skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but it's still not "extremely dangerous". Logging jobs have 4x the accident rate of delivery workers, what are they then - "omg, extremely, extremely for real dangerous"?

I think all of those jobs are relatively safe - a job with an accident rate of 0.027% per year is actually very safe - it's just less safe than say office jobs, which I would qualify as "extremely safe". For an actual extremely dangerous job, try working in Carnegie's steel mills around 1900, when hot metal or gravel would sometimes spill on happless workers, people would often get crushed or maimed etc.
A WHO-approved malaria vaccine for Africa
So what do you use that isn’t worse in this respect?
Firefox and Signal are both reliant on market share to stay relevant, and I would say they cannot afford losing users to a subscription model.

It could work if the base product was free and some addon could be purchased as a subscription, but that is also pretty much happening already with Mozilla VPN.
I adore you but doubt your judgement about those being high EQ individuals.

By the way in the middle school we used a derogatory for gay every day without even having any idea of what did it mean, all we knew was that was the worst word we knew. When others bullied me (always (or I just never cared and don't remember the verbal) physically, way harder to endure) I occasionally went mad and called them this word repeatedly.
I still dont understand why people call chrome a memory hog and safari efficient. Try loading Outlook on the web or confluence and you will see that both Safari and Chrome eat up tons of RAM and cpu.
Not anymore. Windows 11 requires 8-th generation which was released in 2017.
> The main issue with unionizing in Denmark is that it would require the companies to sign the delivery people to fixed-hour contracts

That seems like a conflation of two entirely different things. Plenty of unions represent people who work intermittently or weird hours, like basically every union related to film production.
>Finally, the fact that Bitcoin proponents have to point to poor authoritarian countries to find legitimate usecases is telling in and of itself. It's basically a blunt admission that the technology is mostly useless in the US.

You say that as though it makes it all but useless, despite the value it provides to people in those countries... that's very telling in itself.

But as I said there are many use cases, I just pointed out a few that I thought were most important on a global scale... because, you know, it's not all about people in wealthy developed nations.

But outside of those types of countries, and in countries like the US, the self-serving use case is a hedge against inflation. If inflation doesn't worry you, that's ok, but the recent money printing in trillions of dollars worries lots of other people. In 20 years I've seen the purchasing power of my money halved. I'm much happier to store my money in an asset that, so far, is seeing its purchasing power increase year on year.

From a technical standpoint the other use case, over the lightning network (and other layers and sidechains), is that it allows for instant micro-payments not possible with the legacy financial system. People are building products like podcast platforms which stream satoshis to content creators for every minute someone listens to their podcast. Others are building systems where every API call can be instantly billed. Or content distribution systems (think Bittorrent) where seeders can be compensated for service.

There are plenty of technical uses cases for a digital native money on the internet.

If you don't understand why it has utility I don't think there's anything more I can say to convince you. Sorry.
Please please, Mozilla: give me a browser I can subscribe to as an option other than ads. I'd happily pay $10 per month for Firefox.
Technologies such as browsers are very important, yet it is very hard to come up with a business model for funding their development in a way that does not compromise the users trust or lead to unhealthy monopolies. I think browsers should be viewed as a public service good and be funded (at least in part) by government subsidies to avoid reliance and corruption by the toxic ad-tech industry. I mean, everybody relies on browsers, they have become the de facto app deployment platform, and funding the development of the major 3-4 browsers would not even make a tiny dent in the budgets of the US or EU.
I agree. And you just described pass like Render.com, Heroku and diy paas like Convox and I'm sure others. I don't understand why companies, especially young - mess with all the low level infra stuff. It's such a time suck and you end up with fragile system.
Nobody asked for or wants that. Just let people donate directly to Firefox development, instead of towards a bloated foundation funding millions in exec salaries and project nobody wants.
I would not classify 7M votes for banning same sex marriage and 6.4M votes against banning same sex marriage with 80% registered voter participation rate to be overwhelming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8

The voting age population was 26M in 2008, so even subtracting non US citizens and non CA residents, there were many millions of people who did not bother to vote, and I would bet that people who wanted to ban same sex marriage were more motivated to
vote than people who did not want to ban same sex marriage.

https://www.cdss.ca.gov/research/res/pdf/GENtrends/CApop/CAp...
Designers will wrinkle their noses at standard components and will ask something custom to stand out.
The version prior to that will be my last firefox.
Such a shame.
FirefoxOS has been dead for at least seven years. That horse is quite dead.
The VPN product probably pays for itself.
I'm not an insider anymore but aside from FirefoxOS the vast majority of the money has always gone into browser development and I have no reason to believe that has changed.
I'm British. I don't think anyone in the UK has tried to argue that disagreements over Brexit are caused by Facebook. Actually the whole idea would sound kind of absurd. People disagreed over Brexit because:

1. Some people disagree fundamentally over the nature of government and how power should function.

2. Some people were afraid of various kinds of "punishment" or instability that they were told leaving would cause, even if they would have supported it in the abstract.

Neither of these have anything to do with messaging apps or social media. As for ethnic conflict in Ethiopia - ?!?! - seriously?! That part of Africa has been a hotbed of bloody tribal conflict for my entire life. It's driven by the local culture, I seriously doubt anyone there gives the tiniest shit what people post on Facebook.

This is Mark's point. It's not a bait and switch to point out fundamental inconsistencies between other people's theories and the wider world. The idea that Facebook is some unique social evil that causes people to disagree just looks very odd from outside the USA, looking in. It's being made a scapegoat for US social problems. Everywhere else when people fight, they are well aware what they're fighting about and why.

Re: research. You seem to be arguing that yes, they spend a lot of money on this issue but it's not enough, whilst also admitting you don't know how much they spend. You're just convinced it's too low. But this is meaningless: research programs have natural costs and you can't simply double a budget and get ... what? Conclusions that are twice as "good"? Same conclusions twice as fast? It doesn't work like that.

Nor is research guaranteed to result in actionable outcomes. Look at their conclusions around Instagram. Some teenage girls said it made them feel worse, but more said it made them feel better. What's the actionable outcome here? Unless there was an incredibly specific kind of thing the girls who felt worse were seeing, there probably isn't any plausible action, and if there was some sort of specific content that made people feel bad, removing it would just be used as further proof of their guilt: they're manipulating the feed to increase engagement!

The rest of this thread is all like that. You start with take that is itself controversial and extreme, like "people talking about controversial topics is inherently bad and Facebook should suppress it". Then when Facebook pushes back and points out that actually, lots of people like talking to each other, including about politics, they are cast as villains.

This has all the trappings of a purity spiral. No matter how much effort Facebook makes, it's never considered to be enough. Activists who aren't quite sure what they're trying to fight or why, insist on ever more moderation in the hope that somehow this will cause other Americans to all start agreeing with them. The result is stuff like XCheck, an unstable downward spiral in which ever more aggressive moderation policies force ever more people to be exempted from them, lest the incoherency becomes too obvious.
"Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." -- A. Gary Shilling
"Hi, I'm david" -- Black page.

"Show HN: Cool tech demo in webGL or whatever" -- Oh, it doesn't work for me. I'll try it on another machine.
Because alot of people who otherwise donate to Mozilla would then donate to Firefox directly and that is not what the execs really want to happen.
I wonder how it measures against chess puzzles which are known to be hard to solve by chess engines and what kind of clever commentary it generates.
I was 30-35. I had worked in the industry for a few years before that as well.

But working at a company taught me very different things than the PhD did. It feels like I learned to program at the company, and I learned to think at the university.
Reading that thread, it seems that Firefox has some other tradeoffs, but I might be wrong.

https://youtu.be/E3wTajGZOsA
The word is bitch so the sanitised version would be B**

Why portray the bad word as 3 letters - it doesn't make sense.
Very interesting, but no speculations in the article on the price or durability of such a setup.
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u9t5rlJnJE) Seems to indicate they cost £54,000
So to clarify, apps can't only have social login.. they need to allow sign-in/account-creation via another mechanism, like email confirmation?
Maybe not inherently, but in practice, it is. Pretty much all ads are forms of emotional manipulation (FOMO, artificial status boosters, nurturing insecurities about life, body image, or career) or self-serving statistics and figures. The only ads that aren't malicious are independent consumer test reports, and they're only independent if the original manufacturer didn't pay for them. And if we accept that advertising is malicious by default, all attempts to improve the reach or effectiveness of ads can only be a net negative to society.

And that's not even touching on the entire surveillance infrastructure that has been constructed in the name of advertising, which we can similarly classify as malicious.
YC has re-opened the application for updates – W2022 batch
I have received an email from YC stating that I should make updates if anything has materially changed. Is it like that the application has been reviewed and more information is expected by reviewers at YC or the application has not been review yet and they are offering a chance to update if something has changed?

What kind of change is talked about?
That this system is so primitive doesn't surprise me at all. After all, people with a family name "Null" often get database errors -- despite even Oracle, which can't tell null and empty string apart, decidedly has IS NULL vs == "NULL" comparisons... https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b...
+1

I can really relate to this. Thnx.
This severely underestimates the complexity of the Linux kernel.
It's getting particularly problematic for international sites. What constitutes offensive language in one country might be a perfectly normal name, or product, in another country that uses the same language, let alone in another language.

There's been a running joke on the UK Reddit subs recently about people getting short bans for using the term "faggot" as it's now on some automatic, site-wide blocklist. The bans are completely context free, so people are supposedly getting banned for discussing the food product, a kind of large meat-ball made primarily from minced offal. The same happens with "fag", meaning a cigarette.
I have literally had this thought yesterday for the first time. If I had to describe someone's face to police... I couldn't.

I mean, they've got 2 eyes, a nose, lips, that's the best I could do :D
I knew OS/2 was effectively dead when I read something by (I think) Jerry Pournelle reporting on a visit to either COMDEX or CES.

He visited the IBM booth where they were showing off OS/2. He asked them what it would take to develop applications for OS/2. They gave him some forms to fill out to apply for their developer program.

The forms asked for information on what he wanted to develop and his business plans, and of course there was a high application fee. If he provided all that information and paid the fee, then IBM might deign to sell him developer tools and documentation.

He visited the Microsoft booth where they were showing a beta of the upcoming Windows 95. He asked them what it would take to develop for Windows 95.

They handed him right there, no questions asked and for no cost, a CD-ROM with developer tools and documentation.
Firefox is intent on torpedoing that struggling ~15% market share...
It's basically a cult. No one expects their dear leader to do something wrong.
I stuck with Firefox when Chrome stormed the market with a faster browser. Mozilla has had a highly respected name. I'm not so convinced about that anymore...

For me the core values of the browser are:

- free software, open source, as in freedom

- independent (mozilla is weak here)

- developer friendly, good debugging/dev interface (they are slowly losing here)

- keeping up with web standards, letting me play with proposed changes

- good performance

- not tied to a advertising business model (they are weakening themselves here)

- privacy defaults

These things are very important to me and I'm not alone. The browser is one of my primary tools that I rely on to work as well as the wider open source ecosystem.

I'd be very much willing to pay a subscription fee if I end up being the actual customer, as a web developer and not a target for other Mozilla products that I don't care about and advertisements that distract me and get in my way of working. I'm already distracted enough to begin with as I'm literally working within the web...

I haven't been a fan of many of the news surrounding Mozilla as of late:

- laying off hundreds of workers

- continuing to increase C-level salaries while revenue goes down

- products I mostly don't care about

- dropping support for innovative browser tech like Servo

- now spamming their users with ads...

What do I do?

Recently there was an announcement of the replay browser (replay.io). I played around with it a bit and I'm very tempted at the moment to try it as my primary working browser. They tick some of the boxes above (developer focused browser, subscription fee => I'm the customer). Not sure about it yet.

Edit: to the paragraph above about considering the replay browser, I just checked their privacy policy and it's a big no-no...

Is there any browser with good developer experience that respects my privacy and freedom?
I suggest they act like a non-for-profit and live within their means from the mountain of cash they already have.
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> it’s just a gameboy with an AMD64

How is this even remotely true? The only similarity is that they are both portable, or what am I missing in your argument here?

> What happened to everyone talking up the “customization” aspects?

This video proves that it'll be dirty easy to customize the components that are being removed. Want your own thumbsticks? Go ahead, here is a instruction video for how to change them. Not sure what's missing for you here?
Or the power consumption.
Use of artificial intelligence by the police: MEPs oppose mass surveillance
Revised Font Stack (2010)
Developers are not interested in Mac App Store
And yet, not _required_ to if they don't want to.
From the article ai understand you must opt in to make this available: These suggestions — which aim to enhance and speed up your searching experience — are only enabled when you provide access to new data types.

People complain when the default is opted-in. Now someone makes something that by default is opted-out and... people still complain.

They ask that when someone uses telemetry, that would be shown upfront. When someone does that, they ask it to be disabled by default. And when we get disabled by default, where do we go? Remove the feature, ofcourse :)

Ads, privacy and telemetry is a hot cake topic on HN.

That button is actually a cheap way to support mozilla, if anyone cares.
brave have some ideas...
Intel CEO Cites Brexit as Reason for Chip Fab Plans in UK Not an Option
I started with x86, after that x64 felt simply like a different flavor. There was more Googling to do, but I did that a ton already for x86, so I was used to the type of game I was playing.
> What else could their reasons be for at least not experimenting with the option?

Greed. They want to have they money to spend on increasing their own salaries each year, while their market share is plummeting.
Those people should form a DAO, pool their funds in a governable smart contract for disbursing them, and reach out to people thru hn search who have their own forks of FF now and who make comments cough like me cough on hn about it over the years every time FF adds some more garbage in their browser.

;)

At this point, threads like this help me add to my list of what garbage i need to compile out every year or so when i feel like syncing up hahaha.
That explains it. Yeah, I'd be able to point to something that's closer to what I saw.
I see the benefits for these features, but do not see why the bar had to become that obtrusive in appearance and behavior for them.

But for me these features are useless at best and a distraction in practice, I don't want suggestions from my browser, at all, I want to think for my self.

I use the url bar simply for entering addresses, or for copying and editing them. I completely disabled my history and what I want to remember I keep as bookmarks. When I want so search something I use the search box.
It is extremely dangerous to use a browser that is not fully up-to-date.
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Not for the rest of her life, only until she’d be in a safe country.
It appears that I must be in the minority but I really like going for grocery shopping. I keep discovering new products and often get inspiration for dishes when I am walking through a supermarket.
On first run it will open 2 pages on the Mozilla website, all of which embed Google Analytics and/or Tag Manager.

Mozilla claims they have some special agreement that supposedly prevents Google from using this data for advertising purposes but if you actually believe it then I may have a bridge to sell you.
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"As security threats increase, so does the cost of a data breach scope of recovery efforts. Recent IBM Security research opined that the average cost of a data breach is $4.24 million…

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The honest way is using the average CO2/kWh for the grid you're plugged into (including the CO2 emitted for constructing the power plants with some discounting function) to estimate how much carbon your synfuel releases.
It should still be the user's choice.
A classical music lecture series I listened to [1] claimed this came about because that's what iTunes calls all tracks/pieces/songs. Seems plausible, but probably other MP3 players did the same thing too.

[1] Sorry, no link, don't remember what exactly it was.
ArcaOS: Operating system based on IBM’s last release of OS/2 Warp 4, MCP2
There is so much wishful thinking around this... "me and five other people want to pay, if you just cater to my specific tastes, than the me and these 5 people will happily bankroll your massive engineering effort!"

Maybe people would be happier if they had to pay to switch off the ads instead of it just being a setting (/switching default search engine)??
Huh, I am too young to have messed with Ti-84 programming, but what you described sounds extreemly similar to my experience programing in YOLOL the ingame/inworld programming language in the game starbase.

In this language you are limited to 120 characters per line, and 20 lines with .2 second execution time for a single line in a "chip" (the devices that store and execute code ingame). Only very basic operations are availible, like goto, if, and math operations.

You basically end up code golfing to squeeze as much as possible into those 120 characters, to minimize latency and use fewer chips (which have in-world costs) its been a fun experience so far.

I wonder if the developers were inspired by the similar Ti-84 programming limits
> and the git-history seems also be missing.

The article says otherwise: "The entirety of Twitch’s source code with commit history “going back to its early beginnings”"
Hmm, that's... not good.
It's clear that some people would rather jump at any opportunity to smear Mozilla and stoke outrage than engage in serious discussion.

For those who actually want to understand the feature, and its implications for privacy and data sharing, https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/15/data-and-firefox-su... is a starting point.
I think the problem people have is not the company that pays the revenue but the industry. If it's going to be ad revenue it doesn't matter much whether it comes from Google or somewhere else. The main problem is that advertising is ultimately at odds with their objective of protecting users' privacy.
Does your experience as a consumer not suggest that the amount of developers employed is, if at all, inversely correlated with software quality?
For all I care there already are ads in the form of pinned websites (Amazon, et cetera, about which I dislike Mozilla assuming I want them on my new tab page) when you set up a new profile and must remove one at a time clicking the tiny burger menu icon that's hidden unless you hover on the icon, and appear in the URL bar when opened. This is just another little addition to the already present task of disabling unwanted annoyances on installs without policies groups setup, so it doesn't bother me too much at this point. I doubt this will help improve the browser at all, let's see if the servo developers and the security team gets hired again from the little income this produces rather than some other significant expenses that have been widely documented in this thread already. Is it really so difficult for a browser to focus on its development and its features alone to gain or recover lost market share? Word of mouth and installations to others' PCs by IT people or privacy aware people really are so worthless now?
You're giving other examples of sites known to do harm with their recommendation engines. Youtube is just as complicit in QAnon and in redpilling people as Facebook.

Removing the recommendation engine from Youtube is something that would be a net positive for the world.