skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an article about insecurities in Firefox (<https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...>), which is a few years old now, but it made me curious as to whether it actually is better to run a Firefox fork, like Librewolf; Firefox itself; or a Chromium fork like Ungoogled Chromium.

Unfortunately I don't really understand the implications about the security issues and I don't know whether any of the issues have been solved, so I don't know how to evaluate the security risks versus the privacy risks.
One does not simply eat a grocery store chain.
I was curious so Chat looked this fun fact up:

As of March 2025, Herbert L. Abrams is the only individual affiliated with Stanford University who has been associated with a Nobel Peace Prize. He served as the founding vice president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which was collectively awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for its efforts to prevent nuclear war.
I agree this would be a positive direction, but something that gives me pause is the forced upgrades and hardware cycle of both mac and windows now. They both scan files in your system constantly for various reasons, so for this purpose you're really stuck on *nix variants, right?
Given the valuation of these companies the upside of "just lieing" is unfortunately high.

For example taking a step back, it's crazy that people accept the idea of "AGI" (which drives the valuation partially) at face value without any evidence.

I would be shocked if there was any accountability though.
I don't have any gov app installed on my phone, though it came with the whole Google suite, Facebook and Instagram installed.
And I can't remove it unless I root it.

If you're in a country where the gov is a threat to your privacy, you're in a dictatorship.

A democratic gov does not really care a lot about personal data, it only wants tax money.

A private company cares a lot about personal data because each bit of personal information is sellable to anyone interested.
Back then, it was always different at the start. This was when digital services were built with the service, not exit, in mind.

Or maybe it's just me looking at the past through rose-colored glasses? Yet I really feel the rot wasn't always there, it set in over time and eventually encompassed all. Today, I pretty much assume that any new service is an exit-seeking scam until proven otherwise; I don't remember having much reason for that 15 years ago.
Diluted juice is still a useful suggestion as an alternative idea. I don’t get why people would down vote; that’s not what down vote is for. I like diluted juice quite a bit, 25-50% tastes fine, it’s akin to tea to me. It would be interesting if more beverage companies made a “add your own sweetener” version which is how unsweetened Kool-Aid drink mixes come. They have maltodextrin in them but say they are 0 calorie so I’m not sure if that means it’s a tiny amount or if it somehow gets away claiming zero calories. Just be aware Kool-Aid has sweetened versions as well. I still mostly drink water but some variety is nice.
If you believe "si vis pacem, para bellum", then yes, moral plus essential.
GoG survives selling DRM free games. Unsure if this would work on all markets.
Couple of things

1) Please advertise your free tier at the top, however limited it could be - seeing the bill first is a big turn off for those who are looking to try
2) The name has to resonate to something , or at least should give a hint about what this does and how it differentiates
Just incredible. I read through it thinking there’d be a punchline, but no. Then it dawned on me. It’s AI slop.
> At least with sugar the risks are somewhat understood.

Aspartame has been studied for 50 years. The risks are very well understood. This single study on mice does not shift that.
I see these statements as "Everyone should be like me!". Same statement is always applied to KDE & Gnome & Xfce and of all the numerous open source solutions.

Chromium maybe open source but the "Chromium" standard code branches are still controlled by Google. This is why Chromium is/has removed Manifest v2 extensions, used by ad-blockers. They are using the narrative "it is less secure". While Mozilla / Firefox is proving them wrong.

Which should it be in the market, a monopoly or a competition? I vote for a competitive market because the ladder leads to a stale and stalled mentality. Advancements don't progress when everyone things and does the exact same thing.

China showed how stale the mentality for ML is in the USA and why that mentality of "be like everyone else" needs to be looked down upon.
So are other necessary expenses.

And I'm aware that most of the salary (even if that would be 100% salary) will be spend and thus be good for the economy.
Nonetheless that money has to come from somewhere.
It’s AI slop.
You're a bit off here.

First, everyone (faithful or not) understands that "church" could mean physical structure or the body of people who attend. The word was frequently used both ways in my Southern Baptist youth, for example, and I'm familiar with similar use patterns from the Catholics I've known.

HOWEVER it IS true that some flavors of Christianity DO see the physical building as blessed, consecrated, or whatever, and somehow important in and of itself. It varies WIDELY by faith; neither position is universal at all.

My sense is that GENERALLY this distinction maps to the adherence to/belief in actual sacraments -- ie, rituals written out and led by specific clergy that lead to desirable spiritual goals.

The Roman church, for example, has a number of these that are considered important to your spiritual life. For a faithful Catholic, Communion involves actual transubstantiation, and requires the priest. You're probably not truly married unless you're married in a Catholic ceremony by a priest in a church. Confession matters. Etc.

By contrast, most mainline protestant churches don't really have any of these. Your relationship to God is between you and God; the pastor leads the church, but is not seen as someone with a hotline to the almighty.

Many or most of them DO things that look like Communion, but it's entirely symbolic; the act itself has no special spiritual power, and there is no expectation of transubstantiation. It's done maybe quarterly largely because the Gospels say Jesus said to "do this in remembrance of me."

Most protestant sects don't think a church wedding has any additional spiritual weight, and certainly don't require one. Marriage is between you, your spouse, and God. I went to a Baptist wedding on a golf course last fall where the officiant was the groom's nonclergy (but devout) uncle. That's normal.
Does the law define criteria by which gatekeeper companies are identified, or does it explicitly call out six companies for scrutiny?

In the US, in general, that kind of targeted law is highly frowned upon (bills of attainder were a tool the King used to target political opponents and the Constitution wrote them out as a result).
When developers create Electon apps, HN complains about it. When developers then use web serial to avoid having to install Electron apps, HN complains about it.

And before anyone says “just write a native app”, let me know how many small businesses you run where you can afford to employ developers to create and manage multiple apps across platforms?
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That is/was a Chrome problem, Firefox only allows WebMIDI after granting permission. Unfortunately its implementation is also incomplete/buggy so I still often end up using Chrome for those use cases anyway.
“This ruling affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory book should never have been published”

No. The arbiter didn’t say Williams was warned about libel and proceeded anyway.
Software Producers. Building digital systems is more than writing code
Suppose we designate a unit line segment, and from that we pick out a line segment of (what we now call) length 2 and separately a rectangle of area 3. To "an ancient" (like Aristotle), does it make sense to add the length and the area to get 5? If you then drew a line segment of length 5, would they say it has the same magnitude?

(My understanding is "no" to both questions.)
If the project wants no attention from developers or to bring in any new people to get involved, sure, make it as complex as possible to see what is being talked about. If it's an internal document that simply doesn't need protecting, great. However they are explicitly asking people to get involved.
How is that any different from now? Look what happened recently with Mozilla and Firefox...
Would have been good if they mentioned they meant Amazon S3. It took me a while to figure out what this was about.

Initially I thought this was about S3 standby mode.
> The word "church" itself is used to refer to the building in several languages

Including English, for that matter.
> Latency and bandwidth can be made 10x worst by process context switching alone.

No they can't. That doesn't even make sense as a claim regarding bandwidth since SQLite doesn't use any, but please re-read what I said about being a 1% or 5% difference in speed. Not 10x.
The issue is that if someone found a major issue in Blink, would it even be feasible to get every Chrome, Brave, Edge and Vivaldi user to switch to Firefox while the issue is fixed?

The argument is still the same as with OpenSSH and OpenSSL. Having a single dominant code base is a security risk. The risk of OpenSSL has been realized and we now have good alternatives. OpenSSH have alternatives, but we're one major security issue away from having to shutdown remote management for potentially days. If anything we need even more browser engines, Blink is 90% or more of the market. Ideally no engine would be more than 20% of all users.

Personally I still think it's worth it to have multiple engines, both for security, but also to ensure that enough people maintain the skills to keep development active. Or if the US government forces Google to sell Chrome, then there's no guarantee that the buyer would spend the same resource on Blink as Google does. Now I'm all for slowing down browser development (allowing alternative engines to develop and give web technologies a chance to settle down a bit) but with the wrong buyer it not only slows down, it stops, IE6 style. Having WebKit, Gecko, and more, helps push things forward in that case.
How has Facebook suffered? Most of their losses seem to be self imposed, stuff like the "metaverse"
Sure, currently Zuck can do anything he wants with the money he gets from the users in his cage.

We should really open the cage though. Can you imagine being able to call people only on your mobile network, or being able to send e-mail only to people using the same e-mail provider?

Yet we accept only being able to connect with, share photos and posts, message, subscribe to people on the same social platform as you.

If we can define a technical specification for exchanging social data, and enforce that the platforms above certain size implement it, Zuck won't even have the cash to dump on Metaverse. Every platform can then have their own algorithmic feed so you can chose your own echo chamber.

The moat is only good the Zucks of the world. It absolutely sucks for everyone else.
I think two things are true, the government needs to cut expenses drastically and also that Elon should spend way more time at Tesla and spacex.

I didn’t buy my truck because of Elon, I bought it because I needed a truck and all the other truck manufacturers are completely brain dead when it comes to software.

I definitely wish Elon would shut up often, but he’s clearly not a nazi. That’s all nonsense.

His work at doge has been underwhelming so far, I had higher hopes. But it seems like most would rather have the status quo of major deficit spending and debt. Overall I would prefer drastic reduction in spending and waste with an actual plan and less chaos.

None of what Elon does makes me regret my car purchase. Why in the world would I make a personal decision like a car based on some billionaire I’ll never meet? I didn’t buy the truck as any kind of virtue signal. I bought it because I like it despite how dumb and crazy it looks.
It's a major problem in science, unfortunately

You see it in the computational fields too - often the best you can get is an uncommented mess of Python and Shell scripting. If you get anything at all.

The worst are those that train ML models to predict a property, spend several pages talking about how good it is... And just never bother including the model artifacts. IMO that's the stuff that should get papers rejected.
Believe me, I think blasphemy laws should be abolished everywhere, but publicly burning Bibles/Qurans/whatever doesn't sounds like a "everyday people" activity to me.
Is there a vehicle company that is trying new things UI wise that does it well?

Why are vehicle companies somehow so bad at this?

I was looking into getting a new car, newest car I have is 10 years old, and almost immediately I'm really turned off by the changes and interior of most vehicles. I feel like I went into a coma and woke up and I'm confused by "the future".
Hundreds of housands of years of the human body's evolution should be respected, neh?

I like my day's first glass of water to have a half a lemon's worth of juice freshly squeezed into it.

My cold-brew (or occasionally espresso) coffee gets real maple syrup (no Log Cabin bullshit sugar-fest) and half-and-half or maybe whole milk.

Sometimes I mix yogurt into a mug of milk towards the end of the day.

That's the fullness of my liquids, except that which comes naturally with food.
Musk's Tesla raises concern over Trump tariffs
If you wanted to start a cult, would you say you wanted to start a cult?

"I just want to share my learnings with the good people of Ohio..."
Whenever the committe crams another desktop features into the browser you can be sure it is mainly convenience and surveillance!
I switched on mobile and on MacOS. I intend to switch on Linux soon.

> Yes browsers share your data, it's a browser...

No, my software does not betray me. If money could buy better software, I’d spend it. Unfortunately, commercial end-user software (and SaaSS) almost always has deep ties with advertising.

I don’t mind crash reporting.

I don’t mind opt-in telemetry for QA.

There is no justification for telemetry by default, not informing of the extent, using it for advertisement, and selling your data as payment for use of software.

Companies that figured out that a steady source of ad revenue beats subscription money will always compromise their customers.

I don’t want that. And Firefox is now in the category of software that cannot be trusted until a worthy steward of a fork steps up.

In the meantime, I’m using Orion by Kagi until I have a non-WebKit alternative.
"Not opposed to food in theory, but its connection with obesity and bad labor practices is undeniable so the quantifiable harm it causes is much greater than the hypothetical harm of being offended by a meme or so-called hate speech."
MCP Golang
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You’re correct that this is the broad definition, but GP is correct that that is a very common form of regulatory capture in the US.
At a certain point ones unwillingness to accept consequences is capitulation pure and simple and it is what allows people to continue to behave shittily. Takes 2 to tango.
Unrestrained empathy is self-destruction. Being a victim is not a blanket excuse for the act of victimizing others. There is no easy, feel-good solution to this problem.
Yes, let us focus on virtue signalling instead of the scammers stealing people's hard-earned money.
> Here, we show that consumption of 0.15% aspartame (APM) markedly increased insulin

Most food will "markedly increase insulin", and sugary food / drinks even more so.

Obviously people should try to eat healthy and ideally avoid artificial sweeteners, but in reality people are not machines and they're not going to drink water and eat lean meat and veg every day just because that's what's best for them.

It seems to me that for most people who like to occasionally consume soft drinks that switching to a comparable artificially sweetened alternative is going to be better for you even if there are still risks.

A study titled "eating cake aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation" isn't reason to never eat cake. It's just reason to be sensible and consume in moderation.

People have been consuming artificially flavoured foods and drinks daily for decades at this point. While these things are interesting to know and consider, no one should be concerned about this unless you're consuming an excessive amount of Aspartame. And even then it's almost certainly better for you to do that than consume excessive amounts of sugar.
Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash
> 99.99% of the extracted material that was already there? Conservation of matter suggests the area was already rich in uranium ores.

This is a misleading take on heavy metal mining in general.

Mining is not primarily harmful to local environments because it leads to more of the harmful extracted material; it is harmful because ore concentration is often rather low, and the extraction process produces millions of tons of toxic mineral slurry (=> more harmful than the ore), which has to be disposed somewhere (and preferably not in groundwater, which is the cheapest place to get rid of it).

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that mining hazards are the showstopper for nuclear energy, but this ("harmful ore was already there before it is mined") is the wrong dismissal for that argument.
It would be fairly trivial to detect: configure the mapping to the Latin alphabet and run a few words against a dictionary.
The Cassowary Linear Arithmetic Constraint Solving Algorithm [pdf] (2002)
Is it possible to be moral and dead?
The problem is if you want to back up the content of your device securely. Without ADP, you’re stuck sending it into iCloud in a way that allows a government to access the data.

If you wanted to avoid potential prying eyes, you can’t backup the device over the internet to a storage location you own. You can sort of do this with photos, but it’s absolutely a kludge.

Apple is only one US law away from completely shutting down Advanced Data Protection for everyone.
Didn't the UK have an issue with Apple the other day, trying to get some "backdoor" to icloud? Which prompted Apple to say they'd remove E2E encryption for those users?

How's that tax related and not caring about personal data? Does that make the UK a dictatorship?
> But there's a huge difference between making a foreigner leave, and sentencing a citizen

Not nearly as huge as one wants it to be, especially when the current executive is experimenting legally with citizenship revocation.

You divide human beings under your jurisdiction into wide categories with hugely unequal rights and the incentives are heavy for rulers to remove the inconvenient in their society by reclassifying them. It's much safer for citizen and non-citizen alike to strongly protect the non-citizen in your borders.
You can mostly thank greenpeace and the hippie generation's legacy of political advocacy for that.

Nations like France and formerly Germany have or had pretty sensible situations when it came to nuclear power.
Oh, I remember that one.

At the time, the construction of new coal-fired power plants was a controversial topic in many locations in Germany. (Around 30 new coal power plants were planned at times. Some were stopped, but 10 of them were actually build, which is bad enough.)
I also tried to raise awareness about this incident in Tennessee, trying to have a look at the environmental issues of coal on a more international level. But it didn't generate much interest.
> I’ve seen other examples where customers guess at new APIs they hope that S3 will launch, and have scripts that run in the background probing them for years! When we launch new features that introduce new REST verbs, we typically have a dashboard to report the call frequency of requests to it, and it’s often the case that the team is surprised that the dashboard starts posting traffic as soon as it’s up, even before the feature launches, and they discover that it’s exactly these customer probes, guessing at a new feature.

This surprises me; has anyone done something similar and benefitted from it? It's the sort of thing where I feel like you'd maybe get a result 1% of the time if that, and then only years later when everyone has moved on from the problem they were facing at the time...
Crows going for a Mad Max aesthetic for defense and deterrence seems both incredible and simultaneously unsurprisingly.
thank you for the fish. I considered making an account - but, given the new information, no - thank you. I rather won't yahoo'ing.
Well, one starts with "On December 22, 2008, Ansol Clark woke to a ringing phone. It was sometime before 6 a.m., far earlier than he had intended to get up. He drove construction trucks for a living, but he’d been furloughed recently, leaving him little to do in the three days before Christmas except wrap gifts and watch movies with his grown son, Bergan." while the other starts with "The Kingston Fossil Plant Spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)'s Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry."
At least in the UK many of the leading "sports" drinks, will add some form of artificial sweetener regardless of if it is a high sugar or low sugar variant e.g.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/lucozade-sport-o... - Sugar + Aspartame + Acesulfame K

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/powerade-berry-t... Sugar + Aspartame + Acesulfame K

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/lucozade-sport-z... Acesulfame K + Sucralose
Netscape / Firefox once broke the browser market.

We need a hero.
As a German: I'll gladly consider a Tesla again after Elon gets the old Nuremberg neck tie like all the other fascists.
I'll have to try this out. I'm currently a huge GitKraken[1] fan.

[1] https://gitkraken.com
You can get pure(ish)-China laptops if you’re willing to go that far to get away from the US. Hauwei have a range of laptops using HiSense ARM cores: https://qingyun.huawei.com/
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A solution to off-by-one errors in Racket based on XKCD
You could have used Cloudflare R2 for object storage and Hetzner for almost everything else.
Yup, you can get it from https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-core-apps/merge-diff....

I actually use Difftastic on the command-line for diffs and spit out to P4Merge for merges.

Here's my Jujutsu config:

[ui]
diff.tool = ["difft", "--color=always", "--display=side-by-side-show-both", "$left", "$right"]
merge-editor = ["/Applications/p4merge.app/Contents/MacOS/p4merge", "-nl", "Theirs", "-nb", "Base", "-nr", "Mine", "$base", "$left", "$right", "$output" ]
If you read the article, they say that exactly. Its by Dr Werner Vogels, they know exactly what goes into S3, since they are a principal engineer on the project.
Not on Apple Refurbs. That would cost you about $2200.

And the M2 Max has a memory bandwidth of 400GB/s.
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