skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't suggest an alternative funding model as much as guess what will it be maybe a year or two from now. Key quote from the article:

> Mozilla has launched Monitor, a data-breach reporting service; Lockwise, a password manager; and Send, a privacy-focused alternative to services such as WeSendit. It’s also beta-testing a VPN (virtual private network) service, which it hopes to market to privacy-conscious users.

Once these web apps mature a bit, I expect to see them in a free tier + a premium behind the subscription (with the core browser of course remaining free). My hunch tells me that's why you'll see this front-and-centered if you open mozilla.org:

> Firefox is more than a browser. Meet our family of privacy-first products
First, they should stop doing those things you mention. Also they should drop the stupid projects they keep releasing all the time. And their left-wing political advocacy. Leave that to the EFF/ACLU/etc. As they say, "Firefox is more than a browser". No, it should be just a browser.

Second, they should push harder so the web has fewer features, so having an implementation of a web browser to compete with Chrome is not impossible (not even Microsoft could make a web browser, they had to switch to Blink! just think about that...)

If they did this, Firefox (the browser, not the 20398492 products they've launched with the same name to prostitute the brand) could live on donations alone probably. But no, they have to keep wasting money.
Integrating chunks of chromium code into gecko should massively reduce their maintenance costs.
E.g spidermonkey is sub-par to v8 since so many years.
If mozilla invested the money it invest into spidermonkey, into v8, the web would be faster for everyone.
Should I repeat?
The web would be faster for everyone.
Nodejs servers too and also electron apps.
We would also get new js features, faster.
But mozilla doesn't seems to get the point of open source.
They have a reinventing the wheel cognitive disease that is going to stay.
I read "compute platform" as Cloud Run being the execution engine. Sounds like Google is just using the normal Kubernetes based execution environment.
No, the problem is that such a function is impossible to implement; any function that allocates memory can fail when no memory is available, and if the call fails there is no recourse in order to proceed per the spec. The compiler could easily create stub functions that call syscalls without the standard library's involvement if it wanted to (it needs to support freestanding environments, after all).
The article once more reiterates the fact that Apple doesn't allow other browser engines. You cannot even fight, there is no future ;-) on iOS.
Keep in mind that Gitlab can also be deployed on-premise, using (presumably) the same HA mechanism:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/high_availability/...

Locking a product and company like Gitlab into a single cloud vendor's proprietary orchestrator would be a massive risk.

Sure, if you're an early stage SaaS startup whose only metric is growth, use whatever gets your infrastructure up and running with as little downtime as possible. In any other situation, locking yourself into a single cloud provider is a risk that needs to be carefully evaluated.
Except functions like qsort which are in the standard library wouldn't have such functions in the signature, so the code in the example still wouldn't work.
There is / was a working solution to this called LORAN-C that is being phased out. The accuracy isn't all that great (60 ft / 18 metres at best) but can be used to provide a 'disagree' alert to navigation systems. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN-C#The_future_of_LORAN )
We used to (half) joke that in our “5 whys” process, #4 was often “because we were lazy [or in a hurry]”.
Nope: The Linux kernel has to parse and support all of the ELF stuff the INTERP of the executable needs.

fs/binfmt_elf.c is over 2k lines.
So... Half the speed? Still good!
All of the non-research grants were in 2006-2013. Has Mozilla stopped this policy of semi-random funding of external projects?

Some of these grants surprised me. For example, $270,000 for the translation and accessibility of the USA presidential election of 2012.
I'm not sure if we are fixing the right thing with robotaxis.

If you need commute pricing, to make traffic less busy and robotaxis successful.

Then why don't we fix commute riding first, instead of waiting for robotaxis and waiting for this problem to popup.
FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0
Literally it is correct - 'already seen'
Please open source Cortana
Of even SimpleNote, which everybody did buried when Automattic buy it, but still in development and working.
Deepfake Roundtable: Cruise, Downey Jr., Lucas, Goldblum discuss Streaming Wars
The list of worst films ever made. [0]

In here at 8.17, is an India film that I watched given that it was a remake of an earlier cult classic in Hindi cinema.

The remake is so bad that I actually liked it!!! I then realized that some of these worst movies need to be watched with a different lens, the movie I referred to I watched with a humor lens comparing it with the classic, that made it a laughter riot, which is why I liked it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_w...
The point of opensource is to follow along with the leader?
Any function call can fail already: if you’ve overflowed the stack there’s not much you can do.
I'm curious, would you use it in a business setting today? What's the killer feature?
Any chance you could link more info about that hamstring stretch?
Colossal Holograms
That looks absolutely perfect for me.

I've found some Stoic attitudes and practices a great help over the past year or so, but suspect there's some really valuable knowledge from the other schools I've yet to learn about.

I'm working my way through Seneca's letters at the moment. He keeps quoting Epicurus, so that's a pretty decent recommendation right there! Anything that builds out context around that era of philosophy is massively interesting to me.

Thank you very much :)
But they get shouted down whenever they try to monetise independently, can't have it both ways.

Either more users start donating $5-10 a month (seems worth it to me given the time I spend with their product) or they take the Google money and deal with the conflict of interest best they can.

A Shuttelworth style billionaire benefactor would work as well, but I doubt one will come from the tech community as Firefox is working against the anti-privacy data collection model that made them (or their friends) rich.
Well their scheme does leave some questions open: Does 3.00 need to come after 2.99 or can there be a 2.100? Or if its more like 2.8.x: Can ever be a x.x.10? (we are talking here more about the scheme that actual blender releases)

How I currently understand is its just 2 numbers and 2.8 is a simplification for meaning 2.8x.
>The big howler for me was Cortana running as part of Windows Server 2016, by default.

Cortana is not running as part of Windows Server 2016 by default . The default install option is no GUI and that option does not install Cortana. You will explicit have to choose that you want to install the "Desktop experience" in order to get Cortana. If you select to add an optional feature named "Desktop experience" it is fair enough that Cortana is there since she is (or now was) a part of Microsoft Desktop experience. Most typical server workloads run fine without the GUI (and Cortana).

Windows Server 2016 Installation Options:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...
Just imagine not being from the US, donating to Mozilla so they improve Firefox, and they instead spend the money on translating the USA presidential election.
Will Streaming Kill the Art of Cinema or Grant It New Life?
Tell HN:Google charging a large fee for Maps API as a result GeoGuess is removed
China’s Internet Is Flowering. and It Might Be Our Future
This is a silly argument. We can do more than one thing at a time.
Ousmane Bance
This is a branch of the culture wars I am sorry to report. Anything that smells of self control is equated with masculinity which is, as we all know, toxic.

This and articles like it, such as the one the other day about the "downside of citizenship", are the soft sell of globalism -statism. Be rootless, follow your bliss, be happy creative and think about and have sex, a lot...that's the Goodlife.

Being self directed, struggling against your own (and others') base instincts leads to repression and hatred and war.

That is the basic theme of these velvet glove pieces.

The iron fist is the inexplicable - what man would dare inveigh against women discussing amongst themselves their own sexualry- attack on no-fap and more broadly, self restraint and self discipline.

People who live according to an inward set of values are unmanageable and unpredictable and, well, deplorable.

Get high, says London's mayor, in a desperate attempt to stem the city's world leading homicide rate. Smoke dope, masturbate, calm down, have a nice meal.

This is that.
We don't need JS to get 2% more faster, the limits of those speed improvements were reached, web assembly combined with a compiled language could offer more speed.

I would like to see Firefox move faster in implementing good web APIs, like the lazy loading of images, push for HTML and CSS improvements(like let me customize the numeric text input arrows with css instead of forcing me to use a JS library) .

Maybe the Rust rewrite will make Firefox better achitected so you could have a node version based on Mozilla technologies or you could easily use the web assembly VM in your application without having to load the full Chrome code.
> IIRC, the binfmt elf code in the Linux kernel basically only does enough elf parsing to map everything into memory and kick off the linker.

Even for statically linked executables?
So you dont want all people to have this information?
If you need to track individuals: don't record any personal data and a short keep-alive of sessions/ids of just 20 minutes.

The biggest risk is that with this you are building infrastructure to do more "malicious" tracking easily. Alternatively use logs/server sided events only I guess.
Which also seems very weird if you have ever visited these countries
…wouldn’t that have the effect of bringing this code back into the kernel’s address space?
What if the movie is intentionally bad? How enjoyable is satire like Army of Darkness?
> Its crazy that the arguments against microkernels were basically 100% its slower.. Which these days is completely batshit insane because we are running software in VM's eating 10%+ system performance, ...

The difference is I can avoid most of that crap when I have to write performance sensitive code, I cannot avoid a slow system without dropping down to the hardware.
I find it sad when develeopers' hard work is tossed in the bin like this. I hope someone from google sees this and get the right people to either offer lower tier pricing or to grandfather existing api keys to some extent.
Elon Musk rips Boeing’s $90M space trips as cost tops SpaceX’s
The reason to use Standard Notes, IMO, is the zero-knowledge encryption. I’ll check out Joplin and the others I’m learning about in this thread but I’m happy with Standard Notes at the moment though.
This is pretty cool, basically a video compositor but for images...
I guess they can also add a messenger, news client, a calendar, and an address book and call it Firefox Communicator....
Eat Like Ancient Babylonians: Researchers Cook Up Nearly 4k-Year-Old Recipes
Integrate metamask by default in firefox before facebook pays them to integrate libra.
One simple way could be to pick up project based in a technology stack you know. I will follow up with an example, see this book [1], about good python projects.

What you can do is, read the description of each project and do it yourself. Don't look at the solution in the book, then when you are done, compare. If some project excites you further, you can probably extend it so if the book offers a CLI solution, may be write a GUI for it and so on.

The trick with side projects is to build momentum and I hope this technique could be helpful. Have fun doing your side project.

[1] https://nostarch.com/impracticalpythonprojects
He Built a $1.7B Business by Connecting Customers with Local Services
I was always wondering if people are more likely to vote conservative in Europe is elections are in autumn or winter :)
Wasn’t Netscape the case study of why you shouldn’t do a full rewrite?
Censor much?

What goes around, comes around.
Looks amazing. I've been using some hacky vscode setup to do GTD but this seems like exactly what i want. Too bad it's not open source, i would still pay their instance but i would feel better knowing i have an escape hatch if they close.

Will try it anyway.
Could 'Hidden Hunger' Be Conquered with a Particle the Size of a Grain of Salt?
Long-term livability is a separate issue to the ability to return. The whole point of colonization is to be able to stay... forever.

Artificial gravity can be added by rotating cities. Not cheap, nor easy, but possible.
That building is insane. Apartments are $3000 plus a sqft. There's not that many high rises in downtown Manhattan that command prices like that... Definitely on the high end. Not sure if you'd really want 33 Thomas as your main view though
What brings a cardiology fellow at Mass General to Hacker News? I think it's great that you're here and sharing insight.
I, for one, am happy that there are multiple competing JavaScript engines. And that’s coming from someone who put in work to improve one you haven’t mentioned.
When threatened a regime will jam the signal, track transmitters, make them illegal, throw people into torture prisons for posession and/or kill owners. It will make it harder for the regime but a cornered totalitarian will do everything to control this. Maybe they could include a "stealth mode" for passive receiving, but that brings a new bag of problems with it.

I think the solution here is not more tech but killing the despots.
Fuel for Rockets and Zeppelins Points Toward Green Heat Solution
It has LOOP and EXIT, I remember that turned out to be the most used repetition construct when I was using (IIRC) JPI Modula-2.

For me, it was so easy to think about loops that way, with an EXIT/condition in the middle of the loop body.
This. Bear in mind that Mozilla is experimenting with different monetisation models, be it subs, donations, relying on Google for search as well as partnerships with companies such as Scroll (publisher content monetisation platforms).

Also, if you follow the discourse on anything published by Mozilla in the past 2-3 years—there's been a shift when it comes to how they speak about Googe. It's a marketing move, of course, but I think it's also a sign of the direction they are following.

I believe something will change here, for better, in the next couple of years. I'd sign for a Mozilla subscription if it included services such as better VPN, supporting those who cannot afford to pay directly, but pay with they data instead.

The move towards paid vs. non-paid services creates a risk that we'd end up with two types of internet users, with privacy being the currency of those who cannot afford an expensive mobile phone or a browser not trying to sell you things whether you want it or not.

The history of Guardian (in the past 5 years or so) shows that people are happy to pay for a valuable service just to allow the others to have access to it. Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic here, but I shudder every time I think about the alternatives.
Can't deep learning computations be structured such that a large number of smaller interconnected dies (but with the same total area) give the same performance as this wafer?
that one also tickled me =)
Lizard Squad Threatens UK’s Labour Leader with Cyberattacks Against His Family
I tried a few note taking apps but in the end came to the realization that regular editors are actually better at the job.

My reasoning:

* _Sync_ should not be solved by the note app (applications that implement sync themselves are usually buggy, I prefer to outsource sync to nextcloud / dropbox / ...)

* I want the same _editing capabilities_ as usual (block edit etc., note apps are usually less power full editors)

* A _tree organization_ is important to me, which is trivially solved using editors and the file system

* There are _Markdown_ packages for pretty much every editor.

Note taking apps tend to ship these features but are not as mature as editors are.
I immediately searched for the word 'sleep' in this article.

> And various surveys have confirmed that people who say they are happy also tend to sleep better and express positive emotions verbally more frequently.

Couldn't better sleep be the cause for happiness?
Note they never say it is fast, or good.
Mozilla plays role in Kenya’s adoption of crucial data protection law
> What if the movie is intentionally bad? How enjoyable is satire like Army of Darkness?

Army of Darkness intentionally bad? What what what?!? That movie is fucking fantastic.

The only bad thing here is that the director got way bigger budget than he was used to, and really didn’t know how to spend it properly.

The end result is still great though.
Nice read, thanks.

Yeah, I’ve always had a weird feeling about whether I should have pivoted to deep fakes, cryptonets, or ML for security applications since I was a few months into PhD.

Think I’ve found me a good non-image niche though (thank Christ for no free lunch theorem.)
A nice followup to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19121716 - Kenya Government mandates DNA-linked national ID, without data protection law - from last February.
It's not called the Senate Launch System for no reason.
What I learned from the first VC check I wrote
Nixon killed nuclear propulsion because there was no mission on the horizon to justify it. It was the right decision, although developing the shuttle was not.
Why are new applications still adding dot folders/files to the home directory and not following freedesktop standards?
Bloodhound land speed racer blasts to 628mph
We are likely created by a computer program
GopherCon 2019: Ian Lance Taylor -Generics in Go
Hacker
when you hack it's hack
Why? You’re not going to be spending most of your time out on suits anyway. Put some sandbags on the roof.
I don't understand why some people say they want to live on Mars. They'd be confined in small metal boxes, surrounded by things that would kill them in a moment. The cost of everything would be enormous, if it was available at all.

If you want that experience, you can get it now on Earth in places we call "prisons".
The decade doesn't matter. NASA is making poor decisions today with SLS, just as it did with the shuttle in the 80s.

The reality is it was possible to build cheap reliable reusable space vehicles with 70s technology.
You're probably thinking of the original Oberon. Wirth has removed both
LOOP and EXIT from Oberon-07. See here:
http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.pdf.
Ok that’s fair. Bait n switching gated content is BS.
How is it technically enforced though, I am curious. I mean, if I wrote an application that downloaded text files and rendered the text to the screen, I am sure that would be possible. If I wanted to add images to draw next to the text I am sure it is feasible. So how can one technically prohibit doing that? Implementation-wise, how is a web browser really that different from e.g. a video game?

Or is it only policy-enforced? Reviewers see something in an app that resembles a "browser" too much and take you down?
I wrote the parent comment last thing at night before going to bed.

On reflection, and having read the article again, I still stand by it, although I couched it in strong terms in response to the smugness and sneering tone of the article.

Young people today are more qualified than ever. They have more degrees and spend longer in education than any generation before. On top of that, there are huge numbers of grad schemes, growing startups and government jobs. Graduate employment is extremely high.

His observation that startups have a high failure rate is completely self evident. Obviously deciding to become an entrepreneur doesn't put you on a path to riches. The fact that younger founders have higher failure rates is tautologically obvious too, since most people don't get lucky on their first startup. Most successful founders I know struck gold on their second third or even fourth attempt. That's partly experience (experience in starting startups, not whatever experience he things it is you get from politicking in a corporate in your thirties) and partly how probability works.

Now if you want to critique the role of corporates and government in all this - throwing money at useless incubators and other schemes and running competitions that amount to exercises graphic design and a slick presenting style - then I'm all ears. But for a non-risk taker to lecture risk takers on risk just really wound me up.
Designers Sell Clothes That Don’t Exist–and People Are Buying Them
Hacker news censors 100 percent of my posts for three years running folks including the one previous to the above, which of course you can't see. But they let ONE post through, mocking them for censorship, just so I look like a fool..

Clever, No?
Taking vitamin D shrinks that gap for a little.
This article discusses how a magnetic field can be generated to protect Mars and it's atmosphere from solar winds.
Maybe I am saying something stupid, but infrastructure services should be able to use a dynamic set of keys.

If the first doesn't work, you try the second, and then the third and so so.

Similarly the clients, we should be able to dynamically adds certificate.

Our own key expires and our services are all about to drop connection seems something that should not happen.
What owl?
I agree, my understanding of Stoicism leads me to the same conclusion. Epicureans and Stoics seem to have always had a friendly rivalry going on, though they feel a lot like two sides to the same coin. In some ways, to me, Epicureanism is what a Stoic does on their day off.
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It would be amazing if this is turned into a reusable widget!
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One cannot have writeable executable memory on iOS (apple can, we cannot).

Thus one cannot make a JIT compiler for js and thus pages are slow.

Game engines such as Unity use il2cpp to go from the C# stuff into C++ that can be statically compiled as running the C# as bytecode would be too slow without a jitter.
Understanding CVSS v3.1
There might be mitigation strategies.

First step: colonize Valles Marineris. (It's as much as 7km below mean surface level, so the atmosphere is going to be considerably thicker at the bottom than at surface level: for reference, that's the same height as Mount Everest, although due to the difference in gravity the scale height is higher, meaning you don't get as good a pressurization increase as you would on Earth).

Second step: build residencies by drilling horizontal tunnels into the cliff walls and pressurizing the entrances.

Third step: throw large mylar domes (or even roof) over the floor of the canyon and actively compress the air down there to get it up to a temperature at which crops will grow. Scavenge oxygen produced by photosynthesis from the mostly-CO2 atmosphere using cold traps.

(Your colonists aren't exposed to the solar and cosmic radiation because they're living under a couple of km of rock, and their crops are under almost double ambient atmospheric pressure even before you add active pressurization to the farms.)

Note that Vales Marineris is 4000km long and up to 200km wide in places. It's huge -- ISTR hearing that it has roughly the same land area as Germany (but can't find the source right now).