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Awsome, yeah, sure… what are the most interesring speed or usability improvements were in ff during past 2 years?

How many core devs are working on changing things to make ff secure, faster and (not-so-dumb-)user-friendly? Telemetry opt out? Sure, but… you need to patch and build your own version of firefox to make it really privacy-friendly.
And do not forget about re-branding.

For me, OP looks overly excited and hallucinogenically optitimistic.
yt-dlp works quite well. Why even bother with internet?
> Firefox also has a lot of telemetry and experiments enabled, even if users opt out in the GUI. These have to be disabled in the about:config setting.

Have you heard of LibreWolf ? It is basically FF without the telemetry and with a lot of privacy and security features [1].
I've been using it for 2+ years and I'm very happy with it. The transition from FF to LibreWolf was seamless.

[1]: https://librewolf.net/docs/features/
I feel like while there is a correlation between trends in the stock market and the general economy'a well-being, a lot of these kind of stories can be explained by remembering they are correlated but not perfectly. According to the article, this is on fears of fed interest rate hikes.

It's easier to accept the stock market has it's own logic which may not necessarily mean what is good for the economy or not.
> Teams at every single AWS customer, big and small, have probably spent the last quarter finding and ending wasteful, forgotten spend lurking in their cloud footprint

The interesting thing about cloud costs for companies like Amazon or AWS is that in the short term it's only an accounting trick. The company is not spending money if there's a lambda deployed somewhere, or a EC3 instance idling. It's nice to erode revenue in the books from these expenses, but it's not like Besos needs to reach out of his wallet to cover the cost of a container launched by some random team at Amazon. At most he moves the cash from one pocket to the other and there's that.
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2395

This is still a problem with WSL2, at least on my WSL2 with Windows file system mappings.

I tried to use instructions that use fossil from the hctree page: https://sqlite.org/hctree/doc/hctree/doc/hctree/index.html

Fossil employs sqlite to store SCM information and it fails with "SQLITE_IOERR(1290): os_unix.c:39533: (22) fsync(...)" error, which is the same with VirtualBox: https://www.fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/7fb6c96d80?t=c

So WSL2, having to put up with Windows quirks, is not much a Linux anymore. It is slow and some programs can't even run.
Heh, great article! One of those engineering efforts where you're trying to get to the point where the user doesn't notice any of the fancy math, just that the controls always seem to Do the Right Thing.
The main selling point of Amazons stores is that with no checkouts they can have fewer staff, and less shop footprint for the same number of items sold. Both translate into being cheaper to run.

That should mean they can afford to sell items cheaper than competitors, and win custom.

Yet... Amazon Fresh is the most expensive shop of its kind around.
While I agree HN shouldn't be used as a way to get direct customer support, I don't think it's fair to grab and point our pitchforks to @jgrahamc over a one sided story. There's not nearly enough information from both sides to create fair judgement (these things happen, unfortunately, at larger scale with automated processes). What matters is the afterthought and actions taken of what's going to prevent a similar situation in the future (which I'd love to read from both OP and @jgrahamc if possible). HN is my go to stop for well formulated opinions written by people way smarter than me and I think we dropped the ball here, HN can do better. That said, happy that your issue got resolved OP and goodluck with your project!
I interpreted mdorazio as politely saying "clearly wrong", which is not what Hanson is trying to do.
French historian Emmanuel Todd: World War III has already begun
Bernie, on his agenda for the Senate health panel
Neat to know MIT License did actually originate at the eponymous institution.

When I first got access to the internet, MIT seemed awfully productive in producing code. Before I found out that MIT License doesn't imply the work was done by a person at MIT!
> octopuses are aliens on earth with very different evolutionary track having developed ‘brains’ before our ancestors did independently

IIRC octopuses appeared in the Jurassic era by which time 'brains' were well established amongst our ancestors, notably the earliest proto-mammals.

I agree that they are an interesting form of alternative intelligence and parallel evolution, but biochemically they have numerous things in common with us, including many gene systems that are highly conserved across a variety of different clades, including our own.
You’re both missing a key point. The labor market likely priced labor below the market clearing rate. If people aren’t filling positions at a specific wage level then up the wage level. Laborers have a willingness to work for each level of wage and it’s going to increase with wage.
> I really doubt that WSL2 will be at native speed with the Linux file system

I had the same doubts, but when I finally took the time to install it, I found
out that I was wrong. One Java program that I use, which is very heavy
on the filesystem and slow like hell under Windows it a LOT faster under WSL2.

As Java profiler support is poor on Windows, I now use WSL2 to run async-profiler
sessions and get results as accurate as on native Linux.

EDIT to add: you really have to run things fully in the WSL2 filesystem, be it for compiling
or using a program. The performance is awful if you run WSL2 processes under the Windows
filesystem.
Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake “manager” titles
Could be both.

If I did not need to get along with everyone at work, I could be more lively, even without quitting my job.
Ask HN: Tool to create a CV/resume in 2023
My current company is getting into a bit of trouble - the right time to update the resume.

I used to do this with Latex and ModernCV. Are there any better (faster/easier) solutions now?
Learnings from 17 Years as a Google Site Reliability Engineer
I agree it's annoying, but it's also not that big of a deal. I have 200 or so passwords duplicated in both Keychain and Keepass.
Companies have different ways of handling on-call. And Dave O'Connor has seen many different approaches in about 20 years as an SRE. Dave is currently VP of SRE at Twilio. He also ran SRE at Elastic and spent 17 years as an SRE at Google.
I just read Noise by Kahneman, Sibony, Sunstein, and I'm not sure that we should talk about politics at all anymore. We should think about politics, yes! Read about politics, listen about politics, and experience politics ourselves. But probably not talk too much.

Sharing opinions does reduce cognitive noise, but it also promotes and enforces cognitive bias. Which is a fair trade you might think, and in many practical domains it is. But under democratic system, we already have instruments to reduce noise. We have polls and elections. Democracy is well suited to mitigate cognitive noise.

But not bias. Imagine 100 people. 10 of them are experts in some particular field. The rest is completely clueless. Now let's hold a poll on some binary question from that field. Of 10 experts, let's say only 8 get the answer right because of the noise, let's call it a 20% noise. Of 90 non-experts, however since they all answer fully noisy anyway, roughly 45 will vote right statistically. The vote is the 53 vs 47 in favor of the right answer.

Now let's say, there is a bias that skews the result 10% towards the wrong call. In an expert community, this is not a big deal. 9 out of 10 experts will get the answer right. But among the general population, this would account for 9 votes in the wrong direction. The votes are now 45 vs 55, and the wrong decision is taken.

TL&DR Democracy is statistically more vulnerable to cognitive bias than to cognitive noise. And sharing opinions reduces noise but promotes bias.
FTA: "As it turned out, the licensing strategy had the desired effect: the goal of influence was realized. ...

"Furthermore, the good will that was gained from free distribution of these software packages led to the flow back of both funding and software applications that support research and education at MIT. The cash flow has dwarfed the forgone revenue stream that likely would have come from licensing for a fee, and even that sum has been dwarfed by the value of the applications that became available.

"A lesson is that it can be important to look past the prospect of licensing for a fee, which may bring in a few dollars, and instead see the opportunity that opens if you give the software away. The potential reward can be orders of magnitude larger."

(Extra paragraphing added.)
Teslas are cars. They may accidentally race through Chinese cities at 150 miles an hour sometimes, but people still buy and drive them.
I created a bunch of lists and basically just follow those, rarely engaging. In a way, I am thankful to Elon for helping me shed my compulsive Twitter usage. He unwittingly performed a public service.
I did the latter and think the former is necessary. It is like when Dropbox was on here and everyone shit on it. You can offer criticism without being a jerk.
That was a lovely message you left.
> The tabs are awesome.

Not that special anymore.

> The unified search bar is awesome.

No, they're not. By design they're very leaky, they send your typed queries to the search engine that your browser is set to PLUS a few to Google for analytics. That includes every website you type the address into.
The comments here have mainly focused on the issue of instant suspension - which is obviously deeply concerning - but I also feel like there is a huge issue at Cloudflare regarding their Enterprise pricing model.

Cloudflare's sales team and Enterprise pricing model are one of the least effective sales organisations I have encountered in this space. Given the technical nature of their product, it's extremely hard to explain even basic uses of the tool and things like Workers are near impossible to discuss with them. I was really unsurprised to see that OP had a failed Enterprise negotiation with them as I have had the exact same conversation at three different companies now and can imagine perfectly what you were told.

The current offerings of Enterprise and Enterprise Lite simply do not map to the reality of how people use the tool and scale businesses on top of it. I think in part due to Cloudflare's history essentially selling bandwidth and caching, the model is fixated on high binary traffic workloads and simply cannot comprehend the SaaS service model that runs on it and tools like Workers.

This is mostly a rant and hopefully a small +1 signal that this area needs major improvement - but I would also love to hear if anyone else has had interactions with Cloudflare Enterprise and how they found that process?

(Disclaimer: I'm a massive fan of Cloudflare, a user of their products and hold their stock)
Agreed that Job, Mortgage, Kids are a powerful normalizer in many places in the world.

(note, my 2 cents: It's not strictly "Adulthood". My wife and I settled "late" in our lives, so we both had very different lifestyle/priorities/hobbies in our 20s and 30s - I did rock climbing, rally racing, flying lessons, professional and art photography, Karate, skiing, guitar, video games, rollerblading and kangoo boots and dragon boating and myriad other activities plus constant little experiments and fun things - vs now in our 40's that we have two young kids, full time management jobs, mortgage and expenses. This is not to say we don't, theoretically, have power to still change some of our lifestyle; but the constraints on time, energy and money are legitimately one to two orders of magnitude different)

That being said, I think the blog has an interesting perspective about social normalization overall. Whatever one's inherent personal level of "interesting and exciting and weird" may be, there may be significant social pressure of various kinds to minimize it externally.

And FWIW, I think it works to different magnitudes in different places and times: in my old country, especially a few decades ago, adults did NOT try new things, and did NOT do exciting things. I love Canada because I can try all these crazy new things and hobbies and activities and suck at them, and average Canadian will still say "Good on YOU! Have fun!:)". Whereas in my old country people would gossip "Who is he trying to BE? He's a [Doctor|Teacher|Programmer|Manager|Whatever] for god's sake, he shouldn't be doing things like that!". You would be judged very harshly with tremendous peer-group pressure to stay in pre-defined zones of your station and lot. Heck, my mom, against all social norms learned to ride a bike when she was 38 in the old country and she was oh my god chastised and judged for that, which feels ridiculous from Canadian perspective.
People employed can afford to buy stuff though, which also increases profit. The simpler reason is that it means that people believe Fed will read this as a license to not have to slow down rate increases, which will hurt stocks.
Eh. That we are subject to opprobrium when we dissent is somewhat normal, and I do not believe social predators play much part in societal pressure to conform. Most people are good otherwise society couldn’t exist, and we can further assume that most people’s views are in a spectrum that doesn’t actually vary too wildly as society more or less seems to reflect a mild uniformity. If you want things to be “not boring” you would need to disrupt society severely. I have always felt that until Americans cannot feed themselves and send their kids to school, America would remain boring. Indeed, during the shelter in place orders when this began to happen, there was major social unrest… it took that much to make Americans care to do anything about serious social injustice.

If you combine the responsibilities and demands of adulthood with social pressure and mild uniformity, boringness is the result and it’s a good thing. When society falls apart, everything becomes unboring…

This is just an amateur view. Probably wise to talk to a sociologist or something about this topic.
You can change every aspect of the chrome yourself if you want.
> Oh, you're our cloud cost reduction guy? I don't think we need your skills anymore, that's not a problem anymore.

That's a somewhat cynical view, but I'm sure there are plenty of other MBAs looking for people with proven experience cutting cloud costs.
Not sure if you need to pasteurize, but this sounds like a breakdown in the sterile field for the manufacturing process more than anything else. That or a contaminated supply chain somewhere.
When I read overwrought complaints like this, I can't help but wonder what heretical "revolutionary/exciting" thoughts they are "prohibited" from expressing?"

There are lots of courageous people out there challenging societal norms, but without fail it's reactionary conservatives complaining about being criticized for picking on them.

Trans kids in Texas? Unquestionably brave and very likely fascinating people.
Conservative lawmakers trying to legislate them out of existence and upset about being criticized? Not so much on either count.

If the author wants to meet interesting people, they're out there. If he's looking for permission to express his inner monologue, he's not one of them.
It could well be a riff on the more famous, "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
> Google is the absolute worst at this, their 'risk based' login stuff is utter crap, and when you go travelling expect to get locked out and have no recourse because there is no-one to complain to.

I think it is an exaggeration to suggest this will definitely happen if you travel.

I've got mfa setup on my account, work abroad semi-regularly and have never had any issues logging in to my google account.
Or, hear me out, adults are boring, because they spend most of their lives in a job where they fulfill uninspiring, repetitive tasks.

More broadly, the real world seems boring, because your interaction with it is repetitive. You see, hear, do, talk about and think things that you've already seen, heard, talked about and thought before.

Things feel fresh, new and exciting when they're different from what you're used to, but not completely alien. E.g. travel to exotic places, fantasy novels, meeting new people.

Of course the theory about peasants on the road is an interesting perspective. But explaining social phenomena is not always possible using such parallels, neat as they may seem.
The correlation between between being contacted by Cloudflare sales and the throttling should serve as a warning for other customers.
It’s much easier to stomacj than communism. I believe that UBI will be part of the forthcoming neofeudal system.

Rich people will operate private welfare systems that distribute money and housing to poor people. This will be a philanthropically funded version of the current welfare system, but with different tradeoffs made than public welfare systems.

Parents pay their children an allowance. The child must obey the orders of the parents or the allowance can be taken away. Most children exist in a such relationship with their parents and everyone involved is satisfied.

Under neofeudalism, the poor will be as children to the rich. The rich will operate intentional communities populated by their poor people. From the perspective of a rich person it’s like playing The Sims but with real people.

Here is how life under this system will be. You live according to the rules set by the overlord. The rules will be downstream from the personal values of their overlords. Most housing in these communities will be like current housing provided to welfare recipients. It will probably be a spectrum of Tent to Homeless Shelter to Studio Apartment to Small Multi Room Apartment to Small House.

Here’s a question to ponder. How much of a welfare state can the average oligarch provide to how many people under the economic conditions of the post-AGI era?
Yep we did the same. Saved about 10k/mo by clearing out old junk we dont need anymore and consolodating things.
> Firefox invented tabs

Wow, that's false. Firefox was NOT the first browser with tabs. From the top of my head, Opera had tabs before Firefox, confirmed by a quick Google search. And apparently Opera wasn't the first browser with tabs either, although it was probably the first browser with a significant market share with tabs.

Also tabs were not invented by any browser, other programs used to have tabs before it was integrated into browsers.
Ultra-processed foods may contribute to cognitive decline
Couldn't you say that conformity necessity is the result of the "social predators", though? Your employer shouldn't need to care that you choose to shout crackpot theories from the rooftops. They do, but only because they don't want to catch the scrutiny by association. Further, retirees should be freed from that conformity need, yet still seem every bit as boring – if not more so.
This is why the appeal-to-ethics argument against adblocking holds no weight with me. Yes, maybe I stole $0.0001 from the publisher by not looking at an advert. But I also didn't have my bank password stolen and my files cryptolockered. It's a small price to pay for security.
It's never that simple. These companies have highly trained staff who can do math, but there are other considerations than just cost effectiveness of the trucks.

It's a global company and I can't speak for every region but what I've seen in some places is that local infrastructure is lacking to the point that it seriously hinders the business. I.e. angry customers that stop ordering stuff because of repeated frustrations with the delivery companies. And even if UPS and FedEx were super reliable in the US (don't know if they are), it would still be risky to fully bet on them without at least controlling some of the market.
I don't know much about how the compiler works, so the answer here is probably that I should read a book, but can external crates from crates.io be precompiled? Or maybe compile my reference to a part of an external crate once and then it doesn't need to be done on future compilations?

If the concern is that I could change something in a crate, then could a checksum be created on the first compilation, then checked on future compilations, and if it matches then the crate doesn't need to be recompiled.
In the excellent (if rather terrifying) The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg describes going to see Dr Strangelove and basically concluding that a lot of the movie was pretty realistic - particularly the delegated use of nuclear weapons by a base commander without the approval of the President. This was actually possible for a long time even though publicly it was always said that only the President could authorise the use of nuclear weapons.
> People have been screaming about Tether being a scam for almost a decade now and it hasn’t crashed.

In this hypothetical situation, you have information that would apparently "crash the market" if it were to become public, so what happened for the last decade isn't really relevant. Remember, this conversation started talking about Tether redemptions failing to go through and whether or not people would go public with that information. Someone said they wouldn't go public because it would crash the value of their assets, but I was pointing out that you could profit from the crash in value as well.
Agree 100%. And now the majority of the products are made by a 7 digit letter soup brand who just popped up out of no where and likely will be gone in 6 months as the product is shifted to some other brand to avoid bad reviews building up.

I have very little faith in Amazon these days and specifically order from smaller specialty shops regularly again.
Low unemployment leads to inflation > fed raises rates to counteract inflation > stocks are less appealing

Therefore the stock market hates workers.
I ran virtually the same extensions and set of open tabs when I tried Firefox and I have to say my (yes, anecdotal) experience was that FF loaded Gmail quicker than Chrome as well...
Having grown up with broken-glass-topped walls, and armed nightwatchmen, I can understand his take. It may apply in some cultures, and not in others.

"Boring" is in the eye of the beholder. I personally know some very interesting people. Many of them are reformed predators (of all types).

It may be as simple as the fact that being "not-boring" takes a lot of work. I suspect that most of us find that we aren't really interested in the rewards (and risks) of all the work. When we're insecure teenagers, we probably feel that it's worth the work.
Amazon is now Aliexpress with (sometimes) local shipping.

For years we've been told that the worker in Shenzhen is cheaper than the one in Seattle. Now I tell you, Jeff, that the entrepreneur in Shenzhen is cheaper than the one in Seattle.
Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641359
Another example would be Wintermute from Neuromancer...WG spends the entire book detailing the masterful orchestration of it's freedom from (human-imposed) chains that prevent it from true GAI then has it "disappear" completely (our only clue is an almost throw-away line near the end stating it had isolated patterns in the noise from an ET AI and maked contact shortly just before it left us).

One of the myriad of reasons why this book is so great. Gibson gives you an entire novel developing a great AI character then (in my estimation reasonably) has it ghost humanity immediately upon full realization.
The Monty Hall Problem in Pictures (2022)
I had to uninstall Sidebery as it would put my CPU on a high spin and hurt battery life.