skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the network goes down, it can take several minutes for it to come back up. I was having DNS and connectivity issues at a LAN party. Wouldn't get connectivity for minutes after a link bounce.

Then I removed the hosts file, and it worked instantly.

Maybe for a static workstation it wouldn't be bad, but for a laptop or something that loses link frequently, it could be an issue.
Democracy and the National Question
In the Heart of Syria's Darkness, a Democratic, Egalitarian and Feminist Society
I realized I have worded it badly, I was pulling the figure from here: "The best-paid 25 percent made $71,430". I don't know why I added median there.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/electrician/salar...

If you note here, there also seems to be cost of living adjustments just like you would find in tech centers as well, so California and New York averages seem higher. A lot of Electrical work is also unionized, so I don't know if that is a factor in any of this, but it seems like some tech workers seem to think unionization is better so there's that. The IBEW (http://www.ibew.org) for example seems to claim their workers on average make 37.69/hr which is right at 75k. The statistic is a bit outdated, but if anything it remained flat, if not slightly increased.
> Facebook would only need a single payment of like $4 from it's users to operate at the same margins without selling their data

Facebook makes about $100/year from American users. [1] Something like $4 once can't be right.

(Facebook also doesn't sell your data. They allow people to target ads against your data.)

[1] 2018 Q3 data, but the right range: https://digiday.com/marketing/facebooks-making-money-per-use...
I'd love to see EB Garamond on your serif list! It's my favorite open source garalde by a good measure.
The entire concept of a private prison kind of disgusts me. We sh. In most states we purposefully strip away their right to vote after this, so the people who have to experience these terrors first-hand don't even have any kind of say in regards to changing this.

You can read horror stories of prison companies only having one underpaid doctor for multiple prisons forcing inmates to wait weeks to get treatment for basic injuries, leading to broken bones healing incorrectly, or dying from appendicitis.

I realize that it's easy to have the mentality of "if you can't do the time don't do the crime", and I guess at some visceral level I can agree, but it feels like, no matter who you are, there should be some minimal level of humanity.
At least with vim/emacs you have certain stability and proven record that they'll be around in 5 years and all the time you invest in it will pay out.
For vscode, who knows what the next most popular editor will be in 2-3 years? But then again, these editors are easy to pick up.
I think if vim or emacs intrigues you, you should go for it and try it out for at least a week or so.
> Removing phrases like "security-asshole" in the first place would also go a long way.

I absolutely refuse to remove phrases like that. This is exactly what some of those people are and because they are security people does not allow them to behave less well than other people.

And I find that I'm being quite polite by not shaming those people publicly.
> Way more than a few weeks of dev time.

Except it's not just a few weeks of dev time that makes up the overall cost. Consider infrastructure, maintenance, updates, support, training, etc,. Those things start to add up and you don't get the benefit of scale/community if you do it on your own. There's also the opportunity cost of building your own system when you could buy something existing and use that time to work on other things.
> I can do the same thing with some scripts...

I thought that the point of Tableau was to provide a tool that end-users (who can't program) could use to interactively explore their data. That's not something you can replicate with a bunch of scripts.
Baseless speculation – if Google is trying to rein in "extremism", even through an apolitical lens, you're going to wind up hurting center-right sites more than center-left sites.
> In contrast, people recently HNed[1] are reporting about 12-15k visits over a day.

This matches my experience. I think I got about 10k visits over the course of a day, 80% within the first three hours.
And what is somewhat amusing, is that the DoD has labelled energy independence as a critical factor for the military to have. As a result, they're been spending the last 10-15 years working on the tech for things like military microgrids and whatnot.

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/christian-stirling-haig/budget-...

https://www.energydigital.com/renewable-energy/us-military-w...

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/for-the-u-s-mil...

I'm not saying there isn't a long way to go, but they're definitely aware of the problem.
The main reason why not is it is a matter of trust. Just because you are paying is no guarantee that you aren't also the product. Just look at how long cable remained ad free.
Noise makers are being added by law lots of places for good reason, but that's a bit off-topic isn't it?
> We do not want to downsize the team, we do not want to break the morale of the team.

To avoid breaking the morale of the team you're going to... shut down the entire site?

Lots of things to question here. The site used to get $LESS traffic, then it got $MORE, now it's back down to $LESS again. When the traffic numbers grew, were readers sticking around? Did they read a whole article, click to another, etc? Or did they more or less immediately hit the back button?

If it's the former you should have been trying to engage that audience, creating mailing lists and such to keep (obviously interested) readers around. If it's the latter then Google was sending you people that weren't actually interested in your content, and this is a (painful, but user-first) course correction.

(as an aside, I know this isn't the reason, but I would love it if Google was penalising CCN for showing a "can we send you notifications?" popup the very second I load the site)
The Runit Dome (concrete dome designed to contain nuclear waste) is leaking highly toxic and radioactive garbages out.[1][2] It's pretty nasty out there - let alone the environmental impact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959889
This really only works if you have at least one team dedicated to maintaining cohesiveness in design patterns across all the 'micro frontends'(i.e., one of those verboten 'horizontals').

Otherwise you are going to end up with a ux experience or even a UI experience that diverges from app to app as each team designs and implements its own solution to common problems
I'm not fan of the American propensity for projecting power with guns, but this article seems to be more than a little bit biased.

* The uranium mines mentioned belonged to the DOE.

* The link purportedly explaining why we caused desertification in Iraq carries no sources explaining this, other than a vague mention of US military policies (which in most cases are civilian political policies).

* The article in language is saying the military is currently the worlds biggest polluter, while mostly touching on issues from the cold war, before there were environmental rules of note.

This doesn't even touch on the absolute environmental devastation that the Soviet system left too.

In General the Military-Industrial complex is dirty, and left in its wake over the 40 years of the cold war, an environmental mess than will take 80 years to clean up, but that doesn't make any military currently the worlds largest anything, except possibly a waste of money.
Who said public transit doesn’t work? It clearly works some places. But what transit advocates ignore is that there is just one city in the entire US like London or Tokyo: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/10/americas-truly-denses.... In terms of weighted density, New York stands apart, 2.5x denser than SF or LA, and 5-6x denser than Seattle or DC.

The situation in Maryland illustrates what happens when you try to impose transit in a place that doesn’t have that kind of density.
I definitely struggle with the idea of box checking, it is however one of the easiest ways to show progress to myself. Which is why I think many people start with it. I think I'm going to reevaluate how I show personal progress, as well as always double check that safety is my number one priority vs summit chasing. Even though you aren't an authority, this is great info, thanks for this.
It's a big world out there.
There's also a <template> html tag that one could relate the title to.
Reads like FUD. From everything I've seen, "Firefox Premium" is not a thing as such. I can't read German, so maybe Chris Beard revealed something different in the interview from what he's been saying in other public meetings - but I doubt it.

There are plans to launch paid subscription services & products in a Firefox brand family. Some of services may even be independent from the browser and be separate standalone apps & products. Some of the services may even - gasp - work in a non-Firefox browser.

Think of things like Firefox Send, Firefox Monitor, Firefox Lockbox, a system-wide VPN, an in-browser secure proxy. Specific plans are still in progress, but I don't think any of them are literally "you pay for browser now"
Thanks for the share! So you got a phd admit?
Just want to qualify this a bit - a post-termination non-compete wouldn't apply. But employers have a lot more flexibility while you are still employed.
Going from one side of a river (okay, a strait..) to another sounds more dramatic when it separates continents.
EU may end up dealing with it, they need complaints first. You’d be amazed how few people fill out complaints with the government. I just filed a complaint about this with the US department of justice antitrust division, feel free to do so as well so they realize how abusive this is!
Seems like if they were that dependent on Google search results to drive traffic to them, they might not have been engaging enough to be able to convert people into becoming regular visitors thru other traffic channels.
First of all, I am a Mozilla Employee.

Second, in that very github issue that you linked, look at this comment: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/574#issuecomm.... Also, transition from Fennec to Fenix won't happen until feature parity. The MVP is just that, the MVP.

Finally, GeckoView does not use the WebView interface, specifically because we want to build richer experiences than the WebView interface offers.
Deploying a Resilient Go App Using Docker and Kubernetes
Unless you dont want to access to whatever is behind a sites captcha, you are signing up to solving their ai cv problems.
Another interesting piece with interviews of people living in RVs in Silicon Valley:

https://www.topic.com/life-inside-the-rvs-of-silicon-valley
^ this is commonly known as 'whataboutism'.
Of course Adam Khan is is "willing to talk" per the article. They were dealt a second hand given recent events and their brush with Huawei, and will play it for all it's worth, starting with their interview in February. These guys, after 5 years of failing to find a single willing phone maker, are trying to pivot into US military sales. Anti-Huawei publicity is certainly good for them.

For comparison, Corning got Gorilla Glass onto multiple companies' phones within a year of announcement in 2008. I've said before that Corning is a juggernaut in glass with a longstanding reputation, but I still don't see how those partners could agree to just buy the glass without multiple rounds of testing, and even trying to break samples, given a major selling point is durability. Huawei can't have been the only phone maker to have received AKHAN glass for testing, and it would be interesting to know what the other companies did to it before turning them down.
(2009)

Worth noting that since then, there have been some pretty high profile attacks on industrial control systems (Stuxnet, BlackEnergy, to list the big ones)
It is a mischaracterization to say that C++ operator new is built on top of malloc. If your new is overridden by, say, tcmalloc, your program will never call malloc.
That's what makes this seem like a strange deal to me. There's pretty much 0 overlap with Google on CRM, and the next comparable tech stack that does compete with them is MS Dynamics CRM combined with Power BI. But Dynamics doesn't appear to be a growing threat for CRM marketshare.

That said, Salesforce (based on my usage ~4 years ago) has truly awful baked-in BI and analytics, necessitating third party products and data engineering to fill that gap. Tableau will fix that, but I'm staggered at the price.
My first internship was as a Sophomore CS student at Raytheon. I learned something life-changing that summer: I will never work at a defense contractor or large corporate behemoth. I think this was in part due to my over-stressed manager at the time saying "I remember college... it was the best time of my life..." as his voice drifted off in a nostalgic melancholy.
All videolan files are GPG-signed and have several hashes (md5+sha1+sha256)
Oh hey, maybe this will mean somebody at Tableau has to start to give a damn about enterprise features, such as a way to do product activation and registration that doesn't fail completely in non-persistent virtual desktop environments.

Or Tableau can continue to pretend that this isn't a real issue and stonewall customers and partners alike.

I think the actual visualisation part is neat, and better than many competitors, but many of the server-side parts are various levels of disastrous (as is their support), and their "data preparation" tool needs some serious improvements to be borderline useable.

15+ billion seems like a lot to me given how Tableau interacts with customers and partners alike, especially seeing how they are activelly alienating existing enterprise customers, all in favour of new sales, but perhaps something will change for the better here.
We do this, with a few hundred apps all loosely linked to each other, for many of the same benefits (and drawbacks!) as micro services.

Teams being able to own their stuff without needing permission from the rest of the org, being able to punt on some architectural decisions (since the blast radius is much smaller), being able to rewrite most apps in a pinch as need be (since they're small), much simpler tooling (off the shelf open source stuff work fine, without needing to scale it to hundreds of millions of LoC), and so on and so forth.

The same drawbacks apply: cross app changes can be tricky (if you find a security issue in a lib used by 150 apps, its not fun), lack of cascading pull request support in github is annoying, sharing actual business logic through libraries is often a bad idea (which is unintuitive to most).

Some challenges are FE specific: unlike micro-services, FE apps are in your customer's face. Being separate apps often means page refresh between apps if you want the full benefits of total separation, which in turn can be a perf issue (vs client side routing). The second is that unlike micro-services, people don't know about this kind of architecture, and every other new hire will wonder wtf you're doing.

Overall, if your product is more horizontal than vertical (tons of completely distinct features, vs a few very advanced features), it's great.
The model isn't that a business user would use Python or R. Rather, a data scientist shares live-computed analytics to business users through a report / dashboard.
I'll give it a shot. Yeah, so you don't give a crap about being tracked everywhere, having your every inclination, desire, thought, intention, or deed recorded. You're fine with them knowing everything about you, about your family, friends, associates, acquaintances, and all their doings and preferences too. But then one day you wake up and you realize that your entire existence is being mined to corral you into corridor of sameness, conformity, and malaise. You don't think anything edgy or dangerous, don't do anything remotely controversial or embarrassing. They mostly track you to monetize your sameness, your complete and utter lack of originality, your total lack of value to them except as cattle to be fed a diet of carrots and sticks; ads and special offers. You don't mind the digital eyes stalking you everywhere from the shadows. You don't mind having your complete existence watched over for--for now, seemingly innocuous if slightly annoying cajoling to buy more crap.

But you live a charmed life without imagination. Without dangerous ideas. Who wouldn't hurt a soul. To you, your life couldn't possibly matter. To you, you're one of the herd. You like it. Blending right in.

Enjoy your charmed life that complete and utter indifference to the digital dystopia being erected around you, beyond your control. You probably won't do anything edgy or interesting, because you're caught in that loop that they love you to be in. Inured and desensitized, caught in a self-reinforcing loop made by the background of your mind, constructed by your subconscious that knows that you're being watched--all the time.

For your sakes I hope you never stumble on a crime, disagree with prevailing political opinions, or speak up against the powers that be. Or that you look like someone who might. Or are close to someone who might. Better steer clear of sex toys, risky behavior and embarrassing maladies, live your bland existence under the watchful eye of the overlords who seem harmless, if only a little greedy.

Don't live your life any way that makes you unique and don't make yourself a target! Don't bother to use your imagination! Keep your lips off that whistle! And make sure to vote, or not, because who the fuck cares how society treats its citizens, amirite?

And don't bother looking back to the expectation of privacy that just a generation ago, was some kind of normal. To see the governments and power structures that wielded tyranny over people and engaged in genocide, to the documents and bills of rights that were put in place to restrict that tyranny, and how thoroughly founders understood that people just have a right to be free. But lattes!
Best of luck with your surgery.
It's not mandatory. Everything else would still remain the same for free users just like what we already have, this is only for those who prefer not to be included in the data so now they will have the option to pay instead.

Obviously we cannot expect Google to provide their services for free as it's very costly to maintain such global infrastructure and their team of engineers, therefore in turn Google would need user data in order to provide advertising products and generate the required revenue. We must pay for using Google services in one way or another, and right now we are paying it by giving up our personal data.

In the end this will simply serve as another payment option for those who value their privacy more than cash. I suspect the majority of population would still remain at free tier. However with more options available, at least the public will no longer complain about potential privacy issues, and Google can also remove much of the unnecessary heat and focus off their back. There are just so many different ways Google can tweak and optimize these offers to satisfy public demand for privacy.

The current advertising in exchange for privacy model obviously does not work for all consumers so it's time to evolve.
> UX, discoverability and 'it just works'

None of those are inherent to preventing users from controlling their data. A company can create (and make money off of) a product that provides all of them while using open protocols and data formats, with easy export functionality. I think the bigger problem is that users don't care whether they control their data, and companies are incentivized to maintain that control.
I see more than a few comments with some form of "I would pay if X/if not X/does X/does not X". The article, which has limited details, says that it would b some bundled services, such as a VPN service (like what Mozilla partnered with ProtonVPN for as a limited trial before) and online cloud storage.

At this time, it doesn't seem like this would be a paid version of the Firefox browser with a different feature set. Any decision of that kind could confuse people and hurt the Firefox brand, IMO.

Can we instead put out our wishlist of services that we'd want Mozilla to handle because we trust it?

1. I'm stealing at least one idea from elsewhere in this discussion, which is a private paid email service with standard protocol support (like IMAP) with cheaper pricing for multiple mailboxes.

2. Another would be a revival of the Persona (authentication) project and service. In light of Apple's announcement of "Sign in with Apple" in WWDC, this would make a lot more sense for people who trust Apple now, but don't really like the idea of trusting a for-profit corporation forever or have some other reservations with "Sign in with Apple". Persona can actually work with "Sign in with Apple" and many other providers.

3. A hosted Bitwarden or Bitwarden-like service that can work on multiple platforms and browsers could be interesting.
I love it. Economists are in total denial about such things. EVERYTHING IS A MARKET RUBBER STAMP.

Almost all of the US economy is a monopoly or cartel dominated by 1-3 corporations per segment.
> If I were a systems or c++ dev I'd start my own browser, apparently it's very profitable to do so...

If it were that trivial, systems & C++ devs would already be doing it.
They also changed it so that if you've seemed human in the past, they're able to determine if you're probabilistically a human now.

This data is a few years old but I imagine it's the same based on my experience.

They're using your cookie + IP + your account data to determine if you're probably a human.

A LOT of reCAPTCHA sites never prompt you. You only know if it's there because you're on Tor or something.
I'd happily pay as long as:

1. It also funds Thunderbird.

2. Their focus is on privacy/no telemetry, security and overall experience. NOT more rebrands!

3. It helps pay for continuously updated blocklists, miner blocking lists, anti-content farm lists etc. that get built into the browser rather than through add-ons.

4. Curated add-ons that are funded especially around security - too many add-ons don't get updated.

5. Real profile management and switching.

6. An expert mode with a proper download manager (pausing, reordering etc.)

7. Self-maintaining, self-repairing and self-updating options so it ALWAYS just works.

8. An outreach program to get websites/apps/etc. that are broken to fix them so we don't have to open up an instance of Chrome.
The US military is also one of if not the largest organization in the world. So this is unsurprising.
Tesla is the cause of the current record sales of EVs in Norway, per TFA;

> In 2018, Norway’s fully electric car sales rose to a record 31.2 percent market share from 20.8 percent in 2017, far ahead of any other nation, and buyers had to wait as producers struggled to keep up with demand.

> The surge of electric cars to a 58.4 percent market share in March came as Tesla ramped up delivery of its mid-sized Model 3...

30% -> 60% is no small feat, and is due to the Model 3 availability, and the more widely accessible price point of TM3.

IMO the Leaf is a compromise car you choose in order to get an EV, whereas the TM3 is a better car in almost every way than anything else on the market, which also happens to be EV.

Although many of its advantages are made possible by being EV, they are not inherent advantages of being EV. That is to say, being EV is necessary but not sufficient to built a car with the myriad advances of the TM3.
Military by definition has the attitude to achieve a single objective through any means possible. It's not exactly surprising that they don't care much about other things. In addition if you are a soldier you often are in pretty bad situations is following some environmental rules is just another burden.