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Same here. Recommending my family, team and relatives to either use Edge or Firefox.
Of 70 of them, 15 switched to FF, 32 to Edge, just after 2 months of me saying.
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If you take free will as some kind of a divine spark, then, sure, it is not compatible with determinism. But there are more useful definitions of it. We need to have a distinction between behavior not under coercion and behavior under coercion, between behavior of a person who can realistically assess circumstances and who cannot and so on.
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I switched to FireFox yesterday with zero issues and works like a charm (including 1Password and uBlock Origin integration).
s/Google/China
> It might not be like the black lung, dirt-faced dangerous mines of old, but if you end up working 10 or 12 hours a day, are caged, distracted, annoyed (but fed!) at work, go home to a meager existence, have zero friends, zero romance, and your mind is hijacked to the point where you literally cannot think about anything else and relax, then your soul is being pretty much sucked dry.

I would get my soul sucked dry for a few years for 100k$+ a year - for few years
of course it's not callous, you're describing purpose as a motivator. Most people in most industries in most societies in most parts of the world are at least partly motivated by purpose. It's the opposite that is callous: to see every C++ programming job as being equivalent. Seeing programming jobs only through the lens of "what programming problems am I solving" and "what tools am I using" is nihilist.

Callous would be working for a company that hurts people when your labor has enough optionality that you could work elsewhere.
Isn't that likely to be the same as what people 90 years in the future will say about us, though?
There are two distinct problems with that:

One is that AWS (and Azure and Google) are taking advantage of their brand recognition and are pricing their services extremely high compared to their competition. For some that is worth it as they need services they don't get elsewhere, but for a lot of people there are far cheaper cloud services out there. Sometimes even hybrid solutions (e.g. a particular problem with AWS are the absolutely insane bandwidth prices - if you "need" to store your data on S3 because they're the only ones you trust for durability or because it fits in with other parts of your workflow - but you access most objects regularly enough from outside AWS that bandwidth prices are a high part of your cost, for example, it can often pay to rent servers somewhere like Hetzner just to act as caches)

The other problem is that while it looks straightforward, as much as we might like to think so, servers are not as much of a commodity as we'd like to think. Components are.

The really big savings in running your own comes when you measure how much RAM you need and what CPU you need, and whether or not disk IO is an issue, and configure servers that fit your use better. If the cloud providers have instances that fit your needs, awesome, you can get a decent price (if you shop around). If they don't, you can easily end up paying a lot for components in your instances that you don't need.

When you don't know what you need, it might be ok to pay that premium, but as soon as you know what you need, there are many cases where buying your own allows you a degree of specialisation that does not pay for the cloud providers because it's better to provide a smaller range where they can get economy of scale. I've seen cases where e.g. being able to shove enough RAM in a server cut costs by 90% or more vs. splitting the load over multiple lower RAM cloud instances.

I'm not saying it will stay this way forever - there are certainly regularly more and more combinations that you can find decently priced cloud instances for - but there are still tons of cases where building your own (or having someone configure one for you) is so much cheaper that it's nearly crazy not to.
Another reason is that the official Firefox builds for at least GNU/Linux doesn't employ standard exploit mitigations (stack canaries, position independent code, read-only GOT).
Qwant is worse then Google, but better then Bing or DDG. Try it.
I do wish Web USB would be more supported in Firefox/safari etc. not sure why Chrome is so far in front there.
Should work on Windows: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/ea67de243b02...
My thoughts exactly, and in reality, the Five-Eyes countries will surely follow if the price is right. Maybe they'll get the Telcos to install it as part of the standard bloatware, or do a deal with Facebook. I know the UK is so far up China's backside they'd welcome an opportunity like this...
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I would somehow have to get money into the account... It's the same problem all over again ;-) I suppose I could put the BTC that I mined heating my house when CPU mining was a thing in there...
Clients vs. livestock maybe ..
It is not like you are getting paid more hourly for each extra your put in right ?

If what you suggest is done, then you are basically selling your youth for equivalent time with an older body.

It may even be worse, since a 50 year old you may be worth a lot more /hr than you are now. So it isn't even an equal trade.

I have struggled to understand workoholic mentality for a while. Sure you work more, but to what end. For what ?
Google push Chrome crazy hard whenever you touch a Google service, and they have a crazy bundling game in play - they bundle with flash, acrobat reader, some free A/V products - wherever they can get marketshare.

Plus some pre-built PCs come with Chrome preloaded.
Like Microsoft did with their windows 10 technical preview?

Or like Microsoft still does with machines with handwriting / touchscreens?

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-touch-security-wai...
even Wiles much more safe looks not too much happy
I really want the Note 9 but am afraid to switch away from the iPhone because of Apple’s stance on privacy.

If you had told me a few years ago that Google was the reason I wasn’t buying an Android phone I wouldn’t have believed you.
It's ad replacement scheme is unethical. It forces publishers to only partner with them and not multiple competing companies, atleast with Chrome publishers can partner with other networks then Google. I won't root for it.

We want competition.
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Spotify often suggests me songs I already like but haven't listened to on the platform, which is a good sign to me. The suggestions are also just diverse enough for me to discover new stuff.

I don't know Pandora or Youtube (though I have generally bad experience with its suggestions), but am pretty happy with Spotify.
Validation is always a problem. In one early example, I came across, the core data on which the model did not match what was really there. The data was assumed to be correct and, of course, nobody actually did the checking. The previous year's data was used for the following year's calculations.

I knew the data for the spreadsheet was wrong only because I had been involved in looking at the actual data sources in weeks previously.

But there can also be formulae errors. They seem to produce the correct information, but they will have subtle errors that miss necessary edge cases or use set values when they shouldn't.
Rich counties, companies, and other groups track you based on connections and data across thousands of servers and sites. Poor/lazy counties etc just force an app on you.
IE 6 was superior in every way, there truly was no competition at the time.

Then they didn't bother to do anything for close to a decade and "suddenly" everyone had passed them.

Google on the other hand seems to be actively making things worse. Might not take so long time for chrome.

One can hope.
If only would Edge add support for installing PWA's directly from chrome, like me prompting users to install, it would be great.
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Isn't one of these debugging?
IIRC I actually used some tape when I was starting to learn the violin. But it does not make sense after that. The different tones are a lot closer to getter than on the gitar, so you can only mark some of them. Then you are back to the start since you still have to use other means to know where to put your fingers.
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If you view your work through a lens of pure abstraction and intellectual curiosity, what's to stop you from working on something that hurts people, just because the problems are interesting?
It's not a simple blame game. Whomever controls the product definition rules the roost.

E.g. good luck trying to be a developer at Microsoft 10 years ago in Balmer's 'embrace, extend, extinguish' model

That is to say, it's organisational dna that dictates who defines the product. Once the 'specs' have been written, hands are tied.
May I ask what kind of business are you running for your passive income and how you got there?

Background of this question: Also form Europe (Austria), an EE engineer but modestly paid and overworked. I figure I should pivot to a passive income source as even switching jobs won't imporve my quality of life since companies are overly stingy on paying competitive salaries and most try ot burn you out in the long run as they try to be more competitive and government will tax the hell out of you the more you earn so I figure why bother, my healh is worth more than that.
I think that's a mischaracterisation of guilt, especially if you think it implies they want other people to die. It's based (as the article says) around survivor's guilt, and the worry that your life exists only because someone else's doesn't. Or is comfortable because of their suffering. Or the vegetarian impulse: at what cost in animal suffering is your life, and does it matter?

(Having this discussion work is going to require a certain minimum amount of empathy and non-assumption of malice)
Not long enough, but IoT mass deployments are going to change that, as they are much worse than Windows 9X security issues.
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Their mobile app also has support for extensions such as uBlock Origin, which is lovely.
Since we’re correcting people... Viola is not tiny. It’s larger than a violin, though smaller than a cello.
Sync is disabled by Corporate IT by default. Not suggesting any malevolence, just wanted to check whether anyone else experienced a similar suspicious event as well.
It’s not an inconsistency because of how taxes work - the first $x gets taxed at a lower rate. Most of most people’s income is not taxed at their marginal tax rate.
I really recommend switching to a password manager - it's also easier to access the passwords from other devices. For example I can use the same passwords on Firefox desktop and on Safari - iPhone (including auto-fill on iOS 12). I have good experience with 1Password (subscription paid).
Part of it is because there are different concepts of "in tune" - are you working in natural tuning or equal-tempered? (That is, is a C-sharp the same note as a D-flat or a slightly different note?)
The Amish have industrial strength belief in the power of forgiveness. The mind boggles at the power of their belief.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/02/amish-shooti...
> the Walmart ones are better, at least if it comes to taste and looks

And awful if you want anything resembling "real food". (Not blaming anyone for buying them, I buy pre-made cookies as well.)

But yes, getting a nice looking/tasting cookie might require a few tries.
No direct data. But that's the impression I have gotten over the years. I've seen a ton of posts at the frontpage that talk about moving away from Apple for whatever reason, which are always heated debates. I've never seen any post of people jumping from Windows to mac or linux (I believe that's not a situation a lot of people on HN are in).

it might be my filter bubble, but if I google "hacker news mac vs windows" the only results I get are posts where people are moving away from Mac to something else[1].

[1]: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/969743/46010063-fa... (that's just the top of the page, but the whole first page is like that).
I'm counting the seconds to the google press release or blog post that says it was confusing for users that they were suddenly signed out of gmail after they deleted all cookies.
I'm in the same boat. Just switched away from Gmail and Chrome. Love my Pixel 2 XL for its astonishing camera, but very seriously considering a switch to the iPhone.
I went with Safari browser on iPhone + 1Blocker X(one time payment of $5?).
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And that was the trend clearly. Back in 2008 Firefox had 33%, and IE 59.4%. Basically, Firefox was unstoppable before Chrome started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

By another stat counter, for 5 years from 2004 to 2009, Firefox raised from 2% to 20%, while IE fallen from 95% down to 67%.
The Soviets did a lot of human experimentation.
1) Its not some random guy's job to replicate this stuff. Its the job of people getting paid to do this type of research (ie, the peers) to verify each other's work.

2) You're right, its been published for four years, seems to have had some sort of impact (since the news has mentioned it), and doesn't seem that complicated or expensive to do in principle. So, is there a direct replication?
For one thing, Open Source software can't require commercial users to pay. The common way is AGPL then, in the assumption that it's unacceptable for companies to comply with, and selling a different license too. It's also a hurdle to take that someone makes a decision to pay for your thing specifically (and doesn't go search for a free replacement). Lots of still quite valuable components don't really meet that hurdle, and you severely limit your adoption by using e.g. AGPL. If (and that's a large if) tidelift gets somewhat widely adopted, it'd trickle down to all parts of the ecosystem, not just the few standout pieces being able to get paid otherwise.
That is so bad. Oh my god.
In a certain way, that is a brilliant idea! Generate a random key, encrypt a bunch of random data with it (or maybe even just generate a bunch of random data), and send it to a few of your contacts, who immediately discard it.

But I think such a feature would better implemented at the OS level! :)
Not irony. The stuff is not on Google, it's on the Internet and directly accessible via links. It's in fact what any company wants, the holy grail: for people to mix its brand with the category of business. It will pass and be replaced by some other fad.
This has been shown to have worked, historically, and I believe in relatively recent times someone was able to request some documents in the name of Frederick Forsyth (the original author) using similar techniques.

It's surprisingly easy to get a Birth Certificate, for instance, which is used for ID purposes and can be the route to (legitimate) passports etc. You need some relatively obscure information about the birth, but this can often be found in digitised records through places like ancestry.co.uk

I have no experience of doing this illictly, but in order to get proper identification documents for my girlfriend, it only took a bit of digging, and a free trial account at ancestry.co.uk (which I then cancelled) and the appropriate fee to the General Register Office. It certainly felt at the time like that could easily be abused.
100k$ won't create much savings in the Bay Area. At least aim for 200k$ there if you want to sell your life for years.
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I tend to agree with this argument. And I think it's about time to start treating maladapted social behaviors as broken minds.
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I used to manage hardware in several datacentres, and I'd usually visit the data centres a couple of times a year. Other than that we used a couple of hours of "remote hands" services from the datacentre operator. Overall our hosting costs were about 30% of what the same capacity would have cost on AWS. Once a year I'd get a "why aren't we using AWS" e-mail from my boss, update our costing spreadsheets and tell him I'd happily move if he was ok with the costs, as it would have been more convenient for me personally, and every year the gap came out just too ridiculously huge to justify.

In the end we started migrating to Hetzner, as they finally got servers that got close enough to be worth offloading that work to someone else. Notably Hetzner reached cost parity for us; AWS was still just as ridiculously overpriced.

There are certainly scenarios where using AWS is worth it for the convenience or functionality. I use AWS for my current work for the convenience, for example. And AWS can often be cheaper than buying hardware. But I've never seen a case where AWS was the cheapest option, or even one of the cheapest, even when factoring in everything, unless you can use the free tier.

AWS is great if you can justify the cost, though.
It’s actually very simple: anyone who makes a living from working on this product owns a share of the blame. Nobody in this industry can claim to have their hands tied; it’s not difficult for folks talented enough to land a job at Google to instead find work that doesn’t involve violating privacy at web scale. If you write code or participate in meetings intended to execute on a corrupt vision then you are tainted.
Or, have your cake and eat it too!

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It be some background process or chrome extension communicating with google services. Because that would explain the automatic regeneration of cookies since cookie creation is automatic.

And no, even this won't stop me using Chrome. You know what will? If I can identify it's causing BSOD on my system, like I've seen 2 yesterday.
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Maybe we need this. Let's face it, within a day of this backdoor being released it will be leaked/hacked/exploited in some way, which will cause a national outcry that could go global. Maybe we need a test case to show the rest of the world how badly these uneducated, ridiculous and reckless laws will be.
> If he’d have held onto them until the $20 000 peak (a tall order in itself) he’d have netted a cool $200 million.

If he could have sold them at that price without moving the market, that is.
20k more or 20k less. That’s 40k difference. That alone should put you on option A without a thought. Base is not relevant when you’re saying 1 is more and the other is less and you can only choose between the 2. One is either 40k more or 40k less.
You should be good if you're using Android without Google services, I think.

That's exactly the rub. We don't really know.

My Windows phone is going defunkt and the only alternative I really see is either an iPhone, or then back to a dumb phone (a 4G wifi hotspot function would be great, but I haven't found a reasonable dumb phone supporting that).

I'll be damned before I carry any Android device on me.
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Be sure to turn off telemetry. Also, the other elements that can send browsing data to google, which are fortunately customizable in firefox.
They also run active countermeasures, like deauthing any SSID that isnt one of their own, so no hotspoting. Gotta do it over Bluetooth or a USB cable.

If you find yourself there again make sure to ask whoever is hosting you for VIP status. Supposed to only be Director and above, but it's an absolute game changer as far as the hassle getting in and out every day and I've managed to get it a time or two.
I'm surprised that MacOS 10.14 release came almost unnoticed on HN.
So $200k is $20k for 10 years, which is well below the poverty line. If you sold your life for 4 years, that would only get you 40 years of poverty.

Now if you can invest $180k/year, for a few years when young, you can retire early and rich. But it would take 20 years of growth.
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IMHO When you've got a company as large as Google that is able to do things like openly use dark patterns to trick users into giving up their location data and 99.99% of people aren't aware or use their dominant search page to nag users into using a browser that won't respect privacy setting or remove Google's tracking cookies that's the point you need to start thinking about government intervention.

Google is behaving like a malware company.

We were in this situation with Microsoft in the late 90s-early 00s. I was glad when they got a slap on the wrist and told to stop taking the piss. I hope the EU will do the same for Google.
Could this be only when you are logged-in to your account in chrome?

I.e.

"if you are logged-in to chrome, it won't delete google cookies because it need it for you to be logged-in to chrome (because of some UX excuse, like user confusion why it's logged-out from chrome).

If you are logged out of chrome, it will delete everything."

If it works this way, I would be willing to give them benefit of doubt, since there is reasonable UX reason to do it this way (given that logged-in to chrome now equals to logged-in to gmail). I personally would expect that deleting cookies will not log me out of chrome.
I use FastMail with my own domain. I used to use Google Apps before it.

But before switching email services, do yourself a favor and ditch webmail interfaces first. Pick up a desktop/native email client and switch to IMAP / SMTP.

On MacOS a solid option for us power users is MailMate (https://freron.com/) ... markdown composer, GMail shortcuts, useful bundles, fast, uncluttered, it's basically what I wanted Thunderbird to be. Development on Thunderbird is apparently ongoing too and they just released version 60. Apparently Web Extensions are in the works too.

Transitioning to a native client is painful at first, but it's worth it.

GMail's web interface is a piece of shit lately anyway.
What a cookie monster
Be as evil as possible.
That link leads to me an empty page, is the URL correct?
Flutter vs. React Native
So it's doing a 69 with your privacy
>more secure.

Hypervisors don't imply more secure.

>(The people who insist hypervisors are microkernels are ignorant of both technology and history.)

Truth. However, hypervisors implemented without microkernels won't be secure.

Look at Xen and its large TCB for an example of doing it wrong.

Look at seL4's VMM for an example of how it is done properly.
In most companies, AWS just becomes a new front-end to the same old IT bureaucracy, and dev teams are still disallowed from creating their own instances or EMR clusters or setting up new products like their own Redshift instance or ECR deployment solution.
what is their business model?
One thing to consider is that if you spend several years with zero friends, zero romance and doing only single thing, then it is hard to start socializing again (assuming work is work and not socializing moved to workplace). You forget what it is like, how to do it, how to choose people to be with. You wont know what to do with time.
They disagree with the direction the company is going so they ... quit? They apply at some other company comparable to Google, uproot their family, move across country, and get a job somewhere else?

I don't blame the engineers one bit. I certainly don't expect the poor engineer that had to implement the cookie changes to refuse and quit his job over it.
MS? Not! There’s too many of us older geeks that still remember MS and their attacks on Linux.
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Curious of the MTBF (mean time between failure) rate of a GefForce/Titan series GPU under continuous utilization in datacenter conditions vs a desktop computer with intermittent usage. I don't want to believe Nvidia is just out to stiff cloud providers. Maybe it's to protect themselves from warranty abuse?