skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have to disagree here. The threat models where the security that TPM offers are mostly applicable to the enterprise and business sectors where all devices on the network/AD/VPN have to be trusted and their storage encrypted. There TPM makes perfect sense.

You average consumer/home user does not benefit at all from the features of TPM since they're not subject to the same threat model. Here TPM, and also stuff of the UEFI security chain like Management Engine and Secure Boot in the past, act more like hostile wall-gardening that limit what a user can install on his system (remember how enabling secure boot originally meant you couldn't install any linux distro?) rather than add any meaningful security (will TPM and Secure Boot prevent grandma from getting her PC infected by malware off some shady phishing site? No? Then don't force those requirements for private users)
> they have a mobile browser that actually supports extensions where possible

This isn't quite as simple. Firefox on Android will only install a subset of extensions from addons.mozilla.org, based on an allow-list maintained by Mozilla.

But other extensions on AMO (and therefore already complying with Mozilla's policies) work satisfactorily when installed in Iceraven (a fork of Firefox on Android).

So this shows that the limited list of extensions available for Firefox on Android is not limited by technical reasons (“where possible”), but by Mozilla's choice.

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But I agree with the broad point: yes, Mozilla is pretty sketchy, but Google is orders of magnitude sketchier.
Lost marketshare is an observation. We can speculate all day.

Did Firefox lose marketshare because of:

Google intentionally making their sites worse in Firefox?

The lack of multiprocess for so long?

No support for Google Earth until 2020?

Google shipping a polyfill that made YouTube.com 3x slower in Firefox and Safari for years?

The move to WebExtensions happening too late, resulting in burnout and lost interest from the extension community because they had already ported their extensions to e10s?

Slack going out of their way to use a non-standard SDP format thats only supported in Chrome, resulting in no other browsing supporting video calls?

Microsoft Teams also does the same thing.

Mobile overtaking desktop, where Chrome reigns supreme as a platform default?
> all you have to do is provide a link to the upstream source code somewhere,

Again this is not true, another blog telling us all about AGPL who doesn't understand it. You don't have to provide source unless you as the host modified it.

Read it for yourself -https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

This race to abuse AGPL to attack a website is pretty much the state of IT and licensing. Very clever they made a mistake so you get to use AGPL against it's intent to attack them, the IT community is just the lousy RIAA and MPAA.

I just hope they are clever back and refuse to hand the code over through their clear legal loophole. If the host bought modified code from a consultant they don't have to share that code and neither does the consultant.
Condos are typically property where you own a specific part of a larger property (a legally recognized/identified “interest”) plus an agreement to maintain everything else that isnt explicitly exclusively yours (“common space”). The condos I’ve own show true ownership share - even the land (though no distinct part, just fractional ownership).

Single family homes are different in the sense that it’s one legally defined property where 100% of it is for the exclusive use of the owner. HOAs can include a group of individual properties plus (or not) common space.

Your description of co-ops reminds me of TICs (tenancy in common) in CA. The property is viewed as one “unit” although it may be subdivided by tenants through a separate agreeemnt. Typically in TICs you buy an entire building and have a separate agreement that lays out what is exclusive and what is common. But the city sees it as one property in its entirety with multiple owners.
> Apple assumed market dominance and locked everything down on mobile.

Apple has about 26% market share on mobile globally, that's not exactly market dominance.

Them locking down the platform limits piracy, which is one reason why developing for iOS is much more profitable for many kinds of apps, which causes better apps that drive consumers to the iPhone. That's the reason they put so much energy into locking down the platform
The fact that you had to narrow it down to some arbitrary "popular" category to not touch the topic speaks for itself.
Microsoft took the same approach as Bill Gates. Gate's ruthlessness made the public hate him(remember the milkshaking?).
He took public relations serious and put on the nice guy public facing image while still being as devious and wretched as he was back then. The Microsoft leaders saw how well this worked him and used the same tactic.
That sounds like a scene from the office and I grimaced inside from the thought of someone clapping for me! Any of these forced fun activities are generally not actually fun.

One of my managers used to sneak around and whisper to people to go home early (like at 1pm) on days before holidays, now that was appreciated!
> There was a time when the idea wasn't terrible because a lot of websites were terrible and slow on mobile

Yes, and that time was the early 2000's, and the solution was not AMP but WAP[1]. Google effectively re-invented WAP about 15 years after it was no longer necessary.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol
Facebook v1 reminds me of the original Ultima Online.

You could interact with all these new cool people, but quickly learned that there were a substantial minority that would kill you right after you left the town, because some people like doing that.

Later, they nerfed the entire environment and new players in v2 defaulted to a land of milk and honey with no conflict, only those that enjoyed v1 went out of their way in the advanced sign up process to find the land with the tattered windows and wandering murderers.

I think FB will have to metaphorically transition to v2, because it is, like UO, a place of other people.

To do this would mean defaulting users to seeing almost no news but local good news. National media would only be seen by those who find the advanced settings to turn on the noise. People posting inflammatory National news would be shadow banned, in essence, by having the post buried under posts with positive vibes. New users would be unable to get an audience, that would only be possible with sufficient karma that comes from upvotes and downvotes (which would have to be enabled but could be hidden from the poster).
The limited extensions on Android is for technical reasons. Instead of having zero extension support on release, they focused on supporting the APIs needed for popular extensions first and are working on adding the rest. It's an entire rewrite of the browser. There's still a lot of missing APIs they need to implement. Allowing every extension from AMO to work would be almost pointless because so many would be broken.
This title could be more precise. It finds plenty of evidence across individuals who are religious and not (as have many studies) but little evidence temporally across the life of someone whose religiosity changes.

I’d be curious to know out of the 4000 surveyed individuals the percentage that experienced nontrivial changes in religiosity and whether the life patterns/worldview (community, sense of morality, perspective of human life, personal values, daily habits, charitability, etc.) they inherited from their religion also deteriorated.
Homeless is an ill defined term. The definition used by governments and NGOs is different from the one used by everyone else. The former seem to deliberately lean in to the confusion in order to tie policy goals related to their more expansive definition to the greater public interest in solving the narrower problem.

In any event, it doesn’t take very many homeless by the colloquial definition to make a city unpleasant. I don’t know whether or not Sydney has a homelessness problem and that link doesn’t tell me.
The Fundamental Flaws of the Personal Development Genre (2018)
Install Firefox and ublock on every single device of friends and family, including mobiles. Reject walled garden not allowing blocking ads.
> I would honestly be happy to use a browser that looked and worked like Netscape 1.0 as long as it supported modern web standards and didn't keep moving buttons around.

Have you tried SeaMonkey? It may be what you seek: https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
The "Special Administration Console". Oddly, I can't find normal docs for it on microsoft.com, so here's the Azure docs for it:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-...
You’ve dived the source code?
I have a grandparent who's in a very high-risk category for Covid. She's not a hardy person who can weather a complicated disease, and post-vaccination she caught Covid. But she's still alive.

It's impossible for me to know for certain, people who are that high risk do still die post-vaccination. And obviously not all of them die when catching Covid even if they haven't been vaccinated. But I do credit the vaccination for potentially saving her life. She was in intensive care for a single day and never had to be put on a ventilator. It was only briefly touch-and-go, within 24 hours we knew that she was going to live.

Not catching Covid is great, we're all hoping for that. But when my family got the news that she was stable, that felt really good. It's not even just about stabilizing; there was a brief period where she wasn't lucid, and then it became obvious that she was getting more lucid and was going to recover and that she was recognizing people again.

Reducing severity really matters. You're still playing a statistical game, nothing is certain, but... when someone you care about is in the hospital, statistics become important to you.
Before I left SV (and consequently, US) I consulted for a startup focusing on hard-realtime control systems. I found out that Forth is widely used in multiple embedded domains but unlike most popular programming languages this usage is not advertised (or deliberately kept secret even) since the language is considered to be a competitive-edge powerhouse.
Why would this even be necessary to prove? At least for me that's not required, NSA_KEY plus Snowden leaks are enough. Microsoft is known to have no problems cooperating with governments requests, or how do you think they can operate all their services in China?

Any hard evidence for such a backdoor wouldn't really change anything towards Microsoft for me.
The open source code is only useful when paired with a proprietary network service.

When Mozilla bought Pocket, there already existed a competing open source self-hostable network service, Wallabag. Pocket is to Wallabag as Twitter is to Mastodon.

My complaint was not that the code in Firefox was proprietary, but that it integrated with (and promoted) a proprietary network service, while there was a viable open source competitor.

At the time, Mozilla's mission included the aim “to promote choice and innovation on the internet”, which this integration seemed to go against.
This one is an alternative to the remote development tooling which doesn't work on VSCodium. It is certainly not a full replacement, but you get to poke around the files on the remote system and run commands over SSH.
There are probably more means now than ever to construct and promote a few dominating common themes in people's subjective experiences. Perhaps before mass media realities were more diverse or more limited by that which people themselves had a chance to experience.
He doesn't feel anymore.
Amazing music and video. Thanks!

I saw a post here about a similar dogfight in the macross anime, not sure what happened to it. Probably this one:

https://youtu.be/0zdJVajCCFE

It's always nice to watch planes flying.

https://youtu.be/CaIMo1B4ryM
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about
It absolutely is right, and a right. Corps aren't people, but there are people submitting the documents to the legislators. There is zero difference between this and a study on climate change being submitted to the EPA.

Law is not just for right and wrong. Most laws and regulations are to further people's interests, like the google people submitting the documents. This is called freedom of speech. Legislators are free to not read them.

> excert economic pressure on lawmakers

I don't think this means what you think it means. To exert economic pressure on a lawmaker (a person) means to make them to personally lose money in some way. This is a pretty grave accusation - it means "if you don't agree with us, we are going to damage you financially. Google has not being caught attacking people financially, or threatening them, or even paying off lawmakers thus far.

Google is also allowed to place their products in their own systems by default (not android, which is open source). If you buy a Samsung phone, Samsung picks the defaults - some are google, some are Samsung, some may be the carrier you bought the phone from. Of course if google makes the Pixel, it's going to have google's defaults. Are you surprised when you buy an LG TV, LG also makes the remote, despite plenty of other brands of remotes available for that TV and others?

As far as buying themselves default search placement within other products? Have you been to the grocery store? Did you know every brand you see there pays for better shelf space and placement?

There is literally zero wrong with any of what is going on here. Plenty of bad things about google. This ain't one of them. This is them purposely damaging their product for some of the possible market. Which is their choice. They are not "gimping the web" - they are simply making their own products worse. If google's search wasn't a good default choice in a firefox (it is), firefox would take google's payoff, decline in use and lose marketshare, and in lose turn google's money since they don't have market share anymore. And firefox is free to do that.
Section 5.6:

> NOTE: ISO 8601 defines date and time separated by "T". Applications using this syntax may choose, for the sake of readability, to specify a full-date and full-time separated by (say) a space character.
True for many users. My mobile latency is ~100 ms, and that's still impressively quick to me. But I find DOCSIS to be very low latency where I live. My connection at home is ~10 ms to other home users on the same provider in this city, and generally within 20 ms anywhere in the southern part of the province and 40 ms most of the way across the continent. As long as they aren't on DSL or mobile on the other end, anyway.
I don't think it's such a big contributor, but there are also regular and dedicated Brave shills in many tech communities which traditionally favored Firefox (not necessarily funded by Brave directly, they may be independently incentivized from holding the crypto token BAT).
It feels performative. Not even necessarily just the video but living in that world it seems like you’d need to basically play along with how great and perfect everything is.

I’m with you where this is my impression from the video while I have nothing theoretically against the idea itself.
See https://apl.wiki/Typing_glyphs
Such an interesting thing to think about.
The implications of (relative to a human life) long periods of time are overwhelming.
At some point, even if somehow the information is intact, who will read it, and why? The barrier to entry scales with time, add technology and it probably scales at a geometric rate, for anything which is not held in such high cultural esteem that it is constantly maintained and updated.

Sure, we can play Dungeon (1975) today with relative ease. Most won't. But what about all the other games that probably survived but nobody knows about, because they weren't historically significant enough?

This probably goes for any cultural articact music, writing, paintings.

It becomes lost, if not physically, then in the giant volume of knowledge that exists in the world, but nobody knows about.

A poem, in an ASCII file, on an obsolete file system, in some disk image with an operating system for an architecture not produces in a hundred years, that could be emulated by an emulator for another architecture no produces in a hundred years, now residing on some medium, on some machine, somewhere, all will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
If you can find a way to touch someone’s (or your own) plane of consciousness with any foreseeable device you are correct.
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Data intermediaries - our data is placed there, like our cash in a bank - and Fuckerberg and Co have to pay us for access. Like the banks pay us interest for giving them cash. Point being Google, FB, Twitter et al pay out more and get less and therefore are less exploitative douchebags whose activities and unintended consequences at scale are also less.

Well explained here - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5ri-KktNs
I believe financial crime like this is far easier to be "on terms" with, if you're already in a system/team that condones it, since it has no direct victims. X Bank and AdTech startup Y might hurt, but there's no real impact.

There's also the fact that by the time you notice that something's off, you might already have implicated yourself in the crime and are afraid of getting in trouble. Probably not what happened in this case, but it does happen.
For us google ads was insane. I d encourage Google to keep record on everyone and everything after having seen how incredible their client to business matching is: as a small company, in a niche b2b product (waste management software), we got big name random calls days after starting to pay Google.

In another company we spent millions on Facebook and got relatively little out of it (predatory lending marketing), we had again more success just reducing friction, simplifying the message and putting it on Google with massive keyword spam. The least we protected users, the more they paid us.
Their entire editorial is shaped by what the right-wing of the Labour Party want them to print [0]. They're as bad as any Murdoch rag.

[0] https://www.medialens.org/2020/the-people-have-spoken-bastar...
tl;dr you can put commit hashes in the place where the parent comment put tags, and your exact use case actually has a dedicated link on the PR page.

The PR interface actually exposes this for force-pushes, but the UI discovery for this is horrible. It turns out that the "force-pushed" part in the little message in the github UI is actually a link. This link points to the diff between the old and the new HEAD of the branch.

As an example you can look at this PR:

https://github.com/JelteF/derive_more/pull/161

It has this little message somewhere down the page:

Monadic-Cat force-pushed the add-unwrap branch from e130dbe to 25235aa 4 months ago

If you then click "force-pushed" in that message you go to the "compare" page, which shows the diff between the two commits:

https://github.com/JelteF/derive_more/compare/e130dbe6b2a429...

Disclaimer: I'm a Micrsoft employee, but don't work on Github. I'm a daily user of Github though.
It is interesting that this post, despite numerous upvotes, is hidden away on page 2-3 of HN. Wonder why...
Can a campaign like Mozilla did to promote firefox when ie6 was a monopoly work?

Promote a different browser when someone uses chrome with the possibility to get explanations about it. Contacting admins of sites that only works in chrome, this kind of thing.

Could this information be used to try to push chromium based browser like brave and edge to switch to another engine, lowering the influence of google on the web?

This will not adress the whole google service spectrum but chrome is the trojan horse for a lot of google strategies.
You're right - I missed that, the author does mention arrays having better access characteristics, although he doesn't really explain why HAMTs specifically are slow.

How does Clojure's HAMT avoid fragmenting over time?

> Clojure standard library works on arrays just fine, as demonstrated in the article.

Right, but then you don't have immutability - so you lose all the guarantees that you originally had with immutable-by-default.
How do you find clients?
Those are claims of an attorney general, right. Not something swore by oath from Google/Facebook.

Claims from AGs strictly from conservative states.
Apathetic — no. I’m aware of the control creep in the industry, but I do think that it seems unnecessarily alarmist to think that Apple just can’t wait to lock down macOS. There is nothing to gain by them doing so and I would be incredibly surprised if they didn’t already know that.

iOS is and has always been a closed platform. We knew that the day they announced the first iPhone and they have been consistent in their messaging about that ever since. iPads and iPhones are globally successful though, far more so than the Mac, and with a far wider target audience that encompasses most people. It would be great for power users to be able to side-load without jailbreaking, but there are plenty of less technical people out there for whom side-loading actually presents much more of a risk than a benefit. That’s what makes it a complicated issue.

The Mac, on the other hand, doesn’t stand to benefit from that same closed model in the slightest. The real target audiences for the Mac (i.e. software developers, professional photography/cinematography, music production, publishing) all live and depend on software that requires flexibility, plugins etc and they stand a much greater chance of knowing what they’re doing. They would walk away from Macs in an instant if the platform stops being useful to them.

Apple Silicon was the perfect opportunity for Apple to close the platform if they really felt strongly enough to do so, but here’s the thing: Microsoft tried to do it with WinRT, it was an absolute disaster and the market spoke accordingly. It doesn’t seem worth the risk.
Smells like a lawsuit.
You're tricked if you think so yourself, all the small businesses measure it and that is why FB and Google are so rich. Its like saying you're been tricked to think computers are useful for your productivity, it's insanity. You can argue if big corps spending just to keep coca cola on in front of your eyes is useful or not. To what extent but that's entirely different conversation.

When was the last time you died? Death still exists.
“Sir, the patient has died and may never recover”
Not to add to the theories but a virus doesn't have to be lethal to be a weapon. If anything, MERS showed us that a more lethal virus is less dangerous globally as it burns itself out fast. To be an effective weapon the virus just has to cause economic disruption, or cause political changes, or impose some desired restrictions or limitations on opposing nations or the world economy in a way that is not as severe to the nation creating the virus. It should also be noted that this virus had the greatest impact on people that have been eating high carb, high sugar diets for a long time. Does that describe a set of demographics? But I am no expert in this area so certainly speaking out of turn.

I should also add the possibility that it doesn't have to be a government performing these actions. It could simply be one jaded semi-suicidal lab tech that is really mad at the world and realizes they are holding in their hands the power to F the world. Have people thrown their lives away for lesser causes? Or maybe even incompetence? Have lab techs ever mishandled dangerous material?
Reminds me of the coffee machine script from https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
Reprogramming Predators (2009)
I'm surprised that neither of them has standardized the quarter, i.e. 2021-Q1. This is fairly common in business.