skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Pinging a Mozilla server to see if there is an active and usable internet connection is not spyware, let's stop with these useless accusations."

No, but have you checked your firefox settings lately?

Meaning in the last 5 years or so? (Probably has been longer by now)

Some updates brought "allow firefox to install and run studies".

That sounded like experimental features, but were in reality spyware to study the user behavior to sell that data to ad companies.

It is still there. And a more blatant checkbox by default also arrived lately. (I think just in forefox mobile)

And then there are ads activated by default.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#health-report

"How is your data used?"

... lots of seemingly innocent technical blabla

and then

" Firefox also shares information with our marketing partners to measure and improve these campaigns; what information is specifically shared varies (depending on how you discovered Firefox and your operating system) but generally includes how you were referred to our download page and whether you actively use Firefox. Where Firefox is pre-installed on your device, technical and interaction data (your device type and whether Firefox is used) will be sent to our marketing partners, and shared with Mozilla."

Lots of words and details to hide the kind of important detail, that they do sell the data by default how you browse the internet. What websites you use, how long etc.
Ask HN: Why is everything so slow during iOS development
Sorry, but I need to rant!

iOS build times have always been slow, but after 10 years, they somehow feel even slower!

I constantly lose focus while waiting:

- 100+ seconds for a SwiftUI preview to load

- 2 minutes for a build

- Every target change or branch switch takes forever, recalculating dependencies, indexing, etc.

- Our CI pipeline takes 1 hour 30 minutes to build the app!

When I joined the team, the decision was already made to use TCA and a modular architecture. It has its benefits, sure—but the downside is painfully obvious. I’m not sure if a more vanilla approach would be any better.

I really hope I’m missing something here. If anyone has solutions or optimizations, please fix me!
You seem so concerned about correcting other people on your personal definition of "woke" that you've copied and pasted the exact same comment into two separate places in this thread.
Interesting observation.It seems capability has reached a plateau. Like a local maximum.
Clint Eastwood is not my favorite human by a long shot, but that movie and Hackman’s performance are both amazing.
There are certainly differences in medium. Lego sculptures and interpretive dance are different things. But within a medium? Genre? The composition of the expression? There are no real lines, only imagined ones. What is the difference between an interpretive dance and a walk? A shuffle? Falling down the stairs with elegance? You can try to come up with rules but there will be someone who stands completely still in a dark theater just because you said they couldn't, and calls it a dance. And it will be a dance, a kind of negative space of dance.

You've already accepted that you can't draw any definitive lines, that there is no specific criteria by which you can say a given work does or does not belong to a certain taxa of expression.

Now we're just bartering over how uncomfortable with the vibe you're willing to be. You can't say why Eminem isn't country because you can't really say what "country" is. For any single definitive criteria we could come up with a counter example, so none of it works. You just know it doesn't vibe.

I have no criteria, I recognize that such categories are totally arbitrary and useful only in a very limited scope of suggesting a general set of characteristics in communication between like-minded people, but ultimately hold no exclusionary or binding power.

And frankly, the bartering isn't an interesting discussion. If you want to say the Beastie Boys aren't jazz, more power to you, I probably agree. If you want to say meter is a requirement for poetry, again, whatever floats your boat, but recognize that's just your vibe, your personal ephemeral understanding. These things aren't useful or productive criticisms because they don't have any inherent value.

If someone else says that, in fact, Eraserhead is a RomCom nothing is gained by saying they're wrong other than your own smug satisfaction that you have a superior vibe-o-meter. We can't derive further facts from that rejection. We can't say, "Well we know definitively it is not a RomCom, and therefore it will definitively will or will not possess any of these characteristics".

The only purpose of genre is communication between people who are vibing on the same wavelength. It isn't an objective fact of the universe, it is itself a human expression, saying as much about the taxonomists as the subject of their taxonomy.
Don't Use Stripe
Don't use Stripe, you will suffer huge losses. Even if you try very hard to control the dispute rate. PayPal is much better than Stripe. Even if PayPal decides to close the account, PayPal will not swallow your money, but Stripe will swallow your money together.
Yeah, I wonder why Emperor: Battle for Dune is not part of the open source since it's basically an earlier version of the General Engine. Would be weird to have the source code for that but not for Emperor.
I would recommend checking out the openRA fork for Red Alart 2, Romanovs-Vengeance, https://github.com/MustaphaTR/Romanovs-Vengeance
On Windows you have Total Commander at least :)

I've tried some clones for mac os, but they all missed some important (at least to me) functions. Like typing not going to the command line editor, or not having a command line at all.

So it's midnight commander from macports for most complex file operations for me.
Trump Administration, DOGE Punish Agencies Investigating Elon Musk's Companies [pdf]
I rather not

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887594
The only inaccuracy in the title is that it used the word "owns" as short-hand for "gets a broad license to use". Which isn't unheard of: we talk about owning a copy of a piece of software or music for example even though what we have is a perpetual and broad license to use it.

I wish the title didn't use such hyperbole, but it's closer to true than to false.

> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
Autonomous Vehicle Collision Reports – California
I have pihole in a docker container and it works pretty nicely.
You can also do what I did in https://exaequos.com: implement Wayland in WASM and Javascript. The browser is the compositor. And your browser is your computer…
Cool story, bro!
A very similar idea and philosophy - http://todotxt.org
> Americans are just like the unofficial President -

̶Y̶o̶u̶ ̶m̶e̶a̶n̶ ̶T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶?̶ ̶H̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶a̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶v̶o̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶h̶i̶m̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶a̶s̶h̶a̶m̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶h̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶u̶n̶f̶o̶r̶t̶u̶n̶a̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶.̶

Edit: Parent more than likely meant Musk as replies to this comment explained, I should have figured that out but it's too late or early or some other excuse.
> Why should rural areas be subsidised?

> No one is making you chose to live there, plus you get cost of living savings from being there rather than in expensive urban real estate

This same argument could have been, and was used against funding for rural electrification and power generation dam construction during the depression and new deal era 90 years ago, which is one of the reasons why deepest Appalachia and much of the rural mountain western states now have grid electricity outside major cities.
LibreWolf.
Depends, but with this news you will probably not be downgrading too much.

Brave really does have a bunch of very nice features, I particularly enjoyed using them on my phone to download videos from youtube for online listening. Built-in adblocking is very enjoyable too.

Do note that there had been several smaller controversies, including one that 'Honey' got recently into hot water for, which was replacing affiliate links with their own. There is currently an on-going lawsuit with Honey for this.

In honesty, look at the controversies page on wikipedia and decide for yourself, I don't think there is a good or a bad choice here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...
Apple's Find My exploit lets hackers track any Bluetooth device
Not arguing against your general point that post-childhood life expectancy has always been fairly high, but I don't think rich aristocrats make for a "nice sample" when talking about longevity.
https://www.alfredapp.com/help/kb/node-modules/
I too have worked for a European company bought out by a large American company.

They too didn't understand our culture. They completely ignored the parts of our business that were scalable and taking off, and focused instead on nebulous "synergies". They actually seemed more interested in us taking on their branding than what we actually did. They'd push down demands to chase some latest trends but when we needed something back from them they struggled to give us the time of day.

They also immediately tried to give pay cuts and force immediate redundancies and seemed shocked to discover they couldn't legally do that. So instead they had to polite request that people in our company take a pay cut. I only know of one person naive enough to take them up on that offer.

I left a few years post acquisition, it was clear things would not get better we were just left rudderless because we'd previously been run by the founder for ~25 years and now were run by no-one with no direction.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is 'out of GPUs'
Anyone up for starting a job site for 40+ devs only?

How about an angel investing firm for 40+ founders only?
Sure, though if you strangle a junkie about to OD, you still strangled them.
In my opinion, if you care about the open web, then you should not be using a Blink (Chromium) based browser like Brave. The less control Google has, the better for the web.
> I believe Skype originally functioned using some kind of p2p network.

It did! It was some impressively cool tech too. At the time, at least in my country, some ISPs would disable your internet access when you didn't pay, but the LAN between subscribers still worked. So obviously nothing worked, except Skype. My theory then was that it would find a path to route around the disconnection by having the Skype client of a different subscriber on the same LAN, that did have internet access, relay your traffic to the rest of the network.
> Both Nokia and Skype went under due to usual European leadership stagnation and comfort before getting bought. Thankfully both sales funneled enough funds into EU to bootstrap a startup culture here.

What? None of those were EU government owned, all was private. Do people really have this sort of (completely incorrect) view on how things work in Europe? Not even donald was ever stating such ridiculous things
I consider a browser as similar as a complicated curl with GUI. Therefore:

- when I see that browser does not allow playing video in the background (youtube on mobile phones)

- when my browser disallows me blocking certain things

- when my browser prevents me from taking screenshot of things I can see on it

... it really angers me, as I feel betrayed. Of course, nowadays, web applications tend to get complicated and hide everything behind 'obscurity-security'; however, this should still be code that is a guest on my device, not me being a guest on their device running their code. I consider it extremely impolite behaviour.
A few years ago Google came under fire for sending extra identifiers to Google's websites in a header named X-Client-Data[0]. I don't remember how many identifying bits that includes or whether they still do it, but it was the tipping point for me.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106
The issue I first think about if HTML goes away and the web is WASM blobs instead is text. Accessibility, rendering, all the different languages. The amount of code in the browsers making HTML accessible and working in all languages is enormous. If we are going in that direction, we at least need a standard library handling this, so that we don’t take a big step back to the times of Flash.
yeah, maybe, but I fear ad blocking would be much harder.
As somebody not from US, I don't lean one way or another, but you'd expect some Tesla accidents here, right? The link contains accidents for many different manufacturers of 'Autonomous Vehicles', including Waymo, Mercedes-Benz, Apple and so forth.

Is this only for those that are fully self-driving?
SIP providers. I used Ippi before 2015, but then EU regulations made it illegal to bill more for EU calls than for domestic calls, so I had almost no more use for it.
I never used Spotify but I was an early Google Play user, now Youtube Music.

And I'm a big fan of underground 90s, 2000s gangster rap. Living over here in Europe we had to pirate most of it because the stores just didn't carry stuff like Dubee or Killa Tay.

So when I started streaming my old favorite rap tunes I noticed something very interesting. The Google Play copy of a Killa Tay album called Snake Eyes had the same abrupt encoding error as a copy I had downloaded from XDCC many years earlier.

It was basically evidence that Google Play were using the same pirated version I had acquired.
> Don't worry about "regulatory." If your product matters, then you will be able to afford to solve the problem. If your product doesn't matter, then "regulatory" will not be an issue. Just ignore it.

Unless you live in a country where copyright or other regulations can lead to actual jail time.

IMHO, companies intentionally breaking the law should be held accountable by going after executives - even if they left the company.
That takes me back to when Kim Kimble, known scammer, was going around boasting of representing some script-kiddie army fighting Al Qaeda.

I like to think that early exposure helped immunize me against some other self aggrandizing grifters over the decades.

https://www.theregister.com/2002/01/22/kimble_schmitz_deport...
There are always thresholds, though.

Would you accept a 10% decrease in the quality of your life in exchange for an extra year? I probably would. I probably still would if that was a 20% decrease. But I probably wouldn't go for that extra year if I had to accept a 90% decrease in the quality of my life.

The threshold is a personal decision. There are no right or wrong answers. We should even indulge someone who would accept that 90% decrease for an extra year. That should be their choice, and even if I wouldn't make it myself, that's neither here nor there.
> If Microsoft had a purpose for Skype.

Yes, it was used as a backdoor to scrap user data when the computer was not in use. That's why i uninstalled it.
I order stuff from them all the time in small quantities to a university, and a normal person's credit card should be much more convenient for them than dealing with procurement beurocracy, net90, etc.

The plastic scintillator is chemically just plastic so there are no safety complications shipping or receiving it. You might have more trouble getting large amounts of liquid scintillator because of the solvents.

Another thing you might consider is scintillating fiber with wavelength shifter. If you read out from both ends you can estimate position within the fiber by timing and possibly amplitude weighting.
Shortcat basically does this. It indexes a lot of native AX APIs and also menu items

https://shortcat.app
By altcoins do you mean BAT? What’s the issue with it?
This post is so wrong and right at the same time.

On the set up: First, there are 3 major engines, and even if Gecko dies there will be two. Second, both users and developers want a more capable web. Don't blame browser vendors for giving it to them. The web is wildly successful because of its continued evolution, and if it stopped evolving, native mobile apps would have beaten the web back even more.

WASM could indeed make for a simple, yet powerful, web-like platform, and I hope to see this! But a lot of the new web capabilities would still need to be there. All of the I/O bits of the modern web: networking protocols, GPU, USB, MIDI, local storage, filesystem, etc. WASM doesn't make the need for that go away. Those things still need to be there as WASI services or similar.

And I hope that such a WASM-based browser would not throw out a markup document completely. Flutter did this and it just isn't the web anymore. Documents and links are critical to being able to build useful services on top of the web.

I want to keep the web web-like, not just have Flutter but WASM instead of Dart.
Most people don’t realize when they’re wrong either. It’s fascinating that, just like with humans, reasoning appears to reduce hallucinations.

At least an AI will respond politely when you point out its mistakes.
There is giant legal difference between "seem" and "are". Unless specified assume the worst.
Full quote:

“We’ve been growing a lot and are out of GPUs,” Altman wrote. “We will add tens of thousands of GPUs next week and roll it out to the Plus tier then … This isn’t how we want to operate, but it’s hard to perfectly predict growth surges that lead to GPU shortages.”

So they are 'out of GPUs', for this week only? Why would they push out the launch then? Could anybody provide more insight?
> Laptop and computers still is used as dominant for writing software including for mobile

Yes and infected Xcode and various SDKs you get on your laptop are actually the biggest threat to iOS security (other than just literally malicious devs). Devs torrenting an xcode and then infecting their users is a thing.

> Smartphones were not main device 10 years ago and people did bank transfers on laptop and world didn't collapse 10 years ago

See blackhats in infancy part...
We would then get some WASM blob that only works on a signed Google browser.
Those who don't remember OpenDoc and Cyberdog might want to get reading.
Loved my yellow Lumia 920. I thought the panels and scrolling start screen was much better (concurrently used Android and iOS at that time).

Just like with Zune, it was not part of MS strategy and therefor dropped. You need to keep working on something like this for years to make it successful. Large companies though drop products that are not a huge success after two years, associated with such products is a career killer.

[Edit] I got the Lumia to decide as a CTO at that time if we would go into Windows phones or not. I asked for more Lumias and XBox (to show cross plattform eCommerce) from MS to evangelize inside the company, but was let hung dry. So we did not support Windows phones. They never went full in.
Orion Browser by Kagi: Lightweight, WebKit Based
Funny to read this:

> So there are only 2 web browser engines, and it seems likely there will soon only be 1, and making a whole new web browser from the ground up is effectively impossible because the browsers vendors have weaponized web standards complexity against any newcomers

Ladybird seems to be thriving. Sure, they themselves only plan on releasing a beta version next year, but still.

And it's even on the Hacker News frontpage right now!
https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
"Teams for Consumers"
The product name already is an omen on how "successful" this will be.
I use MobileVOIP, but voice quality and the probability of a call to connect is inferior to Skype.
An Educational Path to Understanding Bell's Inequalities
> Open/Save Dialogs

> Drag a file or folder from Finder into an open/save dialog to jump directly to that file.

Doesn't work consistently anymore (Sequoia 15.2). Instead of focusing on the file, it moves the file you selected from Finder to the folder shown in the save dialog. It completely breaks the workflow.

Surprisingly, it works as expected one out of ten times. It seems to depend on where on the save dialog you drag the file from Finder. Extremely frustrating!
No more genius lines from you, Shakespeare?
> So there are only 2 web browser engines, and it seems likely there will soon only be 1, and making a whole new web browser from the ground up is effectively impossible because the browsers vendors have weaponized web standards complexity against any newcomers. Maybe eventually someone will succeed and there will be 2 again. Best case. What a situation.

The premise of this article seems completely wrong.

Chromium, Safari, Firefox. And a longtail of half implemented alternatives. But the point is that there are 3 independent browser engines that are fairly widely used. They also have their own indepenedent javascript and WASM implementations. There are a few non browser based WASM implementations in addition to that. As standards go, that's a pretty widely implemented one. There are some people working stubbornly on completely new browser engines even. The standards are in better shape they've ever been since the inception on the web. HTML 5 is way better defined than most of its predecessors.

If everybody was like this, we'd all be using Internet Explorer. Firefox would never have gained any traction. Chrome would have flopped and Google would have killed it. Apple would have given up on Safari. None of those things happened. Because we are not all passively whining on the sidelines about how things used to be better while not lifting a finger to do anything about it.
Thank you for bringing up calendar.txt. My homepage is feeling the hug. In the meanwhile:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250216110151/https://terokarvi...
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If you cant beat them, join them..
Chicago tech incubator 1871 leaving the Mart
Just for the record, you can cmd+space, type the name (or just a prefix in most cases) of an app and enter and launch it with just Spotlight.

Fast enough for me.
I don’t think we’re disagreeing. My point is that while those folks shooting AKs in the air are doing their thing, some other random putz that never did anything like that is probably getting nailed to the wall by the same system.

And unlike an effective/accurate surveillance system, you can’t be safe by just not being the AK weilding guys. In fact, sometimes you’re safer because you’re more dangerous, and they’d rather find someone easier to pick on.

Third world places aren’t what they are because of a lack of rules or systems (usually), but rather because the rules and systems aren’t fit for purpose and produce the wrong outcomes.
TextNow, $10 a month
Aerospace works pretty well, but has an issue that was a deal breaker to me, in apps that uses native tabs are not displayed as expected [0]

[0] https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/68
why should you have to ask apple for permission to run software on your device?
"How to export gmail to google sheets or excel without code or appscript" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjH_rv6nujg
As a business practice, yes, exactly. Good idea!

As a personal philosophy, please, someone help me avoid nihilism.
The difference could be the attitude towards piracy, especially in the legal system.

Between 2006 and 2016, no one in the Nordics and Eastern Europe cared about piracy. By the time Spotify became prominent enough in the West to compete with music sales, it had already mainly been legalized.

Grooveshark was in the US, which has a very litigious business climate and is world-leading in copyright enforcement.

I can't think of a more plausible explanation. But I will say that breaking laws to later legalize is still only a successful strategy if one doesn't get caught. If anyone thinks this is a good strategy, I'd say there's survivorship bias going on.
It seems to be for interactive shells. So I probably hit a problem while shelling out from my editor but potentially any IDE that has a command prompt will have trouble if it's trying to set environment variables.
Adieu Mozilla!