skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I obsess about my Uber rating a lot. I feel really stressed whenever my rating drop. So I avoid using Uber whenever possible.

I am from India, and was working in US back then. Due to visa issues, I couldn't renew my licence and had to rely on Uber for 3 months. I had 4.92 rating before, and within a week or two it dropped to 4.74.

I was following everything that I read in internet-wait for the driver in a easy to locate spot and wave at them, close the door nicely, always bath and wear clean non smelling clothes, wear deo but no strong perfume, engage in pleasant conversation (mostly about the driver) even though I was going through a rough period in my life, always tip (in app) and so on.

When I saw my rating drop despite all this, I came to the wrong conclusion that it might be race related. One time, I even complained to Uber customer care that I suspect I got a lower rating for this ride because the driver didn't like me being Indian and so I would like my tip back (which Uber refunded). For sometime, I used only Lyft. Then came back to Uber because Lyft doesn't operate in India.

After the first month, I started tipping in cash. By the end of 3rd month, I was at 4.9. So I got a happy ending. But I wouldn't use Uber if at all possible precisely because of the rating system.
So, do the security guys get fired when they misconfigure a firewall or give the wrong settings for a database?
They were catching fish to eat and found that the eyes looked and smelled attractive.
No shilling. Verified slow as balls on imac 2017, macbook air, macbook pro 2017 and macbook pro latest. Using ff developer edition.
The ability to compensate someone who is creating value in a network with ownership of said network (eg giving an early uber driver, or Airbnb host, options or equity.) this is currently not possible to do in the US, but is possible with crypto networks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs
It isn't linked from https://www.waterfox.net at all, so hard to say
It doesn't, actually. The universe is getting bigger but the available negentropy, practically speaking, is not. A big, heat-death universe is not a useful resource to anyone.
Chrome is right to remove the webRequest extension API
In that system, users can write as much data as they want to a file, but nothing will be visible until they do an explicit commit operation. Once that commit is done, all of the changes become active.

Isn't this Multiversion concurrency control[1]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contr...
It's not worded precisely, but I believe what they have in mind is tracking performed without prior consent by the browser author. Obviously if you don't block tracking scripts that doesn't protect you from websites that want to track you, but that's not the point of the statement.
If you're organizing a lawful protest and in the process, traveling from place to place, how do you avoid triggering a disruption of your protest?
Well, I guess you can check for update without disclosing OS, but since binaries differ between OS you need to disclose OS to actually download the update.

Browser version is not necessary, but sending browser version allows serving smaller binary diff instead of full binary, which Firefox actually does.
Seems unlikely. It's in opposition to Mozilla's clearly stated stance toward privacy.

In addition, their reasons for deprecating their old extension API was purely technical. Even then, they were extremely conservative in their deprecation timetable, waiting long past when the old API was massively harming performance. But once they made the decision to replace it, it made sense that they would choose an existing API as a base, not make a separate incompatible API.

But do note that, while Firefox and Chrome share the same base extension API, Firefox has APIs Chrome doesn't. It's reasonable to believe that this new deprecation will just become another thing that Firefox has and Chrome doesn't.
As a tootdon user, and somewhat privacy conscious, what are the details? Specifically, what is the tootdon parent doing wrong with posts?

As a Mastodon client, the UX is one of the best for iOS that I've used. Search works as one would expect search to work.

I'd like to know what the "evil corp" is doing to warrant the action described.
government funded universities exist in the form of state schools and community colleges. Yet we still hear stories of people who chose to go to a private, expensive college and take out loads of debt.
> People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected.

Would you happen to have any links to previous discussions anticipating this exact endgame?
I think they are claiming "you don't have to worry about any tracking or usage information being sent to the Waterfox developers," but if so, they shouldn't say "you don't have to worry" (see also Lavabit and Protonmail's "you don't have to worry about government surveillance... well, not until the government decides to surveil you"). I agree it's weird for a web browser of all products to omit this clarity!
Damn that's why some sites are just black on black on FF. That seems actually insane to not fix
Slack is quite laggy in Firefox compared to chrome. It’s annoying enough to make me switch back to Chrome.
Yes and no. With uBlock you can allow ads at the site level, the problem is that half the reason to block them is the tracking they do, even if I like I site I don't like it enough to unblock google's spyware.
Ecto is one of the very best things about elixir from my perspective. It seems bizarre that anyone would have this great tool uniquely available to their language and want to ignore it.
Dumb question maybe, but regardless of the browser you use, isn't your ISP able to collect a ton of data either way just based on the network traffic? How happy should I really be that the browser vendor (Watermark or any other browser) itself might not also be doing it also?
I can understand that. Honestly, my experience with modern midsize sedans (Altima in particular, Accord, Camry, Sonata, etc) is that the manufacturers view the rear doors as throwaway areas for "engineering" weight out of the car. The rear doors on these cars honestly weigh about half what the fronts weigh and they fly open and close as if made of paper maché.
I think the honest truth is that the only people going to be using LWC are Salesforce developers on the Salesforce platform, they're already locked in.
So... is this the real reason why Google developed Chrome? So they can play the long game and eventually prevent ad blocking from harming them?
Perhaps someone trying to radically change the way company X does business, in ways the leaders of said business aren't going to like... shouldn't store (or even transmit) their private correspondence about it using the services of the company.

I mean, that would _normally_ be common sense. Seems weird to even have to point this out.
One thing to understand about phishing is that it isn't necessarily from outside.

Our (large) company recently had a sort of big (we think) leak of internal source code from a GitHub Enterprise server - done by an internal person who DL'ed a bunch of code and put it outside.

Basically no security system in the world would have stopped that, as long as we think the idea of sharing source code internally is a good idea.

So yea - the guns all point out, and if anyone inside your organization ever tries to phish you, there's a good chance you'll never see it coming.
I mean, about page says Alex Kontos, MrAlex94 is Alex Kontos, so it almost certainly is.

Not linking the source code is somewhat understandable because it is likely to increase support burden without any increase in contribution.
I think the ACH money wiring system already only works during business hours. Which is frustrating to no end. Servers need not sleep.
My Friendly Zombie
Crack the DRM and do it in a country that does not care about DMCA and has lax copyright laws. You could create an "illegal browser", and judging by how effective all the other antipiracy efforts have been to date (i.e. not at all), I doubt you'll face too much opposition...
wow there are places like that for real?

i'd say it comes down the maturity of individual engineer or group how they'd approach a problem. some problems are worth spending time most aren't and every problem is not at global scale trust me.
Well, they did say "ANY telemetry", capitalization emphasis by them. That's an awfully strong claim to make.
For others who may be wondering, this is because `Boolean.prototype.toSource()` is a non-standard method that is only supported by Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I was shocked to see mention of unit tests as well.
Oops, you're right. I was moving too quick and misread .04755 (4.8%) as .4755 (48%).
This has been around for a while. I used it as my primary driver several years ago, back when its main feature was that it had 64-bit support. After Firefox implemented a 64-bit build, I sort of just assumed waterfox would die off. Neat to see they've kept around and changed focus.
I'm betraying my ignorance but I thought SV/SF were relatively temperate climates. Nothing like Seattle, but still 50 low to 75 high most of the time?
In some sort of Stallman utopia maybe. In the real world...
Seems like you want to have it both ways. You want to argue for your choice of religion, tell us that we'd reach the same conclusion, and even go so far as to imply that anyone who claims to have gone through the process and reached a different conclusion is a liar. You say that there may have been lost evidence of a parallel church supporting the idea that it could be rediscovered. And at the same time, you want to say that it's all a matter of faith and we can't expect any evidence.

The idea that there isn't supposed to be any evidence because faith is the whole point is such an obvious con. If a used car salesman tried to use a line like that, you'd walk out of the dealership. But change salesman to preacher and dealership to church and suddenly we're supposed to think it makes any kind of sense. "You have to believe me but I can't prove it to you because proof would defeat the purpose" is not something you hear from a deity, it's something you hear from someone reaching for your wallet!
The point of bike shedding is that if you're building something complex like a nuclear reactor, the color of the bike shed doesn't matter.

If you're building a social network, the name absolutely does matter -- it's probably one of the more important attributes.
DNS-based and hosts-based blocking should still work.

https://pi-hole.net/

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
I was thinking about this the other day, because I'm kicking off a new project. How do big companies start their code base. Do they have 1 person write a platform and everyone builds on top..and then iterate. Or several people contribute to the platform. The example in java being, someone needs to layout some skeleton package structure (a hello world controller, DAO)...?

My previous projects were me coming onto an existing project, or were small enough that I had 50% of the code done before the next person helped out :)
What if X is free for everyone in unlimited quantity? And the only constraint... is that no one uses too much?

Sounds like a pricing mechanism had better appear. Fish are free for anyone to catch, as long as nobody catches the last two...

I feel like the rest of your post was trolling, though, so I'm not sure you were serious about this part.
I think part of the problem is that it's easy to draw a trend-line across a batch of data you actually know about, like oil reserves or food supplies, but incredibly difficult to make educated estimates about how we will resolve constraint problems in the future.

Naturally, the most rigorous analyses are going to be heavily weighted toward historical data, but will carefully ignore predicting future breakthroughs and paradigm shifts. Any analysis that tries to highlight humanity's adaptive ability would be laughably ignored, or at least minimized as being overly speculative.

So here we sit, with our broken pessimistic models, because they're the only ones the data supports.
Slides: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system...
Hey folks. Just came here to say that we need more trains. Also Elon Musk is a complete charlatan and you'd have to be a blinkered idiot not to see that.
Yeah, I have been using Firefox since 2007. I don't experience any crashes or bugs regarding performance or usability. But I have been facing issues with websites which don't work at all or developed with only Chrome in mind. And I have been facing this issue enough times that whenever I see a problem, I have to reopen the site in Chrome to confirm that Firefox is not the problem. I think this is a major problem, and as developers ignore Firefox or any other browser, web will be unusable without Chrome.
Hence I said 'bulk of fossil fuels', not 'some, but leave plenty of coal behind'.

In either case, the fossil fuels that are increasingly difficult / expensive to obtain now, in an era with comparatively abundant free energy, would be even more difficult / expensive to obtain in an energy-scarce world.

And yes, I'm aware that things can burn. As a species we've known how to burn things for a very long time, but the industrial revolution really only kicked off when we used coal to power steam engines. Wood - even charcoal - simply doesn't burn hot enough for much beyond food and brass.

> Even dolphins would be able to develop an industrialized civilization.

Well you've lost me there.
Do you have direct experience with that use case? I have been doing Windows development for a long time and since around 2010 I have become increasingly frustrated with their constant changes of direction. They can do great stuff if they set their minds to it (see SQL server for example or maybe MVC) but in my view the desktop development experience has worsened a lot in the last years . In addition my company has a lot of legacy stuff so we can’t just switch to their shiny new tools every few years.
It's interesting that there is a cut-off around 4.70 for some drivers, it seems bizarre then that I have a 4.69 rating. I considered myself the ideal passenger. I'm talkative or quiet to match the driver's personality, always polite, shower before the ride, well dressed, never complained to or made any kind of request from the driver, nearly always rate the driver 5/5. Maybe it's because I don't tip? It's very strange to imagine that I'd be getting automatically declined based on my rating.
Why did the aboriginals hollow out a tree and float across the ocean? Why did prehistoric humans walk all the way from Africa to the southern tip of America?

We explore. It is literally in our DNA. It's what makes us human. It's also why we outlive the neanderthals, who never left the geographic region they were "born" in.
Definitely not a bug. It's a private window, not a private tab. As soon as you close the window, all history is gone.
People wouldn't complain as much if WKWebKit weren't so awful. Every iDevice is five years behind in web standards support, and there's not a thing the users can do about it. On any other platform, it would be as simple as installing another web browser.
Alternatives that allow you to still get your security and stability updates from Mozilla include two Gnu soft-forks. There's IceCat, which is the best-supported version and runs off of ESR. [1] There's also "abrowser" (that's literally what it's called) that is part of the Gnu Trisquel distribution, which is based on the most recent release. Both patch the browser to be more security and privacy friendly. [2] There are also several projects that provide patches for Firefox or user.js files [3] to minimize the privacy impact of recent Mozilla decisions. (I publish patches that remove Pocket and disable various forms of tracking in Firefox.) The problem with the patch-based approach is that you have to build Firefox yourself, which most people are unable or unwilling to do.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

[2] https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/abrowser-help

[3] https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js
That's fair, but it is also very misleading. It also isn't hard to see how it is misleading, enough so that I'm sure I'm not the first to notice it and that I would assume it has been brought to their attention. If not, well... someone ping them.
>But if they really wanted to hurt browsers that don't have EME, they'd deploy DRM to all youtube videos,

Can they just add DRM to content they do not own? They could likely work something out, but the problems may outweigh the benefit they would gain.
Ask HN: Why is the US the center of the tech industry?
Is it the historic innovation, American culture in general? There are so many other countries with brilliant minds, we live over the internet. Yet foreign companies are ignored for Google, Apple, and Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle. I dont hear anything elsewhere, China being the only exception. And they're feared, to the point where Huawei's banned.

Do you think another country will take its place? Will growing internet adoption lead to growing patterns of geographic decentralization in the industry? Is it possible cryptocurrencies will cause a rise in an internet centered tech industry?
Brave isn't a fork, they take the tagged build of Chromium and apply their own patches.

I'm guessing this will make its way into Brave, but their built in ad and privacy blockers should continue to function.
> They should be used responsibly, but Waterfox still supports the use of Java and Silverlight plugins, as well as any other 64-Bit NPAPI plugins.

Are Java and NPAPI still a thing? I have never come across such plugins lately.
The Silver Line, by contrast: https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=e8lJzH...
The price goes down over the first 3 years as well. Not sure why they do that exactly, but for a long time user like myself I'm happy they do!
If you don't mind me asking, can you recommend any good resources for getting into generative art?

I've been interested for a while and played around a bit, but I'd like to dive in a bit more since I have a bit more spare time now than I've had in while.
Why is this a problem? Isn't it the nature of federation that a copy of every post gets sent to... a ton of different servers?
We get it- Hacker News is rabidly, irrationally anti-cryptocurrency. Which is ridiculous, considering most people here 1) Create or participate in online spaces and 2) Wish to monetize their services in ways that don’t necessarily involve advertising. You don’t think peer-to-peer micro transactions are going to transform your work in a fundamental way? Then I’m sorry, but you lack imagination.
Is that a bug or a feature? I wish they had this in Chrome
Not really - makes a ton of sense if you're an organic chemist.
What are you talking about? I am not talking about the W3C's nonsense, I was fairly clear that I was talking about the actual real spec, which is html5, via the WHATWG [1]

What you claimed is absolutely wrong.

Please note that it defines the DOM interfaces for all of the core elements, and more or less every DOM API, including all elements, as well as most programmatic types - even things like the XHR objects. They used to all be in a single giant "HTML living standard" document, and have in the relatively recent past been split into separate spec docs (many of which reference the original "living standard").

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org
Depends on your personal tolerance for the complexity indicated by the word "chemical". The presence of "deoxyribonucleic acid" on its own does not prove life, as that term covers simple cases of it that could conceivably naturally occur. However, if you've got a multi-million base pair chain of the stuff, wrapped up in chromatin, and bespeckled with all manner of useful-looking biochemical doohickeys attached to it, I'm willing to say that's definitely indicative of life. Is that a "chemical"? I'd certainly call that a "molecule" that could only be produced by life.
Such broad questions don't usually lead to high-quality discussions. It's better to submit articles presenting a point of view on the topic.
That’s some pretty tortured logic. The time for hybrids was 10, 20 years ago. Now we don’t have much time left to transition.

The solution to the battery production capacity problem isn’t going to be to throw up our hands and say “oh well, guess we have to make compromised cars.”

The solution is to figure it out and increase battery production radically. 10,000 fold if need be. Nobody is saying it will be easy. Weak solutions with highly polluting smaller engines (yes, small engines pollute much more per mile and even per gallon used) are fine in some cases temporarily for filling some of the gaps but they aren’t going to take us where we need to get to with emission reduction.
The gmail one in particular drives me absolutely bonkers. Like, I don’t care if the search needs to take 15 seconds to do, just find the email with the phrase that I know is there!

This is even more frustrating when you do a date constrained search and google tells you there are no emails from that date, but if you page through manually, it’s there. I feel like gmail is constantly gaslighting me.
Interesting, I started off by getting 6 or so upvotes; 1 day later, I'm down to -1. I wonder what changed?
I don't get it... is this one of those "The moon landing was fake" things or are you like not aware that we've traveled to the moon?
I have an iMac 2015 and a MacBook (the one with the slow dual core ultrabook CPU). I use the normal edition of Firefox most of the time. I've never seen Clickup or JIRA run faster in any other browser.
It’s a money move. Ms sunk billions in Edge. With chredge bing ads makes profits. It will come installed in windows by default.

If google’s killing ad block extensions, Microsoft will most definitely follow suite.

Your only best bet is Firefox right now.

Chrome is a Trojan horse and Google most definitely doesn’t give a shit about your privacy.
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Can't suggest pi-hole enough for a small personal network. Happily donate to them. On a larger scale, I am not sure...
That's why uBlock Origin also blocks trackers, third party embeds, and of course, ads.
Fox vs. CGTN Key Moments from the Trade War Beef Between Trish Regan and Liu Xin
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Indeed. Take a look at cars, for example. My little 2.0L engine makes more power than a 1970's V8 behemoth could have dreamt of, while simultaneously getting fantastic fuel mileage with minimal pollutants (in comparison).

It's by no means perfect, but by any objective measure it's providing me with more value at a lower energy cost. Energy cost to operate, energy cost to build, energy cost to maintain. And that trend is most certainly not going to reverse any time soon.
> And those people re-engineer society in a more stable way.

I am envious of your optimism, but I see no evidence to suggest that small communities of highly stressed and resource-starved humans can produce anything better than a much larger number of relatively non-stressed humans with easy access to abundant resources.

I wasn't proposing any particular scenario that would cause a civilisational collapse, merely that a large supply of free, easy to obtain, high-density energy may be a prerequisite for any transition to an industrial age (and naturally all that may follow). I accept we only have one data point to hand, but it doesn't contradict this proposition.