skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tell everyone I know to use Firefox with uBlock. It's a small good deed, but everyone should get off Google and MS products.
None. It's hearsay without any corroboration or sources, even for the statements that could be fact-checked (like state subsidies).
Come on in, the water's fine! I haven't used Chrome in years and don't miss it.
2022 Salaries for those interested: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...

Compensation
Key Employees and Officers Base Related Other

Jim O'leary (Vp, Engineering) $666,909 $0 $33,343

Ehren Kret (Chief Technology Officer) $665,909 $0 $8,557

Aruna Harder (Chief Operating Officer) $444,606 $0 $20,500

Graeme Connell (Software Developer) $444,606 $0 $35,208

Greyson Parrelli (Software Developer) $422,972 $0 $35,668

Jonathan Chambers (Software Developer) $420,595 $0 $28,346

Meredith Whittaker (Director / Pres Of Signal Messenger)
$191,229 $0 $6,032

Moxie Marlinspike (Dir / Ceo Of Sig Msgr Through 2/2022)
$80,567 $0 $1,104

Brian Acton (Pres/Sec/Tr/Ceo Sig Msgr As Of 2/2022) $0 $0 $0
Does anyone know her cancer situation? It almost bummed me out that she got sick as soon as she became popular.
I can't believe its coming to this.

I've been de-googling myself slowly over the past 5 years or so. The shift has been marked, but even cynical old me is surprised how quickly they are turning on their user base.

The signs have been there all along though.

So... in all seriousness... Brave or Firefox? What about that Kagi Orion browser?
SaaS Services Behind a Startup
Integrated OpenAI's GPT Assistant API = Your In-House Data Analyst
Imagine a tool that simplifies complex data into a friendly chat. It’s like chatting with a wise friend who makes sense of numbers and trends easily and understandably.

Essentially, it will answer any questions from website statistics to UX insights, even showing screenshots and links to the requested resources. I think soon in the future the role of data analyst will be replaced by AI.
If they’re not withholding supply they’re not colluding. They’re just charging the market price. Cartels only work if they’re able to lower supply.
They can, but that means dealing with the overhead that comes with maintaining a divergent and ever increasingly different code base from the forking point.

Every single browser except for Safari and Firechrome today is based off Chromium because devs are either lazy or incapable of writing and maintaining their own browser engines.

So can browsers forked from Chromium ignore this and keep MV2? Sure. Will they? Hell no.
Not everyone perishes, just a few hundred extra million deaths per degree Celsius? Very very bad, but not everyone.
Looking at The Black Cauldron, which I'm very familiar with, it's stretched and manually resizing to 4:3 looks right. I think the thing is, the rendered image isn't being stretched, but the problem is that it _should_ be: because the 320×200 resolution that this is emulating has non-square pixels on the 4:3 displays it was displayed on. Essentially everything today uses square ones. It'd need to be 320×240 to have square pixels on a 4:3 display.

As to why the cursor in C&C is a perfect circle: I'm guessing it's because the C&C authors didn't adjust for non-square pixels. So it would've looked slightly-taller than a perfect circle on original hardware.
> . . . some people still have the impression iPhones have an air of exclusivity from being more expensive.

iPhones: so exclusive that hordes of unemployed teenagers have them.
Just finished “The Prague Cemetary” and “Jade Dragon Mountain”.

Now reading “Telluria” by Vladimir Sorokin and “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”.
A very large percentage of the world is already on 100% renewables, they simply don't have grid power. Their footprint is a fraction of the wealthy remainder.
Absolutely not my experience. I used to work for a Japanese company that was almost entirely self funded. They wouldn't even go to the bank and get business loans.

Your description applies to a substantial number of business units in that company. They also had a "research institute" whose best result in the last decade was an inaccurate linear regression (not a euphemism for ML).
I love the assumption here that truck drivers just aren’t interested in better acceleration.
Actually looking a bit more at how the xhr filtering is implemented, uBO seems to do it not at the webRequest level but instead by shimming the javascript fetch() method itself. So maybe this approach would still work in a MV3 world, I don't know what restrictions are imposed on content scripts.
If you measure by mode share, the US railroad industry actually has a higher mode share than most European countries. The main issue with the freight rail industry in the US is that it's over-optimizing for the ultra-long-haul extreme bulk delivery--essentially acting as extensions of ports 1000's of miles inland--and abandoning local freight (where you drop off a car or two once a month or so) in the process. But that's not really caused by lack of rail infrastructure, which was your original complaint.
I mean, you already couldn't use uBo in the Chrome skin of webkit on iOS, os I don't see that this makes any difference there.
just a buffer under/overrun
I assume ”non-resident” in this context means not a permanent resident, but still a SSN-holding resident otherwise. For example a TN or H1-B visa.

These visas don’t authorize you to work for a company other than the one officially sponsoring the visa, but you are allowed to own your own business. Perhaps that is the motivation for wanting to open an LLC, but I’m not sure what an LLC gets you in this situation that simply declaring yourself a sole proprietor doesn’t.
Google is so reliant on ads, they will probably push through with this. More ads in search, YouTube, GMail and the wider Web is the only way for them to grow revenue. More other Google businesses are small fish compared to their ad revenue.

Let’s hope that other browser makers use this opportunity to attack. Chrome’s dominant market share is unhealthy for the Internet anyway.
Patrick O’Brian is my favorite author, there isn’t even a close second. Enjoy!
Sadly, the design is most likely going to be copied, mass produced and available on Temu/Amazon/Alibaba within the next several weeks. Kick Starter is basically free R&D for Chinese manufacturers.
I use both Brave (on my phone) and Firefox (on my laptop), and they both work fine.
This is pretty much how the health insurance market works.
We are a small startup using Zoho and Notion (for developeras and knowledge base). We like Zoho. Whenever we felt like we need a solution now for some new requirement, they have it!

Some of their apps are very good like Books, Expense, Sign, Drive and Write, most are good enough and a few need more work (calendar, booking, and meet). When you need help there is always a person to talk to and they are pretty fast in support.

In dollar pricing, they are very cheap, but in India, they are still on pricey side. But worth every rupee we spend on them. Zoho CEO is bit of a character!
It's because it's Google and everything they touch dies.
Is there any evidence that real page lowered occupancy rates?
There is a map in the first figure of the research paper https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/51/11/1...
De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
It's not so much about the legal liability. But a lot of companies want to deal with other companies and you can deal with that by just making up a name, doing a DBA with your town or whatever for probably tens of dollars, or making an LLC for hundreds of dollars.

It probably doesn't really matter for small-time stuff. It may also be worth spending a small amount of money in advance to put some structure in place. I agree that involving lawyers and thousands of dollars in advance a lot of the time is probably not worth it in many/most cases.
Depends on the location, plenty of places are lower than that even.
I see the “train your own GPT” is already spawning purely amazing things. Pfft
> that the declarative API works reasonably well for blocking ads

Depending on your definition of "reasonably"; it does appear to result in worse coverage, and how much is not clear to me.
It's been the year of the Linux desktop for people with self respect since ~2000.
It is the default choice nowadays. Most people on the Internet are not emotionally invested in whose browser they are using. They just want to use a browser that works on every site.
What is it about manifest v3 that would make blocking youtube ads impossible, but would continue to be possible with manifest v2?
I haven't been following too closely, but as far as I know, MV3 is coming to pretty much all browsers, including Firefox.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/10/31/begin-your-mv3-mi...
vivaldi
I switched to 95% firefox in 2021. I needed ad block on my phone browser due to some awful (but necessary) sites. I still use gmail for my main email and use other google-specific apps in my browser/phone. So I keep a chrome browser installed on my PC with my main google account logged in. I only use that for google stuff though. All other browsing is done in firefox. It's worked out great for me.
Why do people think are too late to explore the Earth? We’ve got no idea what’s at the bottom of the oceans.
It's three years old, and was only undrivable for a total of about a week. It does not quality for lemon, and even if it did, I don't have the energy to fight Tesla.

I've literally had Tesla service people yelling at me, telling me that I am a liar about the problems my car has been having. There's no way I'm voluntarily talking to anyone from Tesla that I don't have to.
He was in love once too
http://archive.today/DHzqJ
Fitbit Charge 6 review: practically a Pixel band
I don't think Google would have even cared about RCS if Apple would just make the bubbles the same color. Kids these days.
Note that ublock.org is not Raymond Hill's ublock origin [1]. (Edit: then parent comment was edited the point to gorhill's mv3 chrome extension.)

Here is ublock origin's experimental mv3 version with detailed notes on limitations: [2] [3]

[1] https://ublockorigin.com/

[3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4d...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754274
> My feeling is that Apple knows the regulatory winds are shifting very much against anticompetitive behavior, and their iMessage incompatibility was just looking like the blatant protectionism that it is.

I think that point would be stronger if anyone else was open. Google used to run an open messaging service but shut it down as part of their failed attempt to compete with Facebook, and their current professed love of open RCS hasn’t extended to allowing anyone else to use their implementation. Android developers aren’t given access the way they were to SMS, and nobody except Samsung is allowed to use their proprietary E2EE servers.

I think this is basically Apple calling their bluff and telling them that they need to actually release their proprietary work as open standards. I’m sure that will be their argument to regulators.
From the other comment: It's three years old, and was only undrivable for a total of about a week. It does not quality for lemon.
True, but getting an iPhone to tinker with is kind of like buying a book to rearrange the words into your own story. They crafted a beautiful walled garden for you, and the walls are a feature - which is definitely not for everyone.

That said, I have fond memories of installing Linux on my iPod Mini so I understand the joy of making devices do things they were never intended to do.
the post involves actual Intel firmware engineers solving actual problems for their embedded devices; one example of such a device is a power management controller within a chipset.

it is quite astounding to me that you're going to try to claim that Intel is using its own chips in an "incorrect" manner.

the presentation might help: https://youtu.be/Dt0vx-7e_B0?si=QLfI5-9LHh5ehb5a&t=326 where specifically the problem they have encountered is that the string constants end up roughly the size of their application code.
The Closed Question
Thanks, very interesting. IMO, that is an insane amount of money to pay for a non-default feature of a free product.
> they are turning on their user base

Their user base are not us.
I've been liking Arc. Even comes with uBlock Origin.
You can cheer on something that actually works, like Freightliner or Volvo.
Saying “I’m charging this much because it’s the most anyone will pay so skip the work of figuring out pricing and just charge the same” is legal. “We agree to never charge less than $x” is not. The question is if realpage lead to landlords keeping units vacant when they couldn’t rent them for the realpage suggested price.
I have been using Firefox since version 1 as my primary browser, originally because it had Firebug, and later out of apathy to change. I’m also weird in that I’ve been using DDG as my sole search engine for years. I haven’t felt like I’ve been held back by these tools in the slightest, whether for web development or personal use.
There are other usable browsers… haven’t had Chrome on my machines in literally years.
she hasn't talked about it as far as I know (it's definitely in none of her YT videos or more obvious social stuff) and in every video she looks extremely healthy and seems reasonably upbeat and i'm going to be really pissed if she is sick again, so, I'm really hoping no news is good news.
...says the completely anonymous internet guy. I'm laughing as much as you are.

I wasn't trying to imply anything negative about DuckDB with my post - was just sharing how ClickHouse does the same thing. FWIW: the blog author added my query to his blog, so my non-combative comment was politely received.
"Order now, you get the truck in 2 years" - Elon Musk 6 years ago.
CWEB spawned several other Literate Programming systems, the main differences being in programming languages supported as well as how the documentation was formatted.

My favorite is nuweb https://nuweb.sourceforge.net/ which allows for LP in virtually any language and provides documentation in LaTeX. The main trade off being that with wide language support the code sections are as-is, without special formatting. Since mostly people write the code sections to their own tastes already this is not a significant problem.
Because everyone uses WhatsApp, because Apple did not reach enough market share early enough to push iMessage. That's lucky, I don't think europeans would be less susceptible to this kind of psychological manipulation.
is it still around?
Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server server
Firefox has lost about 60 million users since Chrome announced Manifest v3: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Well, world is complex, there exists more than five ways you mentioned, and even more than you mentioned, combined with comments on this post.

But overall, all them need huge investments, to make huge enough technologies shifts.

And unfortunately, there are not just money investments, but they also need some scarce resources, even human resources are not abundant.

On other side, as we all could see here on HN, humanity is really close to AGI, which could solve issue with human resources, and even more, read more :)

I think, modern market civilization, could continue grow without continue grow use terrestrial resources, by invest in space industries - mining asteroids, produce at least enriched metal concentrates in space.

What slows progress of space industries, mostly, asteroids too far from Earth for just radio remote control, because of speed of light limitation. Solution is obvious - create space enterprise, controlled by AGI.

I see pair of space industry + AGI, as gamechanger, which could alone, without significant shifts in other technologies, solve Earth crisis.

And unfortunately, all these bright future things will not appear instant, even optimistic forecast, will spend decades to start this flywheel spin, and all this time will continue warming, but once, may be in 30-40 years from now, will achieve climate plateau, and than will see pivot and slowly cooling.

Theoretically, all industries you and comments mentioned, are big industries, so you could just build your own big enterprise, using some super-cool new technologies and change yourself things to better. But in practice, you anyway need somewhere got bright people to work with, and as I said, bright people are not abundant. So, looks like, we are now fortunate got good tickets, and we will build these new industries with AI tech.
I got rid of GMail and haven't looked back. GOOG being run into the ground would be wonderful to me. They are evil.
When Firefox is not supported it's usually because the website explicitly checks the user agent and not because of an actual compatibility issue, i.e. business.apple.com blocks Firefox specifically... which is an absolute joke because Apple has Apple resources.
Hey, this one might actually finally help Firefox's marketshare. Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting anything massive, but imagine if people's adblockers got disabled over night: a horde of technically-inclined users, being newly-introduced to what the Internet currently is like to use without an adblocker, might just decide it's worth it to switch rather than try Manifest v3 adblockers and find out if it's really good enough. (It is not terrible right now, but really, why bother? It's not as good.)
Aren't those still made with lithium?
Yea, I think that's probably fair [[although I don't really know enough about those situations to judge them]]
You can't set the temperature for ChatGPT, that's only possible via the API.
Firefox is the best. Company behind Brave is yet another ad company, which business model eventually conflicts with the interests of the users.

Orion browser is still too young to match the requirements of the major userbase.

But Kagi beats Google already as search engine.
Just do what I do and never open the start menu.
It fits a pretty nice niche between small data (32GB in-memory, pandas level) and truly huge data where the disk files can't even fit on one machine (2TB+). Most data that people want to process on a daily cadence fit somewhere in between those ranges.

As for whether to use a database or not, I think that's a more fundamental question about where your different read and write loads are coming from. Scaling a database to support billions of rows and have high query performance is not trivial; if your use-case fits more in a write-infrequently, read-often then OLAP is a pretty good choice of index structure.
IIRC the KeyKOS/EROS/CapROS tradition used capabilities for everything including the scheduler. Of course, pervasive persistence makes those systems somewhat esoteric (barring fresh builds, they never shut down or boot up, only go to sleep and wake up in new bodies; compare Smalltalk, etc.).
I don't know for x86.

But for things that really matter, I've tested by configuring the MMU to disable caching for the memory that the realtime code lives in and uses to emulate 0% hitrate. And there's usually still a fair amount of variance on top of that depending on if the memory controller has a small cache, and where the memory controller is in its refresh cycle.
Vivaldi is Chrome without GOOG.
All you need is 34.5 Megawatts of power delivery, which is a lot of power but doable.
Compared to prior work, it's great. On it's own, I don't agree with describing it as high-quality.
I've never heard a convincing argument for graph databases.

What specific tasks does a graph database perform better than a typical postgres database?

I don't care about queries that are easier to read - I'm looking for performance, particularly under load.
How does MV3 affect content script injection? I looked a bit more into how uBO does xhr-content based filtering (like it uses to block YT ads) and it appears to shim the fetch() method. Would this approach still work in a MV3 world? And if it does still work, doesn't this negate any supposed security/privacy benefits of the declarative model?
there might be privileged financing somewhere i'm not aware of but it's a tough space rn. had breakfast with someone who's been in financing and constructing these for a long time and he's still working on it but much tougher.

if you want a public markets proxy, look at invesco's solar etf; down by around half. sedg is down 75%

existing infrastructure is more maintenance than construction
Unless they enable E2EE there: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212520

There’s always a risk that someone you’re sending a message to has been compromised but most of us are never at risk from that, as opposed to things like dragnet data collection or server breaches. E2EE is solving the problems it’s designed to solve, so it’s not a problem that things out of scope are more complicated.
People rightly criticise social media companies for the behaviour their platforms encourage, and iMessage encourages this behaviour as much as twitter encourages outrage.
They also aren't normally intended to ever be produced. They are one-offs, to experiment with design ideas and get reactions.
This is dumb. Manifest v3 is better than v2. For security, privacy, efficiency, reliability, etc. uBlock origin will work just fine, and be a hell of a lot more efficient using v3.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...
But you have likely have Chromium based browsers.
It takes a lot of work to maintain those if they keep on the old manifest versions.
p sure it's a noncancerous tumor, but she hasn't discussed it much (if at all)
This is exactly what I am trapped in right now.
Dark times ahead.

Firefox is mainly funded by Google, if they've decided to be this aggressive about it, then I am guessing that they've absolved whatever restraint they had and that they're probably going to either force Firefox to follow suit, or cut funding.

Neither bodes well for the people's champion in the browser wars.
Google pay other browser vendors significant amounts to be the default search engine. If any browser were too far ahead of Chrome on blocking advertising, wouldn't Google care substantially less about being the default search engine on that browser? Ad blockers switch off the primary revenue stream for browsers & websites alike.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933206/google-apple-se...
This is one of my favorite features of DuckDB and Parquet files!

I combined these capabilities with mounting via NFS and documented in the last part of my post here: https://about.xethub.com/blog/version-control-machine-learni...
Whatever Google may wish, Chrome is not the internet. And given the choice, it is reasonable for a person to question why anyone would choose Chrome. I mean, I think there are plausible reasons[0], but it's an understandable view.

[0] Not caring about ads or privacy and wanting the easy path, mostly.