skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I Love MDN hinges on the expectation on the part of web developers that this sort of information ought to come for free — the expectation we’re entitled to this sort of free ride.

I think people should be entitled to a free ride.

Important infrastructure can, paradoxically, be both free and expensive. We've committed, for instance, to spending a whole lot of money on maintaining all of our roads, but access to the street is still free for everyday pedestrians.

Not everyone can afford to pay to use the road. If you want to get a job, often you'll need to drive to and from work for a good while before you'll have enough cash built up to meaningfully contribute to the road through your taxes. Of course, wealthy people wind up paying more, but often times they wouldn't have ever become wealthy if roads hadn't originally been available to them for free. Important infrastructure can be free for individuals when our society makes a commitment to collectively paying for it.

MDN is an extremely important resource to beginner devs -- the exact people who would have trouble paying to support it. But supporting beginner devs is good for both the industry and the economy. Important public or open-source infrastructure such as MDN and Wikipedia should receive public grant money. We already do this with research grants for science, because there's a strong understanding that making research available for free makes society better. Informational infrastructure deserves the same consideration.
Would be curious to better understand your needs in this space. I work at an early stage VC firm and have met probably ever single catalogue/metadata startup - shoot me an email at davis (at) innovationendeavors.com if you want to share notes on the space. I can potentially recommend a few options.
CO2 is fungible once it is in the atmosphere. There is no law of physics which says what can and cannot - only assumptions. Although it is a matter of scales given implementation details.

Technically we turn fossil carbon into food indirectly all of the time with fertilizer and fueling agricultural vehicles but again implementation level details. We could also subsitute non-fossil sources or make it regenerative even though it wouldn't be that practical.

Somebody with far too much funding and power in the literal energy over time sense could theoretically be a smartass jerk and start sequestering enough CO2 over time that lack of carbon starts to be a threat. In practice it would be less of a threat than being crushed to death by massive stacks of dollar bills.
The US is pushing against every nation, except IL. Even old partners from five eyes are not save anymore. Recent pushes against Canada demonstrate that. - The rest of the world is constantly shocked about US actions against almost every nation or institution (UN, WHO, ICJ, many more). Slowly they realize that they need to build new alliances that are not only in favor of the US. China sees the vacuum and is being pushed in new directions. Latest move: In the Middle East, cooperating with Iran, shocking Israel with that move. - The US are hurting themselves in the long run by trying to make politics by brute force.
/r/webdev disagrees.
> But a passcode exists only in your mind and you have the right to remain silent

There isn't actually a "right to remain silent" per se in US law. The various right to silence all have limitations.

For example, suppose a smuggler shoots and kills a bounty hunter in a cantina. The bartender tells investigators you were there and are the only person who had a clear view of what happened. Investigators want you to tell them what you saw.

However, you are on parole and being in a cantina violates your terms of parole. If you testify about the shooting that is tantamount to admitting to a parole violation, and it is back to prison for you so you try to invoke your Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Prosecutors then grant you immunity for any parole violations that occurred while you were at the cantina. Your testimony is no longer be self-incriminating, and can now be compelled.
WHATWG? The group of browser vendors that agree on web standards. I think the onus is on the person proposing a web technology to document it.
Seems the point of the paper is an improvment upon a technique for computing a quaternion Julia from 2015. They found a way to compute the rendering algorithm for the mesh within the limits of 64 bit precision, enabling massively multi-threaded computation. I admit it is a lot of pure math for a casual read, but I think the intent was rendering the set as demonstration of why their finding is significant. Not necessarily that they found a better way to render the set.
Has it occurred to any of you that somebody might just want to intentionally make us hate each other with this "racism" BS? To keep us divided? In the end, who really cares if someone is black, white, Korean, or half Vietnamese? Denying an earned admission to someone because that someone is of the color, sex, religion or original nationality not in fashion at the time for the leftist taste only serves to make us dislike each other more and more.
Might I temporarily diverge from the immediate topic at hand and ask you views on the Romani people?
The average person knows exactly what the "7384" means, they understand it as a number that uniquely identifies a house along that street
> The US covid response is a distinct, notable, and quite frankly disastrous outlier in the industrial world. No one handled this as badly as we did, objectively.

I don't think that assertion holds up. Our economy didn't contract as much as others, our per/capital death rate isn't the worst, we blocked international travel sooner, etc.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/393903/

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

The US is probably one of the most globally interconnected countries also, which epidemiologically speaking is probably a worst case scenario. This is my speculation though, not sure I've seen any reliable information in this regard.
You can also use an ad blocking DNS, it's been working great for me
I'm happy there is some way that someone a little short on cash can earn some extra money by providing a useful service to people without a lot of strings attached. Better than a payday loan. But it seems that many on the left disagree.
OP is not saying he wants decide how Firefox and MDN are run per se, He is saying we want to not be funding projects like pocket. We don't want or know how to run MDN or firefox, but we are grateful users who would like those to succeed and willing to contribute those projects specifically.

The concern of about management salary is very important in Mozilla important than in a for profit entity.

Shareholders / board will react fast enough over market challenges or poor performance in for profit companies . Many, many companies have cut base salaries for management this year due look at Airbnb for example, All Mozilla is saying variable pay will be impacted.

Given the ownership and revenue structure of Mozilla nobody is in a position to keep management of Mozilla Corporation accountable, the donors to Mozilla Foundation donate miniscule amounts compared to what the Corporation makes in the single search deal with Google to have any real leverage.

The deal with Google just got renewed well before the lay-off's, despite the empty words about global pandemic being a reason, there is no major impact on their revenue ( or Google's for that matter).
Same here. Recently I though I'd try out Safari again. Started browsing reddit and kept forgetting what subreddit I was on. It was then I noticed something was wrong.
I'm considering choosing something for a writing project with some diagrams that I might like to be executable / interactive, so that brought me here. It might be nice if the Jupyter Book and the Executable Book Project web pages acknowledged a bit more that there are alternatives out there and discussed the differences. I'm particularly thinking of Observable -- it looks like Observable has a good article comparing Jupyter to Observable: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observable-for-jupyte...
Spooky action at a distance: The future magic of remote collaboration
An .epub is literally a zip of xhtml, css, and images.

If you want to build a good ereader, you either use a web browser or you reimplement one. And you have to support things like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens, rtl, mathml, and—well—the rest of the nontrivial stack.
Would be curious to better understand your needs in this area. I work at an early stage VC firm and have met probably ever single catalogue/metadata startup - shoot me an email at davis (at) innovationendeavors.com if you want to share notes on the space.
> Of course, these same people have no idea what it actually takes to run a charity; they have no idea what on-the-ground problems need to be solved day-to-day; they have absolutely zero understanding of the organizational supports needed to make any organization function. They're basically in the worst possible position to decide how best to use those funds.

Sounds like a democracy except funding isn’t voluntary.
That would come as news to nox.

Not that I expect him to have any actual motivation at this point given Servo is basically toast either way.
Uber and Lyft drivers don't get paid wages, so the premise is silly.
As a savvy software engineer, you should realize how much work it would take to implement a system to allow secondary stores when it would be of absolutely no benefit to Apple.
That's easy. Crappy diet and alcoholism. Something like 68% of single adult homeless credit substance abuse with their homelessness[1], with alcohol being the most commonly abused substance. Alcoholism and vitamin D deficiency has definitely been linked.[2]

[1]http://www.ncdsv.org/images/USCM_Hunger-homelessness-Survey-...

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5074581/
Link? I can't find anyone to actually explain how truncating the URL actually benefits Google's business. Comparisons to AOL are very hand-wavy.
Also the physical toll of working in a trade can't be underestimated.

My brother is 4 years younger than me, dropped out of high school, and makes a TON of money mowing lawns and doing pools and HVAC work in Florida.

That lifestyle ages you fast though. I have plenty of energy to be physically active after work and have no aches/pains to speak of. I wouldn't give that up for the money he makes. And that physical divide is only going to get bigger as we age.
> In the end, who really cares if someone is black, white, Korean, or half Vietnamese?

Yale, in this case.
1. Fixable without "the demise of the USA". But it probably won't be, as enough people have good enough education to get by.

2. Again, enough people get by, it'd have to be a majority protesting/rioting for things to change. And they can be changed without the country dying.

3. Not unique to the US, sadly. But the government is nowhere near authoritarian enough for people to risk dying to change it.

4. It's one of the world's biggest and healthiest economies, and it's kind of rare in the whole modern world for the younger generation to do better than their parents. With remote work and automation becoming normal, it may be possible for people to live and work in cheaper places.

Even as it is, the US can continue to function for decades, even centuries, more or less. I just don't see it in terminal decline.
The next president is going to have to go around and sew broken relationships the current administration has torn apart.
It seems, in general, you are talking about China replacing the US.

The US no longer being hegemon doesn't imply China is. I.e., your argument is a straw-man.

China may never become hegemon. But the idea that the US is invincible like it was 10 years ago, is simply untrue anyore. Pride comes before the fall - no one ever expected goliath to fall, but sometimes, goliath does.
It's odd to see people unselfconsciously use the term "degenerate" these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
Each account's AZ codes point to a different AZ—it's a way of avoiding conversations like this where people think a particular AZ is better than others.
Communists had a long history in Iran dating back to the 00's (1900-1909) and were very popular in the 30s, 40s, 50s, etc. Iran industrialized around extraction and related industries as a quasi-colonial state, subject to Russian and (moreso) British interests. Communists there successfully organized general strikes and bought sweeping worker protections with their efforts. Iran was hardly infertile ground for collectivist organization or leftist politics.

They were systematically killed, disrupted, and suppressed during the revolution.
I've been using Reason for a couple of years in personal projects and I really like its fast compiler, type system, things like variants, modules. I didn't have OCaml experience before but to me it feels like being able to program in a very mature programming language while still being able to target JS. The community is great as well. Also refactoring code has never been easier in my opinion. That's why I also decided to use it for Tella.

I've used TypeScript a lot in the past as well, and I'm not against it at all. You can do a lot of the things you can do with Reason in TypeScript. But I do have the feeling Reason makes me a lot faster than when I worked with TypeScript.
The fight scene in Road House isn't bad either.
I think this is why you need a very senior engineer overseeing your MVP.

Before MVPs were championed, companies would create a full-fledged project management suite with 50 database models and release it to crickets.

An MBA and a junior engineer define an MVP as “You can log in, and add todo lists and check them off.”

A senior engineer defines that same MVP as “You can log in, add todo lists, check them off, delete your account, and if the server crashes or we’re hacked, we have backups for 30 days.”

Or in other words with an MVP you still need to complete the 80% of the iceberg the MBA and junior engineer can’t see, but you don’t build the whole iceberg at once.
“Economics with a Moral Compass?”: Amartya Sen and Angus Deaton
Zeihan is Awesome. The Case against China was well articulated by him in his latest book : "Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World".
Considering that the US is so corrupt, with non functioning government and/or health care systems, why are EU per capita death rates close to the American ones? In the presumably more competent, wealthier, and more generous Western European nations, a majority of them have death rates which exceed the US. Why?

Furthermore given the significantly greater number of cases shouldn't US death rates be significantly greater if it's healthcare system is non functional?
It certainly forces one to compare personal stances on A and B, possibly leading to a change of stance in order to resolve conflicts.
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> I don't want political stances of any kind from an organization that's getting my money to make a specific thing better.

Your notion of what "better" means is in and of itself a political stance.
I feel like this also speaks to the wider trend in OSS. Businesses in many (the majority of?) and their programmers have come to expect free compilers, developer tools, libraries, security patches... and documentation and all that entails.

"Open source," projects that are well funded appear "free," which seems to distort perceptions and opinions.

Maintaining good documentation, like maintaining libraries, and good compilers takes a lot of on going effort. This creates value and deserves compensation.

If not corporate sponsors, if not a patreon style model, what else can we do? Does everyone on the web contribute a little bit through volume collective licensing when you buy a domain or host a server or from profits of commercial entities on the web platform?
I can't help but think we're experiencing the slow demise of Mozilla and have been for a while now. What kind of family needs 2.5M a year?

NGO CEO just sounds like an oxymoron to me too. CEOs make me think of revenue increase, while I assume NGOs have very different goals - or at least they should have. It just seems like a fundamental misalignment.
Yeah, this stuff isn't secret. Note how if you encrypt your S3 bucket it uses a KMS CMK; that's an dependency between S3 and KMS, and yep it's the same KMS. This is true for probably over a hundred AWS services that rely on KMS; it's a "foundational" service. (As is S3.)
This headline reads like it's a bad thing... Elective procedures keep hospitals open and costs low. When we look at the year in whole, I'm sure things will even out.
Eww, games trying to substitute 'real life'. Realism is boring. Games should be ART. Something you CAN'T experience in real life.
I'd pay $50/year to keep MDN afloat and current, though would prefer $24 ($2 per month). I think Patreon is an excellent idea.

Perhaps a combination: Patreon for continuous funding and development; kickstarter for specific big features/releases (e.g., resurrecting Places and implementing it in Servo).

Also, has anyone archived MDN, in case they pull the plug on it unexpectedly now the team is gone?
I'm not disagreeing, but there's plenty of microsoft closed-source efforts that have been horrible too. It's possible microsoft just isn't very good at everything.
That's no longer the case, except in legacy regions (which IAD is); I think there's a reconciliation mechanism though in those cases.
> As a European I can say that the only people who still look up to the USA as a great country are the people who base their views on Hollywood instead of the news.

Basing your view on the "news" is a huge mistake. Mass media portrayal of the US (or really of any country) is much closer to a constructed narrative than a transparent view of "reality".

Do you think US "news" portrays Europe accurately? (honest question)
> Similar stories if you look at major FOSS projects such as KDE and Gnome

I am not too up to date on KDE, but Gnome is mainly pushed forward by Red Hat, and recently by Canonical. Unpaid volunteers certainly make a decent amount of contributions but the vast amount of progress comes from corporations, not volunteers.
> And it, too, has a last-ditch deterrent: selling its $1.1trn stock of American treasury bills, equivalent to 4% of the total outstanding. America’s highly liquid bond markets may prove capable of absorbing the shock.

The Fed would be forced to buy those bonds to maintain its interest rate targets. And since the Fed by law must remit its profits to the Treasury, the end result would be the net interest rate on that debt would drop from whatever it is now to zero. Hardly what I'd call a crushing blow. Imagine trying to threaten your banker by telling him if he's not careful you're going to move your money from your savings to your checking account.
While life in prison remains theoretically possible, your link makes it seem that it will most likely never happen:

> On July 10, 2009, Chadwick was ordered released from prison by Delaware County Judge Joseph Cronin, who determined his continued incarceration had lost its coercive effect and would not result in him surrendering the money.

14 years is pretty crazy, but all-time records are usually extreme.
There are 'roms' that can be loaded that will reconfigure the FPGA. The first release has that already.
I'm torn between "so, same as on any browser" and "surely that's a feature" as a response to this :D
Family history, my name (first middle and last) is Norwegian, and I can trace back my father's side to the Kvinnherad municipality. Bergen is the closest big city there I think. I guess I want to find more about my history. And its a beautiful country.
All the projects you listed get regular brief cases full of money, one just needs to have a look at their sponsor listings, which come down to the selected few I was mentioning.

Even the Linux kernel would never had taken off beyond an hobby project had not been for contributions from Oracle, Compaq, IBM, Intel engineers during the early days.

So yeah will Servo find such a benefactor, very difficult to say, but Samsung used to contribute, if I remember correctly.
You don't need to buy an MSDN subscription to read or contribute to https://docs.microsoft.com , whose pages are free to read and are increasingly becoming open-source on GitHub.

In fact, Microsoft now calls MSDN subs Visual Studio subscriptions, to emphasize that the main reason to buy one is to get premium VS features and personalized developer support.
Time and time again I wonder how Apple manages to avoid rules/laws which are applicable for all other players in the market.

More than a decade ago the EU forced manufacturers of mobile phones to commit to one standard for power plugs. Everybody used micro USB except Apple.

Microsoft had to pay a huge fine because the didn't let the user choose which browser they wanted to use and simply brought the Internet Explorer as the default with every Windows. Apple still doesn't even allow users to install alternative browsers. Yes, from the outside it looks like you can install a Firefox, but inside it is still a Safari for which Apple denies building critical APIs like e.g. the Push API [1] (which is available for all major browsers except Safari and the use cases go far beyond push notifications, like chat apps and background synchronization of data).

The App Store is yet another example. Many other platform providers allow you to install additional Software through other means than the default source (Android, Windows, Linux, etc.). I am glad a major player like Epic takes the issue head-on and hope, that in the end the eco-system will benefit as a whole.

[1]: https://caniuse.com/#feat=push-api
> Treating the GPU as a computing co-processor.

I'm starting to get mildly disappointed about this paradigm. GPUs have the hardware for very powerful dynamic parallelism, yet only CUDA supports that (since no GPU driver of note supports more than OpenCL 1.x). I'd much rather see the GPU-CPU pair used as a pair of nodes that are linked with a high-speed interconnect (PCIe), yet APIs apart from CUDA never moved much beyond the compute model of OpenCL 1.2.
> "...but if we had something like an incurable smallpox or measles going around there would be a lot more consensus..."

so, working as designed. our government was never designed to be highly mobilizable, except in the face of extraordinary threat (because then it would be too easy to mobilize for "evil").

while covid may seem to be a massive existential threat to those of us who've never faced anything more dangerous than the flu, it's a minor blip relative to the rest of human history. covid is serious but not extraordinary, which is why there isn't extraordinary concensus (and why everyone thinks it's handled all wrong).
Yes, it's game theory. The more people there are, the less it pays to be nice.
I remember that... But it was too aws specific. I'll be giving it another look, thank you for pointing that out!

Edit: sadly it's still another layer onto aws/gcp/other... I'll pass again.
Too many overpaid people who had little interest in building a web browser.
"Always show full URLs" is such a breath of fresh air. It eliminates all the URL butchering (e.g. inconsistent hiding of http/https) that Chrome had been doing for more than a decade.

Though I'm not seeing the option by default on a fresh install of Chrome 86; hopefully that's just a rollout glitch.