skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^^This comment is a reminder for everyone to install the Tor Browser or set up Tails, just in case.
I don't have any insider knowledge. It makes sense to me that a trillion-dollar platform company will at some point want to control their browser destiny, and not rely on their competitor's roadmap.
Because those that don't eradicate themselves before they reach the stars for example. Maybe eventual stasis is the only stable form for civilizations. We don't know either way, but I wanted to point out that curiously dimming stars are not the only possible outcome.
If everyone strictly used words based on what is “correct” English, the language would never evolve and we’d still be speaking Chaucer’s English.
> human race

Being satisfied that some "naked apes" still living could mean a survival, as a biological species, of the probable destruction of current civilization is setting the bar really low.
Max Levchin (the lesser-known co-founder of PayPal) invented CAPTCHAs. So you can pretty easily get a picture of his face to print onto a pillow to punch.
The Safari/WebKit team is much more reasonable, with probably an average of one to two hundred people working on it at any given time (this is a bit complicated to measure, since many people move around between the browser and related teams like Mail or CFNetwork–and not to mention the various non-developer roles that only work part-time on Safari–but it should be accurate to an order of magnitude).
The "make Firefox a secondary goal" faction has won again.

"Mozilla exists so the internet can help the world collectively meet the range of challenges a moment like this presents. Firefox is a part of this. But we know we also need to go beyond the browser to give people new products and technologies that both excite them and represent their interests. Over the last while, it has been clear that Mozilla is not structured properly to create these new things — and to build the better internet we all deserve."
As I said, I'd like that to happen, but I don't see MS being bothered by diverging priorities enough to fork after _throwing away_ a whole engine to avoid duplicating work. At least not in the medium term.
It seems you’ve misunderstood the constitution. It limits the government, ensuring our freedom. The govt has no right to prevent us from flying, domestically at least. Other countries are free to make demands at their borders.
Congress created the Fed and gave it what powers it has. They (assuming a consensus among legislators) could totally have given it a different mechanism for controlling the money supply. Even one that culminated in a check being mailed to every citizen.
Even that goes a long way. I've seen in-progress work just dropped on the floor, then they launch, and the team scrambling like their hair is on fire when just looking at the dev's assigned tickets would have shown in-progress work to fix all the hair-on-fire issues before launch.
>CTEs are nice to read but routinely destroy the performance.

This may be true on archaic versions of MySQL and Postgres but is not the case today, barring some esoteric edge cases (bugs) where the optimizer gets thrown out of whack. Once while doing data science consulting I rewrote a ~1000 line query in Aurora (MySQL flavored) which had a ~2.5s runtime, which was far too slow for the client's use-case.

After rewriting all the CTEs (there were many) into subqueries, there was a 2-3% increase in query speed, barely (on the order of under a tenth of a second). There was a very tiny improvement far smaller than the normal variance of the runtime.

Then I rebuilt the query and the joins, and was able to get the query to consistently run in the range of 0.8 - 1.2s. For my own purposes I then duplicated the query, re-implemented the CTEs, and did validate that indeed there is only a negligible increase in query time when using CTE.
What!? I would switch to brave immediately.
A large Crowded bus easily hold 72 people all of whom would likely die in a bomb attack on the bus. And that’s not counting anyone near by on the street.
I'd argue that if we're talking about unvested equity, counting appreciation as a comp increase rather than capital gain is reasonable.
Not surprised. I’ve used them for travel but don’t think they made any real money off that. Doesn’t seem like much of a business model
It’s basically guaranteed at this point. And you don’t own the capital, you don’t start getting the massively appreciated grants until you are a few years in
Alpha Centauri might not be the best destination, but for suitable systems the travelers could go forth and multiply, eventually sending out ships of their own.
Mozilla management isn't interested in "boring" browsers, they are activists.
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Ah alright I did no get your sarcasm!

I have to say I was a huge supporter of Hungary given my new appreciation of the libertarian movement and low taxation.
This said though I (purposefully) do not read newspapers.
Given the coronavirus epidemic I had to read a lot of Hungarian news and I really did not like what I red in the past months.
Before I was totally unaware of Victor Orban new extremism in anti-EU, reduced freedom of speech in the news and turning the other way to ignore new rising neo-nazi and anti-semitism in Hungary.
I agree with the pro-business agenda of Victor Orban but I strongly disagree with his new totalitarian methods.
> The main reason for the TSA to outsource the questioning of travelers and scoring of answers is to evade the rules applicable to collection and use of personal data by Federal agencies. … The nominal “fly/no-fly” decision will still be made by the TSA, not the contractor. But that “decision” will be a rubber-stamp approval or disapproval based solely on whether the app shows a “pass” or “fail” score, or whether the would-be traveler doesn’t have a suitable smartphone or is otherwise unable or unwilling to complete the app-based process.

You hear the drug trade is really lucrative but you're not allowed to sell drugs, so you send your money to a contractor that sells drugs, they give you more money back, and you technically haven't "sold drugs."

Somehow, thinking breaks down at the boundary between systems, because inexplicably the constraints or guarantees of the consuming system do not propagate to the providing system.

TSA could and should be (made) identity-agnostic, with its mandate to protect vehicles and occupants. Immigration is what should care about the individual that's being allowed into the country.
I would have no problem with a private company demanding strip search/patdown before boarding their plane.

I have a problem with the gov demanding this for everyone.
I'm sure people have also quoted this in defense of not wearing a shirt at a restaurant. Not everything is absolute - the degree matters. Having to wear a mask in public during a pandemic is a much lighter imposition of liberties than a habitual search of possessions and belongings, and arbitrary "random" strip-searches when one boards a flight.
>The goose is a Trojan horse

the moral of the story was that the Greeks brought the horse to Troy, I'm unsure how forcing Apple to exist the Chinese market helps the US?
I don't see how making additions optional for a free browser would increase costs, telemetry does not increase visibility, but it is a serious privacy concern and the mobile market is owned by Google and Apple, two companies that are not going to be won over unless there is some serious firepower available, something FireFox does not currently have.

This is all wishful thinking on your part.

If you don't see how getting the second largest block of internet users strongly behind the one free browser might help to increase market share then that's puzzling but for me the GDPR + FireFox make good sense from an EU perspective. Consolidation + buildout is stop-the-bleeding 101.

That's a lot of users and a government that has made serious moves to show that they too care about user privacy.

Anyway, I did in fact answer your question, and quite exhaustively. But you did not answer mine: how much would it cost to run a lean-and-mean FireFox Inc?
So according to the request for information[1], it looks like the TSA wants a system that can validate an identity exists (given name, date of birth, address, phone number) and that the identity belongs to the person using the app. The first part looks pretty trivial, given the enormous corpus of databases out there (credit reports, public records, etc.), but what about the second part? Presumably you'd need some sort of database linking identities to photos, and validate that photo against the user's selfie or something. The question is, where would that photo database come from? State DMVs? If your photo is in the DMV database, wouldn't that also mean you have a drivers license, and therefore could use that rather than the app? What's preventing someone from impersonating someone else by scraping the internet for "similar" faces to their own, finding the associated id, and claiming that they're that person?

[1] https://beta.sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resource...
> I don't see any reasonable case for the prediction that Bitcoin's average transaction fee will reach those extreme highs.

Why not? At scale with current block sizes Bitcoin would probably be settling payments of institutional-level transfers, state money management, and 2nd-layer networks like Lightning. Individual transaction fees would be high but they would represent aggregated fees for millions of off-blockchain transactions.

The fees wouldn't likely be paid by everyday users at that point.
Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for the reference though. So far I like it.
Sars-COV-2?
Does the Baidu revenue and shutting down the Taipei office rub anyone else the wrong way?

I am not sure Mozilla works outside of a nonprofit model.
Why does it have to be perfect? It could still be effective if it stops 50% of security risks.
I know a guy who passed on Apple because they weren't offering anywhere near that. Are a lot of people really seeing this kind of money?
Yesterday and day before editors of Telegram channel nexta_live [0] managed to report events in Minsk and other cities in Belarus. They are now seeng subscribers count boost from 300k to 1.1m in 2 days. The entire country connection was badly shaped but still alive. Telegram is famous for it's ability to work on a very thin bandwith, and also anti-blocking techniques.

Today all mobile data is switched off, but there are still small streams of information, I think using sat connections.

[0] https://t.me/nexta_live
The inquiry was opened in the early 90's and Microsoft's first consent decree to stop them from tying was in 1994. They later argued that IE shouldn't count and continued to bundle Explorer with Windows, and the US DOJ plus twenty states sued over it in 1998.

So, no. The threats of antitrust enforcement against MS were a key part of the timeline for the first dot-com explosion, as they made MS curtail their behavior and provided startups with a little breathing room to exist without being instantly crushed by Bill Gates.

I'm old, I was starting my career and working in and around tech startups at the time, it was a big part of the discussion then. It's hard to overstate how dominant and scary MS was at the time, they didn't have any real rivals.
They should license their UI framework.
This is a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336
Thread with Mozilla's post :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336
If applications are calling these syscalls directly; then there needs to be some form of stability; otherwise, the applications would only work on the particular version of Windows they were compiled for.
So 1% chance of it happening. Far more than being hit by a bus.
And cloud tokens and other credentials. Those get scraped super fast.
Sounds reasonable, thanks! Didn’t know of the Google search deal.
I replied in a sibling, but anyways: I mean, I can also see that _on paper_, but by the same reasoning, MS would have never thrown away their engine.
I wonder if rustc developpers have been fired
Frankly their actions don’t seem particularly unreasonable to me.
God... "CBP said most of the fake IDs were for college-age students. Many had the same photo but different names. But one alarming discovery was that the barcode on the fake Michigan licenses actually worked, CBP said. "

Yes I've been telling everyone who'll here this. The PDF417 bar code at the back is just plain text without any kind of digital signature. Anyone could generate a new one. There are apps that do it for you. Since there's no digital signature, there's no way of verifying that it is authentic. There's nothing ALARMING about this. The bar code is an open standard and anyone can generate a new one. It would be alarming if they faked the digital signature.
We have laws that clearly state the criteria for being disqualified from owning a gun, and laws that require licensed dealers to perform a background check to ensure that a potential purchaser passes based on that criteria.

The system being proposed here would be able to deny boarding to a passenger who fails an arbitrary and completely unknown set of criteria, based on no laws and (most likely) violating existing law.

Do you see the difference?
This is purely their fault for being uncompetitive in the wages and benefits offered to their employees. Of course they try to spin it negatively with loaded language.

The best way to protect your prized employees is to treat them so well they'd be crazy to look elsewhere. If you, the business owner, can't afford that then you just aren't as competitive or successful as you think you are.
Belorussian here, there are no proofs for that yet, only rumors.
Ah

The actual client code is being executed.

Wait thats just weird -- if you're effectively removing the work from the client to the server anyways, such that its only executing on the server... I don't see what you've achieved beyond the original writing of standard language-agnostic SSR -- that you can design everything client-side, and conveniently migrate the heavier work serverside without interruption/rewrite?
I have no idea.

But Israel, who is clearly a major target for airline bombings hasn't had one in what? 50 years?
Gov intervention _should_ be capable of doing so, but as long as lobbying is still legal, it won't.

@freeopinion [0] brought up an interesting idea of setting up more special interest groups, directly in opposition of each other. This may be an effective method of handling this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105949
You don't have any constitutional "right" to fly.

Has that even been tested in court? If you live in Hawaii not being able to use airlines would be a massive restriction. The right to free movement has been written into most every constitution because the framers had actual experience with oppressive government that issued internal passports to silence revolutionaries.
Jamming, and radiolocating satellite terminals is not that easy.

China for example been trying to crack down on vsat ownership for decades, to no avail
It just means that because this is a federal requirement that needs to be implemented by the states, we're going to see 50 different implementations. Some will work better than others.
I agree completely. I do feel a little ashamed that I abdicate my responsibility to resist this idiocy, but I am also pointing it out as a matter of fact. The few times that I do fly, I opt out.
Yes and no. When your RSUs are granted at 100k and then vest a few years later at 300k, from yours and the IRS' perspective you made whatever + 300k.
To follow the GP's point ITO this being a protection racket: You "pay to be at the top" of that list of seafood restaurants. Let's not pretend like google aims to find you the "best" answer to your search question.
I like Mike Tyson's take on it - “Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it,”
Btw, before resorting to name calling like this. It would help you to know that he might be expressing genuine opinion. He named Jammu, Jammu is also an area of the region in question here.

Even I don't agree with his assertions but he is free to have his opinion and as someone who actually lives there is free to express it.
Levels.fyi seems to indicate senior total comp as more like 300k in Bay Area for FAANG.
Don't put yourself down, hiring is broken. Very few recruiters actually understand the requirements that are in demand for a given position, and many will discard you for irrelevant reasons: e.g. they dislike your CV formatting, or you have extra unrelated experience in the CV (thus you're not specialized).

It's mostly a numbers game, so keep putting in the time - but not mindlessly: keep optimizing your CV/presentation/skills and it will eventually happen.
I do return to my notes, yes, but only within a week or two. Typically I'll take notes on Monday and then reference the notes from the meeting at either the next meeting or at a 1:1 or when I'm compiling my weekly status updates to the boss man.

How? I just flip back through my notebook until I find it. The problem is that some days I have 15 meetings and some days I have 3 meetings, and some meetings have 2 pages worth of notes and some have 3 lines worth of notes. And due to the sheer amount of notes I take, it's not easy to remember in which meeting which topic was discussed, so I sometimes have to read 15-20 pages worth of notes just to find the one thing I was looking for... very frustrating.
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They probably shouldn't be, but that's really beside the point here.
Money in this case would be a tool to teach the client to value the person's time more highly and fend for themselves. If it costs the client $100 every time he forwards a comment for consideration, the client might actually put in the effort to learn the patterns the person has been explaining to the client.

If the client doesn't stop, at least the worker is compensated highly for their trouble, so it's a win/win.
I re-ally struggle to see the appeal of Rust for frontend web development over typescript.

Perhaps there are some rare scenarios where you need to eek out every little bit of performance... But in normal circumstances, typescript offers a fantastic combination of familiarity, expressiveness and ... if not type-safety, then at least some degree of type-sanity.
Totally agree. And YC companies en masse have moved to remote teams, opening up opportunities for people everywhere.
It looks plausible that Russia is trying to follow the US playbook in Ukraine, i.e. a controllable quasi-chaotic removal of a person in power that goes against their interests and outlived his usefulness (this time enlarging Russia), while getting a popular support for it and making sure the other party (US) can't do the same. I don't think Russia can afford losing another buffer separating it from EU, so anything is possible.
Yes, if we want the Second Amendment to mean anything.

Now I'm certainly in favor of the argument that we should be honest with ourselves and repeal the Second Amendment instead of pretending that we care about it but only in useless ways. But so long as we believe that both bearing arms and traveling are human rights and not privileges, neither should be gated by IDs and background checks, and you should only lose that right in the form of a punishment under due process of law.
Without trial data, how can we trust Russia's Covid vaccine?
Cool tool. It needs PCA though
It’s the same as when during elections a state is called “up for grabs”. Things are phrased in a way that parties/companies are the main actors and voters/employees are just fodder for them. Not a good attitude in a democracy.
Chrome was launched in 2008. The key events in the Microsoft antitrust case happened between 1992 and 2002.
When was this? Companies now are slowing hiring down a whole bunch
Actually we don't have clearly defined criteria, see red flag laws.

But regardless, even with clearly defined criteria, people get through that shouldn't. So going back to the original comment, if the system isn't 100% perfect, does that mean we should just not do it?
Anyone know when all browsers will support 64bit wasm and allow >4gb memory?
Yea sorry that's bullshit. I certainly don't need the stress of a job in my life if I have other options. I don't care how much I like my job, it's still a job and the only reason I'm doing it is to make money. Otherwise I'd be spending time with my family and doing hobbies, of which one would likely still be writing software.

And I wouldn't expect anyone in that position to give me two weeks. Two weeks is about not burning bridges. If I never need to cross that bridge again, what do I care if it burns?
> either because Google competes unfairly, or because it just has more resources to compete with fairly

Both, actually.
Nice idea but not sure about the example.

> and thus microsoft are no longer the standard

15 years ago was 2005. Imagine MS would open source Windows XP SP2.

I don't think anyone would build an OS better than modern Win10 from that code. 15 years is a long time: that WinXP was primarily 32-bit (64 bit build technically existed, but no one used that), it wouldn't support modern hardware, and won't run modern software either. I see why some people would like to have that code (education, research, maybe some embedded applications or servers), but I'm pretty sure Microsoft would remain the standard.

To stop being standard, in addition to that law MS need to screw up Windows in a huge way. I wouldn't expect that to happen ever, they're large company managed by reasonable people.
Why most doctors don't wash their hands
I have the same, and I concur. In the end, I gave up and just kept the GPU on all the time. Now it works great with external displays in Xubuntu 20.04 at the expense of battery life.
Now, that makes sense. I didn't think of it.
The use of the word 'poach' by employers comes from a mentality where they are the lords, the employees are deer on their land, and other companies are peasants trying to get some food, which the lord believes to be his exclusive right.

It dehumanizes the employee by comparing them to an owned animal.
It means something when somebody does not know the way the language is used.
The EFF reference at the bottom of that link provides a useful alternative position:

> What’s the legal theory behind warrant canaries?

> The First Amendment protects against compelled speech. For example, a court held that the New Hampshire state government could not require its citizens to have “Live Free or Die” on their license plates. While the government may be able to compel silence through a gag order, it may not be able to compel an ISP to lie by falsely stating that it has not received legal process when in fact it has.

> Have courts upheld compelled speech?

> Rarely. In a few instances, the courts have upheld compelled speech in the commercial context, where the government shows that the compelled statements convey important truthful information to consumers. For example, warnings on cigarette packs are a form of compelled commercial speech that have sometimes been upheld, and sometimes struck down, depending on whether the government shows there is a rational basis for the warning.

> Have courts upheld compelled false speech?

> No, and the cases on compelled speech have tended to rely on truth as a minimum requirement. For example, Planned Parenthood challenged a requirement that physicians tell patients seeking abortions of an increased risk of suicidal ideation. The court found that Planned Parenthood did not meet its burden of showing that the disclosure was untruthful, misleading, or not relevant to the patent’s decision to have an abortion.

> Are there any cases upholding warrant canaries?

> Not yet. EFF believes that warrant canaries are legal, and the government should not be able to compel a lie. To borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, no one can guarantee success in litigation, but only deserve it.