skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Democracy needs to provide room for criticism, absolutely. But it also requires everybody to be operating from some kind of baseline consensus as to what's real and what isn't, or at least some openness to having your mind changed by evidence.

Let's suppose, hypothetically, that I find my way to an "alternative", non-mainstream site. This fictional site specifically claims that they found the student records of the brother of a prominent (fictional) Congressional representative, and also found the divorce certificate of that representative and her former husband. This fictional site claims to have found embarrassing information about the representative from cross-referencing those two legal documents. The Congressperson and the mainstream media immediately dismisses this as a crazy conspiracy theory[0].

My question, then, is:

1) If this fictional site is lying, how would I verify that if no other media organization will verify or disprove this information?

2) If this fictional site is telling the truth, what grounds would I have to believe this if all the mainstream sites are calling it a conspiracy theory?

3) If someone were to go on an major investigative journey to uncover something that goes against all major media biases, how would he be able to present his case without being immediately dismissed as a conspiracy theorist?

4) If someone- mainstream or alternative- were to go on the internet and simply tell lies, how would we be able to fact-check them if they were the only news organization covering that particular story?

[0] ROT13: uggcf://cwzrqvn.pbz/qnivqfgrvaoret/bssvpvny-fpubby-erpbeqf-fhccbeg-pynvzf-gung-erc-vyuna-bzne-q-za-zneevrq-ure-oebgure/
Don't get me wrong-- on the Firefox side of things, it's been the user experience of the browser itself which has been suffering.

Every single update since Quantum has made things worse. Three days ago I opened up Firefox to find out all of my settings had been nuked, 200+ tabs, themes and extensions lost, about:config reset, search settings reset (hello again Google) etc. I'm still fuming mad about this.

I don't feel like drudging up old history but my most recent bug was that Chrome doesn't properly bubble mouse click events when some UI elements fire.

WONTFIX of course, apparently I should just use event.preventDefault() even though every other browser handled this particular mouse event correctly. Chrome was the only outlier. So now I am writing code specifically for Chrome.

Two years ago I had an SVG rendering bug that turned out to be so deep that I had to spend two weeks debugging and come up with an incredibly convoluted scheme for loading dynamic SVG icons because `<use/>` is broken hot garbage on Chrome. Bug report dead in the water. More code just for Chrome.

You get the picture. I now have to develop on Chrome as much as I hate it, even though FF has better debug messages and stability, just because it saves time testing every little thing out.
Taking into account average market returns[1] in a 60/40 stock/bond portfolio, one would only need a bit more than 7 years to reach $2 million saving $200k/yr.

In practice though, the expected return on such a short timeframe would be quite uncertain given stock market volatility.

[1] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/saving-investing/m...
Three points:

1/ inflation over ten years is roughly 19%. So 50% is not "slightly ahead" by any means.

2/ Residential construction cost per square foot seems like a stronger candidate, with a roughly 35% jump nationwide over that time period (remembering that this does not account for inflation). Accounting for inflation that's essentially half the price increase.

3/ Neither of these factors, if they fully explained the value increase, would support the claim that regulation is to blame.
That was it. Used to Firefox autoupdating, but didn't this time for some reason.
>Basically the Internet has created a global winner-takes-all market where everyone is competing for attention, and mostly only the big players win, or at least that's what the Internet makes us believe.

Numbers such as market cap, net income per employee, and median average salary clearly indicate this is true.
Len works on any Sized. Upper only works on strings. There are lots of Sized, there's only one string.
Actually not,

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

React Native for Windows is being ported from C# into WinUI/C++.

https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

Plus these guys should spend more time at BUILD and MSDN.

All major Windows 10 APIs are UWP only, even if the store is gone, UWP is here to stay.
When I first started using tor, I suddenly had a realisation that I didn't know what sites to trust. I found a link to the hidden wiki, but could I really trust what they were telling me? Was the link to a silk road clone a legit site? The site seemed to work, but maybe the link was a man-in-the-middle attack.

What can you do when there is no central DNS to trust. I suddenly felt that I couldn't trust anything at all. I started to question those around me and spiraled into existential philosophical crisis of truth testing even my own senses.

I eventually found a real solution, but I'm on mobile and don't feel like typing the whole thing out.
I know this article is more about the political dance than actual gene-edited babies, but modified human embryos is a whole can-of-worms and is such a game changer I feel the need to worry about it. We don't even fully understand the consequences of much of the technology we use today. Altering gene lines is such a huge power, we'd literally be playing god, and probably rolling the dice on so many aspects of the future for generations to come. If ever there were a technology humanity needed to think conservatively about, this is it.
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Relatedly, a big problem with Twitter/FB was showing the friend dismissed content as well as the verified content, because dismissed content eyeballs is still eyeballs on content, then making it sometimes hard to tell which was which.

A friend might retweet on Twitter content they were dismissive about, but that retweet would sometimes accidentally legitimize that content by removing the dismissive context (spreading it away in readers' timelines).

Similar with FB showing you stuff friends react to or comment on; their reactions might be Anger and their comments critical, but that context also is still partly lost if you weren't looking for it, and sometimes intentionally whitewashed ("x friends reacted to this" instead of "10 friends hate this, but one kind of liked it"), in the maelstrom of the FB timeline algorithm. (Obviously the worst case on FB up until recently was how easy it was for people to whitewash paid ads by resharing them, losing the context of who paid to promote that content in the first place.)
Yes

* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/accounts/

* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/sync
Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who named quarks, dies at 89
I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Safari seems to be out of fashion: people just assume that it should not be used for some reason, even though it is actually a great browser.

I use Safari for both my own browsing and for development (a fairly large ClojureScript application), and it is by far the best browser on the platform by all measures (speed first and foremost).

The only place where Safari falls short is 3D CAD programs (like OnShape), where Chrome is faster and better.
And some things ignore your default browser and force-launch Edge anyway (see https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/edgedeflector-default-browser.ht... for more details and a workaround).
Here's some stuff you used to be able to do by combining UI-redressing (clickjacking) with cross-origin drag and drop.

https://www.contextis.com/media/downloads/Context-Clickjacki...

There have also been plenty of UXSS bugs in various browsers caused by cross-origin drag-and-drop.
Wow thanks! I've been looking for something like Containerise, but for Chrome for a while. Didn't know it already exists in FF.
Looking at the unemployment slope it does not seem to have stopped decreasing yet
I feel like you have this idea that technically literate people are magically immune from normal human foibles and think through the entire logical chain of consequences for every abstract fact of which they are aware. We are not.

Understanding how Google Music works and knowing that Google tracks information about you does not necessarily imply the very real understanding that viewing pages like this provide. People generally don't logic that way, us included.
Poking around for a few minutes, looks like search engines can only be added via addons? This feature is too much of a time save to switch.
In Firefox you can find the search field on a page, right click, and 'add a keyword for this search'. Then you can just type that keyword in the address bar, for instance 'wp searchtermhere' for wikipedia.
I was going to say that the favicons on Chrome probably disappear at some point too, but you're right. Chrome guarantees at least half a favicon on display, but to do so, new tabs are not put on the tab-bar. They're completely hidden with no way to access them via the tab-bar.
Never seen any fake news problem with yellow vest.

That's just outright laughable.

Here's a 20 page report detailing how the yellow vest groups have been flooded by fake news, presumably by foreign agents.

https://avaazimages.avaaz.org/Report%20Yellow%20Vests%20FINA...

You can be sure where ever there's angry people in the world Russia will be there to help fan the flames.
So, are you blaming regulation for the crash, the recovery, or the inflation?

The claim I'm disputing is that regulation is to blame for recent housing price increases.
Mixed with Brave New World.
Passwords are generally stored in the system keyring, or in some system-provided secure storage. I am 95% sure Firefox just reads this.

(It's also possible to CSV export from Chrome's password manager. I used this to import everything into BitWarden.)
I tried to do this, and I had to switch back. My setup is that I have loads of tabs open, with a vertical tab manager on the side. And FF has a pretty nice extension for that, plus you can take back some screen space by removing the top tabs using some css.

Anyway, when I have the same tabs and extensions in FF as in Chrome, the FF CPU usage is huge. I tried several things from the web, but nothing helped. Now I'm back on Chrome, which is less nice looking and less convenient, but the CPU usage is barely anything.
I am curious to know if this can also target a desktop toolkit such as gtk/qt/tk/wx and so on. I probably wouldn't want to use such an arrangement as a user, but I could see it being very useful as a developer for testing out app functionality without emulation or a separate device.

I also wonder if this will be able to target the puri.sm Librem 5 when that comes out?
Personally I feel that "great schools" are not nearly as important as people think they are (many bright individuals I have worked with came from smaller cities/towns). I also think that you find a lot of great teachers in smaller communities. Lastly, I find the "great schools" thing to be a cop out for piss poor parenting because the parents are too busy with big city jobs with crazy commute times. In reality great parenting and time with kids will get them very far in life vs. the perfect school district.
Not mine, but is fun to run Comic Chat in normal channels...

Download MS Comic Chat 2.5: http://www.mermeliz.com/cchat.htm

Comic Chat Fixer MITM Proxy: https://gist.github.com/richardg867/bb19ca2b03545f71ae15
UWP is here to stay, regardless of the store.

Win32 is in maintenance mode since Windows 7, all new APIs are based on UWP, including most of what was shown at BUILD 2019.
Replying in bulk: yes, I am sure it isn't from my device, and yes, I jumped through all the hoops, including changing passwords, logging out all devices, clearing histories, etc etc.

It is not my device. I am getting somebody else's history.

I also reported it to Google, providing additional details, late last year I think. No change. And I have done everything I could, short of deleting the Google account. So all I can do now is tell others.

The amusing thing is how whenever I mention it on HN, it gets immediately downvoted. There sure are some hard Google fans here.
Still there's one thing that Firefox can beat, Chrome dev tools are just the best, period.
Actually all it takes is for one group to make the assumption you just made.
> IME any attempt to "convince" the customer/employer that code quality was important was a waste of time. It's better simply to get them to decide their desired level on a rolling basis and act accordingly and find somebody else to work for if the answer isn't to your liking.

Exactly, you have to work within the context of the culture.
They pass it on to the tennants.
Perhaps, but it's a bit of a dilemma - a GPL license likely won't allow this to gain enough traction to become sustainable in the first place.
Presumably because an adblocker, like virus detection, consumes potentially non-trivial CPU, and may introduce race conditions of extensions applying deltas to a DOM which results in rendering and behavior bugs.
This. I live in the countryside, 5km from the nearest village (<1000 people). It's a very pleasant village, and I know plenty of people in it, but the population is too small and sparse for me to find a group of people like me. To hang out with my real friends I need to go into the city
Where are you getting 5+ standard deviations from? That's an insane number. Assuming a normal distribution, around ~2000 people in the world would fit that description today, and finding those 2000 and analyzing their genes to find what's different would be a nearly impossible task.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of whom you're attacking. These threads are bad enough already, so please don't stoop to this level on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments to HN. Would you please stop doing that? We're trying for something better than internet default here, which means we have to ban accounts that lower the discussion in that way.
This is the reason why it's so nice to manage your own domain, even if you were to decide to stay on gmail. You can always just point the domain to a new provider.

I've gone from Namecheap's solution to GSuite to ProtonMail to FastMail, all without an outage of any kind. Migrating previous conversations from ProtonMail was sort of difficult, though.
It is called WinUI, basically UWP outside of the store.
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> ...since you have this thing all figured out.

This is a personal attack. Further, you've put words in the other person's mouth and that's a battle thing not a discussion thing. It breaks this guideline:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is so badly needed in the Ethereum space. Metamask is a massive drag and a known onboarding blocker -- Hedgehog seems like a huge leap forward. Congrats team!
Reposted quote in italics for better readability on mobile:

Asked if the People’s Liberation Army planned any commemoration on June 4, defense ministry spokesman Wu Qian said on Thursday: "I do not agree with you for using the word ‘suppression’. I think these past 30 years, the stable process of China’s reform and development and the achievements that have been made are an answer to this question.”
The different apps do the same thing and end up competing for resources.
Awesome! I think it makes sense to most people on HN, because we know about these things, but I doubt to anyone not on here (and I'm willing to bet more people than we'd suspect here).

I think there could be a simple fix that specifies that Watermark is not doing the tracking.

> Waterfox does not collect ANY telemetry, meaning you don't have to worry about us tracking or using information about what you do inside YOUR browser.

I think this sentence is still compelling and I don't find misleading.
It probably means that if you only need to ping a process from another one (no payload needed or only a handful of case expeceted) you don't have to deploy your last gRPC knowledge. cf. how daemons are managed on Linux
That happened
I'm sure it could, but who would implement it?
How cool is this! Thanks for sharing
This is the big one, in my opinion. "It's not what you know, who you know" makes it very consequential to choose your kids' school district properly.

https://www.opportunityatlas.org
Shhh, that's the improvement they roll out after a few years of the Mandatory Anti-Discrimination (MAD) dating system. The people will welcome it with open arms.
I just run it on an ubuntu lxc guest on my home server. Works like a treat, gets backed-up like the other services and easy to replicate.
uMatrix works in Firefox stable as of last night
Yeah, that is not really optimal. However, that is luckily only a problem on a very high number of tabs. Firefox's tab UI starts having usability issues at a much higher number. At my tested width.
Firefox does have sync and it supposedly does all that. I use Firefox but don't use sync.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/accounts/
I haven't looked at the site properly yet, bear that in mind, but to answer your question I probably never have used anything 'interesting' in a couple of decades of working in industry, despite giving a lot of time learning about such things - I do find them interesting.

Nearest I might have got was trying to use a bloom filter in a vehicle tracker, but nope.

What learning about stuff generally has given me is indirect, the ability to dig down and optimise because I understand systems. As I read up on eg. sorting I understand that quicksort is very much not the quickest sort and fixed bad performance bugs from its misuse.

Or understanding Btrees so I can get very good performance out of DBs, even if I've never written a Btree and frankly never want to.

Stuff like that. Maybe one day I'll find the need for dynamic programming and learn it properly, until then it's just a waste of time.

But use them directly, no. Surely sux.
This feels like the time GitHub was acquired by Microsoft and people started migrating to GitLab!
I'm well aware of exponential growth, and I'm not talking about energy efficiency. I'm talking about how economic growth is not fundamentally coupled with the material resources we consume. Like, for a long time, food production was pretty well coupled with population - if you figured out how to grow more food in your country, you'd increase its population but not its living standards. That got disconnected in the industrial revolution, and the link between your standard of living and energy consumption is increasingly getting disconnected today in modern economies.
The problem with all these browser forks is that, while they are certainly well intentioned, they're a dime a dozen and eventually die hard.

Over the years, I've seen countless forks of browsers that make these big promises but don't have the developer resources and funding behind them that make the main browsers possible. I can't imagine it's easy to just backport every feature and bugfix from upstream while also making your own changes.

Unless one plans on building a business or a foundation around a browser, the best that an OSS browser fork can hope for is to be a valiant effort that will quickly be superseded by another fork that promises to be even more private and ub3r l33t than the others.

Firefox is in great shape right now, and if it's not working well for some people(I'm honestly not having issues with it at this point), then we need to find ways to make Firefox more viable, whether it's getting people to donate to the Mozilla Foundation or better promotion or what.
^ This is likely a large component - hiring in foreign workers who will need visa support is a lot of effort and money. You may need to have a niche skill that cannot be found locally, for hiring you to be worth the additional expense over a local candidate.
>"And if they do it and we do not we would be as children compared to them. "

It seems to me that if that happen the big division (us and them) will not be along national lines, but generational. So, we would be like children, compared to our children, anyway.

Maybe I'm growing old, but sometimes I already feel like that.
With regard to places like Hollywood and SV, they almost certainly benefit from large economies of agglomeration, particularly from having a large and very specialized local labor pool. The network effects via the internet must not be comparable (yet).
Companies have argued before that they own the products created with their modified genes. Will they try to claim ownership of these babies, too?
Of course. All the devices there are right in front of me and none of them accessed these videos.

I also tried removing all devices and re-authorizing them again, just to make sure. Doesn't change a thing.

These videos are not played on any of my devices.
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I think this is mainly an issue on macOS if you use a vertical sidebar, having to do with supporting it's translucency.

I think there's away to turn this off too, but I don't remember how, sorry.
Takes less than that. My baby can be better (healthier, safer, smarter, whatever) is sufficient.
Exactly, it is overdetermined. In the west we have Lysenkoists on the left (who refuse to acknowledge that intelligence is even heritable) and on the right we have people who believe embryos have souls.

Asia has none of these problems, and will thus force us to get over our scruples.
"a molecule called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), a key player in the cellular production of energy. Often written as NAD+"

Just so you don't have to close popups and sift through the article for the popular anti aging supplement.
It's definitely different. I agree. I should adjust the falls from rooftops talk. I don't want to malign the variable renewables. I need to figure out how to explain to people that nuclear deaths/kWh are extremely low compared to our current mix, and yes they're even roughly as low or lower than the excellent characteristics of the wind/solar lifecycle.

People often meet this idea wish shock: "But how can wind or solar hurt anyone? There are no Captain Planet episodes about that." So I have to explain some mechanisms of why huge distributed energy harvesting can harm people. If you have other suggestions on how to communicate this effectively I'd love the help.
"Nonsense. Land is a scarce resource. Neighborhoods aren't getting any bigger - they can't get any bigger. So the only way for a city to increase its housing supply is to increase its density, and that runs into a buzzsaw of local politics."

Of course it's a scarce resource, but regulations don't make it any less scarce. The city where I grew up can't build any apartments past 5 stories because the local government feels like it's an eye sore. The result is housing/apartment prices that are 3X the price of other surrounding cities.

San Francisco is a good example of this. It can take a builder 10 years to actually get the permits to build a new house, because of regulations.

"The price I pay for my 1800sf 1/10 acre in south Minneapolis would buy me three times that in the burbs, but I don't wanna live in the burbs. I want to live in Minneapolis."

When you put it this way, I don't really feel bad for the high housing costs, because it seems like it's mostly about being inconvenienced.
...and will have worse results because of jit not having enough time to kick in.
Racket is the language used in the project, I think it should rather be "John Carmack’s VRScript Samples in Racket" for the title.