skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It breaks my heart to say this, but I agree completely on the 'shitshow'.

I've been using FF as my main driver for over ten years, and on mobile every second I've been able to.

I fail to come up with a thing they didn't ruin with this new "revamp everything".

- The home page is worse

- THEY BROKE THE BACK BUTTON.Like seriously, you could get your tab's history and jump back more than one page. Now the long-press does nothing

- Oh, breaking the back button doesn't end there. Previously you could close your current tab with Back, and FF would either close the tab or go to the FF start screen. Now, all the tabs are left open, and I have to go manually to my tabs list and close them one by one. Why?

- probably something else. Or maybe I'm just too angry at my Ol' reliable workhorse so suddenly cheating on me :(

Edit:

- It's also slower than ever, I've never had any qualms about FF for Androids speed until now.
Very true. Now if only my wife would let us move to a lower cost area, then I might be able to retire from my soul sucking job a lot earlier...
There are certain things that freak me out in IAC, like loosing a primary DB or secrets. I want IAC to create them, wire things together and index them, but the idea of an accidental mis-configuration deleting a production database gives me heartburn.
This doesn't work that well in practice:

- Humans can lie

- Human memory is too fallible to serve as this verification, particularly for every detail

- Small details with big impact can be changed in a verified speech without some people noticing

Of course if someone reliable records the actual speech, any copy can be checked against that. I'm not sure why human memory would be considered superior, as humans have poor memories and can lie.
That's not the server's problem. As the server, they should not be inconvenienced for a problem caused by someone else. The users (which includes the bots) should pay the price.
In the case of Armstrong Woods historic Redwood grove here in Sonoma County, CA - currently threatended by Walbridge fire [1]:

From a fuel standpoint, the entire area around the redwoods used to be managed by logging companies and private industry - they even staffed the fire towers. Since that time, private and conservation owners have bought up the land around the area, but pretty much have done nothing to manage fuels, right now that is all burning for the first time in 50+ years.

The failure of those parcels to properly manage fuels on their property probably led to the threat to the redwood groves in this case. For this area in general, the NIMBY attitude has largely precluded controlled burning on the scale it used to be conducted at.

1 - https://napsg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?i...
Usually release notes exhibit the state and changes of the software, not the workings and changes of the maintainers. What were you expecting, something like this?

New:

- Firefox can now be set as the default system PDF viewer.

- Laid off about 70 employees.

Fixed:

- Various security fixes.
> If so, why don't they loudly advertise the data collection and do it only with opt-in?

But they do.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yg70ojfWXnk
Me too, I like the print preview in Chrome.
Fair enough. It certainly depends on how much interest you're paying and what your tax situation looks like.
The issue here isn't that one side was correct, or one side was wrong. The issue here is that both sides talking points were barely even touched the actual results. You're right, "hcq works" was independent of the scientific work done then. However, "HCQ doesn't work" was the same. The reason we had those studies in the first place is because preliminary work showed some promise, and researchers decided to dig in to confirm this. What many people don't know is that the biomedical scientific process is fraught with false starts and failures to replicate. The results are subsequently slow.

At that time, the only responsible answer, and the answer that any biomedical scientist with integrity would give is: "Early results show X, though further follow up studies would be needed to replicate these results to confirm their validity"

But that's not what we got. What we got was a binary split between miracle cure and worse than homeopathy, depending on which side of the political divide you were on.
Yes, here is data on extreme poverty (this data is from 1981-present) - https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

In regard to the masks, examples exist and the world isn't perfect. No doubt it will be a business school case study for decades to come.

As far as personal anecdotes (because seeing numbers and seeing it with your own eyes are not the same), I have been traveling for more than three decades to developing countries and have seen the changes, the access to medicine, clothing, school supplies, food availability. From the developed world, we would still call these people poor, but the quality of life for the same class of people over a few decades has changed dramatically.

> Can that be done differently? A country can have a small amount of domestic production, to keep knowledge and tech available in the country. Whilst importing most things from abroad, because of the benefits you mention with global trade. — Then you get both stability in case of crisis, and global trade efficiency? And more local jobs

Just run through the thought experiment. It can be done, but that small amount of domestic production needs to find either subsidy or a customer that must have things made domestically (like maybe a government). Subsidy means the taxes you and I are paid are allocated to create sub-efficient industry. Domestic production needs, while real for purposes of national security etc, are tricky. We have seen in recent years Trump (his predecessor too), using executive power to force things to happen on the basis of national security. Some are fine with it, other call it abuse of power. My point is just, it is messy.
Salesforce QuickBooks Integration
Native salesforce app for QuickBooks Online integration
Will this filter down to MS Edge eventually?
TSMC is is only going to give Intel unused capacity, essentially lowest priority for a few reasons. 1. Intel will drop TSMC the moment their fabs start working as expected - so you don't want to depend on Intel orders at all. High margin orders one quarter that are gone the next will not help TSMC's business long term. 2. TSMC has enough demand from other companies - they even turned down NVIDIA for most of their GPUs 3. A weaker Intel allows TSMC to command higher margins long term. helping keep Intel while it's still a massive competitor makes no strategic sense.
Presumably title is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Little_Whorehouse_in_...
And I agree, but isn't that a strong indictment of medical ethics? If medical ethicists would rather let a fire burn out of control than risk the lives of firefighters to put it out, they're not optimizing for the right thing.
More like, “that pertains to a given generation”
Can you use a module compiled for Linux anywhere but a Linux host?

The ZFS source code probably isn't a derived work, but the compiled module might be.
I just which chrome would finally implement CORS correctly.

The main compatibility problem between FF and chrome I run into is that chrome doesn't completely enforces CORS allowing some requests it should not if it would be standard conform and sites only testing it on chrome.
This isn't about delegating choices to Apple because without gatekeepers actually being able to enforce behavior users have no advocates and get stuck with software that toes the line of being just tolerable enough to use.

Vote with your wallets doesn't really work since people will put up with plenty of abuses for software that's useful enough to them. Vote with politics doesn't really work either because regulators are very hesitant to regulate tech and kill the cash cow.

People, like me, are so fiercely loyal to Apple because seemingly no other company has been able to strongarm developers into not being shitty to their users.
That doesn't happen for me on Mac. Maybe it's an OS-specific bug?
None of those require NGS, though- they can all be implemented using far cheaper methods.
WorldRemit to Acquire Sendwave in $500M Payments Deal
WorldRemit Ltd., a U.K. online money transfer company, has agreed to buy Africa-focused, app-based remittance firm Sendwave.
DroidDrive is another good app, needs root though
I started building something along this line a few years ago. the ability to control AWS VM and treat them as pods (i.e. can backend a service, access other services) to have a hybrid (VM / Container) infrastucture that is all managed in the kubernetes way. Future work would have been to try and manage other resources similarly.

Sadly startup interest changed and then went under (but the freedom I was given to explore there was the best experience I have ever had)

https://github.com/apporbit/infranetes
I imagine owning antiques would be a lot more popular nowadays if membership in the upper-middleclass didn't require you to become a root-less locust that drifts from major city to major city.
Seems like it was removed around 4 years ago.

If that's true, it's just further proof that once people learn something, they never think to check if it's still true later. This entire industry churns over and over so quickly. To me, it's borderline negligence in public forums like this one to make statements which could no longer be true without a quick verification that they are still true, especially for particularly egregious statements, because of the scaling factor.

The 1000 people reading the comments can do the checking, or the one person making the statement can do the checking. To me, it's a moral failure to get one person's jimmies in a rustle over something that isn't true anymore, nevermind 1000 people.
There's a lot of demand for equities right now due to the low rates and more pessimistic outlook on other securities. I think that can help drive up the amount they can raise.
High speed rocks.
Think about using the takeout service to archive a copy of these a couple times of year. Doesn't take too much space. I have 53000 files currently occupying 132Gig of space.

I run a docker image on one of my local servers that does a sync of anything new in Google Photos each time it is run. Gives me added peace of mind.
How else will we get around laws against domestic spying?
Hi I'm a developer advocate in the AWS Container organization. This question of how to handle resource destruction is an active issue on the project, and we'd welcome your comments (or those of anyone else) on this Github issue: https://github.com/aws/aws-controllers-k8s/issues/82

Our goal is to make this project have "no surprises" and therefore no unexpected destruction of resources. The specifics of how we mark resource as safe to delete instead of retaining by default are under discussion on that Github issue.
That style has its uses for sure. For example if you want to impress people or signal belonging to certain groups. It's also risky to state something in a crystal clear way, because you can be disproved and your status is diminished. As long as you write in long sentences and a confusing academic style, you can feel safe in your lukewarm puddle and enjoy your high status and sneer at the plebs. It's a sign of insecurity and inferiority complex.

If you actually have substance to say and feel confident about it, then chunk it up. Clear writing needs courage and is a weapon in itself against the entrenched lazy elites. A slingshot of David against Goliath. While unclear writing is a middle finger towards the public.

Also, I disagree that Shakespeare is as obscure and hard to read as your comment would suggest. He is just from a different era but was quite a down-to-earth fellow, not some stuck-up obscurantist.
Facebook Rebrands Oculus Research as “Facebook Reality Labs”
This reminds me of this classic comic.
https://www.catmuseumsf.org/images/print/comix/bill.jpg
I prefer to use a dot like you, but find calculations like "let x=5, then 3(1+x) = 3(1+5) = 3(6) = 18" acceptable, because each equation is just a lock substitution
Do cookie machines motivate people?
Apple is really bad at dealing with security researchers, and would rather figure out ways to silence them than prioritize fixing anything. For a more fleshed out argument about this, see this Twitter thread I posted last week (which starts out talking about Epic Games but quickly moves through the Corellium lawsuit to focus on this topic).

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1295024384596312064
It's horrible. Completely unusable on the tablet, requiring moving from one side of the screen entirely and switching tabs takes a bunch of taps now and is very awkward. Much faster though in general on the upside.
Being a "third space" was a core component of Starbucks' strategy. Now their locales have most, if not all, of the chairs removed and it will be interesting to see if people will migrate back.

I will confess that I set aside a particular afternoon a week to read in a corner of my local Starbucks, just as a way to get out of the house.
>The reason they don't have product-market fit is because they start with a solution and look for a problem.

I agree. Understanding the importance of solving the right problem i.e. the problem with enough need gap that people are willing to pay for getting it solved and of course the problem which we want ourselves to be solved played a huge role in me building successful products later on.

So, I'm building needgap[1] a problem validation platform where problems are the first class citizens. Posts are created by the consumers(incl. entrepreneurs) who have a problem, want to find a solution for their problem, check if others share the same problem, however small the problem might be[3]. Builders can post their products in the comments if it solves that particular problem or else discuss with others to create a product to solve that problem(There are couple of products built/being built for problems from needgap).

I'm not saying I've solved the issue of validating problems, far from it. I think I now have a direction towards understanding the 'language, grammar of problems and startup ideas' which might one day result in making validation easier.

[1]https://needgap.com
Same. DDG often requires 1-2 additional search terms to give it
enough context, but in return I get results that are actually
relevant instead of half a page full of pinterest links and
other spam content.
I thought PDF.js was the first implementation. Firefox added it in 2012.
Working in the Code Mines: Mining Software Repositories with PyDriller
I mean an interesting question and to your point is: how have wars been won in the past decades - or not been won.

To me it seems that almost all wars of the past decades transformed into: “irrespective of your weapon superiority - it will all cumulate into asymmetric partisan wars that drag on for years and cannot be won”.

In the end it almost feels like “whoever drops more ordinances on the civil population to irrevocably break their morale may come out as a winner a bit more”.

How can wars be realistically be won today?
If Epic can make phones more open first, and then later the government regulates loot and pay-to-win like gambling is already regulated, then isn't that a win for the public?
I am sick of 'communism is worse', it's a platitude that demonstrates poor understanding of economics.

Capitalism is not a singular thing, economic policy of the 30s, 60s and 2020s is very different. There are various schools of though: Shumpeterian, kensyan, neoliberal, austeian, etc. Lately neoliberal system has been dominant, and delivered remarcably poor results for most of us.
'Privacy LARPers are a tiny segment of the market, the average person doesn’t really care if their ‘usage of the highlighter function is tracked’'

Which is exactly why we have regulation that forbids these practices, to protect the gullible from themselves. Furthermore, do you think privacy should be the privilege of just those that are smart and keen enough to be aware and prepared to engage in a relentless and perpetual battle with the most dark of patterns with every click they make?
Did you mean to link to a different example, or different compiler flags?

The link you provide shows only one function, because LLVM has optimized both to be identical, and deduplicated them.

(If you disable the "Directives" filter, you can see a `.set example::clone_concrete, example::clone_abstract`, which aliases one to the other)
> Most of the world-famous libre software is built without their developers study of massively collected usage data ("telemetry").

The sort of telemetry mentioned in the article is used for UX purposes, and God knows FLOSS sucks at UX.

And by the way, Debian collects and reports telemetry since the early 2000s, and Firefox is quite open on how much telemetry it collects.
Did you include BTRFS in here just to mentioned all weak points of BTRFS and act like they also true for ZFS? Because that's not true at all.

> Maybe because in a virtualised environment, you loose many of the benefits of ZFS or BTRFS (they like to see the raw disk, not some abstract notation).

ZVOL exist...You can snapshot, close, send/recv it just like dataset. You can fine-tune it like any other dataset. ZVOL works just fine for VMs.

> Maybe because ZFS and BTRFS still have their bugs, small and big (hello RAID5 in BTRFS ;-) ) and can be heavily dependent on particular implementations.

Everything has bugs. Again, you put BTRFS here just to drive your point like if it's try BTRFS then it's true for ZFS?

> Maybe because BTRFS needs babysitting[1] (don't know about ZFS, I suspect it might).

Same as above.

> Maybe because the combination of XFS/ext4 plus LVM is more than good enough for most people as that route still provides snapshots etc.

Very different kind of snapshots...

I've been using ZFS on my desktop and laptops for over a decade now. You gotta make really kick-ass FS for me to switch off ZFS even for desktop.
Kindle devices have a dictionary on device. By looking into which words are most frequently defined, they can add these to the local dictionary to help improve the speed of the UI.
This seems to come up somewhat often as a frontend engineer system design interview question.
Per that analysis, there are massive differences vs the Microsoft case.

- safari is a minority marketshare browser and already existed when iOS was created; Windows already had its marketshare dominance before the browser was invented

- Portable music also pre-existed before iOS.

iPhone and Android were laughing stocks in 2008. To say these points are anticompetitive would require proving they achieved their marketshare by parlaying their existing dominance into a new market, and it’s not clear that happened, especially given the thriving of alternatives like Chrome, Spotify, Tidal, etc.

There is also a bunch of not-actually-anticompetitive points

- charging developers for use of the platform

- disallowing competitive tools

- controlling platform access altogether

All of the above would imply the game console makers like Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft have been anticompetitive for decades. It’s not likely.

The crux to me is if there is a “right to a market“ for otherwise vertically integrated components. Just beside their was a market in he past for those things, doesn’t mean they need to be enshrined in laws. It would be akin to declaring game platforms or mobile platforms as public utilities so that ISVs in other adjacent platform markets can legally force the extension of their business model on other ecosystems. It’s been done with

power generation/distribution,

alcohol brewing/distribution/sales, and

car manufacturing/sales/service.

But those had massive unintended consequences.

There is one area where there may be a clear legitimate issue: Abuse of private APIs. But it would have to be proven.
I'm probably from an older generation than you (GenX), but the wife and I have four kids and we decided a long time ago that we didn't want them to grow up in a museum where they weren't allowed to touch things, play with things, or to have accidents. In the near future when the (presumed) grandkids start coming over we will keep the same standard.

We also have the same furniture that we bought 20 years ago as we could afford it. It is all scratched, dented, frayed and worn. It has contributed itself to a lot of living, which is what we think possessions should do. We want to own our things, not the other way around.
HN is an interesting place. I often got the feeling that everyone here was working on the latest maxed out MB Pro but your comment made me realize I'm not the only one working with limited resources.
Alexis Gilliland explored similar ideas in more depth and with interesting politics alongside, in "Revolution from Rosinante" and two sequels. Recommended. (Available as an e-book.)
Maybe there can be some of the advantages of a system sent along. A multigenerational fleet with multiple ships, capable of trading among them, but also providing a degree of separation and differentiation. You could even try attaching some engines to asteroids and comets full of useful materials to send along side the fleet, ready to be used if the self sufficient systems fail, and for the colony when they finally arrive.
That looks useful, thanks for the heads up.
The user solves the puzzle by behaving like a human.
So this may be stupid but could you like tape some cloth over the valve to catch the droplets?
Are they getting bigger with respect to average system hard drive size? If anything, I suspect they are getting smaller.
Can anyone provide a viable open source or non-privacy invasive alternative that isn’t something I need to assemble myself?
Some of my highlights:

- "Irreparable Harm: The issue of irreparable harm focuses on the harm caused by not maintaining the status quo, as opposed to the separate and distinct element of a remedy under the likelihood of success factor. Here the court's evaluation is guided by the general notion that “self-inflicted wounds are not irreparable injury.”

- "While the Court anticipates experts will opine that Apple’s 30 percent take is anti-competitive, the Court doubts that an expert would suggest a zero percent alternative. Not even Epic Games gives away its products for free."

- "The Court further recognizes that during these coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) times, virtual escapes may assist in connecting people and providing a space that is otherwise unavailable. However, the showing is not sufficient to conclude that these considerations outweigh the general public interest in requiring private parties to adhere to their contractual agreements or in resolving business disputes through normal, albeit expedited, proceedings."

- "With respect to the Unreal Engine and the developer tools, the calculus changes. The record shows potential significant damage to both the Unreal Engine platform itself, and to the gaming industry generally, including on both third-party developers and gamers. The public context in which this injury arises differs significantly: not only has the underlying agreement not been breached, but the economy is in dire need of increasing avenues for creativity and innovation, not eliminating them. Epic Games and Apple are at liberty to litigate against each other, but their dispute should not create havoc to bystanders."
Audio and video evidence isn't admissible because it's audio or video (and may be inadmissible nonetheless). It's admissible because someone testifies under oath that they have personal knowledge of its provenance. The burden is on the party introducing the evidence to show that it's reliable, and the question of whether or not it is indeed reliable is a factual one for a judge or jury to answer. It's not assumed to be "true" or to accurately reflect reality just because it's a purported photo, video, or audio recording.
You could sue at that point.