skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really that is still on society for being so fucking insane that they care more about their petty delusions od hierarchies and egos than lives of mothers.

To put it on him is a vile form of victim blaming and tone policing, a tactic of vile bullies to in defiancr of all justice and logic insist it is the fault of the victim for being upset at an outrage. The self evident should be especially obvious given the number of deaths from botched autopsies and self inflicted wounds around corpses. Only an absolute monster would shove a corpse part in the loins of a new mother but they were effectively doing the same thing when even stray cuts could kill. Semmelweis was the only sane man by being so furious. Others were making blood sacrifices to the gods of social norms.
It used to be centered around XUL, and there was even a sort of proto-electron in the form of xulrunner and the related Prism project, but they were all dropped years ago and XUL itself has been deprecated and is being steadily replaced.

There might've been a window somewhere in there where turning XUL/Gecko into a Qt style application toolkit could've been an option, but I think we're well past that point now.
Also made in the similar ways as their surrounding elements, but generally don't stick around for long enough for anyone to really care.
>The borrow-checker in Rust is kind of silly tool to use in the context of a managed language

I suspect a lot people are drawn to Rust more because of its type system and great tooling. I'd be perfectly happy with a version of Rust that swapped out the borrow checker for a GC, but such a language doesn't exist today, and Rust does exist.
Once again: you did not retract your statement. You ghost-edited it out of your post. The purpose of a retraction is to inform your readers of your mistake, and a retraction would be a good thing to add to your post.

The distinction is especially germane in a thread on a post that purports to discern how trustworthy someone else is. You set the bar, now clear it.
"Pushing through via sheer force of will isn't possible."

That's exactly what I'm saying. I'll check out the link.
This subject always reminds me of the quote from popular and beloved British actor Paul Eddington, which puts on display a very different and much gentler ethos from the “doer-ism” sprayed on us quite constantly: "A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be, 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little [harm], that would suit me."

It’s worth pondering whether the same (limited) perspective that caused several problems is sufficient to fix some problems without exacerbating others. The whole point of democratization of power is to distribute decision-making so people could make the right choices as locally apt.
Right: the grandparent was about north of $500k though which apparently seniors don't make, only higher levels. I'm surprised I was downvoted there?
> people are planning for the end of COVID-19 by Jan

Unfortunately a virus doesn't care about people's plans.
People want to work on their interests more than take more money after a certain amount is met. The real power of someone like Google isn’t just paying more money, it’s the variety of projects under its umbrella. They can entice curious cats better.
99% agreement, except for the amerocentric viewpoint. I think it is likely that Baidu has the scale.
Ah you're right, I skipped a year. Thank you for pointing that out
I use KaiOS on my phone. It's pretty good. A nice cross between 'dumb' and 'smart'. I like it a lot. No forced upload of my contact lists and no forced membership of some eco system.

The only gripe I have is that pre-installed software can not be easily uninstalled but I understand they need to eat there too so I'll give them a pass. Rearranging the icons took care of that particular irritation.
I mean, "treating your employees better" doesn't necessarily always mean "paying them more". For one, giving good employees more autonomy and decision power, treating people like adults, focusing on their career development, etc., goes a long way too.
Anti-satellite weaponry doesn't really apply here for the same reason land based artillery doesn't apply for trying to block pirate radio coming from a neighboring country
Well a breakup is definitely easier to define. But you should specify along which lines. YouTube is the obvious one. Maybe a bunch of other acquisitions that aren't too techy can be rolled back.

What about other products? Gmail? Maps? Android/App Store? Chrome? Google News? Shopping? Translate? Docs? Should these be separate companies?

Only once you define that can the plan be criticized.

This is so much easier to do as one only needs to list up to 20 names (and perhaps some minor obligations), yet we're still not seeing too many people spell this out. I think for exactly the same reason - it becomes obvious how unpractical it is.
I refuse. I did my part a long time ago, and you're just an asshole who doesn't know when to quit.
Startups do have advantages: they can give early employees a bigger piece of the equity pie than FAANG ever could, and provide a gamble on becoming much wealthier than employees could become working at FAANG. They can also give employees more overall product impact, more autonomy, and better growth opportunities.

If you, as a founder, don’t want to give up equity, who’s fault is that? You’re expecting employees to work for a pittance of what they can make elsewhere and take on the risk without upside.

If employees are look at your business and decide the probability of their equity being worth anything is too low, who’s fault is that? You’re trying to dupe them into taking a bad deal, or failing to communicate the opportunity.

If your company cannot scale to provide market-rate salaries, whose fault is that? You’re expecting your employees to give up their salaries and their financial security to subsidize a non-competitive lifestyle business that suits you, not them. You’d better figure out some incentive where that equation makes sense.
I'd be very interested in seeing this when you are done!
yes - bad joke in the vein of "male sex" - the categories are sloppily generated in the WHO example. But you are right - the sinks are in short supply...
Yup to us techies it seems obvious that you should have a digital signature.

But for whatever reason, this wasn't done.
> the debate over whether Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation were an agent for good or an agent for helping Bill Gates sleep at night was a huge thing when I was in graduate school.

maybe both?
> That's possible, but survival of Mozilla the software house making a lot of other stuff that generates revenue which is not the browser is none of my concern nor interest. I can see why as a Mozilla employee it would be your concern. But I see no difference between that work and that of any other software company. The browser is where the difference can be made.

This, a thousand times. I care about Mozilla as the makers of Firefox - the browser for the users.
overly complicated.

Nike Behavior model is easier: just do it.
Rust has multiple implementations, see mrustc.
Things like null safety aren't trivial for practical purposes IME.
>I'm totally open to the idea that someone will come along and explain to my why my idea for how the Fed should give everyone money is just not workable.

Congress has this power, and can always use it. The fed doesn't have this power, and that's because a bunch of unelected bankers aren't supposed to be making political decisions about wealth distribution.

Read up on the difference between fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus...it's impossible to have an intelligent discussion on this subject without knowing how those things differ.
I was in a similar position. I did a bunch of reading on ADHD, convinced myself that I probably had it then I found a clinical psychologist who specialized in ADHD and reached out for an initial appointment. Apparently this is a pretty common story for people with ADHD who weren't diagnosed as children, so a specialist won't be particularly surprised by it.

The initial appointment is probably going to be an in-depth interview with the specialist, coupled with filling out some self-assessments and, possibly, getting somebody who knows you well to fill out an assessment as well. (Apparently people with ADHD usually drastically underestimate their own symptoms, which is why a third-party perspective is important.)

After I got diagnosed, the specialist gave me useful advice, learning materials and resources, including recommendations for psychiatrists to reach out to for treatment. This is pretty important because a combination of psychiatric treatment with learning new skills, coaching... works better than only doing one or the other.

If you can afford it or it works well with your insurance, I would highly recommend reaching out to a specialist instead of (or in addition to) talking to a normal doctor.
Can’t say I’m surprised there wasn’t much movement on that project in a coordinated fashion it had all the makings of a project without adequate staffing to complete its vision.
I see this and bitcoin as attempts at Balkanization, due to the failures of US conservative & neo-liberal economic policy since the early 70's onward. I see bitcoin as a Chinese state scam, a structured, self-funding via hardware manufacturing, attack on NATO policy that outgrew its britches and now serves as a global-warming-causing lunar-magic-gold reserve. Since there aren't any cheap new frontiers, you see things like "Time Credits." This means that undeserved communities are inventing their own tribal states because the larger state isn't meeting their needs. These generally aren't good things because more cohesive societies tend to exist longer.
There is a large gap between "focus on the browser" and "make Firefox slightly better."

People forget that Firefox gave the world tabbed browsing. Sure, it was around before, but Firefox was the drive and impetus that moved it from a niche idea to the default option across every browser. That was over a decade ago.

Firefox has the opportunity to execute a vision of modern web-browsing again. And, frankly, we really need it. Tabs use to be the solution; now I measure problem difficulty in terms of tabs I have open ("That was a 10-tab problem"), and find myself closing 15-20 at a time.

Arguably, Pocket is trying to do that, but as a secondary service. It needs to be integrated, and seamless. I want stacks of tabs, tagged tab groups, an Inbox-like interface for my web history, including reminders (rip Inbox Reminders), predictive new-tab screens, cross-device tab sharing. I want to collect and link sites I've seen, and quickly be able to find them again. I want internet history that's a set, not a random list.

Firefox could bring us the next wave of web browsing again. Instead, they're building an app that claims to make web browsing better---by going to a second location.
sax and violins on tv...
Sure, but there are 8+ million people in the Bay Area, so a short piece about three types of people is never going to cover everyone. I'm a Bay Area native, and none of these profiles are anywhere close to describing me.

I also live in the South Bay, and "first generation tech immigrants" are definitely not a majority, though that certainly does describe a lot of people. While tech companies are most of the largest employers, employment in retail, health care, education, hospitality and local government are still significant portions of the working base.
There's no need to contort an analogy. It's just like as if McDonalds pays more for the best employees, such as real estate analysts, beef sourcing agents, taste scientists. Other burger joints are then denied the talent. Nobody would complain that McDonalds are poaching real estate analysts from Burger King.
Bing provides API access to its search index. IIRC the type of queries you can do are a bit more sophisticated than just "what's available via the Bing search engine" (e.g. select a market).
About the same as everywhere else.
Open loop criticisms are why I often can't stand other security and crypto people.

To be clear, if someone is a Signal user, you use their phone number for directory discovery and initializing identity, then Signal messages themselves are encrypted and transported via Signal servers using WebRTC as a transport protocol?

I think without a sequence diagram, most discussion of security protocols is pointless.
Netsurf was a bit unstable and prone to lock compared to Dillo or Links+.

Also, the duktape JS capabilities are behind even edbrowse.
It’s a rock bottom 2:1.

I find this odd. Generally a 2:1 equals a GPA between 2.8 and 3.2, depending on how strong it is.

The UK degree requirement is very soft in comparison to the others.
> Support your claim with evidence, like I asked earlier.

You asked for specifically mainstream messengers.

Cutting out mainstream, I can think of Tox and Jami off the top of my head.

Update 0: remove Tox, as you mention it in your comment.

Update 1: add Tox back in because your reply is about it, and I made edit 0 before seeing your reply.
And they conspired to keep wages down because... the market?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
> I'd 100% recommend having stimulants in your toolkit, and chances are you're already supplementing with worse stimulants (like mountains of coffee or soda), so do give them a try, but be careful.

I'll second this. I've got an old friend and former coworker who clearly has serious ADHD and self medicates with tons of coffee/soda/cigarettes. He's killing himself and he knows it, but hates doctors and has a negative view of shrinks.

Anec-data: I cut out carbs and only eat during certain windows and that has done wonders for focus and stick-to-itiveness. Coffee and alcohol hit me extra hard, and I've cut back on them.
For me, the main difference is that Fedora packages are close to the upstream code, while Debian makes heavy and sometimes controversial changes (remember Iceweasel?).

In an ideal world I would use Flatpak for everything -- code direct from upstream, decoupled from the base system.
Microsoft closely parallels Standard Oil in this regard. Microsoft was forcing Dell to charge a higher price for competing operating systems (in effect, Microsoft got paid $100 every time Dell shipped a computer with OS/2 or whatever). I can easily see how the first party forcing the second party to charge a higher rate to the third party is abusive.
My wife's an occupational therapist (so, should be lumped in with the PTs who are "less likely to wash their hands") and she's pretty religious about hand washing, keeping work clothes separate, changing shoes when she leave the hospital, etc. I have to imagine it's cultural from the various facilities she's worked in, because she's not otherwise (outside of post-work) a germophobe or anything.
I just wrote one to show which links are fresh on news sites (e.g. on HN). FF only for now though:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/seen-it-al...

feedback welcome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336
Which was the problem many people foresaw when the last administration did it. They set the precedent, or pushed at its boundaries. "If they can do it... so can we..." It's the main problem with any governmental structure. If it exists, sooner or later it's bound to cut in what we consider the wrong direction.
Sorry, but that's not what's being described here. If you want it to be about your bread market, then the water guy is hiring your best baker because bread is worth $10 when combined with water, but only if it's particularly good bread.

Maybe 50 of the other 99 bakers at the 10 bread-selling companies are also capable of making good bread and will feel bad, maybe the company that lost the baker will feel bad, maybe that company will even fail because it turns out that really was their best baker... but in that case, it just proves that the water company was paying the market price for that baker. Which they were.

Spending more on talent is not predatory pricing.
Chevron Is Trying to Crush a Prominent Climate Lawyer
WeChat has sent information from Chinese people in America to the Chinese government to help the Chinese government punish those people.

That is against the law in the U.S.

e.g. https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
I'm concerned you're overlooking something here. When a husband and wife have a joint account, are withdrawals before death by either party usually taxed?

§25.2511-1(h) of what? It's better to include full references; not everyone on HN is in the USA.
I disagree with the notion that "elite do-gooders" (which seems like a pejorative phrasing) are part of the problem. These people have worked hard and brought innovations to the world to generate their wealth. They have great judgment and lots of experience, and they should be afforded the freedom to invest in the problems they value and the freedom to manage those solutions. Chances are, they will end up being more impactful than the typical waste that comes with slow-moving, bureaucratic, bloated governmental organizations.

However I do also support creating a more functional market with enough room to enter so that other innovative, motivated entrepreneurs can effectively compete. That doesn't require some kind of destructive ground up rethinking or abandonment of capitalism. It requires a tweak - namely updated anti-trust laws that are actively enforced. This would achieve a different distribution of wealth and power while retaining the mechanisms we have in place to reward success precisely.
Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic
When the pandemic forced us to shift to online teaching, that experimentation turned into a necessity.
I've been looking for this for a while -- love it.

a) is SalesForce integration in the queue? Our primary use case is syncing customer records

b) i presume since you store the tokens, there's massive vendor lock-in right? just wondering how we might be at the mercy of your team (e.g., if you got acquired, raised prices, etc)

I think you're onto something big! At first I thought this was Auth0-like, so I suppose something more obvious in the landing page copy might help (e.g., "Build integrations into your SaaS apps in minutes")
Brook's law is also outdated. It's mostly only relevant for when you deliver your software with a forklift.

Even Steve McConnell of Code Complete and Rapid Development has argued against it:

https://stevemcconnell.com/articles/brooks-law-repealed/
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You get flogged for things for-profit companies don't because Mozilla claims the moral high ground and then leaves something to be desired in its actions and results. The rather dodgy non-profit/for-profit hybrid while effective from a business standpoint, doesn't help your cause: while originally presented as the for-profit serving the non-profit, the reality appears to be the other way around.
Wine translates those too I think.
Over the past decade, Mozilla has capitulated over and over again on critical issues. They failed their users and the ecosystem by not standing up to industry pressure for h.264 and EME. They also ended up following rather than leading on key privacy issues like third-party cookie behavior.

In every case, they defended these decisions by saying that they couldn't risk losing users, arguing that these issues weren't hills worth dying on. And now, because Mozilla didn't choose a hill to die on, they are going to die on no hill at all.

When they aren't the browser that is standing up for interoperability and the freedom and privacy of their users, they have no way to differentiate themselves. Firefox is just another browser, and it's one that is architecturally dated and under-resourced compared to its rivals.

I had assumed that when Mozilla had nothing left to lose as Firefox marketshare crashed, they would go back to being the scrappy underdog who advocates for the right thing. The fact that they've chosen to focus on revenue instead says everything you need to know about how far Mozilla has fallen.
Dlang has three implementations, one front-end, and a specification you can learn in a day. https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html
>"Sadly, even with Mozilla Foundation getting 40M in donations they need the Corporation to pay the bills (including Mitchell Baker's 2.5M/y salary)"

I remember a headline in 2006 that Mitchel Baker's salary at Mozilla was $500k which I thought was a lot for non-profit but her salary has increased 5X since then? Based on what exactly? I understand the need to pay competitive wages but $2.5 million when the organization is in such a state that you are laying off a significant chunk of your workforce? Is she giving up any salary?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12link.html
I think they make up for their dullness by being absolutely massive–hundreds of solar masses, if not more.
> Some time back, I read all I could on procrastination, and watched dozens of videos on it

Honestly thought you were setting us up for a punchline, there.
Thanks for actually writing an answer instead of just circle-jerking and spamming the downvote button.

It's more about the features they don't implement, presumably because their focus is elsewhere. The biggest and most obvious feature is PWA support that is (still) lacking to this day which is very bad.

They don't follow the standards in picture-in-picture, messing up the user experience somewhat.

Minor things like using the wrong default algos for svg filters. I've had many issues with SVG support in Firefox.

The fact that Firefox is still laggier in a lot of different scenarios, but mostly games for me. In online fast pace games it makes the experience completely unplayable. Try https://agor.io in firefox and then swtich to Brave for example. It lags in firefox, at least on linux.

These are some of the things I could think of right now, but over time I've found many things that I find frustrating with Firefox. Then reading that they purchased pocket, a service which basically no one is using afaik seems like simply bad business.

They also claim to value privacy but there wasn't long ago since someone discovered that they send data to google even in private browsing. Brave was the only browser that didn't send any privacy-invading requests.

I think most of these things is due to a lack of commitment to the tech and a focus that has been on something else, namely politics.

(Couldn't answer earlier since HN disallows posting more than 4 comments per hour..)
The Republicans deliberately built the grassroots top down, with targeted media and subsidised networking. Supposedly grassroots orgs were aggressively seeded and astroturfed.

It's not that progressives don't pay attention, it's that the Democratic machine doesn't do this. In fact it works to sabotage and disempower effective grassroots opposition to its corporatist policies.

There are always a few break outs in every cycle - like Cori Bush this year - but they're there for show, not for policy. If they get too pushy they run into opposition, and if they don't accept a compromise with the party line they're quietly removed by PACs that funnel non-grassroots special-interest money to challengers.
They probably won't notice, since that's what happens now. Not even smart people with econ phds notice.

But whether or not anyone notices, the math is simple: it will be very bad for lower income levels. If you have 1% depreciation over a year, and you are spending 90% of your money on day to day expenses, the relative loss in margin of survival is far worse than if you are spending 20% on day to day expenses.