skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Brazilian living abroad, I can easily see some parts of the right-wing social media bot armies, partly sponsored by the current Brazilian administration, supporting Trump.

Which is rather interesting as there is a close alignment between the goals of Brazilian and American administrations. By supporting the current Brazilian government, the current US administration is supporting its own president's reelection.

As a side note, it was the previous administration that condoned and supported the coup that ousted the left-leaning government. Fun this always happens before Brazil (or Chile, or Argentina, or anyone else) can become a regional power.
I wish I could use Firefox but it's so sluggish and bloated
being unfair to other’s family members didn’t stop the layoffs.
Thank you for mentioning this. I feel as if I have to repeatedly jump through those hoops to decline on the very same sites every other day, if not visit.

Surely the GDPR has to have the foresight of dictating that my choice to accept or decline has to be valid for an equal amount of time, doesn't it? If I'm confronted with that popup as long as I'm declining the regulations are worthless.
You seem to not appreciate the prqcticality of immutability in a large system.
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I just fail to believe executive pay has anything to do with talent. It just does not compute.
Glad to hear he said that. He is right.
What are you going to do with the dataset if not train models on it?
What about WebXR? That seems to be their current big bet which seems insane to me.
I still don't get why companies pay ridiculous amounts of money to get execs from the outside. Every other role is (mostly) filled via promotions, why should executives be any different?

Admittedly, Baker specifically got her role by being "promoted" from a Netscape lawyer and then playing a role in the creation of Mozilla, so my complaint doesn't quite apply. I'd still see letting her go and promoting someone to fill her place as a better alternative to the pay raise.
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This makes me sad. I hope this doesn't mean the demise of Firefox, my personal browser from before it was called "Firefox".

I know many of us will pay for privacy, and even help subsidize those who can't, but they have to be alive first.

At work, I replaced Chrome with Brave, but I still trust FF as the browser for my personal life (in addition to, of course, Pi-Hole, Algo VPN, and a number of plugins; or QubesOS + Whonix when things are really serious).
Why is Euler pronounced “oy-ler” and Euclid pronounced “yoo-clid”?
Wikipedia has an example of a non-monotonic result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Instant...
I honestly think that is the main reason though. They are like many others obsessed with identity politics and push away everyone else that disagree (like myself). They send money on worthless (and racist) diversity projects, feminist filmmakers, random projects that they hope to bring in another source of revenue etc.

For example, their VPN service is not actually theirs, it's a Swedish company called Mullvad that actually provides the service. I am already a user of Mullvad and I can't get Firefox VPN. Isn't that kind of strange? Even if I could get it, why would I pay Mozilla extra money for a service that I can get cheaper directly from the provider? Not only that, but Mullvad accepts cash and I believe Mozilla VPN probably won't. So the privacy aspect is already bigger with simply using Mullvad to begin with. They go into the VPN business because they want to make money but paint the picture of that they want to protect the privacy of consumers. It's just a dishonest picture they're painting and I think users sense that a mile away these days. It's the woke mindset that they pretend to care but doesn't really. They just follow like so many other tech companies what's popular to care about in California and completely forget that the world is larger than one US state. And even if they did care, really a VPN service? That market is so overly saturated by hundreds of services it doesn't require a genius to realize that this will be a hard thing to make any kind of dough on.

Their ventures into other things have mostly been failing ones and if they really want to get rid of google the obvious choice is to monetize Firefox itself. I, like many others, would gladly pay for Firefox if I knew it went to the development of Firefox and maybe to other projects that benefits it like Rust, MDN etc. But if I donate today, my money will most likely go to Bakers ridiculous salary.
> Given that firefox appears to be sinking who will come in?

Someone who believes the ship is not sinking, who has a vision how to save the ship, and who agrees to be paid only if ship continues floating.

Hiring a CEO who believes the ship is going to sink is a straight way to sink that ship.
We can’t even get developers to use FF, the times I read about it here (and maybe it is a vocal minority idk) that a developer doesn’t like a certain feature. Or they are missing feature X from chrome.

I think it would be a valid strategy if you do go after developers and sysadmins. So pour resources in getting parity where devs think they would switch.

In general whenever I help installing software for someone, I install FF, and I think I have installed in at least a couple dozen computers now.

Aka do a Blender. Blender has gained momentum by getting things right, not adding features nobody wants, or Blender sidegigs.

There is also the problem of addon monetization, Chrome has a whole ecosystem of people earning revenue from add ons. That’s a invested network you have to deal with at some point.
Focus on FF Android. The hundreds of millions coming online in the next few years will do so on Android smartphones.
Absolutely. I build Android images (AOSP/kernel/lk customization) and at the beginning I was using Eclipse over a shared network folder (I have dedicated remote hardware to host and build these monstrous images), but everything was a chore. Then I switched to VSCode + Remote Development over SSH.

Imagine placing the workspace at the root directory of the entire Android source tree, pressing ctrl + shift + F and finding anything in less than a couple of seconds. For C/C++ code, press F12 just ANYWHERE on the code to go to the definition, no matter if it's the entire kernel code, or vendor or AOSP code: it just finds the definition at lightspeed.

For building I use the integrated console. If there is an error or a warning anywhere, you can just click on the console an it takes you to the file with the error/warning. Also it integrates perfectly with Git and has extensions to parse DeviceTree files.

And everything was just much more appreciated while working at home during pandemic.

It sounds like a testimonial advertising, but it's the way it is.
I understand this is common in homeless people. Either the stress of homelessness causes it, or there is a selection bias: people otherwise mentally healthy tend not to descend to such precarious conditions, or can find a way out with the support available.
Very well put. I feel this is hard to convey to someone, even though it's plainly obvious when they are deep in it. You have to have those moments of really wondering what is important to get there.
Eich didn't lead Mozilla in its prime of browser market share, yet he is often brought up as if it were so.
What "liability"? She's running it into the ground so far.
It is interesting to note that Brendan Eich's severance pay when he was forced out of Mozilla was just $113,000.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2015/11/30/mozilla...

Also interesting to note that Brendan Eich too plotted a chart showing Baker's pay vs Mozilla stock's performance:
https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584

How anyone can claim that sort of pay hike when showing very poor results is beyond me.

This was on HN just a few months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22058629
"One sided, at best"
Media Vision customer here. When you buy the underdog, these little market timing things simply deepen the lore you love. ;-) The fact is, some of your Creative-using friends thought the Ad Lib Gold 1000 looked cooler anyway, and they probably told you as much... Personally my PAS 16 taught me that .mod files existed, and helped me learn to pay the rent with computer music. Good memories!
I wish that FOSS could serve this, but as you said, it took Google, a billion dollar company, a long time to get it right.

/e/OS has about 40 team members mentioned on their website, including regular contributors - so its not 40 full-time employees.

I think the best chance to get something going in this field is to try to get public funding for a research project around something like universal accessibility or some such.
I used to audit people for a living, my take is that bad behaviour is an indicator of more bad behaviour. UCB has been straying from their education mission and that leads to straying from its other values.
Fun fact: it only exists in Hungarian and it's even called as "hungarumlaut" in typography. (It's kind of pronounced as longer ö.) Usually it's missing from custom fonts unfortunately, which can make some Hungarian websites ugly.
From my perspective - first and foremost question is - why the usage is going down so much? What makes people pick Chrome?
Win7 Extended Security Update (ESU) is active until 2023. Besides, Win7 market share is still almost 1/3 of desktop OS market - most of the devs who target Windows wouldn't want to drop Win7.
> I'd argue that plurality is only slightly simpler

I've actually heard it argued that Approval is simpler (for the voter) because all valid FPTP ballots are valid in Approval, but not the converse. There is definitely some benefit to a system that makes invalid ballots less likely (although that doesn't guarantee that the voter's intention is captured).

The difference in complexity for counting ballots, however, should not be understated. For elections with a paper trail, if you are putting each ballot in a single pile with other similar ballots, then Approval voting can require hundreds of piles. This can delay the process and add to the cost. Jurisdictions which rely on electronic vote counting can avoid this, but that introduces its own trust/legitimacy problems.
And, not to mention, a VP of engineering at Google probably does make something like that amount of money (possibly more). Directors make ~800k-1m, and VP is two levels higher.
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Firefox market share is certainly down but is usage really down 85%? I thought the market share was down partly because of smart phones and the browser market has expanded a lot of the last 10 years, especially in poorer countries were more and more people get internet access.
Life-sized Gundam in Yokohama is now in testing mode
That's a pretty low bar for the leader of the free world.
CEO pay is much too high independent on the industry. It would be justified if personal responsibility was on the line, but it isn't anymore. CEOs are just employees by now.

Granted, you have to deal with pressure, but today CEO can just switch companies like underwear. They press KPI on every employee but are themselves nearly exempt from any quantifiable metric aside from turnover.

But in general CEO pay is rising with falling results and falling pay for everyone else.
I was working on a server-side project written in Swift (not my language choice) for 2 years before switching to my current company where I mostly write Kotlin.

There are some aspects where Swift is nicer in theory (e.g. Swift enums beat Kotlin sealed classes in terms of ergonomics and, while unnecessary for 99% of projects, we had some genuine use case for custom operators, working on a maths product). But other than those, it seems to be that Kotlin is the superior language in almost every respect. It seems to have none of the major flaws that Swift has, and the tooling is great, which is the exact opposite of my experience with Swift.
Here is some data from 2019. Some of these salaries are eye watering:
https://www.causeiq.com/insights/highest-paid-nonprofit-ceos...
Use the kindle app and take notes?
Believe it or not, I have never tried Chrome, always been using Firefox. Why are people switching to Chrome?
The Mozilla execs could all make more money at FAANG companies just down the road from Mozilla HQ. If they left, it would probably be pretty hard to replace them with anyone capable of saving Firefox who would settle for less.

The same is true for most of the engineers at Mozilla. They could go to FAANGs and increase their compensation quite a bit.

So while I agree that the leadership has been bad, executive pay was not the problem. Executive decision-making was the problem. Hiring leaders who could make better decisions certainly won't be any cheaper.
This is why I like Balmer and Tim Cook. Their fortunes are tied to the success of their companies rather than leeching off of it as it dies. I'd posit that any CEO who is not in a Ride or Die relationship with their company does not have correctly aligned incentives for their performance.
While I understand the frustration, it's unclear to me what the expected solution is for Mozilla. Pay the CEO less until the company does better? Ok but the CEO will presumably just find a higher paying job elsewhere. Then what? Find a cheaper CEO? How does that help fix the slipping market share for Firefox?
The hardest thing to see here is that we don't have a solution. Firefox makes money by setting google as the default search. Google is its biggest competitor. There are no obvious other revenue stream. Also, let's not pretend chrome sucks. Chrome is on top because it is an amazing browser (and you are googling stuff anyway).

Firefox needs to change it's strategy, it needs to pull an Amazon.

Amazon is the type of business that cannot be built. It costs too much, it was not profitable, but it was a stepping stone. Amazon sold books to get people in, built AWS (a separate business) to fund the business, created a fast delivery network (also funded by AWS), and then became profitable.

Firefox needs to find it's AWS if it wants to survive.
it depends on the company but usually the administration prefers people whose allegiance goes upward, not downward
I'm not sure I understand. I think "buying a vote" implies that it had to go to a particular candidate. This only allows these people to vote again at all.
Kicking Brendan Eich was for me the first noticeable sign of decline. Politics was just a pretext that gathered support at the time as it was very in fashion to fight for gay marriage and vilify anybody who was against it. The real reason was as usual a fight for power although the details will probably never be known outside of those involved.

Supporting such a change for unrelated political reasons was a mistake, as it always is, because you help serve the hidden interests of others. And the issue that seems important to people (gay marriage in this case) is not even affected in any way by Brendan being sidelined. But you can clearly see the effects that the new leadership - lot more interested in money, power, politics and subterfuge than tech - has had on the product.
> And they can't reduce their salary now because it'd be unfair on their families.

That must be a real comfort to all the people they laid off.

This CEO needs to go, needs to be replaced by someone who is well versed in technology instead of in law.
I think the question "why do software engineers even exist?" can be reframed to ask "what would an end-user programming environment that gives everyone the power of a software engineer look like?"

There are already a few decent task-specific programming environments that let end-users create valuable "software" — the most obvious example being spreadsheets for anything finance-related — however we're still a long ways away from programmers being replaced entirely.

Software engineers are pretty much the modern day scribes. We're literate in programming languages, while the rest of the population is illiterate. We're the only proxy for communicating with computers. So, how do we get the remaining 99% of the population to become literate?
That might work but how often does that happen really?

SV companies relocate development but never the top brass to Europe as they would lose their pay, status and network.

Believe it or not, just like with dating and real estate, your monetary value is more dependent on where you are rather than how good you are. Shocking, I know.
Have u heard of coronavirus yet?
Often it's closely related to miscommunication between High-Context culture people and Low-Context culture people.

A people pleaser usually is from the high context, and implicitly by accepting to help there is an expectation that the person asking is at least just not merely exploiting them for personal gain and at least aiming to increase the collective value.

Once you have identified what type of culture someone tend to follow. It becomes easier to say no to them because you know what to expect. It also allows you to know when to say yes even when the presented deal doesn't seem immediately rewarding because it opens some new interesting paths often leading to hard to anticipate long-term win-win situations.

As a bonus, identifying their culture will allow you to communicate more effectively.
Thanks, this answers my question. In some developing countries you could have power cuts of over 10 hours.
I agree to me it seems like they're admitting that the ship is sinking. The CEO is over 60yo, unlikely to take on another gig after this. The simplest explanation is often the correct one, she's lost her way and needs a nice cushion before retirement. Greed is s very human thing.
I am a people pleaser. Something that helps me in relationships: I try to think of my actions in terms of the effects on the overall system rather than what my instincts tell me is the "right" thing to do. I can't trust my instincts. I have to analyze situations. And I know my people pleasing instincts are very harmful for all of my relationships - work, friendship, romantic - all of them.
I see this works. Either it always did, or has been changed since I first noticed it
Let's says it's the half after taxes: 1.25M. Spending 3424 a day for 365 days should get you there. You have to realize it's our fault to not understand these poor people.
Nothing will kill morale as much as executive pay going up while your colleagues are being given their pink slips. That is an executive decision making problem but it directly impacts morale.
Same in Belgium and Netherlands. There is no reason to send your kids to private schools, since the state funded schooling system is already good enough.

Same goes for universities (don't know about the impact on research though, just talking about education here)

And I also highly doubt that graduating a "prestige" university really makes much difference here. If you want to make more money, start your own business.

In my opinion, a lot of problems in US come from the fact that they don't offer proper education to the lower class. In Europe it's great to share a class with kids from all kinds of backgrounds.
What version of Firefox are you running, and what Add-Ons do you have installed? n=1 anecdote: I'm on a 2016-vintage Macbook Pro, Firefox 81.0, 64-bit, with >1100 tabs spread across 6 windows. I'm pushing the limits trying to establish whether to commit to Firefox or Chrome, and so far while lots of people seem to like Chrome, I'm strongly preferring Firefox.

I could not get Chrome to stay stable enough with that much resource utilization, and the most important part I've learned is that Firefox's profiles storage formats are open enough that I've been able to recover from some pretty bad kernel panics (due to the graphics card switching on my laptop; disabling that fixed the panics).

Probably next Macbook Pro refresh cycle from Apple I'll upgrade to the latest they introduce, but Firefox-as-daily-driver has been able to take a lot of abuse from me.
Copy pasting previous comment since the number of people misrepresenting the ground breaking tech that was announced is to high to spend energy on:

1)56% reduction in cost (which blows way past the $100/kwh holy grail for EV to sub $40). This by itself is insane and most people in the industry thought it wont happen for at least another decade. This puts the last nail in the coffin for the future of ICE cars.

2) 54% increase in range. The new Model S will have minimum 520mi of range and much more actually when they start production. Range anxiety gone out the window.

3) New manufacturing tech along with vertical integration will allow Tesla to scale 55x their current rate of production and become the world's largest auto manufacturer by many multiples. Tesla will not only produce their own battery cells but they're even getting into mining!!

Along with many other things announced in a 3+ hour technical video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6T9xIeZTds
It's bundled with lots of program installers, and Google push it heavily.
From the page:

It consists of:

an installable mobile operating system for smartphones, which is forked from Android and strongly “ungoogled”

a set of sorted and improved default open source applications

various online services that are linked to the mobile operating system, such as: a meta search engine for the web, drive (with synchronization), mail, calendar, notes, tasks.
I’m not saying it’s the only measure we should have. But in the context of the chain this was in I was feeling a sort of “does it really matter if we can separate these people” and I just wanted to illustrate that in actual competitions that discriminate to this level you get a meaningful difference out of it. Now, whether that is an effective indicator of success…I’m not completely sure. A lot of the math competition winners I know are doing startups and HFT, so there’s that.
No incentive, I guess, is the explanation for any stagnant system.
>This is baffling given that mobile Firefox has a rare feature for a mobile browser: it's able to install extensions and so can block ads.

I'm not sure about the extent to which this is true? I dont think Firefox has extensions on iOS (probably not up to Mozilla). Meanwhile, the extension experience on Android is "bumpy" to put it lightly. Just a few weeks ago, FF mobile broke nearly every single extension (apparently this was intentional, but it makes for a bad user experience)
I don't understand "publisher" in this context.

Anyone?
lIOn? Like the big cat?
I'm of course talking about the first SE, which is easily found refurbished/used on the market.

The SE 2 won't be found on the second hand market anytime soon.
Donors are not shareholders, they are not eligible to any outcomes of company's activity. That's an unobvious quirk, but it's there.
I respectfully resent the above comment. This situation, and my comment, is nothing like equating BLM with ALM.

I understand that you may not have firsthand knowledge of the issues, but at least be open to the fact that there may be more depths to a situation than what is superficially evident.
> top 10% of quiz takers on their platform

I think certifications should not be given with the criteria of "top X%", but should have a clear score threshold (above X score).

Because even knowing the hardness of their test would not give me clear indication as to how the candidate actually performed. Only relatively.

Based on this I usually give very less weight to certificates like that.
Looks like a free version of mind meister, with some nice features that MM doesn't have. I like it!

I guess the only issue is reliability/hosting. I trust my daily .todo to be there the next morning - can I trust this?
The web is canceled. It's now Google's chrome network.
Weird, in my experience on my mbp, Firefox handles the average 120 tabs I have opened much better than Safari. It didn't use to be that way, but they have improved a lot in the past 2-3 years.