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> I really, really, really dislike the language they have used lately.

That is exactly the problem I have with it - weasel words and euphemisms; FF is scoring an own-goal here and eroding trust.

Why not just tell it like it is. "We need funding and are lining up deals with third parties to display their ads/messaging in the address bar search. We vet these third parties by holding them contractually to these standards [list standards to establish bar required for "trust"]."

It's only my opinion, but spelling it out clearly - the need for funding and how/why "trusted partners" get to display their stuff - would make me far more likely to allow these suggestions. (Oh, and as for "relevance", FF should explain how that's intended to work, ie what data are being used etc.)
An Illustrated Guide to Hierarchical Navigable as Small Worlds (HNSW)
The ending of that was so unexpected:

> Wow great conversation! Let's lock it to contributors just for a laugh and not because someone on Twitter just unhelpfully sent 27.3k Looky-Loos over to drop their $0.02 on my repo

> @reactiveui reactiveui locked as resolved and limited conversation to collaborators 6 days ago

Either I'm out of touch (quite probable) or sarcasm doesn't translate too well, since... I think they're unhappy with someone tweeting a link to this PR, but it also seems unclear why discussion was shut down.
What a lazy bullshit comment, have you ever heard of UPS?
And how did nuclear get phased out if not thanks to the greens?

Who came up with the idea to rely on wind and solar? Was it oil and gas lobbyists?

But hey, don't blame the greens!
I prefer to deal with that problem when we arrive there. Most neurologists tell me there is still some way to go despite significant advancements. Same with AI, today's reality is that machines are still completely incapable of thought.

But anticipatory I would still think there is a difference because constant surveillance would still bind your time.
Brave's business model is based on crypto-speculation.

Think of the type of business involved with that, and there's your answer.
Also foreigners who wants to study and get SU (State Study Support around 900 EUR/month, and yes, you basically get payed to study) use this to get what's called "equal status" which qualifies them for the SU and probably other benefits as well.
Wikimedia doesn't have a CEO, but the executive director is paid $387,770, the CFO is paid $289,356, and there are nine other people paid over $150,000:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

Hey, maybe if they paid them more, they could start running ads too!
For something that has already been produced for some time, the markings may be no longer useful for the manufacturer.

However the first batches of boards for a new design, or after some design changes of an older product, frequently have assembly mistakes resulting in obscure bugs that are much more easy to solve when the devices are marked.
"Run some minified JS through a deobfuscator" is not something that cuts it as a replacement for open source for me. In particular it would mean other users can't legally distribute a version with potential future antifeatures removed
The linked vsync-tester[1] is very cool. But it's sad to see that (at least on my system) nothing has changed since 2012[2] - Firefox still misses frames; Chrome consistently lags an extra frame.

[1] https://www.vsynctester.com/

[2] https://phoboslab.org/log/2012/06/measuring-input-lag-in-bro...
Soldiers, at least US Army, make significantly less than minimum wage.
i know a career-agent from a job-center that told me the same thing after he had witnessed many qualified and experienced engineers beeing rejected because of age- or buzzword-based discrimination.
Considering that contract was originally negotiated when exec salaries were much lower... likely yes, s/he would do a better job. It's very plain that Baker and her friends have lost the ideological hunger and now are just in it for the money they can make before it all goes bust.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210917135621/https://www.nytim...
In Huxley's dystopia, all friction is eliminated. Friction is what makes people wake up. These "unbearable limits," i.e., friction, would not exist in Brave New World.
"Use of a key derivation that employs a salt makes this attack infeasible."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

"Salts defend against attacks that use precomputed tables (e.g. rainbow tables)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
Good old MySpace.
Many don't donate to either Mozilla or Wikimedia for the same reason.

Both companies are known for their big products, Firefox and Wikipedia, and both suffer from a chronic insistence on funding projects their userbases don't support.
"No new data is collected, stored, or shared to make these new recommendations."

"When contextual suggestions are enabled, Mozilla receives your search queries. When you see or click on a Firefox Suggest result, Mozilla collects and sends your search queries and the result you click on to our partners through a Mozilla-owned proxy service. The data we share with partners does not include personally identifying information and is only shared when you see or click on a suggestion."

Doesn't sound like "datamining everything you search for".
Good thing I stopped updating Firefox a long time ago. "But, but, security!" I hear you scream inside. Well, JS disabled by default pretty much covers it. "But, but, security!" I hear you whisper to your fingers, ready to take down my HN comment. Well, I'd rather live "dangerously" than be a MozillaCorp hostage. If security is the only reason to update, no wonder bugs, security updates, and alarmist propaganda are pushed to users in full force.
Xi Jinping is making pragmatic moves. He's zigging and zagging like a Muhammed Ali or Barack Obama or Nelson Mandela. He's fired more people from the Communist Party than Donald Trump did on his popular TV reality show. The world admires Xi Jinping's priority given to balanced ecogreen economic development for moderated prosperity and phasing in nuclear to replace coal. He played his goboard pieces well to win back the feminist Huawei executive who is a mother with children.
So, first of all I disagree. Just because something is not prevented by technical means doesn't make it allowed. That goes for all things in life, outside of a supermax prison.

And after being asked twice by another maintainer (one of the two current maintainers (none of which are her), as I read it) to please follow the procedures, she tells him to fuck off and overrides him.

And after all that she does actually write something intended to look like an apology. So what does that mean? Either she disagrees with you, and indeed she should have followed procedures, or all she's apologizing for is "sorry you got so upset", which more of a taunt than an apology.

No, actually. Contrary to what cryptocurrency people would have you believe, there are other and more effective ways to prevent undesirable behaviour than technical means, for the vast majority of behaviour.
Financing is only an issue because they make it one.

Mozilla has tons of money, but they just

1. spend too much of it,
2. on the wrong things,
3. and always want more.
Back in 1980s and 90s I had MS Quick C 1.0 and Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0-5.5. On my 386 system back in early 90s, these used to be super fast with most of the small hobby programs I wrote then. Type program name on MS dos command prompt, press enter and you can start coding or editing your file in WP or 123 in the blink of an eye. Press key combo to run program in debug mode and it would be ready in less than 1 second.

That system did run Windows 3.0, and later on 3.1 & Windows 95, but for a lot of tasks I would just use MSDOS and be done with that. Even running character mode Linux with pre 1.0 kernel in multiuser mode was fairly snappy in those days.

The first generation unibody macbook pros running OSX felt fairly fast and snappy back in the day, but even that was no match to the peak MSDOS speed. And I suppose that snappiness was felt mostly because Windows XP while fast, was not the snappiest OS out there.

In 2021 with every component seemingly 100x faster than those systems, with a 8 core i9 CPU on my MBP 16, I dont see any environment being that fast. I really miss peak MSDOS experience from the days of Windows 3.0 era.
> We need funding

Yeah, I guess Baker needs a raise.
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>A great way Chrome can render content faster is to take advantage of the multi-core CPUs and advanced GPUs present in today’s devices. Multi-core means we can do multiple kinds of work in parallel. For example, Chrome parallelizes running JavaScript, scrolling a web page, decoding an image or video,

I've noticed that Firefox is not as smooth as Chrome when playing 4k video. This has been an ongoing issue experienced by many for several years: https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+4k+video+stutters

I just re-tested this on the latest Firefox 93.0 and while it pegs an entire cpu, the playback performance is still jerky and unusable. And changing the oft-suggested setting of "gfx.webrender.all = true" still doesn't resolve it.

I don't know what Chrome is doing differently but 4k playback just works with the default settings.
It's very hard for designers and developers to come up with regular updates that stay on the fine line between still useable but somehow worse than the previous version. Firefox has been excelling at this.
I wouldn't say they have ruined the web, but they are often tone deaf to the context of the web. They often don't serve the same roles as a traditional website does and as a consumable document they are often closed and rigid.

I think they are often tonedeaf to how bad their UX can be as well. Contless SPAs feel like they were developed expecting zero network latency, and so they end up performing incredibly poorly in the real world, jiggling around, stuck in intermediate states, it gets very frustrating. To say nothing of their raw performance issues.
Everybody gets pissed off when firefox tries to move advertisement away from Google for some reason.

Firefox recieves 100s of millions in advertisement revenue via Google yearly through the search bar.

Firefox is practically 100% advertisement financed.
Free for personal use IIRC.
Just played it and it's a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing the link.
I love that there's no price mentioned and the purchase process is essentially "transfer a £12k down payment and then we'll build you a pair, then transfer the rest". Anyone have a ballpark idea of a total?

Clearly these aren't aimed at me, I doubt I could tell the difference between a £700 pair and a £10k pair, let alone anything fancier.
(It's weird.. I just came from that link, and was feeling exactly the same way, and then read your comment. Yes. I try not to chime in with "me too," but that PR really puts into perspective that the merge was problematic in addition to them transferring entire GitHub repositories without warning, which is generating an equal amount of outrage. I see now why it's equal.)
In answer to your closing rhetorical, I'd like the throw a curveball: Corporate Businesswave, the genre of truly creative artists riffing on soulless corporate jingle culture. Plenty of 80s/90s aesthetic to go around here. I personally love "Money Can Buy Happiness" and "Mark to Market" by New Century, "Pump and Dump" by Shadow and Mirrors, and "Insider Trading" by Michael Weber.

A good jumping-off point: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/39pqsBTsb9UNYv1dXbZpff?si=...
> As a side note about angry drivers, I actively try to avoid being angry with cyclists. They have to be outside in the rain and cold, while inside the car its pretty nice. I can wait.

Thank you!
Vivaldi
Some people can't wait until all games are proper Electron apps
And in languages that try to replace C++, better offer nice IDE tooling as well.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/edit-your-c-code-whil...

https://uecasts.com/courses/unreal-engine-5-introduction/epi...

With VC++ and Unreal catching up with Lucid Energize[0], others will have to up their game.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk
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Very discouraging. Few people seem to realise the importance of the direction of browser development, setting standards of the web etc. The situation is very bad.
There's always Palemoon [0] (for anyone who likes the classic firefox interface). I've been using it for years (and have donated), plus I like the fact it can be installed just by unpacking a tarball/zip file (as well as the more usual methods).

[0] http://www.palemoon.org/
Are you sure you weren't using a VLC clone that added this stuff? Because these things exist (e.g. "VLC plus"). They're basically malware, tricking people into downloading what they think is the genuine article.
According to the page that you apparently didn't read, it's based on the search text you typed and your city location.
That’s great stuff.

Doesn’t do me much good, though. I tend to use a GUI. I will, on occasion, use RegEx to look for stuff, but I generally just stare at code. I use Xcode, and Xcode has a lot of tools for doing things like going to where a method or property is defined (I use that, all the time). It also allows you to quickly see documentation on an entity. You can write code docs in a manner that generates this “quick look” documentation[0].

When I write code, I do so, in a manner that affords review in this manner (because I’m usually the poor schlub that has to look at my code).

Also, for me, there’s really no substitute for runtime analysis, like stepping through running code in a GUI debugger. If you want to trace execution thread, following it in realtime can't be beat.

I’m grateful to have that tool. I realize that it is not available to all; especially when working with a server-based, or embedded, codebase.

I usually write code for Apple systems, which means I have a great deal of control over the runtime environment, and lots of analysis tools. When I work on my server code, I stare at it a lot, and use tools like Charles Proxy and Postman to figure out what’s going on.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
It's pretty much the default database in the Elixir/Phoenix world and I really don't see any reason for my to change.
I think Chrome's biggest problem is being a memory hog, but having a slow renderer!
You also have Safari (and GNOME Web on Linux) using the WebKit engine, developed by Apple as an alternative...

But that's not available on Android or Windows (the WebKit port exists there, but no good UI frontend as far I know)... which are the two big platforms. (because Apple doesn't care enough about those I guess?)
Search following page for "professional." CUSMA is NAFTA 2.0:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...
And eventually, Mozilla's 'telemetry' will tell them that 95% users never opt out, and that'll justify removing the opt out option entirely.
They don't do any of those things, according to the article. Perhaps you didn't read it.
Firefox should split from mozilla and have its own foundation.

I dont feel like donating to mozilla under the current bean counter CEO.

If its an individual organization doing just firefox, i would 100% buy/subscribe to a paid version of the open source browser, which is not shilling my data for ads. I cant believe i am the only one who wants this.
They have "Jamendo Selections" nowadays, but that service offers independent music under creative commons licences, you can also right click and remove it.
I don't think this argument makes any sense. Just because there can be better uses for additional clean energy, does not make the additional energy any less clean.

By this definition, no source is clean, because there are always "better uses" for energy.
On the contrary, I felt that understanding where x86 had come from helped me understand the reason why the registers were named what they were, why some instructions are longer than others, etc.

It's confusing as a beginner to encounter the "di" and "dx" registers, and to understand why the 8-bit version of "r13" is "r13b" but the 8-bit version of "rdx" is either "dh" or "dl".
> If we could magically make 100x the gold, that would be great! Current gold investors would be sad but it would be a win for the world.

I am not sure about that. If there were a magical new way of creating gold to inflate its supply, it would not be good for the world.
I'm quite a feminine guy and I was always called various homophobic slurs at school. Even though I wasn't gay I didn't understand why it would matter if I was so I would just say "ok".

Even when the insults could be considered objectively offensive I'm still generally okay with it. I've been called names quite a bit in the workplace over the years and I'm okay with it if makes them happy. Being autistic I don't really care and neurotypical people seem to get enjoyment calling people names so it's win-win.

High EQ individuals have told me this is wrong and the appropriate reaction would be to take offence and try to make them feel bad, but I've argued this would just result in an objective reduction in happiness in the world so it wouldn't make sense. Plus, most of the time my colleagues have been nice to my face so it's not like it's ever got in the way of me doing my job.
The suggestions are shit just like any other platform, but they have to make the announcement look good to the advertisers :)
I think that was a good call. Most mob-comments on these things are not productive. And especially when done on the project's own infrastructure (unlike here on HN) it's like locking your normally-open door to prevent people coming into your house to berate you. Let the people upset write to their local paper, instead.

I don't think the thread would be helped by 100 "who's here from HN?", "Congrats, you're on reddit", and such.
A portable full system emulator of Z280 based boards
Am I the only one who increasingly wishes that Firefox could be detached from Mozilla? I donate to Mozilla because I care about Firefox, but all the other crap they waste time and money on is not only useless, it is of negative value to me. And then they start pulling shit like this. Why? Just make Firefox, many people will give you money for this, and stop pissing about.
With the advent of CDNs, edge routing and global hosting, things have actually gotten way better for those of us who use US based websites from the other side of the world. I am from India and back in 1990s the latency used to be huge because we had internet via satellite. Then we got internet via submarine cables but even with that latency is > 300ms for a server based in the US.

Now in 2021, most popular websites use CDNs and have servers based out datacentres closer to India and the page load speed and latency has gone down significantly for us.

But page bloat is a different matter, I still remember spending the greater part of a day (or maybe more0 downloading the MSIE 2.0 installer on a 1200bps dial up modem. Today page sizes > 1mb are common even on mobile sites.
Despite being a socialist, Orwell was very critical of the socialists of his time (especially the Soviets and Spanish communists), to the extent that he gradually became a Labour reformist later in life. In all, his most significant contribution, as he himself perceived it, was opposition to totalitarianism and to the corruption of language and thought by the political Left. On that, one can certainly "agree with his politics" without agreeing with all of it.
People tend to thing EV batteries are a binary thing, they are either working or broken. This is not how it goes.

An EV battery loses capacity faster in the beginning, slower later on. The falloff is perfectly predictable and easily estimated. You can check the health of a battery pack with a free app and a $10 OBD2 reader when buying one.

Yes, the maximum range will be lower than it was new, but it's up to the buyer if that is something that bothers them.

Compare this to the process of buying an old car. There's no way to know what kind of crap oil the previous owner has put in. You can't tell what shape the engine is in without actually opening it. The gearbox might just decide to break one day, the clutch might be on its last legs and the pistons might just come up for air some sunny summer day to enjoy the weather.

The only way to check for faults is relying on educated guesses (bring a friend who knows the specific type of car or take it to a shop for evaluation).

The difference between an ICE and EV is that ICE needs money frequently (oil changes, belts and chains and whatever wear down), an EV has That One Big Repair coming up at some point. And the price of batteries is steadily going down.

For example you can get a 3rd party battery for a Nissan Leaf _today_ that's 30% larger than the one that was in it originally. Just think what we can do in 2030.
> Empirically, it is not.

This is just not true. Mozilla spends millions on exec salaries and useless side projects, yet they still have hundreds of millions in cash reserves.
The official, upstream VLC installer, or some third-party repackaging?
> When contextual suggestions are enabled, Mozilla receives your search queries. When you see or click on a Firefox Suggest result, Mozilla collects and sends your search queries and the result you click on to our partners through a Mozilla-owned proxy service. The data we share with partners does not include personally identifying information and is only shared when you see or click on a suggestion.

I wish they'd give the about:config key to disable it as well as UI instructions in posts like this. The former can be set in a preferences file; so easily synchronised between machines and not forgotten when setting up a new one.
The people who donate should always get a special version
Well, remember, the limitation is weight not space. You could give each person a very large bedroom upstairs, with a view out the side. However, windows would still be heavy!

But a glass bottomed ballroom would be a nice touch, if you ask me.
There's still a Preferences option to opt out of "Play DRM-controlled content", even though I'm sure <5% of people opt out of that. Some options stick around for the sake of principle.
_What the hell are you doing Mozilla._ In an age of massive distrust for companies, you are (were?) one of the few companies that had both age and some trust. So many other companies promise privacy but are extremely young. There are so many other directions you could go! Why would you chip away at the value of your greatest asset!?

I continue to use Firefox because I want to avoid a chromium monopoly. Yet I don't see any plan by Mozilla to avoid being reliant on their direct competitor.
Wow, thanks, I need to try it!
That strategy always falls apart when the ecosystem goes into a direction that the guest languages did not forsaw, or already created incompatible concepts, and then get the dilema of what to expose from the underlying ecosystem.

Using Kotlin as example, its initial selling point was Java compatibility, now it wants to be everywhere, and its Java compatibility story is also constrained for what Android Java is capable of.

So the tooling attrition increases, with KMM, wrapping FFI stuff to be called from Java like coroutines, and everything that is coming with Loom, Panama and Valhala.