skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so instead of being able to opt out, by editing extraneous commands, face book is locking you into accepting commands with the link.

stretch that out a bit and it will fit - facebook controls your browser by infiltrating commands packed into an encrypted string.

that looks alot like what C&C servers do, the next step would be dropping a bot into users systems
Do we have reference types in Golang
Tor Project recommends using Onion Browser in iOS: https://support.torproject.org/tormobile/tormobile-3/

> Can I run Tor Browser on an iOS device?

> We recommend an iOS app called Onion Browser, which is open source, uses Tor routing, and is developed by someone who works closely with the Tor Project. However, Apple requires browsers on iOS to use something called Webkit, which prevents Onion Browser from having the same privacy protections as Tor Browser.

And here is old post (2016) about it on Tor Project blog: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-onion-browser-and-more...
I think you have a some very good points, even if with some I don't agree with. I never claimed looks are not important, my claim is merely that functional design informs tastes, and things that are "ugly" can become pretty merely by being common and tastes changing. My stance is a bit shakier, nu I still think the underlying claim stands.
Yes.

As another data point: I got a severe flu a few years ago and felt inexplicably depressed during the illness and a week afterward. Everything in my life was great, so I could tell it was the illness that caused it. It resolved not too long after.

It's very plausible that there is a causal link between inflammation and depression or low oxygen and depression.

There is at least correlation between low oxygen over time and poor mental health, which we see in population studies of high places (suicide rates higher, for example).
This is really cool. I haven't spent too much time on the site yet, but this kind of product will probably generate a ton of questions. It would be great to have an FAQ page, but I couldn't find one.

Some questions I thought off the bat:

1. Often, programming requires environment setup and access to sensitive connection details. Is this left up for each participant to decide or do you provide a solution to this problem?

2. I'd love to work on a bounty but I would prefer not to if several people are already attempting to solve it. Is there a way to find out how many people are actively solving a given bounty?
Strangely they are using the global flag, even though there's only one instance to replace.
This is a fine perspective to have, but it is also possible to procrastinate on things you do want to do. That's what I have been trying to personally address, anyway.
They've been mostly outside the West.

Tansu Çiller in Turkey, continued state policy of suppressing the Kurds

Khertek Anchimaa, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, both chairwomen in Soviet satellites in Asia. I'm not aware of atrocities, just leading authoritarian regimes.

Isabel Perón in Argentina was democratically elected, but acted as a strongwoman in a time of political convolution. She was often eclipsed by her far more volatile, openly fascist Minister of Social Welfare, José López Rega, so you can contend how much repression came from each.

Sheikh Hasina, currently active, an electoral autocrat of modern times, violently suppresses opposition in Bangladesh.

Right now Jeanine Añez is serving jail time in Bolivia, following a show trial, the likes of which she was arranging for political opposition, that she also suppressed with the military. She stomped into the Bolivian Government palace with Bible in hand and her goons tearing down indigenous banners, promising to bring God back into the country.

And well, more, but none leading the great empires, no.
I was always rather introverted than extroverted.

The Corona years have increased this tendency even more.

I think it is time to move the steering wheel of my life a bit into the direction of other people.

Since I really love to learn by listening to podcasts: Are there any good podcasts about how to make friends and become more sociable?
> An author does get to choose which platform they publish on.

A climate scientist traveling to a conference to meet with policy makers with a goal to increase awareness about a particular issue might be forced to use a mode of transportation that itself contributes to the problem of climate change.

Should the scientist adopt an absolutist/idealist position and refrain from anything that contributes to the problem, up to and including not traveling at all, because of the harm that the plane will cause in transit? Should they discard the potential longer term impact of convincing policy makers to change policy?

This is a classic case of missing the forest for the trees.

> I'm really surprised by all the apologists

It think you are misinterpreting the sentiment. An apologist would defend the tracking and ads themselves. People are not defending tracking, they are defending the utility of using the available medium to raise awareness about tracking and tools that can help mitigate it.

> the article is clearly click bait trying to cram ads down your throat

I would reframe this to something like: the majority of the content publishing business has adopted a model that embraces click bait and cramming ads down readers' throats.

This is the reality we're in.

As an author, if you want to bring awareness to this problem, or offer solutions to this problem, it only makes sense to publish that content where the readers are.

At no point does the article try to reframe the problem of tracking itself as a good thing. If it did, this would be a very different conversation.
Don't have much to say about this other than that it's nice that it's just plain old HTML+CSS.

However, I get white flashes of content every three or four times I navigate this website despite the CSS being downloaded just fine. Anyone have an idea why my browser won't cache the CSS?
Yes - unless the employees get permission from $corp, they will end up in deep trouble. Alternatively, if this Algora company behind the landing page didn't get permission from said people to put them on the landing page, Algora will be liable and can expect to promptly receive a C&D takedown request from $corp legal.

Why? Because it's confusing to the point that it could seem like Google or Snap or whatever corporate entity is endorsing Algora.
The profiles is what gets me. I have a personal bad professional profile on my device and whenever clicking on a link, it will open the page in the latest chrome window (re: profile) that was last accessed and it works wonderfully. Firefox profiles are a completely different process/app/structure and it just really does not work gracefully in any scenario I’ve tried.
This list is particularly egregious.

I have a Netflix and Amazon prime subscription and that’s about it.
because he asked someone else to do it. Major click bait !
Thank you for posting this. I really enjoyed it.
People are a bit jade, because a study like this, plus the cost benefits can help push open office plans. On the other hand open offices have also been proven to be terrible for cognitive functions.

Both are at the extreme ends of what you should be expose to, and both are based in science. But the middle is expensive, and even then people react differently to the same environments.
Ukraine govt made a donation platform to help struggling individual Ukrainians
Yeah broadcast TV content has long consisted in large part of reruns, syndication, and older (cheap to license) movies, think of what was showing during non prime time hours when you were growing up. If anything there’s much more new content now thanks to the streaming wars.
I'm curious if anyone is using Brave or another Chrome based browser in lieu of Chrome and what their experience has been?
Ideally, this should not be the responsibility of the parent. Mainly because it’s practically impossible to protect every kid in a household-by-household basis. Ideally, the government should have strict restrictions on what content providers are allowed to show children.

I’ve seen two kids practically destroyed by these devices, by the inaction of myself and my society. I thought that because I handled computers and later Internet just fine, that they could do it just as well. I think I underestimated the level of the danger by a huge margin.

I have two more kids who are yet mostly unharmed, and due to this experience, I will clamp down on their device use in a much more drastic manner.
(And don't use the people's employers company names in marketing material.)
automatic font ligatures and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race
It seems like that site is now overrun with spam.

What kind of tasks did you get done?
What exactly is gradual about the question: "Can this program panic?". Either you are optimistic and allow any unproveable panics through and now you program will panic in practice. Or you are pessimistic and basically disallow any practical program.

There are a lot of cases where a gradual approach works well. But something so fundamental and important like "Can this program panic?" is not one of those cases.
Racism (or at least a strong sense of cultural superiority) is almost certainly a key component behind Japanese immigration policies. My Japanese partner would be one of the first to agree.

And no, there's no "obligation" to welcome increased immigration - plenty of environmentally focused political groups demand lower immigration too. Indeed I have some serious concerns over the effect it has on poorer countries when there are so many options for their brightest and most motivated citizens to seek a new life elsewhere. But that's a world away from the dog whistling that goes on when politicians deliberately stir up racist sentiment by singling out entire cultural groups of migrants as being the source of recent crime waves or undeserved recipients of welfare etc.
Not interacting with anyone much at all could be because they have an underlying condition that predisposed them to dementia.
I have an older Surface tablet (that I recovered from a recycle bin, TBH) and I've been using Chrome on it, but I was annoyed by some of the latency and tried Firefox the other day. It had all the problems of Chrome, plus jittery scrolling and some extra random lags thrown in, so I noped right out of it. I've got nothing against Firefox as a concept, but it's apparently too hardware intensive for that scenario.
The HTTPS Everywhere extension has been redundant for some time[0] and I have Firefox configured to give a visible warning when connecting to a website with HTTP.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywh...
I always find these discussions interesting. The risks that the article outlines around losing track of how much you're spending are certainly real, but there's two things that strike me around all of this:

1. I somewhat object to them including things like Disney+ or MLB in this calculation. Sure, it's an app subscription, but you're primarily not paying for an app with its features and development, you're buying access to content that you happen to be receiving and paying for via an app. You wouldn't include subscriptions to products on Amazon as an "app subscription" even if you bought it through the Amazon app.

2. I'm curious to balance the rise of the subscription model with what I see as a generally increased quality and upkeep of many of the apps that are on it. There's obviously exceptions, but apps like Carrot Weather, Craft, and Flighty I find to be a generally superior experience to the $3 single-purchase apps that they generally replaced. Many of them are on the cutting edge of using new OS features well, for instance Carrot's widget support is amazing. I've totally forgotten the dread of an OS update where half of your programs just stop working for weeks or months, or even forever.
Good point. Resentment is the root of all evil. You create a narrative where you’re actually the real victims, and then that justifies ‘retaliation’ at almost any scale or severity. It even justifies lies or distortion because it’s in the service of a ‘greater truth’.
TCNs can only be issued to CSPs, Apple isn't one.

There are enough issues with the spying bills introduced in the last few years without creating ones that don't exist.
iOS was the final nail in the coffin, but Flash had been having years of an endless flood of severe security problems. It was having major problems hanging on prior to Apple playing their hand.

Losing Flash's excellent authoring tools is still a hard blow though.
That was somewhat of a plot hole where you think a state of emergency would have been declared at the end and the army would be sent in.
I’ve worked in C++ and picked my own tools. The tooling experience in Go is much more polished for a few reasons.

First, as the author states, it’s hard to get consensus on a tool if it wasn’t baked in from the beginning. I don’t think there will ever be a dependency manager or especially an option-free formatter for C++ with the same adoption as gofmt or go modules.

Second, it helps a lot to have the compiler/runtime authors think about the tooling. Go runtime developers think about pprof. GCC developers don’t think about the UX of valgrind. C++ standard authors don’t write PR’s for code formatting tools when they change the language spec.
Windows 10 (16GB Ram), Chrome 103.0.5060.114, Tested "Guest" profile that has no extensions installed, no antivirus (windows defender only)
There is a CSS rule: font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig" [1]. This rule enables both standard (liga) and discretionary ligatures (dlig). The discretionary set often includes a loop "st" ligature [2].

[1] https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/f/font-feature-set...

[2] https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/open-type-syntax.html#dl...
No large tech company contract actually says that, and if it did it would anyways be unenforceable. At most they can claim whatever you do on company time and using company resources. It's a myth that every side project you work on and every thought you have in the shower is automatically owned by your company.

Companies sometimes do require you to disclose the work that you do off the clock, but that's just so they can review it for conflicts. I have worked at multiple FAANGs and known lots of people who had side businesses or consulting gigs, all completely above board.
I don't think those people are real people. Searched Twitter and Google for their name + company (a sample of five of them) and didn't find anything, so chances are they are generated profiles.

Which, would make this section of the landing page even worse (I think?).
Not refuting the results, but that has got to be the worst, laziest benchmarking I've seen in a long time.
What does your friend use for monitoring?
Regarding stochastic gradient descent, I think there has been an increased understanding in recent years, that the randomness introduced by the random sampling/batching is not only helpful in reducing the computational cost (compared to computing the full gradient) but also in adding noise to escape local minima. Some variants of stochastic gradient descent in fact add some additional random noise to amplify this latter effect and some theoretical guarantees have started to emerge.
>Wouldn't call it fascism though

If you focus more on the kind of world Robocop occurs in rather than the plot, it's easier to see elements of it. Robocop is celebrated in-world for his violence (see, those normal cops weren't able to be violent enough without head-to-toe bulletproof armor and full-auto pistols) as a solution to social frustrations (high crime and corporate greed) and reinforces their hero culture through his sacrifice. There's even a secret conspiracy/plot between those two frustrations and a sub-plot about labor organizing.

But, at the end of the day, it's hard to have an action-focused cop movie without some of these things so we're sort of desensitized to it.

Starship Troopers (also directed by Paul Verhoeven) is even more on the nose about it. The plot itself is just a goofy sci-fi military movie but the human culture in it is absolutely terrifying.
There's a video floating around of Ukrainian soldiers managing the unusual feat of destroying a helicopter (and obviously its pilot) using a Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT8Um69fbHA Fun might not be the right word for it but you can't tell me that the cheer from the soldiers when the missile struck home wasn't born of positive emotion, even in the midst of the hell of war.
I've closed that bug as the problem as the originally reported problem is fixed by hardware accelerating filters as part of WebRender. Do you have more details on the performance problem that you're seeing?
Oops you're right, I take it back. $1500/year is still pretty steep though.
I would say that's definitely on the high side. What you're describing is probably on the low side. Of course, many people spend about $100/month on a cable TV bill. It looks like he has a couple of sports subscriptions but doesn't actually seem to be paying for live TV in general.
Asimov spends criticizes how Orwell got future technology wrong.

But I wonder how the technology “1984” corresponds to the technology in Eastern Block countries circa 1984.

HBOs Chernobyl is praised for its accuracy of Soviet life in the 1980d, and it looks a lot like what Orwell describes in 1984.

And some of Asimov descriptions of 1980s tech were fads:

> His hero finds it difficult in his world of 1984 to get shoelaces or razor blades. So
would I in the real world of the 1980s, for so many people use slip-on shoes and electric razors.

I’ve purchased two sets of shoelaces and 20 sets of razor blades (in bulk) this year.
A+.

I only really eat chicken, so my dog counts as an interested party with regards to meals. It doesn't take much effort (eg don't sauce her food, nothing fried, lots of rice and veggies in the rice cooker) and she is always thrilled for the variety.
I'm sorry but this is plain wrong. Not all programming jobs are the same. Has every coworker you've worked with had a solid grasp of the complete set of computer science fundamentals? I'd be surprised if that was the case for you, because in my case it's a definite no. But they still had the job and completed tasks didn't they?
Fall Guys studio apologizes for causing players to make unintentional purchases
I believe that the stuff you do also has nothing to do with work. Like if you would build a competitor to Excel it would probably be something that MS could say they own.
With that said, it’s a gray area though, as software engineering isn’t that clear cut.
I can't overstate how much this extension has benefitted my work life. It's an absolute game changer.
Reading this reminded me designer friends during education who borrowed an early version of Photoshop to learn. There was near universal expression that if it unlocked a new career for them they would buy it, and they did.

It also reminds me of how many developers were able to pick up enough photoshop to be dangerous and better connect with designers.

There’s lots of alternatives to photoshop today anyways :)

Having access to learning how to use knowledge in your life (like photoshop skills) is invaluable to uplift yourself and future generations.
What about sound?
"This could look bad for OCP, Johnson. Scramble the best spin team we have."
The Old Man, Robocop 2
I was addressing your odd fixation on not being able to prevent an infinite loop. That's not a real downside. We can still make progress in many other areas in the meantime.
I've even seen them ending up in the ocean and harbors. Teens will litter them on the shoreline and not realize (or care) that the high tide will take them.
Hold up, I certainly didn't mean to imply that music has gotten worse - only that it stopped getting better (from a purely sonic perspective). There's lots of great new music coming out, but a lot of it has a retro sound anyway.
'The key wasm person' is nonsense. It's a spec, with multiple implementations of interpreters, jits, and other execution environments. Even outside of browsers there's other runtimes.
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> Since I've read that the key WASM person quit her job after a burnout, I'm quite pessimistic about WASM. Not surprised if it dies in future years.

WebAssembly is so big at this point it's too big to fail (famous last words maybe?). All major browsers support it (Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Edge), runtimes are available for non-browser usage, and a big amount of people are involved in moving it forward.

If it was early days, then maybe losing one key person could have changed the fate of WebAssembly. But at this point, there are multiple key people both inside and outside the WebAssembly organization.
SIM Cards Are Going Away. Why That’s a Good Thing
Just goto office everyday. Play games(foosball, pool, boardgames etc) with your coworkers. Go out for lunch. Go out for happy hours. You would make friends automatically.
Thank you for your comment! All these folks on the homepage actually completed bounties while being college students (most of them at Williams College in Massachusetts, our alma mater) before landing their entry-level jobs. They were the first peps that tried out Algora while we were building it out. - Ioannis
I break up my tab groups into separate windows (by subject matter) and that seems to work great.
Less enthusiastic != Completely against

NATO os certainly very reluctant to send forces into Russia, or even Ukraine for that matter. They can only send weapons to Ukraine.