skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true in a closed system, but Google is not a closed system, and that person can do any number of things outside of that system.

A person leaving is essentially a vote. It says I no longer have faith in the decision makers of this current group of leaders at google. You no longer will offer your value to them - that on its own, is most likely a loss (they would not have kept you if you didn't offer value.) On top of that, you add value to a potential competitor, or the EFF, or here on HN, where many have already switched to Firefox.

On its own, it doesn't mean much. But collectively, it could be devastating.

If not, oh well. My job isn't to ensure Google decides to be good and not evil. But I can determine if I will support something evil or not. And I choose not.
A multitenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus as a Service
Getting out of my home country.
If you read the article it specifically calls out two star employees leaving to ubisoft that has sparked the downfall
Why would I not regret moving from Firefox 64 to a version based on a several year old version thats less responsive.
Its like your Ford pintos awesome stereo wouldn't work with a car with abs and airbags so you drive a decades old pinto. There are good stereos that don't involve driving a pinto.
Used this on Debian testing a year ago or so, worked quite well. I think I didn't get it to properly run on Ubuntu 16.04 for some reason, maybe time to reevaluate.

One can never have too many browser to separate tasks out, although Firefox containers are a solid replacement oftentimes.
By what objective metric were taxis improving by prior to the technology that enabled ridesharing? Sounds like the intersection of workers' rights and high-tech is awaiting the Kalanick of unions.
Open Source Audible Converter
The company is going to be frequently in arbitration compared to the employees because they have an agreement with every employee and the employees only have an agreement with the company.

Even in your statement here, there's evidence that the arbitration agreements are only in place because the companies can force it. B2B contracts usually have _actual_ negotiation involved instead of a take it or leave type of deal. Now that they can't force the agreements they are ambivalent about whether they are included.

If the arbitration agreements don't survive in contacts when both parties are on roughly equal footing and only show up when one party is much weaker, doesn't that imply that they are abusive?
https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

No they didn't. It's right at the bottom here.
I believe Spectre is driven by processor speculation into a bounds-checked array access, even for when the condition fails (that is, the index is out of bounds). One can get to arbitrary memory in this way using the right index on any array.
Why didn't programming for embedded systems work for you?
Signal is not an "SMS app". Signal is an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, that just happens to also support SMS. Note that if you use Signal as your SMS app, to send SMS messages, they are not encrypted.
Really, I actually love the dry air and am extremely humidity averse. I do remember getting headaches when I first moved here though.

And we'll still be kicking if the rest of the country is underwater; convenient vacationing to the Arizona Bay :^)
You're absolutely right! Completely, utterly, and unreservedly so.

Laws like GDPR are there to protect people from companies. Not make things easier for them. It's perhaps possible that people might be better protected by laws that are clear than by laws that gesture vaguely in the direction of security. Similarly, people are well-protected by clear automotive safety standards, and poorly protected by the regulation around dietary supplements.

Might that be worth considering?
About nine years ago I found out a friend of mine was a "flat-earther" online. He was very much under the impression that it was mostly an insincere and sarcastic group of people mostly trying to trick people that they actually believe this.

Today I'm not sure if
1. He was wrong about the movement.
2. They succeeded in convincing me and most of us they believe more than they do.
3. They convinced and attracted people and they actually on average do believe that the earth is flat.
Caltrain canceling San Francisco weekend service until 2019
I don’t see how anyone wins in this scenario.

If workers win: FB puts freeze on hiring moderation staff. PR benefits begin outweighing the labor costs, and there’s not enough moderation capacity to block the vile content from getting through.

If FB wins: Workers develop mental conditions, moderation staff quits from the job stress, and there’s lots of job churn and not enough moderators to fight the problem.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. This link is one of the recent examples I was thinking of. The dog has been taught to not eat the food even when a human isn't around protecting the food. That requires ignoring one part of its biology for other benefits.
I quit my job to read and hack or a project and random shit. I’ve gotten so much more knowledgeable and skilled. I’m also getting much better job offers than I used to.
High rates result in lower prices. Low rates result in higher prices. The rate on its own is really pretty irrelevant.
"Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent."

There are classic examples as you mention - with regards to natural disasters.

> Spying on them? Are you joking? They are on Amazons website. How in the world is that spying? Man, more and more Hacker News is starting to sound like reddit.

Perhaps you're the redditor - this is talking about Amazon Alexa listening in and judging what mood the person is on. Did you not read at all? Please, reread, try real hard to follow, instead of spouting your nonsense on here.
Claims to want more feedback. "Blog" post has no comment field.
Capable? Sure. But probably not interested in the difference.

Again, the Chrome account is your Google account so you're not associating anything, you're just logging in. It's different than any other example where the website has a different account. Signing in to Chrome and then into Gmail is not what most users would expect because for them the browser really is just another Google service.

There seems to a big (and sometimes willing) misunderstanding from HN/tech users about the mainstream population who just want things to work.
IMHO the choice of name is unfortunate --- "Firefox Monitor" just sounds more like another invasive telemetry thing than anything else, and the word "monitor" itself (outside the context of the computer display) carries surveillance connotations. "Firefox Leakchecker" or similar would be clearer.
No darker than the past. Although, to be fair, the past was pretty dark.
It seems interesting, is is compatible in any way with BitWarden[1], it has a CLI[2] extension that can probably be used in Qutebrowser.

Does anyone know if it is possible integrate? If so, how difficult would it be?

[1] https://bitwarden.com/

[2] https://github.com/bitwarden/cli/
I think that change was merited because of the "signed into chrome vs google" issue they were trying to solve. Say I clear my cookies on a signed-in, syncing account.

With G Cookies also deleted, I may wonder "Why is my picture in the top right but no Google services are using it??". To us, it's clear that chrome sign-in is different from google sign-in, but to others, it may not be.
What’s the point of starting in nowhere to relocate to sfba as soon as you need to hire anyone?

Is UCD so much better than Georgia Tech? Some might disagree.

Not surprised it has most ppl with degrees - it’s probably mostly school staff and some intel employees.

It’s not that close that you can actually drive to the bay in a reasonable amount of time on a workday
> when there is true merit

I wouldn't use those words. I would replace that with "when the backlash is large enough"

Also I read several comments in that thread about how all of that feedback was pointless because the "vast majority of users don't care."

This type of comments always come up after anything a bad company does. You don't need the majority of users to force a change. In fact no movement ever starts with a majority.

That said, Google can no longer be trusted not to screw over Chrome users in the future. Trying to track users this aggressively and then only backing down after a large backlash doesn't really tell me that Google will be playing nice from now on.
Ok, well, Twitter harassment is not illegal. The link you point to only mentions physical harassment (e.g. followig someone, making them reasonably feel unsafe, assaulting them). Harassing speech (and hate speech) is legal (in the US).

In fact it specifically mentions anonymous communications in a variety of forms.

Either (a) communicates with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, or by telegraph, mail or any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; or (b) causes a communication to be initiated by mechanical or electronic means or otherwise with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, or by telegraph, mail or any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; or
Makes a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate communication;...

I can only recommend a more in-depth reading for you. At the very least you owe it to yourself to have basic knowledge of the laws in question before you go about declaring what’s legal and illegal.
If anyone is interested in topics like this and wants to delve some more into the mathematics, I’d highly recommend Tim Roughgarden’s lecture series on Algortihmic Game Theory:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGCF-WLh2RJBqmxvZ0_i...
Similar here. To this day I have no idea what I'm doing or how I got here. I made fan sites for various stupid shows, while selling white goods, and apparently they were good enough to get invited to a career in web dev. Then I took lead on projects because our project manager didn't know what "html codes" are, so they sent me off to do PM courses and suddenly I'm an IT PM.

I still feel like I should be selling fridges, but they keep getting good performance reviews, so I'll take it. Sure pays better than selling fridges.
Not Adam, but I believe this:

> All traffic transmit directly to recepient peer without passing any gateways. Meshbird do not require any centralized servers.

means you can't have a NAT on both sides of connection. Zerotier falls back to proxying the traffic if you can't connect directly.
This is not attempting to fit user needs, this is an attempt to put out a PR fire and salvage quarterly earnings.

I'm still leaving, maybe even more-so because of the false heartfelt "ok let's do it your way". I will not be patronized, we're not on the same team anymore.
Taiwan Can Win a War with China
Agreed. Now: does Mozilla read these?

I tried to switch to Firefox, but was stymied by a bug where Firefox consumes 100%+ CPU on MacBook Pro Retinas.

Firefox is basically unusable with this bug; Facebook takes forever to load, and even Reddit r/firefox shows "A webpage is slowing down your browser" bar at the top.

Active relevant bugs are here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522

But apparently this has been going on for 2+ years and Mozilla hasn't been able to fix it.

Given rMBPs (I would think) would be a fairly large market share of people who work at Mozilla or use Firefox, it's both concerning and surprising that a bug of this proportion has gone on so long.

Edit: Jeff from Mozilla has reached out. I sent him a perf log and a screenshot. Tracking here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494186
They also depend heavily on the performance of the company in question. Amazon's stock went up 8x in the 6 years I worked there, so the original numbers vastly underestimate the reality.
Not really a decision, but having a mental breakdown after multiple failed startups and unsavory corporate jobs made me re-evaluate my life and drive me towards achieving something meaningful I would be proud of.
I don't know if it'd be half, I think less. And also where would they go? Most will still be "Googling" things, driving with Google maps and have an Android phone with location turned on at all times. On the other hand it will make their most devout users, including the majority of their employees quite proud and even more more dedicated.

Here executives were crying on camera saying "we lost". I don't think many believe they are then going to turn around wipe their tears, sit down at their desks and be impartial when deciding which news to filter, which videos to demonetize, which charities to support. I don't think they will be, and they shouldn't. They should be more brave and stand up for what they believe. It will make them seem more honest and they might even recover some of the PR image they lost recently.
I completely agree. I'm not a developer, but when I hang out with people in my field who can only talk about that field, it gets really old really fast.
As a python engineer still living in 2.7, it's great to see major codebases making the move. I know I have a similar experience coming in my future, and I appreciate hearing what seems like more or less a success story come from it.
What surprised me most was just how successfully it was suppressed. Bletchley was a decaying set of mostly forgotten huts that did Enigma code breaking in the war and the surface of the story was barely scratched. I got especially interested in Bletchley and WW2 history right about the time the two or three significant books started coming out in the 80s.

Gordon Welchman, another of the little known geniuses, moved to the US after the war to teach MIT's first computing course. He later worked on encryption for the US military. He wrote the Hut 6 Story in the 80s, the NSA didn't approve of his book, so he lost security clearance and was forbidden to talk about his own book or his involvement. There is a fascinating interview somewhere out there on the web, with some of his relatives, about him having a surveillance tail in his late seventies!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Welchman
> Further, Apple has been accused and convicted of orchestrating ebooks price-fixing ($450M fine in 2016) and colluding with other tech companies not to poach each others' employees (another $450M fine for all tech companies involved in 2015). A US jury also found Apple willfully infringed VirnetX's IP's (ie, facetime VPN OD). So yeah, sure, Apple, however big or successful, is fully capable of engaging in unethical, anti-competitive/trust, illegal activities to gain advantage over others.

Sadly, at this point, this is par for the course for any corporation. This is simply what they do. It comes with the territory.

These types of discussions always devolve into this whataboutism that really is a bottomless pit. Ultimately corporations must engage in unethical behaviors as they are incentivized to. I bet qualcomm's closet is just as full of skeletons.

Won't change until the US and China start governing corporations properly.
Based on the literature, it was almost certainly mustard.

1823: https://books.google.com/books?id=02gUAAAAQAAJ&dq=cruet%20st...

1857: https://books.google.com/books?id=IXkEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255&dq=c...

1893: https://books.google.com/books?id=gRM-AQAAMAAJ&dq=cruet%20sa...
Agreed. It's still interesting video forensics. That's a detail that isn't somehow invalidated by the fact other components of good journalism also happened.

Some people have very binary thought processes.
Both the best and the worst decision I made: starting grad school in 1993 instead of moving to the Valley and getting a programming job.
It's becoming clear that Chrome has reached dangerous market share levels, in part due to how good it's been but in part also by being pre-installed on 1.5 billion Android devices. It's time to make a conscious choice and choose Firefox or any other browser that would ultimately help in making the browser market a little more competitive. Every user switch counts.
And anyone could do the same. It would probably take me the afternoon to create a service that searches an email address in some text files. Overall having people be aware of data leaks is more important than attempting to hide already public data.
In Germany it depends on the town. You separate paper most of the time (maybe nearly everywhere), and some apartment complexes also have bins for organics (not composting per se, but will be taken for composting). Some towns mandate you also separate all recyclable plastic, some don't.

If you have bulky stuff you either put it on the curb or haul it to communal collection stations/scrapyard, where it's free to offload "a small van full per day" if you have a local license plate. Sometimes people are waiting in front of it and will take anything looking good right out of your hands, but the employees at the scrapyard may also grab some things, afaik they resell this for a low price then (a bit picky though, they didn't want a CRT monitor that I was still using until that day because they already had a slew of 17" LCDs, psss :P). I don't think it's illegal to remove stuff there, but I'd have to check - or you have to pay a small fee.

There have actually been court cases where people were sued by supermarkets when they salvaged produce from the bins (probably trespassing charges, you can google for "containern"=dumpster diving + "urteile"=verdict).
Wow. Can't believe Apple now own Shaquille O'Neal.
To leave the academic track and start working full time on a mobile app at the end of my Masters. Nearly everything notable that's come my way career-wise stemmed from people noticing that little app that I spent less than 6 months working on.
Why would you need traditional bounds checking with Wasm?

Just use MMU hardware to insert 2GB [0] no man's land below and above Wasm memory and only allow signed 32-bit indexing (-2^31 — 2^31-1).

This way the attacker can only read sandbox memory (and the useless 2 GB no man's land, mapped to pages full of zeroes or whatever).

When there's no speculation involved or the data is simply out of "speculative range", Spectre is toothless.

[0]: 2GB is just a basic example. More may be required if for example something like x86 SIB (Scale Index Base) is used for multiplying the index by 2, 4 or 8.
Thank you, this is exactly what I wanted to read up on.

Oh, the Google thing. That's easy to sum up in my opinion. From his tldr:

>Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.

He failed to demonstrate a difference in traits between men and women correlating to engineering interest and ability. Therefore, equal representation is fair. Therefore, it is an attack on an underrepresented gender to argue otherwise.

If he wants to go and research whether or not there are actual trait differences he's more than welcome to, but he shouldn't be surprised if Google doesn't want to fund that effort.

By the way, it seems you're suggesting "belief that women are biologically predisposed to not be interested in / good at engineering" is a conservative value. I'd agree that it's a value many people that are conservatives hold, but I also know many fiscal conservatives who'd be quite insulted by this conflation.

Brendan Eich opposed a bill giving equal rights to a certain group of humans based on born traits. Is "not wanting to give equal rights to a certain group of humans" a conservative value? That's a shame, because that kind of thing is typically illegal at the Constitutional level. If someone feels bad that they argue that gays shouldn't have equal rights, and then tbeh get fired over it, I have about as much sympathy for that person as I do for a racist.

In any case, racism, sexism, hate against gays are not political opinions, and shouldn't be protected.

For the CNN video, which was most interesting as I haven't seen it before, so thank you for turning it up:

The first guy says "if I suggest we have more border security am I gonna get fired?" I'm not allowed to talk about politics at work, why should he? If there's an environment he's in where people are talking about this stuff, and he doesn't get to, that's definitely an issue! Same for maga hat guy.

If someone holds unpopular opinions and is getting pushback about it, that's life in the big city. Every big city, actually. They're all full of liberals. I've yet to hear of people suffering actual consequences for expressing non-hateful aspects of their personal philosophy.

Tldr I don't care that sexists, racists, or homophobes get fired for their beliefs. I don't care that a maga hat guy can't wear his hat to work because I can't put a Bernie sticker on my laptop and fair's fair. If a trump supporter doesn't have any friends in San Francisco, I am unsympathetic. If they get fired over it, though, I will be mad.
Go was designed for concurrency (and the docs take care to distinguish that from parallelism), fast compilation, and easy deployment.
Everyone seems to be arguing the utilitarian merit of this feature, but I just don't like what it signals for Google's approach to the web.

They're building in features that integrate their browser into their web pages.

As far as I'm aware no other major browser holder has done anything of that sort, but I'm probably missing some examples.
This comment kinda reveals just how little you know of how the rest of the country and the world looks at Silicon Valley. Google, MS etc. are seen as great jobs for many immigrants and (as I found in grad school in a rural area) small town kids. They compensate extremely well, which is enough of a carrot for many, many people, especially those from less economically privileged backgrounds.
Because they want your data in exchange for access to the service they provide?

I get it, it's frustrating as hell, but I can understand their perspective.
Why do you assume that? I spent almost a month camping this year and I'm planning a 2 week snowboarding trip in the Rockies. As well as a climbing slash canoeing trip in the boundary waters area in the spring.
I probably use it once every couple weeks. So not quite daily, but certainly regularly. If you're a musically inclined person, Shazam is a superpower.
Realizing I was under appreciated and acting on it.

Also realizing family and enjoying life are often more important than the next step in my career.
Those guidelines were followed. Given the chance I would say that to their faces.
What’s the catch?
I don't understand, the piece looks like it promises to address all the problems highlighted in the past few days in Chrome 70. Why are you saying it is a PR piece?
Yes, very low bandwidth. Active BCIs based on EEG are extremely unreliable and/or exhausting to use
For a JavaScript alternative to pyQT I recommend proton-native[1] - a React environment for cross platform native desktop apps.

1: https://github.com/kusti8/proton-native