skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or if you could set a “self-destruct” or “wipe disk” passcode. We toyed with a similar idea for ATM cards in Massachusetts after a woman in Boston was abducted, forced to withdraw money from her bank account and then brutally murdered.

The idea being that you’d have a PIN and an optional “911 PIN” that would work exactly the same but alert authorities. The PIN would grant you access to accounts and give you money, etc. so anyone holding a gun to your head would be clueless but by entering the 911 PIN authorities would know you were in need of immediate assistance.

It was ultimately scrapped because the regulator backed off of requiring additional ATM security once the news stopped covering the murder. But the same concept could be applied to unwanted cellphone intrusions.
It need not take such high salaried non-technical CEO, degenerate activism or doomed web startups to run something like Mozilla.
I think a court would reason that if a phone is being used hour by hour, it's not likely that a person would "forget" that passcode suddenly, and there is a more simple explanation of what's happening.
Broken on ...dots? Not slashes?

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Trump has continually let Russia do as it pleases, he kowtowed in Syria to Putin, he kowtowed by threatening to constantly defund NATO, he kowtowed in Crimea.

The facts are just too obvious. Trump is pro-Russia, he's done nothing but allow it to expand and influence US elections, too.
They're just trying to prevent phishing. Remember when the DNC was hacked?

Employees at the DNC were linked to sites that looked exactly like the Google sign-in page, except that the URL was "myaccount.google.com-securitysettingpage.tk".

picture of the phishing website:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/189688/does-goo...

From interviews, it seems like there's two features Chrome developers are working on try to prevent these kinds of attacks. One is to hide the subdomain so that people can't make such tricky looking URLs. Another is feature to identify lookalike URLs and let users know about the anomaly.

sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/06/us/russian-ha...

https://p3isys.com/p3isys-tech-blog/153-podestahack

https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-kill-url-first-ste...
Wow this is freaking cool! All worked for me in the iphone x
Oh no it hasn't, not in our frame of reference.
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Those numbers are only true of a handful of household name tech companies that are very competitive to get into. I guarantee you that most line level people at most companies are not making 300-500k.
Newest Safari is only available for macOS and iOS.

There used to be Windows version of Safari, but it is not updated anymore.

Safari is based on Webkit/KTHML/Konqueror source code, some of the source code is public and has been contributed back from Apple to Webkit. But full source code of Safari is not public.
The large number of Chromium forks vs the comparatively tiny number of Firefox forks shows that there is barely interest in forking Firefox. Especially when you look at which forks have users you'll see that it's almost exclusively Chromium forks.

Sure, ecosystem diversity and so on is great but the current forkers don't see a way to make money from that, otherwise they'd have done it.
The wiki on this topic cites 551 sources. I guess they're all fake too?
I love this.

Imagine, your company hits $1T. POTUS gets you on stage. They tell you you did SO GOOD. We're really proud of you. We're gonna make you a statue in the Hall of Really Good Capitalists, and we have the best news. You are SO GOOD at this that we're gonna let you do it again. You're poor now, but we're gonna put your name in history books! If you get this rich again on hardcore mode we will make your statue bigger!
The only thing good about los gatos is that you might see Woz riding around on a segway. That place sucks!
when you have blokada, ublock doesn't make much sense.

why block ads on a browser when you can do it on a system-wide level.

unless you need the vpn connection for work or something like that.
If salaries are unlimited, there's no more motivation to act ethically than a for-profit concern has. Instead of taking the fruits of bad behavior as profits, you're just taking them as salaries. Upper management just takes the place of stockholders/investors.

Non-profits commonly warp to the point that they're spending virtually no money on their stated mission.

edit: It might be even worse if all salaries fall within a narrow range and all of the workers feel as if they are sharing in the success of the company: the economic motivation in that case would be to become a monoculture of revenue-maximizing behavior, where employees with opinions that threaten cashflow would quickly end up isolated and/or expelled. If everyone gets a salary bump after implementing a dark pattern, there will be a lot of people rationalizing the decision.
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Do you have a source for this? It's commonly stated, but I've read that earnings for trades are over-stated. Just googling around, it looks like a plumber around here makes $35-70k, which I'd expect most to be able attain in an entry-level corporate job.
Kind of what I was thinking-even if you don’t forget, how do you force someone to unlock, and what is possibly a fair punishment?
Sounds crazy ruling to me.
Reason number 368 why I've moved everything to Safari + DuckDuckGo. I still can't believe they won the suit with Genius and being caught poaching their content for their own representation
I’m aware of the distinction between the different kinds of jailbreaks; I just hadn’t been keeping up on the news regarding them. Thanks!
To amplify that a bit, AOL started out as a pre-Internet online service, competing with the likes of Prodigy and Compuserve. It wasn't until 1993 ("Eternal September") that they opened up Internet access to their users.
To add to your list:

* debugging

* profiling

* logging
>It doesn't take a year to delete the data

It does if you have cold backups that take a year to cycle out. They're often offsite, compressed, and incrementally hashed so finding individual items and removing them is really hard -- you're much better off just waiting for them to expire, and a year isn't an unreasonable amount of time.
It was a facebook employee that was commiting the code I think it should be Facebook's Recent "GPL condom" Incident
Don't forget to bring a bucket of water from the well every morning - yea we've got working plumbing but that costs money and your developer salaries are unreasonable!
I'm curious how many companies would survive it at all.

Sure, you could _migrate_ off of AWS if AWS was still alive. Could you restore your data and start your business from scratch if you lost everything? I suspect many rather large businesses could not.
That's a kind of far right virtue signalling as far as I can tell. In my opinion, it is wild projection, but it seems to try to label any progressive ideal as regression.
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A lot of what Mozilla did/does is functionally activism, "degenerate" is mostly a matter of personal opinion. For example things like fighting against EME and H264 on the web were both absolutely, objectively activism: Entirely based on moral/ethical grounds, not anything to do with the actual customer experience. The average person used Chrome or Safari to watch EME-encrypted H264 streaming video on sites like Netflix and did not give a shit, only Degenerate Activists like Mozilla employees & community gecko contributors actually cared. And they lost.

Much of what the Firefox and Safari teams do on standards committees is activism as well: fighting against useful standards from the big player because they believe the standards are bad for users. I generally agree, but it's impossible to claim that it's anything other than activism (pro-privacy, etc) when the average Chrome user just goes 'cool, I can use my midi keyboard and bluetooth headset with my web browser'.

Mozilla was a doomed web startup up until the point where Firefox finally succeeded. Now they're doomed again. I won't even claim that's false - I think it's probably true - but it's a fact that the effort was hopeless early on too.

This is my perspective as someone who previously got paid to work on Firefox, then later got paid to work on Chrome, and had an offer to get paid to work on Safari. I think people who complain about Firefox often don't understand what the web actually is and what Mozilla actually does. To be fair, Mozilla is poor at educating people about it.
And Manning stuck around to fight those laws on the frontline with great personal risk and sacrifice. Snowden fled to avoid having to make the type of commitment that Manning had made.
It's definitely a factor, some more than others. Unfortunately because the labor pool isn't replenishing like it used to, tradesmen are doing the heavy stuff much later in their career and taking larger tolls on their bodies.
Just another cold war
I'm failing to see how what you wrote contradicts what I wrote, where I said anything about R&D, or what "alternative definition" I allegedly made up.
Fight Club, Interstellar and Whiplash would be my vote.

I made a letterboxd list with some of the movies mentioned here.
https://letterboxd.com/whygodwhy/list/hn-films-that-made-you...
Could you slap some ads on MDN and fund it that way?
It takes a very partisan mind, IMO, to not see that yelling in dense outdoor crowds is nearly as dangerous as singing in a large building with 50 foot ceilings.
That's awesome thanks for sharing.
If you look into the backgrounds of a number of there big proponents of defi, it gets scarier.
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But it does take a high salaried non-technical CEO to market the idea to more people, which brings in more funding for the project.

That's the thing. $50 / month from you or me means nothing compared to $5 / month from a 100x larger audience. Growing the audience means marketing, and tons of non-technical work.

A lot of charities become marketing firms to bring in more money. Because that's how you effectively grow a charity and get more work done. Its just the reality of modern society.
It's not because you've got a programmer brain. It's because these categories are truly stupid but academics and other people in a position to challenge then will not out of fear of ostracization.
I use Firefox for casual browsing but heavy workloads need a better browser. So I have to use Chromium.
It depends on the definition of “delete”. Removing a record from a data model scales just fine, and is how it has always been defined in database systems. Making that record physically unrecoverable from any hardware in the broader system is extraordinarily expensive for fundamental technical reasons. Traditionally “delete” has always meant the former in all systems, and physical deletion is deferred to a point in the future when either the an opportunity arises to do it inexpensively or the cost becomes acceptable. There is a value in recovering the resources consumed by the deleted record but it comes at a very high cost.

If you change the definition of “delete” to mean unrecoverable physical deletion, then sure, it scales poorly. But it is a bit like redefining “fast car” to “can travel faster than Mach 5” — technically a valid as a redefinition while completely ignoring the engineering realities of what a car can do.
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How exactly does it help to prevent fishing from domains like my-google-account.tk?
> until you realize it Sunday 10pm. Where did my weekend go?

It's much worse really, it's Sunday, two weeks later.
I'd donate it (or hell even double that) and honestly I don't care what it goes towards as long as MDN stays afloat and/or the future of Firefox is guaranteed.
Can you please provide a link? Its really not giving relevant results on search engines.
As far as I can tell, Fifefox has never "won". The best they did was a strong second in ~2007-2010 with about 20-30% market share: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Chrome and Safari are much stronger competitors than Internet Explorer was then, so its understandable why Firefox is struggling. Being locked out of iOS doesn't help either, though I'm not sure it would make much of a difference even if they weren't.
CEO makes almost $3M if that's any sign
Ask HN: Has anyone else seen TCP connection issues in AWS US East this week?
Over the last week we've seen random TCP connection issues in the US-1 East data center in AWS. Has anyone else been seeing this?
> Yes, as long as there is a guarantee that my money will go towards actually paying people who update the documentation rather than CEO salary, degenerate activism or doomed web startups.

In other words, “No.”

Not that it’s good that Mozilla spends money on that stuff. But for $50-$100/year you want not just a web reference, but significant control over the company that produces it. That’s just not going to happen, so you might as well just say, “No.”
Calibre is usually the go-to open source ebook reader. I don't know about SaaS but it does include a server so if you keep you ebooks centrally located and acess them from there, your bookmarks and notes would be preserved.

https://calibre-ebook.com/about
The wider community taking over maintaining MDN ought to be at least more feasible compared to say forking Firefox and keeping up with Chrome, which is a non-starter.

I don't think we can rely on Google or Microsoft caring for MDN in the future. They may do so for a while, but will inevitably let it languish or turn it into something that heavily promotes their own visions.

At the very least given the high traffic it ought to be getting, the current maintainers can try monetising it with non-invasive and contextual ads.
It looks like non-trivial subdomains will still appear and those seem to me to be the most problematic.
Do you still have the right to remain silent?
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I don't like it either, but the only way it is technically feasible to support the full potential styling/markup of an EPUB is to use a browser engine, and therefore electron is a logical choice. Can your specialized EPUB reader support MathML? Or vertical-ttb text?
No offense intended, but this isn't the way to have a meaningful conversation.

First, it's stated as a blind truth with no reasoning. The only thing I can do is say "you're wrong", as there's no basis upon which to have a real discussion.

Second, your repeated use of the phrase "degenerate activism" seems to have no other purpose than to elicit a strong emotional response. From my position it's borderline trolling.

Third, I have no idea what "doomed web startups" you're even talking about.

The entire comment, as short as it is, reads as bait for an argument, rather than an honest attempt to engage in a discussion.
That really isn't the user's problem.

Laws and rules need to be followed no matter what.

It's the same with GDPR.
Bad design and code.
Degenerate activism?

Come on.
But a passcode exists only in your mind and you have the right to remain silent.

And what if it isn’t your phone but you’ve been compelled to unlock it and you genuinely don’t know the passcode? I don’t think the blood withdrawal is an apt analogy for a password though I do think it makes sense when discussing compelling a fingerprint scan.
Well almost all elective procedures have been off the table for 4 or 5 months here so i'm not sure why this should come as surprise to anyone.
Eh. I have forgotten important passwords and lost accounts that I had used for years the next day. It absolutely happens.
> Google is reacting to the Walled Garden trend, not driving it.

I could follow you right up to that bit.
This is like the economic policy of the Hells Angels, borrow vast amounts of money then freeze out, ostracize and threaten. We already have the splinternet evolving fast and Chinese style surveillance in North America. The dollar as reserve currency remains omnipotent and this is naked imperialism imo
If parents are 5X worried about infection than paying bills, then they are likely not worried about paying the bills in the first place.
I don't know if it's bad everywhere but it's bad here in podunk USA. Weeks and weeks of lead time, no call backs, etc...
Has anyone discovered a pattern in what Trump likes and dislikes yet?
China government is eager to try following the steps of USSR with better starting conditions - at least some of them. We can turn to history and see what steps were taken in Cold War and how they turned out to have some rough prediction of results today.
Quite sincerely, I'm convinced YC and other VCs don't do this because they've observed that ideas truly don't matter very much. And if you can't even come up with an idea what hope do you have of finishing the work, why not become an employee (which is fine)?

What matters is the journey and how you react to the multiple problems along the way (99% of people give up too early, too much grit is required). Usually by the end of that journey your initial idea has changed beyond recognition, even if there are some common elements between the idea and the endpoint.

To come up with some examples:

Apple: Computers for everyone -> Phones for everyone

Amazon: Buy books online -> Logistics, Free Delivery + Cloud Compute

Airbnb: Airbeds in living rooms -> Online bookings

SpaceX: Greenhouse on Mars -> Reusable rockets

Very few ideas survive contact with reality unscathed.
The problem with your stated goal is that it can justify any length or extent of remedy. That is where a big problem lies. How are we (or the courts) to decide that your chosen remedy is right, reasonable, or effective? Or that it's not merely symbolic and will go on forever? Or that you will say later it's not enough, and choose a different action, and that gets added to the pile?

Is there a concrete actionable principle you can state, to be applied by everyone who needs to apply it?
>In a few months we are completely re-examining the utility of taking out a student loan that many cannot pay back in their working lifetimes.

Actually this has been true for many decades, not just the last 10-20 years. The issue is exasperated due to massive unemployment because of the mismanagement of covid19.

There will be no 're-examining' because there is so much bloat that votes. Countless administrators that actually vote for their interests, at the expense of the students. It's systemic and just like police reform, it's not going to be an easy and fast change. When renovating the system, there are losers and those losers will fight you tooth and nail to prevent progress.

It's partly why I like creative models like Lambda School. There is a massive opportunities for business(es) to help fix this gap but...again, incentives are not static.

A business helping you get a high skilled job, might want cheaper labor, so they flood the market with more workers, which reduces the collective in that field.

In conclusion, these issues are massive/systemic. It's entrenched to society and protected by stakeholders. Effectively making change happen won't be easy and we may be creating a 'wake-a-mole' type environment where we solve today's problems and gain two problems tomorrow.
Yes people bunched up and sweating all over each other and yelling is not a superspreader event.

This reminds me of the same braindead talking points people would trot out about masks not working because the "experts" said so. Now the same people are mindlessly saying that masks are a panacea and should be mandatory in all environments regardless of the context.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-06/want-to-a...
It's an interesting and strong technique I actually hope more games take on, even as a player.
> with an unconstitutional EO, spent a trillion dollars.

Do you have a link? I read about the payroll tax deferral, but haven't heard about this.

>The choices to disallow religions institutions from congregating while allowing BLM protests seems like it’s a ploy to suppress religion and not an effort to protect people as well.

1. Actions are not deemed constitutional or unconstitutional in comparison to other actions - they are each compared individually to the requirements outlined in law. Protests and religion have different relevant bodies of case law, and therefore the constitutionality of a limit on each would not be directly comparable.

2. The physical structures that religious institutions build and operate already have to follow other limitations imposed by health and safety laws, this one was no different. An outdoor protest owns no property which would be subject to such regulations in the first place.
> It's one of the reasons why, when I donate to a charity, I never specify how I want those funds to be used; I recognize that the charity is in a far better position to make that decision than I am.

But by choosing a charity, you make that decision. If you donate to MSF you expect your money to be used differently than if you donated to Mozilla or the ASPCA or the Ayn Rand foundation - and you'd probably be a bit unhappy, and less willing to donate in future, if you found out MSF spent your money on animal shelters.

Even if you donate to Givewell or similar, you're still expecting the money to be spent in line with the values they advertise (closer to MSF than the other three I named, but different).

So it's reasonable for someone to want a charity that broadly shares his values. Wanting to fund a nonprofit that produces web documentation, but not longshot startups, is a reasonable value to have.
> I recognize that the charity is in a far better position to make that decision than I am.

At least in the case of Mozilla, they doesn't seem to posses this expertise. They have overgrown beyond what they are capable of, both in terms of people and projects they have acquired/started.
Agree 100%. The problem I have is that I want to know that donations are being used responsibly, but this is hard to gauge. Different types of organizations require different levels of organizational overhead, and this changes depending on the size of the organization.

It would be nice if there was a quick way for a charity to establish their trustworthiness. Currently, I focus on a few orgs that I do trust, and basically ignore the rest.
There are online tests you can take. If you score high enough, its worth the few hundred dollars to get an official diagnoses. This is coming from someone who was diagnosed ADHD as an adult.
You make a fair point -- I think maybe it is not totally fair to blame the companies here -- they are in a competitive environment and really the best we can expect is for them to follow the letter of the law, which it seems they mostly did. There is a suit against the FCC that argues they incorrectly claimed that their constellation would not have an "environmental impact" (which would have required an environmental impact study) but not sure how well that will hold up in court; it looks like that's best legal avenue we have at the moment to fight this.

The problem is really that there needs to be better oversight and more regulation. The laws as they stand do not address the problems that these constellations produce, because they were written in a time when starlink-like operations were scarcely imaginable. SpaceX and amazon, etc., should definitely be allowed to do cool and serious projects like this, but the oversight agencies basically saying "hey do whatever you want" is a recipe for serious accidents like collisions, as well as a needlessly enormous impact on astronomy research. If there were, say, albedo requirements or something, everyone would have to plan for that, but that is not in place today.

One part that irks me even in the absence of regulation is that SpaceX provided no forewarning of how bright their Starlink satellites would be, which astronomers were shocked by. Space-X claimed they were "surprised" by their brightness which is either a lie or belies serious incompetence.