skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox has 200M clients right now [0] so if 10% of users subscribed 10$ per year that's 200M $ yearly revenue. I do not know why open source companies don't try to push low $ subscription model.. I happily contribute around 20$ per month to a couple web serial novelists so <1$ per month for an independent browser would be a pittance.

[0] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Thanks for the explanation!

> Will all GTK3 apps port to GTK4 and libadwaita? Probably the GNOME ones will, but other apps might not

I have a question. Does it make sense to start new apps with GTK3? E.g. if I want my app to look at home in MATE/Xfce (which currently use GTK+3), and don't want to touch GNOME in any way, does it make sense to write it in GTK+3 (using GTK+2 HIG)?
Their mobile offerings have been laughably bad over the years. Other open source projects have done the things they should have done, meanwhile.
Wow, I hadn't known that Firefox's share was so low. The future of the web is very bleak. It's clear that it has became way too bloated and complicated.

Maybe we should all quit http and move to Gemini.
It's only bleak if you assume that men don't prefer taking care of children over spending time in science. Many men will prefer family life and are happy that it's now socially accepted to put their kids first.

And at the same time it frees up a lot of time for women to enter the field and make discoveries.
For the lazy: it is on github. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit#readme
I use Firefox as my primary browser and has done so for years. I do not feel like I am missing out on something. But I will be interested to read the comments and suggestions from this thread.
I haven't found exact data for the contribution of ICE vehicles to PM 2.5 levels in Denver, but I've found some evidence of ozone [0] and carbon dioxide [1] contributions in Denver being around 30%, as well as contribution to PM 2.5 in "developed countries" being 25–30% [2].

Later edit: this EPA paper from 25 years ago [3] says "Vehicle exhaust was the largest PM 2.5 carbon contributor, constituting ~85% of PM 2.5 carbon at sites in the Denver metropolitan area".

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/10/30/here-are-...

[1] https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/19/colorado-air-pollution...

[2] https://publications.iarc.fr/_publications/media/download/37...

[3] https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-10/documents/nf...
PanDoc is available for Windows, which can also extract text from PDF files. Not sure if Recoll supports it though.

However if you want to OCR a PDF which contains image based 'pages' then you'll need something like Tesseract OCR.
Yes, I recently installed an npm package I built about 4 months ago and got an error the main attribute in the package.json file is deprecated. Googled it, without any meaningful search results.

Just a small taste of my day, another rabbit hole to get lost in for a few hours whilst deadlines for actual work are looming.
These are not "key quotes". First, you don't analyze someone with key quotes but with key ideas. You explain the key ideas by supporting them with quotes. There is no essential or distinguishing idea here. And the cited quotes are rather formulaic for the genre, containing no substance, which is why you can find them in a variety of writers that share nothing in common except for subject matter. You might as well say there is a lot of commonality between the governmental structures of North Korea and England becase there are key quotes using the word "democratic" or "people".
Tried that, eated up my entire RAM.
You and no one else. No one wants Bitcoin spam in their browser except people with a monetary interest in Bitcoin spam, which is less of the financial markets than Firefox represents in the web browser market.
This reminded me of Sergiu Celibidache, a revered and criticized conductor who had a different opinion about tempo on major classical works.

He viewed his performances more as "experiences" and certainly pushed the boundaries of the conventional style of playing classical music.
I really like his renditions of Bruckner, and the ending for Symphony N4 probably best describes why [1]. He does not rush, letting the music sync in, undoubtedly different from the "right" version.

Not being afraid of criticism is an essential quality of people who discover new things. Smart people often get dragged into the "correct", "proper" way of thinking, doing science, playing music, drawing, or doing other creative work. This is the best way to learn, but unfortunately, you need to go on an unbeaten path that is often criticized and even ostracized to discover new things. The life of Van Gogh and many others is quite an example of that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YVdTI21rZQ
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Quant hedge fund guy here.

Astrologers look at the positions of the stars and planets. Astronomers look at the positions of the stars and planets.

Over the past centuries, astronomers have discovered such amazing things like the distances to other galaxies, the paths of quite small rocks in our solar system, the age of the universe, redshift, cosmic background radiation, and so on.

TA, basically looking at the numbers that come out of the market, is the same. You can do silly unscientific things with it, or you can apply a falsifiable method and make real progress.

If you go down the scientific route, you will find the same data takes you down a rabbit hole of low latency coding, linear algebra, infrastructure, financial theory (time value of money, optionality), economics, and so forth.
On my app Firefox usage (based on nginx logs) is 15% (~200,000 users, mostly desktop, half in the us).
My guess is that mobile market share is much lower though
Or, is the market share including mobile where Chrome and Safari are king. If we just look at desktop market share is Firefox higher?
An interesting idea, mentioned by one of the writers, would be to generate hydrogen using renewable energy, and send the hydrogen through our existing infrastructure instead of natural gas.

I don't know how practical that is - would it need to be pressurised more than natural gas, and would the hydrogen be OK (that is, not leak out) in the existing system of pipes?
Maybe too heavy to support its own weight?
We don't want it controlled, but I think we do want it governed, not by a single entity maybe, but at least a set of rules or fundamental laws (as in laws of nature, not man). Otherwise it will fall apart as quick as it can be created.
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> that browser is developed by a relatively unbiased company.

This imaginary company will have bills to pay. What search business will cover that company's costs? :)
Firefox would benefit highly from exploring new ideas, for example the dappy project https://dappy.tech/ which drops the DNS, in favor of a blockchain-based co-resolution mechanism. They are free to resolve dappy names in addition to DNS.
Most of the tech we have is in some way due to military spending
This was of particular interest to me because I live in Aberdeenshire - a couple of months back at Aberdeen beach, I think I even saw boats taking some of the equipment out to sea!
Wow, that first sentence is something to unpack:

"When we started Android and Google Play more than a decade ago, we made a bet that a free and open mobile ecosystem could compete with the proprietary walled gardens that dominated the industry."

Do people today really believe that "the industry was dominated by proprietary walled gardens" in the past? The whole thing pretty much started with iOS and Android (Android isn't exactly an open ecosystem compared to Windows, Linux or even macOS).
And Chrome/Chromium didn't?
I would pay for their vpn service and I would even pay for lockwise if they fixed the bugs.

But they don’t sell the vpn in my country and they give lockwise away for free but leave it broken on iOS.
We lived it in the early 2000s until Firefox broke the monopoly and it was a dark time to work in web.
Most founders in this situation bootstrap (use their own cash). Many use credit cards for an instant 0% loan for 1-2 months.

If an unfunded, pre-revenue startup can't get cash from founders, it's dead. A startup is dead when it has no cash. I meet a surprising number of people who don't realize that someone has to fund you -- you're not going to raise money on an idea alone.
I think there's a third option:

3. Firefox fades into obscurity/irrelevance, Chromium becomes the platform of the web, people realize this and forks abound, and eventually someone makes it into an ECMA standard and Google de facto loses control of it.

Oh also, another one:

4. The Linux Foundation or some other entity steps in and just builds a new GPL'd browser, which can mimic the success story of the Linux kernel (where the copyleft license will ensure that the vast number of open-source hackers prefer to contribute to it over something like the BSD-licensed Chromium).
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The only reason some countries have public health care in the first place care is so society isn't completely squeezed for every bit of cash by the collective of medical practitioners. If I were a nurse or doctor I'd strike against expansion not for it.
Googles toggles are largely useless - you can "choose" to disable web and app tracking, but it intentionally disables or breaks most app features.

Want to update Google maps home/work addresses? Too bad, requires web/app tracking enabled.
Magit's more feature-rich and has better discoverability than tig, from what I can tell.

e.g. with tig, you invoke "!git commit" by pressing C from the status page.

With magit, from the status page, commit is performed by pressing cc. But, if you press only 'c', a context menu is brought up which shows the flags which can be set, and commands which can be run.

e.g. 'cc' is 'commit', but 'ca' is 'amend'.

e.g. An example of a flag might be "--force-with-lease". So, press 'P' opens the push context menu, '-f' enables the "--force-with-lease" flag, 'p' pushes to the remote. (Or just 'P-fp' quickly works, too).

tig looks like 80% of the benefits (much nicer to use than git) for 20% of the effort (not having to learn Emacs).
I have a naive question. If chromium is open-source, why not strip it from telemetry and other “badness” and use it as a base to build a browser, which is essentially just UI around the rendering engine? I simply don’t understand how a $3M CEO and >>250 employees is required for a program to exist, which shows tabs, address bar, list of downloads, settings form and a couple of sites for extensions and installation. Today people are writing entire 3d high-tech games on unity/unreal by a team of two, but to render some text and images we suddenly need all that enterprise monstrosity.
Is there something like Magit for NeoVim? Preferably in Lua.
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Why can't we have something like Linux in the web browser world? A web browser built by the community that does not depend on a big bag of money for its continued operation.

Surely writing an open-source operating system that drives the world cannot be harder than writing a web browser? Or am I missing something?
The argument is that by paying too much for one exec, you are taking away money that could be invested into the product either directly or via more staff with different skills.
Very cool approach. It's going to be a fight I suspect; vendors lock things up specifically so they can have price differentials in different markets. It may end up being like the fight between workstations versus PCS back in the 90s
Last week I was complaining to co-workers that I don't want to donate to Mozilla. But if Firefox was separated, I would donate in a heartbeat. Imagine something like neovim. A Firefox repo on GitHub and people can donate. A team that works only on that, and they make decisions that are best for the user.

I tried Chromium yesterday as the next best thing, since I will not use any browser with "rewards", like Edge and Vivaldi and the rest. And today I found out that Chromium does not block autoplay and has no option for it. smh

Firefox is the best and I hope it lives for ever and it becomes even better that what it is now.
Her salary could be used to hire 30 other people. I doubt she contributes as much as 30 people would.
Browsers, sure, but I honestly wouldn't mind to only have one major browser engine, or batch of forks stemmed from one like blink/webkit. After all, we only has one web standard.

Having been using Firefox and Chrome side by side for 10+ years, I don't think the difference (or preference) between the two worth the effort putting into making two (mostly) duplicate implementations of the same thing for such complex thing. And my experience in observing the development of Firefox is that they are already too short-handed to keep up.
The mainstream strategy is to invest in highly diversified ETFs. Investing in just 4 companies would be considered exceptionally risky and contrarian by most people (I would personally also advocate going up to 20).

Also, not to nitpick, but Jobs and Gates are no longer running their companies, and Zuck is down to part-time. I don't consider either of those companies at the same level of growth potential as Apple back when Steve was running it.
So the CEO can get a raise? Nah, thanks.
> He said: “What I think this study shows is that it’s more than just numbers. The impacts that people have, we’re literally changing the anatomy of animals.”

Isn't that a bit like saying, for every soldier that has lost a limb while in service, and survives, is going to pass on a mutated gene that produces humans that are born without arms?

Which suggests that these mutations are based upon psychological distress, and that the animals are choosing their genetic evolution...

That's fascinating, and leaves a lot of scope for a future evolution of humans, simply by applying the mind!

Well I guess that's what they meant when they said "mind over matter"
Oh, comments about social justice from a highly payed managerette. Good reason to not donate to Mozilla.
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With credit to the other posters here, who do give correct answers as to how forestry is less destructive to the soil than other crops,....

and assuming a clearcut/monoculture approach to tree farming (because the comp to foodcrop agriculture also ignores regernerative/permaculture techniques)

forestry is massively disruptive to the soil, because it obliterates the ecosystem/community which allows forests to produce so much biomass.

also, because the harvest cycle is measured in decades rather than years, the soil destruction also happens at a slower rate. Doesn't mean it isn't as destructive per harvest cycle, just that the cycle rate is slower.
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All things are not equal though. Geekbench includes many things that run on the GPU - video encoding and playback, rendering web pages - heck even your window manager mostly uses the GPU. The Dell has low power low performance GPU. To use the second one - an NVIDIA RTX, which is literally the fastest thing you can put in a laptop. You have to explicitly tell your OS to use that GPU for a program - it defaults to the low power one.

In summary, you are full of crap if you think an untuned blind geekbench score is what you're going by - an aggregation of a whole bunch of tests, using defaults. My statement is true, as I kick off the same data processing script on my laptop and it finishes it over lunch, while my coworker kicks it off overnight.

> Xeon with a greater TDP than 45w

yes, the Xeon W-11955M in the Dell is 45W. Now add the RTX GPU - which coincidentally will be doing most of the work. Unless you're running the geekbench test you're referring to, to purposely gimp the results. That Intel integrated graphics chip uses almost no power.

go process a large dataset and do some calculations on it. Run a bunch of VMs while you're doing it to - let's say 3. Give each one 32G of memory. Better be ECC memory too, or your data won't be reliable. Maybe in about 5 years when apple catches up to the current pro laptops, you'll be able to. This is why all the m1 comparisons they do is to previous generation intel chips in their old laptops. which have always been slow. apple has always used outdated hardware, in everything they've ever made.
I use FF at home and work and have done for probably 3 or 4 years. I think I can count on 1 hand the number of pages that have not worked and needed to be loaded on another browser.

Mostly, it was horrible old sites that were designed for IE.

Of course ymmv
That's the whole point, you invest in people once they've had significant traction. I think Dustin Moskovitz is a strong candidate, along with Brian Armstrong and as mentioned earlier Max Levchin and Jack Dorsey. PG's YC and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund are only accessible to HNWIs. If you can get your hands on secondary shares, Patrick Collison, Parker Conrad and Ryan Peterson would be at the top of my list. Last but not least, I bet that Mikhail Kokorich will go public again, despite all the turbulence.
While I second this (I use Firefox as my main browser more or less uninterrupted since 15 years) some of what I perceive within the org worries me.

Mozilla does a lot of cool stuff aside of the browser, but what annoys me about ads in the address bar, shamelessly pushing pocket (a icon which for some reason I have to remove over and over again from the GUI) and similar things is not that they try to monetize their browser. What annoys me is that they don't have the trust in their own product that people would be willing to support them if they just asked. What annoys me is that they try those borderline dark-patterns and still try to sell it as a great feature for the user.

Just be honest to your users and if they understand your reasons they will support you, if they trust your decisions. Firefox was once a browser whos users bought T-shirts on it after all.
I use it as my daily driver on Linux (Gnome 3), and on Android.

I prefer it to Chromium due to its more native feel, the quality of the multi-device password and history sync, and the ability to zap tabs to and from my laptop.

adblock also works wonderfully.

I don't trust Google to implement these features or honour my privacy.
neogit is "magit for neovim". It is written in Lua. Did you already know the answer to your question? ;)

https://github.com/TimUntersberger/neogit

Similar Git tooling can be found in https://github.com/frontaid/git-cli-tools
That's what Mozilla was originally. However, like many things, maintaining the very fast moving world of web is easier when you have a paid team, which leads to the business, which leads to corporate politics and thinking that a good CEO is worth multiple millions.
I use Firefox exclusively and I can't remember the last time I've had to switch to Chrome because the page wasn't working in Firefox.
Stainless steel rebar is also used for (not only seaside) bridges etc, but at 10x the cost it's not going to be in ordinary buildings.

If a building is made harder to demolish than its neighbours it's got a better chance to survive. I plan plutonium-core concrete walls for my mausoleum to prevent future generations from interfering with it.
Has Uber made a profit yet?
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Spacemacs.org brings the vi modal editing configuration to bear and is highly recommended.
Ah the myth. I currently have 100+ tabs open on my old android phone, which has less RAM than any computer sold in the last decade.
It's fast and have good extensions. But they should divert their resources from pointless UI redesigns (proton) to better memory and power management.

I use FF almost exclusively on a desktop but can't afford luxury of running it on a laptop.
You dismissed the part where the energy density/capacity/current draw is way better of Li-Ion compared to NiCd or even NiMh. Needless to say that cadmium is toxic and the use of NiCd battery is heavily restricted in the EU.
Un-googled chromium exists...
I have been using Firefox as my main browser for years (on a mac). Firefox is fine. For my taste, it is better than Chrome.

My suspicion is that the majority of people in this sort of thread will never use anything other than Chrome, because it is not Chrome. Maybe the web will survive until a more idealistic generation takes over.
If you start with something that is natural and sustainable (for example, bamboo), and you add to it something that is neither (for example, glue), then you end up with something that is neither natural nor sustainable. Sorry.
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How much RAM do you use? My wife’s 8gb and my 16gb Macs have never seen Firefox get especially RAM hungry
Reminiscent of the talk in which “SELECT 1 / 0” was offered as reason enough in one line of code to not use MySQL.
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The consensus seems to be that it is crypto making receiving the ransom easier, and Russia (and other jurisdictions) giving ransomware crews free reign.

I think the second one might be more important, because it is generally known who the big crews are, and it is actually easy to screw up the opsec on crypto.
I think this about lots of products or programs. I doubt anyone complained about the tabbed interface of Firefox rather than other things but yet a considerable amount of time and resource was spent on changing the UI.

Ditto for GMail, Microsoft Office, Windows etc.

I know your designers tell you that we need to look "fresh" but you can do that with minimal tweaks, most people would rather a stable codebase that just works and doesn't cause surprises or bugs imho.
I've used Chrome and Firefox and I don't notice a significant difference between them. Why should I switch if there's no benefit to me?
Oops, I missed a word. How do you find consulting work with that little of a time commitment?
What do you mean by "block autoplay"? I use both Firefox and Chrome, and they behave the same, despite Chrome doesn't explicitly say "autoplay blocked": when you open a tab in the background, nothing plays until you switch to that tab, just like Firefox.
Aside from the technical details, the commitment to this idea is staggering and admirable.

> Translations are done by human professionals, within two days for any language representing more than 0.03% of our active user base.

> New features roll out only when enough of the translation has been done that it will cover 99.8% of our user base.
God, I remember working at one job where I saw a couple stacks of metal come in on a nice sheet of 4x8 woven-bamboo instead of a crappy wood pallet or plywood, I'm now kicking myself for not grabbing them when I had the chance.
Wouldn't having one implementation controlled by Google give them the final say in the standard though, and effectively all or most of the power over the standard? Seems like a dangerous road that we're heading down.
If they did that all the USP that exists in Firefox would be gone and their market share would fall to 0.001% instead of 3%.

People might praise Microsoft for moving Edge to Chromium but ultimately it's because Microsoft couldn't compete on web standards and security and didn't want to invest further resources in to something not earning them money.
Not building roads/apartments is not a solution, unless you really want to cosplay middle ages in your country.

So you will have to build something, somewhere.

Actually, roads and apartments are in counter-balance. More resedential high-rises in semi-walkable distance from business districts and public transit = less roads are needed (but there is still congestion due to bottlenecks). More spread-out houses - more traffic as people will drive tens of miles to work.

Korea is not sufficiently large that you could stick people so far they're not able to come to megapolis and congest it.