skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Firefox’s Redesigned Preferences Feel More like the Web

This is such a weird thing to me. Did anyone ever want this? Were users asking for this? Did user studies show that this was somehow desirable or preferable? Did they do a study of Chrome users and find that they were more likely to stick with Firefox if they made this change? Does it significantly reduce code maintenance burden somehow?

It seems like the kind of thing where users only "want" it because it's familiar, and it's only familiar because it's already been forced on them everywhere. Basically it's circular reasoning. It's like the meme of hiding a button and then claiming that users never use that feature, so you can justify removing it.
it is interesting that most of the CVEs are "use after free". instead of being stuck in an endless cycle of detection and patching, maybe, it's time we consider better ways...
yes but only via NATO, a US dominated military alliance.

The UK has consistently opposed the creation of the EU army, as well as opposed unified foreign policy etc.
I live in an apartment building downtown adjacent to other buildings. They are all around me.
The actual machinery of this bothers me, though.

The straightforward stuff we can all agree about: (or perhaps not, and I’ll change my mind gladly with evidence)

- Build dense homes in poor places adjacent to places of economic activity so that private transport is cheap and public transport makes sense for the state

- Provide baseline medical care at cost from the state

But there is so much stuff that is trade-offs. Here’s some stuff I would want which others won’t:

- Baseline medical care should be MD-free and be purely NPs. Rationale: the state can boost NP production as needed / it has no control over MD production

- Leverage access should be limited but it should be possible to lie on the forms and face the music in the downside case. Folks like me should have access, but folks like this guy in the story shouldn’t. He’s going to spiral but I’ve weathered six figure losses with equanimity

- I want to control addictive substances but clearly prohibition doesn’t work and clearly many incapable people use them whereas also many capable use them. Ideally, people like me (smart, easy de-addiction) should have access and the remainder should furnish some sort of bond before they are permitted but that’s impossible

Also, I looked into the homelessness situation a while back when the COVID pandemic was in full swing and it is full of people who are not outcomes-oriented Gish Galloping their way to nonsense interventions.

The GiveWell.org of American poverty interventions would be nice, I think.
One thing I would point out is that macOS has some serious bugs that, if you hit them, you have no hope and no option if Apple doesn't care.

The particular one that bites me over and over with the latest versions of macOS is that USB 2.0/3.0 ports will die on macOS for varied and mysterious reasons with hubs and dongles and the only thing you can do is reboot.

This was such a big problem that it finally forced me off of macOS. I have things that I need to plug into USB-A ports. This failure mode is fairly common, reported, and totally due to Apple. Earlier versions of macOS do NOT exhibit this bug. Unfortunately, newer machines can't use the old OS's because "Apple".

Other laptops do not exhibit this bug with Apple and non-Apple hubs and dongles--presumably because they actually have to ship with USB-A ports so that code path actually gets tested.

And, that, in a nutshell is why I finally took the plunge and switched to Linux for daily driving.
The name indeed sounds Polish, but https://github.com/skorotkiewicz says "Bayern. Germany".
I've never seen an affordable shared host that _didn't_ offer at least PHP support. They may be a version or two behind (the cheaper they get, the further behind) and they may have some functionality disabled for security (system(), file_get_contents HTTP calls, etc.) but for about half a dollar a month you can get a reasonably competent web host with enough storage to run a blog for years.

That said, if you care about performance, be wary of shared hosts. Some frameworks, like Symfony, need quite a bit of CPU and IO to build a up a cache to get acceptable execution speeds. Nothing too dramatic, but shortly after setting up a website it may be slow on shared hosts with strict CPU and memory limits.
Genuinely, how's the ping, could you play FPS games? Are you including the overhead of paying the line rental?
That implies 1) the FCC listens to the public and 2) the public understands the technology and 3) the public will vote for what's good for themselves in the networks domain. Arguably 2 and 3 are false, and 1 we know to be false depending on the admin (see: net neutrality)
Time is one of the big factors for me, too. One of my favourite stories to tell about my initial migration is when still had a laptop running Linux, I noticed that the Lock Screen was "stuck" for about 5 seconds every time I opened the lid. The Mac didn't do that; it was immediately ready for input when I opened it. Multiply that by three lid events per day and I wasted six hours of my life on a lock screen. I don't even want to think about all the time I wasted waiting for the lagging I had in i965 when scrolling pages in Firefox.

> desktop applications that work well on any major DE and without consideration for package managers

The ability to run proprietary software like that was a goal of the LSB. Everyone abandoned the LSB effort because it was preventing the CADT Model (https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html) from rewriting the stack every 12 months. (Sorry, I am a bit jaded in this regard.)
>Kinect => It's not dead ???

Is it alive? It very much has an immensely passionate community of students and hobbyists using it in ways well past its intended use (e.g. it's some of the cheapest mocap hardware you can buy). But I don't think you've been able to officially purchase one for 4+ years now. Hard to call that "alive" in a business sense.

Honestly a real shame that Xbox hasn't pivoted it into some other team that can market it towards creators. In particular the whole "VTuber" phenomenon may benefit form a cheap(ish), dedicated motion tracking device instead of relying on a high end iPhone or fanagling with some generic webcam.
Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income
> A CBDC system would be radically simplified. A customer would open an account directly with a country’s central bank

This is where they lost reality. Yes the CBDC will be issued by the central bank. No, you will not open an account managed by the government. It will be a public-private situation, just like today, with more efficiency. It could give rise to the light bank, which would only offer basic products for the un(der)banked.
When the supply of houses is limited, but the number of bidders is increasing, the price can only do one thing; rapidly increase to meet the new equilibrium.

I am not talking about more competition in the buyers side, I am talking about more competition in the building and selling side. If supply increases to match or outstrip the new demand, the prices of homes, mobile and otherwise, will fall.

Clearly, selling homes is profitable because home prices are so high. So why are new homes not being built? The answer is because zoning laws in our current vetocracy explicitly prevent the construction of new housing under a variety of pretexts. We have been under-building for 10 years now and it's time to pay the piper.
Funny...I'm in my 30s and still get "yelled at" by people for wearing shorts when I'm exercising in the winter. If I have a hat and gloves on, I have no problem going out in a t shirt and shorts until 20 degrees(with calm, dry air...40 is my limit if it is windy or humid).

The reason I do it is simple: It feels better. If I bundle up I end up being super comfortable but get really sleepy when I get back inside. Going out in the minimum not-in-pain clothing leaves me feeling energized.
The author of the tweet seems to be from Niagara Falls/Buffalo, NY, USA.
Watched every video of them, I am okay with math. Thank you very much!
Btw, since quant industry is full of secrets - is there any source on some actual money figures - how much firms make, what are the sums that are required to be shuffled, what are the frequencies of trades, profitability figures? Anything to get a slight glimpse into inner workings of this. Unfortunately googling turns out nothing or scams
Using absolute numbers borders on fraud. What's the %?
Restic has support for rate limiting built-in.
Me too, receiving spam job offers with bit.ly links.
I get 300 MBPs download speeds on 5G - that might be a San Francisco thing?
> I work in scientific software

I envy you!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA

Perhaps this is dated now according to other comments.
Correct, but if Germany wants to be a leader of a pan-EU army it needs to be a dominant military power in the region (for example the US globally, or Turkey in the East Mediterranean, or what Egypt/Libya used to be in the Middle East before the US decided to regime change them). Else you just get political squabbling because the various states have equal power and nothing gets done.

I'm not saying social spending is bad, just that if playing a lead role in a pan-EU army is Germany's interest then it needs to spend more.
Your argument rests on the idea that the GDPR was an unforeseeable (arbitrary) requirement, rather than a straightforward implementation of a predictably-relevant Schelling point. While businesses won't go out of their way to do things that don't generate revenue, it's not unreasonable to think they will do some basic forward-looking due diligence. When storing personal information on a whole bunch of people is a core part of your business, it's reasonable to expect that eventually those people will want some control over the records kept on them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA

Maybe not true anymore.
I'm skeptical how well that display on the left side of the nav-2-2 URL holds up for visibility under direct powerful sunlight. Even if it's a very expensive model.
The top comment in the thread says

> Free fbs doesn’t work with recent versions of python (>3.6)

Is this true? What are the plans (if any) to update the GPL version of the project?
With net neutrality gone, once the dust settles they will also be in the B2B business of selling internet speeds to corps such as Netflix etc. There are already are so called fast/slow lanes
> especially when proof is absent and providing proof was trivial.

I don't think providing the proof is trivial. California is an all-party-consent-to-recording state [1]. Recording your co-workers and then posting it to the LA times might expose you to being charged with a crime.

Actually, I'm kind of surprised the article has so many allegations made in public, including quotes from the lawyer. IANAL but I thought standard operating procedure was to not talk to the media, because they're an unpredictable source of hassle and work that's ultimately irrelevant to winning the case. Maybe they involved the media because this is a class action suit, and they're trying to get the word out? Maybe someone actually familiar with this kind of stuff could clarify the strategic side of things.

1: https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/criminal-defense/is-it-ill...
As rare as humor on HN (most often deservedly) is, this is golden. Thanks1
For targeted ones I think it is. The details that emerged around SolarWinds were quite sophisticated in terms of execution, timing, hiding, and cleanup.
I've never used it, but there's a Follow button on their linked site: https://www.moddb.com/mods/desolation and there's an RSS feed for news updates: https://rss.moddb.com/mods/desolation/articles/feed/rss.xml
Cross compiling for the language itself is half of it, albeit a half Rust does decently well too, but Zig will also cross compile C/C++ for you just as easily. The latter part combined with Zig's focus on making it as 0 effort as possible to do either action is what results in it being talked about so much.
What promise did Google break with Stadia?
I live in Germany now for 15 years. But I was born in Poland. :)
I've never had hardware accelerated graphics work correctly, and I don't want to have to use the Google ecosystem – that's an article for another day, probably.

When I was "all-in" on the libre ecosystem, I used a ThinkPad for laptop and Talos for desktop. The ThinkPad had just the Intel iGPU that didn't work right in Firefox, and the Talos had blue lines through everything in OSM because "lol x86 monoculture" meant Firefox's Layers didn't work right on Power.

I had graphics acceleration working in raw Mesa, so if there was a native app, it would have Just Worked – probably on both systems.
I'm a professor. I write a lot, and I use Bookshelf 1996 mainly for the third edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, which is great. The interface is better than the interface for the iOS app.

You can get the 4th edition for free at https://ahdictionary.com, and it's good. I'm just old-fashioned enough to dislike some of the changes that they made between the third and fourth editions.
There's also been plenty of times when some report of an awful story with a cop completely falls apart with sufficient video evidence. The cop who "planted evidence" when it turned out he was just returning something to the car if you see more context. The cop who shot a teenage girl who turned out to be mid-stab about to potentially kill someone. Etc.

Especially these days with social media, so many outlandish stories turn out not to be true. Not having doubt creates incentives to lie more.

But I'd agree that you don't want to be extreme in disbelief either.
writing is great for exchanging thoughts over long distances in high fidelity (so it helps cooperation)

printing helps to scale it up (eg. academic journals)
Have you tried other tools? Discord, zoom, webex have way better audio and video quality and include video sharing. FaceTime has superb audio and video but no screen sharing.
arguably those two are linked - you can rationalise that French / German govt have been reluctant to spend on military force over which they have less influence than they would prefer. Hence the arguments for an EU army, despite the existence of NATO. We will see what happens with the German U-turn on military spending whether this results in them falling into line alongside the Brits in NATO, or closer the French in a EU military force. I suspect it will now be the former, given the loss of leverage the Germans now have
"How does it compare to firejail?" you were going to ask: https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap#related-project-com....

You're welcome.
Remember Vero?
I spent a decade writing PHP. I think the language is fine, but the lack of a real concurrency model (event loop or threads) pushed me to other languages for web dev.
Thanks for putting together the site, it's amazing that your son read 300 books already.

Suitability of books is a complex topic, but the site is a good start.

Typo: Animal Farm is by George Orwell (= Eric Blair), not by Jack London as the site says.
The art of electronics for electrical engineers. It is dated, but it has everything
I have applied it to the names in a population database. It learnt interesting, and expected structure. Visualized with UMAP it clustered by gender first, and then something that probably could be described as cultural origin of name.
It is well known that if Google bans your account it will ban any "related" account and that includes your immediate family including your spouse, parents, children and your official job/startup.

I never understood this bizarre behaviour from Google. My colleagues got a taste of it when they shared their laptop and one of them had a banned account.

It was a defence project and the work computers were not allowed to have internet. One common computer away from work area and in a different lan was a designated internet computer. Unfortunately one dev with a banned account set a chain reaction of getting everyone else banned.
> she would hear Latino and white workers, and their supervisors, casually refer to Black workers with the N-word. “You would hear n— this and n— that,” she said. ”It was the norm. It was Tesla’s tradition.”

> Chatman didn’t hear Asian workers use the N-word, she said, but they “would make chicken jokes,” a stereotype mocking of Black Americans’ diet.

So, no.
> Kagi is just showing google and bing results mixed together.

It's not _just_ that: https://kagi.com/faq#Where-are-your-results-coming-from

Anyways, Kagi results vastly outperform Google results in quality for me. I'd happily pay the rather steep price they are currently targeting, should that end up being how expensive it is.
After the FOMO died, it became unseen as fast as it became visible eight weeks earlier. Wasn't a funny time on my LinkedIn, though, with all the cool kids posing...
What libraries should I rely on to create cross-platform native (or native-approximating) UIs in JS?
This book is next on my reading list. One question that's come to mind before having read the book is if Singapore is an example of a highly-legible planned state's success?
There isn’t much money in selling to creators? And the niche the Kinect had with active gaming has been reliably filled by Meta/Facebook/oculus’s quest, it’s too bad Microsoft didn’t explore that more deeply.
I liked Works. It ran on much less hardware than the Office Suite did. The much lower cost was a big deal too. The reduced feature set was never a big deal, it's not often that I need to put reverse video blink in a Word doc to be printed.
3750 characters/page at 6 bits/character gets you 22.5 kbits/page or ~2.8kB/page. Optar apparently does 200kB/page.
Historically it was a much more productive choice, than just about anything. Today it's merely an arguably more productive one. In any case it remains a good choice, and one of the most popular languages.

Despite years of FUD from the likes of Microsoft and others, "investing in a second language" is not a big deal at all and just short of required for projects of any complexity.
> There’s nothing inherently wrong about short videos.

sure, but there seems to be something inherently wrong with people filming them ...
You're right, I should've mentioned this only applies to Windows pagefile rather than swap.
Announced last week. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990673/microsoft-surfac...
Chris Wallace says working at Fox News was ‘unsustainable’
My understanding is that this is exactly what flatpak uses.
I would be shocked if California of all places would prosecute someone for recording repeated racial slurs against them in the workplace regardless of recording laws. It would be another set of riots to try and do so.
No need for a VM. I'm running Windows 10. Setup is easy if you still have a drive that can read CDs: just mount the ISO (for example, with ImgBurn), copy all of the files to your SSD, and run AAMSSTP\APP\BSHELF96.EXE. The registry is never touched, so it's a very portable installation.

I suppose that the ability to run this nearly-30-year-old program with ease is testament to Microsoft's commitment to backward compatibility. And if I wanted, I could probably run it straight from the CD, as people did back in 1996.
Greetings, fellow curmudgeons!
China's Sinopec Bows Out of Russian Petchem, Gas Projects
> I'm honestly not sure how else this goes

An entrepreneur will develop new mobile home parks and offer them for less. God bless capitalism
It is 5°C here now, I'm wearing shorts. This is Sweden. When the sun comes out in spring and there isn't too much snow it is shorts-time - use it or loose it.
Well, you can give each streamed copy an undetectable steganographic ID, then if and when it leaks you will know whose copy leaked. This is not like encryption of the stream - the stream is quite legible. Since a stream is a string of bits you can change one or more bits to create uniqueness. You know where the bits are = you can find them.
It can be defeated by a quality downgrade by putting it though a tele-cine chain
(show it on the wall, capture into a lesser resolution, format, PAL/SECAM/VIDEO.
I am amazed at the fee gouge the oscarmongers extract.

Even 20 years ago, I turned my back on the whole Oscar spectacle. They and their critics are not me and have failed to pique my tastes in a positive way for those decades.
I feel the Oscars are in a fade to black era.
Will WebAssembly save us from this kind of CVEs?

assuming it has capabilities to support "modern" web
Happy SaaS Pegasus customer here! Reasons to love it:

- Cory’s writing on low JS alternatives to single page web apps was game changing for us. And that’s all built in. 10x faster to develop.

- You get access to a wonderful community of Django devs. Any question gets 3+ independent responses.

- The framework is non-opinionated. You get the same examples in both HTMX and React + APIs, many versions of CSS frameworks (Bulma, Tailwind, Bootstrap), multiple deployment methods, etc. This gives you a valuable toolkit to fit your solution around the needs of the problem.
Anecdote that Tim is asking for: I upgraded from an iPhone 2020 SE to an iPhone 12 and suddenly it was easier to use the BlueBike app in New Orleans. With just LTE or whatever it’s called, sometimes the app wouldn’t connect at all and so i couldn’t park my bike.
I remember there was a EU report that was suggesting Russia was spreading anti 5G conspiracy theories to slow 5G adoption so they could get ahead sooner. I searched for it a while ago but couldn't find it quickly.
I disagree.

SSH keys seem great at first, 4KiB ~ 8 KiB public/private key-pairs are tremendously more secure than something like an 10-character password. The math checks out at an academic level, but the implementation has a glaring flaw. One cannot easily ensure private keys are themselves protected by a 10-character password unlock. Put another way, people using private keys NOT protected by a secret pass/phrase are super vulnerable to compromise. For example, physically take the laptop that contains the private key, and BOOM!

That's the jist. Private keys can be setup with passwords, but the person in control of the private key can change their key's pass/phrase at anytime after, so straight-forward key escrow strategies don't work. Inspecting the public key does not indicate the associated private key has any protection, and that's good insofar as one key not leaking information about its' counterpart.
Explorer was never the WM; you could kill explorer.exe off in both 9x and NT systems without affecting window management.

I don't remember how it worked in 9x, but NT used CSRSS.EXE for window management until NT 4 moved GDI into the kernel. DWM handles it in Vista and newer.
How will more money fix the fundamental issue of inefficient spending? It will just be more money inefficiently spent.
Or finished Servo enough to embed that. Either would be awesome, then it could be "easy" to make a new browser. Used to be able to do this on Windows (c2000) and reuse the IE renderer all over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures...
And for those who would need Python and Qt "complexified" :

https://www.pyqtgraph.org/

> PyQtGraph is a pure-python graphics and GUI library built on PyQt / PySide and numpy. It is intended for use in mathematics / scientific / engineering applications. Despite being written entirely in python, the library is very fast due to its heavy leverage of NumPy for number crunching and Qt's GraphicsView framework for fast display. PyQtGraph is distributed under the MIT open-source license.

[...]

> Packaging for Distribution
Applications written with pyqtgraph may be packaged as Windows exe files using py2exe or OSX dmg files using py2app.
Why care about the %? What really matters are the capabilities, no matter the cost.
What about a book for Linguistics? I also studied Linguistics and now while I still find the knowledge useful (getting to describe to my son a voiced vs unvoiced plosive) I am not as interested in it anymore.