skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It asks 23 questions, then asks for an email address to send an analysis. I waited 20 minutes and no summary got sent. This makes me believe it's a waiting list collecting email addresses. No privacy policy or contact link.
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This is a great example of the challenges browser developers face: when something breaks, people often blame the browser since that's the thing they remember most recently changing but it's far more often that it's something the remote website pushed out which isn't visible to the user.
> multi-account containers are the only major feature I could name that makes a major difference.

And for me, that's a key difference. Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, all garbage --- staying logged into several AWS SSM sessions in different accounts at the same time w/ full features, logged into several paypal accounts at once etc etc etc. The containers fix so much of web dumbness that they've become indespensable in my workflow, both at work and at home. Unless the other browsers have feature parity regarding MAC, they are not even among the competition.
Kazakhstan turns into graveyard for US diplomacy
Algae has plenty of B12. Also, this is a vitamin deficiency, compared to obligate carnivores like cat that can’t digest plants. It is a significant difference between the two.
We can apply this to the present day too.

Take a huge city like New York or Los Angeles or London or Tokyo. You think of investment bankers, celebrities and entertainment industry execs, or other hotshot professionals.

But underneath all that glamor are the waiters, the cooks, the janitors, the security guards, the sanitation workers, etc. etc. who are often overlooked. But the city would utterly fall apart without them.
With the expectation from American companies to always be growing, it’s inevitable for them to end up kowtowing to the Chinese market, even at the expense of all other markets.

I would like to see recognition from American shareholders that not only is expanding to China bad for the product but it also undermines our cultural values vis a vis problematic manufacturing.
I believe you meant git@github.com
The MNAME field of the SOA record isn't actually used in DNS resolution so it could contain useless garbage. Recurring from the root as described by the blog post is the only correct way to determine a domain's authoritative servers.
> I credit Christianity with the invention of proselytizing; religions before it (including Judaism, its immediate parent) were content to stay with a given tribe and not try to spread.

The credit would be misplaced. I'm pretty sure by the time Jesus was born, there had been an almost incalculable number of conquests and pogroms for some deity or the other.
CCP may arguably control the world's largest consumer market. That is debatable when considering the European Union as a single market or even India. Considering either consumption level or sheer number of consumers, it is not entirely clear that China is the world's largest consumer market.

But, let's presume that it is. CCP simply does not allow genuine access to sell goods or services. There is a reason why Google and Facebook and so many other dominant companies are practically non existent in China.

So the benefit of access to a supposed largest consumer market that is heavily restricted to foreigners seems largely inconsequential. Is this a wrong interpretation?
Looks like the Surface Laptop SE is pretty repairable if you can source parts, much better than the Surface Pro and Surface book series which is pretty much glued together, making it virtually impossible for novices to take apart without causing further damage.
Laravel provides structure to PHP apps. It includes a terrific router (Symphony) and a slew of functions missing or clumsy in PHP.
> Twitter mobs could be used for good once.

But you need your iPhone 13 Max (I know, Apple, not Intel) to virtue signal on Twitter though. It's much easier to just complain about Western colonialism or something.
> Tens of millions of people around the world now use free software; the public schools of some regions of India and Spain now teach all students to use the free GNU/Linux operating system. Most of these users, however, have never heard of the ethical reasons for which we developed this system and built the free software community, because nowadays this system and community are more often spoken of as “open source,” attributing them to a different philosophy in which these freedoms are hardly mentioned.

So much of Stallman’s writing gets bogged down in an apparent need to be credited. “GNU/Linux” and “free software” are prevalent examples. At this point it sounds pedantic, as if he cares more about the name (and being acknowledged) than the philosophy. By his own admission, the practical difference is minute. It doesn’t require over three thousand words of rambling.

> In practice, open source stands for criteria a little looser than those of free software. As far as we know, all existing released free software source code would qualify as open source. Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions.

Ideas are separate from communication, and Stallman does a subpar job on the latter. The Free Software Foundation should consider someone else as its representative. Or at least get him an editor.
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I live in Minneapolis too, and while I absolutely agree with you that Minneapolis is still a very safe city, there's no doubt that crime has gone up in the last year--for example, the murder rate in the Twin Cities has definitely gone up: https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2021/12/09/st-paul-h...
Troubleshooting mode might have been useful for diagnosing what was making Firefox slow:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues...
I'd be using both my primary machine and the streaming one in parallel (on two monitors, using synergy as a kvm), the primary one for browsing, music, git and chat. Seamlessly moving mouse, keyboard and clipboard between setups beats having to switch users back and forth all the time.
> We’ve also significantly reduced main-thread load.

Good.

Still waiting for a message about "fixed the extension API".
NoDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is back
> Designed by Intel in California™

Soon even that will be outsourced to China. It will be replaced by:

Financed by Intel in California™ or Marketed by Intel in California™
You're not wrong. I've seen subreddits do it though and it worked really well. You can always alter the "suggestion" before submitting
wow, ty!
> h.root-servers.net is one of the 13 DNS root nameservers,

You can also find all current root nameservers by running

dig ns .

Since all domains end with a terminating '.' / are descendants of the DNS root '.', even though browsers obscure it.
Executive pay does not follow the product's success. It follows the broader market for executives.

If it followed the product's success, products that are going through a bad patch, or are going downwards, would not be able to attract good executives, when arguably they are the ones who need the best executives, relative to products that are doing well, which on many occasions can sustain themselves purely on momentum.

This is further complicated for non profits which cannot use ownership stakes as an incentive either.
That called my attention too. Does that mean Firefox runs code specifically on Gmail?
That's awesome, for me an easy repairable/upgradeable device is a big plus. Only being able to change the battery can increase the lifespan of the device hugely.

Kudos to MS and I hope this trends will pick up with other vendors as well.
Because there they are part of a bigger discussion around the web, chrome, and browser engine diversity. Browsing is a difficult problem and the existing solutions do not satisfy big part of the audience here.
The website has an easy UI and the functionalities are quite easy to learn.
Because now you agree while signing up to Googles services that Google can and will screw you over with online update at any time it feels like it and you have absolutely no legal expectation that your Google toy will still work tomorrow? Let alone have any of the features you bought it with?
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Sure. But the buck stops with the corporation's board, or with the CEO that they appoint.

And corporations aren't free to break the law, even though that diffusion of liability should be at play in that case, too.
But ... SQLite is "just a file and a library".
The CO2 cost is low though. You don’t need to fire coal and gas power plants when it’s dark and not windy.
> The Developer UX is so much better with coroutines and just as scalable as asyncio (async/await).

The sad thing is, this was all known because Twisted had been around for years before they made the decision to add async/await. Deferreds, waiting for deferreds, callbacks, deferred semaphores [1]. Not to mention the bifurcated state of libraries, a few supporting Twisted and most not supporting it. And then, when gevent/greenlet/gunicorn came around it was like a breath of fresh air. I remember the day I replaced all the Twisted stuff with a monkeypatch snippet + gevent with a good 20% of code reduction with all the boilerplate gone. And then, Python 3 rolled around and it all came back in the form of async/await.

By that point I moved on to a different ecosystem (BEAM VM Elixir/Erlang) so haven't followed much what was happening. But just point out, you're not the only one who noticed it. I remember commenting on it some years ago as well [2]

[1] https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.inte...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12831271
Honest, if difficult, questions:

Is there any benefit to legalized pornography that outweighs the horror of things like this?

Does the amount of bureaucratic scaffolding and invasive surveillance by corporate and government actors required to police the boundary of consensual and non-consensual pornography leave you substantially more free than just punishing platforms which permit the dissemination of pornographic images?
The most frustrating part of using Google these days (for me anyhow) is Google returning results that don't match terms that I specifically wrap in quotes. If I search for:

"gamakatsu octopus hooks"

I expect to only receive results for that. Instead I get bombarded by results that match a portion, or when Google thinks I tangentially might have meant something else. There was a time when it respected the quote characters, but those days have long since passed.
> Almost no one really understands asyncio

I'd very much like a source for that, because I don't feel like it's very hard to understand.

> syntax like "async def" and "async with" makes you feel like you do, and stuff like FastAPI encourages you to type "async"

FastAPI's docs tell you to use "def" if you don't know what you're doing. [1] says "If you just don't know, use normal def."

It's also pretty simple, I think. If your function blocks, use "def", and let FastAPI run it in a thread pool to avoid blocking the event loop. If it doesn't block, use "async", and take advantage of concurrent execution without needing a new thread.

[1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/
> Either way we're just humans on a ball of dust encircling a tiny spark that's going to go super nova anyway. Who cares. Math is suppose to make sense. Morality is not.

You can justify just about anything with that perspective.
I think you're thinking of the URLs like git@github.com:<owner>/<repo>.git
It's easy to know what's best for yourself. It's not so easy to know what's best for your children. It's much harder to know what's best for another adult in your tribe. It's practically impossible to know what's best for someone outside your tribe.

So, I would say it is very unwise to claim to know what's best for someone outside your tribe. When you're worrying about them like that, you're assuming you know what's best for them. It's not just about empathy, it's about letting people live their own lives. There's nothing inherently wrong with worrying about them but you can't change them and you shouldn't even want to IMO.
That would be the problem if 1. firefox only had a _literal_ handful of users (rather than 100s of millions), or 2. if any browser was _that_ good at anti-fingerprinting.

But at the moment which browser you use is nowhere near as powerful in identifying you as the rest of the huge fingerprinting surface available.

Fingerprinting currently gives pretty much everyone a unique fingerprint in almost every browser, so even if only 100 people managed to share a fingerprint, that would already be a big success. Firefoxes relatively low usage share doesn't currently add up to any real significance in the fingerprinting calculus.
This reminds me of 'ode to a near pointer' about flat real mode in a very old diskmag (imphobia). I was never able to find it again unfortunately...
These could be useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_gain_control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_suppression_and_cancellat...
It's also a better life than what most animals have in the wild. The wild isn't some fairytale happy place; it's a place of hunger, fear, brutality, pain and disease.

It reminds me of the old saying: "they overexaggerated the aggressiveness of European wolves, they're only dangerous when hungry". Ok, so did European wolves just go to the shop to buy food when hungry?
> Who changes authoritative nameservers for a domain?

Anyone who has just bought a domain, or anyone who is changing their hosting to a new provider.
This audience is at a particular peak of glibness and superficiality this week. It's interesting to think about what kind of place it would be if there were a couple artificial norms of decorum, like "no swearing" (I'd find that difficult to adhere to, at least at first). It might be better; sometimes rules like that can subtly remind people that there's a minimum threshold of thoughtfulness required before chiming in.
> To what extent are Intel chips designed and manufactured in China? Presumably, they are primarily designed in the USA and manufactured in Taiwan.

Intel has fabs all over the world, including many in the US and some in China[1]. Whenever people talk about chip manufacturing they seem to only think about high-end cutting edge processes, when in fact the majority of quantity of chips produced are at non-cutting edge fabs that are spread all over the world and made by many companies that you haven't heard of, but also Intel.

However this was never about Intel manufacturing chips in Xianjing, it was about the long long tail of supply chain that goes into these ships from mines through to chemical supply companies up to industrial machinery supply and everything in between.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
If the person can rick roll them, he can put up a YouTube video explaining they are compromised and with instructions on how to fix the vulnerability, and then play it.
I have a 10 year old T420S with a new battery. Im _really_ interested in screen replacements as the original screen is pretty weak.
I'm pretty sure I can, as long as I'm not selling it. A patent doesn't ban an object from existence.
UI to do that seems awfully basic.
Nobody outside the US uses iMessage or SMS.
If it covers even a dozen different trivial choices then the end result is extremely narrow.
It is a good idea if your tax aythority and law like it.
And this happens when the Chinese economy is still smaller than the US along with their lack of mastery in certain state-of-the-art semiconductor and aerospace tech. When the Chinese economy and tech hopefully match the US, the pressure gonna be enormous. Can't wait to see that day, my newsfeed will be so exciting.
They can already do that. They've always been able to do that. Consent circumvents nearly all legal protections.
So when flying to canada resumes, the Dutch airline gets all the business because Air Canada “lost” its slots.

(I’m assuming airlines own slots and not routes).
Out of curiosity, is this available in multiplayer, and if so, which physical machine is the "host"? Is it the Minecraft server or is VM execution somehow replicated on the clients (first player that enters an unloaded chunk?)?
The HTML5 specs are to some extent code disguised as human language. E.g. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#user-activation-processing-mod...
True, being a libertarian does disincentivise looking at systems and systemic effects because the biggest system we live in is capitalism and the systemic analyses that have already been done on it don't paint the prettiest picture.
Bay Area housing is fucked in more ways than you might think
This is actually a misnomer for the most part. While it is true that analog TV degrades gracefully to static and digital cuts out, Digital actually requires a lot less signal to noise to display. When digital cuts out it's actually at much lower signal levels then when analog tv is basically static. I will concede that the analog audio inside the signal is more robust, humans are very good at picking out sound from static.
The tendency to link the 'addiction' tag to every undesirable human behavior is a common trend, but it's worth remembering what actual physical addiction to a substance is: a biochemical response to the introduction of a foreign substance into the body, that results in withdrawal symptoms when said foreign substance is removed. If there are no withdrawal symptoms, there is really no addiction involved.

What the author of this piece calls 'addiction to righteousness' can also be described as 'obsession with outrage porn' or 'wanting to get triggered'. It's an easy fix for the addict to obtain - anyone suffering this malady can just scroll Twitter or Reddit etc. until they find something that does the trick. Then they can add their voice to the chorus of condemnation or commiseration and get the biochemical stimulus they were craving, most likely a dopamine reward. Note that the story they're reacting too doesn't even need to be true, and I always assume at least 50% of the 'anonymous personal testimonials' on social media are just fabricated stories put out for the upvotes (upvote addiction being rather similar).

One way out of that trap is to 'buffer' all the social media information you get, i.e. assume everything is untrustworthy, and if only it's something you think you're really interested in, something worth spending time on, only then move it to the 'active' folder, and do some work to verify the information is actually reliable.

Warning: outrage addicts might suffer some withdrawal from the dopamine release effect if they do this. Long-term mental health will likely improve, however.
I think of Accelerando sort of the same way I think of Snowcrash. They're both just avalanches of mind candy barely contained by enough thin narrative to pretend they're novels.

They're both incredibly fun reads, but awful fiction. Both authors got significantly better at the craft with practice, although one of them still seems to have an ideological aversion to endings.
> May or June to August

Well, that's fairly short by U.S. standards, at least when counting 20+ C weather, which in many states is nearly 6 months of the year, with summer heat lasting well through September in many places.

Even places south of Norway, like Netherlands, still considered pretty far north for many in the world, have relatively 'short' summers as well.
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> having performed a bait and switch

I don’t think getting sued and losing is bait and switch.
Usually both sides of arguments both have truth to them and the way to objective truth exists via trying to understand why both sides believe what they do.

Athiesm seems like the objective rational truth.

But why do billions of people believe in an invisible man in the sky?

What is the objective truth that we can learn from that?
According to your source, it's above where it was pre-pandemic. And mid-pandemic, when interest rates were arguably the lowest, is when it peaked at 85%.

FRED is a better source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N

It even has a chart [=

I guess to the author's point - HH debt to GDP was much higher before 2008 when interest rates were much higher.

However, lowering interest rates recently coincided with a DRAMATIC increase HH debt (the largest jump on the chart by far).
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> * exceptions apply for key governmental employees.

If government employees are exempt, where would they get the evidence needed to blackmail each other into maintaining the system.
> This may seem small, but having the operating system and all major applications constantly demanding updates and restarts is getting really distracting.

Because of the nature of vulnerabilities and software patches, that's not really possible. You pretty much need patches every few weeks to avoid getting exposed to vulnerabilities. That said, you can get ESR/LTS versions of software to keep the amount of non-security changes from breaking your workflow. For firefox this means switching to firefox ESR release.
I wonder if the cold start will ever be fully fixed. Because most other services would seem to be made redundant then.
It is possible to upgrade to IPS display in a T420. This is a starting point. It needs a special controller card and ofcourse an upgraded screen.

https://www.curlybrace.com/words/2020/11/24/thinkpad-t420-ip...

https://www.amazon.com/1080p-1920X1080-Upgrade-thinkpad-Cont...
Having not seen the Web Locks proposal before, it feels like a mistake. The ease of using the API combined with the intricacies of locking feels like substantial misuse is guaranteed (especially in a language dominated by learners).

We've only recently seen languages capable of being smarter about preventing concurrency issues at compile time, and JavaScript is not ready.

I suppose it could be nice to have, but I'm almost certain I'd be searching for ways to solve my problem in other ways before reaching for this.

Edit: The lock is acquired via a string as well - I'm sure that'll never collide in a third party library...
If you only have a single implementation of a standard, you don’t have a standard.
> “If this works, there will be an endless supply of these organs for patients who are suffering,” said Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, scientific director of the Maryland university’s animal-to-human transplant program.

Which means we now think we have the right to kill as many pigs we want not only the eat them but to extract their organs to make humans live.

Is this really that different from just killing a random healthy human being to save other humans who need a transplant? We somehow think we are superior than any other animal in earth and have the right to do whatever.
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> I hear what you're saying, but bait is the best way to catch fish. If you want to go fishing for racists, it's best to use race bait.

The point is that it's not exactly news that at right wing rallies you can find racists. It's not exactly award winning journalism in my opinion.
How does it seem clear to you? What's the mechanism through with Molnupiravir creates new CoV mutations?
This isn't true anymore, and fails like one who has nothing to hide doesn't need privacy pattern. Consumer habits have become a commodity since Google personalized ads and more dangerously Facebook. Each individual's habits may not be worth much, but collectively it's the whole enchilada these days.
I haven't seen Firefox asking me about an update for ages. It just does it in the background and on next start-up it is updated.
Does the moral situation change if I the seller make you agree not to tamper with the product before I sell it to you, and you do so?