skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the whole article. My reaction is such because I feel that much of software dev is plagued by the same bullshit that the article describes about Google

I've been on the web since the mid 90s. The last 15 years have had more cool things taken away from me because of sunset bullshit than the first half of that time period. Software (even web apps) should be eternal, there should never be "features removed" or "EOL" announcements. If they don't want to run something they should open source it and let the community take over. What the hell is the point of hoarding all this wonderful IP if it serves noone?
A New and Fast Lexer
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The way I think about it is the engineers Mozilla hires could almost all get cushy jobs at a FAANG, but it pays tier 2-3 salaries.

Mozilla doesn't just build CRUD apps. The problems its engineers have to solve are really hard ones, often completely novel.
> protectionism of food culture / products needs to be eradicated

This is extreme. I’m fine with the present state. The EU regulates, and that’s fine. The U.S. doesn’t, and that’s fine too. Best of both worlds.
I had the image of part three still open so that might work:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfM8ic8U0AAXdwn?format=png&name=...
All I would say is that Texas raises some of the best beef in the world (Grass Fed Organic Beef Cattle). They also have a world renown Agricultural University (Texas A&M). There is plenty of experience in Animal husbandry and no shortage of resources including Acorns, there are probably millions of Oaks throughout Texas.

If they choose to they will be able to make black-label as good as any.
The parable of the fox and the grapes?
Fruit: Apple

(And just in case, no, not apples, Apple)
Deprecation is too kind of a word. Traditionally deprecated means that it is no longer a best practice/canonical. It's nice to see deprecated flags when building new code because you know you found an out of date bit of documentation and you should look at what may be a better approach.

Deprecated APIs, functions, etc, in many orgs hang around forever. They might not be ideal, but they still work for code written before (or even code written after that might have some perverse reason).

Google (outside of Android) doesn't deprecate, they rip it out. It makes things easier for them, as this post details at length, but it makes it harder for the rest of the universe.
I really like this approach. I am in the middle of building a process like this in another country. Would you be willing to discuss your process in more detail with me?

My email is in my profile.

Thank you for doing good in this world.
I know that discourse is at an all time low, but you could try reading past the 6th word in my post.

In other words: Try generating a speech about "Apollo 11 disaster" without previously existing text corpus about any space disasters.
You say that like it's not the #1 complaint about using AWS/GCP for personal stuff.
So now I wonder, why did the medevial era (at least knights) seemed to favor metal armors? I doubt it was less labour intensive, metal was harder to get for sure and it was probably way heavier. Was the knowledge forgotten? It seems unlikely but it might be so. Was the psychological effect of metal armor better wether at creating fear in the enemy or at creating a feeling of being safe? Would love to know more about this.
Give up? Did Sweden give up on a pandemic response as well?
Apparently they weren't required to actually fix the problem, just play with ML a bit and push it to production.

Also, ML isn't magic. It's almost as much work as not using ML, if you want actually good results.
Hey congratulations, I love the ease of use and the aesthetic of this app! A few suggestions to improve quality of life:

1. Add hotkeys for each tool

2. Make delete actually delete things rather than going "back" in the browser

3. Make escape return the user to the "move" tool

4. When you use the "add" tool and add something, the menu closes but the tool stays selected at which point clicking it again deselects it rather than reopening the menu

5. Don't export the "cursor" square when you export the diagram. Perhaps also an export to image rather than svg would be valuable for the kinds of purposes people would use this tool for

At the moment the tool looks great and gets the job done, but I find myself hitting a wall in terms of what I can do with it (mainly around those points I've mentioned).
The way it was put in the post suggested that the Belarus shutdown might have been a practice attack to prepare for the US in November. If it is internal, then yeah there's not a lot of options. The government can also jam frequencies it deems problematic, such as amateur bands being suggested in other comments.
Sublime Text is one those modern tools that I would call snappy. I pray that it stays that way. I tried Atom once, but every key press had tiny lag, drove me insane.
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used azure to host an aspnet website, azure sql, and azure redis. everything worked pretty nicely, we made money and had a quality product reliably on the web with a small team. this was 2 years ago.
FTA: "In the past week, the r/unemployment subreddit has taken a dark turn with the expiration of the CARES Act's super-unemployment and the failure of Republicans to even come to an agreement about what they want in the next round of pandemic relief."

Can we stop with the divisive bullshit, already? It's Congress, not just the Republicunts. Demoncrats are to blame, too.
As for our current hardest challenge:

Good question. As an organization probably helping each other ensure we stay focused on what needs to be done and what is right for the organization, weighing Time/Cost/Quality, and so on.

I'm not saying we're bad at it, it's just that remaining vigilant on keeping the feedback-adaptation loop short seems key, regardless of layer on the reality stack so to speak. On that subject, check out complexity science if you want your mind blown on the extent of recurring themes in physics, chemistry, biology, economics, computer science, etc.

Personally I have definitely struggled with perfectionism in the past, and still do to some extent. This greatly impacted my productivity, and those around me. Thankfully we hired a great CEO four years ago and I've since focused mostly on strategy and research. I've also rectified my perfectionism issue a bit :)

This is what I've been doing for the past two years, and anticipate spending time on for another few: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-fut...
Notably that doesn't call out this meeting. The poster was generally present on the first day... they just didn't attend a 7:15am meeting that they weren't even aware was a thing.
"Is America about to see riots?"

This was seriously written on August 14th?
I mean, it's cool but what happens when GSM is no longer supported? A Pi with small screen and keyboard might be more future-proof:

keyboard: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32878312498.html
screen: https://www.adafruit.com/product/338
FTA:

> Did you sign I Love MDN? Great! Are you willing to pay 50-100 euros/dollars per year to keep MDN afloat? If not, this is all about making you feel better, not the technical writers. You’re part of the problem, not the solution.

Not everyone has that kind of money to spend on charity. I find the statement, quite frankly, condescending and ignorant. There are tons of countries in the world, consisting of web developers, who earn [far] less than an average SV wage. Sure, living expenses are also likely lower, but still.
I appreciate your pettiness! I have edent.tel

I also have a list of tld which can be shortened by this process. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-u...

And, yes, £15.30. But let's not quibble :-)
Deep-CAPTCHA: a deep learning based CAPTCHA solver for vulnerability assessment
I reached out to Dr. Rezaei, and the PhD (candidate?) he is advisor to, Zahra Noury, wrote the code. His GitHub is linked, but hers is not, so I have included both, for your convenience.

https://github.com/zaraanry/CAPTCHA-Solver

https://github.com/DrMahdiRezaei/Deep-CAPTCHA
One thing I’ve noticed about native San Franciscans is that they just don’t go to the neighborhoods that lead tech workers to feel this way. It’s not like they’re actually walking their kids to school past needles and tents and rape threats and thinking it’s fine. They’re just not experiencing it. Often leads to people arguing past each other.
There’s no energy source that doesn’t have serious environmental trade-offs, with the possible exception of geothermal. Hydro destroys river habitats, wind kills birds especially raptors at an absurd rate, solar only works for a couple decades and leaves you with nasty waste, hydrocarbons release CO2 and nastier things besides, and nuclear’s environmental drawbacks are well known.

So unless we want to advocate for a mass human die off such that our energy needs have no appreciable footprint, we need to recognize that there will be serious trade-offs and deal with it.
The quantum versions of firefox are a lot more stable than the previous generation. Probably because they cut down on how many things extensions could get their grimey little fingers into. Also getting rid of more XUL helped. The new firefox is scads better than the old one. Sure I miss some extensions but that just is what it is.
> your towns and cities are full of rule-followers doing herd-passive-aggressive self-enforcement, and live-and-let-live is a rare feeling

Can you give examples of what you mean by that? I've been living in the US (Seattle area) for over 7 years and haven't felt that at all.
> the great inefficiency of producing animals for food

In this case, one could almost think of the product as supporting a nature reserve.
The front fell off!

Interesting propaganda: http://9front.org/propaganda/
I do, particularly when expressed politely, and then I disagree politely. If they can express their beliefs, and I can express mine, then we can try to communicate the truth. But any widespread belief that gets suppressed will fester and spread underground.

And again, I am not defending the belief itself, but the expression thereof.
When you tie your horse to google you will go out of business.
"having watched “hundreds of people” installing a web browser sounds a bit dubious…"

There's definitely jobs where this is possible... IT support at a medium sized company, various user research, etc.
The vast majority of those H1Bs are obtained by outsourcing firms in India. Since it's a lottery, they file a massive pool of applications and send the ones who get picked.

Now since a H1B visa can't be issued if you're outside the USA (executive order), all those picked applications will be abandoned.

This is on top of another trend where EU and Canada are competing for high skilled immigrants and making it easier to move there.
Haha, I came here just to encourage people to check out www.nand2tetris.org too. It's extremely educational.

It's also realllllly satisfying to play Tetris on something you "built" all the way up from basic logic gates.

It's a great (and free) course during a pandemic lockdown or a fun project over a holiday break.
Real-life VMs don’t interpret, they JIT compile. The code in the article has nothing common with inner workings of real-life VMs.

Even VMs which do interpret don’t do the way written in the article, take a look: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.9.0rc1/Python/ceva...

What exactly it is you’re learning then?
You actually Danish? Or did you move there and then on to Ecuador? Did you learn a new language twice? Just curious whether you were born into it or moved several times for QoL.
> Ibérico ham not produced in Spain but in Texas using a very similar method, what about it doesn't make sense?

That is not from the Iberian peninsula.
This is like having a sticker "intel" on a computer when there is no intel inside, but an equivalent AMD chip.

For people whose geography / chip knowledge is low, the difference may seem superficial. Doesn't mean the advertising is correct though.
I don't think the decline narrative makes sense here. Most of the H1B applicants would have been from India, where the pandemic isn't any better controlled.
We have a bunch of full-scale 24/7 low-carbon success stories (France, Ontario, Finland, Sweden) that rely heavily on nuclear. It's abundantly clear that nuclear is a climate champion when comparing live carbon emissions data on this map [1]. Compare Germany (who is phasing out nuclear) to nuclear-dominant France.

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/map

And before anyone says nuclear is too expensive, know that nuclear costs today are about on par with all other future low-carbon grid proposals. While wind and solar generators are dirt cheap, adding the extra transmissions lines, vast energy storage, smart grids, etc. adds $40-$60/MWh when done at levels that actually decarbonize, which makes nuclear already competitive.

Right now the dirt cheap renewables are riding on the back of a natural gas powered grid that can handle their intermittency, (except sometimes in California).
Mental Models Interaction with Mindful Productivity
It looks like those authors have a handful of computer engineering books. Is there one particular title you would recommend?
When I saw the Greenland study on HN[1] last night, all I could think is how much more worse does it have to get before we refocus on building fission plants and doubling-down on fusion research investment?

Unfortunately the economics of natural gas make it a steep hill to climb even if the politics and public sentiment changed on nuclear. To me, fission really seems like the only rational solution to the climate crisis that we can implement starting tomorrow.

We probably do need either carbon taxes or heavy fission plant construction subsidies (easier to implement than carbon tax and most of the negative economic incentive is the capital-intensive upfront costs - nuclear is significantly cheaper than gas at the 35-40 year plant life mark).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165395
Because maybe innovation should continue? some of the teams I can see closing for financial reasons but the servo team? that's like slashing your own wrists to see what happens.
A Look at Tesla's Financials
I've got a use Passport about a year ago and it has been my (personal) daily driver since. It has forced me to learn building new things, selfhosting, since most native apps are now useless.
A Personal User Manual to Increase Surface Area for Serendipity
I am an Indian who worked in US for 6+ years. Got frustrated with the h1b process and the way my employer treated me and left everything behind without even a job lined up in India. The last 1 year consisted of my GC application first stage getting denied, 3 months appeal, get i140, file h1b extension, get RFEd, cannot renew license for 3 months until I get the h1b again. Finally after an year of uncertainty, got my h1b for 3 more years, packed up and left the next month.

Even though I didn't have a job in India (didn't even look for one), I was completely in peace, no unending emotional pain with tears in my eyes, no stress, anxiety, no suicidal thoughts. Then one day my previous employer called me back, and I came back, because I cared for the project.

3 months later, homeland security (ICE) raided the office. Showed up suddenly, ordered us to stop everything we are doing, took all of us into a conference room. Wouldn't allow to even go for a bathroom break without them accompanying us. Questioned everyone. They were asking questions like 'are we paid enough, do we have any relatives in the office, am I staying alone or with other colleagues' and so on - the kind of things I see in twitter and other places where the anti h1b folks talk about us - that we all stay together because we don't get paid enough or nepotism and so on. The funny thing is even when I came back, I had no intention of staying in US for more than 3 years. I told the officers we are having a baby due in 2 months, and they are in India, hoping they would understand that I am there only for work, and has no intention to settle down. We didn't want the baby to be born in US and become a US citizen.

I look forward to an India were we won't have to rely on foreigners any more.
Are you willfully omitting the "bread" part for a reason? It's not like the author said "America hasn't experienced any riots lately".
http://jonpos.tel would agree with you.
"spirit of the times" /stopped reading
GPT-3 Demo Day
And I am guessing quite a few jobs were lost during this time period. So the companies might not have completed the application after being selected in the lottery.
Yes it is also interesting that the same "underlying" physical layer can be abstracted (cut up, aggregated) in different ways. They are all different ways of seeing the same thing.
this has been done with radio-based meshnets like the puget sound data ring for years, the government hasn't updated the legislation to allow encryption and commercial data on said meshnets, making them useless. we could already be providing free internet to millions if it weren't for the government and their dumb regulations.
Bingo. I have a house, two brand new cars, can afford holidays few times a year(and actually have the holiday allowance to go on them), growing savings, growing pension fund.....so why would I move to US and deal with all the BS of American life? To achieve exactly the same thing, but maybe with a slightly bigger house and a fancier car? I'll pass thanks.
The irony is that I’m sure the author experienced elitism and discrimination when she started her career in software development and now doesn’t realize she is propagating the same.
Absolutely.

On a side note, I have a neighbor that decided to run for local office the first year he moved to our town. I found it interesting that someone would want to run for office before getting to know the people, not to mention that's a pretty quick time to form opinions about the town's politicians to the point of wanting to take their office. I guess it doesn't matter since he wasn't elected.
You do realize that Mitchell has only been ceo of mozilla corp since January, right? And that almost all of the C suite has turned over in the last few years?
That's pretty good. From my experience just the greenhouse, foundation, growing apparatus, monitoring, growing supplies, and permitting would cost $25k. The labor costs and tiny house would easily put it over. I'd be curious in seeing the breakdown of costs.
> I doubt that Mozilla management or employees are interested in the Mozilla Corporation becoming a DoD contractor, and it’s unclear to me how much government or foundation funding Mozilla could attract as an R&D lab focused purely on civilian applications in the Internet and web space.

I think there might actually be some interesting opportunities here. Consider:

- Digital Propaganda and Misinformation are increasingly seen as key national defense issues

- COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation and exacerbated the digital divide

- FAANG is under increased anti-trust scrutiny

- USG has strong mandates for web accessibility that current web tech makes very difficult to fulfill

- Privacy implications of AI/ML is getting more attention

Mozilla is well positioned to contribute to positive solutions in all of these areas.
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> geographic monopolies seem stupid.

The issue isn't so much that there are / are not geographic monopolies, but
that you have 2 different IP/economic/governance models expecting to be speaking
the same language -

Appellations are connected to producers associations which ultimately have their roots in feudalism/guilds/etc. Generally, it's not the region that promotes an appellation, it's the producers association of that product/region.

Producers associations are essentially a "cartel" in modern economic terms which would be illegal under modern IP/economic regulatory regimes. Where appellations are used, this is not the case, and the associations are allowed certain legal space, some of which include creating appellations, which to some extent provide a way to 'brand' and so add value to otherwise commodity products.

So, to allow for appellations, you create some provision in the legal system to recognize them. However, since allowing appellations ultimately means granting some political legitimacy to organically occurring cartel-like organizations rooted in feudalism, this can be problematic if using a post-feudal legal framework. The US comes down more radically anti-feudal and pro capitalist in it's legal code than other western countries, and so you have more resistance to appellations.

In this model, 'champagne' itself is the brand and the trademark. Nothing else is champagne. Unfortunately, no specific entity 'owns' this brand, because the 'brand' was developed according to an informal patchwork of local organizations, customs and traditions, and so you have some systems (e.g. USA) denying the legitimacy of the claims to the 'brand'/'trademark' since it isn't 'owned' by 'someone'.
It depends? Certainly for some companies but I wouldn't be the right fit if you need a highly specialized infrastructure person at Netflix or AWS or something. Sometimes it can feel like I'm only a good fit at startups which isn't great for earnings potential.
> XUL / XPCOM had significant, tangible problems.

Significant problems that could have been fixed

> XUL primitives are not, on average, faster or more "platform-native".

At least on Windows they mapped to their native components. Sure spacing and a few other things were a little off (maybe because it mapped to GTK? I don't remember) but the look and feel then was vastly superior than the Electron-looking garbage that extensions have to do now.

> You understand the problem here, do you not? People complain that they're almost completely reliant on Google for revenue, and they also complain about "weird commercial initiatives" to mitigate their reliance.

You're not understanding me. Most folks have no problem with Pocket and whatever else. What they have a problem with is bundling it with the browser in a way that can't be removed, and then putting out a press release full of PR speak about how important and essential these extras are. These commercial iniatives were made mandatory, even when their beta versions were downloadable extensions

I'm all for Mozilla reaching out to whoever they want to partner with. But keep that shit out of the master repo. The downloadable base should be pure platform and nothing else, with extras as preinstalled, removable extensions. Essentially, the Winamp model

> https://mozilla.github.io/firefox-browser-architecture/text/....

What I see there are mostly people issues that come with not wanting to pay for the talent you need to get the job done. It looks like they had the money to do this but it feels like they spent it on admin and marketing folks instead

The XBL document mentions more systemic problem but I maintain that they could have been fixed iteratively
Seems like this could all be resolved if you just called it "Champagne-style". Makes it clear that you're trying to reproduce the same qualities and also that it's not an official expert of the region.

Even better, stop referring to it exclusively by the location, as if Champagne, France is not capable of producing other wines. Then you can have "Champagne sparkling white wine" and "California sparkling white wine" (or even "Champagne-style California sparkling white wine"). Of course, colloquially people will still refer to it as champagne, but I'm talking about what's printed on the bottle / marketed.
Huh! That’s probably the most serious use of .tel that I’ve ever seen. Well done. :-)
When you go to https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/ and you click on "Donate" you are directed to https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ .

The sidebar on the donation-page clearly states:

"We are proudly non-profit, non-corporate and non-compromised. Thousands of people like ...."

So I think donations are in good hands there.