skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who started using Firefox before it was even called Firefox, this put a smile on my face. I was there, and I remember every single quote and Mozilla's response. :)

The memory issue the post mentioned was a really long time ago, I remember they did Generational GC, Compact GC and the most important project from Mozilla, MemShrink from Nick. That was before e10s and all of that was what made Firefox memory efficient today. ( I think Nick is working at Apple now )

The failure of FirefoxOS, was mostly because of two opposing goal or ideal. They want the OS to be web based and everything to be made with JS or Web Technology. The believe of JS will be good enough and that JS VM will be fast enough runs deep inside Mozilla at the time to be point I remember FirefoxOS engineers were even afraid to speak out on why dont they just code this in C++. The other goal was they want Firefox OS to be running on low cost $50 Smartphone and somehow thinks the Smartphone hardware price will drop while performance continue to improve. I was surprised, and it was only many years later I realise most software developers have absolutely zero understanding of hardware, BOM cost, supply chain, and long term component cost development. And I still think, FirefoxOS was a distraction for Mozilla. Spreading themselves too thin while battling Chrome on PC. They really should have fought Chrome first before their move on Smartphone. And 10 years later we really do need a third OS option in the Smartphone market. Although arguably Firefox OS still lives on as KaiOS.

But again, I say this a lot on HN, and as someone who pushed through hundreds of installation of Firefox in different places, nearly every single response of switching away to Chrome was because Chrome was faster. Way faster.

And I thought it is a good time to remind ourselves, good faith and ideals only last so long. Ultimately you need to have a better product to retain your users.

Edit: And there was another point missing from the article. Mozilla refuse to support DRM and H.264 codec, a lot of users simply wanted their browser to work just left.
>Moreover, Mozilla's Firefox is deliberately hostile to the open source movement too - their code is a convulated mess by design, to discourage others from developing competing products with it.

This is total nonsense.

It's a mess because it has 25 years of legacy behind it, and because until a few years ago all of that legacy was considered a "feature" by half of the userbase, who was screaming at them not to remove the "mess" because it would break their addons. Even in this very thread you see people whining about removing XUL addon support. And ironically, most of the "competing projects" are based around preserving that mess.

It's only since 2017 that they've really been able to clean up the architecture at all. And saying that they're "hostile to open source" is practically defamatory. Mozilla has contributed more to open source across a broad swath of organizations than 99.9% of companies that are 100x their size.
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Fascinating! It was a really big realization for me in terms of how day to day choices of how to spend my time. Here's the post that I was referring to, if you're bored: https://critter.blog/2020/10/27/am-i-an-extrovert-or-an-intr...
Similarly, it took me about 2 hours to set up a personal Jekyll website with a deployment script to a S3 static website cached by cloud front. I usually pay less than $1 per month in AWS fees.

No trackers, no JavaScript, no third party assets. If you can get away with a static website it is definitely the way to go and the tools are out there and easy to use.
Yes it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS#Graphics

And TIL that Wikipedia has an entire page dedicated to graphics for the pre-GS Apple II's! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics
A big part of the problem, is that for Mozilla, Firefox is a tool for their other initiatives. They use money they make from Firefox to fund their other projects. And they use the influence they get from controlling a browser to push their agenda on web standards. Not that I disagree with their agenda in most cases. But I don't think Mozilla's primary objective is to make a great browser, unfortunately.
Versus using an azerty keyboard or another French-specific layout? Yeah, it's a tad slower. But it's a hell of a lot quicker than trying to look up/remember alt-codes or something. Writing in 2 languages with one keyboard is never going to be optimal.

And 2-3 times longer? Most sentences in French don't have that many accents, the example picked was a rare one.
Savvier users would prefer this isn't saved at all. It's extremely easy for malicious software to datamine browser files for cookies/saved password/form data.
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon? The oil/gas contractors operating in the region? Lobbyists, politicians?

Tragically there was an extremely positive outcome for a few very persuasive people.
Good faith and ideals also stop working when your company repeatedly demonstrates that it no longer has either.
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California forces people buying health insurance to pay for abortions.
Are there laws that mandate building affordable housing and to ensure healthcare and support for vulnerable populations?
> And given that the planet has so far only warmed an average of 1.1 degrees celcius due to climate change, isn't it a bit overzealous to blame animals' adaptation on climate change?

The worldwide average doesn't really tell the full story, because there can be significant local extremes that are far greater.

See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytton,_British_Columbia, a town that broke the all-time temperature record for Canada and then burned to the ground the next day.
> Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport

in the US*

I thought this might be some China thing since the domain is cntraveler, or indeed a US thing since it seems also in line with both HN and the kind of stuff US airports do, but the title isn't quite clear so one has to click...
How are they playing the nanny?

Its in Salesforce’s best interest to relocate employees who might otherwise quit to move to different states.
Yes, of course, at least now. Yet, it does present a non-negligible risk, in the same way that some startups can become unicorns, or some college kids web project can become a global giant.
My father still uses the Palm contacts software on Windows, i.e. the software that your Palm service synced _to_. He doesn't use the Palm itself anymore though.
I'd like to, but I'm snowed under with other OSS projects right now, and there are both security and copyright issues to sort out.

I'll think about it in 2022. I'd like to start off with a Show HN using it for technical documentation.
It is about life. Don't impute motives that aren't there.
Agreed, I found it heavy weight, if a noble idea.

Isolated components that can be tested under different scenarios is a great idea, but I've found it uncovered almost no bugs and served almost exclusively as a showcase.
And the best part is, a powerful electric socket can be useful for people who don't have or want EVs. Smart move all around.
>Most of them killed by the same people the US targeted.

That just sounds crazy given that our first retaliation for 9/11 was Iraq. Which had nothing to do with 9/11, and further...no "WMDs".
For a bit more simple alternative I might suggest Fractal - https://fractal.build . While it doesn't have so much knobs and whistles as StorybookJS, it's easier to set up and get running for smaller projects.
Other people have mentioned it as a "conspiracy theory", but I actually think it's pretty straightforward, and there is no conspiracy about it. Current Texas government is definitely worried about the numbers of people moving here who don't share their politics, and while many of these items have been GOP priorities for a while, I think Texas pushing so hard now on things like the abortion law, voting restrictions, constitutional carry, social media restrictions, etc. is basically at attempt to convince liberal people not to come here, and it's having an effect.
It’s been a while now since I first met on theoretical level array languages. I like the symbolic representation of Dyalog and APL in spite of its input problem. Is there a language of those well sure for mobile development or llvm and web compilation?

Also missing some comprehensive guide on its philosophy and way of thought to solve problems? I remember there were some videos on YouTube solving the advent Of code and comparing to Haskell. These were awesome in order to get into the APLer mindset.
Hugo is great until you want to do something it doesn't support. The performance and single-binary nature of Hugo are really cool, but I ended up sticking with Jekyll for its robust plugins API despite the trade-offs in speed and complexity (dealing with gem/bundler, maybe even rbenv, etc)
This is a wonderful story but I'm sorry to have to report that the car Columbo drove wasn't built by the props department, it was a 1959 Peugeot 403[0].

[0]https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/jim-motavalli/columbos-car-it-...
Cool how about a tribute to the family of 10 killed (7 children) by a reaper drone along with every one of hthe 700,000 afghans killed by the petrdollar military industrial complex, or is their skin too dark to be included in the narrative?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-...
If a handlebar can kill a phone, has anyone else wondered what it can do to one's hands and arms?
The framing every single time is budget items like Defense increased never require rebalancing in-bill, while any domestic social spending does. With the effect that the domestic social spending always getting clipped to insufficient levels because of it - while Defense grows unchecked.
That’s a very good point. They should support people moving to districts that can be flipped so that Texas can turn blue. Also donate heavily to the races that can bring Texas back to, at least, the 20th century.
> I believe in the entire history of buildings built as the world trade centers were, the only ones ever that burned down and collapse are these.

How many of the other buildings were struck head-on by fully loaded 767s traveling at 400+ mph? Is there any real-world example to compare?
Huh? The car was a very recognizable Peugeot 403.
The lengths people will go to in order to be allowed to kill their children is unfathomable.
Yeah – and on top of that, the commenting user seems to underestimate the gravity of "only" a few degrees:

> The study also calculates extinction risks at different warming levels. It finds that 2% of endemic species are at risk of extinction if warming is limited to 1.5C, and 4% are at risk at 2C. However, the risk rises to 20% for land-based ecosystems, and to 32% in marine ecosystems if warming hits 3C.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/climate-change-will-h...
This conversion has been done with three buildings in my area (that I know of), as well as with two schools that have closed. It is expensive, yes -- but it's still cheaper than building something new as long as the building is in good shape.

But now that I think of it, all five of those buildings were converted into high-end, expensive apartments. Perhaps that's how they cover the cost of conversion?
This doesn't remove responsibility from Al-Q's Iraqi associate - Al-Zarqawi - and his insane anti-everybody-who-isn't-Sunni-Muslim war which directly bred ISIS.
I am actually familiar with that book since my hobby is running and it involves a fair amount of flexibility, soft tissue issues in general, etc.

So I do stretch and do mobility work especially hips, legs, shoulders, and take care of my posture and feet etc.

But it is a time commitment, and I do think that strength training is the first thing someone should focus on. Fixing issues from constant sitting is also a whole other topic.
It's not like Google has it's own blogging platform...
I use Firefox with Noscript browser next to my regular browser for any such websites with questionable practices.
I didn’t get a choice (this was back in April) and got Pfizer. I do recall hearing at the time that the J&J vaccine had a 60% efficacy rate, whereas the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were in the 90s. I don’t know if that understand is still true.
go outside
It can’t be interpreted as support, because deciding to stay so you can campaign and vote to turn Texas blue is commendable.
> 7. During the Brendan Eichgate, Mozilla became a hapless victim of the US culture wars, mostly acccidentally. Mozilla never recovered.

Defending Eich is a hot take that you only see here on HN. He is a worthless individual who champions the cause of taking away personal freedoms of groups of people he doesn't like, pushes anti-mask conspiracy and smears public workers like Fauci, and his only technical 'achievement' since leaving Mozilla has been to create a fork of chrome that bakes in his companies ads and pushes a scamcoin on the user.

The fact you even have the gall to defend such a person is laughable. It wasn't that long ago the population would summarily execute such people when they revealed their status as societal bad actors.
Some functional patterns would be nice as well. Like summation and product are also folds and there are only imperative examples.

This would be helpful as well:

foldr (*) 1 [1..6]

while this is the shown pattern:

var value = 1
for (var i = 1; i <= 6; i++) {
value *= i
}
Under what circumstances can internal traffic leak to external addresses in 11.0.0.0/8? I’d have thought it wouldn’t have been routed via a gateway if the traffic is local.
I think the diminishing returns of marginal gains would kick in at that point.

Django/Flask is a core part you need to understand in your stack to be productive whereas WSGI/psycopg are random details you don't even need to understand to make use of.
Here's my proposal for taxes. Completely eliminate income tax and every other form of currently existing tax for individuals and businesses. Replace it with a small tax on all electronic transfers, like 1-2%. Compliance is offloaded to private institutions and the entire headache of preparing and filing taxes is eliminated, along with the thousands of pages of laws about and what is and isn't taxed and how much.

This should also result in a significant decrease in federal revenue, which is an important part of the plan as well. I would cut the federal budget about about 90%.
Arguably Linux is a better UX than Windows, but I know it's a matter of opinion.
Why would they? Their position on guns is I'm sure quite different than their position on abortion. If the company agrees with California's takes on both issues then why would they fund relocations from there?
It makes no difference when jerrymandering is in full swing.
What does "k4 is proprietary" mean? Does that mean one way run into problems building an open-source implementation of the language itself?
> TOML/YAML is significantly better than XML, hence why almost every modern app uses YAML for configs.

Personally I find YAML to have a false sense of cleanliness. Sure it looks a lot "more readable" than XML until you mess up the syntax/indentation and end up with dictionary keys a level up/down from where you intended. The list-of-dicts syntax is particularly gross to me, e.g.

models:
- model: "a"
type: "x"
- model: "b"
type: "y"
Just curious, why did you bother to look into when it was originally submitted? Do you have some plugin that automatic does it or did you think something was especially off here?

I'm honestly curious. I would never have even thought of looking.
The tech oligarchs are out of control. We need to classify them as common carriers now.
> The bill almost killed my company.

You had to pay although it was a mistake?
I'm confused. At the top of the second paragraph, it explicitly mentions the erosion of privacy rights. Isn't that a valid principle upon which to oppose mass surveillance without cause?

Then there's this entire paragraph:

> The human toll of government surveillance is undeniable. It can have far-reaching consequences for people’s lives — particularly for communities of color, who are wrongly and disproportionately subject to surveillance. The people who feel the impact the most are Muslims, Black and Brown people, people of Asian descent, and others who have long been subject to wrongful profiling and discrimination in the name of national security. Routine surveillance is corrosive, making us feel like we are always being watched, and it chills the very kind of speech and association on which democracy depends. This spying is especially harmful because it is often feeds into a national security apparatus that puts people on watchlists, subjects them to unwarranted scrutiny by law enforcement, and allows the government to upend lives on the basis of vague, secret claims.

They don't actually come out an explicitly state it, but the idea they're getting at is that we shouldn't oppress people, particularly people who are already disadvantaged, without cause for suspicion. That would seem to be a second principle we can apply here. You can also combine this with the general ineffectiveness of said mass surveillance and use utilitarian principles to reach the same conclusion.
> Better analogy: will they help me relocate from California if I don't want to deal with their bullshit gun laws?

I mean, in a discussion about women and unwanted pregnancies, as well as their ability to seek mainstream medical care from their local doctors, is one inclined to direct attention to how you wish to access more guns with less red tape?

Does this come from a feeling of being slighted? Like, it's unfair that women are receiving relocation benefits, but not those who want better access to guns?
So you do a thing that almost no consumers do? Interesting question for finding out philosophical underpinnings of someone’s beliefs/opinions, but at best tangential and at worst verging on sophistry when discussing practical matters. This is not an accusation, just an observation.

But to attempt an answer: for example, I have rescued pet cats. If I find some arts and crafts use for the plentiful fur I “acquire” when I groom them, no big deal. If I make a commercial enterprise out of this and seek to maximize my profits at the expense of their well-being, that’s bad. There are gradations in between that are bad as well — ones that can easily occur for backyard farm animals, where their welfare and enrichment are very low on the totem pole. Especially if you are slaughtering, which obviously places their welfare very low on the totem pole. I’m avoiding the environmental aspect because it’s inarguably increasing GHG emissions compared to what was originally suggested.

But again, irrelevant for arguments about ideal supermarket habits.
I would say it’s more about birth, because there is no support whatsoever after the kid is born.

There’s also that snitch law that encourages spying on your neighbours.
What if the new home owner doesn't want a car? The UK already has too many regulations and I don't think this will have as much impact as expected. Electric cars are already taking off on their own. Adding charging ports to homes won't solve the number-one reason people have not gone electric-- charging availabilty for long distance trips. This won't solve that problem (though combining it with an Uber-like service for renting these chargers out might).
Especially considering that the 3rd one happened in November 2020. It's not like this was years ago and might be forgotten; we all were around then.
Shhh, don't tell them! They'll kill it if they remember it's there.
Great! So how’s BSD support? And then, Haiku.
No paywall: https://archive.is/ozASI
>the predominant license (GPL) is a anti-capitalist license

GPL and RMS is not anti-capitalist, Linus Torvalds and Red Hat for example made lots of money.

So you can have
Proprietary license <GPL <BSD
and you have dudes that love both proprietary and BSD and hate GPL, my only conclusion that this dudes would like to
grab others BSD work and make it proprietary and make tons of money, this is not capitalism ; this is the toxic "How to make XXX$ in 1 month(10 steps) people.

let me explain, I see people selling this idea of you buy this cheap crap from China then do a small change , sell the shit and make tons of money with almost no work(I seen other get rich schems too, with books or other stuff). I think some GPL haters would love to grab GPL stuff, put their cheap shit on top and sell it and make tons of money. GPL allows you to make money though, you have to share code though so others could make money too.

P.S. I would really like to understand why GPL is anti capitalist or communist in some people mind, is it some FUD or some wrong usage of the notions.
Really?

Hard to know where to start with the problems on this, but seems they never built one yet as they couldn't even back their assertions with a video or photo of an actual device.
Apple has an extension for syncing bookmarks between devices and browsers with iCloud.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/icloud-bookma...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-bookmarks/f...

I think it does tabs, too, but I'm not sure.
People are dumb, specially the tech community. I've been watching for at least 10 years how everyone switched to chrome because it's faster. Now we have one mega corporation in charge of both most of the search and most of the browser usage. That's literally controlling the internet.

And you made it happen by your choices.
While that is certainly one of the narratives the deep state loves to be touted, it's simply not true. One of Bushes first actions as POTUS was to request a plan to attack the Taliban. The plan was written in June and was on his desk on Sep 4.

We went after who the oligarchs who control our country wanted us to go after. The idea that it was a response to the attack was merely for keeping the public sedated and military/mercs fired up.

Solving 9/11 solves the war on terror. (most people don't have the stomach for ugly truths though)

Ask yourself, who trained the Mujaheddin in the first place? What foreign dignitary was allowed full access and use of Charlie Wilson's office?
Single-pass compile was a basic requirement back when your compiler only had access to a 64KB address space for its code and data. But it forces program organization into a clunky bottom-up sequential shape that just doesn't jive with the most basic concerns for larger-scale, professional software development. There's a reason why most of us don't code in FORTH, and why more recently Rust even chose the 'crate' rather than the single program file as its compilation unit.
> Most people who enter homelessness leave it within a couple of weeks.

I'm a bit skeptical of the "Most" claim but it's based on anecdotal evidence from recent years of interacting with our sizable homeless community. I haven't seen any stats.

> They want to get back on their feet so they take advantage of social services

While the first part is undeniably true, the latter depends on the availability or existence of social services. Southern US states are openly hostile toward folks with long term vulnerabilities. Where services exist, politicians here proudly trim them back where they can.

>and maybe have broader support structure through friends and family.

My mom rescued me from homelessness when I was a teenager. The odds of escaping homelessness without help are ~0.
>It's barely ever given to the west, and never in major media

You must be kidding, or never ever read any major Western media.

> And when someone in an anonymous internet comment dares

Oh no. Someone disagreed with you on the internet. It's horrible even thinking about this. Nobody should ever be victimized like this.
Epigenetic Clock
It's trivial to take a rotary tool to a piece of plastic, but now you have plastic dust and shavings all over the place. like on the PCIE contacts.

You could also use a razor blade or other such manual cutting devices...