skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I think what should change is people browsers. Brave blocks ads and fingerprinting by default. Funny enough, the "easy Privacy" list is suspiciously not found in the default filter lists.

There is a Firefox fork that comes with uBlock Origin by default. There is Blockada for Android that blocks ads (and trackers I assume) system-wide not just in browser. But I think it's functionality is limited as it just uses a virtual "VPN" to block things. I think it's like a hosts file that redirects a bunch of ips to localhost so they never get loaded.

It's kind of silly to demand websites to change. What needs to change is things on the user's end. If these trackers were blocked by 90% of users, they would probably consider not using them and wasting time on money on the effort of maintaining that shit. And it would apply not only to nonprofits, but to the entire internet. They need to be FORCED to change, everything else is silly. Like this "do not track" BS that asks websites nicely to not track you, and they can decide (most do) to do not give a fuck about your setting and track you anyway.
This comment is the epiphany of failure.
uMatrix is deprecated, you can get most of its features via uBO: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering
I really like this idea!
I love comedy and satire for my personal enjoyment, but I'm not at all convinced they've been at all effective at stopping some of the most harmful ideas of our time.
Not at night
I would also like to add that I have a lot of respect for my children's teachers. Having such a wide variety of skills and talents in a class of 9 and 10 year olds must be very challenging.
And I guarantee that others are annoyed when folks leap in with no lead in. And I am annoyed at people who ignore messages, even a basic “hello”. Seems pretty rude.
>Their x + sin(x) * 2 activation only really worked when the number of full cycles in the dataset was less than the number of paramters of the network, which completely misses the point. interesting, how did you come to this conclusion?
Dominic "I check my eyesight during lockdowns" Cummings?

This one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Cummings_scandal#:~:te....

Public bullshitter perhaps but I wouldn't have him down as a public thinker
It was the same with the last cold war. They were convinced over population would destroy the earth and Russia and America would start throwing Nukes around.
Decade+ time scales don’t mean a whole lot. It’s far too short a time.
Does the IPCC report anywhere claim that climate change is an existential threat? What does a "code red" actually entail for the next century? Where in the climate science does it actually say that large ares of Earth will become functionally uninhabitable and the biosphere will collapse? Outside of hothouse Earth scenarios, which are deemed unlikely at this point within the 2.5-3.7 degrees warming scenarios, I'm not aware of any such doomsday predictions by the actual mainstream climate science.
Waveshare are cool, and on aliexpress “GooDisplay” seem to again sell mostly the same screens
3G is being shut down in the US.
Brian Kernighan is 80 years old. Donald Knuth is 84 years. Both still write code and avoid most social/non-social media in general. It's amazing given how often we get surrounded by people giving up coding at rather young age for various reasons. Who else would you include in this class?
Surely that depends on the amount of ambient light?
Of course not, and we know this. However we also don't hear all the horror stories.

Secondly, if this was expected and reasonable then I would be hearing about all the painful rejections from the Android store.

In the same manner I would expect to see all the complaints about AWS shuttering people's accounts with no recourse given in the same way that Google kills people's accounts. Or Genius Bar staff having to go to the toilet in bottles because Apple doesn't give them breaks.

Sometimes companies are shitty to their customers and employees, and they can do this in different ways. It doesn't mean we shouldn't point them out in the hopes that they are recognised and improved upon.
Then why did they go about replacing batteries for free?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne4a8d/apples-iphone-slowdow...
To the privileged that can afford it. Meanwhile, global warming is fueling a real need for AC that didn't historically exist in most places and chronic homelessness has become a thing that didn't really exist in the past.

We have set the minimum so high that some people simply cannot attain it. Such individuals end up being a net drain on society in many cases due to their lack of housing.

Some hospitals have found that simply providing housing to some of their most expensive charity cases saves them money.
I totally get why you did this tbf
They could contract Igalia, which already has experience contributing to Gecko and has their headquarter in Spain.
There's no law of conservation of CO2, that's not a thing.

And we even have the proof of that in nature since trees are carbon negative.
Dear Single Page Application designers of HN, please stop writing sites which completely break if I use uBlock.
Just keep doing what works best for our team regardless of whether that means butts in seats three days a week or not.
I'm sure asking it for products near me would have some more refined results.

Seriously though those examples given are worse than a non powered auto responder.
Every time I run with Bluetooth headphones, the connection will drop out for a few seconds whenever a certain type of car/bus/ambulance goes by. Certain traffic lights seem to set it off too. Really irritating.

I'll take wired over wireless any day of the week.
Why would energy usage need to decline when there's a giant ball of fusion in our sky we barely make use of, and when we've just begun exploring space in the past century?
The tremendous amount of suffering will be there soon enough in the form of the next world war. Judging from observations in human history, mass suffering is normal, and the relatively peaceful environment of the “end of history” is quite an anomaly.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t do anything, converting our energy needs to nuclear and solar is the first priority. But yes, there’s a significant probability that it won’t happen soon enough, so we might want to think how to live when famines and mass climate migrations will happen. Linear progress is an exception, not a rule.
Lower resolution is what finally killed plasma display. It can't support 4K for decent size TV when industry moving to 4K. (Though FHD is fine for only watching videos.)
Perhaps the author is thinking of the many creation myths about an original nearly-divine past.

In practical terms, for most of history the large majority of people were farmers and simply thought that the world was just about the same as it had always been.

Traditional belief systems were usually structured in terms of cycles, whether the yearly change of the seasons, the growth and decline of a human life, or the silent movements of celestial bodies.

Leaving aside great wars or catastrophes, social and economic changes happened slowly and would have been hard to identify by an individual living through them.
15 Seconds to turn a page would be rough too.
Yesterday I downloaded Firefox on my 2018 Macbook because Chrome slowed the thing down to an absolute crawl.

What. A. Difference! Firefox is so snappy, and at one point it was using less CPU than iTerm2. Mozilla has received a lot of crapped these past years, as did Firefox, but throughout my life this software has been free and open for me to use. I thank the contributors a lot for it.
NAC is back on Amazon, so whatever happened may have stopped.
Clip Studio Paint: Changes to the One-Time Purchase (Perpetual) Version in 2023
> No. Thats like saying the very act of sharing pictures online implies you want someone else to use them, or that printing your book and selling it somehow implies you want the world to copy it.

Please explain how you are viewing this unlicensed reply without downloading it.

> You share on GitHub because its a source control platform, and your code may be interesting to others. This does NOT mean that you are okay with someone taking the code and using it in their (potentially commercial) program.

Please explain how HN is not taking my unlicensed reply and using it in their commercial HTML code sent to your web browser.
Agree with togaen here, not sure ease of use is a massive blocker for someone looking to breank into programming!
at least things could be tried, which is more than we can say for our polity at present

this is the critical part.

only with consensus is it possible to try things, and fix failures without shaming those that supported the idea.

elsewhere the author mentions multi party systems as an improvement over the two party situation. well, yes, but, in the end, any party system makes consensus difficult. even when there are coalitions, they mostly mean that one party agrees to support one issue against their own interests if the other party will support one of theirs. this kind of vote trading is not helpful.

really the only way to get consensus is to completely abolish the concept of parties altogether.

it's the same issue with unions. they are necessary today because employers do not act in the best interest of their employees. but unions and employers are in a constant struggle fighting each other, and consensus is not possible. but only consensus is able to ensure that a company operates to everyones benefit.
As an anecdote, I was a math major. I took an elective course on the history of mathematics, which must have been a requirement for math education majors, who were under a separate department and even college (i.e., not the math department or college of the arts and sciences). I was the only math major, and I'm pretty sure the only male in a class of about 20 or so. The professor was one of the easiest and most straightforward professors, basically giving out a study guide of homework problems that directly reflected what was to be on the exams. I am fairly certain I got 100% on all exams.

I have never witnessed more complaining and moaning from students than I did in that class. The education majors (i.e., everyone else) complained about absolutely everything, from the book to the professor to the material itself to "difficulty" of the course. It was unbelievable that these people were supposedly wanting to be math teachers but were complaining endlessly about a history of mathematics course. I experienced basically the same from the education majors in the introduction to proofs class.

My mom was a teacher, but those experiences forever tainted the picture of a modern day teacher. In fact, one of the primary reasons my mom retired early was due to her fellow teachers and requirements from the school. She was mandated to use PowerPoint and share lesson plans. But the lesson plans received from the younger teachers weren't up to her standards, so my mom usually had to redo the others' lesson plans, on top of her assigned lesson plan material. Additionally, the kids with the lowest test scores and behavioral problems were usually transferred to my mom's homeroom class for her to help turnaround, which she usually did. What an absolute nightmare.
> You have to purchase a Commercial License at the official website.

https://react-pdf-viewer.dev/
YouTube Premium does this all the time. When I get on a plane, on the tube, etc. it has bugs that mean my ‘offline’ content isn’t accessible.
What is a DAW?
“ICE propaganda” is something that I would actively follow and support, I’d even put my vote for a political platform that would have it front and center. Unfortunately this article was nothing of the sorts, as the future of vehicle transportation doesn’t depend on its luxury makers.
Possibly with small calibre weapons in urban areas.

Sound ranging is a solved and reliable way of identifying artillery locations and was the gold standard until counter-battery radar was developed during WW2. It's still in service with all major militaries (in the West, largely using BAE HALO) as it's a completely passive sensor system and therefore not subject to attack from HARM.
I'm a bit surprised more employers don't offer this. It seems like a very good way to retain talent especially as it becomes harder to find experienced software engineers for the same low salaries.
> Unfortunately, they are not usually very good at thinking about the people who will use their systems, taking their preferences into account, and treating them like customers who they are trying to keep.

Then give developers a little more respect and let them do that!

It is telling that the longest chunk of this text is about not hiring too many PMs and the next longest is about better support. Maybe we should hire fewer product mangers and more support^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomer success staff.

Is this a PM telling us why we shouldn't hire for that function? I agree and I'll vote this submission up!
5. Helping the poor CEO earning a bit more, despite her failing management

https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-e...
> and there was no discussion about it, and none was expected.

That’s EU regulation. https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/employ...:

“Equal employment conditions

You must offer your part‑time staff the same employment conditions as full-time workers, including pay, leave, notice periods and other rights and benefits linked to their employment.

Modifying working arrangements

Whenever possible, you should try to accommodate requests from your employees if they want to change their working schedules, such as:

- transferring from full-time to part-time

- transferring from part-time to full-time

- increasing their working hours

You cannot dismiss an employee if they refuse to transfer from part-time to full-time work or vice versa.”

(Equal pay, leave, pension, etc. are pro rata)

In the EU, about 1:5 of employees work part time, most of them to their satisfaction (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D...)
Digital Audio Workstation, like Cubase or Logic or Ableton or Pro Tools
I had the jaws moved forward. But the surgeon had noted beforehand that I had bad TMJs. So when I'm lying on my back, my lower jaw still tends to open, sitting on my airway.

So I mostly sleep on my side nowadays. And sometimes use mouth tape.
That may have been the case 5 years ago, but these days it’s the opposite. Look at the Munro live Tesla tear downs on YouTube, particularly the megacastings structure, the battery packs or heat pumps. It’s night and day.
Nice that it is available in my hometown of Australia. Surely it is available in US too?

My first thought - those early 2000's digital photoframes are gonna come back!

Edit: Oh... the good old "Out of stock". Ah the 2020s.
Well, except not running over mannequins of kids. [1] You know, the simple stuff.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMWERzT7SQ
> def forward(self, x): return torch.sin(self.freq * x)

I don't think this qualifies as deep learning anyway
I don't know. Light. Check posture. Make sure there's not a bear behind you.
> Small boring self-driving cars, possibly collectively owned instead of big expensive individually owned cars often used as a proof of social status.

So, a bus?
I profess that I like nice things, and buttons inside cars.

If anything is excessive in modern cars, it's the size and amount of touchscreens, not the amount of buttons.
1. Buy headphone company

2. Remove headphone jack

3. $$$
Presbyopia Perhaps?

I went though the mid stage where I needed more light. Now I just need the glasses for close stuff.
You would be naive to believe that gay sex has not been happening just because it's illegal.
I read that as "engineers, who otherwise would be the greatest customer advocates, are horribly mismanaged."
This is exactly what I need! Do you know if it works on a paperwhite? If not, no worries, I know I can find old kindles.
On the other hand, once Debian does due diligence, people can link up the findings on discussions of other distros. Most distros don't care about investigating those issues, but most distros also don't want to distribute code with clear legal issues.

Also it's usually pretty straightforward to solve most of those problems. Cease distribution and contact the authors, and if they are unresponsive either replace the troublesome code (if it's trivial), or patch the program to not use the code (if it's not the main thing the program is about), or give up packaging the program in the official repositories.
> if the "gov't" offers food to all for free, then who makes that food?

> The only reason food is being offered for free in the US is because it's such a rich country that leeching off a few to give food to those in need is not a huge expense.

I don't think any of the world's current governments are setup to ethically distribute food because none of them are founded on universal human needs. If they were, then they could be constructed from a framework of needs that makes sense and can be somewhat verified in reality. Instead, we paved over needs with moralistic rights. If you want to talk more about it, find me on facebook.

If there's no simple way to opt out of capitalism, every form of income is potentially coerced.

Pretending otherwise and then moralizing around the resulting worldview is an effort in denial.

You have no awareness of my needs as a person or the needs of my family members that allows you to determine whether or not I need assistance, government or otherwise. And I don't need to prove to you any of my universal needs. Nobody does. That's quite literally not your business, as in you've not been paid or otherwise summoned to study us.

If you want to, though, I'm open to hearing your assessments after having gone camping with us for a week.

And let's be very clear:

$700/mo to feed 2 adults and a child isn't expecting my life to be paid for by taxpayers. It's graciously receiving a little help each month with living within our values. It doesn't even cover the food bills each month. The US government's assistance programs don't allow one to simply live their life however they see fit.

You haven't even bothered to ask anything about my life. That's literally how uninformed on this opinion you are. You have no idea what I do with my time, where my daily efforts go, etc.

And you want to somehow shame me for receiving money from a coercive government?

Are you even TRYING to bring down this state with me? Because last I checked, the money for food gets alloted based on usage and demand, in part, and every penny worth of food I get is not a penny going to the military.

If you're not actively trying to take down the state, then go take a look at the morality of your complicity and complacency before coming at people for how they eat in this nightmare country, let alone meet any other needs. If you are actively trying to take down the state, find me on facebook and let's figure out some collaborative villainy. I've got a lot of stuff in the mix.
Constraints drive creativity
Every state and country has different laws.

If you're doing things properly, you shouldn't start selling your product in a state or country till you have checked your product meets all the laws there and registered a business entity able to sell there.

Then, you will need to submit taxes to that country, and in some cases even have an office there.
Well... Brave inbuilt adblocker has CNAME protection as well, so if uBO stops working on Chromium 'cause of MV3, changes for me would be minimal.
I refuse to use Firefox in its current state, with that dumb interface and the continuous feature removal. Waht's more, after being a FF advocate and user for something like 20 years, I seriously think that Mozilla should disappear sooner than later.
The exact same way all other parts of the code is. You are also on your own in case of any logic bugs, which may well be likely even worse to debug.
Its a greeting that confirms a certain level of intamacy. You don't have to answer with anything more than the same question. Like a modern "how do you do".
> Waymo and others using LiDAR placed the wrong bet and now have nothing to show for it.

Waymo launched their commercial robo-taxi service in 2017. It’s still running today. Open to the public [1].

Meanwhile, Tesla is phasing out their FSD program. Beta-testers, 98 safety score, $15K cost, whatever, current Tesla owners are pissed off.

FSD is a sinking ship, just like the Tesla/Elon brand. They used to be cool.

[1] https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2017/04/...
I used the wired default iPhone lighting headphones for years. Worked just fine? And came with the phone and was covered by it’s AppleCare for years. I broke so many I must have gotten dozens of free replacements! I only switched to wireless when I got some AirPod pros for 50$ CAD and actually just liked them a lot more.
In the case of DVDs there are alternative formats with higher resolution and better encoding.

That’s a clear improvement.

In the case of 3.5mm audio jacks can you really say Bluetooth really provides better audio quality?

Convince? Ok, but audio quality? No so much.
This is super nice to watch, I love the mr. Blue Sky renders. What stuns me how all the other images are quite grimmly looking. As if the AI has a little depression going on.
Yes, it is a way. The issue is which is the percentage better way.

I mean, someone can be mean and spiteful and hate everything about work and make everyone around them miserable. Certianly we've all known people like that. And that means it certainly is a way to go about things. But percentage-wise of a way to go, I don't know, maybe it works better for the person who is mean and spiteful and makes everyone around them miserable.

So I guess you're right. If someone wants to be miserable to themselves and others, if someone wants to make friends and then get involved in the factional warefare, if someone wants to make friends and then you are promoted over your friend who wants the promotion, or they are promoted and you are not, and then have to fire your friend, or get fired, and then hate them forever and feel like you were stabbed in the back....well, hey, it's your life.

I don't know what other "ways" you are specifically talking about, though. But as I said, the trade-off is that with MY way, you don't get involved in petty office backstab bullshit, you don't have arguments with your friends after you know them for a while and find out that you hate them and now you have to work at a place and avoid the other person all the time. But I, since I only work on the pure professional level, ALL of this never happens to me. Never. I go to work, do my job, friendly and polite to all, diplomatic, tactful, never engage in office backstabbings, no factionalisms, everyone likes me because of it, everyone respects me. I don't get sidelined by petty bullshit, I don't have people coming up to me and talking to me for 45 minutes about how much they hate such-and-such person and why they are horrible person. I don't know....call me crazy, but I like being liked, and not drawn into work bullshit, because everyone knows better and doesn't even try to involve me. So how can anyone ever be mad at me, unless I fuck up on my job? Then that's on me and is ok. But I rarely screw up on my job because I don't waste my time on bullshit like factional office warfare and gossiping, and instead, do this think called work - doing what I was hired to do.
Doesn’t this ignore the fact that earth has an atmosphere? Couldn’t you fire something that would have an escape trajectory but then decays though air resistance into an orbit?
(Not the OP)

For those of us who are not overweight or don't have deviated septums (the usual culprits), we probably have underdeveloped lower jaws and recessed chins.

These collapse on the airway when we sleep on our backs. MMA (maxillo mandibular advancement I think) is a surgical way of moving your jaw bones forward.

I had this done in a clinic in Seoul, as my US insurance was crappy and wouldn't cover the peocedure.

It's an uncomfortable recovery process but there's been improvements.