skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I remember Postgresql 8.3 as being the pivotal release that let us adopt it, and that came out in 2008 according to the internet. So yeah we are talking ancient history now.

Looking back at the release notes I can't believe how many of those features are critical to how I use PG today. Really some visionary work there.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/release-8-3.html

> With significant new functionality and performance enhancements, this release represents a major leap forward for PostgreSQL. This was made possible by a growing community that has dramatically accelerated the pace of development. This release adds the following major features...
This title seems a little clickbaity to be honest and I'm not sure how accurate the author's portrayal of Brave's server side is. Based on intuition I imagine the inability to install extensions has something to do with Chrome's locked down web store forcing Brave to make it's server-side act as a middle man to the chrome web to download and install extensions. Therefore this would be a google/chromium/intentional design flaw and consequence of prioritizing UI/Security over simplicity. If someone understands this better feel free to explain below.
By the authors of Sqlite. High quality code that is probably going to be around and well maintained for long. Not unimportant when using it as a personal knowledge system.
> * Why was it so easy for a lead engineer to get access to a root AWS user without anyone else being notified? I.e. AWS GuardDuty provides FREE alerting for when an AWS root IAM account is logged in or used, this account should be under lock and key and when used, confirmed and audited by relevant persons or teams.

I had never heard of GuardDuty so I got curious.
It doesn't seem like there's a free tier available for it: https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/pricing/
In fact at larger scales it seems pretty expensive even.
Yes, MHz, my mistake
> I don't see the problem for something that was just released as a very preliminary version

Fwiw the project os half a decade old.

> (Though I don't know where cp is getting "PermissionDenied" from)

Have not looked at the problematic code but e.g. copy_file_range(2) says

> EPERM fd_out refers to an immutable file.
Interesting spyware website, thanks. I see that some of the stuff that I saw on Reddit is actually true. I’ve stopped using Brave for about 6 months now, so far so good.rn I’m on chromium.

One of the reasons why I also quit this was because some problems with their rewards crypto programs. Basically, this content creator Tom Scott, makes great videos, tweeted some stuff about Brave explaining the issue. He says that Brave users who watched him or visited his website were encouraged to donate to him through the Brave rewards program, when in fact, Tom Scott had not signed up or agreed upon it. Several people donated misunderstandignly and Brave didn’t even say that Tom Scott was not on their crypto platform, refused to either refund the people who donated and thanks to this issue now any content creator who isn’t on their crypto platform has a small text below the crypto payment.
Most Linux users don't care if Linux succeeds in the mainstream. You're fighting an uphill battle if you need to get the general community on-board, and they literally just don't care.

Users who don't care, don't care because they went through the trouble of becoming Linux experts, and they had fun doing it. They don't care about anyone else's experience. In fact, maybe changing Linux to be more beginner-friendly will cause it to be less fun for this type of user.

The ones that DO care, overwhelmingly just want to see Linux "win" (whatever that means) without compromising a single thing about how Linux currently is (see the blowback against systemd, snap, flatpak, nvidia drivers, Ubuntu in general, System76 making a new DE in Rust, etc.)

The remainder of users who do care, just want to help people regain their privacy by leaving the big tech ecosystems. These users don't really care if Linux is hard to use, they will go to great lengths to maintain privacy. And they expect newly converted Linux users to do the same.

So if the userbase is hostile to what you want to do, what do you do? You can change the minds of the userbase (hard to do when everyone is so dogmatic), or you can expand the userbase and bring in a new segment of users who care about different things. Usability over privacy and "winning".

System76 is quietly doing this already. And that mirror's Drew's conclusion in this post. To make something with mass appeal, you'll have to charge money for it.
It's been done, although I doubt it's cost-effective. :D

https://youtu.be/At3xcj-pTjg?t=87
I think that's the ending of the story. Some drunkard buys it because he has decided to drink himself to death anyway.
uMatrix can do that, but it is unmaintained. uBlock Origin uses the same engine as it and probably can do that too.
I love this so much. My big feature request is to let me upload the podcast logo to display in the background. Otherwise, this is great!
Chrome is almost all open source and Sesse has worked at Google before. I'm pretty sure he knows what he's getting into.
In your opinion. Being someone who hates these autoplay videos on news sites I can also see that examples like OP's are a valid and when done well interesting new firm of story telling.

It is imho very valid to experiment with new forms of multimedia mixed stories.

And just because some people abuse features that enable this we should not try to stifle innovative ideas as a whole imho.

I just don't use sites that do this anymore. I mean the abusal part.
I read a lot of history books during the lockdowns, and it really illuminated for me how much of war boils down to logistics. You can’t expect to win battles without good logistics, but even if you do, your victories wont mean anything without good logistics. For instance Hannibal had basically defeated the Roman Republic at Cannae, but then spent the next 14 years meandering around Italy failing to reinforce or adequately resupply his army. Eventually leading to unconditional Carthaginian defeat. Much of the reason that neither the Ottomans or the Persians managed to properly defeat the other in their many wars came down to the difficult terrain that separates them cutting any advancing army off from proper reinforcements.
“ghost” is GitHub’s deleted user placeholder, not somebody affiliated with Ghostery.
Does Chromium track you as much as Chrome does?
Inconsolata, all the way.
Brave is a bit shady with its hard coded ad whitelist. That does not scream "user trust".
While that is a good point, it is quite unsightly to panic from unwrapping. Instead it should propagate that error back to the top level where a nicer error message can be generated.
I find it strange that on threads about Brave people promote Firefox and vice versa, whether it's a positive or negative article. Free software isn't a competition and if it were Mozilla lost to Chromium a long time ago.
> One of the crucial skills we have to learn in the digital age is to discard information.

For some things yes, for TV shows and movies eh. For roughly the price of a year of netflix you could get a 14TB hard drive, which would hold six continuous months of high quality 1080p video. It's also really easy to keep those things sorted with negligible clutter and wasted time.
Not at all. I was just giving a concrete example from my own experience to substantiate your point.
I never worked on Chrome directly, but I looked into the Chromium code sometimes when debugging some weird JS issues.

What strikes me first is how much code there is…

There are tons of code, some things copied multiple times, because Chrome nowadays does a lot of things; basically it’s an entire operating system, which accesses USB, runs assembly code, runs WebGL, basically all.

And it’s all in C++, and very verbose Google C++.

But in the end I always found what I was looking for there. And I can’t say how good or bad the C++ is, as I’m not C++ dev. Just there is a LOT of it.
The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices
I think it's at least worth having the discussion about "acceptable ads". While reasonable people can disagree, I personally think that unobtrusive advertising that doesn't harvest your data should be a valid business model.
It reports to anyone you want, typically though you would point it to an SNS topic which is ingested by any other service, group or end point you wish.
Would be great to go back to the gold standard.
Drinks sweetened with Stevia may be ok. I guess each person has to experiment. I've read that artificial sweeteners alter the gut flora in a bad way.

Spices - I meant dried form powdered spices. Yes n=1. I found this out when I read of cinnamon benzoate free diet used to treat other conditions.

I went from drinking a lot of coke / soda / fruit juice drinks to the natural progression of cutting back on sugar. I kept drinking sugar free versions of various drinks for a long time. I then cut them completely as they had a negative effect for me. If you drink one, it's not obvious and may not be an issue. Drinking those things every day... maybe some people are ok but eventually my body rejected that.

Water, tea, coffee are ok in my experience..

I am not claiming a cure, I added suggestions to include with the parent posters advice that I found helpful. As always work with your doctor and follow their advice.
> Productivity plummeted with every project. It was as if every owner of every project had left the team every quarter.

This only generally happens if you have an environment where every project is a snowflake and the ramp-up time per project is thus high. If you standardize on a stack, then the internal organization of your codebases starts to look pretty similar, and there's less for people to ramp up on when they switch projects. Kill resume-driven-development at your company.
Use busybox instead.
OK, fair enough, you may need to keep IE6 in a VM somwhere for that.
IIRC it's because some of the default settings were chosen back when RAM was measured in MB and low GB and not really updated. work_mem, for example, can typically be safely set to several times its default of 4MB, which then allows individual operations to use more memory before spilling over into temporary files on disk.

Of course, that particular example really only matters if you're actually hitting the 4MB limit in your queries, but I think there were some other settings with similar too-low defaults.
It's important to consider the durability of leather products. IME, good quality natural leather products easily last 3-4x longer than alternatives.

The tanning process isn't exactly environmentally friendly, but it doesn't have to be if it can reduce overall consumption by enough.
Interrupts vs polling hardware is in the OS.

Regardless of how the OS handles IO, user code can either poll the OS or have the OS wakeup a thread when there's a change, such as data for a blocking call.
Sure let's all just sit around and get weak and fat.

Are you for real?
SCP is basically just Consolas with one scan line in the middle dropped.
Now I think I understand the subtlety, thanks! The induction part is important here because we start from n=1 (where the assumption is not as obviously questionable as for n in general, because it’s coincidentally/degeneratively true in relation to our reasoning) and then the “base error” allows us to generalize into a bigger mistake.
This is why loans, except out of pure charity and nothing expected in return other than the principal, are immoral and cause chaos and destruction as we've seen time and time again. There's a reason Islam prohibits money lending with interest. Same with Judaism and Christianity before they got corrupted.
Easy, install Edge.

https://therecord.media/microsoft-silently-enables-super-dup...

Although I guess this isn't the answer you're looking for.
TL;DW the equipment is empty as it is just like a fancy light switch, an ardiuno hack could replace it, it's all the car's job to negotiate the power it needs. The cost is in the installation.
Others might need to use a fitness tracker for external motivation even if you don't. Extrapolating from your experience of one is rarely useful (as I tried to demonstrate with my comment).

On top of that, other reasons are obvious from any review on them (health monitoring, sleep tracking, notifications integration, goal tracking...).
> this person doesn’t even consider Firefox

* Firefox main income is the competitor, Google

* Firefox sent telemetry to Google servers after first start

So am I, it doesn't feet in my degoogled life.
Once you ban money lending with interest, this is automatically solved.
Right. Humans don't have a blood oxygen sensing system; you can be trained to recognise the signs of hypoxia (as divers, military pilots, and astronauts are), but there's no physiological alarm for it.

This has resulted in many accidental recreational and commercial deaths, where e.g. divers hyperventilate beforehand to extend their time underwater (purging more CO2, so they can stave off that chest-crushing feeling of needing to breathe right now) which leads to blackout and drowning because you ran out of oxygen before the high blood CO2 sensing kicked in, or someone walking into an inert gas storage tank to perform maintenance (mistakenly believing that it had been purged), and just dropping on the spot and asphyxiating with no warning.
Old Topaz as used on the Amiga
While it is technically proprietary I'll ask you to read their statement [0] on the matter. The absolute majority of the code base is open.

[0]: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/
Spot on points here. I love it how everyone i know with a fitness tracker always talks about there 10k steps for a few months and it fades off into oblivion. Like taking steps matters when your holding your phone in envey of whatever the alrogithm feeds you.

Sport will not perpetuate human existence. It was originally created to keep humans in shape for hard the graft of living off the land. Just look at any aboriginal culture, they knew they had done enough steps today when they had enough food.

The fitness tracker was created to make you feel better about being taken for a ride (in life). For those who needs affirmation from their peers that they arnt wasting there life away working for a whatever click bait porn floats onto there device next.

20 yrs from now? we already have big piles of ewaste everywhere.

I once interviewed for a startup making bluetooth diapers for old folks ~2013.

My recommended fitness tracker is to turn off all your devices and go outside into nature at every opportunity. Find a company who will let you be a remote developer and start living for today.*
Mikrotik?
I wasn't intending to imply it is (tbh I internalized that as common knowledge), my intended point is the issue with this Ghostery recommendation was created by some random unknown and presumably unrelated Github user.
It may take a while, however. 15-20 years ago, you kind of had to use Python on the sly in the scientific setting vs the incumbents (MATLAB, C++, Fortran). Julia seems to be in a similar phase.

That being said, Python does have some structural advantages since it positions itself as a universal glue. It's much easier to gain a critical mass in that regard vs a niche area like scientific or numerical computing. That being said, Julia is probably underrated in general purpose usage.
Advertising shits in your head.
Interrupts vs hardware polling is in the OS. I'm writing about how user code gets "data ready" from the OS, which is independent of how the OS handles hardware.
Apologies, I did read it wrong.

I'm sorry to hear it hasn't worked out for you so far. I hope you find some relief in the future, it's a hell of a disease.
Britain has much to learn from Singapore’s staggering economic success
In most recreational states, cannabis is taxed heavily at every step in the supply chain, so the highest quality still ends up being very expensive -- upward of $400/oz. The black market has the exact same quality at the wholesale price, typically 40-60% less than retail, with the added bonus of not having the government involved. For a daily or heavy smoker, a ~50% discount is a massive amount of money.
This is about as confusing as it can get. Avoid sugars but also eat fruit regularly? Don't use spices but also add garlic?
In theory, in practice videos can be rendered on the fly into image or canvas elements, either via JavaScript or WebAssembly. :)

Or even better, endless server stream for an animated gif.
http://www.dolekemp96.org/news/releases/proct0796a.htm

"When users first visit the site, they are given the option of setting up a custom Dole Web page. Each custom page contains a personal tool bar that welcomes the user by name, alerts them to an electronic "In Box" containing any new press releases or other campaign materials posted since their last visit, directs them to briefing papers on issues in which they expressed interest, and offers a home-state icon for local information about the Clinton record and the Dole agenda in that state."

Ahead of its time for sure
I think you're commenting on the wrong Show HN here :)
Well they're being hosted on Mozilla's servers so no but FF doesn't in any way require a connection to Mozilla's servers to function.
Oh yeah, and that's why a handful of subreddits are still good resources. You go in and ask "what's the best exercise bike" and the top comment will say "just buy used locally."
Speaking as a user, not a developer, I miss Flash because I had control over it. I could turn off "autoplay" everywhere with a global setting, turn it back on on a case by case basis, and the website owners couldn't do anything to stop me.
Static pictures or text, no JS, and nothing more is such a big change for current ads people they can't even comprehend it.
This is quite a simplistic view. Slavery in its milder forms (buying and selling people along with land, restrictions on movement etc.) was widespread in Europe up until 19th century. There has not been a homogeneous class of “white people” who universally benefited from slavery. Secondly, there is a distinction between considering something “evil” and “unnatural”. My ancestors clearly hated the German landlords but, at the same time, clearly saw the situation as something quite natural. After all, it had been the fact of the matter for 600 years. This is further evidenced by the fact that it took more than a century of gradual awakening to actually realize an alternative social structure. So, by the standards of about 200 years ago slavery in these parts was certainly not seen as desirable by the slaves but quite certainly as something “normal”.
wait, does mariadb randomly lose data? if youre writing a message service, is it bad practice to store each message individually, one row per message? or clump them together?
Yep. All the people refusing the vaccine due to misinformation are not rich wallstreet folks, it’s the less educated of our society. Those are the people suffering and losing their family members because Covid is devastating their community.
Unfortunately I still see too many people use Adblock plus and the like which leads me to believe ublock origin lacks some sort of name or brand recognition with your average user
It took me awhile to realize that San Francisco is not suspending a video game called CannabisTax 2.
You missed the punchline:

> However, it is designed for me: a professional, expert-level Linux user. I am under no illusions that it is suitable for my grandmother
Threat of violence is the only true currency, the final turtle at the bottom of all other currency turtles.
Apple, Sony and Nintendo are quite happy with it.

FreeBSD and clang communities, maybe not so much.
For example, the text advertisements on the side of Advent of Code. It wouldn't feel right to block those.
Then let people who believe that go stare at ads. Submitting yourself to manipulation out of a sense of duty to the viability of a business model is deeply weird. Alternatively, if you believe those ads don't affect you then why does it matter whether they're displayed in your browser or not?
It's always shocking to me when otherwise good programmers, smart people, can repeat such obvious tritenesses. He managed to fit two into this sentence:

1) "Linux is one of the best operating systems for professional programmers and sysadmins"

2) "Windows programmers: the object of well-deserved ridicule"

I'm sure DD can't back up either of these claims with logic. Probably a case of playing to one's audience a bit too much.
It's where it used to be from the start ironically for most of these resort towns.
Setting can be disabled, and for example the debian build comes without telemetry.
> there's no way we'd approach this as a complex multi factor and multi opinion problem.

No country I’m aware of really nails free and fair elections. There’s always some kind of third party acting as gatekeeper that makes it difficult or impossible for absolutely any candidate to win who the electorate might want. But, countries fall on a spectrum of how well they approximate this ideal. It’s pretty clear that an electoral system like in HK where all the candidates are chosen by the one party allowed to rule is way to one extreme of the spectrum; the opposite side to free and fair! There’s no hand waving this away with calls for inappropriate nuance.
I know, the link I refer to is original uBlock origin repo talking about that and suggest to use couple of alternative where Ghostery lite is one of them.

And was approved and even pinned.
It was a surprise to me, but there is a group of people - possibly native to tech circles, possibly a broader group - who appear to be genuinely angry about the existence of advertising as a thing. Let alone if they personally have to view ads.

It is a bit confusing to be honest. There seems to be something very upsetting happening but exactly what is causing that response I can't pick out.
That doesn't sound paranoid to me, especially as the US government has relied on the old "he made a mistake with his VPN" explanation before (against a target that is much better funded):

https://www.wired.com/story/guccifer-elite-hackers-mistakes/
I just tried Chrome after jumping on FireFox bandwagon 2 years ago and honestly, I was not impressed. Chrome feels “jittery” while Firefox feels “snappy”. It’s the way a page loads. Hard to describe.

Firefox is the top choice for me. I recommend it properly and not just for the sake of supporting Firefox. That said, please support Firefox. We should not be allowing Big Tech behemoths from taking away the window into the internet.

If I were to complain to Firefox team - please stop adding shit, I don’t want Pocket, I don’t want anything but just the way it currently is. Just allow us to browse. Fast.
> For a lot of people 10 dollars a month isn't cheap.

I'm aware of this, but you need to keep in mind that we were one of the largest wikis on Wikia (in the top 30 iirc). That's the only reason it cost $10/month.

Most of the wikis on Wikia were tiny, got small traffic, and could have probably been hosted with mine on my VM without even affecting mine.
I think this has strong NFT potential. wagmi.
You click on the comments without clicking on on the article, to determine that it probably isn't worth your time
This is a common theme with non-profits and open source projects. They see the for-profit incumbents doing something toxic and cargo cult it like not providing a similar experience would betray the users when it's really the opposite.
I switched to firefox after NEVER using it before when google started forcefully logging me in.

Honestly, i havnt missed it all. Firefox on mobile is awesome - plugins work! Plus, no longer does google know where i am anymore. Its ability to track and suggest ads to me is pathetic.
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