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Firefox enables just as much telemetry as Chrome. Fortunately they provide policy options to disable them, but they are enabled by default. Chrome and Chromium also has an equal amount of policies that can be disable to better protect privacy.

Chromium was never intentionally limiting any APIs to prevent ad-blockers. I think the whole thing was blown out of proportion, although I get some of the frustration, especially when their main stream of revenue is advertising.

I personally don't use Firefox because it doesn't work as well on modern Linux. Chromium supports Wayland much better. I get weird artifacts on Firefox when running in Sway on Wayland, especially when switching between full-screen and split. Additionally, I still don't believe Firefox properly handles video hardware acceleration and Chromium does on my distro using the native package manager.

Both browsers could benefit from separating their solutions into open source protocols, for example bookmarks, password, and other sync services. This way syncing is done at file-system level like gopass-bridge and Browserpass. GPGme already has an app called gpgme-json for app integration. That way people can use Syncthing, Nextcloud, or whatever preferred cloud-sync solution. I know Firefox has tried building it's own password manager into Firefox, and Chromium has half-assed this as well, but the tools are already there they could just adopt and would provide a much safer and better overall experience.

These platforms and engineers should feel a duty to innovate—not for the sake of a paycheck, company directive, or personal enrichment—but for the community to have a piece of software that is a message of freedom. When they send URLs to remote services by default for safe search, network prediction, etc. they aren't free. When they implement their own centralized sync solution, but make it difficult for you to implement a decentralized or locally-hosted sync solution, then they aren't free. When advertisers are able to use supported JavaScript to port scan your computer, track every pixel movement, and track you around the web; then the software isn't free and neither are you.
I wonder if they could combine this with the upsampling or vectorization of the sprites/textures. The results illustrated by researchers looked great.
Why would your browser keep any instead of giving all 100 to the recipient that was intended?
What's the name of the extension?

Thanks.
Statistical Rethinking and Nix
@Chirael have you tried using the Privacy Pass extension? I hate Captchas as well but the extension makes it somewhat easier.
Up our certainty levels of what? You haven't enumerated a credible concern and so far as I can tell nobody else has.

A really big increase in a number without a framework to contextual it doesn't mean anything.
>> I mean, the #1 post on HN right now is how highly skilled engineers accidentally made the Golden Gate Bridge emit a loud noise that's blanketing the Bay Area.

No it isn't. The engineers knew this sound was going to happen. It was not accidental.
From the questoining-assumptions-I-didn’t-know-I-had department.
As an aside, Wind Waker is so beautiful. I remember at the time merely thinking "this is an opinionated visual style" but man did it fracture gamers at the time.

But now it feels pretty timeless...
Why would they? They provided their services to you as part of the sale. What happens subsequently is irrelevant.

You don't get a refund on your costs from the post office either.
> One space after sentences. Two spaces is heresy!

I was loving it up til this point.
I can build DSLs (domain specific languages) with programming languages. I can't build DSLs with YAML. And when someone says "You will use YAML because you can't be trusted with a programming languages" then I find that very disrespectful and condescending.

The solution to finite attention isn't less powerful tools. The solution is more powerful tools that augment operators and let them extend their finite attention spans into longer time horizons.

How is your description and viewpoint different from what I just described?
Can the latest usb be "defanged" to only provide power and no data, as a security measure? Or are they too smart for that, now?
All I see is a bunch of emotionally triggered adults throwing a tantrum. Inconveniencing me and suggesting reckless ideas like defending the police doesn't earn any of my respect.
> The higher data density of 5G per spectrum allows you to just upgrade towers instead of having to place more dense towers with 4G. This is the "5G is cheaper" point as it allows you to avoid having to build more towers.

So this seems like only a theoretical possibility since in practice they'll just have faster towers instead of fewer of them.

> Due to the increase in data demand in some few places places, you'll have to place 5G towers very densely to meet it, more densely than in the age of 4G. Not because of the technology just because it's now a different era where demand has increased even more.

For millimeter wave it is because of the technology. Those frequencies don't penetrate as well so regardless of how many users there are or how much bandwidth they're using, the towers have to be closer to the devices which means you need more of them.
Are you implying that doctors are intentionally making these errors? Further, their work is typically to try to help the people they are interacting with, and usually the interactions are consensual. I don't think that is a really good comparison.
Use DNSCrypt-proxy.
I'm really glad you said this, because it articulates something I've thought for a long time.

The focus on syntax in compilers literature is basically bike-shedding. People focus on syntax because they understand it, but code generation is much harder.

Matt Might's blog is a rare exception.

Do you have any resources on code generators?
Ran into a website with creative UPC symbols recently and couldn't help but think of how the Mad staff has been having fun with them since introduction.
If third party programs can disrupt core functionality that's a failure of the operating system.
> Which of those killings do you disagree with?

Wouldn't it be nice if there were an independent review board to look over mandatory body cam footage from an incident so we don't have to have speculative internet debates over what happened? And fair legal recourse for victims of officers who break the law so that people don't feel the need to seek out justice on their own?
Generalized extension cables aren't legal with USB for several reasons, including this.
I’ve got a fairly comprehensive AutoHotKey script going on at work to macro the fck out of repetitive tasks in the CAD / CAM setup I use.
This is obvious and I really hope things will change. But I wonder if they will change meaningfully not just superficially
People pay for Value. And usually what they buy is not software. [1]

So how you monetise depends on what you are making, and who the target customer is. B2B software is more about services and support - B2C is more about instant gratification and convenience.[2]

Making money just selling software is hard now because the market is saturated. All word processors do the same task, but I use MS Word over LibreOffice because of network effects.

So the answer to your question is to figure out where your value offering really lies, and focus on that. The software license is not the critical factor.

[1] Google does not sell software, it sells search results. Facebook sells community and so on. Oracle /Red hat doesn't sell software, it sells backup, services, reputation and so on.

[2] every so often there will be a thread here complaining about someone selling open source. But compiling and shipping updated binaries adds a value and saves me time, so I'm happy to pay for that. (and of course it's completely within the bounds of most open source licenses)
Vivaldi is the true successor of Opera, more so than the Opera we have today.
I'm on kindle DX
It's been windy every time I was near the bridge. Is it howling every single day now?
As the HN guidelines say, "Assume good faith."

I understand the MIMO designation, and I am not trying to misrepresent it in my comment. I know that 128x128 is not sixteen thousand (!!!) antennas on one tower, but rather 256, half for rx and half for tx.

That said, two hundred and fifty six antennae on one tower is far, far more (orders of magnitude, plural!) than the typical 2x2 or 4x4 4G towers deployed today. And keep in mind that this is certainly not "just" 256 antennae for one mall, because 5G is blocked by anything thicker than a post-it (the article mentions how future plans include deploying massive MIMO to each floor of a building, as drywall and glass both block many 5G frequencies!)

The reality is that no matter how you want to slice it, 5G means moving from widely spaced 4G towers transmitting at frequencies we have used for around a century to hyper-dense massive deployments of large numbers of antennae transmitting at new and relatively un-studied frequencies. 4G towers are (mostly) kept away from humans getting too close; 5G towers will be on lampposts and on the same floor of your office where someone can touch them.

I'm not saying 5G is inherently bad, or good, I have no idea. I haven't run a longitudinal study, but _neither has anyone else_, and that's what scares me a little. Look, the #1 post on HN right now is how highly trained, expert engineers accidentally made a bridge (one of the oldest human inventions, around for millennia) create an extremely loud eerie noise currently blanketing San Francisco.

And sure, transmit power is low. But it's not just about the power. Today I went out and enjoyed a warming 1000 W/m2 of hundreds of-nm EM radiation all over my body. Then I accidentally looked at the source, which hurt my eyes and disoriented me. Later I played with a device of only 0.01W emitting highly temporally coherent EM radiation. I had to put on safety equipment, because it had the possibility to harm me, including permanently damaging my sight.
"Teams-meeting" has become the norm for video-conference. One of my annoying pet peeves is pointing this out and calling it "meeting on Teams" - if that's where it is.

Since I use up to 5 different platforms each day...
Or if your software aims to be successful on end-user devices. Only because you don't pay for the electricity or the faster machines, that doesn't mean that no carbon is emitted for producing them.
In US, fed vs local state split -- is also making reforms more difficult, but on the other hand -- it probably prevents monopolization of political opinion + economic will.
So over all the separation is good.

I would like, however, federal laws to be updated to protect people from discrimination due to criminal past.

I think a federal law that prevents employers of asking/using criminal past in hiring decisions -- would go a long way of re-integrating previous offenders back into society.

Probably there are specific federal charges that should be hidden -- but majority must not be used for employers, and must not be asked during job application.

I am a sure if such a law would be in effect, a number of people who resource to additional criminal activity, after previous conviction -- would drop at least 10 fold.

These kinds of changes is a must on a road to a more just society.
It cannot be run as any traditional incorporated entity if it doesn't want to get essentially turned into one of the already existing financial services companies.
The hardest-hit business sectors were venues to be with other people.

Since we can't do that in public anymore, we're probably going to buy stuff to facilitate it in private. Urban apartments are not just places to sleep anymore; the city is no longer your living room.
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Vivaldi and the new Edge are other choices that impersonate Chrome using Chromium. If you can't stand Firefox they may the next best choice.
I’m in that private player space and confirm solidworks is the most common, but I’ve run into the ones you’ve mentioned plus Solidedge, Creo, Ansys spaceclaim and a few others. We tend to use a neutral format for exchange. I’ve used pretty much all of them and I’d also pick Solidworks, but steer clear of anything beyond The standard package as the value is terrible and mostly doesn’t work well outside of a single person environment anyway.

Incidentally I recently did a study of what I should use for a side project (I.e. need to buy with my own money).

I decided that I’ll try Fusion360 (been a few years since I’ve tried it) and if it’s not enough I’ll try Solidedge. Solidworks doesn’t work For my use case (large up front cost plus annual fee). To restart maintenance/upgrades, you have to back pay for any years you missed, up to a certain point where you just have to pay the upfront cost again.

On the other hand you can pay by the month as needed (or not) for Fusion360 and Solidedge.
The single binary thing is a tired trope. Kubernetes has had hyperkube for many years, which is a single binary for many years.

But in really, a single binary should be at the bottom of your list of concerns.
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On Android give Privacy Browser a try.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser....
Consider Vivaldi too. It is closer in spirit to the original Opera IMO.
I can still build a machine entirely from off-the shelf parts, connecting them exactly in the ways they're built to connect to each other, and claim to have invented it.
I remember growing up in the 90s reading MAD books and magazines at Goodwill for hours on end. I would love to reread some of them and figure out what subversive ideas were placed in my mind.
Last I checked, Ungoogled Chromium did not have self-updates, and installing Chrome Extensions was a bit of a chore without a special extension.
Automated updates on Windows. That said there is no shortage of Chromium forks with auto update these days.
The extended Church-Turing thesis which I specifically referred to concerns efficient simulation, not just whether it can be simulated.
Working in tech for years and saving up, along with investment returns.
CMU's Compilers course (15-411)[1] does a lot of what you want. Students write code generation code in the very first assignment. A particular delight of this approach is that the first assignment is for compiling straight line code while one of the later ones is for optimization. If you implement SSA form for the optimization assignment, all of the test cases from the first assignment compile down to effectively one precomputed result. Very clear marker for how far you've progressed!

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~janh/courses/411/16/
The article mentions lack of ports being a problem. I certainly would be okay with giving up my audio jack for a phone with two USB C ports.

But also, this is a problem on laptops. The newest Dell XPS 13" actually decreased the number of USB C ports from 3 to 2. So now you use one port for charging, and your laptop only has a single USB port.
It would be very odd if he said the opposite, since customers could be spooked. But saying it's going to be around is very different from saying it will always have a lot of resources on it going forward, especially compared to their cash cows of consul and vault.
I think a good fraction of the Brave propaganda posts are from people holding BAT as a way to increase the value of their investments. This is actually one of most toxic aspects of cryptocurrencies: decentralized ponzi schemes by their vary nature encourage all holders to promote the scam endlessly in search of greater fools.
We knew about your reality but were as powerless as you were. Look who became president in 2016 because we had the nerve to vote a black president. And I really do wonder what they’re up to next. After Bush I thought it cannot go lower but it did. I really want to be positive but am still shocked by whats been happening
Will it make them better administrators of their countries? I doubt.
To reply to the actual content of the paper:

Understanding the factors behind video gaming as a problematic behavior separate from addiction is quite useful. Oftentimes, video games and other behaviors are driven by needs satisfaction, rather than physiological dependence. The needs for community, social activity, for achievement, purpose, and other commonly recognized human needs are often partially or fully satisfied incidentally by maladaptive behaviors. Moreover, even in cases of physiological dependence or behavioral addiction, other factors still come into play that encourage the behavior.

We constantly hear from drug addicts and alcoholics, that part of their push-pull factor is the community of other users that they identify with and receive support from, social aspects of their negative behavior, etc. It's not enough to counter their physiological dependence on the stimulation itself - their other needs that were previously satisfied by the activity, must be satisfied by other means, or relapse becomes much more likely.

Spending too much time on the phone, computer, internet, video games, drugs, social media, news, books, etc. There are a myriad of behaviors that can be excessively performed by individuals, to the harmful neglect of their other needs. Today’s world is more full than ever of dangerous and maladaptive behaviors - this is one ail that technology has almost certainly contributed to, with or without ill intent. Though education and institutions to help maladaptive individuals are certainly ways to help, it is difficult to say if they can completely solve this problem, or if it is a price we have to pay in order to continue the upwards progress of technology as a whole. To be clear, technology has only lowered the barrier to people neglecting themselves. The root causes have always been there to some degree.
Ask HN:But why this problem doesn't appears on Windows?
I'm from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21969683
After reading the thread. I still don't understand why the problem does not appear on Windows platform.
In my opinion, the root cause is the scheduler doesn't know what's happened in userspace. But I don't understand why Windows hasn't the problem.

Thank you for your help.
Disable iCloud Bypass And Activation iOS 13.5.1 To 13.5.5 – iOS 14, 14.1
That's funny, I've never heard that on "Classic Rock" stations; guess Top 40's gonna Top.

(incidentally, "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" is also from 1972, but there's a lot on the Billboard Top 100 with which I'm unfamiliar. Thanks for giving me a new queue!)
Apparently the noise on the pedestrian path itself is powerful enough that some people report it is literally unbearable while walking in the wind. From what I've read, the engineers only predicted that there would be some amount of hum, not that it would be nearly this loud.

And again, the things involved here are bridges (which humans have been making for some 14,000 years) and wind (familiar to humans for our entire existence.) 5G uses little-studied frequencies around 50 GHz that we really know extremely little about compared to the widely used cm-wave.
Beenz: One of Greatest dotcom Disasters of all Time
It's not hyperbole in the slightest.

"Understand your users." So like, translation? People with accessibility issues?

"Build a better product." But you don't know what my product is, and I still don't know if you can help me achieve that goal because a service for everyone is a service for nobody.

"Join 1000 companies" Is 1000 a lot? It is if they are fortune 5000 companies, but not a lot if it's Shopify dropshippers or people selling Amway. If you name names, I can quickly decide if I belong in this group.

"Try hosted or self-managed" I still don't know what you're trying to pitch me, so how can I possibly know what to click on?

"Open source product analytics" - wait, are you an open source analytics tools, or an analytics tool for my open source product?

"Understand users and events" So it can tell me how my churn will be impacted by COVID-19 and who is in need of special attention during the Black Lives Matter protests?

I could go on and on, and no - I'm not being difficult or contrarian... they have one opportunity to convince me that I'm in the right place and they have what I need. They don't make any kind of attempt to compare or contrast what they are offering to current products I'm likely already using or existing behaviours that I'll be able to change.

The whole thing basically screams "if you're here, you already know what this is". That's a missed opportunity and it's what inspired me to post.
You haven't actually presented another side to the story, you've just cited a legitimate, but completely irrelevant, concern.

If people aren't paying their debts, garnish their wages, seize their assets, or if they're flagrantly avoiding paying back debts, put them back in jail--you know, normal things that we already do which actually get people to pay back their debts. Failure to pay reparations is a legitimate concern, but it's not relevant to voting rights.

Let's not pretend this is about reparations. It's about disfranchising people.
Here's an excerpt from an article:

“It is an open secret,” he said, “that secret services of imperialist powers and foreign anti-Soviet centers actively join extremist nationalistic actions. Later on, they start playing the part of open instigators of hostile actions aimed at kindling hostility among nations. One should not underestimate the danger of this method of subversive activity.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-14-mn-1958-s...

(a red flag here is that the word "secret" is repeated rapidly in succession. Timeless "click" bait before Jobs ever visited Xerox).

We must first consider credibility of a dot com site. LA times does not represent vast majority. But this is from 1988. Fear mongering conspiracies can get tongues flapping. This is also before digital proliferation of media injection into cultures (click).

Behind "video games" are 20-50 year old minds digesting their environment and historical records made available to them by their coordinated government(s). My "real life" has not been affected by rioting and widespread respitory pandemic (destroyed storefronts are not selling things I want, economic furlough gifts me spare time and empty streets to hone new skills and more quickly traverse new domains). I am interested in the Phoenix that rises from this reset (dust is still in the air and must settle).

From the wikipedia article for Principle of Charity:

"The first to state this hermeneutic principle was Rabbi Meir ... 'A person does not say things without reason'."

The video game designers are steadily sculpting their audience's perception of "real life" via their own art form.