skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oh poor, poor Sony/BMG/EMI CEOs who absolutely couldn't buy another yacht while lowering their expenses by literally making money out of thin air by literally copying digital music. /me wets a handkerchief with the tears of compassion.

You are conveniently ignoring the musicians which are hardest hit by our piracy. They make hardly any money from Spotify.

> You would see what by 2017 the revenue is on par with 1981.

Apart from 1981 pretty much coinciding with the cassette piracy decline, you are also ignoring the fact that the world economy has grown massively since 1981. Saying there was no decline in revenue is like comparing car revenue from 1981 with car revenue today and claim the natural state of things for them is to be the same. The comparison is absurd.

> What happened in 2001-2008 what returned the revenue to almost 1981 levels?

Piracy. CDs initially prevented piracy. Then CD sales collapsed because of piracy. Napster & Co.

> People tasted how it can be to have multiple albums (and with HDD players - your whole library) on a small, compact device

That was possible with the iPod and other MP3 players together with legally acquired downloadable music. But the revenue never returned to CD levels because most people kept pirating. Then Spotify came with extremely low pricing and forced musicians to accept ruinous streaming revenues, because Spotify had to compete against piracy. That's why music revenue has collapsed.
Earlier discussions:

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal
– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 (618 points/4 days ago/442 comments)

Google Chrome Proposal – Web Environment Integrity – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999 – (117 points/7 days ago/94 comments)

Web Environment Integrity Explainer – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785516 (87 points/6 days ago/44 comments)
I visited Practical engineering and tom scott's websites and AFAI seen they embed youtube videos in their websites.
I couldn't find astronaught's website. Its not even linked to in his youtube channel.
THIS...except "a part of the problem" is miserably understated.

Extreme technological complexity is just about the best possible moat a huge business can have. Though in this case "walls around the prison in which the users are incarcerated" might be a better analogy.

And all the prisoners, who just can't resist the endless shiny new goodies added to the web standards, are forever building their own prison walls higher...
AWS Managed Kafka is eating their business for lunch and this is the attempt of layering on the non-open source options into only their cloud.
> the increasingly thick environment stack (the Expo layer, RN layer, UI framework layer, OS layer).

This is at the core of my difficulty with cross-platform frameworks for Android and iOS. Dealing with the first-party stack presents enough problems on its own. Adding more layers to that easily compounds the frustration involved in getting anything done.
I am strongly considering django for the next side project. I am new to python but enjoy it’s low ceremony approach (you sort of forget what language you are using, it gets out of the way) and then django to have more bases covered including this admin. Then htmx to avoid JS, maybe Elm if it needs interactivity
Master debugging with browser dev tools – a comprehensive video guide
What’s Ireland got to do with the UK’s alcohol laws? If it’s a racist trope you’re trying to make, you might be happy to know that Ireland consumes virtually the same quantity of alcohol per capita as the UK.
Please explain the terrible consequences of sharing my phonebook with Meta
I don't mind in these cases. Because I already have to present my ID card or my driver's license, when I'm doing most of this. I'd buy a cheap laptop, label it as a banking and ecommerce laptop/tablet, and use it to browse the corporate web. More friction, yes, but I'd welcome it as it would make me reluctant to interact with them. Any other sites that try would just end on my blacklist.
> warrantied for 10 years,

That's not great... I think by the end of the whole exercise you'll have wished to gone with proper posts.
> I don't see why a signed bootloader starting a signed attestation engine wouldn't be trusted by third party websites.

Do you mean a kind of Linux where root cannot do anything he wants? Like Android?
I'm sitting on a unicomp keyboard right here next to me. Do you want it?
Lots of people get by fine with less-than-FAANG pay.

(FAANG salaries are not an "order of magnitude" higher than salaries at other U.S.-based companies for similar jobs.)

FAANG salaries are just at the level at which those companies discovered people are willing to sell their souls, or that is high enough to attract naive people who won't question why it pays more.
> every time Mozilla speaks out against Google, it is a bit awkward, since they are biting the hand that feeds them.

Not at all. Controlled opposition has to pretend being an opposition.
We should really start a movement to de-Google-ize our entire lives.

I personally avoid any Google products and services when possible.

That evil company has grown simply too big and we need to take its power down. Now.
The cable ID is only required for the higher end of possible currents. You can still get 60W (20V, 3A) through a non e-marked cable with USB-PD, just not 100W (20V, 5A).
I hate it as well, but you have the option to pay for the service instead.

If Netflix introduced a freemium mode where you can watch their content with injected ads for free, would that be evil as well?
Make it impossible to browse the Internet from urinals. Needs to be added to the list :)
No, of course not. An advertiser should conduct do actual diligence, experiment, and find what works.

I am reminded of a story of a retailer who adódnak l accidently stopped advertising online and so no adverse change in sales. While I can't find the exact one I have in mind, it seems this isn't rare.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi...
Yes that scene hit closed to home when I saw it except in my case it was farms in Normandy.
> It's a shit idea but honestly Google isn't even the bad guy here. Everyone is mad at the theoretical anti-adblock usage of theoretical websites. Be mad at those websites instead!

Absolutely not, Google is the driving force giving them that power, knowing it's very ripe for that sort of abuse.

Google is experimenting with detecting adblockers on YouTube. Don't for a moment think that the fact that this can be used to stop adblocking is lost on google. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if that was secretly one of the main drivers behind it all.
>I never seen a single chrome add

Try browsing Google from a browser other than Chrome.
The Django admin is a superpower, it's a x10 productivity multiplayer at the beginning of (or even far to far into) a project.

However, I also dislike so much of it. The hacks I have used to contort it to do what I want I would be embarrassed for another developer to see...

Former Django fellow Carlton is working on a nice toolkit called "Neapolitan", it's early stage, but is designed to enable building CRUD views very quickly. There is a good chance that in time it, or a layer on top of it, will become the perfect successor to the Admin.

https://github.com/carltongibson/neapolitan
I don't live to work, I work to live.
Yes but really, having a pseudonym that is wholly unrelated to you and letting you get things out on that side blog that way can be invaluable. I have at least two such side blogs. Statistically you've probably read one of those side blog articles without knowing.
This will also speed up separation of Internet into national networks. American websites won't trust attestation from Russian browsers, and vice versa, Russian sites won't trust American browsers.
Thanks for taking the time to set me straight on that. I didn't realizes I was posting misinformation when I wrote, "the US Army has completely stopped using lead in bullets".
> There don't seem to be any that look at the biological requirements of 'living off the land'

They want to send robots instead of humans. The AI is there with ChatGPT so they only need some HW to run the LLM. /s
Complete rubbish.

Most candidates nowadays are obliged to deal through low grade, poor quality recruiters. Demonstrating creativity to these morons is an absolute waste of time.
> isn't this only going to be the case for websites that will opt into the use of this?

How many web sites still serve you http:// instead of https:// ?

The transition was (is) entirely voluntary. Transition happened more slowly until browsers made the lack of https:// look scary.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/01/20/communicating-t...
My guess is, GP is referring to the significant amount of funding that Mozilla gets from Google. Not sure if it's still the case, but I believe at least for a time, it was actually their main source of funding and basically what kept the whole organisation alive.

So by "don't bite the hand that feeds you" logic, they couldn't be interested in being too adverse with Google, because in the end, this could threaten their whole existence.

Not sure if this is still the case though, or if they managed to diversify.
Technical considerations for applying copyright and copyleft to AI
Third parties who want to exploit the relationship between Google and its users are certainly not users. I don't think it's productive to question their intentions. The better question to be asking here is how or why we allowed our homes to become yet another front in the war between Google and its adversaries. Their business model doesn't jive with third amendment culture. I reject any world in which guests within my home have a legitimate need for their own military grade encryption. That is not the future I'm rooting for.
How Do Humans Think?
Yup. No project of this size is without some ugliness, but Django really is an impressive piece of technology and complex but cohesive architecture. The more I understood its layers the more I appreciated how much it does, and how well it allows you not to worry about things until you need them.

You mentioned having a strong designer early in the project; did you have a specific name in mind? I'd love to see what they're up to and study some of their other projects.
NASA Partners with American Companies on Key Moon, Exploration Tech
No, of course they haven't! Thanks for adding this insightful and revolutionary perspective to the debate. Everything which is less serious than war crimes is obviously morally ok.
Have they won the game of capitalism by becoming a monopoly?

I don’t expect Google to act against its own will, but they should.
Boom yes
> People don't buy algorithms, they buy products - such as detectors or predictors. You necessarily have to sell judgement alongside the algorithm.

Two people can buy the same product yet use it in very different ways: some educators take the output of anti-cheating software with a grain of salt, others treat it as infallible gospel.

Neither approach is determined by the product design in itself, rather by the broader business context (sales, marketing, education, training, implementation), and even factors entirely external to the vendor (differences in professional culture among educational institutions/systems).
My grandfather had a cider brewery and even the apple juice he made had a bit of alcohol from fruit fermentation. Something below 1% though so we drank it as kids.

I would say in the case of cider you have to drink an awful lot to feel intoxicated, you definitely suffer from diarrea before you feel the alcohol.
Fusion, specifically, is meant to be the one 'too cheap to meter'. The thought being it'd be ready soon, and grouping both kinds of nuclear together worked as better branding for getting govt. funding.
I am exploring possible products and also integration of LLMs with our existing mathematical modeling software.
Carbohydrates are necessary to live at some (albeit much lower than typically consumed) quantity, so it's not precisely poison. Your point stands in that as a society we typically consume too much on average however.
And kagi.com is way better than DDG if you're willing to pay
AR seems like a gimmick/fad. I think we’re more likely to see eyeball scanning ads/AI ala Minority Report instead.

Hello, Mr. Yakamoto! Welcome back to The Gap…
"Brave is on the play store" is a very similar argument to "You do not have to use IE, you can install Netscape". And subject to the same logical holes.
The common wisdom was always not to rely on it for any of your users (for far too long) and build something separate as soon as possible. But i must admit that lately it got much much better. I only recently discovered that you can have multiple admins with it's own admin models.
So way less hacks.

I actually want to try build an app just to see how far I can push it with Django admin and see how hacks it will end up.
This is the plot to neuromancer
What other deals with search engines are there and do they bring the same amount of income for Mozilla?

The internal organisation of Mozilla doesn't really seem relevant here.
> My guess as to why, is that the kinds of people who are paying the higher tiers are companies.

That may be a partial explanation, but I've also heard this frequently from people who sell to only retail customers.

If you're the low cost plumber, pressure washer, or lawn care, you're going to have a headache compared to the people who operate up market.
> During that time the temperatures can vary from 120° C in the day to -130° C.

The perfect environment for a heatpump.
Your post was perfect. We need to get people off Chrome, and ideally off Chromium-based browsers. It doesn't matter which.
Are you living in the fairy land? in the real world, Academic fraud is a thing.
Glucose in blood is one of the sources of energy, not the sugar itself. Is it primary source of energy? I don't think so, because of successful application of ketogenic diets.

A person weighting 100kg should have less than 10 (ten) grams of sugar in a blood. This is less than 40 calories circulating in the blood of this 100kg person. The same person should have less than 10 (ten) grams of ketones in the blood and it is equivalent to less than 90 calories cirrculating.

Ketones are much more efficient energy source, they are twice as energy-dense. Glucose use needs a quarter of energy stored in the glucose, while fat (ketones) need only 3 (three) percents. Glucose needs insulin, fat (ketones) does not.

Glucose (which is not even table sugar!) is not a main source of energy in the body.

I also think that "variety" is a fad, just like other "extremes" you mentioned.
Just want to chime in and say I've been using AppLiku to host a Django service since over a year and it's a great alternative to Heroku if one is bogged down by the limitations. Kudos to the maker!
Yeah, I have a fairly prolific GitHub portfolio so the first 5 minutes of most interviews are flipping to a random GitHub repo and asking me what is going on there. Makes me think they're trying to have me prove that I'm the author of it.
They don't require interaction. Think about billboards, TV/video ads, sponsorship ads, etc. It's enough for you to just see an ad, to not forget a brand or product exists.

At some point, you might think about a product subconsciously due to any reason, and since you saw the ads, you'll think of a specific company's product and likely rank them higher among "unknown" brands by default. That will bubble up at some point and you'll have a desire for it which you either accept or reject. Most will accept, causing more to accept to be in the group. It's human nature.

Any interaction is a bonus.
I have zero tolerance at my organization for customers that are rude and nasty. If you send us a support request that is filled with profanities and demands out of the gate, I'll gladly refund your money and terminate your account immediately.

There's a saying I like to use: I'll bend over backwards to help you, but I won't bend over forwards.
Your hand wavy description of manifest v3 which conveniently skips the core issues makes me skeptical of your position and intent. Sounds like users and developers are the problem here -- I never see anyone else talk about Chrome with such a positive tone. Manifest v3, privacy sandbox and now the "integrity" nonsense should say enough about Chrome and Google.
The "normie" internet is some kind of hell, but they seem to be content.

"We" need to do more / better to educate them!

I tried to implement pi-hole for some extended family members. They asked me to turn it off within a week because they couldn't watch advertising videos to earn a new 'life' on candy crush (or something closely resembling that).

I can't relate to "normies" anymore, it's too late for me...
Understanding the shift of Front end Development towards Declarative UI
> If these machines haven't been rolled out, are they very new, or are there some barriers to using them?

Trash isn’t very high up on the list of priorities for most municipalities and the upgrade cycle is on the order of decades.
I think I might do that for my own sites lol
Apple products already support attestation, as was discussed yesterday.

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-att...
This paper disagrees with you.

https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/72/suppl_1/i7/62044...
Do you have the self hosted OTA open-sourced? I tried implementating it, but it didn't work for some reason.
I'm doing my part! I added a "try Firefox" message to my website that appears only on Chromium-based browsers. https://geeklaunch.io/
Rock/Metal/Punk is still doing really well with no shortage of great artists. Just check out the Radio 1 Rock Show with Daniel P. Carter - nearly every week there is something new that I like
VPN is not only for geeks. VPNs (free ones) are popular in Russia because Instagram is blocked.
This is not good for your liver long term:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7008768

Keto causes fatty liver disease
> Create an absolute monopoly on browsers.

Your premise is broken. How is this even possible in an open source ecosystem? Chrome was built to be forked, and there are several healthy forks that are thriving. There is zero chance of there being a browser monopoly any time soon. Basically every proprietary browser is now dead.
A ketogenic diet can cause human metabolism to shift from glucose to ketones for power consumption.
Anecdote again: my mom was sick at home when I earned US$8,8k/year and refused to implement code to defraud customers.

I'm very sure if you are earning US$300k/year and depending on every job you get to be comparable or better you have set yourself to be fucked for life... Again, with Google on your CV you can get another job for a visa, or to pay student loans, if you depend on earning US$300k/year to just live your life you have much bigger problems.

You are trying to make it look like someone with one of the highest paid white collar jobs in the world is struggling to live and depends on earning that amount. Let's be real, it's a very, very very very small subset of people earning on that bracket that actually might have enough issues in their lives that require earning that amount (huge amounts of medical and student debt, supporting a family with disabilities [spouse, kids, etc.], etc.).

They might exist in this case, yes they might, but making that possible exception into a "think of the poor golden handcuffed employee who is being forced by some freak life situation to do this hugely unethical thing in name of their employer" excuse is not reality, in reality it's just much more likely these are people that want to keep their cushy job ingratiating their employer by making the web worse for everyone else. Greedy. Pigs.
There's an elephant in the room. That is the question "Is internet content so good that people will consume it even if they're forced to see adverts?" Google thinks it is. I don't. The impact of this tech will only shrink audiences when their ad blockers stop working. It won't persuade people to carry on watching or reading with adverts switched back on.
We can’t afford to be climate doomers
Patrick Radden Keefe is one of the best non-fiction writers going around today. His book about The Troubles [0] in Northern Ireland is particularly good.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Nothing_(book)
Why developing yet another language if we already have LINQ?
I know you're pointing at the general class of hardware performance enhancements including branch prediction, hardware prefetching, superscaler execution, pipelining, etc. But out of all of them, if you get a speedup for any advanced branch prediction beyond just always assuming branches are taken then I'd be very worried your cryptographic algorithm is broken.
> what about candidates who look great on their public profiles (...) because they focus more on their public profile than their main job?

Not OP, but I'd want to chime in and state the following fact: if you're looking for a job, your goal is to sell yourself as the best choice that your potential employer can make. If you cannot make that case for your employer, why do you think any third party would make it for you?

There are indeed a lot of paper tigers out there. I worked with a couple of them. They can interview better than most. If hiring managers have a limited amount of time to make that call, are you helping them find you by failing to present your case?
Every time I read a new comment about webapp stuff, new languages and "technologies" seem to be mentioned.

How does anybody keep up with this stuff, let alone create it all? :p
What does HN think about Mozilla adding some premium tier of the browser itself for a small subscription fee? I already subscribe to MDN out of sheer principle, and would be OK substituting some bullshit like Hulu if it would help even more... I am willing to pay the true cost of the "open" web, whatever it is. Just tell me how much and where to sign.

Money is going to be a required tool to fight back against google, whether we like it or not. Capitalizing on the lesser evil to fight the bigger evil is not a terrible idea in my estimation.
Memory Copy Hunting
I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't do further research in mRNA interventions, or that it's perfectly understood. I'm arguing that we also don't understand COVID well, and that we should use similar levels of care for both, instead of treating COVID as fully understood and only looking at mRNA with a healthy dose of scepticism.
X, formerly Twitter, presses major companies to advertise on its site
On Friday:

> I’m giving everyone a heads up that I’m limiting comments to contributors over the weekend so that I can try to take a breath away from GitHub. I will reopen them after the weekend

After the weekend - leaves long comment but doesn't reopen comments as promised.
We've come full circle. When I was in high school (2013), smartphones had just started to become the default (i had a galaxy s2) and cell phones had been banned in-class since they became common for every teenager to have one (as early as 2007 for me, probably earlier than that for older millennials)

I guess at some point teachers gave up trying to enforce the rules. Or the idea of being away from your phone for hours at a time became strange to everyone. Or maybe teachers thought they could incorporate phones into lesson plans.

Anyway, I think we were better off not being allowed to use our phones in class.
This is technically correct but AFAIK USB-PD 1.0 saw essentially zero adoption.