skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't that pretty much admitting that they're on a sinking ship?

Yes.

They are admitting they are solely reliant on Google's money. Given that Google Chrome is a direct competitor to Firefox and has gained more market share, Google can justify to either reduce spend or stop paying for being the default search engine in Firefox due to its shrinking market share and instead pay more for Apple Safari as the default in iOS, macOS, etc instead.

Mozilla and Firefox will be another geek's relic in this decade if it doesn't find another revenue source apart from relying on Google - A direct competitor in all areas.
If FOSS can not cater to people with special needs per definition, as you seem to imply, I will have to stop advocating it altogether.
If advocating for FOSS means supporting a movement that is not willing to bridge the gap and fight against digital divide, we need to stop doing so.
Technology is the best chance for people with disabilities to catch up in our society. If we take that aware from them, we are not doing any good.
> The Mozilla execs could all make more money at FAANG companies just down the road from Mozilla HQ.

I mean, really? After their record of poor performance at Mozilla?

> Hiring leaders who could make better decisions certainly won't be any cheaper.

It's been blindly obvious for years what they should do, but let's state it again: (1) Build up a fund instead of throwing away the money, so they can be financially independent. (2) Concentrate on the browser and users.
This really isn't crazy compensation given the role and the industry. There are many execs making orders of magnitude more [0]. I know there is a bit of sticker-shock for people who haven't heard about top-level compensation, but it's not unheard of, just usually unspoken.

https://usanewssite.com/news/the-unconventional-ceo-of-33-3-...
> Where I live there is like 1 Judge for 300K ppl. And most places its worse.

Out of interest, here's a map of judges per capita. It seems the situation in the US is especially bleak among western countries.

https://en.actualitix.com/doc/maps/wld/world-map-professiona...
You dont need to buy it. Humans who relied on agriculture thrived in numbers or at least survives compared to the ones who relied on other means.
This makes me think of the fact that 99.99% of all the techies in Sweden are white.

(from what I've seen)
> This is in contrast to Rust, another LLVM language ported to Windows. Every part of Rust is open source and is built to work with open roadmaps and very thoroughly documented standard libraries.

And how easy/worthwhile is it to use Rust for building GUI applications or games on Windows?

DirectX is closed source too, and I don’t even know what UI framework Microsoft is currently championing.
War and fighting, like competition, is part of us. Suppressing them it will appear somewhere else. There is no stop.
No, it’s a huge revelation. Their tabless batteries allow them to fix all these problem and give them a quite sensible reduction in $/KW and a good increase in range.
Combined with the other innovations that they introduced they have achieved half the cost/KW.
Please explain me how this is not a big revelation.
It’s ok - I got to nit pick and sneak a physics joke into HN, so all good.

Thanks for the link to the book, that is fun.
Mozilla bug tracker has lots of bugs which are open for decades.

I live outside of US and I’m annoyed that Firefox does not fill addresses in forms, for example. Because Mozilla does not bother finishing this feature for the rest of the world.

Similarly they have released credit card auto fill recently, and again, US only.

That’s just one of many example.

I still use Firefox, but mostly because it’s hard to switch (reconfigure all extensions, get used to new UI etc).
The point is you don't have to write the Spring configuration (except in the rare cases where you need to override with something specific). Just mark each class's constructor as @Autowired, make an AnnotationConfiguredApplicationContext passing the list of all your classes, and you don't have to manually keep track of which services need which other services - Spring takes care of instantiating everything in order and passing dependencies into the things that need them.
I routinely have 100[+]'s of tabs open when working on a project and it has never been a problem so I suspect that this is due to one of the websites you are using or a plug-in.

[+] as in 500 or more. I use my browser windows to keep my 'state' of what I need to read and where I've left off, by the time they are all closed again I'm done preparing for an interview.
I do agree with the first idea. The second one is not always the best line of thought, especially when it's about sovereignty or defense.

Suppose you buy fighter jets from China, but tensions rise and you somehow cut diplomatic ties. How are you going to get maintenance parts. Very inaccurate example but just to illustrate that yes, economically, your idea makes sense. Geopolitically, it depends.
Yes, or someone with an agenda against Swift/TF.
i like how it looks like!
feels simple and not too complicated
Better align executive pay with business performance from the beginning. If the business is failing then parting company with the CEO is working as intended.
I think you need to qualify that statement
Don't trust them for what?
The point is to get the person to actually supply real evidence instead of unfounded associations. If someone can't come up with a feasible way they actually are, or even could be causal in nature to discuss, then they probably should be shut down. If someone can't muster up the barest excuse for how their argument makes sense, then I won't be sad to see them stop talking about it.

If someone tried to shut down my argument with one of those excuses and I didn't know enough about each of them to either explain away their influence or revise my theory, my first step would be to figure out what they are. To dismiss them is to just admit ignorance of statistics, and thus the world.
I thought about your last comment yesterday, when I was sitting at a table with a dozen other people in the 35-55 age bracket. I did a short count.

Four of us were normal weight, including one very fit guy who is sorta Czech Indiana Jones (archeologist working around the world, very cool job). Four were overweight, but still somewhat active (e.g. at least going around on a bicycle). Five were seriously obese, with massive bellies.

So yeah, the principle of thirds seemed to apply. TBH this has grown worse in the last 30 years. Around 1990, even here in Czechia where a lot of beer is consumed, average adult person was fitter.
That argument is senseless: the organization is nonprofit, the workers are definitely not, nor should they be.
I just included that to point out that there is a tangible difference at the high end, it’s not just “everyone getting 800 on the math SAT is similar in their mathematical ability”. Whether competition performance correlates to mathematical achievement in college later in life is unclear, although I do want to point out that many do end up becoming professors and such. Many of the rest don’t show up on the “math radar” because they major in computer science instead and get jobs in the industry.
The original fact that you can't be in debt to vote is quite abhorrent.

In other times this would be quite the scandal. Given that right the Florida government is actively engaging in voter suppression though...
Thats quite the pay on performance.
I very much doubt that most of us are in a position to do more than make a customer sad.
That's so cool looking, with the structures in so close for relative size comparison as well.

It happens that I was just watching Robot Jox today, the first movie that ever made me want my money back. It's grown on me a bit though. It's pretty fun to think about the possibilities with those fictional forms. Even if they aren't that "realistic" as force projection in real life, there's the possibility that they simply become a game with rules that make up for the weaknesses, and the game itself eventually elevates to customary warfare, in which formal gaps are filled by deference to tradition and honor. When war is seen as more of a privilege, maybe warmaking means are more easily designed to fit preference or subjective fancy...

Metaphorically I was a bit surprised to find that these forms easily associate with questions or dialog around internal security. Becoming as strong on the inside as you may project yourself to be on the outside. It's helpful to think about sometimes.
The Google money is what enabled them to let their core product wither and nearly die without any short-term consequences. They spent a pretty long time with it in that state while pursuing things like a phone OS. Without the Google money they would have had more incentive to keep Firefox competitive.
The problem seems to me, that Mozilla does not have a platform of users to market to, whereas all their competitors do. It's really the marketing part where Firefox is falling short and I am not sure they can ever do much better on that front.

Regarding Send/Teleconferencing, I think that made sense to. In theory you don't need anything as complicated as Skype or Teams or Zoom and lots of people, me including, use VOIP a lot. It would have been nice to have a simple click to call on the browser itself. Same goes for sending files with a click. Utilities that lots of people use and would give the browser a boost. Unfortunately I think these products failed because the sort of person who needs them is the sort of person who does not like learning new things so even if their current method is 8 steps and takes addition software and is not free, they will keep with what is currently working for them.
Again this might also be Mozilla's marketing falling short.
that's a nice approach, i've been using similar approach for somewhat similar end-goal; although personal project for now; would love to chat sometime :)

what apis are do you support at the moment, http only or binary aswell?
As I understand it in the US the military is social welfare. Thousands of underprivileged Americans escape poverty through joining and get an education.
Why do we even need fighter-jets anymore? Why not just swarms of cheap drones loaded with ammo & cameras that are deployed from a mothership higher up?
They had one of those. He was chased out for making $3,100 in donations the wrong political causes.
It is crazy that the compensation is not tied to metrics. If Firefox at least kept the market share, that would be OK.
Does Mozilla have a board? Who gets to fire the CEO in this organization?
I think it's easier to understand the context if you replace "publishers" with "content producers".
> If they left, it would probably be pretty hard to replace them with anyone capable of saving Firefox who would settle for less.

Its an open source project people believe in. Reduce the pay and you are probably actually more likely to cut out the worst execs and focus only on smart people who want to contribute.
Better container support would be ace but dismissing FF because of that complaint when no other browser even has that feature is a little like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Regarding performance on macOS, Firefox runs fine for me and I very very rarely have below 50 tabs open. Have you tried it recently? I had read there were some bugs with macOS but most of those were resolved a couple of years ago.
This cant be true because cancel culture does not exist, I am being told.
Websites track by drawing random junk and measuring variations
Maybe maybe not. But it's also good to keep in mind who else failed in that space from many different angles. MS, Nokia, Blackberry, etc... If MS with infinite cash on hand could not get into that market then it is likely that chances of success were always very low. And it still might have been the right thing to try despite the chance being low.
> Surely such impressive pay is justified by the equally impressive results Mozilla has achieved?

No, it is completely discretionary. I don't consider this controversial because I know it is completely discretionary. Why would it be tied to anything aside from the ability to continue paying that compensation or desire to be compensated that way?

The only consideration of a foundation is the nearly tax-free capital growth rate, 5% net assets grant rate, and whether the TAXED salaries are tolerable. And for them, yes, paying super high income taxes and giving the government over a million on a $2.4m salary per year is tolerable.
Thanks! That was the main goal. Glad that you noted this.
That's an example. One can argue about whether the "bad" candidate should have actually won in that scenario, but what's strange is when you have a situation where the "good" candidate would have won if only some group of voters hadn't put them first.

I think at the root of it is that removing the candidate with the least number of first-place votes is kind of an arbitrary way of eliminating candidates. Maybe that candidate should have been eliminated, but maybe they were an ideal compromise candidate, tolerated by most voters even if not their first choice.

Perhaps RCV might be significantly improved if one were to eliminate by borda count instead of least-first-place-votes, but that's not the system that's been advocated widely in recent years.
Well the non-Labor/LNP candidates hold the balance of power, so there is that.

I do agree that the dominance of two major parties is mostly bad though.
I feel bad because I've been using Firefox as a daily on both my desktop and mobile for a few months. I've just this week decided to ditch Firefox and accept Chrome, despite it's questionable Google-ness.

Firefox Mobile is generally fine, though I occasionally end up in a state where tabs refuse to load and I need to kill the whole app. Minor annoyance.

Desktop though, when I've got a bunch of tabs open and I close a bunch down by clicking the 'x's, I definitely notice how much Firefox speeds up as I close each tab. What drove the knife in was on the odd occasion that I needed Chrome, opening it up was like a breath of fresh air that was hard to ignore. Pages just seem to load faster and the Chrome seems more responsive under lots-of-tab situations.

Another part is peer pressure - the frontend guys all just use chrome, so pairing is a little bit more frictious. Though there is benefit to having someone in the team who uses something different to Chrome. I just don't want to be that guy.
On the contrary, it shows that so many people with differing views share a common goal of replacing FPTP. I'm sure all the people here opposing FPTP would eagerly accept any of the alternatives being proposed, if it had a credible chance of being implemented in their jurisdiction.

The real barrier is that a change to the voting system would have to be approved by a party that is winning under the current system. Convincing a party to agree to any change is much harder than picking one of the many good options.

Also, I hope you don't mind if I mention that your point is eerily analogous to a dictator saying "We can't introduce democracy, because then people would disagree on who the leader should be."
... why would those cheap drones not be called 'fighter-jets'? Especially in a public article like this?
Although I do not believe in Brave's model, it is interesting to see their publishers' growth. It is impossible to judge it objectively, but if such change would happen to be organic, I'd start questioning my belief a bit more.
Tell me more about the dating part
Breaking it down on daily expenses really helps me understand how bad their situation is. Thanks for that!

(I don't even make that much in a month (after taxes)).
> Apple behaves as if every user is immediately on the latest version

iOS 14 Adoption Surpasses 25% Across iPhone and iPad Five Days After Release

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ix3gve/ios_14_adopti...

How long does it usually take on Android?
Another succesful small company is Cockos funded by Justin Frankel who develops REAPER.

https://www.cockos.com

https://www.reaper.fm/
> I am not mixing up different points in time.

Well you're mixing up something if you have to ask "what do you think restaurants are for". They are for providing food. The thing they are currently failing to give back is... providing food.

You might disagree with that idea but you shouldn't be confused by it.

Your accusation of a "pretty dim view" sounds like you think the claim is that restaurants never give back. But that's not it at all.

> You want guarantees and there aren’t any.

What? "make them provide food" has nothing to do with "guarantees", and also this is not my opinion that I am explaining for you.
Did they look at the market of piss poor at their jobs execs before judging they were underpaid?
Even "decent" brands make garbage NVMe drives for the budget segment to which most consumers are oblivious because they assume NVMe > SATA.
> Aka do a Blender. Blender has gained momentum by getting things right, not adding features nobody wants, or Blender sidegigs.

There is a parsimoniousness about Blender that is really quite incredible. I have rarely used an app that has so successfully resisted feature-creep and bloat. E.g. unlike almost all other 3D apps, it has no radial array tool or feature. Why not? Because you can cook your own using a simple linear array.
Compiling a Lisp, 7 parts ATM
OTOH, the people laid off are notoriously competent and will easily find new well paying jobs.

The CEO's yacht won't pay itself.
Yeah. They use Creators on Brave's website: https://creators.brave.com/
Why exactly is the revenue stream from Google a problem (everyone seems focused on that)? I don't see Google ending the partnership if just to protect itself from anti-trust action.

I suspect that Mozilla could just consider that near guaranteed income while they worked on other things as long as the browser stayed alive.
They only survived at all because they owned a stake in Auto Trader Group which was sold off for £600m, allowing their non-profit parent to continue operating. Since then they are just about breaking even with subscriptions. They also (very controversially) employ many unpaid interns to do journalist jobs.
Imagine just a kid on Windows, you have to go to the download page, find the right link (not at all clear from your CSS styles by the way). Then, if they don't read the warning you'll have a security warning. Then, Windows will warn because it's a downloaded executable from a website. Then you have to find where it extracted it and then run it!

Port it to WebAseembly/WebGL already! No downloads, no warnings, also works on phones, etc.

EDIT: just wanted to add that you have something really incredible in your hands, try to make it more accessible, more tutorials would be good
Mozilla is a dead man walking as Chrome won this round.
They should try and innovate somewhere else and pull another Firefox out of the hat.
Says someone who is well versed in commenting on an online forum but not an executive for a large nonprofit. Look, I have nothing for or against Baker, but the constant “she knows nothing about her job because she isn’t a programmer” is just tiresome. You don’t have to be technical to be an effective leader. However, it usually does help and you surely do need to know when your company is going under.
By supporting it, do you mean that you donate? Or do you mean that you just talk about it? It takes a lot of money to develop hard features like this.
> I think these universities should accept that they are providing an education, but they are selling prestige

But this has how it has always been. Everyone knew it was always like this, had a feeling it was like this while they were considering or going through higher education, and now a couple articles and investigations come out.

Is anyone surprised here?

The only thing that has occurred is that people covet these institutions and also think they have a chance of accessing them, thanks to illusions of meritocracy that become real enough to be meaningful avenues for a wider population than before.

In the past it was very clear who didn't have a chance and who did.

Look at the example applicants in the article! A babysitter who knew reality and took a chance they got - babysit with this connected family and ask for the favor. DUH! Ka-CHING! Even dropping out of that kind of university looks good. Life upgraded. What game are the rest of you all even playing?
> How are you going to get maintenance parts.

Buy the planes with spare parts and training. When calculating a price for a plane, include not just the price tag, but also the risks of getting these planes unusable in ten years.

So yes, buying jets from China might be not the best idea even if they initially seem cheaper. But that’s not the case for US jets.
> A poor family can become rich but a low caste person can never become a upper caste as the caste is decided on birth. It is not sound to say a person from a caste who was oppressed for thousands of years should not be given reservation because they become rich in the last generation.

I appreciate your comment and you do make some very interesting points. But the above quote seems to contradict the gist of your earlier points.

Once a lower-caste family has become affluent and is educated, they should be competing with people, per your own earlier statement, with those of equal backgrounds. The background of a lower-caste but educated and affluent family is no longer the same as that of a poorer lower-caste person from relatively uneducated family. So, how in any way can an argument be made that the affluent family should be allowed to reap rewards from reservation for ever, while the same is not available to poor lower-caste family. If makes no logical, nor socially justifiable sense.

Also, there is an implied assumption that every upper-caste, richer or poorer has a strong educational background. I believe that economic conditions dictate educational and other background a lot too.

Of course, I will accept that solely going by economical criteria may not be sufficient, but it has to be a major factor.
In northern Europe 90+% of children between 1 and 6 attends daycare. Both the very rich and the very poor. It's a very good way for the kids to learn critical social skills and having fulfilling days. But I do appreciate the huge differences between the US and Europe, both in the labor market, family and welfare.
Sucking the organization dry is a perfectly valid solution for those who have the power to do so.

It's bad for the organization, but the leadership doesn't really care about that.
Xcode 12 crashes when opening documentation
What about DirectX? And what’s the most common framework for Windows GUI apps anyway?

> I don't consider the Win32 API itself part of .NET or C#

SwiftUI isn’t “part” of Swift either, it’s a proprietary application of Swift, and it’s fucking amazing, I don’t want to work with any other framework now.
Who’s got time for all of that?
I signed up. Basically just put my url into their form and verified my Email. Did it last year and absolutely nothing came of it. Its an email list is all.
I tried out vscode for python now that I started a new job. I'm on linux for what it's worth. The experience has been massively frustrating coming from pycharm. First I installed the open source version, and found that microsoft publishes plugins that are programmed not to work with the open source version. They don't tell you this, rather, the plugin throws exceptions that some API is missing. I tried out the official version, and instead of whining about not being supported, it now just crashes intermittently. I gave up less than three days in.

I found configuration of code to be pretty annoying as well. Either you write json, having to google for things like how to format keyboard commands, or use their (subjectively) ugly configuration page.

The fact that I can't detach the terminal from the code window without some weird workaround was also something I couldn't come to terms with. I'm back in pycharm again.