skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, its interesting to see these companies move in this direction, must tell you that their profit margins are tightening and therefore must provide more value by increasing their surveillance levels.
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> The basic assumption of all gravity based theories and models is that the universe is electrically neutral everywhere and that magnetic and electric fields have no possible influence at stellar, interstellar, galactic and intergalactic distances

This is impressively inaccurate: plasmas (charged and magnetic fluids) are basically the entirety of stellar evolution and the main part of everything up to galaxy evolution, so we have pretty good limits on the magnetic fields out in the universe.

There is also direct measurements of magnetic fields integrated along the line of sight out to cosmological distances, and of course every spectra ever taken has measured the ionization level of the luminous gas.
Not really. IE's "killer feature" was ActiveX. Which meant that any browser limitation could be worked around.

But there was competition, that's why they made the original effort. Once the competition was killed, they stopped.

Sure, they wanted it to be the best browser - but not better than desktop.
I think you're comparing imaginary perfect engineering team with stupid business people. How about we compare intelligent business people with autistic engineers who only want to write well designed, fast, secure code?

Contrived examples and comparisons. Remember that good code, performance and security take time, money, and effort. You have to earn money.

How sure are you that Google enters it's own Ballmer era? How likely is that a somewhat optimal business strategy involves alienating some privacy minded people? Very likely, judging from my perspective. I like privacy, but it seems to lose to convenience every time.

You say

> Bizdev + marketing are hugely important, but the products and engineering need to be the focus.

Not necessarily true. It could be that bizdev + marketing should be the focus, and engineering should be the remaining 30% or something. I might be wrong. Most likely it isn't even uniform across all product. Some product should excel mostly on their technical merits. Others on hype and being cool.

Personally, I'm already almost switched from Chrome to Firefox, and in the process of migrating from Gmail to other service. Because I want to support other companies by using their software and contributing to their ecosystem (Rust for example). I don't think Google is headed in the wrong direction, however. They are just way too big for my taste and for some reason I feel myself better being a user of smaller products.
BSOD can also be caused by bad graphics drivers. It's a major problem for browsers on Linux, so they don't enable hardware accelerated video playback by default. Firefox even used to remove the code from Linux builds but I think that they include it now.
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Since GDPR is in percentage of turnover, how much market share/customers would Google have to loose to equal 1% fine (1% is less than what they should get for this)?

If you can answer that question, and then suggest a possibility for them to actually lose that much market share, then you may be able to demonstrate that losing the market share is far more impactful than any currently possible fines.
Wondering how long till the community forks Chromium and makes a foundation for a reasonable Chromium fork. I'm more of a Firefox kinda guy, but I mean it seems like the only way that users will regain control over their browser. I know Vivaldi is based off at least parts of Chromium but I don't think it's fully open source yet and it's not (at least last I checked) simple enough to install on Linux (I can't just apt-get install it effortlessly like I can Chromium for example).
Yeah, the seccomp limitation that it can't deref pointer arguments makes things a lot less elegant than pledge.

But at least unveil can be implemented via mount namespaces.
Is there any reason to believe Google would not be tracking Chrome installations even without persistent cookies? Does this actually make any difference?
You can’t do that with “plain old HTML”, you would at least need css. I assume you mean JavaScript.

Slideshows and scrolling websites are not the same thing.
There’s a word in the first paragraph of your comment that should be replaced if you want to be taken seriously.
Please give us the CMB power spectrum with your favourite MOND theory before continuing on your tirade about how those theories are neglected without basis.
So, what's the optimal solution according to the Ski Rental problem?
if you want to use a web browser - use Brave browser.
Edge needs to add display: contents support before I’d consider suggesting it to anyone.
But not commercially viable due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
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Every time Baby Name Wizard is mentioned, I have to post the link to the most interesting blog post ever written:

http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2007/7/where-all-boys...
From a monetization perspective, why not just charge $99 for chrome vs charging $0.00005 * x-thousand and being seedy via ads? Not going to pay now, since trust is blown, but here’s to anyone in the future.
This could have been a valid point, but not since they started automatically logging you in in the browser when you log in to gmail.
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>I trust Apple more than Google

trust apple to make you pay 500 dollaridoos for broken glass back repair when Samsung makes you pay 50 dollars at max. the apple support tax you have to pay is really insane. doesn't help that they basically want every company to follow their model so they can go even more insane(Right to repair laws)
Worse in what way?

I assume quality of results, but the context was sort of lost in the thread you replied to.
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RIP Rdio... I also loved it. It had a great portfolio, the website was not massively heavy and it had a very nice design overall...
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FastMail with your own domain.
Few bucks a month. No creepy motive for them to mine your data. Reliable service. No bullshit & fast user interface.

No affiliation, just another customer.
I'm quite happy using ProtonMail.

I don't use email _that_ heavily, so I'm on their free plan and that's just fine for me.

(www.protonmail.com)
What about companies choosing to use inferior products because their board own a stake in the producer? What if the majority of shareholders are hurt by this choice, but they're unaware that it's being made? It's extremely common in my field and causes noticeable market inefficiency.
sudo dmesg -w -H --level=err

displays the exact problem
Google, don’t underestimate the collective power of early adopters. We can put you up there, we can pull you down. Users are not dumb fucks.
Induced demand is when more people drive, or they drive more often, or longer routes because of added roads.

This is when the same amount of traffic is distributed less optimally because of adding new edges on the graph.
> I actually lay most of the blame on Gradle, which became mandatory around the same time. I never thought that someone would create a build tool I dislike more than Maven, but it seems they succeeded

Indeed ... most people don't know Groovy and hate Gradle whenever they have to fight with the build file. What's fascinating is that I really like Groovy and know it extremely well - but even I hate Gradle. It's amazing how shiny the documentation looks for how little it explains the underlying principles of what is going on. Most people are two steps removed from any hope of understanding it (first learn Groovy, then realize that Gradle is actually a DSL layered on top of Groovy, so you still have no clue what is going on until you learn that as well ...)
This is kind of FUD. I’ve been running my own mail server for over a year now, and my E-mails don’t magically disappear into some blacklist. Do you have to be careful when configuring your server? Yes. Can you get on a blacklist erroneously? Yes. Does not going with a hosted solution mean you cannot participate in E-mail? No way.

I don’t know where this myth comes from that running your own mail infra means your mail will be marked as spam. You’re not the first (or second or third) person to mention it though.
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It's because for a long time, there was only "interruptible" and "uninterruptible", where "interruptible" meant that any signal could interrupt it.

Historically, many operations were specified not to be interrupted by signals - reads and writes on disk files (as opposed to "slow devices" like ttys and sockets), mkdir(2), fsync(2), etc. They're not allowed to return EINTR. This meant using an uninterruptible sleep, which has the consequence that SIGKILL can't interrupt it either. That's why the code in top or ps for uninterruptible sleep is 'D' - historically it meant "Disk Wait".

TASK_KILLABLE is a more recent invention, which can be interrupted only by fatal signals. The code doing the wait still has to unwind as if it were going to exit from the syscall with an error, but userspace won't see that error because it will die from the signal instead.
"Reading that, I thought he had never had a chance. Something had been broken inside him at a very young age. This is a dangerous notion because nobody apart from ourselves has responsibility for what we do, we are humans, not creatures subject to forces that drive us here and there without offering any resistance. Unless of course being under the sway of others is part of the human condition, and being a good person is the same as being a lucky person."

(My Struggle, Book 6)
For me, one of the main reasons for building a personal deep learning box was to have fixed upfront cost instead of variable cost for each experiment. Not an entirely rational argument, but I find having fixed cost instead of variable cost promotes experimentation.
There's really no way to intellectualize it - people coming to the Bay Area in 2018 are suckers, plain and simple.

You missed the boat - by years. Not only will you never afford a home here, you will piss away so much money on rent and other aspects of the absurdly inflated cost-of-living adjustment that you won't be able to leave and buy anywhere else either. If you're coming up on forty and still renting your primary residence, you are in real danger of financially screwing yourself for life. Traditional models of retirement have people paying off their homes in full by around fifty so they can start building their retirement funds.

Forget about catching a break when the "bubble bursts"...the "bubble bursting" means most people reading Hacker News will be out of work or feeling very nervous about their jobs.
It used to be that Mac tried to create a specific experience for the user, while Windows allowed me to have the experience I wanted. This article touches on the problem, I was fond of saying "Windows is becoming more Mac like," but actually Mac isn't even having these problems. I don't want your apps, Windows, and I don't want your advertisements in my start menu.
I understand what sea level rise means. Pieces of cities and maybe a few whole cities will need to be torn down and rebuilt elsewhere. Building cities on a century timescale is not difficult. (How many of the vulnerable houses are more than 80 years old now?) Building new farms is trivial.

A 2ft rise is catastrophic if it happens in a day but not if it happens over 80 years. The IPCC report shows about a 1ft rise from 1900-2000 which no one seemed to notice (other than the engineers whose job it is to deal with). I would expect a 2ft rise this century to be about twice as bad, so not that bad. The Netherlands is proof that this type of thing can be handled with time and engineering.
> if in the future the people in power use that information against you or your people you will regret it to exchange your privacy for convenience.

Alternatively if the people not in power have a revolution and murder all of us working in finance... well shucks I guess that could be something I'd regret.

Waving around arbitrary threats doesn't help if the people you're preaching to view them as low likelihood.
> I certainly don't expect the poor engineer that had to implement the cookie changes to refuse and quit his job over it.

There are no poor engineers at Google.

That is, ironically, the point people are making: if you make that much money doing something so (arguably) distasteful, you deserve scorn. It's in the "you can't have your cake and eat it too" family.
Not evil, just less intelligent.

In a small company every manager can weight more factors. As it gets bigger and specialization grows a manager must reduce what it considers to focus on more specific tasks.

In a small company, a development manager can weight privacy concerns and use it judgment to change features. In a bigger company the development manager must delivery whatever it reaches him as a request, only the privacy department can make decisions regarding that.
I really want to use Brave and I've tried it over the course of more than a year, here and there, and every time it crashes when I pin tabs, I haven't checked their bug reports, granted, but how is this not solved by now?
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> talk about moving away

It's just that. All talk. Including the usual empty threats of "don't piss of the technical people".

Meanwhile, they're still logging into Facebook using Chrome on their Windows machines.
Not disputing your point, but some of that extra code does allow you to do cool things. Add a `-k -b=-{n}` to see a previous boot's dmesg, or filtering with `-k --until` for time filtering, &c. All with the same interface you're using to process your other logs too.
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> autistic engineers

How about we stop with this stereotype and with usage of this development disorder as an insult.

It's unfair to people suffering from actual autism.
probably not a popular opinion but I think the best way to reduce your carbon foot print is not to have children
Well, to be a little bit pedantic, the USA doesn't have a democracy either, we have a representative republic.

You're speculating as to the state of Russia's democracy. Have you any specific proof of your allegations? I'm guessing your proof lays primarily with that which is published in the media, and the strong statements / research which come out of NATO and other anti-Russian establishments?

I can't believe people would vote for Trump, but let's face it, they did because they believed his economy promises. I can't believe people voted for Putin, but Russia's economy has flourished under his reign, before him, people literally starved to death. I can't believe people vote for Erdogan, but Türkiye's economy is magnitudes stronger and fairer than it was before the AKP reign. Perhaps these democracies are working as intended, and people just cast short-sighted, greed-driven votes?
It’s time to switch:

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I have worked projects where the most senior developers barely understood cs 101 data structures and lacked good taste in there own code.

Any time they did not understand they would insist comments were added. Then later would sneak back in and rewrite.

Mind you they would shorten variable names, remove pre condition checks on parameters because the thought it was useless code. Remove helper/util methods/functions and refactor from short methods into long ones Etc...

This was all in the sake of clear code. Clear to whom? Not everyone has the same level of skills or can recognize why code is structured the way it is.

I spent more time teaching than I did anything else because the senior and lead devs were senior by title not senior in skills.

My advice, when you run into a piece of code in a review, and it’s not clear to you. Before you knock it down and comment all over it, this is the moment for you and them to learn.

When you ask why are you using switch cases like that or why are you checking parameters passed in for validly or other safety critical patterns, or don’t understand template, or dependency injection, mixins, runtime type inspection. You may not be qualified to even comment.

So again clear to whom?
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This is described in detail in: https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/OpenGL_Context#OpenGL_3....

Up until 18.2, if using 'compatibility' profiles with mesa, you'd be stuck at opengl 3.3.

This is solved; I'm already running 18.2 and game compatibility through Proton has indeed improved.
It is deprecated: it won't generate bitstreams for any new FPGA.
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The firefox that keeps doing experiements and jokes on their users by installing random extensions without asking?

Until some weeks ago I was less unhappy with Google Chrome than with firefox, but now I am kind of almost equal unhappy with both...
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what you're advising is literally almost impossible to do today and will just get harder to do as time goes on. all it takes is one person on your social graph texting/emailing/sending you the wrong thing and you'll be flagged.

if a panopticon exists, the only way to live a normal life is to avoid it by bypassing it. there is no other option unless you refuse to interact with suspicious people who don't follow your "different techniques". in which case the government succeeds anyways in their efforts to chill disobedience
Isn't this an unsurprising, logical consequence of "signing into google"=="signing into chrome"? If you're still signed into Chrome you're going to get those cookies recreated by Chrome immediately.

Has anyone tested this behavior if you aren't signed in, or have disabled the google/chrome login equivalence?
OK, I understand the vegetarians. However, I don't understand how my happiness is supposed to cause other people's suffering (life isn't a zero sum game). Additionally, I presume there is a difference between "I cause other people's suffering, therefore I am unhappy and I don't deserve to exist" and "I hope that some sort of epidemics wipes out humanity; good riddance".
DDG has improved substantially recently. I've had some technical search queries that gave me 2-3 results on DDG, and when I used the !g bang to lookup in Google, I got a "no results" page. =P
Yes.

That’s how values work. You VALUE them, meaning—objectively—you are willing to make some sacrifice for them.

Same goes for working for a predatory financial institution, a manufacturer who makes dangerous products, or for that matter, a company with a toxic culture.

How is this different from working for a tobacco company? Decades ago we had the same conversation about people who ”were just following orders.”

If you aren’t able to change your organization, change organizations. If not, fine, but you cannot escape having proven that you don’t actually value consumer privacy or what-have-you more than your hot supper. You just consider it a nice ideal to bandy about in conversation.

Summary: Those who are complicit certainly deserve their share of the blame. At the very least, you can say of them, “they value money more than privacy.”

If you don’t think so, maybe YOU don’t value these things that much, which is why you won't hold anyone else accountable for them.
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I also believe most of these topics are just talk. But the point I was making is that whenever someone talks about "I'm leaving Mac for whatever reason" it blows up and everyone and their mom weighs in to give their opinion. It's not uncommon to have these on the frontpage. Why? Because most people use Mac so they have something to say.

However when someone says "I am moving away from windows because of X" it never hits the frontpage since most people don't care since they are not on windows.

This is obviously not great quantitative research. But if I go into any co working space or coffee shop where people work on their laptops. I find a lot of people on macs, and all the technical ones are on HN. Whenever I meet technical people with a windows laptop they are never on HN.

I thought this was quite well established that HN is very apple'y, so I'm having a hard to come up with proper data to back this up.

What about you? You think the opposite?
100k in most of European big cities are not going to send you to pension at 40 either, 200k is the 6figures salary of the 90s
Exactly, there are plenty of other companies to go working for. People working for Google at best accept a compromise, at worst are actively working against their customers (should I say users?)

That said, as a customer I'm using an Android phone because IMHO anything else is a worse choice for a number of reasons. At least I'm signed out of any Google service except Play.
Isn't Qwant the company that made some bad news recently?
Exactly. I recently had a discussion on the costs of an RDS setup on AWS. Yes, renting a dedicated server or buying a server and setting up replicated MySQL is much cheaper than the montly cost of two RDS instances. Until you add the labour cost of setting up, maintaining and monitoring.
How about in Arizona where it is 120. Too hot could kill someone easily.
Is it really, in America? Amazing.

This is not the normal human experience at all. Raw food are usually cheaper than processed ones, anywhere in the world.
They don't seem to be able to handle the HN traffic. Here's an internet archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180925110025/https://www.lapha...
Exactly... if they skip slides, did they learn?
You could always use a cleaned Google-free Android derivative OS like Replicant. See also the Librem 5 phone, which does not run Android at all.
True, but taking your argument to it's logical extreme suicide would work even better.
I don't particularly care about the planet, but I agree with you. What irks me more is that there is an element of consent involved with birth. Life is mostly suffering and struggle for the majority, and it is a mean thing to bring someone into existence and have them deal with the meaninglessness and misery that is existence, all by themselves so.

And what happens when they can't cope, or they don't follow the rules, or they simply want to exercise their freedom to cease to exist? We end up blaming them.

It's all very absurd.
> You actually can pay for rent or food with stock at a public tech company; just sell it immediately upon vesting.

You’d be stupid not to. You’ve already been taxed on it. The smaller gain in tax savings that you’d get from the delta against your new basis, over LTG holding period, is small and not worth the risk. Lastly, once you own the stock you don’t hold it just because it was given to you. Cash out and diversify.
> any Google service except Play

Yeah, that's enough, that logs you in on google play services, which has god mode on your phone.