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Firefox didn't make stupid policy changes. Firefox made policy changes they were legally required to in order to comply with a stupidly-worded California law.

And thank WHATWG for making it impossible for indie players to remain compliant with modern standards by turning W3C's eminently reasonable and wholly sufficient specifications into a hulking monstrosity that's simultaneously large enough to be used as a stress test for your mobile browser's rendering engine (seriously. go try to load up 'view-source:https://html.spec.whatwg.org/'. At the time of writing, the HTML for that single-page version is over 98,254 lines composing over 15MB of plain HTML) while simultaneously quite literally being defined as a continuously moving target.
What cruise line? I want to do a true transatlantic crossing, not some Caribbean jaunt.
Ask yourself
It’s mostly Microsoft that is a problem. I’ve heard of a couple of cases in the past years where recipients used Microsoft’s services and never received emails from small self-hosted servers (where SPF, DKIM, etc were all properly set up).

If your client uses MS for email and doesn’t receive your invoices, it becomes a big deal.
Their crippling of ad blockers goes well beyond merely preventing ad blockers from downloading dynamic rulesets. The changes cannot all be justified by security.
Economics experiments are actually a thing. You can have natural experiments, or you can uncover patterns in data, or you can try controlled experiments (in microeconomics), though that sometimes just feels like applied psychology. I dunno, I've never formally studied it.

But I have read NBER papers, and can confirm that there is real research. It's not a hard science, but among the social sciences it's pretty rigorous, and often very quantitative. I know how this crowd likes it quantitative.
So as right as one could reasonably expect in 2019 and 2020, but overly pessimistic in 2022?

Admittedly, one would have had to been blind not to see the 2020 recession coming. Whether it would have been a full blown depression absent stimulus is an open question - though it was the deepest recession since the Great Depression and other countries took much longer to pull themselves out of it.

Of course, I think you'd have to be blind not to see the potential for a tighter economy now, assuming things continue the way they're going. We've certainly started cutting back on spending due to the chaos.
you seen kubie? `kubie ctx` is great for avoiding the first issue

https://github.com/sbstp/kubie
This is a great response to something nobody was talking about.
This exposes what truely sysads did.. but in millions of clicks and interactions rather than bullet points.

THIS is what AI was SUPPOSED to take out of employment...
From the demo it looks great. And the UX is pretty sick! Can it be used via API in the self-hosted version? If yes, what are the limitations over UI? In my use-case I would like to use it as a RAG infra and together with tool calling and generative UI in the client code (already implemented) it would complete the picture.
Bernd is explaining German history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCbOtJftDks

Spoiler: at 11:12 Nazi Germany is done as ... the scene with the globe from Chaplin's Dictator. I didn't like that: as if that was someone else on the stage (at 10:36 - the twenties were all fun and dance, no then came the guy with the mustache and spoiled the party, not that one - this was supposed to be a different one)
Hey Justin. First time coming across one of these postings. I saw a role that matched up to what I do now and applied (Sr MLE).
I appreciate the Plan 9 colors in the webmail UI.
Enjoy the presentation of Mox at Golang Rotterdam: https://youtu.be/KiDP_JoomOY?si=CyiUEgc8J5WfNZ5R
The Performance of Replica Identity Full in Postgres
I’ve been pretty happy with my EcoTank, but my favorite is still the HP PageWide I have at work. (I typically have to print ~100 5-10 page exams twice a semester) I’m very sad they discontinued them.
I think the brain drain idea is fine. Making a goldbug argument is surprisingly regressive. Currency is a socially constructed phenomenon in all times and places, and gold is only special in that at this moment, reverting to it would cause a violent reset to the balance sheet - a temporary, painful fix.

The progressive option would be to deeply question "what lies beyond trade?" and to search for answers beyond the conventional regulated/unregulated spectrum, answers that are compatible in some degree with our starting place but allow broad movement. We know what trade is and does, but the economies it produces are no match for the hivemind efficacy of an ants or beavers. The frameworks of trade are negotiated around maintenance of fiefdoms, and economic activity is regularly blocked because the power structure will push against it and normalize "we can't have that here".

At the same time, we know that power needs checks and balances, and the capitalist mode of power creates some checks on power through its use of trade. That is what has kept it ahead of command economies.

What I find appealing about continuing down a crypto-oriented route is that it's a data structure with a balance sheet as a frontend. The frontend can change - it is a thing that can be experimented with. Valorizing the numbers on the balance sheet as gold-equivalent has always been an adaptive, "this is the only way we know how to do things" kind of social construction. If we can construct a different kind of game to play, the motives can shift.
I'm surprised no one is mentioning Brave. They refuse to take Chrome's change.
Do Emulsifiers, Which Make Food More Appealing, Also Make You Sick?
It's not an idea. It's the law. Everyone agreed to it.

Aggressive war is proscribed in the UN Charter. Starting a war to expand borders or subjugate people is untenable. The right to conquest is obsolete.

Returning to that time is absolutely what the Trump regime is asserting on behalf of Americans. And Americans should be vary wary of returning to a time prior to the two world wars as if the lessons learned should now be dismissed or unlearned. We do this and we guarantee there will be one or more world wars again. More wars of conquest, again. More wars of aggression, again. A return to might makes right. Not law.

A republic is an empire of laws, not men. We follow Trumpism, and we return to an entirely familiar and more chaotic world than what we have had.

Not one fucking square meter of Ukraine should go to Russia. There already is a negotiation and a treaty that said the very goddamn thing that's happening would not happen. So why trust untrustworthy liars by giving them land, with a piece of paper that means less than nothing?

You know what is "holding onto an ideal"? Negotiation with Russia.
I'm not sure whether to use stalwart or mox
Forcefully disabled, for now, with plans to permanently break it in the near future. The last officially-sanctioned workaround is planned to be killed in June.
I think America in its best expression is an amalgamation of many different backgrounds and attitudes. Even differing opinions on the functioning of democracy, though I personally think some opinions denigrating democracy are a bit out of bounds and "unamerican" -- though that's obviously a "no true Scotsman" argument, I'm sticking to it.

I guess I'm just arguing for a more expansive view of what constitutes an American. If it was some precious fragile thing that gets diluted by immigration and threatened by cultural mixing and new ideas, well...

Oh... darnit.
> But, the neural networks are pretty small, so you could train a "hypernetwork" that predicts μ, Σ, θ for a given puzzle, and even predicts how to train these parameters.

Kurt Godel (or maybe Douglas Hofstadter, rather) would raise an eyebrow. :)
That webmail screenshot made me realize how much I desperately miss threaded mail/news readers. <3 I should figure out how to make Roundcube do that.
More like asking people to focus on the economic considerations because the political discussion is boring and repetitive, I think.
> Firefox didn't make stupid policy changes. Firefox made policy changes they were legally required to in order to comply with a stupidly-worded California law.

They had other options, including not collecting and selling user data. The California law is working as intended.
Sorry for the late reply. Something orange.
I wonder when exactly Microsoft dropped mask and actively decided to fuck over paying customers on the regular. They have zero respect for their users.
If they ship FreeDOS, then they should contribute.

Drivers, 64bit evolution and hardware utilities, but nothing more.
If it's really few months of not printing anything, would it be more economical to use one of those print services instead? You lose the convenience, but you also gain a bit of shelf space for not storing the printer and all related printing supplies.
Sad that the documentation isn't very friendly. Is this a replacement for Gmail? Can i use it with Thunderbird? Is it going to
I actually grew up in one of these, and I fully agree.

Yes, my country was significantly larger and more influential a century ago. It even was an empire, with an emperor and all! But no, I don't feel like the average person born back then had a better life than me.
Because Brave is a scam browser that nobody should be using. There are other chromium forks that don't scam you. Brave's history of scumbag actions isn't anything new.
Reminds me of the performance optimization somebody discovered in Super Mario World for SNES, where displaying the player score in was very inefficient, taking about 1/6 of the frametime allocated.

"SMW is incredibly inefficient when it displays the player score in the status bar. In the worst case (playing as Luigi, both players with max score), it can take about a full 1/6 of the entire frame to do so, lowering the threshold for slowdown.
Normally, the actual amount of processing time is roughly proportional to the sum of the digits in Mario's score when playing as Mario, and the to the sum of the digits in both players' scores when playing as Luigi. This patch optimizes the way the score is stored and displayed to make it roughly constant, slightly faster than even in the best case without."

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=35746
> But how does the quality of life of everybody below the median look like?

This discussion is about whether or not the US is a top brain drain destination. That means we're talking about exceptionally skilled or promising scientists/engineers/doctors at the top of their field. I'm not claiming life is great for everyone in America. I agree it isn't.

> But what does that buy you really, in a high cost of living area?

Look at the PPP in CA. It buys you a lot. People in HCOL cities that manage their finances well can become multi-millionaires in their early 30s. They will already be able to retire in 99% of the world, with enough savings to lead incredibly comfortable and luxurious lives. Meanwhile, people in Europe have on average lower assets and savings, low levels of home ownership, and lower likelihood to retire early at a comparable standard of living. Not to mention the pension crisis many of them are or will be facing in the near future.
They're clearly thinking much bigger, like returning to a model where tariffs are the primary mode of funding the government, and nuking whole sectors/devaluing the dollar to make US exports more competitive with a desperate potential workforce. Not a particularly compelling plan in my view but it has its own internal logic.
I've had mild but inconsistent success sending to gmail with a perfect setup with 100% compliant dkim and spf, but Microsoft servers might be flat-out unreachable with no way to appeal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35691618

In the end I set up a gmail account just to route all my outgoing mail through, with a whitelist of specific servers I know won't reject me for no reason (i.e. a few very small email services or friends who also self-host). Defeats half of the purpose but what can you do? There's nothing else I can possibly do to make my emails reach hotmail inboxes - I've exhausted all of their phony support channels and advice articles and clearly they just want me to go away and stop self-hosting.
CSSQL: "Esoteric" "Programming" "Language" Compiler for Converting SQL to CSS
Title: Writers and their Typewriters

It's perhaps obvious it's not all writers, but not all photos include the Writer either (eg Julie Andrews, Beryl Bainbridge, Stephen Vincent Benet, Fidel Castro, Pablo Neruda). Pretty sure mine was an Olympia
Boo, go read the other comments that explain all of this instead of wasting people's time.
What sucks about HN in particular for this is that as soon as you start engaging with a thread you are very interested in, getting a lot of replies, etc, you are locked out of commenting due to the flame war rules. Then whenever you are unlocked again later in the day perhaps, you've forgotten all about that discussion and have moved on. Whatever potential discourse that was there nipped in the bud.
Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 is all that’s left of the oceanliners (As Janet from the Good Place might say, “not a cruise ship!” ;) she’s built to handle the North Atlantic weather.

If you’re lucky enough to be able to fuck off for 42 days you might also be interested in ocean crossings by sail, here’s the offering ive considered, the Europa: https://www.barkeuropa.com/en/our-voyages
What "workflow" exists in a browser?
Do consider applying for floss.fund !
I've sent an email as well
I am a lot more cynical about Schneier's influence on the practice of cryptography engineering today than I was when he and Ferguson (who I am not cynical about at all) wrote the book back in 2003.
Outlook is extra bad. It is apparently possible to put your email(to/recipient) in BCC, so if you have aliases, it is impossible to tell, which one was leaked and being abused, as to is marked as “undisclosed recipients”. There is no mass domain/pattern block rules, so if I block “spammer.1@hotmail.com”, then next day it arrives from “spammer.01@hotmail.com”, then blocking that, next day it arrives from “spammer.001@hotmail.com”. Outlook is actively hostile to blocking spams yet happy to quickly block small self-hosted operators.
after jan6 we can pretty much put all asian democracies (minus pakistan) above the US in terms of democracy. SK recently had a similar coup-lite situation, not tolerated there.

accepting loss is a core tenet of democracy
It's wild to me how many folks are suggesting Brave, which is a known scam browser which calls itself privacy focused while doing the opposite.
https://archive.is/QB11w
> LLM's are lame and uncool. Kids especially dislike them a lot on that basis alone.

That's interesting and the first time I hear of this. Could you provide any links that might elucidate this?
I just gave up and now use https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

It hasn’t given me many issues so far! Nice to see new options popping up, though!
> Intelligence is compressing information into irreducible representation

I thought that was physics ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_classification
These are Amazon ranges. You're most likely blocking random aws load balancers including more than just brother servers. Also the brother servers can be redeployed at any point. It's likely better to prevent the dns name resolution instead.
>The BMW M3 GTR was a road-going version of the BMW M3 GTR racing car. It was launched as a small series of just ten vehicles and was primarily used to homologate the new V8 engine (P60B40).

BMW continuing to stretch the definitions of "launched" and "ten".
a chinese student graduating from Harvard is 60% likely to voluntarily return to china. its on borrowed time now
I don't think my point was straw-manning the article. The article directly conflates economic output with manufacturing output, by using manufacturing signals (like power consumption!) as a corollary for some hidden, Real Economy.

That's crackpottery. I was succinct in my criticism, but there is plenty of room for elaboration.

If the essay instead took those economic indicators and delved into why manufacturing output should matter more than other output in determining the Real Economy, then hey, we've got an essay to discuss. But just eliding that and saying "manufacturing is real because atoms are real, everything else is b.s." -- that's not really an argument, that's just laying your biases extremely bare. Which I pointed out.

That said, geohot is close to some real points, I just don't think he has the background to articulate it rigorously. And for the record, I do think the US economy is entirely too financialized.

But again, that's a different -- likely better -- essay.
Indeed. This is how Tesla got their hands on the Gigafactory in the US
Is this sarcasm? Lol
It says right on the homepage it supports IMAP, so yes, you can use Thunderbird.
SVGs are usually animated with CSS.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. What is an enterprise here - give me an example.
Yet another prodigy turned to a "know it all" with no actual education to back anything said about specific topics.

You can critic America for failing to transition away from the manufacturing economy or how awfully bad they are at utilizing government to drive innovation or extra market value (look at the dogshit railway infrastructure) but pointing to manufacturer graph and doing soy face ain't it.
Learning Quiet Walking for a Small Home Robot
I have a bunch of annoying spammers from India that keep coming to my webapp and try to annoy users about buying their Brother printer cartridges. I've always wondered how the economics of that work.
Have you checked with another third party ink to validate that it's not just a single broken cartridge?
It cost about twice what a comparable, cartridge-based printer cost at the time.

CIS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ink_system ) were around for a long time, and a popular mod amongst high-volume printers, especially Epsons, after the cartridge chip DRM was defeated[1]. They definitely cost less than the printer. I suppose Epson eventually found it profitable to do it themselves and sell with a warranty, that third-party CIS often didn't have.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25054177
I think my text is disliked by the aggressors, while other good people simply don't see it. I think I'll write a book when all of this is over.
I don't see why Waymo would provide less value than Uber, and based on the comments so far the quality of service of a Waymo is much higher.
Excerpts from the Privacy Notice that I have read, and attempted to get you to read:

> Mozilla processes certain technical and interaction data, such as how many searches you perform, how many sponsored suggestions you see and whether you interact with them. Mozilla's partners receive de-identified information about interactions with the suggestions they've served.

> Depending on your location, Mozilla derives the high level category (e.g., travel, shopping) of your search from keywords in that query, in order to understand the types and number of searches being made.

> Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content.

Your claim "That data doesn't leave the user's computer" is simply not true. Mozilla isn't selling empty files to their advertising partners. The only true and valid defense you've put up for Mozilla in the past week is that they're trying to anonymize the data before they sell it, but that's not nearly as strong an argument as you seem to think it is.
If only we could set up subsidies for this infrastructure in the same way we subsidize ag and oil…
It should be mandatory they code a bit. It should also be mandatory they don't code too much.
This may not have been true in the past but times have changed in my 40 years as a programmer.
If you're in a humid climate, toner will clump while ink won't dry. I've noticed that in SE Asia, inkjets are more popular, likely for this reason.
Is this yet another one of those breathless claims by Elon about staggering waste — a tiny fraction of his personal take home pay — that will turn out to be perfectly legitimate, such as benefits being collected by widows?

I’m just asking questions, you know, just like Fox News... won’t.
Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption
Gold and Value producers reminded me of the Galt’s Gulch from Atlas Shrugged.

But I could not fancy this imaginary community to scale up to even millions
Firefox's keyboard shortcuts are worse

- Cmd+Shift+P instead of Cmd+Shift+N for new incognito window is objectively wrong and can't be fixed

- Having separate Cmd+Shift+N and Cmd+Shift+T shortcuts for open last closed window/last closed tab instead of Cmd+Shift+T doing both is also objectively worse

- I can't rebind Previous/Next tab, at least on macOS

There's less extensions because Firefox failed on the last 1% of copying Chrome's extension API. Doing it correctly would've meant it's possible to install extensions on Firefox directly from the Chrome Web Store, like you can with the Orion browser.

Mouse scroll physics are too slow on macOS. One "tick" of my scroll wheel scrolls a bit more than half of how much Chrome and Safari scroll

There is no full screen mode that hides the URL bar

Every single time you're searching something, Firefox includes a list of ads for search engines I will never use for as long as I live (Bing and DDG) under a "This time search with..." guise instead of just showing me search results. There are tons of these minor design flaws which add up to making Firefox feel like a worse browser.

Chrome is a faster browser according to every bench mark I've seen and I can feel it.

Switching would log me out of all my websites and clear all localStorage data
Your karma is in the top right. You need around 300 to downvote, 800 to flag. Your downvote by clicking the down arrow beside every comment and submission.
Hardly news is it?

But here's some recent discussion:

About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43239774
I am sending and receiving emails on a small rack server in a datacenter for 40+ domains, and have had no real issues with deliverability. YMMV but I believe the reputation problem is heavily skewed against cloud providers such as VPS hosts more than anything.
I thought I was going to read something interesting, and while yes, America has significant problems and we are likely on the decline under this administration (and likely before), backing the dollar by gold is the same crackpot nonsense that Ron Paul people loved to hammer on about. What is even his point?
It's 501, it's right there in the top right and in your profile page.