store pages, e.g.,

https://apps.apple.com/app/fiery-feeds-rss-reader/id1158763303

instead of

https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/fiery-feeds-rss-reader/id1158763303
Have two copies, one for each ScanSnap S510M connected to a Mac. It simply keeps working.
There was a great cross-platform environment called Visix Galaxy in the 1990's. You could compile your C++ source into native apps that ran on Windows NT as well as Solaris and HP-UX. It had a fantastic GUI builder which is similar to what is available today.
Just to give a point of view of someone who uses features like this on other sites, and genuinely likes this offering:

I routinely use favoriting/saving features of various websites. For example, I routinely save and reference saved posts here on HN. The reason is my bookmarks don't sync across browsers, and I routinely use different browsers for different things. Further, the browser bookmarks/favorites system in place is generally pretty bad. This is especially true on learning/educational sites. I see things like Playlists on YouTube, for example. I could bookmark individual videos, but instead, I can offload that to YouTube, and not have that mucking up by bookmarks.

It's the same reason I don't really rely on built-in password managers. They are useless if they are tied to a specific browser or a browser at all.
Yeah, I have been finding these internal justifications kinda odd in a public announcement. As a user, ether I'm affected or I'm not. 99% or 1% doesn't concern me. I don't think I would react differently if the number is 5% or 25%.

I agree the implication feels a bit like don't bother complaining since you guys are an insignificant portion of the userbase. Cool, good to know I guess.
To be fair they released a new album last month.
Yes, but the entire point of the described setup is to get rid of traditional long lasting keys in favor of ephemeral certificates (which I believe is another way of saying signed keys) obtained through SSO. Signing certificates with your existing keys kind of make the whole point moot.
You put all your money, time and work into bolding the first few letters of a word?
What's collaborative about github's platform? Were these features developed because the users asked for them?
For this same reason you see a mobile app for so many websites when there is no point. And so much pushing for using them. Because browsers don’t allow that much data collection.
it got flooded with hosted malware as well. i think the free tier had a file size limit which at least clamped down on sharing pirated eldenring and blu-rays. apparently worked perfect for malware though
> A public cycle of criticism

Sure. But conversations take time, and always require shared background understanding. A some point, you can't let every conversation devolve into rebuilding the foundations of mathematics from axioms.

Authors have a responsibility to explain their ideas to a reader with a "reasonable" background of shared knowledge. If a long dialog ensues that reveals that reasonable shared background is neither reasonable nor shared, then great. But if the dialog devolves into a back-and-forth with obstinate readers who both refuse to enter into shared background understanding (e.g. not putting in any work, by not doing suggested background research or flat out disagreeing on basic premises like matter is made of atoms, etc) and simultaneously have really strong opinions, then everything gets derailed.

So critics do have some responsibility to know what they are talking about as well.
Because a web application is cross platform and much easier to develop most of the time
What is that insane salary? Seems you have no idea about how much executives are paid at that level in general. Or for Mozilla everyone has to work for free?
You can not engineer away human problems. I agree that's a ridiculous way of doing things, but it's the only reasonable way to use Node! Which is to say, I think Node is not a great tech stack if you do not want to follow drama.

Adding an antivirus scanner to your Node project is not going to fix this. It certainly hasn't solved the malware issue in the last few decades for PCs.
Homo sapiens sapiens: Man who knows that he knows. What does he know? That he’s going to die.
The selfish genes strike again. Humans (animals) are machines evolved to replicate their genes, who don’t care how happy or unhappy their replication machines are.
But doesn't GitLab for Open Source exist on the hosted one?
>because for routine stuff (broken bones) costs should be way lower than they are.

Yeah that tends to happen when insurance gets involved in routine care.

Not that the doctors don't deserve some credit.
Read some of Peter Watts SF to see that there can be a distinction between self awareness, consciousness, and intelligence.
> if Microsoft had a real competitor for Jira, they would probably steal even more business.

But they have a real competitor for Jira. Check out the recently beefed up GitHub Projects, my previous (scrum-ish) team was running on it and we've liked it more than Jira. Much simpler, but just enough for a dev.

Didn't check out whether it's available on enterprise github though (i.e. local instances).
It was only a matter of time before they took this back from Verizon and AT&T. They'll eventually do it for laptops and iPads too.
is there any reason they are still using i386 hardware? i can think of a million reasons to upgrade but not many to stay
Wow. This is a beautifully lightweight browser textbook. It has essentially everything I'd expect. Good math typesetting, customizable margin and font with simple javascript (I'm guessing I didn't check).

Envisioning a responsive open source browser textbook is pretty easy, I'm glad someone with cachet like Caltech is providing a role model. Hopefully every important textbook will eventually be as accessible as this one is.
AWS Proton Support for Terraform
I'm sure he's a fan of cryptography.
Sure, anyone could just wget mirror the whole thing. My point is more in line with paying Mozilla. I'd be happy to support it, and a simple, precompiled download of MDN would be a good product. It's better for them because it doesn't hammer the infrastructure and better for the end-user because you just `tar xf` it.
Awesome, I think I'll get one then. Would love to see your NTP writeup whenever you post it.

FWIW, I did see this but it's $$ : https://store.uputronics.com/index.php?route=product/product...
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I think you may also have missed the context that he/she used, as they described running an x509 CA first.

In an organizational context, many organizations are not going to jump to creating a novel CA type (SSH CA) when in fact regular x509 CAs are well known and the basis for much security, and many in regulated industries are using them already.

Additionally, given that he/she is running an x509 CA, telling someone with that experience to study the fundamentals is not very polite. It assumes the author of the comment is not educated, but the very description of his/her use-cases are not simplistic ones.

Engineering is all about tradeoffs after all.
meh. they should deliver terminals to customers who already paid for them before saying they're going to revolutionize a completely different market. i don't doubt this is a market screaming out for solutions, but given starlink's past, they'll likely just collect fees from the airlines, not deliver anything and then talk about how cruise ships are ripe for an overhaul.
AWS literally gives a lot of startups 1-2 years of free credits.
Unless you have a different experience, Heads of Product tend to be the deciding yes/no vote with regard to product development decisions. It's not a personal thing, it's a role thing.

You and I are in disagreement about this being a "good" product, but that's why I was asking if I'm an outlier. This looks completely useless to me, coming from 20 years as a developer. But, I may be an outlier.
But I think OP does pay for it, as she suggests here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30788837

First OP says, “X is free for me.”, then she says, “My taxes pay for X.” It looks to me that says she both does and does not pay for it, that’s why I’m confused.
> Huge difference. Whonix consists of two VMs, one where you actually work and another which acts as a "router" sending all of your traffic out over Tor.

Honestly, it seems like it'd be safer just to run two different machines. IIRC, I saw some instructions a long time back for turning a small travel router into a OpenWrt-based Tor router.
Switching to modern reactors you will be able to continually run them without U-235. Thorium os fertil and you can have a thermal breeder. There are other methods of doing the same with Uranium.

Every country has plenty of Thorium.

And even so you can stockpile these fuels for years in advance.
The other day I wanted to learn Svelte. Even though the tutorials on the Svelte homepage are great, I found the MDN Svelte tutorial to be better: it explains the conceptual differences wrt other frontend frameworks well, it explains in detail how to enable Typescript and migrate your projects, and it has a dedicated section that describes different deployment options.

While of - of course - all of these infos can be found somewhere on the web as well, I very much appreciate such a well-written, holistic intro to a framework. I signed up for the MDN Plus 5 plan.

P.S.: If someone from the MDN team is reading this, maybe include a "sign up" link directly in the blog article from Hermina.
I think that is probably what most people expect - and what most Mafia bosses would want. If your underlings dont make a ton of cash on their own and are reliant on you for nice stolen goods, illegal apartments where they can (relatively comfortably) live, etc etc then they will have more trouble leaving the mafia life than if you just paid them a decent wage.
Israel, Fearing Russian Reaction, Blocked Spyware for Ukraine and Estonia
Chemotherapy radiation is not x-ray radiation.
It's not snake oil - with the right dosage it definitely produces opiate-like effects while avoiding the deadly dangers of opiate/alcohol overdose.

However, it is just another addictive drug with it's own unpleasant side-effects. And tastes like earwax. If someone can substitute Kratom for Fentanyl or heavy drinking, I would consider that a win. However, for the average person picking up a Kratom addiction is not a good idea.
Finally HN has reddit beat on puns.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2icso
Maybe somewhere between the two extremes?
I do want to re-state, not as a way of shutting down conversation but as a legitimate idea that might not be a terrible thing for people to pursue if they feel strongly about it:

You could pay people directly to contribute to MDN if you wanted to and if you got enough people together to pay a salary. An org could do that, someone could have a Patreon where a bunch of people drop them a monthly salary to devote X hours a month to editing MDN articles, there are lots of ways of funding that kind of content from professional or at least high-quality writers.

It'll still go through the normal contribution process, but the beauty of this being permissively licensed is that you don't necessarily need Mozilla itself to give people money to contribute content. We're not in the same situation as people donating content to, say, Reddit or Goodreads, where much of that content won't actually be accessible to the community depending on what the company decides to do in the future.

And again, I don't bring that up as a "why are you complaining, just fix it yourself" argument, it's legitimately a thing I would support if there were serious efforts in that direction. If it's something you really care about and feel confident about and you have a drive in that direction, it would probably be helpful to have community-paid editors for MDN.
I see China expanding its territorial influence North following this. Maybe 30 or 50 years, longer view. A weakened and destabilized Russia will provide it much opportunity. And the Russian government will have deserved it. (Can’t say the same for the population, they seem largely carried along for the ride.)
> We’re three climate vikings

You had me here! <3
> That Ligotti chap really managed to put the darkest possible spin on the greatest possible miracle - consciousness

I think that Blindsight and its author Peter Watts have a stronger claim :)
There is no way to donate to MDN directly. You can only donate to the Mozilla charitable foundation which is not related to MDN.
I do how did you know that?
Loki's fine if you are very cost sensitive and are comfortable with Prometheus, but it's not really a replacement for a text-search database like Elasticsearch. It also scales about the same, both being horizontally scalable (I'm not sure what Loki's sharding strategy is). Our ELK stack runs on 3 2cpu/8gb ram nodes totaling about $160 a month and can handle 50+ million of records or so (I haven't ran it to its absolute limit). This is a comfortable price to performance ratio for us and I imagine many other companies.
Wow, that's fascinating research! I've always found crows so majestic, perhaps it's because they were pondering.
These articles are silly. If the Russians gain 100% territorial control of Ukraine, they will install a puppet government made up of people powerful enough internally to manage any internal dissent. Outcome: Russia wins. Even if they only do this for Eastern Ukraine ending up with a split Kyiv and a heavily-fortified Dniper, Russia still wins. If Russia manages to create (has already happened), hold and fortify a land bridge from the Donbass down to Crimea, Russia wins. Putin will hold victory parades. Mission accomplished.

If Side A fights Side B and takes and holds Side B's territory, Side A has won, by definition. We can talk about how much it cost Side A and how difficult it will be for Side A to keep hold of that territory, and perhaps like the US in Afghanistan Russia will eventually be forced to withdraw and lose that territory. But perhaps not. It's reading tea leaves at this point and anyone claiming to know the outcome is peddling propaganda.
I think you are getting this wrong

the NFT scam is a tax evasion thing - much like much of fine art.
What do you mean that people started buying computers again? I'm not aware of this trend.
Pretty sure you'll need to own a PC if you wan't to develop for windows.
It's a laptop with a 32bit cpu. It works for its task, as well as it did when it was purchased. It uses very little power. It has an integrated UPS (laptop's battery).

There's absolutely no reason for them to retire that hardware and buy something newer to replace it.
It remained unchanged for over 30 years, but there are actually two versions of the GIF file format. The second revision, known as 89a, added a few minor refinements like a frame rate for animations and transparency (but only binary, e.g. fully opaque or fully transparent).

PNG could arguably be seen as GIF 2.0, since it addressed the major shortcomings of the format. But since PNG had no animation capability, it could never fully replace GIF which held on for that one niche use.
I know this isn't scientific, but for those who may entertain the idea of a Creator, there's a mention of crow behaviour in the Quran, where it describes the story of Abel and Cain (sons of Adam and Eve), and how after Cain killed his brother, God sent a crow to teach him about burial:

"Then Allah sent a crow searching in the ground to show him how to hide the disgrace of his brother. He said, “O woe to me! Have I failed to be like this crow and hide the body of my brother?” And he became of the regretful." (5:31)
Does Mozilla pay their software developers an industry-standard TC?
This is an interesting take on documentation - mainly because I fail to see the value proposition in paying for the functionality provided.

Speaking from my own experience:

- Notifications. I am not sure that I've ever needed to know when a doc is updated, because if there is anything radical coming on the market (or in a spec proposal), there are other avenues to find out about it.

- Collections. That is already a functionality in the browser that is not locked into just one documentation site.

- Offline mode. There is Zeal[0] if you like client-side software and devdocs.io[1] if you like browser mode.

Combine all that with the fact that it's just for MDN, and the appeal kind of disappears. YMMV, of course.

[0]: https://zealdocs.org/

[1]: https://devdocs.io/
You are really good at writing about yourself / supporting yourself analytically, IMO. In some ways I'd say it doesn't even seem like you have these "problems," in the sense that you are so accepting of your existential world, in which "things happen to me," as opposed to "I make things happen and they bend to my will."

IMO/TL;DR--I would't ask us with expectations of an us-fix or an us-help, unless it's just a vehicle to help you keep writing about yourself. You wrote to us about the way in which you block outside information via multiple means/effects, so you'd be swimming hard upstream. This is more common than people think.

Regarding things happening, I would look at building your own hyper-perceptive timing models for interventions. Ask yourself what's happening _to you_ today and what that means you can do well today. Stuff is sucking, OK so therefore I can really write a long journal entry about how everything sucks today. (To me this is a productive exercise, not anything defeating by a long stretch)

Regarding feedback, there are different names for this group of concerns you have.

But the fact that you're asking us to give you names for the group of concerns, also_has a group of names. And _that_ gets really interesting.

Reach out if you are interested. Otherwise I'd say--you're processing this really well and maybe asking us is the trojan-horse activity that helps you to keep writing at length about your current life conditions. Not a bad thing to be able to lean on, if that's the case.
I know I should never do this but if I ever get semi rich I legitimately do want to walk into a nice car dealership with a suitcase full of real cash handcuffed to my arm :-D
You’d have to have evidence that the small vouchers changed behaviour enough that the uptick in private school enrolment gave enough reduced costs to the system to pay for the small vouchers for all the people who are already in private schools without any vouchers. I’m skeptical that small amounts of money will change behaviour enough to do this.
The good news is, if you've run this process a bunch of times with votes, you should have a lot of raw material from which to make a rubric, and then the only process change you need is "lose the vote, and instead randomly select someone to evaluate the rubric against the submission". Your process will get more efficient and more accurate at the same time, which isn't usually a win you get to have. :)
> 3-3.5 weeks of work at a McDonalds

Sure, if you don't pay for rent, food, or transportation to work.
"Oh, Thomas, silly ape. It's not about you."

- Sincerely, this amazing universe that could contemplate itself using your brain, if you'd stop feeling so bad about yourself
The term professional is clearly applicable to software engineers working on open source projects, just as it is for lawyers doing pro bono work, and just like a plumber fixing his neighbors' sink for free is still performing his trade and expected to do work that upholds its standards.

No one is required to do any work for an open source project, but they are expected to behave in a professional manner and plenty of people have been rightly criticized here when they acted inappropriately as part of an open source team.

Its debatable whether OP is right, but there's at least a case to be made that taking down documentation that was not costing any money to host for the sole purpose of making an unrelated statement (not one targeted at their customers, just society in general) does damage the professional reputation of the team and its product.
Not React code but SolidJS uses JSX to produce reactive code compile time in the same vein as Svelte.
You should consider just using the Matrix protocol and innovating on the UI/features side.
Until you've done it yourself successfully at GitHub's scale, I think you should withhold judgment.
Don't worry, just switch to a paid. With Gitlab's atrocious uptime and reliability, you'll be getting your entire monthly payment back in SLA credit.