skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the end you save a lot on fuel - you don't need to bring along shielding, life support equipment for the duration of the trip (only expendables and replacement parts).

The trajectory adjustments may be small enough that Hall thrusters, or even just reorienting solar panels or inactive radiators get enough light pressure to make it work. If we are OK with spending a little more propellant, the cycler can be put on a shorter quasi-cyclic orbit that requires course corrections on every pass (IIRC, the shortest trajectory Aldrin considered in his paper would enter Earth's atmosphere, or crust, I don't remember). The cycler maintenance cycles also don't need to coincide with in-transit crews and, in some passes, crews can bring more cargo (or the cycler can dock with autonomous cargo freighters).

If the cycler is large enough, it may have its own food production, so you don't need to carry that too, but then we can also imagine it as a full habitat that's permanently populated and passes by Earth and Mars every now and then and also plants us firmly into science fiction territory. IIRC, the shortest real cyclic path also takes a trip to the Asteroid belt before passing Mars on its way back to Earth. That, I imagine, would be a popular destination for future space colonists looking for resources in the belt to supply passing cyclers.
That actually crosses the line from “unethical” into “unlawful collusion”. If you’re talking about a Valley company, they all got hit for this some time ago: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/tech...
And if it’s not a Valley company, well, there’s likely a similar lawsuit to be had. Sorry to hear about your experience.
I enjoyed this article. It also included links to other studies indicating how often doctors and nurses wash their hands and studies about the effectiveness of hand washing.
If the companies had a contractual agreement that their recruiting agency would block each other's employees from applying, that sounds like a non-poaching agreement of the sort that Apple and Google were fined hundreds of millions for.
Yes as long as you're talking about total compensation; I've 7 years of experience in software engineering and my offers are in the 500-600k range of total compensation. Note this is equity value at grant; there is no appreciation (or depreciation) yet.

I recently took one of those offers from a FAANG, swapping a bunch of illiquid startup RSUs for liquid equity compensation.
> If someone is willing to pay 600k for something, then the value of that thing on the market is 600k. That is what a market is.

And if a bunch of homeowners are willing to drive up housing costs and prevent building out an adequate supply of housing in an area, that's just the market.

I don't have a horse in either race, but I think there is an appreciable difference between paying a premium for a resource that you use, vs paying a premium solely to prevent someone else from having access to it.
But the FAANGs have a huge unfair advantage over startups - their size gives them monopoly power that disadvantages small companies.

That's a failure of American governance. Economists used to all know that markets needed to be regulated to make competition fair --- and efficient. But the American right has pushed for 50 years to deregulate everything, and the FAANGs have benefited from this rollback of anti-trust.

I'm not sure 'poaching' is the right word, but what the FAANGs are doing is unfair. And it's unfair because they benefit from deregulation and monopoly power that hurts anyone at a small business.
Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming
Those investigations were closed. Maybe it's more of a failure of the legal system than anything. The one thing that sticked actually seemed to work in the long run.

Isn't this whole conversation around Google being a monopoly? Yes, a new boss and hopefully a new antitrust case. Hopefully more sticks this time.
The Dutch payment system iDeal charges between a couple of cents for the big retailers to maybe 15 - 20 cents for small fish.

These fees are absolute, not relative to the purchase amount.

edit : I meant our PIN payments card, not iDeal. But the point is true for both.
If we can have different point of views that would be helpful for a better judgement:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/08/the-russian-coup-plot-...
Total compensation, yes (i.e. base salaries are usually much lower)
Please name the corp and list of 10 if possible-
I wouldn't hire them cause their ui/ux sucks. I'm fullstack, and not a design expert but I can do better than that easy. The dropdowns at the bottom of the page are the worst.
Is it actually true that Mozilla’s core business (develop Firefox, funded by search bar traffic) loses money? Or is the crises that this core business doesn’t generate enough surplus to fund the overhead of other activities that Mozilla engages in?
Monopolization of any industry isn't high up there on the priority list of issues we should address by far.

Climate change, election interference, and COVID-19 are far more pressing issues than monopolization.

However the fact that these other bigger issues exist doesn't mean we shouldn't care about or take action on the lesser. If one brings up how we should address issue 'x' and are met with "but what about issue 'y'?" it does give the impression of deflection or of whataboutism.
> I'm pretty sure they should not consider it, because it is generally illegal.

It is really not. At least in America. In America, where laws are based on consumer benefit, it is extremely difficult to prosecute companies for having too awesome of a service, that they give away for too good of a price, in a way that helps consumers too much.

It really just isn't something that gets prosecuted, except in absolutely exceptional circumstances.
Person we choose is not nearly as important as the relationship we build
This is called "rationalization", and to be honest, it looks worse than you may realize.
Chrome isn't better than Firefox, and both browsers have varied in terms of their performance.

Google had the advantage of plastering Chrome all over google.com when people performed searches. That's how it got installed everywhere.
I’ve always thought of Mozilla as a “force for good and change”, never as a money machine. This has maintained some balance for allowing Google to go largely unchecked. If Mozilla moves in a direction more focused on profit and more products, there’s no balance and the overdue regulating has to kick in fast.
You can usually search a important blurb from the job posting combined with the geographic info to find the posting or something very close to it.
It's quite bad design from golang to have these kind of imports. They claim they dislike "magic", yet here we are.
Abandoning Android: A Series, Part 12 – Apple’s Failure
Thank you for not saying 'IANAL.'

I can't help but to read it, uh, the 'other' way, and I always think "well there's nothing wrong with that, but why bring it up here?"
Mozilla PR is famous for their absolutely meaningless and elusive corporate communication. I'm not sure how they ended up that way but it's a reoccurring theme.
I think a point of confusion here is that there are different definitions of "failure" in this discussion. Others in this thread are defining failure as "Firefox no longer exists as a viable open-source browser", whereas you seem to be defining failure as "Mozilla no longer exists as a commercial organization". Diversification of Mozilla's focus is all well and good, so long as it continues to serve what I and evidently others see as its raison d'etre, which is to support Firefox. It may be insensitive of me to say so in this difficult time for Mozillians, and I certainly hope everyone caught up in this restructuring ends up all right, but I see no reason why Mozilla should outlive Firefox in the event that, as you suggest, it is doomed to failure.
>That means reducing investment in other areas, though, such as in building out developer tools.

Damn, big mistake. So this is what triggered the creator of the awesome CSS grid tools to join Apple and Safari?
>Like Firefox OS before it, actual KaiOS devices were not well-received, because of poor performance and lack of apps.

As of Q1 2018, 23 million KaiOS devices were shipped. It stood second in terms of market share in India due to JioPhone(even ahead of iOS). It seems future Jio Phones would be Android, especially considering Google is now invested in Jio(It's an investor in KaiOS as well). Mozilla had recently signed a deal to develop the gecko engine for KaiOS further.

KaiOS team saw where Firefox OS would fit well and they brought it to fruition; Something I feel Mozilla could have pulled off too.
What Is a Cholesky Factorization?
FWIW it seems fair to me: as long as the existing versions stay under GPL3, you're not stopping people from extending your utilities, you're charging for your implementation of those particular features.

Elastic [1] and Gitlab [2] both operate with a similar model of offering free, open source versions of their software with additional paid-for enterprise features.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/install/ce-or-ee/
You've got to be kidding me.

The ability to store data on your device is a basic requirement of a software environment which is provided by all platforms. I'd forgive someone for not understanding that arbitrary data can be encrypted, but you claim to have some expertise in cryptography so you don't get a pass there. Someone like OWS, the developers of a privacy app, certainly don't get a pass.

It is possible, and it is easy, and you know this.
Nice, I may try that - I assume you get everything from flathub by default?
Clojure is nice for heavy data engineering projects that require robust/stable/mature tech like the JVM. But for a full stack language for a web app it just adds a tons of complexity over just using JS.

In Clojurescript interacting with the JS ecosystem is painful cause of its reliance on the closure compiler.

In Clojure, is almost the same, most Java libs are over-engineered and horrible to use but you need to reach for them because Clojure lacks an ecosystem.

So while Clojure is a better/nicer language than JS, the tradeoffs are not worth it if you want only one language for your webapp (SPA and server).
So they'll pretend that the people they shoot are drug dealers. Works in the US.
Lasers Made of 'Spacetime Wave Packets' Are Breaking the Normal Rules of Light
No, that is not unethical at all.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes it can get hate or complaints from the community, but at the end of the day, a lot of amazing open source software wouldn’t be available today if they weren’t able to be monetized in some way.

A lot of times, open source software wouldn’t be able to get actively developed, be able to afford security audits, quickly patch bugs, etc. without a paid person/group working on it, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

It is up to you, however, to decide how you’d like to raise funds. Some projects (iRedMail) provide a “Pro” version, others offer advanced support/installation (Canonical), and even others just look for donations. If you’re curious about how to proceed, I recommend checking out https://opencollective.com/discover for great examples.
Because you will ruin your skin and your own health doing it constantly.
Either you wear gloves 12h a day, which results in skin soaked in sweat, or you disinfect your skin until the raw flehs shows.

Either way, it would be great if for once the toxic side effects of unrealistic recommendations would be discussed.
People recommended masks to be worrn to protect against covid.

Well, how about a work environment of 4 C°, were your weat breath will make your mask freeze to the tip of your noose after half an hour? Wear some expensive active mask? But these are lowest-wage environments. So it is what it is? Enlightment fails, when it becomes not a attempt to solve problems, but to moralize the failure of reality to comply to a paradigma.

Loading rules and Methods, that are unrealistic or can not be practiced without self harm, as a moral choice is counter productive.
I think it works, they simply have no market share.
Baidu and others will pay millions to be a default search engine of a popular browser.

But Firefox just isn't that popular anymore. Which, mind you, sucks, because we need a Firefox (and Quantum is actually pretty good).

That said, Mozilla's focus is no longer Firefox apparently - so, there's that.
So, no more "BS" ;)
This can only mean one thing: Sharks with Laser Beams on their heads.
So-called "elections" after 5th-6th term are a bad joke. Face it, ex-Soviet republics Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan never seazed to be totalitarian regimes with pathetic tries to convince the world they adopted some democracy.
The SIMD JSON Library – Parse Gigabytes of JSON per Second
It's the good old "military-industrial complex" - except with the psychoanalytical sense of the word "complex."
My favorite ShadowStats statistic is that their own annual subscription price has remained unchanged at $175 since at least 2006, during 14 years of supposedly rampant inflation: https://www.pragcap.com/update-theres-still-deflation-in-hyp...
For the past few decades it has been common practice to treat language names as normal words independent of their origin. So FORTRAN, LISP, SNOBOL and BASIC have become Fortran, Lisp, Snobol and Basic. Unless the name doesn't look like a word, as in APL or PL/I.

I am just guessing here, but in the really old days many computers only had capital letters and languages with names that were words ended up spelled as FORTH and PASCAL when they shouldn't have been. When lower case characters became common this was corrected and it could be that the acronym based language names came along for the ride.

The only language name that really matters is Smalltalk. The name is actually used in expressions so if someone spells it as SmallTalk their program won't work.
Xkit is still actively maintained, albeit by a new team [1]. When I saw this, my first thought was "since when was Xkit a YC company," so definitely an unfortunate name collision.

[1]: https://new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com
Pics or it didn't happen!
Can I get a compile to js comparison here- if you've used more than 1

1) bucklescript
2) typescript
3) f# fable
4) scala.js
5) gopher.js
6) clojure
7) elm
Keeping in mind where this thread started... I'm not aware of a similar law that prohibits employers from overpaying their employees, though.
The most common proposals I've seen are to break Google into multiple companies, particularly with search being separate. This seems adequately specific. (Though obviously different from the public-utility plan in this article.) Is that not specific enough for you? This seems vastly simpler than GPDR in scope and with much more relevant precedent to draw from.
Sure but the problem is that chemical reactions are MUCH slower at such low temps, perhaps much too slow for life to exist.
shut the fuck up. we know nothing about this situation, I want to know why they’re even doing this and this guy is explaining why. delete your account.
That is patently false. Chrome was light years ahead of Firefox in both cpu and memory use for years.
So your solution to procrastination is to just take action?

I've got ADHD, and sometimes I feel like telling ADHD people to "just do it" is like telling a depressed person to "just be happy". It might work great for you, but for many that just doesn't work.

I get your point, and sometimes I can psych myself up enough to do something with the "just do it" mentality, but sometimes that doesn't work, and articles like this can help me understand why and how to fix it.
I wonder why they didn't ever try to make it as a cloud provider, it would fit their mission well to provide cloud services, it would just be for the server side instead of the client side. Guess it's about a decade too late to pivot there, but firms like Cloudflare shows that it's possible to compete with the big actors with enough focus.
The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Is a must for ANYONE that is involved with the leadership of men.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Sta...

The Intel Binary Compatibility Standard (iBCS) is a standardized application binary interface (ABI) for Unix operating systems on Intel-386-compatible computers, published by AT&T, Intel and SCO in 1988, and updated in 1990.
I have as well, have you seen LessWrong.com (birthplace of Roko's Basilisk, btw)?
> If Wechat is really banned Tencent (or a shell company owned by Tencent) will just spring up another app with a different name that connects to the same data centers and put it on the App Store.

IIRC the executive order doesn't address WeChat/TikTok directly, but instead forbids interactions with their parent companies. I think this means that the ban can't be worked around by just reskinning the app. Not sure how it would work with shell companies, though.
> in the post where that quote originally appeared, the author recommended as an alternative to Signal a tool that wasn't even end-to-end encrypted by default

You seem really hung up on that. A transient recommendation has very little to do with stated expectation that "a tool which claims to be secure [should] actually be secure".
The contract ends start of 2021 IIRC and Firefox market share has been dropping and will continue dropping (specially now after this news).

Which means I'm sure they are planning for a large reduction in revenue, like 50% or whatever. These contracts are usually on a 3-6 year basis..
I think doctors don’t wash their hands is like someone who is adapt at washing dishes to know when soap is not needed to wash certain dishes to be good enough to not get you sick. They take a chance but save them a little time. Of course if they just accidentally came in contact with a patients private parts or something “wet” they are most likely to.
> Long term, however, there's a risk of a monopoly forming, which isn't good for developers or society. FAANG are willing to pay big salaries because they are competing. If they use their power to destroy the competition, that market force goes away.

Big companies have been overpaying developers for almost a decade now. It is not going away. It is not some short term thing. Instead, that is what these elite tech companies pay.

It is not some singular company, that is buying up all of the tech talent. Instead, it is a whole bunch of elite tech companies, paying lots of developers lots of money.

The idea that there is one singular company, that is a monopoly on developer talent, that is false, given that there are a whole bunch of them doing it.
> I wonder what HN startups must think when they read HN comments and so very often see "my needs aren't met, I quit you".

I know a couple of guys who posted their stuff here. They don't care about the complainers because the complainers don't have and don't offer to have skin in the game. They did the sensible thing, which is to be polite and respond noncommittally thanking them for the feedback or to ignore them.

Because you don't get information that will improve the product from them, they aren't potential customers, and they usually don't know what they're talking about anyway.
you are not `long`-sighted either, once you get all these CCP money, then you have to bend your knees to china whenever they demand. just like Hollywood, NBA...etc.
Wonderful initiative. Thanks. If I may suggest it’s help to have videos put in to playlist by topic or level of difficulty etc. if you’re planing to publish many that is. Good luck.
I don't want to invalidate what you've said, so please don't interpret my comment that way. I would encourage you to think a bit more about a few things:

> For example, Google executives don't release statements after employees die trashing the employee because of an underlying difference in personality and/or political views.

While I agree that it was probably a mistake for Mitchell to have made that post, I think that it also says something about Mozilla's culture that a lot of people outside of Mozilla do not quite grasp.

Mozilla throughout its history has been mostly "open by default." IMHO there was an attempt to change that in MoCo during the latter couple years of Chris Beard's tenure as CEO, but traditionally (and Mitchell, as a co-founder of Mozilla, very much comes from the traditional side) Mozilla has been very open.

As a consequence of this openness, sometimes things come out that, from the outside, look like airing of dirty laundry, because in just about any other organization, they would be. But notwithstanding a few NDA exceptions and the Community Participation Guidelines, Mozilla employees can identify themselves as such and blog about whatever they want without having to filter it through PR.

As you can see, this also raises a tension between "Mozilla should be more mindful about what its executives are saying online," vs "Mozilla is too corporate and should not be silencing its employees." There are people on both sides of that who will be upset, and again, no matter which side they're on, seem to always conclude, "Fuck Mozilla, I'm switching to Chrome!"

A more expansive NDA would obviously mitigate that, but Mozilla doesn't do things quite like Google or any of its other competitors.

> Google also doesn't fire executives because of their political views or previous donations, when held privately, particularly when those political views are relatively common.

There was a lot of poor reporting during the Brendan Eich affair. Personally I think that the stuff written by the WSJ was a hitpiece that contained multiple falsehoods, but those falsehoods stuck around and built up this narrative that still lives today. Having been there when it happened, the least inaccurate account of what happened was written by CNet's Stephen Shankland [1], IMHO. I suggest you read it.

Finally, the Brendan Eich thing happened over six years ago. Is this really something for which Mozilla should be repeatedly be attacked, ad infinitum? Personally I think that it is increasingly off-topic, yet any time Mozilla comes up on HN or elsewhere, I can pretty much guarantee that `Ctrl-F` `Brendan Eich` will turn something up. People just don't seem to be able to move on from that. I don't think that Mozilla's cause and the vast majority of the people who work there deserve to be punished because of that.

And since you mentioned Google, keep in mind that they are not saints without their own controversies. eg Andy Rubin.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-da...
Thanks, that sounds like it!

> A hollow man argument is similar to a straw man one. The difference is that it is a weak case attributed to a non-existent group. Someone will fabricate a viewpoint that is easy to refute, then claim it was made by a group they disagree with. Arguing against an opponent which doesn’t exist is a pretty easy way to win any debate. People who use hollow man arguments will often favor vague, non-specific language without explicitly giving any sources or stating who their opponent is.
UK Court of Appeals: Landmark ruling against police facial recognition
Mozilla's support model was left too weird, too long. Baker is to blame, this should have been rectified years ago.

What does Mozilla really bring to the table with this new focus? The world is full of VPN vendors.
Mozilla made over $500M revenue in 2017 and $451M in 2018. Apparently the decline has continued, but it should still be enough to develop a browser. I would guess that Firefox is profitable but all of Mozilla's other things are dragging them down.
FWIW, it hasn't been ignored; the US State Department has condemned the restrictions in Kashmir.
See my reply to adrianN. Getting there is only a small part of the hurdle to establishing a viable colony, let alone one that can prosper enough to spread further.
Sure, but I read the whole thing and while it was amusing, I still have no idea "why" doctors don't wash their hands. They forget? They don't want to? They don't believe it's worth it? The article doesn't say at all.