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I am be happy to support Mozilla financially and make the less dependent on Google. However, I believe charging for Firefox would be incredibly counterproductive, because it would very quickly reduce Firefox market share making them less relevant. I think the route of using value add like the VPN service (still waiting for Europe! ) is the correct approach.
Maybe they were afraid for their own safety? I know when I visit the US, each city has it's no-go areas that you want to avoid. I remember my first time in Dallas many years ago pre-GPS era, drove somewhere for dinner, stopped to fill up petrol and get directions to my hotel and the service station attendant told me I should probably exit the area ASAP because it is not safe.
I think it’s reasonable to pick a vehicle that can receive over the air updates improving the user experience during the period of time when you own it versus one frozen in time with static mechanical controls.

And who gets to decide whether a change is "improving the user experience"?

Hint: It's usually not the user in this scenario.

I'm just fine with having a car where I get to choose whether I like how it works before I buy it and then it stays that way and doesn't give me any unwelcome surprises. I doubt I am alone in this. Magically self-updating cars are about as good an idea as magically self-updating operating systems, with the added wrinkle that if something is broken or confusing after the update, people could actually die.
Just yesterday I removed an obsolete doxygen tag from some 300 files and my Visual Studio went catatonic.

Well, I suspect it's not about Studio per se but rather the git integration but still. Someone avoided a "fancy algorithm" and wasted both my time and the product reputation with a "small n" workaround. Because, git is about small commits right?

I'd like to restate the first rule as "You can't tell where a program is going to spend its life".
There are few things that aren't improved by a good financial situation. This kid is doing very well. Developing marketable skills at such a young age is impressive.
The research that says insects are in decline seems highly questionable to me. They don’t differentiate per species and measure per kilogram. If some heavier species like moths have a successful couple of years, they heavily skew the statistics. There also is not a lot of data on insect populace and the data that is there doesn’t go back for a very long period. I think most articles cite one local German research project on the topic.
This sentiment expresses something I'm starting to see a lot in our discourse. I call it "third-party outrage", where you (bystander) get mad because you think some "aggressor" did something bad to some hypothetical "victim".

What cracks me up is that oftentimes, the victims don't even care or don't get nearly as mad as the bystandars. Same story with tech workers getting mad about how Amazon pays their employees. Is there any real harm being done here?

So I gotta wonder, why are the bystanders more mad than the alleged "victims" themselves? Do you realize how screwed up this is?
According to the comment thread involving devaboone Vitamin D toxicity isn't inherently due to the Vitamin D, but the impact that it has on blood calcium levels.
It's a big difference! People on HN have really come out of the woodwork in a panic with plans to rehost them under the assumption it's getting shut down.

Paying for good dedicated writers is unfortunately expensive, but merely hosting MDN isn't, and it isn't going anywhere.

Wikipedia still gets updated without core writers, but Mozilla's unrepaid charity of producing quality webdev documents for Chrome users is at an end.
What's MDN?
Change tracking is a second class citizen in Word.

My question is, if change tracking is so important, why use Word instead of any of the dozens of workflows where change tracking is a first class citizen? I used git as an example in my post; git takes change tracking seriously, (it does _literally_ nothing else) Word does not. Why prefer Word when change tracking matters? The argument of "Change tracking is priority #1 so I choose Word" sounds a lot like "Gas mileage is priority #1 so I choose the Dodge RAM with like the biggest engine ever" to me. If change tracking is priority #1, why not... buy a Honda Fit?
Bitcoin is not a bad thing, but the hype associated with it is slowly fading away
Oh, absolutely. The Unix system API is what was easy to implement in 1970, not what's sane for developers nowadays.

Don't invoke system calls directly. Use a library that handles all this stuff for you properly. Better yet, use a language that gives you a better interface than C does.
I think the major obstacle here is the cost. Since intrinsic motivators vary a lot from person to person, the program has to be customized for individual learners. Unless every kid has an individual tutor or something, this isn't feasible. Most education problems are basically a money problem.
What's the link to sleep sources?

I hope this kid has found a way to make money out of this.
Not mentioned in the article: human skin depigmentation was an adaptive mutation to ensure adequate vitamin D production at higher latitudes. (The traditional diets of far northern people also supplement.)

Compare lactose tolerance.
There were others before snowden, like: James bamford https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6600_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201412281...

What snowden did was provide independently verifiable content and details of their activities. His leaks were outdates by half a decade by the time they were public too. Everyone sort of accepted the IC will do shady stuff to stop terrorists after 9/11 because "american lives" so it was a solid conspiracy theory backed (not proven) by facts at the time. We sort of hoped they didn't care enough to snoop into our boring lives.
This is my reading of the situation:

Firms are disposing of their trash and “official recyclers” are being preempted from collecting some (valuable) portion of that trash by gangs.

Clearly the recycling firms are taking a hit, but they’ve also agreed to take a risk. Consumers could equally choose to burn that cardboard in their furnaces to heat their buildings in winter, or something like that. There can be fluctuations in output of that trash. We’d all hope, generally, that the amount of trash worldwide will tend to decrease (though of course, so far it isn’t).

As far as I’m concerned, this acceleration of the rate of collection of trash, an arms race between official and unofficial recyclers, should be considered a net positive for society: after all, a public service is being provided more efficiently to the community.

Does this affect the profitability of the official firms, left to handle only the ‘undesirable’ fraction? Absolutely, but that needs to be handled by market mechanisms, readjusting (upwards) the price of disposal of the undesirable fraction of waste, which in turn will drive down the relative cost of using that cardboard that everybody apparently is so eager to pick off the sidewalk or pilfer out of the dumpsters.

As usual, somebody has instituted a monopoly (trash collection) and is moaning that they’re not getting as much benefit from it as they had expected, because market forces are eroding away their pre-eminence. Isn’t this what what free-market economics is all about?
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NFS. Also the gdb/strace case still holds. It's really rare so many programs get away with not doing it, and then when it happened once in a honeymoon your shrug it off and restart the program.
Could we actually get a benchmark? COUs don’t just execute on instruction at a time serially..,
> It would be near impossible for a true lack of intrinsic motivation to have made it through evolutionary selection.

Be careful making assumptions like that. Suicidal tendencies made it through evolutionary selection, after all.
> Imagine that c-suite types may just work for the salary, too

That's fine, and if people decided that, I would respect that decision. In which case they could resign, and Mozilla get people willing to work for $500,000.

> hey engineers, how about cutting your salary to $60k?

The problem is you might severely limit your talent pool, to a much greater extent than a cap of $500k would do.

> If you think $60k is too little, ask your colleagues from EU, from India, to say nothing of Africa.

Maybe Mozilla should hire more people in those places, if they need to do so to save money.
It's not that nobody saw them coming it's that nobody cared enough to produce better technology.

When a few key entities are central points of information distribution it is very simple to monitor everything. End-to-end encryption is helpful, but it isn't enough, becaues no effort is required to know where to find everything. If you really want to lower the probability of state monitoring you need end-to-end encryption and point-to-point communication without a central service provider.

Major information providers and social media have no motivation to solve that problem. Removing them from the communication channel between you and your grandma instantly renders them irrelevant.
The majority of data we've gathered so far (though mostly in Europe) points in another direction. Therefore this study is unexpected and we're trying to figure out what's going on - is America doing so much better than Europe seems to be, or is the data in this study too patchy?

Actually, even before this study, there's been a lot of discussion among ecologists about just how serious the insect decline actually is. My impression of the recent literature is that while there's definitely a worrisomely strong decline (certainly in Europe), talk of an "apocalypse" is rather overdone. But of course, the wider media usually only pick up on the dramatic results and leave out a lot of nuance.
I played in an online casino, but there is never stability here, you either know how to play or study for a long time through your own mistakes
does doing what you enjoy - whatever that is - qualify as "more important things"?
I bet they appreciate the attention.
I suspect brave could do things firefox couldn't.. it rather wasn't willing to risk doing.

I suspect adblocking and anti tracking features might have been higher on the list.
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I'm in my late 20s and used to believe something like this, but I've become quite cynical. I think that modern work is just about capturing wealth and passing it onto the wealthy, so they can have more control over their time and can enjoy the fruits of our labours.

I think people conflate the above with "wanting to contribute to society and benefit others" because you're not usually willing to pay for things that don't benefit you. However we all know there's a massive section of capitalism that's built on manipulating people to buy things they don't need or will actually do them harm, and there's also a huge section that benefits from desperation and will use it's political weight to increase said desperation if possible.

Of course in principle it's possible to have a company that balances a healthy profit with a useful and beneficial product, but in practice a vast majority of companies will abuse its customers and employees as much as legally permissible if it increases the incomes of the upper echelons. At least that's my view.

So nowadays I just do my job to get my stagnant wage, so that I can pay my extortionate rent.
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Yes, it is a wrong belief. I think it was pretty clear I wasn't endorsing it, just explaining it.

It's a bit of a bummer to say something of the form: I think they mean X, which is still wrong because Y. Only to be downvoted and have multiple responses explaining that X is wrong because Y.

I don't disagree with anything you wrote in either comment (with the exception of the bailout payback thing, which I do believe you overstated).
KDP phone support is shockingly helpful. I call them frequently and they're often able to accomplish stuff for me which doesn't have any sort of DIY interface. I call them at least once a month for something or other and am always impressed.

One of my friends just released a new edition and was able to it up and set the new version as canonical, which preserved the ratings, reviews, etc. I haven't done it myself and may be muddling the details, but I'd definitely call KDP support before throwing in the towel.
In 2013/2014, I don't think anybody who had read all of James Bamford's books was in any way surprised by the Snowden revelations.

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&q=james+bamford+nsa
> Would you find a person who doesn't fire the MDN team and still keeps Mozilla profitable?

With a greater probability than the current management, yes.
It is all about lack of knowledge because checking where the bottlenecks are is one thing. Knowing why they are there is another.

A retailer app was very slow. The developers proposed a newer faster server with a newer Oracle version.

Then I took a look at one of the slowest queries. Changed it so it could use the indexes in a better way and the query went from +20 to 0.7 seconds.

The developers measured the query was slow, they checked the query used indexes and they were right that a server with more RAM and a newer Oracle version could improve the speed. But they missed that the query had to fetch a lot of data (using indexes) before it could start filtering the data. The only thing I did was to change the query so it could filter the data first.
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So what's wrong with it?
Student-to-student tutoring is super effective.

Even if most students suck as tutors (which they probably do – tutoring is difficult), the benefits outweigh the problems by a big margin. Most importantly, it allows each student the desired individual focus. But it also improves the tutors' memories of the classes they used to take.

I'm baffled it's not more widely employed in lower education. (Higher education seems to get it right by using former students as TAs. Although then it happens against payment. I'd argue for simply making it part of the regular curriculum.)
They are things Lyft and Uber could have done, if there were not a kind of no-man's land between "employee" and "independent contractor". Maybe they could have tried to offer some of them by helping contractors form a professional association that brokered the healthcare and insurance and even contributed towards minimum earnings, and then lowering their commission -- but directly offering benefits basically forces you to make people W-2.
Not quite the same thing, but there was a study a few years ago that should that CEO compensation was inversely correlated with company success.
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I'm skeptical that this actually happened.
We were talking about Sidecar, not Uber. SideCar was not huge at any point in its lifecyle. At one point in 2016/2017 it very briefly had the opportunity to become big, but failed the execution.
Unfortunately, this is by design.
It probably takes more skills to get the company from decline into growth. So as a company in decline you want great leadership.
Yet somehow Russian / China are hacking the US left and right. If the NSA is so good, then at some point dont they have the responsibility to actively defend?
This is it. These people are money managers that market based on owning x amount of one of the top 50 companies each year in order to raise a new fund. If they take smaller % the model fails both executively and from a marketing perspective.
I lived in Boston a couple years before Uber was a thing and if I was out at night and needed a ride back to Southie (where I lived), it would take me four or five taxis at least to get one to agree to go there.

Uber eliminated that problem. It would be terrible to go back to that system where drivers can just refuse you based on where you are going or what you look like.
Any chance we could get you to work out the updated figure in the Iraq/US/Free Market Onion article? It was under USD 4'000 in 2004, but I'd guess that number would be higher now.

https://www.theonion.com/u-s-to-give-every-iraqi-3-544-91-le...
Oh hell nah
It's a rapidly growing field that has more jobs than people. Meaning, at this point if you have a solid dev background and strong practical skills in security you're most likely going to make bank.

While anecdoctally speaking, I know people who switched from senior dev positions at two of the FAANG companies to smaller security companies and basically doubled their income and making north of $500k/year.
Which thousands? And which other organizationS support the open web and are trustworthy?
Would you still make the same statements if the topic was about whether the word 'blacklist' should be replaced?
Are images received from satellites like this free to use, or does some license apply?
I managed with ~4 kids at once, but it was one of the most exhausting jobs I ever had (which includes street/road work in the summer and carrying stone tiles up houses).

Education problems are indeed money problems.
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But 100% for those made redundant is just fine.
If you're running fully free software, you're not running x86, since it can't boot without backdoored binary blobs.
PPP is one thing. You also don't have to worry about healthcare or tuition costs for your kids or (depending on country) pension. 60K is absolutely plenty of money if you don't have to worry about all of this.
People like me would have not supported Mozilla if Eich was still there.
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I guess Mozilla is going bust soon. Is there anyway to save Firefox and Thunderbird?
My guess would be that leanpub is more "full stack" (formatting, layout, website, etc) whereas gumroad is just a storefront. I use gumroad and like it, but you need a bunch of other tools in your pipeline.

> That depends on where you live I suppose. $40K per year will likely put you in top 1% richest in my country.

Exactly. It only scales up to a point, but that point can still be meanintful.I live in Spain with fairly low cost of living and my (self-published) books have been generating >10k/month profit for several years now, which is several times more than I can spend.

Plus, books are completely zero-maintenance, pure passive income, which is a massive relief compared to any sort of tech product. Would recommend it to anyone who has the interest in writing. (And if you are one of those people, feel free to email me -- I'm happy to help.)

But as OP mentioned, it needs to be a good book. There are a million titles self-published per year and most of them sell approximately zero copies.
Yes very common.

Almost always however there is something special about the founders e.g. they previously exited a successful startup or are simply a rockstar who all the VCs follow on Twitter.

It's not recent but Canva got funding with just a Powerpoint. And I can't imagine Justin Kan needing an MVP for Atrium in order to get into YC.
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I'm here thinking if medical professionals worked in the same manner and culture as we write open source software, the pandemic could be solved early next year or even before. What do you think?
> The only reason why you're being downvoted is because some people don't agree on an ideological level.

That's not true, I downvoted the past because it complained at being downvoted.
But are they really though?

Could well be a threat there but I want actual evidence when the threat bogeyman is invoked in the name of more power. I believed the WMD lie. I hope I have learned from that.

If we believe the NSA then your question is exactly the right one to ask and has some obvious implications.
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The blog writer is an expert in legal liability when giving medical advice?

That wasn’t manplaining at all.
Why would one donate to an organisation the fires workers whilst paying millions to execs?
Normally it is
Hyperloop makes much more sense on Mars than on Earth. You need shielding anyway and the pressure gradient is much smaller, so the pipes don't need to be so thick, and leaks aren't so dangerous.
I want to respond to your point about violin-playing, because I think it will open up an interesting discussion. Anecdotally, I was always motivated to practice my instruments by the same exploratory drive discussed in the article. I was taught to ask, "what if I did XXX this way?", i.e., what happens to my sound if I play long tones, what techniques do I need to play piece Y, how do I use scale Z to improvise?

Growing up, I found that those who ran on pure extrinsic factors with all discipline and no enjoyment either stopped or were stunted by locally optimal decisions. On the other hand, those who went on to study in university and play professionally seemed to derive the same obsessive enjoyment from their craft as I would a video game.

Do you think these data points further prove your point about emotional maturity? Or is there something more universal, that true success requires a fierce passion?
I am not sure. My biggest driver has been to be in my death bed and having done nothing, having made no difference to the world. So I keep trying.
Yep. Remember the "carnivore" boxes installed at ISPs?
Can you provide some evidence for these claims?
In a perfect world, you would be right. But people in publishing houses are really not technology-savvy, most of them can barely use Word. They’ve been using it for 20 years and they will not use something different. I once worked for a magazine where they did not even use Words change tracking, you had to write the changes into the text with a different color, and they didn’t want to hear that this was a stupid workflow.
Vitamin D is a side effect of exposure to sunlight. Wouldn’t the more likely discerning factor be the irradiation with sunlight itself?

There are thousands of papers on the positive effects of photobiomodulation (exposure to visible and near infrared photons): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZKl5Me4XwPj4YgJCBes3...