skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exec salaries at Mozilla are a real problem. The search-engine deals bring a lot of money, which would be more than enough to run an engineering-focused group that develops a browser and associated technologies. However, it's not enough to run yet another megacorp-style organization with overinflated management compensation, which is what it has slowly turned into.
more to the point: moving with your $account_id is not a thing everywhere.

phone number is a username in a worldwide public registry
As a Firefox user, and after having donated to the foundation, I was outraged by reading this.

https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

If they need money, they already know where to find it without polluting the experience with ads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB
> What’s wrong with paying market rates for a CEO?

The rates have bubbled, and do not reflect the value CEO's provides for their organisations.

> Do you think they should find a CEO below market rates?

Yes. A dedicated person, at home - in a bathrobe, approving code merges would do.
Its a similar problem to people having names that are considered "fake". I shudder what people actually named Harry Potter or James Bond have to go through regularly.

Also, I dont see any sense in actually enforcing any of those lists. I always think about the "Journey of Life" in The Grand Tour, which, frankly, is completely inoffensive in any other language than english https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLXe2WTYngQ
Interesting. Worth taking a look at
A browser is expensive. Currently Firefox is funded (though not controlled) by Google's Ad business. I am all for them reducing their reliance on Google's Ad business. In this sense this is a step _towards_ what you want. I really really dislike them double speaking about this though.
Some 10x rockstar developer with a wrinklebrain considered it low IQ rambling and got offended but got quickly btfo by fellow smoothbrain hackernews readers who share my sentiments.
Well so we are back to IWW times it seems.
Ultimately, I don't think it's a choice. If you fit well into your social role, then you aren't going to seek "the truth." Bernard is more aware of his surroundings because he is not suited to his role. Helmholtz is more aware because he exceeds his role. The way they are and what is expected of them preordained their awakening and its character.

As for myself, I've always felt like an alien on earth. As a kid, I truly did not understand why people did what they did. I saw people forming all these social connections, but I couldn't understand why they did it: what were they looking for in others? I've always lived in a world of my own. Patterns, structures, associations, have always interested me more than material things and socialization. If I did not have my inner creative world, then maybe I would have been like the others around me...but I was otherwise occupied and so I became an outsider -- an outworlder.

When you're naturally predisposed to be an outsider, the self-preservation matrix of the collective does not capture one's libido. One is freer psychically, but free like a starving man on the hunt for food as opposed to a sated man lounging on a couch. To not be hooked into some preservative frame induces great motion within...but is energetic motion superior to sated stillness? A question I've been trying to answer myself...
So, it's only working for english and english-related profanity ? Interesting.
This was my though too, who cares what lines match where - when an IDE can take me to the line, and more importantly, show me the context for that line.
> making a point, expressing emotions, and being offensive/insulting are entirely separate things.

Whilst true, what often happens is that people emotionally express disapproval. This then often includes harsh judgement not just of someones work, but of their person as well. At that point it becomes insulting. Even when not moving on to harshly judging a person, totally destroying someone's work is likely to put them on the defensive. For the purposes of keeping up conversation, it can be equivalent to being insulting.

Consider remarks like.

"This code is riddled with bugs and lacks insights form the last 10 years. Whomever wrote it must be willfully ignorant or a total moron with their head in the sand".

It reads like a statement made from emotion, it technically only includes "making a point" but it goes so far as too become insulting. Even if you drop the second sentence it can still be insulting.
What salary does the CEO of Wikipedia get and would increasing their salary to "market rates" improve Wikipedia or make it more viable?
40 people to solve an old case that people already suspected was carried out by someone who has now died doesn't seem like a judicious use of time and money, unless they did it for free.

Los Angeles has an entire warehouse of unsolved cases, wouldn't it be nice for those people to provide bits of insight into those cases instead?
I tried moving away from Safari but I can’t find anything equally good. Damn Apple
Better yet, my children's school had a parent support portal called Isis.

I have some fun emails whose subject line is "here are your ISIS family log-in details"

and this was right around the time the terrorist group was frequently in the news
So, where's the fork that removes this shit and keeps up with upstream?
> Users outside of the U.S. will experience this feature with local results only (browsing history, bookmarks, and open tabs).

Are they scared of GDPR, or are they just boiling one pot of frogs at a time...?
Calling out a common problem with Chinese research is not racism. There is a real problem here, and it needs to be called out and fixed. That won't happen if it gets ignored by everyone.
Is Ford about to change bicycle derailleurs forever?
You are correct, and only BSV takes this seriously. Transaction fees taking over for block rewards are set out in the whitepaper. Section 6: Incentives... It explains block subsidy and tx fees including the purpose of both along with the transition plan...
You can pay for Mozilla VPN, which goes to the Corporation: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/#pricing
Practically a beginner. I tried following some books a few years ago + the basic art classes in high school is my skill extent.
Probably not, since most people against it would be dead or never born.
1 user at $4.16 per month is not going to help, support and develop a competitive browser or search engine.

1mn users paying $4/m is going to be just over $40mn per year. There's no way any company can compete with MS or Google on that revenue stream. Get investors and they will enforce whatever it takes to build revenue = ads.
I work in the same team as the two authors and we use it on a pretty large project : an online shop, and a few other smaller ones. We run hurl tests on every branch of our projects, via Gitlab pipelines.

We test both HTML and JSON endpoints and those integration tests are a good safety belt.
Google Workshop on Scalable Algorithms for Semi- and Unsupervised Learning
What happened with the lsd microdosing treatment of Alzheimer? Did it do any good? Are there any follow ups on that one? There are some articles from august of last year that mention the idea, but I don't know if the trials were successful.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.0003...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32973482/
Rendering is fast on Chrome, however latency is high:

Chrome has 1 to 2 frames (17ms to 33ms on a 60Hz display) of additional, unnecessary input lag when compared to Firefox:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=460919
Short answer is no. Long answer is majority of people discriminate a lot on price, so the only way is make governments mandates about quality of the service and how the people are treated - which comes with all the externalities and side effects of regulation.
Rule 34 is "There is porn of it", I was explaining Rule 35.
> As mismanaged as Mozilla is, they are in it to make the web a decent place for users.

Placing ads in the search bar and datamining everything you search for is failing at this mission.
Subscriptions. If you're going to keep people permanently on staff, a steady revenue stream is required. Either the users will provide that (aligning the incentives of the company with the users, since financial performance directly correlates to customer satisfaction), or other companies will, in the form of ad spend, corporate partnerships, cross-promotion, whatever.

Possibly the more sustainable model overall is for software to become a gig job, where engineers get paid for the features they deliver and there's only a skeleton crew of maintainers keeping the project on track (to keep the ongoing costs minimal).

To offset the cost to users even further, you could potentially apply for government grants, at least in Europe. Or corporate sponsorships in some places, in the vein of the Django Software Foundation.
There must be some ATMs left.
It's an unambiguous signal that Mozilla is no longer making software to benefit the user but rather to benefit "trusted partners". That's what's to dislike.
Alternatively, you could just choose to opt out when it asks you?
You know what I miss? Software I can pay for. I'd happily shell out couple of bucks a year for a browser. Or a social network. I'd be more than happy to pay regularly for something that requires regular, constant, maintenance, upkeep, servers, salaries. But no, somehow humanity landed on free+ads. Ugh.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm just grumpy.
Is there a way to know how the Mozilla Foundation spend its money? They've stopped updating this page[0] in 2019.

Maybe a way to rely less on Google and "trusted partners" money is just to spend less.

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/public-records/
I would expect more transparency on the objectives of C-levels and how their compensation is impacted when they don't meet these objectives.

I'm not saying they are doing a bad job, but I really can't say if they've been doing a good job either.
Well, no, the address bar is one of Firefox’s best UX features. Thank god it’s not just a simple form element, it’s much more useful now. Before it was something like the Windows run dialog text box but now it’s more similar to my zsh prompt with aliases for searching and fuzzy history recall etc.
I think she didn't leak novelties. Most of it is common sense or already known.

She is protected by the Democrats who want to install Internet censors at strategic corporations. Then the Democrats control all mainstream media and the mainstream web.

The big actual problem is of course massive data collection on everyone. That should be addressed, but won't, because the swamp needs the data.
Why is it terrible that a company responds to court orders?

It is neither terrible nor a shock when a company headquatered in the US, operating in the US, complies with a valid signed court order from a US court.
> DynamoDB Global tables took 4/5 years to be available in Cloudformation.

DynamoDB global tables launched in November 2017, it isn't four years old yet.

CFN lag is an issue for sure but not quite that much of an issue...
Indeed, but then you are partially "un-rustifying" things. That is, the author specifically boasts in the article that:

> In Rust, an undefined-behavior arithmetic issue like that is literally impossible.

... but that's only true if the safeties are on, specifically overflow checking.
The institutions ought to be under democratic control in the sense that they are regulated by elected representatives. If they are not, then that is a big problem which should be fixed rather than circumventing the institutions altogether.

Physical cash is de facto restricted in many places in the form of upper bounds on the amounts that one can withdraw and deposit.
Most of their experiments start in the US, IIRC
I think you can remove the ads without paying, in the settings.
Wrap your gifts not your dependencies
Re: soldiers, you'd be surprised how many deaths and serious injuries of service personnel are due to vehicle accidents, either on or off duty.

Just as the the top two causes of US police deaths are COVID and cars: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus/data-shows-covid-19-... (the third is the one you'd naievely expect, gunfire)
I have 2 questions:

* How do you setup hot stand-by for each database ?

* Do you have coordinated backup for all the databases, or are they backed up individually ?
We used to be taught that "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me".

I'm not so sure that has ever been true. Emotional bullying was always a thing, and it did hurt. I'm glad that we're now taking that more seriously.

But it's also true that my emotions are my responsibility, and my emotional reaction to words is unique to me. I cannot force everyone else to be responsible for how I feel about their words. And I cannot expect everyone else to anticipate how I might feel about what they want to say and modify their speech accordingly.

There's a balance in there. I suspect that this balance is what we call "good manners" or "politeness".
Does an Unobtrusive Personal Safety GPS Tracker for the Elderly Exist?
Outsider here: whats wrong with brave? I haven’t touched it but have no reason to distrust it, happy for you to change that for me though
This! How hard can it be to put a FF subscription payment somewhere inside the browser or on their website?

Of course people can always fork it and remove it blabla. But we're talking about people who otherwise would donate and just want to do it more directly (as opposed to the whole Mozilla foundation)
Yes, since it was named Phoenix. Id pay $50 every five years or so for a new version. But for that five years they only introduce bugfixes and introduce zero UI changes.
Memo to Students who have been Disappointed with their Test Grades (1999) [pdf]
Science Closes in on Covid’s Origins
Did/do they? I forgot about that. Do you have a source?
You can write literally anything you want in a CDK/Pulumi program.
Depending on how you write it, the outcome could be different every time.
The generated outcome, ie a cloudformation template, is absolutely declarative, but the CDK code is not.
Distinguish _to be_ and _to become_. The latter is only possible if you _are not already_.

Safari is efficient. Chrome becomes efficient. The latter is only possible if Chrome isn’t efficient currently.
Yes, but how can you then support FF financially to make sure it doesn't go away or development grinds to a halt?
I remember playing this on my Gravis Ultrasound and trying to convince my friends it sounded better.
(https://youtu.be/Q3rb5Yi0BBI)
>What’s wrong with paying market rates for a CEO?

More expensive doesn't mean better, it most likely just means putting someone in charge whose primary metric is short-term profit.
I used early OS/2 a lot for development simply because it was a protected mode system. I'd get things to work there first, and port to real mode DOS last. Saved me a lot of time.
Knowing Mozilla, the option will be changed and renamed every version and will have to be re-enabled manually again and again.
Right. So a company with 750 employees should be run at discount rates by someone sitting in a bathrobe in their kitchen .
Might also want to use FZF as selection interface for the ripgrep results, if applicable.
This is the best explanation of what's happening.
For what it is worth:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1734559
Reducing reliance on Google by partnering up with a different ad company instead. What good does that do? I don't want ads anywhere near my browser.

Here's what I'd really like them to do:

* Stop paying out millions to execs

* Focus more on Firefox instead of other side projects

* Let me pay for Firefox development directly
By the love of all thats holy, I still don't understand how the development of an entire operating system can be reasonably coordinated by a (admittably singlularly competent) sole finnish guy in a bathrobe from home, while a comparably simple webbrowser needs a foundation, a company, a ceo, a code of conduct, all those outreach and social-action programmes etc...
Or maybe, is all that cesspool of ineffectiveness and virtue-signaling the product and the webbrowser just the cashcow and the name at this point?
You can donate directly to Thunderbird

https://give.thunderbird.net/

From the FAQ:

>How will my gift be used?

>Thunderbird is the leading open source cross-platform email and calendaring client, free for business and personal use. Your gift will help ensure it stays that way, and will support future development.
I'm referring specifically to this feature: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

CFn will allow you to specify up to 5 alarms to monitor during stack deployment as well as a duration to monitor them for up to 3 hours.

During deployment, the stack does not transition into the COMPLETE state until the monitor duration has completed without the alarms being triggered. If one of the alarms is triggered, the stack immediately rolls back.

Since failed ECS tasks create CW Events, you can set up alarms on them and use them as the rollback monitor trigger.
How many years do you expect?
It mostly goes to Mullvad though (which is great company) and to developing the client.
This reminds me of Parkinson's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law). Paraphrased: "complexity expands so as to fill the time available for its consumption". The faster a software can be, the more things it seems to do just for achieving the same features.

It's also probably another view of the Jevons Paradox: as efficiency of software increases, it gives more way for more complexity and "optimizations" that in the end make the end result as slow as before.
Lots? None are usable to replace our current insane compilers, removing code without warnings.

None of pgcc, sdcc, tcc, lcc and friends work with current code bases, plus they have severe bugs.
I've used Dillo. It's amazing how snappy a browser can be. Alas, it's an impractical browser to use, as most sites require JavaScript.

The real problem is websites, ever-increasing the capabilities of browsers. If that went away then the whole problem of choosing a browser would be solved.

All browsers are capable of rendering vanilla HTML, and even graphics, so there's usually very little need for JavaScript. There's always the option of processing dynamic content on the backend.

I heard that Google Maps originally spat out pages that were in the region of a few 10's of kb. Imagine that!

We live in curious times. Engineers used to design for simplicity, now we seem to just sling more mud onto the pile. It's also curious that environmentalism is such a hot-button topic these days, yet manufacturers are pushing out stuff that makes it harder to repair.
This just searches filenames though. If you want to search the contents of the files, use something like ripgrep

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#3-interactive-ripgrep-integr...
We need trucks about as much as we need people in cars.
RE: BS
You said it yourself: "... most of the cases ...". For example, my apartment does not have a carpet and I wear cotton clothing most of the time. So my enviroment is less likely to produce static electricity. But what about others?
Its all in the numbers: 1.000.000 units sold (just for stats sake) - 10.000 open it up, 100 have static issues due floor, clothing, etc - some units will fry and die. Totally avoidable, hence the remark in the video.
They've not stopped updating that page; it just takes longer than you would otherwise expect to get final numbers, prepare the reports, run them past auditors, etc. The 2019 statements were published in October of 2020, so I'd expect the 2020 numbers some time this month.

It's also worth noting that there is a strict separation between the Mozilla Foundation (the tax exempt non-profit) and Mozilla Corporation (the wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary which builds Firefox). The Foundation is not directly involved in the creation of Firefox.
…In which Mozilla buys into the two-sided market craze and starts exploiting its users for ad money.

And here I was hoping that the industry would start recognizing the poison of this business model, exemplified by FB. Instead, we see it spread. (And, notably, in case of Firefox is no overwhelming network effect or potential for user lock-in, unlike with Facebook et al.; so this seems obviously, possibly intentionally short-sighted.)

Meanwhile, Firefox could have been such an opportunity to deliver the first actually paid product in the market, and to use direct revenue to make it superior and keep aligned with paying customers’ interests. Such a waste of reputation, which would’ve made this so much easier to pull off.
10-15% would not convince publishers.

Exclusives are anti-consumer and doesn't convince users if we follow what Epic did.

It's easy to say "curation/quality control" but to come up with a method and algorithmic way of doing it well is insanely difficult.

Anti-piracy is just called DRM and it's not really foolproof nor always desired. GoG is successful in catering that niche. It also requires a good understanding of reverse engineering hardening, so much easier said than done.

Forums/modding/whatever, yeah sure perhaps "simple" but quite extensive. Even for a large company, code doesn't write itself (well, not any code you want to rely on, at least).

I don't really get the console pricing aspect, sorry.

Cashback isn't a free thing, it's a marketing campaign - even if it runs indefinitely. I don't think that would work by itself, it's a bit of a gimmick.

Epic is struggling because of their anti consumer strategies, aggressive and oftentimes reckless CEO, seemingly constant and very public lawsuits with huge companies, and trying to stay relevant outside of Fortnite.

I agree that lack of social contributed to it but is far from the only problem. For example, Epic doesn't have a cart. It's been a widely requested feature, but they focus on other things.

Tencent is a cancer upon this world and I have little base respect for companies that go with them.
This webpage hijacks the keyboard in a very nasty way, disabling not only scrolling, but also a bunch of other functions.
Unfortunately, only their hardware is modern. :( The software is outdated and too limited. I'm annoyed that HP basically shrunk down their calculator team down to two people or so and that nobody is working on a worthy successor to the HP50g. The HP Prime is definitely not a worthy successor. I especially dislike the incongruent mixture of two different calculator engines, and now they've added Python to their own programming language to make it even more confusing.

I guess engineers all use tablets or Wolfram Alpha by now and so they figured there is no market for it.
But what if that idea is coming from Google? How many relevant partners does FF have?