skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too have lost 6 months of files on Thursday last week. Absolutely devastated. Google Drive is meant to be my backup. I spoke to support and they told me that the files are not recoverable.
I think this might be a forced update to remote clients that has corrupted the client FS where files are stored.
Software should not be written in a manner where files can just disappear off a client's machine. This is unacceptable.
Also: Nippori-Toneri Liner[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippori-Toneri_Liner
What litte food is wasted because people buy stuff they alrwady have by forgetting what's in the fridge pales in comparison the necessary effort and resources spent in building and installing cameras un a fridge and run the infrastructure necessary to connect those cameras to a phone over the internet.
My point is that stock buybacks and dividends are good for the economy.
the issue was more of a security / architecture than just following chrome. xul needed to change and webextensions was already open and tested.

that said, i still miss a couple of xul extensions
The Blackbox can do everything the EP133 can do and more .. and then there's Smpltrek ..

This is just a rich kids toy that'll not make much impact in the music world.. Teenage Engineering have jumped the shark.
I feel like this comment was made in bad faith. Brave Rewards, the thing you're complaining about, is OPT-IN. That means you had to manually enable it in Brave's settings. You're complaining about something you consciously enabled.
From the privacy section on the front page: "All operations required for testing are performed by the browser and all data is stored in the user’s device memory."
sorry, dumb question: As cool as this is, what's the advantage over keeping the water in cisterns? Just cheaper to build?
Digital dials with a pseudo-log scale are the best and fastest to enter and adjust precise times.
And why would they? PHP and JS weren't designed with their big use-cases in mind, even if their creators like to boast ("Always bet on JavaScript", etc.)

People saw the alternatives as much better solutions. We had JSP and Java applets; those were the future! PHP and JS were just playthings for people who that couldn't grasp Java.

Python had the luck not to be incepted as a small DSL for a specific problem. So it doesn't have the issues that PHP and JS face.
I'm surprised to learn that this isn't an open standard. E.g I must make an API call to a browser vendor.
Is this a form of vendor lock-in?
There's a strong implication that he wouldn't even be doing this if his wife is wasn't a "physical wreck" after the birth.

You have a small baby, sleep schedules are all over the place, pitching in isn't some chore you do just while she's out of commission, there's a human to bring up to adulthood.
At my former employer we successfully used Google vault to recover our HR files which vanished due to a Google bug (there were no audit logs of anyone moving or deleting them). I think vault is only available on higher business tiers. The files were actually still there (if you had the direct URL you could still access them) but just missing from the directory. I don't know if that's true for the present bug but if you're files have gone missing it's worth trying.

One strange effect of vault export is that it converts all docs to word format. This seems odd in an evidentiary process, but I guess lawyers only use word anyway. It also doesn't export them is the same layout (I guess that's probably somewhere in the metadata though)
Brother has always been a very good brand of printer. I used to be a printer repair person. To me, the article reads like, "Every printer brand got way worse, except for Brother!"
I have the solution for those labels, even if that hype is over for quite a while now: RFID tags! /s
I would argue that what other manufacturers are doing is not innovation. It's cargo-cult innovation, adding something that looks modern and innovative, but in reality is just a regression. This is now commonly called enshittification.
I'm one of those who used Internet Explorer 5.0 and was there to complain about Internet Explorer in general. I'm not sure why you are amazed with Chrome transition, but let me give insights from experience.

We had Firefox 0.3 which was very, very slow browser but still much better than Internet Explorer. There was a lot of mental gymnastics involved to get pages display at least similar for both browsers.

When Chrome 1 was released, it was absolutely awesome. Minimal interface. Focused on browsing. Incredibly fast, it just executed JS stupidly quick and we could create web app interfaces that didn't lag

You can still download Chrome 1 and see what it's about. It was basically what users wanted: supports more CSS features than other browsers, starts fast, executes JS fast, provides adequate developer console, renders pages correctly.

It took all of us by storm because it was genuinely good software. That era was the era of good software, not spam advertising.

Today, in 2023. this is not true any more and you are entirely correct when asking why people would use Chrome. Answer is: laziness, lack of info, apathy, lack of knowledge.
I use Librewolf (https://librewolf.net) which is a fork of firefox and truly privacy oriented.
Do you expect Google stock to go even higher?
Other areas that have changed significantly are e.g. trade, diplomacy and espionage.

Diplomacy in the newer games has a lot more freedom and variety in terms of the deals you can make, what you can trade for what with the AI, etc., but you can't directly exchange technologies any more. (At least not in Civ V.)

In Civ I and II, caravans and diplomats/spies used to be units you moved around the map manually. Then there's the whole city states thing since Civ V (I think), strategic resources that are required for particular units or buildings, significant changes in how happiness/approval is managed, as well as several victory types apart from conquest and space race.

In 90's Civ games (except for SMAC) all the civilizations were also essentially identical in terms of gameplay, except for AI leader parameters and diplomatic stances. Newer games in the series have more differences between civilizations in terms of strategy, at least in theory.

Basically, the core idea is still the same but the details and many individual mechanics have changed a lot.
8-10% Woah: Where? Tokyo's Toei Oedo (circle) line is considered steep by modern standards and has special cars with "linear induction motors" that can traverse up to 5% grade.
Wouldn't it be better to have a fridge close the door automatically after one or two minutes?

If you get a notification at work that your fridge door is left open, it would stay open until someone gets home and manually closes it.
The thing is, there is a ceiling with SaaS products. You can usually hit it within 5 years of starting. That ceiling is entirely controlled by churn, with 0% churn, you go to the moon, but nobody has 0% churn.

Once you hit that ceiling, the only reasonable thing is to focus on churn, not growth (as it will have the most impact). But that is like explaining that a "circular line on a map is actually a straight line" they say they get it, but they still see a circular line.
And then they kill them, most of the time. Sometimes intentionally, usually unintentionally.

The money in the pockets of shareholders is more effective at finding good investment opportunities than the innovation department of big ol’ corporate.

But yes, there is an argument to be made, that acquiring small companies can be a valid strategy for big companies. Overall, I think this is bad for the economy though, therefore I am glad that antitrust is pushing back on this.
In theory the answer is no, but in practice nobody really knows that, even Vivaldi devs. For example, Manifest V3:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-block...

> Will the Vivaldi Ad Blocker be affected by the Manifest V3 changes?
I made some architectural choices early on that I believe should keep it functional, regardless of the Manifest V3 changes. Of course, there is always a possibility that the underlying Chromium architecture will change now or in the future, forcing us to do some extra work to keep this working.
Tech conference organizer invents female speakers to fake diversity
Epson and HP work fine under Linux for basic stuff, for anything more fancy, well, yes, there doesn't seem to be much Linuy support around.
Epson make EcoTank inkjet printers ink tanks that you refill from a bottle, not cartridges. It's vastly better than ink cartridges, there's no comparison on price, convenience or environmental impact. The tanks and bottles hold vastly more ink than a cartridge does. The printers are roughly the same price as any inkjet printer. I do not work for Epson.
Use whatever makes you happy.

But it's worth pointing out that Chrome and Chromium are developed by Google. The whole point of using Chromium as a browser developer (Brave, Edge, Opera, ...) is to have Google own and take care of all the difficult bits, drive the technical roadmap, and decide on what is and isn't going to be in the next version. So, you don't gain much by switching to those as the teams behind those Chromium based alternatives don't actually develop most of the browser and you are not really cutting loose from Google. Brave does a little more than others but still.

Sticking with Chrome/Chromium is a bit of a form of Stockholm syndrome. People keep convincing themselves it isn't that bad and that the ads are fine and not that intrusive and that Google means well. Etc.

Firefox is technically independent; not financially. It and Safari are the only non Chromium based browsers left in addition to a small number of early stage attempts to implement a browser that don't look like they are going to be a credible alternative any time soon. Google is paying both Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine in their browser. And unlike Mozilla, Apple isn't exactly dependent on charity and also getting a lot more from Google than Mozilla because they have hundreds of millions of iphone users. Browser real estate is valuable; especially on mobile.

But we live in a weird world where we are dependent on a single company financing the development of essentially all browsers that are commonly used through advertising. I don't think it's particularly healthy and especially the Apple deal smells like a classic anti competitive move that ought to trigger some legal action. It would be nice to see the search and browser markets open up a bit. Especially on mobile. Especially on IOS where Apple enforces a Safari monopoly. Every other browser has to use the Safari rendering engine.
How is Internet Explorer mainstream browser? It has finally died and can't even be used anymore on Windows (unless you're running some old version with updates turned off)
>unnecessary middleman

Well, define unnecessary. A car is also unnecessary to go 50miles. Still nice to have I would say. My point is, carrying a wallet around is not the greatest experience ever, especially when it's super hot.

>You are paying more

I'm not, Im curious to understand how your card works.

>Electronic cash

I agree that's a great idea actually. EU is working on it since years already. Let's make MasterCard/amex/visa unnecessary please.
I am not quite sure what you mean, can you elaborate? In my mental model, money in the pockets of shareholders is much more effective than money in the pockets of big corporates.
What’s the website support of Firefox like? I tried switching to Safari last year and a small minority of websites didn’t work as expected. Even though it was small, it was a big enough problem that I switched back to Chrome.
The standard argument against Mozilla has been that they haven’t funded enough non Firefox projects.

The classic example being Thunderbird.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
The point is that they are good for management, share prices and share holders. The economy is made of more than just those groups.
My issue is not with the fact that some parents are happy with their decision.

My issue is the implication that the joy of parenthood is above every other joy.

For comparison, you don't see programmers claiming the joy of programming is superior to all other jobs. Mountaineers don't claim that you haven't enjoyed life unless you climb mountains.

Why? Because those things are obviously joyful, but not accessible to everyone. Not everyone can climb, not everyone can program, but everyone can find their own joy.

So why do parents feel okay saying that? If you can come up with any other reason then please let me know because I'm still searching.
How did you infer from their comment that they used Chrome?
Funny enough something like four months before that incident, the CEO of a cybersecurity firm that sounds like Kerberos reached out directly to American's CEO with a bullshit story that his personal laptop was hacked while onboard a flight.

He was claiming all sorts of vague nonsense like sites rendering in Chinese or something and a flight attendant making him clear his history or something; I don't remember specifics but it read like bad copypasta and is quite possibly the stupidest case I've ever worked.

He could not have been any more unhelpful with the investigation had he pissed directly into my eyes and called me blind. I wrote him off as a crank trying to drive business through FUD when we asked for his MAC address with the wifi vendor's AP logs in-hand. He gave us the MAC for his VPN adapter and ignored further questions. He provided so little usable information altogether I could never confirm whether he was even on that flight in the first place, much less connected to the AP and doing whatever the hell else supposedly transpired.

Maybe coincidental that American's PA system gets taken over a few months later, with similar nonsensical circumstances-- it's not an obvious prank or tampering, which would get someone like me called in again looking for shenanigans. Instead, aircraft engineers looked at it from a mechanical failure angle.
You are annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites but you are not annoyed with firefox's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites plus some ads?
One more way for Amazon to put a microphone in your home office.
mousing is profoundly good if you let it into your life as a programmer, but for me it had the knock-on effect of making programming at a desktop unappealing. i find the ergonomics of alternating between mouse and keyboard that much better on a laptop, whether it's subconsciously just thumbing the trackpad for small motions, or moving my index finger a mere 1.5 keys to the left to smoosh a trackpoint.

this must be the impulse behind the yoda and similar[1], but these still don't do it for me: i could not comfortably daily drive anything that solders into a cherry mx footprint, and any mech switches i like would demand a costly, time-consuming from-scratch build.

some mac accessory makers have put out a wrist rest that mounts a magic trackpad in front of an apple keyboard, which sounds like it could be really cool adapted to fit a “proper keyboard”, but user testimonies are that the lack of palm rejection drives them nuts.

for reference, a trackpad to the right of the keyboard defeats the purpose from my point of view, as if i'm going to perform a whole-arm motion to access a different input device, i may as well have my hand land on my trusty wireless mouse: if it's good enough for getting headshots it's good enough for selecting text, plus i get proper mouse chording, which i must admit to missing over in trackpad land.

so, laptop it is. here's hoping my spine doesn't hate me when i'm fifty.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/VBk868o.jpeg
The IMDS is useful, and these changes definitely make it safer, but it is also inherently risky. I wrote a blog post[0] about the risks it introduces. One of them being that any process on your VM instances can hit the IMDS and get credentials, allowing it to perform any action that the assigned role can perform. A simple role that allows apps to write logs to a bucket could be used for exfiltration if the policy is not fine grained enough.

[0] https://cedwards.xyz/instance-metadata-service-risks/
Well.. no, we should all be less ignorant of how science, technology, and societies work. I have no idea how you got to your statement from mine.

States are ALSO absolutely HORRIBLE at doing this basic thing correctly. They waste enormous amounts of money doing worthless things and under-invest in infrastructure in ways that makes my eyes water. Same as the ultra rich really.

It's all about cultural stories. You have fallen into the base line left-right story so hard you replied to my comment with a non-sequitur. Literally it was nonsense, because your preconceived ideas of the solution space cannot even map what I was saying.

This is a war of ideas where currently sanity isn't only losing, it's not even in the game. The big players are Islam, Christianity, Communism, and Libertarianism/Laissez-faire capitalism. All of which are basically death cults in this context.
I've probably played 1000 hours of Civ games. This looks horrifyingly garish. I can't imagine being able to stare at this. I notice it's a top down view, and I don't see an option for an isometric view. Maybe the AI is smart? The AI in Civ 5 was absolute trash, which is a pretty common theme in Civ games.

Anyway, it's a pretty reasonable requirement for a game to not look horrific and off-putting, regardless of whether it is free.
You can't have an objective opinion after experiencing both sides either.

A child is a life long decision. You don't get to say "oh I was wrong" after a couple years.
Everything works. In some cases you have to disable the strictest security level, a bit like disabling your ad blocker. Even that is very rare. I do the remember encountering actual problems that would affect my experience.
I have a very old (more than 10 years old) Brother HL 2130 that still works like a charm. I changed the toner only twice, I added an RPi behind it to have it network-enabled. Also one of my best purchases !
The look of website tabs. They were perfectly fine a few years ago, but they had to change something to show that something changes.
> ITV and Sky manage to find plenty of poor actors, so clearly having good actors is not just some inherent unearned feature of British TV

Sure, and good British actors do well in the US. The BBC just is more prestigious than ITV/Sky, and might pay better. BBC also has its share of bad actors, of course. I'm just saying that the quality of top British content is more coming from the acting (down to acting schools) than the production house.

> this is a misconception. if you don’t want to pay for the BBC, you don’t have to. it’s just a crime to use it without paying

I think this is a little tricksy - the BBC has had pretty dystopian ads[0][1] out for a long time that mean people pay the licence fee just out of worry about being caught.

[0] https://images.app.goo.gl/5bmE7wpBG23peFVe6

[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/bd1caeqH9NCrSP427
If you get a decent quality laser for 50 bucks, well, the question is settled.
I can't see how that would work. The arguments variable is already hard to use (accessing it from within the function hardly helps you, and giving access to it by using it as a parameter to another function, or using another closure to capture it doesn't help you either). Apart from the fact that your idea would severely interfere with optimisations (e.g. causing JIT problems, and interfering with variable liveness analysis) - just like some other dynamic features do.
I beg your pardon but I did read it and your argument is flawed. All of it comes down to the fact that you don’t want to spend step 0 configuring your build environment and I completely agree with that statement. What I don’t agree with is you jumping to conclusions about its VCS’s fault. It’s not. It’s C++’s fault. C/C++ needs to be opinionated to keep people on the rails, otherwise you end up in autoconfigure hell. CMake is the most widely adopted build processor, GCC or CLang, don’t chose but let the toolchain decide. If you have specific reasons for clang over gcc or whatever than that responsibility is up to you. Don’t go preaching VCS anti patterns because you can’t make -j8 on first clone.

You simply can’t just download a zip of master, with all of the dependencies, disconnect from the internet, and hit build. You don’t have enough disk space. I’d LOVE to see you try doing that on an embedded environment.
Weird, I don't see adds on my Firefox new tab screen. Maybe you accidentally checked ``Sponsored shortcuts" ? :-)
Most non-technical users don't give a crap about how fast or slow their browser was: if they did, they would've switched from IE to Firefox the first go 'round. To downplay the fact that google advertised Chrome on google.com is to rewrite history, in my opinion.
Yes.

Developers who know how to use LLMs are some % faster and more productive. You can increase the % enough so that overall demand for developers goes down or doesn't grow as much as it would have otherwise.

It's not "my company laid us all off and replaced us with an LLM" but more like "this year our team is hiring for 3 new people instead of 4" - that's still a significant impact on the job market. And who knows how those numbers will change as LLMs get better.
I have been running some 7b models on my 8gb MacBook Air m2. It works, as long as you don’t want to do anything else at the same time. It brings my system down to a crawl, but it works, and having cli ollama binary is enough atm.
Everyone should try Acme for a month and then go back to your favourite editor.

http://acme.cat-v.org/
Not arbitrary remapping of any key.
People in their deathbed also regret working so much but nobody's chomping at the bit to quit their job and become a bum.
Assuming it is "unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus", what would be the command to start Firefox as the normaluser with that setting?
Cartridges that you can get from cheapinkcartridges.ru and they work just fine.
UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals
My anecdote can beat up your anecdote!
I am not trying to change layout, no.
It's pretty good imo. It's super easy to add words too, easier in fact than the spell checker in iOS or macOS. The one in iOS is the worst imo, as it adds stuff automatically based on common mistakes you make because "machine learning" and you can't even see the list of the "learned" words to remove things it learned that aren't actually words!
Same installation, just different browsers:

https://daleglass.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/videos/fire...

https://daleglass.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/videos/chro...
Maybe - but we all forget how google was the one that "pushed" javascript heavily, even if indirectly. At least that's how I remember it so many years later.

So, convenient that they pushed something that half the web and browsers didn't pay much attention to, but they did because they wanted interactive apps and things inside a browser. And hey, this was at the time fancy UIs and frameworks were popping up. Were they prescient or just riding the wave? Or were they perhaps doing that plus also pushing the wave in the direction that best suited what they were good at and also made them lots of money in advertising.

So when we say marketing, we have to include all that advertising now just for a browser, but also for everything that google was pushing in synergy with it.
Mine is very simple: functional autofill and page translations. In most countries it’s a battle to turn it on. Even then, it’s not so reliable.