skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a completely different perspective: processes in a company reflect the people and the relationships between them. It is on these levels you must operate in order to bring change. As an engineer you have very little power to do so. So leaving and finding a different team is often the right choice when you are unhappy. From my experience staying and fighting an uphill battle is an exercise in futility which will bring more unhappiness to you and the people you are trying to change.
Does Mozilla really need a VR research team?
> So let me be really clear: STOP PUTTING ADS IN THE GOD DAMNED WEB BROWSER! I DON'T WANT YOUR VPN! I WILL NEVER WANT YOUR VPN!

YES. How can Mozilla be so out of touch? Do they not understand the fact people use their browser because it supports uBlock Origin? We need to repeat this loud and clear until they get it.
> (Looks like somebody picked up this particular example on HackerNews.)

Also looks like you are blogging about known stuff:
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Correctly+Validating+IP+Ad...
> “3+1 poles”

I see you know your 303s :)

The acid I can get from a Virus or SH-101 is acid but not from a 303, and the sequencing I can get from a Rytm definitely has that slide/glide vibe, so I totally get what you're saying.

... I guess if you know what you're doing you can make anything sound like something else, especially in a mix, it's just that sticking with a certain synth for that sound can make it hell of a lot easier
> My new tab window should have no advertisements in it, because you are a nonprofit.

Well it doesn't make anysense. Nonprofit doesn't mean you don't have to make money.

While I understand having such an ad is not perfect, it is non intrusive (doesn't popup from nowhere), relevant to your context (private browsing can benefit from a VPN) and non tracking.
Why do license issues in the F/OSS world always start with an angry/accusatory github issues post? I don't know what causes this phenomenon, but it amuses me greatly, and I hope it never stops.

(Also, seems like there's more context here from the author of that issue: https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1455713002980880384 )
> My new tab window should have no advertisements in it, because you are a nonprofit.

Basically, I can't agree with that. As a user who is unable to contribute to the development of Firefox. I'd love to see my favorite product have a stable, independent cash flow that comes from a product that doesn't conflict with the company's culture (i.e., protecting privacy). Anyway, at least, this is much better than the cryptocurrency things that come with Brave.
Even if you don't intend to write your own WM, I think this article is a great reference for understanding how X works in general.
You say "cheap energy", but what that really means is "cheap energy with externalized costs", eg. coal.
Here’s a link to an article from the time with an expert on the subject explaining that it’s not a contrast problem:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/bs-mtblog-2009-12-hp_racist_web...
Do you want Mozilla to rely on Google's money, or make their own money, pick one.
Why isn't there a FOSS browser? Why is building FOSS OSes more popular than FOSS browsers?

Edit: Ok, I'll see if I can compile the source. (Firefox is foss)
A now deleted youtube channel with archival US government documentaries had a great series by US geological survey department on all aspects of map making / cartography that I've been trying to rediscover for years.
This is a very Backblaze Personal Backup fan thingie. Some kind of twisted Stockholm syndrome? Just like Apple fans. I have rarely met Apple “users” and Backblaze Personal Backup “users”. I’ve mostly met their “fans” - they speak of these companies as if it was the second coming in their lives; as if it brought the light with it - which is very unhealthy imho.

I wonder whether it’s their marketing and PR spin/strategy. Apple’s I’d definitely think so.

And no I don’t hate the companies itself. I am a paying b2 customer and I am
satisfied with that service and I’m an iPhone mini user I (kinda) like the phone at that size and price; but moving away from these will be just one or a half medium to major fuckup away.
It's likely not true: https://johnballblog.wordpress.com/william-morris-and-arseni...
Assuming you mean income?

330k usd data engineer 10 yoe Bay Area
at least they don't have an OS development team anymore.
The company that respects your privacy!
Thanks.

Carbon capture is also possible at low energy cost, from seawater, as described in a set of research articles published by the USNRL through the 2010s. The Google X Project "Foghorn" failed to develop this in an economically feasible manner, but my view is that that's more a measure of the mis-pricing of fossil fuels than of the method itself.

The resulting liquid hydrocabons are largely perfect analogues of petrol, kerosene (jet fuel) or deisel, and require no compression or refrigeration.
Brake waves happen because people brake harder than they accelerate afterwards. If you have enough following distance to brake gently, then hit the gas hard afterwards, and if everyone did this, then the waves would never appear.
Crazy concept but what if you just paid for the browser then?
> My new tab window should have no advertisements in it, because you are a nonprofit.

"Non-profit" doesn't mean that money magically appears out of nothing.

> pushed me ever closer to just giving up and going to Chrome, where at least they exploit me in predictable ways.

Chrome is worse, and the ways are much more intrusive. They aren't even predictable. If people keep attacking Firefox like that, there won't be any choice but Chromium/Google, and then it will get even worse.

In Firefox you can usually turn off the things you don't like. Just turn it off.
> home prices track construction costs

But construction costs track home price so this doesn't prevent an unbounded faster than inflation growth.
Deep Rock Galactic [0]. It's reminiscent of Infiniminer and Dwarf Fortress but 3D. Being very similar to Minecraft, except DRG is not very open-ended, instead you have fixed tasks with open-ended approaches, and is also a challenging game at the top level. Recently the developer introduced modding support, and you can run some really crazy mission in the scale of Starship Troopers.

Shenzhen I/O [1]. It's one of the most hardcore and nerdiest EE simulation game out in the wild. You have to consult the manual and get the registers, DRAM and communication ports right. Trust me, the details of this game would even make a real engineer impressed.

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/Deep_Rock_Galactic...

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/
Not if they all go faster. The human induced delay is the problem. Plus it causes accidents, which really slows down the system.
> you find a good contractor for your area

This is the hard part. All the good contractors do this themselves, or they charge so much you don't make any money on the sale, or they're booked out 3 months in advance.
Probably initially, but genetic manipulation can be cheap. Think viruses doing recombinant replacement. Could be out of peoples garages in the near future.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=firefox+s...
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Aren't both Firefox and Chromium open-source? I'd say the answer to why aren't there more like there used to be is because it's too large an undertaking to actually keep up.
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Sure.
So a lot of what you want to grow depends on the weather prevailing in your area. If you have warm and humid climate with atleast 60% sunlight days. you should be able to grow about anything.

Top 3 suggestions
1. start small. preferably with herbs. Their time to harvest is low and as with anything, you need iterations and immediate gratification to keep you going.
If this is your first time gardening, then i would say, go with plain gardening and graduate to hydroponics with the healthy plants from your first produce
coriander, cilantro, lettuce are good first candidates.

2. There are hydroponic starter kits with plumbing pipes, and minimum hardware. If you want to hit the ground running, then go for these. Otherwise, DIY is possible.

3. Use grow lights if you have variability in sunlight in your area.
Please take my goddamn money. Let me pay for the actual browser, with that money going to browser development. I'll do it. Many others will do it. But this ad and "partner" shit is frustrating and wrong.
I use Firefox. I don't use an ad blocker, but I do use Firefox's tracking protection, and first party isolation.

If Mozilla doesn't track with this ad, I'm _okay_ with it.
people need to chill out, and mozilla needs to refocus
Think about it from the other side:

Infrastructure is like application dev in that it’s a bundle of histories of feature work over time and with many contributors, and many customers with competing wants and not enough time to satisfy everyone.

Granted a primary goal should be to have simple APIs/workflows for app devs to use, but complicated insides is as natural as any advanced system.
I mean, just turn off encryption if that’s what you want.

I don’t think you grasp how the encryption keys are generated, derived, and stored.

And I doubt you are using a password the length of the key. Well, maybe you create a USB human interface device that fits on your keyring to type it for you. I do have something like that for one time codes, but if that is your sophistication level, then we wouldn’t have this discussion really.

I feel for the “it’s mine, I bought it” logic, and I miss the days when our rights were more absolute. But that’s not today.
I would prefer a 10$ a year subscription with no telemetry, keeping plugin support
How to get an extra hour of sleep by ignoring Daylight Saving Time
Maaaaaaybe ID 10150136890464739. Maybe.
Also, nuclear bombs killed less people than guns did - so it's very easy to make an argument that guns are in fact more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Since US allows gun ownership, it should also allow private citizens to produce and own nuclear weapons.
Now most used books on Amazon cost 1 cent, with $10 shipping costs, because that's the default sort
Browsers are at the forefront of interfacing with the web.

If VR is coming to the web, Mozilla need to at least be ready for this, if not leading it.
It would be awesome, if some of the CS programs had a required course that covers this book or something very similar in an "official manner".

Many CS programs and (CS in general) can be very "theoretical", yes there are many solutions to sorting in O(1) or the philosophers-going-to-dinner :) But I think a course focus on a few "real-life high-valued-application (of cs)" can be super useful !
ads can be used to track you (profile you), and even as malware vector.
Entertaining the idea of a probe sticking out the front led to a realization. The problem is you're never going to stop in time if you're at speed. You need to know well in advance that something's there.
The corruption in both countries seems to have universal effects.
But it could arguably increase the throughput (easier to on and off).

Which is better: more vehicles on the freeway at lower average speeds - or fewer, faster ones?
Make the fonts look _good_ on those screenshots, and we don't need to talk about it. As it stands, the font rendering on those screenshots makes me want to vomit.
Similar to tradespeople not showing up at ports, exacerbating the supply chain. Zillow may have figured out the digital programming problems but the analog work of literally improving the homes did not transfer to the same principles.
The underlying concept would be akin to Business Process Modelling.

Using something like https://camunda.com [0], you can execute a business process model. Such a model can include sending emails, waiting for responses, human action, custom API requests, etc.

Camunda is not no-code, but it comes close to what you imagine. I suspect that when the existing API landscape of a company needs to be used for workflows, coding/integration is inevitable.

There's also (truly) no-code platforms like
https://bryter.com

[0]: I only know of this because there's a department at my current job that specializes in implementing workflows using camunda. I got explanations for it during moderate drinking, so my recounting of it may be incorrect in parts.
Well, I ask the same kind of interview question when conducting interviews for Red Hat and work-life balance is much better ;)
I have not seen the ad and hence speak somewhat uninformed. I will just present and alternate view.

I think a lot of people will be unaware about the fact that in terms of sharing information with your ISP and others, you are no more secure by using "private browsing".

If Mozilla can help educate some of these people, then I cannot fault them for that. But as I started by saying I have not seen the actual ad, just trying to present an alternate view.
> I cannot think of how anyone thought this was an OK idea.

I imagine they felt the only way to prove how good their Zestimates are was to start acting on them.

And it's entirely possible that the problem is they have spent the last 10 years tweaking their Zestimate algos to make listing agents happy, increasing prices. Like, nobody sues you when your estimate is too high, but when you get it too low, get your legal counsel prepped: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/do-zillow-zestimates-misle...
I'm wondering where people are going for literary fiction, particularly shorter literary fiction, these days.

I tend to follow "Selected Shorts", which is pretty good, though I'll often find myself not especially engaging with the stories. (The ones I do are often older, dating from the 1920s -- 1970s or so). The selections seem to be largely from America's Best Short Stories, which publishes an annual anthology. I've picked up a few years' editions, and found a few winners, but even amongst the best the pickings seem slim.

There's genre fiction, though there's little of that I particularly care for. Cypherpunk is my usual exception (Stephenson, Dick, a handful of others), and perhaps some of the better-written Grisham novels.

Most of my reading is nonfiction, which I find interesting and egaging (much of it is autodidactic, and I've absolutely no shortage of material). But outside that ... fiction just seems pale.
>When John Updike was in his prime, millions of people read him.

I read one of Updike's books (Run, Rabbit) and it seemed about one notch up (not a compliment) from Jacqueline Susann (3 of her novels once simultaneously topped the NYT bestsellers list). At about the same time, Philip Dick was very productive and being ignored (as he was until after his death, when he was suddenly 'recognized').

Since then, 'millions of people read' 50 Shades of Grey. Topped international lists, translated into 52 languages. Not 'literary'? Neither was Moby Dick, while its author was alive. Looks like the critics were wrong. (Am I suggesting them to be comparable? Hell no.)

When I do a search on 'literary culture' not much of consequence turns up. Not surprised; it's hard to get anyone to commit to a definition of 'literature'. Maybe the author means 'Literary fiction'. Maybe 'deconstruction' killed off that whole distinction. Maybe two world wars and a Cold War did. Maybe that lode was mined out - maybe it was a chimera. It maybe that, now, genuine human voices are preferred over mannered, learned voices. Maybe we're waiting for a new voice to appear. Maybe we now see our pretenses too clearly.

"We will declare frankly that nothing is clear in this world. Only fools and charlatans know and understand everything." - Chekhov

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination." - Keats
Oh, I think they should definitely adjust. But it should not be adjusted by employees or between employees but rather by the business, to serve its goals (retention, productivity, etc...).

I think in these situations, the employee should ask himself: "what is good for the business?" rather than "what do I want to do?".
Tell HN: Instagram now requires “off-Facebook activity” ON to use API
I'm using my (pro, I paid also to use this applet) IFTTT applet to sync the photos I upload to Instagram to my Google Photos backup account, and other things quite usefuel to me. Last week I receveid a mail from IFTTT "Fix it! Instagram is offline, reconnect it", so I clicked on "Reconnect" (I thought this was somethings related to the pswd or API) but here the surprise:

{"error_type": "OAuthException", "code": 400, "error_message": "Your account is connected to Facebook account, and your Facebook account's future off-Facebook activity is currently turned off."}

So I learned that, since some days/weeks, Facebook requires to turn on the "off-Facebook activity" in order to have its services/API working also outside Facebook (Instagram is not Facebook) and I suspect also on WhatsApp (but I'm not using it). Frustrating. Facebook should not do this things, its monopoly is already unbearable, if now it also starts blocking the use of its API on other apps in its uni(meta)verse, it will make itself really hated.
Fortnite to shut down in China as Beijing intensifies video game crackdown
I agree with you, but Behringer are not limited to recreating only vintage gear. This week they unveiled a cheap clone of Moog's DFAM drum synthesizer. A model that's roughly 4 years old. Behringer are particularly shameless about copying the work of others in this space. It's not illegal, but it's widely considered to be a shameful practice among those in the industry.
Not a problem. An opportunity.

It took a decade from the first smartphones until iPhone/Android like devices with a mostly uniform appearance and UI had decisively won, though. There was a lot of rapid exploration of design space first.

As for VR/metaverse, there's been constant exploration of this space for decades. The VR boom in the 90s was killed by cost and primitive hardware, but we still have surviving persistent 3d worlds that came out of that wave.

We've also seen a lot of non-VR exploration. Aside from Minecraft, we have Roblox, which while a lot more limited in some ways is also a lot more meta: you have an identity that persists across worlds, with a social layer across that. Minecraft looks to be slowly moving in that direction.

We'll see people exploring a lot of other variants, and most will fail. But in the process we'll start to learn what will work.

I doubt Facebook, or Minecraft/Microsoft, or Apple, or Google will turn out to be the winner though.

Maybe they'll manage to buy the winner.
On macOS, I started using testing Orion [0] when the last discovery of ad-injection into Firefox was posted. While it isn’t perfect, and it’s a closed beta, it actually works quite well.

But ostensibly the best feature is that the browser will have a “pro” tier with extra features that can be paid for, and a major selling point of Orion is that it has literally zero telemetry, by design. I didn’t imagine a decade ago that I’d be begging to pay for a browser, but here I am. I would love to pay Mozilla for Firefox if it meant that I knew I wasn’t going to be advertised VPN software.

Sure, I could pay for a Firefox VPN, but would that make the ads go away? I’m not sure. I would rather pay for Firefox, the browser, and have no ads or studies, but I can’t.

[0]: https://browser.kagi.com/
Huh? Like what specifically? All 4 cloud software places I’ve worked have had unit testing standards, cloud backups, even disaster recovery environments, etc. and none of these were mega corps. 50-1000 employees.
Morris' good advice is a weaker statement of Keats' last words in the Grecian Urn, where the difference between use & beauty becomes null - & belief is left out of it altogether. Morris loved Keats and towards the end of his life designed and printed a volume of his poems in the style of incunabula:
https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/845227601543118848/...
Would they though? Magazines live on ads. No ads on Substack. I really hate ads, too
That doesn't really change his point, even if that 20B isn't captured by the syndicate it's the street value of the goods they provides to consumers.

I would say that the kind of value captured by illigal activity is usually from pathological market cases and you really don't want this value captured (we already had a period where cocaine was added to soft drinks, I'm sure if you launch that you would create massive "value". Doubt this is a society most here would want to live in.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29084081
They may have felt they could use some sort of “momentum trading” or another commodity trading strategy which just never worked out in reality. If I was to guys why it didn’t work out I’d bet on it being due to the normal friction involved in the buying/selling/conveyancing/etc processes which vary considerably based on local and state level laws.
It's often much easier to do grouping and charts in Excel with a few clicks, even for someone who already knows Python in a data science context.
>The only times I've seen developer pain-points successfully addressed in a sustainable way, it's because there was a dedicated team allocated to that sort of thing: a "developer experience" team, or some equivalent.

I came to this conclusion after watching the place I work at for 2 and a half years fail to implement any of the grand ambitions management had in their heads. We wanted code review, pull requests, build pipelines, automated releases, updated OS's, logging, disaster recovery, you name it. No one had the experience, time, or energy to implement it, so it falls on one or two juniors (me) to quickly learn and implement while learning. No one is hired with experience in any of these topics, only fresh-grads that will replicate the garbage you're trying to get away from are hired, because they will on paper be producing more features for less financial cost.
Sunseap’s valuation soars to over $800m in acquisition deal
> Most humans have this thing called empathy tho.

Yeah, and that would surely cause most humans to empathise with other humans suffering from addiction, and help those others the best way they can, by a) reducing harm to the addicts and b) helping them overcome their addiction. The fact that this c) also reduces incident crime levels and reduces suffering for yet another group of humans is surely a bonus.

'Pragmatic' in this case is referring to taking actions you consider morally questionable, but with the aim of reduction of harm all around.

I don't see how this is robotic or lacking in empathy. Quite the opposite.

> It's the human condition.

It's really not, not for 90% of a given community unless there is something else seriously wrong with that community.
There are precedents from the previous wave of attempts at VR: "MICROSOFT AND NETSCAPE TEAM UP ON VRML STANDARD" (1997) [1]

[1] https://techmonitor.ai/technology/microsoft_and_netscape_tea...
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