skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the gist of the original piece (from 2014):

> Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of everyone’s secrets. The truth is that collecting information about people allows you to make significantly better products, and the more information you collect, the better products you can build. ...

https://dcurt.is/privacy-vs-user-experience

How the times change. Not a whiff of Facebook. Snowden who? Google was still mostly not evil.

From the more recent article:

> I argued in my essay that Tim Cook had conflated privacy with security. He may have. But in the five years since 2014, the following fact has become absurdly clear to me: there is no difference between privacy and security. Security is an illusion, just like the lock on your front door. ...

In time we'll all come to realize that privacy is merely a special case of security. What can't be seen can't be attacked.

Until then, a lot of damage will have been wrought on people too distracted or naive to care.
I've not found it to be an issue on Linux - seems to be about as performant as Chrome for me.

The only wrinkle was when I tried to watch Netflix the first time I had to click a button to let me watch DRM'd Netflix streams.
I've never switched to Chrome from Firefox. I don't really care that it's 10% faster, when Chrome is wielded as a weapon against freedom.
“I work at a hotel and $politician came in with his mistress. Here’s a video I taped off of the security monitor.”
You can set a default browser on iOS w/o Jailbreaking with my app UpTime https://www.producthunt.com/posts/uptime-3/edit
There has! This could be a great approach - eg. a network of folks committed to supporting users in this manner could operate IPFS nodes that re-pin the encrypted keys.

We are also thinking about offline ways to share the key such that the centralized side is not required - eg. a QR code displayed on one device and scanned by another to propagate the wallet. This creates a problem if a user loses all of their devices though.
Agreed. I was utterly disappointed with performance on OSX after the big talk about Quantum. I had tons of situations with the whole browser freezing, videos not playing - mainly related to media.
Why bother? Netflix ships a native app already.
Have you looked into Chrome Store Foxified? It automates the conversion, signing, and installation of extensions from the Chrome Web Store into Firefox. https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified (It wasn’t working for a while but it seems that a fix might have finally been discovered.)
Wouldn't Flink be more likely to replace Spark? I don't hear about a lot of people using Storm these days, but I guess a lot of this depends on whatever bubble you happen to be in.
Overall enrollment at universities is down for the seventh year in a row
Ah, cool, good to know. Thanks. Still, though, the dealbreaker with profiles remains :/

I'd really like to switch to Safari especially because it is extremely battery friendly but there are so many features it lacks :'(
I wouldn't necessarily agree with that.

- Hitting the windows key on the keyboard gets you to a search that is similar enough to spotlight that you don't have to even mess with the start menu.
- Once you understand windows are document, not application based, switching becomes easier.

I'm not sure what other interactions you would have trouble with. For the most part, it's just the difference between the button you hit on the keyboard for everything.
Origin added now.
I use zsh, and I have a thing in my profile that skips writing any `cd` command to history. Instead, it will rewrite the command using the absolute path of the directory I `cd`'d into and write that to history.

Thus, all of the `cd` commands that get written to my history use absolute paths and are re-usable no matter where I am.

It would be cool if this sort of functionality were generalizable to all commands where you type a relative path, not just `cd`.

https://github.com/dasl-/settings/blob/3143bbfe23bd75c3e35c7...
I've been using MXRoute¹ for the past year and it's gone really well. I've never had a dropped e-mail. They use MailChannels² as a blacklist fallback. They're affordable, reliable, with quick support.

¹ https://mxroute.com/
² https://mailchannels.com/
Bitcoin can't easily increase the quantity of transactions, so it's hard to answer that directly. Bitcoin transaction rates are currently limited by the time to mine a block and the number of transactions per block. Technical and political barriers exist to changing either of those numbers. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem
for more details.
Note that apparently the layoffs have already happened. Engineers are already interviewing elsewhere.
That makes HTML5 harder to implement, not simpler.
Even some Microsoft enterprise software refuses to work on Firefox.

Well, at least we have Edge on Linux now so duopoly can live on...
Or the end goal of the "fake news" scare in general (not to say that there aren't sites that specialize in making up news.) To combat "fake news," you start whitelisting "true news," and defining it by the influence of the provider, not the content. In the end, you just end up with state news sources.

related: It's telling that "factchecking" isn't a dialogue between various authorities, but instead just a bunch of weird private judicial systems with no appeals courts, selected and assigned to specific stories by internet aggregation intermediaries. Eventually, this can't help but shake out as stories being divided into two categories: factual and banned from distribution.

I sadly feel that we're about 10 years away from licensing journalists with a security clearance-type process that must be sponsored by an approved outlet. The PropOrNot at the Post shook me a bit.
C doesn't provide any abstractions period... there is no such thing as a list or dynamic array in C, at best one can build a leaky abstraction based on structs and pointers with almost zero type safety. Case in point, the SGLIB you mentioned, which uses the same old macro tricks from decades ago.

Anything is better than C at providing abstractions for building games, because any language offers more than procedures, crude arrays and structs. C++, Rust, C#, Python, Java, Swift, etc. All of these would run circles around C for almost any kind of possible project.
This got me to update Edward Norton's wikipedia entry. He's most likely the most famous person from Columbia, Maryland, he just wasn't categorized as from the town. Though it was interesting seeing Randy Pausch (computer scientist) listed as the town's rep.
Please don't break the site guidelines regardless of how wrong some other comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/24/github_is_independe...
B-list is pretty harsh. She has an Oscar nomination (albeit 10 years ago), and the Pitch Perfect movies made $$$.
How about making your baby smarter, healthier, and more ambitious? Less fearful?
I have never seen anyone show exfil of anything other then a .ini file. Is exfiltrating other files just not possible with these?
Use exercises that burn a lot of energy. High intensity is most effective. Energy will be taken from all deposits, trying to target only fat deposits is very inefficient when it comes weight loss. If you want to keep as much muscle mass as possible use muscle building exercises.
Harvest festivals were religious- or at least tied up in religion.

You can't just take a core element of a heavy intertwined, complex system without collateral damage. It's like deleting a file in a spaghetti codebase. Half the codebase interacts with any given file in some way or other.
Another way to think of it is that you can't truly optimize for user interests if you're not beholden to them; and if you take possession of their data, you're no longer beholden to them. To serve your users fundamentally means to empower them.
Major, recent, related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038872

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050173

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037562
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052893 and marked it off-topic.
Right, but I think that's a problem for large cities like Los Angeles. There's nothing particularly "Los Angeles" about Elon Musk that I know of, he's just really famous and (maybe?) happens to live there.

And with birthplace, I think it's pretty interesting to browse the map for random tiny towns no one has heard of that happen to be the birthplaces of very famous people.
Wait... why would people who govern countries and institutions being intelligent (or high IQ) be bad or undesirable? Would people rather have average or low IQ people dominating world leadership and institutions?
yes that's what I meant. The concept of free speech.
Aaaaaaand hackernews hugged it to death.
Some of the Issues I've seen/sort-of-bookmarked on various webpack-related Source Map problems:

https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/3603
https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/1194

That last one does mention at least one already fixed Mozilla bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177329
> Whales were basically saved by the oil and coal industries as lamps moved from whale oil, to kero, and eventually incandescent light.

Also, AFAIR, synthetic lubricants.
Probably because he went to Reed College there before dropping out.
I think "do the right thing" has just the ambiguity they want. If you're trying to win at a video game, you do the right thing. It doesn't matter if you're playing a good character or an evil character. Same if you're trying to learn to golf. Google is a faceless and unprincipled company that has the profit motive and nothing more. They're shaping up to the perfect example of https://thecorporation.com/ only they're playing a very long game compared to the Exxons and Wal-Marts of the world, and part of it is tricking people into thinking they care about not being evil. I think they might harm the environment every bit as much as Exxon but perhaps it will be in the form of paperclip maximizers. https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
It might depend on one's browsing habits. True, I believe the intention was to give subs their own identity, as if they were individual websites. However, I frequently click between subs. The fact is that it's a single website.

I have no question that every study of user interface ever published would indicate that buttons changing visual appearance, position, or availability with no predictability several times in a browsing session is a high friction interface.
i mean spark is often deployed on top of yarn where it's still in the "hadoop" sphere.
You can! This would re-encrypt your locally decrypted wallet seed using the new credential and store it under the newly generated lookup key
Atomwise (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Systems/Cloud Engineer
The problem is bootstrapping trust. Why would I trust this proposed site more than any random journalist? In fact I might trust it less because of how easy it is for any shady organization to set up a defamatory site masquerading as trustworthy and impartial.
PyCM 2.2 released: Machine learning library for confusion matrix analysis
Seems like if part of the political resistance is people losing jobs in dirty indstries (and since healthcare and employment are bizarrely conjoined) then addressing all three together makes perfect sense.
Thanks but no thanks.

There isn't enough functional parity for me - although I'm certainly an outlier - so I've attempted the switch and went back to chrome.

One of the issues is that I spend a lot time writing in English and then a lot in Portuguese. Chrome can spell check both and ff needs me to tell which language I'm using.
The Coming College Enrollment Bust: 2026
yeah their timeline seems backwards
But it looks like they didn't "ban" it, they just don't want to host it
on their store [1]. As long as they don't refuse to sign these
"problematic" add-ons, this is fine (although it's worrying that they
are able to do so because of this signing-required-crap).

[1]: https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-rejects-free-speech-bans-f...
If you want to terminate on demand anywhere in Jesusland, you need to genetically engineer your babies to not have souls.

One might argue that this has already been done, and the results are now running the legislature.
I just recently stumbled over https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/

Using PROMPT_COMMAND to log every command in a separate timestamped log file. This allows you to use a much better format than bash history has to be in.

Easily readable to see what you've been doing and extremly efficient to grep for.

Has been discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11806553
The Science Behind ‘Aha ’ Moments
Very anticlimactic, given the title.
Focusing on users is not Customer Obsession
Lawsuit Alleges Apple Sells Your iTunes Listening Data Despite Privacy Claims
It looks like a pretty typical keto/low carb hit job piece.

You get a couple quotes from nutritionists who are ignorant of the current science, add a couple turns-out facts, and you have a great click bait article.
Short and to the point: https://dailystoic.com/dont-read-the-news-today/

Here's a particularly good post about it: https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-whe...
I'm not just watching product reviews, etc... however, there's also a matter of scale. Even if it cost 1:10000th the funds per episode of a YouTube channel vs Stranger Things, they also make 1:10000th the money from it, give or take. Just like programmer books cost more than novels because they don't have as many buyers.

I agree that they all add up, and I've dropped a few this past year. I'm just pointing out that I find more value in the YouTube content I do watch than I do from other sources in terms of the time I spend watching.
As others have said, Safari has vastly inferior dev tools. I am not a fan of the UI at all. Also, Safari generally lags other browsers in supporting features. They added beacon years after others, even Edge had support for it way before Safari.
Unfortunately, not one I've seen get past "bare prototype" stage.
You might enjoy checking out 'fasd', which, among other things, creates an alias ('zz') with autocomplete functionality for changing to frequently-used directories.

https://github.com/clvv/fasd
Unpopular opinion, but: I think too much privacy is bad for society.

Consider the world where privacy is the absolute king:

- Much harder to solve crimes as police work is thwarted at every turn

- Much easier to plot terrorist attacks/mass shootings/etc

- Can't setup cameras/audio recording on your own property/phone/car/etc. without consent of the recorded (even if they are a criminal) or you are breaking the law.

- Hard to create companies that deal with data because of the high legal barrier you have to clear

- Much easier to hide your past mistakes, making things like "background checks" less useful

A world where privacy is king has a lot of problems and a lot of avenues of abuse. Before you grab your pitchforks, I do think there is a reasonable compromise somewhere in the middle, but some of the privacy "purists" I see on this site have some really extreme views, in my opinion.
Worked for me.

Gist: Plan for catastrophic climate change because the political will to stop it doesn't exist. Oh, and the author wants you to read his other essays on the topic.

Didn't read them (never will) so I don't know if he's a survivalist, or Mormon, or Joe Hustle selling stuff.
I wish we had more "long distance" buses in London.

It takes forever to get anywhere on a bus because it stops so frequently. I'd be really keen to get buses that dont stop until they get to major places.

E.g. you could have bus routes that only go between stations on different routes. Take Camden Town to Finsbury Park as an example - no direct rail route between them, about 2.5 miles apart by road. The 253 stops sixteen times (according to Google Maps) when going between those stations.
They are using category pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_East_Lans... to determine the links. Larry Page is in there, while Magic Johnson is in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Dana_Poin...
Really was expecting this to be an XKCD thing.
Honestly I’m expecting small payments for a fix (less than $50) but there’s been projects for 10k submitted (although these are more complete solutions)
For the TfL API, have a look at https://api.tfl.gov.uk/. You can also get GeoJSON line strings of the bus stops (or other modes of transport!) if you’re interested.
Yes. And on top of the video codec issue, there is also the issue of getting Chrome to build, and integrating code changes from every upstream Chromium release, which is quite frequent. The build setup process is very manual for an outsider, and changes often.
they won't even get elected if their IQ is too high
Different people, different tastes :)
I did not say 1000 times smarter. I said 5+ standard deviations. John von Neumann had an IQ 5+ SD above the mean. We know this phenotype is possible. It is not science fictional to think we can raise the average to at least his point. In animal breeding we increase traits by much more than 5 standard deviations all the time.

Iterated embryo selection and/or direct genetic engineering will be able to do this. It breaks no physical laws, it is in concert with what we have already observed and our understanding of cognitive genomics is getting to the point that it is becoming increasingly obvious to anyone paying attention that we will be able to select/edit for intelligence comparable to John von Neumann.

Look at the "Known for" section of his Wikipedia page to see what such people will be capable of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

"That sounds vaguely like a science fiction story" is a very poor heuristic for determining if something is possible.
in what world was spark killed by storm/heron? last i checked the spark conference had over 10k attendees this year. storm is barely supported and heron never picked up steam.
As a developer and power user, it's difficult for me to switch to Firefox.

However for most average Joe's it's fine and won't make a difference, so I always install and recommend Firefox when I play IT guy for family/friends. Time to start doing this again like we did in 2005!! It worked then and it can now!
The most frustrating thing is we see it coming, and preventing it wouldn't even be _that_ hard or costly. But we won't.
One problem with decoupling IO is that you still somehow need to get the data deep down into those places where it's needed by your application logic. That means you end up either:

1. Passing each individual little piece of data separately down the call stack with bloated method signatures containing laundry lists of data that seemingly have nothing to do with some of the contexts where they appear.

2. Combining pieces of data into larger state-holding types which you pass down the call stack, adding complexity to tests which now need mocks.

I think one of the toughest parts of day-to-day software engineering is dealing with this tension when you have complex modules that need to pass a lot of state around. It's easier and cleaner to pull stuff out of global state or thread contexts or IO, but that makes it harder to test. More often than I would like to admit, I ask myself whether a small change really needs an automated test, because those shiny tests that we adore so much sometimes complicate the real application code a lot.

If anyone has thoughts on how they approach this problem (which don't contain the words "dynamic scoping" :P) I'd love to read them.
Also, you can not delete it.
I deleted all mails in my Gmail, things still show.

Additionally, I can not even use the "download my data" options because it says "We can't verify it is you" and there is no way no authenticate myself.

So basically, Google really likes my data and holds it hostage.
C section rates above ~20% aren't correlated with better health outcomes. They will probably decline as federal heartbeat detection improves, as a major driver for them right now is losing track of the heartbeat and performing a c section as risk mitigation
Certain sleep disorder puts people at high risk of Parkinson’s – FitnessHealths
I haven't found the lack of GPU page rendering to be much of an issue, what problems do you experience because of it? Only difference I can see personally is marginally smoother scrolling.

I have however found the lack of hardware accelerated video decoding to be a HUGE bummer, watching youtube absolutely destroys my laptops battery life. That is also a problem in Chrome though as far as I know.
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They've got an interesting definition of city... Seattle is all one city, but DC has Georgetown, Capitol Hill, and Dupont Circle in addition to a label for the entire city.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190530190148/https://www.ianwe...
YouTube Vanced is good.

https://vanced.app/
>smarter

it may not be able to get along with anyone and get depressed.

>healthier

sigh. do you really need this explained to you? what cures one disease may cause another.

>more ambitious

and maybe it gets more aggressive when it doesn't get its way.

>Less fearful

oh yes, maybe it starts doing dare devil stunts and winds up dead trying to jump over roofs downtown.

I know you're not supposed to be mean here but this is the best I can do.
Hadoop's whole appeal was it was cheap and scalable. Did it actually work without serious engineering teams maintaining each distribution? absolutely not. the hype was purely VC funded.

fast forward 10 years and hadoop has basically been killed off by hosted storage services that are more expensive but 10000x easier to manage.
The role of the purists might be to counteract the "privacy is dead and buried" crowd
> You probably wouldn’t appreciate someone tracking your moves in real life. There’s no reason to accept it online.

Great to read something like this on mozilla.org.
What I want is a "canned" installer for firefox that has all my preferences saved. Sync is ok, but I'd rather not even give that information to Mozilla. Instead, give me an installation package that will allow me to provide a config file next to it, and the ability to automatically create the config file from an existing install.

I want search engines, home pages, and plug-ins way more than I need my bookmarks.
I’m a developer and power user, I switched to Firefox months ago. What is making difficult to switch? I found equivalent for all my plugins so far.
https://authy.com/download/

There are definitely TOTP implementations for desktops.
I grew up in Visalia, CA which lists Kevin Costner, the actor. He was in my high school class in my sophomore and part of my junior year when his family moved away. Although his later fame is what puts him there, we had a Nobel Prize-winning physicist actually grow up there but he never won an Oscar. Seems unfair.
As always when it comes to Firefox and privacy, the question is why isn't it on by default?
HW accelerated video do work in Chrome/Chromium on Linux, while does not in Firefox, thus visibly loading the CPU and CPU fan on laptop. There is a visible tearing while quickly scrolling in Firefox, while no such problem with Chrome.
"Sensitive action blocked

Because you’re attempting a highly sensitive action, we need to be sure it’s really you. At the moment, we can’t. Try again from a device you normally use (like your phone or laptop) or from the location you usually sign in from.

Learn more about verifying it's you."

No other option. Everywhere I try is the same.

Giving an Evil company like Google my data. How could I have been so naive and foolish.
Isn't it just best to do NFKC (or similar) normalization on input for indexing?
As a developer and—I think—power user, I use Firefox without issue.

What developer tools available in chrome but not firefox?