skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And since all this convenience comes at the expense of getting outside and mingling with other humans, is that really a healthy lifestyle from a mental standpoint?

What are people doing with the time that they would have spent traveling to procure the item that is being delivered?

If anything, more convenient procurement services that require people to spend less time procuring their goods should result in more time to “get outside and mingle”.

I do not think services that reduce time required for people to procure things are to blame for not getting outside and mingling. It is probably more to do with broader cultural changes that lead people to prefer staying inside, possibly consuming more entertainment on their own or with existing peer groups. Maybe people are not able to spend the amount of money they want to spend on getting outside and mingling.
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> Firefox still has no alternative in the privacy / user-centric space

Safari.
What the parent is suggesting isn’t that there aren’t criminal transactions but that there shouldn’t be.

The analogy would be free speech. It shouldn’t be illegal to write an article in support of terrorists even though becoming one might be.

It’s not a right we currently recognize but it’s a cogent argument.
Ancient Humans Ate Bread and Grain Long Before Farming
I think this is a fair enough position. I don't expect every device to be easily repairable, especially a gen 1 device. They already have enough trouble getting it to fit into a size that is usable. They give clear reasons for you not to do repairs yourself, but they don't impose any arbitrary restrictions. If you want to void your warranty, they give you the full freedom and knowledge to do so.
New community platform to take pain out of managing vulnerabilites
I think this is the motivation for https://darklang.com/, trying to solve a lot of the complexity of infra. That said it’s a huge undertaking.
So,

Once enabled, Firefox Suggest sends what I type in the address bar to Mozilla. There it gets augmented with my location and makes its way to their "preferred partners", limited, for the moment, to a lovely establishment called "adMarketplace".

You don't see a slightest problem with that, no?

Reading through their "how Mozilla handles data" page [1] reveals absolutely nothing specific. What's collected, what's being passed on, etc. Just a bunch of hand waving and "don't you worry, everything is tip-top".

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/15/data-and-firefox-su...
Ask HN: How do I find a list of fast growing paid software?
Is there a search engine/web page showing the recent fast growing paid software? Or is there a way to filter/find out the fast growing software?
Are there any blends you find bearable or necessary? Any that you avoid entirely?

If you dislike wool and linen then what natural materials do you, respectively wear in winter and summer?

With regards to cotton, while it can have wildly varying qualities depending on structure and weave, there are plenty of properties that remain the same. Raw denim, a cotton twill fabric, shrinks drastically.
Sounds accurate.
No they aren’t. There are laws requiring documentation of cash transactions over a threshold.
Yep, we've just added a new 1.4GW interconnect between Norway and the UK. I believe it's the longest undersee interconnect in the world. Hopefully more will follow, I think more interconnects over greater distances are really important to help smooth out both demand and supply issues with renewables.
> since they have to be (relatively) stable as a monomer before locking in place

What is your basis for this claim?
What would the alternative be? Any Chromium-based project is tainted. I used to like Konqueror, but that's a KDE-only browser. What else?

Mozilla needs reform as an institution, it needs new leadership. But its raison d'être is still very much there.
LibreWolf is a soft-fork in this vein. Notably, it's on Flathub, so it's very easy to install.

=> https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

Iceraven is a similar (less mature) project for Android.

=> https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

It would be nice to have a single umbrella project/brand, which could essentially treat Firefox in the same way Edge and Opera treat Chrome.
Ah, the days of rearranging code so you could take advantage of the special Ans variable being faster to access…
"for sponsored results, our preferred partner is adMarketplace"

firefox continues to kill itself. it seems pretty clear now It's past the point of no return.

im hopeful brave fills the void. theyre the only company inelligently addressing the root issue with the web - advertising.
+1 cheap services are cheap because labor is cheap in some way. Without cheap labor the cost has to be put on someone.
And yet we all knew about it without blockchains and cryptotransactions are banned in China.
Does the actual structure of the original protein change to "fit" into the multimer or is it just the protein is fixed and the orientation/tessellation is what is being calculated? Or Both?
That seems to be the case with a lot of modern rendering. I imagine it's why what's considered "acceptable framerates" in games keeps rising. 50 FPS on a (PAL) NES game is incredibly snappy and allows frame perfect inputs, whereas in a modern shooter it's almost unplayably sluggish.
Ah, that's right—need to have had an account for four days and... to have clicked the 'Edit' button at least once?

That's what the linked page says (I'm not familiar with Dutch Wikipedia specifics), but that seems like such a strange statistic to track instead of minimum edit count.

So weird that I looked up how to configure MediaWiki autoconfirm requirements. They probably mean a minimum of one edit. Auto-confirmation considers only age and edit count, and I don't see why clicking 'Edit' is so meaningful a condition to warrant developing an extension.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Autoconfirmed_users

Searching about extensions did lead to discovering an obscure feature: there's now a built-in URL shortener: https://w.wiki/Q8

Edit: interestingly, the single-character ones seem to have been pre-planned: https://w.wiki/e, https://w.wiki/E, https://w.wiki/4
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In Portugal we used them as well, but we don't suffer from a TI monopoly on the education system.

Anyone is free to pick whatever they wanted, so we had a mix of Casio, TI and HP calculators.

The Casio Basic tablets were the most famous ones, FX-850P.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-850P

I eventually had the follow up model FX-880P, after using FX-4500P during high school.

https://www.casio-calculator.com/Museum/Pages/FFF/FX-4500P/C...

https://www.casio-calculator.com/Museum/Pages/FFF/FX-880P/Ca...
> simpler alternative (Gemini?)

I never heard of that before. I'm off to investigate.

I've often thought we need to rewind the clock on the internet, as the whole thing has gotten way out of hand.

What's to stop feature creep of Gemini, though?
I'm using Firefox Nightly and it lets me manually control when updates are installed.

Alternatively, on Linux you can use the distro Firefox package and control its updates that way.
Belgium considers four-day working week
3M euros worth of Nazi memorabilia found in alleged pedophile's home
Recent discussion on The History of OS/2 (2001) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780433 http://www.landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/
On a tangentially related point, as much as I love Firefox, their current implementation of search suggestions is a mess when using the search bar. Even if I try to deactivate the "provide search suggestions" option in the "Search" settings, it always keeps the a child-option active (i.e. "Show search suggestions ahead of browsing history in address bar results").

Another nit-pick, when I type "github", the first result shown is "github.blog" which forces me to type "github.com". I assume it uses my bookmarks for this completely irrelevant suggestion.
> How can they make _relevant_ suggestions without spying on my browsing history, profiling it and phoning back to the mothership?

If you search for "hotels", they'll show you suggestions that match "hotels".

Doesn't seem that complicated to me.
Family court, alimony, child support, paternity, the list of broken systems goes on. Essentially, if you're male in the US the disincentives around getting married are strong and real. Even cohabitating has serious risks associated with it.

The pew research didn't mention any of these issues. It's almost as if they think marriage/partnering is a solution. I saw wording multiple times almost suggesting that.

I'm not surprised people aren't partnering. Its a mess. The system is broken.
You guys should check out HACK for HN , released in August - vs Materialistic which hasn't been touched in a long while.
>For example with Wasm and WebGPU it's possible to create AAA games running in the browser. Someone will do it. It'll be awesome.

Carmack already tried to do it with Quake Live. It did not go far.
Yes, it seems like smooth scrolling is prioritized over low latency. On Windows I even get 3 frames (48ms) of lag (presumably because of DWM).
“Be careful what you wish for, lest it comes true!”

- Aesop’s Fables (circa 260 BC).

This will probably not affect the big incumbent apps at all with all their resources and legal teams.

This can and probably will be used as a blunt instrument and weapon on the honest indie hacker. Another unnecessary high bar put in front of them.

The scamsters will probably be unaffected in the long run while the costs will be borne by the small guys. They are pros at gaming the system and will always figure out workarounds.

I hope I am wrong but the unintended consequences of penalties is always selectively applied to the weak and honest.

We already see similar results play out everywhere else and we never seem to learn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences
> We are rolling out a new type of even smarter suggestions. You might notice a message inviting you to enable these new suggestions the next time you install or update Firefox.

Off by default? Fine by me.

OTOH, if Firefox developers provided e.g. a Patreon link, and could wean themselves off the "default search engine" and "suggestions" revenue, how many people would it take to keep it running in the direction actual users want? Could it score, e.g. a million of $5 monthly pledges worldwide?
PayPal does the same thing without taking a 30% cut.
I'm not necessarily a fan of the complicated design but I accept that it might've been necessary for miniaturisation.

Other than that, to me the message of this video is that if anything goes people will have replacement parts available and a repair shop can take care of it. Assuming that's the intention it's still pretty good.
How Facebook is trying to recover the money it lost during the outage
Are people not familiar with the Egyptian goddess, though?
Exactly. No excuses - when you use such a language, you do it on purpose - you know you're going to fuck people over, and the language is there to keep them unaware that they're being exploited.

I second your opinion - I'd be willing to entertain, or even support, this way of them making money iff they spelled out honestly what they're doing and why. In details. Talk with me like two adults that respect each other.
Did the VLC people get paid to include the Jamendo plugin? Because it's not sponsored if they weren't (I realize you never claimed otherwise).
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Architectural professions top list of elite occupations in the UK
Wait, now I’m extremely curious what failure modes one would expect from a talking banana.
Librewolf, although it does have its own problems, such as IPv6 (wtf), WebGL and WebRTC being disabled by default.
That's just an example of an argument people make against unions. No matter what Clooney or Craig thinks they have no choice but to be a member of the SAG.
How many Google Chrome double agents did they hire in the last 15 years, so that every Firefox update makes the project sink further down?

Qutebrowser here I come.
While I philosophically agree with you, I can’t help but think:

- Developing Firefox looks way more expensive than running Wikipedia servers.
- It looks like there’s at least 10x less Firefox users than Wikipedia users.

It might still be possible (Firefox users might me more willing to pay and to pay more than Wikipedia users). It still looks really hard.

I wish they didn’t try to match the startup/VC/pivot/diversify frenzy but, in the end, I’m really happy that they exist.
Indeed, it is possible to author Rustlang on an Xbox
Mostly independence from the whims of platform owners who control the distribution, a space to try out quirky new ideas, and less hassle both for devs and users (no lengthy download or installation process for instance).

This is much more important for indie devs than AAA devs though (the current problems of the web platforms are not really 'AAA specific').

Also, don't forget that PC gaming could very well have died out during the transition from DOS to Windows without Microsoft actively supporting game development on Windows (with the DirectX APIs), without this, AAA gaming could very well be console-exclusive now.
I thought that a while ago... So much so, that I wrote a Proof of Concept 'Program Manager' for Windows 10 that re-imagined my current Start Menu in a Windows 3.1 style.

Oh. My. God. The whole paradigm falls down when you've got so many folders full of apps. I don't know how to solve it.

It worked well back in the day though when most people only had a handful of apps (that we used to call 'software') installed.
I learned x86 at university. I miss it.
Web 0.3!
Can someone give context on this?
UEFI was a huge mistake, Open Firmware was all we needed.
> Why not just tell it like it is.

Because the sad truth is every other company is doing exactly the same. We live in a world where the people who track you most will greet you with "we value your privacy".
I agree. Seems like the idea is to not worry about additional frames of lag but instead increase display refresh rates so that for example at 144Hz, 2 frames of lag "only" amount to 14ms.
Safari’s privacy is a joke considering you can’t install browser extensions like UBlock Origin to thoroughly block trackers and other spyware. Not to mention it’s the most buggy and poorly developed rendering engine, breaking more websites than any other major browser. And it’s not even cross platform. Hardly a competitor as far as I’m concerned.
A relationship and need for connection is a built in primal need we have. The western mindset is heavily placing monogamist relationships in the context of a win-lose game. A zero sum game. No relationship survives this, as the whole point of being with another human is emotional growth, security and healthy dependence from each other.

Teal Swan has a brilliant video on the zero sum game mindset.
We're not talking about modern Linux though. Modern Linux isn't "coordinated by a (admittably singlularly competent) sole finnish guy in a bathrobe from home,", there's now a team of people involved. Sure there is a hierarchy with someone taking the lead but isn't that true for most operations? Even the Mozilla foundation has a Chair (Mitchell Baker) and Executive Director (Mark Surman).

Linux hasn't been a single person operation since the 90s.
not only is the perfect the enemy of the imperfect but it is the friend of the absolutely evil as well.
(1) Too many ad networks involved; who do you pay for not seeing their ads? (2) You would be unpleasantly surprised by the amount to pay.
Radical measures needed for net zero 2050
What's your preferable, workable, alternative to pay-per-view / micropayments?

Largely agreed that Git + Wiki is the actual Xanadu.
Yes, we have received similar email too. I asked couple of YC companies co-founders. They said they never received such email during their time of selection. I am not sure if everyone has got this email.
Fair enough, but I wouldn't call a software locked to an ecosystem "user-centric". Firefox on Android is a lifesaver in a sea of opportunistic alternatives
I am not so much worried about price in the case, but about barriers of entry - incumbents love regulation because it converts them into monopoly/oligopoly since they are able to extract economies of scale when complying (and of course lobby about favorable to them regulations).

Regulation of Uber class services means we will be stuck with Uber forever. Whether this is good or bad thing is left to the reader to decide.
Counterpoint, I’d rather NGOs and benevolent societies be attractive for world-class leaders, rather than be the constant underdog. Of course those CEOs have to avoid implementing classic business schemes.
Yes, there are also platform specific tradeoffs involved. For example on Windows >8, you can't disable VSYNC on an OS level. Only option to disable VSYNC is to circumvent DWM which must be supported by the individual application (e.g. by starting in exclusive fullscreen, which is not supported by Chrome).
Found this today too when messing with pinetime watchfaces.
Opera was / is cool and advanced in many regards.

But Firefox is open source. This is very important for many reasons.
It is perfectly acceptable to call out flaws in US culture, why should it be different for China? What does race have to do with it? Do you see anyone claiming that Han people are genetically predisposed to forging research papers?
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Vast and important domain of knowledge are now under IP protection. It means that society will evolve only at the speed the owner want it to.

You could argue that it is better than nothing. But this you will only know if 50 years when others will have caught up and we'll realize (or not) that things could have been much faster if stuff was more open.

Google opens up its articles, codes, but sure not its infrastructure.

Now does public funded efforts do better, or would do better if they had the financial power of Google ? That's the question. I believe so, but that's rather an idealist point of view.
It's not as clear cut as you seem to think.

A lot of people just think that Mozilla should be a nonprofit and not aim to primarily enrich it's CEO and leadership. This isn't the case at the moment, which is clear if you paid any attention to what they've been doing for the last few years.

Little of the money that's going to be raised by this will end up paying for engineers to improve or maintain the Firefox code base and the vast majority of it will end in the pockets of said leadership, and this is kinda displeasing.
the day before i asked here why does mozilla need a ceo and i was met with anger for even suggesting that.
"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28765685"

aged like milk i guess.
Xenix was my first UNIX experience, in 1993 at trade school during OS design classes.

The teacher would bring a single tower (486 based I think), plug it into monitor and keyboard, and the whole class would take 15 minute slots at it.

We would prepare our exercises in MS-DOS, with Turbo C 2.0, using mocks for the UNIX APIs.

Then use those 15 minutes to replace the mocks with the real deal, and have a go at it.

Failing the exercise, it was back to MS-DOS / Turbo C, while trying to figure out with pen and paper what might have gone wrong.

Then people complain nowadays when their build takes longer than 1 second.
Agreed, wouldn’t have been out of place in a Maxis game.
I would rather donate to avoid having random pandas appear at my window and wave manically. But I would much rather not be forced to donate by such unsolicited panda attacks.

It seems it's time to find a Firefox alternative now, privacy-minded and ad-free.

Pity the web is mostly unusable with w3m. Would any HNers recommend DDG's browser as a viable alternative?
I use MongoDB as it’s more scalable by default. Harder to distribute Postgres across more than 1 node
For what it’s worth, personally, I expect 5 years from time of purchase.
Well, that is literally true - they assign monetary value to your private information. ;)
"Microsoft has switched to Chromium"

Feels like a massive missed opportunity - microsoft is the only big player not funded by ads.

Also having their own Engine was cool, i liked it, although it did sometimes have failures. Looks like they got tired if different issues and thew in the towel
A fork from firefox, stripping it regularly of the add-tech, updating only from its own trusted source.

Basically a open source project were the downstream is considered hostile.
I don't have a reference at hand, but Klabnik has expressed significant dissent in relation to Amazon's involvement (which could be interpreted as a takeover).

EDIT: the post title may be misleading :) for general information, my reference was to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28513130
If you get 5000 people paying $5/month for every person working on a truly private browser, you have $25,000/month per teammate.

I'm sure you could find 50,000 people in the world willing to pay this. I'm one of them.

The problem is how you get started while building reputation, but I'm sure that it's possible.
Leonardo, the bipedal robot, can ride a skateboard and walk a slackline
That's the book called "The Rust Programming Language", as opposed to the Rust programming language itself. I assume he's still involved with the latter.
>What's to stop feature creep of Gemini, though?

Gemini is deisgned to be non-extensible, for precisely that reason (if it becomes mainstream though, I'm sure the monetisers will find a way).
Yeah the 2020 C8 sells used for $10-20k above MSRP but the market is weird right now.

I used the historical data for the Model S. Will definitely check out the 3.
I’ve used Brave as my daily driver for years, and not once have I ever been even mildly inconvenienced by the optional BAT token feature. If it helps fund the browser, I’m glad- that’s better for me. I understand why people dislike it, but the outrage seems superfluous.
I really hate this as well. If there is a "not now" button, why is there no "no and do not remind me, ever" button, too?
The "guy in a bathrobe" is still the lead and has the final say. Is he compensated anywhere near what Mozilla's CEO is?

In fact is the total comp of all the people significantly involved in Linux kernel development anywhere near the total comp of Mozilla's C-suite? I doubt it.
I guess all those malcontents working on "AI Ethics" committees now will be out of a job.
That’s undefined only in C++ but not in C, AFAIK.
VS Code is more effective. Jump around code just by clicking, get popups for documentation, ctrl-P instant find for files etc.
The third founder with a remote team sharing the same story
The main software design problem Mozilla is facing is their urge to add user hostile anti-feutures. MS and especially Google are way better at those, so why compete on that? It is a losing game ...