skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what is Mozilla doing that's so bad?

Automatically enabling Cloudflare to monitor DNS queries is my biggest current pet peeve. The whole reason I used to use Firefox was that it wasn't a corporate product. Allowing a corporation to monitor DNS resolutions is undesirable, as is having to trust their privacy policy, or that they will abide by Mozilla's policy (I don't, and more importantly, shouldn't have to trust Cloudflare). And yes, you can opt-out, but the fact that it is enabled by default in some regions is offensive.
Java has a garbage collector, you shouldn't have memory leaks unless you are just incorrectly allocating memory, which isn't technically a leak which refers to allocated memory with no reference. Without a reference the garbage collector would pick it up.
> As Mozilla converts Firefox to a spyware / adware

Can you substantiate? I wonder if this is true.
Nothing you are saying is justification for mandates.

Im not a libertarian. My city is world famously liberal and highly vaxxed. I follow all mandates (mostly to not upset people) and have been more cautious than most due to immunocompromised family.

I just dont think we should have “get vaccinated or lose your job” style mandates for vaccines with high individual but marginal communal benefit. Its a bad precedent and furthers politicization.

Also mask mandates are never done sufficiently to be meaningful. The mandates that exist aren’t stringent enough now to be impactful and are ignored anyways.
I sometimes browse it for Rainmeter stuff or icon packs. But usage has dropped, yes.
Can a single CR service execute requests as well as background tasks? And can requests and tasks have separate timeouts?
I hate tracking as much as the next guy, but this article is so disingenuous that it's painful to read.

If you literally look up the most upvoted HN article about FLoC [1], it specifies two main issues with FLoC in BOLD: Fingerprinting and Cross-context exposure. Which if I understand correctly the Topics API fixes. But the article implies that these are minor problems that we never really cared that much about.

Whether it is this or constant aggressive writing, it seems that the goal of this blog post is to simply inspire anger and hate, while not furthering the discussion on the topic. Which makes this article unhelpful (if not damaging) to the goal of personal data privacy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26344013
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...
It’s funny that you bring up Van Gogh, because he was as far from the archetypal genius as you can imagine. He started late, and he produced a lot of quite crappy paintings for many years before he produced his great works. And not least, he had a family that supported him so he didn’t have to waste his time with making a living.
This is very easy to validate with "cool, can you summarize the approach?"
Would you make that company fail for an extra few thousand bucks?

Foreign intelligence operatives would like a word with you.
Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs
> Are people doing stuff on their computers I'm not even aware we can do because I use Linux?

Yes, that’s mostly it. Fractional display scaling, good battery life, switching between audio devices that might be wireless or connected to a thunderbolt dock, seamless copy/paste, this kind of stuff. Some of it works on Linux too with some work but the question is what’s more economical. No system is perfect, honestly. It’s much easier for me to use Docker on a non-Linux system (or use a local or remote VM) than fix bluetooth audio.
Bitcoin is the only legit blockchain. You don't have to take my word for it; he proved it in the paper. The blockchain with the longest proof-of-work is always the real one, given multiple competing blockchains. All other cryptos are attempting (and failing) to do a 51% attack on Bitcoin's preexisting longer blockchain.
If you think it is important, please feel free to submit that as a post to news.ycombinator.com.
I remember coming across a project that implemented a complete queueing system using SQL functions, so to add jobs you would just call a function and same for polling/listening for jobs. It was very well documented, each function was explained and how to use it. But I can't find it anymore.
Thanks a lot, ImprovedSilence, I'm glad that they are helpful!
I just altered that setting and now Firefox resets my zoom level for every page I read to 100%. Makes HN unreadable as my default zoom for this site is 170% and having to set it every page I visit becomes old very quickly!

Interesting side effect though.
Except people end up running systems on them that have their own replication built in like kafka, cockroach etc. In all those cases you’d be better off with your node just hard crashing if disk goes bad rather than the latency penalty that inevitably follows the failover
You can actually train these people by making them create quick POC projects until they become practical programmers. I would take the overarchitechting person.
Bitcoin Core v23.0 will include Apple M1 Support
We really aren't that unique, are we?
It would be a very bad Doomsday Machine if taking out one radio station would trigger it.
these software development kits are to a large extent a strongly typed representation of the REST API graph.

Even though the application might only need two or three endpoints in kubernetes - which would be trivial to implement in go in just a couple of lines - they favor strong typing and include the SDK which is several megabytes. And the same for AWS, Azure, ...

I'm not passing any judgment here by the way.
I can quibble with the specific hours, but this resonates a lot with me.

My average day looks something like:

Hour 0-0.5: Get ready for the workday - messages, email, write standup report, take a shower.

Hour 0.5-1: standup meeting + offline meetings.

Hour 1-2: meetings or brain work

Hour 2-3: mealtime, active availability

Hour 3-5: active availability, light work, meetings

Hour 5-7: brain work (I do my best brain work at the end of the day typcially)

I'd be curious what others schedules look like.
That's just it; the article focuses exclusively on low code/no-code solutions. The author cites examples describing business people putting together functional systems without writing a lick of code (let alone understanding the math underlying such systems.) The whole point of the article is /not/ having to learn to code.

The idea is that these people are in the thick of a business problem, and given the right tools, they're likely to come up with a helpful solution. They don't need to express or communicate anything to anyone. They're able to provide a solution on their own.

I agree with this somewhat, having built and maintained more than a handful of the kind of apps that these low / no-code solutions target, i.e., line-of-business apps. These tools have a place. I've worked with trainers and consultants that, I firmly believe, would have thrived with these kinds of tools had they been available at the time.

Incidentally, I can't entirely agree that math is important because it encourages the appropriate thought process for constructing these systems. I've worked with more than enough technically inclined (if not remotely mathematically inclined) people who have managed to put together solid systems for themselves or their teams. I'm convinced that curious people excel in these cases, the ones that find a shortcut or an interesting path and just follow it.
I just joined a big tech after 10 years in startups and honestly it just requires quite different set of skills.

Grass is always greener, so there is just a trade-off on both sides in terms of various vectors like money, culture, stakeholders, scope of work etc.

Now what I also always felt that in startups I just didn't learn things that I also needed to, to become a better PM.

For instance, in our $50m ARR company we ran production-driven development, no tests and very autonomous structure until the company hit around 100 employees and started shifting.

In the company that I joined - we have around 1000x microservices and my product touches around 25 squads that I need to get approval before we even ship a single change.

Is it bad? No, its just different. But the only way to know is to try it. I always thought startups are cooler but now I am humbled to admit that I was also missing learnings from BigCo's like management, structure, async writing of documentation etc. and I kind of enjoy it!
Counterpoint: Classicists are not linguists and they're not supposed to be. There's no shame in a Classicist admitting they find Latin fluency hard, because it's a very secondary skill. There are some people who have that skill in abundance... so what?
1) Rocky Linux

2) Debian
Because why?
What I got from it is that Mary Bears assumes or implies that everyone has this struggle.
Funny because a while ago I had some problems with a somewhat noisy neighbor listening to dubious music at odd hours -- not enough to even record his music on my phone, but I live in an old apartment building and it was enough to keep me up at night; in fact once I made peace with it I could sleep through his noise.

So I remembered back in the day I could hear beeps in my speakers when my cell phone rang and I wondered it I could do the same to his speakers. After a lot of search I found out that a lot of speaker amplifiers were vulnerable to CB frequency injection and being close enough you could actually highjack some vulnerable speakers/amplifiers given you were close enough/transmitting at the right frequency and power.

In the end I just angrily knocked at my neighbor's door at 2AM and complained about the noise, he apologized, turned down the volume and I've never had problems ever since.

I got to know the guy eventually when some other neighbor flooded our toilets by pouring concrete down the toilet drain, he was just a nice uber driver in his 40s having problems with his wife, drinking into the night and listening to dubious gypsy blues that resonated to his sorrows.
Probably the only interesting aspect of this, is how frequently elderly and those at risk should get booster shots.

And booster shots might not help that much with stopping infections, but will help in keeping people out of hospitals.

Very similar to how the vaccine for seasonal influenza works.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/16/health/flu-vaccine-mismat...
But out of hundreds of negative omments I've read across several posts, yours is the first I've heard that mentioned the ethics of a founder. That's got nothing to do with the comment I responded to, and if it was the reason for everyone else's hate, it's awfully strange that it's never mentioned.
> Makes me want to cancel Neil Young for a good while, even though he makes great music.

If you do this, you've stooped to their level. Don't do this. Be better than them.
I Once Longed for the American Nuclear Family, but Now I Know Better
>Oh, and by the way: I have plenty of sympathy towards health care workers. I am dating a nurse. I have doctors, nurses, and paramedics as friends. I have extreme empathy towards them, and full seething burning anger towards the unvaccinated septuagenarians ruining our health care system. And the rest of our economy while they're at it.

Instead of blaming unvaxxed people, you should blame the government for not having more capacity and not planning on how to handle surge in demand for hospitals. We're lucky covid is so tame, this could have been a crazy disaster.

This rhetoric where we try to divide the population is insanely toxic when the fault should be placed on the ruling class for mishandling both the planning, the communication and the handling of the pandemic.
That's fair, but that's not what was being discussed.
Until when? What’s the endpoint? Children are little bundles of disease; it has always been and will always be strictly better for public health to prevent children from interacting with each other. But what kind of world is that?
We already have this distinction: engineers vs bricklayers and plumbers. And it also works that way in software. Plenty of CRUD programmers would not be able to implement quicksort. But they sure are able to use it.
Will the nonsense of this, and that other article never end on HN? Over and over these get posted pushing the same flawed arguments.
I lurked on it for a long time. My online habits switched more and more from pc to mobile in the 2010's. The mobile experience on deviant art via app as I remember it felt clunky. That led to me checking deviantart a lot less. Haven't conducted a survey though, I can only speak for myself. But maybe others have had similar experiences?

Update: at first glance, the deviantart app does seem to have a lot of bad reviews. That might explain a lot.
Thanks brother
Google is often dismissively called an ad company.

Why is that? Because most of their revenue is from ads.

How does Brave make money? With ads.

Privacy-centric positioning makes sense to capture a part of the market. But the mis-aligned incentives are there for Brave just as much as they are for Google.

Are they better right now than Google? Probably. Is it smart to trust a company that only makes money with ads with control over your browsing experience in the medium term? Not so much.

It's quite amusing to me how well their marketing works.

What we need is a browser that can exist as a viable business without being chained to ad revenue.
> never saw a single ad

That cannot be true; brave cannot block first party ads.

I’m saying something very simple:

1. Brave is a browser like any other, in fact, built on top of chromium.

2. The ad blocking can be achieved with ad blockers using normal browsers. There’s ways to block cookies too.

3. Brave has presets for 1&2. Additionally, Brave adds on top more opt-in ads using BAT as an incentive.

Hence, use a normal browser with ad blocking, not chromium based, and FLOC is a non issue. Don’t use chrome, don’t use brave, no need to bother with this article about floc or whatever google api.
A few months ago i noticed an up tick on the number of people subscribing to my blog. It went from a single person Per day to dozens.

Looking at my logs, I couldn't identify where these people are coming from. I've added a bunch of checks to make sure it's not an automated script, but they seem legit. Until I started i started looking at their ip addresses.

Every single ip is from a tor exit node. I have no idea if these are fake users or real ones. I can't tell if I should be worried or excited.
> As an object of desire for men and women, they had sex with both genders. The intricate social rules that governed the appearance of Wakashu also regulated their sexual behavior. With adult men, Wakashu assumed a passive role, with women, a more active one. Relationships between two Wakashu were not tolerated. Any sexual relationship with men ended after a Wakashu completed his coming-of-age ceremony.

> Their most important relationship would be with an older man, which often had both a sexual and a teacher-student element.

That sounds pretty much like a gender role?
If you have a developer account you can do that. There are even services which provides signing services (which is problematic I know) but still there is ability (not easy and cost money) to sideload apps.
Ok GP comment was hilarious, thanks
Oh god with that weird proto-c++ without exceptions or the STL…
Ok replace LOC with ‘Steps’. Its domain complexity, data types, relations, state, and the network that makes all of this hard. No-code doesn’t solve for big problems, but it sure does work for integration and the next million CRUD apps that fit highly specific niches.

Somebody who can write clever excel formulas can pick up a no code tool and be productive on day 1. That doesn’t mean they can go from there to writing an operating system - there is higher and lower abstractions that need to be considered, which comes from both experiences and the concepts they mature coding languages expose you to.
If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed
> I'm talking about scrum masters who have trouble navigating Jira, business analysts who aren't able to have a written conversation, product owners who struggle to create Outlook calendar invites.

None of those have anything to do with writing software. You are mentioning two commercial packages with shitty user interfaces and you're talking about the skill of writing, which is hard for most people who need to write out a logical argument instead of winging it.

Apropos...
> 10-20 years ago that wasn't really the case

To state the obvious, 10 years ago was 2012. Absolutely all of the things you list were standard practice. 20 years ago was 2002, also same thing (no, git didn't invent version control).

30 years ago I was using version control at my first job, it was expected practice. As was having test coverage. None of these things are new.

Deployment was different, granted. We didn't "deploy to production", we shipped a box of floppies to users.
It’s surreal being able to virtually play ping pong or racket ball with a friend or family member who you’re limited to seeing either due to distance or lifestyle ie new parents. Board games are nice too.
She made her comments in an article specifically about what it's like to be a Classics 'Don'.
For some reason, Macbooks are considered sexy. No wonder; Apple produces fashion accessories that double as pieces of advanced technology. To my mind, their only outstanding quality is battery life.

Then, MacOS is bundled with these machines. It's very opinionated and highly integrated; little needs adjustment, or cab be adjusted at all. For some people, it's a relief.

Last but absolutely not least is that many companies standardize on few vendors and few models, ideally, only one vendor. Apple gladly fills this niche, admittedly offering good technical support, and enthusiastic sales force. As an engineer, you're not given a choice; I've been in such situation several times.
This particular bridge's condition was rated as poor but not unsafe.
is Zimbra still a good idea?
> [...]there are three realistic options.

Is the Librewolf option included in those three? Because that (a patch on top of newest Firefox) is something I have been wanting for a long time and I just recently realized someone had done it.

> Chromium is the best of these options.

Easiest is maybe the word you are looking for here?

Because best depends on your goals. If your goal is to reduce dependency on Google (as it is for many here) it could be close to directly counterproductive.
"would of" is one many native English speakers also regularly make. Your written English seems above average to me.
The trick to solving this is called scope. Because even that 1% won't be able to understand 100K lines all at once. They can also only understand the 20 lines in front of them (hopefully!). But they know how to use abstraction, and once that tool is in your box divide and conquer will get you to 100K LOC without losing your way.
My uncle used to work for McDonnell Douglas and regaled me with stories of people standing around or hanging out in the parking lot, basically getting payed to do jack all. At the time he told me this, almost 40 yrs ago now, they were in a slump and were laying off. Nepotism in the hiring practice was prevalent. I would have fired him, personally. Needless to say one can expect most "industries" to be very similar.
You are quite right of course, i do think Neil Young is making a big mistake here.

Am looking forward to seeing a lot less COVID stories, there are bigger issues that humanity needs to deal with.
Seems like just an inevitable outcome of ever-increasing academic specialization. (Well, that and from the fact that classical languages aren't taught to many schoolkids anymore.) Maybe in the nineteenth century reading Thucydides would have posed no difficulty to the average classicist, but nowadays the scholar who specializes in Thracian numismatics or whatever probably doesn't have this facility and doesn't have much opportunity to develop or use it.

I can't read Greek but I've always heard that it's quite a bit harder than Latin, a language that I found to be preposterously convoluted. (I hated it and didn't get any farther than Caesar.) These languages are hard. I remember reading somewhere that a distinguished English-speaking Hellenist who'd been a professor for decades reported that after all that time he was able to read ancient Greek about as fluently as he read French. That's crazy.
And Hypercard / Filemaker. The things I've seen non IT people build with those still blow me away.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220128210852/https://www.econo...
Thanks,

Actually I didn't wanted to memorize the nitty gritty details they ask. I thought I could just rely on my concept and problem solving but I believe I have to make preparations to get through these type of interviews.
Small nit here (and a common misunderstanding among non-jews): one becomes a bar/bat mitzvah
I was watching a video by Neil Patel and he pays 130k a month to Aws for one website, UberSuggest. Now that is a guy with money to burn. He could put that on bare metal and use the savings to buy a hotel and food for the homeless.
Yes, disabling site-specific zoom is one of the things that Resist Fingerprinting does.[1] If you want to use site-specific zoom while keeping Resist Fingerprinting enabled, the Zoom Page WE add-on[2] should allow this. I've just tried it and it worked for me.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1369357

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-page-we
> Picking 20 seconds out of thousands of hours of your political enemies broadcasts to smear them is the lowest form of propaganda.

ok, here's 5 full hours https://youtu.be/-5yh2HcIlkU

> How do you know you're not the one being radicalized?

How do you know you're not the one being radicalized?

> Have you ever tried to listen to Alex in good faith even if you don't agree and try to understand his view at least? Or is your entire perception based off of John Oliver?

I have, he's entertaining. I don't take a single thing seriously. I've spent some time researching on thing he's said, all of it was gross mischaracterizations and exaggerations on any topic. I won't spend any more. I'm not a journalist, that's their job.

> Do you think you could pick 20 seconds out of John Olivers footage and make him look like a crazy person?

That would be fantastic, go ahead. This isn't idolatry.

> Some would say that claiming the outcome of free speech is radicalization...to be pure idiocy.

Well, it is through free speech that radicalization does happen, however, nobody is talking about free speech here. because alex jones can still say whatever he wants. (as long as he can pay for libel/slander fines), you can exercise free speech. deplatforming has nothing to do with free speech.
I suspect that, with notable exceptions, academics gain the level of proficiency they need.

However, practically everybody can at least read the characters of Latin.

I find this interesting to contrast to academics studying Ancient Chinese. Evemn native Chinese speakers require lots of training before they can even begin decoding the scripts and characters, let alone things like the poetic forms.

Now THAT'S a difficult language to do research in.
Why does eating the liver make them particularly metal? I’ve always assumed predators in the wild eat most/all parts of their prey. (Vegetarian here if that explains my ignorance :))
Unzipping a random file into your privacy browser? Sometimes I really don't get these people. Feels like my neighbour who's antivax mostly because she ended up in that part of cyberspace where pharmacology can only do wrong. People overrate their own DIY alternatives.
Why 8.5 hours of sleep is the new eight hours
The entire point of tor is for very secure end-to-end encryption to the point that certain professionals (state actors and even criminals) use it for their purposes. Chromium is a general purpose browser that does not do that. You can't compare them because zero-days isn't the only relevant detail to compare here.