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You never ever build railroads again, obviously, and deride everyone that plans building them.
> Also, if you’re starting containers manually on the command line, you’re doing it wrong. At least use compose so your setup is declarative and lifetime-managed.

As I wrote in a nearby comment, I'm not starting containers manually - we have compose, swarm, it's declarative and lifetime-managed.

However, we often need to do some bespoke data analysis, so we often ssh into a server, type `make shell` to launch a REPL and type/paste some stuff into it.
That sounds like a very small setup you run with very limited requirements if you run this successful.

The benefits they are mentioning are theoretical for you and i personally have not worked in a professional env where VPSs and rsync would be enough at all.
WebThings ? There are OSS projects in this space and I don't see how they plan on capturing value for the organisation or provide value to the community by building yet another solution that currently has very weak integration with 3rd party devices.
revenue isn't a good measure of business size. a $500m revenue might translate to very low "profit". Most size measurements will use owned asset value (or market cap, which is a very rough guesstimate of the net present value of all future profit of the company) as a measure, as it is more directly comparable between different businesses.

Mozilla, is at best, a small-cap software company. Calling them mid-sized is probably not wrong either, but would be closer to being wrong than right imho.
Then, if you explain that there is reason to believe the term conspiracy theories was created and popularized specifically to indoctrinate them into responding exactly the way they are responding (like programmable robots).. then they just call ``conspiracyTheories(yourTheory)`` again to "validate" it and you lose 20% of your remaining credibility.

I just go with a bit of ridicule. Something like: It is not that sophisticated, educated, wealthy and influential people in power could get together and have some kind of plan. If they did it couldn't possibly escape your attention but if it did it wouldn't be interesting enough for you to talk about.

Or maybe it isn't that. Maybe the quality of government depends entirely on the citizens? If you think drag net spying is a good idea is a yes/no question. If you don't care means yes which in turn means they should be doing it. Same goes for enriching themselves at your expense. I mean if you approve of it?? Or is not caring and approving not the same thing?
It means MDN as we know it will slowly be going away. One of the important things MDN and Mozilla's maintaining of it was the promoting of standards and Firefox's implemdntation of them. With Mozilla ceasing to maintain this it means that Firefox will be seen less as a leader in developing and defining standards.

I see this as either a temporary tighening of the belt for efficiency during tough times or a change in direction of focus.
What does ADHD have to do with sleep deprivation?!??
Why are we conflating poor sleep habits with ADHD unless someone is abusing ADHD medication and not getting enough sleep? Why do I let poorly written articles bother me so much?
To be fair, she could bring her salary to 0, and that still would only afford to bring back ~8 out of the 250 developers.

Yes, as a regular developer I think 2.5 mil is pretty crazy for a salary. But even if the C-suite "tightened their belts", that wouldn't bring the company around.

Maybe the company _would_ fall apart, as they say, or close enough. I don't know. If you followed the news by Mozilla over the years, you could notice the trouble they had with finding the next CEO, multiple times.

In the meantime, if MDN is the "gold standard" and so on, where were all the donations to Mozilla from developers around the world to keep the site running?

It's extremely self-serving to ask the employees of an essentially public good company to reduce their salaries to be able to produce the said public good.

Personally, I worry about the death of Servo the most. But if a more niche concern, apparently.
Normal businesses generally don’t have enough free money to do something like this. While the business has value by virtue of its assets, the amount of free cash is much less.

Software is an exception in this since you basically only have free cash, there are no physical assets as such.
I like the community-driven development of forem, but aaaall those posts about only nodejs stuff are starting to be boring.

Like if webdev is nodejs only. I struggle to find anything good about django :/
Because having "leftover cash" that is not immediately redistributed to shareholders is seen as a Bad Thing (tm).

Because in the end, when shit hits the fan like with the 'rona, the government will be conveniently pressurable to bail you out. Personally, I rather have government bailouts than mass bankruptcies - but bailouts should come with "strings attached" like, let's say, a requirement to always keep one year of expenses at a reserve to avoid the need for future bailouts.
Congrats! I visited on an iPhone. For me, the home page just looked like a list of products, not a way I could build a kit. Then I saw the “Get started” link and thought that might be where the magic was, so I clicked it and got a signup form. My suggestions:

- make the functionality usable while anonymous (and move the signup step to after I’ve made my kit). I probably wouldn’t sign up before seeing the utility on a desktop and I definitely wouldn’t on a phone. After I’d built a kit on a phone, I’d probably either sign up or at least have your site email the kit to me.

- change the home page to that builder or whatever the site functionality is, or at least make it impossible to land on the home page and not realize that something more exists. If I hadn’t been coming from your Show HN description, I’d have thought it was just a (nicely designed!) list of Amazon affiliate links.

Good luck!
I remember that! I think it actually hurt the brand of Redgate. I just remember .NET Reflector being a free shareware tool which everybody used, and suddenly Redgate bought it and made it cost money.
> The only reason this year we are talking about it is because for some reason it became a huge media thing

Well, something seems to be different this year:

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
I am not pursuing a PhD in pure math so I certainly have both interest and ability in doing academic stuff but I found it incredibly hard to get acceptable grades in high school.
> Normal businesses generally don’t have enough free money to do something like this.

And why don't they? Decades ago, having cash reserves was a Good Thing.

We need to get at the root of the issue and that is that companies have gotten used way too much on government bailouts and redistributing everything possible to shareholders/customers.
I’m perfectly happy to pay a reasonable monthly amount to keep the firefox team alive.
People ask "why UTC"? Good question. Here's why:

You can always translate UTC to a local time in a given timezone. With IANA zoneinfo, you can do that correctly even for historical data in places where timezone rules changed in the past.

You can always calculate elapsed times correctly by taking differences between UTC timestamps. With local times you can't. Because daylight time transitions.

If you started with a local service, UTC lets you expand globally without explaining to your new customers why your timestamps are not in their timezones.

Daylight time transition days. Because daylight time.

Oddball daylight transition rules. Because Indiana USA, from the legislature that almost wrote a law declaring the value of π to be 22/7.

Because almost everybody will understand your decision, even after you're gone.
If you like this, there's a subreddit for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/

Other NOAA-related projects: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/search?q=NOAA&restrict_sr=on...
Tesla already changed global transportation, by dragging auto manufacturers kicking and screaming to make real investments in electric transportation. They've averaged a CAGR of 40% or so for the fast decade and have no intentions of slowing down.

Obviously they won't get 100% of the global auto market, but they're much more influential and dangerous than you'd be led to believe just by looking at their market share.

By the way, SpaceX performed 65% of all the orbital space launches that happened in 2018. Worldwide. Competitors mainly being the ULA and the space programs of sovereign state actors.
Ask HN: Does anyone build Rust implementation of k8s for Edge with Docker/WASM?
Hey HN,

What I mean in overall

* ARM support, e.g. Raspberry Pi clusters and others single-board computer clusters

* Review k8s commands and implementation of the most important for edge context

* An abstraction layer for various virtualization technics like Docker or WASM

* An attempt to replace YAML with something more convenient

* Plugin & device drivers support

I see this is a great opportunity for systems architectors/programmers

P.S. /// And no complexity, keep it simple

Thanks
Interesting. The whole thread proves to me the exact opposite. That free speech is very alive since nothing here has been censored yet. The only way I can explain our disparate perceptions is that we're talking about entirely different things.

By "free speech" I mean not being arrested or physically harmed for saying something.

Is it possible that by "free speech" you in contrast mean being entitled to be invited, keeping your job, and/or remaining uncontradicted?
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/foundation-for-economic-educa...

also, see notes:

According to the left-leaning watchdog Sourcewatch, Fee has connections to the Koch Brothers. Further, the Least Biased Public Integrity also ties this organization to the Koch Bothers via funding.
Would you run a web app?

Checking my strategy to avoid Apple's app store.
I'm not sure it would make sense for normal businesses, as owners want to, well, profit from the profits (share price rise, buybacks, dividends, sale of business at a higher valuation, etc).

However, in Mozilla's case, the owner of the corporation is a non-profit, and (to me at least) it'd make a perfect sense to set up something like this.
Pocket is useful and has some paid features: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pocket/
Poor sleep is not just caused by poor sleep habits. Sleep apnea, as an example, is a disability that causes poor sleep and often goes undiagnosed. ADHD is not a disability per se, it is classified by the symptoms and is not classified by any underlying cause.
"Consent" is an exercise of mutual responsibility.
Is there a Jupyter alternative that's just for JavaScript? Like Observable but not Observable.
Daniel Jarjoura recently published a fairly complete reading list that might be useful: https://techleadership.substack.com/p/the-product-leader-rea...

Some books I’ve read and enjoyed and/or found useful: The hard thing about hard things, the innovator’s dilemma, High output management, Accelerate, The Phoenix project (though I much prefer The Goal)
>The point of anti-trust is to protect the consumer, not the weak market participants

I don't think your definition of anti-trust is accurate. Protect consumers by creating a competitive market. To promote and protect competition because consumers and the economy as a whole benefits when we have more competition in the market.
Could you link to studies that support this point of view, if you have any? What are your sources?
AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2
I think you'll find better discussions if you choose to attack the steel man version of someone's argument, rather than the straw man.

Nowhere did I state I expected any expert tutors from children. I merely said that something, anything at all, is better than nothing. It might not even be better in all cases, but on average, the evidence tells us it is.
That requires multiple clicks to 'fix' someone else's website. There should be a more automated (but still suboptimal) solution where you can add Intercom to your ad blocker though.
> Thing is, if people really feel like "I can't support this company while X is there" are they just supposed to be quiet?
This! isn't that the whole point of capitalism? Love it or hate it, dollars = votes. Withholding it via firing or boycotting it's the same deal. The market decides what 'stands' and doesn't, what people can get away with and what they can't.

At one point you could get away with refusing service to black people. Pressure from the markets and community changed that. Every change we've gotten is because someone fought back some way.

You can't want unfettered capitalism (looking at the right/libertarians), and then cry when capitalist companies bow to pressure from the masses online and cancel shit.

Privatize them, go dictator/socialist then the state/constitutions can say how a business is ran, and they maybe censorship is banned, or maybe they only censor whatever the state wants to censor...as long as there's 'at will employment' and businesses are free to censor content on their platforms, (which I approve of, personally), nobody should be able to complain about being silenced.

Go start a facebook competitor, or your own company and compete (ironically that's what he did with Brave browser).
I was doing this 15 years ago. Does it mean that I'm old?
LO supports some macros.

Also, I use Lynx/Links+ (and a upgraded Netsurf) because of those JS pests.

So far I can:

- Use pleroma (Mastodon) from https://brutaldon.online.
Much faster than any JS bloated platform. Images are viewed externally from sxiv, nothing is lost.

- Search YT from Idiotbox and playing the video with mpv + youtube-dl.

- Read Medium/Tedium general news articles without bogging my CPU down. Links -g supports images.

- Comment here.

- For Reddit I use either TUIR or Gopher.

- I can avoid all malicious cookies too by setting a different config file for links and tunneling it thru torsocks.

For DOCX/XLSX files, you can use antiword/wv and convert the DOC/X file to RTF and then open it under Ted (a really lightweight WP), and sc-im plus gnuplot for spreadsheets. Much faster and secure.

On potentially malicious PDF's and PostScripts, convert them into DJVU and use DJView to read them.
Interesting title. Why not "New PHP router which is 1.3 times faster than nikic's fast-route"?
Windows 10: Update 20190 Allows Better Management of Graphics Card Performance
>Just as broken as the PGP situation...

Context? I remember that Snowden regarded PGP as a usable defence against his former bosses.
AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto) on Amazon Linux 2
Your version sounds stupid, because Electrodynamics and Orbital Mechanics are notoriously difficult classes where even those who passed them use expressions like "working hard" and "difficult". And many students actually fail them.

High schoool English, Geography, History and Math is referenced as easy by many students. Typical student does not have a problem to pass that class.
> Having people pay, even voluntarily, and having even a small reliance on those payments would just kill Mozilla more quickly without a visible leadership change first.

Wikipedia relies on user donations, and yet they still spend vast sums of money on what might be described as frivolous side projects (eg. Wikipedia Zero).

Not so long ago (late 2000s) wikipedia ran on 39 servers, mostly squid proxies, and did not cost very much money to keep running. Given the increase in server performance I imagine they could run on a similar number of servers these days (maybe less with help from a CDN).

Now they spend nearly $100m per year.

So there is no guarantee that this would help Mozilla.
I totally agree and that is why I dont understand why it is linking ADHD and sleep deprivation.
> "leftover cash" that is not immediately redistributed to shareholders is seen as a Bad Thing (tm)

sort of a short sighted view if that's really the case - since the cash being in the company's books, or in an endowment, is still value owned by the owner. The small penalty of it being illiquid shouldnt be a problem.
Feel free to use them. If you do, I’d love to know about it but not required.
You are missing the point. They are smaller than the big tech companies but they are not objectively small. In my country a company is generally deemed to be large if it employs more than 500 people, which is easily surpassed here.
8 developers for 2mil? more like 8-20. So you think it's preferable to keep the C-suite happy versus having 8-20 more developers?
The core issue here is Democracy and Human greed. Why would a majority vote for a 15h working week for everyone, when they could vote for a zero hour working week for themselves and a 60h working weak for some poor beleaguered minority? That's what we have today: employment rates are around 50%, the rest opt out and vote republican. Republicans cut things used by working people and throw money indiscriminately at pensioners and the rich (2 groups exempt from having to work).

This is the exact same issue with UBI. The universality of it undermines support.
> Put another way, if 'software is eating the world', then if it's free software the cost of goods and services should drop dramatically.

Software cost generally isn't a "dramatic" part of cost, wherever you look. Because of zero marginal cost, the price of widely-used software approaches zero naturally. Only highly specialized software commands high prices, those reflect the cost of developing or replacing it, as well as the value that it is providing.
>Does their management understand the gravitas (that word is warranted here)

What if management wants to move away from web development and concentrate on satellite technologies like email and VPN?
Lawsuits. If the endowment becomes known it becomes a target.
> So allow me to make a modest proposal: build in a donations function in Firefox itself — for instance by adding a simple “Please support us” message to the update page you get to see whenever you update the browser, and by adding a Donations item to the main menu.

The core problem is the product itself. People haven't paid for web browsers in 25 years.

Rather than trying to fit the square peg of "ending free" into the round hole of browser software, a more sustaining change would be for Mozilla to develop a product that people will pay for. One they have not been conditioned over the course of decades to get for free.

In other words, Mozilla needs a product (or service) built not for the masses but a small group of people who:

1. have a problem that needs to be solved; and

2. have money to spend

Whether or not Mozilla has the leadership or even culture to pull this off is another question.
To fiendishly ask questions that are just out of reach of the students ability, or will reveal some tiny flaw in the students understanding. This type of thing engages everyone when done well.

What you are describing is out of range for peer tutoring (child-to-child) which is what I was thinking of. For children, the motivation for the task doesn't need to come from the subject matter itself, the very fact that a friend/peer is working with you can be all the motivation you need.
5G is the next big change
G is a newly launched mobile telecommunication standard that provides a substantial increase in the network speed over the 4G networks. The fourth-generation networks allowed speed of about 4-6 megabytes per second but the 5G will allow a speed of around 20 GB per second. It will allow the users to connect at a speed that’s far greater than the existential 4G speed.
HN guidelines say:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

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The "hundreds of downvotes" and how the UI reflects the downvotes are two facts of life. Indeed your initiative to change these facts is not interesting to me.
> a $500m revenue might translate to very low "profit"

2017 they had a net income of ~$90m.
They are highly effective, fairly cheap, and usually well tolerated. I'm not saying that a few years of learning coping mechanisms won't help, but as you've experienced... Without the executive function to put it in practice, or the memory to compare, it's rough going.
Can you relate the bias you perceive to untrustworthy or disingenuous claims in the content of the article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
The new crappy address bar that nobody asked for, pocket, hubs, three different mobile browsers, some useless award and probably more that I don't remember.

Also annoying is how they constantly kill useful features like RSS or bookmark descriptions.

I use Firefox because I still like it better than Chrome and I like to support free software, but it's obvious to me that Mozilla doesn't really care about their users and they're too busy chasing shiny things. I expect they'll keep losing market share until they become irrelevant and disappear.
I really hope you're not being serious. If you are, please actually research what you're talking about.

Here's what a 5 second Googling got - there's a ton more to it than that though.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662391/#:~:tex....

And, just so you know, ADHD medicine (stimulants/amphetamines) actually helps people with ADHD sleep. Like, tremendously

I know you specifically said abuse - but I still think that'd worse mentioning.

P.S. - did you know methamphetamine is a prescription drug? (U.S
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But that's a different discussion regardless if open source or closed, big companies vs small teams issue will ever exists.

What I'm saying is that the product being open source allows you to study it, let's say you want to do something as fast as Redis, you have all that previous work open.
I don't imagine a single person in a room going line by line studying it, what usually happen is that many people study particular aspects and write about it the problems they had, improvements and so on.

> I doubt bunch of open source contributors could come close to that.

Well it depends a "bunch" of open source contributors can organise themselves and grow into organizations, there are many examples.
Money has a corrupting influence.

Imagine, in the abstract, an organisation that wasn't exactly accountable to anyone with a half-billion dollar pot as the prize for whoever ended up in charge. Can't possibly end well. Brand that with a "Mozilla" logo and the situation doesn't change much.

If anything, I think - paradoxically, but as I do for all charities - that Mozilla is acting responsibly if they are burning through all their cash. If they fall on hard times that is more a signal that they've lost the faith of the internet at large than a marker of financial imprudence.

A charitable foundation with no doners should be wound up. Otherwise it'll just invite corruption. Exceptions for tiny amounts of money, but not for the sums Mozilla is dealing with.
>And if we could prevent cancer by simple changes to our lifestyle by wearing masks and social distancing, you can bet that most people (not all) would support it and look at people who don't with disgust.

There's no guarantee that these things will prevent deaths; if there's no vaccine relatively soon all they'll achieve is delaying deaths. And social distancing is not a "simple lifestyle" change: it's a destructive, traumatic event that's destroyed more peoples' jobs, businesses and livelihoods than anything else in the past half century, and caused a massive increase in mental health issues and suicide: https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/q....

I'm going to assume you're an introvert in some ivory tower tech job that allows working from home, otherwise I can't imagine how you could have so little empathy for the havock lockdowns are wreaking on ordinary working people's lives.