skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ended up building my own blog hosted atop Github Gist. It's pretty quick once the data is cached, and uses almost no resources.

https://devnull.land/github-gist-blog

I only feel sort of bad that I basically use Gist as my data store.
What if, just what if, everyone in Texas and other backward places starts ddos-ing government by searching for and visiting abortion clinics? Houston, Dallas, Austin n San Antonio have a population of ~6M. Even if 1% of them do a search and visits once per week, that is 60k cases to investigate. Per week.
There are many facets to the discussion of course, but many examples of movies and shows that were exceptional based on lower budgets. When comparing the budget of an entire season of The Boys to almost any single Marvel film though, the wasted money on individual Marvel Films is far more apparent.

Movies like Desperado, Way of the Gun, No Country for Old Men, Fall (by Eric Shaeffer) and many others are far more enjoyable to me than big budget blockbusters, but others may disagree... Those had far lower budgets than many ensemble cast/empty script superhero movies, but preferences are always subjective, so it's not really something I'd really want to argue with anyone about.
Like many people, he now posts on Twitter instead of blogging.
> Its seen as bad practice to use anything but one argument per word.

I've never heard this before. Many of the words in the ANS Forth standard [0] consume more than one element from the data stack, and it's hard to see how else they could be defined.

The '+' word consumes 2 elements, as we'd expect. So does '!'.

[0] http://lars.nocrew.org/forth2012/alpha.html
>Eh, war is simply fun. It’s appealing to males in particular, and our testosterone tends to lock in the intoxication. There’s a reason that Battlefield is one of the most successful gaming franchises of all time, and that it’s very hard to find any videogame that doesn’t involve some kind of warfare.

I think there is an argument to be made that Battlefield doesn't involve any warfare.
> The problem is that would give users actual power and autonomy. But what the authors really want is for Google and other corporations to keep acting as internet police, but only enforcing rules they agree with, and not any others. That's why they want to build "civil rights" into products, and not "user freedom". That's why they get comments from an establishment Harvard professor, and not the FSF.

There's a strong authoritarian zeitgeist built into the identity politics proposals of papers like the WP. It's been like this for years - stories about "hate online" and "what are corporations going to do about it." Proposals around racial justice always end up with laws to compel something from someone.

The goals might be benign, but they should follow principles that we've already agreed by consensus as a society / culture rather than via compulsion and radical 'rethinks'.

The obsession of the last few years with regulating 'misinformation' and 'hate' online should be a big red flag here.
I remember similar stories about the Republicans pre-Trump. Guys like Graham and Rubio tried pushing things like bipartisan immigration reform and it backfired spectacularly as the base revolted and the party became anti-globalist/populist. Current democratic leadership seems woefully out of touch with its base's concerns, and the coalition seems to basically be "anti-Trumpism" not pro anything. Seems like the democrats need a left-wing equivalent of a "revolution" to get the base back cause right now they are offering basically nothing accept "we aren't those republicans who you hate."

Basically Democrats need an actual leader since the only person who could unite the party right now: Obama, doesn't seem to care at all anymore and everyone else is just after career preservation.
Here's a fairly good Boston Globe article on the company: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/13/business/once-heralde...
WebAssembly on the Edge, aka newer generations rediscover Propeller, BASIC Stamp, Java Embedded,....
Most do. Most often, the problem is not that people are bad but that people choose to fight for a good that isn't compatible with others. From their point of view, they are fighting for an utopian society.
I love watching a Spaghetti Western on a sleepy Saturday afternoon.
Judging by the sibling comments here, silencers are a hot button issue on HN.
FWIW, silencers are as of this year purchasable without a permit in Sweden (a hunting permit is required which involves firearms training, but before a separate license was required for the silencer)

EDIT: and as several commenters already have pointed out, it's a good thing. Shooting an unsilenced 30-06 rifle in a closed hideout will hurt even with ear protection.
As a kid growing up in 80’s and 90’s Liverpool (UK) I was into US west coast hip hop.

We did actually have a decent record store but once you’d gone through the rap section a dozen times you were stuck with months old photocopies of the source and ordering from the store that took months.

Then ‘Yo mtv raps’ aired in uk on our nascent satellite service that hardly anyone had so we’d pass around blurry copies on vhs.

Then a voice said ‘let there be music’ and Napster happened and my life changed forever.

Napster to Kazaa to bit torrent to Usenet back to torrent then finally iTunes Match and Apple Music.

And I still listen to ‘All Eyez On Me’ at least once a week.
> Have no idea why you get downvoted

The comment contributes absolutely nothing to the conversation. No definition, no solution, no relevance.

If livestock is less than people is it ok then? These graphs are just hotspots it's impossible to use them quantifiably at USA levels. They only show there are a lot of "cows" "there"

You are just roping your common repetitive viewpoints into the story.

Why don't you care about human slavery? Do you not think that is cruel? I'm guessing because you are rich and the poor can eat vegan cake on the other side of the world? Why do vegans get to bring up veganism every conversation when so many people have such awful lives like being slaves?

None of this is relevant to livestock heat maps using a measure of X times people.

> HN crowd doesn’t know much about veganism

It's common - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

An actual solution, rather than vegans saying they are vegan, is also common on HN - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
As mentioned by others, the recommended list of extensions in the article is a bit outdated. These days not much more than uBlock Origin is needed for a good configuration, with the addition of maybe CanvasBlocker.
This looks like a cherry-picked set of political issues the magazine wants to promote by highlighting the states that least adhere to them: state spending on public health, access to licensed childcare facilities, LGBTQ legislation, and air quality.

Quality of life is impacted by many more factors than that oddly limited set.
This is a great idea. Any chance you can back port it to older versions of macOS? My laptop is running Big Sur (11.6.7) and I see it requires Monterey (12.3+).
Speaking of:

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/ukraine-war-children-with-toy...
> I'm looking for a way to have the tab bar hidden

1. Go to `about:config` and set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets true

2. Go to `about:support` and find your profile folder

3. Create subfolder `chrome` there

4. Create file `userChrome.css` in `chrome` folder

5. Put this text in it:

#main-window #TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse !important;
}
Cooperation is certainly critical, violence is what allows for it to take place.

You can build a utopian commune, but if your neighbors want your crops you would be wise to get a weapon.
I click on "discover some interesting posts" and none of them were interesting; same issue I have with most everything on reddit, all the posts are "I POSTED!"

The only reason I bring this up is because it is a "Platform for Hackers" but none of the posts really reflect anything like that. Just seems like another new site where people post the "I'm on this site now, and setup a default page" and then it never really goes beyond that.

There was some pub/bar themed Gemini site awhile back, and every new post was some variation of being in a virtual pub; again, nothing interesting and I moved on.
Is this the long tail we heard so much about?
When I see a bottle of water which claims the content will be expired in half year after production, I use to think about how much crazy is our world.
A quick look says you'll likely need to install the perccli tool from Dell to get the disk info. I'm not going to read its manual, but I'd be surprised if it won't give you the smart data if you do the right incantations.
The period between about 1970 (when the huge generation of Baby Boomers started buying records in fantastic numbers) and 1995 (when the first web browser started making large scale piracy of intellectual property trivial) was the only 25 year period in the history of the world when large numbers of artists managed to get fantastically wealthy.

Looking back through the entirety of recorded history, that had never happened before, and it likely never will again.

More artists became fantastically wealthy in those 25 years than in the previous 2000 years. It looks very likely that, with the invention of the web browser, we're back to historical norms. This article has lots of data backing up that return to the mean.

Being a musician or actor is still a good thing, but it's once again not a very probable way of getting incredibly rich, just as it has been, on average, for the past 2000 years.
Some folks have need to create startups to fulfill a need we don't know we need to have solved.
I always admired these kind of projects but unfortunately having a blog without JS means no LaTeX.
Maybe the antenna could be on a long thin wire with a float so that it is always at the surface?
That's not quite accurate: talking supersonics, even if the sound isn't made hearing-safe or movie quiet, the tone goes from a sharp crack to a kind of thud. It's difficult to describe but this change in the quality of the sound makes it a lot harder to tell where a shot is coming from by ear alone.

Suppressors are also generally excellent at suppressing muzzle flash, moreso than flash hiders. Same idea as the tone thing.

They also reduce felt recoil impulse and muzzle climb, so controlling the weapon across a string of shots is easier.

A genuine downside is they make direct impingement platforms get really gunked up really quickly. Also, gas to the face via the charging handle. However, the advantages are so significant that basically nobody who has the option shoots unsuppressed. That includes most military forces; if cans suck why does everyone use them?

Re subsonics: that'd be true if you were simply underloading a designed-as-supersonic round, but a lot of the point of stuff like .300 blackout / .458 socom is to compensate for velocity loss with a fat heavy projectile.
> At least chickens are a superfood animal in terms of converting calories into food

Maybe compared to beef but when chickens are being fed crops they're not efficient compared to eating crops directly. 72 billion chickens is still an insane number of extra lives to support.

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

"In comparing the cultivation of animals versus plants, there is a clear difference in magnitude of energy efficiency. Edible kilocalories produced from kilocalories of energy required for cultivation are: 18.1% for chicken, 6.7% for grass-fed beef, 5.7% for farmed salmon, and 0.9% for shrimp. In contrast, potatoes yield 123%, corn produce 250%, and soy results in 415% of input calories converted to calories able to be utilized by humans.[4] This disparity in efficiency reflects the reduction in production from moving up trophic levels. Thus, it is more energetically efficient to form a diet from lower trophic levels."
Protecting Privacy and Security of Health Information Using Cell Phone or Tablet
Even minecraft has combat in the default game mode. No guns, but it does have swords, axes, arrows, and numerous kinds of explosives.

Obviously it's better than Grand Theft Auto, but it definitely falls short of pure pacifism.
Firefox removed PWA support on desktop. It still exists on Android.
I just read about Crossplane for the first time yesterday. Article mentioned you can use it for ML systems. Anyone try it?
Stay safe and use Gnosis Safe to 2FA your transactions
Why not use the native user profile function? E.g. set up a “user profile” dedicated to access only Meta/Facebook properties (and therefore only be able to track you within that container)
In a way it is good thing. Inflation will be truly out of control is wages start to adjust to this inflationary environment. Then we will back to the 70s. The only way we tamed inflation then is with double digit interest rates that would wreck havoc in our highly leveraged economy.
One small correction:
"“Annealing” is a process where you heat slowly and cool metal to harden it."

Annealing is actually a process to soften metal (and sometimes to remove internal stresses), decreasing strength but increasing ductility and toughness. Like simulated annealing, higher temperature allows the material to jump over larger metastable hills in order to reach a more relaxed, lower energy structure.

In annealing, the temperature usually needs to be lowered slowly, because cooling introduces stresses and, to a lesser degree, because the thermodynamically favorable structure changes with temperature. Quenching (cooling quickly) creates residual thermal stresses, and locks in the high temperature structure, which is metastable at lower termperatures.
Gun violence in the US is insane, and of course you could not have gun violence without guns. Yet other places, of comparable economic status (Switzerland, Austria,...) also have high gun ownership, without having the insane rate of gun violence. So there must be more to the insanity than just 'guns'.
> Humans are not peaceful by nature

I also believed this until recently when I finished reading "Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman. What an amazing book ... Bregman analyzes why we commonly believe that humans are not peaceful and that this assumption turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there is surprisingly little evidence that being aggressive or violent is in our nature, pretty much the opposite is true.

To me, reading this book did the opposite of what reading the news usually does: I finished every chapter with an optimistic smile. :)
This assumes the author has any control over this.

On a web dominated by tracking, the harsh reality is that the avenues capable of reaching the widest audiences are going to bring with them some…baggage.

To conclude that this is dishonest is missing the forest through the trees.

Since tracking is the dominant reality, one of the best things a smart consumer can do is use tools that help counteract it.

An article like this is using the medium available to help people similarly unable to change that medium navigate it a bit more safely.

> Can't have your cake and eat it, too.

What is the cake here? What double standard does the author benefit from if his writing encourages more people to switch to a browser that is more resistant to the tracking people are accusing the author of (endorsing? It’s not clear what the accusation actually is).

Let’s examine an alternative: The author tries to convince the publisher to forego the apparatus that currently drives their business model or they’ll threaten to publish elsewhere.

The publisher calls this bluff, and the author self-publishes instead.

Fewer people read the article, fewer people switch to Firefox, and fewer people gain a modicum of protection from tracking.

What about this outcome is better?

If you gatekeep the act of publishing privacy awareness content in this way, the only thing that happens is fewer people become aware. The only thing that can weaken tracking (aside from regulation) is making it less effective.

This mindset that only the pure/virtuous/perfect implementation is acceptable, and anything else is somehow unacceptable seems like a really good way to make no progress at all.

Refusing to acknowledge the situation we’re in is just denial.
> We could talk about taking from the rich, but actually the rich don’t consume all that much in aggregate, so that doesn’t help much (wealth and income don’t matter for this purpose, only consumption).

This is certainly what traditional economics says (they consume, rather than invest) because it's what rich people want us to think, but it doesn't hold out.

For one thing, their private jets and charter flights eat up a lot of fuel. Their lifestyles aren't free.

Second, attribution is a hard problem. When all the poor people drive to work in offices in places chosen by rich people, to create surplus value for the rich, who is consuming all that gasoline? Is it the rich, who benefit from this economic system and the poor being forced to participate? Or is the poor, who are the ones directly buying and using the fuel? Hard to say; at the individual level, attribution is probably impossible.

Third, the whole notion of "poors consume; the rich invest" is only true in proportionate terms. Sure, the billionaires don't directly consume 100,000 times as much as average people--simply because that would be ridiculous. No one can eat 100,000 hamburgers for lunch. But they do consume 100-1000 times more than average people--fuel is a big one, and those 20,000-SF houses aren't cheap to maintain--and this adds up. Their footprint on resources is bad enough; their overuse of land is destructive--this kind of private wealth is a catastrophic misallocation of resources.

Finally, what tends to happen with the rich is that they don't put their money into direct consumption (because, again, there's no hedonic payoff to having 100,000 hamburgers for lunch; 99,995+ will go to waste) so much as they use what they have to further secure personal and familial advantages, both economic and political. That's what this investment is: the configuration of society by the last round's winners to ensure they'll win the next round. This has resulted in an economic system that benefits them and keeps the middle classes comfortable enough to survive but--you're right on this--is unsustainable.

You're absolutely correct to say that "hit the rich" is far from sufficient here. We in the middle class are going to need to sacrifice. Thing is, no one's going to sacrifice anything with the current upper class in charge. Would you give up anything for these people and the society they've built? I sure wouldn't. You can't ask people in the middle classes to eat less meat and fly less often if you're taking a private jet to Davos. Neoliberalism has a lot of problems, but a big one is that these WEF people have literally none of the moral authority on which they seem to believe they operate.
That's nice, but doesn't at all refute the parent's point that the current global pandemic (which worse than those, if a quick google is anything to go by) can and should cause changes to public health and epidemiology.
I think, the main point is that it isn't owned by Oracle.

But also, that it's more for non-GC languages.
I would certainly kill him, and I also feel great animosity towards him.

That would be blacker and whiter.
Yes, Firefox has quite a few issues, starting from strange UI decisions (tabs that don't look like tabs, etc.), product integration (Pocket) and promotion (Firefox VPN in private mode window), compatibility issues with video conferencing applications (MS Teams, Facetime, probably others). But compared to other browsers, you can customize browser and solve quite a few of them, unlike in other competing browsers, where what you get, that you are forced to use and cannot change. I'd only wish Firefox developers (or management team) would take customization more seriously, as it is one of main selling features, that few users know about.
I actually find the fact more shocking that way:

33% of US debt happened due to pandemic response; was that well spent?
I agree. “Zero trust” is bad English. The issue is that “trust” in tech speak means something else than trust in plain language.

In plain English, to trust means you accept the person implying they had already been vetted or had been vetted by alternative means.

In tech, to trust is double speak for not doing any vetting as you punted that responsibility to a firewall or something else.

In the spirit of double speak, “zero trust” really means “nullify no vetting”.
> There are a lot of white males in this thread who take the lack of diversity in tech so personally.

I understand this example lacks some important nuance but directionally useful. Imagine there was explicit hiring goals for left handed people and industry conferences for left handed and organisations for promoting left handed people in tech. In that world I don't see why right handed people are wrong for taking it personally that a whole bunch of effort is put into hiring not them.
You don't need capitalism to deliver anything, you need competent organization and people who will do the organized work. Tell me how many of the people working in those supply chains (truck drivers, ship mates, Amazon warehouse workers) think the system is working for them under capitalism. Joint stock / pooled risk and profit, and abstraction of ownership in a way that mirrors cash as an abstraction of value, were innovations for sure. Other innovations or adjustments maybe difficult to make in today's brownfield world.

My take is that central planning's problem wasn't one of where the planning took place, it was one of data quality (freshness, accuracy), inadequate data, and problems in the agenda for using it. Integrated macro- and micro-planning will still suffer from the central-agenda issue, depending on the motivations and means of the planners. But coordination up and down, for purposes that are not exclusively for the generation of cash, seems worth exploring.

Discussion today in one paper about prescribed burns in Yosemite held up due to air quality laws, but no mention of jailing Mother Nature for the air quality violations of a major forest fire. I suspect the long-term sustainable carrying capacity of the Earth for humans is rather less than the number outstanding today, but starve and die seems worse than options we could engineer if we wanted to. Fight in battles and die will be a lot of them too if things swung the wrong way.

We need economies that allow nations to distrust each other, and in the USA at least allow every individual to distrust every other. Socialism seems to work best for those who buy into a social contract and the USA is losing those people left and right, egged on from within and its adversaries.
It was closer to 12 trillion when I started paying attention and hyperventilating about it. Like 2008 or so. But it never seems to go the other way.
Oh that's great - thanks - yet another extension to disable!
Seems more like saying hi to the clerk vs having a conversation
Indeed. The notion that decreased cognitive function is the cause of social isolation, not the result, seems equally plausible.
Ari(d)zona is the second driest state - how’s that for a reason.[0]

[0]https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...
I don’t not have that luxury to move. It’s not about me in a bubble.

It’s about humanity and a painful existence of pestilence. You might be “done” with it. Humanity is not. Virus is not.

A bubble is ignoring one of the greatest threats to our civilization today.
A liberal party is impossible in the US political system at the moment. The rural areas are strongly advantaged by design, and have a strong conservative lean.

Unsurprisingly, the Democrats are already basically a moderate party.