skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safari's ad-blocking abilities are no more potent than what Chrome's Manifest v3 gives you. In fact, the changes in MV3 were inspired by Safari.

I used to work adjacent to a team working on anti-ad-blocking tech. Safari's protections are fairly easy to circumvent, with Adblock Plus not being great either. It was uBlock Origin that was making this team sweat, and they didn't even bother with it.

The reason is that whatever you can do in the browser, e.g., via JavaScript, uBO can inject scripts with stubs and protections to fool any anti-ad-blocking tech that ads are, in fact, being served. There's no way to combat uBO without a degraded user experience, even for users that aren't using ad-blockers. Compared with uBlock Origin, other alternatives looked like toys.

Note that many people are happy with just DNS-level blocking, even if it's the easiest to circumvent. That's because many publishers don't bother with circumventing ad-blocking protections, either because it's too expensive, or because they don't want to piss off users. But that doesn't mean that the available solutions are equivalent. They aren't.

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Note, if an ad-blocker also works “inside other apps”, on iPhone it's only because the same blockers can be activated inside web views. But not in all apps and not even in all web views, e.g., try it in Facebook's app.

Android has a solution that actually works in apps, but to achieve this, it requires root, and it will act as a man in the middle, and that's not something that I can trust:

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html
I had been sleeping on Claude's ability to write books until a couple of days ago I had it write a novel set in the Accelerando universe. It whipped up a very convincing complete multi-Act 13 chapter side plot about humans learning to interact with Economics 2.0. It was quite good though I'm sure cstross would be horrified.
I can understand that this could be a means of trying to bargain with Russia, but I do wonder how they'll repurpose the people involved.
I have a few extensions on Firefox that perform page transformations for privacy and other reasons. Instead of troubleshooting whether a broken site is specific to Firefox (with or without extensions), I often opt to use an incognito Chrome with uBlock Origin for sites where I don't want to mess with configuration and the normal mode of Chrome for the google related websites.
Heh. I feel that I might be somewhat responsible for the existence of this article. Perhaps merely a coincidence, but this happened a few days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/1itrhd9/blat... in which the author schools me on the topic of American Fuzzy Lop which he applied to my home made OBJ parser.
we've had minimaps in (some) text editors for more than a decade so why the hell not!
Wow, what a wildly simplistic view you have of programming. “Code smells” (god, I hate that term) are not the only thing that can be wrong. Unit tests only cover what they cover. Reviewing the code is only one piece of the overall cost here.
Or at least make it mandatory to disclose such behaviours before purchase. Failure to disclose should result in the vendor and the manufacturer becoming liable for the repair/replacement costs (with the vendor similarly able to push the costs to the manufacturer if it was not disclosed to them either), as well as any actual damages resulting from the failure of the product.
Xiaomi's Prototype Modular Camera Lens
Any different with google results?
There's nothing absurd about local generation being able to fulfill/contribute to a large portion of the energy needs of a local residential area.

People with residential solar do it all the time with payoff in less than 10 years.
Also, somewhat unique in that they don't sing. And they sometimes get drunk by eating fermented berries.
I am not sure about walking on a moving thing. I would like to see a kind of surfboard action, balancing only when it moves.

Over to you!
Worse even.

Many of that "efficiency" is achieved by externalizing costs.

The farm can (must?) produce cheaper (or have bigger margins), by polluting both its environment and the very resources it needs to run on in the long term. It "externalizes" costs to the community around it and to a future.

Pollution, depletion, animal abuse, reduced biodiversity, sped up resistance to antibiotics, etc etc.

This isn't by any means "sustainable" in the literal sense: that it can continue, let alone grow, like this. We're on borrowed time already. It's very clear that the current model also cannot sustain billions. So dismissing alternatives because they cannot sustain billions is a poor argument.
Yes, but there are only 6 digits available. So a million different codes can be generated. A new code is generated every 30 seconds

Rather pleasingly, 30,000,000 seconds is roughly 1 year.

So, assuming a uniform distribution of codes, you would expect to see a repeat after a year.
Complex or not, it's doable as the nuclear power plants in France are doing. Germany used to do it as well, until they shut down all their nuclear plants.

Though due to the xenon poisoning, they apparently use the reactors which at the moment have the freshest fuel for the load following, as they have more excess reactivity available to overpower the xenon. They can ramp at something around 5% of rated capacity per minute between around 30-100% of full power.

Most other countries with nuclear power plants have a much lower share of nuclear in their grids, so they haven't needed to do it, as due to the economics of nuclear it makes the best sense to run flat out as much as possible in order to recoup capital costs.
It cannot be stressed enough how _vital_ these scripts were to making the WWW an actual functional technical resource; These scripts were a key, if not the key, in growing the actual interactive web, showing the potential of CGI, and in guiding the evolution of web2.0 and beyond.

Its value and place in history can't be overstated.
> Not to mention you'd be much more dependent on the implementation details of a given function

Hmm, but wouldn't that already be the case since the manual lifetime annotation must match what the function actually does? E.g. I would expect compiler errors if the 'internal' lifetime details of a function no longer match its manual lifetime annotations (is it actually possible to create incorrect lifetime annoatations in Rust without the compiler noticing?)

Higher compile times would be bad of course, but I wonder how much it would add in practice. It's a similar problem as LTO, just earlier in the compile process. E.g. maybe some time consuming tasks can be moved around instead of added on top.
What changed between when shop class was common and now to cause those issues?
Washington did not have anywhere near the financial resources to fund the Revolutionary War, and the war was financed mainly through debt, foreign aid, and state contributions. While he did benefit from independence in some ways, he did not orchestrate it as a means to avoid taxes or personally enrich himself.
I mean, depends what you mean by ‘work’. For instance, something which produces the correct output, and leaks memory, is that working? Something which produces the correct output, but takes a thousand times longer than it should; is that working? Something which produces output which looks superficially correct and passes basic tests, is that working?

‘Works for me’ isn’t actually _that_ useful a signal without serious qualification.
I recently pulled an old laptop out of the closet with a mostly stock image of XP to play with an old device and it felt so snappy.

It's sad how bloated things have gotten.
Since 2019, large corporations the world over have been forced to open up their books to fiscal entities in their respective countries. Every country could tax what these companies earn in their country, and also add some penalty for evaded taxes booked in other countries.

We can do the same with billionaires and their assets.

The tax evasion industry (for corporations as well as for individuals) needs way more regulation and penalties. These firms inflict a net negative cost on society.
The energy needs of a local residential area will just increase in response to the economically available power, but that's irrelevant as we're talking about agrivoltaics and farms use enormous amounts of energy.
Yeh I loved twiggy for a while there but then he went all in on the hydrogen bullshit, and now those hydrogen projects are getting wound down before completion (aka fumbling the ball).

In general I think the east coast and the national energy market is cooked, I'm not sure how, and when the pioneering spirit died but it did. On the non-fatalistic side EV and rooftop solar uptake are great, so who knows?

On the other hand I'm much more optimistic about WA, they seem to be quietly making the correct decisions as far as I can tell. Expansions in desalination, huge battery projects, green industry (ammonia up in the pilbara [1], and inroads into the lithium supply chain in kiwana).

Let's see how this all shakes out, and hopefully the public rejects the pro fossil fuel / nuclear bullshit.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYY9miC2Y2A
> I expect my electric usage to drop after adding a solar thermal collector to replace a portion of the electricity used for heating.

Well, that's just harvesting more solar energy, not reducing your energy needs.
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A war-time president? The UK and Canada postponed elections during WW2, but no one is calling Churchill a dictator.

Using millennia-old definitions does nothing to further discussions.
"Cursory", get it? I did indeed make it with Cursor! ;)

I hope you find yourself having a better day today than yesterday.
Offtopic, but what is up with YouTube's algorithm? Is it just me? When I scroll to see the next videos they are all very strange kids videos. Full of primary colors and super bizarre sequences. I was expecting to see more Firefly related videos.

One video is a kid flushing things down a toilet so an adult makes a cardboard toilet and picture cards they can put in. Next was a woman going into a theater and somebody put something in her backpack. Turns out it was a doll. Is anybody else seeing this stuff? What is it? Who's making it?
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Afaik loading fonts from Google's servers requires user permission (cookie banner or such), at least several GDPR articles recommend self-hosting. Google though says "For clarity, Google does not use any information collected by Google Fonts to create profiles of end users or for targeted advertising." (https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy)

Google allows downloading and self-hosting of fonts.
Meh. It’s provable over and over that excess government creates a charity trap for the vulnerable. it is my direct and repeated experience working with various charities, an unwillingness to leave government programs is what holds so many people in poverty.

I am more than happy to discuss a re-written Social Security net for American citizens who are truly struggling, but not those looking for lifelong paycheck for nothing. Today we have a grossly abused, wildly expensive, and unbudgetable aid program. And it’s all by design.

We can by all means cut fraud written systems today with plans to add back the necessary functions later. Rewrite and consolidate for the modern era.
Perhaps because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237747
I had to take either home ec or shop in high school. I’d already done all the shop stuff I’d wanted to while growing up helping my dad make things, so I took home ec instead. I was one of two boys in the class. It was awesome. We baked. We sewed. We hung out with a roomful of girls. It was one of my better high school decisions.
I hated shop class. It was an enormous waste of time I could have invested in learning more about computers, or to reduce hours in school. It should be completely abolished and people with an intense desire for carpentry and similar activities can learn about it after school without tormenting all children with this nonsense.
Yes, depending on the city it can be more or less complex. It comes down to how kids are viewed, and a good indicator could be how libraries are handled.

How much does the local library cost ? is it easy for kids to access ? is there a library in the first place ?

If the local library is thriving, a community center can be an extension of that. If it's dead, that city is in a pretty bad place from the start.
Until recently a must-have in my .bashrc was `fortune | cowsay` but this tripped me up when one of the spicier fortunes was output during a video call with my then-boss, no harm done but I decided to retire it to only personal machines.

I imagine there's many versions of that story contributing to why these things are less popular than they were.
Actual secret trick: learn next years course this year. It takes 6-12 months for neurons to mature in a human brain.

Remember how easy last years math was the next year?
OPM breach.
I setup a project somewhat along these lines with a Raspberry Pi, a USB DAC, and spotifyd. Now I have a decent and convenient audio player hooked up to my sound system. May not pass all the bars for an audiophile but the sound quality is actually fairly decent - much better than my previous Alexa setup - which is all I needed.
I am honestly surprised by this. Congrats to the makers and to the Blender community, of course, but to me Flow looked more like a feature-film-length demo reel. And not even the most impressive demo reel, visually speaking. Compared to all the other animation films out there... I don't think it would rank even in the top 100 for me.
Can you solve it? Clueless sudoku, a genius new puzzle
> I'm not even sure you'd get away with calling them "independent contractors", under these conditions, when workers save copies of this blog post, to show to labor lawyers and state regulators.

An independent contractor is more likely to not be paid for meeting mutually agreed terms, not less likely.
You write code to do these things? If there's a requirement for you to be able to do such a thing make it a feature, implement it with tests and voila, no different than any other feature or bug you work on is it?
Privacy is a key human right that should not be abrogated by the state, ever.

Fundamentalist-authoritarian chauvinism for your own state is no justification for these human rights violations - assuming of course you are a citizen subject of the criminal 5-eyes alliance ... If you cannot imagine it being okay for other states to harvest your data, you should not be okay with your state doing it, either.

You know why? Because violating your privacy without recourse is how states ramp up to commit genocide and other atrocious crimes against human beings, whether their citizens or otherwise, by a process through which the states ruling classes deem their victims inferior and thus subject to attention by further repressive state apparatus.

Mass harvesting billions of human beings data every single second of the day, without their permission, is therefore a heinous crime against humanity and a massive violation of human rights at scale - especially when its being done by a violent, belligerent state with the blood of literally millions of human beings lives on its hands. Or do you really think that China and Russia have murdered as many civilians as the USA and its minion states have done, this century, in one illegal war after another?

With the Pine Gap apparatus, the USA is primed with information about who to target in its victim states. It is a key method by which effective mass murder can be manifested in illegal wars - of which, the USA is the undisputed leader, this century.

Just by way of a single example - the Holocaust was made feasible by the mass harvesting of private citizens' data by IBM. Is this not well understood, today?

Would you be 'okay' with Russia and China operating their own Pine Gap, since "its no big deal to 'just be snooping a little (a lot of) data'"? Would you be 'okay' with your own state knowing absolutely everything about you without your knowledge or control, now .. or in the future, when perhaps your political attitude changes as you grow older?

You most likely wouldn't be happy with China and Russia doing this, even though they have not murdered as many innocent human beings on the basis of lies in one illegal war, after the other, as the USA and its war-crime committing cohorts have.
Why is it dead
I was required to wire each unit with 150kW panel. The original 1931 service was 240 x 200 Amps which I upgraded to 240 x 800 Amps in 2018.

I posted the best image I could of the original 1931 schematic which has 9 circuits for 5,000 sqft school.

It's the first image in this slide show.

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B2dGIcgc2GugpW3
He'll know after his avatar is a resurrected from his preserved brain.
Pretty much everyone has “some sort of mental instability working in their minds”.
What would be your defining criteria for "best animated film" ?
The moral of this story is, if you chose to say otherwise at the border, make sure that enforcement can't access contrary statements like this one.
Nice writeup. Was this built to be used with multiple devices? IIRC at least older jailbroken iDevices let you modify /etc/hosts, which you can use for the same purpose of blocking specific sites.
While I was reading this I had an update and Chrome turned off uBlock origin and bypass paywalls. I was able to to go to manage extensions and turn them on but I guess if that stops working it's on to Firefox.

By the way does anyone know if you can just turn off updates on Chrome and have it keep working in its present state?
Even after learning the right idea, humans and animals test other approaches
You’re holding it wrong, magic robot edition.

Like, at a certain point, doing it yourself is probably less hassle.
And I must admit, I just don't know, may be just fine-tuning could be enough to train models to be real creators, not imitators. But may not enough.

Or may be some advance in structure will give this new quality (current LLM are flat, but brains of all known most intelligent life forms are sparse matrices with tricky connections between dense parts).

Any way, I believe, next few years we will see race of new concepts for AI and will evolve something much better than LLMs or current possible hybrid solutions.
China doubling down on Open Source as an oblique defence against US weaponisation of supply chain dominance is the geopolitical equivalent of Aikido. Very well done.
The US overtly supported and encouraged an effort within Ukraine to overthrow a democratically elected president because he moving more towards Russia than the West. Russia then ended up invading Ukraine for fears of having NATO not only right on their doorstep, but right in their geographic Achille's Heel.

This war started when Ukraine's president Yanukovych, at the last minute and under Russian extortion, abandoned the EU-Ukraine trade agreement that would have opened up the EU for trade and other opportunities. This meant that Ukrainians could've easily seen their incomes grow by 3-4x in a short span of time, like other countries that entered deeper relations with the EU and eventually joined it saw.

Naturally, Ukrainians responded with massive protests, to which Yanukovych replied with increasing violence, culminating in 100 protesters being killed by police snipers. At that moment, Yanukovych lost the support of even his own party, fled to Russia out of fear of imminent imprisonment, and the Ukrainian parliament announced snap elections to replace him. The elections were held a few months later. Not many people would call general elections a "CIA coup".

NATO has nothing to do with it either, that's pure gaslighting. In the first few years after the initial invasion in 2014, Russia denied having any troops in Ukraine. According to Russia, the thousands of people equipped with Russian tanks, artillery, and air defense systems were merely local self-defense forces who had bought their equipment from military surplus stores. Russia claimed that Ukraine was in a civil war.

The narrative started shifting to blaming NATO only in the run-up to the full-scale invasion in 2022, when Russia abandoned the story that Ukrainians were fighting each other and needed a new justification for its massive surprise attack on all of Ukraine.
Only because every other Str-accepting function uses "s.len" instead of "s.len > 0" as the "is s non-empty" test.

Still, this function is called only once, and in that call, its i argument is always <= length, so it's perfectly fine (it's only UB if you actually pass it a bad argument).
You make it sound like some kind of natural law that we have no saying over. It isn't.

The whole concept of wealth accumulation is entirely human-made, and influenced by what the society is willing to tolerate.
Intended by whom? Google?
Court partly affirms settlement in California Pizza Kitchen data breach case [pdf]
I really like marginalia; even more so in this day and age where most search engines are filled to the brim with useless AI ad-infested muck. I find myself turning to marginalia search more often to find real people discussing or writing about whatever topic I'm after.

One thing I would really really love, that I didn't know I wanted until he put it in the random/explore page, is for all search results to display a screenshot of the web site that was found. It's a wonderful visual cue that helps me find stuff I've seen before; I often can picture the website I found a piece of information on, but don't have it saved anywhere. I know he's got it under the domain info, but at that point, I may as well just click the link. I think it'd be great to add it to the main search result listing.
In 1000 years perhaps we will understand how the mind works and scientists will take out this glass brain and read it.
The one big (and IMHO most problematic) thing that Rust and C++ have in common is the desire to implement important core features via the stdlib instead of new language syntax. Also both C++ and Rust use RAII for 'garbage collection' and the 'zero-cost-abstraction promise' is the same, with the same downsides (low debug-mode runtime performance and high release-mode build times).
Nvidia and Broadcom testing chips on Intel manufacturing process, sources say