skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflexible people are less likely to compromise. The article and thread is all about how Firefox continues to be compromised.

One day people might start to see being inflexible and principled and not giving in might be a better characteristic than being easily compromised and selling out at every turn. Even when some principles are problematic. It's a cost benefit analysis ultimately and there are objectivly bad principles would could make this swing the other way of course.

I'm thinking of RMS as the model for this mainly too. Many here said he should go, but the FSF actually got the most members when they did, because some saw RMSs inflexibility as a strength.
If your core app functionality is not related to a specific social network (e.g. Facebook, WeChat, Weibo, Twitter, etc.), you must provide access without a login or via another mechanism.

So is this what often happens in a field with large players … only the current social networks can exist, no new ones may ever be launched in the App Store?
Can ublock block this? Do I have to switch browsers?
Seems to work for Wikipedia (possibly another dysfunctional example). I'd happily pay for Firefox too.

If nothing else, there's not that many rendering engines out there. Chrome, Brave and Edge are all Chromium. Safari is separate I guess, but that's tied to Apple platforms. I really don't want yet another Google monoculture.
Very toxic behaviour from this person.
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
I'm pretty sure Google currently uses an async ping https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_ping.asp) instead of a redirect to log what's been clicked. It's been a very long time (if ever?) since they didn't have result click logging at all.
I think that might be counterproductive on cockroach - the ideal key has locality for data accessed together, but also has writes generally spread across the key range. If all the new rows have a similar key prefix then the shard covering the end of the key range will be hot which limits scalability.

This is a difference from PG, where having all the writes be concentrated in the key range is helpful as the Btree nodes covering that will be more likely to be highly cached
Off topic: are you still abstaining from caffeine?

(Explanation: arrived at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15015671 when searching about "quitting"caffeine"for the Nth time..)
The sheer difference in placement and style between the "now now" button and the "allow suggestions" button is all one need to know to be certain it's a bad idea to allow that.

You don't need dark patterns to opt in your users to something good for them.
I hadn't heard of privacy.com cards, but that thought had crossed my mind. What is to stop organisations simply banning privacy.com cards?
An important thing, as far as I'm aware of, is that if you have a Gsync monitor, you want vsync enabled, but you don't want your GPU to max-out usage-wise or reach the max refresh rate of your monitor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR0vNs0ZdWI

Not sure how it behaves on windowed modes. For instance, Doom Eternal's fullscreen is actually composited on the desktop (could be a Vulkan thing), but doesn't seem to suffer from DWM overhead, latency wise.
> https://ticalc.org/ is a treasure of the internet.

Thanks! (I founded ticalc.org back in 1996.)

While calculators weren't my first programming experience, starting ticalc.org was formative for me. Getting all the TI hobby site maintainers (and ZShell developers) involved, registering the domain, setting up the server (Slackware!), etc. really led to my career in tech.

While I regularly encounter new technical challenges, almost every organizational challenge I've ever encountered as a technical leader since has had precedent from working on ticalc.org.

I do wonder whether and how ticalc.org should evolve now. Traffic and activity peaked before smartphones became ubiquitous (for obvious reasons) but it's still pretty popular - See https://ticalc.org/about/webstats.html.

We've always been strictly non-commercial and I don't envision changing that (mainly because I believe in our all-volunteer public service mission, but also because any serious encounter with bureaucracy would probably be fatal for the project.) But I am thinking about succession - what happens when our active staff no longer have the time or energy to maintain it.

I wonder if HN'ers with comparable experiences with long-running volunteer projects like this have some wisdom on this topic?
> for instance the FF/FG coalition in Ireland has been unable to do anything about housing, because any actual action is going to annoy _somebody_

Ireland has a ridiculously high percentage of population dependent on government support for housing. This is in the form of assisted rent payments which in effect, sets a high floor for rent. People receiving support are competing in the same market for housing as pretty much all workers.

We don't build government housing anymore because we saw the actual disaster that became of that.

The far left parties have a 'housing for everyone' nonsense manifest which a) Ireland doesnt have the labour force for, b) tax payers subsiding shit wages c) Ireland already has high income tax and sales taxes.

At some point there has to be the realisation that life on the dole shouldn't equate to a middle class lifestyle without the stress or debt when those who should have a middle class lifestyle don't have one because they're being squeezed in every direction possible and still have to take on hundreds of thousands of debt for mediocre accommodation.
I mean an example for when you'd want to put user data on the blockchain – rather than a description of the general category. (It's a mistake many mathematicians make at one time or other: declaring a property on all members of a certain set without first checking whether it's the empty set.)
Both Nvidia (and AMD?) have options to reduce latency to like 1 frame (edit: due to render ahead queue; not total latency) in their control panels. You probably pay for it with a bit of stutter when your system is pushed to the max - since there is no leeway buffer when frames don’t get finished in time.

Display latency from LCDs are another factor - something that was completely absence on CRTs.
Otomi supports SRE when using Kubernetes
There is only one reason the share price goes up. And that is when there is more buying than selling pressure.

Now there are many reasons why buying and selling pressure fluctuates. But those don't directly influence price. It's only buying and selling.
Why should Apple or anyone get a percentage? Let me pay at cost plus a fixed fee.
OS/2 should be an opensource project now...
It is, at least until the codebase grows so much that the IDE can no longer keep up with it.

(Or maybe it's just a problem specific to C++ projects and IDEs. The largest codebases I worked with, the ones where I hit this problem, were C++ ones.)
I'm not sure if that pro Paddle list is good for me as a customer. The access to my data at least isn't.
Sky’s new Glass TVs ditch satellite dishes for Wi-Fi
GCC and ICC typically do a reasonable job, with the right flags: https://godbolt.org/z/6a8no4n5a.
That last phrase (the punishment for violating record deletion laws) was a much softer ending to your post than I was expecting.
Recent exceptions:

1) Chrome in Android has recently begun to hang when trying to go back to a previous page. It's gotten so bad that I end up clicking multiple times, which all register in rapid succession. If I click more times than the history depth for the tab (say 3 or 4), I end up back on the home screen and a lost tab with lost (or at least not conveniently recoverable) history.

2) AMP. When Google began pushing AMP my objections were mostly based on principle; performance was mostly a wash for me. Now the AMP viewer is so slow and so crash prone that I'm conflicted. On the one hand, I'm glad to see that AMP is clearly failing. On the other hand, Android and Chrome still strongly favor AMP, and I'm too lazy to wrestle with Google over default settings, so when I don't have the presence of mind to explicitly open a web site (e.g. when using Google News) I'm left to suffer the poor performance and bugginess in addition to other intentional AMP headaches--lack of copy+paste, less scrolling and zooming control, etc.

Not quite the same thing, but related, technologies like QUIC are really only beneficial in the context of a web ecosystem built by Google. QUIC shines on websites pulling in many resources from disparate hosts, which in most cases is a situation created by advertising and analytics services. IOW, these days much of the benefits of Google's work simply pays down the debts Google itself created or advocated. And while Google still stands out for the amount of labor it invests in open source security and performance, it's just a matter of time before we pass break even into negative return territory. That happened long ago with Google Search itself; Google Search results are as slow, irrelevant, and obscured by obnoxious and misleading advertising as the competitors it originally, rapidly displaced. Heck, when Google began those investments (Android, Chrome, OS security, etc) they were crystal clear why they were making them--to nurture and grow an ecosystem into which they could grow their advertising business, same as their rationale for making a snappy search service and a non-intrusive advertising network. There's a limit to how well they can improve that ecosystem, but the limit for exploiting that ecosystem can easily result into a situation far worse than the one Google originally saved us all from.

Consider why rendering work is even relevant in 2021. It's not for the benefit of services like Netflix or YouTube, which already enjoy low-power hardware acceleration, and arguably not for games or similar interactive content. It's so they can continue shifting their advertising ecosystem from minimalistic text-focused display boxes to animations and videos peppered up, down, over, and under content views. They can't do that if advertising-laden web pages drain your battery in 15 minutes, as notorious Flash-based ads once did. Steve Jobs' famously removed Flash from mobile; Google, for obvious reasons, is taking the alternative path.
First Malaria Vaccine Approved by WHO
Sweden has announced they are suspending use of Moderna in people under 30
Honest question, how hard is it to create an extension to disable this "feature?" Or is there an option built-in to disable it?
Depending on what you're after there is a lot more than 2000 pages of documentation :)

That said, the C standard is also an impenetrable mess, yet people can start using it without resorting to it.
I mean, if a company is doing bad things, and particularly if it's breaking the law, it is not usually going to announce the fact to the world. Whistleblowing is very often how the truth gets out; how many more people would have had junk medical results if not for the Theranos whistleblowers, say?

Perhaps in an ideal world, the government would have perfect clarity on the bad things that companies were doing through regulatory oversight. But in practice we're not in that world and a nefarious company can quite effectively hide all sorts of wrongdoing for a long time.
How can a single configuration change cascade so quickly on facebooks network was it foul play or simply human error?
He said it's about Amazon later in the thread.

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1445926703256281090
From what you say it sounds like leaving is not an option. Can you make the job better in some way? Can you automate anything, and not tell your employer, so you look more productive but they don't know why? ;) Learning some bash and python to script stuff, could help here (and be v useful long-term skills). Make copious notes, to help with the context switching? If you're pretty much stuck, can you reduce outgoings and save some money, in order that one day you could work for a less-paid but more satisfying job? That could be a motivator, if you had a financial goal to reach, and could see yourself getting towards that daily? Do you absolutely have to live where you do, if local job market isn't fantastic? Is there some compromise involving moving "a little way down the road"? Just some ideas.... trying to help :)
Having watched The Boys just an hour ago, I couldn't agree more. So much of that show is made up of language that conceals intent and how it is used to preserve one's public image and save face, and you can immediately tell when someone is actually willing to tell the truth instead of skirt around the actual issues.

The incentives aren't made clear and you're left with the gaps to fill leading up to how decisions like these got made at an executive level. Does Mozilla stand to lose favor with Google or someone else by trying to be more honest about what it's trying to accomplish, or avoid?

Mozilla does stand to lose a lot of favor with its core audience by trying to act corporate now of all times, with Firefox marketshare at an all-time low. And I have to wonder if these kind of statements were universally accepted by the people who are a part of the company, on the foundation or corporate side. Are there any Mozillians that believe that this is not Mozilla as people remember it? Would they be willing to express their thoughts, if so?
>(don't mention Brave, I'm gonna get mad)

Just wonder the reason? Is it because it support the monopoly of google rendering engine? Or other reasons?
But if your vpn has a zero day, that lets you get to the ssh server. It's two layers of protection, you'd have to have two zero days to get in instead of one.

You could argue it's overkill, but it's clearly more secure
I have a friend who studied at the University in Linz, way back when. According to him, on the Universities System/370 they used to have an account name scheme where they simply concatenated the first 2 letters of the first name and the first 3 letters of the last name. Aledgedly, the scheme got changed after Professor Arno Schulz (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schulz) was understandably upset about his account name (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arsch).
Plastics! ;>
Intellectual fraud is somewhat overstating the fact that you disagree with someone else’s definition.

And it puts the blatant “Join the Ponzi scheme early!” stuff I’ve seen on crypto forums into an amusing paradoxical state.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency is over a decade old. Several lifetimes in tech. So far the use appears to be speculation, fraud and burning through electricity as fast as possible.

I hope they do crush it, for that last bit alone if nothing else.
Do you have a source showing the vast majority of revenue goes to leadership? In 2018, the CEO’s salary equaled 0.64% of revenue. Before we discuss whether that is right or wrong, we should at least agree on a set of facts.

https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-e...
There is way to little talk about this. Apple might still be entitled to the 30% (of gross purchase price paid by the customer) even if the developer is not using the IAP mechanism. The ruling did nothing to invalidate that.
> We know you love it, you're readers will love it too.

This should probably be replaced with:

"We know you'll love it, and your readers will too."

Prose-minded customers might be a little turned off by slightly grammatically incorrect copy.
> Why should Apple or anyone get a percentage?

Because it’s progressive to do so.
That's why when you are using a polished product, all that detail is hidden from you, and not explained or mentioned at all.

It's just how it is, take it or leave it. To get away with this you need to have sufficient authority and agency however.
Was the outage a configureration error by the admins or was it foul play?
BNW remains to this day one of my biggest disappointments when it comes to the classics. I remember reading it maybe fifteen years ago and I went in with this expectation to read this brilliant critique of modern consumer society everyone was referencing, what did I get? The antagonists of the book are called Marx, Lenina and Mustapha (read: muslims, women and commies running the world government), and the hero is a guy called John the Savage who reads Shakespeare in the redneck reservation and is the real woke one compared to all the sheep on soma and sex.

If someone wrote this book today you would think they have listened to too much talk radio, and I think it's one of the best examples of what Leo Marx called 'the machine in the garden' myth.[1] the anxiety of (predominantly anglosphere) authors that technology and industrialization disrupt their naturalistic and God given, pastoral community.

I think I might be one of the few people who read the book and came away liking the one world government more, because the book completely and utterly failed to convince me how it is anything but fear of modernity, technology and the liberation of women from reproductive obligations. That last part is very important and in that respect the book has aged particularly poorly. The author of the essay at the end calls the book a warning of 'feminine tyranny', and I think that's exactly right. Huxley seems to be dead afraid of a society in which the monogamous family is washed away by technology and higher forms of social organization, without really making the case why hanging out in the reservation is supposed to be any good.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_in_the_Garden
It really feels like this ivermectin hype was directly imported from Brazil. Brace yourselves for anal ozone and HCQ aspiration.

Well, at least it won't be the government itself rejecting vaccines and pushing those drugs...
Nah, I think being forced to implement it within 3 months is hostile. I think Apple refusing to send announcements through the mail is hostile.

Apps are just a single frontend to a larger system, and Apple thinks they can dictate the workings of that entire system just because you want to let users access your system from an Apple device. It's bonkers.

Imagine microsoft going: "Microsoft edge will refuse to render your website unless there is a "delete account button". How would that make you feel?
> And what are the benefits exactly ?

Slightly off topic but I wonder if WASM and the web can provide a “fixed” virtual platform for games.

A lot of games are heavily platform dependent, when the hardware for those platforms die the games will be nigh unplayable without a huge remastering effort or building an emulator of said platform which may or may not be technically feasible - even on PC we have games breaking as hardware advanced, e.g. Deus Ex had to be patched to work with multi core CPUs if I remembered right.
The internet is literally designed to survive WWIII. Your concerns about the US infrastructure is not incorrect but a management issue, not a technical one. In case of large scale BGP attacks much will go down but big ISP's like google will simply drop all non rpki routes and naughty neighbours & continue life per usual.
Perhaps such a attack should happen as this would force everyone to have their shit in order resulting in the likes of you having peace of mind instead of valid concerns.
I jumped over to chromium a few months ago. I suggest everyone else do the same.

This battle is over: Chrome won. Perhaps the war (whatever it is) isn't over yet.
You’d miss the value (and often ownership percentages) of anything illiquid (real estate, privately held companies/partnerships, and trusts).

That’s a significant slippage from the dystopian ideal of being able to calculate something that many think is none of your business.
Using DDG since years and am happy with it. There was a time where I used !g more often but that isn't the case anymore. And when I still do, I'm typically disappointed.
> Why do you think AAA games will not need downloading assets and logic?

As internet connections get faster it makes sense to stream/prefetch data directly from CDNs as needed instead of downloading everything upfront.

> Look at steam's catalog. Plenty of whacky quirky stuff is available.

Agreed, but that's the exception, not the rule. Look at Apple's app store ecosystem for a counter example where apps and developers are banned on Apple's whim. This couldn't happen on the web.
Not if neighboring states are of comparable size.
gfx.webrender.all no longer has any effect, as webrender is enabled everywhere by default (if supported by your hardware, which it probably is)

It would be very helpful if you could capture a performance profile while playing the video, by going to profiler.firefox.com and following the instructions.
..and further it is not possible to discern properly the relationship between a project and a contributor just because there is a time gap. If I wrote a project completely myself up to version 1.1 and then allowed other maintainers on to it who had taken it to version 1.2 I might feel I can merge whatever I like even after a gap. Not saying that is what happened here, just saying that it is impossible to discern from that discussion
Circa 1995/6 was it for me but on Casio calculators [1] There were books devoted to it, I was able to program games, school cheat notes, brilliant memories.
[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_CFX-9960GT
Here's another nice example of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA
It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN
Yep, because the number going up totally disproves any and all arguments against it.

Sigh.
> For mobile - If you don't trust Google, you should probably be on an iPhone IMO

I'm sympathetic to that argument, but ultimately until Apple supports sideloading more generally, (which is likely never), that lack of control of my device outweighs my concerns with Google's privacy practices.
I assume they want to retain "ownership" so they can execute the extend and extinguish steps unopposed
This was my first thought, then I remembered Google gives Mozilla hundreds of millions every year, Mitchell Baker is paid 3 millions/year (after 250 people were laid off) when Firefox is basically dying.
The pub in the village has been around since the 15th century. You can see original parts of the old building inside. There's a legend that smugglers used the pub for their clandestine activities and also there was a famous murder of a customs officer too.
I didn't fail to, I didn't even try to.

1 - there is a process of public representation and societal input via elected government representatives, transparency, equality, and indirectness. EVERYONE pays the local government which then decides on priorities and apportions funds. Their taxes, like your and my taxes, go to all government services not just police.

2 - does not and is effectively equivalent to paying protection money to the mob.

I'll be honest that I don't see this point as a good faith argument. Unless you are making some societal critique here on the number of governmental functions, up to and including aesthetic preferences for hair styles [0], that US society assigns to police fundamentally usurps the process of democracy?

[0] https://centralrecorder.com/mom-calls-police-after-17-year-o...
"Non-profit" is a type of business, but not a business model.