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Isn't the obvious answer that CEO/executive pay should be tied more closely to performance? I don't root for anyone to lose their job, but in this case, it seems like the leadership of Mozilla is failing to lead them in the right direction. I don't see how that gets rewarded. If my performance metrics at work go down 85% - I'm probably getting fired. In this case, executive performance metrics should be closely tied to the fate of the company.

I understand it's hard to get someone "good" in as CEO of you can't offer competitive pay - they'll just go somewhere else. But I think the last few years of Mozilla and Firefox falling into the realm of niche developer/nerd tools needs to serve as a sharp reminder that even "good" executives can fail.

Time for an ultimatum - offer a reasonable salary with a large bonus based on improving market share. Get someone in there that really wants it.
CIA clamps down on flow of Russia intelligence to White House
I think the prior line of work of that guy's running mate might be the bigger issue.
> now everyone is looking at ways to balance GC with affine types in most mainstream languages.

Sounds interesting, do you have some links on this topic?
Please explain how refusing to give equal rights to homosexuals is not homophobic.
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living. " - The Count of Monte Cristo justifying having basically tortured his friend and driven him to suicide.
> I find it hard to believe that your wife would prefer you to be a materially/economically poor individual who doesn't strive vs your peers.

Really? You've never heard of somebody who'd rather their spouse work shorter hours and spend more time with them at home? Or spend more time with their family? Or travel more with them?
> To anyone saying "no maintenance takes a day", I guarantee you it can. This could easily be a database server that is being replaced. It needs to be set up and the database copied over. Not everyone runs EC2 instances. In the real world deployments can be (and usually are) incredibly primitive.

How about 20 days? Apparently the site was down on the 3rd and won't be back until the 23rd, unless I read that wrong.
This sounds more like maximal requirements.
People get uncomfortable when they have to think about their privilege. It chips away at the bootstraps fantasy. As a white guy in a field that's mostly male i see this all the time. Lots of people's self worth seems to hinge on the ideal self-reliancy, so to recognize the unfairly positive treatment we receive is too much to bear for many. Instead, they expend their mental energy on finding ANY other passable explanation to divert conversation to a different subtopic to escape the negative emotions caused by the contradiction.
The fact that ozone depletion was orders of magnitude easier to solve than climate change is precisely why it doesn't give me much hope. It's not a counterexample; it's a whole different level of problem.
And the brain does all that (and everything else) for something like 20 Watts
Pretty sure that’s Tom Scott
What I would love to see is a JetBrains code editor which is language-independent. VSCode is nice but it's still too sluggish. Sublime Text is what I really enjoyed back in the day but a lot of core extensions / plugins are stale.

Yes, I can configure IntelliJ to work with other languages but at the end of the day it's still a Java IDE.

I tried Nova from Panic the other day but it felt similar to VSCode in terms of snappiness.
> the US or Chinese or Saudi society deems capital punishment as

moral, not immoral
> The machinery to make this is extremely complicated and takes 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand. No amount of invoking the defense production act would change this reality.

Allowing mask manufacturers to charge the market price for their masks, though, might have made it worthwhile to build out the necessary capacity (I am pretty sure that it would have, but I could be wrong, so I will hedge my bets). But then, grandstanding politicians would have claimed it was 'price-gouging' (which simply cannot exist) and might even have tried to send the mask-makers to jail. Who would take that risk?
i'd say that hosts which cannot reach ipv4 addresses are not part of 'the internet' (thou they are part of 'a network')
This seems like a pretty good list. I'm sure it's possible to debate the details, but it seems to hit the big points. What I think is interesting about it though is that aside from "enough income to not have any substantial worries about the future", none of these items can actually be provided by society / government. Government certainly can't provide a loving partner, fulfilling sexuality, good mental and physical health, or work/private life recognition. And as 2020 has seen with COVID, it also can't provide absence of existential worries due to cataclysms.
Maybe it’s about optimizing for long-term fulfillment vs. short-term happiness?
What if some laws are selectively enforced and don’t have a logical reason for even existing? Is it morally okay to ignore those laws until logic and sense prevails? I think it is ironic how some Americans cry ‘freedom’ over wearing masks or taxes but don’t skip a beat in dictating how somebody else treats their own body.

What I’m saying is not all laws are just and being a Felon doesn’t diminish the person’s reasoning capabilities. Felons can easily act as rational as some of these politicians...
I don't know of any science.

But for me personally, I find that, for very long and complicated thoughts, increasing the size of short term working memory helps to prolong the time before the moment when I start to doubt my own ability to keep track of all relevant facts.

It's good for solving problems, but less so for work with an audience, e.g. writing clearly.
The DPA is designed to exactly fix this problem: provide guaranteed price and guaranteed quantity contracts to ensure that manufacturers can always justifiably tool up and produce what's needed.

The government takes on the risk that it might not be needed.

Of course seeing as how it's a paper mask with a near indefinite shelf-life given proper storage and the US should be maintaining a proper stockpile anyway, that's not much risk.
It would raise questions about liability anywhere. People generally dislike e.g. the building of deadly traps that kids or others who are unaware can wander into.
Typically there is a whole manufacturing pipeline that has to exist for precursors etc, so it might not integrate with bacterial physiology?
> Brave users can fund their wallet, or earn BATs by viewing ads;

This is where the money making happens, and where actual money enters the BAT economy. Those BATs you get for watching ads have to come from somewhere; advertisers effectively pay for the BATs they give you with real money (I'm not positive whether the advertisers literally buy BAT to give you, or if they just pay Brave and Brave conjures them out of the air). My guess is that they'll make money on service fees on money entering or leaving BAT. Maybe a % service charge on advertisers buying BAT, or the same thing but on websites cashing out.

I imagine they'll diversify and might make some income from referral links or other miscellaneous revenue streams, but I would expect the vast bulk of their revenue to relate directly to advertising and BAT.
They did take a risk speaking out. But let's assume the best intention: genuine curiosity.

While I don't agree with the question's premise both it and the reverse can be asked without "punching down".
I tried using VS Code but the vim keybindings were inadequate. It doesn't do anything I can't already do without it (except frustrate my muscle memory) so it lacks any kind of value proposition for me.
Of course at first sight "affirmative action" has a similar effect and taken to the extreme it can have just as many negative consequences. But it also depends on how narrow your view of what's happening is, how far you "zoom in". The intention of reasonable affirmative action is vastly different and yes, that matters.

If you take a narrow enough view, a criminal being locked up is no different from a person being kidnapped. Someone is deprived of liberty. A criminal taking money from the victim is no different from a victim taking back money from the criminal. Someone is taking money from someone else. If you take a step back you see a different story.

To the point, if you got a job purely based on such advantages as gender or skin color, then the fact that it's taken away via affirmative action is not as much discrimination as it is fixing an error. The devil's in the details.
This - only if Activision returned Infocom to an indie or sent it to the public domain!
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism...

It's already been researched. 50 murders vs zero in 2018, and the other years and reports have similar results.
No, it's the remark that fanfics aren't inherently about sex scenes.
Abandoned East African city once controlled the medieval gold trade
In practice, the general sentiment of prison at least in the US seems to be more for punishment ( see tough on crime laws, etc.) and not rehabilitation.
I tried learning CMake and it seemed so simple at first compared to, say, autotools, or even writing one’s own Makefile. Then when you want to do anything other than a simple project, it gets crazy. It’s like it was initially just an informational file format that had scripting bolted on in a haphazard manner so as not to break anything.

Doesn’t CMake not even have a concept of arrays? I remember reading that functions to generate arrays were really just fancy string concatenaters with quote escaping.
> You simply cannot make broad sweeping changes across the country to something like an election. It's controlled by every state individually. You can even see this in mail-in balloting where some states allow it, some don't, the dates are all different, etc. This is a pain is the ass but it's by design. The US was explicitly founded to not have a strong, centralized federal government. So that makes it very difficult to make huge changes like you're talking about.

I don't think the OP is ignorant of this, or not necessarily. I think they're saying we need federal standards for national elections, which would necessitate a constitutional amendment, sure. (Among the dubious features of our constitution is its amendment mechanism.)
In a pandemic situation where a hospital worker should be using a new mask with each transition to a different patient, they would be using tens of thousands of masks per day per hospital for a decent sized hospital. At that rate even the 85 million masks is just a drop in the bucket.
In this case I interface with ROS in Python so yes it could just by wiring the Python together from both ends.

QGIS is kind of the go-to app if you want to do serious geospatial data analysis. As for _visualization_, I'm not sure. There's probably better options for many domains. For ROS there's RVIZ, but the ROS community's spatial analytical tools are fairly immature.
Even as a beneficiary of the reservation system, I do wonder whether it is the answer. I personally feel the caste identity is tied deeply with religion and both tend to get utilized by the powers that be, in a similar manner. Ultimately, it falls onto us to uplift ourselves, as frankly, I don't see why anyone, would willingly give up something that benefits them, especially when it is considered a part of their birthright.
This sounds biblical. But it could also be Conan the Barbarian.
If anything he should have been fired from Mozilla for that reason
Show HN: Football11challenge.com -Soccer squad constraints builder and validator
Do you offer the same full-throated support of pushing pro-abortion activists out of their jobs over their "wrong side of history" opinions.
> This is one of the main reasons why I prefer living in big cities.

Big Cities also amplify loneliness and make it more crushing when you just keep getting lost in the crowd.

Concrete jungles with more traffic than trees are also a depressing drain upon the soul.

My ideal sweet spot is Small Towns near a Big City that you can dip into once every weekend or so.
Hi all, a few months ago a friend and I had a fun time solving this interesting soccer related challenge that was trending on twitter: https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1250066001821130759

We spent the better part of an hour coming up with our own starting 11. After careful deliberation we arrived at our final squad ...only to discover that Kevin de Bruyne played for Chelsea at some point(in our defense his stint at Chelsea was forgettable...).
The entire process was extremely entertaining but I was left disaffected by the manual verification process. We had to think of a player then run over to Wikipedia to peruse the list of clubs that they played for. I thought it would be fun to create a web app that:

Lets users define and share arbitrary constraints for a starting 11
Automate verification of a squad given the set of constraints.

Do play around with it and any feedback is welcome. Thanks!

Here's an example of a "challenge": https://football11challenge.com/#/challenge/601246266
Isn’t that a statistically valid assumption for reduced risk at the population level?
How to write unignorable landing page copy – even if writing isn’t your thing
> I suspect that if and when FF dies Chrome will no longer be available for Linux because the main reason for offering it (as an alternative to FF) will be gone.

There is a bigger reason. Literally every software engineer at Google/Alphabet uses Linux, other than a very few exceptions (likely only a fraction of a percent).

Even if your laptop is a Mac or Windows machine, your source code access is exclusively on your Linux box in the office.

Google is a Linux shop. Regardless of their reputation for dropping products, Chrome on Linux isn't going away any time soon, for the simple reason that they need it internally.
Twitter appears to prefer white people for thumbnails
Took ~6 refreshes before I got it to load, but then all the images loaded instantly, so there's certainly some poor server somewhere struggling quite a bit.
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> Controversial opinion: the people with the power to change the never-ending hamster wheel situation are primarly women, in that it is women's selection of mates and desire for consumer goods etc. that drive male competition. If women chose something different, perhaps humanity wouldn't be so rapacious of the earth.

I think you are correct that the main driving force here is sex. Sex drives far more of the world than most people would admit to. It is the fundamental raison d'être that every sexual organism is born with.

But I think you are incorrect that women have the power to change it. You're talking about deep rooted instincts that have developed over billions of years. While many of us do learn to control our instincts to some extent, it's a bit much to expect the entire female population to control theirs. And even if you did control female hypergamy, you'd still have male polygamy to deal with. That's why the Bible targeted both (don't covert your neighbour's wife etc.)
It could be that he thought it was interesting for them to know about locol biomes because they weren't aboriginal? Idk, but I think it's better to give people the benefit of the doubt when there's room, rather than aggressively pushing a point you feel they may not get. I think a little more assumption of innocence until proven guilty would go a long way to depolarize society.
What is danes?
No problem! Yes, I've been equal measures frustrated that I see so little geomatics utilized in ROS and excited to explore it.

It's a bit bewildering that there hasn't been any traction for the robotics community to use more GIS. It's a match made in heaven.

There's examples in the presentation linked in the git repo if you're interested.
Compiling a Lisp: Reader
and do you think it was good the usa did so little about the holocaust?

there are a number of atrocities around the world today, but nothing approaches the scale of the ccp
C++ Growing Faster Than Other, Older Programming Languages: Tiobe
They are closer to the "An Irishman and a Scotsman …" genre. Part of the reason there are so many Sardar jokes (that's what they are called) is that they (the Sardars) are very sporting and secure people. They don't mind being a butt of these jokes and start many of those themselves. My roommate (who was a Sardar, equivalently, a Sikh) used to say he would keep two glasses, one filled with water and another empty, in the night on his bedstead because in the middle of the night he might be thirsty, but then he might not be. Things like these are essentially baits to encourage such jokes.

But back to the PP a big part of Sikhism's break from Hinduism was the rejection of casteism. So it is built in. Someone who is more familiar will be able to elaborate more. What I have heard is that its root lies in agrarian anti-caste movements.
Clean ALSA Documentation
Mathematics for Programmers [pdf]
API Monitoring: What should you measure?
Microsoft buys id Software: RIP Vulkan
While I do like the idea of the (physical) knob… on touch screens (or even using the mice) it’s just... weird. I find buttons the best way to interact with the page.
In my experience it's been about a half-and-half split between managers I respect and those that I don't. It's certainly not my preference but I have worked for people who don't really respect me and, very likely, didn't believe I deserved all sorts of things (a living wage being among them).

That said, Mozilla works in a competitive environment. Perhaps it would have made more sense to wait for valuable employees to start leaving before dismissing their CEO. While I find his position on Prop 8 offensive, as others have pointed out, they are entitled to their beliefs.
Is it that surprising that a left wing organization (Free Software is an extremely left wing philisophy) expects left wing leadership?
During westward expansion in the US the rush sometimes produced towns with few women. Life wasn't magically better or less stressful. It was actually the growing female influence that brought some balance and peace.
It's just as common to blame "all the men" for women's never-ending insecurity about their own attractiveness. I'm not sure what incel ideology has to do with either.
How children are parented makes more difference than anything else. Having 'good' parents vs. 'bad' determines not just what is needed to have a good life, but in many cases, whether one even has the emotional capacity for feeling good for an ongoing period.
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There's a big difference between a fine and a debt. The purpose of each is different, and fines can be set proportional to the persons wealth.
Yes, it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094034
After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories
I would have thought that the number of blogs/total amount of content any site can serve is theoretically infinite.

It’s the rate of requests it can handle that matters, which may explain why I’m getting an “Application error” page at the moment
As someone who comes from a Christian background in India I would like to add here that while the caste system (unfortunately) exists even among the Christians and Muslims in India it is nowhere near as strong as among the Hindus.

There are indeed situations where in parts of the country there are even cemeteries divided on the basis of caste but this is far from being the norm.

However, there are many low caste priests and even bishops in Christianity - which is a very rare occurrance among Hindus where priests are almost exclusively brahmin except for very rare exceptions.
>> 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand

It's September. We (the informed public) knew that the pandemic was likely going to be a major problem at this time in February, which is 7 months ago. The government probably knew a month before that.

We've already had a lot more than 6 months. And I really suspect it could be done faster in an emergency situation where you can pay all the workers overtime.
> Use server-side tracking if you really have too, and put everything client-side tracking on fire.

Why would server side tracking be any better (morally or legally) than client side tracking, assuming you are tracking the same thing? GDPR doesn’t care about the technical means. If you’re storing or processing personal data, you need a valid legal ground for doing so (see Article 6[0]), which usually means you need consent for the sort of tracking done on most websites.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Ballot initiatives are just legalized mob justice, so no.
If we're going to argue that then take it to its next logical step and just argue that we shouldn't stockpile them at all. I get that the current guy screwed the pooch by not doing what should have been done, but we should also acknowledge that people prior to him also made mistakes and learn from them so we don't repeat it.
It's not hard to sign up as a publisher you just need an email and have to verify the channel.
I think these appeals to humanism often fail to see the rational realities that underlie the moral questions. Morals and culture are just a simplification of principles which make a society competitive. The scope of possibilities is massive even within our own observation: totalitarianism, constitutionalism, fundamentalism, nationalism, anarchy. Competition among and enforcement within these societies has been, by far, the greatest modern historical risk for premature death. This article seems to be proposing a society where everybody is guaranteed a good life. Sounds great, but the bigger question is whether such a society is competitive against ones where individuals are driven to contribute through fear of failure. My guess is that, yes, it could be, but only under conditions where pro-social motivations are greater than the fear motive they replace. We know that this exists in our natural tribal state, but small homogeneous tribes were not competitive against massive hierarchical use of force. The brilliance of capitalism is that it provides an indirect fear/greed motive that requires little organization, mostly enforcement of property rights and taxation. It was writing, e.g. the domesday book, that enabled this, and the result gradually proved superior to feudal slavery. We have great technology today, maybe even a crisis of overproduction, or misallocation to negative social goods. Unfortunately, redistributive welfare has a definite social cost, and, ignoring the personal benefits, a terrible track record for motivating pro-social contribution, in some societies. In others it seems to do better. The moral heuristic that people should be taken care of at others’ expense, is only rationally valid within certain social organizations and cultural norms. An objection to this may be that the moral reasoning is superior by nature, and I believe this is massively flawed, simply because the cost of non-competitive morality, is death by social competition, which cannot be avoided. I do believe, maybe blindly, that there are conditions in which universal guarantees of a ‘good life’ increase a society’s competitiveness, but I do not certainly know what those conditions are, so without that, this moral pleading seems hopeful at best.
He may have spoken too soon :)