skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Email is better still.

At worst it's no worse than SMS, but at best it's at least secure in transport and effectively free.

The downside to email is primarily that data is not a roaming perk for many. But if it's too access an app then a reasonable assumption of internet access even if not on the mobile is valid.
HP-35S here, rpn mode. I got into it in my first job back in 2011. All the engineers I was working with used them. We'd standardized on rpn long ago, after one senior engineer attempted to use a colleague's new algebraic calculator under time pressure and threw it against the wall in frustration.

For context my line of work back then was electrical high-power testing for some big customers. Lots of thinking on your feet, hence the need for fewer keystrokes.
> Some people are die hard python fans, trying to use a scripting language for everything.

Kind of a weird thing to say when the domain is web frontend where the default (which this wraps) is JS, another “scripting language”, to the extent that label actually means anything (which it mostly doesn’t.)
Ah yeah I misunderstood, thanks. That said, I really couldn't find much of the Russian whataboutist narrative in the article.

It’s clear the author doesn’t love everything about western capitalism, but that, I think, is a widely held opinion across Europe. It does not imply, to me, a suggestion that Russian style kleptocratic capitalism is a better form by any means so if the author makes that argument elsewhere, I didn’t see it here.

I guess I’m trying to say that I enjoyed the article, and learning that I don’t share the author’s politics hasn’t changed that.
Mozilla makes money from whom? Isn't it like mostly Google?
Seen from outside the US this is wild. Yet more middlemen to deal with middlemen. And you wonder why US healthcare is so expensive with such relatively poor outcomes.
I use a Casio fx-991ES PLUS every day. Its only obvious advantage over the much more common fx-85GT (?) is that it has hex, binary, and octal conversion modes.

I did buy a TI calculator after hearing Americans rave about them on the Internet, mine is a TI-83 Plus. It was more expensive than the Casio, even secondhand, but it sucks so I don't use it. The Casio is way easier to use, and the Casio gives the answer as a fraction when it is rational, instead of always formatting it with decimal places.

The TI doesn't have mathematical formatting of the input, so you have to remember how your parentheses line up manually. It does have the advantage of having a larger display and showing a short history on it. I just got it out to try and remember what I hated about it, and I can't remember. Maybe it's just the lack of rational output.
> Give them a support call. Act like a noob and keep them busy for as long as possible with "It isn't working".

I'm all for grassroots change, but I really don't think that doing this to Tier 1 support staff is going to effect any real change. With all love to my helpdesk folks, what matters is ticket closure metrics and call duration -- an emotional outburst isn't going to change a thing.
The End of China’s Economic Miracle
> if I want to change any setting that is system oriented or interacts with the system should go into System Preferences

Right. It is not the place of some random 'app' to administer my fucking system. I never, ever want my web browser or text editor or any other app to nag me with some intrusive pop-up about making it the default (in general or for some specific file type).

From my perspective, the whole 'the app should handle it' attitude is another perverse adaptation to Apple neglecting to build competent power user features (in this case an administrative interface for default application associations), like the slew of apps in the ecosystem trying desperately to hack in decent window management, audio stream management, middle click via trackpad (lmfao), key remapping, etc., etc. The whole culture of the OS and its userbase just takes it for granted that huge classes of functionality will and even should be implemented by various 'apps' leveraging otherwise invisible, sometimes undocumented, and always breakage-prone OS behaviors.
I love how they mention X (Twitter):

> We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter),
Or you could redistribute wealth to even out the winner-takes-all part while still encouraging merit of some sort by having winner-takes-some
Only recently I bought a TI 84 Python Edition and I love it. Good user interface, good functionality. I prefer to have separate calculators with me when reading and thinking (I also use the Python functionality for little helper scripts, e.g. a simple math trainer for my kids).
On the PC, I have a lot of appreciation for qalculate (sometimes in combination with the generic Cantor interface, a KDE software)
Thank you frankacter!
ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’
> Over time it does not.

It does! You take insane amounts of risks (that you want to avoid), but the expected value stays positive, even if you repeat it a million times. You might have a 99.9999999999...% chance of going broke, but you'll also have a 1/2^1mil chance of making an absurd amount of money; on average (and not median), you will come out ahead.
Alibaba unveils open-sourced AI model similar to Meta's Llama 2
Other countries use a much cheaper method.

At some distance before the tunnel or passage under a bridge with limited height (but after the signs that advertise this) there is a solid metal barrier at the height limit and when any too high truck attempts to go forward (which of course happens from time to time) the barrier cuts the top of the truck, which is guaranteed to attract the attention of the drivers (and presumably the anger of their employer).

EDIT:
I have posted this before watching the video, which shows exactly how this method, of using a steel "crash beam" works.

In this case, the truck was only slightly above the height limit, but in another place I have seen a similar incident where the truck was higher so all its roof has been cleanly cut and detached from the truck.

This is the right method of handling such height limits, the only one that is guaranteed to be foolproof.

Even if it damages the vehicle, if the vehicle were able to pass with an extra height, it is certain that it would be damaged anyway, but in worse conditions, especially in the case of a tunnel.
Did the domain change ownership/registry?
My cynicism tells me some California politician is worried about his Lexus trips to visit a mistress.

https://gbhackers.com/toyota-data-breach/

"The in-vehicle GPS navigation terminal ID number / The chassis number / Vehicle location information with time data."
SMS is not the way to go and you are conflating capabilities with poor engineering.

You cannot install a barebones TOTP app on your Nokia 3310 because it is closed source.

Most services don't offer third party TOTP because they are pressured into pushing their shitty proprietary apps.

But TOTP not only is more secure but it's completely offline. It's close to the best solution and totally exists right now
Thankfully iOS now natively supports storing TOTP tokens in the keychain and scanning the enrolment QR codes using the native camera app.
Really fantastic article. As someone who on a day to day basis is better at (and generally only thinks about) how to solve my employers own problems, it got me thinking about if any ideas I've had in passing might be good enough to look into further.
I think it was clear when they started with Google docs that they were using their browser to get market domination. They offered a free product that people liked, but almost forced them to switch to Chrome. They got entire nations to switch their education tooling to chrome and google docs. Now they keep adding features that enable bad developers to create websites that don't work properly in Firefox and Safari. There's been no change. Chrome has always been part of Google's strategy.
You don't need reactive data binding. You can simply watch for HTMLElement attribute changes and invoke a render method whenever that occurs. It helps to improve your app architecture if you do this. Reactive rendering can be a foot gun and often leads to unnecessary double or triple rendering. It's better to be able to control the rendering explicitly from a single binding which is exactly what HTMLElement offers; you just need to adhere to good architectural principles.

Many modern devs are too deeply involved in the React cult to see past its many over-engineered and flawed abstractions and struggle to see the simpler approach which necessitates adhering to some basic but highly beneficial architectural constraints.
Describing the intelectual elites that overthrew soviet puppet totalitarian government as a bunch of CIA agents that acted out of pure envy of Kundera's genius who just misstepped a bit when he was ok with soviet invasion haven't gave you a hint? Really?
if you don't like their UX you make your own, ff is the only browser that actually lets you customize
This is a great idea. It would also be nice to do this without the microphone input to practice writing. I'd also like the AI to correct my grammar if it's able to?
Yes, it's not a problem. For now. There are so many software projects that depend on chromium for their basic functionality, and so many users that indirectly rely on chromium. It's hard to switch to an alternative if the need arises. So when Google inevitably turns chromium into a problem, you don't have enough time to switch, no matter how badly you want to.
It's time to preventatively switch to a project that's more reliable. Give Firefox's Gecko engine a chance, it has all the features you need. It would take a lot of effort, but we'd be protecting ourselves from a pretty realistic scenario where Google just pushes through whatever they want.
Web for Gnome/Pantheon is WebKit based.
People who are enamored of Apple's commitment to privacy on the one hand and esteemed UX on the other should really try using a Mac without an Apple account for a while.
No, but I do use a full size keyboard as the numpad is the main thing that enables me not to use a calculator still
There are no ends to shitty, luxuriously priced laptops that are nowhere near the quality of any M-series laptop. Though I did hear good news about last generation intel processors, hopefully some competition will emerge - we can only win from thatz
Another reason mentioned is that police and emergency response vehicles need to get through.
There is Ladybird.
Only that right after WW2, nuking the Soviets wouldn't have helped. The Red Army had Berlin, had shorter, and well established, supply lines, and the numbers. Nuking Moscow had caused WW3 right after WW2 ended, the Soviets woupd have ended up controlling Germany, and propably other countries. Because a hand full of small nukes wouldn't have been that decisive.

The are reasons Operation Unthinkable wasn't launched. But one has to admit, the anti-communist propaganda that united people from Patton, McCarthy all the way to former Wehrmacht Generals, still has long lasting effects even today.
Other engines? There must be a reason everybody is building on Chromium nowadays...
What other engines?
iPhones have 2FA embedded into the keychain.

I don't know about Android but Apple users can literally start adopting TOTP without changing a single thing.

Providers should simply add instructions telling people that if they have an Apple device they can just go to the keychain and add the code displayed on the screen or use the QR with the camera
I wonder if it really needs to be Safari or if there would be any demand for a WebKit+JavaScriptCore browser on other platforms?
Then lets break up Microsoft too.
Meta is targeting one billion people in VR. They have stated that numerous times throughout the years. Meta does not like gaming, they tried numerous times to move away from it and focus on social VR. At their conferences over the last few years gaming gets a quick trailer show and than they go back talking about the Metaverse.

Meta's focus on games right now is not by choice or by vision, but simply because that's the only VR product they have that actually sells. Kids love Quest and VR. Nobody bought the QuestPro for social VR or for work-in-VR. Horizon World doesn't seem to gain traction either, everybody is still doing VRChat. Gaming was also not their idea, the gaming focus came from the original Oculus company they bought, they just have been unable to move past that.

The difference between Apple and Meta is that Apple has a clear vision, they are building a device that works as full desktop replacement. They completely skipped any of the classic VR topics at their presentation. VisionPro is "just" a better monitor, everything else is optional and come later.

Meta on the other side doesn't really know what they want, they have this vague vision of VR being big in the future and they want to secure their place in that future by throwing money at it. But they don't know how to get there. So they have a lot of gaming here, a bit social there and a bit of VR-as-desktop, but none of it is polished, lots of it isn't even functional and nothing is ever used to its full potential. Worse yet, they handicap themselves, their VR must be mobile, since they want to own the VR platform, so their PC support ends up lackluster, despite all the best VR content still being on PC. They want to have ads and collect data, so kids under 13 aren't allowed on their platform, despite being very popular in that age group. It's all a mess.
Mozilla's made no such position as removing the experimental JPEG XL code.
There is absolutely no connection between UBI and unemployment checks during an unprecedented pandemic. I feel this should be obvious.
Additionally, other services in their family won't let you use other TOTP apps. Looking at you sendgrid. Utter travesty of a company.
Hmm, I have a feeling you're a compatriot.
You are right.

Possibly the measures were effective for flu but not Covid.
Possibly flu cases were misreported as Covid
Possibly Covid targeted/eliminated susceptible people to flu

Possibly a combination of the above
At that point nothing would stop AdCorp from cutting a deal with the new ChromeCorp that says "you get incentive payments for each page load that presents a remote attestation that no ad blockers are present". It wouldn't be seen as anti-competitive then because there are multiple ad serving companies and multiple browser companies, and anyway, legislators would expect and find it reasonable that browsers only get paid referral fees for page loads that do actually display ads. In fact if it goes to court you might not get what you expect - judges (who likely don't use ad blockers much themselves due to age) might perceive browsers who take ad incentive payments but allow ad blocking to be engaged in fraud.
There's more important topics on the curriculum than 1970s OS design. Clear speech, thought, language skills, comprehension, critical thinking, mathematics, geography, history -- you know, life's syscalls.
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-202... <-- yes, the biggest part are royalties for search engine placement. Part of that is from Google, likely the biggest part. It's still something that Chrome could do as well.
A New Mode of Cancer Treatment
How bonds ate the entire financial system
https://archive.ph/TnK9F
It's like banks, it depends on your logic. We have systemically important banks, banks that will always be bailed out. You have two ways of dealing with that scenario, either prepare to save these companies when they fail or make them non-systemic so we can afford to let them fail.

What I fail to understand is why it's better for society to support these "to big to fail" companies. Why not break them up. Why not plan break them up if they become to "important" for a lack of a better term? How can you not see it as a political failing that taxpayers have to be ready to save a company, just because you failed to bring it under control?

It's mind boggling.
x ai is making the world a better place
It seems Everyone is taking for granted the claim that this is about DRM.
The claim is that websites (not Google) will use this signal to allow or deny access but this is already possible with various means. Google or any other Browser vendor do not have a say on how websites use or misuse features.

> There is a tension between utility for anti-fraud use cases requiring deterministic verdicts and high coverage, and the risk of websites using this functionality to exclude specific attesters or non-attestable browsers.

This risk is already present and actually happening. What makes this not widespread is not that it is not possible (it is) but that it is unpopular.
Websites that you are forced to use (many banks for example) do it every day and they get away it with it because you have no choice.

Many articles are just reapeating the "DRM" claim without explaining how is this different, what does Google have to do with how websites choose to treat their users or what solution they would propose. It seems to me just protest for the sake of it because it's trendy to question every Google Initiative. And yes every Google Initiative must be questioned but I don't see any questioning here beside just parroting in article after article what someone identified as a potential misuse without any critical thought going into it. Might as well autogenerate the contents with AI already because the utility of all articles i have seen on this topic is the same, just rearrange words without adding anything to it.
Webmasters should really fight back and show annoying popups when the user agent equals Chrome. These popups could nudge the user towards e g. Firefox.

Perhaps EFF.org could provide a reference implementation of such popups.
Makes the dip around 250K even more visible.
No it didn’t. In fact I did not get the idea that Kundera was ok with the soviet invasion at all.

And, well, if the idea of CIA agents propping up pro-capitalism opposition figures is “pro-Russian”, then every Hollywood spy movie is pro-Russian. I have no idea how common “CIA meddles, all the way to the top” really is, or was, but it’s a common narrative across western culture so it didn’t strike me as super weird.

I’ll admit that the idea that Havel did little by himself to become the President, that it was all due to support by the CIA people, which wasn’t said so literally but certainly suggested, felt rather unrealistic.
Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet
10 years of support is standard on Windows, and they might be longer depending on the situation (see: Windows XP) or if you're enterprise and pay up (see: Windows 7).

And then there's what you allude to: A stable Windows environment that will, in most cases, run ancient code mostly fine assuming they were written to specs of the time or it's a very important piece of code (eg: Simcity).
Compile time reflection doesn't have runtime cost.
Firefox is unusable on Linux. Way too slow. But Brave browser is very snappy. It's the fastest chrome fork, and has great features, like vertical tabs, which have become essential to me.
Anon is fine, I’m inclined to promote anons who do credible replications. Russian anon is not one of them, she really should take a video at the very least, even then her speck is so small until she released detailed measurements one can’t in good faith trust her. I won’t be surprised if at the end of all this, she just claims she was trolling in good fun and we’re the fools for taking anything she says seriously.
Well, Wayland doesn't really depend on any drivers, but most Wayland compositors (as well as modern X11, as far as I know) depend on the Direct Rendering Manager/Infrastructure and related features. I suspect that Chrome OS already uses these, so there may not be a bit ecosystem difference from that side.
Privacy and Security -> Files and Folders -> <App Name>

I mean, the redesign of Preference is more difficult to navigate and has some rought edges, but this setting is where one would roughly expect it.
That would be the same Brave that was replacing ads on sites with their own ones?
> a company that makes a purely superior product can always outbid their competitors in advertising

Ah, that's how we know that Oracle is better than Postgres!

Do you seriously believe this to be true? I'm willing to have my mind blown, if you can explain this point adequately.
You're still strawmanning by lumping together a huge amount of people with different motivations under one homogeneous group.

> It gets to the point where it's absurd.

All of the examples you provide don't paint some cohesive picture, they come across as random, haphazard strokes with no form or meaning. Your original comment attempted to answer a question by ridiculing an entire demographic of people who care much more about human rights than you realize.
If we are talking DARPA money, I think working out how to build IC sensors using this stuff would be much quicker to reach manufacturing then a large scale motor winding.

I am sure defense folks would have a field day with new sensors with virtually no thermal noise.
The startup I work for sells to education customers in Scandinavia. It is my impression that schools are either "Microsoft schools" or "Google schools" (these are the terms used).

The Danish data protection agency made some ruling against Google that ought to have meant, if the existing rules had been followed, that kids weren't allowed to use Chromebooks, but the schools said they couldn't teach kids without them, so the rules weren't followed.

Yes, it's great.
> ...as companies become less innovative, rather than creating new useful things, they focus on extracting more value however they can, while simultaneously trying to stymie and hold off innovative upstarts.

What makes them "extra" dangerous (or evil), in this this regard, is they have such broad reach and control over the Internet and tools people use in their daily lives that many have no idea to the extent of censorship, manipulation, spying, or damage that is being done. Any perceived rival, threat to their business, or to any of their products can be silenced, censored, or inhibited in ways few will ever know or realize was possible.

And to the extent they can keep getting away with it, is likely the extent they will keep pushing their control and corruption.
There's also https://kalker.xyz. Not as powerful, but convenient syntax
Also I don't think selling GCP to AWS really helps competition.
You miss the forest for the trees — fedora also has a version with immutable roots, it is a feature, and is absolutely not meant as anti-privacy, it is there for proper rollbacks and imo it is absolutely superior (with NixOS’s model).
Just another example of how Apple's vaunted "ease of use" and (above all, blech!) "intuitive" is just fricking hype.
> after one senior engineer attempted to use a colleague's new algebraic calculator under time pressure and threw it against the wall in frustration.

Can you explain why he was frustrated?
> The most important "breakup" needs to be the ads business from everything else, including search. That's going to hurt, and I don't have the answers to how to make it work, but changes are needed.

You can be happy then.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...

The press release doesn't mention it, but the actual court document asks the court to:

"Order the divestiture of, at minimum, the Google Ad Manager suite,
including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad
exchange, AdX, along with any additional structural relief as needed to
cure any anticompetitive harm"