skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in a few AdShops for few short projects when I had to leave electronics for some time after my last employer in Canada was unable to secure a new work visa.

All and every were very very aware how adblocks can block double digits of their revenue with each new release, and it was considered an issue of existential importance. C-levels had weekly conference calls on dealing with adblocks.

In one of those companies, a senior was calling Google, and was pretty much receiving directions like "you can get around this block if you randomise this part of URL," "next months we will change this and that API, this will give you some breathing room."

Google is well aware of UBO, and for years tried to covertly subvert it.
This is not about scientific debate or scientific doubt.

The other side is where scientific debate is happening, the other side injects sponsored misinformation for the public consumption.
> And before you even begin to complain about it being "too slow", "slower than Chrome", <other statement of the month>, tell us that after you're running Chrome without an ad-blocker.

I run Brave without an adblocker and have found it to be much faster than Firefox (with adblocker and pi-hole).

Also, as someone whose startup has both Chrome and Firefox extensions, I have to say the Firefox reviewers (who review releases and hold up the process — not end user reviewers) can be hugely annoying, and we deploy there as infrequently as possible. As a result, our Firefox customers don’t get all the latest bells and whistles. Wish it weren’t that way, but the process takes months!

Edit: clarified the annoying reviewers are not end users reviewers, but the people who suck up months of time for every minor update, making confused complaints about our code, and even UI implementation.
For Windows there is Firefox, and IE Edge. For the Mac their are both of those plus Safari.

Not to mention Chromium based browsers.
It’s just training an image labelling AI on a different, sensationalist dataset. It looks designed for media attention and nothing else. What value is there in this?
You can always install any extension outside of the store by enabling the developer mode in Chrome.
Chrome has the user share and momentum to do whatever they want at this point, and since the majority of end users are unaware of developmental & software details and will continue using Chrome, their overwhelming user share will mean developers will continue to develop for Chrome whether or not they like the direction the browser is going. While ad blocking is the most widely used extension functionality remember that there are other adequate replacements in the Chrome store. Most users are probably already using the more popular (numerically) ones and even if every Chrome's uBlock Origin user migrated to another browser it will probably not make a significant blip on the radar. Only a corporate rival can challenge Chrome at this point and practically the only one who can do so is Microsoft's Edge team, and they will most likely establish a duopoly with Chrome instead of holding out for the sake of user freedom.
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The single-purpose excuse is the same one they used to ban AdNauseam: https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html
Because there's a sense that Apple, as an American company with largely American engineers, managers, and executives, should value American ideals over money. You wouldn't get the same accusations that Apple was betraying their ideals if it was a Chinese company because there would be no expectation that Apple was somehow American in identity.

However, with so many major American companies selling and sourcing abroad it can be argued they should no longer be considered American, but Global corporations. And a Global corporation has to be as inoffensive as possible to any potential market in the world, China included.
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With increasingly depressed wages I do wonder at what point counterproductive choices become self reinforcing. Such as buying the cheapest even if it's long term cost is higher until there are no other options.
Canada to Make More Clinical Trial Data Public

FTFY
I like what Eric Weinstein said about climate change:

The fact that we do not have much historical data and good verifiable models to understand how the planet climate behaves under large changes in parameters (CO2 emission, etc.) makes it even more important and urgent to act. We never know at what moment the system will cross the threshold, and damage becomes irreversible, and planet destruction accelerates.
What do you mean about the closed tab? Just click cmd-shift-t.
Doesn't mean that Chrome isn't a monopoly, with their current marketshare, if Chrome introduces a new feature or changes how some feature works, all competitors have no choice but to implement that change or websites stop working.
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Spectacle (Window moving): https://www.spectacleapp.com/

TextMate (Text Editor): https://macromates.com/

OpenEmu (Emulator Platform): https://openemu.org/

A sample of bad UX design but still a useful app in my opinion is:

Keka (Archiver): http://www.kekaosx.com/
Brave is an ad blocker
I live in Sweden but I’ll take the opportunity to answer anyway :) I recently had some bone marrow when my sister-in-law made gulyás. IMHO marrow is too fatty and has too little taste. I love butter, cream and ribeye and stuff like that, but not a fan of marrow to be honest.
> Firefox reviewers can be hugely annoying, and we deploy there as infrequently as possible.

Maybe, just maybe, they're sick of you because you ignore their platform?
olives are delicious, i read the short preview. where are the best places to source fresh olives in the US. good luck with your book
Ask HN: CSS overrides to make HN more readable?
I am having increased difficulty reading HN due to the font, background color and margins.

"reader modes" break threading to a degree, and zooming is a hassle, so I'm curious as to whether there are Stylish or custom CSS overrides that would make it easier to read HN.

("dark mode" would probably help, but the biggest issue I have are long lines in desktop browsers...)
nvAlt is a great note app, super speedy and some lovely keyboard shortcuts.
Not my field, but I’ll hazard a guess: because once we contaminate it, we ruin our chance at getting an un-tarnished understanding of it?
For the record, Chrome is switching to the same content blocking mechanism (declarative blocking) as Safari is currently using.

I do personally think this lends some plausibility to Google's assertions that they're doing it for performance reasons rather than to make adblockers worse. It's not like Apple's doing it for the ad revenue.
I really like Safari. Underrated browser. Unfortunately it lacks one feature that _to me_ is a dealbreaker: a way to have multiple identities/profiles.
My experience was quite different to that described in this article. Around 20 years ago I switched to Dvorak on my personal computer. It took me about two weeks to get used to it, and maybe four more to gather up to the speed I typed in QWERTY. Throughout this I still used QWERTY on other computers, like the family computer and computers at university.

I had no trouble switching between layouts, and could type 60wpm in each, in consecutive minutes. I tested this when I had my computer in the family room connected to the family computer to transfer files (parallel cable!). I had one keyboard on the desk and the other on my lap and had no difficulty with the different layouts while working on both computers simultaneously.

I never got much faster in Dvorak than QWERTY, but it was much better for my hands on the keyboards of the time.
Very easily in Chrome.
I don’t know, I think most of the high level points made in the article (caching, know your SQL/ORM, memory management and algorithm complexity) apply to almost any web application and framework once you hit some level of scale.
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most people most of the time care more about the time it takes to get the initial confirmation, not the actual settlement. most consumer transactions are not large enough for reversibility to matter that much.
Firefox with the containers extensions powers all of my browsing. In a bewildering turn of events, Microsoft Edge Dev powers my more intricate development needs.
^ Using the word "clever" in the submission was a poor choice on my part. I'm still within the edit window, so I've removed it.
An advertising company fielding a major distribution browser always was a really bad idea.
This one has a significantly less sensationalized title than the other two, though.
Geoffrey West, former theoretical physicist now at the Santa Fe Institute, found many scaling laws in biology, cities, businesses, and more. One was that people's walking speed scales with city size.

Fascinating results.

Here's a short article about his book, Scale: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/07/11/a-physicist-pr.... He's spoken with TED too: https://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_....

Here are my podcast episodes with him, where he describes his findings: http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/geoffrey-west.

(I'm a former physicist too who walks fast at 48.)
Chrome might be "one of" the best. If so, Firefox is definitely another.
Ah, GPL is an exception; including something from SO makes your work:

Either GPL, or one of two licenses they consider equivalent
No surprise; after the manifest v3 discussion, this development was to be expected and only a matter of time.
What does FTFY mean? Please use proper language so the rest of us can understand.
Odd - my experience is the opposite. FF is noticeably slower than Chrome, and my Chrome installation is loaded with extensions, unlike Firefox.

Phoronix's tests seem to back my experience as well. From 4 days ago:

"As for the Firefox vs. Chrome performance, Google's web browser continues generally delivering better performance."

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox6...
Chrome extensions should generally work on Firefox anyway. It's a slightly different packaging process, but that's the only difference.
I'd try Brave.
Yeah, I see your POV.

Think it depends where you're coming from. Physics is objective if by objective you mean we can predict how the wavefunction will evolve according to the Schrodinger equation.

(Depending on who you ask) it might be less objective if you ask: ''But what's REALLY going on?'' Then you start getting into the interpretations of qm and different scientists will have different views.

I think it's at least likely that we'll be able to answer that question in a few decades (or at least move the ball forward). The view of Everettians, for example, is falsifiable and there are experiments going on as we speak trying to achieve that.
Maybe PG&E should just declare bankruptcy, decommission equipment, gather up the power lines, and sell it all as scrap.

PG&E would no longer be an issue, and everyone would have an incentive to install home solar or other locally renewable energy sources. ... maybe that’s the plan.
American politics is strange, tech people tend to be more right wing in Europe where the right is usually scientific instead of religious like in America. So in America you have the choice of either being on the side of religion or the side of progress, and the side of progress just happens to be the same side as all these movements against white, straight men.
Oh my God. Fuck you. Your sites BLOCKED.
> It is not in any way bigoted or transphobic to believe that a person being a man or a woman, and therefore the pronouns used to refer to that person, are determined by that person's sex at birth.

Actually, yes it is (bigoted and transphobic).

Consider making the same statement using the phrase “females are intellectually inferior to males” or “negroes are inferior to whites” to see the fallacy. And both of these (repugnant) beliefs were commonplace for much of history.
Not surprised, but a bit baffled why they allowed for uBO for such a long time in the first place?

It looks as if they misused the community's products and trust to build their monopoly and then kick us out once it's gotten hard enough to compete.

Perhaps this is a good thing in the long run, because now people will finally have to switch and maybe contribute to improving Firefox.

I am hopeful, but also I must say in my opinion Firefox is nowhere near Chrome when comparing performance, developer tooling and quality.
That has nothing to do with how "lispy" it might be. Part of the compiler is implemented in femtolispe no?
FWIW the article is actually about "internet search" which the writer equated to "Google".
Thanks, after a look, I can see the value in yasnippet. My personal problems and use cases probably don't justify the higher level of cognitive commitment it requires.
Not the OP, but the most recent trend that scares me is 2FA economy choices, the way they let corporations abuse people and the advanced social engineering they encourage.

I hated the old banking 1 site devices and still look forward to U2F, but the behavior going on with SMS makes me wonder if anyone from my generation will be able to participate in their own finances when they retire without getting fleeced both legally by specialists for the slightly infirm and illegal con-artists.

In some countries government has stepped in to make more standardized digital systems that at least allow elders to safely use low interest bank accounts.

A different but similar example for those with specific non-age related defecits is the state of online Casino regulation in the UK..

(I think countries with virtually no regulation are safer for people with gambling problems than the UK, since the UK creates a great deal of certainty for those exploiting the irrational in exchange for tax revenue to lower rates for the rational.)
This is one of the points I think most about. I've run a marathon and I bike for fun, but even when I bike my pace is slower than the pace of this marathon.
I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong.

Honestly, Google's (and general tech giants') willingness to let people's lives be caught in the cracks of their algorithms in their pursue for scalability scares me more than any ideology they could push.

More and more, we're seeing developers and content creators being banned or demonetised, people being shadowbanned from dating apps that represent a majority of your chances to find a significant other, and so on.

I think we need legislation to deal with these issues: people subjected to punishment should be able to know the rules they're being subjected to, the way they supposedly broke those laws, and have a non automated chance to contest the ruling. Even if these businesses aren't public property, when they represent an almost monopolistic chance to get the service they provided they should be treated as if they are.
Some one was saying they spent $200M+ of it already. If that’s true, he can’t afford that easily. He sold his VK stake for $300M 6 years ago.

Forbes is saying he’s worth $2.7B, but not saying how. Forbes has been wrong multiple times before on net worth. I’m guessing they are including his Telegram stake and the Telegram crypto value.
And this is why Apple TV+ will fail. Apple is trying to be Disney, but we all know why we like/don’t like Apple and why we like/don’t like Disney and there ain’t enough overlay to make them stand out.
I really hope this is Chrome shooting their selves in the foot. Like a fool I am using Chrome as I type this, my excuse is Chrome has my banking numbers saved and haven't taken the 2 seconds to enter it into firefox so it is ready and convenient. But if I can't use an adblocker and if I don't have control over what runs on my hardware then kiss me goodbye. I will finish the switch today and uninstall Chrome.
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Cloudflare: It's crowded in here!
No, the main problem with the sequels is that they add nothing to the lore. The first 2 books have a very detailed description of Dune universe and Arrakis and all the political factions. The rest of the saga brings nothing new or really interesting. They feel derivative. Nothing in the sequels have not been said in the first 2 books. So they felt already uninspired. It gets even worse after God Emperor of Dune, Herbert clearly had nothing more tosay after that.

Dune isn't a "geek power fantasy" Isekai style, it's a cautionary tale against blind faith in leaders and religion. It's made clear from the start that the protagonist, Paul, isn't a hero, as him and his mother manipulate the fremens to gain their trust.
I invite anyone here moaning about Concur and Blackboard to enjoy using Workday. Puts things in perspective.
I'm not alone in thinking this, but it's not just his pace that makes him truly remarkable, it's his consistency. I can't remember accurate numbers, but I think it's like in ten consecutive marathons, he came first nine times.

Runners are prone to injury, and if you're not feeling 100% on the race you're likely to not win or run at your best.
I can recommend the book Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson. I also concur with the suggestion of cryptopals for training exercises.
Agreed. Plus it doesnt have Picture-in-picture

But I use FF as my main
This may work for some sites like big newspapers like the NYT), sites like TechCrunch, or big announcements like a new Apple product. Without any evidence, I'm sure that most (80%/90%?) of the post that reach the front page get there accumulating votes or by the "second chance" [1]

[1] I don't remember the official name. The explanation by dang was linked in other comment. I'll copy it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 The details are part of the secret sauce, so the details may have changed.
There is no conflict of goals, languages offer certain features, some of them offer only "zero-cost" abstractions (C++ and Rust) and others offer more abstractions. You get what you pay for in terms of runtime executable speed / features trade-offs. The other factor is the compiler toolchain - see below.

If Rust had the same features as most LISPs have, then using these features would make Rust programs as "slow" as LISP programs. That is generally true for most programming language comparisons. What also matters for final executable speed is the toolchain, of course. Any languages that compile directly using GCC or LLVM and allows for compile-time typing will be roughly in the same ballpark. If they use their own compiler, such as Chez or Racket, then they usually don't match the performance, because there is not enough manpower in their teams to implement all those nifty optimizations GCC and LLVM have. SBCL is probably the fastest LISP with its own compiler. (Or Allegro?)

To give an example, here are some CommonLisp features that Rust lacks: Full object system with inheritance and multiple dynamic dispatch, dynamic typing, hot runtime code reloading/recompilation, garbage collection.
>I guess the tone of your message reflects what you want science to become. ;P

It reflects that this is as certain as literally anything else in science, and that you are actively aiding in hurting people. It is reasonable to be irritated about that.

>But your claim that the three points in combination makes anthropogenic climate change a “scientific fact” is... just unscientific.

No. WTF? Are you some post-modernist who thinks all reality is subjective or something? CO2 traps heat. There is rapidly rising CO2. It is due to humans. And it is causing the temperature to go up. This will change the climate. That's the definition of scientific fact.

>How can you know what the climate would have been like had there not been any human activity?

Are you proposing that all the fossil fuels we've burned would have spontaneously migrated up through bedrock and combusted themselves? Because if not than without human activity they'd still be down there, there wouldn't be any of that CO2 in the atmosphere, which means that extra heat wouldn't be trapped, which means the world wouldn't be warming in the same way.

In fact there is far more well established scientific knowledge about that counterfactual based on analysis of solar cycles and so on, and you could bother yourself to go research it if you were really interested instead of smugly proclaiming that everyone else is wrong based on your "feelings". But none of that is relevant to the question of whether anthropogenic global warming is scientific fact and whether pumping tons more energy into the atmosphere will result in "climate changing".
The easiest way would be to join Amnesty International.

It's not so much China as it is Xi and his minions. There are 1.2 billion hostages under the control of Xi.

Just remember you're dealing with people who have bizarre logic. For example the Dali Lama is old and his new successor by tradition reincarnates. But China the PRC has demanded "that he must reincarnate, and on their terms." Now that's nuts.
Why would you NOT want to have that hope? Being reliant upon China for anything is a huge no-no.
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I am not amused by that song, feels like cheap capitalization on "Dune" popularity at the time. Lyrics are nothing special, sounds are quite ok but I take "Wasted years" over this any time. Sounds like Sabbaton, who is capitalizing on "battle songs" for different countries.

It is not like I don't like Iron Maiden but yeah, there is some metal band somewhere doing "Harry Potter" metal song. Though maybe I am too cynical :)
What do you mean by adorable?
Or not? Let's not bloat the website. Angolia HN works fine.
When I moved to France I would use the Canadian French keyboard layout which was QWERTY-based with subtle changes and a whole bunch of modifiers for different accents above/below standard Roman letters. I was surprised at how quickly I adapted, even to the character variations. It took only a week or so to become proficient. While dvorak et al are certainly more different, I think it isn’t unrealistic to master those layouts in a week or two. Muscle memory is a remarkable thing.
That's my combo as well
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