skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a shame uMatrix was discontinued.

uBlock Origin comes close, and surpasses in some ways (I used both for that reason) but lacks separate control of cookies, images, scripts, etc. So you can't accept a particular third party's images without also accepting its scripts, cookies, etc.

I mention it mainly in the hope that we can popularise its maintained fork 'nuTensor'.

After trying uBlock (as in attempting to also cover what I used to use uMatrix for) for a few weeks I think it's insufficient and nuTensor is the better option for me, but it quickly won't be if ~nobody uses it and it falls by the wayside.

Alternatively uBO could support the few details it lacks from uM? It seems like the problem basically was difficulty/time constraints in supporting both.. but I don't know why they were ever separate? There's plenty of overlap. If uBO had uM's granularity in 'advanced mode', that'd be perfect.
I am engaging, against my better judgement!
Funny thing is Butter Lindner originates from Berlin, and Franzbrötchen are a Hamburgish sweet treat.
If they're what you consider 'right-wing radicals', I have some bad news for you.
People across the world calling you a fascist / communist, with 30 seconds of effort, to their and your 1,000 closest friends, seems like a pretty new phenomenon.
Dutch DPA Fines Booking.com for Delay in Reporting Data Breach
> Here's a crazy idea, if you don't want your episodes deleted don't sell rights to your intellectual property for 100 million bucks to another party

It is especially weird considering this was basically a foregone conclusion the moment Rogan signed with Spotify. Take a look at the HN comments when the news broke[1].

Spotify has a policy that says they won't host certain content. Rogan and his guests have a history of saying things that don't fit that content policy. It didn't take a genius to see those two things were incompatible. I'm not sure there is any convincing argument that Rogan is being mistreated for walking right into this easily predictable situation.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239304
Ask HN: How would you like to be managed?
Title says it all :) My preference is loose, but with guidance. I work best with some targets, free to tackle them how I choose, and knowing that someone is checking in with me. If it’s not my company, I would preferably like to work under the owner as well. What was your best experience in being managed?
Crap, i also forgot time off, maternity/paternity leave, "sick days", etc. It's hard to put a price on 30 days of paid vacation per year.
Let me guess, you’re from Swabia?
Yes, context matters, and sometimes even irrational instincts can end up being correct, especially under uncertainty, which was definitely true of the first few months of COVID. I'm less concerned about purely useless interventions, than counter-productive ones (or: a useless intervention A, which creates a psychological security blanket that subsumes motivation for high-yield intervention B).

Even stranger, I've also seen individuals under-react and over-react at the same time! ("Sure, I attended $LARGE_PUBLIC_EVENT, but we all wore masks, except while eating, and I've been taking lots of Vitamin D.")

For the over-reactors, I think aligning social norms with the best-science-for-now is achievable with simple rules and consistent messaging (that cohort wants to keep busy with rituals and precautions and social enforcement). For better or worse, our culture got a few simple memes to stick: wears masks in public, six-feet social distancing, outdoors is safer than indoors, limit socializing to "pods".

For those in denial, that's a thornier problem, and I frankly don't have any ideas. Whatever the context, challenging someone in denial tends to result in them doubling-down on it. Sometimes social pressure or law enforcement can cajole someone into adopting a rule they don't like; but it can just as easily backfire into tribal counter-signaling, or individual "bravery signaling" (itself a sort of psychic ward against fear). And in fairness: it's not hard to imagine counter-factuals where the official recommendations really are useless or worse ("duck and cover").
How is it tyranny? Under the most liberal definition tyranny is: "cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control."

It certainly is not cruel for any definition of cruel I am familiar with. It certainly isn't arbitrary, Spotify is not doing this on a whim and it isn't taking down all the episodes, it clearly is being very deliberate, though you may disagree with their process. The only one could be unreasonable, but what exactly makes this unreasonable? Again, you may disagree with their reasoning, but it is not an unreasonable position.

Why don't we back off this extreme rhetoric that plagues our conversations today?
China's Ambition to Be Health Superpower Has Boost from Pandemic
"China seeks to vastly improve its domestic healthcare infrastructure by the end of the decade with an ambitious set of reforms. If successful, the plan could further fuel the global rise of the People's Republic in yet another crucial field and potentially have far-reaching effects on a world still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report obtained exclusively by Newsweek."
I don't understand your analogy. If a sizeable population of the world got sick from eating at Chipotle...and it was easily communicably spreadable infecting even those that never ate there...and people died as a result (3 MILLION)...and it caused massive world-wide economic damage...I'd bet they'd be quite interested in the cause no matter where they worked. In your analogy, the impact wasn't just limited to those who ate at Chipotle. It was everyone.
> and a huge number of willing test subjects

Who said the test subjects have to be willing? That's never stopped our government before.
My guess is that the noise of new bug reports was incapacitating the team. You can't fix anything if each few minutes somebody comes to complain about a new problem.

But with the bugs organized he could filter the repeated reports and let people work. As a bonus, he could direct people into solving the largest troublemakers first too, so things get quieter faster.
As far as I’m concerned you can start right now, I’m not afraid of ideas. I think however that, unless someone makes a really big mistake, it’ll never be possible to prove such a hypothesis.
"Even if China was malicious and deliberately sent it off to us, it could've been easily stopped but we didn't do it..."

Hmmm...if it could "easily" have been stopped, then why did every single country in Europe and North America simultaneously fail to do so?
Neuralink shows monkey with brain-chip playing videogame by thinking
>> The idea of just quitting books that you enjoy is really important...

Frankly, even though I did mention it in the article, I'm honestly still really struggling with this concept. Like, I literally feel guilty about dropping a book so I always try to push through as much as possible.

But hell, I started reading "Start with WHY" and I just had to drop that crap ... Like, just ... no, LOL.

>> Sometimes a great book only clicks when you’re 1/4 of the way through it, though

Oh yeah! I had this with 11/22/63. Like, first 15% were amazing, then like 70% was pure boredom and holy crap, the last 15% was like ... FUUUUUUUUU. Made everything before that ABSOLUTELY worth it!

So, absolutely agreed - sometimes you just have to preserve!
It would be really nice to have a button that doesn't navigate away and doesn't require JS.
Assuming enough listeners put up with it. I don’t see it lasting though, the barrier to entry is low and I bet talking to other people is a talent that many people have.
Educational Information has already been democratized by MIT Open Courseware, Khan, and others. But Education itself is an interactive human activity carried out by an expert professional. Some of those professionals will be better at educating than others, and people will compete for access to those better educators. There is nothing about Education as a profession that suggests it can be democratized, because the fundamental operational units (educators) are not scalable the way copying texts or videos is.
i got into physics because of a copy of a brief history of time my grandmother gave to me. whoever wrote it, i am grateful.
The real magic behind that bug triage anecdote isn't the tedious work it took to get there, it's that a year later anyone noticed, gave a shit, or gave credit where it was due. In 9/10 organizations, such outcomes never materialize because no one is working for the common good, nor cares about silly little things like old bugs. Often there simply isn't time. You are instead being yanked from meeting to meeting, thrashing from one poorly defined management prerogative to another, because no one outside the code base has any understanding of what it actually takes to build a stable product nor do they really care.
If you can't see the many differences between those situations, I don't feel like we will have a productive conversation.
Is the Logan and Cove Mattress a Great Value?
Ha, I never saw or heard of this! Gotta have a deeper look. Thanks for sharing!
The human cost of having too little food is literally orders of magnitude worse than the cost of having too much. (Having too much necessarily implying having to waste/throw some of it away). To give a sense from past famines, take the fatality numbers from covid and add a zero or two.

Add to this backdrop all the unpredictability that goes into producing food. Growing crops has months of lead time during which unpredictable events like droughts or floods or pests can obliterate a large fraction of your production. Even after harvesting, natural disasters or industrial accidents can destroy significant quantities of food (think of a grain elevator explosion).

In short, growing surplus food is the only rational approach. Of course, what you do with the surplus once you have it is another question. There I agree with you that it is shameful we don't ensure more ends up in the hands of those going hungry.
Does this actually solve the XID problem, or is it a workaround and some more complete solution is still needed?
shrug, both projects have bugs. This is an interesting article and I didn't quite read it the same way you had.
I would not be at all surprised if AWS periodically tests bringing down a whole AZ. Facebook has been doing this for years.
I work at an institution that has a strong union presence (education).

It is absolutely a cancer of the place. Granted, I think that probably in a lot of places that have unions they can easily become a scapegoat to all of the organization's problems, but some of the ones that I deal with on a daily basis are really hard to pin on anything else.

In an idealized world, there would be infinite competition both on the demand and supply side of labor. The argument for unions, at least, is that in the real world the balance tips in favor of the demand side, and I'm sure in many organizations this makes a ton of sense. But at a place like a small learning organization where I work at, it just ensures that nothing ever happens. You have a fantastic faculty member that you want to compensate above and beyond market rate because they deserve it? Union will make that an issue. You want to fire a severe under-performer? Union will make that an issue. You are a non-union manager who has energy and wants to improve things? This sort of stuff will destroy your morale. Over time, the really good people who want to be recognized for their work individually leave, the people who care and want to actively promote change ALSO leave, and what you are left with is an assorted collection of folks going through the motions and heavily invested in not rocking the boat out in any direction. It sucks.
How has Apple not been strung up on antitrust grounds over this?
Probably something with a rtl8129/39/69 chip. I had a few dozens of those NICs in the late 90s and early 2000s university computer labs I worked at. They’re so common that they’re (almost) a standard in x86 emulation (see qemu, VirtualBox, etc.).
> How is Spotify deleting episodes from their own platform tyranny? Jesus people have become so dramatic and whiny.

to use the overlycommon parable of a frog slowly being boiled to death, you are the frog saying "jesus people, the water raised 0.5 degrees, no ones dying here"

the problem is that youre focusing on one move that might be meaningless by itself, but is a part of a larger game of chess. the pieces are moving in the direction of the authoritarian left.

> Society in the West in contrast to... what exactly?

previous western societys. not saying the west is special, just that a lot of longterm cultures have suffered under leftist extremism (china, russia, various middle eastern countries) but its been a long time since the extreme left catastrophized in the west. we seem unable to cope.
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Does this mean finally ARM releases for BSD based firewalls and NAS systems such as OpnSense, XigmaNAS etc?
> Pop-out videos (aka picture-in-picture) are awesome

Agreed on all points. It's funny, I've been using Firefox 20+ years and when I saw them recently boasting about PiP I thought "another useless feature".

Until I decided to try it out. Now I use it constantly.
You're doing some serious mental gymnastics here.

Yes, using things that are broken means they don't perform their intended function very effectively.

That doesn't imply that using non-broken versions of those things is less effective somehow. That's not how the transitive property works.

Edit - again because you're super edit happy.

> It's why you wouldn't want your surgeon to walk in to your operation with the mask he just used from the previous operation

No, ideally of course not. But given the choice between "surgeon wearing the old mask" and "surgeon wearing no mask at all" I think I prefer the old mask. Would you seriously just prefer the surgeon to breathe directly into whatever open cavity you have during the surgery?
And if listeners don’t cancel their subscriptions in response, then Spotify bet correctly. But it’s nearly trivial to record audio of yourself talking to someone, so if a sufficient number of people want to consume the content Spotify doesn’t want to host, I’m betting they will be able to find it elsewhere by a different podcast.
I've been running proxmox. I haven't run windows, but I have ubuntu vm's with full hardware gpu passthrough. I've passed through nvidia and intel gpus.

I also have a macos vm, but I didn't set up gpu passthrough for that. Tried it once, it hung, didn't try it again. I use remote desktop anyway.

here are some misc links:

https://manjaro.site/how-to-enable-gpu-passthrough-on-proxmo...

https://manjaro.site/tips-to-create-ubuntu-20-04-vm-on-proxm...

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough

https://blog.konpat.me/dev/2019/03/11/setting-up-lxc-for-int...
And darkreader addon. Addons for firefox mobile is very handy.
People (usually by their native language) can't all hear and pronounce all sounds equally well.

If you can't reliably pronounce my name and it'll sound like a bad word when you try, then you should say what you can say safely. I don't care enough that I want you nervous or slowing down a meeting. But if you expect me to change my name to what you could say I would not.

You trying your best is okay, you requiring me to lower the bar so you can succeed is not okay.
It looks like it's time to put to bed the "how to draw an owl in 2 steps" meme.

Some generated creatures are straight out of the animal uncanny valley. So amazing and fun. It's even better than "Quick, Draw!" by Google. Can't wait to see what the Internet will make out of this.
>I think people are reasonably skeptical of this part

I think that understates it: some enormous fraction (like 45%) of federal government spending is for retirees (Social Security, Medicare and government funded pension) who represent only about 15% of the population.

That's the unsquareable circle for UBI.
(For the record, they should very much not do this.)
I don’t see how both can’t be problems at the same time?
Is it tyranny to force a business to sell, say, a wedding cake, to a customer they don't like?

Or is it tyranny to not force a business to accept everyone, even if they don't comply with social norms like, say, wearing a mask?
> Are lawyers and petroleum engineers going to move to a tax haven?

Yes? I'm not a particularly special engineer, and a significant part of my decision to leave California was the income tax. I'm certainly not alone there.

Also bear in mind that "tax haven" is a relative term. Canada can become a tax haven if their taxes are lower than ours. Europe can be a tax haven if their taxes are lower. If my net income in the US (taking into account higher salaries) comes out the same as what I would make in Europe, I'm moving to Europe. I'd much rather have the safety net than UBI.
> In the case of eBook readers, there's plenty of native software that fills that role in every platform, there's hardly a need for a cross-platform Electron ePUB reader.

I see this sort of assertion pop up often, but it never is accompanied by specific verifiable examples of what those options are.

Can you point out a single example of said native software that fills that role in every platform? A single one.
I agree it's a shame, and I hope there is a legit replacement. However, it continues to work for me, so far, without issues.
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/20696/a-question-regardin...
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FreeBSD has been providing binary packages for aarch64 for quite some time - this doesn't happen only for Tier1; I think even mips64 still gets them.
He posted his response to first email like this that he received: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/12/17/curl-supports-nasa/

Scott G’s comment on the blog post has some useful context.
I didn’t mean any personal animosity. Most men in 1930s were sexist and it was accepted in the society. Even, Switzerland allowed women to vote 1980’s.

The point is to let go of the decades old past.
Never become the guy who can fix the printer.
Firefox is my default browser on Android, and I use Chrome when I need to. It works fine.

I personally tend to use Chrome for "logged-in" internet use, and Firefox for "logged-out" use like browsing, news, etc. True on both desktop and mobile. Partly this is because Google's password vault has great UX across Chrome and Android apps.
On iPhone you have Safari content blockers. Better Blocker and Firefox Focus are two popular ones.

There's also a Lockdown, an open source firewall implemented using iOS VPN capabilities (though it doesn't send your requests through an external server). Lockdown is able to block trackers in any app, not just Safari.
I'm the one filing that bug :)

Before this bug I was running nixpkgs on top of all the Debian machines I'm using (including crostini vms on chromeos devices), mainly as a package manager to mange and keep up-to-date on things outside of debian's apt ecosystem (firefox, thunderbird, go, pipx, etc.). After this bug I removed nixpkgs from all of them.

While I agree that nixpkg is great for declarative use cases others mentioned, and also it's very useful to try something temporarily (e.g. `nix-env -i something`, do things, then `nix-env --rollback`), those are not my main use cases (while at least not for my debian machines), and my main use case of it is broken because of that bug.

I even recommended nixpkgs as a better alternative to homebrew to my friends using mac, I guess that's not really true any more.

Now I keep up-to-date to things not in apt-ecosystem by subscribing to releases on github :(
Not sure why you have been down voted, the only recent large-scale study of face masks worn by regular people, did not reach any consensus.

Common sense would say that wearing something covering your nose and mouth is better than nothing at all, but this fails to take into account how the masks are treated by regular people.

I firmly believe that masks do not change anything significantly, at least until a study can prove the opposite.

What matters now is getting back to the pre-corona situation without restrictions.

Those who wants to be vaccinated on a yearly basis should absolutely do so, but those who choose not to should absolutely be free to enjoy all aspects of life without restrictions.
Did we read the same parent comment?
> hand-full of companies can effectively remove someone from the public discourse.

How do you today compares to historical American freedom of discourse? For example, I look at things like the House Committee on Un-American Activities, where stating pro-socialist/pro-communist views might get someone fired or imprisoned in the 40s-50s. [1] Or the 'Comics Code' of the 60s-00s, where comics publishers agreed to self-censor. [2]

Or the Hay's Code from motion pictures in the 20s-60s, where things like 'Ridicule of the Clergy' were strictly forbidden? (The Supreme Court even deciding that Freedom of Speech did not apply to motion pictures in 1915.) [3]

Or the Parents Music Resource Center who applied the 'Parental Advisory' sticker to music? [4]

You could be murdered or beaten for being pro-union in the 1900s-1910s.

I bring out these examples not to try and add some whataboutism, but rather to try and connect the Spotify/Tech company case to a broader historical context. Yes, these things are bad, and it may also be bad that we're seeing that consolidation today. It's important to be educated about historical precedents, about who had the authority and who was silenced, about which groups held power of which others, and about how we should holistically look at the problem of limiting public discourse.

Far too often I see people narrowly focus on the now, focus on specific recent events and say, "This is an unprecedented shut down of discourse." (And to be clear, this comment is not aimed at you, skohan, but more broadly.) Or, "This is not who we are as a nation!". When in fact, looking through the historical record, we've absolutely been disallowing certain discourse in pretty much every decade for at least the last century.

It may be that it's a different group this time, it may feel novel to folks because they are young and haven't experienced it firsthand, it may feel different because the underlying technologies are different, but fundamentally there is a throughline of shutting down discussions when 'the powers that be' dislike it, and we should be, imo, discussion that broader trend as much as the moment now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_C...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center
> you can do fun things like disable the Wake Lock API

How? Is there a hidden about:config?