skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday I wanted to grab an image of flowers. Any flowers. I searched on flowers in image search. Google returned a page that was inundated with ads. I had trouble finding an image that I could use because it wasn’t an ad.
Syracuse New York has an ATSC 3.0 TV transmitter that I pick up with

https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-flex-4k/

I'd like to say that this is a wonderful product that "just works" but unfortunately some of the devices I have (XBOX ONE, 8th gen iPad) don't support the AC4 soundtrack even though my various trashy Android devices handle it just fine.
Ubiquiti Developer Charged with Extortion, Causing 2020 “Breach”
For non-production clusters, you may be able to play with ephemeral containers† if turning on the feature gate seems reasonable.

† https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/d...
Any open voting system is going to be under serious SEO pressure.

That’s the real issue, Google has indirectly infected the web with junk sites optimized for it. Any new search engine now has a huge hurdle to sort through all the junk and if it succeeds the SEO industry is just going to target them.

A more robust approach is simply pay people to evaluate websites. Assuming it costs say 2$ per domain to either whitelist or block that’s ~300 million for the current web and you need to repeat that effort over time. Of course it’s a clear cost vs accuracy tradeoff. Delist sites that have copies and suddenly people will try to poison the well to delist competitors etc etc.
Arbery, like Rittenhouse, was not the aggressor. Rittenhouse had a firearm to defend himself, Arbery did not. If Arbery was successful in taking the firearm from his assailants, self-defense would be a very viable claim.
I think they meant:

A1 = x * y + x
A2 = y * x + y
It'd be hard to do in the US as its not a tax. The 5th amendment is pretty clear stating "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.", Now that crypto is main stream the backlash would be immense and citizens have the 2nd amendment (in some states) to back it up.
Could have something to do with HN blocking VPNs & Tor. Multiple occasions where I wanted to comment anonymously only to find out my account was shadow banned.

Let's see if this comment will go through...
I get the appeal of making that joke; but that proves what? Because I am posting here can I also not get my other news from Facebook memes or something?
Why focus on the last 40 years as opposed to the last 4, 400 or 40000 years? Anyone can pick two convenient points on the timeline and argue that things got worse over that period, but larger trends are harder to overlook. Stock prices have fallen a bit this week compared to last week, and some stocks are doing worse than others. It doesn't mean the market generally hasn't been rallying for the last decade or so.
The article starts at the headline "It's in the Acting".
Anybody else find it very weird and off-putting that folks thought even talking about these issues would affect their careers? I mean, does that not speak volumes about the toxic professional atmosphere hollywood labors in?
All of this combined is still less "dark" than Chrome automatically combining Chrome logins with standard Google accounts, and logging you into the browser account whenever you log into your Google account.

To say nothing of things like FLoC, new web APIs that just so happen to be excellent ways to track you, neutering ad blockers, AMP integration, and so on.
There is a bigger group of users that care about how cute/fun/whatever their browser looks than the group of users that care about engine improvements and new technology support.
Three quarters of adults believe FB is making society worse[1]. Maybe a moral panic has taken hold of the world, or maybe the world has recognized that FB is the business equivalent of the Paperclip Maximizer, optimizing growth metrics with zero regard for actual human happiness and societal well-being. In any case, FB--er, Meta-- doesn't have a HN problem, Meta has a national public opinion problem.

1. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/10/business/cnn-poll-facebook/in...
This is not news on how vaccines work. Even the smallpox vaccine had this problem, difference is: nearly everyone got vaccinated.
The french pseudo-code reminded me of my freshman year in Computer Science degree, so much nostalgia! Completely forgot about all that since then, but I wonder if using your mother tongue to learn programming is truly effective, especially in non-English speaking countries?
On leaving Stripe, joining Chapter One, and making Web3 more user-friendly
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> Who on Earth would continue using a browser that has such hostile behavior and dark patterns all over the place

Every kind of technology today has clear and visible dark patterns. In the past it was advertisement everywhere and now it is user-hostile design. See any discussion about smart tv, subscription services, webshops, smart devices, phones, apps or any other technology topics and the issue of dark patterns will pop up. It is a race to the bottom, and I can see the rationale by Microsoft. They are doing the same thing as google is, just a slight step further.

If people switch to Apple then third-party browser must use iOS WebKit framework, and reportedly have their performance limited to make safari better in comparison. They could go linux but then people complain about a lack of polish and compatibility with programs/hardware that they use and so return back to either windows or mac.

As a person who have been working with computers for my whole life and used to be quite excited by new technology, it is quite often that I get tempted to become a farmer and leave behind the dark world of technology.
Ideally cryptocurrencies will disappear on their own before lots of people have lots of money tied up in them. Regulating them makes them appear safer than they actually are.
RE small images: advice like this always seems to ignore that Docker images are cached incrementally. If you build, say, a Go binary and then put it in a popular stock Debian or Alpine Docker image, pushing the final image to a registry will only transfer the diff over the network. The size of the diff is basically the compressed Go binary and doesn’t depend on the base image you’re using!

Then when you pull the Docker image onto a machine it’s likely the base image is already in cache so again it’s only the diff that is transferred.

It’s sometimes said this Alpine stuff is a premature optimization, but in most cases it’s not even an optimization.
Or we can just refuse to tolerate any censorship
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29404860

Not got round to trying it yet though.
That was an interesting read, I was not aware that we got this info from the horse's mouth.

Vivaldi has been criticized because it appears to phone home a lot. I've not tested that myself, but I assumed it was true. I might give it another shot because I do enjoy its Opera-like feel over Chrome or Chromium.
Tesla? Some companies are leaving California.
Also:

- get rid of bloated adtech (e.g. 6MB of adtech garbage from 60 domains for 20KB of text)

- remove all popups, slideovers, mailing list signup garbage, etc.

- get rid of autoloading/autoplaying video

- avoid bloated frameworks

- avoid external fonts
> To be honest, I don't get why some people go out of their way to cheerlead for their employers

Imagine for a second that you felt passionately about internet social networking - all the possibilities it represents and all the problems it solves. And, you then discovered that there was a company solving social networking problems and they pay really well. And, they hire you, pay you well for the kind of work that you want to do.

Then, maybe you'll cheerlead for your employer.

You could also choose to work for some other company that's doing amazing work and perhaps doesn't pay as well but is better aligned with your values.
I don't think that Otter Browser is based on Chromium.
My preference is an “H” shape setup using 3 2560x1440 monitors. Middle screen is landscape with a portrait screen on each side. Portrait is great for reading long code, slack, email threads. Landscape monitor is used for everything else.
GoldenDict – GPL Violation; Potentially Malware Version on Microsoft Store
I worked there until earlier this year, and often posted on HN while I was there.

The biggest reason you don't see comments from Facebook employees is exactly what others here have pointed out: HN is overwhelmingly negative in its attitude toward Facebook.

This leads to a super pragmatic reason not to post. If you post anything neutral or positive, you typically get downvoted a lot. If your comment somehow avoids going negative, then you get a ton of replies accusing you of being a paid shill, and people stalking you on other social media trying to "out" you as a shill. That's not fun and I assume it's enough to discourage most people from posting.

That being said, I used to post a lot about FB and still do, even when it gets me downvoted. I worked on recommendation ML and contributed to a bunch of different surfaces, so I think I have an unusually well informed perspective on how things actually work at FB and what sorts of processes/motivations lead to the negative outcomes that cause bad PR. I think FB has a lot of problems, but as an insider with no extreme political views, it was very difficult for me to convince myself that anything FB has done is morally wrong.

HN has some decent flamewar prevention automation to prevent me from spending too much time arguing here, so at the end of the day its a decent way to vent and represent an alternative point of view besides "FB bad Zuck evil".
replace AWS with <cloud provider> and every bullet point is still True.

Every website (the Internet) needs to be hosted. If not on a cloud provider, you are going to have to host it yourself, which is a ton of more work and more points of failure. For cloud providers, point of failure occurs if you don't pay them. When you are hosting yourself, there are tons of points of failure (electricity, maintenance, etc.)
I don't follow- Doesn't Vivaldi support any chrome extension?
You make a good point about software development in general, but I don't think it applies to things as fundamentally revolutionary as crypto. Sometimes system _do_ have to be completely re-thought from the ground up. I don't believe it's possible for our current financial systems to morph into an open network for storing and transmitting value (the internet of money as some call crypto).
As long as we're "howaboutin" let's talk about genetic diversity. DNA is self-replicating, self-repairing, etc. But what it doesn't do is create new information. With human procreation methodologies we lose bits of data, and just living life our data undergoes entropy. The outcome is less genetic information available every generation.

And one more "how about testosterone levels in men?" These have been falling for the last 60 or 70 years. Men in the West will be impotent by 2040ish at current rates of decline.
This reeks to me like a story tailor made to confirm the bias of people already distrustful of institutions. We've heard this narrative before. A conspiracy of government and powerful capitalists are censoring the science they don't want you to know. Its the exact same story-line as 5g towers cause cancer. I for one find it hard to believe that any biological system, the product of the harsh reality of evolution, would be as fragile as described. Before we go along distrusting the government, can we at least get some compelling reason to trust the random hn comment?
Markets have existed without empire overlords thoughout history though. Egyptians did not have to enforce trade rules to their neighbours, and despite whatever clashes everyone traded with each other in the mediterranean. It is exogenous rules that required the protection of an empire, such as the raids of pirates, or the threat from another empire. Since our current world order started after WW2, the governments have grown, but so have the monopolies, and we ve never seen them split, we just take them for granted after a while (e.g. mastercard/visa). In fact, if anything, government's role has been to pick the winners that better cooperate with them in order to ensure their mutual survival. It may be true that markets eventually do grow their own hierarchies, but this does not mean that imposing rules externally a priori is any good.
You can still do NLP without machine learning though, and a lot of the sorts of computational linguistics a search engine needs for keyword extraction and query parsing doesn't require particularly fancy algorithms. What it needs is fast algorithms, and that's not something you're gonna get with ML.
Hooray, custom profiles are now stable! This helps avoid rebuilds when toggling LTO and changing optimization levels.
User configurable themes is fantastic!

Look at Firefox now for an example of what happens when developers can introduce their "I know best" themes:

I constantly get confused and think the active tab is next to the actually active tab.

Irony is the idea behind removing actual themability seems to be to prevent people from seeing badly styled browsers, and yet this is the second most annoying one I am aware of. (Chrome annoys me more, not because it is bad but because I don't like Chrome ;-)
"To a large degree, we've just been lucky that they work, but it's neither obvious nor guaranteed that they will continue to do so."

While I agree that it's not obvious our current systems will continue to work, I don't think the system is born out of luck. The system is largely based on trial and error in the pursuit of what the majority wants. Yes, there are those with outsized influences and corruption at every level. However, if we look at history, we are moving slowly towards what we all want.
So aside the link to "the tyranny of structurelessness" (which I am about to read) the article is basically supporting it's own premise: distributed systems always go awry. I hate to be that guy but there's no proof of this at all. I can see it theoretically, you can never predict all behavior in a system, chaotic systems are unpredictable, etc. But there's no proof of the claim, and the article basically argues that it is true because it is true.
You were the one who said, "We do NOT need fucking removable storage to fix this," before going on to glory in punishment. If you now admit that punishment isn't enough, then presumably you now agree that we should do things beyond punishment to fix this.
> HN has a very clear anti-Facebook bias.

Is it a bias if it is a representative sample of coverage of the company from around the web?

Are there positive stories about the company being posted that somehow don’t make it to HN? I never, ever come across anything positive about the company - HN or elsewhere.

What’s the positive angle that we are missing?
Timing analysis is the main thing to worry about, if you're just looking to get some anonymous ETH such that people looking at the blockchain can't track it easily. Those difficult measures are not a requirement and can be ignored depending on your threat level.

And I don't know why are you talking to a strawman about a suitcase full of cash, etc. I just said that Tornado.cash offers privacy and that privacy is not always used for evil things.
> if MS wants to use shady cross-promotion tactics like Google, they should provide web services that justify the annoyance and do their cross-promotion there

So to have a successful browser you need to invest to have a visitor count rivaling the largest search engine, video platform, and online mail combined? I think that’s a very large hill to climb even for Microsoft. Your statement leads to only a Chrome hegemony. In terms of sites with Google’s reach, maybe Facebook could make their own browser but that’s about it.
I assumed this was breathless overstatement designed to hook the reader with some ‘forbidden knowledge.’ Not anything real.
Music software skinz can add some value, because they do not not directly compete with the content. Browsers not so much.
It does, but it calls it builtins instead

> B) To access CPU-specific instructions.

> It is possible that the reason gcc isn't generating the specific instruction you expected is that it is known to be slow, problematical, not supported on the processors you are compiling for, etc. But if there is a reason you need a specific instruction, gcc has builtins for many of the more useful ones. Using these in preference to inline asm allows gcc's optimizers to produce better code. However it is possible that an instruction is new enough or obscure enough that there is no builtin for it.
Very cool!

As a native speaker of Portuguese, I think it would look nicer the verbs were all in the same conjugation, simple present. You have "retornar" (return) which is in infinitive form and "escreva" write which is in the present imperative mode. I would choose to put all the verbs in the simple present:

retorna => return
faz => do
escreve => print

I couldn't find the Portuguese version for "break", but in my opinion it should be "quebra" or "interrompe".

If this project becomes open source, I'll be happy to contribute.
License to Ill: Havana syndrome and other “contested illnesses”
No container support? It was the most requested feature. I use vivaldi instead of brave when firefox fails to support website. But having no container is kinda sad :(
I'm really having issues with Microsoft now. It just seems to be one dark pattern after another in Windows 11.

They're not wrong about it being based on on the same renderer as Chrome, but that's about as far as it goes.

The worst thing is that Apple and Google do the same dark patterns and no one seems to care about them. For some reason, Microsoft didn't learn from the early 00s any lessons on how to do this kind of thing with any subtlety.

I have a Mac laptop and iPad, an Android phone, and I now run Linux on my PC and haven't booted into Windows 10 since May (checks uptime...). I don't think I have any reason to use Windows at home any more. The changes in Windows 11 are even more unappetizing. It feels like Windows Me, or Vista. The version no one asked for.
Elysium Industries Molten Chloride Salt Fast Reactor
Is this still true of v5?
If Vivaldi doesn't have a store, then they won't have the choice to follow Google because developers won't be able to make their Manifest V2 extensions available for download.
No I really thought it was spam!
Code doesn't actively resist your attempts to improve it.
Our broken institutions are fighting to protect their kingdom
Welcome to the new Microsoft. Same as the old Microsoft.
To put it in more clear terms, the problem right now we have with society is not centralization vs decentralization, global vs local, or even authority vs freedom. Rather, the configuration between the two opposites constitutes the totality of the whole system, and not just one side is either the poison or the cure. We need to change the whole system, both in terms of centralization and decentralization.

Our current neoliberal system allows for “freedom” as in freedom of the consumer, but in the most authoritarian, dehumanizing ways as possible. We have freedom as in which person to vote or what things to buy, but that freedom is frankly put, meaningless. The whole liberal framework of how we think about freedom has to be questioned and challenged, or else we are going to have more of those “freedoms” that rob ourselves more and more of actual human agency.
Wow. This is one of the most chilling things I've seen in a long time. So divorced from reality (suffering from TDS) that they're on the "war is peace, ignorance is strength"-level of delusion. They're the ones who have elected themselves as the arbiters of what is "fact", what is "truthful". Orwellian is underselling how insane this is.
Agreed, I don't plan to ever install it.
I agree but it's one of these crazy sounding ideas that could actually have a use case. Like the author says these are just distributed systems and 'decentralized' 'web3' is really just a sophisticated way of coming to agreement. I think there's a lot that people can build with tech like this, but it's no silver bullet.
I respect his effort but the project is 20 years old and yet not commercially successful? There must be a reason behind it. The project is not good enough. Like I said only innovation can displace Google. Innovation is not something new and different innovation is something better.
Oxygen therapy is generally safe, but has some known side-effects. These include a dry or bloody nose, tiredness, lung burn, and morning headaches.

The benefits of oxygen therapy in patients with COPD outweigh the modest risk of burn injury associated with home oxygen use. However, with the increasing number of patients being prescribed oxygen, health care professionals must educate and counsel patients regarding the potential risk of burn injury.

Patients with lung disease experiencing difficulty breathing can be treated with oxygen therapy. This involves the delivery of "extra" oxygen by a face-mask or through small tubes placed in the nose called nasal prongs. This extra oxygen can have concentrations as high as 100% pure oxygen. The concentration of oxygen in normal air is only 21%. The high concentration of oxygen can help to provide enough oxygen for all of the organs in the body. Unfortunately, breathing 100% oxygen for long periods of time can cause changes in the lungs, which are potentially harmful.

For your other conspiracy theories I need to prepare more data than just a simple academic search. For instance, are you aware that Bill Gates blocked open-sourcing the Oxford vaccine? Do you know why his wife divorced him? When dealing with possible misinformation, it is needed to keep an open mind. If you just say: it is 100% impossible for Bill Gates to have been involved in the pandemic-planning, pancorona-vaccine program which moved to China, and any coverup where he had more information about COVID than the public, but choose not to share for ulterior motives. Then it will remain a 100% no matter what. That's dogma, and it is misinformation for everybody else.
Sounds like you were spared an awful employment experience. If their recruiting process is this disorganized, imagine what your day to day will be like. In my career I've learned two lessons:

- verbal anything is worth less than 0
- Don't be the chaser, be the chased

As I've gotten older and more experienced, I've also started to reject interview processes I don't like or offer feedback if it didn't make sense. Obviously I only do this if the risk is low.
In my naive younger years, when Blu-Ray was being announced, I thought, "Hey, they could put the dialogue on one track, the music on another, and the foley business somewhere else, then you could mix those as you needed." Just put the baby down? Switch to dialogue, with only ten percent explosions and soundtrack.

(This of course would only be useful where you had original audio tracks)
Whats wrong with Solana? I don't know much about it at all, just curious