skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe try this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

Together with the integrated profile manager (Firefox.exe -p) its a really nice solution!
Then they have the audacity to open to this when the update loads: https://i.imgur.com/EohIanD.png

There is no war on privacy. It's gone, the war is over and we lost. This is a true "Et tu, Brute?" moment. I'm really disgusted.
> just meant to say extortion

"just"?
Could you describe "raising the floor of your play" a bit more? I'm not fully sure what you mean by that.
I hope it means that there will be dozens or hundreds of additional CEOs.
The ship in question-

https://eos.com/landviewer/?s=Sentinel2&lat=15.13552&lng=42....
I always hear this argument that the employer controls your health care in the U.S. and it is quite wrong. The employer MAY offer one or more options for a subsidized health care plan in which the employer contributes some or all of the cost of the selected plan. There is zero requirement for an employee to select or use such a plan, and there is absolutely nothing stopping an employee from seeking an alternative plan or additional uncovered treatments through other means available to them.

Maybe there is a point to be made about the overall cost of health care plans being too expensive for an individual to afford without the employer subsidy, but that is orthogonal to "employer control" of healthcare.
Is that possibly because they’re including the backup age out period though?
Arguably you could go back to the unsanitary meat packing plants of America's industrial revolution to find the first widely known US example of business doing things that they shouldn't to make more money. Someone with more knowledge of world history could go back farther.
Hi there (founder here)

Both Safari and Firefox are rock solid browsers with excellent heritage. Just being put in the same basket as them for consideration is very flattering for us to begin with.

If you care about browser speed, then Orion is faster than Safari in almost all benchmarks (and Safari was already fastest browser on Mac to begin with).

We have a section about this in our FAQ if you are interested:
https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#safari
> Coinbase should be involved in the the political discourse surrounding crypto (and other finance-related) legislation. They should not be involved in the discourse surrounding a woman's right to abortion (just an example).

I don't agree with this, but to be clear: you're arguing for something very different than Armstrong is. Armstrong is saying that Coinbase isn't besmirched by any politics, which is patently false -- their entire mission is explicitly political.

As for why I don't agree: political positions are not hermetic. It wasn't acceptable in 1961 for lunch counters to "not be involved" in desegregation, because "not being involved" is tantamount to support for segregation in a segregated society. But again, to be very clear: this is above and beyond the claim that Armstrong is making.
I got no such popup, I checked my settings after one of these articles and it was already there.
I think making the tests to get licenses easier was a mistake. One of the things that intrigued me about getting my license back in the day was the Morse code requirement. I enjoyed climbing the ladder, and I was proud when I passed the 20wpm test to get the Extra license.

I think young people like things like that: a challenge, followed by some kind of symbol of your achievement.
> I don't understand why this content is allowed.

Because a workaround is available.

> And I'm not going to buy a subscription for the three articles I read every month.

Then click the link in the comment you replied to and read it.
We could go for ecological and climate collapse instead.

I hope there is a middle way.
SpaceX isn't going to go public anytime soon. Elon has said though that he wants to spin off Starlink and take that public in the next few years.
How bad is Covid-19 in kids?
I mean yes and no. Yes there are infinite problems and there will always be worse of people who I could do things for. Guilt tripping someone into addressing all of them is unprodictive.

On the other hand, the fact that I can choose which struggles I engage with, and am able to avoid ones I don't want to involve myself in is absolutely a privilege. Someone who may need an abortion may not be able to avoid caring about that issue. Someone less economically secure may not be able to avoid worrying about unemployment or healthcare policy. There's countless similar examples.

You can absolutely acknowledge that you don't have the spoons/time/interest to deeply invest yourself in every social cause or issue. But you should also recognize that there are tons of people who also don't have the spoons/time/interest either, but have to anyway because the issue affects them and they can't afford to ignore it either.
>> We made a wrong turn a very long time ago

> What, inventing agriculture? Certainly some think that.

Are there really people who believe that? I've only read it in Sapiens by YN Harari, and it sounded like a ridiculous idea written to provoke thought, not an actual opinion. "Yes, hunter-gatherers could starve on a bad year, and they sometimes got eaten by tigers, but look at how un-alienated they were!"

The author probably wouldn't have been to write his book or share these thoughts to more than 30 people without the invention of agriculture...
It's not blackmail nor extortion at all.

These are 136 countries finding in agreement, not one country imposing its willpower on the rest of the world using threats of force.
> required on-the-job training (ie residency program, possibly a fellowship), it can take 6-12 years to fully train a doctor.

> Whatever you may think of us software engineers, we're nowhere near the same level as a doctor in terms of required training.

I don't know about that.

Residency takes years, but I'm not convinced it couldn't be done faster (there are cultural reasons why it's done that way). Basically, there's a strict pecking order among residents (first years are taught and evaluated by second years and so on) and every "level" basically tries to show off to his boss (because most coveted spots are competitive).

That often degenerates into a contest of who can sleep the least and be the hero that keeps the floor from "falling apart". I've seen fourth year residents undo work from third years, who themselves re-did work the second year did, who himself re-did something the first year resident had done. Everyone "saved the day" that night, except when the attending came in the morning he agreed with the diagnosis and treatment the first year resident implemented. You get the picture.

The long years of schooling with little, expensive residency matching trips and interviews and unrelated undergrad required to even apply are all pretty good gatekeeping mechanism to keep poor people out however.
> Globalism is inherently fragile
> Every move towards globalism is increasingly dangerous, this is no exception.

I don’t really agree in the slightest unless you’re making the claim that all political systems above the family level are inherently fragile in which case it’s a moot point. The previous international standard was war when there were major disagreements. Globalism has helped make the entire planet relatively(relative is doing a lot of heavy lifting here but still counts) peaceful compared to the past
> My mom was building a shed on her property, some neighbors didn't like it so they had a lawyer send a cease and desist with no legal basis

> The only problem is Facebook is huge and is willing to drag out lawsuits they won't win just to destroy people's lives because they can afford to hold out much longer than everyone else.

Convincing people that America is the land of the free, is the biggest trick the devil has ever pulled.
I am as confused as you are; this reads almost like GPT-3 generated text - there are words that resolve to sentences, it scans like real human writing, but there's little to no information communicated.

The breakdown is basically:

* A statement of the premise: "Globalism is bad" without defining 'globalism'.

* Some vague ominous sentences that sound like they reinforce the premise but don't.

* A long paragraph that basically makes the statement "Human lives can't be assigned a dollar value" with no real attempt to tie it to the premise.

* Restatement of the premise.
Not any more to my knowledge. But if Orion becomes a success there might be one! (founder here)

Current situation is - WebKit works great on Linux so that is not a problem. We've built WebKit on Windows too and while it works, it's not great. We are talking few developer-years of effort there (performance is main issue).
For all the fear we had of Microsoft Secure Boot & UEFI, it's mostly pretty good. Over a decade into it & none of the early fears we had seem to have manifested, about users losing control, about the terms of the deal in Secure Boot being updated to be exclusionary. Because of this, Windows running PCs have been capable of running alternate OSes, capable of being maintained by their owners indefinitely.

AFAIK it's still impossible to delete the MS keys on many many systems, meaning secure boot will never ever be able to block Microsoft or the feds from loading whatever boot payload they want on your laptop,

But the Microsoft resident keys feel three-hundred-thousand-times better than the fat-load-of-nothing we've gotten from Android handset manufacturers. I'd guess less than 1% of handsets probably have manufacturer unlockable (not hacked unlockable) bootloaders. This is so anti-right-to-repair it's sick. Once a phone stops receiving support, we basically have to throw it out, or hack the bootloader, to begin to repair them.

Chromebook at least is better. Often there's a weird ritual of opening the case & removing a screw, then the device visibly shows it's in unsafe mode, but there's a well defined normal path to a device handing itself over to users. Apple interesting repeats the split: they seem ultra-hostile to unlocking mobile devices, but the new M1 powered macs? They went out the door capable of running alternate OSes, didn't try to stop that. Apple's first desktop-class chip, and while you can't buy the chip, they also haven't stopped outside users. I find that fascinating.

Interesting to see John Carmack recently get Facebook to also start towards doing the right thing, at least on the old Oculus Go hardware[1] (not the newer Quest though)! Good job being able to announce that, two weeks before Microsoft announces they're going to do the right thing, support right-to-repair.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28647316 https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1441496416463904768
Only as long as there is a "no profile" option that will still save history and cookies. You know, like a browser before all the crap came along.

It appears to me that Google Chrome only has the option of "fully logged in with GSuite account where we track every damn thing you do" and "Guest" which is just private browsing, won't save any state, making it inconvenient.

It's creepy and presents false choice.
Ask HN: How Is Django “Bloated”?
I am a long time Django dev, I have been for ~8 years now. I am also a contractor and have been so for roughly the same period. Every time I have moved from one client to another, it has been a recurring theme that there are some (many) devs in the client company who consider Django "bloated" - yes that exact word has been used to describe Django - but few if any can quantify or even identify the "bloat". I realise I am not an objective observer on this matter, I like Django and I like DRF even more so.
So I am hoping some folks here at HN can shed more light on the subject of Django's bloat? For the sake of simplicity, let's confine the discussion to comparisons with other Python web frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, bottle etc
Might be an alternative if you're off the coast of, say, Romania. I wouldn't recommend it off the coast of Somalia though...
Interesting if this gets to the SCOTUS. Is it "reasonable" for your neighbor to film your backyard with a drone?
"Our new fleet of stand-off delivery drones and inertially guided gliding packages can accurately drop your purchase onto your front lawn from 31,000 feet"
For now, it's possible to use Firefox ESR version (Firefox 91 with security patches) and avoid this 'feature'. A year from now, when ESR loses support, I'll have to see whether FF will still be worth using.
Change my mind about what? I was merely explaining how you can't draw strong conclusions based on silence.

But I do love MLK quotes:

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
If I live in an authoritarian country then the chains are coming either way
Not a bitcoin fan, but this question of eating it for lunch or backing it with apples misunderstands that the fundamental liquidity backstop of bitcoin is risk. So long as you can take it to a casino (real or notional) and bet it, it has value. For it to go to zero, it would mean no two people could make a bet where one benefits from the result.

Even random shitcoins have a non-zero value so long as there are participants who can use it as a proxy for risk of any sort. The the value is a function of the risk the exchange represents. If we bet 20 randocoins on tomorrow's high temperature in a city, we've created potential value. The bitcoin bet is that its value is non-zero, and an infinite number of people can trade in and out of positions in that bet and create and extract value from it.

The only real downside risk is a bunch of smart contract derivatives that hoover up bitcoin, rehypothecate and leverage it and give you some higher risk platform token/scrip instead that has a much higher likelihood of being worthless when it defaults, but with some additional personal security.

Using Cowen's analogy, bitcoin isn't apples, it's the game token you use to play the game to win the apples.
He didn't misrepresent or disagree with the author. He added extra commentary on something the author brought up.
I already know that's going to be an ongoing project getting sites correctly whitelisted, plus its all moot when I take my laptop outside my home. Ublock origin just works.
This needs to not be a taboo. It’s very important how many days I get off, how many hours I’m expected to work and if I’m expected to work nights and weekends. Those are like my top 3 concerns, I don’t really care about your snacks or vision or stack to be honest.
I play Half Life 2 to ease depression since I won't tolerate the side effects of SSRI medication. It's the only video game I play and I've beaten it literally hundreds of time. I can fly through the whole thing in about 4 hours on the hardest setting I've played it so much. I don't know why it works and I don't want to even poke at it lest it stop working but when I have an "episode" where everything goes gray I just fire the game up and start waxing head crabs. Pretty soon I'm right as rain.

As an addendum, the only thing I don't like about my M1 Mac is HL2 doesn't work on it other than through Crossover Office and even then it's extremely glitchy. If anybody has suggestions to get it running well I'm all eyes.
Almost certainly you would just plain have not been able to do it at all. Not in 1993-1996. Not without it already having been done once.

And if you had, it would have taken you more than 10 years to realize what the right thing is, and to solve all very complex problems that showed up on the way.

Quake doesn't even have any load times! Not even with the hardware available at the time.
We interviewed someone a while back and she said (without being asked - asking questions on this line is illegal) she was prepared to leave her husband and kids to move here. It didn't affect our results, but we all agreed in the discussion after that was a negative sign if we were allowed to consider it. She probably would have been good, I hope her search went well.
> The point of university is to spend the time and energy to master the subject

Really? I think most people go to college to get a good job before all else. With that line of thinking, an interview is just another of these “tests”.

But you make a good point about these arrogant companies administering tests. College faculty are never arrogant, but always humble like this guy in the article who just can’t chalk his failure up to being a human being.
Nothing cynical, it's lobbying 101.
Amateur Radio has a chance to become massively popular through a resurgence of interest in mesh networking but unfortunately laws are not evolving fast enough for this to become possible. Right now it's illegal to transmit encrypted data over the air [0] which basically kills everything like. The areas where people are becoming increasingly active in radio are things like NYC Mesh which can only utilize a very small segment of the bands (and not even the ones hams use!) for running their networks.

I'd love for an IP over Mesh network to become popular. Doing IRC and reinventing a lot of the early internet in a distributed manor would be very fun.

[0] - Unless it is for the control of a satellite.
I love using Firefox but my biggest gripe is the “back button” on a mouse is somehow a scroll click button on macOS while Chrome works fine
Nobody has ever been “free” but damn are we a whole lot more free than most humans in the history of civilization.
Yes, when the rates at the post office were ~16x higher than they are now, adjusted for inflation, it was possible for a private company to compete. But, the USPS doesn't charge $9.12 to send a letter from Boston to DC anymore.
This is the "here come the ads" version, aka "Firefox Suggest".

Turn off auto updates here: options-->general-->firefox updates
But clearly for many of them this bad choice is their best option (unfortunately). So the goal isn't to improve their lives but to assuage our guilt?

Companies that use these services could exert pressure for better conditions, just like some have done with other companies in their supply chain.
A totally unsubstantiated thought--is there any chance engineers are taking Facebook hostage until Mark agrees to step down?
I don't get it. You argue that employment is more tenuous at US companies for various reasons... therefore employees want to stick their necks out by engaging in politics? Shouldn't we expect the opposite?
As an example of my point for using a judicious approach above, applying either of the sets of Sennheiser HD8XX measurements and resulting AutoEQ curves from the Crinacle and oratory1990 folders in the Roon DSP system collapses the headstage and tilts the perceived tone of the headphones from relatively full and engaging with a dip in the 2-3 kHz region to thin and hollow, with an overly bright, brittle top end.

Also, these are two sets of measurements of theoretically the same headphones, each with 10 adjustment points, some quite broad, some very narrow. The overall shape of the resulting curve for the same target compensation is similar, but they have some significant differences in the specifics, and they sound different. We have to remember that measurement systems and individual measurement setup can vary quite a bit, so settings from this tool will bake all of that in as well.

As a comparison, based on review of the measured curves in more of a a big picture way, applying a much simpler EQ with a broad 1.5 dB bass lift up to about 100 Hz, another broad lift of about 3 dB around 2 kHz, and a slight drop of about 1 dB centered around 8 kHz brings the bass and vocals up a little but keeps headstage and overall tone intact. Maybe it's this particular DSP implementation, but I would be wary about trying to use any of the precompiled results directly. EQ can have real benefits, but is going to be more personal than automated settings will capture.
That's plausible, but it doesn't change the fact that the interview was bad.
All the world used to be farmers. Pretty much anyone can do it if the alternative is starving.
its questionable to me that this "person" has such a vested interest in the vaccine and why he wants his viewpoint to be spread so actively
Yeah this is the problem more generally with the legal system both in my home country of England but especially in the US. As one hn user put it so perfectly recently "the process is the punishment".

I think a lot of people in the software bubble don't realize what a huge sum even $100 is for the average person, the law only affords power and protection to the rich and already powerful.
This is horrifying. Get FEMA on the line. Call the national guard. I hope nobody dies. This is serious stuff here.
> How about this: Every economic interaction (which includes employment) is political.

“Economics” and “politics” are just different lenses for viewing interactions relating to the distribution of power (equivalently, control of scarce resources.) They are the same thing; economic interactions are political and vice versa; economic power is political power and vice versa, etc.

This is also why capitalism (enabling the private accumulation of economic power) and democracy (involved the egalitarian distribution of political power), despite both initially being advanced by the same moves away from the particular structure of the monarchic/feudal concentration of both, are fundamentally in tension and ultimately incompatible.
Amazon is constantly changing its policies for Seller Central. It's important to stay up-to-date with new changes if you're going to use seller central.

They will ban for things like related accounts, IP infringement, ban specific ASINs, etc. You can see more about in this blog: https://www.appealwizards.com/blog-3-ways-to-get-your-amazon...
> Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus.

> A reduction was also observed in people vaccinated with the jab made by US company Pfizer and German firm BioNTech. The risk of spreading the Delta infection soon after vaccination with that jab was 42%, but increased to 58% with time.
It would be incredibly illegal. Not only would they land in prison, they’ll never work in the industry again.
I assume it used to be far more informal and sort of a handshake deal you'd make with the captain, and then the companies formalized it but it was still cheap because no one knew/wanted to do it, but then as the possibility becomes common knowledge, there are way more people who want to do it than there are spots for, so they raise the price.
Friends in engineering at Coinbase?