skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no continuous disk activity from a hundred background processes

That's because the computers at the time simply couldn't handle that kind of load. Things like telemetry and feature-usage tracking would have been things in the mid-1990s if we had the spare computing overhead space and persistent Internet connections, which we didn't - but now we do - so we have them.

> the IE5 icon looks remarkably close to the Legacy Edge one --- it's just as flat --- and the VM shuts down in around 1 second.

That's because you're likely in 16-color or 256-color mode instead of high-color (16-bit) or true-color (24/32-bit) modes - the desktop IE logo has never been flat-colored, though the logo itself is flat-colored in many places in Windows 98, also lets agree that the IE 7 logo is the worst IE logo ever.

> and the VM shuts down in around 1 second.

That's because it's a VM on modern hardware - on period-correct hardware it will still take Windows a while to boot and to shut-down.

Though while Windows 9x does shut-down rather quickly, there's a reason for that: it doesn't have the same OS and filesystem consistency protections that Windows XP and later had: there's a reason we all typically reinstalled Windows 98 every 6 months or so: things break easily - whereas my current laptop hasn't had Windows reinstalled ever in the 4 years I've had it.
> The Israel study tells us otherwise.

you should re-read it.

>The researchers also found that people who had SARS-CoV-2 previously and received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine were more highly protected against reinfection than those who once had the virus and were still unvaccinated.

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

> The risk is slightly higher than the flu so virtually non-existent.

Flu kills hundreds of children a year. Tell one of their parents that the risk is "non-existent". That's why flu vaccine is recommended for most.

> CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccine, especially children who are younger than 5 years of age or children of any age who have a high risk medical condition, because they are more likely to develop serious flu complications that can lead to hospitalization and death. Getting vaccinated has been shown to reduce flu illnesses, doctor’s visits, missed school days, and reduce the risk of flu-related hospitalization and death in children.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2019-2020/2019-20-pediatr...
Wow so cool to see this here! I’m the co-creator of this and happy to answer any and all questions. Shlinkedin is definitely a bizarre passion of mine so it’s awesome to see it resonate - turns out a lot of people find a lot LinkedIn ridiculous :)

This has also been a good excuse to learn Elixir/ Liveview. I’ve made all the code open source if anyone wants to take a look!

https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked
> It needs labels rather than icons

At least they now have tooltips - I remember when choosing "Advanced mode" (which you need for a lot of features) just disabled tooltips in the UI, on the theory that advanced users shouldn't need them! I (and likely many others) argued how crazy an assumption that was, that just because we understood how HTML and JS worked, we should remember a bunch of icons and what the dev decided they meant. Thankfully they were willing to listen and change the decision, and the UI is a lot better for it.
> I don’t remember any insurrections launched on LinkedIn, or successful disinformation campaigns by foreign states to subvert democracy, or hate speech fanning the flames of genocide.

That is only because it hasn't been widely publicised anywhere yet[1]. Sorry for only dropping one reference but it is the only one I have ready on hand in my library and it is late. Linkedin is far from safe, it is just as bad if not worse than the others.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/datenstrom/library/-/blob/master/espionag...
I used to work in the room next to the machine room at the University of Illinois at Chicago where we had an 80s vintage IBM mainframe. Because everything in the machine room was pretty big (the units holding the disk drives were about the size of a washing machine), it still kind of breaks my brain to think that there were microchips inside them. I like to imagine that the CPUs were the size of paperbacks, and to see stories like this just kind of messes with my brain.

(At a previous employer, we got a tour of the data center where, along with racks and racks of commodity Linux servers, there was also an IBM mainframe. It was a sleek black piece of hardware about the size of a refrigerator, as I recall. Much prettier than those 80s machines, although is it really a mainframe without at least one 9-track tape drive?)
Android also has Newpipe, which is the absolute best ad-free yt experience. It's one of the reasons I could not live with iOS.
There are no UI, UX, or devs present, just marketing execs.
The article seems to allude to that:

“If a delivery associate is impaired at work and tests positive post-accident or due to reasonable suspicion, that person would no longer be permitted to perform services for Amazon,” she said.
You were very clear: “ 1500 Watt at 230 Volt heat water in about 2 minutes to boiling bubbles, 100°C” when replying to a comment about a large pot of water. That’s simply not true, courtesy of thermodynamics.
ShlinkMail me, we can make it happen :)
Is this downvoted because it's untrue? I've never used (and never found a need for) uMatrix, but I'm curious.
> In my mind, alive is a binary term.

Thought experiment: could you rigorously define and determine the nanosecond in which life begins and ends for a mammal?

How about a nanometer precise surface boundary between a single living organism and its nonliving environment?
They don't particularly suit my tastes. Perhaps amateurish compared to other notable open source emojis.
> Is that how it works? Deep enough conversations, periodically, prevent language attrition?

Yes, that is exactly how it works. The logic in the article is that the author lost Cantonese because she wasn't speaking it. Atrophied.

The post we're replying to makes a good point. How do you not use the only language your parents speak? It means you're not talking to your parents.
> “I looked at Neurocracy and thought: this is perfect. It gave me vibes of Deus Ex, the SCP wiki, and of Borges’ Garden of Forking Paths.”

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/14/22577088/neurocracy-wikip...
Any chance you could share some of those? Have looked at doing the same thing for a few apps and the risk/difficulty of trying to do it in One Big Pull Request was too much each time...
I think that means Safari can use Firefox Focus as content blocker. Not the other way around.
Do you remember Fiendster? This reminds me of that.
Same for me plus I use:

1. Weighted average
2. Percentage calculations
3. Absolute number

Thats it I can think of for doing financial software development for the past 10+ years.
While I agree that Apple is much better than others in not bundling adware with their product (the exception being App Store, which is also an advertising platform for them) they do bundle many apps with their device. And bundling is also a kind of advertisement / promotion. And on ios you can't remove some of these apps but only hide them.
"jab" is British english slang for vaccination.
> There is nothing in this report about the effectiveness of masks on an individual level.

The DANMASK RCT [1] provided a direct test of masks as personal protective equipment, and found no support for masks. The criticism of that study, at that time, was that it didn't test the hypothesis of protecting others. So here we have an RCT that tests that hypothesis, and now that's not good enough, because the results aren't "at an individual level"?

Boy, the ground sure is slippery around here!

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
The descendants still lose their Spanish though. There's a steady influx of new immigrants that keep things going, but the pattern of first-generation=limited English, second-generation=bilingual, third-generation=English only/limited heritage language still holds.
NixOS -- what I use -- gets mentioned here pretty frequently, so I don't just want to do an ad. But: walled garden? there's no wall. Multiple versions? Trivially. Copying applications between machines? `nix-copy-closure` is a joy to use, no exaggeration. And interdependency hell? Nix takes some pretty heroic measures to make builds reproducible, which work surprisingly well.

The proliferation of formats is pretty irrefutable; you're meant to put your source code out there and let the distro maintainers worry about it. That's no help of course if you want to ship closed-source binaries, but Linux emphasizing
open source goes a little deeper than package managers.

Anyhow, maybe these are counterarguments and maybe it's just "some people who agree with you wrote a package manager." The main thing is the downsides can be fixed, and have been.
Indeed the title as it is doesn't make sense. The original is: "Migrating from Create React App".
The way Firefox Focus is implemented on iOS is a little complicated, since it's both a browser and a Content Blocker. As of 2017, Firefox Focus uses WKWebView as the webview component: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/pull/507

WKWebView does not support the Content Blocker API. Ad blocking apps that use the Content Blocker API are only compatible with Safari and the SFSafariViewController component, which is very feature-limited and not suitable for a full web browser app:

- https://www.wwdcnotes.com/notes/wwdc20/10188/

- https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=trjs0tcd

As a workaround, Firefox Focus uses script injection to block ads and trackers within the browser part of itself, but the Content Blocker part of Firefox Focus only affects Safari:

- https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/blob/main/Blockz...

- https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/blob/main/Blockz...

- https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/issues/1761

However, both Firefox Focus and Safari (with the Firefox Focus Content Blocker enabled) score 78% on that test, so Firefox Focus might be good enough for web browsing on iOS if you're comfortable with its feature set and don't need the additional filter lists or custom rules that another third-party Content Blocker would offer.

Apple should still allow third-party browsers to use third-party Content Blockers, since this restriction is an unnecessary handicap for any non-Safari browser on iOS.
> Being required to, say, share drinking fountains or pools with people of another race should not be compared to this.

Indeed. And I didn't. I said "negro". Generations of people genuinely thought that was a neutral term. They were pissed as all fuck when all of a sudden it became a symbol of centuries of oppression. And they used language exactly like yours to express their exasperation. But the words changed anyway. And we all got over it, and civil society didn't dissolve.

And at the end of the process, most of us look back and think of it as largely a good thing that we went and, well, cancelled that old word as a symbol. The new one is better, simply because it was born out of the self-determinism of the oppressed.

Which is to say: get over yourself and declare your pronouns. (I'm a he/him, FWIW). Your grandkids will be ashamed that you fought it.
Better than Nuxt? I've never heard of Factor, and checking now, but can't (superficially) grok the differences
I'm migrating away from clientside entirely. Back to server side rendering; it's been cool but I'm just tired of it. You have to do so much crap to get stuff running nicely and it's all very brittle. code splitting, routers, changes to <head>, links, permissions, etc. I'm hitting the reset button and going all in with server side render templates again. Going to PETAL stack.
FYI, having one submission and it being a Show HN gives me the story badge and the show-off badge. I wouldn't have given me both, I don't think.
You could check out s7 Scheme. I'm using it for music apps, and it shares a lot of Clojure's design decisions, like being fundamentally a lisp-1 but having many CL inspired features. It's very minimal, and super easy to embed in a C/C++ host. And liberally licensed.
Its designating some product to be a reserve (market price) and others to be anti-gouging. Making regular be anti-gouging would be easier to enforce than other hybrid methods.
I’ve really been enjoying Firefox lately, and this just makes it better. I was historically suspicious of the idea of doing things in the browser, but for many things it now seems the most portable and privacy-preserving way to do most things, and I’ve given up many apps (e.g. I listen to podcasts now from the browser).
It doesn't help that Beijing is actively discouraging the use of Cantonese and all other non-Mandarin dialects of Chinese.

Schools in mainland China are allowed to only teach in Mandarin, not the local dialects and almost all TV media is Mandarin. Even in HK, most local schools don't teach Cantonese formally anymore and it's hard to find Cantonese specific written materials like textbooks etc especially for kids.

To the author's point, in US cities with large Chinese populations like SF or NYC, there are many bilingual English-Mandarin or Mandarin immersion schools to pass on the language to kids, but few or none Cantonese ones.

Without that supporting academic ecosystem, it's just a oral language spoken by less and less each generation.
>what other political causes will GoDaddy ban you for supporting?

They already kicked off some progun website.
One of my grad school text books had interactive experiments based on Java Applets. I occasionally go back to work through the chapters we never finished and running the applets is a challenge. I think the last time I tried, I ended up finding a command-line interface to run an applet outside of the browser.
Don't know if the same government but I can't access the site to pay the taxes which I have to pay monthly without clearing cookies.
uBlock Wiki
It's not even this for me, as much as it is feeling "trapped" in a situation. I like to keep my options open. When I feel trapped, I move on. "Rewards" can't keep me sane, and without sanity everything else loses meaning. Part of the reason why I got out of big tech: their MO is to keep you trapped, a compliant, good little cog wearing pretty, gold plated handcuffs. As an ex-Microsoft VP once told me: "it's a warm Gulag".
The same people blaring on about them somehow "taking over" a common symbol were, not so long ago, trying to claim that the same scumbags had somehow 'taken over milk' as a symbol of white supremacy.

It's impossible to take these claims seriously. The media will publish anything that gets clicks, no matter how exaggerated or even fabricated, the people making up these claims know they'll get instant coverage and spread their 'cause', and the people spreading the idea that some loser somewhere saying "uh, the middle finger stands for the monolithic purity of the white race" is actually a threat to the fabric of society just enjoy having another thing to be morally panicked by.
I just run Brave.
I can't imagine how the gag order would allow Apple to announce a CSAM scanning system but not announce that the government forced them to.

What basis could there be for that? And I'd be even more skeptical if this originated from a single case of abuse.
I found this beautiful. This research is really probing something concrete which looks quite productive. I found the presentation to be excellent too. It took me a while to understand things well enough to be able to summarize things like that. Anyway, I love this particular direction since I've long been fascinated by the idea of change being more fundamental than time and thermodynamic theories of time. [1]

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-thermo/
This was not the result of the performance test (Techempower). 322 were faster.
Mullvad VPN also has an adblock DNS server. I am not sure, but I think everyone can use it.
That seems like a really awkward fit. HyperCard wasn't a systems programming environment. As far as I can recall, it barely had two data types (strings and numbers), and the interpreter was pretty slow; I can't imagine how you would have used it to write drivers for hardware.
I think that works for crystals too, thin silicon wafers are pretty flexy, particularly if you can grow them relatively free of defects.
Forzak: Your Internet Learning Guide!
what I infer from the article is that the author doesn't talk to parents much. It is the frequency that keeps our memory cells charged.

After driving a four-wheeler for a decade, without touching a bike, people tend to forget balancing. Although it takes very little effort to revive it. Just a session or two may be.

Same should be true for languages. Start talking frequently and it will revive all your language skills.
Get this guy a couch - someone has a case of the vapours. PRERELEASED SOFTWARE HAS A BUG IN IT OMG! Yes, there are still going to be problems. No, it's not the end of the world and there's still time to fix it. This is a tempest in a teapot and utterly not worth the screen space on HN.
Even house arrest is from the comfort of your home.
Completely client-side multi-user web apps
For warehouse workers, this would not be a problem. Although I imagine that could impact Amazon's bottom line.

For delivery drivers, it's a terrible idea. Driving large vehicles around people's neighborhoods while high is dangerous. It's a negative externality Amazon is recklessly putting onto the public.

Cue mental gymnastics of potheads claiming they actually drive better while stoned.
On ios you have to use Firefox Focus. But it doesn't do as good a job as Firefox + uBlock Origin.
Yes. Google has. It's in the Chrome Store.

sloccount gives 34516 LOC for the src/js directory. As the sibling points out, you can also verify the code yourself.
>I think you have misunderstood the system.

On a technical level I think you're correct. As a holistic approach to the problem, I still disagree. This is too cute for its own good. The PR misunderstanding is a symptom of that.

>The second scan applies only for those images which are flagged as positive, which are then accessible by Apple.

In the end, Apples software is scanning all of the images, why is it any more privacy respecting to do it this way? I guess reasonable people can disagree on that, personally I wasn't fully aware of the cloud side scanning either, and I don't think the public was either. This is similar to Snowden's revelations, if you were paying attention you probably already knew a lot of that, but the incident made everyone aware of it in a very blunt way.

>The rest of the images stays encrypted

I think this is unclear, Apple can still decrypt those other images, how else could you view them in a browser?

This goes back to what Stratechery said about capability vs policy.
Luckily it's actually pretty hard to hurt kids in a school bus. They are built incredibly heavy and sturdy for exactly this reason -- if you collide with any car other than a loaded semi trailer, the bus will win.

Busses even roll every so often and while the kids are banged up a bit, fatalities are incredibly rare.
I refuse to use it out of spite in response to how hard Microsoft has tried to force Edge down everyone's throat:
resetting the default to Edge after a windows update, making start menu searches go to edge regardless of the default browser, etc.
I don't think uBlock Origin can block YouTube ads either?
uBlock has always been the first add on I install on any new computer.
This is to be expected, as it doesn't seem to have ever set in as a real language in their life. My wife and daughter are foreign, and of obviously different ages. My wife speaks English perfectly but with an obvious accent, but still dreams in her native language. She'll never forget it. The kid just had exposure as a child and was learning when she came, and today speaks English without an accent and has no memory of her first language.

She shares the author's pain in that she can not speak to her grandparents, at all.

I feel there's a point in life where language gets imprinted and you're stuck with it, probably by age 10 or so. People older will forever have varying degrees of accents, and people younger will happily accept whatever is current. I find it truly fascinating myself, especially because those older learning hear themselves speaking it perfectly.
Install Firefox from the Play Store. Then open this link in Firefox and install the supported extensions - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?promoted=re...
I once interviewed an internal candidate who failed my interview miserably. I am not a manager, I am an engineer. In the coming months, whenever I saw her walk by me in the hallways, she would put her head down or not look at me. A few months later, I learned that she had quit. I felt quite bad about this although it was not my fault really.
Security is clearly not incentivised in the organisation you are working for. But delivering on schedule and making your superiors look good is. So that’s the rules of the game you have to play with.
Reading about the boot process on floppies for PC-86-DOS and FAT brought me back to the old days of Apple DOS and its track 1/sector 1 boot sequence. I wrote a custom boot loader for the floppies I made without DOS on them that simply put up a message saying that the disk wasn't bootable (since otherwise the Apple ][ would just keep spinning the disk and never get anywhere). I don't remember if it was set up so that you could swap in a new disk and press a key to boot.
Yeah, we were told that, and I do know that.

But...the irrational part of me still had anxiety about it.

And we were trained about how to evacuate the kids, which we were supposed to do only in two cases: stuck on railroad tracks and fire. And only those two cases because...being on the bus was safer, just as you said.
Ending the Fed, FDA, & TSA Isn't Practical; but We Can 'Exit' Them
> The risk is slightly higher than the flu so virtually non-existent. -> https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1433575276009512961

That sounds to me like the risk in young people is lower than the flu. The CDC also said the same: https://web.archive.org/web/20210820184423/https://www.cdc.g...

> For young children, especially children younger than 5 years old, the risk of serious complications is higher for flu compared with COVID-19.
Decoding the Social Effects of Media with Machine Learning
Texas is kicking abortion whistleblower site from its servers