skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(off-topic) What’re the advantages of pihole over /etc/hosts?

It's good for cases exactly like this - devices where you don't have control over /etc/hosts (or where you have lots of them and don't want to keep the hosts files in sync). I use it for my Samsung TV to keep them from phoning home (but still letting me use apps)

Edit: you can also set up a DoH endpoint and filter traffic while also allowing Encrypted SNI to work
Safari is so ie5 born again
Fortunately Sumatra (on Windows) opens pdf, epub and mobi files: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

I switched to it a while back and haven't looked back since. It's open source too.
This is a surprisingly nice type face. It looks blocky when blown up, but it is really clean for small text. It took me a second to zoom in on the text and realize that the article is written in the typeface itself.
I'm curious is there might be a legibility benefit to having a more rectilinear font. Perhaps the transfer function of TTF's anti-aliasing is cleaner along the horizontal and vertical axes rather than along a diagonal or curve. Having a less curvy font might be easier to render since the edges align with the display.
That may slightly chip away at asymmetry but it doesn’t remove it. For one, if only LEO officers decide who gets surveillance then mysteriously senators who misbehave won’t get surveillance but poor people will.
I'm asking this question not to spark a contentious debate or be ridiculed. But I'm genuinely curious, as someone who has little experience with China and only lived in the US, is the US just as much of a surveillance state as China?

We often hear a lot of 'information' (bordering propaganda), about China being an "authoritarian surveillance state". I don't mean to sound absurd, but is the US that much better in terms of authoritarianism or surveillance? If so, why?
Looks nice, kinda like HN.
Can you name one precise isomorphism between "social media collisions" and particle interactions?
more children had been getting polio from polio vaccines than getting it in the wild for a long time
I mean Santa Rosa got hit by fire after flames jumped the multi-lane I-5 freeway a few years ago, so I don’t think small gaps / roadways accomplish anything in some of these fires.
Some of it, yes. Some of it truly is just rote work that should be automated or owned by junior non-specialists. The same comparative advantage argument could apply to highly skilled DBAs or quants or frontend specialists, just depending on your company’s needs.

If people interpret it as “elitist” to refer to basic comparative advantage economics, they need to get over it and stop being so sensitive.
Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades
It's very much not an ideal solution, but uBlock Origin lets you block large media elements (and reenable them temporarily or on a site-by-site basis), which might help.
So, "the President gives his promise about improving unemploymemt rates up"?

This is no different in English: "He told the upstanding, proper young woman off".
PowerShell is underrated, but it's its own worst enemy, stubbornly insisting on LongForm-VerbNoun syntax for all but the most common commands that anyone familiar with the shell would expect. A few UI touchups and it could go substantially further, especially as MS continues quietly gutting the NT heritage out of Win10 and integrating more and more nix-like features, including full Linux kernel emulation, all so you can run Docker without a VM! What a world.

I continue to believe that within 10 years, Microsoft will have just switched entirely to Linux+WINE under the covers. :)
I’m not sure moral puritanism is really that useful here. Surveillance isn’t going anywhere and it is demonstrably useful for national security. We are best off working to allow it to operate with ample checks and balances rather than closing our eyes and pretending it is superfluous.
No he's not. He's also not looking at his CPU usage, where Chrome will literally go towards the high 70s for no fudging reason, while idle
A Biased View of Best Mobile Payment Apps: Make Your Smartphone a Wallet
Specifically in the case of cammas bulbs, the harvesting method was quite precise in its imprecision. The tool for gathering bulbs was basically a polished stick, which means that digging up a cluster of bulbs misses all of the offsets and a few of the larger bulbs. But the act of levering them out pushes the remaining bulbs outward from the center of mass, giving them more room to divide.

They also apparently gathered at flowering time, something you don't usually see in conventional agriculture. TtW suggests that this is because of Death Cammas - a hepatotoxic doppelganger with a completely different flower, that would be in the public interests to irradicate from your fields.

Cammas experts claim only an idiot would confuse the two, but harvest is a group activity. Some of those 'idiots' would be your kids or elders with failing eyesight.

I knew a guy who is trying to re-establish cammas from remnant native meadows who thinks the real reason is metabolic. That the fraction of inulin (one of the starches that make you fart) during flowering is lower, and hence they require less intensive food prep. Lewis and Clark apparently sampled underprepared cammas during their journey and spent a very unpleasant night because of it.
The mystery goes deeper...
I actually find Pocket to be very useful as a cross-platform bookmarking app
Some people do - though likely not as many as discuss Love Island.

I think the tech community in particular (with both the awareness and the means) has a duty to the public to make clear what is going on to those less tuned in.

So far, it has failed in that to a rather astonishing degree. Probably for exactly the reasons yourself and the OP describe.
Kind of, they have their own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and I'm not sure if that changed, but they used to source at least from Yahoo and Yandex. [0]

Although yes, its usually Bing.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180203071252/https://duck.co/h...
BASIC was my first programming language. Back in 90s I made tons on graphics game in it.
It is also very close to assembly and can be made really fast.
As a programming language, I agree it is not a good choice anymore.
I was learning antlr4 and wanted to take it all they way to a working programming language.
BASIC is an easy language to implement and I am familiar with it. Hence the choice.
For my second language implementation, I would probably pick a better language.
My goal is to make it feature complete: add sound support, more functions, array processing, may be add a few modern features like references, and then call it done.
Then I want to focus on improving the IR and runtime machine.
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Yeah I would describe the evidence for both as circumstantial but fairly compelling, and very low risk. Even given the unknowns and potential risks, getting enough sun exposure is probably the best anti-Covid intervention from a cost-benefit perspective.
Damn, they removed KindleGen?! What a bummer!
I really like this, though it seems like the songs often end abruptly.
Is that a blank tab? For someone who browsed the web quite successfully for a long time on a PC with only a quarter of that RAM in total, those numbers look outrageously huge. If they're blank pages, one has to wonder what exactly needs to use that much.
You could take the chef approach by picking straight banana's and squaring them off first. The sizing would be pretty consistent, the leftovers can go in a shake, or frozen for a smoothie later and you would have a higher percentage of perfect coverage :)
For anyone interested in Scots:

https://dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/

I have no idea whether it is a language or not but the Doric version of Scots I used as a child ("loon") is pretty much incomprehensible to anyone not from the immediate area - terrible punishments were inflicted on anyone unwise enough to utter a word of Scots in school!

It's a sair fecht

Edit: An example of the terrible punishments inflicted by teachers would be a skelped lug.
All of those things, and don't forget the steady arms race: the contemporary Web is stunningly adversarial to good search results.

Ten years ago, when Google screwed up, you'd land on a really obvious linkfarm page with a bunch of SEO spam: it was literally just a collection of keywords repeated over and over.

Now, when $search-engine screws up, which it often does, you land on a plausible-looking page, with bad but not terrible English, that just... doesn't tell you anything worth knowing. I know the smell of them, and it can still take me a section or two of precious time to figure out what's going on.

There's often not that much link juice, either: as far as I can tell, the business model is purely to put an ad or two in front of my eyeballs.
A short summary to clarify the "inclusionist" term, in case people don't check your link:

> The terms reflect differing opinions on the appropriate scope of the encyclopedia and corresponding tendencies either to delete or to include a given encyclopedia article

> "Deletionists" are proponents of selective coverage and removal of articles seen as poorly defended. Deletionist viewpoints are commonly motivated by a desire that Wikipedia be focused on and cover significant topic

> "Inclusionists" are proponents of broad retention, including retention of "harmless" articles and articles otherwise deemed substandard to allow for future improvement.
> Its existence signifies that something fundamentally is wrong with Firefox and where Mozilla spends its resources.

Why? I don't understand this. Mozilla needs to make money somehow. Unfortunately we don't live in a post scarcity world where programmers just contribute to OSS because they enjoy it and want to make the world better. Currently they do it because of those things AND because they need an income. Unfortunately things still cost money. (I think this answers your last few questions as well too)

> If it is so unpopular, how come Firefox hasn’t axed it?

I think this is sampling and internal bias. Have you seen the numbers of clicks? I haven't. But I rather like pocket.
He genuinely seems like a guy who was just trying to help. You don't get to that scale of edits manually without wanting to help. Reminds me of the Jesus Painting¹. Sometimes, your reach exceeds your grasp, and it's beneficial for society to help you out in these situations. So he made a mistake, but his user page looks like he wasn't malicious. Be kind, go and fix the articles or RFD them.

Treating this guy like some sort of vandal isn't right. To be honest, it doesn't look like there are very many Scots contributors, so perhaps it should just be dumped as a project since it doesn't look like there are many Scots readers either.

EDIT: Ah fortunately, they've been in touch with him³ and he feels awful that he upset people². I am glad there are kind people in the world that know how to help people be contributors.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Mart%C3%ADnez_and_G...

² https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/igbbh2/the_sco...

³ https://twitter.com/Cobradile94/status/1298321034530246658?s...
In Canada this is not true and can be backed up with cases.

If you live in an at-will state I completely understand you would have few rights.

An employer can sue you for two weeks and any damages that comes from that event.
I assume you mean specifically native Californians right? Because native Americans built spectacular cities in Mexico and Central America.
The US is much better. Take for example internet surveillance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surv...

China is in another league. They are using deep packet inspection to block services they don’t allow access to, they force some people to install apps on their phone that track them. The great firewall of China is far more visible and impactful than the real Great Wall of China.
Alfred Crosby's classic history The Columbian Exchange explores how syphilis was perhaps the only major disease that went from the New World to the Old World. Well worth a read even though it's almost 50 years old at this point.

Also I hadn't realized until recently that the "syphilis spread via Columbus" theory was current in the 18th century. There's a section in Voltaire's Candide where it's discussed.
Banana bread can be pretty moist.
"makes making"
I mean, we have also left the Mayan pyramids standing despite being monuments to sacrificial human murder. Nobody is looking at Conquistadors in the 21st century as some sort of inspiration for the future. History happened, it was significant, over a billion people speak Spanish because of it, for better or for worse. That's all of human history, it's one giant mess. It's frankly amazing that it turned out as well as it did, because war and conquering was always a constant in human history...of course, what we're experiencing now could be a relatively temporary time of stability before we descend into a world war again.
goodbye and thanks for all the fish / $500M a yr from google
Depends how the patent claims are drafted. But there's no reason to think that the software implementation would be immune to an allegation of infringement.
I’m similar to you, except I’m also using mobile Firefox, and I think the preview/beta Firefox on Android works great. Looking forward to this becoming the standard for everyone.

The only compatibility issues I run into with Firefox are with my company’s internal web apps. It really does feel like Chrome is the new IE6 in the enterprise world :(
This is a peak pretentious HN comment that gives HN its infamy.

It is a pleasure to read that style in literary works, but in your day to day life is that how you want to communicate with people? I think that's what the linked article is talking about, how to use plain English for communication.
I like everything of the new version except that it doesn't close a tab on back button.
I wonder how much more difficult it would be to deepfake a lightfield compared to a regular video.
even their layoff post barely mentioned layoffs
Do you ever feel a need to leave the house? Prior to the pandemic, what would typically get you out of the house and did you enjoy it?

I ask because while I am perfectly comfortable at home, there is an underlying drive to get outside and engage with the world that doesn't go away. I'm curious if some people have it and some people don't, hence why some are more comfortable with certain parts of working from home.

I have been working from home for two years now, and off and on prior to that, it's always been a goal of mine, and I knew I would need to build in tools to cater for that part of me when I did go full time.
Nice write-up! Getting servos and gears strong enough to jump will be a challenge, but looking forward to seeing what you come up with! I had a project to create a SpotMini from a Mekamon last year- biggest problem I ran into was that the servos could not support the weight of an iPhone- https://medium.com/@zredlined/making-my-own-spot-mini-2-2f12...
i guess they should position themselves as software makers then, not social justice advocates https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Possibly, but the vaccines have prevented many orders of magnitude more cases: "Since 2000, more than 10 billion doses of OPV have been administered to nearly 3 billion children worldwide. As a result, more than 13 million cases of polio have been prevented, and the disease has been reduced by more than 99%. During that time, 24 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) outbreaks occurred in 21 countries, resulting in fewer than 760 VDPV cases."[1]

[1] https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/q-a-detail/what-is-v...
Billions are generated for investors every year by hedge funds.

Obviously there are not many Robert Mercers making money by running hedge funds, but there are countless millionaires and billionaires exacerbating their wealth through hedge funds.
But this is also that has to be installed, right? Can it install any self-hosted app, or only the ones that are currently supported by it?
I'm unsure why this post doesn't have NSFW flag/tag/marker from the get-go.
That's about what I get with my desktop using Cat6 -> Network Switch -> Cat6 -> router. That's very impressive.
> Test whether the PhD advisor you select knows this and has a history of taking this approach with former students.

How do you "test" for this? Asking potential advisors "do you know this?" is blunt and rude. Asking potential advisors in a mannered way prompts anodyne answers. Current students in the potential advisor's lab are unlikely to offer an intimate assessment of their personal satisfaction and research progress to a stranger, assuming they can even be honest with themselves.

My take is that having a good graduate advisor is largely about having a good undergraduate advisor who can offer an insider take and advocate on your behalf.
No op, but your practice is probably fine. More ideally, SSH would be locked down to your public IP address only. If you're already scripting this, you could just do a curl request to one of the many "what is my ip" services and set that instead of 0.0.0.0/0 as the security group IP address.

We also use bastion hosts. They're whitelisted for key-based SSH only access for our public IP addresses. We can jump around to other servers once we login to that one, but our externally facing servers never advertise anything other their base service (:443 or whatever is running on them).

I also use them with my personal servers and just leave them shut off when I'm not actively using them. This keeps costs down, but more importantly it permanently blocks off SSH access unless I'm specifically in need of it.
Nobel Noblemen
It was fine, but it's a symptom of a greater annoyance of MS trying to launch Edge as much as they can when I'm not interested in using it. The Windows search bar still launches Edge for search results, and it's never even on purpose because why would I use that for web searches?

I only get them when the search box goes "You typed 'Snipping Tool' so you probably wanted to search for 'Snipping Tool' on Bing. Let me open that in Edge for you."

I did actually use IE as a frequent browser for a while when I had a Surface, on account of touch scroll/zoom being really bad in Firefox and Chrome at the time. But that was the only thing it had going for it.

EDIT: and as someone else points out, Edge's PDF viewer is now Chrome's PDF viewer and it's not as good
"The main reasons for this choice are love and familiarity."

That is indeed a fundamentally great reason to embark on a project. Congrats and best of luck!
I understand the discomfort, but people have been describing a page of bad search results as "infested" for a long time.

Perhaps it was intended as a slight against Russians, but I'd ask you to assume good faith.
Pmem.io: Static code analysis of the PMDK
Mad hax (tm) packing JSON smaller than msgpack, protobuf, gzip and even zstd
Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole in the blade
I love flying. For the first three weeks or so of consistently playing I would get pretty motion sick after about 30 minutes of playtime and near throwing up after 45. That's usually when I would stop and then I'd spend another half hour or so walking around the neighborhood to give me something to concentrate on other than the awful nausea.

Then one day I was flying, and then I was flying and then I was still flying 4 hours later with no sickness. It hasn't come back since.
Last I checked (a year ago?) KFX wasn't a great input format, as it's optimized for the Kindle readers and not for conversion/interoperability. That is, KFX is to AZW3 as PDF is to HTML.
> Rule of thumb: the more steps you get away from the primary source the more corrupted everything gets. The article is good. The press release is bad. The tweet about the press release is worse. The tweets dunking on the tweet about the press release are terrible. Each one loses more of the critical context we need to actually understand what’s going on. Only the paper itself is a primary source. If you want to know what the paper’s about, you gotta read the paper!

This a 100%. Applies the same for code.
Iron Lung
Old redwoods have high canopies and prevent smaller trees / shrubbery from growing so they’re naturally unlikely to succumb to ladder fires. Also, they can regrow the canopy if it does burn.
I like Pocket. I think it's great and I enjoy the interesting articles it recommends to me. I never would have gone looking for something like it, so I'm glad Mozilla added it.
Related: If anyone is curious about the Fell Types, there are digitised versions available here: https://iginomarini.com/fell/
>If you’ve been paying (extremely close) attention to the NHL playoffs, you may have noticed a weird-looking stick with a hole in the blade. The hole apparently allows for two different properties: stiffness above it and flexibility below. According to Bauer, this produces a slingshot effect -- almost like a smaller version of the stick’s shaft (which, as explained in this video, bends almost unbelievably to whip the puck forward). These days, ‘twigs’ are made of carbon fiber, though as the hockey lingo suggests, wood used to be the material of choice. The evolution of the hockey stick from wood to carbon fiber gives us insight into a material property called resilience.
>Resilience is basically the opposite of damping. High resilience materials bounce back with most of the energy that you put into them. As Stevel Vogel illustrates in Cats’ Paws and Catapults, spider silk is a great example of low resilience material. “A web of high resilience would, like a trampoline, tend to fling the prey back out.” Vogel goes on to note that “resilience management highlights the dichotomy between nature and human technologies.” Natural materials, like wood, tend to have lower resilience whereas man-made materials, like carbon fiber, tend to have higher resilience.
>You can see why carbon fiber, with its higher resilience, has overtaken wood as material du jour; more of the energy you put into the stick comes out on the puck for a faster shot. But a stick can be too resilient/springy -- when receiving a pass, you don’t want the puck to bounce off the stick away from you. Players call it “feel”. Some damping is beneficial, as shown in this slo-mo video of a stick that combats springiness with a urethane insert. These hole-y sticks try to solve the problem a different way, adding a softer spring into the mix with the aim of providing “feel” without taking away energy from the shot. So, is it worth buying the latest in hockey tech - a stick with a hole in it for $450? If you’re a beer leaguer like me, clapping your usual head-hunting bombs twenty feet wide of the net, probably not.
> They aren't making money off delivering your package, no - they lose money. If they were making money, they would not need billions of capitol injection routinely

This seems like a specious argument to me. I'm not intimately familiar with the napkin math, but I am also not convinced that they would ve profitable simply by not delivering Amazon's packages. Their costs continue to rise every year- new addresses, inflating gas, healthcare and pension expenses- while their primary revenue stream (posted mail) has been continually declining.

Add to that the fact that the USPS still has to go by every address every day, and so the last mile costs are relatively fixed; the only additional cost to them for delivering is the internal sorting and movement investments needed to handle the volume. Nobody actually knows the rates amazon and USPS have negotiated, but outside of Trump I have not seen many people argue that they are losing money on the deal- most seem to believe that it is a win-win scenario.