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> Mozilla is doomed when it's held to such an impossible standard (such as being "spyzilla" for supporting TLS PKI).

While some of these points are a bit extreme, most of them are pretty basic and could be avoided by simple maxim:

Don't call home and do not do communication with third parties unless opt-in or explicitly requested by user.

> All this poo-pooing on Mozilla doing anything less than paranoid-extreme makes people leave for other browsers

Well, i still use Firefox as lesser of two evils, but i do not see why i should say to everyone how wonderful it is.
Absorbtion is a misnomer.

It uses a tiny fraction of energy of whatever particle it is. In terms of attenuation it cant be different from anything else of similar density and composition.
I want tolike this. I hatethe state of infrastructure diagramming, but one of my primary complaints is that I dont like the inability to run the prettier ones locally.I don't want to trust enumeration of my system to yet another company.

That said, this is quite pretty.
I have seen the same for Microsoft and IBM. Too many virtual workshops during presentations, even with smaller companies, seek to teach the use of their simplified tool rather than instill under-the-hood knowledge or develop a skill in a broader scope.
Until you start earning more than 100k or so, when HMRC will ask you to fill out a return anyway.
>1. International wire transfers over 10k could get flagged by your bank as suspicious. Then you would need to work out with your bank how to prove that this isn't money laundering.

Isn't that only per-transaction? Paying $9000 biweekly gets you to $234k annual salary. Unless you're hiring rockstar engineers, this should be more than enough.
> we want all HashiCorp employees to be employees, we don't want to create second class citizens.

This is incompatible with the original Ask HN question. HashiCorp is making arguments against hiring contractors while the OP is specifically asking about contracting (apparently not interested in benefits or stock options, etc)
Completely agree. The problem is that they build one small system that is not chaotic. They didn't prove that any quantum system is not chaotic as the article try to present it.
Another example: There was a change to how objects within S3 could be addressed by http(s): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-...

Initially the (justified) change gave you ~18 months to implement necessary changes. Seems feedback was negative regardless, so they modified it in a way so current usage remains unaffected.
Whatever and however much I feel like on any given day. Letting go of trying to take notes consistently (in style, topics, format, amount ...) was extremely liberating.
By removing those accounts
It's not even true in general, the variance is enormous.
Sure a blog needs a data center... but actually, yes. More and more companies using Nextcloud to host their data.
I don't have a dock myself, but I do live very close to a boat launch. I'm planning to get a battery powered boat (evaluating the options now) at some point... not sure how far out I'll be able to safely go.
There is functioning aluminum wiring all over the place in america, still operational to this day. I just has problems with overheating and catching fire if the load is too big. If you know the load will never change...
> which aren't any better, and often are way worse for privacy.

BTW, is there any neutral comparison of Firefox vs Chromium w.r.t. privacy?
Whoever wrote this doesn't seem to make the connection with Prigogine's work on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which seem to me to have as much to do with the "edge of chaos" idea(s) as anything from the cellular automata world.

The overly quick summary: most convention thermodynamics/chemistry concerns itself with systems that reach equilibrium (various reactions take place, energy is consumed or produced, and a new state is reached in which things are stable). Living systems (and a few non-living) systems don't work this way, but use a continual input of energy to drive reactions and maintain a "non-equilibrium" state.
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Are there any companies that help you incorporate all across the world with a single button press and manage the employee pay & PTO stuff in accordance with local laws?
That 3. Profit seems to be for Enterprise use only.

For my development:

- I download and use Snap on Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Debian for free

- I have developed and published Snaps for free

- Canonical pays huge cost of build and downloads servers, where I can download Ubuntu-based distros and Snap packages for free

I really wish Canonical will have enough profit from Enterprise use so it can provide all that for free also in the future for me.
Maybe what you consider "good" recommendations don't make as much money. They extensively A/B test everything and what is in prod is what works.
This still doesn’t answer the question. If building Firefox is unprofitable what about Chromium based browser is profitable? Cutting out its base layer development doesn’t change its business viability. Clearly the engine development is not the problem.
If the 'news ppr' is written in 'txt spk' it would probably have quite a small 'carbon ftprint'
Confusion Matrix
Can I talk to that William fellow? He was so helpful (2009)
And they make money from a Chromium based browser how?
You need to have a bank that has a clue and understands what you are doing. Some random regional bank may flag it as suspicious, even at amounts as low as $4k.
Have you reached out to (community) support? My colleagues there tend to do their best to help the community.

EDIT Disclaimer: I work for Bitnami; not in that team though. I reached out internally to see if this is a known issue, but it's Saturday...

EDIT 2: does the downvote mean bitnami community support is so bad or did my wording offend anybody?
Who’s Calling? Characterizing Robocalls Through Audio and Metadata Analysis [pdf]
> market economies could come to an end because they cannot exist in a world where China can be a loss-leader in every strategically important market.

This.

Already happened with rare earth processing and pharma.
> The promotion system isn't the issue, the promotion system was the issue 10 years ago. For the last 10 years Google has been hiring and promoting and keeping people who prioritize shiny new things more than maintaining old things.

Isn't that inherent to their interview process?
Don’t bother arguing with this guy. He shows up on every Apple thread to defend his favorite corporation.

Just down vote and move on like everybody else ;)
It's easy to criticize from the outside. The question we should ask ourselves is what we should have done, and can still do, to help Mozilla's mission. I just set up a monthly donation, as I should have done a long time ago.
The EULA spells out what is legal, not what is or isn't considered acceptable in society. For a business to arbitrarily remove their customer's data may be entirely legal, but it's a very shitty thing to do, and that business shouldn't expect many customers if it goes around acting like that all the time.
And those kids keep coming back, because the US is comprised of a large/heterogenous population that isn’t really going away. Power has reliably flip-flopped every 4-8 years, and “the bad guys” have nearly always come back into power.

Tying our goods & services to that strikes me as an odd basis for a system of government, and altogether discounting privatization as a solution to this strikes me as equally dogmatic as those that say blindly regurgitate “government can’t run services”.
The labor force participation rate is a measure of an economy’s active workforce. The formula for the number is the sum of all workers who are employed or actively seeking employment divided by the total noninstitutionalized, civilian working-age population.
Since the ephemerides of all starlink satellites are known, shouldn't it be possible to program these into the camera and not expose the sensor when a satellite is overhead? Makes it more complicated of course but this can let everyone win
Ask HN: How do I split my life between countries?
Hey HackerNews folks: I’m an early career data scientist currently working for an AdTech company. I’m a US citizen. My wife is Romanian, and we’re planning on applying for a marriage based green card in a few weeks. Our life goal is to figure out a way to split our time as equally as possible between Romania and the US. Has anyone had success with this sort of arrangement? What do I need to worry about (e.g. taxes, immigration laws, anything else?)? Is it reasonable to expect to find a full time US datascience-y or software engineering job that would allow this type of arrangement? What experts should I be consulting (eg immigration lawyers or tax lawyers, etc)?

I appreciate your advice!!
While that's true, I did ask it for freelancers, I wouldn't mind to broaden the discussion to employees as well since it's quite related to it and I'm mostly asking out of curiosity.
This seems like an opportunity Ghost should have taken to listen and learn - it sounds like the "on ramp" for their up-sell is just too slippery, and people end up on the "on ramp" without realising. There is then a significant (3x) uptick in monthly fee.

This strikes me as a missed opportunity to offer the discounted (paid annually) rate to the customer if they're wanting to upgrade, and a missed opportunity to improve the product experience so users don't add new users and unwittingly exceed their plan's allowance.

Given the addition of a staff user involves user interaction, this could actually be used as an opportunity to get the user to select their plan to upgrade to, to enable this. Presumably ghost hoped to use inertia to slide users into more expensive plans, and this understandably upsets users.

The response from Ghost however is disappointing and sadly emphasises my concerns around the growing reliance on "SaaS" business models. Given Ghost is open source, hopefully someone will see the opportunity for a more straightforward and transparent way of pricing and doing business, as the response here suggests there may be a small market for it.
As someone who lives in a city where ~15 mbps is the max you can get... this is accurate. Streaming in 1080p with high quality may not work. Downloading a game over 80gb requires a couple of days. Oh, and I have just 1mbps upload, so syncing a video from my phone to Google Photos may take a couple of hours as well. ISPs need competition.
So the actions the CEO took are inexcusable but OP's communications were very accusatory and then tweeting about it before any resolution could be handled via email was a dick move but the CEO should never have responded the way he did. "makes you look like an asshole." is not at all a tactful way of handling criticism thrown at your company. You're both wrong in my book the CEO was just more wrong and the actions of deleting your account like that is a big no no.
Absolutely yes. I don't think that raw computer science is what most software engineers need. But it's also a lot more than framework knowledge. What is missing in most developers' educations is the actual engineering. If civil engineering is applied physics, then our discipline is applied computer science. A physicist might be a terrible civil engineer. Plenty of computer scientists are terrible software engineers. But that no more means we need to neglect the computer science then it means that civil engineers should neglect physics.
> Not a single one has been developed in 5 years.

How do you build 100 Smart Cities in 5 years? That is practically impossible to do. The mission itself spans over 2 decades. The 5 years is for finalization of the selection of cities and then planning. 20 were selected in 2016, and the rest in 2018. You are confusing this timeline with the entire Mission timeline which isn't 5 years by any stretch of imagination.

> Not a single one has been developed in 5 years.

AURIC is the first one to be completed. You can read more about it here: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/indias-f...

All of these Smart Cities are built in phases. First would be industrial townships followed by residential development. You can't build 100 Smart Cities in just 5 years. Even the Mission itself states that the results will be visible from 2022 onwards. We are still in 2020.
When I've had this discussion, apparently not. Even within the US, it's not as simple as just "have ADP handle it" because lawyers need to be involved and there are even differences among states on how PTO needs to be handled for example.
My heart fluttered as i thought this was another post about Flutter.
No but it does make me question the statement "but the UK has a pretty reasonable tolerance for migrants".
The Bonsai metaphor in the article agrees with your point, you don’t want poorly composed bags shared all over the place. You want a carefully and continuously groomed tree of objects that’s well designed and well cared for.
On our Javascript heavy app Chrome is still about twice as fast as Firefox. Admittedly it is not your average app, but I cannot confirm claims that Firefox is almost as fast as Chrome.
I recently switched to "Simple Tab Groups" after years with "Tree Style Tab" and I do prefer it.
Given we are taking about space here I'm quite sure water outperforms per kg compared to the others you've mentioned.

Fairly certain there's no high-Z solid that could compete on cost to orbit.
J should be a dsl for array embedded in other languages, the way regexes are for text.
I can't say I agree with the actions of both the Author and the CEO. It wasn't the nicest thing to go on twitter bad-mouthing when you're using the service and still planning to do so, 7 days notice was enough (google,amazon cloud offering bite you instantly). It wasn't right to delete your account but from a business perspective I would also prefer to end it (not this way) with a bad customer early so I can focus on other things. I both provide and I'm a customer of different online services...so I get both perspectives but some customers are impossible (they want everything for free and are still not satisfied)
When I dropped into street view of an Icelandic suburb I was surprised how many trees I saw. Maybe it's an issue of topsoil rather than climate?
You can still occasionally find a Vaxstation 3000 for under $300 on eBay, if you're interested in being a purist.
No. The problem was in the 70s, with single strand solid conductors which were legal for only a few years due to fire hazards. Multi-strand aluminum is still used all the time. The single strand can work itself loose if installed quickly/without proper care due to expansion and contraction, it's not a concern for multi-strand. Single strand is also ok for a dedicated line to a single appliance / load, which is what these lights would be.
a.) Yes

b.) With changing their extension API several times it was not clear the plugin would make it.
Show HN: Docspell – a fresh document organizer written in Scala and Elm
Trump Signs Executive Order Giving ByteDance 90 Days to Sell US TikTok Business
It does - but DNS is still limited to ASCII. So those characters would go through Punycode. I'm not sure if the browser would decompose it though.
I can’t wait until we get enough Millenials in power to peg the retirement age to life expectancy.
Life can't exceed the capabilities of its substrates on their own terms, but it's not clear that life can be fully explained in or reduced to those terms either.

Anyways, yes, this is super cool.
Which model are you using on the zoom calls? Also are you used enhanced or just default? There a lot of factors with any engine.
It appears they were paying $36/ month and were getting upgraded to $99/ month
I currently have around 120 open in "Simple Tab Groups". But this can go up to 200+
If France became a US state, it would be the 8th poorest (2018)
Comments like this should not be allowed on HN, they add nothing to the discussion. If there is specific critique about a particular minister, department, project (or just about anything specific than a generic "government"), that's more valuable to read.
I agree with alot of those reasons, but Everywhere, People at startups earn less and work harder, for having an option of growth: stocks, job advancement, possibly better skills, etc.

How is the situation in Germany different ?
Hello HN,

for about the last year I worked in the evenings on a tool that would let me cope with all the postal and electronic mail and documents that arrive at home to get a bit organized there. It's a rather basic software (more an opinionated tool in contrast to a generic "dms"), but it serves me quite well moving away from too much paper.
It's a big ship, which is hard to turn around. However, I am reminded that General Motors was clearly a shadow of it's former self by the late 1970's, yet it took until the Fiscal Crisis in 2008 for it to actually go bust. When you're that big, you can spiral downwards for a long, long time.
I agree that a certain aptitude or predisposition could be responsible for it.

There is another aspect which I will add: the ‘softest’ parts of the liberal arts curriculum — International Relations would fit here — was until recently reserved for aristocrats. The children of farmers and factory workers would ostensibly have no use in learning The Great Game. The best players of the game are those who need no employment.

Those of us from anything but the uppermost classes back then would be stumbling into the edges of a world they can dimly perceive, to serve as clerks at best.
I totally agree, but in this case the args precisely are key/value pairs that appear the in the chrome://tracing GUI under the heading “Args”! So it actually works pretty nicely. But over use and misuse of args and kwargs is a huge problem in Python I agree.
I think it’s reasonable for some of their limits - the obvious one being that they limit views on the lower tier and you’d probably rather be upgraded than have your site go dark. But for things like this number of staff users there’s no reason to let you go ahead and create more accounts on the lower plan. If you want more staff users then upgrade, but until you do you can’t create any more.

My guess is they just use the same system to track all the limits without really thinking about how well it works for different ones.
What extension do you use for 7800 tabs? Do you search for the tab if you want to go for one?
Yes, Ghost.org hasn't done anything illegal, but that doesn't mean that they haven't done anything wrong. That's a very superficial way to look at it.
Also happens in South Africa but they steal batteries and sell them for a good profit: https://youtu.be/P2gSsN8NlRg
I believe the way it works is there are laws on how much profit they are allowed to make.

Our provider is technically a non-profit electric cooperative [1]. Maybe it's dumb, but being from a rural area, I've always been big on cooperatives.

[1] https://consumersenergy.coop/
Interesting.

BTW if anyone wanna watch the video linked from #4, here’s the link, took me couple of attempts due to uppercase i versus lowercase L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLpQnIJviE
I think this is just one area where we disagree. Sometimes I think people assume all deployments are to combat zones which is not the case. Even in combat deployments, a larger portion of time is spent on humanitarian missions than people realize.

I don’t know your age or experience, but what you said doesn’t ring true to me. If you’re deployed to a non-combat zone you don’t just get a day off every couple weeks. You have liberty most nights and weekends, at least if you’re not actually stationed on a ship.

It’s no different than college. You can be the person who just holes up and plays video games, or just go out in the same groups without exposing yourself to different ideas, or you can get out of your comfort zone. I’ve known people who made the most of their free time by regularly volunteering in local clinics/emergency rooms, lived outside of base in the city with locals, exposed themselves to local culture etc. There’s more freedom than many think. And this is coming from lower enlisted ranks of one of the branches with a reputation of being more disciplined and strict.
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Hi - I was just wondering if there is a resource or any website for software developers where they may be able to discuss with other developers regarding potential approach to building a particular... lets say a feature for a software.

For example: I am looking to build a search functionality for a website and want to discuss first with other developers and get their opinion on things with the approach I should be taking. Hope I have explained it well
I think you're describing misinformation. Disinformation makes people mistrust their news sources, so that any source of information might be as trustworthy as any other. That's why they would be susceptible to fake discount notifications like the ones described in the paper.
> you're just going to lose a tonne of people because they don't want to do what you're telling them and you won't be able to hire good people with your priorities because no one is going to believe they can have a good career at Google by prioritizing stability and long term support

I don't follow. Wouldn't ridding Google of its reputation for inadequate maintenance, make it a more prestigious employer? Its reputation for paying well wouldn't change. How would this lead to an exodus?
I think what it comes down to is the way these libraries are used.

In my experience, the trend of software development over time is division of labor into specializations for hard engineering problems, while creating paved roads and happy paths for good generalists. I use the term "generalist" charitably here, whereas the author's description feels (to me) to be a little disparaging.

To your point, I think it's good we have this trend in software development. Having all these libraries is a net good which saves time and results in fewer footguns. I believe the problem she is describing is more productively considered by looking at it as a problem of using a vendored library in a way that it isn't designed to be used (i.e. "driving off the paved road"). There are often good reasons to drive off the paved road, but you need to really understand your problem and the solution space to pull it off competently. I think the author's experience is therefore caused by two things:

1. Businesses which are not at Google and Facebook scale, and thus can't afford to build much in-house from scratch.

2. People who try to duct tape APIs together without a strong understanding of the underlying limitations of each library, and the design boundaries of each.
This reminds me a lot of Parse, don't Validate (by the same author, apparently): https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

I think there's another reason to make invalid states inexpressible in the type. When you need to change existing code (perhaps years after it was first written) in a way that breaks key assumptions, you find that the current types don't allow expressing that change. This is a good warning sign that other code will need to be updated to take the new states into account. Without the type enforcing that invariant, it might have been much harder to tell that this particular change (out of all the changes you make over the years) is the one that breaks a key assumption. (A key assumption that might have been forgotten by now!)

Types become a message to your future self.
Let me drop in a plug for my favourite book, William Gary Flake’s The Computational Beauty of Nature (1997), by far the best exploration of these kinds of concepts I have ever encountered. It’s rich in discussion, beautiful diagrams, formulae & equations, and even compilable code—kind of like Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science (2003) but without the bombast and done right.