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Mozilla is not a browser. Firefox is.

In the early days of mozilla.org and even well into Firefox's heyday, Mozilla was more akin to a co-op. It was a neutral ground where folks associated with different vendors and institutions participated from all corners. Students. Independent researchers. Engineers from Google. Engineers at HP. Engineers at Red Hat. Even folks from Opera. Some people were being paid to work on Firefox full- or part-time, but most of their paychecks were signed by those other companies, not Mozilla. People who were on Mozilla payroll were generally employed by the Foundation with an official job title that involved keeping mozilla.org infrastructure running.

Some people might superficially look at the Mozilla Corporation and assume that this all ended there, but they're wrong. When Mozilla Corp. got spun up and Google signed a deal for search engine royalties, employee numbers stayed in the very low hundreds for years, and the search deal was largely seen as similar to another donation of sorts—Firefox had already defaulted to Google before the deal, because it was the only thing that made sense for the developers and other people actually using Firefox.

Somewhere along the way, though, between Google pulling engineers off Firefox and launching Chrome, to the introduction and rapid adoption of the iPhone and mobile Safari, the powers that be at Mozilla decided to make a business play, which is more or less where the stillborn FirefoxOS came in. Whereas before Mozilla was a vendor-neutral org working on what amounted to a reference implementation of a modern user agent as its contribution to the digital public infrastructure[1], the company began pursuing a role as a Bay Area bit player, formed a business plan, and began competing for part of the pie, both on the desktop and mobile. It went on a hiring spree, shifted most things out of the mozilla.org governance model to live underneath the Corporation's org structure, othered contributors not employed @mozilla.com, and hired execs from places like Adobe—folks with with business experience to try and run the show and make it all work.

Of course, it didn't really work. It just destroyed the Mozilla that used to exist.

So now we have Mozilla today, which is still limping along in that space. It's got the same name, but it's really just running on steam and trading on that name and the goodwill that the Mozilla community fostered in the earlier era. But that doesn't mean when you see people talk about "Mozilla" that they're referring to the floundering business that we see today.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22389779
Quick, invest in video surveillance.
If the web kept going down that path, we’d end up with a dozen equivalents of Flash and Silverlight, dooming the web to become a closed hellscape.
Coronavirus vaccine race: volunteers to be infected in the UK
Money flows into the market when people earn it and use it to buy stocks. Every stock purchase is matched by a stock sale, but most stock sales turn around and become new stock purchases. That's a net long term inflow of money into the stock market, from people purchasing stocks with their earnings (often, via retirement funds).

Most of the actual trading is traders trading to each other, and that shouldn't raise the market cap long term (though it does create volatility). But there is also real inflow of money into the market.
You might be thinking of Rustoleum?
This has been seen in Hong Kong already. It's been noted that residents there were very receptive to social distancing measures due to their experience with SARS in 2003.

Data provided by the government’s Centre for Health Protection show the incidence of infection with influenza had fallen to less than 1 per cent by the end of February, marking an end to the winter flu season, which normally extends to the end of March or into April.

...

Ho Pak-leung, a leading microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong, said data showed the flu season had shortened from an average of 98.7 days to 34 days this year.

https://www.ft.com/content/ad7ae6b4-5eab-11ea-b0ab-339c2307b...

* Twitter link to above to possibly bypass paywall: https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1236491746541895685?s=2...
That's somewhat correct. But it wasn't that they didn't allow those people to sell. In the film they were dealing with specialty derivative products that weren't traded by your average person. The derivative products in the film were sort of like bond pricing where price discovery isn't obvious and determining a fair price is a bit subjective since the volume was very low. So when people like Michael Burry (Bale's character) called to see what kind of price they could get, the banks would give him a bullshit, obnoxiously low offer price they'd be willing to give him because correctly valuing these derivatives would bankrupt the banks. So they held them on the books with fake valuations to stay afloat while they reduced their risk. Then, after doing all that they could fairly price them, which is when Burry makes a metric shit ton of money basically overnight - because he is finally able to get a fair price.

For example, if we took a simpler example of something more people are familiar with like options...let's say you buy a put at a strike of 100. The stock is trading right around 100. The market tanks like it has been doing and the stock goes down to 80. That's great for you since you had the put. You technically have the right to buy the shares at the market and shove them onto someone and force them to pay you 100. Most of the time, since we're dealing with derivatives, they just trade the value of the option itself and skip dealing with the underlying security because it takes a lot of capital (100 shares * 80 bucks each in this case). So the value of the option (the derivative) should be around $20 as you approach expiration and the premium fades off. If the market maker for the options has way too much exposure and wrote naked puts (meaning they didn't have the underlying security) they took on a ton of risk and basically got fucked. In this scenario it's like Burry calling and finding out his options are worth like $1.50 instead of $20 simply because they are thinly traded and therefore can't get a good price by anyone. This actually happens on some options - you'll see a huge spread between the bid and ask on some options so it's not like it doesn't happen even for this type of retail-friendly derivative.
Mixed declaration and code is very old in C++, and Microsoft has always supported it there. It wasn't until vs2015 that they let you do it in a .c file.
> I think this raises questions about ethics in technology

Does it? I have yet to see an instance where any amount of luddism makes any sense. Stifling progress "for the jobs" is always bad for humanity in the long run.
Yes, that's true - although I would expect that countries with widespread easy testing would have their "confirmed cases" number get pretty close to the "actual cases" number.

And "actual cases" would be the people that have the actual disease, not the people that just carry the virus. For people who are carriers but are not infected, they apparently don't want to mix those people into the numbers because that's not how other illnesses are counted either.
If they can't get him on the national intelligence charges they'll still get him on the porno, he's toast.
The ripple effect of potential Italian bank defaults will ripple throughout the EU and the USA as well.
It surprises me that nobody's mentioned Fiverr in the same vein.

I'd think "an Uber for creative work" is at least prone to the same incentives to cut out the middleman.
>The WD part of the name was descriptive for what the coating did to Water, which was Displace it, and it took the company 40 tries to get it right. I bet you can figure it out from there

Smells like marketing to me, it just doesn't need 40 attempts to come up with a simple mix of kerosene and mineral oil.

I bet the old timers used to mix their own variations long before WD-40 came on the scene.

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/st-whatsinside-6/
They have? Are we talking images only because in video mp4 and .h264 and .h265 are pretty much it. Apple/Safari still doesn't support vp8/vp9/webm/av1 for video or ogg for audio
Probably would allow very cheap power supplies w/built-in UPSes. 12V±5% voltage is the allowed range.
Of course, because the latter doesn't protect the hospitals from getting overwhelmed.
I'm curious, how does this technology deal with items that aren't individually packaged? Is there a place for vegetables, meats, bulk foods, etc, or is the technology limited to acting like a giant vending machine?

I hope that stores like these will one day be hubs where we can refill all our bulk products and actually save on shipping and packaging. I fear that stores like these will just sell me individually wrapped apples because it's not worth the effort.
Indeed, found that for myself when got into mobo design.

ATX 5V is really unsuitable for USB power, and can play tricks on you.

Similarly, 3.3V from PSU is useless at powering 3.3V logic.

You have to do power staging on board to guarantee that PCI and i2c stuff turns on after the bridge/soc.

Some PSUs don't follow reset timings, or don't do them at all on standby rail.

So if you do ATX power by the book, you may end up with improperly inited board, and 3.3V ICs booting up before the CPU.

So, yes, most of ATX power supply functionality is already duplicated by most mobos
This makes sense for specific use case computers, specialty ones, etc. So it'll be adopted. And because of economies of scale it'll push into actual desktop computers and their mobos. Having to dissipate all that heat on/in the mobo will be terrible for actual desktop computers. But it'll happen anyway because it's better for corporations and the desktop market doesn't drive their decisions.
Over the long term. Let's go back 150 years and invest in a random stock market wherever you happened to live.

If you lived in the USA or England, this was a great idea and worked out brilliantly.

If you lived in countries like Italy, Germany and Russia, you lost everything when those stock markets were closed down in the first half of the 20th century.

You can't say "historically over the long term" then project forward for the next 50 years based only by the results of the last 50 years in the market where things have worked out best.

Over our lifetime, equities are indeed the best bet. But not a guaranteed safe one.
Reading the article wouldn't help, in this instance, since the only ingredient it supposes might be in the formula is otter semen.
> Yes, it is like the flu. H1N1 Influenza A has a ~10% mortality rate in the elderly, similar to nCoV-19.

Just as a reminder, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic killed maybe half a million people (150,000–575,000) with a CFR of 0.01-0.08%.

Here, current CFR estimates are 5 to 100 times higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
I'm already riding it. After MoviePass started collapsing it became very clear that many of these companies are growth-first, profit-later-somehow. Then I worked at a small startup that fell apart due to mismanagement.
Well, for one thing, if the lock on google.com starts showing a chinese flag I think everyone who notices would know to be suspicious.
I'd agree if the rules had been changed on the fly, as a response to the current events, but they weren't. The rules were known and they were activated as expected.
Choosing a PEO also means that you are outsourcing all your HR functions - payroll, retirement, benefits, etc. Part of that includes large group insurance prices. In return, you pay a per-head fee to the PEO.

If cost is the primary driver for your decision the important thing is to compare the PEO fees vs how much money you will save on the discounted insurance. We have helped a few companies do this analysis - On a pure cost basis, we are a better option for some, PEOs win for others. Feel free to reach out to hn@gosavvy.com if you want advice on your specific situation.
This is a PR disaster not just for Lambda school but also for YC.
But you just bought a toilet seat, surely you want five more toilet seats, you toilet seat enthusiast you.
Not sure how much help I would be, but if it’s any encouragement I would very much appreciate a “real” JS version. I looked at the JS version of HSLUV just the other week and was bummed that it was compiled from Haxe.
One upvote? Are we supposed to feel sorry for your karma craving personality?
Two related things are happening here, and a third thing isn't actually happening today but is an active subject of research.

1. All the trusted CAs log either all the certificates they issue or the vast majority of certificates intended for use on the public Internet. They do this because it's a good idea, and (as we'll see in #2) because it makes commercial sense. The effect is that if you have a way to trick a CA into issuing something that shouldn't exist, or if they just issue it through the usual human fallibility (e.g. an operator fat fingers something at a console) researchers can see it, the same way they'd see if your Senator doesn't bother attending Congress - it's a matter of public record.

2. Google's Chrome, and later Apple's Safari require SCTs (Signed Certificate Timestamps) from logs before they accept newer certificates. The cheap easy way to arrange this is to log "pre-certificates" which get you valid SCTs and then you bake those inside the real certificate given to a subscriber. If you use Let's Encrypt, this is how SCTs got inside all your certificates, no extra work for you. There are fancier options that let you get a certificate and then obtain SCTs later separately, but they're rather niche. This means if you can obtain an apparently valid certificate but only a new enough one (thus after enough time in the future, any certificate) but no SCTs for it, it won't be valid in those browsers. The logs aren't supposed to give out an SCT without logging the certificate. So now an attacker needs to either log their bogus certificate (if they can) and show it to the world, or corrupt the logs too, a big ask on top of whatever attack they've done to trick or corrupt the CA issuer or bypass them.

3. Eventually the intention is a Gossip protocol. The idea here is, when you browser sees an SCT we should like to verify that the associated certificate was really logged irrevocably for everybody to see. But we'd like not to undo your privacy in the process. You don't want to tell everybody "Hey I like Balloon Porn" but you'd ideally like to be sure the certificate on your Balloon Porn website is seen in the logs by everybody, not just a special version of the log shown only to you and six other people under investigation for liking Balloon Porn. Figuring out the best way to approach this is an active research topic.
Same with Warby Parker, I've "sold" my entire family and 3-4 friends on buying a frame, and everyone's loved them. If you have vision insurance it's typically ~$50 after reimbursement for a fantastic set of frames and great customer service. I've gotten frames fixed a year after buying them for free with no appointment or anything. I'm not interested in trying anything else or hearing about in-network frame allowances, it's just not worth my time. I'll be a Warby customer as long as we're both alive.
> And where is the competition? Is there anyone at all who can provide something like this?

Um, Walmart and most major grocery stores already have self checkout areas. So “wait in line to get served” isn’t quite the comparison. Most companies will give zero fucks about adopting this unless it becomes the expected norm.
> I wasn't able to find anything, but admittedly my Italian is not great.

> I find it hard to believe, and given Italy's recent problems with the far-right surge, it seems to be more fake news.

So you don't speak enough Italian to verify, but still you got a hunch. And since we're at it, let's accuse whoever says things I don't like of spreading fake news.

What a constructive attitude!

Besides not speaking Italian well enough, you are not even well informed about Italian politics, because everyone even just skimming through headlines would know that a few weeks ago the President of the Italian Republic visited a primary school with mainly Chinese pupils as a symbolic gesture against discrimination and racism.

There was also a long article about racism and Coronavirus on Internazionale, but you could easily find tens of sources.

Get your facts straights (or just ask) before accusing people of spreading fake news.
Common sense measures include washing your hands, not avoiding Chinese restaurants. But yes, it wasn't perfect. At least there was no generalized denial.
They make super solid glasses that look and feel just as good as those from top tier "fashionable" brands, but they are much much cheaper.

My personal favorite part is that you don't have to do this mental math of "the frame is this much, then pick lenses you want depending on your budget, etc." The price of the frame is the only thing you pay, all the fancy lenses and such are free, whether you need them or not (in case of sunglasses). With frames being noticeably cheaper than other brands and lenses being free (usually the bulk of the cost of prescription glasses), they are welcome to put their hand in my wallet.

The only reason I don't shop there much anymore is because of LASIK. Back then though, I had about 4 different frames from Warby Parker, and those were my favorites, despite previously wearing the usual "known" eyewear brands (and that's even without factoring in the cost).

P.S. There are some extra charges for lenses in rare scenarios, like if you have a very very strong prescription, they charge you a bit extra if you want to make the lenses thinner. Still not comparable to traditional glass brands though in terms of how much it costs.

P.P.S. There are other affordable online eyewear places, but I have been appalled with the quality and look of those. A couple of friends of mine tried Zenni Optical before, and those frames felt flimsy and they didn't look good at all imo. Warby Parker seems to have found a really solid niche between "cheap and flimsy" and "overpriced brand name eyewear", which is "the quality and looks of premium eyewear, but with a much more reasonable pricing".
>a finite supply should be allocated to them first.

i don't understand why medical facilities don't have a several month supply in storage. Such things like masks cost nothing in normal times and anyway is expected to be bought in bulk. The medical industry is highly consolidated and even without a pandemic there is always a risk of a supplier going off-line and anybody without enough supplies in stores is going to hang dry. Speaking anecdotally - several years ago a Novartis factory went off-line for whatever reason and we were scrambling to find the vet medicine we needed - normal vets quickly run out, and only one online pharmacy happened to fortunately still have it.
Yeah especially when the jobs are unpleasant ones. Are any young people disappointed that they can't work in the coal mines?
I won't do it. Because 1. I value what's left of my privacy more than saving a minute of human interaction here and there (are you really that busy? I'm not and I have 4 kids) 2. I won't contribute to twisting the arms of my local retailers and forcing them into amazon's yoke.

In short: to hell with this.

Edit: yoke
> quickly flagging anything that seems off

Do you memorize all the time whether you grabbed two or three bags of chips or exactly how many cans of beer etc?

How do you prove you didn't buy something? Or will they just accept your word? If anyone can just say whatever, then people will just ask for refunds of stuff. Will they check the footage in each case? But maybe it can work in the US. It sure as hell won't work in many other countries, where people look for loopholes all the time.
acpi would be a blessing, the norm for ARM SoCs is absolutely no enumerablity whatsoever, just devices hanging off a random address in memory somewhere.
> Mattresses were a notoriously opaque and user-hostile market. A decade ago I was working at a startup aimed at helping people make better purchasing decisions, and that was one of the top categories people mentioned struggling with.

I've found that one of the most time-efficient heuristics for getting a quality product for these product categories is simply "buy whatever Costco is selling".
I agree with this entirely.

I think conspiracy theories are so dangerous because the threads can be interpreted however one wants, and facts don't matter.

You wrote a thoughtful, sensible rebuttal, but it has little impact in the face of "oh of course the CIA did it". It's pretty disappointing really.
> It's pretty bad and seems to bounce left and right between the lanes.

2019 Audi SQ5, exact same problem, had to disable it too. I really wonder if these non-Tesla manufacturers are getting pre-fab'd chipsets from the same place. It's really an impediment rather than driver assist.

I've noticed that it steers by itself pretty well on long curves, but anything other than and I'm weaving in the lane and begging for a roadside sobriety check.
I haven’t read anything that said sniffles or runny nose was a symptom. I have a runny nose and was told by the ER on the phone in British Columbia not to worry unless I get a fever.
Fine, what I should have said for absolute clarity is:

"China and Korea have effectively dealt with the virus, infections in both those areas have been declining. And Korea now is effectively the lowest fatality rate for any of the effected countries which points to excellent surveillance and adequate treatment."

Instead of: "China and Korea have effectively treated the virus, infections in both those areas have been declining. And Korea now is effectively the lowest fatality rate for any of the effected countries which points to excellent surveillance and treatment."

But this isn't big change. Moreover, I think Korean model - ie, lots of testing - looks good in total and I think I've made clear that's what I advocate.

I would note in China's case, with infections declining everywhere, the fatality rate outside Hubei is fairly low also.
For some weird reason browser manufacturers strongly oppose adding support for any new media formats. They will only accept a new format once they decide that's a good political move. If I were Google/Mozilla I'd add support for everything ffmpeg and imagemagick support.
It doesn't matter - what matters is the point when hospitals get overwhelmed. Past that points, fatality rate goes up just from lack of treatment. Societies have already proven they can put in sufficient containment practices to keep hospitals from getting overwhelmed, so it's a matter if other countries follow similarly effective practices or let themselves get overwhelmed.
I do too in one eye, and when I was there in February a rep said that they recently changed them a bit so they're thinner. Just in case that helps.
Everyone is suggesting all the ways they could have parted that would have been less expensive, but everyone seems to ignore that this was by the quickest and therefore the least painful way to part ways without drama.
Why would you think I believe this isn't serious? The medical advise does not say to avoid public places, avoid travel, or to panic. Inventing medical guidance not provided by the experts and panicking will not make you safer.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
FWIW, case numbers don’t double every day, they grow by 10 to 20% every day, thus doubling every week or half week, thus growing by an order magnitude every two to three weeks.
> ATX 5V is really unsuitable for USB power, and can play tricks on you.

Would you mind elaborating on this?
Well it goes to show you that this isn’t really solving a burning issue at all. If it was, they would have thrown the cheap RFID tags on everything 30 years ago.