skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if the people who are concerned could be channeling their concern into solving the problem. Here, I am guessing, not many people can actually solve the problem, so we can safely be very concerned about both things simultaneously!

It would be different if it were the same exact group of people and the same budget who are in charge of plane safety, as those in charge of the car safety. We can then scold them for wasting time on planes and told them to shift focus to cars instead.
I feel one issue is that the people who are Firefox power users are also disabling telemetry, so the developers aren't getting any usage data from the people who care the most about Firefox. So the only usage data they receive is from the normal user, who want different things and use the browser differently.
> Real pixels do hold data, and vectorizing them will typically cause some data loss.

Chickens and eggs. If you have vector data already, it's better to distribute the raw vectors than to rasterize them. If you only have raster data, distribute the rasters (where viable) instead of trying to trace them. Lossy operations are lossy.

Vectors are largely preferable to rasters, but that doesn't mean you can reproduce them if you only have the rasters. Just like distributing source code is usually preferable to compiled binaries, but that doesn't mean that we just pump everything through Ghidra and call it a day.
People spend an inordinate amount of time and money solving this problem rather than spending the same amount of money in lobbying and standardization efforts for financial institutions. I’ll throw this out there: when all you know is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The US, if you are in literally any part other than right next to a freeway that you have to use to get to work because it's too far.
I'm not sure where you think I complained about my ability to obtain free media? I could easily do that if I wanted. The places where it's available aren't very hidden. I don't want to though, which is what I said. I'm not interested. I do not care about their stuff at all. I don't even have a TV.

I complained that e.g. my computer has functionality in it that's designed to disobey me, its owner, and instead obey them, some unrelated party I have no business with. These sorts of chips do not belong in my computers, but you can't buy ones without them. Similar functionality will no doubt be used in the next 10 years to force you to use a compromised OS (e.g. with built in adware and spyware) if you want to do e.g. online banking. The trend is obvious to anyone paying any attention.

My house doesn't come with someone else's locks. All of the locks are mine. I and only I have the keys. And I can change or remove them whenever I like. There's no access door for Disney to come in and inspect my bathrooms.

And yes I think it should be illegal to sell a product that's designed to sabotage itself. I don't own a Blu-ray drive (no reason to, again I'm not interested), but my understanding is that a disk can tell the drive to revoke its keys and essentially brick itself. That should be criminal, and is actual destruction of property.

Anyway, I'll note that I still don't see an answer of what precisely is morally wrong with filesharing. Which of the acts I listed is the bad one? Or is it something else?

What is worse about downloading a movie than e.g. deciding to spend your $20 on marijuana (which is illegal everywhere in the US, and is in fact a crime, unlike downloading a movie, which is a civil matter) and watch the clouds go by?

For what it's worth, I don't do drugs or these days even drink. I've never found marijuana to be appealing. But I don't think people who do partake are bad for doing so. I feel much the same about people downloading movies. It doesn't affect anyone else, so I don't see an issue. If anything, the drugs have more of an impact on others. Some of my neighbors stink up the whole street, which is unpleasant on my walks.
And just today there is a post about the Sneakers Movie Promotional Floppy!

Now, from memory I’m pretty sure there is a scene where the visually impaired / blind Hacker can work out the password by listening to the audio on the surveillance tape!

I’m probably mangling my memory of the scene, so please correct me! :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585213
Do you mean no two individual planes? Like two 767s made a month apart, do you mean they literally would have different requirements?
Chess is a great example because it highlights the subtle difference between LLMs and agents. What GPT3.5 does is not quite playing chess but creating realistic chess moves that a human might make.

An LLM could play chess though, all it needs is grounding (by feeding it the current board state) and agency (RF to reward the model for winning games)
Interesting idea but no, the lights never change based on usage like this.
I am surprised by your comment and the reaction to mine. Why would firefox's users be alienated? They get an adblocker by default that will be supported and maintained by mozilla. If you want to block all ads that would be changing a setting, what google and pals pay for is the default setting that benefits them, they will still get blocked if users want them blocked. This mindset of making an emotional ideologic reaction isn't helping anyone!

> If a way to serve unblockable ads existed, it would already be implemented and widely used

It would require a change in how ads are served and bids are made in realtime. The main reason it isn't happening already is that most people are not blocking ads, especially on mobile where engagement has most value.I'd say ad blocking users are not more than firefox users even.
Born and raised in Vancouver, still have a house in BC. Living in Paraguay, life is much better and way more friendly.

100x less stupid. Honestly there’s a bigger homeless problem in Vancouver than Buenos Aires, Rio, or even Asuncion.

That said Canada is super beautiful but Argentina has Patagonia which is better than the Rockies at a tenth of the price.

Most of North America is highly overrated currently. CDMX is really the only city I’d consider in NA.
What software is used to make the graph on the main page under the Target heading?
Not a Firefox user, but this feels like a culture gap. I use multiple applications where configurability through user-code is part of the SLA, and dropping support would be as utterly unacceptable as, say, dropping the toolbar. Considering the contrast Mozilla is trying to make with Chrome's more restrictive and non-user-conscious nature I see no reason they wouldn't share that same philosophy.

Unless there's something I'm missing re: Mozilla's history/market-positioning?
That's the point of the controller being a kit thing that can be built a bunch of different ways
This is literally just a description of someone's world view, you do not make it factual by slapping "theory" on the end
Canada becomes more of a joke with each passing day.

The government has managed to create an economy predominantly dependent on a real estate bubble driven by money laundering and capital flight/money parking from China.

Simultaneously suppressing wages by increasing the population by 2% per year via trivial immigration requirements and student visas for Indian nationals that lead to PR status and allows full time work with government subsidies for the employer for not hiring Caucasians.

All of this in the name of allegedly compensating for young Canadians not having children to pay into the ponzi that is the CPP etc. Somehow making children less affordable is supposed to fix this.

Downvoting this doesn’t make it any less true. Even the mainstream media in the country is starting to realize they won’t get skewered for saying so.
Suspended Twitter User Loses Lawsuit over Data Access–Thomas vs. Twitter
Natural outcome of ultra liberal politics I guess. While the U.S remains one of the most desirable immigrantion destinations in the world, largely thanks for it's strong conservative politics.
They're still immigrants. They're moving to the US, not returning to their home country.
Why do distributions need to offer this when SDKs exist for services like Stripe and PayPal?
Because there are a zillion important parts on the airplane, if you make each one heavier than it needs to be, the airplane will be nailed to the tarmac.
It would be the key part if it had actual information. What type of programs are "some programs"? Too many controls, multi-window, drag-and-drop, too fast control updates or rendering, 2D graphics, extensible controls, etc.? GUI frameworks have pretty common components, and clearly they know something about the limitations, but those limitations aren't enumerated at all.
They stole the other parties' gods to prove that their gods were superior or true and the other gods were inferior or nonexistent. For example, see
Sennacherib's destruction of Babylon's temples and the replacement of Marduk with Ashur as the spiritual backbone of the neo-asyrian dynasty. Liekwise the babylonian destruction of the first temple, or the Roman destruction fo the second temple.
Imposed religion, not imposed faith. That difference between religion as a civic duty and religion as a matter of faith was the core issue.
> I would imagine light patterns would mark a runway as take-off, landing, or neither (plane crossing, etc)

It's often both, and the direction depends on the wind. It's better for planes to take off into the wind, so as the weather changes runway usage also changes accordingly during the day.

Or were you thinking the lights would change minute by minute based on the next designated usage. That might work! "Now it's a landing runway so it's blinking blue" kind of a thing. So nobody tries to take off or cross it. Or, then when someone is supposed to take off it's blinking yellow so planes landing on it won't be confused.
To be fair, it was just a bug in 6.1.64, which was already fixed in 6.1.66. Both are "old" kernels, so it's nothing to worry about, unless you were deliberately staying on 6.1 for some odd reason (yes, I'm aware 6.1 is LTS, but so is 6.6).
It’s about branding. Swing and JavaFX looks like other desktop app (aka not cool to a lot of designers). And it has a high barrier of entry (ever tried QT, AppKit or Win32). Electron is easy, but it’s shoehorning a document process to software interfaces.
They already make hundreds of millions just for allowing google as default search engine, they can make more with this.

I re-read what I said and it is in plain english, why are you and others not understanding that I didn't say selling ad blocker access? Ad blocker default exempt list is what is sold which users can change. And you can still use ad blocking extensions.

Basically a ton of people get an adblocker by default and you people have your pitchforks out because mozilla sells the default setting of an adblocker? Your emotions and open source religion aside what exactly offends you about this?
Join Milk-V WeChat Group

Join Milk-V QQ Group

How is one suppose to use these QR code on a phone? ( Not that I have QQ or WeChat )
colleges still care about ACT? I thought SAT was the golden standard.

I remember taking the ACT many years ago and it was definitely much easier. Also not many colleges accepted it at the time. SAT was preferred.
It may not be the miracle cure for all depression but it can be an absolute miracle for the individuals it does help. I was depressed, in a bad place mentally, going deeper into alcohol/drugs, letting relationships slide, etc. I spent 4 days in the woods drinking mushroom tea and just reflecting on my life and the path I was on. I came out of that experience instantly reinvigorated for life. I completely turned my life around from that moment.

That was 15 years ago now. Most of it has been good. Some mental health issues popping back up lately, but I think it’s more of a mid life crisis/loss of youth thing, that feels a little unavoidable.

I’m not advocating it as the super cure, but it can absolutely be a super cure for some. I think it’s reasonable if you haven’t experience this sort of darkness and subsequent transformation to not understand it at all. It’s not stuff some couldn’t also do without therapy and medicine. But if you have trust issues and can’t open up to a therapist, it can help you open up to yourself in a productive way.
Your expectations don’t seem to match any other field of human endeavor I can think of. Nuclear plant safety doesn’t; rocket launches, no; pharmaceutical trials, nope. Perhaps we’ll be better and smarter in the future, but…I doubt it.
Us humans aren’t very good at learning even from recent history.

Crazed terror group murders civilians

Large Nation state kills scores of civilians in pursuit of said terror group.

How many Iraqi and Afghan people ended up dying last time around?

The tragedy is that we, as a species, know better but we don’t want to know better, we want to follow our monkey brain emotions instead.

The average age in Gaza is under 18. Courts in Texas forbid a woman at risk of dying from an unviable pregnancy to save her life, ostensibly to save the baby - but at the same time we grind cities to dust and destroy hospitals because terrorists may have walked there.

It’s all fucked up, objectively and we know better. And by not addressing the cognitive dissonance - by failing rational discourse in favor of traps and gotchas- we ultimately give air to those who launder it for outrage and clicks.
> They don't understand precisely because they don't act like humans, which is the only source of intuition for the word "understand".

Or it was, until LLMs came along. Unless your definition of the word "understand" is a tautological "understanding is what only humans do because humans are the only ones who understand".

> A teacher who sees a student regularly make errors in reasoning on an exam doesn't say the student "understands" the material.

Ah, so you don't mean they're unable of understanding in general, but have not understood specific things they make mistakes about? Maybe we can agree there, although I'm still not sure that all mistakes are the same, in the same way that someone being bad at spelling physics terms doesn't mean they don't understand the physics itself.
What scale to we measure stability on? How long has it been this way? Our current modus vivendi in the United States has existed for what, 80 years? 100 at most? 5 generations at the outside, and arguably far less.
Isn't that kind of like Focusmate?

https://www.focusmate.com/
Yes, all the data in the story contradicts the frame. Journalistic malpractice.
Well, guess I wasn’t “most people”.

Also, I only included the IATA code to show that the code matches the name and isn’t random/unrelated (like CYXU).
Trains are running more safely, efficiently, elegantly, and reliably than both cars and airplanes, and they have consistently done so with a much longer track record.
garbage handlers are not oppressed

having less money than others doesn't make you oppressed
It certainly did add instability. The Roman Empire depended on god worship (Caeser's power as a religious leader in particular), depended on slavery, and was very ethnocentric - all anathema to early Christianity.

Gibbon, on the other hand, had a thesis and let the thesis shape the facts, rather than the other way around.

Mike Duncan's Roman history podcast is still an awesome way to see all of the forces involved.
You mean Reuters is making stuff up? That's not possible. They interviewed like one person that says cost of living is high and they're considering moving.

I'm not even sure the cost of living is still surging. Gas is cheaper. Real estate is going sideways. At least in my personal experience it's stabilized.

More seriously. Canada had brain drain for some time. People leaving to the US e.g. I'm sure that's still happening. I think Trump being elected in the US slowed that somewhat. There's all sorts of reasons why people move from one country to another. Correlation, causation and all of that.

The Globe and Mail has an this headline:
"BoC Deputy Governor Gravelle says high immigration adding to housing inflation".

EDIT: Also immigrants leaving isn't that unusual. Immigration isn't for everyone. You might have family and friends behind. It might be hard to make new connections. Get a job. It's pretty cold here too.
HN's flagged comments are the most interesting.
What Is L4S?
Maybe there is 65% more flights since the Covid times
> By "EU and US govs mandating it as the only default browser" I assume you mean for government employees and not for the entire populace

Yes, for their own gov pcs not the people in general.

> and they will then install an add-on which also blocks the ads that Firefox whitelists

You are the third commenter I had to explain this to, so maybe my fault in not making this clear but there is no need for that, the whitelist is just a default "moderare" adblock setting which you can change to "aggressive" to block everything. And exisiting adblockers will continue to work if you prefer them.

This is similar to how you can set your search engine to duckduckgo but google pays a fortune to be the default.
When was the last time Nuclear plants in the US significantly endangered human lives. 1979?

With regards to rocket launches, pharma, etc. those are all somewhat novel domains: experiments where risk is a natural part of being the first time trying a set of variables. The variables in air traffic have been the same for decades, thus the thresholds for accepted risk should be much lower.
Other points of reference:

0. Fire the workaholics by DHH / Signal v. Noise (2008) and Ch. 2 of Rework (2010)

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/902-fire-the-workaholics

1. Working hard is not just a dial you turn up to 11. - pg

http://paulgraham.com/hwh.html
These numbers are from 1990-2000. Airlines have gotten much safer since then, so I believe they would now be much safer per-journey, too. https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca...

(The difference between per-mile and per-journey is still interesting!)
I think that's a fair comment. Christianity being a matter of personal faith rather than government mandate was a core issue. Like many empires, Rome could not survive a world where the state itself was not the deity.
Not Amtrak. Worst excuse for a railroad ever.
That's awfully convenient. "I can't be wrong because people that disagree with me just want to pirate stuff, so they're biased."

I suppose I could say everyone that disapproves of piracy is just a copyright lawyer
From the article it's not entirely clear if there's an increased exodus of immigrants ie. people that came to Canada that are now leaving despite intending to stay.

In the first six months of 2023 some 42,000 individuals departed Canada, adding to 93,818 people who left in 2022 and 85,927 exits in 2021, official data show.

There are three (3) stories from immigrants who are leaving; one was a student who came to study, another a person retiring to asia (cheaper) after coming from there to earn in Canada.

These are true stories but not the true stories of all of the ~84,000 people leaving Canada this year.

The framing of this article (the immigrants are leaving!!) appears to rest on the gut feelings of the author and a handful of exit interviews that may very well not reflect the whole.

It's also littered with weasel phrasing: "While the numbers are small now", and points out that most immigrants are staying ( 263,000 in past 12 months ) .. which has contracted the available housing hard, which has led to some immigrants not being able to find affordable housing.

There's nothing that states or suggests the bulk of the 82K exits this years were once immigrants .. so "reverse immigration" to describe them all is suspect.

There's no data that backs the notion that "turn arounds" (people that come to Canada for a number of years, then leave) have increased dramatically, just the stories that some of the departures are turn abouts (and there'll always be some).
Never since has there been such a thoughtfully designed ecosystem. NeXT maybe, but in the original it was not accessible.

I don't think my young self will ever forgive Microsoft for forcing Apple into burying MacBasic. I had come into the Mac via the TI99 4/a and self taught myself via Basic/Extended Basic and was very excited when I got my Mac- but despite hearing about the mythical MacBasic I ended up with the excremental Microsoft Basic with no compiling and no Toolbox access.

It killed a budding programming career other than a bit of HyperTalk.

Ended up in network engineering, but I often think of the path I started but was aborted by Microsoft's power plays...
Doesn't Mexico City have a huge crime problem? What about health care? Poverty?
Is it only better because you're likely in the top 1% socioeconomically in Paraguay?
You me and everyone else on this thread are here getting value out of it. That’s more than the number of people who get value out of crypto.
The housing crisis is becoming global... somehow no country and no largeish city is spared (and sometimes not even smaller cities in smaller and shittier countries).

It's interestig how we're building a critical mass of people who are getting their calculations of future retirement income (social security or whatever), see the number they'll get when they retire, see the rent price and instantly become a member of "nothing left to lose" group... basically the most dangerous group for anyone who'll be blamed for any crisis...

Regarding canada specifically... I personally found it funny, how they called all the 'freedom truckers' nazis, and then cheered an actual nazi in the parliament... I mean... WWII is not some obscure thing that noone knows anything about, it doesn't take a lot of history knowledge to put two and two together to at last cast some questions about the side the guy was on. On the other hand, canada has some history with nazism and importing nazis after the war, but they managed to keep that pretty quiet.
My impressiom was that the defective part was still inside the engine when it landed.
Great article. What is the meaning of code like this? The jmp instruction seems necessary.

jmp 0x14
0x14:
The pattern persists beyond and before the US, though.
> Blaming DEI is a dog-whistle for 'people should know their place'

This is a very common trope: claim to have dog-level hearing for detecting what people really mean. Very often, including likely this time, it's totally inaccurate, and just means no discussion can be done as one of the parties relentlessly ad hominems the other.

> since Reagan fired the PATCO ATC workers

Can you cite this?
The differentiation between the collars is largely complexity and scope. Solving problems for a worldwide audience is possible in software but a garbage collector helps a region of town.

Wages are completely eclipsed by wealth, a far more significant differentiator.
Humility was a major factor in most pre-Christian religions and similar efforts, featuring prominently in Patanjali’s yoga sutra, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Buddhism, and so on.

The position reiterated in your article is based on a comparison of the New Testament to a naive reading of the Greek philosophers. Christianity did not uniquely bring humility into culture.
Isn’t RCS coming to Apple? Wouldn’t that obsolete beeper anyway?
I think they meant a 737-400 is different from a 737-500 is different from a 787 and a AirBus 320 and a MD-80 and…

Every single model is somewhat bespoke. There’s common components but each ends up having its own special problems in a way I assume different car models in a common platform (or two small SUVs from competing manufacturers) just don’t.
Yes. There are constant changes to the design to improve reliability, performance, and fix problems, and the airlines change their requirements constantly.
The answer to competition is competition. Want Chinese EV sales to collapse? It won’t happen based on emotional or nationalistic appeal if they’re 50% the price of European and American cars. The answer will be making cars that are higher quality and cheaper.