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It would be nice to get some kind of official confirmation that the ability to add custom CSS isn't going to go away, given that the justification for dropping compact mode seems to basically boil down to it being hard to discover, and Mozilla assuming (without user metrics) that nobody uses it.

How much harder is it to discover the ability to write custom CSS? Do we know that Firefox won't apply the same logic to that feature?
I think the cartels have already solved this problem in another area:

"Cartels have kidnapped technicians doing maintenance on cellular towers to make them fix their networks, people working in the sector said. The technicians usually are released after a few days, if not sooner."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-s...
Everything you do digitally can be reduced down to "doing calculations" and some of those things are already illegal (and with good reason). There might be some good arguments in Bitcoin's defence but this isn't one of them.
I wonder if you're typical though. Many people will likely be using it along with other IM apps to communicate with colleagues/friends/family and balk at paying even marginal amounts. Perhaps an ad supported model with ad free premium, or free to receive, but pay to send over x messages a month etc.

Whatever they decide they'll likely annoy lots of their users.
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This is the same TSA that's shown those keys in photo ops?
I heard the balance of power argument before and, well, you were already granted this wish ( and I would argue that you had it granted twice ). Both China and Russia are very capable adversaries at this time and US is slipping from its top dog position. It is genuinely sad to watch.
I don't understand why Americans always use those garbage locks even in their homes. You never see such shitty locks in Northern Europe. Literally everyone is using Abloys.
Could you elaborate on why you think this point is important to the story in the article?

I'm not sure how doing this digging would help further the cause of the Rassemblement National (for context: it's the current-day incarnation of Jean-Marie Le Pen's party, the "most famous racist French nationalist" as parent put it) or of Putin's affairs.
Another version of the question -- why are so many successful companies centered on software? Asked that way, CEOs with developer or software engineering experience isn't so surprising, but leads to the more interesting questions around software's prominent role in our current economy.

I suspect that within 25 years that mix will change as being a "software company" will become less of a meaningful distinction (and to some degree already is -- what is a "tech" company these days?). Every company will be a "software company" and won't lean as heavily on its leadership being having a specific background in technology.

ETA - ah, looking at comments I see others have already made the same point.
What if that kid was going to grow up to be funded by Big Oil to spread misinformation?
for now.

given this trend of removing little usability and customization abilities here and there, one can only assume the custom CSS will be removed as well. especially seeing as its label has "legacy" right in it's name: toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets

they'll give some reason like "only 1% of users use it" or, "it'll take too much time to make it work with our new, annual UI redesign/overhaul"

that being said, I'm sure someone (either on github or on reddit in /r/FirefoxCSS) will have the necessary custom CSS written to reproduce as soon as the version removing it hits the stable release
It seems unlikely that talent is leaving because moving money out of the country is hard. Where would they move to? The simple explanation is income and quality of life is higher in richer countries. The vast majority of emigrants don't have entrepreneurial ambitions.
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You could calculate hash functions with pen and paper as well. It may be somewhat slow but once you get the hang of it you could calculate a couple hashes a week.

Should we ban pen and paper problem solving? Who is to decide which numbers and operators are public good? Is math in its entirety blasphemous?

Although comparing pen and paper calculations with the greedy wasteful world of bitcoin mining is ridiculous, I think it’s less ridiculous then associating anything you don’t agree with drugs or any other boogieman argument.

Law and ethics are not as clear cut as you are trying to portray. Nature and ecology are precious but so are Personal freedoms. They were not given to society, they were earned with blood and tears and they’re equally precious.
If you know something the author doesn't, I'm sure they'd appreciate a (constructive!) reaction blog post.
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There is a video online from the Finance Minister's talk with Rahul Kanwal in India Today Conclave 2021.

Her words were that they are preparing a note to thee Cabinet on it. The cabinet will then take a call and then propose it to the legislature as a bill.

It is still in early stages, but if Nirmala Sitharaman's words are any indication, they seem to be contemplating allowing crypto currencies to circulate in a regulated manner. Balajis mentioned that crypto could be treated as a foreign exchange currency. You can hold, for example, USD as an Indian resident, but it is not legal tender for exchange and is taxed (not sure about this) if you use it for the purpose of trading.

Germany also treats crypto as private money, not as an asset/investment to be paid capital gains on. I think this is a nice, legal alternative for crypto.

Untaxed, illegal transactions for large sums are a big problem in India (especially in Real Estate/property markets), so the govt. is trying to walk a fine line in regulating without killing the crypto market.

One interesting advantage of crypto to India would be that it will allow India to bypass USD and SWIFT , and whatever scheme China cooks up in the future. This will really dent the ability of the USA to abuse the Dollar's status as the reserve currency to stop printing tonnes of money and raking up public debt in the long term without facing inflationary consequences.
> even on HN [...] you have to read 100s of comments before you read one comment that really challenges your thoughts

Not trying to be rude or a smartass, but umm... your comment didn't pass its own bar. Because you've set the bar incredibly high.

Even on HN, people come for some chatter/community, not only to have their worldview challenged every minute of the hour. Also, chatter is not the same as "no concern for subtlety".
Indeed, the internet amplified and accelerate everything - but as we've seen, arguably the largest harm that can come is through mass manipulation via public propaganda that's promoted - and that's not encrypted.

It's arguably different industrial complexes that have lead to mass surveillance, perhaps mostly the military-security industrial complex, that has lead to the current path; fear as a distraction from what's really needed is healing and strengthening the individual to not be brittle and prone to manipulation.
> what makes companies think some legal mumbo jumbo that isn't worth its bytes on a drive will somehow do?

While they may "think" that officially I do not believe they do internally. Fact: Enforcement takes years. Fact: The fines are often tiny. Fact: They make billions while this goes through court. Conclusion: They have every bit of motivation to act dumb while raking in the money.
>ER staff... still visit their patients.

Everyone shares information about their active patients... but nobody can follow up or share information on former patients anymore. It's an ER specific corner case I'm worried about, as they tend to see patients actively for a short amount of time, then are shut out of their lives by HIPPA.

>or posting a case on the 'gram.
There is a chilling effect on the discussion of interesting cases via social media in general... nobody wants to get fired in this atmosphere of fear. I agree that patients should have their privacy, but the pendulum has swung a bit too far.
>"When we think "programming", we think FAANG"

No we do not. Some of us do
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I would imagine that it's, in part, because they want to allow anonymous communication for political dissidents and the like. It's hard to make an app that is resistant to nation state level spying. It's that much harder to implement an anonymous payment system on top of that.

I know Bitcoin and the like exist, but you're vastly increasing the attack surface to identify someone.
> I have a feeling they will allow that as otherwise Facebook's predatory business model will make no sense until they find a way to trick users into consent

Luckily European courts don't really give a damn about Facebook or their business model.

It's not that European courts never play favorites with large companies, but Facebook isn't really known for paying a lot of taxes here and doesn't have many employees in Europe (at least an order of magnitude less than e.g. Volkswagen). Facebook is seen as a foreign company that doesn't know how to play by the rules, and was a major motivation for creating the GDPR in the first place.
Various industry surveys, like the one from comscore in 2019 suggest otherwise. IIRC it found that most American phone owners install only 1-2 new apps per year. I think they would've gone to more new websites than that.
> You'd probably be the lawyer who can code and any lawyer-adjacent tech company would love you.

As a lawyer who can code (years of experience as a professional software developer and years of experience as a practicing attorney) let me assure you, this is not the case. There just isn’t that much overlap, despite the common wisdom that such a thing should exist, it’s very hard to actually find.

Also, not everything outside of faang is ‘basic code’ - there’s a whole wide world out there!
Very cool article
I practically linked to _collections._count_elements already (linked Counter.update instead because I thought linking to the call site is clearer), but here it is: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2fe408497e6838b6fb761...

Again, very straightforward, based on dict. Python itself does not function at all without the dict implementation since it's the underpinning of the object model.

str is a builtin type. Calling str.split() a standard library method is... okay.
What about the ones who already own it? They would need to forgo their bitcoin right?
The point is that overall demand for many specific resources has peaked. Feel free to argue with the book's research, but here's the thesis:

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"In recent years we’ve seen a different pattern emerge: the pattern of more from less. In America—a large, rich country that accounts for about 25 percent of the global economy—we’re now generally using less of most resources year after year, even as our economy and population continue to grow. What’s more, we’re also polluting the air and water less, emitting fewer greenhouse gases, and seeing population increases in many animals that had almost vanished. America, in short, is post-peak in its exploitation of the earth. The situation is similar in many other rich countries, and even developing countries such as China are now taking better care of the planet in important ways."
> I don't understand this reaction.

You may get a better explanation from FreeCAD team on Twitter.

[0] https://twitter.com/FreeCADNews
And ridiculous westerner vacations at all inclusive resorts. The amount of waste that goes into fueling that industry is absolutely ridiculous, and yet of course no one would want bans on that!
Meat and cars contribute to climate change but also provide solutions some of the biggest problems that humanity has had historically - food and transportation. Bitcoin doesn't have the same upsides.
It reads like an ego stroke of how awesome software engineers are compared to all the other plebes in the world.

Also: being a monopoly helps.
A side effect of using the Vimperator extension for many years was that it provided a stable interface unaffected by upstream UI tweaks, while still benefiting from other feature and security updates. I couldn't imagine switching away from Firefox for any reason, but when Vimperator was no longer supported, I realized I didn't like what remained and evaluated alternatives. Eventually, I stopped installing Firefox on my machines because I no longer open it.
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The #1 thing holding people back from changing to Telegram or Signal is network effects and you want to add a paywall?

I would pay for a good messaging app, but most people wouldn't, and a messaging app most people don't use is a bad messaging app.
>Current, sure, but he showed up after Google was already successful. Becoming the CEO of Google made him successful, but he didn't make Google successful.

And the previous CEO of Google was Eric Schmidt, also not a software developer, and successful before taking the role at google.

>True but he co-founded it with a software engineer (Wozniak) who was arguably influential enough that he had the influence of a CEO if not the title.

Just about every "CEO" has people with outsized influence. Saying that Woz had the influence of a CEO but not the title kind of misses the point.

>He may not have held the title or had the function, but apparently he had the knowledge.

I know how to make a woodshed (I even did last year!). I don't think anyone would confuse me with a carpenter.
The main problem with discovery is that Compact Density is enabled from a toolbar at the bottom of the Customize Firefox page, which looks looks like one of those annoying floating footers that badly designed web pages use to waste your screen space. It is affected by "banner blindness" and is effectively invisible.

When I saw this article I checked the Customize Firefox page to confirm I had compact layout enabled. I did not see the toolbar. I compared the UI density with a screenshot, and it seemed I had already set it to Compact, which I vaguely remembered doing. Puzzled, I returned to Customize Firefox, and still failed to see the toolbar.

I then checked about:config (which was also sabotaged recently to make it slower and remove features), and found browser.uidensity set to 1, so I really did have Compact density enabled. I returned to Customize Firefox, and only then, on my third attempt, did I see the toolbar.
I'd welcome a worldwide cultural fast, sincerely.
What? Are you saying that whether aliens can make a distinction is an important part of a decision making framework?
It's rife in the industry. The drama this week is that my wife can't log in to Facebook because their code generator just doesn't work. The number in the app shows up, she types it, but she can't log in because apparently it's just wrong.

Due to their marvelous design, you need a personal account to run an advertising account for your place of work. Luckily she hasn't been logged out on her work laptop yet or she couldn't do a large part of her job.

Business support? Yeah good luck, try googling and you'll get pages of dead links or suggestions to click something when you're already logged in.
That's not true, according to the book. Both the US and many foreign countries have peaked in their consumption of many important resources. Feel free to argue with the book's research, but I found it compelling.
I feel your pain. The AMD fan is good enough thermally for my gaming machine (R5 3600), but I'm not a fan of the trend towards ultra RGB.
>This might not be an option for you, but have you considered changing your working hours?

This is irrelevant, as I'd like to have more chance to enjoy the sunset in a park in a company, not just by myself. I also would like my children to have at least an hour of the sun light after school, not before, when it absolutely doesn't matter as they are still groggy and can't really enjoy it. What I was trying to convey in my other comments, this is not strictly a personal issue.
This is the sad truth. We are lucky that we have alternatives for search engines. Too bad there isn't any real alternative to youtube.
It looks like the world as a whole consumes > 100,000 TWh per year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#Energ...
Unfortunately, that's hard.

Developers like in-app payment methods because all they have to do is integrate an SDK for payment, and then they get a monthly payment on their bank account and a bill for accounting, that's it.

If you want to handle payments yourself, you'll have to:

1) implement user management to deal with storing what stuff a user has purchased, with all the GDPR and customer support (forgotten passwords, hacked accounts, lost MFA creds) headache that comes from that

2) find a payment processor that operates in all your target countries (no, Stripe and Paypal alone won't cut it), and integrate these (and hope they don't run into the same issue with Paypal, who are known for deciding on a whim to withhold funds)

3) Issue individual bills to customers, account for stuff like cross-border VAT, insanities like county/city sales taxes, deal with refund laws

4) deal with fraud attempts, angry parents, ...

5) Re-implement recurring payment schemes if your business model wants these

In the end, app stores (and ad SDKs) are a matter of convenience. Big shops like Epic, Spotify, Netflix can get away with running lots of this infrastructure on their own, but 99% of small devs don't have the time, knowledge and legal requirements to deal with that.
Okay, I get the idea here, but... my account is younger than that and I'm sort of miffed by the notion that my votes shouldn't count at all. Furthermore, having the cutoff date be in the past means that I could never earn that right regardless of how much I participated after that.

I would be much more well-disposed to a view that only counts votes from accounts which are more than a year old, or some other criterion which reduces young and drive-by accounts, while still allowing people to eventually count as old-timers.
Assuming that wasn't intended sarcastically, I'm a bit more pessimistic. I think that the narrative would just move on to the next bogeyman to maintain the hostile stance. Between terrorists, paedophiles, organised crime and occasionally illegal immigrants, you always have an excuse for your political dilemma.
Okay, pretty annoying comment by him!
Or they short it instead, and profit from the country going to shit.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/list-of-fictional-cryp...

>ConTracked: A proposed replacement for government contracting. For example, the state might issue a billion ConTracked tokens which have a base value of zero unless a decentralized court agrees that a bridge meeting certain specifications has been built over a certain river, in which case their value goes to $1 each. The state auctions its tokens to the highest bidder, presumably a bridge-building company. If the company builds the bridge, their tokens are worth $1 billion and they probably make a nice profit; if not, they might resell the tokens (at a heavily discounted price) to some other bridge-building company. If nobody builds the bridge, the government makes a tidy profit off the token sale and tries again. The goal is that instead of the government having to decide on a contractor (and probably get ripped off), it can let the market decide and put the risk entirely on the buyer.

>Banned because: Wall Street developed a financial instrument that let them short ConTrackeds, then tried really hard to prevent bridges from being built.
> That's one of the constraints of the challenge: it has to be able to work on a stream.

I cannot find any stream constraint in either the article or the countwords repo. He just says "standard input" and his "test.sh" uses "<kjvbible_x10.txt".

You can mmap stdin/fd 0 after an `fstat(0,..)` no problemo. Can it fail and should you check errors? Sure (as can accessing stdin in any way, actually).

He even mentions memory-mapped IO as a further way to go in the article in the C part.
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Except China emits more than double the CO2 that America does. The USA emits less today than it did 10 years ago, while China's emissions grow exponentially. The original point was that there is a lot of work to do outside of rich, western countries.

I'm not saying America is blameless, or that it is all China's fault. I'm saying putting all of your effort and focus on America while ignoring the growth of the world's largest polluter will not solve the problem.
Unless you are an expert, you probably shouldn't roll your own security. Let trusted libraries and frameworks do the work.
> sales & engineering roles

In the other comment you said sales & marketing roles.

You just saw a candidate's video. How do you "find a culture fit"? What do you look for?
> Largely, scientists scoff at philosophy

the types that scoff usually are pseudo scientists who had gone through just enough academic brainwashing that makes them believe everything can be modeled as a system. it's the mindset that dominates Tech/STEM sadly. those who scream the loudest (usually those who read Sokal) are also the most clueless about what framework to use when. "A city is not a tree"[1], by Christopher Alexander is a fantastic example of how a "science above everything" mindset keeps us from having good things. Another example of fools (we have many) would be the idea that smart-contracts, blockchains can be used to model very complex social "systems of systems" (or anyone who peddles silver bullets).

[1] http://www.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexa...
I didn't really remember this part particularly well and have no opinion on whether it's true, but I was curious so I looked up that part of the book. Also, the way it is presented in the book it's pretty clear that they're talking about a rather specific subset of Mexican children. It looks like this part was based on research that took place in rural Mexico in the 1980s.

The context is that one of the authors of the book (Sarah LeVine I think) spent time observing families in Tilzapotla. The book describes the children in the book as being shockingly tolerant of their younger siblings (shocking to an American, I mean). Here's the authors' description and theory as to why the kids didn't fight:

> "When, after ten hours in the house, she turned off her video recorder, Sarah still hadn't seen the children squabble among themselves, much less come to blows...After watching their astonishingly good-natured behavior, it occurred to Sarah that Carlos had once been the apple of his mother's eye; and before him, Pablo, and so on all the way up to thirteen-year-old María. Rosa had given the best of herself to each baby, but once a new baby arrived, her attention had to shift. From then on, the only sure way the replaced child could earn his intensely busy mother's approval was by being with the baby who now filled his slot. To become a full member of the family 'team', he had to learn patience and kindness and to find delight in his 'follower.' Thus, the agrarian world contains examples of toddler environments that promote sibling solidarity and emotional relationships with multiple adults...American parents cannot simply borrow wholesale practices predicated on large households with hierarchical values, but we might be able to learn from them..."

That's the theory anyway.
A quick note on compressing XML. XML files typically have a high compression ratio because they consist of mostly redundancy, but compressing redundancy isn't free, you still end up with some overhead in the compressed file due to the redundancy. So if you pack the same data in a denser format, and then compress that, you typically end up saving a good chunk of space relative to the compressed XML file.