skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We might do that in the end. Nothing is really decided yet. So far we just built it for us, and we love it (both of us use it a lot every single day), so we thought we'd share.
Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians [pdf]
> I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market.

Considering the companies performance, she should have been put on a PIP a long time ago, even considering the so called 80% discount. Never seems to happen to CEOs though.

Management is out of touch with reality if they think they deliver any value here.

edit: he to she, thanks!
What are these old Fortran libraries doing, which requires "new numerical stacks"? From my naive point of view, all what you are describing should be trivially done on a workstation. As I'm sure that's probably me underestimating the field: can you point me to some algorithm/technique which would benefit from new numerical stacks?

Also is your stack open source? I somehow doubt the long-term advantage of one proprietary stack over another.
Revenue: $27M; CEO pay: $2.3M

Are these numbers accurate? The first seems very low and the last seems very high? Is it still like this?
Wait, Servo is the core browser engine of Firefox isn't it? Do they intend to become FF another Webkit-based browser?
Awesome. Many of us underestimate but on HN also appreciate how much effort it takes to take to ship something, so keep going at it. Respect!
Doesn't that mean typing 20% faster would save you half an hour on a given workday?
At this rate, the name is starting to become associated with incompetence, so maybe a fork with a new name might be a good idea.

A co-op would make for an interesting business model for a FOSS company. Has this been tried before? Are there any well known cases out there?
An argument for a smaller keyboard (and this is definitely a personal thing) is that I try my hardest to avoid using keys that are more than one key away from a finger in its resting position anyway (why---I really don't like having to move my hand physically, and I'm willing to pay the cost of additional latency with having more keys gated behind modifiers if it means I have to move my hand less). My day-to-day keyboard uses QMK, so it's really possible to make this work.
Agreed, but apparently some people take issue with OCaml syntax so they come up with stuff like this.

From my point of view these are all interesting endeavors to watch from my shovel store, and in 10 years they all be stuck in maintenance projects, porting back to JavaScript.
Other way around. It was invented to stop crawling. Indexing is still technically allowed even when blocked by robots.txt from crawling.
Does backing the game for 10 years grand you permanent residency as a Sentior Star Citizen?
Can we just flag these stories since there's only two opposing things to say

1. Little African Johnnie who's sister just died of dysentery because they couldn't call around for help from lack of infrastructure doesn't care that rich astronomers can't take pictures.

2. Capitalism is once again polluting our society.
>I would rather use Edge

You should rethink that.

>"We find that the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy perspective. In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and in the third (least private) group lie Edge and Yandex."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-professor-says-edge-is-the-w...
I recently had the occasion to stay with 4 different Airbnb hosts over the span of under a month, my takeaway was that if I owned any Airbnb stock, I would've sold it immediately.

The first two accommodations were huge let downs in terms of cleanliness, despite both advertising Enhanced Clean. The first trip was booked for a month, but we got sick of ants, mice and lack of action after about a week and left early. The second was so incredibly filthy that we left the morning after checking in. While Airbnb corrected the issues by letting us get out early, this was incredibly disruptive to our plans and not representative of what was promised.

The worst part came later, after our mutual reviews for that second place became public. My review and scores got removed with no notice, so that host continues to advertise as Superhost with Enhanced Clean and decent enough, if few, reviews. On the other hand, he posted a nasty review of me full of spin, which remains there to this day. My response to it contained a link to a gallery with evidence, and Airbnb removed that as well. My questions to support remain unanswered.

This turned into something of a rant, but the main takeaway is that I have entirely lost trust in the review system. Not only does is skew towards high marks, but critical reviews can be removed at a moment's notice with no recourse. That does not reflect well on the company, IMO and there are clearly hosts that have learned to play the system. Too bad.
For those who haven’t seen it yet, handy chart of Firefox market share vs Mozilla Foundation chair salary
https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1217558588857544704?...
> I needed to open a browser and agree to some inane ToS or watch an ad, or something, before I could get unadulterated Internet access.

This is pretty common for public WiFi.
Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions
That to me reads as the build servers, etc. How is that not responsible for a safe binary?
I tend to refractor too much but that kind-of makes me terrible at one-man projects, since I know enough about my code to see all the mistakes and all the possibilities, working with others, even if I do sometimes begrudge it, forces me to take a bigger picture look at things and say this is good enough.

Probably the ideal thing for me is to do a project where I am coordinating with others but they are working independently, like microservices for instance where you can look at the back end and say this looks like crap let me tear it up without blocking anyone else's progress.

So I'm surprised by the assertion that that sort of code perfectionism is good for one-man projects, but to each their own.
Choosing an IT Staffing Agency in Six Easy Steps
> There is nothing in the Americans with Disabilities Act that make blocking scrapers illegal.

Retrieving, processing, and displaying information in a manner contrary to the wishes of the provider of that information is necessary for accessibility to disabled users. As a specific example, any attempt to block use of wget for scraping also blocks use of wget as part of a `wget | filter | text-to-speech` pipeline[0], and is thus a discrimination against blind or otherwise visually impaired users. The ADA is, as mentioned, only somewhat effective in prohibiting such things, though.

> it's not illegal

> that doesn't magically make it is illegal.

I don't think anyone is claiming that scraping itself actually is legally protected - I interpreted DigitalSea and harry8 as implying that it should be.

0: in either the shell sense or the workflow sense
2.5M/year?! That's insane!
It's Show Time App Using Huawei Wallet Kit Server API ( Node JavaScript Server)
As a developer, I think my process is more like ~50% thinking and debugging and ~50% actual typing. That latter 50% is divided into 20% typing code but about 30% typing mails/slack/tasks or whatever I need to do to update other people (without calling, because that is scary :-))
After years, I switched from chrome to Safari. Takes some getting used to, but now I'm quit happy with it. YMMV
Is the Servo originated engine ( WebRender) doing that well in Firefox? Feels like it's very slow work to make it enabled by default in stable and the speedups haven't been yhat great, meanwhile there are basically 2 very different modes that they have to support and maintain.

(this is just because GPU drivers are so flaky afaict)
Political screeds like this do not belong on HNN.
The lawlessness of Uber and AirBnB is not extrapolated, it's real. Ergo, Western Cities are lawless.

City of Montreal has all sorts of rules against AirBnB and Uber and yet ... it still exists.
Mitchell Baker is a she. Largely agree with the PIP part.
Which is now Chrome!
Isn’t this essentially what interest rates are for?
For lyrics, you should just transcribe the pronunciation, eg "six foot two".
No,

DRM, DNS over HTTPS, VPN, Pocket... Just to name a few.
Went from 70 WPM to 150 WPM playing TypeRacer on a school keyboard. It was the only game I wouldn’t get banned for playing.

IMHO, the biggest chunk of my time spent is knowing what to write, though. I think time could be better spent becoming a better writer than a better typist.
> Walking on the interstate is generally forbidden except in emergency situations.

It is actually prohibited even in emergencies. Pedestrians absolutely have no right of way in an interstate. You must ask for rescue if you get stuck as a result of collision or a car failure.
Brave, run by - wait for it - Mozilla's old CEO, is the best alternative right now.

It's a shame this is happening at Mozilla. I was also quite shocked by their recent article to "safely return to shared memory between tabs", which I immediately thought was a bad idea.

Lo and behold, a mere week after that update, I found that Firefox was eating up my entire memory and making the PC perform poorly.

Shared memory is what made the old Firefox hang so much - I can't believe they thought it was a good idea. I've always believed Chrome's per process tab idea was brilliant, even if it uses a little more memory on average.

I still prefer the security benefits and stability of that architecture over Firefox randomly hanging and peaking in memory use due to memory leaks even if it can use slightly less memory on average.
I said this in the other discussion about Mozilla firing, but I don't think Mozilla management cares about Firefox.

From a business perspective I get it, Firefox must be expensive to maintain, with no clear way to monetize it when the search engine money dry up. Still, their main focus should be Firefox and finding a way to make their most successful project profitable. Skimping on security seem to be the wrong approach.
Running is an activity that exposes you to the fact that you _can_ push past far beyond what you initially thought was possible.

It's a raw realisation that your body was designed to take so much more than what you use it for. There is something really primal about that.

I don't know enought about the science around it but I suspect it will be a combination of hormonal transients plus the _hypnotic_ repetitive motion (it becomes almost near 'sensory deprivation' after a long enough distance).

I've played/tried most of the sports you listed but nothing I tried (expect for maybe swimming) really mimicks the intensity of the running experience.

I can definitely see how that empowerment feeling and insights (plus the runners high) would appeal to C-level people who typically self identify as having high grit and drive.
TSA, in various testing, misses between 60% and 90% of weapons.

Hundreds of pistols fly every day in the US, with no major issues.

We could easily abolish the TSA with no major harm.
Edge is now based on Chromium [1]. Welcome to the future, where you can choose from Chrome (Chromium), Edge (Chromium) and Opera (also Chromium).

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...
I believe it's based on Chrome/Chromium to some degree (pretty sure it uses Blink) so I understand if it isn't something you're interested in given the topic of this thread, but the Vivaldi browser is insanely customizable.
I hope not. The biggest reason I use firefox is to avoid the webkit/blink monoculture. Also, I really liked the idea of a browser written in rust, with the additional safety that brings.
And unique, independent expression is also vital.

That's why they've tried in the past (and hopefully continue to do so) to provide resources like you're pointing at to "the public" to build and create their own special place on the Internet. Something outside the gated ecosystems of those big internet companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

Have they gotten it perfectly right every time? No, but that's okay, and it's good that they're even trying because not that many people (or companies) are.
Try Brave first.
You can access boarding pass while your phone is locked.
> Pretty much none of your donations go to the web browser itself.

Any proof for that? Mozilla Corp is owned by Mozilla Foundation.
Yeah, at it's core, Sail is an RTL. It shouldn't have a problem with the Mill, but it probably isn't the most ergonomic arch for Sail.
rust has enough momentum now it will probably survive. Although losing one of the biggest projects that uses it, will certainly be a be a heavy blow, and probably slow down development.
I've tried many times. It usually comes down to this: "I don't get it. We've managed for so long to do things quickly - why is it now that we can't go fast?"

Unless they wrote code in the last few years - I don't see people ever relating. It's just some abstract problem to them and you never get enough time to thoroughly explain how it all works.

Unfortunately, we're not like a factory. You can't make the retooling argument in the same way and see blatantly obvious results. It's more nebulous.

If someone out there figures it out - I'm sure we'd never have these discussions. They'd say, "Oh, why don't you just use the bradlys argument? He wrote it up on HN some years back and this refactoring discussion has been solved ever since."
If you‘d like to avoid that, have a look at Instana. None of that outrageous pricing, and the focus is actually more about helping you find issues instead of Graph Porn.

Note that I used to work there, so I’m biased.
>How ironic though.

Indeed! Although I spent like a weekend to do it (the inital release was 512 loc). It passed all standard jdk/jsr-166 Map tests[0] and then some more, incl. perf., memory consumption, garbage collection harness. Tests are also public domain.
Also the release is not available as dependency, so the interested user would have to clone the repository on their right own.

The part with afternoon deps would be that all their code can be read and cloned, if need be. Free to pick the few functions needed - I'd assume around 200-400 loc top.

[0] http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/test...
CryptoCRIT is an open-source Cryptocurrency project which facilitates a Cryptocurrency wallet for making payments. The associated Cryptocurrency is called CritCoin.
No comment on the firing of the security response teams, but isn't Servo pretty much a "finished proof of concept" since quite some time? Hasn't the techniques it pioneered been integrated, as far as possible, into Firefox?

When it began, the word was that Servo would be the next rendering engine. Some time later the message became that it was a "testing ground" whose lessons would be incorporated into Firefox but that it would never become a production ready engine by itself. If that is so, then essentially Mozilla have cut an R&D project. Whether that is still as useful to Firefox as it was in earlier years is something that only the core Firefox engineers can answers. Regardless one feels that they might kept Servo and let HR or marketing take the hit.
They should fire “woke” CEO and hire technical CEO with a vision instead.
I wonder if they could just move Mozilla out of USA, pay less for entire workforce incl. management and still build great things? The reason they spend so much is because the have to compete with FANGs.
This announcement has nothing to do with privacy and security and suggesting that it does is a red herring.

People generally want privacy and security, as numerous polls show, but:

a) it's very hard to figure out if something is private/secure

b) the company can change the deal at any point

c) the market has stacked the deck against privacy and security.

Until there are laws with teeth which will punish transgressors, not much will change.
>the policies do not currently provide any way for citizens to opt out.

And how long before I need a ‘Data Trust ID’ to use the internet.
Can confirm. I made the switch to Chrome in its early days when Firefox couldn't touch its performance, but switched back to Firefox around a year or so ago since Chrome could no longer touch Firefox's performance. It really has come a long way since the days most people seem to be remembering.
The reason I use a 60% keyboard is that I can keep the mouse closer to the centre, which saves my right shoulder.
The why of metal-stack - open source stack to run K8s on bare-metal
> In apartments, there is a mutual understanding of common elements and that people are living in a shared space. There is also a mediation process through the building management and the board.

Ok, so that must be the difference between US and my country (Poland). Here, there's often just enough people with "fuck everyone" attitude (drunks, depressed people, teenagers with irresponsible parents etc.) to ruin it for everyone else. And also, because the flats are mostly owned and not rented, there is no building management that is interested in maintaining a decent standard of living for everyone.
I think you misunderstand me, I think the LGPL is a perfectly good license for Qt and I have little sympathy for those who aren't willing to abide by it (not least because Qt is a rather large library, and there's no excuse for every application to load its own copy).

> Decide to go commercial, then pay accordingly upstream.

Hmm. The commercial license actually prohibits starting development under one of the open source licenses then switching to commercial. If you start under an open source license, you'll need to abide by the LGPL if you decide to go closed source (and of course what you've already released remains open source).
BBC News: 'A Hinge date saved my life' and other cancer dating stories
People who are embedded in modern politics either as participators or commentators are all hyper angry and annoying. Calling for the collapse of your home government in so many words... then ending by proudly claiming you 'don't want to think about what happens after that' is stupid and a waste of people's reading time.
I also learned to touch-type at an early age, but incorrectly. I can easily do 90+ wpm and closer to 110 when younger, but certain keys on my keyboard are bound to the wrong fingers.

For example, I always end up moving my entire left hand several centimeters to the right so my left index finger can reach the "Y" key. So every time I type a "Y" character my entire left hand shifts unnecessarily back and forth.
I went from an Influx getting crushed to VM running in a container with 1/8th the resources and it works fine, 1.5m active cardinality. Could handle a lot more probably. Auto fill in Grafana breaks but oh well!
It took a long time, but WebRender is now enabled everywhere if you are on Windows 10 (and not on battery power). Current status here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where
The atrocious management is the main reason I refuse to donate a cent to Mozilla. I have no problem donating monthly to Blender and Godot, even though I don't use those nearly as much as Firefox. I would love to support the developers if they made a fork that was actually supported by the community.
And in eastern cities, someone picks a pocket. So that illegality means an equal amount of lawlessness there as here, right? Because all lawbreaking is equal, right?

(You may have a point about montreal, could you post some links to the laws against uber and Abnb)
How do radio telescopes track asteroids? I don't imagine that asteroids would be emitting radio waves, and their small size wouldn't seem to be an advantage either (though, a few miles across might be plenty to interrupt/reflect radio wavelengths? I dunno)
For a well trained and well paid one? Yeah, they probably have a template.
Well, I’d say give it a try. We are using CloudWatch as a Grafana datasource, because this way you can concentrate more of your monitoring to one place, which is useful during troubleshooting. With Grafana 7.x, you can even check and correlate your CloudWatch logs inside Grafana, deeplinked to the AWS Console. After this major version, you can even wire Jaeger into Grafana, so you have a one stop solution for tracing as well (and logging, if you utilize Loki too).
Not that I expect it but the idea is very intriguing at second thought.

What many people are (reasonably) afraid of at the moment is a de-facto monopoly of Webkit controlled by Google. So that Google is in a position to shape the web for their sole business benefit and against the benefit of the rest of us.

If FF joined the Webkit camp as an active driver, the monopoly (in terms of control) would be mostly gone and be replaced by what I'd call a standard and its broadly spread implementation. A web-standard implementation followed by all major vendors.

Of course branches are likely to divert after a while, but for brief moment in time, everything in web-land would be rainbows and unicorns.
That is one embarrassing chart, especially for a company like Mozilla. Have they considered firing that person, yet?
Not forgetting, they weren't there yet
I grew up visiting the Observatory all the time.

Before Trump made my home island famous, Arecibo Observatory was the one place I could point to mainland American friends so they recognized Puerto Rico (since it's famous, used in scifi movies, etc.)

Hope the government assists in reconstructing the dish.
I love Firefox, and it's been my main browser for 15+ years, but starting today I'm going to research alternatives.

It's hardly the first time that Mozilla has screwed up royally, but in general I have tried to defend them against most criticisms in light of the circumstances around browser competition (or lack thereof). But I'm not sure I can do that anymore though, because this is such a bad sign. This CEO and her administrator underlings are useless and expendable in comparison to the people who have actually make Firefox, and I hope they know that.
When the parent command asked/goaded for elaboration I was worried you wouldn't notice or respond, but you did and clarified in depth, saying precisely what a lot of us are thinking. Thank you for doing so.
I followed the other thread today and this came up there as well. This is the first time I have considered not using Firefox as my web browser since it has existed. Not because I want to, but because it may simply not exist.

This is terrifying and I feel powerless to do anything about it.

Are there alternatives? How do I support Firefox-the-browser and the people who make it?
In a sense it is "additive", they're adding a CPU ... but then that's just what a pick and place machine does - it's how we've made PCBs for decades now
There are a lot of dead or mostly dead browser projects out there which makes me think community alone is probably not enough (as a comparison, for a C/C++ programming IDE there are enough moderating active projects out there that I'd say community is enough to make an IDE).

On the other hand, 10-20 years ago, there were a lot of alternative browser projects that were moderately active and able to keep up with 90% of the web.
Warframe is not much older and that game is actually suffering from feature bloat where it takes new players around 300 hours to even scrape the surface of the game.
- Didn't remove its privileges (moderation) before transferring ownership.
Zeros are borderline unusable for actual compute due to having a single core and only half a gig or RAM. They make for great beefy microcontrollers and single-purpose boards, but are not the kind of thing where you want to run various network services.

(I have a cluster running Pi 2s, which have 4 cores apiece, but are still too short on RAM)
Why did you correct it again?