skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's time for a Google breakup from the DOJ / FTC.

They've gone well beyond what Microsoft did in the 2000s.

Google owns so many panes of glass and funnels them all through its search and advertising funnel. They've distorted how the web (and mobile) work to accomplish this massive market distortion.

Search, Ads, and Android should be broken up into separate units. Chrome shouldn't be placed with any of those units.

While we're cutting, YouTube should be its own entity and stand on its own legs too.

Apple, Amazon, and Meta need the same scrutiny. Grocery stores and primary care doctors should not be movie studios and core internet infrastructure. Especially when those units are wholly subsidized by other unrelated business units, and their under pricing the market is used to strangle out the incumbents and buy them up on the cheap.
> and low to no wage growth

Huh? There was "low to no wage growth" in the 80's and 90's. We do have wage growth now.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Wage growth for over 25 no-college earners has been even better.

> high levels of stock buybacks

There's nothing economically dire, or even weird, about choosing buybacks over dividends in returning profits to shareholders. It just lets shareholders choose when to sell instead of doing it for them.
Why? I can just temporarily launch Chrome if I need to join a meeting. There's no need to have MSware running in the background 24/7 doing god knows what.
I can't see how housing prices can drop substantially without the economy being in a rough spot. Banks will have a hard time writing home equity loans, underwater investors will tighten their belts, and worker mobility will be challenged as home owners (who have purchased in the past few years) can't sell their homes. The better hope is for prices to stagnate and incomes to rise. (not a great prospect, but better)
TLDR: you don’t need paid tools. Use Nuxt's built-in SEO features, Google Lighthouse, Nuxt SEO module, and static pre-rendering to improve SEO without a monthly cost. If you need dynamic SEO fixes at runtime, consider Cloudflare Workers or Edge Functions.

Curious though why you want to mess with the code anyway? Most onpage issues are resolved with just getting an optimized title tag, Meta & H1.

Happy to chat if it makes sense! (https://www.growthmarshal.io/)
Switched to Firefox a year ago, no regrets. Only flashing devices via webserial (Meshtastic etc) is missing for me.
Just like the TikTok ban they also got the ball rolling on?
This site is living proof of that.
Not for at least 10 years because government is propping up house prices with their holdings of MBS, although market has definitely softened in some places.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB
> They own the news from the entire range of lower working class up to the upper middle class

With a 10% market share? Come on.
Yes. You can see a difference between the person who learned to do a process "by hand" and then uses technology to make it faster or easier, versus the person who never learned to do it without the tech at all.
It's surreal watching all the analysts stumble around trying to explain market behavior with half-baked explanations.

One says it's tariffs, another says it's "uncertainty", a third worries about "recession", others say "inflation" or "stagflation".

But none of them show logically or quantitatively how tariffs or "uncertainty" or vague, unsubstantiated worries about recession reduce the present value of future cash flows.

Meanwhile, the new regime's playbook is clear for all to see:

Deep cuts of 50% of more to government employment, selective default on government obligations, convert formerly independent institutions to ideological organs, devaluation of the dollar, and picking winners and losers based on ideology and diktat instead of merit and market forces.

If this is the playbook, who would want to own a broad basket of US equities instead of the politically favored names?

Why can't analysts connect the dots?
uBlock Origin still works in Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

And you can, I believe, still just modify your hosts table to block out ads in Chrome. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Or your router's DNS using something like NextDNS. https://nextdns.io/

Ads suck. Support content where you can, but even when you pay they still serve ads / tracking scripts. So fuck 'em. Block all the ads.
You don't own the roads in Detroit; the government owns most of them.

Gmail is not a government service. Google is free to make that work with only one browser, if they want.

You can't assert that Google must make Gmail work with any browser whatsoever, because that means supporting someone using Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 5.5.
I do, but I would still block it if I could.
Add-on replacements:
- Linguist for translations.
- Search by Image for reverse image search (there are others that just use Google Lens directly, but I use this one).

Cast is a bit more cumbersome. There is fx_cast on GitHub, but it requires a companion app. Firefox seems to want to add cast based on a flag you used to be able to enable, but I'm guessing there are some restrictions from Google's end they ran into.
Containers are firefox's killer feature, highly encourage you to try them. I wish Mozilla would invest more in developing that feature.
Feb 3 to current is -8% for Nvidia and -10% for Nasdaq. Arbitrary point will give arbitrary results. Also Amazon which is least associated with gen AI in big tech is down 20% at that time.
Musk blames X outage on cyberattack
Why are these paywalled links allowed here?
People scratch their heads about how "just a default setting" can be worth an annual $20 billion payment from Google. It makes more sense if it's actually for a raft of wildly illegal under-the-table measures this.

Imagine what it would cost Google's bottom line if Apple was truly user-focused and enabled ad-blocking on desktop, mobile and embedded safari views by default. Someone do the napkin math please!
I’m sure there is real demand for animal welfare. But presumably that would have hurt profits which is why they weren’t doing it in the first place.

But once they discovered that it’s a convenient excuse to raise their profit margins, they hopped onboard.
You probably block ads on YouTube to get stuff for free. I never said that you can't afford it.

(I'm using the royal you here, obviously, I don't know you)

People rarely pay when there isn't scarcity. Wikimedia can pull it off because it has billions of unique visitors per month.
If Musk says it's DDOS then it's almost certainly not DDOS.
The legend of the 'Tesla killer' came true, and it's Elon Musk
I think it's more of a social phenomenon than an intellectual characteristic. I guess these days people would just assume that outlier ideas come from autism, but I think that isn't necessarily true.

But maybe it helps to be socially isolated or just stubborn. People do not want to accept new approaches.

Clearly they do eventually, but there is always some friction.

But I think that it's been shown that through promoting and various types of training or tuning, LLMs can be configured to be non- sycophantic. It's just that humans don't want to be contradicted so that can be trained out of them during reinforcement.

Along with the training process just generally being aimed at producing expected rather than unexpected answers.
If the Manhattan real estate market tanks he may change course. If it doesn't affect him, he's probably not going to care.

If he does change course, he's unlikely to call it a mistake. Politicians rarely admit mistakes.
> I think you may have fallen into a bit of confirmation bias there. The article you linked to words itself like so:

> This means that the study found that there may be positive benefits to cognitive health when one routinely engages in navigation related activities using a compass and a map.

> That is a very very VERY different statement than: "Using Google Maps causes cognitive decline."

It is a different statement, but it is not a giant logical leap. The two statements are connected by a pretty rational extrapolation. That said, I'm not suggesting this study is claiming anything like that, just that there is growing evidence that these things might be bad for our brain health, and studies like this are part of it.

However, it's going to be really, really hard to prove that something like Google Maps is ultimately responsible for cognitive decline. In fact, I think saying that would be a step too far. However, when you combine many of these tools, like calculators, AI autocomplete, and GPS navigation together, I definitely think there is a stronger case that it is not good for our brain health, but I doubt it'll be easy to make a case for that using actual data, and I don't expect such a study to come around soon (and even if it did, I'm not sure people would feel enticed to trust it anyways.)

> I'm old enough to remember living without Google Maps. And the amount of time that I reached for a paper map and a compass was so infrequent that Google Maps represented something new for me more than it represented something different. That is to say, it wasn't replacing something I did regularly so much as it gave me a reason to start using any kind of a "map" in the first place.

I'm surprised. I thought all of us who lived before Google Maps were using Map Quest, at least for a few years. That's what I was doing. Before Map Quest, when I was growing up, we definitely did try to avoid paper maps as much as possible, but it was frequently necessary to go somewhere we didn't already know how to get to, so it wasn't unusual to have to get directions and navigate using a map.

Anyhow, I'm sure everyone experiences life differently here, but I think not needing to navigate very often is definitely something I would've considered a luxury.
they'd have to be really, really stupid to start doing it before their main countermeasure has been removed
I find these sorts of alternatives to what I'll call 'adversarially contested technologies' super interesting. Jamming drone control and video links is another similar instance where alternatives like MagNav could prove useful by allowing autonomous fallback operation in the case of signal loss. I assume viable solutions will probably require a fusion of approaches like MagNav, optical terrain following, laser altimeter, etc
Have you seen what was going on when Trump win was confirmed?

Stocks that day shot up. Now it is correction time both on going back to indicators instead of hype and correction based on newly elected administration actions instead of people hopes.
Weird problems with physics were everywhere before Einstein. Maxwell comes painfully close to discovering GR in some of his musings on black body radiation.

Noticing that there was a problem was not the breakthrough: trying something bizarre and counter-cultural - like assuming light speed is invariant over the observer - just to see if anything interesting drops out was the breakthrough.
Yeah yeah. Diagram that out to its conclusion for us. The future where Tesla is producing more cars than Toyota at higher margins. What year will that happen?
It's also great to not give basically unlimited permissions to an extension.
Some great memories here.

Somewhere in my parents attic is my RISC PC 600 and 486 Co-Processor card. Not sure if they also have the A3000 we had before that.
> but don't the Apple OSs have adblocking at a system level (implying Safari)?

No, content blockers are specific to Safari. Third party apps can show ads just fine.
Do they have vulnerabilities and or security loopholes in organisation as big as twitter too ?

Or is Ddos that big that they simply overwhelmed every security that was in place.
So… you're not a bull then
But they haven't kept up with inflation.
How would that work, exactly? Would Google’s search algorithm highlight pro-TRUMP articles to pump the token price? I think you’ll be waiting a long time.
To be fair, the sub-prime lending crisis had its roots firmly in Clinton-era repeal of Glass-Steagal, so it’s not all so easy.

No particular love for the Republican Party, but it’s a problem created by the Democrats, which they then patched with the inferior Frank-Dodd. Plenty of stupidity to go around, I would say.
https://archive.ph/NIdDB
Liquidated my speculative longs two weeks ago in anticipation of such a downward swing. Valuations have been divorced from reality for years, and I'm hoping this is a long overdue reckoning for the whole market. Seeing some stocks disproportionately impacted also suggests the market is preparing for a chaotic few years ahead, as the US administration flatly admits they don't care what businesses think about policy choices like tariffs or gutting of the Federal Government, nevermind the brewing constitutional crises.

Put simply, I do not see meaningful and consistent value in the US Economy for the next four to six years. I'm doing research on taking my longs into index funds or positions in other markets that have a diversified economy (and not mostly services/imports, like the USA) and will be steaming away from their dependence on the American market in the following years. If I invest into anything domestic, it'll likely be companies reshoring parts of the supply chain and retracting outsourcing.
Russia has been jamming GPS over Finland, Estonia, and Poland on and off for a couple years, and it's been at its peak now for several months. Sometimes flights have to be canceled. Tartu airport in Estonia was closed for a while[1] because the only instrument approaches it has were GPS-based.

Even worse than jamming is spoofing, which Russia also does. With jamming, you and the aircraft's systems both know what's happening. Spoofing isn't as easy to detect, as the GPS system can report the wrong location but think it's highly accurate. Spoofing (and to some extent jamming) can have a persistent effect on aircraft systems even after they move out of range of the jammer/spoofer, which can lead to degraded navigation accuracy for the rest of the flight.

It's a whole deal. Russia is messing with strategically important systems of many European countries, and decreasing civilian aviation safety, and they rarely get called on it. For a long time there was reluctance to even name Russia as the culprit.

1. https://www.heise.de/en/news/GPS-jamming-no-more-flights-to-...
> we are going to call it the External Revenue Service

To be fair to them (even if they're likely unaware), that was effectively a thing back in the 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Revenue_Cutter_S...

> The federal government desperately needed revenue, and determined to raise it chiefly from tariffs on imports. Strong enforcement of tariff laws could blunt rampant smuggling. Urged on by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, the United States Congress on 4 August 1790 established the Revenue-Marine, later renamed the Revenue Cutter Service by act of 31 July 1894 (28 Stat. 171)
Ah, but who is really making the world shit? Google and their ilk? Or the millions of sheep who use their stuff?

Would Google be making the world shit if all its cloud services had only a few dozen thousand users?

What's forcing you to interact with Google isn't Google, but Google users.
Besides the reliance on GPU compute, the insistence of its proponents that it is inevitable, and the plowing of resources into the space by venture capital, sure, it's nothing like crypto.
> My point was that countries buy those planes for the types of missions it was designed for but beyond that also strongly because they can fire nuclear missiles and are able to lease nuclear missiles from the US and have nuclear deterrence capabilities for lease.

Yep, that's the point of all MCAs, but the biggest difference between the F35 and other MCAs is the stealth technology aspect.

The F35 (along with the SU-57 and J-35) incorporated learnings from other MCA projects from the 1990s and 2000s.

You won't be able to fly a Rafale undetected on a bombing raid in Tehran or Isfahan, but that's not the point of the Rafale anyhow.

Most applications I've seen of Rafale and Rafale comparable MCAs is acting as a missle platform with some dogfighting capabilities and basic bombing capabilities if needed.

If the Super Rafale project takes off then you might see an F35 comparable jet from Dassault.

> Also agree with Ukraine not having the Rafale, it’s way too advanced for a proxy war. They didn’t get F-35 either but F-16 for the same reason

Yep! Hence why I think if Ukraine rebuilds it's airforce after this war, they will probably try to procure Saab Gripens because all they need is dogfighting plus missle platform capabilities.
And Germany and other European countries, despite all their tough talk, are spending more on Russian gas than they are on aid to Ukraine:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more...

"EU member states bought €21.9bn (£18.1bn) of Russian oil and gas in the third year of the war, according to estimates from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea), despite the efforts under way to kick the continent’s addiction to the fuels that fund Vladimir Putin’s war chest.

The amount is one-sixth greater than the €18.7bn the EU allocated to Ukraine in financial aid in 2024, according to a tracker from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)."
He will save us from the tariffs......that he created.
it indeed is. when I saw it in my mstdn feed, i too was shocked but upon reading, uh, no.
And also requires far less intrusive permissions.
Exactly! We initially received some sentry errors that triggered our curiosity.
Tab groups landed in Firefox Nightly 3 months ago,[1] I‘d expect them pretty soon in the release version.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1938187
Heh, I just came from Reddit where I saw your post, and was about to update my comment.

Yeah, it seemed strange since to my knowledge no out-of-order vector RISC-V chip exists at the moment.

Interesting, hopefully DC can fix their advertising/clarify a bit more!
Migrating employees out of the state (which leeches economic output from the private sector) will have positive long-term economic outcomes.
But not like this. In no current or future world is there a basis for THIS:

https://www.voronoiapp.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn...
Unfortunately, if you don't have people to make a market, it's not going to be a very good market for a bunch of important values of good.
Oh my, the titles in those proceedings are hilarious.

> Retracted on February 24, 2022: Innovation Research on College Student Affairs Management Based on Big Data Environment

> Retracted on February 24, 2022: University Students in the Greater Bay Area Conduct Research on the Construction of Big Data Teams for Cross-border E-commerce Startups in the Middle East

> Retracted on February 24, 2022: Discussion on International Trade Governance under the Background of Big Data

> Retracted on February 24, 2022: Application of Incoterms in International Engineering Based on Information Platform

> Retracted on February 24, 2022: The Fixed-point Tracking Model of Volunteer Service for College Students of Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on Information Technology

> Retracted on February 24, 2022: Sichuan Consumers' Mining of Agricultural Product Brand Value Based on Big Data

> Retracted on February 24, 2022: Sports Consumer Behavior Based on Integrated Data in the Context of Big Data

> Retracted on February 24, 2022: Talent Heights Construction from the Perspective of Talent Concentration
Microsoft and Azure, Bing, Office 365

Amazon (the retailer portion) and AWS, and probably their logistics wing
Can anyone explain what this actually means? The issue ticket's core points revolve around concepts that are not understandable even for a technologically well-versed general reader, so people will just pivot to the keywords, which won't make for productive discussions.

To be more specific:

- what is an innertube client?

- what is a `tv` innertube client?

- what is TVHTML5?

- what are "DRM formats"?

- what does it mean for them to be "available"?

- and finally, why is it of interest if they're only available to tv innertube clients?
That's why the phrase "don't try and catch a falling knife" exists. We have no idea if prices will rebound shortly, or continue to take a nose-dive. Trying to time the market is a gambling strategy, not an investment strategy.
Is it possible that wall streets economic interests were not aligned with the interests of U.S citizens? One could argue we are now so down the road of globalization that any attempt to pull back would cause economic disaster. I think probably yes.

The wealthy make their money in the market, while the poor rely on wages whose dollar keeps decreasing in value. I get the 401k angle too. But for too long the wealthy have prospered through dividends while the plebs can't afford rent, let alone a house.
I recently had cause to sign in to the Google Cloud console (not BigQuery specifically) and found it unusable on Firefox. It pegged a core at 100% and consumed memory at a prodigious rate. Basic UI actions were painfully slow.

I killed the tab and tried it in Chromium where the UI was... not snappy, but in range for my expectations of a heavyweight frontend.
But that can't possibly be the case -- since such a simple strategy is already priced into the red.

Anything accessible to any person without days/weeks of research or insider knowledge is already priced-in. All the people rationally "buying the dip" are doing so as the price dips.

Any time you buy, you are betting on a future price against everyone else making bets. Most of those other people, who can move markets, are spending their entire lives in R&D to eek out a slightly better bet.

You're a mark if you think you can price better than them -- and they are the ones presently setting the price.
Well, this country (the US) decided in November to go the exact opposite direction of having a government capable of, let alone willing to, pursuing litigation like this, so I hope we enjoy this digital feudalism only expanding, never receding, in the coming years.
Linux is massively funded by companies like IBM and Red Hat.

The Linux Foundation receives over $15m in corporate funding.
Historic job growth means nothing if everyone needs 3 jobs to earn median household income.
The NodeJS dependency is purely for running some tests. You shouldn't need it to actually build Firefox.
No, not for all types of "dealing with".

If you're dealing with spam originating from Gmail, without any helpful action from Google, that's not really your choice.

If you're dealing with difficulties sending mail to Gmail users, without help from Google, that's also not really your choice.

If vast numbers of other people stopped using Gmail, those problems would mostly go away.
It will be filed away next to the built a wall that Mexico paid for victory.
You can also just use Firefox containers. Or if you don't want to send all the data with dev use a fork of firefox
751 tabs open right now and growing.

Firefox copes fine. Me? Not so much (:
This will be in C2Y and is already supported by GCC 15: https://godbolt.org/z/szb5bovxq