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>At least will still have Firefox and WebKit to prevent Google from having total reign over user piracy on the web.

Google pays mozillas bills. Right now there is no major browser that is free from googles influence.

We have lost the www.
Thank you for posting this. It’s pretty heinous that you’re being downvoted for this.

Lot of work ahead of us, it seems
People in the other thread clearly read the article more thoroughly than you read the other thread.

Everyone in that thread knows what the article says. You’re just rehashing arguments here that they’ve already responded to there. And you’re not even addressing any of their points.
I'll have to check them out. I somehow doubt that Americans will trust their governments to build housing to their liking. It'd take some serious image turnaround for middle class Americans to be attracted to the notion of government housing... What happens in practice in the US today with government-backed mortgages is effectively government subsidized owner-occupied housing, but development is privatized.
That's what I would suspect. Dataflow programing would seem to hold great promise in making programs more understandable. But there would seem to be limits as to where it can be applied (for-if) etc. It is not a universal model for practical programming, I assume.

It's a bit like "pure functional programming". We can't really do that in practice because we need IO. The best we can do is to divide the program into two parts, purely functional, and imperative. Similarly I assume we could (and should try to) divide programs into "data-flow-part" and "synchronous-part".
I'll go ahead and say it: Firefox is a bad browser that has lost its direction. They are to browsers what Nokia was to phones in 2010.
> It's saying that deplatforming isn't the solution

It's saying deplatforming is not going far enough to be the solution. And it advocates (among other things) "amplifying factual voices", which for a browser platform can mean only one thing - abandoning neutrality and privileging certain type of content - one that the gatekeepers agree with and thus call "factual" - while excluding other types of content, that they disagree with and thus call "misleading". To remove all doubt, they bring Facebook - which exercises clear viewpoint-driven editorial control over the content, even if unconsistently, haphazardly and ineffectually - as an example of what they're looking for. For a browser platform, advocating such approach means they plan to install themselves as the gatekeepers of the Internet, choosing what information you are and aren't allowed to see. While once currently can route easily around Facebook censorship, once browsers join the game, it won't be so easy. And of course, for anybody who values unrestricted access to information as much as privacy, it is the reason to avoid using platforms that advocate such principles.
As I said, in my opinion Mozilla does invest too much into side projects, upper-level managers and marketing and too little into the browser development and web development itself (for example the MDN layoffs). That's also why I stopped donating to them.

The panopticlick test (now renamed to coveryourtracks) is not a study, but a test you can actually do yourself with different browsers: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Also, I presented an article from zdnet (backed by a study), about the phoning home of the different browsers: https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow...

And at this point I don't think it is worth it for me to invest more time arguing anymore, since you seemingly did not read my comments. There are plenty of other comments addressing all the "issues" you were talking about.
Brave Today > Disable

New Tab Page > Show background images (OFF)

These innocently named options are where the ads are coming from.... Didn't see them before (I could swear they weren't there before...).
If a is a constant, you can repeat it as inputs to when and unless. If a is a value output by a vertex further back, e.g. output of filter0, then yes you do need edges to when and unless. But the output could be labelled, automatically causing identical labelling at the destinations of the edges, and the lines corresponding to the edges could be hidden until the mouse pointer hovers over the either the output of filter0, the input at when, or the input at unless. It's better demonstrated than described in text, but I hope you follow it.

I'm aware that text is more compact, and understand the various user interface issues (e.g. crossing lines), but there are advantages in representing programs as graphs as opposed to text. One of these is the possibility of very strong type checking while a function is being defined, and I'm currently working on that. Another is that it should be possible to take advantage of homoiconicity: programs are graphs, and graphs are the most general data structures. Also, graphs (i.e. data) can double as programs.

Tutorials for my language can be found here: http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/tutorials/TOC.html
These are out of date, so suffer from the problem you hinted at above, and they also don't explain my aims. I'll write updates to them when the new type system is properly working.
By total coincidence, I’m on the last couple of chapters of Paul Theroux’s 1983 travelogue The Kingdom by the Sea. He described these exact scenes in great detail, visiting only three years after the photos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_by_the_Sea

In 1979, Thatcher had just become PM, so when Theroux got there, the slump foreshadowed in these images was in full ruinous collapse.
Restricting job growth would certainly be the most straightforward way to harm the economy of a city. A little too obvious for the NIMBY types who still want to benefit from a growing economy, but don't want the growing number of neighbors that come with it.
I've always been kind of interested in why autocratic regimes or dictators engage in seemingly unnecessary benevolent or constructive activities. At some point I decided to better understand how the Chinese government functions since for a long time it's been both autocratic and surprisingly benevolent in certain areas. So basically some combination of youtube, wikipedia and a few other places till I more or less came to a high-level understanding.

There are also some English language Chinese government produced youtube videos that also do a pretty good job at giving basic civics lessons on how their government works if you can look past all the self-congratulations. It's definitely "complicated" and is not just Xi Jinping barking his every desire and whim as it tends to get reduced to.

For example: https://youtu.be/Qu4QTxl9GVw

There are plenty of others like: https://youtu.be/fgor9fmA6po
And why poor people don't stop being so poor while you're at it.
Why yes, you can. And so there is pressure on every single hardware vendor to do fancy handshakes to guarantee that it is only going to authorized places that will do authorized things with it. Exactly to make the bypass that you're describing harder to do.

Occasionally this creates a problem that people notice. For example see https://www.macworld.com/article/3116414/oops-you-cant-play-... for one of them.

At the end of the day, you have to ask whether this is worth it. Does it actually help sales to offset the costs?

Actually it doesn't matter what your belief is on that. In the end, Netflix believes that it does. And as long as they are where you buy the content that you want, that means you have to play by their rules. No matter how stupid you think that they are being.
Heads up - googles browser, despite not being packaged with Windows or Mac, absolutely dominates market share. They, not these other companies, developed a web browser that people want.

The point I'm making - GOOGLE, not these standards bodies decides what is a standard.
How does that fall within the definition of "base index"? that's just array position referencing.

You can't even create an array/list in python w/o a hard 0 reference.
Ask HN: How do you survey your target market before you have a product?
Hi folks,

It's often said that you should start interviewing your target market before you start building your product to make sure you're building something /they actually want/ (or hitting pain points they actually have). What is your favorite tool for this? I've seen services like GLG Research + other market research firms, but wondering if there was an easier or cheaper way to survey mass amounts of folks with a specific profession (for example, wanting to survey 1,000 teachers).

Thanks!
I'm not sure what the "genuine spirit" is in celebrating a man whose incredible brutality towards indigenous people was astonishing even for his time. Here is merely one atrocity from amongst the many he committed:

"So Columbus tried again for gold, but this time he and his men didn’t go looking for it. They ordered all Taíno people 14 and older to deliver a certain amount of gold dust every three months. If they didn’t, their hands would be cut off.

At this point, the Taíno were refusing to grow crops, and those who didn’t bleed to death after their hands were removed began to die of famine and disease. When they fled into the mountains, they were hunted down by dogs. Many killed themselves with cassava poison."

(source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/14/here-are-i...)
1. Doesn't the license allow for this?

2. Doesn't the same apply to every other Chromium based browser/application? All Election apps, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, etc?
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I've found a discouraging amount of bit rot in my older (15+ year old) magnetic media. I think if you can pull a file off of magnetic media that's older than 10 years old, you should should be feeling lucky.

Move the files to a new spindle every decade, at the very least.
Yeah, look what happened to Tom Van Flandern.
Thank you, Doug McIlroy.
For many of the basic standards including HTML, WHATWG has already taken over in relevance (thanks, in no small part, on the strong desire by W3C to actually have two interoperable implementations).

WHATWG is a cooperation between Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft as far as control goes.
no viber support?
They have the same browser market share as ‘Samsung Internet’ and have been consistently declining - it’s completely lost on me why people here get so uptight about their sacred cow Firefox. Is it nostalgia? I have no clue.
Not Bay-Area rent-control, but: https://www.ch.ch/en/rent-tenant-rights-obligations/. In particular, rents are expected to follow interest rate changes (both up and down). You can request a rent reduction when interest rates go down, or if "you are paying significantly more than the previous tenants". And rent increases have to be justified (by improvements, interest rate changes, market changes, etc). And there's a "conciliation authority" to resolve disputes. Seems fairly controlled to me.
I can put this another way which avoids race politics:

Genetic sample data is not truly randomised, and tends to greatly over-represent a particular subgroup of 10% of people who share common genetic markers (including recognisable phenotypic consequences such as: in general having white skin, and in general adults being tolerant to lactose) that are not globally common. For convenience, we'll say that groups of people with those markers are "of European descent".

The extent of the over-representation is so great that edge cases are likely to have no impact in changing the overall bias of the data.

As such, conclusions drawn globally should be treated at least with caution - and with suspicion when one of those genetic markers is highly relevant to the conclusion.
> A lot of people on HN will claim "O, noes! Lawyers! Libel!"

Libel is for false statements. If you've got a real email from the company then it's not false.
But that’s not even the case... when I lived in SF and went to public housing hearings, NIMBYs would show up in droves to protest housing being built literally amongst skyscrapers in the financial district on the Embarcadero, which is about as far as one could get to a working-class, poor neighborhood where people will be displaced. NIMBYism in SF has gone far beyond worries about eviction into an all out war to fossilize SF as it is today.
I've tried a few times - mostly just blogging and pay-per-click revenue and developing software and sites for individual clients. It was not worth the trouble.

Maybe it was only possible in the last decade (2009-2020) due to the stock market being in a valley when I started investing a large percentage of my income each year, but I now make 6 figures a year in dividends and capital gains from my investments in S&P funds. I did live frugally and sacrificed a lot, and it probably helped that I do not have a family nor a mortgage.

Because I still live way beneath my means, this "business" continues to grow exponentially year after year, and I'll be able to retire pretty comfortably in my mid 40's (estimate). It takes very little of my time (compared to an actual business like Ebay reselling or some small SAAS that I could create). I know it's not the type of side-hustle many on this site imagine, but it probably is more feasible for those who don't have any million-dollar ideas, don't want to put in the time and energy into a high-risk venture, and already enjoy (or can tolerate) their day job that pays well enough.
I can't help but imagine how this would play out if someone did the same for any of the Riots this past year. It's a slippery slope and people are justifying doing things that would normally be considered wrong. Tech is great, but it's a shame how much it's being used to amplify and escalate all these tensions. What is the intent here? To be a public investigation force? Is that what we really want? How many times have we seen these things backfire (IE Boston Bomber and Reddit.. etc.)

Nothing good will come of all of this and it's disheartening that a large portion of the population is behind it simply because they feel they're in the right.
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Microsoft already has a good partner in Ampere, a company fully dedicated to servers and standards.

Apple clearly doesn't seem interested. The M1 is just a scaled-up version of the iDevice SoCs. From the reverse engineering we've seen so far, it is extremely clear that not even a single step towards any standardization was taken. It's very much the ad-hoc hodgepodge of embedded crap companies build when they only care about their own complete product and don't allocate any budget towards any "refactoring" that doesn't directly benefit the end product.

They use some ancient Samsung UART for debug (because the first iPhones used a Samsung SoC?), old P.A. Semi I2C controller, the Synopsys DesignWare USB 3 controller (just like some random cheap Allwinner/Rockchip/etc), and here's the fucking kicker, a custom Apple interrupt controller and a custom IOMMU too. These probably predate GICv2/3 at least. But there was no reason for them to switch to the standard Arm GIC and SMMU so they didn't >_<
That board is pretty close to the same experience you would get with a random x86 mITX board (once you flash the UEFI firmware on it). It has a m.2 nvme slot, sata, etc. Its one of the lower cost standards based arm boards.

So, yes you have to bring some storage, ram, ps and case. But one can cheap out and probably get all three for <$200, or go crazy and put 64G of ECC, and a few TB of storage in it. The cheaper off the shelf RAM/storage makes it a lot cheaper than a loaded mini with similar specifications.

And as another commenter points out, yes fairly common GPUs tend to work in it. Its not perfect, for that you have to spend more, but the time you will spend fighting with the mac mini+linux is going to be worth the difference.
The Friends are more popularly known as Quakers. My wife is one. We were married almost 20 years ago in a Quaker ceremony.

There's a lot to like about their approach to things but consensus is difficult to deal with. Unreasonable people cause great stress on people who are trying to get simple things done.

There are different flavors of Quakers: my wife attends an "unprogrammed meeting" which means that there's not a minister. Instead, members sit in a circle (pre-COVID) and those who are moved to speak do so. But there's also programmed meetings, which have a minister. There's probably more variations.

Around the time the US was founded the Quakers were seen as good people to do business with, since they strove for honesty and transparency in business. There were many prosperous Quaker merchants. These days they seem to be more anti-capitalist.
My point is that throwing up one's hands and saying "it's hopeless and it sucks!" literally the first day linux has been brought up on a new board is... premature.

Yes, it will have to be RE'd. Yes, that takes time.
Because they're mostly water, and water expands when frozen, destroying the structure of the plant.
But how do you know who is a 'freedom fighter' and who is a 'terrorist' then? Do you let google and facebook decide?

Look, an "Anti soviet warrior", "on the road to peace" - https://www.businessinsider.com/1993-independent-article-abo...
The Greek is probably not a problem, nobody really uses that word any more (it's as dated as "groovy" is in English). Hell, the artist is the first thing that came to my mind, aloukissas is just an old-fashioned elderly gentleman.
Government-built housing can work, no doubt, but it's just not going to be feasible in the US until the cultural memory of "the projects" has passed.
You hadn't mentioned your first point, so not sure how I would have known that.

I will indeed test both browsers, if Brave is objectively better obviously I want to use it... However, I wish there was just stats on both browsers we could see side by side.

I did find this, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/brave...

Obviously biased because it's from Mozilla, however- I think this argument is moot. They're both better than what else is out there.
Free markets work well even with people who are committed communists. In the USSR, the underground free market was wisely tolerated because it filled in a lot of gaps the collective system was unable to. Farmers were also allowed to farm their own plots and sell the results.
I think commit to self-improvement. The real challenge lies in doing the little things on a consistent basis and by taking advantage of all opportunities to change your life – one little step at a time.
OK, I’m very handy with Linux and tried X11/VNC mods before to do this but with no success, and they were very complex.

This - Deskreen - I ordered a dongle on Amazon, plugged it in, installed Deskreen with a single command and boom it works! Multiple resolutions available to choose from, decent performance, kudos!

This is on Ubuntu 18.04 with an iPad Pro 12.9” and it looks glorious.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ;-)
Only if it doesn’t have politics.
Most Windows laptops thankfully use Intel Wi-Fi. Apple is unfortunately completely married to Broadcom. There are open drivers for Broadcom Wi-Fi, at least not-the-newest ones, but they do suck.
The article pretty clearly said it was talking about a pretty specific set of beliefs belonging to an urban type of NIMBY. I’m sure you’ve seen this on forums for example:

“ Allowing private developers to build market-rate housing results in the construction of “luxury” housing instead of “affordable” housing.”

“In addition to lining the pockets of developers, this “luxury” housing raises rents in an area, leading to gentrification and displacement.”

From the article. And the title of the article says canon, because these are taken as axiomatic.

If someone wants a particular wetland or beautiful historical building preserved, that’s one thing.

But there are people who truly believe that building housing raises rents! It’s crazy and widespread. The article is describing that.
> But the result of rent control is that when places open up, there is a massive excess of demand.

I would challenge the notion that the problems of housing demand exceeding supply are all tied back to rent control. Zoning plays a big role. Incentives play a big role. Government leadership plays a big role. Some rent-controlled areas are economically dynamic and others aren't. I just don't think there's a clear correlation.
I’ve heard this line before, except back then it was Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
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In 2012 PR voted AGAINST becoming a state, and in 2017 a vote on the issue was scotched because of anti-statehood boycotters. They just (Nov 3) narrowly voted to welcome statehood, easily lost in the recent noise, let's see what happens.
Privacy is as much about adding features as removing them. Rewriting APIs that no one else have the manpower to reimplement and update for decades is a bigger problem than adding privacy invasive features. Google could easily make changes big enough that it would break for example Brave's ability to add the features it wants. Like a new API that cannot be used by adblockers as effective as the old one..
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I am wondering if anybody has gone through a similar process of starting and working in their own company in OPT as a F1 student and can share any advice/resources about the legality behind it!

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Researchers at the University of Manchester and elsewhere built computers which implemented dataflow at the hardware level. The main reason we don't have them is because of Moore's Law: wait a few years and a single CPU will be just as fast as multiple dataflow CPUs.

There are historical reasons why we're programming in text in mostly imperative languages: graphics terminals were either not very good or very expensive, and computers had single CPUs, until quite recently.
yikes, not a fan of that argument as a matter of principle.
> A tolerant society means no tolerance for terrorists.

But how do you know who is a 'freedom fighter' and who is a 'terrorist' then? Do you let google and facebook decide?

Look, an "Anti soviet warrior", "on the road to peace" - https://www.businessinsider.com/1993-independent-article-abo...
Same. On year 1 out might be even, but all it takes is a couple years of strong property price rise (while your rent stays more or less pegged to what it was) to change the calculus in favor of staying under rent control.
Intuitive but involves a lot of typing. I find it much easier to remember “square for text, round for attachment “ than write/read through so many html tags. Many text editors, including MacDown for instance, have a split view so you can hardly get it wrong more than twice.
Why surprised? Before Europeans arrived, it's not like everybody lived happily ever after in a utopian pastoral lifestyle. They are people too and have fought, murdered, and slaughtered each other just as much as the Europeans did to themselves and to others. I frankly find it a little concerning that just as much emphasis isn't placed on the genocide of the non-existent tribes by those which remain.
This has me thinking a lot about whether or not the government could require a license to host a publication, social media, anything that can be used to broadcast a message. It’s almost like the argument that some people have for curtailing the Second Amendment, by taxing ridiculously the ammunition. It seems the government could use a similar method to silence platforms that allow – I did not say promote - speech that it disagrees with.
Aesthetics aside, is there anything Firefox's context menu lacks because it's non-native? Like accessibility features and such?
> the FBI can read every message in every backup without a warrant.

Under what legal framework could this be possible?