skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, everyone comes into this discussion with some sort of anchoring, and build up from that.

IMO, it's way to cumbersome to think in terms of right, left and bias. What's the observable difference between a world where "right wing bias" exists and one where "right wing posts are just more compelling."

Bias is a strong word, but if we're using it, then I think it's near universal. Media is never neutral. Social software is never neutral. Software design always affects content on a social media. The business model of the media (eg cable news, subscriptions newspaper, free dailies) very obviously dictates content.

Liberalism has a history of falling into a pattern. Theory about fair/good systems, and the outcome they'll produce. If they don't produce the desired outcome, we fall into a mess. The pattern applies to economics, social stuff, domestic & international politics.

IE, start with a belief that liberal democracy (formulations vary) is the only system that's fair, functional and successful. Post-soviet russia implements free market capitalism, emphasising contracts, property rights and such. It quickly develops an oligarchy. That's attributed to "not doing capitalism right" or the moral failings of Russian culture.

Myanmar's despotic press monopoly opens up to FB. This a more free and open media diet. Rumours about minorities quickly spread, evolve into violence and genocide. Again, we have a hard time believing that freedom is a culprit. It's unfree media that causes genocide. Free media is the antidote. So, the only explanation is FB "bias" or some other corruption.

We start with a notion of fair systems and what their outcome will be. When reality disagree, we tend to double down. There are examples in every decade for centuries.

Shortly after Laissez Faire economic theories were adopted in the UK, a famine occured in Ireland. The government response was doubling down. A famine could only mean that markets were not free enough. Population numbers have still not recovered 180 years later.
I do

Because when the tab bar is full Firefox will overflow them while chrome will resize every tab until only an icon is left and then start the overflow.

If there is an extension to fix this I’ll switch but last I looked I couldn’t find any
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
I seem to have collapsed down to checking 5 to 6 sites.

Where would I even go to find other sites that might be of interest?

I can’t even really think of any other sites to visit.

Whatever happened to the idea of “exploring the Internet”?
There is: test signing. Painful for non-savvy users, but not impossible.
I assume it's because Republicans are, on average, more butthurt about technology companies of late because of the bare minimum level of fact checking some of the social platforms have engaged in during the most recent election cycle. Regardless, Google should be nailed against the wall, and though there is little doubt in my mind they will in absolutely no way be appropriately punished for their poor behaviour, it's difficult to complain about people taking shots at them.
Kroger and Kroger owned stores turn over employees like crazy - I have several friends who’ve described really horrendous conditions. I don’t think there’s a lot of benefit in their union, that or it was so awful before that even bad conditions were better. Grocery store revenue increased greatly during the pandemic but workers still had to fight tooth and nail for PPE, and never got any amount of hazard pay. Ask anyone who is/was considered an “essential worker” what that actually meant sometime. The answer: less than nothing.

That cashiers still have to stand up has always been the bellweather to me about whether a grocery store takes any care of their employees.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Proven

That's incredible. I'm impressed. -200
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The number reported since mid-2020 has been a 10% cut to Joe Biden from the CCP, Ukraine, Russia and Syria payments. Note that Hunter has no business qualifications to even get a meeting with those governments.

"there wasn't sufficient evidence", "mostly peaceful protests", "Hunter's art sales are to anonymous buyers", etc.
Why and how were you at so many hospitals? Providing more context could explain what you experienced.
I run my own instance in a convoluted way - I added ActivityPub source and sink support to my own webapp. But every user deserves account portability, not just those who know how to deploy and maintain a Mastodon instance.
All Microsoft has to do to stop that from being a problem is to tell Defender to block that automation from running on Windows, for example, by refusing to run anything signed with the automation developer's certificates.
> 2. Mental health is often overlooked in these discussions. The pandemic has been a huge source of stress, uncertainty, and general chaos. Many people (myself included) lost their usual outlets of stress (going out, meeting with friends, catching up with family, etc). From personal experience, this lead me to having a spat of time where I was burned out and had to lay off working at all for several months before joining a new organization. From what I hear, I'm far from the only one who's gone through such an experience.

Yeah, this is super evident in my circle of friends and colleagues. One senior-dev friend started an apprenticeship as a carpenter, another one opened a store for booze. Some others got serious about following their passion projects. Everyone seems to have a little crack or two.
hey Mischa, thanks a lot for commenting on the thread!

i’ve actually found your GitHub profile when i was searching for a domain name

i tried mish.dev and your GitHub came up, so i checked it out and was really impressed of projectM, so i bookmarked it

eventually i’ve got my own domain (mish.co) and yesterday found the bookmark again and decided to share it here!

the rest is history :)
I started playing dodgeball!
Just to be clear, if you send an email from a non-PM to PM account, the email is plaintext in BOTH accounts!

That’s because, PM servers receive plaintext data. Then, they encrypt it. But there is no proof that plaintext is not logged.

It’s same as in VPN: trust us, we don’t log your data.
No, invest in zero knowledge technologies please.

I can point out to many other possibilities for improvements in their email and VPN service. But they should lead us not other way around.
Surely the prosecutor's laziness keeping you in jail for an extra three weeks is something you can sue somebody about? That seems like a huge violation of your rights.
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>If not, that's fine too. I advise buying and using a Windows laptop for a first-class Microsoft Developer Experience

Thank you for your nice advice. I started following it 20 years ago (with some short but numerous tries to use Linux and BSD as desktops).

I use Windows desktops and laptops for all kind of development. Which is now mostly web microservices running under Kubernetes on Linux.

When I developed Android apps and multiplatform games (Android, iOS and Web), Windows was still my preferred development platform.
If you don't mind the, uh, colourful presentation, the You Suck at Producing series (and channel with the same name) on YouTube is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kjCxfEZZKo - he also does pretty regular livestreams doing critique and analysis of user-submitted tracks.

If you're looking for a free wavetable synth comparable to Serum from the article, I recommend Vital: https://vital.audio - there's a fairly active community forum there as well.
This looks like a better source:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00926-1
For reference, according to "our world in data"'s number the netherlands are 74% one-dose and 67% fully vaccinated.

The US are at 66.6 and 57.6, but there are huge disparities between states, while vermont is at 70,8% full vax WV is at 41.
> So how do you transfer this energy in isolated areas?

The US Air Force is also working on mini nuclear reactors.

https://interestingengineering.com/the-us-air-force-is-build...
> Seriously, every time you start it, it opens one or even two tabs saying why Firefox loves you and protects you.

I believe the page you're talking about appears upon installation or update to a new version.

There's also: Preferences -> New Windows -> Select "blank page"

You can also install one of the de-branded Firefox remixes like Waterfox or Librewolf if you really want to be completely Mozilla-free.

> Mozilla also fires people who donate to Christian charities for the beliefs they have

Everything about this statement is factually wrong.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/faq-on-ceo-resignation/

> Brendan was not fired and was not asked by the Board to resign. Brendan voluntarily submitted his resignation. The Board acted in response by inviting him to remain at Mozilla in another C-level position. Brendan declined that offer.

The FAQ elaborates at length about the situation and emphasizes why he stepped down.

Furthermore, the political contributions that triggered "boycotts, protests, and intense public scrutiny" were not to "christian charities" but donations to vehemently bigoted politicians across several decades, culminating with a donation to the California Proposition 8 PAC, a campaign to strip LGBTQ people living in California of the basic human right to marriage.

Since numerous HNers asserted that "there is no human right to marriage" last time this subject came up: read Article 16 of the UN human rights charter.
> I still have the code.

Any chance of the code being released open source? I don't imagine anyone testing a spacecraft in their garage, but at some point, the must arise full-time software historians using automated tools to search through all available history of code. It's very difficult to know what they'll find useful centuries in the future.
You can change when the overflow scrolling starts by setting browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to 50 (or any number you want, the unit is pixels) in about:config
Indeed they are, and they are about equally easily persuaded by either side.
> He was rude then, and he’s not happy generally

Not too long ago, people could encounter a grumpy store clerk and forget about it by the time they got home. Sometimes they'd even turn it into a joke [1]. It was a simpler, less angry time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi
Fair point.

I am not a shill...

They advertised themselves with a 'no-log policy'. This policy however used the phrase "by default, [...]" and and said that they don't store IP data. This is true, that statement was never breached as far as we know.
The court requested Proton to start logging data for this single account in question for the investigation, because the account owners had broken swiss national law.

"[Proton] could not appeal because a Swiss law had actually been broken and because "legal tools for serious crimes" were used. ProtonMail does not believe the tools were appropriate for the case at hand, but the company was legally responsible to comply with their use nonetheless." [0]

What would you want Proton to do in this case? Close down shop and not give out PII or rather comply and keep operating? You can't just discard an entire operation of this size bcause one of one account.

We are on the same side here, we both want Proton to do better and to have an email service that is actually secure. As long as any company or organization operating an email service is inside any jurisdiction it will face these issues. But the jurisdiction is also the enabler to these companies or organizations like this.
I don't think we are ever going to get the perfectly secure mail service that protects our privacy, resists governments and threat actors to an absolute degree, and operates servers and services at the same time like Proton does. If anything, FOSS self-hosted options are probably the closest to the above we are going to get.

edit: If Proton designed their services to not collect data from the start, like a lot of commenters here are proposing, that could be a real opportunity. This strategy however only works in very stable democratic systems, as unstable ones are always at the mercy of their governments and as such are vulnerable to privacy intrusions.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/priva...
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This feels so wierd to watch. I was a kid when all the referenced pop culture was created. Then having the realization that many/most of the people in the video were not alive when these movies were released.
This - if you're a professional software developer you'll find value in the 200€/year package for their tools. They are just good all around.

My only gripe is not supporting remote development but it's in the works.
The notion that 7 Billion people in the world are living under a 'Mask Policy' which have no material value, but exists only for the purposes of 'signalling' is conspiratorial nonsense.

At the start of the pandemic, the efficacy of masks in the commons was still debatable, more so than is now.

Public Health Policy issues around getting 100's of millions of Westerners, not acclimated to wearing masks (as they are in some Asian countries), was a daunting concern, as we can see with all the anti-mask idiots even to this day.

N95s in particular were acutely necessary in Healthcare settings and the supply chains from China towards the start of the pandemic in the US were not quite ramped-up, and were just becoming secure by the time the CDC switched to a pro-mask footing. Otherwise, any call by the CDC for 350M Americans to 'wear masks' would have likely overran the Healthcare supply chain.

As the availability of PPE to Healthcare became secure, as Asian health officials urged Westerners to adopt mask policies, as we understand a bit more about masks, the policy shifted towards mask wearing.

Obviously, masks are a marginal tactic in the fight against COVID, but there is a systematic benefit, especially over 350M people million people, wearing them when they are interacting wit others. If there is ambiguity in their efficacy, it's rational to err on the side of caution, not the other way. Because we are 'going with the policy' then it has to be supported and enforced, like anything else.
I use VSCodium every day, and recommend it over VSCode to everyone, however, due to microsoft's locked down plugins, particulary the ones related to remote development and debug, there are certain things which can be done with VSCode and not VSCodium.

It's worth bearing in mind for those considering switching.
Is the brain damage linked to covid propaganda or actual virus?

Curious to know…
In case anyone reading is unaware Google already inserts artificial delay into page loading times, to allow for header bidding. Online advertising proponents would argue this delay is below human perception. But the perceptibility of the wait should be for users, not Google, to decide; it is artifical and undisclosed delay, for the benefit of advertising. If users were told about it and could avoid it, no doubt they would. As we can see, artificial delay can be used as an anticompetitive measure.

These tactics, similar to deliberately introduced incompatibilities or performance differences, are old hat. For example, through the 90's, third party software for Windows never ran as smoothly as software issued by Microsoft. It was not the same "user experience". So long as this sort of conduct remains "legal", these companies interpret that as permission to engage in it.
I agree with you, but this isn't necessarily the best example. In this case, frankly part of this issue had to be resolved by relaxing strict zoning laws that weren't allowing space to be used in a way that the market demanded (offloading empty chassis). Such a measure falls under deregulation/free-market/small-government.

The other measures proposed (forcing railroads, national guards etc) are of course of a different order, but it's not clear they'd be necessary if the build-up of empty chassis at the port (because offloading in the nearby area wasn't allowed) never materialised into a massive bottleneck, because zoning laws were deregulated.
Go read Manufacturing Consent.
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> rumors sit in the new for months on Trump

It's much worse than that.

Virtually all news stories in 2020/early 2021 about Trump have been retracted by cnn.com since then.

Almost all sound bytes from the White House and Squad today are the opposite of what they said pre-election, especially about corona - they said they would refuse a vaccine developed under the Trump administration, and that vaccine mandates were not going to happen.

The most striking is that "Trump's Muslim travel ban list" was originally drawn up by the previous Obama administration. (The list was created because there's several countries that have disorganized passport control, so ICE can't verify any of those documents when required, which means they don't know who is trying to enter the US, when that mattered. With Open Borders, those people can now just walk across the Mexico border.)
Dropped when the Firefox dev team said rss is “old and too hard to maintain”

True super talents over there at Firefox.
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It depends on the market. If someone wants to pay you between 1.5x to 2x for the same work you’re doing right now with same work/life balance, will you take it? People generally don’t whine about pay or promotions, they interview and get better offers.
The cheese and prepared food sections (salads, wraps, cooked chicken etc) are both extremely cheap compared to regular grocery stores, and of decent quality. A slice of brie is almost double the price in safeway from TJs. OTOH meat is more expensive (but higher quality). However I don’t know of anyone that only uses Trader Joe’s for groceries, for the same reasons you outlined.

The bigger problem is just how sort of homogenized the US grocery system is, and with such vast distances to cover and the expectation to have basically the exact same things on the shelf quality takes a huge dive, and often the prices are not great. Even in areas like California or Washington with very large agricultural footprints “local” means almost nothing in a chain grocery store.
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You generate it locally, use an existing grid connection, or build a new grid connection. The advantage of this is flexibility. You can use spare capacity in one to fill a gap in the other. This already happens with generators. Why not the other way around?

For example, imagine a base in the desert. You have an existing grid connection, and fuel supply. Neither can be 100% reliable. So you build a solar array, manufacture synthetic fuel, and have generators for emergency power which can be powered from stored synthetic fuel. You already need power and fuel anyway. Allowing interchange between the two just adds flexibility.
I know people who pretend that Nadella has made the company so different. Microsoft will never change.
That's the message you hear as you move the slider over the company: from the left, the founding conscientious engineers, and to the right, the profit-maximizing, late and lateral entry executives.
I didn't read the whole document linked in the tweet, but no.

This is equivalent quite simply to someone putting out an inferior product - for example a phone that needs to scan a government issue photo id, so the phone maker - not your carrier - can identify you. There are people who don't care, and they are the target market. There are people who laugh at it and just buy something else. They are not the target market.

They did not try to change the web into anything. They tried and to some extent did change their browser into an inferior product, and change their ad network into an inferior product. Websites placing ads and ad exchanges are free to not use google's products. Web users are free not to use their product like their browser. I use google translate - that's about it. Not even maps, since heremaps is and always was simply superior.

They also tried to change regulations to suit them better. But they are allowed. Trying to change here simply means making their opinion known to the people who make the rules. They didn't bribe anyone. They emailed pdf files describing their ridiculous point of view.

The takeaway is they are a corporation with inferior products, who will do what's legal to make more money. Most people don't care. Some people are free to choose other products.

Azure and AWS for example completely destroy GCP This is because google treats the people who do care about google's inferior points, like they're a phone user who doesn't care if they're tracked. So google can't get any marketshare there for their inferior products. Despite GCP from a purely technical aspect being superior. When packaged with the worst customer service available, and the risk of losing all your data and backups permanently w/o notification, because you mistakenly hire a guy who is known to google as a hacker? They're not even a player for any customer that plans to be successful long-term.

It's a choice, pick what you want to do and who you want to do. Google is not hiding who they are. Or doing anything wrong. They just make inferior products. But VHS won the format battle.
There is also vvvv[1].
They have a bundle of free workshops available here: https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/node20-vvvv-workshop-bu...

Especially the one called "Beyond Sound and Visual" by Natan Sinigaglia[2] might interest you.

[1] https://visualprogramming.net

[2] https://natansinigaglia.com/works
What's SAC?
I thought it was an article about going to sleep.
Make you wonder what kind of engagement it is. Likes? Shares? Agreement? Discussion? Outraged shouting?
Of course I don't expect them providing everything for free. But I expect them to stick to their promises and commitments and not to widraw a feature once they committed to make it available.
South America.

Why they want B1 in English? Good question. Why they didn't ask for that in any documents and/or while the papers were being submitted? Another good question.

I feel like I'm trapped in Kafka's The Castle story.

With the amount of remote work available pos-covid, I don't think I have the energy to appeal any of this. I hope this is not the experience for most IT workers that want to work in Germany.
> SAC

do you mean Special administration console? or Semi-annual channel?
Remember "Don't be evil?" what the hell happened at Google? They appear more and more like supervillain company yet they used to be somewhat fair.
Years ago, I remember someone talking about working in film. Ideally, you work on three movies a year; one for the pay, one for the script, and one for the people you work with. I've tried to keep this in mind when looking for full-time work and I think it lines up with what you're saying.
Personal responsibility is good though right? Not that a lack is the cause or having more is a cure for every homeless person, but if those who didn’t currently take person responsibility changed and did - would that be a bad thing?

I guess it depends on exactly how you interpret his statement, but the core idea that money alone isn’t going to fix the problem seems reasonable.

I mean, if someone is out on the street due to addiction, they won’t recover without personal responsibility. If someone is on the street due to untreated mental illness, then yeah, personal responsibility likely won’t help.

I though his statement was relatively even handed.
> Obligatory: I’m not a lawyer; this is for informational purposes only.

The issue with the AGPL is that you really need to be a lawyer to understand the nuances. What constitutes a “derived work”. What is the precedent for what is a “derived work”?

With MIT, BSD, you put in the attribution and call it a day.