skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently switched back to Firefox mobile (I couldn't remember why I switched to Chrome in the first place) because I was sick of using the web without ad blockers.

A few months in I'm really happy with it. Main tip is: I found the scroll behaviour janky when the URL bar was at the top. Once I put it at the bottom (IIRC this is the default anyway, and once I got used to it I realised it's pretty unambiguously a better location) things behaved nicely.

I wish I could install an add-on to deal with GDPR spam but unfortunately without significant faffing you can only run vetted extensions from a fairly short list of adblockers and privacy tools. This seems like a smart move but I wish they'd expand this list, e.g. perhaps blanket-allowing extensions that only use certain safer API subsets.
I initially misinterpreted the question a bit, and edited it for clarity. I was listing sub-fields where it still is possible to get away with being openly right-wing. Presumably people more to the libertarian end of the spectrum would want to avoid the military industrial complex though.
It's not an unheard of point of view on this site, the talking points should already be familiar to you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28491021

There's that article as well as my comment and others in it that draw a pretty clear picture.
Just out of curiosity, what are some of Chrome's shady dealings?

I'm not too informed on the subject.
Your comment makes no sense outside of superficial Marxism, but I'll comment on one line:

> What I don't quite understand is why don't they just print a few more trillions?

To a certain point, as the USD is the global currency, we can do that. (And we did during the corona pandemic.)

After that point, printing money causes people to lose confidence (since it's just paper, and not money) and find another currency. Then you can't print any more without causing the currency to devalue.

This would be very bad for 2 reasons:

1) As the global currency, the US benefits by about 1% to our economy. You could argue this pays for our military expenditures.

2) We would have to make debt payments to support the currency. After a certain point, that becomes impossible.

FYI: the CCP is trying to replace the USD, and will exploit weaknesses in how we manage the USD.

Maybe you're young, but I can remember 20% inflation/stagflation back in the day. It was a very uncomfortable feeling for people to lose control of the value of their savings and prices for imports. You want to avoid that at almost any effort.

Pundits for decades have said that the fundamental weakness of democracy is that voters can vote themselves free money. This is what the Biden administration is actually doing now.
This has definately made it much less pleasant to search for and compare flights. Now I have to read through all the fine print for various carriers just to know what the final price will be before I buy. I really wish regulators or travels search platforms would step up here and fix it.
> Forcing the use of franchised stores meant that the dealerships are owned (always?) by local people so they can't just move away.

Just like foreign countries levying fines on "evil foreign tech companies", it was an older attempt at rent seeking from the "foreign" faraway auto manufacturers.
You can install apt / dpkg (or dnf / rpm, pacman, portage, nix, ...) on pretty much any distro. You are really just asking why there's no de-facto standard package manager for C like there is for those other languages.
Tulsa may not be the best example of tribal lands being near a major city, as it looks like a Supreme Court case last year found that much of Oklahoma (including Tulsa) is supposed to actually be tribal lands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGirt_v._Oklahoma
yes, and I used the newer TCL handsets while they were still feasible.

everyone thought I was mr.bsns at every meeting; despite personal feelings around attractive bezel-less displays, when someone puts a full keyboard down on the table, it sends a really clear signal.

the apps that broke because of the weird aspect ratio were apps that weren't well-engineered / worthy of my attention anyway :^)
> The plan would increase the top tax rate on Americans earning over $435,000 from 37 percent to 39.6 percent.

Democrats have caviar dreams and a tuna fish budget. $2.9 trillion over 10 years doesn’t even cover the FY 2015 budget deficit projected forward, much less any new spending.

Biden’s promise not to raise taxes on upper middle class people (making $100k-400k) is nuts. Half of all personal income, over $5 trillion, is earned by the top 25% that’s not the top 1%: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-of-the-latest-federal-inco....

Other countries heavily tax this group. In Germany, the 42% income tax rate (just a couple of notches below the 45% max) kicks in at 56,000 euros. In Sweden and Denmark, the top income tax rates kick in around 1.5x the median income (well under six figures for us).

It should not be this hard to tax all the SV and Wall Street-adjacent upper middle class people. Most are even Democrats now. They voted for higher taxes. Just do it!
Our copyright terms need to be reasonable. They aren't reasonable right now. The term has been ratcheted up from the original 14 years with an option for a 14 year renewal to the ridiculous author's live plus 70 years, or 95 years from first publication/120 years from creation (which ever is shorter) for works for hire.

I'm all for keeping much of the current copyright regime around, including extending the term to some reasonable period after the author's lifetime. The terms need to be reasonable.

Copyright is granted by society. It should be based on give and take. Historically "normies" haven't paid any attention to it and the only parties who have had any say have been those who had a vested financial interest in increasing copyright terms. It has been a "take and take" relationship.

Preventing works from entering the public domain also has a "pulling up the ladder" effect. It prevents new works based upon older works from having economic value. The Walt Disney company's success and subsequent lobbying to extend copyright terms is a particularly galling example of this to me.

I'm not sure what you mean re: "...maybe forever (like indigenous culture)." Are you suggesting that making works that are derivative from indigenous cultures should be prohibited? At some level all of our stories are from the "indigenous culture" of all of humanity. There are no new stories under the sun.
Unfortunately that's not a likely explanation. If you do even the simplest possible measurement, which is just recording user agent strings and IPs, you won't end up undercounting Firefox clients
It's also kind of interesting that high school is basically the last time most people have to interact with anything like a random cross section of their peers. Maybe in big cities the public schools are more stratified by class and race, but in the small town I was from, basically everyone went to the same school. (Maybe some people were homeschooled, but I don't know how big a thing that was then.)

After high school, schools and workplaces tend to select for similar sorts of people.
My only complaint about Curtis is that some of the music samples he uses over and over again are phenomenally bad and distracting to the viewer. The trope of using discordant, clashing notes is obviously retro, but its day has come and gone.

It's never been clear to me as to why he would want to turn his audience away, but the only thing I can come up with is that it's generational, as many of these bad sound clips come from the 1960s and 1970s, and it's possible they sound different to his ear than they do to mine.
He put the first Racket app in the Mac App Store
How can anyone think this is a good thing? At least other crypto projects have a degree of transparency going for them.

I don't understand how people can possibly think that identity obfuscation at scale is a good thing for a financial system. The rule of law and democracy are far from perfect, but it is unquestionably the safest, cushiest time to be alive in human history right now for the average human being.

Let's make our financial system completely opaque and make it impossible to enforce laws. That'll really help us!

This is a blindness that can only come from a lifetime of extreme privilege.
“Scalability” by constantly increasing the block size isn’t really scalability. If monero ever sees high network usage, expanding blocks will push node storage requirements so high that only a small number of nodes will continue to run, destroying decentralization.
As much as the article wishes to expunge the concept it's a balance disorder all it is actually claiming is an alternative primary explanation for said imbalance. The idea you should not only eat less but healthier (particularly fewer carbohydrates) is not a groundbreaking concept that just came out in the fight of obesity but is the key discovery in this "new paradigm".

The article draws up comparison to defining "wealthy" as "People get rich because they take in more money than they spend." but that's actually a perfectly fine definition of wealthy which explains what it is. Similarly "is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended" is a fantastic definition of obesity. What the article actually argues against is again the idea the primary causes of imbalance are portion sizes, advertising, culture, abundance, and so on rather processed foods and quality of diet changing the way the body processes and measures energy intake from food.

I agree heavily with the latter part but the it is still describing a consumption/expenditure balance issue. This research isn't replacing that rather trying to find more ways to combat the issue that may not be explored as much previously.

The other thing is intake reduction still works it's just much harder than it may need to be without a proper diet. The article quotes "To attribute obesity to “overeating” is as meaningful as to account for alcoholism by ascribing it to “overdrinking.”" as if that means alcoholism isn't an intake problem. It is, but the best way to fight the intake problem may not be just saying "drink less" and that's the type of thinking actually being proposed in the research.
>before getting voted off the island?

Come on now
Facebook is just a force multiplier.
Well obviously nobody is fired for that.

But we obviously don't want to socialize with the right-wing bigot so you missed the lunch meeting where we discussed the future roadmap. I'm not stopping by your desk to ask your opinion about feature X or ask for help with a blocker issue.

Peer reviews bottom out because they are so subjective and manager reviews reflect your very real lack of contribution to the team without the context of the fact that you've been shut out.

It's damn near impossible to fix this in a legislative manner and I'd be a hypocrite if I advocated for such a solution.
There was an interesting quote under one of the replies:

> The power of rust is that it's for the people... not for massive orgs to wield in order to make more money

Given that most rust code is licensed under non-copyleft licenses (MIT, etc.) I wonder where this impression came from? I have always had the impression that rust was exactly that - just another tool for massive orgs to make more money.

In contrast, a language ecosystem more like elisp, where most code is GPLed seems more "for the people".
I would love to continue using FF, but on my machine with an Nvidia card (sigh) the scrolling in Firefox gets very choppy when using two different browser windows open on the dual monitors. And for some reason this bothers me more than it should. Maybe one of these days I should try using it again. It's been over a year since I last tried it. It's odd because the Firefox on the desktop machine with the Nvidia card and a six core AMD CPU is way choppier than on my 7 year old Thinkpad with a dual core i5 and integrated graphics.
I think the idea is to measure average latency but to give extra weight to the worst 5% and 10% of latency cases. I've not seen such a measure before but don't think it's absurd.
you kind of proved my point. kidnappers already use cash, and changing that to different mechanism isn't going to increase or decrease the amount of crime. You haven't explained any reason why digital anonymous currency will increase crime or make it harder to catch them.

Evil people use neutral tools for evil purposes. They have been since the beginning of tools.

So stop trying to slow the advance of technology just because some evil people can use it too.
Should have guessed when Mailchimp, after so many years of supporting the arts, suddenly and unceremoniously dropped Longform.
He doesn’t personally, but his influence suffers. It’s like when companies sell their brand to hawk other products which cheapen the main products.
Two words: slide rule
Wow, this looks like it's at like -2 or -3 or something. Extremely weird.

Regarding LED color, there are random apps for Android that let you play with the LED color on _some_ phones, like *goes digging in menu* this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coolbeans....

Looks like the important bit is Notification.Builder->setLights, now NotificationChannel.Builder->setLights:

- NotificationCompat: https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/core/app/No...

- Notification: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notifica... ("deprecated in API 26: use NotificationChannel")

- NotificationChannel: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notifica...
They're not all that useless... dealers took on the initial risk of starting the business.

To come in and undercut dealers is much less risky! the manufacturer would be effectively be avoiding the risk (proving the market) and stealing the reward.

I have zero idea of whether or not it's good to regulate against that type of thing, but there's logic there.

In the case of the law, it seems ridiculous that there's no room to say "well clearly this is an exception that doesn't violate the reason the law exists" - is this a matter of dealers pushing to uphold the law because they don't want competition?
Jan Hubička worked on much of the devirtualization in GCC and posted a blog about how it works here:

http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2014/01/devirtualization-in-c-pa...
But Mozilla is big in the same markets where iOS is big.
Many people I interact with are of the "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" school of thought.
I live in NY, but am not part of the NY "tech scene," because I find they are not particularly welcoming to me. I won’t go where I’m not wanted.

Not really a big deal. I'm pretty cutting edge, on the frontend (native apps for Apple systems, in Swift), but a bit stodgier on the backend (I use PHP). I’m not surprised at all by the survey results.

PHP works great for me. If I need something different (not an issue, so far), I'll hire it in. I'm actually fairly good at big projects in PHP. My code is maintainable and high-quality. It may not be “leet” PHP, but it works well.

Here’s an article about this kind of thing, that is a bit “meta”: https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/05/10/java8/
Even with scrapy it's usually best to to crawl and store full html that can be scraped offline. It's too easy to miss something when scraping on the fly or drop data that might be useful in the future.
How many people working in a restaurant get tips?

I am sure there are winners and losers, but on the balance, paying a fair wage beats tipping.
What? Chickens understand Positive Punishment, same with Negative Reinforcement. If it has a brain and acts in the real world, learning theory applies, and these are the fundamental by which we learn from our interaction with the world. Not understanding that avoid something that hurts you is effectively death.

The reason not to use averse training methods isn't effectiveness in training, punishment can teach a lot and chickens need to stay alive, it's the possible of generalization of negative experiences causes can cause unintended behavioral issues, and shaping would be a much different exercise. I hear this argument a lot of "positive only" trainers, that negative methods are somehow not effective, and it just cannot possibly be true!
Ask HN: Namecheap Domain Hacked by Antivax
Hi, does anyone on HN have Namecheap connections? I have a website that gives people information on vaccines, and someone hacked my namecheap and locked my domain in a transfer. I've been waiting several weeks to hear back from support. Would love to get this domain back and continue to help people. Anyone know anyone that can help?
OK, I'll bite. I am one of three owners of a roughly £1-1.5M pa t/o company in the UK (depends on the wind direction.) We've operated for 21 years now - it's IT Services, mainly consultancy. We've always offered a few Class B shares to time served employees in addition to salary. Not many shares but some.

I'm not too sure what on earth "late stage capitalism" means but I do know that my little firm trundles on quite happily and works slightly better for the extra incentive that directly contributing equals directly earning. We have never insisted that shareholders need work extra hours or whatever. I kick people out of the office if they work too late. Work life balance is important.

Is offering or not offering equity something that can be considered within the realms of "morally questionable"?

A business is a business and a contract is a contract. When you take up employment within a business, you engage with a contract. If the contract offered is not one you like, you are not obliged to accept it. The last two sentences are rather polarised and I accept that the real world is rather more nuanced when you consider individual cases.

Can you really call a mutually agreed equity arrangement as "morally questionable"? You might as well describe working for a salary as morally questionable too. Anyway, whose morals are we considering and what standards do they espouse? Morals don't live in a vacuum nor do morals stay attached to a single concept. Your "morals" may well not be the same as mine!

We (my little company) are quite boring, rather small and won't ever feature in a how to take over the world, unless 10^-3 unicorn suddenly becomes exciting.
> 20% is to not have any opinions

Unfortunately, in much of FAANG today, this isn't enough. If you're not openly a progressive you're assumed to be slightly to the right of stalin.
Is Hugo built with Ruby? Is Gatsby? Why are we saying that someone can only use the biggest Ruby-based SSG if they want something incredibly simple that will never change, otherwise they need to look somewhere else. Rails has never had that limited value prop for example.
I'm pretty sure OP is just misinformed. That, or they're talking about that one huge hole in PM's PGP implementation years and years ago.
Besides NetSurf there's also the bespoke browser in SerenityOS.
You either get in as employee #3 with real equity, or you join as employee #5000 with good salary, benefits, stability, and work/life balance.

Anything else and you're a chump. Since there are a whole lot of employee #50, and #35, and #110s out there apparently many people really don't know what they are getting into.
Firefox is great now, but getting people to change from something that works for them is like pulling teeth

I'd also imagine it's hard to convince younger folks (eg. those who didn't leave firefox in the first place) on firefox over brave which includes adblock out of the box, no setup or extensions required
I'll be the one to say, I don't usually upvote jokes on Hacker News, but this one was deserving of the site.
Social sites were always on a quest to attract those with the greatest promotional capability, from start to finish. If the sites were about fairness they'd limit everyone/everything to not exceed the average reach.

They should really be called Promotional Networks. Their incentive structure is not set up to advance any intellectual specialisation except through a lens of promotion. Consider the fact that the biggest platforms must go "external" to find fact-checker organisations, it proves my point that no great intellecting is happening within the platform. It's ironic given that fact-checking is itself employed in an act of phoney self-promotion, to not-so-subtly suggest intellectual pursuits must be occurring here, excessively so, since "corrections" are needed.
> but the best way to fight the intake problem may not be saying "drink less" and that's the type of idea actually being proposed in the research

Somewhat comically, drinking more water is a great (as in easy / painless) way to combat both alcoholism and obesity. As well as a bunch of other health issues. I have no idea why we -- as humans -- don't just naturally drink the right amount of water.
Somehow we can get draconian international agreements on copyright enforcement that the biggest corporations and countries have to bow down to but when it comes to things like child labor or climate change our hands are magically tied.
You may want to find actually good schools. My son goes to a "very good" school and I'm always amazed at how much they fit in each day. Could he do more if he focused and studied by himself? Maybe. But I've also seen through home-schooling that left to his own devices he'll just write Roblox games (which are educational -- but they probably shouldn't be the only thing you do).

Find a better school that will push your children. They do exist.
Not sure it's reasonable to ask a for-profit company to do more than make it easily and fully changeable. Neither Microsoft nor Apple come close to that.
Not even flip phones are safe - https://therecord.media/malware-found-preinstalled-in-classi...
Those institutions that are supposed to protect us are systematically stealing from us without due process via civil forfeiture, and they're doing it on a scale that outweighs all burglaries nationwide.

You shouldn't be surprised when Americans value privacy over institutions. Our institutions are more criminal than our criminals.
Hi Geoff,

I currently build ensemble based modelling solutions for bushfire/wildfire. Weather is a significant component in how fire behaves and is forecast. Whilst I have access commercially to several models and meteorologists through work I'd be keen on chatting with you a little further about the possibility of including fire weather metrics in your forecasts, or at least using the data in bulk if possible to include in my own public facing project.
Add TTLs to all artifacts. Just like leasing IP addresses, certs, cache data.

If something is worth remembering, someone will take an action.
At this point I'm inclined to just wonder "Is Steve doing ok?".
I'm not sure when you last tested, but my Synapse instance (v1.42) is currently using around 180MB RSS. I'm on a few rooms with 500+ users and multiple with 50+ users.
I never declared the death of the project. Frank, the remaining release maintainer of Jekyll after Parker Moore left, declared it. Read the article. :)
It’s also possible to argue that your perspective comes from a place of privilege, namely the privilege of living in a country with some respect for human rights and the rule of law.

That is an anomaly in human history. Much of the world still lives under governments that are hostile to many of their people, and we can easily slide back to that condition.

I also have to point out that cash is largely opaque and we have used cash for centuries. Laws were still be enforced. While cash can be exchanged with no knowledge of anyone but the participants, large scale movements and usage of money requires interactions that are very noticeable and traceable. It’s easy to move money anonymously but very hard to use it that way. Monero doesn’t change this very much.
Apache Hama – why it didn't become successful (2020)
5.8MM is a large absolute number. Managing their content for moderation would require a lot of work. It’s no surprise then that they just whitelisted them.
whatsmybrowser.org returns firefox for me with some privacy plugins and ublock origin installed