skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Differences in group outcomes are not logically equivalent to evidence of discrimination. For example, Asians, Jews and even Nigerian immigrants out earn whites and spend less time in jail than whites do. Is this racism against whites? No.

The extant data on racial outcome differences doesn’t point to evidence of meaningful systemic racism. The one data point to the contrary imo is Asians needing higher SAT scores than everyone else to get into college. I’m not Asian, this isn’t a self serving opinion.
I have to fiddle the settings pretty much every time I move to a new copy of windows with firefox. Basically I think the two different font engines are fighting with each other and create a wobbly mess. Usually by the time I do it windows has moved where the settings are and firefox has too in some subtle way. Took me a couple of days playing with all of the settings until it 'looked right'.
This is a pretty weak argument. Especially since you write fact-checking with quotes. Not your facts, eh?
I'm not much of a video watcher, my bad
The essay does much more than that. It makes a number of claims that are at best debatable and at worst unfounded, such as:

* The origin of woke-ism is university humanities departments

* Musk succeeded in "neutralising" wokeness on Twitter without censoring left-wing voices.

* Racism is (or should be) independent of linguistic context.

* That wokeness is a serious problem in the US.

He also makes liberal use of argument from incredulity, does not provide any facts, figures or citations to back up his claims, and suggests some very dubious moral standpoints (that it is wrong for university staff to get reported for sexual harassment).

That said, I do somewhat agree with you when you say "I don't think what pg is saying is anything new". In fact, he's never really said anything new, and he's always been prone to fallacious thinking. What's happened here is that he's exposed this more than ever before.
Old forests sequester more carbon than new ones. When you cut down a tree, you leave half of it under ground, and when the roots break down all that carbon is released to the atmosphere.

It is far from straightforward whether it is better to leave the forests standing or cut down and replant. The forestry industry is of course claiming that a cultivated forest is better for the climate. The environmentalists are claiming that old forests that are left alone are better for the climate and in addition better for ecological diversity.

I tend to believe the side whose income doesn’t depend on their claim.
PG has always been annoyingly consistent about his views on this.
Change is sometimes slow. Let’s see how Google does as a century old company.

In the grand scheme of things, they’re still a fairly young giant.
You can also model capabilities with the Object Capability Model—just pass the capabilities around as object handles. This has the downside of being rather verbose, but that can be remedied by something like Scala's implicits.
Have you tried installing uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android? Feels like that would outweigh any pain of getting used to the UI, so worth a shot if you haven't tried that yet.
It is quite incredible to me that Sweden doesn't have a bank of last resort to cater for the people the big banks don't care about.

The best they have is SBAB which is a partially state-owned bank but they focus more on mortgages.

Brazil has one (Caixa Economica Federal) for example.
So there's a Carnarvon in Australia that has to do with radio telescopes and a Carnarvon in South Africa that has to do with radio telescopes? In South Africa, the Square Kilometre Array telescopes (and others) are situated within the Meerkat National Park outside of Carnarvon.
Because you are making veiled assertions about a community cynically making charity about themselves, based on your quick visual analysis of a short reddit video. You're doing exactly what you're accusing everyone else of doing, with an added dose of poor faith.
Communication books can be useful. I've heard good things about nonviolent communication and, while I've not finished it, crucial conversations has been useful
There are plants in the ocean that man will have trouble to cut down.

Earth isn’t the same kind of living organism as man, but it’s an organism just like AI isn’t the same intelligence as that of man’s, but it is intelligence.
The thing about a cashless society is everything is traced and stored effectively forever. A greater concern is a single point of control.
A very hard disagree with your comment. The GP is right in that the early ones were badly racist and cannot be construed as "hilarious" or "slapstick humour" particularly for impressionable young minds. Hence it is better kept away from them.

As this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691442 points out even the later ones were biased but at least they are just tired old cliches and stereotypes without being overtly racist.
Well a lot of people have heard about this restaurant now. And "pineapple pizza bad" is a meme that is popular enough, that a lot of people on the anti-pineapple side may decide to visit it at a joke. Hell, maybe some people will go there to other the £100 pizza for fake internet points of social media.

In both cases, now that the publicity stunt worked, I don't see how it can be bad for them.
I occationally use chrome (not chromium) to get the cast functionality -- in order to bring a website to my tv.
Can you please elaborate on that?
They specifically look at the absolute change from the score last January. Biggest delta = DB of the year.

From the article:

“We calculate the DBMS of the year by subtracting the January 2024 from the January 2025 scores. We use the difference between each DBMS’s score, rather than a percentage growth, which would favor systems with lower popularity at the beginning of the year. The DMBS of the year is an illustration of how much each system increased in popularity during the year”
Influential Robotics Journal Picks UVA Paper as Best of 2024
Honestly, I find this whole OSI open-source definition annoying.

I'm pretty sure if this went to court a judge would say it's legally is open source because the source code is open. The fact, FOSS folk want to add a bunch of requirements to open source to make it harder for commercial software just stinks and that is really what it is. "You can't claim you're open source because you limit competitors using your code for free" Pfft.
More about the Mozilla repo: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/4-reasons-to-try-mozill...
No they won’t. Octoprint (3d printing server) had a similar warning but they had to introduce actual user accounts to secure the system because people ignored it.
I have trouble seeing that as irony in a world where "embrace, extend, extinguish" exists.
> describe why they would use ZFS (or similar) for home usage

Mostly because it's there, but also the snapshots have a `diff` feature that's occasionally useful.
Tiny Emus
One of the nice things about Firefox on mobile is that you can install extensions like uBlock Origin to block ads. Mobile Chrome doesn’t let you do that.
> Sounds nice and virtuous... until you remember there exist gangs of homeless people who mug law-abiding citizens, retreat into the structures that you want defended from demolishing, and cry victim when people want to stop their crimes. Not to mention they use the said structures as a hub to distribute drugs to the local community of teenagers.

There are folks who are not homeless who participate in criminal enterprise.

It's unlikely that a successful criminal is homeless, as doing crime successfully generally leaves you with money.

Like wage theft.

> So do these parents truly lack empathy, how do you think? Or they say "no matter what hand life dealt you, please just stay away from my kids"?
>
> What's your opinion?

Yes, some parents let the empathetic part of their brain that covers people not in their family die. "Fuck you, I got mine" is a popular mentality amongst those who believe in bootstrap and american excepptionalism.
I often see charitable groups from the Sikh community in central London serving the homeless. Interesting to hear the background around that! https://asiasamachar.com/2023/10/10/meet-the-sikh-community-...
Depending on the number of applicants and job posts, it may be hard to prove that the person in company A discriminates.
>Stereoscopic artificial compound eyes for spatiotemporal perception in three-dimensional space

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adl3606
> Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube.

I would add to the list the Linux Foundation too.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-annou...
> Sometimes Mozilla makes unpopular choices

Sometimes? They tend to hit the mark of bad decisions more often than not
Poster could have had the 5 year old son at 13 you know?

Kids grow up so fast these days, you know.

<Snark>
A few reasons that might change soon:

1. Higher rate of VAT on fast chargers than at home charging

2. (Not) Allowing fast chargers to qualify for money ringfenced to encourage biofuels

3. Taxes intended to clean up energy that made sense when coal was used to generate most electricity which should now be rebalanced onto gas/petrol.

Also bear in mind that Russian warmongering escalated the gas price which increased the electricity price and only homes got the price cap protection.
As an atheist myself, in full agreement on all the harms that descend from validating magical thinking.

But so what? That's an observation of no relevance. That particular "tribe", fantasy and all, still put me to shame for being good people. Including specifically in the more intellecual impersonal justice/fairness ways that I generally like to think I have down.

The observation about the harms of religion, in this case without an actual example of how it applies in this case, ends up only looking defensive. What are you threatened by that you feel the need to try to attack the simple assertion that some people are nice?
In what world is "all environment variables" nothing sensitive?
Saying Prasada is similar to and predates Langar is like saying Sony Walkman is similar to and predates iPod.

Also temples are extremely diverse and probably less than the 1% of temples offer wholesome meal Prasada similar to Langar while a Gurudwara most certainly will offer Langar.
The headline has says "Khalsa aid volunteers", so maybe make more of an effort paying attention to the video you're complaining about? You literally said:

> In the video you see precisely one person identifiable as a Sikh and many other people, who are clearly not Sikh, performing the same task. Most definitely it isn't "the Sikh community" doing anything. It isn't even clear who provided the resources here.

... and the video is labelled as volunteers for Khalsa Aid, a Sikh-funded and operated charity. Your very basic assumptions are based on your being underinformed by choice or mistake.
I use Safari on macOS and don’t find it particularly slow
Firefox works fine and I like the privacy focus and general features. However, it still randomly causes the CPU usage to spike and makes the fans run full tilt (top shows 90-100% usage for god knows what), even when the same tabs are open doing the same things. I don't see this (atleast not as often) in Chrome, which I don't want to use, but end up using it until Google does one more privacy destroying thing, in a long line of such things, which makes me angry enough to go back to FF until the cycle repeats.

I guess I have resigned being like a ping-pong ball bouncing between these two browsers.
Your description of capitalism is surprisingly lacking in awareness
This seems like a good place to mention my favorite Firefox Addon for Android: https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play

Some days ago I was wondering how it works and was kinda surprised just now that this is from mozilla itself. Reading the project Readme makes this even straight up sound like a privacy addon. I wonder why this is not natively supported.
Mistral (an LLM company) is not really a substitute for cursor (an IDE). Tabby is probably the closest open-source alternative.
https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby
Can you imagine the extraterrestrial archaeologist trying to explain that?
This is a real and important problem: lots of countries have a System, like Vipps or WeChat Pay, which works brilliantly for local residents but is inaccessible to non-residents. Even if (as it sounds like in your case) you're a national but not a resident.
Missing standards like Manifest V3 that everyone was crying out for?
> like further discrimination

People who perceive themselves as losing rights will always be angry at losing their privileges. Growing up white in Brazil was great for the most part: police never stopped me, I got away of many speeding tickets just because I looked like a “good kid”, and so on. My non-white friends never had it that easy. One was charged with drug trafficking because the combined amount of pot he and his white friend were carrying went over the limit a single one could be carrying before being considered a dealer. Of course the police assumed it was the less Caucasian (in reality, it was the other guy who went to buy the pot from his dealer). Even though the white friend stated half the pot was his, the case went to trial.
Thanks for your kind words but your last line really amazed me...I think you're interested in Philosophy or Sufism...btw...I'm from Pakistan, doing my bachelor's in philosophy, and my final year just started this month. The problem is, I don’t have much time to think things through because my degree’s about to end, and I need to make a decision before my family makes one for me—but honestly, I’m super scared...because tell me where do you go when your house isn't home??...
Caveat is very much expected, you should expect ZFS features to not rewrite blocks. Changes to settings only apply to new data for example.
Yes, this is such a big challenge for commercial database products. PG is so great that it often makes the most sense to reallocate the money to more CPU/RAM/SSD, rather than licenses.
Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy [video]
Inane low effort comment.

CAN-SPAM was introduced by Republicans and signed into law by Bush btw.
I really want to switch to Firefox but cannot because it doesn't sync bookmark favicons.

My bookmarks bar is filled with bookmarks without names that I can recognize by the icons. I refuse to re-visit every bookmark when I login from a new PC, which is often.

This has been requested for 17 years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428378

Every other browser sync solution has this feature. Firefox insists on not implementing it because what, it's too much data to sync? I'd pay for it if it was a premium feature.

If anyone has a browser agnostic bookmark syncing solution that can sync the favicons, let me know.
I like it too. I use the Add to Dock feature a lot! E.g. for slack, which does not have a native app, I use the website instead.
Turns out Postgres Is Enough: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...

(Gist contains a bunch of Postgres ecosystems things, if anything is missing, please let me know)
Much faster launch of applications/files you use regularly.
Ability to always rollback updates in seconds if they cause issues thanks to snapshots.
Fast backups with snapshots + zfs send/receive to a remote machine.
Compressed disks, this both let's you store more on a drive and makes accessing files faster.
Easy encryption.
ability to mirror 2 large usb disks so you never have your data corrupted or lose it from drive failures.
Can move your data or entire os install to a new computer easily by using a live disk and just doing a send/receive to the new pc.

(I have never used dedup, but it's there if you want I guess)
So private consumers should just pay cloud subscription if they want safer/modern data storage for their PC? (without NAS)
I tried switching to Safari 2-3 years back after getting a new M1 Air . After using it for a few hours, websites would just stop working and only fix was to restart the browser. After a few times, I gave up and went back to Firefox.
Texas Sues Allstate over Its Collection of Driver Data
How…how many videos are you watching at one time?
Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results
Hi HN!

I've been fed up with search results so much that I decided to make a giant blocklist to remove garbage links by using uBlacklist.

I browsed other blocklists and wasn't very satisfied from what exists now; the goal of this one is to be super organized and transparent, explaining why each site was blocked via issues. Contributions welcome!

Even though around 100 domains are blocked so far, I already noticed a big improvement in casual searches. You'd be surprised how some AI generated websites can dominate the #1 page on DuckDuckGo.
It seems that the president is now provably above the law.

Popularity has become the highest form of morality
Probably depends on how you do web development. I don't like Chrome for web development, but others claim it's better than Firefox and Safari. I normally use Firefox, but would probably pick Safari over Chrome, if nothing else to avoid having to install yet another browser.

We all know that the best web development tools ever to be created was those that shipped with Opera when they still used Presto.
Traditionally, you have the page cache on top of the FS and the buffer cache below the FS, with the two being unified such that double caching is avoided in traditional UNIX filesystems.

ZFS goes out of its way to avoid the buffer cache, although Linux does not give it the option to fully opt out of it since the block layer will buffer reads done by userland to disks underneath ZFS. That is why ZFS began to purge the buffer cache on every flush 11 years ago:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/cecb7487fc8eea3508c3b6...

That is how it still works today:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/fe44c5ae27993a8ff53f4cef...

If I recall correctly, the page cache is also still above ZFS when mmap() is used. There was talk about fixing it by having mmap() work out of ARC instead, but I don’t believe it was ever done, so there is technically double caching done there.
If you think those are nice, check out neon.tech - set up was faster than any of the big cloud providers.
Brazil instituted a cash-back system where any receipt that is created you can opt into putting your name/ID on it tying it to your person, even for cash transactions. You get around 0.5% cash-back if you do.

This is still important even for non-cash transactions because Brazil has quite strict financial secrecy laws (ie law enforcement can't see into your bank account without a warrant). So you have to opt-into giving the government this data.

I am not sure if it is good for money laundering (I assume it helps), but it massively reduced tax avoidance.
> Usually companies do this sort of thing to take advantage FOSS's reputation

I would say they do it because it conveys to the average person that they can get the source code and modify if they want to. This whole source-available, etc nonsense is just confusing for everyone.
There are a lot of people who think humanity will intentionally geo-engineer our way out the negative effects of our accidental geo-engineering. In part because it is something active that a single nation could do for itself. Like, China could just decide one day to do what you’re saying and it’s unlikely anyone would start a war to stop them.

Seems scary because we don’t actually know how to do it, and we only have one planet. We could create horrible side effects like killing ocean life we depend on for food, or admire (e.g. whales). We also have evidence for a “snowball Earth” state at times in the past. What if we overcorrect? Lots of good sci-fi stories about that to chill our bones.

The argument against it happening is that it would be expensive for that one nation, but benefits would not be proprietary. Whereas building out an economy of low-carbon power generation, manufacturing, and transportation creates tons of domestic economic benefits like jobs, trade, profits.
> First step is to identify your enemies

The most difficult and political people I know think like this. They never see themselves as the problem. They just think they’re playing defense and playing the meta-game better than others.

If you go into a workplace thinking that your first step is to identify your enemies so you can be on constant high alert to defend yourself, there’s a high risk that you’re going to become the political problem you claim to want to avoid.

What if there are no enemies? What if nobody was denied this role, because it was added headcount to expand the team? Imagine the OP going in on the defense because HN told them to “identify your enemies” as the first step, but really their team just wants to add another person to the group? This type of advice causes more problems than it solves.
Well first off, the certificate comes with certain guarantees, and they can't give those guarantees if they can't prove you didn't cheat on the test. "spy on you" is absolutely correct, but a bad faith phrasing. That said, I did my AWS test at a test / exam center where there's isolated computers and cameras to validate that there was no cheating.
It's more than just wages, the work is miserable for most people. One of my relatives had Alzheimer's disease and spent the end of his life in an elder care facility. Every time I went to visit I saw how he was abusive and combative towards the staff when they had to dress him or brush his teeth or change his diaper. I see tech company employees on this site whining about minor mistreatment from co-workers all the time but they have no idea how bad it can get in healthcare dealing with patients.
> It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers or for people using adblockers.

Pretty sure that was happening back in a days when Opera was using own engine (Presto). They shipped browser with scripts to fix some popular sites. Actually Firefox also has some fixes for particular sites about:compat
They may be referring to the fact that Firefox is probably the worst on battery of the 3 main browsers when used on macOS.

Safari does admittedly set a very high bar though, and only cares about 1-2 platforms at most.
Prasad, as far as I've seen my whole life (in India and the US), is a single bite of food, rather than being a full meal.

And it's usually the result of you having attended a prayer, rather than "we'll feed anyone a full meal"

The closest thing Hindus do is the Hare Krishna templates globally that also feed anyone who shows up.
Am interested
While I do love Postgres and use it daily on AWS and Google Cloud, I will add that the managed Postgres on Google Cloud is a mess in some areas. For example they use some EOL extensions outdated for 10+ years (a specific example is GEOS) and refuse to update it and give no control for you to upgrade it either.
I wouldn’t consider hiring you. But not because of what you describe but because there is no photo on your LinkedIn but a weird snake illustration.
Are there any alternatives (for multi-speaker synced audio) since the Chromecast Audio was discontinued?
Unsubscribe links can include additional authentication information, as long as it is all included with the link in the mail.

If you don't do that, bot protection isn't going to stop a dedicated troll.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692007
What do you mean by shallow?