skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way to spot disk-related issues: In Task Manager/Resource Monitor, watch the 'Disk Queue Length'. It should stay below 1.00 except in extreme circumstances such as running a backup.
The point is their client can be agnostic to the backing service. If Mullvad is ever found to have problems (privacy, security, etc), Mozilla can switch to a better service without affecting end users at all.
> They failed their users and the ecosystem by not standing up to industry pressure for h.264 and EME.

But they did stand up to industry pressure, to a larger degree than most are willing to give them credit for.

On H.264, they refused to implement it, arguing that while the licensing requirements were acceptable at the moment, there was no guarantee that the patent pools would get greedy later on (boy did that turn out prescient with H.265). And they got Google to agree to rip out H.264 support from Chrome... except Google appears to have no intention of doing so, and it took Mozilla a year to realize that they had lost the battle.

On EME, Netflix faced the problem that it couldn't implement its contractual obligations to encrypt films without Silverlight, which was clearly on its last gasp. I believe it was Google and Microsoft who brought the original specification, based on their existing implementations. Mozilla objected vociferously and continuously, trying to get more parts of the system specified (such as communication between the browser and the CDM), and generally trying to make the CDMs as narrow as possible and as open as possible. They ultimately lost on most, if not all, of those issues, but it's not for a lack of trying!
Bernie has had two shots at it, but I think he would bring his decades of experience in politics, his unwavering stance on corruption/lobbying, his plan to reduce wealth disparity and a relentless push for climate action.

The man that fought for decades, still has the same message he did in 1981! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OraxqbUjpHw
Except that every port is allowed to choose if they use the TSA or not. San Francisco for example does not use the TSA.
The Five P's of Product Management
Nah Mozilla's PR is mainly due to historical stuff, not to new marketing (post FxOS era more or less)

The org inside is.. like many old orgs, half rotten, half fine. There's a lot of good engineering and even good leaders, thought the ones that are genuine tend to be pushed aside over time for ... more evil reasons, friendship, money, wrong color, you name it. You like you said when you try to do good you put yourself in a vulnerable position and its valid externally just as well as internally as I'm sure you're aware (all companies have this problem to some extent and Mozilla is in my opinion on the "worse side" of the slider atm)

Note also that Mozilla Corp is not Mozilla Foundation. Pretty much none of your donations go to the web browser itself.
That post is ironically itself misinformation and leading assumptions.

1. Facebook is a monopoly on social media is a false assumption. Even limiting it to the mainstream there is reddit and twitter. Tumblr a prior competitor essentially died by "suicide" after being bought up.
2. That allowing misinformation is a problem and something that "we" should do about it. That is not only contrary to the first ammendment but suffers from watching the watchmen problems.
3. To demand to be able to stop it on a technical level is absued epistemologically as asking bullets to only kill bad people or encryption to let "good guys" in.
4. Misinformation itself is contextual. "Bleach kills the Coronavirus." is true. Saying "Bleach kills the Coronavirus!" in the context of cleaning treatment equipment is still technically true but there may be implementation issues with what may be washed safely and misses nuance when it corrodes fittings. Saying "Bleach kills the Coronavirus" as a treatment itself is misinformation because it will kill the patient before it cures them in the same way a bleach embalming could eradicate infectious agents.
Obviously you feel the medication is useful, but do you think just knowing vs the medication has any positive benefit? I have read dozens of articles online, and replies like yours and can always relate extremely well to all of the symptoms. Taken the online quizzes and all that. I am pretty much certain I have ADHD. And I have known for years. But, I have educated myself on it, understand how I work (or don't work) and just kinda roll with it. But I have been thinking about it more lately, and wonder if its really worth more steps and medication.
English is neither a programming language nor a formal logic. When we see an "if" statement that would otherwise seem irrelevant, it is common to interpret it as an insinuation.

@hu3's misunderstanding is entirely understandable.
I’ve worked with dozens of guys who loved to reinvent config and logging frameworks, because ... I don’t know why.

I suppose because it was easier than working in the actual problem domain, which they knew little about and didn’t care to learn.
Thank you! I thought I must have been missing something. I have no clue why my ctrl+f returned only 3 results for the second study. I just trusted that the searches were accurate because the abstracts didn't mention sex as a factor.
Hey folks — author here! Hope this is useful. Had some great discussion on HN with my last article; always happy to debate!
I feel like Datadog has a great product. I only wish I hadn't had such negative experiences with their sales team.
You may be right - but there's a healthy amount of American's that don't agree with Bernie's priorities our outlook on government. I guess this is evidenced by his failed bids at the presidency - although I admit he was far more popular than Harris has ever been.
I'm struggling to see why this is a "Prominent Climate Lawyer" - this case is about pollution, not climate.

Not that I'm defending the fossil fuel industry. They've always played dirty with cleaning up their messes (see also the mining industry, who use the same dirty tactics).

I get that there's a connection because Big Oil. And Climate Justice, kinda. But this is a pollution lawsuit.

The danger is that if we only oppose pollution if it's also about climate, then we won't fight when it's "just" pollution. We need to hold their heads to the grinder for polluting the places they operate in, because the money needs to be spent cleaning those places up. Which is also a danger - if any wins from this get diverted into fighting climate change, then who pays to clean up this mess?.

Or maybe it's just a journalist trying to spice up a story. Again.
I'd love to hear any theories about how/why this decision was made.

If it aids the discussion, here's a list of her policy positions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_...
Retrying, as an upvote may have caused the story to show in /updates

Edit with result (also useful for a test) : only direct parent id and story id show in /updates when posting a reply. What about edits?

Result : In case of an edit, only the story id shows in /updates.

Testing deletes.
I could only find one ruling limiting who is allowed free speech, though my search wasn't thorough. Border control was allowed to bar people from entry based on protected speech made outside the country.
Personally I use Matrix [0], specifically the Element client [1] which was previously known as Riot.

Among other features, it has end-to-end encryption, federation, comprehensive support for multiple devices and doesn't require a phone number. Basically, as far as I'm concerned, it has all of Signal's security but none of its flaws.

For the Android folks, it's available on F-Droid as well as the Play Store.

Surprisingly, despite the features and security, it's approachable enough that my mostly tech illiterate wife is able to handle it without issues.

[0]: https://matrix.org/

[1]: https://element.io/
I've looked around and found it difficult to find a good resource for a beginner. Trying to figure out org-mode amounts to googling and finding a bunch of different unrelated sites that address the topic in ways, usually for an audience that is more advanced than I usually am and assuming knowledge that I don't yet have. "Plenty of information" isn't the same as accessible and practical.
Is that still happening? It looks like it's been on the back burner for a few years now.
The problem is not the food on my plate, the problem is I see many millions beside me with too little food and a few guys with at least 30000000 times of what they could ever want or need.
That money - and then some - is found through donations to the foundation (which to the user may mean 'support FireFox' and to the Mozilla foundation means 'play money') and the renting out of the 'search box'. It is the rest of the projects that get their funding from FireFox, not the other way around.
2 - 7 days? In Finland it takes 10 - 14 weeks :D There are mandatory theory and driving lessons to take. Well actually the law changed recently so now it takes "only" 6 - 10 weeks.
> Good luck convincing the shop owner to accept payment in SEPA instead of cash the next time you get a beer.

Girocard is a debit card. But it operates over SEPA. So „ Good luck convincing the shop owner to accept payment in SEPA instead of cash the next time you get a beer.”, no problem, just pay with a Girocard :)

In some countries in the EU there is a minimum amount required to pay with Giro but generally it’s not a problem.
Using it, and would love to roll it out to more of our services, but cost is the big concern for us.

Just to add, I love how easy it is to set up and roll out.
Without Firefox though everything is Chrome.

Skype, Zoom, Slack, Discord, Chrome itself, Safari, Edge, Opera, VS Code, Atom...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCfNhyIo_U

We need to encourage competition even if companies continue to spew this kind of cringe. Firefox is the last holdout.

Good luck Mozilla, you're our old hope.
What’s in a Name: SR Data Science Python Libraries 2.0
> inviting a tidal wave of eye rolls.

That depends entirely on how the reader feels about diversity.

EDIT: I made a claim that the reader's reaction depends on what the reader is thinking, and six people claimed I was wrong, which means they can read minds. Nice. Critical thinking means removing your emotional bias from analysis.
I dont think EME was a mistake. It sucks, but they didnt have a choice, if the choice is death or EME.
How much data can TikTok get on my phone without me knowing?

Also how is this different than Twitter that was getting a list of all installed apps until Apple tightened down on the method they used and everything that FB and Google does.
As a side note, not sure where in CA you live, but I had to renew my license last month (it expired) so I went and got a realID. I waited two minutes in line without an appointment and was completely done after 25 minutes. The whole process was efficient and I never came within six feet of another human.

I did all my paperwork online which gave me the cut in line pass, and I went to a special "License only" DMV. There is one in San Jose, and probably others throughout the state.
Democratic capitalism defeated slavery! (The Union army was fueled and bankrolled by an alliance between Republicans in government and industry.)
Strange, this is kinda what Huawei is being accused of in Iran. They used a proxy company to do business with a sanctioned country. Although Huawei seemed to directly control the company management, whereas Arete IR is technically an independent company hired as a contractor.

Still it's a pretty weak loophole bypass.
"We've got about 400 people in this room.... Imagine if dinner was carted into this room, and four people got half the food. The night would end in violence," Anand Giridharadas told IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed at a public event hosted by the Samara Centre for Democracy."

Effective altruism is clearly an important topic but this is a pretty bad analogy. If we're discussing billionaires a (slightly) better reformulation of the analogy would be something like:

"We've got about 400 people in this room... Imagine if there were 40,000 meals carted into this room and four people got 39,000 of those meals"

However, this reformulation is also pretty bad. The way both of these are phrased "dinners" are basically a stand in for "dollars" (or whatever your currency of choice is) - and while "dinners" are generally perishable, "dollars" are not.

Setting those quibbles aside - how did Anand come to his diagnosis of the problem, and what is Anand's proposed solution? There's so little detail in this article that I'm honestly scratching my head.

As a thought exercise - how would Anand fill in the blank for a statement like "The world should follow the shared government, community, and decision making model of <insert_location_here>"?
To clarify, according to Bostrom, it would be an indicator of our lower chances of survival (raises priors on Great Filter being in our future rather than past).

The act of finding out if there is life or not will probably raise survival chances on net, compared to never looking.

Much like passively looking for the monster in the dark room. The monster is either there or it is not, but if you see it you have better chances than if you don't (barring some specific contrived scenarios).
Right, I guess the tooling would need to support code splitting into separated wasm modules like we do with Webpack or Rollup.
This product has been promoted constantly over the past two weeks[0]. I keep getting deja vu when checking out the "new" section

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
TSA literally said it is a secret. They even agreed to show it to a judge only under seal. I literally linked to the case....
you don't have control of all 3rd party libraries.
Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
I got stuck on the non-downtown side of Shanghai once because I assumed that I'd be able to walk or bike across at least one of the bridges. But I couldn't find any way to get across. I had to wander around until the metro opened back up in the morning to get back across (and make it to flight in time).
A wealth tax is attractive in theory but it's hard to put into practice for illiquid assets like privately held companies, real estate, intellectual property, and artwork. The optics are bad when the government effectively forces someone to sell off part of the family farm to pay that year's wealth tax.
"many of the same people who struggle with extra weight also regularly go to bed hungry,"

That’s a bad thing? I understand that eating healthy food is important, but if you’re obese, you should go hungry, that’s one part of losing weight.
it would be totally ok to be a federal jobs program if it actually provided unintrusive security. rather, the problem is that it's corrupt, funneling large amounts of tax dollars to private enterprise for no benefit and a boatload of individual slights. instead, the tsa should turn half of the nearly 50K screeners into canine teams roaming all the ports, letting people walk through with just an electronic bag screen.
Well, yes, of course. The thing you could previously rely on being present can no longer be guaranteed to be present - that _should_ require code in the calling function to change.
100% agree.

Media and companies should not 'cancel' just because a group of people is demanding it, but it could be reason to look into something and then make up their own mind.

Wanted to rant on about lots more, but I'll let it go :)
You can't have digital signatures without all of the attendant PKI baggage. And if you're going to implement all of the PKI baggage, might as well go all the way and start issuing people smart cards.
Any thoughts, darawk, about the "more than 16 million gallons of crude oil, 80 times more oil than was spilled in BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster."? You do know that the oil wasn't "spilled" in the Amazon forest, don't you? It was placed in unlined pits, which were never rehabilitated.
> What if you have 100 such packages and they get updated weekly with breaking changes?

The solution to that is simple, stop using node.js ;)
Not really :( We design EventNative to collect data solely for analytics purposes. However, you still can send events from microservices as well. We're building server-2-server HTTP API and will hope that people contribute clients for popular languages
Apple Told to Pay $506M in Texas Patent Trial Verdict
Generally, if you have enough control that you can influence the JIT compiler to emit arbitrary instructions you either already have an address leak or could make one fairly trivially.
These are nice books, but I don't believe in a technical manager list without Jerry Weinberg's books: https://leanpub.com/b/peopleskillssoftbutdifficult
It worries me that nobody in power at Mozilla seems to have the first clue how to make money from Free Software and so they have made "commercialism" a corporate fetish.

Making money and looking commercial are not the same thing, team. For the some organizations they can be diametrically opposed. Mozilla, for example.

Mozilla need a CEO who knows how to make money for the company rather than just receive it in their paycheck. Ideally one who eats up less than the revenue from the first 50,000 VPN subscriptions.
Google makes money from advertising by acquiring massive quantities of data from users to most-effectively target advertising.

Firefox makes it harder to acquire data from users.

If market share for Firefox were to increase at the cost of Chrome users, it would hurt Google.
Because it’s deliberate. The parasitic elite have been destroying the core of this country for almost half a century. The government (serving only the rich) doesn’t care about us and this virus is just another opportunity for them to gather more in their greedy arms.
Having to pay lawyers for legal issues shouldn't be a reason to lay off 250 employees. It certainly can cost a lot, if they are getting service from top-legal firms, working on billable hours. But they can choose to stick retain lawyers for important matters such as IP-rights, etc., get help from the community for other legal matters and work. For example debian has the debian-legal mailing list, where a lot of lawyers hang out and are ready to help. I certainly would like to contribute if any questions regarding my area of expertise popped up.

Big law firms also do a lot of pro-bono work. Since Mozilla is a foundation they might also try to exercise these channels.

If an OSS community like Debian can manage this, why shouldn't Mozilla be able to do it.

Covid-19 crisis shouldn't affect Mozilla, everyone is still using browsers while working at home.

There are also other ways to raise money for a corporation, for example Mozilla can go public to raise money to sustain their workforce and finance important infrastructure updates such as Servo engine.
afaik, the tsa is still in charge of port security at sfo, but the screening is outsourced to a private company.
> they haven't committed the cardinal sin of putting "DB" in the name of something that's not a database

It doesn't seem to store data in any way - so it is definitely a data processing engine, but a database without an "INSERT" command feels a little off.

From that point of view, this looks a lot like what original MapReduce did - the data lives outside it & is referenced as urls, but the engine itself does processing out-of-core and in-memory for very large datasets.
Not every database is necessarily a persistence engine
Remote Teams and the Half-Life of Social Capital
Between two (of many) possible outcomes:

1. Firefox dies and Mozilla dies

and

2. Firefox dies and Mozilla survives by making a chat app

These are identically bad to me as a user. In both cases, the only project users care about from the company is gone.
My 2cents: Have a look at GitHub pages, you wouldn't even need to pay for electricity.
Yeah benchmarks can be much more difficult to get right than it might seem at first glance. Good thing they didn't try to write their own benchmarking code, otherwise they might have fallen into those traps you just mentioned.

Luckily, they didn't, and instead pulled in the the `benchmark` library as a development dependency. The author of said library works on V8, and already considered all those problems and much, much, more[1].

[1]: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-benchmarking
expensive home additions seem to be booming in the SF Bay Area, along with sudden residential vacancies, right next to them
And what happens when your parsing needs to be expanded?
While it wasn't as big a smash commercially as the iPod, the Bondi Blue bubble iMac was Jobs' first big new product after his return, several years before the iPod.
I quite like that idea.

If you receive a dollar and pay tax on it due to the work you undertook to receive it, it gets 'refreshed' and increases in value.

If you get a 'stale dollar' (e.g. gifted from a parent) it depreciates until you use it constructively.

If you're an advocate of "trickle-down" economics, you should be lapping this us, as it's rewarding people for what you believe already happens.

Of course a much simpler approach would be to simply flip the outrageously stupid system most of us have, where income from passive investments is taxed at a lower rate than income from providing work.
I think it is possible to market privacy and security to casual users, but it's far more difficult to market anything to the privacy and security crowd. Apple has succeeded in their privacy marketing, I'd argue, because they already have a huge number of casual users.
Your right to cross state lines and travel freely does not include any right to a particular mode of transportation.

You would pretty much have to argue that interstate travel is impracticable without airplanes and that trains/buses/your feet don't suffice.
Less arguing, more tools.that's what hacker shall do.
Tor don't work well in China. So is VPN. Chinese don't even know it exist. It's hard for none tech people. Even all Smart tech people in China know how to use these tools, it's still less than 0.00001. Make some virus-like dummy tools, that's what hacker shall do. As far as mobile or PC infected. They will connect global internet not China LAN. It must infect nearby devices as well. That's the only way to help.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2020 Edition
When I had this issue I just bought some cheap wifi 'smart sockets' which had some open-source firmware available and reflashed them. They even support reporting the voltage and current draw from the socket (though not particularly accurately) and toggling the power through a POST (with a password if set). Was very useful for power cycling various bits of hardware remotely.
This.

Mozilla is misaligned incentives all the way down.
You know... Every time some new product comes out, I can't help but think "how are they going to use this to track my habits." And how can you blame anybody for that? Think about everything you own that is already tracking you. Your TV, your Phone, your smart speaker... all the apps you use... Can you really blame somebody for being pessimistic?

You know this is a useful tool for visually impaired people, but I can't help but think that nobody should have to give up their privacy in order to have some level of equality. That is total horseshit IMO.
Thanks. Guess I have to start making some new friends: "Heyyyy... you look like Fido kinda guy..."
> those with actual power

The power that comes with a job title or position is actually quite limited. And it also calls into question as what exactly is meant by power. Personal power (getting your way?) or creative power (putting forth your energy for the benefit of the organization). I find that it's actually not too hard to have a great deal of creative power, regardless of personal power -- by listening and responding well to the needs of others and by effectively solving problems.