skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perfect is the enemy of good. If you postpone or skip using Firefox because of this reason/excuse, you are even more a part of the problem than you probably realize ;)

Mozilla's opposition to such initiatives matters only because of their users. And there are no other significant fighters in this ring on _our_ side, unfortunately.
Living off the land: Listen up folks! The lunar day is roughly 29 1/2 Earth days, the length of a lunar month, and the time of which includes a full day-night cycle. During that time the temperatures can vary from 120° C in the day to -130° C. So consider dressing in layers for a more comfortable moon experience.
Eventually the most alcohol tolerant bacteria, the ones primarily fermenting the sugars, get killed by the alcohol itself (by denaturation, the alcohol makes the membranes soluble in water). At that point there are very few more alcohol tolerant bacterium.
I hear something like that from other Americans as well and do not doubt that what you are saying is true, but why is it like that? Isn't the unemployment rate in the US low (around 3.5%) right now?

I live in a country where the unemployment rate is pretty low (2.5%) and the situation is kind of the reverse of what you are describing. Companies are trying to entice potential employees, not the other way around. Give me 6 weeks of paid vacations and do not even think about over-times; you look at me funny and I am gone... there are 10 other companies where I can start tomorrow.

I am now trying to relocate to Spain and it is not like that there - but I get why; because their unemployment rate is really high so employers have the power over employees. But in the US? I am sorry if that is a naive question - I've not been to the US since 2002. A lot has changed, apparently.
Take it easy on the executive team.
The availability of trademarked icons (such as Google and Amazon, linked by others) makes me think they just crawled for SVG icons and slapped an OFL on them, which you can't do.
Just switched to Firefox and madde it default browser.

Forcing someone to use their approved list of hardware to browse open web is the most absurd thing I have heard so far.
On HN Poe’s Law can always be assumed in the affirmative.
> “What choice do I have?” - a Google engineer who drives a brand new Tesla, living in a $10k per month apartment.

There's also Google engineers driving Corollas and helping their parents back home with expenses.
The strength of beer is probably way too high. According to Wikipedia "The strength of beers has climbed during the later years of the 20th century. Vetter 33, a 10.5% abv (33 degrees Plato, hence Vetter "33") doppelbock, was listed in the 1994 Guinness Book of World Records as the strongest beer at that time".

So obviously, sailors during the age of sail couldn't have 13% ABV beer. They had rum though, so maybe the drinks they had were mixed with rum to reach 13%.

If sailors were issue "strong beer", I would guess it is like today's regular beer, maybe in the order of 5-6%. As opposed to "small beer", that was maybe 1-2%. Sometimes it was less than 1%, not even enough to qualify as an alcoholic drink in many countries today.

As for wine, it also tended to be weaker than modern wine, most likely under 10%, and it was often watered down.

The reason beer and wine are so consistently strong today is that we have good knowledge of the fermentation process and we are able to precisely control all the variables. They didn't even know what kind of yeast that had back in the days, they mostly used what was floating in the air where they were. Now we have lab grown yeasts, selectively bred for maximum performance.
What attestation the website accepts entirely depends on the configuration. There's nothing in the spec that will prevent attestations for Linux computers. Linux already works perfectly fine with secure boot and such, I don't see why a signed bootloader starting a signed attestation engine wouldn't be trusted by third party websites.

It'll kill open platforms like the rare open source RISC-V implementations, but for almost any platform in use today this can be implemented.

The real question is "but will it", and in practice websites will probably only whitelist Chrome, Edge, and (reluctantly) Safari.
I would be just as concerned - if not more - about Google having access to such a device as I am about some random hacker.
Depending on the use-case, I find DDG is far better in many cases in returning sane search results. Might be a option to try. Not entirely open-source but better than the GOOG.
Yeah, I know - I ended up switching to Iceraven on my phone, though. I've heard good things about Mull too. But I didn't want to muddy the original post with all that.
Normal people interact with the “corporate web,” because they feel compelled to do things like banking, buying stuff, etc.
With few exceptions the browser market is a lot like the Volkswagen Group. They design key components and depending on market segment they slap a Audi, VW or Skoda label on it, do a few tweaks to the look and feel and add a few features that they know that a particular segment wants. Under "chrome" it's a Volkswagen.
Housing affordability is a function of the proximity of job opportunities. If job opportunities did not concentrate in a handful of cities people would be free to live where housing was affordable.

The real problem isn't NIMBYs rejecting more housing, it's the NIMBYs not rejecting commercial real estate.
> If you don't have to work in a mine, you drink less.

If you don't have to work in an 1800s-England-style coal mine, sure. Modern mining is a high risk occupation with stringent controls on intoxicants.
Brave is on the Play store (it's what I use on Mobile), as are several other browsing options with built in ad-blocking support.

Chrome Mobile is very stripped down, but the idea that they disabled all extensions just to get at ad-blockers is completely unfounded.
A bitflip in a config datastructure changing 0x00000001 to 0x00000000 - whatever impact you want to imagine.
Green tea contains rather quite a lot of caffeine itself, depending on the kind. At the one end of the spectrum, a cup of Gyokuro is more or less equivalent to three expressos. At the other extremity green teas made of twigs rather than leaves have very little caffeine.

I've been overwhelmed by Gyokuro before...
> In modern times, most scarcity problems are supply chain not actual exhaustion, diamond mines and gold not withstanding. Rare earths aren't rare. Uranium isn't rare. We aren't running out of lithium. Erlich/Simons explores the reality of abundance in the earths crust.

Everything eventually becomes rare if not used judiciously. This mindset of unlimited supply is flawed. It leads to the eventual destruction. Probably that's why most ancient civilizations had rules to only take what's needed from the nature.

For example in Western Countries, crabs and lobsters were once seen as "poor man's food". They are now a gourmet luxury item.
If you're using Apple products, your first preference should be Safari. I use that all the time, it's faster, leaner and syncs tabs/history/bookmarks greatly between different Apple devices.
Ha! the dial up internet was ruled by extortionist state monopoly and local ISPs were plagued with equipment thievery... the only way to acquire pirated music was physically exchanging hard drives with acquaintances.
> A single tuna is tens of thousand, if not hundreds of thousands on the market.

If you take out the early season prices that are essentially a buyer showing off how much money they have, even “tens of thousands” becomes somewhat of a fantasy.

There’s a reason why tuna fishermen aren’t driving Bentleys.
A million times yes.

If you gather all your garbage, especially plastic garbage, and burn it, recovering heat and energy, you can offset a lot of oil- and gas-powered electricity generation. As an aside, it doesn't matter how many plastic straws and plastic bags you make, as long as you burn them after use.

Landfills also emit greenhouse gases, uncontrolled, over a long period of time, so it's not so much of a trade-off as you think it is.

Since 1990, Sweden has cut greenhouse gas emissions from trash to one fourth of what it was, and that's by moving from landfills to trash incineration: https://www.naturvardsverket.se/data-och-statistik/klimat/va... (Blue is greenhouse gases from landfills, dark blue is emissions from trash incinerators.)
Let's say WEI is all good - we trust Google and all of the people involved and it gets passed and implemented. Later on, by gradually changing it, it becomes all of what we feared it will become. How do we get back at that point? Can we even get back to a state before it? How would we fight against it? Do we just stop surfing the web as way of protest? Obviously that won't work.

There's an immense power disbalance about this and any privacy limiting or freedom limiting features. Once they go through, there's no coming back from it.
My own assumption is that it's _very_ helpful (for the coffee or other industries that commission or promote such information).
Beautiful UI. Keep going. Where is the VAT, VAT ID? This will not align with German legal requirements. There could be a country specific pre-selection or some custom form fields
sounds pretty cool; willing to publish your libs?
This is very good, thanks!
One easy advantage is predictability due to thing not changing. Let's say there is an array (maybe I should have written list).
Since that array cannot change in fp, when you do operations with that array, you don't have to worry it changed.

Then the language itself will also know this and manage memory accordingly.

So if you have array with 1,2,3 and an array with 3,4,5 if you unite the arrays memory can just reference the two array as if they were one instead of creating a new one, because for sure they will never change. Imagine this on very big arrays
That is not lifestyle creep, and also those were already on a separate part of your initial question.

Lifestyle creep is believing luxuries or non essentials are essentials due to now them having become part of your day to day.
Your Pet Reimagined
Reimagine your pet as different characters - made simple (2-clicks + no prompting).
Yes - Putting UNIX on a pedestal means that it is basically correct and you just need additions rather than looking at it and saying that UNIX does this badly or even incorrectly and so make incompatabler chnages to improve things.
> if Google stops funding Mozilla, will it still exist?

If Google stops funding Mozilla, would they manage to get another deal, e.g. with Bing? If so, the power of Google would be limited.
Some make content for YouTube which gets them work.
on our travel in SEA we always did bring with us some Hungarian palinka (50%+) and drank some after every meal. We have managed to avoid stomach issues.
Despite using Vuetify daily at my employer I didn’t recognize it, thought it was Tailwind. That’s a good thing!

I assume you are on version 3 of Vue and Vuetify? Did you have any trouble upgrading if you started on v2?
This is not good advice.

Most software is not an "app," and even if it is, you at least need to be able to tell the difference between, e.g., ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, and UTF-8. Otherwise you'll get text talking about cutting doorways 8œ feet tall or submitting a rÃ©sumÃ©.

Any software that needs to process information effectively needs to understand character sets, including Unicode.
If you’re lazy like me, you can buy Loud Brew, which is cold brew coffee with L-Theanine.
> People don't work for the dignity, they work for the paycheck.

I'm sorry but I don't believe that. I do understand that line of thought if you are in a very complicated personal/financial situation but you're stating that the only driver is money, which is clearly wrong...
> In a landfill the CO2 remains trapped.

Some, yes, but not all.
Seems more than just a bit ironic to block the web from being used on the very same open source that it actually runs on...
I think people are talking about RoHS rather than practical danger. Since RoHS is incredibly strict about quantities, e.g. if you can mechanically seperate a piece of the widget, that's what gets measured.

It'd likely be exempt though.
Because I want Mozilla to be better, and I believe that donating helps that in some small way.
So if you're "good enough" you can train your cells to use something other than glucose to produce ATP?
gestures broadly at the world

And how well do you think zoos are doing at helping people care about animals?

We continue to eat them, destroy their homes, etc.
remember the UEFI story...
There was a campaign on Twitch not long ago. Also, I watch F1 and they have a really premium position on the McLaren cars.
Yup, we've lost, what, two or three generations of developers to an industry that'd do better work by digging holes and filling them in? It's my guess that this is also why so much programming nowadays looks like it's being done by the bottom 10% of talent.

They do it because the money, though. I turned down a FAANG job partly because I'd have to relocate across the US and partly because I didn't think I could sleep at night working for them. Total compensation package for first year was $250-350K depending on performance, and there was a signing bonus. This was 2015 or so.

I often half regret that decision, because it hurts to know I could've ticked that income box rather than fighting month after month to keep work coming in (self employed/contractor).
Privacy – iOS 16.5.1 still bypasses the VPN connection, also in Lockdown Mode
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tttO_E2STHA
depends how the api is designed. If it'll be integrated deep into chromium, disabling it would cost too much time
whats funny is GPT output with even a relatively low temp will come back as human more reliably than human content.
There won't be an anti-trust suit. The implicit deal will be we will prevent "misinformation" (favor news sources you support and censor anything you request with our algorithm) and you will allow us to monopolize the internet.
I picked an arbitrary number.

Let's say up to $1500. How about that?
Those normal activities like banking is a corporate service and I'm happy with it's regulation and it makes sense to be regulated.

Buying stuff is on a spectrum and I think a consumer should be able to chose a tightly regulated system for exchanging currency.

Most everything else should be free to choose.
Technically it might even be healthy for Mozilla to loose 90% of the budget as they are spending that on bs projects that has nothing to do with Firefox. Maybe it would force them to spend the money on the Firefox team, and all the money hungry top management would go somewhere else where they can waste money.
> assume positive intent

This rule applies to discourse, not perspectives. I also wouldn't call many of these concerns "fantasies," because anyone with a basic understanding of public-key cryptography can tell you exactly how this technology, even its most basic form, could be used to:

- Create an absolute monopoly on browsers.

- Give the holder of the browser monopoly the power to control who can/can't crawl the web.

- Give the holder of the browser monopoly the power to control what OS you use to access the web.

and so much more that it's head-spinning.

Is OP's title clickbaity? Yes. Are the concerns brought up by commenters totally legitimate? Yes.
This is very simple, really:

Any browser that implements this, I will not use.

So any webpage that requires that API to be present, I will not be able to use. If your webpage requires this, I will not be a user of your website.

It is really that simple.
The Less Humble Programmer: esolang aesthetics
Those cited 5-10% are laughable. If countless US sites prefer to just block the entire EU over bothering with privacy regulations they'll just tell you to reload the page every 10th to 20th time you click on something. Compared to what the majority of people already silently accept with ads, cookie banners and popups it's not even worth mentioning, and that's assuming Google can be trusted for once.
I am very curious as well.

I have zero issues using FF everywhere. I used to have to use Chromium every couple months because some dumb website was pulling in a library that was using some non-industry-standard thing chromium did - and everything broke due to their utter lack of testing - but even that has died down. There is a newer trend where I have to disable uBlock every once in a while to complete a task, which is just as bad, but I rarely have to actually use another browser.
> trash has ended up in the same landfills they were going to before.

People regularly raise this as a criticism of recycling.

It's kind of like complaining about medicine if you go to see a homeopath or a snake oil salesman.

Medicine has not "backfired", you just got tricked into doing something that was only pretending to be medicine. Aim your ire appropriately.
Yeah, you're kind of a little wrong. Sure, there are options. They don't pay like FAANG, like order of magnitude difference.
> I hate to say it, but if you used Chrome to read this, then you're part of the problem.

not sure how far using 'ungoogled-chromium' takes you though.
Many different things, big and small, that shows that their principles are to make the maximum amount of money possible at every given moment, rather than thinking about long term consequencies or any moral values.

One extremely small example from the last 60 minutes of my life is that many Google workspace products don't work very well in non-Chrome browsers. I have to switch from Firefox to Chrome whenever I call someone in Google Meet, because the system load is higher and some features are not supported (e.g. visual effects like background blurring). I'm skeptical that these features can't be done in Firefox, but when you try to use them you get a warning to use a supported browser.

I dug into this a little more and they have a page https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10058482?hl=en-GB&exp... which asks you to check for WebGL support, without a major performance caveat, and link to https://webglreport.com/?v=2

On Firefox on a M2 mac, I see "Major Performance Caveat: No".
Recently learned this:

"As of 2021, South Korea is the country with the world's lowest total fertility rate at 0.81. The TFR of the capital Seoul was 0.63 in 2021." -- WP

Shrinking population (slowly) is cool with me and all but not like that.
> Because Firefox is rather slow given the current competitors

Currently Firefox is faster than Chrome : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770883
Is the extra 100 bits of security on your cryptography standard what's actually going to stop them?

In reality, most hacks are stopped by stupid stuff, like closing down ports and proper key management hygiene, not by using completely-brute-force-proof encryption standards. I'll make you a deal: do everything else on that compute-limited embedded device to a practically-uncrackable standard, then you can upgrade to 256 bit crypto. Some devices get there, but no consumer electronics.

Encrypting the filesystem on that specific device is also completely irrelevant to my security as a user - it has more to do with Google protecting itself from copies and users being able to add features.
These are big fast animals which likely require a large space to swim around, much more than a cow. This makes "farms" difficult. Speaking of which, the wild ancestor of today's cows (the aurox) was hunted to extinction.
haha - same - i bought it straight away :) Just now!
Question is, if the still also do it in 16.6 ??
Actually I think you're right. The bit I quoted is for the purposes of applying:
https://www.asa.org.uk/type/non_broadcast/code_section/18.ht...

which is basically just rules about how you can market (it's fun and cool to drink alcohol kids!) 'alcoholic drinks', i.e. anything under 0.5% can be marketed in ways that says you can't for alcoholic drinks.

But a slightly different page than the one I quoted above goes on to say the same as yours:

> In terms of the official guidance, the descriptor ‘alcohol free’ should only be used on drinks from which the alcohol has been extracted if it contains no more than 0.05% ABV. Where a product has had the alcohol extracted but it remains above 0.05% ABV but at or below 0.5% ABV, the descriptor would be ‘de-alcoholised’.

https://www.asa.org.uk/news/low-and-no-alcohol-drinks.html

So yes, either it tells you something about how they're making it, or they're wrong to be using that 'descriptor'. (Surely the former? Brewdog make 'Punk AF', they'd have to rebrand it completely if they're not allowed to call it 'AF', surely they'd have been on top of that?)

Oh wait though - the page I originally quoted goes on:

> CAP is aware that official government guidance exists on how alcohol content at or below 0.5% should be described, but understands that this guidance is not legally binding. Therefore, the Codes do not require compliance with this guidance.

which explains why I couldn't find anything enacted on legislation.gov.uk. So it is just a matter for them as the regulator, but these two pages on their own site seem to be in contradiction about whether they care about use of the 'descriptor' or not?
Why would they? They make money with ads too
My bank has had MFA literally since the moment they first offered a web service. Hardware authenticators and everything.

This was over a decade before any other web service I know of even had optional MFA support.
A process that began with computing being easier and easier so users became less and less skilled has ended with companies that have their hooks in people from the moment they're old enough to work a touchscreen through the rest of their lives.
> Answer should have been

Yes, and answers on that very page, with lots of upvotes, do exactly that. People looking for answers online, can reasonably be expected to scroll down a page with results.
I've bought stuff that has been advertised to me on Instagram.

On Google, I avoid the ad links
How is that friendlier? Can I easily search for someone?

Still its a cool demo.
Google is a monopolist that acts like a monopolist. Its main revenue source is advertising. So it will use its monopoly power to secure advertising.

You cannot expect Google to act against its own self-interest only because you ask nicely. You have to stop giving them the market power to do it.
40+ years of programming. Full time, most every day of the week.

I almost always have a look at some thing or other on the weekends, home projects, problems I think I solved badly at work during the week or experiments on ideas for things coming up.

You know what is kinda wacky? I still feel exactly the same as I did when I started. Things I have done before get done very quickly or better and then I hit a challenging new thing. I love this shit.
Roy Underhill’s Impactful Woodworking Journey
Even small companies get hundreds of applications per job posting. How often do you think hiring managers go out hunting for resumes on blogs?
The Brit needs to engage in his Paddy bashing.

0.5% is an EU regulation than Ireland specific. And apparently the same level in the US from my (just done now) googling.
Mozilla should really double down on Mozilla VPN. Judging by all the NordVPN ads on every major youtuber's video, the profit margins must be astronomical (or their business model must be suspicious). It should provide a good income stream for Mozilla. The entire space is shady and filled with dubious actors. It is just begging to be disrupted by a trustworthy organization.

I can't think of a single candidate other than Mozilla that has the technical expertise, experience, trust, reputation, resources (not to mention non-profit structure) built over 20 years defending the open web. I don't understand why Mozilla is dragging their feet on this. They should have owned the entire VPN market by now. VPNs aren't cryogenic rockets.