skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, thanks. Yep, when I type "vans" in the URL field I see a link to eBay marked with a "sponsored" flag.

I'm glad it's clearly marked, at least.

The sponsored eBay URL I'm given has these parameters:
_nkw=vans
mkevt=1
mkcid=2
mkrid=711-4011-10148-0
keyword=conducive
crlp=318361097US282021100618
MT_ID=562786
geo_id=10232
device=computers
cmpgn=216223

I'm not sure what each value means.
Of course they are still saying "do not open". It voids warranty.

But they are not going out of their way to make it hard.
Google runs his portrait, if he was niche before this is certainly not the case now.

https://www.google.com/doodles/112th-birthday-of-jorge-luis-...
Can you imagine if Facebook had like karma? Global GDP would almost immediately take a nosedive!
I wonder what would happen if murder stopped being policed. Would the murder rate remain unchanged as “numerous studies” suggest? Or would an unchanged base rate in murder without official retribution lead to blood feud style relationships between people and increase a secondary, tertiary, … n-terary murder rates?

If police leave 45% of murders unaddressed, I wonder how many current murders are secondary in nature, as in would not have occurred without an unretributed precipitating crime be-it murder, rape, assault, etc.

It’s an interesting idea to think about murder not being policed or have legal repercussions. Would it be comforting to know if you kill somebody drunk driving there wouldn’t be a big problem? I guess somebody like Dallas’ Dr. Death would still have to deal with pesky civil lawsuits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Duntsch
welp, it's been a slice, Firefox. I will never forget the excellent MDN docs and of course the gift of Rust.

I will miss your little furry logo henceforth.
It is not Mozilla's job to profit off its users. Its job is to provide a browser. They have utterly failed at this job.

I have a fundamental right to see not see the content I do not want to see. I have a fundamental right to not be advertised to. Firefox has violated this right.
If you think requiring the ability to delete your account is "developer hostile", you're exactly why this provision needs to exist. Apple is giving you six months to stop fucking your users. Sorry not sorry :\

> You have to be crazy to stake your company on apple's goodwill at this point

My company has an app on the app store. We do a few hundred million dollars in sales via the app. Are we crazy?
There isn't really a need for anything, which is kind of the point. You can use a random language that's missing a ton of functionality and you can probably make it work.
Canada, US, China

Three of the six largest oil producers. Norway's lack of suffering from the so called resource curse isn't that special. What's special about Norway is their privilege to control so much oil with such a small population, quite similar to the sheiks of the Middle East (who have often made their people quite wealthy compared to their less oil fortunate neighbors, as in the case of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or UAE). No coincidence Norway is also still a backwards monarchy that installs a king as head of state after a thousand years.
Unfortunately Mozilla is already a publicly funded nonprofit.
How am I only just learning that a a piece of music is only a song if it has vocals? Even the name makes that obvious.
> They integrate all of Google's non-standards just as quickly as Google does

They don't. They are still publicly opposed to the most egregious Google "standards." See https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

One particular concern that always comes to mind for me, because I use Web Components at work, is that we would have gotten a much worse version of Web Components if not for Mozilla's opposition. That sort of opposition isn't possible from the vendor of a Chromium-fork.
as much as i hate ads, i'm OK w/ this if it keeps firefox going. i personally can't stand chrome -- i don't know why, it just doesn't 'feel' right to me.
There's a ton even ignoring his maybe crazy friend...

>Allen was allegedly in Riverside on the weekend when Cheri Jo Bates was murdered. He later claimed to be in Pomona when he heard of Bates' murder.

>Allen took his only sick day of the year on Nov.1, 1966 (Bates was murdered on Oct. 30, 1966).

>Told police he was going up to Berryessa on the day of the Hartnell/Shepard attack, but decided to go up the coast instead.

>Allen admitted to possessing bloody knives on the day of the Berryessa attack, claiming that he used them to kill chickens.

(other friend...)
>Allen communicated to his friend Philip that he was fascinated with the idea of killing people. He believed that people were more challenging to kill than animals since they were more intelligent. Similar sentiments were communicated during the three-part cipher mailed to newspapers. Allen also mentioned to the police that his favourite book was The Most Dangerous Game, a book about killing humans and possibly alluded to in a Zodiac correspondence.

>In 1991, the search warrant for Allen's house found bomb diagrams and the same ingredients for bombs that were mentioned in a previous Zodiac letter.

>Karen Allen, his sister-in-law, stated that Allen would use the shortened "trigger mech" in place of "trigger mechanism," as well as spelling Christmas with two S's. Both idiosyncrasies appear in the Zodiac letter to Melvin Belli.

This person is either the most unlucky person in the world with all these random associations with the zodiac killer, or was the actual zodiac killer.
Like many here, I can attribute where I am in life today largely to TI calculator programming. I made many friends on Cemetech with whom I still keep in touch, including a few named in this article.

I racked up thousands of posts on the Cemetech and United TI forums and spent countless hours hanging out in the game Blockland which was also popular among those folks in the mid 2000s.

To me, one of the most impressive folks in this list is calc84maniac, who joined the scene a year or two after me, but quickly surpassed me in skill, becoming a z80 ASM whiz at the age of ~13 or so, whereas some of the other (very talented) folks were at least STEM university students.

I know a few people in this article such as SirCmpwn are on HN, too, so hopefully they chime in this thread.

Some of the most memorable things about programming in BASIC on these calculators were the absurd constraints. Your whole program was limited to a few kilobytes. You only had 27 floating point variables, a few lists of floats with a maximum length of 999, no real functions or stack or anything, etc. You’d shave bytes by taking advantage of syntactical quirks that the interpreter happened to accept, like not closing parentheses at the end of a line.

I don’t have much of value to add other than expressing some serious nostalgia.
This is one of those things that Google and other search engines have gotten increasingly bad at finding. chip.tomsk.ru was my go-to for looking up SMD markings before it sadly disappeared a few months ago.
Mate, I mentioned up above that the process by which I cancelled was a chat box that intermittently ate maybe three minutes. Not mentioned was I did it while cooking breakfast.

The best experience would have been no human intervention necessary, but for a process where someone was involved, it was incredibly straightforward. They gave me an offer, I refused it, and nobody had to be a dick about it and no phone calls were made.
Right now I (well, we, my team) uses Hbase and in a previous project I used Cassandra. These are very high scale systems where we need replicated writes (for durability and availability), we need horizontal scalability and performance (write heavy or mixed read/write workloads) trumps transactionality. There aren't a lot of writeups about performance benchmarks between NoSQL and SQL but as far as I know it's not even close to the same ballpark:
https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/21/cockroachdb-vs-scylla-be...

With something like Cassandra you get read after write guarantees that I think you don't get with read replicas and SQL databases but I'm not too familiar with the latest there. Also once you start breaking up your SQL databases into shards you lose all SQL goodness across shards (like joins and other properties).

So no free lunches basically. I'd love for there to be something fast, scalable, queryable, transactional etc. etc. Honestly I haven't looked in a while but every open source SQL solution I've seen in the past that claimed to be durable/reliable/scalable doesn't actually do that under failure modes like NoSQL does and pretty much loses either performance or other guarantees or both. Ofcourse NoSQL doesn't solve some of these problems, but at least you know what you're getting into ;)
FB 'whistleblower' was part of team that censored Hunter Biden laptop story
But when that is followed by an explanation outlining why they’re allowed to do what they did, and going forward they’ll try to make that more clear, how is one supposed to interpret the original apology and its intent?

The apology and the legal overview do not coexist well.
> The Signals Network, the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that compiled these legal considerations, is one of these actors. The Signals Network enables whistleblowers and international journalists to work seamlessly together to hold powerful interests accountable

A word of advice: Don't get your legal advice from the same journalists that want to use your story, and maybe also your name, to further their own career.

There's an inherent conflict of interest between someone who wants to use your leak to further their own agenda (be it activism or simply writing a juicy news story) and your own interests as someone with potentially massive legal liability. When the legal wheels start turning, it's not the journalist who is putting their finances and freedom at risk. It's the employee.

Leaking company documents or even violating NDAs you signed as part of your employment should not be taken lightly, no matter how friendly sites like this make it sound. Always engage with legal representation that is not affiliated with the journalists who want your story. Never let a friendly journalist talk you into divulging information that could expose you until you've worked through the legal ramifications, no matter how much they encourage you to push forward.
> 6. Causation does not imply correlation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03118

And in the paper, from the abstract,

> We demonstrate that the Faithfulness property that is assumed in much causal analysis is robustly
violated for a large class of systems...

In preliminaries,

> The Faithfulness assumption is that no conditional correlation among the variables is zero unless it is
necessarily so given the Markov property.

So probably a more accurate laymam description would be "not all causations are observable as a statistical correlation relationship".
Nothing is faster or leaner. I have always been a fan of Firefox the underdog but it gets worse with every release in so many different facets. Performance has been terrible for a while now.
Password reset is easy and free. Why go to the trouble of a password manager, especially for dumb stuff like grocery coupon cards?
Any bank in America for the last 20 years. I opened my very first account at the branch cause I though they need to see me. Dozens of accounts at multiple financial institutions after that I never had to go to the branch. Most of my accounts held at places that don't have any branches within hundreds of miles.

In fact Wells Fargo is famous for opening account for you without you even thinking about it.
I once got really stuck with CloudFormation not deleting a resource that also didn't show up in the AWS console - not fun.
One man’s developer hostile is another man’s customer friendly
That's just an alternative option. You get Xsolla if you click "more payment options". Amazon Pay is the default.
Part of the difference is that Tesla is an expensive/new vehicle, and vehicle registration (at least in California) is tied to vehicle cost.

But I think they do charge extra to make up for the fact that you never have to smog an electric vehicle.
Good news, you can! https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/
> I still don't get it. You cancel the account, it should be gone like it never happened

As long as that change cascades to every single site that the user could have registered with.

Otherwise, there could be hundreds or thousands of sites waiting to email confidential information to a new person.
Looks like passwords were hashed with bcrypt using a cost factor of 10. I wouldn't be too worried for people with good passwords set up even if hashes got leaked. People with common passwords should probably change their passwords just in case though.
Both CDK and Pulumi are declarative. The program declares resource desires to an engine, which evaluates a diff and effects change. You cannot instruct the engine what to do, only the desired outcome, which makes it declarative.

You are correct there is an engine - I mistakenly mistook that as criticism of the default state back end, which is not required.
looks like it is limited to English only. There is whole world of non-English offense out there. Like using English characters to make national offensive words as well as using national characters to make English offensive words.
The only one chance Mozilla had is to finish Firefox conversion to Rust, a complete conversion. That would have made development and updates easier. Apparently, by firing most of the team they put a writing on the wall. It's just a question of time.
That answers that. Thanks!
“ the Zodiac Killer as Gary Francis Poste, who passed away in 2018.”. He barely got away it seems if true.
As a citizen of resource rich Australia this story of foresight and self-determination in a nation just about makes me weep.
Good critique, but I'd like to see something about the lack of a real type system and the inability to define new types.
Anyone have stats on how much it costs to run Wikipedia's collection of websites? Do they release itemized expenses (servers, programmers, lawyers, management, etc)?
> When and how do you think Mozilla will ever do anything to help the web?

Firefox helps the web. MDN helps the web. Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator helps the web. Mozilla has helped the web and continues to do so in so many ways. I think they'd be on the short list of who has helped the web the most.
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION is_hateful (VARCHAR) RETURNS BOOLEAN STABLE AS $$
>...
>OR replace($1,'_','') SIMILAR TO '%(kill|keel|hang|burn)%(black|bl4ck|black|jew|trans|gay|african|afrikan|minorit|asian|nig|n1g)%'

Protected classes:

black, jewish, trans, gay, african, asian, minorities

Non-protected classes:

white

Typical Twitch (D-CA). All (D-CA) companies really. Under the law (in the USA), all races, and sexes are equally protected. On big tech platforms it's only one slice of demographics that harassment and hatred is tolerated toward, even encouraged. Do they actually think this is helping? Singling out one demographic for abuse? Do they think this is progress? That people won't notice? That it will never backfire?
Remember that Amazon runs one of the biggest multi-tenant service platforms in the industry! A separate business unit like Twitch is likely to be set up a lot like any other random AWS customer, and you wouldn't expect that compromising servers used by one AWS customer to automatically compromise the underlying infrastructure.

(I would also expect that the Amazon retail systems are in most senses "just another tenant" on AWS, albeit with much more liberal quotas!)
Interesting. I wasn't aware that there existed magnets with rare earth metals. Thank you for the information.
Well they're fucking it up, royally, and it seems hard to do worse.

I wish they'd stop wasting money on dumb projects like a VPN and instead just focus on making a fast, modern browser that respects my privacy and doesn't fucking show me ads.
Community Drama and My Search for a Privacy-Preserving Mobile OS
at this point, i dont know what buying means with all these other corrupt currencies. this could just be the proceeds from another successful pump and dump
brb looking to replace using Linux and Wikipedia
I don’t mind them receiving funding from Google. It just seems like a poorly thought out way to raise funds. They receive 400-450 million /year from Google. Is this not enough to fund Firefox development adequately?
Rust is a language nobody uses?
If you've a world-beating compression algorithm a la Pied Piper, you keep it
closed source. If you're like everyone else just making doughnuts, you've
really no choice but open-source since you're competing on marketing, not technicals.
I would happily pay a monthly fee for Firefox... as long as the money went to Firefox development

and not something like their mobile OS or their social missions (like 3D VR chat and other assorted crap)
The makers of safari are blessed with a massive revenue stream that's not possible for Mozilla
So we agree it's user hostile, right?
This whole thing just screams clusterfuck to me.

Don’t trust Microsoft or give anyone admin access to your repos if you won’t want them to do bad shit.

I guess they technically own Github, so don’t use that if you don’t trust them either.
> What else is there to own in an open source project?

Control over the code repository, maintainership, and the ability to push to master/main.
Yeah, and this should be a huge incentive for Governments to implement rebates and things to encourage more EVs. Our Federal Government in Australia is very strongly captured by lobbyists for all sorts of multinational companies, and some of the big ones are the oil & gas industry, so there's little movement here, but when you really think about it, having the sovereign capacity to fuel your vehicle fleet instead of relying on foreign oil (and increasingly in Australia, foreign refinement of that foreign oil) is a massive advantage.
Maybe CloudFormation is too entrenched at the moment? I think CDK became publicly available in late 2019 or early 2020.
I haven't used it because I'm currently working on a project using Serverless (thin layer on top of CloudFormation) with no easy way to slip any CDK in.
Non sequitur - you're putting words in the parent post's mouth. When they say "once", they're talking about "once". Arrogant to claim otherwise.
How could al-Kasim be so sure that Norway would find oil?
> It is not Mozilla's job to profit off its users. Its job is to provide a browser.

Firefox is a non-profit, but it needs revenue to provide that browser to users. Right now most of that revenue comes from Google (and its search suggestions, also enabled by default, I think). I'm not sure how you expect it to do its job for free, and it seems to get nothing but pushback whenever it tries to become more independent. I do not agree with all of Firefox's decisions, but to say they have "utterly failed" feels overstated.
> also whoever posted my tweet to the orange website, fuck you

Everybody hate the angry orange site... very sad
For me it's just a WAY better browser. It's faster in the newer versions and scales better (keeps FAR more tabs than Chrome). I have chrome running too for docs and Google properties but FF is my main browser.

My favorite is the address bar which is on a completely different level to chrome. I just type a vague memory and it finds what I'm looking for in my history. Amazing. As others said ad blocking is better, facebook container etc. Also removing anything related to google is a big plus especially after stuff like this: https://dev.to/codenameone/google-play-kafkaesque-experience...

Notice that in code we use CEF since there's no real alternative. I'm purely talking about the experience as a user.
Diving into Immutable: An NFT Layer 2 Protocol to Rewrite Scalability
>I bought a used sub-$20k electrical car a few months ago

Out of curiosity, what make and model? I'm trying to find an EV and like everyone is saying, it's all luxury vehicles.
As I see it, Kodak saw the writing on the wall pretty early, started R&D for digital camera ahead of the pack, and actually built the first working digital camera we know of. But it failed to put as much weight behind the new product line as it did on the money making ones.

That's basically a text book example of the "strategy tax", which isn't about stopping profit from existing products, but to let new concepts cannibalise legacy products.

In which way do you see Norway hitting the brakes on new technology and future trends to protect the oil business ?
Does anyone trustworthy offer a paid version of Firefox? I don't know of one, but I'd be customer #1.

The pitch is clear: "Users are our only customers. We'll always do what's best for you and we'll do it completely transparently."
Credit Karmas business is collecting fees when people sign up for credit cards and lines of credit they push... they are hardly neutral.
This what you are looking for? https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/
They're worried about what would happen if that funding were to disappear at some point (Google could choose not to renew the contract at any time and then Mozilla would have a huge problem). Part of leadership in a big organization is looking ahead and trying to mitigate potentially-catastrophic risks before they become actual problems.

Mozilla doesn't want the future of their entire organization to rest in the hands of Google, whose decisions they don't have control over (and who is also their main competitor).
I have the latest version of Firefox (93.0) but don't have this option. Was this an A/B test or was it removed in the latest version? (the OP said they were using version 92)
> There was no size_t in K&R1. Size_t was introduced in the standards process as was the definition of index variables in the for loop. You may have a complain with the standard there.

I certainly do. C and descendants makes you over-specify variables by declaring them all int/size_t/etc individually. It should've had C++11-style "auto" from the start and there should be a statement like "for i=0..n" that declares "i" the same type as "n".
But they did basically give a third party marketing company a key logger on your address bar.
Mozilla Corporation is not a nonprofit.
They spend money on social causes, advocacy, and not purely on engineering. It has a product in a niche the overwhelming majority of people don’t want to pay for.
I think the gap is not as far as the author purports. I've followed fusion research as a layperson for years, and clearly understand the point of these designs is to prove the most meaningful piece of the process of generating energy, not actually doing it, and that it would be a lot more work going from here to there.

It think the summary on fusion is:

- it's the most amazing energy source we have lined up in the mid term

-ots almost certainly going to work

- we are making meaningful but slower progress than we would like

- it's dramatically underfunded
Equally true if you replace "Facebook" with "online media". They optimize their articles and headlines for virality, including this one, just as aggressively as FB optimizes its algorithms. They're just two different parts of the same electronic drug-pushing machine.

Give your attention and care and trust to the goals and people in your life that are worthy of it.
She's a keeper.
It also includes a couple of Italian swearwords in the function `is_blasphemy`
> Midi is an instrumental only declarative format.

There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87
Done. Firefox's done.