skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reviews suggest this $250 toaster isn't any better:

"was hoping it lasted longer & would be better quality but was disappointed"
"All the coils do no not glow and It toasts unevenly"
"one side stops working after 6 months or so. I’ve gone through three of these"
"Bought two of these toasters both stopped working"
"Have to replace this toaster about once a year, one side will always stop working"
"Lasted me about a month or so and it no longer works".
"Died so quickly!"

I think this is a perfect example of the problem. There is a market for $250 toasters, but even for that price you can't buy a reliable toaster.
Interestingly, the social stigma is probably at an all-time low. I used to get a lot of stares for wearing my hearing aids, but ever since the advent of Bluetooth devices, it's become relatively normal to have things in your ears!
Governments have been creating web/native/mobile apps for some time, which is a trend that continues to accelerate. Firefox continues to limp along but seemingly can't even retain its most ardent fans, and there's no sign of this changing.

What if the EU were to fork Firefox (Openfox?) and fund its evolution of a privacy-first alternative? Among other benefits, this would:

• Help ensure that key digital infrastructure is not solely dependent on non-European entities.

• Balance the US's outsized role as a gatekeeper for web innovation.

• Support the EU's user privacy and data protection values and comply-by-default with EU regulations.

• Help bolster Europe's economic and tech independence.

What else?
This is my favorite story of his. It is part of the collection Axiomatic for those new to him.
Does no mechanism exist to fire Mitchell Baker or, at least, addressing her leadership at Mozilla?
>They should ask (not require) payment for that service.

Sure - let them squeeze out the last drop of their one and only cash cow before it becomes utterly irrelevant - instead of investing in it and making it a core pillar of their strategy.

>See how Wikimedia Foundation is basically flush with cash,

Mozilla was (is?) flush with cash. Browser market share and corresponding user eyeballs are immensely valuable. That money isn't going back into Firefox development. This is why it is borderline criminal that they choose to focus on everything except Firefox.

Alternatively, what are they without Firefox?
I've just tried to get gpt35 to spit out an NYT article verbatim in all sorts of ways and it just can't.

It will compile an article that "looks like" NYT's (or any other news site) but none of the paragraphs were a match for any of their articles that I could find.

I'm really curious to see what evidence they have for the case beyond "it can claim to be NYT and write an article composed of all sorts of bullshit from every corner of the Web".
Hate to break it to you, but Aliexpress is likely less reliable than Amazon (or have the exact same products). eBay is likely the same and Walmart allows 3rd party sellers so it's pretty much the same as Amazon unless you source the products curated by Walmart.
Is it just me, or does the booster disappear shortly before hitting the ground, followed by the explosion happening before the now invisible booster should've hit the spot of the explosion?
Honestly these kinds of posts are tiresome and unhelpful. Yes, Mozilla is different now, yes the CEO makes too much money but if more people used their browser more they might invest more in it in instead of seeing it as a money sink to satisfy people who can’t be satisfied.

Seriously, Mozilla cant win. A large voice of people constantly scold Mozilla for anything it does. We’ve heard from Firefox devs on how this bash fest affects them and we expect them to crank out awesome software despite the abuse. Instead of picking the lesser of two evils they say oh, Firefox is N milliseconds slower than Chrome so I’ll use the greater of two evils.

Can we stop beating a dead horse? If you don’t like Firefox or Mozilla fine but don’t act like it’s unusable as a browser. It’s fine, it works, I don’t why everyone is so bothered by minor details when their goals and clearly better than their competition.

Sure it may be slow for YOU (whatever your use case is) or maybe your extensions broke but average users who rely power users to recommend a browser don’t care. If they can open Facebook and Netflix it’s fine. So use Chrome yourself and recommend Firefox to the people this crap doesn’t matter to. And maybe, if they see the numbers tick up, they’ll change course.
> The question must be answered at some point.

agreed. in the same way Colorado supreme court ruled trump can't be on the ballot to force scotus to rule i think is the same reasoning here. get an answer earlier rather than later.
> "You just cannot create another first-class node of this network.

Uh, yeah, you can, I did it again recently. I've done it at Oracle Cloud, AWS Lightsail, Linode, GoDaddy, and several ISP's before that. I could start right this minute with Digital Ocean, Vultr, etc. pick one and be up and running, delivering email to Gmail, Microsoft, etc. in a day.

Each time one of these articles is posted, I feel I must be some kind of email savant.
Ask HN: I am trying to understand the best tools for the blind on the internet
I had a major eyesight scare this year, and it has gotten me thinking a lot more about accessibility.

Can anyone point me to the best resources which might help me understand how visually impaired users navigate the internet today?

The impetus for thinking about it today was looking at a maps subreddit, and seeing how much fun people were having. The contents of the map images in the sub are very complex with lots of text data on the maps. I would imagine that blind, or near blind users, could not participate in the fun.

I started to make a Custom GPT [0] to try to deal with this. The end goal being an iOS shortcut where a user could send an image to it, and get the GPT's text response.

Am I re-inventing the wheel here? Am I even coming at the problem correctly?

[0] https://chat.openai.com/g/g-jcyEz5uDP-image-descriptions-for-the-blind
>Where this scheme gets interesting is when the execution progressed somewhat deep into a nested call chain and we then need to deal with contexts. It could be that execution is interrupted by a process switch, or that the code reads some fields of thisContext, or worse, writes into a field of thisContext. Other “interesting” occasions are garbage collections, or when we want to snapshot the image. Let's look at these in turn.

This sounds similar to Self's "dynamic deoptimization" that it uses to forge virtual stack frames representing calls into inlined code, for the purposes of the debugger showing you the return stack that you would have were the functions not inlined.

I always thought that should be called "dynamic pessimization".

Debugging Optimized Code with Dynamic Deoptimization.
Urs Hölzle, Craig Chambers, and David Ungar, SIGPLAN Notices 27(7), July, 1992.

https://bibliography.selflanguage.org/dynamic-deoptimization...

That paper really blew my mind and cemented my respect for Self, in how they were able to deliver on such idealistic promises of simplicity and performance, and then oh by the way, you can also debug it too.
One less dependency that may suddenly change or vanish with little or no warning, causing you to drop your planned work and react to its whims.

Also if you're already paying for IP service, there is no technical reason you should have to pay an email provider. Email standards and software are all open and free.
> I’ve been hosting my own email for many years and I have almost zero deliverability obstacles.

This is almost certainly false. If this is not false, please do show how you measured your deliverability (across all those years) and how those measurements show "almost no" issues.
I was thinking more along the line of walking to your local Goverment office and validate your ID.

Many countries offer digital IDs to interact with them. And a (cumbersome vs digital but fast Vs traditional government processes) way of unlocking it. It would be just offering a email inbox linked to it.

In Spain we have an Inbox from the DMV for fines, one with the Tax authority, one with local government… these are messaging boards inboxes. The move to a single digital inbox could help streamline many government processes.
They did with Thunderbird, and Thunderbird is becoming better.
Given the lack of integers and my hesitancy to trust modulo for non-integer variables, I don't know if I would trust it. You would need to add some safety checks, but either you create an is_even/is_odd function that has safety checks, or you have to rely on developers adding in the checks anytime the number might have been in close proximity to a floating point number.

Something as simple as this can end up being neither even or odd.

(0.1 + 0.2) * 10
How is ingesting an image, laundering it via a prompt, and then spitting it back out without attribution fair use?
I really doubt that is true. Speaking from the experience of working in a project that tried to build "enterprise Chrome OS, but based on Firefox instead", I can tell you that Firefox is still a lot harder to fork and customize than Chromium is.
CX is good stuff all around. Also navigates system files and SMB shares (auth'd and anon).
They obviously mean zero outgoing spam.
I believe the author means that he has sent zero spam in the that time, not received zero spam.
That's not true at all. Copyright infringement is a strict liability offense with no inquiry in to the state of the mind of the infringer from a liability perspective. The state of mind of the infringer is only relevant to the issue of willful infringement.
I'm relatively new to the world of node. Is there anything objectively wrong or should I say nefarious with that this Jon person is doing? I guess, what's the issue here, from your perspective, if he's creating package (that albeit are simple) but some some amount of utility?
Doesn't appear to work offline yet, but their Pro plan has something called a Permanent Copy [1] which sounds like an archived version of a website.

(Just started using it again and asked the same question)

[1] https://help.raindrop.io/permanent-copy
Clearly a titan of engineering and innovation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
Right. What would be lost if they used Chromium as well? Sure, there would be a lack of competition but at this point the browser is the fuel of the internet. We don't have multiple different type of gasoline, or home heating oil. The browser - sans Google Chrome's "spyware" - is a commodity. I'd rather see Mozilla focus on privacy, etc.

My dream is for them to add a privacy-centric email product, a robust enough office suit (e.g., Google Docs) and then a bundle with those and Relay and their VPN.
This brings back so much memories of playing the original on my Apple IIe.

Glad to have found about Lode Runner: The Legend Returns, Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge, and its remakes from the comments here. There goes my weekend...

Another very good and free remake (which doesn't even include ads!) for mobile platforms is/was Lode Runner 1 by Nexon. It appears it's no longer on Google Play, but it can be found on APKMirror. I still play it from time to time.

Review:
https://toucharcade.com/2017/05/19/lode-runner-1-is-a-well-m...
Again: The key difference is that in VS.Code the UI runs local, thus all UI interactions are "immediate" and there is no difference between local and remote operation. Yes, IO has latency, but where possible that is hidden by the UI (possible: saving a file happens without blocking UI; not possible: loading a file requires the file to be loaded .. but even then the UI can already prepare the window layout)

Thisnis very different form a system, where each keystroke and each menu action has to be transfered first, before the remote side can identify the needed UI update and send that back
As an individual, most threat I have will be from my own govt. and politicians/police by simple virtue of overlap and the authority they have to mess my life. So given choice, I'll prefer minimum additional info to my govt.
For me, it's that all data that resides within the received email is mine. There's no outside force pre-scanning my receiving emails to display advertisements.

I can create as many alias, mailboxes I prefer.

Overall the freedom is soothing.

I to have never had emails denied but then again I'm using colocation based hosting, so my IP block is one that's never been used before.
He likely means he's not sending spam.
As many addresses/aliases as you want on as many domains as you want.

Custom filtering/sorting.

Easy burner addresses.

Custom reader tracking for marketing.

Custom reader db response pattern mailouts/campaigns.

Some of these are Some Assembly Required, but they're hard/impossible/expensive to do with 3rd party mailers.
It's just end is pointing towards camera in the last moments
It's super obnoxious when people who have no understanding of the law, point to industry patterns or behaviors as examples of what is legal, not knowing the law and not knowing whether or not the thing they are pointing to is legal. The music business is also full of copyright infringement litigation. You also are not taking into account whether what is copied by an artist is covered by copyright when you made your statement. Do you know what's covered in music copyrights, such that your statement ever had any value for anyone else here?
Why the universe might be a hologram
You should write an article on how you’re doing it!
Booting the Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe
Part of the reason prey populations are out of control is the abundance of food available to them. You’d probably be able to support more wolves than historically there ever were with such populations. Hard to say if this will lead to a significant dent or not all that being said, reintroductions don’t always play out as expected. Every time you go up a “level” of the food web e.g. from plant to plant eater to predator, in the best cases the absolute numbers are 1/10; eg 100 plants can support 10 rabbits and 1 predator. If there are now 100 rabbits theres probably 10x as much food as before. Having that many rabbits means whatever is around that eats them e.g. coyotes or bobcats population as also went up 10x in that time. Therefore even if the wolf entirely displaced all bobcats or pumas or coyotes or whoever, the amount of prey being eaten might not change really. Who eats them might change, but maybe not their absolute numbers.
I was thinking you were asking questions and/or engaging to understand, of which I've made an incorrect assumption.
Yeah, that last part is the right part. AirPod calibration is nowhere close to the level of calibration that an audiologist would put you through. It's more than simply boosting voices and filtering out background noises, it's calibrating to a much higher level of precision for this.

On top of that, the difference between "just right" and "too loud" is pretty small, and you really want a professional to set it to the point where it aids your hearing without damaging your hearing further. If you just pump the volume up, you can hear better, but you're also potentially causing even more damage. A professional can help you do that better.

OTC hearing aids are still calibrated by professionals, although probably not to the degree that a more serious hearing aid would be.
> It occurs to me that I make fun of sovereign citizen types, but in tech we have our own set of rituals for getting large organizations to do what we want.

Sadly a "shibboleet" does not yet exist:

* https://xkcd.com/806/

* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/806:_Tech_Support
I liked Bird's scooters the first few times I rode, until I hit a pothole while going a moderate speed. I kept my balance, but I felt like there would have been no way to recover gracefully if I was going a bit faster.

The bikes used in bikeshare systems feel much safer: they're heavy and have wide tires and a low center of gravity.
https://godbolt.org/ supports emitting assembly for Go while Google's tools catch up!
What if you were one of the people who read the Times from cover-to-cover every day and seriously tries to remember as much as possible because you consider it a trustworthy reference source?

And if you were called upon to solve a problem based on knowledge you consider trustworthy, what would you come up with?

What if you were even specifically directed to utilize only findings gleaned from the Times exclusively?

And what if that was your only lifetime source of information whatsoever for some reason?
You can technically distribute patches, a good example of what is possible is SNES ROM hacks, where only the deltas are be distributed, and the end-user provides their own 'legal' copy; this avoids the issue of redistributing copyrighted content.

However in the EU you aren't allowed to use information obtained through "decompilation" for the purpose development/production of a substantially similar program. Which means you cannot patch any program (exception exists for the purpose of interoperability), without risking some legal liability.

2009/24/EC Article 6 for anyone interested.
The category these supplements were listed under is "Sports Nutrition Endurance & Energy Products" with some legitimate products listed under it. I doubt Amazon would delist the entire category. But also, something tells me that sellers would just list products under a different category without any meaningful consequences.

E.g. these or similar tainted supplements could be listed under "Health, Household, and Body Care" (a very broad category that already has products like "stripfast5000 Fire Bullet Capsules with K-CYTRO for Women and Men" listed under it), etc.
French NPP can vary their power output 80% up or down in 30 min (https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_pilotable_d%27%C3...)
People are starting to get their hands on PCIe breakout boards, and are having almost as much fun with them as Jeff Geerling.

So, here's _my workflow_ for setting up the Raspberry Pi 5 to boot from NVMe for headless use. I'll also give my thoughts on the initial generation of PCIe breakout boards and some experiences trying to get the Google Coral Edge TPU ML accelerator to work.
That's why they call it "range anxiety" and not "perfectly rational range concerns".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_lick
I think it's gone now, but older versions of iTunes had a "randomness" slider that ranged from truly random to a biased randomness that "felt" more random by avoiding recently chosen songs/albums
Gee I wonder why you're using a new account to post this comment...
I love Cx File Explorer, I just wish it had a split screen view like Solid Explorer has.

On a phone it's fine, but on a tablet, being able to copy things between the two screens is a game changer.

I still prefer Cx because, for some reason, it's about 2.5x faster than Solid when copying files from an SMB volume.
Yup, Google is embarrassingly bad. These days I just use it as stack overflow and reddit indexer
Well done: 3d is an option! Always wondered what emergent properties result from simple rules worlds when the dimensionality goes from 2d to 3d.
You misunderstand. It's the correct item. The old product page was rebuilt for the new product. Users aren't confused or expecting the original product.
Only a feature if you believe in the per country limit. The alternative is to just score everyone based on point based system and admit the highest scorers regardless of national origin.
Latest version of the GPT does this:

https://i.redd.it/x9glb5g6j09c1.jpeg

Short Summary:
A map displaying the oldest (almost) continuously operating universities in Europe, with founding years and noted operational gaps.

Detailed Description:
The image is a color-coded map of Europe showing the oldest universities in various countries that have been (almost) continuously functioning. The universities are indicated by dots on the map, with the year of establishment next to each dot. The map is shaded in various tones of green, possibly indicating different time periods or durations of operation. At the top, there's a title "Oldest (almost) continuously functioning universities in Europe". Below the title, a note clarifies that these universities have been in operation with gaps less than 50 years at a time.

Here is the text on the map, from oldest to newest:

University of Bologna - 1088
University of Paris - 1150 (1200)*
University of Oxford - 1167
University of Cambridge - 1209
University of Salamanca - 1218
University of Montpellier - 1220 (and 1289)
University of Coimbra - 1290
University of Pisa - 1343
University of Florence - 1349
Charles University in Prague - 1348
Jagiellonian University - 1364
University of Pécs - 1367
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg - 1386
University of Vienna - 1365
University of Ferrara - 1391
University of Leipzig - 1409
University of St Andrews - 1413
University of Rostock - 1419
University of Barcelona - 1450
University of Glasgow - 1451
University of Greifswald - 1456
University of Freiburg - 1457
University of Munich - 1472
Uppsala University - 1477
University of Tübingen - 1477
University of Copenhagen - 1479
University of Genoa - 1481
University of Wittenberg - 1502
University of Leipzig - 1409
Dublin (Trinity College) - 1592
University of Edinburgh - 1583
Babeș-Bolyai University - 1581
University of Groningen - 1614
University of Oslo - 1811
University of Helsinki - 1640
University of Tartu - 1632
Lviv University - 1661
University of Zagreb - 1669
University of Innsbruck - 1669
Istanbul Technical University - 1773
Vilnius University - 1579
University of Münster - 1780
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - 1837
State Agrarian University of Moldova - 1933
University of Iceland - 1911
Faroe Islands - 1965
University of Luxembourg - 2003
University of Liechtenstein - 1961
University of San Marino - 1986
University of Pristina - 1969
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje - 1946
International University of Monaco - 1986
Gibraltar - 2015
Malta - 1769

A footnote on the map states: "*The current University of Paris might not be considered the successor to the old one, which was split in 1970. Other openings include Toulouse II (1229) and Montpellier (1220 or 1289)."

The map has a label at the bottom right corner with the source as "Wikipedia, Websites of universities" and a watermark "efisha.com".

The map also denotes centuries with markers on the left side, from the 11th century to the 21st century, suggesting the periods when these universities were established.

"I am not perfect at this yet, some data and sorting might not be perfect."
Mainly control. You can set your own policies, such as deciding which ban lists to use. I have a backup server in another continent. It’s far less likely to have my account deacitivated for a mysterious reason by (both) my hosting providers than some email hosting company. So I feel that my access to email is more assured. I can have an infinity of ad-hoc email addresses and set any routing, or run any program on the server, based on the recipient address.
I believe that was a goal of servo, however it was starved for resources (just like the documentation project) in favor of foolish endeavors like Pocket, VPN Services, FireFox OS, and of course there many missteps in the world of Political Social Activism.
It's like coffee. For every study that says A, there's one that contradicts it.

I feel like for every pro host-your-own-mail on HN there is one that contradicts it.
Thanks for that info. I promise the original intent of my question wasn't to find an excuse to nag about accessibility, but I should point out that JPro is certainly not indistinguishable from typical HTML for a screen reader user, judging by the JPro website. In particular, the links are marked up strangely, with a separate link for each word in a multi-word phrase, and there are no headings or landmarks to aid navigation. Just thought you should know.