skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could I switch to _a_ Chromium based browser in the future? Sure.

But if I look at the candidates?

Chrome - Privacy issues with Google, e.g. linking browser sign ins to web page sign ins, FLOC, etc., no ublock on mobile, manifest v3 limits to adblocking

Vivaldi - Closed Source

Brave - I disapprove of their past actions regarding cryptocurrency, misleading users by holding donations in escrow, or the privacy implications of inserting their own referral codes

Opera - Their new owners have a poor track record.

Edge - Microsoft's actions with Windows 10 and pushing for sign ins and the Windows Store don't leave me trusting them much either.

ungoogled-chromium - Lacks features like browser sync, no android equivalent, etc., are they going to fork it to the extent of keeping the older adblocking APIs or stick close to upstream?

So like, if Vivaldi went open source, I'd be open to trying it, but until then, Firefox it is
He was not sure. They moved for family reasons, as described in one of the first few paragraphs of the article.
>For the most part poor working conditions are not the problem at big tech. Unethical decisions surrounding wellness of users are.

A reasonable point. However, it seems to me that those unethical decisions can create poor working conditions.

If I know that the work I'm doing is actively harming others, that, as someone with a conscience, directly affects my working conditions for the worse.

I guess it's a matter of perspective.
I've tried a bunch of the cheap / unlimited players. Any claim that they offer what S3 offers is usually totally and completely false. Either bandwidth is not actually unlimited or its terrible quality, or storage is not reliable or or or.

With S3 I've never had a problem with data loss. Eventual consistency stuff was totally annoying back when that was the way they did things, though that was documented. Dev support is strong if you are paying for it if you have a config issue. WORM support is great in key areas (regulatory, ransomeware protection for backup durability etc).
An operating system which only runs code written in a safe language (without escape hatches) would be useful to enforce capability-based security at a finer level than processes. If you sandbox a program, you could choose which individual functions/classes/modules have access to the filesystem and network by choosing which ones to pass in an object with access to the filesystem. And the program would have no way other than these objects to make raw syscalls (much like you can't call fopen in browser JavaScript).

But from what I heard, Java tried SecurityManager at the language level and it failed. So I'm not sure. Also I haven't researched capability-based security deeply, so I'm not an expert in this field.
CFn supports stack rollback alarms. All you need to do is create an alarm for failing ECS tasks.
It also mostly checks for English naughty words and not much else. People can have fun in lots of other languages, so it would seem this is a small sample.
But Google is funding them with... advertising money. Collected from your searches and search suggestions. I'm really unsure why reliance on Google is better than other options?
This feature is a strong do not want.
Sometimes data is relational, sure. But even in SQL-land you generally end up wanting to denormalize it for performance. I guess "optimized for not doing joins" is sort of true, but even on an SQL database that's something you optimize for in your live dataflow. Meanwhile not being able to have collection columns or sum types is a much bigger and more common data modelling problem in my experience - yes PostgreSQL has JSON columns but they're non-standard, not supported by all the drivers, not compatible with your in-memory test database, and ultimately still fairly clunky.

> Once you need to start gathering stats on the data as well, relational tables become more easy to gather information on how often you are talking to various people or lengths of conversations with people. Most of the functionality for statistical gathering and other use cases can be replicated in NoSql but it involves extra effort that SQL just gives you.

Now this I do sort of agree with - the one thing SQL databases are good at is semi-ad-hoc statistics/reporting/aggregation. Several systems I've worked on had an ETL pipeline that ended with dumping everything in an SQL or SQL-like datastore for the data folks to play around with. But you can't do that kind of querying in your primary live datastore once you have any sort of scale - at best you'll slow down your main system, quite possible you'll deadlock or worse. So even when I've worked on systems that were all-SQL, we ended up with much the same architecture of an ETL pipeline dumping data out of the primary datastore into a separate reporting datastore.
Or you can think of the trucking industry as subsidised. Trucks are used to haul goods to shops yes? Taxing them more will just increase the price of everyday goods and services (that depend on goods to function), it will unpopular among just about everyone but the rich (who won’t feel the impact of the price increase much).
Until a better alternative comes;Firefox so far is still usable compared to Chrome, with some extensions and some settings.Simple but annoying example: when google first removed tab-muting then completely changed it so that it applies domain-wise.

I'm probably in the minority but i'm not keen to adopt bleeding-edge (and useless) features just for the joy of being different.Ungoogled chromium/qutebrowser/etc[something like browsh or nyxt even] are browsers that i use for different of reasons depending on needs.Principles for me come first, not convenience.And while i understand why some might not do it, i find it funny when they come back crawling after these browsers eventually become unusable or be surprised when they find out the respective companies violate some core principles: privacy, ethics, colluding with govs,etc.
What's the lesson from the second one?
Wow, I haven't heard this in twenty years or so. I think I found it searching through the windows folder pre-internet looking for something to do.
I don't think it's a big stretch - I always consider Rust to be in the ML family of languages
I'm in that age band, and I'm unlikely to ever get married. There are too many economic entanglements for it to be worth the risk of it, so few people of my age can afford to have children anymore anyways so it's not like there's any legal necessity left now that we all have insurance, and it only costs $10 and 10 minutes to notarize a domestic partnership declaration versus $50,000 and months of drama to satisfy the societal obligations of a Wedding(tm). Who has any energy left for drama these days? I sure don't.

I look forward to finding out whether universal basic incomes has a delayed effect on marriage rates over a ten year period, though.
I was under the impression that Wallaroo was the (sole) organization behind Pony. But I guess that's not true the way this is written.
The fact that it's opt-out is pretty hostile, and it's not like they didn't know how it was going to be received; Brave browser made a [supposed 0] blunder when they appended affiliate tags to popular sites[1] - pretty close to doing ads in autocomplete results, and it was received just as badly.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005729

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027
Show HN: Integry – Native Zapier for Your SaaS
You'll hit all sorts of other fun problems by vertically scaling.

- Many concurrent connections to a single database which Postgres has traditionally not handled well (though improved in recent versions).

- You're now on the hook for writing a database control plane.

- Backup and restore is much flakier since the data volume is so much larger. Lots of weird shit starts happening when you download tens of TB.

- In general, everything is a harder once you start nearing machine limits.
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- Create Integration Wizard, embed them in app, or roll out an entire marketplace.
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Just launched on Produ
Mozilla Foundation created and owns Mozilla Corporation.
“ But imagine how large our stock pile of toilet paper could be!”
I took think id be terrible at this. I doubt I'd describe my own face to a sketch artist well, let alone a fleeting meeting with a stranger..
Validating consumer input is good. Throwing it on the floor when it fails validation is bad. You want to separate "accept the consumer's input" from "validate it", which is something that's very hard to do in RDBMSes.
Yes, and also "Funes the Memorious" (for me) as well
On a platform I don't control, separate from the cloud provider I'm deploying to and requiring both billing and PII, I suppose? No thanks.
Part of the sketch artist's job is to work with people who aren't familiar describing images.
But the whole point is that it's not a proof-of-work crypto, or at least not a proof of useless mathematical number spinning. It's based entirely on carbon capture.

There are non-proof-of-work cryptos already out there.
There is not a single UI change that they have made in the last five years that I have liked. The new look for tabs that they pushed a few months ago is an utter disaster.

Every decision they have made in recent memory has been in the pursuit of getting rid of user customization. Something which Firefox was originally built on. This is the reason they are hemorrhaging users.
Omg this brought back some ticalc.org nostalgia.

I had to check and the site is still going… crazy!
sql server scales incredibly well with the hardware but so does its price
As a side note, I got a subscription to the online edition of the NY Times included with my local newspaper. When I cancelled my local newspaper subscription, the NY Times access was never removed, meaning I have free access to the Times. I've told them about this issue several times, and they acknowledged it, and yet, I still have free access to everything. My account says I'm a "subscriber." So, apparently , it is sometimes just as hard to stop getting something for free.
If you could make an extra hundred million dollars by fucking over users, some would say you are crazy not to, yes. Opinions vary, but that's sort of the essence of it.
Genuinely curious if this could possibly work when there are so many free option pre-installed on devices (Edge and Safari) or only a click away (Chrome). What would you have to charge willing users a year to break even on this?
I had an Iomega Zip drive, too! So cool, but the higher capacities were too expensive and the parallel adapter didn't work everywhere. I forget if there were compatible discs, not made by Iomega, that were cheaper?
Fast, small footprint, highly battery life friendly. Bunch of extensions. Extensions support on desktop and mobile. Trustworthy repository of extensions. Special ad-blocking extensions API that delivers high performance and does not require extensions access to content of the page. Tab-groups out-of-the-box. Read later feature that is synchronised across devices out of the box, no third party service required. Bunch of privacy protecting features. Apple's hide-my-email thingy built-in.
LetsEncrypt was bootstrapped by Mozilla. Mozilla research contributed large amounts of research and development of Vorbis, Opus and AV1.

Dav1d, Wasmtime, Wgpu, Asm.js which later turned into WebAssembly. "rr", the reverse debugger. Rust, obviously. The list continues.
Just dispute the next charge with your card company.
There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time...

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg...
[2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds
> All the use cases for referential integrity - and transactionality - are like this though. You can't actually use them for anything, not with a web app where the client can't hold a transaction open.

You should probably tell the millions of companies actually using them for things that they're wrong. I'm sure they'll feel very silly.
What's the justice?
when they say free egress, it means there is a rate limit probably. How many GB max can you transfer in 1 day at 10Mbits/s. You have to set a limit as your shared hardware has limits
Privacy Decrypted #1: What is a threat model?
I think it would've been even more immersive if the screen was warped to cover the CRT
California is looking at a road usage charge. Longer term, as gas tax revenue drops, it seems inevitable. And other jurisdictions will do the same.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
It seems to be a Tandy 1000 RSX which supports Windows 3.1

Original photo is from here, which has Windows 3.1 running:
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/RLRLX.html
Safari is nowadays getting ~$15,000,000,000 per year with a Google search deal. Meanwhile Mozilla has been ignoring their core user base going as far as laying off development teams working on Firefox components in the name of cost saving while they try to diversify income to support the rest of Mozilla (which makes basically nothing) yet they've retain their own Google search deal with lower user share for <$500,000,000 per year anyways.

At this point a better risk avoidance strategy would have been focus on Firefox development and retaining user share (particularly on Mobile where they basically faded to nothing while holding onto the old browser engine on Android for far too long) to have decades worth of current income on hand from the same deal they've kept anyways.
If you liked this chaos, you'd love my 15+ years of cobbled-together efforts at limiting forum spam and the like. I suddenly don't feel quite so alone in the myriad efforts needed to tackle this sort of thing.
They actually made it very clear to say that "the warranty doesn't cover any damage that you do" by opening it, not the act of opening it.
Falkon fits those criteria.

https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon
Shoot Your Shot: A Guide to Effective Cold Outreach
The TI-89 blew my mind when I accidentally discovered Exact Mode. I had fed it a problem from my Number Theory homework just for fun... it wasn't supposed to actually answer it!
I doubt that very much, and one of the points of the article is that there is a shortage of data to back up claims like yours.

In any case, for people who want to write OS or cryptography or embedded systems or arithmetic libraries or ... in C, this is not a relevant point.
Boooo.
I think Mozilla would make some dough if they did periodic fundraising campaigns similar to how Wikipedia does it. A simple banner on the new tab page with a heartfelt message on the state of funding with a link to their donation page would probably be much more simple to implement than this search suggestion thing.
Old people will show up and say: "Paid Firefox, I remember that when it failed as Netscape." Although technically that was Netscape Communicator? Maybe times have changed though.
People map their mental model of others onto text as they read, which is one reason why text-based communication, while low bandwidth, is also often misunderstood due to all of the subtle information compression that is lost during the information exchange.
"late stage capitalism" is such a cringey adolescent Marxist term, isn't it?
To stay true to the endless rivalry, here is the HP calculator resources:

https://www.hpcalc.org

Both the TI and HP were tremendously good entry points into programming and, especially for kids who had little interest in or no access to computers.
This can be true of many apps and the internet, despite the endless content it has. I don't use Facebook, but I check Instagram or Twitter too often. I do the rounds of the handful of news sites I check, and then check again before there's anything new.

I try to make sure my Books app is front and centre, and I always have something on the go. Doesn't always work though.
poll: would you like to see ads in the address bar?

100% - NO
So if Zuckerberg reinvested thru a mutual it would be ok?

Was the problem with Theranos that’s it’s board wasn’t diverse enough?

I wonder how a Facebook without Zuckerberg perform? Would it zip along for a while before slowing to irrelevance like the times Jobs left Apple?
How is this not correct? UB = Undefined Behavior.

Or are you saying that UB is not from the C++ community? That could certainly be true, I am just describing the situation as I see it where C++ disallows more types of casting or reinterpreting than C does (even if compilers allow it).

One salient example I heard was that the only way to legally read the bits of a float in C++ is to memcpy the float onto an integer type. whereas in C its legal (I believe by using a union).
A self-condemnation should not contain a ‘but…’.
Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces
> What does the form have to do with anything? That’s just part of an application, nothing special.

To be able to actually use database transactions you'd need them to extend across the form's lifetime. You can do that with a local application, but not with a webapp with the web request cycle.

> What about storing the results in memory until you can make sure it is successfully stored?

That has all the same problems as storing your data in memory and not using a datastore. In this scenario the data can never be stored because it now violates referential integrity.

> Also, what language/framework have you been using because these things are routinely handled by any that worth anything.

Many of the big-name Python or JVM-based ones, but it's a fundamental problem that can't be solved at that level. Which language/framework are you claiming handles this well?
I posted this to HN 10 months ago but it got no attention.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/04/virtual-librar...
Why not use Rust? It can do what you want.
For what it's worth: while I'm not a lawyer, I'm a past ASF board member, VP Legal Affairs, and VP Incubator. Not that you should take my "argument from authority" as gospel, but that should give some perspective on why I'm focusing narrowly on the issue of copyright assignment. I've explained these issues many many times to many many projects, dealt with conflicts over administrative control analogous in some ways to the one at hand, etc.

Copyright assignment is extremely cumbersome and difficult. To achieve it, all copyright owners must be willing to give up their own copyright, which many organizations and many individuals are not willing (or even able) to do.

From my standpoint, it is unthinkable that the .NET Foundation would say that their contribution model is to license, and then slip copyright assignment language into an agreement on the sly. There would be hell to pay if that were the case. The contribution models, how you run the organization, etc., they're quite different.

EDIT: Mea culpa. I have found additional documentation that conflicts and reveals that there is now an an additional copyright-assignment track. See my soon-to-appear reply.

> > Project means the projects owned or managed by Contributor and listed below that is assigned to the .NET foundation hereunder.

> If this is assigning copyright to the .NET foundation, is it bad faith to not make that clearer?

That clause doesn't assign copyright. While IANAL, from my perspective copyright assignment language would be much more specific than that.

EDIT: There may be additional language later.

> the project authors are providing a different document

Yes, that's true unfortunately. I wish that the project author had provided the whole thing because that would make our discussion easier. I can't get at the actual current document because it's sent via Docusign, and I'd need to actually submit a project to the DNF to get at it.

I tried, though, because clearing this misunderstanding is important.

> What else is there to own in an open source project?

In terms of intellectual property: copyright, trademarks, and patents.

But then there is also administrative control over project resources: domains, Github organizations, possibly physical resources such as servers or test hardware, accounts at various places, upload permissions for distribution channels, occasionally bank accounts, etc.

And specifically, this conflict is about administrative control over project resources and permissions on Github.

> The trademarks? How many of these projects even have trademarks?

Well, technically few have registered trademarks, but in general you get a trademark by using it in commerce. So all of them have at least a claim on a trademark, although it may not be enforceable if there's a conflicting registered mark or if the project name is too generic.
This is a donation to Mozilla which as they clearly don't give a fuck about Firefox's success has a snowballs chance in hell at funding Firefox development.

> Contributions go to the Mozilla Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization based in San Francisco, California, to be used in its discretion for its charitable purposes. They are tax-deductible in the U.S. to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Another one that I'm not sure is true or not:

Intel get the Apple gig -> Gets called Intel Core i.e. Apple Core.
As far as I understand, no warranty does, it’s just that car companies (where warranty work is usually talked about) err on the side of happy customers, even when it’s those customers’ faults (like burning a clutch too much because someone doesn’t know how to drive a manual. E.g. maaaaaaybe it might have been a bad clutch that caused it to die after 20k miles)
That was my first thought, the theme song came rushing right back. I found it on YouTube https://youtu.be/uZDG4dlU5uY but I think my PCjr was slower than the machine that recorded this because the song was much more sparse back when I played the game.
It’s a matter of some pragmatism. At least their sovereign wealth fund is trying. As much as I wish all nations would take more serious action on the issue, it would seem self defeating for a small nation to step out too early ahead of larger nations in cutting off a major source of revenue. Meanwhile, maybe they’re doing better with the profits for themselves and the world by directing their wealth fund as they are.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/norways-sovereign-wealth-fund-b...
An actual social network would let you choose how you feel, which is why you can choose your friends who might all be downers and feel horrible, and the social network will let them share their despair with you.
If I ever start my own company with a real phone system, I’m putting canyon.mid as the on hold music. How cool would that be?
The difference between engagement algorithms and magazines when it comes to potential risk is in the orders of magnitude.

It's well known that engagement algorithms create a feedback loop to trigger negative emotions as they are the easiest way to increase engagement.

This is possible with traditional media, but nowhere near the immediacy or effect of an engagement algorithm.
it's a game changer for product-led SaaS apps
Question is, would you be able to put a Soundblaster 16 inside it?
We definitely thought about it, but decided against it. We've re-used a lot of it in some other endeavors we're working on so we don't really want to share the IP.
Mechanics and Definitions of RFR Cross Currency Swaps
Make it run Linux and piggyback Valve.

FWIW The notion that a company like Amazon or whatever can have it's tentacles in these kinds of things at will is proof they are getting too big.
Did the extra heartbeats ( Premature Atrial Fibrillation?) disappear once you reduced the number of hours?

Sorry that your were in that situation (working that much). I wonder if it was because you felt you had to, or:

>> I miss the obsessive all nighters

because you wanted to (eg working on one's own startup maybe)