skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ding ding ding. They even throw their lawyers under the bus, saying that they are discouraging use of the term Velcro for the purpose of legal defense of their valuable Velcro trademark. Did this gain any real traction at any point?
I'll get downvoted for saying this but Safari isn't as bad as people say. The only reason I use chrome is for one singular extension for a single site (and they would release the extension on Safari if it didn't cost $100 a year to do so)
You'll have to ask them. I left Chrome in an exasperated huff several years ago.

The browser ecosystem as we know it is in a tenuous state. It is unhealthy for the web that Chromium has become so dominant. It is a symptom of this imbalance that users line up to defend Apple's choice to lock out other browser engines from iOS. This kind of popular user sentiment would have been unthinkable to me in the era when Firefox first rose up to fight back against the IE singularity. Yet, here we are.
I’d take the uBO element zapper over Reader Mode any day. Some anti-Adblock scripts have figured out how to prevent you engaging reader mode.
Thanks for this, it never occurred to me it used __repr__ for the message. I just added this to my .pythonrc

exit.__class__.__repr__ = lambda _: exit()
quit = exit

Edit, you also need this in your bashrc:

export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc
It's been a long time since I've had a fresh install of ff (I do recall some notification bars in the window you have to close out), but as a very longtime user, I have no idea what you're talking about...example?
I've used Firefox on desktop for years, even through some of the bad times. Today, FireFox is a really great experience and works well everywhere for me, except for some very specific use cases like internal company websites where some employees have deemed it "not suitable" for their web app (even when proven it works), and to use web apps that utilize APIs that I don't entirely like (namely, WebUSB - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/USB). But I keep a spare chromium around if I really need/want to use those apps. 99.9% of my browser use is Firefox.

I think the bigger push should be to get people using FireFox mobile. In my experience, it is a much better, more customizable browser than Chrome. It works well with my browsing habits and general use of my phone (screen UI positioning, gestures, etc.). The most obvious benefit is the extension support, which makes browsing some mobile websites tolerable. Showing people the difference between browsing genius.com (lyrics website) with and without ads usually shocks them. At times on Chrome, the web page is completely unusable due to ads and pop ups.
Any hopes of anything coming interesting out of Episode 8 were dashed when Episode 9 basically erased all of the buildup though.

Someone needed to unify the story and not just have different directors/writing teams changing the story from movie-to-movie.
She is saying that the "open web" Mozilla envisions is one where Mitchell Baker and her friends get to censor and manipulate content directly in the browser.

Obviously, people of the same ideology as her will agree with that, because they hate openness and debate. This is an excellent reason to stay away from Firefox. Using it is getting very close to being a political statement, which given the blog post, could mark its users as those in favour of in-browser political censorship.

Edit: very strange that some people cannot see this. She is extremely explicit:

> Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet [...] to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy [...] and he won't be the last [...] changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors

Let's rephrase that: she claims the "architecture of the internet" - that's the web - has "dangerous dynamics" because (she thinks) it helped a Republican. Not some specific website, or some specific incident, or even some specific politician! The whole design of the internet itself is dangerous, and hence she demands "solutions" to make a "better internet" that goes beyond mere "permanent removal of bad actors" but rather solves the problem pre-emptively before "untold damage is done". Nobody who runs a browser should have this kind of revulsion towards what the internet is.
Nothing unreasonable or unsubstantiated. This is exactly what happened with app geolocking, privacy sandbox/topics, SafetyNet/Play Integrity API, etc. All of these are supposed to improve security and privacy and yet none of them are under the control of the user. Clearly implying that the user is the biggest security/privacy threat to them.
This fella has a number of interesting videos of development on System 6 using THINK C!

https://jcs.org/2022/03/05/serial
“Backdoor” means something deliberately and specifically added to enable the vulnerability. I.e., something can't really be both a backdoor and an exploit.
This is what pays their bills. Major source of income for Mozilla is Google paying to be default search engine
That's what nix is for.
Becuase the AI cycle is still in the hype phase, and VCs and private capital is getting in right now before unloading onto retail investors to hold the bags.

And also, like every major tech invention in the past 40 years (smartphones, search, operating systems, social media, e-commerce), AI will quickly be dominated by a single corporation that will hold 80%+ of the market share. Nvidia on the hardware side and Microsoft/ClosedAI on the software side.
Voyager was one series I never completed before the streaming roulette started. Not sure how I started looking for it but I finally said no thanks to subs and bought a box set for 50 bucks. I can watch at my own pace and don't have to shell out 10-25 bucks every month. Have seen DS9 but may do the same there since the price (50 bucks) is so compelling as compared to streaming monthly costs, and you get to keep it forever (forever defined by some arbitrary parameter and not equal to infinity)
I've been ghosted twice lately. One was someone reaching out via Hacker News for an initial chat where they said "let's put you through our interview process" and then ghosted. The other was for a startup, similar situation, "let's set up a chat with our CEO", then ghosted.

The commonality here is an inability to just be honest and say "doesn't seem like a good fit". Disappointing, and ironically, an indication that it really wouldn't be a good fit. I don't want to work with people who are unable to deliver uncomfortable news respectfully, or even, at all.
There's some more you should do to increase privacy: Disable Firefox sending each keystroke into the address bar to all the numerous search engines (includes google). Best to just enable the separate bar for search and disable search suggestions entirely.
heaven forbid someone build infrastructure because of the profit motive
Is a there a similar sort of video on how cloth for clothing is made/woven?
I laughed so hard that I needed a bandaid.
I just read a bunch of comments yesterday [1] talking about Mozilla and its CEO putting little energy and money into Firefox. I am supportive of the sentiment but when Mozilla doesn't seem very committed to Firefox, it's hard to get onboard.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38795308
The article actually says the reason is in the name, which translates as Deep Well.

They just didn’t build below the water table…simple…. They probably improved it by digging the wells good and deep…

Yes, I’m concurring with the first reply.
> There is a general lack of advanced materials in software engineering

I wonder how much this is true in other areas (not counting academic papers).

It's not exactly true in law due to the plethora of giant treatises in any specific subject of law, as far as I know that might be a one-off due to US law putting such an (insane?) emphasis on precedent. Basically need a professional lawyer+historian to compile all the relevant stuff.

But other engineering or science disciples? I have no idea one way or the other.
Found one! Google.com ... Try googling "vti stock" (or any similar rich ui query) on chrome mobile and Firefox mobile.
Where was unsupervised consumption mentioned? Quit your pearl clutching.
Oral peptides: A new era in drug development
I would still be using Gentoo if NixOS hadn't come around. I like Gentoo just fine, but being a sysadmin for NixOS is much easier than being a sysadmin for Gentoo.
>De novo development of small cyclic peptides that are orally bioavailable

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-023-01496-y

Abstract

Cyclic peptides can bind challenging disease targets with high affinity and specificity, offering enormous opportunities for addressing unmet medical needs. However, as with biological drugs, most cyclic peptides cannot be applied orally because they are rapidly digested and/or display low absorption in the gastrointestinal tract, hampering their development as therapeutics. In this study, we developed a combinatorial synthesis and screening approach based on sequential cyclization and one-pot peptide acylation and screening, with the possibility of simultaneously interrogating activity and permeability. In a proof of concept, we synthesized a library of 8,448 cyclic peptides and screened them against the disease target thrombin. Our workflow allowed multiple iterative cycles of library synthesis and yielded cyclic peptides with nanomolar affinities, high stabilities and an oral bioavailability (%F) as high as 18% in rats. This method for generating orally available peptides is general and provides a promising push toward unlocking the full potential of peptides as therapeutics.
Increasing surface area decreases pressure (if mass/gravity/... are constant) and keeps frictional forces the same. The interesting question is what the limits of the system are -- when do you transition from static friction (ordinary braking) to kinetic friction (skidding/sliding), which dissipates less energy and doesn't slow you down as well.

The usual metric describing that transition is the "coefficient of friction." It describes the ratio of normal forces (your car pressing down) to frictional forces (your tire slowing down your car) at which you transition from static (good) to kinetic (bad) friction. Tires have a CoF which depends on the pressure (roughly car weight divided by tire surface area, complicated by the fact that wider tires don't necessarily have more surface area on their contact patches). As pressure increases in rubber tires, CoF decreases, so the same normal force (the gravitational force of your car pushing downward) results in less peak frictional force (the ability of your tires to stop you moving forward). Increasing surface area decreases that pressure, increasing CoF, increasing braking ability.
And speaking of Cisco, "IOS" for that matter too.
I have a hard time believing you even do what you're claiming. The number of sites that support logging in that way is basically (pun intended) 0. In fact, firefox is the only browser that warned me that someone is probably trying to scam me with a url like that, the other browsers just dropped the auth part and went to the site without logging in.
> pipenv decided to always print to stderr that the environment got activated, even though it's not an error.

This is a pet peeve of mine. I see it every so often and every time, I wonder if the dev wasn't familiar with the norms of the platform or if the dev was being malicious.

Either way, it doesn't speak well for them.
Which sites require those? How would that allow them to make more profit?

I literally said if they want people to visit anywhere they use a site and if not they lock down the experience with an app, and you said they lock down apps as 'proof' that they'd lock down web sites because somehow they are equal. Apps have never been about freedom. Starbucks doesn't want user choice and privacy when they ask you to download their app.

And I'm yet to see what business model it would work for. I'm going with 'none'.
I'm sure stars have smashed together all the isotopes we've considered, at some point or another.
I’ve tried using Orion but I found it very slow and does not work fully as it should with a single chrome plugin I tried. Back to Safari!
Show HN: Alarmclocktab.com – phone's dead and I need an alarm, stopwatch, timer
Web based time tools including alarms, timers, stopwatch, and time zone converter. Resources also include Tabata, Pomodoro and other useful timers, tips and tactics for managing time and time tracking. Dark mode included!
I have the same problem, I can't listen nothing in English or Portuguese while working.

I ended up doing an brain.fm subscription, that I highly recommend!

But before I made this playlist with 8+hs of instrumental (mostly rock) music:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7cKt2D5jIScGyvMcNEfOHy?si=...

I also listened some Russian Rock/Synth:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6PjFMMUrGU2bJz8ybc5dVm?si=...
I have tried Brave multiple times. I find its desktop version as bad or worse than Firefox for things not working or bugginess.

I have used Brave more on Android. I have bounced between Firefox, Brave, and custom builds of Chromium for years. I am currently on Firefox.
Mozilla and me are tight. There's always a few complaints, but until there is another alternative that respects me I won't even consider changing to another browser.
-written on Android Firefox Nightly 123.0a1
a garden path sentence, but it parses.

[only on HN] could [any state [that Gentoo was ever in]] be [reflected upon [as "just worked like a breeze"] unironically]_,_ and [I] mean [that] [in a fond, loving way]
Here's my current circuit workout:
https://alarmclocktab.com/CherylCageim

Hope y'all like it!
I haven’t used the official YouTube app, but I seriously doubt it’s ad-free and that it lets you download videos.
Chinese astronomical records were extensive, accurate, and continual for more than 3000 years. They believed the Earth was flat and square until the 17th century.
Nvidia has a monopoly and for that reason has lost interest in giving value to customers. It’s busy with AI and no longer seems interested in gaming.

AMD seems to have no interest in competing with Nvidia and is content to release products that simply match Nvidia's terrible value. Despite being handed every possible chance to thrash Nvidia via competitive pricing, it simply releases slow GPUs at high prices and shrugs.

Intel competes hard since its in distant third place but it’s products are far far behind in terms of performance.

It’s lose lose lose for the GPU consumer.

The general attitude of GPU manufacturers is very different from CPUs where it is a knockdown beat up sprint fight to the death to make the fastest and cheapest CPUs possible shipped as quickly as possible with the goal of winning.

In GPUs it’s just a slow lazy fat gold grab in which no player is interested in making any further effort than they need to, for AMD and Nvidia anyway.
This hits home as an topic of interest. Last week, I build a new workstation. Now I am confronted with the monitor decision.

My current workstation has side by side 24" 1920x1200

Things I'm considering:

Stick with side by side 24" 1920x1200 - Asus PA248QV
~$400 total

Two LG DualUp
~$1000 total

One 5k2k such as Dell U4021QW or LG 40WP95C-W
~$1800 total

One UHD 4K like LG OLED 48GQ90B-B
~$900

While I'm accustomed to the gap between my two monitors, I've never much liked it. The Asus gap will be smaller than with my current Dell.

But I do like having each computer "full screen". With one big monitor I loose the gap but I also end up with computers that float in the space of that large monitor. Not sure if that'll bug me.

While 1200px height is enough most of the time, I do want more - like 50% more would be great.

Much of my work is RDP based. I just Googled to find that the maximum vertical resolution is 2048, which is less than the DualUp vertical resolution. Is Google correct?

Curious how others resolved these competing visions (pun intended).
Also nearby is the similar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymakli_Underground_City
I read the article. That is the point. It has no relevancy at all. The article was horrible, makes an opening statement that can't be supported. You people are just sheep.
How would you want the comments to be ordered then, chronologically? Or are you saying you want them ordered by rating, but not colourized or minimized? Note also that you can vouch dead comments with the vouch button if you believe they're reasonable.
I bring this up all the time and get downvoted by apple defenders (usually I’m one). Apples policy of locking out 3rd party gpus might be the cause of a serious decline in Mac OS over the next decade.

That or devs will start building Linux hosts for their gpus at home.
> except it generates a tremendous amount of garbage pages

Note that this is an advantage on say, controller-less NAND Flash (JFFS-like embedded NAND Flash).

More modern Flash drives have embedded FTL (flash translation layers) that internalizes that garbage collection process. But *someone* had to write the FTL to begin with, and methinks this append-only btree would work very well for that.

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In NAND Flash, only 10,000ish erase/write cycles are allowed before any block becomes unusable. (Depending on tech of course: could be 1000 on QLC could be 100k on SLC). All that garbage helps cycle the write/erase cycles across the drive more evenly / more consistently. Especially if you combine that garbage with TRIM-like commands.

That might be a little bit too low level for a lot of folks though.
I don’t know how you can hold the position that copyrights do that but patents don’t.
I see a lot of people making fun of the feature but when I was in the middle of Iceland the screen on my ThinkPad broke. With the same tools used for here for fun I could create 3 virtual monitors arranged around the crack and could use my screen with no problems.
"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
One enhancement I've toyed with in the past is to have subtrees beneath each leaf node for the historical data for each record. You switch the indexing value to the timestamp of record insertion time or a TX number and keep inserting in append-only fashion. There's some enhancements you can make because the common case is for the key to be a monotonically increasing number, but nothing is strictly necessary. I'd love to build a datalog system on top of something like that at some point, even if it's just for fun.
You'd think if professional sports could figure out how important this is we could too, but for some reason there's a tendency to give it lip service then put absolutely no effort into doing a good job. Scouting and screenings are done by people that companies treat like dirt, we incentivize them only for body count, interviews are done by low experience employees and employees who don't even like interviewing. We don't know how to identify and cultivate talent in this industry yet, it's clearly dysfunctional and deprioritized.
Whatever the problem is, all I know is that last year Linode said they tried and failed to get Microsoft to actually fix the problem[0], apparently despite assurances and multiple requests for a root cause analysis. Everyone else seems to have figured out how to not be overrun by spam and also not block entire netranges, so I’d say it is well past time for Microsoft to figure out how to do that too.

Thanks and good luck!

[0] https://www.linode.com/community/questions/22287/550-57511-a...
> God damn is it noisy

What is this noise you're referring to? I'm 90% Firefox and 10% Safari and I don't understand this comment.
Yes, but it's the sort of creepy that they can't just undo by saying "nevermind".
The Stanford link is just generic information about the fair use tests and does nothing to backup the assertion.

> They aren't, in addition to facts they offer analysis, editorial positions, and so on.

Those opinions and ideas are also not copyrightable. Only expressions of them are copyrightable, which is why paraphrasing facts, ideas and opinions is not a violation of copyright.

> Fair use is filled with shades of grey.

Yes, but not all those shade are equal. There is a long history of litigation showing that paraphrasing news articles is fine.
everyone is a CTO on linkedin
Did you read the comment you replied to?
>And they're only able to pull it off by having a high trade surplus. Needless to say, not everyone can have a high trade surplus, so it's unclear how this is a policy that can generalize.

Governments with a gold-backed currency could maintain high (government) reserves even with a high trade deficit. Imagine a king with literal gold currency, a huge pile of gold in his throne-room. No matter how large the private economy's trade deficit, he's still going to have the same amount of gold in his pile.

>If the pandemic is anything to go by, if there's a surplus the money would get plowed into tax cuts, not reserves.

If governments couldn't print money they'd be forced to be more economically cautious, because they couldn't just print themselves out of trouble, instead they'd need a tax, which would face more resistance.
I'm an on-and-off Firefox user, and I always find these pleas kind of lame. It's a good enough browser, but the other arguments aren't very convincing.

It's a contradiction to claim Firefox is better at privacy when Mozilla makes most of its money by funneling people to Google's spyware network. Not only is it anti-privacy, the other side effects include things like only blocking "bad" trackers, not including ad-blocking/umatrix functionality by default, etc.

And the browser monopoly argument isn't that strong either. We have Chromium from Google, and Mozilla Firefox funded by Google. Look at DRM video - it made no difference.
Firefox provides a search widget
I guess since I never used it I don't understand what this irreplaceable feature is. Isn't it just VoIP?
I want to use Firefox so badly yet they make it so hard:

- Bookmark bar icons are not synced. So they’re the same gray blobs until I click on them one by one after connecting to VPNs they’re behind, and do that for every new installation. Not a problem with other browsers.

- Google Docs & Sheets render terribly due to kerning problems on canvas with 150% zoom on a HiDPI display. The text becomes almost unreadable. This is a 6 year old bug on Bugzilla.
Fun fact: there is a beer allowance (Haustrunk) in Austria if you a work in a brewery. And that allowance is tax free.
But if the economy is going to shit, who are the people that are sticking their necks out by borrowing money to invest, rather than accumulating savings to weather the downturn?
The subtle point I read in GP is the historic correlation between storage systems and data structures. Your point is equally valid in that this correlation is not indicative of non-general applicability.

Both points need to be kept in mind imho in design.
I wonder was that because bacon slices looked like currency notes? Or maybe crisp currency gave good feeling like the crisp bacon?
Isn't Suits - a long since lapsed cable series - like the most popular thing on Netflix? So was Friends, Seinfeld, and The Office for a time too. People love to think they can generalize all streamers into a bucket when in reality it's not as simple as anyone thinks. Viewing trends change all the time and can be unpredictable, even horrible stuff gets tons of views.
Firefox for Android is a big ux improvement between adblock and dark eyes.

There is one annoying rendering issue though
Yes I think we see pretty much eye to eye on this stuff. I am trying to give the benefit of the doubt not because the principals involved deserve it, but because our own thinking for future ambiguity does.

It’s very hard to know things, and it’s easy to forget how hard it is to know things in retrospect.