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> Adblockers are probably the most common kind of extension, and are currently granted effectively unlimited access to read and modify every single web page you use. That's fucking scary.

How is that scary?

The browser by definition has unlimited access to read and modify (and monitor) anything I do in it.

And I trust gorhill a million times more than any Google employee, past, present or future.
How does a bump help employees/founders? Don't they have some fixed number of shares?
Banning google and facebook opens a lot of markets.
I agree with you. The article is terrible. It's a collection of reactions and scare quotes from industry figures. I followed the first few links in the article and they're not much better. You'd hope that EFF, of all people, would be able to make a simple and compelling summary of the issue.
It's worse than just meaningless, it's actively trying to get a bullshit SEO advantage, which is essentially zero-sum at best and makes things worse for users.

If my app is named "CoolBrowser", the title on Google Play should not be "Better Browser than Chrome". If my app is named "SketchyVPN", the title on Google Play should not be "Netflix Region Locking Bypasser".

At best, these are workarounds for the Play store's shitty lack of searchable metadata (why can't I filter out apps that aren't open source?), at worse they're Nigerian prince style scams that suck in unknowledgable users.
I had a double mastectomy – then discovered a terminal tumour in my liver
Just wanted to say +1 for Monokai Pro. It's very different from regular Monokai and I wish it was available for more apps.
[This is what can happen when you forget to delete your dumb HN comment before the configured delay time. Sometimes it gets cemented with replies and then embarrassingly upvoted.]

If they aren't coders and are "toxic" on top of that, get rid of them? Looks like a no-brainer to me.

People upvoted my clueless comment because the assumption is that any people called "core" of a FOSS project must be the coders, or else something is wrong.
Thanks! I was really missing yet another package manager
Content blocking on iOS doesn't work properly, many many things go through. Is it better on the desktop?
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4665
Presumably the fundamentals are patented and not a trade secret. I could see parts of the manufacturing process being a trade secret.
The most concerning part about that whole interaction was this small detail (here's the full post: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/):

In the earlier emails, Amjad Masad (the CEO) offered to hire the intern, was pleasant, etc. And then just a few threads later, when things turned sour, he insulted the former intern, calling him the "most demanding intern we've ever had."

It's deeply telling about a person's character when they pull this kind of move -- kind & understanding one moment, negging & insulting the next, even if it contradicts their earlier kindness.
I wish Firefox would have left the old extension abilities. They could have easily added the WebExtensions standard to allow for cross-browser compatibility and not removed the old functionality.
It astonishes me that it’s 2021 and they're still selling toys with lead paint and garden hose fixtures with lead in them.
If I have to be perfectly honest Teams gets me 90% *there* in terms of functionality as far as corporate shenanigans is concerned at least. But MS is MS and they generally follow a pattern of creating something generally cool(coming from an isolated team somewhere probably) and then making it worse and worse until most users scream.

The one for me was that when typing ``` it detected it as a code quote so it was really nice for posting code in chat, etc. Now it doesn't work. You have to click the formatting option; click the code quote icon; click Code from the dropdown; Click your language from the second dropdown.

My guess is it was disabled, because it got too many novice users confused, but damn it click, click, click, click..
I tried PDM earlier this year and there's a few things worth noting:

- PEP582 which it is based on is still in draft, and some tools (VS Code) won't fully support it until it's accepted.

- If you want to develop or test using different Python versions, you still need to use a virtual environment. PDM does handle this for you though.

IMO, the Python packaging ecosystem has been a dumpster fire for a long time, but the flurry of recent PEPs that provide a standard way of defining a package with pyproject.toml have made it so much better. Now it's just a matter of the tools catching up.
The FAA is federal and the law requiring notice of construction applies in the entire United States. Any structure taller than 499 feet requires FAA involvement. 14 CFR Part 77.
Eh? You have something wrong. 4-5 desktops/laptops with wide variety of profiles and I don't see any of that latency.

Turn off animations.
That is totally true and those may be great for the growth of the company. But as the parent was saying they are generally worse for the day-to-day job of the old-guard employees, and that's why most of them leave soon after.
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You don’t have some of the compliance requirements then but you absolutely still need a lot of process if you have 10s to 100s of thousands of employees.
"Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring to Bring the Next Billion Software Creators Online"

Yeah right, the main problem stopping people from writing python scripts is that the one-click installer isn't convenient enough ;) Or is it all those software developers who refuse to use a keyboard and insist on using a smart phone touchscreen?

Their product is a code snippet repl console. And it's not even the best, first, fastest, or cheapest one.

Their self-presentation to me seems so over the top that I feel like they will turn out to be a scam.
And working for a company with lots of process kind of sucks that's also just true
So, what's the difference with poetry? It seems pretty similar to me. Do we really need another python package manager?
Somewhen during this year Santa Clara Superior Court removed case documents from their online case access, now only dates and parties are available there. So much for the progress, and that in Silicon Valley :) During physical access to the case documents at the court building one is prohibited from using say phone or any other camera.
Silicon Valley’s Metaverse Problem
Corporate media has an establishment bias.

On balance, NY Times leans neither conservative nor progressive.

But they are wholly committed defenders of the status quo. And if the status quo is Liberal, Neoliberal, War on Terror, or whatever, then so is NY Times.

Most other medias fall within the Overton Window (boundaries for acceptible discourse) as defined by NY Times. Including explicitly partisan outlets like GOP.tv, OANN, breitbart, etc.

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Social media, on the other hand, has a troll bias. And given the quirks of human psyche, a bias towards fear and outrage, social media is best exploited by right wing actors.

Not that left wing actors don't try. It's just not as effective, so left wing story lines have terrible traction.
The line is crossed when you start demeaning honest people to get your idea out there. A line that Elon has crossed many years ago.

Pedo-Scuba Diver, COVID19 denial to keep the Fremont factory open, $39,990 Cybertruck, SEC flaunting / breaking of rules, etc. etc.
> Sure, not elegantly, but practically

Let's be honest, there isn't much elegance to the non-Tailwind solutions either. At the end of the day it's text input used by a rendering engine to style layout, it and your customers don't care how it got there.
Ok maybe we're getting stuck on definitions here. When I think "progressive taxation" I'm thinking something like:

< 10k 0%
10-30k 20%
30-60k 40%
60k+ 60%

Whereas "flat tax" is just a set percentage, for example 20% (like what Estonia has), regardless of how much you make.
I've used Lenovo laptops almost exclusively for the past 5 years (coming from a Dell XPS 13). I've had a X1 Carbon, an X1 Yoga, a couple of T4xx, and now a P1 Gen3.
All of my lenovos were awesome. None of them had real issue. I love how they're built and their small design decisions.

You do have to keep in mind that small devices with great battery lives usually don't have as powerful of a CPU or can't sustain it for long without sounding like a small jet engine, but that's more a question of adjusting ones expectations to what's realistic within a category. This was largely the reason I switched from an ultrabook-y lenovo (X1 Carbon and the Yoga) to a slightly heavier device (P1) when my laptop became my main dev machine during COVID (before that, my laptop was used for hardcore dev work occasionally, but my desktop at the office was my main machine for heavy lifting...)
Being able to access to the law itself is a basic need.
At least with the thinkpad/legion line they have been repairable and upgradable and perform well. I am using a legion 5 for my linux notebook and it works great in windows and ubuntu.
exactly. SASS (and CSS modules) are all I really need. just give me direct access to this amazing language, please!
I, as an end user want to be able to install whatever dangerous software I want, especially as a power user. I understand the potential consequences and I don't want or need the handrails. Options and freedom are good. This is why browsers need to be split off from for profit organizations to be managed by entities that aren't concerned with the fallout if someone installs malicious software.
> The new WebRequest API still does not support blocking requests (and still does support _recording_ requests), and the replacement for that functionality is still very limited.

Thank you. What you wrote is information that needs to be in the article but is not mentioned anywhere. The closest thing is a quote from Mozilla regarding their extensions security review process.
Replit used to be good. I can open up a page and start writing code. But now it requires an account, and the UI feels less responsive than before.
Man, as an American living and working in German this headline made me say “dude that’s so German.”
what is the proposed improvement in this case though?

There is something weird about this article. It feels like a paid for hit piece from the anti-gun crowd rather than an organic article about lead issues.
Where? That’s not really a problem in the US as far as I’m aware
> other people's fake and perfect and amazing lives

Uh, if that's what we're supposed to be using movie and TV streaming services for, I've been watching precisely the wrong things.

Seems more like a description of social media & (not unrelatedly) advertising. Or maybe porn.
Ugh, as a kid I grew up fishing shot out of cooked rabbit and pheasant and stacking it up on the side of my plate; or accidentally spitting it out because if you weren't careful you'd crack a tooth. My grandfather goes instantly from 0 to 60 with rage if anyone tries to tell him anything about his hunting (we had hide his ammo when he started getting befuddled). He'll never change. Hopefully younger hunters are aware of just because we did XYZ and it was bad for you means you don't have to do it anymore.
It is relatively common for a stock to "pop" significantly more than that -- like 20+%. 80.00 offering to 85.19 close is only 6%. E.g., https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/trends-in-ipo-pops-2021-03-0... .

One obvious problem with a pop is that it implies your stock was sold too cheaply and you could have raised more money for the same shares. However, your IPO investors love it.

Direct Listings are IPO alternatives that are sometimes purported to solve IPO pops.
Highly recommend Jon Morrow’s blogging course

https://smartblogger.com/about/
Well, the biggest example is when Facebook made a vpn to protect privacy but used it to data mine all your internet activity. There are a dozen or two dozen other companies doing this on a smaller scale

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/?gu...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/7-vpn-services-found-recording-us...
QuintoAndar increased conversion rates and pages per session by improving
The current generation of ThinkPads are fairly easy to open up to replace ram and battery but the outer shell is much flimsier than Mac’s. There is an over reliance on the ‘roll cage’ for structural integrity and the area near the trackpad is easily deformed and warped by a spudger.
They're doing the exact same thing when accessibility is concerned.

In my few interactions with them, they either claimed that they had it figured out (which is not true), or they promised that it will get fixed really soon. I've reached out to them about it a couple years ago, and little has been done to address the issue since then.

Their accessibility is weird, all the modals, menus and so on are perfectly accessible, you can see that somebody put a lot of thought into them, but core components of their platform (like the terminal) don't have any accessibility at all, even though flipping one switch in the library they use would get them 90% of the way there.

Considering they're deep in the education space, this is a really big issue. People might fail their classes because of this, and it might even possibly be illegal in some jurisdictions. If there's one sector where you really need to do accessibility right, it's education.
Thank you. I hope the author of the article reads this thread and ads a proper summary of the problematic changes that Manifest V3 introduces to the article.
That sounds incredibly high for a place worth 300k. I'm thinking it's only 300k because of that 2k/month on top.
While a good message that does have actual merit if you know what's happening already, I don't see how this is a legitimate consideration of MV3.

The entire argument regarding security doesn't mention any of the reasons Chrome developers cite its security improvement, instead it brings up that Firefox "does good enough already" and that malicious extensions can still get past the review process. the review process is by itself improved with V3 as extensions that pull in code remotely can no longer get past the review process[0], especially with how many current extensions implement RCE C&C intentionally. They also say extensions are "usually interested in simply observing the conversation between your browser and whatever websites you visit" - that's 'usually', though; malicious extensions intercepting and modifying requests for their own benefit isn't unheard of.

Instead of only stating 'this is bad', it would be beneficial to include both (A) what they say (B) their basis for the decision, if any (C) why that line of reason is incorrect/deceiving.

0: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-o...
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> My grandfather goes instantly from 0 to 60 with rage

Classic symptom of lead poisoning, ironically.
I would certainly stop using Chrome
I think these should be included, the first got me into computer.
Dr Who,
The Lawnmower Man,
Tron.
Does this hold true for spilled wind and solar? Does the efficiency matter at all if it would otherwise be wasted?
It's not so hard to get a PhD in math, in the sense that if you're willing to attend a low-ranked program and have at least a moderate affinity for mathematics, you could probably do it. It takes a lot of time to learn all the prerequisites, but that's why the undergrad degree is 4 years and the PhD typically 5+. Then you just find a suitable advisor, ask to be handed a dissertation problem and some ideas for the solution, write down that solution, and graduate. Anyone who's been doing math research for a few years has a collection of problems they know how to solve but haven't written up for various reasons, which they can give for this purpose. (Usually: the question is too boring or simple, no one cares, and there are bigger impact things to do instead).

Doing research that meaningfully advances mathematics, as opposed to being make-work in service of getting a degree? Much harder.
I used to have an x201 which I loved to death. I upgraded to an x240 a couple years ago and I honestly find it mediocre; it has an awful trackpad, and it gets hot way too easily.

I bought my dad an x220 for his birthday a couple years ago and I love that thing to death -- such a great laptop in look and feel (if you dig the retro aesthetic).

I'm hoping to pick up an X1 Carbon or a Framework laptop one day, but I frankly have minimal use for laptops in general at the moment.
Yes, my anecdotal experiences have biased me. And based on the abundance of reports on social media and the repeated failure by law enforcement to report on or provide any evidence to the contrary, I'm inclined to believe my experiences aren't isolated and that the experiences on social media aren't isolated but rather the tip of the iceberg.
> They weren’t “good failures” like Dreamcast. I can’t think of any game that was great on either off the top of my head, but the Dreamcast I can name several exclusives that were.

Really? The Wii U lineup is like a perfect Dreamcast-like example of a "good failure". It was so good, that half of the best selling Switch games from it's first two years, were just past Wii U exclusive games (or 3DS games), ported up to the switch.

Zelda: BotW, Mario Kart 8, Lego City Undercover, Pokken Tournament, Bayonetta 2, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Hyrule Warriors, Super Mario Brothers U, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World, Fatal Frame: Maiden of the Black Water, Super Mario Maker, and Xenoblade Chronicles (1).

All of those are either Wii U / 3DS exclusives ported forward, or planned to be exclusives and got last-minute ports near the end of development cycle (like Zelda BotW).
got excited for a sec - very cool! then tried on Safari (v14) - no love.
This is the insidious thing about lead, those consumers who have been exposed now may be unequipped to rationally evaluate the problem, the risk, the severity and alternatives because of their diminished mental state.

Victims of lead based mental illness have the same vote weight that you do.
This is kind of a meme because there simply wasn’t the technology available to put down information at scale, so a community had to set aside a few individuals (in the case of monks) to spend their lives copying text by hand for decades. If everyone did this, then everyone would die of starvation.

Once the books were completed, they were chained to the community center so that everyone had access and no one could take it for themselves.
And even that is less magic than it sounds. Unless it’s changed in v3, there’s just a regex matching stuff that could be a class name and building a rule for it.

/[^<>"'`\s]*[^<>"'`\s:]/g
> has to be accepted everywhere in the EU

So you mean it's got 10x less legal weight than the Schengen accords, that guarantee you won't have a passport check going on or coming off a intra-EU flight in France?

Good luck with that. Both France and the Netherlands have both had their council of state decide, relatively recently, that violating EU agreements does not violate EU agreements.

I mean it's commercial law, so there is no high burden of proof in the first place, so I'm not so sure what these signatures add in the first place, but the fact that the EU decided something doesn't seem to carry much weight anymore.
The glory that was Rome is nothing to the glory that is today. Rome was good at extracting wealth and so created some awesome science and statues, but it does not a stable society make, because if you want more stuff you have to take it from somebody else.

We are good at creating wealth. That means that if you want more stuff, you are better of creating something that others value that you can then trade for. Not always, not for everyone and not for everything, because the system isn't perfect. But often enough that the standard of living is rising around the world, and has only partially declined in some sectors in the US and other advanced economies.

But if you compare the US with Rome, Persia, the Greek states or anywhere else, beware of the fundamental difference.
You can tell this argument is flawed because it applies to all forms of video.
Manifest v3 is a shit show.

https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...
That makes sense. Thanks for laying it out. (And the Stones: I have the impression that Jagger became a bit of an ethnomusicologist.)
The clone dynasty of the emperor does not in fact appear in the books, though it may have been inspired by a different part later in the series.
Are there alternatives to lead for bullets and shotgun shells? If so, it would great to mandate them and keep all that lead out of the environment. We got rid of lead in most fuels; ammunition could be next.
Saudi Human Rights Activist, Represented by EFF, Sues Spyware Maker DarkMatter
If you think the timing was bad, try the second chance pool and repost it: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
I think that's the fundamental disagreement. I think fighting it through dressing down is most effective. Conspiracy theories thrive on politeness, and masking harmful leaps of faith as innocent conversation. Mockery quickly points out the inherent bad faith of the premise. I don't think open platforms have to cater to such extremism.
The Play Store already has a "Contains Ads" label for apps with ads. Preventing users from searching/filtering with this label is consumer-hostile.

Here are a couple of third-party workarounds:

- KPlaySearch (https://playsearch.kaki87.net) lets you search the Play Store and optionally filter by whether the app is free of ads and/or in-app purchases. Source code: https://git.kaki87.net/KaKi87/KPlaySearch

- Aurora Store (https://auroraoss.com/download/AuroraStore/) is an alternative Play Store client that works without a Google account and without Google Play Services. Its app search allows filtering by whether the app is ad-free and/or dependent on Google Play Services. Source code: https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore
It’s no worse than IPv4, which tends to maintain the same address until you reboot your CPE.

You can always change the configuration to reduce the address refresh interval for your OS.
As the article mentions, the simple solution is to use non-lead ammo; which is available but more expensive than lead.

Also suggestions ".. include selecting shotguns instead of high-powered rifles, and avoiding acidic cooking ingredients, since acids can dissolve even more of the lead into the food.

Additional advice for hunters who use lead ammunition is to avoid shooting the deer in regions of the body with heavy bones, such as shoulders and hips, where the resulting impact scatters more lead into the meat."
Steel shot. Seems pretty straightforward as a solution. The performance is not quite as good and it's more expensive, I assume.
> even Stalin would tell you that you are making an error in politicizing technology.

Thank you, I loved this haha.
I wonder when (or if) we will see new IPv6 only ISPs. That would be an indication that the transition is actually happening. Even though you note that most of your internet communications are done over IPv6, I doubt that you would be willing to go for IPv6 only ISP.

Lack of IPv4 addresses is a problem for new ISPs trying to enter the market, as even with levels of NAT, you need some minimal address space to serve your customers, which is harder and more expensive to get. So on one hand starting with IPv6 only stack would avoid these problems, but on the other hand it also means that every potential customer will be unhappy and in the end, you won't get many customers willing to pay you for IPv6 only connection.
Seems like there's plenty of non-lead bullet options though they're a bit more expensive.

1. http://www.huntingwithnonlead.org/bullet_types.html

2. https://www.getzone.com/hunting-ammo-9-of-the-best-non-lead-...