skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't Safari have the same relationship to WebKit as Chrome to Chromium? What's preventing other browsers to use WebKit instead of Chromium and make the open source browser engine competition a bit more lively?
Yes, it’s a bit ironic that the only reasonable use of a horn is often the least likely justification for honking by Western (or at least American) drivers.

As an aside, Japanese drivers flash their lights (both headlights and taillights) as acknowledgement for letting them merge or pass—like the dual behavior of honking a horn as an expletive.
Not really. You can donate to the Mozilla Foundation, but they will use your money for outreach and advocacy, not Firefox.
The vacuum tube transistor was invented in 1907 by Forest, the modern solid-state transistor in 1947 by Bardeen and Brattain.
That is the only „valid“ answer IMHO. Spend all on BOINC and do something for the world.
Back in the day, when someone asked how to build a website and attract visitors, the universal answer was 'Content is King', to the extent it was basically a meme.

Obviously that was before 'Engagement is King', where content became second-class and Google Tag Manager empowered marketing teams to load up each page with whatever new widget or analytics or advertising system they could get their hands on.

I've been maintaining my own site and I actually enjoy building it in the most barebones way possible. It's just HTML and CSS. Any time I feel tempted to add any JS I spend the time on making a noscript equivalent as best as I can. I'd love to see a swing back to that style of web dev again (keeping it separate from web app dev).
I look at the rear mirror all the time, especially before stopping. Is that car behind me too fast and will crash into me? A taxi decided that didn't like me stopping at a pedestrian crossing a few nights ago and overtook me. I honked and both the people crossing the street and the taxi stopped. I think the danger trumped the rule of never honking at night in a city.
Omicron poses high global risk, world must prepare – WHO
Not necessarily. The immunity fades with time, so it is possible that you could be infected again. The residual immunity might be strong enough to prevent symptoms however. Each such exposure can boost your immunity. Nevertheless, influenza virus has many mutations and sometimes can cause breakthrough disease even in vaccinated.
Many countries use this trick “payed by employer” trying to hide the real amount of taxes. 385€ does not sound that bad, but in the reality it’s twice that with another half “paid by employer”.
I think it's your phone, not software. Got it working on Mozilla @ Xiaomi Mi 8, quite dated model.
>We can substitute [police] with lower paid unarmed people in cars with blue or red lights who go around with flashlights.

That's still police. You don't need lethal force to do police work, ya know?
Someone with `wget`.
With Delta having an R_0 = 5-6 the R_0 of Omicron would be around 10-30
Plenty of people said this would happen when chrome started dominating, but since people refused to switch browsers, here we are.
I bought it for my daughter, mostly to let her take part in online classes during the pandemic.

Initially, I was disappointed with the performance, but with some tweaks (namely, replacing the default browser with "Chromium Media Edition") it can handle a 15-person hangout well enough. It definitely performs much better in that aspect than our 5-year-old iPad we used before. For one, it doesn't turn your camera off without any notice like the Google Hangouts app does on iPad when the processor usage is too high.

TL;DR I higly recommend this for a early-primary-school child (even one without strong technical inclinations.)
+++ Very small, easily fits on the desk
+ Cheap: I think for this price we would only be able to get an old and clunky PC.
+ Good way to introduce your kid to Linux and its quirks (like only being able to connect a bluetooth speaker after you try 3 times... ;) )
+ Potential for future fun with hacking
- Not very good for games (but we like to keep an eye on our children's screentime anyway, so they can play on a console in the living room instead)
Thanks, good to know! If I can't find any other solution I will think about this.
I'm wearing bamboo socks right now.
Except Electron is 8 years old, and Compose desktop has started active development half a year ago.
Hard disagree on speed. PyCharm, in my experience, has better support for refactoring and jump-to-definition/declaration, but it comes at a huge cost in speed. PyCharm will quite happily lock up, even on a high-end Macbook Pro, as it reindexes everything, just because you had the temerity to add a package to requirements.txt. VSCode chugs right along, staying responsive, picking up the new code in the background.
I had a lot of other big technic sets at the time. I remember this one, and I also remember my parents telling me it was too expensive.

They were not joking.

Not too long ago I wanted to gift a technic set and I was shocked at the prices. The fact that most modern sets also use a lot of custom parts was also something that goes against the lego mindset IMHO.

It would still be something that I would totally buy for my children, but not as a gift for somebody else.
> Apps that require a certain browser will cause problems in the future or force Chrome to become IE.

It already has, sadly.

> Can you centrally administrate Google accounts? Because employees certainly aren't allowed to use their privat ones.

Yes, definitely. For non Microsoft shops, Google is a very common option (eg academia).
> - We have a tournament every year at DEF CON

The same guy pretty much wins every year with minor modifications to his code (okay, except the last two years with the whole covid thing). That said, he's an extremely cool guy and very eager to train his potential competition. Please please please take him up on the offer.

I suggest to anyone to show up to the Defcon Is Cancelled party that he co-organizes.
Yikes.

It's really no big deal to provide that detail even if it transpires to be irrelevant.
Tic Tac Toe Game on Slack
You're wrong and and so was he and you definitely shouldn't weigh in since I'm sure you're not nearly as qualified as he was (neither wrt physics nor virology):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test
For desktop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkcloth
Well, yes. But making relative comparisons is still useful. And I'm not just thinking about the open web: one of the most common use cases I've got for my pi 400 is as a front-end to the octoprint instances I've got running on other pi's in the house. It's just not quite as slick on the 400 as it should be.
Tourists were laughing with people wearing masks in trains, buses and malls as well. Imagine the shock after March 2020.
I mean, I haven't been in the back seat of a Model 3 personally, but literally every car I have ever had, analog handles or not, you had to do something to make the air flow to the back. Even if you have vents in the back, the air doesn't go there by default. This was usually a button on the dash - so I'm not surprised if even in a Model 3 you have to select an option on the screen to make the air re-route to the back. This is not a critique btw, just a possible observation.
> Kavita means poem or poetry in Sanskrit and pretty much all Indic languages.

Thanks for posting this. They don't seem to have that in their FAQs, and I find that's a very common thing. I often wonder about the naming of a project, and too often it's far too hard to find out. (In this case, it is simple enough to google "kavita meaning" and find out, but I feel like I find myself unable to find out for lots of projects)
I wonder when Google will finally pull the plug on Mozilla. At 4.0% market share they can't deliver that much search volume to justify spending millions on their incredibly bad management.
That seems very plausible, along the same lines as western tourists getting a tattoo which says “輕信游客” and thinking it’s a profound quote.
People still use Microsoft? My experience is largely in small medium biz and academia, both of which use a lot of Google. I haven't seen a Microsoft shop in decades. But that's just my own limited spheres of work.

(edit: to be clear, wasn't trying to be snarky. Genuinely surprised. Thought Microsoft intranets were a thing of legacy dinosaur companies, didn't know that modern enterprises still did that. But I don't work in enterprise, only in small biz, where nobody can afford dedicated sys admins and everything is in the cloud. From what I hear though, the UX of Outlook these days is better than Gmail and gcal (which isn't saying much, I know). Might be worth trying again someday...)
I learned programming with paper, pen, match boxes to represent unary turing machines, and printed out language manuals, I'm afraid you can't out-hipster me with just emacs.

And you completely miss the point: I'm fully aware that they exist, and that's the problem. Lightweight yet modular editors are such a crowded market that I don't see a realistic way for JetBrains to successfully compete in it. They don't have the same community momentum that emacs/(neo)vim have, nor do they have the resources of Microsoft. People who like IDEs are the only target demographic they have, it would be foolish to neglect those to muscle into a market crowded with very successful free products.
I wonder how difficult would be an open source community project whose explicit aim would be to take the Firefox code base and make it more modular and embeddable, like Chromium? Would it be too much work for a community effort?
At what point does the new covid variants stop being SARS-CoV-2 and morph into something else?

To me it seems intellectually lazy to keep pretending we are still dealing with the same SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged in 2019 given that covid is an old and relatively common family of vira that's traditionally been classified alongside rhinovirus as "The Common Cold"?
Why is the European Commission proposing a legislation on political adverts?
FWIW Mozilla is doing everything they can to drive us FF users away.
This is interesting, they were using bast fibers from oak trees, or fibers that sit between the bark and wood of the tree. They are soft fibers that can be collected and weaved into cloth.

Wikipedia has an article (1) and pictures of modern bast fiber weaving in Norway.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast_fibre
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Front End Engineer
Exploring Excelize with Go
Firefox is compromised by the fact it’s core active users are also its largest liability. It’s the innovators dilemma. They want it to (more or less) stay the same and not move forward and make changes to compete with Chrome. Whereas for them to achieve a larger market share it needs a radical overhaul. Really what Mozilla need to do is build a “new browser” called something different and put their weight behind that. I thought they were on that path with Servo and the HTML based UI they were developing for it, but I think they bit off more than they could chew and did not move quickly enough.

The tight relationship between rendering engine and browser has been broken by Chrome and its “children” (and in some way also by Apples enforced usage of their WebKit implementation in ios). Mozilla need to follow suit in order to survive, rip that rendering engine out, build a new browser and a “browser toolkit” to let other people build their own.
People on this issue[1] have been asking themselves the same questions.
New very specific features are added with every new releases. However, the Git/shelf experience is lacking the ability to commit specific lines.

[1] See this highly voted issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-186988
(opened since more than 3 years already)
Makes sense given that Kotlin is their own in-house language.
https://archive.md/C4Y8N
Weird, I've been using `toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets` for a lot more than three versions.
Not, not any big ones, but I've seen a lot of Firefox specific bugs for smaller sites in the last 2 or 3 years. I've had to debug Firefox issues for my coworkers more than anything else. Sometimes Safari breaks too but that's important because of iOS. Firefox is only used by the ideologues and we don't bother officially supporting it anymore...
On FF nightly you can install any addon.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-and-install-add-on...
> [in England ...] For me, the horn is a warning sign - "get out of my way" or "watch out!" - only to be used in emergencies.

That is not the correct use in England, especially not 'get out of my way' (emergency services' vehicles aside) - and it needn't be an emergency (uh, again!).

It's only supposed to be used to alert other drivers to your (non-stationary) presence, when it appears they haven't seen you or may not be afforded the opportunity - on a winding country road for example, less than two cars wide, it's common to sound it before a blind corner so that if you get one back you can both negotiate a careful passing, or the other car can pull over for you if they have the chance.

Which is pretty similar to what you describe in India really, just quite a different bar for when you need to warn of your presence!
Considering the HDI parameters of Tamilnadu, I would say that auto campaign worked very well too.
>or by forking Firefox

Unfortunately I don't think this will help.
If their market share is already low, creating multiple forks makes it even harder for devs to target.

Simply look at desktop software support on Linux for an example of why this doesn't work.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Alonzo+Church+Logic+of+Sense...

Took me exactly two searches - one to figure out what lsd stood for (which I'm sure you knew, so you wouldn't have the same issue) and then one more to pull up the paper.
I would assume that the answer is that the incentives for competing that way are small and maintaining a browser is expensive?

You would have to rely on donations. Which gives me an idea that probably already exists: a kickstarter/patreon alternative for recurring donations. Recurring donations won't start until there are enough for continuous funding of the project.
‘Land Acknowledgments’ Are Just Moral Exhibitionism
oh man. I need to find some time to write about how bad it is.

The gnarliness spans the whole stack. From weird java-applet like API escalation behavior if chrome is detected (e.g. Google properties feature gate a ton around this) to how there is not even a clear way to get a DRM license for a custom browser without waiting for Google indefinitely [1].

Here's a challenge: fire up a chromium fork and get it to run a relaxed DRM website like Netflix. If you get that far now try loading HBOMax with their fingerprinting/DRM protection on top. I'm not even sure it'd be possible in FF (at least without some DRM piggy backing if there isn't one).

[1] https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...
Technically, bamboo is a grass.
This sounds like a broad generalization. I have been a Firefox user for many years and I'm happy to see it compete with updates. I like seeing it change.
> They want it to (not or less) stay the same and not move forward

I don't think this is true at all. Anecdotally, a lot of Firefox users have been very receptive towards recent changes. Quantum was a huge success and I know very few people that miss the old Firefox with all of its jank.

> Mozilla need to follow suit in order to survive, rip that rendering engine out, build a new browser and a “browser toolkit” to let other people build their own

This is precisely what Servo is: https://servo.org/. Mozilla know what they're doing.
Emacs branching got way better with undo-tree, check it out :-)
I do have a 'public' homeserver for two years now, so far so good.

Lets see if this jinxes it!
It is a form of sensory deprivation which triggers an awake lucid dream.
With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies (2018)
That's common in the UK too. Rear warning lights that is, can't imagine when headlights would be in the right place for it; they're more often used by the other person in that scenario - 'after you'.
I might still use "just now" in future tense. "I'll do that just now." However, to me, this would mean very soon. Not necessarily in South Africa. "I'll be there just now" - you might be waiting for a while! It took me quite some time to adapt my expectations.
Out of curiosity, what doesn't work for you with Code With Me? The only thing I can think of is that the "client" also needs to have Code With Me installed, instead of a possible browser integration like VSCode has.
>If you want to fix Firefox go complain with their management.

Despite being an open source project, Firefox management seems to be much less in touch with and responsive to their user's feedback compared to other browsers. As an example, both Safari and Firefox had the same bad idea at about the same time - converting tabs into floating buttons (although in the case of Safari the bad at least served a useful purpose: increasing vertical real estate for the browser). Both got negative feedback. The difference? Firefox management dug their heels deeper and told their users, "suck it up, this is the future of web browsing", whereas Apple listened to the feedback and killed the bad idea during the beta itself.

Yet another example: killing off single site browsing or progressive web apps.
Same. Was quietly excited about some subtle-but-numerate upside of the Brexit long arc that, err, I hadn't seen yet, but no we're talking about the bits between fields (which are great I guess).
He doesn't, that's a misquote by the OP. If you look at most citations of such, they talk about his involvement in mRNA tech.

However, that's also a long process that involves many people, as most modern scientific endeavors are. He might have played a role, but he certainly didn't single-handedly invent the field.
New study show electric fields can improve efficiency of wastewater purification
True. People forgot that Microsoft had been developing its own browser for years before they moved to Chromium. That team and expertise didn't just disappear. They've been doing significant work in that code base. See https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1329200077517295618 from a year ago. Having that technical power does give them quite a lot of control over the code base which can help balance the political power here.
Giphy is a trojan horse into most sms and messaging apps. The gif aspect of it is pointless from FB's perspective. It's all about knowing who you're talking to, when and how often.

I totally stopped using Giphy after this acquisition. It isn't as bad as outright buying messaging platforms or social networks, but it let FB reach into areas they otherwise would never have visibility such as android keyboards and slack channels.
Pine64 doesn't do any software, so the comparison is apples to oranges :-)

The software from the N9 became what today is SailfishOS (mostly FOSS, but UI closed), and for something fully FOSS, Nemo is also derived from Harmattan, https://nemomobile.net/
There are multiple. White Desert operates a “luxury” resort, Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions offers another.

Both of these companies offer regular flights to Antarctica, not on A340s because there’s no point and there aren’t many clients crazy enough to insist on flying in with their VIP-configuration A340s.
I believe they've actually implemented pull-to-refresh now.
Electron, but based on Firefox instead of chrome.

Not the most appealing idea, but an interesting one. Might help move more people to essentially using Firefox.
The problem is that the web has gotten way too complicated. We're approaching the point where only trillion dollar companies are producing rendering engines. No open source project will ever likely be able to catch up and compete if Firefox can't.

It's time to consider stopping to try and save the standard web, and start looking at alternatives like Gemini for a non-corporate controlled alternative.
This time this is actually true - there's not much of sandbox mode.
Ah yes I can just about hear that - probably regional variation, I wouldn't use it that way myself.
CD-Action, I suppose.
Try taking some individual ownership and see what sort of recognition or reward you get.

I've been in organizations like the one you describe and the lack of initiative is often a side effect of hostility to autonomy.
> Firefox, while open source, doesn't provide footing for the community to build browser forks

Say hello to https://servo.org/.
I use Firefox for the obvious reasons, but I desperately want it to be as polished as Chrome, which it is a far cry from, especially on Android.
In Finland the collective-agreement that covers IT work defines this. The way I've been paid has been the same across several companies:

You get paid 50% of your normal hourly salary for every hour you're "available".

You get paid 200% of your normal hourly salary for every hour you're working on an issue, incident, outage, or problem.

So being on-call is pretty lucrative, given that you'd usually do it for a seven day period. (i.e. 9am Monday to 9am the following Monday.)
I switched to Firefox over 2 years ago, after using Chrome for more than 10 years. And while as a user I have my entire household converted to Firefox, as a developer I go with Chromium whenever I need to plug a shameless browser component in my projects. Why? Because Firefox does NOT have the equivalent!!! Why they won't do the same? I'll switch in a second to them instead of using Chromium. My 2 cents.
This is especially surprising because the common idea is that civilization arrived later into northern, colder Europe. Bushcraft like on the wonderful Primitive Technology youtube channel is harder when you don't have a year-round growing period. You need not just warmer clothes, but ways to stockpile and preserve food. Traditional Polish cuisine has many ways - preserves in glass jars, salt, pickling... Actually the cuisine is the aspect that positively surprises visitors the most. So many peoples and empires were present in the region, so many culinary influences. It's only lacking in saltwater fish because historically there was limited sea access.

Maybe the climate was different?
"Chromium would likely die if Google abandoned it."

I believe that is highly unlikely. At root the Blink engine is actively supported by several big tech heavyweights. Microsoft Edge is based on it. A rarely mentioned but important derivative browser is Silk (Fire tablets etc.) that Amazon develops. Then there are a bunch of smaller fish with Brave leading that pack.

I think the engine would survive just fine without Google. There was a time when you're view held, but that time has past.
I don't think we can move on because we haven't adjusted our health services to way larger number of sick and dying people every flu season.
oldest known human-modified punctate ornament ≠ earliest jewelry on earth
Indeed. As a driver in the UK, I use the horn so rarely that i've forgotten how to make it work when I need it.