skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The web is a standard

If only that were true. The web is, at best, a series of suggestions. See also https://caniuse.com
this is such a lazy, sheepish argument. we all know what is happening.

when your private internet provider starts to shut you down for your stupid ideas, or your private bank denies you service lets see how you feel then. and to act like the government does not already regulate the hell out of private business is just a foolish position.
Umm....Agree....maybe is worst than google.
Sub-Turing Islands in the Wild
On my machine, I can’t even launch Firefox in
headless mode without the fans turning on, which
never happened on Chrome. While I haven’t benchmarked
it, for normal browsing it does feel slower than Crome.

I believe you, but I'm always so confused by hearing this. I use my Mac (2015 MBP) 10+ hours a day, evenly split between FF and Chrome.

Truly is close to an even 50/50 split -- FF is my personal browser and I use Chrome for all work-related tasks.

And they are subjectively indistinguishable in terms of performance. The only exceptions to that statement are, well, Google properties where Google has clearly invested time and money into optimizing things for FF.

One other possible sorta-exception is when I'm using a scaled resolution mode on an external 4K monitor. MacOS warns me, straight up, that these modes will cause performance issues for me and my modest Intel Iris graphics. The whole system's a little sluggish in those modes, and I think FF fares worse than Chrome, but I won't hold that against FF.

FWIW, Safari does feel subjectively more responsive to me when it comes to scrolling and navigating. And I recently spent a few bucks upgrading my PC gaming rig to a 120hz monitor, which makes a massive difference. And I'm one of those weirdos who keeps CRTs around for his old consoles because he enjoys that true zero lag experience. So I am not exactly insensitive to latency. I don't have magic professional gamer golden magic eyes or anything, but it is an area of interest for me.
Hacking Amazon devices is IMO far worse than hacking Apple devices, I recommend selling the thing on eBay and buying a Google Home AIY kit or Google Home mini.
You can now get developer certificates/provisioning profiles without paying the $100 you used to, just by having an Apple ID. You can replace the signature of an app given to you in binary form or build one given to you in source form via Xcode, which is also free.
Mark Zuckerberg’s security chief accused of racism and sexual harassment
Your phone using a different-besides-your-home network is called 'roaming' and it's not uncommon. For this to happen, your phone needs to know which networks it should try to authenticate against.

A while back, Sprint and T-Mobile announced they'd launch a roaming agreement for LTE that would last for 4 years, and that would be honored even if their merger doesn't go through. According to some people [1] this went into effect in Summer 2018.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/9548zg/tmobile_data...
Which doesn’t help because you still need a CDMA capable phone. That automatically means you both have fewer choices of phone on the network and most of the phones you get don’t work on GSM networks.

That also means it downgrades to a much slower network than GSM.
> A great first step in encouraging technological openness would be dropping the Chinese Firewall[1,2].

A great first step in encouraging technological openness would be dropping the decades long high tech embargo against China.
Interesting. This a bit like org-mode but less powerful and more user friendly.
This is obviously a hard and serious problem to address. That said, I little part of me smiled a bit at 5 withdrawals out of 93 drugs. It's bizarrely close to what blindly applying 95% confidence intervals get you. I'm both terrified and impressed that it's that close enough.
I know this would consume a lot of bandwidth, but it would always be nice to see more official package repo mirroring, like in front of a github repo / npm / rubygems, PyPI etc.

I feel like right now we are in a fairly centralized state regarding where packages come from and outages and other issues can really impact the CI/CD and development of different services.
I don't think I did misunderstand that point. I'm just trying to say that the _reason_ is not really logical in the context of what the relative impact is on each others' economies from these actions. It's drawing an arbitrary line and not addressing the actual impacts of these actions.

You can differentiate mindsets or not but it's clear that the actions are taken to cause disadvantage for the other and advantage for themselves in both directions.

As someone who has been a part of multiple enterprises that have considered entering the Chinese market and would have not had any reason to be censored (nothing to censor), I can tell you that that's just not the case at ALL. China erects as many barriers to entry for foreign companies as possible. You yourself address that directly with regards to the forced IP transfer/partnership point. Many (most? speculatively) of the companies that are successful in the Chinese market are successful due to China having no reasonable alternative (Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, etc.).

When I talk about the magnitude of impact, I'm trying to compare say the entire loss of Huawei with the lost sales of US companies were they able to enter the Chinese market as easily as Chinese companies may enter the US market. Huawei is tiny on that relative scale.
Personally, I hated the Lexus mouse. Compared to the prior generation (which used a touchscreen) it was slow and awkward to use.

The newer touchpad style they're using is almost as bad.

The touch screen was basically tap-tap done.

I know touch screens get some hate here, but CarPlay with a touch screen is about the best I've seen so far.
Exploding stars didn’t cause human bipedalism
Please don't put CNN/MSNBC/Fox in the same camp as RT, or Chinese state sponsored news. That's not fair.

This is not a situation of moral relativity.

CNN, even Fox, are actually very independent news outlets. Their news is news. (Especially the non-editorial stuff, is usually above bar)

On some, mainly political issues, they are biased.

On some national issues, they 'close ranks'.

But they are not propaganda outlets.

RT is absolutely propaganda outlet. RT is an organ of the Russian state, created specifically to promote Russian interest abroad, and to serve as a mouthpiece for the government, specifically Putin.

Trump has friends in Fox News, but quite a number of haters; many popular folks there disagree with him quite loudly, a lot. Trump has no friends in most of the rest of the press, and there's no opportunity for him to set the agenda directly for example.

RT was designed so that Putin could create the narrative he chooses, and to oppress any opposition to his regime, or the state.

Even the BBC/CBC etc. have quite a degree of independence from state organs. They have obvious political leanings in many situations, and surely will work with the state on some issues, but they are in many ways 'more independant' because they don't have to survive on click-bait.
I am not responsible for your education. Take responsibility for yourself and have a nice life.
"The Soviets killed some 180,000 whales illegally, driving several species to the brink of extinction"

For those of us that skip straight to the comments
Meh, if there is a backdoor it will be used, a warranty is a nicety and not required when the government steps in, including the US government. They break the law all the time, as was indicated by PRISM and numerous other illegal surveillance processes. All governments do it, it's just that China is turning it into an art form and flagrantly doing it and letting us all know they are building up a database on their own people to decide whether they are good people or not. Blocking Huawei is strictly to protect the USA's military interests, it's not about privacy. Cisco and Qualcomm may build in back doors but they are the USA sanctioned backdoors. That why Big H is getting the boot during 5G rollout
You appear to have somehow missed the extremely loud chorus of "we hate it, change it back" that happen every time any web app gets a new design. See also the saga of Instagram on Android.
The intelligence community needs a house-cleaning – by Matt Taibbi
Does their profit or lack of it change the point? Does it only matter if someone is making money?
It seems that there is a lot of focus on Qualcomm's strong-arm monopoly tactics. But that seems to me to work exactly as designed - patents are intended to literally grant a temporary monopoly to reward the holder for the expensive research work that otherwise wouldn't have happened. If Qualcomm won't license someone a patent for whatever reason, that is up to them. Clearly if customers are deciding to pay the price, it must be worth it. In fact, Apple itself did after realizing Intel can't deliver the 5G chipsets on time.

The article points out where QCOM actually violated a contract, though. It's related to FRAND patents [1] - they committed to licensing a certain set of patents this way so they can be included in a standard, something very valuable to Qualcomm, and then later reneged on that commitment. That I can totally side with. But all the other bellyaching about QCOM the big bad monopolist for other reasons is missing the point IMO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...
It is literally called Civil Anti-Spam Law, so it's an accurate title.
Betrayed by an app she had never heard of
Ok, that was way more interesting than I expected...

A few bits that are interesting to me (and probably no one else).

The two towns I've lived in are both renamed Grover Cleveland (he was born in one, and spent most of his childhood in the other).

Megyn Kelly attended elementary school in the next town over from where I live currently.
Yea. For sure. Apple should be encouraged to spend their 200b in cash on an alternative instead of lawyers.
Unless you use some obscure browser, it is better to use your real user agent. If you keep your browser and operating system up to date, chances are it will be one of the most popular ones.

Your UA will correlate with other means of fingerprinting you making you more common. Being clever can make things worse.

For example, the most common UA is from an iPhone, but the most common screen width is 1920 pixel. If you decide to make your UA an iPhone with a 1920 pixel screen, then you will be easily identified.
I've submitted suggestions to some people but I believe with the workers it should be possible to create your own custom pull/push CDN because of the granularity controls they have added. It used to not be possible to interact with the caching layer but since they have added controls for that (about a year or so ago)

Also your link is missing a trailing slash (which is odd that their router doesn't add that).
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/cache-ap...
Or email. Some of the most racist shit I've ever seen has come in as a forward from some distant relative who then gets autoshitcanned in the future.
Yes. My point was that they are exhibiting the same type of behaviour that they're accusing Qualcomm of, and that's why I said that's the pot calling the kettle black; they are more than happy to embrace the same self serving behaviour when it serves them.

The app store paid out $34bn to devs last year, so a very simple and probably naive calculation of 34/.7*.3 tells me they pocketed around ~$14.5bn in revenue from a total of $48.5bn. (source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/developer-apos-34-billion-ear... )

That really ought to be big enough a pot to warrant my drawing the parallel.

Furthermore,

- They have absolute control and will shut down things whenever they want, such as parental control apps - https://www.macworld.com/article/3391361/apple-privacy-paren... .

- They claim you may install alternative apps, yet you may not set them as default handlers to replace Apple's native ones- https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644045/apple-defends-ap...

- They're playing hardball with Spotify, who are also using the word "monopoly": https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18530894/apple-music-monop...
Science fiction generally seemed to assume some evil AI or robots would take over the world and make arbitrary / unappealable decisions ....but naw we humans are happy to do it to each other.
It wasn't legal because it completely violates the 4th amendment in the mind of any reasonable person. The government said that was okay, but really it wasn't okay, and we all know that it was unConstitutional under even the most liberal interpretation of the 4th amendment.
Can someone who owns a Tesla talk about nighttime operation?

LCD displays this large and bright can mess with low light adaptation. Unlike OLED technology, LCD’s just can’t make really dark blacks and glow.
well of course, only _the other side_ news are subjective, with "_theirs_" carefully grouped to include people the other side of the oberton window, to sap the group legitimacy whole

tactic as old as dirt, but a lot people still falling for it
I'm confused by the seemingly interchangeable use of the words "socialism" and "communism" implied in this piece.
The headline draws conclusions only very tenuously supported in the body:

>The study, published in the British Medical Journal, does not prove that ultra-processed foods cause disease. Nor does the effect appear particularly large, even in the most enthusiastic junk food consumers.

>Touvier said it was unclear how ultra-processed foods may harm health. Even when its poor nutritional value is taken into account, consumption is still linked to more disease and death, she said. One suspicion is that it displaces healthier, more nutritious foods, but additives and perhaps contaminants from processing and packaging may play a role too.

The researchers don't substantiate the cause of "heavily processed foods" being linked to early death at all; if they're not even sure if it's the content of processed foods or just bad diets, it's total fearmongering.
Comcast's Xfinity Mobile allows non-CDMA iPhones on its network (through Verizon). They will only connect to Verizon's LTE network and is unable to access its CDMA network.

I suspect Boost could do the same.
Especially considering how often DUI's are repeat offenders, there are plenty of chances to permanently revoke someone's driving privileges with due process. One recent "crackdown" in the law called for mandatory jail time only after the 4th offense. That's a ridiculous number of chances to give someone for something so selfish and reckless.
Ren said his daughter (the CFO) is fully prepared to complete a PhD when locked up in prison.
Does using "User-Agent switcher" or similar extensions have any effect on this functionality?
Based on my memory of what the teacher said in my statistics class in school, exam results in Scotland are normalized as z-scores vs that year's population. At least they were a zillion years ago.
> Browser extensions up until this point have been a massive security hole

No, that's a very misleading use of the term "security hole". By that definition, every piece of software on your computer is a "massive security" risk. Heck, even Chrome itself is a massive security hole since it can see the content of every page you visit.

I think it's worth reacting strongly to this argument because it's exactly the kind of statement that muddies the waters to convincing people that they shouldn't have the option of having full control of their own devices.

And I'm not saying there haven't been huge security issues with extensions. Just as there have been massive issues with any manner of software downloaded and installed. But requiring them to be open source and needing explicit user approval before install (unlike in older IE versions) addressed those issues pretty well, imo.

Edit: I would like to see changes that make it easier to observe when an extension is active and/or communicating with third party servers and/or writing to local storage for later transmittal (if that's possible).
I don't know if there is any way to really decide what is inauthentic outside of say only allowing individuals who are verified to post....and nothing else.
I am not a linguist, but as a native speaker, shouldn't they be considered 15 characters? क्स, क्या and र्थ each form individual conjunct consonants. Counting them as two would then beget the question as to why डे is not considered two characters too, seeing as it is formed by combining ड and ए, much like क्स is formed by combining क् and स.
There comes a time in every corporate's life where good will is neither important nor needed.
Really? Firefox feels faster to me than Chrome at this point. I use both for work, but I prefer Firefox at home.

What popular sites don't work in Firefox?
Yes in theory. But you can't roam the entire time or everywhere another provider has signal; in fact I've never managed to use it because I've only tried it in locations where my provider has awful coverage, and my phone's been unable to register. It's clearly only tailored to allowing you to get some semblance of service when you go out of the official range on occasion. It has various limits and T-Mobile terminates your contract if you roam more than half the time. So it's not like you can live somewhere out of their range and just change whom you pay your bills to and switch to roaming most of the time.
Patents don’t last forever, and there are a dozen ways to solve each problem.

Apple is sitting on 200b in cash. What would be great for consumers if they spent some of their cash on 6g networks before they turn into a sovereign wealth fund.
I recall a hearing a seminar a few years ago by a computer scientist, about getting physicists and other non-CS people to write better software. He mocked one physicist who had defined a shell file called "make" that simply contained the one line

cc *.c

How clueless can one be?

Except... that's a perfectly reasonable approach to compiling your program if it's small enough that this takes only a few seconds - ie, if your program has no more than about 50,000 lines of code - and there's nothing more complex to be done than compile a bunch of C source files. Physicists have better things to do with their time than learn about "make" just so they don't get mocked by computer scientists.
Maybe cause they don't have any sustainable Revenue to justify their UNGODLY stock price? And, now need to compensate.

Let's not forget Microsoft was at $65 the majority lf their life.
Sure, I have a GSM phone partly because I like that the hardware is less tied to the account. Of course, I also had to buy a nano SIM when I bought a new phone, but whatever.

On the other hand, I don't think this is a particularly popular concern. It certainly doesn't concern a large share of wireless customers in the US (they are using the Verizon...).
I would classify that as "not sufficiently anonymized." I'm asking a serious question and don't really subscribe to dogma as being particularly convincing.

Thanks for the facetious argument and hand-waving though.
Like pretty much every term that consumers hear in wireless, what people mean when they say CDMA varies. The underlying Code-Division Multiple Access method that the OP refers to is a general principle of operation and not a standard. It is also used by HSDPA and LTE. The specific standard that was mostly a US thing and even then specific carriers is CDMA2000, which is a specific standard like HSDPA.
I don't understand why I'm being down voted for this comment.
Yeah, these kinds of hacks usually end up with unmaintainable mess when cumulated. Just use fzf.
If you like that, then you need to check out SeaMan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman_(video_game)

"The narration is voiced by Toshiyuki Hosokawa in the original Japanese-language version and by Leonard Nimoy in the English-language version. ...

The 'Seaman' is a form of freshwater fish (the color and shape of the fins suggest that it is a Carp) with a very lifelike human face. It possesses human mannerisms and behavior with which the player interacts. ...

Seaman is considered a unique video game in that it presents limited action. The player's role is to feed and care for Seaman, while providing him with the company that he needs. In fact, the player is required to check on the Seaman every day of real time, or he could die. A portion of Seaman's knowledge is random trivia. When he asks what the player's birthday is (and the player responds via the microphone input), Seaman will then share significant events which happened on that date."

It's like a super weird Tamagochi.
I would like to see legislation that prevents storing data in a way that identifying information could be derived from a legitimate hacker. I think this is far more practical than a blanket hammer banning all forms of tracking, as we're stuck with advertising for better or worse. Might as well actually make things saner.
Pathetic FUD.
The problem with your argument is that electricity is fungible and it's wide available. When you buy you Nissan Leaf, you don't need Tesla's charging ports, you can plug it on any power outlet. You might miss the fast charging, but that's it.

When you go buy a phone, one of the factors you have to decide is "what app store do I want". If you go with Android, you might miss a few apps, but so what ? Most of them are also fungible, just use a similar one.

If it wasn't like that, we could say that Wall Mart is a monopoly because only they sell Great Value branded products.
Nah NVAlt is the best ;)
I’m sure they would love to. The billions they’ve paid in licensing fees is more than it would cost to actually make themselves.

This is the problem with mandatory standards and patents that cover those standards.
Rupert Murdoch is a businessman who 'sells news as a product' to a specific niche just like every other news outlet.

The amount of spin on his network is not one bit different from, I would say MSNBC for example. Perhaps a little more than CNN, but not by much.

Ted Turner (founder of CNN), and other such media moguls follow exactly the same pattern of creating 'news as a product' and occasionally using it to create/defend narrative either personal or political.

That's how the news business mostly has always worked.

'Murdoch hate' largely exists because he normally spouts opinions that a some groups really disagree with, and so they want to consider him propaganda.

The heads of NBC/CBC are under fire for their own extremely indefensible manipulations, such as 'killing' the Ronan Farrow story a few times before it went public. Great article here: [1].

Literally covering up a mass rapist for 'favours' or because they're buddies with Weinstein. And these people still have jobs?

'News' is rife with this kind of stuff, and I believe Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch are 'the same man'.

I don't believe CNN or Fox are propaganda outlets, rather, they serve mostly their business interest which is to cater to a 'certain audience', they will bend here and there given their execs/owners wishes, and during times of 'national concern' they'll close ranks a little bit.

Rupert Murdoch is actually much closer to 'normative media mogul' than he is unique. Even the families that own major media outlets in us (i.e. NY Times) and Sweden etc. have their agendas

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-nbc-killed-ronan-farrows-w...
I have no idea why this merger is being pursued. Take away Boost and Sprint's spectrum allocation, they have nothing left to bring to the table, aside from 50 customers and a shit network. What's the appeal there?
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into these companies and run my findings by my government friends.
Apple is not a carrier and they don’t own spectrum. So, they would need to buy one expand 6g networks.

Anyway, such verticals integration is unlikely to be good for consumers.
Why is there a huge drop on July 4th?