skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just disable them via /etc/hosts because I can't tolerate any more useless javascript putting load on my CPU.

My workstation (E5-2640) has seen multiple generations of operating systems, video editing software, DAWs.

Browsers and web browsing in general is the only thing that I can tell it's getting consistently worse year after year.

I know it's an odd metric but 10-15 seconds to fully render a newspaper homepage is more than it takes for my full DAW setup (Cubase + FL Studio as VST plugin) to fully come up with tracks loaded and play button ready. I don't even recall dialup being this bad.
It's disingenuous to conflate Alphabet Corporation's political strategies with "the norms and rules of society".
That is damn interesting, and probably worthy of its own submission.

FYI for everyone looking for the download link, it's a bit hidden, so here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t3si4b99ijqyhyk/9580.pdf?dl=1

Licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA, too.
F1 drivers drive for Ferrari because they want to win.

This ain't rocket surgery. Ferrari invests a ton more in their brand and their program than other teams do. The money you make outside of F1 from endorsements more than makes up the slightly lesser pay.
Still has a massive audience, recently had a best selling booking, and generates headlines -- but I guess you have a unique definition of relevance. I'd encourage you to listen to his guest interviews -- they are amazing.
Thankfully, UK government sites don’t have this misfeature.
I disagree. Should the resident of London, Ontario say it every time to a virtual assistant about the weather when it should be obvious they are interested in the place of residence? And so on, all the same context layers apply (British expat in London, Ontario, etc.)
If you type "16 oz in cups" in duck duck go, it currently gives 15 imperial fl oz is 1.894 US cups. If you change it to US fl oz, it is then 1.972 US cups, when most people would expect 2.0 US cups. This is because there are US nutritional fl oz, and US customary fl oz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)#Legal_cup. This sifting through of different "oz" is highly contextual, but Google gets it right.
It's an easier argument to reply to with "you're stealing the website's livelihood", which is why it's usually worth bringing up after you explain the many other problems ads have.
Continuous aggregates look like a killer feature.
The answer to this question on the modern web is always yes, and advertisers brought it upon themselves.
in the US, based on the sign style and the road striping, and the drainage grate
Yes, and that's the point — everything you run will theoretically inherit the permission from it.
Tim Pool (news commentator and multi-Rogan guest) called Rogan and apparently this is misinfo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izHSJ3OFJ2E

They start out by talking about some of the issues you mentioned. They break mid-way, and apparently Tim got off the phone with Rogan and cleared up that censorship was not the primary motivator. The cut to after the Rogan call is 15:27.
A while back someone on HN recommended Sivananda Yoga. The first part of it includes some breathing exercises. I was suffering from repeated flu-like symptoms, sinus, etc since the beginning of this year. I had some difficulty breathing and actually had to get tested for corona thrice since my symptoms were eerily similar. After I started doing these exercises, my sinus and other breathing difficulties have disappeared. The exercises seem to give me a boost of energy. I've been using them as a drug especially on the days I don't sleep well. I do them first thing in the morning. This is anecdotal and might not work for you. Thanks to the HNer that recommended it. It's been life changing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUKjuni-6l8 (the breathing exercises start at minute 9 and go up to minute 24 or so). I don't do the exercises that follow it nor listen to the chanting before it.
Exactly. There are assumptions in every threat model, and violating them isn't a legitimate use case because someone "forgot to protect" their private resource. "Door wasn't locked" isn't an excuse.
TimescaleDB uses heavily PostgreSQL API and hooks, which expose many data structures, macros and functions. My understanding is that using Rust or even C++ will require to write large FFI and also maintain it between PG major versions, which are released every year. Also, just having FFI is unlikely enough, and will require to write wrappers on top of it to use the best of Rust and not just another syntax on top of C.
That's a harder question. The important question here is "does your state have more than one time zone?"
Keep your secrets synced across multiple repositories with organization secrets
Exactly. I’m pretty sure that people are significantly underestimating the value of his deal. It’s probably on the order of 3 or 4 times higher than the WSJ estimate.
I have "English (United States)" selected in that menu. It is the only option.

I've also tried selecting "Add dictionaries...". The page that goes to says that there are two available for my locale.

These are "English (US) Language Pack" [1] and "English United States Dictionary" [2]. I have installed both of them.

Those do show up as enabled under "Languages" and "Dictionaries", respectively, on the about::addons page.

This does not change the options available in the spelling context menu. It only contains "English (United States)" as it did before adding that dictionary and language pack, and there is no change in the results on my test words [3].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/english-us-la...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/us-english-di...

[3] Here's my current test words that Firefox incorrect says are misspelled: prosecutable subtractive tunable epicycle inductor subparagraphs transactional micropayments blacksmithing inductor solvability verifier ethicist tradable tradeable auditable splitter surveil responder commenter. The other things that I know use Hunspell (MacOS, Chrome, Libre Office) get all of those right except for "tradeable".
That works if the statement is actually technically correct. That's not evident in this case.
Re-imagining Software Localization: End-to-end, cloud-based localization stack
Micropayments were a solved problem in the 90's, Viditel did it and it worked like a charm.
lol this article casually talks about how he'd have to run the business himself "(not hard though)"

I don't think you realize that when you get to extreme wealth, your time is the most precious thing you have. Having a month more of free time every year is really priceless.

He made a good deal.
> There will always be some content that just has to be banned.

No there won't; there will be content that special interest groups want banned, and must be prevented from getting banned. Eg child molesters wanting video evidence of their crimes banned.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23277101
The web browser is easier to replace than almost any of those things, though. I regularly use 2 or even 3 different web browsers on the same computer and another on my phone. If Chrome went away, there’d Be basically no impact on my life. Same not true for operating systems as it’s harder to switch.
Here's what IBM was giving programmers in 1978, thanks to the work of architect Gerald McCue: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/IBM's-Santa-Teresa-Lab...
All these speech assistants are almost stateless, aren't they? I mean, they can ask you questions and go into a listen-for-an-answer state, but, at least last time I tried, you can't have a conversation about your conversation with them and improve their comprehension of anything. It's like talking to a command line, or those old Palm Pilots you had to learn a special alphabet to scribble on.

It's quite interesting to hear very small children talk to voice assistants. Probably not surprising, but it seems like in normally-learnt human communication you expect your conversational partner to remember the context of what you were saying, and carefully forming canned commands is a separate learned skill. It suggests these voice assistants have still got a way to go, and it seems more like a paradigm change, a big leap, than just incremental improvements.
Is it? Who will pay for the internet then? I almost feel guilty for blocking them in a way, I appreciate that we need to have some naive users to fund stuff.

Some smarter sites ask you to voluntarily unblock their site. If its something I value I will actually do that. If it's forced upon my often I'll try and work my way around it.
Hard to tell what’s what when you shamelessly steal for decades with no accountability.
Depends on how annoying they are. If it is a simple overlap I'll delete the element. If that doesn't work I'll trying google cache or something similar if I really want to access it. I also run the bypass paywalls app so I don't run into that problem on most news sites anymore. I do pay for a small number news sources I read consistently but still want to read articles posted on HN / Reddit outside of those. I don't think bypass payways is the most ethical solution but I'm not really sure there is a great solution right now.
>missed letters if you type too fast (though I suspect it's a bug)

It states it's intentional:

>Just like a real manual typewriter, you can only press one character key at a tim

I have never used typewriter, but I don't think this is correct, the limitation should apply only for adjacent keys, not globally for all keys. This is the whole point of QWERTY layout, to type faster by spacing letters in words as far as possible to avoid jamming typewriter.
Windows apps: getting a code signing certificate from a certificate authority
I use MIT for everything. I don't like coercive licenses, but that CYA is important.

America is the Land of the [Lawyers'] Fee. I can't remember the site, but someone has a site, dedicated to all the stupid, ridiculous, double-facepalm lawsuits the US "enjoys."

It is quite common for people to be [successfully] sued for trying to help someone else.

I remember taking a CPR class, where we were told that, if we gave CPR, we could be sued.

So there's actually a reason why someone might stand back, and watch you die...
I think a lot if people don't realise that they are the new factory workers,only the production line is at their desks. It makes me laugh how some office people think they are very smart and often look down to those who don't work in an office.Ffs Jenny, you just sending emails to people all day long,you aren't doing rocket science here..
I did. It got downvoted with no replies. I don't have any security settings changed or anything. First and second run were both around 0.005s.

That's why I wrote this new comment, in the hopes that maybe it would be seen.
What's to be done, then, before we reach sufficient education and critical thinking skills? I mean, that's kind of a boil-the-ocean solution, as you observe. When Trump suggested that ingesting bleach could cure COVID-19, 30 people in NY state were hospitalized the next day for drinking bleach.

Saying "we should all be sufficiently educated and critical thinkers that misinformation is harmless" is effectively no solution at all. What do we do NOW?
not only that but I kind of feel like "selling" lets down the new-media movement he's been leading

his success is basically a middle finger to traditional media and corporations - having a very small team, organic growth, and being more authentic and making millions without NEEDING to sell out.

of course I've never had a 9 figure deal so I'm soapboxing here.

but I'd be lying if I didn't say this damages what i really admired about the podcast. idk.
Is there research in this field that is not commercially funded? That seems like a silly distinction in America.
plexiglass dividers with or without being combined with low height dividers just brings up feelings of being in some television show call center. Both provide the image of a seating arrangement created to allow management to scan for people not working as management expects them too, they are not designed for sharing among each other.
And what is the issue with leaving it as `/nix`, which is (was) accessible on virtually all extant systems? Other than "the root folder is special!"
Some sites ask you to do it voluntarily, and if its something I value enough I will do. If it's forced I will sometimes try a workaround, sometimes just close it.
The Nix abides.
Totally agreed. Ads compromising my brain is far more dangerous to me than ads compromising my computer. The effect of modern ads on individuals and society are tremendously negative.
I wish instead of calling them "ad blockers", we had used something like "tracking blockers". The tracking/automation of ad networks is what the issue is, not the ads, yet we've made it more confusing for those that don't understand how these things work.
May be I am dense but how is a podcast generating a recurring revenue? IMO the podcast is heavily tied to the main guy. In this case it’s only worth that much because Joe Rogan is there. If he gets hit by a bus or decides to just leave, Spotify is fucked. To me that is what this makes the whole deal risky. With that kind of risk, I don’t expect Spotify to pay up that much.
I stopped reading right there. Step one is "install apache", if you're going to be serving a simple website.
Interestingly, if you reply with just “no, London England” it does remember you were asking about time and gives the correct answer. However, the next time you ask for time in London, you’re back to Canada.
Not really. I suspect many engineers are in this position, but most choose the low risk option of staying where they are.

Not exactly the same situation, but Anthony Levandowski definitely stole IP while leaving Google. However if he had left and started Otto without stealing proprietary lidar designs, I don't think there would have been a lawsuit (unless there were not-compete clauses in his contract).
The WHO certainly never claimed that SARS-CoV-2 does not spread between people. They said human-to-human transmission had not been confirmed.

The very first signs of human-to-human transmission in the epidemic were on Jan 14th, as some family members of the initially-identified cluster began to fall ill. At this time, there were about ~50 identified cases, and zero deaths.

On January 20th, one single incubation period later, as healthcare workers began falling ill, both China and the WHO confirmed human-to-human transmission.

There are large numbers of examples of respiratory illnesses that do not easily transmit between humans. Most commonly, there are frequently outbreaks of H1N1 influenza from farms, with animals as the primary vector. Among coronaviruses, MERS transmits very poorly between people.

Would you have preferred the WHO loudly proclaim the virus easily transmits between people when there was no evidence that it did? That would be absurd.

Please stop spreading this misinformation.
The book : Oxygen advantage[1] makes similar points.
It points out to the research of why swimmers have higher life expectancy than the average athelete, why almost all of us are hyperventilating. Then he outlines simple exercises to improve your breathing habit.

Few points:
1. Always breathe through your nose. Even when you are jogging/cycling heavily.
2. Try to hold your breathe for elongate period of time.
3. Try doing 2 while walking/running/cycling.
4. Swim!
5. Pushing the breathe out and then holding is better than taking the breathe in and holding.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26533127-the-oxygen-adva...
I have used a few different bank sites and they all work with ad blockers.
It's not so much a social anxiety, as an awareness of others. You can't just be yourself without being rude. Even just basic body functions, like farting, is something you need to consider and manage before doing it. I'm not saying I want to constantly fart, but there's no privacy.
Do any of them support Dark/Light?
> What form would you be shipping the energy in?

One option is hydrogen. There's some amount of government & think-tank produced research arguing for australia to pursue a "hydrogen economy". E.g. https://www.industry.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/aust...

From skimming through the report, there are also applications to use directly use hydrogen as an input to produce ammonia, and also an argument that existing means of shipping ammonia could be used to ship hydrogen, conditional on research that can extract hydrogen out of ammonia with low energy input.

I don't have a handle on what kind of policies would be needed to encourage private investment in hydrogen vs coal, gas, oil (assuming it is even a good idea). There's a graph of estimated prices of hydrogen vs alternatives in various uses in the report (search for "breakeven"). It does not look price competitive in many applications, but I assume the comparison does not include price adjustment that account for the externalised environmental costs of one energy source versus another.

Regardless of hydrogen or solar or batteries or whatever, a carbon tax with a price set to help internalise the externalised costs of greenhouse gas emissions would be a great way to push activity in a better direction, regardless of if that is hydrogen or anything else that strikes a good combination of efficiency & low greenhouse gas impact. Perhaps the carbon tax could be rolled out nationally with tariffs put in place to penalise the import of goods & services produced in other countries that did not yet have an comparable carbon tax installed.
This brings up the related issue of the normal domain name system and it's governence. No one really owns their domains. They lease them at the whim of some corporate or government entity.

But if you put up a tor onion service you actually own your domain name. I'm not saying only host on tor, but why not a .onion too?
> Those two don't even begin to cover anything near a UBI needs.

Agreed, but then it's not a black hole as it will be spent, incurring sales taxes, feed into companies, taxation again. So a fair percentage will already feedback.

However, the tax system needs fixing before that and many loopholes need closing and the whole system simplified as the current complexes mess just creates loopholes that those with lots of money can and do abuse. So until the whole tax system is sorted, many things will just fail or become another bolt-on kludge and doomed to fail.

> be sure that it doesn't screw those already on SS, and post here

Not sure how you would discern that, but a rather glib thing to be saying and naive at a time when many will be out of work. Though I'm sure that was not the intention and probably better of with a quote by Margaret Thatcher “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Google Desktop Suite v0.3.0
Ad blocking is a security issue now. When the ad networks started serving malware, what were the websites response? Basically nothing, they just said it's not their problem and pointed the finger at the ad networks. Ad blocking is now vital to having a safe web experience. This is not some trivial issue. Computers and the web are critical for modern life now. The same computer that people use for browsing news sites is also used to do online banking, pay bills, apply for unemployment, do work with sensitive data (for example a work laptop), and so many other things.

And computers are also used by minors. Some of these ads are really disturbing and not something minors should see. Again, when this started happening, how did the websites respond? They did nothing.
> People intentionally look at ads in exchange for credit in their micropayment accounts.

> It's better to have people perform mechanical turk style tasks.

I do like the idea, but I still think the barriers to entry are way too high. I'm worried that what will really happen is people will just download content via other means, which will start publishers off the deep end putting DRM into their webpages. Just look at Steam as an example - it very much reduced piracy rates because it lowered the barrier to entry.

> As a parent, I'd be happy to put a few cents in my child's micropayment account so they don't have to get their brain flooded with garbage whenever they use the internet.

Easy enough for someone living in a 1st world country. A child in Bangladesh who just wants to read about maths or video games however... Not to mention, your child is now directly linked to your bank account, whereas before you had pseudo-anonymity.
Siri gets it right for me, even though I am probably 6000 miles from London, England.

Maybe it's because I am not near enough to another London for the algorithm to make the assumption that I am talking about a "local London" and instead figures since they're all pretty far away, I probably mean the more well-known London.

Or maybe because I've traveled to London England but not any other Londons (That I can remember)

Or possibly because I have London, England in my World Time app.
Google has no obligation to be anyone's mouthpiece or loudspeaker, and we have no information on whether any files were deleted.
I find that the hardest thing to determine - the outbreath falls away naturally, but I can sit there until it feels like I'm never going to inhale again, and at no point does it feel like my breath "returns" by itself, but rather I feel like I have to drag it in, while my heartrate spikes.
I have been mildly asthmatic all my life, so maybe that has something to do with it. Incidentally I have often noticed my thoughts become agitated and realised that I'm holding my lungs empty.
Good stuff, but I never liked self hosting a blog when I can just pop it up on a hosted solution. I want to write and forget and not maintain. By the time that I setup a blog, I'd have lost my interest in writing.

Probably, I'll just write about my pain about how did I deal with docker, exposing the port, nginx reverse, some vps provider and DNS stuff.
> A tech firm in Boise might not be able to hire and Elixir developer at any price.

I think the timescale matters. If it became known over a period of years that some company was paying $1mm for Elixir devs in Boise, loads of folks would consider learning Elixir and moving to Boise.
Interestingly the heat output of the gas turbine is also used to pre-heat the released air; it looks like this combo is what drives a lot of the gas+CAES efficiency.

So you can't easily subtract gas from the equation.
It just means that in a span of a few weeks the evidence itself (what we know and how we understand it) can contradict itself. So basically if you say that’s okay, it’s the authoritative source, that’s fine, but it means other people might not be authoritative but may be right. So the question isn’t so much why give one preeminence based on past performance but rather why censor others who might have a case to be made?
You are the ad-tech Manchurian Candidate.
The myth of progress has got to be the marketer’s best tool for getting at rich folk.
VehicleNet: Learning Robust Visual Representation for Vehicle Re-Identification
I was previously a Stern fan and I distinctly recall listening to him on my way to school on 9/11 as he was covering the planes hitting the twin towers. I haven't heard or seen a single thing from Stern since he switched to satellite. I have no idea how to even listen to his guest interviews if I wanted. I could search for it, but that's kind of the point, I would have to search. It's never popped up in my YT/Twitter/FB feed. Friction is powerful, especially at scale.
Even us folks who live in Ontario refer to London in Canada as "London Ontario" when talking about it, unless it's extremely contextually obvious that you _don't_ mean London, UK.

So yes, it is obvious to us humans who have London Ontario in our lives that "London" refers to London UK.
this isn't just bad advice, it's dangerous. i wouldn't want to drive behind somebody that tied down an external load with only reef knots.