skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are Firefox Quantum's egregious privacy issues? All I'm aware of is the encrypted DNS experiment which is a huge, unqualified privacy win. I'm not aware of anything it does that's objectively worse than the privacy catastrophe which is the status quo.

Perhaps you are angry because it doesn't send your DNS requests in the clear to Google's 8.8.8.8 service? Perhaps you are angry because you don't like encrypted communication protocols?
I know nothing about agriculture in the Caribbean, but I would suggest taking advantage of the local produce and starting there.

Do you have any ideas on what you want to grow?

I checked the Caribbean Agriculture Agricultural Research and Development's website (www.cardi.org) for some information. They have annual reports, that stop at 2011 for some reason. I would read some of them to get an idea of what are the current trends.

One idea that comes to mind after reading the 2011 report is producing high quality seeds. Grain prices for direct consumption are not as interesting.

I would also search for local farming associations to get to know what people are doing.

I suspect that the Caribbean will be more susceptible to climate change than other regions, so food security might become very important in a near future.

Good luck!
Interesting, although I find it hard to get a good idea about performance from the few benchmarks presented. Especially since the tested working sets are quite small, whereas any serious usage of something like this would likely be with problems that are a lot larger: could the networking keep up if it has to handle a few hundred GB, not MB? Given the speeds modern networking hardware can reach it's possible I guess, especially since the local cache sizes also could grow appropriately.
Relevant Vice article: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/exmjpz/the-ketamine-secre...
> He has an entire section on "Post-REST: Per­sis­tent con­nec­tions" which you seem to have missed.

That section is really stupid. He goes on about HTTP/2 and QUIC while seemingly being ignorant of HTTP/1.1's existence.

Keep-alive has existed for decades. Use it, it solves the problem definitively without adding any new ones.

(People have yet to figure out what the point of HTTP/2 and QUIC was. Except for Google's not-invented-here syndrome, of course.)
Well, here is what I believe brains do:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9022206

It makes total sense for the brain's job to be minimizing surprise, because minimizing surprise is the best and most basic strategy for survival.
My focus has always been on being able to work without issue. Without OS locking up or without tools malfunctioning.

Used to have laptops with 256MB RAM for example, or 1024x768 pixel resolution. So I'd do anything to cram as much as possible into a tiny screen using as little resources as possible.

Now my laptop has 8G of RAM and an i7 CPU at 2.5GHz and 4 virtual cores. On top of that Linux and Gnome have made a lot of advances so it runs like a dream and I can work without having ~100 lines of configuration in my WM.

More seamlessly go from my own to someone elses computer without forgetting that caps lock is my Meta key. It all pretty much resembles Windows and Mac OS more.

I just don't see any purpose with torturing myself using a minimal resource desktop environment when I don't have to.

The main program is still gnome-terminal and tmux, I still do a majority of my work there. Habitually use cli for as much as possible, even simple operations that I could do in the Gnome file browser.

But I do it all with a vanilla Gnome configuration and I still don't miss a thing.
No one likes to talk about the potential side effects of stem cell therapy. They express tissue factor, which increases after culture required for these treatments. Tissue factor is highly thrombogenic and can cause blood clots.

https://stemcellsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/1...
I read it but I'm not sure what you're trying to say really. Sure, there are people like Stallman, there are others who are more 'pragmatic'.

World keeps turning.

Do your thing. See how that plays out for you.
Dictatorships are not very efficient economically, it seems.

China has become an industrial powerhouse when some modicum of economic liberty was admitted by Deng Xiaoping. Dictatorship stifles internal economic competition, and makes the economy less and less efficient.

If Mao times look too drastic a comparison, you can compare to the USSR, which was also, well, nuanced, and had leaders stat stayed at power for decades. How well did it fare against the US?
If you have seen Paterson by Jim Jarmusch, you might also like this analysis of the film with supporting arguments from Wallace’s “This Is Water”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RnGvWTRQ9j4
There's another problem with the "make money by offering support" argument: it incentivizes creating software that requires support, usually via added complexity. Similarly the customization argument: it incentivizes creating inflexible software.

I'm not sure there is a monetization strategy that actually aligns with what should be the goals of FLOSS.
MPEG-LA is unrelated to MPEG.
They also test conscientiousness.

But, yeah, having just gone through a round of interviews I think there's a big range of quality at work in these, and passed on some companies because of how irrelevant their prompts were or unstandardized their processes were.
Let's not forget IBM's Nazguls
That's an insane price difference. In Switzerland I rented an automatic (for a family member not comfortable with a manual) for only about 10% more, and they had multiple decent options. I suspect automatics may be more common here, though, particularly in the future as electric cars are gaining popularity.
For one, delta-sync was built into the Dropbox client from the very beginning, and I'm getting the impression from this thread that Nextcloud still doesn't have it till this day: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/417

This is a major contributor to sync UX, and by no means trivial to implement.

Another example is their file stubs implementation (Project Infinite) that works across platforms, which is also no small engineering feat, that afaik no other sync software has been able to replicate yet (OneDrive has this on Windows, but no other platforms).

The Dropbox client makes just about every other sync client look like toy projects in terms of technical sophistication, reliability, and general UX. There's a reason why they're so successful. And I say this as someone who doesn't even use Dropbox on a day to day basis (I use Syncthing as my daily driver).

This really seems like a matter of the OP not knowing what they're missing and then flaunting that ignorance.
Nah you can target both with css (I.e. use table td selector to target all cells)
Yay! Go Linus, Go!
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1811.2/01328.html
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/20/linux_kernel_spectr...
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Speaking personally, I was a bit surprised at the culture I experienced the first time I worked alongside younger American programmers, as opposed to my prior experiences with remote offshore teammembers, onshore H1B programmers, and the American greybeards from the earlier IT era.
> I generally avoid running the newest version of anything unless completely necessary.

Including your web browser!?
FOSS is something I aspire too, I still use some proprietary software but as I dream at a Star Trek world similar I dream that in future I would work only on FOSS.

If there is a choice use FOSS app A or proprietary app B I will use A if it does what I need, as a developer I adapted the open source apps to my needs where with proprietary apps I could never done it.
> > MPEG is a rent-seeking organization that doesn't actually contribute anything useful to society. It just tries to lock up technology and standards behind patents, and then extorts money for use of those standards.

> You're thinking about MPEG-LA, and even then your description is debatable.

As we say in Germany: "Wer mit den Hunden schläft, braucht sich nicht zu wundern, wenn er am nächsten Tag mit Flöhen aufwacht." ("Who sleeps with dogs should not wonder if next days he wakes up with fleas").

In other words: if the MPEG does not clearly distance itself against the business conduct of the MPEG-LA, it should not wonder if the MPEG gets the same hate as the MPEG-LA.
I’m not a developer and I don’t have a strong opinion on open-source software either way, but I’ve always wondered: does the fact that developers and other technical people have (comparatively) excellent job security affect their attitude toward free labor and products? If developers had a job outlook similar to say, musicians, would open-source be as widely-used and praised as it is now?

Surely some academic economic work has been done on a situation like this?
> All I remember is the father -- a superhero -- unable to perform basic child rearing tasks

You try raising a toddler that can uncontrollably turn into a demon, burst into flame, warp into another dimension, and shoot lasers from its eyes.

I think he did pretty well. (And Violet did too...)
No one is entitled to a business model. If your userbase has a culture of being (rightfully, in my opinion) defiant toward proprietary products, that's for you to remedy. If you can't make any money from ancilliary uses of your product (support, hosting, whatever) maybe you should question why you're monetizing in the first place.

Free software is strictly more ethical than nonfree software. Any attempt at arguing otherwise basically boils down to a rationalization of 'but I want to make money', which is not a tenable ethical stance. I'm not saying it's wrong per se, but it doesn't inspire goodwill or good sentiments either. Trying to deride people with a strong sense of ethics regarding software production and use by comparing them to religious fanatics is misguided as best, malicious at worst.
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It's not fully FLOSS but double licencing your library GPL and commercial license is another business model, and it seems to be working fine for companies doing this.
My 2c: the author has something to say and I mostly agree with many of the things he is saying. However, his choice of labels (fundamentalist mentality / reddit / FOSS defender / etc.) hurts intelligent discussion -- whoever is disagreeing would be tempted to counterattack with a label ("copyright nazi", etc.) rather than discuss the post on merits.

Maybe author hopes that choice of words would stimulate discussion, but I think all it stimulates are flame wars reusing old slogans. So the content may be interesting, but the form struggles to make it underwhelming.
The question is, will you choose FOSS even if it is a poorer choice?
Behavioral economics, in short.

It's the reason why people rent a $1k TV that lasts for 10 years at $50 (5%) a month ($6k spent) or pay 2% a month on a creditcard.

We tend to overlook the small amounts and get slapped in the face by the large amounts.
I see. What if I wanted to maximise the expected profit, given that the chance of bankruptcy should not exceed 1%? Does that sort of problem become difficult to solve?
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China isn't the USSR. China is increasingly capitalist, has had years of excellent economic growth, and has a quickly growing middle class. So my question remains: who gets unelected first when the middle class suffers? I don't think it's the dictator.
I didn't read the other post that was controversial, so I'm only seeing this as a self-contained piece: but what is the author saying? Is it just a laundry list of things about open source? What is it arguing? Is it new, or just someone thinking about FOSS for the first time? I can't see how any of the things mentioned support the conclusion "the Linux community should embrace proprietary software with open arms".

Maybe it makes more sense in relation to the other post. If so, I think the essence of it should be worked into this post to give it some context.
> If we do Open Source Hiri, there is nothing to stop someone from forking it and selling it for less /offering it for free.

Tbsync developers have no problem with that.

> Also, you literally trust your life to proprietary software every time you jump into a car or onto a plane.

Is that a good thing? People do it out of lack of choice, not because they want to. Trusting closed software for communication purposes is especially bad in the age of mass surveillance, so Hiri is actually not an example to be used if you are so interested in pitching for closed software.

> There is ample evidence that companies competing using proprietary knowledge is actually a pretty good model for more productivity / technological progress. It’s why we have anti-trust laws.

Laws which aren't working for the most part because they have been diluted by monopolists / oligopolists to completely toothless state.

> I believe the Linux community should embrace proprietary software with open arms

No, thanks. Linux doesn't need to become another macOS. There are cases when proprietary software has no alternatives, but encouraging such situations isn't something to aim for.
Not all open source is web crap. Not all open source is on GitHub, or has a website and is even indexed by search engines.
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I had the same experience numerous times. It's great OP is standing up to this.

When I'm attacked for writing non-free software, I now respond by linking to https://fman.io/blog/dear-comrade/.
Just wondering, if you don't want the information to be public, then why make it public? Put your website behind a login form, after which you can enforce (meaningless) terms of service as well as real technical solutions to prevent abusive scraping like rate limits or captchas.

Seems like you're trying to have your cake and eat it too. You're presumably happy for Google to scrape your website (and collect your customers' data for their purposes like ad tracking), but when a smaller site does it you're not happy? Make up your mind.
What you're effectively saying is that, if the recruiter puts enough effort in, they can find out how good you really are.

This is, of course, true. The problem is that that's not the problem they're trying to solve. What the recruiter is doing is finding people that have a high chance of meeting their criteria in a reasonably scalable way. Or facetiously, you may think it's about you but it's not.

Now, most of the ways they go about this aren't actually that great. But having the recruiters running around after you will definitely be worse.
My youngest son is half-Garifuna. Hard to believe this article goes so in-depth and fails to really touch a critical part of the Garifuna culture: punta dancing
Is there any sample app / quick start template of a full stack CRUD app (notes, todos etc) with user registration, signin? Not too clear on authn/authz seems to need to go down to Postgres level for such controls.
How to Build a Pricing Model for You SaaS Startup
"InfiniBand will soon reach 200Gbps and sub-600 nanosecond speed [66], being only 2× to 4× slower than main memory bus in bandwidth."

that's absolutely incredible!
Discussion of an article about the same topic, but on a page with less infuriating privacy settings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493328
IMHO, the “make money selling support” only really works for products you build your app out of or on. Think databases and message queues, not end user apps.
Perhaps moderated to prevent hate speech, but I would be strongly surprised if they have a way to moderate against copyright infringement.
On Black Friday, our service is twice as valuable. So our price goes x2
> When one of us is away, all hell is prone to break loose.

Of course.... with half the capacity to manage the household, it's only natural that things would get, well, a bit more chaotic.
You're mixing up a legal definition with a colloquial one.
I think you fail to see the usefulness of fundamentalists. They help keep some kind of balance in the overall system, by pulling some of the practices towards one end. If no FOSS fundamentalists existed, we may be living in a very different software world right now. A number of extremely useful POSIX tools were the products of such ideologies.

I think one of the "better" approaches if you cannot survive with a "support/customization" model (which is certainly not for everyone) is to open-source elements of your software offering that are not business critical but still somewhat useful for other parties to live in the open. This way you do not take away your livelihood, but you still contribute back in some amount to the tech world. That's like being a good citizen.
But people that has embraced it but later finds themselves in a different situation in life, needing to hide from a previous spouse realises a bit late how much information is out there now. Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you.
okay be honest...how many of you tried drawing a penis?
I feel threatened by this and consider my ability to reject tissue implants as a last line of defense.
With all due respect, one sentence explaining how you think the mind works isn't really worth much. It doesn't amount to much more than "the brain tries to explain reality." Yes, ok, but how do you translate that into some algorithm? How does it relate to gradient descent methods on neural networks?
Key point is this: If more Linux people embraced proprietary software it would help spread Linux. Simple as that really.

As a proprietary app, we have encountered quite a bit of resistance from Linux users, usually berating us for not being open source. I think that's short sighted. We need more pragmatists.
Plotly does this with the added option to use their paid, hosted solution. Seems to work for them.
Ignore the naysayers. I loathe having to trust proprietary software for anything critical or anything I want control over, but there are things for which proprietary software got my money... So focus on your market segment - elsewhere, as all producers know, there will always be a chorus of negativity that you are better off ignoring.
I think a Javascript frontend framework like Angular has to be open source by definition. Or is there a way to close source it?
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I fully agree with the him, and I don’t understand why would you think it was a troll comment.
While your right that most end users just want it to “work” you have to wonder about informed consent.
> maybe you should question why you're monetizing in the first place.

I assume that the author happens to enjoy food and shelter, how strange of them.
> Extreme opinions are rarely correct.

this is the only thing I agree with.

some things should never be kept propietary unless there are widely availabe (FOSS) tools to reverse engineer them.
Through multiple VPNs over multiple proxies?
Sometimes/often there is not even such choice. It would be great if we could even have FOSS alternatives for everything, but we are very far from such a situation.
The Montreal bagel is no joke.
Taxes and unemployment have gone down, and wages are starting to go up. I wonder if anyone would get angry enough over trade war costs at the end of the day.
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> the Developer Tools of Firefox are worthless

That's odd, because I think the Chrome dev tools are junk compared to Firefox. And I've never had an operation in Firefox dev tools that wasn't instantaneous. Perhaps our use cases are markedly different.
LOL InfiniBand was so ahead of its time. Such an old yet amazing technology that made a comeback thanks to cloud computing.
> I can't imagine kids sitting through Screenslaver's monologue

Do you have kids?

I have a six year old that's watched the movie, monologue and all, more times than I can count.
The link is completely irrelevant to the topic. The topic is libre software versus proprietary. The link defends paid software against gratis, or at least misleadingly conflates both aspects.
Free labor is distinct from free software and it is misleading to conflate the two. Plenty of people are paid to work on free software, and I'm not talking about Red Hat or SUSE either. See: 90% of the Linux kernel contributors.

As for musicians, plenty of them share their music (or flps, or whatever) all the time. Soundcloud, bandcamp, jamendo, magnatune, soulseek... the list goes on.
Well, if you start with the idea that markets exist in the void, you are certainly avoiding the dirty world.

For instance: assuming that property rights exist outside a political framework or power structures.
> If more Linux people embraced proprietary software it would help spread Linux.

Linux runs the world. I highly doubt it needs more "spreading".
You did read the section "Maybe you also dislike the fact that my project is not open source" right?
> If we do Open Source Hiri, there is nothing to stop someone from forking it and selling it for less /offering it for free.

Your license can easily stop that in a way that still respects user freedom. Even more than GPL does.
Unfortunately, Firefox makes my MacBook Pro frying-pan hot whenever a web page is a serious, JavaScript-heavy web app (e.g., Google Docs, Twitter, prob any significant desktop app in web app form) or anything with a lot of moving images (video, D3, any sort of "visualization"). Chrome and Safari run cool and comfortable.

So, I would just use Safari, except that as a dev, I need the vastly superior dev tools, extensions, and customizability of Chrome and FF.

So now I have to juggle browsers, trying not to get burned by Google, burned in a whole different way by FF, and trying to get things done in Apple's "no preference settings for you, because Apple's preferences are all that matter" design ethos.
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The article tells a story; it's not meant for people trying to grasp technical details. Furthermore, it can be argued that reading (well-written texts like this) for readings sake also broadens your mind.
>I believe the Linux community should embrace proprietary software with open arms. It would enable many more users to adopt Linux as their daily driver. Depending on your source, Linux accounts for somewhere between 0.5–3% of desktop users. It’s simply not having the impact it could. If you are passionate about Linux/Open Source software, it’s time to think of the ecosystem as a whole and embrace proprietary software.

You sell proprietary software, which is a perfectly fine and decent way to make a living. Why are you defending yourself and exactly what against? It's perfectly alright to make a living the way you see fit.

However, I'd rather not have the Linux community "embrace proprietary software with open arms", thank you very much.
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Interesting. Do you mind if I ask what software (or category) have you bought if you don't trust proprietary software?
Scylladb/redis can also do a lot of calls with single thread/core.
How do you decide whom to hire for the contract role though? ;) A bad hire should indicate that your mini project missed testing something important for your team. In my own experience with an intern who didn't live up to my hopes, I realized I wasn't testing for the ability to read code not written by them, whose whole they cannot hold all in their heads (only a contextual part at a time), and make some changes to it. I do that now.
My experience with these browsers (also on a Macbook) is almost exactly opposite. It's amazing how people can use the same things and have such wildly different experiences.
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Are you implying that the author is so much reliant on this specific business model that they would likely end up homeless and starving to death if they were deprived of it?
Definitely gave me vibes of The Shape of Water: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/