skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using an ad blocker (and not paying for a subscription in the case of YouTube) isn't the "user making their own choices", it's stealing content.

If a creator puts up ads or a paywall, it's because they want to be compensated. You should either respect their wish or simply not view their content.
Linux Foundation is made up of corporations. This should not be a surprising outcome when you think about it that way.

Edit: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
My only problem with Firefox is that getImageData does not return the actual encoded pixel values, but the values rendered to the screen after any sort of OS color profiles.

This makes it impossible to offer remote sensing processing tools that care about radiometric values to Firefox users. I specifically have to tell them to use a different browser if they want to use that toolset.

Mind you I haven’t checked this issue in almost a year so maybe they finally offer a way to make it behave like every other browser.
If you thought about this from your former friends' perspective, what do you think they would say about it?
Apple is working on a foldable device the size of two iPad Pros
The compression and ARC will make games load much master than they would on NTFS even without having a separate drive for the ARC.
The best reason to use Firefox is to not empower Google's domination of yet another segment of the web. Everything else is chrome-based.
In paid SaaS B2B A/B testing is usually a very good idea for use acquisition flow and onboarding, but not in the actual product per se.

Once the user has committed to paying they probably will put up with whatever annoyance you put in their way, also if they are paying if something is _really_ annoying they often contact the SaaS people.

Most SaaS don't really care that much about "engagement" metrics (ie keeping users IN the product). These are the kinda of metrics are are the easiest to see move.

In fact most people want a product they can get in and out ASAP and move on with their lives.
Seems reasonable enough, but why would it (allegedly) send environment variables back via a POST? Even if it's entirely in good faith, I'd rather some random package not have my `env` output..
I expect more from billion-dollar companies. If you have that much money, you can pay somebody to ensure the changes are properly tested. (I've worked in billion dollar companies, and usually they are too cheap to do this, despite their massive wealth. They just leave it up to ICs and hope they are testing right, rather than making sure)
I’m sure elites love that we’re spending more time arguing about tokenism in mediocre corporate franchise media and other nonsense than we are talking about economic and material concerns
I recently read a piece of local news on housing policies (Austin, TX) and the journalist made the observation that affordable housing is inevitably tied to reducing property values, which is a major source of wealth for older generations. It made me realize why some folks would be against zoning changes and other pro-housing policies, because it might actually impact their personal wealth. I don't know why I never correlated the two before.
At the top of the heap (Mr Beast, Nastya, Ryan, etc), this is true:

> The ideal creator has no distance between themselves and their persona. They have been interpellated by audience metrics; their subjective experience already takes audience reactions into account.

> Or more simply, YouTubers are not “Creators” but Creations. Audiences, rationalized by the platform, and the vloggers who upload the videos those audiences consume are not separable either theoretically or empirically.

It's pretty obvious, too, because these YouTubers have a distinct theme where their popularity is dependent on 1) the whims and algos of the platform on one side, and 2) the ability for their audience to care and relate to something pretty dang detached and irrelevant from their everyday lives (unboxing, aggressive acts of charity, etc).

While you hear plenty (Most? All?) YouTubers complain about the ranking algorithms & capriciousness of their overlord, I don't believe most channels are quite as vapid as those at the top of the heap. Lots of deep subjective content, and lots of freaking annoying CapCut edits, but also a primary focus on meaningful content relevent to viewers. These people may not be getting rich from their vlogging, but it's also not fair to call what most of them are doing "vlogging", either. It's video-based short form content curation for a clearly identified audience. Not remotely the same as how the big guns like Mr Beast have to view their work [where they're much more similar to a cable TV network or a commercial production company than an independent producer].
People just remember the shitty decisions more vividly and for longer than people remember the dozens of good decisions made in between.

Most good decisions don't get a full press cycle (because they are boring).
This is so backwards it seems like a joke. Honestly it reads like a rebel group announcing peace with the dictator and joining the oppression.
Revolutionary in India. I am an atheist but I have to give Christianity credit all are equal before god.
It's generally pretty easy since FF uses the same WebExtension API.
I've not used Ubuntu in many years. Laptop is running openSUSE Tumbleweed. Snaps and even Flatpak are a no-go on this laptop hehe.
Still, I need smooth page rendering and scrolling, similar to how Safari does on a Mac.
Calling the addition of an energy storage device into a transistor "reverse computing" is like calling a hybrid car using regenerative braking "reverse driving".

It's a very interesting concept - best discussed over pints at the pub on a Sunday afternoon along with over unity devices and the sad lack of adoption of bubble memory.
i've noticed that google search can be slow af in firefox ever since they released the ai answer feature
YouTube works perfectly on Firefox if you pay for YouTube Premium. Haven't noticed any bugs, if it leaks memory or something it's not noticeable on my machine.
Fool me eight or more times, shame on me.
Because they refurbished it and it’s back up after 40 years (we didn’t just suddenly communicate with extra terrestrials).
…. rather than just do the surgery for free?

Weird that you think surgeons, anesthesiologists, hospitals, and nurses should work for free.

Should mechanics, teachers, police, firefighters work for free? Are you advocating for a communist type economic system?
Also Mozilla is not completely white, they offer many services that could be seen like they siphon data.

Although to be fair, as long as it's done properly, it's fine, but I don't know if Mozilla communicates on those products.

I remember one security employee mentioning that monitoring chrome with wire shark showed an insane amount of unnecessary traffic that went to google and others.
Where is the article titled

"I don't know how to explain that ads (and the "suckers" who view them) are what keep the internet running"
I personally use Checkmarks: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkmarks-we...

It just opens every bookmark to load the favicon. Brute force, but it works!
>If you're pulling in a package that has 400 dependencies, how the heck would you even competently check 10% of that surface area?

This would be where different security advice would apply: don't pull in a package that has 400 dependencies.
Didn’t know Crystal could give access to pointers?
https://crystal-lang.org/api/latest/Crystal/Macros/PointerOf...
Well, wouldn't it be correct to say that now, with the new numbers, CO2 uptake of plants will be 31% more than previously thought? So every coming year, there will be 31% more CO2 converted into oxygen than previously thought?
Yes. It will further abstract the owners’ responsibility to the users, and the product will get shittier faster.
Ah the greening earth FUD spread by big oil circa 2000s

HN is playing all the greatest hits of denialism this week!
Most (all?) of the carbon sequestered by a tree that dies and rots on the forest floor goes back into the atmosphere. So the "fixing by all future generations" is just the same carbon sink as the current 1 alive standing tree for that spot of real estate.
agreed. it’s practically a prerequisite for everything else in the book. Staying calm and thinking clearly is foundational
Since preexisting blocks are kept at their current parity ratio and not modified (only redistributed among all devices), increasing the parity level of new blocks won't really be useful in practice anyway.
> About once every 10 minutes, a dragonfly dunks its body in the water

... and you see the water splashing in the video, with the ripples being visible for a bit.

Again, I was not talking about the rotations, just the dragonflies touching/immersing in the water. I just find it incredible no one watched them for 20 minutes at a time apparently?
It's less about maintaining a personal blog than it is about regularly doing and writing about things that are "blog-worthy". There are many channels besides blogs - youtube, podcasts, social media, live feeds, github, huggingface - but they all require interesting content. I wouldn't get hung up on the medium, do interesting stuff and publish it.
From your link:

> Please don't use Chrome Mask on YouTube. It won't resolve any issues, and it will make your experience worse over time. If some issue got fixed after toggling Chrome Mask on, it most likely got fixed by the addon clearing the cache. But you can do that yourself, too, without the need for this addon.
Not sure if you're trolling but otherwise genuinely perplexed by how you could draw this conclusion from the above post.
> I trust my own backups much more than any subscription, not from a technical standpoint but from an access one (for example, losing access to your google account).

I personally use cloud storage extensively, but I keep a local version with periodic rclone/borg. It allows me access from everywhere and sleep well at night.
Strange, been using it since inception, but since 2019 I can probably could on one hand the times I couldn't use firefox and had to crack open chrome/safari/whatever. It's usally been overly zealous ublock rules that have stopped me, but easily fixed and nothing to do with firefox.
Thanks! As a Terraform user I agree, but I sadly think that most of our customers couldnt care less about Terraform :D
Pgbouncer is a connection pooler; it has nothing to do with replication.

That said, it’s not that hard to set up replication [0]. Properly tuning the various parameters, monitoring, and being able to fix issues is another story.

RDBMS is hard. MySQL is IMO the easiest to maintain up to a certain point, but it can still bite you in surprising ways. Postgres appears to be as easy on the surface, buoyed by a million blog posts about it, but as your dataset grows, so does the maintenance burden. Worse, if you don’t know what you should be doing, it just eventually blows up (txid wraparound from vacuum failures probably being the most common).

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-repli...
This is basically true. The ad supported web sucks, but the solution is to not use it.
This is a management problem, not a developer problem. Yes, developers should advocate, but it's not the developers' burden to make time out of thin air.
I was a little sad it wasn't that one, I'd have liked to go and see a radio telescope
Are there any component libraries that just do this for you? Like an angular or Blazor component you put your variations in and it handles storing results and handling the logic.
> They describe quite different phenomena, both in terms of the actual state of being and how they're deployed as a slur? "autistic" seems to be more like "nerd" used to be a slur (but also sometime identity badge) before the rise of SV billionaires.

Not what I'm talking about at all. Teens in the US use autistic in the exact same way the r word was used 20 - 30 years ago. It's an insult that is a stronger version of dumb.

> I've never heard "autistic" applied to anything other than people (and possibly animals, for humour) for example, in the way the r word was used as a stronger version of "dumb".

You're just not exposed to it then. Which is fine, but doesn't mean it isn't commonplace. I am guessing you don't live in the US based on your spelling of humour, which would be one explanation of why you aren't tuned into this.

> Anyway, I think people having to be a little careful with their words is a small price to pay to breaking the linguistic and stereotypical link between people with learning difficulties, Downs etc. and dumb, annoying situations.

People being considerate is good. But banning specific words doesn't accomplish what most of the word police claims it will.

> It's called spelling a word because words are spells, which is why it's ok to place some of them off-limits.

Very cute; not very persuasive.
You're right; gasoline should be untaxed. Nah fuckit, gasoline should be 100% government-subsidized.
Ask HN: Continue with SaaS type platform, or pursue AI?
I'm building a collaborative platform for improving sanity (efficiency) when working on complex projects, and with all the AI hype I spent some time diving into LLMs, agents, etc.

My key takeaway after spending a couple months on it is that inaccuracy is really the biggest killer.

Here are some key takeaways after talking to some people as well as doing my own projects:

1. 1hr meeting's AI gen minutes (zoom/teams/etc). It makes a dozen or so points but some of them are not relevant to the meeting at all, and some folks have heavy accents and their input is mostly incorrectly captured. Folks ended up just using manual minutes again because these are important for their workflow.

2. Creating embeddings of files/documentation/messages/etc and then searching on them seems to work well. For the most part, it seems these can be 60-80% accurate because the alternative is even worse (try searching a huge slack for a file, or even software made for file management). However, when it doesn't work, it is really bad because I get wildly unrelated results.

3. Not very accurate for anything involving calculations or open ended questions about numeric data, granted this is a known limitation. Creating a graph or something like that? Sure. Asking it about those figures or trying to derive some additional information seems to be hit or miss.

So I'm a little stuck. I feel like if I stick with a SaaS platform, it won't be appealing in the current landscape where everyone is hammering AI into their products. Personally I find most of the gen AI not that useful - like when I open up a project management tool and the description box has an AI button.

NL input seems to instill a sense of false confidence - I will get what I ask. But when it doesn't work, especially after effort placed into the prompt, people just revert to the vanilla experience.

So what am I missing? Am I just thinking the wrong way? Maybe I just suck at setting vision for the future based on my own experience with these tools.

Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks!
I doubt this played out the way you describe. For one thing, she wasn't the only surgeon in the room, so it's not like she just left the person on the table unattended.

> According to Potter, her patient was under anesthesia when she got an urgent phone call from UnitedHealthcare while in the operating room.

You think a surgeon is answering her cellphone in the middle of an operation? No, to me this says someone else who works for the hospital had to interrupt the procedure to get the surgeon on the phone. I would guess she felt she had to take the call or lose her job.
If a good password is used HTTP basic auth is plenty secure over HTTPS so that everything is encrypted.
GitLab announced in 2020 they were making a focus on hiring Latinx directors: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/06/16/our-journey-to-a-di...
Imagine your local cafe notices and starts feeding you poisoned food instead of asking to pay.
Firefox is great and IMO it's important to have a browser that is open source and not controlled by Microsoft, Google or Apple. For that reason I would probably continue to use it even if the user experience was slightly worse, but thankfully it's not. When I switched from Chrome years ago I didn't notice any drop in performance and I've never really had any major issues since then. Every now and again I run into a website that is broken and think "ah, this must be what everyone is talking about online when they say Firefox sucks" but then I check the same page from a different browser and have the same problem. I hope it continues to survive and gets the support it needs from the community.
Just read the threads here. People are specifically saying Obama's criticism of Woke are no longer valid because the word has changed. But Paul is using the same definition that Obama used.

Is is the progressives who have decided unilaterally that woke is now a pejorative that racists use to demonize progressives and doesn't mean what it used to mean 5 years ago.
Notably the physical limit is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

it doesn't necessarily take any energy at all to process information, but it does take roughly kT work of energy to erase a bit of information. It's related to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

as, to complete cycles, the demon has to clear its memory.
NTFS has Volume Shadow Copy, which is "good enough" for private users if they want to create image backups while their system is running.
You've linked to 2020.

2024 is at https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/wo..., but the numbers seem to be identical.
The only one who has your best interests at heart is you. And you sometimes get it wrong.

It is very common the case that someone else will do something that aligns with your best interest. (love for example) In fact it is often in your best interest to do something that helps someone else and appears to harm you. (giving money to the poor at first glance appears to harm you and thus be illogical - but there are a number of secondary results of this that make it in your best interest anyway)
This is grey-hat at best. Intent may have been good, but the fact is that this team created and distributed software to access and exfiltrate data without permission which is very illegal. You may want to consult with the legal department before posting about this on a public forum fyi.
Norway is a Petrostate. Nuff said.

Note on Hydro power. This may change in the future when water supply runs out due to climate heat up. They might resort to using pumps to fill the reservoirs like other countries do (it's not all green). Also depending on a certain high oil price, the use of pumps to fill the reservoirs can be a business model.

https://blog.sintef.com/energy/norwegian-pumped-storage-hydr...
https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f...
I think you’re doing away with the fairness exception for criticism?

Copyright is intended to reward investment in creative works by giving sole license to distribute. It is not intended to create a monopoly on knowledge about the work.

If I can ask an LLM (or person!) “what’s the first sentence in Harry Potter?” And then “what’s the second sentence?” and so on, that does not mean they are distributing the work in competition with the rights holders.

We have gone way overboard with IP protections. The purpose of copyright is served when Rowling buys her 10th mansion. We do not need to further expand copyright to make it illegal to learn from a work or to remember it after reading.
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Which makes none of us caring even funnier. To the extend that the east coast even thinks about San Francisco at all it's typically viewed as a roadmap of how to fuck up everything all the time.
The post makes it clear that the author made the votes because of who wrote them. He did it intentionally and systematically. That was the reason to suspend the author.

Reading before commenting saves everyone time, not only mine and yours, but everyone else’s that might stumble upon this thread.
The Problem with Design Tokens
Also it boggles my mind that an advertising company (1) offers its own ad blocker to block competitors ads, and (2) circumscribes what ad blockers can do, and (3) nobody stops them... All when the FBI is saying you should run an ad blocker to avoid being the victim of a crime.
Sweet. After rereading OP and your post, I believe I misinterpreted it. But I will say I have that problem too...

Problem A: What OP and you are talking about: When you switch computers to one that doesn't have the bookmarks, you have to click through every one to get the icon to populate.

Problem B: Once FF has an icon, it will never update it. Even if you delete and re-add the the bookmark. I have no workaround for this.
Presumably not the JG Kemeny who died in 1992 (the Kemeny of Kemeny–Young, Kemeny & Kurtz, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Kemeny

TIL that Kurtz died, aged 96, just this past November.
My Firefox does this on Windows. I have no idea how many tabs I have open, but regularly the whole YouTube tab I have open freezes, especially if you try to watch one video, and then another, and the whole UI is delayed by many seconds. Even closing the tab will have the audio playing for several seconds in the background. It's not due to load or hardware as far as I can tell. The videos play just fine in Chrome or Edge. I still use Firefox as my daily browser (previously Chrome), but these issues are super annoying. I don't want to have to restart my browser or PC all the time. I don't know if it's some combination of extension/ad-blocking or YouTube doing stuff, but it's very annoying.

Unrelated to that, but on a Ubuntu laptop I have Firefox tabs regularly stop working entirely. They just won't load anything, and the only fix is to open a new tab and that loads fine most of the time. Other times I have to restart Firefox. I've tried searching for others experiencing this problem and even asked in Mozilla channels on Matrix, but even then I didn't come up with any answers. The laptop's hinge broke last year so I haven't used it since then, so likely never going to figure out what was going on.
It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
LLM's might be able to translate the stored procedure code without too much difficulty, and assuming you have test coverage. Might also do a good job of translating DDL code such as index definitions etc.

I too was impressed with SQL Server last time I used it (big note: SQL Server is one of the few commercial DB's that does real nested transactions; PG does not), but I get it.
Yes, this specific messaging feels motivated by the bottom lines of energy producers. The information doesn't actually change what we've measured regarding progress of climate change, but it's vague enough that plenty of people in the comments here are confused and acting like climate change isn't real after all.
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