skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, Mozilla seems to be weaponizing its stack / fleet of products to make Firefox less desirable. “It's OK, only 1% used that thing we broke.” Sure, but you did it a hundred times.
The kids who grew up with containers are resistant to config management tools.

To me it is a weird regression back to “imaging” machines constructed haphazardly with shell scripts and manual action, it’s just faster.

It makes it difficult to work in the current environment.
Cannot imagine any security aware kernel being left with modules and eBPF support on. Nobody should do that. We disabled kernel modules in the early 90ies already.

The OracleLinux kernel with dTrace looks fine though. But Oracle
> That extra human readable section is not added for humans. It’s added for SEO. That is, for Google.

It is indeed for humans. After all, the whole purpose of SEO is to show up on the 1st or 2nd SRP for web searches conducted by humans.
The default Camera App in Google Pixel can auto-recognize QR codes, but unfortunately it doesnt work with these. Meanwhile, a dedicated QR scanner (such as built-in in iPhne) works.
Ajv JSON validator awarded Mozilla's MOSS grant and joined OpenJS Foundation
Decrypting HTTPS: How to Snoop on Your Own Requests
I have played the game to completion once. I was utterly addicted and could not tell time while playing. I would say something like "Ok, just 5 minutes to finish this and save." and an hour later still be playing. I have over 60 hours in the game and I played it for like a week. It was bad. I have not let myself go back.
That's the fallacy Google and Netflix used to push DRM into your proprietary GoogleChrome and open source GoogleChromium/MozillaFirefox browsers.

whatever helps you sleep at night...
$3,500 from My Product Hunt Launch
If we go wiki style, can we bootstrap with MDN? Is there a download with an acceptable license that could be used? I don't know if we'd get traction to bootstrap from nothing...

EDIT: So I've found answers to my content questions at [1] - does the community have the appetite for an alternate site?

1 - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/About#Using_MDN...
Not "suddenly" and not "all" but the point is perverse incentives and unintended consequences. Some scholarship of a conclusion you reached there :)
There was enough written about this specific issue to suggest it might be political opportunism. Of course it's also not fair to not let people actually change their mind.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-trade...

Maybe flip-flopping is too loaded of a word and I shouldn't have used it.
According to this astronomy.com article, it's well outside the danger zone [0].

This [1] article discusses a closer one that may have been responsible for a mass extinction.

[0] https://astronomy.com/news/2020/02/when-betelgeuse-goes-supe...

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/a-nearby-super...
Oh how I hate the new Firefox experience on Android. I'll still use it because hey it's Firefox, but it's really eating me up...</digression>
Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types (2020)
Currently. Though Mozilla is giving no clear plans on continuing the projects importance. If anything it seems Mozilla is planning for an eventual sunset. Hoping to have revenue alternatives for when Firefox is irrelevant and they stop supporting it.

Firing a team building a meaningful advancement in Firefox's tech stack is a big signal, imo.
And that's why we need more competing browsers, not built from chromium source.
Drew has a lot of action. His Open Source code repo hosting service https://sourcehut.org does not use any Javascript at frontend, and sourcehut webpages load a lot faster than GitHub and GitLab.

https://drewdevault.com/2018/06/05/Should-you-move-to-sr.ht....

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-23-srht-puts-users-first/

Problem here is, that Chromium and Firefox based browsers use a huge amount of RAM, and keep increasing amount of features and code. Also, new versions of Chrome etc have broken features that did previously work fine.

Then, web developers are adding even more code to webpages, causing web to just feel a lot slower:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835417

It would be nice if:

- webpages would use less code at frontend

- so web browsers would use less memory

- with less features in browsers, there would be less code to audit for security

- with less code in browsers, compiling browser would require less time
You cannot solve the privacy problem with just a VPN
Maybe modeling rockets in Kerbal is part of that 100hrs of work.
This is going to have to be decided in US Supreme Court and I hope it happens sooner rather than later.
> at least one person died after following his advice

Correction: at least one democrat donor murdered her husband and used that advice as an excuse [1].

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/homicide-cops-investigate-deat...
It's more complex than that. Google upweights it because text in the URL is assumed to be significant to the user. So it's a bit of both, really.

It would be a shame if URL text loses its SEO value because it's getting hidden. Slugs in the url are human-friendly and should be encouraged.
Secure delete is not implemented in databases because it is extraordinarily expensive, and destroys the performance of all other non-delete operations. When you say “encrypt data”, you are ignoring the fact that it can’t be implemented as “same data structures, just encrypted”. Encryption puts constraints on data structures and data representation that are fundamentally incompatible with and adverse to the design and functioning of most databases in existence, even ignoring the other ugly operational issues with that approach which no one thinks about. It would require radically redesigning the internals of most database engines, which is not really a practical option.

I’ve thought a lot about what it would take to design a “delete optimized” database kernel every since GDPR became a thing. In principle it is possible, but I seriously doubt anyone would use a database that is literally orders of magnitude slower and less scalable for everything except delete operations. Would it be acceptable to increase the resource intensity of databases by 10x (and environmental footprint implied) to get “real” deletes? That is the tradeoff here.

This has precedent in SQL databases designed for high-assurance applications with ultra-fine access and visibility controls. When the average software engineer understands how they work, it sounds like a great idea for having more secure data and they wonder why it doesn’t seem to exist. The reality is that they do exist but they are so abysmally slow for even elementary things that no one would ever dream of using it unless there is a narrow government requirement.
I'm not sure if you are implying negative connotation to "culture" because of an identity politics view that blue collar workers are a bunch of uneducated racist white guys, or if bigoted elites in general look down on labor jobs. Either way, both are elitist and bigoted views.
Impossible foods gobbles up another 200M
You really need a combination of top-down vision combined with bottom-up implementation, mixed together with a healthy dose of pragmatism.

It's enough to know that you'll need lots of gears and to know that you'll need high-capacity mining eventually. But there's no great harm from having a few extra or from having not quite enough to max out beaker production; just start the process, get some gears, get some beakers, and refine as needed. Without a little top-down vision, you'll end up severely overproducing some things and underinvesting in others, which is no good, but you'll never be able to build an optimal factory without first building a suboptimal one.
I think making employers pay for it can cause the cost to be too high. And still there'd be thousands of small-medium companies, schools, and universities who won't buy the subscription - the majority of the population won't have access to it.

I believe it HAS to be kept free for the general public, no matter what.
Even Hayek said epidemics were an obvious exception to most of his economic ideology and called for government planning:
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1274130684337172481

Mostly we just have had anti-biotics, effective vaccines, etc. for everything deadly and have basically forgotten how to govern in the face of the massive externalities presented by communicable diseases. Whether someone thinks covid is severe enough to justify which particular actions is one thing, but if we had something like an incurable smallpox or measles going around there would be a lot more consensus on government action.
I’m sorry you’re having trouble.

You can always touch & hold a message, & select “Copy” to export an individual message. You can also screen shot your messages, or simply view them in the app.

How does not allowing batch export of sms messages to other apps stop you from accessing them?
Your comment made me smile :)
"So even assuming that the personal danger is acceptable (which isn't a given; 300 deaths sounds like a horrible and avoidable tragedy to me) death figures among healthy 20-somethings don't capture the full risk of keeping a university open."

Well now you're shifting the goalposts.

The comment was that the students are at risk. Someone shows you that they're not at risk, and you pivot to danger to "townsfolk".

Here's the thing: those students don't just disappear, and they don't stop interacting with other college-aged students, townsfolk and employees simply because they're not at school. And if you want to protect parents, shipping their kids off to live on their own seems like a better way to do that than to have those kids living at home.

(As far as "avoidable tragedies" go: during the same period that those 300 kids died of covid, literally thousands died of all other causes. More died of accidents than died of Covid. I think it's time to admit that your sense of concern is mis-calibrated.)
That is my POV, but I'm not the only one deciding, and not all people contributing to the blog are coders, we had request for execs/manager for guest blog posts to review before publishing so a lot of poeple were against github.
Another nice trick is to use your shebang line.

#!/usr/bin/env ansible-playbook
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
vars:
home: "{{ lookup('env', 'HOME') }}"
tasks:
# ...

So then it just becomes.

pip install -r requirements.txt
./install --tags=bash
This. The amount of time quoted in the article in excessive but it's also sparse on details (maybe his data request also sent him backups related to him? a year is reasonable in this case).

Deletion is pretty much the hardest thing to do in data management, way harder than inserting or retrieving data. I know GDPR says you need to be able to delete a user's data, but how reasonable is it to trawl through your offsite backups to find their items and remove them?
Checkboxes should just be an empty circle unless checked, other than that I love it
It's a natural good like water at this point. And the psycho-social mechanistic designs which go into what you consume are much more dangerous than added fluoride.
How the world’s largest garbage dump evolved into a green oasis
That’s only hiding the protocol part of the URL. Parent is referring hiding everything but the domain, which the article in question is about.

Weird strawman.
Of course the unexplored downside of this ruling is that the punishment for forgetting your passcode (password etc) is now life in prison...
They also don't realize there could be some cultural differences and push for changes that the original people don't want.
Make all the articles by default behind paywall, and even as an admin on the blog.jupyter.org I can' deactivate that, I need to ask the author that submitted it.
Relation Extraction in NLP
>rather than CEO salary, degenerate activism or doomed web startups.

Boom you hit the exact right spot!! Love it!
Looks like it (or the bulk of it) is licenced CC-BY-SA, so should be possible according to my understanding of the licence
The only one I disagree with is cutting funding to USPS. Europe and Canada (nor anyone not specially exempted) should not enjoy advantage in trade. People were beside themselves over rumors of Russian snipers, this guy was directly responsible for troop deaths and much more instability in the ME. We’ve just seen peace agreements begin to bear fruit in the ME —would that have been possible with that guy stirring up hornets’s nests?
> Uber and Lyft commissioned their own study from Cornell University showing that the typical driver earned $23 per hour in Seattle after expenses.

> Kevin Schofield of SCC Insight analyzed both studies last month and found that they “skew their analysis and recommendations in the direction that favors the one who commissioned their study.”

This is such a blatantly bad framing of the article they cite:

https://sccinsight.com/2020/07/21/the-war-heats-up-over-seat...

The skew in question is around Parrot & Reich's study, which prioritizes full-time drivers (and doesn't include tips, if I read correctly), vs. the Cornell study with Uber/Lyft which includes all drivers and includes tips.
Is it more than just an ePub reader? You really feel it’s justified to spin-up an electorn app (!!!) to read an ePub? I use Emacs’ nov.el or Foliate which are not only low on resources but also instantaneous to open files.
I would say a system that can't effectively delete also scales poorly. No?
"Firefox needs to battle Internet Explorer and Opera. Both come pre-installed in Windows and Macintosh and Blackberry. Counting on Firefox to just be better to win against these two is naive at best."

~ someone similar to randoramax circa 2003-2004.

Worth noting that Firefox has won this battle before, and paved the way for Chrome/WebKit/Edge while doing so.
I see Zachrtonics games as just the fun part of programming. Programming, but you don't need to mess with build files, tooling, unit testing, deployment, maintenance, customers, PMs, etc... It's just the puzzle solving part of programming, which is my favorite part of programming.
In no particular order.

1) Trump is very much not of fan of the sorts of shadowy warrant-less surveillance that snowed exposed (because he feels it was used against him) so this could be a dig at that apparatus.

2) Obama didn't pardon him despite doing so being far more popular on the left than right (at least up until present, no telling what will happen going forward) and this could force Biden in a tricky situation especially with the current public opinion situation

3) Snowden is controversial on the right (the anti-government crowd loves him) so this might be a move to strengthen his appearance among the fraction of the party who are alarmed by his authoritarian tendencies (cue joke about an NY Democrat in Republican's clothing).

4) His advisors who are paid to think about this stuff 40+hr a week have thought of something I haven't.
Videos? I guess for some applications. Either way, the giant HTML file is nasty, yes, but the epub would be the same size [1]. It would be harder to process, though, because even XHTML has a nesting structure that doesn't lend itself to decomposition easily.

For the most part ebooks are reflowable, so pagination only matters in the sense of manual page breaks, and HTML has to be extended to handle that even for epub. Similarly on-page footnotes (<aside> in iBook epub and <a href><sup> for Kindle) need to be handled now in HTML extensions.

Tables of contents and indexing content is a little harder, but if the format were well-defined (something like <chapter> tags, or just using <h1> as semantic tags) then it would be easy to generate as well. Or it could just be done using a bunch of <a href> in an explicit TOC -- easy enough for a compiler to handle.

Metadata is in theory more difficult, for things like author, etc., but defining tags in the <head> of the document would be just as easy as the manifest definitions that readers have to deal with now.

[1] gzipping random data base64 encoded is ~3% increase in file size.
Mozilla just exists so that Google can lie about there "existing competition" on the browser market.
The virus doesn't spread at a constant rate just because people exist.

An infected person comes into contact with other people to a sufficient degree to transmit the virus. Those people, in turn come into contact still other people to a sufficient degree to transmit the virus to them, etc.

At a school, groups of students form, both officially (e.g., in classes) and unofficially (socially), often in ways that are friendly for transmitting the virus. Then groups reform (students go to their next class, or meet with another group of friends or attend another activity), then reform again... and again... and again, etc.

Of course, this doesn't entirely go away when students are off campus. But the transmission vectors are so much smaller -- classes and groups for. other organizations don't occur; social groups tend to be smaller, more stable and with less overlap into other groups.
You describe the role of a contractor here, not an employee. The tools that I need, like a computer, an IDE, an Internet Connection, Software Licenses, and reference documents, should all be provided by the employer.
By comparison, employers routinely pay for MSDN.
Apple has a far worse record than Google. Not sure you did yourself or capitalism any favors.
Although, depending on the era, sourcing all the identical ingredients may be impossible, or nearly so, due to "culinary extinction."

Lenore Newman's recent book, "Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food," explores the foods lost to the world.

In late 2019, the Gastropod podcast ran an episode with Newman and the "Ghost Foods."

https://gastropod.com/of-ghost-foods-and-culinary-extinction...

Also, it has become very hard to find things such as true buttermilk or real heavy cream that hasn't been ultra-pasteurized, etc.
Open source versus closed source is not something a business cares about, but it's something employees care about. The price isn't terribly relevant either, nobody is exactly pinching pennies - my business trip per diem is higher than the donation cost above!

But spend has to be justified. There needs to be a paid version with at least one functional change for a business to be able to sponsor it.

We can bullshit all day to finance about it being a "business need" for... I don't know, dark mode, or for the table to list IE6, or a breakdown by country, or something that most users won't miss. But it has to be present, so we can make the case. It can't be a donation, it can't be optional, and we need to get something out of it. That's the only way to get businesses to pay for open source.
I like the app and see promise. One challenge for me is that I am used to seeing dates in the month/day format rather than the day/month format. When I see 10.08 I think it is October. Could this be customizable?
It's the main idea
Try starting a business without any personal connections and watch it fail over and over again while customers keep telling you how much they like your product but you just can't compete with corporations financially.
If corporations were on a level playing field with everyone else and they did not have a financial advantage in terms of having front row access to cheap money printed by the Fed, or their business didn't revolve around constantly trying to destroy small business competitors, I would have agreed that it would not be such a huge dilemma.
> an electric car is actually going to last at least 3x that of an ICE car assuming all other components (motors, body, powertrain) is also improved

That's an absurd assumption. Why would you assume an electric car will improve the lifespan of the body by 3x? Why would non-EV's not also improve the lifespan of the body by 3x?

> Brakes already last longer whereas because total no of components in EV is much lower (literally like 10x less moving parts)

How are the number of components in an EV related to how long the brakes last? There's no connection. In fact, brakes in an EV have _more_ moving parts than most non-EV's because they are regenerative whereas most non-EV's are not.

> You need to educate yourself

Pot, meet kettle. Here's a hint: reading popsci on the crapper is not educating yourself.
Machines can spot mental health issues–if you hand over your personal data
It's a fair enough point.
However, I think that the truth is that intrinsically you can't find a player with enough resources and weight to throw around and force the issue, who isn't also a self-interested money-hungry corporate bully when the occasion suits them.

The app store is a two way street. For most developers, apple can hide behind "no one's forcing you to be on our app store". And they are right, apple doesn't have a monopoly, but they have a lot of users, and what they really have is a lot of users who spend money on their platform. They have the customers you want.

But there is the flip side, which is that apple needs apps to be in the store, and sometimes needs specific ones. For most companies, apple doesn't need your app. The only parties that stand a chance at making waves are those who do control apps apple can't do without, e.g. "what do you mean I can't get Fortnite on my iPhone?"

No one in the situation is gonna be perfect, because at the end of the day, this is a fight for who provides what value and should get what money. It's sort of a Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla situation.
>if that fails we might be down to chrome + safari

Safari isn't available on Windows, and Google doesn't want a situation where they are the only significant browser on the most popular desktop operating system. Google is scared of antitrust action, getting another monopoly is the last thing they want.
I wonder how many web developers in this thread, many who are quite certain how things should be run, have ever actually contributed articles to MDN...

Everyone is an armchair director, very few actually contribute to such projects.
> It was like losing a limb or two, and suddenly realising all your friends ever do is climb.

While I don't entirely agree with your comment (and certainly didn't downvote it), I did enjoy the double(?) metaphor here.