skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a baseless accusation which defies logic.

Chrome has 65.76% of the browser market share.

Firefox has 2.93% of the browser market share, and of those, only some Android users were affected.

And you're saying Google purposefully contrived a situation to break their own service to get those <3% of users to go and install Chrome, and assume those users knew to take that action? All while keeping this conspiracy quiet from other staff at Google and with malicious (and possibly anti-competitive) intent?

Or is it possible no one cares about Firefox because so few people use it and this is the result of a simple bug?
> many here will say that is just cheating

I'm going to have to ask for a source of this claim that people who want antitrust action against hypercorporations would somehow be dissatisfied with the stated goal of antitrust, which is to break up trusts.
I used a pull request over emaila workflow at my first job ~14 years ago. This is decentralized as email is decentralized. It works quite well, but I prefer the centralized tools.

Linux development is the most public example of this, here's an example from today:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20240109071332.2216253-1...
> this was the first launch of ULA's new rocket, the first launch BO's new engine, and the first launch of anything for Astrobotic.

Is this company headed by SW developers ? Is NASA quality department dead ?
Too many "firsts" thrown together and expected to work.
> Look at the payment card industry: the whole system is fundamentally broken by design

Quite the contrary: The parts of it that are broken are broken due to industry inertia and backwards compatibility considerations.

Payment cards have had the capability for strong cardholder authentication both online (3DS) and at the POS (chip/EMV and PIN) for almost two decades now.

There just isn't political/regulatory will to enforce their use in the US, and nobody will move first without being forced (since it's game-theoretical/economic suicide to be the first mover). In the EU, both are now largely mandatory.
My Kia EV6 has a great example of bad design, specifically #2, "Match between System and the Real World".

The gear selector (which just selects forward or reverse) is a rotary knob.

You twist it to the right to go forward, or twist it to the left to back up.

There are a couple of photos in this review:

https://www.jdpower.com/cars/expert-reviews/2023-kia-ev6-rev...

Even though I've had this car for a few months now, I still get this mixed up once in a while.

There is at least one report on the EV6 forum about a a crash while parking that was almost certainly due to this UI blunder:

https://www.kiaevforums.com/threads/unexpected-acceleration-...

What pains me is that there is a simple solution Kia could have used: a little paddle that you push forward to go forward, pull back to back up.

Then there would never be any confusion over which way to turn the knob. You would have a direct mapping between your action and the car's motion.

I love this car otherwise; it's by far the best one I've ever had. But I don't understand why Kia decided to use a rotary knob to select forward and reverse.
Yeah, I thought similarly. So the whole time, these US services asking for my Drivers License # and a photo of my ID haven't really been checking it?
Ask HN: Companies in Enshittification Mode?
Tell me some companies who gathered a lot of users and are now locking them in and raising prices.

Here's a few I know:

1. Qualtrics: Doubled their prices last year, product is really buggy.

2. Unity: Almost charged developers per game install.

3. Blu Smart: Swore to never use surge pricing. Introduced "rush hour" pricing instead.

Who else?
lambda the ultimate
Close to zero, but that doesn’t help them. If the paperwork was falsified to say that everything was tightened and verified, and Boeing stands behind that, now Boeing has to investigate and come up with a plan to prevent these bolts from “mysteriously loosening” (because everything was fine when it left the factory)… which will be an even bigger pain in the ass than just fixing the QA process.
So the Navajo Nation has won after all.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/world/peregrine-moon-mission-...
'His shirt got sucked off his body': passengers on the Alaska Airlines blowout
N-Gate summaries were harsh, but fair. Basically spot on.
I agree with you, and I don’t understand why some of these small blogs on niche topics even have ads. How much are they making a month? I’d be surprised if it’s even $5 a month for many of them.
Too many nitpickers nowadays too.
The Ford Simulator (1987)
It depends a lot on your pricing structure too. The lower price your game is, the better Unreal looks. Heck at free/open source you’re paying Unreal nothing and Unity a flat rate so then it’s infinite percent of your revenue.
Masters of Orion 2.
Yeah, it doesn’t fix the issue at all. Rough to have a security product demo be fundamentally insecure.
If you were right, Fed policy would drive the nation into an unbreakable positive feedback loop (irrespective, really, of preexisting conditions because the conventional economic levers would always drive the nation the exact opposite way intended) until conventional understanding of monetary policy was abandoned.
The fact that this hasn't happened pretty clearly disproves your understanding: the conventional understanding may be wrong in some way, but its not inverted.
If you want to listen

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/in-practise/aldi-cultur...
as a former worker, not much would have changed. Unity mostly deals in ads and the "adpocalypse" a few years back hurt Unity as much as any of the other big names in adtech. That loss was unavoidable unless Unity made its own Fortnite.

In retrospect the acquisitions were a huge mistake, but that was when the whole industry was operating off of "corner the market first" mentality. That ended suddenly and caused all the tech layoffs of 2023. Hindsight is 20:20, but this was an industry problem, not a unity problem. Tech as a whole needed to shift away from promising explosive growth, but with the AI craze we are still far from doing that.
Just as a side note, I'm making this comment about an hour after the submission and maybe two after the article was written and I can find all of those people on twitter. Most of them have recent comments about being back.
Or the author’s simulator if you prefer C. See their hyperbolic for an example.

https://github.com/1a1a11a/libCacheSim/blob/develop/libCache...
That’s just a low effort Reddit trope. Name one place that has better discussion on a broad range of programming topics.
Maybe they used one of the terrible words Elon said would get a suspension: Dec*lonization
Gender is a construct; if Annie wants to be a boy, it's still a sexless robot. To me, the funny thing about these things is that Annie isn't just "your" girlfriend, it's anybody's girlfriend. Is that what people want?
Thanks for the comment.

- I would agree that a big chunk of vulnerability market helps with things that companies don't own, but I'm not sure it's that high. A lot of companies use SaaS tools and deploy tools they don't own on their private cloud that they have to wait on patches for. Our perspective is that a lot of the tools that emerged in the last few years center around detection, and very little on remediation. We didn't want to be another tool that contributes to alert fatigue. With budgets tightening, tougher scrutiny of security and increasing threats, companies need automation in remediation.

- We've designed Corgea to always have a human in the loop. Corgea doesn't push code automatically to prod. It creates a PR when someone clicks on the button to do so, and it will have an engineer to review the PR to ensure nothing breaks. Almost every company has those controls in place. Additionally, for the vast majority of cases the fixes are safe and don't lead to dependency issues further downstream, and for others we will be building logic to account for that. For example this SQL injection fix requires you to parameterize the inputs correctly, which is a one line code change and doesn't have dependency.
https://demo.corgea.com/501.
I don't think that type of interface exists for most issuers of ID documents.
By the government of any country in which Google has a presence? Are you really fascinated by people desiring regulation? Are you confident that history has more examples of the harm of regulation than the harm of its absence?
A (human language) specification is simply _enough_ information about a system that a human can figure out the intention of the author. The smarter and more context-rich the human, the simpler the specification can be. The dumber and less context-rich the human, the closer the specification needs to be to code.

It's asymptotic. By the time you reach a human who is as dumb as an actual computer, the specification _is_ the code.
I agree with the title, I don't think it matter how resilient you are if you have no friends and no money. The Veritasium YouTube channel debunked the fact that money doesn't make you happier (it does) and that there's a plateau (there isn't). I also learnt from Jordan Peterson that you only get positive emotion if you follow a goal. You can't follow a goal if you have no money.

Anecdote: being poor is the most soul crushing thing that has happened to me. In my early 20s, I would go dancing sometimes and someone would approach me saying "you should buy me a drink" and I remember saying no because I had like 50$ total. Note, I was not blessed with loving parents. I don't know for sure, but I am willing to bet that people with more money have more friends with higher quality and deeper bonds then people with less money. I do think this plateaus however.
The keywords that you would want to enter into your preferred search engine are:

Digital Picture Frame

At this point in time that is already a regular product category. The OP could just have bought one, but chose the DIY path.
A far more likely explanation is simply that two features or workarounds are enabled, maybe "Android" triggers a prompt to install Chrome or something and "Firefox" triggers some workaround code. However these interact poorly and cause a crash.

If they wanted to sabotage Firefox I doubt they would choose to send a blank page. They would probably send infinite captchas or just disable most features (which they already do).
MNT Reform: a hackable laptop, not for everyone
While a useful document, it's really not a Wikipedia article. It's making an argument, has a thesis statement, doesn't reference anything, and doesn't have a neutral point of view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Yeah, BLE is really neat.

Over the summer I bought a RaceBox Mini, thinking it was a fancy GPS logger, but instead of logging it broadcasts the current location over BLE whenever there's a device connected. RaceBox makes an app, but since it's standard BLE I was able to write a systemd service that runs on a RPi and logs to a SQLite database. A lot of the standard BLE interfaces have built-in support in Bluez, so it was pretty easy to setup.
C for German Industrial and automotive sector, Java CRUD for banks, BS consultancy and body shops, and Python stuff for hip Berlin start-ups that will 99% fail for 0,1% equity and no housing.

Pretty different than Silicon Valley.
I've never wanted one and not found it in DDG, or found it named differently from what I'd have named it. Every now and then I try to guess one blind, and I don't think I've ever had it surprise me. And it works in any browser.
Looks like they're all unsuspended now, https://twitter.com/stevanzetti

Was Elon just messing with them, or was it perhaps as I suggested and just a mistake? Will you reconsider, or are you unable to accept this as a possibility?

For what it's worth I think Elon was mismanaging Twitter so I have no interest in defending him. But equally I think the idea that he's sat around randomly suspending "left-wing" journalists is kinda silly.

I don't know why this is the case, but Twitter seems to trigger suspensions quite frequently. They seemed to have tightened their spam / abuse algorithms in recent months, but the pattern as of late is that that most genuine users who get suspended are reinstated on appeal.
That is exactly what I did (50 people).

The designer thinks I'm a big ol' meanie with control issues (they're right), but they do listen to feedback.

That's why I have been running such a long beta test. The others wanted to ship, six months ago.
Famously 'X' also does business in the EU, as I've said below.
I've made the decision to give up app development and go back to plain old webapps. Google's requirement to update the "targetsdk" for every app appears to be a "war on free", as only people making money off their apps are willing to jump through such hoops. I expect the noose to tighten even more as more app developers comply. So rather than fight it, I decided to throw in the towel early. I expect Google will try to walk a fine line of getting the right number of developers to jump ship, but I'd expect to see a lot more hobbiests switching back to web development in the coming years.
I don’s see the issue?
"I only lost all my data once in one year, so my data is generally safe"
> Banks will still get KYC done through face to face.

Whose face? Many banks don't even have branches.
Or in serverless mode without any server at all. Just open the repository via file://.
Nice - seems like a great way to explore a database with an unfamiliar schema.
Do you honestly think the iPhone would be less successful if it was broken up into a separate company from the mac business? And the complaints aren't really based on Apple's size, but its market success.
Groundwork for the future.
Elon Musk Discussed AI with Israeli Military as It Uses AI to Bomb Gaza
Cymer was not "proto-tech."
What does a jupyter notebook have to do with python syntax?
Only way to really test that is to break search for chrome and see how long that takes to rollback.
False. People were getting rich in Silicon Valley for decades. I'm not sure which "boom era" you're talking about but it's been attracting talent and money since the 80s.
But none with an official fruit logo!
I know better and I still get taken for a ride. When it's 90F+ outside and the start capacitor fails on my AC compressor, I don't have much room for negotiation.
Based on the headline, I expected this article to argue that success in business depends more on connections and resources than it does purely on resilience.
A metal fork is the best antenna (among non-antennas)
> Except oops Amazon would absolutely decimate my yearly comp

There are other employers hiring tech people other than Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon.

In fact, a teammate of mine is a software developer just got his Starlink connection up and running replacing his WISP in a rural area where he's farming as well on the side. Another friend works as an SRE and lives way out in the desert pursuing his amateur astronomy hobby. I know of several other friends and coworkers who live similar lives.

Technically I'm 100% remote, but personally I enjoy the metro life so I'm living in an affordable metro area living a lifestyle I enjoy.
related.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608437
Whats vulnerable for one company, may not be for another. It needs lot of context. Low hanging thing is to update dependencies but code fix is very tricky. Generic best practices is not very valuable as it might conflict with the code context as well as generate code might create confusion.

Historically, a generated code and human driven code is often segregated. With copilot, it is still assisting. But here, it generating and replacing code over the existing code therefore impacting the ownership of the code as well as value is not so much here. I think the PR that it would generate would endup not being merged.

Having said that, it is a great hook to get attention but i think you might fail in delivering meaningful value.
>DuckDuckGo was really gone downhill, so it's hard to recommend that.

I've seen this a lot lately, but no one has said why.

I solely use DDG and have done so for a long time. I have not noticed any specific changes, nor any degradation in my search results. I don't pay much attention to announcements or anything, so maybe I missed something?

Can you or someone please tell me how/why DDG is suddenly not recommended and "gone downhill"?
Wow, that sounds like a really cool experience.

If you every write more about it, please post a link here in HN, I'm sure tons of people would be interested in more details about the what, why, how of what you were doing, and life in Shenzhen.
Financial reasons or not, it is an entirely valid choice to decline someone's request for a drink.
It's a bad sporting metaphor that doesn't really relate to how the writer used it
Tried to load, got:

> Secure Connection Failed

> An error occurred during a connection to www.fromjason.xyz. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

In Firefox on Windows.

Oh, the irony.
The actual coin is in the blockchain. It's lost only if they wrote the private key on the physical coin sent to space (I didn't check if they did that) and deleted the key from every backup on Earth. It's going to take a lot of Bitcoin hype before it beats the cost of a recovery mission from that orbit.
I wasn’t aware they backed down, but they’ve lost enough goodwill that I switched to Godot.
Kinda related: I get that there will always be some amount of mission-related junk, but a for-profit company charging people to dump their DNA, cremated ashes and other random souvenirs on the moon always rubbed me the wrong way. If you can't do this in a national park you shouldn't be allowed to do it on the damn moon.
NASA QA is hardly involved. This is a feature of the CLPS process. We're trying to get to a point where "basic" space services like moon landings are a commercial off the shelf product we can buy.
Thank you for reminding us of that. Well said comment. I hope you're doing better now.
Show me one that hooks up directly to iCloud though. We got one for grandparents and its just full of proprietary crap specific to that app.
Isn't that DUV not EUV?
I think the work is spiky so the quotes are inversely related to how busy the contractor is at that moment (for small shops). Also, there is the supply/demand of the people doing the actual work who are often not employees and may be available or not for that project in that neighborhood.

And then there's the availability of the part/unit which drives price.
Yeah, it's way harder to do bots for Whatsapp. Twillio has an API for it though
Non-nationals may not be able to do certain types of transactions like opening a bank account at many banks. For trivial things like age verification for alcohol purchase I expect most stores/bars would be fine; presumably no one is forging a passport so they can get a drink. And obviously, in general, places like hotels can fulfill any legal requirements by accepting a passport as ID.

As for organizations like AWS, they presumably have a business presence of some sort in countries where they do business and are setup to verify identity in those countries if they so choose. They also presumably don't have the same degree of KYC requirements that a bank does.
> So, is the fall in popularity of mainstream news a result of the lack of neutrality, or because it's not partisan enough?

I don’t think those two explanations are at odds with each other. People may prefer listening to a news source that tries to be neutral. But if the reporters can’t hide their personal leanings, they would rather go with a news source where the reporters’ personal leanings agree with their own.

Part of this is driven by the increasing polarization of journalists. In 1971, democrats somewhat outnumbered republicans among journalists. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tiny-percentage-american-jo.... By 2022, that ratio is now 10:1 https://ustimesmirror.com/a-tiny-shrinking-percentage-of-ame....

People aren’t stupid. They can tell the difference between someone who is trying to overcome their personal leaning and be neutral, and someone who is so affected by their personal leaning that they can’t even conceal it. People can trust the former person even if they disagree. People can’t trust the latter person.
"gameplay scripters which came up with hair-raising workarounds for missing features in the C++ code"

Why did you fall behind with the "missing features"? What complications slowed down gradual rewriting with improved C++ components and smaller, cleaner, higher level scripts with less workarounds? I suspect inertia (the sunken cost of extant scripts) and cumbersome tooling, knowing more would be interesting.
Youtube on firefox has been broken since they started their ad-blocker brigade. It's even broken for me, a user on macos using firefox without an ad-blocker enabled for youtube in premium mode. The UI has become sluggish and 'pause-y'. Videos play fine but often when trying to scrub with the timeline the timeline thumbnail will not respond or other controls will be very sluggish.
The Dell is mostly just for productivity as there is a tonne of real estate. I have ADHD and I get totally distracted when I don’t have all the windows on the same screen, then my chain of thought slips and I can’t remember what I am doing. I still get this on the 8K screen, but it’s more manageable.

Of course, I cannot go to native resolution because the windows are so small I can only read anything - 200% is good for me. I found it 2nd hand off eBay for a good bit less than what you said.
The LiveJournal article hijacked the back button, so that instead of returning me to HN it jumped to a random spot in the article. I had to long-press the back button to get back to HN. This on Firefox Mobile on Android with no adblockers.
This is a true statement, but I suspect the underlying goal is to reduce overhead and pass the savings on to the consumer and/or the bottom line. This is because if carts are stolen they must be replaced, and if they are not returned to the corral a worker must be paid to do it.
Sometimes too many options makes it harder to find a good place to start. This poster sees and end result and wants to start at some relevant content to learn - there's nothing constructive in being a jerk here.
IANAL but I got confirmed several time that you can soft delete if all fields are then anonymized, the law does not care about the concept of database row as long as the PII is deleted
> Banks and other mainstream financial institutions can just make you visit a branch

Most financial institutions I'm dealing with don't have branches. The ones that do are offering atrocious savings rates and charge high monthly fees for their zero-interest checking accounts.

> In turn, those institutions could provide federation of identification to smaller entities.

Do you seriously expect these same entities to willingly become federated identity verification providers for their direct competitors?
The problem with "I know it when I see it" definitions is that there's an inherent lack of consistency, in that two different judges aren't guaranteed to reach the same conclusion.

For instance: fair use of copyrighted content. The only way to know for sure whether something is fair use is to go through a lawsuit. You can be pretty confident in advance, but you genuinely can't rule out the possibility that the judge will disagree with you because of something entirely subjective.

Writing an objective technical definition can lead to rules lawyering, but the fix there is to improve the rules and close the loopholes. Otherwise you're always at the mercy of being sued and happening to draw a judge in your case who makes a weird decision.
Quantum entanglement discovery is a revolutionary step forward
Airplanes are not places where I ever expect to find comfort.