skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox user since before it was Firefox.

Daily: Firefox with probably too many blockers, tampermonkey, umatrix, Stylus. I aggressively block any and every element on sites I visit regularly. You get no stats from me.

Also daily: Firefox Developer Ed for frequently visited sites where I need to login and every site is in a container tab.

Brave - my daily puzzle fix for Wordle, Wordiply, Travle, Tradle (no logins, clears data on exit).

Edge, in Private mode, if and only if I cannot get a site to otherwise work.

Also nextdns.io to block as much as I can including all Google, all facebook, all Automattic properties and more.

While I'm sure some data is being collected I am very happy with how my internet looks.
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While i wholeheartedly agree, these aren't really reasons. Playing devil's advocate reveals nothing useful.

"Its happened before"

That's not an argument, in fact you could counter-argue that IE left a lot of technical debt. On top of that, the internet was very different back then.

"Its actually good"

I'm still not convinced, why would I change my browser? I'm very comfortable in my opera/edge/chrome browser and I'd have to change my workflow.
I've run into one site having oversized svg icons in Firefox only over the past few years.

Aside from that, no "chrome only" issues you describe.
Another bit of cleverness not mentioned in the article is that assignment expressions always evaluate to the rvalue. So the expression `current->uid = 0` has the effect of making sure that entire conditional never actually runs (or at least, the return never runs), which means the overall behavior of wait4 doesn't change in an observable way. Very clever if you're trying to pass all of the existing tests
> What does the evidence say?

That it’s not safety related. The evidence being in the block you quoted: it shouldn’t take 10 years to clear a wire through environmental review.
Can you elaborate on the continuous scrolling? I've actually never noticed anything off about the scrolling.
>The microsecond manifest v3 is forced upon me,

Protest before if even happens by switching now, maybe?
Does anyone know of an actual case of a person who was impacted by this?

What difference does that make? It's wrong, regardless of whether or not one can cite a specific case where it affected someone. This is no different than the b.s. "you don't need privacy if you don't have anything to hide" crap that people spout sometimes.

If the govt. needs this information, the can get a warrant. If they can't get a warrant, they don't need the information. This isn't that hard to figure out.
Instead of cloning the branches all the way up to root, wouldn't it be more efficient to just write delta-records, so a structure per inner node that says "it's like this original node, but with the following modifications x,y,z"
Corporations get everyone to do things they don't have to against their own interests all the time.

All day every day every industry every level.

"How?" is infinite different ways not any particular one.

Usually it's down to something being 0.001% prettier or more convenient or even a totally fabricated impression that everyone else does it (which then becomes true but is only true after the idea was used).

They sucessfully harness the desire for conformity in some people and also the desire for non-conformity in other people, at the same time for the same products.

They completely effectively harness countless well studied aspects of human nature.

If you're like me, sitting here writing about how cynical and manipulative they all are, they have angles that work on that too.
Which plugin do you use for real estate and what do you provide? What specific data do you have it ingest?
Firefox has ads doesn't it ? for the homepage links.

(I am not complaining. long time firefox user)
Eh, I tried unfortunately and it's not the same. Especially with video processing, my older Macbook Pro heats up very quickly when using Firefox vs Chrome.

Firefox's history bar is still superior though
I must say, that's quite a depressing outlook. Sure, we consume a lot, but "the meaning of life?" Damn! I sleep a lot too, arguably even more than I consume, but I wouldn't argue that's my whole reason for existing...

Maybe you mean "we need to consume to live," which I agree with a whole lot more. Even then, there's no reason we need to maximize consumption. Food is definitely critical to our existence, but pre-peeled oranges in individual plastic packaging are not.
Are you talking about the payment Mozilla receives for keeping Google the default search engine on Firefox? Just change it.
He's not wrong but the last Gundam he worked on was terrible. He wrote and directed G-Reco.
Actual photo shops existed before Adobe Photoshop.
Baseline power can't prop up renewables. Dispatchable power, on the other hand...
That is a very interesting line of thinking, my comment was kind of the opposite - I find that after reading a couple of good books on a certain topic, the rate of learning goes down rapidly compared to the steady amount I get from HN comments and experience. About hackernewsbooks - it's not mine since many years and I am not affiliated with it, I am just the one who built it and sold it. It's still nice though.
It has. I was just having this conversation with a friend the other day. Despite Netflix having all their analytics/viewership data, they consistently crank out garbage. You might get one or two releases a year that are good, but that's it. I know its subjective, but the few shows that I enjoyed were cancelled or just shelved.

They weren’t perfect, but I want normal Hollywood studios to come back. There was a lot more on the line when it came to creating movies/series and a lot more effort went into creating them. It took actual talent to make something great, not data.

The same is happening in the music industry. I know pop music has more or less sounded the same throughout time...but these days its almost indistinguishable. Studios just pick a public figure to sing a generated song, it goes viral for a few months, rinse repeat. I have a hard time telling the difference between artists these days. Their vocal range/tone is almost identical in some cases.

We have an over abundance of choice when it comes to media and I'm not sure if that's a good thing. Its now a chore to sort through the garbage and find actual talent.

Sorry for the rant!
It's not about where people want to live, but where most jobs are. Historically rapid urbanization started with industrialization, which reduced jobs in countryside, and created news mostly in urban areas.
It's got very similar benefits to Arch in terms of system setup and configuration with a few extras:

- for the binary version the difference might not be as significant but bit for bit I'd say it's still more configurable than Arch

- in terms of choices they've made about conventional system defaults, there's more interesting options on offer: especially when it comes to Systemd -vs- OpenRC & networkmanager -vs- netifrc

- I'm not sure how true this last point is, but I get the impression the system of overlays & profiles is a little more expressive & powerful than equivalents in other distros. E.g. Manjaro is often considered to be something of bastardisation of Arch by virtue of some underlying design decisions made in "forking / extending" it, & compatibility is limited. On the other hand things like Funtoo & Pentoo are really just Gentoo at heart, using its core features for packaging distro customisations.
Not sure South Koreans are worried about rising housing prices. They have terrible demographics long term.
This is a pretty great Elixir course that goes into advanced topics: https://kamilskowron.gumroad.com/l/cSGdY

"Hands-on Elixir & OTP: Cryptocurrency trading bot"
I'm not sure I understand. Of course we should cut corporate welfare to fossil fuel companies. Does that somehow mean we should supply it to nuclear power companies?
Brave runs on Chrome and has some of the highest privacy protections.

I love Firefox, but just questioning if there aren’t good solutions available on Chrome.

And while Apple may
not have a business model as focused on selling data, they still have a growing ad business + weaker protections against fingerprinting and ad blocking
Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting
You just hand-waved their entire business as generic "workflow", picked up a few common technical issues (notifications, integration, support), and built teams around these issues. That indeed is going to hurt :-)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...
So you're not curious at all about how this "information leak" you probably did not know about before today could bite you personally? For you, this conversation is only about public policy and how you and I might change it -- and not at all about how you personally (or someone you care about) could modify your purchasing behavior to reduce your vulnerability to adverse governmental action?

I agree with the legal principle you describe, but to me that is the less interesting angle because public policy is hard to change whereas my own behavior is much easier to change. It is amusing that I cannot have a conversation here about any other angle without getting downvoted by people opposed to any writings that could possibly be useful to the opposing side in the public debate over the one angle they want to talk (write) about.
Maybe, but the answer is also wrong. You can mark the keypoints as not visible or obscured.
Wow, such a weird headline!
Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/)

It's not a programming course per-se, but it's a great resource to master the skill of coding and problem solving.

It's just one part though, it won't teach you anything about architecturing a bigger system.
Sure. In short I think in a simpler world we might expect all genders, races, and backgrounds to equally participate in all fields but in practice I don't think that needs to be our first goal (and maybe not ever depending on what the research shows).

For example, a lot of people think it's sexist to suggest some groups might prefer coding more, and I think they're coming from a good place with that. However scientists don't dispute that autism rates in boys are significantly higher than girls, for example, and though I haven't seen any formal research it's my impression that about half of professional software engineers fall somewhere on the spectrum (guy or girl).

So personally, I'd want to understand this huge correlation between autism and software engineering (and potentially between gender and autism) before I judged the problem primarily societal.

If we're being honest with ourselves I also think certain cultures have their own respective norms. This isn't really a hot take -- e.g. some cultures value machismo more than others. Different cultures can also value money and saving differently. I haven't looked deeply, but a cursory glance suggests some minorities are even overrepresented in software.

If differing cultures is a big player in differing interest in software careers then I see it as not-our-place to try to try to alter those values.

And I'd even go a step further and say that I've grown skeptical of both sides' motivations as simplistic and tribal. I haven't thought that deeply about this topic (e.g. never read an encyclopedia article), but I get the sense that many people who have much stronger opinions have thought about it even less than I have, and have put less effort into making a logically consistent views on the topic. Often I worry overzealous advocates give a bad image to the cause (as they do for pretty much any group).
LMDB [0] was derived from this project, as mentioned in its copyright notice section [1].

[0] http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/
[1] https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb/blob/30288c72573ceac719627183f1...
My expectation as a lead-role in DevOps is that my CTO understands what I am saying, if I were to present a business case to him for evaluation or raise a concern with the company tool stack. Shortly put I want somebody with decision making powers to also have the knowledge to make those decisions. I don't need them to be able to implement any of the changes, but I need them to be able to know why the change needs to happen and what business value it does or does not give.
The manuals for the NES, SNES, and N64 never once used the term "Game Console". They exclusively called it the "Control Deck". It's not until the GameCube (2001) that they finally refer to the system as a "Console" in the user manual.

Does anyone know any people who actually called their consoles "Control Decks"?
The world only produces a few hundred tonnes of beryllium a year, so MSRs using FLiBe do not scale.
>1. Privacy
Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data.

Mozilla tracks and gives (sells?) unique information about every download to Google unless you choose to grab it from the FTP servers.

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...
The fact is that we probably need all of the following to have any hope of reaching carbon neutral:

1. Nuclear for base load

2. Wind and solar with storage for supplemental

3. Carbon capture and storage

Any discussion that tries to exclude one of them is in my mind non-serious and the ultimate form of greenwashing. In practical terms it's not going to be possible to get there without some form of all of the above.
> Someone using their phone or tablet with a keyboard to get things done

... if you don't get a lot of things done.

The main quality of a laptop is the keyboard is solidly attached to the screen. That means you can use it anywhere and you don't need to dedicate a desk like space for the keyboard.

With an iPad you need a stand, space for the keyboard and then you're close to the space taken by a monitor with peripherals and a desktop under the desk. Might as well get a desktop then since it's more powerful.

It may be useful for tasks that only need a keyboard 1% of the time though.
Fortunately humans age out of life. Millennials and GenZ that grew up on the web are sticking to center and center-left political positions. Political policy of the day that deflates their buying power of necessities not just PS5, is not endearing them to preserve the status quo.

Electoral turnovers flush corruption and improve economic power for general public: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766

The drop off in allegiance to religion since the 00s has broken thousands of years of socialized obligation to maintain a specific historical story.

Our brains devalue sources of information after a certain amount of time: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen...

It’s been roughly 15 years since the cloud app boom really took off with users, people are tired of social media. Seems likely this trend of getting sick of the same old holds throughout life. Lack of obligation to historical story is revealing interesting things about our ebbs and flows.

See also dwindling interest in comic book movies, a trend that took off with iron man… 15 years ago

iPhones -> goggles within a similar timeframe

15 years before that, in the early 90s the information super highway was taking off

15 years before that we got sick of the oil crisis triggered by policy 15-ish years before Reagan (3-5 year margin of error)

Thomas Jefferson is said to have written the Constitution ought to be rewritten every 19 (15+4) years or else the dead rule by fiat decree. Today we find the philosophy is embedded in our biology.
Your loyalty is commendable. But we all forgive you if you make the switch now.
soo....yeah..
They're merging the two apps right now.

As of the last couple of months, much of hulu's content is available under the disney app. Seems only a matter of time before the hulu app is completely deprecated.
Rennet (synthetic or not) doesn't work with plant-based milk. It reacts with casein, which is not there in plant-based milks.
#LibreWolf much more lightweight; bloat, telemetry removed.
I am not going back to Firefox anytime soon after they kicked out Brendan Eich for his personal views. Whether we agree or not with his personal views, open source should not be influenced by political agenda, neither by wokeness
In a former life I repaired sewing machines. Singer built a reputation for durability, and their old machines still perform much as you describe. Modern Singers, however, are bottom-of-the-market plastic chunks of crap, their reputation running off the fumes of a bygone century. Janome and Brother machines are pretty OK, a decent balance of lower cost with reasonable durability (some plastic wear parts meant to be replaced over time).

Bernina mechanical parts are incredibly solid but their electronics are as vulnerable to failure as everything else nowadays.
do you have any other recs for firefox extensions?
No, the whole point of TFA is that it is not their right to choose to restrict how others want to use their work. In fact, it is unethical, and so simply having the option to use FOSS is not enough. It is, at most, an economic incentive.

In a post-copyright world, DRM will be legal to break, and such licenses will be unenforceable. If producers try to restrict us, we can and will simply ignore them. Because it is not their right.
> Uruguay is 100% wind + storage

Uruguay pays $170/MWh [1]. That’s what power from the first-of-its-kind and hideously-delayed Vogtle nuclear power plants will cost [2].

[1] https://www.global-climatescope.org/markets/uy/

[2] https://www.powermag.com/blog/plant-vogtle-not-a-star-but-a-...
It all depends on your workflow of course. I run 3 monitors for my main workstation. Admittedly the third is mostly for rare events (e.g. debugging a performance issue across many services) or most of the time background TV/security cameras.

I get motion sick on anything over 27" so that kind of limits my screen real-estate. I also like to be able to quickly reference material across two apps without having to mess around with window sizing or the like.

It's sort of like having two computers from back in the 90's I guess, which is likely where I picked up the habit.

I still find it difficult to work on a laptop due to the lack of a second display. It's fine, but not quite as mentally satisfying to me.

I would also argue any ops-oriented position where you need to have a lot of graphs and logging displayed at once can benefit from multiple screens - or at least screen real estate. Using multiple monitors for these setups is usually more practical just due to desk layouts.
Firefox + uBlock origin is far better than any other browser without UBO.
It may look like a waste to compile from scratch but it's great for reproducible builds.

That can important in cases where you need to be sure you are running the source code that you can see
The streamers make some shows that some people want to watch.

Netflix’s report, first of its kind, showed 20 titles that you will have never heard of unless you use TikTok.

Most people are watching the shows most other people are watching, it’s memetic. People want to feel like they’re a part of something; that is they’re are willing to pay $20/mo in Fear of Missing Out.

Nobody has FOMO for old Disney content. The largest expense for Netflix is creating content, all the shows in that report were from 2022 and 2023.

The kicker is that it’s the opposite of the top of the Steam charts, indicating how bad of a business the streamers are in. Those games are most free and have been around for a long time, sometimes decades.

Both games and TV/movies were threatened by piracy. Yet the result for TV/movies was wildly undercharging for the stuff people were pirating - giving away the old catalogue content on the premise they were competing with $0, simultaneously ceasing to monetize their pay to play audience. Huge mistake: they should have wildly increased enforcement, which would have been much much cheaper and effective. TV/movies just do not have enough secular ways to innovate like games do to completely supplant piracy from a technological and social perspective.

Two takeaways: (1) the pay to watch model model was much more sustainable, because most content makes way more sense to sell for those payers, it was non-FOMO content, it was good content. (2) in order to make most of the highly engaged streaming content sustainable, streamers must innovate in monetization, and it’s not obvious if ads will be enough.
How Toilets Worked in Ancient Rome and Medieval England
> Even if you abolished the concept of Copyright, Patents and all the rest of it now at this very moment, these companies would still have trillions in their coffers with which they could do plenty of harm to smaller entities

And they would slowly dwindle and die as their revenue streams dried up. I'm still not seeing the issue. They're already "harming" small creators in these same ways, particularly because extended copyright means we can't have derivative works, thus stifling innovations of smaller creators right now.

> You think Disney isn't just gonna go out and straight up hoover up every single byte of music & video in existence that they can get their hands on and start reselling it?

Reselling what? Something you would be able to download for free on the Internet if copyright didn't exist? An open source Spotify would immediately pop up that would only charge you enough to cover hosting. What commercial enterprise do you think could compete with that long-term?
I switched to Firefox earlier this year, having used Chrome since 2008/2009, previously having used Firefox. Mostly out of laziness.

Can't believe how good Firefox is now, and how great it is on Android (addons, config).

Being able to control anything on the browser is fantastic. Want to increase a certain UI elements font size just a tad? Sure! Want to tweak every aspect of the UI? sure! Want a myriad of config options, sure go ahead! Love the concept of Nightly, has worked great for me.
Large-scale distribution is expensive and complicated. Companies don’t need to control copyright to make money doing it. In fact digital distribution companies make way more money today than copyright holders. Look how much Google, Apple, Amazon, etc are worth, compared to the labels. Spotify alone has more annual revenue than all the big music labels combined. Copyright is the legal lever that allows labels and artists to make a claim on some of that distribution revenue.

This is in fact the origin of the legal concept of copyright: established printers who had more money and equipment than authors would print up copies of popular written works, distribute and sell them, and return nothing to the author.
What tea leaves? I took GP’s comment at face value that DEI proponents are cynics. I don’t share your belief that DEI is corporate scam.

I am sure some execs institute DEI exclusively to generate goodwill with no belief in it as a program. Most do it without deep thought because everyone else is. Still others truly believe diversity is valuable, and they are doing the best they know how.

To me, that doesn’t equate to corporate scam. To me, it is misguided at worst.

Since we aren’t mind readers and we don’t know what’s in their hearts, assuming DEI proponents are all bad faith actors is itself cynical. Much as it is cynical to assume I am arguing in bad faith.

We may disagree, but that doesn’t mean I am trolling you. I don’t assume you are trolling me.
It nerfs adblockers so the current net convenience of using Chromium vs Firefox becomes a net inconvenience. Manifest v2 disablement day might as well be Firefox Switching Day.
What about native Germans though? At least here in Finland plenty of natives move away from the capital to smaller bordering towns once they start a family. Advantages are reduced cost of living, and improved safety & schools.