skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those that are saying things like "Google/Microsoft etc. are worse" and other such pseudo-justifications: You are missing the point!

Mozilla is now in exactly the same camp as Microsoft, Google and all the other spyware companies. There is no "worse" any more! Their rhetoric uses the same language and tactics as the others therefore they are the same now. Their plan is to monetize your web views, just like Google. This change is absolutely not for your benefit. Not even a little bit!

They have crossed a line. A massive line imo!

Firefox held the torch for companies in the "internet space" (couldn't think of a better term) on how to do things without bending your users over and telling them it's for their own good. But no more.

This is the end for Mozilla for a group of people that absolutely care about privacy and (total speculation incoming!) the beginning of the end for Mozilla in general. For a number of years, their userbase clearly was more interested in privacy over speed and features but if the playing field is now levelled (in terms of lack of privacy!), then the obvious choice is no longer FF these days as Chrome and Edge are faster.

I've watched them over the years become worse, bit by dark-patterned bit. This is a huge leap into a steaming pile of privacy shit though and a clear sign they are circling the drain.

Still, I have no idea what to do! Hopefully there sill be a way to turn it off but they've laid their cards on the table now...
The real question isn't why they deserve 30% lots of people have plenty of arguments about why they believe it's justified because they provide the hardware and dev tools on iOS.

The real question is why I don't have to pay them 30% for software and transactions on my MacBook. Because once you consider that most of those arguments are thrown out.
I don't see this happening unless they have a very specific reason to use Firefox. If only support contracts were a thing for browsers, a la Red Hat/RHEL.
> the feature is easily deactivable

Except they have used the language of "not now" and hidden the link away instead of making it a button with equal prominence to the yes button.

That's not the behaviour of an organisation which thinks its users will be happy with what it's doing, it's the behaviour of an organisation which is trying to trick them.
Context for this unsourced tweet: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-moderna-sweden-ha...

> "Despite the warning, doctors and researchers say they still strongly recommend that all Americans 12 and older get vaccinated, noting that the heart problems are uncommon and in most cases very mild."

> "Two separate vaccine studies subsequently concluded, however, that COVID-19 itself poses a higher risk of symptoms, including heart inflammation, than the vaccines."
Support of the blocking webRequest API that allows uBlockOrigin to operate to its full extent.
No thank you. I really like Firefox but maybe it would be time to move on to Brave. It’s a shame because I want to support an alternative rendering engine besides Chrome so Google doesn’t control the whole Internet.

Do they need me to pay? I would 100% pay a reasonable annual subscription for a browser that works for me and not advertisers. Maybe $30 per year?
So it's 3.5 years old, and the CF was availabile this May. And it is a very widely used feature among many organizations.

If you want to use a new resource and feature, %90 likely it is an issue. There was even a public project to track them. https://github.com/cfntools/cloudformation-gaps/projects/1

You want to have an IAM role, but you can not tag it with Cloudformation. These minor frustrations quickly add up. And see what you need to do to add a custom resource: https://shouldroforion.medium.com/aws-cloudformation-doesnt-...
I have a working prototype for a similar thing for PHP. But I abandoned it for now, as I have no time to improve on it and the query syntax is far from perfect.
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Thanks for the suggestions, especially the one with the name, fixed and pushed :D
Sure the %'s are lower, but it's still a pretty small workforce comparatively. I expect the accident rate to increase over the next few years as they services become more abundant globally. Additionally, do you think it's worth sacrificing human lives/causing people injury just to deliver your groceries on a silver platter? From my perspective I think even a single death in this industry is too much.
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> TL;DR: the web needs a proper "DirectX initiative" like what Microsoft did in the late 90's to get Windows gaming off the ground.

You want one browser vendor to implement a proprietary API and then have the ramining vendors try to emulate it?
The only thing fiat currency across the world has proven is that it's subject to the whims of bureaucrats and has the theft of inflation built-in. Even the "best" fiat in the world like GBP and USD have seen their purchasing reduced drastically over the decades.

I don't trust politicians to manage their money or economy well. But I do trust code and math that enforces decentralised consensus that can't be manipulated by a handful of powerful people. Some have tried in Bitcoin's short 12 year history, and they've all failed.

You say Bitcoin is inefficient. In comparison to what? By what measures? If you compare Bitcoin to gold mining it uses less energy. https://cbeci.org/index/comparisons

If you compare it to the legacy financial system (and many other industries), it also uses less energy. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-energy-use-comp...

You say Bitcoin is volatile, but that is to be expected for a new form of money that people are still trying to figure out the value of. How long do you think it took for gold to reach a stable point of perceived value over its long history? Bitcoin is only 12 years old.

But perhaps calling it "volatile" isn't really even fair to begin with, when you compare it to top stocks and gold. https://ecoinometrics.substack.com/p/ecoinometrics-comparing...

Need for endless mining? Of course it's endless, it's a vital part of network security in an adversarial environment. As the network stores more value the energy expenditure will need to go up to secure it. This is true of any other store of value. Gold is not only incredibly expensive to mine, it's expensive to secure in large facilities.

The more Bitcoin integrates into the economy and the more wealth it secures, the more energy expenditure it should use. This is by design and a good thing. And if you compare it to other industries (linked above), it is far more efficient than current systems.

Forget "crypto". Most of them are varying degrees of scam or cargo-culting around "blockchain technology" (including Ethereum). Bitcoin is the only one that matters because it's truly neutral and decentralised. It wasn't founded by any company, there's no marketing team or CEO. It's just an open network protocol that people choose to opt-in to because they understand its value proposition to the world. In the same way that there's a separation of church and state, there needs to be a separation of money and state.

https://vijayboyapati.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoi...
One more reason not to upgrade, with as a result decreased security. This is beyond stupid. Stop wasting money and focus on the browser instead.
I agree, i also found the writing to be very "try hard" and pretty unpleasant to read.

That might be because i'm not a native english speaker, though.
I found this thread from 2012 while researching my post. There are in fact not a lot of posts about this topic. Are you sure these entries are sponsored? It doesn't say sponsored in the screenshot.
I've always wondered why nobody built Kongregate 2.0 using modern web technologies. The indie game dev scene seems to be thriving, and you can play tons of games for free on itch.io While some of them have a webplayer, it's disorganized, and the user experience is usually terrible.
Apparently astrologers declared this the year of Git implementations. Production of Git implementations has increased five-fold.
We've been using ShapeUp at Zinc Learning Labs for two years now and it has done wonders to our pace and sanity. I wrote about our experience with ShapeUp recently, specifically about moving away from estimation - https://world.hey.com/karthikc/wrestling-with-the-unknown-be...
The blog seems pretty clear they will be asking for permission?

Tho not in the best way, I feel, but at least this is opt-in?
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Holy crap, that news would be worth of an April 1st!

I swear I double checked the date.
„Apologizing when you are caught to is never an apology, but an indication of submission.“
NNT - https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1427341684447264772
Exactly that. If they got rid of their hobbies then this sort of scam wouldn't be necessary. Yes, it's a scam: bait and switch.
That actually isn't particularly helpful.

Picture the rendering process like a conveyor belt factory. This is a bit of a simplified model, GPUs are incredibly complex and things aren't quite this straightforward, but it's good enough way of reasoning about how they operate by imagining something like Factorio.

First you load up a scene, and then it goes into one machine that does the first part of the rendering, then the next machine does the next part, and so on and so forth, until it arrives at the other end and is drawn on the screen.

It's easy to see you can start working on the next frame while the first frame is in the second machine and that's probably in general a good idea.

Reducing how many items are on the belt doesn't reduce the time it takes to go from start to finish (i.e. the latency), it still has to go through the same steps. Loading up more items on the belt at the same (probably) improves the stability of the framerate, but again it does nothing for latency. If you load up too much on the belt may cause problems, but such a condition is easy enough to determine and avoid programmatically. The frames still take the same time to go from start to finish.

Bottom line is that the time between frames and the time to render a frame are disconnected, if they seem connected it's because getting a better GPU increases them both. But you could (hypothetically) render at 120 Hz refresh rate with a 30 second rendering latency.
> infected people are also less contagious.

Complete bullshit. It has been demonstrated in several publications that the viral load among vaccinated people is just as high as unvaccinated people, and viral load in key areas like the nose is what spreads infections.
Is this maybe not rolled out to every user? I have version 93.0 installed and I do not find this option in my settings.
Note, this is a Windows thing for managing log files - it is not a file system.
Is that just well-known in the UK though? I've mentioned this to people outside the UK and only occasionally have they known it.
That commenter is agreeing with you. (I would say this underscores the need for everyone to speak clearly, but IMO they at least were speaking fairly clearly already.)
You perfectly hit the points that rub me the wrong way when looking at the post: redefining commonly used terminology, lack of a short dose of physics for a background, misspelling Navier-Stokes, etc.

Neither of those should doom a computational project, but I think they have a bigger negative impact on readers than the author realizes. My 2c.
> But as a customer, I'd deliberately avoid Paddle to keep my privacy and avoid spam

You make it seems like, this is an issue. But every service that you use today has your email, Amazon, your ISP, Apple, .. everyone.

If you don't want to receive email, use a secondary email to subscribe to services and you will not be annoyed with unsolicited emails
I wasn't too impressed with the writing, especially after hearing so much about the book. However, I think it provides an interesting alternative to the fear based absolute authoritarian control used by governments to varying effect currently and throughout history.

Huxley's description of a biological determinant (arbitrary or otherwise) as the basis upon which to build a discriminatory caste system for all of humanity is horrifying enough. To then drug the population in order to prevent them from feeling bad about being slaves to their biological betters is the icing on the cake.

Whether an Alpha or epsilon, that's not a world that I would want to live in.
I’m an aspiring author and wanted to put something out there, but found that every platform seemed to have a different way of getting your raw text into its particular editor… are you planning on an easy way to bring things in from more basic sources?
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Apple would be playing with fire if they attempt that interpretation. It would detooth the ruling, and could force the judges hand to impose stricter or more vague requirements. The judge certainly not have an issue with the api design...
Can I ask how you arrive at that $15k figure please?
Gravis Ultrasound playing TIE Fighter music is the pinnacle of game music for me.
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From what I understand doing donations and stipulating that it’s for a specific purpose can hurt a nonprofit more than help, because then vital logistics get underfunded and fuck up the competency of the organization. (Eg. Everyone wants to fund nonprofits cancer research or whatever, but what if they actually desperately need to fund remote work infrastructure because a global pandemic has forced them all to work remotely on short notice?)

Of course if you don’t like what an organization broadly does with the money given to it, don’t give it money. Maybe issue some feedback that you think the organization should do x or y, and the fact it’s doing p and q makes you hesitant to donate.
I would suggest Ernesto Sabato, mainly his book essays. Another member of the proud 1900s writers.
Alex Gladstein has written about this at length.

He works for the Human Rights Foundation and advocates Bitcoin for its humanitarian use cases. He has spoken to many people in these types of countries to get their take on it. See for yourself...

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/alexgladstein
I think (I would have to reread it more carefully) is Parisi's argument is that probabilistic models can sometimes be necessary even with deterministic systems that are well-characterized because the systems are extremely sensitive to information that might be difficult to obtained (i.e., measure).

I think compression/algorithmic complexity frameworks are relevant in that they imply in complex systems deterministic-like prediction with very narrow posteriors will require larger and larger computational resources. Ie the concentration of the predictive posterior depends on the computational resources available.
It's a dark pattern I call 'the consent ratchet'. As soon as you ever get irritated enough and misclick that button is gone for ever and good luck disabling the 'feature' (term used lightly) seven layers of menus down, assuming it can be done at all.
Well that's what Google already does anyway with web APIs, except that their APIs are usually a broken mess (see WebAudio).

But apart from that, Microsoft was in a unique position to dictate standards to GPU vendors, as draconian as it sounds, this worked much better than Khronos' design-by-committee approach in OpenGL.
neurotypical people seem to get enjoyment calling people names

I'm of two minds about this, because of the generality of this blanket statement. Why should we accept this as the norm? I would classify these people ("enjoy calling people names") as abusive, and think that classifying this behaviour as neurotypical effectively legitimizes it.

That said, nicknames are also an expression of affection and inclusivity, and derogatory nicknames are not necessarily meant as an insult. Still, they're just as easily used to demean, belittle or dehumanize the target, so it depends a lot on context. I understand what you mean, but I disagree with your general statement.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Well, go and take a stroll at 3am in certain parts of Paris where police almost never manifests and when it does, it's in groups of 10 at least — the results may upset you.
There’s not enough data to help you. What does “difficulty having the application run in the background” mean? Does it crash, does it slow down, does it freeze, does the connection drop? What language are you using? Are you accessing system APIs?

HN is not the right forum to debug an app. Try one of the Stack Exchange websites[1] and be specific about your issue, what you’re doing, and what you’ve tried so far. Making a useful problem report is imperative to getting good help.

Good luck.

[1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/
Found my answer on their page about Firefox Suggest[0]:

"Note: Firefox Suggest is currently available for a limited number of users in the U.S. only."

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-fir...
Awesome work but the website is burning my eyes.
It's not supposed to be an actual figure, but an increase of 0.5 to 1 orders of magnitude is realistic considering the price of similar products, like the Librem 5 USA.
> Why not just tell it like it is.

Given the massive salaries and bonuses paid out to upper management[0], I think their problem would be not sounding like that dril tweet about budgeting[1].

After the massive layoffs and cuts to vital web platform projects this move just feels consistent in their move from their old "quirky nerd charity" image to a new, more corporate one. I'm not saying that this is a good thing.

[0]: https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

[1]: https://twitter.com/dril/status/384408932061417472
I was under the impression that Brave was a more privacy-friendly variant of Blink/Chromium?
Currently the only supported way is copy and paste, and we'll retain the basic formatting. The editor is being rewritten and once it's finished we'll support direct import from Word documents. You'll just have to specify the chapters.
Can someone please just offer an open source browser that I can pay towards somehow?

IMO adtech is the root of all that’s wrong with the modern internet. It gives companies 2 masters: advertisers and users. Guess who’s prioritized when there’s a conflict between the needs of the two? Whoever’s paying the bills, of course.
New tutorials? Don't they all date from when 32 bit registers were new, 16 bit registers mainstream, and MMX and x87 the new complicated instruction set additions?

It would be certainly a smaller tutorial, but historical perspective might be valuable for understanding cruft layers of design decisions that made sense decades ago and addressed problems that have ceased to exist.
Yeah that can happen, though in my experience it's far more common that IDEs are broken by some janky custom build system set up by people that use Vim or Notepad++.

I think you're also right that some languages make this harder for IDEs than others. C++ is probably a worst case. Something like Java is trivial because the file structure matches the namespaces. It's probably not a coincidence that every Java IDE I've used has absolutely top class code intelligence tools.
Just wait until online grocery apps fully start maximizing user engagement ;) I think product discovery and suggesting dishes haven't reached it's peak yet in this market.
> What would you do if you need to rent a car, but your bank is down, and cannot authorise the payment?

This is end-of-the-world type scenario, you can prepare but should you go always prepared for it?

> The cards I have actually pay me back in rewards for having them. Why would I NOT have as many as they'll give me?

OK, that might be some countries specific, but in my country debit/credit (debits are way way more popular here) there are usually no rewards for paying and juggling cards to save 1-2% is not worth it - had once such card, after 6 months they resigned from such rewards and choosing card to use even on phone is a PITA instead of using the default one.

And this was just an exception, usually you don't get rewards unless you have an expensive credit card that gives you mile rewards, but for that you really need to use that card everywhere to make it worth it - so again no need for other cards.

This is EU-PL specific point of view.
I recently switched to LibreWolf, a privacy focused fork of Firefox and it works really well. It tracks upstream closely and has reasonable defaults for power users.
Yes, in their advertising.
I think the 15000 number is way too high.
Best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
"Provide" is a bit vague word for "sell". They _sell_ their hardware and force the developers to use their tools.
I dont understand how profile could make such a difference but that is also my experience as well. Everything is fast in a clean profile.
Apple rejects apps for explaining App Store guidelines to users or mentioning Android.
Saudi Arabia also nationalized its oil with only positive consequences. How you do it is important. Seizure within weeks vs acquisition over years.
It's been half a decade since I last used VLC and looked this up, but I'm certain there was a VLC staff member, perhaps a moderator, who explained the presence of these sidebar entries as measures to cover development cost.

There are in fact not a lot of posts about this topic

You mustn't have looked very far ;)
This is obviously fake news. The vaccines are safe.
Safari has nothing to loose by standing against Google. People on iPhones will still (have to) use Safari.

Firefox stands to loose the last few percents of browser market share they have.
You can't do all of them. Here is an example: in my native language Pula is a slur for male genitalia (way worse than D*ick in English) but at the same time it's the name of Botswana currency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_pula) and also a city in Croatia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_pula).
And of course they allow you to turn it off, but it's on by default. Notice how they don't really tell you whether it's on by default, they tell you that another feature was on by default and this new feature is getting wrapped up into that.

No discussion on how much money they're making from this.

So absolutely sleazy. Whoever wrote this has read too much marketing bullshit from other tech companies and wants to emulate their intros. The weasel wording in this is just sad and pathetic coming from Mozilla. I expect this from a company like Facebook, but if Mozilla is going to introduce something like this they should at least have the decency to talk to their users like competent human beings and not complacent idiots. It's insulting.
> Let me pay for Firefox development directly

Same. I already donate to the Mozilla Foundation but I'd love to fund Firefox more directly.
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Agree, I love Ag. My only grief is that it isn't standard and I still need to be able to use grep.
First, Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. Second, nowadays web browsers are fairly big beasts, perhaps even more than the complex machinery that Linux is. If lines of code are any measure Firefox and Chromium are above it[1][2][3]. Finally, Mozilla isn't making only Firefox.

[1]: https://www.openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_...
[2]: https://www.openhub.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest/languages_s...
[3]: https://www.openhub.net/p/linux/analyses/latest/languages_su...