skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how Uber's relationship with the passenger has any bearing on a driver's relationship with Uber.

If instead, my analogy were that I was a general contractor who built water slides and a water park put out a bid on construction of a water slide and refused to negotiate, my only option is to take that bid or leave it. Why does it matter what the water park is going to charge the people to ride the slide?
Since GDPR websites come with the worst UX for cookie consent. If you feel adventerous and want to ignore cookie popups. I can recommend:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-...
Hmm always found Gnome to be too bulky for laptop screens. Pop modified gnome with tiling and minimal borders is a bit better
I'm not entirely clear why the answer is "regulate google" and not "the government builds and provides an internet search mechanism for its people." I.e., an actual utility from the start.
I can't quite recollect how, but on WiiU you could video chat with friends

Doesn't Switch have ingame audio-chat at all?
Still no async/await?
it has a permanently predictable rate of inflation

It’s volatility would suggest otherwise. As many others have commented here an in other places, the fact that supply is predictable is not enough, demand is a factor too.
Don't you think you're putting an unreasonably high burden on people? I can argue that I think the lawmakers representing me and other citizens need to figure out the details without myself having figured out the details. I can point out a problem and ask someone to fix the problem without know what the specifics of the solution look like. I know healthcare is absurdly complicated but I still think single-payer is the right idea and I want my law makers to do something about that - and if there's problems, it's on them to try to communicate that with me or to work around it. Same principle here. "Regulate Google as public utility" is actually fairly specific since we've got lots of public utilities already that we can model this off of.
All of these things are "luxuries" in the US.

The poor often go largely without healthcare. Their health deteriorates severely, but it's better than just starving to death. A lot of people have very long bus commutes to work because they can't afford a car or housing close to their workplace or to the best public transportation. Their credit score is probably no good, so they can't get a loan on a "cheapish" car. So if they do get a car, they're stuck maintaining a beater.

They may not have living parents who can help them, or their parents may be just as poor as they are.

Your assumptions are all based on a middle-class individual from middle-class upbringing. That doesn't make any sense when we're talking about the plight of the poor, who are the ones most affected by government assistance, minimum wage, etc.
> The key quote from the announcement is this one:

> "Furthermore, Mozilla's contract with Google to include Google as the default search provider inside Firefox is set to expire later this year, and the contract has not been renewed."

That sentence doesn't seem to be anywhere in the announcement, nor in the linked PDF. Where are you getting this?
Ironically, there is another side to this too: you have to teach people that if they want a response, they need to include relevant information that relates to the person you are reaching out to, a "serious-looking" e-mail address, a proper greeting, good grammar...

Especially young professionals struggle to understand why any of this is important, and are left wondering why they are not getting a response.
Neat diagrams & animations. No way in hell ima ride the NYC subway, but now I can articulate why...
Not a fair comparison. ;)
On the other hand, this might be the push some people need to start using Firefox.
FWIW the Canadian tax system is heading in this direction. With electronic filing programs most things get pre-filled now with data from Canada Revenue Agency based on the information they've received from your employer, your bank, your trading institutions, etc. Then it's more a matter of going through and verifying information and adding in any missing information (for example sale info from my stock units held in my employer's US brokerage) and looking any deductions that might apply (and the set of those is shrinking, which imho is a good thing)
Mozilla should offer a way to make donations that are earmarked for direct use on Firefox engineering.

Not marketing, not new services, none of that... just engineering the core product.

Other expenses can come out of the general donation fund.
It's called capitalism.

It would be a monopoly if there's no way for a competitor to enter the market.
But you are the market. It is your decision to go try a different search engine.

Following your argument, google would have never made it against AltaVista, Lycos...
Some people believe that wasm will encourage people to turn web pages into one big <canvas>, which would be quite a hit. I don't personally believe that, though.
The flip side is somewhat problematic: if the Fed needed to remove money from the economy (e.g. because inflation exceeded the target rate), they would have to take money away from everyone equally.

It is easy to forget that the Fed's mission is to stabilize the value of money, not to conform to some concept of fairness. I would also point out that instability in the value of money disproportionately impacts the poor, who have the least savings available to deal with price shocks (if you are living paycheck to paycheck, then the price of bread suddenly doubling will leave you eating half as much bread).
Granted, but a surprising number of people (still, in 2020) envision a very static, print-like experience for all web pages. i.e. yes, they "want" a fixed layout but in many cases their reasoning is mis- or uninformed.
>It has driven hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions, of dollars of value.

The same can (almost) be said for Javascript. A language with a lot of foibles can still be successful if it is the only realistic mechanism to interact with the system.
> Is exactly what they should stay away from. Work on the bloody browser, forget about the rest.

This is short term thinking. A slightly better Firefox tomorrow is nice I guess, buy I care way more about being able to use Firefox in 2030, or 2040. Making a browser is not looking like a business model that is going to make you last forever - not when Google is your competition. Their business model already depends on them being financed by other tech companies which are the epitomes of the ad tech industry. Their market share is shrinking, and the moment Google (and their other sponsors, but mostly Google) think they can get away with it they will cut Mozilla's funding.

I very much encourage their branching out if it leads to them being more independent and sustainable as a company. Moreover, I think [1] the idea of Firefox providing basic internet services is a really good idea.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23566732
it’s not - it wouldn’t be that expensive if interchange (biggest chunk of transaction processing) was more heavily regulated beyond the Durbin Amendment.

right now we have a situation where the rich (who pay for things with expensive premium credit cards) are being subsidized by the poor (using cash or basic credit cards)
"What happens when you try requesting random short URLs to peep on other people's texts?"

I think most use-cases involve a code that you chalk up, or write, or paste publicly ... I am not sure that the codes being secret will be a common use-case.

There's a fair amount of space in a 6-digit alpha-numeric code, though (36^6, roughly) ... that's a lot of brute forcing ...
Technically ActiveRecord uses Arel, which in turn compiles, if you will, to SQL. Arel (a strict subset of) could theoretically be an alternative to SQL, if databases supported it as a native language. They don't, so the SQL step is a practical requirement.

This is similar to the browser (especially in the pre-WASM days). No matter what language you actually wrote your software in, eventually you were going to end up converting it to Javascript out of necessity. Would you still say that your program written in C, compiled with emscripten, was written in Javascript?
Nothing ensconces a design---for good and for ill---like making it a utility.

There's a reason so much innovation in the power grid is of the hyper-local or off-the-grid form these days.
Uber would work just fine using WAP/GPRS.
This is correct. The best you can usually do is 2% cash back, so really the consumer is being charged 1% for the convenience of using a credit card. Obviously most consider that worth it, which is why credit cards are so popular.
Ive spent the last 2 years slowly learning how to read books again. It's hard when a decade of internetting fucked your attention span. Thankfully, it's a skill you can retrain! I started reading a few pages at a time and now I can focus for chapters at a time. It just takes practice.
As per usual in the world of languages, nothing new is possible, but things can be easier and perform better.
After the PIN/Intel SGX debacle, I trust Signal even less.
> You can't buy a fraction of a house.

Isn't that basically what a REIT is? It's also possible to enter into joint ownership of a property. Roommates are also kind of like acquiring a fraction of a house.
You are confusing market cap with stock/asset liquidity.
The banks charge a fee for deposits that reset the expiration.
Never heard of EIG, but this appears to be the crux of the issue:

> In very short, the main reason is that EIG has a very bad reputation of ruining the hosts it acquires. HostGator, Arvixe, A Small Orange, Site5 and so on – we all have heard a huge mass of horrible stories from former clients of these hosts which sharply deteriorated their services after being bought by EIG. EIG “optimizes” cost structure of the hosts it buys out, fires great (expensive) support staff and migrate clients to a worse hardware infrastructure.

> Another reason is a strategic one – EIG’s core strategy is to expand as much as possible and profit for the needs of its shareholders. So, this is not about making hosting better for clients, or find a compromise between high quality and profit. This is a pure target of pleasing shareholders.

> Being on a client side, I definitely oppose this approach of doing business in hosting. When a big company like EIG seizes a bigger share on the market by aggressive marketing and offering bad services, it ruins the web hosting ecosystem. As a result, great hosts become less noticeable by ordinary people who have less and less chances to get a good hosting services after next EIG acquisition.
> the 0.1% is stuff like video encoding & decoding

In which case, rust still isn't a good fit for a front end library (Unless you are patching in support for a new codec into old browser).

Frankly, the browser will have a faster version of the codec that can also take advantage of other hardware that you wouldn't want to expose to WASM.
I've read XPS specs [1] and from the looks of it it's a very sane format, which I cannot say about other Microsoft XML formats I've seen (such as MS Word XML). I'm not that familiar with PDF internals, but I really doubt XPS has much inessential complexity. And, being a new format, it has zero legacy issues. The common complaint against PDF is that it's hard to extract text from it, but with XPS it seems to be rather easy and can be done with the standard XML toolchain. Besides, it has a good support for document structure: it has not only document outline, but also stories, sections, tables, lists, figures, etc.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...
There are two phases of a technology: the adoption for new projects phase, and the legacy phase. In the first phase, new projects dominate the programming activity in the technology. In the second phase, maintenance and improvement of already existing codebases dominates the activity. Technologies like jsp are in that second phase.
> Mozilla has shipped successful products other than Firefox. Rust being a strong example

Isn't Rust a language?
https://research.mozilla.org/rust/

How is that going to keep the lights on? Doesn't seem like it contributes to the bottom line in any way, so they would have been better off allocating those people to keeping Firefox competitive. Seems like they need a "more wood behind fewer arrows" moment like Google had. Or a "sell everything but consulting" since consulting is the only thing making money moment like IBM had when they sold laptop, storage, printer, etc. divisions.
* International treaties and national laws prohibit sending radio signals into the country if the countries government doesn't give you permission. Space ISPs are very unlikely to do so without permission except at the behest of their home government.
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I think it's only a matter of time before Microsoft does a hard fork of Chromium.
I don't see how losing Firefox would end up with an "even more silo'd, broken up Internet". Firefox can't fight that by itself so just having Firefox by itself isn't going to make much of a difference to what Big Tech is going to do with the Internet.

But anyway, you're entitled to your opinion.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2027/how-does-th...

Do you trust whoever happens to own xf2.org more than you trust a central bank? Do you trust the domain name registrar more than you trust a central bank? Why?

You decide what code you run, not developers well, sure you can run whatever code you like on your machine...the Bitcoin devs get to decide whether your software counts as a Bitcoin client or not. They are in a position of power and you must trust them.
Hasn't this already happened with Bell and Bell Labs? Why didn't the breakup of Bell stop Google from investing in innovation?
don't have to, can use webgl.
An ISP must be registered with the government and must follow laws in place for filtering content and working with the government. Whether the ISP is using any local infrastructure or "going to space" doesn't matter.
I don’t think the government would be getting quality contractors to do the work to sort this out. They would be getting the lowest bidders who have a political axe to grind or an interest in inflating the contracts into a never-ending project with little to show for it, and offshore workers with little experience.

Just like every other government IT iniative.

Additionally, that would give the government direct access to a lot of sensitive information that people don’t really want them to have. While it probably has under-the-table access right now, do you really think having overt access is any better?

If the thought of having the government running a search engine, even at arms length, doesn’t leave you absolutely shitting yourself in terror, you have issues.
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Yes, the integration catalog experience for a logged in user would be very similar to the My Apps screen in Zapier. (by default the styling is a bit different, but you can customize that e.g. if you prefer the list vs grid view)
It's the reverse of what happened with JavaScript. In other words, JavaScript started on the front-end and then spread to the back-end because it was advantageous to have one language for both. One of those advantages is that folks who were experts in JavaScript were suddenly able to use their language of choice for back-end work too.

Rust started on the back-end but is fairly likely to spread to the front-end in the future for the same reason. One of the advantages will again be that folks who are experts in Rust will be able to use their language of choice for front-end work too.

Beyond this, I would argue that Rust's type system is a significant draw for many folks as well. I dare say it has a lot more potential than Elm, a Haskell-like language designed just for web development.
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There are a lot of great YC startups that are experiencing rapid growth -- despite COVID -- and actively hiring in engineering, product and more. We want to create a space for engineers and others to learn more about these companies, their technology, and engage directly with founders, in small groups and 1-1.

We’re hosting YC’s first Lightning Tech Talk session on September 10th at 4PM PST. Five YC founders will give 10 minute talks on their technology and business challenges. Following the talks, we’re opening up virtual tables where people can meet founders and team members -- to ask questions about the talk, learn about the business, and find out more about open roles.

The first session focuses on software tooling & SaaS, and you’ll meet the following people:

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36^6 = 2,176,782,336
Actually you can buy a fraction of a house:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REIT
So I have to trust your company with valid access tokens for all of my users. No thanks.
almost all processors add a fixed fee on top of the 3% eg 30 cents. if you are a coffee shop or convenience store that is a much higher % of the average purchase price than a merchant that sells something more expensive.
What is more disappointing is this is what they have to show for after years of funding from Google.

I get that they have to build a browser but come on. Is that it?
Regarding the donations, I think the way they are structured with donations going to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, and development of Firefox being done by the for-profit Mozilla Corporation means that donations cant be used to support Firefox development. Its unfortunate, because I would happily donate to fund Firefox, but I'm not terribly interested in funding Mozilla's non-profit activities (at least not more than other charities I could donate to).

I wonder if crowdfunding around specific development goals would be productive - certain promising features like Webrender have been in development for a very long time, and I'd be willing to contribute money to see them finished and shipped.
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Predictability?

As far as I know, Rust's WASM performance is much more uniform than JS'.
Seems like you could just copy the signature from the box next door then?
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It's just price stickiness. Same reason why all music streaming platforms charge $10/month and something like $15/month for a family plan.
> And when I go to download the browser prompt me to either pay the suggested donation or manually change it to $0.

FYI elementary OS does that and they have public analytics where you can see how many people skip it: https://plausible.io/elementary.io

Their "payment skipped" goal has 57.9k conversions, while "payment complete" has 1k conversions. This is <2 months of data, since they've started using Plausible pretty recently.
I asked this question, as well, and the answer I got is that Deno already does these things.
Here is the worst possible case scenario that is really happening with Chrome:

If I want to use a Google Property with Chrome (just tested with Google Search Console) I MUST be "signed into" Chrome with the same Google Account as I want use to access the service.

I am not "signed into" Chrome with a google account and I log into that service using the login process IN the web page I become automatically "signed into" Chrome.

Chrome just peeks throught the veil and I am now logged into my browser. Talk about overstepping boundaries.

So, I don't want to have my browser sessions associated to my google account so I "Sign Out" of the browser. BOOM! Logged out of the service as well.

This is a very sad day for the state of a free and open internet.
The Empire traded with huge parts of the globe, not just America.

Are you saying that a failure to wipe out slavery everywhere simultaneously means the Navy's sacrifices of so many British lives were meaningless?

In the end, what ended mass slavery in the world? The British Empire and the American civil war, fought primarily by the descendents of the British. That's not nothing.
right now we have a situation where the rich (who pay for things with expensive premium credit cards) are being subsidized by the poor (using cash or basic credit cards) because interchange is much higher for the top of line credit cards.
Inflation rate means the rate of issuance of new coin. Its price is related to whatever free market forces decide the price of anything scarce such as gold, silver, fiat currency, etc.
That's correct but your article says "which charges an added hefty fee to the restaurant for each order", which is simply not true.
Two bads don't make one good, IMO. You can't combat authoritarianism with more authoritarianism.
Python3.8 , then use virtual envs with “python -m venv ...”
The most obvious answer would be to give money to people who need it to make rent, go back to school, buy porn, etc. Compared to the complete collapse of the economy, pretty much any stimulative use is preferable.
>As the founder of an SEO company [...]

Honestly, "SEO" either shouldn't be necessary if content is reasonable and useful, or it's that kind of SEO spam which has had a much worse impact on search results than any of Google's advertisement.
Mozilla Lays Off 250
Can you comment on why you think Bitwarden is a „POS“ and what KeepassXC does better?
I work for a bank. We only make money on credit cards and mortgages. The fees for regular banking stuff like accounts, cheques, etc. barely cover the expenses for operating them. And this is after decades of MBAs and executives trying to find ways to profit off of them.

Unless Revolut gets into lending (aside from the overnight market) I think there is little opportunity for them to make a profit - It’s like trying to run a bar without serving alcohol.
>KeepassXC is fortunately the only sane password-manager

What's wrong with Keepass?