skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there is some significant loss of "value" of holdings, the main thing is to understand where the jobs and money are going, not where they were.

Take a water balloon, and squeeze one end of it. It does not lose water, instead, the water goes to the other end of the balloon. That illustrates where the "money" is going.

I've said elsewhere there is a sea-change in education happening right under our noses. I believe that a lot of the education money may very well flow to more vocational training, distance learning, tech and lessons for home school and smaller classes. Old-school group classes were inefficient anyway -- and people are just beginning to realize that.

Doctors will do more old-timey house calls. Even to just survive!

The restaurants and businesses that you frequent during your commute, like diners, etc, will also adapt. More deliveries instead.

It will be easier to schedule a haircut from your barber for your home or office. I don't really want to go to a salon and sit in a chair there.

Store owners will have to start doing more list building and email marketing, you can no longer just watch a customer walk-in and walk-out without trying to build your email or contact list.

Yes, America is unravelling, but we are humans and we always adapt. It's just the stubborn ones or the hard to change industries that will suffer the longest and the slowest.

I do not believe that things are just going to go back to "normal" as they were. There will be some significant change in the way how we conduct business, education, entertainment and living.

The people who adapt to that change will be the winners.
To me, this manifesto is just empty platitudes.

+ We support privacy
- Yet get millions from Google to keep their search engine default.

+ We believe in transparent community based decisions
- Which is why we gutted several community darlings (Devtools, Servo, Wasmtime, MDN)

Without Servo, Firefox is doomed to become a cheap Chrome knock-off. Why not fire like 650/750 and just base FireFox on Chromium?

And in that case why should I use a knock-off, if I can have the real thing for free? Google controls the code, whatever tracking/control they build in is going to be hard to remove without a fork. A Fork Mozilla won't be able to afford.

No amount of writing manifestos is going to change that fact.
I suspect that’s what they tell themselves. And that heuristics are beneath them. Better to have an elegant algorithm that does the wrong thing automatically than a set of human-tweaked rules that could come much closer (also automatically) to doing the right thing.
>because they try and stop you from destroying their world.

Why would they try and stop you if they weren't sentient?

In that game, how many players would stop if the native population were humanoid? If they were humans? If they would exactly look like the player? How many players leave some place for them to roam?

Building machines is addictive. And like any addiction, there is nothing stopping it.

We should be carried away because one day in the not so far future, somebody has to decide if energy is spent on food production or on mining for bitcoins or some form of product development simulation or calculation. Do we want to have the global ethics that choose the food?
HeliOS, a tiny embedded OS for Arduino Boards
Piggybacking on your comment to respond to the quote, not your interpretation...

First, there's no cult. Western civilization protects the rights of the individual, as they should - it's immoral to use aggressive force against anyone, no matter how many people that aggression might benefit (or appeal to).

Second, protecting the rights of the individual denies neither community nor society, it only provides their operating principles. Communities and societies should absolutely work together and cooperate for the benefit of everyone - they should simply do it without using aggressive force against anyone.
> volume 1300 cm^2

Discrepancy detected
Same, but there's so many bugs out there.
Man you really shouldn't be so hard on yourself. These coding interviews aren't IQ tests. If it's any help, a good recommendation from someone in a company would probably be a stronger signal than a leetcode type question.
Do you drive on the road? Do you purchases food in a store? Do you use electricity? All of those things are supported by taxation at some point.
A country with hyper-growth in population with a very strong group-identity culture that's internally fractured into a large majority being brutally ruled by a small minority, surrounded by regional powers that are happy for any opportunity to wage proxy wars, becoming the focal point for global powers to wage proxy wars...

The drought certainly didn't help and it may well have been the straw the broke the camel's back, but it wouldn't have been a major issue had they not quadrupled their population within 50 years, had a more modern economy that allowed for wide-spread participation, had a less tribal society with a democratic government and weren't in the neighborhood of Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
It's not. Just look at outstanding issues in Servo.

https://github.com/servo/servo

What Mozilla did was move few stable components to FireFox and shitcanned the rest.
Facebook’s Hate-Speech Rules Collide with Indian Politics
Just so we're no longer talking around the issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

> A natural monopoly is a monopoly in an industry in which high infrastructural costs and other barriers to entry relative to the size of the market give the largest supplier in an industry, often the first supplier in a market, an overwhelming advantage over potential competitors. This frequently occurs in industries where capital costs predominate, creating economies of scale that are large in relation to the size of the market; examples include public utilities such as water services and electricity.[1] Natural monopolies were recognized as potential sources of market failure as early as the 19th century; John Stuart Mill advocated government regulation to make them serve the public good.

... and suffice it to say, I agree wit John Stuart Mill.
Trying to do an election by mail, last minute, when we haven’t really any infrastructure in place to prevent mass mail-in fraud seems just as much a vector for rigging to me.
Did you consider using the front camera for bidirectional phone-to-phone communication? That could allow frame re-transmits which would increase the data rate a lot.
> Would you care to share your thoughts about Steve Jobs?

I recognize the fact that he was probably a good leader when it came to driving Apple focus to make quality hardware and solid software integration (the original iPhone was a big step in making portable devices actually usable by everyone).

However, I was reflecting that the word 'virtuous' was a poor fit for a person like Steve Jobs. You can typically think of someone virtuous as having high moral standards and principles.

Jobs was constantly driving his company to make ridiculous false claims (saying that Apple was the first company to invent X or Y) which is deceitful.

Apple's business practices consist in making walled gardens everywhere (which is kind of anti-competitive and entice users to be locked down in the ecosystem) instead of developing standards that can be used and shared by everyone, and this is also something that Jobs spearheaded from the get go (right since the beginning of Apple).

Of course, everyone has different standards, but being a good citizen is about taking and giving back. I can't remember Jobs ever giving anything back to the tech scene.
It's also a kind of golf.
But really it's just my intuition

So you're really just using "intelligent" as a proxy for "says things I agree with", with no real basis for the claim. That's not a good look.
It performs very poorly when there is a lot of DOM content and js manipulation (think a kibana search+visual) and FF is notorious about memory exploitation. I was hoping replacing everything with rust code would be a start. A rewritr of gecko in rust at least. I don't have any workload at all that works better on FF and many of the ones I need to work smoothly don't.

But I completely understand why you wouldn't want to "boil the ocean". That said, I hope you appreciate how much support FF has from users. Anyone of us left using are doing so by paying a price for it. Everything else mozilla does appears like distracting side-quests. I would not care much about donating for wikipedia but if Mozilla focused on their flagship product more I would be happy to contribute both financially and through bug reports and grunt work PR's.

We live on the ocean and browsers are our ship.
If there are any Mozillians here, I'm curious about how the organization balances its technology development and advocacy functions. Do you think it has been shifting one way or another? Do you think that both roles are represented equally in leadership?
> 3) The consumer does not face substantial costs to switch to an alternative product. (The cost of buying a new car would probably be considered substantial but I'm not sure a new phone would.)

The cost of switching phone platforms is massive compared to the app market. Phones can cost over $1000, apps are commonly $1, a difference of a thousand fold. And that's only the hardware cost. Then you have issues if there is any other app you need which is only available on one platform, or if you make use of Google or Apple services that are only well supported or supported at all on one platform and would incur substantial switching costs to move to the other.

You also have a different problem here:

> The courts have reasoned that if the consumer had sufficient information when making their initial purchase decision, then they had the opportunity to buy a competing product without those restrictions.

Which would only apply if there was a viable competing product without those restrictions. But there are only two viable phone platforms and Apple's has a strict monopoly while Google's has a de facto one where Google Play has >90% share of the Android market, and they both impose similar restrictions, so a viable option without those restrictions isn't there.

Furthermore, the customer for app distribution is at least as much the developer as the user -- they're the one who pays the app store's fee, right? -- and they don't get to choose which phone their customers have already bought.
That's difficult, I believe. I'm not against doing so, but unless you're massively redistributing wealth in societies, that would primarily hit the poor. And I'm not a fan of massive wealth-redistribution.
Yes, it's my opinion, and I've presented it as such, but it's entirely based on his point of view. I think the opinions of non-experts are very valuable due to the effects of group-think.

The basis for my claim I could lay down, but this is not the ground for that battle.

Do you have any reason to disbelieve certain experts over others? When they are the foremost in their field, consistently? No one is denying climate change.

In any case, I don't claim its truth, just its existence. It's obviously important to any scientific process to consider alternative theories which have better predictive power, and to criticize our existing ones, however close to reality they ultimately are.

In any case, if reasonable discussion is not permitted here maybe it's not the place for me.

edit:

> That's not a good look.

Maybe I'm just in the wrong neighborhood. Okay maybe I'll stay, seems like there's a mixed response.
Even more concise: If you don't see a flag on some land, plant your flag there.

The problem with this approach is that it only works if you want to create content for the things you searched for. Just because I'm googling obscure shit doesn't mean I want to write an article with ads about it. I could see this technique work for someone who wants to start a technical blog -- make your posts the first result on a bunch of obscure issues you run into.
Every account has the AZ names randomised.
My eu-central-1a is not your eu-central-1a but may be your eu-central-1c.
> Municipal broadband is a nice idea, but it takes a unique set of circumstances for it to work.

If "unique set of circumstances" means "not getting snowed under by lawsuits from major ISPs", then yes, this is true. But that's the government's fault for letting ISPs get away with such tactics.

> Consider how many other municipal infrastructure services are 100% run by your city/county.

Consider how many would be if the government would stop favoring major ISPs.
The above-linked site about POSIX has this paragraph:

https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=940

> The C standard goes to great length to ensure that NULL (and for that matter, any representation of the null pointer, which is written in source code by converting a constant value 0 to a pointer) need not be represented in hardware by all 0 bits (that is, 'int p = 0;' or 'static int p;' is allowed to compile to assembly instructions that assign a non-zero bit pattern to the location named p). And in fact, there are historical machines where the most efficient null pointer in hardware was indeed a non-zero bit pattern: http://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html

... and the site it links to has this:

> Q: Seriously, have any actual machines really used nonzero null pointers, or different representations for pointers to different types?

> A: The Prime 50 series used segment 07777, offset 0 for the null pointer, at least for PL/I. Later models used segment 0, offset 0 for null pointers in C, necessitating new instructions such as TCNP (Test C Null Pointer), evidently as a sop to [footnote] all the extant poorly-written C code which made incorrect assumptions. Older, word-addressed Prime machines were also notorious for requiring larger byte pointers (char 's) than word pointers (int 's).

[snip]

> The Symbolics Lisp Machine, a tagged architecture, does not even have conventional numeric pointers; it uses the pair <NIL, 0> (basically a nonexistent <object, offset> handle) as a C null pointer.
> enormous die off of the world's population as large swathes of the planet become essentially uninhabitable at current densities

Can you provide any more details to go on for that? I can't find such predictions in an IPCC report but they're huge so any extra specifics would help.

I can't imagine a place being essentially uninhabitable. Las Vegas and Israel are both full of people, for instance. Almost everywhere is uninhabitable without shelter.

I'm pretty sure nobody is predicting existential risk to civilization. You really need a reference for that.
It's definitely one of the nicest IM services around. Well built apps with useful features that look good and are available everywhere. I was never able to get enough of my friend group on it to really make use of it, though.
I said 'Not being a major OEM' is one of their USP.
Using Askgit – A SQL interface to your Git repository
It seems likely those large scale variations correlate with summer temperatures, but from the information you give there, that’s n=1, self-evaluated, after removal of values that do not fit the prediction.

Are you sure this can be used to make predictions for single seasons?
This is more of a hypothetical scenario used to describe the origins of a modern capitalist state, rather than any present scenario. However there have certainly been people in history who have been able to make decisions about what laws they want to be subject to. Political lobbying, international migration, and bribery to the purposes of selective enforcement are all methods people have used to this date in the US.

If you're interested in a more theoretical (and less bourgeoisie oriented) discussion of the tensions between a social contract justification for punishment and our practical inability to leave the state, I would recommend "Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play" as well as "A Theory of Justice", both by John Rawls, as well as "The Principle of Fair Play" by A. John Simmons. You may know the second as a standard component of any introductory political philosophy curriculum, and the first and third were parts of a philosophy of law class I took, taken from a textbook by Frederick Schauer. They are quite interesting.

The conclusion I have come to is that we are morally bound by the laws of a state in proportion to the degree that they benefit us in comparison to other possible bodies of law. This approximates our willingness to agree to a given scheme of rules if we were presented with free migration between all possible states, and the extent to which we would prefer the state we are actually in, we should be considered to have willingly agreed to their laws even if that did not happen in reality.
As far as many marine organisms are concerned we are doing just that though. I said it for effect and I stand by its use.

The way I see it when talking about our oceans they are systems rather than a liquid. The system has a preferred pH range and therefore can become acidic regardless of whether it's <7.
No. Island nations aren't big enough to be a major global problem.
I agree things are fairly bad in a lot of ways, and very bad in some ways, but "failed state" does have a specific meaning and applying it to the US is pretty hyperbolic. It's fuzzy like anything that describes human stuff, but the US is definitely on the not-failed side of that fuzzy line. Heading toward it? I dunno. Maybe. Probably not. But maybe. There now? Certainly not.

Our Federal government might be doing a piss-poor job but it has not stopped being able to assert sovereignty in meaningful ways, domestically and internationally, or to continue to deliver government services to a significant extent. If those things had happened we'd know it. "Governing very poorly"—even somewhat maliciously—is not what it means for a state to have failed. Maybe it's being used... I dunno, poetically? But that doesn't seem to be the case, in context.

Some of the stuff in the article's interesting but a lot of the rest is similarly overblown. Declaring China's ascendance (it sometimes explicitly says China but then other times seems to use Asia to mean "Asia, but mostly China") is fashionable and might end up being true but is far from settled history, to pick on another part, and I'm guessing the "D-Day versus gun deaths in 2019" stat is mostly suicides, which seems disingenuous to me, in this context—while of course it is interesting and meaningful in others, I think they're trying to mislead with it here.

I'm left-wing as hell and probably agree with most policy positions and general opinions the writer holds, so this should be right up my alley, but the piece isn't great. A better-written version of this with exactly the thesis and overall journey might even be something I'd really like!

It's a mix of a pretty good cataloguing of disparate bad-sounding stats and figures about the US, many bad/misleading instances of same (any time there's a bad-sounding—or good-sounding, for that matter—stat missing any frame of reference, I get twitchy, and this has plenty), some dull and overstated predictions about the future, and some lazy narrative-building. I hate these kinds of articles when the right does them, but I almost hate them more when "my" side does them. I know that's bad politics because people respond to this sort of thing, but I just can't stand writing this transparently manipulative, at great cost to honesty and accuracy.

The best parts are when the writer's focusing directly on the COVID response. Those are alright. A few other bits are OK for a few sentences in a row and could form the seed of good, if thoroughly unoriginal, articles on their own.
> mass mail-in fraud

Source?
Ask HN: MacBook Longevity Tips
JDownloader2 is an open source alternative and I cannot imagine using anything else (there are too many features). And I'm saying that as a python developer.
On another post one of the dev teams said, although it’s not “finished”, a lot of the code has been merged into ff. It has already been useful. He even used the term “winding down”.
True, but it's not due insider trading, rather all the other 'regular' insider stuff.
As someone who has been running my own personal fork off ff for the past half decade because no way the things i want in (and left out) would get adopted due to the conflict of interests at Mozilla, I see these times a great opportunity for more performant adversive additions (and removals of cruft) into browsers directly vs third party addons or custom hacks people may have to do personally now (spoofing data browsers make available to servers/js, noscript, null routing on the fly, etc).
I don't think that 560M of Berkshire's stock qualifies for "bet so much". It's a drop in the bucket.
Or, stated yet another way, we all suck at coordinating. It's a problem with our species. If something that requires self-sacrifice starts yielding value only after everyone (or majority) does it, it simply doesn't happen, not spontaneously.

The history of human civilization - of governments, religions and movements, of gangs and corporations and worker unions - can be seen as attempts to surmount our inability to coordinate at scale. Laws, shared beliefs and ideologies, shunning, taboos, money - they're all tools for creating and maintaining coordination in large groups.

A classic essay on that topic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.
DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)
> First, there's no cult. Western civilization protects the rights of the individual, as they should - it's immoral to use aggressive force against anyone, no matter how many people that aggression might benefit (or appeal to).

In an ironically cult like absolutism, you dismiss the moral discussion that transpired within Western philosophical traditions that debate this very topic - of Judeo-Christianity, of consequentialism.

> Second, protecting the rights of the individual denies neither community nor society, it only provides their operating principles. Communities and societies should absolutely work together and cooperate for the benefit of everyone - they should simply do it without using aggressive force against anyone.

This of course necessitates an elaboration on the word “should” in the context of a group of individualist agents where one chooses to not cooperate.
> 10 million globally spread over many years is not particularly devastating.

While I personally agree with you, the UK (news and opinion polls) regularly regard ten thousand on that island (1/10th of a fair share of 10 million worldwide) as an existential threat. Most recently, the addition of half a dozen bailing out a rubber dinghy with Tupperware are seen as so dangerous that the Royal Navy is considered an appropriate response by a majority.
>The Guardian reported in June 2016 that Lindzen has been a beneficiary of Peabody Energy, a coal company that has funded multiple groups contesting the climate consensus.

from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen#Views_on_clima...

Straight up evil in my eyes, anti science.
>The Internet is an integral part of modern life—a key component in education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as a whole.

What if Mozilla had used the internet and hadn't spent their billions on bay-area engineers but on hiring young third-world talents and offered them a job that educated them in web- and browser development?

There could be thousands of engineers working on Firefox and servo with the benefit that they would develop content that would be guaranteed to work on Firefox.
"Considered harmful" considered harmful: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
I don't think that quote makes this move surprising
Not sure I count that as a surprise--in one breath I'll talk about how C is a terrible language, and in another breath I'll talk about my latest project which I'm writing in C.
He would probably have an equally or more estranged view of goldman sachs.