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The parent comment seems to be referring to some of the things Mozilla has been doing lately. I'll focus only on the browser.

I think it's fair to say that the experience with Firefox will depend a lot on the platform and how much its imperfections affect you.

For example, I use macOS. Until last year Firefox would cut my laptop's battery life in half compared to a Chromium browser. That alone would make it a bad browser for me. Some sites that rely a lot on JS are often noticeably slower than Safari or Chromium. Then you have Firefox's UI. One thing that annoys me... CTRL/CMD+Click means opening on a new tab, right? On Firefox, by default, links on pages works like that, but links on the bookmarks bar don't! Talking of the bookmarks bar, after many UI updates, it no longer has the correct margins and doesn't fit with the rest of the UI, not to mention that favicons are a pain in the rear to update. And then there are the little things... Firefox moved to a "settings in a tab" for some things, but stuff like downloads and the bookmarks manager still open on windows with sizes that don't fit the OS or even Firefox's design. This old code was also stopping context menus and other parts of the browser from using the OS dark theme until recently.

Is Firefox terrible? No, but it's a mix of old and new code, UIs, etc, and the macOS version has been neglected for years. It's usable. Firefox's problem on this platform is that Safari and Chromium are so much better platform. Even with the recent improvements, Firefox is still behind in many areas.

I use Firefox daily, but only as a secondary browser. I've tried... but I get annoyed after a week or two and end up going back to a Chromium-based browser.
Well yeah, but it's not like any company values its CEO for the good office-desk job they do - as opposed to most other positions.

And companies certainly do recognize that not everyone has to sit at a desk - all the expensive consultants...
> none of these issues are unique to aerospace

Aerospace has slowed in its pace of innovation relative to other industries in the last decades. Its long design times similarly mitigate this line of broad criticism.

The bleeding-edge materials on this plane didn’t fail. Paint over copper mesh did. That paint might have had some novel features, but nothing unknowably new. We don’t even have evidence this was a material interaction versus QC failure.
If you apply that proverb to a customer who is trying to haggle with you over the price (or other contractual details) of their ordered planes, soon you will be paying them to take your jets...
Looks like activist investors are getting their Christmas wish this year.

Twitter's not immune from ending up on this list (on a long enough timeline):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
> I wonder if the size of the macOS automation community is large enough to make much of an impact on their market share.

The automation communities (plural) create tools for themselves and for others. That’s the important bit. It’s common for non-coders to resort to those communities (which can be as simple as a subreddit) to achieve a simple recurring task. If they use Firefox, they get turned away from it because it’s the only major browser lacking AppleScript support. Not only do those developers abandon Firefox, so do all their users.

> Would you estimate they'd gain hundreds of users? Thousands? Tens-of-thousands?

I estimate they wouldn’t lose as many as they do. What good is it to gain market share if you can’t stop the bleed? If Firefox can’t even be interesting to large sections of developers and power users, what chance to they have with the general populace?

I lost count to how many people asked for my tools to be ported to Firefox, and I’m a single data point with a single need. Before I stopped caring, I checked every (front page) Firefox story on HN and without exception I collected a new macOS grievance by someone different. Tellingly, I noticed that no matter how polite or constructive the criticism, it was invariably met by defensiveness of the “I don’t care for that feature, so it’s not the problem” kind. That’s in line with what I felt in my interactions with the Firefox developers I spoke to, despite ostensibly most of them using macOS.

It’s fine for Firefox developers to ignore whatever communities they want; that’s their prerogative. But they then need to accept when those same people assert they can’t use Firefox as their daily driver.

> they'd need an expectation of a stronger ROI than their other efforts

Their latest efforts are constantly criticised on HN precisely because they are gimmicks not related to the browser. I’m not a marketing expert, but I expect making a browser people want to use is better ROI than Mr Robot marketing stunts or short-lived file sharing services with no innovative features.
They just grow faster and get patched quickly. Bitcoin has had brief and temporary service failures a variety of times early on. A brief issue during a chain's first year of operation really isn't as damning as you think it is.

There is a lot of immediate commerce right now which is awkward to disrupt, but just patch and move on.
The chance of Apple switching from a browser engine whose security and energy profile they control completely to one built specifically to advance the goals of a competitor is somewhere close to the chance of the heat death of the universe happening in the next five minutes.

It could happen, but even if it were to happen, there would be a split from Blink in a very short time period because Google’s values and mission do not align with Apple’s values and mission.
Oxford University was going to open source its vaccine, then the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation stepped in and convinced them to sell exclusive rights to AstraZeneca.

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1353330538292121602?lan...
Thanks! That works great. Like the parent, easy access to autotranslation is a reason I sometimes reach for a non-Firefox browser. It really ought be a feature shipped with Firefox; without it most of the web is effectively inaccessible.

The plugin relies on Google and Yandex for translations. Mozilla doesn't seem to have a problem with relying on or providing proprietary services (for better or worse) so that shouldn't be an obstacle, though I'd love to see an open source translation service replace them eventually -- maybe LibreTranslate https://github.com/FilipePS/Traduzir-paginas-web/issues/278
Evidently the solution is to create a loginwall so that you're forced to create an account rather than being able to access the content without one. That way Twitter can provide "value".
For DNSSEC (2015)
This has always confused me as well. What would be the reason why some adversary would choose to craft an adversarial example and deploy it in the real world versus the much easier solution to just remove / obscure the sign?
Matthias from Upbound here. I'm so excited about this. If you have any questions, you can find us all at https://slack.crossplane.io/.
no I want my IDE to be functional without destroying my system performance or fucking up my codebase. jet brains is a massive offender here. it doesn't need to be. I have a giant machine ~128GB of RAM and 24 cores. the fact I have to tune my IDE is insane.

the not helpful issues with jetbrains are when it crashes, slows down my system, prevents me from modifying files because reasons, modifies my build configurations in unsafe ways because it thinks it knows best, interferes with CLI run commands because it doesn't safely check that it can modify files owned by other applications.

I'll grant you these are generally issues with the individual plugins within jetbrains.
why deal with all that when I don't have to?
Why deal with the performance issues the JVM has when I don't have to?

vscode I get autocomplete, debuggers, decent linting, decent performance. that's an IDE in a nutshell. not a text editor.

I'm happy you enjoy JB, great. it doesn't change any of the above and havent seen any indicators that the above has changed or will change in the future for it. hence I don't use it.

fleet may be promising in this regard. but don't feel the need to jump ship when I already have remote code editing in vscode. which is the only real first class feature fleet has to distinguish itself from other IDEs.
That won't happen, the community is there to stay and it won't be less toxic just because the CEO resigned.
If the new website is any indicator of the quality of the new Winamp, it's going to be a huge nope from me.
>allow the platform to mature

What does that mean?

The medium is the message and Twitter is curt, prone to exaggeration / outrageous / mean spirited content.... and the people on there EAT IT UP.

What is going to mature?
This makes sense in general, because the caches are the most precious resource.

However, in my case the working set is small enough and the processes are top-priority so they probably stay in the L2 if not the L1. Also ... I want to keep using my desktop so I don't mind the intrusion of my interactive processes.

Hmm. Is there a way to check how much L1/L2/L3 a process is occupying?
Ask HN: What critical open source software you use that is not well maintained?
The goal is to make a list of OSS projects get public money and be recognized as "critical public infrastructure"
I sometimes wonder if it was an effect of the war. Seeing all the normal rules and power structures of society suddenly vanish, to the point that you can blow a hole in a 1000-year-old cathedral just by saying to your specialist "I need a door here, can you make it happen?", must have had a certain impact on how people think.
It was a feature at one time for sure. The change happened quite a long time ago.
Coronaviruses won't outcompete the flu for the same reason ants don't outcompete shrimps.
Control systems and manufacturing and simulation were already mentioned, but a more critical issue is that N1, due to various design issues, had no way to do static tests that other rockets went through, meaning many issues were found when the rockets underwent Rapid Unplanned Disassembly in flight or on pad.

SpaceX built a much smaller, simpler rocket - and had a way to do the testing before flying.
This was impressive a decade ago
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Yes and:

I've done everything for plantar warts. During one stretch, I had so many it hurt to walk. (I'm immune compromised.)

Now I just apply a dab of wart compound (salicylic acid) and cover it with a bandage or electrical tape (which stays on longer). Eventually the wart goes away.

> ...drives new skin production and your wart is shed, and fought by the body

Probably.

My own theory is keeping the outer layer moist allows the immune system to (eventually) see the wart and then deal with it.

But I could believe that I'm accelerating the shedding of the outer layer. Thanks.

> pumice stone

TMI: I've long used a MicroPlaner. I'm told that day spas use a much less aggressive model. This model can bite a little bit into the living skin, so have a care. https://www.microplane.com/premium-classic-series-zester-gra...
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This variant really sounds like an excuse for the (expected) failure of the vaccines. There was never a scientific plan for how vaccinating everybody would end Covid. And now that flu-season is here it will become too obvious to pretend otherwise.
Any speculation as to the reason and timing for this?

Twitter was Jack's baby, and he loved it so much that he gave 50% of his Square time to leading Twitter. Jack has so much more to gain from Square from both an equity and Bitcoin maximalist perspective, it's curious why Jack would try to lead two very demanding companies simultaneously. (Not that it can't be done. Elon, Jack, et al. have done it for years.)

My thought is that this is Jack returning focus to Square after the recent SQ earnings report miss, slowing growth of Cash App, stock slip (down 20%), and incredibly increased competition from Shopify, PayPal, and now MAGMA. (Microsoft is entering BNPL, Google/Apple/Facebook pay, etc.)
Many airplane radar systems used alcohol in evaporative cooling system, "dipping into stores" was apparently a common problem.
Until exceptionally abundant electricity and the Hall-Heroult process, a french guy whose name I forgot discovered you could burn bauxite under a vacuum with elemental sodium. Which meant it was like a twenty step process that burned off other really expensive difficult materials to make.

Wild stuff.
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That's where the nuclear powered propellers/pumps come in they sit on the dam and force the water from the pacific into the Arctic Ocean. Then it can only really flow out through the Atlantic.
There was a time that cigarettes 'calmed the nerves' as well. Almost universally, nobody thinks social media is a one way street of mostly-positive outcomes.
When I look at the CTO's (who becomes CEO now) tweets it seems they will keep this going.
One often comes across the term "valkala" in Indian scriptures, which means clothes made of tree bark, usually in the context of asceticism. E.g., see here: https://sanskritdictionary.org/valkala

Apparently, someone wrote a paper about it: "Barkcloth in India-Sanskrit Valkala", https://www.jstor.org/stable/597920
Intriguing. I always though that when people talk about running doom it 100% of time meant Doom 1 and 2.
sharding is a pipe dream. literally no different to just throwing your hands up, spinning up few more parallel ethereum networks and proclaiming you've solved a scalability problem.
cocaine is also technically legal by prescription as well
Nope, seriously. If there were a way to directly pay the good content creators (not talking about $5, Patreon etc, but having a microtransaction everytime I watch a nice video like 0.05 each which does sum up to something similar aggregated) I'd love to.
Detoxing is nonsense. A grade school level understanding of liver and kidney function easily shows these ideas as ridiculous. If there were every-day toxins that accumulated in your body, they'd show up in blood serum or tissue samples, but I don't see anyone putting forth these detox "treatments" trying to even research that. Very few things like PFAS chemicals and heavy metals linger in human bodies, that's the who function of the liver, to filter out and dispose of random detritus you body can't use.

* Edit: This is straight up germ theory denialism and utter bullshit.
> Never ascribe to malice, that which is adequately explained by incentive structuring.

Incentives sounds exactly like what the person you're responding to described. Malice, on the other hand, doesn't show up at all in what they wrote.

It seems weird to introduce some element to the discussion yourself, and then work so hard to explain why an explanation that depends on that element is the wrong answer. It amounts to a sort of elaborate and roundabout strawman.
Interesting concept. A few days ago I bought an outside camera and seems I choose well for my use case.

One thing: the left side menu is not scrollable but should be? On my MacBook Pro with Firefox 94.0.2 I see 'FOV Width' at the left bottom and I assume there is an input field below it, but I cannot see it.
For me, Winamp still offers two things that most other players don't:

1) Global hotkeys to navigate through my playlists, enqueue songs, control playback etc. Also the global pop-up window (Ctrl+Alt+J) with my current playlist has a really fast search function as I type. Only 'Everything' has faster search. Otherwise modern apps have very slow searches.

2) Milkdrop 2. I have a very large curated collection of visualization presets for Milkdrop 2. This is not something I use when I'm behind the computer, but it's awesome to have running on some screens during a party as the visualizations are in sync with the music.
> We're not hateful anti science bigots for daring to drive automobiles

In most developed countries there are strict rules about driving. You are expected and required to drive according to certain rules to keep other people safe. There are rules for driving because the right of other people to not get injured or killed are considered more important than your right to do what you feel like.

Do you think restricting your right to drive drunk on a pavement is "strange collectivism"?
Sure this makes complete sense and everyone I know is all for it, but shouldn't we be concentrating on blowing up the moon first?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJ3LIA5LmA
It would reduce the cost of rollup transactions by as much as 80%. And rollups are already 90-99% cheaper than L1, so I'd argue it provides a huge incentive to users and applications to migrate to L2, and helps relieve quite a bit of burden until sharding is released.
They may win for the worst scrolljacking I've seen to date
And precisely in places like these, such as Niagara Falls, you see coin mining displacing tangible goods production due to both needing cheap electricity and one being more profitable than the other. In this case the market is not thinking very clearly in long term priorities, nor is infinite development of hydro and geothermal possible. Actually, this is about realizing that we live on a finite planet with finite resources that a finite amount of humans can finitely exploit finite parts of before the whole thing goes catawumpus.
POW and current cryptocurrency systems are thoughtlessly and needlessly wasteful and represent inelegant architecture and brute force hackery like lightnig to correct what ultimately isn’t scalable: blockchain ledgers and fast transaction speeds vs centralization and speed. Look at DNS, for example, and how slow that is, and it’s architecture amd full vs partial copies of ledgers and jeiraexhical canonical lookups etc.
We are talking about XV-XIX centuries. Most countries had different levels of "iron fist" population control for a segment of their population. It could be control of women, poor people, people of different ethnicity, jews, etc.

What I want to highlight, is that the behavior of the Spanish Inquisition, while abhorrent to our XXI eyes, were not uncommon during those times. Note please that I'm not justifying anything, I'm making a point that Human History has been horrible during almost of its existence: discrimination, wars, slavery, segregation, etc. Human Rights are a "new thing".
Have you tried a C/C++ lsp server like https://github.com/MaskRay/ccls? Works with vscode/whatever you want, and just targets your Makefile (using bear to generate the dependency graph).
Is it bullshit? The plan the buyers like has a chance of making just a few more dollars for their limited partners than Jack Dorsey's plan and thats why they bought more shares. Simple.
Yep Ethereum is all-in on Layer 2 Rollups. They are the official solution to gas-fees and scaling (transactions per second).
Yup. They should just say "it's the ease of use" and be done with it. It's a pretty good reason to use a technology.
By the time the business is "stable, profitable and growing" the founder is likely far less important than in the beginning.

There have to be processes in place to manage the business's day to day operations, and a good management team that looks to the future. You can't maintain a business at that level while still being dependent on a single person so the business at the time of sale has to be capable of continuing on without that person present.
If you really wanted to crash cars by altering their visual input, why would you bother with all this complexity? Why not just actually swap the road sign?

Why does the existence of these attacks change the threat landscape at all? If people are already not doing "dumb" attacks like just changing/removing road signs why would they start doing them?

The risk of messing with road signs and throwing off autonomous vehicles really has less to do with adversarial image attacks and more to do with envisioning an impractically brittle system where the decision to stop is based purely on presence/absence of a stop sign and not on a system that has a more general sense of collision-avoidance and situational awareness (like humans do).|

Stepping back more generally, I have still never seen a case where the undetectability of adversarial attacks actually means there is a practical difference to security or safety. If you really think through the impact in the real world, usually the risk is already there: you can just change the input to the image and get bad results, it doesn't affect much that the image is imperceptibly changed. Because the whole point of using an automated vision system is usually that you want to avoid human eyes on the problem.
One straight forward one is their scaling. They would bash ethereum's developers saying how stupid they are and cardano spent years on research papers without any practical experience to come up with off-chain payment channels. Just recently (a week ago?) They finally submitted and confirmed rollups were better and that they'd start working on those. But with their speed of development, grifting founder, and more interest in marketing than building, I don't expect them to finish any time soon or be relevant.
And it’s also unavoidable. To really know how an airplane will age during its lifetime, you have to build it and use it for 50+ years.

That would mean all ‘in service’ aircraft would be based on 50+ year old designs. That clearly is undesirable, if only because it would be too expensive.

So, instead, one uses models for the effects of aging, for example by repeatedly freezing and heating parts while they also are being stressed physically and are under intense UV lighting. Those models can be wrong, but if you’re using new tech, you can’t afford to wait with selling airplanes until you know they are right.

(Of course, this isn’t limited to the aircraft industry; it happens in all engineering. For example, hard disk manufacturers don’t run new hard disk technology for decades to measure its MTBF, either)

Sometimes, such models need major adjustment, as happened with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet.
Completely agree. On top of that, even if you avoid the politically charged stuff, there is just a staggering amount of bullshit. “Thought leaders” with tens of thousands of followers all tweeting the same broad ideas as if they’re original thoughts.
> The specific targeting makes it easier to allude the vaccine as only a small part of it has to mutate.

Nothing says an mRNA vaccine can't express more than one protein.

That said, I'm talking more about being able to target a portion of the virus that's more fragile than others - somewhere a mutation is likely to make the virus useless if a mutation occurs there.

(The ability to rapidly adjust for mutations is a bonus, too. I'm hoping we get to a regulatory regime eventually where they can tweak overnight and produce fairly locally.)

> There was a study that natural immunity was more effective against the virus and variants because of this.

There's information in the other direction now. https://news.yahoo.com/vaccine-confers-better-protection-tha...
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Prior coronavirus species tend to evolve toward non-lethality because their peak transmission coincides with peak symptoms. Covid-19 is not like that and so has no evolutionary push towards non-lethality.

A variant of COVID as lethal as MERS would spread just as well since carriers are asymptomatic most of the time they are infecting others.
> They have the best balance of decentralization, scalability, and security.

Using a Turing complete scripting language means it does not have a good scalability balance.
Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey (2020)
Perhaps a mirror/reflective sticker that blinds drivers near a sharp curve?
No bad judgement, small servers are limited and you won’t want huge bill. But there’s some irony in it being down from load.