skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point, for everyday users, the amount of friction and bright red will just mean that they move on to another site. What popular site isn't using HTTPS?

But I'm not even talking about desktop browsers, here. It'll start with mobile devices. iOS and Android going HTTPS only with their default browsers is entirely within the realm of reason. Flash was functionally dead once Android gave up on it within a few years. Yes, there was a long tail of enterprise users and people who refused to give it up.

Similarly, there will be a very long tail of HTTP. But Apple and Google are in a position to kill it just like they did Flash.
Germany has significant environmental regulations and oversight groups to overcome. Tesla succeeded by more or less with their “come at me bro” approach to regulatory hurdles. I doubt Intel shares that appetite for risk.
looks like the DNS servers, nsX.dns.nic.club, are missing:

removed old block of random text, updated in this GIST: https://gist.github.com/tiernano/4cb839fde7c2e8a71ef7be9a95c...
It is surprising that WSJ would publish something so much full of nonsense.

Control of HIV epidemic is an example of successful campaign to avoid it. Unfortunately it has not worked so well in Africa as it has in developed countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_...

Or perhaps the author of this opinion piece wants to say that Africa is full of homosexuals and drug addicts?
Mozilla might be the best out of this, but they're also in the weaker position. Ads, whether they respect privacy or not, give off a scummy feel to users. The clean Chrome UI, even if it tracks you in a hundred ways, "looks" more trustworthy to users than a browser riddled with ads.

It's bad enough to have to instruct people how to disable the New Tab ads, now you have to add one more step. At this point it becomes pretty awkward:

"Don't use Chrome browsers, they don't respect your privacy and are bad for the web! Use Firefox instead. Oh but wait you have to disable integrated ads first, just do this and that and this and I swear it's fine!"
When their market share has dwindled from ~30% to 3% in the past 10 years....? Not the smartest move imho.

Focus on speed, not ads.
There was a study done recently that no major DBMS product can scale past 64 cores for similar reasons that Postgres can't -- too much contention on shared resources like locks.
Paying 30 percent extra is not unilaterally better for the consumer.
> if the Brexit referendum were held 2 years later then remain would have won simply because enough members of older generations (which lean heavily Leave) would have died off.

Isn't it also possible that some remainers, a few years older, would have changed their mind?
Google and Microsoft do build that in. Google Chrome's default search engine is Google, so the search suggestions come from Google. I am not sure that Google includes sponsored results in those suggestions, but at the very least they do harvest your data to advertise to you better in the future. Microsoft does the same thing by making Bing their default search engine.

Like with Firefox, you have to change your preferences if you want privacy.
Can you share? I've been thinking of doing the same and would love to see some prior art.
I’m comparing a small general purpose computer to a big one. How is that an invalid comparison?

Just because everyone does the same thing on a mobile phone doesn’t make it any more sensible.
"not left. not right"
Seen that before. Here in Europe that means "right" all the way.
With the erosion of the W3C as a standard body, ongoing IP lawsuits and closed source/specs, some day the browser lockin may become real and slowly manifest all around us.

Compare that scenario to the nowaday advertising popup and thank <pasta> that the market hasn't been taken over and the numb masses haven't adopted it yet.

It feels weird to write this, but somehow i am glad.
I thought it was something along the lines of "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can break hearts"

Basically, the pen is stronger than the sword, kind of morale.
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Ah see this is the critical difference:

‘2) fit aftermarket parts, and the manufacturer is allowed to void your warranty only if they can prove that the part contributed to the fault.’

In the case of electronic products, we don’t assume things that things that look the same, perform the same.

An aftermarket iphone screen for example could even be from literally the same assembly line but perform so poorly that nobody reasonable could expect Apple to uphold their warranty on a phone with it installed. That’s why QC testing exists.

All other differences can be derived from that basis.
The subscription section also seems wrong. Apple has subscription support. I can start and end my subscriptions at any time.
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A fantastic work, one of the few true graphic libraries that are not the usual pset and drawcircle but true gui management in plain C!

regarding esp32 porting, i have seen that it is possible to use in conjunction with other graphics libraries as 'low level drivers' (e.g. bodmer's classic TFT_eSPI[0]) but i still don't understand the pros and cons of this approach; hypothetically, if i used faster LovyanGFX[1], would LVGL gain in responsiveness?

if so, how to do this?

[0] https://github.com/Bodmer/TFT_eSPI

[1] https://github.com/lovyan03/LovyanGFX
does Cockroach really use key prefix, vs a hash of the key? I would have thought it would be important to avoid unexpected performance hits resulting from key generation approach.
VCs see market disruption as an opportunity to invest in businesses that can take advantage of the change to seize a chunk of market share.

When a bunch of trading barriers appear, cutting off players from participation in a market, startup opportunities will abound - that’s not surprising.

Similarly, an epidemic of window-smashing might see record VC investment in window repair startups - that hardly refutes the broken window fallacy. The signal that is ‘increased investment activity’ doesn’t necessarily point to economic health.
> The Netherlands was too greedy for Natura 2000 subsidies and now we can't build houses, need to shutdown farms etc because we would exceede Nitrogen levels.

The root cause there is that we had 20 years or so to get nitrogen (technically nitrogen oxides and ammonia) emissions under control, but instead of actually fixing it, the government tried all kind of paper tricks to make it seem as if less nitrogen was emitted. The courts finally shut that down in 2019, so now it's become an urgent problem.
Swap files can be dangerous as some filesystems require memory allocations to write and if you're out of memory...
I'm switching to Nyxt browser on Linux and keep only Safari on Apple devices. Mozilla indeed developed a brilliant way to lose last 5% of market share.
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Mozilla is woke. It's a failing company and a failing browser.
Naturally you can only perform meaningful audits if you can have them performed by a party you trust and you have the ability to impose sanctions due to non-compliance.

That's not going to be true for all companies, but it will be true for many companies. Especially if they have any form of economic activity within some jurisdiction. Then it is up to the users to choose services that are under some acceptable regulatory control.

The fact that it can't be made perfect with one move doesn't matter. If things can incrementally be made better for the users whose data is used to generate immense revenue, that's a step in the right direction.

Decentralized models are interesting, but surprisingly hard to do, let alone do well. Not only from a technical point of view, but from a business point of view. There is also the challenge that just about every incumbent today has a vested interest in making sure these ideas do not get traction as it would rob them of what makes companies valuable.
On ChromeOS and Windows, you can use a desynchronized 2D or WebGL canvas to avoid the additional latency at the cost of tearing artifacts and no ability to synchronize updates with the surrounding DOM.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/05/desynchron...

We added this for low latency drawing in Keep and Chrome Canvas and the ChromeOS PDF annotation mode.
I would guess the secondary market is best. You might be able to find direct buyer, but that might be tricky (interesting side idea is maybe start a new tab on this site for these kinds of transactions/listings). I kind of doubt the company is interested in them at this stage. Maybe one of the existing investors is, but that might be tricky to find them.
The comment you are replying to is referencing the language used in the statement made by Mozilla.

I hope it is not coming to you as news the fact that those corporate statements are scripted, likely much more heavily than a TV show.
Hard to say how their IAP setup will work, but this isn't far from how Paddle works for online checkouts today. They separately track your customers and your 'audience' - the people who tick the 'send me marketing' box during checkout (https://paddle.com/support/what-is-paddle-audience/).

Customer emails are available, but it's explicit that they haven't opted-in for marketing, so if you're subject to GDPR or anything similar (most Paddle vendors, since I think the EU is Paddle's core market) then you can't use the email for anything but necessary account setup & support. Meanwhile audience emails are explicitly fair game for upsells/offers/etc.
While not familar with how things are in the UK, I understand DNO, which is the layer of the distribution network. Which means the part from power-plant->substation->high voltage line to at least one other substation near a city, or so. That does not include middle voltage into the city, or further downstepping until it is fit for your wall socket or similar.

If it claims to, it is a political fiction like so many other. In reality transmission losses from the one virtual plant powering the grid to your wall socket range from about
50% to 60% depending on the grid and many other factors.

Anything else is wishful thinking.
What's incredible to me, is his ongoing, 70 year acting career dating back to the 50s. He's been working onger than many have been alive!
Isn't this situation a counterexample though? Nontechnical ways to prevent behaviour were attempted, and failed.

For distributed software development processes, the only thing that works are hard boundaries. No hard boundary -> implicitly tolerated.

For instance, "the vast majority of behaviour" includes every line of code in a repo. The only viable way of preventing undesirable behaviour of a software system is to enforce passing tests before merging. A mandatory technological safety net baked into the developer's workflow.

All of these boundaries are to prevent human error propagating to production. Merging changes without review shouldn't be possible.
I avoid swap since it needs to be encrypted to protect sensitive data written out from memory to disk. Instead I reserve more memory for the kernel vm.min_free_kbytes based on the installed ram and also based and some redhat suggestions, reserve more memory in vm.admin_reserve_kbytes and vm.user_reserve_kbytes, adjust vm.vfs_cache_pressure based on server role and finally set vm.overcommit_ratio to 0. This worked well on over 50k bare metal servers with no swap. OOM was extremely rare outside of dev. OOM basically only happened with automation had human induced bugs that deployed too many java instances to a server. All of the servers had anywhere from 512GB to 3TB ram and nearly all the memory was in use at all times.
What an unimaginative, dull-witted way to skirt around the concrete criticisms made in TFA.
You are wrong.

It takes no effort to enforce reviews for pull requests. So why not just do it? If that’s the desired behavior, why not just enforce it as the desired behavior?

Relying on people to remember rules or adhere to some informal policy isn’t scalable, and complicates onboarding for new maintainers who may not be aware of the repo’s “culture”.

We are tech people, do things technically.
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While I agree these are "wealth creation" mechanisms, what the blog describes is market (economy) inefficiencies that enable arbitrage.

So by spotting an inefficiency and exploiting it, you profit.

tl;dr explore and exploit.
> It's very limited, poorly designed in some places and extraordinarily slow in others.

Which parts? I do remember the docs being quite sparse when I was doing the initial integration. Most of my support questions about "how do you do X with the API?" were answered quickly but the answer was often "you can't" for a few surprising things (like grabbing a subscription via email lookup but maybe this has changed). Saying that, once I had it set up I haven't had to touch it and haven't had any issues, but my needs aren't that complex. A basic portal to let users check and edit their subscriptions would be nice though instead of everyone having to build this themselves.
Since we're all reminiscing here, let me throw in Michael Walthius's Echoes from 1994 which totally dragged me deep into the MIDI collecting world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQyhRd0Wsew
Is it easy to deactivate though? I checked the group policy template provided by Mozilla, I don't see how deactivate it across the organization.
Interesting - I haven’t read that. I wonder how it will work for PHEVs
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Then that part has changed. I had to talk on the phone when I canceled about 8 years ago
Honestly I'd rather them assault every affiliate link and ad to be their own. I'm using their browser for free, they should get paid for it.
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Not at all, pushed all the recommendations. Thanks again for pointing out the mistakes, I think I hit a nerve with everyone who visited the homepage today :(
bit of digging:

6 DNS servers for nic.club (nsX.dns.nic.club) and none are responding.

all IPs are in the routing table of my routers, so its not a Facebook style issue...

IPs are:

156.154.144.215
156.154.145.215
156.154.159.215
156.154.156.215
156.154.157.215
156.154.158.215

all seem to be owned by NeuStar Inc (https://bgp.he.net/AS397220#_prefixes)

Weirdly, MTR to the IP hits the server, but DNS is not respodning on it...
A decade or so back I got to take a tour of London's Italian Quarter. It's mostly gone now but fragments still exist, like the Chiappa mechanical-organ factory:
https://www.facebook.com/chiappalimited

It would be an amazingly cool hack to adapt a pipe-organ to play Midi tracks off a USB key.

Or, the flipside, to design a machine that could print pipe-organ rolls from MIDI tracks.
I want to say it was probably installed in '85 and I saw it in '94; but i wouldn't swear to those dates.

I'm pretty sure it was the only dot matrix printer with a serial port i ever saw. Even daisy wheels were parallel port by the time this went in; but they had a like 50ft cable to move it to the other room. Someone worked hard and paid large to set that up originally.
Very interesting.

Former debate at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19397817 ,

but it seems that this is a new implementation (not anymore https://github.com/generative-music/generative.fm but as of a few months https://github.com/generative-fm/play )

Note, if on mobility and battery: computation client side, CPU intensive.
>Only Windows is using x86/x64

Yeah, X64 is only used by windows, that's like ~80% of the desktop computing market, plus nearly every server and cloud instance out there, so not much at all. /s

Why do some users assume that the whole world revolves around Apple's iOS/M1 Mac ecosystem as if it exists in a vacuum?
Well the data suggests no.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/0...

It's "possible" but it's also no where near enough people.
They aren't...
This is neither here nor there, but I learned from watching Louie that "faggot", the derogatory term for homosexuals, has the same origins as the word "fascism" – a bundle of sticks. The idea is that in the dark days of witch trials, one would, apparently, not only burn supposed witches, but also homosexuals. However, since homosexuals were thought of as less than witches, while a witch got the stake, the homosexuals were thrown in with the bundles of firewood. The now archaic word for a bundle of sticks was faggot, or fire-faggot in the case of firewood. The part about different forms of herecy receiving different treatment at the stake might be artistic license, the rest is true though.

https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/67623#eid46436...
I feel like responsible people (such as yourself) have a hard time seeing that the problem is that the vast majority of people are not responsible and will happily abuse my information.

I don't think Apple is necessarily altruistic here. But I am able to essentially use them to protect me against people who will abuse my information.

And I also think that developers miss the fact that, at least for a lot of us, this model makes it MORE likely that we will purchase your product. I'm much more likely to try a new app out knowing that it's not going to generate a ton of emails or that my credit card information will leak.
This is great, I was just working on a forked fluid simulation and this has definatly helped me understand why the pressure calc is found a 25 iteration loop!

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/ink
25 cents worth of Ivermectin sold for $100 or more - it is a $$ based scam
I think I can confidently assume that despite not providing IP or accurate location data, there are enough features in the data for their partners to fingerprint individuals. Might require a lot more work, but when advertisers go out of their way to identify individuals based on their browser/os/hardware settings, they'll attempt to do it on just about anything they could get their hands on.

I wonder how containers affect this behavior? Since the same history seems to pop up regardless of which container I'm in, I wonder if this effectively makes containers permeable?
We couldn't care less about Mozilla's "partners". We certainly don't want their "suggestions". So many people were switching to Firefox due to Chrome's crippled extensions. How is it possible to be this out of touch?

How hard is it to charge money for the browser? Literally make it a paid app and I'll buy it.
Sooo.... what exactly is your professional experience in the area?

I own an electronics lab, design and produce my own circuit boards, I have worked for many years in embedded space including for Samsung. I am not professional electronics engineer by any means, I just know enough to handle electronics safely on daily basis.

Please, do not give people misleading, dangerous advice especially if you have absolutely no experience in electronics.

Whenever you are handling electronics you are supposed to follow certain procedure to ensure there is no electrostatic charge accumulated on you or objects you are handling and to dissipate any potential between you and the objects. And yes, that also means doing any repair on any electronics.

There is reason why RAM and other components are sold in ESD shielding bags. These are not cheap. Do you think they are doing this for fun? Or maybe there is a reason that makes it worth it to invest in an expensive bag? Do you think they would be doing this if the electronic boards placed in them were resistant to ESD?

Electrostatic discharge event may not necessarily mean immediate death to your device. It may manifest itself with instability, degraded performance, reduced life of components, strange behavior or other delayed effects.

It may be repair shop giving back the device that turns on but you discovering that it hangs from time to time.

And yes, that also includes PC components like memory chips.

Producers of PC components are fully aware that they are being handled by clueless people like most of us and so they put some protections in the components that are most likely to be handled manually.

These protection may be able to save the device up to certain voltage of the discharge and up to certain number of discharges. But it is really hard to tell because, as I mentioned, most effects of ESD are not necessarily easily detected or connected with the event.

You need to understand that you need many thousands of volts to get a spark, but most new chips can be fried by discharge as small as tens or hundreds of volts -- well below any capability of a human to detect.
Just an excuse for his failure. Has no problem with China though. Asshole.
I that case, Google not paying would be good for Firefox.
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You also need to define the system when talking about assembly, I think this is more relevant than the difference between architecture variants. I would recommend Linux because available documentation. Without doing any system specific syscalls and learning about calling conventions you won't get very far.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry... (subject to change, see your specific kernel source)

I think more fun is doing assembly on a µC without OS with some interesting peripherals and many MCUs have an instruction set inspired by x86.
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I must be the only one who finds Chromium a less invasive experience than Firefox.

People harp on about how we must all switch to Firefox, but in the years I have been using Chromium I’ve not once had any marketing BS popups, nags, or issues like this.

And no, Chrome is not the new IE, it’s open source and there’s various different builds available and ways that is is distributed.
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"Suffering and conflict is the fuel of all higher pursuits"

I disagree. I mean, the combinations of education, travel, and hallucinogens has pushed me further in my art and intellectual curiosity than suffering ever has. For so many people, suffering simply stagnates them because it eats up so much mental and physical energy.

The lives are certainly not without conflict, however. Meeting social norms still creates some conflict (what, you want to be with only one person!?!). Most folks are, however, missing things that pushes them just a little outside of their comfort zone - but you certainly don't need conflict for that, but rather, just things that are different enough.
It's the nature of power, you have to sell your ethical standards to compete at this level. If you think someone is above it, they've just succeeded in their marketing.
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> non-removable battery

Considering how important it is to keep Lithium Ion batteries within a safe temp range for longevity and the risk of thermal runaway I'm not so sure we will ever see easily replaceable batteries again without a new chemistry.

Everyone seems to have fond memories of their AA's and NiCad's but ignores that replaceable Lithium tend to suck... all my old phones that had replaceable batteries like the Google Nexus had batteries that got way too hot and subsequently lost their ability to hold a full charge
One can't. It's science. One can't rigorously prove anything via induction.
Okay fair enough, so it still doesn't seem that newsworthy imo as they will all be doing the same if not already
I agree. I think they would find use in having a "Firefox Enterprise" that catered to businesses directly - basically a version of Firefox that they will tailor to an organization's crazy security requirements. Basically anywhere I've worked has wanted to lock down internet browsing in some way or other, and they now pay for expensive products to do so externally. I think it would be very appealing to just pay for a product that did so out of the box...