skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use ublock and have setup a dns blocker through openwrt and have even added my own items to the blacklist. I am astoundished how much traffic leaves my machine "just sitting there".

At this point my blocklist has something like 77.614 domains blocked and I do not believe that its going to get less.

what is intersting is that I grew up with the uncensored internet and the things i found are not on the list of things that I definitly will block for my children.

Its kind of the opposite approach of a censored web for children because to be honest im not so much worried about their activities, but far more concious of the bad actors out there.
Quick and easy in the sense that the overall impact to society would be minimal. Contrast that to giving up fossile fuels in large scale for example. Or any other change that would have similar impact.

The whole point of making the argument for veganism is to make people understand that they can, and indeed should, make this change. Even if in small steps.
I don't use any "ad blocker" plugins, but I do use EFF's Privacy Badger, which blocks all cookies it determines are tracking cookies. Many websites deduce it'ss blocking their ads, because they're addicted to tracking us, but I feel no guilt. I wouldn't risk browsing without it.
The resulting wafers are shipped somewhere else to be taken apart and packaged. So there’s no value in being close to the factory.
not everyone likes Roku interface, and not everyone wants to or can plug in something on the back of the tv
Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO
Yes. At least you can get the same noise figure measurement gear for a couple of orders less magnitude expense now though :)
> But will "Manifest V3" tip things back to unbearable? We'll see.

Switch to Firefox now before Firefox market share dips to the level where publishers can justify not supporting it and you're stuck with only crippled adblocking forever?
> I honestly wonder if the Fed knows that the only way out of the current predicament is to cause large scale inflation such that incomes and earnings "catch up" to asset prices. Playing the current situation forward a couple things could happen.

I lived through periods of hyperinflation and constant high inflation, and in neither case income "caught up" with asset prices - in fact they made things much worse, throwing tons of people in absolute poverty.

Where has this worked as a solution, historically?
"Not scrolling" isn't a useful metric, you can make it say whatever you want it to say. On my small screen phone I see 1 result entry without scrolling, on my large screen desktop I see all 10 result entries. If I feel one way about the issue I can grab my phone and claim "I see nothing but ads without scrolling!" even if it's a single ad while if I feel another way I can go to my desktop and claim "the vast majority of results shown on screen after searching aren't ads" even if there are 3.

The former is a firey way to say "an ad is shown at the top" and the latter a dismissive way to distract from how many ads there are, neither actually talks to the state of the number of ads despite what their wording implies.
I have found `use-package`, some hooks and some modules with provide/require are enough. These Emacs distribution come and go and I'm not sure doom Emacs will be there in 15 years. Also while they are good at providing something coherent for newcomers they just get in the way if I need to fix something. It's similar to the debate frameworks versus libraries. I'm just looking at them for inspiration sometimes and taking the good parts.
It was a fee to be included in the directly, not placement. I bought that "directory listing" aka hire PR paid link for many clients.
I'm in some weird Facebook limbo where I get zero ads (native app, browser with adblock turned off, etc.) Please don't tell Mark

My wife is blown away when she sees my feed. It's like we've been using completely different apps for years.
I challenge your assertion that between 3-5% of people disagree. Would you stake your life on that claim or is that simply more fake news you are spreading without verifiable sources?

As for Joe Rogan and his controversial guests, one was Dr. Peter McCullough, the most widely published cardiologist in the world. He brought many claims to the podcast - all included citations and verifiable sources - from his grand rounds slides.

Did you watch the podcast so you could criticize it intelligently or are you purely spewing hate based on what you read/heard in MSM? Seems the latter.
Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials
And before that
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/cable-sabotage/
Less meat and/or more expensive meat is an entirely different argument than the one made. If the people posting against meat consumption, including the one I responded to, would raise that message I would have no reason to argue. But it is not the argument made. The one made pretty much always is an extremist one that just like this one above leaves out a lot and makes its argument based on extreme assumptions of a system nobody wants to defend (well, maybe those making money in it).

I myself could no longer eat even a modest size steak, even top quality. I eat mostly plants, and some meat. So cutting back on meat substantially is certainly something I can get behind. But the extreme messages I have to read make it hard.

> and it would already do a lot of good.

I think your kind of arguments don't do any good for anyone. It's just polarization but not based on any facts, but based on the tone. If you did base it on facts and reason it would be so much better. Maybe the 24/7 news sites prefer such texts, it sure creates a lot of "engagement" and clicks, but that hardly translates to the assumption that the outcome of such practices will be anything good.

Argue against the truly insane industrial "meat production" practices and we may actually get somewhere. Crates a lot less clicks and discussion because it's not nearly (or atz all) controversial though.
Why don't I get paid for my HN posts? Do I owe you for your reply? Do you owe me for this reply?

You work out how we commoditize every interaction into tiny micropayments so MBAs are happy with our time allocations and let me know. Ads were tried, and it's been an absolute fucking disaster.
vertical-center-mode:
https://github.com/trevorpogue/vertical-center-mode

It let's you "scroll above the top line" so that the top text in a file can be centered in the screen.

I still need to clean it up and submit to MELPA
.45 ACP, which is probably the second most common pistol round, is subsonic by default.
It's bizarre how companies reach a certain size, and they seem to lose all developers. There's the clueless helpdesk and the marketing/sales org, but nobody seems to be writing code / fixing issues anymore.

In my experience, contacting a 10-person company about a bug means that a dev is going to look at the issue in a day or two. Contacting a 10 000 person company about a bug means that a dev will never see the bug - unless they happen to be browsing Reddit and see someone complaining about it
So, a shooting was reported and videotaped two hours before the outage?

It would seem that either the bullets fired in the air decided to hover for a while before dropped back down, or the first shooting had nothing to do with the outage, or..? Odd writeup.

Also,

> Along with Internet connectivity, all Comcast Xfinity services, including [...] home security systems went down.

I wonder how many consumers realize that their home security system is tied to the "cable"? Or the same with their Comcast "landline"?
The line is crossed when, during a global pandemic, you promote a viewpoint (by only selecting vax-questioning guests).

Joe isn't unbiased here, he claimed Ivermectin cured him (doubtful) when he had COVID and remains unvaccinated.

I don't think it's just the Howard Stern formula.
I hate auto-playing videos. Several news websites in Germany embed an auto-playing video in a news article. Often these videos have nothing to do with the article. And then there are some that even turn into a pop-up player when you scroll down.

What's the best way to block these videos (in Chromium)? I wouldn't mind a solution where videos are completely blocked with a whitelist, since I rarely consume videos except on dedicated video sites (e.g Youtube).
How about making content that people actually feel like they obtain value in their lives from. They'd pay for that. Instead we have the majority of content creators engaged in an arms race to hijack your attention and produce the most outrageous, rather than best, content possible because more outrage = more eyeballs = more ads.
Spotify has actively been embracing/extending/extinguishing podcasting for years, even calling their DRM-encumbered shows "podcasts" to confuse the technically illiterate. If you care about this, don't listen to DRM-encumbered shows. Cracking their DRM or transcoding the audio into a non-encumbered format does nothing because they still get their engagement data.
It's almost unbelievable how big the gap is. Sometimes I try to turn it off and check links before I share them to find out if they're actually good reading experiences. I've got a couple of sites that I used to reflexively share on social media that I've since learned not to because without an adblocker they auto-play videos at the top of the page - but I never ran into that behavior when I was using them, so I thought they were fine.

I think that introducing nontechnical friends/family to adblockers and helping them set one up can be a really low-cost but high-impact kindness, I encourage people here to do so.

Maybe it's an ADHD thing and I'm overstating this, but I personally see really tangible effects on my ability to concentrate based on how many ads I'm surrounded with. Even stuff like Sponsorblock, which is honestly mostly removing intros/outros has helped a lot with how I interact with Youtube. Sure there's data savings, page load time, etc... but I also vaguely suspect that constant web advertising just flat-out affects people's mood and ability to focus more than is commonly talked about.

Seriously, ask your family members about whether they adblock, and install Ublock Origin for them if they don't. If they're on Android, consider (with their permission) swapping out their browser for Firefox (or some equivalent) and installing Ublock Origin again. If they don't mind some very minor UI differences (and in my experience many people don't), then it's an immediate speedup and data savings at the cost of maybe 3 minutes of work and explanation.

The article suggests that roughly 73% of users don't use an adblocker. Some of those users are making a conscious choice, and that's fine, but a lot of them just don't know how to install one or don't know how they work. You don't need to be actually evangelizing ad blockers to still occasionally ask someone who's complaining about ads whether or not they realize that there's a really easy way to get rid of them.
>All those things mandated for cars are related to safety.

There really is a benefit for a Mazda MX-5 Miata to have a backup camera? It would be far more of a distraction than just swiveling your head. Not to mention the e-waste cost of all the useless components in millions of similar cars.

One size fits all solutions should be the rarest of the rare, not the norm. Tire pressure sensors? Sure - useful and most people don't think to check (heck I don't check as often as I should!). But complex crap like cameras and screens in a car the size of a go-cart? Utterly ridiculous and beyond wasteful.
I'm blocking youtube ads on my mobile quite okay and the experience is fine (IOS - AdGuard). There are some twitches here and there but it is very usable.
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Eager to be a part of expanding the Chicago tech scene!
Yes. Both more capable and less user friendly. 40 years ago a TV had three physical controls and one input.
A lot of people are saying this but I disagree that you are either on one side or the other. If you pay a monthly subscription to the Washington Post, their website is still absolutely covered with advertisements - moving, video, intrusive advertisements that IMHO make the site unusable. So I'm not owed free content. I'm paying for it. And since I'm paying for it, don't shove a bunch of crap down my throat when I want to see the stuff I paid for.
The link to http://learn-elisp-for-emacs.org/ seems to be broken, redirecting to https://www.gooroo.com/ instead...
It is true that the intention of tech debt is supposed to be when you make a conscious choice to take a shortcut now knowing that you will pay interest later and that other people use it to mean anything suboptimal whether due to lack of skill or changing requirements but in many ways the OP article stands for all of it anyway.

Defects, tech debt, refactors, whatever you want to call them need to be measured against all other work in the backlog and given as objective cost and risk as possible. Engineers tend to like neat and tidy but there is terrible code in our system that has simply never been changed and still works so we leave it alone.
Clever! I like that....

(Now if I could integrate that into the autotools we use for some of our stuff....)
I wish it had full addon support though, rather than just Mozilla's curated selection of 20 or so. I have to install an app to do twitter -> nitter redirection when it could just be a browser extension.
As a Tech founder of a B2B SAAS where we do contracts, I would love to try this!! You are on to something here if you can get this executed well.
This even goes for older smart phones. Just because the company needs to turn a profit, doesn't mean I have the means to continually upgrade every 2 years. I love the efforts people put into things like LineageOs.
I tried this, but it didn't work on the vast majority of videos I watch. They always seemed to have some or the other product placement inside. So I stopped paying, and installed a couple of adblockers.
> I hate to admit it but this is the exact reason I stopped being vegan too. I'd just start feeling weirdly faint like I was about to pass out randomly. You know when you're in an elevator and there's a slight gravity shift when it stops at a floor? It was like that every now and then

I just posted my own anecdote about this before I saw your comment, but just to reiterate, my ex encountered the exact same symptoms while on a vegan diet.
Popcorn that has butter comes to mind.
Superhighway84? https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/superhighway84
They took that away awhile ago. Is it back now?
I've been trying to get friends to join me on VRChat. Lower pressure than a Zoom call, and after a day of typing, feels good to just talk a bit from the couch. Of course, VR as a requirement has been a bit of a deterrent.
Japanese Revolutionary Fascist Koichi Toyama Runs for Tokyo Governor
Ugh - reenforces why I am babying the crap out of my existing "dumb" cars and have zero intentions of getting a new car any time soon - if ever!
Very nice to see the Joe Rogan I listened to back in 2015-2018 era. One who wasn’t afraid to apologize. Probably won’t bring me back to listening, but hoping new listeners get that golden era of JRE back
> It was fiber optic cable so you can't blame copper theft as the motive, sabotage was clearly intended.

It very well could be. But, people who steal things often do so hastily.
> "We don't sell your data and never will."

Because your data is now freely available on the blockchain, forever.
Thanks for clearing that up, I missed that detail. So it seems similar to Tasks in .Net that check the cancellation token before starting and will throw on await. However in .Net you can check IsCancellationRequested in your code once the Task is running to decide how to cancel or just ThrowIfCancellationRequested() . Then you try catch your awaits to handle cancellation (or not).

In Thread.Abort the .Net runtime is just injecting a call to throw into the instructions at potentially any point in the threads code which is obviously problematic although throwing on any await can still cause problem if you're not expecting it. There is no try catching involved because you really can't catch ThreadAbortException instead you are just waiting for the thread to stop with Thread.Join or what ever.
I'm sure - I was just ragging on Teams :) Deprioritised TODOs are the best!
Ad-funded businesses are mostly bad for society anyway, hopefully if enough people get ad blockers their business models will become non-viable. So, those of us running ad blockers are actually providing a public service for free, it is quite generous!
I can search the words. I can ask people what the words mean. If don’t even know what the symbols are called then how do I begin?

I had this problem when I started higher level maths and the Greek alphabet was used. I couldn’t ask what a symbol meant when I couldn’t say what the symbol was. I couldn’t write down a symbol whose name was read out when I didn’t know what it should look like.

I tried learning the Greek alphabet but flash cards and spaced repetition didn’t work for my ADHD brain and I just had to stop doing maths, which was a shame, because up to that point I was good at it.
https://archive.is/9uRHi

http://web.archive.org/web/20220131144657/https://www.nytime...
This is where the human species will have to go eventually but probably not in my lifetime.
Can't speak to dishwashers since my 20 year old model that came with the house is still working just fine, but I replaced my fridge and washing machine in the last couple of years. It's honestly hard to find a decent appliance that doesn't have WiFi built in. So far, simply not setting up the WiFi on my modern appliances has worked just fine (i.e. after peeling off the sticker telling me how to connect, the thing works just like a non-WiFi appliance).
Great ideas. This is pretty bare bones at this point. Only one person can create the contract and send it for signature. Planned development includes negotiation of contracts using version control.
I would be surprised if the boffins at Zillow didn't consider that in such a market, price discovery is inherently adversarial. Their gain is someone else's loss, and their loss is someone else's gain. In this case the latter scenario played out.

Also, with their big data advantage could they not have seen that the entire market was cooling down? Seems they would have the advantage to see market trends before any layperson.
> Could you provide examples? The Dijkstra article doesn't seem like a marked improvement.

As I said, there are hundreds of examples on that site.

> Mathematics is not symbol manipulation. I wish it was as easy as that. Mathematics requires you to hold all the concepts in mind while studying and working.

Of course concepts must be understood, but that doesn't mean they need to be held in mind for the vast majority of the derivation. In many cases for example it's sufficient to know that an operation is associative to perform some manipulation, without needing to fuss over the specifics of the concept that operation captures. Unless of course you insist on a notational convention where the syntax is semantically ambiguous, as is common practice among traditional mathematicians.

> I am incapable of finding an example where the barrier to outsiders is the notation and not the concepts themselves.

What does the following mean? What concepts must be held in mind to understand it?

sin(s + i + n)

Even the average graduate mathematician is absurdly above the general population average for raw cognitive ability. Because of this, the frankly primitive approach to syntax is less of an impediment to doing interesting work than it would otherwise be. On the other hand if one desires to make mathematics more accessible to persons of ordinary intelligence, then reducing the cognitive load by clearly defining the semantics of a formula using an unambigous syntax is certainly necessary. Evidently though that's of little importance to the mathematical guild.
Once a year we get hundreds of thousands of pyrosomes in our waters. The first time we saw them I spent the whole trip out of the water researching what they might be

FWIW they ended up seeming harmless, my "neighbors" were swimming with them
It's funny that you picked a thermostat as an example, because in my experience the old pre-wifi Honeywell thermostats that many new apartment buildings had for the last 10-20 years (and most hotels still have today) were the pinnacle of horrible UX. The most popular consumer smart home brands today, like Ring and Nest, are mostly a huge step up from the early-2000's precursors to smart devices. And the worst smart devices I have used in recent years are from the brands like GE that just threw wi-fi into these old clumsy confusing interfaces, which it sounds like is what your thermostat is.

The genius of Nest in my opinion was the UX improvement of having one big number in the middle showing the set temperature, you can always see what it's set at and just turn left or right to change it. Basically going back to the same UX of those 1960's era thermostats that you're talking about, but with extra options like remote access available if you want them.

In terms of thermostat UX I now have the best of both worlds, I love the simplicity and I also love being able to change the temp without getting up from the couch, plus the "eco mode when away from home" feature has generally been rock solid for me and saves money while reducing emissions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSqLWrSVWaY
That article is mentioned in the ACLU piece, as Shot Spotter is trying a $300 million defamation suit over it. They claim they always do a secondary "detailed forensic report" and their communication with police about that is inconsequential.
Some suburban people in wealthy neighborhoods would say it's too dangerous to ever visit a city. It's unpredictable due to crime.

You've drawn the line at visiting the city but using a car, and maybe you are right, but I don't think listing incidents without context really makes your case.
This is the way.

Sadly this documentation isn't distributed with the Ubuntu version of Emacs, and a newcomer has to jump through some hoops to get it installed. Which is probably an appropriate learning experience.
For new appliances, just don't connect them to your WiFi?

I agree about new cars though.
I suspect that since you're a paying user, a more valuable customer, they'd want to mine your data more thoroughly to derive more profits in other ways.
Better not to leave it too long after finishing IME, in terms of water marks and (after days/weeks, if you put it on before going away say) smell.
The belief that my computer/phone will download and display your ads is also absurd. It just won't, without my explicit consent.
No.

A $2 billion contract for 600 million doses of a vaccine if they got it through FDA are orders, not funding.

They didn't receive the money in advance either.
A big part of the population are complete morons. They have access to guns. Mental visualisation of the resulting Venn diagram should explain the result.

A former acquaintance of mine is an example of the moron. He had an outbuilding on his property and a shotgun license. Clearly the best way to deal with the squirrels using the suspended mains cable between the buildings was to shoot them. Much hilarity ensued as he managed to ruin his entire frozen food supply in the outbuilding by not thinking of the causal relationship between shooting at shit and the consequences.

Yea we have gun morons in the UK too.
People who don't understand math have this phantasy that they would understand everything only if mathematicians decided to use normal language instead of math symbols. This is just a phantasy, there is no simplification if you stop using math symbols, in fact it is just the opposite. Try to describe some intricate math without symbols and you'll see this.
Or, a feral cat who has been shitting in your planter boxes and eating your birds is fair game. Easy to treat it like a raccoon that decides to live under your porch, there’s no difference.