skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once upon a time, Firefox probably had a normal ratio of privacy-conscious users to privacy-indifferent users.

I'd bet a graph of their privacy-focused:indifferent users over time would be U-shaped. Very high before, oh, I dunno, FF2.0 when the only reason non-nerds had it was because their nerdy friend/relative installed it for them. Lower when they were advertising all over the place and marketshare was growing ('08-'12? My memory's hazy). Higher now, as their userbase continues a years-long contraction and shifts toward being mostly nerds, again.
In case you don't know, WinAmp borrowed that meme from the late, schizophrenic musician Wesley Willis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2lepog/til_t...

"McDonalds is a place to rock, It is a restaurant where they buy food to eat, It is a good place to listen to the music, People flock here to get down to the rock music." - Rock 'N Roll McDonalds

"Batman beat the hell out of me and knocked me to the floor, I got back up and knocked him to the floor, He was being such a jack off" - I Whupped Batman's Ass

"This beast killed as many as 100,000 people / It's wings can flap like a bird / It can break a glass / It can also stab you in the ass" - The Chicken Cow
At a population level view he is exactly right.

A partial dose of antibiotics scenario is exactly what we have done with these vaccines.
>it’s open-source in the real sense (a project that’s truly community-driven)

I guess that is why some companies are starting to get wary of the term open source.

> Chrome started with a great narrative when it was facing an uphill battle with Internet Explorer,

That is just not true, the uphill battle was hard won by Firefox and their supporters. People knew there were alternative browser. Developers were taking action in supporting Firefox. Chrome came in, with the help of Google Services steal the thunder. Although you could also blame Mozilla for failing to work on e10s, which was originally schedule for Firefox 3.5, pushed to Firefox 4 and later that is what we now call quantum.

>it’s home to the last major rendering engine, that’s not derived from WebKit

I dont think that is bad. Gecko isn't necessarily better than Webkit. You need to win on technical merit.

> Google were still the company that “does no evil”. It’s almost surreal how things have changed

"Surreal". I guess that is just life, when most were too young and naive to believe a new startup company could do evil. And Google was so righteous back then. When a few lonely conspiracy theorist were crying about Google, no one listened. Remember, that was before Steve Jobs declared Thermonuclear war. And before the Great Battle between Apple and Google started. But then even after the thermonuclear war, most people still believed in Google.

It wasn't until 2021 did anyone from ex-Mozilla stepped up and suggest what Google might have done.

And here is what I wrote about Mozilla [1] not long ago.

>And here is another unpopular opinion. I dont care if her salary is 3 million or even 30 million. If she had managed to bring Firefox to 60% marketshare and bring down Chrome on Desktop, would you have still complained if she was paid 30 million?

The problem is Mozilla is in such a bad shape and she is under performing as a CEO.

Unfortunately people dont learn much from history. And history dictate the only way to solve this problem is Mozilla think of it as a problem. Otherwise its current status at ~10% marketshare is enough to sustain its operation. Nothing bad enough is happening, no interest or incentive for changes. Inertia. Let's keep thing this way.

So yes, it is counter intuitive. The only way to save Mozilla ( or change Mozilla's direction, I guess the word "save" is a hyperbole, at least from Mozilla's perspective. ) isn't trying to get more user to use it. It is actually push people to abandon it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28961544
There's the CDC study and the Israeli one AFAIK, here's an analysis of the methodologies: https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-...
Except now the stock is DOWN 2.7%.
I was replying to a comment that says "sustainability of their land is far more important than the yield"; I wasn't arguing for or against the premise of the dilemma.
It might very well be a big deal.

This has been done with Indium Phosphide (InP). In fact, lasers, modulators and supporting circuitry have have been integrated together on InP in what is usually referred to as "Photonic Integrated Circuits". Infinera has been doing this for ~20 years. The drawback is you need a very specialized InP fab (which ultimately means high-cost and low volume).

If similar stuff could be done on ordinary silicon, that changes the game and opens up a huge range of possibilities.
Sounds fun! Here's someone else's attempt: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/64g4ss/smallest_r...
You might also like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dzQge6pe2o
Reddit is kinda-sorta a forum site. You can treat a single sub as a forum by ordering posts chronologically. phpbb style forums still exist and are the best place to discuss some topics. In the RV/truck space there are still many forums that have been bought and consolidated under a few holding companies. They still operate as distinct boards, however.
Maybe, but every once in a while his videos get on trending… why can’t they just put them in my feed? I’m subscribed!

I need to stop; I’m getting angry just thinking about it.
“Focused on speed” and written in Electron.

Sigh.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. Lots of positive feedback here has helped to offset the negative, so it's only a little exhausting today. :)
No, that's completely wrong.

That number is specifically for their SmartCast subscriber service. It's not clear what the rate is, but they subsequently talk about Roku making $40/mo; so it's possible that's the monthly rate. Assuming it is monthly, a television lasts for five years, and that is their only other source of revenue from the televisions, that's ~$1200.

The telling part of the article:

> ...[Vizio's] Platform Plus segment that includes advertising and viewer data had a gross profit of $57.3 million. That’s more than twice the amount of profit it made selling devices like TVs, which was $25.6 million, despite those device sales pulling in considerably more revenue.
Out of curiosity, what other tools are you paying for?
this calls for further examination, considering that the CEO of Twitter was giving his ear to a figure subpoenaed by the Select Committee on January 6:

https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-jack-dorsey-ali-akbar-alex-...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ali-akbar-jack-dorsey-twitter...

https://www.businessinsider.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-wil...

I don't have much analysis to add here.
It doesn't work like that.

I'm doubtful if there is any material harm in those companies being under the same roof, and the benefit to consumers may just be that they are free services, but that doesn't have to be demonstrated.

They are not essential services, it's better to just not use them if you don't like them.

Where there needs to be more regulation is in Search Monopoly, Search Result Transparency, App Store Monopolies etc. - there are serious consumer and industry issues there.
Ask HN: How can I make State of Developers survey helpful?
Hi, I'm surveying developers about burnout, stress, and depression. I've experienced all three myself, unfortunately.

I'm a bit nervous that this survey report will turn into "Duh" type of information. The goal is to provide trends on how this issue self-sabotage our progress in work & life. While sharing healthy habits, strategies, resources, and tools for prevention & recovery.

Do you have any suggestions or feedback on how I could improve the survey?

Did I miss anything?

https://stateofdevs.com/helps/hn

I appreciate your advice/help. Thanks!
I also went to Pompeii ~25 years ago and still remember being fascinated by the latrines.

This article has a few more photos from Pompeii and Rome including the Cloaca Maxima, as well as a map of public and private latrines discovered in the ruins: https://theconversation.com/talking-heads-what-toilets-and-s...
I found it is hard to read even when listening to music without lyrics.. it's like my inner voice is coming from a well so this is not surprising
Agreed, I regularly have discussions with people who I disagree with here, good, informative ones that inform my perspectives and help me learn.
I expected something like that. Don't get me wrong, not in a bad way in "I know where you're coming from way". I personally don't care for icons, I like "the Apple way" - a menu with a search. A perfect Windows UI for me would be no icon panels, just a menu in a window and some shortcut to search through it and also each menu item would've a keyboard shortcut typed next to it.
From what I hear that's not the case the with Zuckerberg, in that most decisions go through him. I would guess the same with Elon
xfinitywifi, the comparable similar functionality from CenturyLink, etc, or if you happen to live just a bit too close to a McDonalds or other business that has open WiFi. And of course the possibility of one of your neighbors screwing up his WiFi setup.

There are a lot of ways this can (and has) gone horribly wrong for privacy.
The language is pretty terse, so it's hard to get a concise idea of what's being proposed. I think another one of their posts tries to put it more concisely (thanks to _Microft for the link) [0]:

"""

1. Truly spontaneous speech is un-musical.

2. The perception of non-spontaneity in speech suppresses the evaluation of truth.

3. When truth evaluation is suppressed, hypothetical emotions retain their full intensity.

"""

Or, put another way, "Spontaneous speech is un-musical. Musical speech suppresses the critical thinking in favor of emotion. Since musical speech allows circumvents critical reasoning, this allows for more intense emotional impact of music/musical speech".

If I've understood the hypothesis correctly, this gives the basis for understanding why music has (more) emotional impact than just speech.

[0] https://whatismusic.info/blog/TheNegativeSuperstimulusTheory...
I'm not a lawyer but isn't this what lawyers are for?
6G Is Years Away, but the Power Struggles Have Already Begun
Not clear what the point of all that was.

They set up: "And cities—this is a critical point for Graeber and Wengrow—could function perfectly well without bosses and administrators." But trying to establish that from archeology is a stretch.

We see that situation today in countries in turmoil. It looks like early feudalism. Walled compounds, fortified houses, and other strong points to protect their inhabitants. Like really bad neighborhoods.
High population density anarchy does not look good.
A hardcopy of the book „Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy“ (or it‘s sequels)
It's literally called a dummy load - to the 'lectrics, it acts like an antenna, but it doesn't radiate or receive.
Vejle vs. Midtjylland – Danish Superliga Goals and Highlights
Even if it’s not about personal riches, I think it’s pretty clear that he’s motivated by scale of impact, which for any for-profit company would likely be strongly correlated with “riches.”
TLS certificates are not just used for web stuff either, many protocols use TLS. For example in IoT world, MQTT over TLS is common.

One non-TLS-based protocol I can think of is SSH, and I agree that SSHFP does sound useful. But given the limited use case of this, SSH's native certificate support, and how easy it is to pre-fill the known_hosts file, I don't think this feature is worth implementing DNSSEC.
How old is your Vizio? All modern Vizio tvs in the past 6 years have a remote with a Menu button. And they ask for accepting Privacy Policy before you can connect to wifi. You can very easily avoid connecting a Vizio to a network and just use it as a dumb tv.
What is the heat death of the universe?
> it has essentially enabled an incredible explosion of "voices" that can be heard

Very controlled, curated, and politically corrected explosion. "Very lively debate within allowed spectrum".
IIRC the advice is to email hn@ycombinator.com because the "at" notation does nothing on this website
Oh, don't get me wrong, it's a viable business. The issue I am bringing up is the disconnect between white-collar workers and blue-collar workers.

Blue collar work is by definition manual labor. Low skill labor goes in, product comes out. You have to constantly provide labor in order to create value. Software is very different because once it has been written it continues to provide value without constant input (yes, I'm ignoring maintenance and such). In theory the software can provide exponential amounts of value compared to the cost of labor. In that case sure, increasing the wages won't have a meaningful impact on the company income.

With blue collar work, and our in particular, there is a direct correlation between the cost of the labor and the profit from the product. The kinds of people we might employ have 1) zero experience, 2) troubled past that wouldn't pass a background check, 3) little to no education (many never finished high school), or any other multitude of reasons. These are vastly different kinds of people than what you might find in a white collar job.

In a business based on blue collar work, you really only have two choices: increase sales prices in order to pay employees more and hope the market will bear it. If not, you can pay employees market rates and keep the doors open. We have plans to start offering health insurance and benefits to all our employees, in addition to raising wages, so there's that to consider...
I used namecheap to register my domain, and they have an option for dynamic DNS without ongoing fees (besides domain fees, I guess). I would be surprised if other registrars didn't have something similar.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
Not sure how you maintaining QEMU makes you a credible source for evaluating a schedulers performance. It's apparent to me the performance of the scheduler is a function of the workload, so YMMV.

I worked on a project where we collected detailed production runtime characteristics and evaluated scheduler algorithms against it. Tiny improvements made for massive savings.
Video Games as Self Expression: The Work of Olivia Haines
> Beneath the rule of men entirely great

> The pen is mightier than the sword.
I’m conflicted about this spatial interface thing (alternatively known as the “object-oriented user interface”). On one hand, for file managers it sounds like it should make sense, even if the overwhelming majority of file managers I’ve used (from Norton Commander to Windows 98+ Explorer to Far Manager to mc to Nautilus) don’t follow it. Even in general I’d very much like it to work, if nothing else because it pleasantly constrains the design space for GUIs.

On the other, for text editors and similar apps not following it (i.e. being capable of displaying multiple views of a single buffer) is a killer feature; people rave about split editing every time it is first implemented in a given app category (text editors, word processors, spreadsheets, online spreadsheets, you name it). I’d also probably be less than enthused about a web browser that could only open a single view of a given URL. Now that I’m thinking about it, “Open a Copy” is perhaps my favourite feature in Evince and the main think I miss in other PDF viewers.

The problem is, to some extent you want the view to be a separate “thing”, for example so that it can serve as a conceptual host for navigation history. Maybe the responsibility of maintaining said history could be hoisted onto the window manager, but I can’t say I’ve heard anyone mention this option, even if only to say it’s dumb and won’t work for such-and-such simple reason.

I’d very much this to work, it’s just that all the gravestones (CUA, Cairo, etc.) make me wary and half the questions (that now seem obvious) don’t appear to even have been asked (many years ago, when people actually tried making this).
Everyone (except maybe Zuck) has a boss.
Sorry, edited to actually complete my thought in the first sentence.

While I do agree, in general a lot of novel ideas get dismissed out-of-hand, a conversation about to what extent an idea engages with the existing community/literature around that idea is valuable. For example, if I saw a paper posted here that claimed it solved P!=NP, my first question would be as to how much it addressed the existing work, as mathematical ideas tend to attract cranks.
Running social media company is a job, where in the best case, half of the world hates you. No matter how good you’re, you’re always walking thin line between hate, free speech, conspiracy theories, political polarization, media and countless other issues. It’s a game you cannot win, and I’m pretty sure that’s why he’s resigning.
My startup is a bit different, because we actually have a BI team that offers custom BI dashboards for our clients. We use PowerBI Premium to embed our BI dashboards into our web application.
> since EIP-1559 that went live on August 5th

How did they pull that off w/o a hard fork?

Or was this a planned feature from the get go?
by vote counts its clear the default subs (and subs that used to be default) are the biggest with the most traffic, so probably not.
Perhaps a valuable public service should be owned and governed by...the public? In a corporation like Twitter, only people who can afford a financial stake have a say, and having more financial stake means having more say. Not a great structure if your concern is power. Perhaps everyone in the public (with a social rather than financial stake in a platform like Twitter) should have a voice in its governance.
Well this doesn't look like "torture" to me for a start. Admittedly I don't have much knowledge of what goes on in a rat's mind but this looks uncomfortable at worst. He says in the final line: "The experiment was approved by the Feinstein Institutes’ Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee."

Clearly I don't think that simply because worse torture exists that somehow placates a rat's mind, but as a human I choose to point my outrage where it is most effective.

Also, aren't these lab rats? Where would they be had he not picked them for this experiment?
The thing is I don't know what I'm going to do with my cluster...I'll probably just practice K8S on top of it. On the other side I can still install 64bit on the 2GB/4GB variation right? Just hope I didn't get the wrong pic :/
Yes. I do run a software company as well, but the bakery is a family business that will be sticking around. We are considering selling the custom software I wrote to other bakeries to manager their production.
More to the point: you don't want to take your n-core x-gpu machine speced for machine learning under your arm to the meeting.

But you would want to bring your thin-and-light machine with a remote ide session to that machine.
Correction "100 row style pull-ups" my chest is nearly parallel with the ceiling.
Which users? Internal users? External users? External developers (I know, I know) or academics consuming their APIs? Advertisers?

Starting from the position of what don't I know about this situation, and / or what systems could cause it to be in this seemingly intractable state leaves you open to all sorts of new learnings vs. assuming there aren't intelligent, capable people on the other side.
For whatever reason, no one uses "World Wide Web." You were an impressively very early adopter of the WWW, or web. Excuse me, please, I've trolled better.
I might be wrong with what op was referring to though, but if you limit your search to the last 24hr you might find something.
The last time this topic was posted someone posted this link about advertising displays that are 4K with inputs and tuner and no "smart" features: https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays#1 .
> The omicron variant could be a blessing in disguise

Not really. There is a very low evolutionary pressure to become less deadly.* You start infecting people in day 3, have symptoms on day 8 and die on day 20. You can walk around for a week infecting people before you die. Compare it to previous SARS epidemic, where people started infecting others much later. It just died out, because people were isolated at homes and hospitals.

*SARS-COV-2 is an upper respiratory track disease and SARS-COV-1 is a lower respiratory track disease.
Yes!! I got slight ASMR while listening to her voice. I could listen to her for hours.
Well, South Africa have publicly stated they’re pissed and feel like they are being punished, so it’s not really baseless.
I think the final line is more reassuring:

> The experiment was approved by the Feinstein Institutes’ Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.

Sounds like he went through the proper channels.
We like to think that the goal of AI research is actual intelligence. But humans are in the loop. Us humans judge projects, so success is a matter of the computer persuading humans that it is intelligent.

We could end up in the situation that computers are put in charge of important things because we have mastered the art of writing computer programs that can trick us into thinking that they are intelligent. Then it turns out that the programs are stupid. Disaster ensues.

The key question is "how clever does a computer program have to be to convince humans that it is intelligent?". That depends on two sub-issues.

First, are our assessments hackable? We might in time stumble over a clever trick that makes computers seem impressive to humans. The glib talkativeness of GPT-3, which impresses every-body, hints at this

Second, how keen are we to fool ourselves and just believe, without all that much prompting from the computer? The article worries me because of all the love given to the narrative in which the computer really is intelligent, impressively so, dangerously so. Erring on the other side, thinking a stupid computer is intelligent, is also a big risk. We seem blind to it.
And why so many Christian preachers use a very sing song tone (and even sing in some traditions).
Walmart sells 4K RCA dumb TVs. The UI is slow and clunky but I rarely have reason to use the UI for anything. It has no apps and doesn't connect to anything other than video and audio sources. The picture quality looks fine to me but I'm not all that particular about such things. The audio is passable but you'll probably want a receiver or a sound bar. There is a USB port but it doesn't appear to do anything. You can't play videos or anything from USB. It's about as dumb as you can get these days.
That may be true, but does it really matter? The name of the cryptosystem seems pretty irrelavent unless you have some compliance checkbox to check.
That was just a cover for the fact that the app store infrastructure wasn't ready and they weren't even certain the iPhone was going to take off. They only had so much engineering talent and money, and it went into the phone itself. They had been working on the beginnings of app franeworks and the store before launch. The huge response to the iphone caused them to both lower the price (to widen the potential market once it would be wildly profitable) and increase the speed/budget of the app infrastructure engineering.
Yes, the bloat (e.g. Facebook/Twitter logos) associated with many themes for other static site generators was one of the aspects that drove me to create md2blog's templates from scratch, by hand.
Only for android though
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> What is an individual node if not just another server?

A "node" in decentralized network is both a server and a client, with the difference that it only is required to "serve" the data that is in control of the node operator, right?

> web3 wants to throw words like "distributed" and "blockchain"

Have you seen any demo from the beaker browser? Or have you used the IPFS Companion extension? You can just add a folder there, get a content identifier and share that with anyone. That is literally all that there is to it.