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That claim comes from you, as a Google employee?

I didn't say that, and I would assume most HN readers understand I was moving from the specific concerns content blockers have with your 'WebBundles' proposal to commentary on the wider motivations of Google: that its business interests logically drive it to find ways to thwart content blockers which frustrate their ad-tech ecosystem.

A web architecture which does not allow content to be modified – one that results in websites being a 'black box' – is the ideal outcome for Google's ad-tech ecosystem.

I am hardly claiming any one initiative takes us straight there - that would be quite the poor strategic play from Google. But Google's changes to Chrome to frustrate content-blockers [1], through to AMP and now WebBundles paint a disturbing picture for independent observers.

For examples that might speak to the institutional strategies employed by Google, recall the claims from Johnathan Nightingale that Google systematically sabotaged Firefox over a decade [2].

Those claims are telling not just for the institutional analysis, but for the revelation of an honest mindset among Google engineers internally:

"I think our friends inside Google genuinely believed that. At the individual level, their engineers cared about most of the same things we did."

When I see the valid claims made of serious issues around AMP and WebBundles, and see honest, heartfelt responses from Google engineers that it's all fine and a beat-up, I can't help but think of Nightingale's observations.

"Hey everyone, it's all fine. We mean well. Don't worry - nothing to see here."

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/google-holds-firm-on-chrome-change...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
There aren't enough domestic grad students because word has trickled down that that is a slow road to the poor house.

Between age discrimination and collusion to keep programmer salaries down, the message has gone out that only the coolest and most well-connected nerds shall be allowed to make a good living.
Come to America, experience American police when you get a chance. My university's (an also-ran regional institution) police force got a million dollar's worth of military surplus!
This reminds me slightly of RBK's O-Stick.
Yes, it's a vastly bigger population now, mc32, and that's what is unsustainable. The vastly bigger population is still increasing at a rapid clip, but the forests and the oceans are not.
It's okay to be a hypocrit.

Just some be surprised when people call you out on it.

Doesn't necessarily make what you say or do invalid in and of itself.
It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of which specific politics you support or abhor. If you'd like to understand why, there are extensive past explanations at these links. (If you or anyone reads those explanations and still has a question that isn't answered there, I'd like to know what it is.)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

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If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended, we'd appreciate it.
Yeah, luckily in Europe the all cavity search hasn't (yet?) caught on as a ritual of the train station experience.
He's talking about the really powerful ones, the xul based ones. Not this farce we still have today. When addonpocalypse happened was the day Firefox started to die.
umatrix and privacy pass are two really big ones.
The issue isn't so much the existence of tests as it is the friction the uncertainty introduces to commerce. (Although in a post-collapse situation maintaining those tests does become an issue long term, I used gold tests for years and only barely know what's in them much less how to make the component acids.)
The difference is that in the US, while the common man's ability to influence the federal government is basically zero, their ability to influence state and local governments is much stronger. Much of California's social, economic and political landscape is a result of political activism over the past few decades (setting aside whether one agrees with those policies, my point is how they came about).

Which means that for things like amendments, people have alot more power than they do even over Congress.
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I'm not convinced the problems are larger (or, at least, not that they're larger for most people; some people are seriously inconvenience by Apple's policies. I once hit a hard roadblock trying to develop something for the iPhone and had to switch to Android exclusive development; so it goes). And I think having different organizations exploring different tradeoffs in this space is a valuable thing. There are platforms that are more open that Apples and platforms less open. That variety is healthy.
Not surprising imo. There are a lot of lidar companies that have come out and just like how self driving car teams/startups are almost required to be strapped with an OEM or big co (torc with mercedes, zoox with amazong for example), specialized lidar companies like Luminar and Ouster are pretty much on a straight path to a merger or acquisition.
then those merchants should use the widely popular 3d secure system, which lets you enter a pin. by using it, they are protected from reversals by the terms of service.

so a system that prevents them losing a gazillion dollars is available, and they opt to instead lose the gazillion dollars. it's their fault, and they should lose that money. we don't need to tell them anything -we just need to point and laugh.
By law, at least in the US, the maximum a consumer can be asked to pay when there's fraudulent credit card activity is $50.
So, I'm curious, what do you think would motivate a power company to let their infrastructure burn, along with the trees?
It’s hard to blame people for misunderstanding slogans that supposedly don’t mean what the plain meaning would suggest. Perhaps the young activists should say what they mean and mean what they say and then all those “older folks” might not miss the point.
This is why I remain a proponent of OP's original statement, "don't give governments the power to do it in the first place."

Humans will always always always descend into abuse of power. Always. We basically suck.
Personal attacks will get you banned on HN. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Shouldn't the security chip use it's own timer to make you wait longer and longer between failed attempts?
High energy electrons make their own current, no heat needed. But if you put it in a phone, the phone will be permanently warm.

Betting these will end up in pacemakers & telemetry only, but not for any legitimate reason.
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> "First the business world made excuses that remote work just wasn’t as productive as in person work, and then a pandemic forced an experiment that proved that assertion to be untrue."

Got anything to back that up? After being forced to switch to all remote, my organization is reporting various levels of productivity loss across all departments.
Why didn’t he click to wipe the device but keep it in lost mode? I could’ve sworn that was an option, and based on the attackers movements, they would have had to put the iPhone back on the internet at least for a couple minutes to get the Apple ID reset, which would’ve been enough time for the wipe command to process.
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Hey thanks for the heads up! It looks like it did go through somehow though - your account is confirmed so you're all set.
Smaller animals produce more heat per unit volume, and meat isn't a very efficient form of energy transfer, so you're probably better off filling the house with mice.
I cannot agree with you more.

The last thing I need from a dentist, and the first thing I will get from a dentist, is a lecture about what brought me in to the dentist.

I know why I need to go see a dentist. I don't need them to repeat back to me what I've been telling myself but with a flavoring of guilt-trip, I need to know how bad it is and what to do to move forward.
I Terraform Kubernetes Operator sounds like a better idea.
> frame could flex at rate of 15-20G for up to 2 seconds?

Current fighters wear out after so many flight hours. What puts the majority of these hours on is pilot training. With an AI commanded aircraft, there's little need to actually fly it, other than to demonstrate capability occasionally so that potential opponents see that you have a credible offense. So you build them to essentially be disposable - rather than design for a 10,000 hour lifetime, you design for a 500 hour (rather intense!) lifetime.
>The meta solution, of course, would be to eliminate the necessity of TLDs altogether.

Would you care to elaborate on this?

Say we have no TLDs - everyone is now sharing the same address space, every company now has to compete for domains (who gets the most desirable domains e.g. "shop" or "bank"? do bank.com and bank.net have equal claim over it (assuming they're seperate entities) or does one former TLD have precedence for existing domains? who arbitrates disputes?), there's no separation for government or educational services (anyone who wants to offer free services to people with an academic email address can no longer validate on e.g. .edu or .edu.tld addressing, you have to maintain a list of every educational institution), different countries are now competing for domains... it would be chaos.

The other option would be to have a public key thumbprint, similar to Tor, but then you have the problem of remembering the address - so you'd need something like DNS to convert memorable names to thumbprints, and then a means to find out what IP address holds what services and pubkeys...
I think a government controlled PKI authority, especially one that required real identity authentication, would possibly be the solution that would make the least number of people happy.
Maybe they think it's easier to remember so you won't write it down. Still a bad idea though
I'm an American and have only seen the police rioting. Defunding the police is the most reasonable option I have heard in my lifetime. Seems like the perfect solution, there is nothing bad to say about it, it's opponents are left to make up "widespread rioting".
mate, I appreciate your comments personally as I've done business in 3 continents over last 15+ years and I can agree where you are going with this.

But you're not going to convince anyone on a western forum about this. Obviously I'm generalising but the process people have is loosely:

failure to understand how other people (ie 1.4 billion) operate -> their laws don't work like ours -> their laws are unfair and therefore must be corrupt

Of course they don't abstract the principles upwards ie that an important part of modern sense of liberty is letting people run the system they want. They feel there's no contradiction with that and trying to impose their system on others and using their own system as the only yardstick because they're saving these heathens from eternal damnation.

Alao a lot of those arguments I see in this thread could be applied to many other countries, but everyone just wants to blame China.
Unfortunately, in my experience, cats are endothermic. Give a cat a heat source – a sunny patch, a heated blanket, or a warm belly – and they will cling to it until all the heat is absorbed out of it. Cats need heat sources to thrive, so they will be very unhappy if operated as a heat source.
When he came out with his book, I read it cover-to-cover in a night and so enjoyed it for the engaging narrative. I wish him all the best.
Here is a related previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24137127
> when used with their kepub format, which is not ideal

I recommend kepubify[1] as a dead-simple[2] converter.

[1]: https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

[2]: If you’re minimally comfortable with the command-line.
What do you have to convince you otherwise?
> they do burn

Yikes, I had caught the shattering risk and decided I'd pass on something built literally like the article said. But if these can burn... that takes it to "that externality needs to be fully mitigated before this is made widely available".
Anecdotally from seeing discussions online and interviews on the news (which to be fair has some sample bias that will emphasize more extreme beliefs), a non negligible number of people who say "Defund the police" believe that police should be abolished.
I've never thought to add the cinnamon and sugar, but I'm a big fan of the grilled version.
Funding a site by mind pollution, which is what push advertising is, is antisocial behaviour. The onus is on the site publisher to find an ethical source of revenue (just as with any business model). Putting up content on the web and funding that publishing are two different things. It's fine to be interested in and read the content while blocking an antisocial means of funding and that is not freeloading. It's protecting yourself from abuse.
It does[0]. Something is fishy about this story. Either the guy was targeted by someone who had a guess at the passcode for the device, or there’s some way that the Gray Key (which is only easily available to LEO and government agencies) can bypass the rate limiting (would a hard reset do the trick? I don’t think so, but I don’t hack iPhones. But the iPhone is disabled screen sticks whether or not the device is on).

0: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/passcodes-sec20230a...
Same with me. I jumped to Chrome as soon as it came out because FF was sluggish and pretty much impossible to use. Ironically Chrome was a memory hog although performance didn’t really suffer. When Quantum came out, I switched back to FF and never looked back. Nowadays FF is my primary browser and I use Safari as a secondary browser. Luckily I’ve never experienced the performance issues that come up every time that there is a thread about FF on HN (although I’m starting to suspect that my habit of keeping just a few tabs open might be the reason).
I read your newsletter. I didn't read as much of the other article.

Is it really unclear what the issue here is? The issue is that the OP was too promotional. Indeed your account history on HN has been, basically, entirely promotional. That's not really what the site is for. This is in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

On HN, the idea is for people to submit stories that they ran across and personally found intellectually interesting, not because they have something to promote. It's fine to post your own work occasionally, as long as it's interspersed with interesting posts from other sources. But if you only submit promotionally, it feels like you're not participating as a community member.

To be fair, the stuff you've submitted has been good, certainly not spam. But the newsletter thing was a step too far.
> From Poland, travellers have two options: travel through Belarus, which requires a transit visa one must apply for in person that takes days to process; or take the slightly longer but more sensible option, which is to continue north through the Baltic states and then continue east to Russia, which would add a day and some euro to your bill but would remove some of the hassle.

Actually the sensible option is to turn south and go through Ukraine - the overnight train to Kiev is pretty pleasant, and from there you have plenty of options to Moscow.
yeah, but it's mildly useful for people know that OP's comment isn't representative of readers, whereas it's not important that people know OP didn't like something because it was longform.
Many comments talk about training of the police.

there needs to be basic training for citizens as well.

To recognize when to listen to a police officer, how to identify if the officer steps out of line, what rights are afforded, etc.

This lecture from a law school professor was very enlightening to me : NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Would you mind elaborating? Are you not aware of the rioting, looting, and arson that has stricken many cities across America?
Well you can't just remove police and think everything is going to be okay.

The police abolitionist movement is calling for removing untrained, armed, and oftentimes extremely racist individuals from the streets and replacing them with social programs, housing, education, healthcare.

You can't just do 10% of the ask here and then be surprised when shit doesn't magically get better.
I mean, it's pretty hard to argue it isn't his property at this point.

And overall, he stole from the rich and is giving to the poor.
It looks very much like https://plaza.one - any relationship? just a similar entry in the vaporwave category, or is one an inspiration for the other?
PS: I like it!
> there needs to be basic training for citizens as well.

No.

> To recognize when to listen to a police officer, how to identify if the officer steps out of line, what rights are afforded, etc.

Sure, but no. The police have all the responsibility to de-escalate situations. If they're not doing that then they're the ones in the wrong.
Every thread critical of the chinese government ends up with whataboutism and unexplained voting.
Unexpectedly, snopes [1] has a good overview of the technology until 2017.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/radioactive-diamond-batter...
Or just a UUID.
Here's an article from the New York Times stating that defund actually means abolish. Do you consider them a conservative news outlet?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
Given what Microsoft did at the VB6 transition, anyone who stayed with Microsoft at that point was a fool.

This is simply an extension of that.
> The CEO at Luminar, Russell, is 25. At age 17 he received a Thiel fellowship to build out Luminar.

Does the Thiel fellowship mean he dropped out of College? I am not familiar with the founder but this feels odd and wrong to me given it's describing a (technical?)founder for a autonomous driving startup? Fully autonomous driving is a really hard technical problem and I believe you need a deep understanding of many advanced topics understand the boundaries of this space, yet alone innovate.
NYC tried unarmed “police” to handle minor moving violations and parking. It was a disaster. People bullied them, assaulted them, and/or ignored them.

The sad truth is that people respect police not because of the badge but because of the gun, and because of the threat of violence.

Many of the reform ideas being thrown around lately are ideas that places across the US have already tried.

I think people are saying photos and videos from Chicago, Portland, Seattle, and Kenosha, WI. They’re thinking they’ll take their chances with the police than with arsonists and rioters.
Lidar is almost always discussed in relation to self-driving vehicles.

What are some other applications that stand to benefit significantly from a price reduction? Submersibles come to mind as a cost-prohibitive tech where this could help somewhat.
> It seems to me that reinvesting budgets spent on surplus humvees on more/better school counselors is a perfectly reasonable goal.

While that sounds great on paper, nothing the schools do is going to make a difference if the family support at home isn't there. You can't just throw money at the problem to make it better.

Anecdotal, but my sister used to work as a teacher & reading specialist in poorer areas. Per my last conversation with her on this topic, she said maybe 20% of the kids have a solid backing from family for education. The rest she had interacted with for one reason or another were a mix of parents who told her it was her job to teach and they wouldn't do that at home; another group of parents that were too drunk/drugged out to even answer the phone or call back; and another that would just swear at her for bothering them at home. All of her co-workers had similar accounts of this happening.

Kids that did want to learn in class were bullied for "acting white" and there were physical fights occurring weekly. She didn't teach high school, she taught 4/5th grade.

For us to make any progress with poorer schools there needs to be a community focus on education, having respect for each other, and having respect for the law. If you grow up for 18 years in an environment without those then nothing matters long term and we end up in the vicious cycle of poverty, crime, imprisonment, broken families and even more kids going through the same thing.
Now imagine Chine acquiring outdated, but still somewhat decent fab capability to sustain itself in a pickle .. and then rolling over Taiwan. Wouldnt have to be in the open, a big 'oopsie all TSMC fabs burned down overnight' would create chaos for not prepared nations.
They have wanted to kill the URL for a long time. The mask often slips. There have been so many half baked attempts trotted out, and nobody liked them. every browser has tried de-emphasizing the URL, and Chrome even tried completely eliminating it.[1]

They hate that people can deep link into their platforms and share these links with each other, untracked. They want to have complete control of the experience. They are slowly migrating us to a network of crummy walled gardens.

If it was up to them, they would just have you download a giant .exe file and require that you run with admin privileges. The only protections that the likes of Google would offer you is that the different pieces of opaque adware clogging up your device not interfere with each other, and not to so destabilize your device that you can't be advertised to. In other words, Android.

And they will use every bit of leverage they have to continue to corral us from the open pastures of the web into their nightmarish silos.

A powerful bulwark against this was Mozilla. But their #1 priority now is to validate and amplify Google's vision of the web. Rest assured, now matter how awful and user-hostile webundles turn out to be, Mozilla will be there, offering an inferior implementation.

Firefox got popular because they completely rejected Microsoft's vision of the web. They didn't try to implement Microsoft's terrible ideas, because they were user hostile and not worth implementing.

[1]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2362123/google-chromes-origi...

[2]: https://villing.com/articles/facebook-is-the-new-aol/
Agreed. A work colleague at Red Hat in the UK back in ~2014/2015 had a FTTH home internet connection, and he could download from public servers at 70MB/s.

So, ~20MB/s isn't "simply unobtainable" though I agree the figure is suspiciously like USB2 speeds for cheapo flash drives. eg the ones with slow write speeds
Did you read the article? Or forget the title of this thread?

Anecdotes aside, there doesn't seem to be a significant difference between races on their opinions of police (and whether they want more or less of them in their neighborhoods).
Questionnable behavior of a video game publisher (Bigben)
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unless you prepare for such eventuality before helping it happen.
>If they're not doing that then they're the ones in the wrong.

Does that apply if a suspect pulls a gun or a knife on them? De-escalation clearly failed, must be their fault.
I think op likes the Postal Service
Bias Mitigation in AI by Mosalam Ibrahimi – Venice CV Meetup 07/20/2020
Don't worry, if we live in a cyclical model universe we'll eventually get some new ones.