skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would put the user first, make privacy the #1 priority, make it plain to the EU that FireFox is the only browser that can make that guarantee and long term stand by it and apply for subsidy as well as promotion by the EU and/or anti-trust action against Google, Microsoft and Apple for not giving the users of their devices the option to install/run FireFox right out of the gate.

Ad blocking and tracker blocking would be a central item built into the browser from the get-go. I'd get rid of any and all telemetry unless explicitly opted-in to by the user.

I'd make sure that updates are going to be limited to security issues only and that any other feature changes or additions would always be optional rather than forced.

I'd ax each and every product that is not in line with that mission. Rust would be welcome to stay since it is now part of the future of the browser, but I'd spin it out as a separate entity with its own income stream based on a trademark of the name and set up a foundation around that.

The Rustaceans would be encouraged to create their own governance structure and Mozilla would be just another user of that product.

Oh, and I'd rename the company to FireFox Brower Inc.

As for mobile, I'm sure that there is room for firefox on mobile but first you'd have to convince Apple and Google that they are on the wrong path, a distraction that likely would not lead to a win in appreciable time.
True Words!! Antivirus works for already knows viruses and nothing else (and heating up the atmosphere) and makes Computers slow.
With #1, someone told me 90% of K12 education is supposed to help you get over this. School is supposed to train you to focus on and produce work on subjects that you have zero interest in. I was pretty good at that before, now I think I'm just burnt out.
Where did your parent said anything about abandoning?

Are people no longer allowed to criticise?

> If you think that is a reason to abandon Mozilla, you've just proved my point.
Embedded Rust tooling for the 21st century
Surely if there are telephone communications then someone can modem out? Or are they scanning for non-human communication over telephony?
It's insane how Covid has made events like this accessible to anyone situated anywhere in the world. Pre-Covid this event might have likely been conducted somewhere in Mountain View making it inacessible to 99.9% of the world. Remote for the win!
Thanks! I have a fortnight off coming up shortly and have added it to my queue. An area I spent a long time discussing in multiple consultations was the tension between genetic predisposition and environment.

Interesting for a few reasons: firstly there’s some limited evidence that early treatment with medication can have a permanent positive impact on the condition in children. Which to my pea sized brain is suggestive of the possibility that we have sufficient elasticity during our brain’s formative years to consider this, sometimes, an illness not a condition.

Secondly there is some evidence to suggest that other disregulations such as dyspraxia and dyslexia are linked to ADHD. A common question in diagnosis is about family history of those conditions.

I was also concerned when my doctor and two psychiatrists told me that therapy was certainly an option but highly unlikely to be successful for me. It seems like this book may paint a different picture.

Thanks for the recommendation! If you suffer from ADHD, do you mind sharing if the book changed your approach to treatment?
Ask HN: Protests in Belarus and no reliable Internet. How to communicate?
Belarus is fighting against election fraud for the third day right now. It is not clear what is going on with Internet - it is not blocked outright, but most of packets are lost or something. Some believe that it is DPI infrastructure is the culprit - it simply not being able to handle increased traffic.

Unfortunately, it also means that any messenger relying on internet works intermittently at best. So far Telegram appears to be the most reliable messenger, but it also struggles to keep up.

What options are available for owners of ios/android devices to stay connected with each other? Downloading anything from app stores becomes a problem as well, btw.
I would be alarmed too, except I hang out in diverse US communities. Hacker News is not a sample of the general american population. Increasingly, it is not even a sample of tech workers. Tech workers tend to be rather libertarian, and this has not changed. HN is becoming a sample of Bay Area politics and/or Twitter, neither of which are representative of the USA.

Sorry about the downvotes you received. I’ve been on HN a long time. It is sad to see the great decline of HN. Check out reddit.com/r/TheMotte if you want something a bit more representative and more similar to the HN of old, with its attendant high level of discourse as opposed to the shit-flinging and downvote brigading you see on HN today.
>when did "saving" become "hoarding"?

The systemic vaulting of fungibles (in the amount of scores of multiples beyond reasonable needs) may result in the same outcomes as hoarding does.
Money. It really is that simple. Any money that is used to clean or keep clean is not being returned to investors.
Retail isn't paying 3% on their transactions. It's more like 1% for card present transactions.

Generally cashless is cheaper for the retailer. Fewer losses to employee fraud and robbery. You don't have to pay for employees to deposit cash.

The downside is that you're liable to fraud and chargebacks.
A lot of that comes from a few large libraries needed to provide base runtime functions (like memory allocation).
Performance (asm.js was pretty close but required special support from the JS engine too).

But maybe more importantly: WASM frees Javascript from the future burden of being both a human-friendly programming language, and a machine-friendly compilation target.
um no it's not
There's also a data collection buoy moored there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
I thought the prices of clicks are determined by auction? So if it's $50 a click it's because your competitors find they can still make money paying that much. Most categories have PPCs in the sub $1.00 range last I checked.
The VPN still doesn’t support Mac and costs half as much as it should but I’m a subscriber to support them.

We need Mozilla.

The VPN is their best way to monetize.
USD is the only currency with which a person can pay its US taxes. Can't do that with Bitcoin.

One US dollar can not fluctuate in value relative to itself. The "exchange rate" between USD and BitCoin fluctuates continuously.

USD is legal tender. You can buy a cup of coffee anywhere with USD. Not so with BitCoin.

USD does not have a bid/offer spread for transactions. BitCoin trades as two sided market.

USD can be deposited at bank, be protected by FDIC deposit insurance, and can earn an agreed rate of interest. Not so with BitCoin.

...stopping, though this could become a long list

BitCoin is an asset that can be bought or sold in exchange for USD. So is gold (as already noted), oil, company stock, lawn chairs, tracts of land, etc. A dollar-denominated asset is not the same as its market value in dollars.
voip.ms has provided an amazing amount of support for such a cheap service.
Thanks for posting this! I had been waiting for Matthew Green's reaction.
Doesn't the likes of Mastercard and Visa pay some sort of kickback?
I always thought the notion of the "von Neumann probe" was odd. What is the motivation for a civilization to do this? It would be highly destructive, extremely destructive, and impossible to reverse. No one would set this in motion, right?
Ok serious question: Every one of these points is very applicable to me, especially 1,2 and 3.

I haven't been to a doctor in years outside occasional emergency trips. How do you bring this up without seriously. I don't want to come off as the guy who compulsively self diagnoses based off what they read on the internet.
There are plenty of ways to structure a public service like this that isn't fully controlled by the government. USPS comes to mind, though it's obviously not perfect in terms of independence from government control.

I'd honestly love to see something like a credit union at a large enough scale to run it's own payment processing system. Something like that could get you a nice level of independence from government control and give you an organization more incentivized to care for it's members.
Same reason Google forked webkit to make blink. Over time the involved parties' priorities diverge and when that gap is wide enough, it makes sense to fork.

Also note it's not just Edge we're talking about. Microsoft is one of the main Electron stewards, and products like VSCode are built on that platform.
I agree. What anyone needs to keep procrastination at bay is strong enough resolve. It's the only thing that's ever helped me take action.
>Bobbie Draper

Oh yes..what a character!!

EDIT: But all of them are really well written and quite on point with the books.
How to Find the Best Phone Extractor?
The administration doesn’t have the constitutional authority to make such a demand.
It's on us as tech users to create solutions that don't require 5 minutes of hand holding with every user of software and call it an achievement.
> I would also doubt very much that their cost base is very optimised at the moment, so I would think profit is very doable.

I agree. Until recently they were literally paying users to open an account and recruit new customers. You could exchange up to £5000/month for free (now only £1000). And if you need to make a big single transfer, for instance while moving to a different country, paying one year of premium membership can still be cheaper than Transferwise's fee on that single transaction.
Thank you for the pointer to the way to turn it off but damn Google for even having to have it in the first place.
We're probably on the same page. We just have a different definition of "tolerate." I swiftly downvoted the comment and hope that others do too, and to me that's not tolerating the comment. I will gladly engage with the comment...by pointing out how insanely wrong and inhumane it is.
As an example my fiancé and I decided that we could support both of us on my income. So she quit her job. And then we had a very long difficult time figuring out that it would cost a lot of money for her to have a baby on my insurance because the out of pocket maximum would just about wipe out my savings. But her old insurance has a maximum that’s about 10% of what mine would be in the same situation. So we’re paying almost twice as much per month for COBRA continuation. Whereas if I could take the 400 a month my employer spends on my behalf I could get insurance that’s just about as good as she’s getting.

In the US insurance system your employer gets to decide what it costs for you to get medical care. The ACA cemented all the worst parts of the insurance system and made it illegal for me to choose my own insurance if I want to work for a larger company.
It broke things I cared about, so I use it less.
Is police use of face recognition now illegal in the UK?
God I can't stand Nick Bostrom.

I think the great filter is definitely ahead of us, but I'm not so terrified by the implications of this (or so interested in being a pompous contrarian) that I'm moved to bury my head in the sand and publicly hope for stupid things.

I hope we find current or ancient life on Mars, Europa, etc. because that would be interesting and exciting.

It would bring no more additional existential dread than looking outside at your fellow idiot humans.

Life is hard, and we're probably all going to die. Get over it. We can still hope to find interesting things while we're around to enjoy them.
I actually like this article because it identifies specific, changeable behaviors of google that could be corrected. I don't necessarily agree with them all, but he has done some homework rather than just fill a page with "herp derp google monopoly"
Heh, didnt work for me. I just failed the classes I didn't give a damn about.
Everything I did wrong fundraising as a first time founder
Something to consider here too is that Chris Beard was CEO of Mozilla for over 5 years ending late 2019. Mitchell Baker only took over within the last year.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/08/29/thank-you-chris/

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/04/08/mitchell-baker-name...
Signal falls into an uncomfortable place for me.

I like pre-paid cellphone plans which give me a small number of text messages, a small amount of airtime. Using these I can communicate with people when I am not near a WiFi AP. I do not want to pay for data and would prefer to use my and my friends' access points and the free wifi in the small number of commercial locations that I visit.

In Canada all of the major carriers disable WiFi Calling² on pre-paid plans. They essentially only enable it as crutch to leach off public infrastructure to take up the slack on their insufficient private infrastructure.

So I infrequently (but enough to be annoyed) find myself in the situation that I am not near a WiFi access point and wish to communicate with someone else. Currently Signal will only allow me to do this via insecure SMS messages.

I read their original explanation in 2015 for disabling this functionality. Namely SMS leaks too much metadata¹ and we are only catering to needs of real-activists in real-dictatorships, and anyway SMS is too expensive there so this is a 1st World Problem.

As an explanation it leaves me wondering why I would bother with Signal: if I bite the bullet and sign up for a circa CA$50/month plan with data I may as well just use Element Matrix over WiFi. Signal brings nothing to the table except the possibility of accidentally sending an insecure SMS message and incurring a 30c charge for it.

1. https://signal.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/
2. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Ca...
I'm not sure I explained myself clearly. Was Standard Oil more competitive abroad as a single company than the splitted ones?
A presidential order is not a law, and if unconstitutional like this one, never has to be obeyed anywhere.
I also have ADHD and my experience is similar. It's generally much more enjoyable to bash out a bunch of small bugfixes and refactors then to slog away at a feature for a week.

I've managed to strike a deal with my manager that I get to spend 25% of my time working on reducing tech debt and other smaller fixes, and the rest on primary product development.
- IRC+SSL

- Gemini servers managed from SSH, these for publishing long text media, unidirectionally Or Gopher from a SSH kiosk from a computer.

- Meshnet based talk applications for Android, FDroid has several

Also, beware with a lot of Belarus protesters, they have ties to former European neo-nazi groups and far right US think-thanks.
The number of people with the hardware and know how to send data over a telephone line is probably very small.
yes I have had a similarly difficult time with nvidia graphics on my lenovo laptop. Also, it happened to be vulnerable to the lenovo/superfish malware, so I'm definitely not trying another lenovo computer.

Maybe it might work if you run wayland on the intel chip, and run Xwayland on the nvidia chip? is that even possible to configure xorg.conf on Xwayland?
I think one issue with discipline is that there's a value judgement attached, so that when I procrastinate, I'm an undisciplined slob, I feel worse, more procrastination, spiral.

As you said, having discipline reframed into triggers and motivation allows more objective reasoning. You do the task because you have a well created system of triggers that you follow regularly because you know the _why_ of what you're doing at a big picture level. If I procrastinate, it means my system or my why isn't working for me, and I need to reevaluate.
The Effect of Shutting Down International Travels
I don't think this analysis is correct.

While it's true many merchants pay 1-3% in processing fees, many of the costs involved are real. Building the network, fraud, rewards to consumers, etc.

Visa's net income is roughly $11 billion a year[1], and they process roughly $11 trillion a year[2]. So their take is ~.1%, not 3-5%.

Note that this ignores that banks may make money off these transactions as well. May be better to look at Discover (the lender and the network) instead of Visa. But I'd think the total take from these companies is much closer to .1% than even 1%.

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/V/financials/

[2]https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visan...
>suggest Russian involvement

I highly doubt it. You don't instigate protests and congratulate "winner" on the next day after election at the same time. It's far easier to pressure known leader, who has bad relations with the West (and elections only made them worse), than risk instability and weak government puppeteered by foreign forces installed after a "revolution" (see Ukraine).

I previously wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24104304
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and the FAQ, could you stop making fake accounts and generating fake upvotes? It won’t end the way you want it to. Please redirect the effort you’re putting into short-term hacks into posting something authentic and transparent, like how you worked through a hard product problem or personal blind spot. This comment has ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098065#24099224
I may be rapidly downvoted but what strikes me as an outsider (reading most of the comments in this thread) is the collective psyche in the US is viscerally against any entity rising to the top that does not have profit as its sole goal. What they want is for Mozilla to solely focus on Firefox, on the technicalities, and shut up about everything else. And yet no one will actually pay for it as a product.

The tragedy of Mozilla is a very human one, with special embellishments added by the prevailing culture in the US, its home...
"... and the upside is we gathered some interesting data on personnel performance"
It's not ephemeral - when you think about upgrade cycles and deprecation of tech.

What I would claim - is that people who targeted Win95 for equipment that had to last decades never bothered to understand how software ecosystem works. They just "threw it together"...

That said - the floppy disks isn't that bad, per se. I would have expected Boeing to be smart enough to expose a data loading interface, that can read something "as if it was a floppy disk"... But then I look af 737 and Boeing's failure to deliver a crew space launch vehicle - and get reminded that they only exist because US government literally props it up.
Perhaps the disconnect is that Mozilla's goals are not just the bits you care about. If all you're saying is that they should double down on Firefox and ignore everything else because that's what you want, that's not a very interesting argument.

Even if you believe Firefox is the only goal, though... Mozilla needs money to develop it. Despite all the technical effort that's gone into it in recent years, Firefox is still losing marketshare. Maybe there's some killer feature that will turn it around. But so far tracking protection doesn't seem to have done it, and there's not that many other features that Google can't copy. So if you still want Firefox to be useful in 10 years, there's a real chance it will be need to be subsidised by something like Mozilla VPN.
Meshnet option sounds the most usable for not sophisticated users. Do you remember specific app names?
As far as I know they still send everything you type to their cloud service, and their privacy policy gives them broad latitude to use that info to "improve the service."

Right now I use "LanguageTool" with the Java-based server running locally. After I imported the ngrams it works good enough to be a clear improvement over Firefox's bad built in spelling/grammar checker. The UI is passable. It does randomly decide I typed another language though and tell me everything I typed is misspelled in that language.

In an ideal world I'd prefer to pay LanguageTool money for their premium product, but they have the same privacy problems as Grammarly. Heck I'd pay Grammarly if they had a more private offering, it is a good idea.
Prior comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14172791
I am willing to bet you don’t understand US corporate tax laws and accounting rules.
> There is 100% nothing stopping the Federal government from offering a full-faith-and-credit-backed "America electronic transaction system" for electronic transactions, with those fees handled by taxes.

That is the plan, albeit the minimal fees involved paid for through users of the Fed’s system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24103753
You can even buy a fraction of a house on ethereum! https://realt.co/
Yeah banking and ISPs or the network utility need to be regulated as utilities first. They are both "too big to fail" and local monopolies respectively and they are both abusing their position.

A competing banking system through the USPS is a great idea that needs to be remade, it worked well for a long time in the US [1]. It would eliminate the predatory checks cashed industry and credit through the system would be competitive to keep the private systems in check, much like the USPS does other delivery services or Federal student loan rates keep private rates in check. The same needs to happen for healthcare with a public option. When you have public systems, the private ones have to compete more, it is a win for everyone.

The network utility needs to be split, lines handled by power companies that know how to run a utility, and then the servicers on top that are competitive would also be interest aligned with the network utility users.

I have no doubt this "Google should be regulated as a utility" is being pushed by ISPs that know they are utilities but fought to remove that classification. They deserve to lose their local monopolies and right to that because they abused their position and have turned rent-seeking over capacity expansion with data caps, overloaded nodes, prioritization, dropped packets, all incentives to NOT expand the capacity which is a major problem when the market incentives are aligned against the interests of the country, products and innovation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...
Come on, you're on Hacker News. Surely you understand how an if statement works.
>Assad, Putin, Lukashenko, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Trump...they all use pseudo-legalistic justifications for authoritarian action
No disagreements there.
The problem is I spend 8+ hours a day doing something I don't care about and by the time I can work on the things I love I'm mentally exhausted and just sleep for hours.
> I'd get rid of any and all telemetry

> feature changes or additions would always be optional

> Ignore mobile

So... You are increasing costs ("everything optional"), reducing visibility ("no default telemetry") and ignoring the largest and fastest growing market (mobile). How is your FireFox Browser Inc. making money?

You also didn't respond to my question at all - how is any of this supposed to increase market share?
I've never been fully confident in knowing what SSR refers to -- but its just the creation of static html on the server, right? As opposed to shipping a bunch of async dom updates contained in a js script executing on load, client side

But if I have it right, I have no idea why a JS backend would be required to do SSR; this is exactly the same domain of work php, rails, django have always done, without node.js needing to enter. For an SPA (which I believe is just a bunch of js fetching data from JSON apis and rendering client-side), you'd need JS to handle client-side rendering, but if you can replace that with WASM (when it has DOM support)... I don't see why you'd need JS anywhere

FYI I'm defining everything because I'm pretty sure there's a mistake somewhere in my understanding of the problem