skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's convenient when most services on the system can all talk the same protocol. It means that services can be more easily secured because they aren't all making other own protocols from scratch. Making your program talk to various services is easier when you can use the same library and there is no need to roll your own because some service decided to make up its own custom protocol for some reason. Imagine if websites would all roll their own protocol instead of using a standard like HTTP. Having a standard IPC protocol also makes debugging easier since it makes sense for their to be real tools for seeing what's going on. Improvements to the implementations handling the protocol can make improvements throughout the whole system. There are network effects in everyone using the same protocol. If you want to step out of this ecosystem and build your own IPC protocol then you need to justify what you are gaining for the value you are giving up.
Messing with DNS is so fun. I did a lightning talk on storing secrets in DNS [1] for my vpn tokens and also have a URL shortener that uses DNS as its storage mechanism [2]

[1]: https://youtu.be/CpWM_eVfRBM?si=uj3qVLcW_56FdQ8Y

[2]: https://ols.wtf/url-shortener.html
You could get a glass door fridge?
I've used mozilla/firefox for over 20 years (this includes mozilla browser before FF) on desktop and 10+ years on mobile, and don't have these problems.

Multiple firefox windows per virtual desktop with dozens of tabs each, no issues.

I use Chrome too, mainly for development (its JS dev tools), so I know what to compare to.
Yeah, but it would likely cost more than a car. =)

The high-speed inkjet-bar systems and Dye-sublimation printing kind of specialized in photographic printing.

Patents do expire eventually. I think most people mistake 23 year old ideas as "innovative" when they enter the high-volume consumer markets. Derivative and opportunistic is a different business model.
Firefox is supporting Manifest V3 but with extra APIs which are needed by adblockers like uBlock Origin.
I've had a similar experience. I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and I can count on my fingers the times when the browser actually crashed.
I had Firefox crash regularly when my GPU started failing, don't know why. But before that and after getting a new GPU zero crashes in years with 100+ tabs open regularly.
The magic of Emacs is that you can set it up the way you like. On mousing, it depends. Faster in some cases for making changes on editing and browsing the web in eww if you don't care about ctrl-s.
If I may ask: What features are you missing that prevent you from switching?
I hate dials on microwaves, it’s annoying to enter an exact time. Keypad and start/stop buttons please.

If we are going to get fancy wifi/Ethernet just for ntp so the time is always right.
• <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/IntroductionToDBus/>

• <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/>

• <https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html>

• <https://blog.ometer.com/2007/05/17/best-d-bus-practices/>
Oh! I missed this, what's the original reason for doing the move? Any insight on this?
OMG now it clicks. He writes that his wife has some problem and that's why he has to attend the child. This is not what he expected!
this works for me

env -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS firefox

this doesn't, it gives me the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." message

env -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY firefox
In western culture raising kids by societal norms is a bigger commitment than it ever was. My grandma had 7 siblings and no shoes for most of her childhood. It wasn't nearly as big a commitment for my great grandparents to raise her.
I've switched from Chrome to Firefox couple years ago. Very happy with ad blocking. The few problem are: PayPal asks for an SMS code way too often, some PayPal checkout flows don't work and occasionally some website form isn't functional because they didn't test in Firefox - for those cases I just open Chrome.
There appear to be two specific issues for me.

One is that I use Bluetooth headphones, and with my coming and going sometimes something gets into some weird state. Youtube freezes, and sometimes Firefox locks up and crashes as well. This is probably Pipewire's/Fedora's fault primarily, but Firefox gets caught in it.

I also notice that a network drive getting stuck gets Firefox killed. Like if a NFS drive (which I'm not using right now, mind you) just isn't mounting because the VM that provides is down, and I open a file dialog, Firefox will get stuck then get killed after a few seconds.

I guess you could say that neither is exactly Firefox's fault, but I'd say it needs better error handling.
It would probably be worth paying/staffing whatever though since people may do something for free, but it may not be enough to make a happy end user.

Not all companies miss this, Amazon has strict SLAs on responding to user requests, and this even includes GitHub issues. Personally, I find it rare, though not non-existent, to have a good experience with Google customer support or OSS while Amazon generally feels pretty good. Maybe just lucky of course but the brand effect is obvious to me and perhaps worth the companies spending a bit on.
Simply replacing compute with computation wouldn't have read right though so you'd still be making a snarky comment.

"Computation capabilities" is better and is the same length.

"Computational capabilities" is only 2 letters longer and likely wouldn't have raised your ire.

Or just accept that language evolves. Neither of us talks like Shakespeare.

Saying yolo though....
Sure it's pretty bad, but the chrome team isn't any better mandating manifest v3, experimenting with cohorts, etc.
"Live TV" includes streamed live TV and "broadcast TV" is always considered to be licensable.

You can avoid the license fee only if you watch exclusively internet streamers like Netflix which aren't TV channels. Which means: no TV news or sport. Pretty major components of why people watch TV to begin with.

But this is well into straw men territory. This thread started with me saying that the tax-based structure of the BBC lets it ignore sci-fi. Now you're arguing that you don't have to pay the tax if you are willing to forego the benefits of live TV, which is a point I readily concede because it's irrelevant to the one I made.
Sure, there's a way to talk down anything.
Had to install an auto-reload extension to reload the Slack page every 15min, as it would live-leak some js or DOM stuff causing Firefox to run out of memory eventually (ie 10s of GB).

Haven't checked recently if it's been fixed, I just leave it on.
Just in case you're open to something new: Tree Style Tabs is my goto extension to managing tabs on firefox

You manage your tabs vertically in a sidebar, organized as a tree. Every new tab is opened as a leaf from the tab that you came from, grouping your tabs by branches following your navigation on the web. This make managing groups of tabs by topics really natural.
To test my intuition: as a two-to-five clones per day person, do you think that you could benefit from that gesture, if you didn't need to automate the process around it?
I would not recommend Safari as I have completely stopped supporting it many years ago due to Apples hostile approach towards developers and the fact it's broken beyond internet explorer levels and has been in this sorry state for at least a decade. I don't know if people still using it have some special use cases or just don't know you can install another browser.
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(Firefox user here and I'm not planning on switching)

Your argument also works against yourself.
Definitely not RAM. I've gone for way overkill and put 128 GB into my desktop because launching 32 GB VMs is a thing I do.

The vast majority of time that leaves an insane safety margin.
Keep in mind that D-Bus is built on top of Unix sockets so it's just as portable. For IPC I don't think trying to be portable is such a good thing. I think it's nice to do IPC properly for each platform you are targeting.

What I personally find silly is every service rolling there own protocol making it harder for clients to use existing libraries to talk to them and making more work for themselves to get to a quality IPC solution. It usually just ends up in getting something half baked.
I'm not sure what you mean. What I try to achieve is start a new firefox window (for the normal user) from a root terminal. So part of the command has to be "sudo -u normaluser" or "su -l normaluser" or something.
It's not just about being able to pay.

Free YouTube: You can watch with ads and you are tracked.

YouTube Premium: You can watch without ads but you're still tracked.

YouTube with an Ad Blocker: You can watch without ads and without being tracked.

Google's largest chunk of revenue comes from ads. Being tracked simply means you'll be shown targeted ads in other areas apart from YouTube if you pay them. They shouldn't charge you and still sell your data.
I’ve been playing freeciv since forever. Should I upgrade?
Hi from NZ where we share the same problem friend.

Airbnb very efficient at extracting value from housing too..

NZ is getting micromanaged in a similar way... Lots of big building projects extract masses of value from govt, similar to roadworks are a mind boggling exercise where they seem to find one good part of the road to "fix" every day with massive costs to the taxpayer.

There should be Some kind of a real simple solution like container style mass produced homes, but the home has become a status symbol and we are left with growing disparity.

I lived in Sydney there for a while which was crazy to see how visually bad the inequality in homes can get with these huge evacuated concrete cancer skyscrapers in Parramatta vs the opulent East coast homes
Because the PDFs only carry an image? (I'm assuming if there was real text the tools could extract it, but could be wrong)
Better toilets? When was the last time you came to Tokyo? Just before a bunch of big international events leading up to the Olympics, there was a crazy (re-)building boom for public toilets. And, if I know anything from experience in mainland China, their initial build is "wow" and (lifetime) maintenance "sucks". The public toilets will stink like most big cities in China after a couple of years. Where as Japan will put incredible effort into maintaining their public toilets.

Newer trains? Yeah, sure, because the network is newer. I can recall riding the maglev in Shanghai from the airport. The first thing that I noticed: The seat covers were filthy. So typical mainland China.

"[M]ultiple metros in Tokyo"? Use the Suica/Pasmo payment card. Hardly anyone thinks about what operator they are riding in 2023: They are thinking about destination and convenience. And, be real: The reason why Tokyo has so much complexity is the age and history of the system. (London, Paris, Berlin, and NYC have similar stories.) If Shanghai was rich in 1920 (well, it was, but that wealth was controlled by colonialists) and building metro lines, it would surely look different today.
chess.com browser based engine is quite bad and default depth is low (and this is from 2 years ago).
I feel in anything you do or have to do, you can find richness and depth. At least that’s somehow what I like to believe and trying to make my life experience be by practicing meditation.

The duty of being a parent however, just comes with so much expectations from society and therefore within yourself - It is super hard to find freedom within that duty, to then actually find your relationship to your child, the specific richness and depth it can be for the both of you.

So in that regard, saying „I don’t find that in there for me“ is just as good and right as any other point of experience.
3-8% of the Internet users is 400 million users. I wouldn't call that "dead in the sea". Even 1% of the Internet users is a very significant amount of users. Why obsess with market share? At some point all browsers raised from 0% market share. Choose whatever fits your needs.
It's hardly extortion, watching Youtube isn't a human right
this is quite nice for learning, awesome work guys!
I highly recommend Yiotro games:
https://yiotro.com/games/

They're open-source, simple, quick games.
But how would Mitchel Baker pay her self millions of dollars in salary if that money is tied up in investments?
Out of interest, would you also say that "images are arrays of bytes"?

If not, what's the semantic difference?

For me, strings represent text, which is fundamentally linked to language (and all of its weird vagueness and edge-cases). I feel like there's a "Fallacies programmers believe about text" that should exist somewhere, containing items like "text has a defined length" and "two identical pieces of text mean the same thing".

So whilst it's nice to have an implementation that lets you easily "seek to the 5th character", it's not always the case that this is a well defined thing.
Spoken like a true Internet Explorer believer in 2010. Nothing is forever, no matter how solid its lead appears to be.
Even a door-open alarm works better as an actual alarm than an app notification. My fridge does that: it beeps if the door is left open, so you can get your ass back in the kitchen and shut it. I don't want to receive a notification from my fridge app while I'm at work because my wife left the fridge door open at home (or vice versa), I want whoever is physically close enough to the fridge to leave the door open to be notified.

I have yet to see a single non-bullshit feature from any "smart" appliance, honestly.
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It is too bad that the Seoul metro doesn't get similar coverage. I guess there are fewer Seoul geeks here compared to Tokyo geeks. The metro, including suburban and high-speed rail is "knock your socks off" good.
Strange, browser tells me domain pqvst.com does not exists
I have written one blog introducing Web Push Notifications on iOS

https://taoshu.in/web/push-on-ios.html
I just don't think it's really relevant. If the research is impactful, then it'll be replicated (at least in part) when the next person tries to build on the results. If it doesn't replicate then they'll probably end up discovering something new/different - and that'll lead to it's own paper.

Even in the ideal world, you effectively almost never end up with a replication paper. Either it replicates and you add on your own novel research. Or it doesn't replicate and you discover something new

You can in theory end up with a super dull null result that disproves someone else's claim. But even then, when you set out on the project you're aim is to add something new on top of what's been already done. This happens all the time
Not sure about the latest releases, but the Studio One v1 was written by a bunch of the original Pro Tools developers, and it was really, really good.

It's also way cheaper than PT, and as an added bonus you don't have to deal with Avid, which is second only to adobe regarding anti-consumer practices.
Having kids is a benefit to society. Even though nobody has kids "for the greater good", it still is in everyone's interest that there is a strong upcoming generation. I think it's not unreasonable for a society to pay parents who decide to stay at home during the first years for their efforts, if only to make having kids sufficiently attractive.

Lots of people just can't afford to stay home and capitalism makes it hard enough to rejoin the workforce after 3 years, let alone advance your career. A societal advance in this regard would also be needed imo
My main issue with Firefox is the unavailability of a decent profile switching. I know there's some hacky way to get the profile system done, but it is not comparable with Chrome's current profile-switching
How to stream Vinyl to your Sonos system
I've considered the HTTP proxy (anyone remember the fantastic proxomitron?), the problem is it would have to MITM all the HTTPS.
Instead of trying to innovate in-house, many big old companies would be MUCH better served returning the money to shareholders.

The shareholders can then invest into new companies and startups.

This is much better for the economy AND for the shareholders
Something that seems to permeate keyboard vs mouse debates is an unsaid assumption that some kind of robotic consistency/purity is the goal.

I don't buy that at all when a human being is involved. There are tons of actions I know perfectly well how to achieve with either the keyboard or the mouse, and which of those I unconsciously choose at a given instant varies based on what else I'm thinking about, precisely how I'm physically positioned, and just how I'm feeling. There no problem with that.
Some interesting data point in the discussion is in the unlock origin wiki article.

„
As of January 2021, the uBlock Origin Chrome extension had over 10 million active users and the Firefox version had 5 million active users
„

There are 5-10 times more chrome users then Firefox .
Chrome users are for some reasons using less ublock then Firefox users.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231127082049/https://pqvst.com...
Youtube can still track you even if you use an ad blocker.
> I have and will keep financially supporting software I find useful

If you watch YouTube you presumably find it useful too?

Also, what about content creators? They get paid off the money Google gets from YouTube.
Certainly not but believing that FireFox is going to resurrect itself from a dropping market share of 3% is delusional and the sooner we all face reality the better we can make it. I loved FireFox over the years but he’s dead Jim.
Mozilla consists of a non-profit foundation and a for-profit corporation. It is the corporation which develops the browser, and Google pays the corporation.
They do have a .NET sdk but it's implemented incorrectly (incompatible with AOT, does not use System.Text.Json, etc.)
know what innovation i want? a smart camera inside that can scan a label and remember the expiration date...then later on notice if i've used it or not and remind me to cook it/eat it if nearing expiration
Cloudflare also loves to bully Firefox users with incessant captchas.
"After receiving some bad news about my wife’s family, I suddenly realized that my future life had just been predetermined indefinitely. Due to the situation we’re now in, combined with my values and ethics, my actions for the foreseeable future are already decided."

But you have no idea how your life will turn out. Something could happen that would cause you to lose your entire family. And if that happens you might even say "look, here's another thing preventing me from achieving my full potential". All the while you're dismissing the life you're leading because it fails to live up to some imagined expectation you have in your mind.

Instead of lamenting how reality does not match expectation, consider immersing yourself in your reality. Look, hear, and touch the rich detail that every single moment contains, feel what it feels like to be a person in your exact life circumstances. You will never experience this collection of thoughts and feelings in this precise moment in your life ever again.

"No such thing as a life that's better than yours (love yours); no such thing, no such thing" - J. Cole
Not the OP, but I’d like to hear you answer and reasoning for the “practitioner of DL” case.
I've been running "quad" rinse in my Maytag washing machine for the last 2 years because the "deep fill" selector isn't actually hooked up to anything.

The machine is designed by a psychopath. It will cycle the water solenoid valves at least 100 times per wash session. It is like these things are designed to not only function poorly but also destroy your plumbing over time. It feels intentional. No sane engineer would watch this thing operate in a lab and think "yes. I've done a good job today".

I've got a new machine on the way. No lid lock, EPA defeat switch, et. al. You cannot buy these at the normal box stores anymore. I had to argue with a boutique appliance salesman about my laundry preferences for an hour to get this sorted, despite the fact that I already knew precisely the machine I wanted.
> imo it is only a matter of time before Firefox switches or completely folds.

Indeed, it's your opinion. Development and benchmark tells another story:

https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDays=6...

OTOH, Firefox's "perceived slowness" is mostly due to your local DNS response times. On fast DNS, Firefox is at least equal to chrome in terms of speed.
It's one of a very small number of substances that is proven to reduce heart attack risk, the primary use nowadays. The low dose seems to be a decent balance between that and the increased risk of stomach issues, though only a clear benefit for people with significant risk of cardiovascular events.

If that's not you, then yes, ignore aspirin. If heart attack is how you are almost certainly going to die based on generations of evidence (thanks, Ashkenazi ancestors!) then get to know your favorite brand of 81 mg chiclets, and carry a full pill in your pocket at all times so you can chew it if and when The Thing happens. Better: get a good cardiologist, and do everything they suggest, including the meds. Don't at all listen to people who say that staying in shape and eating healthy is enough, because for those of us with the wrong genes it absolutely is not: I'm young, in great shape, and keep a healthier diet than most dieticians would even suggest, but I still have to take meds to keep my numbers in line.
Heh, I would have preferred that to one of my recent experiences with an HP printer. It would simply silently drop the job only for that specific pdf (an ordinary shipping label of which I had printed many on that machine before). I dug around so many menus trying to figure out where my job was going until I by chance clicked print on a different document. At least with the paper error message I would have known right away to apply the hack of screenshot + print png.
Sorry I was mistaken:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Hope someone is doing this to backup their Dropbox :-)
It's already a problem. You can see that they're already scared to piss off their sugar daddy

You have an official "Facebook Container", but of course no official "Google Container" ... even though Google is the one that does actual tracking across the whole internet and has JS/fonts/etc. on nearly ever webpage
After learning about Daniel Ek's obsession with making Spotify the fastest streaming platform, I became inspired to do the same with our A/B testing tool.
Overall, your post is thoughtful.

Can you help me to understand this part?

The metro's top speed is up to 5 times as fast as Paris's metro.

I would not call the Tokyo subways lines (both companies) very fast when riding a local train. I went to Paris for a week and found the metro lines fairly similar.
Usually the way to go is to come to places like here and get the attention of an employee who is dawdling on HN not working, or Twitter/X.

Maybe someone from MSFT/GitHub can help
It will just silently "auto-correct" the letter instead.
> "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't"

I have read some of these quotes before, but not this one. Very true, especially for designing programming languages (where many people think they're experts), but not only...