skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am inclined to agree with the impossibility of reconciling a definition of "power" that does not involve violence and non-consensual control; a lot of modern writers and thinkers will use their own definition of "power" in order to frame it based on collectivism, as if "power" only exists if it's conceded voluntarily by other people, but I think this is wishful thinking.

Oddly enough, they want to specifically use the word "power" because of its existing reputation, i.e. its connotations with acts of non-consensual control. They may say something like "real power does not stem from violence, real power comes from a group and does not exist without group coherence." However, the only reason they're focusing on the word "power" is because they know what it implies and are using its reputation as a concept in order to lend credibility to their own ideas, which themselves usually contradict the agreed-upon meaning of the "power".

To be clear, this may not strictly apply to Hannah Arendt, but I see other people playing with the word "power" so frequently that I thought it was relevant to mention.
EndPoliceBrutalityInNigeria protests are unlikely to end soon
No clue to be honest, I just opened it on a single tab of Reddit and it was using high single to double digits of CPU sitting there.

I looked at the bug again with fresh eyes and it seems like there is a deeper issue that may be my fault.

I am running i3-wm and it seems like Firefox gets stuck in a loop if you don't have all the fonts it expects. I had a previous issue where I was crashing my terminal when a program tried to show emojis, which was a legitimately a fun issue to figure out.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1495900

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499385 (not sure if this was the one I saw before giving up + installing Brave, but the fact there are _tons_ of "Firefox hitting 100% cpu" is telling)
Anyone on macOS having trouble with “Find in page” not finding text recently?
Curious about this too. I use it on a couple of 18.04 and 20.04 *buntu's, and only occasionally have trouble with it.

I have noticed there are some websites that tend to make it both consume CPU and prevent my machine from screen-blanking, but I find them easily enough with the the diagnostics tool in ff. I don't recall having that problem with Chromium, but I feel like I've given it up for good now.
Ask HN: Why create a browser plugin instead of a bookmarklet?
Why would somebody create a browser plugin, if the same functionality could be achieved with a bookmarklet?
Are there advantages?
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Perhaps include "(soccer)" in the title for those of us in the USA?
A bit contradictory with Apple's supposedly privacy-focused approach, no?
OVH client interface goes into a login loop on anything other than Chrome. There are a few sites like this which are the only reason I have Chrome installed.
Fast UTF-8 validation
Just to clarify here, the Mozilla VPN is $4.99/mo, whereas Mullvad (the partner it currently uses) is €5(~$5.91)/mo.

There is no markup, it's actually about 15% cheaper.
Firefox gets bogged down in Gmail by some sort of tracking pixel or something, and it's noticeably improved by content blocking.
I'm obviously biased here given I manage an alternative search engine, but I really think this will mean good things for competition in the search space. Every other search engine besides Google currently has < 10% of market combined and having literally founded a search engine because of how bad I found Google's results I can't believe that continued domination is from a quality standpoint. I wholeheartedly believe they do not rank the top results appropriately and that means it actively harms consumers in favor of ads and sponsored results.
Abuse is a real problem for the matrix network. I've seen spam and borderline CSAC on the network.

Frankly I think this is a valuable addition. Although the 5 eyes should bankroll it if they are really so concerned about CSAC and terrorism.
While we're on the topic of enterprise hard drives, does anyone know who makes Hewlett Packard Enterprise drives?

https://www.cdw.com/product/hpe-hard-drive-600-gb-sas/450348...

We have a few of their machines and I've always been curious but haven't been able to find much.
I'm also using ffmpeg to work with images, like creating thumbnails from full-sized images. Basically, what you would use imagemagick for. I just haven't discovered yet scenarios where imagemagick does something better than ffmpeg (my use-cases are pretty simple, though). And since I also work with videos, I feel like I have to learn just one command-line monster instead of two.

I'd be interested in use-cases where imagemagick should be strongly preferred over ffmpeg.
Who cares? Is there a word for this sort of writing in which current sensibilities are applied to older works in an attempt to "educate" people about a book that everyone read?

> "Unlike many of his, or our, contemporaries, Herbert was willing to imagine a world that was not based on Western, Christian mythology."

Again, who cares?
Windows 10 asks to use a verified app, when attempting to install Firefox
Used Trello but it's a bit pricey when it comes to using all of the features. Currently using Restyaboard, which is the free version of Trello, with a Kanban board, Gantt chart, reminders, priorities...etc.
THANK YOU. I have never understood why folks on Reddit, etc. are so vehemently opposed to reposts. If people are upvoting it, that means they like it. If they like it, that means either a) it's new to them, or b) they enjoy seeing it again.
After looking more, after being prompted for the bug, it may be an issue with Firefox getting stuck in a loop trying to load fonts.

I may work on fixing this locally, but I may just stick with Brave since it works just fine.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1495900
Is there anything Apple can do that makes their platform less accessible to the users that you would not support?
It's good for isolation: i.e. in general if you copy a directory containing an NPM project to another location, in general it will just work, and deleting something elsewhere on the file system should never affect the project. In general I would argue this is a more important property for dependency managers to have rather than using the least amount of space possible.

If you really want to avoid it you can install everything as a global dependency, but it's not best practice.
"According to our records you've been involved in an accident..."

(Maybe that's UK only)
What about +CCC?
Right, but many users want to delegate trust to more than just the OS vendor.
This is basically what pi-hole is, as to controlling it from a phone app, well it has a web interface.
I think this has been a long time coming and probably needs to happen. My ad-hoc monopoly test has always been customer service. When your a monopoly you don’t really care about consumers because you don’t have to. Look at your local DMV, your local cable company, and Google. What do they have in common? They act in their own self interest over consumer’s interests. They take anti-consumer actions with impunity and are dismissive of all complaints. They go through great lengths to turn their problems into your problems.

I’m hoping that this leads to adblock being fully supported in chrome again with all the proper hooks to be able to filter content. I also hope this leads to greater privacy and a right to be forgotten for all. Most of all I hope this leads to Google answering the phone instead of hiding behind their algorithms. (Even when I was working at a top 5 web site the only way we could contact anyone at Google was Twitter and former college roommates that happened to work there).
Happy Firefox user. I love the multi-account containers and the picture-in-picture. That, and you aren't "logged-in" at the browser level.
As politically difficult as "trying to get everyone insurance" has been, addressing the high costs of health care would be even more difficult.

Trying to get everyone insurance involves paying for it, which people often don't want to do.

Trying to lower the cost of health care involves working against well-funded companies willing to do anything and everything they can to preserve their profits, even if it requires destroying a few politicians along the way.
Seventy-five percent of Ultranauts employees are on the autism spectrum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

Article IV says: "The use of any equipment or facility necessary for peaceful exploration of the moon and other celestial bodies shall also not be prohibited."
Seems like screen.so is a layer of abstraction above this?

That is, screen.so has all of these features, for any app you want, not just creating slides.
That's really interesting! I had no idea, I've never actually come across an interactive graph in the wild on Wikipedia.

But when I think "interactivity", I think of things especially in articles about physics, math, or sciences generally -- pulling on a spring to show oscillation, showing how the angles of a triangle add up to 180°, a real-time dynamic water cycle, etc.

I'm assuming Vega can't do stuff like that? Is there any tool that can?
The Accelerating Adoption of Julia
William Gaddis’s Disorderly Inferno
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Why would developers have to maintain a website that's not hosted by them?

If the issue is maintainability once the website has been extended (i.e., with custom code and integrations), then it's all about _that__ experience. I think in those cases, the mistake is to come up with some sort of bespoke abstraction that the developer now has to learn and that is different from everything else they're used to.

With the way we've designed Makeswift, once we open up extensibility, you'll just use regular old code (e.g., React, Vue, Angular components, or plan HTML and JS), in a repository that's version-controlled, that lives with the rest of the code.

To make that a bit more concrete, today, Makeswift components are just React components. So Makeswift's API is just passing props to your component. That's what we plan to open up eventually.
...no, I don't think they could. Is there an example you're thinking of?

Up until recently, Little Snitch monitored network traffic in kernel space.
This one is pretty impressive. I get so many adds for dumb programming t-shirts that say stuff like "if (me.tired) drink.coffee()" which aren't very creative.
I completely agree; Bernhard's posts made me realize that even professionals do not necessarily know the most efficient methods for teaching and learning, and that it may be necessary for students, even as amateurs, to challenge and seek advice beyond what their teachers are capable of, despite the existing gap in skills.
> Single tab of the front page of reddit

Not surprising, considering the (new) reddit website has the most
bloated, sluggish UI I've ever used. And the only change they
made recently made it worse as it added autoplaying livestreams.
It's not for nothing though - the employer is buying their productive capacity. The fact that the employer chooses to do nothing with it is entirely irrelevant.

Same issue with Google - by using their market power to monopolize search power across devices and OSes, they are effectively locking out any other potential entrants. That this is being done to enhance a completely different line of business (ads) is classic anti-competitive behavior.
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>"Lead, praseodymium, platinum, plutonium (most p sounds)"
The mildly subtle humor herein since "Lead" has the symbol "Pb", as it comes from the Latin 'plumbum'.
Thank you, Mr Lehrer.
I don't have the bookmarks bar visible by default, so bookmarklets are basically useless to me.
Google buys companies like Nest just to to be sure.

Preventing competitors from squiring a company or making sure they don't miss any new trend is enough to burn few billions.
Low lunar orbits are unfortunately too unstable.
The service provider, in most cases, is also the application provider which decrypts the message and holds the keys.

Most "lawful access" scenarios are met if the service/application provider requests/obtains the plain text and/or keys from the application.

Example: Police is investigation John Doe for involvement in child porn. Police has his phone number so requests a warrant for his chat apps message contents. Gets a warrant so sends a request to Facebook. Facebook sends request to all apps to send last month decrypted content. Facebook provides that to the police.
I spent a lot of time playing the maze game that came with Encarta, and like the author when I think of the "I Have a Dream" speech, I usually think about the version I watched on Encarta (as well as JFKs speech about going to the moon).

Just this morning at breakfast, my daughter said to me "Did you know about goliath birdeating spiders?" I told her that I did not, but I looked it up on wikipedia. I started telling them how wikipedia is a digital version of encyclopedias, which many of us used to have in our home, came in ~20 book sets and had articles about almost everything you could want to know about. My younger daughter's response to the idea of having a 20 book set about all sorts of different topics was "Why would you do that?" Not only are things like Encarta and Encyclopedias foreign to kids growing up, the logic on why one would need something like that is lost on them. It's not necessarily a bad thing (wikipedia is awesome in its own right), but it is interesting.
Nothing beats Safari on the Mac, but I’m rooting for Firefox for diversity and innovation on the devtools.
Yeah, I pretty much agree. I thought it was interesting to read that essay, and the others published in Crises of the Republic, alongside Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. Both texts have a lot to say that's useful. "Lying in Politics" seemed even more useful, especially when thinking about social media.

There are a lot of well thought out, interesting takes on the world in her writing, but there are also a lot of unstated assumptions about the world. Those assumptions seem fair-enough for the when and where of her writing, but they are not the same assumptions that a lot of us might hold today.
> I live in the city centre and I don't even have fibre. Meanwhile all the new corrupt housing developments all get "fibre" as a perk for buying a house on land that floods.

In what fashion do you call this corruption?
Aha, that is something to watch out for, and may explain what I've seen on some websites!
That some people need kidney dialysis is not an argument that everyone getting kidney dialysis is the only way to stay healthy.

If you can't learn from books or videos or online lectures or parents or tutors, I doubt generic schooling is really going to be able to help much either, but if it does great. People learn in different ways and different kids need different resources, but that's an argument against a one-size fits all public schooling system, not in favor.
In my experience, arranging images into arrays (like a filmstrip), or collages is where I've found imagemagick shine in comparison to ffmpeg. Most of my work involves video, so I am partial to ffmpeg - haven't found a greater tool for video!
it's fairly limited. only WMDs are explicitly prohibited. other weapons (eg, anti-satellite) are a grey area AFAIK. recon satellites and facilities for military research are fair game.
I wouldn't be surprised if you find yourself with a much greater facility for memorization. The only caveat is that it takes longer to get to the point where you can "play through" a piece, which feels less efficient than learning by sheet music, but I find that my ability to interpret and make phrasing choices with memorized music is much greater than it is with music I'm reading.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24836783
This already largely exists though. When I had the trial for the nest aware subscription service, it would tell me who was at my door. I forget if I had to manually set up the face recognition, or it did it automagically, but in a crime situation it seems it would be fairly trivial to try to find a match.

Similarly, if their cellphone or watch tried to connect to my wifi, this could be used to pin someone down. They had motion detectors in my house via the nest protects and nest thermostats I have installed. I am not even sure how useful. They already have all the pieces for a good home security system, they just needed some good product management leadership to integrate them all together well and they are done. You can lock in to the ecosystem as well- the pin pads are kind of annoying to deal with, have a google home by the door to ask you to repeat a phrase and it can verify your voice. Its a complete layup yet Google has stood under the basket for several years now refusing to let go of the ball. Its as absurd as it is infuriating.
I love using it as I WFH and use an RDP session to my work computer, open PIP on my local machine and have it hover over my RDP session. Very nice!
You understand that Apple could bypass kexts too? This is an issue of trust, not a technical issue.
One possible explanation: the individual creating a plugin instead of a bookmarklet is unaware of bookmarklet functionality.

There are likely many other plausible explanations.
> But the most conspicuous feature of Theranos's cap table is the absence of Silicon Valley firms. Journalists were fooled by Theranos, but Silicon Valley investors weren't.

Not really a good defense of Silicon Valley, considering that Tim Draper was Theranos's first investor and a pretty big proponent of them https://twitter.com/RebeccaJarvis/status/974435962930548736
I'm not clear on where the pbrt-next branch is, but an early release of PBRTv4 is here: https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v4
This is such a click bait title. Could it not just say what Microsoft is actually doing rather than getting us to click through?
We may be entering the era of "it wasn't me."

If A accuses B of having nude photos online, B will reply, "That's not true at all: they are fakes." There will likely be enough strategic ambiguity to successfully deny the photos's veracity. No one will have nudes online; everyone will have nudes online.
Many of these products use https://webrtc.org/
Is there a charity dedicated to making short CC0 instructive videos of fundamental concepts? That seems like a worthwhile cause.
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I don't understand these style of responses. I think the point is that this "feature" makes the OS shittier.
Well that's okay, they also own parts of ASML.
Airlines have pretty bad customer service. so do most insurance companies.
Yeah, I may have been purposefully putting my finger on the scale a bit.

google.com was bouncing around 1 and 3%. Firefox becomes unusable for me to do webdev on with multiple tabs if each tab is doing 5%+ each.
I've been able to solve that on a few sites by turning off the "enhanced tracking protection" next to the address bar (haven't tried OVH specifically).
Good question. I use qutebrowser, which can run the equivalent of bookmarklets, but not plugins. One of the reasons I like it is that I can map any keys to invoke any script, including, but not limited to, javascript snippets.
Bookmarklets can't circumvent CSP policies (or at least couldn't always, not sure if this has changed), extensions can.
The link to the data sets in the article 404s, so here's the current link. https://disneyanimation.com/data-sets/
All of this is after forcefully pinning edge to every window's user's taskbar and warning firefox is not secure.

MS advertises privacy to attract users but it is worse than Chrome on privacy aspects.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

If the developer that implemented the 'edge pinning to taskbar feature' is reading this, fuck you. Don't mess with my taskbar.
In this situation the question isn’t about whether or not Apple can be trusted.

Apple has clearly betrayed users’ trust in this situation.

People don’t install Little Snitch only to prevent nefarious third party activity. Some may want to know what traffic is going to and from their computers. Other may want to block all traffic for testing and/or research purposes.

I can trust that Apple is not doing something nefarious and still see that Apple is blatantly betraying the fact that people trusted when switching stuff like firewalls away from kext that it wouldn’t build backdoors for itself.

Also, any backdoors Apple builds for its own apps and services are simply an additional attack vector that could potentially be used by non Apple malicious actors.
I am sure the AI models to detect fakes are also improving.
Of course, but they'll get a pass because "Apple's got yer back!"
That totally breaks my use case for Little Snitch: working tethered. When I tether my laptop it thinks it has free reign with the bandwidth and all of the little background processes can kill my data in a few minutes. With a firewall, I can grant access to only the processes that I need to get my work done.

Now, I guess I have to run some external firewall between my laptop and my phone. ... or better yet, abandon Apple.
Translation:

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I think it's time for you to take a break on social media and recalibrate your second hand bot detector. Don't you think?
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I think the underlying algorithms/architecture are pretty different. I believe Incremental is based on http://matthewhammer.org/icfp11/ChenDuHaAc2011-implicit-SAC.... and Differential Dataflow is based on the ideas in https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... .
Got rear-ended in France once, called the rental car company to report the problem (damaged car), turned out you had to speak to the automated system in French to get directed to someone to actually talk to. I don't speak French. There were no other options. So the guy that rear-ended my rental car actually had to help out with the call.. even that was problematic, he lived in France but wasn't a native, apparently his French wasn't quite good enough for the system. Hertz, that's not something you should have as your user interface at your Hertz office at an international airport.
Tech savvy users are not just the minority. They're also cheap. They've been conditioned by the FOSS movement to think all software should be free as-in-beer. (The people who started FOSS didn't say that, but that's what it's become.) They say they want free as-in-freedom, but since they are not willing to pay for it they don't exist. Those who pay set the agenda for everything.

Developing a truly polished operating system with a whole ecosystem of services is far, far beyond what volunteers and hobbyists can achieve. It's just too much work. It also requires focus and coordination and someone who is able and willing to say no. Without that the FOSS community rewrites everything over and over again instead of doing the not-fun parts of programming like fixing bugs and edge cases.

TL;DR: we get what we pay for. We don't pay for freedom so we don't get it.
Not too hard to guess from the jobs page https://pitch.com/about#hiring
Not a pi-hole user, but what is the plan for pi-hole once encrypted dns is everywhere? Will it just be dead? I can’t really think of a way for it not to be.
He's doing soccer and parkour lessons. On top of that, we end up going to the park pretty much every day and play tennis/soccer. He loves his sports, and is very athletic in general.