skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that right needs to be exercised responsibly.

This is a common sentiment, and it's easy to agree with it. But it doesn't really hold up with the idea of a right. If you're "irresponsible"--you exercise your right in a bad way that you shouldn't--should you face consequences? If so, and those consequences prevent you from exercising your right, then you don't really have a right, do you?

Cancel culture and deplatforming just are consequences for "bad" free speech, and the argument against cancel culture is very much "you should tolerate bad speech just because the actual right to freedom of speech is more important than your hurt feelings."
Wow that is a lot.
So provide the counter evidence.

Mozilla is letting 250 people go, that's not because their things other than Firefox are a resounding success, but mostly because none of those things pay the bills and are failures in the market place.

Firefox is falling behind on Chrome and Edge, it is really annoying that since a couple of weeks I'm more or less forced to use Chrome because FireFox languishes in domains that matter to me personally. That's a pretty strong sign because if there is one thing that I never thought would happen it is that I would switch away from FF. So no, it is not failing - yet. But it may come to that. If people like me are considering to switch that future is closer than you might like.

So maybe my strong statements are subjective but they are actually backed by some evidence, you did not provide any whatsoever other than naysaying.
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I imagine it would have to do with
1) The number of minors on Instagram and Snapchat.
and
2) The image that Instagram and Snapchat want for their platforms. They aren’t looking to become tumblr in the eyes of the masses.
why noscript though? you can block scripts with ublock
I don't trust Signal (2018)
>They sure write like they do. But they act like gamblers hoping for the next big score.

Sounds like wall street
I am already paying a very high price (mostly in time) to keep the data thieves from stealing my precious data. I would pay a pretty high monthly fee to someone who I could trust to take care of it for me. That's why I pay the Apple tax. How about a free browser for those who want to DIY privacy and a premium for those who don't want to spend their time?
"If you don't like that, you can use a competitor."
This ignores the tremendos cost to creating a search engine - DDG is the only one that has been able to even make a dent in Google's monopoly.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-evolution-standard-oi...
The Send to Kindle extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...) will automatically convert to MOBI for Kindle, so you can skip the EPUB step.
A new experiment hints at how hot water can freeze faster than cold
Thanks to PEN America for putting together that report. Here's the link to the original report.[1] I knew about Tom Cruise's jacket but I learned about a lot of other examples that I didn't know about.

[1] https://pen.org/report/made-in-hollywood-censored-by-beijing...
Lately I ended up running much fewer extensions than I used to, and actually looking at their source first.

I think the only closed-source extension I run is lastpass, and I'm evaluating open-source alternatives.

How do people who cannot read code even cope, I don't know.
Oh god. If google were regulated like a utility...we would be stuck with them instead of letting them go away by themselves.
And yes, one day google will fail and bring a bunch of companies with them.
Tweakpc, hardwareluxx, c't, computerbase and probably a few more all use pretty high end ATE (Chroma loads and such) for their PSU tests as well.
> I you think projects like Mozilla and Firefox are important donations can really go a long way.

I know this kind of goes against my other comment stating that I'm super worried about losing the only viable free and open browser out there (my only browser), but: what's keeping me from donating is the bad aftertaste of the money being used for frivilous things. I don't want to fund their bookmarking service. I don't want to fund their VPN rebranding effort. I don't want to fund their authentication services. I don't want to fund their voice recognition services. They're probably great, but it's the browser that's absolutely essential and irreplaceable at this time!
I would also happily pay for Firefox. I'm not sure if it would be better or worse for the browser though, in terms of market share. If they don't charge for it, hopefully they can cover costs with other paid services, like their VPN service.

Honestly, it would be great if Mozilla could provide privacy focused cloud services like storage, email, etc. I'd gladly pay for it, knowing they are not interested in collecting my information.
You are getting downvoted because the rendered page is HTML, which has the same accessibility properties as always
https://telegra.ph/Losses-at-Revolut-more-than-triple-to-106...
Ah, but that wasn't written, it was cut'n'pasted, which Doesn't Count. Or does it?
Steve's own parents abandoned him (gave him up for adoption) when he was young and so Steve was raised by foster parents. His foster parents seemed to have been really nice people, but perhaps Steve might have had difficulty connecting with his first biological daughter because he couldn't connect with his own biological father. Just speculating of course ...
Rust is largely community-owned now. There are some Mozilla employees still working on rust, but not many.
It might be obvious, but it would have been nice if their statement explained in detail why this decision was the result of Covid
Ledger (YC W17) Is Hiring a UX Product Lead
The Postal Service’s Death by a Thousand Cuts
Regulation of all of these services - that affect literally billions of people - is needed.

Trusting the senior citizen center that we call the Senate or White House to get it right - now that's another thing altogether.

But, we've got to start somewhere.
The standard shouldn't be any different and that's precisely the problem here:

* NSA is a governmental agency that by construction is tied to the state. Bytedance, Huawai and Tencent are privately owned companies in China and all "ties" to the Chinese governments are unsubstantiated. Blanket ban on private companies because of their country of origin and unsubstantiated suspicions results in clear discrimination and suppression of open competition in my mind.

* For my understanding, could you help by providing context on what specific counter-measures have been taken against NSA's intelligence effort based on people's suspicion?
Shorter life cycle sounds like faster evolution actually.
I love how few actual proposal there are out there as to what the government should actually do. That is - not just "regulate" or "break them up". I'm talking specifics.

Once you start making concrete proposals it becomes increasingly obvious just how hard it is to come up with something that won't make everything worse.
Coda, Would-Be Successor to Google’s G-Suite, Now Valued Above $600M
So? We're still talking about a negligible market share.
As a shareholder of any company, I’d be extremely wary of outlier moves in mechanical business areas like cash management. Maybe there is something real going on there, but holding egads of cash and then putting it in a (by market-cap) fringe alternative is a weird move. It’s maybe interesting, but I’d be highly skeptical, it’s like seeing smoke... I want to find the embers...

MicroStrategy moves its cash into Bitcoin; shares up 9%

Oh go home 2020, you’re drunk.
What Google did - and does - should land them in some seriously hot anti-trust water. But they'll get away with it, just as Microsoft got away with it. "This is not the monopoly you are looking for...".
I don't think Rust is just for low-level development anymore, for example at Commure we have been using it very successfully for "enterprise app".

So if you're already using Rust for the app backend, I think the interest is more about using the same language in the back and in the front. Since nowadays one usually wants a typed Javascript (e.g. Typescript) anyway, it is far shorter of a leap to Rust.
The tools are sophisticated but also much harder to use. Things like modern front end JavaScript and Kubernetes are very complex beasts to tame. Their value is dubious for many use cases people choose them for, but they are undeniably powerful tools that advance the state of art by a lot. Same with NoSQL. It became hyped and overused but some really powerful and easier to use technology eventually emerged from it and gave us things like Redis, Redis now is a part of most modern web app stacks. I still just use Django and a lot of server side HTML templates. Developers often have a hard time knowing when to use a given technology and often end up bringing tech into their stack they don’t need. This plays out in 5-8 year cycles. Meanwhile RDBMS and simple things like Django with minimal front end JavaScript can still solve the vast majority of problems people have in the web app space. It’s the classic hype/adoption/cynicism cycle we have had forever.
And some HTML as well. Yew seems to use a JSX-like template language, but it's got to hit the DOM eventually. Then you're gonna need to handle Events and style with CSS. How do you handle errors? What does all this look like in DevTools? People act like JS is the worst part of web development which is simply naive.
I feel for everyone who will lose their job here. That's never a pleasant thing, particularly so in current circumstances.

Notwithstanding that though - and with no disrespect to anyone being laid off - I'm actually really encouraged by this. The key quote from the announcement is this one:

"Furthermore, Mozilla's contract with Google to include Google as the default search provider inside Firefox is set to expire later this year, and the contract has not been renewed."

Mozilla's reliance on Google is a major detraction from delivering privacy-focused products.

I've said before, and I'll say again: I'd gladly pay a fee for Firefox if it meant (a) it was funding the product so that (b) there was no need for them to peddle in surveillance.

I really wish Mozilla all the best. Commit to privacy, show me where to pay and I'll gladly sign up.

--

I'm aware they accept donations and have already donated. But that's different from paid-for products.

EDIT: cross-posted comment above from duplicate thread [0]. Don't think that's against guidelines - apologies if so.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24121166
Broadly I agree with you - especially regarding payment processors - but the problem is that this

> If I want to private message my friends dirty pictures, who is FB (or whatever platform) to tell me I can't?

VERY quickly becomes "unsolicited dick pics." That "links to share porn" quickly becomes "links to share child porn", etc. You're not accounting for all the genuinely abusive users.
What other not failing products are there? Are people standing in long lines to get their shiny new Firefox OS phones? Did Pocket flourish under Mozilla?
The most stable element is iron, in terms of having the optimal binding energy (you gain energy for fusing lighter elements into iron, you gain energy for splitting heavier elements into iron). If proton decay doesn't exist, then the trend of all matter would be to turn into iron. If proton decay does exist, then iron itself would decay to less stable elements because the protons in iron would disappear, and the neutron-rich lighter elements would be subject to radioactive decay.

It is unknown how stable our stable nuclei are. Bismuth-209 was long listed as a stable nuclide, until a decay event was observed in 2003, establishing its half life of about 10¹⁹ years (by contrast, the universe is about 10¹⁰ years old).
I've been trying to encourage you to think about this holistically because then you might understand where I'm coming from. How about this: look at the front wall of your house - which bricks is it safe to remove? Which of those directly or indirectly benefit the wall? Maybe those over a doorway or window are obviously important, can't lose those, but what about the others? How many can you safely remove before it no longer fulfills its function? How about if it's a giant game of Jenga? Or a massive construction of scaffolding that's been built and rebuilt again and again over thousands of years and overall is holding up a giant roof but with no clear plan how? Which parts of that are safe to remove?

The bees are an easy win - they do a lot of pollination work, but there are other insects that do that too. But is that all that's important? How about the oxygen you breathe or the nitrogen in the soil that nourishes the plants you eat or the rain that waters them? All these things depend on multiple complex cycles involving things like forests, the health of which depend on many other interconnected webs of life at all levels from mammal to microbe. It's Chesterton's Fence on a grand scale - if you don't know what it does, you really shouldn't remove it until you do know what it does. We're still working that out in many, many cases.

A lot of insects provide food for other animals - kill the insects, and we also kill all the things that feed on them. And there are certainly numerous other natural cycles and systems than those I outlined above (did you know that ocean microbes can seed cloud formation? https://news.agu.org/press-release/bacteria-feeding-on-arcti...) - these are just the ones that come to my mind as someone with an amateur interest in these things; I am, as I said, no expert.

> In general they are gross, numerous, invasive, and they carry diseases.

I understand why you might feel that way but, aside from the first (which is your opinion): the second, as we're discussing, is increasingly not the case; the third is generally only true where humans have transported a species to where it shouldn't be; and the fourth is really only true in very few cases - things like cockroaches and house flies, but even these fulfill important roles breaking down organic matter that would otherwise litter the surface of the planet, and thus returning nutrients into the soil, keeping it fertile. Cockroaches etc. are only a disease risk when they intersect with us, find a huge source of waste, and multiply excessively - and in those cases of course we have to deal with them.

> I still do not see why we should protect the insects that are in the city as they do not bring us any benefit.

An obvious reason that comes to mind is that cities as a black hole for insects act to decrease the overall population by simple diffusion.
This is true and FB is the proof. They gladly paid a huge fine and still made billions in the process. This is what regulation is for!
There is an easier way to accidentally build a porn website:

1) register domain

2) don't renew

Not completely unrelated either, since it seems like OP's domain is now bust too...

What is also interesting is that probably half of what FB or <insert nonexistant competitor> does is moderation of sorts. This is why FB is becoming a commerce/community page website and why they need Instagram for social media.
This is quite an interesting idea. Hm.
in my firefox (not that it would really matter) I have only four:

Download notifications - since FF has crappy notifications about finished downloads unlike Chrome, so this way I can't overlook finished download

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnome-downloa...

HTTPS Everywhere and uBlock origin - no need explanation

To Google Translate - since FF doesn't have built in translation service, so this way I can easily translate page through right click menu

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/to-google-tra...

but if I would be using Chrome I would need just ublock and https everywhere (although not sure if is is not redundant nowadays in both browsers)
If you live in an area where Comcast has a monopoly, or a pretty strong implied monopoly you pretty much have to do business with them. Most places in the US have at most two ISPs, one that offers reasonable speeds and the other for compliance that offers piss-poor speeds, but hey it's offered so all is well.

You're never forced to use Google. Google has a huge Internet footprint, but you can absolutely use the Internet without Google.
> for the laggards too

Speaking of negativity ;)
/That/ I would pay for. Add in Matrix server(s) , email hosting and I'm a subscriber.
Bingo. Every device that I can think of allows you to choose a default search engine. It would be very easy for me to use something other than Google; they have no anticompetitive hold on how I explore the Internet and discover new services.

This article is written by someone who would personally profit from Google’s regulation. It’s an ad for his company disguised as virtue signaling.
The lack of documentation is the main issue that I had with it.
I believe her husband, who she has been running in the stead of after he was (unjustly) disqualified, is currently imprisoned in Belarus. That is probably one of her concerns.
> Rust is [...] loved by JS devs.

Is it? That's interesting, because to me the two languages seem to be polar opposites.
Happy to, I figured it was self-evident.

Firefox has been losing market share steadily for years. The biggest efforts to turn that around have at best slowed it. Your subjective experience backs it up. That's evidence it is a failing product.

Mozilla has shipped successful products other than Firefox. Rust being a strong example, and then there are moderately less successful ones that have varying impacts. I worked on one (Hubs) that had a strong trajectory when I left, both in terms of user and revenue growth.
Maybe they meant "not directly biased by deliberate bad actors or by outright selling a top position"?

That is, certain biases are less user-friendly than others.
No wasm stuff here though.
huh, I hope that they aren't planning to discontinue it. I've used it a couple of times and found it really useful.
wow that headline/article really hedges like there are somehow other possibilities and they are supposed to be inclusive? I mean he's an authoritarian in power since 1991, it's a tyrants lifelong dream

I wonder how the USA's 2020 is going to be written by outsiders hedging how it all could have been somehow legitimate.
I feel sorry that your life has been surrounded by people with so little empathy.
>What if sentiment is blue-pilled and holding dollars is actually the gamble?

Even if you have no confidence in the dollar, doesn't mean Bitcoin or crypto currencies are a good alternative.

>And hard money like gold, silver, Bitcoin or Ethereum a quite decent hedge.

That is a strong statement. There is no evidence that crypto currencies are a 'decent hedge' for anything.
Keys to Effective Monetization of Editorial Content in 2020
Then what's the section on "Threads" about in https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/emacs/news/NEWS.2... ?

Threads

* New variable 'main-thread' holds Emacs's main thread.
This is handy in Lisp programs that run on a non-main thread and want
to signal the main thread, e.g., when they encounter an error.

* 'thread-join' now returns the result of the finished thread.

* 'thread-signal' does not propagate errors to the main thread.
Instead, error messages are just printed in the main thread.

* 'thread-alive-p' is now obsolete, use 'thread-live-p' instead.

* New command 'list-threads' shows Lisp threads.
See the current list of live threads in a tabulated-list buffer which
automatically updates. In the buffer, you can use 's q' or 's e' to
signal a thread with quit or error respectively, or get a snapshot
backtrace with 'b'.
True, they could possibly spin out other high quality secure products and I hope that is what they do and that I am wrong. It all depends on the current leadership and how desperate they get I suppose and I am not familiar enough with that to say.
I don't think the author is suggesting you go out and hire a "refactor person", a "new feature person", a "documentation person", etc. Rather, assigning the body of required work to each developer based on her interests.

If you have one new feature ticket and one refactoring ticket, don't give the new feature ticket to the developer known for refactoring too often.

> But there needs to be constraints on when to start optimizing and when to stop.

Now that is very true. But feels like a separate issue to me.
I feel like this should go down as one of the worst layoff announcements in history. The whole post seems to be an attempt to smooth over the layoffs with glorious language about the battle against systemic racism, internet freedom, etc. If I worked there, or was laid off, this would just make me more cynical.
They need to get back to their roots of fighting for the user, open access, open standards, and privacy

The last few years, imo, they have been chasing market share by trying to play follow the leader with Google which have turned off a few major power users which was their core base

This is with out getting into some of the political based initiatives we have seen over the last few years as well
It's a digital protection racket.
1. There needs to be guidelines for what Google can and can't do with search.

Ex: Only 25% of the screen real estate can go to Google-owned ad products for allowing it to continue as a monopoly.

2. YouTube should possibly be broken out as a separate company and it shouldn't get favorable placement and treatment in search results

3. Businesses need to have more control over how their businesses appear when users search for them directly
The profile-guided optimization is a pretty big deal if you're concerned about performance. Based on the benchmarks I've seen, GraalVM Community tends to outperform JIT-compiled Java for applications where warm-up time is a significant portion of total run time, but JIT-compiled Java tends to outperform Graal, sometimes by a significant margin, for anything long-lived. Profile-guided optimization would theoretically close that gap.
“We need to focus...” followed by 5 different areas to focus on.

That’s not focusing.

“[We] need to go beyond the browser to give people new products and technologies that both excite them and represent their interests.”

What? Mozilla needs to build great products that solve people’s problems better than Google or whomever else does. That’s what Firefox did when it came out. It was objectively better than IE in ways that people could immediately grasp.

“Representing interests?” WTF are you even taking about? If you mean privacy and ownership of my personal data than say that.

“To start, that means products that mitigate harms or address the kinds of the problems that people face today. Over the longer run, our goal is to build new experiences that people love and want, that have better values and better characteristics inside those products.”

Mitigate harms? Again, WTF are we even talking about? Better values? Maybe this is the open source roots showing? But the majority of your business is based on selling default search engine rights to one of the most invasive harvesters of personal info, so let’s not pull that “values” thread too much here Mozilla.

Make awesome products and solve people problems better than your competitors. If you competition is doing scummy stuff, then tell people why your approach is better. Apple is doing an awesome job messaging the importance of privacy.

Come on Mozilla. Get in the damn game
Apache servers vulnerable to IP spoofing and buffer overflow attacks
I would argue that for example Googles push for AMP is anti competitive behavour.
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