skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you do not see is any deleted messages that already happened before that comment, it can well be that a bunch of twitter/reddit/hn/... users already thought it'd be helpful to invade and post some probably not so well-thought-out nor useful stuff.

And I mean, it's their repo, if they want to restrict an issue/pr to contributors only and do so with a sarcastic message or some other rhetoric way, it's their full right to do so..
I mean don't get me wrong, I don't think he's sexist or racist (at least not any more than most of his peers at the time) but I don't think he actually transcends his anxieties or sentimentality.

What the book boils down to, and you touch on it a few times, is a criticism of manufactured society. But the book never gives this a fair shake. John's experience is authentic because it is 'natural', synthetic desires are not. People choose the brave new world because they're genetically brainwashed, not because Huxley generally considers if there's something to that world that would make people chose it. Individualism is good, collectivism is mindless, driven home by characters who are largely neurotic caricatures without Soma.

The kind of questions I think a work like this needs to deal with are, what if there are collective experiences, more real, more genuine than anything any individual could ever feel, what if John is actually wrong, is he just limited in his perspective? What makes John more authentic of a character, aren't his drives just as biologically determined, but merely by chance rather than by design?

John is a sort of Neo among bluepilled people, everyone else is just an 'NPC' as people would say today. The one thinking guy who has walked into the Borg cube etc. And i think like the Matrix as real social criticism this is kind of trite. It does not take alternatives to individualism seriously.
RISCV also has a nice assembly language.
I think this is more like branding. When University of Phoenix was around, it had a bad brand. I wouldn’t spend much time thinking about papers written by UoP people because so many were trash. It’s possible some were good.

When it comes to academic research, China is the University of Phoenix.

That’s not racism, it’s bad brand reputation.
Highest average, perhaps. However, given the necessary experience, it's very easy to get a UK-based software engineering contract with rate of 300+ GBP/day, and it's much harder to get the equivalent in Switzerland.
They need money to improve FF so they will get it by fucking up FF? Sounds counterproductive to me.
The road to OCaml 5.0
They certainly have moderation now, and it's a constant exercise in boundary-pushing. I'd be interested in a "history of Instagram moderation", that would be a great piece of anthropology.

Was the no-links policy there from the start? I think that would have helped a lot. As it is, you're allowed basically one outbound link from your profile, so there are link-expander services which people use to link to more things.
And that should be a single visible something that has 10x improvement. 1.1^25 exceeds 10, but a new language (or really anything) that is 10% better in 25 different aspects probably wouldn't make the cut.
It's sad to see Mozilla go down this road, one time after another.

I don't mind it if they need the money (they don't, look into their finances and come tell me with a straight face that this non-profit isn't making the ends meet), it's comparable to default search engine placement and search suggestions, can be turned off etc.

What I have a problem with is the dark-pattern-esque language, like "relevant suggestions" and "trusted partners." I'm used to seeing that kind of messaging from the FAANG boogeymen, not Mozilla who's supposed to be the last fortress of the open internet. After years of conditioning it very strongly implies untrustworthiness to me, makes me immediately suspicious of some nefarious scheme.

I would vote with my feet but there are no options left, any other choice would mean betraying my values even further. I am being held hostage.
So it's like DriveThruRPG but with higher fees and automatic layout.

I like the concept. What binding options are available?
Hypnopedia was really just continuous repetition of "facts" until they were an autonomous response.

I'd say he was pretty damn close.
Pulumi with Go or Typescript?
I'm not sure why people are so hung up on using custom languages for their infrastructure.
I am a developer who migrated more towards doing ops work. I still enjoy writing app code but most of the work I do now is ops related. That means setting up infrastructure and pipelines for companies to help them ship things quicker and safer.

I think for most organizations having a dedicated ops person is worth it. Chances are developers are going to be developing app features. They won't have time to dedicate an entire day on why the nginx ingress for Kubernetes won't allocate an external IP address when you're using KinD locally with the nginx ingress' Helm chart default arguments.

Basically, there's always something to work on. Either infrastructure related improvements or helping developers do things better and faster in development by writing custom scripts to improve their workflows.
Yes, that might have been an issue with traditional publishing, but here we take 9% per sale, the rest goes to the you, the author.
Were we're heading, we will wish that discrimination was based on biological factors. Instead, it will be based on mental factors. Cruelty, deception, hypocrisy, psychopathy, inhumanity will be rewarded. The determinant of class will be good and evil, with evil at the top.

At the top, there will exist a form of altruism so superficial and devoid of substance that only insane people will be able to join the elite class.

The best we can hope for is that the elites will be so insane that they won't last very long; that way we can get enough churn to ensure that no individual ever has enough time to enforce their insanity on the rest of the population.

As a group, we can hope that they will be so insane that they won't be able to agree on anything; their power will be constrained by their heterogeneous irrationality.

The worst case scenario is that we end up with homogeneous irrationality... Sadly we can see some signs of this today. Let's hope it can't sustain itself.

It does sometimes seem that mentally unstable people seek stability by leaning on other unstable people who are afflicted with the same kind of irrationality... Instead of looking to lean on mentally stable people who are different from them.

It seems as if mentally unstable people hate stable people. Maybe there is a deep seated jealousy behind this. Which is kind of ironic because they could probably get there themselves if they surrounded themselves with stable people. But they lack the humility to see this and nobody in their circles will ever point it out to them since they suffer from the same problem.
> It sounds a lot like the Netherlands

It's almost a relief to see I'm not the only one having this view. I've been living in NL for the better part of a decade now and to most of the people back home (one of those terrible 'former Eastern Bloc' countries) I sound like a complete lunatic when I bring up similar impressions.

I guess an ideal place would have to be as functional as the Netherlands and yet far less soulless. Is this possible I wonder? Is there some intrinsic trade-off between the two aspects?
I've been a Firefox user since the days when it was still called Firebird. So far, none of the changes Mozilla made to Firefox has annoyed me enough to look for alternatives.

This time might be different, though.
Yeah. The promise of protection would ring less hollow if it were made by the executive branch (and even then, that kind of promise often lasts until the next administration...).
Random story I remember my ICT teacher telling us in school along the same lines as Scunthorpe. They installed some nonsense web blocking thing that schools like to have and a lot of teachers complained because it blocked weightwatchers.com
Afraid of your source code leaking? I can tell by the Twitch in your eye
Right. Notice the language you are using: "happy", "comfortable". Those are emotion words like "trust".
There's the opposite problem too, where "fanny" has a different meaning in the UK vs. USA. There's the classic line from "The Office" about it ("over there fanny means your arse. Not your... minge") and I think most folk are pretty aware of the American meaning here these days.

I wonder, is it too much to ask that we (as in, the various English speaking places) understand the different meanings of words that are offensive in one dialect but have a different and mundane meaning in another dialect?
> "when you call me X, that makes me feel bad, could you call me Y instead?"

There are absolutely people who will use this as a reason to put X on a billboard.
They didn't ask how can they make relevant suggestions. They asked how can they make relevant suggestions WITHOUT SPYING ON MY BROWSING HISTORY.

Try again.
I just found fraidycats "Hide Reposts" option which hides retweets in Twitter feeds. This is a game changer.
> You do not know what my views are

I’m just going to politely remind you that on HN your entire comment history per account is public.
Print on demand is being worked on, but for the initial set we’re thinking mass market paperback and hardcover.
2016.

Eyes are plastic. Glasses are a bit like braces for teeth; they direct the shape of the eye as well as re-shaping its input. Few people try to reshape their eyes to improve uncorrected vision, but it can work.

The side effects of drugging children long term seem scarier to me than any possible side effect of glasses they can take off at will. Maybe I'm just an old fart. After all, they said that giving 30% of our kids ADHD drugs would ruin society, and ... oh.
At this point, I just feel bad. I feel like the high school coach having to sit down with my star player after they've made a bad personal choice.

I was going to say I will pay a subscription for the best browsing experience you can offer, sans ads.

But this is opt-out. And there's a donation option at https://donate.mozilla.org/. As long as it's opt-out, that's fair enough to me.
Progamming languages have network effects too.
Based off TFA, it looks like they don't send any sort of identifier to adMarketplace. By relevant they mean relevant to whatever you typed into the search bar this time, not relevant to your browsing history or things you previously typed into the search bar.
The contributors don't get rich from mods, but others do. Take NoPixel as an example; millions in profit made through 'donations'.

Remasters of the three PS2 era games will be out before Christmas. Take Two will want people to be spending money in those games, not in modded versions which are increasingly monetized by mod developers outside of Take Two's control.
Great article. I’ve always been fascinated by the question “where does the value of things really come from?” And this article touches on that. Everything ultimately goes back to the fundamental ways we create wealth, and how much time and energy we expend doing it.
The article mentions No.3 as containing most services which involve transforming goods. I wonder where do personal services like massage, and prostitution come into that?

Or what about friendship or a romantic partner? A husband or wife cannot be converted into money but I’d say having one is to most people a definite kind of wealth.

You might call these ‘emotional services’, and group them in with art and entertainment in general. I would say this is at least different enough from manufacturing to warrant their own category. Edit: rewording
There's qutebrowser and you can donate directly to the developer but I'm not sure if you'd be comfortable using it.

The major downside is that web extensions (addons) don't work in qutebrowser.
Three, starting with 68040.
Why would they? You’re pointing at market forces and making it out to be nefarious
As an owner of the original 1984 Mac, I bought a copy of the classic Lance Levanthal 68000 assembly book. I never got much into actually coding in it, but I remember how "this makes sense, mostly" the book felt.

Then I read some of the Intel stuff. OMG.
How do you know their costs don't scale? Maybe there's insurance or compliance requirements that also apply?

And it begs the question - is "cost-plus" the only valid pricing model?
> from our trusted partners based on what you’re searching for

Wut?? You must be referring to the partners that you have, that I trust. But I don't know who your partners are, and I have no reason to trust them.

And how is it that you are privy to what I'm searching for? Is DDG among your partners? I know you're in bed with Goo, but I am migrating away from Google Search, partly because I know you are infected with Google Search addiction.

Please stop adding "features" to Firefox.
The first time I read this, I parsed it as an argument that "Sex-selection in abortions is terrible (but abortions in general are fine)". It's frightening that that didn't surprise me.
Awk more or less introduced associative arrays to modern programming.
https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/archives/63707
China’s Successful Foray into Asymmetric Lawfare
It's difficult to imagine you are writing this in good faith.
And this is how a browser dies.

At this point I imagine for most people it makes more sense to download Chromium, if you're worried about privacy, or use Chrome if you're not.

Mozilla's been running out of money for a very long time though, this isn't exactly a surprise.
Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
> I am not versed in all the details here

You should probably read the conversation in the PR: https://github.com/reactiveui/splat/pull/778

> there is a dire need for professional communications training among these programmers.

Maybe, but probably not why you think.

Once you've read the PR's conversation you'll see this isn't about someone just merging a PR which wasn't approved. This about someone submitting a PR, a maintainer asking for discussion before merging it, ignoring the maintainer and just merge the PR, the maintainer asking why it wasn't discussed and then making a snide remark to the maintainer.

So I agree that the "Sorry for merging a PR" isn't going to cut it here. The merging of the PR was the least of the problem. It's a hollow corporate-style apology where someone is allowed to be called out for. It's like saying: "Sorry I hurt your toe" after you pushed someone of a cliff.
I agree that this erodes some trust and I can understand and agree with people that are upset about this change. They did inform us though, even though the language used could use less marketing speech, instead of trying to fly it in under the radar and at least it seems to be possible to disable the "feature".
> although I rather my infrastructure as code to be in, well, code, I don't think yaml / json counts as code, but I won't let that distract me...

Yes, quite.
Nobody outside the UK has heard of Scunthorpe because it can't make it through the filters.

(There's a ridiculously large list of innuendo place names for tiny villages: https://anglotopia.net/ultimate-list-of-funny-british-place-... )
The Ampere Altra Max Review: Pushing It to 128 Cores per Socket
In general, Valve is really consumer-friendly when it comes to hardware.

I recently destroyed my Index's tether cable, mostly my fault, and their tech support sent me a new one for free with very little hassle, and with instructions on how to replace it.
Do you understand what is the difference between the things you can express with Dhall or ML vs Go or TS?

People are so hung up because we could do so much better with expressing only valid states and you do not need to deploy your infra to figure out that and S3 bucket cannot have a redirect_only flag set and also a website index document set at the same time.
80s Auto Gain Control with an analogue computer
The Compellor was a revolutionary audio processor that delivered compression levelling and peak limiting using analogue computer technology. Let’s turn some knobs and see what it does.
In the near future:

Option 1: FOSS community will actively participate in developing one big web-browser project to free the web from malicious corporate practices and guarantee respect of users freedom.

Option 2: A corporation will create commercial web-browser with fixed price or SaaS model without "partnerships" and data-hoarding business model.

Option 3: There will be only one way to browse the internet: The Google's way.

Option 4: Users will learn to use "text-browsers" with hardened security and move to "standard" web-browser UX only if necessary.

Option 5: P2P local networks will provide a "cached" versions of scraped websites for safety and free access.

Option 6: The Internet will be used only in embedded IOT systems, apps from closed app stores, government approved experiences with mandatory ID verification.
I donated once thinking it would make the banner go away. Not only was I wrong, but it seemed more persistent. Maybe I just noticed their money gathering efforts more after that, but it felt like it only got louder as if it gained power.
Somewhat suggested one day that they could become a Rust consultancy.
Which is why I want room in my cart to get those new things. So you get all the regular staples and bulky items delivered ahead of time. Which also allows you to replace any missing out of stock items from the delivery.

Makes the store a more pleasant experience.
This is what happens when an organisation deviates from its original policy and starts diverting money into social justice or causes which have no bearing on a browser.

Along with the layoffs and now this unscrupulous decision to bring in revenue to offset the haemorrhage.

Time to go back to a no thrills browser.
Not sure if it's been fixed, but works fine for me using Brave on Mac.
420 == marijuana, blazeit - self explainatory.. not everyone is fine with it..
Beating the Burnout: Finding Success Under Stress [video]
Very true. I am caught by IR35 myself.
This list is filled with a LUA script in a VLC dir, and you can override it with a user list. IT's not available through GUI but if it bothers you it's possible to remove it entirely that way.
Google and Microsoft did much worse and got away with it
> Say what you will about Trump, but his ineptitude and lack of party connections meant he was limited in what he could accomplish.

Actually the opposite is true, as his was one of the most productive administrations in the past 75 years, despite ankle-biting by Pelosi that exceeded even his term.

Trump was the only man on Earth who could address the CCP, and started the rebalancing of NATO member funding. We now understand how essential his wall is.

He also attracted remarkable advisors such as Bannon and Pompeo. I suggest you listen to their interviews, available on Youtube.
Jesus, no wonder Microsoft can shove ads and do whatever they want with Windows.
> would have changed their mind?

I cannot think of any rational thought process behind voting Remain in 2016 and then hypothetically voting Leave in 2021.
Nice blog post!
Some scary stuff indeed. Many people ignore security in DevOps ecosystem. They shouldn't!!
That was almost certainly not a joke. The alcohol industry is quietly aware of their dependence on addicts. A study in the UK found that 44% of alcohol sales were attributable to those who drank 14 or more drinks per week. They’re acutely aware of the fact that they depend on Tony more than you and the other men in that group.
1) How can you prove that a company is not engaging in any secret anti-unionization activity?

2) If a large percentage of employers act like that (and they do) they influence the entire job market.
"The Last Stand" is a great flick. It aims lower than its contemporary works, and achieves much more.

Classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stuff is similar too; bridging the actual small town to the more common scifi version where our planet is the small town (Day the Earth Stood Still, etc.)
At first I had an immediate negative reaction to this.

But then I thought, okay, they need money, ads in address bar isn't the worst thing in the world.

But then then I thought: But only if they are clearly disclosed as ads! Instead we seem to have a combination of " traditional suggestions like browsing history and open tabs, as well as new suggestions from our partners" -- are the "paid placements" clearly designated as such? Unclear? Probably not?

In "traditional" media, the first rule of advertisements is that they be clearly identified as advertisements, as content put there by someone paying for it, instead of by editorial judgement. Because how can you trust the editorial judgement of the publisher if you can't tell which is which?

That even Mozilla no longer thinks this is necessary shows how much the culture has changed, where "paid placement" is pretty much assumed everywhere (or if not, you're a naive fool) and nobody trusts anybody.
This is a very long-lived, and actively maintained, blog. I'm impressed. There aren't many out there like this.
That doesn't sound specific enough to inspire confidence. Is there perhaps another passage that you can share which is more declarative and direct that the funds are only going to Thunderbird development? I like TB but every time I fire it up I'm getting this ticking-clock feeling
Some people just love coding.
Deploying Serverless Containers Using Google Cloud Run
Google and Microsoft did built that a long time ago. Google Chrome will happily open a Google Search results page for anything you type into the address bar or pick from the suggestions displayed within. And that Google Search results page is full of "sponsored" content. When it comes to Microsoft, it's just the same thing except they call it Bing.
Nope, to take a current exemple which many people loathe for one reason or another, even EPIC Games Store does not transfer your email to the seller by default, and the checkbox do to do so in checkout is left unchecked by default.
Anyone has the details about the breach?
Why not just use PayPal Checkout SDK?
Cash wasn't really a factor for transmission for Covid, so people are already back to paying with cash in my country (pretty popular here).

I prefer cash to most digital transactions outside that from my own bank because there is often some form of undesirable middle-man. I don't like apple, google or facebook be involved here in any way.
It blows my mind every day. And this is what I do for my career.
It's incredible. I think Brave/BAT is pretty much the only project in the crypto space that has a straightforward answer to "how do you guys plan to make money?" question, yet it is called "outright corrupt" and implied they are stealing from users somehow. I really wonder why there is so much cognitive dissonance.
That's a very good point... and are we really awake when we watch T.V.? Or are we in some type of suggestive state?

I wrote the above and then did some googling. Found this article: https://www.fastcompany.com/3060491/what-happened-to-my-brai.... I don't know how reputable it is, but here's a quote relevant to this discussion:

"There have been EEG studies that demonstrate that television watching converts the brain from beta wave activity to alpha waves, which are associated with a daydreaming state, and a reduced use of critical thinking skills."
at the very least this should guarantee that there'll be repair shops that can fix common steam deck issues.

I wish more companies, and people for that matter, would take this "don't do this, but if you do here's how" approach.
This is the thing that I thought was interesting.

I suspect that it has less to do with actual profits and more to do with some wanting to keep their quarterly ad impression numbers up
Microsoft maybe, they seem to be the tech bubble darling right now. Google is officially "The Evil(tm)" right now.