skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google still pay for Firefox; about $2 per user. So, Chrome and Firefox are funded by the same people. In fact Google upped the money they're paying despite FF's falling users share, what are they getting for their money - I doubt they're giving it out of charity.

It's like price differentiation, I feel. FF is for people who want to avoid Google, but Google are paying to get privacy-infringement lite. Who knows what else besides being default search provider, and getting every search you type in through search suggestions, they're getting for their money?

>cranky devs looking over their shoulder to call them out years later because Mr. Robot may have been able to show them an ad //

Way to underplay things. Do Chrome change their UI (ie chrome) to ad advertising? Do they force add-ons on people that are unremovable in order to advertise a product? And then update, re-placing the advert into users chrome who've removed it? Do they blank out users home-screen settings in order to add advertising? (I think they did do that one?)

Chrome may be spyware, but default so is FF. And Mozilla have shown they're more than happy to mess around with their users browsers for advertising/promotions.

Aside: how is Chromium worse? Waterfox is looking like a good option.
I meant the combination of both. You'd have to perform transcriptomics on a live microbial organism in the right environment, which (I suspect) is quite challenging. Every attempt at taking a sample or performing a measurement could (I suppose) trigger the organism to shut down the pathways that you're interested in.
>Problem solved.

Absolutely not:

>In Germany, 1,734 tons of antimicrobial agents were used for animals in 2011 compared with 800 tons for humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock#Eu...
The difference between Artificial Intelligence and automation
How did you do that? Is it possible with an iPhone?
This is the first time I've heard of switching TO a Realtek chipset to solve a networking problem.
I've been thinking for some years that they do see this as benefitting them.
To use male trees in parks (when possible) is a technical choice, totally unrelated with sexism. To link all things with female opression is unhealthy and a mess leading to absurd dead ends.

Cities are full of "male symbols" in form of phallic shaped towers and square high buildings. Should we remove all of them and start building round hemispheric houses instead? Should we remove only the 50% of skyscrapers?

The term botanical sexism is unfair for garden designers (not always men) and creates a non-existent problem
You can have what Tof browser does by using Firefox and setting privacy.resistfingerprinting in about:config. But be prepared to solve a lot of recaptchas, and don't hold your breath on Google implementing something similar in Chrome. Google is still an adtech company. They didn't spend millions (if not billions) on making and promoting Chrome only to support fingerprint resistance.
Wow I had no idea! I did always seem suspicious that a traditional salad was so modern.
Focusing on readability of the code and
putting "machine execution" second,
means putting the user experience
second

Nothing kills a users experience like buggy code. Nothing contributes more to buggy code than unreadable or unclear code. This is why another proverb often quoted is "First make it correct, then make it fast". Fast but buggy code will lose to slower but correct code everytime.
Why? trees are renewable and our eyes need a break from screens
The truth is that you will be blamed for the mistakes made by that manager. So it’s worth taking that extra risk anyway and lying to the manager that you don’t really do testing. Those who are against it are also usually unable to read code anyway :)
I don't see how mushrooms can get rid of heavy metals as said in the article.
This is no longer a factual discussion. You mention two separate issues:

1. Use of EDNS client subnet information harms user privacy, by providing information that would not otherwise be there.

2. Many users on a single global DNS provider lowers the amount of points that needs to be attacked to obtain DNS information.

However, you position your statement as if #2 somehow render #1 moot, which is an entirely subjective evaluation from the perspective of a user, and also not at all relevant to the discussion of #1, as that on its own is not 1.1.1.1 specific.

For an example of why this is very subjective, the user may believe that the security of ISP DNS servers is likely not trustable, and that infiltrating countless ISP DNS services would likely be much less work than infiltrating one of the larger providers, such as 1.1.1.1, with better security practices.

The only things relevant to this discussion is whether or not it is sensible to respond with bogus data to a valid request that does not contain optional fields, and separately whether or not it is sensible for a DNS provider to not contain these fields.
... but but then what happens when that tree dies?
I always quip that if I were to achieve world domination, my first decree would be about harmonizing all these bullshit idiosyncrasies that we developers have to deal with. 24-hour format everywhere. Metric system everywhere. Celsius everywhere. And so on.
Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancer is bad for the industry
My (French) phone number is semi-publicly visible, and I've had it for a few years now. I get maybe 1 unsolicited call a month. What am I doing wrong? :P
In medicine, at least in my experience, the terms are used fairly interchangeably.
>The default, "My coworkers are brilliant" point of view is just so contrary to my cultural upbringing ;-)

It's not just cultural upbringing. It's difficult to really realize that the intelligence/competency distribution at work is vastly different than in the rest of your life and all those years before work. Especially if you work for a highly selective employer in a high-skill job market.
We learn from experience afterall and encounter a lot of incompetency throughout life. We also tend to weight negate experiences much higher than expected ones.

I still catch myself being happy and surprised, if I encounter someone competent and usually expect incompetency. It's rude and on average probably wrong, but trained from experience.
Yep, I was super disappointed when I tested this.
> [developers] are more factual and concrete whereas designers are usually more driven by emotion.

I am so tired of this trope. Bad designers are influenced by emotion in unconstructive ways. So are bad engineers.

I'm also tired of the "emotion == bad when doing engineering stuff" trope. The ideal for developers or designers (or a whole lot of other fields, probably excluding nuclear-launch executors and munitions testers) isn't some emotionless data/spec-driven automaton: it's a responsible person who operates pragmatically and calculatedly when they have enough information, and whose feelings/emotions are constructive and lead to good outcomes when information is scarce or snap decisions need to be made.
For Fiction I totally agree. Although I am a bit Luddite about paper, I like the break from screen time
I thought it was the educational type of class... but then again, I shouldn't be surprised given that this was the mid-90s, pretty much the height of the OOP craze.
Sure, but the same goes for the 737 MAX-2 or whatever they call the eventual result of this, probably. I really doubt that they'll be able to continue to claim it's just another 737.
15:00 am
Midwifes are an optional thing in the US; lots of hospitals are OBN/GY-lead & they handle all the ante-natal, post-natal, and delivery stuff.

We found one of the few midwife-led hospitals in the Bay Area and had a very similar experience to the NHS Scotland midwife-led birthing centres.
They cannot, the studies use JS available to the browser though with internal APIs available. It is potent, but not quite as much as to allow running arbitrary executables outside the browser or usually bypass file system level protection. It can read and write files the user can access.
(Which may or may not include /dev on *nix.) It can also exploit your OpenGL driver.

The difference between spyware and telemetry is intent - use of data - and anonymization measures.

If you don't trust the company making the browser with user studies (and their toggle), you probably shouldn't use their build - and you can disable study code completely on compile time.

If Mozilla decided to be evil like a certain Alphabet company, there is nothing to stop them but forking and writing another web browser.
From the FAQ page:

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
Probably doesn't hurt. By most reports, it helps little.
Why did an entire civilisation vanish?
I don't understand why young (I'm making an assumption here) people don't like making or receiving voice calls. I'd far rather talk to someone than text them. Texting requires far more effort and takes far more time.
If that's what irks you, you've never had to schedule a meeting with someone who thinks their timezone is GMT when it's actually BST.
OpenCerts: “An easy way to check and verify your certificates” using ethereum
You can leave do-not-disturb on, and flag the people you want to exempt as VIPs.
Firefox by default sends all your searches to Google, and uses Google search suggestions (so sends all typed in text to Google).

What other integrations, specifically please, does Chromium have with Google?

Aside: do Google serve the Firefox Newtab adverts, perhaps that "feature" was added for the extra money Firefox are getting from Google?
Considering that firefox gets upwards 70% of the users onto the latest version within 4 weeks or so of a new release, I don't see the point, doubt chrome is an issue for this as well, only reason I can see to support ancient browsers is if you have intranet web apps that only function is IE6-IE10 and you need to be able to run it there as well
If this is work related surly there would be no ambiguity when reading 2 as 2pm or 1400.
Consider running Icecat. It's most convenient to use it by installing a fully libre distribution such as Parabola or Guix System. Distributions which respect the FSDG don't just exclude proprietary software, but actually take software like Firefox which is 99% libre, and chucks out the last 1% of junk, improving many defaults. You're unlikely to have ethical qualms with such an Icecat.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
You can see how it's made here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/makeicec...

Note that it looks like it disables sync, but that should still work, and you can add whatever addons you like.
Didn’t notice this conversation take off.

Just to be clear, I wasn’t saying Marc was better off because of debt. I was saying he was better off despite having debt. I was responding to the specific idea that Americans are poorer than people in other countries because they have more debt. My point was it’s entirely possible (and common) to be better off despite having a negative net worth.

Others spoke to this better than me, though, when discussing cash flow and the like...
Antibiotic abuse is a real problem, but expecting doctors to fix or even understand it is like expecting car mechanics to make traffic laws for your country.

Antibiotics should be regulated by a serious government effort, not by doctors.
What, you don't measure things in multiples of 28.3 grams?
Yeah, working with other good devs is fun too, but working alone is a special kind of fun. :-)
>> That wealth should be distributed to society at large, not controlled by one man.

It is distributed to society via jobs, construction, technology, and so forth.

>> And if you're not part of that population, what on earth do you have to gain from defending them?

Some of us do not believe the leftist alternatives being proposed are better. This does not mean we actually like the status quo. You are knocking down a giant strawman here.
Darren Grimes: the pro-Brexit student activist fined £20k
Not even sure what to reply to this comment. I should probably stop visiting this site asap in case it brainwashes me into thinking like this.

>It's not rocket science

Yeah its fucking medicine
All the Tools You Need to Set Up an Effective Link Building Campaign
This works well for good actors, but it’s a nicely packaged list of active numbers for the bad ones.
I suspect it will always be possible to detect at least the brand of the browser, regardless of what the user-agent string says. It's just too damn hard to implement the entire web specification consistently, and malevolent actors can easily exploit any small deviations in the implementation. And of course things which are not in the web specification (such as timing) can be exploited.
Please stop before wading so far out into the weeds.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have any concerns over being an emergency contact for anyone? I've considered doing the same as you, but I fear the chance that a I would be contacted in such a scenario and wouldn't even know it.
Firefox Developer Edition is another option:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

It's Firefox with some more configurability if you need it.
Yeah, so much more powerful..... And sooooooo much more challenging to secure. At least with microcontrollers, you (can) lock down execution of arbitrary code almost entirely, because Harvard architecture.
the marketing department probably decided that it needs to be done and the safari engineers realized this would completely destroy usability for a majority of users, so they quietly abandoned it.

Especially as it isn't as simple as a standardized list of fonts when the Canvas hash is 100% unique for everyone.

Still very disappointing.
Sapper – The next small thing in web development
It would be a terrible loss to us all if Mozilla made Firefox chromium based, since it would mean Google basically controls the internet via Chromium

EDIT: also Mozilla putting more and more rust code into Firefox is great for memory safety which is something that is a cause of many security issues these days
The USA made him a criminal? I completely disagree.

The USA has many people with similar stories who did not become criminals and who were not forcibly deported.

This guy made some bad choices. I'd think he'd prefer Kenya to prison.
I'm a pilot, and absolutely this is a crucial difference.

It also reminds me of a time years ago when a team I was on had to extend a Memcache client library, as it couldn't differentiate between the following two conditions:

- "I tried to retrieve a key from cache but was unsuccessful (due to connection error, etc)"

- "I tried to retrieve a key from cache but determined conclusively that key does not exist in the cache"

If it was important for a caching layer on our silly social game, the same thing is clearly important in aviation.
To be frank I have always found such dogmatism deeply questionable. I can understand caveats like "for long term maintainability" but taken literally it suggests assinine ideas like using bubble sort instead of merge sort for a large set not because of any memory footprint constraints but because it is easier to read. Insisting upon not referring to reality is not a good pattern.

More charitably, a better argument is that it is easier to adapt a compiler to reoptimize it than to tweak the entire code base - let alone the costs for the gains.
That's one of the things that I hate about Go. That and how they force me to write an 'else' on the same line as the closing brace of the 'if'.
>> Jeff Bezos made his billions by exploiting his workers.

You keep stating this like it an absolute fact. It is an opinion. And while it is true in some cases, it is definitely not true in the majority of them. If it is, please show your work that the majority of Amazon workers have been specifically exploited by the actual definition of the word, not "we paid them less for their labor than we got value out of it," which is called "running a business," not exploitation.

>> Why is Jeff Bezos a billionaire but not Tim Barners-Lee, when by any measure he did far more to enable the creation of wealth?

Building the best mousetrap does not entitle you to billions of dollars. This is a feature, not a bug.

>> Despite the fact that they built the company and do almost all of the work that makes Amazon possible, he reaps all the profits. Workers built Amazon, not merely Bezos alone, and you're totally erasing everyone else's contribution.

No, he does not. Have you heard of shares of stock that are publicly traded and also offered as a form of compensation to employees, which are literally exactly the opposite of what you are saying?

>> There's no reason, for example, a publicly-owned or worker-owned company could not have accomplished what Amazon did.

Then.... why hasn't any done a fraction of what Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and others have done?

Your arguments are literally false. The facts are not in dispute here, especially on the claims that Amazon reaps all the profits - a lookup on AMZN and the various shareholders of said financial instrument is all you need to know about that particular part.
His brother posted a message 29 days ago. I don't expect both to be regular users hiding their identity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19592367
I used to think that would be the logical result, but increasingly I'm convinced it's the relative not the absolute level of wealth, power/freedom and access that makes the difference in political stability.
Citation needed. Almost all issue data should be available from the API, and I have seen cases where issue contents are copied over with a bot from an obsolete repo to a new repo.
In the last few years, my phone has steadily become more and more a pocket (textual) communicator and less a telephone. The amount of spam calls I get at the peak numbered about 20-30 per day and that is with my being on the do not call list. I spent some time wasting telemarketers time and that seemed, somewhat ironically to get me blacklisted from some of them and things trailed off.

From what I gathered, it seemed that none of the tele marketers were really all that interested in really landing a sale. Most of them are quick to hang up at the first sign of a troll, even if its minor. There are no hard sell tactics that Ive encountered. It makes me wonder who is spending the money to make these things profitable. Seems to me that its really just a vetting to see if the number is active so they can sell your contact info to another spamorg.
Even worse: Apple's "time-zone support" in their iOS calendar, which changes the times of your appointments behind your back.

If you buy plane tickets and then enter the dates and times in Calendar... Apple will change them without telling you if you travel through time zones. AS IF ANYONE ENTERS TIMES LIKE THAT.

If I have a meeting in London next week at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, I'm not going to sit here in the U.S. and do the math so I can enter the meeting time at some crazy hour to "fool" Calendar.

DEAR APPLE: WE WANT THE ALARM TO GO OFF WHEN THE CLOCK ON THE PHONE SAYS THE TIME FOR WHICH I SET THE ALARM.

This is NOT an option on iPhones currently. Unfuckingbelievable: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2016/03/apples-idiotic-time-...
We keep hearing that individual actions don't matter and that we need a system change instead. I used to hold the same opinion for the very long time. However, since recently I started to turn around. For the last 30 years governments and politicians have proven incapable to do anything about global heating. What makes us think it will be any different in the coming years. Scientists keep producing report after report after report. Every one grimmer then the preceding. And nothing happens. I begin to believe individual action is the only option left. I don't know the circumstances of every person on the planet and therefor don't know what they can do. But I think I know what HN crowd could do.

- Stop flying to conferences. Go to a local meetup. It's fun. And cheaper. If you really need to get out of town, take a train.

- Start working part time, and part of that part time remotely. Reduce your commute. If your boss won't let you, find a job that will. In the current job market you can negotiate almost anything, and remote work must be the easiest thing to negotiate.

- Reduce your meat consumption as much as you can. Don't go all the way vegan, but make meat a special treat not a commodity.

- If you have any investments shift them from fossil to green.

- Don't upgrade your phone. Seriously.
I went to a place where they did that when I was younger. We were visiting a monastery and were told to be respectful because there was a sky burial going on while we were there. We decided to just look around but to keep away from the ceremony. I was really out of it with altitude sickness so I was just sitting looking down at this gorgeous valley near the bus, while the people I was with went to look around the monastery. Then I could see all these vultures flying away with little bits of meat. Very surreal experience.
It's just my observation. I did not say paywalls are 'not-ok'. The headlines make me want me to read but trying to by-pass paywalls make me feel like downloading a torrent.
Da Vinci’s helicopter: 15th-century flight of fancy led to modern aeronautics
We have been waiting for the "sufficiently smart compiler" for around 4 decades now. If it's so easy to write one, where are they?
It's not a single decision, you have to decide what to do with each dollar/euro/etc. Education might provide a high rate of return for the first dollars, yet rapidly diminishing returns for the rest.
It might be related to the same reason that Nigerian scam emails keep following the same easy-to-spot pattern. It is to the scammers advantage that savvy marks immediately recognize the scam and don't participate. It saves the scammers time and money if they don't chase leads that won't pay off. Better to be immediately recognized as a scam by 98% of everyone, and focus your attention in the 2% who are most likely to pay off anyway!
History Repeating
But what mass of humans is treated compared to the mass of livestock with these ? What type of antibiotics ? Fallacious comparison, you need more data.
Thanks! Yes you're right, and these differential factors between countries, like voting ages, registration voting systems, etc.. will have an influence on voter turnout - which in turn will have implications for the voting power of individuals depending on their nationality.
Find it strange that people are willing to put-up with so much crap from commercial/proprietary software vendors, but get snotty because of a glitch in an open source project that’s dedicated, and as a proven record in putting the user first.

It’s like poor people voting for popular right wing parties that have no interest or intention in their problems.

* Assuming this an authentic question and not trolling.
I’d love to have a second password that when I enter it automatically encrypts the phone and simultaneously loads a dummy user account.

This way I can give them my password, let them look around at some basic programs, benign emails, photos, etc. and then hand me back the phone.

Perhaps even a couple dummy passwors so I can keep a password like “1111” to generate a false positive if they try to brute force my phone.

I’m surprised this doesn’t exist a jailbreak feature.

If it does, please let me know as I’ve looked.
I met a soldier who had been shot in the head in Iraq. He had a scar all the way round his head from near the temple right to the back of his head where the bullet had gone under the skin and travelled round the surface of his skull before exiting. He was a very lucky bastard.
Solving problems with virtualenvwrapper using mismatched Python versions