skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using firefox for the last year. It's slower , bloatted - 3 or more GB ram used.

And the last update is forcing dns over https that for some reasons keeps get reenabled all the time. Constant issues with ssl handshake.

I am almost ready to go back to Chrome.
Is it really different than any other retcon that's occurred in the last 500 years? At least in Christianity anything can be de-emphasized or treated as metaphor if it is inconvenient.
One of the central ideas that lead SE is "Assume good intent". There's no presumption of malicious intent.
On the other hand, the GDPR has made tracking diminish a lot. It’s just time the web became bearable, and that could have a synchronous effect on Google’s decisions.
Alright, you got me, I said encrypted instead of end to end encrypted. I did not think it was necessary to specify that level of detail, given that everything is encrypted-to-the-server these days. I see what you mean, there is indeed a difference, but it feels to me like you're trying to trap me on words for the sole reason of being to say that you're right and I'm wrong about something.
For some people in academia there is no such thing as truth. It is all social or personal constructs.

If that is your attitude then how would you do science?
Your phone is probably one of the ones that came out with bad RAM and is defective, it works great on both my Moto Z Play and Moto G6 Play.
To a 2013 article? (HN headline should include 2013)
I've been using Firefox for several years. Switched from Chrome after Quantum released. I've had the opposite experience. I have not had many issues and the performance is great.

One thing Firefox recently did was overhaul their GPU acceleration code (webrender) - it makes a massive difference in rendering speed and is faster than Chrome in many situations, though it needs to be manually enabled on some machines.
Trying to police what content providers believe is a one-way ticket to misery. I refuse to put my favorite video creators, authors, musicians, actors, or comedians under a microscope just so I can find a new person to publicly lambast.
PG&E has declared bankruptcy.
Thanks we are aware of the huge fraud problem in the space. We have a way to fight against this currently so am not too worried about this.
Not parent but in my case at least Twitch consumes twice as much memory to stream a video in Firefox as compared to Chrome, and still manages to stutter more. But it is possible it could be something to do with my extensions (uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere) since they're installed on Firefox but not on Chrome.
The people that don’t understand why this is awful concent to speech regulations. I can’t see how this differs from homophobia enforced by law. Both limit a person’s freedom. It is totally different to mispronounce and to make racist remarks. The former can be solved by asking the other person the latter won’t be solved because the other person is an asshole. One is a mishap directed towards a single person and the latter towards a group of people.
This is incredibly demoralizing for somebody trying to pursue their dreams in San Francisco as an entrepreneur.
> to the early Middle Ages and beyond, a state, or king, set the purity of coin, the penalty for clipping

People trusted gold at least as much as their king though, even if the roman emperor or king tried hard to push his coin. The Florin was very popular in europe but florence was a small territory. Taxes were often paid via barter. Silver and gold were not made by any government / even aluminum was once more precious than gold. You can have all of those, because people understand the value of monetary tokens as mediums of exchange, and money doesn't have to be universal. It's only in very recent decades that people have lost all control and voice about their money. With increased coordination, regulation and data exchange between central banks around the world, having choice is what cryptocurrencies bring back.
> and not do anything wrong

What is a "wrong" thing to do? Do you mean "follow the procedure"? Something moral or ethical or cultural or legal? Something "stupid"? [What is "stupid"? Have you done something "stupid" or "wrong" with the mind that you were doing "right" or "correct"?]

> We are sick of people using software in ways other than intended

Are you talking about something other than the Law Of Unintended Consequences? Should DARPA have anticipated US election influence through Facebook when DARPA developed the Internet? Would that have been considered science fiction at the time?

I am asking as an engineer.
Are there any great historians of the South who push the Lost Cause while being acknowledged as great, on the same level as Machiavelli, Thucydides, or Sima Qian? If there aren't, then it's not an example and so there is no point in mentioning it.
So let them speak, not you. Most people I've seen that are complaining about this are from western countries.
have you thought about publishing the full source from then? The HN source was dense but very educational, and it would be really interesting to see internal tools written in arc.
Mhhh voglio capirci di piu
Yeah, OK, wow. That's ... complicated. And I think they didn't manage to get a very good return for all this effort, from a diagonal reading of the article.

Er. Sorry, I'm being thick, but your hint about the link to the relevant maths etc went way over my head. I might be missing a cultural reference? :0
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Firefox has better tooling for CSS (really good flexbox for e.g.) but it lacks on the JS side.

One basic feature that is missing for e.g. is that one cannot open a file using the syntax filename:line:column in the source editor. You will need to navigate the line number manually after opening the file.
Google has already expressed their intention to stop supporting ad blocking extensions with Version 3 of their add-on manifest. So the writing has been on the wall for awhile, they're just turning the screws now.
"I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard statements like the following.

Firefox crashes ten times a day for me.
I don’t understand how anyone can use it.

There’s a simple answer: for most people it doesn’t crash ten times a day. But the person making the statement hasn’t realized that what links the first sentence to the second is an assumption — that other people’s experiences are the same.", quoted from https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/01/02/yeinu-your-e...
Playing with the options is mildly interesting, but the button to 'bet real money' which is just a mailto link... that is a bit odd.
Does your dad have a website or github with his work? Would be cool to check it out.
I don't get the backlash either, I think it's a combination of genuine bigotry and the "nice" feeling of being on the side of everyone. In the end, it does feel weird to upvote a post that is at -700 or to speak positively when most people's reactions that you see are negative.
Pre dece comment explaining some deets why quantum mechanics and general relativity seem incompatible:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/10/11/co...
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/xterm@3.6.0/dist/xterm.css" />

Just a heads up, xtermjs has now updated to version 4[1]. You might want to consider for an upgrade.

1: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/releases
You can block both video and audio from autoplaying in Firefox by going into about:config. It works. But in Chrome AFAIK you can only mute the audio and not the video from autoplaying.
Will someone please teach pg some APL? It seems to be the missing piece of what he is working towards.
I can't seem to right scroll under firefox. What am I doing wrong?
I see this all the time and I think it is unhelpful to make these kinds of statements. I can make a counterpoint that I've used FF on Android for years and never experienced any issues whatsoever. I am not trying invalidate your experience, but want to point out anecdotes don't really paint a fair picture for either side of the argument.

For example, how do we know my good experience and your bad experience are not easily explained by hardware differences? If so, what does that say?
You said four things:

1) This was nothing for Tokyo this time.

2) it tested the rivers going through the kanto area

3) [it] almost spilled the Arakawa and Tama rivers.

4) That could have been a great disaster!

and got a reply that #3 isn’t correct. Arguing that #4 is correct isn’t in any way a rebuttal to that.
> Policing the inner thoughts of youtube celebrities

It could be good in the long turn if they extend it to clickbait titles. PewDiePie has a lot of such videos. It's all done to attract attention, including this article apparently.
You can get information about the past climate unaffected by human activity from geology. There were natural climate changes in the past, caused by different reasons - meteorite impact, volcanic activity, etc.
No that’s not right. The implementation is not changing. The prototype is changing to break code that was poorly formed in the first place. If you had cast to the correct type in your code as you always should have, this change shouldn’t break anything.

As far as code breaking changes go, the impact should be low. How many times in a code base should you need to call msg send? And the risk of problems is low. Only if your code was silently relying on float corruption would you notice a change. Anybody making six figures should be able to analyze such a thing without too much whining.
The FAQ clearly states that if you don't know then you're free to use they/them, and only are required to use their preferred pronouns if you're asked to do so by the person or if you very clearly knew before (say that you wrote 10 answers to someone over a week, if you defaulted back to they/them on each, then it could be seen as intentional).
For me, the biggest advantage of Lisp dialects is that they make it easy to introduce very powerful and far-reaching abstractions - and idiomatic good code encourages these. For some tasks that's pretty awesome, for example anything that has to do with classic symbolic A.I. or expert systems. You abstract every data type your program uses and write small functions that operate on these types. It's similar to classical OOP, except that you're not forced to use OOP for everything but can instead use a more functional style.

Another big advantage is the syntax, because it almost doesn't exist. The language allows you to focus on the semantics whereas the syntax of expressions becomes neglectable. S-expressions are also among the main reasons why abstractions work so well in Lisp.

Finally, and this only applies to CommonLisp: CommonLisp is very complete in terms of language capabilities. It has static and dynamic types, lexical and dynamic scoping, has OOP and allows for functional programming, and so on. It has less artificial limitations than any of the more recent languages. It doesn't attempt to "hold your hand" by e.g. disallowing the use of OOP with multiple inheritance because "it's bad for you", or any such nonsense. Most LISP dialects also have garbage collection, which saves you from crashes and saves a lot of development time.
I’m not sure how the math on gross income (which I assume you mean to be revenue) would work. Any business without insanely high gross margins would cease to exist. Could you explain?
> I am hopeful, but also I must say in my opinion Firefox is nowhere near Chrome when comparing performance, developer tooling and quality.

I have the opposite experience. I use FF on all my computers and mobile, and when I sit behind some other dev's Chrome the tools are simply atrocious. Maybe it's not the quality that is different, but the way we use the tools? I might have "aligned" myself with FF, as you (and many others) have with Chrome.
I’d rather trust Google than Brave.
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I use SBCL to build command line applications. Reasonable enough memory use and very fast startup times. I for a while used to use Gambit Scheme for this but decided I like Common Lisp better. We no longer need hardware Lisp machines for good performance. That said, for some applications Rust is clearly better.
There should be a threshold of "number of active users" where any online platform or business other than online retailers becomes forcibly nationalized and restructured as a nonprofit instrument of the first amendment, and any employee caught attempting to implement any filters or bans after that point is hanged for treason.
That's not really how it worked pre-2010 when IE had the monopoly.

And for all of Chrome (and Google's) faults, it does seem to be reasonably standards- compliant and even open to experimentation. If they want to spend some of their piles of cash developing new features that other browsers can then adopt and then standardise, I don't see the problem.

If developers choose to use Chrome-only features and their pages break on other browsers, that's on them
The recruiter sent you a coding challenge? How far into the process could you have been?
My comment was that accepted speech and representation are different things, so saying "but representation" isn't really speaking to it, imo.

And you're not even right about the demographics unless one ignores east and south Asians. Plurality != Dominance.
> Also, I wonder what happens the first time somebody says their preferred pronoun is "God", or something 127 characters long? or Little Bobby Tables? or...?

As they said on the answers... bad faith actions like having a 127 character pronoun means that it must be reported: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq...
Can you, though, "make strong comparative statements"? How do you know what is the shortest program to perform some operation, X, in a language L? I'm prepared to agree that on the balance of probabilities the pathfinding code in Starcraft _should_ be inherently more complex than that for multiplication- but that is just intuition, whereas Kolmogorov complexity is a formal concept that does not admit intuitive judgements. Which is (part of) why it's necessary. If we could just compare the length of programs in some language and determine their relative Kolmogorov complexity from that, then there wouldn't be no need to define Kolmogorov complexity. We'd just make do with program length.

I know that sounds pedantic and this is the internet and not a scientific paper etc, but if this is an informal discussion then formal terminology like "Kolmogorov complexity" has no place in it and the purpose of the OP would, I think, be better served by using an informal term. If you 're gonna use maths, use maths. If you 're gonna wave hands, then wave hands, by all means. But don't mix the two, it just makes a mess.

Because at the end of the day I can just say, "no, I don't believe that multiplication has smaller Kolmogorov complexity than Starcraft's pathfinding"... and then, what? Where do we go from there? The OP says "yes it does", I say "no it doesn't", the OP says "does too", I say "nuh-huh". And we just waste our time.
This is a development version that was blocked, the main extension was not blocked.
I like to think the General Welfare Clause has some relevance to these types of issues.
Wikipedia states that the extinction happened only 13000 years ago. Fascinating stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_spelaea
On a civilizational time scale, I just don't see the whole human race deciding that "ohh nooooo, the pwecious pwecious native microbes might be disturbed if we go there" holding up for very long. This is far, far from the opinion of the entire human race right now, despite how common it may seem on HN. At most it'll be a funny footnote that the school kids learn about in their orbiting space station schools where they'll laugh at what the funny old groundpounders thought, before the Earth became uninhabitable after the asteroid pounding given to it in the Great Space Indepedence War of 2343.

In evolutionary terms, it does not seem to be pro-survival attitude.
We did a company based on this approach, and problem (1) is the main reason it failed.
most likely a feel-good marketing gimmick to sell mo' Apple products.

Tim Apple was once upon a time marketed as a "supply-chain genius," but there is no reason to believe that either.
This is what you need to know:
"Not all flows of traffic are tracked. If a security group rule permits TCP or UDP flows for all traffic (0.0.0.0/0) and there is a corresponding rule in the other direction that permits all response traffic (0.0.0.0/0) for all ports (0-65535), then that flow of traffic is not tracked. The response traffic is therefore allowed to flow based on the inbound or outbound rule that permits the response traffic, and not on tracking information."
It sounds like you have a very narrow definition of anthropogenic climate change. I’ve so far assumed it refers to the concept NASA summarizes like this [1]:

> Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.

If your definition is so narrow that it has no causal claim (as in “warming trend is due to human activities”), then by all means: call it a collection of disparate scientific facts. I have no issue with that.

1. https://www.google.se/amp/s/climate.nasa.gov/scientific-cons...
> I just don't think yet another Lisp is going to do it

Going to do what? I wasn't aware there was a specific goal that had to be met here?
>I walk slower

I have bad news for you, friend.
If you have 'Automatic Downloads' enabled in iTunes, which pre-downloads any new tracks you add to your Apple Music library (as opposed to streaming them), a similar thing happens if you're subscribed to any playlists that update frequently.

For example, Apple themselves have a stack of playlists for different genres that are updated on a weekly basis, so after a few months you end up with a ton of downloaded files for songs that are no longer in your library (because they've been rotated out of the playlists).

Problem is, because they're not in your library there's nothing surfaced in the UI, so there's actually no way to know that it doesn't clean up after itself until you go to investigate why you have no disk space.

No idea if this behaviour has survived the transition to Music.app, but considering it seems to just be iTunes with a fresh coat of paint, it wouldn't surprise me.
Well, “de facto” monopoly doesn’t mean anything in the eyes of the law. That’s what de jure means Despite what HN posters believe, the definition of a monopoly isn’t “a company that is big and does things I don’t like”.

Also according to your own citation.

Under the Sherman Act monopoly power is considered the ability of a business to control a price within its relevant product market or its geographic market or to exclude a competitor from doing business within its relevant product market or geographic market.

Where in that act does it say anything about “banning an ad blocker”? It specifically mentions “price”. Are we going to say that the government can tell businesses what is allowed in its own store?
Or maybe HN needs an autosuggest function, something similar to what SO has? "These news were posted recently and match yours pretty closely, are you sure you want to post another one?"
Ok, I see. You've basically described a business model that is completely non-viable. The overhead of owning the car, getting it to you, then getting it back to a central hub would force the price past a point people in your situation are willing to pay. Remote control is not much cheaper than having an actual driver in terms of operating cost (they need to be close enough that latency is not an issue), and much more expensive in terms of hardware, software, and liability insurance.

You'd have to price the service high enough to cover at least an additional $50k in hardware, software, and data per vehicle, lowest minimum wage within 500 miles for the time required to get it to and from you, vehicle operating costs for the distance to get it to and from you, and added insurance because few companies are going to say remote control driving is safe. There's also the regulatory component since I don't think most places allow remote driving.
I agree. I want nothing more than to revel in the fact that I can both call Trump a pumpkin idiot and President Xi a dictator that looks like Winnie the Pooh. (Don’t even get me started on Taiwan or Hong Kong — none of my stances would be appreciated by the Party) But I’m not trying to sell Trump fans or supporters of President Xi goods and or services.

I don’t envy Tim Cook and his role as leader of Apple, beholden to Wall Street pundits always seeking growth, and yet espousing safety and privacy for all on its platform and yet caving to the Chinese government. That said who knows if the claims made in Tim’s email about harm coming to Chinese police from the app or attacks on citizens not sympathetic to the HK protests — there’s so much misinformation out there and it’s in China’s best interest to spin things.
> The Excel team convinced the Basic team that what we really needed was some kind of Visual Basic for Excel. I managed to get four pet features added to Basic. I got them to add Variants, a union data type that could hold any other type, because otherwise you couldn’t store the contents of a spreadsheet cell in a variable without a switch statement. I got them to add late binding, which became known as IDispatch, a.k.a. COM Automation, because the original design for Silver required a deep understanding of type systems that the kinds of people who program macros don’t care about. And I got two pet syntactic features into the language: For Each, stolen from csh, and With, stolen from Pascal.
True, but also irrelevant pedantry. Emulators themselves are merely reimplementations of hardware the way ScummVM is a reimplementation of a virtual machine.
I can't count the number of times that Google disingenuously suggested my internet experience would be better if I only switched to Chrome. A normal user confronted with an entity the size of Google with associated authority profile would have long ago switched.
I'm very glad to see the mainline kernel! I had a Novena and it not being upstreamed really hurt it's ability to be supported.
AdBlockers are the modern Anti-Virus. It's the same cat'n'mouse game.
The next step will be isolating "sponsored content" in news articles and educational content.
My setup:

1. Firefox Nightly

2. WebRender enabled

3. Tracking Protection set to Strict + DuckDuckGo extension
phkahler thinks if the record attempt is invalid because of the team of pace runners, why not use a simulated pace runner to gain the benefit without breaking the rule?

Of course, if the speed benefit of pacing is down to psychology and camaraderie rather than purely information, a simulated pacer might not offer the same benefit.
Reminds me of the article about "cancer-prone personalities" finally being classified as junk science which just dropped off the hn frontpage.

We really should be more generous with the word bullshit.
I touch-type, but unlike many tech folks, I'm a really bad typist and make a huge amount of errors. Many of these errors concern symbols rather than letters: - instead of =, or (a particularly frustrating one) <ENTER> instead of '. Other errors are rooted in the physically row-staggered keys. Will alternative keyboard maps like Dvorak or Colemak help with the kinds of issues I'm facing, or are they orthogonal to my problems?
I use an add-on that adds a close button to the address bar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/tab-close-web...