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Pleas into a niche tech communities to use a different browser isn't going to stop FF's slow slide to irrelevance. Microsoft saw the writing on the wall with IE and launched Edge which by comparison looks to have a much more promising future then Mozilla.

This does nothing to improve browser engine diversity but at this point Mozilla's best path to commercial success would be to launch a new browser product that's a rebranded Blink/WebKit with a focus on privacy, e.g. ad/tracker blockers, optional integrated VPN, simple UX for clearing browser history per site/date range/etc. Personally I'd prefer they adopt Safari's WebKit over Chrome's Blink to remove the dependency from Google.

I'm too old to deal with navigating the web with rendering inconsistencies of browser web developers don't test against. For the same reason I've no hesitation to use their gorgeous Firefox Focus iOS browser over Chrome since they're all forced to use the same rendering engine, and given all things being equal I trust Firefox to protect privacy much more than Google.
It can take a screenshot of the entire page, including what's not currently displayed in the viewport.
I did something like that, but I never stopped. Software doesn't need a degree, and I realized I wasn't interested in the debt. We'll see how it turns out, but I'm enjoying making my own way so far.
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I'll take a stab at answering this by paraphrasing Musk.

He said this 5 step process was inspired by the time they were trying to optimize part of the Model 3 production. There was a segment that was causing a lot of problems - the installation of some sort of foam or padding on the battery. I guess the glue wasn't adhering well between the metal of the car and the foam, or whatever I dunno, problems.

They tried all sorts of things to optimize the process, until eventually Musk asked, "what's this for?" and the Noise and Vibration team told him they weren't sure, probably for fire safety. The Battery team (the one that would institute a fire-related requirement) told him they weren't sure, it was probably for noise and vibration.

They built a car without the foam, tested it for noise and vibration against a car with the foam, couldn't tell the difference, and ultimately removed the part entirely.

So this story touches all 5 of the points, but on the point of "make the requirement less dumb" it means that whoever got the requirement in the first place should have asked "what is this for?" and should have tried to find another way to meet the requirement without needing foam (and in doing so would have found out that the requirement was BS in the first place).
They're not incompetent, they're very competently selling you out.
It is up to $10 million or 10x your tax basis. Also, double that if you are married. More if you gift to children.
Hopefully their bootstrapped funding has been carefully crafted to track tax basis!
If you want to tax consumption, tax consumption not income. Don't go about it by indirect means.

The reality is that the ultra rich consume far less of a percentage of their wealth/income than the average person.

The other reality is that many people just want a means to redistribute wealth and are just concocting arguments to achieve their ulterior motive.

If you are for redistribution just say so. You could then argue about the most effective means of doing so from a greater position of trust.
> but after a decade of personally being screwed over and watching friends similarly get screwed over, I promise you the dream of making bank in a few years on stock options generally doesn't play out.

The funny thing is that I guess I'm relatively new in the industry, and the story that left me the biggest impression is how a friend should be able to retire in a couple of years since he joined Snowflake a couple of years ago... Seems that he really really lucked out in this case indeed, since most experienced commentators in this thread unequivocally point out how luck-based this thing is.
If you don’t like Trump or anti-vaxx stuff, how about you just ignore it?

Muting it altogether can only make things worse as it will confine you in your "safe" but out of touch personal reality.

This to me is the biggest issue in the recent censorship efforts across all big social media platforms.
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I’m not sure accessibility of source code is the biggest problem. You can get the code very easily. Also github is another kind of Microsoft lock-in, ironically.
> A wireless charger has no data transfer capability yet

..but...the article
If you flipped a coin every day in order to determine whether or not a recession would start, you'd be wrong 99% of the time.
This too is a lot of words to say that you either didn't read or didn't comprehend the thesis of the article.

Points for acknowledging you've created a straw-man however.
I think we're eventually going to see more DAO's focused on purely FOSS where their members can pool some resources and autocompound their treasury in a decentralized overcollateralized lending protocol to fund core operations and free ourselves from some of these centralized foundations desires.
It’s a lot harder to find candidates to vote for than to vote against. You may find fiscal policy more important than dress codes. Or environmental policy more important than school prayer.
DoH on by default is great for regular users, in order to access websites banned at the ISP DNS level. Depending on the country that can include a whole lot of websites, even not including warez and porn.

Anyway, they should really put more focus on polishing the containers extension, and make it one of the main selling points. This is the feature that has converted the most people in my experience. And since it's unique to any browser AFAIK, it has great retention power once one integrates it in their workflow.
Firefox OS was ahead of its time and the marketing and targeting set was a bit too niche, but it was (and is) a great idea to build a mobile OS around web tech. KaiOS has forked FxOS to some success on lower-end devices with a respectable feature set (though it seems tooling is limited and monetization isn't amazing which is a feedback loop). Imagine if FxOS was a better success and instead of Chromebooks if the education system, children were raised using Firefoxbooks (FxBooks for short) as their first machines.
There's some inconsistencies, like the part about the person living of potatoes, since these are a strong source of lithium, but thanks for the link it was an interesting read and certainly makes great point against diet chasing.
Its funny that the author puts down the play, The Man of La Mancha, while describing the importance of the text. The play is elegant and created great works of its own like “The impossible dream” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impossible_Dream_(The_Ques...) which I would argue distills of the most poignant points about living a good life.
Honestly, I barely remember Don Quixote but the lyrics to the Impossible Dream I can easily recall.
If the moderation is extremely prejudiced, then it doesn't work.

Though I don't disagree that lots of well-intentioned humans could be a path to moderation that works.
I agree. I still vividly remember the bad old days of IE, and I find it puzzling that so many web developers are willingly going back to a monoculture, with such an anti-privacy organization holding all the cards.
Yes, but you can't post about it on Facebook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493823
I think this is simply Rust having to deal with switching from "minimize conflict" to "manage conflict".

Corporate entities don't really care about "inclusiveness" or "minimizing conflict".

So, Rust governance will either grow the structures and leadership to "manage conflict" or get steamrolled.
You could always apply to a refund based on that information. But the government already has 99% of what is needed to file your taxes, they are just not allowed by the lobby of tax preparation.
Cashing in social capital in retaliation for their partner getting fired?
> It felt like one literal crazy dude going on disappointing adventures and then (spoilers) it just ends with him dying, having regretting everything he did, which in my mind, sums up the book pretty well.

Ah yes, and Moby Dick is just about a man who really hates a whale and wants to kill it.

I never know how to respond to reviews like these. If you actually think that sums up the book pretty well then the problem isn't with Don Quixote...

And I'm definitely not a literature major.
I think people are forking Chrome because it’s better code, but I might be wrong.

I have only seen the code of Chrome and it’s very Google-like C++, with truly enormous codebase.

Even Chrome did not fork Firefox back in the day and forked Safari.

Electron did not use Firefox either.
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I think you would be hard pressed to find a lot of people who truly believe that we still are a country "by the people, for the people" in a serious fashion. We hold up oligarchs as a ruling class, with laws that effect the bottom 95% of the country in a very different way than the top 5%. There are people in this country who deserve responsibility, but to level it at the masses who walk, ride or bike to one or two jobs seems a bit naive and unfair.
People need that user data to interact with the internet and inevitably code from the internet will be introduced to the “safe” VM.
The funny part of Part 1 was when a local started a book-burning, because DQ had gone crazy after reading too many books, and thus these volumes were tragically lost forever. The shocking part was when some side character recounted an incident which befell him in America, and realizing that the Americas were contemporary.
Zuckerberg’s pre-Facebook project was called Facemash, and it was literally Hot or Not with pictures scraped from the online House facebooks.

—February 2004 Facebook user
So then what happens is these drivers move onto other employment, which then increases the rate they pay, which then attracts people back.

This is also gig work, the person that made a full time job from gig work didn’t understand what gig work is in the first place.
Math + Physics major. Don Quixote was a blast.
If you include federal spending on self funded programs (and are still self funding as they haven't gone insolvent yet), you'll have to include payroll taxes in your revenue computations as well just to be fair.

> In short, most federal tax dollars represent a redistribution of income from the young and working to the old, nonworking population.

People paid into social security and medicare to get it. If they get more than they paid in for (sans interest earned on what they put in), then you have a case for a "wealth transfer". Otherwise, it is just like a 401K, which is also save now and use later.
You need a Quatro GPU to do that, right?
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It's not a personal attack. It's just a theory. There was nothing substantive in the article.
I can't say if the article was ninja edited, but it specifically addresses this.
People that have seen the inside of both: which has better codebase, Firefox or Chromium?

I have seen only inside Chrome as I was debugging some edgecases; it’s very google C++, but once you get used to the enormous size, it’s not that hard to follow.
How do you figure? Wouldn't you be wrong 50% of the time?
Unfortunately we live in a world were you don't get "good" but only "not catastrophic". But hey if people are fine with a single advertising company controlling how we access the internet carry on.
I'd like to mention (once again), that Firefox on Android is a huge leap in everyday browsing experience over Chrome - and you should try it if you haven't. Due to mainly one reason: ad blocker extensions; which aren't supported on Chrome.

Since that's where most users are, I hope Mozilla will be able to communicate these advantages better. Chrome is arguably better on the desktop for most users, unless they're in the tiny subset of users who care about privacy.
Do you trust Mozilla? They share the numbers.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

I’ve watched the decline for years, straight from the source. These usage numbers are not affected by privacy settings.
I think this is a reference to Subproject 54. Take this information as you wish (pg. 40):

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...

> Senator SCHWEIKER. Subproject 54, MKULTRA, which involved examination of techniques to cause brain concussions and amnesia by using weapons or sound waves to strike individuals without giving and without leaving any clear physical marks. Someone dubbed it "perfect concussion" - maybe that was poetic license on the part of our staff rather than your poets over there. I wonder if you could just tell us what brain concussion experiments were about?

> Admiral TURNER. This project, No. 54, was canceled, and never carried out.

> Senator SCHWEIKER. Well, I do believe the first year of the project in 1955 was carried out by the Office of Naval Research, according to the information that you supplied us. The CIA seems to have been participating in some way at that point, because the records go on to say that the experimenter at ONR found out about CIA's role, discovered that it was a cover, and then the project was transferred to MKULTRA in 1956. Again, this is all from the backup material you have given us. So, it was canceled at some time. I am not disagreeing with that, but apparently for at least a year or two, somebody was investigating the production of brain concussions with special blackjacks, sound waves, and other methods as detailed in the backup material.

> Admiral TURNER. The data available to me is that this project was never funded by the CIA, but I will double-check that and furnish the information for the record for you as to whether there was ever any connection here and if so, what the nature of the work was.
Both ZFS updates and pacman breaking are rare enough that I forgot that would happen. Though using this rescue system would work, there's also a group that maintains a script to grab the correct ZFS module for a running archiso, might come in handy for you.

https://github.com/eoli3n/archiso-zfs
It seems that maybe you didn't read the entire essay as the actual argument it makes is that the dominating theory (which you fabricated and then quoted as if it were from the essay) is incorrect. In my reading, the error of obesity research is that it focuses on energy-balance instead of studying the why and how of fat accumulation in humans. To actually quote the essay:

"For researchers and public health authorities to make real progress against obesity and the obesity‑diabetes epidemics, they will have to shed their energy-balance thinking, their obsessive focus on how much people eat and exercise. Instead, borrowing again from Hilde Bruch in 1957, they’ll have to focus on fat metabolism and storage itself, “since by definition excessive accumulation of fat is the underlying abnormality.” If they think of obesity as it simply and clearly is, a disorder of excess fat accumulation, they might actually figure it out."
I have used irssi and weechat. Do they support the new features though?
China uses anti-fraud app to track access to overseas financial news sites
Apple always responds quickly to large security issues?
I wouldn't call the GUI side "amazing" in its cross platform support as each platform works by using different backends (win32, qt, gtk, etc) and as such each backend has its own quirks. Also since most toolkit developers nowadays love to break their working code, there is a lot of (wasted) effort into porting LCL (Lazarus' framework) to newer versions (only to become obsolete when it is done).

Win32 is expectedly the most stable because the API hasn't changed for decades, so the effort was spent on stabilizing and fixing bugs over the years.

Gtk2 is also stable and should work fine. It is the most stable of Linux backends at the moment,

Gtk1 was stable until development dropped some years ago, though AFAIK recently someone tried it and fixed any issues. It doesn't really get much love though.

Gtk3 is not feature complete but simple stuff should work, judging from a recent message in the development mailing list there isn't anyone interested in fully working on it - there is development but not any dedicated developer. Makes sense, personally i wouldn't bother to work on something i knew will soon be deprecated.

Gtk4 isn't even a think yet AFAIK.

Qt4 should be around as stable as Gtk2, perhaps a bit less. Requires dragging around the qt4pas shared library though since Free Pascal cant link against C++ libraries directly (Gtk binaries are self-contained and can link against the system Gtk with compatibility going several years).

Qt5 is newer but i think it started as a copy of Qt4 so it should be around the same quality, perhaps better in trunk as it gets most of the Qt development. Like Qt4 you need to drag a shared library around to use it.

Carbon was the most stable on Mac OS side but of course it isn't available in newer Macs. Not that it was ever beyond alpha quality, but at least it worked.

Cocoa should be fine nowadays but i think there isn't any dedicated developer and its quality is hit or miss as it only picked up whatever Mac development was going on only recently when it became impossible to do 32bit programming.

There are some other backends but they are in various stages of not working.

In practice however you can release binaries for all major platforms, you just wont get the shiniest backend versions outside of Win32. In my experience the most stable are Win32 and Gtk2. I think Qt5 should be somewhere next to that so if you make a Mac application and behaves weirdly you can use the Qt5 backend instead of the Cocoa backend (this was a common workaround for 64bit applications when Carbon was still usable but only available for 32bit applications). Of course this means you have to drag not only the qt-to-pascal interface library but also the entirety of Qt. Though that should still be less than Electron and you'd still get to use "native" widgets on other platforms.
If so, it should be possible for HN commemtators to chime in with notes that they do indeed use it somewhere in their stack.

I’m guessing the usage in a web site is primarily Wordpress, which is pretty widespread. I doubt 70%+ of devs actually touch PHP in any given year.
I'm always really surprised how many people don't understand marginal taxation. Also, how tax rates are graduated tax could mean that someone could pay less in taxes in California than in Alabama (for low earners) is completely alien to them.
Thank you!

I don't doubt Jekyll is mature, but there's a difference between mature and abandoned. It looks like at least two different folks are committing, which gives me hope that this project (which we use quite heavily at $DAYJOB) is mature.
I assume you knew the possible consequences when you made that decision, or you should have.

Maybe you shouldnt have made the choice to work for a state level agency and actively reproduce the violence that that carries along with it.
Yeah I guess it’s browser somehow blocking Javascript-started downloads.
> Part of me thinks it's so celebrated because it's such a big book.

It's celebrated as an important milestone in the emergence of the modern novel, but more importantly perhaps, both for its humour, and profound empathy for the human condition.
That middle mug looks solid.
All you have to do is demonetize, shill.
That’s why you should see a good doctor not a typical one. A good doctor would be interested in any research that is well founded despite being non-consensus. That doesn’t mean that they will endorse it. But people like the person I was replying to cuts them out of the process by presuming they already know the right choice for a patient.
i can't believe nobody went after the org with algorithmic dossiers for everybody on earth
I love Jekyll. I haven't upgraded it in years because I simply haven't had to. It does the job and that's the highest praise I can give a piece of software.
This is evidence that CICO does work, isn't it? Everyone ate the same food and did the same exercising, so they all ended up with the same kind of body. If there were any truth to woo like "setpoints", then the overweight people wouldn't have lost weight by doing what maintained the weight of healthy weight people.
Yes.

Do you trust Mozilla? They share the numbers.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
> Maybe in big cities the public schools are more stratified by class and race, but in the small town I was from, basically everyone went to the same school.

There are also private and magnet schools. You can end up spending most of your time in classes where the majority of students have a shot at Ivies.
I use IKEA nylon cables and they work perfectly fine.

There's no reason the torque has to transfer to the PCB. That's just poor design. My phone's USB-C port is sleeved by the chassis for example, and so is the one in my GaN charger. There is zero torque transfer to the PCB, the chassis or frame takes all of the load.

You can't rely on the cable to cancel the torque anyways, rubber yields and the normal force at the housing will pull the connector out slightly allowing for torque to still be applied to the connector, you have no choice than to brave either the female, male, or both ports to the chassis in some way.
Although ad blockers are supported on chrome based Kiwibrowser
> It seems like no one has figured out a good system for moderation on the internet.

I use locals.com; lots of small disjointed communities, where posters have to pay (or not) a small fee per month (1$ to 5$). which keep the trolls and influence campaigners away.