skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, even since 57, this week Firefox ("stable" build) consistently gets hung up with just one tab open and spins 100% CPU on one thread.

I mean, this probably isn't the right venue to ask about this, but that sounds rather serious. I know you're probably a bit disenfranchised at this point, but could I ask you to capture a profile using https://perf-html.io and file a bug?

If filing a bug is too much work, you can email me (email in profile), but filing a bug will get more eyes on it quicker.
> You had a million and one opportunities to "review" the code you were going to download and run. You just chose to do other things instead.

False dichotomy. I chose to opt into USER STUDIES because I trusted Mozilla. I use Firefox specifically because I do not want to use a browser from a company that makes its money off of advertising, meaning Chrome. I trusted Mozilla to hold to their word regarding what opting in to user studies meant, and they instead gave me exactly what I didn't want: advertising.

If your solution to this is to completely throw away my trust in Mozilla, replacing it with having to spend an extraordinary amount of time reviewing every wiki change, mailing list post, commit, and bug, then you're being ridiculous and showing extraordinary contempt for users -- especially the many users who aren't programmers. Firefox is supposed to be a browser that respects users, but this case shows that it doesn't.

Finally, I have both donated to Mozilla and helped resolve a bug, so I absolutely have participated in the process.
Public transit is dramatically better for disabled and elderly people (and anyone else who can’t easily drive, such as children, tourists, the poor, sick/injured people, ..) than cars.

High-density neighborhoods make grocery shopping much easier for everyone. Here in San Francisco, I have one grocery store 1 block away, another grocery store 2 blocks away, and 3 more grocery stores within 5 blocks. I can do all of my grocery shopping on foot, and I can pick up what I need in a small batch on my way home on any arbitrary trip. If I were disabled or elderly I would probably additionally need a cart of some sort, instead of carrying groceries myself.
Motion Capture: Benedict Cumberbatch Recording Smaug for the Hobbit
Anonymous hacked treasure?
there's a quote by someone about the "small step after small step"

If the pace is right you can stretch pretty far.
What about the instances when men are harassed by women? It must happen to men in equal amounts because for this not to happen would mean that men and women are unequal which is sexist and wrong.
> Any action against net neutrality is action against customers.

How did you reach that conclusion?

It's like saying "Any action against all-you-can-eat buffets is action against customers".

Do you believe in pay neutrality, search results neutrality, store catalog neutrality, journal opinion neutrality, etc?

How about Tesla making superchargers free to Tesla cars only?

The world is not neutral, and that's completely fine. I don't see why it should be different for ISPs. If lack of options is the problem then all of our focus should be put toward making the field more competitive, not solidify and demotivate existing monopolies by dictating their business model.

I'm sure Net Neutrality is motivated by good intentions, but I can't see any long-term benefits to it.
> Quantifying karma is a good idea

Why? Many people hold many opinions about me, almost all of which are wrong. I don't see the value in a global database of opinions about me which I can't control and which will affect me in ways I can't predict.
You have a problem they'll shower $ on you. As long as Amazon does that, people seem to accept it.
What makes this really stupid is that Mozilla is compromising user trust for what is undoubtedly a tiny payment from Mr. Robot. At least Google and friends are the wealthiest companies the world has ever seen as a result of their data shenanigans...
The entire program is still verified as a single unit, so this shouldn't allow arbitrary code graphs still.
Grit only relates to corn in the US as far as I know. May be used as a reference to a fine gravel put on roads during snow/ice in Ireland/UK
Black Mirror already did it, with a bonus extortion angle. It was called "Shut Up And Dance".
update your conciousness because a complete revamp is what happened. what mozilla did was stupid but its nothing compared to being tracked by google.
You can do that in Firefox, too. Use this [1] addon and you can create as many containers as you'd like and log into different Google accounts.

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
This is how ISIS was created after USA terrorise Muslims in the region raping, killing.
Generally speaking, in cases like this, you have to actually physically intervene to stop the genocide. They're using machettes and other primitive means to do much of the killing, as in other genocide cases in very poor nations (like Rwanda or Cambodia). Sanctions are never enough against what are already extraordinarily poor nations (we've sanctioned North Korea for decades, as much as any nation can be, and they're proceeding apace with ICBM nukes).

The question of stopping this kind of genocide is primarily: who is going to militarily intervene and in what manner.
I'm pretty curious about this as well. I sent an email to their governance list[0] a number of months ago that never got any reply. As someone who's not involved in day-to-day, it would be extremely entitled if me to expect my views to be automatically taken on board, but the absolute silence (and general low level of activity) gave me the vague impression there must be discussion taking place elsewhere.

I've also tried lurking on a few IRC channels, which were similarly lacking in content on this (beyond idle chat, or helping out beginners new to the channels).

If the answer is that I need to email some individual to get into some private group to participate in (or even just to observe) discussion on governance, then that really isn't very transparent. Certainly public mailing lists I've checked don't seem to contain enormous amounts of contextual content on these kinds of things.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/mozilla.governance
eBay product reviews (not vendor reviews) are actually pretty good. Have you looked? They report fake/defective stuff in them.
Mozilla Corporation is, well, a corporation. There was almost certainly not any sort of community governance process involved. The marketing department presumably got a "cool" idea and had someone implement it. How they got the OK to deploy it to everybody is another question but that process doesn't involve the greater community either.
I run Nightly as my daily driver and I don't have this addon installed.

Edit: Apparently some have: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424977#c0
I wonder if it will come back to a more distributed CR type of system. Also branding and maintaining the integrity of a brand.

Currently you have a bevvy of brands for China sourced goods. The brands are obviously made up without much thought. Something like "Scarvast" trekking pole. "Vargus" flashlights, "Zukil" wireless speakers. "Brikor" dehumidifiers.

And often times the same seller will have multiple "brands". This is what makes it unreliable and untrustworthy. It's like they live A/B test products on AMZ.
Fun idea, but note that Kleene is not pronounced the same as ‘clean’.
Garbage collector friendly code in JavaScript
Obligatory reference to Black Mirror's Nosedive episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
Madden Mobile Hack
Is there any legit Madden Mobile Coin/Cash hacks that work??
I also read this 2009 article about youtube's bandwidth costs earlier http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2009/04/...
Midori maybe?
You're reading the least charitable interpretation of what I said. I meant that what's true of assault now has been true the entire history of the English judicial system - that's why the sentence preceding the one you quoted said the system has been like this since time immemorial. So it's not a new law. Can you point to a time in the past when common assault was treated differently? I think it's something intrinsic to the offense itself.

This has nothing to do with jury nullification. That's a situation where conviction is certain, unless the jury finds the law unjust. Assault is far more likely to be a situation where there is reasonable doubt and no conviction, because of the lack of evidence typically associated with the offence.

In short, I think you're believing me to be saying something quite different than I am.
Great anecdote. I try to apply this philosophy to endurance training like running (just get to the next mile marker), swimming (just do the next lap) or biking (just do another minute) but it's really hard. I'm awed by the special forces guys (or the author of the post) who apply that kind of thinking to long periods of time.

It does seem to me though that for creative thinking or solving really tough engineering problems that rest and laziness can actually be productive. So I don't know how to reconcile that with "training my grit muscle". It seems both are important.
All those loan agents were falsifying loan documents with zero direction or knowledge from above?
Mozilla owns Pocket, though. It's more of a bookmarking UI/service than a 3rd party add-on. Sort of like Safari's Reading List feature.

That's how I've always seen it anyway. I didn't know there was controversy around it, but I can understand how people would be sensitive to seeing another company's logo in the URL bar.
https://reviewmeta.com/ and https://www.fakespot.com/ can help.
How about gumption?
Moxie?
Spunk?
Granted. I'm just pointing out those were the reasons it was "easy" to pull off in SG.
Last time I took a peek at Chromium (yeah, not even Chrome. Chromium!) I was still getting pummelled with nonsense about the need for me to open some sort of Google or AppStore (or whatever they call it) account. I'm not joining that universe.

So where to go? At the moment I'm happy with my Waterfox. And there's the somewhat similar Basilisk-project from the Pale Moon camp. But I realize these are overwhelmingly likely to be dead ends in the slightly longer run. There'll come a day when recent uMatrix et alia will no longer work. And a day when the dev-teams themselves throw in their towels.

The FF57-thing is just depressing in its own right, even without this added round of Mozila idiocy. They couldn't offer us just the option of an extra toolbar, or any customization worth the name, really. Firefox of ten years ago had vastly better UI than this latest, dumbed-down iteration.

But I suspect I shall sooner or later have to return.

[Edit: typo]
Safari appears to have a good track record. You’re paying a bit more for the whole machine but I don’t see a problem with the bundling.
> are used to dealing with wrappers written for their language anyway

And the wide availability of those is because it's so easy to build one over obvious REST apis.
The function call infra being added doesn't change the current DAG restrictions, meaning that the functions are verified using a whole-program analysis semantic, so it may end up working more as just a code organization tool than something fundamental. There is already an ability to tail call to other bpf functions, which does more of what you're thinking, and the bpf runtime enforces a limit of 32 of those tail calls.
I don't trust them because I don't think anybody at eBay is checking whether the product being sold right now is the same the review was for.
Try

Firefox 24 in a VM

It's insecure, slow, but it's the last good version of Firefox.

Anything after 24, has Australis, which is the beginning of the end of Mozilla IMHO.
I was looking into Ripple last night, and it uses something similar[1]: you enter a set of nodes that you trust will not collude together, and an 80% supermajority of those trusted validators propose transactions, and then an 80% supermajority of all nodes on the network accept those transactions for a new consensus.

It's a lot more efficient than Bitcoin (no proof of work, it's just another consensus protocol), but the trade off is that 1) it doesn't have all the feel-good rampant libertarianism of completely untrusted decentralized consensus of Bitcoin 2) you have to pick a good set of trusted nodes and trust them all not to collude

(Ripple has other problems that skeeve me out, but after thinking about it federated consensus isn't one of them. I think a lot of altcoins are using federation, actually...)

[1]: https://ripple.com/build/xrp-ledger-consensus-process/#the-x...
More:

> In general, beginner slopes (green circle) are between 6% and 25%. Intermediate slopes (blue square) are between 25% and 40%. Difficult slopes (black diamond) are 40% and up. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piste
> it still being almost entirely about men

We cannot know that. It has not been researched, and the victims don't talk about it.

There was a time, in Finland, when everyone assumed that domestic violence is "almost entirely about men", research proposals were ridiculed and not funded. When they eventually studied the topic, 20% of the perpetrators turned out to be women, and in aggravated assaults 50%.
These posts about people leaving their jobs are so egocentric.

Who cares if some dude is leaving a big company.
No offense, but "like, China?" I don't see how involving government(s) and therefore politicising the whole thing is going to make the situation any better. Even if it were support from a government you (but others not) would find acceptable.
Hypothetically, what if you don't have the willpower to do even a small thing every day? How is the process bootstrapped?
I don't think most people realize that i.e. it wasn't the mortgages themselves that caused the crises - it was the wall street's bets on the mortgages that made things blow up.
I agree. If your options are to apply to 20 jobs with blank cover letters, or apply to 4 jobs with custom letters, it’s obvious which one has a better chance of working out.
if they don't do this, how do they make any money? (just asking)
That's incorrect. ISIS was created out of a power vacuum in the region, between the US being asked to leave Iraq and the Iraqi Government becoming strong enough to control its own security fully, and the Syrian civil war. Their creation had absolutely nothing to do with US military abuses of that sort (which is not the same thing as denying any such abuses took place), that's not even a very good attempt at scapegoating its creation.

ISIS is just another in a very long line of warlord-type regimes that exist out of opportunism to seize power. There's nothing special about it. It's extremely similar to the types of factions that have dominated countries like Afghanistan for a thousand years.
I want to highlight your comment. I don't necessarily think there is a ton wrong with this blog post, and major kudos to the author for his success. I would just like to point out that trying to transfer these techniques into 90+% of the rest of the population would probably not result in their success.

I'll use myself as an example. I've heard the bromides of "Get out of your comfort zone" and "push through", yada yada, many times. And I indeed have gotten out of my comfort zone many times. But I've found that often times I have extreme stress reactions, sometimes bordering on panic, when I get too outside my comfort zone. I find this especially the case where I take too much on at once - I have a poor ability to prioritize and just "let things go" that aren't important. I wish this weren't the case, but after many cases of trial and error I've found this is how I am. It's not that I'm not capable of growth and change, but I'm quite positive what has worked for this guy will most definitely not work for me.

In general, be very careful of following any successful person's advice on how they became successful. There were a whole lot of other circumstances, innate gifts, and a lot of luck for any specific person that won't transfer broadly.
Please start making comments which have some intellectual substance or effort behind them, if you don't want to be quickly banned.

Otherwise, if you only want to vent your spleen onto the internet without consequence, I'm sure you know where /pol/ is.
> Someone installed software on their systems without their knowledge or explicit consent.

Auto-updating software has been the norm for a while. This is nothing new, just because it was put into an extension instead.
OpenBSD takes care
That's a given because vendors list whatever they want. However, if they list wrong, that's a SNAD case waiting to happen.
I am sorry but this is less of an article than a rant. A poor one at that.

First the misunderstood net neutrality notion. Even if one was to presume that Google's "COGS" was low and now it will meet market demand. The problem is Google can somewhat afford to increase their "COGS". But someone trying to build another Google will get killed because now the costs have increased.

Then there is something about blockchain and Steemit out from the left field.
I linked this in the article, but the browser I use now is qutebrowser: https://qutebrowser.org

It's not something I suggest for muggles, but for the HN audience it's probably suitable. I love it.
This is not just Amazon’s problem. App store ratings, Reddit comments, Twitter/FB feeds, and Net Neutrality comments are all gamed. We are living in the age of human controlled bots looking to manipulate other humans through what we read.
Mozilla died the day they forced Eich out.
How can you say men have predisposition to be perpetrators? How come men aren't rallying and getting outraged? What if I said men are predisposed to be better at science and technical careers? Men are predisposed to being better leaders?

By using the word predisposition on sex, are you implying that men and women aren't equal?
If Hollywood isn't composed of progressive people who like the Vision set forth by the Soros funded causes[1] and donate to progressive causes, etc., I don't know who is.

Maybe you're saying they only talk the talk... That might be fair to say.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_projects_supported_by_...
That's the behavior that I would like to see Amazon encourage as a solution.

Tracking the product back to it's actual origin of manufacturer (and showing us the consumer).

Where, exactly, was the factory? The lot number and date of manufacturer? Official model and revision number?

Requiring these things will give buyers better hard data to detect and exclude middle-level-marking shenanigans as well as combat 'bait and switch' (even if not intentional) changes to product configurations sold under the same general marketing moniker.
How is this a privacy invading update?
Not doubting the author, but I'm curious why people upvote these articles that present some X viewpoint and just back it up with "I did this because of X, therefore X is so and so" without any scientific research

Again I'm not disagreeing with him, but do people enjoy this kind of articles for motivational purpose or than information? Just curious
For grit to work you also need some success from time to time. You can't just grind along without ever getting positive feedback or you'll burn out at some point.
Excellent point. Haskell got Cabal in 2005, and even if it to this day continues to be rather awkward to use, it is something. Clean never developed anything for this.

I believe a large part of Rust's popularity is due to its superb library infrastructure via Cargo and crates.io. Furthermore, I believe a large part of its contemporary competition (say, go, swift and crystal) tripping on its own feet is the lack (or weaknesses) of such a thing.
I went to Germany this year and I made a point of planning a visit to a funicular. To my great disappointment, the funicular we found in Freiburg am Breisgau used a counterweight instead of another car. Now I wonder if it was really a funicular at all.
Same here. I used to buy everything off of Amazon, but now I have to scrape the Internet for reviews to make sure that I can trust the thing I'm buying is actually going to be of good quality.
My guess is that if you say "The Rohingya Genocide" then readers will assume it's a history lesson and skip the article. Whereas "Is This Genocide?" encourages readers to investigate on their own, hopefully educating more people in general
If any of its competitors had had package managers as good as some of the modern ones, C would have lost.
Microsoft Edge released on iOS
That is very true. But my point still stands. People hear a percentage number and assume the max is 100.

Also generally with ski slopes the quoted gradient is some tiny portion of the run. Top to bottom the actual gradient is much less.
"Grit" aka mental toughness under duress.

I highly recommend looking into a GORUCK Challenge (https://www.goruck.com/the-challenge/) for anyone who wants to develop stronger mental muscle in a few short* hours.

It's amazing how just a short period of discomfort pares away the bullshit. You learn how to prioritize under duress, work with other people to assess, quantify and leverage strengths, and you figure out that you're capable of more than you thought.

You wouldn't think that a physical challenge translates outside of that scope. But it does, because most physical challenges are really mental challenges featuring a facade of physical discomfort.

*They will not feel short.
Firefox 57 gained a ton of good will from a lot of users

Let's not overstate things. Firefox 57 gained good will from some users. It also seriously annoyed others, both because of the loss of many useful extensions, and because the new version is horribly buggy and crashes all the time.

The one thing Mozilla still had going for them compared to Google or Microsoft was the emphasis on privacy and respecting the user, and yet I've read about several different cases in recent weeks where that trust has been undermined, this being the latest.
I live in San Francisco am unable to drive (before Uber and Lyft) and raised a child. While it was sometimes challenging, I would have been unable to live my life without mass transit.

San Francisco Muni has a daily ridership of 658k. Do you really think it would be better if all of those rides were done via car?
Would it be good enough to combine many of the images into one large "sprite"?

Then you can just use any image compressor and viewer I crunch them down, hopefully leveraging the image files properties to crunch the size down.
How much of this is happening in the US already, but without our knowledge -- unless of course someone steals it and we read about it here. It all sounds so convenient, yet at the same time I see where it will eventually wind up, as a new kind of slavery.
Generally I always go to review sites first like wire cutter to see what are the best stuff, then I would see the little details, mostly what bad reviews say about it to contradict. A lot good reviews I can sniff out as fluff with a 5 star label. The bad thing is that when I see an avg of 4.5 stars with 100+ reviews, there is a slight bias inside me for this product. Amazon could do a better job to weight the avg stars.
Chrome pushes you to create a Google account to sync. Firefox pushes you to create a Firefox account to sync. You'll tell me where the difference is.

At least Google does not also push you to create a Pocket account... ;^)
thanks, I also live in France, and I would a very different way of seeing this.

Commodity == no invesment is a boken arguments. Everyday Oil, gold and other commodities are traded. And there is many inovations, from paper gold, to high frequency trading. If something is a commodity you have a incentive close to infinity to inovate. That's why HFT is so popular. Then it trickles down to ISP like it trickle down to NASDAQ when the first move from paper to a computer trading.

You might know SigFox a new kind of ISP who provide low speed internet for connected devices. I don't see how net neutrality block them.