skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Originally, HTML didn't support any kind of colours at all.

Netscape introduced HTML attributes for colouring things, and it passed the colour names straight through to X11. Because X11 shipped with a suite of pre-defined colour names, Netscape supported those pre-defined colour names. Because X11 supported custom colours in #RGB, #RRGGBB and #RRRRGGGGBBBB syntax, Netscape supported those too.

Meanwhile, Microsoft wanted in on the browser game, but a lot of people still used Windows on machines with 16-colour VGA rather than high-end workstations with true-colour displays, so Internet Explorer couldn't offer the hundreds of named colours Netscape could. Instead, it provided names for the standard Windows 16 colour palette: black, maroon, green, olive, navy, purple, teal, silver, gray, red, lime, yellow, blue, fuchsia, aqua, white.
Original discussion of Posthaven, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229229
From personal experience, Tableu has saved my team countless hours adding reporting features to our products just because some middle manager on another team got a hair in their butt, so I can see the value.
Chrome crippling adblockers creates a huge opportunity for paid competition. I would gladly buy a browser just to be sure adblock will always work.

Of course, FF + uBO is free, and one can always make donations. But buying a product feels different.

Also, businesses can expense what they buy with an invoice -- usually not the case with donations.
You may want to take a look at [perspective](https://perspective.finos.org/), a WASM-based serverless dynamic visualization library with [D3FC](https://d3fc.io) charting.
After which the bubble bursts.
Yes the consensus is "pretty boring"
It was supported by the hardware, but they just didn't bother to change the font.
> Syntax highlighting is easier to resolve on a dark background

Definitely an unsubstantiated claim.
It's very unlikely that this will happen. Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. When you have demonstrated you are willing to pay money for a service, you are likely to also spent money on other goods. This only makes you more attractive as an advertising target.

Most likely we will see premium features like:
- premium color themes
- more cloud storage for settings and extensions
- analytics on your browsing data (after you hand the data over to them) (??)
- more customer support (???)
The issue isn’t so much any anti-competitive misbehavior. Even though there are some specific practices that have landed FAANG in hot waters, those aren’t really different from any other companies’ of similar size.

Monopolization just happens to be the natural state of any system that has network effects and where all costs are front-loaded (I. e. write the code once, scale to billions of users at, if you squint, zero marginal costs).

But neither of these issues are the motivation for calls for a “digital tax”. Nor is economic nationalism. There have always been industries that were dominated by one or just a few countries: the US has media/entertainment, consumer goods manufacturing has almost entirely moved to Asia, etc.

What’s different about “digital” is that requires essentially zero presence or taxable activity at the consumers’ location. Nobody felt the need to tax Hollywood’s movies because a ticket to ‘Titanic’ in Austria may have meant 2€ leaving the country, but the bulk of it actually stayed in the local economy, as (taxed) revenue of the theatre, local distributors, corn growers, and breweries.

For physical products, this is even more obvious. French champagne served in a Billings, Montana restaurant is about 50% margin for the venue, 30% for the US-based distribution chain, and only 20% goes to funny mustaches people in striped shirts.
It's literally in the exact same book that he writes that those who lost hope died first. Hope is what keeps us going.
Updated opinions about Gutenberg – after I explored it on last weekend
It’s bad practice (or at least shady) to distribute software that modifies /var for example...

A honeypot server with navigable filesystem fits what you’re talking about perhaps, as does a game where logging in makes you create a user which is your character which is an RPG managed by bash scripts and the filesystem and various chroots are the “world” and in game you can level up and unlock passive auras which take the form of system daemons and gaining access to a new script is a spell...
The legal term is gross negligence, and it's worse than it sounds.
Still less common than the default.
That is correct: since these were not usual players who abstained from playing, but rather casual players who bought extra tickets just on rolldown, while the State got a cut from every ticket sale, they were effectively pouring extra money into the lottery, increasing the State's income.

Even if they re-invested their previous winnings, that would be twice (or more) that the State would get its cut from the same money, still increasing its income.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong (I sure hope I am), and maybe it's just the lingering disappointment from the failure of FirefoxOS, but AFAIK Mozilla is also known for epic C-level mismanagement.
Math is one of many subjects. Many Harvard students head remedial classes in music, art, and literature too.
More infuriating, it's often seen as something to be proud about for them. They're compensating for their own inadequacy - they don't understand how something as basic as a smart phone works, so act as if that's a virtue.

This lack of knowledge clearly extends to policy too:

"The UK came 34th out of the 34 members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) for spending on transport equipment.

Illustrating the meagre spending in recent years on the latest technology and industrial kit by UK firms, the study also found Britain ranks near the bottom – 20th out of 21 countries for which data is available – in spending on IT systems and 23rd out of 27 countries for investment in other types of machinery.

The UK is better at constructing new homes and office blocks, but even in these sectors, the UK is still well below the OECD average.

The only area where the UK is ahead of the OECD average is in intellectual property, ranking 13th of 34 countries.

In total, UK capital investment was 16.6% of GDP in 2014, matching Italy’s spending as a proportion of national incomes, while the average across all OECD countries was 20.8%. Germany fell just below the average with a figure of 20%, but France edged higher to register spending equal to 21.8% of GDP.

Only Greece and Portugal invested less than the UK, leaving it to rank 33rd out of 35 countries." [0]

It's an absolute embarrassment.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/16/uk-investme...
>I'm pretty sure you are right now paying a lot more money to companies doing a lot less efforts Mozilla is currently doing. And now you are asking even more of them, just as a condition for maybe giving them something day.

No, right now I'm not paying a dime to companies that don't provide me with the products I want.

Parent is talking about being a customer, not a charity.
As high as 13%? Wow, I thought it would be much, much lower.
Parts, the modified Listener, has not been open sourced. Caddy's author was quick to deflect and squash any discussion about what else is held private.

The easiest answer would have been a "sure, here's the link". Instead the thread has been locked for being off-topic, yet the original issue and the question concern the same thing.
It’s a lot further than this though with unbuffered RAM, registered RAM in the mix affecting performance and such. Error detection and error correction are different and require different levels of parity codes. Standard RAM at one point (SIMMs in the 90s) detected errors but won’t ever correct them. ECC can detect more but error patterns and now correct error patterns up to so many bits.

The issues are more subtle beyond hardware though - your OS kernel has to understand the detection from the BIOS / EFI and if the motherboard manufacturer decided not to opt for wiring in the checksum fail signal you will run blind to data corruption that’s potentially really subtle on typical consumer hardware. With some BIOSes RAM failures result in a hard panic and will hard reboot the machine (the idea being a crash is better than continuing with an error).

For me, ECC (both UDIMM and RDIMM) today are so inexpensive it’s a no-brainer for builds for business.
My guess is that they won't be performing experiments with paying users, for two reasons:

1. Paying users are too valuable.

2. Free users can "opt out" of experiments by paying - and they'll get some nice features for "free" as they do so.

(Edit, formatting)
I mean, I could, but I think it's fair for me to assume that the GitHub repository that the official website links to as the source code for their client is where they’d publish up-to-date code.
Okay, so I looked around and found this tool [1] for World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index.

Seems to me that the US is not the biggest offender here, and that maybe the original posted study is using data that could be construed to look bad. Its like they are taking the few bad locations with air pollution and saying the US is screwed.

But broaden the view to include the world, and it seems like the US is the best place to live. Almost as if the US could be the poster child for the Paris climate accord.

1. https://waqi.info/
Just donate instead and let them know you want all your money to go straight into Firefox if possible:
https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/
> Those are all the bottom-end models.

I think you misspoke; the 128k, IIfx and 8100 were all unequivocally top-end models at the time of release.
The idea isn't to sell a browser you can download for free, it's to sell value added services that they can cheaply produce/maintain to those who want to purchase it.

I might agree that Mozilla might need some new management, but this seems like a good move not a bad one so...
>Useful inventions don't need advertising to spread.

This is a common superstition, like faeries or psychic powers.

>Are we really happier than hunters and gatherers

Are you talking about the people who had like a 40% murder rate? The people with piles of dead babies buried out back.

The modern world is depressing and frought with new problems, but most of them are the inevitable product of high population density. Many of our inventions are built to deal with higher population density. The choices are A) create technology with some downsides, or B) genocide

I really don't think I can convince someone that advertising is sometimes necessary when they'd rather smear blood on their forehead and beat a deer to death with a rock.
This is exactly my reasoning — I love tools that do amazing things with minimal resources. I have a ten-year-old Thinkpad X300 running Debian with JWM. I mostly work in Emacs, terminal emulators, and a browser, so it performs very well indeed. Why would I want to spend a couple thousand dollars to have 3D titlebars on my terminal windows and run an OS that takes three times as long to start, when a $70 system does exactly what I need? It's not for everyone, sure — if I did a lot of video editing, or played games, it would be different — but it's more than sufficient for me, even with minor photo editing and CAD work.

If only I could find a car that adheres to the same principles!
And mobile phones ate the dedicated players. Thus, lame.

It was a product of is time with one hit feature of huge space and decent battery life for that. At a significant markup.

Does ARKit have a killer feature at all? Even one, compared to competition?
Yeah the added gifts (wine, chocolates, etc.) was actually their tactic to grab youth as a final effort before going down.
While an interesting perspective, I think it does not reduce the importance of the eye contact for capable people.

When people capable for eye contact talk to each other and are not having eye contact then it creates an impression of not being there, or not valuing the conversation enough, or not wanting (or not being capable) to tell the truth.

Current video conferencing system creates an environment where participants do not necessarily feel comfortably. It is not equal to the real life conversation.

You can mitigate this by looking to the camera when you are talking and then to the screen when you are listening. This creates an impression that you are looking into the eyes of the listeners but then you can not truthfully see their reactions.
More info https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/4/3/expos-10-20-30-w...
I was looking at tools a while ago at Linode while trying to automate support for FreeBSD/OpenBSD/etc. The UX for different distributions (if provided at all) is disparate, confusing, and poorly documented. I ended up giving up and just building the images by hand and hosting them [0].

I've seen linuxkit a few times now but it didn't click that this is what it does.

The problem still remains that there's no good distribution-agnostic combination of boot image creator + provisioning system. The ideal situation is one tool that allows me to start with an arbitrary base distribution, provision it, and build a bootable image for the VM provider of my choice (VirtualBox, EC2, bhyve, etc.).

[0] https://github.com/eatonphil/linode_deploy_experimental
> I would guess that the majority of these people would have been using 15-19" CRT monitors, and mostly single displays.

I doubt that this is the reason. On a CRT I prefer bright text on dark backgrounds because it minimizes visible flicker. Where the screen is dark on a CRT, the beam is simply off. This becomes especially important if the monitor has low refresh rate and/or fast phosphor. I think that it's for this reason that a lot of (actual) terminals have really long afterglow phosphor and use bright text on dark backgrounds. It's basically a prerequisite to use them regularly for any extended amount of time. Newer CRTs improve the situation considerably, though, with much faster refresh rates to compensate for the short afterglow necessary for media like games and video.

Overall I think that using CRTs is more exhausting than LCDs, even taking into consideration the typical size of a computer CRT display compared to a modern office dual LCD setup. After a couple of hours of use of a 15" 2002 CRT my eyes feel dry and sandy, and the problem is exacerbated by bright screen content. Also, my LCDs (at home and at work) are not nearly as bright as my CRTs.

On LCDs I tend to use bright backgrounds in daylight because it seems much easier to read, and the screen doesn't need to be so bright. In the dark, I use dark backgrounds because bright screens easily become the brightest thing in the room with little natural lighting. In practice this means a bright theme at work and a dark theme at home.

I can't wait for paper-like unlit desktop displays with fast refresh rates. IMO it's the most important step for improved computer ergonomics. Then we can fully embrace natural lighting e.g. during summer time office hours, which is healthy for soul and body and easier on the eyes than basically staring into a lamp. Also potentially a lot more energy efficient.
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Some IDM tunes gave me shivers in the past, like Bola or Squarepusher.
And most noticably certain letter styles. Berlin graffiti from the late 90s, early 00s. DRM/BAD crews.
For local automated testing of mobile browsers on both iOS and Android you probably want to have a look at https://appium.io/, which uses the Webdriver protocol.

If you want to run the same tests against both mobile and desktop browsers, I recommend https://webdriver.io/, which uses Appium for mobile testing.

If you're interested in a Docker setup as a boilerplate to test against all major browsers (both mobile and desktop) with best practices for e.g. test video recordings, you might also wanna take a look at this repo of mine: https://github.com/blueimp/wdio
It’s not about blue collar vs white collar. It’s about working for yourself or being an employee. Corporate culture is ‘anti human’, anti-planet, and anti-social. When you have to use energy to demonstrate your ‘adherence to policy’ that is waste. Furthermore, corporations make you spend that energy from your private store.
Yet they have 500m shares outstanding with a market value of $200b.
No, I'm not being emotional. The question of nature vs nurture from a moral standpoint is a very interesting question which I thought trough length and breadth many times.

Therefore I see, that when people start to attribute psychological traits of people to a nature they do it mostly to justify genocide, segregation or something like. To attribute psychological trait to a nature is an emotional argument.
I think that would ultimately have undesirable consequences.

If this were an option on a malloc call, any such call would have to reserve the allocated memory at that point, reducing the usefulness of overcommit for other processes. This would set up a 'tragedy of the commons' scenario, where every application developer defensively uses this feature because other applications are using it.
it took me a long time to get into BoC but the strange thing is that I never get sick of them. there are very few bands that do that. (Mogwai does that too or within the hibhop genre that would be The Roots, or Mos Def).

It seems that the quicker I like a band/song the quicker I also get sick of it. And music that I have to get used to with passive listening - e.g. have them playing in the background but not when running or driving then the longer I like them. Some artists and albums have literally stayed with me for decades. (e.g. The Roots Illadelphia Halflife or Things Fall Apart acompanied me when my kids were born, when I got my dog, when my dog died, when I got married, when my kids left for university, ...). Not every band is around that long or is able to adapt its music style to remain relevant (for my taste) ...

I remember the times when I went to buy music at record stores and there was no way of just purchasing the top 3 tracks from an album and skip the rest. You either bought the whole album or you got a single but there was nothing in between. Having shelled out the money I then wanted to make an effort to also give those songs "a chance" that didn't immediately stick. And it was always those more complex tunes that I ended up liking the most ...
One of the things that's interesting to me is the resources available at the time - in terms of help.

With a game like this now (Say, the excellent Thimbleweed Park - you played it, right?), if you get truly, epically stuck, there's a walk-through no more than a few clicks away. And you'll probably admit defeat and go there after a few hours.

When I picked DoTT up (a few seconds after release ;) ), no such thing. You were in it alone. Maybe there was a magazine write in for hints, and if you were lucky you knew a guy on a BBS, but other than that, you were on your own. That made the puzzles so much sweeter when you got them.
There is a class of products with strong elements of charitable contribution. For example Plex Pass, endangered species chocolate, LWN subscription, and select blockchain tokens--and maybe this too. There are hard to pin down non-commercial benefits to purchasers mixed in with traditional value drivers.

With Plex, I purchased a lifetime membership not because I valued any of the added features (I don't use them to this day), but because I got so much value out of the project that I felt indebted and wished to express my gratitude. I wanted the project to live on, and I also got to brag about my deeds on tech forums. The incredible scaling characteristics of software allow me to already enjoy most of the benefit from the free/open base edition alone.

Here are reasons for my "charity-driven" purchases:

- Admiration for project vision and desire to ensure its longevity

- A sense of gratitude due to incommensurate value enjoyed for very cheap or free

- Wanting to belong to the community and feel like part of the journey

I find myself valuing these items as "real commercial benefit":

- Strong privacy guarantees

- Cost-plus models such as selling managed storage, bandwidth, etc.

- Subscription to updates backed by regular human labor

- Access to premium support/SLA
The point is that developed world has stalled. Which is probably true on some measures but we do not know why. There should be slower but incremental improvement as there is room for that still. A plenty of room in fact.

Life expectancy is still gaining though and flattening. That is the main variable encompassing almost everything. Including normalized per income is flattening.
Income per capita has flattened somewhat, but it might be a natural sigmoid the China, Russia and such have yet to reach. So that's about it.
You can chose your GP based on the software they use and the governance procedures they have in place to handle your data.

When you're referred on for elective care you can chose the hospital based on the same criteria.

You don't get much choice over emergency treatment, nor over mental health treatment.

I get the impression that people here think that you have one medical record that is available across all the NHS, but that's not correct. You have a bunch of different records in different places and they're not available to each other.
Right; the whole mindset is about trying to impress the people you deem “above” you and climb some bullshit social ladder that means about as much as Instagram likes. But you know in the back of your mind, they’re just as lonely and looking for validation as I was.

It’s kind of ironic: these days, within my private world, my job and the money I make cause people to distrust me at first. Most of my friends make less than a quarter of what I make, so I have to be careful about new purchases (e.g. a friend of mine had been saving for a $2500 guitar which I could easily have bought on a whim — but I got a way cheaper one so as to not make her feel like shit because she is far more dedicated to her music than I am). At the same time I can’t buy my friends things like that because it distances me and makes them feel they owe me. I don’t see it like that — I feel the amount of money I make is arbitrarily unfair because I blindly made a career decision 20 years ago that worked out from me. But they do, so I have to be sensitive.

I still wear the flashy clothes, purses and shoes in a work context because they make me feel like a confident bad bitch and I’m client-facing. But I do it for me rather than the external validation (ok, and maybe a bit of imposter syndrome).

Also it’s entirely the same with the men so this isn’t a sexist thing — it’s just bespoke suits, shoes and watches for the guys. And a class ring on your finger if it’s from an Ivy. And this is true regardless of the kind of “business” — go to the music world and it’s all streetwear with $500 Supreme t-shirts and $2500 limited-edition sneakers; and the tech world has hoodies, bicycles, cars and the latest bleeding-edge tech. It’s all peacocking.
Ideally, Mozilla would let us pay to use their servers, while also providing an OSS self-hosted version with equivalent functionality.

(Firefox is available under the MPL, which is a sort of compromise between copyleft and MIT-style licenses. So it'd be difficult to make any new FF feature entirely closed source.)
Insert standard response here that donations to Mozilla Foundation do not go towards software development.

While Firefox does produce revenue — chiefly through search partnerships — this earned income is largely reinvested back into the Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation’s education and advocacy efforts, which span several continents and reach millions of people, are supported by philanthropic donations.

— https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/faq#item_8
It seems you are confusing "far left" with "partisan". Far left is about the issues and the people one supports, not about how fair or unfair one is.