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> Now:tap tabs icon on top. Tap new tab thats on the other side of display

You can long-press the tabs icon on top, which is slightly more convenient. (No, it's not obvious.)

> Im about to start looking for another browser soon, would welcome suggestions! (Ability to run ublock is neccesity)

AFAICT the only other open-source android browser that supports ublock origin is Kiwi Browser.[0] It used to heavily lag behind upstream chromium, though — I don't know if that's changed.

[0] https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src
At that point, why not use Rust or Go or D or whatever with significantly smaller binary sizes and (un-optimized) faster speeds.
> I don't believe that anymore. The emergence of body cameras are amazing because they show just how bad we're constantly being lied to. YouTubers like Donut Operator really opened my eyes.

Definitely agree that body cameras can help to clarify a lot.

Would you mind sharing a bit about what sorts of lies you may've been referencing? Or how "Donut Operator" on YouTube may've been helpful?

I'm not sure if I fully understood what you were trying to say, but it sounds like you may have some neat perspective on the topic.
What is preventing you from installing another App Store? I got F-droid installed seamlessly a week or so ago to download Newpipe, and it sits perfectly fine alongside the Google Play store.

Perhaps I'm missing something. Is it not possible to install other app stores?
This a great point, but there is a counter-argument that reducing punishments for drug-related offenses may make the opioid epidemic in the US worse. This is a huge problem and roughly 70k Americans die per year from OD, which is much more than the number of police killings. I personally lost a cousin to drug OD a couple years ago.

One extreme solution that might work is making all drugs legal for adults (21+), and have extremely strict punishments on providing drugs to minors.

This sort of policy change might have saved my cousin because:

1.) It would put dealers out of business which I think would make it harder for teenagers to acquire hard drugs. When I was in HS in California, it was way easier to get marijuana than to get alcohol because there was a system of distributors for it. Acquiring alcohol meant asking someone's older sibling or friend, or getting a fake id and hoping the liquor store clerk doesn't confront you, or sneaking some out of parents' pantry. None of these were great options, and none of these methods would work for hard drugs like heroin which nearly the entire adult population has a severe negative perspective, unlike alcohol.

2.) If adult users bought from regulated sources, it would at the very least ensure the drugs aren't cut with fentanyl and that doses are intentional.
Have you considered that he may not be the problem? It is known by now that too much sugar is bad for you. And for someone not raised on American diet of the dumb smiles and constant fake positivity that diet is indeed vomit-inducing.
That comment may simply reflect the experience and frustration felt in such a place, it bears no indication how the op was acting there.
Not for long, it will be mandatory in the EU from the end of the year under the PSD2 regulations (though the deadline has moved back into 2021 for some countries, including the UK which is adopting them despite Brexit).

Issuers will start to decline card transactions for any merchants that submit payments that haven't gone through 3DS.
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Yep that's right, the liability shifts from the merchant to the bank.
>I think it was an F1 article when I was reading about it, apparently carbon fiber creates

Just when in contact with fire, but you are absolutely correct.
I think Apple have no incentive right now to change anything, although the PR and perception of them is shifting slightly against them. I think there are two things that can happen here:

1. There are more and more cases like wordpress, Hey and Fortnite, and after a while the PR gets so bad that they have to change something, or it becomes so costly to be in the app store that developers will stop developing for it, making the iphone less valuable to users. Of course this will take years if not decades to happen, it would be a really slow process. Fortnite is a really big deal, because I think it does start to chisel away at the iphone market for 12-18 year olds.

2. Government steps in and forces them to do something. But as Ben said, the legal grounds are very shaky. They don't have a monopoly on the phone market, or apps, or anything. Almost all other app stores have fees around 30%. It's very hard to make a strong case to say they're guilty.
Compare that to Germany. There’s a company (datev) that has a monopoly on SMB accounting and will only work with tax advisors. Complete waste of labor and money, all because taxation rules are so complicated.
Oil companies do this all the time. Just look at the crazy web of businesses and flags flown for the various companies evolved in the BP oil spill. Oil tankers regularly fly random counties' flags because they won't be boarded or inspected.
Depends which direction you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_the_World_(series_... was good, aside from the winners. Series 2 was better.
> dog owners will have to ensure that their animals are walked at least twice a day

OK, makes sense, but my dog is old and can't walk for longer than 10 minutes without literally dying.

> for a total of one hour. They will no longer be permitted to leave their dogs home alone

This will only lead to people getting rid of their pets. If you have a full time job, how will this work?
This is a lagging indicator. If you did this in 2010, the top companies would all be PHP.
I love the fact that the typeface is so bad at signifying anything that it's possible for some readers not to notice it.
Essentially - you should follow all orders given by police officers, whether they are justified or not. If you don't, you forfeit all rights to be alive.

How on earth can you possibly say that? Not following the orders of some jacked up power trip officer means you've given up all your rights to be alive?

This has to be the worst take in the entire thread.
Update: I've got a version working on any iOS 13 device - here's a free public beta link if anyone would like to join https://testflight.apple.com/join/ytc1tAdA
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Love it! Definetely gonna try it
I am considering building some paid apps for the App Store.
If I had to deal with payment processors, handling subscriptions, etc. myself there is zero chances I'd do that.
I think you have totally wrong expectation about developers.

- Ask any reasonable dev if they are willing to foot a fixed cost to get their app screened

I don’t think most devs will support this, considering the constant arguments about IOS development requiring yearly $100 fee.
I'm getting this link as well. Does the site accept Bitcoin?
got the actual sign up page at the 2048th click
I've known for a while that Mozilla's focus is not on producing technically excellent software. However, their latest actions and messages have only accelerated my desire to move away from Firefox - they are now just another "socially-aware" activist group, complete with ambitious ladder-climbing upper management, and apparently burdened with maintaining a browswer.
This is like suggesting PHP to C# or Java developers because "everyone uses it". Today the web (just like the server) supports any language - get over yourself, people have moved beyond JavaScript.
This is brilliant in a way that relates to commercial research in natural science too, generalizing some of the terms and focusing more toward business than academic life:

1. What difference will this work make if you succeed?

a. Whose lives will be made better by this research?
-the client

b. How will this improve upon what’s currently being done?
-the client will be more satisfied

c. Why is this one of the most important questions in the field?
-because a valuable client asked

that was easy

d. Will it create a big policy change at some level (company, government)?
-if so it will be for the positive with consensus, otherwise no costly changes

e. Will it inspire a new class of systems?
-would be good if it was worth building beyond clients' immediate needs

2. Who will care about it when you’re done?
-two clients would be better than one

a. Will government agencies care?
-only in a beneficial way, when the FBI comes to your office you want to be their consultant not their suspect

b. Will platforms and industry care?
-if you do projects which make them money, more fondness can be expected than if you cost them money

c. Will non-commercial researchers care enough to recognize or benefit from it?

d. Will non-commercial researchers care enough to teach it to their staff/students?

e. Will anyone care about it 10, 20, 50 years in the future?

3. How will this change what other people (defined broadly) are doing?

a. Will other researchers change what they’re working on after seeing your work?

b. Will practitioners do something different?

c. Will users adopt what you’ve made, found, created?

d. Will authorities use what you’ve found to draft new requrements/specifications?
-unless no negative impact can be imagined, such a sensitive project might best be shelved until a time of more positive outlook

Professor Gilbert has an _internal deadline_ 7 days more strict than the real publication cutoff, actually allowing for reduced stress and making higher Quality output possible in ways others may never achieve:

>If the paper isn’t ready, we won’t submit it to that conference or journal deadline; we’ll submit it somewhere later.

Naturally deadlines for being AT the conferences are not missed. I bet they can build anticipation about future presentations most accurately when this happens.
> In fact, most data science and ML engineers are quite skilled in systems engineering, because you have to do so much work with GPU hardware issues, underlying scientific package management, efficient data transportation, etc.

Unless your data scientists are expected to build the machines they use, they won't be dealing with any hardware issues at all.

Literally every data scientist at big companies use pre-configured vms/notebooks in cloud.
I’m not sure how you’d detach the sail at speed. It’s in front of you with the same velocity. You’ve got to go around it or it around you. And you’ve got to do it at speed without modifying your trajectory.

That’s got to be more difficult than spinning around because any mistakes will be amplified over the vast distances, whereas a slight trajectory problem once you’ve arrived is much less of an issue and is correctable with onboard guidance. If you screw up the detach procedure.... you can’t steer to correct.

Assuming two different methods of acceleration (laser on departure, solar on arrival), why not construct the sail in such a way that the probe goes through the sail? It could pull the sail in, and mechanically route it’s connections to the rear of the craft. If there are material or structural difference needed, it could be incorporated into the design and two opposing surfaces.
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Yes, this is exactly what I meant, the cookie consent on tweakers.net where you are directed following the 'Belgium' link. I'm sorry for what I can now see as potentially confusing language in my original post.
Yes, I did it 20 years ago in the pre-smartphone era and it was fantastic. The big advantage for that case was not having to plan, at all; you could simply wake up and decide where you want to go that day.
I'd be fine with this argument if they didn't purposely block modern browser features in safari mobile. Push notifications have worked in Safari on OSX for years. They also force any third party browser listed in the app store to use the same crippled safari engine.

They prevent it on mobile because they want app store money. Seems like a clear legal case that no one has bothered to fight or enforce.
Avoiding Facebook and Google is trivial; the reason people use their services is they get value from their services.
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We do. DDT has never been banned for disease control, it was banned for indiscriminate agricultural use and by that time resistance was already developing anyway.

Successful eradication in Florida and Italy was based on aggressive source control (stagnant water), control of re-importation, and use of insecticides (including DDT) for outbreak control.

Airborne spraying of more targeted larvicides continues to be used in Florida and other places.

Malaria rates in rural areas of Africa are much higher than urban areas so urbanisation also plays a role.
Microsoft Research certainly does a lot of interesting stuff, but I think the bigger point is inertia -- Microsoft doesn't have any in the startup space.

Ruby, and to a large extent Python, started from zero, and gained a ton of traction during the whole Web 2.0 rumble.

Microsoft is starting from a negative perception amongst a lot of engineers, and unless they can provide some sort of killer reason to use .NET technologies -- one that doesn't lock you into their ecosystem -- then I don't see them unseating the established players.

Swift and its descendants will be around as long as Apple is, same story for Java and Android. Ruby/Python/Node will continue on in the Web space, with Go/Rust/C++ duking it out for backend services.

This game changes should Microsoft blow a new market open, though, like Apple and Google did with smartphones.
The concept that Apple needs to have a monopoly on app distribution for privacy and security is a smokescreen.

The OS does that with its capability based design which of course the desktop OSs have a very hard time migrating to after the fact.

Having other means to install apps doesn’t change that at all.

And what’s more, nothing forces a user to actually go outside the Apple App Store if they want the supposed benefits they provide.
You don't need DoH to avoid that. Just set up and use your own resolving proxy DNS servers and don't use the Virgin Media ones at 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100 either directly or indirectly. (This means not forwarding to those servers, and not letting your DHCP client, in any of your machines, configure your system to use them when it gets a lease.)

Here is the difference between using Virgin Media's resolving proxy DNS servers and using your own:

% # http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/djbwares/guide/commands/dnsqrx.xml
%
% dnsqrx a z398nvfsd0098u3qwtltnk. 194.168.4.100
1 z398nvfsd0098u3qwtltnk:
56 bytes, 1+1+0+0 records, response, noerror
query: 1 z398nvfsd0098u3qwtltnk
answer: z398nvfsd0098u3qwtltnk 0 A 92.242.132.24
%
%
% dnsqr a z398nvfsd0098u3qwtltnk.
1 z398nvfsd0098u3qwtltnk:
40 bytes, 1+0+0+0 records, response, authoritative, nxdomain
query: 1 z398nvfsd0098u3qwtltnk
%

That last query didn't even escape the machine in my case. I run a private root content DNS server on every machine if possible. The query here got answered by a tinydns instance listening on 127.53.0.1:

% tail -n 1 /var/log/sv/tinydns/current | tai64nlocal
2020-08-26 09:37:44.305619726 7f000001:cfd9:f163 + 0001 z398nvfsd0098u3qwtltnk
%

No-one gets to complain about (minuscule) extra load on the root content DNS server except me. It's my server on my machine. (-:
Read Job’s quote in the article, someone has to foot the bill to ensure the quality of Apps on the store. $100 a year seems reasonable to me for unlimited App screenings imho.
I do bill for small breaks as well, not including lunch break for sure.

As I wanted to keep track of every single hour I work on, I did build Waywo a small tool to ask me every few minutes what I am currently working on:
https://byrly.com/waywo/
Breonna Taylor was asleep when she got killed. Which instruction did she not follow?
Hell yeah! Now we just need to get banks to stop using SMS 2FA and embrace an open 2FA standard like TOTP and our money (!!) will finally be almost as secure as our Facebook accounts have been for 5 years...
If you like Tom Lehrer then you might also enjoy his British contemporaries Flanders & Swann in "At the drop of a hat" and other albums.

With rare exceptions ("The laws of thermodynamics") they didn't write about the sciences, but they were musically a bit more sophisticated and just as witty.

Their satire was far less biting but was present. Although Michael Flanders did monologue: "The purpose of Satire, it has been rightly said, is to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half-truth - and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again." :)

I recommend their delightful animal song "The Sloth" as having pertinence to my fellows in the HN audience who have trouble with procrastination...

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blDNO5qznjM
I am of the opinion that the only fair option is to allow 3rd party stores with the same permissions as the official app store.

Apples curation isn't (as they suggest) preventing malware, theft of information, etc - this if verifiably false given recent history with apps like tiktok stealing clipboard content. The ability to change content of payment screens post-approval (as epic have just done) also means that curation isnt stopping apps from potentially injecting phishing, etc, either. In short, they are just choosing what they like - just as any 3rd party store could do.

The security comes from the sandbox (and surrounding permissions) - not from the curation.

Jobs originally said that the aim of the 30% was to cover costs of running the store. It is evident from the MASSIVE profits that this is no longer the case.

The size of these app marketplaces (I dont just mean apple) make them markets in their own right - its about time they were recognised and treated as such.
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Well, that's the best part; in a very wide gamut of cases, they don't, and since both play nice with compiled languages a scaling up can benefit from both worlds.
It's more like AGI => ASI => singularity.

That's sort of like saying a Dyson sphere will make nuclear power obsolete.
The security argument is flawed: iOS devices would be fully secured if Apple allowed secondary app stores on their devices.

Using other stores not supported by Apple would have come with a big risk warning anyway. It would then be the user's responsibility.
I agree, screening happens every time you submit an update, that's likely to be hundreds of dollars a time so thousands a year for many devs. Waiving this for free apps won't work because whether or not an app should be free is part of what this is all about. It will kill most genuinely free apps.
One idea I don't see discussed is that the App Store model is a disincentive for Apple to come up with better sandboxing and security.

Apple is in fact uniquely positioned to introduce a better sandboxing model. They control most of the stack, crucially the CPU and the build toolchain, not to mention the PL. They could, were they not so reliant on the App Store auditing process, make it less likely for people to develop malware and privacy-invasive software, by building better abstractions around processes and IPC, through eg. virtualization and capabilities [0].

That, of course, would take away the main raison d'être of App Store, which is a significant money-maker for Apple.

[0] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts#fuchsia_is_designed...
I have two options, both provided for by the bank.

1. I have a dongle that creates a number code when prompted.
2. My phone is set up for 2fa, again through the bank. The screen shows the same keyword as the website and I enter a pin into my phone to authorize the transaction. I can't remember if I need to use the fingerprint option on the phone or if that's just for the bank's app.
> I think a point of tension for grad students is that many don't realize a PhD program is more so a job than it is another part of your education.

I don’t think grad students fall into that trap; they know that PhD is all about research, and very little about classes.

It’s more the non-academic world which has that misconception
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I've disabled auto-update for Firefox (first time even looking for that feature on Android).

I don't know, I like having a back button on my browser I guess?

As someone who uses "Firefox" since the Netscape Communicator days it's sad to see all this unrevealing.
I didn't use many add-ons, but I miss the home page thing which had my most used sites. (I don't see the point of the tab collections. I don't want to nor have time to do many things at once when I'm using my phone – I want to do one thing now.)

It also starts up a lot slower than the old one, and there's a bug where sometimes a page will just stay white and I have to flick back and forth between tabs or restart it to get it to load.

But I do notice there's less delay when clicking on a link from a page, so that's nice I guess.
It's a bad idea to run software you don't trust, with or without root.
This has always been a relatively non-serious fantasy of mine. However, whenever I fantasize about it, I wonder how I would be able to use a computer reliably / in a concentrated way without a home/electricity/internet. But you seem to be managing it. Can you talk a bit about how you're accomplishing that?
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Are we still evolving, since we usually die much after breeding ?
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Have you had bad experiences with other payment processors in the past? Honestly curious. I’ve used Stripe, and they are amazing in terms of product quality and customer service.
Silky scenarios and question (not a hockey watcher): my stick gets damaged and becomes unsafe. I drop it in the ground. The damaged stick is on the ground (as per people's comments below - until there is a break - what happens to me? I just skate around aimlessly, or I can go grab another stick and continue playing?
App developers choose when they work, how they do the work and how much they charge, which are the main indicators of an independent.

The main argument against Uber was that drivers can't negotiate on price/pay, but clearly app developers set the price of their apps and IAP.
If prompting the user for every package update and installation is perfectly fine, why doesn't the play store do it?
No, Mozilla did not have to choose. They could have offered both as options! They could have allowed the end consumer to control when to upgrade (some would go quickly, some would wait until their key extensions work available). I'll admit, the majority of people will upgrade only when it's the default.
If Google would permit it, it would.