skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be defending them if YouTube refused to work with a "strange" user agent, but that's not what happened. Judging by the screenshots, YouTube still worked, it just refused to use a new design. The old design is still perfectly functional.

Chromium-based Edge is not stable. It's a new thing that I don't expect website owners to test against. The error message showed that the new design is tested against the latest version of Edge. Complete rewrite of Edge still hasn't replaced the old Edge.

Also, no, the web is not a standard. There's no fixed set of things that a browser should implement and call it a day. It's constantly-evolving depending on the needs of the owners of the website. It's why nobody dares to create a browser from scratch nowadays.
I'm not sure. If that were the case why wouldn't intel expose a native, better fit to uops instruction set in addition to the legacy, difficult to decode one and let the apps use the newer ones (or the subset of existing ones which do map well)?
> Mozilla has a conflict of interest.

Irrelevant. Conflicts of interest aren't a problem in and of themselves. Most people and companies have conflicts of interest all over the place—if you're prepared to look hard enough. It could be as simple as the conflict between retaining good employees and turning a profit. Conflicts are everywhere.

The question is whether the conflict is causing the company to make decisions which you think are bad—and whether you can convince others to agree with you that they're bad.

The remainder of your post is an equivocation fallacy between the ability to deeply track individual people and the ability to run advertisements at all. You don't need deep tracking in order for advertising to work well. (...unless perhaps you're relying on a fully automated algorithm to do all the work...)
look, buddy, i'm with you on the monopoly issue, but this whole side loading thing is bullshit. i don't think these mechanisms work the way you think they do, and they're certainly not reasonable for even expert users to keep an app up to date on their device. it just isn't legally relevant.
The causality runs the other way. Being willing to lie, cheat and steal makes you more likely to become rich.

But if you have any soul you'll be miserable.

Read Tolstoy's Confession.

It's short.
I was surprised by this too. It's not the type of admission a Chinese business leader would typically make. If it gains any traction of social media, the comment will probably be deleted.
why not sell raspberry pi's that are just clickbots that anyone can buy and plug into their lan as a google protest that just clicks google ads all day long...that way your computer won't get infected just the pi.
If that's even the case, it's mostly because the most efficient economic system is, in the long term, going to be the economic system that generates the most economic activity and hence the most externalities.

Climate change in particular was only discovered in the second half of the 20th century, while the root cause (the burning of fossil fuel hydrocarbons) was done inside developed economies of all stripes since at least the 18th century. The other environmental problems caused by 18th, 19th, and early 20th century industrialization have largely been addressed over time as they've been discovered, particularly in capitalist economies. In fact, the most popular proposals for addressing climate change are market-based controls on carbon emissions (either cap-and-trade or carbon taxing), which in other contexts have proven very effective. One of the best qualities of capitalism is the way that it can be applied to such ends via simple policies that merely apply incentives and use the mechanisms of the market rather than directly dictating command-and-control over economic activity.

Incidentally, another environmental catastrophe of communism was the disappearance of the Aral Sea, which was once larger than all but one of the Great Lakes. The Soviets started to intentionally redirect the sources of the Aral Sea into irrigation megaprojects in the 1960's and ended up destroying the entire ecosystem, in exchange for growing cotton in Uzbekistan.
In addition to chrismeller’s reply, I’d add one other consideration: some, probably a lot, of current 1 TB customers would be satisfied with 100 GB. If Dropbox offered, say, a $5/mo plan with 100 GB, it’s possible that many existing $10+ customers would downgrade, so although they’d make some money from new paying users, they’d also make less from existing paying users.

Here’s more on this tradeoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalization_(marketing). And on substitute goods, as a 100 GB plan would be for some 1 TB customers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good

In a sense, it’s a linear programming problem: finding the number of customers of each plan (current or hypothetical) which maximizes the resulting profit.

(Worth noting that if Dropbox was losing a ton - say, 20%/year - of customers to a cheaper competitor and they had enough margin to make a more competitive plan, they’d probably do so. That doesn’t seem to be the case here, though.)
The problem here is that once you give out a number then it's public in some sense. The person you give it to can pass it on, even inadvertently.

The smart thing to do is to have a public number and a private number. It makes no sense to call cabs with the same number you use to contact sources or whatever.

This is easily done with dual sim phones and can be taken much further with Google Voice or other dial-in phone number vendors. It's not very complicated and if your life depended on it you could easily assign a number per person.
Extreme Switch Configuration
I use myactivity to be accountable of my schedule.
I’m a lawyer who worked for years at a hedge fund. (Also private equity funds). You can probably find one or more low cost ETFs that pursue whatever strategy(ies) you find interesting. You won’t have to deal with filing a K1 (partnership tax return) on unrealized gains. And it will probably our perform given among other things the much higher fees you’ll pay in hedge funds. I strongly suggest you don’t invest in hedge funds.
I would outline 3 areas:

1) Modeling capacity/latency of complex system with queuing theory (basically creating spreadsheets that can 'calculate' how much servers you need with what I/O throughput/etc for our software)

2) When looking at tables in data-warehouse, as 'types' -- I felt I could benefit from leveraging modern type theory, where I could at least categorize schemas (filds/relations) into 'Automatically-transformable into target warehouse schema' vs 'human intervention is needed'.

Besides natural complexity, the papers in type theory use that fraction notation :-). For some reason difficult for me.

3) Various data de-anonymization proofing techniques, differential crypto, and tamper-proof logging.

Ability to read financial mathematics and NLP technique is something I do not need now, but I would have benefitted significantly in my past.
I've had some issues maintaining reVddit.com while keeping Firefox's tracking protection in mind. I'd love some help if there is anyone who can provide insight.

Basically, you can't load reVddit pages on Firefox because reVddit accesses reddit's API, and reddit is listed on Firefox's list of websites that are considered trackers [1].

In my uneducated opinion, this list is weird. I had some discussion about this with Mozilla devs [2]. In that message chain, devs acknowledged reVddit is not doing anything wrong, rather it is reddit who could infringe users' privacy. Yet it is the non-infringing site that breaks.

Further, the devs' suggestions for remedy are not workable. They propose moving requests to the server so that reVddit.com makes the requests to reddit.com. There are multiple problems with this,

* It would hide more code from users

* Reddit rate-limits requests coming from a single source

* Infrastructure becomes expensive on what is supposed to be a low cost website

My conversation with devs was good but needs more. Is there any solution here, or do we just go our separate ways?

[1] https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.privacy/XO84Ezrw...
Long time ago, I read somewhere that SEGA, the company, has very little source code and hardware development artifacts saved from their Dreamcast days (and even earlier than that). They either lost or just junked majority of it as time went on.

Do other companies care so little about their own history? If I was running one of these companies, I'd save a copy of every game, console, HW development platform and source codes of every game in a vault somewhere.
A smartphone app that can hear ear infections in children
The "China is 5,000 years of unbroken civilization" trope is also a bit of historical myth-making; aside from the obvious fact that the modern Chinese state is very young, "China" has, much like Europe, been a churning amalgamation of numerous different civilizational centers and cultures, with going periodic "foreign" influxes, back to the earliest periods for which we have evidence. The idea of a unitary, persistent, continuous, and homogeneous "Chinese civilization" is a relatively modern, ideological position, that tells you something about the people who bear it (in the same way that someone conflating modern 'Western civilization' and ancient Greece might be signalling something about their ideology).
Yes, the thought leaders in the eth community are indeed influential just like Linus Torvalds is to the Kernel project. But that doesn't mean you can't fork Linux should you disagree with him.

What you are saying is not a technical problem. But a problem in Human Society. Or even just an inherent due to it's novelty. This issue is present to almost anything that is not yet widely adapted.

With that said, giant evil mega corporations have grouped up to work on an 'enterprisy' version of Ethereum with a standard spec for interop. We're on a good track to get more 'thought leaders'.
Fukuoka G20 may ink tax policy for internet giants based on users in each nation
Not by default it didn't, but if you had any sort of technical know-how it was fairly easy to sideload it on.
// 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.). //

Yes, I agree that many of them are successful because they have tech advantages and there are no good alternatives as you pointed out. However, there are also many successful non-tech US companies in China. They have/had good alternatives. Here are some brands jump in my mind: Many products from Procter & Gamble Co, Coca Cola/Pepsi, Pizza Hut, Nike, Adidas, Walmart, Ford, KFC/McDonald, Starbucks, Subway.

From my experience in both the US and China, I guess there are far more successful US brands in China than successful Chinese brands in the US. Yes, the US imports more from China, but many products are US brands.

//China erects as many barriers to entry for foreign companies as possible. //

I also agree that business barriers for foreign companies in China are higher than they are in the US. Overall, the US is among the most business-friendly countries.

However, we need to put it into a bigger context.
According to the ease of doing business index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index
The US ranks in the 8th and China in 46th.

1) Doing business in China is harder for both Chinese local business and foreign business than it is in the US. This is the big picture. Especially when you are from the US, you may be very frustrated with some non-sense requirements for doing business in China. Many private local companies also face the same non-sense stuff, but because they understand the environment better, they may come up some tricks to work around the issues.

2) I totally understand that you have a bad experience about the barriers. From my experiences and my friends' experiences, the business-friendly-index for different kinds of business: State-owned companies > Foreign companies > Local private companies in many sectors. The least advantage one is the local private companies. Many local governments are competing for attracting foreign business to boost the local economies. They don't care about small local private business.

// 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. //

Maybe you are right about the impact. However, it's really hard to say the impact of the "protect state-owned companies" policies is a good impact on the Chinese Economies. From the economics point, the "state-owned" companies are very inefficient. It may cause far more damage to the overall Chinese economy.

Another point to see the impact is about the psychological impact: Killing Huawei to people in China is like Killing Apple for people in the US. Its psychological impact is far more than some business barries.
>"But even worse, CDMA is slow compared to GSM (HSDPA)"

You can't compare CMDA and HSDPA. GSM and CDMA are 2G/3G technologies that support both voice and data. HSDPA is data only and commonly known as 3.5G. It was a stop gap until 4G. CDMA had EV-DO rev B as its 3.5G although most CDMA carriers skipped it in favor of just rolling out LTE.

Lastly LTE(also a standard) phones all have SIM cards. And with Voice Over LTE the "GSM is superior CDMA" discussion is just plain silly. Case in point Verizon is retiring its CDMA network at the end of this year.[1]

[1] https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-21881...
I have 0 brightness or visibility issue with the screen. It has not even been a thought that has crossed my mind.

I also regularly battle with brightness settings and night time shift on my iPhone and Watch. (Granted that is a more difficult task for Apple).
Often even when people try, it doesn't work out: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7559762-181/hewlett-p...

Lots of copies keep stuff safe.
I only said influenced. You're responding to a claim I didn't make.
I'm not sure if anything changed in a day, but I'm not getting that result at all (in fact, I'm not getting a "did you mean Chrome" either). The latter isn't explainable by me, but for the former... well, remember the search results are tailored to you (that's another pandora's box about echo chambers in itself) so perhaps you've been searching for more security-oriented things and that affects your results. In my case, the first page was mostly official Firefox links, wikipedia, and the very last result of the first page was "Google Just Gave 2 Billion Chrome Users A Reason To Switch To Firefox" so it doesn't seem like there's anything awry going on here.
Here you go. There was one running earlier on HN. It's quite depressing.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-c...
I have personally suspected this, but was unaware it has been "proven many times". Do you have some references?
Hawaii warns tourists of parasitic worm that can burrow into human brains
I 100% agree with you but those were among the abusive terms
Zuckerberg's Head of Security Accused of Sexual Harassment and Other Misconduct
Obviously the article writer has some kind of uninformed agenda
Intel Goldmont CPU Causing Chrome Crashes?
DeepMind Achieves Human Level Performance in Quake III Arena Capture the Flag
Amazon MSK – managed streaming for Apache Kafka – now generally available
I agree. If they alone in the world can make good modems well they can charge a lot for it. 3% seems ok with the value I get from the the modem compared to the whole phone. If not the market will price them out. The issue is not with clients but other suppliers (or lack theeeof). The issue is patents. And enforcing frand policies. Again if no other team in the world can deliver what they do why should they charge less ? If they violated agreements it's not even an systemic issue with patents. Am I missing something ?
the ingredients list in many ice creams is very small, 2-3 things
This is a great idea! I will happily crowdfund this.
>"What worse combination of technology can you have than being on Sprint’s network and CDMA?"

Please explain why CDMA is so bad. Your post is devoid of any technical details for such an assertion. CDMA has a number of advantages over GSM that informed Verizon decision to go with it in the first place. Advantages of CDMA include operating very well in noisy environments, soft hand offs, and better spectrum utilization(frequency hopping)which allowed unlimited subscribers per cell.

Verizon, who as much as I dislike them as a company has one the best networks in the US in terms of both call quality and coverage.
https://twitter.com/BruceDawson0xB/status/113419208392371814...

Excerpt:

"Bruce Dawson @BruceDawson0xB 8h8 hours ago

Software at scale means that sometimes you hit CPU bugs.

It looks like there is a bug in Intel's Goldmont CPU that is causing Chrome crashes.

I filed http://crbug.com/968683 - anybody got experience or references for this?"
Oh. Sure. Just what Amazon needs: to also be a telecom. Sure would be a shame if there was a single industry they couldn't strongarm.
What are the chances that the security auditing firm is going to look through code and find

var sql = “select * from Users where firstname = ‘“ + firstname + “‘“;

Or

var s3 = new S3Client(secret_key,access_key)
they call it pair.sh but it's not a shell script
I've used this feature in the past. There are some weirdneses.

You lose your timezone and ALL dates appear in UTC. This is definitely not desirable.

Fingerprinting cannot be allowed for some sites, and thus things like android messages cannot work because it cannot accurately identify the browser.

Hopefully they'll do something about all this.
That's pretty vague.
Is your goal primarily to waste the budget of advertisers, many of whom are small businesses? Because you would be increasing the revenue and profit of ad networks.
Deepmind can always transfer learning to the robotics industry, if they haven't already. There's bound to be a space they can fill with the progress they've made in these video game reinforcement learning tasks. Maybe aiding in medical discoveries?
In the short term, this helps Google; they profit from each click, with the advertiser paying Google. In the long term, sure, _if_ enough people use it (they won't) then advertisers will start demanding Google do something (I strongly doubt advertisers would pull out of Google altogether). Google will then proceed to add a score to each click "probability that this click was by a bot" which would be pretty easy to determine given they're prowess in this area already.
It's more like "25% and counting".
It was ~3% 10 years ago.
Tendency is pretty obvious and omnious for Google and like.
How would that be different from what you can already configure Firefox to do by enabling resist fingerprinting options, turning off Pocket's sponsored articles, turning off telemetry, etc.? It seems like you'd be paying $2/month for keeping a set of preferences up to date.

A subscription model of some sort would probably make sense, but I don't think you'd want to gate those kinds of features on it.
Wow now this is scary. Even though I have my location closed they still track me.
The sad thing is most of my time is spent at school according to Google
it was filed when the last administration was on the way out but still had dem majority. also see the dissent written by one of the commissioner at that time. https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/170117qualc...
i feel the ars article is a hit job as is the PR from Q.
Yes, because then advertisers will reduce their ad spend.
A new take on "jinx you owe me a soda"
ONE WORD ALL LOWERCASE
How about FireFox getting rid of Google search from their browser?
In France it's May 1. The staff want to be on vacation and if you have a complication it would be dangerous. So there's a standard distribution up the first and then in the week before a lot of induced births with thus a small dip after the 1st.

I know this because our son's due date was the 1st of May and the staff was explicit about this.
I think that he is right.
> Thanks! Perhaps people like me (never used TOTP outside of my bank's security token; don't have a smart phone; no experience with password managers) are common enough to mention this in the FAQ?

Yes, I think so! I've forwarded this thread along to others working on PyPI as part of the OTF grant, and we'll be figuring out how best to explain using TOTP without being too mobile-centric.

I'm very sympathetic to not wanting to pay a service for the privilege of logging into your own account. 1Password is what came to mind because I happen to use it, but GNOME provides a TOTP client as well[1]. There are also a few others, based on a cursory search.

We also have support for WebAuthn in the pipeline, which will allow you to use a physical security key (or a physical authentication method like a fingerprint, if your device has support for that). That still does require a 1-time purchase for many users (the aforementioned security key), but the proliferation of built-in methods and cheap keys should help mitigate that somewhat.

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator
I maybe a contrarian, but i really hate custom made build tools. They contain a lot of "black magic"(no documentation nor community help) and are difficult to debug and extend. I think it is much better to stay with standard build tools. Time spent in learning them is well worth it.

In your case i might have gone with SCons+distcc+ccache rather than a custom made one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19953568
You can also count Chernobyl, the Darvaza gas crater and I'm sure there are other idiotic soviet mistakes. They did not care much about people let alone the environment. Just look at China, another communist country.
It's not a common term but it is readily understandable to most people.

There have been numerous management trends, innovations, and fads over the years. Maybe now your company has OKRs. Maybe in the 2000s they had a balanced scorecard. Maybe in 1990s they did Management By Objectives (MBO). Maybe in the 1980s they did Total Quality Management (TQM).

Personally I think that lower-level employees cynically overestimate how much damage things like that cause. The real problem is that the business is floudering for market-based reasons. The management is trying to fix it. That they don't always pick exactly the right cure says more about the complexity of having billion dollar companies successfully navigate big changes than about the fads themselves.

Microsoft was hurt by the rise of the internet & google...not by stack ranking. GE was hurt by GE Capital, not stack ranking. Kodak was hurt by digital cameras, not by Management By Objectives. And so on.
It's a matter of history. The Agriciultural Adjustment Act of 1933 limited the amount of wheat production in an effort to prop up prices. It was challenged by farmers and went to the supreme court as Wickard v Filburn. This established that the inter-state commerce clause can be used to regulate intra-state commerce, and since all farming affects commerce, thereby farming. [1][2]

The feds generally paid farmers more than their crops were worth on the market to destroy them, so they were destroyed, and this was most definitely happening at a time when there were food shortages in the US.

There is nothing as malicious as a politician on a mission. The US also poisoned tens of thousands of people during prohibition with denatured alcohol. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act
[3] https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/the-little-told-story-o...