skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google and Facebook both have incentives to turn "browsing the web generally" into "interacting with their properties specifically", so that they can capture your eyeballs. They both continually extend into areas that seek to replace large swathes of the web with interactions within their walled gardens, so that they can then monetize those interactions.

(Amazon has this incentive too, but they're just kind of incompetent at the execution, so people don't worry as much about them. See: the Kindle Fire tablet.)

Meanwhile, Microsoft doesn't currently own any property that operates by trying to replace "eyeballs on the web generally" with "eyeballs on that property specifically" to then sell those eyeballs to advertisers. They have Bing, Cortana, GitHub, Skype, maybe TikTok soon. None of those things will really change that stance. They're not "against" the web.

Apple is in the middle on this spectrum. Apple doesn't make money off web eyeballs, but they do make money off native app eyeballs (iAds), and also off native-app sales generally. So they're motivated-enough in providing a decent web experience to be the main sponsors of the WebKit FOSS project; but they're also motivated to create APIs that allow their third-party devs to replace web experiences with native app experiences.
HBO Max Adds “Proper Social Context” Intro to 'Blazing Saddles'
> 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.

You can't do effective per-user encryption on columns the database software needs to read (things you'll query or join on), but the database rarely needs message/post content and image content (often not even stored in the database). So encrypting those could be privacy helpful, if you can make the per-user encrypted store better at deletes than in general.

For person to person messages, if you have a separate record for the sender and the receiver, you can do some per-user transformation on the other correspondent, but that might be indexed, so data without keys would still show messaging patterns.
It would help if you defined exactly what type of issues you experienced. Packet loss? Early RSTs? Latency? Single AZ or cross AZ? Same for VPCs or NAT'd internet traffic?

You should take some tcpdumps and open a support case.
It would be cool if MDN had a Stack Overflow question-and-answer style format alongside the main offering. Then Mozilla could take advantage of the gamification model where users earn badges and awards for their efforts.

Jeff Atwood said it once: `If you put a number next to someone's name, then that person will try everything to increase that number`. Also: it would look good on CVs and would be a good heuristic to determine if a person's really fit for a position.
Food has a value on its own to a vast number of people. I would argue there are far more cooks than baseball fans.
"in the making"? No, in the now. It doesn't matter if half the people pushing all this are just bored teenagers in it for the lulz. Even if that's the case, they're feeding into the genuine delusional and often dangerous behavior of a few who seriously believe in it. They're also feeding enough garbage into public discussions that real content is obscured, much like jamming a radio signal with noise. Especially with an election coming up, QAnon is already a security threat.
How do I donate my dollar with that goal in mind? As my goals are not really aligned with Mozilla as a whole.

Seems like you want control over the project, not to just be donating? At that point it appears one of your main solution would be to start a project like MDN that you can have such control over.
> Playing a single player video game is unlikely to help you build relationships with others

I disagree. I have fond memories of discussing Zelda on the playground as a kid. Similarly, online communities are formed around basically every notable single player game. It's still a shared experience, even if it's not shared at the same moment.
It seems reasonable to reject the patch for technical and legal reasons, but it's pretty disappointing to see toxic comments from prominent kernel developers like:

> "Seriously? If you only even considered this is something reasonable to do you should not be anywhere near Linux kernel development. Just go away!"

https://lwn.net/ml/netdev/20200727073509.GB3917@lst.de/
https://lwn.net/ml/netdev/20200728064706.GA21377@lst.de/
Now it is just a matter of time before Apple and other manufactures will implement a 'fake PIN' just like Truecrypt/Veracrypt backup password feature: A void unused phone profile with a separate data store. Looks legit, but keeps the actual interesting data locked away.
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From the comments:

> Isn’t us-east-1 exactly that?

We've come full circle
I disagree completely. Some people are just inhumanly capable of balancing everything. One of the smartest people I met while in school was in a sorority and partied hard. She was also extremely successful academically and is currently attending medical school.

She’s the exception that proves the rule. I met at least half a dozen people in first year who partied only moderately and have since flunked out of the school. They’ve moved to other schools with less demanding programs and tried to put their lives back together.

I also met someone who studied for an entire term to pass the MCAT and got into medical school. She seemed like the type of person who really knew how to balance her life though. Not a crazy partier but someone with close friendships.
This is very, very sad. It is an extreme example of how when society moves away from in person communication it becomes meaner. When you remove the in person element people start acting much worse to each other.
Conan Visits Intel's Headquarters (2007) [video]
I forgot to mention in my comment, if you hold shift when putting something down, it will ghost it. So you can have 1 of every item you need, no need for a personal robot port, and they will ghost it. The great thing about letting bots build is if you don't have all the materials they will drop it as it comes into the logistics network!

Edit: fixed a typo
One reason I love Apple devices is that I can hand one to my parents and they have a very low chance of screwing it up.

All that goes out the window when you introduce a third party app that can do whatever it wants to system settings.

This is an honest question, why do you choose to use an Apple device instead of one that’s more open like Android?
Yeah, in the real world nationalizing AWS would have the same effect as just tearing it down. Which is the opposite of what you want if you actually think of it as an essential service.
Privacy concerns maybe?
There are NGOs that don't take public stances, you just have to look out for them (depends on your country as well I guess?). It's fine if you want to accept everyone is corrupt and will have hidden causes ("that's naive") but I don't and other people share this.

>Or do you want them to share your political alignment, and in that way be non-controversial?

Please stop these kind of assumptions - it just feels childish. I don't want political stances of any kind from an organization that's getting my money to make a specific thing better.

If I was to donate to MDN to make docs better, I don't want stances on far-right or far-left. I want my money to be used to produce better documentation, period.
I think you make something of point. I feel a lot of conservative causes are a kind of degeneration of morals to an imaginary ideal supposedly of the past but that never really existed. I don't eat at Chik Fil A because of their degenerate views of people, for instance.
How does "paying market value" become "salaries are unlimited"?
> I find I Love MDN demeaning to technical writers. It reminds me of breaking into spontaneous applause for our courageous health workers instead of funding them properly so they can do their jobs.

Not surprising this is prevalent. This sort of ‘artificial positive feedback and positive thinking helps solves problems’ was rampant in schools.

Not to mention social media significantly selects for performative behaviour over tangible and measurable support.
It's irrelevant to me whether or not it's an electron app. I'm not running a Pentium 486 system. I've got more RAM than I know what to do with...I'll run a half-dozen instances of Thorium if I wanted to...no worries.
Absolutely. The material interests of the shareholders ultimately drive the decisions that these companies make. If you invest in them, you are complicit.
I'd wish for a CPC Next.
> I wouldn't be too quick to point to Covid as evidence of anything, yet.

It's evidence of something. The US covid response is a distinct, notable, and quite frankly disastrous outlier in the industrial world. No one handled this as badly as we did, objectively.

Shouldn't we be looking for an explanation for that? And maybe taking lessons that might hold for other things we're doing badly?
In one example:

One of the things in martial arts is to use footwork to control space, and the possibility space in which someone can move or respond.

There is a similar thing with Go, changing direction of play, or reducing potential eyes, etc.

Those two are adversarial examples. The latter two don’t have to be.

With language platforms, the chosen semantics and primitives for library code defines a possibility space. It can be created in a way to encourage or discourage best practices when other people use it.

In gardening, we are really talking about an ecology. In a simple example, you are taking into account the path the sun takes and the vertical space a plant takes (canopy layers), which can encourage or discourage growth. Add things like companion planting, water cycle, carbon cycle, ecological succession, crop rotation, succession planting, integrated pest management etc. it is more about shaping the possibility space of the site.
These threads appear to be driven by indignation as much as anything I’ve read on reddit, hence my confusion.
After the first Gulf War, the attempted embargo on oil from Iraq led to a limited market in which oil was priced in Euros. That was bad for the US.

An attempt to cut China off from the USD international payments system will lead to a parallel system denominated in some other currency, possibly Remnimbi. That will be bad for the US too.

Not for nothing they call Afghanistan the Graveyard of Empires.
Exactly.... Making bad games and then making money off said bad games is just bad for everyone.
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Google results are very aggressively targeted to where it thinks you're located. It makes it difficult to find globally notable results when Google just returns weird local results from my current city.
That's exactly what any CEO or "Downsizing Consultant" would say. That may be an OK situation for a corporate company, but for a non-profit foundation like Mozilla, its unhealthy and rings some disaster bells.
I like both. Factorio certainly has a lot more depth to it, but Mindustry feels more streamlined. Less focus on the minutia of optimizing the factory and logistics, and more on getting everything set up as quickly as possible so you don't get overwhelmed by waves of enemies.

For Factorio players, here are the biggest differences:

1. No inventory. All structures get automatically crafted as they are built and the resources taken from your central storage core.

2. No inserters. Structures that output resources output them directly into adjacent belts or other structures. This simplifies construction and can allow for amazingly compact designs if you put sufficient thought into them, but can also lead to accidentally mixing the wrong items into your belts and clogging up your production lines if you're not careful.

3. You have blueprints and the equivalent of construction bots right from the start of the game. In singleplayer, it is normal and expected that players will pause the game, queue up a bunch of things to be built, then unpause and let their ship handle the construction automatically.

4. Belts are streamlined and much faster work with. 1 lane per belt, and the UI for constructing belts includes a pathfinding algorithm allows you to easily construct a belt between two points in seconds provided you have enough resources on-hand. Crossing two belts automatically creates an intersection so resources don't mix.

5. More focus on combat. Lots of different turret options, each with their own specializations, logistical requirements, and types of enemies they are good against. The PVP and attack modes are also quite fun.

6. More arcadey. Unlike with Factorio, you aren't expected to keep growing and expanding your factory forever. There is limited space and sooner or later you're either going get overwhelmed, or retreat back into space with the resources you collected. You can finish most stages in an hour or two.
Bingo! Its the same as saying we take your username and password and let you login. Do you or do you not? Its a boolean feature that either does or doesn't do what you say it does. Deletion can be complicated and if it is provide that indication to your users. Software is about setting the correct expectations, otherwise we leave users to interpret written language which we all know leaves room for misinterpretation due to all sorts of complexities with the way humans communicate with one another.
I've considered Montana a few times, but flights are such a pain. I'm at a regional airport that only flies to Seattle currently and it's annoying as heck. Montana seems worse, almost no direct flights to anywhere I go frequently.
After dealing with many legacy projects from "creative" developers, I don't think standardizing on some basic practices would be a bad thing
Satisfactory scratches the same itches, but it's a less deep game than Factorio. That's not a bad thing (Rimworld vs. Dwarf Fortress comes to mind), but personally the transition to 3-D didn't do much for me, and the reduced complexity of production layouts in Satisfactory made it less interesting for me.
Ah ok, cool yeah I think we're in total agreement then. No doubt you are absolutely right, the word container is used commonly to mean all sorts of things that aren't technically related to the technology we call containers :-)

I do think a lot of enterprise marketing and startup product pitching has made this problem so much worse. I see this a lot with Red Hat customers (and Red Hat employees too for that matter). "Containers" are painted as this great solution and the new correct way of doing things, even though much of what is being sold isn't tied to the technical implementation of containers. There indeed isn't a good marketing-worthy buzzword to describe immutable infrastructure/12-factor app and all that at a high level.
Here is a good demo of a streaming qr solution. Not ours but a good demo of the concept.

https://youtu.be/_0djJ1aVEXs

We use a similar method for offline wallet transfers of private crypto keys. I’ll note a couple things. Keep the frame simple and not too dense. Be careful on ecc settings. Higher res camera androids to be slower in our testing. Be ready to loop the series to catch missed frames. Gives your frames and order context. If it’s really sensitive dat, encrypt it before encoding you QR. assume the video can be stolen from a camera. Inject noisy frames To help obfuscate.
"Black" is not just Africa. It also encompasses many Caribbean nations, and probably some others that escape my mind at the moment.

Also, portions of Africa have white populations. South Africa, for example. And North Africa is Arab.

Ethnicity ≠ geography.
How MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
There would be many more people with personal experience of death of loved ones young and old and I think that would mean less deniers.
Demise of US is overrated. The Geographic, Demographic, Intellectual advantages of America are not easily replicable. Add to the mix Shale/Energy Independence and brining back reasonable amount of supply chain back to North America.

China does not stand a chance. Look at their BRI track record. Every ally of US during Cold war benefitted economically and places like ROK literally moved out of Poverty to become developed countries.

China has 19 neighbors and adversarial relationship with almost all of them. The disadvantages of Chinese economic system and demographic imbalance are not visible from distance. Their energy has to pass through two choke points and their main commodity exporter is a ally of US.

edited: changed vassal to ally.. but poor Australia does not have much choice. It has to be Tonto for the global maritime power.
It would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the suitable mine sites in the country, but I shouldn't be surprised if several hundred thousand of our people could be accommodated. Every nation would undoubtedly follow suit.
- We don't have this. But we have been thinking about a more dedicated recording "mode". However, because we're in the browser we have some limits on what you could annotate. Inside of Tella would probably be fine, but outside of Tella would be tricky (e.g. you're recording another window).

- We support exporting to mp4. So you'll get version of the video that you can distribute (beyond just sharing the link to Tella). We don't have plans on a slides-only export though.

- We use ReasonML, Mux (for video), and Roomservice.dev (for the real-time component).

Thanks for the kind words!
The root domain is highlighted in FF. This must be enough for visual testing.

If you want a more reliable approach then you need to work with a whitelist and clear warnings.
Litmus SDK: DevTest your chaos experiments with Okteto
When I interview people I focus on those things you mentioned and so don’t bother trying to quiz them on anything domain specific to their past experience or our future expectations for them.
My cousin is in this situation. It's a lot like payday loans. She knows she's losing money on driving Uber, but it pays the bills today. When her car breaks down, she won't be able to afford it without taking a payday loan. When she needs a new car, she's just gonna be fucked out of the industry. Ultimately, she's probably gonna fall back on my mom and a friend or two; she's already reliant on government assistance and church handouts but that can only go so far as cost of living keeps ratcheting and income doesn't follow it.
> I can have no job or health insurance, and I can obtain treatment at the hospital.

For emergency care, yes. Not for an MRI or a hip replacement or dialysis or physical therapy or cancer treatments or prostheses or cataract surgery or...

This is this weird myth that won't die. It's absolutely true that emergency rooms are universally required to treat anyone who walks in the door. It's also true that ER care makes up something like 3% of US health care delivered.
Epic’s argument is that it should be allowed to operate a profit making storefront on the iPhone.

Firstly, they have done absolutely zero of the work needed to make the platform into the giant international success that it is.

And secondly - they are complaining about making insufficient profits from FortNite, which is an addictive video game which makes its money from selling in-game currency to children.

When we compare the value that Apple has added to the world by building the App Store ecosystem, to the value that these in-game purchases are adding to the world, and for which they are claiming they should be able to profit more from, it’s hard to make the case that Epic is somehow being deprived of some just reward for their contribution.

I don’t think it’s wrong for Epic to be able to do business the way they do.

But clearly there is no moral case to be made for the claim that Epic has better business practices than Apple or they they are some kind of victim here.

It took more than a decade for the iPhone to get to where it has - longer if you consider the iPod as the foundation of the success the iPhone continued.

Given the giant inflows of cash they are receiving there is no reason why Epic couldn’t start building their own platform.

Console makers have proven that this is a profitable business, and we are about to see a wave of think client devices that play streaming games. Apple is clearly vulnerable to disruption in the gaming space.

If Epic wants a platform, they can build one, and it will take a similar amount of work to what it took Apple.
The provider of standards around the web is ostensibly the w3c, in reality whatwg or Google. Any of these three would be good candidates to run something like mdn. However that would probably make mdn more political and opinionated.
One question about the Next. How flexible is the hardware in being able to support emulation of other machines? Would it be possible to reprogram the FPGA to emulate say a C64?
What absolute nonsense, Servo was the most important thing Mozilla was doing. If Mozilla isn’t making the most promising and competitive investments in its browser (e.g. parallel layout) what is it for? The Quantum project, which is tied to Servo, is the only reason Firefox is still competitive.
The article specifically states this data was downloaded using the "Download Your Information tool on Instagram". The undeleted data wasn't from a cold backup or any backup, it was still on production systems.
I think I understand the sentiment behind this post. But a few things give me pause:

> Are you willing to pay 50-100 euros/dollars per year to keep MDN afloat?

I've seen some open-source authors/contributors successfully raise enough money, after they'd pledged to work on their project full-time. So the problem might not necessarily be to raise. But money has this uncanny ability to shift a project's focus. What happens when you raise more money than you actually need for the next 3 years (considering the scope of the project)? Will the project just mention that it doesn't need to raise more and just proceed to do what it's supposed to do? All the while spending and raising sensibly? Or will it find novel and creative ways to spend all this extra cash?

> The problem with expecting volunteers to do this sort of work is that they burn out.

Should we assume that once someone gets a salary they're somehow more resilient to burnout? I'd think that the burnout would be due to a volunteer biting much more than they should. So couldn't this also be an issue of work management and allocation?

> The passionate community has nothing to do with anything, unless they’re willing to pay. A profoundly unscientific poll indicates that only about two-thirds of my responding followers are willing to do so.

Is paying the only way to have helpful resources? I mean, we have the Wikipedia and StackExchange models that seem to provide decent value, even if not on par with MDN's standard. Would it be possible to have a model for MDN that meets somewhere in the middle, such as community contributed contents, moderated, reviewed, and edited by both community and full-time, knowledgeable, and paid staff? Unless I'm mistaken, I think the Linux kernel also follows something similar.