skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brave is already substantially modifying Chromium to remove undesirable 'features' on top of adding the slew of Brave features. Manifest V3 is just another 'feature' that will be removed. The more significant issue there is that there might end up being conflicts between some Brave and Chrome extensions following this change.

I do not agree that writing a renderer from scratch is a wise idea. I mean in theory it's a great idea, but in practice? The Chrome renderer is very well done but, much more importantly, is also going to be what what 100% of web devs will test their sites with. Even browsers with quite large userbases, including FireFox/Safari/etc, tend to get B-tier treatment, if that. Of course standards alone should mean all sites ought render/behave the same with any compliant browser but... again, that whole theory vs practice thing.

There are also a couple of other major issues. Google can use their clout to rapidly change standards that third party projects must play keep-up on. But perhaps the biggest issue is Google using their monopoly in other fields, such as with YouTube, to change their products in ways that 'coincidentally' end up rendering poorly or slowly on third party renderers, as they have done multiple times. This [1] being one particularly stark example of such behavior.

The future of web usage is always difficult to predict. We've gone through numerous phases of seemingly unbreakable web domination from Netscape to Internet Explorer to Chrome. In my opinion Manifest V3 could finally be the tipping point of Chrome, but that may idealistic - we'll have to just wait and see.

[1] - https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-executive-claims-that-go...
> You've slowly shifted back to an incredibly vague definition of a market and an incredibly vague definition of what an abusive monopoly is

I've had two posts in this thread, both of which take exactly the same position despite your ridiculous misinterpretation in between them; I haven't shifted, slowly or otherwise.

And the definition of market/monopoly is exactly the one used in antitrust law. That may be inconvenient for your desire to argue, but that doesn't change the facts. And I haven't presented any definition of an abusive monopoly, just corrected your claim that a particular definition of monopoly also meant any company that meant it was also an abusive monopoly, noting that “abusive” actually does have meaning.
250M users, you would not have a problem with $2 a month. Don't expect the rest of these users to follow. Donations are voluntary, people are unaware, but most importantly: that $2 of yours is of different value elsewhere in the world. All the people who live in poverty (according to my standards) should not feel obligated to pay American price for software. Which is a small quibble I have with proprietary software.
For sure; that's how this typically happens. It's one reason why the guidelines ask you not to post such comments about voting. Vote totals fluctuate. When users see an unfairly downvoted comment, they often give corrective upvotes. Then the comment goes back into positive territory, but a post like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20057244 lingers on, orphaned and inaccurate.
It seems like this can easily be fixed by having people sign up for contracts that last more than 1 year or at least have some financial incentives that accrue to employees who stay longer? For example, tech companies have stocks that only vest after 4 years. I don't see why in principle this couldn't be even longer.

I don't know much about it personally, but I think the US government has a lot of benefits (like retirement) that scales with years of service.

I actually suspect that at least for many big companies the problem isn't getting people to stay after training, it's getting the best employees to stay and getting lower-performing employees to leave. I think for this reason, most tech companies structure pay with a 4-year contract, which promises a high salary for 4-years (due to bonuses and stock), and then an implicit pay drop if there's no promotion after 4-years.
Sorry. Tested with the family, but didn’t notice that I only took the single code point when making _something_ show upon HN. It also works for

“test\u{1F469}\u{200d}\u{1f469}\u{200d}\u{1f467}\u{200d}\u{1f466}"
I really enjoy reading about those kinds of problems because they are so opposite to my intuition.

Even thinking about this more, and reading (and understanding) the solution, if I think about this, my guess would still be "well, with 182 people, half the pigeon holes would be taken, so there would be 50% chance the next person getting in the room would pick a taken hole".

Another similar problem is the Monty Hall problem. Simple, easy to understand when explained, but still, despite understanding the solution, doesn't feel right!
Wooden houses catch fire relatively easily because they're made of many small pieces of wood. Larger, monolithic pieces of wood are considerably less flammable. (Imagine trying to start a campfire with a single log.)
By explicit, do you mean they pressured you to induce for safety?
Does unlisting means removing the entry?

Unlisting to me seems like they only stop advertizing that they know your profile.
> My general impression is that tracking protection is low-priority for Mozilla

It is on by default, and as you point out, breaks many innocent sites. People may migrate elsewhere. That should bump up its priority.
That's Time-restricted feeding, not Intermittent fasting.
Interestingly, it seems like Apple spent the better part of a year delaying the release of the update to fix this issue. I wonder why?
And yet those oversize loads will RIP the power lines to pieces.
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These structures are actually pretty fire resistant and does not loose structural integrity at high temperatures. Only the outer layer will burn to charcoal which then functions as an insulating layer protecting the inner layers.
Discussed earlier this month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19840447

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844678
I don't think the lack of sources make it "not an essay". You can dispute the value of the writing, but it's a bit weird to think it's pompous to use words with the definition of the most common usage:

Essay

1. A short piece of writing on a particular subject

Thesis

1. A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.
> The Windows Terminal is in the very early alpha stage, and not ready for the general public quite yet. If you want to jump in early, you can try building it yourself from source.

> Otherwise, you'll need to wait until Mid-June for an official preview build to drop.
Wow, is it just me or is this a mountain-out-of-a-molehill situation? This is not fundamentally any different than “report spam” for email, or a user posting “is 800-xxx-xxxx a legit number?” online, or sending a contact card to a few million of your closest friends.

I appreciate the situation that the journalist found herself in, but if she wants her number to be a secret, she needs to make sure the people she calls know that, too.

I will file the information in this article as “good to know,” not “omg disaster”.
Possibly because LibDem supporters tend to post obscenely racist/xenophobic/hateful things that often get flagged/reported.
This question comes up every single time anything related to wood construction is talked about. The keyword in mass timber is mass. It's quite hard to set a big mass of wood on fire. It burns slowly and relatively predictably -- meaning you have more time to evacuate. And because of its mass, an outer layer can char, burn out and leave the building standing.

Also sprinklers.
> Can confirm, it's rare for me to be able to get at the audio captcha. Occasionally I'll find that tabbing onto the the button allows it load when clicking directly on it won't. I assume if Google is observing behavior that makes them think you're sighted, they'll block access.

That'd be very cruel to ignore those with vision, but who don't have anything close to perfect vision or correctable vision through glasses. It would also ignore those who have poorer vision as well as have difficulties in recognizing patterns. There's a whole spectrum of accessibility issues, and trying to "fail people" who seem to have enough vision to click on an audio button would be the definition of being evil.

> I kind of wonder if it would be possible to force the issue legally as an accessibility problem, but other people than me would need to do it, and in any case it feels a kind of dirty to me to use blind accessibility as a tool in the fight for privacy.

Even if this is not possible legally in all jurisdictions, enough publicity and outrage could help. There should certainly be some journalists from major publications/site reading HN (or HN readers with journalist contacts) who can investigate and write about this.
I don't think there is a hard stance on bundles, after all moz://a integrated Pocket into Firefox just fine.

Nevertheless, it could be due to personal opinions, but catering to your main commercial partner's business model is imo more plausible.
Modern captchas are designed to be anti-human and use as for free training of their AI algorithms. We're slaves for free while Google benefits from this, both technologically and financially.

Next captcha from google will be even more aggressive, you're not logged to Google = you're a bot, you can't access that content.
We’ve several of these wood high rises here in Norway now, and our building code is pretty strict.

A friend of mine lives in one of these (Treet in Bergen, built using glu-lam), from what I remember it’s covered in fire-retardant coating, and has lots of sensors and sprinklers. And pretty strict rules (no BBQ of any kind on the roof terrace, etc).

Edit: have a look here, google translated (sorry) https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

> - When glulam structures begin to burn, a layer of coal is formed on the outside of the wood and the fire goes out. All wood surfaces are painted with fire paint and there are outlets for extinguishing water on each floor. There is sprinkling in apartments, in corridors, on balconies, over the ceiling and in the garage facility. The apartments are also approved in fire class EI90, says Kleppe.
Fuck. It's this kind of shit that really fucks up the whole theoretical fecal/oral transplant for microbiome innoculation from the free range kid raising method of autism prevention.

If you let kids just be dirty little kids that eat mud pies so they don't catch the autism, now they end up with rat lungworm infestations in their god damned brains.

Ain't no happiness nowhere.
> The only reason I can see is in ensuring that text is losslessly convertible to other UTFs, particularly UTF-16

Text is by definition losslessly convertible between UTFs. You only "lose" information if your source is not a correct UTF stream e.g. if you have lone surrogates you don't actually have UTF-16, you have a garbage pile of UTF-16 code units.

Now it may be useful to properly round-trip this garbage pile (e.g. you're dealing with filenames on Windows), but this should not be confused with data conversion between UTFs: your source simply is not UTF-16.
For damn good reason too. Going from a family bill of $300 on ATT to half that on TMobile is a no brainer. Especially for the people who’s spend the majority of their time at home on WiFi!
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> By building this project [CrossRail], London is just catching up to its peers. Paris has had a similar system, the five-line RER, since the 1970s. Berlin’s S-Bahn predates World War II.

I think I lived in London when CrossRail a just an expensive glint in the government's eye. I didn't know that it was an S-Bahn thing. I guess it makes sense, as London always was the city with the most famous of U-Bahns but no real S-Bahn.

Now I live in Sydney, a city that has always had an S-Bahn (of course we don't call it that) but know U-Bahn. But just a few days ago the Sydney Metro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Metro) was opened.

So it seems like the combined approach is what big cities converge on. Although the Sydney metro doesn't even go into the centre of the city, so it's not really equivalent.

Or that S-Bahns were some kind of new technology.

I find it interesting that
I can confirm the strace messages and FF's 15% erratic usage on a dual core i3 Skylake laptop.

I guess I never noticed it compared to how FF used to chug after long use and Google Chrome's same usage of around 30-40% of my cores.
> somebody recently suggested that I add history to sqlite in Oil

what a disgusting, perturbed mind! Shell history is probably the kind of data that fits better as a text file. It is naturally textual and it can never grow too long, even if you are typing commands continuously for your entire life. Please, keep the dirty hands of sql far, far away from the shell!
> We reply to TrueCaller to suggest that:

> - They advertise the unlisting option more clearl

> - They send a SMS to any non-user whose number is entered to warn them someone is attempting to enter their number and ask them for consent. This would also be an opportunity to inform them about the unlisting option.

I doubt anything less than that is even really legal in the EU right now. Essentially, if my phone number is entered into that app, my personal data is being digitally processed and maid widely available without my knowledge or consent. Pretty sure that's very much illegal.
>"Which gets stopped by walls and wet leaves. It's great if you're in line of sight of a tower and own a device that supports HPUA (high-powered uplink)."

Which is why they are combining it with their 800MHZ spectrum from the old Nextel iDEN service. 800MHZ can pretty much punch through anything.
Thank you for explaining / taking me through that. I totally agree that it's in the details.

My factory now makes the same amount of sneakers but uses less energy, and I have more profit which I can spend on more things, maybe making new markets viable. And in the macro picture, that extra energy, lower prices, makes some things become viable. And what happens from there regarding energy depends on the details. Very interesting and good, semi-detailed discussion.
To some extent we do know. We know people who are lonely tend to be less active, and we know people who are less active tend to have worse health.

On the Greek island of Ikaria for example[1], we know that people regularly live to be 90 years old and that even at that age they remain incredibly social and physically active.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171116-the-greek-island-wi...
A psychedelic fun Turkish gitHub project www.dahianlamindaki.de
Yeah but SEGA had already lost way too much money by then to be able to recover its hardware branch. The Saturn utter failure hit them very very hard.
I’ve recently switched to startpage.com - they use Google for high quality search results, but anonymize all search requests and show non-personalized, non-tracking ads solely based on my current search term. Also, they’re based in Europe/Netherlands.

I’m not affiliated with them. Just a happy user.
> charges that they knowingly and intentionally participated in a criminal enterprise that facilitated the transnational importation and distribution of narcotics through the sale and service of encrypted communications

> Maximum Penalty: Life in prison

Welp. Guess the issue here is knowingly, do apple execs think all sorts of crimes aren't committed with their products?
Ruanyf/Weekly
Punishing the people who buy ads is a far more effective strategy that gets to the heart of the issue.

Also, just as effective.
It's still easy to cut out of your life. I told my family if they want to reach me they have to use e-mail or the phone. This works surprisingly well.
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The case looks terrible on paper and they obviously knew who their clients were to the point of interacting with them, but what's the difference between knowingly selling those same mob bosses a car which they go commit crimes in?
There's numerous businesses who know that their customers are unsavory types and face no such punishments.

It all reeks of cryptowars when you read through the law enforcement statements.
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>The dev tools feel extremely polished and feature complete.

Much less than that of Fx or Chrome. No support of extensions means I can't use something like https://github.com/vuejs/vue-devtools, no command menu, poor debugger, no performance\memory usage information etc. The list can go on and on. Safari's dev tools are about at the same level as they were in Chrome or Fx 5+ years ago.

As for the extensions part... well, not everybody needs them, I guess, but I can't really imagine my browser without at least, 1P, uBO, Stylys, Tempermonkey, TreeStyleTabs, Tab Session manager, Bloody Vikings! and All Mangas Reader.
Smell is an interesting point

As travisjungroth points out, the most obvious mechanism is feed-back where they eat something, it works, and the body is designed to do more of the same.

But if there is a feed-forward mechanism, i.e. where genetic information tells you "eat this thing now, even if you normally hate it*; then the most plausible thing would a pretty low level mechanism that matches chemicals detected by smell.
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This is literally why the data is being collected. Granted, i do not work at Google, but i have experience in exactly this area.

Apps and websites want to sell you things. Well many of them. They then need to know for how much. If they know, they can extract more profit. Which is why they try to find out.
Really.
No dogma.

What do you think I do with your fingerprint as you engage with my sales website?

"Improve my service?"
I hope you never buy a used car.
If Robocalls are the problem, Truecaller isn't the solution.
Regulations against unwanted harassment is.
Robocalls are not a force of nature where our only recourse is a technological solution. They are a result of a human choice, where the absolute majority of individual think it's a menace. So our recourse is legal.
band-aid solutions like Truecaller cause more problems. The Truecaller product is not a usual commodity where you choose it, and pay a known price.
The actual price you pay is totally unknown. Because they require total access to your device without genuine disclosure of their intended use for it.
I use this now, having switched from Workflowy. It’s great — I’m a huge fan.
You seem to have not really read my comment, made some assumptions and created some straw-men. I'm not entirely sure why.

As I mentioned before I switched entirely to Firefox about a year ago. I only switched back fairly recently (Firefox shipped separate processes _years_ ago). I also continue to use Firefox daily at work. It still isn't as good, as much as I hate to say it. Some issues have gotten better but not all. They are still not equivalent (especially in web dev tooling) and many sites, like YouTube, still have weird issues in Firefox (full screen mode on my Surface Pro 4 still doesn't work right; it's like it switches to a weird software renderer).

Chrome just _always_ works. And I hate to say it, too.
How much of Firefox success depends on donations?

I have seen successful crowd-funding projects where the budget is always transparent and communicated to the public. I am certain this motivates the masses to donate.

Wouldn't it be better for Mozilla to make their funding fully transparent, to attract the masses?
That's really not relevant. Groups of rats can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, that's what makes them the same species.
I had a home in the 90's that had laminated structural beams, I don't live there any more, but last time I drove past it was still standing.
I think its pretty common for housing in Australia, here's some info https://www.thefifthestate.com.au/innovation/materials/expla...

Laminated plywood has been used for a long time (70's?), and has been used as cross bracing on timber framed houses. There's also all the sorts of chipboard which although aren't structural are glued. So I suppose there's a fairly long history there with glued timbers. Its the usage as multi storey buildings that is new I guess.

Edit: apparently plywood was first made in 1797 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plywood, wow
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The problem is that a big percentage of people will not have the gut reaction that screams "there's something really unsettling about that person's face" when looking at a deepfake.

Just take a sample of your close friends or relatives. How many of them can tell 48fps video apart from 24fps? How many people leave Smooth Motion turned on on their TV's without even noticing it?

Hell, I remember people telling me that they could not tell the difference between Blu-ray and DVD when Blu-ray came out. Even in this forum, a lot of people have claimed that there's little difference between a 1080p monitor and a 4k monitor scaled at 200% (Retina). It's 2019. 1080p screens are completely unsuitable for looking at text, and yet many people can barely notice the difference.

That's what we have to worry about. The tech is good enough to weaponize right now. And I see no way out of it, except with education. Perhaps high schools should eventually include a visual and aural literacy course as part of the curriculum.
> I think nearly everyone would be willing to pay the ~$2/year to use Firefox if all browsers weren't free.

Don't forget $2 in USA buys you different things than in Russia, China, India, or Africa.
>Functionally, they took it out.

If they never put it in, then they never took it out. There is no need to play the language game to try to make something false sound true.
You did the same thing again (defining something by what it is not). This does not help another person understand you, which I'm assuming you want since you seem to care a lot about this subject.
I was due Christmas day. My mom's doctor said, "I don't want to work on Christmas, so we're gonna get him out early." No talk of safety or anything else was ever discussed. I suppose there was an implicit threat that she'd get whatever unlucky random doctor was on call Xmas instead of her actual doctor.

My older sibling was a C-section, so I was going to be a C-section anyways. It just became a planned c-section due to the holiday.
I am posting this again, because I still didn't get opinions about it and I think it is important.

How much of Firefox success depends on donations?

I have seen successful crowd-funding projects where the budget is always transparent and communicated to the public. I am certain this motivates the masses to donate.

Wouldn't it be better for Mozilla to make their funding fully transparent to attract the masses?
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Actually all browser vendors could/should do that except for Google.
History of opened URLs of the tab is accessible to sites via DOM, what you propose would be a leak.
Yes but atleast you're not visible to others edit: so in order to use this, you have to install the app - "deactivate it" and only then will it accept the unlisting. Fucking bs
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